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Last name Phelps
First name Oliver
Display name Oliver Phelps
Birth date 1749
Death date 1809
Birth place Connecticut
Death place Canandaigua
Gender m
Affiliations United States Government
Bio notes US Representative from New York (1803-1805). During the Revolution he was Deputy Commissary of the Continental Army and served until the end of the war. After the war ended, he was appointed a judge, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and became a land speculator in western New York state.

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John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom