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From: Kathryn Bond <>
Subject: Re: PHILLIPS/NEWTON FAMILIES
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 17:36:29 -0700


Hiatt wrote:
>
> Dear Quaker-rooters,
>
> I am new to this list, so maybe this has been asked before. Did the
> early Quakers tend to live in communities that were predominantly Quaker?
> I ask because I have hit a roadblock with my gggrandfathers line and I am
> wondering if he might be of Quaker origins which would mean that the
> answers I seek would be in the church records.
>
> Rufus PHILLIPS married Matilda NEWTON, daughter of Gideon NEWTON and
> Sarah SUTLIFF, in 1850. In the 1850 census for Morgan County, Ohio, the
> families were living in the same community with my husband's Quaker
> ancestors, the Hiatts. One of the potential parents for Rufus lived next
> door to the Hiatts and Edgertons which were both Quaker families. Does
> anyone know if PHILLIPS and NEWTON are Quaker names?
>
> Thanks in Advance for any help.
>
> Elvina

I found nothing in Willard Heiss and Thomas Hamm's
Quaker_Genealogies:_A_Selected_List_of_Books (Boston: New England
Historic Genealogical Society, 1985) for the NEWTON surname but found
the following for PHILLIPS

PHILIPS, 844 -- WHITE. Your family, an informal account of the
ancestry of Allen Kirby White and Emma Chambers White, by Emma Chambers
White, Rutland, VT (1941?). 196 p.

PHILLIPS, 906 -- Early Friends of Upper Bucks, with some account of
their descendants... by Clarence V. Roberts, Philadelphia, 1925. x. 680
p.

Katie Bond
http://www.hevanet.com/bondk

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