An Evaluation of the Phillips Family of Vermont, in particular Antwine Philips and his wife Catherine Émery dit Codèrre - Part 4

Having sought out a Direct-Male-Descendant of the Phillips Family of VT, and testing their Y-DNA through FTDNA around August 2014, after communicating with another Phillips descendant outside of New England (yet descended from Vermont's Peter Phillips Sr.) beginning in April 2014, the genetic test results were finally in on November 11, 2014.

Understanding the life dynamics of Peter Phillips Sr. (Antwine Philips and Catherine Émery dit Coderre' first-born son) I decided to investigate further. Seeking yet a second Direct-Male-Descendant and being successful in that, again I tested his Y-DNA, to validate the first tester's genetic results. Only one marker was different. It's what they call a Fast-Marker-Mutation. It wasn't a big deal. Both Direct-Male-Descendants have the same 36 (our of 37) Y-Markers. The same Haplogroup B-M181 as well. 

To know more about Y chromosome DNA Testing: 

http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Y_chromosome_DNA_tests 

https://www.familytreedna.com/


The results genetically for the VT Phillips progenitor Antwine Phillips Sr. ...

The Y-DNA for Antwine Philips Sr.'s Haplogroup is definitively B-M181 (from Africa) 

361064 Antoine (Anthony) Philippe/Phillips d. 1885 VT
12-24-16-11-12-14-11-15-11-13-14-29-13-9-9-7-11-26-14-21-36-14-16-16-16-11-10-18-19-14-13-23-16-35-39-11-10

376378 Antoine Phillips d. 1885 Vermont
12-24-16-11-12-14-11-15-11-13-14-29-13-9-9-7-11-26-14-21-36-14-16-16-16-11-10-18-19-14-13-22-16-35-39-11-10

Haplogroup B is an ancient Y chromosome clade that is almost entirely historically restricted to Africa. It is the second oldest clade after A, and it is spread very thinly throughout the continent. Today, the highest frequencies of B are found among small hunter-gather populations, and very rarely among populations of African descent outside of Africa. Except for descendants of slaves brought into the United States, whose descendants are in Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, etc. 

So, once I had confirmed the Haplogroup did in fact genetically come from Africa, and was not Native American, or Abenaki, I began to search genealogically "around" Highgate, Vermont and of course Notre Dame du Rosaire Catholic Parish, up in Quebec for any paper-trail of Atnwine Philips and or his children.

Already, we can discern and conclude that Donald Warren Stevens Jr. and his family relatives, along with Frederick M. Wiseman Ph.D. were and are WRONG, in their implying that Antoine Phillips Sr., the known progenitor of the Phillips family within VT, having traveled into and lived also within NY, and ME etc .... are NOT RELATED in any way, to Louie Metallic of ca. 1796 at all, and NOT RELATED to Philip, the Upper Coos Chief of that same time period of the late 1700's either.

In the Nulhegan Group's 2010 Application for Federal Recognition, Frederick M. Wiseman Ph.D. along with the group themselves stated that they had a scanned 'PDF' document on file in the "museum" (started and overseen by Wiseman himself) archives of the 1796 "Philip" Upper Coos Chief's Deed. It is written Coos County (not "Country") and in fact, the document is a SURRENDERING of the territories mentioned therein.

But what is interesting about this little write-up, typed up by the Professor, is that he and they state:

"The modern Nulhegan community considers the "Upper Coos Deed" its founding document; in that it lays out the boundaries of the culture/ environmental/ and political area it considers its homeland.

There is living memory of this "Chief Philip." The [REDACTED] Phillips family is said to have descended from [REDACTED] Chief Philip and is even referenced in great detail in a Philips family history book."

Now, please review 

http://reinventedvermontabenaki.blogspot.com/2010/09/email-communications-between-donald.html

The FACT is I mailed Winifred Yaratz 'scanned' book to Mr. Donald Warren Stevens Jr. because he didn't know a lot about his ancestor's, and having met him at the VCNAA Meeting and considering his descent from Peter Phillips, Antwine and Catherine's son, I shared what I had gathered on the Phillips family, etc. He then immediately gave that scanned book to Fred M. Wiseman, Ph.D. , who subsequently, snarky attitude towards my person, claimed that since it came from Winifred Yaratz, to Albert Phillips, to his son Tom Phillips, to me on-loan (I scanned it), through to Don Stevens Jr. ... that it had been vetted or validated by my person. Which it had never been!

http://reinventedvermontabenaki.blogspot.com/2010/09/abenaki-plot-thickenspart-4-winifred.html

Today, on Ancestry.com ... there are many of the Phillips Family descended from Antwine Phillips and Catherine Émery dit Coderre, who have attempted to 'connect' and imply by appropriation, that Chief Philip / Philippé of the Upper Coos and Luie Métallic (ca. 1796) were father-and-son. Such has not been genealogically or genetically validated. 

