Martha Phelps

The very first Hebron Town Clerk was Timothy Phelps. It was his wife, Martha Crow Phelps, who was the heroine behind the Prophet's Rock legend. She led a group of women who, searching for their husbands in 1704, yelled out from the rock, located off Burrows Hill Road. The echoes of their cries were heard by the men, resulting in a reunion of the families, and they decided that Hebron was a good place to settle. The Hebrew name "Hebron" has been translated as "city of refuge." The town was incorporated just four years later, in 1708.

Sources

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9981-S5H : accessed 2016-10-25), entry for Martha PHELPS, (CROW), submitted by hphelps2719050.
• Phelps, Oliver Seymour & Andrew T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors. Pittsfield, Berkshire, Mass.: Eagle Publishing Co., 1899. Call Number: R929.2 P54 v.1.
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  • ************************************************************************************************* from: FindAGrave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123080875/martha-phelps "Martha Crow Phelps BIRTH May 1670 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA DEATH 28 Sep 1706 (aged 36) Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA BURIAL Andover Road Cemetery Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA MEMORIAL ID#: 123080875 "
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• Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Source Citation: Source number: 3291.016; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 19.
• HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, county of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 537

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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 537

Martha CROW Phelps 1670–1775

American Genealogical Biographical Index, Volume 135