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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips Volume 2


Cover: Susan Wakefield Kinney (1842-1929), Winsted, Litchfield Co., Conn., circa 1851


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips A catalog with titles or subject identification with life dates, work dating, location, dimensions, descriptions, inscriptions, biographical data, provenance, sale records, ownership, published references, and cross-references to previous catalogs for over 800 works, with additional notes as to duplicates, errors and misattributions; and a comparative survey of 689 examples, organized by date, locale, and stylistic period.

Volume 2 – Comparative Survey

David R. Allaway Third edition – August 2026 ISBN 978-0-9987122-1-5


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Author’s Note Ammi Phillips’s given name is from the biblical Hebrew, meaning “my people.” As he devoted a half-century to traveling the Hudson and Housatonic Valleys and capturing the likenesses of his contemporaries, it seemed a fitting title for a catalog of his work.

Valley of the Housatonic, Kent, Connecticut by Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1845. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Geographic Analysis ..................................................................................................................................................... 14 Comparative Survey Circa 1811: The Early Period – Berkshire Co., Mass. ........................................................................................... 16 Early to Mid-1810’s: The Early and “Border Limner” Periods – Columbia Co., N.Y. and unidentified ............ 17 Early to Mid-1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Washington, Rensselaer and Columbia Co., N.Y. ............ 18 Early to Mid-1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Columbia Co., N.Y. and vicinity ........................................ 19 Mid-1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – The Dorr family, Chatham, Columbia Co., N.Y. (relative sizes) ... 20 Mid-1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Hoosick and Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. ........................... 21 Mid-to-Late 1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. and unidentified ............. 22 Mid-to-Late 1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Rensselaer Co., N.Y. ............................................................ 23 Mid-to-Late 1810’s: The “Border Limner” and Early Troy Period – Rensselaer Co., N.Y. and unidentified ..... 24 Mid-to-Late 1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Washington and Rensselaer Co., N.Y. ............................... 25 Circa 1818-20: Early Troy Period – Rensselaer Co., N.Y. and vicinity ................................................................ 26 Circa 1820-21: The Troy Period – Rensselaer and Columbia Co., N.Y. and unidentified ................................... 28 Circa 1820-21: The Troy Period – Rensselaer, Columbia and Greene Co., N.Y. and unidentified ..................... 29 Circa 1820-21: The Troy Period – Claverack and Livingston, Columbia Co., N.Y. ............................................. 31 Circa 1821-22: The Rhinebeck Period – Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. .................................................................. 32 Circa 1821-22: The Rhinebeck Period – Red Hook and Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified ...... 33 Circa 1821-22: The Rhinebeck Period – Lithgow, Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified..................................... 35 Circa 1822-23: The West Bank Portraits – Greene, Schoharie and Montgomery Co., N.Y. ............................... 36 Circa 1822-23: The West Bank Portraits – Ulster Co., N.Y. ................................................................................. 37 Circa 1823-24: The Southwest Hudson Portraits – Ulster Co., N.Y. and related Dutchess Co., N.Y. ............... 39 Circa 1823-24: The Southwest Hudson Portraits – Ulster, Sullivan and Orange Co., N.Y. ............................... 40 Circa 1824: The Southwest Hudson / Early Realistic Period – Orange Co., N.Y. and unidentified ................... 41 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Orange Co., N.Y. ............................................................................... 42 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Orange, Dutchess and Ulster Co., N.Y. and unidentified .............. 45 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Orange Co., N.Y. and unidentified .................................................. 46 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Delaware and Chenango Co., N.Y. and unidentified ..................... 50 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified ............................................... 51 Circa 1829-30: The Amenia Portraits – Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. and vicinity.............................................. 52 Circa 1830: Dutchess Co., N.Y. vicinity and unidentified ..................................................................................... 56 Circa 1830: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Greene Co., N.Y. ........................................................................ 57 Circa 1832: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Columbia Co., N.Y. and unidentified........................................ 58 Circa 1833: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess and Ulster Co., N.Y. and unidentified ..................... 59 Early 1830’s: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Greene and Ulster Co., N.Y. and unidentified ...................... 60 Circa 1834: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Columbia and Ulster Co., N.Y. and unidentified ..................... 61 Circa 1834-35: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified ................................... 62 Early to Mid-1830’s: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified ......................... 63 Circa 1836: The “Kent Limner” Portraits - Kent, Litchfield Co., Conn. and vicinity .......................................... 64


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-1830’s The “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified ................................................... 65 Mid-1830’s: The “Kent Limner” Period – Ulster Co., N.Y. and unidentified ....................................................... 66 Mid-1830’s: The “Kent Limner” Period – Litchfield Co., Conn and Westchester Co., N.Y. ................................ 67 Mid-to-Late 1830’s: The “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess and Putnam Co., N.Y. and unidentified ............... 68 Circa 1838-40: The Late “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified .................................... 71 Circa 1838-40: The Late “Kent Limner” Period – Westchester Co., N.Y. and unidentified ............................... 72 Circa 1838-40: The Late “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y., Litchfield Co., Conn. and unidentified 73 Mid-1830’s: The “Kent Limner” Period – Well-suited Boys .................................................................................. 74 Late 1820’s to late 1830’s: The Children in Red Dresses ...................................................................................... 75 Late 1820’s to late 1830’s: More Children in Dresses ........................................................................................... 76 Late 1830’s: The Benjamin Haxtun family, Beekman, Dutchess Co., N.Y. ......................................................... 77 Early to Mid-1840’s: The Early Daguerreotype Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified ......................... 78 Early to Mid-1840’s: The Early Daguerreotype Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and Litchfield Co., Conn............ 80 Mid-to-Late 1840’s: The Daguerreotype Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified .................................... 81 Mid-to-Late 1840’s: The Daguerreotype Period – Litchfield Co., Conn. and unidentified ................................. 83 Circa 1850: The Daguerreotype Period – Litchfield Co., Conn. and unidentified ............................................... 85 Circa 1853: The Daguerreotype Period – The Hotchkiss family, Torrington, Litchfield Co., Conn. ................. 87 Circa 1848-53: The Litchfield Children and related portraits with Paisley shawls ........................................... 88 Circa 1850’s: The Daguerreotype Period – Berkshire Co., Mass. and unidentified ............................................ 90 Circa 1857: The Late Period – West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass. ............................................................. 94 Circa 1860: The Late Period – Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass. vicinity and unidentified ............................ 95 Circa 1862: The Late Period – Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y. ............................................................................... 98 Addenda – Contemporary Hudson Valley Portraiture ............................................................................................. 101 Appendix A: Ammi Phillips Family and Historical Records .................................................................................... 103 Appendix B: The Rediscovery and Identification of Ammi Phillips ........................................................................ 107 Photo Credits .............................................................................................................................................................. 112 Index to Named Examples (Volume 2) ...................................................................................................................... 121 Tables Table 1 – Portraits Signed or Recorded as by Phillips ............................................................................................... 13 Table 2 – Ammi Phillips Geography by Decade ......................................................................................................... 14 Table 3 – Chronology of Datable Portraits.................................................................................................................. 99


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Introduction This volume is a companion to the complete catalog of Ammi Phillips’s known work, and displays representative examples. As such, it constitutes more than a ten-fold increase over previously available references. As noted in the introduction to Volume 1, I undertook this arrangement in order to better understand the evolution of Ammi Phillips’s style, to convince myself that this large body of portraiture was indeed by a single hand, and to more accurately attribute and date individual portraits. The extant references contained too few examples to create an entirely convincing continuum of work, and in many cases were confusingly arranged. It is my hope that this analysis resolves these difficulties. I have also endeavored to include as many as possible of the evidential works, those which are signed or documented as by Phillips (see Table 1). Arrangement To arrange hundreds of portraits in roughly chronological sequence is no trivial matter. Paramount is the problem that few portraits are dated, either by inscription or by contemporary reference. I decided to reject, as scientifically prejudicial, any previous estimates as to the period or date of individual portraits. Rather, I started afresh, and let the portraits fall where they may. The obvious starting point, like a jigsaw puzzle, was to group portraits which were recognizably similar in pose and general appearance. The groupings were then arranged based on any factually-dated portraits. In many instances, portraits have also been arranged in proximity based on family relationships or specific locality. The underlying assumption is that Phillips often painted portraits of multiple family members or neighbors in a single visit. Where known pairs existed, these were used like dominoes to link the man or woman’s portrait to similar examples, sometimes with surprising results. When possible, portraits have been arranged with others having interestingly similar details. The process was highly iterative and full of problems but was eventually sorted out to my general satisfaction. There is limited ability to do this with portraits of children. Despite their notoriety, children comprise only about ten percent of Phillips’s work. The portraits of children are mostly arranged on separate pages for comparison purposes within their respective periods, some of which are nearly devoid of children’s portraits. In most instances, pairs of portraits (husbands and wives) are shown together. A small number of exceptions are made, where it would prevent a more illustrative comparison with similar portraits. In making so many arrangements of similar portraits, I am by no means attempting to assert the sameness of Phillips’s work. To the contrary, I would draw the reader’s attention to the variety of differences in facial features, both flattering and unflattering, and in details of fabric, furniture and accoutrements. After extensive contemplation, it is the uniqueness, not the sameness, which impresses. In many instances, I have placed unidentified portraits, with no factual basis as to their specific locale, on the same page with similar portraits. In these cases, no locale is intended to be implied, and I leave it to your judgement as to whether this is a useful comparison. Other than placement within time periods, I have refrained from giving estimated dates on individual portraits. Whenever present, I have included any date inscriptions on newspapers or letters held in the subjects’ hands. The titles of books or periodicals are also noted and, when available, the publication date of the book or periodical is given. I have included the date of birth (for children) or date of death of the subject where it may be relevant to dating the portrait. I have not used the descriptive title, as often used in books and sales catalogs (e.g., “Woman in Bonnet holding a Book”) as being redundant, cumbersome and often arbitrary. Instead, I have confined myself to Unidentified Man, Woman, Boy, Girl or Unidentified Child. For these unidentified subjects, the reference number (as used in Volume 1) is given in brackets. What results from all of the above is both chronological, geographical, and stylistic in its progression.

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Stylistic Progression Ammi Phillips found a steady clientele for his work from the mid-1810’s to at least the early 1860’s, even successfully battling the headwinds of Daguerreotype photography in mid-career. He clearly had a genius for capturing likenesses. Viewed as a whole, and in detail, one cannot help being struck by the individuality of the faces. From about 1820 onward, they are as distinctive as real individuals. After close acquaintance with over 600 portraits, I now react instantly and instinctively to the sight of a Phillips portrait as being either a familiar or unfamiliar face, just as one would when an actual acquaintance or stranger approaches. The first element one probably notices is that of formula. What might be initially regarded as repetition or similarity is, in fact, drawn from a repertoire. Whether Phillips carried with him a sketch book or simply drew from memory of previous works is unknown. Phillips was continually refining and reinventing his repertoire of poses, repeating a successful formula time and again, trying a new variation here, and discarding an old variation there, never to be used again. It was as if he carried with him, like a traveling conjurer, a constantly evolving portfolio of new and old tricks. The second element one notices is personalization and uniqueness of detail. No two bonnets are the same. No two pieces of lace have the identical pattern. The variety and intricacy of the fabric detail is mind-boggling. Phillips obviously took great pleasure in incorporating small details which spoke to the subject’s individuality. A held letter may indicate the subject’s name and place of residence. A publication may indicate the date, locality, and perhaps the subject’s religious affiliation or political sympathies. A ledger book, a volume of legal statutes, a large bible, a pamphlet on agriculture, a treatise on anatomy or botany, each quietly announced the subject’s profession or avocation. Books, often newly-published, spoke to the subject’s intellectual currency. For women, the message is quieter but still present. A bound poem, a monogrammed psalm book, a piece of sewing in progress, a religious guide for the afflicted, each spoke to the subject’s literacy, piety, domestic occupation or personal circumstance. The precise symbolism of various natural items such as peaches, parsley sprigs or strawberry buds may be partially lost to us, but the intent is evident. Sometimes the puns are writ large, as with the portrait of young Andrew Jackson Ten Broeck under an “Old Hickory” tree. Children are not typically overburdened with toys, whips, baskets or a multitude of pets, but are usually depicted with simplicity and some small item. The message, if any, may be subtle. There can be little doubt that the sedentary dog, which appears in so many of his portraits of children, was Phillips’s own. As a traveling companion, a means of connecting with children, and of keeping them preoccupied during tedious portrait sessions, Phillips could have found no better device. Fashions in attire come and go over the decades: From the simple women’s caps of the 1810’s, to the elaborate beribboned bonnets of the 1820’s and 1830’s, to the more restrained fashions of the 1840‘s and 1850’s. From the gentlemen’s high white stocks and ruffled jabots of the 1810‘s and 1820’s, to the briefly-fashionable black stocks and cream vests of the early 1830’s, to the black vests and bow ties of the 1840’s and 1850’s. Only clergy and older gentlemen adhere to styles that were popular in prior decades. Furniture follows suit, from the bold fancy-painted arm and side-chairs of the 1810’s and early 1820’s, to the Hitchcock-style gold-stenciled chairs of the late 1820’s and 1830’s, to the heavy velvet-upholstered armchairs of the 1840’s and 1850’s. The impact of Daguerreotype photography, which swept the region in the early 1840’s, must have been profound. We know that some portrait artists turned to the Daguerreotype process, or abandoned their portrait profession altogether. Phillips may have been knocked off his feet for a time. His productivity suddenly declined in the early 1840’s, and never fully recovered to the levels of the 1820’s and 1830’s. His style became less expansive and imaginative from that point forward, and something that appeals to our modern eye was lost. This may have been a question of economy of time and money, since he needed to simplify and shorten his process to complete with the sheer speed and low cost of photography. More importantly, I believe, he needed to accommodate changing tastes and expectations. The elaborate costumes and exaggerated poses of the 1830’s may have suddenly seemed unrealistic to his clientele. And the constraints of photography, with its rigid postures and shallow depth of field, may have changed the popular concept of what a portrait should look like. Whether he actually worked from Daguerreotypes during this period is unknown. Based on the formulaic poses whose use transcends years and locales, we presume that he did not. For any or all of these reasons, the result clearly imitated the competition. An exception is his portraits of children, where he managed to retain much of his old freedom. Still, he trudged on, and with apparent success. Only late in his career does his demographic shift noticeably to children and older 6


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 clientele. This may reflect the challenges of child photography, and a preference for traditional portraiture among older persons. Interestingly, some of his last works are close relatives of persons he depicted early in his career. Perhaps he was revisiting old acquaintances and capitalizing on old connections. The stylistic periods of Phillips’s work have been well analyzed and described in the work of Mary C. Black and Stacy C. Hollander, and it is not my objective to replicate or replace those analyses. The reader is referred to Black’s introduction to Ammi Phillips: Portrait Painter, 1788-1965 (1968) and Hollander’s critical insights in Ammi Phillips: Revisiting Fifty Years of American Portraiture (1994). In making this arrangement, however, I have made a somewhat finer classification of stylistic periods. Phillips made no abrupt shifts in style, so no such classification has perfectly-defined boundaries. In the arrangement, I have used the following headings, with my personal observations as follows: The Early Period (circa 1810-11) The earliest indicators of Ammi Phillips’s professional activity are his advertisements as a portrait artist in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts in 1809 and 1810. No works are specifically known from these years, however the portrait pair of Patience Bolles Stoddard and Ashbel Stoddard, of Hudson, Columbia County, New York, may date as early as 1810. He is holding a copy of Washington’s Farewell Address in quarto, which was published in that format only in that year. Four portraits are known from 1811. These include the portraits of Gideon Smith and Chloe Allis Judson (unrelated to each other) both inscribed 1811 and both inscribed as painted by Phillips, and also the portraits of child siblings Charles Rollin Barstow and Pluma Amelia Barstow. These are documented, in the surviving diary of their father, Dr. Samuel Barstow, as having been painted by Phillips in 1811. The aforementioned subjects were residents of the nearby towns Stockbridge, Sheffield and Great Barrington (respectively) in southern Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The portraits of this period are the most primitive of Phillips’s known work, and are characterized by stiff poses, anatomically simplified (or absent) hands, faces lacking in distinctive detail, and oddly acorn-shaped heads. The full-length portrait of an unidentified boy in a skeleton suit, holding a hat and book, appears to date from this early period. The “Border Limner” Period (circa 1812-18) The “Border Limner” was an unidentified portrait artist, active along the New York-Massachusetts border prior to about 1820, ultimately identified as Ammi Phillips (see Appendix B). The portraits of Dr. Isaac Everest and Sarah Cornwall Everest are datable to September 1812, no more than a year after Phillips’s earliest known portraits. While remaining primitive to our eye, with distortions of scale and perspective, they already evidence a more relaxed and confident style. The only factually-attributable portraits from this entire period are those of John and Phoebe Haynes, both inscribed as painted by “A. Phillips” in 1814. They are convincingly similar to many other attributed works from this period. The known subjects of this period are residents of the adjoining New York counties of Columbia, Rensselaer and Washington. The only two known portraits of this period from Massachusetts are from Goodrich Hollow, which is on a steep west-facing slope, and only accessible from Rensselaer County, New York. The portraits of this period are notable for their pale backgrounds in a variety of hues, the depiction of limbs which are often gangly and tubular, the expansive and somewhat awkward postures, and the extensive use of chairs, tables, books and other items. The canvases of this period are often larger than Phillips’s typical later works, and with the subject placed low on the canvas. In some instances, I have shown these larger portraits at a scale which reflects their relative size (and this is so-indicated on the page heading). Notable in this period, and the earlier Barstow portraits, are the large, narrow, full-length portraits of standing children. Phillips would not return to this format after the Border Limner period.

