This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4AB.2ACE/5098.1.1 Message Board Post: Maybe your George Phipps is the same as Ancestors of George Phipps Generation No. 1 1. George Phipps He was the son of 2. ? Phipps and 3. Rachel Harmon. Generation No. 2 2. ? Phipps He married 3. Rachel Harmon. 3. Rachel Harmon, born Bet. 1765 - 1775. She was the daughter of 6. Thomas Harmon. Child of ? Phipps and Rachel Harmon is: 1 i. George Phipps Generation No. 3 6. Thomas Harmon, born Abt. 1745 in Frederick County, Maryland; died Aft. 1803 in Shelby County, Kentucky. Notes for Thomas Harmon: Thomas, was probably born about 1745. He may have been the Thomas who was taxed at Woodford County, Kentucky in 1792 and 1798. In 1792 he had a son age 16 to 21 (b. 1771 to 1776), this may be Abraham with Isaac all ready out of the house living somewhere else. Taxed near Thomas at Woodford County was a William Harmon who apparently had children the same age as Thomas. I have not researched Woodford County or Henderson County in depth, so this is just a guess that Thomas and William were brothers. Thomas Harmon appears in the 1800 Shelby County KY tax records. ______________________________________________ Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Harmon of the County of Henderson State of Kentucky for divers good causes me hereunto moving have made ordained constituted and appointed and by these presents do make ordain constitute and appoint my trusty son Isaac Harmon of the County and state aforesaid my true and lawful attorney for me and in my behalf to sell and dispose as to him may seem best of two certain tracts or parcels of land situate lying in the county aforesaid containing each two hundred acres which I obtained from the commisioners in conformity to the act of assembly for encouraging and granting relief to settlers south of Green River and in conformity to the act of assembly for settling and improving the vacant lands of this commonwealth from the county court of Henderson on the first recorded tract the said Isaac now resides and having sold or disposed of the same as aforesaid to convey make over and confirm the said lands in fee simple or otherwise in as! full and complete a manner as I myself might or could do were I personaly present and to recieve to his own use and benefit the money or property arising from the sales of said lands and grant complete discharges for the smae in a full and ample a manner as I could in person hereby ratifying approving and confirming whatever the said Isaac harmon may do or have done in or about the premises In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed my seal this 17th day of February 1803. Tho's Harmon seal Henderson County This Power of Attorney from Thomas Harmon to Isaac Harmon was presented to me in my office acknowledged by the said Thomas Harmon to be his act and deed and thereupon admitted to record given uner my hand as clerk of the county court for the county aforesaid this 17th day of February 1803. Am Barbour ___________________________________________ This indenture made and entered into this 21st day of September 1835 between William D Allison commissioner appointed by a decree of the Henderson Circuit Court on behalf of the heirs of Thomas Harmon decd of the first part and Isaac Harmon of the second part witnesseth that whereas at the September term 1834 of the Henderson Circuit Court a decree was pronounced by the judge thereof then siting in a certain suit in Chancery depending in said Court between the said Isaac Harmon complainant and George Harmon Martha Curry formerly Martha Harmon heirs of said Thomas Harmon dec'd George Phipps heir of Rachel Phipps dcs'd who was heir of said Thomas Harmon dec'd and Thomas Harmon, John Harmon, Isaac Harmon Martha Harmon and Elizabeth Harmon heirs of Abraham Harmon dec'd who was heir of the said Thomas Harmon de'c and the other unknown heirs of said Rachael Phipps and Abraham Harmon and dependents which said decree reads in the words following [snip] convey unto the said Isaac Ha! rmon the two tracts of land [snip] south bank of Green River [snip] on the waters of Deer Creek [snip]. ________________________________________ These lands of Henderson KY were applied for before 1800 and patents approved in 1813 and 1818. The 1803 power of Attorney apparently reflected that he could not give his son a bill of sale to them as he did not yet possess and approved patent. The 1835 court action apparently cleared the title to the lands. Thomas may have died further east in KY than Henderson County. Children of Thomas Harmon are: i. Martha Harmon, born Bet. 1765 - 1775; married ? Curry. 