Cemetery: Old Burying Point Cemetery, Salem Massachusetts

Salem Deaths: Bowditch, Elizabeth, w. Nathaniel, d. Capt. Francis Boardman, scrofula, Oct. 18, 1798, a. 19 y. c.r.4. [a. 18 y. g.r.1] 29

Elizabeth and Nathaniel were married on March 25, 1798. 29 She died while he was away at sea.

Nathaniel Bowditch was a famous Navigator, Astronomer and Mathematician. He is also the focus of the Bowditch Initiative, an organization dedicated to restoring the Bowditch House in which he lived in from 1811 to 1823. Nathaniel Bowditch made numerous contributions during his lifetime, which you can read about here.

Another biography of Nathaniel Bowditch.

Read more information about him from the Salem Massachusetts City Guide.

The Captain Francis Boardman House is still standing although not open to the public. Elizabeth and Nathaniel lived here with her mother when they were first married.

Capt. Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician; removed to Boston in 1823; married, first, Elizabeth Boardman March 25, 1798; she died Oct. 18, 1798; married, secondly, Mary Ingersoll Oct. 28, 1800; she died April 27, 1834; he died at Boston March 16, 1838; Children: Charles Ingersoll born about 1810. 30