Reuben Phillips, Sr

Abt 1720 - 1810  (85 years)

• Name	Reuben Phillips
  Suffix	Sr
  Birth	Abt 1720	Hunger River, Dorchester, Maryland, Colonial America
  Gender	Male
  Name	Reuben Phillips Sr  [1]
  Possessions	14 Mar 1753	Rackoon Range at Cancyachuga Manor, Frederick, Maryland, Colonial America
  	Per the Frederick County list: 50 acres assigned to Rubin Phillips of said County
  Possessions	17 Oct 1765	Hunting Lott, Frederick, Maryland, Colonial America
  	Reuben Phillips assigned a tract called Hunting Lott to Samuel Chase
  Reference Number	23895
  Residence	1783	Rowan, North Carolina, USA
  	From the county tax list
  Residence	1786	Wilkes, Georgia, USA
  Residence	1792	Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA
  	Reuben's land was originally part of Wilkes County, but then got absorbed into Oglethorpe
  Residence	1800	Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA   [1]
  Residence	1805	Jackson, Georgia, USA
  	He participated in the Georgia Land Lottery, but drew two blanks.
  Death	Between 1805 and 1810	Jackson, Georgia, USA
  	He no longer appears in Censuses beginning with the 1810 one.
  Person ID	I23895	KLD Genealogy
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Thomas Phillips,   b. Abt 1690, Dorchester, Maryland, Colonial America d. Abt 1746, Dorchester, Maryland, Colonial America (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	biological
  Mother	Eleanor
  Relationship	biological
  Family ID	F8409	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Jones,   b. Wales
  Marriage	Abt 1744
  Children	1. Adam Phillips,   b. 27 Dec 1762, Baltimore, Frederick, Maryland, Colonial America d. 4 Apr 1858, Buncombe, North Carolina, USA (Age 95 years)  [Father: biological]  [Mother: biological]   2. Thomas Phillips,   b. Abt 1745  [Father: biological]  [Mother: biological]   3. John Phillips,   b. 2 May 1754   d. Tennessee, USA  [Father: biological]  [Mother: biological]   4. Levi Phillips,   b. 25 Sep 1751, Cecil, Maryland, USA  [Father: biological]  [Mother: biological]   5. William Phillips,   b. 1756, Rowan, North Carolina, USA d. Tennessee, USA  [Father: biological]  [Mother: biological]   6. Jonas Phillips  [Father: biological]  [Mother: biological]   7. Reuben Phillips, Jr   d. 1814, Rowan, North Carolina, USA  [Father: biological]  [Mother: biological]   8. Jesse Phillips   d. Tennessee, USA  [Father: biological]  [Mother: biological]
  Family ID	F8516	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1720 - Hunger River, Dorchester, Maryland, Colonial America Possessions - Per the Frederick County list: 50 acres assigned to Rubin Phillips of said County - 14 Mar 1753 - Rackoon Range at Cancyachuga Manor, Frederick, Maryland, Colonial America Possessions - Reuben Phillips assigned a tract called Hunting Lott to Samuel Chase - 17 Oct 1765 - Hunting Lott, Frederick, Maryland, Colonial America Residence - From the county tax list - 1783 - Rowan, North Carolina, USA Residence - 1786 - Wilkes, Georgia, USA Residence - Reuben's land was originally part of Wilkes County, but then got absorbed into Oglethorpe - 1792 - Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA Residence - 1800 - Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA Residence - He participated in the Georgia Land Lottery, but drew two blanks. - 1805 - Jackson, Georgia, USA Death - Between 1805 and 1810 - Jackson, Georgia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Adam Philips ' Life times Written and researched by John Wesley Phillips

  
  

• Sources

  [S2805] Ancestry.com, Georgia, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 1999;).