More importantly, it was NOT VALIDATED in 2010 etc, (UNTIL NOW) proven or disproven that Chief Philip / Philippé of the Upper Coos and Luie Métallic were even genealogically or genetically related to Antwine Philips, husband of Catherine Émery dit Coderre (or even where she came from, or who her parentage, and ancestry were!)

We NOW know WHO Antwine Philips and his wife Catherine Émery dit Coderre were. African and French identifying people, who have been misidentified as Abenakis, by their descendants, and Gypsies by the Eugenics Survey of Vermont.

Luie Métallic's Direct-Male-Descendant has also been Y-DNA chromosome tested through FTDNA. 

The yDNA for Antwine Philips is B-M181 (from Africa)

The yDNA for _______ Métallic is C-M216 (from Asia/ Native North America)

Now we can look at the first 12 markers for each tester:

Métallic: C-M216

12-23-16-9-15-15-11-13-11-13-11-29

Phillips: B-M181

12-24-16-11-12-14-11-15-11-13-14-29

Just on the first 12 yMarkers, there are six difference's between Phillips and Metallic.

Understand? 

What this means, genealogically and genetically, is that these two Phillips Direct-Male-Descendants that perpetuate their common Direct-Male-Ancestor's Y-DNA (Antoine Phillips Sr.) ....

ARE ANCESTRALLY ...  NOT RELATED ... IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM ....

to Chief Philip / Philippé of the Upper Coos and Luie Métallic (ca. 1796) ... at all. 

The MYTH created by Winifred Yaratz, etc. and perpetuated by Fred M. Wiseman Ph.D., Donald Warren Stevens, Jr. ... "Chief" of the Nulhegan Group,  and have 'appropriated' a Deed of  June and July 1796 that they claim is their alleged "founding document" ... that genealogically and genetically DOESN'T EVEN APPLY TO THE Phillips Family derived from Antwine and Catherine, or the to the group itself.

So what does this SHOW about the MERITS of their Colonizer State of Vermont's Legislative and Governor 'Recognition' based on their Application in 2010-2011 and that Professor? Did anyone honestly do any evaluation as to the legitimate merits of the claims being made? Or did they all just go along, believing anything that was said, and not validated?

They lied on Monday, and they kept up their lies until it was all done on Sunday, and they are still perpetuating their peddled distortions, in their attempts to steal the identity of the Abenakis throughout N'dakinna.

From the Alburgh, VT Oct. 1863 "4 Indians" ... to Chief Nicolas Panadis identity ... right on through to appropriating the historical Chief Philip / Philippé of the Upper Coos ... and Luie Métallic (ca. 1796) ... fraudulently and disgustingly as being genealogically related to them. Factually, this has been MYTH they have created.

But again, the Y-DNA results SHOW that Chief Philip / Philippé of the Upper Coos and Luie Métallic ARE NOT RELATED to Antwine Philips Sr., of 1845-1856 Highgate/Sheldon, Franklin County, Vermont ... but the question is ... 

WHO REALLY WERE Antwine (Antoine) Philips (Phillips) parentage? 

An Evaluation of the Phillips Family of Vermont, in particular Antwine Philips and his wife Catherine Émery dit Codèrre - Part 3

NOW that we have sought out, researched, established and confirmed the truthful identity of Catherine Émery dit Codèrre, whom married and had children by Antwine Philips, of Highgate/Sheldon, Franklin County, Vermont ... let us move forward, and around a bit more, genealogically and documentarily speaking.

About two years after the Phillips family moved from the Highgate/Sheldon, Franklin County, Vermont area, specifically Land Lot No. 51 in the 4th Division, on the Highgate Township side of the boundary between Highgate and Sheldon Townships ... to the South Burlington / Williston area of Chittenden County, Vermont, thus began interaction(s) and altercation(s) with varied people in their new neighborhood / geographical area. Particularly with Peter Phillips, the son of Antoine Phillips Sr. and Catherine.

