Phelps Family Research Team

New Index to "Phelps Family in America" Available

2008-06-11T03:24:00.002-05:00

Well-known to many Phelps family researchers is the two-volume book, The Phelps Family of America and Their English Ancestors, by Judge Oliver Seymour Phelps and Andrew T. Servin, originally published in 1899. While the book was published with an index standard for its time, the index is largely restricted to male surnames and is of limited use to many researchers.

Margaret Phelps Swanson has developed an updated index and other comments to the 1899 book. She and Nancy J. Pennington took it upon themselves to re-index the two volumes totaling 1869 pages. This new publication, including over 250 pages of new index entries, is the result of their work.

It includes geographic place names for nearly every entry along with the maiden names (when known) of all female spouses.

A work in progress, I've collaborated with Margaret to make an interim version available to Phelps family researchers as an Acrobat file. This newly expanded index is now available from the site Phelps Family in America.

Was Your Ancestor an Indentured Servant? If You are at a Brick Wall, Don’t Overlook the Possibility

2007-08-23T16:40:00.000-05:00

Was Your Ancestor an Indentured Servant?

If You are at a Brick Wall, Don’t Overlook the Possibility

By Doug Phelps, 8/23/2007

Many genealogists reach “brick walls” as they research their ancestries back to the mid to late 1700s. We have all assumed this barrier is due only to the loss of so many early records to fire and the ravages of the Civil War. Also some Anglican records simply vanished from some parishes after the Revolution – especially in NC at least. After my initial study of the indentured servant immigration to colonial America, I am convinced many Americans descended from these little studied mostly English immigrants. Clearly, Annapolis and Baltimore were major reception points of many or even most (?) these immigrants. Indentured convicts numbered about 50,000, comprising up to one-forth of all immigrants in that general area. Large numbers of voluntary indentured servants also arrived and were sold similar to the convicts. This may be an untapped source of research.

I will be revising this paper as needed. The following notes and paraphrases taken from a number of books. Most came from Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. A bibliography of books and sources is below. A list of possible overlooked primary sources from just one chapter of one book is below also. Many of the books are available through interlibrary loan services, however the primary sources are likely in major archives. I was impressed by the very large number of documents of which genealogists are likely unaware.

History of Unfree Labor in Colonial America

Colonial America had three distinct types of unfree laborers: apprentices, indentured servants and slaves. Apprentices were mostly native born Americans. The awful history of slaves is well known.

Much less well known is the important history of the indentured servants. They included those who saw an opportunity for a better life in America by agreeing to an indenture, arrived without cost, and being sold to an owner for times ranging from 3 to perhaps 7 years. Less well known were those who were forced into the indenture. Forced indenture included those who were “spirited” from Europe by trickery and other devious ways – and those who were “pardoned” by the king for a range of crimes for transportation to America. They were also sold to owners. (source: To Serve Well…”, chpt 1)

Convicts

Most people are aware of the transportation of about 150,000 convicts from the British Isles to Australia after the Revolutionary war. Few are aware and little has been written for the general public of the 50,000 convicts sent to colonial America - mostly to the central Atlantic seaboard states.

“Transportation” began slowly in 1697 when magistrates could exile “rogues and vagabonds”. In 1615 James I began giving “royal pardons” of banishment to felons. In 1718 the Transportation Act initiated a systematic program.

Most convict servants [as opposed to voluntary servants] went to the tobacco colonies – rather than places like Pennsylvania. (source: To Serve Well…”, p 77)

During the 18^th century, some 50,000 convicts were transported from the British Isles to Colonial America. They represented as much as one fourth of all British immigrants. Crimes ranged from small offences to murder. Extreme lawlessness and poverty existed in the British Isles during this period and the transportation system provided a way to avoid the cost and problems of a homeland penal system. The “pardoned” became indentured usually for 7 or 14 years and were delivered in wretched conditions by private ships to America where they were sold to owners. They had no rights.

A merchant or captain paid a contractor 3 pounds per convict. In America they were sold for 9 pounds for unskilled and 25 pounds for skilled. For more insight to the history of transportation see the article at the National Archives web site . (source: To Serve Well…”, p 78)

A different analysis of the numbers from To Serve Well.. is: “One half to two thirds of white immigrants from Britain and Europe came as indentured servants” (p.8) It appears the difference in the numbers is due to definitions of a voluntary indentured servant and transported-convict-indentured-servant” Regardless, the overwhelming point is that huge numbers of immigrants in the 18^th century were not “free” but were indentured for many years.

Where from and what type of person?

Convicts

A sample of the 2074 received convicts in four Maryland counties:

Kent Co 1719-1744 402 KC Bonds and Indentures

Queen Ann Co. 1727-1750 249 QA Land Records

Baltimore Co. 1770-1774 574 BC Convict Records

Anne Arundel Co. 1771-1775 849 AA Convict Records

A sample of two ships in 1771 and 1774 shows these labor skills:

Unskilled and low skilled laborers: 61% and 49%

Wealthy and professionals: 2% and 0%

Landed society: 0%

Further details in the book indicates that while the majority were very unskilled and poor, a few were wealthy and professional. A few had funds to later buy out their indenture.

Origins were (approximately) 2% Scottish, 13000 Irish, and 36000 English.

In the mid-1730s there were 6,000 people in Kent Co, Md. Convicts accounted for 271. KC Bonds and Indentures 1732-39, Court Crimainal Proceedings 1732-46

Non- Convicts

Indentured servants – those who voluntarily committed to seven years or so - were of a more skilled, better background. But the conditions for them were usually the same, especially in the later years.

Non-Convicts

Early on, the voluntary indentured servant was likely to be a person known by the plantation owner or merchant who paid for the voyage to America for years of servitude. Later in the 1700s the types varied greatly depending on the area (urban or plantation) to which they came. Those who voluntarily committed to seven years or so - were of a more skilled, better background. Skills ranged greatly and escaping from bad conditions in Europe and the British Isles was paramount. Regardless, the indenture usually was usually for 7 years and the person effectively was owned by the buyer.

Note: Authors of various books may combine voluntary and forced in a single term “indentured servant . Regardless, the servitude conditions varied little.

What happened to these people?

To Serve Well… argues for a “relative ease in acquiring property” and that they expected a “place in society as independent, self-sustaining” people. This comment was in reference to mostly the 17^th century Pennsylvania. (p. 31)

Into the 18^th century, the indentured servant concept became much more impersonal. In the early years, families would use the concept to bring in family member or friends in a profitable way. Now they had fewer skills, and included longer terms (3-4 years originally). Owners often used both white indentured servants and slaves – or either as needed. (source: To Serve Well… p.3)

The impersonal nature of the indenture is illustrated with this mid-1700’s Penn Gazette ad:

Lately imported from Bristol, several likely Servants, Men and Women bred to most sorts of Business: also most sorts of Europaen Goods, as, Fine Salt, Glass Bottles…: . (source: To Serve Well… p.75)

The term “runaway” was a specific term used for those who attempted escape from the indenture. Many attempted to return home. Some went to the major cities and some went to the frontiers of VA and the Carolinas. Many owners advertised their losses in the Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Gazette publications.

Destinations of Maryland and Virginia Runaways

Ship boarding: 67%; Philadelphia & NYC: 10%; Backcountry: 3.5%; VA: 3.5%; Md: 2.4%; Carolinas: 2%; Other: 7%

“More than half a century ago, Abbot E. Smith, in his book Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776, found that few ex-servants enjoyed much financial success, and his conclusion has been supported by a number of more recent studies. “ Smith, Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, (Referred to in Howard Zinn’s book A People’s History of the U.S.) (My conclusion at this point is that he is referring to the convict indentured servants)

From 1732-35 in Kent Co, Md. Of 145 felons, only 5 could clearly be identified to having property later.

A few were able to buy out from the servitude or escaped by marriages.

How could these people acquire land?

In the early times of Maryland [17^th century] “about 90% of the former servants [no comment about which kind, but in the 17^th century voluntary indenture was much more common] achieved landownership and typically establish themselves as small planters on leased land immediately after they had complete their terms. ..starting at the bottom…to acquire a substantial estate and a responsible position… However many did postpone their claims for various reasons.” (The author is stating the reason it was easier in Md to progress than in Pennsylvania on which his book concentrates.) (source: To Serve Well… p.45)

Virginia, in 1705, passed a law “requiring masters to provide white servants whose indenture time was up with ten bushels of corn, thirty shillings, and a gun… Also, freed servants were to get 50 acres of land.” Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, NY: WW Norton, 1975.

Supporting this statement is a comment from the PBS web site: Black and white women worked side-by-side in the fields. Black and white men who broke their servant contract were equally punished. During their time as servants, they were fed and housed. Afterwards, they would be given what were known as "freedom dues," which usually included a piece of land and supplies, including a gun. Black-skinned or white-skinned, they became free.

However the topic of acquiring land also includes Virginia Headrights . Further explanations are at this site and includes this statement: In 1699, after European immigrants became harder and harder to attract, the colony began to sell "headrights" allowing people to claim 50 acres for 5 shillings. At the start of the 18th Century, Virginia shifted from the headrights system and allowed individuals to purchase 50 acres for 5 shillings, substantially reducing the price of Virginia land.

By the late 1700s the cost of land had apparently escalated. In 1779 James Phelps of Caswell Co, NC (my line) purchased land for 50 shillings per 100 acres, per his deed. At that rate 50 acres would cost 25 shillings. Accounting for 20 shillings per English pound, the equivalent dollar cost in 2003 would be about $250. See Money and Denominations

The daily income for unskilled laborers in England did not much exceed a shilling a day. Source: Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. That would be about $10 a day in 2003

Is there information on the names of these people?

Start with the book by Peter Wilson Coldham called The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc, 1988) which contains an alphabetical list of men and women transported in this period. An introduction to this book and a list of related Phelps is at the Southern Phelps Research web site and can be viewed here. The list includes nine Phelps from 1695 to 1775.

This multiple volume set is available in some libraries, including my local small town genealogical library.

Web sites of interest

http://www.eogen.com/Transportation Transportation - Colonial America

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=268&j=1 Transportation to America and the West Indies, 1615-1776

Books you may want to read

Smith, Abbot E. Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776 ($80) (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946), 297@-300; (Referred to in Howard Zinn’s book A People’s History of the U.S.)

Russell Menard, "From Servant to Freeholder: Status Mobility and Property Accumulation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 30 (1973): 37@-64;

Lois Green Carr and Russell R. Menard, "Immigration and Opportunity: The Freedman in Early Colonial Maryland," in Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, eds.,

Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, NY: WW Norton, 1975

The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979), 73@-95;

Sharon V. Salinger, "To Serve Well and Faithfully": Labor and Indentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682@-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 115@-36. (interlibrary loan; very expensive) (Reviewed - CC Library, Interlibary loan

A. Roger Ekirch, Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 1987 (Reviewed - CC Library, Interlibrary loan)

The following is a very partial list of primary sources of the book Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1757

BIBLIOGRAPHY . PRIMARY SOURCES

B. MANUSCRIPTS: UNITED STATES

Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

John Hook Papers

Harry Piper Letter Book

Prentis Papers, Documents, 1743-1858

Colonial Williamsburg Inc., Research Center, Williamsburg

John Hook Papers, Duke University Library, Durham (microfilm)

James Lawson Letterbook, Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh (microfilm)

Russell Papers, Coutts & Co., London (microfilm)

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Aadditional Manuscripts, ?9600, British Library, London (photocopies)

Landing Certificates, 1718- 36, Guildhall Records OFFICE. London (photocopies)

Woolsey & Salmon Letterbook

Maryland Hall of Records, Annapolis

Annapolis Mayor's Court Proceedings

Anne Arundel County Convict Record

Baltimore Countv Convict Record Baltimore Countv Debt Books

Kent County Bonds and Indentures

Kent County Court Criminal Proceedings Kent County Debt Books

Kent County Inventories

Maryland Inventories and Accouts

Maryland Shipping Returns

Maryland Wills

Provincial Court Judgements

Queen Anne's County Land Records

Maryland Historical Society. Baltimore

Thomas Cable Letterbook

Carroll-Maccubbln Papers

Cheston-Galloway Papers

Maryland Shipping Returns

Massachusetts Historical Society.

Boston Matthew Ridlev Collection

VIrginia State Library, Richmond

Fairfax County Order Books (microfilm)

John Hook Letters

King George County Order Books (microfilm)

Lancaster County_ Orders (microtilm)

Northumberland County Order Books (microfilm)

Prince William County Order Books (microfilm)

Richmond County Criminal Trials (microfilm)

Richmond County Order Books (microtilm)

Westmoreland County Orders (microfilm)

William Allason Papers

Thomas Phelps Sr. and Christian Staples of Elbert Co., Ga.

2007-04-20T04:47:00.000-05:00

The Phelps Family of Thomas Phelps Jr. and Christian Staples in Elbert, County, Georgia
Possible Descendant Of Thomas Phelps of Albemarle County, Virginia d.1751

The Family of James Phelps(Wreck Island, Va.) and wife Elizabeth of Elbert County, Georgia.

The State of Georgia has heretofore been largely unexplored in regards to Phelps families that the Phelps Family Research Team has previously concentrated on. Until recently we were only knew of the James Phelps and his wife Elizabeth, who moved to Elbert County, Ga. from the Albemarle-Buckingham-Campbell County area of Virginia. This was the James Phelps of Wreck Island, Va, son of William Phelps d. 1749 Albemarle Co., Va. who had sons William and James that were named in his Will. William Phelps d. 1749, was a son of Thomas Phelps d. 1751 Albemarle Co., Va. For first time readers of this family history, the death dates are correct for this Thomas and James are correct as James died prior to his father Thomas, the Will of William Phelps naming him as "my loving father Thomas Phelps". The Wills of Thomas Phelps d.1751 and William Phelps d.1749 follow below, furnished by Tamra Phelps a Phelps descendant in Kentucky. These Wills provide documentary evidence of the kinship of these Phelps men discussed above.

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WILL OF THOMAS PHELPS, 1751 .

In The name of God, amen. I, Thomas Phelps, of Albemarle County being weak in body but in sound & perfect memory do make this my last wilt & testament in manner and form as followeth.

Item I give my soul to God as gave it & my body to to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian like manner as my Executors shall think fit.

Item, I lend unto my loving wife Elizabeth Phelps during her widowhood all my whole estate real and personal.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my loving son Thomas Phelps 300 acres of land lying on both sides of Bridle Creek joining his lines, to him and his heirs forever.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my loving son John Phelps the plantation whereon I now dwel1 and the island I now tend in, and 300 acres of land on both sides of Huny's Creek joining Nicholas line to him and his heirs forever.

Item, I give and bequeath to my loving daughter Mary Petteson one shilling sterling.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my granddaughter Joyce Patteson and my grandson Peter Patteson betwixt them both one child's part.

1t is my will and desire that all my personal estate shall be equally divided among all my children except my daughter Mary Patteson, and my will and desire is that my estate shall not be appraised enduring my wife's time, and I do appoint and ordain my son Thomas Phelps and my son-in-law Richard Given to be executors of this my last will and I do by these presents revoke all other wills heretofore by me made.

Witnessed by: John Fearn, Theodore C. Webb, Chicely Crisp
Albemarle County Will Book One, page 20.
proved in court, May 14, 1751.
Note that Thomas calls his daughter Mary loving but disinherits her with a shilling, giving her part to her kids. Thomas' son William had died before him in 1749.

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Will of William Phelps, 1749 Albemarle County, Va.

In the name of God Amen. I, William Phelps, being weak in body but in sound and perfect memory do make this my last will and testament in manner and form as followeth.

First I give and bequeath to my loving brother-in-law William Baber 200 hundred acres of land on Nell Moore's Creek of Slate River joining John Sharp's line to him and his heirs forever on condition that he pay to my executors hereinafter named on their order the value of the rights, surveyors and secretary's fees of the same.

I give and bequeath to my loving Father Thomas Phelps and to my loving brother Thomas Phelps Jr., all the rest and residue of my estate of what nature and kind soever in trust neverthless to be equally divided by them between my two sons James Phelps and William Phelps and by their heirs forever and for no other intent or purpose whatever and do ordain and appoint my said Father and Brother to be executors of this my last will and do by these presents revoke all other wills by me heretofore made.
witnessed by: William Cabell, Thomas MacDaniel (spelled Makadanal on will, and signed with his mark X, John Duncan, John Blackle.

proved in "May Court 1749. Albemarle County, VA, will Book One, page 1

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William Phelps d.1749, named his Will two sons William Jr. and James. According to long time Phelps researcher J. C. Rodgers, James Phelps Son of William d.1749 is the James Phelps (Wreck Island) with wife Elizabeth, who left Virginia later in life and removed to Elbert Co., Ga. The primary evidence of James and Elizabeth Phelps of Elbert Co., Ga. and their residency in the Albemarle-Buckingham-Campbell County area of Virginia are two Deeds in which they sold property while residing in Elbert Co., Ga, that was located in Campbell Co., Va.

James Is In Georgia and Sells Property in Virginia---info from Doug Phelps and J.C.Rodgers

In 1800 James, while in Elbert Co, GA, sold property in Campbell Co - the Wreck Island Creek area - which researcher and descendant James Rodgers knows very well as part of the family property. The two deeds, one recorded in GA and the other in Campbell Co prove that this James and wife Elizabeth are in Elbert Co, GA and are selling land on Wreck Island Creek in Campbell Co, [1] The two deeds are:

1. Campbell Co, VA Deed Book 5 , pp94-95,1800)
"This Indenture made this twelfth day of March one thousand eight hundred between James Phelps and Elizabeth Phelps his wife of the state of Georgia and county of Elbert of the one part and William Bradley of the state if Virginia and county of Buckingham of the other part….sum of one hundred pounds current money of Virginia……..tract or parcel of land containing one hundred acres be it the same more or less lying in the county of Campbell and state of Virginia on Wreck Island Creek…….tract formerly possessed by james Shearer, deceased and at present occupied by Alexander Caldwell…... signed by James Phelps and Elizabeth Phelps (she made her mark) in the presence of James Lee (his mark) , John Penn, A. Stinchcomb…....Georgia Elbert County clerks office , registered in Book F, folio 119, the 12th day of March 1800, Middletown Woods, Clerk"…... Samuel Higginbotham attested that Middletown Woods was the clerk of court…....."Certificates thereon indorsed were exhibited in Court of Campbell Co. and ordered to be recorded june 9th, 1800. Ro. Alexander, clerk

2. Elbert Co, GA. Deedbook F p119 , 1800 20 Mar. 1800. James Phelps & Elizabeth his wife of Elbert Co. Ga. To William Bradley of Buckingham Co. VA for one hundred pounds VA. Money, 100 acres in Campbell Co. VA on Wreck Island Creek… formerly possessed by Shearer, at present possessed by Alexander Caldwell, signed James Phelps, Elizabeth (X) Phelps, Wit. James (X) Lee, John Penn, A. Stinchcomb, Regd. 12, Mar. 1800

This 1800 deed that was made from Elbert Ga does not give metes and bounds but mentions joining the land of Isaac Crews. (He bought the land in the 1797 deed) and also mentions Shearer.
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Note the name of A. Stinchcomb, who witnessed both of the Deeds above, as he will help to connect the Phelps families in Virginia and Georgia.

Absalom Stinchcomb married Mary Penn, they had a son --

Levi Stinchcomb married Mary Ridgeway and they had a daughter--

Elizabeth Ann Stinchcomb who married Thomas Phelps Jr., Dec. 24, 1846 in Elbert Co., Ga.--

Thomas Phelps Jr., was a son of Thomas Phelps Sr. and Christian Staples, daughter of--

David Staples Jr. and Francis (Fanny) Mandley of Fluvanna Co. Va. Fluvanna County Marriage Bonds 1777-1801-- 1778 Staples, David--m.--Mandley, Fanny

David Staples Jr. was the son of, David Staples Sr. and Christian Ford of Albemarle Co., Va.

Francis (Fanny) Mandley was the daughter of John Mandley and Tabitha Stone of Fluvanna Co. Va.

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The Will of John Mandley

* Will: 2 December 1802, Fluvanna Co., VA, In the name of God Amen I John Mandley of the County of Fluvanna in perfect health and sound memory doth make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form as followeth.

It is my will that my wife Tabitha Mandley do enjoy all my Estate both real and personal during her natural life and after her decease I give as followeth.

It is my Will that my Daughter Lucy Mayo have all the Estate I heretofore have given her.

It is also my will that my Daughter Fanny Staples have all the Estate I have given her and no more.

It is also my Will that my Daughter Polly Butler have all the estate I have given her and no more.

It is also my will that at the decease of my present wife Tabitha Mandley that my son Caleb Mandley have all the estate I have already given him and no more.

It is also my Will that my son Ancel Mandley have all the Estate I have given him and no more.

It is also my Will that after the decease of my present wife Tabitha Mandley that my son Micajah Mandley do have three-fourths of all my remaining estate both real and personal.

It is also my will that my daughter Salley Seay at the decease of my present wife Tabitha Mandley shall have the remaining fourth part of my remaining estate both ---- real and personal to them and their heirs forever as witness my hand and seal this Second day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and two.

I also appoint my wife Tabitha Mandley my Executrix and Micajah Mandley my Executor of this my last Will and Testament.

Signed: John Mandley (seal)

Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us Richard Merrill, John Barham, Salley Mandley (x her mark)

At a Court held for Fluvanna County on Monday the 23rd day of October 1809 This Will was this day produced in court and proved by the oath of Richard Merrill and John Barham two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded and on the motion of Micajah Mandley the executor herein named who made thereto as the said directs and entered into and acknowledged bond in the penalty of two hundred Dollars Cuthbert Champion and William Pasteur his securities conditioned as the Said directs. Certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due form. Teste John Timberlake, C. Fl., Testator=John Manley Jr.

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Elbert County, Georgia--Wills and Deeds

From Phelps Researcher, Martha Oglesby---All I have is 3 Elbert county Deed books covering the deeds from 1791 to 1835. This is the first Phelps mentioned in these books. Deed Book B 1793 - 1795 page 42 9 Oct 1795 Richard Coulter to William Phelps both of Elbert Co 100 acres on Doves Creek.

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Will Book M, Elbert Co., GA

Estate of David Staples, page 377

Returns of Fanny STAPLES, Excx. for 1824 shows receipts of John, Thomas, and Patsy STAPLES, Thomas Phelps, John Stovall, Edward A. DENNA (DENNEY), Robt. DENNA (DENNEY), Jesse Brown, Jacob MOON, and Thomas STAPLES for William Smith, each for $391.00 their distributive shares, and Tabitha MOON for $2.00 as per will.
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1822 Will Book M, Elbert Co., GA, p. 94

STAPLES, David, To wife Fanny a slave Charity, household goods etc. to dispose of at her pleasure. The residue to be distributed amongst my children towit; John STAPLES, Christian J. PHELPS, Elizabeth D. STOVALL, Prudence SMITH, Barbara DENNY, Patsy STAPLES, Lucy BROWN, Melita DENNY, the legitimate off spring of my dau. Tabitha MOON, (at majority). To dau. Tabitha MOON $2.00, to Thos. STAPLES, Anna MOON, slaves Gabriel, Hannah, Bridget, Phillis, Jack, Lucinda, Silvy, Benj. and Welborn to be divided amongst above named children. Wife Fanny an son John STAPLES, Excrs. Signed April 30, 1821. Probated Nov. 19, 1822. C. W. Christian, Wm. Branan, Edmond Smithwick, Test.
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Elbert County Deed Book P (1813-1816): p. 151 1 Dec. 1815, Presley Christian to George Oglesby, both of Elbert Co., for $100, on Doves Creek waters in sd. co., 69 ¼ acres on & up creek, adj. S.E. & S.W. by William Faulkner, N.E. by John Faulkner, N.W. by Thomas Phelps. (signed) Presley Christian. Wit.: William Grimes, Boyel Ridgway, Robt. B. Christian, J.P. Regd. 12 Jan. 1816. p. 152 Elbert Co., Ga.: 1 Dec. 1815, Presley Christian to George Oglesby, both of sd. co., for $500, on Doves Creek waters in sd. co., 170 acres, adj. Thomas Oglesby, on & down creek, in fee simple. (signed) Presley Christian. Wit.: William grimes, Boyel Ridgway, Robt. B. Christian, J.P. Regd. 12 Jan. 1816 Wm. Woods, clk.
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Francis "Fanney" Staples Will as transcribed and notes by Daniel Denney, Olney, MD

Francis "Fanney" Staples appears to have died in Elbert County, Georgia, but her will, written October 17, 1837, is not specific. It wasn’t recorded by the court clerk until 1847, however (Will Book 1835-1860, pages 102 and 103). Two of the three witnesses, Charles Moon and C. W. Christian, I know to be Elbert County men. Both owned property facing the North Fork of the Broad River and were neighbors of my gggg grandfather Edward Denney. David and Fanney Staples owned land a bit to the south on Deep Shoal Creek.

Terms of the will:

Georgia, Elbert County

In the name of Almighty God Amen. I, Fanney Staples, widow and select of David Staples late of the County and state aforesaid deceased being weak in body but of sound and reflecting mind and memory, knowing that it is once appointed for all men to die wishing to dispose of what property that it has pleased God to help me with in my widowhood I do make this my last will and testament in following manner, to wit, I wish to be buried in Christian order at discression of my surviving friends and the expense paid out of my Estate.

I wish all my just debts to be paid out of estate by my Exec.

I give unto my son John F. Staples or his children one equal share

I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Stovall one equal share

I give unto my daughter Barbary Denney one equal share

I give unto my daughter Martha Tucker one equal share

I give unto my daughter Lucy Brown on equal share

I give unto my daughter Melita Denney one hundred dollars

I give unto my daughter Mary Ann Moon one equal share

I give unto my son Thomas Staples one equal share

I give unto Charles W. Christian, Senr., three equal shares in trust, one equal share for the sole use and benefit of my daughter Christian S. Phelps, one other equal share for the use and benefit of my daughter Prudence Smith, and one other equal share for the use and benefit of my daughter Tabitha S. Moon to be used in that manner in which the said C. W. Christian in trust may decide(?) it best to their and each of their interest, and his, the said C. W. Christian, failing or refusing to act in trust for the three last named daughters, then and in that case I authorize any court having competent jurisdiction to appoint other trustee or trustees in his place.

I give unto Charles W. Christian, Senr., one Negro girl named Milly trust for the sole use and benefit of my daughter Tabitha S. Moon.

My will and wish is that the balance of my Negroes, to wit, Charity, Benjamin, and Ansel, have the right of choosing their masters either in or out of my family to go at the valuation of three good men and the proceeds applied as above provided.

I do hereby appoint Charles W. Christian, Senr., and my son Thomas Staples Exec. to this my last will and Testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Seventeenth day of October in the year of out Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Seven.

Signed sealed and acknowledged in the Presence of

Adam Kelly

Charles G. Moon

C. W. Christian

her

Fanney X Staples

mark

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Georgia Gold Lottery of 1832

This land was known as the "Cherokee Purchase", and extended from the Chattahoochee river to the state of Alabama on the west, to Tenn. and N. C. on the north. Lots of 40 acres were supposed to contain gold, and were known as "gold lots." Land lots contained 160 acres. Revolutionary soldiers, widows of Revolutionary soldiers, citizens, citizens widows and orphans were eligible for participation.

Captain Jesse Nellum’s Dist. 201

DENNEY, Edward A., s.l.w. (soldier of the late war 1812), 1 draw

DENNEY, George Washington (oldest son of David DENNEY), 1 draw

STAPLES, Francis, w.r.s. (wife of Rev. soldier David STAPLES), 1 draw

DENNEY, Robert, s.l.w. (soldier of the late war 1812), 1 draw

DENNEY, David, s.l.w., 1 draw

MOON, James B., 1 draw

MOON, Pleasant, 1 draw

MOON, John B. and Gabrilla (orphans of Pleasant MOON, given in by their mother)

MOON, Sarah, widow, 1 draw

STAPLES, Thomas (youngest son of David STAPLES), 1 draw

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The documents listed above show the family relationships of the Phelps, Staples, Stinchcomb, Ridgeway, Penn, Moon, Christian and Oglesby families as allied and intermarried families in Elbert Co, Ga. and the discussed areas of Virginia. This now brings us to the family of Thomas Phelps Sr. and Christian Staples Phelps family in Elbert Co., Ga., who I now feel strongly is connected to James Phelps (Wreck Island, Va) and wife Elizabeth. Thomas Phelps Sr. could be a son of James of Wreck Island or possibly a grandson, as he was born in 1783 per 1860 Elbert Co., Ga. Census 87 years old being born in Virginia.

From longtime Phelps Researcher, J. C. Rogers: I have always thought that the Thomas Phelps in Elbert could have been a son of James. If memory serves, he married a Christian Staples. The Christian and Staples names are "Wreck Island Creek". The Stinchcomb and Oglesby names are local as well in the same area. Patteson is a name with multiple connections to this Phelps line and they were also interwoven in the Oglesby line.

The Family of Thomas Phelps Sr. and wife Christian Staples

1.Sarah Phelps

2.Mary Phelps b. 1809 Farm Hill, Oglethorpe Co., Ga

3.David S. Phelps

4.James P. Phelps b. 1813

5.Thomas Phelps, Jr. b. July 5, 1817, died Feb 2, 1902, married, Elizabeth Ann Stinchcomb Dec. 24, 1846

6.Elizabeth phelpsb. 1819, d. 1879 Meriwether Co., GA

7.John Phelps b. Jan. 23, 1821 Elbert Co. d. March 31, 1881, Elbert Co., Married Susan A. Moon

8. Reuben (Rubin)Phelps abt. 1823 (based on census)

The 1820 Elbert Co., Ga. Census shows a James and Thomas Phelps, no Township listed. In later census records it is refered as Elberton P.O., and Pike District. Below is a Listing of Phelps in the 1850 Census in Elbert, which shows three sons of Thomas Phelps Sr., James, Thomas Jr., and John Phelps, living beside one another based on the consecutive Household #'s. Thomas Phelps Sr is shown living with a Brown family. The E. Brown shown in Household # 293, along with Thomas Phelps Sr., is probably Thomas Sr.'s daughter Elizabeth as her age of 32 coincides closely with her birthdate of 1819. It is very likely for him to be living with one of his children, at the age of 70 years with his wife obviously deceased as she is not shown in Household #293.
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1850 Elbert County, Georgia Census

Page Household#
373 147 147 Phelps James 37 M W Farmer GA
373 147 147 Phelps M. 35 F W GA
373 147 147 Phelps E. 14 F W GA
373 147 147 Phelps S. A. 12 F W GA
373 147 147 Phelps J. W. 10 M W GA
373 147 147 Phelps M. 7 F W GA

373 148 148 Phelps Thomas 33 M W Farmer GA
373 148 148 Phelps E. 21 F W GA
373 148 148 Phelps M. A. 4 F W GA
373 148 148 Phelps L. T. 2 F W GA
373 148 148 Phelps J. J. 2/12 M W GA

373 149 149 Phelps John 29 M W Farmer GA
373 149 149 Phelps S. 29 F W GA
373 149 149 Phelps W. T. 5 M W GA
373 149 149 Phelps L. E. 2 F W GA

384 293 293 Brown J. C. 32 M W Farmer GA
384 293 293 Brown E. 32 F W GA
384 293 293 Brown L. 5 F W GA
384 293 293 Brown J. 3 M W GA
384 293 293 Brown W. 2 M W GA
384 293 293 Brown J. 10/12 M W GA
384 293 293 Phelps T. 70 M W Farmer VA

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By the 1860 Elbert County Georgia Census, Thomas Phelps is Shown living in the Household of his son, Thomas Phelps Jr.

406 803 Phelps Thomas Jr 44 M W Farmer GA

406 803 Phelps Elizabeth Stinchcomb 32 F W GA

406 803 Phelps Mahulda A. 13 F W GA

406 803 Phelps G. T. 11 M W GA

406 803 Phelps John J. 10 M W GA

406 803 Phelps Reuben H. 9 M W GA

406 803 Phelps Malinda E. 7 F W GA

406 803 Phelps Mary E. 6 F W GA

406 803 Phelps Sarah 2 F W GA

406 803 Phelps Z. 2 F W GA

406 803 Phelps Thomas Sr 87 M W Farmer VA

The age of of Thomas Sr, is in question as he was shown in 1850 as 70 years old and 87 years old in 1860, a 7 year discrepancy, yet we have all seen contradictory ages on Census Records and he is the only Thomas Phelps Sr. in Elbert Co, Ga. during these two decades.

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I shall now focus on one son of Thomas Phelps Sr. and Christian Staples, as he leads to living Phelps descendants in Georgia. That son is John Wofford Phelps, that married Susan A. Moon, Jan. 12th, 1843 in Elbert Co., Ga..

