Philippa Birdseye

Philippa Smith

• Birth: 1622, England
• Death: before 1687, Stratford Fairfield County Connecticut, USA

~MY ANCESTOR~ The daughter of REV. HENRY SMITH, the exact date of her birth & death are not known. It s presumed that she was born in England and brought to New England by her parents (mother unknown). She married John Birdseye circa 1637 in Whethersfield.

John & Phillipa were admitted to the church in Milford in the Colony of New Haven on August 23, 1640 and dismissed to the church at Stratford on March 19, 1649. She apparently died sometime between 1649 and 1688 when John married his second wife.

John & Phillipa had two known children: John Birdseye III and Joanna (Birdseye) Wilcoxson.

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Parents:

* Henry Smith (1599 - 1648)

Spouse:

• John Birdseye (1616 - 1690)*

Children:

• John Birdseye (1641 - 1698)*
• Johanna Birdseye Wilcoxson (1642 - 1713)*

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Rev. Henry Smith, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952) 732, 33.

Philippa (Smith) b. [say 1622]; d. by 1687; m. b. 1640, Dea. John Birdsey, who d. at Stratford, Conn., 4 Apr. 1690. John and Philippa Birdsey were admitted to the Milford church, 23 Aug. 1640, and were dismissed to the Stratford church, 19 Mar. 1649. He m. (2) in 1688, Alice, widow of Henry Tomlinson.
Philippa is placed as a daughter for the following reasons. The will of Rev. Henry Smith, 8 May 1648, speaks of two married daughters, but Mary is the only daughter married so early unless Philippa or some other is accorded a place in the family. In 1662 the will of John Blackman, husband of Dorothy2 Smith, appointed for overseers of his estate "my father, my brother Birdsey, my uncle Wheeler, and brother James Blackman." Three of the overseers were his own relatives, and it may reasonably be supposed that Birdsey was related to his wife. It is certain that Blackman did not marry a sister of Birdsey, since his wife was Dorothy Smith; and he had no sister who married Birdsey; the only other likely explanation is that they married sisters, which makes Philippa a Smith. Philippa named her only daughter Johanna, and she had a sister Joanna Smith.

References

• Ancestry.com. Hale, House and Related Families [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data:Jacobus, Donald Lines. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001. “ Rev. Henry Smith, Wethersfield, Connecticut.” Page 732. Archive.Org