Mary Phelps

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/UNKNOWN-120605

Mary's maiden name is unknown. She was first married to Thomas Salmon.

Our Thomas Salmon was witness to a deed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1650, so he was presumably married to his wife (Mary) about 1659 in Massachusetts. They eventually settled in Northampton, Massachusetts, where Thomas was killed by Indians on 29 October 1675 (King Philip's War).

Administration of his estate was granted to the widow Mary at Northampton on 29 March 1676.

Family

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Thomas_Salmon_%283%29

Wife: Mary Unknown m. Bef 1660

Children

1. Mary Salmon (1660 - )
2. Ruth Salmon (1666 - ) m. 1684, William Hulbert the sec.
3. Elizabeth Salmon (1673 - ) m. 1693, Caleb Root
4. Thomas Salmon (1676 - )
5. infant died young
6. infant died young

Then as a widow Mrs. Mary Salmon married Joseph Phelps. She had a son

• Timothy Phelps (born 1679-1680)

who is mentioned in the probate records of Joseph Phelps as being 4 years old: "Phelps, Joseph, Simsbury. Invt. £84-09-06 Taken 5 March, 1683-84, by John Terry, Joshua Holcomb & John Case. The children: Joseph 17 years of age, Hannah 15, William 13 years, Sarah 11 years, and Timothy 4 years of age."

Joseph Phelps married 1st 20 Sept 1660 to Hannah Newton at Windsor, married 2nd 19 Dec 1676 to Mary --- Salmon at Northampton[1]

Sources

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Unknown_%282976%29
• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862) 4:6.
  • "THOMAS, Northampton 1659, by w. Mary had Mary, b. 1660; Ruth, 1666; Elizabeth 1673; beside two ch. that d. young; and Thomas, posthum. Mar. 1676; was k. by the Ind. 29 Oct. preced. His wid. Mary m. 1676, Joseph Phelps of Windsor, but prob. aft. his rem. to Simsbury. Ruth m. 1684, William Hulbert the sec.; and Elizabeth m. 1693, Caleb Root."
• Hyde, Myrtle Stevens. The English Origin of William1 Phelps of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn., with Notes on His Marriages, The American Genealogist (The American Genealogist, Barrington, RI, 1990) Vol. 65, Page 164. AmericanAncestors
• [Probate records of husband Joseph Phelps:https://archive.org/stream/digestofearlycon01manw#page/347/mode/1up] "A Digest of the early Connecticut probate records" compiled by Charles William Manwaring, vol 1, 1635-1700, publ. 1904, page 347.
• William Phelps, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) 3:1446./'JOSEPH (twin), bp. Crewkerne 13 November 1628; m. (1) Windsor 20 September 1660 Hannah Newton [Grant 57; TAG 65:13-16]; m. (2) Northampton 19 December 1676 Mary (_____) Salmon [Pynchon VR 20].'
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Timothy_Phelps_%2819%29
• Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06) 1:347. 'Phelps, Joseph, Simsbury. Invt ... Taken 5 March 1683-4, ... The children: Joseph 17 years of age, Hannah 15, William 13 years, Sarah 11 years, and Timothy 4 years of age.' The Petition of Mary Phelps, Relict to Joseph Phelps, of Symsbury, ... having a young child left By Joseph Phelps, ...'