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Henry Felch[1]

Male 1610 - 1699  (89 years)


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  • Name Henry Felch 
    Born 1610  Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 1670  [3, 4, 5, 6
    Residence Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Died 11 Nov 1699  Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6
    Person ID I405  Wyatts_All
    Last Modified 26 Jul 2006 

    Father Henry Felch,   b. Abt 1590, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1670, Boston, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years) 
    Mother Mrs Felch~,   b. Abt 1590,   d. _______ 
    Married Abt 1600 
    Family ID F234  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hannah Sargent,   b. Abt 1635,   d. 15 Dec 1717, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years) 
    Married 1648  Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9
    Children 
     1. Hannah Felch,   b. 26 Feb 1649/1650, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Apr 1668  (Age 18 years)
     2. Mary Felch,   b. 31 Jul 1653, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Jun 1676  (Age 22 years)
     3. Elizabeth Felch,   b. 15 Jul 1655, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Oct 1661  (Age 6 years)
     4. Samuel Felch,   b. 3 Jun 1657, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Oct 1661, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 4 years)
    +5. John Felch, Sr.,   b. 26 Feb 1659/1660, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Apr 1746, Weston, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
     6. Joseph Felch,   b. 1662, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 May 1727, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     7. Samuel (ii) Felch,   b. 12 Jul 1662, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jan 1682/1683  (Age 20 years)
     8. Elizabeth (ii) Felch,   b. 9 Mar 1665/1666, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1686  (Age > 21 years)
     9. Dr. Daniel Felch, , M.D.,   b. 5 Jan 1667/1668, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Oct 1752, Seabrook, Rockingham Co, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     10. Hannah (ii) Felch,   b. 18 Sep 1672, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1700  (Age > 29 years)
     11. Ruth Felch,   b. 1 Jun 1675, Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. _______
    Last Modified 28 May 2016 
    Family ID F233  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1610 - Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 1648 - Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 11 Nov 1699 - Reading, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • 1 NAME Sgt Henry /Felch/
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      2 PLAC Selectmen in 1647, 48, 51, and 81.
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      4 TEXT " HENRY FELCH was born about 1610, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, England, and came to America
      accompanied by his parents. He was a proprietor at Gloucester, settled for a time in Watertown,
      then removed to Reading in 1647, where he immediately became a prominent citizen, being a
      selectman in 1647, 48, 51, and 81; surveyor of highways 1648. He probably resided for a time in
      Boston, where several of his children were born and died. He died in Reading Nov. 11, 1699;
      estate inventoried Dec. 13, 1699, son JOHN administrator. In the town records of Reading he is
      frequently designated as `SERGT. HENRY FELCH', indicating that he must have been a member of
      `the first military corps of Reading,' formed probably at the time of the incorporation of the town in
      1644, called `Reading Infantry Company.' Its first captain was Richard Walker. HENRY married,
      about 1648, HANNAH SARGENT, who was baptized July 13, 1629, in Northampton, England,
      and died in Reading Dec. 15, 1717, She was the daughter of REV. WILLIAM SARGENT and his
      first wife HANNAH. "
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      Felch, Henry, Reading 1647, perhaps of Boston in 1657. John Felch grad. at Y. C. in 1758


      sources
      Data from " Memorial History of the FELCH Family in America & Wales " byW. Farrand FELCH
      From " A FELCH -Feltch Pedigree " by Frank Hervey Pettingill:
      " Town of Weston. Births, Deaths and Marriages 1707-1850 "
      74The Felch-Fortin-Hamel Family Homepage
      http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/users/f/o/r/Bruce-E-Fortin/GENE7-0002.html

      Descendants of Henry Felch

      Generation No. 2


      2. HENRY2 FELCH, JR. (HENRY1) was born Abt. 1610 in Wales, North HamptonEngland (Pembrokeshire,Wales), and died 11
      November 1699 in Reading, Middlesex, MA. He married HANNAH SARGENT(SARGEANT) 1649 in Reading, Middlesex, MA.
      She was born Abt. 13 Juli 1629 in All Saints, Northamptonshire,England,and died 15 Dezember 1717 in Reading, MA.

