This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips, Maynor, Short, Fields, Davis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nNABAIB/5842 Message Board Post: THE MAYNOR -- PHILLIPS CONNECTION IN MOORE AND CHATHAM COUNTIES------prepared by Sandra Lunsford of Durham (919-471-2276) (sandycope@aol.com) 1. John Phillips 2. Lewis Phillips 3. Brinkley Phillips (1788-1877) married Elizabeth Muse Children: 4) Chloe Phillips (b. about 1808 d. before 1880) m. William Maynor (Mainard/Maner) Children: 5) William Judson Maynor( 1845-1926) married Mary Ann Phillips around 1860. Mary Ann was born 1845 and died before 1900. "Who were Mary Ann's parents?????" 5) Theany Maynor (b. 1847 d. 1926) married Martin Davis (Moore Cty) 5) Joseph Maynor (b. 1842 d. 1917) married Mary Ann Martindale (of Moore/Chatham) 4) William Phillips (b. about 1810) -- never married 4) Catherine Phillips (b. about 1815) -- never married (?) 4) Stephen Phillips (b. about 1818) married Nancy (b. about 1810) 4) Joshua Phillips (b. about 1820) marrried Elizabeth (b. about 1818) Children: 5) Chloe Dean (b. about 1840) married William Maness when she was 53 and he was 61. 5) William (b. about 1842) 5) Berry (b. about 1847) 4) Ann E. Phillips (b. about 1822) 4) Berry Phillips (b. about 1825) married Mary Children: 5) Archibald (died young) 5) Henry B. (b. about 1861) 5) Celia E. (b. about 1864) 4) William Ashbury Phillips NOTE: William Judson Maynor served in the Civil War -- Co. E, 44th Infantry "Chatham County Turtle Paws" as a substitute for his uncle, Berry Phillips. This was verified in court records. ************************************************************ 1850 Chatham County Census William Phillips (40), Catherine (35), Chloe Mainard (42), Josiah Mainard (6), William J. Mainard (4), Theny Mainard (3) 1860 Chatham County Census William Phillips (56, Farmer; RE 100; personal 75) Catherine Phillips (45, spinster, could not read/write) Clora Manor (52, spinster, personal 20) Josiah Manor (16, farmer) Wm. Manor (14) Bethena (13) WILL OF WILLIAM PHILLIPS CHATHAM COUNTY BOOK OF WILLS (BOOK D) May the 19th 1857 I William Phillips of the County of Chatham and State of North Carolina being of sound mind and memory but considering the uncertainty of my earthly existance do make and declare this my last Will and Testament in maner and form following that is to say First that my executor (hereinafter named shall provide for my boddy a decent burial suitable to the wishes of my relations and friends and pay all funerel expenses togather with my just debts howsoever and to whomsoever owing out of the moneys that may first come into his hands as a part or parcel of my estate. Item I give and devise to my two sisters Catherin and Clow the tract of land I live on containing Fifty acres so as to include the house and other improvements to have and to hold to them the said Catherine and Clow for and during the term of their natural life in satisfaction for and during there life time in case they both live single. Item my will and desire is after the death of my sisters Catherine and Clow that ! the above named land be divided between my two nephews Wm. Phillips son of Joshua and Wm. Baxter son of Crisinbery to be divided east and west the dividing line to start at a rock near the upper end of the Harrcan (?) Lake to run east Wm. Baxter to have the north side of the tract and Wm. Phillips son of Joshua Phillips to have the south side. Item my will and desire is that all the residue of my estate (if any) after taking out the devised and legatees above mentioned shall be sold and the debts owing to me collected and if there should be any surplus over and above the payments of debts expenses and legaces that such surplus shall be devided between my nearest relations. and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my trusty friend Edward Phillips my lofful executor to all intents and purposes to execute this my last Will and Testament according to the true intent and meaning of the same and every part and cluse thereof herebyrevooking and declaring uterly void all other wills and testaments by me hrertofore made. Signed Sealed and declared by the said Wm. Phillips to be his last Will and Testament in the presents of us who at his request and in his presents do subscribe our names as witnesses thereto Test Z.A. Boroughs Wm. Phillips (seal) B. Boroughs May 1862 (Will Probated) ************************************************************ Note: We believe this land was part of what became the Spinks Phillips farm in the 1900's and that it lay on the border of Chatham and Moore Counties with Tyson's Creek as the dividing line.