Abstract of Probate Records – Simon Pearce
wife Sarah wife Polly
Ye Old Albermarle Court Record page 25, 29
page 25 Att a Court holden for the pRecinct of Pequimons at ye. house of Willm. Mancell the Second Monday in Aprill present y. Justices of the Court Hannah Hill proved Rights for fifteen psons transported into this Cou__ whose names are under written Henry Phelps, Hanah his Wife, John Phelps, Jonathan Phelps, Hanah Phelps […]
Henry Phelps
Phelps, Henry, came in the Hercules April 10, 1634. Res. at Salem. Lawsuit, 1645 {Es. Files} He was charged in 1660 with entertaining Quakers. His son John was placed in care of an uncle, Edmund Batter; and to have a portion which had been left hi by his grandmother. [Es. Files]
Essex Co. Mass. Deeds, Vol. 2 – Will of Henry Phelps
Know all men by these presents that I Henry Phelps of Salem, in the County of Essex in New England, for valuable consideration to me in hand already pd. ye receipt whereof I do acknowledge, have bargained & sold & doe by these presents bargains, aliens & sell, assigne & sett over unto Joseph Pope […]
Essex Institute Historical Collections – The Woods, Salem, in 1700
p188 Joseph Pope House. This lot of upwards of a hundred acres was granted by the town of Salem to Rev. Edward Norris, the pastor of the church at that time, Jan. 21, 1639-40. Mr. Norris, when still “minister and teacher to the church of Salem,” for twelve pounds, conveyed the lot to Eleanor Trustler, […]
Salem in the Seventeenth Century
by James Duncan Phillips page 196 General Court forbade Quakers to enter and forbade anyone to entertain them, and, after trying simpler measures, in due time further promised that if they did come, it would put them out, and if they came again, it would cut their ears off, and if they returned a third […]
Life in the Colony
Thomas Trusler lived on the westerly side of Beckford Street. He was in Salem in 1638, and probably came in 1629. In 1649, he was excused from training on account of his age. He married Eleanor, widow of ___ Phelps … He had a daughter in England in 1654. He died March 5, 1653-4 and […]
Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America
Phelps, Henry, Salem from London, came in the Hercules 1634; married 1652, Hannah Bassett, but Savage thinks as second wife, for there is some prob. that he had married a daughter of Thomas Tresler, by whom he had son John, remembered in the will of his grandmother. Perhaps he was a Quaker, at least Felt […]
Salem Quarterly Court Records and Files
p 103 Disorderly meeting at the house of one Nicholas Phelps of Salem on the Lord’s day in time of the public worship. William Brend . . . The court sent for Nicolas Phelps, Larence Southwick and his wife . . . At the meeting were, also, Nicolas Phelps wife, Henry Traske, George Gardner’s wife, […]
Perquimans Court Record – April and July Term 1691
page 24 April 1691 (32) At a Court holden for the precinct of Pequemins on the first on the first Monday in April 1691: at the house of Capt. Anthony Dawson. Present Capt. Ralph Fletcher Steward: Mr. John Whitby, Mr. Joseph Sutten, Mr. Robert Wilson, Justices (more) signed Ralph Fletcher, John Whedbe, Joseph Sutten Richard […]