now for all that I know. It is a wonder to me that these who have been Aldermen, Assistant Aldermen, or Councilmen of the city of New York, are not kept the run of. Uncle David has a list of all of them, both living and dead, but when they died is not made a note of.

I believe the Burlock family are all dead. I think Thomas went to New Haven. He was the only survivor: he was younger than Henry, who captivated the Danish heiress.

There have been several distinguished merchants in the city, at different intervals, of the name of Phillips.

As early as 1796, Henry W. Phillips did a large commercial business in Water street. In 1799 he took his clerk, James Ludlum, into partnership, and the firm became Phillips & Ludlum. They had their store at 33 South street. The principal clerk was Lewis Phillips, a brother. In 1803 Phillips & Ludlum dissolved partnership: Mr. Ludlum went out of the house, and went into business at 27 Albany pier, forming the house of Ludlum & Johnson. Mr. Phillips took in his younger brother, and the firm became H. W. & L. Phillips. Their names were cut into the stone cross-work above the door, and so remained until the store was burned in the great fire of 1835. At the time of its destruction it was occupied by John S. Bagley & Co. and others.

This family of Phillips came from England. The first comer was the Rev. George Phillips, who came out with Gov. Winthrop to Boston, in 1660. He was from Suffolk, in England.

Moses Phillips, one of his direct descendants, was born in New Jersey, the 8th March, 1742. He died Dec.

29, 1819, in the 76th year of his age. His was an eventful life. About 1766 he went to the County of Orange, State of New York. There he married Sarah Wisner, a daughter of Henry Wisner, in 1768, and settled in a place that took his name ever after as Phillipsburg. It was organized in 1788.

Moses Phillips had seven sons and two daughters, viz: Gabriel Norton, George, Henry Wisner (named after his grandfather, and afterwards a New York minister), Moses, William, Sarahı, Lewis, Samuel and Elizabeth.

Moses Phillips went to Phillipsburg from Morristown, N. J. He was a farmer. He had a brother, Jonas Phillips, who was born March 12, 1735. One of the daughters married Daniel Phoenix, of New York, and the son was the Hon. J. Phillips Phoenix, who married a daughter of the late Stephen Whitney. Moses Phillips, when he left New Jersey, bought a mile square of land on the Walkill, in Orange County - now Phillipsburg. It is a curious fact that, in 1863, not a rood of land is owned in Phillipsburg by a Phillips.

The eldest son of old Moses was named Gabriel Norton. He became a physician, went to North Carolina, married and settled there. He afterwards died in Phillipsburg.

George was a manufacturer in the country. Henry Wisner Gale, when he came to the city, went into the store of his uncle, Gabriel Wisner. The latter had a son named Henry G. Wisner, who was a lawyer in the city as early as 1803. In 1805 he married Miss Talman, a daughter of Samuel Talman. Gabriel Wisner was father of Gabriel Wisner, who was of the large gro

cery house of Wisner, Gale & Co., Nos. 68 and 70 Front street, burned out in 1835. Both partners were bachelors. The other sons of old Moses died early, except Lewis; he went, as I have said, with his brother Henry W., under the firm of H. W. & L. Phillips, as early as 1803. They did an immense shipping business. They owned vessels. Some of these vessels were captured under the Berlin and Milan decrees of Bonaparte, and the house became ruined about 1810.

Henry W. Phillips was twice married. His first wife was a Mrs. Basden. She had a son named Benjamin Basden. Henry W. had no children by his first wife, but by his second wife he had a daughter. She is now living near Cleveland, Ohio, where she married Doctor Elbert Brush, and has a large family of children. After his failure in business, H. W. went to Mount Hope, in New Jersey, to take charge of the iron mines, and there he died in 1811. His brother Lewis was out with him, also engaged in getting out iron ore. All the children of Lewis were born out there. He had three. Lewis Wisner was born in 1821. He is a large coal-dealer in the Sixth avenue, and has several yards. He married Miss Oakley, a daughter of Richard Oakley, and has children. Another son was Theodore F. He married his cousin, Miss Brush, a daughter of Henry W. Phillips.

Louisa, a daughter of Lewis Phillips, married Richard D. Van Waggenen, a son of William Van Waggenen.

When Lewis Phillips received from France a small portion of the indemnity to which he and his brother were entitled, he acted in a very praiseworthy manner. He hunted up all the creditors of the old firm, and he

paid them pro rata, their proportion, amounting to about $18,000. Some names he could not find, and their shares, about $3,000, he paid to the daughter of his brother Henry.

This was as late as 1837, when they had no claim upon him. This he did to satisfy his own conscience, and to do what he regarded as right. However, such sacrifices and such high honor is not appreciated now. Even then, I doubt if the honorable and high-minded merchant, Lewis Phillips, had wanted a meal of victuals six months after, whether those creditors had got money so unexpectedly would have returned him a shilling of it. Lewis Phillips died in 1854, aged seventy-ona

years.

CHAPTER XXV.

In the last chapter I alluded slightly to Isaac Wright, who was of the firm of Isaac Wright & Son, and were among the small band of pioneers who established a regular sailing packet communication with the old world. To this class also belonged Benjamin Marshall, Francis Thompson and Jeremiah Thompson. These merchantë were the originators and first proprietors of the old black ball line of Liverpool packets that still survive all the storms of the ocean and of commerce.

These ships were the first in importance in this sphere forty years ago, and it is pleasant now to record their importance in the trade between England and this country. It is not behind that of the more modern steamships.

The ships of the Black Ball line numbered eight. They were well manned and equipped.

The line established afterwards by Fish & Grinnell, and Thaddeus Phelps & Co. numbered four; good vessels all of them, but not quite equal to the others. Their names were the "Leeds," Capt. William Stoddart, master; "Robert Fulton," Henry Holdredge, master; "Cortes," Nash De Cost, master; "Corinthian," G. W. Davis, master. They were 400 tons each. They sailed on the 8th of the month.