Rev.
Benajah
Phelps
Born in Hebron, Hartford, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Nathaniel Phelps II
and Mary (Curtis) Phelps
Brother of
Joshua Phelps Sr., Hannah (Phelps) Rowley, Nathaniel Phelps III, Elizabeth (Phelps) Powers and Samuel Phelps
Husband of
Phebe (Denison) Phelps
— married
19 Nov 1766 in Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia
[children unknown]
Died
at age 79
in Connecticut
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Sep 2010
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Biography
Benajah Phelps, born 30 Mar 1737 at Hebron, Connecticut, was a son of Mary (Curtis) & Nathaniel Phelps.
Benajah Phelps graduated Yale College 1761. He was ordained in 1765, then served as minister at Cornwallis Township, Kings County, Nova Scotia from 1766 to 1778.
He received a land grant of 666 acres in Cornwallis Township on 26 Sep 1769
He married 19 Nov 1766 at Cornwallis Township, Phebe Denison. They had 7 children, the first three born at Cornwallis Township:
- Elizabeth Phelps, b. 30 Aug 1768; married ___ Samson; d. 27 Aug 1804
- Phebe Phelps, b. 7 Oct 1770; married 12 Jun 1793 Eleazer Wheelock Phelps [b. 16 Oct 1766 @ Hebron, Connecticut]
- Dennison Phelps, b. 24 Sep 1772, d. Aug 1773
- Sherman Phelps, b. Oct 1773, d. May 1774
- Eunice Phelps, b. 15 Apr 1776; married James Foster [b. 3 Aug 1771 @ Manchester, Connecticut; d. 31 Dec 1846]
- Sally Phelps, b. 15 Feb 1784; unmarried; d. 15 Oct 1875
- Ralph Rodolphus Phelps, b. 1 Mar 1787; married Sep 1819 Mary (___) Stevenson; one adopted daughter; d. 26 Feb 1884
The Benajah Phelps family migrated to Connecticut in 1778 in the cause of sympathy with the American Revolution. Benajah Phelps served as minister of Oxford Society in East Hatford (now Manchester), Connecticut from 1780 until his death.
Rev. Benajah Phelps died 10 Feb 1817 at Manchester, Connecticut.
Sources
- Denison Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison; E. Glenn Denison, Josephine M. Peck and Donald L. Jacobus; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1993 [Originally published, Pequot Press 1963; Reprinted, Baltimore, MD 1978, 1982, 1993], no. 331: https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni/page/32/mode/1up
- Township Books of Kings County, Nova Scotia compiled by Lorna Woodman Evans
- History of Kings County, Nova Scotia, by A.W.H. Eaton
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- Don Phelps
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 67 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #380204
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~0.78%
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