1821; From Thompson, Windham
Co., Connecticut to Oppenhiem, Montgomery (now Fulton) Co., New York with
family. (Madison Co. Biographical Review)
September 6, 1832; "This indenture made the sixth day of September
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Between
James Johnson Jr. of the town of Oppenheim in the County of Montgomery
and State of New York of the first part and Shuler C. Higbie and Abi A.
Phipps of the place aforesaid of the second part, Witnesseth that the said
party of the first part, for and in consideration of the Sum of seven hundred
& fifty dollars to him in hand paid by the said parties of the second
part the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged hath bargained
sold released and Quit Claimed and by these doth bargain, sell, release,
and Quit Claim unto the said parties of the second part, in their actual
possession now being and to their heirs and assigns forever All of the
equal undivided half of ____ of that certain lot piece or parcel being
within the Limits and bounds of a certain tract of land granted by
Settlers Patent to Sarah Magin and others the 3rd March 1761 and is known
and distinguished in said tract by lot number three being a subdivision
of the large lot number forty five and begins at the North West corner
of lot number two of said subdivision and runs from thence along the East
bounds of the aforesaid lot number two of said subdivision South thirty
two degrees West fifty two chains and twenty five links to the South bounds
of said larger lot, number forty five thence along the same North fifty
eight degrees West twenty five chains then North thirty two degress East
fifty two chains and twenty five links, then South fifty eight degrees
East twenty five chains to the place of beginning. Containing one
hundrend and thirty acres two roads and twenty pieces of land strict measure.
Also the equal undivided half or ___ of the westerly equal half of lot
No. two of the large lot No. 45, in said Sarah Magins Patent bounded as
follows Beginning at the North East corner of No. three of No. forty five
thence South fifty eight degrees East twelve chains and fifty eight links
thence South thirty two degrees West fifty two chains and twenty five links
to the South bounds of the number forty five, thence north fifty eight
degrees West twelve chains and fifty links thence to the place of beginning
estimated to contain sixty five and a half acres of land. Together
with all and singular hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging
or in any wise appertaining and the reverse and reversions remainder and
remainders, rents, ____ and profits thereof and all the estate right or
equity of in and to the above bargained premises with the hereditaments
and appurtenances. In witness whereof the said party of the first
part hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first herein
written. James Johnson Jr. Sealed and delivered in presence
of John Mosher State of New York, Montgomery County. I, Josiah O.
Brown one of the Commissioners of said County to take the Acknowledgements
of Deeds __ Do certify that on the 7th day of September 1832 personally
appeared before me James Johnson Jr. known to me to be the same person
who executed the written deed and he did acknowledge to me that he had
executed the same, I do allow the same to be recorded. Josiah O.
Brown
Recorded 12th September 1832
at 4 O'Clock P.M.
George D. Ferguson Clerk"
(Fulton Co. Deeds book 10 page
336)
1840; Fulton Co., N.Y. census - Oppenheim; 100001000000010001 (the rest zeros) engaged in agriculture. Next door to father in law and a Guile on other side.
April 11, 1840; Abi and wife Lydia purchased from Alvin Blair
and wife Venera, for the price of $1,000.00 , approximately 50 acres of
land - the west half of the north 2/3 of Lot #93 in the town of Nelson,
along with all the buildings etc. on said lot. (deeds) April
25, 1846 ; purchased more land adjacent to the above lot with brother
David H. Phipps, from John H. Brown (David's father-in-law?) for a price
of $1840.00. Described as the 1/3 east of Lot #93, 50 acres and all
buildings there situated. (brother David had purchased adjoining
lot on April 11, 1840 from John H. Brown and wife.) (deeds)
1850 Census of town of Eaton,
Madison Co., New York shows;
Abi Phipps (looks like Alice
Phipps and is recorded that way in index), age 40, farmer, born Connecticut
Lydia Phipps, age 39, born New
York
Isacch H. Phipps, age 13, born
New York
Ann E. Phipps, age 11, born
New York
March 4, 1851; Abi purchased from brother David H. Phipps for
$500.00, the mid-divided 1/2 of south 1/3 part of Lot #93. This portion
had previously been mortgaged to Anne Payne and contained approx. 50 acres.
