General Notes

From NEGHS:
John Phillips was first known to be in New England in 1630 and first resided in Dorchester, making him a possible passenger on the Mary & John, but until his English origin is known this merely remains a possibilit
   Since John Phillips applied for freemanship in September 1630, but was not admitted until 1632, he may have made a return trip to England, leaving New England probably in the spring of 1631 and returning either later that year or early in 1632.
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Boston
RETURN TRIPS: Possibly made brief trip to England in 1631
OCCUPATION: Biscuit baker.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 7 August 1632 implied by freemanship. Ordained deacon of the Second Church of Boston in 1670 [ Worthley 59].
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 (as "John Pilips") and admitted 7 August 1632 [ MBCR 1:80, 367].
EDUCATION: He signed his name to deeds and to the Dorchester rate [ DTR 106]. Wife Joanna made her mark. Recorder (occasionally) at Wells court [ MPCR 2:xvi-xvii, 377, 467].
OFFICES: Dorchester selectman, November 1635 (six months), 27 June 1636, 30 October 1638 [ DTR 13, 15, 35]. Constable, 7 June 1636 [ MBCR 1:176]. Committee to value livestock, 13 May 1640 [ MBCR 1:295]. Field viewer, 1645 [ DTR 294]. Lot viewer, 24 May 1634 [ DTR 6]. Fence viewer, 16 January 1636/7, 18 March 1637/8 [ DTR 20, 32]. Committee to lay out highway, 16 January 1636/7, 31 October 1639, 1644 [ DTR 21, 41, 58].
ESTATE: On 17 April 1635 he was granted two acres [ DTR 10]. On 1 February 1635/6 John Phillips was given three-qarters of an acre meadow at Squantum Neck "for Edard Hart" [ DTR 15]. On 18 February 1635/6 he received six acres of fresh marsh [ DTR 15]. On 27 June 1636 he received six acres of fresh marsh [ DTR 16]. On 5 July 1636 he relinquished marsh lot in exchange for another six acres [ DTR 17]. In the meadow beyond Naponset he had lot #3 of six acres [ DTR 321]. On 2 January 1637/8 he received an additional grant to his homelot and one acre [ DTR 26]. On 18 March 1637/8 he received two grants of eight acres and seventeen rods [ DTR 30].
   On 13 March 1638/9 Mr. Ezekiel Rogers and Mr. John Phillips were granted eight miles "every way into the country" except land already settled [ MBCR 1:253].
   On 31 October 1639 he purchased land of Thomas Hatch [ DTR 39]. In May or June of 1642 he exchanged land with Christopher Gibson [ DTR 49]. On 28 March 1642 he was granted one acre in recompense for allowing a highway [ DTR 49].
   On 7 December 1646 John Phillips of Dorchester sold to William Blake Senior his great lot within pale, containing eight acres [ DTR 297
   On 22 February 1652 Augustine Clement of Boston, painter, recited the line of title of a parcel of land in Boston containing a workshop and sold it to John Phillips of Boston, "biskett baker" [ SLR 1:285-86]. On 18 April 1656 John Phillips of Boston, baker, stood bond for Michael Martin and John Brooken, administrators of the estate of Samuell Kawker, deceased [ SLR 3:67].
   On 10 May 1658 Francis Smale assigned half a parcel of land at Casco Bay to Mr. John Phillips [ YLR 1:83]. On 28 July 1658 Robert Jordan released Mr. John Phillips from any demands that Jordan might have against Phillips, with respect to the erection of a sawmill at Casco Bay [ YLR 8:244]. On 26 September 1659 George Cleeves of Falmouth, gentleman, and Joanne his wife, and Richard Tucker deeded to Mr. John Phillips of Boston, merchant, a tract of land at Casco Bay "on which my now dwelling house standeth" [ YLR 1:90, 106]. On 3 May 1658 George Cleeve sold to John Phillips of Casco, millwright, fifty acres of land in Casco Bay [ YLR 1:121]. On 10 August 1657 George Cleeve of Casco, gentleman, and John Phillips of the same, millwright, confirmed the sale of fifty acres and ten acres between them for the yearly rent of 12d. and one day's labor of one man [ YLR 1:122]. On 8 June 1663 Cleeves and Phillips made a further agreement regarding the felling of trees on this land [ YLR 1:134]. On 7 October 1661 Elizabeth Mitton deeded her right in an island to John Phillips of Boston [ YLR 1:141]. On 3 July 1662 George Lewis deposed that Mr. Robert Jordan by attachment took two oxen, one bull and three cows from Mr. John Phillips, millwright [ YLR 1:137].