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 The Troy Period (circa 1818-21) The Troy period, which immediately follows the Border Limner period, is named by me for the time in which Phillips was known to be residing in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. These portraits show Phillips coming out of the wilderness, both in emulation of academic style and in increasing competence. As has been noted elsewhere, he is clearly under the influence of Ezra Ames, who dominated the nearby Albany market, and Phillips may have unsuccessfully attempted to enter that market. Stylistic influences include more restrained and classical poses, including some bust-like poses of gentleman without hands, women clutching wrapped shawls, the depiction of drapery in the upper corner of the canvas, and dark backgrounds. For some notable clients such as General David Robinson and The Reverend Jonas Coe, Phillips used the large canvases of his Border Limner period. But during the Troy period he seems to have abandoned large and varied canvas sizes and standardized on the 30 by 24 inch portrait which would become his mainstay for the next decade. The dark backgrounds he adopted during this period would remain his style for the next forty years. During this period, Phillips continued to work in Rensselaer and Columbia counties, with steady clientele and apparently no further need to venture as far north as Washington County. Exceptions are the Robinson portraits, done in Bennington, Vermont, but barely four miles from Rensselaer County, New York. Most evident in the portraits of the Troy period is Phillips’s strongly developing skill at faces. No longer are they similar, or distinguished by gross features, but have a striking individuality and personality which would continue to improve. The earliest evidence of Phillips’s emerging classical style is the bust-like depiction of N.B. (Napoleon Bonaparte) Buell dated 1818. Both the portraits of Rev. Gabriel Gebhard and Anna Maria Magdalene Carver Gebhard of Claverack, Columbia County, New York are inscribed with the subjects’ names, “1820” and “Painted by A. Phillips” and “Delineavit A. Phillips”, respectively. Two portraits signed and dated 1821 are Dr. John McClellan and Jonathan Lane, both of Livingston, Columbia County, New York, the latter inscribed “by Mr. Ammi Phillips of Troy.” The portrait of George Selby holding a letter addressed to him in Albany, New York may in fact have been painted at the time of his marriage in May 1821, possibly at Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York. The restrictions of the prevailing classical style did not always play to Phillips’s strengths or preferences, and he may have realized this. Gradually he returned to his more expansive and varied poses, retaining some of the academic conventions which he had emulated, combining them with his own idiosyncratic details and drawing from both worlds as suited him. The Rhinebeck Period (circa 1821-22) The Rhinebeck period is a bridge between the styles of the Troy period and the West Bank and Southwest Hudson portraits. This group may coincide with Phillips’s relocation of his residence to Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, New York sometime after 1820. In this time period he turns his sights to the south and west. Several subjects are in towns close to Rhinebeck, including Red Hook and Pine Plains. It also includes Phillips’s first journeys farther south to Fishkill in Dutchess County and may have been his springboard across the Hudson. The portraits of this period continue in the Troy period motif, with single-handed or bust-style gentlemen and women in plain bonnets and ruffled collars, often with crossed wrists. Subjects are often depicted in red or yellow painted side chairs, and I originally dubbed this Phillips’s “yellow chair” period. The few available dates include the portrait of Dr. Abijah Gilbert Benedict (and Charlotte H. Newcomb Benedict) of Red Hook, with a letter dated August 23, 1822; and the portrait of Judge Isaac Smith (and Phoebe Lewis Smith) with “The Plough Boy” (published 1819-23). Notices of unclaimed letters for Ammi Phillips at the Wappinger’s Creek (now Wappinger’s Falls) post office in April 1823 and Fishkill post office in July 1823 are evidence of Phillips’s earliest foray into southern Dutchess County, N.Y. and his possible departure by that year.

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 The West Bank and Southwest Hudson Portraits (circa 1822-24) The “West Bank” portraits illustrate Phillips’s initial work in the counties bordering the west bank of the Hudson River: Ulster and Greene Counties, New York. If Phillips had been unsuccessful in penetrating the Albany market, his search for clientele among prosperous rural families south of Albany was more productive. From some evidence we can discern that these first trans-Hudson works were produced about 1822 or 1823. An 1825 letter by John Vanderlyn indicates that Phillips had painted likenesses of the Jacobus Hardenburgh family a year or two earlier in Kingston, Ulster County, New York. The portrait of an unidentified young man holding Milton’s Works is inscribed “Ammon Philips July 20th 1823 Woodstock, New York,” in Ulster County, and is associated with this stylistic period. Identified, and tentatively identified, subjects in Ulster and Greene Counties comprise this grouping, which also includes a pair (Rev. Winslow Paige and Clarissa Keyes Paige) from south-easternmost Schoharie County, bordering Greene County. The “Southwest Hudson” portraits represent slightly further excursions southward in Ulster County and to Orange County, New York in 1823 or 1824. Among these are several portraits of related members of the Hasbrouck family of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York, and the Thompson family of Orange County, New York, two inscribed “Painted by Ammi Phillips AD 1824.” It is in this period that Phillips employs the device of a shawl wrapped around the female subject’s arm. These include subjects in black dresses with a white shawl with green floral border, and the striking portraits of women in white dresses with a red shawl similarly arranged. Gentleman of the period are shown in both bust-like portraits, sans hands, and in more casual poses involving fancy-painted and bamboo-painted chairs and holding books. The portrait of Daniel Bull (related by marriage to the Thompson family) shows the deeply half-shaded facial depiction which is characteristic of Phillips’s Realistic period. The Realistic Period (mid-to-late 1820’s) Mary C. Black referred more broadly to a period that marked “a dramatic departure from the visions of the Border period to the meticulous realism that dominated his work from about 1820 to 1828.” Within this context, Phillips employed costumes which are usually as dark as the backgrounds, and faces which are deeply shaded and with striking individuality. The identified portraits include two couples from Mount Hope, Orange County, New York signed and dated 1826. An unclaimed letter for Phillips at the Goshen, Orange County post office (about 10 miles from Mount Hope) in April 1827 also confirms his recent presence in that vicinity. Other subjects hold books published in 1827 or 1828. Included are three portraits of infants in similar attire, only one of which can be identified as from Orange County, New York and dating to about 1828. While predominantly of subjects from Orange County, New York, this period also includes undated examples from as far west as Delaware and Chenango Counties, New York, and from Dutchess County dated 1828. The Amenia Portraits (circa 1829-30) The Amenia portraits, although from a relatively brief period, are a large and cohesive grouping, and many of the subjects are from Amenia, Dutchess County, New York or nearby villages in northern Dutchess County. This seems to represent a peak period of productivity, when Phillips had a steady clientele in one small area. A characteristic element is a distinctively painted pillow-back chair which might have belonged to Phillips. A number of portraits also show Hitchcock-style chairs with gold stencils in various leaf patterns. There is evidence that Phillips may have used some of the commercially available decorative stencils directly on the canvas. In some, the subject appears to be gesturing toward the stenciling. Elaborate tall bonnets become the norm for female subjects of this period, each unique. A pose with long untied ribbons hanging one in front and one in back is also characteristic of the period. Several portraits are specifically dated to 1829 or 1830 from newspapers or letters in the subjects’ hands. The Early “Kent Limner” Period (early to mid-1830’s) No abrupt change marks the boundary of Phillips’s “Kent Limner” or “Kent” period, which Mary C. Black more broadly defines as 1829-1838. Indeed the Amenia Portraits begin to show that exuberant style. Women’s bonnets often show a triangular shape, as though Phillips was struggling to fit them within the canvas. Women may also be depicted instead with a large ruffled collar or large trim to their neckline, their unadorned head showing off their fashionable “Apollo’s Knot” hairstyle. The effect is the same, with the bonnet or collar providing a stark contrast with the dark background and clothing, and highlighting the subject’s face. Gentlemen’s fashions include 9


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 pale vests and the newly-popular black stock. The pale vests appear a passing fashion, but the black stock forever replaces the white stock, except for the occasional older subject. Most characteristic of this period is the women’s full-body leaning pose, not just the leaning head as used in the Amenia period. This would become the hallmark of Phillips’s Kent period portraits of women. Most notable of the dated portraits is the Columbia County, New York group, which is datable to 1834. The “Kent Limner” Period (circa 1834-1839) In the summer of 1836, Phillips’s commissions took him to the isolated but prosperous (due to iron ore) village of Kent, Connecticut, just across the state border from Dutchess County, New York. It is unknown how many portraits of Kent’s leading families Phillips painted that summer, but eight survived. These came to light as a group 88 years later (1924) when they were exhibited at a local street fair. The then-forgotten artist was dubbed the “Kent Limner” and was lauded by Mrs. Helen Carlotta Nelson, wife of a local artist, in International Studio in 1925. The stylized portraiture, with upright gentlemen and leaning ladies with elaborate bonnets and hands in the lower-left corner of the canvas became exemplars of what became known as Phillips’s “Kent Limner” or simply “Kent” period. Unfortunately, Mrs. Nelson also promoted the myth that these were faces added to stock bodies. The boundaries of Phillips’s Kent Limner period are not crisp, but are centered, by definition, on the Kent portraits of 1836. These eight portraits, which are of special significance in the emergence of interest in anonymous American folk portraiture are shown on a single page, along with an additional portrait from neighboring Wingdale, N.Y. which was probably also executed in 1836 and was also featured in the 1924 Kent exhibit. The portraits of this fully-developed period are characterized by somewhat lighter backgrounds of medium brown, boldly stylized black dresses with balloon sleeves, and women with a characteristic leaning posture, usually (but not always) to proper right on a small table, often with books. Curiously, Phillips mostly dispenses with furniture, other than the occasional sofa, and women of this period typically have no visible means of support. Women’s heads are sometimes unadorned, but are more often depicted with elaborate bonnets. The darkness of the women’s black dresses and men’s black jackets and stocks are boldly contrasted with broad white collars and white shirts. During this period, Phillips seems to have worked primarily in Dutchess County, New York, with excursions slightly south to Putnam and Westchester counties. By 1836, Phillips was listed as a Poughkeepsie artist, and sometime before 1838 he had moved his residence from Rhinebeck to Amenia, Dutchess County, New York. The Late “Kent Limner” Period (circa 1839-40) The portraits of the late 1830’s and 1840 use a reliable formula, somewhat more restrained than the most exuberantly stylized portraits of the mid-1830s. Gentlemen are depicted in what almost appears as a standing pose. Women’s headwear is less elaborate, or absent, and the poses with close-together hands and frequent use of small books are less imaginative. A distinctive prop of this period is a small table covered in green leather with brass tacks. The datable portraits which continue in the “Kent Limner” tradition include Judge Ebenezer Foster (and Frances Sprague Foster) of South East, Putnam County, N.Y, with a letter dated 1839; Gerard Crane and Roxanna Purdy Crane of Somers, Westchester, New York, inscribed 1839; Reverend Ashbel Green, recorded as painted by “Phillips” in July 1840 in Bedford, Westchester Co., N.Y.; and George C. Sunderland, also of Somers, Westchester County, New York, boldly inscribed in Phillips’s hand: “By Mr. Ammi Phillips in the fall 1840.” The Children in Red Dresses Although shown on a single page for comparison purposes, this grouping may represent at least three periods. The fact that all nine are unidentified represents a mystery and a challenge. The first unidentified boy and girl (top row) from the Balken collection, now at Princeton, are likely the earliest. It has been suggested, from provenance, that the child with teething ring may be related to an unidentified man with quill from the Realistic period (midto-late 1820’s). The portrait of an unidentified child, aka “Hannah Standish”, bears an extremely close resemblance to the identified portrait of James Mairs Salisbury (born 1834). And the three similar portraits of young girls in red dresses with necklaces are also similar to the portrait of Andrew Jackson Ten Broeck which is dated 1834. 10


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 It has been suggested, based on provenance, that the iconic portrait of the girl holding a white cat (page center) may belong to the Raymond family, and hence the related Foster family, including Augusta Maria Foster. By stroke of luck, and close scrutiny, the portraits of Frances Sprague Foster and Judge Ebenezer Foster are datable to 1839. On this basis, and a satisfying resemblance between the child and the rosy-cheeked couple, I have formed a hypothesis that the child is Ann Amelia Foster (1833-1883). This remains speculative, however. Of the three very similar portraits (middle row and lower center), the number of necklace strands may be a device to distinguish between related individuals. An examination of the number of strawberries held by the subjects of these and other portraits (e.g., John Younie Luyster) leaves little doubt that they represent the child’s age. The two portraits with red drapery, depicting somewhat older children, may date from a slightly later period, and bear some similarities to the portraits of the “Litchfield Children” [q.v.]. The Early Daguerreotype Period (early to mid-1840’s) An abrupt change in Phillips’s style is evident in the early 1840’s, which perfectly coincides with the stunningly swift popularity of Daguerre’s photographic process in the United States. Most pronounced is the introduction of the upholstered armchair with men depicted from a side angle and slightly above, as though shown in an aisle seat of a theater or train. The women are less severely affected but are shown in an equivalent sofa pose which Phillips had abandoned a decade earlier. Smaller bonnets have become the norm. Dating is available starting about 1843, with Joseph Bogardus’ “Anti-Bank Democrat” (published 1842-43), and Harriet Simmons Hasbrouck’s book dated 1843. Two newspapers of 1845 are depicted, and the portrait of Rachel Divine is dated 1846 in Phillips’s careful block lettering. One hallmark of this period is the use of side light crossing the page of a newspaper or book, leaving part of the page brightly lit, and the rest in shadow. This device was used frequently by Phillips in the mid-1840’s but not before or after. The Daguerreotype Period (late 1840’s and 1850’s) During this period, Phillips painted what Stacy C. Hollander has described as “a virtual army of black-suited, stern-faced New Yorkers.” The poses are drummingly repetitive for both men and women. Phillips depicts most men facing proper left, and one-handed, usually with an unobtrusive book or newspaper. Black stocks have evolved into black ties, and pleated shirts are ever present. Women are mostly facing proper right, with an arm resting on a sofa arm, and a small book or other object held in the left hand. Gone are the elaborate headwear and occasionally colorful dresses. All is black and restrained, as was the fashion of the period, and women are frequently bareheaded. Only in the faces themselves, and in the meticulous depiction of lace, does Phillips make each portrait unique. Occasionally, the gentleman is holding a dated newspaper, and some identifiable books have publication dates which lend a clue as to date and occupation. By 1850, Phillips had moved from Amenia to the town of North East, Dutchess County, New York. The Litchfield Children (circa 1848-53) As noted earlier, Phillips’s portraits of children are a refreshing departure from the rigid formality and dark tonality of his Daguerreotype period. Phillips took obvious delight in devoting extra time and artistic license to depicting juvenile subjects of this period. Among these are a number of children in blue and red dresses from Litchfield County, Connecticut. Included in this grouping are several adult females with paisley shawls who are the sister or mother of a child depicted in the same portrait or a related portrait. Although no specific dating is available, the ages of the known subjects date these from the late 1840’s to the early 1850’s. The portrait of Susan W. Kinney was possibly done on the occasion of her sister’s marriage to Lucius Culver in 1853, which took place at the home of Ammi Phillips, who was a cousin of their father. The portrait, prior to damage and canvas reduction, was said to have included white pantalettes and a cat and flower in the subject’s lap. In its original form, it may therefore have resembled the unidentified girl with flower and cat (see Children in Red Dresses, lower left).

