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GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES ANTECEDENTS and
DESCENDANTS G0499A:
Thomas PHILLIPS [009] Marriage: BY 1670, Virginia, British
North America Child 1: ____________________________ G0498A:
Marriage: BY 1705, Surry County,
Virginia, British North America Child 1: John PHILLIPS (ABT 1705, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]: m. Hannah FORT, BEF 1725, Surry County, Virginia, British North America Child 2: Child 3: Swann PHILLIPS (ABT 1709, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M] Child 4: Matthew PHILLIPS (ABT 1711, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M] Child 5: Ann PHILLIPS (ABT 1713, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F] Child 6: Mary PHILLIPS (ABT 1715, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1790, Surry County, Virginia, British North America) [F]: m1. John EDWARDS (? - AFT 19 April 1727); m2. Allen WARREN III (ABT 1717, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 20 March 1780, Surry County, Virginia, British North America), 1735, Surry County, Virginia, British North America Child 7: Elizabeth PHILLIPS (ABT
1717, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ?)
[F]: m. m. William HANCOCK (1693/94 - BY 18 April 1768,
Sussex County, Virginia, British North America), ABT
1735, Surry County, Virginia, British North America Note 1: The Will of William PHILLIPS, Esq. was proved in Surry County, Virginia 19 April 1721. [Surry County: Deeds, Wills, etc., Bk. 7: 1715 - 1730, pp. 323 - 324]:
Note 2: Mary SWANN was the daughter of Matthew SWANN (ABT 1650, <Surry County>, Virginia, British North America - BEF 5 January 1702/03, Surry County, Virginia, British North America) and Mary HARRIS (ABT 1650, <Surry County>, Virginia, British North America - ?). Mary HARRIS was the daughter of *Robert HARRIS, (BEF 1631, Isle of Wight or Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 10 October 1659, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America) and *Mary CLAIBORNE (ABT 1630, King William County, Virginia, British North America - 9 February 1709/10, Glen Cairn, Doswell, Hanover County, Viriginia, British North America). Elizabeth SWANN (ABT 1670, <Surry County>, Virginia, British North America - AFT 14 December 1702, Surry County, Virginia, British North America), whose Will, in Surry County, Virginia, was dated 14 December 1702, was the sister of Mary SWANN; and, about 1691, in Surry County, Virginia, she became the second wife of John DREW (Sr.) (1668, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 24 January 1702 and BY March 1702, Surry County, Virginia, British North America). Elizabeth SWANN and John DREW (Sr.) were the parents of John DREW (Jr.) (ABT 1703, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [M]: m. Elizabeth PHILLIPS (ABT 1717, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ?); Sarah DREW [F]; Mary DREW [F]: m. Nicholas SMITH; and Elizabeth DREW (died BEF 1711) [F]: m. John SHELLY (? - AFT 23 June 1718 and BEF 27 June 1720, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America).
In 1703 or 1704, in Surry County, Virginia, Elizabeth SWANN, as the widow of John DREW (Sr.) (B. K. 1711, p. 48), married John SUGARS (died AFT 1 December 1726 and BEF 25 September 1727, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America), engendering Priscilla SUGARS (AFT 1703, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 25 February 1778 and BEF 12 September 1782, Southampton County, Virginia), the wife of Benjamin BLUNT (died 1752). John SUGARS had previously been married, in 1688, in Surry County, Virginia, to Elizabeth CLAY, the widow of Thomas CLAY. [Will Book 2, p. 40]
John DREW (Sr.), in 1686, in Surry County, Virginia, was first married to Phillis UNKNOWN (? - BY 1691, Surry County, Virginia, British North America). Sarah SWANN (ABT 1679, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 15 February 1743/44) was another sister of Mary SWANN. After the death of Matthew SWANN, she was married to Carter CRAFFORD (Sr.) (ABT 1682, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 5 August 1743 and BEF 15 February 1743/44, Southwark Parish, Surry County, Virginia, British North America).
Note 3: The Will of Mary SWANN, the widow of William PHILLIPS [Surry County: Deeds, Wills, etc., Bk. 7: 1715 - 1730, p. 697]:
Note 4: Hannah FORT (1705, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ?), who married John PHILLIPS, in Surry County, before 1725, was the daughter of John FORT (1669, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 10 March 1724/25, Surry County, Virginia, British North America) and Elizabeth JORDAN (ABT 1675, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1743, Surry County, Virginia, British North America). Her siblings were: George FORT (ABT 1697 - BEF 1761, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, British North America) [M]: m. Mary UNKNOWN; William FORT (ABT 1698 - 1746, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, British North America) [M]: m. Alice FOREMAN; Elias FORT (ABT 1700, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 1766, Halifax County, North Carolina, British North America) [M]: m1. Olive PITMMAN (BEF 1735, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [daughter, born in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, of Thomas PITTMAN and Elizabeth LANCASTER]: m2. Mrs. Priscilla BARROW (née POPE), 1759; Sarah FORT (1706 - ?) [F]: m. Unknown WALL, BEF 1724, Surry County, Virginia, British North America; Mary FORT (1710, Isle of Wight or Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1793, Carteret County, North Carolina) [F]: m. William BYNUM (1690, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 1746, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, British North America), 1724, Isle of Wight, Virginia, British North America; Richard FORT (ABT 1711, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - AFT March 1744/45 and BY 1746, Craven County, North Carolina, British North America) [M]; and Thomas FORT (ABT 1711, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1769, Dobbs County, North Carolina, British North America) [M]: m. Unknown UNKNOWN. John FORT, the son of the first Elias FORT, seems to have been born about 1665-70. He married Elizabeth JORDAN, the daughter of Richard JORDAN whose Will and a deed of 1695 confirmed the marriage. John FORT lived on Johnchecohunk Swamp near James BYNUM by 1695 and later lived south of the Blackwater, though he apparently owned land in Isle of Wight as well. He made his Will on 21 October 1724 in Surry County, and it was recorded on 10 March 1726. The Will named nine children: John, William, George, Richard, Elias, Mary (BYNUM), Sarah (WALL), and Hannah (PHILLIPS). The will was witnessed by John PHILLIPS, the husband of Hannah, and by William BYNUM. George FORT appears to have died young but John FORT's other five sons migrated into North Carolina in the 1720s, closely paralleling William.BYNUM's movements. William FORT lived on Keehukee Swamp in Edgecombe County until his death. John FORT was in Bertie Precinct by 1723 where he lived on Looking Glass Swamp very near William BYNUM. There, in 1730, William BYNUM witnessed his wife's discharge of dower. John FORT later moved to that part of Craven County which became Johnston and later Orange County. He died there in 1746. Elias FORT was also on Looking Glass Swamp by 1728 where he had evidently moved from Isle of Wight County; about 1742 he moved onto Deep Creek in what was later Halifax County where he died in 1766. Richard FORT was likewise in Bertie Precinct by 1730; he died in what was later Johnston County in 1746 leaving a Will naming his brothers and sisters, including Mary BYNUM. Thomas FORT, perhaps the youngest son, also ended up in Johnston County. Elias and John witnessed deeds together with William BYNUM. John PHILLIPS, the husband of Hannah FORT, also demonstrated some connection with William BYNUM. PHILLIPS lived near BYNUM in Isle of Wight and they appear together in its records twice. PHILLIPS also witnessed the sale of William and Mary BYNUM's land there in 1723. On the strength of these admittedly coincidental records, it does seem likely that Mary FORT was the wife of William BYNUM. Beyond the marriage of his brother William to the widow of Elias FORT Jr., there appears to be no hard evidence of any connection between John BYNUM and this particular branch of the FORT family . The children of John PHILLIPS and Hannah FORT have been variously reported as: Edith PHILLIPS (1735 - AFT 1820) [F]: m. James IVEY (1730 - BEF 1784); Hannah PHILLIPS [F]: m. Thomas DAVIS (? - September 1776, Southampton County, Virginia); Mary PHILLIPS [F]: m. Allen WARREN (? - 1780, Surry County, Virginia); John PHILLIPS [M]: m. Jane <WIGGINS>; Joseph PHILLIPS [M]; Arthur PHILLIPS [M]; Hartwell PHILLIPS [M]; Lucy PHILLIPS [F]; Ann PHILLIPS [F]; and Sarah PHILLIPS [F]. Joseph PHILLIPS (Sr.), who is frequently supposed to have married Sarah Jane EXUM, on 19 January 1751, in Southampton County, Virginia, British North America, is also often said to have been the son of John PHILLIPS, the son of William PHILLIPS and Mary SWANN. This, however, is incorrect. The fiction that "Joseph PHILLIPS" was the husband of Sarah EXUM is based on a DAR application submitted 13 October 1924. This error has been repeated in the LDS IGI files. It was, in fact, Col. Etheldred PHILLIPS (1 June 1716, North Molton, Devon, England - 9 May 1795, Edgecombe County, North Carolina), the son of Etheldred PHILLIPS (26 February 1689/90, Northam, Devon, England - ?) and Elizabeth KELLAND (6 June 1693, Chittlehampton, Devon, England - ?), who were married 7 November 1710, in Kingsbridge, Devon, England, who wedded Sarah Jane EXUM (1718, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - March 1804, Edgecombe County, North Carolina), the daughter of John EXUM (1690 - 23 January 1775, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America) and Elizabeth KINCHEN (1690 - 1760, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America), who were married in 1710, in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. The error is compounded by the fact that the DAR application conflated Etheldred PHILLIPS with his uncle, Joseph PHILLIPS, who died, in 1784, in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. DAR applications, like the LDS files, should be treated with great caution.
Note 5: William PHILLIPS is mentioned in his father's Will, written 14 February 1721 and proved 19 April 1721 as being under the age of 16 years. On 19 September 1738, William PHILLIPS sold land, which his father obtained in Surry County on 5 November 1694, to William George. Note 6: Allen WARREN III, the husband of Mary PHILLIPS, was the son of Allen WARREN II (ABT 1684, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 13 August 1733, Surry County, Virginia, British North America) and Ann HART (AFT 1702, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 1794, Surry County, Virginia, British North America). Note 7: William HANCOCK, the husband of Elizabeth PHILLIPS, was the son of John HANCOCK (ABT 1670, Virginia, British North America - BY 17 May 1732, Surry County, Virginia, British North America) and Jane HOLT (? - 15 January 1734/35, Surry County, Virginia, British North America), the daughter of Randall (Randolph) HOLT and Elizabeth HANSFORD. His siblings were: John HANCOCK (Jr.) (1702 - BY 19 August 1762, Surry County, Virginia, British North America) [M]: m. Mary UNKNOWN; Joseph HANCOCK (1704 - ?) [M]; Elizabeth HANCOCK (1706 - ?) [F]: m. Unknown OGBURN; Mary HANCOCK (1708 - ?) [F]; Duejates HANCOCK (1710 - ?) [F]; and Martha HANCOCK (1712 - ?) [F]: m. Unknown BENNETT. .____________________________ G0497A:
Marriage: BY 1726 Child 1: John PHILLIPS (ABT 1726, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 28 March 1784, Wilkes County, Georgia) [M]: m. Ruth BEALL (ABT 1712, Prince George's County, Maryland, British North America - 1777, Richmond County, Georgia) [See G0496A: Ruth BEALL in Antecedents and Descendants of Thomas Beall of Loving Acquaintance (1630 - AFT November 1732).] Child
2: Child 3: Celia Ann PHILLIPS (AFT 1726, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m1. Ely LaFayette SMITH; m2. William FITZPATRICK Child 4: Alice PHILLIPS (AFT 1726, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Sly WALKER Child 5: Zachariah PHILLIPS (Sr.) (ABT 1730, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 1813, Jasper County, Georgia) [M]: m. Mary WHITE (ABT 1730 - AFT 1775, Wilkes County, Georgia) Child 6: Mark PHILLIPS (ABT 1732, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 1817, Montgomery County, Georgia) [M]: m. Nancy UNKNOWN Child 7: Joseph PHILLIPS (1734,
Wilkes County, Georgia, British North America - 1784,
Morgan County, Georgia) [M]: m1. Jean UNKNOWN: m2. Sarah
LYNDES, Greene County, Georgia Other Marriage: AFT 1734 Child 1: James PHILLIPS [M] Child 2: William PHILLIPS III [M] Child 3: Reuben PHILLIPS [M] Note 1: Hilleary PHILLIPS (ABT 1750, Georgia - AFT 1787), married to Mary Ann HARVEY (EST 1767/75, Edgefield County, South Carolina, British North America - ?) , was the son of John PHILLIPS and Ruth BEALL. [See G0496A: Ruth BEALL in Antecedents and Descendants of Thomas Beall of Loving Acquaintance (1630 - AFT November 1732) and see G0496A: John HARVEY (Sr.), Note 2 in Antecedents and Descendants of Rev. Isaac Harvey, Sr. (1786 - 16 September 1838).] Hilleary PHILLIPS is mentioned in the Will of William HARVEY, the father of Mary Ann HARVEY. In the HARVEY records, the name of Mary Ann HARVEY is given only as "Ann." There are reports of her being married to Hilleary PHILLIPS and, indeed, the descendants of Hilleary PHILLIPS have preserved her name as "Mary Ann HARVEY." A child of Hilleary PHILLIPS and Mary Ann HARVEY was Littleberry Bostick PHILLIPS (10 January 1801, Georgia - 17 June 1874, Panola County, Texas: interment at Bethlehem Cemetery, Panola County, Texas) who, on 19 November 1820, at Jasper County, Georgia, was married to Elizabeth SMITH. Of this marriage, Peter Sanford PHILLIPS, M. D. (8 April 1835, Georgia - 15 June 1872, Panola County, Texas: interment at Bethlehem Cemetery, Panola County, Texas) was a son who, on 22 May 1860, married Rhoda Ann MAY (1844 - 1920), the daughter of William MAY (1811 - 1860) and Elizabeth JENNINGS (1814 - 1866). By his marriage to Rhoda Ann MAY, Peter Sanford PHILLIPS engendered William B. PHILLIPS (1861 - 1863) [M]; Queen PHILLIPS (31 March 1863, Alabama - 25 August 1867, Panola County, Texas: interment at Bethlehem Cemetery, Panola County, Texas) [F]; John Wesley PHILLIPS (1865 - 1925) [M]; Bobbie May PHILLIPS (1867 - 1923) [F]: James Sanford PHILLIPS (1870 - 1934), and Joseph Edgar PHILLIPS, M. D. (1872 - 1929). From Georgia, Peter Sanford PHILLIPS and Rhoda Ann MAY moved to Panola County, Texas. Rhoda Ann MAY was second married to John Henry ROSS (1829 - 1885), son of Edward ROSS and Elizabeth J. BUTLER, and engendered Mary Elizabeth ROSS (1878 - 1895) and Augustus H. ROSS (1880 - 1881). [See Panola County Historical and Genealogical Association, History of Panola County (Carthage, Texas).] ____________________________ G0496A:
Marriage: ABT 1760 Child 1: William PHILLIPS (ABT 1761, <Anson County>, North Carolina, British North America - BEF 7 January 1795, Wilkes County, Georgia) [M]: m. Piety BRANTLEY Child
2: Child 3: Sarah PHILLIPS (ABT 1766, <Anson County>, North Carolina - ?) [F]: m. Unknown POWELL Child 4:
Child 5:
Child
6: Child
7: Elijah Leonard PHILLIPS (1780, Wilkes
County, Georgia - ?) [M]: m. Tabitha WALKER (1789 - ?),
29 September 1805, Greene County, Georgia Note 1: In 1761 Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) and his wife Elizabeth witnessed the sale of land in Anson County, North Carolina. In 1763, he and his wife sold land in Anson County. (Holcomb, Anson County: North Carolina Deed Abstracts, p.103) On 10 July 10 1771, Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) sold land in Anson County, North Carolina. (Abstract of Court Minutes) It is possible that Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) was on the losing side in the 1771 Battle of Alamance, North Carolina between the Moderators and the Regulators, since many people left North Carolina following this battle. On 27 September 1773, Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) is listed as receiving 200 acres of land ceded by the Creek and Cherokee Indians on Reedy Creek on the north side of Little River, in the area of present-day Wilkes County, Georgia. (Robert Scott Davis, Jr., The Wilkes County Papers: 1773-1833, p. 7; and Grace Gilliam Davison, Early Records of Wilkes County, Georgia, Vol. I, p. 6.) On 2 February 1778, he is listed as receiving 200 acres of land. (Robert Scott Davis, Jr., A Researcher's Library of Georgia History, Genealogy, and Records Sources, p. 78.) In 1777, Joel Phillips's Fort, which was probably his fortified homestead, was identified. (Robert S. Davis, Jr., Georgia Citizens and Solders of the American Revolution, p. 164) Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek (near Washington), Georgia on 14 February 1779. Approximately 340 Georgia and South Carolina militiamen attacked a group of 600 loyalists from North and South Carolina who were camped at the creek. (Georgia Genealogical Magazine, 1981, no. 67, p. 41) The homestead of Joel PHILLIPS, Sr. was, in fact, located at Kettle Creek:
After their defeat at Augusta in the fall of 1780, Col. Elijah CLARKE led a band of refugees, including 400 women and children, from Wilkes County to the Watauga and Nolachucky river valley in Tennessee. Reportedly, they traveled two hundred miles in 11 days -- part of the journey without food. The route they took was probably past the site of present-day Asheville, North Carolina, and across Sam's Gap. (Samuel Cole Williams, Tennessee During the Revolutionary War, pp. 160-161; and "Colonel Elijah Clarke in the Tennessee Country", Georgia Historical Quarterly, XXV, pp. 151-158) Because Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) was a member of the Refugee Regiment (Military Certificates of Georgia: 1776-1800), he and his family were almost certainly among these refugees. The Phillips Mill Baptist Church was organized in the mill of Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) in 1785. He gave land for the church site. The church was moved to a new site four miles from the original site, but the mill stones from his mill are still at the church (1989). (History of Phillips Mill Baptist Church) [See Phillips Mill Baptist Church: The Bequest of Joel Phillips, Sr. (ABT 1728 - 3 October 1792).] Notes by Linda Sparks Starr of Norman, Oklahoma from Wilkes County, Georgia Tax Records 1785 -1805, in two volumes, compiled and published by Frank Parker Hudson, Atlanta 1996:
In 1790, Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) was listed as owning 830 acres of land in Captain William Hurley's District (N) of Wilkes County. (Frank Parker Hudson, A 1790 Census for Wilkes County, Georgia, p. 94) The gravestone of Joel PHILLIPS, Sr., at the Phillips Mill Baptist Church Cemetery, is inscribed as follows:
To see a map of the Kettle Creek Battle Field with the present location of the Phillips Mill Baptists Church, see Phillips Mill Baptist Church: The Bequest of Joel Phillips, Sr. (ABT 1728 - 3 October 1792). Note 2: Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) was listed under the command of Capt. John Montgomery in the Chatham County, North Carolina Regimental Return of 23 September 1772. List of Capt. John Montgomery - List No. 7
Note 3: Elizabeth HARRINGTON was the daughter of John HARRINGTON (ABT 1719, Chowan [later, Anson] County, North Carolina, British North America - ABT 1748, Anson County, North Carolina, British North America) and Mary ROGERS who were married, in North Carolina, about 1740; and she was first cousin to Hannah HARRINGTON, the wife of Col. Elijah CLARKE. [See G0498A: Thomas HARRINGTON (Sr.), Note 6 in Antecedents and Descendants of Thomas Harrington, Sr. (ABT 1690 - BY 11 February 1744/45).] John HARRINGTON was the son of Thomas HARRINGTON (ABT 1690, Chowan [later, Bertie] County, North Carolina, British North America - 1744, Northampton County, North Carolina, British North America) and Mary WHITMELL (ABT 1690, Chowan [later, Bertie] County, North Carolina, British North America - 1743, Northampton County, North Carolina, British North America), who were married by 1715. Mary WHITMELL was the putative daughter of Thomas WHITMELL I (BY 1666, England - BY December 1693, Charles City County, Virginia, British North America) and Mary UNKNOWN. [See G0499A: Thomas WHITMELL I, in Descendants of Thomas Whitmell I (BT 1666 - BY 4 December 1693).] It is from the family WHITMELL that the given names "Whitmel," "Whitmell," "Whitmill," and "Whit," have been conveyed to the descendants of Whitmell PHILLIPS. Elizabeth HARRINGTON signed her Will on 13 August 1812; and the document was proved in Wilkes County, Georgia on 4 March 1816. Her estate was to be divided equally between three sons, Whitmell PHILLIPS, Zachariah PHILLIPS, and Elijah PHILLIPS, and two daughters, Mary ALLEN and Sarah POWELL. She mentions the heirs of her deceased son, Joel PHILLIPS, Jr., and her granddaughter Polly HACKNEY, daughter of William PHILLIPS. [See below, Appendix: The Phillips Notes of Mrs. Dorothy Taylor.] Also see Grace Gillam