THE SIMPSON LINE SIMPSON LINE - FIRST GENERATION ELIZABETH SIMPSON Born: abt 1616 possibly Cumberland Co Eng Died: unkn date, probably Massachusetts Father: Mother: Marriage 1: Edmund Nicholson b. 1612 Bootle, Cumberland, Co. England, d. 1660 Marblehead, Essex. MA Married: about 1637 in England Marriage 2: ________ Brown. Married: Between 1662 and 1666. Note: Elizabeth and husband Edmund probably came to America in company with her brother, Francis Sim(p)son. The brother-in-laws owned property together and had various business dealings together. Edmund was a fisherman and died by drowning. His wife and two sons, in a celebrated witchcraft case, were accused of causing the drowning. Elizabeth and Edmund had six children. See the Nicholson line for children and descendants. Line of Descent: ELIZABETH SIMPSON, CHRISTOPHER NICHOLSON, SARAH NICHOLSON, ANN NEWBY, JOHN MACE, JAMES MACE, MARY MACE, CELIA HARRIS, ELWOOD PARISHO, JAMES PARISHO, WAYNE PARISHO, SUSANNE PARISHO BG's/Images by "Daze of Our Lives"