1776 John Lott Phillips was sent as a minister to North Carolina. [1]
1781 John Lott Phillips and Mary Collyer were married on 2 January, recorded as "John Lott Phillips Batchelor of this parish and Mary Collyer Spinster of the same parish were Married in this Church by Banns this second Day of January in the Year One Thousand seven hundred and eighty one By me John Lloyd Curate. This Marriage was solemnized between us John Lott Phillips, Mary Collyer, In the Presence of Wm Sharpe James Singleton." [2]
1782 "George Lott Phillips son of the John Lott & Mary Phillips born 12 Feb 1782 Registered in St Pancras Parish" and registered again at St Mary Magdalene, East Hamm, Essex, England. [3]
1783 "Mary Daughter of the Rev'd John Lott & Mary Phillips born 17 Dec Xtined in this Church 1784," St Mary Magdalene, East Hamm, Essex, England. [4]
c 1783 John Lott Phillips was the chaplain for Tarleton's Light Dragoons. [5]
1787 "Charlotte Daughter of the Rev'd John Lott & Mary Phillips born 6 Feb Xtined 4 March" at St Mary Magdalene, East Hamm, Essex, England. [6]
1788 "John Henry son of the Rev'd John Lott & Mary Phillips born xnd Dec 4 1788" at St Mary Magdalene, East Hamm, Essex, England. [7]
1791 "Harriet Daughter of the Rev'd John Lott & Mary Phillips born Sept 8th 1791" at St Mary Magdalene, East Hamm, Essex, England. [8]
1793 "Thomas son of the Rev'd John Lott & Mary Phillips born Nov: 30 1793 Xted Jan 31 1794" at St Mary Magdalene, East Hamm, Essex, England. [9]
c 1793 John Lott Phillips was the chaplain for Tarleton's Light Dragoons. [10]
1799 "Emma Daughter of the Rev'd John Lott Phillips & Mary Phillips born September 15th Xtned Oct 22nd 1799" at St Mary Magdalene, East Hamm, Essex, England. [11]
1800 "John Henry Phillips son of The Rev'd John Lott & Mary Phillips died 17th May & buried 22nd 1800 aged 11 years & 6 months" at St Mary Magdalene, East Hamm, Essex, England. [12]
1802 "Burials continued … The Reverend John Lott Phillips, died January 20th 1802 nineteen years Curate of this Parish aged 55 years - Jany 24th" at St Mary Magdalene, East Hamm, Essex, England. [13]
1802 "The Rev. John Lott Phillips, curate, died in 1802, and the Rev. John Nedham succeeded him." [14]
1807 "Married. Mr. Benjamin Bu?t?, of the Hon. East India Company's Service, to Miss Phillips, daughter of the late Rev. John Lott Phillips, Rector of East Ham, Essex." [15]
1808 "Essex … Married … At West Ham, Mr. Lock Okey, to Charlotte, second daughter of the late Rev. John Lott Phillips, of East Ham." [16]
1820 "Married. On Saturday last [9 September], at Lambeth, Robert Hinrichs, fourth son of Samuel Richard Gunnell, Esq. of the House of Commons, to Harriet, third daughter of the late Rev. John Lott Phillips, of Hale, Hants, and of East Ham, Essex." [17] "Marriages. Sept. Robt. Hinrichs, son of Sam. R. Gunnell, esq. of the House of Commons, to Harriet, daughter of the late Rev. John Lott Phillips, of Hale." [18]
"John Lott Phillips, a clergyman of the Church of England, was a relative of William and Mary Lott Phillips of Maidenhead, New Jersey. He entered the freshman class of the College of New Jersey in 1770 and graduated in 1774. While at the College, he was a member of the Cliosophic Society. After graduation, Phillips lived at Wake County, North Carolina, on a 573 acre farm gifted to him from a relative in Princeton, Mrs. Pheve Warner. However, when his Loyalist tendencies were discovered, he had to abandon his property and escape to the [sic] where he tried to board a ship to England. He was found in Savannah, Georgia, and imprisoned for three months before he was released and deported to England. In 1776 he was ordained priest and then deacon in the Church of England at Fulham Palace, and a Chaplain under the command of Banastre Tarleton of the British Regiment of Light Dragoons." [19]
"John Lott Phillips, A.B., clergyman of the Church of England, was born in 1747 and entered the freshman class of the College in the autumn of 1770. His birthplace and parentage are obscure, but he was almost certainly a relative, if not the son, of William and Mary Lot Phillips of Maidenhead, New Jersey. On September 25, 1770, Phillips joined the Cliosophic Society, in which he was he was called 'Socrates,' after the Greek philosopher." [20]
Rev. John Lott Phillips "was born in Philadelphia and describes himself as the first graduate of the New Jersey College at Princeton (an error, as the College graduated men in 1748), where he took the degree of B. A. in 1774. He had intended to proceed to England for ordination for the ministry of the Church of England, but, instead, embarked for North Carolina, where he was "entitled to a living" at St. Margaret's Parish in Wake county, the gift of his relative, Mrs. Phebe Warner, of Princeton. His property there also included 573 acres of land, which he had hoped to settle, but the detection of his political principles caused him to escape with difficulty to the coast, leaving this property unsold. At length he obtained permission to sail for Charleston, but, finding no ship sailing for England, he was obliged to go to Savannah, where he suffered imprisonment as a Loyalist for three months. This clergyman arrived in England in May, 1776, without friends or money, and was relieved by the grant of £50 from the fund raised for the distressed American clergy. Later he was appointed to a curacy at East Ham and was married in England. A pension of £60 was granted to him from 1789 to 1801. His claim of £440 was disallowed for want of satisfactory proof of loss." [21]
[1] Marshall De Lancey Haywood, Lives of the bishops of North Carolina from the establishment of the episcopate in that state down to the division of the diocese. (1910), 21, [HathiTrust].
