AUGUSTINE WASHINGTON PHILLIPS ~ 1823 - ?
Husband of Maria Nutting
Son of  Elijah S. Phillips and Fanny Rude
Great Grandson of Philip Phillips and Mercy Phillips

Son of Elijah S. Phillips and Fanny Rude
Source: Don Messer's narrative report by Ethel Cranson Smith

Augustine & Lydia's father died in 1847, an older brother inherited the Phillips property.

Elijah S. Phillips Jr owned a blacksmith shop in Buckland Upper City, having moved  from Ashfield.  He and Fanny Rude raised a family of ten children..."when Grandfather Elijah was 64 years old he was stricken with a severe nasal hemorrhage.  When Lydia went to see her father, he looked up and said  jokingly, "Bleedin' to death, Lyd".  Sure enough in a few days he was gone."

       Augustine was probably working on Joshua Cranson's farm, although from Ethel Cranson Smith's narrative, old Joshua sounded like a grumpy old "pinch-penny", and spent most of his time fox & coon hunting.  She says, " Joshua was never known for his love of work, but when he was a young lad he liked to wrestle and was pretty good at it.  In the summer, until he has 21,  Harlan Cranson was hired out by his father Joshua to other farmers, and Joshua kept all the pay (which he was entitled to do, by law).

Augustine Phillips got his room & board, and not much else. Augustine was probably working on Joshua Cranson's farm. He was actually counted in Forrest Cranson's household (Joshua's father).  Besides farming, Forrest was a woodworker, making such things as ax handles and  wheelbarrows. Forrest was injured in the War of 1812, and was quite lame.  Ethel Cranson Smith said rocking chairs made him dizzy, so the rockers were cut off the chairs.

Josh & Liddy started keeping house up on the old Brackett lot, in Buckland Upper City, where their first child was born.  But Joshua (barely 20) took down the house and moved it onto the bank of the Clesson's River, where he also operated a "turning shop" for making broom handles.

So besides farming, Augustine Phillips might have been doing woodworking for Forrest, or with Joshua.

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