time : road commissioner for two years ; mem-
ber of the school committee several years ; and
chief engineer of the fire department for a
number of years. He represented the first
Hampden district in the general court in 1904-



1905 and 1906: and in 1908 and i<K>) he was
stale senator from the W'orcester-l lampden
district, lie has taken a prominent part in the
legislation of those years he has been in the
general court, and has held places on important
committees, lie is a trustee of the Monson
.Savings Hank : director of the Monson National
i'laid-c: director of the Monson I'ree Library,
and trustee of the .Monson .Academy, lie is
gifted musically, and has sung from time to
time in quartettes and choruses in Monson,
.Amherst, Worcester, Boston, and various other
places, and has directed many musical organi-
zations. He was a member, while in college,
of the Washington Irving Literary .Society,
and its first president : and member of the
1) (! K fraternity. lie was on the base ball
nine, and one of the winning boat crew of 1X71.
He married, January 4, 1882, .Augusta \'.
Kinney, born l-'ebruary 4, i860, daughter of
Ceorge Kinney. Children, born at Monson : i.
June, June 19, 1884. 2. .Arthur Dickinson, Jr.,
November 8, 1895. 3. Grace, died in infancy.



There appears great confusion
PI I ILLH'S in the records as to the identity

of John Phillips, the immigrant
to New Plymouth. Governor Bradford states
that "John I'hillips came to Plymouth as a
servant seeking service and a change of mas-
ters in 1630." This has been the subject of
nuR-h controversy and the occasion of some
corres])ondenco between the Massachusetts Bay
Puritans and the Plymouth Pilgrims. This John
Phillips, according to the Plymouth Colony
Wills as recorded and published in the Cjene-
alogical Advertiser, Vol. HI, p. 28, was aged
eighty-seven years at the time he made his will,
October 20, 1691, which would bring his birth
vear 1602 and his age when he resided in
Plymouth Colony in 1630 as twenty-eight years
which is beyond the period of life in which it
was usual for servants to be under bonds of
service. .As no mention is made of his first
marriage, or of the birth of children by his
first wife, on the Plymouth Records, we are
bound to assume that he harl a wife an<l chil-
dren before he came to the Colony. There is
no record e.xcei)t that statement of Wintbrop
that he was an immigrant of 1630. He is on
record as having purchased land at Dnxbury
in 1639, and of immediate grants of land being
made to him by the colony, adjacent to his
proj)erty, which facts would inflicate him to
have been at that time a man of i)roperty and
already rif the responsibility that falls ui)on
freemen with family. Then his son, John (2),



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was killed by lightning in 1658. when about
twenty-five years of age, another proof of an
early marriage. In 1643 he was an inhabitant
of Duxbiiry, his name appearing on the records
as being able to bear arms and this takes it
out of the possibility that this John was his
son and not the patriarch. In 1653 he was
engaged in a law suit with a Marshfield citizen ;
he was constable of Marshfield in 1657; was
propounded as a freeman of that town in 1659,
but it does not a]5i)ear that he took the oath
of freeman to which he was entitled and could
have claimed. He appears to have had sons:
John, Samuel and Jeremiah, and a daughter
Mary, according to the tract published by Dr.
Shurtlefif entitled "Lightning in Marshfield,"
etc.. and the fact that John Phillips, Jr., accord-
ing to the Plymouth Records, Court Orders,
\'ol. Ill, p. 141, reading the verdict of the
inquest held upon the death of John Phillips,
Jr., names the place in which it occurred as
"Mr. Buckley's," clearly a clerical error, in-
tended for "Mr. Bulkley," the minister who
had formerly occupied the house then occupied
by the victim of the stroke of lightning, as it
is called in the official in(|uest "his dwelling."
This would indicate that he met death in the
house, but not necessarily that it was his house,
as no mention is made of his wife or children,
and it is quite apparent that Timothy William-
son was the householder and that John Phillips,
Jr., took refuge in the home from the tempest
then raging. We will now trace the family
through the successive generations to meet the
objects of this article, with the best obtainable
data as to the facts.