      " HENRY FELCH was born about 1610, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, England, andcame to America accompanied by his parents. He was a proprietor atGloucester, settled for a time in Watertown, then removed to Reading in1647, where he immediately became a prominent citizen, being a selectmanin 1647, 48, 51, and 81; surveyor of highways 1648. He probably residedfor a time in Boston, where several of his children were born and died.He died in Reading Nov. 11, 1699; estate inventoried Dec. 13, 1699, sonJOHN administrator. In the town records of Reading he is frequentlydesignated as `SERGT. HENRY FELCH', indicating that he must have been amember of `the first military corps of Reading,' formed probably at thetime of the incorporation of the town in 1644, called `Reading InfantryCompany.' Its first captain was Richard Walker. HENRY married, about1648, HANNAH SARGENT, who was baptized July 13, 1629, in Northampton,England, and died in Reading Dec. 15, 1717, She was the daughter of REV.WILLIAM SARGENT and his first wife HANNAH. "



      Henry Felch Jr. was probably born in Wales, about the year 1610, andundoubtedly emigrated to this country about 1640. The earliet account ofhim tells of his residence in Reading in 1647, but he was probably thereearlier. Mr Savage, and many others confound the father and son, butthere is no evidence recorded, or transmitted to indicate that the fatherever lived in Reading, or the son in Gloucester or Boston. We are almostpositive that Henry Jr. lived in Reading from the birth of his oldest sonin 1650 to his own death in 1699. There is one fact that seems tocontradict this opinion: the fact that the names and dates of birth ofthe first five children of Henry Jr. appear both on the Boston andReading records, excepting Joseph whose date of birth is on neitherrecord. But this may be accounted for the fact that Suffolk County onceembraced Reading and contiguos towns.

      HANNAH FELCH, b. Aug. 3, 1692, Reading, Massachusetts. 224 MarriedTHOMAS CLAPP IV Jan. 4, 1715, Weston, Massachusetts. His son John wasappointed administrator and " he made oath that the within in writtencontains a true Inventory of ye estate of his father Henry Felch ofReading, husbandman. "

      " An estate to be divided between the widow and 7 children:
      John, eldest Sonne, 1/4 Lands, pounds 28,6,8. Chattels,Pounds 19,13,4.
      Joseph, 1/8 " 14,3,4 " 9,16,8
      Henry Felch found in:

      Family History: Colonial Genealogies #1, 1607-1920
      Listed in: Colonial Families, Volume III
      Page number: 479
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      Henry Felch found in:

      Family History: Connecticut Genealogies #1, 1600s-1800s
      Listed in: Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Vol. I
      Page number: 50
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      Henry, Jr. Felch found in:

      Family History: Lineages of Hereditary Society Members, 1600s-1900s
      Listed in: Founders and Patriots of America Index
      Page number: 81
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      Henry Felch found in:

      Genealogical Records: Early New England Settlers, 1600s-1800s
      Listed in: The First Settlers of New England
      Page number: 103
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      Henry Felch found in:

      Genealogical Records: Early New England Settlers, 1600s-1800s
      Listed in: Guide to the Early Settlers of America
      Page number: 247
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      Henry Felch found in:

      Genealogical Records: Early New England Settlers, 1600s-1800s
      Listed in: Guide to the Early Settlers of America
      Page number: 188
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      Henry Felch found in:

      Genealogical Records: Maine & New Hampshire Settlers, 1600s-1900s
      Listed in: First Census of the U.S., 1790 - New Hampshire
      Page number: 84
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      Henry, Jr. Felch found in:

      Genealogical Records: Massachusetts Genealogical Records, 1600s-1800s
      Listed in: Boston Town Records, 1630-1699
      Page number: 59
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      Henry Felch found in:

      Genealogical Records: Massachusetts Genealogical Records, 1600s-1800s
      Listed in: Pioneers of Massachusetts
      Page number: 163
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      Henry Felch found in:

