| Name |
William Phipps |
| Suffix |
Sr. |
| Birth |
ca 1745 |
Augusta Co, Virginia, British America  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Military |
1763 |
French & Indian War |
| Corporal, British/American Forces. |
| Petition |
1768 |
Augusta Co, Virginia, British America |
| A petition came from the western settlers asking that "there may be alterations and amendments made on the old road leading from Captain Ingles' Ferry to James Davis's at the head of the Holstein River. William Phipps was one of the signers of the petition. |
- Mary B. Kegley and F. B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol I, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1800 (Orange, VA: Green Publishers, Inc., 1980), 51.
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| Property, Real |
1769 |
Augusta Co, Virginia, British America |
| In the fall of 1768 and the spring of 1769, William Preston surveyed numerous tracts the land in the Western Waters area of Virginia. Lists of the surveys made by Preston can be found in the Preston Family of Virginia Papers at the Library of Congress, noted as Memoranda of Surveys, Item #581. Other lists of surveys made by the Loyal Company can be found in the Augusta County Chancery Suit file N.S. 183 and in the Loyal Company papers at the Archives of the Virginia State Library. William Phipps was on the lists as getting 190 acres on Reed Creek from a grant dated 7 Apr 1769. |
- Mary B. Kegley and F. B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol I, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1800 (Orange, VA: Green Publishers, Inc., 1980), 34, 42.
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| Tax Records |
1771 |
Botetourt Co, Virginia, British America |
| Phipps was on a list of tithables (taxes) taken in by Walter Crockett from William Sayers to the head of Holston River. |
- Mary B. Kegley and F. B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol I, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1800 (Orange, VA: Green Publishers, Inc., 1980), 94.
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| Public Office |
1772 |
Fincastle Co, Virginia, British America |
| In early Virginia, the only recognized divisions in their counties were militia companies/districts. Each militia company had a least one man chosen to act as constable within the precincts of the company. Phipps was a constable in Captain Crockett's Company on Reed Creek near present-day Wytheville. |
- Mary B. Kegley and F. B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol I, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1800 (Orange, VA: Green Publishers, Inc., 1980), 97.
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| Court Minutes |
11 Jun 1779 |
Montgomery Co, Virginia, USA |
| Evidence was reported to the Montgomery County Court that "on Saturday, the 5th of June, a party of Tories came to the house of William Phipps [present Wythe County], and fired four guns into the house, two through the door and two through the roof. They set the house on fire. |
- Mary B. Kegley and F. B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol I, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1800 (Orange, VA: Green Publishers, Inc., 1980), 139.
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| Land Grant/Warrant |
5 Oct 1779 |
Montgomery Co, Virginia, USA |
| A certificate is granted to William Phipps for obtaining 50 acres of land under the King of Great Britain's Proclamation of 1763 for services as a Corporal in French and Indian War. |
- (1) F. B. Kegley. Kegley's Virginia Frontier: the beginning of the Southwest, the Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783 (Roanoke, VA: The Southwest Virginia Historical Society, 1938), 274. (2) Mary B. Kegley and F. B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol I, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1800 (Orange, VA: Green Publishers, Inc., 1980), 78.
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| Property, Real |
1782 |
Fincastle Co, Virginia, USA |
| William Phipps, 190 acres on Reed Creek surveyed, granted 1792. |
- Mary B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol V, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1820 (Wytheville, VA: Kegley Books, 2004), 202.
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| Property, Real |
2 Dec 1782 |
Montgomery Co, Virginia, USA |
| Michael Stiffee [Steffey], assignee of Michael Weaver, assignee of William Fips [Phipps], Commissioner's certificate, 400 acres on headwaters of South Fork of Reed Creek. [Commissioner's Certificate Book, page 104, survey for Weaver, 1775, settled 1768.] The warrants were often assigned (sold or traded) by the person who actually served in the military or the person who was entitled to the particular warrant. The last person mentioned in the assignment was the original owner of the warrant or certificate and not necessarily a resident or owner of the land which was later surveyed. The entry was a request to the county surveyor to come to the property in question and lay off the boundaries of the tract by metes and bounds in order that a land grant might be obtained. Most entries were based on some kind of official warrant--state, preemption, military (for the French and Indian War) or governor's (sometimes called Lord Dunmore's or his Lordship's warrant)--though in some cases they were based on a Commissioner's certificate. [Montgomery County, VA Entry Book A-180] |
- Mary B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol II, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1800 (Wytheville, VA: Kegley Books, 1982), 81, 109.
