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Philip WELCH was born about 1643 in the northern part of Ireland. In 1654, he was snatched from his bed and forcibly carried on board the ship Goodfellow, which sailed for Barbados. The Goodfellow put in at Boston harbor for repairs, and Philip WELCH along with another lad, William DALTON, were sold into bondage, to a Mr. Samuel SYMONDS, to serve out an indenturment until they each were 21 years of age.
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Welch & Allied Families, page 67,68 & 69
Philip Welch of Ipswich, Mass. and His Descendants
(Communicated by William Prescott, M. D., of Concord, N. H.)
Philip Welch came to New England in the ship Goodfellow, of which George Dell was master. See REGISTER, vol. XIX, p. 55, and the MASSACHUSETTS QUARTERLY
REVIEW (Boston, 1850), vol. III, p. 414(???)Ed.
It is well known that the north part of Ireland was mainly
settled from Scotland, from which circumstance the people
were called Scotch-Irish. They were Protestants, and a
robust and hardy race of men. It was by this race that
Londonderry in New Hampshire and other places were first
settled.
1. It was from the same section also that Philip
Welch came, or was brought, in 1654, when
about sixteen years of age. He lived in Ipswich,
where, in 1666, Feb. 20th, he married Hannah
Haggett, and where their first child was born. He
soon after removed into Topsfield, where several
of their children were born; but the records are
so imperfect that it is impossible to state how
many, or whether he had not other children besides
those recorded here. He returned to Ipswich
and died there; but the precise time of his death
is not known.
2. Philip (1) and Hannah, daughter of Henry Haggett
of Saline and Wenham. Children:
3. 1. Philip, Jr.,2 (9) born in Ipswich, Dec. 27, 1668;
married about 1692, Hannah (???).
4. 2. John,2 born in Topsfield, Nov. 27, 1670.
5. 3. David,2 born in Topsfield, Aug. 27, 1672.
6. 4. Samuel2 (12) born in 1675; married Mary
(???). He enlisted in the expedition against
Louisburg in 1745, when 70 years of age. It has
been a tradition with some of the descendants that
he died soon after his return, while others allege
that he lived to be nearly 100 years of age. He
was one of the first settlers of Kingston, N. H.,
where his children were born and where he died.
7. 5. Hannah,2 (21) born in 1680; married in 1707,
Thomas Scribner, (1646-1718), son of John
Scribner, who died in 1675. From Kent, England, to Hampton, Mass. Settled in 1652 at Dover,
Mass. Wife(???)Mary Hilton, daughter of Edward
Hilton, a founder of New Hampshire, who married
Anne, a daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley
of Plymouth Colony. Hannah Welch became
the second wife of Thomas Scribner in 1707.
They were among the first settlers of Kingston.
(Thomas Scribner married for a first wife, about
1702, Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Godfrey)
Clifford, Jr. of Hampton, who was born Oct.
30, 1673, and had two children: 1st, John, born
Dec. 8, 1703; 2nd, Deborah, born Sept. 7, 1705,
married Joseph Welch, (11) Dec. 29, 1726. Sarah
((Clifford) his wife, died June 5, 1706, and he
married 2nd Hannah Welch, as before stated).
8. 6. Moses,2 (27) born at Ipswich, Nov. 25, 1685;
married Rebecca (???).
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Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England,Vol. 4, pp. 23 and
454.30 mentions Edward Welch, an Irish youth, and William Dalton, an Irish youth, who were
brought in the Goodfellow, sold by the shipmaster, George Dell, to Samuel Symonds, May 10,
1654, having been sent by the command of the English government after the triumphs of
Cromwell in Ireland. Philip Welsh, an Irishman, servant to Mr. Samuel Symonds, was brought
before the Essex County Court, on March 27, 1660, at the instance of his master, who
complained of his stubborness and other offences, and the Court respitted him until his master
again has cause to complain.Records and Files of the Essex County, Mass., Quarterly Court,
Vol. 2,
p. 197.31 It appears, however, that Edward and Philip were one and the same person, since a
correction was made in his name. An entry in the records of the Court shows that Philip Welsh
spoke both Irish and English, indicating that he received some education in Ireland. It is
probable also that the passengers on the Goodfellow used the Irish language as their ordinary
medium of intercourse, since this entry was in part as follows: ... in the said writing he is
called Edward, and upon his arrivall at Ipswich such as doe well understand his language say
he owneth his name to be Philip.Ibid., p. 295.32
On June 25, 1661, Samuel Symonds charged his two servants, William Downing and Philip
Welch, with desertion from his service, claiming there were two more years to run under their
indentures, and, while it may seem an exaggeration to say so, the address to the juryIbid., pp.
