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"A few years ago, as I listened one night to my mother telling incidents of her life pioneering in the semi-arid region of Western Kansas, it occurred to me that the picture of that early time was worth drawing and preserving for the future, and that, if this were ever to be done, it must be done soon, before all of the old settlers were gone. This book is the result—an effort to picture that life truly and realistically. It is the story of an energetic and capable girl, the child of German immigrant parents, who at the age of seventeen married a young German farmer, and moved to a homestead on the wind-swept plains of Kansas, where she reared eleven of her twelve children, and remembering...
A genealogy of the descendants of Dr. Johnn Viets who married 27 Apr 1700 Catharine Meyers in New York City. He died 18 Nov 1723 in Simsbury, Connecticut. Catharine died 5 Mar 1834 at the age of 68 years in Simsbury.
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William Phelps was christened 19 August 1599 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England. His parents were William Phelps and Dorothy. He married Elizabeth and they had six children. They emigrated in 1630 and settled first in Dorchester, Massachusetts and then in Windsor, Connecticut. He married Mary Dover in about 1638 and they had two children. He died in 1672. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Ohio.
Henry Phelps, son of Henry Phelps and Eleanor (Moulton?), was born in about 1619 in England. His family emigrated in about 1634. He married Hannah Baskel in about 1664 in Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut.
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