Thomas Phillips1

#7172, (25 January 1711/12 - 1792)
Relationship1st cousin 7 times removed of William David Lewis
Father*Capt. John Phillips1 (1667/68 - 1760)
Mother*Elizabeth Drake1 (1670 - 1748)

Family

Catherine Liscomb d. 1775
Children 1.Capt. Philip Phillips+6 (1738/39 - 1800)
 2.Simeon Phillips7 (1742 - )
 3.Charity Phillips8 (1744 - 1746)
 4.Thomas Phillips Jr.9 (1747 - )
 5.Elizabeth Phillips10 (1748 - )
 6.Caleb Phillips11 (c 1750 - )
 7.Sarah Phillips12 (1752 - )
Birth*25 January 1711/12He was born on 25 January 1711/12 at Easton, Bristol Co., MassachusettsG.1 
Marriage*circa 1738He married Catherine Liscomb circa 1738 at Easton, Massachusetts.2,3 
between April 1742 and October 1744He and Catherine Liscomb removed to Ashfield (then Huntstown), Massachusetts, between April 1742 and October 1744, becoming the second permanent settlers there (after the Richard Ellis family).4,5 
Death*1792He died in 1792 at Ashfield, Massachusetts; (prob.)2 

Citations

  1. [S728] Film images of 1880 transcription of original records: Easton MA, by Douglas A. Smith; Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, UT; Online https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2061550; MA Town Clerk Vital and Town Records, 1579-2001, Easton, Bristol Co.; Photographed 10-11 Oct 1973, p. 1 "[Captain] John Phillips of Easton's Family Registered", as "Joan."
  2. [S729] C. Arthur Phillips, Deacon Nicholas Phillips of Dedham and Weymouth, Mass., 1636-1672 (Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1976), p. 25. Hereinafter cited as Deacon Nicholas Phillips.
  3. [S265] E.R. Ellis, editor, Biographical Sketches of Richard Ellis (Detroit, Michigan: W. Graham Printing Co., 1888), p. 378, "Thomas Phillips and his wife, Catharine, were among the fifteen members that first formed that church in 1763, and that she dietl in 1775."
  4. [S520] VWH, Simeon b. Easton and Charity b. Ashfield or Deerfield.
  5. [S732] Frederick G. Howes, History of the Town of Ashfield Franklin County, Massachusetts from its Settlement in 1742 to 1910 (Ashfield, Mass.: Town of Ashfield, 1910), 18, "The next immigrant to this lonely wilderness was Mr. Thomas Phillips, with his family, from Easton, whose sister was the wife of Mr. Ellis. Mr. Phillips built for himself a log house about one-half of a mile to the north of the dwelling of his only fellow-townsman, Mr. Ellis."
  6. [S728] Easton MA Film images of 1880 transcription of original records, by Douglas A. Smith, p. 35, "Philip Phillips son of Thomas Phillips of Easton born of his wife Kethern [sic] on the third day of February in the year 1738/9."
  7. [S728] Easton MA Film images of 1880 transcription of original records, by Douglas A. Smith, p. 39, "Simeon Phillips son to Thomas Phillips of Easton born of his wife Kethorin [sic] on ye fifteenth day of April 1742."
  8. [S728] Easton MA Film images of 1880 transcription of original records, by Douglas A. Smith, p. 23, "Charaty Phillips Daughter to Thomas Phillips of Deerfield Born of his wife Ketherin [sic] October ye tenth day 1744. died September ye twenty fifth day 1746."
  9. [S728] Easton MA Film images of 1880 transcription of original records, by Douglas A. Smith, p. 23, "Thomas Phillips son to Thomas Phillips of Deerfield born of his wife Kethorine [sic] June ye seventh day 1747."
  10. [S728] Easton MA Film images of 1880 transcription of original records, by Douglas A. Smith, p. 24, "Elizabeth Phillips the Daughter of Thomas Phillips born of his wife Kethern [sic] October the 31st 1749."
  11. [S729] C. Arthur Phillips, Deacon Nicholas Phillips, p. 26, b. "at a time not known" and "does not appear in the records of the town."
  12. [S729] C. Arthur Phillips, Deacon Nicholas Phillips, p. 26, "does not appear in the records of the town."