When Samuel Truesdale Phelps was born on 10 January 1804, in Plattsburgh, Clinton, New York, United States, his father, Reuben Phelps, was 28 and his mother, Esther Truesdell, was 24. He married Dorcas Carrie Frisbie on 16 July 1827, in Willsboro, Willsboro, Essex, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 21 January 1863, in Au Sable, Clinton, New York, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Clintonville, Clinton, New York, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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