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Baker-Rouse Genealogy
James Barnard 1 was born 2 on 16 Apr 1633 in Caister, Lincoln, England. He died . He married 3 Abigail Phillips on 8 Oct 1666 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Abigail Phillips [Parents] 1 was born 2 in 1642/1648 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She died 3 on 27 Sep 1672. She married 4 James Barnard on 8 Oct 1666 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
John Alden was born 1 in 1627 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He died . He married 2 Elizabeth Phillips on 1 Apr 1660 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The John Alden who came over on the Mayflower?
Elizabeth Phillips [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 16 Dec 1628 in Keston, Kent, England. She died 3 on 7 Feb 1695/1696 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. She married 4 John Alden on 1 Apr 1660 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Other marriages:Evered, Abiel
They had the following children:
M i John Alden was born 1 on 12 Mar 1662/1663 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He died .
Zarrubbabel Phillips [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 5 Apr 1632 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died 3 in 1697 in Southampton, New York. He married 4 Martha Tapping in 1687 in Southampton, Suffolk, New York.
Other marriages:Cooper, Anne
According to "The Roads Taken"
There are three references to Z. Phillips in Bond's Watertown Index. He is undoubtedly named in honour in, in reference to Zerubabel Filer, born Dec. 23, 1644, in Windsor, CT, who was a son of Walter Filer. The offspring of Walter Filer married many descendants of the Phillips family, with various surnames. Here are some notes found in Savage ("A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692", Volume 3, by James Savage).... ZOROBABEL (sic) Phillips, Southampton, L. I. 1663-73, I judge to be the eldest s. by sec. w. of George the first, tho. fam. geneal. does not indicate his resid. nor give any thing of him but the b. He m. at S. Ann, wid. of John White, who had been of Lynn bef. the sett. there. I once presum. that the two uncles, Zorobabel and Theophilus, being of L. I. drew thither Rev. George, their neph. but some facts appear irreconcil. with this presumpt. Twenty of the name had, twenty yrs. since, been gr. at Harv. and very few at other N. E. coll. Rev. George, by his second wife, Elizabeth Welden (Bond), had as his first child Zerobabel, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, April 5, 1632, and the town records show this fact. He subsequently, at the age of sixteen, settled at Southampton, L. I., and died there subsequent to the year 1689. There is record of his corresponding with Joseph Tainter in October, 1684, as his attorney, in regard to his parents' estate. His first wife is unknown, as there are no records extant of marriages in Southampton of thattime. By her he had Theophilus (22). In 1663 he married Ann White, widow of John, formerly of Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1687 he married Martha Herrick, daughter of James. The town records of Southampton bear the following data, to wit: Records of Southampton, New York, vol. 2, p. 41. "John Oldfield binds himself in 20 pounds to appear and answer Mrs. Ann Phillips, in an action concerning commonage April 25, 1664." P. 32. "Joseph Rainer in an action of trespass upon the case, (concerning a pit was digged in the common whereby he was damnified.) against Zerobabel Phillips and wife. Ann Phillips according to her engagement produced her son to the Court, so answer to her bond. At the said Court, Dec., 1st, 1663." P. 35. "July 28, 1659. Zerobabel Phillips was a witness to an agreement by two Indian Sachems relating to the whale fishery on Long Island." P. 78. Zerobabel Phillips was mentioned among a lot of residents of Southampton in drawing lots of land. This occurred at a townmeeting held June 25, 1679. P. 238. "Dec. 16, 1668. Ann, the wife of Ensign Zerobabel Phillips, acknowledgeth to have made over and granted to her son John White the fifty interest or comonidy at Quaquanantuck, which is to his fifty alotement and also another fifty comonidy therewith, last said fifty is one of those she had of John Woodruff, Jun., whereof there is a record made in this book." P. 120 (Abstract). "Whereas, upon the decease of Mrs. Ann Phillips, widow of John White, there is an inheritance to be divided between James White and his nephew John. It is concluded that James shall have three acres in Halseys neck, lying nest his own 4 acres he bought of John Woodruff, and 2 acres more north of the said 4 acres, and 1 1/2 acres in Captain's neck in the ten acre lots, and 2 acres in first neck, second John is to have ten acres in Halsey's and Captains neck a two hundred pound lot in oxpasture to be divided between them, and John has ten acres of the ten acre division, which was laid to his father John White west of Gersham Culver's home lot, and James has ten acres save division on north side of John Howell, Jr., home lot. March ye 19, 1686-7." P. 224. (Abstract of Deed.) "John Oldfield sells to Ann Phillips, his parcel of land in Cowneck, that he bought of fulk Davis, lying between Samuell Clark, and Samuel Barker, also above five (5) acres of meadow at North sea lying between the meadow of George Harris and John Davis at the Southwest, the great creek at the Northwest,and the highway at the Southeast, also a 50 of commonage that he bought of fulk Davis, Oct. 12, 1663. Theophilus Phillips, by his wife Ann, had a son Theophilus, born at Newtown, May 15, 1672, and who died in Maidenhead, New Jersey, 1709; a son Philip, born also at Newtown, December 27, 1678, and died in Maidenhead, New Jersey, 1740; a son William, who became a freeman in New York. The brothers Theophilus and Philip Phillips, and their cousins Ralph, Samuel and Edward Hunt, were the early settlers and founders of Maidenhead. Theophilus Phillips and Ralph Hunt purchased lands together, as hereinafter shown, as early as 1694. Before tracing the line of descent of these settlers, a brief sketch of the early history of Maidenhead would not be out of place.
