Elizabeth Judson Canfield

Biography

Elizabeth Judson Canfield lived from 1733 to 1801, her life encompassing the final decades of colonial America and the dawn of the new republic. She was part of a generation of women who adapted to profound social and political change.

Canfield was interred at Center Cemetery, where her memory endures among the graves of her community. Her seventy-eight years of life represent the quiet resilience of women whose steady presence sustained families and communities through an era of great transformation.