| Name |
Capt. Philip NELSON |
| Birth |
22 Jan 1634, Cottingham, Yorkshire, England |
| Death |
19 Aug 1691, Rowley, Essex, MA |
| Father |
Thomas NELSON (1601-1648) |
| Mother |
Dorothy STAPLETON (1608-1637) |
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| Marriage |
24 Jun 1657, Rowley, Essex, MA159 |
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| Marriage |
1 Jan 1666/1667, Newbury, Essex, MA162,163 |
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| Notes for Capt. Philip NELSON |
r152 1654 graduate of Harvard.
Philip Nelson, son of Thomas and Dorothy Stapleton, was Justice of the Peace and a large landowner (said to have been 3,000 acres).
"His coffin says he died August 20, 1691, and tells a sad story about his delusion as to the power of working miracles."
Apparently this gravestone comment relates to the following event described by John Langdon Sibley in "Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, Vol. I, 1642-1658:"
"According to Gage, Nelson was also 'the occasion of other difficulties in the church by pretending to cure a deaf and dumb boy in the imitation of our Saviour, by saying Epphatha. The ministers of the neighbouring churches were called together, and the boy was brought before them, to see whether he could speak or not. He was interrogated, but 'there he stood,' says the church records, 'like a deaf and dumb boy as he was." |
| Notes for Sarah (Spouse 1) |
Rowley, Ma. Vital Records to 1849 b, m, d, Essex Institute, Salem
MA 1928; Vital Records of Essex County Mass to about 1850 (CD-ROM), Search & Research Pub. 1998 |
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