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Elizabeth (Whitman) Streame Otis was married to his John Otis, not his brother Stephen.
Elizabeth is the widow of Thomas Stream ("m lic 22 Feb 1619/20, London, m same day") according to Clarence Almon Torrey, in "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" (1971). According to the Pane-Joyce Genealogy, she first married a John Stream.
According to Robert Charles Anderson, in "The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635," John Whitman of Weymouth, Zachariah Whitman of Dorchester, New Havan and Milford and Elizabeth (Whitman) [Stream] Otis are all children of Richard Whitman of Lee, Buckinghamshire, England. According to the Pane-Joyce Genealogy, the name of the father is either Richard or John Whitman.
However, the records are clear: Elizabeth Whitman married Thomas Stream, then John Otis, and was the daughter of Richard. Great documentation can be found here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Whitman-92
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ca 1654 John [Otis] second married Elizabeth [Stream]. Elizabeth died in 1672/1676. [87][223]
Elizabeth’s surname is sometimes given as Whitman, and her father either Richard or John Whitman, all without reference. (Pane-Joyce Genealogy)*
From William A. Otis’s Memoir of the Otis Family: [223] “After his first wife’s death, he [John Otis] moved shortly to Weymouth, where he married again, his bride being Elizabeth Streame, who, according to the Genealogical Dirctionary of Rhode Island, died in 1676. He lived at Weymouth until the time of his death, May 31, 1657, which is recorded in Hobart’s journal with the statement that he was seventy-six years old, thus corroborating the year of his birth as 1581. It appears that his wife, at the time of her marriage, was a widow with two children, Thomas and Benjamin Streame, and that she survived John at least several years; since five years later, on the death of the former son, she was appointed administratrix, as noted in the New England Gen. Reg., Vol. XI, pg. 173:--‘Thomas Streame, 1st, July, 1662, ...’”
Sources: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_056.htm#P15 Citations 87. George Walter Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Boston, 1923. 223. William A. Otis, A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family In America, Winnetka, Chicago, Ill, 1924.
ca 1654 John [Otis] second married Elizabeth [Stream]. Elizabeth died in 1672/1676. [87][223]
Elizabeth’s surname is sometimes given as Whitman, and her father either Richard or John Whitman, all without reference. (Pane-Joyce Genealogy)
From William A. Otis’s Memoir of the Otis Family: [223]
“After his first wife’s death, he [John Otis] moved shortly to Weymouth, where he married again, his bride being Elizabeth Streame, who, according to the Genealogical Dirctionary of Rhode Island, died in 1676. He lived at Weymouth until the time of his death, May 31, 1657, which is recorded in Hobart’s journal with the statement athe he was seventy-six years old, thus corroborating the year of his birth as 1581. It appears that his wife, at the time of her marriage, was a widow with two children, Thomas and Benjamin Streame, and that she survived John at least several years; since five years later, on the death of the former son, she was appointed administratrix, as noted in the New England Gen. Reg., Vol. XI, pg. 173:--‘Thomas Streame, 1st, July, 1662, ...’”
Sources: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_056.htm#P15 Citations 87. George Walter Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Boston, 1923. 223. William A. Otis, A Memoir of the Otis Family, Winnetka, Ill, 1924.
*Two identities have been conflated by genealogists: this Elizabeth Whitman died by 1676. There is apparently another woman with the same maiden name who died in 1720, daughter of John acc. to this Geni profile: https://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-Green/6000000000484935096 ; see duplicate LVXQ-5SB, which is a mix of two identities. A descendant should correct this other person. Elizabeth Whitman Streame Otis was without a doubt the daughter of Richard, and Elizabeth Whitman Green must have been the daughter of John. The elusive references mentioned by the Pane-Joyce Genealogy aren't so elusive anymore. They are published for free at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Whitman-92
See also the Life Sketch of her son, Thomas Stream, which contains a quote from the Great Migration.
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DO NOT conflate with Elizabeth (Whitman) Alcock.
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