Benoni Phelps

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• Reference Number: 5943

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• Reference Number: 5919
• Will: 23 Aug 1716, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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The following was copied from werelate.org:

Joseph was a large land owner in Hebron and gave a farm to each of his three sons who settled there. Ten children were named in his will.

Yes, husband and wife were born on the same day

One of the largest real estate owners in Hebron, CT

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References
1. Hosford, Henry Hallock. Ye Horseforde Booke: Horsford-Hosford families in the United States of America. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Cleveland, Ohio: Tower Press, 1936).
2. Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Record of Marriages & Births Copied from the 1st Book of Records.

Joseph, b. 27 Sep 1666, m. Sarah HOSFORD, 18 Nov 1686, d. 1716;

3. A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS. 1715 to 1723.

Page 99 Name: Joseph Phelps Location: Windsor

Invt. â341-16-11. Taken 26 September, 1716, by James Enno, Timothy Loomisand John Palmer. Will dated 23 August, 1716.

I, Joseph Phelps, Sen., do make this my last will and testament: After myjust debts be paid, I give unto my wife Sarah the use and improvement of1-3 part of my estate, both personal and real, during her natural life;also, I give to my wife a new Bible. It is my will that my estate shallbe divided equally amongst my ten children: Joseph, Daniel, Edward, John,Abell, Ichabod, Jonathan, Mary, Sarah and Abigail. I appoint my sonDaniel and my wife Sarah to be executors.
Witness: Jonathan Brown, William Phelps.
The following was copied from werelate.org:

Joseph Phelps, ls.

Court Record, Page 23--2 October, 1716: Edward Phelps, 18 years of age,John 16, Mary 13, children of Joseph Phelps, chose Samuel Phelps to be their guardian. This Court appoint William Phelps to be guardian toAbell, age 11 years, Ichabod, 9 years. Will exhibited by Sarah and DanielPhelps.

Page 25--1st April, 1716-17: Sarah Phelps, widow, accepts the trust ofexecutrix.

Page 60--1st April, 1718: The executors exhibit an account. Accepted.Order to dist. the remaining part of the estate to Sarah Phelps, widow,to Joseph, Daniel, Edward, John, Abell, Ichabod, Jonathan, Mary andAbigail Phelps. And appoint Thomas Moore, James Enno and John Bissell,distributors.

See File: Dist. of the estate, 1st April, 1718: To the widow, to Joseph,to Daniel, to Edward, to John, to Abell, to Ichabod, to Jonathan, toMatthew Griswold in right of his wife Mary Phelps, and to Sarah andAbigail Phelps. By Thomas Moore and John Bissell.

Page 69 (Vol. X) 2 February, 1724-5: Report of the distributors.

Page 220--3 June, 1729: This Court appoint Cornelius Phelps of Windsor tobe guardian to Jonathan Phelps, a minor, age 17 years. Recog., 50.

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Joseph married Sarah Hosford on 18 Nov 1686 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of John Hosford and Philippi Thrall) was born on 27 Sep 1666 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died before 1710 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5923

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born same day as her husband-search for passengers of the mary & john 1630

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• Reference Number: 6164
• Birth: 1639, Connecticut, USA
• Birth: Aug 1639, Wilton, Saratoga, New York, USA
• Will: 2 Mar 1716/17, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Death: 1719

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A very authoritative treatment of Timothy Phelps can be found in the "Puritan Great Migration Project" at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Phelps-53
The following was copied from werelate.org:
Mr. Phelps resided in Windsor, Conn., on the old homestead, on land purchased by his father from the Indians. He was propounded Oct., 1663 and made a freeman May 2, 1664. May, 1690 Thos. Allen chosen and allowed Capt. of Trained Band in Windsor, and Timothy Phelps, Lieut., and are to be commisioned accordingly.

References
1. 1.0 1.1 William Phelps, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 3:1446.

'TIMOTHY, b. Windsor Aug. or 1 September 1639 [Grant 55]; m. Windsor 19 March 1661[/2?] Mary Griswold [Grant 56].'

2. Phelps, Noah A. History of Simsbury, Granby and Canton from 1642 to 1845. (Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Burnham, 1845), 172.
3. Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1638-1925.

Timothy Phelps son of William Phelps was born Sept 1 1639 (Bk I Page Twenty-Nine)

4. Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Record of Marriages & Births Copied from the 1st Book of Records, NEHGR 5:230.

'Ould Mr. William Phelps, [Simsbury] ... chil. ... Timothy, b. in Windsor, Aug. 1639; ...'

5. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 3:407.

Phelps: 'Timothy, Windsor, s. of William, ... m. 19 May 1661, Mary, d. of Edward Griswold, ... He ... d. 1719, ...'

6. Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Record of Marriages & Births Copied from the 1st Book of Records, 5:230.

