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- "Mr. Phelps resided in Windsor, Conn. up to 1690 when, with his younger brother, Nathaniel, then unmarried, he removed to Hebron, Conn., though the town was not incorporated until 1708." - The Phelps Family of America and Their English Ancestors
On 23 Apr 1662 King Charles II granted Connecticut a charter as a self-governing corporate colony, with an eastern boundary at Narragansett Bay, overlapping part of the Rhode Island patent. Rhode Island did not concede its claim to territory between the Pawcatuck River and Narragansett Bay (the Narragansett Country), but Connecticut quickly took control of the area. (Bowen, Disputes, 32; Swindler, 2:135-136) On 10 May 1666 the Colony of Connecticut created four original counties: Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven, and New London. (Conn. Col. Recs., 2:34-35). Thus, Windsor became a part of Hartford County [1]
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