Isiah married SMITH Mary Eleanor on 26 Feb 1707/08 in Phil, PA. Mary was born in ABT. 1665 in Phil, PA; died in ABT. 1724 in Phil, PA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In his will written in 1766 in Granville County, North Carolina, Isiah leaves his property to his son Isiah and his wife Ann.

Will of Esaiah Phipps, proved 8/1766 from Abstracts of Granville County, NC, unrecorded wills 1746-1771, page 19:

Aug. 17, 1760 - proved Aug. Court 1766 - Esaiah Phipps will to son Esaiah Phipps my plantation in Hamshire county, Virginia on south side of south Branch containing 249 acres adjoining Benja Forman and John Wilson, two horses; to my wife Ann Phipps, my plantation in Hamshire county, VA, containing 218 acres and also the plantation whereon I now live on both sides of Mill creek containing 200 acres that I bought of Andrew Hampton in Granville Co., NC and also all household goods, cattle, horses, hogs. Wts: Willm Berry, Thos Moore, John Fowler.

found in Granville County Deeds:

Aug.16, 1760 - Andrew Hampton to Isiah Phipps for 30 pds. 200 acres in Granville Co. being part of tract granted Mar. 11, 1760 to Hampton. Wts. Robert and Sherwood Harris.

Isiah married (FIELDS?) Anne. Anne (daughter of FIELD William) was born in ABT. 1710 in Phil, PA; died in AFT. 1766 in NC. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Willed 249 acre plantation in Hampshire Co, VA by his father in 1766.

NC Colonial Records:

Vol 22:

Isaiah Phipps, page 165: company of Capt. William Bueford-1771, Soldiers: one was Isiaiah Phipps
Page 169: Isiah Phipps took the State Oath 5/22/1778
Page 484-"received of Robert Harris, Col of the Granville Regiment of Militia the sum (after each name) for services in protecting Publick peace at Hillsborough through September last."

Isiah married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

John married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

James married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In 1765 , James, John and Joseph Phipps are listed on a petition to the Governor asking for a redress of fees. (The North Carolina colonial Records, Volume 7, page 737.) We do not know the exact date of death for Joseph, but we do know that he was still alive in 1769 because his youngest son, Isiah, was born that year.

Joseph married ROMAL Mary in 1749 in Orange Co, NC. Mary (daughter of TURNER) was born in ABT. 1735; died in 1769 in Orange Co., NC. [Group Sheet]

John married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Nellie married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Joseph married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Mary married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Nancy married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Samuel married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Aaron married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Isiah married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Margaret married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

James married UNKNOWN Abigal. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Benjamin fought in the Revolutionary War. Pension application follows:

(W 5,539: S.C. & VA)
Grayson County, VA

On the 24th day of September 1832 personally apprearing in open court, before the Justice of the court of Grayson County now sitting Benjamin Phipps, a resident of Grayson County in the state of Virginia aged 70 years who being first duly sworn according to the law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed Jun 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States after the happening of the following circumstances. He was living at the house of Capt. John Cox on New River in Montgomery County, Virginia, now Grayson County, VA about the year 1779 or 80 engaged in making a crop of corn, when Col. Roberts at the head of a company of Tories, came there and made prisoners of himself, William Craig and Beverly Matkins. The said Tories took the declarant and carried him to the British army commanded by Lord Rawden. He remained with the said army, sick at the time of the battle of the Hanging rock, when the said army marched to Camden,

After this the Declarent returned to New River in Grayson County after an absence of three years, as near as can now be recalled. He was afterward in an excursion against the Tories in the mountains, under James Cox, who acted as Capt. in the place of his father, Capt. John Cox, who was absent on a tour against the Indians. In this excursion they came up with the Tories, killed and wounded the whole party, except one who was the brother of Green, their commander, and who afterwards joind the American Army as a regular soldier.

The Declarant will not say how long he was engaged in the US service in the whole, for fear he might err as to the precise time, but he is confident it was not less than six months.

The declarant was born in Guilford County in the State of NC in the year 1761 or 2 as he believes, but has no record of his age.