(I) John Phillips, born in England about
1602, married and had besides his wife, Mary,
whose surname does not appear, three sons and
one daughter, when he is found in Duxbury
and Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, all the period
between 1639 and ir)9o. lie died in Marsh-
field between the dates of making his will,
October 20, 1691, and its probate, May 10,
1692, and probably in May. 1692, ten to fifteen
days before the will was probated, which was
the usual time allowed to elapse. The chil-
dren of John Phillips by his first wife, who
came with him to New England and brought
witli her four children, or who may have died
in luigland, were: i. John, killed by lightning
at South Mansfield. Plymouth Colony, July
31, 1658, probably unmarried and aged about
twenty-five years. 2. Samuel, who married,
in 1675, probably Mrs. Mary Cobb ; had three
children: Meliitable, born 1676; Samuel, 1678,
who may have been one of the proprietors of



Easton, Massachusetts ; Thomas. 3. Jeremiah,
killed by lightning, June 23, 1666, at Mansfield,
unmarried. 4. Mary, a feeble minded child
who never married, but survived her father
and all his wives. The date of his first wife's
death or the fact of her presence in New Eng-
land is not on record. John Phillips married,
July 6, 1654, as his second wife, Grace, widow
of William Halloway, of Duxbury and Mans-
field. She was probably born in England,
1615-20, and by her marriage to William Hallo-
way had prior to March, 1652-53 (the date of
her husband's death), two daughters, Grace
and Hannah (or Jane) Halloway. By this
marriage John Phillips had two sons, making
his fifth and sixth children: 5. Joseph, born
March 31, 1655, who did not marry and was
killed in the "Captain Pierce Fight" at Reho-
both, March 26, 1677. 6. Benjamin (q. v.).
The mother of these children was killed by
lightning at Mansfield, Massachusetts, June 23,
1666, at which time her son Jeremiah w-as also
killed. Her husband and his children, Samuel
and Mary, and her children by her first hus-
band, Hannah and Grace Halloway, and her
children by her second marriage, Joseph and
I'enjamin I^hillips, and Mr. Shurtleff, his wife,
and two sons, William and Thomas Shurtleff,
and Mr. Thomas Rogers, w'ere prostrated
but recovered from the effects of the shock.
This occurrence following the death by light-
ning of the elder son John (2), eight years
before, created a profound sensation through-
out New England. John Phillips married as
his third wife, Mrs. Faith Clark Dotey, who
came from England in the ship "Francis,"
from Ipswich, 1634, having tx-cn born in 1619,
daughter of Tristram and Faith Clark, of Dux-
bury. She married (first) Edward Dotey, the
".Mayflower" Pilgrim, who died at Plymouth,
.\ugust 23, 1655, and by him she had nine chil-
dren. Tlie ante-nu])tial agreement between
John Phillips and Mrs. Faith Clark Dotey
appears in the records of the general court of
Plymouth Colony, and is dated February 23,
1666-67, a"fl on March 14, 1666-67. some nine
months after the sudden and tragic death of
his second wife, John Phillips, at the age of
sixty-five years, married Mrs. Faith Clark
Dotey, seventeen years his junior in age. The
household of the patriarch immediately after
this marriage consisted of his third wife with
her children by her first husband, his son Sam-
uel and daughter Mary, child of his first wife;
his sons, Joseph and Benjamin, children by his
second wife : and Hannah (or Jane) Halloway,
daughter of his second wife, by her first hus-



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band. John Phillips lived with his third wife and
their variuus children for eight or more years.
By this marriage he had no children. Mrs.
Faith (Clark Dotey) Phillips was buried in
Marshfield, December 21, 1675, at the age of
fifty-six years, but the exact date of her death
is not recorded. John Phillips married his
fourth wife, .\pril 3. 1677, Mrs. .\nna (Hatch)
Torrey, of Scituate, a (laughter of Elder Will-
iam Hatch, and widow of Lieutenant James
Torrey, to whom she was married November

2, 1643. Her own house had just been burned
by the Indians and as she was the mother of
ten children by her first husband, she had need
of shelter and protection. She died before her
second husband, although much younger, and
this made the fourth wife he had followed to
the grave.

