~ DID OUR DEACON NICHOLAS PHILLIPS MARRY HANNAH SALTER ~ "Some think that he did"
I present to you the following facts.... and my final descision, you may change you mind.
Facts:
He married Elizabeth Jewson, June 26, 1631 in Wendover Buckinghampshire, England
Source: Buckinghamshire Parrish Records
Elizabeth Phillips, the wife of Nicholas Phillips of Weymouth, acknowledges before the commisioners appointed to end small causes her consent to her husbands sale of a house and several parcels of land to Francis Smyth of Hingham. Dated "11th day of the Sixth month, 1651 in the presence of John Whitman, Thomas Dyer, Willm. Torrey, Commissioners" Signed with "E P' as a mark
John Loud Weymouth, Mass.
Source: Vol. 1 page 195 of Weymouth Town Records
Boston Marriages Recorded
Nicholas Phillips was marryed to Hannah Salter the 4 : 10 : 51; pr Richard Bellingham Esqr.
Source: NEHG Register
Boston Births Recorded
Elizabeth dau of Nicolas [and] Hannah b 24 Feb. 1652
Hannah dau. of Nicholas and Hannah borne 25 Nov. 1654
Nicholas sonne of Nicholas and Hanna borne 26 Feb. 1656
Nicholas ye sonne of Nicholas Phillips & of Hannah his wife borne 12th May 1660
Abigail ye Daughter of Nicholas Phillips & of Hannah his wife borne 20th Febra 1661
Source: NEHG Register
Waymouth (Weymouth) Births Recorded
Experience dau. of Nicholas Phillips borne 8 (3) 1641
Caleb sonne of Nicholas Phillips borne 22 (11) 1641
Caleb son of Nich Phillips borne 22 (11) 1643
Boston Deaths Recorded
Nicholas sonne of Nicholas & Hannah Phillips dyed 1 : 6 : 57
Nicholas ye sonne of Nicholas Phillips & of Hannah his wife, deceased 18th Aug 1661
Nicholas Phillips 1640, died 1672, 8 children; Richard, Alice, Experience b 1641, Caleb b 1644, Joshua, Benjamin, Hannah & Abigail.
Source: NEHG Register
Weymouth Deaths
Hannah Salter, called Anne in the baptismal record at Rattleesden, 19 Dec. 1630
Source: ib Vol 57 Page 331
[Hannah] Married (1) in Boston, 4 10 mo. 1651, Nicholas Phillips
Source: Boston Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1630 - 1699 Page 34
[Nicholas Phillips] whose ancestry is unknown. He is called shop keeper and later victualler and died Tuesday 15 Mar 1669/70
Source: Suffolk Probate Records, Vol 7 page 37
[Nicholas Phillips] The inventory of his estate amounted to L400, 15s. 9d.
Source: Boston Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1630 - 1699 Page 34
[Hannah Salter] Widow Hannah (Salter) Phillips married (2) before 3 Nov. 1671, when their daughter Ruth was born.
Source: Boston Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1630 - 1699 Page 120
John Ruggles (Samuel of Boston), who died after 10 Feb. 1692
Source: Suffolk Deeds, lib 24, fo. 262
And Before 5 May 1696
Source: ib,lib. 47, fo. 225
Hannah Ruggles died Janr 3 1696/7
Source: Boston Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1630 - 1699 Page 230
Nicholas [Phillips] and Hannah [Salter] Phillips had three children thus named, who, with their sister Sarah, were all baptized together 6, 3mo. 1666
Source: Boston Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1630 - 1699 Page 102
The History of Weymouth by George W. Chamberlain Pub 1923
He [Nicholas Phillips] must be distinguished from Nicholas Phillips of Boston, who died. 15 Mar. 1669-70. Dea. Nicholas Phillips of Weymouth was born near 1611, and died at Weymouth between 2 June, 1671, and 7 Sept. 1672.
Nicholas Phillips of Weymouth, "age Sixty Yeares, or thereabouts having a very weake body," made his will 2 June, 1671; proved 3 Oct. 1672. To eldest son Richard Phillips the marsh which is now in his possession. To his three sons Richard, Joshua and Benjamin Phillips his wearing apparell. To second son Joshua Phillips. To third son Benjamin Phillips. To eldest daughter Alice Shaw L10. To my six younger children, viz., Joshua Phillips, Benjamin Phillips, Alice Shaw, Experience King, Hannah White, and Abigail Phillips, the rest of his estate to be equally divided. Overseers: sons Richard, Joshua and Benjamin Phillips. Son Richard Phillips, executor. " My loving brother Henry Phillips and my loving friends Thomas Dyer and Jonas Humphrey " mentioned, Witnesses: Elizabeth Shaw and Thomas Dyer, Jr.
Source: Suffolk Probate Records 7: 248.
Inventory taken 7 Sept. 1672, by William Torrey, Thomas Dyer and Jonas Humphrey. Among the items mentioned were "bookes in leather and 7 pamphlets,"; d2 02s., total L257 1ls. 6d., presented by Richard Phillips as the estate of his late father Nicholas Phillips, 3 Oct. 1672.
Source: Ibid. 250.
Given the last two paragraphs, there is no doubt in my mind that there were two Nicholas Phillips, one from Boston who was a victuler and died 1669/70 in Boston and Deacon Nicholas Phillips of Weymouth who died 1671 in Weymouth.
So a marriage of our Deacon Nicholas Phillips to Hannah Salter did not occur.
For those of you who have a second marriage for Deacon Nicholas Phillips to Hannah Salter, I say that this is an error…… however, you decide for yourselves.
…….john