George Felt Sr (1601 - 1693)

Born 28 Feb 1601 in Bedfordshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Felt — married before 1635 in Malden, Middlesex Co., MA

Descendants

Died May 1693 at age 92 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

George Felt, Sr.^[1]

Birth: 28 Feb 1609 • Par, Bedfordshire, England

Alt. Birth Record: By about 1614 ("deposed 20 (11) 1654" aged about 40 (Pope and GDMNH 228, presumably from Middlesex Court Files); the age given in his petition of about 1688 is probably exaggerated by about a decade.)

Death: 1692 • Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (Pope (claiming support from the town to that date)).

Marriage & Family

Spouse: Elizabeth Wilkinson, daughter of widow Prudence Wilkinson (ChBOP 104); she was admitted to Charlestoen church 19 January 1639/40 (ChChR 10); apparently died after 1692 (Pope (claiming support from the town to that date)).

Marriage: bef 1635, Malden, Middlesex Co., MA^[2]

Children:

i. Elizabeth Felt, b. say 1635; bp. Charlestown 26 January 1639/40 (ChChR 48); m. Malden [blank] November 1655 William Laraby.

ii. George Felt, Jr, b. say 1637; bp. Charlestown 26 January 1639/40 (ChChR 48); m. Falmouth 25 November 1662 as her first husband Philippa Andrews (TG 3;54-56).

iii. Mary Felt, b. say 1639; bp. Charlestown 26 January 1639/40 (ChChR 48); m. Malden [blank] april 1660 James Nichols.

iv. Moses (1) Felt, bp. Charlestown 20 December 1641 (ChChR 50 (both Savage and Pope mistate the year as 1640)); apparently d. about 1650.

v. Aaron, living in 1685 (YLR 5:37); apparently unmarried.

vi. Moses (2), b. about 1651 ("made many dep[ositions] at ages 69 to 93, all reck[oning] to 1650 or 1651" (DGMNH 229)); m. by about 1677 Lydia Mains, daughter of John Mains (GDMNH 229).

History

George Felt is found in Charlestown, Mass., in 1633. He was born in 1601, and tradition relates that he came to America with Endicott. (John Endicott reached Salem with a small party in September, 1628.) He was not among the first settlers of Charlestown, but the following year about one hundred people came with Thomas Graves from Salem, and laid the foundation of the town, which they named in honor of Charles the First. Charlestown was incorporated June 24, 1629, and the first church was organized November 2, 1632. The original town was laid out in two-acre divisions, and each settler was granted one of them for a homestead. We have the testimoney of George Felt himself that the year of his advent in this town was 1633, for in 1681 he describes himself as about 80 years of age, and testifies "that the town of Charlestown gave him a house plott of two acres of land lying in the common on the left hand as you go to Cambridge betwixt the ground that Rice Morrisses and Goble's, which is now in the hands of Thomas Welch Senr, which plott was given him about forty-eight years since."

The wife of George Felt was Elizabeth, daughter of widow Prudence Wilkinson (Widow Prudence Wilkinson in her will, dated "1655, 11: Mo: 9 day," names her son John and her daughter Eliza. Felt.), whose home in Charlestown was on the south side of the Mill Hill, nearly adjoining that of her son-in-law. Whether he married in Charlestown, or was already married when he came, is unknown, but it is probable that they were already married and brought children with them.

The town of Charlestown, although at the time of its annexation to Boston in 1873, the smallest in the State, covering only about 600 acres, originally embraced within its limites the territory now contained in Woburn, Burlington, Stoneham, Malden, Somerville, and parts of Reading, Medford, Cambridge, and Arlington. On the 10th of January, 1634, it was agreed at a meeting of the inhabitants, "Yt ye inhab. undr mentioned have planting ground laid out unto them bet. the east end of the lotts above mentioned at the Creek, having new town pale on the south." Of this division "George ffelt" received four acres. This was on the "Mistick side," or beyond the river of that name and within the confines of the present town of Everett. On this side of the river he subsequently acquired considreable land, as will appear presently.

