Ann Dover

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In brief

March 20, 1630: Departed from Plymouth, England with her husband and children aboard the Mary and John piloted by Captain Squeb. She married November 14, 1626, in Crewkerne, England. She died 1635 or August 30, 1689.

Family

Spouse

William Phelps

m. 1626

Children

Cornelius Phelps
b. Abt. October 1627 in Crewkerne, England
d. January 1628 in England
Joseph Phelps · in this line
b. Abt. 1628 in England
m. September 20, 1660, in Windsor, Connecticut
m. January 9/December 19, 1676
d. 1684 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut
Mary Phelps
b. Abt. November 1628 in Crewkerne, England
d. November 1628 in Crewkerne, England
Sarah Phelps
b. Abt. 1632 in America
m. William Wade, June 9, 1658, in Windsor, Connecticut
d. July 10, 1659, in Windsor, Connecticut
Timothy Phelps
b. August/September 1, 1639, in Windsor Connecticut
m. Mary Griswold, May 1661, in Windsor, Connecticut

Life story

Following Reverend Warham

Ann Dover married William Phelps in Crewkerne, England, in November 1626, and sailed with him and their children for Massachusetts in March 1630 aboard the Mary and John, arriving that May and settling in Dorchester. Ann was recorded as the first woman to follow the Reverend John Warham's congregation onward to Windsor, Connecticut. She died in 1635 or in August 1689.

Sources (4)

Brian Phelps, Phelps Family History in America (https://www.phelpsfamilyhistory.com/research/william/WilliamPhelpsWindsor1630Tree.asp : accessed 6 July 2026), “William Phelps in Windsor, Connecticut”.
Brian Phelps, Phelps Family History in America (https://www.phelpsfamilyhistory.com/research/william/index.asp : accessed 7 July 2026), “The Origins of William Phelps”.
Judge Oliver Seymour Phelps and Andrew T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors (Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eagle Publishing Company, 1899); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/phelpsfamilyofam01phel : accessed 6 July 2026).
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 3:1444-1446; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158320-00134 : accessed 20 July 2026).