This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nNABAIB/5472.1 Message Board Post: I've been working on the Padelford family, so I have a tiny bit on the descendants of Liscomb Phillips. You may already have this: Descendants of Liscomb Phillips Generation No. 1 1. Dr. Liscomb2 Phillips (Philip1) was born March 23, 1777 in Ashfield, Mass., and died October 10, 1821 in South Adams, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. He married Nancy Padelford February 02, 1806 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Mass., daughter of Peleg Padelford and Sarah Clapp. She was born August 23, 1780, and died Aft. 1825. Notes for Dr. Liscomb Phillips: "[A]fter studying medicine with Dr. Bryant of Cummington, the father of William Cullen Bryant, the poet, [Liscomb Phillips] set up in the practice of medicine and surgery in Savoy. . . . "With her brother [actually cousin Zachariah III], Nancy Padelford, a fine horsewoman who had made three trips on horseback from Savoy to Taunton through the wilderness, resided, having come hither to teach school. Dr. Phillips made his home with the Padelfords, and afterwards married her. The cellar and orchard of the old Padelford farm, a little way up from the intersection of the Jackson road with the old highway to Adams is still pointed out and the site and orchard of the Dr. Phillips home still farther up the Jackson road and about three-quarters of a mile from Savoy Hollow is still to be seen. . . . "After a number of years' residence in Savoy, in which Dr. Phillips became eminent in his profession, he removed to the south village of Adams having purchased a fine colonial mansion on Park street, formerly standing on the north end of the present home lot of Hon. W. B. Plunkett and which for very many years was known as the Phillips homestead. While resident in Adams Dr. Phillips had a large and lucrative practice in that and in adjacent towns, and while in the midst of his active and busy life was suddenly stricken down by the rupture of a blood vessel in his brain and expired almost instantly. He had just returned from a horseback visit to Savoy, and while in the act of repairing the fastening of the door of his barn, suddenly sat down upon th sill, when his wife observed blood pouring from his nose in a stream. Help was summoned and the first to reach him George N. Briggs, his then near neighbor and personal friend, who with others carried him into the house where i! n a few minutes he expired without a groan or a word though evidently cognizant of his condition. . . ."---Berkshire Hills, IV:252-253. Notes for Nancy Padelford: After the death of Dr. Liscomb Phillips, "the task of rearing his young family fell upon his wife as a duty involving the severest trial and the greatest hardship. Yet she rose up most bravely and nobly to meet the emergency and surviving two of these children before her death saw the others all comfortably settled in life, and filling honorable and respected positions therein."---Berkshire Hills, IV:253. Children of Liscomb Phillips and Nancy Padelford are: 2 i. Dr. Henry Padelford3 Phillips, born January 24, 1807 in Savoy, Berkshire Co., Mass.; died November 24, 1881. He married Cecelia H. Tyler 1829 in New Lebanon Springs, New York; born Abt. 1810 in Massachusetts; died Aft. 1850. More About Dr. Henry Padelford Phillips: 1850 Census: physician, $1700 real, living in Adams, Berkshire Co., MA 1860 Census: doctor, $1900 real/$1000 personal, living in Adams, Berkshire Co., MA More About Cecelia H. Tyler: 1850 Census: living with husband in Adams, Berkshire Co., MA 1860 Census: living with husband in Adams, Berkshire Co., MA 3 ii. Sarah Ann Barton Phillips, born February 12, 1808 in Savoy, Berkshire Co., Mass.. She married Deacon William Smith. Notes for Deacon William Smith: "Sarah, the eldest daughter, married William Smith, a skillful mechanic, a man of marked intellectual ability and a member of a once noted Berkshire family."---Berkshire Hills, IV:255. 4 iii. Erasmus Darwin Phillips, born May 31, 1809 in Savoy, Berkshire Co., Mass.. He married Catherine Browning; born April 11, 1814 in Colrain, Massachusetts. Notes for Erasmus Darwin Phillips: "Mr. Phillips was a student of Williams College during the freshman years; he studied law in the office of George N. Briggs, Esq., of Berkshire Co.; afterward removed to Buffalo, N. Y., and was for a time a law student in the office of Erastus Root in that city; he came to Milwaukee in the spring of 1836, and was oon after admitted to the bar; while in Milwaukee he engaged in speculating, buying and selling of land claims; in 1856, he came to Geneva and purchased 21 acres of land within the corporation of the village, on which he has since lived. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have two children---Darwin E., born near Milwaukee in 1850; he is now engaged in manufacturing at Blue Rapids, Kan.; and Alice G., wife of S.C. Ford. Mr. Phillips was one of the Board of Supervisors of the town of Oak Creek, near Milwaukee, and was Postmaster there twenty-one years, beginning with the administration of President Van Buren."---History of Walworth County, 908a. Notes for Catherine Browning: "Mrs. Phillips is said to have had one black eye and one blue, the only instance of the kind in the Browning family."---Genealogy of the Brownings in America from 1621 to 1908, 49. 5 iv. Charles Fox Phillips, born February 26, 1811 in Savoy, Berkshire Co., Mass.. He married ? Farnum. More About Charles Fox Phillips: Residence: Blackwater, Wisconsin 6 v. Julia Ann Phillips, born December 16, 1812 in Savoy, Berkshire Co., Mass.; died Aft. 1860. She married Stoel E. Dean Bef. 1860; born April 18, 1809 in Massachusetts; died Aft. 1860. More About Julia Ann Phillips: 1860 Census: living with husband in Adams, Berkshire Co., MA Notes for Stoel E. Dean: "Julia A., the second daughter, became the wife of Stoel E. Dean, a notable member of the famous Dean brothers of Adams, who owned and carried on for many years a large number of tanneries in Adams, Cheshire and Dalton during the last century. Mr. Dean at a later period was a woolen manufacturer in partnership with B. F. Phillips and afterwards with his son-in-law, A. H. Lamont, at Adams and Bridgeport, Ct."---Berkshire Hills, IV:256. More About Stoel E. Dean: 1860 Census: manufacturer of woolen goods, $49k real/$7700 personal, living in Adams, Berkshire Co., MA 7 vi. William Phillips, born 1814 in Savoy, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts; died Abt. 1825 in Adams, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. Notes for William Phillips: "A sad fatality in the family of Dr. Liscomb Phillips was the death of the fourth son, William, at the age of eleven years. While playing ball with a number of Adams schoolmates the club slipped from the grasp of one of these and striking him in the head with great velocity he was instantly killed. The sad event so thoroughly influenced the family as for many years afterwards to prevent their witnessing this game and much less participating in it."---Berkshire Hills, IV:257. 8 vii. Benjamin Franklin Phillips, born 1817 in Adams, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts; died Aft. 1904. He married (1) Cecelia Morin 1846; died Bef. 1860. He married (2) Maria O'Neil 1863. Notes for Benjamin Franklin Phillips: "Woollen manufacturer, of Adams; representative one year."---Phillips Genealogies, 144. More About Benjamin Franklin Phillips: 1860 Census: manufacturer of woolen goods, $3200 real/$11.5k personal, living in Adams, Berkshire Co., MA 9 viii. Horatio Phillips, born 1818 in Adams, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts; died Abt. 1818. 10 ix. Albert Liscomb Phillips, born 1821 in Adams, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts; died 1893. He married Mary Green. Notes for Albert Liscomb Phillips: "Wool dealer, of Racine, Wis.; representative from Racine some years since; recently nominated for Senator from his district."---Phillips Genealogies, 144.