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A short time after Gabriel's return home he was arrested by some Americans, and
taken before Gen. Morgan as a deserter. Gen Morgan's head-quarters was then, as
well as I can remember in Frederick County Virginia. This was in the Spring of
Seventeen hundred and Eighty one or Eighty two. Genl Morgan released Gabriel and
reprimanded the Americans for arresting a discharged Soldier. – I also arive at
the date of his return from the army by the same proof of calculation. Gabriel
afterward married Milly Keel in the County of Henry and State of Virginia, and he
died in Hawkins County Tennessee in the year Eighteen hundred and ten or Eleven
to the best of my Recollection.
his
Attest Robert Phillips
W. Moffett mark
State of Illinois )
Coles County ) Be it known that on the Twenty-Eighth day of January, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty, before me William Moffett an acting justice of
the peace in and for said county, personally appeared Robert Phillips, a resident
of the county aforesaid, an intelligent and credible witness, aged Seventy Seven
years past, who first being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare
that the foregoing Statement relative to Gabriel Philips, and which he has signed,
is just and true according to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Given under my hand the day and year last above mentioned.
William Moffett J. P. ( Seal )
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Pension Office
April 28 1853
Sir
I herewith enclose a copy of a report made to S. G. Brown Esq Dec 23 1850 giving
the condition of the case of Milly Philips of Tenn.
B McDaniel Esq
Greenville Tenn
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In the spring of 1846 Milly Philips of Hawkins county Tennessee, widow of Gabriel
Philips, made a Declaration under the Act of Congress of 7th July 1838, in order to
obtain a pension on account of the services of the said Gabriel in the war of the
revolution.
She alleged that he enlisted in Loudon county Va. and served several years in the
American army; but did not know the date of his enlistment; the precise duration of
his service, or the names of his officers, and depended entirely upon the military
records at Washington, in support of her claim. She further alleged that he was
enlisted by a man named Baylie. (He Baylie might have been an officer or he might
have been a private)
At the time she made her Declaration, she was very old and infirm, and on that
account and loss of memory, had forgotten all about the service except general
impressions.
Her Declaration was examined and filed by the Commissioner of Pensions May 25 1846.
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