The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
Phillip Correll was born 18 February 1759 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. In 1795 he moved with his wife to western Rowan County where he was a farmer. He was active in the Mount Zion Church where he is buried. He was probably German as he is closely associated with George Savitz and George Clodfelter. Phillip Correll died on 1 February 1843 and is buried in the historical Savitz Cemetery in the Mount Zion German Reformed Church Cemetery in China Grove, Rowan County, NC.
Although his wife is identified as Catherine Fries in many SAR applications, it appears that Katherine Correll Freeze (1799-1842) was his daughter.
Sophia Schollenberger Correll, born 1 February 1765 in Berks County, Pennsylvania and died 21 October 1813 in Rowan County, NC appears to be his wife. She is buried in the same Greenlawn Cemetery, China Grove, Rowan County, in the historical Savitz Cemetery of the Mount Zion German Reformed Church as Phillip Correll
His son, Jacob Correll, was the builder of historic St Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Woodleaf, North Carolina.
Phillip was a soldier in the Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary War. In 1776, he enlisted for three months under Captain Spangler in New York. In 1777, he enlisted for three months under Captain Ritter in Morristown, New Jersey. In 1778, he enlisted for three months under Jacob Shartley.
References: NSSAR Application # 72557, Guy Moody Beaver; Correll file, McCubbins file, Rowan Public Library, Salisbury, NC
Send a biographical sketch of your patriot!
Patriot biographies must be the original work of the author, and work submitted must not belong to another person or group, in observance with copyright law. Patriot biographies are to be written in complete sentences, follow the established rules of grammar, syntax and punctuation, be free of typographical errors, and follow a narrative format. The narrative should unfold in a logical manner (e.g. the narrative does not jump from time period to time period) or have repeated digressions, or tell the history of the patriot's line from the patriot ancestor to the author. The thinking here is that this is a patriot biography, not a lineage report or a kinship determination project or other report published in a genealogy journal. The biography should discuss the qualifying service (military, patriotic, civil) of the patriot ancestor, where the service was rendered, whether this was a specific state or Continental service, as well as significant events (as determined by the author) of the patriot's life. This is the entire purpose of a patriot's biography.
Additional guidelines around the Biography writeup can be found here:
Send your submission1, in a Microsoft Word compatible format, to patriotbios@sar.org for inclusion in this space 1Upon submission of a patriot biography, the patriot biography becomes the property of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and may be edited to conform to the patriot biography submission standards.