William PHELPS

Abt 1593 - 1672  (~ 79 years)

• Name	William PHELPS
  Birth	Abt 1593	Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Jul 1672	Windsor, Connecticut   [1]
  Notes	From The Great Migration Begins, Vol. 3, pp. 1444-1446: "WILLIAM PHELPS ORIGIN: Crewkerne, Somersetshire MIGRATION: 1630 on Mary & John FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester REMOVES: Windsor 1635 CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Second on the list of men who came from Dorchester church to Windsor with Mr. Warham [ Grant 10]. FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 (as "Will[ia]m Felpes") [ MBCR 1:79, 366]. In list of Windsor freemen, 11 October 1669 (as "Mr. Will[iam] Phelps Sen.") [ CCCR 2:519]. OFFICES: 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]. ESTATE: On 3 April 1633 he was ordered to maintain forty feet of fencing for two cows at Dorchester [ DTR 2]. On 5 July 1635 he was granted two and a half acres [ DTR 12]. In the meadow beyond Naponset "W. Philps" drew lot #40 containing six acres [ DTR 321]. In the Windsor land inventory of 23 February 1640, William Phelps the elder "hath granted from the plantation one homelot with its additions, nine acres more or less" (annotated "sold to Mr. Wareham"); "also one great lot fifty acres ... with meadow adjoining, seventeen acres"; "over the great river in breadth thirty-four rods, in length three miles" (annotated "given to Sam[uel] & Nathan[iel] Phelps"); "by the little meadow in upland two acres and half more or less, in breadth six rods, in length sixty-seven rods" (annotated "purchased by Daniell Clark & Bray Rossiter"); "in meadow adjoining two acres & half in breadth four rods & half more or less" (annotated "purchased by Rich[ard] Vere"); "also purchased of John Brookes a parcel of land in the upper end of the meadow by his dwelling house containing two acres of meadow with the swamp adjoining"; "also given from the town forty acres of woodland" [ WiLR 1:78]. On 27 June 1664 swamp land measured out for Mr. Phelps totalled something over three acres [ WiLR 1:78]. Son William Phelps's inventory showed that he "had by deed of gift from his father William Phelps the elder" one acre of meadow and four and a half acres of upland [ WiLR 1:84]. By February 1650[/1] William Phelps purchased of his father William Phelps a parcel of swampland [ WiLR 82]. On 10 March 1663/4 the Connecticut Court granted to "Mr. Phelps, 200 acres of upland and twenty of meadow, where he can find it; provided it prejudice not former grants and plantations set up and to set up" [ CCCR 1:419]. 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]). CHILDREN: With first wife i WILLIAM, bp. Crewkerne 9 September 1618; m. (1) Windsor 4 June 1645 Isabel Wilson [ Grant 55; TAG 52:78]; m. (2) Windsor 20 December 1676 Sarah Pinney [ Grant 72]. ii SAMUEL, bp. Crewkerne 5 August 1621; m. Windsor 10 November 1650 Sarah Griswold [ Grant 55]. iii Infant, bur. Crewkerne 8 January 1623[/4]. iv NATHANIEL, bp. Crewkerne 6 March 1624[/5]; m. Windsor 17 September 1650 Elizabeth (_____) Copley [ Grant 55]. With second wife v CORNELIUS, bp. Crewkerne 13 October 1627; no further record. vi JOSEPH (twin), bp. Crewkerne 13 November 1628; m. (1) Windsor 20 September 1660 Hannah Newton [ Grant 57; TAG 65:13-16]; m. (2) Northampton 19 December 1676 Mary (_____) Salmon [ Pynchon VR 20]. vii MARY (twin), bp. Crewkerne 13 November 1628; d. soon. viii MARY, bp. Crewkerne 6 December 1629; no further record. ix SARAH, b. say 1632; m. Windsor 9 June 1658 William Wade [Loomis 1:63]. x TIMOTHY, b. Windsor Aug. or 1 September 1639 [ Grant 55]; m. Windsor 19 March 1661[/2?] Mary Griswold [ Grant 56]. xi MARY, b. March 1644 [ Grant 55]; m. Windsor 17 December 1663 Thomas Barber [ Grant 25]. ASSOCIATIONS: George Phelps of Dorchester and Windsor (not to be confused with GEORGE PHILLIPS of the same two places) may have been a brother of William Phelps [ TAG 65:165-66]. This George Phelps married as his first wife Philura Randal, daughter of PHILLIP RANDALL; he was also, in some manner as yet undetermined, an uncle of Elisha Hart, son of EDMUND HART . COMMENTS: In 1919 Mary Lovering Holman prepared a brief account of the family of William Phelps [ Scott Gen 252-53]. In 1990 Myrtle S. Hyde resolved the problem of the identity of the wives of William Phelps and was also able to find the baptisms of his children in England [ TAG 65:161-66]. All the Crewkerne records cited above are taken from her article." [1]
  Person ID	I3039	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2011

  
  

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• Sources

  [S54] Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration Begins, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995), Vol. 3, pp. 1444-1446 (Reliability: 3).