Up to this time all public business had been transacted by a general convention of the people, but this practice having become cumbersom and unsatisfactory, it was thought best to organize a new form of town government; consequently, on the 10th of February, 1634-5, the following "town order" creating a board of selectmen was passed:

"An order made by the Inhabitants of Charlestowne At a full meeting, for the Government of the Towne by Selectmen:

"1634. In consideration of the great trouble and chearg of the Inhabitants of Charlestowne by reason of the Frequent meeting of the townsmen in general, and yet by reason of many men meeting things were not so easily brought unto a joynt Issue: It is therefore agreed by the sayde townesmen joytly that these eleven men whose names are weitten on the other syde, with the advise of Pastor and teacher desired in any case of conscience, shall entreat all such busines as shall concerne the townsmen, The choise of officers excepted, and what they or the greater part of them shall conclude of, the rest of the towne willingly to submit Unto as their owne pper act, and these 13 (sic) to contineu in imployment for one yeare next ensuing the date hereof, being dated this: 10th of February 1634.

"In wittnes of this agreement wee whose names are under written have set to o' hands."

There were thirty-three signers to this order, among them George Felt, and it will be observed that his signature, which may yet be seen upon the ancient records of Charlestown, is written FELCH. This, or FELTCH, is thought to have been the original name, which was easily and naturally contracted into FELT. all the descendants of George have written the name Felt.

By the year 1638 the necessity of an accurate public record of their possessions was felt by the people of Charlestown, and on the 26th of the first month (March) Abraham Palmer was "chosen by the Towne for keepeing the Towne Booke, as also to Record all pprieties of Houses, Lands, Meadow or Pasture, as any Inhabitants of ye Towne are, or shall be possest of accordy; to an ordr of Court provided in ye behalfe."

Mr. Palmer, who was the second incumbent of the town clerk's office, having accomplished this, the following entry appears upon the records:

"1638. On the 28th day of the X month was taken A True Record of all such houses & Lands as are possessed by the Inhabitants of Charlstown, whethr by purchase, by gift from the Town, or by allottments as they were devided amongst them by a Joynt Consent aftr the Genl Court had setled theire Bounds, by granting eight miles from the old meeting house into the Contry Northwest North'ly, &c. the bounds of the st Towne Lying or being bettwixt Cambridge alias New Towne, on the West South west & Boston Land on th eEast as it appd upon Record by the severl grants of Genl Courts to all the afforesd Bounds.

George Felt was found to own following property in town:

"1. One Dwelling house with a garden plott, scituate on the south west of the mill hill, butting southward upon Charls river, northeast upon crooked lane, bounded on the norwest by Nicholas Trerrice, and on the southeast by Ben. Hubbard.

"2. One milch cow common.

"3. ffive acres of wood land by estimation, more or lesse, Scituate in misticke feilde, butting south upon the high way towards the south lriver, north upon the woodland, bounded on the west by Pru Wilkinson, and on the east by Rob Hayle."

"4. Haulf an acre of meaddow by estimation, more or lesse, lying in mistick marshes, butting west towards the north river, bounded on the north by Will Dade, and on the south by George Bunker.

"5. ffive acres of woodland by estimation, more or lesse, scituate in mistick feilde, butting northeast upon Nicholas Stowers, southwest upon Ric. Palgrave, bounded on the northwest by Phillip Driker, and on the southeast by Rice Morrice.

"6. ffifteene acres of woodland, more or lesse, scituate in mistick feilde, butting northeast upon Abr. Palmer and James mathewes, southwest upon Ed Convers, bounded on the northwest by Tho Lynde, and on the southeast by James Pemberton.

"7. Thirtie and eight acres of land, more or lesse, scituate in waterfeilde, butting northwest upon ffrancis Norton, southeast upon Rich Palgrave and Tho Peirce, bounded on the southwest by Edward Sturges, and on the northeast by horne pond."

On the 19th of January, 1639/40 Elizabeth Felt, the wife of George, was admitted to the communion of the First Church, and a week later, January 26th, presented her three children, Elizabeth, Mary, and George, for baptism. No record has been found to show that the father was a member of the Charlestown Church. Elder John Green, in his entry of the above mentioned baptisms, calls the name Flech, although he recorded Elizabeth, the mother, at the time of her admission to the church, as Felt.

