Phelps named from Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, by Robert W. Barnes, page 503
PHELPS, THOMAS (1),
in Aug. 1738 told the vestry of St. Geo. Parish he had m. Rose (---) on 28 May 1710; his wife had formerly eloped from one (---) Swift;
on 26 Sept. 1741 Elizabeth McShaine bd. [bonded] her s.[son] David to Thomas and Rose Phelps;
in 1750 Thomas owned 50 a. Jones' Inheritance and 50 a. Arabia Petrea;
d. leaving a will dated 2 April 1758 in which he named w. Rosanna, and s.[son] Avinton who was to be a ward of Edward Morgan; friends David and Hannah McSwain; had iss.: AVINTON:
76:29 Baltimore Co. Land Records Liber TB#A, Folio 29 ;
130:292 Vestry Proceedings of St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church; Maryland Archives;
153:49 Baltimore County Debt Book for 1750. (Manuscript in Calvert Papers, Maryland Historical Society);
210-30:483 Maryland Will Books, Vol 30, p. 483; Maryland Archives
PHELPS, AVINTON (2), s. of Thomas (1), in April 1762 was in Rowan Co., N. C.. , when he and David McSwain conv. 50 a. Jones' Venture to Edward Morgan
86:73 Baltimore Co Land Records Liber B##G, p. 73
PHELPS, AVINTON, m. Rachel Muckeldory on 23 April 1730
128:59 Register of St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church - Original Register, Maryland Archives
PHELPS, THOMAS, of A. A. Co., in Oct. 1672 bought Wolf Neck from Robert Chapman also of A. A. Co.
(99:347).
PHELPS, WILLIAM, d. by 2 July 1703 when his est. was inv. by William Hawkins and William Forman and val. at L 42.10.10
(48: 132)