Ebenezeer Tiffany

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Came from Yorkshire England, it is supposed, and was in Massachusetts Bay Colony about the year 1660.

The following account of his death is given in the diary of Samuel Sewell, Publications of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol, 5, fifth series page 88: "Wednesday, P.M., July 15, 1685. Very deak and great tunder and lightning. One Humphre Tiffany and Frances Low, daughter of Antony Low, are slain with the lightning and thunder about a mile and a half beyond the Billinges Farm, the horse also slain, that they rode on and another horse in Company slain and his rider who held the garment on the Maid to steady it at the time the Stroke a coat or cloak, stoned, but not killed. Were coming to Boston. Antony Low being in Town the sad Bill was put up with (regards) of that solemn judgment of God; Fast-day Forenoon, July 15, 1685, 2 persons 2 horses." Another record states that he was killed by lightning between Swansea and Boston, and that for a long time a metal tablet was affixed to the tree beneath which he sought shelter. There was an inscription on the tree setting forth the incident and concluding with the following:
Squire Humphrey Tiffany
And Mistress Low
By a stroke of lightning
Into Eternity did go.

Died:
Killed by a lightning strike while on his way from Swansea to Boston.

Humphrey married Elizabeth Baker. Elizabeth was born in 1645 in Massachusetts, USA; died in 1708 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Elizabeth ? on 5 Jul 1629 in Hackney, London Borough of Hackney, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
St John at Hackney Church