Some time during the year 1640, George Felt obtained three hundred acres of land from John Philips, a Welshman, at Broad Cove on Casco Bay, in Maine, and by 1643 had become one of the pioneer settlers of North Yarmouth. "The advent of George Felt in Broad Cove may be said to be the birthday of North Yarmouth." This locality was then called Wescustogo by the Indians. He built a stone house, or garrison, but his title to the property not proving sufficient, he re-purchased it in 1643 of Richard Vines, the agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who held a patent of all the lands embraced within the territory of Main, east of the Sagadahoc River. After a few years' residence at Wescustogo, George Felt returned to Charlestown and took up his abode on "Mistick side," and when the town of Malden was incorporated, May 2, 1649, he was found to reside within its limits. About this time he disposed of a portion of his "Mistick side" property as witnessed by the following deeds:

"Know all men by these presents, that I Georg Felch, Inhabitant of Charlestown, on Mistike syde, doe by this acknowledge that I have sould, and am full payd for it, unto James Barret, of the same town, three akers of Arrable land, more or lesse, which I bought of ffrancis Mills, which sayd land lyes on Mistik syde, within the rayles, bounded on the east syde by Richard Kettell, and by the cuntry high way on the west syde, bounded on the north bh Edward Carrington, and on the south by a High Way. And the sayd James Barret is to enjoy and to hould the sayd three akers of land for him and his heighers for ever.

"In witness hereof, I, Georg ffelch, have set my hand to a bill of sale of this same, the 26th day of the 3rd moneth, 1648." This land was within th epresent limits of Everett.

"Know all me by these presents, that I, Georg Felch, of Charlestown, do acknowledge that I have sould unto Gardy James of the same towne, half my Ten Aker Lott, lying on Mistic syde, the other half of which Lott my mother Wilkinson occupieth and enjoyeth, and I doe hereby resign over all my right, titell, and interest in the sayd half ten Aker Lott unto the sayd Gardy James, to be his and his heigres for ever.

"Witness my hand this 1st day of the 2d Mo. 1649."

In a deed (Middlesex Land Records, Vol. 3, p. 154) given Aug. 4, 1664, to john Phillips of Boston, in which he describes himself as of "Casco in New England, mason," he disposes of his "dwelling house with the barne, out houseing & Land and meadow ground," also twenty acres of land "belonging to the houselott," and "allso sixteen acres and a halfe of swamp." two acres in "Charlestowne Common," twenty-four acres in "Charles-towne commons on Misticke side near spott pond," and fourteen acres of meadow "lying in Charlestowne bounds." At the time this deed was given he had already returned to Casco Bay, and this was the closing out of his possessions in Massachusetts.

During the time of his absence from Maine, George Felt retained the ownership of his possessions there, and about 1660 returned to Broad Cove. The deposition of his son Moses, made Nov. 30, 1733, and recorded in Book 17, page 76, of York County Records, in which he states "that he lived in North Yarmouth in Casco Bay, abt fourteen years before the Narragansett Indian Warr broke out," fixes this year as the time of his return.

In 1670 he made another purchase from John Philips, of 2,000 acres at Broad Cove, for which he paid sixty pounds. He had already lived upon it three years and improved it.

In 1675 the Narragansett War broke out and continued until 1678. We have no account of George Felt's flight from his home, but are told that North Yarmouth was deserted during the war. After peace was restored he returned, and continued upon his plantation until 1684, when, by a piece of glaring injustice, he was despoiled of the accumulations of a lifetime. In order to clearly show how this was brought about, the following account, adapted from an article written by William H. Sargent, Esq., of Portland, on the "Derivation of Titles in North Yarmouth, (Old Times in North Yarmouth, p. 424)" is presented in connection with facts obtained from other sources.

The title to all lands in Maine originated in a grant made by King James I, in April, 1606, to the Council of Plymouth. The Council on the 10th of August, 1622, granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason "all the lands situated between the rivers Merrimack and Sagadahock, extending back to the great lakes and the river of Canada." Gorges and Mason obtained a new patent from the King, but in 1634 divided their property, Gorges taking all east of the Piscataqua, and Mason the western part. Gorges' patent for hisportion, procured from the King, bears date April 3, 1639. He obtained also power to govern his province, and appointed Richard Vines his steward general, who, as Gorges' agent, sold to George Felt the land which he had already purchased of John Phillips, the Welshman. At this early day no provision had been made for the recording of deeds, and many of the older evidences of title were overlooked when the practice of recording land had become established.

