Charles Phillips (abt. 1772 - 1849)

Born about 1772 in Dobbs (Craven) County, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Jemima Hardy — married 1794 in North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 1849 at about age 77 in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Charles Phillips was a North Carolina colonist.

Charles Phillips migrated from North Carolina to TN.

Charles and Jemima (Hardy) Phillips Family, Information from "The Heritage of Old Buncombe County, NC, 1987 through Martha Rhyne, Central, SC • Page: 295:

Charles Phillips, farmer and planter, was born about 1772 in historic Dobbs Co, North Carolina. His wife, Jemima hardy, also from the area of Dobbs County which was then Craven and later became Lenoir, was born in 1775, Daughter of John Hardy (whose will spells the name Hardee) and Mary Philips. The close association of these two families is documented through more than 250 years of records. The Phillips family from which both Charles Phillips and Jemima Hardy descend can be traced back to the 1720s in Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Virginia, where John Phillips bought land from Edmund Browder and established his family. He and Thomas Phillips, and their respective wives, Ann and Isabella (Mason or Lathrop), moved into North Carolina after some of their children were born. In Chowan and Bertie Counties, and later in Craven County, they became affiliated with their neighbors, the Hardy's; both farmed on Contentnea Creek.

Charles and Jemima Hardy Phillips lived in Buncombe county in 1795, when their son Mason Phillips was born. They had been preceded into eastern North Carolina by family members who held land grants in old Burke County, Among their related families are Lassiter, Hooker, Browning, Stevens and Witherington/Weathington. This family moved from Buncombe County at least three times, and returned to it, between 1800 and 1826. They emigrated finally to Clay county, Kentucky, in that area which is now Owsley county. Charles Phillips died in 1849; Jemima Hardy Phillips died in 1868. both are buried near their old homestead on Big Sturgeon Creek, in the Rockfalls Church Cemetery in Jackson County, Ky., west of Green Hall.

Relatives of Charles Phillips and Jemima Hardy farmed in Buncombe, Yancey, Mitchell and adjacent counties of North Carolina, and in Newberry County, South Carolina, as well as in Clay, Owsley, Rockcastle and Estill Counties in Kentucky,

Carefully kept records, collected by Charles and Jemima Hardy Phillips and their children and by the family of the Rev. James Anglin and his wife, Jane Barrett, made it possible for William Mason Phillips (1885-1954) to document the family in his microfilm "My Father's Family," which is in the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort.

The great-great grandchildren of Charles and Jemima Hardy Phillips are scattered in Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois and other western states; but they have been able to contact each other because of the data in Willam Mason Phillips' microfilm, which contains records of several hundred family members. Writing of Charles Phillips, his great-grand father, William Mason Phillips said: "Entering Kentucky at the Cumberland Gap, he followed the ancient warrior's Path, northward through the mountain region where the pioneer travellers to the new West suffered so many hardships. In Clay County, Kentucky, he made another and his last stand, being among the early white settlers in that section of Kentucky...There, in the peaceful valley of the Kentucky River, among high mountains and woods abounding in wild game, he took up his abode, enduring the hardships of the true pioneer... The house wherein he dwelt was a substantial double long cabin with a Dog-walk between the two ends, built in the style handed down by early American settlers, with a clap-boarded roof and having projected eaves that also formed a porch, under which hung various utensils of husbandry."

In the decades of their lives, they had come far indeed from the comfortable plantation life of their established antecedents in Craven and Lenoir counties. With them were two other family members, the Revolutionary veteran John Phillips (b. 1761, enlisted in Fairfield Co., South Carolina) and Aaron Phillips, son of Stephen and Betsy Phillips (b. 1778, in Spartanburg or Greenville Counties, South Carolina).

Sources: Wills, deeds, marriage bonds; family Bible records; jury and voter lists; Church of England and Primitive Baptist Records; the William Mason Phillips microfilm; cemetery records; veterans and survivors' pension applications. Mary Jane Phillips Matz

• Letter from Rebecca Phillips Tinsley, Frankfort, KY dated Oct. 4, 1994: Charles Phillips, born about 1772 in N.C. died in Owsley, Co., KY around 1849. He married Jemima Hardy, 1775 N.C. and died 1868 Jackson Co., KY. We traveled around and found the place they were buried. Rock Springs Primitive Baptist Church still stands at the foot of the hill of the cemetery. They do not have marked graves.

• Charles & Jemima had: Mason, Hardy, Abraham (my gr. gr. grandfather), Bright, Mahulda, Elizabeth, Clarisa & Pierson. Abraham was born Dec. 23, 1807 at Newberry, S.C. & died Oct. 29, 1888 at Rockcastle Co., Ky. He married in Clay Co., KY. Elizabeth Anglin, born Oct 23, 1817 in Clay Co., KY. died July 27, 1911 Rockcastle Co., KY. We also visited Abraham and Elizabeth grave. They do have a marker. Abraham & Elizabeth had children as follows: Joel Woodson (my gr. grandfather), Mary Ann, William Hardy, John Calvin, Charles, James, Harvey, Frankie, Jane, Mason Leander, Martha Clarissa & Sarah Isabell. Sincerely, Rebecca Phillips Tinsley

Sources

• 1830 United States Federal Census for Charles Philips https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8058/images/4410704_00344usePUB=true&_phsrc=jUX980&_phstart=default&usePUBJs=true&pId=1788191

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• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/40648599/person/19871199267/facts/citat 1840 United States Federal Census

• https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/8057/4410762_00648/2095580?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/40648599/person/19871199267/facts/citation/67891670886/edit/record

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• Legacy NFS Source: Charles Phillips - Published information: birth-name:

Charles Phillips

• More sources at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/K2JT-R7T

Acknowledgments

• Information from Mark Phillips through the import of Phillips Family Tree_2014-10-14_01.ged on Oct 14, 2014.
• Information from the import of LNMaggard GEDCOM.ged on Apr 9, 2012, by Larry Maggard.