Richard Phillips and Mary Packard

Town Records

PHILIPS (see Phillips),
Caleb, s. Richard, [1659].
Nicholas, s. Richard and Mary, Mar. 30, 1664. [[h. Mary] G.R.14.]
— [dup. Phillips], s. Richard and Mary, Dec. 7 [dup. Dec. 6], 1657.

PHILLIPS (see Philips),
Elizabeth [dup. Philips], ch. Richard (Philips) and Mary, Nov. 27, 1665.
Joshua [dup. Philips], s. Richard and Mary, Mar. 10, 1662 [dup. Mar. 1, 1661-2].
Mary [dup. Philips], d. Richard and Mary, May 21, 1660.
Mary, ch. Richard and Mary, May 24, 1661.
Richard, s. Richard and Mary, Oct. 20, 1667.
Samuell [dup. Samuel], s. Richard and Mary, May 7, 1670.

Source: Foster, F. Apthorp (ed.), Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, vol. 1 (Births), Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910, pgs. 208-209.

Family Registry for John Phillips of Easton (the place for this registry and the other registeries below indexed incorrectly in the database as Easthampton):
John Phillips's family registered

Name:    Richard Phillips
Event Type:    Birth
Birth Date:    20 Oct 1667
Birth Place:    Weymouth, Massachusetts
Father Name:    Richard Phillips
Mother Name:    Mary Phillips
Birth record of Richard Phillips

Name:    Samuel Phillips
Event Type:    Birth
Birth Date:    7 May 1670
Birth Place:    Weymouth, Massachusetts
Father Name:    Richard Phillips
Mother Name:    Mary Phillips
Birth record of Samuell Phillips

Name:    Peter Newcome
Event Type:    Birth
Birth Date:    16 May 1648
Birth Place:    Boston, Massachusetts
Father Name:    Francis Newcome
Mother Name:    Ratchell
Birth record of Peter Newcome

Note: This record was indexed as taking place in Boston but Great Migration entry for Francis Newcomb states that the birth took place in Braintree. The record in Ancestry notes that the record comes from Transcript of County Records, 1643-1660; Vol· 1 Births, Marriages Deaths from 1630-1666 and a search of the scanned images of the original shows that the record is under Births of Braintree.

Name:    Amy Drake
Event Type:    Birth
Birth Date:    3 Feb 1665
Birth Place:    Weymouth, Massachusetts
Father Name:    Thomas Drake
Mother Name:    Jane Drake
Birth of Amy Drake

Name:    Jonas Humphrey
Event Type:    Birth
Birth Date:    21 Feb 1655
Birth Place:    Weymouth, Massachusetts
Father Name:    Jonas Humphrey
Mother Name:    Martha Humphrey
Birth record of Jonas Humphrey

Name:    Mary Phillips
Event Type:    Death
Birth Date:    abt 1666
Death Date:    11 Feb 1747
Death Place:    Weymouth, Massachusetts
Death Age:    81
Spouse Name:    Nicholas Phillips

Source: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).

Name:    Capt. John Phillips
Gender:    Male
Spouse:    Mrs. Bridget Southworth
Marriage Date:    19 Apr 1749
City:    Bridgewater
County:    Plymouth
Source:    Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0164691.

Source: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850.

Marriages
Roxbury
Philips
Caleb, and Elisabeth Polley, Oct. 16, 1681.
Humphrey
Mary, and Peter Newcomb of Braintree, Apr. 30, 1702.

Deaths
Weymouth
Phillips
Nicholas, Mar. 11, 1750-1. [a. 87, G.R.14.]

Source: Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Publisher Date: 2001-2010.

Peter Newcomb died the 20th. May 1725.

Source: Braintree, MA: Vital Records, 1643-1793, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006.) Transcription. By Waldo C. Sprague from the original records held at the Randolph Town Hall, donated from the estate of Mr. Sprague to NEHGS in 1962.

Probate Records

Source: Will and inventory of Nicholas Phillips, Suffolk County Probate Records, vol. 7, Will 2278, pgs. 248-250. Found at Massachusetts Probate Court (Suffolk County), Suffolk County (Massachusetts) probate records, 1636-1899, Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, FHL film 584128, DGS 7703071, "Probate records v. 5-7 1666-1674," Images 835-837,https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9Y5-P25D?i=834&cat=120561 (accessed 27 Dec 2018).

