Phebe Harlow

Also Phebe Stephens

Wife of Edward Stephens Jr. of Plymouth, where she was born in 1728 to William Harlow Jr. and Mercy Rider, and probably the mother of Phebe (Stephens) Ellis. Her parents were probably second cousins, so she probably descended twice from Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren of the Anne (1623), and through them from Richard Warren of the Mayflower.

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Life

  1. 1728
    Born
    21 Oct 1728, Plymouth, Massachusetts

    Born to "William Harlow Jr. & Marsey."

    documentedproven
    Sources· 1 found
  2. c. 1746
    Married Edward Stephens
    c. 1746/7, Plymouth, Massachusetts

    By Rev. Nathaniel Leonard, in his return of marriages: "Edwd. STEPHENS Jr. & Phebe HARLOW both of Plymo." Davis has "m., 1747, Phebe, d. of William Harlow."

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    Sources· 2 found
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Family

Father
William Harlow 1692–1751
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Sources· 1 found
Mother
Mercy Rider 1696–1772
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Sources· 1 found
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Pedigree

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Notes

Wife of Edward Stephens Jr. of Plymouth, married there about 1746/7 by Rev. Nathaniel Leonard, and mother of Phebe (Stephens) Ellis. Her parents were second cousins, so she descends twice from Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren (Anne, 1623), and so from Richard Warren of the Mayflower: through Rebecca (Bartlett) Harlow on her father’s side and Sarah (Bartlett) Rider on her mother’s.

She was born in the year her father gained full title to the Harlow Old Fort House, 119 Sandwich Street (Davis, from deeds), so she probably grew up there. No record says so.

Open questions

  • Her death date is not in the research.
Mollie's typescript· 1 passage · 2 claims checked

What Mollie wrote about her in The Holbrook and Low Families, and her claims about her checked against the records.

  1. Mollie's chart gives her marriage to Edward Stevens in 1747 and their twelve children, among them Phebe, who married George Ellis.

    Married 1747 Edward Stevens Children: Edward b 1748 William b 1752 Sylvanus b John Samuel Lemuel Benjamin Jatheus Sally PHEBE
    p. 32 →

Checked against the records

  • Possible
    Phebe Stevens was the daughter of Edward Stevens and Phebe Harlow

    Probable. No record names her parents. Davis (1899) lists "Phebe, m. George Ellis" among Edward Stephens's children; his estate sold its farm to George Ellis; and in 1805 her children quitclaimed land near Seth Harlow's homestead, with a right in Harlow's Cedar Swamp, "from our Mother Phebe Ellis Decd who was formerly Phebe Stephens".

    Read it in the book, p. 32 →
  • Unlikely
    Phebe Harlow and Edward Stephens lived at Carver

    Edward Stephens Jr. was buried on Burial Hill, Plymouth, in 1788, and the farm his estate sold to George Ellis was in Plymouth. Carver was set off from Plympton only in 1790. Their son Edward was "of Carver" when he married in 1802, which may be where the idea came from.

    Read it in the book, p. 45 →
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Connections

In her ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Phebe's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.

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