William Phelps

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Biography

William Phelps, Sr. was born in 1669 in Windsor, Connecticut, to Timothy Phelps and Mary (Griswold) Phelps.<ref name = "Phelps and Servin Book">Oliver Seymour Phelps and Andrew Tinkey 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, Volume I, pp. 93-97, 109 (Eagle Publishing Co., Pittsfield 1899). Copy available at https://archive.org/details/phelpsfamilyofam01phel.</ref>
William and Abigail Mudge married on December 7, 1699.<ref name = "C.A. Torrey NE Marriages Book">Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, p. 576 (Geneaological Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore 1985). Copy available at https://books.google.com/books?id=mOgK8dM9qqUC&pg=PA576&lpg=PA576&d....</ref>,<ref name = "Phelps and Servin Book" /> Abigail passed away on April 24, 1705, shortly after the birth of the couple's second child.<refname = "Phelps and Servin Book" /> The couple had two known children,both born in Windsor, including William Phelps, Jr. (b. 16 Mar 1702, m. a Moore, m2. Anna Bishop) and Ebenezer (b. 2 Apr 1704, m. Mindwell Eggleston).<ref name = "Phelps and Servin Book" /> William and Ruth Barber (b. 24 Jul 1683 to Samuel and Ruth (Drake) Barber) married in 1706.<ref name = "Rixford Royal Families Book">Elizabeth May Leach Rixford, Families Directly Descended From All the Royal Families in Europe (495 to 1932) and Mayflower Descendants, p. 50 (Burlington, Vt., Free press printing co., 1932). Copy available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062952932;view=1up;seq=96.</ref>,<ref name = "Phelps and Servin Book" /> The couple had three knownchildren, including Caleb Phelps (b. 11 Jan 1708, m. Mary Moore, m2. Mary Henderson), Jacob Phelps (b. 18 Jan 1711, m. Abigail Alvord), andRuth (Phelps) Phelps (b. 23 Jan 1713, m. Samuel Phelps).<ref name = "Phelps and Servin Book" />

Sources

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See also,

• Tom Bredehoft, information is from LDS FamilySearch User Submitted Trees. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Tom and others.
• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9981-M5X : accessed 5 October 2012), entry for William PHELPS.
• 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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Acknowledgments

This person was created through the import of all_01september_2010.GEDon 13 September 2010.

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