David Phelps

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• Reference Number: 596

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• Reference Number: 6182

Roger married Abigail Filler. Abigail was born in 1733. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Abigail Filer
• Reference Number: 5891

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• Reference Number: 6622
• Birth: 1700
• Birth: 20 Sep 1703, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Will: 28 Jan 1769, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Notes:

Many published genealogies list his birth date as 20 Sep 1703, but nowhere can I find the source of that date. The Barbour collection of Connecticut births lists the birth of 8 or Joseph's 10 children. Only John and Edward are not found. His fathers will in 1716 lists him as 16 years old. His death record lists him as 68 in 1769. There is some doubt then as to the actual birth date.

The Phelps Family Book has Anna Hosford as the mother of the first 6 children and has her dying in about 1740. It then has her sister Mindwell Hosford as the mother of the last 4 children.

The Hosford Book, which I have not seen, supposedly on page 33 has Anna as the mother of all the children and as living until at least 1773. It has Mindwell marrying Daniel Tillotson and moving to New Hampshire where she died in 1807 on page 35. Obviously it would be nice to find a copy of that book.

The History of Ancient Windsor by Stiles on P. 568 shows John as marrying 2nd to Mindwell (Hosford?). The last name being in parenthesis with a question mark indicates that the name is uncertain.

The Barbour Collection of records shows Mindwell marrying Daniel Tillotson on 16 Sept1742 in Tolland. It does not show a second marriage for John. It shows the birth of the first 7 children, noted as son of John, without listing the mother. The last 3 children do not show.

The will of John Phelps in 1769 shows his wife's name as Anne and also shows the names of the remaining children.

My conclusion is that Anna Hosford was the mother of all the children.


Birth:
from death record

Birth:
listed as age 16 in fathers will in 1716

John married Anna Hosford on 11 Feb 1724/25 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. Anna (daughter of Obadiah Hosford and Mindwell Phelps) was born on 23 Feb 1705/06 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died after 1773. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 6560
• Death: 10 Feb 1769, Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA

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

Notes:

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

Notes:

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

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• Reference Number: 5921
• Birth: 23 Sep 1677, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Notes:

The following is copied from werelate.org:

From Ye Horseford Booke

Obadiah became resident and prominent at Hebron.

Obadiah and Mindwell were both buried in "Obadiah's Nine Acres." This nine acres he bought from the Deweys in 1720 and he allowed priviledge of burial to all persons from the town. No stone appears for Mindwell but Obadiah's stone displays a long and curious inscription which reads as follows:

"These in memory of that most Worthy and much serviceable and well beloved Capt. Mr. Obadiah Hosford, Capt. of the First Military Company in Hebron and Grate Practicnor of Phisick who after sarveing God his generation & the publick Faithfully many years in this life and a patient looking for the Blissful dawn of that Illusterous day wherein our Victorious and tryumphant Joshua will lead the Armies of Israel into the land of Canaan and command the Sun of Glory to stand still in the noon of Eternity and that Permanent Happiness... love to know an evening did with the holy disciple lean himselfe upon the Breast of his Beloved and the will of God ...lly fell asleep in the cradle of Hope on the 27th day of February A.D. 1741 in the 63 year of His Age.
By Benjamin Collins-Lebanon Crank"

The Benjamin Collins of the last line was the maker of the tombstone, possibly the composer of the epitaph. Lebanon Crank does not refer to Mr. Collins but denotes a town adjacent to Hebron which later became Columbia.

... Court and land records show him at Hebron in and after 1706. The people worshipped for a time in Dr. Obadiah Horsford's barn. Sheldon's History of Northfield states that David Barber and 13 others were baptized in this barn in 1717. The church was later built upon the N.W. corner of Obadiah's farm. In 1712 Obadiah petitioned the General Court for leave to practise medicine. The following testimonials are on file:

The first was given by Gershom Buckeley, by profesion first a minister, later a physician. He was evidently of a discreet and cautious temper.

"Gasen bury May 7, 1712
As to Mr. Obadiah Horsford's desire of a Testimonial to ye wld fr his allowance to practise Physick, my answer is that when men give any Testimony whatever, they ought to testify what they know, not what they do not know.

I know by written report and in part from himself that he hath practised divers years, but as for his having skill and success in ye art and practise of Physick, I know nothing. It may be very good for ought I know. G. Buckeley"

The second testimonial is from Samuel Mather, also a physiscian:

"Whereas Docter Obediah Hosford of Hebron, desireth a testimonial from us as to his qualifications fitting him for ye practise of Physick in this Collony - We do by what we have heard of his practice some years past and by ye good acceptance he hath had among his people and by what we conceive he hath gained, by Reading and Experience in that Science, approve of his being an allowed Physitian and hope he may be allowed and encouraged therein. Saml Mather (Practr Medicine) Windsor May 16, 1712"

At New Haven, Oct. 11, 1722, The Court of Conn. Colony established and confirmed Mr. Obadiah Hosford to be Captain of a Train Band in Hebron. In 1729 and 1731 he was Deputy from Hebron to the General Court. He kept an inn at Hebron and in 1731/2 was one of the incorporators of the New London Company "invited for trade and commerce."

Obadiah's will, dated Sept. 14, 1737, proved June 1, 1741, describes him as Captain Obadiah Horsford of Hebron...

?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).

Will uses name Horsford

2.? Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1638-1925, Bk I p. 18.

"Obediah son of John Hossord (or Hofford or Hosford) was born Sept 28th 1677"

Obadiah married Mindwell Phelps on 4 May 1704 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mindwell (daughter of Joseph Phelps and Mary Porter) was born in 1682 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 3 Oct 1771 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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