Thomas Phillips (1684 - 1743)

Born 27 Oct 1684 in Richmond, Virginia Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Ann Copeland — married 1712 in Essex County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 1 Nov 1743 at age 59 in Craven, North Carolina

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Biography

Thomas Phillips was a Virginia colonist.

Thomas Phillips

Family Tree Information Sourced

THOMAS"Rev" {VARichmond**JohnJSr&Eliza} PHILLIPS

Sex: M

Birth: 27 OCT 1684 in North Farnham, Richmond Co, VA 1

Death: in Richmond Co., VA or Craven Co., NC

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Father: JOHN-TWIN {VAHenrico>NY**Henry&Martha} PHILLIPS b: 13 SEP 1665 in North Farnham, Richmond Co, VA

Mother: ELIZABETH {ScotlandAyr>VA**James&Bessie} TOBIAS b: ABT 1652 in Ayr, Scotland

Father: JOHN JAMESSr {WALES+DNA**-s\oJames} PHILLIPS b: 13 SEP 1653 in Wales

Mother: ELIZABETH {ScotlandAyr>VA**James&Bessie} TOBIAS b: ABT 1652 in Ayr, Scotland

Marriage 1 ANN {VARichmond-mRevThomasPhillips} COPELAND b: AFT 1684 in of Richman Co., VA

Marriage 2 ISABELLA {VARichmond**mThomasPhillips} LANTHORPE b: 1690 in of Richman Co., VA Married: BEF 1726 1

Children

Has Children MASON {VAPrinceGeorge**Thomas&Isabella} PHILLIPS b: 23 JUL 1728 in Bristol Parish, Prince George Co., VA

Has No Children MARK {VAPrinceGeorge**Thomas&Isabella} PHILLIPS b: 9 MAR 1729

Has No Children MARY {VARichmond-Thomas&Isabella} PHILLIPS b: 9 MAR 1729 in Bristol Parish, Prince George, VA

Has Children THOMAS3rd {NCCraven**Thomas&Isabella} PHILLIPS b: BET 1730 AND 1732 in Wilkes Co., NC'

Has No Children JAMES {NCCraven**Thomas&Isabella} PHILLIPS b: 12 SEP 1734

Has Children JOHN {VA>NCMoore**Thomas&Isabella} PHILLIPS b: 7 JUN 1735 in Bristol Parish, Prince George Co., VA

Has No Children WILLIAM {VARichmond-Thomas&Isabella} PHILLIPS b: 1737 in Bristol Parish, Prince George, VA ^[2]

Research Notes:

Note: WILL OF THOMAS PHILLIPS In the name of God, Amen, I Thomas Phillips of Craven County in his Majesty's Province, of North Carolina, being sick and weak of Body, in possession of perfect memory. Thanks be given to God and considering the mortality of Body and knowing that is appointed for all once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament.....to the earth...a decent Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors that as touching such worldly state where with it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, demise and dispose of the Same in the following manner and form.

I give and bequeath to Isabelle, my Dearly beloved whom I constitute as Executrix of this my last Will and Testament...singular worldly goods...effects together with other chattles pertaining to or belonging to me or in my possession to be possessed by her during her lifetime or she marries afterwards to pertain and belong to my beloved son William.

Item: I give and bequeath to my beloved son John whom I also constitute as Executor of my last Will - one shilling Sterling to be raised and payed out of my Estate

Item: I give and bequeath to my beloved son Mason one ShillingSterling to be raised and payed out of my Estate

Item: I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Mary one Shilling Sterling to be raised and payed out of my Estate

Item; I give and bequeath to my son Thomas one Shilling Sterling

Item: I give and bequeath to my son James one Shilling Sterling

Item: I give and bequeath to my son Mark one Shilling Sterling

Item: I give and bequeath to my youngest son William all singular and worldly goods belonging to me, to be possessed and enjoyed by him at his Mother's decease or marriage.

(I can't read part of the next line)...to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof sealed with my Seal the twenty second day of June in the year of our Lord 1743.

Thomas (signed with a mark) Phillips

Witness Robt. (can't read last name could be Patrick) Henry Summerland The Will was proven in Court by Henry Summerland on 22 Day of December l743. ^[3]

Note: There is no mention of land in this Will, so it is not clear if he owned any.

Note: The next record we find for Isabelle or Isabella is for a Land Grant which was issued 27 September 1766 but has a date of 1745. ^[4] We shall see that this Land Grant appears to have actually been issued in 1746 but not recorded.

Note: Isabella Phillips a Plantation containing Four Hundred Acres of Land lying in Craven County on the N. side of Nuce River joyning Henry Summerland's land and running up the Bear Pocosson. The said land to be seated according to Rights proven and Est. with ??? before the delivery thereof to the Surveyor.

Note: It is worth noting that the legacies left to several of the children, one shilling sterling, was the same as the legacy left to Ann Copeland by her father.

Note: It is clear that Ann Copeland could not have been the mother of the younger children. A theory is that she died, and Thomas remarried an Isabel, as noted in the NC records as his wife. If this is so, then Ann would have died after 1720, when her father's will was probated. The will was, however, written in 1712, as which time Anne is noted as "Ann Phillips".

