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Martha Phipps (Bullard)

Also Known As: "Martha (Bullard) Fairbanks Phipps"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Sherborn, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
Death: January 22, 1749 (54)
Sherborn, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Capt. Samuel Bullard; Samuel Bullard; Deborah Bullard and Deborah Atherton
Wife of Capt. Eleazer Fairbanks and John Phipps, III
Mother of Eleazer Fairbanks; Joseph Fairbanks; Deborah Twitchell; Martha Fairbanks; Ebenezer Fairbanks and 6 others
Sister of Benjamin Bullard

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About Martha Phipps

April 7, 1748;  "To the Honorable Samuel Danforth Esq Judge of Probate This may certifie that the subscribed Martha Phips widow and relict of John Phips late of Sherborn deceased am satisfied and content with the sum of 200 pounds old tenor in stead of my dower in this estate and stand ready to discharge said estate on payment of said sum aforesaid as witness my hand

                                                                                  Martha                                                               Her mark         M                                                                                    Phips

Sherborn April seven seventeen hundred and forty eight. "In the 1916 map of Central Burying Ground there is a Fairbanks grouping of stones:  Capt. Eleazer Fairbanks, Mrs. Martha Phipps, daughter Abigail Fairbanks, and daughter Deborah and her husband, plus some unnamed stones.  (Martha and the unnamed stones have unfortunately disappeared.)  Copies of that graveyard by historian Frank Bardwell in 1883 include:  "Martha Fairbanks Phipps, wife of John Phipps (formerly wife of Eleazer Fairbanks)" (but no death date)"  provided by Sherborn Town historian Betsey Johnson, 1997.

 Aft. 1743, moved to Brookfield, Massachusetts

She does not appear as widow of John Phips of Sherborn in any of the published genealogies.

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Martha Phipps's Timeline

1694
February 11, 1694
Sherborn, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
1716
July 23, 1716
Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1718
1718
1719
November 12, 1719
Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
1724
August 2, 1724
Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1734
June 1, 1734
Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1749
January 22, 1749
Age 54
Sherborn, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
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