In 1630 the Council of Plymouth infringed upon its grant to Gorges by giving to John Dy and others the Province of Lygonia, a tract lying between Capes Porpoise and Elizabeth, and extending forty miles inland. This did not include Broad Cove, where George Felt had his possessions, that being situated farther east. The following year a company came over in the ship "Plough" to settle under this last named patent, but being dissatisfied with the country, dispersed. About 1643, Col. Alexander Rigby obtained a nominal interest from the survivors, in the Province of Lygonia, evidently with the hope of being able to oust Georges and thus gain a tangible interest in the property, and commissioned his friend, George Cleeves, as deputy governor, and soon after set up a claim to all the lands as far east as the Sagadahock, thus bringing Broad Cove in North Yarmouth within their claim.

This gave rise to interminable disputes and strife between the Rigby and Gorges factions, that continued, every now and then breaking out afresh, and were never finally composed till both claimants had either submitted to or sold out to Massachusetts."

When the Narragansett war occurred the settlement of North Yarmouth was deserted and the town destroyed by the Indians. After the return of peace in 1678, the survivors of the war returned, the title to the property was purchased by Massachusetts of Gorges' heir, Sir Thomas Danforth appointed Provincial President, and at a court held by him at York in 1680 North Yarmouth was incorporated as a plantation. June 23 of this year George Felt conveyed to Walter Gendall of Spurwink, "one hundred acres of uplandlying and being on the eastward side of George Felt's ould house in Casco Bay, about eighty rodd from sd house, vizt: beginning at a three forked bla(ck) oake tree neare the highway, being marked on both sides, and so down to ye water side, and then to runne upon a square untill the whole hundred acres be fully compleated and accomplished, with priviledg and full propriety and benefit of the sea down to low water marke: bredth of his sd tract of land, with four acres of fresh meaddows lying about three miles from Felt's ould feild, and two acres of salt meddows at the head of Great Cove whr Walter Gendall pleaseth to lay it out, with all the meddows belonging to the hundred acres of upland, with all the mines, minneralls, woods, underwoods, proffits, priviledges or lybertys, easments, and all other appurtenances to th epremises belonging or any way apartaining." (York County Records, Book III, page 76) Gendall subsequently purchased other tracts of land, established a profitable saw-mill, and became a leading citizen and man of means. He was one of the trustees appointed to "lay out" the town, and in doing this, as the 2,000 acres belonging to George Felt happened to be wanted in the new division to the settlers, it was apparently taken without leave or license, presumably by claim to defect in the title, and was divided among the new comers. Mr. Gargent adds, "I cannot close this sketch without a passing notice of one of the most glaring bits of injustice ever perpetrated by the cupidity of men. This was the course pursued by the new comers, by which the venerable George Felt was despoiled of the labors of a lifetime, and deprived of the large tract twice purchased by him, the second time from Gorges. Instead of his right to his 2,000 acres, a petty sop of a few small lots was finally, after long importunity, thrown to his heirs. This is made all the more noticeable because they did respect Walter Gendall's title to what he had purchased from this very same Felt. If one title was good, so much the better should have been considered the one that had noever been alienated. But then the one man was poor and old; the other was rich and influential."

