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He was named in his father's will and given the equivalent of about $16,000. He was a student at Winchester College and matriculated at Magdalene Hall, Oxford University on February 4, 1591/92 at the age of 20. He is thought to be the William Symonds who married the widow Alice Roseblade of Kingsworthy on January 29, 1617.
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Judith was licensed to embark from Stepney on the ship "Planter" 22 March 1634 at age 16, a servant of Nicholas Davies, together with James Haieward (Hayward), age 22, a servant. Judith married first in Massachusetts James Hayward, who was born about 1612 in England and died 20 Nov 1642 in Massachusetts. James and Judith had a daughter Rebecca born 4 Dec 1642. It may be supposed that servants Judith and James arrived in Massachusetts about Jul 1634 and completed a seven year indenture before marrying about 1641. The license list included only one family, Nicholas and Sarah Davies with son Joseph. Nicholas Davis is found in Woburn, MA in 1643.Comments on the Parents of Judith Phippen -
The two sets of parents given for Judith are widely reported contenders. Both are supported in the files of LDS Church, and both are supported about equally by family genealogies. Of those I have found, a small edge in quantity favors David and Sarah, and in quality favors William and Judith. I have not found any "tie breaker" in the way of a primary source document.
What seems reasonable about David and Sarah is that they come from Dorsetshire, a county from which came many immigrants during this period; the problem is that I have not found any passenger list for a ship on which they might have come to America.
What is deeply suspicions about David and Sarah being Judith's parents is that they came to America at all! Their having done so would contradict the widely accepted wisdom that Judith came here alone as a servant girl..
Insofar as I have been able to determine, neither pair of parents is supported by primary documents with the possible exception of a Will of William Phippen which has been quoted but I have not read.
Putting everything together (including the notion that Judith was named after her mother), William and Judith Burrow have the best circumstantial evidence for being the parents of our Judith Phippen.William PHIPPEN (AFN:B8TS-0R) was born about 1595 in Somerset, England. He was buried on 5 Oct 1647 in Wedmore, Somersetshire, England. William married Judith BURROW (AFN:NVG8-KX)before 1618. Judith was born about 1595 in Somerset, England. She died on 10 Dec 1637 in Wedmore, Somersetshire, England.
Note: William Phippen was a baker. He must have come from Ireland because in his Will he named his four daughters [listed here] including Judah (Judith) in New England. He also gave the name of his brother Joseph and noted that he was living in Ireland. (Joseph Phippen married Elynor Marten on 2 Aug 1603 at Wedmore, Somersetshire, England and had there children: Christopher, Isabella, Joseph and George.)David PHIPPEN (AFN:BVJ9-XT) was born in 1585 in Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England. He died on 31 Oct 1650 in Boston, Suffolk Co., MA. David married Sarah PINCKNEY (AFN:8J72-HX) about 1617. Sarah was born in 1574 in Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England. She died on 25 Aug 1659 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT.
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William Phippen was a baker. He must have come from Ireland because in his Will he named his four daughters [listed here] including Judah (Judith) in New England. He also gave the name of his brother Joseph and noted that he was living in Ireland. (Joseph Phippen married Elynor Marten on 2 Aug 1603 at Wedmore, Somersetshire, England and had there children: Christopher, Isabella, Joseph and George.)
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Samuel came to America aboard the ship "Planter" arriving Lynn, MA, in 1635.
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From the Genealogy & Personal Memoirs of William R. Cutter, Vol. 2, pg.1328-1329 we find something about the origins of the Porter name. The ancestry of John Porter of Windsor, has been traced through sixteen generations from him to William de la Grande, a Norman knight, who went to England with William the Conqueror in the conquest of A.D. 1066 and acquired lands near Kenilworth in Warwickshire. His son, Ralph or Roger, became "Grand Porteur to Henry I from A.D. 1120 to 1140 and from this circumstance came the surname of Porter as now derived. The ancient coat-of-arms of the family is: Argent on a fesse sable between two or three church bells of the first. Crest: a portcullis argent chained. Motto: Virgilantia et Virtuti.
John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut, is the emigrant ancestor of this line and a 7th great grandfather of Florence Bertha Miles. It is said that "he came to New England with his wife and nine children from Felsted, County Essex, England, probably in the ship 'Swan and Ellen,' 17 July 1638," and in company with his brother-in-law Joseph Loomis. He was one of the first settlers of Windsor, CT, although he settled briefly at Dorchester. We find accounts of him migrating from there to Connecticut accompaning Rev. Ephraim Hewitt. In Windsor he was a man of some wealth and property, as well as ability and character. His home lot was on the "Island" extending east and west of the road, and included part of the "Plymouth Meadow." His house was east of the road.
John received a large land grant in Windsor and was appointed constable in 1639/40, a juror in 1640, a grand-juror in 1643 and deputy to General Court in 1646 and 1647. He was generally a prominent man in the community. His last will and testiment is dated April 20,1648 and can be found in the Connecticut Colonial Records. He died in Windsor a day later and was buried on the 22nd. His will, however, was not probated until June of the next year.
