Given David's prowess in mechanical and woodworking endeavors, it could point more to a German heritage. Some of the best cabinet and furniture makers were German. The German had a very strict system of apprenticeship for becoming a skilled master craftsman. Even jobs like millers were regulated.
Only Group in the DNA Project with German heritage is Group 24, but I don't know of any coming into NC.
Nancy, any Phillips of Group 24 suspect a migration to NC early on?
Anyone know of a German population in Orange Co., NC in the mid 1700s?
Tom
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As you know, I suspect your David might belong to my Group 8, because I know a David Phillips from Group 8 lived in Orange Co NC. He appears to have had a son named William who had a son named David. The grandson named David appears to have been approximately the same generation as your David.
Group 8 has very Germanic looking yDNA and in fact, our yDNA matches the yDNA of some 3000 year old skeletons found in a cave in Germany. However, we appear to have been a part of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England, because we also have several matches with Phillips men who have deep roots in the English Midlands. A lot of German sounding first names are used in Group 8, such as William, Leonard and Johanna. But we appear to have come to Virginia from England in the middle to late 1600s, not Germany. So far we do not have a lot of Phillips who claim descent from German immigrants in the project.
Nancy
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Subject: [ENC Phillips] Any of the Phillips lines of German Origin?
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I don't know of any off hand but it does make sense logically.
Given David's prowess in mechanical and woodworking endeavors, it could point more to a German heritage. Some of the best cabinet and furniture makers were German. The German had a very strict system of apprenticeship for becoming a skilled master craftsman. Even jobs like millers were regulated.
Only Group in the DNA Project with German heritage is Group 24, but I don't know of any coming into NC.
Nancy, any Phillips of Group 24 suspect a migration to NC early on?
Anyone know of a German population in Orange Co., NC in the mid 1700s?