Person:Phillip Smith (21)

The biography of his great-granddaughter, Jennie Belle Miller who md. Newton A. Vaughan, in A Standard History of Ross Co., pg. 738 & 739: "Thomas Miller married Elizabeth Smith, who was born in Pennsylvania August 5, 1813, a daughter of Philip Smith, who was a very remarkable character. He fought with the American army in the struggle for independence during the Revolution, but he continued to live on for many years and reached the remarkable age of one hundred and thirteen. He was an expert shingle maker, and his wonderful vitality is indicated by the fact that when he was one hundred and nine years of age he took a contract to rive the shingles for a large barn. In that he set as his stint the riving and stacking of 500 shingles per day, a performance which, considering his age, was probably never equaled. Mrs. Thomas Miller died August 17, 1896. Her nine children who grew up were John, Jacob G., Philip, Elizabeth, Isaac W., Thomas S., Cyrus C., Henderson S. and Catherine."

However, I am going to insert my opinion here...
I believe it is possible that the Revolutionary War ancestor of Elizabeth Smith was her Grandfather, not her father.
Elizabeth was born in 1813.
Also, a Philip Smith, b. 1814 or 1815 in PA, appears in the Census of Wilkesville Twp., Vinton Co., in 1850 with a family, and in 1860 in neighboring Salem Twp., Meigs Co. with his family. In 1870 and 1880 Philip Smith with his family has moved on to Pebble Twp., Pike Co., OH. I believe this Philip could be a brother to Elizabeth Smith Miller.

I believe this Philip Smith / Seips / Lips is either the father or grandfather of Elizabeth Smith Miller

Per his Rev. War Pension application, his father died at sea while coming to America: Jacob (possibly his name) is from Switzerland and died at sea on the way to America. His wife bore their son Philip shortly after arriving in Delaware County, PA. She remarried Michael Smith. This Philip sometimes used his step-father's name Smith, and sometimes his father's name, Seip or Lip (cursive writing could be an "S" or an "L")

There is a DNA match between myself, and my Miller cousin to a direct descendant of John T. Smith, a half-brother of Philip Smith Leips. This John T. Smith submitted an affidavit attesting to the Revolutionary service of Philip Smith Leips, which was submitted with Philip's pension application.

Philip Smith Leips' pension application states, in part: On this the twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord 1835 personally appeared in open court before the honorable Thomas Henry and Benjamin Adams Esquires, Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Beaver County, State of Pennsylvania, Philip Smith, a resident of New Sewickly Township, Beaver County,state aforesaid, aged ninety-three (93) years last May, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832. - That his Father's name was Jacob Smith, now deceased, that his Father and Mother migrated from Germany, on their passage over to this country (as he has always been informed) his Father was drowned, his mother landed at Philadelphia, that declarant was born in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, shortly after his mother arrived in this country, as he has often heard her say. When declarant was very young his mother married again. She married a man by the name of Seips, after they were married they moved to Thomas Creek in Frederick County, Maryland, declarant lived with them and then went by the name of his step Father and continued to be known by that name until he got married when he assumed that of his own Father. That before he was married and living at Thomas Creek, Frederick County, Maryland, with his step Father, he entered the service of the United States, don't recollect the year but it was the year in which the battle of Brandywine was fought.

However, an estate record of Michael Smith, names his step-son as Philip Leips: Philip Lips had a number of children baptized in the records of Apple Church in Emmetsburg, Maryland. Emmetsburg is a small town just over the Maryland border at the foot of the Catoctin Mountains. Camp David is close and the town is not far from both the Antietam and Gettysburg battlefields. It's a pretty area and you would wonder why they would ever leave.

From the book "Revolutionary Patriots of Frederick County, Maryland 1775-1783" by Henry C. Peden Jr" SMITH, Michael. One Michael Smith died testate in 1787, leaving a wife (not named) and children John (oldest son), Christopher, Michael (third son), Catharina, Mary, and my"stepson Philip Lipps".