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Cecily unproven Phippen[1, 2]

Female Abt 1575 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Cecily unproven Phippen 
    Born Abt 1575  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I4839  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2018 

    Family Thomas unproven Reynolds,   b. 1564, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
    +1. Cecily Phippen Reynolds,   b. Abt 1600, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Sep 1660, Charles City, Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years)
    Last Modified 18 Dec 2021 
    Family ID F2097  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Cicily Reynolds d/o Thomas and Cicily Phippen
    Cicily Reynolds d/o Thomas and Cicily Phippen
    cicily-reynolds.rtf
    THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST Volume 30 No.1 Jan-Mar 1986 Richard Cocke; Thomas Cocke, Cicily Phippen Reynolds, Bailey, Jordan, Farrar; 1784 Celebration of GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, POVALL CARTER'S ESTATE
    THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST Volume 30 No.1 Jan-Mar 1986 Richard Cocke; Thomas Cocke, Cicily Phippen Reynolds, Bailey, Jordan, Farrar; 1784 Celebration of GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, POVALL CARTER'S ESTATE
    TheVaGeneaologist-Vol30 No1jan-mar-1986.pdf
    The Ancestor Roster for the Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century 1915-2005;
    The Ancestor Roster for the Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century 1915-2005;
    _ColDamesAncestorRoster-1.pdf

    Histories
    The FARRARS
Adventurers of Purse and Person
    The FARRARS Adventurers of Purse and Person
    Adv_of_Purse_and_Person-1607-1624.pdf
    The Baileys
    The Baileys
    5458 braham Bailey (1).pdf

  • Notes 
    • See Attached Story about Cicily Phippen Reynolds

  • Sources 
    1. [S130] Wikipedia.
      Cicely "Reynolds" Bailey Jordan Farrar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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      Cicely "Reynolds" Bailey Jordan Farrar (or Cecily, Cecely, Cicily, or even Sislye) is commonly found listed under the name Cicely Reynolds or Cicely Reynolds Bailey. She was born in England about 1600, immigrated to Jamestown on the Swan in 1610, and died in Virginia, presumably in the mid- to late 1600s. As such, she was one of the first European-born women to reach the New World. It is not known with any certainty why she left England, nor with whom she traveled. Further, her maiden name cannot be said, with much confidence, to have been "Reynolds", although that name is usually applied to her. The earliest mention of her is in The muster of the inhabitants the Colledge land in Virginia taken the 23rd January 1624/25 in which she is listed as "Sisley Jordan".

      Her first husband, a man named Bailey, fathered Cicely's first child, Temperance Bailey, but died soon thereafter. By the time she was 20, she had remarried, to Samuel Jordan, who had founded a settlement on the James River, "Jordan's Journey". She had at least one, and perhaps several children with Samuel Jordan. During the course of that second marriage, Cicely encountered two men who were soon to compete to become her third spouse.

      A major Indian attack occurred against the Europeans in 1622, and Jordan?s Journey, being well-fortified, was one of the few local plantations to survive. Samuel Jordan died the next year, 1623.

      Cicely, in her early 20s, again found herself the object of male devotion. In fact, there were rivals. Mr. or Rev. Greville Pooley, often characterized as a local parson, apparently soon declared his interest in her. So fervent was his courtship that he believed he had succeeded in winning Cicely?s somewhat worn hand. Shortly, though, it became obvious that Cicely preferred William Farrar, and intended to choose him. During the Indian attack of 1622, the young Farrar had taken refuge at Jordan?s Journey, had somehow failed to leave, and so was very well known to her.

      Mr. Pooley took his case to the authorities. According to The Records of the Virginia Company of London (vol. 4, p. 218):
      ? Captain Isack Maddeson sworne and examined saith that (as near as he remenbeth) the first motion to him by Mr. Grivell, touching a match with Mrs. Jordan was about three or four days after the Mr. Jordan?s death, who entreating this examinant to move the matter to her, he answered he was unwilling to meddle in any such business; but being urged by him he did move it. Mrs. Jordan replied that she would as willingly have him as any other, but she would not marry any man until she delivered. After this Mr. Pooley (having had some private talk with Mrs. Jordan) told this examinant that he had contracted himself unto her, and desired him and his wife to be witnesses of it, whereupon Mr. Pooley desiring a dram of Mrs. Jordan, and she bidding her servant fitch it said he would have it of her fetching or not at all. Then she went into a room, and the examinant and Mr. Pooley went to her, but whether she were privy to his intent this examinant knoweth not; when Mr. Pooley was come of her, he told her he would contract himself unto her and spake these words. I Grivell Pooley take thee Sysley to my wedded wife, to have and to hold till death us depart and there to I plight thee my troth. Then (holding her by the hand) he spake these words I Sysley take thee Grivell to my wedded husband, to have and to hold till death us depart; but this examinant heard not her say any of those words, neither doth he remember that Mr. Pooley asked her whether she did consent to those words or that she did answer ant things which he understood. then Mr. Pooley and she drank each to other and he kissed her and spake these words, I am thine and thou art mine till death us separate. Mrs. Jordan then desired that it might not be revealed that she did so soon bestow her love, after her husbands death; whereupon Mr. Pooley promised before God that he would not reveal it, till she thought the time fitting.

