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Sarah Pinney

Female 1648 - 1711  (62 years)


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  • Name Sarah Pinney 
    Born 19 Nov 1648  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 3 Dec 1648  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 2 Nov 1711 
    Person ID I2082  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family William Phelps,   c. 9 Sep 1618, Crewkerne, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10/10 Feb 1681/2, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 63 years) 
    Married 20 Dec 1676  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1247  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The book "The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors," comp. by Oliver Seymour Phelps of Portland, Oregon and Andrew T. Servin of Lenox, Massachusetts, 1899, pp. 19-20:
      "William Phelps, b. England, about 1620, emigrated to New England with his father, arriving in Massachusetts Bay 30th May, 1630, settled in Dorcheser with his father, removing from there to the settling of Windsor, with Rev. Mr. Warham's church, in 1635, where he m. Isabel Wilson, 4th June, 1645, (another authority says 16th June 1645 - the first may be publication of marriage.) She was probably a passenger in the ship Mary and John, of 1630. Says the O.C.R., '15th July, 1674, now since 29 years married and has no children.'
      She was admitted to the church in Windsor, 11th March, 1654, and died July, 1674, without issue. He m. 2nd, 20th Dec., 1676, Sarah Pinney, (the daughter of Humphrey Pinney and his wife, Mary Hull, who were passengers in the ship Mary and John of 1630,) b. Windsor, 19th Nov., bapt. 3rd Dec., 1648, d. 2nd Nov., 1711.
      Mr. Phelps settled one-third of his property on her, before marriage. By her he had no issue.
      Mr. Phelps's residence in Windsor was a short distance east of his father's homestead, and on land purchased by his father from the Indians. He united with the church 17th Nov., 1639, and was made a freeman at Hartford 29th May, 1677.
      His nuncupative will, dated 7th Feb. 1681, gives all his land to his borther Timothy. He died 10th Feb., 1681.
      Mr. Phelps was a worthy man, though not as consipicuous a figure as compared with his father.
      Mr. Phelps's house was garrisoned in King Philip's war, 1675-1676, by details of Windsor men. He had one of his wife's nephews reside with him, and possibly adopted him, and gave him lands on the opposite side ofthe road from his own house.
      After the death of Mr. Phelps there was a controversy between Mrs. Phelps and adopted son, in connection with the land given her by Mr. Phelps before marriage.
      (Note - Humphrey Pinney had several children; of these Sarah m. referred to above, Mary m. Abraham Phelps, son of George, Nathaniel m. widow of Samuel Phelps.)"

      2. Henry R. Stiles, "The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut," 1892, v. 2, pp. 608-611: "Pinney (Pynney, Pinne). (Compiled for the first edition by the late Henry Bright, Esq., of Northampton, Mass. Additions to present edition from various sources. The extracts from the ancient Pinney will are furnished by Mrs. C.H. Pinney of Derby, Conn., who expresses an earnest desire that the many American descendants of Humphrey Pinney shall place some memorial {window, altar, or tablet} in the little church at Broadway, where their forefathers sleep, and where yet annual payment is duly made on the Pinney tomb in the graveyard of the annuities devised in 1631 for the poor of the name of Pinney or of Standerwicke.)
      Humphrey (son of John) came to America in the 'Mary and John' with Rev. Mr. Warham's company 1630, sett. at Dorchester, where he m. Mary Hull, who had been a fellow passenger.
      His immediate ancestors appear to have res. in Broadway, Somersetshire, Eng. Broadway is in Chard Union, in the deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton, diocese of Bath and Wells, Hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, West Somerset. From the will of Edmund (uncle to Humphrey) Pynney of Broadway, dated 1631, recorded 2 Feb 1632 (Vol. Adelsy, fol. 16) Humphrey P. being administrator, we learn that said Edmund was buried in the sourth aisle of Broadway Church, in a tomb called 'The Pinney Tomb.' From his will (on file at Doctor's Commons, London, where a copy was procured by Dr. Charles H. Pinney, in 1886), we give the following extracts.
      'Imprimis, I give to the maintenance of the Church at Broadwaie, aforesaid, three shillings and fourpence.
      'Item" I give unto the poor people of the same parish of Broadwaie being none of the almpspeople of the Alms-house there, 20 shillings to be distributed amongst them according to the direction of mine executor and good friends hereafter in this mine will named to be mine overseer.
      Item. I give to the poor people being alms people dwelling in the said Alms-house there 20 shillings to be divided unto them presently after my death.
