Thomas Phillips, Son of John, Grandson of Thomas
Thomas is a proven son of John and Elizabeth per John's
Will. He was still
alive in l807 when his mother's estate was settled. Beyond
that, it is
difficult
to prove anything because he lived in Lenoir County and
there are no
records.
There is a fair amount of circumstantial evidence available
that enables
us to
weave a possible record for him. The land he inherited was
in Lenoir
County
and can't be traced. We do not know who the father of
Sidney and William
Phillips, found in their grandfather's Will, was and we
can't PROVE any
children for
Thomas.
Starting with this lack of information - we guess. Thomas
was on the l790
Census in Craven County, but his brother John was not.
Thomas had
children living
in his household so we can assume they were his. John
appears to live
with his
parents with no children; therefore, Sidney and William
must have been the
children of Thomas. The name Thomas comes down both Sidney
and William -
John does
not. There are several records showing a close relationship
between
Sidney and
William - especially Coward estate records found in Greene
County. In the
Dobbs Cross Indexes there are at least two transactions
between Thomas
and the
following people - William, Thomas, Barney Phillips, Sidney
Coward, and
William
Croom. All these were about the same time and just before
Thomas died. I
assume
Thomas was giving away his property to his children.
We have no idea who Thomas married and indeed he may have
been married
twice.
If we go on the assumption that John listed all his living
Phillips
grandchildren in his Will, then Thomas probably had two
wives. The first
was the mother
of Sidney and William and she probably died. I think Thomas
may have
remained
unmarried for a fairly long time and remarried and had his
second set of
children after his father died. Based on Census Records and
the
transactions in the
Dobbs Indexes we can make an educated guess of other
children. I recently
ran
across William's Bible so maybe other Bibles exist.
Unfortunately,
William did
not name his parents. Two good choices for the wife or
wives of Thomas
were
Argent Lassister and Elizabeth Bond who was probably the
daughter of
William
Bond. If Holland Phillips Harper was a daughter of Thomas,
then her
daughter
Argent L. which could have stood for Lassister, gives
additional evidence
as to the
Lassister connection.
The only way we can determine which was this Thomas on the
Census Records
was
by the number of slaves he had as he had the most on every
Census except
the
l790 one. He appears to have lived to a ripe old age.
This Thomas was probably on the l779 Tax List, but we can't
be sure.
The names Spencer and Stephen come down this line and the
name Stephen
comes
down Peter who was probably the son of John, Jr.
NOTES FROM LENORE PHILLIPS SMITH
l. l800 Craven County - This may certify that I have agreed
to and with my
brother Thomas Phillips to relinguish my claim to an entry
of land lying
in Craven
Co., which he, the said Thomas has suspended and requested
that the
Secretary
of State ----- grant to the said Thomas Phillips, he - I
myself, having
compromised and settled our disputes respecting the said
lands.
Given under my hand l6 April l800 - John Phillips
I agree to dismiss the suspension alluded to in the above
certificate.
Thos
Phillips
from LPS
2. l9 Sept l793 - To Sheriff of Lenoir: You commanded to
summon William
Peters to appear District of New Bern, 5 May l794 on behalf
of Elizabeth
Peters....wherein Thomas Phillips, plantiff, Elizabeth
Peters defendant.
by Silas Cook, Cl of Ct. New Bern
NOTE: There was a William Peters on l790 Dobbs Census near
the
Wetherington
families. An Elizabeth Peters on l790 Dobbs living next to
Thomas
Phillips Jr.
3. From Land Grant Office - State of N.C. - Lenoir
County
I, Frederick Jones, Entry Officer to Claims for lands in
the county
aforesaid
to the Surveyor of said county: Greetings you and hereby
requesting as
soon as
may be to lay off and survey a certain tract or parcel of
land for Thomas
Phillips containing l50 Ac and lying on the NS of Neuse
River and on the
SS of
Contentnea Creek - adj of John Phillips (dec), Langston and
his own land
as per
Entry No 545 entered the 5 day of Jan l8ll observing --the
direction of
act of
assembly in such cases made provided for running out lands.
