Abt 1610 - 1687 (~ 77 years)
Generation: 1
1. | George Phelps was born about 1610 in England; died on 8 May 1687 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA. Other Events:
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A very authoritative treatment of george Phelps can be found in the "Puritan Great Migration Project" at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Phelps-76
The birthplace in England of George Phelps is not known. It has been claimed that he arrived in 1630 on the "Mary and John", but as the first record of him in Dorchester was May 1635 it is more likely that he did not arrive on the "Mary and John". Possibly he is the passenger George P. who arrived on the "Recovery" in 1634.
He was with the group which moved to Windsor with Rev. John Warham.
He married first by 1638 to Philura Randall, the daughter of Phlip Randall, with whom he had 5 children. Philura died 29 Apr 1638 in Windsor.
On 2 Nov 1648 he married the widow of Thomas Dewey, Frances whose maiden name is unknown, with whom he had 3 additional children.
George Phelps died in Westfield 8 May 1687.
George Phelps appears in the "Great Migration Begins: Series" and all the above information is from that source.
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.
George married Phillury Randall in 1637 in Connecticut, USA. Phillury (daughter of Philip Randall and Joane Fush) was born in 1617 in England; died on 29 Apr 1648 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Isaac Phelps was born on 20 Aug 1638 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 2 Jun 1725 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA.
- 3. Captain Abraham Phelps was born on 22 Jan 1642 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 28 Jan 1728 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 4. Joseph Phelps was born on 24 Jun 1647 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in 1695 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
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George married Frances Unknown on 2 Nov 1648 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Frances was born between 1610 and 1615 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 5. Jacob Phelps was born on 7 Feb 1649.
- 6. John Phelps was born on 15 Feb 1651/52 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in 1742 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 7. Nathaniel Phelps was born on 7 Dec 1653 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
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Generation: 2
2. | Isaac Phelps (1.George1) was born on 20 Aug 1638 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 2 Jun 1725 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA. Other Events:
Isaac married Ann Gaylord on 11 Mar 1662/63. Ann (daughter of William Gaylord and Anna Porter) was born on 24 Apr 1645 in Connecticut, USA; died on 27 Sep 1690 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 8. Isaac Phelps was born on 18 Sep 1666 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 9. Sara Phelps was born on 4 Jul 1670 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 10. John Phelps was born on 29 Jun 1673 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
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3. | Captain Abraham Phelps (1.George1) was born on 22 Jan 1642 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 28 Jan 1728 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 3691
- Birth: 1642, Connecticut, USA
Abraham married Mary Pinney on 6 Jul 1663 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary (daughter of Humphrey Pinney and Mary Hull) was born on 16 Jun 1644 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 11. Abraham Phelps was born on 6 Mar 1665 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in Aug 1732 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 12. Isack Phelps was born on 5 Aug 1673 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
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4. | Joseph Phelps (1.George1) was born on 24 Jun 1647 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in 1695 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 3595
- Birth: 1647, Connecticut, USA
Joseph married Mary Porter on 26 Jun 1673. Mary (daughter of John Porter, Jr and Mary Stanley) was born on 17 Jul 1653 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 10 Jan 1682 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 13. Mary Phelps was born on 13 Jan 1674 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA; died on 3 Jan 1750/51 in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA.
- 14. Sara Phelps was born on 4 Apr 1677 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 15. Joseph Phelps was born on 30 Dec 1678 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 3 Sep 1751.
