Joseph Pheland was adopted by Thomas and Mary Pheland. His birth mother was a woman with the last name of Greenleaf. Unknown father surname. This is a story about Joesph:Joseph was born on Dec. 1, 1733 when a snow storm might well have graced the occasion; and there were "School Dames" about that time in the remote parts of Suffield, whose pay was voted from the town treasury - four pence per week, per scholar, and all their attention "during the proper hours" to be devoted to the business of teaching. Story has it that a woman on horseback, riding into West Suffiled in the beginning of a great snow storm, and being snowed in there, where her child was born. "Aunt Polly" said her last name was Greenleaf; that she taught school in West Suffield but came from overseas, probably Nantucket; that Thomas Pheland tought a great deal of her and, when she died, he and his wife, Mary, adopted him. Accept it or discount it, this is all that can be presented as to the origin of the first Joseph Pheland (Phelon). As for the note about Nantucket, there were Greenleafts among its early settlers; but something in a legend should be left to be taken on faith. It makes at least an interesting background. The foreground was the hard work and plain living of a frontier home, where the boy grew up to young manhood and where he brought as his bride in September 1754 Elizabeth King, age eighteen. Source: Notes received on Aug. 23, 1967 from Katharine Phelon Piaget, as copied by her from her "Cousin Anna's" Genealogy of the Phelon Family.
Joseph Pheland was adopted by Thomas and Mary Pheland. His birth mother was a woman with the last name of Greenleaf. Unknown father surname. This is a story about Joesph:Joseph was born on Dec. 1, 1733 when a snow storm might well have graced the occasion; and there were "School Dames" about that time in the remote parts of Suffield, whose pay was voted from the town treasury - four pence per week, per scholar, and all their attention "during the proper hours" to be devoted to the business of teaching. Story has it that a woman on horseback, riding into West Suffiled in the beginning of a great snow storm, and being snowed in there, where her child was born. "Aunt Polly" said her last name was Greenleaf; that she taught school in West Suffield but came from overseas, probably Nantucket; that Thomas Pheland tought a great deal of her and, when she died, he and his wife, Mary, adopted him. Accept it or discount it, this is all that can be presented as to the origin of the first Joseph Pheland (Phelon). As for the note about Nantucket, there were Greenleafts among its early settlers; but something in a legend should be left to be taken on faith. It makes at least an interesting background. The foreground was the hard work and plain living of a frontier home, where the boy grew up to young manhood and where he brought as his bride in September 1754 Elizabeth King, age eighteen. Source: Notes received on Aug. 23, 1967 from Katharine Phelon Piaget, as copied by her from her "Cousin Anna's" Genealogy of the Phelon Family.
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In memory of Lieut. Joseph Pheland who died 27th Nov. 1800 in the 68th year of his age.
Also, Mrs. Elizabeth Pheland his Consort (comfort?) died 15th of Oct. 1800 in the ___ th year.
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He was 68, so he was born abt. 1732.
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