Davidson, Early Records of Georgia, page 88: "PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH. All estate real and personal to be equally divided between my three sons, Whitmell, Zacharias and Elijah and my two daughters Mary ALLEN and SARAH POWELL, and granddaughter Polly HACKNEY, daughter of William PHILLIPS, deceased and the heirs of Joel PHILLIPS, deceased. Signed August 13, 1812. Probated March 4, 1816. James LEE, John LEE and John LEE SR., Test." Note 4: The estate of William PHILLIPS entered probate in Wilkes County, Georgia on 7 January 1795. By his wife, Piety BRANTLEY, whose relationship to Charity BRANTLEY, the wife of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr. is not known. William PHILLIPS seems to have engendered a daughter, Mary ("Polly") Harris PHILLIPS. John OGLETREE, Sr. and his wife, Ann DUNCAN, were appointed to be the guardians of Mary ("Polly") Harris PHILLIPS. Mary ("Polly") Harris PHILLIPS, who died after 1820, perhaps in Wilkes County, Georgia, was married on 16 February 1809, in Wilkes County, Georgia, to Joseph P. HACKNEY (BEF 1792, <Wilkes County>, Georgia - AFT 1832, <Wilkes County>, Georgia). At some time between 7 January 1795 and 11 September 1796, Ann DUNCAN, born about 1740 in Virginia, died and Piety BRANTLEY married John OGLETREE, Sr. (ABT 1735, Hanover County, Virginia, British North America - 3 August 1822, Wilkes County, Georgia). John OGLETREE, Sr. was the son of William OGLETREE (ABT 1710, Hanover County, Virginia, British North America - ?) and Unknown UNKNOWN. Ann DUNCAN was the daughter of Miles DUNCAN (ABT 1710, Sussex County, Virginia, British North America - 1791, Wilkes County, Georgia) and Ann UNKNOWN. John OGLETREE, Sr. and Ann DUNCAN were married in Virginia in 1759. The offspring of Piety BRANTLEY and John OGLETREE, Sr. were: Edmond OGLETREE (11 September 1796, Wilkes County, Georgia - 1868, Rusk County, Texas) [M]: m. Martha ("Patsy") SANDERS, 22 June 1815, Wilkes County, Georgia; and Patsy Brantley OGLETREE (1798, Wilkes County, Georgia - ABT 1830) [F]: m. James HACKNEY, 3 October 1816, Wilkes County, Georgia [by license issued 2 October 1816; marriage performed by William Simpson, Justice of the Peace]. The relation of James HACKNEY, the husband of Patsy Brantley OGLETREE, to Joseph P. HACKNEY, the husband of Mary ("Polly") Harris PHILLIPS is not known. The offspring of John OGLETREE, Sr. and Ann DUNCAN were: David OGLETREE (ABT 1760, Caswell County, North Carolina, British North America - November 1822, Wilkes County, Georgia) [M]: m. Rebecca TURNER (1768, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, British North America - 22 April 1824, Wilkes County, Georgia), 1786, Wilkes County, Georgia; William OGLETREE (18 January 1765, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, British North - 29 August 1835, Monroe County, Georgia) [M]: m. Mary ("Polly") BIRD (18 March 1769, Middlesex County, Virginia, British North America - 25 May 1830, Monroe County, Georgia), 1785, Wilkes County, Georgia; John OGLETREE, Jr. (ABT 1766 - 24 July 1822, Wilkes County, Georgia) [M]: m. Eleanor GRAY, 1797, Wilkes County, Georgia; Littleton OGLETREE (1767, Hanover County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1842, Wilkes County, Georgia) [M]: m. Sarah UNKNOWN, 1805; Wilkes County, Georgia; Claiborn OGLETREE (1768 - ?) [M]: m. Elizabeth GIBSON; Wiley OGLETREE (1773 - 1840, Wilkes County, Georgia) [M]: m. Nancy UNKNOWN, 1791, Wilkes County, Georgia; Absalom OGLETREE (1772 - 1840, Wilkes County, Georgia) [M]: m. Martha A. E. HARPER; and Nancy OGLETREE (1775 - 1823, Wilkes County, Georgia) [F]: m. Chester RAY, 1803, Wilkes County, Georgia. Note 5: Although Mary PHILLIPS listed her place of birth as North Carolina in the United States Census of Fayette County, Georgia for 1850, her son, Thomas V. ALLEN, identified his mother and his father as both born in Virginia in the 1880 Census of Morgan County. [See United States Census, Morgan County, Georgia, 1880, p.322A] It is from the Census for 1850 that Mary PHILLIPS’s year of birth is known to be 1767. She was the daughter of Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) (BEF 1738, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 3 October 1792, Phillips Mill, Wilkes County, Georgia) and Elizabeth HARRINGTON (ABT 1730, Anson County, North Carolina, British North America - AFT 1812 and BY 1816, Wilkes County, Georgia) who were married, probably in Georgia, about 1748. Elizabeth HARRINGTON was the daughter of John HARRINGTON and Mary UNKNOWN; and she was first cousin to Hannah HARRINGTON, the wife of Col. Elijah CLARKE. [See G0498A: Thomas HARRINGTON (Sr.), Note 6 in Antecedents and Descendants of Thomas Harrington, Sr. (ABT 1690 - BY 11 February 1744/45).] Because Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) was the grandfather in common of both George ALLEN and Temperance PHILLIPS, they were first cousins. Note 6: Catherine CHAFFIN, the wife of Zachariah PHILLIPS, was the daughter of Isham CHAFFIN (BEF 1760, <Charlotte County>, Virginia, British North America - 23 May 1822, Wilkes County, Georgia) and his second wife, Patience ATKINS. Isham CHAFFIN was first married to Elizabeth ("Betsy") BIRD (BEF 1760, <Prince Edward County>, Virginia, British North America - ?) on 18 December 1778, in Farmville, Cumberland County (near the Prince Edward County line), Virginia. "William BYRD" stood as security for the marriage bond. This was probably her brother, Williamson BYRD. In his Will, Isham CHAFFIN identified his children as John CHAFFIN; Patsy Martha CHAFFIN: m. Francis MALONE, 1802; Lemuel CHAFFIN (died in 1836): m. Elizabeth <MAYNE>, 1817; and Thomas CHAFFIN, who is "to take care of his mother Patience ATKINS." If these children are listed in the order of birth, then it seems that the first three were the children of Elizabeth ("Betsy") BIRD; but this is not certain. It does appear certain, however, that Elizabeth ("Betsy") BIRD was deceased by 1780. ____________________________ G0495A1:
Marriage: ABT 1788, <North
Carolina> Child 1: Polly ALLEN (ABT 1782 - ?) [F]: m. William POLLARD (Jr.), 30 May 1803, Oglethorpe County, Georgia Child 2: James ALLEN (? - 9 September 1842, Habersham County, Georgia) [M] Child 3: Dorcas ALLEN [F] Child 4: John ALLEN (ABT 1789 - ?) [M]: m. Elizabeth DAVIS, 5 December 1810, Morgan County, Georgia Child 5: Thomas V. ALLEN (15 November 1790, Kentucky - 8 August 1887, Morgan County, Georgia) [M]: m1. Lucinda UNKNOWN; m2. Nancy UNKNOWN (? - BEF 24 November 1813); m3. Mary ("Polly") COLE, 24 November 1813 Child 6:
Child 7: Susannah ALLEN (5 March 1792, Kentucky - 13 January 1882, Walton County, Georgia) [F]: m. George Washington MALCOLM, 1808, Morgan County, Georgia Child 8: William ALLEN (15 February 1793, Kentucky - 10 October 1858) [M]: m. Mary ("Polly") DAVIS, 21 February 1808, Morgan County, Georgia Child 9: Rebecca ALLEN (1795, Kentucky - ?) [F]: m. James DALRYMPLE (1789, South Carolina - ?), 29 July 1818, Morgan County, Georgia Child 10: Elijah P(hillips?) ALLEN (ABT 1800, Kentucky or Georgia - AFT 1850, Jackson Parish, Louisiana) [M]: m1. Eliza T. HARRIS, 25 October 1827, Fayette County, Georgia; m2. Sarah E. MEADOWS, 4 December 1843, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia Child 11: Sarah ALLEN (AFT 1800, <Wilkes County>, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. William GILLILAND (Jr.), 25 May 1824, Fayette County, Georgia Child 12: Elizabeth ALLEN (1802,
<Wilkes County>, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. Joshua HAINES
(1796 - 1870), 29 November 1817, Morgan County, Georgia Note 1: William ALLEN was a soldier in the Revolution and reportedly drew land in Georgia for his services. A William ALLEN is reported as a private, from 2 October 1773 to 6 March 1776, in His Majesty's Troop of Rangers under the command of Edward Barnard which was assigned to the Ceded Lands (now Wilkes County) in Georgia. [See Robert Scott Davis, Jr., The Wilkes County Papers: 1773-1833, p. 39-43.] In 1783 a William ALLEN from North Carolina purchased land in Wilkes County, Georgia. [See Grace Gillam Davidson, Early Records of Georgia, vol. II, p. 84. See also Ceded Lands, p. 190.] Two William ALLENs can be identified in Wilkes County in 1790. Neither, however, was living near the family of Joel PHILLIPS and, given information on the birth of their children, it seems unlikely that either is the William ALLEN who married Mary PHILLIPS. [See Frank Parker Hudson, A 1790 Census for Wilkes County, Georgia, pp. 116 and 120.] According to land records, a William ALLEN also purchased land in Wilkes County in 1799. Three of his children, Thomas (born 1790), Susannah (born 1792), Rebecca (born 1795) identified their place of birth as Kentucky in later censuses. It is almost certain that he and his wife were in Kentucky during this period -- possibly having first migrated as refugees to Tennessee in 1780 with other refugees from Wilkes County. It is not known whether William ALLEN and Mary PHILLIPS were married before they departed Wilkes County or whether they met and married in Tennessee as refugees. On 21 September 1809, William ALLEN purchased land on Sandy Creek in Morgan County, Georgia [Morgan County Deed Book C, pp. 91-93.] Years after his death, his children signed over their claims to this land to his son, Thomas V. ALLEN. [Morgan County Deed Book J, pp 38-40) A Josiah SMITH of Fayette County, Georgia, whose connection to the family ALLEN is not known, of Fayette County, signed over his claim to this same land in 1836. Note 2: Although Mary PHILLIPS listed her place of birth as North Carolina in the United States Census of Fayette County, Georgia for 1850, her son, Thomas V. ALLEN, identified his mother and his father as both born in Virginia in the 1880 Census of Morgan County. [See United States Census, Georgia, 1880, p.322A] It is from the Census for 1850 that Mary PHILLIPS’s year of birth is known to be 1767. She was the daughter of Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) (BEF 1738, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 3 October 1792, Phillips Mill, Wilkes County, Georgia) and Elizabeth HARRINGTON (BEF 1747 - BEF 1816, Wilkes County, Georgia) who were married, probably in Georgia, before 1761. Elizabeth HARRINGTON was the daughter of John HARRINGTON and Mary UNKNOWN; and she was the first cousin of Hannah HARRINGTON, the wife of Gen. Elijah CLARKE. [See G0498A: Thomas HARRINGTON (Sr.), Note 6 in Antecedents and Descendants of Thomas Harrington, Sr. (ABT 1690 - BY 11 February 1744/45).] Because Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) was the grandfather in common of both George ALLEN and Temperance PHILLIPS, they were first cousins. Note 3: Susannah ALLEN's place of birth is reported on her daughter's entry (Mary N. ALLEN DAVIS) in the Morgan County, Georgia, Census for 1880. [See United States Census, Georgia, 1880, p. 393A] ____________________________ G0495A2:
Marriage: ABT 1791, Morgan County,
Georgia Child
1: Child 2: Thomas Henry PHILLIPS (Sr.)