Given under
my hand
and office this 8 Aug l8ll.
Surveyor Report: By virtue of a warrant issued to Thomas
Phillips for l50
acs
and issued 8 Aug l8ll and No 545, I have surveyed for
Thomas Phillips a
plantation containing l23 acs lying on the NS of Eagle
Swamp and SS of
Contentnea Creek
and begining at -----reverse of a patent line granted to
John Phillips
for 500
acs, No 40 ---
Surveyed l2 Nov l8ll by James Loftin, Surveyor
Chainbearers - William Phillips and Spencer Phillips
CHILDREN OF THOMAS
l. Sidney Phillips - b
c l780 - d l850-l860 - md c l8
Dec l799 in Craven County
(Marriage Bans) - to Cullen Coward, Jr. - bc l775 - dc
l842. There are
other
marriage Bans for a Sidney Phillips and Reubin Witherington
in August
l796. I
have no way of knowing if this Sidney was engaged twice and
something
happened
the first time, or if there was another Sidney Phillips. I
suspect the
former.
There are estate records for Cullen Coward Jr. in May l842
in Greene
County
the following information from "Greene County Estate
Records" by William
Murphy
a. Eliza wife of Charles Joiner
b. Elizabeth - wife of John Phillips
c. Willis Dixon who had purchased legal interest of Spencer
Coward, dec
d. Dilly Ormond - late wife of William Ormond
e. Pearcy wife of William C. Henry
f. Amos Joiner who purchased legal interest of Stephen
Coward
g. Limson, Jane and Elizabeth Phillips - l84l account with
guardian
Willis Dixon - money from Charles Joiner, Administrator of
Cullen Coward
h. William Ormond, guardian of Jane, Leuriza and Elizabeth
Phillips
l840
i. Spencer Coward - l0 Feb l840 - guardian William
Phillips
j. Spencer Coward - Feb l844 - settlement of Estate with
Charles Joiner,
Administrator - money went to Roderic Phillips
k. Elizabeth Phillips - l3 Feb l843 - Account with guardian
Willis Dixon
- money paid for petition for division of land - Charles
Joiner, George
Crofton
- division of Cullen Coward, Dec
l850 Census - Sidney Coward - aged 70 - Greene County -
Elizabeth
Phillips age
25, Malvina Henry - age 9, Oliver Lockhard, overseer
T
here are several Supreme Court Cases for this family
found by Ruth
Fentress
l. Book 53 - June l86l - Gardner Jones vs Isaac C. Edwards
- against
Clarisa
Joyner estate
2. Book 57 p 257 - Stephen Coward estate - he married
Martha who remarried
Gardner Jones - their 2 children Mary and Martha Coward
died young and
the estate
of Stephen was divided as follows
a. Percy Potter - sister
b. Caroline (niece) who md Isaac C. Edwards
c. John Joyner - nephew
d. Dilly and Susan Ormond - nieces
e. Louisa Hart - niece md William T. Hart
f. Jane Dunn - niece md Jetha Dunn
g. Elizabeth Spivey md Ephraim Spivey
3. Gardner Jones and wife Martha vs Isaac Edwards and C. W.
Potter - l857
Will of Sidney Phillips Coward
- l3 Aug l854 -
Edward Carmon named Executor.
Sidney died in l869 and Joseph Dixon became administrator
in May Term
l860 Will
filed in Greene County
Daughter Pearcy Potter; grandaughters Mary and Malvina
Henry, Lumisa
Hart, Jane
Dunn, Elizabeth Spivey, Caroline Edwards, Luvenia Joiner,
Sidney Ormond,
Susan
Ormond, Sidney Hart (she was great granddaughter):
grandsons John Joiner,
Thomas Ormond.
According to Lenore Phillips Smith some of the legatees
were dead at the
time
of settlement.
