Tag: David Phillips

Notes about David Montgomery (1714-1791) of Albemarle and Amherst Counties, Virginia, and Wilkes County, Georgia

June 25, 2025

Or, Subtitled: “I David Montgomery Cooper weak in Body but Sound In Judgment Do bequath to My wife Elizabeth all my Parsonry property During her Naterl life” Preliminary Remarks My protracted absence from this blog is due to a month-long trip I made to visit friends in Germany and travel with them to their vacation … More Notes about David Montgomery (1714-1791) of Albemarle and Amherst Counties, Virginia, and Wilkes County, Georgia

Additional Notes re: Phillips Families of Granville and Chatham Counties, North Carolina

January 10, 2020

Or, Subtitled: Questions Piled on Questions As a follow-up to my postings about Robert Phillips, who married Margaret, daughter of Dennis Lindsey of Granville County, and about David Phillips (and here), I’d like to share with you now some scattered (and desultory) notes on Phillips families in Granville, Orange, and Chatham Counties, North Carolina. As … More Additional Notes re: Phillips Families of Granville and Chatham Counties, North Carolina

The Children of Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Margaret Lindsey and Robert Phillips — Notes about David Phillips (2)

January 6, 2020

Or, Subtitled: Recurring Names, Plausible Patterns, and DNA Stumbling Blocks This is the second half of a two-part set of postings. The first part, which is here, discussed the life of David Phillips in Richmond and Spotsylvania-Orange Counties, Virginia, prior to his move to North Carolina in 1742.

The Children of Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Margaret Lindsey and Robert Phillips — Notes about David Phillips (1)

January 5, 2020

Or, Subtitled: Interrelated Families, Same Migration Patterns, DNA Surprises  As a follow-up to my previous posting about Dennis Lindsey’s daughter Margaret and her husband Robert Phillips, I want to post some notes about another Phillips family living in Granville (and later Orange) County, North Carolina, when Robert and Margaret lived there. This is the family … More The Children of Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Margaret Lindsey and Robert Phillips — Notes about David Phillips (1)

The Children of Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Margaret Lindsey and Husband Robert Phillips

December 20, 2019

Or, Subtitled: Genealogical Puzzles and the More You Learn, the More Confused You Become A Long Introduction: Robert Phillips the Mystery Man I’ve been dithering over the next installment of my postings about the children of Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762) because, to be honest, Robert Phillips is a mystery man for me. The more I … More The Children of Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Margaret Lindsey and Husband Robert Phillips

The Children of Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Catherine Lindsey and Husband Roger Thornton

December 4, 2019

Or, Subtitled: When Eastern North Carolina Moves to Georgia — Featherbeds and Land Grants In my next series of articles about the family of Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762), who came as a young indentured servant from Ireland to Richmond County, Virginia, in 1718 and died in Granville County, North Carolina, in 1762, I’m going to … More The Children of Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Catherine Lindsey and Husband Roger Thornton

Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in North Carolina, 1750-1762

November 26, 2019

Or, Subtitled: Yows, Weathers, Working Tules, Indiorn Corn, and Shillings Starling An assortment of deed, tax, and other records in Granville County, North Carolina, in the 1750s and 1760s provides an interesting snapshot of the final decade of Dennis Lindsey’s life. In 1750, he appears twice on Granville County tax lists, once in Edward Jones’ … More Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in North Carolina, 1750-1762

Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in North Carolina to 1750

November 21, 2019

Or, Subtitled: The Importance of Knowing County Boundary Changes as You Study Land Records To sum up some salient points of the previous posting about Dennis Linchey’s/Lindsey’s post-indenture life in Virginia (abt. 1725-1734/5): once he was freed from indenture, likely about 1725, he did what we’d expect a young man recently freed from servitude to … More Dennis Linchey/Lindsey (abt. 1700-1762): Post-Indenture Life in North Carolina to 1750