January 21, 1859

The Burlington Free Press Newspaper

Alleged Assault with Intent to Kill – 

The examination of the parties concerned in the recent assault on an Irishman named Goulding, took place before Justice Hollenbeck, Wednesday forenoon. The testimony of the witnesses went to show that the principle criminal was Peter Phillips Sr. – (a son of Antoine Phillips, otherwise known as “Black Jack”) who made a violent and unprovoked attack, having attacked first upon Mr. Patrick Cassidy, an Irishman, whom he assaulted with a bottle, an axe, a sled stake, besides giving him divers kicks, blows in the face with the fist and other “gentle reminders” of his [Peter Phillips] presence, and next upon Goulding, who interfered to preserve the peace, and who received a blow from Peter Phillips Sr. which fractured his skull, and placed his life in jeopardy.

Antoine Phillips Jr. and a young Frenchman named Peter Trueheart, appeared to have been participants in the outrage, by keeping the bystanders from interfering with the more violent operations of Peter Phillips Sr., and by telling him, at one stage of the affray, to “kill” Cassidy. All three were, probably, under the influence of liquor.

The three were bound over for trial at the next term of the County Court, in the sum of $500.00 dollars each, for breach of the Peace, and Assault with Intent-to-Kill.

A sobriquet (pronounced soh-bri-kay) is a nickname, sometimes assumed, but often given by another. [See Elisha Sheldon Jr. Probate file in May 31, 1808.]

January 21, 1859

The Burlington Free Press Newspaper

Affray and Almost Murder 

A drunken row, resulting in the dangerous and perhaps fatal injury of an Irishman named Goldin, occurred on the Williston road, near the corner of Dorset Street, Thursday night. It appears, from the information gathered by us concerning the affair that a low grocery is kept at the place indicated, by a man named Wheeler. Here an Irish teamster and a Frenchman [the ‘Frenchman’ was Peter Trueheart] named Peter Phillips Sr., known by the soubriquet of “Black Jack,” (given him, doubtless, from his complexion, which is very dark) after getting well primed with fighting rum, fell into an altercation, which they continued after leaving Wheeler’s place, and finally came to blows in front of Goldin’s house, which is nearly opposite the grocery shop. Goldin went out bare-headed, and mixed in the affray, probably to separate the combatants, when he received a terrible blow from Peter Phillips Sr., given with a cart-rung, fracturing the skull into which a man’s thumb might be laid.

Peter Phillips Sr. was arrested Friday morning by officers Flanagan and White, and lodged in jail. He is represented to us as an ugly fellow, and has been “hauled up” once before, for biting a man’s nose nearly off, in some similar affray.

NOTICE the name "Black Jack" ... this was a name noticeably given, or used by African Slaves, Free Black Persons, just as the name "Cato" was a name used somewhat more frequently.

January 22 1859

Vermont Phoenix Brattleboro, VT Newspaper 

Two colored men, father [Antoine Sr.] and son [Peter Sr.], surnamed Phillips and a Frenchman [Peter Trueheart], nephew of the elder [Antoine Sr.] Phillips, were committed to jail at Burlington on Friday, for a murderous assault upon Peter Goulding of Hinesburgh, fracturing his skull with a cart rung and otherwise bruising him in a shocking manner. Peter Phillips Sr. has been dealt with once before, for biting a man’s nose nearly off.

April 08, 1859

The Burlington Free Press Newspaper

State vs. Peter Phillips, for assault with intent to kill, upon Goulding, was tried Monday P. M. Verdict guilty.

Antoine Phillips and Peter Trueheart plead guilty to a charge of assault and battery upon Patrick Cassidy, and with the other Phillips’, were remanded for sentence.

April 11, 1859

Windsor State Prison of Vermont Intake Book

April 11, 1859

Windsor State Prison of Vermont Intake Book

Peter Phillips age 26 years old, at 5’9” in stature, having blue eyes, black hair and a dark complexion, identified as a mulatto, being born in Franklin County, Vermont, was convicted of the assault with the intent to kill, on April 09, 1859 in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, was admitted to the Windsor, Vermont State Prison, on April 11, 1859 for two years being his sentence. He was discharged from that sentence on April 09, 1861.

More to be posted ...