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Note: rom an old family Bible kept by Josephine Phillips. However, his sister Susan (whos birth year is given as 1793 or 1795 in these same accounts) seems to have been born in 1791, which is the year on her grave stone. So there is some discrepancy.
While it may seem possible that "Elijah" and "Elisha" refered to the same son of Elijah & Susannah (Gates) Phillips, several old family notes insist that these two were brothers.
Also, a Syracuse-area newspaper also clarifies the two men: The article was titled "Onondaga Sheriffs, Elihu L. Phillips Elected through Dissensions Among the Democrats, Radicals and Conservatives at War" (Citation not given, but it probably dates to about 1882 to 1884. See notes under Elijah Phillips, Sr. and Elihiu L. Phillips for a fuller quote.)
"Elihu L. Phillips was born and reared in this [Onondaga] county. Elijah and Elisha Phillips, well [known] here, were his brothers. He also [had a] brother John, who was Sheriff of [Niagara] county ..."
"Elisha" Phillips appears in a number of records in Onondaga Co., but I believe some of them may be confused with Elijah Phillips.
The 1809 tax list for the town of Salina includes:
"Elisha Phillips, jr." -- valuation: $230 -- tax: $1.44 Elisha Phillips, of Salina, was an insolvent debtor: Judge Joshiua Foreman signed the order, 6 Aug. 1822, discharging the debts in return for Elisha Phillips assigning his estate to Henry Lockwood, of Salina, who was nominated by the petitioners to tranfer the property to his creditors.
Elisha Phillips is mentions as having owned a property purchased from Hannah Gilchrist, described as being part of "Village Lot Number Two" in the Village of Salina, Onondaga Co., NY, adjacent to a lot sold by Hannah Gilchirst to Ezra M. Knapp in 1829, against whom she was forclosing in October (1843?). (Onondaga Standard--date and page number not printed on the page, and dates in the text are porrly legible--appears to be late 1843.)
1830 U.S. Census (Roll 100, p. 22)
Salina, Onondaga Co., NY
Elisha Phillips
1 male 5-10 1 male 30-40 [b. 1790-1800] 1 female 30-40 [b. 1790-1800] 1 female 50-60 [b. 1770-1780] Also in Salina that year:
1830 U.S. Census (Roll 100, p. 4)
Salina, Onondaga Co., NY
Elijah Phillips
1 male 10-15 1 male 20-30 1 male 30-40 [b. 1790-1800] 1 female 10-15 1 female 20-30 1 female 30-40 1 female 50-60 (This apparently was not the Elijah Phillips, b. 1781. It was probably the Elijah (1795-1874), son of Asa & Anna (Work) Phillips.)
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Other men named Elisha Phillips:
There was an Elisha Phillips who purchased land from the Holland Land Company in 1807--one of the earliest purchasers in T.2, R.13--apparently near Batavia, Genesee Co., New York. (History of the Holland Land Purchase of Western New York, by O. Turner (1849), p. 530).
A man named Elisha Phillips married 1 May 1808, Mary Lewis and had a daughter named Bridget Rex Phillips (b. 30 Sept. 1810). She married Clark W. Chase (b. 25 Nov. 1815 at Tully, Onondaga Co., NY). This Elisha Phillipss' family apparently moved to the southern end of Lake Chautauqua in 1814, then to Harmony, NY, and removed to Russell, PA in 1826 where Elisha Philips died 7 March 1840. (See outline of the Chase family in Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, by John Woolf Jordan, pp. 922-923.)
This Elisha was born 13 march 1782, either at Preston, Connecticut, or in Bennington, Vermont. He was the son of Squire & Anna (Gates) Phillips. Squire was the son of Jonathan & Jenoverah (Branch) Phillips, Jonathan being a descendant of the Rev. George Phillips of Watertown, Mass. Squire Phillips' wife, Anna Gates (b. 29 Aug. 1760), was the daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Maffried) Gates of Preston, New London Co., Connecticut, (part of the same Gates family as Susannah (Gates), wife of Elijah Phillips, Sr., of Preston, Connecticut and Manlius, Onondaga Co., New York).
