Richard H. Phillips

Name

Richard H. Phillips

Alternate Names

R. Phillips
Dick Phillips
Dirk Phillips

Race

White

Location

Roanoke County, VA

Record(s) Seen In

Will Book 1-1: 1839-1885

Common Law Orders - F - December 1864 - September 1868

Cohabitation Records of 1866

Freedmen's Bureau Census - Roanoke County

Page and Line Number

CLF: PP. 169
CC: PP. 7, L. 2
FB: PP. 311, 328

Date(s) Seen in Records

Will Book 1: February 1862
FB: 1866

People Enslaved

George

Bill

Adaline

Elins

Gradi

Patience

Judy

Poll

Masy Mallaker

George Mallaker

Charles Mallaker

Mary Qualls

Charles Malaga

Additional Information

Sam Phillips bequeathed some of the enslaved people listed above to Richard H. Phillips.

Samuel Phillips Senior

In Common Law Book F, it is stated that Richard H. Phillips would teach W. Alexander, an apprentice, until he was 21 years old to learn farming, reading, writing, and arithmetic in the process. He was to be provided with clothing as well as given a suit at the end of his apprenticeship. The record does not specify if Phillips was Alexander's enslaver or if Alexander was a free boy.

W. Alexander