Individual Details
Job Phillips
(3 May 1774 - 3 Jul 1842)
Important Note! I have not proven that this Job Phillips, son of Job who served in PA during the American Revolution, is the same Job Phillips who married Mary Alderman. While some clues seem to point in that direction, others do not.
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MARY ALDERMAN, b 4 Mar 1777 in Genesee Valley married JOB PHILLIPS and settled near Amesville, Athens Co, OH. They had 7 children. "Their son Justus Baker Phillips, b Oct 17, 1797 NY; Their son Evert V. b in "New York State and came to OH when he was not yet ten years old."
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1800 -- ???
Note: No Job Phillips/Philips are enumerated in VT or NY in 1800
2 are in CT, none found anywhere else. This included a search using only the first name Job, (and Jole) to eliminate other mis-spellings. The only one found was in Pennsylvannia (see 1800 census notes)
Also, No Alderman's show up in the 1800 census in NY except for a Jonathon.
Searchs using only Elisha and Elijah showed the following (mis-read as Adderman) in PA with Job Phillips, but none found anywhere else!
SO - Could these be the right people? Why would they leave NY to be in PA during 1800, but travel north again across the border to Allegancy Co. NY by 1803?
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1803 Beer's History of Allegancy County, NY 1806-1879
In 1803 Job PHILLIPS, Nehemiah SAYER, David SANFORD, Ezra SANFORD, Stephen VANDERMARK, Samuel LAMB and Ziba HUFF purchased land in the town of Caneadea and settled there.
p. 231 - Ephraim SANFORD, familiarly referred to as "Elder" SANDFORD, was a Baptist preacher who became well known in the county in after days. He returned to Caneadea in 1803, accompanied by eighteen others who located land in the town, some of them returning afterward to Steuben county for their families; the whole party becoming permanent settlers with a few exceptions. Their names were as follows: Squire HASKINS, David SANFORD, William PINKERTON, Job PHILLIPS, Loren FRANCIS, Stephen VANDERMARK, Samuel LANE, Ziba HUFF, Elisha ALDERMAN, James SMITH, Ephraim WANZER, Jacob RICKEY, William C. HUFF, Adam RIPENBARK, Daniel RIPENBARK, John RIPENBARK, Samuel CRAWFORD and Ezra SANFORD, a son of Elder SANFORD. They located as follows.... Job Philips on lot number 3; Stephen VANDERMARK on lot 5, Ziba Huff on lot numer 7; Elisha Alderman on lot no. 8; James Smith on lot no. 9;...William C. Huff on lot no. 12;...
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1808 Spring: Elisha Alderman and Job Phillips came from Olean, NY and made a location on Sharp's Fork of Federal Creek (Homer twp of Athens then, now Morgan Co. OH) Elisha Jr and Elijah pd for land in now Morgan Co.
They floated down the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh, upon a lumber raft loaded with household effects and families, and then via the Ohio to Marietta--nearly 500 mi voyage
--uninhabited country--traded the lumber for 640 acres in Homer twp. (History of Morgan Co. by Robertson 1886)
1810-1840 Job Phillips family settled near Amesville, Athens Co. OH
1810 Ohio, Athens Co. Tax List - "Phillips, Jole"
Grand Juries from 1805 to 1815 Town and Township of Athens:
December Term, 1809. - Jonathan Watkins
April Term, 1810. - Peter Phillips
April Term, 1811. - Nicholas Phillips
December Term, 1811. - John Phillips, Job Phillips
January Term, 1815. - Jonathan Watkins
After Job died in 1842, Mary remarried 12 Sep 1844 Samuel Ring, Athens Co.
Mary died 9 Apr 1858....she must have died while living with one of her children...
There is another more prominent Phillips fam in Athens Co descended from Ezra Phillips--no relation at all. To complicate matters Ada Alderman, (d/o Dr. Wm Nelson Alderman) md W.R.Phillips." ay, Job Phillips was born...His father Job was a Revolutionary soldier and served from CT. He also came to OH and is buried in Amesville Cem, Athens Co.
