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About Hannah Smith, widow of Phelps, Phelps, & Hill
6/30/2021 edit Uploaded Early New England Families Study Project Profile issued 6/30/2021 by NEHGS for info on 4 marriages and 2 children (and their 2 marriages each). That profile also cites the following article for a more detailed narrative of her life and family.
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http://ancestoryarchives.blogspot.com/2013/06/hannah-baskel-phelps-...
Hannah (Baskel) Phelps Phelps Hill - A Quaker Woman and Her Offspring
Gwen Boyer Bjorkman is a genealogical researcher. This article first appeared in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, v 75 no 4 (Dec 1987). It won the 1987 Family-History Writing Contest of the National Genealogical Society.
It is usually difficult to document the lives of colonial women. As a category, they left few legal documents. Yet through sundry records, it is possible to reconstruct the life of one remarkable woman - Hannah (Baskel) Phelps Phelps Hill. One does not read about Hannah in standard histories of early America, yet she held the first Quaker meeting in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in her home in Salem and later opened her home to the first Quaker meeting in the Albemarle settlement of Carolina. She was truly the Proverbs 31 Lady. After all these years “her children (will now) rise up and bless her saying: ‘Many daughters have done noble, But you excel them all!’
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Hannah Smith, widow of Phelps, Phelps, & Hill's Timeline
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1625
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England, United Kingdom
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| 1649 |
1649
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Salem, Essex County, MA, United States
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| 1652 |
1652
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Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1696 |
March 7, 1696
Age 71
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Perquimans, North Carolina, United States
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