Children of Sidney Phillips and Cullen Coward
a. Eliza Coward - d l5 Jan l838 - md on 6 Dec l83l to
Charles Joiner
l. Mary Joiner - b l826
2. Caroline Joiner - b l833 - md Isaac C. Edwards
3. Elisa Ann - b l837 - died young
4. John Joiner - b l839
5. Luvenia Joiner - b l842 died young
b. Elizabeth (Betsy) Coward - md on l9 Mar l8l8 John L.
Phillips (Could
his
middle initial have been F for Franklin instead of
L.?)
l. Lumiza Phillips - md William T. Hart
NOTE: Could this be Louisa? A similar name runs in the
Edwards family of
Pitt
County at this time.
a. Sidney A. - b l843
b. Washington - b l847
c. M. A. H. - b l845 - died before l850
d. William T. - b l849
e. Edward
f. Joseph
g. L. T.
h. John
i. Laura E.
2. Eliza Jane Phillips
-
md Jeptha Dunn d by l850
as Eliza aged 27 in on
l850 Census
a. Elizabeth md on l6 Mar l892 Abner Stanley.
Elizabeth had a Will written on 3 Aug l894 probated 27 Nov
l894 where she
gave
her 50 acs and household furniture to step-daughter Susan
Stanley and her
husband Abner Stanley. Abner Stanley is buried in the
Grifton Cemetery
b. Jeptha Dunn - There are records in Lenoir County Deed
Book l4 p
520 where Elizabeth Dunn, Stephen C. Phillips and J. W.
Grainger had
received
land from Jeptha Dunn and the three were Tennants in Common
- l888. In
Book l6 p
l40 in l893 J. W. Grainger and wife C. A. sold the land
they received
from the
division of land of Jeptha Dunn to Stephen Phillips. Same
Deed book p l4l
-
Stephen C. Phillips sold this land to James Harper for
$l.00 and love and
affection. Elizabeth would have been Jetha's sister,
Stephen C. Phillips
a cousin. J.
W. Grainger may have been Jesse Willis who md Sallie
Lucretia Coward
daughter
of John Holliday and Mary Elizabeth Dixon Coward and after
she died he
married
Clara Albritton Dixon - no issue of 2nd marriage.
Grainger's first wife
may
have been a cousin on the Coward side. The Dunn's lived
next to Stephen C.
Phillips and must have enjoyed a very close family
relationship.
Infor from Martha M. Marble
c. Samuel Houston Dunn who appears to have taken the last
name of
Abbott. According to Lenore Smith's records in Book A of
Lenoir Wills the
Will of
S. G. Abbott written 6 June l862 probated 7 July l878 left
several gold
items
to Samuel Houston Dunn son of Eliza Jane Dunn plus part of
his land and
Negroes
who were also to be shared with Idelia Jones daughter of
Kissiah Jones
and a
child to be born to Louisa Dunn daughter of Eliza Jane
Dunn.
d. Louisa Dunn - It is not known who Louisa married or what
happened
to her. She is not listed in her mother's Will.
Eliza Jane Phillips Dunn had a Will written 23 Sept l886
probated l6 Nov
l886.
Exec was Samuel Houston. G. Abbott, her son. He received 50
Ac. She gave
her
daughter Elizabeth the other 50 Ac of the l00 Ac where she
had lived for
the
last 38 years adj the property of Stephen Carr Phillips,
John King and
Stephen W.
Dawson
3. Elizabeth Phillips - b l825 - md Ephraim Spivey - b 2
Jan l827
NOTE: In the Book of Letters and Compositions of Memon
Patrick of Greene
County now in the Archives there is the mention of the
marriage of John
L. Phillips
to Betsy Coward daughter of Cullen Coward - l9 March l8l8.
This appears
to be
a different John L. than the one whose daughter Claudia who
was bc l838 d
in
Trenton in l856
c. Dilly - probably Cordilla - Coward - d before l842 - md
William Ormond
- b
l790 - she was his 2nd wife
l. Dilly Ormond - b l828 - md John E. F. Harper son of
James and
Elizabeth Edwards Harper - b 3 Oct l835 - d 5 Oct l899 - he
is buried at
the J. J.
