John Phinney moved to Winthrop, Maine from Middleborough, Massachusetts as a young man in the first decade of the 19th century. His widowed mother Sarah (Thompson) (Phinney) Holmes moved nearby with her second husband Ezra Holmes. John's sister Zeruiah and her husband Ebenezer Packard, Jr also lived in Winthrop.
By his first wife Hepsibah Colby, daughter of Sylavanus Colby of Wesport, John Phinney had nine children; at least seven of whom survived to adulthood. Hepsibah died in 1829 and, with a large family to manage he remarried within the year Melinda Chandler, daughter of Abiel and Betsey (Young) Chandler of Livermore. They had only one daughter together, Adeline Melinda Phinney.
The principal secondary works treating this family (Everett Stackpole's History of Winthrop and Howard Finney's, Phinney-Finney Families in America err in their treatment of this generation.
By his first wife Hepsibah Colby, daughter of Sylavanus Colby of Wesport, John Phinney had nine children; at least seven of whom survived to adulthood. Hepsibah died in 1829 and, with a large family to manage he remarried within the year Melinda Chandler, daughter of Abiel and Betsey (Young) Chandler of Livermore. They had only one daughter together, Adeline Melinda Phinney.
The principal secondary works treating this family (Everett Stackpole's History of Winthrop and Howard Finney's, Phinney-Finney Families in America err in their treatment of this generation.
John Phinney moved to Winthrop, Maine from Middleborough, Massachusetts as a young man in the first decade of the 19th century. His widowed mother Sarah (Thompson) (Phinney) Holmes moved nearby with her second husband Ezra Holmes. John's sister Zeruiah and her husband Ebenezer Packard, Jr also lived in Winthrop.
By his first wife Hepsibah Colby, daughter of Sylavanus Colby of Wesport, John Phinney had nine children; at least seven of whom survived to adulthood. Hepsibah died in 1829 and, with a large family to manage he remarried within the year Melinda Chandler, daughter of Abiel and Betsey (Young) Chandler of Livermore. They had only one daughter together, Adeline Melinda Phinney.
The principal secondary works treating this family (Everett Stackpole's History of Winthrop and Howard Finney's, Phinney-Finney Families in America err in their treatment of this generation.
By his first wife Hepsibah Colby, daughter of Sylavanus Colby of Wesport, John Phinney had nine children; at least seven of whom survived to adulthood. Hepsibah died in 1829 and, with a large family to manage he remarried within the year Melinda Chandler, daughter of Abiel and Betsey (Young) Chandler of Livermore. They had only one daughter together, Adeline Melinda Phinney.
The principal secondary works treating this family (Everett Stackpole's History of Winthrop and Howard Finney's, Phinney-Finney Families in America err in their treatment of this generation.
Inscription
Mr./ John Phinney/ died in Wayne/ Aug. 21, 1850,/ AEt. 67./ Friends think on me as you pass by/ As you are now, so once was I; / As I am now so you must be,/ Prepare to die and follow me.
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Veteran's marker honoring War of 1812 service in Fairbank's Co., Stone's Reg't, Massachusetts Militia
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