births
January 22, 1740
Noah Phelps, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (died 1809)
Noah Phelps
Major General Noah Phelps served with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and afterward was selected as a major general. He also served as justice of the peace and judge of probate in his home state of Connecticut for twenty years. He was chosen as a delegate to the 1788 state convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States.