In researching the Phillips branch of the family (My Great Grandmother, Marjorie Bayne Munter’s mother was a Phillips), there is one generation that has very little solid evidence. Isaac Phillips was a Revolutionary War Veteran, and it is believed that Daniel Phillips is his son and then Jacob/Jasper Phillips is his grandson. We know quite a bit about Jacob, but without being able to prove any information on Daniel, the tree is a little bit stuck.
Thankfully, there is a book on the Rev George Phillips Family that was published in 1991 by Robert H Phillips. In this book he feels pretty certain that Daniel Phillips was in the War of 1812, and that he received bounty land in IL which later came into the hands of his grandson Adelbert Mortimer Phillips. Adelbert lived in Jackson County, Iowa, which is on the IA/IL border, but a fair bit further north than Schuyler County or Calhoun County Illinois where I’ll be looking, but not out of the question. At the time of the book publishing, the bounty land for Daniel had not been located for certain. I have found two promising entries in the land databases on Ancestry, and will be taking my last research trip of the year to see if either one of these counties are the correct Daniel Phillips with land from the War of 1812.
Fingers crossed as identifying either one of these as the correct Daniel Phillips will help narrow down some of the searching for the correct Daniel Phillips in New York in the 1800’s and may help provide more concrete evidence of his children and parents.
Cory and Nicole Family History 