John Townsend
(1740-1786) Revolutionary War patriot who lived in Craven County (now Marlboro County), South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.
Leonard Harper, Sr.
(1735-1822) The Gray Family History, states that Leonard fought in the Revolutionary War, participating in the battles of Troy and Sumpter.
Phillip Terrell Burford
Philip T. Burford was born June 29, 1763 in Warren County, North Carolina. While a resident of Warren County, Philip T. Burford volunteered March 1, 1780 and served as Purchasing Commissary and Wagon master, under Nicholas Lon, Quartermaster General of the State of North Carolina, until sometime in October, 1781. He served from October 15, 1781 as lieutenant, three months in Colonel William Linton’s North Carolina Regiment, in an expedition against the Tories.
He moved about 1793 from North Carolina to Kershaw District, South Carolina, where he lived seven years, then to Franklin County, Georgia and lived three years, to Haywood County, North Carolina, lived eight or nine years, thence to Bedford County, Tennessee.
Philip T. Burford was allowed pension on his application executed August 8, 1833, then a resident of Bedford County, Tennessee. Philip T. Burford, Certificate # 22074 Survey File# 1646 Bedford Co., TN; Issued October 1, 1833, Rate 73.33 per anum, Commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832 West Tennessee Agency
The following is a transcription of Phillip Burford’s Revolutionary War Pension Application:
Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters; Pension application of Philip T. Burford S1646 fn33NC; Transcribed by Will Graves 10/16/10
State of Tennessee Bedford County
On this 8th day of August 1833 personally appeared in open court before the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Bedford County now sitting being a court of Record Philip T Burford a resident of Bedford County in the State of Tennessee in the seventy first year of his age, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
I entered the service of the United States during the revolutionary war on the first of March 1780 in Warren County in the State of North Carolina where I then resided under Colonel Nicholas Long Quartermaster General of the State of North Carolina, and received the appointment of purchasing commissary forthwith: then was employed in procuring provisions for a Regiment then raising in Halifax District under the command of Colonels Benjamin Seawell & William Brickell under whose direction I proceeded to the Courthouse in Wake County, now Raleigh, where I had sent to me twelve militia light horsemen as a guard & after procuring the supplies that was thought sufficient near that place, I proceeded to Malcolm Gilchrist’s in Moore County to obtain more provisions – from thence I proceeded southwardly to Hector McNeill’s Senior (a disaffected person) where his son Hector McNeill Junior, a true Whig, rendered me considerable assistance in procuring the necessary provisions wanted. From there, as instructed by my commander, I proceeded in the direction to a certain Hix’s on Pedee River a little below Cheraw Hills to procure forthwith supplies at or near Colson’s bridge on Drowning Creek .This I think was in the month of July 1780 at the time the militia was to serve being three months after crossing the State line, which they did not cross until about the 13th of August.
I then received orders from the commander of the Regiment to proceed to General Gates’ Army, which we did & arrived within hearing of the engagement wherein he was defeated near Camden & shortly after met horsemen from the field of Action, who informed us of the misfortune. We (myself & guard) then retraced our steps to Hix’s on Pedee, where in our absence, our Regiment had arrived – & proceeded to follow it in its march & overtook it at or near Monroe’s Bridge on Drowning Creek, from thence we marched to Ramsey’s Mill on Deep River & then we proceeded and joined General Sumner at or near Hillsboro who was the first regular or Continental officer I had met with that I personally knew. He then marched near to Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, where was an ambuscade laid for Colonel Tarleton, which measure failing, we fell back again to Salisbury & then to Hillsboro, which was some time in the month of September 1780. – In October I was taken sick, & was furloughed in consequence thereof & got to a friend’s in Granville County where I lay sometime in November of the same year, when I returned home to Warren County. Shortly after I was taken sick & furloughed, say about the last of October 1780, our Regiment was discharged.
