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Nathaniel Phelps (1690 - 1774)

Nathaniel Phelps
Born in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Died at age 83 in East Granby, Hartford, Connecticutmap
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Biography

Nathaniel Phelps was born 5 October 1690 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, to father William Phelps[1] and mother Abigail Stebbins.

There is little information available about Nathaniel's life between birth and death. At a time and place unknown, he married Lois. At a time also unknown, he relocated to East Granby (part of Simsbury), Hartford County, Connecticut Colony, where, according to The Phelps Family of America...(Phelps and Servin) he and Lois had four children:

  • Lois, born 10 March 1718
  • Azeriah, born 1733
  • Job, no birth date given.
  • Ahner [sic.] Phelps and Servin is notably prone to errors. The first three children have been verified by other means; "Ahner" (or perhaps, Abner) has not been found in the records.[2]

Nathaniel died 25 February 1774 in East Granby, and is buried in East Granby Cemetery, Hartford County, Connecticut. His gravestone reads: "In Memory of Mr Nat Phelps who died Feb 25 AD : 1774 in ye 83rd year of his age." The memento mori reads "The Sweet Remembrance/ ( of the just/ Shall Flourish when/ (He Sleeps in Dust."[3]

Sources

  1. Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) Volume: Northampton-V1, page 24.
  2. Phelps, Oliver S. and Servin, Andrew T.; 'The Phelps Family of America... (Pittsfield, Mass.; Eagle Publishing Co.; 1899), page 132. Courtesy of Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/phelpsfamilyofam01phel.
  3. Find A Grave Memorial 11636240 for Nathaniel Phelps, with gravestone (Curt Miller, photographer.)
  • Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Reviewed this "record." It gave no source, and no information other than that Nathaniel's wife's name was Lois.

Acknowledgement

  • WikiTree profile Phelps-1134 created through the import of Evans-Stanley.ged on May 16, 2012 by Kathie Llewellyn.




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