'Timothy Phelps, [Simsbury] m. Mary Griswold, 19 May, 1661, d. 1719; ...'


Birth:
perhaps 1 Aug 1639

Timothy married Mary Griswold on 19 Mar 1661/62 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary (daughter of Edward Griswold and Margaret Unknown) was born on 5 Oct 1644 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 27 Nov 1715 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5849
• Birth: 1644, Connecticut, USA
• Death: Aft 2 Mar 1716/17

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Death:
she is refered to in will as alive on above date-see t phelps will

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• Reference Number: 5839

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Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records:
Hosford, John, Windsor. Died 7 August, 1683. Invt. £1203-17-04. Taken 14 November, 1683, by Jacob Gibbs, Samuel Cross. The children: William, b. 25 Oct., 1658; John, 16 Octo., 1660; Timothy, 20 Oct. 1662; Ester, 27 May, 1664; Sarah, 27 Sept. 1666; Samuel, 2nd June, 1669; Nathaniel, 19 August, 1671; Mary, 12 April, 1674; Obadiah, 28 Sept. 1677. (W. R.). Attest:
Henry Wolcott, Register.
Court Record, Page 81-10 December, 1683: Invt of the Estate of Mr. John Hosford was exhibited in Court. Adms. to the Widow and the son William. Timothy Thrall, Abraham Phelps and Samuel Cross to be Overseers to assist the Widow & her son in the Adms. and dispose of the Children. Order to dist the Estate as followeth: £ s d
To the Widow, of Personal Estate (& 1-3 of the Real Estate), 85-00-00
To William Hosford, the eldest son, 225-10-00
To John Hosford, 121-15-00
To Timothy Hosford, 121-15-00
To Esther Hosford, 100-00-00
To Sarah Hosford, 100-00-00
To Samuel Hosford, 114-00-00
To Nathaniel Hosford, 114-00-00
To Mary Hosford, 100-00-00
To Obadiah Hosford, 132-00-00

Note: John Hosford sen., who died 7 August, 1683, married, 5 No- vember, 1657, Phillipi Thrall She died May, 1698. ( W. R.)

Record of Agreement, on File 1701, between the Children of John Hosford:

Signed: deborah hosford, Ls. joseph phelps, Ls.
in Eliot, Justice of Peace. timothy hosford, Ls. nathaniel hosford, L,
samuel hosford, Ls. josiah X owen jr., Li
esther phelps, Ls. obadiah hosford, Ls.
Page II-(Vol. VII) 8 April, 1701: Mr. John Eliot did exhibite in this Court an Agreement, under the Hands and Seals of the Children of John Hosford sen., formerly of Windsor, Decd, and-their legal Represen- tatives, respecting the Settlement of that Estate, which the Court accepts and ordered to be kept on File.


Birth:
baptism date

John married Philippi Thrall on 5 Nov 1657 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Philippi (daughter of William Thrall and Elizabeth Unknown) was born on 5 Nov 1637 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in May 1698 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Phillury Thrall
• Reference Number: 5934

Notes:

The Thrall Genealogy states William Thrall of Windsor had at least two sons, Timothy and David. John Winthrop, in his genealogical journal mentions that John Hosfords wife is the brother of Timothy Thrall of Windsor.(TAG 1948 p112)

NEHGS has entry under search of cemetery transcriptions (but doesn't show which cemetery??): John Hosford d. May 1868, m. Phillury 5 Nov 1657, dau of William Thrall, d. 7 Aug 1683

NEHGS- from "The Descendants of Benjamin Cooley": John Hosford, b. prob England, d. Aug 7, 1693(Savage d. Nov or May 8, 1698, Stiles) m. Nov 5, 1657, Philippa (Phillury) Thrall, dau William who was among the first settlers of Dorchester. William Thrall served in the Pequot war, and d. Aug 3, 1679, age 73. His wife d. 30 Dec 1676.

Phillipi Hosford is mentioned in the will of William Thrall. Also Philippi's child, Sarah Hosford is mentioned in the will. See will notes under William Thrall.

Most online trees show Philippa dying on 7 Aug 1683, the same date her husband died. But that is not correct. His probate file shows his widow Philippa as one of the administrators of his estate, so obviously she could not have died on the same date as him.

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• Reference Number: 3724

Notes:

A very authoritative treatment of William Phelps can be found in the "Puritan Great Migration Project" at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Phelps-54

William Phelps originated in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England. With his first wife he had 4 children in England. With his second wife Ann Dover, he had 4 children in England and 3 children in New England. He arrived on the "Mary & John" in 1630 with his wife Ann and 4 of his English children. He originally settled in Dorchester,
then in 1635 moved to Windsor.

William died in Windsor 14 July 1672. Ann Dover died 30 Aug 1689 in Windsor.

In 1990 Myrtle S Hyde was able to find baptism records of William's children in Crewkerne.
See TAG 65:161-66 for demonstration of origination in Crewkerne, as opposed to Tewkesbury where the Phelps book had William originating from.