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 The Late Period (mid-1850’s to early 1860’s) In the early 1850’s Phillips moved from the town of North East in Dutchess County, New York to Berkshire County, Massachusetts, first moving to New Marlborough by 1855 and finally to Curtisville, located between the villages of Stockbridge and West Stockbridge, by 1860. This brought him full circle to his Berkshire County base of fifty years earlier. He also came full circle with a portrait of the now-elderly daughter-in-law of Gideon Smith of Stockbridge, who he had painted fifty years earlier. Commissions from the Beckwith and Husted families also represented a connection to his long-ago Rhinebeck period. Few portraits from Phillips’s last decade are dated. Among these are three portrait pairs from West Stockbridge, dated 1857, and his portrait of a man with a newspaper “Agriculture” dated November 30, 1860. The last known portraits are a small group from Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y., including the portrait of William H. Stewart “by A. Phillips 1862” and that of Elizabeth Harris Husted, dated “by A. Phillips, June 20 th 1862.” These are supported by a daybook entry, dated March 15, 1862, by Phineas Knapp Sackett of Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y. noting advance payment to Phillips for a portrait. Phillips’s productivity declined, either by choice or circumstances, in his last years, and the radius of his travels decreased to a relatively short distance from his home. As noted earlier, a disproportionate number of his late subjects are small children and the elderly. Several of the late portraits are distinguished by a lack of subtlety in the shading, resulting in a certain flattening and more pronounced facial planes. Another curious hallmark, increasing from the mid-1850’s, is a pronounced distortion in the form of a diagonal elongation from the upper left to the somewhat lower right of the canvas. Whether these changes were by conscious choice, or were an artifact of failing eyesight, is unknown. Addenda – Contemporary Hudson Valley Portraiture For comparative purposes, I have included five examples of Phillips’s potential competition among academic portraitists, which may also have been early sources of inspiration. These are works attributed to Reuben Moulthrop (1763-1814), Ezra Ames (1768-1836), John Vanderlyn (1775-1852), Bass Otis (1784-1861), and John Vanderlyn II (1805-1876). The Evidential Works At the time of the first 1965-66 exhibit there was knowledge of 16 evidential works, those either signed by Phillips or with contemporary records of their creation by Phillips. Of these, only five were included in the exhibit and catalog examples. This left ample room for skepticism as to whether Phillips was solely responsible for this varied collection of portraiture. The fact that the 1965 catalog images were arranged alphabetically by the subject’s name no doubt added to the skepticism, with images spanning 50 years effectively juxtaposed at random. By 1968 the number of evidential examples had increased to 21, and 11 were shown. Although a marked improvement, no signed examples had been discovered from the years 1812 through 1819. This still left a significant stylistic and evidentiary gap between the earliest known example of 1811 and Phillips’s far more accomplished work of the 1820’s. And the issue of whether Phillips was the Border Limner remained technically unproven. By 1994 the number of evidential works had increased by half again, with important new discoveries added from 1811, 1814 and 1819, and several from the 1820’s. Of the new total, however, only five were included among the 50 exhibit and catalog examples. Although the proof existed, without extensive research it was not entirely evident. In this catalog we have increased the total number of illustrated examples twelvefold, and we have included all 37 of the evidential works now known (see Table 1). We will leave final judgement to the reader, but with the added depth and continuity of examples, and the inclusion of all known evidential examples, the unbroken evolution of Phillips’s work seems clear.

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Table 1 – Portraits Signed or Recorded as by Phillips

CHS 1965

Gideon Smith, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Mass., 1811 Chloe Allis Judson, Sheffield, Berkshire, Mass., 1811 Pluma Amelia Barstow, Great Barrington, Berkshire, Mass., 1811 Charles Rollin Barstow, Great Barrington, Berkshire, Mass., 1811 John Haynes, Hoosick, Rensselaer, N.Y., 1814 Phebe Haynes, Hoosick, Rensselaer, N.Y., 1814 James Van Schoonhoven, Troy, Rensselaer, N.Y., 1819 Anna Maria Carver Gebhard, Claverack, Columbia, N.Y., 1820 Rev. John Gabriel Gebhard, Claverack, Columbia, N.Y., 1820 Dr. John McClellan, Livingston or Clermont, Columbia, N.Y., 1821 Jonathan Lane, Livingston, Columbia, N.Y., 1821 Gentleman Holding Milton's Works, Woodstock, Ulster, N.Y., 1823 Alexander Thompson II, Town of Crawford, Orange, N.Y., 1824 Hannah Bull Thompson, Town of Crawford, Orange, N.Y., 1824 Catharine Helen Miller Bull, Town of Crawford, Orange, N.Y., c. 1824 Daniel Bull, Town of Crawford, Orange, N.Y., c. 1824 James Ketcham, Cornwall, Dutchess, N.Y., 1826 Anne Stoddard Pelton, Amenia, Dutchess, N.Y., probably, 1826 Peleg Pelton, Amenia, Dutchess, N.Y., probably, 1826 Alsop Vail, Mount Hope, Orange, N.Y., 1826 Frances Seybolt Vail, Mount Hope, Orange, N.Y., 1826 Philo Reed, Amenia, Dutchess, N.Y., 1829 Abigail Reynolds Reed, Amenia, Dutchess, N.Y., 1829 Abigail Penoyer Reynolds, Amenia, Dutchess, N.Y., 1829 George Greenwood Reynolds, Amenia, Dutchess, N.Y., 1829 Leonard William Ten Broeck, Clermont, Columbia, N.Y., 1832 Helen Livingston Ten Broeck, Clermont, Columbia, N.Y., 1832 Catherine Ten Broeck de Witt, Germantown, Columbia, N.Y., c. 1834 William Henry de Witt, Germantown, Columbia, N.Y., c. 1834 Anna Benner Ten Broeck, Clermont, Columbia, N.Y., 1834 Jacob Wessel Ten Broeck, Sr., Clermont, Columbia, N.Y., 1834 Helen [Lena] Ten Broeck, Germantown, Columbia, N.Y., 1834 Anna Farrington Noxon, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, N.Y., 1837 Rev. Ashbel Green, Bedford, Westchester, N.Y., 1840 George C. Sunderland, Somers, Westchester, N.Y., 1840 William H. Stewart, Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y., 1862 Elizabeth Harris Husted, Stanford, Dutchess, N.Y., 1862

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Geographic Analysis The image of the itinerant portrait artist as a Johnny Appleseed is romanticized and does not quite fit Phillips. He owned homes and had a large family. This he used as a central base for commissions which took him to neighboring towns or counties. His ventures took him across the Hudson River, or into Connecticut, seemingly relying on word of mouth, and exhausting the local supply of relatives and neighbors of his subjects. Sometimes he appears to have visited a place only once or twice, perhaps repeating the visit the following year, never to return. His well-known Kent period was named for eight portraits completed over the course of perhaps two months in the summer of 1836, and he may never have crossed the state border into nearby Kent, Connecticut again. On the basis of his birthplace in Connecticut, his identification as the Kent Limner, and the first major exhibit of his work by the Connecticut Historical Society, Phillips has a well-established image of being a Connecticut portraitist. An examination of the data shows that he was overwhelmingly a New York State artist (see Table 2). On the basis of 500 credible subject identifications, we find that 77% of his portraits were executed in New York State, 12% in Connecticut, and 11% in Massachusetts. During his most prolific decade of the 1820’s, not a single work is known from Connecticut. Only late in his career, in the 1850’s, does his base shift strongly to Connecticut and Massachusetts. Table 2 – Ammi Phillips Geography by Decade 1810's New York:

1820's

1830's

1840's

1850's

80%

100%

89%

63%

2%

Connecticut:

0%

0%

11%

34%

Massachusetts:

16%

0%

0%

3%

Vermont:

4%

0%

0%

Sample Size:

57

183

127

1860's

Overall

14%

77%

50%

0%

12%

48%

86%

11%

0%

0%

0%

0%

62

50

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If we rely on specifically datable portraits (see Table 3) the geographic chronology of Phillips’s work from 1811 to 1862 breaks down as follows: 1) A beginning in the southwest corner of Berkshire County, Massachusetts in 1811 in the nearby towns of Stockbridge, Great Barrington and Sheffield. 2) An extended Hudson Valley period from 1812 to 1847, mostly in New York State on the east side of the Hudson River, except for excursions to the west side of the river during the 1820’s and a brief foray across the state border into Kent, Litchfield Co., Connecticut in mid-1836. The Hudson Valley period may be further broken down into: -

A northerly subperiod in Washington, Rensselaer and Columbia counties from 1812 to 1821 corresponding to his residence in Troy, New York (1820 census) with his wife and children.

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The aforementioned ‘West Bank’ subperiod which took him across the river to Ulster and Orange counties by 1823 and continued until at least 1826. There are undated portraits which suggest that he also did work in Schoharie and Sullivan counties at this time, and may have worked sporadically on the west side of the Hudson in Greene and Ulster counties as late as the mid-1830’s.

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A subperiod close to home in Dutchess County from 1828-32, and coincident with the death of his first wife and prompt remarriage. Paradoxically, there are undated portraits which suggest that he may have done work in Delaware and Chenango counties around 1829, his furthest journey from home. This may have been prior to his wife’s death in February 1830. An announcement of his July 1830 remarriage was carried in the Delhi, Delaware Co., N.Y. newspaper, which indicates that his recent presence in that area had been well noted.

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A return to Columbia County in 1832 and 1834.

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The aforementioned Kent, Connecticut border-crossing in 1836. 14


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 -

A venture as far south as Putnam and Westchester counties in 1839-40.

In the remainder of these decades he mostly confined himself to Dutchess County where his family was residing in Rhinebeck (1830 census) and Amenia (1840 census). 3) A Litchfield County, Connecticut period from 1848 to 1850, beginning with portraits of relatives near his childhood home of Colebrook, Connecticut. This coincides with his relocation to the town of North East, Dutchess County, New York (1850 census) bordering on Litchfield county. 4) A late period from 1857 to 1862 with a return to southwestern Berkshire County, Massachusetts and his residence in New Marlborough, Massachusetts (1855 census) and Curtisville (Stockbridge), Massachusetts (1860 census) with a final short excursion to northern Dutchess County, New York in 1862. Geographic Outliers In the earlier checklists there exists some evidence that Phillips travelled further west and north in New York State, as far as the Mohawk Valley, Finger Lakes, and northern Adirondacks. Further research has mostly discounted these assertions, including: -

Arthur Leonard “Lenny” Olcott of Cherry Valley, Otsego County, New York [portrait unlocated], done from a a daguerreotype by a “Mr. Phillips” in 1857. Known only from references in the diary of the subject’s sister. This was found, on a full reading of the original diary, to have been done at an artist’s studio in lower Manhattan, possibly that of artist and daguerreotypist Benjamin R. Phillips (1821-1881).

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Catherine A. May (Mrs. Lucius Stimson) of Cortlandville, Cortland Co., N.Y., circa 1830 [National Gallery of Art]. Recorded as from upper New York State by dealer Albert W. Force of Ithaca, N.Y. We have found that she was residing with her newlywed husband in Delhi, Delaware Co., N.Y. at the estimated date of the painting. See note regarding Delhi, Delaware Co., N.Y. on preceding page.

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Jane Bevier Deyo (Mrs. Abraham Deyo) of Guilford, Chenango Co., N.Y., circa 1824. The location “Guilford” more likely refers to the hamlet of Guilford in the Town of Gardiner, Ulster Co. N.Y.

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Mariah Durkee Soggs (Mrs. Ananias R. Soggs), purportedly of Genesee Co., N.Y., circa 1831, appears to have been painted at a date when the oft-moved Ananias Soggs family was living in Woodstock, Ulster Co., N.Y.

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Mr. and Mrs. Vail from Afton, N.Y. [Chenango Co.]. Also suggested as possibly being James and Anna Vail of Hamden, Delaware Co., N.Y. The identity of the sitters remains speculative and appears, along with the tentative locations, to be surmised only from recorded occurrences of the Vail surname.

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Mrs. Smith of Elmira, N.Y. [Chemung Co.] appears to be an assigned name and no specific identity or connection with that location has been established.

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A boy of the Cook family, aka Samuel Cook, Jr., possibly Ticonderoga, Essex Co., N.Y., circa 1817, about whom no supporting biographical or geographic evidence is found.

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Mary Morrison, possibly Watertown, Jefferson Co., N.Y., circa 1835, who purportedly died in that location but about whom no supporting biographical or geographic evidence is found.

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Mrs. Caleb Keese, purportedly of Keeseville in Clinton Co. and Essex Co., N.Y., circa 1825 [portrait unlocated], about whom no supporting biographical or geographic evidence is found.

The above notwithstanding, the portrait identified by later inscription as Leonard Newton Allis of Coventry, Chenango Co., N.Y., circa 1829, has strong supporting evidence of his residence in that location. A group of four related portraits constitute the only examples from Schoharie and Montgomery counties, New York. The subjects, which include Rev. Winslow Paige and Clarissa Keyes Paige, Anna Shuler Cady, and Louisa Heyer Jackson, are all related by marriage and all have ties to Florida, Montgomery Co., N.Y. The Paige portraits were attributed to “Phillips” by Thurston Thacher in 1952 and were included in the Holdridges’ 1965 and subsequent checklists and in the 1968 exhibit. The other two are more recent, albeit tentative, attributions. None are entirely typical of Phillips’s work (see page 36). 15


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1811: The Early Period – Berkshire Co., Mass. (shown to relative size)

Gideon Smith 1 inscribed “Ped by A. Phillips 1811” Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Chloe Allis Judson 2 oil on panel inscribed “P....d By A Phillips October 18th 1811 / C Judson Agd 72" Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Charles Rollin Barstow (b.1805) and Pluma Amelia Barstow (b. 1803) 3 recorded in Dr. Samuel Barstow’s diary, October 6, 1811, as painted by “Philips”, Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Mass.

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Unidentified Boy [819] 4 (cf. Frederick A. Gale, p. 25)


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Early to Mid-1810’s: The Early and “Border Limner” Periods – Columbia Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Patience Bolles Stoddard and Ashbel Stoddard 5 holding Washington’s Farewell Address (pub. as 24 p. quarto in 1810) Hudson, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman 7 aka Mrs. Jenkins of Albany (unconfirmed locale)

Unidentified Man [621] 6

Mr. and Mrs. Hardy 8

Unidentified Woman and Man [792 and 676] 9

Unidentified Man [654] 10

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Early to Mid-1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Washington, Rensselaer and Columbia Co., N.Y.

Mr. and Mrs. Folsom 11 Possibly Araspus Folsom and Susan Pendleton Folsom of Greenwich, Washington Co., N.Y.

Dr. Nicholas Brown Harris 12 Sand Lake, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Joseph Heath and Mabel Rising Heath 13 Galesville, Town of Greenwich, Washington Co., N.Y.

Moses Cowan 14 Greenwich, Washington Co., N.Y.

Harriet Betts Hall (d. 1817) and Dr. Philander Hall 15 Lebanon Springs, Town of New Lebanon, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [674] 16 with book Wilson’s Febrile Diseases (pub. 1809)

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Early to Mid-1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Columbia Co., N.Y. and vicinity

Sarah Cornwall Everest and Dr. Isaac Everest 17 holding open letter dated “September 17, 1812” New Lebanon, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Mrs. Goodrich & child and Mr. Goodrich 18 and 19 Goodrich Hollow, Berkshire Co., Mass. (accessible only via Columbia Co., N.Y.)

