Philippa Nelson

Philippa Andrews

• Born about 1636 in Falmouth, Barnstable, MA
• Died 29 Sep 1709 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
• Parents: Samuel Andrews (1598 - 1638) & Jane (1605 - 1676)
• Spouses: 1) George Felt (1638 - 1676) 2) Samuel Platts (1617 - 1690) 3) Thomas Nelson (1627 - 1712)

Married first on 24 Nov 1662 at Falmouth, Cumberland Co., ME to George Felt. He was the son of George Felt Sr and Elizabeth Wilkinson.

Their children:

• 1. Jonathan Felt
• 2. George Felt
• 3. Samuel Felt
• 4. Mary Felt m. Josiah Wood[5]

Married second on 19 Dec 1682 at Rowley, Essex, MA to Samuel Platts; his second marriage. He was the son of James Gawkroger and Martha Ainsworth, and Sarah‘s widower.

Their child:

• Mary Platts bp June 29, 1684 m. David Hammond.

Married third on 9 April 1690 at Rowley, Essex, MA to Thomas Nelson; his third marriage. He was the son Aof Thomas Nelson and Dorothy Stapleton, and the widower of Ann Lambert and Mary Skerry.

Biography

Phillipa, the widow of George Felt, removed, probably at this time to Salem, and married there, Dec. 19, 1682, Samuel Platt, an early settler of Rowley, Mass, as his second Wife. He died and she married again, April 9, 1690, Thomas Nelson, as his third wife. He was the town clerk or recorder of Rowley, from 1694 to 1697. He died April 5, 1712. She died Sept. 29, 1709. The children of George Felt removed finally to Salem about 1690.

Notes

In 1670 George Felt received from his mother-in-law, who had married Arthur Mackworth for her second husband and who had been for the second time left a widow, the gift of a homestead, as evidenced by the following deed. "Be it knowne unto all men by these presents, That I Jane Mackworth of ye Towne of ffalmouth alias Casco Bay, widow of Arthur Mackworth Gentl Deceased. For divers good Causes & consideracons me Thereto moving more Especialy for & in consideracon of a Marriage that hath been betwixt my daughter Phillipe & George Felt, have given granted &c a quantity of Land adjoyning to his now dwelling house in ye Town of ffalmouth alias Casco, bounded as followeth, with a deep Gutt hard by a parcel of pines at a place commonly called or knowne by ye name of ye Mussle cove alias, doco Missick upon ye South West Side of my daughter purchas her land which was given her by my Deceased husband Mr Arthur Mackworth Deceased & So in breadth to ye bounds of my Son James Andrews according to a writing or Deed which he Received o fme which lyeth South westerly from ye said Geoge ffelts & So up into ye Country till a hundred acres be Compleate & Ended, allwaies provided that he doe not Entrench neither upon My Son Andrews his land nor my daughter purchas her land, Together likewise with Two parcells of Marsh lying and being in ye aforementioned Towne of Falmouth in ye river which goeth up to poosumskut ye one commonly called or knowne by ye name of Morrice his Marsh Together with all woods underwoods profits privledges Commodities Emoluments & Immunities that may or shall thence arise or any way appertain or belong or to any part thereof To have and To Hold &c, &c. Allwaies provided that he ye said George ffelt his heirs & Successors doe & shall from time to time well & Truly pay or cause to be payed unto me Jane Mackworty my heirs Executors or assigns a due & proportionable part of such anual rents anualy as ye orriginal grant my husband Mr. Arthur Mackworth hath received doeth oblige to pay and make good unto ye Lord proprietor according to ye Tearms & true intent thereof if any such rent shall be by any Lord proprietor Lawfully demanded of me my heirs Executors or administr and in Witness of ye truth hereof I Jane Mackworth have hereunto Set my hand & Seals this Seventh Day of February in ye year of our Lord 1669-70." (Old Norfolk Records, Vol. 4, pg 95)
This gift was evidently made in accordance with the desire of her husband expressed upon his death-bed, his informal will being known to us through the testimony of a neighbor, as follows: "This 17th day of August; 1660, I Robert Jordan to ascertajne on my oath, that I Heard Mr. Arthur Makeworth on his death bedd declare that his full will & testament was, that his wife Mis Jane Mackeworth should by her wisedom dispose of his whoole estate aequally as neare as might bee betweene her former husband's children & the Children between them, & In Case any shortnesse was on either side, that itt should rather bee on his owne Childrens side & further sayth not onely the dease of the sd Mr. Arthur Maceworth was before the submission of these Towns of Sarbrough & Falmouth to the Massatusetts authority under my hand & on my oath, by mee Robrt Jordan." (York County, Maine, Registry of Deeds, Vol. 1, page 155.)

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Andrews-140 cites
• https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Rowley/aMarriagesF.shtml “Felts, Phillipa, of Salem, and Samuel Plats [sr. CTR], Dec. 19, 1682“
• http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Rowley/aMarriagesN.shtml “Nelson, Thomas, and Phillipy Platts, Apr. 9, 1690.*“
• Blodgette, George Brainard, Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts Revised, Edited and Published by Jewett, Amos Everett. Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Massachusetts, USA, 1933. Reprinted by the New England History Press, Somersworth, New Hampshire. 1981 Page 244, 307, 308 link
• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 link
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55335588/george-felt
• http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Rowley/Images/Rowley_B172.shtml “ Platts, Mary, d. S., sr., bp. June 29, 1684. CR1”
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Platts-77 cites
• White, Almira Larkin, Genealogy of the descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Volume 4, page 167
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• Prime, Temple Some Account of the Family of Prime of Rowley, Mass: With Notes on the Families of Platts, Jewetts, and Hammond, published 1881. Reference page 31
• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Rowley, Volume 1, page 378
• Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Rowley, Volume 1, page 26039
• Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, published 1938. Reference Volume 1, page 405
• See also:, George Brainard, Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, published 1933. Reference pages 307-8
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• History and genealogies of the Hammond families in America : with an account of the early history of the family in Normandy and Great Britain. 1000-1902 by Hammond, Frederick Stam. 1902 Pages 72, 139,140,1,2. Archive.Org, page 139 - 140 Archive.Org