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24 August 2022

Samuel Phipps / Fips

[Revolutionary War Patriot Series, Part 8 of 12]

 

Born:  circa 1762 in North Carolina
Died:  6 April 1854 in Ashe County, North Carolina

Service:  Private

  • Private under Capt. James McDaniel

Wife:  Elizabeth Reeves

Children:

  • John
  • William
  • Jesse
  • Isaiah
  • Benjamin
  • George
  • Joseph

 

Timeline:

 

[Note:  Samuel lived near the Virginia-North Carolina border.  During the Revolutionary War, he was in Montgomery County, Virginia, then adjacent to Wilkes County, North Carolina.  Ashe County was formed 1799 from Wilkes County, and Alleghany County was formed 1859 from Ashe County.  For a modern map, see New River Notes.]

 

26 December 1778
Wilkes County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips’ future father-in-law, George Reeves, entered a claim for vacant land for 200 acres on Rocky Creek.  This claim was sold or transferred to Samuel Phips by 1 April 1779, when a land warrant was issued.  The land was surveyed on 10 March 1789, and a grant was issued to Samuel Phipps on 20 December 1791 by Governor Alexander Martin.  [Note:  it is not clear that this was the same Samuel Phipps, as he would have been rather young in 1779.  Samuel would have been of age by 1789.]


1782
Montgomery County, Virginia
Samuel Phipps appeared on the 1782 personal property tax list, shown with 1 tithable, 2 horses, and 2 cattle.

 

Circa 1782
Montgomery County, Virginia
Sammuwill Phips was included on a list in Capt. James McDaniel’s company of the Montgomery County militia.  George Reeves served as a lieutenant in the same company.


 

4 July 1783
Wilkes County, North Carolina
The original entry was not found, but on 4 July 1783, Samuel Phips was issued a land warrant for 50 acres on Rock Creek, and the land was surveyed on 10 March 1789.  The land was granted on 20 December 1791 by Governor Alexander Martin.

 

12 July 1787
Wilkes County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips’ household was enumerated in Capt. Nall’s District (by Ambrose Hamon) as having 1 male between 21-60 years of age, 2 males under 21, and 1 female.

 

1790
Wilkes County, North Carolina
Sam Fips’ household in the 1790 U.S. Federal Census included 2 males under the age of 16, 1 male over the age of 16, and 4 females.

 

28 November 1795
Wilkes County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips purchased 180 acres on the south side of New River from Enoch Osborn of Grayson County, Virginia for £100.


 

30 January 1797
Wilkes County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips was present at court when his deed from Enoch Osborn was proved, and was also a witness for George Reeves’ deed to William Reeves.  The same day, Samuel was among those ordered to “be a jury to review and turn a road from George Bargers at Praters Creek to about half a mile below Samuel Robinetts & report the same to the next Court.”


 

3 April 1798
Wilkes County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips purchased 30 acres on Rock Creek from John Taylor for £4.

 

4 July 1799
Ashe County, North Carolina
The original entry was not found, but on 4 July 1799, Samuel Phips was issued a land warrant for 150 acres on Rock Creek, and the land was surveyed on 20 November 1800.  The land was granted on 2 January 1801 by Governor Benjamin Williams.

 

1800
Morgan District, Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips’ household in the 1800 U.S. Federal Census included 3 males under the age of 10, 2 males between 10-15, 1 male between 16-25, 1 male between 26-44, 1 female between 16-25, and 1 slave.

 

8 February 1802
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips entered a claim for vacant land for 50 acres near his own mill pond.  A land warrant was issued on 9 May 1802, and the land was surveyed on 16 June 1803.  The land was granted on 29 November 1803 by Governor James Turner.

 

10 May 1802
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips entered a claim for vacant land for 100 acres on the Poison Branch of Elk Creek.  A land warrant was issued on 12 August 1802, and the land was surveyed on 16 June 1803.  The land was granted on 29 November 1803 by Governor James Turner.