      Item: I do give the same grounds called East Mullyns - Butchers' Close, and Long Kite Meade, and every part and parcel thereof to the said John Pynney after the determis of the said Richard Pynney upon the condiiton that he from thenceforth pay 26 shillings and 8 pence yearly to two poor people, men or women, for their relief during the residence of my said term of 4,000 years, by quarterly payments, viz. of three shillings and fourpence quarterly to either of the said poor poeple, and if the said 'Richard Pynney shall refuse and do not pay the same according to this my will and desire aforesaid then and so often as the same shall not be paid it shall and may be lawful to and for any or every person or persons called or known by the name of Pynney or Standerwick inhabiting or dwelling in Broadwaie aforesaid into the said grounds, so as aforesaid charged with the yearly payment of the said 26 shillings and 8 pence to enter and distress (this last word not clearly decipherable) and the distress or distresses there from time to time taken to lead, drive, chase, carry away, or impound and the same impounded to detain and keep until the said yearly payments as aforesaid limited and bequeathed to the said two poor people shall be fully satisfied and paid.' (A copy of this will was in keeping of R. Drake Palmer, Vicar of St. Aldheim's Church, Broadway, in 1886.)
      In 1859, this annuity of Edmund Pinney's from land situated in Abbots Ile (or Ile Abbots) was still paid regulary by the present owner of the property, and its recipients were two poor people of the name of Standerwick - a family which seems to have been intimately related to the testator, appearing in his will as legatees and executors of certain legacies. The will also contains legacies ordered to tbe paid by Humphrey Pinney, viz.: ₤4 yearly to Nicholas Pinney, and 20s yearly to William Watts, during their lives, payable quuarterly... in the churchyard of Broadway, upon the tomb, or monument called Pinney's Tomb, and with certain penalties imposed for default or delinquencies of regular payments.
      Broadway Church is a small, ancient, but beautiful structure, situated in a picturesque churchyard, adorned with yews, located upon a little knoll in an extensive valley, about two miles from the rise of the hill which terminates in the Blackdon Range, - this hill itself being in the adjoining parish of Buckland and St. Mary's, and commanding one of the finest views in Somerset county. Broadway, a long, straggling village of some 400 agricultural inhabitants, an almshouse, etc., is said to have taken its name from a Roman road which led to Nevocke Forest, and whose breadth made an impression upon the Saxons. The forest long since disappeared, but there are traces of a Roman encampment on Blackdon Hill. The church is quite by itself at the end of the village. Pinney's Ground, from which the aforesaid annuities are payable, is in Ile Abbots, an adjoining village, boasting of a still more beautiful little church.
      Edmund Pynney's will informs us that he had a bro. John the elder, and a bro. John the younger; a sister Alice, who m. a Way; a sister Johanna, who m. Giles Godwin.
      John the elder m. Johanna ___, and had children (1) Elizabeth, (2) Edmund, (3) Richard, (4) Roger, (5) Nicholas, (6) William, (7) Humphrey (the emigrant to Dorchester and Windsor), (8) John of Exeter, (9) Agnes (prob. m. John House), (10) Mary (prob. m. Thos Pearce), (11) Sarah (poss. m. John Turberfield), (12) Alice (poss. m. Wm. Standerwick.
      In the possession of the late Lucretia Stiles of Windsor were several ancient papers, mostly letters addressed to Humphrey Pinney of Windsor (by his nephew, John House of Montague, Eng., and from Geo Beatty of Combe, St. Nicholas Co., Somerset, Eng., relative to certain business which he had entrusted to Mr. Pinney; also concerning Mr. P.'s property in England) and Mr. P.'s will, dated 3 June, 1682. In one of these letters Mr. House (date of 1 Mar 1668), says: 'My Uncle William Pinney, hath buried his wife; she d. about a quuarter of a yr. since.' Among these papers was a lease, executed 20 Feb 1658, 'betw. Humphrey Pinney, now dwelling in Montague, of the one part, and Roger Dunster of Broadway, in the Co. of Somerset of the other pt'e,' relating to 'four acres of pasture and meadows, lying and being in the manor of Iilton.'