The best treatment on William Phelps appear in TAG 65:161-165 by Myrtle Stevens Hyde and "The Great Migration Begins' Series by Robert Charles Anderson.

The Phelps Family DNA site at http://www.phelpsdna.com/ has determined that Williams Phelps and George Phelps not only are not brothers as was previously assumed, but are not biologically related in genealogical time.

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
William Phelps (c. 1599 - July 14, 1672) was a Puritan Englishman who immigrated in 1630 to the American Colonies. He was one of the founders of both Dorchester, Massachusetts and Windsor, Connecticut, foreman of the first grand jury in New England, served most of his life in early colonial government, and played a key role in establishing the first democratic town government in the American colonies. Noted historian Henry Reed Stiles said Phelps "was one of the most prominent and highly respected men in the colony."

Origins

William is not from Tewksbury, despite profiles from the early 1900s to the contrary. His second marriage and children were found in the records at Crewkerne, and published in 1990.[13]

The origins of William Phelps before the baptism of his son William at Crewkerne on 9 Sep. 1618, and those of the emigrants, Richard and George Phelps have stimulated much interest. The closest that anyone has so far come to Crewkerne is a family named Phelps alias Comer of Broadwindsor (Dorset) some six miles to the south. Earlier Robin Bush established that William Phelps was a clothier at Crewkerne (vol. 25, p. 50-51) and he found some Phelps entries in the parish of Merriott which immediately adjoins Crewkerne to the north-east. There was a small-scale cloth industry recorded at Merriott between about 1575 and 1697 (Victoria History of Somerset, vol. iv, p. 57), which would make the place ideal for the origin of William. No one seems to have considered Merritt before because the parish registers dod not survive before 1646. There are, however, a few earlier Bishop's Transcripts and a series of manor court books of the late 16th and early 17th century (sadly incomplete)......Although these abstracts do not provide proof positive of the origins of the Phelps emigrants, the forenames of William and Richard both occur in the records............[14]

William Phelps came to Dorchester, MA, from Crewkerne, Somerset, on the "Mary & John" in 1630 with his second wife and five children. Robin Bush found the following material on Willliam Phelps in Engand, showing he had a business deal with Benjamin Bale, Sr. of Crewkerne..... The Crewkerne Grammar School accounts (DD/CSG 3/1) included a useful reference to William Phelps. In the accounts for the year ending 9 April 1627 an item was included that William Phelps, 'clothier', was to hold Chubbes tenement for nine years from All Saints last (1 Nov. 1626) for the rent of 8 pounds, paid quarterly, reserving all trees to the feoffees. Under the year ending 5 April 1630 was entered an agreement by which Thomas & Benjamin, sons of Mr. James Bale, were to take over the unexpired term which William Phelps held in Chubs tenement, confirming that it was around that time that he presumably left for New England.[15]

Since the Phelps Genealogy was published in 1899, it was widely accepted that William Phelps was baptized 19 Aug. 1599 at Tewkesbury, Goucestershire, son of William and Dorothy Phelps. It was also claimed he had a brother, George (b. @ 1605) who also came to New England. William Phelps came on the "Mary & John" in 1630, with people from the West Country (Somerset, Dorset, and Devon). Tewkesbury is not in this area, but the claim that this was his home was not questioned until October 1982 , when Myrtle Stevens Hyde had an article published in TAG, Vol. 58, 1982. She presented evidence that the William Phelps (bpt. 1599) was still in Tewksbury in 1637, when he was an overseer of the will of his uncle, Edward Phelps.

The wives of William Phelps have also been a mystery. Up until 1987 it was believed William Phelps had two wives, (1) Elizabeth _____ (History of Ancient Windsor, p. 563), and (2) Mary Dover, a.1638. In 1987, Joan Peel of Dartmouth, Devon, England found the marriage of an ANN DOVER to a William Phelps, 1626 in Crewkerne and this was printed in Vol. 7, p. 100 of this series. This suggested that William Phelps had three wives.

There is a marriage record of a William Phelps and an Ann Law in 1618 (no day or month) in Broadwindsor, Dorset (5 m. S of Crewkerne). If this took place in January this would be 8 months before the first known child was baptized on 8 Sept. 1618. However, another TAG article appeared in July 1990, p. 161-166, by Myrtle Stevens Hyde. She found additional Phelps entries in the Crewkerne records including the burial of a Mary, 'wife of William Phelps" on 13 Aug. 1626. She concluded this was his first wife. He married Ann Dover three months and one day later. Finally, when Hyde could not find a death for Ann (Dover) Phelps, nor a marriage record for William Phelps and Mary Dover, she concluded that the latter never existed. She surmised that the names of the first two wives, Mary and Ann somehow became Mary Dover."[16]

