Thursday, March 19, 2015

Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 254: 1757 Birth Record of Martha Phillips in Shrewsbury, Mass.

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the  1757 birth record of Martha Phillips (1757-????), daughter of John and Hannah (Brown) Phillips, in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts:



The birth records of the three Phillips children:


The transcription of the birth of the three Phillips children is:

Joanna Phillips }  Daughter of John & Hannah Phillips was Born
                         }    August ye 24 1755

Martha Phillips }  Daughter of John & Hannah Phillips was Born
                          }  August ye 20  1757

Elizabeth Phillips }  Daughter of John & Hannah Phillips was Born
                             }  June ye 15th 1764

The source citation for the birth of Martha Phillips is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Shrewsbury Births, Marriages and Deaths," Page 108 (on Image 111), Martha Phillips birth entry.

Martha "Patty" Phillips (1757-after 1820) married Isaac Buck (1757-1846) in 1780, and they are my 4th great-grandparents.  Their daughter, Sophia Buck (1797-1882) married Thomas Newton in about 1834.

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