Finding times dull (in 1814), and commerce languishing, he resolved to quit the sea. We give Capt. Lovell’s language again:
“My brother Russell and myself were partners in business, and, as times were so very dull, we decided to emigrate to the west. So we sold our property, rigged what was called a Yankee wagon, and a small wagon and team of five horses, and started for Ohio. We traveled by land to Redstone, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where we separated. My brother took the teams down by land, while I, with a flat-bottomed boat, a queer kind of craft without mast, jib, or sail, took the families and most of the effects by water to Marietta. From there we came on to Athens county, and settled on Sharp’s fork of Federal creek, in what was then Ames township. We reached here November 18, 1814, after a journey of ten weeks. Far awhile both families lived in one cabin, not a large one either, belonging to Job Phillips, and we had hard sailing to get along. I was willing to work, but did not know .any more about farming than a land-lubber does about working a ship—however, we got along. Wolves were very troublesome; they killed our sheep constantly, and once they killed a yearling steer of mine.
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MARY ALDERMAN, b 4 Mar 1777 in Genesee Valley married JOB PHILLIPS and settled near Amesville, Athens Co, OH. They had 7 children. "Their son Justus Baker Phillips, b Oct 17, 1797 NY; Their son Evert V. b in "New York State and came to OH when he was not yet ten years old."
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1800 -- ???
Note: No Job Phillips/Philips are enumerated in VT or NY in 1800
2 are in CT, none found anywhere else. This included a search using only the first name Job, (and Jole) to eliminate other mis-spellings. The only one found was in Pennsylvannia (see 1800 census notes)
Also, No Alderman's show up in the 1800 census in NY except for a Jonathon.
Searchs using only Elisha and Elijah showed the following (mis-read as Adderman) in PA with Job Phillips, but none found anywhere else!
SO - Could these be the right people? Why would they leave NY to be in PA during 1800, but travel north again across the border to Allegancy Co. NY by 1803?
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1803 Beer's History of Allegancy County, NY 1806-1879
In 1803 Job PHILLIPS, Nehemiah SAYER, David SANFORD, Ezra SANFORD, Stephen VANDERMARK, Samuel LAMB and Ziba HUFF purchased land in the town of Caneadea and settled there.
p. 231 - Ephraim SANFORD, familiarly referred to as "Elder" SANDFORD, was a Baptist preacher who became well known in the county in after days. He returned to Caneadea in 1803, accompanied by eighteen others who located land in the town, some of them returning afterward to Steuben county for their families; the whole party becoming permanent settlers with a few exceptions. Their names were as follows: Squire HASKINS, David SANFORD, William PINKERTON, Job PHILLIPS, Loren FRANCIS, Stephen VANDERMARK, Samuel LANE, Ziba HUFF, Elisha ALDERMAN, James SMITH, Ephraim WANZER, Jacob RICKEY, William C. HUFF, Adam RIPENBARK, Daniel RIPENBARK, John RIPENBARK, Samuel CRAWFORD and Ezra SANFORD, a son of Elder SANFORD. They located as follows.... Job Philips on lot number 3; Stephen VANDERMARK on lot 5, Ziba Huff on lot numer 7; Elisha Alderman on lot no. 8; James Smith on lot no. 9;...William C. Huff on lot no. 12;...
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1808 Spring: Elisha Alderman and Job Phillips came from Olean, NY and made a location on Sharp's Fork of Federal Creek (Homer twp of Athens then, now Morgan Co. OH) Elisha Jr and Elijah pd for land in now Morgan Co.
They floated down the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh, upon a lumber raft loaded with household effects and families, and then via the Ohio to Marietta--nearly 500 mi voyage
--uninhabited country--traded the lumber for 640 acres in Homer twp. (History of Morgan Co. by Robertson 1886)
1810-1840 Job Phillips family settled near Amesville, Athens Co. OH
1810 Ohio, Athens Co. Tax List - "Phillips, Jole"
Grand Juries from 1805 to 1815 Town and Township of Athens:
December Term, 1809. - Jonathan Watkins
April Term, 1810. - Peter Phillips
April Term, 1811. - Nicholas Phillips
December Term, 1811. - John Phillips, Job Phillips
January Term, 1815. - Jonathan Watkins
After Job died in 1842, Mary remarried 12 Sep 1844 Samuel Ring, Athens Co.
