Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Individual Notes
• Who was the wife of William Fellows? Again we admit that we are not sure. Genealogists seem in accord now, and say that William Fellows married Mary Ayres, sister of Capt. John Ayres of Ipswich and Brookfield, Mass. Later I shall give the court record which seems to prove this.2806, p 25
Spouses
Birthabt 1609, Derbyshire, England2806, p 24; date & country only,3615, p 1,3051, p 16; date & country only
Baptism22 Oct 1609, Selston, Nottinghamshire, England2806, p 24 Age: <1
Death29 Nov 1676, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts3614 Age: 67
Occupationshoemaker
FlagsEarliest Immigrant
FatherNoble FELLOWS
MotherElizabeth (~1582-)
Individual Notes
• Three colonial settlers bore the name Fellows. They were William Fellows, who seems to have been the first of the name in America. He was in Ipswich, Mass., as early as 1639 and lived there continuously from that date to the date of his death.2806, p 1
• We do not know when William Fellows arrived in America. There has been preserved a list of the passengers who sailed in the Planter from London 20 April 1635. These passengers had been certified by the rector of St. Albans, Hertford Co. Among the names on the list is “William Felloe, shoemaker, aged 24 years.” The age is not quite right for our William, but he could, perhaps, have been listed a year before the sailing. The greatest puzzle is the occupation of shoemaker. I have found no other record which describes William thus.2806, pp 24-25
• If William Fellows arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 his history is unknown until early 1639 when he emerges from obscurity and from that year to the year of his death we have an almost yearly record of him as told in the old town books and the Court Records.2806, p 25
• It was in 1635, that the tide of emigration from England into New England set in with full strength; and it did not cease to swell until about 1640, when it was stayed not to commence again for many years.
In April of that year William Fellows, 24 years of age, described as “shoemaker,” took passage from London, England in the ship, Planter.1854, p 27
• William Fellows is known to us, first, as one of the Town cowherds. In the earliest contract with these officials mentioned in our Town Records, under the date of Sept., 1639, agreement was made with William Fellows to keep the herd of cows on the south side of the river, from the 20th of April to the 20th of November.
Twenty years later, he bought the John Andrews farm and took up his residence in Candlewood. In 1664, when Richard Saltonstall conveyed the title in several lots to his son, Nathaniel of Haverhill, on the occasion of his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Ward, he included in his gift a farm of 150 acres at “Chebacco,” “now in the occupation of William and Isaac Fellows.”3616, p 71
• We do not know when William Fellows arrived in America. There has been preserved a list of the passengers who sailed in the Planter from London 20 April 1635. These passengers had been certified by the rector of St. Albans, Hertford Co. Among the names on the list is “William Felloe, shoemaker, aged 24 years.” The age is not quite right for our William, but he could, perhaps, have been listed a year before the sailing. The greatest puzzle is the occupation of shoemaker. I have found no other record which describes William thus.2806, pp 24-25
• If William Fellows arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 his history is unknown until early 1639 when he emerges from obscurity and from that year to the year of his death we have an almost yearly record of him as told in the old town books and the Court Records.2806, p 25
• It was in 1635, that the tide of emigration from England into New England set in with full strength; and it did not cease to swell until about 1640, when it was stayed not to commence again for many years.
In April of that year William Fellows, 24 years of age, described as “shoemaker,” took passage from London, England in the ship, Planter.1854, p 27
• William Fellows is known to us, first, as one of the Town cowherds. In the earliest contract with these officials mentioned in our Town Records, under the date of Sept., 1639, agreement was made with William Fellows to keep the herd of cows on the south side of the river, from the 20th of April to the 20th of November.
Twenty years later, he bought the John Andrews farm and took up his residence in Candlewood. In 1664, when Richard Saltonstall conveyed the title in several lots to his son, Nathaniel of Haverhill, on the occasion of his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Ward, he included in his gift a farm of 150 acres at “Chebacco,” “now in the occupation of William and Isaac Fellows.”3616, p 71
General
• Candlewood: an area south of the Ipswich River and near a tributary called the Mile River.3621, p 5
Marriageabt 1634, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts2447, p 261,3614, gives “abt 1635/6”
Family Notes
• Eight children were born to William and Mary (Ayres?) Fellows. The record of the birth of only one of the children, the youngest, has been found in the old town books.2806, p 39
ChildrenIsaac (~1637-1721)
Ephraim (1641-~1713)
Samuel (~1643-1713)
Mary (~1646-<1699)
Joseph (~1650-1693)
Elizabeth (~1653-)
Abigail (~1655-1723)
Sarah (1657->1722)