Elizabeth Simcoe
BIRTH
Sep 1762
Northamptonshire, England
DEATH
January 17, 1850
Honiton, England
FAMILY
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Simcoe, Elizabeth
(1762-1850)
Elizabeth Simcoe (1762-1850) was a writer and artist and the spouse of John Graves Simcoe. John Graves Simcoe was a military officer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Elizabeth Simcoe to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Born in Northamptonshire, England and later dying in Honiton, England, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. Including Elizabeth Simcoe in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
John Graves Simcoe
(1752-1806)
Henry Simcoe
(1820-1897)
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DIED:
Honiton, England
Jan 17, 1850
The exact date and place of Elizabeth Simcoe’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Elizabeth Simcoe with work or public activity as a writer, painter. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Elizabeth Simcoe died on Jan 17, 1850 in Honiton, England. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.