William Fellows
(abt. 1609 - Dec 1676)

William Fellows  (abt. 1609,  Selston, Nottinghamshire, England  - Dec 1676,  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA )  
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Mary Ayers was the daughter of John Ayers and Elizabeth Westrow.

Ancestor's Life Events

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 chief herder of the town cattle from April to November...In October 1643, he was one of 26 townsmen fined for not returning their powder supply to the custodian...On December 22, 1648, he was one of 20 townsmen who received bounties for killing foxes. On March 25, 1651, he was a trial juror at the county court. On August 26, 1653, he was summoned to county court as witness in a prosecution. On March 28, 1654, he was admitted at county court to be a freeman of the colony...On November 29, 1676, he made his last will and testament." Source: Fellows, Fallowes, Fellow and like names : Fellows ancestry in New England and old England : with data on English origins of Fallowes, Fellowes, Followes, Fellow, Followe, Faleyse, Fallas, Felice, Felix, Fells, Fell, Fylot, Fylowe, Valeys, Goodfellow, Longfellow, New York: T.A. Wright, 1926, Pages 12-14. His will was made November 29, 1676, and proved March 27, 1677. He left a substantial estate to his wife and children. Source: Fellows, Erwin, W., "Fellows Families: First American Settlers and Possible English Origins," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Page: vol. 138, p. 17 Morris, Myrtle M., Joseph and Philena (Elton) Fellows - Their Ancestory and Descendants, Page: pp. 24-39 "Samuel and Sarah (Fellows) Knowlton," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Page: vol. 86, pp. 140-1 (1932) McPherson, Mrs. William Wallace, "Fellows Family," The American Genealogist, Page: vol. 17, p. 159 William Fellows appears in Ipswich, Massachusetts records in 1642. Source: History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton, page 11.

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..." Page 2 John Randolph Haynes, California progressive By Tom Sitton Edition: illustrated, revised Published by Stanford University Press, 1992 ISBN 0804720673, 9780804720670 331 pages

1635 - Planter - London to Boston   http:/www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/neng_planter1635.shtml William Felloe 24 shoemaker

Ancestor's Marriage(s) and Child(ren)

married Mary Ayers -- Place:  Source: 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}" Source: 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.)

Family Group Record for William Fellows and Mary Ayers

Children: Isaac Fellows (abt. 1637,  - 6 Apr 1721, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA) Ephraim Fellows (abt. 1641, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA - aft. 1713, probably Plainfield,Windham County,Connecticut) Samuel Fellows (13 JAN 1646 , Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA - 5 DEC 1729, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts) Mary Fellows (abt. 1646, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA - , ) Joseph Fellows (abt. 1650, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA - 7 Nov 1693, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA) Elizabeth Fellows (abt. 1653, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA - , ) Abigail Fellows (abt. 1655, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA - , ) Sarah Fellows (26 July 1657, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA - 13 JUN 1724, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA)

Ancestor's Death-related Information

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~oceanbreez/Fellows/fellows_william_will_1676_ma.html

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 and a quarter of a acker of good land yearly to sow flaxe on and it is my will yt my wif shall haue all ye househould goods at her dispoasel tis my will yt my sonne Isack shall haue my march lote at hog Iland adid to that which I haue giuing him allredy and my will is yt my other three sonns yt is Ephram Samuel and Joseph shall haue ye other half of my farme and ye rest of my sault march with ye buildings and stock || and corn || upon ye farme to be posest of it after my deseas only to fullfill thr mother what is aboue menchoned and to pay all || my || depts and legisis as foloweth tis my will yt my daughter mary shall haue ten pounds paid her within two yeare after my deseas and ten pounds after my wifes deseas and it si my will yt my othr three daughters Elisebeth abegill Sary shall haue tewenty pounds a peice one half paid them two years after my deseas ore one thr day or mariag and ye othr half two years after yt and after my depts are all paid my will is yt my daughters should be maid equale with ther three brothers Ephram Samuele Joseph only fifty pounds yt my Sonne Isack is to pay after my wifs deseas shall be deuided equaly amongst my three daughters Elisebeth abigil Sary and then to be equallised with thr brothrs aboue menshnd.”

Willaim Fellowes

Witness: William (his X mark) Story, Senear, Thomas Burnon, senier, Samuel Ingals, Seanir.


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