Ann (Cooper) Phillips (bef. 1619 - bef. 1687)

Born before 29 Aug 1619 in Olney Parish, Buckinghamshire, England

Wife of John White — married about 1640 in Lynn, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Wife of Zerubabel Phillips — married before 8 Jul 1663 in Southampton, Suffolk, New York Colony

Descendants

Died before 19 Mar 1687 at about age 67 in Southampton, Suffolk County, Province of New York

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Biography

Ann (Cooper) Phillips immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Parentage; Date and Place of Birth

Ann, daughter of John Cooper and Wibroe (Griggs) Pierson, was baptized at Olney, Buckinghamshire, England, on August 29, 1619.^[1]

First Marriage and Children

Ann married John White.^[1][2][3] Some sources of dubious reliability put their date of marriage as 1647,^[4] which seems highly improbable. Based on the dates of birth of their grandchildren, Anderson's "Great Migration" states that they were married "by about 1640,"^[1] which is consistent with the 1989 TAG article on the Cooper family, which estimates that they were married about 1640.^[2] Neither Anderson's "Great Migration" or the 1989 TAG Cooper article, however, state where John and Ann were married. While it is possible that John moved to Southampton about 1640 and thus John and Ann could have been married there, as discussed in John's profile there is no record of him in Southampton until 1644. Based on the fact that john probably did move to Southampton until after 1640, it is likely that John and Ann were married in Lynn.

Ann and John had the following children:

1. Hannah, b. perhaps about 1641^[5] in Lynn or Southampton, m. about 1659^[6] Thomas Topping^[3][7]
2. Sarah, b. perhaps about 1643^[5] in Lynn or Southampton, m. John Topping,^[3][7] d. before 1679^[7]
3. John, b. probably about 1645 in Southampton, m. about 1666 Hannah ________, d. May 1670 in Southampton
4. Martha, b. perhaps about 1648 in Southampton,^[8] m. June 12, 1673 Capt. John Howell^[3]
5. James, b. perhaps about 1650 in Southampton,^[8] m. November 24, 1675 Ruth Stratton, d. 1694^[3]
6. Esther, b. perhaps about 1657 in Southampton,^[8] m. July 11, 1678 Samuel Clark^[3]
7. Abigail, b. perhaps about 1661 in Southampton,^[8] m. October 19, 1682 Capt. Abraham Howell^[3]

Second Marriage

Ann married, second, after 1662 Zerubbabel Phillips, son of Rev. George Phillips.^[1][9] The fact that Zorababel's wife Ann was the widow of John White is proven by, among other things, the following record from the Southampton Town Records:

Dec. 16, 1668. Ann, the wife of Ensign Zerobabel Phillips, acknowledgeth to have made over and granted to her son John White the fifty interest or comonidy at Quaquanantuck, which is to his fifty alotement and also another fifty comonidy therewith, last said fifty is one of those shee had of John Woodruff, Jun., whereof there is a record made in this book.^[10]

Death

Last record of Ann (Cooper) Phillips as a living person seems to be several conveyances dated October 5, 1686 by her to her son James White of a land previously owned by her first husband John White.^[11] Ann died sometime before 19 March 1686/7 when property that Ann inherited from her first husband, John White, was divided between James White and his nephew John.^[10]

Research Notes

• Ann Cooper does not appear on the passenger list of the "Hopewell" which brought her family to Lynn, Mass. in 1635. So it was thought by some that she was born after the arrival of the family. However at 16 she was old enough to have come on another ship with some related family. The 1619 date of birth fits the other circumstances of her life better than the 1635 birth. That she had given birth to six children by 1662 (with her first husband, John White of Southampton, Long Island).
• Marriage place of Watertown, Mass at one time recorded here is probably not correct. There is no record in the Watertown Vital Records.
• Death place of Long Island City is also incorrect, based on the fact that Long Island City did not exist as a jurisdiction until 1870.
• Ann Phillips and her "present husband" Zorababel Phillips signed an agreement dated July 8, 1663.^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Anderson, Robert Charles, Sanborn, George F. Jr., Sanborn, Melinde Lutz. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635. Volume II C-F. New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2001. p. 202. Link to page at americanancestors.org.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Cooper, Thomas W. II. "The Cooper-Pierson-Griggs Connection." The American Genealogist. Vol 64, No 4 (Otober 1989). p 199. Link to page at americanancestors.org.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6} Selleck, Lillian Lounsberry, "One branch of the Miner family : with extensive notes on the Wood, Lounsberry, Rogers and fifty other allied families of Connecticut," Donald Lines Jacobus, 1928, p 187
4. ↑ Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} It is unclear whether Sarah or Hannah was born first. Sarah is mentioned before Hannah in their father's will, which suggests that Sarah was the elder. However, Hannah married the older of the two Topping brothers and had a child in February 1661. See Selleck, Lillian Lounsberry, "One branch of the Miner family : with extensive notes on the Wood, Lounsberry, Rogers and fifty other allied families of Connecticut," 1928, p 187. This suggests that Hannah may have been the elder. Both were very probably older than their brother John, who, as discussed in his profile was probably born in 1645.
6. ↑ Date of marriage estimated based on date of birth of first child in 1660. See Selleck, Lillian Lounsberry, "One branch of the Miner family : with extensive notes on the Wood, Lounsberry, Rogers and fifty other allied families of Connecticut," Donald Lines Jacobus, 1928, p 173.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Selleck, Lillian Lounsberry, "One branch of the Miner family : with extensive notes on the Wood, Lounsberry, Rogers and fifty other allied families of Connecticut," Donald Lines Jacobus, 1928, p 173
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3} Date of birth estimated based on date of marriage.
9. ↑ Anderson, Rober Charles. The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Volume III P-W. New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1995. p. 1449. Link to page at americanancestors.org.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Lee Francis Bazley, ed. Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey. Volume I. Lewis Publishing Company, 1907. p. 67. Link to page at archive.org.
11. ↑ The Fifth Book of Records of the Town of Southampton, Comprising Ancient Loose Documents in the Town Clerk's Office, Also Abstracts of the Red Book of Deeds, (1910), 233; digital images by subscription, Ancestry.com.
12. ↑ The Fifth Book of Records of the Town of Southampton ... (1910) digitized text (pdf), "Town of Southampton, New York," p. 233.

See also:

• Herbert Furman Seversmith, Colonial families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut, ... (Washington, D.C., 1939-_____), 5 vols., paginated consecutively, 2:757-766 (Cooper), in particular, 759-766; digital images, Hathi Trust.