The Family of John Wofford Phelps and Susan A. Moon

1) William T. Phelps Sr.--Born 1846-- William T Phelps - Enlisted 4/1/1864, "Present" on roll dated 1/30/1865, No further military record but 1921 Florida pension application states that he was captured 4/6/1865 and put on a boat to Savannah at Newport News in June 1865, Born in Elbert County Ga 1/22/1846, Married Louisa A Seymour in Elbert County 7/21/1867, Moved to Alachua County Fla., 12/24/1912 from Lowndes County Ga, Died 3/17/1924 in Alachua County, Fla.

2) Lockey Ann Elizabeth Phelps --Birth: 23 JUN 1848 , Elbert, Georgia --Death: 20 JUL 1918 , Elbert, Georgia

3) Mary L. Phelps --Birth: 17 OCT 1850 , Elbert, Georgia Death: 14 JUL 1945, Elbert, Georgia--Married Joel R. Seymour, 15-May 1868

4) Susan Mildred Phelps--Birth: 1852, Elbert, Georgia --Married James R. Dickerson, 26-Oct 1873

5) Jepthania F. Phelps --Birth: 1854, Elbert, Georgia-- Death: 20 JUL 1918--Married William S. Seymour, 19-Dec 1873 GA Elbert

6) Bird Ella Phelps --Birth: 1857, Elbert, Georgia --Married William M. Vaughn, 20-Jan 1876 GA Elbert

7) Jefferson Davis Phelps -- Birth: 1859, Elbert, Georgia --Married Jeanette Burden, 9-Nov 1884 GA Elbert

8) John Wofford Phelps Jr, --Birth: 1862, Elbert, Georgia--Married Jessie E. Norris, 16-Oct 1884 GA Elbert

The Family of Jefferson Davis Phelps and Jeanette Burden

1) Maude Phelps--Daughter--Birth 1886

2) Gairdner Phelps--Son--Birth 1887

3) Tommie (Lonnie) Phelps--Son--Birth 1890

4) Lester Phelps--Son--Birth 1891

5) Charles Phelps--Son--Birth 1893

6) Allie Phelps--Daughter--Birth 1894

7) Dozier King Phelps--Son--Birth 1896---Dozier King Phelps, married Jessie Lavonia Moon, has a living Great-Grandson in Elbert Co., Ga., who shall remain anonymous at this time.

8) Jefferson Davis Phelps Jr.--Son--Birth 1904

9) Dorolla (Dora) Phelps--Daughter

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Elbert County Cemeteries---PHELPS

Deep Creek Baptist

Phelps Dozier King ??-???-1896 20-Nov-1960 h/o Jessie Lavonia Moon --Deep Creek Baptist

Phelps Edward ??-???-1900 ??-???-1922-- Deep Creek Baptist

Phelps Gardner ??-???-1887 ??-???-1941 --Deep Creek Baptist

Phelps Jeanette Burden ??-???-1867 ??-???-1943 Jeanette Burden, w/o Jefferson Davis Phelps-- Deep Creek Baptist

Phelps Jefferson Davis ??-???-1859 ??-???-1929 h/o Jeanette Burden-- Deep Creek Baptist

Phelps Jefferson Davis Jr 06-Feb-1904 24-Dec-1983 --Deep Creek Baptist

Phelps Jessie Moon ??-???-1896 27-May-1981 Jessie Lavonia Moon, w/o Dozier King Phelps --Deep Creek Baptist

Phelps Lonnie W. 19-May-1935 GA PVT 235 INF 82 DIV-died at age 16 --Deep Creek Baptist

Phelps Lydia Ramirez 26-Apr-1909 28-Jan-1972-- Deep Creek Baptist

Phelps Tommy ??-???-1907 ??-???-1911 --Deep Creek Baptist

Antioch Baptist

Phelps Susan A. 27-Sep-1821 27-Feb-1908 Susan A. Moon, w/o John Phelps --Antioch Baptist

Phelps John 26-Jan-1821 31-Mar-1881 h/o Susan A. Moon --Antioch Baptist

Rehoboth Baptist

Seymour Holcomb G. 18-Mar-1888 24-Aug-1950 s/o William Thomas and Lonie Phelps Seymour-- Rehoboth Baptist

Butler Holcomb H. 26-Jun-1887 09-Sep-1888 s/o Peter. B. and Elzena Dora Phelps Butler-- Rehoboth Baptist

Seymour Lonie ??-???-1867 ??-???-1931 Lonie Phelps, w/o William Thomas Seymour--Rehoboth Baptist

Seymour William T. 06-Jan-1865 ??-???-1948 William Thomas Seymour, h/o Lonie Phelps -- Rehoboth Baptist

Seymour J. Reese 12-Aug-1847 14-Sep-1923 Joel Reese Seymour, h/o Mary Louisa Phelps-- Rehoboth Baptist

Seymour Mary Phelps 17-Oct-1850 14-Jul-1935 Mary Louisa Phelps, w/o Joel Reese Seymour Rehoboth Baptist

Phelps Silas 12-Sep-1894 02-Jan-1902 Son of J. W. and H. E. Phelps --Rehoboth Baptist

Hillcrest Cemetery

Phelps Jessie Norris ??-???-1861 ??-???-1955 Jessie Norris,w/o John W. Phelps --Hillcrest Cemetery

Phelps John W. ??-???-1861 ??-???-1897 h/o Jessie Norris-- Hillcrest Cemetery

Phelps Robert D. 19-Feb-1896 03-Dec-1896 s/o J. W. & Jessie Phelps --Hillcrest Cemetery

Phelps Stella B. 03-Apr-1894 21-Sep-1894 d/o J. W. and Jessie Phelps --Hillcrest Cemetery

Dewey Rose Baptist

Phelps John W. 05-Sep-1897 28-Feb-1984-- Dewy Rose Baptist

Phelps Wilburn Campbell 09-Apr-1929 10-Apr-1929 Inf s/o John W. Phelps -- Dewy Rose Baptist

Stinchcomb United Methodist Cemetery

Phelps Hulde Yann 13-Jun-1847 07-Nov-1917 Mahulda Yann, w/o William G. Sanders-- Stinchcomb United Methodist Cemetery

Phelps Sallie 29-May-1847 01-Sep-1903 Sarah P. Bond, w/o John J. Phelps--StinchcombUnited Methodist Cemetery

Rousey Mitchell G. 14-Jan-1860 05-Feb-1924 h/o Eliza Phelps--Stinchcomb United Methodist Cemetery

Phelps William D. 13-Sep-1865 26-Apr-1932 s/o Thomas and Elizabeth Ann Stinchcomb Phelps--Stinchcomb United Methodist Cemetery

Phelps Thomas 5-Jul-1817 02-Feb-1902 h/o Elizabeth Ann Stinchcomb--Stinchcomb United Methodist Cemetery

Phelps Elizabeth A. 16-Sep-1828 07-Oct-1900 Elizabeth Ann Stinchcomb, w/o Thomas Phelps--Stinchcomb United Methodist Cemetery

Burden Family Cemetery

Burden Richard Lester 20-Oct-1894 17-Aug-1896 s/o George Usry and Henrietta Phelps Burden--Burden Family Cemetery

Burden George Usry 16-Jun-1876 28-Mar-1946 h/o Henrietta Phelps --Burden Family Cemetery

Burden Henrietta "Etta" 06-Apr-1876 29-Apr-1916 Henrietta Phelps, w/o George Usry Burden

ELBERT COUNTY GEORGIA CEMETERY LISTING C
WHITE-- EXCLUDING ELMHURST

Colvard Lula Phelps 12-Oct-1870 12-Feb-1963 Lula Phelps, w/o Walter Hamilton Colvard

Colvard Walter Hamilton 18-Oct-1864 17-Sep-1943 h/o Lula Phelps

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Phelps Marraiges--Elbert Co. Ga. 1806-1850

Hicks. William and Polly Phelps Nov. 23, 1809 p.2

Hicks, Wyatt and Melinda Phelps Feb. 8, 1824 p.486

Moon, Jesse and Mary Phelps Oct. 28, 1823 p.484

Moon, Stephen and Fanny Phelps Jan 20, 1820 p.475

Phelps, Thomas Jr., and Elizabeth Ann Stinchcomb Dec. 24, 1846 p.206

ELBERT COUNTY, GEORGIA MARRIAGES 1809-1812

Brown, Jesse and Lucy Staples Jan. 17, 1811 p.137-- I feel very strongly that this is the sister of Christian Staples, who married Thomas Phelps Sr. of Elbert Co, Ga. J.C. Brown, whose household Thomas Phelps Sr., was living in Elbert Co., Georgia Census Records of 1850 in Household # 293. The Census Record clearly shows:

384 293 293 Brown J. C. 32 M W Farmer GA
384 293 293 Brown E. 32 F W GA
384 293 293 Brown L. 5 F W GA
384 293 293 Brown J. 3 M W GA
384 293 293 Brown W. 2 M W GA
384 293 293 Brown J. 10/12 M W GA
384 293 293 Phelps T. 70 M W Farmer VA

Martha Oglesby--Phelps Researcher said: I forgot to tell you that the Brown family that Thomas Phelps was living with in 1850 was a nephew... the son of Christian Staples sister, Lucy, who married a Brown.

The Christian Phelps who Thomas received money for, was a daughter of Fanny Staples would be the wife of Thomas Phelps,Sr.

Based on this Census record, I conclude that the E. Phelps, is in fact Elizabeth Phelps, daughter of Thomas Phelps Sr. and Christian Staples. In the 1860 Elbert County. Ga. Census, Lucy (Staples) Brown, Probably the mother of J. C. Brown and sister of Christian Staples, shown in the Household of
J. C Brown, which gives the full name of J. C Brown and E. Brown. Thomas Phelps Sr. had died before 1870 and is no longer shown in the Household. Notice that it shows Lucy Staples Brown, sister of Christian Staples, being born in Virginia, just as the 1850 Census shows Thomas Phelps Sr, who married Christian Staples, being born in Virginia as well.

50 757 Brown Joshua Clarke 41 M W Farmer GA
50 757 Brown Elizabeth Pendleton Vaughn 41 F W GA
50 757 Brown Lucy Elizabeth 14 F W GA
50 757 Brown J. B. 12 M W GA
50 757 Brown W. A. 10 M W GA
50 757 Brown J. D. 8 M W GA
50 757 Brown L. 6 M W GA
50 757 Brown Lucy 71 F W VA
50 757 Burch J. W. 61 M W Farmer KY
50 757 Guess P. 33 M W Waggoner SC

Phelps Marraiges--Elbert Co. Ga. 1851-1900

BOND, SARAH P.------------------ PHELPS, JOHN J.---------- 18-Nov 1869 GA Elbert

BURDEN, JENETT------------------ PHELPS, J. D. 9-------------Nov 1884 GA Elbert

COLLINS, H. ETTER---------------- PHELPS, JESSE W. --------24-May 1888 GA Elbert

McCURRY, STELLA---------------- PHELPS, W. T. Jr.---------- 26-Dec 1894 GA Elbert

NORRIS, JESSIE E.----------------- PHELPS, JOHN W.--------- 16-Oct 1884 GA Elbert

PHELPS, BURDEL -----------------VAUGHAN, WILLIAM M.-- 20-Jan 1876 GA Elbert

PHELPS, ELIZA-------------------- ROUSEY, MITCHELL G. ---6-Jan 1895 GA Elbert

PHELPS, ELZENA D.-------------- BUTLER, PETER B. ---------21-Nov 1882 GA Elbert

PHELPS, ETTA ---------------------BURDEN, BUDDIE--------- 28-Dec 1893 GA Elbert

PHELPS, IRENE E.----------------- HALL, WILLIAM T.-------- 18-Dec 1889 GA Elbert

PHELPS, JEPTHANA F.------------ SEEMORE, WILLIAM S.--- 19-Dec 1873 GA Elbert

PHELPS, LOCKEY A. E. -----------SEAMORE, CHARLES M.-- 7-Feb 1867 GA Elbert

PHELPS, LONA-------------------- SEYMORE, THOMAS W. --7-Feb 1886 GA Elbert

PHELPS, LULA --------------------COLVARD, WALTER H.----12-Jan 1890 GA Elbert

PHELPS, MAHULDA A. -----------SANDERS, WILLIAM G.-----26-Nov 1868 GA Elbert

PHELPS, MARY ELIZABETH -----BUSBY, JAMES ------------18-Sep 1870 GA Elbert

PHELPS, MARY L. ----------------SEEMORE, JOEL R. 15-----May 1868 GA Elbert

PHELPS, NEELIE ------------------BOND, EDWARD M.------ 12-Nov 1891 GA Elbert

PHELPS, SUSAN M.---------- ----DICKERSON, JAMES R.-- 26-Oct 1873 GA Elbert

PLEDGER, LETTIE A.--------- ----PHELPS, LEVI T. ----------12-Sep 1869 GA Elbert

SEEMORE, LOUISA A. -----------PHELPS, WILLIAM T. -----21-Jul 1867 GA Elbert

McCURRY, STELLA---------------PHELPS, W. T. Jr.-----------26-Dec 1894 GA Elbert

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Letter of Dismision
( Georgia, Elbert County )

The Baptist Church of Christ at Doves Creek in conference do certify
that the Undersigned named members are in full fellowship with us and are
heareby dismissed From us regularly constituted into a Church at Antioch in the
above named County According to Baptist usage.

Named as follows: Femails Names

John Booth
Wm. R. Crook Amy Booth
Woodson C. Booth Sarah J. Smith
David M. Sanders Judy Moore
Joel W. Moore Mary S. Johnson
Richard Sanders Nancy Moore
James Johnson Elizabeth E. Moore
Wm. Ruff Elizabeth C. Tucker
Calvin J. Moore Nicy Crook
Georg T. Sanders Jane Head
W. J. Moore Martha S. Brown
????? White Mahielda Sanders
Bennet W. Brown Elizabeth Moore
Thomis Phelps Cicilyian Fitts
Mary A. Ruff
Martha F. Tucker

Don in conference and assigned by order of the same.
January 17th 1846 (?)
James Almand C
P. T. Burges, modeator

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Georgia: Elbert County: Sarah Harper Estate Sale, 5 Nov 1802

Georgia}
Elbert County}

Amt. Of Sale, Sarah Harper, dec'd, 5th Nov 1802

Wm. Phelps 1 saw & rest 3.02 ½; pd Jas Jones 1 chern 1.00 4.02 ½
Tho. Napier 1 sett coopers tools 2.50;
N Wm. Phelps 2 chisels & hammer .81 ½ 3.31 ½

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Georgia: Elbert County: The History of Goshen District
And The Town of Bowman, Ga.

Some early educators of Gibson-Mercer Academy were: Dr. Montgomery,
Dr. A. W. Keese, Prof. Peter Zellars, Prof. J. P. Cash, J. A. Hunter,
Rev. A. W. Bussey, Prof. J. T. Miller, J. W. Holman, Lawson E. Brown,
Prof. A. B. Greene, Prof. W. C. Underwood, A. H. Redding, L. F. Jordan,
and J. B. Brookshire.

1926 saw this school operated as a public high school for white
students. In 1928 this school house burned, and the people of Bowman
and Goshen District came together and constructed a new brick building
for the grammar and high school. Crayton Phelps and his cousin, Sanford
Moon are shown (1928) in a photo in front of the old two story brick
grammar school building. Crayton’s father had left this area to go
and help build the Panama Canal but returned back to Goshen District.
1929 was the first Class to graduate from the White Bowman High School.

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Conclusions based on the evidence contained in this document.

1) The line of Thomas Sr. and Christian Staples in Elbert Co., Ga. based on the source documents, included in this article is proven to present day.

2) The relationship between Thomas Sr. and James Phelps of Albemarle-Buckingham-Campbell, Co., Va. is strong, yet can only be proven by a DNA test from a "living male" Phelps , who I have spoken to recently. The presence of the allied and intermarried families in Elbert Co, Ga., that have Old Albemarle Co, Va. "roots' makes a strong argument that this is certainly possible.

3) The William Phelps who appears in early Elbert Co, Ga. documents, appears to be a close relation of Thomas Phelps Sr. of Elbert Co. Further research is needed on this William Phelps. If he proves to be a brother of Thomas Sr., they both could be sons or grandsons of James Phelps of Albermarle-Buckingham-Campbell Co, Va.

4) I welcome any and all critique, additions, corrections, comments of any kind concerning this article. I encourage all Phelps Researchers to follow up with your own research in regards to this Phelps Family Line and hopefully it will bring others that we have not heretofore known of, to join us in the quest for answers we all seek.

Latham Mark Phelps---February 2007

Thomas Phelps of Rowan Co. NC and Jasper Co, Ga

2007-04-20T04:38:00.000-05:00

The Phelps/Felps Family of Rowan County, North Carolina and Jasper County, Georgia.

The Family of Aquilla Phelps and his sons Thomas and James, who left Rowan County, North Carolina to cast their lot in the Georgia and Louisiana Frontier. This Phelps family has it's origins in Baltimore County, Maryland where Aquilla Phelps' father, Avinton Phelps and grandfather, Thomas Phelps, had made their own migration into the wilds of North Carolina in the mid-1700's. I have compiled this data from through various sources available on the internet in an effort to place these widely scattered bits of information in a single document for all Phelps researchers to see and have at their disposal. Hopefully it will encourage further conversation and collaboration among present day Phelps family history afficianados.

I descend from James Phelps and his wife Mary of Caswell County, North Carolina. Recent DNA testing has confirmed a family relationship between my James Phelps of Caswell County, North Carolina and Thomas Phelps d.1751 of Albemarle County, Virginia. The specific relationship has yet to be determined, however as the DNA testing is expanded the answers will be discovered. I would like to encourageand challenge all Phelps researchers to find a living "Male" descendant of your line to gather a DNA test from. If you are a "Male" Phelps it is of utmost importance that you yourself submit your own DNA test, as it is where the future of Genealogy is headed. Many "brick walls" will be laid to rest as DNA will provide the evidence we all seek.

I am in the process of digesting the files on Southern Phelps in Georgia and elsewhere, graciously sent to me by Margaret Swanson, a noted Phelps Researcher who had published the "Phelps Connections Newsletters". Margaret is descended from the New England Phelps Group, yet she collected vast amounts of Phelps information on Southern Phelps and the "frontier states" that their descendants migrated to. Her work deserves an article by itself. Unfortunately I still work "Full Time" and only have limited time to devote to my research. I will try to share her work with everyone at a later date.

Latham Mark Phelps----April 2007

I begin with information provided by Ed Phelps, who in my opinion is the most authorative researcher on the Phelps/Felps family of Rowan County, North Carolina that I have seen. I'm sure there are others, yet Ed Phelps went one step further and shared his information with the world by posting his research for all to see. I would encourge all Phelps researchers to do the same. I have always shared this philosophy since I began my own research in the 70's. The Internet has provided us all with the vehicle to tell our family stories, so that future generations will be able to find their "Roots" as well.

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Felps linked to many families
Author: Jim Drew-WhitakerDate: 7 Oct 2001 5:20 PM GMT

Hi Patsy

The Rowan Co., NC Felps were descendants of Baltimore Co.,
Maryland. There's a Samuel Felps mentioned. Please let me know
more about your ancestors in Russell Co., VA. There some
Whitakers who also migrated there. Thanks. Best regards, Jim

I received the following from Ed Phelps about 2 years ago.
Lots of great information here on several families in Rowan
Co., NC from Maryland & Pennsylvania.

Jim
You might be able to read this and get something from it. From
my research I do know the Whitakers in Rowan County NC came
down from Baltimore County Maryland about the same time as the
Felps, and then they all moved to GA in the 1770's the same
time. The Felps then again moved to Warren County KY during
the early 1820's. Our Felps name changed in the family bible
of my ggg grandfather during the later of 1850's for some
unknown reason.

AVINTON FELPS

Born in Baltimore County Maryland abt.1711
Died in Rowan County North Carolina abt.1790
"Blacksmith"
Son of Thomas Felps & Mrs. Rosanna Swift

Shown in the St. George's Parish Register in Baltimore County,
Maryland is the marriage record of Avinton Felps and Rachel
McElroy dated April 23, 1730. Rachel was born Aug. 7, 1713 and
was the daughter of John and Francis McElroy.

On June 20, 1725 John McElroy was granted a survey for 100
acres that was named "Rachel's Delight" and this tract of land
was located on the head of a small draught being a draught of
the upper groom spring the west side of Deer creek. John had
conveyed 50 of the 100 acres of "Rachel's Delight" to his
daughter at the time she had married.

On Sept. 5, 1732 the father of Rachel, who referred to himself
as a planter in various deeds, had sold the last of his land
"John's Beginning" in Baltimore County, Maryland to John Long
of Cecil County, L50, 200 acres, John (x) Mackelroy. Wit:
Signed Avinton Felps and Stephen Onions.

One must assume now that the McElroy family, Avinton and
Rachel Felps, had began their Southwest movement on the trail
of "The Great Wagon Road" also known as "The Carolina Road".
It does appear that both families left Baltimore County
Maryland during the later part of 1732. The family of John and
Francis McElroy have disappeared into the wilderness from the
years of 1732 until 1742, about 10 years before surfacing in
the North Carolina frontiers. It appears from the following
land deed that Avinton and Rachel Felps, temporarily located
in Orange County Virginia.

ORANGE COUNTY VIRGINIA
Formed from Spotsylvania County in 1734

Aug. 5, 1741 Avinton & Rachel Felps, Yeoman, of Orange County
Virginia to Henry Thomas, planter, of Baltimore County
Maryland, L10 paid by Isaac Webster, 50 acres...west side of
Deer creek, known as "Rachel's Delight" Signed Avinton Felps.
Wit: Isaac Webster and Richard Ruff.
Avinton and Rachel apparently returned to Baltimore County,
Maryland to sign the deed because his acknowledgement was
taken there, as well as Rachel's mark ( R ) on the release of
dower.

LAND HO!
NORTH CAROLINA

In Edenton, Chowan County North Carolina, the land office of
the Lord Granville Proprietory had opened in 1745 and
thousands of people in Maryland and Virginia took to the Great
Wagon Road that would lead them to these new frontiers in
North Carolina. By 1753, in the Granville district of North
Carolina, land was selling at the rate of 5 shillings per
hundred acres, regardless of acreage.

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CRAVEN COUNTY

Was first created as Archdale Precinct of Bath County in 1705.
The name was changed about 1712. It was named in honor of
William Lord Craven, one of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina.
The county seat was first called Chattawka, or Chattoocka, and
later in 1723 it was changed to New Bern.

The McElroy families arrive in Craven County
In 1742 William McElroy, planter, bought 150 acres from Edward
Frisby.

In 1743 Archibald McElroy bought 50 acres from Moses Tillman,
Witt; James and Ruth McElroy.

In 1744 John McElroy, planter, bought 198 acres from Henry
Owens Sr. Also in the same year he bought 350 acres, and then
another 150 acres from Thomas Barnett.

In 1745 Archibald McElroy, blacksmith, bought 320 acres from
John Fryer a merchant.

Apr. 6, 1750, Land Grant to William McElroy, 100 acres

JOHNSTON COUNTY

Was formed in 1746 from Craven County

Aventon Felps and the McElroy's are living on Crabtree Creek
near the Neuse River in St. Patrick's Parish, Johnston County.
Aventon Felps is listed there on April 12, 1749 as a sworn
chain-carrier for Lord Granville Surveyor, John Wade.

Johnston County Grantor Index Book l - Nov l746 - April l750
From To Page
Cole, George Abbinton Felps 16 (page 16 indicates recorded
early in the book 1746 or early 1747)
Mills, Thomas Abbinton Felps 38
McIllroy, John John Belk 56
McIllroy, Archibald Paul Hartsfield 140
McIllroy, William John Turner 156

Johnston County Grantor Index Book 3 - April 1754 - April 1755
From To Page
Felps, Avinton Alexader Avery 176
McIllroy, William John Belk 12
McIllroy, Archibald Thomas Bevan 56
McIllroy, Archibald Thomas Bevan 57
McIllroy, James William Blake 223
House, William Archibald Mukelroy 374

May 1755, Johnston County, NC Sir: this Comes to Let (sic)
Know that I have sold my Land containing one hundred & fifty
Acres, lying in Johnston County, on the North side of Walnut
Creek joying to the Great Branch on Both sides, to John SMITH
and I Desire your Honner (sic) to give the said John SMITH a
Deed in his own name and in Sodoing (sic) you will ablige your
friend and Humble Servant this 3rd. (sic) day of May 1755.
Signed Silus MONK, Witnessed and Signed, Thomas FELPS &
William BRYAN.

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In the fall of 1752 at the land office in Edenton in Chowan
County, Col. Francis Corbin the Commander of the Frontier
Militia and Land Agent for Lord Earl Granville, directed Lt.
Col. George Smith and some Militia Rangers, to escort William
Churton a Surveyor, the Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenburg and
a few other Moravians to the west along the Indian Trading
Path that meandered out of Virginia, crossed the Eno River at
Hillsborough and then on to the Trading Ford at the Yadkin
River in Anson County where William Churton would survey and
lay out the boundries for the 100,000 acres of a Wachovia
Tract of land that Lord Granville agreed to sell to the
Movarian Church in Bethleham, Pennsylvania.

ANSON COUNTY

Was formed in 1750 from Bladen County

In 1753, before the Movarians had received their land from
Granville, Avinton Felps received a survey of the Granville
land for 500 acres in Anson County that was surveyed by Major
James Carter, with his sworn chain-carriers, John Smith and
Abiga McCoy.

This tract of land was located on the Yadkin River near the
mouth of Reedy Creek. Later on, this land was found to be
within the surveyed boundries of the 100,000 acres of land
that Lord Granville had sold to the Movarians. Aventon Felps a
blacksmith, and his oldest son Aquilla Felps who was a
sawmiller, settled on Reedy Creek a tributary of the Yadkin
River. I am positive that the main purpose for the Felps
settlement at that time, was to provide skills and services
for the establishing of the new German settlements of,
Bethania, Bethabara and Salem, that was soon to follow.

Feb 12, 1753 Michael Miers sold to Avinton Felps a blacksmith,
both of Anson County, for L25 Virginia money, 357 acres in
Anson on North side of Yadkin river above mouth of Reedy
creek. Signed- Michael (+) Miers, Witt. James Carter, William
Bishop. Proved 20 Sept. 1753.

It appears that by 1753, Avinton Felps still owns property in
Johnston County and 1 platt with 500 acres, 1 platt with 357
acres, located on the North side of the Yadkin River between
Muddy and Reedy Creek. The land bought from Miers was the land
where Aquilla Felps lived, and built a sawmill and a
horse-ford, both of these landmarks were used in many deeds of
locations in the Reedy Creek area. There has been no records
found where Aquilla ever bought or sold land.

ROWAN COUNTY

Was formed in 1753 from Anson County.

It was named in honor of Matthew Rowan who was a prominent leader before the Revolution
and who for a short time after the death of Governor Gabriel
Johnston was acting governor. The county seat was first called
Rowan Court House. It has been called Salisbury since about
1755.

In 1753, Avinton Felps was commissioned as a Ensign in the
Rowan County Militia by Major James Carter.
July 12, 1754, Avinton Felps was appointed as commissioner
(Captain) of the roads from Muddy Creek to the District of
Henry Doland and Capt. John Hanby Esqr.
At periodic intervals, the court appointed prominent men
living at widely seperated points to serve as commissioners
for the roads. It was the responsibility of each of these
commissioners to obtain service for road construction and
maintenance from the able-bodied men living in his particular
district. Fines were levied upon commissioners and individual
settlers for failure to meet this obligation.

Avinton Felps also served on the petit jury for the Court of
Pleas and Quarter Sessions a number of times and stated his
claims against the county for his services. He also served
many times as a Juror for the Salisbury District Superior
Court.

The Movarian Records, Vol. #3, contains a map of Rowan County,
made in 1756, showing Avinton Felps living on Reedy Creek in
Wachovia. Aquilla Felps is living nearby on Reedy Creek
showing the location of his horse-ford crossing the creek.

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During the peak of the French and Indian War's in 1759 the
Cherokee Indians went on the warpath down the Yadkin River
terrorizing settlements of that part of the frontier. Captain
Aventon Felps was called upon to serve in several expeditions.
"May ye 15th 1759, The Publick of North Carolina to Capt.
Avinton Felps Dr. To Scouts, Sent Out a man Alarm of Indians
being seen on the Frontiers of Rowan County".
(Thomas Felps the son of Avinton is listed as a Private in the
company of scouts under the command of his father Avinton.

Thomas was not listed as a tax poll for 1759 or any other time
until 1768, therefore being that a taxable was a white male
above sixteen years of age, Thomas would have been under 16
years old in 1759 born after the year of 1743 and being that
he is listed on the 1768 tax list, he had to be at least 16
therefore he was born before 1752). The birth of Thomas was-
between 1743 and 1752.

June 11, 1759, To a Scout, Capt. Avinton Felps, Ordered out by
Lt. Col. George Smith to Range the Woods in Order to Discover,
the Enemy if any.

Oct. 19, 1759, This day came Capt. Avinton Felps before us the
Subscribers and made Oath on the Holy Evanangelist Almighty
God that the within account of Thirty two Pounds Eight
Shillings and Eight Pence proclamation money charged against
the Publick of North Carolina according to the best of his
knowledge is just and true as it now stands stated. Sworn
before us, Capt. John Hanby and William Buis. Signed......
Avinton Felpes

April 25, 1759, Avinton was named in his father's Will filed
in Baltimore County Maryland.
1759, Aquilla Felps, List of Taxables in Rowan Co. (born
before 1743)
Oct. 8, 1761, Aquiller and Avinton Felps was on the List of
Taxables in Rowan Co.
A taxable was a white male above sixteen years of age or a
negro or mulatto slave of either sex above twelve years

April 20, 1762, Avinton Felps and David McElwain of Rowan Co.
North Carolina sold 50 acres (1/2 of Jones Venture) to Edward
Morgan of Baltimore Co. Maryland. Avinton and David apparently
returned to Baltimore County, Maryland at that time to sign
the deed because their acknowledgement was taken there,
Signed...... Avinton Felps and David McElwain. (David McElwain
was indentured to Avintons father Thomas on Sept. 1, 1741).
Oct. 21, 1762, John McElroy was wittness to land deed located
on both sides of Reedy Creek.

July 14, 1764, On Motion of John Dunn Ordered that a road be
laid out the Neares & Best way from John Howards Ferry to the
road from Bethabara to Salisbury near Reedy Creek, running up
from said ferry in the fork to Boon's Road & persons following
appointed to lay of said road: John Roberts, Edward Turner,
Nicholas White, Edward Williams, Isaac Holdman, Capt. Avinton
Felps, Mathew Sparks, Will' Sparks, Francis Taylor, Thomas
Jones, James Whitaker.

Wild animals proved a great inconvenience to the frontier
agriculturists. Accordingly bounties were offered to all
persons who killed a wolf or a wild cat or a panther within
ten miles of any settled plantation.
On Oct. 10, 1765, presented to Rowan County as bounty claims
for woolfs, panthers and cats. The list of names included,
Quilla and John Felps.

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During 1767, an act was passed requiring every master or
mistress of a plantation, or the overseer in case the owner
did not reside in the county, to kill or cause to be killed
every year seven crows or squirrels for each taxable under his
or her control. Failure to do so was penalized by a fine of
four pence for each crow or squirrel less than the required
number, while those who killed more than were required were
entitled to receive a bounty of four pence for each in excess
of the requisite number.

John Felps married Mary Williams 1766, Samuel Williams,
bondsman. Sometime between 1761 and 1768 Thomas Felps a son of Aventon
and Rachel (McElroy) Felps married Jane Smith a daughter of
Capt Aaron and Francis (Keeling) Smith. Children were:
Avington Felps, John Felps, Thomas Felps, Samuel Felps,
Brittain Felps, William Felps, Keeling Felps, Ezekiel Felps,
Pherabe Felps, Ede Felps, and Jane Felps. The sister of Thomas
Felps who was Laurania Felps married Ezekiel Smith the brother
of Jane Smith. Children were Abington Felps Smith, William C.
Smith, John Carraway Smith, Lovett Smith, Pheriba Smith,
Ezekiel Smith and Thomas Keeling Smith.

1768, Aquala 1 poll, John 1 poll, Avinton 5 polls, and Thomas
Felps 6 polls were on the list of John Ford's district of
taxables, also Peter Whitaker 1 poll, Mark Whitaker 2 polls.
Moses Parrish 2 polls. Poll = taxable persons, no distinction
was made on the 1768 tax list between the negro and white
taxables. (Moses Parrish was indentured to Avintons father
Thomas in 1729).
Aquala Felps (born before 1743)
John Felps (born before 1752)
Thomas Felps (born between 1743 and 1752)
Only Aquilla and Avinton was listed on 1759 and 1761 tax
rolls, they were the only Felps above 16 years old.
William Felps married Elizabeth Jones April 20, 1768, Mark
Whitaker, bondsman.

