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There are only two persons named Philips or Phillips in the 1810 census for
Randolph County. One is a woman (first name illegible) who has two daughters,
neither of them 10-15 years old. She is not Jemimah's mother. The other is
Jas. (James) Philips. He and his wife are 26-44 (born 1766-1784), with six
children, two boys (one 10-15, one under 10) and four girls (one 10-15, three
under 10). As has already been shown, James Philips was the father of the four
orphan children (Stephen, Jean, Elmsly, and Sally) bound as apprentices in
Randolph County Court between 1812 and 1815. This leaves two girls unaccounted
for. They could be Jemima and Jenny. A family chart is drafted below.
James Phillips and wife (born 1766-1784) had the following children:
1810 census, Randolph County court records and 1850 census
son (born 1795-1800) Stephen (born December 1797)
daughter (born 1795-1800) Jemima (born c. 1798)
son (born 1801-1810) Elmsly (born 17 September 1801)
daughter (born 1801-1810) Jean (born 1798 or 1799)
daughter (born 1801-1810) Sally (born 1806 or 1807)
daughter (born 1801-1810) Jenny (born c. 1808)
The only inconsistency is the birth date for Jean as recorded by the Randolph
County court.
If Jemima was part of this family, it would explain why she was married at the
tender young age of thirteen. Her father was lately deceased. And, being
married, she would not have appeared as an orphan before the court. If Jemima
was Stephen's sister, she was Aunt Jemima to his children.
Stephen Phillips, born December 1797, was the oldest of the four orphans
apprenticed in Randolph County court. But he may not have been the oldest son
of Jas. (James) Philips (1810 census, Randolph County). There appears on the
muster rolls for the War of 1812 a James Philips of Randolph County, who in
1814 enlisted as a private in the 5th Regiment (Atkinson's), 12th Company,
detached from the 2nd Randolph Regiment, North Carolina Militia. He may have
been the son (born 1785-1790) of Edmond and Milly Phillips. Or he may have
been James Philips Jr., on his own in 1810, not enumerated in the census, an
orphan in 1814. Either way, he was a young man when he enlisted in the
militia. James Jr. survived the war, mustered out as a private, and appears
as a landless free white male on the Randolph County tax list for 1815.
GUILLIAMS ANCESTRY
Handwritten family accounts specifically state that the maiden name of Marion
Helen Guilliams’ mother was Merab Brown, and that her father, Richard Sanford
Guilliams, was the “Son of a Scotchman.” It appears that Richard was the son
of William Guilliams and Sarah Ferguson, who were married in Franklin County,
Virginia on 24 December 1797. William Guilliams is listed with the 75th
Regiment, Virginia Militia, War of 1812. In 1816 they moved their family to
Franklin County, Indiana, and in 1823 to Putnam County, Indiana, where
William bought 80 acres of land (patent issued 25 May 1825, Crawfordsville
Land Office). William died in 1841, Sarah c. 1846; both appear in the
records of Conner Moss Cemetery, Putnam County, Indiana, also known as
Guilliams Cemetery, Smith Family Cemetery, and Old Blakesburg Cemetery.
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