[2] London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Mary at Lambeth, Register of marriages, P85/MRY1, Item 390, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, image 1, [AncestryImage].
[3] East Ham, St Mary Magdalene, Register of Baptisms (1739-1802), Marriages (1739-1755) and Burials (1740-1802), D/P 156/1/2, Essex Record Office, image 52, [Essex Archives].
[4] East Ham, St Mary Magdalene, Register of Baptisms (1739-1802), Marriages (1739-1755) and Burials (1740-1802), D/P 156/1/2, Essex Record Office, image 38, [Essex Archives].
[5] A List of the officers of the Army : (with an alphabetical index) of the officers of the Royal Artillery, the Engineers, the Marine Forces : and of the officers on half-pay; : and a succession of colonels (London:1784), 308, [HathiTrust].
[6] East Ham, St Mary Magdalene, Register of Baptisms (1739-1802), Marriages (1739-1755) and Burials (1740-1802), D/P 156/1/2, Essex Record Office, image 39, [Essex Archives].
[7] East Ham, St Mary Magdalene, Register of Baptisms (1739-1802), Marriages (1739-1755) and Burials (1740-1802), D/P 156/1/2, Essex Record Office, image 39, [Essex Archives].
[8] East Ham, St Mary Magdalene, Register of Baptisms (1739-1802), Marriages (1739-1755) and Burials (1740-1802), D/P 156/1/2, Essex Record Office, image 40, [Essex Archives].
[9] East Ham, St Mary Magdalene, Register of Baptisms (1739-1802), Marriages (1739-1755) and Burials (1740-1802), D/P 156/1/2, Essex Record Office, image 41, [Essex Archives].
[10] A List of the officers of the Army : (with an alphabetical index) of the officers of the Royal Artillery, the Engineers, the Marine Forces : and of the officers on half-pay; : and a succession of colonels (London:1794), 363, [HathiTrust].
[11] East Ham, St Mary Magdalene, Register of Baptisms (1739-1802), Marriages (1739-1755) and Burials (1740-1802), D/P 156/1/2, Essex Record Office, image 43, [Essex Archives].
[12] East Ham, St Mary Magdalene, Register of Baptisms (1739-1802), Marriages (1739-1755) and Burials (1740-1802), D/P 156/1/2, Essex Record Office, image 49, [Essex Archives].
[13] East Ham, St Mary Magdalene, Register of Baptisms (1739-1802), Marriages (1739-1755) and Burials (1740-1802), D/P 156/1/2, Essex Record Office, image 53, [Essex Archives].
[14] Alfred Stokes, East Ham: from village to county borough, 3rd ed., (Wilson & Whitworth, 1933), 91, [GoogleBooks].
[15] Newspaper, Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, October 3, 1807; Issue 2840. 19th Century British Newspapers, Gale.
[16] Richard Phillips, John Abraham Heraud, Monthly Magazine and British Register, Vol. 25 (), 564, [GoogleBooks].
[17] Newspaper, The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Monday, September 11, 1820; Issue 16029, 19th century British Newspapers, Gale.
[18] The Gentleman's Magazine 128 (London: 1820), 273, right column, [GoogleBooks].
[19] John Lott Phillips Collection, 1776-1987, Gift of Rev. John Meakins Harte on January 29, 1997 (AM1997-73), Princeton University Library. Finding Aid (see http://findingaids.princeton.edu/pdf?id=ark:/88435/gq67jr25f): "The collection consists of selected material by and about John Lott Phillips. Included are two certificates of ordination (1776) as deacon and priest, both signed by Richard, Bishop of London, one containing his seal; a certificate (1782) of King George III, with his seal, appointing Phillips as chaplain to the British Regiment of Light Dragoons commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton; "A Memorial of the Misfortunes of Mr. Phillips an American Clergyman & First Graduate of New Jersey College" (1781?), which is an explanation of how he lost his land in North Carolina for being a Loyalist to the British Crown; and an 1802 document (with seal of) John the Archbishop of Canterbury, with his seal, appointing Phillips' wife Mary as administrator of her husband's estate. There are two letters from family members, including one from Phillips' son Edward W. to his mother telling her about his brother's death. In addition, there is correspondence (1921-1987) between members of Phillips' family including Mrs. A. E. Miles and the Rev. Joseph Meakins Harte, and librarians and others at Princeton University, the Princeton Club of Chicago, The Church Historical Society, and The Bishop of North America, trying to gather information about the life of Phillips."
[20] James McLachlan, Richard A. Harrison, Ruth L. Woodward, Wesley Frank Craven, J. Jefferson Looney, Princetonians: A Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 2 (Princeton University Press, 1976), 423, [GoogleBooks].
[21] E. Alfred Jones, The Loyalists of New Jersey: Their Memorials, Petitions, Claims, Etc. from English Records (), 172, citing "A. O. [Audit Office] 12:109; A. O. 13:111; A. 0. 13:124; A. O. 12:34, ff. 345-9; A. O. 12:99, f. 14; T. [Treasury] 50:11; A. O. 461:17.", [GoogleBooks].