Born in Hebron, Tolland Co., Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Nathaniel Phelps I
and Hannah (Bissell) Phelps
Sister of
Nathaniel Phelps II, Joshua Phelps [half], Solomon Phelps, Abigail (Phelps) Allen [half], Alexander Phelps [half], Mehitabel (Phelps) Ingham [half] and Mahitabel (Phelps) Ingham [half]
Wife of
Jacob Sherwin Sr.
— married
20 May 1734 in Hebron, Tolland Co., Connecticut Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
John Sherwin, Jacob Sherwin Jr., Joshua Sherwin, Hannah (Sherwin) Perry and Nathaniel Sherwin
Died about
at about age 89
in Ashfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]
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Biography
Hannah Phelps was born 22 January 1702 in Hebron, Connecticut. She was the eldest child of Capt. Nathaniel Phelps and his first wife, Hannah Bissell[1][2].
On 20 March 1734 she married Jacob Sherwin in Hebron[3].
Their first child, John, was born in March of the following year[4]. They went on to have three more sons and one daughter by 1741.
The family moved to Ashfield, Massachusetts where her son, Jacob Jr., became the preacher at the Congregational church. It is believed she died there in about 1792.
Sources
- ↑ "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F73K-B48 : 11 June 2020), Hannah Phelps, 1701.
- ↑ Phelps, Oliver. The Phelps Family Of America And Their English Ancestors (Eagle Pub. Co., Pittsfield, Mass., 1899) page 111; https://archive.org/details/phelpsfamilyofam01phel/page/110/mode/2up
- ↑ "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7LW-9VM : 11 June 2020), Jacob Sherwin, 1734.
- ↑ "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F732-S2Z : 11 June 2020), Jacob Sherwin in entry for John Sherwin, 1734.
Acknowledgements
• Tom Bredehoft, Ancestry.com Historical Records, Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906
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Phelps-2653 and Phelps-1723 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, similar dates
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Rejected matches › Hannah (Phillips) Hart (abt.1702-1774)
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