Elisha Phillips (1782-1840) was buried at Pine Grove Cemetery, Russell, Warren Co., PA.
Posted on: Chautauqua Co. NY Bios Forum, Wed, 14 Feb 2001
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NYCHAUTA/2001-02/0982156749
From: Dee <jcricket@@cecomet.net>
Elisha PHILLIPS, born 13 March, 1781, probably in Preston, Connecticut, removed as a child with his father Squire PHILLIPS and Mother, Anna GATES; to Bennington, Vermont. He had reached mature bachelorhood when on 1 May, 1808, he was married to Mary LEWIS of the neighboring town of Petersburg, just across the state line in New York. Here he made his home until after the war of 1812. He saw service in the war. His daughter Pamelia PHILLIPS, born 12 February, 1809--cherished her first memories of the sight of her father returning from the war. The pioneer instinct caught him and he went West to clear a home in the forest south of Lake Chautauqua, his farm embracing or adjoining the present Chautauqua grounds. Bemus Point CHAUTAUQUA County NY near-by was vidently named for their neighbor--perhaps a Rhode Island relative as the Lewises and Bemises f Rhode Island were connected. In Mr. Bemus's corn crib began the school life of Pamelia and her wee sister Bridget when they were both under six. An upright, stern man was Elisha Phillips, who had enjoyed few advantages and led rather a barren, unprofitable life. His daughter pleaded for books; but he bade her be content with what she had--Webster's Spelling Book--and not dare to ask for another until she knew it by heart. "If he had to speak twice to his children," Grandmother, rather proud of his Roman severity, often repeated, "it was a word and a blow, but, in his own words, 'The blow came first.'" He did not remain at Chautauqua, nor did he prosper. About 1826, after living at Harmony, New York, he finally settled near Russell, Warren County Pennsylvania, where he was drowned in Conewango Creek, a tributary of the Allegheny, 7 March, 1840. Who led the way we do not know, but ultimately there was a large Phillips clan centering at Russell. Near him lived his father and on the same farm his brother Elijah, also near at hand his brother Levi, and his sister Maria. His sister Lydia had gone to Cambridge, Ohio.
These were Elisha & Mary (Lewis) Phillips’ children: 1.Pamelia, 12 February, 1809;
2.Bridget, 30 September, 1810, married C. W. CHASE in May, 1841, died 23 May, 1891;
3.Abel, 20 April, 1813, married (1) 5 October 1837, Mary STEPHENSON, married (2) Maria ODELL, died 18 December, 1893; Children of Abel and Maria: David A., born 3 December, 1844; William E., 5 February, 1845, killed at Fredericksburg 13 December, 1862; Lee, 3 March, 1847, living at Forestville, New York; Lewis, 30 November, 1849, died 2 July, 1899; Maria A., 25 June, 1851; died 12 August, 1865; Rose A., 27 July, 1853, died 24 November, 1914. Abel served in the Mexican War, his sons, William E. and Lee, in the Civil War.
4.Lucina, 15 April, 1815, married Elisha THOMPSON in September, 1832, died 13 December, 1903; Lucina was married to Elisha Thompson in September, 1832; they lived chiefly in southern Ohio and Indiana. Her last years were spent with her children in Chicago, but she was buried in Darrtown,??
5.Augustus C., 12 September, 1817, married 4 February, 1837, Sarah BROWN, died in July, 1909;
6.Asa L. D., 20 March, 1821, killed 10 February, 1828;
7.Harvey, 17 November, 1824, married 4 April, 1844, Thursa MARSH died 14 August, 1909;
8.De Witt C., 7 December, 1826, died 26 December, 1909;
9.Lee A. D., 27 February, 1829, died 8 November, 1914.
