George Felt

George Felt arrived in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in late 1628, aboard the ship Abigail with John Endecott, regarded as one of the Fathers of Anglo-Saxon White Puritan New England.

In 1638, an inventory of the some 68 acres of land that Felt owned in Massachusetts included: "One Dwelling house with a garden plott, scituate on the south west of the mill hill, butting southward upon Charls river, northeast upon crooked lane, bounded on the norwest by Nicholas Trerrice, and on the southeast by Ben.

[1] Felt later owned a lot at the foot of the northern end of Pleasant Street in Yarmouth, adjacent to Stony Brook, in an area that became known as Grantville.

[1][4] In 1684, military officer and fellow Englishman Walter Gendall claimed to own all of Felt's two thousand acres beside Casco Bay.

[10][11][12] The deceased's wife of fourteen years, Londoner Phillippa Andrews, moved to Salem Massachusetts Bay Colony, where she married twice (to Samuel Platt in 1682 and Thomas Nelson in 1690) before her death in 1709.

This includes Thomas Putnam Sr. (1615–1686), one of Salem's wealthiest residents and whose home remains in Danvers, Massachusetts, from 1648, as the oldest in the U.S. still owned by a descendant of the original family that had it erected.

John Felt (1723–1785) was the "Hero of the British Repulse at North Field Bridge," or the Salem Gunpowder Raid, also known as "Leslie's Retreat" on February 26, 1775.

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Leslie and 300 British soldiers from Boston attempted to seize illegally held ammunition during which they were repulsed by citizens led by Capt.

[8] His son and namesake, Peter Felt, Jr. (1784–1866), was a New Hampshire State Representative[14] and among the early settlers of Quincy, Illinois, where he helped found a church.