Unidentified Woman and Man [755 and 651] 20 and 21 19


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – The Dorr family, Chatham, Columbia Co., N.Y. (relative sizes)

Polsapianna Bull Dorr & Esther Maria Dorr (b. 1814) and Dr. Russell Dorr 22 sister of Sarah Bull Dorr and brother of Col. Joseph Dorr [p. 23] Chatham, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Paulina Dorr (b. 1803) 23 Chatham, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Henrietta Dorr (b. 1808) 24 Chatham, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Joseph Priestly Dorr (b. 1805) 26 Chatham, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Robert Lottridge Dorr (b. 1812) 27 Chatham, Columbia Co., N.Y. 20

Catherine Van Slyck Dorr (b. 1804) 25 Chatham, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Russell Griffin Dorr (b. 1807) 28 Chatham, Columbia Co., N.Y.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Hoosick and Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

“John Haynes Aged 41 Years Painted by A Phillips Ad 1814” 29 Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

“Phebe Haynes Aged 41 Years Painted by A Phillips Ad 1814” 30 Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Rebecca Rouse Eddy and Jonathan Eddy 31 with bible and ledger Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Wilbur Sherman and Sarah Stearns Sherman & daughter 32 inscribed “Aged 39 Years 1815” and “Aged 26 Years 1815” Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [725] 34 with “Sparrman’s Voyage” vol. 2

Caleb Sherman 33 father of Wilbur Sherman [left] and Alsa Sherman Slade [p. 23] Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Johan Georg Fake, Jr. and Catherine Sneider Fake 35 inscribed “George Fake, Age 49 years, and 9 months. Nov.16, 1815” and “Catherine Fake, Age 45 years 5 months - Nov.16, 1815” Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [811 and 812] 36 (two portraits of same subject on opposite sides of a single canvas) 22

Unidentified Woman [467] 37 with “Holy Bible” and spectacles aka Mrs. Philip Slade


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Rensselaer Co., N.Y. (large-format, shown at reduced scale)

Alsa Sherman Slade and Joseph Slade 38 inscribed “Aged 49 Years AD 1816” and “Aged…Years AD 1816” holding Erasmus Darwin’s “Temple of Nature” (published 1804) Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Amy Chase Bull 39 mother of Sarah Bull Dorr [below] and Polsapianna Bull Dorr [p. 20] Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Mary Eddy Spicer and Cyrus Spicer 40 Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Milton Dorr 41 Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Sarah Bull Dorr and Col. Joseph Dorr 42 sister of Polsapianna Bull Dorr and brother of Dr. Russel Dorr [p. 20] Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Milton Dorr (purportedly) 43 or possibly Josephus Dorr Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1810’s: The “Border Limner” and Early Troy Period – Rensselaer Co., N.Y. and unidentified \

William Learned Marcy 44 later Governor of New York State and U.S. Secretary of State Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. (shown to same scale as Dr. Crane)

Mrs. Crane and Dr. Crane 45 holding “Boyer on the Bones” (published 1805) (large format)

Unidentified Man and Woman [659 and 774] 46 (large format)

“Philip Slade Aged 56 AD 1818" 47 Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. 24

Napoleon Bonaparte Buell 48 inscribed “N.B. Buel” and “1818” (uncertain locale)


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1810’s: The “Border Limner” Period – Washington and Rensselaer Co., N.Y. (shown to relative size)

“M.A. Barker Age 3 years 1816” 49 possibly Easton, Town of Greenwich, Washington Co., N.Y.

Harriet Campbell (b. 1808) 50 Greenwich, Washington Co., N.Y.

Harriet Leavens (b. 1802) 51 Lansingburgh (now part of Troy), Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Jerusha Rogers (b. circa 1804) 52 Greenwich, Washington Co., N.Y. (canvas probably reduced)

Mary Elizabeth Gale (b. 1813) 53 Galesville, Town of Greenwich, Washington Co., N.Y.

Frederick A. Gale (b. 1810) 54 Galesville, Town of Greenwich, Washington Co., N.Y. 25


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1818-20: Early Troy Period – Rensselaer Co., N.Y. and vicinity

Rhoda Goodrich Bentley and Louisa H. Bentley (b. 1813) 55 and William Northrup Bentley 57 holding “Horrors of Slavery” proprietor of Columbia Hall, Lebanon Springs, Columbia Co., N.Y (two miles from Rensselaer Co., N.Y.)

Rev. Jonas Coe 56 (large format) Pastor of First Presbyterian Church from 1792 to 1822 Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [771] 58 possibly Zilphia Stone Goodrich holding Thomas “Chalkley’s” Journal (published 1808 and 1818)

Mary Ann Steenback Gale 60 2nd cousin of Mary E. Gale and Frederick A. Gale [p. 25] (uncertain locale)

Jonas Coe Heartt (b. 1793) 61 brother of Philip Titus Heartt Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Boy with dog [814] 59 (canvas possibly reduced)

Philip Titus Heartt (b. 1806) 62 labeled “1815 at eight year of age” Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. 26

Unidentified Girl [827] 63 possibly a member of the Thompson family of Rensselaer Co., N.Y.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1818-20: Early Troy Period – Rensselaer Co., N.Y. and vicinity (continued)

Nancy Caldwell Church Robinson and Gen. David Robinson 64 Sheriff of Bennington Co. from 1789 to 1811 and U.S. Marshall until 1819 Bennington, Vermont (adjoining Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.) (large format)

Ruth Haynes Palmer 65 daughter of John and Phebe Haynes [p. 21] Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. (large format)

Sally Morgan Walbridge 66 Lansingburgh (now part of Troy) Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

“J. Van Schoonhoven, Aged 38” 67 original frame inscribed “Ammi Phillips painted June 7th 1819” Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [672] 68 holding snake cane

Amy Lottridge Davis and Ann Jane Davis 71 Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Jane Daney Smith 69 (problematic identification) Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Nancy Smith Lamphear 70 (problematic identification) purported dau. of Jane D. Smith

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1820-21: The Troy Period – Rensselaer and Columbia Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Betsy Brownell Gilbert 72 (uncertain locale, see Vol. 1)

Harriet Hill 73 Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman and Man [758 and 660] 75 inscribed “July 1820” on the original stretchers

Catherine Couenhoven Clark 74 Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman “1820” 76 aka Jane A. Fort Van Rensselaer Claverack, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Judge James Vanderpoel and Anna Doll Vanderpoel 77 Kinderhook, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [591] 78

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1820-21: The Troy Period – Rensselaer, Columbia and Greene Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Samuel Robert Campbell and Sarah Mynderse Campbell 79 parents of Jane Ann Campbell [right] Schodack, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Jane Ann Campbell (b. 1817) 80 Schodack, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Rev. Isaac Newton Wyckoff and Elizabeth Ogden Wyckoff 81 Catskill, Greene Co, N.Y. (across from Columbia Co., N.Y.)

George Edward Selby 82 of Albany married at age 17 in May of 1821 possibly at Schodack, N.Y.

Gen. Charles Whiting and Margaret Rogers Whiting 83 Kinderhook, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [697] 84

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1820-21: The Troy Period – Rensselaer and Columbia Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Unidentified Woman [770] 85

Bithiah Soullard Haskell and John Haskell 86 Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [669] 87

Gertrude Snyder Harder and William G. Harder 88 letter postmarked Albany, addressed to “William Harder, Ghent” Ghent, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Catherine Douw Hoffman Philip and Col. Henry G. Philip 89 holding letter addressed to "Mr. Henry G. Philip, Claverack" Claverack, Columbia Co., N.Y. 30

Dr. Thomas Brodhead 90 Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1820-21: The Troy Period – Claverack and Livingston, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Robert Richard Morris and Frances Ludlum Morris 91 Claverack, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Dr. Asa Jordan 92 or possibly Dr. Abram Jordan Claverack, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Rev. John Gabriel Gebhard and Anna Maria Magdalene Carver Gebhard 93 inscribed "J. Gebhard Ætatis 71 1820 Painted by A. Phillips" and “Anna M. Gebhard Ætatis 64 1820 Delineavit A. Phillips” Claverack, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Dr. John A. McClellan 94 “1821 / Painted by A. Phillips” Livingston, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Lydia Mary Williamson Schureman Sluyter and Rev. Richard Sluyter 95 protégé and successor of Rev. John Gabriel Gebhard [above] Claverack, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Jonathan Lane 96 “by Mr. Ammi Phillips of Troy March 30th 1821” Livingston, Columbia Co., N.Y.

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1821-22: The Rhinebeck Period – Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Eliza DuBois 97 Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Hannah Cooper du Bois and (purportedly) Garret du Bois 98 and 99 parents of Eliza DuBois [left] and Charles Louis du Bois [below] Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Mary Thorn Du Bois and Coert Du Bois 100 Rhinebeck or Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

John A. Sleight 102 brother of Abraham Sleight Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Charles Louis du Bois 101 Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Ruth Roe Sleight and Abraham Sleight 103 brother of John A. Sleight holding knitting and “Scott’s Bible / Gen - Jos / Vol. I” (pub. 1810) Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 32


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1821-22: The Rhinebeck Period – Red Hook and Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Fyler Dibblee (possibly) 104 Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Tobias Teller and Caroline Sammis Teller 105 Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Col. Nathan S. Beckwith and Elizabeth “Betsey” Gale Beckwith 106 with address and names inscribed on letter and book Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Dr. Israel Reynolds (d. 1824) 108 Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [622] 107

Charlotte Newcomb Benedict and Dr. Abijah Gilbert Benedict 109 inscribed "Doct. A G Benedict / Red Hook / Dutchess Cy. N Y" on letter postmarked "NEW YORK / AUG / 23, 1822" 33


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1821-22: The Rhinebeck Period – Red Hook and Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified (cont’d.)

Lois Atherton Allerton 110 mother of Dr. Cornelius Allerton, holding “The Gospel Herald” (pub. 1820-27) Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Dr. Cornelius Allerton 111 holding “Parr’s Medical Dictionary” (pub. 1819), with horse in background Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

previously Unidentified Woman [775] 113 same as Lois Atherton Allerton [above]

Polly Smith Husted 112 motherin-law of Dr. Cornelius Allerton Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Lois Davis Hamlin and David Hamlin 114 Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man and Woman [679 and 802] 115

Unidentified Woman [713] 116 same as Overbagh family member [p. 37] 34


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1821-22: The Rhinebeck Period – Lithgow, Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Phoebe Lewis Smith and Judge Isaac Smith 117 holding “The Plough Boy” (pub. Albany, N.Y., June 1819 to July 1823) Lithgow, Town of Washington, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man and Woman [656 and 765] 118 holding “[The] Plough Boy” and strawberry sprig

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1822-23: The West Bank Portraits – Greene, Schoharie and Montgomery Co., N.Y.

William Schuneman and Elizabeth De Meyer Schuneman 119 Catskill, Greene Co., N.Y.

Clarine Peck Van Bergen 121 holding “Henry on Prayer” Coxsackie, Greene Co., N.Y.

Louisa Heyer Jackson 122 Florida, Montgomery Co., N.Y. (uncertain attribution)

Rev. Winslow Paige and Clarissa Keyes Paige 124 in-laws of Louisa Heyer Jackson and Anna Shuler Cady Broome, Schoharie Co., N.Y. (uncertain attribution) 36

John Kenyon (possibly) 120 Catskill, Greene Co., N.Y.

Anna Shuler Cady 123 Florida, Montgomery Co., N.Y. (uncertain attribution)

William Cockburn 125 Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1822-23: The West Bank Portraits – Ulster Co., N.Y.

Maria Van Leuven Overbagh and Rev. Peter Abraham Overbagh 126 parents of John Van Leuven Overbagh [p. 59] and Rachel Ann Maria Overbagh Ostrander [p. 74] Saugerties, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Blandina Margaret Oliver 128 niece of Kate Elting [p. 40] Marbletown, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Overbagh family member 127 possibly Rachel DeWitt Van Leuven mother of Maria V.L. Overbagh Saugerties, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Maria Oliver Hardenburgh and Jacobus Hardenburgh (possibly) 129 holding “Life of Christ” and “Portraiture of Methodism” Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Dr. Abraham Ten Eyck De Witt, holding “Cullen’s Practice of Physic” 130 and Leah Dubois Wynkoop De Witt, niece of Derrick Wynkoop [p. 38] 132 Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y. 37

Rev. Thomas De Witt 131 holding “Horne on the Psalms” Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1822-23: The West Bank Portraits – Ulster Co., N.Y. (continued)

Unidentified Man [693] 133 Ten Eyck De Witt 134 holding “Milton’s Works,” inscribed Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y. “Ammon Philips [sic] July 20th, 1823 Woodstock [Ulster Co.], New York”

John Ten Eyck 135 brother of Blandina Ten Eyck Hurley, Ulster Co., N.Y

Anna Eltinge Wynkoop and Derrick Wynkoop 136 holding eagle snuffbox and silver-tipped cane Hurley or New Paltz, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Blandina Ten Eyck 137 sister of John Ten Eyck, holding snuffbox Hurley, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman and Man of the Van Keuren family 138 possibly Sarah Myer Van Keuren and Hezekiah Van Keuren Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Member of the Newkirk family 139 holding “Milton’s Works” West Hurley, Ulster Co., N.Y.

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1823-24: The Southwest Hudson Portraits – Ulster Co., N.Y. and related Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Philip Bevier Hasbrouck and Esther Bevier Hasbrouck 140 son-in-law and daughter of Ann DeWitt Bevier [right] holding “Hume / Vol 3” and leaning on “Milton’s Works” New Paltz, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Jane Bevier Deyo 142 (problematic identification, see vol. 1) Guilford, Town of Gardiner, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Aaltje Swartwout Sleight 144 (problematic identification) Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Ann DeWitt Bevier 141 wealthy landowner and businesswoman Accord, Town of Rochester, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Levi Decker Hasbrouck and Hylah Bevier Hasbrouck 143 son-in-law and daughter of Ann DeWitt Bevier [above] New Paltz, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Anna Seward Swartwout 145 Unidentified Man [616] 146 holding “Cowper’s Task” Swartwoutville (Fishkill), Dutchess Co., N.Y. 39


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1823-24: The Southwest Hudson Portraits – Ulster, Sullivan and Orange Co., N.Y.

Sarah Maria DuBois (Easton) 147 or Jane Hasbrouck (Hasbrouck) with “Lady of the Lake” (pub. 1823) New Paltz, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Maria Eliza Hasbrouck (Reeve) 148 or Pamela DuBois (Hasbrouck) New Paltz, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Kate Elting (Crispell) 149 New Paltz, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Elizabeth Smith Hunter and David Hunter 150 holding “Speech of His Excellency De Witt Clinton” as published in 1822 Bloomingburg, Sullivan Co., N.Y.

Catharina Van Keuren (Dubois) 151 Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Ann Eliza Sloan Dorrance and Dr. Benjamin Brewster Dorrance 152 holding “Orfila on Poisons” (translation published 1818) Bloomingburg, Sullivan Co., N.Y.

Letitia Sloane (Chapman) 153 sister of Samuel Sloane [p. 41] Wallkill, Orange Co., N.Y.

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1824: The Southwest Hudson / Early Realistic Period – Orange Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Daniel Bull 154 signed “A Phillips” father of Hannah Bull Thompson Town of Crawford, Orange Co., N.Y.

Hannah Bull Thompson and Alexander Thompson II 155, 156 both inscribed “Painted by Ammi Phillips AD 1824” Thompson Ridge, Town of Crawford, Orange Co., N.Y.

Robert R. Thompson and Sarah McCurdy Thompson 157 holding letter “Mrs. Sarah Thompson, Crawford” Thompson Ridge, Town of Crawford, Orange Co., N.Y.

Luther Halsey 158 Newburgh or Blooming Grove, Orange Co., N.Y.

