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     Miriam Phillips married George Washington Blagden.¹ Miriam Phillips was born in 1805.¹ She was the daughter of John Phillips and Salley Walley.¹ Miriam Phillips died in 1874.¹

     Nicholas Phillips married Judith Savil, daughter of William Savil and Experience Quincy, on 12 February 1727/28 in Weymouth.¹

     Otis Colby Phillips was born on 11 January 1850.¹ He was the son of John H. Phillips and Emeline Webster Holmead.¹ Otis Colby Phillips died on 7 July 1865 at the age of 15.¹

     Parker Norris Phillips was born on 13 June 1895.¹ He was the son of Rev. Peter Parker Phillips and Edith Norris.¹ Parker Norris Phillips died on 12 December 1896 at the age of 1.¹

     Rev. Peter Parker Phillips was born on 8 October 1852.¹ He was the son of John H. Phillips and Emeline Webster Holmead.¹ Rev. Peter Parker Phillips graduated in 1875 from Columbia College, Washington, District of Columbia.¹ He graduated in 1878 from Prot. Epis. Theol. Seminary, Virginia.¹ Between 1879 and 1894 he was a Rector of Grace Church at Berryville, Virginia.¹ He married Edith Norris on 18 January 1893.¹ In 1894 he was a Rector of St. Paul's Church at Alexandria.¹

     Sarah A. Phillips married Ezra Wait Jr., son of Ezra Wait Sr. and Elizabeth Chandler.¹

     Thomas Phillips was born in October 1737.¹ He was the son of John Phillips and Sarah Cooke.¹ Thomas Phillips died in February 1741 at the age of 3.¹

     Wendell Phillips. Abolitionist, orator and reformer.¹ He was born on 29 November 1811 in Boston.² He was the son of John Phillips and Salley Walley.² Attended the Boston Latin school, 1822-26, and graduated from Harvard in 1831. While in college he was president of the Hasty Pudding club and of the Gentlemen's club, and had so little interest in reform that he defeated the first proposition to establish a temperance society at Harvard. He showed no taste for oratory, but was fond of debate. He graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1834, and was admitted to practice at the Suffolk bar. He continued his law studies in the office of Thomas Hopkinson, Lowell, Mass., and established himself in practice in Boston. He took no part in the early antislavery movement, but upon the imprisonment and subsequent outrage upon the person of William Lloyd Garrison, Oct. 21, 1835, he cast in his lot with the antislavery party. On Dec. 8, 1837, at a meeting held in Faneuil Hall for the purpose of giving expression to the horror felt by a number of persons headed by Dr. William Ellery Channing, at the murder of the Rev. Elijah Lovejoy, Phillips made his début as an orator, in an impromptu reply to the scurrilous utterances of Attorney-General James T. Austin.