293-97, 310-11.33 of these two Irish
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servants was one of the most intelligent statements found in the records of the Court of this
period. Among the witnesses for the defence were three of their countrymen, John Ring, John
Downing and Edmund Dear. Rings testimony was thus recorded: This deponent saith that he
with divers others were stollen in Ireland by some of ye English soldiers in ye night out of
theyre bedds and brought to Mr. Dills ship, where the boate lay ready to receive them, and in
the same way as they went some others they tooke with them against their consents and brought
them aboard ye said ship where there were divers others of their countrymen weeping and
crying because they were stollen from theyr friends, they all declaring the same, and amongst
the rest were these two men, William Downing and Philip Welsh, and there they were kept
until upon a Lords morning ye master set saile.
In support of his case, Symonds produced a Bill of SaleCopy in Essex County Court Records,
Vol. 2, p. 295.34 dated May 10, 1654, from George Dell, master of the ship Goodfellow,
under which he sould unto Mr. Samuel Symonds two of the Irish youthes he brought over by
order of the State of England, and since it appeared they were bound to serve him for the
space of nine years in consideration of 26 li. in merchantable corne or live cattle, the jury
brought in a verdict for the complainant. Downing and Welsh announced their intention to
appeal the case to the higher Court, and in the records of the General Court of the Colony of
Massachusetts Bay there was incorporated the following Declaration of Deputy Governor
Samuel Symonds:
TO THE HONORABLE COURT:
The plaintiff declareth as followeth, viz.: That in the yeare of our Lord 1654, he, wanting
servants and being in Boston, at a Generall Court, endeavoured to purchase a supply out of ye
ship that was newly come from Ireland. And, accordingly he made a Bargan
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with George Dell, mr of ye ship called Goodfellow for a certayne sume, mentioned in ye
writing betweene the said master and the plaintiff, which sume was also truly paid according
to the condicons therein expressed. And because there had come over many Irish before that
time (1654) the plaintiff pceived that some questions were stirring in ye Court whether it were
not best to make some stop (in reference to people of that nation) which occasioned the
plaintiff to make a pviso for good assurance, as it is in the first part of said writing .... The mr
of ye ship (Goodfellow) said he brought them over by order of ye then State of Engl: he meant
(it seemeth) such as then ruled in all the 3 nations, who, if he did oughte amisse against them
that he brought over, they should have had their remedy at his hands prsently, or after have
sought it at the hands of executors (not as ye purchasers as it is supposed) unless the Bargans
of soe many in the Country should be dissolved which as is thoughte the Lawe will not admitt;
noe, not of any other Country that we heare of.
SAMUEL SYMONDS.
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The John Ring who came in the Goodfellow married Mary Bray at Ipswich on November 8,
1664, and had sons, David, Thomas and John. In the same year he owned a share in Plum
Island as tenant to Edward Bragg,The Hammatt Papers.35 and his name is perpetuated in
Rings Island near Ipswich. He was a miller, and for at least four generations the Ring family
operated mills at Ipswich and at Gloucester, Mass.,Trades and Tradesmen of Essex County,
by Henry W. Belknap, The Essex
Institute, 1929.36 and in 1705 John Ring (2) was the town schoolmaster at Gloucester. Later
Philip Welsh settled in Topsfield, Mass. After his marriage to Hannah Haggett on February
20, 1666, they lived at Topsfield for twenty-two years and were the parents of six children,
whose births were recorded there between 1668 and 1685. At the Salem Court in June, 1678,
Philip Welsh and three of his countrymen petitioned for a subdivision of a sum of £ 25. left for
them in the hands of John Ring by Robert Darton, an Irishman, when leaving the country. It
appeared that in his nuncupative will Robert Darton ordered it so that if he came not here
within the space of three years, then he willed the said summes with the use thereof to four of
his countrymen, Edmund Dear, William Danford, Philip Walsh and John Ring.Probate
Records of Essex County, Vol. 3, p. 230, and Essex County Court
Files, Vol. 7, p. 37.37 One Richard Welsh, who also probably came in the Goodfellow, was
bound to serve Michaell Smith as an apprentice for six years, February 1, 1656, and to be
taught navigation.Court Files, Vol. 2, p. 163.38 In a genealogy of the Welch family,In New
England Historic-Genealogical Register, Vol. 23, pp. 417-32.39 covering six generations of
Philip Welshs New England descendants, it is said that Philip Welch was Scotch-Irish
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and came from the north part of Ireland. But that assumption on the part of the genealogist is
effectively disproven by the entries before quoted from the Order Books of the Commissioners
of the Parliament, showing that the passengers in the Goodfellow were from Cork, Youghal
and Kinsale, Waterford and Wexford, or from the County of Cork alone.
Many of the Goodfellows passengers were brought to Ipswich, and a local historian, in
commenting upon this fact, says: Cromwell treated the Irish with great cruelty and many young
Irishmen were taken by violence and sent overseas...the simple story of their sorrowful
experiences reveals the tragedies that resulted in the coming of the Irish to New
England.Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, by Thomas F. Waters, Vol. 2
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