Phebe UNKNOWN

Female Abt 1758 - 1795  (~ 37 years)


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  • Name Phebe UNKNOWN 
    Born Abt 1758  [1
    Gender Female 
    Died 8 Jun 1795  Cheshire, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Buried Stafford's Hill, Cheshire, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I02403  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Family Jonathan REMINGTON,   b. 9 Sep 1758, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 May 1808, Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years) 
    Married Abt 1780 
    Notes 
    • It is possible that Jonathan & Phebe were married in RI, or in Cheshire or Adams, MA. The vital records of Cheshire were destroyed in a fire, and there are no early records of Adams, except the Cooke Collection at the Pittsfield Athenaeum.
    Children 
     1. Maplet REMINGTON,   b. 2 Mar 1782, RI or MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Dec 1861, West Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
    +2. Elizabeth "Betsey" Remington,   b. 24 Dec 1785, Berkshire Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Oct 1870, Apponaug, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     3. Suky Remington,   b. 10 Sep 1789, Berkshire Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Aurelia Remington,   b. 13 Dec 1792, Berkshire Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F00899  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos

    Birth record of my ancestor Maplet Remington and her sisters, with their parents' names, Jonathan and Phebe. Edward S. R. Remington was their half-brother, born to Jonathan and Sarah. Julia and Sally are Maplet's two daughters by her first husband. The writing at the top of the page identifies the original owner of this Bible as Samuel Bowering, Sergeant of Marinus Romulus. He came on this ship during the Revolutionary War. Somehow the Bible was acquired by Samuel Comstock and was passed down I suppose through his daughter-in-law Mercy (Angell) (Comstock) Remington to my relatives in Coventry, who eventually gave it to me.

  • Notes 
    • The names of "Jonathan and Phebe Rementon" appear in the early membership records of the First Baptist Church in Cheshire.

      Gravestone inscription from the old burying ground, Cheshire, MA:
      Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Phebe Remington, wife of Col. Jonathan Remington, who departed this life June 8th, 1795, in the 37th year of her age. (source: Berkshire Book, by its Historical and Scientific Society, Vol. 1, Part 2, p. 88 at The Athenaeum, Pittsfield, MA)

      I was unsuccessful in my one attempt to locate the little cemetery where Phebe is buried. However, according to Eileen Nuttall, spokesperson for the Cheshire Historical Commission, and herself a descendant of one of the early settlers, a survey of the cemetery in 1913 recorded the gravestone as still standing and still legible: "Mrs. Phebe Remington, wife of Col. Jonathan, d. 8 June 1795, age 36."

      The early vital records were destroyed in a fire, so if there were marriage and death records for my ancestors there, they no longer exist. All I have is the record in the old family Bible, which lists the children of Jonathan and Phebe, but no maiden name for Phebe.

      I have wondered if she might be Phebe Tibbetts -- just a guess. But Phebe was a popular and fairly common name at that time, so she could have been from any number of families in RI or western MA.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012424] Gravestone inscription, Date calculated from age at death.

    2. [S012424] Gravestone inscription.