When Olive Phelps was born on 23 March 1771, in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, her father, Barrett Phelps, was 48 and her mother, Hannah Bigelow, was 40. She married Nicholas Waite about 1787, in Darien, Genesee, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 27 July 1837, in Farmington, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in West Farmington Cemetery, Farmington Hills, Oakland, Michigan, United States.
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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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