Samuel Sloane 159 brother of Letitia [p. 40] Unidentified Man and Woman [618 and 699] 160 holding “Butler’s History” (pub. 1820-22) holding “Bell’s Surgery” (published 1795-1826) Wallkill, Orange Co., N.Y. 41


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Orange Co., N.Y. and unidentified

“Peleg Pelton aged 67 years / 161 Ammi Phillips – Pinct” [1826] Mount Hope, Orange Co., N.Y.

“James Ketcham Aged 69 / 162 Year 1826 / Ammi Phillips Pinxit” Mount Hope, Orange Co., N.Y.

Pauline Darling Denton and Samuel Denton 164 (married 1823) Middletown, Town of Wallkill, Orange Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [665] 166 holding clay pipe

“Alsop Vail Aged / 65 Years 163 1826 / A. Phillips Pinct" Mount Hope, Orange Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [658] 165

Unidentified Man and Woman, aka Mr. & Mrs. Sheffield 167 (unknown locale, possibly Orange Co., N.Y.) 42


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Orange Co., N.Y. and unidentified (continued)

Unidentified Woman [791] 168

Dr. Gabriel Norton Phillips and Elizabeth Payne Phillips 169 Phillipsburg, Town of Wallkill, Orange Co., N.Y.

Cicero Hinds 170 (uncertain locale)

Unidentified Man and Woman [596 and 745] 171, 172

Unidentified Man [696] 173

Esther Cummins Fisk and Rev. Ezra Fisk 174, 175 Goshen, Orange Co., N.Y. 43


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Orange Co., N.Y. and unidentified (continued)

Unidentified Man [610] 176

Unidentified Man [597] 179

Unidentified Man [586] 177 with quill and “Die Bibel”, possibly the father of child with teething ring and dog [p. 75]

Unidentified Man [695] 178 with quill and ledger book

Dr. Seth Capron and Eunice Mann Capron 180 holding “Niles’ Weekly Register” (published 1811-37) Walden, Town of Montgomery, Orange Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man and Woman [671 and 786] 181

Ester Stakley or Betsy Sutherland 182 (uncertain locale) 44


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Orange, Dutchess and Ulster Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Unidentified Woman [741] 183 in floral-upholstered wingchair (uncertain attribution)

“Frances [Seybolt] Vail Aged 69 Years 1826 / A. Phillips Pinct” 184 wife of Alsop Vail [p. 42] Mount Hope, Orange Co., N.Y.

“Anne [Stoddard] Pelton aged 67 years / A. Phillips - Pinct” 185 wife of Peleg Pelton [p. 42] Mount Hope, Orange Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [769] 186

Catharine Helen Miller Bull 187 wife of Daniel Bull [p. 41] and mother of Hannah Bull Thompson [p. 41] Town of Crawford, Orange Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [711] 188

Ruth Wolsey Griffin 189 (uncertain identification) Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Elizabeth Du Bois Bailey 190 sister of Coert Du Bois [p. 32] Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Abigail Greelé Eliot 191 Woodstock, Ulster Co., N.Y.

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Orange Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Col. William Shultz Little and Betsey Ketcham Little 192 son-in-law and daughter of James Ketcham [p. 42] Mount Hope, Orange Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [724] 193 (aka Mrs. Andrew Thompson, of Crawford, Orange Co., N.Y.)

Unidentified Woman and Man [803 and 613] 194 possibly Frances Smith Strong and Benjamin Strong Goshen, Orange Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [719] 195

Thomas Borland and Elizabeth Armstrong Borland 196 Hamptonburgh or Wallkill, Orange Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [715] 197

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Orange Co., N.Y. and unidentified (continued)

Unidentified Man [666] 198 holding “Boyer’s [French] Dictionary” (first American edition published 1822)

Unidentified Man and Woman, aka Mr. & Mrs. Warburton 199 holding Dr. Samuel Parr’s “Warburton’s Letters” (a volume from The Works of Samuel Parr, published 1828)

Dr. David Reeve Arnell (d. 1826) 200 holding “Bell’s Surgery” and spectacles Goshen, Orange Co., N.Y.

Dr. John T. Jansen and Clarissa LeFevre Dolson Jansen 201 holding “Bostock’s Physiology” (pub. 1824-27) and “C. Jansen” Minisink, Orange Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [706] 202

Henry Cuddeback and Esther Gumaer Cuddeback 203 Town of Deerpark, Orange Co., N.Y. 47


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Orange Co., N.Y. (continued)

Stacy Beakes, Jr. with antler-handled cane and Mary Smith Beakes holding a pink rose 204 Wallkill, Orange Co., N.Y.

Samuel Callender Howell holding “Ramsay’s History, Vol. III” (published 1816-17) and Sally Jane Beakes Howell, niece of Stacy Beakes, Jr. [below], holding a white rose 205 Mount Hope, Orange Co., N.Y.

Dr. Charles Winfield and Margaret Crawford Winfield (d. 1828) 206 Town of Crawford, Orange Co., N.Y. 48


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Orange Co., N.Y. and unidentified (shown to relative size)

Unidentified Man and Woman [673 and 784] 207 holding antler-handled cane and book

Col. James Smith and Fanny Waterbury Smith holding an apple 208 parents of Mary Elizabeth Smith [below] Wallkill, Orange Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Child [830] 209 holding six strawberries

Mary Elizabeth Smith (b. 1827) holding five strawberries 211 Wallkill, Orange Co., N.Y. 49

Unidentified Woman and Child [738] 210 holding a flower


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Delaware and Chenango Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Leonard Newton Allis 212 holding “Revised Statutes of New York, Vol. I” (published 1829) Coventry, Chenango Co., N.Y.

Catherine A. May (Stimson) 214 Delhi, Delaware Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [638] 217 holding “Cooper’s Surgery, Vol. I” (published 1825)

William Wheeler and Eleanor Knox Wheeler 213 parents of Malina Wheeler Knapp Deposit, Delaware Co., N.Y.

Charles Augustus Marvine 215 Delhi, Delaware Co., N.Y.

Malina Wheeler Knapp 216 Deposit, Delaware Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man and Woman [675 and 731] 218, 219

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1820’s: The Realistic Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Ebenezer Punderson 220 with book “Common Prayer” Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N.Y. (one of four copies)

Palmer Cook and Mary Halsey Cook 221 holding newspaper New-York “Enquirer” for the “Country” dated “August 8, 1828” Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Samuel Deuel 222 father of Mary Margaret Deuel [p. 76] Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Clarissa Benton Hunt and Joseph Drake Hunt 223 holding letter dated “December 1828” Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Mr. and Mrs. John Lawrence 224 (unknown locale)

Margaret Platt Bockee 225 Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 51


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1829-30: The Amenia Portraits – Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. and vicinity

Mary Christopher Van Doorn Couch and Dr. John Whitfield Couch 226 holding a Laennec stethoscope, inscribed “M.C. Couch 1829 AE 24” and “J.W. Couch 1829 AE 33”, North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [716] 227 identical, except chair vs. book, to Mariah Durkee Soggs [below]

Philo Reed and Abigail Reynolds Reed 228 “Aged 42, Taken by Phillips 1829” and holding letter dated “Feb 19th” brother-in-law and sister of George Greenwood Reynolds Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Mariah Durkee Soggs 229 mother of Henry Soggs and Mary Jane Soggs [p. 76] Woodstock, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Dr. Elmore Everitt, M.D. 230 holding “Studies of Nature, Vol. I” Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

George Greenwood Reynolds and Abigail Penoyer Reynolds 231 “Painted by A. Phillips June 24, 1829”, holding “Intelligencer" dated “June 24, 1829.” Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 52


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1829-30: The Amenia Portraits – Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. and vicinity (continued)

Robert Hoag (brother of Tripp Hoag) and Phebe Pugsley Hoag 232 holding “[The Dutchess] Inteligencer” [sic] dated “July 10, 1829” Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Olivia Kimberly Adams 233 mother of Abigail Adams Hoag Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Abigail Adams Hoag (Mrs. Milton Hoag) 234 Tripp Hoag (brother of Robert Hoag) and Sally Ann Hoag 235 daughter of Olivia Kimberly Adams holding “[The Republican Teleg]raph & Observer” Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. dated “August 12, 1829”, Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

“Isaac Hunting aged Sixty five Years and Ten months, 1829” 236 and Hannah Lewis Husted Hunting 238 parents of Morgan Hunting [p. 54] Pine Plains or Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 53

Rhoda Bennett Couch 237 mother of Dr. John Whitfield Couch [p. 52] Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1829-30: The Amenia Portraits – Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. and vicinity (continued)

“John Garnsey Aged / 61 Years 1830” and “Mercy Garnsey / Aged 59 Years 1830” (inscribed in red on front of canvas) 240 North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman 239 aka Mrs. Smith of Elmira, N.Y. (unconfirmed locale)

Unidentified Man and Woman [650 and 764] 241 holding “Holy Bible”

Mary Hamilton Ingraham 242 mother of Lucy Hamilton inscribed “M. Ingraham 1829”

Morgan Hunting and Julia Barton Hunting 243 holding letter “Mr. Morgan Hunting / Pine Plains, NY” Pine Plains or Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Lucy Hamilton 244 with same bible behind chair Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 54


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1829-30: The Amenia Portraits – Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. and vicinity (continued)

Louisa Park Benjamin 245 mother of Jane Ann Benjamin Powers Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [808] 248

Unidentified Woman [807] 251

Charles Wesley Powers 246 and Jane Ann Benjamin Powers 247 holding “Morning Courier” dated “October 30, 1829” Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Mary Powers 249 sister of Charles W. and Caroline Powers Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Caroline Powers 250 sister of Charles W. and Mary Powers Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Sherman Bassett and Hannah Sornborger Bassett 252 holding “Niles’ Register” dated “April 10, 1830” and letter postmarked “April 10” North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 55


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1830: Dutchess Co., N.Y. vicinity and unidentified

Dr. Peter B. Guernsey (and patient) 253 and Mary Ann Thorne Guernsey 254 books on shelf include Travers’ Diseases of the Eye (pub. New York, 1825) Town of Milan, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [587] 256

Thomas Isaac Storm 259 Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [678] 257

Fanny Brush Rundle 255 New Hartford, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Mrs. Cobb 258 (unknown locale)

Hendrick Hulst, holding Baxter’s “[The] Saints’ [Everlasting] Rest”, and Aletta Van Alst Hulst, holding spectacles and with “History” 260 Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 56


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1830: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Greene Co., N.Y.

John Van Deusen 261 father-in-law of Dr. Horatio Dewey Columbia or Greene Co., N.Y.

Dr. Horatio Dewey 262 holding “Anatomy” Leeds, Greene Co., N.Y.

James Elting 263 Cairo, Greene Co., N.Y. (probably)

Katherine Salisbury Newkirk Hickok 264 Dr. Levi King and Lovisa Peck King 265 aunt of Elsie Salisbury and sister-in-law holding “Cooper’s Surgery, Vol. I” (published 1825) of Catherine Newkirk Salisbury [below] Cairo, Greene Co., N.Y. Catskill, Greene Co., N.Y.

Horace Austin and Mary Ludlow Austin 266 Cairo, Greene Co., N.Y.

Elsie Salisbury (later Newkirk) 267 or Catherine Newkirk Salisbury Leeds, Greene Co., N.Y. 57


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1832: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Columbia Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Gen. Samuel Ten Broeck 268 with cane initialed “S.T.B.” Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Leonard William Ten Broeck and Helen Livingston Ten Broeck 269 son of Gen. Samuel Ten Broeck and stepdaughter of Elizabeth McKinstry Livingston, holding “Albany Argus” dated “May 8, 1832” Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Elizabeth McKinstry Livingston 270 mother of Jane Livingston Sanders Blue Stores, Town of Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Judge John Sanders III and Jane Livingston Sanders 271, 272 with “Plutarch, Vol. I” (as pub. 1830) and holding sewing box Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman and Man [707 and 627] 273 holding “New-York Enquirer” dated “July 3, 1832.”

Elizabeth Mygans (or Mygatt) 274 (uncertain locale) 58


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1833: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess and Ulster Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Welcome B. Arnold and Mary L. Rowe Arnold 275 with letter on table dated “Rhinebeck, Feb. 1, 1833” Town of Clinton, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

John Van Leuven Overbagh 277 brother of Rachel Ostrander [p. 74] Saugerties, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [787] 276 possibly Melinda Arnold Johnston dau. of Welcome and Mary Arnold

Dr. William Cantyne De Witt and Elizabeth Hardenbergh De Witt with “Good’s Study of Medicine” vols. IV and V (pub. 1826) 278, 279 Saugerties, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Henry Schenck Teller and Jane [Catherine] Storm Teller 280 with unusual forward-leaning pose and leaf-carved sofa Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 59

Unidentified Woman [778] 281


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Early 1830’s: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Greene and Ulster Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Marius Schoonmaker 282 Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Sarah Ann Palen Northrop and Lewis Northrop 283 Cairo, Greene Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [606] 284 holding riding crop

Mrs. Day and Mr. Day (aka Mrs. Bradley and Mr. Bradley) 285 holding “Religious Intelligencer” (published 1816-37)

Unidentified Man and Woman [604 and 751] 286 holding “Albany Argus” (published 1813-56)

Mrs. Mayer and Daughter 287 (cf. Children in Red Dresses, p. 75) 60


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1834: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Columbia and Ulster Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Helen [Lena] Ten Broeck 288 inscribed “aged 30 years 1834” Germantown, Columbia Co., N.Y.

William Henry De Witt and Catherine Ten Broeck De Witt 289 sister of Helen [Lena] Ten Broeck Germantown, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Jacob Wessel Ten Broeck, Sr. and Anna Benner Ten Broeck 290 holding pamphlet “Agricultural Society of the County of Columbia 1834 Clermont” Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y.

Henry Lawrence and Christiana Rockefeller Lawrence 292 labeled “1834 / Aged 29 Years” and “1834 / Aged 28 Years” Germantown, Columbia Co., N.Y. 61

Hannah Masten Radcliff 291 proprietress, Ulster County House, Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Jacob Hasbrouck De Witt 293 holding antler-handled cane Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1834-35: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Abraham Patterson 294 holding “Telegraph” dated “July 9, 1834” Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

John Hughes [John Hughson] 297 holding the New-York American dated “November 6, 1835” Hughsonville, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Caroline Jane Opie 299 Staatsburg or LaGrangeville Dutchess Co., N.Y.

James de Long 295 holding “Washington’s Farewell Address” Beekman, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [617] 296

Unidentified Woman and Man [759 and 687] 298 possibly of Dutchess Co., N.Y.

William Stevens 300 (brother of Margaret Stevens Bentley) Pawling, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 62

Margaret Stevens Bentley 301 or Elizabeth Buckley (uncertain locale)


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Early to Mid-1830’s: The Early “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Unidentified Man [614] 302 holding small book

John Guy Vassar, Jr. 304 holding blank letter Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [657] 307 holding newspaper “Telegraph” probably Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man and Woman [647 and 753] 303 holding scroll and small book

James Ketcham and Lois Belding Ketcham 305, 306 with ledger, quill, and spectacles Dover Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman and Man of the Russell family 308 with leaf-carved sofa and unusual backward-leaning pose 63


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1836: The “Kent Limner” Portraits - Kent, Litchfield Co., Conn. and vicinity

Rufus Fuller and (2nd wife) Elizabeth Drake Fuller 309 father and stepmother of Julia Ann Fuller Barnum Kent, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Almira Lucretia Mills Adams (Perry) 310 sister of Florilla Mills Raymond Kent, Litchfield Co., Conn.

John Milton Raymond and Florilla Mills Raymond 311 holding “Observer” dated “July 4, 1836” Kent, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Hannah Mills Raymond (Newcomb) 312 dau. of John and Florilla Mills Raymond holding parsley sprig and rose bud Kent, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Matthew Starr Barnum 313 and Julia Ann Fuller Barnum 314 holding “Morning Courier” dated “June 13, 1836” and parsley sprig Kent, Litchfield Co., Conn. 64

Phoebe E. Preston Haviland 315 Wingdale, Dutchess Co., N.Y. (adjacent to Kent, Conn.)


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-1830’s The “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Marquis de La Fayette Phillips and Jane Maria Pells Phillips 316 holding books inscribed “M.D.L.F. Phillips” and “J.M. Phillips” Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

“A.E. Allen / Aged 30 / 1836” 317 probably Ann Eliza Frear Allen, first cousin of J.M. Pells Phillips Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, Co., N.Y.

