Philip STANWOOD

Abt 1620 - 1672  (52 years)

• Name	Philip STANWOOD
  Birth	Abt 1620
  Gender	Male
  Misc	28 Feb 1648/9	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States   [1, 2]
  	Fence Viewer
  	Phillip Stanwood of Weymouth, Mass.: -A recent examination of original Weymouth town records disclosed that on the “last day of last month 1648” (i.e. 28 Feb. 1648/9) the town ordered fences to be repaired and named Jonas Humphry and Phillip Stainwood fence viewers “below the herring brege” [bridge]. The History of Weymouth (1923), vol. 2, p. 500, also quotes this record but it is not indexed. This record places Phillip Stainwood in New England several years earlier than Ethel Stanwood Bolton (A History of the Stanwood Family (1899), p. 19) first finds him in Gloucester, Mass., when his second child, John, was born the “last day of the last month 1652” (28 Feb. 1652/3). This strongly suggests that Phillip first came to Weymouth, probably as a young man, married there and that his first son, Phillip, Jr., was born there. Weymouth vital records for those years are missing. I suggest that his wife may have been Jane Whitmarsh, daughter of John Whitmarsh, an early settler of Weymouth. Of the partial list of Weymouth immigrants listed in Planters of the Commonwealth, there were three Janes about the right age. Jane Whitmarsh is the only one not disproved. There Herring Brook runs from Back River up to Whitman’s Pond through East Weymouth where the bridge undoubtedly was. John Whitmarsh had land by King Oak Hill not far away. Their church was just beyond the hill by the present cemetery. John B. Trelfall Madison, Wis.
  Death	7 Aug 1672	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [3]
  Person ID	I2571	Stanwood Family
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2021

  
  

  Family	Jane (_____)   d. 18 Aug 1706
  Marriage	1650
  Children	1. John STANWOOD,   b. Abt 1652, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 1706 (Age 54 years)   2. Jane STANWOOD,   b. 1655, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 30 Oct 1696, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 41 years)   3. Samuel STANWOOD,   b. 5 Jan 1657/8, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   4. Jonathan STANWOOD,   b. 29 Mar 1661, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   5. Mary STANWOOD,   b. 29 Apr 1664, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 3 Mar 1673/4, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 9 years)   6. Naomi STANWOOD,   b. 29 Apr 1664, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 13 Mar 1701/2, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 37 years)   7. Ruth STANWOOD,   b. 10 Mar 1666/7, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   8. Hannah STANWOOD,   b. 16 Sep 1670, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   9. Philip STANWOOD   d. 24 Sep 1728
  Family ID	F479	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S1719] NEHGS Register v. 121 (1967), p. 231. [S1616] DB: History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, v. 1-4, Philip Stainwood. STANWOOD_Philip_b1620_misc_002 [S1611] BOOK: Gloucester births, deaths and marriages, 1634-1727, P. 71. STANWOOD_Philip_b1620_death_001