Mr Sargent is evidently in error in intimating that the 2,000 acres taken from George Felt was the same that he purchased of John Phillips in 1640, for in a petition to Governor Andros in 1688, George Felt himself stated that about 18 years before he had bought a plantation or farm of John Phillips of Boston, at a place called Great Cove in Casco Bay, containing about 2,000 acres, for which he paid 60 pounds, that he had occupied it three years before the purchase; and after the Indian war, it was witheld from him by Casco people, and he being impoverished could not recover it. He was then suffering from want, being about 87 years old". Further evidence is found in a deed (Propritors' Records of North Yarmouth, page 52) given March 20, 1727, by Moses and George Felt, the son and grandson of George Felt of Broad Cove, to the committee of North Yarmouth, in which they recite that "whereas the said George Felt formerly bought of John Phillips of Casco Bay aforesd, a certain Tract or Parcell of land lying at Broad Cove, in Northyarmouth aforesd, containing three hundred acres, beginning at y3 falls called Felt's falls, and so down the Broad Cove or bay, to a Red Oak Tree near the water being the bounds of the lands which ye committee of the town of Northyarmouth formerly granted to Walter Gendall, and from sd waterside and falls to run up into the wilderness, upon a square, until the said three Hundred Acres be fully compleated, and also three acres of salt marsh at Broad Cove and four acres of fresh meadow at some distance from said Felt's house: which lands and premises the afresaid George Felt again purchase of ye agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges about ye year 1643: and the said Felt built a house thereon and lived in it, and possessed and improved ye said land and premises above forty years without molestation, an duntil ye year 1684, excepting one hundred acres thereof lying next to the land of ye said Walter Gendall, and the aforesd three acres of salt marsh, and also the four acres of fresh meadow which the sd George Felt in ye year 1680, sold to the said Walter Gendall, who improved the same till driven off by the Indian Enemy in the year 1688. And the sd George Felt, in the year 1684, gave and granted the remaining two hundred acres of the aforesd tract of land unto the said Moses and George Felt, to be equally divided between them, who continued in the peaceable possession of the said house and land until drove off by the Indians in the year 1688."

After the disposition of a portion of his property to Walter Gendall George Felt returned to Malden, notwithstanding the statement made in the deed tiven by Moses and George Felt 3d, and previously here quoted, that he lived at Casco Bay "until ye year 1684." This move was probably rendered necessary by the fact taht he was aged and feeble and unable to longer struggle for existence upon his farm. His wife accompanied him and May 29, 1681, "upon hearing the petition of James Nichols, Sr. of Malden (his son-in-law) the General Court ordered "that George Felt and his wife be accounted inhabitants of the town of Malden and accordingly the Selectmen of the town to take care of them." (General Court Record) This care was given after a fashion and the same year Goodman Cully was paid to shillings for "Hows room" for them. Thus the once possessor of over 2,000 acres became the first town charge of Malden. In 1684 George Felt conveyed all that was left of his 300 acres at Casco Bay to his sone and grandson and was undoubtedly able to live upon the proceeds of the sale for a time, for it was not until October 1, 1686, that the town of Malden was called upon for further aid, when it was "Voted, that the Selectmen are to take care of ould felt till the County Courte. June 22, 1688, George felt petitioned for aid and redress in the following pathetic form:

The Humble Petition of George Felt Senr of Mauldon,

"To his Excellency Sr Edmund Andros, K??, one of his Majesties' most honorouable privy bed chamber, Capt Generall and Gov. in Chief in and over his Majesties Territory and Dominion of New England in America (Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 128, pg 282).

SHEWETH:

"That it is my grief that I am compelled to trouble yor Excellancy at this time, But having been about eighteen years since purchased of one Jno Phillips of Bost, Gent., late Deceased, a farme or Plaintaintion at a Place called the Great Cove )in Casco Bay) containing about two thousand acres of upland and marsh as by a firm Deed under ds Phillips hand and seale, for which I then paid him sixty pounds money, and improved sd Farme or plaintation severall years before I bought it so that the whole time of my occupying it was about one and twenty years, But some time after the late Indian Warr it was withheld from me by some of the inhabitants of sd Town of Cascoe Bay and being by sd warr much impoverished I could not recover it out of their hands. I also am now forced to suffer for want of convenient care taken of me in my present distresse being about Eighty seaven years old and very crasy and weak,

Therefore, yor Petitionr recommendeth his case to yor Excellencies prudent consideration humbly beseaching and earnestly begging that if it seem meet and Convenient yor Excellency would be pleased to favor yor petionr that he may have confirmation of his sd lands undr such moderate quit rent, as well as an ordr to ye Townsmen of Maulden abovesd for something at present to releave ye petitioner in this his extreem poverty. The which shall farther oblige yor petion as in duty bound daily to pray for ye Excellency."