3 ii. Rachel Harmon, born Bet. 1765 - 1775; married ? Phipps. iii. Isaac Harmon, born Bet. 1765 - 1775 in Frederick County, Virginia; died 1848 in Henderson County, Kentucky; married (1) Mary Eastwood; born Bet. 1770 - 1785 in Virginia; died Bet. 1814 - 1818 in Henderson County, Kentucky; married (2) Frances Winnefred Ashby August 10, 1818 in Hopkins County, Kentucky; born 1789; died Aft. 1860 in Webster County, Kentucky. Notes for Isaac Harmon: Isaac Harmon 10/08/1846 will book C Henderson County, Kentucky In the name of God Amen - I Isaac Harmon of Henderson County and State of Kentucky being of sound and disposing mind and memory; for which I thank God, but of very advances age, wishing to make some provision for my grandchildren, Thomas H. Ashby, Samuel Ashby, and Absalom Ashby, children of my daughter LaVicey Harmon by her first husband Jonathan Ashby; and Julian Hooker, Martha Angeline Hooker, Sarah Jane Hooker, McAlister Agnew Hooker, and Presley LaFayette Hooker, children of my aforesaid daughter by Robert Hooker, her last husband, So as to quiet and prevent all disputes, law suits and contentions that might arise after my death, do make and appoint this to be my last will and testiment in manner and form following, to wit-- In the first place I give, bequeath and devise to my aforesaid three grandchildren, Thomas H. Ashby, Samuel Ashby, and Absalem Ashby the tract of two hundred acres of land, lying and being on the waters of Deer Creek in the County of Henderson whic! h was patented to Thomas Harmon by the Commonwealth of Kentucky by patent bearing date the 6th day of January in the year 1818 and which was deeded to me by William D. Allison in conformity with a decree of Henderson Circuit Court, made ath the June term 1835 by deed bearing date the 21st day of September 1835. Saving and reserving therefrom fifty acres to be laid off commencing at the beginning cornerof the original patent and to be run off by the lines which I had run off by Willie Sugg some years past, subject however to the following change to wit: that the said Thomas H. Ashby, Samuel Ashby, and Absalem Ashby pay to my aforesaid granchildren Julian Hooker, Martha Angeline Hooker, Sara Jane Hooker, McAlister Agnew Hooker, and Presley LaFayette Hooker ten dollars apiece, or to each of them, which I hereby charge upon the said hundred ans fifty acres as a legacy to my aforesaid five grandchildren, which land I give and devise to the said Thomas H., Samuel, and Absalem to! them and their heirs forever-- Secondly I give and bequeath to my aforesaid five grandchildren Julian, Martha Angeline, Sarah Jane, McAlister Agnew, and Presley LaFayette Hooker ten dollars apiece, or to each of them to be paid as herein before provided as they come of age by Thomas H. Ashby, Samuel Ashby, and Absalem Ashby. Thirdly I give and bequeath all the residue of my estate both real and personal to my dear wife Frances Harmon during her natural life to be enjoyed by her - fourthly - after the death of my said wife Frances I give, bequeath and devise all the estate and property left her for her life, and all my property of every description both real and personal except such as I have herein before disposed of to my five children by my last wife namely Handley Harmon, Hulda Harmon, Elizabeth Harmon, George Harmon and Sarah Jane Harmon to be equally divided between them to them and their heirs forever -- lastly I hereby nominate, appoint my dear wife Frances Executri! x of this my last will and testament, and I hereby request and desire that she may not be required to give security for the performance of the trust hereby reposed in her. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 8th day of October in the year of our Lord 1846. Isaac Harmon (seal) source The Ashby Book, by Lee Fleming Reese M.A., Western Press, San Diego, CA, 1982 Notes for Mary Eastwood: This indenture made the twenty ninth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen between Abner Eastwood Isaac Harmon & his wife Mary Harmon, James Vorehouse & Margaret Vorehouse his wife, Edward Brant & Providence Brant his wife of the one part & Abraham Eastwood of the other part witnesseth that the said Abner, Isaac & Mary his wife, James & Margaret his wife Edward & Providence his wife in consideration of 120 Dollars to them in had paid by the said Abraham Eastwood the reciept whereof is hereby acknowledged have bargained and sold and by these presents do each of us bargain and sell unto the said Abraham Eastwood his heirs and assigns a certain tract or parcel of land (all our right title or claim as heirs of John and Hannah Eastwood & legal representatives of the same) containing three hundred & twenty seven acres lying and being in the county of Henderson on the waters of Deer Creek and Bounded as followeth (towit) Beginning at Thomas Harmons West Corner ! on a military line an elm and two small sweet gums running with said military line North sixty five West two hundred & Eighty Eight poles to a sasafras a military corner thence North Twenty five East seventy poles to a whit oak on a ridge thence North Eighty five East Eighty poles to a double white oak thence North sixty eight East one hundred & forty poles to two small Hickories thence south sixty five East ten poles to two hickories and white oak thence North twenty five East seventy eight poles to two red oaks and hickory thence south sixty five East one hundred and ten poles to a white oak and red oak thence south twenty five West to and with Thomas Harmons line two hundred & ninety eigth poles to the beginning with all its appurtenances To have & to hold the said three hundred & twenty seven acres of land from us our heirs or any other person or persons claiming under us witness our hands and seals this day and date above written. Witness John Walker Peter Vorus} Isaac Harmon seal Jacob Wrimble, John Hataway} Abner hisXmark Eastwood seal Peter hisXmark Vorus} Mary herXmark Harmon seal Jno hisxmark Eastwood} James Vorus seal Margaret herXmark Vorus seal Edward hisXmark Brant seal Providence herXmark Brant seal iv. Abraham Harmon, born Bef. 1779; died Bef. 1834 in Henderson County, Kentucky. v. George Harmon, born Bef. 1780.