Sarah (Purchase) Phippen (bef. 1626 - abt. 1683)

Born before 6 Aug 1626 in Weymouth, Dorset, England

Ancestors

Wife of Gamaliel Phippen — married about 1649 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 17 Jan 1683 after about age 56 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Sarah (Purchase) Phippen immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Sarah Purchase was baptized at Holy Trinity, Dorchester, England on August 6, 1626, daughter of Aquila Purchase and Anne Squire. Her family came to New England in 1633, but her father died on the passage. ^[1]

Sarah married Gamaliel Phippen by 1649, as their eldest child was born in December of that year. Gamaliel Phippen was born about 1624, son of David and Sarah (___) Phippen of Weymouth, Dorset, England. His father David sailed to New England on the Recovery in March 1634, and was admitted a freeman Hingham, Massachusetts in March, 1635/6. The family was of Boston in 1641. ^{[2] [3]}

Sarah's mother Anne remarried to Thomas Oliver, and in his estate inventory was included L30 in the hands of Sampson Shore and Gamaliel Phippen, her sons-in-law. ^[1]

Gamaliel died at Boston, Massachusetts about 1671/2, as on July 4, 1672 his widow Sarah purchased a warehouse from Robert Haughton. ^[3]

Sarah died at Boston about January 17, 1682/3. Her gravestone was discovered in an excavation of Eliot Street in Carlton, where her inscription reads: Here lyeth buried ye body of Sarah Phippen ye wife of Gamaliel Phippen, aged 55 years, died January ye 17, ___. ^[4]

On December 12, 1683, Joseph Bridgham and William Gibson were granted administration of the estate of Sarah Phippen, widow of Gamaliel Phippen. ^[5]

Children

1. Sarah baptized at the First Church, Boston on December 30, 1649, aged 6 days ^[6]; married first, Robert Haughton at Cambridge on September 8, 1668; married second, Benjamin Smith at Milford, Connecticut on February 8, 1682. ^[3]
2. Gamaliel born on March 12, 1652; died on August 8, 1652. ^[6]
3. Hannah born on July 29, 1653 ^[6]; married William Gibson on July 31, 1653. ^[3]
4. Rebecca born on February 12, 1656 ^[6]; died at Milford, Connecticut on October 17, 1712; married first Samuel Baldwin; married second Job Prince; married third Ensign George Clark. ^[3]
5. Elizabeth born on August 10, 1659 ^[6]; married first, Abraham Spencer; married Joseph Phippen. ^[3]
6. Gamaliel born on February 16, 1663 ^[6]; died young. ^[3]
7. Ann born on April 28, 1666 ^[6]; married William Wheeler at Boston on May 16, 1686. ^[3]

Research Notes

Boston Births/Baptisms

1649: Sarah of Sarah and Gamaliel Phipeny, aged about 6 days, baptized 30 day: 10 mo. (p. 30)

1651: Gamaliel of Gamaliel & Sarah Phipeny born 12th: 1st month (p. 33)

1653: Hannah of Gamaliel & Sarah Phipeny born 29th July. (p. 40)

1656: Rebecca of Gamaliel & Sarah Phipeny born 12th Feb. (p. 55)

1659: Elizabeth of Gamaliel & Sarah Phipeny born 10th Aug. (p. 69)

1663: Gamaliel of Gamaliel & Sarah Phipen born Feb. 16. (p. 89)

1666: Ann of Gamaliel & Sarah Phippen born Apr. 28. (p. 101)

Boston Deaths

1652: Gamaliel, of Gamaliel & Sarah Phipey died 8th: 7th month. (p. 37) ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Anderson, Robert C., Aquila Purchase in: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995, p. 1527-8 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/1527/23895886
2. ↑ Anderson, Robert C., David Phippen in: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007, p. 451-6 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB401/i/12155/451/23908983
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7} Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Phippen Family And the Wife of Nathan (1) Gold of Fairfield, Connecticut in: The American Genealogist, Volume 17, D. L. Jacobus, New Haven, Connecticut, 1940, p. 4-14 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/11861/4/23569981
4. ↑ Old Gravestones in: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 25, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1871, p. 88
5. ↑ Case 1306: p. 1- 3: Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2735/i/48697/1306-co3/69450538
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7} Appleton, William S. Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths 1630-1699, City Document 130, Registry Dept. City of Boston, Rockwell & Churchill, Boston, Massachusetts, 1883

See also:

• Ian Watson, The Origins of Aquila Ramsdell's Given Name: Investigating the 17th Century with Mitochondrial DNA, American Ancestors, NEHGS, Vol 18, #2, Summer 2017, pages 54-56.

• Fales, DeCoursey, and Arthur W. H. Eaton. The Fales Family of Bristol, Rhode Island: Ancestry of Haliburton Fales of New York. Boston, Mass: T.R. Marvin & Son, 1919.

• Parke, Nathan Grier, The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (Woodstock, Vermont: N.G. Parke, 1960. FHL US/CAN Film #1,015,822 Item 9.), pp. 199, 249

• Smith, Ethel Farrington, "Seventeenth Century Hull, Massachusetts and Her People," NEHGR 143:3 (Jul 1989) (New England Historic, Genealogical Society.), p. 251

• Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before 1692 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-62.), 3:418