This is a research group for the family of Nicholas Phillips - Sr. (a member of Butler's Rangers); Jr. his son and also a member of Butler's Rangers; and Nicholas Phillips of Bayham, Ontario. The latter is believed to be son of Nicholas Jr. He married a Hannah Mckay, and then Effie Alward. Here is another quick link to his family group:
http://www.gencircles.com/users/rodfleck/2/data/2668
Feel free to post information, scanned documents (keep the size down on those please), and photos.
OUR MOTTO FOR THIS GROUP:
"Let us garner up our notices of past ages, and preserve them in the archives of the country: we shall please and instruct ourselves by so doing, and make posterity lastingly indebted to us for the deed. To transmit the honors of one age to another is our duty; to neglect the merits of our fathers is a disgrace."
History of Schoharie County and Border Wars of New York: "Sir Richard Phillips in his ‘A Million of Facts’ - courtesy of Bill Rason.
I got the Ancestry source image linked to Maria, Matthew and Ephraim at the Ancestry Public Tree and put this note in my own computer's Family Tree Maker!
Thank you Bill for the great replies and all the information! I just printed out all, so have a lot of reading material! At the end of this rather lengthy
I meant to say Ephraim HOPKINS, not PHILLIPS. _____ From: nicholasphillipsresearchers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:nicholasphillipsresearchers@yahoogroups.com] On
Carol, Well, I didn't really quit like I said I would. I worked my way back to your Ancestry.com tree and found that you have Nicholas PHILLIPS' (father of
Carol, I found an Ephraim PHILLIPS on the 1851 indexed as Ephina. There is an update posted by "websterhazel" that Ephraim is correct. Ephraim PHILLIPS,