Deliverance Alger

F, (circa 1658 - 1748)
Father-Biological*Thomas Alger
Mother-Biological*Elizabeth Packard
Family Lines
Whelpley Line
Last Edited=10 May 2023
Gravestone of James and Deliverance Latham

     Deliverance Alger was born circa 1658 at Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony.1,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Alger and Elizabeth Packard.

Deliverance Alger married James Latham, son of Robert Latham and Susanna Winslow, in 1693.3,4,5,6 Deliverance Alger died in 1748 at East Bridgewater, Massachusetts.6,7,2,8,9 Her estate was administered on 1 January 1749 at Plymouth County, Massachusetts.10 Her estate was probated in 1749.7 She was buried at Old Graveyard, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, section B, grave #244. The stone was erected in 1848 by William Latham, a descendant. Deliverance's epitaph reads:

James Latham, d. 1738,
æ about 80
his wife Deliverance d 1748
his sons, Thomas, m. 1712, and was dead 1769
Joseph m 1717, d 1758.2


Children of Deliverance Alger and James Latham

Citations

  1. Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendan. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc, 1992.
  2. Find-a-Grave. Online https://www.findagrave.com/
  3. Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriages Before 1699. Pompton Lakes, New Jersey: Biblio Comany, 1926.
  4. Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985.
  5. Bowman, George Ernest. "The Wife of James Latham", Mayflower Descendant volume XVI (1914).
  6. Topping, Thomas Rudolph. Topping/Latham Family History and Allied Families. Charlotte, North Carolina: Thomas R. Topping, 1994.
  7. Massachusetts. Probate Courts. Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991. Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, 2015.
  8. Scott, Henry Edwards. Vital Records of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1917.
  9. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Massachusetts, U.S., Town Death Records, 1620-1850. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, 1999.
  10. Bowman, George Ernest. "The Estates of James Latham and his Widow Deliverence", Mayflower Descendant volume XXII (1922).