After returning home as just stated, I proceeded to Halifax received orders about the first of December 1780 from the Deputy Quartermaster General Colonel William Christmas to proceed to the house of Colonel Philemon Hawkins of Warren County to superintend the curing of pork – to which place I proceeded forthwith, and attended to the business of the same until about the first of March 1781. Having in the meantime received orders from the Quarter Master general to procure as many wagons & teams by enlistment or impressment, for which services I procured 15 wagons & had already by the time above specified. I took the command of the same by order of the Quarter master general, I moved on to Hillsboro. I now had to be very circumspect in regard to our movements lest our provisions should fall into the hands of our enemies, for the English Army under Cornwallis was in the adjoining County (Guilford). Suffice to say I was on the Battle ground in Guilford County the fourth day after the battle was fought: & by orders issued rations to the sick & wounded Americans left there (at the Courthouse). Also to those of the enemy as were left in the hospital, together with the discharged Militia and Regulars. We followed General Greene towards the South, by Ramsey’s Mill on Deep River, and overtook him above the hanging rock in South Carolina & delivered the balance of the provisions in my care. From which place I returned homeward and arrived at Halifax about the last of July. Having now but 10 wagons left, the others being disabled from some source or another, we continued to haul public provisions to & from public stores. Camp kettles from Wilcox’s Iron works, to Halifax, Warrenton and Louisville in Franklin County until about the middle of October 1781 when the wagons was discharged. I having been in service as purchasing commissary and wagon master a little more than nineteen months, say nineteen months.
About the time I ceased to be quarter wagon master as above stated and about the 15th of October 1781, I enlisted in a troop of Horse to be raised in the State of North Carolina for & during the war, with the promise of the first Lieutenant’s commission, to be commanded by Colonel William Linton. I enlisted the number of men required of me, & held ourselves in readiness to enter the service at any time, & continued to do so until peace was finally concluded. In this service a part of our engagement was that we were not to be taken beyond the limits of the State without our consent, & were to be furnished with horses & all necessary equipage by the State, & frequently met at Halifax for the purpose of receiving them, but never did, and only were called on in an occasional excursions against the Tories. And we were in the excursions against the Tories, I commanded as Lieutenant but not commissioned. The different services whereof amounted to at least three months. When added to the nineteen months, 22 months service I performed.
I will just say that I was born in the County of Warren in the State of North Carolina on the 29th day of June 1763 – at least a record left by my father of his family shows it at that time consequently I am now in my seventy first year. And further where the above record is now, I do not know; but it was as above stated.
As stated in the commencement of this declaration, I resided in Warren County in the State of North Carolina when I entered the public service, and afterwards until I was between 29 & 30 years of age. From there I moved to Kershaw district South Carolina, lived there about seven years; from thence I removed to Franklin County, Georgia, lived there about three years – I then moved to Haywood County North Carolina, resided there eight or nine years, from thence I moved to Bedford County in the State of Tennessee where I have continued to reside ever since.
In regard to the manner in which I entered the service, having omitted it at the commencement of this declaration, I will just state that I had done so as a volunteer.
In regard to commission, I never received any. I always acted with written instructions given me by the Quarter master general: and not conceiving they would ever be of any benefit to me further than their special instructions went, I suffered them to be destroyed. And as to discharge, I never received any.
I am known by the citizens generally of the County where I reside, & also by a number of those in the adjoining Counties. The certificate of Solomon Burford & Wynn Twitty of Lincoln County in regard to their knowledge of my Army services accompanies this. Together with the certificates of Shadrach Mustein a clergyman and William D Orr of my neighborhood who testify as to my character for veracity etc.
I will here by way of explanation say that conceiving that my former declaration1 was written in such a detached manner that made it difficult to arrive at a proper knowledge of its content I have thought proper to redraft the same, and therein embrace as far as I was capable, an answer to the objections raised by the war Department to my former declaration. – Some of which omissions, as the clergyman etc. I conceived was not essential, or at least thought it not necessary that he should appear in Court to do so.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present; and that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
S/ Philip T. Burford
State of Tennessee Lincoln County: This day came personally before me A. Isaacs an Acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Lincoln Solomon Burford, aged in his seventieth year and maketh oath in due form that he was personally acquainted with Philip T Burford in the County of Warren State of North Carolina from the time that he was 12 or 14 years old, and that he well recollects that said Philip T Burford did go into the United States service in the Revolutionary War at one time as a Commissary and at another time as a Wagon master, and he further recollects of going with the said Philip T Burford while he was pressing horses for the United States Service, and did accompany him the said Philip T Burford some distance on his way while in service and he further believes that he the said Philip T Burford to be the age that he represents. Sworn to & subscribed the 15th day of June 1833 before me
Phillip’s son was Jonathan Burford, who was born 2 Feb 1796, Kershaw District, South Carolina and died 12 Mar 1849, Whiteville, Hardeman Co, Texas. Jonathan relocated from South Carolina to Tennessee and then to Texas. His daughter was Rebecca Clack Burford.
