William Phelps

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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]

William married Mary Unknown in 1618 in England. Mary was born about 1593; died in Aug 1626 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; was buried on 13 Aug 1626 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records: Hartford district, 1635-1700
Vol 1, Page 347-48
Phelps, Joseph, Simsbury. Invt. £84-09-06. Taken 5 March, 1683- 4, by John Terry, Joshua Holcomb & John Case. The children: Joseph 17 years of age, Hannah 15, William 13 years, Sarah 11 years, and Timo- thy 4 years of age.
Court Record, Page 87-6 March, 1684: An Invt. of the Estate of Joseph Phelps was exhibited in Court, proven & ordered to be recorded. And this Court grants Adms, to the Widow, £6 of the Personal Estate& 1-3 of the Real Estate during her natural life, and to the Eldest son £22, and to the rest of the Children £11 apeice. And Timothy Phelps, Thomas Barber and John Terry are desired to be Overseers,
See File: The Petition of Mary Phelps, Relict to Joseph Phelps, of Symsbury, To the Honourable County Court now sitting at Hartford, Humbly showeth: That your poor Petitioner, when shee married to Joseph Phelps, was a widow, And was left by her former husband hi some- what a comfortable Condition. And after shee was married to this man, carried a considerable Estate with her to the value of £40 or £50, but since his decease is left in a very helpless Condition; having but £6 allowed In Moveable estate, with the third of the Land for life, which will not yield above 20 Shillings per Annum, which is but a very small matter to maintain me, having a young child left By Joseph Phelps, my deceased husband, to be brought up out of it. Having therefore heard of the Readyness of this Court to hear the cry & to help the fatherless and the Widow, made me Bold humbly to move your honours that some more of the Estate may be settled upon me for the Bringing up of the Child. How-ever, if the matter be difficult, that at least you would be pleased to order that I might have that mare and Cow that is left and was part of my own Estate which I carried with me when I married my late husband. Hop- ing your honours will take the matter into serious Consideration, I shal not farther enlarge, but, begging Gods presence with you, rest your hum- ble Petitioner.
Northapt, 28 August, 1684. mary phelps.


Birth:
baptism date--twin

Joseph married Hannah Newton on 20 Sep 1660 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Hannah was born in 1629 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in 1675 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Mary Salman on 19 Dec 1676 in Northampton, New London, Connecticut, USA. Mary was born after 1628. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
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Died:
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Birth:
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prob died young-reused name in 1644

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Sarah married William Wade on 9 Jun 1658 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. William was born about 1630. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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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Mary married Thomas Barber on 17 Dec 1663 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Thomas was born on 14 Jul 1644 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 13 Feb 1725/26 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
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William married Sarah Pinney on 20 Dec 1676 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of Humphrey Pinney and Mary Hull) was born on 19 Nov 1648 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Isabel Wilson on 4 Jun 1645. Isabel was born in 1626; died in 1674. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: 15 May 1669, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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Birth:
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Samuel married Sarah Griswold on 10 Nov 1650 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of Edward Griswold and Margaret Unknown) was born in 1631 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Deacon Nathaniel Phelps
• Reference Number: 2282
• Baptism: 11 May 1624, Crewkerne, Somerset, England
• Death: 6 Dec 1712, North Hampton, Hampshire, Maine, USA

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Nathaniel married Eliazabeth Copley on 17 Sep 1650 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Eliazabeth was born about 1625 in England; died on 6 Dec 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 3555
• Birth: 1667, Connecticut, USA
• Birth: 1667, Connecticut, USA
• Birth: 20 Aug 1667, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Death: 20 Jan 1750, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Joseph married Mary Case on 9 Nov 1699 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary was born in 1669 in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 10 Sep 1757 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 399
• Baptism: 8 Nov 1663, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Timothy married Martha Crow on 4 Nov 1686 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Martha was born in May 1670 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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 Gillett on 22 Feb 1709/10 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of Cornelius Gillett and Priscilla Kelsey) was born on 3 Jan 1673/74 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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: 6457
• Birth: 1668
• Death: 1733, Connecticut, USA
• Probate: 21 Sep 1733, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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Will states "eldest son WIlliam"

William married Ruth Barber on 18 Apr 1706. Ruth was born on 24 Jul 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Abigail Mudge on 7 Dec 1699 in New England, USA. Abigail (daughter of Micah Mudge and Mary Alexander) was born in 1683; died on 24 Apr 1705 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Samuel married Abigail Eno on 3 Apr 1707 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Abigail (daughter of James Eno and Hannah Phelps) was born on 1 Mar 1686 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 25 Dec 1749 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hannah married James Eno on 15 Jul 1708. James (son of James Eno and Abigail Bissell) was born on 23 Sep 1679; died in 1764. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Anne Phelps
• Reference Number: 1121