Nov. 23, 1768 The names of Aquilla and John Felps were
included with 28 other names on the Regulators petition that
was signed by some inhabitants of Rowan and Orange Counties.
April 3, 1769, Avinton Felps a blacksmith & wife Rachel to
Thomas Felps for L120 proclamation, 357 acres on north side of
Yadkin river 1/2 mile above branch of Reedy Creek,
Signed...... Avinton Felps and Rachel (R) Felps. Wit: Adam
Spaugh, Jonas Sparks. Proven, May Court 1769. Records indicate
that this land sold to Thomas was located between Avinton's
and Aquilla's places on the Reedy Creek.

From the will of Thomas Felps- "likewise all my farming
utensil, carpenter, blacksmith and toziners tools". This is a
good indication that Aventon had sold more than just land to
his son Thomas, it appears it was more like LOCK, STOCK &
BARREL. The blacksmith tools noted in the will, probably
belonged to Aventon.

PARTS FROM THE WILL OF THOMAS FELPS

1. I give and bequeath to Jane my dearly beloved wife all my
lands houses and orchards, from a cross fence against Charley
Catons fish pond up to Isaac Whites line.
2. Also I give to my well beloved son Thomas Felps Jr, the
upper part of my land about twenty paces or yards, below a
cross fence that is a little way below my upper fishing
landing (except one half of the fishery) and running from
thence to a little dam thence up the branch, with the water
course, to my back line straight as the cause will direct.
3. Also I give to my well beloved son Samuel Felps, all my
land lying between one above mentioned Thomas Felps Jr. and
the above mentioned Jane Felps land, at the cross fence
against the said Charles Catons fish pond, and likewise one
half of the upper fishing place.
Nov. 4, 1784, Rowan Co State Grant # 723, 50 shillings, 100
acres to Richard Dowell, 272 acres on Yadkin R betw Muddy &
Reedy Crk, adj Thomas Felps' fishing landing & Henry Miller.
1784 State Grant # 981 to Charles Caton, 150 acres in the
forks of the Yadkin River adjoining Aquilla Felps's mill.

Aug. 3, 1782, Avinton Felps to daughter Lucrsa Loyd, widow,
for love, Negro named Philes. Signed....Avinton Felps Wit:
George Reed...Proved Nov. 1782.
Aug. 1787, Avinton Felps sold a negro named Punch to James
Williams, Signed....Avinton Felps

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Notes;
1.) Avinton could read and write, and he always wrote his last
name as "Felps or Felpes" on all original researched
documents. I have found him on many documents as Avengton,
Avington, Abington, etc., Phillips, Phelps, Fealps, etc., that
was written by other people.

This is a true copy of Avinton's signature, signed by him in
1759, the original document is when Avinton made his Oath on
the Holy Evanangelist Almighty God that the within account of
Thirty two Pounds Eight Shillings and Eight Pence proclamation
money charged against the Publick of North Carolina.
It is located at Raleigh's History of Archives.

2.) Shown in the St. George's Parish Register, on the same
page as Rachel McElroy born August 7, 1713, daughter of John &
Francis Mackelroy, is James Whitaker born February 8, 1721 son
of Mark and Elizabeth Whitaker, and Peter Whitaker born May 6,
1716, son of John and Ann Whitaker, who had lived close to
Thomas Felps ( the father of Avinton) in Baltimore County,
Maryland.
3.) The family of Squire Boone (father of Daniel Boone) lived
in the same area as the Felps families in Rowan County.
From the Rowan County Militia List, The Publick of North
Carolina to Capt. Morgan Bryan on April 25th 1759, to a Scout
sent Out in the Alarm of *Daniel Hossey & Others being
Killed... includes the names of John and Danl Boone.

Richard Henderson purchased a large tract of land lying in
Tennessee and Kentucky and employed Daniel Boone to blaze the
way for a colony, which was established at Boonesborough,
Kentucky, just before the Revolution.
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Felps
Ed Felps/Phelps Posted: 8 Jul 2002 3:35PM GMT

THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

NORTH CAROLINA
JOHNSTON COUNTY
Created in 1746 from Craven County

On April 12, 1749 Aventon Felps is listed as a Sworn Chain-Carrier for Lord Granville Surveyor, John Wade.
Mar. 25, 1749, William McIllroy, 181 acres N side Crabtree Creek, joining the said creek and the bent of the said creek. Wits: James Carter, John Haywood. SCC: Thomas House, John Belk. Surveyor John Wade.
April 25, 1749, William McIllroy, 340 acres on Crabtree Creek, joining Thomas House. Wits: James Carter, John Haywood. SCC: John McIllroy, John Cook. Surveyor John Wade.

During the fall of 1752 at the Granville land office in Edenton, Colonel Francis Corbin the Commander of the Frontier Militia and Land Agent for Lord Earl Granville, directed Lieutenant Colonel George Smith and some Militia Rangers, to escort William Churton a Surveyor, the Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenburg and a few other Moravians to the west along the Indian Trading Path to the Yadkin River where William Churton would survey and lay out the boundries for the 100,000 acres of a Wachovia Tract of land that Lord Granville agreed to sell to the Movarian Church in Bethleham, Pennsylvania. By 1753 in the Granville district of North Carolina, land was selling at the rate of 5 shillings per hundred acres, regardless of acreage.

In 1753 Avinton Felps received a survey of 500 acres in Anson County from Lord Granville, surveyed by James Carter with his sworn chain-carriers, John Smith and Abiga McCoy.
This tract of land was located on the Yadkin River near the mouth of Reedy Creek. Later, this land was found to be within the surveyed boundries of the 100,000 acres of land that Lord Granville had sold to the Movarians.

ROWAN COUNTY
Created in 1753 from Anson County

On Feb 12, 1753 Michael Miers sold to Avinton Felps a blacksmith, both of Anson County, for L25 Virginia money, 357 acres in Anson on North side of Yadkin river above mouth of Reedy creek. Signed- Michael (+) Miers, Witt. James Carter, William Bishop.

Long before the actual outbreak of hostilities powerful forces were gradually converging to produce a clash between the aggressive colonials and the crafty Indians. As the settlers pressed farther westward into the domain of the red men, arrogantly grazing their stock over the cherished hunting-grounds of the Cherokees, the savages, who were already well disposed toward the French, began to manifest a deep indignation against the British colonists because of this callous encroachment upon their territory.

Listed in the Colonial Soldiers of the South, during the years 1754 - 1760 Colonel Francis Corbin, Lieutenant Colonel George Smith, Major James Carter and Adjutant John Dunn was in charge of the Rowan County North Carolina Militia. Avinton Felps is listed as Ensign under the command of Captain John Hanby.

The frontier of North Carolina was placed in a very precarious situation. At the beginning of the war the Cherokees and Catawbas were friendly to the frontiersmen, but soon the savages began to molest the whites. There was great uneasiness among the people of Anson and Rowan County because they did not know at what moment the Indians might take up the tomahawk against the settlements.

Early in the year of 1754, one thousand pounds in proclamation money that is, in money which was issued by the provincial government and which was greatly depreciated in value was appropriated to buy arms for the poorer inhabitants of Rowan and Anson.

During the peak of the French and Indian War's in 1759 the Cherokee Indians went on the warpath down the Yadkin River terrorizing settlements of that part of the frontier. During that summer Indian alarms were frequent and Avinton Felps, now promoted to the rank of captain, and with his hardy frontiersmen, was called upon to serve in several expeditions to scour the woods in search of the lurking Indian foe. These armed rangers, who were clad in hunting-shirts and buckskin leggings, was also very skilful in the employment of Indian tactics when fighting.

1759 ROWAN COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA
FRONTIER MILITIA ROLL

May ye 15th 1759, The Publick of North Carolina to Captain Avinton Felps Dr. To a Scout Sent Out a man Alarm of Indians being Seen on the Frontiers of Rowan County-----

Avinton Felps 6 Days @ 7/6...................................... 2.5
Willis Ellis Senr. 6 Days @ 5/ ...................................... 1.10
Phillip Howard Ens. 6 Days @ 4/6...................................... 1.7
Israel Cox Sergt. 6 Days @ 4/ ...................................... 1.4

Private Men
Roger Turner 5 Days @ 2/8....................................... 13.4
Joseph Bryan 5 Days @ 2/8....................................... 13.4
George Parks 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Allen Parks 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Gabriel Enochs 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Peter Cross 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Henry Hagy 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.

Mirack Davis 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Phillip Davis 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Thomas Evans 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
James Whitsitt 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Conrod Carn 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Danl Holyfield 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
John Fry 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Leonard Hazzard 6 Days @ 2/8....................................... 16.
Thomas Felps 3 Days @ 2/ ....................................... 8.
L18.8.8

Thomas Felps under 16 years old, son of Avinton Felps

June 11, 1759, To a Scout Ordered Out by Col. George Smith to Range the Woods in Order to Discover the Enemy if Any.

Avinton Felps Capt. 6 Days @ 7/6.................................... L 2.5
Phillip Howard Ens. 6 Days @ 4/6...................................... 1.7
Jonathan Hanby Serg. 6 Days @ 4/ ...................................... 1.4
David Smith Serg. 6 Days @ 4/ ...................................... 1.4
Hermon Butler Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Henry Carns Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Martin Marr Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Solomon Ozburn Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Gidion Lewis Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Paul Whistenhunt Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Abraham Goss Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
John Crow Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Jacob Yount Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
Martin Birely Private 6 Days @ 2/8...................................... 16
L14. ---

North Carolina )
Rowan County )
This day came Capt. Avinton Felps before us the Subscribers and made Oath on the Holy Evanangelist Almighty God that the within Acct of Thirty two Pounds Eight Shillings and Eight Pence proclamation Money Charged Against the Publick of North Carolina According to the Best of his Knowledge is Just and true as it Now stands Stated. Sworn Before us this 19th day of October 1759.
John Hanby
William Buis
Avinton Felps

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Felps and Alamance

Ed Felps/Phelps (View posts) Posted: 8 Jul 2002 3:41PM GMT
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THE BATTLE OF ALAMANCE
May 16, 1771

Shortly after the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, American patriots began to resent English control of their affairs. Operating in loose-knit groups under a variety of names, these people resisted attempts by Britain to unfairly tax commerce. The Sons of Liberty resisted the Stamp Tax in 1765, throughout the 13 colonies.

HILLSBOROUGH
ORANGE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA

WILLIAM FEW Sr., moved from Chester County PA, to St. George's Parish in Baltimore County Maryland and married Mary Wheeler a daughter of Benjamin Wheeler, in 1743. William and Mary (Wheeler) Few, moved to Orange County where Few bought 640 acres on both sides of the Eno river from James Taylor during March in 1758. Few owned a a grist mill on the Eno, and operated a tavern from his home in Hillsborough.

JOSEPH MADDOCK a Quaker, lived a few miles from Hillsborough on Cain Creek and owned a grist mill in Orange County. During the uprising of the regulators, at Maddock's Mill, in 1766 a group of men, apparently enthusiastic over the success of the Sons of Liberty in resisting the Stamp Act, called the people to gather to determine whether the free men of Orange county labor under any abuses of power or not.

WILLIAM CANDLER grew to manhood in the South River Quaker Settlement along the James River in Bedford County Virginia. In 1755, at age nineteen, William joined the Quaker meeting at South River. Several years thereafter, he was elected clerk of the Quaker Meeting. In 1760, William Candler contracted with Joseph Ray at Fort Lewis to carry supplies to soldiers stationed at Dunkard Bottom on the New River. Candler acquired 248 acres on the branches of Fishing Creek next to Joseph Anthony on July 11, 1761. William Candler married Elizabeth Anthony in 1761. Elizabeth was a daughter of Joseph Anthony and Elizabeth Clarke, also members of the Quaker Meeting. William Candler was the administrator of his father's will that was filed early 1766 in Bedford County. Then in late 1766, he asked the Quaker meeting officials at South River to settle his business -- to give him a certificate of good standing for departure. William and Elizabeth Candler moved to Orange County, near the Cane Creek Quaker meeting house. The Fews and the Candlers became intimate friends, and their children intermarried.

NORTH CAROLINA REGULATORS PETITION
Petition October ye 7th 1768
Rowan & Orange Counties
Partial list of Names
Benjamin Few-Orange
James Few-Orange
William Few Sr-Orange
Aquilla Felps-Rowan
John Felps-Rowan
Samuel Jones-Rowan
James Williams Senr-Rowan
Edward Williams-Rowan
James Williams-Rowan
Philip Williams-Rowan

Petition October ye 9th 1769
Anson County
Partial list of Names
Elijah Clarke-Anson
John Clarke-Anson
John Marshall-Anson
David Phelps-Anson

On April 3, 1769, Avinton Felps a blacksmith, and Rachel coveys to their son Thomas Felps, a tract of land containing 357 acres on the north side of Yadkin river 1/2 mile above branch of Reedy Creek. Signed...... Avinton Felps and Rachel (R) Felps.

Under the leadership of Joseph Maddock a group of Quaker colonizers from the Cane Creek meeting house, moved to Georgia in about 1770 to take up a large grant given to them by Georgia Governor Wright in St. Paul's Parish along Wahatchee Creek near the old Quaker settlement of Brandon, but which later became known as Wrightsborough.

QUAKER TRAIL TO GEORGIA

The state of irritation into which America had been thrown by the injudicious measures of the British Parliament was not allayed by its subsequent action. Before proceeding with the record of these events, reference may be made to an outbreak which at this time occurred in North Carolina, not directly due to English action, yet arising from the corruption and inefficiency of functionaries of the British government. Abuses in the collection of exorbitant fees by public officers, and in permitting the sheriffs and tax-collectors to delay the payment of public moneys, produced an association of the poorer colonists, who claimed that they were being overtaxed for the support of dishonest officers, and who assumed the title of Regulators. Other events added to their discontent, and they broke out into wild outrages, assembling in 1771 to the number of two thousand, and declaring their purpose to abolish courts of justice, exterminate lawyers and public officers, and overturn the provincial government in favor of some mad scheme of democracy devised by their foolish or knavish leaders. The respectable part of the community rose in opposition to these insurgents, but the battle came anyway, at Alamance, on May 16, 1771.

After the Regulator's had failed at Alamance and the day following the battle, Governor Tryon of North Carolina issued a proclamation offering with a few exceptions to pardon all those who would submit to the government and take an oath of allegiance to the King.
On 17 May 1771, Samuel Jones a Regulator was taken to Wachovia as prisoner and then on May 31, 1771 Jones was exempted from pardon by Gov. Tryon.
Many of the frontiersmen refused Governor Tryon's offer, became discouraged and felt that it was best to go where they would not be so oppressed. In 1771 more than 1500 families left the counties of Rowan, Orange and Anson of the provincial North Carolinia.

William Few Sr., and one of his sons James Few, had associated themselves with the Regulators. On May 16, 1771, three hundred of the Regulators was killed, and left dead on the Alamance Battleground. James Few was one of the leaders of the Regulators and he was captured that day at the Battleground, tried, convicted, and hanged by a royal "drum-head court-martial," for high treason. After leaving the Battleground that day, Governor Tryon and his royal army, rode back to Hillsborough, turned towards the Few Plantation, and rode through the fields destroying all crops that belonged to the Few Plantation.
Shortly after the Battle of Alamance, the Few and the Candler families moved to the Quaker Settlement at Wrightsborough in St. Paul's Parish Georgia. William Few Jr. remained behind to help settle his father's affairs. Such as being compensated by and from the Colonial Province of North Carolina, because of the act of Governor Tryon with his royal army in destroying crops, on his fathers plantation.

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Felps and Revolutionary War

Felps and Revolutionary War
Ed Felps/Phelps (View posts) Posted: 8 Jul 2002 3:50PM GMT
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THE BATTLE OF ALAMANCE " WAS THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION"

The struggle for American Liberty and Independence...began in North Carolina, at the "Battle of Alamance".... kindled the flame...that eventually....spread with the rapidity of a wild forest fire, until the oppressed of the thirteen colonies were aflame with righteous indignation and unitedly determined to throw off forever the YOKE of British oppression......at the hands of historians has never received due mention or proper credit...

WRIGHTSBOROUGH
(BRANDON)
ST. PAUL'S PARISH IN COLONIAL GEORGIA

Shortly after the arrival of Joseph Maddock in Georgia, he petitioned for 200 acres to build a gristmill on the north fork of Briar Creek. The petition was approved but not granted until April 2, 1771.

Dec. 3, 1771, Avinton Felps Granted to self, 150 acres, St. Paul's Parish, Bounded on East by land surveyed for---Wells, South and West by land surveyed for Ebenr. Smith, other side vacant. Signed by Edward Barnard for Avinton Felps. Feb. 5, 1772.

William Candler was appointed as the Deputy County Surveyor by Governor Wright - in Colonial America this was a major political appointment. This appointment marked a man of intelligence, education, woodsmanship, and military ability.William does not appear in the Quaker records of the Wrightsborough meeting. The events of the Revolution overtook the details of normal life for most Quakers and it was against their stated principles, but fought anyway against the British foe. Many Quakers was disowned and removed from amongst the faith, for that reason.

Daniel Marshall had charge of a Baptist Church on the Uwharrie River and was well known through-out the Yadkin River Valley in Anson and Rowan County North Carolina. Shortly after the battle of Alamance, the Rev. Daniel Marshall and his family moved to Wrightsborough. A meeting house was built in the Spring of 1772, and the Rev. Daniel Marshall became the first pastor, ministering from his headquarters at the Great Kiokee.

On Oct. 15, 1773, Greenbury Lee, from South Carolina, was granted 100 acres at head of branch of Brier Creek called Beaver Dam, half a mile above the Indian Trading Path. Greenbury Lee married Elizabeth Few, a daughter of William and Mary (Wheeler) Few.

In 1773, and on the eve that the Revolutionary War broke out, Elijah Clarke, one of the signers on the regulators petition on October 9, 1769 in Anson County North Carolina, moved his family near the Quaker settlement of Wrightsborough Georgia. Elijah Clarke (1733-1799) was born in Edgecombe County, N. C. and married Hannah Arrington (1737-1827).

July 5, 1774, William Felps, 350 acres, St. Paul's Parish, Bounded southwesterly by Benjamin Wells and James Brown, other sides vacant. Granted to William Felps by William Candler. Signed William Felps Sept. 14-1774.

Aug. 24, 1775, Thomas Ford of St. Paul's Parish, to William Felps, planter, of same parish, conveying 150 acres lying on both sides of Brier Creek on the north fork of the Great Kiokee, and to include Felps sawmill seat. Witnesses: Ormond Roe and Greenbury Lee.

In 1776, William Few Jr. joined his family near Wrightsborough in St. Paul's Parish Georgia. About this same time, Few won admittance to the bar, based on earlier informal study, and set up practice in Augusta, and married Catherine Nicholson.

RICHMOND COUNTY
Was created from St. Paul's Parish Feb. 5, 1777

Originally comprising the northern portion of Richmond County, the area initially was settled by Quakers, Baptists, and others who refused to fight in the Revolutionary War. The early years of the American Revolution were quiet in Georgia. In 1778 new orders from London marked out the south as the main theater of war. British warships that had been sailing off the New York Harbor headed to the South Carolina and Georgia coast.

GREENBURY LEE was commissioned as a colonel during the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. His Militia fought in the battle of Brier Creek, Ga 3rd day of March 1779 and was involved in several other expeditions of guerrilla fighting against the British.

WILLIAM CANDLER was commissioned as a major in the Royal militia, he resigned his commission and joined the fight for American Independence when he entered the Revolutionary War but afterward, rose to the rank of colonel and served in the GA militia as second-in-command under Gen. Elijah Clarke. William Candler was in the attack on Augusta, at King's Mountain, and Blackstocks. His distinction as a Major, then later Colonel of the Georgia "Refugees" of the American Revolution has been chronicled by his descendants.
SEE PLATE-WILLIAM FEW JR.

WILLIAM FEW JR. When the War for Independence began, William Few Jr. enthusiastically aligned himself with the Whigs. Although largely self-educated, he proved to be a leader; becoming Lieutenant-Colonel of the Richmond County Militia in 1779; he was elected to the Georgia Provincial Congress of 1776; in 1777 and 1779, served in the Assembly. During this same period, he sat on the State Executive Council, as Surveyor-General and Indian Commissioner.

ELIJAH CLARKE was commissioned as colonel, led American forces against the British in battles at Alligator Creek, Kettle Creek, Musgrove's Mill, Fish Dam, Blackstock's, Long Cane, Beatties Mill and two sieges at Augusta, the last one successful. Colonel Elijah Clarke became a Brigadier General. As soon as Colonel Clarke raised the siege of Augusta, in the summer of 1780, he withdrew to the Little River country, which had been overrun and devastated by the enemy. He there furloughed his men for a short time, in order that they might look after the welfare of their families and get themselves in readiness for another active campain. About the last of September they met at the appointed rendezvous and, "when Clarke was ready to march he found himself at the head of about three hundred men who had in their train four hundred women and children. The condition of the country for two years had been such that the vestiges of cultivation were scarcely to be seen anywhere, and to leave their families behind under such circumstances was to subject them to certain want, if not starvation, in a country under the control of an enemy whose barbarity has been fully described."

Colonel Candler's family was among those refugee's thus driven from their homes by a cruel and merciless enemy. (the women and children of the families; Felps, Fews, Jacksons and Clarks, was included among those refugee's). Colonel Clark therefore resolved to escort these helpless women and children to East Tennessee which was a part of North Carolina, between the French Broad and the Holston Rivers, on Nolachucky where they would be in a land of plenty and out of the reach of a barbarous enemy. With this helpless multitude, and with not more than five days subsistence, Colonel Clark commenced a march of near two hundred miles through a mountainous wilderness to avoid being cut off by the enemy. On the eleventh day they reached Wattauga and Nolachucky Rivers, on the north side of the mountains, in a starved condition. Many of the men and women had received no subsistence for several days, except nuts, and the last two even the children were subsisted on the same kind of food. Many of the tender sex were obliged to travel on foot, and some of them without shoes.

WILLIAM FELPS died sometime in 1782 or 1783 and he left no last will and testament. It is very possible that he died while fighting for the Revolution, but there is no evidence that he did, at this time. On May 10, 1783, Elizabeth Felps, Moses Marshall (son of Rev. Daniel Marshall) and William Candler of the county of Richmond (planters) are held and firmly bound unto the said county in the full and just sum of five hundred pounds sterling as surety for the estate of William Felps (planter) dec'd.. Elizabeth Felps was appointed Admx. Edmond Cartledge, Daniel Marshall and William Few Sr. was appointed as the apprs. for the estate inventory of William Felps. May 15, 1783, An Inventory of Goods and Chattels of the Estate of William Felps, dec'd both Real and Personal as appraised by us this day. Signed Edmond Cartledge, Daniel Marshall, William Few Sr.

WASHINGTON COUNTY
Created on Feb. 25, 1784.

A treaty had been made with the Cherokee at Augusta, May 31, 1783 and was signed by Lyman Hall, the Governor of Georgia, Col. Elijah Clarke and William Few Jr. The state of Georgia had devoted a large part of Washington County, for bounty land, to her soldiers. The land grants were made in lots of 250 acres free from taxation for some years, and if one preferred to pay tax'es, he was to have 287 1/2 acres. Washington County was much exposed in it's early settlement to Indian forays and was settled slowly, in the northern and eastern sections on the Shoulderbone Creek and the Ogeechee River.

DAVID D. FELPS was under the command of Col. Greenbury Lee during the Revolutionary War and on Feb 20, 1784, was issued a certificate of service #209 that would allow said Felps 250 acres of bounty land that was to be set aside in Washington County for Georgia's Revolutionary Soldier's. William Candler, the father in law of David D. Felps, was listed as the person taking up such certificate for said Felps. On July 25, 1784, David D. Felps received his bounty survey, Warrant 1309, lot 473 for 287 1/2 acres of "very good land" in Washington County bounded on all sides by vacant lands.

A partial list showing names of men that was also under the command of Col. Greenbury Lee during the Revolutionary War and was issued a certificate of service.
William Few Sr., issued Feb 25, 1784
Ignatius Few, issued March 11, 1784
William Candler Jr., issued Feb 20, 1784
Henry Candler, issued Feb 20, 1784

Certified Revolutionary Soldier's on Georgia's Roster of the Revolution;
John Felps
David D. Felps
Thomas Felps
John McIllroy
Reubin McIllroy
William McIllroy
Avinton McIllroy
Henry Candler
William Candler Jr.

William Candler was a member of the Legislature in early 1784; was appointed a Judge, and died at his seat in Richmond county, during the fall of 1784. The Inventory of the Goods and Chattels of the Estate of Esq. William Candler, dec'd, was appraised by Rhesa Howard, Bejamin Few and Joseph Ray on the 10th day of Dec. 1784. The amount of the estate appraisement was 2000 pounds sterling that included 27 slaves owned by said Candler. The Inventory of the Estate was recorded December 15, 1784 and did not include...the several thousand acres of land that William Candler owned.

JAMES FELPS, moved with his wife Mary (Sidden) and sons, David D Felps (born 1782), Thomas Felps, Joseph Felps and James Felps Jr. James Sr. settled land in Feliciana Parish, LA Nov. 1803.

JOHN FELPS, married Mary Williams in Rowan County North Carolinia, and was living next to Edward Williams on the Shoulderbone creek and the Ogeechee River in Washington County GA, June 26, 1784.

THOMAS FELPS, Declaration of Pension Claim;
On this twenty eighth day of October 1834, Thomas Felps personally appeared in open court before the Superior Court.
Thomas Felps a resident of the county of Jasper and state of Georgia aged seventy six years (born 1758) who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain this benfit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of this United States in the year 1781 and served in the Georgia State Legion Regiments with Captain James Stallings and Col. James Garrison of the Regiment. He continued in the said Legion in active service in the company of Captain Stallings for the term of twelve months at which time his service expired and was legally discharged. Deponent says that he entered as a volunteer in Col. Jacksons Legion and recollects frequently seeing Col. Elijah Clark and Col. William Candler during the time he was in service and he futher states that he received a discharge from Col. Jackson at Augusta and now has it in his possessions. Deponent states that at the time of his enlistment in Col. Jacksons Legion he resided on the Kiokee Creek (1782) in the State of Georgia. Since the Revolution he lived in North and South Carolina, then moved back to Georgia where he has lived upwards of forty years (since 1794) now resides in Jasper County-he hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the payment and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in the state.

Many thanks to Ed Phelps for his superb research.

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Family Tree of Aquilla Phelps

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cas1453/mine.htm

1. AQUILLA3 FELPS (AVENTON2, THOMAS1) was born Abt. 1735 in Baltimore Co., Md., and died Abt. 1788 in Rowan Co., N.C.

Children of AQUILLA FELPS are:

i. AVENTON4 FELPS.
2. ii. JAMES FELPS.
iii. JOHN FELPS, m. MARY WILLIAMS.
3. iv. WILLIAM FELPS, b. Abt. 1750, Johnston Co., N.C.; d. Abt. 1783.
4. v. THOMAS PHELPS, b. August 19, 1759, Rowan Co., N.C.; d. July 12, 1835.

Generation No. 2

2. JAMES4 FELPS (AQUILLA3, AVENTON2, THOMAS1)

Children of JAMES FELPS are:

i. JAMES5 PHELPS, JR.
ii. THOMAS PHELPS.
iii. DAVID D. PHELPS.

3. WILLIAM4 FELPS (AQUILLA3, AVENTON2, THOMAS1) was born Abt. 1750 in Johnston Co., N.C., and died Abt. 1783 in Richmond Co., Ga.. He married ELIZABETH JONES April 20, 1768 in Rowan Co., N.C.

Children of WILLIAM FELPS and ELIZABETH JONES are:

i. DAVID D.5 FELPS, b. Abt. 1769; m. FALBY CANDLER, Abt. 1785, Richmond Co., Ga.
ii. SARAH FELPS, b. Abt. 1771.
iii. AQUILLA AVENTON PHELPS, b. Abt. 1773, Ga.; m. NANCY NOLEN.

4. THOMAS4 PHELPS (AQUILLA3 FELPS, AVENTON2, THOMAS1) was born August 19, 1759 in Rowan Co., N.C.1, and died July 12, 1835 in Jasper Co., Ga.2. He married TEKEL in Rowan Co., N.C..

Children of THOMAS PHELPS and TEKEL are:

i. NANCY5 PHELPS, b. September 09, 1785, Rowan Co., N.C.3; d. Abt. 1808.
ii. AQUILLA PHILIP PHELPS, b. December 12, 1789, Rowan Co., N.C.

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The Family of
MATTHEW SPARKS
& wife Sarah
of North Carolina & Georgia
http://home.inu.net/sadie/matthewsparks.htm

7: 88 April 3, 1769 Aventon Phelps, blacksmith, & wife Rachel to Thomas Phelps, for 120L proc. money, 357 AC N/S Yadkin Riv, 1/2 mi. above branch of Reedy Creek, Wts: Adam Spaugh, Jonas (JS) Sparks May Court, 1769

County Court Minutes, Rowan Co, NC
July 14, 1764, On Motion of John Dunn Ordered that a road be laid out the Nearest & Best
way from John Howards Ferry to the road from Bethabara to Salisbury near Reedy Creek,
running up from said ferry in the fork to Boon's Road & persons following appointed to lay
of said road: John Roberts, Edward Turner, Nicholas White, Edward Williams, Isaac
Holdman, Capt. Avinton Felps, Mathew Sparks, William Sparks, Francis Taylor, Thomas
Jones, James Whitaker.

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Pocahontas and Descendants
http://www.angelfire.com/oh4/tangledwoods/page22.html
Generation No. 7

10. BENJAMIN8 BOLING (JOHN7, JOHN6, JANE JANA5 ROLFE, THOMAS SMITH4, MATOAKA POCAHONTAS REBECCA3 POWHATAN, POWHATAN2 WINSINOCOCK, SCENT1 FLOWER) was born June 30, 1734 in Henrico County, Virginia, and died January 20, 1832 in Flat Gap, Russell, Virginia. He married (1) CHARITY LARRIMORE. He married (2) PATTY FELTS PHELPS June 20, 1753 in Albermarle County, Virginia. She was born 1737 in Albemarle County, Virginia, and died March 08, 1767 in Rowan County, North Carolina.

Notes for BENJAMIN BOLING:

Moved from Virginia to North Carolina before 1760, then on to Tennessee, then to Eastern Kentucky

BENJAMIN

1734-1832

FIRST SETTLER IN AREA

BORN WILKES COUNTY, N. C.

SON OF MAJOR JOHN

BOLLING AND ELIZABETH BLAIR.

WED FIRST TO PATSY PHELPS AND THEN

TO CHARITY LARRIMORE BOLLING

Inscribed on tombstone, Flat Gap Cemetery, Wise County Virginia

More About BENJAMIN BOLING:

Burial: Bolling Family Cemetery, Wise County, Virginia

Notes for PATTY FELTS PHELPS:

Died while giving birth to youngest daughter Elizabeth

Children of BENJAMIN BOLING and PATTY PHELPS are:

13. vii. BENJAMIN JR.9 BOWLING, b. 1754.

viii. BARNETT BOWLING, b. 1755.

ix. JOHN BOWLING, b. 1755.

x. WILLIAM BOWLING, b. 1755.

xi. JAMES BOWLING, b. 1756.

xii. ROBERT BOWLING, b. 1757.

14. xiii. JESSE BOWLING, b. May 22, 1758, Hillsboro, North Carolina; d. March 10, 1841, Quicksand Creek, Breathitt County, Kentucky.

xiv. HANNAH BOWLING, b. 1763; m. SOLOMAN OSBORNE.

xv. DELANEY BOWLING, b. 1764; d. 1819.

xvi. ELIZABETH BOWLING, b. 1767; d. 1819; m. BRITTAIN WILLIAMS JR.

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Phelps connections to Pocahontas

Pocahontas and the Bolling Lineage
http://billjames.org/Family%20Tree%20-%20Web%20Pages/Pocahontas%20and%20the%20Bolling%20lineage.htm

Generation No. 7

BENJAMIN BOLLING was born June 30, 1734 in Henrico County, Virginia, and died January 10, 1832 in Flat Gap, Wise County, Virginia. He married (1) PATTIE PHELPS June 20, 1753 in Albemarle County, Virginia. She was born 1736 in Albamarle County, Virginia, and died March 08, 1767 in Rowan County, NC. He married (2) CHARITY LARIMORE 1768. She was born 1734, and died in Flat Gap, Wise County, Virginia.

He was the first settler on the Pound. He first came into what is now Wise County about 1789 and claimed all the land that he could see on the Guest River (esserville). The pioneer built a cabin and lived there two to three years. One day a home seeker came by with a rifle and a couple of hound pups, which caught his eye. A trade was soon made and the pioneer, Ben, returned to his home and civilization thinking the lure for adventure was over. Little time had elapsed until the call of the wilderness overcame him. He shouldered his gun, whistled to his dogs, and hit the trail. A few weeks later Benjamin reached Fox Gap in the Black Mountains. He viewed the valley which was to be his home. This was to be later known as Flat Gap ( located in now what is Wise County, Va. ).

