Robert Phillips, of Calvert County

Not the son of Sir John Phillips, 1st Baronet of Picton Castle and Lady Anne Perot. Not the son of Margaret Crowe, who had no known children.

Family

Robert Phillips married Brigetta George at England.1 Robert Phillips was born circa 1590 at England.1 Robert Phillips died after 1612 at Calvert Co., Maryland, USA.1 EDV-9.

Child

1. Elizabeth Phillips+1,5 b. 1613, d. c 6 Feb 1673. Married Thomas Price.

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Member of Common Council, 1654, of Calvert Co. Maryland.

R. Phillips and Elizabeth Price wit., the will of John Wright of Calvert Co. in April 1688 Robert Phillips made a will naming Frances Price, son Edward as Exec. and residuary legatee of all Phillip's estate; on April 9, 1703 Thomas Price 2 came into court and made oath that Thomas Price Sr., now deceased, owed no one any money, at the time of his death; Thomas & Elizabeth had issue: Thomas B abt 1635 (120:78; 121:166; 206-27:79)

HER PARENTS: Robert Phillips of Calvert County, MD, who was a member of common Council 1694. Thomas was said to be member of Town Council of St. Marys.

Disputed Origins

Parents unknown. Not listed in Burke’s Peerage or The Complete Peerage. Ref: http://thepeerage.com/p635.htm#i6347; Collins Peerage; https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00027835&tree=LEO citing The Royal Lineage of Our Noble and Gentle Families, London, 1884, Foster, Joseph. Page 120

Also seen as son of Sir Richard Phillips

Robert PHILLIPS: Posted 19 Jun 2011 by nutherslatton

Robert PHILLIPS was born about 1580 in Heston, Holcombe Burnell, Devonshire. He died about 1650 in Calvert County (now Prince Georges), Maryland. A number of genealogists list Robert's father as Sir John Philipes. However, according to "Families of Picton" from the Picton Castle Trust, Sir John Philipps, the first baronet of Picton Castle, did not have a son named Robert.

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From http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/phillips/18101/

I, too, and seeking factual information about this couple.All I know is that Elizabeth Phillips was the daughter of Robert Phillips who made his will April 1688. I've seen as many fake pedigrees and wives for Robert as there are grains of sand on the shore, because everybody wants a pedigree like that of Phillips of Picton.
One whopper of a claim is descent from Marjory Dennis, daughter of Robert Dennis and Margaret Godolphin. But get a load of this.Google Books."A View of Devonshire in MDCXXX".Page 616. Paraphrase: Margaret, daughter of Robert Dennis and Margaret Godolphin, married a baronet by the name of Phillips. She died without heirs.

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https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/phillips/18102/

Amen, Rebecca.And the worst offender in this regard is a professional genealogist named Richard Ripley who sells a Phillips family CD.He attempts to tie every single Phillips in the USA and Canada into the aristocractic Philipps family of Picton Castle.This is despite the fact that DNA analysis has now identified 63 separate, unrelated Phillips families and another 100+ men named Phillips who do not match any other men named Phillips thus far.Mr. Ripley's explanation for this is the Philipps family was very bighearted and adopted a lot of children! As you say, the sooner people cut the BS, the sooner we will all find our real ancestors.

Nancy Kiser
Volunteer administrator
Phillips DNA Project
www.phillipsdnaproject.com

“Online sites say Marjory Dennis was his mother, but Dale C. Rice says DNA proves Ann Perrot was Robert's birth mother.” But this is nonsense. Neither Margaret Dennis nor Anne Perrot had a son Robert with Sir John, and it’s too long ago for DNA.

Notes

History | Calvert County Tourism, MD - Official Website

https://www.choosecalvert.com/195/History Founding & Early History. Calvert County was founded on July 3, 1654, though the first colonists came to the county soon after the arrival of the ships Ark and Dove in 1634. Only three counties in the state are older: St. Mary's was founded in 1637, Kent in 1637 and Anne Arundel in 1650

Calvert County, MD - Official Website - History of Calvert County www.co.cal.md.us/index.aspx?NID=214 The first English settlement in Southern Maryland dates to somewhere between 1637 and 1642, although the county was actually organized in 1654. Established by Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, English gentry were the first settlers, followed by Puritans, Huguenots, Quakers, and Scots.

634 The settlement of Maryland The first colonists to Maryland arrive at St. Clement’s Island on Maryland’s western shore and found the settlement of St. Mary’s.

In 1632, King Charles I of England granted a charter to George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, yielding him proprietary rights to a region east of the Potomac River in exchange for a share of the income derived from the land. The territory was named Maryland in honor of Henrietta Maria, the queen consort of Charles I. Before settlement began, George Calvert died and was succeeded by his son Cecilius, who sought to establish Maryland as a haven for Roman Catholics persecuted in England. In March 1634, the first English settlers–a carefully selected group of Catholics and Protestants–arrived at St. Clement’s Island aboard the Ark and the Dove.

Religious conflict was strong in ensuing years as the American Puritans, growing more numerous in Maryland and supported by Puritans in England, set out to revoke the religious freedoms guaranteed in the founding of the colony. In 1649, Maryland Governor William Stone responded by passing an act ensuring religious liberty and justice to all who believed in Jesus Christ. In 1654, however, the so-called Toleration Act was repealed after Puritans seized control of the colony, leading to a brief civil war that ended with Lord Baltimore losing control of propriety rights over Maryland in March 1655.

Although the Calverts later regained control of Maryland, anti-Catholic activity persisted until the 19th century, when many Catholic immigrants to America chose Baltimore as their home and helped enact laws to protect their free practice of religion.

Citation Information Article Title The settlement of Maryland

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References

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K631-2JF
• Robert Phillips in “Settlers by the Long Grey Trail: Chapter 23: Around and About the Old Country and Elsewhere.” p 500. < AncestryImage >
• https://www.acvancestors.com/g1/p1521.htm#i45608
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33482635/elizabeth-price
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/1339460/person/-19...
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/118853791/person/3...
• https://phillipsdnaproject.com/