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Mehitable Phippen

Female 1668 - 1721  (53 years)


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    Clark, Mehitable
    Clark, Mehitable

  • Name Mehitable Phippen  [1
    Birth 27 Apr 1668  Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Death 15 Dec 1721  Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    • ae 54th yr, gravestone
    Burial Milford Cemetery, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Notes 
    • Married Thomas Ford b. at Milford, 14 Feb 1656/7, d. prob. at Boston after 8 June 1692 son of Thomas and Elizabeth Ford; m. Capt. Samuel Clark, b. at Milford, Aug 1666, d. there 20 May 1725 in 59th yr, , son of Thomas and Hannah Clark, and eldest nephew of Ens. George Clark, husband of Deborah Gold. On 17 May 1604, "Mebitabell fiord" of Boston, widow & relict of Thomas Ford late of Boston & Executrix of his will, conveyed to John Ford of Milford, "All that part of the whole houses and lands ... in Milford aforesaid which was given and bequeathed by Thomas ftord formerly of said Milford deceased unto his son, the said Thomas. fford iate. of Boston" and by him bequeathed by his will dated 3 Jun 1692 unto "the said Mehitabell fford" It seems clear from this that she had no surviving Ford children. Mehltabel Clark was received into the Milford Church from the Church in Boston, in 1697. [1]
    Person ID I40175  Mindrum
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

    Father Gamaliel Phippen,   b. say 1624, Weymouth, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. ca 1671/2, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Mother Sarah Purchase,   b. Abt 1626, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. ca 17 Jan 1682/3, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 57 years) 
    Marriage by 1649  [5
    Family ID F27395  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Thomas Ford,   b. 14 Feb 1656/7, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 8 Jun 1692, Probably Boston, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 35 years) 
    Marriage by Abt 1686 
    • birth of child in 1687
    Children 
     1. John Ford,   b. 27 Dec 1687, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F27393  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 Jun 2020 

    Family 2 Samuel Clark,   b. 4 Aug 1666, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 May 1725, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1696 
    • birth of first child
    Children 
     1. Hannah Clark,   b. Abt 1697, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 May 1773, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 76 years)
     2. Samuel Clark,   b. Abt 1698, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Mar 1778, West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 80 years)
     3. Capt. Thomas Clark,   b. Abt 1700, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jun 1774, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 74 years)
     4. Mehitabel Clark,   b. 5 Nov 1701, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Nov 1701, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     5. Mehitabel Clark,   b. 2 Oct 1702, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Sep 1721 (Age 18 years)
     6. Oliver Clark,   b. 4 Jul 1704, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jun 1724 (Age 19 years)
     7. Sarah Clark,   b. ca 1706/7, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. May 1724 (Age ~ 17 years)
     8. Ann Clark,   b. 30 Jun 1709, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1729 (Age 19 years)
     9. John Clark,   b. 6 Jun 1711, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
     10. Gamaliel Clark,   b. Abt 1712, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1763 (Age ~ 50 years)
    Family ID F27392  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Jun 2020 

  • Sources 
    1. [S8539] Donald L. Jacobus, The American Genealogist, Vol. 17, No. 1, Whole Number 65, July, 1940, The Phippen Family and the Wife of Nathan Gold of Fairfield, Connecticut, p. 13.

    2. [S8765] Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1630-1699, (Rockwell & Churchill, Boston, 1883, reprint Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1978), p. 108.

    3. [S5666] Susan W. Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979), p. 205.

    4. [S6231] findagrave, Memorial ID 23272430.

    5. [S2760] Robert C. Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), p. 1528.