Stark, Elizabeth (1737-1814)

Name:

Stark, Elizabeth (1737-1814)

Other Names:

Stark, Molly / Page, Elizabeth

Born:

02/16/1737

Birthplace:

Haverhill, MA

Died:

06/29/1814

Death Location:

Manchester, NH

Residence:

Haverhill, MA 1737-1755
Dunbarton, NH 1755-
Manchester, NH

Nationality:

American

Father:

Page, Caleb

Mother:

Merrill, Elizabeth

Relations:

Father: (John or Caleb?) -- first postmaster of New Hampshire

Spouse:

John Stark (1728-1822), 1758

Children:

11 children:
Stark, Caleb (1759-1838; b. Dunbarton, NH; at age 15, served in Battle of Bunker Hill in his father's regiment; became Major; res., d. Ohio; m. Sarah McKinstrey; children)
Stark, Archibald (1761-1791; b. Derryfield, NH; not married)
Stark, John Jr. (1763-1844; b. Manchester, NH; m. Mary "Polly" Huse, 1782, Manchester; children; d. Manchester)
Stark, Eleanor (1765-1767, Manchester)
Stark, Eleanor Jr. (1767-1843; b. Manchester; m. _ Babson; d. Dunbarton, NH)
Stark, Sarah (1769-1801; b. Manchester; m. _ Blodget; d. Newburyport, MA)
Stark, Elizabeth (Mollie?) (c.1762-1858; m. Robert Carlisle)
(another reference has Elizabeth b. 8/10/1771, married John Cameron; another has Elizabeth b. 8/19/1771, Derryfield; d. 5/13/1813, Ryegate, VT)
Stark, Mary (1773-1828; b. Manchester; m. B.F. Stickney; d. Deposit, MI)
Stark, Charles (1775-1796; b. Derryfield, NH; not married; lost at sea)
Stark, Benjamin Franklin (1776/7-1806; b. Manchester; d. Derryfield, NH)
Stark, Sophia (1782-1870; b. Manchester; m. _ Dickey; d. North Reading, MA)

Notes:

From 1906 N.H. DAR (Molly Stark Chapter) text:
"History says [Elizabeth Page] often stood sentinel when a young girl at the rough fort to watch the Indians, while her father and brother were at work in the fields, or were 'away to the rear.' She was noted for her strong, energetic, decision of character; eminently hospitable and kind to all, rich or poor.
"When General Stark was encamped at Ticonderoga, the weather was cold, his soldiers ill-clad and poorly fed. The General was sad and dejected, and to make his situation doubly worse, smallpox broke out among them. Molly Stark immediately sent word to him to have the sick all sent to her. Her house was turned into a hospital, and she was nurse and physician, and she did not lose a single case -- some twenty in all -- her young children being among the victims."
Re: Molly Stark House, Dunbarton, N.H.: Completed in 1759, the house was home to 8 generations of the Page family until 1965.
Re: Molly Stark Trail: Vermont Rt. 9 between Brattleboro and N.Y. west of Bennington. Route taken by General John Stark as he led troops from present-day Charlestown, N.H. to Battle of Bennington in 1777. It is said that to confuse the enemy, General Stark referred to the route they were taking as the "Molly Stark Trail."

Death Notice, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, July 26, 1814, 3.