Ancestry of
Amy Grant

Christian/Pop Singer and Songwriter

Joseph Phelps

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Amy Grant — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1030 
  • Father:
  • George Phelps 
  • Mother:
  • Philura Randall   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Jun 1647 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 11 Jul 1647 
  • Christening Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 5 Sep 1695 
  • Death Location:
  • East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Jun 1673 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Mary Phelps (Ahnentafel No:515 )

• Additional marriages for Joseph Phelps

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  • Spouse:
  • Hester Hosford
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1688

• Sources for Joseph Phelps

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 227, Birth record for daughter Mary Phelps.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 226, Marriage record for Joseph Phelps and Mary Porter.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 226, Birth record for Joseph Phelps.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 448-449.
  • ⁵ Griswold, Glenn E., comp., The Griswold Family: England-America, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1935), Vol. 2, p. 51.
  • ⁶ Phelps, Judge Oliver Seymour and Andrew T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America, and Their English Ancestors, with Copies of Wills, Deeds, Letters, and . . ., Vol. 2, Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eagle Publishing Company (1899), 1268, 1271-1273.

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