Abraham Burton and Celia B. Sayrs Burton 318 holding letter “Abram Burton / Amenia, New York” Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Jane Eliza Allen Wright 319 (Mrs. Abraham D. Wright) sister-in-law of Ann Eliza Allen Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

previously Unidentified Man [574] 320 holding letter “Mr. Abraham David Wright / Pleasant Valley / N York”

Unidentified Man and Woman [603 and 728] 321 with “Revised Statutes, Vol. I” (pub. 1829) and “Common Prayer” 65


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-1830’s: The “Kent Limner” Period – Ulster Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Unidentified Man [653] 322 holding quill pen

Peter Cornell 323 Thomas Cornell 324 father of Thomas Cornell son of Peter Cornell Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y. Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y. The above two paintings were reported stolen in 1988 (see Volume 1)

Jeremiah Russell and Elizabeth Moose Russell 325 holding quill pen and spectacles Saugerties, Ulster, Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [705] 326 holding spectacles found in Saugerties, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Isaac Cocks (aka Captain Isaac Cox) and Martha Van Duzer Cocks 327 holding letter, book and parsley sprig Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [723] 328

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-1830’s: The “Kent Limner” Period – Litchfield Co., Conn and Westchester Co., N.Y.

Jeanette Payne 329 holding parsley sprig Warren, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Ann Miller Tompkins 330 holding parsley sprig Somers, Westchester Co., N.Y.

Mary Hoyt 331 holding parsley sprig and book (uncertain locale)

Unidentified Man and Woman [615 and 720] 332 holding book “History”

Unidentified Man [636] 333 found in Gaylordsville, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Unidentified Man [639] 334 holding “Wesley’s Sermons”

Unidentified Man [667] 336 holding bible

Unidentified Woman [773] 335

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1830’s: The “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess and Putnam Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Helen Cornell Manney 337 holding book “H. Manney” Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Sarah Rogers 338 or possibly Eveline Cornell Rogers Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Elder Luman Burtch and Esther Patrick Burtch 340 Dated to 1837 based on age on frame. Elder Luman Burtch officiated at the marriage of Ammi Phillips to Jane Ann Caulkins in 1830. Bangall, Town of Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Ruth Wright Hoag 342 Baldwin Place, Town of Carmel, Putnam Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [700] 339 with pink rose

Anna Farrington Noxon 341 “by Mr. Philips 1837 Sept.” La Grange, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Archibald Campbell 343 and Elizabeth Mitchell Campbell 344 holding the New-York “Spectator” dated “June 5, 1837” Pawling, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 68


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1830’s: The “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess and Putnam Co., N.Y. and unidentified (continued)

Unidentified Woman [740] 345

Unidentified Man and Woman [605 and 752] 346 from Dover Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y. holding “Minutes of the Baptist Missionary Convention”

Unidentified Woman [742] 347 aka “Quaker Woman” possibly Martha Akin Taber

Jonathan Akin Taber and Abigail Julia Ayers Taber 348 parents of William Frederic Taber [p. 76], holding parsley sprig and “Report on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, New York, 1838” Pawling, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [625] 349 holding a pamphlet “Agriculture”

Unidentified Man [583] 350 holding pamphlet “Agriculture” 69

Unidentified Woman [781] 351 aka Mrs. Zachariah Flagler probably Dutchess Co., N.Y.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1830’s: The “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess and Putnam Co., N.Y. and unidentified (continued)

Jeannette Elizabeth Woolley 352 sister of Sarah Woolley Haxtun [p. 77] holding letter and with books “History” Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Girl, possibly a Raymond family member 356 (possibly Frances Anne Foster)

Frances Sprague Foster and Judge Ebenezer Foster 353 with letter on table dated “1839” South East, Putnam Co., N.Y.

Augusta Maria Foster (Raymond) 354 dau. of Frances and Ebenezer Foster South East, Putnam Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man and Woman [620 and 714] 357

Haxtun family member 355 probably Sarah E. Haxtun sister of William E. Haxtun [p. 76] Beekman, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [701] 358

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1838-40: The Late “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Preston Wing [611] 359 brother of Phebe Ann Wing Sheldon Dover, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Egbert Sheldon and Phebe Ann Wing Sheldon [607 and 809] 360 brother-in-law and sister of Preston Wing Dover, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man and Woman [689 and 805] 361 holding newspaper “…Eagle.” (probably the Poughkeepsie Eagle, published 1834-44)

Mr. Doane 363 Dover Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [729] 362

Unidentified Man and Woman [612 and 717] 364

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1838-40: The Late “Kent Limner” Period – Westchester Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Polly Clason Brady 365 (Mrs. Simeon Brady) Goldens Bridge, Westchester Co., N.Y.

George C. Sunderland 367 “Painted When at the Age of 21 years / By / Mr. Ammi Phillips In the fall of 1840” Somers, Westchester Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [634] 370 with dog stick-pin

Gerard Crane and Roxanna Purdy Crane 366 inscribed “48 Years Old. 1839” Somers, Westchester Co., N.Y.

Rev. Ashbel Green 368 recorded as painted by Phillips July 9-14, 1840, and holding “Η KAINH ΔIAΘHKH” Bedford, Westchester Co., N.Y.

Rev. Walter Smith Lyon 369 Bedford, Westchester Co., N.Y.

Mr. and Mrs. Vail from Afton, N.Y. 371 (unconfirmed locale) 72


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1838-40: The Late “Kent Limner” Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y., Litchfield Co., Conn. and unidentified

Unidentified Man [599] 372

Unidentified Man [600] 375 holding pamphlet “Agriculture”

Mr. Goodwin 373 possibly Hezkiah Goodwin Lime Rock, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Mr. Bates 374 possibly Rodman Bates Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man and Woman [635 and 736] 376 holding a pamphlet “Agriculture”, and leaning on a large bible

Unidentified Man and Woman [677 and 793] 377

Unidentified Woman [796] 378 inscribed “January First 1840” 73


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-1830’s: The “Kent Limner” Period – Well-suited Boys (shown to relative size)

Jacob Wessel Ten Broeck, Jr. (reaching for pear) and William Henry Ten Broeck (holding peach) 379 twin sons of Anna Benner and Jacob Wessel Ten Broeck [p. 61] inscribed with names and “Aged 10 Years 1834” Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y.

John Younie Luyster (b. 1828) 380 holding sprig with ten strawberries LaGrangeville, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Rachel Ann Maria Overbagh Ostrander (holding handkerchief embroidered “R.A.M.O.”) and son Titus Ostrander (b. 1829) 382 daughter and grandson of Maria and Peter Overbagh [p. 37] Saugerties, Ulster Co., N.Y.

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Unidentified Boy with peach and book 381 possibly Aaron D. Smith (b. 1830) Catskill, Greene Co., N.Y.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Late 1820’s to late 1830’s: The Children in Red Dresses (shown to relative size)

Unidentified Boy [817] 383 holding two strawberries and mallet

Unidentified Girl [824] 384 fingering necklace and holding sprig with one strawberry

Unidentified Child [829] 386 Unidentified Girl [825] 387 aka “Hannah Standish” 4-strand necklace, black shoes, red shoes, holding four strawberries holding cat, with dog

Unidentified Girl [834] 389 red shoes, holding flowers and cat, with drapery

Unidentified Girl [823] 390 2-strand necklace, red shoes, holding four strawberries, with dog 75

Unidentified Child [835] 385 holding teething ring and dog

Unidentified Girl [826] 388 3-strand necklace, black shoes, holding parsley sprig, with dog

Unidentified Girl [831] 391 green shoes, holding parsley sprig, with goldfinch, dog, table, drapery


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Late 1820’s to late 1830’s: More Children in Dresses (shown to same relative size as preceding pages)

Mary Margaret Deuel (b. 1827) 392 with four strawberries, patterned floor Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Henry Soggs (b. 1829) and Mary Jane Soggs (b. 1824) 393 with strawberries, on patterned floor Woodstock, Ulster Co., N.Y.

James Mairs Salisbury (b. 1834) 394 with five strawberries and dog Catskill Landing, Greene Co., N.Y.

Andrew Jackson Ten Broeck (b. 1832) 395 under hickory tree, with nut and dog inscribed “Aged 1 year & 6 months 1834” Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y.

William Frederic Taber (b. 1836) 396 with two strawberries and dog Pawling, Dutchess, Co., N.Y.

Haxtun family member with dog 397 probably William Edward Haxtun (b. 1832) Beekman, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 76


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Late 1830’s: The Benjamin Haxtun family, Beekman, Dutchess Co., N.Y. (shown to relative size)

William Woolley Haxtun (b. 1829) 398 with dog and drapery Beekman, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Almira Haxtun (1831-1841) 399 with rose sprig and kitten 400 Beekman, Dutchess Co., N.Y. (canvas reduced, with fragment preserved)

Sarah Woolley Haxtun and Benjamin Haxtun 401, 402 parents of William Woolley Haxtun and Almira Haxtun [above] and sister and brother-in-law of Jeannette Elizabeth Woolley [p. 70] Beekman, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Early to Mid-1840’s: The Early Daguerreotype Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Joseph White Phillips (b. 1835) 403 son of Elias and Elizabeth N. Phillips Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Elias Phillips and Elizabeth Northrup Phillips 404 parents of Joseph White Phillips Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man [595] 405 with bible and holding spectacles

Elizabeth Phillips Storm, daughter of Elias Phillips by his first wife and John Curry Storm 406 reading “Life of Clay” (published 1843) Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [727] 407

Joseph Bogardus and Barbara Moffet Bogardus 408 holding newspaper “Anti-Bank Democrat” (published 1842-43) Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 78


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Early to Mid-1840’s: The Early Daguerreotype Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified (continued)

Isaac Simmons and Sarah Simmons 409 parents of Harriet Simmons Hasbrook, each with name on book and inscribed (verso) with with name, age, and “1843” in Phillips’s hand Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Catherine Collins Flagler 411 (Mrs. Zachariah Flagler) Beekman, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

“Elnathan Haxtun Aged 49 Ye’s” 413 with “Wirt’s Life of P. Henry” Beekman, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Harriet Simmons Hasbrook 410 holding book “H.M. Hasbrook” and inscribed ”Aged 30 1843” Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Phebe Van Amburgh Hasbrook and Francis Jacob Hasbrook 412 sister-in-law and brother-in-law of Harriet Simmons Hasbrook holding newspaper [New-York] “Observer” dated “1843” Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Tunis Cooper and Maria Budd Cooper 414 Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 79


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Early to Mid-1840’s: The Early Daguerreotype Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and Litchfield Co., Conn.

Unidentified Man [648] 415 with Methodist Hymnal (possible brother of Ira Williams)

Ira Williams and Melissa Calkins Williams 416 co-founder, with brothers, of Sharon Methodist congregation Sharon, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Hon. John Cotton Smith (d. 1845) 417 former Governor of Conn. (1812-17) Sharon, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Phebe Doud Gay and Calvin Gay (d. 1848) 418 and 419 with “Dwight’s Sermons” (published New Haven: 1828) Sharon, Litchfield Co., Conn.

inscribed “Anna Van Voorhis” 420 and “Aged 82 / May 16 1844” Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Sarah (Sally) Totten Sutherland 421 (one of four copies) Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 80

Unidentified Woman [762] 422 holding “Religion of the Heart and Life” (pub. Hartford: 1840)


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1840’s: The Daguerreotype Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified

Thomas Parker 423 Hyde Park or Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Catherine De C. Stoutenburgh 425 sister of Tobias Isaac Stoutenburgh Hyde Park, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [779] 427 possibly of the Stoutenburgh family

Charles Brown and Elizabeth Marshall Brown 424 holding newspaper “Telegraph” dated “August 13, 1845” Salt Point, Town of Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Tobias Isaac Stoutenburgh and Maria Albertson Stoutenburgh 426 holding newspaper “Baptist Advocate” dated “September 9, 1845” Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man and Woman [682 and 739] 428 holding newspaper “Christian Advocate” dated “October 24, 1845” 81


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1840’s: The Daguerreotype Period – Dutchess Co., N.Y. and unidentified (continued)

Deacon Benjamin Benedict 429 with tinted spectacles and bible North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Mr. and Mrs. Keese 430 with music book and holding bible (possibly John Mumford Keese and Cornelia Hoffman Keese Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.Y.)

“Rachel Divine. Aged 60. 1846.” 431 highlighting Psalm XXXVII Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Man and Woman [410 and 411] 432 frame inscribed “J. Ransom, Poughkeepsie” and holding herb sprig (probably Jonathan LeFrevre Ransom and Jane Tallmadge Ransom) Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Unidentified Woman [735] 433

Col. Henry Rundall and Nancy Totten Sutherland Rundall 434 inscribed “1847 Aged 48” and “Nancy T. Rundall Aged 44 1847” Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 82


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1840’s: The Daguerreotype Period – Litchfield Co., Conn. and unidentified

“Julia Anna Stone Morehouse of Unidentified Man and Woman [592 and 708] 435 436 Bogardus Hall” and “2-22-48” Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. (nominally in Sharon, Litchfield Co., Conn.)

Theron Bronson and Maria Rachel Munsill Bronson 437 parents of Edward Hiram and Henry Theron Bronson [p. 89] Winchester, Litchfield Co., Conn. (cf. Maria Rachel Munsill Bronson and Wilbur Bronson, p. 88)

Rebecca Beebe Rockwell 439 Colebrook, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Margaret Phelps Higley (d. 1850) 438 Falls Village, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Judge Miles Tobey Granger and Caroline S. Ferguson Granger 440 holding "Statutes of Connecticut" (published Hartford: 1844) Canaan, Litchfield Co., Conn. 83


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Mid-to-Late 1840’s: The Daguerreotype Period – Litchfield Co., Conn. and unidentified (continued)

Sarah J. Kinney 441 daughter of Nisus and Sarah W. Kinney Winsted, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Nisus Kinney 442 (Ammi Phillips’s cousin) and Sarah Wakefield Kinney 443 parents of Sarah J., Jane E. [p. 88] and Susan W. Kinney [p. 88] holding “Hartford Times” dated “June 24, 1848” Winsted, Litchfield Co., Conn.

(possibly) Sen. John Henry Hubbard and Julia Ann Dodge Hubbard 444 holding newspaper “Hartford” dated “April 21, 1849” Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Unidentified Woman [766] 446 holding thistle

Lucius Culver 445 son-in-law of Nisus Kinney, married in 1851 at the home of Ammi Phillips

Theron Daniel Ludington and Eleanor Bailey Ludington 447 Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn. 84


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1850: The Daguerreotype Period – Litchfield Co., Conn. and unidentified

Augustus Miles and Roxa Norton Miles 448 holding newspaper “Tribune” dated “June 24, 1850” Goshen, Litchfield, Conn.

Unidentified Man [691] 450

Unidentified Woman [772] 449

Mr. and Mrs. Seymour of Connecticut 451 holding newspaper “Tribune” dated “August 27, 1850” (uncertain locale)

Milo Bartholomew and Milia Holbrook Bartholomew 452 holding “The Cultivator” dated “October 5, 1850” and holding an unfolded envelope with four locks of hair. Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn. 85

Mrs. Georg (Ada) Kesting 453 (uncertain locale)


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1850: The Daguerreotype Period – Litchfield Co., Conn. and unidentified (continued)

William Miles 454 Goshen or Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Unidentified Man [355] 455 likely a Miles family member (possibly Frederick Miles of Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn.)

Dr. Ovid Plumb and Abiah Lawrence Plumb 457 with pear blossoms, brass microscope and “Gray’s Bottany” [sic] Salisbury, Litchfield, Conn.