( n ) P)enjamin. fifth son and sixth child of
John Phillips, the patriarch immigrant, and sec-
ond son by his second wife, Grace (Halloway)
Phillips, was born in Marshfield, Plymouth
Colony, in 1657, and lived with his father up
to the time of his marriage, January 12, 1682,
to Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Pit-
ney I Thomas, of Marshfield. They had seven
children born in Marshfield as follows: i.
John, 1682, married. 1710. Patience Stevens,
who died in November, 1760, aged eighty years.
Their child. Captain Nathaniel, born 1713, mar-
ried, 1735. Joanna White, who died February

3. 1798. Captain Nathaniel died May 15, 1795.

2. Joseph, March 29. 1685; married. 1711,
^^ary Fames and had six children : Naomi and
Elizabeth, 1711: Elisha, 1713: .Agatha. 1716;
Jcrusha, 1721 ; Mary, 1725. Joseph Phillips
died and his widow married Benjamin Hatch
in 1740. 3. Benjamin (q. v.). 4. Sarah, June
29, 1689. 5. Thomas. January 17, 1691 ; mar-
ried (first) 1723, Mary (Eames) Sherman,
and by her had six children: Obadiah. 1729;
Thomas. 1731 : Mary. 1733; Lydia. 1734-35;
Mark. 1736: Deborah. 1739. He married (sec-
ond) Mrs. Herman Allen. 6. Jeremiah, 1697;
married and Iia<^l issue: Isaac, 1703, married
Sarah White. 1729. died February 15, 1788-89;
Bethia. 1705. married, 1725, Tchabod W^ash-
born. 7. .Abigail, 1699: probably married James
Hawks.

(Ill) Benjamin (2). third son of Benjamin
(i) and Sarah (Thomas) Phillips, was born
in Marshfield, Mas.sachusetts, May 20, 1687.
He married (first) in 1716, Eleanor Baker,
and by her had three children: i. Jedediah,
born in 1717. died in 1789. 2. Benjamin, 1719.

3. Captain John (q. v.). Eleanor (Baker)
Phillips died in May, 1726, and Benjamin



Phillips married as his second wife. Desire
Sherman, and by her he had four daughters
as follows: 4. Desire, born 1729. 5. Eleanor,
1731. 6. Penelope, 1735. 7. Alice, 1742. De-
sire (Sherman) Phillips died May 10, 1750.

(IV) Captain John (2), third son of Benja-
min (2) and Eleanor (Baker) Phillips, was
born about 1721. He lived in Duxbury and
Weymouth, was a captain in the French ami
Indian war. 1775, married and had three chil-
dren, the first born son being given the name
of his father, John (q. v.).

(\') John (3), son of Captain John (2)
Phillips, was born in Weymouth, Massachu-
setts, about 1755. He was brought uj) in Wey-
mouth, partook of the military spirit of his
father, and in the .American revolution became
a member of the Continental army and is sai<l
to have been a member of the bodyguard of
Washington but as there were several Cap-
tain John Phillips in the revolution and from
Plymouth Colony, it is uncertain as to the
identity of John, the son of Captain John of
the French and Indian war.. This we do know
that he was a farmer in Duxbury and a soldier
in the .American revolution. John, of Duxbury,
married and had three children: i. Lemuel.
2. Isaac (q. v.). 3. John.

(\T) Isaac, son of John (3) Phillips, of
Duxbury, was born in the town of Duxbury,
Norfolk county, Massachusetts, about 1780.
He was a stone mason and also a builder and
contractor. He married Rhoda Litchfield, of
Scituate, and they had ten children born in
Weymouth as follows: i. Lucy .\nn, .August
14. 1804. married Truman Whitmarsh, and
died in Weymouth in 1881. 2. Sally. Septem-
ber 29, 1805, married Frederick Pope, of Wey-
mouth. 3. Isaac, .August 22, 1807. 4. Mary,
December 8, 1809, married Benjamin Hallo-
way. 5. Joshua, March 20, 181 2, married
.Adeline Whittier. 6. Elizabeth. January 15,
1814; married John Peterson. 7. Rhoda Ann,
August II. 1816. still living; married (first)

S.Deamon, deceased ; married (second)

Monroe. 8. Lemuel, March 22. 18 19, married
and lived with his son in Quincy, Massachu-
setts, reaching his ninetieth birtlulay in 1909.
He had eleven children, nine of whom arc
living. 9. John ((\. v.). lo. Harriet, Decem-
ber 27. 1824. married Mark P.Ianchard.