(11 March 1801, Morgan County, Georgia - 20 September
1869, Lithia Springs, Douglas County, Georgia: interment
in an unmarked grave near Union Grove Baptist Church,
Lithia Springs, Douglas County, Georgia) [M]: m. Lavinia
ATKINSON (ABT 1805, Morgan County, Georgia - 5 September
1881, Clayton County, Georgia: interment in Old Elam
Cemetery, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia), 30
January 1821, Morgan County, Georgia Other Marriage: 10 October 1816,
Morgan County, Georgia Note 1: Whitmell PHILLIPS was named after his mother's uncle, Whitmell HARRINGTON. [See Child 1: Whitmell HARRINGTON under G0498A: Thomas HARRINGTON in Antecedents and Descendants of Thomas Harrington, Sr. (ABT 1690 - BY 11 February 1744/45).] Whitmell PHILLIPS owned land in Wilkes County, Georgia which he sold in1805. In 1817, he sold land on Indian Creek in Morgan County. (Morgan County Deed Book F, p. 379). Note 2: In 1820, the following enumeration was made, in Morgan County, Georgia for the household of Whitmell PHILLIPS in the United States Census:
From this record of census in 1820, it may be deduced that Polly ROGERS, the second wife of Whitmell PHILLIPS, was no longer resident in the household. Note 3: Nancy ("Ann") HURLEY was the daughter of Henry HURLEY and Fannie UNKNOWN. Henry HURLEY’s Will refers to Nancy HURLEY as "Ann." The siblings of Nancy ("Ann") HURLEY were: Jane HURLEY [F]: m. John LEWIS; and James HURLEY [M]. Note 4: To the marriage of Whitmell PHILLIPS and Nancy ("Ann") HURLEY, a son named Whitmell PHILLIPS may have been born. But this is uncertain. Note 5: According to the marriage bond, Whitmell PHILLIPS (BEF 1773, Anson County, North Carolina - 1822, Morgan County, Georgia), the brother of Mary PHILLIPS, was the guarantor of Temperance PHILLIPS's marriage to George ALLEN, indicating that he - the guarantor - was her father. It is also likely that, at the time of her marriage, Temperance PHILLIPS had not yet attained the age of majority. This marriage is verifiable for 12 March 1809, Morgan County, Georgia in Georgia Marriages to 1850. Note 6: Thomas Henry PHILLIPS (Sr.) and his family moved from Walton County, Georgia to Campbell County in the 1850s. Of his twelve children, all eleven sons are said to have served in the Confederate States armies. Only four, however, survived the War. [Source: Joe Baggett, ed., Douglas County, Georgia, Genealogies (Douglasville, Georgia)] His wife, Lavinia ATKINSON, was the daughter of Thomas ATKINSON (1775 - 1850, Wilkes County, Georgia) and Rhoda IVEY (1780 - 1857) who were married in 1803. Thomas Henry PHILLIPS (Sr.) and Lavinia ATKINSON engendered: Whitmell A(tkinson?) PHILLIPS (4 February 1822, Georgia - 23 November 1907, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia: interment at Elam Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Clayton County, Georgia) [M]: m. Sarah Jane TURNER (15 March 1829, <Clayton County>, Georgia - 25 February 1915, Clayton County, Georgia), 3 January 1850, Morgan County, Georgia; Martha C. PHILLIPS (1 December 1823, Georgia - 15 March 1915, Georgia: interment at Union Grove Baptist Church, Lithia Springs, Douglas County, Georgia) [F]: m. John Thomas ADAIR (2 April 1820, Georgia - 22 April 1909, Georgia: interment at Union Grove Baptist Church, Lithia Springs, Douglas County, Georgia), ABT 1840, Georgia; Thomas Henry PHILLIPS (Jr.) (17 November 1825, Georgia - 23 June 1906, Georgia: interment at Rest Haven Cemetery, Monroe, Walton County, Georgia) [M]: m1. Julia Cook BRACKETT; m2. Martha Elizabeth ("Betsy") BARRETT (2 January 1833, Georgia - 21 May 1900, Georgia: interment at Rest Haven Cemetery, Monroe, Walton County, Georgia), 28 December 1854, Morgan County, Georgia; Zachariah ("Zach") PHILLIPS (1826, Georgia - BEF 18 September 1862, Georgia, Confederate States of America) [M]: m. Mary Ann RICHARDS (1833, Georgia - AFT 18 September 1862, Georgia), 18 July 1850, Georgia; Columbus Hiram ("Lum") PHILLIPS (ABT 1830, Georgia - ABT 1870, Henry County, Georgia) [M]: m1. Martha A. JONES (ABT 1834, Georgia - 1862, Douglas County, Georgia), 29 July 1849, Morgan County, Georgia: m2. Unknown UNKNOWN; Arrington ("Arnt") PHILLIPS (ABT 1832, Georgia - 25 December 1865, Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia) [M]; Robert Crowley ("Crow") PHILLIPS (1 June 1833, Walton County, Georgia - 15 February 1911, Douglasville, Douglas County, Georgia: interment at Douglasville City Cemetery [said to have dropped dead at the Farmers and Merchants bank in Douglasville]) [M]: m1. Lucy Ann NEILL (17 April 1838, Coweta County, Georgia - 23 December 1871, Bill Arp, Douglas County, Georgia: interment at Pray's Mill Church Cemetery), 4 December 1860, Coweta County, Georgia: m2. Louisa Antoinette MCEWEN (16 October 1834, <Butts County>, Georgia - 30 December 1924, Douglas County, Georgia: interment at Douglasville City Cemetery), 2 March 1873, Douglasville, Douglas County, Georgia [Louisa Antoinette MCEWEN was the widow of John C. DANFORTH whom she married 28 June 1857 in Campbell County, Georgia and who died, in 1863, while serving the Confederate States as second lieutenant of Company C, 30th Georgia Regiment.]; Franklin D. PHILLIPS (ABT 1837, Georgia - ?) [M]; Elijah ("Lige") Madison PHILLIPS (13 May 1839, Walton County, Georgia - 28 November 1922, Georgia) [M]: m. Josephine BOMAR (ABT 1841, Georgia - ?), ABT 1857, Georgia; Martin Van Buren PHILLIPS (1841, Walton County, Georgia - 1927, Sylacauga, Talladega County, Alabama) [M] [survived the War Between the States but, most ironically, lost his hand to a firecracker on the Fourth of July]: m. Sophronia Clementine HESTER (1846, Georgia- 1904, Sylacauga, Talladega County, Alabama), 1865, Georgia; Warren Hull PHILLIPS (5 September 1842, Georgia - 28 August 1862, Battle of First Manassas, Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, Confederate States of America) [M]; and Armistead PHILLIPS (1846, Georgia - 1871, Georgia) [M]: m. Susan Winnefred VANDEGRIFF (13 October 1843, Georgia - ?), 12 February 1865, Georgia, Confederate States of America. By his wife, Sarah Jane TURNER, Whitmell A. PHILLIPS engendered Nancy S. PHILLIPS (28 April 1851, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia - 24 January 1918, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia) [F]: m. Wiley David BURKS; Henry Anderson PHILLIPS (23 April 1856, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia - 27 July 1907, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia) [M]: Lavinia Augusta PHILLIPS (27 March 1858, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia - 1880) [F]: Allison E. PHILLIPS (10 July 1860, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia - 1880) [F]; Emma J. PHILLIPS (10 July 1862, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia, Confederate States of America - 1880) [F]; Warren Hall (or, perhaps, Hull) PHILLIPS (15 September 1864, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia, Confederate States of America - 18 June 1878, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia) [M]; Hiram Warner PHILLIPS (30 March 1869, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia - ?) [M]; Thomas J. PHILLIPS (27 June 1870, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia - 1880) [M]; and Whitmill PHILLIPS (28 July 1872, Forest Park, Clayton County, Georgia - 1880) [M]. ____________________________ G0495B:
Marriage: ABT 1784, Georgia Child 1: Hawkins PHILLIPS (1787, Wilkes County, Georgia - ABT 1858, Leake County, Mississippi: interment at Phillips Cemetery, Leake County, Mississippi) [M]: m. Ellender B. SAVELL (1787 - 3 October 1856, Leake County, Mississippi: interment at Phillips Cemetery, Leake County, Mississippi), BEF 27 December 1806 Child 2: Temperance ("Tempy") PHILLIPS (1789, Wilkes County, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. Charles B. ARRINGTON (Sr.), 29 March 1810, Morgan County, Georgia Child 3: Hiram M. PHILLIPS (1 February 1794, Georgia - March 1862, <Coosa County>, Alabama, Confederate States of America) [M]: m. Mary Henderson LAWLER (1793, Moore County, North Carolina - 24 September 1875, Five Mile Springs, Randolph County, Arkansas), 12 January 1819, Madison County, Alabama Child 4: Mary ("Polly") Brantley PHILLIPS (1795, Wilkes County, Georgia - 18 August 1884, Jemison, Chilton County, Alabama) [F]: m. Jonas Bright DAWSON (1771, Kentucky, British North America - 21 May 1845, Coosa County, Alabama), 12 April 1821, Bibb County, Alabama Child 5: James PHILLIPS (1800, Morgan County, Georgia - ?) [M]: m. Delphie HENDERSON (1803, Georgia - ?), 23 November 1816, Morgan County, Georgia Child 6: Charity Matilda PHILLIPS (1804, Georgia - AFT 1848): m. William MILLS (1807, North Carolina - AFT 1848), 15 January 1829, Bibb County, Alabama [marriage performed by Jesse Pitts, Justice of the Peace, Bibb County, Alabama] Child 7: Joel White PHILLIPS (1807 -
AFT 1833) [M]: m. Sarah BASHABY (? - AFT 1833), BY 1833 Note 1: Joel PHILLIPS, Jr.: Service in the Revolutionary War:
Certificate Issued by Col.
