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| | Miscellaneous Early Familiess, Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey |
 | | PHILLIPS FAMILY.— It appears that Philip Phillips, born Dec. 27, 1678, was the patriarch of the Phillips family of Lawrence and vicinity. |
 | | He was a son of Theophilus Phillips, and a grandson of a certain Ralph Hunt, of Newtown, L.I., and married Elizabeth, a daughter of the pioneer, "London" Ralph Hunt, The births of his children are thus recorded in the old town records of Maidenhead: "His daughter Hannah was born February 11th, 1702. |
 | | Some time after the Revolution Col. Phillips died in a stone house which stood on the site of the present residence of his grandson, James Gould Phillips, in Lawrenceville, opposite the churchyard, in an unmarked grave in which the remains of the old patriot are supposed to have found a resting-place. |
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