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Robert Phillips, the corroborating evidence of B. McDaniel, and other documents
containing valuable genealogical information, are transcribed HERE Note that
Robert Phillips says “we were living with my father” when Gabriel enlisted. He
mentions his father five times, but never mentions his mother. The conclusion to
be drawn is that his mother, John's first wife, died before 1777.
Recent DNA testing has shown a close match between John Phillips (died c. 1801,
Rowan County, North Carolina) and Gabriel Phillips (died c. 1809, Newberry County,
South Carolina). Website postings pursuant thereto have provided fragmentary
evidence about John and Gabriel Phillips. The March 2009 newsletter at
http://www.phillipsdnaproject.com states the following: (1) “Tax and census lists
prove that John Phillips lived much of his life in Loudoun County, Virginia. (2)
Gabriel Phillips (presumed brother of John) “was married in 1758 in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania” to Hannah Brower. The marriage appears on the Mormon website.
The first point is confirmed by Loudoun County, Virginia Tithables, 1758-1796,
Vol. 1: [1749], 1758-1769, Vol. 2: 1770-1778; and Vol. 3: 1779-1786, compiled by
Marty Hiatt & Craig Roberts Scott, Iberian Publishing Company, Athens, Georgia,
1995. John Phillips appears thirteen times in sixteen years, between 1769 and
1785, as listed above. Gabriel Phillips appears for seven consecutive years,
in 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784 and 1785. His son Edward is listed with him
from 1780-1785, and his son Peter is listed with him from 1782-1784. (This is not
Gabriel, son of John, who is listed with his father in 1775).
The second point is confirmed by the records of Tohickon Union Reformed Church,
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1744-1801. Gabriel Philipps married Hanna Brower
(note the initial spellings) on 4 December 1758. Susanna Philips was born
27 September 1759 and baptized 15 April 1760. Her parents were Gabriel and Hannah
Philips. The Tohickon Union Reformed Church is located on Tohickon Creek in north-
central Bucks County, in Bedminster Township, southeast of Lake Nockamixon.
Posted on another website are excerpts from “Memorial Record of Alabama,” by Hannis
Taylor, 1893, pages 611-612, in which it is stated that
G. W. Phillips, a prominent citizen of Calhoun County, is a native
of Union District, South Carolina, and was born in 1842, a son of
Joseph and Jane (Presley) Phillips, also natives of South Carolina.
Their father was a son of Peter Phillips, who was a native of
Ireland. Peter Phillips was a son of Gabriel Phillips, also of
Ireland. The grandfather and great-grandfather were both soldiers
in the Revolutionary War, and the father was in the War of 1812.
(http://hoydia.webs.com/gabriel17351809page2.htm)
The American lineage is consistent with 1800 census records for Union District,
South Carolina, in which Gabriel Phillips Sr. and three of his sons, Gabriel
Phillips Jr., Peter Phillips, and John Phillips, are all listed. (An Edward
Philips is found in Newberry District, South Carolina, in the 1800 census).
Peter Phillips is aged 26-44 in 1800, aged 26-44 in 1810, and aged 45 or older in
1820, so he was born between 1766 and 1774. If his father was the Gabriel Philipps
who married Hanna Brower on 4 December 1758 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, then
Peter was not born in Ireland, and the “Memorial Record of Alabama” is incorrect.
The theory that Gabriel Philipps of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Gabriel Phillips
of Loudoun County, Virginia are one and the same person is buttressed by the Bewley
family website, on which it is stated that George “Anthony” Bewley was born in
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