Anna married David Porter on 3 Jan 1707. David (son of John Porter, III and Joanna Gaylord) was born on 10 Oct 1685. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Sarah Holcomb. Sarah was born in 1691. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Nathaniel married Grace Martin, {Marten} on 11 Aug 1676 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA. Grace was born in 1656; died in 1727. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 325

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• Reference Number: 422

William married on 20 Dec 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 3560
• Birth: 1710, Connecticut, USA

David married Abigail Pettibone on 25 Apr 1731 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Abigail was born on 22 Apr 1706 in Canton, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 17 Oct 1787 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 487

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• Reference Number: 2868
• Birth: 23 Jan 1694, Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA

Noah married Anna Dyer on 1 Oct 1719. Anna was born in 1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 409

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• Reference Number: 499

Cornelius married Margaret Dewey on 18 Jan 1721/22 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA. Margaret (daughter of Nathaniel Dewey and Margaret Burroughs) was born on 5 May 1702 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA; died in 1730 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 649

Charles married Hepzibah Stiles on 17 Feb 1725. Hepzibah (daughter of Robert Stiles and Ruth Bridges) was born on 7 Nov 1709 in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 470

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• Reference Number: 479

Hannah married Benjamin Smith on 29 Jan 1725. Benjamin was born in 1680; died in 1730. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5917

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• Reference Number: 5909

Notes:

Abigail born 1693 and Abigail born 1714 appear to be the same person! See her fathers will, Abigail is listed, but is not listed as a minor. This person, b. 1714, should probably be removed, but I will leave here here, as most of the published genealogies show her.

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• Reference Number: 6163

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• Reference Number: 6152

Notes:

See her fathers will. Mary is listed as aminor age 13. But that just cannot be correct.

Family/Spouse: Mathew Griswold. Mathew (son of Joseph Griswold and Mary Gaylord) was born on 25 Feb 1686 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died in 1737 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5933

Joseph married Susannah Eno on 8 Mar 1715 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. Susannah was born on 16 May 1699 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 11 Dec 1778 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5910
• Birth: 1693

Notes:

Birth:
died young

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• Reference Number: 5948

Edward married Deborah Bissel on 18 Jun 1723 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. Deborah was born on 7 Nov 1698 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 18 Jan 1771 in Harwinton, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5943

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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: 5908

Family/Spouse: Jerusha Unknown. Jerusha was born about 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Pinnuck. Mary was born in 1716; died in 1808. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5944

Notes:

Date of birth appears to be incorrect. See his fathers will; in 1716 Daniel is appointed executor. Certainly he would be more than 9 years old then. Other children were listed as minors, but not Daniel.

Family/Spouse: Sarah Unknown. Sarah was born about 1707. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Capt Ichabod Phelps
• Reference Number: 5912

Ichabod married Martha Tillotson on 10 Dec 1730 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. Martha was born on 16 May 1715 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; died on 3 Feb 1786 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 6292

Caleb married Mary Moore on 24 Dec 1730 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary was born on 13 May 1707 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 20 Apr 1747 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 6000

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• Reference Number: 5973

Ruth married Samuel Phelps in 1731. Samuel (son of Samuel Phelps and Abigail Eno) was born on 5 Apr 1710 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 17 Aug 1754 in Harwinton, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 6296
• Birth: 16 Mar 1702, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Notes:

Died:
died in camp during the revolution

Family/Spouse: Unknown Moore. Unknown was born about 1702; died about 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Anna Bishop about 1760. Anna was born in 1737; died on 19 Jan 1813. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5994

Family/Spouse: Mindwell Eggleston. Mindwell was born in 1703. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 115

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• Reference Number: 5976

Samuel married Ruth Phelps in 1731. Ruth (daughter of William Phelps and Ruth Barber) was born on 23 Jan 1713 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 139

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• Reference Number: 11

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• Reference Number: 142

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• Reference Number: 150

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• Reference Number: 124

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• Reference Number: 215

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• Name: Abigail Enos
• Reference Number: 6219

Abigail married Samuel Phelps on 3 Apr 1707 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Samuel (son of Timothy Phelps and Mary Griswold) was born on 29 Jan 1675 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 26 Oct 1741 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 2013

Samuel married Typhrena Humphrey on 11 Jun 1739 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Typhrena (daughter of Samuel Humphrey and Lydia North) was born on 29 Jan 1722/23; died on 2 Mar 1752 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 2004

Timothy married Abigail Merrick on 18 Jan 1725 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA. Abigail was born in 1702; died in 1791. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 449

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]