Elijah CLARKE to Joel PHILLIPS, Jr., 2 February 1784
Bounty Furnished to Joel
PHILLIPS, Jr., "as per certificate E. Clarke
Col.," 25 March 1784 Note 2: At some date after 1790, Joel PHILLIPS (Jr.) and Charity BRANTLEY, having removed themselves from Wilkes County, Georgia, became residents of that part of Baldwin County, Georgia, which - after 1807 - became Morgan County. Note 3: Charity BRANTLEY, the wife of Joel PHILLIPS (Jr.), was the daughter of Lewis BRANTLEY (ABT 1740, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, British North America - AFT 7 March 1799 and BY 31 May 1799, Halifax County, North Carolina) and Patti UNKNOWN. Her siblings were: Sarah Ann BRANTLEY (ABT 1774, Halifax County, North Carolina, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Unknown BRYANT; Mary Pittman BRANTLEY (ABT 1776, Halifax County, North Carolina, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Unknown SPIER; Robert BRANTLEY (ABT 1778, Halifax County, North Carolina, British North America - ?) [M]; Henry Lewis BRANTLEY (ABT 1780, Halifax County, North Carolina, British North America - ?) [M]; Benjamin Johnson BRANTLEY (ABT 1782, Halifax County, North Carolina, British North America - ? [M]; Dolly BRANTLEY (ABT 1784, Halifax County, North Carolina, British North America - ?) [F]; and Betsy BRANTLEY (ABT 1786, Halifax County, North Carolina, British North America - ?) [F]. [Source: Margaret M Hofman, Halifax County, North Carolina Genealogical Abstracts of Wills: 1758-1824 (1970)] Lewis BRANTLEY was the son of Edward BRANTLEY (ABT 1723, Nottoway Parish, Southampton County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 21 June 1765 and BY 31 May 1765, Halifax County, North Carolina, British North America) and his second wife, Martha PITTMAN (ABT 1730 - AFT 20 April 1780 and BY 30 November 1782, Halifax County, North Carolina). [His first wife was Mary DAVIS (ABT 1723, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - ?), the granddaughter of John DAVIS (ABT 1665, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 31 December 1712, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America) and Mary GREEN (ABT 1665, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 20 September 1720, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America) and, therefore, the putative daughter of William DAVIS (Sr.) (ABT 1700, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 15 August 1734, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America).] Edward BRANTLEY was the son of James BRANTLEY (ABT 1702, Nottoway Parish, Southampton County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 23 February 1741, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America) and Ruth UNKNOWN. James BRANTLEY was the son of Edward BRANTLEY (ABT 1680, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 26 January 1736 and BEF 25 April 1737, Nottoway Parish, Southhampton County, Virginia, British North America) and Elizabeth UNKNOWN. This Edward BRANTLEY was the son of Philip BRANTLEY (1654, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 25 June 1716, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America) and Joyce LEWIS (1656 - ?), the daughter of Thomas LEWIS (ABT 1630 - ?) and Rebecca GEORGE (ABT 1630 - ?). The brother of this last Edward BRANTLEY was John BRANTLEY (ABT 1690, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - ?) who witnessed the Will of John SHELLY, the husband of Elizabeth DREW. [See G0498A: William PHILLIPS, Esq., Note 2.] Charity BRANTLEY last appears in the United States Census of 1830 for Bibb County, Alabama, residing next door to her son, Hiram PHILLIPS. Note 4: Joshua BRANTLEY (1778, <Chatham County>, North Carolina - 10 December 1855, Walton County, Georgia: interment in the family cemetery of Middleton Mix WILLIAMS [6 March 1829, <Madison County>, Georgia - 28 April, 1894, Walton County, Georgia]), whose parentage is uncertain, first appeared in Wilkes County, Georgia in the early 1790s in the estate papers of William PHILLIPS. Joshua BRANTLEY and Joel PHILLIPS were among those who held accounts against the estate of William PHILLIPS, deceased - 1792-1802. Note 5: The offspring of Hawkins PHILLIPS and Ellender B. SAVELL are said to have been: Elijah PHILLIPS [M]; Sarah PHILLIPS [F]; Talitha PHILLIPS (27 December 1806, Georgia - 5 March 1882: interment in Phillips Cemetery, Leake County, Mississippi) [F]: m. William Elijah EDWARDS (1803, South Carolina - ?; interment said to be in Phillips Cemetery, Leake County, Mississippi), Lauderdale County, Mississippi; Joel PHILLIPS (14 September 1808, Georgia - ?) [M]: m. Mary UNKNOWN; Hiram PHILLIPS (26 April 1810, Georgia - 26 March 1898, Lawrence County, Missouri) [M]: m1. Martha BURGESS (1814, Georgia - 31 May 1871), BY 1837, Heard County, Georgia; Charity PHILLIPS (29 December 1811, Georgia - ?) [F]; James PHILLIPS (27 March 1813, Georgia - ?) [M]; Mary ("Polly") PHILLIPS (Georgia, 6 February 1816 - ?) [F]; Rueben PHILLIPS (30 July 1818, Georgia - AFT 1876, <Healing Springs, Independence County>, Arkansas) [M]: m. Talitha UNKNOWN; Whitmell S(avell?) PHILLIPS (10 March 1820, Georgia - 30 October 1900, Clay County, Alabama) [M]: m. Mary Elizabeth BURGESS (1835, Alabama - ?), 20 September 1840, Alabama; Lena Catherine PHILLIPS (10 December 1821 - 1 August 1885, Leake County, Mississippi) [F]: m. William ("Bill") Washington THOMAS (9 December 1817, Edgefield County, South Carolina - 24 December 1884, Leake County, Mississippi); Emily M. PHILLIPS (1826, Alabama - ?) [F]; and Francis Marion PHILLIPS (8 August 1827, Alabama - ?). [Hawkins PHILLIPS, Ellender SAVELL, Lena Catherine PHILLIPS, and William ("Bill") Washington THOMAS are identified in Mac and Louise Spence, Leake County, Mississippi History (1994).] Mary Elizabeth BURGESS, the wife of Whitmell S(avell?) PHILLIPS, was the sister of Martha BURGESS, the wife of Hiram PHILLIPS, the son of Hawkins PHILLIPS. Mary Elizabeth BURGESS and Martha BURGESS were the offspring of John Cargill (or Cargis) BURGESS (ABT 1790, Laurens County, South Carolina - ?) and Susan WYATT (ABT 1786 - ?), who were married about 1802. Their siblings were: James L. BURGESS [M]: m. Harriet WARE, 27 February 1845, Coosa County, Alabama; Mahala BURGESS [F]: m. Roland R. HUGHS; Susan BURGESS [F]; Nancy BURGESS [F]; and John Calvin BURGESS (10 June 1830, Newton County, Georgia - 22 July 1862, Saltillo, Lee County, Mississippi, Confederate States of America) [M]: m. Sophia Adeline ("Martha") HARRIS (6 July 1838, Lawrence, Leake County, Mississippi - 3 February 1896, Union County, Arkansas: interment at Springhill Cemetery, Oakland, Union Parish, Louisiana). [Source: Notes written by Era Madden Person, 1982; and certain deeds and vital records for supporting documents.] Another child of John Cargill (or Cargis) BURGESS and Susan WYATT was Matilda J. G. BURGESS who, on 20 December 1860, married Hiram M. PHILLIPS in Coosa County, Alabama. The identity of this Hiram M. PHILLIPS remains uncertain. Note 6: Mary LAWLER, the wife of Hiram M. PHILLIPS, was the daughter of Jehu Benjamin LAWLER (2 January 1765, Moore County, North Carolina, British North America - 20 November 1851, Madison County, Alabama: interment near Ryland, Madison County, Alabama) and Elizabeth WILSON (13 July 1761, <Moore County>, North Carolina, British North America - 1 September 1842, Madison County, Alabama: interment near Ryland, Madison County, Alabama), 15 April 1784, Moore County, North Carolina. Note 7: Mary Brantley PHILLIPS drew a widow's pension on the basis of Jonas Bright DAWSON's service in the War of 1812. In the War of 1812, Jonas Bright DAWSON served in Sterrett's kentucky Militia. For the pension, Mary Brantley PHILLIPS gave her maiden name as Polly Brantley PHILLIPS. Her widow's certificate, #31501, states that she and Jonas Bright DAWSON were married 12 April 1821 in Bibb County, Alabama and that her husband died 21 May 1845 in Coosa County, Alabama. From the pension, Mary Brantley PHILLIPS - as Polly B. DAWSON - obtained $8.00 in April 1881 while residing in Jemison, Chilton County, Alabama. Mary Brantley PHILLIPS is recorded as having died 18 August 1884. [See War of 1812 Pensioners: Alabama (Gregath Publishing Company, Wyandotte, Oklahoma); and research of Wanda Brooks.] Note 8: The offspring of Tempy PHILLIPS and Charles B. ARRINGTON (Sr.) were: Lewis ARRINGTON (1823, Virginia - 25 March 1865, Ft. Steadman, Dinwiddie [later Prince George] County, Virginia, Confederate States of America) [M]: m. Martha UNKNOWN; and Susan Temperance ARRINGTON (1824, Georgia - 1894, Calhoun County, Alabama) [F]: m. William Samuel PENTECOST (3 May 1819, Clarke County, Georgia - 23 June 1889, Calhoun County, Alabama), 16 December 1841, Georgia Note 9: The offspring of James PHILLIPS and Delphie HENDERSON are said to have been: Mary Ann PHILLIPS (1826 -?) [F]; Zachariah PHILLIPS (1830 - ?) [M]; Augustus PHILLIPS (1836 - ?) [M]; Americus PHILLIPS (1838 - ?) [M]; and Mary E. PHILLIPS (1847 - ?). Note 10: The offspring of Charity Matilda PHILLIPS and William MILLS are said to have been: Charity Caroline MILLS (1830, Bibb County, Alabama - ?) [F]; James M. MILLS (1831, Bibb County, Alabama - ?) [M]; William H. MILLS (1832, Bibb County, Alabama - ?) [M]; George W. MILLS (1834, Bibb County, Alabama - ?0 [M]; Mary Ann MILLS (1836, Bibb County, Alabama - ?) [F]; Hiram H. MILLS, 1840, Bibb County, Alabama - ?) [M]; Reubin ("Red") MILLS (1843, Bibb County, Alabama - ?) [M]; and Matilda P. MILLS (1848, Bibb County, Alabama - ?) [F]. Note 11: A son of Joel White PHILLIPS and Sarah BASHABY was Elijah C. PHILLIPS (1833, Georgia - 1888, Texas) who married Lucy Pearline BROYLES (1838, Tennessee - 4 March 1918, Texas), in Meriwether County, Georgia, 27 December 1851. Note 12: The offspring of Hiram PHILLIPS and Martha BURGESS are said to have been: Elizabeth E. PHILLIPS (26 August 1837, Alabama - 23 November 1904, Edgewood, Van Zandt County, Texas) [F]: m. Joseph Alexander HENRY (4 January 1839, Sumter County, Alabama - March 1925, Mt. Olive, Covington County, Mississippi: interment at Baptist Cemetery), 28 February 1861, Neshoba County, Mississippi, solemnized by Rev. P. F. Morehead; Winston W. PHILLIPS (24 August 1839, Coosa County, Alabama - ?) [M]; Thomas B. PHILLIPS (1841, Alabama - ?) [M]; Sarah F. PHILLIPS (1842, Alabama - ?) [F]; John H. PHILLIPS (1844, Alabama - ?) [M]; Martha A. PHILLIPS (1846, Alabama - ?) [F]: and Holden Evans PHILLIPS (1848, Alabama - ?) [M]: m. Marcia Elizabeth HENRY (27 December 1853 - 6 February 1942, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana), McComb, Pike County, Mississippi. Joseph Alexander HENRY, the husband of Elizabeth E. PHILLIPS, and Marcia Elizabeth HENRY, the wife of Holden Evans PHILLIPS, were siblings. ____________________________ G0495C:
Marriage: 14 May 1799, Wilkes County,
Georgia Child 1: Augustus PHILLIPS (1807, Georgia - AFT 1848) [M]: m. Mary JONES (1810, Georgia - AFT 1848), 29 October 1834, Walton County, Georgia Child 2: Elijah PHILLIPS (7 July 1805, Morgan County, Georgia - 30 January 1860) [M]: m. Mary ALLEN, 15 December 1828, Walton County, Georgia Child 3: Harrington PHILLIPS (10 February 1807, Morgan County, Georgia - 30 August 1860, Randolph County, Alabama) [M]: m1. Sophia GAY (31 July 1814, Jasper County, Georgia - 4 August 1850, Randolph County, Alabama), 15 December 1831, Fayette County, Georgia; m2. Talitha J. UNKNOWN (6 July 1827 - 24 May 1887, Randolph County, Alabama), ABT 1854, Randolph County, Alabama Child 4: Singleton PHILLIPS (10 February 1807, Morgan County, Georgia - BY January 1836) [M]: m. Charity JONES, 10 January 1830, Walton County, Georgia Child 5: Martha ("Patsy") M. PHILLIPS (6 February 1811, Morgan County, Georgia - 14 February 1898, Randolph County, Alabama: interment at Concord Baptist Cemetery, Randolph County, Alabama) [F]: m. Franklin Augustus MCMURRY (27 March 1810, Morgan County, Georgia - 6 July 1906, Randolph County, Alabama), 8 May 1832, Walton County, Georgia Child 6: William PHILLIPS (1814, Morgan County, Georgia - ?) [M]: m. Sarah LASSETER (ABT 1820, Alabama - ?), 10 September 1839, Walton County, Georgia Child 7: Mary Ann PHILLIPS (18 February 1824, Morgan County, Georgia - ?, Morgan County, Georgia) [F]: m. Thomas Jeptha ATKINSON, 20 November 1842, Morgan County, Georgia Child 8: Elizabeth PHILLIPS (1826,
Georgia - ?, Good Hope, Walton County, Georgia) [F]: m.