(\TI) John (4). ninth child and fourth son
of Isaac and Rhoda (Litchfield) Phillips, was
born in Weymouth, Norfolk county, Massa-
chusetts. February 22, 1822. He acquired his
schof)! training in the district .school, and learned
the trade of stone mason, which was the occu-



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pation of his father. He also became an expert
carpenter and this led him into the business of
contractor and builder. He was one of a
party of four hundred and ninety-five adven-
turers who left home to make a quick fortune
in the newly discovered gold mines of Cali-
fornia. They left September i, 1848. He was
a miner there a part of the time during the nine
years, and on his return to Massachusetts, in
1858, he spent a number of years in freighting
stone from Quincy to different jwints and
building sea walls ; he continued in this em-
ployment until his retirement in 1890. He
built a new house in Weymouth as a home for
his family, and he also erected the first house
built on Lincoln scjuare. He was a useful and
greatly esteemed citizen of Weymouth. He
married, July 4, 1854, Mary, daughter of
Robert and .\lary (liinney) Davis, of Wey-
mouth. She was born September 18, 1831, and
died in Weymouth, March 12, 1889. She was
a prominent member of the Congregational
church. Their children, born in Weymouth,
were as follows: i. John Wendal, who went
west. 2. Lizzie, married Irwin Sherman, of
South Weymouth; children: Alida P., born
June 2, 1879, married, 1903, W. C. Griggs,
born August i, 1878; Frank 1., born December
14, 1884, married, June 30, 1905, Gertrude
Easton. 3. William, died aged four years. 4.
Lester, died aged seventeen months. 5. George,
horn i860. T). Walter, born 1862, married
Mattie Phillips, of Marblehead, daughter of
Michael Phillips: children: Esther May, Ixirn
July 24, 1888, died February 7, 1903: P>ed-
erick, born June 26, 1894. 7. Henry, born
1867. 8. Ernest, born 1872, died 1899.



This surname is a place name
BUCKI-FA' cif ancient iMiglish origin, and

was originally spelled, in the
time of King John, in 1 199, liuclough, and
later llulclough. It signifies "a large moun-
tain." 'i'hcre have been many and are still
variations in spelling. liulkeley is the one
most commonly used, other forms being P)ulk-
ley. P>ulkly and liuckley.

Piaron Robert de P.ulkcley ( I ) lived in the
time of King John ( 1 199-2!')). I'aron William
de Piulkeley (2) married a daughter of Thomas
I'.utler. Ilaron Robert de P.ulkcley (3) mar-
ried Jane, daughter of .Sir William P.utler.
P.aron William de liulkeley (4) married, 1302,
Maud, daughter of Sir John Davenport. Baron

Robert de P.ulkcley (5) married .\gnes .

P.aron Peter de P.ulkcley (6) married Nicola,
daughter of Thomas I'.ird. P.aron John de



Bnlkeley (7), of Houghton, married .\rderne
Fitley. Baron Hugh de Bnlkeley (8) married
1 lelen, daughter of Thomas Wilbraham. Baron
Humphrey de Bnlkeley (9) married Grisel
Moulton. Baron William de Bnlkeley (10),
of Oakley, married Beatrice, daughter of Will-
iam Hill. Baron Thomas de Bnlkeley (11)
married Elizabeth, daughter of Randelle Gros-
venor. Rev. Edward de Bnlkeley (12) was
born at Ware, Shropshire, England. He was
admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge,
.April 6, 1560, and was curate of St. Mary's,
Shrewsbury, in 1565; prebend of Chester:
prebend of Litchfield about 1580; rector of
All Saints. Odell, in the Hundred of Willey,
Bedfordshire, where he died and was succeeded
bv his eldest son Peter, mentioned below. He
married Almark Irlby (or Islby), of Lincoln-
shire.