- 16. Hannah Phelps was born in 1680 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 17. Mindwell Phelps was born in 1682 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 3 Oct 1771 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
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Family/Spouse: Hester Hosford. Hester (daughter of John Hosford and Philippi Thrall) was born on 27 May 1664 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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6. | John Phelps (1.George1) was born on 15 Feb 1651/52 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in 1742 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
Family/Spouse: Sara Buckland. Sara was born about 1652. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 21. Enoch Phelps was born on 21 Jan 1675 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 22. John Phelps was born on 12 Apr 1678 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 23. Josias Phelps was born on 17 Feb 1679 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 24. Thomas Phelps was born on 21 Aug 1687 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 6 Jan 1750 in Poquonock, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
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Generation: 3
8. | Isaac Phelps (2.Isaac2, 1.George1) was born on 18 Sep 1666 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 284
- Birth: 10 Sep 1666, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
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9. | Sara Phelps (2.Isaac2, 1.George1) was born on 4 Jul 1670 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
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10. | John Phelps (2.Isaac2, 1.George1) was born on 29 Jun 1673 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
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11. | Abraham Phelps (3.Abraham2, 1.George1) was born on 6 Mar 1665 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in Aug 1732 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
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13. | Mary Phelps (4.Joseph2, 1.George1) was born on 13 Jan 1674 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA; died on 3 Jan 1750/51 in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
Mary married Nathaniel Hosford on 19 Apr 1700 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Nathaniel (son of John Hosford and Philippi Thrall) was born on 19 Aug 1671 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 3 Apr 1748 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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17. | Mindwell Phelps (4.Joseph2, 1.George1) was born in 1682 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 3 Oct 1771 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
Mindwell married Obadiah Hosford on 4 May 1704 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Obadiah (son of John Hosford and Philippi Thrall) was born on 28 Sep 1677 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 27 Feb 1740 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 25. Anna Hosford was born on 23 Feb 1705/06 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died after 1773.
- 26. John Hosford was born in Mar 1707.
- 27. Daniel Hosford was born on 19 Mar 1712 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; died on 13 Oct 1773 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
- 28. Mindwell Hosford was born in 1722 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; died in 1807 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
- 29. Obadiah Hosford was born in 1724 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
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22. | John Phelps (6.John2, 1.George1) was born on 12 Apr 1678 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
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23. | Josias Phelps (6.John2, 1.George1) was born on 17 Feb 1679 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
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24. | Thomas Phelps (6.John2, 1.George1) was born on 21 Aug 1687 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 6 Jan 1750 in Poquonock, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 30. Oliver Phelps was born in Oct 1749 in Canton, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 21 Feb 1809 in Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, USA.
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Generation: 4
25. | Anna Hosford (17.Mindwell3, 4.Joseph2, 1.George1) was born on 23 Feb 1705/06 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died after 1773. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 6560
- Death: 10 Feb 1769, Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA
Anna married John Phelps, Sr on 11 Feb 1724/25 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. John (son of Joseph Phelps and Sarah Hosford) was born in 1701; died on 10 Feb 1769 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 31. Aaron Phelps was born on 25 Mar 1728/29 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; died on 7 Apr 1743 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
- 32. Ann Phelps was born on 25 Mar 1728/29 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
- 33. John Phelps, Jr was born on 7 Sep 1731 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; died on 5 Apr 1814 in Marlborough, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- 34. Sarah Phelps was born on 4 Oct 1733 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; died on 7 Apr 1743 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
- 35. Amos Phelps was born on 30 May 1736 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; died on 9 Feb 1800 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
- 36. Roger Phelps was born on 24 Dec 1738 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; died on 22 Feb 1809 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
- 37. Mindwell Phelps was born in 1744 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; died in 1807.
- 38. Aaron Phelps was born on 30 Mar 1745 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
- 39. Sarah Phelps was born in 1750 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
- 40. Nathan Phelps was born in 1750 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA.
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28. | Mindwell Hosford (17.Mindwell3, 4.Joseph2, 1.George1) was born in 1722 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; died in 1807 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. Other Events:
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This person shows in the Barbour Collection for Tolland as marrying Daniel Tillotson 16 Sept1742. The only source I have found for marrying Phelps is in the Phelps book. Supposedly the Hosford book, which I have not seen, says on page 33 that Anna is the mother of all the children.
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30. | Oliver Phelps (24.Thomas3, 6.John2, 1.George1) was born in Oct 1749 in Canton, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 21 Feb 1809 in Canandaigua, Ontario, New York, USA. Other Events:
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Phelps Family History in America and Kindred Family Histories
Oliver Phelps, Land speculator, Judge, and Congressman
Oliver Phelps (1749-1809) was a great land speculator(1) . A native of Windsor, young Phelps came to Suffield, Connecticut, apprenticed to a local merchant and later became a tavern keeper in Granville, Mass. As Deputy Commissary of the Colonial army during the Revolution, he supplied troops and was commended by General Washington. The connections he thus established aided his efforts in forming a syndicate with Nathanial Gorham for the purpose of buying large tracts of land on speculation.