Life in New England

William arrived in Dorchester aboard the Mary and John in 1630 and was admitted as a freeman on 18 May 1631. He moved from Dorchester to Windsor in the winter of 1635, and was second on the list of men who came from Dorchester church to Windsor with Mr. Warham. He appears in town records in various positions in both Dorchester and Windsor from the early 1630s until the late 1650s:
Deputy for Dorchester to Massachusetts Bay General Court, 9 May 1632, 6 May 1635 [ MBCR 1:95, 145].
Committee on boundary between Boston and Roxbury, 4 March 1633/4 [ MBCR 1:113].
Committee to survey Mount Wollaston, 14 May 1634 [ MBCR 1:119, 139].
Committee on boundary between Wessaguscus and Barecove, 8 July 1635 [ MBCR 1:149, 161].
Jury on death of Austin Bratcher, 9 November 1630 [ MBCR 1:81].
Dorchester constable, 27 September 1631 [ MBCR 1:91].
Dorchester selectman, 8 October 1633, 28 October 1634, November 1635 (six months) [ DTR 3, 7, 13].
Committee to set the rate, 3 November 1633 [ DTR 4].
Lot layer, 3 November 1633 [ DTR 4]. Fence~viewer in East Field, 10 February 1634/5 [ DTR 10].
Appointed by Massachusetts Bay one of the commissioners for the new towns on the Connecticut River, 3 March 1635/6 [ MBCR 1:170-71].
Assistant, April 1636, September 1636, March 1637, May 1637, November 1637, March 1638, April 1638 - April 1642, May 1658 - May 1662 [ CT Civil List 43].
Deputy for Windsor to Connecticut General Court, April 1645, September 1645, April 1646, October 1646, May 1647, September 1647, May 1648, September 1648, May 1649, September 1649, September 1650, May 1651, September 1651, May 1652, September 1652, May 1653, October 1653, May 1654, September 1654, May 1655, February 1657, May 1657, October 1657 [ CT Civil List 43].
Committee to organize expedition against Pequots, 26 August 1639 [ CCCR 1:32].
War Committee (Windsor), May 1653, October 1654 [ CT Civil List 43]. [17]

William lived in Windsor, three-quarters of a mile northwest of Broad Street on the road to Poquonock.[18] "He purchased land from Sehat, an Indian sachem, of Windsor, for four overcoats and he sold some of his land at 12 pence per acre. Not being able to prove title and payment, he paid a second time, the legal tender being wampum."[19]

He was granted a lot in (Windsor) 1635, 100 ft. wide, next to Bray Rossiter, west of the Rivulet. This land was flooded in 1638-9, and he moved to higher ground, above the First Meadow, the most northerly lot on the west side of the Rivulet. He had purchased ths land from a sachem in 1635. This land later passed to his son, Timothy. He had a "plantation lot" east of the Connecticut River, 560 ft. wide, south of George Hull and north of Thomas Holcomb. In 1635 he was one of the eight men, including Roger Ludlow, chosen by the Court of Massachusetts, to govern the new Connecticut colony for the first year. In 1641, the General Court appointed he and Mr. Webster of Hartford, to recommend how "lyers" were to be punished. After this, the court punished "lyers" with fines or "body correction." He was a Magistrate, 1639-1643 and 1656-1662. He died at age 73 and was survived by his second wife and children, William, Jr. (age 52) of Windsor, husband of Sarah Pinney, Nathaniel (age 45) of Northampton, Mass., husband of widow, Elizabeth Copley, Joseph (age 43) of Simsbury, husband of Hannah Newton, Timothy (age 33) of Windsor, husband of Mary Griswold and Mary (age 28) wife of Thomas Barber, Jr. of Simsbury.[20]

Text References
1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 # 1 William Phelps, in Phelps, Oliver Seymour, and Andrew T. Servin. The Phelps Family of America and Their English Ancestors: with copies of wills, deeds, letters, and other interesting papers, coats of arms and valuable records. (Pittsfield, Mass.: Eagle Publishing, 1899., 1899), p 72-88 .

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2. 2.0 2.1 William Phelps, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

ORIGIN: Crewkerne, Somersetshire MIGRATION: 1630 on Mary & John FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester REMOVES: Windsor 1635
BIRTH: By about 1593 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Windsor 14 July 1672 ("Old Mr. William Phelps died" [ CTVR 27]).
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1618 Mary _____, who was buried at Crewkerne 13 August 1626.
(2) Crewkerne 14 November 1626 Anne Dover. "Mistress Phelps" was the first on the list of women members of the church at Dorchester who came with Mr. Warham to Windsor [ Grant 9]. She died Windsor 30 August 1689 ("Mrs. An Phelps died" [ CTVR 57]).