Joshua Chaffin, Sr.
Joshua was the son of John Chaffin and Mary. He was born about 1725 in Charlotte Co., VA, and died January 1805 in Charlotte Co., VA. He married Ester on 1748 in Prince Edward, VA.
Revolutionary War soldier Joshua Chaffin, Sr. was almost certainly the same “Joshua Chaffin” who was granted 808 acres of land by direct patent from the crown of George II on September 20, 1759 on Horsepen Creek in the Cornwall Parish of what was then Lunenburg Co., VA. In the list of tithes for 1764, Joshua Chaffin was listed as paying three tithes: for himself, for “Thos.” Chaffin, and for John Chaffin. This suggests that the latter two were the older male children of Joshua Chaffin, Sr. In fact, on October 3, 1768, Joshua Chaffin, Sr. “sold” Thomas Chaffin and John Chaffin 123 and 117 acres, respectively, of his land on Horsepen Creek for ten pounds each. The late Raymond Mozley of Sidney, Ohio, a meticulously analytical “Chaffin” researcher, determined that the “sales price” was about six percent of the land’s actual value. It was, in other words, essentially a gift. We know Thomas and John were over sixteen by 1764; by 1768, they had obviously reached sufficient maturity in their father’s eyes to own land of their own. And giving land and other property to his children was something he continued to do.
February 4, 1805. Will of Joshua Chaffin. (Charlotte County, Virginia, Will Book, vol. ii, p. 298)
In the name of God, Amen, I, Joshua Chaffin of the County of Charlotte, being of sound mind and memory, do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament, in manner and form following, viz: I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Chaffin the tract of land where he now lives together with every other article heretofore put him in possession of to him, his heirs and assigns forever – I give and bequeath to my son Isham Chaffin the stock of cattle which I have heretofore put him in possession of to him, his heirs and assigns forever – I give and bequeath to my daughter Anne Hatchett the stock of cattle which I have heretofore put her in possession of, to her, her heirs and assigns forever – I give and bequeath to my daughter Easter Scruggs all such articles as I have heretofore put her in possession of, to her, her heirs and assigns forever – I give and bequeath to my daughter Sally Cheatham the stock of cattle that hath been delivered to her with every other article which I have possessed her with, her and her heirs forever – I give and bequeath to my son Joseph Chaffin one hundred thirteen acres of land lying on Deloney’s Fork of Horsepen Creek, it being the land whereon he lately resided, to him, his heirs and assigns forever – I give and bequeath to my son Jesse Chaffin the remainder of my tract of land whereon I now live containing two hundred and four acres including the old millplace, also one negro man by the name of Allen and one negro girl by the name of Rhody together with all and every article of every kind and sort whatever may be possessed of to him, his heirs and assigns forever – I give to my daughter Rhody Collins all such articles as she hath heretofore been put in possession of to her and her heirs forever – And lastly I do appoint my son Jesse Chaffin and my friends Mack Goode and William Deupree Executors to this my Will. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of October 1804.
Lieut. George A. Mathews
Lieut. Mathews was born 18 April 1754 in South Carolina Province. He served in the military Lieutenant between 1775 and 1783 in American Revolution. George served under his brother, Capt. Benjamin Mathewes, in the Johns Island Company of the Colleton County Regiment. After being taken prisoner at the fall of Charleston, he was held thirteen months before being exchanged.
Fisher Family Patriots and Soldiers
Father and Son, Josiah and Joseph Graves served in the Revolutionary War.
Josiah Graves
His National Societies of the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot number is A-208938.
Josiah Graves, Sr. was probably born in Northern Ireland according to Phebe (Graves) Edward’s 1885 Sanilac County, MI, death certificate. He apparently emigrated from Northern Ireland to Berkshire County, Massachusetts. He was a farmer until the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, when in January 1777; he enlisted in the First Continental Army. Josiah Graves, Sr., is the father of Josiah Graves, Jr. (b. abt. 1754-59), Richard Graves (b. abt. 1760), and John Graves (b abt. 1762).
