Excerpt from The Ancestors and Descendants of John Phipps, of Sherborn, 1757-1847: Abridged From the Phipps Genealogy Our ancestor, James Phips, Cotton Mather tells us, came from Bristol, England to New England twenty years after the Mayflower. It is now more carefully stated that James Phips is found settled as a ship-wright near the mouth of the Kennebec River, a little before 1650. But the fact which interests us for the moment is that he...
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