Unidentified Woman [767] 459

Unidentified Woman [698] 456

Unidentified Woman [734] 458

Mr. and Mrs. James Reed 460 (possibly Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt Clinton Dakin, Sr.) North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 86


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1853: The Daguerreotype Period – The Hotchkiss family, Torrington, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Dyer Hotchkiss 461 father of Charles Hotchkiss Torrington, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Charles Hotchkiss and Electa Susannah Brace Hotchkiss 462 holding the “Advent [Herald]” (published as depicted, 1848-56) parents of Edward C., Lucia E. and Henry E. Hotchkiss Torrington, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Edward C. Hotchkiss (b. 1833) 463 Torrington, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Lucia E. Hotchkiss (b. 1835) 464 Torrington, Litchfield Co., Conn. 87

Henry E. Hotchkiss (b. 1841) 465 Torrington, Litchfield Co., Conn.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1848-53: The Litchfield Children and related portraits with Paisley shawls (shown to relative size)

Susan W. Kinney (b. 1842) 466 sister of Jane E. Kinney Winsted, Litchfield Co., Conn. (canvas reduced) Maria Rachel Munsill Bronson and son Wilbur Bronson (b. 1848) 468 Winchester, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Jane E. Kinney 469 sister of Susan W. Kinney Winsted, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Emily Miner Palmer Fox 467 Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Unidentified Man and Woman [593 and 733] 470 holding Winslow’s Merchant’s and Mechanic’s Guide (pub. 1851)

Leonard Richardson and Lucy Anne Barnum Richardson 471 holding annual report “Directors of the Housatonic Railroad Company” Lime Rock, Litchfield Co., Conn. 88

Milo Barnum Richardson (b. 1849) 472 son of Leonard and Lucy Richardson Lime Rock, Litchfield Co., Conn.


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1848-53: The Litchfield Children (shown to same relative size as preceding page)

Edward H. Bronson (b. 1842) and Henry T. Bronson (b. 1845) 473 sons of Theron Bronson [p. 83] and Maria Rachel Munsill Bronson [pp. 83, 88] holding “Picture Multiplier” (published 1843-47) Winchester, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Virginia Ludington (b. 1846) and Theron Simpson Ludington (b. 1850) 475 Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn.

Unidentified Children [821] 474 and their cat

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1850’s: The Daguerreotype Period – Berkshire Co., Mass. and unidentified

Unidentified Man (holding book on agriculture) and Woman 476 Possibly Hiram Bartholomew and Betsy Barnum Bartholomew of Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Henry W. Langdon 478 (alternatively, William S. Langdon) with “History of Western Massachusetts.” (pub. 1855) Monterey, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Nathan Gaylord Benjamin 477 holding “Henry’s Commentary, Vol. I Gen-Sam” (as pub. 1856) Egremont, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Unidentified Man and Woman [643 and 763] 479 holding book “History” and handkerchief possibly Wilbur Curits Langdon and Camilla Harmon Langdon Monterey, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Unidentified Man and Woman [623 and 709] 480

Unidentified Woman [721] 481

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1850’s: The Daguerreotype Period – Berkshire Co., Mass. and unidentified (continued)

Unidentified Man [608] 482 holding literary weekly “[True] Flag” (published Boston, 1851-1908) from a Sheffield, Mass. family

Dr. Clarkson T. Collins and Lydia Coffin Collins 483 with “Wood’s Practice of Medicine” (published 1847-67) Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Unidentified Man and Woman [609 and 718] 484 holding “The Prince of David” (pub. 1855) and embroidered handkerchief

Dr. Joseph Priestly Dorr 486 Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N.Y. (3 miles from Berkshire Co., Mass.)

Unidentified Woman [813] 485 with mourning ribbons (one of three similar, possibly sisters) probably Berkshire Co., Mass.

Henry Sisson and Lucy Amanda Howe Sisson 487 New Marlborough, Berkshire Co., Mass. 91


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1850’s: The Daguerreotype Period – Berkshire Co., Mass. and unidentified (continued)

Unidentified Man [626] 488 holding Whiston’s “Complete Works of Flavius Josephus” (1851 ed.)

Unidentified Man [598] 489

Unidentified Man [642] 490 with “Holy Bible”

Unidentified Man [585] 491 with “Dunglison’s Human Physiology” (published 1832 to 1856)

Unidentified Man [624] 492 with book “History”

Mr. Cooper 493 with book “History of the U.S.” (unknown locale)

Unidentified Man [680] 494

Unidentified Man [688] 495 holding a glove 92

Unidentified Man [646] 496 holding a glove


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1850’s: The Daguerreotype Period – Berkshire Co., Mass and unidentified (continued)

Ebenezer Chadwick 497 New Marlborough or Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Asa Beckwith 498 with book “History” (unknown locale)

Unidentified Man [584] 499 with “Watson’s Practice of Medicine” found in Berkshire Co., Mass.

Unidentified Boy [690] 500 holding “Ballou’s Pictorial” as issued January to June 1855

Unidentified Man [663] 501 holding newspaper “Spectator” dated “March 19, 1855”

Unidentified Man [692] 502 with book “History”

Unidentified Man [588] 503

Lorrin Smith and Eliza Smith 504 New Marlborough, Berkshire Co., Mass. 93


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1857: The Late Period – West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Elisha Barnes 505 father of Thomas Williams Barnes West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Caroline H. Williams Barnes 507 daughter-in-law of Elisha Barnes holding sprig with rose buds West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Mrs. Lyman 509 West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Thomas Williams Barnes and Zilpha Arnold Barnes 506 holding newspaper “New York” dated “July 3, 1857” and white flower, with “Mysteries of Bee-Keeping Explained” (pub. 1853) West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Perry Green Comstock and Elizabeth M. Comstock 508 holding newspaper “Argus” dated “July 30, 1857” West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Ethan Allen Van Deusen and Clymena Tobey Van Deusen 510 holding newspaper “New York” dated “August 17, 1857” West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass. 94


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1860: The Late Period – Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass. vicinity and unidentified

Henry Sedgwick 511 Lenox, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Unidentified Man [662] 512 with “Agriculture” dated “Nov. 30, 1860” possibly Charles Asaph Dewey New Lenox, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Chauncey Erastus Dewey and Caroline Bailey Dewey 514 parents of Duane Bailey Dewey [p. 97], with quill pen, “Ledger / 1860” and volume “H.R.R.” [Housatonic Rail Road] New Lenox, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Thomas Carter 516 grandfather of Carter children [p. 96] Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Sarah King Dewey (Mrs. Charles Asaph Dewey) and Harriet Maria Dewey (b. 1859) 513 New Lenox, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Unidentified Woman [801] 515

Anna Benedict Smith 517 and Enos Smith (d. 1857) 518 dau.-in-law and son of Gideon Smith [p. 16] who was painted by Phillips in 1811 Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass. 95


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1860: The Late Period – Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass. vicinity and unidentified (continued)

Edward Church Carter 519 uncle of the three Carter children [right] and Florence Maria Carter [below] Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Anna Electa Carter (b. 1845), Mary Adele Carter (b. 1856), and John Calvin Calhoun Carter (b. 1846) 520 holding goldfinch, flower, and strawberries recorded as painted 1860 in Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Unidentified Girl [368] 521 aka “Mary O’Connel” from an early collection in Berkshire Co., Mass.

Emily Armeda Roberts (b. 1839) 522 (later Mrs. Emily Cooper of Lee) Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Edward Harmon Langdon 523 painted posthumously (d. 1855) (alternatively, Henry W. Langdon) Monterey, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Unidentified Boy [832] 524 seated in armchair, with bell, peach, and mallet

Florence Maria Carter 525 (b. 1859) with apple, sock, and holding shoe Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass.

Unidentified Boy [820] 526 seated in armchair, with mallet (in octagonal frame)

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Unidentified Woman and Boy [743] 527 with long curls

Unidentified Boy [833] 528 with dog Unidentified Woman [750] (cf. George W. Beckwith, p. 98) (canvas reduced) 529

Unidentified Boy [818] 530 with long curls, hat and large dog

Unidentified Boy [816] 531 with long curls, hat and dog

Unidentified Child [828] 532 in blue dress with large dog

Duane Bailey Dewey (b. 1858) 533 New Lenox, Berkshire Co., Mass. 97


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Circa 1862: The Late Period – Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

Elizabeth Harris Husted 534 “Taken by A. Phillips / June 20th 1862” niece of Polly Smith Husted [p. 34] Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

George W. Beckwith and dog 535 son of Col. Nathan S. Beckwith and Elizabeth Gale Beckwith [p. 33] Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

“Wm. H. Stewart Age 57 Painted by A. Phillips 1862” Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

These are the last dated portraits by Ammi Phillips

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Subject

Locale

1811 October 6 1811 October 6 1811 October 18 1811 1812 September 17 1814 1814 1815 November 16 1815 November 16 1815 1815 1815 1816 1816 1816 1818 1818 1819 June 7 1820 July 1820 July 1820 1820 1820 1821 March 30 1821 1822 August 23 1823 July 20 1824 1824 1826 1826 1826 1828 August 8 1828 December 1829 February 19 1829 May - June 1829 June 24 1829 June 24 1829 July 10 1829 August 12 1829 October 30 1829 1829 1829 1830 April 10 1830 April 10 1830 1830 1832 May 8 1832 July 3 1833 February 1

Charles Rollin Barstow Pluma Amelia Barstow Chloe Allis Judson Gideon Smith Sarah Cornwall Everest John Haynes Phebe Haynes Catherine Fake Johan Georg Fake, Jr. Sarah Stearns Sherman Wilbur Sherman Philip Titus Heartt Alsa Sherman Slade Joseph Slade M.A. Barker Philip Slade Napoleon Bonaparte Buell James Van Schoonhoven Unidentified Woman [758] Unidentified Man [660] Jane A. Fort Van Rensselaer (?) Rev. John Gabriel Gebhard Anna Magdalena Carver Gebhard Jonathan Lane Dr. John A. McClellan Dr. Abijah Gilbert Benedict Unidentified Man [693] Hannah Bull Thompson Alexander Thompson James Ketcham Alsop Vail Frances Seybolt Vail Palmer Cook Joseph Drake Hunt Philo Reed Isaac Hunting George Greenwood Reynolds Abigail Pennoyer Reynolds Robert Hoag Tripp Hoag Charles Wesley Powers Mary Christopher Van Doorn Couch Dr. John Whitfield Couch Mary Hamilton Ingraham Sherman Bassett Hannah Sornborger Bassett John Garnsey Mercy Garnsey Leonard William Ten Broeck Unidentified Man [627] Welcome B. Arnold 99

Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Mass. Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Mass. Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass. Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass. New Lebanon, Columbia Co., N.Y. Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. Easton, Washington Co., N.Y. Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. unknown Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. unknown unknown Claverack, Columbia Co., N.Y. (?) Claverack, Columbia Co., N.Y. Claverack, Columbia Co., N.Y. Livingston, Columbia Co., N.Y. Livingston, Columbia Co., N.Y. Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Woodstock, Ulster Co., N.Y. Town of Crawford, Orange Co., N.Y. Town of Crawford, Orange Co., N.Y. Mount Hope, Orange Co., N.Y. Mount Hope, Orange Co., N.Y. Mount Hope, Orange Co., N.Y. Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Pine Plains or Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y. North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. (probably) North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y. North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y. North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y. North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y. unknown Clinton, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

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Subject

Locale

1834 July 9 1834 1834 1834 1834 1834 1834 1835 November 6 1836 June 13 1836 July 4 1836 1837 June 5 1837 July - August 1837 September 1838 1839 1839 1840 January 1 1840 July 9-14 1840 fall 1842-43 1843 1843 1843 1843 1844-45 1844 May 16 1845 August 13 1845 September 9 1845 October 24 1846 1847 1847 1848 February 22 1848 June 24 1849 April 21 1850 June 24 1850 August 27 1850 September 15 1850 October 5 1855 January - June 1855 March 19 1857 July 3 1857 July 30 1857 August 17 1860 November 30 1860 1862 March 15 1862 June 20 1862

Abraham Patterson Jacob Wessel Ten Broeck Helen [Lena] Ten Broeck Henry Lawrence Christiana Rockefeller Lawrence Jacob W. and William H. Ten Broeck Andrew Jackson Ten Broeck John Hughson Matthew Starr Barnum John Milton Raymond Ann Eliza Frear Allen Archibald Campbell Elder Luman Burtch Anna Farrington Noxon Jonathan Akin Taber Judge Ebenezer Foster Gerard Crane Unidentified Woman [796] Rev. Ashbel Green George C. Sunderland Joseph Bogardus Isaac Simmons Sarah Simmons Harriet Simmons Hasbrook Francis Jacob Hasbrook Elnathan Haxtun Anna Van Voorhis Charles Brown Tobias Isaac Stoutenburgh Unidentified Man [682] Rachel Divine Col. Henry Rundall Nancy Totten Sutherland Rundall Julia Anna Stone Morehouse Nisus Kinney Sen. John Henry Hubbard (possibly) Augustus Miles Mr. Seymour Hosea W. Crandall Milo Bartholomew Unidentified Boy [690] Unidentified Man [663] Thomas Williams Barnes Perry Green Comstock Ethan Allen Van Deusen Charles Asaph Dewey (possibly) Chauncey Erastus Dewey Phineas K. Sackett (family member) Elizabeth Harris Husted William H. Stewart

Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y. Germantown, Columbia Co., N.Y. Germantown, Columbia Co., N.Y. Germantown, Columbia Co., N.Y. Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y. Clermont, Columbia Co., N.Y. Hughsonville, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Kent, Litchfield Co., Conn. Kent, Litchfield Co., Conn. Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Pawling, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Bangall, Dutchess Co., N.Y. La Grange, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Pawling, Dutchess Co., N.Y. South East, Putnam Co., N.Y. Somers, Westchester Co., N.Y. unknown Bedford, Westchester Co., N.Y. Somers, Westchester Co., N.Y. Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Beekman, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.Y. unknown Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Sharon, Litchfield Co., N.Y. Winsted, Litchfield Co., Conn. Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn. Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn. unknown Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn. Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn. unknown unknown West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass. West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass. West Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass. New Lenox, Berkshire Co., Mass. New Lenox, Berkshire Co., Mass. Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Stanford, Dutchess Co., N.Y.

