William H. PHILLIPS was born October, 1801 in Hanover, NH. This is verified by family and census records. He died in October, 1869 near Akron, NY (Erie County - Buffalo is the county seat). Supposedly, according to the Missouri State History, in which his son, Eugene Cleveland PHILLIPS, is mentioned, William's father was Lord PHILLIPS of Ireland, who came to New England. The Phillips family has always believed he, or he and his family, came t Massachusetts first. I surely wish we had a given name, but we don't. There is, I think, a PHILIPS in the 1800 census for Grafton County. Hope someone can verify that. However, no first names are given, and it would have been before William was born. We believe William had a younger brother named Levi and a sister named Frances. He next surfaces in the 1830 census in western New York married to Phileta PIERSON, and from there it is relatively easy to follow him, but there is that in between period. Also we do not know when he came to this country. It probably had to be between 1750 to the 1790's at best. Couldn't be earlier or later. Don't know if they moved to another area of New Hampshire, went to eastern New York first or what. Any help, suggestions, free lookups would be appreciated. Thanks. Betsy Phillips __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com