I represent Elizabeth Phillips. I was the wife of Giles Phillips of Ipswich, Suffolk, England. We came to Pensacola in 1764 to settle in West Florida. We were in Pensacola while Giles petitioned for a grant of land – a whopping 10,000 acres in the province. Giles died on August 9, 1765, very soon after we arrived. (His death announcement appeared in The Pennsylvania Journal & Weekly Advertiser, 24 OCT 1765.) Not only did I lose him, but the ship in which most of our household goods were packed was cast away en route to West Florida. In his will, he noted that he was due those 10,000 acres and left them to me. I went back to the provincial council in Pensacola to petition to have the grant transferred to my name, but the Earl of Dartmouth had to intervene before my right to the grant was recognized.
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