(deeds)
abt 1851; lived Eaton, New York
one year. (interview with Abi for "History of Chenango and Madison
Counties")
May 19, 1852; Abi and wife Lydia sold to John C. Davis of Nelson,
N.Y., for the sum of $2400.00, the above mentioned parcels of Lot #93.
( the mid-divided1/2 of the south 1/3 part of Lot #93, the west 1/2 of
the north 2/3 of Lot # 93 in the town of Nelson.) 100 acres total.
At this time Abi had a mortgage of $1800.00 to David Hamilton of Nelson,
N.Y.. (deeds) Moved to Smithfield and purchased a farm originally
known as the Proy farm, living there 16 years. (History of Chenango
and Madison Counties)
Abi and Lydia's Peterboro property
March 3, 1856; purchased Lot #14 cemetery plot in Peterboro Cemetary, Peterboro, Madison Co., N.Y., for $6.00 from Gerrit Smith. (cemetery deed)
1860; Census of town of
Smithfield, Madison Co., New York shows;
Abi A. Phipps, age 50, farmer
with $6300.00 real property, $1144.00 personal property, born Connecticut.
April 1860; Voted to Executive committee of 5 for Smithfield Republican Club at the 1st meeting held at the Fay house on Saturday eve, March 24th, 1860. Others present were A.C. Stone, Jesse Watson, William A. Stone, Charles Cutler, John N. Woodbury, Joseph E. Morgan, Jeremiah Eisaman, Austin A. Moore, Anzi S. Hungerford, etc. Purpose was to promote causes of Republican party and officials.
September 1, 1862; Abi issued a license to carry on a wholesale business in the town of Canastota, Madison Co., N.Y.. $50.00 licensing fee. (business license)
December 24, 1866, Clockville, Madison Co., N.Y.; Abi Phipps of Peterboro,
Madison Co., N.Y., entered into a purchase agreement with H.H. Hathaway
and wife Nancy, to buy a house and lot of 1 1/2 acre for $2,1050.00, located
in Clockville, Madison Co., N.Y.. This was part of Lot # 11 of the
Oneida Purchase of 1802, east of the 2 mile strip. (then town of
Lenox, now town of Lincoln.) (This property 10/1/1852 purchased by
Ralph May from Silas Spaulding for $300.00; sold 5/6/1858 to Robert C.
Ellis of Clyde, N.Y. for $750.00; to Nicholas N. Kilts 1859; sold 3/22/1860
to Rachel Thompson for $700.00; 3/16/1863 sold to H.H. Hathaway for $700.00;
3/26/1867; sold to Abi A. Phipps. Hathaway had rebuilt house.)
(deeds) This property went to the widow at his death and then the
son Alton at her death. On Alton's death, his sister remained in the house
until the 1960's when she could no longer maintain it. The house
was sold to Louis Benishek and later to Russell Thomas. (History
and Pictures of Houses in Clockville)
April 1,1867; took possession
of above property. Transfer recorded May 10, 1867. (deeds)
Home of Abi Phipps, Clockville, NY -
later home of his son Alton's family, and his daughter
Alice Phipps
July 25, 1867; purchased by Abi and wife Diana Hess Phipps, from
Alexander O. and Scott Johnston in the town of Smithfield, Madison Co.,
N.Y., Lot # 31 in the 2nd allotment of the New Petersburgh Tract 139 acres
for the price of $10,000.00. (deeds)
1870; Census of Clockville,
Madison Co., New York shows;
Abi A. Phipps, age 60, farmer
with $6000.00 real property, born Massachusetts
Diana, age 48, housekeeper,
born New York
April 21, 1870; Abi purchased from John M. White and his wife
for the price of $3,000.00, a lot adjoining his lot in Clockville of 1
1/2 acres above mentioned. The lot was described as Lot # 6 in the
Oneida Purchase of 1802, east of the 2 mile strip in the town of Lenox
(now Lincoln), being 18 48/100 acres, and also part of Lot # 5 in the Oneida
Purchase of 1802 - this being a piece of land heretofore deeded by Reuben
Parkhill and wife to John T. Parkhill - about 4 acres. (deeds)
(Abi sold this property to Charles Kinney in 1876 and to James Preece later.
