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Moses Phillips
Birth: 1-20-1775
Death: 1849
Alternate Surname: Philips
Biography
He is the son of Moses Phillips, a founding member of the town of Wallkill. His father was the son-in-law of Henry Wisner. Mentioned in 18490718BJS_SSS1 - "I have only time to say by a letter recd a day or two ago from Dr C. – I learn (it is not so exporped but I am quite sure) that Moses Philips is negotiating with Dr Jansen to affect a copartnership of these two doctors in a practice in Goshen"
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He is the son of Moses Phillips, a founding member of the town of Wallkill. His father was the son-in-law of Henry Wisner.
Mentioned in 18490718BJS_SSS1 - "I have only time to say by a letter recd a day or two ago from Dr C. – I learn (it is not so exporped but I am quite sure) that Moses Philips is negotiating with Dr Jansen to affect a copartnership of these two doctors in a practice in Goshen"
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Moses Phillips and Henry Wisner settled in the area on the Wallkill and by 1776 were engaged in the manufacture of gunpowder which they sold to the Continental Congress. Known as Hampton until 1806 the name of the settlement was changed to Phillipsburg due to the large number of families by that name descended from Moses Phillips, who married into the Wisner family and recieved the land as a portion of his wife's estate
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