 

1810
Ashe County, North Carolina
S. Phips’ household in the 1850 U.S. Federal Census included 2 males between 10-15, 3 males between 16-25, 1 male over the age of 45, and 1 female between 16-25.

 

15 November 1811
Grayson County, Virginia
Samuel & Elizabeth Phipps were among the heirs of George Reeves conveying 384 acres on the west side of New River to John Reeves.

 

16 December 1811
Grayson County, Virginia
Samuel Phips signed petition asking for a longer time to return plats and certificates of surveys of land made in 1799.


 

8 June 1812
Grayson County, Virginia
Samuel & Elizabeth Phipps were among the heirs of George Reeves conveying 100 acres on the north side of New River to John Reeves.

 

1815
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips appeared on the 1815 tax list, with 450 acres of land.


 

23 July 1818
Grayson County, Virginia
Samuel & Elizabeth Phipps were among the heirs of George Reeves who sold 191 acres on the Collins Branch of New River to Spencer Isom for $140.

 

26 October 1818
Grayson County, Virginia
Samuel & Elizabeth Phipps were among the heirs of George Reeves who sold 200 acres on the waters of New River to John Reeves for $140.

 

1820
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips’ household in the 1820 U.S. Federal Census included 1 male between 10-15, 1 male over the age of 45, 1 female under the age of 10, 2 females between 10-15, 1 female over the age of 45, and 3 slaves.

 

27 May 1820
Grayson County, Virginia
Samuel Phips was among the heirs of George Reeves who sold 50 acres on the north side of New River to William Sexton for $50.

 

1829
Grayson County, Virginia
Samuel & Elizabeth Phips were among the heirs of George Reeves who sold 134 acres on the south side of New River to Jesse Reeves Jr. for $300.

 

1830
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Fips’ household in the 1830 U.S. Federal Census included 1 male between 60-69, 1 female between 60-69, and 6 slaves.

 

8 October 1832
Grayson County, Virginia
Samuel & Elizbeth Phipps were among the heirs of George Reeves who sold 300 acres at the North Carolina line to Andrew Cox for $150.

 

3 December 1832
Grayson County, Virginia
Samuel & Elizbeth Phipps were among the heirs of George Reeves who sold 200 on the waters of Brush Creek to Susannah Tolliver for $400.

 

27 September 1833
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips sold 7½ acres of land on the Crosshead Branch of Rock Creek to Benjamin Long for $18.75.

 

2 November 1833
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phipps deeded “one negro boy ten years old named Thomas” to his son John.

 

19 July 1834
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips sold 140 acres of land on the waters of Rock Creek to William Phips for $140.

 

24 August 1837
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phipps wrote his first will.

In the name of God Amen, I Samuel Phipps of Ashe County + State of North Carolina being of sound + perfect mind + memory, blessed be God, do this 24th day of August AD 1837, do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner following that is to say.  First, I give and bequeath to John Phipps my oldest son a negro boy known by the name of Thomas for which I have lately signed a bill of sale, and to my next son William Phipps I give and bequeath one dollar, over what I have given him and to Jesse Phipps my third son a boy by the name of Charles which gift was made three years ago, + I now have the said boy to dispose of with the rest of my children, + to my son Isaiah Phipps one dollar, over what I have given him and at my death to my son Benjamin I have given a girl named Viney, and to Joseph Phipps my youngest son I have given and bequeathed a negro girl named Violet and do also give and bequeath to him the said Joseph my son at my death a negro boy by the name of Charles, and after my death my will is to have all of my property, that is to say I set free Bicey a negro woman and all Bicey increase that is alive at that time together with my household furnature with all my stock and effects to be sold to the highest bidder for cash, and after William Phipps and Isaiah Phipps parts that is to say one dollar apiece is paid the ballance to be equally divided between Jesse Phipps, John Phipps + George Phipps heirs Benjamin Phipps + Isaiah Phipps + I hereby make and ordain John Phipps + Joseph Phipps my sons executors of this my last will and testament.  In witness whereof I the said Samuel Phipps have to this my last will and testament set my hand and seal the day and year above writen enterlined before signed.