3. # 22 Nathaniel Phelps & # 19 William Phelps, in Phelps, Oliver Seymour, and Andrew T. Servin. The Phelps Family of America and Their English Ancestors: with copies of wills, deeds, letters, and other interesting papers, coats of arms and valuable records. (Pittsfield, Mass.: Eagle Publishing, 1899., 1899), p. 89-91; 87-88.
4.? 4.0 4.1 Windsor Town Records.

"Old Mr William Phelps dyed July 14th 72 and was buryed the 15th day"

5. Spear, Burton W. Search for the passengers of the Mary & John, 1630. (Toledo, Ohio: B.W. Spear, c1985-).
6. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 3:407.

"WILLIAM, Dorchester, came, prob. in the Mary and John, 1630, from Plymouth, and was of Porlock, Co. Somerset, on Bristol channel, few ms. from the edge of Devon, and perhaps br. of George, req. to be adm. freem. 19 Oct. of that yr. and was sw. 18 May foll. brot. w. whose name is not found, and ch. William, Samuel, Nathaniel, Joseph, and Sarah, yet one or two of these may have been b. at D. was rep. at the first gen. ct. of Mass. 1634, and Selectman 1634 and 5, went next yr. with Warham to Windsor, there by sec. w. Mary Dover, m. 1638,[1] had Timothy, b. 1 Sept. 1639; and Mary, 2 Mar. 1644. He was of the earliest Assist. 1636-42, a rep. 1645-57, Assist. again, 1658 to 1662, but not under the new chart. and d. 14 July 1672. Sarah m. 1658, William Wade; and Mary m. Dec. 1665, Thomas Barber."

7. William Phelps (colonist), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (Online: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.).
8. Hinman, Royal Ralph (1785-1868). A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, page 62.

'Phelps, William, Esq., Windsor, came with Mr. Warham's church to Windsor, in 1635.'

9. William Phelps, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 3:1444-46.
10. Hyde, Myrtle Stevens. The English Origin of William Phelps: Comments. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (1982), 58:243-44.

This article provides evidence that the William Phelps who was baptized in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire 19 Aug 1599, presented in the book The Phelps Family of America, and their English Ancestors (1899) by Oliver Seymour Phelps and Andrew T. Servin as identical with the immigrant William Phelps, was unlikely to be the immigrant. Three reasons are provided:
- William the immigrant was likely born earlier than 1599, based on the birth of his eldest son.
- A William Phelps (likely the William baptized Aug 1599) had a son Richard christened in Tewkesbury 26 Dec. 1619. The immigrant did not have a known son Richard.
- The mother of the William Phelps baptized Aug 1599 named her brother-in-law Edward Phelps in her will. He in turn, in his 1636 will (when he was of Tewkesbury), 'appointed as an overseer, William Phelps, almost undoubtedly his nephew, and certainly not the William living in far away New England.'

11.based on estimated date of marriage
12. Appointed by Massachusetts Bay one of the commissioners for the new towns on the Connecticut River, 3 March 1635/6
13.TAG 65:161-66
14. Speer, Search for the Passengers on the Mary & John 1630, Vol. 26, p. 54
15. Speer, Vol. 25, p. 50-51
16. Speer, Vol. 19 p. 123-124
17. Anderson, Great Migration Begins. MBCR = Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. DTR = Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. 1880. Dorchester Town Records
18. Speer, vol. 7, p. 63
19. Descendants of William Phelps and George Phelps of Crewkerne, England, [1]
20. Speer, vol. 2, p. 71

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Windsor was the first permanent English settlement in Connecticut. Local indians granted Plymouth settlers land at the confluence of the Farmington River and the west side of the Connecticut River, and Plymouth settlers (including Jonathan Brewster, son of William) built a trading post in 1633. But the bulk of the settlement came in 1635, when 60 or more people led by Reverend Warham arrived, having trekked overland from Dorchester, Massachusetts. Most had arrived in the New World five years earlier on the ship "Mary and John" from Plymouth, England. The settlement was first called Dorchester, and was renamed Windsor in 1637.

See: Stiles History of Ancient Windsor - Thistlewaite's Dorset Pilgrims - Wikipedia entry

William married Anne Dover on 14 Nov 1626 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. Anne was born in 1610 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; died on 30 Aug 1689 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 3639
• Death: 27 Nov 1675

Notes:

Anne DOVER - d. Aug. 30, 1689, Windsor, CT - recorded as "Mrs. An Phelps died." A passenger on the 'Mary & John,' and first on the list of women members of the church at Dorchester.

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• Reference Number: 3198
• Birth: 1607, England
• Other: 1640, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; Among first settlers of Windsor

Notes:

The following was copied from werelate.org:
Origins

The origin of Edward Griswold was discovered and documented by Genevieve Tylee Kiepura in the 1963 TAG article Griswold Ancestry in England, and presented again in the Griswold Family Association of America's 1999 publication, The Griswold Family: 12 Generations in England. The research found that Edward was the son of George Griswold by his first wife Dousabel (probably Leigh). See the Griswold Family publication for an explanation of Edward's relatedness to other colonial New England Griswolds.