      'Mr.' Pinney was an orig. memb. of Dorchester Church, rem. to and sett. at Windsor 1635; and his res. was on the E. side of the main street, abt. a mile and a quarter N. of the present Cong. Ch. on a lot N. and adjoining Gov. Haynes's lot, which lay bet. Dea. Wm.Gaylord's lot and 'Mr,' Pinney's lot. He contr. 2s. to Conn. Relief Fund for Poor of other Cols., 1676. He d. 20 Aug 1683; his wid. d. 18 Aug 1684. A Mrs. P. was adm. to W. Ch. 9 Feb 1639. - O.C.R. Children (all but eldest b. in Windsor; O.C.R.):
      A. Samuel, b. Dorchester. - O.C.R.
      B. Nathaniel, b. Dec 1641 in Windsor (O.C.R.); bp. 2 Jan, 1641/2.
      C. Mary, b. in June and bp. 16 of same mo., 1644; m. Abraham (s. of Geo. the emigrant) Phelps, 6 Jul 1663.
      D. Sarah, b. 19 Nov., bp. 3 Dec 1648 (O.C.R.), m. William (the emigrant) Phelps, 20 Dec 1676; was his 2d wife, and rec'd one-third of his ppy. as a settlement before her marriage. She contrib. 1s. 3d. to Conn. Relief Fund for Poor of the other Colonies, 1676; no issue.
      E. John, b. in Oct. and bp. 19 same mo., 1651; d. at W.; no issue.
      F. Abigail, b. 26 Nov 1654; m. John Addams, 6 Dec 1667 [1677?]; rem. to Simsbury.
      G. Isaac, b. 24, bp. 28 Feb 1663.
      (O.C.R. credits Humphrey Pinney with six ch., b. here in W.)"

      4. Ancestry.com's "Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33":
      "HUMPHREY PINNEY:
      Origin: Broadway, Somersetshire Migration: 1633 First Residence: Dorchester Removes: Windsor 1636 Church Membership: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. He was seventh in the list of those who came to Windsor with Mr. Warham [Grant 10]. Freeman: 14 May 1634 [MBCR1:369]. In 13 May 1669 list of Windsor freemen [CCCR 2:519]. Education: His signature indicates an educated man who learned one of the older hands. He made his mark to his will, and his wife signed hers. The inventory of Humphrey Pinney included "books" valued at £1 10s., and his widow's inventory included "books" valued at £1 15s. Offices: Grand jury, 7 March 1649/50, 15 May 1650 [RPCC 77, 82]. Jury, 5 June 1645, 1 October 1646, 1 June 1648 (as "Mr. Pynny"), 28 December 1648, 16 May 1649, 5 December 1650, 19 May 1652, 7 June 1660, 5 December 1661 [RPCC 34, 43, 51, 57, 64, 90, 109, 214, 241, 242; CCCR 1:126, 143]. Coroner's jury, December 1651 [RPCC 106]. Estate: Granted four acres at Dorchester, 5 August 1633 [DTR 2]; granted twenty acre Great Lot, 4 January 1635/6 [DTR 14]; "Mr. Piney" granted Lot #42, ten acres, in the meadow beyond Naponset [DTR 321]. On 16 November 1640 "Humphry Pinny hath granted from the plantation an homelot on Sandy Banke thirteen acres and half in breadth, seventeen rods"; "in meadow sixteen acres and half"; "over the Great River in breadth next the same twenty-seven rods running to the east three miles"; and "near pinemeade fifteen acres in breadth fifteen rods, in length an hundred and sixty" [WiLR 1:8]. He purchased of "Josyas Hull his homelot, nine acres and half more or less, ... as also his dwelling house thereon with the outhouses, gardens & fences" [WiLR 1:8]. "Also, whereas his lot toward Pine Mead was entered but fifteen rod in breadth is now to be counted thirty rods in breadth according to his first grant from the town for thirty acres" [WiLR 1:8]. In his will, dated 3 June 1682 and proved 10 December 1683, "Humfryw Pinie of Winsor" appointed "my wife Mary Pinney" executrix; "to "my wife Mary Pineye my housing & land during her natural life and after her decease my son Samuel shall have one third part of my lot on the east side of the Great River"; "that two acres that he hath now in possession is to help make up the third part of the lot that he the said Samuel is to have & is to have it on the south side of the lot