Edwards Family Cemetery near Ormondsville. The stone is
marked JEFH
a. James Harper
b. William F. Harper - b 20 Oct l869 - d l9 April l933 md 6
Jan l9l5
to Jennie Barwick b ll Dec l879 daughter of Craven Tull and
Nancy Ann
Brooks
Barwick
l. William J. Harper - b 6 Feb l9l8 - d l5 Feb l9l8 - only
child
2. James Thomas Ormond - b l829
3. Sydney Argent Ormond - b l83l - md John E. F. Harper - b
3 Oct l835
- d 5 Oct l899 - son of James Harper and his wife Elizabeth
Edwards
a. James E. Harper - bc l860 Lenoir County
b. William F. Harper - b 20 Oct l869 - d l9 April l933 - md
6 Jan
l9l5 to Jennie Barwick daughter of Craven Tull and Nancy
Ann Brooks
Barwick - no
issue
NOTE: something is not right - will ask Lenore
NOTE: There seems to be a VERY close relationship between
this family and
the
family of William Phillips - we think Sidney Coward and
William Phillips
were
brother and sister
l. The Will of William Phillips, grandson of above
William
mentions his cousin James E. Harper -
2. Stephen C. Phillips son of William listed above - gave a
farm
to James E. Harper for $l.00 and love and affection
4. Susan Ormond - b l833
5. William L. Ormond - b l834
all listed on l850 Census
d. Pearcy Coward - md William C. Henry first md 2nd John W.
Potter
l. Mary Henry - b l836
2. Malvinia Henry - b l84l
e. Spencer Coward - d c l842
f. Stephen Coward - b l8l2 - md Martha who md 2nd Gardner
Jones
l. Mary - d young
2. Martha - d young
2. William Phillips -
b 2l February l782 - see
William's pages
It is possible that Thomas's wife died and no additional
children were
born
until after his father died. John Phillips mentioned most
of his known
grandchildren in his Will and Sidney and William were the
only ones with
the last name
Phillips. We can only assume Thomas remarried and
additional children
were by
his 2nd wife.
3. Barna Phillips
- bc l794 md Elizabeth ?
a. There were two transactions between Thomas and
Barna
b. Stephen C Phillips inherited the lands owned by Barna
Phillips from
James
Canady. We don't know how Canady got the lands nor the
relationship
between
Stephen and Canady. This land appears to be in this same
area as the land
Stephen inherited from his father.
c. Children - He appeared to have no sons, but several
daughters were on
the Census
l. Eliza E. Phillips - b 30 September l82l - d 27 September
l855 - aged
34 years, 3 days - the only proven daughter - md on 6 June
l838 to
William A.
Pugh. The Bible of William and Eliza Pugh are in the
possession of Martha
M
Marble.
a. Barney P. Pugh - b l6 Aug l842
b. William Nicholas Pugh - b 7 Nov l845
c. Sarah Elizabeth Pugh - b l5 Oct l848
d. Martha Jane Pugh - b l0 Jan l85l
William Pugh md 2nd Lydia Mewborn
2. Susan Phillips - md James Canady - could this be
possible? Could this
be how James Canady got the lands that belonged to
Barna?
4. Thomas S. Phillips
- b by l793
a. Transactions between Thomas and Thomas S. on Cross
Indexes. Also there
were additional transactions on the Cross Indexes for
Thomas S. - one
between
Louisa Allen Phillips Branton and Thomas S. - Louisa was
his aunt by
marriage.
b. This Thomas was in the War of l8l2.
c. Another reference on the cross indexes was for
d. I suspect the S. stood for Spencer - William had a son
Thomas Spencer
and a grandson Thomas Spencer. Or it could have stood for
Stephen. I
suspect
either Stephen or Spencer may have been named Thomas S. and
used their
second
name to avoid confusion with the numerous Thomas' of the
time.
e. I have thought this Thomas may have been the Thomas of
Pitt County and
the ancestor of Howard Phillips. A Flanagan was in the same
company in
the War
of l8l2 as Thomas and William and Thomas of Pitt married
into the Flangan
family. If this is the case, this Thomas would have been
born 7 or 8
years earlier
5. a daughter
who may have married William
Croom
transactions on Cross Indexes
6. Stephen Phillips -
a. In war of l8l2
b. William named his oldest son Stephen and the name comes
down in the
Sidney line
nothing else known
c. there was one transactions between Thomas and Stephen in
the Cross
Indexes.