It then was owned by Michael Rossoley, Joseph Robinson, John Petrie, Laverne
Parkhurst, William Lockerby, Robert Holmes.) (History and Pictures
of Houses of Clockville)
1875; purchased lot adjoining above properties in the town of Lenox,
from Harry and Malinda Simons, for the price of $1450.00. This was
part of Lot # 11 in the 1802 Oneida Purchase of 1802 east of the 2 mile
strip, 5 81/100 acres of land. (originally conveyed 5/29/1853 from
Silas Spaulding to Harry Simons for $850.00) (deeds)
April 24, 1876; Abi and Diana sold to Charles Keeney of Clockville,
Madison Co., N.Y., the parts of Lot # 5 and 6 in the 1802 Oneida Purchase
that had been purchased from John M. White in 1870. (deeds)
November 11, 1876; purchased property in Smithfield from James G.
Messinger and his wife Ann Elizabeth Phipps Messinger (daughter of Abi
and Lydia Kibbe), for $4,000.00. This property was located south
of Peterboro, part of Lots # 26 and 33 in the New Petersburgh Tract, covering
50 acres more or less, intending to cover all the land conveyed by Milton
L Dennison and wife to James G. Messinger on June 2, 1873. This same
property was returned into the hands of James G. Messinger on March 22,
1877 for the original purchase price of $4,000.00. (deeds)
1879; Phipps, A. A., Stockholder of the Farmers Bank of Fayetteville appears on Manlius NY tax roll.
1880; Census of Clockville,
Madison Co., New York shows;
Abi A. Phipps, age 70, farmer,
born Connecticut
Diana, age 57, born New York
Harriet Covey, age 69, boarder,
born New York
December 28, 1881; Married Gena in his Clockville house. (Family papers)
April 14,1884; Abi and wife M. Gena Parkhill Phipps, sold to George
C. Way of Clockville, Madison Co, N.Y., part of Lot # 44 of the 1802 Oneida
Purchase east of the 2 mile strip in the town of Lenox for $375.00 - 2
acres. This was sold on mortgage foreclosure and filed Feb. 15 1881.
(deeds)
March 20, 1893; Abi purchased from wife M. Gena Parkhill Phipps for
the sum of $350.00, in the town of Lenox, part of Lot # 6 of the tract
of land lying east of the 2 mile strip on the south side of the late Senecca
Turnpike and bordered north by the turnpike, south by the road leading
from Quality Hill by the late Nathaniel Hall residence, and east by the
premises formerly owned by the deceased John Miles, opposite public
square in said Quality Hill near Sylvester Beecher's lot. This being
the same property conveyed by Ziba Cloyes to Gardner Smith on 4/6/1850.
This property covered 1 32/100 acres. On Abi's death this property
reverted to M. Gena again, and on August 8, 1901 she sold the property
for $450.00 to Patton and Stafford Co. They retained the property
until August 31, 1906 when it passed into the hands of William H. Morris.
Milton Delano acted as receiver for Patton and Stafford Co. (Patten
and Stafford started in 1882 to make wheel rakes in Clockville taking over
the manufacturing business of Joseph L. Mansfield in a building that had
formerly housed a woolen factory 40 years earlier. Patten and Stafford
moved the business to Canastota on purchasing this property.)
In 1910 this property was the Tuttle Motor Co.. (Madison Co. Deeds)
February 20, 1895; wrote last will and testament. (Madison Co. wills)
Personal Inventory at death
1 parlor stove and 2 cookstoves
family bible, pictures; Betsy
Cloyes Phipps, Mr. Wordsworth, Board of Supervisors, Grant, Lincoln, Mr.
Cloyes and wife, 2 of Mr. Phipps residence, Mrs. Phipps, Ira and daughter,
Dr. Chapin.
school books in use by children,
Biographical History of Madison Co., 20 volumes Sept. Rep. _____, 2 volumes
Greeley's _____ Hist., County _____ 1776 - 1876, Historic Chenango and
Madison Co., Life of Abe Lincoln, Peoples Book of Biog. Pen Code, 5 volumes
Biblical Review, 3 manuals, old books, 2 albums of photos.
1 cow, pork in cellar, 1 featherbed,
10 sheets, 8 pr. pillowcases, 1 bedstead, cooking utensils, _____ of family,
1 table, 2 office chairs, 1 rocker, 3 flag leaf chairs, plates, 3 cups,
9 saucers, teapot, 7 spoons, 1 smoking _____.
These were all left to Gena
for widows rights.
