Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...children (by his first wife) were two sons, of whom the younger died in infancy. His strong religious feeling and great taste for reading were prominent traits of his character. AUTHORITIES. Hall, Hist, of Norwalk, 248, 286. Selleck, Norwalk, 246-47, 411. Prentice Law, the seventh son of Judge Richard Law (Yale 1751), of New London, Connecticut, was born on April 15, 1779. He was esteemed as a young man of talents and promise. He at first studied law and settled in North Carolina, but on July 1, 1808, received the commission of Captain in the 3d Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, which he held at his death. He died at Washington, the capital of Mississippi Territory (near Natchez), on May n, 1811, aged 32 years. AUTHORITIES. Binney, Prentice Family, 2d ed., Notes, 1n. Starr, The Repository, 284. Gardner, Dictionary of U. S. iii, 219. Army, 272. T. P. Hall, Genealogical Elisha Phelps, the fourth son of General Noah Phelps, of Simsbury, Connecticut, was born in Simsbury on November 16, 1779. A brother was graduated here in 1783. He studied law in the Litchfield Law School, was admitted to the Hartford County bar in 1803, and settled in practice in his native town. He early became politically prominent as a Democrat, and represented Simsbury in the Legislature in ten sessions between 1807 and 1835. He served as Clerk of the House in May, 1818, and as Speaker in 1821 and 1829. He was a member of Congress from 1819 to 1821, and again from 1825 to 1829. He served for three terms, 1822-24, in the State Senate, and was ex officio a member of the Yale Corporation from 1823 to 1825. He was elected State Comptroller for the four years, 1830-34, and a commissioner to revise and codify the State laws in 1835. He died in Simsbury on April 6, ..
