Abel Phelps

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Mabel Phelps ← Abel Phelps

In brief

Born May 22, 1730, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut. He married April 2, 1752, in Simsbury, Connecticut. He died 1804 in Granby, Connecticut.

Family

Father

Joseph Phelps

Mother

Rebecca North

Spouse

Mary Eno

m. 1752

Children

Mary Phelps
b. June 6, 1754, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Mabel Phelps · in this line
b. May 24, 1756, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Jeremiah Hayes
d. July 25, 1833, in Essex County, New York
Abel Phelps
b. May 24, 1756, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Cynthia Nelson
d. Tolland, Connecticut
Achsah Phelps
b. July 2, 1758, in Simsbury, Connecticut
d. Abt. November 1767
Mindwell Phelps
b. September 21, 1760, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Isaac Sheldon around 1781
d. September 17, 1835, in Rupert, Vermont
James Eno Phelps
b. 1762 in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Philinda Rice
d. Leading Creek, Ohio
Benjamin Phelps
b. 1767 in Granby, Connecticut
m. Dorcas Carpenter, January 2, 1787, in South Granby, Connecticut
Cynthia Phelps
b. 1768, in Granby, Connecticut
m. Joel Higley, May 25, 1785, in Granby, Connecticut
d. 1832
Candace Phelps
Sarah Phelps
d. November 30, 1767

Siblings

Hannah Phelps
b. May 28, 1714, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut
d. January 3, 1715
Joseph Phelps
b. October 18, 1716, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Deborah Holcomb/Harris, October 15, 1740
d. May 1774, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut
Elijah Phelps
b. May 11, 1720, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Esther Kent
d. April 4, 1795
Ezekiel Phelps
b. March/May 8, 1723, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Elizabeth Gillett, May 3, 1744
d. October 4, 1781, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Rebecca Phelps
b. January/June 22, 1724, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Joel/Joseph Harmon, June 8, 1744
Elizabeth Phelps
b. November 27, 1726, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Moses Holcomb around 1760
Lydia Phelps
b. September 10, 1728, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Jacob Gillett, December 15, 1744
Hezekiah Phelps
b. February 18, 1732, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Hannah Hayden, January 13, 1757
Keziah Phelps
b. February 18, 1732, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut
m. James Harriman/Harmon

Life story

A Granby Confirmation

Abel Phelps was born May 22, 1730, in Turkey Hills, Simsbury, Connecticut, son of Joseph Phelps, and married in Simsbury in April 1752. He was confirmed at the Reverend Viets's church in Granby, Connecticut, in December 1764, and settled there. Abel died in Granby in 1804.

Sources (3)

Douglas C. Richardson, The Eno and Enos Family in America (1973); digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/16006/images/dvm_GenMono002712-00001-0 : accessed 4 July 2026).
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).
Dexter North, John North of Farmington Connecticut and his Descendants (Washington, D.C.: The Rumford Press, 1921); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/johnnorthoffarmi00nortiala : accessed 22 July 2026).