Family of Benjamin Bolling ( June 30, 1734-Jan. 20, 1832 ) and Patsy (Molly) Phelps who died March 8, 1767 and then married Charity Larrimore.

Family of Benjamin Bolling ( June 30, 1734-Jan. 20, 1832 ) and Patsy (Molly) Phelps who died March 8, 1767 and then married Charity Larrimore.

Children:

1. Benjamin Bolling Jr.
2. John Bolling
3. Jesse Bolling
4. William Bolling
5. Hannah Bolling
6. Delaney Bolling
7. Elizabeth Bolling
8. Jeremiah Bolling
9. Barnett Bolling
10. Justice Bolling
11. Issac Bolling
12. Levi Bolling
13. James Bolling

Genealogy Source: Bollings by Hattie L. Bolling

This is also shown in the graphic charts (see top of page). The "blue" Bollings are so called because they appeared "out of the blue" in 1963, in the book Of Whom I Came, From Whence I Came, by Judge Zelma Wells Price. The source she relied on was a family tree made by John Tarpley Bolling/Bolding in the 19th century. This family tree made both of his parents Pocahontas descendants, and created the "blue" Bollings as a side effect. Hmm! If the "blue" Bollings are not descendants, then who are they?

The Bolling Family Association has undertaken a DNA study to shed light on this and related questions. They coordinated DNA testing of men with the Bolling surname (including spelling variants), who trace their ancestry to various Bolling/Bowling/Bolen/Bouldin immigrants to the US. The test results show that the early Bollings divide into different family groups.

Benjamin married (1) PATTIE "PATSY" PHELPS June 20, 1753 in Albermalre Co., VA, daughter of UNKNOWN PHELPS and UNKNOWN GIBSON. She was born Abt. 1736 in Albemarle Co., VA, and died March 08, 1767 in In childbirth, Rowan Co., NC.

Benjamin then married (2) CHARITY LARIMORE 1768. She was born 1734, and died in Flat Gap, Community, Russell Co., VA (near Esserville, in what is now Wise Co., VA).

While single Benjamin went to live on his father's estate in Albemarle Co., which later became Amherst Co.. About 1760, after he married Mary Patsy Phelps,

Benjamin and wife moved to Rowan Co., NC and later to Randolph Co.. Patsy died in childbirth of Elizabeth in 1767.

In 1791 after Benjamin remarried he and second wife Chariety Larrimoree moved near Esserville, near Flat Gap, VA, later on they moved to Russell Co., VA and then Lee Co., VA.

They then went on to NC because of Indian trouble. Benjamin died in 1832, age 98, and was the first person buried in the Flat Gap Cemetery and Charity is buried beside him. His tombstone is inscribed: "B. Bolling, b. 1734, d. 1832." The tombstone was made by his son Jeremiah. Benjamin is shown on the 1790 Randolph Co., NC census and on the Russell Co., Virgina 1810 tax list and the 1820 census. He was a Baptist Minister who visited some of his brothers in KY.
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Phelps Deeds in Rowan County, N.C.

Felps Family Rowan Co NC
Posted by: Virginia Keefer (ID *****6402) Date: April 16, 2005 at 01:12:31
of 22

There is an excellent write up by Attorney, Roy H. Parks, of Lynchburg, TN on the internet.
http:://www.knology.net/~jparks/genealogy/parks/papers/hisfelps.htm

How above works for you. He has not covered enough back further in NC that I would like to share. I am not related by this family came from Reedy Creek in old Rowan Co NC to Lincoln Co TN about the same time my ancestor; William White did.
I have set of Rowan Co NC Deed Abstract Books by James W. Kluttz.
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DB 24, Rowan Co BC, p 822,
William [+] Spry and wife Elizabeth [+] to James Douthey for $50.00, all of Elizabeth [Felps] Spry's land of her father, John Felps, dec'd, and as one of his 8 legatees, she is able to sell. Wit; George Howard, James Spry, James [X] Orrel. Prvd by Spry Aug Court, 1818.

DB 23, Rowan Co NC, page 162 24 Nov 1813
State Grant #3043 at 50sh per 100 acres, to John Felps as assignee of William Moore, Robert and Eben Moore, 76 Acres and 6 chains, on Yadkin River, adj Hugh Cunningham and Thomas Felps, dec'd. Entered 25 Nov 1779

DB 19, p 199, 14 Dec 1804
Abbenton [X] Felps to John Stanly for L20, 40 acres on Yadkin River adj Brittain Felps and Phillip Dowel. May Ct 1805

DB 23, p 898, 7 Nov 1815
Kelin [+] Felps of Lincoln Co TN to Peter Younts for $156.00, 78 1/2 acres of East side of Yadkin River and on Big Branch. Adj. Hugh Cunningham and Jane Felps. Nov Ct 1816

DB 23, page 345 29 Nov 1814
State Grant # 3056 @ 50 sh per 100 acres to Kelin Felps, 78 1/2 acres on Big Branch of Yadkin River, adj Hugh Cunningham, John Kent, Jane Felps. Entered 21 Aug 1809.
[ Kelin appears on 1820 Lincoln Co TN census.]

DB 22, p 898 21 Nov 1807
Thomas/Samuel Felps to Ezekiel Felps for $300.00, all his rights in the estate of Thomas Felps, dec'd, after the death of Jane, the relict [widow], Wit; William Keith, J.D. Murray Jr. Prvd. by Wm. Keith. Nov Ct 1813.

DB 19, p 4, 28 Nov 1804, in Deed Abstract Book by Jo White Linn.
Jonas Leatherman to Samuel Felps for L150, 81 1/2 acres of E side of Reedy Creek, adj. Hugh Cunningham. Ack. Aug Ct 1804. [ Jonas appears on 1820 Lincoln Co TN census]

DB 19, p 679 8 Feb 1805
Charter's Creek, Brittain Felps, Prvd, May Ct 1806

Book by Jo White Linn again;
1753-1785
Page 2, 12 Feb 1753
Aventon Phelps, blacksmith of Anson Co NC, north side of Yadkin River above mouth of Reedy Creek. Prvd. 20 Sept 1753.

Abstract book by James W. Kluttz 1786-1797
DB 11, p 493
3 Feb 1787 Aventon Felps for L50 one Negro boy named Punch. Witn. Samuel Williams. Prvd Aug Ct 1788

DB 12 p 255 13 Nov 1790. Richard Dowell and wife Mary [X] to Phillip Dowell for L200, 272 acres on Yadkin River adj Eguel, Felps Mill Br. Feb Ct 1791

DB 11, p 832 1789. Thomas Phelps and wife Jane [they signed as Felps]- to Abington Phelps for L40, 100 acres on N Side of Reedy Creek adj. Thomas Phelps original survey. Wit. Thomas Phelps, Samuel Phelps. Pvd by Thomas Phelps Feb Ct 1790.

DB 13, p 20, 26 Jan 1792. James Felps to William White[my direct line ancestor]for L50, 52 Acres on N side of Carter's Creek adj the mill dam and Asa Martin. Wit. John Sedden, John Wioyatt [White?], Mary Felps also signed. Prvd by Sedden Nov Ct 1792.

DB 12, 1 Aug 1791 David Woodson of Jacob Bower for L15 , 130 acres on both sides of Hamby's Fork and W side of Abbotts Creek Adj. John Lopp and PETER FELPS, Part of 843 acres granted to this grantor on 15 April 1788. Aug Ct 1791

DB 13, page 13, 3 Sept 1791 David Woodson to Peter Fouts [Faust/Foust] for L100, 374 Acres on Hanby's Fork of Abbotts Creek adj PETER FELPS, Samuel Parks. Nov Ct 1792.

DB 12. p 41. 4 April 1791. Samuel Williams of Iredell Co NC to SARAH FELPS of Rowan Co for L50, 211 acres, on N Fork of Yadkin River adj. Vincent Williams, Edward Williams,Joseph Sedden, George Holebrok-sic and Richard Dewel. Being part of a State Grant to this Grantor on 25 Oct 1786. Wit. Thomas Felps, James Felps, Prvd by Thomas Felps at Aug Ct 1701.

DB 13, p 755. 12 June 1794. Jane Felps amd John Felps, exrs of Thomas Felps Sr. dec'd, to Charles Caton Sr for L30, 29 1/4 acres of both sides of Yakdin River adj. Thomas Felps, dec'd, Zachariah Harris, and ACQUILLA FELPS HORSE FORD BRANCH. Wit;.Joshua Caton, Edward Cox. Prvd. by Caton at Aug Ct 1794.

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Thomas Phelps, Revolutionary War Pension Papers-- See Images of Original Copies at Southern Phelps Site

http://pages.suddenlink.net/phelpsdna/Southern_Phelps_Research/index.htm

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Miscellaneous Phelps Postings

Re: James FELPS, Sr./Mary of Rowan Co., NC; LA 1700's
Posted by: Sandra Ellenburg Date: August 22, 1998 at 17:19:35
In Reply to: James FELPS, Sr./Mary of Rowan Co., NC; LA 1700's by Bettiann White Lloyd of 4083

Ihave a James Phelps, Sr. The only info I have is his children were - James,Jr. Thomas and David. His father's name was Aquilla b.- 1730's and James,Sr.was a Revolutionary War Soldier, then went to Louisana.
If you think this is him, let me know,
sge42@yahoo.com

Re: Aquilla Phelps of Jasper Co.Ga.
Posted by: Ed Phelps Date: December 17, 1999 at 11:54:41
In Reply to: Aquilla Phelps of Jasper Co.Ga. by Dale Johnson of 4083

There were several Aquilla Phelps/Felps living in Jasper Co. Ga. They both descend from the Aventon Felps families of Rowan Co. NC and both were born there. One is the son of William and Elizabeth Felps, Aquilla Felps (1773 GA-June 1853 GA) and the other was a son of Thomas and Teckel Felps, Aquilla Felps (1789 NC - 1871 GA) married 1 Dec. 1807 Jane (Jenny) Hinson.

Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson
Posted by: Virginia P. Edwards Date: November 12, 2001 at 18:13:20
In Reply to: Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson by Mary of 4083

Thomas Phelps, born Rowan County North Carolina, died Jasper County Georgia, was the son of Aquilla Phelps, son of Aventon Phelps, of Rowan County.

Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson
Posted by: Virginia P. Edwards Date: October 30, 2001 at 20:29:57
In Reply to: Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson by Charles Bennett Lindwall of 4083

Yes, the information you have is correct. Thomas Phelps, born in Rowan County North Carolina, died in Jasper County Georgia was the father of both Nancy and Aquilla. The only name I have for Thomas's wife if Tekel. That is how he referred to her in his will and and the name she used in her application for a pension based on Thomas' Revolutionary War service. E-mail me at jdandcaroledwards@earthlink.net and I will be happy to share what information I have. I have a copy of Thomas' will as well as a copy of the will of Joshua Brantley.

Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson
Posted by: Charles Bennett Lindwall Date: October 30, 2001 at 15:14:25
In Reply to: Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson by Virginia P. Edwards of 4083

It's my understanding from other researchers that my gggg grandmother Nancy Phelps was the sister of Aquilla. She was married in 1804 in Clarke County GA to Joshua Brantley. She was born in 1785 somewhere in NC. These researchers suggest that their father was named Thomas Phelps and that the mothers last name was tekel (probably Teakle or Tickel). There are two Thomas Phelps in the 1790 Caswell 1790 census and a John Tickel and a Peter Tickel.

From the information that you have, is this possible?

Chuck

Re: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson
Posted by: Virginia P. Edwards Date: July 13, 2001 at 17:52:24
In Reply to: Aquilla Phelps 1789-1853 m. a Hanson by Ginger Perry of 4083

Aquilla Phelps 1789-1871 married Jenny Henson/Hanson in Clarke County Georgia in 1807. They were my GGGgrandparents. Their daughters were Sarah, Nicey, Elizabeth, Martha, Nancy and Mary Ann. I don't recall seeing the name you mention in any of my research. If I can give you any information, I will be pleased to do so.

Re: Eliza R. Phelps -m- in Floyd Co Ga
Posted by: Dale Vaughn Date: May 17, 2001 at 16:29:35
In Reply to: Eliza R. Phelps -m- in Floyd Co Ga by Marilyn Houser of 4083

Eliza Rebecca Phelps father was Thomas H. Phelps. Her mother was Sarah Thomason.
Thomas' parents were Aquilla Phelps and Jenny Hanson.

North Carolina Phelps
Posted by: Jerry Phelps (ID *****7066) Date: May 05, 2004 at 11:26:33
of 4083

I am just starting to research my Felps/Phelps family. I have seen on this forum and on other forums an Ed Phelps who seemed to have a tremendous amount of information on the Felps/Phelps. All of his postings I saw were a few years old. I tried his email address that was given but it was no good any more. Ever seen anything posted by Ed Phelps? Is he related to your line?

What I believe to be my line has many Aventon/Avinton/Avington/Abington's etc.

What I believe to be my line (I have a long way to go to document):

Thomas Felps I (Quakers) Limerick Ireland
Thomas Felps II b. 1644 m. Jane Renyolls
Thomas Felps III b. 1664 d. MD m. Rosanne Swift in 1710
son Avinton Felps b. Baltimore Ct. d. Rowan CT NC
son William Phelps b. Rowan Ct NC m. Elizabeth Jones
son Aquilla Phelps b.1768 Rowan m. Nancy Nolan d. GA
son William Felps b. 1799 GA d. GA
son William Hearn Phelps b. 1822 d. 1911
son Benjamine Aquilla b. 1850 m. Laura Poindexter
son Wilburn Phelps b. 1880's TN d. 1961 TN

All of the Avintons I've seen so far seem to tie in somewhere but, like I said, I am new at this.

I would appreciate any information I can get on these to help me correct and complete this line.

Thanks
Jerry Phelps

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Descendants of William W. Milam

Generation No. 1

1. WILLIAM W.1 MILAM was born Abt. 1813 in S.C.1, and died Abt. 1910 in Alabama2. He married ELIZABETH PHELPS October 20, 1833 in Jasper Co., Ga.3, daughter of AQUILLA PHELPS and JANE HANSON.

Children of WILLIAM MILAM and ELIZABETH PHELPS are:

2. i. SARAH JANE2 MILAM, b. May 31, 1837, Floyd Co., Ga.; d. October 28, 1916.
3. ii. GEORGE WASHINGTON MILAM, b. July 19, 1839, Floyd Co., Ga.
iii. JEREMIAH JEFFERSON MILAM, b. January 25, 1841, Floyd Co., Ga.
iv. MARY ANN MILAM, b. September 28, 1843, Floyd Co., Ga.
v. AQUILLA PHILIP MILAM, b. April 22, 1845, Floyd Co., Ga.
vi. WILLIAM W. MILAM, b. January 17, 1847, Floyd Co., Ga.
4. vii. MARTHA ADELINE MILAM, b. January 07, 1849, Floyd Co., Ga.
viii. THOMAS GLADNA MILAM, b. March 06, 1851, Floyd Co., Ga.
ix. ELIZA NEVADA MILAM, b. December 22, 1852, Floyd Co., Ga.
5. x. JESSE LUCIUS MILAM, b. January 14, 1856, Floyd Co., Ga.
6. xi. JAMES CLAUDE MILAM, b. May 22, 1858, Floyd Co., Ga.

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Phelps-Georgia Census Records

Jasper county, GA, 1820 Federal Census - INDEX File

This Census was transcribed by Nancy Mann and
proofread by (Not Proofread yet) for the USGenWeb Archives Census Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/census/

Census_Year 1820
Microfilm #M33-6
State GA
County Jasper
District None listed
Enumerator Joel Baley

PAGE # LINE # LAST NAME FIRST NAME FILENAME

174 69 Phelps Aquila pg0170.txt
212 732 Phelps Aquila pg0194.txt
182 221 Phelps Hillery pg0170.txt

Year: 1820 State: Georgia County: Jasper Page No: 3
Reel no: M33-6 Division: Montecello Township
Sheet No: 174 & 175 Enumerated by: Joel Baley
Transcribed by Nancy Mann (1999) and Evan Crow for USGenWeb,

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| Free White | | Slaves | |
| Male | Female | | Male | Female |
| 0 10 16 16 26 45 | 0 10 16 26 45 | | 0 10 26 45 | 0 10 26 45 |
LINE | Firstname Lastname | 10 16 18 26 45 . | 10 16 26 45 . | Fo | Ag Co Ma | 14 26 45 . | 14 26 45 . |
======|==================================|===================|================|====|==========|=============|=============
Page No: 3

10 | Aquila Phelps | 3 . . 2 . 2 | . 1 . . . | . | 9 . 2 | . . . . | . . . . |
20 | Hillary Phelps | . . . 1 . 1 | . 1 1 . . | . | 2 . . | . 1 . . | 1 . . . |

Page 22
7 | Aquilla Phelps | 1 . . 1 . 2 | 3 2 . 1 . | . | 6 . . | 4 1 . 2 | 1 2 . . |

Jasper COUNTY GA Census 1840

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sforte3@cs.com Suzanne Forte

ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/jasper/census/1840/1840pt1.txt

1840 Census
Jasper Co., Georgia

Census completed Oct 30, 1840

TOTAL POPULATION: 11, 111
White: 4921
Black: 6155
Free Black: 35

This census was transcribed by Suzanne Forte (sforte3@cs.com)from the original hand-written census.

There was one person listed over 100 years old - David Walens, on Page 67 in household of Wiley
Henderson.

NOTE: There were 35 free blacks listed in the 1840 Jasper County Census. These are listed by
the head of household under Remarks column.

60A&B Shaw's 365th GMD Phelps, Aquella . . . . 1 . . 1

60A&B Shaw's 365th GMD Phelps, Elizabeth . 1 . . . . . . .

Jasper Co Ga 1850 census

23 188 188 Phelps Aquilla 78 M W Farmer 15,000 Ga
24 188 188 Phelps Mildred 54 F W SC
25 188 188 Bull Mildred A 23 F W Ga
26 188 188 Smith Elizabeth 17 F W Ga
27 188 188 Sanders Brown 28 M W Farmer Ga

28 189 189 Phelps Elizabeth ? 52 F W Ga
REMARKS: middle initial written over

29 189 189 Phelps Aquilla 24 M W Mechanic Ga X

JASPER COUNTY GA Census - Slave Schedule 1850

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by

ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/jasper/census/1850/slave.txt

PHELPS, Aquilla 15 Black Males 1 to 84 21 Black Females 1 to 60

PHELPS, Elizabeth 2 Black Females 10 mo. & 60

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Georgia Land Lotteries

1821 Land Lottery GA - P - Q

Phelps Aquilla Jasper Pollards 10/9 Dooly
Phelps Aquilla Jasper Pollards 199/1 Henry

Phelps James C. McInto Dist 22 119/11 Henry
Phelps James C. Pulaski Lesters 212/3 Henry
Phelps William Clark Fosters 152/8 Henry
Phelps William Jones Pitts 2/14 Monroe

1827 GEORGIA LAND LOTTERY, Jasper County Residents, by date of drawing

Source: "Reprint of Official Register of Land Lottery of Georgia
1827," Compiled and Published by Miss Martha Lou Houston, Columbus, Georgia,
printed by Walton-Forbes Company, Columbus, Georgia 1928.

Section 1 is Lee County
Section 2 is Muscogee County

Section District, Lot No. Name County, Captains District

10th Day's Drawing - 17th March

2 9 162 Phelps, David orphans Jasper County, Sparks

19th Day's Drawing - March 28

1 26 82 Phelps, Thos. R.S. Jasper County Farleys

37th Day's Drawings - April 18

2 16 124 Phelps, William W. Jasper County Sparks

1 9 213 Phelps, John A. illegit Jasper County Sparks

40th Day's Drawing - April 21

2 23 131 Phelps's, Washington ors. Jasper County Dardens---Descendant of John Phelps d.1801, Bedford Co., Va.
(orphans)

43rd Day's Drawings - April 25

2 3 25 Phelps, Augustin J. Jasper County Sparks

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JASPER COUNTY, GA - MILITARY INDIAN WARS Capt Davis Lane's Company of the 38th Georgia Militia

Phelps, Jesse

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Jasper County GaArchives Deed.....Several Surnames - Several Surnames September 16 1816+

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Walter Ward wward@cafes.net September 5, 2003, 9:28 am

Written: September 16 1816+

Jasper County, Georgia Deed Abstracts, 1816-1832, partial.

Sources: Microfilm of the actual Jasper County, Georgia, Deed books. Book A,
LDS Microfilm # 158497; Book B1, LDS Microfilm # 158498; Book B2, LDS
Microfilm # 158499.

NOTE: Unless stated otherwise, all grantors and grantees were from the area
now called Jasper County, Georgia. Before 1807 this same area was a part of
Baldwin County and from 1807 until 1812 it was called Randolph County. In 1812
the name was changed to Jasper County. The names listed here are spelled the
same as the actual record to the best of my ability to read the record. Words
that could not be identified are placed in parenthesis with my best guess
followed with a question mark. WHW

Book B2, page 420, dated Apr. 30, 1830. WILLIAM PEACOCK sold to JOHN NEWBY for
$200. Description: 101 1/4 acres, District 17, Lot number not recollected, but
adjoining lands of the said WILLIAM PEACOCK, AGUILLA PHELPS, MARTIN COCHRAN,
and others and known by the half lot whereon JOHN PEACOCK, Senr, died. Signed:
WILLIAM (his X mark) PEACOCK. Witnesses: MARTIN COCHRAN and MARIAM COCHRAN
plus an affidavit dated June 5, 1830 by MARTIN COCHRAN witnessed by J.
MCCLENDON, J.P. Recorded Mar. 15, 1832 by WILLIAM B. STOKES, Clk.

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Phelps Marraiges

Jasper CO. GA Marriage Book - 1808-1820

Submitted by Scott E. Warren
Transcribed by Bill Lynch

Groom Bride Date

Johnston, William Phelps, Luvania 12/04/1816

Phelps, Daniel W. Horley, Susannah 03/25/1817

Phelps, Washington Lang, Bersheba 04/21/1816--Descendant of John Phelps d.1801, Bedford Co., Va.

Phelps, William Johnson, Ann 07/09/1816

Jasper Co. GA Marriage Book, 1821-1835-1841

Compiled by Bill Lynch

Groom Bride Date Page

Brown, Robert Phelps, Nancy 09/08/1831 138

Jackson, Green B. Phelps, Barbara 03/02/1823 43

McDannel, Jacob Phelps, Martha 11/18/1829 142

Milum, William Phelps, Elizabeth 10/20/1830 160

Phelps, Thomas Thomason, Sarh 11/21/1833 160

Phelps, William Parker, Judy 11/18/1827 95

Smith, John B. Phelps, Sarah 08/22/1830 126

Smith, William W. Phelps, Mary 09/01/1825 74

Jasper Co. GA Marriage records, O and P

Phelps, William to Anne Johnson 07/09/1817
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Martha Odom MAKODOM@aol.com - 12/22/97

Researching Aquilla PHELPS (b. 12 Dec 1789 in Rowan County, NC - d. About 1871 in Floyd County, GA) who married Jane HENSON (b. Unknown - d. Unknown) in Clarke County, GA on 1 Dec 1807. Aquilla's father was Thomas PHELPS (b. 19 Aug 1759 in Rowan County, NC - d. 12 Jul 1835 in Jasper County, GA) who married a TEAKLE (not sure if this was her first or last name). Aquilla lived in Jasper County, GA for most of his life; however, most of his children had migrated to Floyd County by the 1850s. If anyone has information on this family, please contact me.

From: Pattylshaw@aol.com
Subject: Phelps of Georgia came to Missouri
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:06:29 EST

This is old information from a couple of years ago and would love to hear
from Nora or Margaret again - lost contact with them and this is what they sent
me when I was researching my Albert Phelps b. Georgia abt 1812. Also have
this info on a James Phelps:
possible brother of Albert on same family page with Eliza Phelps age 65.
Household: 1880

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
James PHELPS Self M Male W 56 GA Farmer VA GA
Darkiss PHELPS Wife M Female W 53 TN Keeps House TN TN
Mollin M. PHELPS Son S Male W 26 MO Laborer GA TN
Mary E. PHELPS Dau S Female W 18 MO GA TN
James F. PHELPS Son S Male W 12 MO Laborer GA TN
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Source Information:
Census Place Crawford, Osage, Missouri
Family History Library Film 1254707
NA Film Number T9-0707
Page Number 420A
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Patty,
I do have a line of Phelps that moved from SC to GA between 1810-14. They settled in Pulaski Co. GA. Would Albert Phelps lived near there. You didn't say where. Wish we could get a WebSite of Southern Phelps. We really need to pull these southern Phelps together. I have some material on mine: William and Sophia Lee Phelps at home. When I get home, I will look for Albert.

We do have an Arthur Phelps (my line) but no Albert that I remember.(?). I will be home on the 10th of Dec. William was b. c. 1773 but don't know where but believe in NC or SC. Sophia Lee was b. c. 1776-77 SC. I believe there were about 5 different Phelps in SC on or before the 1790 Census but all moved to GA or other parts West. Moses and his son James Phelps from Edgefield, SC and Aquilla Phelps along with my William were all in SC before moving through GA to other states. Talk
later. Nora
12-4-2002

There are several groups of Phelps in Georgia in the early 19th century. No one has "adopted" the state as a project to work on identifying relationships ifany between the families. A Thomas Phelps born 19 Aug. 1759 in Rowan Co.,North Carolina; died 12 July 1835 in Jasper Co., GA. Thomas served in the Revolutionary War. At the time he enlisted he was living on Great Kiokee Creek, which runs into the Savannah River almost across from Edgefield Co., S.C. In 1784 he married a woman named Teckel (1767- died Floyd Co., GA ca. 1855).Thomas and Tekel had two children, a daughter Nancy b. 9 Sept 1785, died before 1851 (affadavit of brother, Aquilla, on pension application). and a son, Aquilla, b. 12 Dec 1789; died 1871, Floyd Co., GA . Tekel received a widow's pension W3551. Aquilla lived in Floyd Co., had several children, Sarah,Thomas, Nancy, Jesse, Pickney, Elizabeth, Polly and Jane. Some of them or Aquilla's grandchildren moved to Tennessee and on to Texas after "THE WAR". There was second Aquilla who lived in GA at the same time. Relationship if any unknown at present.

No Albert among descendants identified by Betty Cason of Rome, GA, a
ggg-granddaughter of Thomas.

There were also New England Phelps who lived the vicinity of Columbus, GA,
and
others in Pulaski Co.

Margaret Swanson
These are emails from Phelps Family mailing list.
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File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Larry Childs http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00014.html#0003325 January 11, 2006, 7:50 pm

Cemetery: Bull
Name: Mildred Bull
Photo can be seen at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/monroe/photos/tombstones/bull/bull8020gph.jpg
Image file size: 111.6 Kb

Mildred Gibson Willis Bull

Additional Comments:
Wm H. Bull married Mildred Gibson 22 Jul 1818 Wilkes Co.,
GA. This was her second marriage. Her first was to George
Willis before 1807. George Willis died 5 Nov 1816 Wilkes
Co., GA. After Wm H Bull died, she married 1848 Jasper Co.,
GA to Aquilla Phelps.

(Information from: Barbara Waldrop User181801@aol.com )

Mildred Gibson Willis Bull Phelps was an ancestor of most of
the many people of Monroe County who are Willis
descendants. She was a daughter of John Gibson who died in
1827 in Wilkes County Georgia and his wife Mildred (Millie)
Holladay Gibson.

Her first husband was George Willis who died 1816 in Wilkes
County Georgia. He was a son of James Willis of Virginia who
died 1813 in Wilkes County and his first wife Ann/Nancy.

They had sons:

Owen J willis,
George A Willis,
John G Willis

Mildred Gibson Willis married 2nd William H Bull (he is
buried in the Carlton-Bull Cemetery Mildred married
William H Bull 1818 in Wilkes County and they had several
children who lived to adulthood.

Mildred Gibson Willis Bull married 3rd Acquilla Phelps

Matilda Gibson (Mildred's sister) married 1st David Allison
who was guardian of Mildred's three Willis sons. Matilda,
who was Mildred's sister, married 3 more times. Matilda was
married last to James Lamar

Children in the cemetery are said to be a child of Mildred
and William Bull and a Bryant child. I don't know who the
Bryant child could be. One of Mildred's sons, John Gibson
Willis b 10 Jun 1810 Wilkes County, GA had a daughter by his
second wife who married a Bryant. Could this Bryant child be
Mildred's Great Grandchild? [I have Mary Lena Willis m.
Hiram J. Bryant in Butts Co., GA but no date. Mary Lena was
b. 1874]

File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/monroe/photos/tombstones/bull/bull8020gph.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/

File size: 2.6 Kb

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1827 GEORGIA LAND LOTTERY, Jasper County Residents, sorted by last name

Source: "Reprint of Official Register of Land Lottery of Georgia
1827," Compiled and Published by Miss Martha Lou Houston, Columbus, Georgia,
printed by Walton-Forbes Company, Columbus, Georgia 1928.

======================================================================================================================
SEC DIST LOT NO. NAME RESIDENCE CAPT. DIST. COUNTY OF DRAW
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2 3 25 Phelps, Augustin J. Jasper County Sparks Muscogee County
2 9 162 Phelps, David orphans Jasper County Sparks Muscogee County

1 9 213 Phelps, John A. illegit Jasper County Sparks Lee County
1 26 82 Phelps, Thos. R.S. Jasper County Farleys Lee County---Thomas Phelps of Rowan Co. N.C.
2 16 124 Phelps, William W. Jasper County Sparks Muscogee County
2 23 131 Phelps's, Washington orphs. Jasper County Dardens Muscogee County--Descendant of John Phelps d.1801, Bedford Co., Va.

1827 Land Lottery Registration List Jasper County, GA

THIS IS THE JASPER COUNTY REGISTRATION LIST FOR THE 1827 GEORGIA
LAND LOTTERY. REGISTRATION WAS HELD WITHIN TWO MONTHS OF THE PASSAGE
OF THE LAND ACT OF 7 DEC 1824. (THE JASPER COUNTY REGISTRATION WAS
FILED 3 SEP 1825). THE BOOK HAS TORN PAGES AND IS DIFFICULT TO READ
IN PLACES - THOSE SPOTS HAVE BEEN NOTED.

THE REQUIREMENTS WERE: U.S. CITIZEN, INHABITANT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA
FOR THREE YEARS IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO 1 JAN 1827.

REASONS A PERSON COULD NOT DRAW: HE/SHE WAS A WINNER IN A PREVIOUS
LOTTERY (SEE EXCEPTIONS); REFUSED TO SERVE IN MILITARY; CONVICT
SERVING TIME

QUALIFICATION AND NUMBER OF DRAWS:
1 DRAW - WHITE MALE OVER AGE 18
1 DRAW - EVERY WIDOW
1 DRAW - FAMILY OF ORPHANS UNDER 18 WITH FATHER DEAD
1 DRAW - FAMILY OF 1-2 ORPHANS (APPLIED IN THE DISTRICT OF THE
ELDEST ORPHAN OR THE GUARDIAN - SEEMS TO IMPLY BOTH PARENTS DEAD)
1 DRAW - MALE OR UNMARRIED FEMALE IDIOT, LUNATIC, INSANE, BLIND, OR DEAF
AND DUMB, 10-18 YEARS OLD
2 DRAWS - WHITE MALE OVER 18 WITH WIFE AND/OR LEGITIMATE MALE CHILD(REN)
UNDER 18 OR UNMARRIED FEMALE CHILD(REN)
2 DRAWS - FAMILY OR MORE THAN 3 ORPHANS (APPLIED IN THE DISTRICT OF THE
ELDEST ORPHAN OR THE GUARDIAN - SEEMS TO IMPLY BOTH PARENTS DEAD)

SPECIAL EXCEPTIONS:
1 EXTRA DRAW - WIDOW OF HUSBAND KILLED/DIED IN WARS WITH GREAT BRITIAN
OR INDIANS OR ON THE RETURN MARCH HOME
1 EXTRA DRAW - ORPHAN WHOSE FATHER KILLED/DIED IN WARS WITH GREAT
BRITIAN OR INDIANS OR ON THE RETURN MARCH HOME
1 EXTRA DRAW - MAN DISABLED IN WARS WITH GREAT BRITIAN OR INDIANS
2 EXTRA DRAWS - REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN WHO HAD NOT DRAWN A LOT FOR
SERVICE IN THE 1821 LOTTERY, EVEN IF HE WAS A PREVIOUS
WINNER IN OTHER LOTTERIES
1 EXTRA DRAW - REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN WHO HAD DRAWN A LOT FOR SERVICE
IN THE 1821 LOTTERY
1 EXTRA DRAW - REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN'S WIDOW

* ANYONE WHO HAD WON PREVIOUSLY AS A MEMBER OF A FAMILY OF ORPHANS
BUT WAS 18 OR OLDER COULD HAVE ONE DRAW; THE REMAINING ORPHANS UNDER
18 HAD ONE DRAW AS A FAMILY
* CHILDREN OF CONVISTS WERE TREATED AS ORPHANS
* ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN WERE TREATED AS ORPHANS
* A WIFE OF A HUSBAND THREE YEARS ABSENT WAS TREATED AS A WIDOW, CHILDREN
AS ORPHANS

THE BOOKS WERE COMPILED WITH ONE OR TWO LETTERS ON A PAGE, NAMES ADDED
AS THEY REGISTERED. THIS HELPED TO INDENTIFY AT LEAST THE BEGINNING
LETTER OF SOME OF THE NAMES WHERE PAGES WERE TORN.