The marriage of John Porter of Felsted to Anna White of Messing, 18th October, 1620, is found in the Parish Register of Messing. The baptism of their children, beginning with Anna, September 21, 1621, their first born, down to Mary, October 1st, 1637, the last one there baptized, are recorded in the Parish Register of Felsted. They probably went to Messing soon after this date, as the baptism of their daughter Anna (who is supposed to have died in infancy), November 4, 1638, is there recorded. The facts taken in conjunction with the information concerning his family contained in the will of John Porter, and also in the Town Records of Windsor, are regarded as good and sufficient authority for the statement that this John Porter of Felsted and John Porter of Windsor, Conn., were the same person.
Anna White was the daughter of Robert White of Messing, a village about ten miles from Bocking in Essex. Her baptism is recorded in the Messing Parish Register, July 13, 1600. The mother of Anna White was Bridget Allgar, daughter of William Allgar of Shalford, Essex County, England. Robert White died in 1617 and it has been said that "he cannot have been an old man at the time of his death, for he had at least five children unmarried, and apparently only one of them over twenty-one." His daughter Elizabeth married William Goodwin, and his daughter Mary married Joseph Loomis, both of them coming to New England, and well-known in its history. Anna is mentioned in her father's will in the following clause: "I give and bequeath unto my daughter Anna White the summe of one hundredth markes of like lawfull mony: to be paid unto hir upon ye day of hir marriage; yf soe be she shall bestow hir selfe in marriage, accordinge to the likings and consent of my two fornamed sonnes in law, and my wife, as is aforesaid. But yf soe fall out, as that she my said daughter Anna shall marrye wthout the consent and approbation formerly mentioned, then I give and bequeath hir only the summe of thirtey pounds of like lawfull monie." There is no doubt that the necessary approval was given and that three years later the bequest constituted her marriage portion.
Abstract of the Will of John Porter, dated April 20, 1648, proved June 7, 1649: I give my eldest son John Porter 100 pounds, and to my second son Jeames Porter I give three score pounds, and to my other six children, to wit: Samuel Porter, Nathaniel porter, Rebecca Porter, Rose Porter, Mary Porter, Ana Porter, I give to each of them thirty pounds apiece. . . . My son Joseph Judson is to take twenty shillings of Thomas Thornton the next winter. Also I give fifty shillings to the poor of Wyndsor church."
My desire is that these my beloved friends would be the overseers of this my last Will and testament. Mr Warham of Wyndsor, Mr. Goodwin of Hartford, Goodman White of Hartford, Matthew Graunt of Wyndsor.
(signed) John Porter
Witnesses. Henry Clark. John Porter. Abigail Branker
His two eldest daughters Anna and Sarah thought the portions given to them by their father at their marriage should be made the same as their younger sisters, as appears from the following report of the committee appointed to consider the matter.
March 7th, 1650. Upon consideration of the business referred to our consideration touching upon the children of John Porter of Wyndsor, deceased. We finding some expressions of this that we would make the portions of his two eldest daughters as good as his younger; also we conceive the eldest were helpful to the estate and that the Lord hath taken away one of the younger daughters and that the rest of the children are disposed of without damage to their portion; our apprehensions are (if the Court see meet) that the two eldest daughters portions be made up thirty pounds apiece."
John Tallcott, William Westwood.
Conn. Col. Rec. Vol ", pp. 475-6."
Anna and John became the ancestors of Presidents Grant, Cleveland and Ford.
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Samuel came to America aboard the ship "Rose", arriving Boston on 8 Jun 1637. He was a Cordwainer and he and his wife engaged to teach the "art, trade, mistery, and science" of a shoemaker to an indentured apprentice. They were members of Rev. John Elio's Congregational Church of Roxbury (Boston), MA, of which Samuel became the Deacon and ruling Elder. Samuel was buried in Roxbury's old First Burying Place, his grave being marked by a six-foot sandstone slab bearing the words "Here Lyeth ye Body of Deacon Samuel Williams Aged 65 years. Departed This Life September ye 28 1698".
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An alternate date of death for Theoda Parke is 26 Aug 1718. This appears in "Genealogy of David Benjamin McDowell and Jennie Bea Cole, August 14, 1994.
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Robert Williams was baptised at the Church of Saint Nicholas at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England 11 Dec 1608. The old parish church dates back to 1101, and, one of the best known in England, it was splendidly adorned. In 1625, when he was 18, the plague took his parents and a brother but at this time he was a cordwainer's apprentice, having begun his apprenticeship in 1623, and his absence may have saved his life. He completed his apprenticeship in 1630 when he was admited Freeman at Norwich. He became a master craftsman in leather work and in 1635 he was warden of the Guild of Cordwainers and Sealer of Leather for the City of Norwich. His brother Nicholas was formally apprenticed to him.nd came to America on 8 Jun 1637 aboard the ship "Rose". Arriving in Boston, they immediately settled in Roxbury where he was made a freeman on 2 May 1638 and lived therein the rest of his life. His will is dated 26 November 1685 and it was probated 29 September 1693.