Other:
hat rack
$.10
wash ____
$.10
oil can
$5.00
2 pails
$.25
2 pr. glasses
$.05
carpet
$2.00
clothes horse
$.25
1 old chair
$.20
cupboard
$.10
childrens desk
$1.50
wardrobe
$2.00
oil cloth
$.75
footrest
$.25
3 stuffed birds
$1.00
2 pair muslin curtains
$.50
safe
$40.00
Abi's clothes
$4.00
______
$.10
2 small chairs
$.50
5 window shades
$1.10
stand
$.50
cot bed and spread
$1.00
plow
$.75
11 hens
$4.40
10 Rus__ ___
$1.50
2 crowbars
$.50
5 chairs
$.75
old harness
$.50
chest of tools
$1.00
old scythe and ______
$.25
collin
$1.50
botts
$4.50
1 old carriage
$5.00
lumber wagon
$25.00
Dray
$.25
ladder
$.10
old kettle
$.10
horse
$35.00
National State Bank stock
$2812.50
Bank of Oneida stock
$1400.00
Debts:
note held by National State
Bank
$625.40
note held by D. H. Phipps
$101.74
account with Lena Parkell
$38.00
8/21/1897; J.H. McM. funeral,
desc., ex., for casket
$65.00
account with Rhoda Champney
(dated 11/13/1895)
$13.26
account with (grandson) Dr.
M.P. Messinger
$100.60
account with Dr. William Taylor
$33.75
grave digger
$3.00
interest on note at bank
$36.00
Mr. Benjamin for coal
$1.00
Daughter Elizabeth
Messinger contested the will saying;
1. Father not of sound
mind when will made.
2. Gena coerced Abi into
making the will in her favor.
Schedule E
The following claims have not
been settled and will be presented to the Surrogate upon the accounting
for him to pay upon.
Claim of M. Gena Phipps for
moneys advanced to pay
sundry debts of deceased
$30.34
Claim of James G. Messinger
for numerous produce
furnished deceased & for
use of horse
$49.00
The sum of $150 to which the
widow is entitled under the statute
her not being paid
Clockville Jan. 6th 1897
Agreement made this day between
Gena Phipps of Clockville N.Y. and James G. Messinger of Smithfield who
are executors of the will of A. A. Phipps in relation to two certain bills
to be presented to Surrogate that is to say M. Messinger bill of $49.00
is converted to be presented and allowed to the amount of twelve dollars.
$12.00
The bill of M. Gena Phipps of
the ____ ___ and which ____ sent is _______
to be ____ and allowed at thirty
dollars and 34/100
$30.34
Signed in presents
M. Gena Phipps
of H. H. Hathaway
J. G. Messinger Executors
"Surrogate's Court: Madison County
In the Matter of the Alleged
Will
of
Abi A. Phipps, Deceased.
The undersigned, Elizabeth Messenger, one of the next of kin of the said
decedent, hereby contests the validity of the disposition of the Real and
Personal Estate of the said decedent, of which he died seized and possessed,
containing ______certain paper wirting, bearing date the 20th day of _____
1895, and puported to be his last Will and Testament, ___ted to and now
before this Court for probate, as a Will of Real and Personal Estate and
for answer to the Petition of Gena Phipps for the probate of said will,
she avers, upon information and belief, as follows:
1st. - That said paper is not
the last Will of said decedent and that the alleged execution thereof,
was not his free unconstrained or voluntary act.
2nd. - That neither at the time
said paper purported to have been executed, or at any time when it was
executed (if so executed) was he of sound mind, memory and understanding.
3rd. - That said decedent was
unduly influenced in the alleged execution of said purported Will by Gena
Phipps, one of the legatees named in said Will and if said decedent executed
said will, he did so while he was under the undue influence exerted upon
him by said Gena Phipps, and did not execute the same as his own free,
unconstrained or voluntary act.
Wherefore, the above named, Elizabeth Messenger, contestant, prays that
probate of said Will may be denied and the proceedings be dismissed with
cost.
Joseph D. S______
Contestant's Attorney."
(Madison County Probate Records)
Estate of A. A. Phipps
To M. Gena Phipps for
1896. Money paid to
Sept 29. F. M. Benjamin
for coal bought by A. A. Phipps
for the winter of 1895 &
1896
$4.50
Oct. 6th To the Syracuse
Semi - Weekly standard subscription
from Nov. 17th 1894 to Nov.