THE LIST CONTAINS: NAME, NUMBER OF DRAWS ENTITLED TO, NOTES

DARDEN'S DISTRICT

PHELPS, WASHINGTON, 1, ORPHANS OF----Descendant of John Phelps d.1801, Bedford Co., Va. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Phelps Plantation, Jasper Co., Ga.

W. E. SANDERS, merchant and mayor of Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia, son of Brown and Elizabeth A. (Smith) Sanders, was born in Jasper County, Georgia, October 13, 1851. The family came from England to South Carolina before the Revolutionary War. Mr. Sanders’ great-grandfather, Ephraim Sanders, a soldier in the Patriot Army, was killed in the battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, September 8, 1781. The latter part of the last century, his grandfather, a planter, migrated from South Carolina to Georgia and settled in Jones County, where he raised a large family, whose members scattered and made homes elsewhere. Here Mr. Sanders’ father was born in 1808 and grew to manhood. He then moved over into Jasper County, where he married in 1850. His mother’s family was of Georgia birth, and she was raised by her grandfather, Aquilla Phelps, one of the older of the first settlers. After their marriage his parents moved to Jones County, where they lived seven years, and then returned to Jasper County to the old Phelps Plantation, where they are living now, his father engaged in his lifetime business of farming. They had four children born to them: W.E., the subject of this sketch; Mary A., died at thirteen; Frances M., died when eighteen months old; Florence, died when seventeen years of age. Mr. Sanders was reared in Jasper County, and educated in the county schools and the Monticello high school, and took a course in the Macon Business College. In 1871 he clerked in Monticello, Georgia, and beginning with 1872, he clerked for L. Greenwood & Brothers, Forsyth, for several years – clerking in the fall and winter – making a crop in the summer in Jasper County. In 1877 he engaged with Solomon & Mount, remained with them until 1881, when he went into business with E.R. Roberts, under the firm name of Roberts & Sanders. The firm continued until 1883, when they were burnt out. Mr. Sanders then bought his partner’s interest, and has since conducted the business with phenomenal success on his own account. He carried a fine assorted general supply stock. He was elected mayor of Forsyth in 1890, re-elected since in 1892, 1893 and 1894, and is mayor now. He is captain of the Quitman Guards (Company K, Second Regiment Infantry, Georgia Volunteers). This is a “crack” company, and he has been a member of it twenty years. He is also a member of the Military Advisory Board of the State of Georgia. Mr. Sanders was married Dec. 13, 1876, in Forsyth, Georgia, to Miss Ada O., daughter of W.B. and Mattie A. Chambers, who now live in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia. To them seven children have been born: Florence; W.B., died in 1890; May; Charlie; an infant, died unnamed; W.E., Jr., deceased. Mr. Sanders is a Democrat. He is very popular, ranks high for energy and business capability, and commercial integrity. His accomplished success gives assurance of a brilliant business future.
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Phelps-- Legal name changes in Georgia

ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE. AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1839.

ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. PASSED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1839.
NAMES.

1839 Vol. 1 -- Page: 166

Sequential Number: 153

Full Title: AN ACT to alter and change the names of certain persons therein named, and to legitimatize the same, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the name of Elizabeth Robinson, be, and the same is hereby changed to that of Eliza Elizabeth Blount; the name of Elizabeth Ann Harrell, shall be, and the same is hereby altered and changed to that of Elizabeth Ann Johnson; the name of Anna Atline Davis, be, and the same is hereby
Page: 167

changed to that of Priscilla Atline Graham; the names of Elizabeth Chiles, Aquilla Chiles, Thomas W. Chiles, and Lucinda Chiles of Jasper county, shall be, and the same is hereby changed to that of Elizabeth Phelps, Aquilla Phelps, Thomas W. Phelps and Lucinda Phelps; the name of William James of Richmond county, shall be, and the same is hereby changed to that of William Little; the name of Henry Hines of Stewart county, shall be, and the same is hereby changed to that of Henry Brewer; the names of Henry T. F. Stokes, William A. A. Stokes, and Rebecca E. E. Stokes, of Taliaferro county, be changed to that of Henry T. F. Towns, William A. A. Towns and Rebecca E. E. Towns, the children of Thomas T. Towns of Taliaferro county; and the name of Emily Green of Newton county, be changed to that of Emily Kinney; that the name of James Morrison of Burke county, be changed to that of James Grubbs; and that the names of Harry G. Hunter, Harriet Hunter, Sophrina Hunter and Louisa Hunter, be changed to that of Harry G. Murphy, Harriet Murphy Sophrina Murphy and Louisa Murphy, and as such they shall be called and known in all courts of Law and Equity; and are hereby declared to be fully and completely legitimatized, and entitled to all the rights and legal privileges that they would have been, had they been born in lawful wedlock

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The Family of James Phelps/Felps and wife Mary, Son of Aquilla Phelps Of Rowan County,North Carolina. James Phelps and his family came from Rowan County,N.C. to Elbert County, Georgia and then on to East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.

JAMES FELPS, moved with his wife Mary (Sidden) and sons, David D Felps (born 1782), Thomas Felps, Joseph Felps and James Felps Jr. James Sr. settled land in Feliciana Parish, LA Nov. 1803.

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Birth: About 1763 , , North Carolina
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1. David D. Felps Pedigree
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Birth: 25 FEB 1782 Ebert, , , Georgia
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Death: 30 OCT 1837
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2. Elizabeth Felps Pedigree
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Birth: About 1784 Ebert, , , Georgia
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3. Henrietta Felps Pedigree
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Birth: 1785 Ebert, , , Georgia
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4. James Felps Pedigree
Male

Birth: 1790 Ebert, , , Georgia
Christening:
Death: Before 12 OCT 1852
Burial:

5. Thomas Felps Pedigree
Male

Birth: 1789 Ebert, , , Georgia
Christening:
Death: About 1828
Burial:

6. Joseph Felps Pedigree
Male

Birth: 10 DEC 1796 Ebert, , , Georgia
Christening:
Death: 17 APR 1839
Burial:

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"EAST FELICIANA, LOUISIANA, PAST AND PRESENT."
SKETCHES OF THE PIONEERS,
By H. Skipwith 1892 Hopkins Printing Office,
20 & 22 Commercial Place, New Orleans

PIONEERS OF THE FIFTH WARD.

I am so habituated, Mr. Editor, to chronological arrangement that I think I would not begin writing a history of Rome before making close and critical search for vestiges of the wall, to build which, Romulus cut down the reeds of Tiber, nearly three thousand years ago. My present search is limited to the inquiry "Who made the earliest blazings of civilizations in the fifth ward of East Feliciana?" Tradition carries us then back, in answer to this question, to the closing years of the last century; when the three Yarborough brothers from Georgia, and Joseph Felps, from the same State, in company with his brothers, James, Thomas and David; and as part of the same immigration movement, those sturdy old front- iersmen, Isaac Taylor from Pennsylvania, and Robert Nettles and Thomas Albritton from South Carolina, who commenced to make their hatchet clearings, to lay off fence rows and to build log cabins with puncheon floors in the heart of the primeval forests and cane brakes, the dark green curtains of the water-courses, which irrigated and fertilized the lovely valleys of the Fifth Ward, in the year 1798. And two years later came into the same community another colony from Elbert County, Georgia, which included several well rememb- ered pioneers, who figured conspicuously in shaping our civlization, namely: Charles Ingraham, James Higginbotham, Matthew Edwards, Natt Cobb and William Blount. Mr. Ingraham, who cleared the place now owned by Mr. I.T.Felps, was a worker in wood, possessing a large and active mechanical genius, and to him the settlers were indebted for the first grist and saw mill, and he was likewise the owner of several slave mechanics, workers both in iron and wood, and Ingraham's mill and blacksmith shop were leading land marks for many years, of which there are still some vestiges. His old Elbert County neighbor and friend, James Higginbotham, who likewise was a slave owner, was the Master of the first lodge of Masons organized in East Feliciana. He lived and died on his first clearing, but his son, John B., on his father's death, moved eastward into the Sixth Ward, near Nat Cobb and William Blount and the Briants, who had migrated from the banks fo the Comite river, in the Fifth, to the valley of the Amite, in the Sixth. Throughout his long and active life, John B. Higginbotham was a strong pillar of the Methodist Church, an earnest and devout class leader. It is one of the traditions of the Elbert County colony, along the Comite, that young Charles Ingraham was the first Anglo American to die, and that his father put him away in a solid lightwood coffin, which was made air tight by ingenious devices without corroding nails. As the Felps and Yarborough brothers certainly came into the wilds earlier than the Elbert County colony, those earliest leaders of the column of civilization have had so much influence in shaping the societies which they founded that each may claim a short biographical paragraph. James Felps founded the ancestral seat, seven miles east of Clinton, on the Greensburg road, in the Eighth Ward. His brothers, Thomas and David Felps, founded their family seats two miles south of him, on the banks of Bluff Creek, in the Sixth Ward. The fourth brother, Joseph, whose descendants still cling in large numbers around the "clearing" which their ancestor made in 1798, a little south of the present site of Clinton, chose his home in the Fifth Ward. The three Yarborough brothers, who came from Georgia with the Felps, founded their homes along the banks of Pretty Creek, in clannish proximity, in the Fifth Ward. Lewis Yarborough made his hatchet clearing and built his log cabin (which I have seen standing in good repair, in 1825) just between the present store of Mr. R. Carow and the new residence of Henry Hartner. His descendants, not long ago, under the advice of Judge J.B. Smith, contemplated bringing suit for all the land on which the town of Clinton now stands.

"EAST FELICIANA, LOUISIANA, PAST AND PRESENT."
SKETCHES OF THE PIONEERS,
By H. Skipwith 1892 Hopkins Printing Office,
20 & 22 Commercial Place, New Orleans

PIONEERS OF THE SIXTH WARD.
Notwithstanding, Mr. Editor, that this sixth sub-division of East Feliciana has been sneeringly nick-named "the Dark Corner", I find on closer scrutiny that is annals are as full of stirring incidents, its settlement as early, its progress as fast and its social development as healthy and steady as in any of the other wards, and a glance at its admirable distribution of forest and stream, of meadows and valleys and picturesque building sites, on the crown of its lofty ranges of forest clad hills, will convince the home seekers that I am sketching one of the choicest haunts of civilized man; a land conspicuously adapted to the uses of agricultural and pastoral endeavor. The bold and turbulent Amite, with its wealth of broad and fertile bottoms, and its miles of dense primeval forests, is the ward's eastern border, Sandy Creek, a smaller stream of living waters, presenting on a smaller scale the same features as are found along the Amite, is the western boundary of the ward. The same general features likewise attach to the courses of its two diagonal feeders, namely Hunter's Branch, which rises a little north of the centre and flows south-west into Sandy Creek, and Bluff Creek which also rises north of the centre and discharges south-east into the Amite river. It is almost needless to add that the flocks and herds of the Sixth Ward never suffer for water, and the meadows bordering all these streams in large broad bodies of fertile land hold out a promise of rich remuneration to agricultural and pastoral endeavor. It goes, too, almost without saying, that the bold headlands hemm- ing in these streams abound in picturesque sites, calling eloquently to roaming pilgrims to stop and build and beautify a home. It has already been asserted in these sketches that there were two tidal waves, which floated into these wilds; two streams of immigrat- ing humanity; some by single spies, some by families, and some by whole neighborhoods. The first wave was set in motion by the treaty with Spain in 1795, which defined the 31st parallel of north latitude as the boundary between Spain's provinces of Florida and the United States, and also guaranteed to American citizens, for three years, the right of deposit. On this first wave came into the Sixth Ward, to battle with the bears, panthers and wolves for possession and a peaceful home, John Morgan and Morgan Morgan, who having emigrated from Virginia to the wilds of Kentucky with their relative Daniel Boone, soon after the revolutionary war, turned their migratory longing southward in 1796, and in company with the Vardells and Thackers, founded their homes in the Sixth in the broad and fertile Amite valley. Impelled by the same wave, though not quite so early, but before the close of the century, came the Chaneys from South Carolina, the Phelps from Georgia, and John Hobgood from Virginia. These early comers founded seats along the valleys of Bluff Creek, except Capt. James Hobgood, whose early life was so eventful and full of interesting incidents, as to suggest a separate biographical paragraph. James Hobgood was a Virginia lad during the Revolution, with strong longings to go and fight for Washington and freedom, but being too young was denied enlistment. After the war closed, the restless, aspiring lad commenced his migrations southward, through the Carolinas, stopping in South Carolina long enough to fascinate a blue-eyed daughter of the Barfields, who came with him to found a home on the plantation in the Sixth Ward, now owned and cultivated by Mr. Porter Rowley. The ancestor of the Hobgoods was not only one of the earliest comers, but was for many years the most conspicous figure of the early society of the Sixth Ward, especially at "House Raisings" and "Log Rollings" and all other occasions at which physical strength always won the crown of admiration. He was a long armed, heavily muscled athlete, and as a jumper, wrestler and fighter had no equal. His son, Mr. W.B. Hobgood, relates with pardonable pride the feats of prowess of his gigantic ancestor, but he had one weakness, for which Billy, after the lapse of over half a century, has not been able to fully forgive him. When the oats were ready for the harvest the long armed old giant would shoulder his scythe and buckle on his can- teen full of whiskey, and his son Billy ws summoned to carry a fresh pail of water, and when the day's work was done the canteen was always empty, but Billy had been rigidly confined to the con- tents of the pail of water, and to this day Billy protests that he was the victim of a most unfair distribution of the fluids. Within a year or two of those already mentioned came from Georgia, the Cobbs, Higginbothams, Carrolls and Blonnts, and the Barfields from South Carolina, who founded their seats along the Amite river. While these eastern colonists were developing their scattered communities, settlements were being made on the western border, along the valley of Sandy Creek, by the Hatchers, Storys, McMurrays and Gideon White. A little later, say about six years, the earliest of that large column of immigration which was set in motion by Mr. Jefferson's proclamation of 1803, announcing the purchase of Louisiana, came B.M.G. Brown, senior, who brought his wife, his little ones, and his slaves, and his chattels, in 1804, from Darlington District, South Carolina, to found a new home on the banks of Hunter's Branch, in the Sixth Ward, near the line of the Baton Rouge road, where he reared and equipped his four sons, Major Reddin Brown, B.M.G. Brown, jr., Elly Brown and Eli Brown, for active, useful and honorable service in the van of civilization, around their southern homes. Nearly contemporaneous with the Browns, the society of the ward was recruited by the Lees, Reddins, Carrolls, and by the mother of Sothey Hayes, and the late Sheriff Jno. W. Hayes, who came, a brave widow from South Carolina, to found a new home for her sons in the wilds of the Sixth Ward.

PIONEERS OF THE SEVENTH WARD.

About the time when the Yarboroughs and Phelps and the other colonists migrated from Elbert County, Georgia, at the close of the late century, into the Fifth Ward to make their clearings and found their homes along the margin of the Comite river and Pretty Creek----

"EAST FELICIANA, LOUISIANA, PAST AND PRESENT."
SKETCHES OF THE PIONEERS,
By H. Skipwith 1892 Hopkins Printing Office,
20 & 22 Commercial Place, New Orleans

PIONEERS OF THE EIGHTH WARD. When, in 1800, old Leonard Hornsby took passage on a flat boat and floated out of South Carolina down the head waters of the Tennessee river and around by the Ohio and Mississippi to Natchez, with all his father's slaves and herds, his house- hold and kitchen outfit, his wagons, teams and agricultural implements, his gunsmith and his one-legged shoemaker, his big mastiffs, bull dogs and deer hounds, he was tolerably well equipped to plant and defend and expand an outpost in the vanguard of civilization, which he did in 1802 in the forks of Beaver Creek and the Amite river, to which his Anglo-Saxon love of running waters had attracted him. This outpost of the Hornsby's, in 1802, lies in the extreme corner of the Eighth Ward, and is now the property of Judge W.F. Kernan. When its site was selected there were none within hearing of his cock's crowing for day-break, except the sly, scheming foxes, thirsting for chanticleer's blood; none to hear the deep-mouthed baying of his big dogs, except the frightened bears, panthers, wolves and deer. No human being was nearer than old Mr. Furlow, a Georgian, who, with a hermit's love of solitude, had planted his solitary log cabin on the west side of Hepzibah Creek, about half a mile below the high hill, out of the sides of which gush the living waters as fresh and strong and life-giving as those which gushed from the rocks of Horeb when struck by Aaron's rod. The place is central and has had many different proprietors after old Mr. Furlow was put away in his grave. His immediate successor was Daniel Eads, of Kentucky, who constructed the first grist mill just above where Hephzibah Church now stands. Two other leaders of Eighth Ward society, Elisha Andrews and Major Doughty, followed Mr. Eads as proprietors of the Furlow place, and in 1812 or 1814 the Rev. Ezra Courtney, having organized a numerous Baptist congregation, selected the portion of the place lying on the east side of the creek for the site of a Baptist house of worship, to which was given the name of HEPHZIBAH. Furlow, Eads, Andrews and Doughty, after life's fitful fever, all sleep quietly in their graves, but the head waters of Hepzibah Creek still ripple and gurgle joyously by the foot of holy Hepzibah Church, the congregation of which multiplied amazingly under the zealous ministrations of its venerable founder. It remained a harmonious brotherhood, without any family jars, except when old Chesley Jackson, one of Hephizbah's stock-holders, took it into his head to invite a Universalist named Rogers to preach in Hepbzibah. This desecration of the Hephzibah pulpit by an unbaptized heretic who didn't believe n Sheol, was bitterly opposed by another body of organized Baptists, under the lead of that good Christian and citizen, Major Doughty, who locked the heretic out, and carried off the keys in their pockets. Then there was war in Hephzibah and the contending factions were not appeased until the Rev. H.D.F. Roberts, from Sumpter District, S.C., with a diploma from Columbia College, and Rev. Thomas Adams, and impassioned and learned divine, from Richland District, S.C., came to pour oil on the troubled waters. Under the impassioned appeals of these two missionaries the conscience of the eighth ward was stirred to its lowest depths and the list of Hepzibah members rapidly doubled. Perhaps it will add to the interest of my narrative to say that Mr. Roberts left the work here to serve a pulpit in a Tennessee church, where he reared four promising sons, of whom our esteemed fellow citizen, J.M. Roberts, Esq., was one, and all of whom have been, from time to time, members of eighth ward society, as guests of their father's older brothers, Messrs. William and Sylvester Dunn Roberts, both immigrants from Sumpter District, S.C. The Rev. Thos. Adams founded a home and raised a family on the banks of Pretty creek, and continued his minist- rations in the East Feliciana church until his death near Clinton in 1859, where he was buried, and over his honored grave the congregations he had so faithfully served united in erecting a handsome monument. After Furlow and Hornsby, the dim and scattered germs of Eighth Ward settlers were first recruited by John Chance and James Felps from Georgia, in 1803 and 1804, and probably by the ancestor of Jack, Booker and Smith Kent. Mr. Chance made his first clearing on the place in the Seventh ward on which in 1806 old Mr. Henry Dunn moved with his family and slaves. This John Chance became conspicuous in the annals of the Eighth Ward, for long and honor- able services as a leader through its early struggles, and as the founder of a numerous and powerful family by his marriage with Miss Zilpha Doughty, who came into the ward in 1806 in company with her father, old Mr. Levi Doughty, from Darlington District, S.C. In the same fleet of flatboats which floated the Doughtys out of South Carolina, down the head waters of the Tennessee and through the perilous Muscle Shoals, down the Ohio and Mississippi to Natchez, came out of the same neighborhood a column of immigrants with their families, slaves and household goods; and from Natchez, on foot and in wagons, probably along the same trace which old Leonard Hornsby blazed out in 1802, to the banks of Beaver creek, near which most of these colonists commenced their clearings. This large column of colonists coming into the ward in 1806, embraced the ancestors of the Doughtys, Rentzs, Brians, Morgans and Whites, who used to tell their descendants some thrilling tales of hairbreadth escapes from shipwreck on the snags, sawyers and hidden rocks in the un- known channels of the French Broad, and how, appalled by the angry roar of the swift torrents, whirlpools and eddies of the Muscle Shoals, the immigrants from Darlington District landed their wives, little ones and slaves at the head of the Shoals and trusted the ark containing their herds, household and kitchen and plantation outfits to a skilled Indian pilot, who, standing with his long pole at the bow, with his squaw at the helm, would brave the dangers of the perilous passage while the human passengers footed around the shoals by a "cut-off." The Indian pilots brought most of the boats safely to the foot of the Shoals, but sometimes one would be wrecked and an outfit for a home in the wilderness would go to the bottom.

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East Feliciana Parish was created in 1824 when Feliciana Parish, once part of Spanish West Florida, was split into
East and West Feliciana Parishes.

1820 Census, Head of Household Feliciana Parish, La.
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This LARGE Feliciana Parish was divided in 1824 and split into East &
West Feliciana Parishes. The Heads of the Households for this census
were transcribed from the original rolls. Some designated areas on this
census may correspond to places in later East or West Feliciana
Parish. A head of household on this census, by 1830, would either be
listed in East or West Feliciana Parish if they remained in the area.
Make note of the names of neighbors on this census, whose records may
later assist you in your research. The men listed on this census
may have participated in the War of 1812 and fought at the Battle of
New Orleans on 8 January 1815.

AREA SURNAME FIRST NAME

Amite Miller..........................Isaac
" Smith...........................Ephm
" Blunt...........................Wm.
" Powers..........................Mark
" Crittenlon......................Jeremiah
" Cobb............................Nathl.
" Morgan..........................Jese
" Bryan...........................James
" Kerby...........................William
" Lurk (?)........................Jno.
" Neasom..........................Abraham
" Phelps..........................Thos.
" Fulcher.........................Wm.
" Knight..........................Zacha.
" Knight..........................Willis
" Miller..........................William N.
" Carr............................G.V.J.
" Cock............................Ara L.
" Allbrittan......................Richard
" Middleton.......................Saml.
" Splane..........................Thos.
" Carr............................Cornelius
" Chapman.........................Thos.

East Feliciana, Louisiana: 1830 Census
Submitted by Don Johnson
File prepared by Deandra Norred Pardue

1830 Census
Enumeration Year 1830
County (Parish) East Feliciana, State Louisiana

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Lines 1 - 12 are males in the households, 13 - 24 are the females in the
following age categories.
Under 5 yrs.
5-10 yrs.
10-15 yrs.
15-20 yrs.
20-30 yrs.
30-40 yrs.
40-50 yrs.
50-60 yrs.
60-70 yrs.
70-80 yrs.
80-90 yrs
90-100 yrs

Joseph Phelps 100001000000 100010000000

George T. Phelps 101020000100 100100000000

David Felps 211010100000 100200100000

Margaret Felps 020100000000 001001000000

James Felps 202101000000 101101010000

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YARBOROUGH / YARBROUGH / FELPS /PRITCHITT
RON YARBROUGH
RJBEARTXM@AOL.COM
5/20/97

I am seeking more info on my ancestors LEWIS LIRONUS YARBOROUGH d 1854 who married HENRIETTA FELPS, d. 1833 both born in 1785 in GA and migrated to E.Feliciana Parish , Clinton La. along the banks of Pretty Creek in the fifth ward Lewis & his two brothers JAMES Y AND STEPHEN Y and the Felps were one of the first families to settle in this area in 1798. Lewis married at least twice after the death of Henrietta. 2nd wife ElizabethHUMPHRIES, M. 11/30/1837, 3RD wife Millie PRITCHITT MCMURRAY.I would like to know their children names by Lewis. Lewis & Henrietta children were: JamesR.YARBOROUGH my ggggrandfather who married a S.A.? would like info on her maiden name. In Marion County Miss, 1850 census shows James & SA living there with their 9 children which included my gggrandfather another James Rufus Yarboroughb. 1848 died in Jasper County Tx. M Demerius HARGROVE b 5/21/1849 M 3/1869, D2/7/1932 Houston, (Harris Co) Tx at Hollywood Cemetery. They had 7 children included my ggrandfather DeVerney Yarborough b1874 in Jasper Co, Tx d. 1950 in Jarrell,(Williamson Co) Tx m Mary KELLER 4/21/1901 in that county and is where they settled and had three children and my grandfather George Wright Yarbrough b.1904 d 1932 married Jewell JACKSON b 1915 of Salado, (Bell Co) Tx They had twins my fatherJoseph Charlie Yarbrough and Mary Fay Yarbrough. Deverney Yarbrough dropped one of the o from our name. I am looking for census, marriage, death, births records and any info would be very much appreciated. Ron Yarbrough. RJBEARTXM@AOL.COM

THANK YOU

WHITE / FELPS / GREGSON / RUSHING / TALBERT
Bettiann White Lloyd
Genechaser@aol.com
9/3/97

Henry Lafayette WHITE, b 15 Feb 1842, Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, LA (s/o Virgil WHITE/Janette Scott TALBERT); m 3 May 1866, Clinton, EFP, LA, to Casandra FELPS, b Aug 1844, LA. This couple had the following known children: James W. WHITE, b 7 Mar 1867, d 16 Dec 1917, McComb, Pike Co., MS; Lewis Lafayette WHITE, b Feb 1872, MS; Catherine "Katie" WHITE, b Jan 1881, MS; Daisie WHITE, b Sep 1882, MS, m Harry GREGSON; John Scott WHITE, b 7 May 1885, Amite Co., MS, m 9 May 1914, Magnolia, MS to Evelyn Myriam BOSTICK; Elizabeth "Lizzie" WHITE, b Aug 1888, MS, m Ben RUSHING. Looking for: (1) parents of Casandra FELPS; (2) spouses of James, Lewis and Catherine WHITE; (3) any further information on these children and/or their children with dates and locations for births, marriages and deaths.

YARBOROUGH / YARBROUGH / FELPS /PRITCHITT
RON YARBROUGH
RJBEARTXM@AOL.COM
1/1/98

My line of Yarboroughs starts in E.& W. Feliciana Parish with Lewis Lironus Yarborough b. 1798 d. 1854, m. Henrietta Phelps b. 1798 d. 1834 who lived in Clinton La. Their families lived in E and W Feliciana Parishes.

I am on the committee of the Yarborough Quarterly Newsletter and we have a data base we are building on the surname Yarborough and other spelling variations of this surname. I am in charge of the state of Louisiana and already have a lot of information but we want a lot more We are looking for census records, births,marriages, deeds,court records, etc or your line as long as you include a source.. If you have a verifiable source of information you would like to submit, Please email me or send to Ron Yarbrough 15711 Banty Falls ct Houston, Tx 77084 This information is being saved on a database to help anyone who is researching this surname. Thank you . Ron Yarbrough

FELPS / PHELPS
Edna Felps
edfel@gvtc.com
7/23/98

Searching for any FELPS descendants. JAMES FELPS came to EAST Feliciana Parish ,LA. from NC. Or TN. James was b.abt 1761in NC. died abt 1834 LA. Would like to correspond with any Felps descendant. Edna Felps edfel@gvtc.com

PHELPS, Meade Hubbard, M.D., E. Feliciana, then Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
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Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 358. Edited by Alc‚e
Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Phelps, Meade Hubbard, M. D., a leading physician and surgeon of the city of
Natchitoches, was born Jan. 29, 1886, in Clinton, East Feliciana parish, La.,
the son of Bailey Thomas and Emma (Sample) Phelps. His father was a native of
Clinton, La., and followed the occupation of farmer, and is now retired,
residing in Natchitoches. The mother of Dr. Phelps was born at Lake
Providence, West Carroll parish, and was the daughter of John Sample. Dr.
Phelps is the 4th child and only son in a family of five. He was educated in
the public schools of his native parish and at the Natchitoches state normal
school, from which he graduated in 1906. After teaching school for 1 year, he
studied medicine at Tulane university, during 4 years, and graduated in 1912.
Immediately after receiving his diploma, the doctor located in Natchitoches,
where he is a general practitioner, rapidly establishing a reputation as an
able and skillful physician and surgeon. He is a member of the Natchitoches
and Red River Bi-parish Medical society, and of the Louisiana State Medical
society and American Medical association. He served 1 term as interne in
Shreveport charity hospital.