(XHI) Rev. Peter Bnlkeley, son of Rev.
Edward Bnlkeley. was born January 31, 1582-3,
at Odell, Bedfordshire. England. He entered
St. John's College, Cambridge, at the age of
sixteen, March 22, 1604-5; fellow 1608, with
AL A. degree, and "said, but on doubtful
authority, to have proceeded Bachelor of Divin-
ity." He succeeded his father as rector of
Odell. He was known to be a non-conformist,
but "the Lord Keeper Williams, formerly his
diocesan, and his personal friend, ilesired to
deal gently with his non-conformity" and con-
nived at it. as he had at his father's for twenty
vears. but when Loud became primate of Eng-
land in 1633. Mr. Bnlkeley was silenced and
with no hope of reinstatement. He therefore
sold his estate and sailed for New England in
1635. at the age of fifty-two. with his children,
on the ship "Susan and Ellen.'' His wife
Grace, aged thirty, was enrolled on the ship
"Elizabeth and Ann," but it is probable that
she sailed with her husband. There is a tradi-
tion in the family that while on the voyage, the
wife Grace apiwrently died. L'nwilling to have
her bodv buried at sea, the husband ])leaded
with the captain to keep it until they reached
jjort. .\s no signs of decay api^eared, he con-
sented, and on the third day symptoms of vital-
itv aj)pearcd. and before land was reached ani-
mation was restored. Though carried from the
ship an invalid she recovered and lived to a
good (lid age. Rev. Peter P.ulkcley settled first
in Cambridge and the next year with twelve
others began the settlement of Concord. Three
years later he received a grant of three hun-
dred acres of land at Cambridge. He was
teacher of the church at Concord of which
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pastor April 6, 1637. He is always spoken of
at the first minister of Concord. Me brought
with him from England about six thousand
pounds, most of which he s|)ent for the good
of the colony. He was a learned and pious
man. He wrote several Latin poems, some of
which Cotton Mather, in his "Magnalia,"
quotes, as a part of the sketch of his life. He
also published a volume in London in 1646,
entitled "The (;os])el Covenant." made up of
sermons preached at Concord, and an elegy on
his friend. Rev. Hooker. He was among the
first to instruct the Indians, and the singular
immunity of Concord from Indian attack was
largely credited, by tradition, to his sanctity
and influence. He died at Concord, March 9,
1658-9. There is a large tablet to his memory
near the open sc|uare at Concord. His will,
dated April 14. 1658. with codicils of January
13 and February 26 following, was proved
June 20, 1659. Before his death he gave many
books to the library of Harvard College. He
married first, about 1613. Jane, daughter of
Thomas Allen, of Goldington. She died at
Odell, in 1626. and he married second, about
1634, Grace Chetwoode, born 1602, daughter
of Sir Richard and Dorothy (Xeedham) Chet-
woode. of Odell. She died April 21. 1669, at
Xew London, Connecticut, at the home of her
son. Children of first wife, born in England:

1. Edward, June 17. 1614; came to New Eng-
land before his father: died January 2, 1696.

2. Mary, baptized .August 24. 1615; died
young. 3. Thomas, born .\pril 11. 1617; mar-
ried Sarah Jones : settled in Fairfield. Con-
necticut. 4. Nathaniel, born November 29,
1618: died 1627. 5. Rev. John, born Febru-
ary II. 1 620;. graduated at Harvard with the
first class. 6. Mary, born November i, 1621 ;
died 1624. 7. George, born May 17, 1623. 8.
Daniel, born August 28, 1625. 9. Jabez, born
December 20, 1626 ; flied young. 10. Joseph
(probably), born 1619. 11. William, of Ips-
wich, in 1648. 12. Richard. Children of sec-
ond wife, born in New England: 13. Gershom,
December 6. 1636: mentioned Vlow. 14. Eliz-
abeth, born probably 1638, married Rev. Joseph
Emerson. 15. Dorothy, .August 2, 1640. 16.
Peter, .August 12, 1643.

