Samuel Phipps (abt. 1751 - 1830)

Born about 1751 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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Died 30 Jan 1830 at about age 79 in Chatham, Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States

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Private Samuel Phipps served with 12th Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Samuel Phipps is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A090911.

Samuel was born in around 1751, the son of Elijah and Sarah (Fletcher) Phipps, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was raised.

Samuel volunteered to serve during the Revolutionary War under Captains John Walton, John Gill, and Davis as well as under Colonels Craft and Lee. It is believed he was among the Massachusetts Militia that stood against the British Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the onset of the War in 1775.

When his father, Elijah Phipps, and Samuel came to Chatham in 1783, they settled along Langdon Brook on a hill where later was the “Binford Place,” and still later the “Marshall Place.” Samuel had a 5 year old son with him, also named Samuel. Polly Phipps, perhaps Samuel's wife or daughter, would later be the first White Person buried in Chatham, and another son, Elijah, named after his grandfather, would be the first male child born in Chatham.*

Both Elijah and Samuel were veterans of the 12th Massachusetts Regiment, they had fought at Bunker Hill, in the Siege of Boston, at Lake Champlain, at Saratoga, and Philadelphia-Monmouth. The 12th Massachusetts Regiment, organized in the spring 1775 under Colonel Edmund Phinney, also fought at Valley Forge, although we don't know for sure that the Phippses were there. The 12th Massachusetts Regiment was disbanded at West Point in 1781, two years before the Phipps family came to Chatham.

On September 26, 1776, Samuel married Mary Maxfield, the daughter of Benjamin and Anna Maxfield. They would have the following children:

Mary Phipps (1778–1796)

Samuel Phipps (1780–1878)

Sarah (Phipps) Badger (1782–1853)

Elizabeth (Phipps) Cox (1784–1854)

Elijah Phipps (1786–1865)

Abigail Phipps (1788– )

John Wesley Phipps 1793–1865)

Anna (Phipps) Hancock (1795–1873)

Samuel would live until 1830 when he passed away at around 79 years of age. His body is buried in the Center Chatham Cemetery in Chatham, Carroll County, New Hampshire, along with his wife, one of his daughters and his father.

Sources

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F82D-G9H : 10 November 2020), Samuel Phipps, 26 Sep 1776; citing Marriage, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004198966.

• Daughters of the American Revolution Profile on Samuel Phipps [1]

• "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSLM-GLS : 23 February 2021), Samuel Phipps, 30 Jan 1830; citing Chatham, Bureau Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,099.

• Find A Grave Memorial for Samuel Phipps [2]

• Family Search Profile on Samuel Phipps [3]

• Chatham Times Past and Present Newsletter, Issue 122, December, 2019 - Revolutionary Veterans, Elijah and Samuel Phipps, by Judy Bailey. [4]