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| Property, Real |
26 Jan 1783 |
Montgomery Co, Virginia, USA |
| William Phipps, Commissioner's certificate, 190 acres on Reed Creek. [Commissioner's Certificate Book, page 235, 190 acres Reed Creek settled 1768] The warrants were often assigned (sold or traded) by the person who actually served in the military or the person who was entitled to the particular warrant. The last person mentioned in the assignment was the original owner of the warrant or certificate and not necessarily a resident or owner of the land which was later surveyed. [Montgomery County, VA Entry Book A-200] |
- Mary B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol II, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1800 (Wytheville, VA: Kegley Books, 1982), 88, 118.
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| Friends, Acquaintances, Neighbors |
6 Oct 1784 |
Montgomery Co, Virginia, USA |
| James Finley, treasury warrant of 500 acres, in 1782 entered 150 acres joining his patent land and the land of William Phipps and Jehu Stephens. |
- Mary B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol III, Part 1, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1805 (Wytheville, VA: Kegley Books, 1995), 24. [Originial Montgomery County Entry Book B-162]
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| Friends, Acquaintances, Neighbors |
4 Jun 1785 |
Montgomery Co, Virginia, USA |
| James Finley--93 acres on south side of Reed Creek adjacent to his patent land and land of William Phipps. |
- Virginia. Montgomery County. Survey Book D-511. Netti Schreiner-Yantis, trans. Montgomery County, Virginia-Circa 1790: a comprehensive study – including the 1789 tax lists, abstracts of over 800 land surveys & data concerning migration (Springfield, Va.: N. Schreiner-Yantis, 1972), 63.
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| Military |
24 Aug 1786 |
Southwest Virginia, USA |
| Lieutenant, Capt. Findley's Company. |
- Lewis Preston Summers. Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800 (Baltimore: Clearfield Company, 1996, 1929), 814.
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| Tax Records |
1787 |
Montgomery Co, Virginia, USA |
| Personal Property Tax List B. District of David McGavock, Commissioner. Horses, mares, colts & mules: 6, Cattle: 10. |
- Netti Schreiner-Yantis, et. al, comp. The 1787 Census of Virginia Vol. 1 (Springfield, VA: Genealogical Books in Print, 1987), 441.
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| Tax Records |
31 Mar 1789 |
Montgomery Co, Virginia, USA |
| Tax List B: Person charged with taxes: William Phipps; White males over 21 years: William Phipps; white males 16 to 21 years: 0; Slaves: 0; Horses: 6. |
- Netti Schreiner-Yantis, trans. Montgomery County, Virginia-Circa 1790: a comprehensive study – including the 1789 tax lists, abstracts of over 800 land surveys & data concerning migration (Springfield, Va.: N. Schreiner-Yantis, 1972), 24, 92. NOTE: Prior to 1786 taxes were collected at an office set up for the residents to bring in a list of their taxable property. [William Walter Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large, Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia Vol 11 (Richmond: Printed by and for Samuel Pleasants, junior, printer to the commonwealth, 1809-23), 114] In 1786, Virginia Assembly passed an act providing for a tax commissioner to go from house to house collecting the lists and requiring taxpayers to swear under oath as to the accuracy of the lists. [W. W. Hening, ed. The Statutes at Large, Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia Vol 12 (Richmond: Printed by and for Samuel Pleasants, junior, printer to the commonwealth, 1809-23), 246]
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Key to 1789 Tax Lists, Montgomery Co, Virginia
Tax List "B" recorded locations on both sides of Reed Creek, a tributary of the New River in southwest Virginia. |
| Census |
1790 |
Wythe Co, Virginia, USA |
| None found. |
| Friends, Acquaintances, Neighbors |
1790 |
Wythe Co, Virginia, USA |
| Jonas Fortney enters 25 acres, adjoining Daniel Wysley [Wiseley], James Finley, and William Phipps. James Finley enters 7 acres adjoining William Phipps and said Finley's old patent line on the south and to include head of "Cole Pitt" Hollow... |
