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Phillip Myers (1763)

Phillip Myers
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Biography

US Black Heritage Project
Phillip Myers is a part of US Black heritage.

Myers, Phillip + b. 1763 MD abt m. Wilkes, Lydia/Louisa

LOOKING FOR ANCESTOR TO PHILLIP MYERS. FAMILY CAME FROM GERMANY.

"Centennial Souvenir 1808 - 1908 Barnesville Belmont Co Ohio" pg 12 sent by Ken Todd: "PHILLIP MYERS (colored) and Lydia Wilkes Myers, his wife, came to Barnesville in 1823 from Farquier Co, VA. Of these parents were born four children John, Thomas, Jeremiah, Philip W. and Ann Mariah."

"Story of Barnesville" book: "...a noted colored driver and one of the earliest Barnesville men to make the trip to Baltimore with a six horse team. He is Philip Myers and remembered by some of our older citizens. He was a free-born, colored person and obtained a pass from Frederick, MD, his home town before coming here in 1825. He followed teaming until the railroad made it unprofitable and he died at the age of ninety-six."

Sources

  • 1850 Census: "1850 United States Federal Census"
    The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: Somerset, Belmont, Ohio; Roll: 661; Page: 397a; Line Number: 4
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8054 #13215862
    Phillip Myers (87) in Somerset, Belmont, Ohio, USA. Born in Maryland.




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