This Article Compiled and Edited by Latham Mark Phelps--2007

Pulaski County, Kentucky Marriages - 1800s

2007-03-21T12:09:00.000-05:00

This information was provided by Marilyn Phelps. She collected marriages from all over KY and has those from other counties if needed. ljpmap AT verizon.net

Name Spouse Marriage Date

LOVELACE, W. G. PHELPS, ELIZABETH J.21 Jul 1878PulaskiKY

MIZE, ANDREW J PHELPS, MARTHA H.03 Jan 1877PulaskiKY

SEARS, JOHN WESLEY PHELPS, MARTHA ANN06 Mar 1873PulaskiKY

ADKINS, GEORGE R. PHELPS, MARY FRANCES29 Oct 1872PulaskiKY

ASHLEY, F. B. PHELPS, AMANDA E.22 Aug 1878PulaskiKY

BRADLEY, AARON PHELPS, MARTHA ELLEN13 Sep 1885PulaskiKY

BRADLEY, SAM PHELPS, MARTHA25 Sep 1865PulaskiKY

BROWN, JOHN A. PHELPS, NANNIE A.22 Nov 1885PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

BARRON, JOHN W. PHELPS, AMANDA F.19 Jan 1879PulaskiKY

CLARK, JOSIAH JAMES PHELPS, SERELDA JANE02 Oct 1866PulaskiKY

CLARK, THOMAS S. PHELPS, SARAH26 Aug 1884PulaskiKY

HARGIS, CYRUS PHELPS, MARANDA C.01 Feb 1883PulaskiKY

HARGIS, GEORGE W. PHELPS, TABITHA E.21 Aug 1881PulaskiKY

HENDRICKS, SAMIL A. PHELPS, CATHERINE J.30 Nov 1870PulaskiKY

HINDS, WILLIAM H. PHELPS, DRUCILLA01 Jun 1882PulaskiKY

HOWELL, COLUMBUS C. PHELPS, REBECCA JANE31 Oct 1875PulaskiKY

JINKINS, JAMES PHELPS, ELZY B.04 Dec 1872PulaskiKY

McHARGUE, STEPHEN H. PHELPS, LECIE J.02 Sep 1880PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

PHELPS, ALLEN HUGHS, NANCY08 Jun 1884PulaskiKY

PHELPS, ANDREW WOODALL, MARY M.02 Mar 1886PulaskiKY

PHELPS, ANDREW J. ELLIOT, ELIZABETH ELEN22 Oct 1871PulaskiKY

PHELPS, ANDREW GOFF, NANCY B.10 Mar 1878PulaskiKY

PHELPS, CHARLES M. DEATHERAGE, MARY E.14 Oct 1886PulaskiKY

PHELPS, DANIEL M. KEENEY, ELIZABETH J.20 Aug 1878PulaskiKY

PHELPS, ENOCH RICHARDSON, POLLY S.02 Dec 1874PulaskiKY

PHELPS, FRANKLIN WHITE, MARTHA G.01 Oct 1878PulaskiKY

PHELPS, FREEMAN K. RANDALL, SARAH ANN01 Feb 1867PulaskiKY

PHELPS, GEORGE R. HARGIS, MATILDA E.03 Feb 1879PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

PHELPS, H. A. MEECE, BARBARA E.09 Aug 1875PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JAMES B. STOGSDILL, ELIZABETH04 Jul 1879PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JAMES H. HANSFORD, ELLEN B.03 Aug 1879PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JAMES M. WRIGHT, LUCINDA20 Feb 1870PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JAMES W. MEECE, AMANDA E. H.31 Oct 1880PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JESSE A. YOUNG, SUNTHIA A.26 Sep 1878PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JOHN T. BRAY, SCIOTHA15 Sep 1884PulaskiKY

PHELPS, LARKIN WRIGHT, SAMANTHA22 May 1870PulaskiKY

PHELPS, LEONARD B. DEATHERADGE, SARAH JANE21 Jan 1886PulaskiKY

PHELPS, NATHAN JACKSON, MILEY09 Jul 1871PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

PHELPS, OBEDIAH HERRON, ELIZA05 Dec 1869PulaskiKY

PHELPS, ROBERT L. DYKES, SUSAN ELLEN30 Sep 1885PulaskiKY

PHELPS, SCHUYLER RANEY, NANCY27 Aug 1875PulaskiKY

PHELPS, THOMAS HUGHS, LUCY JANE04 May 1875PulaskiKY

PHELPS, WILLIAM FLOWERS, MARY ANN29 Dec 1864PulaskiKY

PHELPS, WILLIS G. WHILES, CENTHIA07 Sep 1865PulaskiKY

RANDOLPH, SILAS L. PHELPS, ELZEY P.21 Jun 1885PulaskiKY

SIDEBOTTOM, HENRY M. PHELPS, LUCINDA31 Oct 1880PulaskiKY

SMITH, JOSIAH PHELPS, BARTHENIA05 Apr 1877PulaskiKY

STANBERRY, HENRY N. PHELPS, MARY C.27 May 1864PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

ADKINS, OLIVER L. PHELPS, ARA MINTA09 Feb 1896PulaskiKY

BAKER, JOHN P. PHELPS, EVA J.07 Apr 1898PulaskiKY

BRADLEY, VIRGIL PHELPS, CORDELIA27 Aug 1893PulaskiKY

BRAY, LEANDER PHELPS, MATTIE A.24 Dec 1891PulaskiKY

ELLISON, M. E. PHELPS, BESSIE15 Mar 1893PulaskiKY

ELLISON, MADISON E. PHELPS, BESSIE15 Mar 1893PulaskiKY

GODBY, RUFUS A. PHELPS, AMANDA19 Mar 1896PulaskiKY

GOSSER, LEVI B. PHELPS, ELLA B.10 Jan 1892PulaskiKY

HARGIS, MILTON PHELPS, MARTHA B.27 Mar 1898PulaskiKY

HARGIS, ROBERT L. PHELPS, NANCY J.09 Nov 1890PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

HEATH, EPHRIAM PHELPS, LUCY A.22 Feb 1900PulaskiKY

HENDERSON, RAYMOND PHELPS, ARTIE29 Jul 1897PulaskiKY

JAMES, MACK H. PHELPS, DORINDA11 Oct 1899PulaskiKY

JONES, JOSEPH A. PHELPS, BETSEY31 Jul 1890PulaskiKY

MEECE, GEORGE R. PHELPS, MARTHA12 Nov 1896PulaskiKY

MILLER, BENJAMIN F. PHELPS, ALAMEDA20 Oct 1898PulaskiKY

MULLINS, HUGH PHELPS, MAGGIE F.12 Apr 1899PulaskiKY

PHELPS, ALVIN BRAY, DORATHULA22 Nov 1891PulaskiKY

PHELPS, BASIL D. MEECE, MARTHA E.25 Apr 1895PulaskiKY

PHELPS, CHARLES HOGUE, CORA25 Jan 1900PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

PHELPS, CHARLES IRVINE, IDA13 Jan 1900PulaskiKY

PHELPS, C. W. CLINE, SARAH M.14 Dec 1890PulaskiKY

HELPS, EDWIN S. KEYES, LIDA04 Jul 1892PulaskiKY

PHELPS, EDWIN S. COX, HESTER23 Jun 1897PulaskiKY

PHELPS, FELIX M. WESLEY, ANNA I.16 Feb 1893PulaskiKY

PHELPS, GEORGE TAYLOR, DESDA11 Jan 1900PulaskiKY

PHELPS, GEORGE A. BURKHART, ELLEN13 Dec 1900PulaskiKY

PHELPS, HENRY L. HUGHES, LIZZIE F.07 Jun 1898PulaskiKY

PHELPS, ISAACS NELL, MARGARET08 Feb 1894PulaskiKY

HELPS, JAMES F. BALES, DORA A.19 Oct 1899PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

PHELPS, JAMES M. ATKERSON, PERMELIA A.23 Dec 1888PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JOHN A. BRADLEY, SABRAH24 Mar 1889PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JEREMIAH YOUNG, SARAH12 Jan 1890PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JOHN A. BULLOCK, MIRANDA C.21 Apr 1898PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JOHNATHAN LAWSON, FLORENCE17 Jan 1889PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JOHN F. SEARS, MARY E.25 Jan 1888PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JOHN F. MEECE, SARAH C.26 Jul 1894PulaskiKY

PHELPS, LEANDER STOGSDILL, RUTHA28 Mar 1889PulaskiKY

PHELPS, LEANDER HARGIS, ELIZA31 May 1896PulaskiKY

PHELPS, LORENZO P. BRAY, NANCY E.04 Jun 1889PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

PHELPS, MAT A. ERP, VICTORIA26 Jan 1893PulaskiKY

PHELPS, NEWTON MEECE, LULA J.03 Dec 1896PulaskiKY

PHELPS, REUBEN GOFF, LOUISA30 Oct 1890PulaskiKY

PHELPS, SHEDRICH WESLEY, MARY F.16 Apr 1889PulaskiKY

PHELPS, WILLIAM F. STOGSDILL, MARTHA03 Mar 1889PulaskiKY

PHELPS, WILLIAM F. ERP, BALZORA06 Oct 1898PulaskiKY

PHELPS, TUNSTAL Q. LAY, MARTHA J.29 Dec 1895PulaskiKY

PHELPS, WILLIA M. HOLTON, PHOEBE01 Dec 1889PulaskiKY

PHELPS, WILLIAM R. SIDEBOTTOM, ADDIE23 Dec 1896PulaskiKY

PING, JAMES O. PHELPS, ISABELLA31 Jan 1895PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

RANDALL, ANDREW E. PHELPS, TIRILDA06 Oct 1898PulaskiKY

RICHARDSON, CALVIN F. PHELPS, BETHADA18 Sep1887PulaskiKY

RICHARDSON, HARIM PHELPS, LUCY J.24 Jan 1895PulaskiKY

RICHARDSON, JOE D. PHELPS, MARY JANE10 Dec 1893PulaskiKY

SEARS, ALFRED M. PHELPS, MAHALA J.10 Mar 1887PulaskiKY

SILVERS, EDWARD PHELPS, KATE17 Nov 1898PulaskiKY

SNELL, CHARLES PHELPS, LIZZIE07 Aug 1898PulaskiKY

STOGSDILL, HARDIN M. PHELPS, MARY R.16 Dec 1891PulaskiKY

STOGSDILL, JOHN D. PHELPS, IDA H.12 May 1895PulaskiKY

TUCKER, CHARLES PHELPS, ADDIE19 Nov 1890PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

WELBORN, HARVEY PHELPS, ZORA A.26 Mar 1896PulaskiKY

WHITIS, EVAN PHELPS, AMANDA F.06 Dec 1894PulaskiKY

BARRON, MATHIAS J. PHELPS, DIADEMA29 Nov 1854PulaskiKY

GOFF, BOLING PHELPS, ELIZABETH25 May 1854PulaskiKY

KEY, ALBERT PHELPS, ANNA30 Jul 1863PulaskiKY

LAY, JAMES PHELPS, MARTHA ANN01 Sep 1856PulaskiKY

LAY, JOHN PHELPS, TILDY JANE20 Aug 1863PulaskiKY

McKINNEY, CHARLES H. PHELPS, MANDA09 Sep 1858PulaskiKY

McKINNEY, HIRAM PHELPS, MARTHA28 Sep 1853PulaskiKY

McKINNEY, JOHN G. PHELPS, ELIZABETH12 Oct 1856PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

PHELPS, ANDREW J. GASTINEAU, ELIZABETH27 Nov 1856PulaskiKY

PHELPS, ASA G. McALISTER, NANCY20 Dec 1851PulaskiKY

PHELPS, CALVIN BLACK, ELIZABETH18 Jan 1855PulaskiKY

PHELPS, ENOCH HUGHES, MARY JANE08 Sep 1861PulaskiKY

PHELPS, FONTAINE LEWIS, CICILY JANE11 Aug 1856PulaskiKY

PHELPS, GEORGE A. CLONCH, POLLY ANN09 Feb 1854PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JAMES H. DYE, SARAH10 Jan 1856PulaskiKY

PHELPS, JOHN M. GOFF, SARAH10 May 1854PulaskiKY

PHELPS, LORENZO CALLAHAN, SUSAN11 May 1855PulaskiKY

PHELPS, NATHAN JACKSON, SARAH10 May 1852PulaskiKY

NameSpouseMarriage DateCountyState

PHELPS, WILLIAM RILEYDENHAM, ELIZABETH J.21 Mar 1860PulaskiKY

PHELPS, TIMOTHY JONES, LUVERNA16 Dec 1860PulaskiKY

PHELPS, WILLIS G. WESLEY, KATHARINE22 Dec 1859PulaskiKY

PHELPS, WILLIAM S. ERP, RACHEL23 Jan 1854PulaskiKY

VAUGHT, JOSEPH PHELPS, MAHALA02 Mar 1853PulaskiKY

(REVISION) Locating Three John Phelps Lines of Central VA & Others Who Remained

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(REVISION, map revised 11/3/06) Locating Three John Phelps Lines of Central VA & Others Who Remained

(Map is revised and text includes property detail of John of Goochland family) Double click on the map for an enlargement.

This article and the map are posted at the Phelps Family Research blog . I encourage you to take a look at the articles posted there by clicking this blogspot.

Information for this article was supplied by Mary Galgan and JC Rogers for the VA Phelps; and Mark Phelps of Snow Camp, NC and Doug Phelps for comments on the Caswell, NC and Halifax Co, VA Phelps. Please send corrections to Doug Phelps.

The early John Phelps lines in central VA were: John Phelps d. 1772 Bedford; John Phelps d. 1794 Halifax; John Phelps d 1747 Goochland. Another major Phelps line was Thomas Phelps d 1751 Albemarle.

As JC commented, "The easiest way to distinguish the Johns is to use land records." As you look at the VA map showing the approximate locations of these lines, you may want to see the VA county formation maps over the years clicking this http://www.myvirginiagenealogy.com/va_maps/va_cf.htm

John of Goochland (d. 1747) was located in present Cumberland Co. His lands and patents are centralized in that area. One can follow his sons William and Samuel into the Lunenburg records.

The John of Bedford d. 1772 first appears in Henrico records (present Buckingham Co.) patenting in 1725. In 1736 he sold to Thomas Sr. He sold the balance of his lands in that area to the Babers. He can be proven to be the same John as we refer to as John of Bedford due to his wife's mark on land transactions from Goochland records as well as Brunswick. His area of Bedford was first Brunswick Co. at his arrival and then became Lunenburg from 1746-1754. It is possible that this John was either the father, cousin or brother of Thomas of Albemarle. This John had a son, John, d. 1801.

The John of Halifax d. 1794 had sons John and William who lived in Halifax and Pittsylvania counties.

Also, to the knowledge of JC - confirmed by others - no documentation exists to date to show that any of these different lines even knew the other people existed except for records concerning the John of Bedford and Thomas lines.

Further, even though the James Phelps line of Caswell, NC lived rather close to the John Phelps line of Halifax, no records found to date show any relationship between the two lines. Yet the will of James included a mysterious witness, John Phelps.

Property trail of John of Goochland and sons
by Mary Galgan

I have a document proving my John of Goochland owned land on the North side of the James River in Henrico Co., VA prior to 1732. From what I understand, his land was in present day City of Richmond, very near the Capital. I haven't found documentation for how or when he acquired this land, but below you will see the proof of him selling it:

1732 - 5 Feb 1732 - John FELPS of St. James Parish, Goochland Co., sells to James COCKE of County and Parish of Henrico, for 4000 lbs. tobacoo, land on the north side of Shockoe Creek at the mouth of Bacon branch, 60 acres, which the said FELPS bought of Thomas WOOD, Jr. Wit.: Wm. COCKE, Joseph BINGLEY. Signed: John (F) FELPS, recorded 1st Monday in Feb. 1732. Margaret, wife of John, relinquished her dower right. Henrico Co., Virginia Deeds 1706-1737, p. 381.
*Note - 1735 - James COCK of Henrico Co., Gent., 88 acres in said County on N. side of James River & Shockoe Creek, on E side of Cannon's Branch, up W. side of Johnston Branch; adj. Luke SMITH, John GUN, Thomas WOOD, within 39 foot of said COCK's Dwelling House; 1 Aug. 1735, p.99. 10 Shillings. Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Bk. No. 16. Also in 1691 a James COCKE married Mrs. Eliza PLEASANTS, in Henrico Co., VA on Jan. 11th., Capt. Thomas COCKE, surety. Source - MARRIAGES - St. John’s Church, Henrico Co.,Virginia. I wonder if this is the same James COCK. And, James COCKE married Mary, daughter of John PLEASANTS, Quaker, in 1700, Henrico CO., VA. Joseph PLEASANTS married Martha COCKE, on May 15, 1699, in Henrico Co.,Virginia. Same source.

Four and a half months earlier, on 17 Sept. 1731, John purchased his first land (known to me) on the South side of the James River. It was still in Henrico Co., at that time, but later became Goochland, then Cumberland, then Powhatan. (see below)

1731 - Henrico Co. Patent Book 14, p. 340. John PHELPS purchased 800 acres (N.L.) in Henrico Co., VA on the South side of James River, on West side of WATSON's branch. 17 Sept. 1731. 4 lbs. Money. - from Early VA Families. (*N.L. means New Lands.) (see 1732) Also found in Cavaliers and Pioneers, Vol. III, p. 408.

So John started out in Richmond area in 1731.

As for his sons William & Samuel, they moved a lot. Every decade of so.:
1731-1755 in Goochland/Cumberland Co., VA.

1755-1763 in Lunenburg Co., present day Mecklenburg Co. - Boydton. Wm. & Samuel owned the plot of land that the first Courthouse of Mecklenburg County was built on. Also is the site of the Old Boyd Tavern, an Historical Landmark today. (see below)

1763-1768 "my" William was living in Amherst Co., VA while Sam moved back to Cumberland Co. and lived along the Appomattox River. (see 2nd entry below)

1768-1778 William lived in Buckingham Co., VA, present-day Appomattox Co., near or on the James River near Wreck Island Creek. (see below 3rd entry) William moved to Kentucky where his sons were stationed as Rev. War soldiers and never went back to VA.

1778 on Samuel remained in Cumberland and died there in 1790.

1760 - 1 July 1760 - Lunenburg Co. Deed Bk. 6, p.132, 133, 134, 135. William PHELPS of Lunenberg County and the Parish of Cumberland sold 531 acres of land in the afore said County and Parish to John JEFFRIES of the same County and Parish for the consideration of Two hundred and fifty (250) Pounds Current Money. Land on the west side of the Horsepen Branch to the largest fork of the south fork of Allen's Creek meandering down to the mouth of the Horsepen Branch. Signed in the presents of William JONES, Samuel PHELPS, Christopher COLEMAN. On the same day Sarah PHELPS, wife of William PHELPS relinquished her right of Dower.
*Note - On the same day, 1 July 1760, William's brother, Samuel Phelps, sold his 580 acres in Lunenburg Co., VA, located on the south folk of Allen Creek (adjacent to William's) to Richard SWEPSON. In 1764/5 when Mecklenburg County was carved out of Lunenburg County, the meeting concerning that formation was held in the home of Richard SWEPSON on that property on the south folk of Allen's Creek, previously owned by Samuel PHELPS. The first Courthouse of Mecklenburg County was built on his property. Richard SWEPSON sold this property to his son, Richard SWEPSON, Jr., on April 12, 1779. On Sept. 8, 1794 Richard SWEPSON, Jr. sold it to Alexander BOYD and it became the site of the Old Boyd Tavern, an Historical Landmark today.

1763 - 17 Jan. 1763 - Cumberland Co., VA Deed Bk. 3, p.361- from Patrick CORNER, of the county of Buckingham, to Samuel PHELPS, of Cumberland Co. Samuel bought 143 acres with the Plantation, being part of the Patent granted to John WATKINS and bound by the Appomattox River, Richard RANDOLPH's line northeast across MABRY's Branch....... (unclear)... Signed (Marked) by Patrick CORNER and Ellenner CORNER. Witnessed by William WALKER, Susanns TERRY, John WOODSON, Wm. JOHNS. [Copy in file]

1771 - This is a Platt of 378 acres of Land in Buckingham County on the branches of Wreck Island Creek and joining the lines of Christian WHITNEY and Jeremiah WHITNEY (Gent.). Surveyed for William PHELPS, noted as (mulatto), the 21st August 1771. By Henry Bell, Surveyor. Plat Bk., p20. Copy of Plat in file.

All that to say, ...John of Goochland started (so far) in Henrico Co., VA. His sons lived as far south in VA as 10 miles from the NC boarder (which we know was fluid) across the John H. Kerr Reservoir. And they lived as far west as Amherst Co., VA.

The Phelps Family (of Anne Arundel, MD)

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To view these scanned pages go to the Phelps Research Blog Double click these images to enlarge them.

"The Phelps Family", by professional genealogist Robert Barnes, details the early Phelps of Anne Arundel, MD. One of the more important items to the James Phelps line of Caswell, NC is the list of "Unplaced Phelps" beginning on page 371. On page 373 there is a James Phelps in the 1766 All Hallows Parrish listing 1 white male, 1 white female, and 5 white children. This would fit the James Phelps who died in 1786 Caswell Co, NC.

This and a later document, "Further Notes on Phelps" by Louis Giles, never identifies this James Phelps.

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THIS AND THAT GENEALOGY TIPS ON NAMING PATTERNS

2006-10-23T14:16:00.000-05:00

Marilyn Phelps found this super site all about naming patterns at this web site

Included sections are:

NAMING PRACTICES
KINSHIP TERMS
THE OLD JONES NAMING PATTERN
19TH CENTURY NAMING PATTERNS
Dutch, German, and Scotch Naming patterns
FEMALE and Male GIVEN NAMES & NICKNAMES:

Last Will of John Phelps-1798 Madison Co,Ky.

2006-10-04T18:48:00.000-05:00

Posted By:

Marilyn Phelps

--Thank for Marilyn for making your first post on the Phelps Reasearch Site

LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF JOHN PHELPS, JR. will proven August 7, 1798 in Madison County, Kentucky

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The last will and testament of John Phelps, Senior, dec'd verbelly expres in presents of us, John STAPP, Carey PHELPS and Stephen SALLY, first it is my will and desire that my daughter Nancy PHELPS, Rody PHELPS, & Patsy PHELPS should have as much of my personal estate as the rest of my children whom have come of age have received at their coming of age or marriage 7 likewise my son Cary PHELPS, John PHELPS, Sarah SALLY, Molly, PHELPS, Betsey WILLIS, Tho. PHELPS, Shadrach PHELPS, Magdalin STAPP & Phillip PHELPS all to be made equal one with another out of my personal estate, with what they have already had & the residue of my estate both real and personal to continue in the hands of my wife Mary PHELPS until her death and then to be equally divided amongst the whole of my children & it is my will and desire that the same may be directed by my son Cary PHELPS and Stephen Salley Executors

John STAPP

Stephen SALLE

Carey PHELPS

At a Court held for Madison County on Tuesday the 7th of August 1798. This noncupative will of John PHELPS Sen'r was proved by the oath of John STAPP & Stephen SALLE witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.

Teste;

Will Irvine clerk

Bk. "A" p 178 'ordered at August Court, 1798 directing us John GOGGIN, James Alberson and John Seclf(?) to appraise personal property of estate of John Phelps, dec'd ---stock, tools, household goods, etc. Returned this 2 October 1798.'

(Have not found copy of inventory)

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Following is the Settlement of said John PHELPS, Senior dated December 4, 1814.

First line cut off and hard to decipher........................

Book "B" p 116

Agreeable to an order of the ???? County Court of Madison County to us directly setle with Stephen SALLE and adjust the account of said sale as Executor to the estate of John PHELPS dec'd after being first sworn to make the following report

Stephen SALLE

1814

To the Estate of John Phillips ???

To the amount of sale bill rendered ............. $223.

To cash ....................................................................................................... 14

$237

Contra

By part of an execution paid John Phelps, Jr. per rec't assine of brigten and ???? 21.66 2/3

By cash paid Mrs. Heard for attending to Mary Phelps during cancer......... .........20.00

By cash paid Dr. Bainbridge for medical services...............................................28.00

By cash paid Crier at the sale.......................................................................... 2.00

By cash paid Dr. Ridgely for Medical Services................................................... 3.00

Cash 3 clerks for bills..................................................................4.00

1 do ___,,_____do.......................................................................1.00

Cash rec'd Sheriff for land tax........................................................1.00

By cash paid for ordering Land sold for direct? tax.................................................0.00

By cash registry fee bills.....................................................................................2.00

By cash Bullites clerks for bills.(??)....................................................................15.00

By cash Sherriffs Commision on the same............................................................0.00

By cash for Polly Phelps burying clothing.............................................................2.00

Paid for pailing in graves......................................................................................6.00

By his ervices rendered.......................................................................................3.00

By paid 3 Commissioners of Settlements..............................................................4.00

By Jacob Coonez rec it being the balance of his wife's legacy of 20 pounds..............6.00

By Drury Willis, rec for $7.67 being the balance of his wifes legacy of 20 pounds.......7.67

By Thomas Phelps rec't fir the balance of his legacy of 20 pounds..........................11.00

By Jas Allegry rec't for the balance of his wife's legacy of 20 pounds....................... 2.00

By a balance of his wife Sarah Sallys legacy of 20 pounds..........2 or 20 ??..............2.00

Given with our hands this 4th day of December 1814

Nicholas Hawkins

Jas Stone

Can't read this one.

Phelps Family of Kentucky by Irene & M.D. Phelps

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My father, Wilford Latham Phelps, received a copy of the following research by Irene K. Phelps and M. D. Phelps, from Tamra Phelps of Somerset, Kentucky, in September, 2006. There has been much discussion about this "Pamphlet" among Phelps researchers lately. In the interest of sharing family, I am making this available as a text file for all to see.

Posted by,
Latham "Mark" Phelps --October 2006

THE PHELPS FAMILY IN KENTUCKY
By: Irene K. Phelps and M. D. Phelps Jr.
28 Walnut St.
Milton, Massachussets 02186

JOHN Phelps was the name of our Revolutionary War ancestor. He was born about: 1730 in Goochland (later Albermarle) County, Virginia. He was at Boonesborough with Daniel Boone and did his Revolutionary War service as Defender of the Fort. The principal battle here was the Great Siege of 1778 and JOHN and Thomas Phelps,* Junior were both involved in this, as were many of Thomas' children (more about this later).

Shadrach Phelps our great great grandfather, was born Feb. 3, 1775. He was probably still in Virginia during .:the Great Siege, but came to Boonesborough with his father and mother at a later date. He was still at Boonesborough (with Daniel Boone) in 1795. We know this because in December of that year he witnessed a deed from Daniel Boon (sic) to Catrine Sherly for 409 acres of land in Madison County. His father, JOHN (who was also at Boonesborough with Daniel Boone), died some time before 1798, when his will was accepted for probate in Madison County Court.

JOHN and his brother Thomas, Jr. and their 'wives and children were actively involved in the settlement and early defense of the area that was later to become the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Shadrach (son of JOHN Phelps) was married by Rev. Thomas I. Chilton on 8 Dec 1796 to Celia Stapp (Seley Step).They settled in what is now Russell County,, Kentucky, in about 1798. They built their first log cabin a few feet from an excellent "boiling spring" which has been tapped and still furnishes pure drinking water, almost two hundred years later, to many of their decendents. Their farm, "on the waters of Greasy Creek", is still home to their great great grandson, Carl Phelps (my Brother); his wife., Elizabeth Phelps, his son John Phelps, his daughter-in-law Judy Phelps and their son John (John Carl) Phelps.

Now known as "Phelps Acres"., the farm on Greasy Creek,originally in Greene (later Green) County, was in Adair County when Adair was formed from Green in 1801. It has been part of Russell County since 1825, when Russell was cut from Adair, Cumberland and Wayne Counties. (Thomas Lincoln, father of the 16th
President, was appointed Constable of Cumberland County in 1802 and again in 1804). Phelps Acres is in the Esto Community, near Jamestown. Esto Postoffice was established Aug. 1, 1877, and discontinued Oct. 2, 1935.

Celia and Shadrach had six children (Elizabeth, Polly, John M.(OurGreat Grandfather), Martha, Joseph Shadrach and William P.(Patteson?). Celia was born Oct. 29, 1772 and died April 29, 1855. Shadrach was born Feb. 3, 1775 and died Sept. 21, 1855. They are buried, (along with three of their children and many other decendents and close neighbors) in the Phelps Family Cemetery. The Cemetery is located on the farm, on high ground some three hundred yards northeast of the boiling spring and the site of their original log cabin. Also near the site of the present farmhouse, built in the late?eighteen hundreds by their grandson John Quincy Phelps (our grandfather).

Shadrach's grandfather, Thomas Phelps, Sr. died in Albermarle County, Virginia in 1751. He and his wife Elizabeth (Patteson) Phelps had at least five children. One son, William Phelps, preceded them in death in 1749. His will is recorded in Will Book I, Page 1 (Albermarle County Court Records). There were two other sons, Thomas Phelps, Jr. and JOHN Phelps (our John, Shadrach's father) and two daughters; Mary Phelps Patteson and Mrs.Richard (Mildred Phelps) Given. In his 1751 Will (preserved in Will Book Is, page 20) Thomas Phelps, Sr. left to Thomas, Jr. three hundred acres of land, on Bridle Creek "Joining' his own lines". To his son JOHN Phelps (Shadrach's father and our immediate ancestor) he left "The Plantation whereon I now dwell and the Islan (sic) I now tend in'' and three hundred acres of land on both sides of Hunt's Creek "JOINING NICHOLAS' LINE".

He bequethed unto his loving daughter Mary Patteson one shilling sterling (i.e. he "cut her off with a shilling"). However, he left to her daughter Joyce Patteson and her son Peter Patteson "betwixt them both one child's part'. He wished all his personal estate to be equally divided among all his children (except his daughter Mary Patteson), and named as executors of his last will and testament his son Thomas Phelps Jr. and his son-in-law Richard Given. The will was witnessed by John Fearn, Theodoric C. Webb and Chiceley Crisp.

Albermarle County Will Book I Page 20

In the name of God amen I Thomas Phelps of Albermarle County being weak in body but in sound and perfect memory do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form as followeth. Item I give my Soul to God as gave it & my body to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christian like manner as my Executors shall think fit. Item I lend unto my Loving Wife Elizabeth Phelps During her Widowhood all my whole Estate Real and personal Item I Give and Bequeath unto my Loving Son Thomas Phelps Three hundred acres of land Lying on Both sides of Bridle Creek Joining his own Lines to him and his heirs forever. Item I Give and Bequeath unto my loving son John Phelps the Plantation whereon I now Dwell & the Islan I now tend in and three hundred acres of Land on both' sides of' Hunt's Creek Joining
Nicholas' Line to him and his heirs forever Item I Give and Bequeath to my loving Daughter Mary Patteson one Shilling Sterling. Item I Give and Bequeath unto my GrandDaughter Joyce Patteson and my Grandson Peter Patteson Betwixt them both one Childs part. It is my will & Desire that all my Personal Estate shall be Equally Divided among all my Children Except my Daughter Mary Patteson & my Will and Desires that my Estate Shall not be appraised enduring my Wifes time & I do appoint and ordain my Son Thomas Phelps & my Son in Law Richard Givin to be executors of this my last Will and I do by these presents Revoke all other Wills heretofore by me made.

Signed Sealed & Delivered to be his last will and Testament In presence of us

Thomas Phelps (Ss)
John Fearn
Theodoric (his mark) C. Webb
Chicely Crisp

At a Court held for Albermarle County the 14th day of May 1751 This last Will and Testament of Thomas Phelps decd was proved by the Oaths of John Fearn Theodorick Webb & Chicely Crisp the witnesses thereto & ordered to be?recorded & on the motion of Thomas Phelps & Richard Giviu the Executors therein named who made Oath according to Law Certificate is Granted them for obtaining a probat thereof in due Form Giving security on which they with Theoderick Webb and Joseph Thomas their Securities entered Into and acknowledged their Bond accordingly.

Test.
John Nicholas C1k.

Albermarle County Will Book I, p.1

In the name of God amen. I William Phelps being weak in body but in sound and Perfect Memory do make this my last will and Testament In Manner a?ad Form as Followeth. First I give and Bequeth to my Loving Brother in Law William Baber Two hundred acres of Land on Nell Moores Creek of Slate River Joining John Sharps Line to him and his heirs forever on Condition he pay to my Executors hereinAfter named or their order the value of the Rights Surveyors & Secretarys Fees of the same. I give and bequeath to my Loving Father Thomas Phelps and to my loving Brother Thomas Phelps Jun.r all the Rest and residue of my Estate of what nature and kind so ever in trust nevertheless to be Equally Devided by them between my two sons James Phelps and William Phelps and their heirs forever and for no other Intent or Purpose whatever and do ordain and appoint my said Father and Brother to be Executors of this my last Will and do by these Presents' Revoke all other Wills by me heretofore made.

Signed Sealed Published and Declared to be his last will and Testament in Presence of us,
William Cabell
Thomas (his mark) Makdanal,
John Dunken,
John Blackle.
William Phelps S s

Albermarle Cty. May Court MDCCXliX This Writing was produced in Court & by the, oaths of William Cabell & Thomas McDaniel Proved to be the last will and Testament of William Phelps Decd & ordered to be Recorded.

Teste.
Jnot Henning DCSCr.

In the summer of 1984, Irene and I were able to locate the exact site of Thomas Phelps' Plantation south of the James River (called the Fluvanna River in this area before the Revolution). We were unable to find Bridle Creek, but Hunt's Creek of Slate River and Bear Garden Creek still bear the same names. Also "Phelps island" (so designated on an 1818 map of Virginia), while no longer an island, is easily identified. It encompasses nine acres and was surveyed for Thomas Phelps in 1746 by Thomas Turpin. (Thomas Turpin was an uncle, by marriage to Thomas Jefferson.) In July of 1985, we obtained a copy of the original land patent for the Island, dated 1746. Still intact is the Plantation of John Nicholas (See "Nicholas', Line" in Thomas Phelps Will). It is currently known as "Seven Islands Farm". ("Seven Islands" and "Nicholas"' are both identified on the map of Virginia published by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1751).

John Nicholas became County Court Clerk of Albermarle County between 1749 and 1751, and was succeeded by his son, also named John. As Clerk, he knew most of the people in the county and was very helpful in promoting the early political career of his friend Thomas Jefferson. The last will and testament and the inventory of the estate of Thomas Phelps, Sr. are both preserved in Albermarle County Will Book I, inscribed and attested to by "John Nicholas, Clerk". During the Revolution, the Nicholas Plantation was the "breadbasket" of the Continental Army, and was slated for destruction by the British. Execution of this mission was foiled by, a sudden flood tide that prevented fording of the Fluvanna (James) by Tarleton's forces as they marched (fortunately north of the river) to Yorktown. During the Civil War, almost a hundred years later, General Dalghren, was similarly frustrated by flooding of the James. His. primary mission, which he accomplished, was to disable the Kanawha Canal, a vital avenue of supply for the Confederacy. His secondary assignment, was to destroy the Nicholas Plantation., which was again spared because flooding prevented Dalghren's troops (also advancing NORTH of the James) from, fording the river to carry out their mission of destruction.

This area north of the James (opposite Nicholas' Plantation and, the site of Thomas Phelps' Plantation), is still known as BREMO. The highway bridge there; where US-15 crosses the river; is "The John Hartwell Cocke Memorial? Bridge". Cocke was the builder of BREMO MANSION, visible today from the site of Thomas Phelps' Plantation on the other side of the river. "Bremo" was designed, in part, by Thomas Jefferson, who was Cocke's friend. While not as elaborate as Jefferson's Monticello, it is an excellent example of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century plantation architecture of Virginia.

We have found no direct connection between Thomas Phelps and John Hartwell Cocke or Thomas Jefferson. However, during the first day of Court in the new County of Albermarle (February 28, 1744), while Peter Jefferson . (Thomas father) , and Joshua Fry were busy swearing each other in as officials of the new County, Thomas Phelps was named as one of the appraisers of the estate of Wentworth Webb, deceased. As will be pointed out later, Wentworth Webb was witness to deed from John Phelps (Shadrach's Great Grandfather) and Mary, his wife, dated 1736, to Thomas Phelps. This was for two hundred fifty acres of land on "Rockie Branch" (now known as "Rocky Creek"). Rocky Creek empties into Slate River just upstream from Hunt's Creek. We also have a copy of a land patent, dated 1725, in which John Phelphs Acquired, from King George (later known as George I), 1OO acres of "New Land" in Henrico County "on the south side of the Fluvanna (James) River "at the mouth of Bear Garden Creek". (Land Patent Book #12, p. 406). The listed purchase price was ten shillings .

