Here is more on the family of Rachel (Sanders) Phillips wife of Lazarus Phillips. Regards, Suki White Father of Rachel (Sanders) Phillips: BENJAMIN S. SANDERS, Sr. (Joel, James, Richard, James, Roger) b. 10 June 1746, Cumberland Co., Nansemond Co.,Va. d.2 Mar.1822 will dated 4 Mar.1822 Chatham Co., N.C. married 19 July,1768, at Quaker, Cane Creek, Deep River Monthly Meeting, in Cumberland Co., N.C. Witnesses at the marriage of Leah and Benjamin were Joel Sanders, John Sanders, Thomas Smith, Hester Smith, Daniel Smith, Abner Smith. RACHAEL’S mother was LEAH (SMITH) SANDERS daughter of THOMAS and HESTER SMITH . LEAH was m. 19 May 1768 Orange Co. N.C b.31 May 1748 d. aft. 1822 Chatham Co. N.C. Granddaughter of: JOEL SANDERS (James, Richard, James, Roger) b. abt. 1718, Perquimans Co. N.C. d. 2 Feb. 1782, Columbia Co. Ga. He m. abt. 1746, Perquimans Co. N.C. CHARITY (HOLLOWELL) SANDERS, b. abt. 1723 d. 23 Jan. 1782 Columbia Co. Ga. CHARITY was the dau. of THOMAS SANDERS b.1694 Norfolk Co. Va. and SARAH (SCUTCHENS) SANDERS. note: RACHEL(SANDERS) PHILLIPS’ brother JOHN SANDERS had a daughter MAHALA SANDERS who married her 1st cousin TERRELL PHILLIPS s/o LAZARUS and RACHAEL (SANDERS) PHILLIPS. RACHAL’s brother JOHN SANDERS was in McNairy Co., TN in the early 1800s. Benjamin Sanders, son of Charity and Joel Sanders, was born probably in Virginia, on June 10, 1746. In Cumberland Co., North Carolina, on May 19, 1768 he married Leah Smith, who may have been the daughter of Thomas and Esther Smith, who were recieved by request by Cane Creek MM on 4 of 8 mo. 1759. Benjamin Sanders left a will in Chatham Co., NC March 4, 1822: Children: I Mary Sanders m. Dennis Phillips II John Sanders III Sarah Sanders married 1791, or 1792 to Jacob Capps IV Rachel Sanders b. ca 1775 m. Lazarus Phillips V Miriam Sanders m. Unknown Hancock VI Joel Sanders VII Thomas Sanders b. ca 1779 m. Elizabeth Rook Sanders family as Quakers in NC: Quakers The Quakers, who in 1752, found themselves within the limits of the newly created Orange County, began coming into that area in 1748 on a wave of migrations which penetrated the whole of the Carolina Piedmont, a product of a great chain of migrations of their own which broke out from Pennsylvania two decades earlier. In the Quaker settlements in the interior of the Carolinas, the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting occupied the pivotal position. Every Meeting in Western North Carolina traces its constitutional ancestry back to Cane Creek. The Society of Friends has always maintained a strong testimony against resort to war. The Cane Creek Meeting was put to a severe test during the period of the Regulator movement and the succeeding period of the Revolution. The geographic limits of the Orange County Quaker Meetings were torn by the activities in each of these great movements. By the end of the Revolution, Cane Creek Meeting had disowned between 40 and 50 of the men of its membership for joining the Regulators or for participation in the Revolution. The establishment of Guilford, Chatham and Alamance Counties removed most of the Quakers from Orange County, leaving only the Eno Meeting, which came to an end approximately 100 years after the founding of Orange County. A large cemetery surrounded by a rock wall is all that now marks the spot of the Meeting. The location is just off the Hillsboro-Schley road and about one-quarter of a mile east of Mars Hill Baptist Church. During the reconstruction period the Friends from Philadelphia operated a school for ex-slaves in Chapel Hill on West Franklin Street for many years, eventually transferring the property to the local school board. They, also, transferred a lot in Hillsboro to Dickerson's African Methodist Episcopal Church ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.