Elizabeth : Glad you found a photograph of an ancestor on my website. Why dont you post on the CRV and the MBC......the generation of Phillips that you have completed and by that info, someone could have an answer or ideas where to go next. --------------------------------------- Now as for Phillips/Philips..and there were many before 1800, here are some early Phillip families.... 1. Andrew of Charlestown,Mass,1657 2. Benjamin, married at Marshfield,Mass 1682 3. Charles, resident of Lynn, Mass 1656 4. George, son of Christopher, Watertown,Mass,1644 5. George, freeman at Dorchester,Mass1631; moved to Windsor,Conn 1636 6. Henry, a butcher, of Dedham,Mass. 1639, then to Boston. 7. John, died at Portsmouth, NH,1642 8. John, baker, came to N.E. 1630; in Duxbury,Mass 1639; removed to Marshfield 9. John, inhabitant of Wenham,Mass,1647 10.John, of Wales, was at Casco,Maine,1642; moved to Kittery,1684 11.John, master mariner, brother of Henry, married at Charlestown,Mass,1655 12.Joseph, inhabitant of Boston, 1684 13. Martin, living at Medfield in 1664 14. Michael, settled at Newport, Rhode Is., 1688 15. Nicholas,butcher, brother of Henry,settled Dedham,Mass,1636; later to Weymouth,Mass 16. Nicholas, married at Boston,Mass, 1651 17. Samuel, married at Taunton, Mass,1676 18. Thomas, oath of fidelity at Pemaquid,Maine 1674 (see my photos of Me.) 19. Walter, at Wiscasset,Maine, 1661; later resident of Salem,Mass.1689 20. William, inhabitant at Hartford, Conn., 1639 21. William, among purchasers of Taunton,Mass.,1637 22. William, freeman at Charlestown,Mass. 1640 23. William, mariner, resident of Boston,1650 24. Zachariah, member of artillery company, Boston,Mass 1660 source: "Directory of the Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700; Frank R.Holmes, NY, 1923 ----------------------------- Cynthia list admin for Mass Bay Colony http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MA-BAY-COLONY subscribe Ma-Bay-Colony-L-request@rootsweb.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Phillips" <elizabethmphillips@yahoo.com>> Also a family named BUMPUS!! What a name. > > If PHILLIPS (no given name) was in Massachusetts > before 1800 some time, went to NH and had a least one > child before 1800, and the first known ancestor, > William H. was born on Octobert 10, 1801, I wonder. > > First of all, William H. married a Phileta PIERSON, > who was from Killingsworth, CT. She was born about > 1810. Now we always thought they probably met in > Leroy, NY (western NY), but the PHILLIPS family has > not been found in NY STATE "yet" before 1830. Maybe > downstate as they call it, or upstate in the sense of > eastern NY or the Adirondacks or some thing, but they > are in western New York, Wyoming County to be exact, > after 1830. Then a Mrs. PHILLIPS appears (1840 WNY > census) living with a family named BUMPUS. I am > wondering if that is an older daughter (older than Wm, > and the child who appeared on the 1800 census). > > Did the PHILLIPS immigrate to Massachusetts, live > there for a few years, then to NH (Hanover or > somewhere) for a while, then down the CT River to CT, > maybe met the Killingsworth group (probably a church > run by the Piersons - many Abrahams in that clan), and > maybe the BUMPUSes were along (could it be the > BOMPASSE family, who was quite early in Massachusetts > (1621 - such an unusual name), and they all migrated > together maybe closer to 1830 or whenever to Western > New York? > > I really this is "guessing" to say the least? But I > have to figure out how to find this family, and I have > no idea. Thanks to Cynthia ?? I did look at a > tombstone picture of an Abigail PIERSON, who was > married to an Abraham (I suspect one of our Abrahams), > and I had never really thought of graveyards. > > So much is on line now. > > So I am trying to trace where all of this might have > happened. Have to try different ideas. I do thank > the people who have tried to help so far. > >