Will of Richard Phillips

Source: Will and inventory of Richard Phillips, Suffolk County Probate Records, vol. 13, Will 2278, pgs. 705-706. Found at Massachusetts Probate Court (Suffolk County), Suffolk County (Massachusetts) probate records, 1636-1899, Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, FHL film 584131, DGS 7703074, "Probate records v. 13-14 1688-1701," Images 375-376, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9Y5-447B?i=374&cat=120561 (accessed 27 Dec 2018).

Administration papers of Joshua Phillips

Administration papers of Joshua Phillips

Source: Administration bond for the estate of Joshua Phillips, Suffolk County Probate Records, vol. 4 (new series), Case 1791, p. 98. Found at Massachusetts Probate Court (Suffolk County), Suffolk County (Massachusetts) probate records, 1636-1899, Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, FHL film 594360, DGS 7703884, "Probate records - new series v. 3-4 1636-1766," Image 360, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-B296?i=359&cat=120561 (accessed 28 Dec 2018).

Inventory of Joshua Phillips

Source: Inventory of Joshua Phillips, Suffolk County Probate Records, vol. 8 (new series), Case 1791, p. 181. Found at Massachusetts Probate Court (Suffolk County), Suffolk County (Massachusetts) probate records, 1636-1899, Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, FHL film 594175, DGS 7703368, "Probate records - new series v. 7-8 1636-1766," Image 465, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9Y5-GKP3?i=464&cat=120561 (accessed 28 Dec 2018).

Will of Nicholas Phillips, pages 1-2

Source: Will of Nicholas Phillips, Suffolk County Probate Records, vol. 45, Case 1791, pgs. 4-6. Found at Massachusetts Probate Court (Suffolk County), Suffolk County (Massachusetts) probate records, 1636-1899, Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, FHL film 493870, DGS 7703688, "Probate records v. 44-45 1750-1752," Images 297-298, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9Y5-6STK?i=296&cat=120561 (accessed 28 Dec 2018).

Biographical Sketches of Richard Ellis

Page 377-378:

THE PHILLIPSES.

Of all the families of Ashfield, whether in early or later times, the Phillipses were the most numerous.

In the settlement of the town in 1745, Thomas Phillips, son of Captain John Phillips, of Easton, Mass., was the second settler, his brother-in-law, Richard Ellis, being the first. Thomas married in or near Easton. He and his wife, Katharine, lived at Deerfield a time previous to settling in Ashfield. He was born in Easton, Jan. "25, 1712. He located in Ashfield at No. 32 on the map (page 328), or possibly his first cabin, as many of the dwellings were then called, was about 80 rods further south, and at or near the Ellis and Phillips fort, No. 30.

Capt. John Phillips, of Easton, father of Thomas, was a soldier in 1690 in an expedition undertaken by the Colonies for the reduction of Quebec, Canada. For this service he became entitled, about 40 years afterwards, to "Rights" of land in what is now Ashfield. Undoubtedly this fact is what led Thomas Phillips and Richard Ellis, a son-in-law of Capt. John Phillips, to seek homes in this then wilderness region.

Of Capt. John Phillips, of Easton, it is said that he was a man of unusual ability and integrity of character. He was one of the earliest settlers in Easton in 1694. He removed from Weymouth, Mass., to Easton, with his wife, Elizabeth Drake, daughter of Thomas and sister of Benjamin Drake, residents of Weymouth, who settled in Easton about 1700. Capt. Phillips was a prominent man in the early town history, and was the first town clerk, serving for twelve years. In his bold handwriting is found on the records of Easton the marriage of his daughter, Jean, to Richard Ellis in 1728, and the names and date of birth of seven of their children. The writer is greatly indebted to Rev. Wm. L. Chaffin, of Easton, for these reports, without which he could have made little or no progress in tracing the descendants of Richard Ellis. (Mr. Chaffin has searched the records of Easton thoroughly, and has lately published a volume of over 800 pages of the history of that town).

Capt. John Phillips is noted as the first person in Easton who held a commission as captain. He was a son of Richard and Elizabeth (Packer) Phillips, and grandson of Nicholas Phillips.

Capt. John Phillips' children were John, Jr., William, Experience, Samuel, Joshua, Caleb, Jean (or Jane), Thomas and Richard (see page 16).

John, Jr., was born at Weymouth in 1692. He died in Easton in 1758. His son. Deacon Ebenezer Phillips, lived there after him. Samuel, son of
Capt. John, was born 1702. He married Damaris Smith, of Taunton. He lived and died in Easton, and his son, Samuel, also.

