Joseph PHELPS

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Joseph married Susannah ENO on 13 Mar 1715 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Susannah (daughter of James ENO, Jr. and Abigail BISSELL) was born on 16 May 1699 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 11 Dec 1778 in Hebron, Toland, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joseph married Sarah HOSFORD on 18 Nov 1686 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of John (Horsford) HOSFORD and Phillipi THRALL) was born on 27 Sep 1666 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 30 Aug 1716 in Hebron, Toland, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: Made a freeman, 2 May 1664.

Timothy married Mary GRISWOLD on 19 Mar 1661 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Edward GRISWOLD and Margaret BLENCOW (HICKS)) was born on 13 Oct 1644 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 27 Nov 1715 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; was buried in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CONFLICT: B 28 jan 1649/1650, Withersfield,CT. D. 8 Aug 1670, Killingworth,Middlesex,CT. Birth: WFT gives date as 5 oct 1644.

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John Hosford was given by William Thrall, the fifty acres granted the older man for his services in the first Pequod War. John Hosford was the son of Elder Wm. Hosford, who also came on the "Mary and John". Elder Hosford left his land and house to his son John Hosford upon returning to England. John Hosford and his brother-in-Law Timothy Thrall, were apparently close friends and supported each other in town and church affairs.

John married Phillipi THRALL on 5 Nov 1657 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Phillipi (daughter of William THRALL and Elizabeth GOODE) was born on 5 Nov 1637 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 7 Aug 1683 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CONFLICT: Birth date 28 Feb 1598/99, WFT #0259 CONFLICT: B abt 1592 of Crewkerne ,Somersetshire,England. BIOGRAPHY: WFT #0259 Story widely told in the Phelps family that "We had royal blood in our veins". An ancestor (Phelps) was rightful heir to the crown of England, but there was another more favorite with the people, he to avoid bloodshed fled to this country with a young man by the name of Caverley then about 18 years of age, his nephew and the king's foot page. Having access to the royal treasury he loaded a ship with silver, came to Boston, changed his name, and purchased land largely, as Boston Neck, a part of Charlestown, and other public lands. After some time, learning that a great reward was offered for his capture, he changed his name again, destroyed all his papers, and went to Connecticut (Hebron), to hide himself from his pursuers. Temperance Phelps, daughter of Solomon (Great-Grandson of William II) says that Abigail Caverley showed her a room where some of the silver was deposited in walls. Solomon Phelps owned a good deal of Boston and was a very rich man. When asked why he did not recover the fortune of silver he replied "that it would hurt very many people a great deal more than it would do him good". When Temperance Phelps was partially engaged to another person and her father (Solomon) finding it out asked her to take a ride with him, and disclosed to her some of the facts of his early history in connection with the Caverleys in consequence of which she accepted the hand of Ezra Strong (the son of Abigail Caverley) and the two families were united in one. The truth of this history has not been verified, but adds spice and curiosity from one generation to another. It is not known if William is the person in question but he was the first to come from England. His kingly name Guelph was changed to Phelps, dropping the g and altering u or v to ph. BIOGRAPHY: on first jury empaneled in New England, 9 Nov 1630.

William married Ann (Mary Ann) DOVER on 14 Nov 1626 in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England. Ann was born in in Porlock, Devonshire, England; died on 27 Nov 1675 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: 1636 moved to Windsor, CT.

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CONFLICT: FamilySearch.org lists marriage to Anne Dover d. abt 1617 of Tewksbury,Gloucestershire,England.

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• Occupation: Killingworth, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; Attorney, Deputy to the General Court, Magistrate, Captain
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• Arrival: Abt 17 Aug 1639, Windsor, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
• Residence: 1649, Poquonock, Windsor, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; Granted Land
• Founded Killingworth: 1666, Killingworth, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America
• Freeman: 1669, Killingworth, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America

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Related to Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951) U.S. Vice President (1925-1929), Ambassador to Great Britain (1929-1931), Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1925, banker, Comptroller of the Currency, attorney, and author.