   On 1 November 1664 "George Felt of Casco, mason, and Elizabeth his wife" sold to John Phillips of Boston, yeoman, "all that his messuage, tenement and dwelling house, with the barn, outhousing & land & meadow ground" in Charlestown and Malden, "that is to say his houselot containing nine acres ..., one other parcel of land containing nine acres ..., one other parcel of land belonging to the houselot containing twenty acres ..., sixteen acres and a half of swamp ..., two acres of land in Charlestown common ..., twenty-four acres of land in Charlestown commons on Mystic Side near Spot Pond and in the second division ..., [and] fourteen acres of meadow" [ MLR 3:154-55]. (For further information on the dealings between John Phillips and GEORGE FELT , see the sketch of the latter.)
   On 5 July 1673 John Phillips of Boston and Johanna Phillips his wife sold to Capt. Christopher Clark of Boston, mariner, his dwelling house and leanto and the ground it stood upon [ SLR 8:200-02].
   On 13 February 1674 Joshua Holdsworth and Sarah his wife sold to John Phillips a dwelling house and land in Boston [ SLR 9:128]. On 12 February 1674[/5] John Phillips of Boston, yeoman, and Joanna his wife, sold to Nathan Raynsford of Boston, merchant, a warehouse and land in Boston including the wharf it stood on, as well as an easement across Phillips's land for easy access [ SLR 10:35-37].
   On 19 January 1675[/6] John Phillips of Boston, yeoman, made a long, complicated deed for "the natural love good will & affection which I have & bear unto my loving son-in-law George Munjoy of Casco in New England, and unto my daughter Mary, wife of the said George Munjoy, and unto their children ... Mary Munjoy and Hephzibah Munjoy," a dwelling house and land; unless John left a widow, in which case she received certain rooms in the house and rights to the land until her death; to "George Munjoy second son of the said George Munjoy & Mary his wife" a house in the occupation of John Chickly, with leanto and shop; to "Josiah Munjoy third son of George Munjoy and Mary his wife" a house and land adjoining that given to "my grandchild George Munjoy"; to "Phillips Munjoy, fourth son of the said George Munjoy and Mary his wife," land and a tenement house next to that given to Josiah Munjoy, and half the cellar under the house granted to Josiah Munjoy, with the shop on the southwesterly side of the street, and equal privilege to the land on the backside of the house with the other children of George Munjoy; to "Benjamen Munjoy fifth son of the said George Munjoy and Mary his wife" a land and tenement to the north of Phillips Munjoy with rights to the land and wharf; to "Pellatiah Munjoy sixth son of the said George Munjoy and ... Gershom Munjoy seventh son of the said George Munjoy and Mary his wife the two shops" on the northerly side of Benjamin Munjoy with the cellar under them; residue of his lands and wharf to George Munjoy Sr. and Mary his wife [ SLR 10:87-93
   On 6 January 1675[/6] John Phillips of Boston, yeoman, and Sarah Minor [sic] of Boston, widow, "in consideration of a marriage already agreed upon and shortly by God's grace to be had and solemnized between" the two, Sarah was provided with Ð50 support and rights to the house and property in lieu of dower, for the term of her widowhood should she survive John [ SLR 9:334-35]. Although in the body of the indenture Sarah is called Sarah "Minor," she signs the document "Sarah Maynard." Neither surname can easily be matched with a deceased New England man [ SLR 9:334-35
   In his will, dated 15 March 1680/1 and proved 27 December 1683, "John Phillips of Boston ... though weak & sickly in body" listed "a small tenement being a house & a small parcel of land ... at the north end of the town of Boston ... which I purchased of Joshua Houldsworth ... also my outmost new wharf ... also that shop that is fronted on the street from the warehouse ... are besides the deed of gift which I gave to my son-in-law George Munjoy & my daughter Munjoy his wife and their children"; "whereas there is an agreement made between me & my loving wife (now in being) Sarah Phillips that what contract was formerly made & by me engaged to perform ... the remainder of the Ð50 which is not already paid to her in money and the rest that is expressed in the covenant which was made before marriage"; to "Huldah the daughter of my grandson John Munjoy deceased the half part of the house or tenement which I bought of Joshua Houldsworth ... at the age of eighteen years or the day of her marriage"; if Huldah die before taking possession then it to be "equally divided among my grandchildren that are now extant"; to "my grandson George Munjoy my shop which fronteth on the street ... which joins to the warehouse which I sold to Mr. Nathan Raynsford ... also my part and portion of the outwharf"; if George die without issue, then to be divided "among the rest of my grandchildren"; to "the military company of the north end of the town of Boston ... now under the command of Major Thomas Clarke the sum of Ð5"; "my daughter Mary Munjoy" sole executrix; "the Ð5 given to the military company shall be to that company that I was an officer in and under the command of Major Thomas Clarke" [ SPR 6:445-47].
BIRTH: About 1605 based on age at death.
DEATH: Boston 16 December 1682, aged seventy-seven [ Copp's Hill 2].
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1633 Joanna _____. She died Boston 22 October 1675, aged eighty