When Elizabeth Weld was born on 28 March 1675, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Dr Daniel Weld, was 32 and her mother, Bethiah Michelson, was 32. She married Captain John Gardner on 11 January 1704, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 27 September 1770, in her hometown, at the age of 95, and was buried in Unknown Island, Western Australia, Australia.