Maj. Gen. Noah Phelps (Simsbury, Connecticut, 22 Jan 1740 - Simsbury, Connecticut, 4 Nov 1809), was the son of Lt. David Phelps and Abigail Pettibone Phelps, and was descended from the English immigrant William Phelps). The family settled in Simsbury, Connecticut before 1750, and General Phelps became an active and influential man. He was a Yale University graduate, a justice of the Peace, judge of Probate for twenty years, and was a Delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to ratify the Federal Constitution.
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