1Judith McGhan, Genealogies of Connecticut Families: from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, pp, 294-295 (Jan 1983).
"Mary (Case) Phelps died in Simsbury 10 Sept. 1757, leaving a will dated 13 Aug. 1751, probated 5 Dec. 1757, in which she mentions David (executor); honoured husband Joseph Phelps, late of said Simsbury; daughter Kezia and her daughter Lucy who has nursed Kezia through an illness; witnesses: John Humphrey, John Phelps, Thanks Phelps and Mary Phelps (the two women by mark). As this will is too late to appear in Manwaring, the original has been examined in Hartford.
Joseph Phelps had married first, by early 1689, Mary Collier, daughter of Goodman Joseph and Elizabeth (Sandford) Collier of Hartford, on whom see Frank Farnsworth Starr, Goodwin-Morgan Ancestral Lines (Hartford, 1915), vol. 1, p. 63-70, especially p. 67; N. Grier Parke II, The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and of his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (woodstock, Vt., 1960), p. 260f.; also The American Genealogist, vol. 37, p. 27. Mary (Collier) Phelps died in Simsbury 13 March 1697/8, whereupon Joseph Phelps married secondly, 9 Nov. 1699, Sarah Case, born in Simsbury 20 April 1676, died there 2 May 1704, daughter of John1 and Sarah (Spencer) Case. By his first wife Joseph Phelps had three children: Joseph, Hannah and Mary; by his second, three more; Sarah Damaris and Amos, who in The Phelps Family, is assigned to the third wife Mary and given a birth date about 1708. This is surely too late for he married in Simsbury, 1 July 1723, Sarah Pettibone who died there 8 April 1781 in the 77th year, having had six children. A marriage in 1723 is only fifteen years after the genealogy's guess for his birth year. Moreover, the births of the first five children of Joseph Phelps were all entered together, probably in 1703, and when Amos was born neglected to enter his birth. The most serious objection to assigning him to Mary Case is that though he was still living when she made her will in 1751, she does not mention him (see The Phelps Family, vol. 1, p. 107, 134).
Mary (Case) Phelps' first offspring was
i. KEZIA, illegitimate child by Daniel Eames, bapt. at Hartford First Church 1 March 1695/6; living in 1751, when mentioned in her mother's will with a daughter Lucy when old enough to have nursed Kezia through an illness. What surname Kezia bore, whether Eames, Case, or Phelps, is unknown, and nothing is known of her subsequent history nor that of her daughter Lucy.
By Joseph Phelps she had
ii. JOHN, b. in Simsbury 14 Feb. 1706/7, bapt. by Dudley Woodbridge, 15 Feb. 1706/7; d. 5 Jan. 1712/13.
iii. ELIZABETH, b. in Simsbury 7 April at night, bapt. by Dudley Woodbridge 10 April 1709; living in 1749, but not mentioned in her mother's will in 1751; m. in Simsbury, 28 July 1725, DANIEL HOSKINS. Issue.
iv. (LT.) DAVID, b. in 1710, birth not recorded; living in 1749 and 1751, when mentioned in the wills of both parents; d. in Simsbury 10 Dec. 1760 aet. 50, ill 19 days of smallpox; m. there, 25 April 1731, ABIGAIL PETTEBONE, d. there in 1807, having m. (2), David Strong of Bolton.".
1Judith McGhan, Genealogies of Connecticut Families: from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, pp, 294-295 (Jan 1983).
"Mary (Case) Phelps died in Simsbury 10 Sept. 1757, leaving a will dated 13 Aug. 1751, probated 5 Dec. 1757, in which she mentions David (executor); honoured husband Joseph Phelps, late of said Simsbury; daughter Kezia and her daughter Lucy who has nursed Kezia through an illness; witnesses: John Humphrey, John Phelps, Thanks Phelps and Mary Phelps (the two women by mark). As this will is too late to appear in Manwaring, the original has been examined in Hartford.
Joseph Phelps had married first, by early 1689, Mary Collier, daughter of Goodman Joseph and Elizabeth (Sandford) Collier of Hartford, on whom see Frank Farnsworth Starr, Goodwin-Morgan Ancestral Lines (Hartford, 1915), vol. 1, p. 63-70, especially p. 67; N. Grier Parke II, The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and of his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (woodstock, Vt., 1960), p. 260f.; also The American Genealogist, vol. 37, p. 27. Mary (Collier) Phelps died in Simsbury 13 March 1697/8, whereupon Joseph Phelps married secondly, 9 Nov. 1699, Sarah Case, born in Simsbury 20 April 1676, died there 2 May 1704, daughter of John1 and Sarah (Spencer) Case. By his first wife Joseph Phelps had three children: Joseph, Hannah and Mary; by his second, three more; Sarah Damaris and Amos, who in The Phelps Family, is assigned to the third wife Mary and given a birth date about 1708. This is surely too late for he married in Simsbury, 1 July 1723, Sarah Pettibone who died there 8 April 1781 in the 77th year, having had six children. A marriage in 1723 is only fifteen years after the genealogy's guess for his birth year. Moreover, the births of the first five children of Joseph Phelps were all entered together, probably in 1703, and when Amos was born neglected to enter his birth. The most serious objection to assigning him to Mary Case is that though he was still living when she made her will in 1751, she does not mention him (see The Phelps Family, vol. 1, p. 107, 134).
Mary (Case) Phelps' first offspring was
i. KEZIA, illegitimate child by Daniel Eames, bapt. at Hartford First Church 1 March 1695/6; living in 1751, when mentioned in her mother's will with a daughter Lucy when old enough to have nursed Kezia through an illness. What surname Kezia bore, whether Eames, Case, or Phelps, is unknown, and nothing is known of her subsequent history nor that of her daughter Lucy.
By Joseph Phelps she had
ii. JOHN, b. in Simsbury 14 Feb. 1706/7, bapt. by Dudley Woodbridge, 15 Feb. 1706/7; d. 5 Jan. 1712/13.
iii. ELIZABETH, b. in Simsbury 7 April at night, bapt. by Dudley Woodbridge 10 April 1709; living in 1749, but not mentioned in her mother's will in 1751; m. in Simsbury, 28 July 1725, DANIEL HOSKINS. Issue.
iv. (LT.) DAVID, b. in 1710, birth not recorded; living in 1749 and 1751, when mentioned in the wills of both parents; d. in Simsbury 10 Dec. 1760 aet. 50, ill 19 days of smallpox; m. there, 25 April 1731, ABIGAIL PETTEBONE, d. there in 1807, having m. (2), David Strong of Bolton.".