Solomon Phipps

Solomon Phipps

• Birth: 1619 - England
• Death: July 25 1671 - Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts
• Buried: Phipps Street Burying Ground, Massachusetts, USA
• Parents: John Phipps, Elizabeth Neighbor
• Married: Elizabeth Wood d. 1 Nov 1688, daughter of Edward Wood & Ruth Lee. 9 children.

He was a carpenter. "By the selectmen ye 24 of ye VII month 1649 It was granted unto Solo Phips upon his pulling downe of ye hovell wch sett up upon sufferance upon the Comon before his house, to Improve a Plott of ground by it of 15 foot square to set a shop upon it, provided hee abide in the Towne seven yeares after hee hath sett up the shop."

Granted by town, 4 acres at Mystic side, afore granted Thomas Gould.  Buys of John Gould, 6 acres.  1649 - 50, 1656. Joseph Carter....Exchange with Solomon Phipps, J.C. of P., ___ p 3 ft. wide 6 poles deep late of A. Rand, at fence between Carter and Rand now R. Chalkley. J.C to Phipps, same amount out of Carter's garden between house of each, well to be common, 1650.

January 29, 1666, he had awarded him the job of new shingling the meeting-house.

He was employed by the town to finish the school-house, with a deed, 26 Oct., 1671, recorded in Boston or East Cambridge, Mass., for house and barn for the school-master, for which he was "to be paid for his said work according to the true value thereof."

His will of May 4, 1670, (proven Ocotber 14, 1671), ‘devised to wife, 1/2 estate.  To daughter, Elizabeth Roy, 1 common on pasture bought of Mrs. Trerice, now Lynde.  To Samuel, 1/16 of mill, he to be maintained at college till end of 4th year, when he is to commence bachelor; also meadow at Goodman Leach's; if he resides in Charlestown, to have my acre on top of hill, near Trainingfield, and house and common bought of Z. Symmes.  To Joseph, house and 4 acres at Molton point, 3 haylots, 3 3/4 commons, 3 lots Mystic side, bought of R. Sowers and T. Wilder, the 3rd granted me: 1/2 marsh at burying hill, 1/16 mills, and what part I have in any vessels.  To daughter Elizabeth Roy's child she is going with, 20 shilling.  To daughter Mary Phipps' child she is going with, 20 shillings.’

Inventory, September 28, 1671:  House and lands and close 200 lbs.; 4 acres Molton Point 40 lbs.; 1 acre by training place, and 5 3/4 commons, 38 lbs.; meadow by Goodman Leach and marsh at Burying - hill 27lbs.; 3 hay-lots and 3 wood-lots 25 lbs.; 1/8 of mills 100lbs. 

Widow Elizabeth sold Josiah Wood, house and 1 acre - s.w., highway; n.e., field highway; n.w., Solomon P.; s.r., Jacob Green; 1678, recorded 1683.

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Fact: May 18, 1642, Freeman Immigration: Bef. May 18, 1642, To Charlestown, Middlesex, MA Occupation: Carpenter Will: May 04, 1670 Will Proved: Oct 14, 1671 Marriage: Bef. May 15, 1642, Charlestown, Middlesex, MA

Source: http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/w/o/o/Carolyn-e-Wood/GENE6-0016.html