      Mary Maddeson sworne and examined saith, that she was not present at the making of the supposed contract between Mr. Pooley and Mrs. Jordan say if Mr. Pooley had not revealed it he might have fared better and saith further that her husband told her that night, that Mrs. Jordan had made her self sure to Mr. Pooley, but what words passed her husband did not particularly repeat, but spake of their drinking to the other and of Mr. Pooley saluting her.

      John Harris sworne and examined saith that he heard Mrs. Jordan say tha Mr. Pooley maught thank himself for he might fared the better but for his own words.
      ?
      Historic marker from the Virginia Dept. Historic Resources, at the site of "Jordan's Journey", on the south shore of the James River near Hopewell, Virginia, mentioning Cicely Jordan in the closing sentence.

      Mr. Pooley apparently had the ingenious idea of marrying Cicely as both groom and parson, and greatly speeding up the whole process by combining proposal with ceremony. His argument was, essentially, the New World?s first breach-of-promise suit. He continued the suit for years, but, meanwhile, Cicely married William Farrar, an attorney himself. The legal problems with Mr. Pooley ended with his death during an Indian battle in about 1629. Farrar, it is believed, died a few years later, in about 1635, after Cicely had had two Farrar children.

      Cicely is often credited with two further marriages after the death of William Farrar: to Peter Montague and to Thomas Parker. These marriages, though, are not well-documented, and may merely be the consequence of several different women named "Cicely" being combined in various records.

      Her date of death is unknown.

      Perry, Octavia Jordan (1969). These Jordans Were Here. O. J. Perry (private). pp. 351 pp.

      Russey, John Wesley (1971). The Family History of Charles Wesley Jordan of Georgia. Unpublished typescript available at LDS Family History Library: Salt Lake City UT. pp. 24 pp.

      Farrar, William B.; Farrar, Ethyl (c1964). The Farrars. St. Petersburg Printing Co.: St. Petersburg FL. pp. 112 pp.

      Kingsbury, Susan, ed. (1906-33). The Records of the Virginia Company of London. Government Printing Office: Washington DC. 4 vols.

      McIlwaine, H. R., ed. (1908-15). Journals of the House of Burgesses. Library Board, Virginia State Library: Richmond VA. 13 vols.

      McIlwaine, H. R., ed. (1924). Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia. Library Board, Virginia State Library: Richmond VA.. pp. 667 pp.

      Ingersoll, Louise Van Harlingen (undated). The muster of the inhabitants the Colledge land in Virginia taken the 23rd January 1624/25 : transcribed from the original in the State Paper Office, American & West Inds. vol. 447. Unpublished typescript available at LDS Family History Library: Salt Lake City UT.

      "Cecily (b. 1600, d. Abt. 1662)" in From Virginia Through the Southwest

    2. [S178] The Virginia Genealogist.
      THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST Volume 30, No. 1 Jan-Mar 1986 Page 30

      The preponderance of evidence that Temperance Baley was indeed the widow of John Browne necessitates revisions about Richard Cocke of Bremo which follow:

      Richard Cocke (1602-1665) Born in the Parish of Stottensden, Shropshire, England; immigrated to the Colony of Virginia ca. 1627; resided in Charles City Co., until ca. 1638, when he moved to Bremo, Henrico Co., where he died and is buried. In 1632 he represented Weyanoke, Charles City Co. in the Grand Assembly; in 1644 and in 1654--55, he represented Henrico County. Married, first, ca 1632, Temperance Baley (Bailey, Bayley) (1617 possibly ca 1652) daughter of ___ __ and Sisley ([Reynolds]_?) Baley Jordan- Farrar
      Their first child was THOMAS COCKE (1638/9-1697), who in 1672 referred to himself as 'Thomas cocke of Pickthorn Farm in the County of Henrico."

