Phillips, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1751, in North Andover, Mass. He was a member of the provincial congress, and of the constitutional convention of 1779, for twenty years a state senator, and for fifteen years its president. He was a judge of the court of common pleas in 1781-98, a commissioner of the state in Shays's insurrection, and was lieutenantgovernor of Massachusetts at the time of his death. He died Feb. 10, 1802, in North Andover, Mass.
PHILLIPS, STEPHEN CLARENDON, merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 1, 1801, in Salem, Mass.
He was chosen a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature; from 1830 to 1831 was state senator, and in 1832 and 1833 was again a member of the house. From 1834 to 1838 he represented Massachusetts in congress. He died June 26, 1857, at sea.