Edmund Phillips (abt. 1770 - aft. 1824)

Born about 1770 in Virginia

Husband of Milly (McDermid) Phillips — married 7 Sep 1796 in Mason County Kentucky

Died after 1824 after about age 54 in Kentucky USA

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Biography

Edmund married Milly Phillips, widow of Gabriel Phillips, on 7 September 1796. The bondsman was George Phillips.

Edmund is featured in Collin's History of Kentucky, although some of the dates are probably incorrect:

Edmund Phillips, in Feb., 1785, came to Maysville, where and at Waring’s station he lived that summer. He brought out to Kentucky his father, Moses Phillips, with his wife (a daughter of Francis McDermid), their sons, John, Gabriel, and Moses, and sons-in-law, Peter and Wm. Byram, and Clement Theobalds, their wives, and a family of negroes; after living awhile at Bryan’s station, they settled at Lee’s station. In the summer of 1787, the three brothers, with three of the negroes, engaged at work in the field, were fired upon by Indians, concealed in the tall corn; Moses was killed, John badly wounded, and the negroes captured. In a few hours, a party of whites pursued them across the Ohio at Logan’s gap, 6 miles below Maysville, and came up with the you negro man Bob, weltering in his blood – tomahawked because of his resistance. Further pursuit was fruitless. Some years after, the other negroes, Isaac and Sarah, were recovered from captivity.

Sources

• Marriage records of Mason County Kentucky.

• Fayette County Kentucky Records", Vol. 1, Michael L. Cook, C.G. and Bettie A. Cummings Cook, C.G. (Volume 10 of Kentucky Records Series), Cook Publications, 3318 Wimberg Avenue, Evansville, Indiana 47712, 1985

• History of Kentucky: by the late Lewis Collins, revised, enlarged four-fold, and brought down to the year 1874 by his son, Richard H. Collins. Vol 2 Collins & Co, Covington, KY, 1882; pages 564-565.