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State of Tennessee )
Hawkins County ) Personally appeared, before me Nicholas Beckner, a Justice of
the Peace for Hawkins County, Milly Philips, the foregoing named affiant, who after
being duly sworn, makes the following amendatory declaration viz: – That the
annexed register of the ages of her children, is the record spoken of in the
written Declaration, that said record is the original family record, kept by her
and her husband, and that they always deemed it correct. That the first four
births was written by her and her husband's directions, by a Quaker whose name was
Richard Cox a short time after the birth of Elizabeth, and that the other names was
written by different persons, all of which she believes to be correct – As to the
date of the Bible which the annexed record is taken from, she refers the Department
to the title page hereunto attached
her
Milly Philips
mark
Sworn to and subscribed this 17th day of April 1846 before the subscriber a Justice
of the peace in & for the county aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand the month & date above written
Nicholas Beckner
Justice of the peace for Hawkins County
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October 31, 1921
Hon. Charles Curtis
United States Senate
In re: Gabriel Phillips – R. File No. 8,208
Virginia troops War of Revolution.
You are advised that from the papers in the above noted pension claim it appears
that Gabriel Phillips was born in 1762 and married in July 1783 in Henry County,
Virginia, Milly Keele, and that their children were Sarah born July 1, 1787, John
born May 20, 1790, Mary born August 10, 1792, Elizabeth born October 12, 1794,
Rebekah born February 19, 1797, Meliah born May 21, 1799, Thomas born July 29,
1801, (undecipherable) born August 4 or 9, 1803, William born November 9, 1805,
and Gabriel born February 18, 1810.
Soldier died November 1812, in Hawkins County, Tennessee, and his widow, Milly,
applied for a pension April 17, 1846, while a resident of Hawkins County,
Tennessee, aged seventy-nine years, and alleged that soldier enlisted in Loudoun
County, Virginia, in 1776 or 1777 and served as a Private in the Virginia Line, was
captured at the surrender of Charleston and escaped some time after. The claim was
not allowed as she failed to furnish satisfactory proof of the soldier's service.
Herewith is returned the letter of Mr. J. M. Phillips of 119 North Minneapolis
Avenue, Wichita, Kansas, forwarded by you to this Bureau.
Very truly yours,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.
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