When Silas Phelps was born about 1753, in Turkey Hill, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Elijah Phelps, was 34 and his mother, Esther Kent, was 35. He married Mary Warner on 8 February 1781, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died on 14 January 1815, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in West Side of the Mountain Cemetery, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
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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