Bear Garden Creek empties into the James east of the mouth of Slate River and also eastward from "Phelps Island", acquired by Thomas Phelps in 1746. This area, south of the James and on the waters of Bear Garden Creek, Hunt's Creek, Slate River and the phantom "Brydle Creek" (the name no longer exists) was settled. by John Phelps (Phelphs) in 1725. This John Phelps is thought to be the father of Thomas Phelps, Sr.; the grandfather of JOHN Phelps (our John) and., as mentioned above, The Great Grandfather of Shadrach Phelps. This "Phelps" area south of the Fluvanna (James), was part of Henrico County in 1725. Later it was part of Goochland County (when John and Mary Phelps deeded laud here to Thomas Phelps (1736; deed witnessed by Wentworth Webb). In 1744, it became part of Albermarle County and in 1761, it was in Buckingham County, when Buckingham was cut from Albermarle. William Phelps, Thomas' son and brother to Thomas, Jr. and JOHN (our John), received 400 acres of land "on the East Branch of Bear Garden Creek" June 5, 1746.

We have as yet., found no connection between Thomas Phelps of Albermarle County (died 1751) and the "Thomas Phelps, Artisan" listed by Captain John Smith as a member of the "Second Supply" of immigrants to James Towne, arriving in 1608. It was the opinion of the late Dr. Ransom B. True, Director of Historical Research for THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VIRGINIA ANTIQUITIES (APVA), that this Thomas Phelps, the first Phelps known to have arrived in America, probably perished during the "starving time" (1609-1610). In any event there is no record of his marrying or having decendents, and there is no record of any connection with the Thomas Phelps whose will was proved in Albermarle County in 1751.

Speculation can be disastrous, but it is interesting to note that Sir Edward Phelips, builder of Montacute House in the County of Somerset, Speaker of the House of Commons and prosecuter of Guy Fawkes, was the youngest son of Thomas Phelips, who was the son of John Phelips. Even more interesting is the fact that Sir Edward Phelips: `Master of the Rolls" was one of the investors in The Virginia Company of London. "The Virginia Company of London" consisted of a group of "Adventurers", who, by subscribing 12 Pounds 10 Shillings each, subsidized the initial, voyage to James Towne in 1606 and provided all financial support to the Colony until control was assumed by the Crown in 1624.

Speculation aside, we know that Thomas Phelps, Artisan, arrived with the Second Supply in 1608. Many of the 26 "'Gentlemen" in this Supply were accompanied by sons, nephews or cousins that were designated as "Laborers". A son, brother or nephew of Sir Edward Phelips, Adventurer, could well have been listed by Captain Smith as an Artisan,, since this ?social class ?included Yoemen and Merchants and laborers with special skills. Others listed among the 200 persons in this "Supply" were Mistresse Forest and Anne Burras "her maide" (who later contracted the first marriage in English America) and "8 Dutchmen and Poles". We don't know the names of the Dutchmen, But the 5 Poles are listed on a bronze plaque at Jamestown Village as (1) Michal Lowicki (2) Zbigniew Stefanski, (3) Jan Bogdan (4) Jan Mata and (5) Stanislaw Sadowski. With characteristic incongruity "Michaelle Lowicke" is also listed as one of the 26 "Gentlemen" arriving I Oct 1608 on the same British Sailer as the others, the "MARY AND MARGARET"., The aforementioned plaque was donated in 1958 (commemorating the 350th anniversary of the event) by THE POLISH FALCONS OF AMERICA.

In the summer of 1985, Irene and I spent a week in the Village of Montacute. We spent several days exploring Moutacute House (Sir Edward Phelips' historic Elizabethan mansion "of glowing Hamstone", completed in 1599). We climbed the "steep hill' for which Montacute("monsacutus") was named., We stayed at "The Kings Arms Hotel" on Bishipton Street, where we learned from the DOMESDAY BOOK that the village of Montacute, then known as BISHIPSTONE, was a going concern for centuries before the arrival, in 1066, of William the Conqueror. his half brother, the Count de Mortain, William gave the Village of Bishopstone and other properties in the area, including "Steep Hill" (Mons Acutus) whereon the Count built his castle,''naming it MONTACUTE. We found no trace of the castle, but the site is marked by a FOLLY TOWER, erected in 1760. We also had a few pints in THE PHELIPS ARMS, the village pub,, and had dinner at The Milk House Restaurant. Some of the buildings' date back to the eighth and ninth century (and probably farther).

Assuming that Thomas Phelps 'of Albermarle County (died 1751) lived out his Biblical fourscore years and ten (as have most of his decendents), he must have been born about, 1690-1710. He purchased land from his father, John Phelps and his mother Mary Phelps, in what was then Goochland County, in 1736. The deed, dated March 15, 1736, from John Phelps and Mary (??Burgess) Phelps, his wife, to Thomas Phelps, is preserved in Goochland County Will Book 1, witnessed by Arthur Hopkins, David Duncan and Wentworth (his X mark) Webb. Wentworth Webb (brother of Theodorick C. Webb, witness to the Will of Thomas Phelps, Sr.), had died prior to the first day of Court in the new County of Albermarle(Feb. 28, 1744) and one of those named on that date as assessors of the estate of Wentworth Webb, deceased, was Thomas Phelps.

Robert Calvin Phelps-Son of Isham Phelps

2006-10-02T05:08:00.000-05:00

The above photos are: Top Left--Robert Calvin Phelps (1830-1884) and his wife Anne Foster Phelps. Top Right--Ollie and Lula Phelps, Daughters of Robert and Anne.

Bottom Right--The family of Linzey Green Phelps, Son of Robert and Anne. Linzey Green Phelps (1870-1946) is at the far left in the back row. Front Row-L to R-Helen Marie Talley Phelps (2nd wife of Linzey Green Phelps),--Lee G.-- Robert Calvin.
Back Row-L to R--Linzey--Emmie--Elwood--Mary Leigh. Picture taken August 27th, 1939.

Robert Calvin Phelps (1830-1884) was the son of Isham Phelps, grandson of Reuben Phelps and great-grandson of James Phelps.

Posted By: Latham "Mark" Phelps

Map of Phelps in Caswell, Person & Virginia

2006-10-01T09:33:00.000-05:00

A map showing the locations of James Phelps and his Sons and Grandsons, not including Larking, Obediah and Ambrose who went to Pulaski Co, Ky. The Ambrose shown on the Map is the Son of Thomas Phelps Sr. In addition Thomas Phelps Sr.'s Son, James A. Phelps although not listed on the map, lived in the same area in Person Co. as Thomas Phelps Sr.

There are 2 pointers for Thomas Phelps Sr., as he first owned land directly adjacent to his father James in Caswell County, before moving to Person Co. around 1826. In 1831 and 1832 he sold his Caswell Co. land to his nephew, Isham Phelps, son of Thomas' brother Reuben Phelps. Reuben moved to Halifax Co., Va. and remained there until his death. Isham moved to Caswell County from Halifax Co., Va., after purchasing the property from his uncle Thomas Sr. and lived there till his death.

Thomas Phelps Sr.'s sons all lived in the same area of Person Co., although Ambrose lived just over the Caswell Co. line. His sons John, Hiram, Ambrose, Thomas H., Richard and James A Phelps all lived and died in this area with the exception of Hiram, who moved to Blount Co., Tn.

My father, Wilford Latham Phelps, was born in a log cabin in 1928 on the same property that was the farm of Thomas H. Phelps, Son of Thomas Sr. and Grandson of James Phelps.

"Click" on the map to enlarge it, then you may "Click" on the enlarged map to enlarge it further

Posted By,

Latham "Mark" Phelps-- (Son of Wilford Latham Phelps, of Log Cabin Fame)

NC Phelps - Rev War Bounty Land Grants

2006-09-14T09:57:00.000-05:00

As reported by Margaret Swanson, Phelps researcher

REVOLUTIONARY WAR BOUNTY LAND GRANTS Awarded by State Governments,
Lloyd DeWitt Backstruck, Baltimore: GPC Co., Inc. 1996

p. 417 [all Phelps awards from southern states-none from northern
states] These awards represent militia service -not continental army-mps

Phelps, Benjamin. Md. Private. _____. 50 acres.
Phelps, David, Ga. Sergeant. 20 Feb 1784. 250 acres.
Phelps, Garrett. N.C. Private. 20 Oct. 1787. 640 acres to heirs.
Phelps, George. Va. Private. 23 Jun. 1783. 200 acres.
Phelps, James. N.C. Fifer. 2 Feb. 1784. 1000 acres.
Phelps. Jesse. N.C. Drummer. 22 Dec. 1796. 1000 acres.
Phelps, Josiah. Va-Ind*. Private. 108 acres. [*land granted was in
Indiana-mps]
Phelps, Kedar. N. C. Drummer. 2 Feb 1784. 1000 acres.
Phelps, Stephen. N.C. Private. 30 Sept. 1785. 640 acres to heirs.

Note: Privates received 640 acres.
Non-commissioned officers 1000.
Required two years of service. NC issued land warrants from 1783-1841
in two series.
The first included numbers 1-5312, issued from 1783-1797. located in
military district of Tennessee. Second series of warrants numbered 1
to 1242 issued 1799 to 1841 by NC but Tennessee officials located and
granted these patents. There is more information from the introduction
if anyone is interested.
Most heirs names are unlisted. Land warrants were frequently sold, so
the warrant does not necessarily refer to military service for that
individual.

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Thomas Phelps Sr.'s, Person County, N.C. Lands

2006-08-28T11:18:00.000-05:00

The following is based on research into the location of Thomas Phelps Sr. property in Person County, N.C., After his move from Caswell County, N.C. This will also shed some light on his oldest child, John Phelps, son from 1st wife Mary Pass (named as a grandson in Nathaniel Pass Sr.'s Will), and his two yougest children by his 2nd wife, Mary (Polly) McKissack, Martha Anne Phelps and James A. Phelps

I would like to wholeheartly thank Bruce Whitfield, who owns and lives today at the old homeplace and farm of James A. Phelps. He graciously has shared his knowledge of the old homeplace and the surrounding area, and with great patience has allowed me to use him as a sounding board, to answer numerous questions about his and adjoining properties. Bruce Whitfield purchased the farm from two daughters of James A. Phelps, Pearl Phelps Britt and Jewel Phelps Fuller.

The Photos are Property Plats and Maps showing location of Thomas Phelps Sr. and his descendants locations in Person County, N.C., from 1826 thru 1975.

We begin with Thomas Phelps Sr.'s first recorded deed in Person County, N.C. I am provided only abstracts from most deeds so as not to "bore" the reader with the continously repeated legalese that these old documents contain.

John Crisp to Thomas Phelps with James Terrell as Trustee John Crisp to Thomas
Phelps with James Terrell as Trustee
Person County, North Carolina
Land Deed November 1826
Book H Page 220

(Viz)
One tract or parcel of Land situate lying and being in the said County of Person
on the waters of the Double Creeks of South Hico, containing three hundred acres
and eighty five hundredths of an acre it being the Tract of Land conveyed by the
said John Crisp to the said Phelps by deed bearing even date herewith to which
deed reference is hereby made for a full description of the Tract of Land hereby
intended to be Conveyed.

Thomas Phelps---his mark
James Terrell---{Seal}
John Crisp---{Seal}

Test.
Thompson McKissack
Nicholas Hester

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Alexander Gray to John Phelps and Judith Phelps his wife.

John Phelps, Eldest son of Thomas Phelps Sr. and Mary Pass, married Judith Gray, daughter of Alexander Gray, July 10, 1828 in Person County, North Carolina, with Bondsman and Witness: John Pass (probably maternal uncle of John Phelps).

Person County, North Carolina
Deed Book K--Pages 354-355
April 4th, 1832

For and in consideration of one dollar to me in hand paid by the said John Phelps and his wife Judith---but more especially for the natural love and affection that I the said Alexander Gray doth bear to my daughter Judith Phelps--a certain tract of land---on the Waters of the Double Creeks and bounded as follows:

Beginning at an Ashe where I the said Alexander Gray & Drury Jones corner, thence West along said Jones line to a Maple, thence South to the line of a tract I have given this date to my son Bentley Gray, thence East to Moses Chambers line, thence North to a Black Oak, the beginning of the tract of land I have given to my son Laurence Gray, thence on Open line to the beginning. Containing One Hundred & Seventy-One Acres.

Alexander Gray---{Seal}

Witnesses:
John Douglas
Benjamin M. Davies
Nathaniel Norfleet

This property boundary is refered to the deed from Robert H. Hester to Thomas Phelps Sr. in 1837--- "thence South along said Phelps line twenty four chains and 80 links to a Red Oak Stump, thence East on yet his line forty two chains and fifty links to a White Oak, thence North on Jno. Phelps twenty chains and thirty links to a Maple". This 1847 deed also references---"Beginning at an Ash running thence North Seventeen chains and sixty links along Laurence Gray’s line". Laurence Gray was a son of Alexander Gray and the brother of Judith Gray. Another brother of Judith Gray was Bentley Gray, who witnessed the Marraige Bond of Thomas Phelps Sr. and Mary (Polly) McKissack on July 29, 1845.

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Robert H. Hester to Thomas Phelps Sr.
Person County, North Carolina
Land Deed April 8th 1837
Deed Book N Page 407

For and in consideration of the Sum of One hundred thirty five dollars 62 cents---Confirm unto the said Thomas Phelps a certain tract or parcel of Land, Situate lying and being in the County and State aforesaid on the waters of the Double Creeks of Hyco and bounded as follows.

Beginning at an Ash running thence North Seventeen chains and sixty links along Lawrence Gray’s line to Pointers, thence along the division line which is Robert H. Hester’s line, thence West forty six chains and fifty links to Pointers, Thence up said as it meanders to a White Oak on the West side, thence West on
Elg. Jones line seventeen chains twenty five links to blazed Pointers, thence South along said Phelps line twenty four chains and 80 links to a Red Oak Stump, thence East on yet his line forty two chains and fifty links to a White Oak, thence North on Jno. Phelps twenty chains and thirty links to a Maple, thence East yet his line thirty chains and fifty links to the beginning. Containing by Estimation One hundred Eighty four and ½ acres be the same more or less to have and to hold the aforesaid bargained & sold premises.

Robert H. Hester---{Seal}

Signed Sealed and Delivered
In the presence of:

Nathan Oakley
Wm. Evans
P.M. McMurray

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Robert H. Hester, (1811-1880) married Mary Collins and was a prominent citizen of the Bushy Fork area of Person County, N.C. He was was a son of Nicholas Hester (1786- ) and Elizabeth Hines and a grandson of Robert Hester (ca.1745- ). The Hester's Store area is named for this family.

Person County Heritage Book
Story# 559
ROBERT HESTER

The Hesters; have been in the Person County area since well before the county was formed. Robert Hester, born circa 1745, in addition to his land holdings was a miller. He had eight children of which Nicholas Hester was the line through which the Person County Hesters descended.Nicholas Hester, born in 1786, married Elizabeth Hines in the early eighteen hundreds. He moved from Person County to Caswell County after selling his oldest son, Robert H. Hester, 63 acres of land in Person County for the token sum of one dollar. The Nicholas Hester home place is located in Orange County near the intersection of highway 49 and 86, near the Caswell County line. He was a member of Wheeley's Primitive Baptist Church, having joined in 1824. He was appointed deacon in 1833. Some of Nicholas' personality can be seen in the church minutes which are available. He left the church in 1855 over a minor dispute and remained away for eighteen years. He asked to be restored to full fellowship in 1873.

Robert H. Hester remained in Person County. He was born in 1811. In 1834, at the age of 23 and already a land owner, he married his seventeen year old bride, Mary Collins. He became a successful merchant, farmer and statesman. He was elected as a senator from the county to the State Legislature four times. He later served as a Representative to the same body from 1856 to 1860. Robert Hester was a successful farmer. A measure of his success can be seen in his will. Even after living through the devastation of the Civil War, he was still a man of means at his death on May 17, 1880. Some insight into the man can be seen in a short character sketch written by Alexander A. Foushee in his Reminisencences Letter to the Courier, June 28, 1916:

"Robert H. Hester was a merchant, mill owner and one of our largest farmers and land owners. He was elected to the State Legislature several sessions, though he was not an office seeker. His was a case where the office sought the man and he was never defeated when he consented to accept a nomination, as he had the cor1fidence of the people, and I think, gave entire satisfaction to his constituents as a legislator. He was a Justice of the Peace for many years, a wise counsellor whose advice was often sought by his neighbors when in trouble. He raised a large and sterling family of children. He was a popular, highly esteemed and useful man."

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Thomas Phelps Sr. deeded 147--3/10 Acres to Richard and Thomas H. Phelps

Richard and Thomas H. Phelps were his sons by 1st Wife, Mary Pass). He was now married to Mary (Polly) McKissack and they had daughter Martha Ann Phelps b. June 19, 1846, Martha's brother James A. Phelps was not born until February 20, 1848.

Person County, North Carolina
Deed Book Q--Pages 527-528
November 26, 1847

The sum of Two-Hundred & Seventy-Five dollars to him in hand paid by the said Richard & Thomas H. Phelps---a certain tract or parcel of land on the Waters of Double Creeks--adjoining Hester, Thompson, Jones--one boundary being--Up the Creek as it meanders.

Thomas Phelps---his mark

Witnesses:
Robert H. Hester
G. W. Brown

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In the Will of Thomas Phelps Sr., he leaves 50 Acres to son Richard (son from 1st wife Mary Pass) and the rest of his estate to 2nd wife Mary (Polly) Phelps and their children, Martha Ann Phelps and James A. Phelps. This remaining property in my opinion is the property refered to as the 80-some acres that is mentioned in the Deed of Trust of Mary (Polly)Phelps to Robert H. Hester, the Will of Martha Anne Phelps, The Will of James A. Phelps who left this property to his son Ralph P. Phelps, along with his sister Martha's interest in the property, as she was to have a home and provided for for life.

1880 Census, Person County,North Carolina, Bushy Fork Township

James A. PHELPS Self M Male W 32 NC Farming
Susan PHELPS Wife M Female W 40 NC Keeping House
Allice Y. PHELPS Dau S Female W 7 NC
Emma J. PHELPS Dau S Female W 4 NC
Daisey W. PHELPS Dau S Female W 2 NC

ONLY TWO HOUSEHOLDS AWAY IS JAMES A. PHELPS' MOTHER MARY

Mary PHELPS Self W Female W 75 NC Keeping House
Martha PHELPS Dau S Female W 30 NC
Mary J. PHELPS Dau S Female W 33 NC
Willie J. PHELPS GDau Female W 14 NC At School
Lucy MCKISSACK Sister S Female W 75 NC

James A. Phelps was still married to his 1st wife at this time, Susan C. Malone (b. July 20, 1848--d. February 17, 1890) daughter of Pomfrey Malone and Hettie Malone. His second wife mentioned in his Will was Mary (Mollie) J. Malone (b. June 26, 1857--d. October 2, 1936), daughter of John Malone and Elizabeth Malone.

Based on the close proximity of the two households and the other Wills and land records contained here, I conclude that this was part of the original lands of Thomas Phelps Sr. when he made his move from Caswell County to Person County, N.C. in the 1820's.

The above referenced documents will follow after the Last Will of Thomas Phelps Sr.

Thomas Phelps Sr.-Last Will and Testament
Person County Court June Term 1849
Will Book

I Thomas Phelps of the County of Person and state of North Carolina do make
and publish this my last Will and Testament,hereby revoking all others...

In the first place I desire that all my just debts shall be paid by my
executor as soon as may be convenient after my decease.

I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Phelps the sum of one hundred
dollars to her and her heirs forever.

I will and bequeath to my son Richard A. Phelps fifty acres of land with the improvements to be laid off in
the northwest corner of my land so as to include the dwelling house where the said Richard A. Phelps now resides and to adjoin the tract of land deeded by me to Thomas H. Phelps and Richard A. Phelps to hold to him and his heirs forever

And the rest and and residue of my estate both real and personal, I desire and so will that it shall remain in the possession of my wife Polly Phelps to be used and employed by her under the advice and discretion of my executor, herein after named, for her own support and maintenance and also to enable her to raise, educate, and support, free of charge, my two youngest children--To Wit, Martha Phelps and James Phelps until the shall arrive at lawful ages.

Then my will and desire is that all my property mentioned in this bequest as such first an shall be remaining shall be equally divided between my wife Polly Phelps, and to my two children Martha Phelps and James
Phelps, and in case my wife should marry before my said children shall arrive at the age of twenty one years,Then I direct that the desire above named shall take place immediately.

I hereby nominate and appoint my son Richard Phelps executor of this my last Will and Testament. An Witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this ninth of December 1848.

Thomas Phelps---his mark

In Presence of :
Wm. Whitfield James O. Bradsher

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Mary (Polly) McKissack--(b. Aug. 19 1806 - d. Nov. 17 1892)--2nd Wife of Thomas Phelps Sr., Son of James Phelps, who moved from Caswell County to Person County in the late 1820's.

Person County, North Carolina
Deed Book S--Pages 359-360

Deed of Trust--Mary Phelps indebted to Robert H. Hester & Son and Berdnard Russell, with Robert O. Toryan as surety, March 20th, 1858

Whereas the said Mary Phelps is justly indebted to R. H. Hester & son in the sum of Ninety-Two dollars & sixteen cents due by note and account, also to Berdnard Russell in the sum of Fifty-Five dollars, as security due by note, which said debts due as aforesaid from the said Mary Phelps---In consideration of the sum of One dollar paid to the said Mary Phelps by Robert O. Toryan, the said Mary Phelps hath sold to Robert A. Torian the following named property.

Her lifetime interest in Eighty-Four Acres of land, lying on the Waters of Double Creek, adjoining the lands of R. H. Hester and others, Two Cows & Calves, One Sow and Nine Shoats, One Clock, One Beaureau,
Two Beds & Furniture, One Bay Horse, One Loom. My interest in what tobacco we now have on hand.

That if the said Mary Phelps shall fail or omit to pay and satisfy fully the aforesaid named debts---on or before the Second day of April next---the said Robert A. Torian shall proceed to sell the before named property for ready money, after giving at least ten days notice of the time and place of the sale at three or more public places in the County aforesaid and the proceeds arising from the sale---the said Robert A. Torian shall first apply to the payments of the debts due---and the residue or surplus, if any there should be, after making such payments, the said Robert A. Torian shall pay over to the aforesaid Mary Phelps, her heirs or assigns.

Mary Phelps---{Seal}
R. A. Torian---{Seal}

Witness: Albert Yarborough

Person County, North Carolina
Clerk's Office March 22, 1858

Th Execution of the foregoing Deed in Trust was duly proven before me by the oath of Albert Yarborough, a Subscribing Witness thereto. Let the same be Registered.

Charles Mason--Clerk
By James Wright--Dep. Clk

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Martha A. Phelps -- (b. 19 Jun 1846 - d. 15 Feb 1926)--Last Will and Testament--Daughter of Thomas Phelps Sr. and 2nd Wife, Mary (Polly) McKissack

Person County, North Carolina
Will Book 21 Page 132

North Carolina, Person County. I, Martha A. Phelps, of said state and county, being of sound mind and memory, but considering the uncertainty of my earthly existence, do Make and declare this my last will and testament, hereby revoking any and all other heretofore made by me:

1. My executor, hereinafter named, shall give my body a decent burial, suitable to the wishes of my family and friends, and pay all funeral expenses, together with all my just debts, out of the first money that may come into his hands belonging to my estate.

2. 1 give and devise to my nephew, Ralph P. Phelps, in fee simple all of my interest, right and title in and to the following tract of land in said state and county, Bushy Fork Township, adjoining the lands of the estate of Q.A. Morton on the North, Charlie Vernon on the East, Walter Bradsher on the South, J. A. Phelps on the South also, and the lands of the estate of Q A. Morton on the West, containing 87-1/2 acres, more, or less, the other interest in said tract of land being owned by my brother, Jas. A. Phelps.

3. I give and devise to my niece, Willie J. Pettigrew, wife of J. R. Pettigrew, for the term of her life and no longer, ?the house and lot which own in the Town of Roxboro, N. C., on Morgan Street, said lot having been conveyed to me by W. J. Pettigrew and others by deed dated May 14th, 1912, and registered of Deeds office for Person county in Book 21 page 289, and at the death the said Willie J. Pettigrew said house and lot shall go to Bessie Pettigrew Cushwa, wife of G. J. Cushwa, and John Schaub Pettigrew, children of Willie J. Pettigrew in fee simple, each to have an undivided one?half interest in same.

4. 1 hereby constitute and appoint my nephew, Ralph P. Phelps, executor to this my last will and testament.

In Winess whereof, I the said Martha A. Phelps, do hereunto'my hand and seal this the 11th day of December, 1920.

Martha A. Phelps {Seal}

Witnesses: E. G. Long
G. S. Brooks
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James A. Phelps-- (b. 20 Feb 1848 - d. 31 Mar 1926)-- Last Will and Testament, Son of Thomas Phelps Sr. and 2nd Wife, Mary (Polly) McKissack.

Person County, North Carolina
Will Book 21 Page 183-184

I, James A. Phelps of the aforesaid County and State, being of sound mind and memory, but considering the uncertainty of my earthly existence, do make and declare this my last will and testament:

1. My executrix and executor, hereinafter named, shall give my body a decent burial, suitable to the wishes of my family and friends, and pay all funeral expenses together with all my just debts out of the first money which may come their hands belonging to my estate.

2. 1 give and devise to my beloved wife Mollie J. Phelps for the natural life, and no longer, my tract of land in Bushy Fork Township, Person County, North Carolina, containing two hundred (200) acres more or less being the place where John Clayton now lives, and the dwelling house and lot and the vacant lots owned by me in the Town of Mebane, North Carolina, upon which we now live. I also give to her for her use and enjoyment for the term of her life all of my household and kitchen furniture. But it Is hereby expressly stipulated and provided that my three children, Ralph P. Phelps, Jewel E. M. Phelps and Pearl Phelps Britt, shall have a home with my said wife so long as they may desire to do so.

3. I give and devise in fee to my three children, Ralph P. Phelps, helps and Pearl Phelps Britt, at the expiration of the life estate of my wife Mollie J. Phelps therein, my dwelling house and lot and all my vacant lots in the Town of Mebane, North Carolina, share and share alike.

4. 1 give and devise in fee to my two daughters, Jewel E. M. Phelps Britt, at the expiration of the life estate of my wife Mollie J. Phelps therein, the tract of land in Bushy Fork Township, Person County, North containing 200 acres more or less. I give also to said two daughters all of the personal property mentioned in item 2 hereof given to my wife for the term of her life, or so much thereof as may be remaining at the time of her death.

5. 1 further give and devise in fee to my two daughters, Jewel E. M. Phelps and Pearl Phelps Britt, the one acre tract of land, with three houses thereon, located in Reamstown in the Town of Roxboro, N. C.

6. 1 give and devise in fee to my son, Ralph P. Phelps, the tract of land in Bushy Fork Township, Person County, North Carolina, containing sixty-nine (69) acres, more or less, which I purchased from J. O. Bradsher, and also the tract of land in said township, county and state, containing eighty-eight and one-half (88-1/2) acres, more or less, which is owned equally by my sister, Martha Phelps, and myself. 1 am devising the one-half interest of my said sister in this tract of land for the reason that she has made her home with me for many years, and in consideration of the further fact that I am providing for her a home with my wife as long as she may live. And it is hereby expressly stipulated and provided that my said son.Ralph P. Phelps, shall support and maintain my said sister, Martha Phelps in a comfortable manner as long as she lives.

7. 1 give and devise in fee to my three daughters, Alice Warren, Emma Burch and Daisy Bradsher, my Malone Tract of land, lying and being in Bushy Township, Person County, North Carolina, containing fifty-seven and one half (57-1/2) acres more or less.

8. It is my will that the insurance money to be received at my death under the policy on my life shall be divided equally among my wife and six children, each to receive one seventh.

9. 1 give and devise the residue of my personal property and money after the payment of my debts and the special devises made herein, to my son, Ralph P. Phelps, and my two daughters, Jewel E. M. Phelps and Pearl Phelps Britt, one third to each. I exclude my three daughters, Alice Warren, Emma Burch and Daissy Bradsher from participating in the residue of my personal property and money for the reason that I have already given Nine Hundred ($900.00) Dollars to Alice Warren, One Thousand ($1000.00) Dollars to Emma Burch, and One Thousand ($1000.00) Dollars to Daisy Bradsher.

10. It is my will, and It is hereby expressly provided, that my sister, Martha Phelps, shall have a home with my wife, Mollie J. Phelps, as long as she may live.

11. 1 hereby constitute and appoint my wife, Mollie J. Phelps, executrix, and my son, Ralph P. Phelps, executor to this my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and declaring void any and all wills heretofore made by me, and my said executrix and executor shall not be required to give bond.

In Witness Whereof, I, the said James A. Phelps, do hereunto set my hand and seal, this the 24th day of September, 1925.

J. A. Phelps---{Seal}

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said James A. Phelps to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who, at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other, do subscribe our names as witnesses thereto.

Thomas C. Carter
Joseph H. Hurdle

NORTH CAROLINA
ALAMANCE COUNTY.

I, D. J. Walker, Clerk of the Superior Court in and for the aforesaid County and State do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and accurate copy of the last Will and Testament of James A. Phelps as same is taken from and compared with the original this day duly admitted to probate and filed in this office in accordance with law.

Witness my hand and official seal, done in office at Graham, this April 15, 1926.

D. J. Walker, C.S.C. {Seal}

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James A. Phelps---Land Deeds, Person County, N.C.

December 2nd, 1872
Deed Book CC--Pages 536-537

George A. Broach and wife Mary A. Broach and Calvin Brown and wife Elizaberth Brown----To James A. Phelps, for $256.00, 64 Acres, on the Waters of South Hyco.

Beginning at the Meeting house and on J. O. Bradshers line, Lucy Woods corner, thence running North with J. O Bradsher's corner, in Mary Phelps line, thence West with Mary Phelps line to and old pine stump, James O. Bradsher's corner, thence South with James O. Bradsher's line to James O. Bradsher's corner, thence South with James O. Bradsher's line to the Meeting house line, to the Meeting house road, thence East with the said road to the beginning.

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November 29th, 1883
Deed Book CC--Pages 549--550

J. S. Merritt, Commissioner---To James A. Phelps, for $550.00, 30 Acres

That whereas an exparte petition was brought in the Superior Court of Person County, N.C. by W. A. Jincey?, Guardian for Laura E, Jesse L. and Sally N. Marshall, infants for the purpose of selling a parcel of land hereinafter described and belonging to said infant Wards, who are residents of the State of Arkansas and whereas by virtue of said petition, J. C. Pass, Clerk of the Superior Court of said County and State, did on the first day of September, 1883, order the Sale of said land to be made at the Courthouse to the highest bidder for cash, when and where J. H. Henry become the purchaser as the last and highest bidder at the sum of Five Hundred and Fifty dollars, and said sale has been in all respects confirmed and letter ordered to be made. And whereas said J. H. Henry has assigned and transferred his said bid to James A. Phelps, the party of the second part to this Indenture,--in consideration of the sum of $550.00.

Adjoining the lands of Thomas Broach on the West, Nathaniel Broach on the North, Miss Zilphia Broach on the East, and the lands of the Widow Wm. Marshall on the South. It being the lot of land alloted Harriet A. Marshall in the estate of Richard Broach, Deceased and situated about 2 miles South of Hester's old Store.

J. S. Merritt, Commissioner---{Seal}

Test: J. H. Henry

North Carolina
Person County

The examination of the foregoing deed was this day duly acknowledged before me by J.S. Merritt, Commissioner, The Grantor. Let the deed with this certificate be registered. Witness my hand this January 7th, 1886

John C. Pass---Clerk of Court

Registered January 8th, 1886
F. P. Satterfield--P.R.
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December 29th, 1886
Deed Book EE--Pages 351-352

Elizabeth Malone and Turner Malone---To James A. Phelps, for $350.00 (one hundred and seventy five dollars each), 53 Acres, on the Waters of Hyco.

Adjoining the lands of W. A. Warren, Nathaniel Broach, B.F. Hester and others and known as the Hettie C. Malone Tract--being 2/5 of whole by inheritance Elizabeth Malone and Turner Malone, being lawful heirs of the said Hettie C. Malone

Elizabeth Malone---{Seal}
Turner Malone-----{Seal}

Witnesses: James O. Bradsher
J. S. Coleman

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July 2nd, 1888
Deed Book GG--Pages 549 and 552 ---(Pages 550 and 551 out of sequence concerning other individuals deeds)

J. L. Brooks and wife Martha---To James A. Phelps, for $925.00, 100 Acres

Adjoining the lands of Thomas B. Broach on the South, on the West by Widow Marshall, on the North and East by Calvin Hester and others.
Beginning at a small Dogwood on John Crisp's line, thence West a marked line to a Branch, thence down the said Branch as it meanders to a Sourwood and corner on Marshall's line, thence North his line to a Branch formerly known by the name of Moses Branch, thence East of North with said branch McNeal's line, thence McNeal's line East to a Pine corner, thence South, John Crisp's line to the first station.

