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/4305.2 Message Board Post: My data shows that of a JOHNSTON Phillips married to Sarah Harpole. I descend from a previous marriage (if my records are accurate.) the notes I have are: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1185548&id=I5690 In W.P.A. Franklin County, TN minutes on 25 Feb. l833, Johnston Phillips and six others were appointed jury of view from near Benj. Wileman and the Maherd road, to lead on by or near Hosia Stamps to intersect with the stage road near Hillsboro. Will of Johntson Phillips....Date written: l March l847, executed on Jan 1848. Original; Book O, page 81; Book l, page l98; WPA State of Tennessee, Coffee County In the name of God amen knowing that it is appointed for man once to die, I Johnson Phillips being in my right mind do ordain and appoint this my last will and testament. 1st I wish my body to return to its mother earth in a decent manner my soul to God who gave it. 2ndly I give and bequesth to my wife Sarah Phillips the house and all the land lying on the south west side of the new road leading from Manchester to Jasper and one mulatto man named Lewis, and she is to have choice of all the horses on the planta1 CONT 3rdly The balance of my estate to be equally devided among my first children. Except Giles Richardson, Jr. give him one horse and that's all he is to have that is to say I have allready given one sorrel horse worth thirty or forty dollars. 4thly I appoint my son William Y. Phillips and Hirum Harpool my executors, hereby disannuling all other testaments or wills by me made, witness my hand in presence of: Michael Stevens, Washington M. Roach and Rice F. Ross. signed...Johnson Phill1 CONT Johnson Phillips and his wife, Nancy Grady are burried in Ross Cemetary, Hillsboro, Coffee County, TN. Johnston Phillips and Ambrose Campbell bought 73 acres of land in Amhearst County, VA on June 10, 1806 on the south side and joining Piney River. (Grants 55, 1805-06, page 509. He is in the Amhearst Co. VA 1810 census, gone by 1820.