Asaph Phillips

1764 - 1829  (65 years)

• Name	Asaph Phillips  [1]
  Alternate birth	1759  [2]
  Birth	4 Jul 1764	Foster, Providence, Rhode Island   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Jul 1829	Foster, Providence, Rhode Island   [1, 3, 4]
  Burial	Cole-Phillips Lot, Foster, Providence, Rhode Island   [5]
  Person ID	I43533	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	James Phillips
  Family ID	F25436	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Esther Whipple,   b. 2 Apr 1767, Foster, Providence, Rhode Island d. 16 Jul 1848 (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	16 Aug 1787	Foster, Providence, Rhode Island   [6]
  Children	+ 1. Jeremiah Phillips,   b. 29 Jan 1800, Foster, Providence, Rhode Island d. 20 Nov 1848, Foster, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F25435	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He is recorded as the son of a James Phillips, but we find no evidence that, as claimed on Wikitree, he was a son of the James Phillips who was born 14 Nov 1727 at Middletown, Rhode Island and who married there, 19 Mar 1752, Alice Brown, born there 20 Jun 1737. Jane Fletcher Fiske's "A Family Discovered for William and Christiana (Barker) Phillips of Newport, Rhode Island" (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 143:221, 1989) sets forth all known records of that couple and their children, and not only is no Asaph mentioned, but also that couple had no known association with the town of Foster where this Asaph Phillips was born.

  
  

• Sources

  [S481] Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850: First Series, Births, Marriages, and Deaths by James N. Arnold. Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1891-1912. [S8626] Rathbone Genealogy by John C. Cooley. Syracuse, New York, 1898. [S8637] Find a Grave page for Asaph Phillips., date only. [S8626] Rathbone Genealogy by John C. Cooley. Syracuse, New York, 1898., year only. [S8637] Find a Grave page for Asaph Phillips. [S8635] Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916, on familysearch.org.