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Life in New England

Came with Rev. Mr. HUIT from England; was in Windsor 1639; removed to Killingworth, Connecticut, called then "Kenilworth," presumably in honor of his native place. Windsor granted him twenty-nine acres, bound south and east by the brook, east by river and Indian Reservation (Indian Neck). He removed with the first settlers to Hamonoscett; George and Joseph had the homestead. In 1674, he was granted two hundred acres of land at the north end of Lyme.

Very active in the early community, serving as:
first deacon of the church
first delegate to the General Court
Justice of the Peace in Windsor
Deputy from Windsor 1658-1662
enrolled as Deputy in 1667
Deputy for Killingworth in 1678
nominated for assistant and as commissioner
representative of Killingworth in every court 1678-1689 (during which he was repeatedly made Commissioner)
committee of the County Court to see what could be done toward a Latin school at New London for the County New London (1678)

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Additional Sources
1. "Public Records of Connecticut," 1678-1689, p 293
2. 1640 Town Records at Windsor: recorded in the list of “First Settlers of Windsor, five years after their removal from Dorchester.” (NEHGR 5:365) [The list includes people who arrived after 1635, such as those who came with Huit in 1639]

References
1. Nash, Elizabeth Todd. Fifty Puritan ancestors, 1628-1660: genealogical notes, 1560-1900, by their lineal descendant. (New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1902), 103.

born 1607

2. MacKenzie, George N. Colonial families of the United States of America: in which is given the history, genealogy and armorial bearings of colonial families who settled in the American colonies from the time of the settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1912; 1966; 1995), Volume 5.
3. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).

EDWARD, Windsor, b. at Kenilworth, in Warwicksh. 1607, as tradit. says, came, it is always said, with Rev. Ephraim Huit, tho. it is certain. wrong, for his s. George testif. that he was b. 1638, and in his youthful yrs. "with his f. and uncle Matthew at Kenilworth, Eng. Bef. com. to W. he had Francis, George, John, and Sarah, prob. all b. in Eng. and he had at Windsor, Ann, bapt. 19 June 1642, in wh. yr. John d. there; Mary, b. 5, bapt. 13 Oct. 1644; Deborah, bapt. 28 June 1646; Joseph, b. 12 Mar. 1648; Samuel, bapt. 18 Nov. 1649; John, again, 1 Aug. 1652; and prob. Edward; all by w. Margaret, wh. d. 23 Aug. 1670; rem. a. 1664 to Killingworth, so named acc. the com. pronunciat. of his native place. He m. 1673, Sarah, wid. of James Bemis of New London; was rep. 1658-61 for W. and often for K. His s. Francis, and br. Matthew, as well as hims. were reps. in one Court. His s. Samuel d. 1673, and he d. 1691. Sarah m. 10 Nov. 1650, Samuel Phelps; and next, 21 July 1670, Nathaniel Pinney; Mary m. 19 May 1661, Timothy Phelps; and Deborah m. 13 Nov. 1662, Samuel Buell.

4. #110, in French, Robert L.; Esther G. French; and Coralee (editor) Griswold. The Greswold Family: 12 generations in England. (Wethersfield, CT: Griswold Family Association of America, 1999), page 54.

'Edward GRISWOLD ... was christened 26 Jul 1607 in Wooton Wawen. Warwickshire, England.'

5. Kiepura, Genevieve Tylee. Griswold Ancestry in England. The American Genealogist. (1963), 39:177.

'WOOTEN WAWEN: "We also examined the parish register of Wooten Wawen (a chapelry of Henley) which has the baptism of EDWARD, SON OF GEORGE GRISWOLD, 26 JULY 1607. ..." '

6. 6.0 6.1 #110, in French, Robert L.; Esther G. French; and Coralee (editor) Griswold. The Greswold Family: 12 generations in England. (Wethersfield, CT: Griswold Family Association of America, 1999), page 54.

'... but Edward did not die until 30 Aug 1691, In Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, at the age of 84, and was buried in the Indian River Cemetery in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut.'


Birth:
baptism date

Edward married Margaret Unknown. Margaret was born in 1610 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England; died on 23 Aug 1670 in Clinton, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 1988

Notes:

Margaret - d. Aug. 23, 1670, Killingworth (now Clinton), Middlesex Co., CT. Her gravestone in the Congregational Church Cemetery is engraved 'M. G. 1670'. Surname not known. Genevieve Tylee Kiepura writes in "Griswold Ancestry in England" (The American Genealogist 39:176-180) that "Edward GRISWOLD m. Margaret BLENCOW of Marston St. Lawrence, co. Northampton, dau of John BLENCOW and his wife Mary WALLISON." However, in "Note on the Ancestry of the Griswolds of Connecticut" (The American Genealogist 40:43-44), John G. Hunt conclusively shows that the Edward GRISWOLD who married Margaret BLENCOW is not the immigrant to CT, and Genevieve Tylee Kiepura concurs. The Griswold Family Association identifies the husband of Margaret BLENCOW as Edward GRESWOLD (1594-1633) son of Thomas GRESWOLD and Elizabeth SHUCKBURGH - this Edward being father of the American immigrant Michael GRISWOLD of Wethersfield, CT.

