PHILLIPS CENSUS RECORDS

1800 United States Census records for Rowan County, North Carolina.  Only the heads
of households are identified by name.  All others are distinguished only by gender
(males on the left, females on the right) and by age bracket (under 10, 10-15, 16-25,
26-44, 45 and over, left to right).  The census was enumerated on the first Monday
in August, three months before the will of John Phillips (husband of Diannah) was
written.  There were two men named John Philips (or Philips) living in Rowan County,
North Carolina.  Both census records are shown below.

TOP:  John Philips, living with a wife (Diannah), two boys 16 and over (James, and
perhaps Robert), two boys under 16 (Elijah and Stephen), and one girl under 10 (Mary).
Diannah's age is given as 26-44.  If she was born no earlier than 1756, she could not
have been the mother of his older children, and therefore was not his first wife.

BOTTOM:  John Philips, living with six boys and three girls, all aged 10 to 25.
John Phillips (husband of Diannah), in his will, named nine boys, of whom at least
four were already married, and six girls, of whom five were already married.  (See
previous page).  Clearly this is another John Philips.







Diannah Phillips, widow of John Phillips (will dated 8 November 1800, admitted to
probate August 1801), married secondly Asa Messer on 2 August 1803 in Rowan County,
North Carolina.  They moved with Diannah's children to Jackson County, Tennessee.

BELOW:  1820 census, Jackson County, Tennessee, showing Asa Messer, living next door to
Stephen and Elijah Philips, Diannah's two youngest sons.  James Philips, oldest son of
Diannah, appears on the next page of the census.  All three sons are named in John's will.
Diannah has started a second family, with two girls aged 10-15 and one boy under 10.
James, 26-44, has two girls under 10.  Stephen and Elijah, both 18-25, have no children.







Ezra Phillips, son of John Phillips, married Hannah Randolph on 15 September 1787.
(See previous page).  He appears in the 1790 census for Burke County, North Carolina,
and in the 1800 census for Ashe County, North Carolina.  Both are shown below.

TOP:  1790 census, showing Ezra Philips living with two women (his wife Hannah, and
his eldest daughter Nancy), one boy under 16 (his eldest son Payton), and no slaves.

BOTTOM:  1800 census, showing Ezra Phillips and his wife (Hannah), both aged 26-44,
living with one son aged 10-15 (Payton), and five daughters (Nancy, Rebeckah, Nancy,
Polly, and Amy).  For a published biography of Ezra Phillips look HERE

            
            





Recent DNA testing has shown a match between John Phillips (died c. 1801, Rowan County,
North Carolina) and Gabriel Phillips (died c. 1809, Newberry County, South Carolina).
In "Memorial Record of Alabama," by Hannis Taylor, 1893, pages 611-612, it is stated
that G. W. Phillips, a prominent citizen of Calhoun County, Alabama, born in 1842 in
Union District, South Carolina, was the son of Joseph Phillips and Jane Presley, also
natives of South Carolina; and that Joseph was the son of Peter Phillips, and the
great-grandson of Gabriel Phillips, both natives of Ireland.  The American lineage
is consistent with 1800 census records for Union District, South Carolina, in which
Gabriel Phillips Sr. (aged 45+) is listed, as are Gabriel Phillips Jr. (aged 26-44),
Peter Phillips (aged 26-44), and John Phillips (aged 16-25), presumably his sons.









The lineage of G. W. Phillips, as recounted above by Hannis Taylor, is also consistent
with records from the 1850 census, the first to identify all persons by name.  Listed
in Union District, South Carolina are Joseph Phillips, Planter (aged 60), Jane Phillips
(aged 41), Jonathan Phillips (aged 29, possibly a son by a previous marriage), and eight
children:  Charles (18), Monroe (16), Newton (15), Mary (13), George (6), Victoria (5),
Joseph (3), and Medora (1).  George, born c. 1843 or 1844, must be G. W. Phillips.





The same family turns up in Calhoun County, Alabama in the 1860 census.  Jane Phillips
(aged 52), without her husband, is living with five of her children:  Charles (27),
George (17), Victoria (15), Joseph (13), and Laura (11).  All were born in South Carolina.



              For more documentation of Phillips ancestry click:

              WILL OF JOHN PHILLIPS
              JOHN AND DIANNAH PHILLIPS
              AFFIDAVIT OF ROBERT PHILLIPS
              TRANSCRIPTIONS OF AFFIDAVITS
              CHILDREN OF GABRIEL AND MILIAH PHILLIPS
              BIOGRAPHY OF EZRA PHILLIPS
              CHILDREN OF ROBERT AND PHEBE PHILLIPS
              PHILLIPS MARRIAGE RECORDS
              PHILLIPS CENSUS RECORDS
              LOUDOUN COUNTY TITHABLES

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