7. Holland Phillips
- bc l789 - d 4 March l828 - md
Delaney Harper son of
Francis Harper, Jr. and his wife Theresa Hopton - they
lived in Greene
County.
After Holland died, Delaney md Martha Suggs Harper daughter
of John and
Martha
Aldridge Suggs Jr. and widow of Blaney Harper, Jr. nephew
of Delaney
Julia Moseley Combs sent this information and she said an
OBIT was in "The
Raleigh Register" 28 March l828, but it did not give her
parent's names
I have put Holland under Thomas because of the names of her
children -
Thomas
H., Spencer P. (which probably stood for Phillips), and
Argen L. These are
names that show up in Thomas' other grandchildren. We also
know there are
other
intermarriages with Thomas' line and the Harpers. I have
not seen any
transactions between Thomas Sr. and Holland, but she died
before he did.
CHILDREN OF DELANEY AND HOLLAND PHILLIPS HARPER
Blaney Harper - b 20 Mar l8ll
Elizabeth Harper - b 5 Mar l8l3
Thomas H. Harper - b l8 Mar l8l5
Spencer P. Harper - b 26 April l8l7
Nancy Caroline Harper - b 29 Aug l8l9 - d 8 Aug l89l - md
Calvin Tucker
Argen L. Harper - b 5 Sept l82l
William Green Harper - b 25 Dec l823 - md 6 June l872 to
Mollie E. Oast
Holland D. Harper - b l9 Dec l826 - d 22 Sept l862 - md
Sarah
Children of Delaney and Martha Suggs Harper
Mary C. W. Harper - b 25 Jan l834 - d 29 Sept l90l
Frank Harper - b 3 Nov l835 - d 26 Aug l896
NOTE: Above information from a Bible owned by Ruth Harper
Edwards of Snow
Hill, N.C. Some of this family is buried in Laney Wood
Cemetery in Greene
Co.
8. Spencer Phillips
a. A Spencer was a chainbearer with William for a Grant to
Thomas in l8ll
b. A Spencer in the War of l8l2
c. Big question - was Spencer really Thomas S. and elected
to use the name
Spencer to separate him from his father?
DEEDS THAT WE FEEL SURE BELONGED TO THIS THOMAS
Thomas' land was in the Edwards Bridge, Eagle Swamp and
Bethel Church
area.
This area was in Craven County until the l790s when it came
into Lenoir.
No doubt, there was more than one Thomas of this era and it
is difficult
to
separate them on the Cross Indexes or in Craven County. At
this time, I
do not
know when Thomas who married Hannah Wetherington moved from
Lenoir County.
Thomas who d in l789 was not a factor, but that leaves at
least one other
possible
Thomas of the same generation. Plus by l800 or so it is
possible we are
getting
into another generation.
l. Grant 953 - p 252 entered 2 May l795 isued 7 June l799 -
Thomas
Phillips 23
A June l790 - SS Contentnea adj fathers 500 A, Moore, Wm
Peters, father's
l6
acs, CB George Oxley, Wm Phillips
2. Same Book as above - p 253 - Thomas Phillips 40 A - l799
- NS Neuse
River -
SS Contentnea - adj John Phillips, Jordans
3. Patent Book 2 - p 83 - Thos Phillips - 200 A NS Neuse
River - SS
Contentnea
Creek joining own land and adj to his fathers - Sept
l785
4. Patent Book 3 - p 25l - Thomas Phillips 33 A NS Neuse WS
Contentnea adj
John Phillips corner and his own 200 Ac - this may not be
in the right
place
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