Margaret Winslow married Robert Hicks <p82.htm>, son of James Hicks <p128.htm> and Phebe Allyne <p128.htm>, by 1603; Plymouth TGMB says little basis for Winslow surname, no records for Elizabeth Morgan marr.Trans says second wife...m. btw 1620-1630 assumed from ages..1,2,3 Margaret Winslow was born at England.3 Margaret Winslow was also known as Margaret (?). She was born in 1589 at Kempsey, Droitwich, Worcester, England.4 She was the daughter of Edward Winslow <p128.htm> and Eleanor Pelham <p129.htm>.5,4 Margaret Winslow was in these bibliography texts; TAG 54:31-4 says no proof WINSLOW; "Winslow Genealogy v1 has pedigree chart.6,3 She died before 6 March 1665 at Plymouth Colony; Probate of will.1 She left a will on 8 July 1665.7 She died after 8 July 1665 at Plymouth Colony; Date of Will.1 Her estate was probated on 6 March 1666 at Plymouth, Plymouth Colony.7 She died in 1666 at Plymouth, Plymouth Colony.2

Last Edited=31 Jul 2000
Children of Margaret Winslow and Robert Hicks <p82.htm>:
Thomas Hicks <p89.htm> (1604)
John Hicks <p89.htm> (1605)
Sarah Hicks <p115.htm> (25 Oct 1607)
Richard Hicks <p89.htm> (1609)
Samuel Hicks <p86.htm> (1611 - 1677)
Lydia Hicks <p82.htm>+ (06 Sep 1612 - ca 1632 -4)
Phobe Hicks <p115.htm>+ (06 Sep 1615 - 22 May 1663)
Mary Hicks <p89.htm> (11 May 1617)
Ephriam Hicks <p89.htm> (c 1625 - 12 Dec 1649)
[S205] <s1.htm> Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, 2:927;.
[S389] <s1.htm> 9/15/97 recombined Torrey1, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 368.
[S86] <s1.htm> Boston Transcript, 2May06,8502.
[S504] <s1.htm> Unknown subject unknown record type, by unknown photographer, Quoted in Ancestral File CD1 Roberts, Amanda; Ancestral File.
[S504] <s1.htm> Unknown subject unknown record type, by unknown photographer, Quoted in Ancestral File CD1 BRUNS, Albert.
[S205] <s1.htm> Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, 86.
[S205] <s1.htm> Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, 927.

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• Reference Number: 1892

Notes:

William Hosford was born in England date unknown. He married Florence Hayward in Beaminster, Dorsetshire on 21 Jan 1620/21. She was baptized in Beaminster on 14 Apr 1594.

William and Florence migrated to the colonies in 1633, settling in Dorchester. In 1635 he moved to Windsor.

Florence died at Windsor 20 Aug 1641.

William remarried by 1650 to Jane, the widow of Henry Foulkes.

About 1654 William returned to England without his wife Jane, with the hope that she would join him at a later date. Which she did in 1655 or 1656.

Sometime after 1655, William Hosford died in England. His widow Jane died in England sometime after 15 Jan 1671.

The above information from the Great Migration Begins book series.


Died:
Tiverton, Devon, England

William married Florence Hayward on 21 Jan 1620/21 in Beaminster, Dorset, England. Florence was born on 14 Apr 1594 in Beaminster, Dorset, England; died on 20 Aug 1641 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 1893

Notes:

Birth:
baptism date

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 6174
• Will: 11 Dec 1678, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Death: 3 Aug 1679, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Notes:

From the Thrall website at http://www.thrale.com/history/usa/william_thrall.php: Note-This passage contains errors-see below.
William Thrall is the founder of the Thrall family in the United States. He was born in 1605 in Sandridge, Hertfordshiure, England and came to the Colonies on the 'Mary and John' in the year 1630. The Mary and John was a vessel of four hundred tons captained by a man named Squeb and the vessel sailed with 180 passengers.

William was part of a company of Puritans under the leadership of Rev. John Wareham of Exeter and Rev. John Meverick, both ministers of the Church of England Setting sail from Plymouth, England on 20 March, they first came ashore on 30 May 1630. They disembarked with what goods they had, to some high land in the salt meadow, now a part of the city of Boston. They named the place Dorchester, which was selected by the captain of the "Mary and John" as he came from Dorchester, England. Page 277 of Prince's Chronology of New England records…

“May 30, Lord's Day. Mr. Wareham and his church, and their goods, were put ashore at Nantasket Point. The went immediately to Charlestown, and from thence to Mattepan, and began a town and named it Dorchester, and the native Indians were kind to them.”