next to Samuel Gailard"; to "my son John Pineye the other two thirds of my lot on the east side of the Great River"; "my sons Samuel Pinny & John Pinny shall pay to my grandchild Sarah Pinny, the daughter of Nathaniel Pinny, £5"; "my housing and all the rest of my lands I give to my son Isack" he to pay to "my grandchild Nathaniel Pinny, son of Nathaniel Pinny deceased, £10"; to "my three daughters, Marye, Sarah & Abigaile, 5s. apiece"; "what estate I have in old England, my wife shall have one half of it and my son Isack the other half of it"; residue to "my well beloved wife"; "my son John & my son Isack shall not sell, alienate or mortgage all nor any of the abovesaid lands until they are of the age of fifty years, except it be to their own brothers" [Hartford PD Case #4268; Manwaring 1:349]. "An inventory of the estate of Mr. Humphrey Pinny who deceased Aug[us]t 20:1683" totalled £790 7s. (of which £200 was debts due in England), including £340 in real estate: "his dwelling house, barn, orchard, gardens, pasture, about 3 acre ½ land"; "11 acres land east [of] the way"; "16 acres ½ in Great Meadow"; and "upland & mead east the river" [Hartford PD Case #4268]. In her will, dated 12 September 1683 and exhibited 4 September 1681 [sic - probably 1684], Mary Pinney of Windsor "in reference to that estate which my husband hath left me" bequeathed to "my son Samuel £5"; to "his daughter Mary, 40s."; to "my daughter Mary Phelps £5"; to "my son Isaack £5"; to "my daughter Sarah Phelps £20"; £3 apiece to "three children of my daughter Abigail, ... Mary, Abigail and John"; residue "both in New England and Old England I do give and bequeath unto my son John" sole executor; "if my daughter Sarah Phelps" should die leaving no issue, the legacy given to her "shall be returned to my executor" [Hartford PD Case #4279; Manwaring 1:349-50]. "An inventory of the estate of Mrs. Mary Pinny who deceased Aug[u]st 18:1684" totalled £249 18s. 6d. (of which £100 was debts due in England), with no real estate included [Hartford PD Case #4279]. Birth: Baptized Hardington-Mandeville, Somerset, 20 November 1605, son of John and Joanna (____) Pinney [M&JCH 17:118 (this baptismal date was published without full documentation; as the register for this parish apparently does not exist prior to 1687, this date may come from Bishops' Transcripts; confirmation of this would be welcome)]. Death: Windsor 20 August 1683 [CTVR 55]. Marriage: Dorchester by 1636 Mary Hull ("Houmfery Pinne married in Dorchester Mary Hull" [Grant 58]), daughter of George HULL. She was admitted to Windsor church on 9 February 1639[/40] [Grant 10] and died at Windsor on 18 August 1684 [CTVR 56]. Children:
      i. Samuel, b. Dorchester say 1636; m. Windsor 17 November 1665 Joyce Bissell [CTVR 11; Grant 58].
      ii. Nathaniel, b. Windsor in December 1641 [Grant 58]; m. Windsor 21 July 1670 Sarah (Griswold) Phelps [CTVR 12; Grant 58], daughter of Edward Griswold and widow of Samuel Phelps [TAG 65:163-64].
      iii. Mary, bp. Windsor 16 June 1644 [Grant 58]; m. Windsor 6 July 1663 Abraham Phelps [CTVR 10], son of George Phelps.
      iv. Sarah, b. Windsor 19 November 1648 [Grant 15]; m. Windsor 20 December 1676 William Phelps [CTVR 14], son of William Phelps [TAG 65:163].
      v. John, bp. Windsor 19 October 1651 [Grant 58]; d. unmarried between 19 June 1697 (date of will) and 25 October 1697 (date of inventory) [Manwaring 1:577].
      vi. Abigail, b. Windsor 26 November 1654 [CTVR 40; Grant 58]; m. Windsor 6 December 1677 John Adams [CTVR 15; see also TAG 55:209].
      vii. Isaac, b. Windsor 24 February 1663[/4?] [CTVR 17; Grant 58]; m. by 1686 Sarah Clark (eldest child b. Windsor 17 January 1686 [Loomis Rec 1:31]), daughter of Daniel Clark [Windsor Hist 2:153].
