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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Justice John Phillips - THE LAMBERTVILLE BEACON, May 4, 1933.
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:39:01 -0700 (PDT)


A little delay from the last time I posted the prevous article in this series:

THE LAMBERTVILLE BEACON, May 4, 1933.

(Continued from last weeks issue)

"Ralph Hunts wife Elizabeth Jessup was the daughter of Edward Jessup, who came from Yorkshire, England prior to 1649, belonged to the Broom Hall family of the name living near Sheffield, England, was one of the first settlers of Stamford, Conn., afterwards Newtown, L.I., and one of the two original patentees of West Farms, N.Y., where he was a magistrate, and died in 1666 (will). He married Elizabeth Burroughs, sister of John, of Newtown (American Ancestry, III, 135; see also under Samuel Moore and Sarah Green) came to Newtown in 1652, was nominated as magistrate, not confirmed by Directors and Council, 1653 deputy to Boston, September 15, 1656 present at New Amsterdam on the night of the battle with the Indians, 1656 Indian Rate 4 pounds, January 15, 1657 appointed for the liberty of the aforesaid creek (Wessels Creek) to build a mill, 1659-62 magistrate under the Dutch, March 13, 1662 empowered to levy a tax of five stivers on the acre to pay town debt, July 7, 1662 !
appointed to wait upon the Director in reference to tithes, September, 1663 went to Westchester for company to bear arms against the Dutch, 1663 denounced as traitor by the Dutch, and 1665 deputy from Westchester County to convention which formulated the Dukes Laws. (Thompsons Long Island).

"Elizabeth Burroughs and Johnn Burrbughs, says Dr. Cooley, (Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing, p. 17) are most probably of the family of Rev. Jeremiah Burroughs, a Westminster divine who preached at Stepney and Cripplegate, a graduate of Cambridge, a learned man and the author of twenty-five works, who died November 14, 1646, aged 46."

Theophilus Phillips will, dated 1688, names sons, Theophilus, William and Phillip, and daughters Hannah, Elizabeth and Mary, and an unborn child. 5 Theophilus Phillips, born May 15, 1673, at Newtown, L.I., (now Elmhurst) went to Maidenhead (now Lawrenceville, N.J.) in 16[9]4 with a cousin Ralph Hunt. About this time, or a little later, came his younger brother, Phillips Phillips, and two more of the Hunts, his cousins, Samuel and Edward. These are all named in the list of founders of Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville, in 1698-9. His wife is though to have been Frances Elizabeth Betts.

Phillips Phillips married first wife Hannah Stockton, daughter of Richard, about 1702; second wife Elizabeth Hunt (said to be his cousin) daughter of Ralph Hunt. By first wife he had Hannah, Phillip, Richard (likely father of Fanny Phillips, who married Timothy Hunt), and Abigail, who married John Stockton. By second wife he had Elizabeth, Rebecca (married Robert Stockton), Mary (Supposed to have married her cousin, Joseph Phillips)[,] Abner (married Elizabeth ---), Esther, Samuel, Ruth, John and Elias, perhaps died young.

Theophilus left in his will, dated 1708, 140 acres to his oldest son Theophilus. This Theophilus Phillips, oldest brother of Justice John Phillips, of Pleasant Valley, was a Justice of Old Hunterdon County in 1723, and in 1724 was Judge of the Common Please; on December 1, 1734, he was a Justice of the quorum; (New Jersey Archives, XV, 98) he was appointed Judge, March 28,1749; (New Jersey Archives, XVI, 910 he was also Burgess of Trenton. He died in 1762." [the beginning of this quote was not designated by the author, unless the quote began at the beginning, or second paragraph, of this weeks issue.] (Also see Phillips Article in Mercer families). This Theophilus was ancestor of Thomas W. Phillips, of Butler, Pa.; A.V. Phillips, of Boston; Mrs. Symington Phillips, of Bucks Co., Pa.; Henry D. Phillips of Trenton, and B.M. Phillips, realtor , of Trenton, and Mrs. Hiram Bellis, of Ringoes. This family is the one mainly treated of in the H.D. Phillips Article in Lees Merce!
r County History. Besides Theophilus, he has sons William, Joseph, Phillip and John, of Pleasant Valley and three daughters, Fran[c]es, Hannah and Mary. 6John Phillips, of Pleasant Valley, born about 1695-1697, married a Lott, it is supposed. He is named as an executor of Will of Peter Lott, Dec. 11, 1720. Aug. 1733, in Hunterdon Co., Common Please Court John Phillips vs. Albert Uudike.

This John is mentioned (p. 33) in an article on the Phillips family be Henry D. Phillips in "Genealogical & Personal Memorial of Mercer Co., N.J., Vol. 1"

(To be continued in the Beacon next week).



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