William Phillips, Sr

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Member, National Consitutional Convention, member of both branches of legislature, father of Lt Gov William Phillips

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William Phillips, born in Andover, July 6, 1722, did not, like his brothers, receive a college education, but was apprenticed at an early age to Edward Bromfield, a prosperous Boston merchant. In 1744, following out the career mapped out by tradition for industrious apprentices, be married his employer's eldest daughter, and, being made a partner in the firm, soon acquired a fortune.

At different periods he was Representative from Boston in the General Court, a member of the Senate and of the Governor's Council, a delegate to the Convention for framing the State Constitution and to the Convention for ratifying the Constitution of the United States. He was one of the famous "Committee of Safety," chosen by the city of Boston, July 26, 1774, his associates being John and Samuel Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, Joseph Warren, and Josiah Quincy. He was one of the thirteen councillors. rejected by General Gage in 1774.

Throughout the Revolutionary days he was a conspicuous and devoted patriot; he acted, for instance, on the committee which demanded of Governor Hutchinson that the British tea should be returned to London docks; and he went in person to Governor Gage to protest against the latter's arbitrary measures. When the war actually broke out, he moved with his family to Norwich, Connecticut, where he occupied the house in which Benedict Arnold was born; but be returned later and made his residence permanently in Boston.