Phelps and Gorham contracted to buy 6,144,000 acres in what is now eastern New York State, but what was then Massachusetts. The purchase price was $1 million. Phelps journeyed west to supervise land surveys and to arrange acceptable terms with the Senecas for the purchase of the eastern half of their lands.
"A first attempt to convene a council at Geneva failed, and Phelps paid a visit to Indian Allan on the Genesee before proceeding to Buffalo Creek where a large council was convened on July 4th. A goodly number of chiefs gathered there to hear Phelps explain the nature of his claim to their lands. It was not at all clear just what he had bought from Massachusetts since the Indians considered themselves to be the rightful owners of that land. But it was somehow made evident to the chieftains that, since they had been the allies of the defeated British, and since their lands had been surrendered in the peace treaty of 1783, the tribes could only expect to retain their lands on the sufferance of the United States."
"For nearly 2,600,000 acres of rich land lying between Lake Seneca and the Genesee River, Oliver Phelps offered the niggardly sum of £2,lOO in New York currency! The price paid to the Indians for Manhattan
Island was extravagant compared to this!"
"Before he returned to New England that fall, Oliver Phelps engaged a group of surveyors to lay out townships on a rectangular pattern over all the broad estate. A site at the outlet of Canandaigua Lake was chosen for the land office and the chief town, and an order was given for the erection there of a log-house
during the winter."(2)
After meeting the Senecas on July 4-8, 1788, at Buffalo Creek, Phelps and Gorham ended up with 4,940,000 acres of the tract. This land ownership briefly made Oliver one of the largest land owners in the United States. Gorham and Phelps could not make regular payments. Land sales did not keep pace with payments due Massachusetts for the pre-emption rights. In 1790, about two-thirds of the land reverted to the Commonwealth.
By 1789 he had returned to Suffield, bought the Hatheway House where he opened one of the first land offices in America (and another in Canandaigua, N.Y.).
Phelps retained extensive holdings in the infant Ontario County. He maintained an interest in its affairs - and in further land speculations. He was elected First Judge of Ontario county (1789-1793). After additional entanglements in western real estate ventures which resulted in "personal embarrassment" and, for a time, the prospect of debtor's prison, Phelps settled down to permanent residence in Canandaigua in 1802. A popular figure in the country he had opened for settlement, he was honored as a Democrat (i.e., Jeffersonian Republican) with his single term in congress, and returned to Canandaigua afterwards to live out his years.
At the time of the Western Reserve purchase (some 3,300,000 acres), Phelps was also negotiating for land in Georgia, West Virginia and Maine, and considered to be the largest land holder in the country.
Although he was a founder and large stock holder in the Hartford National Bank and Trust Co., about 1800 his financial troubles became acute because of the effect of changing money values on mortgages held on the tracts of land sold and a depressed land market. Forced to sell his Suffield home, Phelps moved to Canandaigua, N.Y., where he built a grist mill and endowed an academy. He was appointed the first judge of Ontario County and between 1803 and 1805 he served in Congress. Although a man of great ability and broad vision, Oliver Phelps was ahead of his time. He tried to help settlers who could not fulfill their contracts, but he was doomed to poverty and died in 1809 in debtor’s prison.
His memory is honored in Canandaigua, where the inscription on his tombstone reads: “Enterprise, Industry, and Temperance cannot always ensure success but the first of these will be felt by Society.”
From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Phelps, Oliver, a Representative from New York; born in Poquonock, Hartford County, Conn., October 21, 1749; completed preparatory studies; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Granville, Mass., in 1770; during the Revolution was deputy commissary in the Continental Army and served until the end of the war; settled in Suffield, Mass.; member of the State house of representatives 1778-1780; member of the constitutional convention in 1779 and 1780; served in the State senate in 1785; member of the Governor’s council in 1786; assisted in the organization of the Phelps & Gorham syndicate in 1788 and acted as the representative of that company in the exploration of the Genesee country in western New York; first judge of Ontario County, N.Y., 1789-1793; moved to Canandaigua, N.Y., in 1802; elected as a Republican to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); died in Canandaigua, N.Y., February 21, 1809; interment in West Avenue Cemetery.
(1) From Suffield Library <http://www.suffield-library.org/localhistory/phelps.htm>, June 2003
(2) Rochester History Edited by Dexter PErkins, City Historian, and Blake McKelvey, Assistant City Historian. Vol. 1, No. 1. January 1939
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