Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph PHIPPS
"The Phipps family is of English extraction, and was planted in America by John Phipps (paternal great-grandfather), who came over from England in 1686 and settled in Uwchlan township, Chester county, Pennsylvania. He took up one thousand acres of land, which is now owned in part by the subject of this sketch and his sister. Joseph Phipps (grandfather) was born in 1750, and after his father's death inherited the latter's estate and spent his entire life in agricultural pursuits. He was accidentally killed while on his way home from court. In politics he was an old-line whig, and in religion a Friend, or Quaker. He married Mary Ann Keeley, by whom he had a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters. One of these sons was Jonathan Phipps (father), who was born on the old homestead in 1790, and being left an orphan at an early age, by the death of his father, he was reared and educated by his mother. After attaining manhood he engaged in farming, and passed his days in the cultivation of the soil. He was a whig and republican in politics,
a strict adherent of the Society of Friends, and died in 1866 at the advanced age of seventy-six years. In January, 1818 , he married Isabella Peters, of Delaware county, and to them was born a family of eight children, only two of whom now survive. They were all members of th e Society of Friends, and lived active, useful, and honorable lives."
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