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Phoebe Sales was born in 1626 in Suffolk, England and was christened 5/1/1626. The christening register reads: "1626/Phoebe Sales, daughter of John Sales." The christening event happened in the same church in which John Sales & Philip Soales were married on 8/11/1625 [Note the name is not recorded as Phillipa - Phillip in early England was not an uncommon name for a girl, when the widowed John Sales remarries in 8/1644 in a New Amsterdam church, John is listed as a widower of Philippa Zaals]. In April 1630 John Sales, wife Phillip, daughters Phoebe & Sarah sailed from Southampton England aboard "Talbott", 1 of 10 ships in the Winthrop Fleet bound for New England. When the ship arrived in Mass., only John Sales & daughter Phoebe were aboard. Phillip & Sarah, were two of the twelve passengers who had died & were buried at sea. John Sales & daughter Phoebe/Phebe were in Massachussetts Colony, NEW England from the fall of 1630, until 1637 when they removed to New Amsterdam, where they lived among & affiliated with the Dutch and assumed Dutch names. John Sales became Jan & the surname Sales with more than several alternate spellings as seen on Dutch records. Phoebe became known as Femmetje [the Dutch equivalent of Phoebe] & since the Dutch did not use surnames until England took control in 1664 -& in the instance of Phoebe "person identifiers" were used in which "s", "sen", "szen" were added to the father's given name & added to his child's given name. In this way, Phoebe Sales, daughter of John Sales became known in her adopted "Dutch" area & life as Femmetje Jans, meaning Femmetje, daughter of Jan.
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1626 - 1666 (40 years)
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