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/5421.3 Message Board Post: I have an ancestor, David Phillips, that was born in Caswell NC in 1755. . .I do not have a list of siblings. He was married to Agnes Ashley. His father was Rueben Phillips & mother was Catherine Howard Phillips. The earliest ancestor I know of was Thoma Phillips, born in 1675 in Maryland. There were so many Phillips men with the same names that it is certainly a chore to find our roots.