Omitting the boy Asa, killed by accident in the woods, all married and have descendants, and lived to be eighty years of age or more. The eldest, Pamelia, lacked a few days of being ninety-eight. Another was over ninety, and three others passed the age of eighty-five. The combined ages of the nine reaching maturity amounted to 779 years, 3 months, and 9 days, or an average for each of the nine of eighty-eight years, seven months, and one day. This longevity was inherited on both sides. The grandfather, Squire Phillips, lived to be over ninety, ninety-eight according to family traditions; his grandmother Esther must have been 108. On the other side is a record of an age of 100 years. Only one of Elisha's sons entered professional life, Clark C. PHILLIPS, who for many years was a preacher of the Disciple or Christian persuasion. Several served in the wars. Mary LEWIS, wife of Elisha PHILLIPS, was born 18 March, 1791 the daughter of Augustus and Esther (LEWIS) his wife/cousin LEWIS . She was married on 1 May 1808,to Elisha PHILLIPS. About 1814 the family removed to the southern shore of Lake Chautauqua. Later they lived in Harmony, also in Chautauqua Co NY . About 1826 the family removed to Russell,Warren Co. Pennsylvania, where Elisha was drowned 7 March, 1840. His widow married a man by the name of James CALE, who died 23 May, 1874. She died in a childish condition, not able to remember the name of her first husband, 26 May, 1886. She had ten children.Her eldest was Pamelia.
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I found mention of other men named Elisha Phillips in Central New York:
3 Feb 1827: Elisha Phillips and wife Esther of Brutus, Cayuga Co., NY sold land to Careline Freeman; land in Brutus, Cayuga;
Source: "Film: 0851946: pg: 117"
Elisha PHILLIPS and Electa Rebecca ANNABLE were married on 20 Dec 1818 in Sempronius, Cayuga , New York. This Elisha PHILLIPS was the son of Vespasian PHILLIPS and Abilene BELDING, and was born on 3 Oct 1786 in Ashfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. He died on 15 Aug 1845 in Farmersville, Montgomery, Illinois.
"Elisha Phillips, with his family removed to Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Indiana, on the Ohio river, in the exterme southwestern part of the State. They went down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers, on rafts and flat-boats with their household goods and settled in what was then very wild country." (Biographical Sketches of Richard Ellis, The First Settler of Ashfield, Mass. and His Descendants, Compiled and Arranged by E. R. Ellis, M. D. Detroit, Michigan. 1888. p. 367)
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A man named Elisha L. Phillips, of Fond du Lac Co., Wisconsisn, patented 40 acres, being the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Sec. 4 of Metomen Twp., Fond du Lac Co., Winsconsin, patent dated 1 Sept. 1849 (GLO Document Nr.: 12607; Accession/Serial Nr.: WI1380__.027)
Curiously, this property was bordered on two sides by land owned by Elihu L. Phillips (of Cass Co., Michigan, who patented it in 1848). By 1862, it was all owned by Peter Swartz. This was probably the Elihu L. Phillips (b. 1817), son of Ezra G. Phillips (1789-1838)--and hence this Elihu L. was the nephew of Elisha Phillips (b. 1791). It is unclear if the Elisha L. Phillips who pattented the land in metomen Co., Wisconsisn was Elihu's unlce, but it seems possible.
(The name is clearly "Elisha L. Philips" on the original patent record. There is an outside possibility that the name on this land patent was mis-written by the person who filled out the paperwork, and it should be Elihu L. Phillips. However, there is no indication that this is the case, and the deed books of Fondu Lac Co., WI might help confirm the correct names here.)
"E. Phillips", with one male and one female in the household, was enumerated in Metomen Twp., Fond du Lac Co. the 1847 Wisconsin Territorial Census. (He might be either Elihu or Elisha Phillips.)
Note: Elisha's birth year is given as 1791 in two records said to have come f
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