    3. [S100] Internet Source, http://homepages.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy2/wc23/wc23_433.htm.
      Cicely Phippen (1575-1637) + Thomas Reynolds (1563-1604)
      Child: Cicely Reynolds (1594-1637) died in Charles City, Virginia Colony

    4. [S89] Facebook, Conversations About Cecily Phiphen Reynolds Bailey, Jordan, Brown, Farrar, Cocke .
      Esther Frey Hattal
      Lt. John Gibbs lived at Jordan Journey from the massacre until his death. His remains were unearthed recently on that property where new homes were built. My direct line. Mr. Jordan was alive at the time of the massacre. And asked Lt. Gibbs to stay. Farrar escaped his plantation and fled to Jordans. Then the story gets messy.
      Van Malone
      My first GG grandmother was a Jordan and I have traced my family to Cecily Jordan-Farrar. " Cecily was said to have introduced the art of flirting into Virginia; she was the original southern belle and no doubt enchanting and beautiful for she won the hearts of some of the colony's outstanding citizens.
      Secondly, she married Samuel Jordan (1578-1623), a much older (by 22 years) and richer man, in 1620. They were living at Beggar's Bush (later known as Jordan's Journey) the alliteratively named fortified home of Samuel Jordan in 1623 (see accompanying map for the location of Samuel Jordan's residence). This marriage produced two daughters, Mary Jordan (b. 1621) and Margaret Jordan (b. 1623 after her father's death), whose lineages can't be traced presently.
      Cecily first met William Farrar as a refugee from his destroyed house after the Powhatan Indian surprise attack on 22 March 1622 (see map for approximate location of his plantation on the Appomattox River). He had fled to her husband's fortified house to save his life and that of the other survivors from his household. Fortunate circumstances (read: manipulated circumstances, as he obviously was attracted to her) prevented him from leaving this refuge before the death of his host," This only a part of the story about her.
      Bruce Snead
      Van Malone Great info...Farrar line is also mine, 4 gens from Cecily, what a girl, 3 husbands. Sarah Farrar born 1745, married William Spencer 5 th grands, they lived in Nelson Cty...my gt grand mother was last Spencer in my line
      Bruce Snead
      Van Malone Great info...Farrar line is also mine, 4 gens from Cecily, what a girl, 3 husbands. Sarah Farrar born 1745, married William Spencer 5 th grands, they lived in Nelson Cty...my gt grand mother was last Spencer in my line.
      Suzie Worthington Walters
      Van Malone The Jamestown Trilogy by Connie Lapallo is historically accurate. I highly recommend the books.
      Len Holmes
      Thank you for your insight into the family history of many of us who are descendants of the Farrar's and their intermarried families. I would like to know the whole story as I am much interested in these kinds of stories that are the real history of America. Find A Grave Memorial# 28700353 has many details as well. I have listed in my genealogy that William Ferrer was my 12th great uncle. Cecily Jordan Ferrer (Farrar) and they married 6 May 1625 Jamestown, Virginia. They had at least three children: Colonel William Farrar II, John Farrar, (110932103 Find a grave) Cecily Ferrers Turpin. all my 1st cousins 12X.
      Esther Frey Hattal
      Does anyone know about what happened after Mr Jordan died. The preacher claimed the widow agreed to marry him. Not Farrar. It was a long Court battle that was finally decided back in England. By that time she was pregnant or had a child from Farrar without marriage. The church records for that parish has disappeared. There was never a permanent clergy there again. Remember that the preacher of these English churches were also the local government. That's why Virginia quickly passed a bill for separation of church and state when the revolution broke out.
      Jesse Giammarino
      Esther Frey Hattal You can research online at the LVA (Library of Virginia) website. I also went there. Excellent resources! Even had their microfilm sent to my local library to view.
      Bruce Snead
      Temperance an John Cocke, my 9th great-grands
      Van Malone
      This is all I have on the Cocke family: Temperance was the daughter of Thomas & Cecily (Reynolds) Bailey. She also married Richard Cocke. They had two children; Thomas Cocke & Richard Cocke.
      Van Malone
      Minutes of the Cort (Court) at James City the 5th day of June 1632 Having settled the debts of the Estate of John Browne, and married his relic (widow), Richard Cocke is awarded payment for his work as executor and for the bringing up of John Brownes children until they come of age.
      Shannon Lee
      Temperance Bailey is My Ancestress, along with her Mother and Both Step-Father's.