Phipps, John - Major

MAJOR JOHN PHIPPS, third son of John Phipps, was born on the old homestead in 1806. He was a justice of the peace for several years, and also a public auctioneer. Major Phipps married Barbara Hoffman, who bore him a family of twelve children, of whom John died at the age of twenty-seven; David married Isabella Mitchell; Catharine married Joseph Martin; Philip died in childhood; Nancy became the wife of John Wareham; Van Buren married Emily Carnes; Sarah was twice married, first to Peter Walters, who was killed in the Rebellion, and then to A. Sopher; Joseph died in childhood; Chost died aged twenty-seven; A. Jackson married Annie McKean; Barbara died in childhood, and Christina married Henry Beatty. Major Phipps died in 1876, aged seventy.