He was one of the first to take part in the movement for a lyceum-lecture system, and in 1836 he delivered his first lecture. This was followed by several others, including one on "The Lost Arts" 1838, which was probably one of the most popular lectures ever delivered in America. He was one of the lecturers who succeeded in breaking down the old rule of refusing negroes admittance to the lyceum lectures. He delivered his first antislavery lecture at Lynn, Mass., and in 1838 delivered a Fourth of July oration at Lynn. He advocated the rights of women as co-equal with men, and was a delegate to the world's antislavery convention held at London, England, June 12, 1840, where he earnestly spoke on the eligibility of women as delegates. His advice was out-voted, however, and the women were excluded. He traveled in Europe, visiting France, Italy and Great Britain, and returned to Boston, July 12, 1841. He was foremost in opposing the slave measures of 1841-50. The fugitive-slave act was passed in October, 1850, and a meeting was held in Faneuil Hall, Boston, for the denunciation of the law, at which Phillips was one of the speakers. Instant repeal of the act was demanded and a vigilance committee of fifty was appointed to protect the colored people from the new danger. In 1853 he addressed the antislavery woman's rights and temperance conventions held in New York city. Upon the election of President Lincoln and the outbreak of the civil war, Phillips favored the commencement of hostilities and delivered an address to that end in Boston Music Hall. On Sept. 22, 1862, the President issued his proclamation of freedom to the slaves, to take effect Jan. 1, 1863, and the Negro was allowed to enlist as a soldier. Phillips was one of the first to favor the enlistment of colored regiments in Massachusetts, and authority was obtained, Jan. 26, 1863. On March 11-12, 1863, Phillips delivered his panegyric on Toussaint L'Ouverture in New York and Brooklyn, and on July 4, 1863, he delivered an address at the mass-meeting of the Friends of Freedom at Framingham, Mass., which was perhaps the most remarkable speech delivered by him during the war. He also spoke on "The Amnesty" at the Cooper Institute, N.Y., Dec. 22, 1863. Upon the re-nomination of President Lincoln in 1864, Mr. Phillips opposed, while William Lloyd Garrison favored, his election. This led to a controversy, as Garrison held that as slavery had been abolished, the Antislavery society should be abolished. Phillips, however, contended that it should not be discontinued until the Negro had gained his ballot. He succeeded Garrison as president of the society in 1865, and continued in office until 1870. He was an advocate of temperance, an upholder of trades unions, and was in favor of a greenback system of finance. He was nominated for governor of Massachusetts by the Labor Reform convention held at Worcester, Sept. 8, 1870. He supported General Butler for governor on a joint Republican and Labor platform, and in the presidential canvass of 1872 he supported General Grant and his southern policy. I

n 1878 an unsuccessful effort was made to induce Phillips to accept the nomination for governor on the Republican ticket. He delivered addresses on: "Capital Punishment," April 29, 1866; "The Meaning of the War," July 4, 1866; "The Perils of the Hour," 1866; "The New Constitutional Amendment," Jan. 24, 1867; "General Grant," Nov. 18, 1867; "The Political Situation," Jan. 29, 1869; "Sir Henry Vane" in May, 1877; "Trades Unions" in April, 1869; "A Review of Dr. Howard Crosby's Anti-total-abstinence discourse," Jan. 24, 1881; "The Crisis in Irish Affairs," in February, 1881, and "The Scholar in a Republic," delivered at the centennial anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard college, June 30, 1881. His last address was delivered on the unveiling exercises of the statue of Harriet Martineau, at the Old South Meeting House, Dec. 26, 1883. He is the author of: The Constitution, a Pro-Slavery Contract (1840); Review of Daniel Webster's 7th of March Speech (1850), and a collection of speeches, letters and lectures, revised by himself (1863). By vote of the legislature and city government his body was laid in state at Faneuil Hall, where it was viewed by a large number of citizens. His name in "Class A, Authors and Editors," received nineteen votes for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great American, New York university, October, 1900.² Wendell Phillips married Anne Terry Green, daughter of Benjamin Green, in October 1837.² Wendell Phillips died on 2 February 1884 at the age of 72.²

     William Phillips was; grandparents of Wendell Phillips.¹ He was born in 1737.² He married Margaret Wendell, daughter of Hon. Colonel Jacob Wendell and Sarah Oliver, on 12 June 1760 in Boston, Massachusetts.³ William Phillips died in 1772.²

     William Phillips was born in August 1736.¹ He was the son of John Phillips and Sarah Cooke.¹

     William Phillips was born on 11 January 1819.¹ He was the son of Jonathan Phillips and Rebecca Waldo Salisbury.¹ William Phillips died on 8 April 1873 at the age of 54 s.p.¹

     Hon. William Phillips. A merchant. He married Abigail Bromfield.²

     Leslie B. Phinney married firstly Gertrude Sewall, daughter of Nathan Willis Sewall and Mary Jessie Goding, on 5 November 1898.¹ Leslie B. Phinney and Gertrude Sewall were divorced on 2 October 1903 at Franklin County, Maine.