17 1896
2.00
Oct. 28 D. F. Tuttle for two
pigs bought by A. A. Phipps May
13th 1896
4.00
Nov. 12th F. P. Clow
.65
Nov. 24th A. Watson Collector
of School Tax
3.80
Dec. 29th Irving Tuttle
Collector for the town of Lincoln for 1896
12.72
Dec. 30th Clinton V. Parkhurst
Collector for the town of Lenox for 1896 3.88
1897 April 14th H. L.
Rockwell for insurance on house at Clockville
12.00
June 25 Mrs. W. M. Kelsey
for strawberries bought by A. A. Phipps
in 1896
.78
______
$42.34
Clockville Aug. 16th 1897
Estate of A. A. Phipps
To Lena Parkell for work
1896 Jan. 21 To 1 week
2.00
June 2 to 1 week
2.00
June 9 to 1 week
2.00
June 16 to 1 week
2.00
June 20 to 1 week
2.00
June 30 to 1 week
2.00
July 7 to 1 week
2.00
July 14 to 1 week
2.00
July 21 to 1 week
2.00
July 28 to 1 week
2.00
August 4 to 1 week
2.00
August 11 to 1 week
2.00
August 18 to 1 week
2.00
August 25 to 1 week
2.00
Sept. 1 to 1 week
2.00
Sept. 8 to 1 week
2.00
Sept. 22 to 1 week
2.00
Sept 29 to 1 week
2.00
1896 July 16 by cash for flour
& groceries
2.00
_______
Canastota July 1st 1897
38.00
"In the Matter of the Judicial
Settlement of the Estate of Abi A. Phipps deceased
A summary statement of the annexed
and foregoing account, made by the Surrogate, on the 25th day of February
1899
The Executors are charged as
follows:
To amount of inventory,
$2500.00
To amount of increase thereon,
$312.50
To amount from all other sources,
________
Total,
$2812.50
Contra.
The Executors are credited as
follows:
By amount claim of Mrs. Phipps
allowed at
$79.84
Messenger claim
$12.00
By amount paid on debts, taxes,
funeral expenses,
and expenses of administration,
$1130.75
By amount paid widow,
$100.50
By amount commissions,
$95.21
By amount costs and distribution
on account,
$41.00
By amount balance for distribution
$1353.20
$2812.50
Said sum of $1353.20 to be distributed
as follows:
To M. Gena Phipps
$902.13 1/3
To Elizabeth Messenger
$451.06 2/3
__________
$1353.20
Burial: March 14, 1896, Peterboro
Cemetary, Peterboro, Madison Co., N.Y.7
Cause of Death: senility8
Medical
Information: sick some time before his death, grandson Dr. Milton Messinger
cared for his medical problems.
Occupation: industrious, successful
farmer - 7 acre farm in Clockville, N.Y. for 26 years10
Town Offices: Assessor Nelson
1849, Supervisor Smithfield 5 years, town auditor 4 years Lenox.11
Aided in reducing town of Lenox
taxes $6,000.00 as auditor9 Declined numerous other
town offices9 Intelligent, dedicated reader, excellent
penmanship, fine legal mind10
MARY GENA PARKILL:
1900; Census of Clockville,
Madison Co., New York shows;
M. Gena Phipps, farmer, born
8/1843 New York, father born in Vermont, mother of 2 living children
Alton, age 14, born 10/1886,
New York, father born Connecticut
Mary A., age 11, born 4/11/1889
New York, father born Connecticut
1910; Census of Clockville, Madison
Co., New York shows;
M. Gena Phipps, age 64, 2 children
born, 2 children living, born New York
Alice M., age 21, born New York
Lena Parkell, sister, age 73,
born New York
July 24, 1916, house struck by lightening during severe thunderstorm
1917, lived 06A R4 Canastota, Madison Co., N.Y.
1920; Census of Clockville, Madison
Co., New York shows;
Gena Phipps, age 74, born New
York
1929, in the fall went to live with son in Canastota because of illness.
Burial: March 25, 1930, buried
Mt. Pleasant Cemetary, Canastota, Madison Co., N.Y.
Cause of Death: stroke - cerebral
hemorhage, sick 3 months before death.
Occupation: housekeeper
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