This redress was denied him, and we find further aid extended to him by the Selectmen of Malden, viz.: - "June 8, 1691, voted that there be raised 4 or 5 poundsfor the present supply of george felt and his wife to be paid in provision or in money." The aged couple were now evidently growing feebler, and the town voted, March 14, 1692, with a prudent provision for rebate in case its charity should prove overgenerous "that the towne doe alow goodman nicols aleven pound in or of money for this present yeare ensuing for the maintance of his father and mother felt, if either of them dy within the year, after funiral charges, what is left to return to the selectmen or their order." The record ends here. The sturdy pioneed whos advent at North Yarmouth was reckoned as its "birth-day," and whose courageious manhood helped to establish it firmly upon the foundation of proseprity it enjoys to-day; wronged in his old age by those who should have aided him instead; driven out to seek a home of charity; assured that his "funiral expenses" were provided for, died in 1693, aged 92 years and his wife "much advanced in years" followed him in 1694.^[3]

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• Source: Maine Pioneers, 1623-60: Name: George Felch; Felt; Comment: mason, Charlestown, 1633, resided at Mystic Side, 1640. He deposed 20 (11) 1654, ae. about 40 years. He removed about 1640 to Casco Bay, settling at Great Cove; was one of the founders of North Yarmouth, District of Maine. He made an agreement with his son George on the day of the latter's marriage, (9) 1662, to pay him œ40. See also deed of Jane, widow of Arthur Mackworth, gent. of Falmouth, conveying to George Felt, husband of her dau. Phillippe, land bounded by that of her dau. Purchas and that of her son James Andrews. [Norf. co. rec. IV, 75.] He removed to Malden, where he petitioned Gov. Andros in 1688 for confirmation of title to land at Casco which he bought about 1670. Giving his age as about 87 years. The town aided him and his wife, 1681-1692. Wife Elizabeth, dau. of widow Prudence Wilkinson; adm. chh. Char. 19 (11) 1639. Ch. Elizabeth, (m. (9) 1655, William Leraby,) George, Mary, these three bapt. 26 (11) 1639; Mary, (m. (2) 1660, James Nichols,) Moyses, bapt. 20 (10) 1640. He d. in 1693; the widow d. in 1694. Genealogy. The son Moses, of Rumney Marsh, Boston, deposed at Salem July 6, 1722, that he lived at Casco Bay in the Province of Maine about 1658, and knew Nicholas Cole, and John Puddington who dwelt in houses of their own building at a place called Merrechancake Neck ... until driven away by the Indian enemy, said land being at Casco Bay. [Es. De. 39, 148.]

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• Source: U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700: Name: George Felt; Gender: Male; Birth Year: About 1614; Marriage Date: About 1635; Death Year: 1692; Spouse: Elizabeth Felt; Household Members: Name: George Felt; Elizabeth Felt

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FELT FAMILY IN ENGLAND

Posted 30 Sep 2009 by dmcmnns

The following article on the Felt family in England has been prepared by the well-known and experienced genealogist^ Col. Charles E. Banks, from personal investigation made by him in England.

The name of Felt is so rare in England that it was not until after prolonged search that a clue to it was obtained and this clue came through an unusual form of spelling — Felce. This form occurs as early as 1530 and the name is almost entirely confined to Bedfordshire. It occurs in the following variations: Felshe, Felsse, Fels, Felts, Fylls, Feltes, Felss and Felce alias Phelps.

Early records show that persons called Phelps are identical with those called Felts in the same parish. The source of the name and its meaning is obscure. Scattered references to families of this name in Bedfordshire are found in the parishes of Oakley, Stagden, Ampthill, Bedford, Woburn and Luton, but the largest group was found in the parish of Leighton Boudesart, now corrupted into Leighton Buzzard.

The parish register of Leighton and the Court Rolls of the Manor of Leighton Buzzard show the existence of this family in that locality as early as 1540 and doubtless they had been there for generations before that date. They lived in the hamlets of Heath and Reach — part of the Manor of Leighton — and from this family George Felt, the emigrant, was descended.

The earliest of the name there was Thomas Felce (1543) when he appears as one of the jurors in a Court Baron. In the century following the first entry in the register there are records of 36 baptisms, ten marriages and eighteen burials. The name George appears in this family in 1580 — always written Felse or Felce.

William, the father of the emigrant, who lived in Reach, had the following children baptized:

i. Humphrey, 24 Feb. 1604/5 1V - Elizabeth. 25 Oct. 1612

ii. Thomas, 25 June 1607 v -> Mary. 19 Feb. 1614

iii. George, 28 Feb. 1609