Elizabeth Anthony

( - 1771 or later)
Pedigree - three generations
Date this page was last edited=1 Feb 2011
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Descendants of Frederick de Veaux (b. about 1645)
Elizabeth Anthony married Frederick Deveau, son of Abel Devaux and Magdalena Hunt, about 1749 at New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York.1,2

Methodism was probably introduced into New Rochelle at the home of Frederick and Elizabeth. According to one version, in 1771 the English Methodist missionary Joseph Pilmoor arrived at a Presbyterian worship service in their house where Elizabeth lay sick in an adjacent room. She became the first convert to Methodism in New Rochelle and died two days later.3,4 More recent research, published in 1921, suggests that Methodism was introduced into New Rochelle in June 1770 by Robert Williams, quite likely at the Deveau home, and that Elizabeth died sometime after 1771.2

Elizabeth Anthony died 1771 or later in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York.5,2

Children of Elizabeth Anthony and Frederick Deveau

Citations

  1. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 118.
  2. [S749] Daily Star, 22 December 1921.
  3. [S318] Stevens, History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Vol. 1, Book I, Chap. IV.
  4. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 118, 119.
  5. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 119.
  6. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 122.
  7. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 123.
  8. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 126.

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