     Deacon Francis Pickard was born on 23 September 1689.¹ He was the son of John Pickard and Sarah Smith.¹ Deacon Francis Pickard married Edna Northend, daughter of Capt. Ezekiel Northend and Dorothy Sewall, on 25 November 1714.¹ Deacon Francis Pickard died on 12 September 1778 at the age of 88.¹

     Hannah Pickard was the daughter of Joshua Pickard and Susanna Northend.¹

     Hannah Pickard married Moses Bradstreet, son of Capt. Moses Bradstreet and Elizabeth Harris, on 19 July 1686.¹ Hannah Pickard died on 3 January 1737.¹

     John Pickard married firstly Sarah Smith on 11 February 1679 at Rowley.^1,2 John Pickard died in 1697.²

     Joshua Pickard married Susanna Northend, daughter of Lieut. Samuel Northend and Susanna Scott, on 10 May 1787.¹ Joshua Pickard died on 10 March 1814.¹

     John Pickering was born on 10 September 1658.¹ He married Sarah Burrill on 14 June 1683 in Salem.^1,2 John Pickering died on 19 June 1722 at the age of 63.¹

     Lois Pickering was the daughter of John Pickering and Sarah Burrill.¹ Lois Pickering married Timothy Orne, son of Joseph Orne and Ann Thompson, on 7 April 1709.¹

     Sarah Pickering was born on 28 January 1730.¹ She was the daughter of Timothy Pickering and Mary Wingate.¹ Sarah Pickering married John Clarke, son of Josiah Clarke and Mary Wingate.¹ Sarah Pickering died on 21 November 1826 at the age of 96.¹

     Timothy Pickering was born on 10 February 1703.¹ He was the son of John Pickering and Sarah Burrill.¹ Timothy Pickering married Mary Wingate, daughter of Joshua Wingate and Mary Lunt.¹ Timothy Pickering died on 7 June 1778 at the age of 75.¹

     Clark Gayton Pickman was the son of Hon. Benjamin Pickman.¹ Clark Gayton Pickman married Sarah Orne, daughter of Timothy Orne and Rebecca Taylor, on 24 July 1770.¹

     Alice Ann Picot was born circa 1851 calculated from age at death.¹ She married Thomas C.L. Symonds, son of Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI and Susan Campbell Kennedy ?, circa 1873 probably in Jersey, Channel Islands.¹ Alice's death was registered in the quarter ending 1925 in the Redfern registration district.¹

     Alfred Pierce was born on 1 January 1822.¹ He married Martha Richardson Williams, daughter of Thomas Williams and Polly Richardson, on 6 December 1865.¹ Alfred Pierce died on 23 May 1919 at the age of 97.¹

     Blanche Wood Pierce was born in 1885.¹ She was the daughter of Charles Simeon Pierce and Nellie Iglehart "Angie" Wood.¹ Blanche Wood Pierce died in 1979.¹

     Charles Simeon Pierce was born in 1861.¹ He married Nellie Iglehart "Angie" Wood, daughter of Moses Gerrish Wood and Sarah Armstrong.¹ Charles Simeon Pierce died in 1930.¹

     Cyrus Pierce was born on 18 August 1793 in Chesterville, Maine.^3,4 He was the son of Simon Pierce and Hephzibah Wood.² Cyrus Pierce married Julia Sewall, daughter of Rev. Jotham Sewall and Jenney Sewall, on 7 January 1818.⁵ Cyrus Pierce died on 28 April 1851 in Chesterville, Maine, at the age of 57.⁶

     Elizabeth Slade Pierce was born on 22 March 1822 in Providence, Rhode Island. She married Courtland Philip Livingston Butler, son of Samuel Herrick Butler and Judith Livingston, on 16 December 1840 in Buffalo, Ohio.¹ Elizabeth Slade Pierce died on 1 March 1901 in Columbus, Ohio, at the age of 78.