Excerpt from The Ancestors and Descendants of John Phipps, of Sherborn, 1757-1847: Abridged From the Phipps Genealogy Our ancestor, James Phips, Cotton Mather tells us, came from Bristol, England to New England twenty years after the Mayflower. It is now more carefully stated that James Phips is found settled as a ship-wright near the mouth of the Kennebec River, a little before 1650. But the fact which interests us for the moment is that he came from Bristol, England. He was an Eng lishman. Although we have not been able to trace back his English ancestry, we do possess some information of a Phipps family near Bristol, England - to which family James Phips, our ancestor, was undoubtedly very closely related. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Descendants of Joseph Phipps, Sr. (b. ca. 1730) whose family settled in Orange and Guilford Counties, North Carolina. The family can be traced back to Somersetshire and Tankersley, Yorkshire. Descendants later settled in Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and California.

Papers include transcripts of correspondence of the Phipps family, 1856-1918. Life as a soldier during the Civil War is presented as well as the history of the Phipps family.