William
FELLOWS
(b.
abt. 1609
,
England
d.
December 1676
,
Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony
)
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William FELLOWS was born abt. 1609 in England
William FELLOWS was the child of ? and ?William was an immigrant to the United States, arriving by 1635.
Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):
William married Mary AYERS abt. 1635 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony . The couple had (at least) 8 children. Mary AYERS was born abt. 1618 in London, England. Mary died abt. 1680 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA.
William FELLOWS died December 1676 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
William Fellows was the son of William Fellows.
Mary Ayers was the daughter of John Ayers and Elizabeth Westrow.
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Family and Children of William FELLOWS
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Mary AYERS-- Date: abt. 1635 Place: Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
(Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.
"William1 (?1609-1677] (ae ca 50 in 1659) & [Mary] [?AYERS] by 1635? Ipswich {Fellows (1940) 1, 25 TAG 17:159 Dixon-Williams 26 Gen Mag. 2:5 Reg. 84:96 Snow-Estes 1:210 Ipswich Ant. Papers 153 Fellows 23 Stephens-Stevens (1909) 37 Salisbury Fam. 155 Noyes-Gilman 35 Fellowes-Davis Anc. 41 Ayres (1870) 9 EIHC 1:58, 177 Essex Ant. 1:93}"
Children of William FELLOWS and Mary AYERS:

Isaac FELLOWS (b.abt. 1637, Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 6 April 1721, Ipswich, Province of Massachusetts Bay)
m. Joanna BOREMAN 29 January 1672 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA

Ephraim FELLOWS (b.March 1641, Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. abt. 1713, Plainfield, Crown Colony of Connecticut )
m. Mary UNKNOWN 1664 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
m. Anna Hannah CROSS 20 December 1683 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
Samuel FELLOWS (b.abt. 1643, Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. abt. 1713, Ipswich, Province of Massachusetts Bay)
Elizabeth FELLOWS (b.14 July 1644, Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. abt. 1676, Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony)
Mary FELLOWS (b.abt. 1646, Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 8 February 1693, Reading, Province of Massachusetts Bay)
m. Josiah BROWN 23 November 1666 in Reading, Massachusetts, USA
Joseph FELLOWS (b.abt. 1650, Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 7 November 1693, Ipswich, Province of Massachusetts Bay)
m. Ruth FRAILE (FRAYLE) 19 April 1675 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
Abigail FELLOWS (b.abt. 1655, Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 30 January 1730, Ipswich, Province of Massachusetts Bay)
m. Samuel AYRES 21 March 1677 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
Sarah FELLOWS (b.26 July 1657, Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 13 June 1724, Ipswich, Province of Massachusetts Bay)




Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
(Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.
"William1 (?1609-1677] (ae ca 50 in 1659) & [Mary] [?AYERS] by 1635? Ipswich {Fellows (1940) 1, 25 TAG 17:159 Dixon-Williams 26 Gen Mag. 2:5 Reg. 84:96 Snow-Estes 1:210 Ipswich Ant. Papers 153 Fellows 23 Stephens-Stevens (1909) 37 Salisbury Fam. 155 Noyes-Gilman 35 Fellowes-Davis Anc. 41 Ayres (1870) 9 EIHC 1:58, 177 Essex Ant. 1:93}"
Children of William FELLOWS and Mary AYERS:



m. Joanna BOREMAN 29 January 1672 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA



m. Mary UNKNOWN 1664 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
m. Anna Hannah CROSS 20 December 1683 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA






m. Josiah BROWN 23 November 1666 in Reading, Massachusetts, USA


m. Ruth FRAILE (FRAYLE) 19 April 1675 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA


m. Samuel AYRES 21 March 1677 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA


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William Fellows
'BIRTH: In an Ipswich court deposition given September 27, 1659, he is stated to be 'aged about fifty years.'
William Fellows appeared at Ipswich in 1639, when he purchased a house and house lot of one acre and a planting lot of six acres 'with appurtenances' from the estate of Humphrey Wisse. This land was on the south side of the Ipswich River. Shortly thereafter, he was chosen to be the herder of cows on the south side of the river.
William Fellows was shown on a list of commoners in 1641. He was made a freeman in 1654.
'The English emigrant William Fellows who located at Ipswich, Mass., is the first of the name who is traceable on American soil...There is no ship record of the coming of Fellows to New England. He first appears in the year 1639...The presumption is that Mary Ayers was married to Fellows in Leicestershire and came with him about 1639 to the colonies. About March 26, 1639, he bought a six-acre tract...at Ipswich. On March 5, 1639-40, he took contract to be...Read MORE...
'BIRTH: In an Ipswich court deposition given September 27, 1659, he is stated to be 'aged about fifty years.'
William Fellows appeared at Ipswich in 1639, when he purchased a house and house lot of one acre and a planting lot of six acres 'with appurtenances' from the estate of Humphrey Wisse. This land was on the south side of the Ipswich River. Shortly thereafter, he was chosen to be the herder of cows on the south side of the river.
William Fellows was shown on a list of commoners in 1641. He was made a freeman in 1654.
'The English emigrant William Fellows who located at Ipswich, Mass., is the first of the name who is traceable on American soil...There is no ship record of the coming of Fellows to New England. He first appears in the year 1639...The presumption is that Mary Ayers was married to Fellows in Leicestershire and came with him about 1639 to the colonies. About March 26, 1639, he bought a six-acre tract...at Ipswich. On March 5, 1639-40, he took contract to be...Read MORE...


The New England Historical and Genealogical Register . (Online db: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2009), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 162 vols., 1847-2009.)


Source:
Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F. (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.


Source:
Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F. (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.


Source:
Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F. (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.


Source:
Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F. (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.


Source:
Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F. (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.


Source:
Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F. (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.
1635 - Planter - London to Boston
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William Felloe 24 shoemaker
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William Felloe 24 shoemaker
1635
'William Fellows (1609-76), a shoemaker from Selten, Northants, England, who sailed to the colonies aboard the Planter in 1635. With his wife, Mary Ayers (1607-1702), Fellows settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he became a farmer and the town cowkeeper...'
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John Randolph Haynes, California progressive
By Tom Sitton
Edition: illustrated, revised
Published by Stanford University Press, 1992
ISBN 0804720673, 9780804720670
331 pages
'William Fellows (1609-76), a shoemaker from Selten, Northants, England, who sailed to the colonies aboard the Planter in 1635. With his wife, Mary Ayers (1607-1702), Fellows settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he became a farmer and the town cowkeeper...'
Page 2
John Randolph Haynes, California progressive
By Tom Sitton
Edition: illustrated, revised
Published by Stanford University Press, 1992
ISBN 0804720673, 9780804720670
331 pages

Ephraim FELLOWS was born March 1641, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA

Elizabeth FELLOWS was born 14 July 1644, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA

Sarah FELLOWS was born 26 July 1657, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA

Mary FELLOWS married 23 November 1666, Reading, Massachusetts, USA to Josiah BROWN

Isaac FELLOWS married 29 January 1672, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA to Joanna BOREMAN

Joseph FELLOWS married 19 April 1675, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA to Ruth FRAILE (FRAYLE)
Will
From Book: The Probate Records of Essex County (MA); Published by Essex Institute, Salem 1920, Vol. 3, pp. 128-131; Author unknown.
FROM: Essex County Probate Files, Docket 9,367
Estate of William Fellows of Ipswich
'The last Will of William felows nouember 29:76
I hauing my perfit memory I commit my soull to god and my body to ye graue and bequea my earthly goods as followeth my will is yt my wif shall haue one rome in my house to her self and for her uese dewring her life yt is to say ye parler and to haue twelve pounds yearly paid her in good marchantable pay by my three Sons Ephram Samul Joseph and likewis it is my will yt my wif should haue two of my best Cowes and to be kept by my sonns winter and Somer for my wifs uese and my wif shall haue liberty to keep two swine and like wise my sons shall maintain her with conuenient fierirng winter and somer as long as she lius a widow and like wise tis my will yt my wife shall haue a conueanant peice of land for a gearding...Read MORE...
From Book: The Probate Records of Essex County (MA); Published by Essex Institute, Salem 1920, Vol. 3, pp. 128-131; Author unknown.
FROM: Essex County Probate Files, Docket 9,367
Estate of William Fellows of Ipswich
'The last Will of William felows nouember 29:76
I hauing my perfit memory I commit my soull to god and my body to ye graue and bequea my earthly goods as followeth my will is yt my wif shall haue one rome in my house to her self and for her uese dewring her life yt is to say ye parler and to haue twelve pounds yearly paid her in good marchantable pay by my three Sons Ephram Samul Joseph and likewis it is my will yt my wif should haue two of my best Cowes and to be kept by my sonns winter and Somer for my wifs uese and my wif shall haue liberty to keep two swine and like wise my sons shall maintain her with conuenient fierirng winter and somer as long as she lius a widow and like wise tis my will yt my wife shall haue a conueanant peice of land for a gearding...Read MORE...

December 1676
Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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