The Hendee Family Tree

Source: Salem in the Seventeenth Century

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Title Salem in the Seventeenth Century

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Nicholas Phelps

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974.45/S1
H2p
Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah

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by James Duncan Phillips

page 196
General Court forbade Quakers to enter and forbade anyone to entertain them, and, after trying simpler measures, in due time further promised that if they did come, it would put them out, and if they came again, it would cut their ears off, and if they returned a third time, it would hang them and then that would end it -- . . .

page 197
... was brought meeting of a complaint of a disorderly meeting of certain suspected persons at the house of Nicholas Phelps and another earlier one at the house of Nicholas Phelps and another earlier one at the home of Lawrence Southwick.

page 198
Edmond Batter seems to have had his feelings badly aroused on the other side. He was a brother-in-law of Henry Phelps, the brother of Nicholas, and had been given custody of his nephew, who seems to have been maltreated by the father, a somewhat doubtful character.