Family Tree Information

Thomas Phillips and Isabel/Isabella had children 1726-1734 then moved from Bristol Parish Prince George Co. VA to Craven Co. NC sometime before 1743, when Thomas wrote his will and then died, leaving Isabel a widow. She married (2nd marriage) John Griffin.

Their son John Phillips, my ancestor, (b. and baptized 1726) and your Thomas Phillips (prob. born 1732) are brothers, and their other brothers are Mason Phillips (b. 1728) and Mark Phillips (b. between 1734 and 1743) and William Phillips (born between 1734 and 1743.) John (b. 1726) married Elizabeth ____. He had daughters, including Argent Phillips (in your Bible the name is given as Argin) and a daughter Mary Phillips, born about 1750-1755.

Their daughter Mary Phillips married John Hardy. My great-great grandmother Jemima Hardy [Phillips] is the daughter of Mary Phillips and John Hardy. Jemima Hardy married Charles Phillips, who is (I am sure) the son of Mason Phillips. Jemima's brother John Hardy is the one who married Rhoda Phillip So here they are: Thomas Phillips (d. 1743) and Isabel (in VA and NC) John Phillips (b. 1726) and Elizabeth (in Craven-Lenoir NC) Mary Phillips (b. about 1750-1755) married John Hardy (in Craven-Lenoir NC) Jemima Hardy married Charles Phillips (both born about 1771-1775) NC-SC-TN-KY Abraham Phillips (b. 1807) married Elizabeth Anglin KY Mason Leander Phillips married Nancy Catherine O'Nan KY William Mason Phillips , born 1884 KY) married Hazel Spencer Phillips (b.1896 OH). births and baptisms ALL BRISTOL PARISH:

1) 8 May 1726 - John Phillips, son of Thomas Phillips and Isabel, born. John Phillips baptized 7 June 1726. (Hot Church of Englanders.) ^[5]

2) 6 November 1726 - Joseph Phillips, son of John Phillips and Ann, born. NO BAPTISM RECORDED.

3) 23 July 1728 - Mason Phillips, son of Thomas Phillips and Isabel, born. Mason Phillips baptized 16 Sep. 1728. (Harvest was over?? Time to bring him in, but again they brought him in promptly.)

4) 9 March 1730/1731 - Mary Phillips, dau. of Thomas Phillips and Isabel, born. Mary Phillips bapt. 19 April 1731. (Again, bapt. soon after birth.)

5) [1732 OR 1733 WE THINK THOMAS PHILLIPS, SON OF THOS. AND ISABELLA WAS BORN, ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF CHILDREN IN THOMAS PHILLIPS'S WILL IN CRAVEN CO. NC.]

6) 12 Sept. 1734 - James Phillips, son of Thomas Phillips and Isabella, born. No baptism recorded. This is the first time the name "Isabella" appears. [No further record of Thomas and Isabel[la] in Prince George Co. Next record of them is in Craven Co. NC., as you found.]

Mary Phillips - dau. of John Phillips and Anne, born 11 April 1731, baptized 14 November 1731.

No other Phillips in Bristol Parish until 1740.

7) 20 Aug. 1740 - John Phillips, son of John and Anne Phillips, born. No bapt. recorded. There is someone from this family --a John Phillips-- whose death, prob. in 1820, caused the survey to be made of the farm on Second Swamp.

No other Phillips in Bristol Parish until 1743. 8) George, s. of John Phillips and Anne, born 15 Ferbuary 1742/1743. Bapt. 29 May 1743. 9) Elizabeth, dau. of John Phillips and Anne, born 5 Feb. 1745-1746. No baptism recorded.

This strongly suggests that they went away and came back. No other Phillips entries in Baptisms or Births, but a John and an Ann do appear in the Vestry Records. Some pretty strange entries, actually. He (or his relative) appears to be a pillar of the parish. An Ann appears to be receiving financial or other help from members of the vestry.

NOTE THAT THE CRAVEN COUNTY RECORDS SHOW A JOHN PHILLIPS AND A JOHN PHILLIPS JR., SO ONE OF THESE JOHN PHILLIPSES WAS IN CRAVEN WITH THOMAS AND ISABEL. One of those Craven Co. deeds calls John-son-of-Thomas-and Isabel "John JR."

I feel that our Thomas and Isabel were strict Church of England observers, as indeed most of Virginia was. But they really did bring their children in promptly, as required.

Marriage Husband: Thomas Phillips Wife: Isabelle Lanthrope Date: 1726

Husband: Thomas Phillips Wife: Ann Copeland Date: 1712 Place: Essex County, Virginia, USA

Sources

1. ↑ [(Event: Researched by - from census, marriage, cemetery, church, war, & family records & wills Event: Researched by Tricia Smith 9-21-2000 )]
2. ↑ [(http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=ipftphillips&id=I08956&op=GET)]
3. ↑ [(From the research of Mary Jane Phillips Matz, Lenore PhillipsSmith and Martha Mewborn Marble:)]
4. ↑ [(Grant 93 Book# 17 page 373. Sent by Lenore P. Smith.)]
5. ↑ "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR5Y-JPK : 5 December 2014), Jno. Phillips, 08 May 1726; citing , reference ; FHL microfilm 1036590 IT 2.

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