p 30 - 2 PHILLIP HESS, second child of Nicholas Hess, was born in Springfield Township, May 1 1750. He married a woman named Reifsnyder, of Flint Hill, now Passer P.O., Bucks County, Pa., and moved with his brother, Conrad, to Dryland, Northampton County, Pa., where his wife died at the birth of her first child. Afterwards he returned to Bucks County and married a second wife, Mary Moyer, a Mennonite, and a woman of considerable means, who lived with her step-father, Abraham Schleiffer, in "Schleiffer's thal," Springfield Twp., near his boyhood home. Philip purchased a tract of land in Lower Saucon Twp., Northampton County, Pa., known as the Andrew Ehrhart farm, a mile or more east of Leithsville, but poor management in time, compelled him to sell the place and move into a tenement house in Springfield Twp., where his wife died, after which Philip became somewhat dissipated and gradually poor, and in his latter days made his home with his nephew, Joseph Hess, at Springtown, where he died in the year 1828. Philip Hess and his wife, Mary, lie buried in the Hess "corner" of the burying grounds at Springfield church. They raised a family of eight children: Elizabeth, Abraham, Samuel, Jacob, Jonas, John, Mary and Catherine.
Philip Hess served as a soldier in the Revolutionary army; he was a private in Sixth Compay (from Springfield Township), under Captain Josiah Bryan, Third Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia, Colonel John Keller, commanding, mustered into service May 6, 1777, numbering fifty-five men exclusive of officers.
