(Daddy) John Phillips arrived in America at the age of ten with his parents
John (the Immigrant) and Mary Phillips from Wales in 1755 at the Port of Philadelphia on either the ship Neptune or the Pennsylvania. The family settled near
Ft. Dusquesne (Pittsburgh). He grew to a man and it has been variously said
that he was a weaver and was a surveyor with George Washington in the wilderness.
In any case, he did service as a private (two enlistments) then as a corporal in the Revolutionary War on the Virginia line as shown on his Land Bounties No. 3143, 4032, and 1107. (His daughter, Elizabeth Wood, later testified in Amherst, Virginia that he served in the Virginia 7th Continental Line.)
A few years afterwards,
in 1783, he and his wife Rachel __(?)___ and four children: Margret,11 yrs; Ann,
7 yrs; John, 6yrs; and George, 2 yrs travelled to the KENTUCKY STOCKTON VALLEY
area (now Wayne and Clinton counties). There is where his first wife
died sometime between the years 1781 and 1797. There he married his second
wife, Mary STOCKTON, some twenty years his junior, and raised his family(ies).
At his death in 1827, he was buried in his military uniform in Clinton County, Kentucky (Then Cumberland County,KY). We know he was in uniform because when Dale Hollow Lake was
constructed, the graves of John, Rachel, and Mary, which had been located near Highway, Kentucky were moved at the insistance of my grandfather to Amonnett
Cemetery (also called the "new government cemetery) near Byrdstown, TN. This was done at the same time other graves in the area were being moved by the government. His wooden coffin, in its decaying state,
began to fall apart scattering some of the buttons from his uniform and the
square-cut nails which held the coffin together. These were given to my grandfather,
Marion Lowry Phillips for safekeeping. A newer headstone was erected at that
time by a cousin, my grandfather, Ethan VanBuren Phillips (to whom we owe alot for our family
history information), and other Phillips family descendants.
The original headstone stands along side of it, almost unreadable after hundreds of years of rain and elements.
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FIRST GENERATION:
John Phillips
b. Jan 5, 1745 Wales
d. Nov 14, 1827 Cumberland Co, KY
buried first Highway, Clinton County, KY buried second New Government Cem, Byrdstown, TN
m1. Rachel ?
b.
d.
buried first Highway, Clinton County, KY, buried second New Goverment Cem, Byrdstown, TN
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