Name Philip DEWEES
Birth abt 1724, Germantown, Philidelphia, Pennsylvania
Death Dec 1778, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Father William DEWEES (1680-1745)
Mother Anna Christina MEELS (~1690-1749)
Unmarried
Notes for Philip DEWEES
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Philip Dewees, youngest son of William Dewees, paper maker, was not of age when his father died. Whom he married is not known. About 1763 he took out a warrant for a tract of land in Mount Bethel township, Northampton county, Pa. Soon after he removed to Charleston, S. C., where some of his descendants now live. Others are scattered throughout the Southern States, but no definite record can be obtained (This was actually Phillip's Brother Cornelius who did this). He became the owner of an island off the coast of South Carolina which bore the name of Dewees island. He furnished the Palmetto logs for the construction of Fort Moultrie, in Charleston Harbor during the Revolution. Pennsylvania Records show that Philip Dewees had in 1769 been gone some years to Carolina, and the tract of land in Mount Bethel for which he had obtained a warrant, but never paid any money, was reassigned to Abraham Lewar and a patent granted to him. Some litigation followed on the part of those who claimed to have bought from Philip Dewees, but the result is not on record. Philip d. 1778. Children: Andrew, William, John. married Elizabeth.
Birth abt 1724, Germantown, Philidelphia, Pennsylvania
Death Dec 1778, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Father William DEWEES (1680-1745)
Mother Anna Christina MEELS (~1690-1749)
Unmarried
Notes for Philip DEWEES
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Philip Dewees, youngest son of William Dewees, paper maker, was not of age when his father died. Whom he married is not known. About 1763 he took out a warrant for a tract of land in Mount Bethel township, Northampton county, Pa. Soon after he removed to Charleston, S. C., where some of his descendants now live. Others are scattered throughout the Southern States, but no definite record can be obtained (This was actually Phillip's Brother Cornelius who did this). He became the owner of an island off the coast of South Carolina which bore the name of Dewees island. He furnished the Palmetto logs for the construction of Fort Moultrie, in Charleston Harbor during the Revolution. Pennsylvania Records show that Philip Dewees had in 1769 been gone some years to Carolina, and the tract of land in Mount Bethel for which he had obtained a warrant, but never paid any money, was reassigned to Abraham Lewar and a patent granted to him. Some litigation followed on the part of those who claimed to have bought from Philip Dewees, but the result is not on record. Philip d. 1778. Children: Andrew, William, John. married Elizabeth.
Name Philip DEWEES
Birth abt 1724, Germantown, Philidelphia, Pennsylvania
Death Dec 1778, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Father William DEWEES (1680-1745)
Mother Anna Christina MEELS (~1690-1749)
Unmarried
Notes for Philip DEWEES
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Philip Dewees, youngest son of William Dewees, paper maker, was not of age when his father died. Whom he married is not known. About 1763 he took out a warrant for a tract of land in Mount Bethel township, Northampton county, Pa. Soon after he removed to Charleston, S. C., where some of his descendants now live. Others are scattered throughout the Southern States, but no definite record can be obtained (This was actually Phillip's Brother Cornelius who did this). He became the owner of an island off the coast of South Carolina which bore the name of Dewees island. He furnished the Palmetto logs for the construction of Fort Moultrie, in Charleston Harbor during the Revolution. Pennsylvania Records show that Philip Dewees had in 1769 been gone some years to Carolina, and the tract of land in Mount Bethel for which he had obtained a warrant, but never paid any money, was reassigned to Abraham Lewar and a patent granted to him. Some litigation followed on the part of those who claimed to have bought from Philip Dewees, but the result is not on record. Philip d. 1778. Children: Andrew, William, John. married Elizabeth.
Birth abt 1724, Germantown, Philidelphia, Pennsylvania
Death Dec 1778, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Father William DEWEES (1680-1745)
Mother Anna Christina MEELS (~1690-1749)
Unmarried
Notes for Philip DEWEES
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Philip Dewees, youngest son of William Dewees, paper maker, was not of age when his father died. Whom he married is not known. About 1763 he took out a warrant for a tract of land in Mount Bethel township, Northampton county, Pa. Soon after he removed to Charleston, S. C., where some of his descendants now live. Others are scattered throughout the Southern States, but no definite record can be obtained (This was actually Phillip's Brother Cornelius who did this). He became the owner of an island off the coast of South Carolina which bore the name of Dewees island. He furnished the Palmetto logs for the construction of Fort Moultrie, in Charleston Harbor during the Revolution. Pennsylvania Records show that Philip Dewees had in 1769 been gone some years to Carolina, and the tract of land in Mount Bethel for which he had obtained a warrant, but never paid any money, was reassigned to Abraham Lewar and a patent granted to him. Some litigation followed on the part of those who claimed to have bought from Philip Dewees, but the result is not on record. Philip d. 1778. Children: Andrew, William, John. married Elizabeth.
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