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Transcribed by  David
Phelps
Written by John Plummer
Here is some additional information for those of you researching the
English ancestors of the Phelps family. Of particular interest is George
Phelps who in Phelps & Servin's Phelps
Family in America was supposedly on the Mary & John
in 1630 with his "assumed" brother William.
The following article does not prove
or disprove the relationship but does propose that George Phelps
arrived
on the Recovery of London in 1635 instead of the Mary &
John. This evidence also supports the theory that George
Phelps was from the Crewkerne area
and not Tewkesbury.
The following is from the National Genealogical Society Quarterly,
Volume 77, December 1989, Number 4, pages 249-255.
Identifying George P[?] of the Recovery,
1633 or 1634
By John Plummer
The National Genealogical Society Quarterly in 1983 presented
an important article by Peter Wilson Coldham, F.A.S.G., listing English
shippers and goods transported by them between 1618 and 1688. 1
Included among these lists are the names of some colonists of the 1630s.
Under the date 31 March 1633 appears the Recovery of London, with
Gabriel Cornish as its master, sailing from Weymouth in Dorsetshire to
New England. The names of twenty-six passengers are given; but for one
of these, George P-?-, the script is not fully readable. 2
Meredith B. Colket Jr., F.A.S.G., in a subsequent publication, discusses
one George Parkhurst of Massachusetts, whom he identifies as "perhaps
the George P—- who came on the 'Recovery of London' 1633/34." 3
The present paper addresses this subject in three regards. First, it
can be shown that the Recovery passenger assuredly was not Parkhurst.
Second, it is argued that the date attributed to the Recovery list
is one year off-due to a clerical error-and that the clarification of
this point contributes to the proper identity of the elusive George P-?-
can be narrowed to that of one of two men who were in Dorchester, Massachusetts,
in 1634/35: i.e., George Phelps or George Proctor, with the greatest weight
in evidence favoring Phelps.
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Credits
* By John Plummer, 148 Grand Street, Apartment
34; Waterbury, CT 06702. Mr. Plummer has conducted genealogical research
in England and Scotland, as well as the United States, and has made extensive
studies of historic buildings. He holds a B.A. in history from New England
College.
David
Phelps
Phelps
Family Research
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