J. L. Brooks---{Seal}
M. W. Brooks---{Seal}

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WRITTEN AND TRANSCRIBED BY: Latham Mark Phelps August 2006

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The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage 1614 – 1775

Peter Wilson Coldham, 1988

(This article lists the English Phelps who were sentenced by legal process to be transported to American colonies. This copied list has been restricted to Virginia primarily. Also included are exerpts from several related books.)

INTRODUCTION

Between 1614 and 1775 some 50,000 Englishmen were sentenced by legal process to be transported to the American colonies. With notably few exceptions their names and the record of their trial have survived in public records together with much other information which enables us to plot the story of their unhappy and unwilling passage to America. These records are now combined and condensed in this volume to form the largest single collection of transatlantic passenger lists to be found during the earliest period of emigration.

The bitterness and controversy aroused amongst certain American scholars when the nature and scale of convict transportation to the colonies were first hinted at have been forced to yield to the weight of documentary evidence accumulated mainly during the post-war years. Marion and Jack Kaminkow were the first to publish extensive lists of transported felons taken from British Treasury records, and it was that work which encouraged me to undertake further research to determine the existence and location of other records in this area.' The scale on which transportation was regularly practised became clear as the annals of the Old Bailey were slowly unravelled and matched against the Treasury papers unearthed by the Kaminkows. The first fruits of this labour were published in English Convicts in Colonial America, Volume I (1974) covering Middlesex, and Volume 11 (1976) London.2 In order to present a more comprehensive account, the records of the Assize and Palatinate courts- covering all the counties of England were then studied one by one and a further series of volumes incorporating Vols. I and II. of English Convicts in Colonial America was then published as Bonded Passengers to America (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983). Bound in three volumes, it also included a history of transportation from 1615 to 1775. There remained to be examined, however, the scattered records of over fifty Courts of Quarter Session each having the power to impose sentences of transportation, and that work, which has now been largely accomplished, is included in this one comprehensive volume. To facilitate reference to what has grown into a publication of substantial proportions, the,former arrangement by county has been dropped in favour of a completely° alphabetical listing.

The notes and appendices which follow are intended to summarise the history of English criminal transportation and the nature and location of source material used in compiling this book. However, in view of the volume and diversity of the sources used, any who seek more detailed notes and references are advised to consult those which prefaced volumes in the original series of Bonded Passengers to America.

(Several other pages were not copied)

… In addition, many contracts for the transportation of felons, gaolers' accounts, bonds, and lists relating to transportation are to be found in County Record Offices. Further information about most of the felons sentenced to transportation in London and Middlesex may be found in the printed series of Old Bailey Sessions Papers, copies of which are held in the London Guildhall Library and in the British Library at Bloomsbury.

A summary list of references to Public Record Office documents used in the compilation of this volume will be found in Appendix I (pardons issued up to 1717), Appendix II (shipping and passenger lists), and Appendix III (Assize Court records).

Arrangement of this Book

It will be appreciated that the lists presented in this volume are very highly condensed from original records and are intended principally to show the researcher where to look for further information. Each entry is therefore constructed as follows:

a)Surname and Christian name(s) with aliases where given in original documents.

b) Parish of -ongin. (Where none is shown the original bills of indictment should be consulted.)

c) Occupation or status. (Most often shown' as "labourer" in original documents and therefore not transcribed.)

d) Sentencing court, offence, and month and year of sentence.

e) Month, year, and ship (if known) on which transported.

f) Place, month, and year (if known) landed in America.

g) English county in which sentenced.

[The following includes the list of Phelps from the preceding book with possible added information from Bonded Passengers to America, Vol VI]

Edward Phelps Sentenced to Transportation stealing leather breeches Summer, Transportation Bond Sept 1753, Gloucestershire

Hugh Philips of Lyme Regis, Reprieved for transportation for Barbados Feb 1714, Dorset

John Phelps Sentenced to Transportation, March 1745, Devon

John Phelps Sentenced to Transportation, Dec 1756, Middlesex

Mary Phelps Sentenced to Transportation, Lent 1748, Surrey

Thomas Phelps Sentenced to Transportation stealing at Selwick Lent 1752, Herefordshire

Thomas Phelps Sentenced to Transportation stealing lamb & Reprieved for transportation, 14 years Lent 1775, Berkshire

William Phelps, Rebel Transported 1685

William Phelps Sentenced to Transportation Lent Transportation Bond March 1731 Gloustershire

William Phelps Sentenced to Transportation stealing at Bisley Lent Transportation Bond April 1747 Gloustershire

BONDED PASSENGERS TO AMERICA 1663 - 1775, OXFORD CIRCUIT, Vol VI

[My initial review of this book shows the same Phelps information as above, but grouped by the circuit]

This volume lists the names of those recorded in official documents as having been sentenced or reprieved for transportation to the Americas between 1663 and 1775 by the Assize Courts for the counties of Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire, which together made up the Oxford Circuit. Some few of the earliest settlers in Virginia have also been included where their names appear in Privy Council Registers of the time of James I.

Those sentenced to transportation by the Courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace will not be found in this volume save where their names have found their way into State Papers or County Gaolers' lists. Quarter Sessions records are to be found not in London but in County Record Offices.

The documents of the Oxford Circuit, though much ravaged by neglect and decay, are nevertheless remarkably extensive and comprehensive so that it has proved possible for almost the entire period covered to secure from one category of papers the data which has not survived in another. As with previous volumes in this series, the information printed in the following pages is designed as a means of access to fuller trial records and, with a little more effort, to associated documents related to each individual. Some abbreviated examples are given below.

Thomas Ashby (p.1) petitioned is 1743 (SP 36/60/190-191) that the Captain of the transport ship Samuel on which he was embarked for the colonies in 1741 purchased him for his own service. On a subsequent voyage the petitioner was captured by a Spanish privateer from which he was later exchanged

with a Spanish prisoner and unavoidably brought back to England before the term of his transportation order had expired."He now lived in fear of discovery.';

Elizabsth Crosbv (p.3.) was the subject of an appeal from Joseph Acres, rector of Newbury, and Joseph Standen, vicar of Speen, in March 173436131 /68). They say she was condemned for taking away goods of no great value from the shop of Elizabeth Paradise but that she had previously "behaved herself in so honest and obliging a way to her neighbours and acquaintances as to excite for her and her husband, now almost overcome with grief, a compassionate importunity." A petition which had been made Out on her behalf and signed by many of her friends had, by an unfortunate accident, not been delivered to the Judge at her trial. This appeal fell on deaf ears.

William Orowood (p.8), a bargeman, arranged for appeals to 17e lodged by many residents of Reading and by the bargemaster of Abingdon after he had k been c0nvicted on the evidence of John Vickers of receiving stolen goods. The latter had since made a voluntary confession of his own guilt and had then "absented himself, being suspected of other crimes." The petitioners declared that Orpwood had always supported himself by honest industry and had a wife and five small children dependent upon him. The Circuit Judge, to whom the appeal was referred, submitted a full account of the trial and conceded that witnesses on Orpwood's behalf had given him a good character, though one had sworn that he wanted to arrest Orpwood for debt but had been unable to apprehend him. The Judge concluded that Orpwood was not worthy of mercy.

Notes scattered throughout the Assize records indicate the importance attached to the efficient conduct of the business of transportation as a i`maj°r executive arm of justice. At each session the Court appointed a committee of worthies to superintend the business and to contract with a shipping agent: for the Oxford Circuit those appointed usually included senior ecclesiatics and University dons. Only the rather remote county of Monouth reported any problem, and a note from there recorded in the minutes

further pages not copied]

Also see:

Convict Servants in the American Colonies http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3614090&place=home03

All Things Considered, July 24, 2004 · The William Brown House, an elegant Georgian brick building built in the 1760s, sits on the banks of the South River in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Now a museum, the house is the last visible structure of London Town, an 18th century tobacco port and one of the Atlantic trading sites where thousands of convicts from England entered the colonies to begin their indentured servitude.

In 1718, the British Parliament passed the Transportation Act, under which England began sending its imprisoned convicts to be sold as indentured servants in the American colonies. While the law provoked outrage among many colonists -- Benjamin Franklin equated it to packing up North American rattlesnakes and sending them all to England -- the influx of ex-convicts provided cheap and immediate labor for many planters and merchants. After 1718, approximately 60,000 convicts, dubbed "the King's passengers," were sent from England to America. Ninety percent of them stayed in Maryland and Virginia. Although some returned to England once their servitude was over, many remained and began their new lives in the colonies.

Amateur genealogist Carol Carman is a descendant of one convict servant who worked in Annapolis and stayed in Maryland. Arrested in London, England, for stealing a silk handkerchief worth two shillings, Carman's ancestor was transported to the colonies and sentenced to servitude.

NPR's Brian Naylor spoke with Carman and Dr. Gregory Stiverson, President of the Historic Annapolis Foundation, about London Town and the indentured labor of the American colonies.

Colonial America: Land of Opportunity for white bonded labor?

http://cip.cornell.edu/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate/psu.ph/1129772149/body/pdf

Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 (Clarendon Paperbacks) (Paperback)
by A. Roger Ekirch From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished 50,000 convicts to America--the largest body of immigrants, aside from African slaves, ever sent across the Atlantic--in hopes of restoring social peace at home without posing the threat to traditional freedoms raised by the death penalty or a harsh corrective system. Drawing upon archives in Britain and the United States, Bound for America examines the critical role this punishment played in Britain's criminal justice system. It also assesses the nature of the convict trade, the social origins of the transported felons, and the impact such a large criminal influx had on colonial society.

REVIEW ESSAY

William Pencak, Penn UNIVERSITY-OGONTZ

COLONIAL AMERICA: LAND OF OPPORTUNITY FOR WHITE BONDED LABOR?

BOUND FOR AMERICA: THE TRANSPORTATION OF BRITISH CONVICTS TO THE COLONIES, 1718-1775. By A. Roger Ekirch. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. 277. $45.00.)

"TO SERVE WELL AND FAITHFULLY": LABOR AND INDENTURED SERVANTS IN PENNSYLVANIA, iG82. 1800. By Sharon V. Salinger. (New Rochelle, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987, Pp. xiii, 192. $29.95.)

As Edmund S. Morgan noted in American Slavery, American Freedom (New York: Norton, 1975), economic and political opportunity for white Americans developed along with and in consequence of new and harsher farms of bondage for blacks. These two largely quantitative studies demonstrate that Morgan's thesis can be modified and extended: freedom for some whites (upper- and middle-class) depended, upon harsher farms of bondage far the majority of eighteenth century white immigrants to British North America, if the experiences of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania are typical in this respect. A. Roger Ekirch details how Britain only institutionalized penal transportation in 1718 and sent some 50,000 convicts--80 percent to Maryland and Virginia-by the Revolution. Sharon V. Salinger demonstrates the changing nature of indentured servitude. In late seventeenth century Pennsylvania, predominantly English servants worked about four years for masters in a paternalistic setting and had a goad chance to obtain at least a moderate freehold. By the mid-eighteenth century German and

Scotch-Irish servants worked for four to seven years for English masters and once freed frequently became "objects of charity" or were forced to reindenture themselves. Servitude shifted from a mostly rural to an urban institution as Philadelphia merchants and artisans increased their wealth using bound labor and as the gap between the classes widened. Ekirch and Salinger thus criticize the notion of provincial America as a land of opportunity, a land-rich, labor-poor society where servants commanded premium wages and, after their initial bondage, could join society as equals. Instead, they confirm the image stressed in recent work by James Henretta and Gary Nash of a land of increasing inequality as the Revolution approached.

Both Ekirch and Salinger have undertaken prodigious research. If Ekirch has ranged wider-in British as well as Maryland and Virginia sources-Salinger has probed deeper-into the tax, poor relief, and other records of Pennsylvania. Both have combed newspapers for descriptions of runaways and quantified wherever possible. Ekirch's book is somewhat better written: there are fewer lengthy footnotes and several personal vignettes of convicts which grace his text, But both authors do all that could be reasonably expected with the data, given the obvious limitations of human energy.

Ekirch uses both his own research and the superb recent and voluminous literature on crime and society in eighteenth century England to demolish some long-held stereotypes about convict transports. They were not petty thieves but serious larcenists, for the most part. British justice in fact functioned fairly reasonably, notwithstanding the barbaric statutes, to make the punishment fit the crime. Persons sentenced to transportation rather than death tended to be non-violent, non-repeat offenders. Judges took into account community opinion and the likelihood someone would continue to be a nuisance. Ekirch also nicely shows the ideology behind transportation: Englishmen institutionalized convict servitude abroad because they did not wish to experience visible signs of servitude such as prisons and convict labor at home.

Once the prisoners were out of England, however, concern with justice vanished. The crown contracted with merchants to transport them overseas for a price: some ten percent died on the voyage in the early eighteenth century, in addition to those who perished awaiting shipment. By the 1770s, however, colonial laws against landing diseased convicts and some tolerably humane contractors reduced this rate to two percent. (In the weakest section of her book, Salinger relies on outdated sources and exceptional instances of mortality to argue that about a

quarter of indentured servants, who were generally treated better than convicts, died en route to Pennsylvania.)

Even with large numbers of slaves in the tobacco colonies, Maryland and Virginia proved the best markets for the convicts. They worked as both artisans and field hands. Despite frequent complaints that they were disorderly and rebellious-as were the predominantly young, male servants during the seventeenth century-Ekirch finds little evidence of crime among them. This was neither because work was easy nor because opportunity to rise after servitude was good. Ekirch speculates that small, well-controlled rural communities, absence of tangible goals to steal, and lack of cities to escape to and fence goods accounted for the low crime rate. Convicts did run away in large numbers: many returned to England, where chances of being rediscovered were slim.

Salinger develops a three-stage model to explain the history of indentured servitude in Pennsylvania. The paternal, familial indenture closely linked with apprenticeship developed into a more impersonal, lengthier, cash-for-labor connection over the first century of Pennsylvania's history. Salinger's model of the first two stages is interesting yet not thoroughly convincing. She only has a small group of 196 servants for 1681-1687 to serve as a data base for her first stage. Further, an astonishing number of this group died young-over sixty percent before age forty. Does this statistic argue for paternalism or perhaps an unstructured system given the colony's infancy?

' Salinger's description of the decline of indentured servitude is the most interesting and provocative part of her book, which could (and should) be expanded into an account of labor unrest in early national Philadelphia. Indentured servitude decreased because it became more profitable to hire workers temporarily at low wages instead of indenturing them for long periods. In consequence, autonomous protests by journeymen and laborers occurred with increasing frequency after the Revolution. Salinger is alert to the irony: the freeing of labor left it free to be exploited. She points out another irony: the anti-slavery movement in Pennsylvania led to a temporary increase in the number of indentures-freedom for blacks could mean servitude for whites.

Given the limitations of their data, however, I am basically persuaded by Ekirch's and Salinger's argument. But to make a totally convincing case that America was not a land of opportunity for indentured whites someone, sometime, is going to have to discuss the frontier. Ekirch alludes briefly to hordes of former servants migrating to the backcountry and Carolinas; Salinger does not discuss migration out of Pennsylvania or utilize western Pennsylvania sources. In short, they have shown therewas limited opportunity for former servants in the areas in which they were indentured. It would be unreasonable to ask them to perform for North or South Carolina frontier counties the feats of name-tracing and wealth analysis they have done for the seaboard-assuming the data exist. Nevertheless, until the presence or absence of these people in the west is confirmed, historians will continue to debate the problem of economic mobility in early America.

A list of known southern Phelps immigrants

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A list of known southern Phelps immigrants from the book,

The Phelps Registry: Early Phelps Immigrants to North America

unknown book title, page 1.22-1.29

[Only Southern Phelps have been copied]

(The following is an extraction from the book)

The Phelps individuals who left their homes for life in the New World were undoubtedly courageous. Who were these early Phelps immigrants? Research through thousands of reference books containing ships' passenger lists, genealogical registers, and other official records led to the discovery of the early Phelps immigrants.

In the listing below, you will find the reference book where we located the Phelps immigrant or immigrants. The book's author is given, the title, the publisher, and the year of publication.

Following the reference book listing, you'll find the immigrant's name, their age (if known) at the time of arrival in the New World, the port of entry or area where they first settled, and the page number of the reference book where their name was found. This listing will be invaluable to you as you search for clues to your Phelps family tree. Should an *fnna... appear, the first name is not available or readable. Chapter 5 provides detailed instructions of how and where to write for actual immigration records.

Barnes, Robert W. Gleanings from Maryland Newspapers, 1727-1775. Lutherville, MD: Bettie Carothers, 1976.
Richard arrived in Maryland in 1764. Pg. 46.

Boyer, Carl, 3rd, Editor. Ship Passenger Lists: The South (1538-1825). Newhall, California: the editor, 1979.
Thomas arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Pg. 41.

Brandow, James C, editor. Omitted Chapters - Hotten's Original Lists... Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1982.
Charles arrived in Barbados in 1679. Pg. 209.

Bristol and America: Record of First Settlers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967.
Edward arrived in the New World in 1654. Pg. 39.
John arrived in Jamaica in 1684. Pg. 174.
Mathew arrived in Nevis in 1663. Pg. 107.
Richard arrived in Barbados in 1663. Pg. 154.
Richard arrived in Nevis in 1654. Pg. 88.
Richard arrived in Nevis in 1654. Pg. 89.
Richard arrived in Virginia in 1654. Pg. 46.
Walter arrived in Virginia in 1654. Pg. 73.
William arrived in Barbados in 1663. Pg. 115.
William arrived in Virginia in 1663. Pg. 119.

Clay, Robert Y. "Powhatan County, Virginia, Oaths." The Virginia Genealogist. 27:3 (July-September 1983), pp. 190-196.
John arrived in Powhatan Co., Virginia in 1777. Pg. 195.

Coldham, Peter Wilson. English Convicts in Colonial America. vol 1: Middlesex New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1974-76.
John arrived in the New World in 1757. Pg. 210.

Fothergill, Gerald. Emigrants from England 1773-1776. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1977.
John, age 24, arrived in Maryland in 1774. Pg. 91.

Greer, George Cabell. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1960.
Robert arrived in Virginia in 1639. Pg. 258. Robt arrived in Virginia in 1637. Pg. 258.

Nugent, Nell M. Cavaliers and Pioneers: A Calendar of Virginia Land Grants, 1623-1800. Vo 1:1--6. Richmond, VA: Dietz Printing Co., j 1929-1931. Although vol. 6 ends with the year 1695 no other volumes were published.]
Robt, age na, arrived in Virginia in 1637. Pg. 113.
Robt, age na, arrived in Virginia in 1638.

Nugent, Nell Marion, abstractor. Cavaliers & Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land... Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1969.
Joseph arrived in Virginia in 1666. Pg. 568.
Richd arrived in Virginia in 1664. Pg. 520.
Robert arrived in Virginia in 1639. Pg. 121.
Robt arrived in Virginia in 1637. Pg. 79.

Nugent, Nell Marion. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. Vol. 2: 1666-1695. Indexed by Claudia B. Grundman. Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1977. 609p. '
Susan, age na, arrived in Virginia in 1669. Pg. 67.

Nugent, Nell Marion, abstractor. Cavaliers & Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land... vol 3. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1979.
Roger arrived in Virginia in 1714. Pg. 169.

Sams, Conway Whittle. The Conquest of Virginia: The Second Attempt. vol 2. Norfolk, VA: Keyser-Doherty Printing Corp.
Thomas arrived in Virginia in 1608. Pg. 822.

Skordas, Gust, editor. Early Settlers of MD: Index Names of Immigrants... Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968.
Elizabeth arrived in Maryland in 1680. Pg. 360.
Margaret arrived in Maryland in 1665. Pg. 360.
Rebeccah arrived in Maryland in 1680. Pg. 360.
Walter arrived in Maryland in 1680 with wife and mother and three persons. Pg. 360.
William arrived in Maryland in 1669. Pg. 360.
William arrived in Maryland in 1675. Pg. 360.

Tepper, Michael, editor. Passengers to America: A Consolidation. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977. '
Henry arrived in New England in 1634. Pg. 76.
John, age 24, arrived in Maryland in 1774. Pg. 313.

Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. "Census of Inhabitants." Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James River. Richmond, VA: Hermitage Press, Inc., 1906.
Thomas arrived in Virginia in 1607. Pg. 102.

Coldham. Peter Wilson. Bonded Passengers to America. Baltimore: Gene. Publ. Co. Vol 2. Middlesex ..
John arrived in the New World in 1756. Pg. 210.

Coldham, Peter Wilson. Bonded Passengers to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.
Mary arrived in the New World 1748. Pg. 56.

Coldham, Peter Wilson. Bonded Passengers to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983.
Joseph arrived in the New World in 1745. Pg. 27.

Coldham, Peter Wilson. Bonded Passengers to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983, vol. 6.
Edward arrived in the New World in 1753, pg. 24
Thomas arrived in the New World in 1752 pg. 24
Thomas arrived in the New World in 1775 pg. 24
William arrived in the New World in 1732 pg. 24
Wlliam arrived in the New World in 1747 pg. 24

Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660: A Comprehensive Listing ... Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. 600p.
Edward arrived in the New World in 1657. Pg. 369.
Richard arrived in Virginia in 1658. Pg. 391.
Walter arrived in Virginia in 1660. Pg. 467.

Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants: A Comprehensive Listing... 1661-1699. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990. 894p.
John arrived in Jamaica in 1684. Pg.490
Mathew arrived in Nevis in 1664. Pg.62
Richard arrived in Barbados in 1675. pg239
Richard arrived in Nevis in 1662. Pg 21
Richard arrived in Nevis in 1662. Pg. 22
William arrived in Barbados' in 1666 pg. 91
William arrived in Virginia in 1666 .pg.103
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John arrived in Antigua (Antego) in 1729. Pg. 403.

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Anne Smith of Caswell County, N.C.

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Anne Smith of Caswell County, North Carolina--Grandmother of the Town of Milton, N.C.
By: Latham Mark Phelps

James Phelps daughter Lucy Phelps, married Willis Buckingham Smith in Caswell County, N.C., November 11th, 1794. Willis Buckingham Smith was a descendant of Anne Smith and a prominent Devisee of her Will. Herein follows the story of Anne Smith as we know so far, concluding with a transcription of her Last Will and Testament.

Quoted from Caswell County Historical Association Newsletter VOL.XXVI, Number 2 Pg. 2 April 2003

" Kendall's ABSTRACTS OF WILL BOOKS 1777-1814 gives the Tax List for Richmond District, Caswell County for 1784, a really good listing for the county that was established in 1777 and named for North Carolina's first governor, Richard Caswell. MACE STOKES lists 200 acres on Mill Creek. This gentleman went by many names, making research a memorable experience (like Mary Hicks')

Two years before that this man's grandmother, Mrs. Anne Smith, had written her will Sept. 17, 1783 and grandson Amasa Smith who had been named an executor failed to bring it into Court until January Court 1792. The Caswell County Historical Association was not aware in 1985 when we published the first Heritage Book that Mrs. Smith was also the grandmother of the town of Milton., founded in 1796, oldest in the County. While investigating the 200th anniversary, we discovered that Milton began with the sale of a mill on Country-Line Creek where the Dan River flows by and separates Caswell from Pittsylvania. and Halifax Counties over the line in Virginia. Benjamin Merritt, whose descendants in Person County (cut off from Caswell in 1792) reported in the HERITAGE OF PERSON COUNTY I. "He came down from New York" and secured a Granville Grant of many acres on both sides of the Dan River in two colonies. Benjamin built a mill which he sold to Mrs. Anne Smith ca.1757 with acreage over 50 in the tract, more than enough to start a flourishing frontier town. From Mrs. Smith's will we gather that in addition to the wheat and corn-grinding and rough-sawn lumber production, she also had a grog-shop. This hostess with the mostest had several daughters whom she remembered fondly and a son Willis Buckingham. We do not know if she remembered that her daughter Anne and husband James Reiley had sold her mill to William Thomas, Sr. in 1779. It was listed by one of the Thomas sons in the 1784 Census. She mentioned that she had two mills and two plantations, so we find grandson MACE STOKES, alias Mason Smith, alias Mase/Massie and several other variations, presiding over a cluster of interesting pioneers about whom we have had too little information. Due to the fact that family members were separated into Person County, their records must be searched in both Caswell, Person and Orange in North Carolina and maybe their descendants can report with the Merritts that they have at last found his home tract (in Halifax County, Va., not too far from Milton). A few stray facts about the cluster could. begin with the PASS family who lived near Milton. Over in Person County, a Merritt descendant owns an old Pass house with a Thomas Day mantelpiece. Milton is famed for its antique commercial row today and for the fact that it was the location of Thomas Day of the famed free-black family of cabinet-makers who came to Milton from Warrenton ca.1824 and started a business which remains unique in our state's history. Fortunately, the Day residence and shop are being restored by donations and grants."

James Phelps Land was on the East side of the Country Line Creek in Caswell County just across the Creek from the future Town of Milton, N.C. His property was bordered on the West by the lands of Anne Smith, on the East, by Shadrack Hudson, on the South by Nathaniel Pass Sr. and on the North by the Virginia Line. To the East of Shadrack Hudson were the lands of John Warren, whose daughter Jane married James Phelps' son William. James's son Thomas, married Nathaniel Pass Sr.'s daughter Mary and James Phelps' daughter Lucy married Willis Buckingham Smith, the son or grandson of Anne Smith. Anne Smith acquired her property in the year 1760 from "the Right Honourable John, Earl of Granville by deed bearing date the second day of August in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty & registered in the Registers Office in Caswell County aforesaid in Book E Page( blank)”. This passage is from a Deed from James and Anne Reiley (Anne Smith's daughter and son-in-law) of Caswell County, N.C. to William Thomas Sr. of Pittsylvania County, Va., in 1779 (Caswell Co. Deed Book A--Page 115). Ironically, This Deed was witnessed by my 6th Great-Grandfather Andrew Haddock, as well as by Charles and John Boulton. This property consisted of 50 acres "Beginning at Benjamin Merritt's corner White Oak on the Virginia Line, and on the West side Country Line Creek".

William Thomas Sr. of Pittsylvania County, Va. had a son, Asa Thomas who is widely credited as being the Father of Milton, N.C. Quoted from The Caswell County Historical Association's (CCHA) website. " The town of Milton in northeast Caswell County was incorporated in 1796 as a center for warehousing and inspecting tobacco and flour. It was a natural site with a fine location on the Dan River. The property of Asa Thomas was selected. Because the new town was to have been located near the mill owned by Asa Thomas, it naturally was named Milltown or Milton." This mill was originally built by Benjamin Merrit and later sold to Anne Smith. If Asa Thomas was the Father of Milton, N.C., Then Anne Smith was the Grandmother of the town of Milton as it is situated on the land previously owned by her. Below is the transcription of Ane Smith's Will.

Anne Smith's Last Will and Testament 1783

Caswell County, N.C.
Will Book Page 438

January Court 1792

In the Name of God Amen this seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Three, I Anne Smith of the County of Caswell and State of North Carolina, being sick and weak of body but of perfect Mind and Memory, (thanks be given to God) and calling to mind the Mortality of my body and the uncertainty of this life, do make Ordain Constitute and appoint this my last Will and Testament in the following manner and form:

And first I resign my Soul unto God who gave it me and my body to the dust, to be decently buried by my Executors hereafter mentioned. And as for such wordly Goods as it has Pleased God to bless me with, I dispose of them in the following manner:

Imprimise

I Give and bequeath to my Daughter Margaret Williams five Shillings Sterling and no more.

Item-I Give and bequeath to my Grandson, William Williams, son of William Williams, five Shillings Sterling and no more.

Item- I Give and bequeath to my Grand Daughter, Elizabeth Williams, One Hundred Acres of Land, lying on the State line that Divides Virginia and North Carolina, also a Big Wheel and a little wheel, also one loom, also two Plates, a Dish and one Bason and one Pott, also one Bed and furniture, also One Mare three years Old.

Item- I Give and bequeath to my Grand Daughters, Anne Smith & Keziah Smith, My Negro Wench Amy and her son Adam to be sold when they Anne & Keziah Smith comes of Age and the Money to be equally divided between them , also the Mill that I now Own with fifty Acres of Land where the said Mill stands and to Joyn to Elizabeth Williams land, also two Plates one Dish and one Bason to each of them the said Anne & Keziah Smith.

Item- I Give and bequeath unto Willis Buckingham Smith, the Plantation whereon I now live with two hundred Acres of Land to him and his Heirs forever, also my Negro boy Sam, also my Still that is now on the Plantation where I now live, also one Bed and furniture, also two Plates, also one Dish and one Bason, also two Potts one frying Pan one Dutch Oven, to be Sold after my Decease, and the Money arising from the said Sale to be Divided between Willis Buckingham Smith and Anne Smith and Keziah Smith, also one Bay and Mare four years old, I give and devise to Willis Buckingham Smith.

Item- I Give and bequeath unto my my Grand Daughter Nanney Riley, one Bed and furniture, also my side Saddle, also one Black Mare.

Item- I Give and bequeath unto Lattice Riley, one Gilt Leather Trunk.

Item- I Give and bequeath unto my Grandson Mason Smith, my Case and Bottles, also my Juggs, also all the Plantation Tools, to be Divided between Mason Smith & Willis Buckingham Smith, also I Give unto Mason Smith all my Books. I Give unto Elizabeth Williams one Cow and her Calf and one Sow and her Piggs, also one fatt Hog, also one Ewe and Lamb. All the rest of my Cattle, Sheep and Hoggs I Give unto Mason Smith till Willis Buckingham Smith, Anne Smith & Keziah Smith comes of age, then the said Mason Smith to give to each of them one Cow & Calf, one Ewe and Lamb, also one Sow & Piggs. Also I leave my Crop for the Maintenance of the family, Except Ten Barrels of Corn and four Bushels of Wheat, that I Give unto my Grandaughter Elizabeth Williams.

Item- I Give and bequeath unto Mason Smith, Three hundred and Ten Acres of Land on the upper end of my land whereon he now lives, also five Chairs one Table to be Sold, and the Money to be equally Divided between Willis Buckingham Smith, Anne Smith and Keziah Smith. Also I desire that Willis Buckingham Smith may be put with Mason Smith with all that he has till he comes of age and the said Mason Smith to keep him and all I have left to the said Willis Buckingham Smith till then, and as for the Residue of my Estate, I Will that it be Sold by my Executors and the Money arising from the Sale be applyed in discharging the Debts which may Accrue on the Estate.

And Lastly I constitute and appoint my beloved Grandson Mason Smith, and my trusty friend Archibald Murphey, Executors to this my last Will and Testament and I ho hereby revoke and deny all Other Will or Wills by me made and all Other Legacys and bequeaths. Ratifying and confirming this only to be my last Will and Testament. In Wtness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed my seal the year and day first above written.

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Signed Sealed published pronounced and declared to be the
Last Will and Testament in Presence of us:

George Connally--(Jurat)
Willam Randolph--(Jurat)
Abraham Randel

Caswell County January Court 1792
The Execution of this Will was duly proven in open Court by the Oaths of George Connally and William randolph. Two of the Subscribing Witnesses thereto & on Motion, Ordered to be recorded. At the same time Amasa Smith, one of the within mentioned Executors Quallifyd.

Teste: A. E. Murphey--C.C.

Transcribed By: Latham Mark Phelps--April 2006

James Phelps Estate Inventory 1787

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James Phelps Estate Inventory
Will Book B--Page 175
Caswell County, N.C.

January Court 1787

Inventory of James Phelps Estate, Deceased April 19th 1786.

Money-Fifty three Pounds One Shilling & Six Pence. Bonds-One Hundred and four Pounds.

Two Horse beasts, Eight head of Cattle, Three head of Sheep, Twenty-Six head of Hogs.

Four feather beds, Two Spinning Wheels, One Loom, Two Potts, Three Pewter Plates, One Tinn Pann, Ten Pewter Spoons, One Chest, One Table, Two Water Pails, One Tubb, Four Casks.

Two Hogheads, Two Plough Shoes, Five Weeding Hoes, Two Grubbing Hoes, Two Axes, One Hand Saw, One Drawing Knife, Two pair of Cotton Cards, One Stag, One pair Loom Gairs.

Five Books, One Looking Glass, Three Bee Hives, One Wheat Sive, One Pair of Wedges, Three Bells, One Chair, One Shoe Hammer, One Pair of Nippers.

Book Accounts- Forty-five Shillings & a Pence, Land 292 Acres.

William Phelps--Excecutor

January Court 1787
This Inventory was returned on Oath by William Phelps, Excecutor & Ordered to be Recorded.

Test: A. Murphey--C.C.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Latham Mark Phelps April 2006