"Gabriel Hotchkiss, the eldest son and second child of John Hotchkiss (Yale 1748) … He married about 1780 Hilpah Rosetta, second daughter of Captain Elisha and Rosetta (Owen) Phelps, of Simsbury, Connecticut, born October 17, 1763,—Mrs. Phelps having married in 1778 Gabriel Hotchkiss's uncle, Caleb Hotchkiss (Yale 1766), of New Haven. Their only child was a son, born in 1781.
She afterwards left her husband, for cause, and went to live with her older sister, Mrs. Samuel Hull, of Hull's Cove, on Mount Desert Island, Maine.
She there married secondly Captain Benjamin Stanwood, and after his death returned to Derby, Connecticut, where she died, probably early in 1838."