      Massachusetts & Maine Family Histories, 1650s-1930s
      Listed in: Massachusetts and Maine Families, Volume I
      Page number: 341
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      Henry Felch found in:

      The Compendium of American Genealogy, 1600s-1800s
      Listed in: Volume VI
      Page number: 206
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      Henry Felch found in:

      The Compendium of American Genealogy, 1600s-1800s
      Listed in: Volume V
      Page number: 222
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      Wm. Green of Woburn 1/8 " " " "
      Thomas Cutler 1/8 " " " "
      Daniel 1/8 " " " "
      Hannah 1/8 " " " "
      Ruth 1/8 " " " "

      Total pounds 113,6s,8d. pounds 78,13s,4d.


      From the records of Mr. Chester W. Eaton of Wakefield is the followinginfo provided:

      1648.--- " First election of surveyors of highways, chose John Poole,William Martin, Henry Felch, and John Pearson

      1652.--- This year the town ordered.- " That the Lottes that was to belaid out to be on Woburn line, is to be laid out on the Playne, " etc.Under this order the lots were drawn as follows:---- Henry Felch drew 10acres; Samuel Dunton, 10 acres; Francis Smith 20 acres, and others.

      1653.--- Sept., 10---Henry Felch, being convicted of ´departing thepublique assembly when the ordinance of baptism was about to beadministered, was admonished by the Court of his sin, and ordered to paycosts to Jonas Eaton, two shillings. "
      1658-9.---Names of the inhabitants of Redding(Reading), with the severalplots of Upland, that were given to every man, as it fell to them byLott, on the north side of Ipswich river, with no. of Akers, viz. HenryFelch

      1666.--- " Names of the inhabitants that drew land in the division of theGreat Swamp, with their rates in the preceding year:--- Henry Felch,1,6s,9d

      1667.--- There were at this time, already erected, fifty-nine houses,owned as follows:---
      Samuel Dunton, Henry Felch, Joseph Felch

  • Sources 
    1. [S85] 0071-Bacon and Allied Families, http://www.familytreemaker.com/_glc_/1869/1869_129.html.

    2. [S85] 0071-Bacon and Allied Families, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/_glc_/1869/1869_130.html.
      "HENRY FELCH was born about 1610, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, England, and came to America accompanied by his parents. He was a proprietor at Gloucester, settled for a time in Watertown, then removed to Reading in 1647, where he immediately became a prominent citizen, being a selectman in 1647, 48, 51, and 81; surveyor of highways 1648. He probably resided for a time in Boston, where several of his children were born and died. He died in Reading Nov. 11, 1699; estate inventoried Dec. 13, 1699, son JOHN administrator. In the town records of Reading he is frequently designated as `SERGT. HENRY FELCH', indicating that he must have been a member of `the first military corps of Reading,' formed probably at the time of the incorporation of the town in 1644, called `Reading Infantry Company.' Its first captain was Richard Walker. HENRY married, about 1648, HANNAH SARGENT, who was baptized July 13, 1629, in Northampton, England, and died in Reading Dec. 15, 1717, She was the daughter of REV. WILLIAM SARGENT and his first wife HANNAH."

    3. [S88] 0007 Felch-Fortrin-Hammel Family Homepage., http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/users/f/o/r/Bruce-E-Fortin/GENE7-0002.html.

    4. [S85] 0071-Bacon and Allied Families, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/_glc_/1869/1869_130.html.
      Sergeant Henry Felch died Nov. 11, 1699, Reading, Massachusetts

    5. [S91] 0075-http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/, http://www.familytreemaker.com/_glc_/3172/3172_71.html.

    6. [S92] 0307-Vital Records of Reading, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Thomas W. Baldwin, (Boston: 1912; reproduced on CD by Search & ReSearch Publishing Corporation, Wheat Ridge, CO 1998), PAGE: pg. 520.


      AUTHOR: Thomas W. Baldwin
      PUBLICATION: Boston: 1912; reproduced on CD by Search & ReSearch Publishing Corporation, Wheat Ridge, CO 1998
      REPOSITORY:
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