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Declaration of Milly Philips
State of Tennessee )
Hawkins County ) On this Twenty seventh day of April one thousand
Eight hundred and forty six personally appeared
before one Nicholas Beckner a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Milly
Philips, a resident of the county and state aforesaid, aged seventy nine years, who
after being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Acts of Congress passed 7th July,
1838, 3d of March 1843 and 19th June 1844, viz:
That she is the widow of Gabriel Philips, who was a soldier of the Virginia Line,
during the war of the Revolution. As to the particulars of his service, she states
that she knows nothing, except what she has heard her husband say after they were
married – viz – that the said Gabriel Philips enlisted in Loudon County Virginia,
by a man or officer whose name was Joseph Baylie, that, she has often heard her
husband speak of Major Lindsay, as one of his officers; also General Lincoln. Name
of his Captain & Col. forgotten. That immediately after his enlistment he marched
to the south, and was at the sige of Charleston, where he was taken prisoner by the
British, that while he was a prisoner, propositions were made to him, to take the
oath of allegiance, which he refused. That after being held as a prisoner for some
time he made his escape by swimming the river, and finally joined a corps of
Americans. One of the officers then gave him a permit or furlough to return home.
She does not know how long he served, but supposes that he served several years as
a Private. She judges so from the fact that he always said that there was a
considerable amount of money due on account of his wages, and that he claimed about
two hundred acres of Land, on account of his services none of which he ever
received to her knowledge. That in order to obtain said wages & land, he went from
Tennessee to Georgia, to establish his service by a fellow solder named Walter
Parry or Perry, who was his brotherinlaw, but who had died sometime previous to
said Journey. That he had a discharge showing his service in the war of the
Revolution, which he said was lost or destroyed. She is fully satisfied that he
served his country, a considerable length of time in the war of the Revolution, but
she is unable to prove it, and she hereby requests that the Commissioner of
Pensions, will cause a thorough search of the Virginia rolls, to be made for his
name and services – She further declares that she was married to the said Gabriel
Philips in Henry county state of Virginia, by publication of the Bonds, in the
Month of July seventeen hundred and Eighty three. She is positive as to this date
from the fact that she was married in the year that closed the war, also from the
fact that her oldest child Sarah was born four years after the marriage, which she
states, stands correctly recorded in her bible now in her possession, and shows
that he was born in July 1787. She further states, that there was no License
issued from the Clerks office for the marriage, but that she was married in said
county of Henry by William Lovel a Clergyman of the Baptist church after
publications. For proof as to the marriage she refers the Department to the
accompanying papers. She further declares that her husband the aforesaid Gabriel
Philips died in the County of Hawkins state of Tennessee in the fall of Eighteen
hundred and twelve, has not intermarried, but still remains his widow. That she
was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took
place previous to the 1st of January 1794 viz at the time before mentioned.
her
Milly Philips
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