He left two sons, the younger of whom, George (1664-1739, Harvard 1686),
became an eminent clergyman, the Rev. George Phillips, first of Jamaica,
L.I., and afterwards of Brookhaven. The elder son, Samuel, chose the
occupation of a goldsmith, and settled in Salem. It is from this Samuel
of Salem that the two Boston branches of the Phillips family have
descended.

A younger son of Samuel, the Hon. John Phillips, was born June 22,
1701. He became a successful merchant of Boston, was a deacon of
Brattle-street Church, a colonel of the Boston Regiment, a justice of
the peace and of the quorum, and a representative of Boston for several
years in the General Court. He married, in 1723, Mary Buttolph, a
daughter of Nicholas Buttolph of Boston. She died in 1742; and he next
married, Abigail Webb, a daughter of Rev. Mr. Webb of Fairfield, Conn.
He died April 19, 1768, and was buried with military honors. According
to the records, he was "a man much devoted to works of benevolence."

His son, William Phillips of Boston, was born Aug. 29, 1737, and died
June 4, 1772. In 1761 he married Margaret Wendell, the eleventh and
youngest child of the Hon. Jacob Wendell, a merchant, and one of the
Governor's Council. His widow died in 1823.

JOHN PHILLIPS, the only son of William and Margaret, was born in Boston
on the ancient Phillips place, on the 26th of November, 1770. His mother
was a woman of uncommon energy of mind as well as of ardent piety, and
early instilled into the heart of her son the principles of religion and
a love of learning and of his native land. She placed him, at the early
age of seven years, in the family of his kinsman, Lieut.-Gov. Samuel
Phillips of Andover, where he remained until he entered Harvard College