Phillip THURMAN (THURMOND) (1809, Georgia - 1863, Walton
County, Georgia), 20 January 1839, Walton County, Georgia Note 1: Zachariah PHILLIPS was a veteran of the Revolutionary War as were his brother William, his uncle Zachariah, and his father Joel (Sr.). In 1781, Zachariah PHILLIPS is reported as one of the ten Captains with troops from Wilkes County, Georgia, who were dispersed along border areas in Wilkes County, to protect the county from Indian attacks.
In 1810, Maj. Zachariah PHILLIPS obtained a land grant in Morgan County, Georgia. Zachariah PHILLIPS was also a veteran of the War of 1812:
Note 2: Catherine CHAFFIN, as it seems, was the daughter of Isham CHAFFIN (ABT 1757, Prince Edward or Cumberland County, Virginia, British North America - BEF 23 March 1823, Wilkes County, Georgia) and Elizabeth "Betsy" BIRD (BEF 1760, Prince Edward County, Virginia, British North America - ?), who were married 18 December 1778, at Farmville, Cumberland County, Virginia, near the Prince Edward County line. For the marriage bond, William BYRD stood security. This is likely to have been Williamson BYRD (1728, Prince Edward County, Virginia - 23 July 1806, Wilkes County, Georgia), the paternal grandfather of Elizabeth "Betsy" BIRD. She was the daughter of Philemon BYRD (1747, Prince Edward County, Virginia, British North America - 7 May 1810, Wilkes County, Georgia) and Phebe PRICE (1733 - 1806, Wilkes County, Georgia). The Will of Isham CHAFFIN (CHAFFEN) records the following children: John, Martha "Patsy", Lemuel, and Thomas who "is to take care of his mother Patience ATKINS." If the children are listed in order of birth, then it would seem that the children of Betsy BIRD are among those named previous to Thomas. But this is quite uncertain. Isham CHAFFIN second married Patience ATKINS. She was
born, according to an obituary, in 1764. The obituary
reads "Mrs. Patience CHAFFIN was born November 5,
1764 and died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Nancy MONTGOMERY in Clark County, Georgia. For nearly
seventy years she professed the religion of Jesus Christ
and talked of her profession. She lived a Christian and
died a Saint." [Written by a friend.] This notice
also says she died May 27, 1860, age ninety-five years,
six months, and twenty-one days. Note 4: Harrington PHILLIPS and Sophia GAY:
Note 5: Sophia GAY, the wife of Harrington PHILLIPS, was the daughter of Gilbert GAY (2 February 1771, Northampton County, North Carolina, British North America - 9 September 1853, Fayette County, Georgia) and Lavise REYNOLDS (12 December 1769, North Carolina, British North America - 9 September 1853, Fayette County, Georgia) who were married, in Georgia, in 1793. Her siblings were: Nancy GAY (5 September 1794, Greene County, Georgia - BEF September 1852) [F]: m. William JACKSON, 28 December 1812, Jasper County, Georgia; Thomas Bolling GAY (15 May 1797, Greene County, Georgia - 1866, Fayette County, Georgia) [M]: m. Martha BRIDGES (16 September 1801, Fayette County, Georgia - 1860, Fayette County, Georgia), 1818, Fayette County, Georgia; Elizabeth GAY (22 January 1800, Fayette County, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. Bryant RUSHING (ABT 1799, Georgia - ABT 1819, Fayette County, Georgia), 7 March 1816, Jasper County, Georgia; Lavise GAY (12 August 1802, Fayette County, Georgia - BEF September 1852) [F]: m1. Patrick S. DEVAUGHN (ABT 1797 - BEF 1822), 29 December 1818, Jasper County, Georgia: m2. Harrison FOSTER, ABT 1822; Isaac P. GAY (14 December 1804, Fayette County, Georgia - 14 June 1869, Fayette County, Georgia) [M]: m. Elizabeth SHEPHERD (1806, Georgia - BEF 1869, Fayette County, Georgia), 19 December 1824, Newton County, Georgia; Dicy GAY (22 March 1807, Fayette County, Georgia - 14 February 1891, Heard County, Georgia: interment at Wood Cemetery, Heard County, Georgia) [F]: m. Col. Winston WOOD (15 September 1800, Clarke County, Georgia - 3 December 1865, Heard County, Georgia), 12 February 1824, Fayette County, Georgia; Gilbert Devane GAY (26 November 1809, Fayette County, Georgia - July 1823, Fayette County, Georgia) [M]; and Henry Mitchell GAY (9 March 1812, Fayette County, Georgia - 17 March 1865, Louina, Randolph County, Alabama, Confederate States of America: interment at Gay Cemetery, Randolph County, Alabama) [M]: m. Elizabeth AWBREY (6 February 1816, Heard County, Georgia - 22 June 1893, Randolph County, Alabama), ABT 1834, Heard County, Georgia. The Will of Gilbert GAY [transcribed by Penny Dodd]:
By his first marriage, to Sophia GAY, Harrington PHILLIPS engendered: Lavise Catherine PHILLIPS (1 November 1836, Randolph County, Alabama - 3 November 1883, Randolph County, Alabama) [F]: m. Wilson Lumpkin HEFLIN, M. D. (21 March 1828, Fayette County, Georgia - 13 August 1910, Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama), 8 December 1859, Randolph County, Alabama; William PHILLIPS (1834, Fayette County, Georgia - ?) [M]; Tennessee PHILLIPS (1836, Fayette County, Georgia- ?) [F]; Elizabeth PHILLIPS (1839, Fayette County, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. Jeptha Warren STELL (24 September1827, Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia - ?), 28 November 1848, Chambers County, Alabama [See G0493B: Robert Malone STELL (Jr.) Reverend, M. D., Child 1: Jeptha Warren STELL, in Antecedents and Descendants of Michael Stell (1683 - ABT 1706).]; Gilbert Gay PHILLIPS (1841 - ?) [M]; Zachariah PHILLIPS (1843 - ?) [M]; and Thomas PHILLIPS (1847 - ?) [M]. Wilson Lumpkin HEFLIN, M. D. was the son of Wyatt H. HEFLIN (7 February 1789, Orange County, North Carolina - 21 January 1860, Louina, Randolph County, Alabama) and Sarah A. STELL (19 November 1795, Hancock County, Georgia - 17 January 1869, Louina, Randolph County, Alabama), who were married 31 December 1811 in Morgan County, Georgia. Wyatt H. HEFLIN was the son of James HEFLIN (ABT 1750, England or North Carolina - ABT 1810, Orange County, North Carolina) and Bethania DAVIS (1753, Virginia - 1790, Orange County, North Carolina), who were married before 1772. Sarah A. STELL was the daughter of Robert Malone STELL (4 March 1767, Newberry District, South Carolina, British North America - 2 September 1814, Morgan County, Georgia) and Elizabeth JONES (ABT 1770, Newberry District, South Carolina, British North America - ABT 1840, Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia) and was, therefore, the sister of Col. John Dennis STELL and Rev. Robert Malone STELL, M. D. [See G0494A: Robert Malone STELL, Child 3: Sarah A. STELL, in Antecedents and Descendants of Michael Stell (1683 - ABT 1706); and see G0494A: Robert Malone STELL, Note 6, in Antecedents and Descendants of Michael Stell (1683 - ABT 1706).] By his second marriage, to Talitha J. UNKNOWN, Harrington PHILLIPS engendered: Martha M. PHILLIPS (1855 - ?) [F]; and Mary E. PHILLIPS (1859 - ?) [F]. Gilbert GAY, the father of Sophia GAY, was the son of Thomas GAY (BEF 1730, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 21 February 1784, Franklin County, North Carolina) and Patience McDaniel SIMMS (ABT 1742, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, British North America - 6 January 1791, Savannah, Georgia), who were married, in North Carolina, about 1758. His siblings were: John GAY (1 January 1760, Northampton County, North Carolina, British North America - BEF 12 December 1817, Jones County, Georgia) [M]: m. Amelia UNKNOWN, ABT 1785, Georgia; Temperance GAY (ABT 1762, Franklin County, North Carolina, British North America - ?) [F]: m. Jeremiah WALKER; Joshua GAY (ABT 1764, Northampton County, North Carolina, British North America - ?) [M]: m. Sallie BROWN (ABT 1770 - ?); William GAY (ABT 1764, Northampton County, North Carolina, British North America - 22 May 1852, Clayton County, Georgia) [M]: m. Mary ("Polly") HUNT (28 January 1770, North Carolina, British North America - 28 May 1851, Clayton County, Georgia), ABT 1790, Fayette County, Georgia; Allen GAY (ABT 1765, Northampton County, North Carolina, British North America - 18 June 1849, Coweta County, Georgia) [M]: m1. Celia Rae ELBERT (ABT 1767 - 26 January 1793, South Carolina), 5 September 1787, Washington County, Georgia: m2. Abigail CASTLEBERRY (ABT 1767, North Carolina, British North America - ABT 1824, Georgia), AFT 26 January 1793 and BEF 1794: m3. Anna Pickron BENTON, AFT 1824; Joanna GAY (ABT 1768, Northampton County, North Carolina, British North America - 7 September 1858, Clayton County, Georgia) [F]: m. Robert SIMMS (? - BET 1890/92, Clarke County, Georgia); Mary ("Polly") GAY (ABT 1772, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. Joseph THOMPSON; and Thomas GAY (ABT 1774, Franklin County, North Carolina, British North America - ?). The children of William GAY, the son of Thomas GAY (Jr.) and Patience McDaniel SIMMS, and Mary ("Polly") HUNT were: Penelope ("Penny") GAY (ABT 1787, North Carolina - ?) [F]: m. Henry OVERTON, 3 August 1815, Jasper County, Georgia; Arpy GAY (ABT 1795 - ?) [F]: m. Richard H. McGEE, 21 December 1815, Jasper County, Georgia; William GAY (ABT 1800 - ?) [M]: m. Lucy WYATT, 30 November 1816, Jasper County, Georgia; Marina GAY (15 December 1802, Georgia - 16 June 1876, Randolph County, Alabama) [F]: m. James M. PATE, 16 June 1821, Randolph County, Alabama; Cynthia GAY (29 September 1804, Georgia - 25 June 1897, Randolph County, Alabama) [F]: m. James OSBORN, 12 February 1824, Jasper County, Georgia; Sherrod Haywood GAY (2 March 1808, Hancock County, Georgia - 6 June 1894, Hancock County, Georgia: interment at Riverdale United Methodist Church Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Jefferson County, Georgia) [M]: m. Annis ALLEN (3 July 1814, Social Circle, Walton County, Georgia - 4 April 1894; interment at Riverdale Methodist Church, Pleasant Grove, Jefferson County, Georgia), 28 May 1839, Fayette County, Georgia; and Mary GAY (ABT 1812, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. Edmond P. EASON, 22 January 1829, Fayette County, Georgia. [Source: Jeannette Holland Austin, Georgia Pioneers] [See G0493A: Whitmill Phillips ALLEN, Note 13, in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmill Phillips Allen (6 November 1811 - January 1868) and G0494A: George ALLEN, Note 4, in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmill Phillips Allen (6 November 1811 - January 1868).] According to Georgia Revolutionary War Soldiers Graves, "William GAY, a native of Northhampton County, North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina troops from Franklin County. He later was certified as a Revolutionary War soldier by Col. Elijah Clarke and received bounty land along Little Creek in old Franklin County, Georgia for his services. Buried: GAY Family Cemetery, located on the site of the former Sherrod Haywood GAY Plantation 3 miles below the city of Riverdale, going south on Georgia Highway 85 on Helmer Rd." White's Historical Collections of Georgia has a good description of Fayette County, Georgia; and it lists a few cases of longevity, including William GAY, over 80. The best known source of information on the family GAY still appears to be the book, Historical Southern Families, Volume II, by John Bennett Boddie. Thomas GAY (Jr.), the father of Gilbert GAY, was born before 1740 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia and married Patience McDaniel SIMMS. According to Boddie, "Thomas Gay moved to Northhampton County, North Carolina. On September 17, 1763, Thomas GAY and Patience his wife made a very interesting deed in which he sets forth the derivation of the property through three generations. It is as "Thomas GAY and Patience, his now wife, of Northhampton County, North Carolina, to Robert Babb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, for 20 pounds current money already paid 50 acres lying on the North side of the main road in the Fork of the Head of the Western Branch of Nansemond in the county of Isle of Wight near the county line xxx part of a Tract of 150 acres of land belonging to Henry GAY and given unto his son Thomas GAY by will and from Thomas GAY to his son Jethro GAY by will and from Jethro GAY unto his brother Thomas GAY and Patience, his wife. Wits. Joseph Sikes, Hezekiah Hough, John Hough. (Deed Book 11, p. 182)"
