Elizabeth Fones

[5][6][7][8][9] A year later, her husband sailed alone for the Massachusetts Bay Colony on the ship Talbot, leaving his young bride behind in England on account of her pregnancy.

[7][11][12] Shortly after his arrival in Massachusetts, Henry was killed in a drowning accident on 2 July 1630[6][13] when he went swimming in the North River after visiting an Indian village near Salem.

[4][10][14][15] Fones sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her infant daughter Martha aboard the Lyon, arriving on 2 November 1631.

[27] Following her husband's desertion, Fones deeply scandalized the rigid Puritan society in which she lived by marrying William Hallett (born 1616)[28] without evidence that she and Lt. Feake were divorced.

Their marriage took place in August 1649, and was officiated by her former brother-in-law John Winthrop, Jr.[22] Only her close blood relationship to the Governor saved her from prosecution for adultery, for which she could have been hanged.

Nevertheless, Fones and her new husband and family were forced to leave Connecticut and Massachusetts for the more tolerant Dutch colony of New Netherlands,[31] where they were eventually recognized as husband and wife, possibly due to the friendship Fones formed with Judith Stuyvesant, wife of Director-General Peter Stuyvesant.

Fones has numerous descendants in the United States, including those descending from the marriage of her only child by Henry Winthrop, Martha Johanna, to Thomas Lyon of Byram Neck, Greenwich, Connecticut,[7][10][36] whose home, the Thomas Lyon House, is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Fones' daughter Hannah Feake married John Bowne who was a North American pioneer for religious freedom with the Flushing Remonstrance.