25. Anna⁵ Fillebrown (Thomas⁴, Thomas³, Humpfrey² Phillibrowne, Robert¹ ffilebrowne)⁽⁴⁶⁶⁾ was born in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony December 13, 1691.⁽⁴⁶⁷⁾ Anna died July 12, 1753 in Menotomy (now Arlington), Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, at 61 years of age.⁽⁴⁶⁸⁾ She died having "awfully, hanged herself." Her body was interred July 1753.⁽⁴⁶⁹⁾

Anna married Thomas Fessenden February 24, 1737 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.⁽⁴⁷⁰⁾ Thomas was born August 12, 1684 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.⁽⁴⁷¹⁾ Thomas⁽⁴⁷²⁾ was the son of Nicholas Fessenden and Margaret Cheney. Thomas died March 6, 1738 in Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at 53 years of age.⁽⁴⁷³⁾ Circa 1709, Thomas, a denomination unknown, was a member of the church unknown in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.⁽⁴⁷⁴⁾ He ".owned the covenant' in the church in 1709, when his first child was baptized."

When Thomas was age 25 and Abigail Poulter was age 17 they became the parents of Thomas Fessenden December 9, 1709 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.⁽⁴⁷⁵⁾ Thomas resided in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay before 1712.⁽⁴⁷⁶⁾ Thomas resided in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay after 1712.⁽⁴⁷⁷⁾ Thomas was employed at Middlesex County as Sheriff in Middlesex County, Massachusetts circa 1724.⁽⁴⁷⁸⁾ Thomas had marriage banns to Anna Fillebrown published November 5, 1737 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.⁽⁴⁷⁹⁾ According to conflicting evidence, he married Anna Fillebrown December 2, 1737.⁽⁴⁸⁰⁾

April 11, 1725, Anna, a Puritan, Church of England, was a member of the Cambridge Church in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.⁽⁴⁸¹⁾ Anna had marriage banns to Thomas Fessenden published November 5, 1737 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.⁽⁴⁸²⁾ According to conflicting evidence, she married Thomas Fessenden December 2, 1737.⁽⁴⁸³⁾ She, a Puritan, Church of England, was a founding member of Second Precinct Church in Menotomy (now Arlington), Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay on September 9, 1739.⁽⁴⁸⁴⁾

Anna Fillebrown and Thomas Fessenden had the following child:

92 i. Unnamed_______⁶ Fessenden⁽⁴⁸⁵⁾. This unnamed child, reported by Eric James, may not have existed as Savage stated that Thomas Fessenden "had four ch. next m. Abigail Locke, and had eight more, and took third w. Ann Fillebrown but had no more ch."

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