Sarah Phipps
Sarah Phipps was born on December 2, 1797, the child of Elisha (1762-1843) and Elizabeth Pusey (1761-1840) Phipps. The family lived on Doe Run, where her father had a mill. She died on January 1, 1870, and is buried at her husband's side in the Fallowfield MM cemetery.
Elizabeth Pusey, Sarah's mother, married Elisha Phipps in 1783, the son of Caleb and Susanna Crosby Phipps, of Buck Run Mills, West Fallowfield. (Caleb's will is included on another page). Elizabeth was disowned by New Garden MM 2 Mo 7, 1784 for her marriage by a Baptist preacher to one not a member. Elisha's father, Caleb Phipps of Ridley, was also a miller as was his grandfather, Joseph Phipps, of Uwchlan.
After their marriage, Elisha and Elizabeth lived at his father's mill on Buck Run in West Fallowfield (now Highland) Township, and later moved to the Doe Run Mills. In 1800 the family moved to a mill on the Muckinipattus, a small stream flowing into Darby Creek one mile below Darby Village, and after making considerable improvements to the property, building a new stone dwelling, barn and out-buildings, and putting new machinery in the mill, sold it in 1812 to Halliday Jackson and returned again to the Doe Run Mills, which Elisha rebuilt and greatly enlarged in 1815. Elisha died there in 1843, in his 81st year, leaving a detailed will. The mill has since been burned.
The Puseys are an old Pennsylvania family, Quakers who came with the first tide of emigration in the late 1600s, and intermarried with other families who had also been there since the beginning. The Baker's, for instance, arrived not long after William Penn, and Joel Baker, our original Baker emigrant, married Ann Short, who had been aboard the Welcome, with Penn, on that eventful journey. Ann's mother is thought to have also been on the Welcome, and died from small pox on board ship, as did her mother's brother, Isaac Ingram, whose will was made during this trip to the "New World".
Through her grandmother, Susannah Crosby, Sarah Phipps Newlin was also related to several of the old Swedish families of Chester County. These Swedes arrived many years before the Quakers and established a colony called New Sweden on the banks of the Delaware River. The Crosbys married into the Van Culen and Morton families, 2 well documented Swedish lines, and contain lawyers, lawmakers and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The background for this page is the Londongrove MM, where many of the Puseys and Phipps belonged.
