460. George1 Parkhurst; born 1589 at Ipswich, Suffolk, England; married Phoebe Mathers 1612 at England; died after 1655.61
He " I. John Parkhurst b. ca. 1517; m. Sarah (???). He was a clothier
and in his will left the implements of his trade to his son
Georg.
II. George Parkhurst b. ca. 1588; m. 1st. Phebe Mathers; 2nd. Susanna
Simpson, widow of John. George came on the PLANTER which
sailed from London. He was a farmer and an original proprietor
of Salisbury, Mass. Susanna survived him. The children are
recorded in Ipswich, Suffolk County, Eng. Parish Registers of
St. Mary's at the Quay and St. Mary's le Tower.
By 1st. wife
Ch: X 1. Phebe bapt. Nov. 29, 1612 Ipswich, Eng.; d. 1700; m.
1640 Thomas Arnold, son of William as his 2nd. wf.
(Richardson)
X 2. Mary b. Aug. 28, 1614 Eng.; m. 1st. (???) Dalton;
2nd. Rev. Thomas Carter of Woburn, Mass. (Richardson)
3. Samuel b. Feb. 2, 1616
4. Deborah bapt. Ipswich, Eng. Aug. 1, 1619; d. 1636;
m. John Smith of Hampton & Watertown; removed to
Martha's Vineyard; will dated 1670; d. before 1674
X 5. George Jr. bapt. June 5, 1621 Ipswich, Eng.; m. 1st.
Dec. 1643 Sarah Brown; 2nd. Mary (prob.) Veasey;
(Ellsworth)
6. John b. Oc.t 19, 1623 d y
7. Abigail bapt 1625; m. Thomas Mayhew
8. Elizabeth bapt. Ipswich, Eng. May 18, 1628; m. 1st.
Emanuel Hilliard; 2nd. Joseph Merry (Mury)
9. Joseph bapt. Dec. 29, 1629 Ipswich, Eng.; m. 1656 at
Concord, Mass. Mary Read
10. Daniel
11. Benjamin prob. d y
12. Joshua
13. Caleb."102 He "GEORGE PARKHURST, from Ipswich, Suffolk County, England, settled with his family in Watertown, Mass. probably about the middle of the 1630's. He owned land there before 1638, which he had bought of Hugh Mason. The first public record concerning him is dated May 10, 1642, when the town ordered that a highway be laid out by his house. He became a freeman May 10, 1643. Whether his wife, Phebe, came to America with him is not known since her death is not on record, but several of their nine children, who had been baptized in England, are in New England records.
About 1645 he married Susanne, widow of John Simpson of Watertown, and about that time removed to Boston. The date of his death is not found and it seems probable that he left New England. On the 13th of June 1655 he petitioned for right to sell certain land in order that he might go to the aid of his wife, who had returned to England. At that time he testified that he was near sixty-seven years old, which would put his birth date as about the time of the Spanish Armada.
Mrs. Ruth Dalton, whose husband was the Rev. Timothy Dalton, died May 12, 1666, aged eighty-eight. In her will, dated November 22, 1663, she left legacies to George Parkhurst's children, and in their acknowledgments she is called Aunt Dalton by the two sons, George, Junior, and Joseph. As she did not bequeath to the children of George Parkhurst by his second wife, it is thought that his first wife, Phebe, was her sister.
MARY PARKHURST, the second child of George and Phebe Parkhurst, was baptized in Ipswich, England, August 28, 1614, and became the wife of the Rev. Thomas Carter of Watertown, Mass. The date of their marriage is not known but their first child was born in Watertown August 8, 1640. (See Carter). "191 He "GEORGE, Watertown, freem. 10 May 1643, brought
from Eng. s. George, d. Phebe, and perhaps other ch. Barry says his
w. was Susanna, and I kn. that in 1643 he m. sec. w. Susanna, wid. of
John Simpson, sold his est. at W. 1645, and rem. to Boston, there was
liv. in 1655. Phebe m. Thomas Arnold."61
Children of George1 Parkhurst and Phoebe Mathers were:
461. Mary2 Parkhurst (George1); born 28 Aug 1614 at Ipswich, Suffolk, England; married Thomas Carter, son of William Carter and Judith Richardson, 1638 at Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died 28 Mar 1687 at Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, at age 72.
Children of Mary2 Parkhurst and Thomas Carter were: