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.
State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Ens
Birth: Death: 07 Oct 1780 Battle of Kings Mt / / SC
Qualifying Service Description:
Colonel William Campbell’s regiment, Capt Dysart or Capt Beattie’s company
Additional References:
Name is listed on both monuments to fallen soldiers
Lyman C Draper, "Kings Mountain and its Heroes", pg 304
Katherine K White "The King's Mountain Men", pg 217
Author: Fredrick Arnold Weyler
James Phillips was killed at the Battle of Kings Mountain 07Oct1780. He was private militiaman in Col William Campbell’s regiment, Capt. Dysart or Capt. Beattie’s company.
Captain David Beattie’s supplemental ration roster said that Phillips brought at least six days of rations from home. The roster specified officer ranks. James Phillips was an unspecified private.
Lyman Copeland Draper in Kings Mountain and its Heroes stated that Lieutenant Phillips was killed. His cited source was Samuel Newell’s letter to Gov. David Campbell, Abingdon, VA from Pulaski County, KY dated August 4th 1823. The letter says that Private James Phillips was killed. The 1909 battlefield obelisk says that 2nd Lieutenant James Phillips was killed.
Washington County, Virginia court journal for 21Nov1780 states that the commissioners ordered estate settlement for James Phillips, deceased. Neighbors John Berry, David Dryden, and Oliver Alexander were bonded for widow, Mary Phillips. It was recorded in May 1781.
The James Phillips 400-acre farm was on Wolf Creek just south of the knobs downstream from the Sinking Spring muster ground in Abingdon. In 1799, county commission certified a deed to James Phillips, junior, heir. A Lincoln County Kentucky entry certifies son James born 03Mar1779.
® Contribution in remembrance of Gene Mathis, Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia
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