Eleanor Trusler

John Edward Phelps and Jane Thomas Phelps, The Descendants of Henry Phelps, son of Henry, the Emigrant: 7 Generations in America (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2004)

Page 5 Eleanor, "widow of _____ Phelps," married Thomas Trusler/Tresler, brickmaker, who probably arrived in Salem about 1629 and built a "kiln for the making of bricks and tiles in the town," [Perley, 1:320]. The marriage of Trusler and Eleanor apparently took place before 1639, since both Thomas and Eleanor Trusler were admitted to the First Church, Salem in 1639, he on the 15th of the 10th month and she on the 29th of the 10th month [Pierce, Records of the First Church, 9; Phillips, Salem in the Seventeenth Century, Appendix C]. Trusler was made a freeman in 1642 and Clerk of the Market in 1650; he died 5 Marcch 1654 in Salem.

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Henry Phelps was perhaps born in 1595 in England. He married probably in England, Eleanor or Ellinor, who also may have been born about 1595 in England. Some authorities state she was a Sharp, but she is shown as Eleanor Moulton [Mealton?] Page 4 in Torrey's New England Marriages prior to 1700. Her second husband Thomas Trusler (Tresler) called Robert Moulton Father Moulton and on this basis, Perley proposes, in the History of Salem [1:320] that Eleanor may have been a Moulton,* however, "father" was also used as a term of respect.

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• Robert Moulton, chief shipwright, came to America in 1629 among the first settlers with Rev. Francis Higginson. He was one of the 12

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In 1644, the wife of Thomas Trusler was fined for speaking out against he teachers of the church [Perley 2:66] and for her Gortonist opinions [Gortonism seems to have been a clear precursor of Quakerism, Gildrie, Salem, Massachusetts, 79.] It was said that she "did question the government ever since she came" [Salem Quarterly Court, Records & Files; Essex Antiquarian 5 (1901): 28; Bjorkman, "Hannah (Baskel) Phelps Phelps Hill," 290.]

Eleanor died the spring following Trusler's death. Her will, dated 15 Feb. 1654, was proved in the Salem Court in June 1655; inventory taken 13 Mar. 1655 valued the estate at 131 pounds, 3 shillings, 9 pence [Essex Antiquarian, 6 (1902): 111-112. She names her three sons by Mr. Phelps, leaves 10 pounds to the "daughter in England of my late husband," Mr. Trusler. She makes sons, Henry and Nicholas, joint executors and bequeaths to them "her farm and houseing," leaving a 10 acre lot to Henry; and her "house and ground in the towne" to her son Edward.

She names her grandson John Phelps, as well as well as grandchildren Elizabeth, Samuel and Edward and the two children of Nicholas. She also mentions her two daughters, but not by name. She makes her mark and Robert Moulton, Sr.; George Gardner and Robert Moulton, Jr., witness the will.

links

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gwenbj&id...
• Americana, Volume 13 (Google eBook)National Americana Society, 1919 - United States.  Page 58.  Goodwin and Allied Families - the Phelps line? Henry Phelps, of London, England, was a passenger in the ship "Hercules," which arrived in this country in 1634. He settled in Salem, Massachusetts, and his wife's name was Anna Fresler.
• Americana, Volume 13 (Google eBook)National Americana Society, 1919 - United States.  Page 58.  Goodwin and Allied Families - the Phelps line

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