Loyalist John Phillips UE - for United Empire Loyalists

captured in Georgia and the entire military operation collapse. It has been a long tradition
in Canada that rank-and-file soldiers in the field could have sometimes done better than
their British officers.
Richard Ripley UE, descendant of John Phillips UE.
Footnotes
1. The Age, (newspaper) Strathroy, Ontario, Friday, 21 December 1877, Vol. 2, No. 52, Whole No 571.
2. NEW YORK MUSTER ROLLS of New York Provincial Troops, 1755 -1764, Published by the New
York Historical Society. 1897.
3. New Brunswick Museum, "Collections of the New Brunswick Museum", F 75, B. 9.
4. Norfolk County Archives, Brad Rawlings, researcher, Photocopy of original document, August 2008.
5. (Loyalists) The Loyalists in the American Revolution, Genealogical Publishing Company, 13 volumes
accessible on CD, Copyright 1999. The Learning Company, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
6. Gravestone of John Phillips UE, moved from Lot 18 Range 4 South of Longwoods Road, now located
at Willy family Cairn, Lot 11 Range 4 ,Ekfrid Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, text: Phillips
(white marble) John Phillips / died July 29, 1844, aged 93 yrs 2 ms 14 dys. (read 2001). Ages in this
narrative are based on this information.
7. The Loyalist Regiments, online at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nj/state1/loyalist_regiments.htm.
8. The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies, "Clothing & Supplies, New Jersey Volunteers
Uniforms & Accouterments", 1776-1783.
9. NEW JERSEY MUSTER ROLLS – AMERICAN REVOLUTION ... "Muster Roll of Lieutenant
Colonel Joseph Barton's Company in the 1st Battalion of New Jersey Volunteers camp on Staten
Island"
10. Loyalists, op. cit., "Loyalists in the Southern Campaign" (Southern Campaign), "New Jersey
Volunteers", page 130.
11. Rauch, Steven J., An Ill Timed and Premature Insurrection, "The Siege of Augusta, Georgia,
September 14-18 1780", volume 2, no. 9, September 2005, pp. 6-7. Available online at
http://www.southerncampaign.org/newsletter/v2n9.pdf.
12. Loyalists, Southern Campaign, op. cit., pp. 131-132.
13. Ibid, pp.134-135.
14. Ibid, pp. 135-136.
15. Pearson, Jonathon; Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the
Patent and City of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800; "Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers
of Schenectady: (Ohle to Quinez), in SCPL's Schenectady Collection at Schdy R 929.1 P36c/, (Albany,
NY: J. Munsell, 1873). p. 68.
16. Family Member Research, descendant of John Phillips UE, 2008.
17. The Old United Empire Loyalist List, Appendix B, page 175.
18. Property Confiscations Salem, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Burlington Counties [Extract], 1787.
19. 1871 Canadian Census at Bothwell, Kent County, Ontario, LDS mf 0349136. Division 1, page 104.
Phillips, John, male, age 86, born on sea, Universalist, German, married (possibly a widower?).
20. Norfolk County Archives, op. cit.
21. The History of Burford, First Regiment of Oxford Militia, Pay Lists and Muster Rolls, 25th October
1812 to December 25, 1813, (signed) Thomas Talbot, Colonel Commending Militia, London District,
pp. 242-245.
22. Gravestone of John Phillips UE, op. cit, also Gravestone of Isabella Phillips; " In memory of / Isabella/
wife of John Phillips /died Oct. 13, 1849. Aged 87 yrs. (buried beside her husband; her marker also
moved to Willy cairn.).