Peter Phinney

Biography

Children:
Jonathan Phinney (unknown–1832)
Abisha Phinney (1761–1838)
Ebenezer Phinney (1769–1829)
Research Note: There is a Peter Phinney UE that everyone seems to think is this Peter Phinney. But they seem to have fought on different sides in the war. Do not merge.

Gravestone Transcription

In memory of Mr Peter Phinney who died Jan 24, 1824 aged 87 years.[1]

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Peter Phinney (1737 - 1824)

Peter Phinney

Born 31 May 1737 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Son of Samuel Phinney and Hannah (Ray) Phinney

Brother of Susannah (Phinney) Nye, Nathaniel Phinney, William Phinney and Hannah (Phinney) Robinson

Husband of Tabitha (Unknown) Phinney — married before 1758 [location unknown]

Husband of Suzannah (Chadwick) Phinney — married 10 Jan 1760 in Falmouth, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Father of Jonathan Phinney, Abisha Phinney and Ebenezer Phinney

Died 24 Jan 1824 at age 86 in Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

Profile last modified 11 Jul 2023 | Created 28 Sep 2014

Biography

Children:
Jonathan Phinney (unknown–1832)
Abisha Phinney (1761–1838)
Ebenezer Phinney (1769–1829)
Research Note: There is a Peter Phinney UE that everyone seems to think is this Peter Phinney. But they seem to have fought on different sides in the war. Do not merge.

Gravestone Transcription

In memory of Mr Peter Phinney who died Jan 24, 1824 aged 87 years.[1]

Sources

↑ Henry Herbert Smythe, "East End Burying Ground," Falmouth (Massachusetts) Enterprise, 10 December 1904, p. 8; "Falmouth Enterprise," database with images, Falmouth Public Library (https://origin.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Falmouth/ : accessed 11 Dec. 2019); citing East End Burying Ground (Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts), Peter Phinney marker, plot 5 B 3. Record of all stones in the Old Burying Ground adjoining the "East End" meeting house which were standing in 1904.
Phinney Genealogy
Peter Phinney married Susanna Chadwick. Intentions of marriage were published Feb 17, 1757 and they were married Jan 10, 1760.
Susanna Chadwick was born in 1738 and died Jan 30 1814 in her 76 year.
Records in the State House in Boston, stated that Peter Phinney was enrolled as a private in Sept 1778, also a pay abstract of Capt. Samuel Fish's Co., Col Nathaniel Freeman's Regiment, for service 8 days as guard at Waquoit. Marched on alarm at Falmouth in Sept 1778.
Peter Phinney was elected Constable, May 23, 1780.
He was elected Collector, Mar 5, 1782
He was on the Grand Jury, mar 18, 1799
Elected to State Valuation in 1811
He moved to Waquoit from Barnstable and spent the remainder of his life there. He and his wife both died in Waquoit, and are buried there.
Ancestors of Ebenezer Phinney
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1759 Marriage Banns
Name: Peter Finy
Spouse Name: Susanah Chadwick
Published: 17 Feb 1759 in Falmouth, Massachusetts
Falmouth, Massachusetts Vital Records
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1760 Marriage
Name: Peter Phinney
Spouse: Name: Susanah Chadwick of Falmouth
Married: January 10 1760 in Falmouth, Massachusetts
By the Reverend Samuel Palmer, Minister of Falmouth
Falmouth, Massachusetts Vital Records
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Find a Grave
http://www.phinneysplace.com/genealogy/p2473.htm#i2759
Charles and John Chadwick of Malden and Watertown, Massachusetts, and Some of Their Descendants, Brent Chadwick, unpublished, copyright Brent Chadwick 2014
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LH3P-6KH