For more about the system of kinship of Gilbert GAY, see Note 8 under G0495A: Rev. John HARVEY (Jr.) in Antecedents and Descendants of Rev. Isaac Harvey, Sr. (1786 - 16 September 1838). Note 6: Singleton PHILLIPS is known to have been alive in 1833 and, by January 1836, to have been no longer living. After his death, Charity JONES, his wife, married Giles S. WHITTEN. ____________________________ G0494A:
Marriage: 12 March 1809, Morgan
County, Georgia Child 1: Child 2: Elizabeth ALLEN (6 January
1814, Morgan County, Georgia - 26 February 1874, Smith
County, Texas: interment at Dover Baptist Church
Cemetery, Smith County, Texas) [F]: m. John EASON (12
March 1812 - 30 March 1873, Smith County, Texas:
interment at Dover Baptist Church Cemetery, Smith County,
Texas), 11 March 1835, Henry County, Georgia Note 1: A George ALLEN signed as having conducted the inventory of the estate of Presley Ramey in Wilkes County, Georgia, on 17 July 1794. Dabney Cholston and Absalom Ramey also signed the inventory. (But it seems unlikely that he could have been the same as the George ALLEN who was born in Kentucky since he would have been at least 21 in 1794 and thus born by 1773. If so, he would have been at least 36 when married in 1809 and at least 42 when he died in 1815. [See Davis, The Wilkes County Papers: 1773-1833, p. 223.) There was a George ALLEN who owned 200 acres in Wilkes County in 1790, Captain William Hurley's District (N). There was, however, no William ALLEN living near him. [See Frank Parker Hudson, A 1790 Census for Wilkes County, Georgia, p. 94.] George ALLEN, born in Kentucky, probably came to Morgan County, Georgia with his father in 1809 when he bought land there. He acquired 100 acres of land on Little Sandy Creek in Morgan County in March 1811. [See Morgan County Deed Book C, pp. 90-91.] George ALLEN apparently served in Major General John McIntosh's Division, Georgia Militia, in the War of 1812. The Georgia Genealogical Magazine, no. 24, April 1967, p. 1584 carries the following report from the 5 April 1815 Georgia Journal of Milledgeville, Georgia on George ALLEN's death:
The record of his service shows that George ALLEN enlisted on 21 November 1814 and died on 21 February 1815. His cousin, Hawkins PHILLIPS, identifies his unit as Capt. Henry Lane's Company, 4th Regiment, Georgia Militia, commanded by Colonel David Booth. According to the records, the company was also part of Lt. Col. William Jones's Battalion. [Affidavit of Hawkins PHILLIPS, 2 April 1855, Leake County, Mississippi, and War of 1812 records. Hawkins PHILLIPS (1787, Georgia - ABT 1858, Leake County, Mississippi) was the son of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr. and Charity BRANTLEY] Note 2: According to the marriage bond, Whitmell PHILLIPS (BEF 1773, Anson County, North Carolina - 1822, Morgan County, Georgia), the brother of Mary PHILLIPS, was the guarantor of Temperance PHILLIPS's marriage to George ALLEN, indicating that he - the guarantor - was her father. It is also likely that, at the time of her marriage, Temperance PHILLIPS had not yet attained the age of majority. This marriage is verifiable for 12 March 1809, Morgan County, Georgia in Georgia Marriages to 1850. But it is also claimed that Temperance PHILLIPS, the daughter of Whitmell PHILLIPS, was married to Charles ARRINGTON (1778, Virginia - ?), in Morgan County, Georgia, on 7 April 1810, and engendered Lewis ARRINGTON, in Virginia, in March 1823. And indeed, in Georgia Marriages to 1850, it can be seen that, on 29 March 1810, a marriage bond was obtained in Morgan County, Georgia, for Charles ARRINGTON and Tempy PHILLIPS. (ARRINGTON = HARRINGTON) The relationship between Temperance PHILLIPS and Tempy PHILLIPS is not definitely known; but it seems that they were distinctly different persons and that Whitmell PHILLIPS was the father of Temperance, not Tempy. The mother, accordingly, of Temperance PHILLIPS, the wife of George ALLEN, was Nancy ("Ann") HURLEY (1779, Wilkes County, Georgia - ?) who was married to Whitmell PHILLIPS before 1803. Nancy ("Ann") HURLEY was the daughter of Henry HURLEY and Fanny UNKNOWN. Tempy PHILLIPS may have been an untraced daughter of Joel PHILLIPS (Jr.) (AFT 1748, Wilkes County, Georgia, British North America - BEF 1812, Wilkes County, Georgia) and Charity BRANTLEY who were married about 1785. At some date after 1790, Joel PHILLIPS (Jr.) and Charity BRANTLEY, having removed themselves from Wilkes County, Georgia, became residents of that part of Baldwin County, Georgia, which - after 1807 - became Morgan County, the locale in which both Temperance and Tempy PHILLIPS obtained their marriage bonds. Georgia Marriages to 1850 also reports the marriage of a Tempy PHILLIPS to Howard PORTWOOD on 7 September 1815, in Wilkinson County. Note 3: Mary PHILLIPS and Whitmell PHILLIPS were the offspring of Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.) (BEF 1738, Surry County, Virginia, British North America - 3 October 1792, Phillips Mill, Wilkes County, Georgia) and Elizabeth HARRINGTON (BEF 1747 - BEF 1816, Wilkes County, Georgia). George ALLEN and Temperance PHILLIPS were, therefore, first cousins. [See G0496A: Joel PHILLIPS (Sr.).] Note 4: On 8 May 1819, after the deaths of her husband William ALLEN, her son George ALLEN, and her daughter-in-law, Temperance PHILLIPS, Mrs. Mary ALLEN (née PHILLIPS) was appointed guardian for her grandchildren, the children of George ALLEN, that is, for Whitmill P. ALLEN and Elizabeth ALLEN. [Sources: Morgan County Deed Book I, p. 509 and Jeanette Holland Austin, Georgia Intestate Records, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996, p. 6.] Accordingly, the relation of Whitmill Phillips ALLEN and Elizabeth ALLEN to their parents and grandparents is well established. Note 5: Mary Ann CAMP, the wife of George ALLEN, was the daughter of John ("Big Headed") CAMP (ABT 1785, Rutherford County, North Carolina - 3 July 1877, Smith County, Texas) and Winifred MATTOX (ABT 1784, Greenville County, South Carolina - AFT 1832, Jonesboro, Clayton County, Georgia: interment at a site on Walt Stephens Road, Jonesboro, Clayton County, Georgia). Note 6: John EASON, the husband of Elizabeth ALLEN, was the son of Abraham EASON (ABT 1775, of Fayette County, Georgia - ABT 1825, Fayette County, Georgia) and Lucibert ("Lucy") UNKNOWN (ABT 1779, Georgia - ABT 1853, <Paulding County>, Georgia), who were married about 1790. His siblings were: Nancy EASON (ABT 1791, Georgia - ?) [F]; Rice EASON (1793, Fayette County, Georgia - AFT 19 October 1850 [United States Census, Fayette County, Georgia], <Fayette County>, Georgia) [M]: m1. Frances ("Franky") MIERS (1801, Georgia - AFT 19 October 1850 [United States Census, Fayette County, Georgia], <Fayette County>, Georgia): m2. Aley MCEACHERN; Martha ("Patsy") EASON (ABT 1795, Georgia - ?) [F]; Abraham EASON (ABT 1797, Georgia - ?) [M]: m. Mary GRANVILLE, ABT 1821; Edmond P. EASON (ABT 1801, Georgia - ?) [M]: m. Mary GAY (ABT 1812, Georgia - ?), 22 January 1829, Fayette County, Georgia; Lucy B. EASON (ABT 1803, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. Samuel P. PARSON; Mary EASON (ABT 1803, Georgia - ?) [F]: m. W. M. HODGE; James EASON (ABT 1805, Georgia - ?) [F: m. Rhoda Ann MCELROY; Katherine EASON (ABT 1807, Georgia - ?) [F]; William EASON (ABT 1811, Georgia - ?) [M]: m1. Sarah AUSTIN: m2. Martha Jane GARMON; and Andrew Jackson EASON (January 1817, Georgia - ABT 1904, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas: interment at Oakland Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas) [M]: m. Elizabeth A. R. FINDLAY (March 1822, Georgia - ABT 1902, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas: interment at Oakland Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas), 29 August 1839. Mary GAY, the wife of Edmond P. EASON, was the sister of Sherrod Haywood GAY (2 March 1808, Hancock County, Georgia - 6 June 1894, Hancock County, Georgia: interment at Riverdale United Methodist Church Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Jefferson County, Georgia), the father-in-law of James Marion ("Mel") ALLEN. Mary GAY and Sherrod Haywood GAY were the offspring of William GAY (1766, North Carolina, British North America - 22 May 1852, Fayette County, Georgia) and Mary HUNT (28 January 1770 - 28 May 1851, Fayette County, Georgia); and their siblings were: William GAY (ABT 1791 - ?, Selma, Dallas County, Alabama) [M]: m. Lucy WYATT (ABT 1796 - ?), 30 November 1816, Jasper County, Georgia; Penelope ("Penny") GAY (ABT 1792, North Carolina - ?) [F]: m. Henry OVERTON (ABT 1788 - ?), 3 August 1815, Jasper County, Georgia; Arpamantha ("Arpy") GAY (ABT 1795 - 1856, Newton County, Mississippi: interment at McGee Cemetery, Newton County, Mississippi) [F]: m. Richard Henry MCGEE (ABT 1792, Jones County, Georgia - 7 February 1896, Newton County, Mississippi: interment at McGee Cemetery, Newton County, Mississippi), 21 December 1815, Jasper County, Georgia; Marina GAY (15 December 1802, Georgia - 16 June 1876, Randolph County, Alabama) [F]: m. James M. PATE (ABT 1797 - ?), 16 June 1821, Randolph County, Alabama; and Cynthia ("Cynthy") GAY (29 September 1804, Georgia - 25 June 1897, Randolph County, Alabama) [F]: m. James OSBORN (ABT 1800 - ?), 12 February 1824, Jasper County, Georgia. [See above, G0495C: Maj. Zachariah PHILLIPS, note 5; and see G0493A: Whitmill Phillips ALLEN, note 13, in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmill Phillips Allen (6 November 1811 - January 1868) and G0494A: George ALLEN, note 4, in Antecedents and Descendants of Whitmill Phillips Allen (6 November 1811 - January 1868).] APPENDIX: THE PHILLIPS NOTES OF MRS. DOROTHY TAYLOR 1759: June 10, Anson County, North Carolina - Joel PHILLIPS was granted 200 acres on Peedee River. Zachariah PHILLIPS also appeared here. [North Carolina Land Grants, vol. 1, p. 171, grant number 1439] General Elijah CLARKE, noted Revolutionary War general of Georgia, moved to Wilkes County, Georgia about the same time as the PHILLIPSes and was also for a time located in Anson County, North Carolina. After leaving Anson County, Gen. CLARKE obtained a grant on the Pacolet River in South Carolina where he lived for a year or so. From there, he went to Wilkes County, Georgia. Several other PHILLIPS families that settled early in Wilkes County also were from South Carolina and doubtless had gone to South Carolina from North Carolina, thence to Georgia. 