William Phillips, son of Capt. John, was born about 1695. He was a carpenter, and built and owned a saw mill in Easton.

A few years after the settlement of Ashfield there were Joshua, Caleb and Richard Phillips's names on the town records. It is not now certain whether these were all sons of Capt. John, of Easton, or not. However, such is probably the fact, as Thomas and Jane (Richard Ellis's wife), children of Capt. John, had become permanent residents there, which would naturally lead others of their kin to the same locality. Jean or Jane, daughter of Capt. John Phillips, of Easton, married Richard Ellis, the first settler in Ashtield (see page 16).

Thomas Phillips, Sr., son of Capt. John, was born in Easton, Jan. 25, 1712. He lived in Deerfield for a time, and then followed Mr. Ellis to Ashfield about 1745, where he remained the rest of his life. His children were: Philip, born Feb. 3, 1739 (one account gives the year as 1738); Simeon, April 15, 1742; Charity, Oct. 10, 1744; Thomas, Jr., June 7, 1747; Elizabeth, Oct. 31, 1749; Sarah, 1752, and Caleb?

Source: Ellis, Erastus Ranney, Biographical sketches of Richard Ellis, the first settler of Ashfield, Mass., and his descendants, Detroit, MI: W. Graham, 1888.

Legislators of Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780

John PHILLIPS Easton HR 1754; selectman 1726, 34, 44, 46-49; town clerk 1716-32, 34-39; 53; moderator 1733, 34, 37, 40, 41, 44, 51; capt. 1725; M Elizabeth Drake (1670-1748) in 1690 and Bridget Southworth ( -1764) in 1749, 9 ch; farmer. Owned much land. He was not seated as a representative. His election was investigated, and the HR unanimously denied him the seat because of illegal procedures of selection by the town's selectmen. Start Date: 1672 Location: Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States Record Type: Birth Start Date: 1760 Location: Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States Record Type: Death Bibliography: 1983 Phillips g 32; Weymouth VR 1:209

Source: Legislators of Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Orig. Pub. by Northeastern University Press , Boston, MA. John A. Schutz, Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691–1780 A Biographical Dictionary, 1997.)

History of Weymouth

5. JONAS³ HUMPHREY (Dea. Jonas²) was born at Weymouth,14 or 24 Feb. 1655; died at Weymouth, 30 Oct. 1689. He married, near 1683, Mary Phillips, daughter of Richard and Mary (Packard) Phillips, born at Weymouth, 24 May, 1661; she died at Braintree, May, 1738. She married (2) Peter Newcomb of Braintree.

Children, born at Weymouth:
7. Jonas,4 b. 3 Sept. 1684.
James, b. near 1686; resided in Boston, 1710.
Mary, b. 18 Apr. 1688.

Source: Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts in Four Volumes, vol. 3, Weymouth, MA: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923, p. 303.

2. ENSIGN RICHARD² PHILLIPS (Dea. Nicholas¹) was born
before 1641; died at Weymouth, between 27 Oct. and 22 Nov. 1695. He married (1) Mary Packard, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Packard of Weymouth and Bridgewater. He married (2) Elizabeth (Edson) Kingman, widow of John Kingman of Weymouth, and daughter of Dea. Samuel and Susannah (Orcutt) Edson of Bridgewater. She survived her second husband. He was made a freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 8 May, 1678.

Richard Phillips of Weymouth, "being sick and weak of body," made his will 27 Oct. 1695, and it was proved 19 Dec. 1695. To his wife Elizabeth, according to a contract made before marriage, £10 and pewter marked R. & P. To his grandson Caleb Phillips a ewe. To his wife's daughter Susannah Kingman another ewe. To his eldest son Caleb Phillips, if he be living, or if not, to his widow Elizabeth Phillips, now dwelling in Roxbury, a double portion. To his three sons and two daughters, viz. Nicholas Phillips, Samuel Phillips, John Phillips, his daughter Mary Humphrey, and his daughter-in-law Amy Phillips the remainder. "The andirons which my Father Packer gave me I give to my son John Phillips." Sons Nicholas, Samuel and John to have his wearing apparel. Sons Nicholas and Samuel to have £3 each and be executors. Witnesses: John Bicknell, Nathaniel Ford and William Chard. Inventory of the estate of Ensign Richard Phillips taken by Joseph Green, James Richards and Nathaniel Ford, 22 Nov. 1695; mentions fowling piece, musket and sword; total, £242 11s. (Suffolk Probate, 13: 705, 706.)

