When Burgess Phelps Jr. was born from 1770 to 1779, in United States, his father, Burgess Phelps, was 21 and his mother, Elizabeth Youngs, was 35. He married Jane Rager on 10 December 1800, in Logan, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Logan, Kentucky, United States in 1810. He died from 1800 to 1899.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state. It was the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains
In 1796, the Wilderness Road opened up for wagon use. The route was used by colonial and early settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. It started in Virginia, and went southward to Tennessee and then went north to Kentucky. The main danger of this route was Native American attacks.
Scottish and English (southwestern): variant of Phillips .
History: The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, c. 1630. Five years later they moved to Windsor, CT. George's sixth-generation descendant, Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT philanthropist.
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