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Continued: Various researchers claim that Daniel Phillips married Dorcas Clark. She was the daughter of Samuel and Jemima (Gates) Clark who married in Preston in 1723. While there is no record of this marriage, it there is also no reason to doubt it, as they all lived in or near Preston, Connecticut.
I can find no record of any children of Daniel and Dorcas (Clark) Phillips. Deed records in Plainfield and Preston, Connecticut show that he lived in the area until at least 1768.
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In the 1810 census, Daniel Phillips (aged 45+, hence sometime before 1765) was enumerated in Manlius, Onondaga Co., NY, with himself, two girls ages 9 or under, and one woman aged 45+. Immediately after him, Elijah Phillips (Sr., ~1750s-1815) was enumerated. The fact that they lived next-door to one another suggests they were related.
Records of the Surrogate Court of Onondaga Co., New York, show that Daniel Phillips, of Manlius, died intestate before mid-April 1813. Letters of administration were granted to Simeon Phillips, 26 April 1813, but the records do not offer any other details.
Simeon (1760-1826) could have been Daniel’s son, but this is not stated in the record. Curiously, some other researchers have claimed that Elijah Phillips, Sr. had sons named Daniel and Simeon, but this seems to be erroneous. Descendants of Simeon Phillips understood that there was a relationship, but thought that Simeon was a son of Elijah, and that Elijah was a son of Daniel Phillips—this is confused, since Elijah was not Simeon’s father. However, this does show that these families knew they were related somehow, and believed that an elder Daniel Philips was their progenitor.
If this 1813 record does not refer to the death of Daniel Phillips (b. 1729/30), then it is possible that it referred to a son named Daniel Phillips, and the younger Daniel's brother Simeon was the administrator of the estate.
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The following information was shared by Nancy Schiffhauer, of Manlius, NY, who was kind enough to transcribe and send me the account of the “Phillips Family” compiled by Fred Ketchum Armstrong (1870-1947), which he wrote about 1928, stating that the Phillips information was gleaned from 1886 conversations he had with his grandmother, Maria Elizabeth (Phillips) Ketchum (1813-1891), daughter of Simeon (1760-1826) & Phoebe (Burcham) Phillips of Manlius, NY:
“Grandma [Maria Elizabeth (Phillips) Ketchum] cannot remember her father’s [Simeon’s] father—Elijah Phillips; and Elijah’s father was probably Daniel Phillips.
“Elijah Phillips had five sons & two daughters" [listing the following]:
1) Elijah Jr. m. Amanda Danforth; lived in Syracuse & had two children (Nelson & Lucia).
2) Daniel married “but that is all I know of him.” 3) Lyman m. a woman “whom her mother-in-law liked very well.” 4) Elihu, the youngest, m. a southern lady named Eleanor, & had a dau. named Eleanor. Elihu was once a sheriff of Onondaga County (1838). He went to Michigan, where he died. The last Grandma heard was that their dau. Eleanor was in poor health.
5) Simeon (1760-1826) m. Phoebe Burcham; lived in Manlius, NY; buried at Dry Hill cemetery; they had eight children (Dorcas, Daniel, Henry B., Nathaniel Norman, Maria Elizabeth, Elijah, Simeon, Jr., Phoebe Ann).
6) Sarah m. Pearl Bennett (?); lived in Pompey, NY & had two sons (Pearl & James). Sarah committed suicide.
7) Susan Phillips m. Nathan Williams, of Pompey, NY. They had a large family (Nathan, Jr., Elisha, Daniel, Isaac, David, & others)
See notes under Simeon Phillips for a full examination of this family outline, highlighting a number of errors and drawing some conclusions. In short, I conclude that Simeon Phillips (1760-1826) was not a child of Elijah Phillips, Sr. I also conclude that he probably did have sisters named Sarah (who m. Pearl Bennett) and Susan (who m. Nathan William), and perhaps brothers named Daniel and Lyman who married and had families. I suspect that these siblings may have been children of the Daniel Phillips who was born prior to 1765, was enumerated next-door to Elijah Phillips, Sr. in Manlius in 1810, and who died in 1813.
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Other researchers claim that Daniel Phillips (b. 1729/30, son of Jonathan and Esther (Ayer) Phillips) also or alternatively married one Lydia Steele. This seems to be erroneous.
The Daniel Phillips who married Lydia Steele appears to be an entirely different man (and a generation younger) who was from Mass. Vital Records of Ashfield, MA, and cemetery records in Monroe Co, NY, confirm that this other Daniel Phillips was born 2 Aug. 1756 in Ashfield, Hampshire (now Franklin) Co., MA, and was the son of Benjamin and Hannah (Cox) Phillips.
