Philip Eliot

Bef 1602 - 1657  (> 55 years)

• Name	Philip Eliot  [1]
  Birth	Bef 25 Apr 1602  [2]
  Baptism	25 Apr 1602	Widford, Hertfordshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Death	22 Oct 1657	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 4]
  Person ID	I47836	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Bennet Eliot,   b. Aft 1552   d. Bef 21 Nov 1621 (Age < 67 years)
  Mother	Lettice Alger,   b. Bef 22 Mar 1579   d. Bef 6 Mar 1621 (Age < 41 years)
  Marriage	30 Oct 1598	Widford, Hertfordshire, England   [5, 6]
  Family ID	F8581	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Sybthorpe,   b. Bef 25 Mar 1598   d. 8 Jan 1661, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 62 years)
  Marriage	28 Oct 1624	St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, London, England   [1]
  Notes	License dated 20 Oct 1624.
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Eliot,   b. Bef 8 Apr 1627   d. 18 Apr 1714, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age > 87 years) + 2. Lydia Eliot,   b. Bef 12 Jun 1631
  Family ID	F27749	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2026

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived in 1635 on the Hopewell and settled at Roxbury. He was literate and held several public offices.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9228] William Wyman Fiske, "The Wall Family of Essex." The American Genealogist 80:1, 80:102, 80:201. 2005. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S9227] Mrs. John E. Barclay, "Lydia, Wife of Nathaniel2 Packard of Bridgewater, Mass." The American Genealogist 34:18, 1958. [S2478] Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905 by Wilimena H. (Eliot) Emerson, Ellsworth Eliot, and George Edwin Eliot, Jr., based on the work of William Horance Eliot, Jr. New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1905. [S1660] William Wyman Fiske, "Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Father of Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 161:85, 161:186, 161:250 (2007), 162:65, and 162:128 (2008). [S1674] William Wyman Fiske, "Ancestry of Lettice (Alger) Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Mother to Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 160:181, 2006.