General Notes

In 1630 William came to Dorchester, MA, on the Mary and John, with Rev. Warham, of whose church, formed in Plymouth, England, he was an original member. He was accompanied by his wife and five children and by his younger brothers, George and Richard. In the spring of 1636 he removed with his children to Windsor. He resided in Windsor about three-quarters of a mile northwest of Broad St. on the road to Poquonock.

Myrtle Stevens Hyde in her article “The English origin of William Phelps,” The American Genealogist 58 (1982) 243-244, rejects William of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, as the father of immigrant William Phelps. That William’s son William had a son baptized in England in 1619, so could not be this one.

DNA testing has shown the two immigrants to Winsdor, Connecitcut, George Phelps and William Phelps, are not biologically related in recent historical times.