Lydia Steel (Steele) and Daniel Phillips, both of Ashfield, married 7 September 1781, in Ashfield, Hampshire (now Franklin) Co., MA. (Vital Records of Ashfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : 1942)) From this record, it is unclear (and even improbable) whether she was even the same Lydia Steele who had previously married Elijah Brunson in Connecticut--since the Lydia Steel in Connnecticut was previously married to Elijah Brunson, it seems improbable that they are the same, because the marriage record in Mass. gives her name as Steele (not Brunson).
Lydia (from Ashfield, MA) died before 1812 (probably in New York state), and Daniel Phillips married second widow Lucy (Higgens) Noble. Lucy was born abt. 1771.
Daniel Phillips (cemetery record)
Birth: Aug. 2, 1756 Ashfield, MA
Death: Jul. 18, 1838 Henrietta, Monroe Co., NY
Buried: Tinker Cemetery, Henrietta, Monroe Co., NY
DAR records indicates he was a son of Benjamin and Hannah (Cox) Phillips. A Revolutionary War soldier, he was present at the surrender of Burgoyne.
Moreover, the Lydia Steele who married Daniel Phillips in Ashfield, Mass. seems to be a diefferent woman that the Lydia Steele who lived in Connecticut:
Lydia Steele, b. abt. 1753, of Kensington, Hartford Co., CT, was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Steele. Dr. Samuel Steele, son of Dr. Joseph & Elizabeth (Hollister) Steele, was b. 24 Feb. 1722/23 in Farmington or Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT, and d. 6 April 1782; he was bur. in Beckley Quarter Cemetery, Berlin, CT (originally in Newington; in Wethersfield 1713-; in Farmington 1715-; in Kensington 1722-; in Berlin 1785-). Dr. Samuel Steele seems to have married three times, and there is some confusion which wife was the mother of Lydia: m. 1) Honor Deming; m. 2) Anne Francis 14 Nov. 1749 at Newington Congregational Church; m. 3) Hannah Nott aft. Aug. 1755. Lydia Steele (b. abt. 1753) married Elijah Brunson (b. of Farmington, Hartford Co., CT; his surname is probably synonymous with Brownson and Bronson). They married 2 March 1770, in Hartford Co., Connecticut.
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All of that being so, existing records make it unclear as to what became of Daniel Phillips (b. 1729/30), son of Jonathan and Esther (Ayer) Phillips of Preston and Plainfield, Connecticut. Daniel Phillips is sometimes claimed by some to have died in 1824, but without reference to where or a source record.
Despite a firm record, there is no reason to doubt that Daniel Phillips married Dorcas Clark, daughter of Samuel and Jemima (Gates) Clark--they all lived in Preston and Plainfield. Dorcas also descended from the Stephen Gates family of Preston (which connects with the Phillips family by at least four marriages), and her father came from Kingston, Rhode Island--that could be significant since Elijah Philips was said to have been born in Rhode Island. I have found no records for the marriage nor any children of Daniel and Dorcas (Clark) Phillips.
Curiously, one Daniel Phillips shows up in Manlius, Onondaga Co., New York in 1810, living next-door to Elijah Phillips. They were both aged 45+. He is probably the same Daniel Philips who died intestate in 1813, and for whom, Simeon Phillips (1760-1826) was granted letters of administration.
The descendants of Simeon Phillips (1760-1826) of Manlius, New York, understood that there was a kinship with Elijah Phillips (~1755-1815), and supposing that Simeon's father was Elijah and that Elijah's father was Daniel--see notes under Elijah Phillips: “Phillips Family” compiled by Fred Ketchum Armstrong (1870-1947). As Simeon was born abt. 1760 (18 years before the marriage of Elijah Phillips and Susannah Gates), he could not be their son. The most reasonable alternative to Armstrong assertion is that Elijah Phillips (~1755-1815) and Simeon Phillips (1760-1826) were brothers, and that they were sons of Daniel and Dorcas (Clark) Phillips.
Two more facts point to this conclusion: Simeon (1760-1826) was granted letters of administration for Daniel Phillips who died in 1813 in Onondaga Co., NY--from which we may safely assume that Simeon and Daniel were close relatives. Moreover, Simeon Phillips named his two eldest chidren Daniel and Dorcas Phillips.
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Another Daniel Phillips was the son of Ayer (1726-1799) and Sarah (Burton) Phillips of Plainfield, CT (Ayer being the son of Jonathan and Esther (Ayer) Phillips); this Daniel married Olive Keigwin 16 August 1792 in Voluntown, CT; they resided in Plainfield, CT, where children are recorded, and still lived in Plainfield in 1799 when he served as executor of his father's estate; however, I find no death records for them in Connecticut. Land records indicate that Daniel Phillips probably remained in Plainfield, where he sold land in 1800 and 1817, and where his daughter Olive died in 1816.
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