1773: October 15, Wilkes County, Georgia - 200 acres at Reedy Creek granted to Joel PHILLIPS, Sr., a wife, five sons and two daughters, from fifteen years to nine months of age. Zachariah PHILLIPS of North Carolina, wife, four sons, and one daughter, was granted 500 acres on Luck Creek at the spring where he had built a cabin, Augusta, Georgia, November 1773. Mrs. Eliza A. Bowen, of Wilkes County, Georgia (1828 - 1898), wrote a series of historical articles on the history of Wilkes County that were published in The Gazette Chronicle of Washington County, Georgia from 1886 to 1897, later republished in a book called The Story of Wilkes County, Georgia (Marietta, Georgia: Continental Book Company, 1950): "Early in the revolution, Georgia was divided about joining the effort to gain independence. At a meeting in Savannah at Tondee's Tavern,1 there was an expression of sympathy with those who wished to declare the colony independent. The county above Savannah was not ready and there were meetings in Burke and Columbia (counties) to protest the Tondee meeting. In the papers of protest, in what is now Columbia, you may find appended the names of Joel and Zachariah PHILLIPS, evidently brothers." Though their names were signed to the protest showing their loyalty at times to Great Britain, they later joined the Patriots and fought and suffered. There are a few records showing that, during the Revolutionary War, there was a fort, one of many for protection against Indians and Tories, called Phillips Fort that was built on the land of Zachariah PHILLIPS who, in colonial records, is called "Captain Zachariah PHILLIPS." 1782: April 1 - [Wilkes County Deeds, Book MM, p. 441]: "William PHILLIPS of Wilkes County, Georgia for 25 pounds sterling to Joel PHILLIPS, Sr. of Wilkes County, 100 acres, along Little River, with all improvements." 1784: December 9 - Joel PHILLIPS, Sr. was granted 950 acres, in Wilkes County, Georgia, by the governor of Georgia, for services in the Revolutionary War. 1786: August 15 - [Wilkes County Deeds, Book SS, p. 54]: Joel PHILLIPS, of "Wilkes County, a member of the church constituted on Little River near the said PHILLIPS, conveys land to Silas MERCER, minister of the church." "Out of the regard which I bear that society, I give unto all ministries of the Protestant minister of this church the said land on Little River." This would be Phllips Mill Baptist Church, Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia. 1788: Joel PHILLIPS, Sr. and wife Elizabeth (Harrington) PHILLIPS sell 175 acres on Little River to Alexander Norris. 1791: December 12 - Isaiah PHILLIPS's deed to Joel PHILLIPS, Sr. for a slave, Bet, twenty years old and her child Rose. 1792: October 3 - Joel PHILLIPS, Sr. deceased. Appraisement of his estate: 850 acres of land. Administrators: Elizabeth (Harrington) PHILLIPS and William PHILLIPS. 1795: January 7 - Estate of William PHILLIPS, deceased. Piety (Brantley) PHILLIPS and John OGLETREE, administrators. Jesse BRANTLEY and Joel PHILLIPS, Jr., security. Polly Harris PHILLIPS, orphan child of William PHILLIPS. John OGLETREE and wife appointed her guardians. Joel PHILLIPS, Jr. - his exact date of birth unknown. May likely have been the eldest son of Joel, Sr. and Elizabeth PHILLIPS. He married Charity BRANTLEY. 1800: Elizabeth (Harrington) PHILLIPS approved as administratrix of the estate of Joel PHILLIPS, Sr. 1802: Guardian of Polly Harris PHILLIPS (who married Joseph HACKNEY on 16 February 1809 in Wilkes County, Georgia) vs. Elizabeth (Harrington) PHILLIPS, executrix of Joel PHILLIPS, Sr., deceased. Arbitrators decided William PHILLIPS, deceased, received his share of the estate of Joel PHILLIPS, Sr. in his life-time and is due nothing. 1805: Land Lottery - Joel PHILLIPS, Jr., 5th District of Baldwin County, Georgia, drew lot #48 in the 25th District of Wilkinson County, Georgia for 202½ acres. This land was part of the estate of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr. for some years after his death. 1807: September 24 - Whitmell PHILLIPS and Charity (Brantley) PHILLIPS applied for papers of administration on the estate of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr., deceased, and advertised in the Milledgeville Advertiser on the above date. The letters were granted and Charity (Brantley) PHILLIPS was allowed $30 per annum for her keep and that of her six children. [Note: The estate began in Baldwin County, Georgia and was transferred to, and completed, in Morgan County after its formation. 1808: February - Charity (Brantley) PHILLIPS drew lot #284 on Reedy Fork of Indian Creek in Morgan County. This was later sold to John Burney, whose wife was a PHILLIPS. March 7 - Whitmell PHILLIPS and Charity (Brantley) PHILLIPS were formally appointed administrators of the estate of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr., deceased. Hawkins PHILLIPS appears on tax list, Morgan County, Georgia. Whitmell PHILLIPS made returns on 67 acres in Morgan County. Whitmell PHILLIPS, as administrator of the estate of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr., paid taxes on 202 acres in Wilkinson County, Georgia and 125 acres in Clark County, Georgia, part of the estate of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr. 1809: Hawkins PHILLIPS paid taxes on 119 acres in Baldwin County, Georgia, on Hard Labor Creek. 1810: Hawkins PHILLIPS paid poll tax in Morgan County, Georgia, listed in Capt. Gilbery Westin's District. Whitmell PHILLIPS, as administrator of the estate of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr., paid taxes on a large amount of his own land and also on the estate of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr. 1812: Will of Elizabeth (Harrington) PHILLIPS, Wilkes County, Georgia - Estate to be divided equally between three sons, Whitmell PHILLIPS, Zachariah PHILLIPS, and Elijah PHILLIPS, and two daughters, Mary ALLEN and Sarah POWELL. She mentions the heirs of her deceased son, Joel PHILLIPS, Jr., and her granddaughter Polly HACKNEY, daughter of William PHILLIPS. She signed her Will in 1812 and it was probated in 1816.
Some accounts of Col. CLARKE of original Wilkes County and of many of his men during the Revolutionary War have been published in Frederick Hays, Hero of Hornet's Nest: A Biography of Elijah Clark (1733 to 1799) (New York: 1946). Original papers can be found in the office of the Secretary of State, Atlanta, Georgia, including a certified list of Georgia troops in the Revolutionary War. Also, there is a list of those who fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek. Joel PHILLIPS, Sr. received head rights grants in Wilkes County in 1784. He also obtained bounty grants for service in the Revolutionary War but these were usually in Washington or Franklin counties. Hawkins PHILLIPS was living in Morgan County in 1812 and was listed as being in the 4th Regiment of the Militia of Georgia, War of 1812. 1816: November 23 - James PHILLIPS married Delphi HENDERSON in Morgan County, Georgia. 1817: Whitmell PHILLIPS makes return on 200 acres on Hard Creek and on 202½ acres in Wilkinson County, Georgia. As administrator of the estate of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr., he paid taxes on 202½ acres in Wilkinson County and on 125 acres in Clark County, Georgia. Hawkins PHILLIPS only paid poll tax in 1817. 1818: Hawkins PHILLIPS listed in Capt. Parker's District and he paid poll taxes. Whitmell PHILLIPS, as administrator of the estate of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr., paid tax on 202½ acres in Wilkinson County, Georgia and on 125 acres in Clark County, Georgia. 1819: Charity (Brantley) PHILLIPS withdrew her membership from the Sandy Creek Primitive Baptist Church in Morgan County, Georgia. 1820: Charity (Brantley) PHILLIPS listed as being in Parker's District of Morgan County, Georgia, where she drew in the Land Lottery lot #221 in Irvin County, Georgia. Records show she never claimed land but turned it back to the state. James PHILLIPS (who married Delphi HENDERSON) drew lot #136 in the 11th District of Habersham County, Georgia. He was living in Morgan County at that time. After 1820. there are no more records of the family of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr. in Morgan County, Georgia. This indicates that they left the county about that time. The fact that Charity (Brantley) PHILLIPS withdrew her letter from Sandy Creek Baptist Church indicates such a move. A few facts indicate they went to Alabama about that time. One of the children of Hawkins PHILLIPS, Whitmell PHILLIPS (born in 1820), in every census from 1850 to 1880, stated that he was born in Alabama in 1820. The location of the family when first in Alabama has not been discovered.
1830: December 2 - Land records show the following: Book B, p. 194 - William Hasty of Merriweather County, Georgia to Hawkins PHILLIPS of Carroll County, a tract in District 9, 200½ acres. Witness: Joel PHILLIPS (son of Hawkins PHILLIPS) and Elizabeth Brown. Coosa County, Alabama: Land records show at least a dozen families of PHILLIPSes obtained lands in Coosa County in 1835-40. Among these, Hawkins PHILLIPS of Carroll County, Georgia, Hiram PHILLIPS of Bibb County, Alabama, James PHILLIPS of Georgia, and many others. The 1840 census reveals Hiram PHILLIPS, Sr. (younger brother of Hawkins PHILLIPS and the son of Joel PHILLIPS, Jr. and Charity BRANTLEY) and Hiram PHILLIPS, Jr. (the son of Hawkins PHILLIPS). As far as the records show, Hiram PHILLIPS, Sr. and his family of two sons remained in Coosa County, Alabama. One of the sons married Matilda BURGESS, a younger sister of the wife of Hiram PHILLIPS, Jr.
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Joseph Edward Lake At the age of twenty, Joseph Edward Lake became one of the youngest persons to be employed as a Foreign Service Officer of the United States government. During his 35-year career in the State Department, Lake served as ambassador to Albania and Mongolia, deputy assistant secretary of state for information management, director of the State Department’s crisis management center and adviser to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations. Lake spent ten years in East Asia, six years in West Africa and five years in the Balkans. Other contributions were made by Ms. Shirley Phillips Barnes and Mr. Joseph H. Barber, Jr. Persons contributing to this web page are not responsible for the use which its author has made of their information or points of view. All such errors as may be found herein are entirely the fault of the author of this web page. RETURN: Phillips Mill Baptist Church: The Bequest of Joel Phillips, Sr. (ABT 1728 - 3 October 1792) GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES: TABLE OF CONTENTS GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES: HOME This web site is always under construction. For entries preceded by an asterisk (*), further information is forthcoming. Persons wishing to contribute information to this web site, or who wish to make inquiries, may do so by addressing their email to:
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