The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Phinney · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Reliance Phinney

Born 1681, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. Died 1735, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America.

Reliance Phinney (27 August 1681 – 4 December 1735) was a Barnstable woman, born in Plymouth ColonyW, who married John Morton in 1705 and died at Plymouth thirty years later. She was the sixth great-grandmother of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through her son James Morton (1714–1745).

Family of birth

Her birth on 27 August 1681 is recorded in the Barnstable town records, in the family entry that begins “John Phinny Jur. and Mary Rogers Married 10 of August 1664”. Her parents were John Phinney (born 1638) and Mary Rogers, and Reliance was the ninth of the twelve children the town clerk listed beneath that entry: John (born 1665), Melatiah, Joseph, Thomas, Ebenezer, Samuel, Mary, Mercy, Reliance, Benjamin, Jonathan and Hannah. Two of the twelve did not outlive early childhood, Melatiah (1666–1667) and Hannah (1687–1689).

Her father’s will, dated 19 April 1718, named her among his heirs: after his wife’s death the rest of his movable estate was to go equally to “my three Daughters viz: To Mary Eastland, Mercy Crocker and Reliance Morton”. The will is what joins the Barnstable girl to the Plymouth wife, for the family entry gives her as Reliance Phinney and her father calls the daughter of that name Reliance Morton.

Marriage and family

John Morton and Reliance Phinney were married at Barnstable on 27 December 1705 by the minister Jonathan Russell, whom the town clerk called “Mr Russel”. They made their home at Plymouth, where the town book lists six children of “John Morton and Reliance Morton his wife”. Their first son, John, was born in 1706, and Jonathan followed in February 1707/8; he died that December. Josiah was born in February 1709/10. On 11 December 1711 a daughter was born and died the same day, and the book gives her no name. James, the son through whom the line runs, was born on 13 May 1714, and David on 19 March 1716. In ten years Reliance bore six children and lost two of them within days or months of their birth.

Death

Reliance died at Plymouth on 4 December 1735, at the age of fifty-four, and her husband followed her on 4 February 1738/9. The town clerk entered their deaths together, hers written beneath his as that of “Reliance Morton wife to sd John”. Both gravestones stand on Burial Hill, and Benjamin Drew’s 1894 transcription of them gives hers as “wife to Mr John Morton … Decbr ye 4th 1735 in ye 55th year of her age”, which fits her birth in August 1681.

Family time line

◉ Reliance Phinney 1681–1735
◉ John Morton 1680–1739
Married 27 Dec 1705, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony
○ John Morton 1706–
○ Jonathan Morton 1708–1708 ✧
○ Josiah Morton 1710–
○ Morton 1711–1711 ✧
◉ James Morton 1714–bef 1745
○ David Morton 1716–

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth 27 Aug 1681 Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America on record
Death 4 Dec 1735 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America on record
16811735 16901700171017201730

Sources

  • Barnstable, Massachusetts, town clerk's record book - Town records 1640-1774 vol 1-2, pp. 320-321, family of John Phinny Jr. and Mary Rogers — Birth, about this person
  • Plymouth, Massachusetts, town clerk's record book - Births, marriages, deaths 1699-1754 vol 1, p.210, deaths — Death, about this person
  • Drew, Benjamin. Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts: its monuments and gravestones numbered and briefly described, and the inscriptions and epitaphs thereon carefully copied (Plymouth: Avery & Doten, 1894) — Death
  • Plymouth, Massachusetts, town clerk's record book - Birth Records 1699-1754, p.76, 'The Children of John Morton and Reliance Morton his wife' — about this person
  • Barnstable, Massachusetts, town records - Marriage Records 1640-1774, 'John Morton & Reliance Phinny Married 27 Decem.r 1705 by Mr Russel' — about this person, Marriage (John Morton)
  • Massachusetts, Barnstable County, Probate Records - will of John Phinney (Phiney) of Barnstable — about this person

Borders as they stood about 1700 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

  1. John Phinney 1638–bef 1719
    1. John Phinney 1603–
      1. Robert Finney 1568–1637
        1. Jeffrey Finney 1532–1586
        2. Ellen Smedley 1540–1606
      2. Unknown (surname unknown) 1570–1650
    2. Christian Patten –1649
      1. Edward Patten 1580–1620
      2. Elizabeth Trinder 1585–1677
        1. Unknown Trinder 1560–
        2. not yet known
  2. Mary Rogers 1644–
    1. Joseph Rogers 1603–1678
      1. Thomas Rogers 1571–1621
      2. Alice Cosford 1573–1622
    2. Hannah (surname unknown) 1615–1678

Descendants

  1. John Morton 1706–
  2. Jonathan Morton 1708–1708 ✧
  3. Josiah Morton 1710–
  4. Morton 1711–1711 ✧
  5. James Morton 1714–bef 1745
    1. James Morton 1739–aft 1810
      1. Josiah Morton 1767–1842
        1. Lucy Morton 1798–
        2. Josiah Morton 1802–1883
        3. Levi S. Morton 1807–1894
      2. Mary Morton 1768–1816
        1. John Curtis 1792–1792 ✧
        2. Waterman Curtis 1793–1859
        3. Junia Curtis 1795–1809 ✧
        4. Truman Curtis 1804–1885 ⚭
        5. Electa Curtis 1811–1888
      3. Mehitabel Morton 1774–1846
        1. Sally Stanton 1794–1865
        2. Amos Stanton 1796–1883
        3. Lucinda Stanton 1800–1868
        4. Warren Stanton 1802–1874
        5. Eunice Stanton 1804–1877
        6. Belinda Stanton 1806–1885
        7. Robert Stanton 1808–1865
        8. Laura Stanton 1810–1872
        9. Eliza Stanton 1814–1814 ✧
        10. Lovina Stanton 1817–1877
      4. Abigil Morton 1780–
        1. Quartus Angell 1800–1842
        2. Stephen Angell 1802–1884
        3. Ira Angell 1803–1885
        4. Laura Angell 1805–1807 ✧
        5. Diadema Angell 1806–1831
        6. Jedediah Angell 1807–1809 ✧
        7. Laura Angell 1810–1854
        8. Mary H. Angell 1812–1867
        9. James Morton Angell 1817–1896 ⚭
        10. Henry A. Angell 1818–1889
        11. Minerva Abigail Angell 1820–1871
        12. Levi Angell 1823–1912
      5. James Morton 1782–
      6. Jonathan Holmes Morton 1790–
        1. Arvilla Morton 1814–1900
        2. Sarah Morton 1815–1898
        3. Jonathan Holmes Morton 1817–1897
        4. Charles S Morton 1820–1902
        5. Mary Christiana Morton 1822–1889
        6. William Leslie Morton 1825–1904
        7. Betsy Ann Morton 1827–1877
        8. Lovina A Morton 1829–1874
  6. David Morton 1716–