Josiah Graves, Sr. died of smallpox while enlisted in the First Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He died at Fish Kill Supply Depot, Fishkill, Hudson River Valley, New York. There have been 60 Revolutionary War graves recently discovered at the Fish Kill Supply Depot site. After some research of records, Josiah Graves, Sr. is believed to be buried in one of those graves. Future DNA testing of remains will make identification possible because the graves were unmarked. His remains have been identified and he is listed by name on a tribute wall at the site of the burial ground: http://www.fishkillsupplydepot.org/tribute.html
The physician who attended the death of Josiah Graves, Sr., wrote this: Dr. Ledyard (at Fishkill) writes to Dr. Cutter (at Peekskill) on July 21, 1777 – “Snow is dead and old Graves followed him without much ceremony. The deaf man is just gone and also Dennison died this morning. If I should go on much farther with my dead list, I believe you will think I am about clearing the hospital, but I do assure you they would not obey my Orders to live, so I was obliged to give them a Furlow.”.
Joseph “Josiah” Graves
His National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot Number is A-207348.
Josiah Graves, Jr. is the son of Josiah Graves, Sr. He was born in Massachusetts in 1754. He was eighteen or twenty years old when he enlisted in the First Continental Army in January of 1777. His birthdate has been set to be approximately 1754 by the NSDAR. He was living with his father, Josiah Graves, Sr., on their farm in N. Briton, Massachusetts at the time he enlisted. Father and son both enlisted in the First Continental Army in January of 1777 in Boston, MA.
Josiah Graves, Jr., and his father both contracted smallpox while enlisted. Josiah Graves, Jr., lived through his bout with smallpox but his father died on July 22, 1777 of small pox while enlisted.
He is described as being five feet seven inches tall with a stout build, sandy colored hair, sandy colored beard, and blue eyes. After his discharge he stayed on to work as a blacksmith for the government until the close of the war. During the war, due to hunger, Josiah Graves, Jr. said that he had to eat horse flesh which he described as the “sweetest morsel he ever ate.”
Josiah Graves, Jr., married Mary Beard in Scotch Church, New York in 1784. He died and was buried in Liverpool Cemetery, Liverpool, Onondaga County, New York in 1814. Josiah Graves, Jr. and Mary Beard are listed on the Schenectady Digital History Archive as being founders of Schenectady (Fort Hazard). Josiah Graves, Jr. and Mary (Beard) Graves had thirteen children.
Service record: Massachusetts, Rank: Private; Last Known Duty Station: Fishkill Supply Depot, Dutchess County, NY; Pension Number: W7578 (Mary Beard-Graves widow); Description: Capt. Abraham Watson, Col. Greaton. Find a Grave Memorial# 100921698
Earley – Price – Lawrence Patriots and Soldiers
Daniel Dees (1740-1802)
A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA Militia. DAR Ancestor # A031303
Daniel Dees was born around 1740 in Edgecomb or Johnston Co, he died in Jefferson Co Ga in 1802. His wife was Elizabeth Wood. He had a number of land grants in Johnston Co NC between 1765 and 1782. He appears to have been a wealthy man.
He served in the Revolutionary War his service is in the Army Accounts of Raleigh NC Vol Vi p 52 folio I Book C p 160 cancelled vouchers #103, #2156, and #2101 and is proven by the Daughters of American Revolution.
William Allen 1695-1786
He was an elderly man during the revolution, but he helped the cause as a part of the North Carolina Militia. Below is an image of his revolutionary war pay voucher that is preserved in the national archives.
Thomas Allen 1735-1799 – William’s son also served in the North Carolina Militia during the Revolutionary War
Callcott Family Patriots and Soldiers
“Hawkins, Philemon, II 28 Sept. 1717–10 Sept. 1801
Philemon Hawkins, II, planter, Revolutionary soldier, and public officeholder, was born in Virginia. He was the oldest son of Philemon and Ann Eleanor Howard Hawkins, founders of this branch of the Hawkins family in America. His parents were born in Devonshire, England, and settled in Virginia in 1715. Philemon the emigrant, the great-grandson of Sir John Hawkins, Elizabethan naval commander, was a young man when he died in Gloucester County, Va., in 1725.
