Re: George Nicholas PHILLIPS - need info
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Re: George Nicholas PHILLIPS - need info
Gail Lafferty 11/21/06
Hi, Gail,
I have some very interesting news about your John Andrew Phillips of Hardin County TN.We have a participant in the Phillips Worldwide DNA project who claims John Andrew Phillips as his earliest known Phillips ancestor.Here is a link to the DNA chart where this participant appears as number N16923: http://www.familytreedna.com/(g2oswzjc52tnre45ymu3c42e)/public/PhillipsWorldwide/index.aspx?fixed_columns=onhttp://www.familytreedna.com/(g2oswzjc52tnre45ymu3c42e)/public/PhillipsWorldwide/index.aspx?fixed_columns=on.This participant shows John Andrew dying in Hardin County TN in 1830, but I feel certain it is the same John Andrew Phillips who was your ancestor.
The really interesting thing about this is participant N16923 belongs to Haplogroup E3b, which is a Mediterranean haplogroup.We only have six E3b's out of over 100 participants thus far in the project.You say that the father of your John Andrew Phillips was Nicholas Phillips, who was born about 1790 in Virginia.I have thought for some time now that the father of Nicholas Phillips might have been George Nicholas Phillips who was born about 1757 in France.According to his pension request, George Nicholas Phillips came to America with Lafayette to fight in the American Revolution.He decided to stay in America and he married Susanna Campbell 23 March 1793 in Amherst County, VA.He later migrated to Mercer County KY where he married for a second time to Sarah Bloom.
I think that your Nicholas Phillips was probably the son of George Nicholas Phillips and Susannah Campbell, or possibly George Nicholas had yet another wife before Susannah.After all, he was about 36 years old when he married Susannah.In any case, the DNA of participant N16923 seems to confirm this theory, because Haplogroup E3b is pretty unusual for England but it is much more common in France.
Sincerely,
Nancy Kiser