William Phelps Genealogy
Record modified: 2007-09-02
This is my ancestor 12 generations back.
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Born: 1599-02-28 Tewksbury, Gloucester England
Died: 1672-07-14 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut USA
Marriages:
1. 1626-11-14 Anne Dover
Children of William Phelps and Anne Dover:
| *Timothy Phelps | b. 1639-09-01 |
| Mary Phelps | b. 1644-03-02 |
| Sarah Phelps | b. 1646-00-00 |
Notes:
married in CT according to one source; England according to Phelps website
Mr. Phelps, his wife, six children, and brother[?] George, then unmarried, emigrated to New England in the ship Mary and John, of four hundred tons burden, commanded by Captain Squeb, with one hundred and forty passengers. This company had been organized into a church and selected their ministes the day before sailing. They sailed from Plymouth, England, March 20th, 1630, arriving and landing at Nantasket, now Hull, Mass., May 30th, 1630. This company settled Dorchester, Mass., the first settlers and founders of that place. Mr. Phelps took an active position in town matters, and during the first six months was made a freeman.
Myrtle Stevens Hyde in her article "The English origin of William Phelps," The American Genealogist 58 (1982) 243-244, rejects William of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, as the father of immigrant William Phelps. That William's son William had a son baptized in England in 1619, so could not be this one.
first wife was Mary, died 1626-08 in England.
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"A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut"
He married before he came from England, and had four children before he moved to Windsor: William,
Samuel, Nathaniel, and Joseph. Timothy was born at Windsor in 1639, and Mary in 1644.
He was a member of the first court held in the colony in 1636 and held several other offices.
Mr Phelps was one of the most efficient and valuable officers in the colony -- his whole time must have
been occupied in the service of the public.
He was a brother of George and Samuel Phelps.
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 1185
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