In 1735, at age eighteen, Hawkins moved his mother, his brother John, and his sister Ann to Bute County where he soon became the wealthiest man in the county. He was a member of the Anglican church and filled many public positions from 1743 until the end of the Revolutionary War. Hawkins took an active part in the events of 1771–76, serving as aide-de-camp to Governor William Tryon on the expedition against the Regulators in 1771 and later as a member of the two Provincial Congresses that met at Halifax in 1776. The Congress named him a lieutenant colonel of cavalry, but he soon resigned his commission to raise his own battalion. Between 1779 and 1787 he served seven terms in the General Assembly, and in 1782–83 he was a member of the Council of State.
In 1743 Hawkins married Delia Martin, daughter of Colonel Zachariah Martin of Mecklenburg County, Va. They had four sons—John, Joseph, Benjamin, and Philemon—all of whom were colonels in the Continental Army during the Revolution, and two daughters, Delia and Ann. Mrs. Hawkins died in 1794. Both she and her husband were buried at the old homestead in Warren County.”
Warren County Deed Book-l, page 133. 30 July 1766. Philemon Hawkins, of Bute Co. to his son John Hawkins (Ancestor):
Deed of Gift, for natural love & affection & for his better maintenance & preferment, 1000 A. in Bute Co. on Fishing Creek, beginning where the Court House Road crosses the Little Creek, through my pasture to Johnson’s Road, adj. my lower line & Macon, Hurst & McLemore – all the land granted 29 Nov. 1760, part of a tract bought 28 April 1753 and part of one obtained 25 March 1749. Wit: Len Henley Bullock, Stephen Jett. Ack: by Philemon Hawkins, Bute July Court 1766, Ben McCulloch, C.C. Reg: 24 November 1766, by Willm. Johnson, P.R.
From Appletons’ Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889:
“Hawkins, Philemon, b in Gloucester County, VA 28 Sept. 1717, died in Warren County, NC in 1801. He served in a calvary troop at the battle of Alamance, 16 May 1771 as aide to Governor Tryon, in the same year was a member of the general assembly and represented Bute and Granville counties for 13 years. He raised the first volunteer company in Bute County for the Revolutionary army and was elected Colonel in 1776. Col Hawkins was a member of the convention that ratified the National Constitution, was the last surviving signer of the constitution of North Carolina.”
Philemon’s son John Hawkins was also a Colonel in the Continental Army during the war.
Vann Family Patriots and Soldiers
The Scott and Phillips families
Both of Jonathan Hampton Scott’s grandfathers served in the Revolutionary War. They were of Irish descent and they settled in Western Pennsylvania before the war.
“William Scott, was born in Scotland in the latter part of the seventeenth century, the exact date being not known. On account of his loyalty to the principles of the “Church of Scotland,” and bitter opposition to popery, he, with many other families of Covenanter sympathies, in order to enjoy peace and safety, was compelled to leave his native land and find a home elsewhere. He accordingly went to the North of Ireland, County Derry. There he laid out a deer park and salmon fishery, as he was a man of considerable wealth (judged by the standard of those days, not of the present). But few details of his life have come down to us, nor do we know when he died, and of his family we have no account, except of one son, Joseph.
Joseph Scott, son of William Scott, was born in County Derry, Ireland, in the early part of the eighteenth century. His children were one daughter and five sons: Mary, William, Zaccheus, Nathan, Samuel and James. He died in Ireland, after which his children emigrated to America, first locating in Lancaster County, Penn., some of them afterward moving to Washington (now Allegheny) county, same State. William (the eldest son) was killed in one of the Indian wars; Zaccheus settled with his brother James, on a farm in Elizabeth township, Allegheny Co., Penn., and all trace of him has been lost; Nathan located in New Jersey, and nothing further has been heard of him except that be had one son; James (ancestor), the youngest son of Joseph Scott, Sr., came to western Pennsylvania and settled in what is known as the “Forks of the Yough” settlement, now Elizabeth township, Allegheny Co., Penn. This farm he afterward patented, November 9, 1789.
James Scott had eight children, and three of the sons were in the war of 1812, two of them as captains, one being promoted to colonel. Mary was married near the year 1760, to James Young, of Lancaster County, Penn. Mr. Young lived on the main road from Philadelphia to Lancaster and kept an inn at which the wagoner’s stopped on their route. Mr. Young died prior to the year 1780, his wife afterward married John Morgan, and with her eight children came to western Pennsylvania in 1780, and located in what is now Robinson township, Allegheny Co., Penn., near where the fort was built.