Martha Tapping 1, 2 was born 3 on 5 Aug 1655 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. She died . She married 4 Zarrubbabel Phillips in 1687 in Southampton, Suffolk, New York.
Other marriages:Herrick, James
John Phillips [Parents] was born 1 on 4 Jan 1605/1606 in St. Mary Whitechapel, Stepney, London, England. He died .
He had the following children:
M i Charles Phillips was born 1 on 19 Apr 1636 in Saint Margaret, Westminster, London, England. He died .
Captain Robert Weldon was born 1 on 18 Sep 1586 in West Deeping, Lincoln, England. He died 2 on 15 Feb 1630/1631 in Charlestown, Massachusetts . He married 3 Elizabeth Bond in 1626 in England.
Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT WELDEN
ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1630 FIRST RESIDENCE: Charlestown OCCUPATION: Soldier OFFICES: About February 1630/1, appointed "captain of one hundred foot" [Dudley 79]. DEATH: Charlestown 16 February 1630/1 [Dudley 79]. MARRIAGE: By 1631 Elizabeth _____; she was admitted to Boston church as member #91 (which would be in the winter of 1630/1), and the entry is annotated "gone to Watertown" [BChR 14]; prob. m. in 1631 as his second wife Reverend GEORGE PHILLIPS of Watertown [Bond 626, concurred in by Savage]. CHILDREN: None recorded.
COMMENTS: 18 February 1630/1: "Capt. Welden, a hopeful young gentleman, and an experienced soldier, died at Charlestown of a consumption, and was buried at Boston with a military funeral" [WJ 1:54]. February 1630/1: "Amongst others who died about this time was Mr. Robert Welden, whom in the time of his sickness we had chosen to be captain of one hundred foot, but before he took possession of his place, he died the sixteenth of February and was buried as a soldier with three volleys of shot" [Dudley 79]. Bond proposed that Robert Welden's widow Elizabeth soon married George Phillips based on four items: the annotation that she had "gone to Watertown"; the death of George Phillips's first wife soon after arrival in 1630; Elizabeth as the name of George Phillips's second wife; and the relatively high social position of Phillips and Welden. A further slight clue may be found in the name of the first child of George Phillips by his second wife - Zorobabel. Zorobabel (or Zerubbabel) appears several times in the Bible, his father's name usually given as Shealtiel, but once as Pedaiah. This may simply reflect an error in this latter entry, but some scholars have "conjectured that Shealtiel may have died childless but that Zerubbabel was born to his widow by the deceased man's brother in a levirate marriage ..." [The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Nashville TN 1986) 4:955; also The Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York 1992) 6:1085]. This is not to suggest that Robert Welden and George Phillips were half-brothers, for the Puritans would not then have allowed the second marriage. But it may be that George Phillips was sufficiently aware of speculation about the Biblical discrepancy to apply the name Zerubbabel to the first child of a woman by her second husband, when she had been childless by her first husband.
Elizabeth Bond [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 6 Apr 1591 in Flixton By Bungay, Suffolk, England. She died 3 on 27 Jun 1681 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She married 4 Captain Robert Weldon in 1626 in England.
