Philip Gavitt

1651 - Abt 1714  (63 years)

• Name	Philip Gavitt
  Born	1651	St Saviors, Isle Jersey, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1714	Rhode Island, United States   [2]
  Person ID	I9645	Wagner-Thomas | Hallmark
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2014

  
  

  Father	Martin Gavey,   b. 7 Oct 1621, St Saviors, Isle Jersey, France ,   d. 25 Sep 1661  (Age 39 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Macken,   b. Abt 1625, Jersey ,   d. 1696, Jersey  (Age ~ 71 years)
  Married	Bef 1650
  Family ID	F2968	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Macchone,   b. 31 Oct 1659, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 1 Dec 1713, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 54 years)
  Married	6 Sep 1681	Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [3, 4]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Gavitt,   b. 18 Jul 1682, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Ezekiel Gavitt,   b. 25 Dec 1683, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. Bef 25 Mar 1754, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States  (Age < 70 years)   3. Hannah Gavitt,   b. Abt 1684, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown + 4. John Gavitt,   b. Abt 1686, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. Aft Jun 1754  (Age ~ 68 years)   5. Philip Gavitt,   b. Abt 1688, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Samuel Gavitt,   b. Abt 1692, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown + 7. Joseph Gavitt,   b. 22 Dec 1699, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 1765, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 65 years)
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2014
  Family ID	F2701	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Married - 6 Sep 1681 - Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Died - Abt 1714 - Rhode Island, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  1651 BIRTH: ENG,Isle Jersey-St Saviors: Philip Gavitt born 1651 c1650-51 BIRTH: France or Great Britain, Isle of Jersey-St Saviors's: Philip Gavitt born about 1650-51 [from Ancestral File 12-2006 - to check out] 1681 MARRIAGE: MA,Essex Co-Marblehead: Philip Gavitt md Hannah Macchone 6 Sep 1681 1713 DEATH of wife: MA,Essex Co-Salem: Hannah Macchone Gavitt died 1 Dccember 1713 1713 LETTER to son: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families pg 462: Letter 7 December 1713: "copied from original manuscript, which in 1909 was temporarily in the hands of the compiler of this article. The handwriting... is 'uncommonly clear,' and somewhat too steady for a man in his eighties: "My deare Son Ezekiel, These few sad lines will give you to understand that youre deere Mother is dead. She was taken very sick the last thirsday of November, and diyed the first day of December bettweene eight of the clock, and nine, in the Morning else I thank God we are all well at present. If you are willing to be a helpe to me to transport me, and my tools, and bedin and such things as we have next April, or May, next insueing I shall indeavor to be ready for your coming then, and if it suite you after planting time, well, with a small sloop if you could conveniently...send me an Answer by the next post, you must post-pay this letter, and I will post pay yours only remember to make your superscription Thus To my beloved father Philip Gavet in Salem, to be delivere to him with haste. Then I shall know what you will do... so fare-well from your father, Philip Gavet" [addressed] "To my beloved son Ezekiel Gavet I hope living at Westerly in Narragainset to be delivered to him with all the speed" "Sal 9" According to a letter from a Mrs W. S. Gavitt of Ocean View, Washington Co, RI, dated 12 Feb 1882, Philip Gavet carried out the plan proposed in his letter, removed to Rhode Island, and with his son Ezekiel, built a house "on the Post Road from Newport to New London," on the site of which Mrs. Gavitt was living when she wrote and where she says that Philip died. Doubtless he is buried in one of the unmarked graves in "Gavitt ground (4)," mentioned by Denison in "Westerly and its Witnesses." 