Samuel Scott
Samuel Scott, son of Joseph Scott, Sr., was born in County Derry, Ireland, in 1751, and in youth came to this country, first locating in Lancaster County, Penn. He attended a communion of the Reformed Presbyterian Church at that place, was married about the year 1775, to Elizabeth Wilson, a sister of Rev. J. R. Wilson, of the same church, and moved to western Pennsylvania, settling on a farm on Mingo creek, Washington Co., Penn. He bought a team of horses in Lancaster County, a Conestoga wagon and farm implements, and drove through by way of Bedford Springs to the above-named place. He served as a private 1780-81 under Captain William Huston, command of Samuel Culbertson.
He remained on Mingo Creek until about the year 1795, when he moved to Campbell’s run, Washington county (now in Robinson township, Allegheny Co., Penn.), was one of the pioneers of the settlement, and helped to build the Cowan fort, or blockhouse, in which the settlers would often leave their wives and children for safety from the Indians. He rented a farm of 331 acres from John Bail, which he afterward bought, in November 1799, the same for £516 specie, the deed thereof being recorded March 1, 1800. Mr. Scott purchased on May 4,1805, a farm in Washington county on the headwaters of Miller’s run, Mt. Pleasant township, containing 309 acres, for the sum of $2,474 (which farm he afterward willed to his sons John and Joseph), same being the eastern part of the land granted to Gen. George Washington, owned at that time by Alexander Addison. In the fall of 1805, a communion service was held at the home of Samuel Scott, on Campbell’s run, about fifty persons having gathered, most of them coming from a distance. The dwelling was but a log cabin, and consequently the barn floor was covered with straw, over which was spread wagon covers and blankets. Here the guests slept, Mr. Scott lodging with the company, feeding the horses and people. Thursday was kept as a fast day; Friday all the able-bodied men went to work hewing and hauling logs to erect a communion table, seats and a tent, so that the minister could address the audience, and services were held Saturday afternoon, Sabbath and Monday morning, after which the worshipers returned to their homes.
In 1815 Mr. Scott went on a chase on horseback to the land office at Canton or Mansfield, Ohio, being first of the numerous competitors, and entered a section of land (640 acres); he also, at another place entered a half section-in all 960 acres. It was a perilous journey at that time, on account of the Indians. He died in 1819, aged sixty-eight years, owning at the time about 1,600 acres of land. His wife died in 1827, aged seventy-eight years, and they are buried in the cemetery at Union (U. P.) church, in Robinson township, Allegheny County.
They were active and influential members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, in which he was a ruling elder for many years. They raised a family of nine children, all of whom grew to maturity and reared families. Their names are as follows: John, Margaret, Elizabeth, William, Mary, Joseph, Samuel, Nancy and James. His descendants at this writing, as far as known, are 619 in number. Part of the farm or homestead is still owned by Scott connection. The farm on Miller’s run he left by will to his two sons, John (Ancestor – father of Jonathan Hampton Scott) and Joseph–the north end, 159~ acres to John, and his grandchildren still own sixty-five acres of it, and goes by the name of the Scott heirs. The south end, 150 acres, he left to his son Joseph, and his son James owns and lives on it. Each of the farms have three producing oil wells, some of them, at this writing, producing at the rate of seventy-five barrels per hour.
Jonathan Phillips
Jonathan Phillips was Johnathan Hampton Scott’s maternal grandfather, also an Irish Immigrant to Western Pennsylvania who fought in the Revolutionary War.
Jonathan Phillips was born 1746 in Ireland and died 3 Apr 1830 in Robinson Twp., Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. He is buried in the Union Presbyterian Cemetery, Robinson Twp., Allegheny Co., PA. Jonathan served 14 Jun 1782 in the Revolutionary War, Capt. Samuel Cuningham’s Co., 2nd Battalion, Washington Co. Militia. He married Hannah Cowen Phillips (1755 – 1825).
From “The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania”:
“Sometime previous to the revolutionary war two brothers emigrated from their native country, Ireland, to America, accompanied by their sister, who was afterwards married and became the mother of a large family of children. These brothers, both farmers, were Jonathan and Samuel Phillips, former of whom purchased four hundred acres and latter about five hundred acres from the government, the property being in what was then Washington county, now Robinson township. Jonathan married Miss Cowen, who bore him four sons and four daughters, Samuel, born in 1790, being among the youngest.