Other marriages:Phillips, George
According to "The Roads Taken"
At the time of her marriage to George Phillips, Elizabeth Bond was a widow of Robert Weldon, and is sometimes seen as 'Elizabeth Weldon' in the records from that time. Robert Weldon is recorded as a Winthrop Fleet passenger in May-July of 1630, arriving in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with his spouse Elizabeth at that time. The marriage between Elizabeth Bond and Robert Weldon is poorly documented, and may have occurred in Leyden, Holland. The marriage is described by Savage in Volume 4 (op cit), with reference to Charlestown, where Robert resided. Robert and Elizabeth may have been members of the religious Separatists who settled for a time in Leyden, Holland; several of the Winthrop Fleet passengers were noted as coming from Holland, though there is no record (in the Winthrop notes) of the place of origin of Robert Weldon and his spouse Elizabeth. The family of Christopher Phillips, including son Rev. George Phillips (who married widow Elizabeth (Weldon) Bond as recorded here), had close ties with this group. It is recorded in the Winthrop Fleet notes that Robert Weldon and Elizabeth Bond settled at Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the centre of the colony, in May-July of 1630. Robert must have died very shortly after arriving (because Elizabeth, Robert's widow, married George Phillips in 1631) though I have not found a reliable record of his death at this time (RR, April 2001). Such a hasty remarriage for Elizabeth would indicate that previous ties existed between the Phillips and Bond families (perhaps through religious connections), and that probably Elizabeth and George had known each other for some time. Reverend George Phillips, a prominent founding clergyman of the colony (see notes in George's file in this family tree), may have presided at the burial of Robert Weldon, who also may have been a friend of, or well known to, Rev. George Phillips. Sadly, the death of a spouse or child was a very common occurrence in the early colonies, and not an event that a closely-connected survivor would usually mull over for an extended period of time - there are many examples of fast recoveries from this type of tragedy. These families trusted profoundly in the Providence of God, and went forward in their lives, fully assured that God would take care of the soul of the lost loved one.
John Branch [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 7 Oct 1729 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. He died . He married Priscilla Tracy on 5 Jan 1758.
Priscilla Tracy.Priscilla married John Branch on 5 Jan 1758.
Asa Branch [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 26 Mar 1744 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. He died . He married Elizabeth Tracy on 18 Sep 1766.
Elizabeth Tracy.Elizabeth married Asa Branch on 18 Sep 1766.
Thomas Phillips [Parents] was born 1 on 20 Aug 1587 in Bardney, Lincoln, England. He died 2 in 1640 in Bath Abbey, Somerset, England . He married 3 Anne Allen on 17 Apr 1610 in Bourne, Lincoln, England .
According to "The Roads Taken"
Thomas was named after his mother's father, Thomas (Abram). While it was often the custom to name the first male child after the child's father, or the child's paternal grandfather, it was a special mark of respect to name the child after the child's mother's father, and often indicated that the mother's father had no namesake male child himself. In any case, it was considered an unusual and generous gesture at the time. Thomas and Ann were packed and ready to ship out for America with the Mayflower and her sister ships (1620-1623). They are recorded on the offfical passenger list, but changed their minds and did not depart. Thomas's grandson Edward did come to America later, as noted in this family tree.
Anne Allen was born 1 on 5 Jul 1587 in Long Bennington, Lincoln, England. She died . She married 2 Thomas Phillips on 17 Apr 1610 in Bourne, Lincoln, England .
They had the following children:
M i Edwarde Phillips was born 1 on 19 Feb 1627/1628 in Trusthorpe, Lincoln, England. He died . F ii Agnes Phillips was born 1 on 1 Nov 1636 in Brampton Ash, Northampton, England. She died .
Christopher Phillips [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 17 Jun 1565 in Stoke In Teignhead, Devon, England . He died 3 on 3 Feb 1620/1621 in West Rainham, St Martins, Norfolk, England . He married 4 Agnes Rice on 9 Oct 1613 in Withycombe Raleigh, Devon, England .
