Where in Onondaga is the Nicholas Phillips (d. 1790) buried??? I had been looking for the family of a Nicholas Phillips (1766-1854) of Onondaga Co., NY for some time. I believe I recall that there was also a Nicholas Phillips in neighboring Herkimer or Montgomery Co., County, NY a little earlier--perhaps the same elder you mention. Read below for details on Nicholas. I am also trying to find the families of "Ziba Phillips" and "Simeon Phillips" who were among those who signed the petition to create Onondaga County; I suspect they are the same who served as Patriots from Hampshire Co., MA and were at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. (There was another Ziba Phillips who was a Loyalist and lived in VT/CT, NY and then Ontario, Canada and was a Free Mason.) I'm trying to sort them all out. My Phillips family is that of Col. Elijah Phillips of RI and CT who married Susannah Gates in 1778 in Preston, New London Co., CT, the went through VT and Montgomery Co., NY and settled in Manlius Square, Onondaga Co., NY by 1792. Anyway, about Nicholas Phillips (1766-1854) of Onondaga County, NY: Secondary sources claim that he was of "German" or "Dutch" extraction. I would appreciate anything anyone might share on this Phillips family--as it is just as good to know who does not belong as it is to know who does when sorting people of the same name in an area. I have more on Phillipses in up-state NY and some in VT, MA, CT and RI. --Nick Sheedy, John Day, Oregon Here are some people named Phillips buried at the Shoemaker Cemetery, Town of Manlius, Onondaga Co., NY PHILLIPS (* means stones are still identifiable): Abram*: d. Oct. 11, 1870; ae. 16-9-27 Amanda: d. Jan. 5, 1847; ae. 51-4-25; w/o Henry (on Rudolph Helmer lot) Anne: d. Feb. 6, 1863; ae. 3; d/o C.A. & Dolly Barbara*: d. Oct. 11, 1869; ae. 73; w/o John N. Chancey M.*: d. Oct. 30, 1863; ae. 27-10-5 Cortland A.*: d. Aug. 1, 1875; ae. 47-0-6 Dorothy*: d. Dec. 12, 1839; ae. 19-9-7; d/o John N. & Barbarah J. N.*: d. Dec. 21, 1862; ae. 67-7-13 John N.*: d. July 29, 1840; ae. 44y, 1m? Lucia A.: d. Feb. 5, 1863; ae. 6y, 1m; d/o C.A. & Dolly Marion Elizabeth: d. July 12, 1843; ae. 12-3-12; d/o J.N. Martha: d. July 30, 1874; d/o C.A. & Dolly Mary C. (Mary Caty Garlock): d. Nov. 3, 1823; ae. 49; w/o Nicholas Nicholas: d. Feb. 4, 1854; ae. 87-10-20, "One of the earliest settlers in Co. of Onondaga" V.C.: (marker) ALso: Nicholas Phillips (b. 15 March 1766; d. 3 November 1854) married Mary Caty Garlock (b. abt. 1774; d. 3 November 1823. Historian Joshua V.H. Clark notes that the marriage of Nicholas Phillips to Caty Garlock occured on January 14th, 1793 and that it was the first marriage in the present Town of Manlius and was performed by Moses Dewitt, Esq. The book EARLY SETTLERS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOWN OF MANLIUS --Dwight H. Bruce (ed.), Onondaga's Centennial. Boston History Co., 1896, Vol. I-- has this to share: "Nicholas Phillips was a settler on the Manlius village site before 1793, and on the 14th of January of that year was married to Caty (or Katy) Garlock, thus solemnizing the first marriage in the town. They were both of German extraction and lived long in the community, the husband surviving until 1854, when he died at eighty-three years of age. He retained his vigor until near the end and in the fall previous to his death plowed the land and sowed a field of wheat. His wife died in 1824." (and added this note: I knew Nicholas Phillips well, having had an acquaintance with him for twenty years. He was a man of great simplicity of character in every point of view; and probably had a much larger share of the virtue which is said to be a distinguishing trait of his Dutch ancestry than ordinarily falls to the lot of unsophisticated man.--"History of Manlius Village," by H. C. Van Schaack.) That Volume also states: "Col. Elijah Phillips came to Manlius undoubtedly as early as 1792, for in that year or the next he appears to have leased the property known as the "old mills," at Edwards Falls, and adjacent land, etc., of a Mr. Hamilton, of Albany, for a term of sixty years. In association with David Williams, Aaron Wood and Walter Worden, he at once erected a saw mill, which was the first one in the present town. Mr. Williams soon traded his one-fourth interest in the mill to Phineas Stevens for sixty acres of land. Around these mills were soon established other industries. Mr. Hamilton had already provided mill stones and gearing for a grist mill, and in 1796 Butler & Phillips built a mill." The section on the Town of Onondaga in the 1896 "Onondaga's Centennial" has a few Phillipses in it, but no Nicholas. --- karmad@sympatico.ca wrote: > 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/5669 > > Message Board Post: > > Looking for any info; on Nicholas Phillips > (1731-1790 burried > in Onandaga NewYork) He join UEL in 1775-1785 along > with > his two sons -- Nicholas jr & Jacob.. > > Also any info; on Elizabeth (nee; Keon * - not sure > of the > spelling) Phillips wife of Nicholas Phillips > > Also Elizabeth (nee;Phillips) and her husband > Benjamin Davis > they settle in upper canada sometime after 1805 in > or > around Etobicoke,Ontario > > Need more info; on Nicholas Jr --lived around > Ancaster, Ont. > with his second wife --Effine Cline. They have a > son = > (I believed his name is Nicholas) = he moved to > St.Clair Michigan sometime in 1840 or 50's > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com