Person:Katherine Phinney (2)

From Savage's Genealogical Dictionary

More common spell[ing]. of this name is Phinney, wh. see.

She died between Mar 1673 and 5 Jun 1676 in Plymouth, MA.(939) The date range is that of writing of her will and its exihibition at Plymouth.

From Descendants of John Finney of Plymouth and Barnstable, Mass., and Bristol, R. I.

1. John1 Finney, m. (1) Christiana (???); m. (2) June 10, 1650, the wid. of Henry Coggin, Abigail (Bishop) Coggin, who d. May 6, 1653, a dau. of Thomas Bishop (no issue by this wife); m. (3) June 26, 1654, Elizabeth Bailey, who was bd. in Bristol, R. I., Feb. 9, 1683/84.

According to Plymouth, Mass., records, John Finney was in that town as early as 1630 with his mother, his brother Robert, and his sister Catherine. Tradition has it that the father died while crossing the sea. No definite information has been found as to the boat upon which they arrived or their place of birth in England. Some investigators claim that the family came from Wales and others that they were from Pontypool in Monmouthshire, a county which once belonged to Wales but was taken over by Henry VIII to become a part of England early in the 16th century.

John Finney's mother, who is referred to only as "Mother Finney," died in Plymouth, April 22, 1650, "age upwards of 80 years." His brother Robert was born about 1608 and died Jan. 7, 1687; he married Phebe Ripley, who was born about 1619 and died Oct. 9, 1710, in her 92nd year. They had no children. John's sister Catherine married Gabriel Fallowell.

1. ↑ Howard Finney, Sr. Finney-Phinney Families in America. (Montclair, NJ 1956).
2. ↑ Vital Records - Church Records
   Plymouth First Church.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   Vol. 148, Oct. 1994, pp. 316-327, 1 Oct 1994.

   The Finney Family by Clifford L. Stott, 840 East Heather Road, Orem, Utah 84057

4. ↑ James Savage, Former President of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Editor of Winthrop's History of New England. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's. (1860-62 and Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1965; Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994)
   Vol. 2, p. 160.