Other marriages:Abram, Agnes
According to "The Roads Taken"
Christopher Phillips was born about two years after William Shakespeare and died about two years before Shakespeare. Christopher and Shakespeare were born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, last of the Tudor monarchs. There is no relationship between Christopher and the Queen; the detail is included for historical reference only. The Elizabethan Era in England produced much of value and beauty. Handel composed his music; Newton defined gravity; Sir Francis Drake destroyed the much more powerful Spanish fleet; William Shakespeare wrote his plays; Methodism and other Christian branches began to organize; and on it goes. There is, however a Phillips involvement with the Shakespeare family. Elizabeth Phillips married Richard Quinney, and they had a son, Thomas Quinney (1589-1662). Thomas married Judith Shakespeare on February 10 1615. Judith was a daughter of William Shakespeare. All of these details and connections may be found in this family tree. It is worth noting that the Hathaway family found in small numbers in this family tree, due to their marriages and relationships with the Phillips family of New England, descend from the same lineage as Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare. This lineage will be added to this family tree at some point. The family of Christopher Phillips is steeped in the lore of the founding of America. His son Thomas is found on the list of people who were to sail on the Mayflower in 1620. Thomas, for some reason, did not make the journey, and stayed the rest of his life in England. Two other sons, John and George, made the passage 10 years after the Mayflower, on ships of the Winthrop Fleet. Son William came to America, apparently not on the Winthrop ships, but by some other similar means, and raised his family, and died, in New England. The Phillips name appears throughout the records and chronicles of early America. Several of Christopher's descendants married direct descendants of Mayflower passengers, as noted as you work through this tree. At least one married a descendant of the namesake of the Winthrop Fleet, the first Governor of Massachusetts, John Winthrop. While descendants and cousins of Christopher Phillips eventually spread throughout America, and can be found fighting in the Revolutionary War on the side of the new Republic, and others distinguishing themselves in the Civil War, a number maintained their original values, and remained loyal to England and their king. It should be remembered that loyalty to the King was a hallmark of the Phillips family. Picton Castle, the Phillips home, held out against Oliver Cromwell, who deposed and executed King Charles 1. This dates from the 1640s. More detail is found in the family tree; see notes in the file of Sir Erasmus Phillips. In the later Loyalist role after 1776, they undertook military and other roles, and were subjected to the mass expulsions of Loyalists which occurred when the new republic defeated England. With just a few possessions, they headed with their friends and cousins for Canada, where barren wilderness and hardship awaited them. Several family members were born during the actual days of exodus. One, John Phillips, was born on a ship, a private vessel accompanying the Apollo, captained by his father in 1783, in a hasty exit made from New York to Nova Scotia. It would be very sad if descendants hung their hats on a political pole. It is very important to some to prove that they were descended from patriots, and so be eligible to join DAR and other such organizations. To others, it is important to show that they were descended from loyalists, and thus make them eligible to join UEL. These past loyalities were of interest, and the organizations have generated many useful (and some dubious) records. With the Phillips family and others, the key to ancestry is not political affiliation. It is membership in this vast and very important family. As the Phillips cousins whose chose loyalty to England made their ways through America, they paused along the way, thinking that they had reached safe haven - for eaxmple in upstate New York. No one could know what the final borders would be. The strong and unbending pressures placed upon them by the Continental Army, noted several times in documents as you work through this family tree, made their lives miserable. Some family lines paused in Pennsylvania and others in upper New York State. But this was not sufficient. They had to eventually cross the lines of what became the modern borders of Canada. Once in Canada, they had to start over, pulling out the pioneering spirit and determination which had led them to America from England 150 years earlier. Phillips on both sides of the Canada/US border gave their lives in World War I and World War II. I have the musket owned by my great great grandfather, George Rex Phillips (born 1812). A look at it reminds me of what he stood for, and of what the Phillips quest has brought to North America. Descendants of this Phillips family perished in the bombing of the World Trade Centre. To some extent, this happened because people lost track of ancestral values, and replaced these with Political Correctness - one thinks of the ISO 9000 series which has resulted in so many job losses, or the Enron case, where there was a complete absence of values. To make our New World a better place, we should discover the beliefs, values, and dreams, of our ancestors. We should discuss these with our children, and try to bring our New World back up to its status when it was created and developed. As the tree has developed, I have realized the enormous and prodigious and fascinating growth of the many branches of the Phillips family which remained and flourished in America, and spread from border to border. These family lines have been added to this family tree, in order to develop a skeleton from which many living cousins and descendants can add their own descent. For me to fully develop it here, would entail the addition of more than a million names.
Agnes Rice was born 1 on 11 Jul 1591 in Barnstaple, Devon, England . She died . She married 2 Christopher Phillips on 9 Oct 1613 in Withycombe Raleigh, Devon, England .
They had the following children:
F i Hannah Phillips F ii Agnes Phillips F iii Ann Phillips was born 1 on 5 Dec 1618 in Bardney, Lincoln, England. She died .
