Third Generation in Windsor
Excerpted from
The Phelps Family of America and
Their English Ancestors, (Save
$201 by ordering through us.) Two volumes.
By Judge Oliver Seymour Phelps and Andrew T. Servin. (Eagle Publishing Company
of Pittsfield, Mass., 1899). Original spelling and punctuation
preserved.) pp 77-89.
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- Lieut. Timothy Phelps, b. Windsor,
Ct., 1st. Sept.! 1639, m. Mary Griswold, 19 March, 1661, daughter
of Edward Griswold of Killingworth, Ct., she b. Windsor, Ct.,
bpt. 13 Oct., 1644. She died some years before her husband.
Mr. Phelps resided in Windsor, Ct., on the old homestead, on
land purchased by his father from the Indians. He was propounded
Oct., 1663, and made a freeman 2d May, 1664. May, 1690, "Thos.
Allen chosen and allowed Capt. of Trained Band in Windsor, and
Timothy Phelps, Lieut., and are to be commissioned accordingly."
May, 1696, "The soldiers at Windsor have chosen Timothy
Phelps as their Capt, The Court approveth their said 'choice
and does order the said officers shall receive their commissions.
Sgt. Timothy Phelps that went up to the Great Falls in Oct. last,
ordered by the Gov. and Council, 6 Feb., 1706-7, upon public
service, shall be allowed 8 shillings apiece more than allowed
them by Capt. Matthew Allen."
He was appointed a Lieut. by the General Court, receiving his
commission in 1709, and served under Col. William Whiting, in
Capt. Matthew Allyn's Co., in 1607, in the Queen Anne War. He
died in 1719. His will, dated 2nd May, 1717, mentions all his
children, (except Mary who died young,) and grandson Samuel Filer,
son of his daughter Abigail.
11th June, 1667, "to the Poor of other Colonies, Timothy
Phelps 3s. 6d." (Stiles(2) History.)
Capt. Matthew Allyn led a company from Windsor, in the unfortunate
campaign against Quebec. From letters to his wife from the camp
on Woods Creek near Albany, that "Himself, Tim. Phelps,
Obadiah Owen, Mat. Taylor and Bartlett are sick. Taylor the worst."
In a deposition taken in Hartford, Ct., Mar. 1682-3, he is mentioned
as son of William, about forty-two years old. Hartford Probate
Records. Vol. 9, p. 338.
Last Will
and Testament of Mr. Timothy Phelps of Windsor, in the
County of Hartford and Colony of Connecticut in New England.
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