Elizabeth Anthony

( - 1771)
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Descendants of Frederick de Veaux


Elizabeth Anthony married Frederick Deveau, son of Abel Devaux and Magdalena Hunt, about 1749 at New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York.1 In 1771, at a Presbyterian worship service in Frederick and Elizabeth's house, Methodism was introduced into the county by the English missionary Joseph Pilmore. Elizabeth, lying sick in an adjacent room, became the first convert to Methodism in New Rochelle; she died two days later.2,3

Elizabeth Anthony died in 1771 in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York.4

Children of Elizabeth Anthony and Frederick Deveau

Citations

  1. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 118.
  2. [S318] Abel Stevens, History of the Methodist Church, Vol. 1, Book I, Chap. IV.
  3. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 118, 119.
  4. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 119.
  5. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 122.
  6. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 123.
  7. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 126.

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