He was in SC when he entered the service, and since the Revolutionary Was he has lived in Grayson County where he now lives. He has no documentary evidence to prove his service, and never received any discharge from the service. He is known to James Cox, a contemporary survivor, and to Lewis Hail and Stephen Hail, who can testify as to the character for honesty and as to the belief of his service in the Revolutionary War. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to, and subscribed, this day and year aforesaid.

Signed with his mark
Benjamin Phipps

Mr. Stephen Hail, a clergyman, residing in the County of Grayson, and Lewis Hail, residing in the same county hereby certify that we are acquainted with Benjamin Phipps, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be 70 years of age: that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution: and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the ay and year aforesaid.
Stephen Hair, Jr.
Lewis Hail

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them, Stephen Hail, Jr. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Grayson and that Lewis Hail who also signed the same is a resident in the County of Grayson and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, Martin Deckerson, Clerk of the Court of Grayson County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Phipps for a pension.

In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Office this 15th day of October 1832.

M. Deckerson

Note: The Col. Washington in the above document was the brother of General George Washington.

Additional Note: St. John's Parish, SC In the Court of Ordinary, 9 June 1769

Ann Phipps of St. John's Parish qualified as Ex. to Joseph Phipps' Will.

Note by Mrs. Williford: Where Benjamin Phipps must have visited when he escaped to visit relatives in SC, 1780-1781.

The application for pension by Jean Phipps, widow of Benjamin Phipps

State of Virginia
County of Grayson

On this 5th day of July 1844 personally appeared before me one of the acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said county Jean Phipps a resident of the County of Grayson and state aforesaid, aged 79 years who being first duly sworn according to the law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain benefit of the provision made by act of congress passed 7th July 1838. That she is the widow of Benjamin Phipps who was a Revolutionary soldier, and late a United States pensioner at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum. For proof of service reference may be had to his declaration on file in the pension office at the war department of the United States.

She further declared that she was married to the aforesaid Benjamin Phipps by One Robert Baker a Magistrate on the 5th Day of July in the year 1782, and the aforesaid Benjamin Phipps died on the 3rd of May 1838 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period and she further declared that owing to her very old age and decrepitudesof body, she is not able to go to the court house to make this declaration all of which will more appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above mentioned.

Before me Signed with her mark
William Young Jean Phipps

William Young, John Phipps and David Cox all swore to the accurace of the above statement of Jean Phipps.

Benjamin Phipps died on May 3, 1838. His remains, along with those of his wife, Jean, were moved from an abandoned cemetery to the Captain Joseph Phipps cemetery on the farm of Miss Celene Phipps by members of the New River Pioneer Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Benjamin is buried with his wife Jean, their son Captain Joseph Phipps, a grandson, Joseph Alexander Phipps, a great-grandson, Franklin Con Phipps, on property owned by a great, great, granddaughter, Cynthia Celene Phipps, and originally given to his son, Joseph Phipps. A number of their descendants are members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution and children of the American Revolution.

In an ancestry chart for ancestors of Noah Hampton that discusses the migration patterns of families from PA and West NJ to VA, there is the following note:

Another name that follows the same pattern is that of Phipps. The 1751 map of Virginia by Peter Jefferson and Joshua Fry shows the Phipps home site in the same general area where Noah Hampton lived. In Granville, NC, in 1760, Isiah Phipps wills to son Isiah a plantation in Hampshire County, Virginia and in Granville, to wife Ann the 200 acres bought by Andrew Hampton in Granville the day before. The name Benjamin Phipps is also found in the Frederick/Hampshire area of VA in 1760, then in Granville, NC, Rowan, NC, and then into Grayson County, VA on the New River.

Benjamin married HASH Jane on 5 Jul 1782 in Grayson County, VA?. Jane (daughter of HASH James) was born in 1766 in Rowan Co, NC; died on 1 Sep 1854 in Bridle Creek, Grayson Co, VA; was buried in Phipps Cemetery, Bridle Creek, Grayson Co, VA. [Group Sheet]