Samuel PHELPS

HUSBAND:
[F228]. Samuel PHELPS.
Born about 1780.

He married Rebecca ROZA [F229]. They lived in Greene, Chenango County, New York. (S1).

The settlement of the town of Greene was commenced in 1792. {S5}. Chenango County, New York was created on 15 March 1798. Chenango County was organized from Herkimer and Tioga counties. It had ten townships and it covered an area nearly twice as large as it does today. The original towns were Cazenovia, Sangersfield, Hamilton, Deruyter, Sherburne, Brookfield, Norwich, Greene, Oxford and Jericho. The county seat is Norwich. The town of Greene was officially created on 15 March 1798 from Union, Broome county and Jericho (now Bainbridge), both then in Tioga county. (S3).

On 16 October 1853 Solomno [Solomon] Dickinson of Queensbury and Eveline Brown of Fort Ann were married in Bolton, Warren County, New York by George B. Reynolds, Justice of the Peace. The witnesses were Samuel Phelps and wife Rebecca, Amasa Phelps, Martin Granger, Polly Brown. This date seems a little late to be our Samuel and Rebecca, but it is possible.

WIFE:
[F229]. Rebecca ROZA.
Born probably at least by 1787. The families of Greene, Chenango County, New York, where her son Burton was born, are said to have been largely immigrant German-Jews. It is likely that Rebecca was from this group. (S2). She married Samuel PHELPS [F228] at least by about 1805. In the history of Green, in Chenango Coungy, we find Isaac ROSA. He was possibly a brother of Rebecca. His history is listed below in hopes of proving or disproving this.

ISAAC ROSA:
Isaac ROSA, was a settler in Greene, Chenango County, New York in 1796. {S4, S5}. He settled on the east of the river, on the farm later owned by David Baird, about two miles above Greene. He subsequently kept a public house, at Genegantslet, where most of the public business of the vicinity was done. He was elected the second Supervisor of the town, in 1799, and was re-elected for five years. He was a man of marked character in the early settlement of the town. He was the first master of the Eastern Light Masonic Lodge. {S5}.

He removed to to Waterloo, Seneca county, said to be about 1818 {S3}, but on Monday morning, July 7, 1817, a number of religiously inclined inhabitants of the village of Waterloo and its vicinity met in a school house on the present site of St. Paul's church, for the purpose of organizing a Presbyterian church. Rev. Henry Axtell was chosen moderator and S.M. Malby clerk. The following are members that day enrolled: Isaac Rosa, Joel Tubbs, John VanTuyl, Daniel Pierson, Jane VanTuyl, Lucretia Irwin, Elizabeth Turner and Rachel Parsons. The church was legally incorporated on 10 November 1817. {S6}. It was called The Waterloo Missionary Society, and was founded by individuals who were for the most part members of the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches.

Isaac Rosa "came with the first settlers as master mechanic, and built the Waterloo flour and grist mill for Reuben Swift and Co/ He was also the first master of the masonic lodge the same year the missionary society was founded. {S7}.

Isaac died about 1838 in Waterloo, Seneca County, New York. {S3, S5}.

CHILDREN of Samuel PHELPS [F228] and Rebecca ROZA [F229]:
  1. [F114]. Burton Harmon PHELPS. Born 4 MAY 1806 at Greene, Chenango County, New York. He married (1) Amanda Melvina WEBB [F115] of Herkimer County, New York in 1832 or 1833 . He married (2) Nellie PEARSON (PARSON, PERSSON) and (3) Bengta NIELSON. His second and third wives were both related. They were Swedish. He died on 7 MAY 1885 in Payson, Utah County, Utah.


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