Zarrubbabel Phillips [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 5 Apr 1632 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died 3 in 1697 in Southampton, New York. He married 4 Anne Cooper in 1663 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Other marriages:Tapping, Martha
According to "The Roads Taken"
There are three references to Z. Phillips in Bond's Watertown Index. He is undoubtedly named in honour in, in reference to Zerubabel Filer, born Dec. 23, 1644, in Windsor, CT, who was a son of Walter Filer. The offspring of Walter Filer married many descendants of the Phillips family, with various surnames. Here are some notes found in Savage ("A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692", Volume 3, by James Savage).... ZOROBABEL (sic) Phillips, Southampton, L. I. 1663-73, I judge to be the eldest s. by sec. w. of George the first, tho. fam. geneal. does not indicate his resid. nor give any thing of him but the b. He m. at S. Ann, wid. of John White, who had been of Lynn bef. the sett. there. I once presum. that the two uncles, Zorobabel and Theophilus, being of L. I. drew thither Rev. George, their neph. but some facts appear irreconcil. with this presumpt. Twenty of the name had, twenty yrs. since, been gr. at Harv. and very few at other N. E. coll. Rev. George, by his second wife, Elizabeth Welden (Bond), had as his first child Zerobabel, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, April 5, 1632, and the town records show this fact. He subsequently, at the age of sixteen, settled at Southampton, L. I., and died there subsequent to the year 1689. There is record of his corresponding with Joseph Tainter in October, 1684, as his attorney, in regard to his parents' estate. His first wife is unknown, as there are no records extant of marriages in Southampton of thattime. By her he had Theophilus (22). In 1663 he married Ann White, widow of John, formerly of Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1687 he married Martha Herrick, daughter of James. The town records of Southampton bear the following data, to wit: Records of Southampton, New York, vol. 2, p. 41. "John Oldfield binds himself in 20 pounds to appear and answer Mrs. Ann Phillips, in an action concerning commonage April 25, 1664." P. 32. "Joseph Rainer in an action of trespass upon the case, (concerning a pit was digged in the common whereby he was damnified.) against Zerobabel Phillips and wife. Ann Phillips according to her engagement produced her son to the Court, so answer to her bond. At the said Court, Dec., 1st, 1663." P. 35. "July 28, 1659. Zerobabel Phillips was a witness to an agreement by two Indian Sachems relating to the whale fishery on Long Island." P. 78. Zerobabel Phillips was mentioned among a lot of residents of Southampton in drawing lots of land. This occurred at a townmeeting held June 25, 1679. P. 238. "Dec. 16, 1668. Ann, the wife of Ensign Zerobabel Phillips, acknowledgeth to have made over and granted to her son John White the fifty interest or comonidy at Quaquanantuck, which is to his fifty alotement and also another fifty comonidy therewith, last said fifty is one of those she had of John Woodruff, Jun., whereof there is a record made in this book." P. 120 (Abstract). "Whereas, upon the decease of Mrs. Ann Phillips, widow of John White, there is an inheritance to be divided between James White and his nephew John. It is concluded that James shall have three acres in Halseys neck, lying nest his own 4 acres he bought of John Woodruff, and 2 acres more north of the said 4 acres, and 1 1/2 acres in Captain's neck in the ten acre lots, and 2 acres in first neck, second John is to have ten acres in Halsey's and Captains neck a two hundred pound lot in oxpasture to be divided between them, and John has ten acres of the ten acre division, which was laid to his father John White west of Gersham Culver's home lot, and James has ten acres save division on north side of John Howell, Jr., home lot. March ye 19, 1686-7." P. 224. (Abstract of Deed.) "John Oldfield sells to Ann Phillips, his parcel of land in Cowneck, that he bought of fulk Davis, lying between Samuell Clark, and Samuel Barker, also above five (5) acres of meadow at North sea lying between the meadow of George Harris and John Davis at the Southwest, the great creek at the Northwest,and the highway at the Southeast, also a 50 of commonage that he bought of fulk Davis, Oct. 12, 1663. Theophilus Phillips, by his wife Ann, had a son Theophilus, born at Newtown, May 15, 1672, and who died in Maidenhead, New Jersey, 1709; a son Philip, born also at Newtown, December 27, 1678, and died in Maidenhead, New Jersey, 1740; a son William, who became a freeman in New York. The brothers Theophilus and Philip Phillips, and their cousins Ralph, Samuel and Edward Hunt, were the early settlers and founders of Maidenhead. Theophilus Phillips and Ralph Hunt purchased lands together, as hereinafter shown, as early as 1694. Before tracing the line of descent of these settlers, a brief sketch of the early history of Maidenhead would not be out of place.
Anne Cooper [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 4 Jun 1644 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. She died . She married 3 Zarrubbabel Phillips in 1663 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
They had the following children:
M i Zerubabel Phillips was born 1 about 1663 in Southampton, Suffolk, New York. He died . M ii Jacob Phillips was born 1 in 1663/1670 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. He died . M iii Bartholomew Phillips was born 1 in 1666/1668. He died .
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