Revolutionary War Soldiers Series: Remembering Phillip Stoops

By Betty F. Crum and Pat Young
Waw-wil-a-way Chapter Daughters 
of the American Revolution, 250 Project

Note: This year, the United States of America will celebrate its semiquincentennial, its 250th anniversary. The semiquincentennial marks the first nationwide celebration of America's birth since the bicentennial in 1976. Of course, America's independence cannot be celebrated without also honoring the efforts of the Revolutionary War soldiers that led to independence. The Waw-wil-a-way Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, along with the Southern Ohio Genealogical Society, is presenting a series of articles featuring Revolutionary War soldiers who lived and died within the borders of Highland County.

Phillips Stoops’s name is on the DAR plaque at the Highland County Courthouse: NSDAR database: Ancestor No. A110439, Pension No. S4894.

Phillip Stoops was born Aug. 20, 1754 in New Castle, Delaware.
     
While residing in New Castle County, Delaware, about four miles from New Castle, and while the British lay in New York City, he enlisted and served six months as private in Captain David Miller’s Company, Colonel John Hellingsworth’s Delaware Regiment.  

He enlisted about the last of August 1777, served six months as private in Captain William Alexander’s Company, Colonel John Hollingsworth’s Delaware Regiment; was in a skirmish with the British picket near Philadelphia and in the battle of Edge Hill.
     
After the Revolutionary War he moved from New Castle County, Delaware to Rockbridge County, Virginia and about 29 years later he moved to Highland County, Ohio. 
     
Phillip married Ann McCormick on April 9, 1789, in Rockbridge, Virginia. Known children include Nancy, William, Samuel, Stephen, John, Robert Ann Grey (Grezy) and Elizbeth.