Category: People

Sarah Davenport Parsons Phelps, born January 26, 1775, was the daughter of Moses Parsons of Haverhill. Evidence suggests she may

Submit West, or Mitte as she was called, arrived at the Porter-Phelps home in December 1791 at just six weeks

William, the third child of Dan and Elizabeth Huntington, was born on July 16, 1804, in Litchfield, Connecticut. He graduated from Harvard in

Theophilus, the seventh child of Dan and Elizabeth Huntington, was born in Middletown on July 11, 1811. When he was 5 years old, the

Theodore, the eighth child of Dan and Elizabeth Huntington, was born on March 18, 1813, in Middletown, Connecticut. At the age of three,

Thankful Richmond was taken in by Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Charles Phelps when she was an infant. She was born to

Simon Baker was one of Betsey and Charles Phelps’s two indentured servants who arrived at Forty Acres around the age

Robert Fraiser was born in 1794 and brought on as an apprentice for Charles Phelps in January of 1807 at

Penelope Williams had a very close relationship with Elizabeth Porter Phelps. Much of their correspondence documents the pair’s love and

Margaret Bowen’s younger daughter Phillis was born on June 2, 1765. She was not quite seven years old when her