Mary died 9 Apr 1858....she must have died while living with one of her children...
There is another more prominent Phillips fam in Athens Co descended from Ezra Phillips--no relation at all. To complicate matters Ada Alderman, (d/o Dr. Wm Nelson Alderman) md W.R.Phillips." ay, Job Phillips was born...His father Job was a Revolutionary soldier and served from CT. He also came to OH and is buried in Amesville Cem, Athens Co.
Finding times dull (in 1814), and commerce languishing, he resolved to quit the sea. We give Capt. Lovell’s language again:
“My brother Russell and myself were partners in business, and, as times were so very dull, we decided to emigrate to the west. So we sold our property, rigged what was called a Yankee wagon, and a small wagon and team of five horses, and started for Ohio. We traveled by land to Redstone, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where we separated. My brother took the teams down by land, while I, with a flat-bottomed boat, a queer kind of craft without mast, jib, or sail, took the families and most of the effects by water to Marietta. From there we came on to Athens county, and settled on Sharp’s fork of Federal creek, in what was then Ames township. We reached here November 18, 1814, after a journey of ten weeks. Far awhile both families lived in one cabin, not a large one either, belonging to Job Phillips, and we had hard sailing to get along. I was willing to work, but did not know .any more about farming than a land-lubber does about working a ship—however, we got along. Wolves were very troublesome; they killed our sheep constantly, and once they killed a yearling steer of mine.
Events
| Birth | 3 May 1774 | United States |  |  | |
| Census | 1790 | probably, Montgomery, New York, United States | | ||
| Marriage | Abt 1796 | probably, Steuben, New York, United States - Mary Alderman | | ||
| Census (family) | 1800 | Tyoga Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States - Mary Alderman | | | |
| Census (family) | 1820 | Ames Township, Athens, Ohio, United States - Mary Alderman | | | |
| Census (family) | 1830 | Amesville Township, Athens, Ohio, United States - Mary Alderman | | | |
| Death | 3 Jul 1842 | (now Morgan Co.), Amesville, Athens, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Will | 3 Jul 1842 | | | ||
| Burial | Amesville Cemetery, Amesville, Athens, Ohio, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Alderman (1777 - 1858) |
| Child | Justus Baker Phillips (1797 - ) |
| Child | Thankful Phillips (1800 - 1828) |
| Child | Evert Van Winkle Phillips (1802 - 1859) |
| Child | Susannah Phillips (1805 - 1880) |
| Child | Mary Ann Phillips (1815 - ) |
| Child | Almira B. Phillips (1818 - 1851) |
| Father | Job Phillips (1741 - 1835) |
| Mother | UNK Huff / Hough (1745 - 1820) |
| Sibling | Daniel C. Phillips (1770 - 1831) |
| Sibling | John Phillips (1774 - ) |
| Sibling | Spencer Phillips (1784 - ) |
Notes
Birth
or 1767Questionable data
The History of Morgan Co. by Robertson 1886 makes no mention of the birthplace for Job, just that he married Mary in NY and left for Ohio.
1880 census for daughter Susannah - parents both born NY
3 MAY 1774 in Wyoming Valley, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania (Kent)
Census
There are many Phillips families in Mohawk Town, New York where Elisha Alderman is numerated in 1790, Job, at 16, could have been a son of one of the following -1790 Census
New York, Montgomery County, MohawkTown
Phillips, Elijah--1-1-3-0-*
Phillips, John--1-1-2-0-*
Phillips, John--1-3-2-*-*
Phillips, John, Jr.--1-2-1-0-0
Phillips, Lewis--3-3-6-0-*
Phillips, Richard--1-0-2-0-0
Phillips, Thomas--3-0-1-0-0
Phillips, *____*--1-4-4-0-0
Census (family)
Elisha Alderman2 boys under 10
2 males 10-16
1 male 26-45
1 girl under 10
1 female 16-26
John Philips
1 male under 10
1 male 26-45
1 female under 10
1 female 16-26
Danl Philips
1 male 26-45
2 girls under 10
1 female 26-45
Job Philips
1 male under 10 (Justus 3)
1 male 16-25 (Job 26)
1 male 45 + (Job 56 - father?)