Children by wife Mary, born at Weymouth:
Son³ (not named), b. 7 Dec. 1657, may be Caleb.
Caleb, "eldest son," 27 Oct. 1695; lived in Roxbury.
Mary, b. 21 May, 1660; died soon.
Mary, b. 24 May, 1661; m. (1) near 1678, Jonas Humphrey ofWeymouth, and m (2) Peter Newcomb of Braintree.
5. Joshua, b. 1 Mar. 1661-62.
6. Nicholas, b. 30 Mar. 1664.
Elizabeth, b. 27 Nov. 1665; d. before 27 Oct. 1695.
Richard, b. 20 Oct. 1667.
Samuel, b. 7 May, 1670.
7. John, birth not on record.
...

5. JOSHUA³ PHILLIPS (Ensign Richard,² Dea. Nicholas¹) was born at Weymouth, 1 Mar. 1661-62; married, near 1686, Amy -----, who survived her husband and was living 27 Oct. 1695. Amy Phillips, widow, and Thomas Drake of Weymouth, sawyer, granted administration on the estate of Joshua Phillips of Weymouth, deceased, near 1690. (Suffolk Probate, New Series, 4: 98.). Inventory taken by John Holbrook and James Nash, 23 Jan. 1690, and presented by Aymee Phillips as estate of her late husband, 27 Jan. 1690. (Ibid. Old Series, 8: 181.)

Children, born at Weymouth:
Amy,⁴ b. 10 Oct. 1687.
Joshua, b. 19 Apr. 1689.

6. NICHOLAS³ PHILLIPS (Ensign Richard,² Dea. Nicholas¹) was born at Weymouth, 13 Mar. 1664; died at Weymouth, 11 Mar. 1750-51, aged 87 years. He married, near 1688, Mary , who was born in May, 1667; she died at Weymouth, 11 Feb. 1748-49, aged 82 years 9 months; buried in old North Cemetery, North Weymouth. (Reg. 23: 423.) Nicholas Phillips of Weymouth, husbandman, "being weak," made his will 14 Apr. 1749; it was proved 26 Mar. 1751. To his daughter Mary Badlam £80, £50 of which his son-in-law Samuel Badlam has in his hands. To his daughter Mary Badlam his silver tankard. To his grandsons Samuel and William Badlam one-half of cedar swamp in Braintree. To his grandchildren (children of his daughter Mercy, deceased, viz., John Kingman, Elisha Kingman, Daniel Kingman, Mary Blanchard, Hannah Kingman, Mercy Kingman and Lydia Kingman, each £10. To my grandchildren (children of my daughter Hannah, deceased), viz., Hannah Tirrell, Mary Tirrell and Bathsheba Bisby, to each £10. To his maid Elizabeth Penny one cow and the keeping while she live unmarried, and use of house. To his grandsons Nicholas Phillips and William Phillips his homestead, buildings, stock, etc., at 21 years. James Pettee of Weymouth, executor. Witnesses: Joshua Torrey, Jr., James Humphrey, Nathaniel Humphrey. (Suffolk Probate, 45: 4.) Inventory, £333 15s. 11d.

Children, born at Weymouth:
Mary,4 b. 29 Nov. 1690; m. int. 22 Sept. 1716, Samuel Badlam of Weymouth.
Mercy, b. 24 Aug. 1692; m. 6 Apr. 1720, John Kingman of Weymouth.
8. Nicholas, b. 23 May, 1697.
Hannah (twin), b. 23 May, 1697; m. 10 Oct. 1720, John Whitmarsh of Weymouth.

7. JOHN³ PHILLIPS (Ensign Richard²) was called a son by Ensign Richard Phillips, 27 Oct. 1695. He married, near 1690, Elizabeth -----.

Children, born at Weymouth:
John⁴, b. 18 Feb. 1692.
Richard, b. 25 Nov. 1693.

Source: Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth, Massachusetts in Four Volumes, vol. 4, Weymouth, MA: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923, pgs. 465-467.

Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography

Mr. Phillips traces paternal descent from Nicholas Phillips, born in England, who settled in Dedham, Massachusetts, as early as 1636. Later he moved to Weymouth, where he was a deacon of the church. He was succeeded by his son, Richard Phillips, who was made a freeman of Weymouth in 1678, and he, by his youngest son. Captain John Phillips, who settled in Easton, Massachusetts, was a prominent town official, captain of the first military company in that town, served in the expedition to Canada in 1690, and forty years later, on account of that service, received a grant of shares in Huntstown, later Ashfield, Massachusetts, where his son Thomas was one of the first settlers.

Captain John Phillips was succeeded by his son, Joshua Phillips, a member of the Easton Church in 1747, member of the committee on correspondence at Easton in 1776, and there died in 1792, aged eighty-seven years.

Source: Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography, vol. 2, Boston: The American Historical Society, 1917, p. 138 (entry for Ebenezer Sanborn Phillips).

Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts

(I) Deacon Samuel Edson was born in England in 1612. He became an inhabitant of Salem, Mass., and was the first of the name that settled in the town of Bridgewater, locating in the West parish. He erected the first, and what was for a long time the only, mill in the old town. He married Susanna Orcutt, and his children were: Susanna, born in 1638, married Rev. James Keith; Sarah, born in 1640, married John Dean, of Taunton : Elizabeth, born in 1643, married Richard Phillips, of Weymouth; Samuel, born in 1645, married Susanna Byram; Mary, born in 1647, married Nicholas Byram, Jr. : Joseph, born in 1649, married Experience Field, of Providence, R. I.; Josiah, born in 1651, married Elizabeth Dean, of Taunton ; and Bethiah, born in 1653, married Ezra Dean, of Taunton.

Source: Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, vol. 3, Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1912, p. 1761.

New England Marriages Prior to 1700

Phillips, Joseph/Joshua ( -1689) & Amy [Drake?]; b 1687; Weymouth
Phillips, Nicholas (1664-1751) & Mary [Randall] (1668-1749); b 1690

Source: Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

Cutter's Genealogical and Personal Memoirs

(X) Thomas, son of William Drake, was baptized in St. Andrew's Church, Colyton, county Devon, England, September 13, 1635. After the death of his parents he followed his relative, John Drake, to Taunton, Massachusetts and Windsor, Connecticut, to America about 1653-4. His sisters Jane and Elizabeth accompanied him. He settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and in 1663 owned lot No. 70, six acres, in the first division. He took an active part in the affairs of the town, and in 1667 was a member of the Suffolk troopers. He served in King Philip's war, and June 24, 1676, was a member of the garrison at Punckapouge. He bought in 1682 a large tract of land near the Taunton river, in Freetown, half
of which he sold in 1688 to Ralph Paine, of Rhode Island. He died in Weymouth, in 1691, and his estate was valued at 237 pounds. He married (first) Jane, daughter of Thomas Holbrook; (second) March 9, 1681, Millicent, widow of John Carver and daughter of William Ford. Children, born at Weymouth: 1. Thomas, about 1657; died August 19, 1728. 2. John, March 12, 1659. 3. William, May 30, 1661. 4. Joseph, October 28, 1663. 5. Amy, February 3, 1666; married Joshua Phillips. 6. Elizabeth, 1670; died June 14, 1748; married John Phillips. 7. Benjamin, January 15, 1677; mentioned below. 8. Experience, 1683: married, January 23, 1706, William Richards Jr.

Source: Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910, vol. 1, p. 234.

The Drake Family in England and America

Source: Drake, Louis Stoughton, The Drake Family in England and America, 1360-1895: and the Descendants of Thomas Drake of Weymouth, Mass., 1635-1691, Boston: privately printed, 1896, pgs. 1-3.

Gravestones and Memorials

Here Lyes Buried Mr Nicholas Phillips Who Was Born A.D. 1664 He Dyed on March The 11th A.D. 1751 Aged 87 Years
Here Lyes Buried Mrs Mary Phillips The Wife of Mr Nicholas Phillips She was born in May A.D. 1667 She died February ye 11th A.D. 1749 Aged 82 Years & 9 Months

Source: Loud, John J., "Epitaphs from the Older Half of 'Burying Hill,' Weymouth, Mass.," New England Historic and Genealogical Register, vol. 23, Oct 1869, p. 423. (See transcription.)

Gravestones of Nicholas and Mary (Randall) Phillips, North Weymouth Cemetery, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (photo credit: Susan Kaufmann, findagrave.com):
Gravestone of Nicholas Phillips