      Associations: On 4 March 1632/3 Henry Paynter wrote from Exeter, Devonshire, to John Winthrop Jr., asking him to "take notice of Mr. Cogan and Mr. Hill and Mr. Pinny our pious and loving neighbors and good friends that now come unto you" [WP 3:109]. These three immigrants of 1633 were JohnCOGGAN, William Hill and HUMPHREY PINNEY, who were very likely passengers on the unnamed ship which sailed from Weymouth in that year [GMN 3:9-10, 16]. (The claim that Humphrey Pinney was a passenger on the Mary & John in 1630, returned to England to handle his uncle's estate, and then came again to New England has no foundation. Humphrey Pinney was certainly in England in 1632 [Dawes-Gates 2:659], and the record of 4 March 1632/3 sounds very much as if all three men are making their first appearance in New England.) Sarah (Pinney) Poole, wife of Edward Poole of Weymouth, was a niece of Humphrey Pinney [NEHGR 59:328]. In 1656 "Humphrey Pinny" sued John Brome in the Chancery Courts in England over the estate of John Pinney of Exeter; the court noted that the "complainant has been in New England 20 years since" [NEHGR 100:220, citing Chancery Depositions before 1714, 687/30]. Comments: On 2 June 1635 Humphrey Pinney was one of five Dorchester men who agreed to arbitration "of all differences & accounts betwixt the said parties concerning the ship Thunder" [MBCR 1:151; RCA 2:54]. Matthew Grant says that "Mr. Pinne" had six children born in Windsor from the time of their "beginning hither" [Grant 88]. On this basis the birth of Samuel, their first Child, is placed in Dorchester, even though this makes him nearly thirty at marriage, and leaves a gap of about five years before the birth of the second child. Note that there is also a large gap between the births of the sixth and seventh Children. This last child must have been born at the very end of the mother's Child-bearing period. Bibliographic Note: A good treatment of Humphrey Pinney, with a line of descent through his son Nathaniel, was published in 1931 by Mary Walton Ferris [Dawes-Gates 2:658-65].
      SOURCES:
      A. CTVR: Births Marriages and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut..., Edwin Stanley Welles, ed. (Hartford 1898).
      B. MBCR: Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853-1854).
      C. DTR: Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. 1880. Dorchester Town Records (Boston 1883).
      D. Dawes-Gates: Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, 2 vols. (n.p., 1943, 1931).
      E. CCCR: The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776, 15 volumes (Hartford 1850-1890).
      F. WiLR: Windsor, Connecticut, Deeds (microfilm of original at Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut).
      G. Hartford PD: Hartford Probate District, original files, Connecticut State Archives (and on microfilm).
      H. Manwaring: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Volume One, Hartford Probate District, 1635-1700, Charles William Manwaring, comp. (Hartford 1904).
      I. RPCC: Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 22 (Hartford 1928; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1987)
      J. Grant: "Matthew Grant Record, 1639-1681" in Some Early Records and Documents of and Relating to the Town of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639-1703 (Hartford 1930).
      K. NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1 through present (1847+).
      L. TAG: The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present (1932+).
      M. M&JCH: Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630, Volume 1 through present (Toledo, Ohio, 1985+)."
      N. GMN: Great Migration Newsletter, Volume 1 through present (1990+)."

      5. "The American Genealogist," 68(Jul 1990):161-166, "The English Origin of William1 Phelps of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn., with Notes on His Marriages," by Myrtle Stevens Hyde:
      "William1 Phelps of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn....
      Children (Phelps) of William1, prob. by his apparent first wife Mary (___), bp. Crewkerne, co. Somerset:
      i. William2 bp. 9 Sept. 1618, d. Windsor, Conn., 17 Feb. 1681[/2] (Welles p. 54); m. (1) Windsor 4 June 1645 ISABEL WILSON (Windsor Early Recs. p. 55), who d. there 15 July 1674 (see George E. McCracken, "Robert Wilson of Farmington, Conn.," TAG 52:76-85, esp. 78); m. (2) Windsor 20 Dec. 1676 Sarah2 PINNEY (Windsor Early Recs, p. 72), daughter of Humphrey1 and Mary (Hull) Pinney of Windsor (Mary Walton Ferris, "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines" [n.p. 1931-43], hereafter Dawes-Gates 2:662). No issue by either marriage.
      His nuncupative will, dated 10 Feb. 1681[/2], left his entire estate to be disposed of by his [half-]brother Timothy, who was to be executor and receive one third of the "Outlands"; the court, however, awarded the widow, "by Virtue of a Jointure agreernent," the personal estate and housing, and two-thirds of the outlands (Charles W. Manwaring, "A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records" [Hartford 1904-6], hereafter Manwaring, 1:348)..."

      MARRIAGE:
      1. From the book "New England Marriages Prior to 1700,' by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, copy in the Windsor, CT., Historical Society Library, p. 576:
      "Phelps, William (1620-1681/2) adn 1/wf isabel Wilson (-1674); 4 Jun 1645, 1646, 16 Jun 1645, 4 Jun 1646, no issue; Windsor, CT.
      Phelps, William (1620-1681/2) and 2/wf Sarah Pinney (1648-1711); 20 dec 1676, no issue; Windsor, CT."