Ammi Phillips (1788 - 1865)

Born 24 Apr 1788 in Colebrook, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

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Died 11 Jul 1865 at age 77 in Curtisville, East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Ammi Phillips is Notable.

Ammi Phillips was a notable American folk art painter.

He was born on April 24, 1788, in Colebrook, Connecticut, the son of Samuel Phillips (1760-1842), a farmer by trade and veteran of the Revolutionary war, and Millea (1763-1861).^[1]

He married, first, Laura Brockway in Nassau, New York on March 18th, 1813.^[2] They had four sons: Henry, George, William, and Russell Phillips. Laura died on February 2nd, 1830 at the age of 38.^[1]

He married, second, Jane Ann Caulkins, twenty years his junior, five months after the passing of his first wife. They had four children together: Anna, Jane, Samuel, and Sarah Phillips. Sarah passed away at the age of four and a half.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammi_Phillips
2. ↑ "New York Marriages, 1686-1980", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F6HP-JFM : 21 January 2020), Ammi Philips, 1813.

• http://selftaughtgenius.org/artworks/girl-in-red-dress-with-cat-and-dog-ammi-phillips

• "Massachusetts State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ42-WVP : 11 March 2018), Ammi Phillips, New Marlborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States; State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 953,974.

• "Massachusetts State Census, 1865", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQHN-Y1K : 1 June 2018), Ammi Phillips, 1865.

• "United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24Q-RSYH : accessed 7 October 2020), Samuel Phillips in entry for Millea Phillips, 04 Mar 1836; citing Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, NARA microfilm publication T718 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1962), roll 18; FHL microfilm 1,319,398.