3 females under 10
1 female 26-44
Ephm Alderman
1 male 26-45
2 girls under 10
1 female 16-26
Also Cady's, wife of Daniel C. is said to be Abigail Cady -
Peter Cady
Manosh Cady
Abel Cady
Elisha Cady
Note: No Job Phillips/Philips are enumerated in VT or NY in 1800
2 are in CT, none found anywhere else. This included a search using only the first name Job, (and Jole) to eliminate other mis-spellings.
Census (family)
There is only one Job Phillips in Ohio in the 1820 census, none in PA, NY, KY, IL, IN, VA, TN, using Job only in the search -Phillips, Daniel
1 male 0-10
3 males 10-16 (Job 14, David 13)
2 males 45+ (Daniel 50, Job)
2 females 0-10
1 female 45+ (Abigail 47)
1 engaged in Agriculture
next door, a brother to Daniel?
Phillips, Job
1 male 16-18
1 male 16-26 (Evert V. 17)
1 male 45+ (Job 46)
2 females 0-10
1 female 10-16
1 female 26-45 (Mary 43)
2 engaged in Agriculture
Census (family)
pg 225Daniel Philips
1 male 10-15
2 males 20-30 (Job 24 , David 23)
1 male 60-70 (Daniel 60)
1 female 10-15
1 female 50-60 (Abigail 57)
Evert V Philips
1 male 5-10
1 male 20-30
3 females under 5
1 female 5-10
1 female 20-30
Job Philips
1 male 5-10
1 male 50-60
2 females 10-15
1 female 50-60
Ezra Phillips, Ames, Athens, Ohio
Samuel Philips, Athens, Athens, Ohio
Will
Box 201, Athens Co., OhioJuly 3, 1842
In the Name of the Benevolent Father of All
I Job Phillips of Ames Township Athens County State of Ohio being weak of body but of sound and perfect mind and memory, do make this my last will & testament.
Article 1st I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Mary Ann Arnold her heirs, xxxx and her heirs forever so much of the farm on which I now live taking the house on Eastern part by a line running from the mouth of a run that empties into the Mill pong some twenty rods above the Mill, thence xxxx the pond to a white walnut tree on the oppsite bank or at the end of the dam thence down the creek to the line running between me and E.V. Phillips to have and to hold the same free from all debts due or demands of her trust and to receive proprosion of said property at the death of my beloved wife.
Article 2, I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife the residue of my land lying on the opposite side of the creek with all my chattel property in her own perfect right in fee simple forever.
In testimony where of I hereunto set my hand and seal this 3rd day of July AD 1842(?)
Signed by him in presence of us and signed by us in presence of him.
xxxBrawley Job Phillips
John Harvey x his mark seal
Endnotes
1. RootsWeb.com, World Connect infosearch on Job Phillips.
Richard Ripley
2. Kent & Stirling Family, Linda Kent online [http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/], accessed Sept 2007, 3 MAY 1774 in Wyoming Valley, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania .
3. RootsWeb.com, World Connect infosearch on Job Phillips.
Richard Ripley
4. Parker, William Alderman., Aldermans in America. (William A. Parker Edwards & Broughton Co., Raleigh, N.C., 1957), p 483.
5. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1800 > PENNSYLVANIA > LYCOMING > TYOGA Series: M32 Roll: 41 Page: 549 .
6. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1820 > OHIO > ATHENS > AMES Series: M33 Roll: 86 Page: 62.
7. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1830 > OHIO > ATHENS > AMESVILLE Series: M19 Roll: 126 Page: 225.
8. RootsWeb.com, World Connect infosearch on Job Phillips.
Richard Ripley
9. Kent & Stirling Family, Linda Kent online [http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/], accessed Sept 2007.