 

1840
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phipps’ household in the 1840 U.S. Federal Census included 1 male between 70-79 and 1 female between 70-79.

 

24 November 1840
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phipps’ son Joseph was counted on the 1840 U.S. Federal Census, but died sometime prior to 24 November 1840, when Joseph’s widow Patsy Phipps and Charles H. Doughten were bound as administrators on his estate.

 

15 January 1842
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phipps deeded “a negro girl named Vilet” to his daughter-in-law Patsy Phipps.


 

26 November 1842
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phipps sold 139 acres of land on Rock Creek to Isham Osborn for $200.

 

21 November 1845
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phipps deeded “one negro boy named Dart” to his daughter-in-law Gemima, widow of his son John.

 

31 May 1847
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phipps gave an affidavit on behalf of Frankey Toliver’s claim for a widow’s pension, testifying that he knew that Jesse and Frankey Toliver were married in 1782, more than a year after Samuel had moved to the Ashe County area.


 

1850
Ashe County, North Carolina
In the 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Samuel Phipps was counted in the household of his daughter-in-law Patcy Phipps.  Samuel’s age was given as 88, born in North Carolina, and he had no occupation.  On the slave schedule, Patsy owned four slaves:  a black female, age 23;  a black male, age 20;  a mulatto female, age 3;  and a mulatto male, age 4 months.

 

15 February 1850
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phips sold 10 acres of land to Wilbourn Phips for $5.

 

4 March 1850
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phipps wrote his second will.  This will was recorded on 22 May 1854.

In the name of God amen, I being of sound mind and memory knowing that all men must die and in contemplation of that solemn event give to the earth my body from which it sprang and resign my soul to God who gave it and in regard to my earthly effects, I bequeath unto Patsy Phipps one yellow mare, and one pided cow, and his kitchen furnature, after my body is decently burried, and I hereby revoke all other wills by me made contrary to the purport of this my last will and testament this 4th of March 1850.


 

31 August 1850
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phipps gave an affidavit on behalf of Nancy Gambrill’s claim for a widow’s pension.  Samuel stated that he was 87 years old, and that Martin Gambrill had served as a first lieutenant under Capt. William Nall and was wounded at the Battle of Kings Mountain.  Samuel had not been present at Martin and Nancy’s wedding, but had heard that they were married in 1777.

 

22 July 1852
Ashe County, North Carolina
Samuel Phipps gave an affidavit on behalf of Molly Baker’s claim for a widow’s pension.  Samuel stated that he was 92 years old, that Thomas Baker had served in Capt. William Nall’s company, and that Thomas and Molly Baker had been living as husband and wife by 1780.  Molly Baker’s pension claim was rejected.


 

6 April 1854
Ashe County, North Carolina
Per a memorial marker in Amelia, North Carolina, Samuel Phipps died on 6 April 1854.

 

1855
Wise County, Virginia
Two of Joseph Phipps’ sons-in-law, William Henley and Robert Haynes, filed a suit claiming that Joseph and Patsy’s sons, Preston and Wilburn Phipps, had unjustly taken ownership of Violet.

… during the lifetime of the said Joseph and Patsy Phipps the said Samuel Phipps loaned to them a certain negro girl named Vilet for the purpose of assisting the said Patsy in the performance of her domestic labor.  The said Joseph and Patsy by permission of sd Samuel contracted to hold the said negro girl Vilet under the loan aforesaid until the death of the said Joseph which occurred about the year 1840.  Two years after the said date (1840) the said Samuel Phipps parted with all right title and interest in this said negro girl by a deed of release (a copy of which is herewith filed marked “A”) unto the said Patsy Phipps.


 

A modern map shows the location of Rock Creek, near Amelia, North Carolina, in present-day Alleghany County.


 

 

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