1714 DEATH: RI,Washington Co-Westerly: Philip Gavitt died 1714 NOTE: Rcd of Parish List of Deaths 974.45/S1 K2b pg 65-66: "598. Dec 13 [1801]. Notice of the death of John, son of Samuel and Mary Knapp. Fever abroad, 40 years. Married at 18 years. First mg 17 yrs. 2nd mg, 3 yrs. He was born in Portsmouth. His first wife was a Gavett of Salem; left 3 daughters. His 2nd wife a Dodd of Salem, has 1 son. He was on his passage from Batavia to Philadelphia in theBrig Harriet, Capt. Isaac Hagar." The History of Salem, Mass. Vol 3 by Sidney Perley, 974.45/S1 H2ps 1928, 1988 reprint, pg 337: "Philip Gavett *6 lived in Salem as early as 1696. *6 "Philip Gavett 1 married Hannah _____; children: 1. Phillip 2 bapt 6-21-1696 2. Hannah bapt 6-21-1696; 3 Elizabeth... already have this part. John Gavett 2; mariner; md Mary Carter Feb 1 1716-7; children 1. bap 11-201720; 2 Joseph 2 bapt 8-4-1723; 3 Sarah 3 bapt 4-9-1727; 4. Sarah 3 bapt 6-8-1729; 5. John 3 bapt 2--7-1730-1. JOSEPH GAVETT 2 joiner; md Mary Williams 5-20-1725; dd 1765; children: 1.___ son 3 bn 3-11-1725-6 2. Joseph 3 bn 2-17-1726-7; Samuel 3 bn 3-=24-1728-9 mariner; MADE COPIES OF THIS HISTORY: Genealogies of Rhode Island Family from the NE Historical & Genealogical Register Vol I, pg 461-462: "The immigrant ancestor in New England of the family which forms the subject of this article was of French origin, and came to this country towards the middle of the 17th century, from the Island of Jersey, one of the Channel Island, off the northern coast of France. These islands have belonged to England for many centuries, being the only part of the former Duchy of Normandy which remained under the rule of the Engliosh kings after the close of the 100 Years' War. The population of the islands, however, is largely French, from Brittany, Artois, and other ancient provinces of northern France. There is a tradition that in the old church of St. Saviour, in Jersey, there are records of this family that date back into the 12th century. There are Gavets in France to-day, and writings by members of the family are listed in the catalogue of the Bibliotheque Nationale. In J. B. Rietstap's "Armorial General," second edition, Gouda, 1884, vol. 1, page 750, is the following description of a Gavet coat of arms: www.newenglandancestors.org/nehgsr/disk5/1934/934C251.gif - pg 88/251: THE EUROPEAN ANCESTRY OF PHILIP GAVET OF SALEM, MASS. Compiled by Joseph Gavit of the New York State Library, Albany. "To the issue of the Register of Jan 1923 (v 77 pg 34-58) the present writer contributed an article entitled "Philip Gavet of Salem, Mass., and Some of His Descendants," ... In the introductory paragraphs of that article doubt was expressed as to whether the Philip Gavett who married at Marblehead, Mass., 6 Sept. 1681, Hannah Macchone was indeed the first immigrant. The statement in that article that Philippe or Philip Gavet, the immigrant ancestor of this New England family, was born on the idland of Jersey 2 May 1631, came to NE in 1647, and married there at the age of 24, that is, about 1655, was derived from the Bible of Joseph Gavet of Salem (no. 4 of the article in question), the youngest son of Philip and Hannah (Macchone) Gavett... But from data recently received from St. Saviour's Parish, Island of Jersey, and taken from the original records of that parish, as well as from the records of the Registry Office in Jersey, it is evident that the Bible record of Joseph Gavet of Salem, son of Philip and Hannah (Macchone) Gavett, either was misread or was an erroneous copy from an earlier record, that the first immigrant, Philip, was born, in all probability, in 1651, that he probably came to New England in 1676 or at any rate not later than 1681, and that he was in fact the Philip Gavett who married at Marblehead 6 Sept. 1681, Hannah Macchone. If he was born in 1651, he was in his 63rd year when his wife died, and was, therefore, not too old to move to Rhode Island and build a house there..." [more on the ancestry of Philip follows]

  
  

• Sources

  [S367] Internet: One World Tree. Philip Gavitt born: 1651 St Saviors, Isle Jersey, England [S386] Internet: Ancestry World Tree Project. Philip Gavet ...died abt 1714 in ,,Rhode Island. Palmer ID 17599 [S367] Internet: One World Tree. Philip Gavitt md Hannah Mackholme Mackoon 6 Sep 1681 in Marblehead, Essex, MA, USA [S387] Genealogies of Rhode Island Families from the New England Hist. & Gen. Register, 974.5 D2rg., Vol 1 pg 461. Philip Gavett and Hannah Macchone... were married at Marblehead, Mass., 6 Sept. 1681...