Joseph Phelps
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In brief
Born about 1628 in England. March 20, 1630: Departed from Plymouth, England with his parents and siblings aboard the Mary and John piloted by Captain Squeb. He married September 20, 1660, in Windsor, Connecticut. He died 1684 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut.
Family
Children
- Joseph Phelps · in this lineb. c. 1667 · Windsor, Connecticutm. November 9, 1699
- Hannah Phelpsb. February 2, 1668, in Windsor, Connecticut
- Timothy Phelpsb. May 18, 1671, in Simsbury, Connecticutm. Rachel Moore
- Sarah Phelpsb. May 1672, in Simsbury, Connecticutm. John Hill
- William Phelpsb. May 1674, in Simsbury, Connecticutd. October 8, 1689
Siblings
Full siblings — children of William Phelps and Ann Dover
- Cornelius Phelpsb. Abt. October 1627 in Crewkerne, Englandd. January 1628 in England
- Mary Phelpsb. Abt. November 1628 in Crewkerne, Englandd. November 1628 in Crewkerne, England
- Sarah Phelpsb. Abt. 1632 in Americam. William Wade, June 9, 1658, in Windsor, Connecticutd. July 10, 1659, in Windsor, Connecticut
- Timothy Phelpsb. August/September 1, 1639, in Windsor Connecticutm. Mary Griswold, May 1661, in Windsor, Connecticut
Half-siblings — children of William Phelps and Mary ____
- William Phelpsb. Abt. September 1618, in Crewkerne, Englandm. Isabel Wilson, June 4, 1645, in Windsor, Connecticutm. Sarah Pinney, December 20, 1676, in Windsor, Connecticutd. February 10, 1681
- Samuel Phelpsb. Abt. August 1621 in Crewkerne, Englandm. Sarah Griswold, November 10, 1650, in Windsor, Connecticutd. May 15, 1669, in Poquonock, Connecticut
- ____ Phelpsd. c. January 1623, in Crewkerne, England
- Nathaniel Phelpsb. Abt. March 1625 in Crewkerne, Englandm. Elizabeth ____, September 17, 1650, in Windsor, Connecticutd. May 27, 1702, in Northampton, Massachusetts
Life story
A Simsbury Petitioner
Joseph Phelps was born around 1628 in England, son of William Phelps, and crossed the Atlantic with his family in 1630 aboard the Mary and John, settling in Dorchester before the family moved to Windsor, Connecticut, around 1636. He became a freeman in 1664 and, by 1667, had received a land grant in the Weatogue district of Massaco (Simsbury), where he was recorded as a freeman two years later. Joseph joined fellow petitioners in 1677 seeking tax relief to help the colony recover from King Philip's War, and in 1683, when Simsbury's residents could not agree where to build their meeting house, he was among those who agreed to let the colony's leaders settle the question by drawing lots. He died in Simsbury in 1684.
Sources (4)
- Judge Oliver Seymour Phelps and Andrew T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors (Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eagle Publishing Company, 1899); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/phelpsfamilyofam01phel : accessed 6 July 2026).
- Brian Phelps, Phelps Family History in America (https://www.phelpsfamilyhistory.com/research/william/WilliamPhelpsWindsor1630Tree.asp : accessed 6 July 2026), “William Phelps in Windsor, Connecticut”.
- Brian Phelps, Phelps Family History in America (https://www.phelpsfamilyhistory.com/research/william/index.asp : accessed 7 July 2026), “The Origins of William Phelps”.
- Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 3:1444-1446; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158320-00134 : accessed 20 July 2026).