- Mary B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol V, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1820 (Wytheville, VA: Kegley Books, 2004), 204. (Original Wythe County Entry Book 1, 1790-1793]
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| Witness |
23 Feb 1790 |
Wythe Co, Virginia, USA |
| George and William Phipps, along with James Finley witnessed the Last Will & Testament of Henry Helvey. Will probated 8 May 1792. |
- Mary B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol V, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1820 (Wytheville, VA: Kegley Books, 2004), 273. [Original Wythe County Will Book 1, p 19]
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| Tax Records |
1793 |
Wythe Co, Virginia, USA |
| William Phipps was listed on Tax list C in Capt James Finley's district. |
- Netti Schreiner-Yantis, trans. Montgomery County, Virginia-Circa 1790: a comprehensive study – including the 1789 tax lists, abstracts of over 800 land surveys & data concerning migration (Springfield, Va.: N. Schreiner-Yantis, 1972), 92.
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| Tax Records |
1795 |
Grayson Co, Virginia, USA |
| William Phipps was on the tax list. |
- Netti Schreiner-Yantis, trans. Montgomery County, Virginia-Circa 1790: a comprehensive study – including the 1789 tax lists, abstracts of over 800 land surveys & data concerning migration (Springfield, Va.: N. Schreiner-Yantis, 1972), 92.
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| Witness |
23 Jul 1799 |
Wythe Co, Virginia, USA |
| William Phipps and his wife, Rebekah were witnesses to the Will of James Finley Sr. [Will proved Aug 1802]. |
- Mary B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol V, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1820 (Wytheville, VA: Kegley Books, 2004), 262. [Original Wythe County Will Book 1, p 220]
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| Census |
1800 |
Wythe Co, Virginia, USA |
| None found. |
| Petition |
Dec 1804 |
Wythe Co, Virginia, USA |
| Phipps signed a petition protesting the obstruction of a dam erected by Andrew and James Crockett at their ironworks on Reed Creek and requested that they be compelled to erect a slope "in such a manner as shall be sufficient to admit the passage of the fish." Witnesses claimed that since the erection of the dam "has never been worth a man's time to go a-fishing" because they have never seen a catfish since then and fish were very scarce. Others who signed were Edward Murphey, William Phipps Sr, George Myers, Peter Myers Sr, Peter Myers Jr, Frederick Myers, and John Myers. |
- Mary B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol II, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1800 (Wytheville, VA: Kegley Books, 1982), 374-375.
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| Census |
1810 |
Wythe Co, Virginia, USA |
| p 287. |
- The United States of America. Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. Third Census of the United States, 1810. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1810. (NARA microfilm M252 roll 71)
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1810 Census for Wythe County, Virginia, Sheet 287
--Willliam Phipps--Free white males 26-44: 2; Free white males 45+: 1; Free white females 10-15: 1; Free white females 45+: 1; No. household members under 16: 1; No. household members over 25: 4; Total household members: 5 |
| Death |
Aug 1818 |
Wythe Co, Virginia, USA |
| Probate |
13 Aug 1818 |
Wythe Co, Virginia, USA |
- (1) Virginia. Wythe County. Will Book (1810-1822) 2-255, 13 Aug 1818, Last Will & Testament for William Phipps; 2-360, 15 Aug 1818, Inventory and Appraisement for William Phipps, recorded 11 Sep 1821. (2) Mary B. Kegley. Early Adventurers on the Western Waters; Vol V, The New River of Virginia in Pioneer Days, 1745-1820 (Wytheville, VA: Kegley Books, 2004), 180.
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Probate of the William Phipps Estate
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| Burial |
William Phipps Family Cemetery, Wytheville, Wythe Co, Virginia, USA |
| Person ID |
I35518 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
8 Jan 2021 |
1745 - 1818 (73 years)