Lt. Col. Rufus R. DAWES (d. 1899) and Mary Beman GATES (1842-1921)
Beman GATES (1818-1894) and Betsy Sybil SHIPMAN (1816-1895) [see below]
Aaron GATES (1780-1850) and Ruth BEMAN (1784-1858)
Daniel BEMAN and Abigail ACKLEY (1761-1805)
Thomas BEMAN and Lydia ROBERTS (1735-1809)
Samuel BEMAN (1704-1753) and Sarah PINNEY (1707-1783)
Nathaniel PINNEY (1671-1764) and Martha THRALL (1673-p1710)
Nathaniel PINNEY (1640-1676) and Sarah GRISWOLD (1635-1715)
Edward GRISWOLD (1607-1691) and Margaret (d. 1670) <../ancestries/phelps.htm>

Edward married Margaret BLENCOW (HICKS) in 1629 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. Margaret was born in 1609-1611 in Marston, St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire, England; died on 23 Aug 1670 in Clinton, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Genevieve Tylee Kiepura writes in "Griswold Ancestry in England" (The American Genealogist 39:176-180) that "Edward GRISWOLD m. Margaret BLENCOW of Marston St. Lawrence, co. Northampton, dau of John BLENCOW and his wife Mary WALLISON." However, in "Note on the Ancestry of the Griswolds of Connecticut" (The American Genealogist 40:43-44), John G. Hunt conclusively shows that the Edward GRISWOLD who married Margaret BLENCOW is not the immigrant to CT, and Genevieve Tylee Kiepura concurs. The Griswold Family Association identifies the husband of Margaret BLENCOW as Edward GRESWOLD (1594-1633) son of Thomas GRESWOLD and Elizabeth SHUCKBURGH - this Edward being father of the American immigrant Michael GRISWOLD of Wethersfield, CT.

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CONFLICT: Death date is same as William Thrall. They are both listed as grandfathers to Sarah Hosford. Probably one of death dates is incorrect. William Horseford death place is listed as England, probably not correct. dl

William married Sarah about 1623 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Sarah was born about 1593 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 26 Aug 1641 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: William Thrall The EMIGRANT
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William Thrall is the founder of the Thrall family in the United States. He was born in 1605 in Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England and came to the Colonies on the "Mary and John" in the year 1630. The "Mary and John" was a vessel of four hundred tons captained by a man named Squeb and the vessel sailed with 180 passengers.
William was part of a company of Puritans under the leadership of Rev. John Wareham of Exeter and Rev. John Meverick, both ministers of the Church of England Setting sail from Plymouth, England on 20 March, they first came ashore on 30 May 1630. They disembarked with what goods they had, to some high land in the salt meadow, now a part of the city of Boston. They named the place Dorchester, which was selected by the captain of the "Mary and John" as he came from Dorchester, England. Page 277 of Prince's Chronology of New England records "May 30, Lord's Day. Mr. Wareham and his church, and their goods, were put ashore at Nantasket Point. The went immediately to Charlestown, and from thence to Mattepan, and began a town and named it Dorchester, and the native Indians were kind to them."
Revs. Wareham and Meverick and their group stayed in Dorchester less than five years, as a number of their menfolk had discovered more fertile land below the first falls of the Connecticut River, at the junction of the Farmington River just above Hartford. Part of the Colony went by boat and the remainder traveled across the one hundred miles of virgin forest, to establish the town of Windsor. Windsor was unofficially known as Thrallville in the early years.
The first we know of William Thrall is that he is listed with the following men who were among the thirty men who went from Windsor to join in the fight against the Pequod Indians in May 1637. Capt. John Mason, Sgt. Benedict Alvord, Thomas Barber, Thomas Buckland, George Chappel, John Dyer, James Eggleston, Nathaniel Gillet, Thomas Gridley, Thomas Styles, Sgt. Thomas Stares, Richard Osborn, Thomas Parsons, William Thrall. The Indian village in this case was so completely destroyed that for many years, the settlers had no further trouble with the Indians. Some years later, the participants were given land grants. To quote from Dr. Styles records with regard to the first Indian war in New England, "The danger was imminent, and so complete the victory that it caused universal rejoicing throughout New England, and a grant of land was given each soldier and officer, and to this day the memory of an ancestor who was in the Pequod fight, is an honorable heirloom in every Connecticut family".
William Thrall is mentioned many times in the early records. His lot shows up in the first plot of Windsor, between the lots of Nicholas Palmer and Thomas Bascomb, and ran from the road to the Farmington River. In 1646, William sold this lot to Nicholas Palmer and moved to Simon Hoyte's place, north of the village. Robert Wilson bought a half interest with William in the Hoyte's 80 acres, but sold his half to Thrall in 1654. This 80 acres has been part of the holdings of the Thrall family ever since, thanks to William Thrall's will
We know very little about the wife of William Thrall. She is referred to in the Old Windsor records as Goode Thrall, but "Goode" was an expression applied to women with families and it is simply an abbreviation of "Goodwife". Whether she came over to New England on the "Mary and John" with her husband or they met in Dorchester, has never been established The record of her death simply states, "Goode Thrall, wife of William, died 30 July 1676".

William married Elizabeth GOODE in 1632 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Elizabeth was born about 1609 in France; died on 30 Jul 1676 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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