(XIV) Rev. Dr. Gershom P.ulkeley, son of
Rev. Peter Bulkeley. was born at Concord, De-
cmber 6. 1636, and died December 2. 1713,
He graduated at Harvard College in 1655, as
a fellow of the college. In i()6i he became
the minister of the Second Church at New
London. Connecticut, and in 1666-7 removed
to Wcthersfield, where he was installed as



pastor. In 1676 he asked for dismissal on
account of imjiaired health, and he thereafter
devoted himself to the ]iractice of meilicine and
surgery, in which he achieved much success
and reputation. He was an ardent student of
chemistry and philosophy, and master of sev-
eral languages, and was also an expert sur-
veyor. During his pastorate in 1675 he was
appointed surgeon to the Connecticut troops
in King Philip's war, and i)laced on the council
of war. The court gave orders to have him
taken especial care of. .At one time the ])arty
to which he was attached was attacked by a
number of Indians near Wachusett Hill, Mass-
achusetts, and in the fight he received a wound
in the thigh. His monument in the W'cther.s-
field cemetery says of him : "He was honor-
able in his descent, of rare abilities, excellent
in learning, master of many languages, ex(|ui-
site in his skill, in divinity, physic and law,
and of a most exemplary and Christian life."
His will was dated May 28, 1712, and jjroved
December 7, 1713. He married, October 26,
i()59, Sarah Chauncey, born at Ware, Eng-
land. June 13. 1631. died June 3. 1699. daugh-
ter of Rev. C'harles Chauncey, president of
Harvard College. Children: i. Catherine,
born about i6(x): married Richarfl Treat. 2.
Dorothy, born about 1662: luarried, July 5,
i()93. Lieutenant Thomas Treat; died 1757.
3. Dr. Charles, born about 1663. 4. Peter,
married. March 21, 1700, Rachel Talcott : lost
at sea. 5. Edward, born 1672. 6. Rev. John,
born 1679.

( .W ) Rev. John Bulkeley. son of Rev. Ger-
shom P.ulkley. was born in \\'ethersfield. Con-
necticut, in 1679. He graduated at Harvard
College in 1699, and studied diviin'ty. He was
ordained as pastor of the church at Colchester,
Connecticut, December 20, 1703. He took a
high rank among clergymen of his time, and
was regarded as a famous casuist and sage
counsellor. The following anecdote in regard
to him is well authenticated : ".A church in
the neighborhood had fallen into inihap()y
division and contentions which they were
unable to adjust among themselves. They
de()iited one of their ntmiber to the venerable
Bulkeley for his advice, with the request that
he would send it to them in writing. It so
haj)()ene(l that Mr. Bulkeley had a farm in the
extreme part of the town, upon which he had
located a tenant. In superscribing the two
letters, the one for the church was by mistake
directed to the tenant, and the one for the
tenant to the church. The church was con-
vened in order to hear the advice which was to



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settle all their disputes. The moderator read
as follows: 'You will see to the repair of the
fences, that they be built high and strong, and
you will take special care of the old black bull.'
This mystical advice puzzled the church very
much at first, but an interpreter among the
more discerning ones was soon found who
said: 'Brethren, this is the very advice we
most need ; the direction to repair the fences is
to admonish us to take good heed in the ad-
mission and government of our members ; we
must guard the church by our Master's laws,
and keep strange cattle from the fold. And
we must in a particular manner set a watchful
guard over the devil, the old black bull, who
has done so much harm of late.' All per-
ceived the wisdom and fitness of Mr. Bulke-
ley's advice, and resolved to be governed by it.
The consequence was that all animosities sub-
sided and harmony was restored to the
afflicted church. What the subject of the letter
received by the tenant was, we are not
informed, and what good efifect it had upon
him the story does not tell."

Mr. Bulkeley was one of the largest land-
owners in Colchester, and died intestate, and
his estate was divided July 17, 1733. Among
the property divided was a mill and the appur-
tenances, a large amount of real estate, a negro
man Cesar, and a library. Mr. Bulkeley was
the author of several volumes. He wrote "A
Preface to R. Wolcott's Meditations;" an
election .sermon in 1713, entitled, "The Neces-
sity of Religion in Societies." In 1724 he