Revs. Wareham and Meverick and their group stayed in Dorchester less than five years, as a number of their menfolk had discovered more fertile land below the first falls of the Connecticut River, at the junction of the Farmington River just above Hartford. Part of the Colony went by boat and the remainder traveled across the one hundred miles of virgin forest, to establish the town of Windsor. Windsor was unofficially known as Thrallville in the early years.

The first we know of William Thrall is that he is listed with the following men who were among the thirty men who went from Windsor to join in the fight against the Pequod Indians in May 1637. Capt. John Mason, Sgt. Benedict Alvord, Thomas Barber, Thomas Buckland, George Chappel, John Dyer, James Eggleston, Nathaniel Gillet, Thomas Gridley, Thomas Styles, Sgt. Thomas Stares, Richard Osborn, Thomas Parsons, William Thrall. The Indian village in this case was so completely destroyed that for many years, the settlers had no further trouble with the Indians. Some years later, the participants were given land grants. To quote from Dr. Styles records with regard to the first Indian war in New England,

“The danger was imminent, and so complete the victory that it caused universal rejoicing throughout New England, and a grant of land was given each soldier and officer, and to this day the memory of an ancestor who was in the Pequod fight, is an honorable heirloom in every Connecticut family”

William Thrall is mentioned many times in the early records. His lot shows up in the first plot of Windsor, between the lots of Nicholas Palmer and Thomas Bascomb, and ran from the road to the Farmington River. In 1646, William sold this lot to Nicholas Palmer and moved to Simon Hoyte's place, north of the village. Robert Wilson bought a half interest with William in the Hoyte's 80 acres, but sold his half to Thrall in 1654. This 80 acres has been part of the holdings of the Thrall family ever since.

William Thrall was born in 1605 in Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England, and died on 3 August 1679 in Windsor, Connecticut, America. William Thrall made a will.

We know very little about the wife of William Thrall. She is referred to in the Old Windsor records as Goode Thrall, but 'Goode' was an expression applied to women with families and it is simply an abbreviation of 'Goodwife'. Whether she came over to New England on the "Mary and John" with her husband or they met in Dorchester, has never been established. The record of her death simply states… “Goode Thrall, wife of William, died 30 July 1676”

The above quote from the Thrall website has some good information, but some of the important details are incorrect. The birthdate of 1605 in Sandridge is generally accepted to be another William Thrall. There is no evidence that William was aboard the 1630 voyage of the Mary & John. It is generally accepted that he was not. Records with his name begin in 1637. It may be a good assumption that he arrived in 1636 with another voyage of the same ship. The other information given above does all appear to be correct.

There is no good evidence of birthplace or parents name. There were a lot of Thralls in England and there are many possibilities. Winthrops Journal did have an entry that William Thrall was 60 years old in 1666. See TAG V24 P112.

Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records:
Page 27-8.
Thrall, William, Windsor. Died 3 August, 1679. Invt. £158-09-06. Taken by Christopher Sanders, Jacob Drake. Will dated 11 December, 1678.
I William Thrall of Windsor do give and bequeath my Outward Es tate, my House Barn & all my Lands of one sort or other, Upland or Meadow, to my son Timothy Thrall, to be his & his heirs forever, yt with this Proviso, that upon his possession thereof he stand bound to discharge the Legacies as followeth: First: that he pay to Daughter Phillip(i) Hosford the sum of £45, to be paid within 3 years after my decease. Sec-ond : that he pay to Samuel Cross, & also to her that was Mary Cross, both which live with me, 5 Shillings apeice. Third: That he pay to Mr. Ben jamin Woodbridge 20 Shillings. It is my Will & I do give to my gr. child Sarah Hosford the little House I have begun to build on John Hosford's Land. For my Household Goods, what is in the possession of my son Timothy Thrall I do bestow on him, & what part of my Household Goods is in the possession of John Shepherd I do give to my daughter Phillipi Thrall. A Cow of mine in John Hosford's Hands I do give to Daughter Phillip(i) Hosford, & the Cattle or Stock in my son Timothy Thrall's Hands I give to him. I ordain my son Timothy Thrall Executor. Also I desire Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge and Abraham Phelps to be my Over- seers.

Witness: Job Drake, william X thrall.
Mary Woodbridge.

Court Record, Page 18-4 December, 1679: Will & Invt. proven.

William married Elizabeth Unknown in 1632 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Elizabeth was born in 1609 in England; died on 30 Dec 1676 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 6170

Notes:

This may not be her name. She was referred to in early records as "Goode Thrall" which is shorthand for "Goodwife" and probably is not her name.