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Boy of the Overbagh family, probably Ulster Co., N.Y. 536 with drape, patterned floor covering, and dog at feet attributed to John Vanderlyn II (1805-1876) (cf. Kent Period children with dogs)

Eleanor Ward Humphrey 537 Albany, N.Y., circa 1819 by Ezra Ames (1768-1836) (cf. Troy Period women with shawls)

Ann Dunkin and Dunkin Henry Van Rensselaer 538 Albany, N.Y., circa 1818 by Bass Otis (1784-1861) (cf. mid-to-late 1820’s infants in white dresses, p. 49)

William Cockburn 539 Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y. attributed to John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) (cf. Phillips’s portrait of William Cockburn, p. 36)

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Rev. Ammi Ruhamah Robbins, Norwalk, Litchfield Co., Conn., 1812 540 by Reuben Moulthrop (1763-1814) (cf. Gen David Robinson, p. 27)

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Appendix A: Ammi Phillips Family and Historical Records Ammi Phillips’s hundreds of surviving works, many dated or datable, provide an exceptional record of his whereabouts over a period of half a century, as illustrated elsewhere in this volume. Biographical sketches have also been provided in other publications. Nevertheless, we thought it useful to other researchers to document what we know of his family and their historical record as follows. Ammi Phillips was born on April 24, 1788 (or 1787) in Colebrook, Litchfield Co., Connecticut.1 He was the son of Samuel Phillips (1760-1842), a farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and Millea (Kellogg) Phillips (1763-1861). His paternal grandparents were Samuel Phillips (1737-1792) and Elizabeth (Ayer) Phillips (1735-1778), early land purchasers in Colebrook, Connecticut. His maternal grandparents were Isaac Kellogg (1727-1800) and Martha (Merrill) Kellogg (1727-1807) of New Hartford, Litchfield Co., Connecticut. Ammi was apparently named for Rev. Ammi R. Robbins (1740-1813), Congregational minister in adjacent Norfolk, Connecticut and a Revolutionary War chaplain [see opposite]. By general consensus, Ammi Phillips was born in Colebrook, Litchfield Co., Connecticut in 1788. The various census ages, however, yield a possible birth year between 1786 and 1788. The ages given in his death notice (78) and cemetery inscription (78 years 3 months) imply his birth in April 1787. Ammi Phillips was one of purportedly 11 children born to his parents, of whom eight are known. These include an older brother, John Ayer Phillips, who may have moved to New York State by 1795; two younger brothers, Halsey Phillips, 1790-1882 (married Sally Hungerford) and Benjamin Franklin Phillips, 1802-1882 (married Emeline Beckwith and later Lucretia A. Miller); and four younger sisters, Harriet Phillips, 1793-1889 (Mrs. Eri Tuttle), Cleora Phillips, 1797-1875 (Mrs. Asahel Canfield), Calista Phillips, 1798-1851 (Mrs. Nathan Allen), and Millea Cordelia Phillips, 1809-1876 (Mrs. Daniel Loomis). Ammi Phillips’s parents and all of his younger siblings eventually moved from Connecticut to northeastern Ohio. 2, 3 The 1800 census for the Samuel Phillips household in Colebrook, Connecticut enumerates three male children and four female children which would account for all of the above. The 1810 census still enumerates three male children and four female children, but includes one male born since 1800 and two females born since 1800. There remains one male age 16 to 25, but this is likely Ammi’s slightly younger brother Halsey (age 20), implying that Ammi (age 22) has left the household by 1810. This differs from the Holdridges’ interpretation that this remaining male was Ammi himself. By 1820 there are no new children born since 1810, the number of male children remains three and the number of female children remaining in the household has reduced to one. Beginning in 1808 Ammi Phillips’s father, Samuel Phillips, assisted with a party surveying 16,000 acres of land in Ashtabula County, Ohio, which township was named Colebrook in honor of Colebrook, Connecticut. Ammi’s brother Halsey Phillips was among the first to settle permanently in Colebrook, Ohio in 1814. Samuel Phillips made his fourth and final trip to Colebrook, Ohio in the spring of 1821 and his wife and three of Ammi’s sisters joined him later that year, as did Halsey Phillips’s wife by the fall of 1821, making them the second and third families to settle in the township. They were joined by Ammi’s youngest brother Benjamin Franklin Phillips by 1828 and probably earlier. A fourth married sister, Harriet Phillips Tuttle, moved there from Colebrook, Connecticut in 1839. 4, 5

1 Isaac Huntting, History of Little Nine Partners of North East Precinct and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess

County, Vol. I. (Amenia, N.Y.: Chas. Walsh & Co., 1897) p. 373, gives Phillips’s birth date as April 24, 1788. 2 Mrs. Alfred Tyler Perry, “Colebrook, Litchfield Co., Conn., People who Removed to N. Y. State or ‘West’ 17891840,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. LIV, No. 1 (January 1923): p. 72. 3 Bob Grigg, “Historic Bytes: Colebrook, Ohio Revisited,” reprinted from Winsted Journal, courtesy Colebrook [Connecticut] Historical Society. 4 Grigg. 5 Mrs. Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham (editor), Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve, Part IV, (Women’s Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission, February 1897) pp. 800-805: Pioneer Women of Colebrook, 1819-1850. 103


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Ammi’s mother, Millea Phillips, was reputedly an energetic woman who not only made the arduous 500-mile trek to Ohio in the record time of 28 days, but walked the forested township caring for the sick. 6, 7 Ammi’s father made that journey to or from Ohio no less than seven times. It is apparent that Ammi may have inherited a stamina and proficiency with horse and wagon that served his itinerancy well. Ammi’s father, Samuel Phillips, died in 1842 at age 82 in Colebrook, Ohio and is buried in North Colebrook Cemetery, New Lyme, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. Ammi’s mother, Millea Kellogg Phillips, died in 1861 at age 98 in Colebrook, Ohio and is buried with her husband. Until her death she received a Revolutionary War veteran widow’s pension of four dollars per month. 8 Earliest professional records Having reached maturity, and with his family and siblings having set their sights on Ohio, Ammi Phillips struck out on his own before 1810. In July 1809 and again in January 1810 he advertised in the Berkshire Reporter as a purveyor of “correct likenesses” at William Clarke’s tavern in Pittsfield, Mass. 9 The advertisement implies that these were profile portraits. The diary of Dr. Samuel Barstow of Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Mass., dated October 6, 1811 mentions small profiles of himself and his wife taken by Phillips. 10 Nothing more is known of these early profile portraits and any that survive may remain unrecognized. Phillips apparently felt no further need of advertisement and there are no others known over the next 50 years. First marriage and family Ammi Phillips was married on March 18, 1813 in Nassau, Rensselaer Co., N.Y., to Laura Brockway of Schodack, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. She was the daughter of Joseph Brockway (1760-1822) and Jane (Doty) Brockway (17571824) who had moved to Schodack from Sharon, Connecticut in 1789. According to the Brockway genealogy published in 1890, Ammi Phillips and Laura (Brockway) Phillips had four children: George Phillips, Henry Phillips, William Phillips, and Russell Phillips. 11 The order of birth is implied but no dates are given. The census enumeration indicates one son born by 1815, two more sons between 1815 and 1820, and a fourth son between 1825 and 1830. The 1840 census record shows no males between the age of 10 and 15, suggesting that the youngest son may not have survived. The 1820 and 1830 census enumerations also indicate a daughter born between 1816 and 1820 about whom nothing is known. Of the four sons by this first marriage, only William has any associated information in the Brockway genealogy, stating that he was a harness maker who settled in Elmira, N.Y. This is corroborated by the 1880 census record for Elmira, N.Y. which shows a William Phillips as a carriage trimmer. Interestingly, he is married to a first cousin once removed, Mary Helen Brockway, daughter of Smith Payne Brockway (his mother’s cousin) and Minerva Northrup. The household includes his widowed mother-in-law Minerva Brockway (75). Of the other three siblings no subsequent records have been found. Laura (Brockway) Phillips died on February 2, 1830 at age 38 and was buried in the Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery in Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., N.Y., leaving Ammi Phillips with five children of teen age or younger.

6 Grigg. 7 Wickham. 8 Ledgers of Payments, 1818-1872, to U.S. Pensioners Under Acts of 1818 Through 1858 From Records of the Office

of the Third Auditor of the Treasury; Record Group Title: Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury; Record Group Number: 217; Series Number: T718; Roll Number: 20; Page 325. 9 Berkshire Reporter as reproduced in Hollander (1994) p. 12, see Volume 1, bibliography. 10 Lila S. Parish, “Dr. Samuel Barstow’s Great Barrington Diary, Part III,” Great Barrington Historical Society Newsletter, No. 3 (Summer 1983): p. 3. 11 D. Williams Patterson (comp.), The Brockway Family: some records of Wolston Brockway and his descendants, compiled for Francis E. Brockway (Owego, N.Y.: Leon L. Brockway’s Power Print, 1890) p. 96. 104


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Second marriage and family On July 15, 1830, five months after the death of his wife Laura Brockway, Ammi Phillips of Rhinebeck, N.Y. was married to Jane Ann Caulkins of North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Jane, 20 years his junior, was the daughter of Daniel Douglas Caulkins (1782-1864) and Ann (Baker) Caulkins (1784-1846). The marriage was officiated by and recorded in the diary of Rev. Luman Burtch, who states that the bride and groom were both personally known to him. 12 It is possible that Jane Ann Caulkins was related to Laura Brockway via marriage in the Baker family. The 1830 census of Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., N.Y. enumerates Ammi Phillips, his recently-married second wife, and his five children by his first wife. Ammi Phillips and Jane Ann Caulkins had three daughters and one son, all born between 1832 and 1840: Anna Caulkins Phillips (born 1832), Jane Elizabeth “Jennie” Phillips (born 1836), Samuel Baker Phillips (born 1838), and Sarah Phillips (born 1840). Sarah Phillips died in April 1845 at age 4-1/2 and was buried in the Caulkins plot in Amenia Island Cemetery, Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. (SARAH PHILLIPS / DAUGHTER OF / AMMI AND JANE A. PHILLIPS / Æ 4 Yrs 6 Mos.). Anna C. Phillips was listed with her parents in the 1850 census of North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y. (age 18). No subsequent record is known, and she was probably married by 1855. Samuel Baker Phillips was listed with his parents in the 1855 census of New Marlborough, Berkshire Co., Mass. (age 19) with occupation given as merchant. No subsequent record is known. Jane Elizabeth “Jennie” Phillips, the last to remain at home, was listed with her parents in the 1860 census of Curtisville P.O., Town of Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass. (age 23) with occupation given as teacher. She subsequently married widower Lucius J. Woodford (1819-1888) and moved to Hartford, Connecticut (by 1870) and Springfield, Mass. (by 1880) where he died at age 65. Lucius J. Woodford, a well-to-do farmer from Winsted, Connecticut, had been sentenced to life in prison for the 1861 murder of a brother-in-law, James H. Tuttle, but was ordered released in July 1868 by petition to the Connecticut legislature on the grounds of self-defense. 13 They had one child, Luella Jane “Lulu” Woodford (1874-1927) who in 1897 married Marvin Estes Tucker (1873-1955). They had no children. 14 Jennie, as a widow, lived with her daughter and son-in-law in Boston, Mass. for two decades, dying there in 1920. Residences Ammi Phillips had a different residence in every decennial census record (and every five years starting in 1855), as follows. Note that census records prior to 1850 list only the name of the head of household and counts of household members by gender and age ranges. Each household member is named starting in 1850. 1820 – Troy, Rensselaer Co., N.Y., Ammi Phillips (26-44) with (1st) wife and four children. A property purchase in Troy, N.Y. (in which he is listed as a resident) on May 1, 1817 and unclaimed letters at the Troy post office as of April 1, 1818 and October 1, 1820 also attest to his residence and travels. 15, 16, 17

12 Sue Whitman, “On Finding a Folk Art Treasure.” Year Book: Dutchess County Historical Society, Vol. 59 (1974):

p. 80. 13 The New England Farmer [Boston, Mass.], Vol. XXIII, No. 28 (July 11, 1868): p. 3. 14 Marvin Estes Tucker, Jr. (1930-1990) was the son of Marvin Estes Tucker and his second wife, Margaret A. Hyde (1894-1973), and was not a direct descendant of Ammi Phillips. 15 Property records as detailed in Holdridge (1968) p. 41, see Volume 1, bibliography. 16 The Northern Budget [Lansingburgh, N.Y.], April 21, 1818 and October 10, 1820. 17 The portrait of Mr. Jonathan Lane of Livingston, Columbia Co., N.Y., dated March 30th 1821, is signed “by Mr. Ammi Phillips of Troy.” See p. 31 in this volume. 105


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 1830 – Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., N.Y., Ammi Phillips (40-49) with (2nd) wife and five children. He was listed as a resident of Rhinebeck in the May 20, 1828 sale of his Troy property. A 45-acre land purchase in Rhinebeck was also recorded on May 1, 1829 (30 acres were sold back to the original owner on May 16, 1831, the remaining 15 acres were sold to Phillips’s brother-in-law, William W. Caulkins, on July 28, 1834). 18 A sheriff’s notice cites him as a debtor in Rhinebeck in May 1831. 19 Unclaimed letters at the Rhinebeck post office in January 1835, and in April and October 1836, indicate his extended absence at those dates. 20 He is mentioned as a portrait painter residing in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., N.Y. in August 1836. 21 1840 – Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y., Ammi Phillips (50-59) with (2nd) wife and three children. Phillips was recorded as a resident of Amenia as early as August 16, 1838 when he purchased one acre of land in Amenia (that land was sold by Phillips on March 5, 1842). 22 1850 (September 14th) – North East, Dutchess Co., N.Y., Ammi Phillips (age 64, Portrait Painter), with wife Jane A. Phillips (42), daughters Anna C. Phillips (18) and Jane E. Phillips (14), and son Sam’l B. Phillips (12). 1855 (September 10th) – New Marlborough, Berkshire Co., Mass., Ammi Phillips (age 68, Artist), with wife Jane A. Phillips (47), daughter Jane E. Phillips (20), and son Samuel B. Phillips (19, merchant). 1860 (June 18th) – Curtisville P.O., Town of Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass., Ammie Philips [sic] (age 73 or 75, Portrait Painter) with wife Jane Ann Phillips (55) and daughter Jennie Phillips (23, teacher). 1865 (May 1st) – Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass., Ammi Phillips (age 77, Portrait Painter) with wife Jane A. Phillips (57). Death Ammi Phillips died in July 1865 at his home in Curtisville (Stockbridge), Mass. Among the original sources there is disagreement as to the exact date. The official register of deaths in the Town of Stockbridge recorded his death as July 15 and gave the cause as consumption (tuberculosis). 23 A death notice in the Berkshire County Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass. of 10 August 1865 reported “In Curtisville, July 14, Ammi Phillips, Aged 78. Albany and Troy papers please copy.” 24 He was buried in the Caulkins plot in Amenia Island Cemetery, Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. (AMMI PHLLIPS / DIED / July 11, 1865. / Æ. 78 Yrs 3 Mo.). Ammi Phillips’s will had been dated two years earlier, on July 29, 1863, and witnessed by Enoch G. Caulkins and Louisa B. Caulkins (Phillips’s brother-in-law and sister-in-law). It gave all of his real estate and personal estate to “my dear and beloved wife Jane Ann Phillips, with all that remains (if any) upon her decease to be divided equally among my lawful heirs.” The will does not list any other individuals. 25 His widow, Jane A. Phillips, was listed in the 1870 census of Hartford, Connecticut (age 62) living with her daughter Jennie and son-in-law Lucius J. Woodford. She died on April 29, 1873 and was buried alongside her husband Ammi Phillips in Amenia, Dutchess Co., N.Y. (JANE A. PHILLIPS / DIED / Apr 29, 1873 / Æ. 65 Yrs 4 Mo.).

18 Holdridge (1968) pp. 42-43. 19 New-York Evening Post [New York, N.Y.], No. 8970 (May 14, 1831): p. 3. “Notice is hereby given to Ammi Philips

[sic], now or late of the town of Rhinebeck… all estate, real and personal within the county of Dutchess, belonging to said Ammi Philips, to be seized; and… the said estate sold for the payment of his debts.” 20 Poughkeepsie Journal [Poughkeepsie, N.Y.], Vol. 50, No. 2583 (January 21, 1835): p. 4; Vol. 51, No. 2646 (April 6, 1836): p. 3; and Vol. 52, No. 2674 (October 19, 1836): p. 4. 21 Poughkeepsie Journal [Poughkeepsie, N.Y.], Vol. 52, No. 2667 (August 31, 1836): p. 2, listed among delinquent accounts as “A. Phillips, portrait painter, Po’keepsie” owing $1.00 to the Journal for an unspecified job. 22 Holdridge (1968) pp. 43-44. 23 Deaths registered in the Town of Stockbridge for the year eighteen hundred sixty-five: July 15, Amhurst [sic] Phillips, Male, Married, (age) 72 [sic], Consumption, Portrait Painter, (birthplace) Colebrook, Ct., (father) Samuel. 24 The Berkshire County Eagle [Pittsfield, Mass.], Vol. XXXVIL, No. 4 (August 10, 1865): p. 3. 25 Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, Vol. No. 12, pp. 89-90. 106


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Appendix B: The Rediscovery and Identification of Ammi Phillips The name Ammi Phillips was virtually unknown to collectors, dealers, museum curators, and art researchers until revealed by Barbara Cohen (later Holdridge) and Lawrence B. Holdridge in August 1959. A scholarly perception of groupings of stylistically-related New York and Connecticut folk portraits had been building for 35 years, but without making the key connection to the identity of the unknown artist or artists. The chronology of this rediscovery and identification is illustrative of the gradual awareness, disconnected efforts, and wrong turns which may characterize such research. 1924-25: Helen C. Nelson ̶ “The Kent Limner” In the summer of 1924 a street fair and art exhibit was held in the small town of Kent, Connecticut, which in the preceding decade had garnered both a summer and year-round colony of professional artists from New York City. As part of the exhibit, early 19th Century portraits from Kent were borrowed from descendants still residing in the area. Among these was a group of strikingly similar oil portraits of forward-leaning ladies in black dresses that attracted the attention of writer and art critic Helen C. Nelson, wife of G. Laurence Nelson, a founding member of the Kent Artists Association. Based on the newspapers depicted in the companion portraits of two gentlemen, the group was datable to the summer of 1836 [p. 64]. This came at a time when interest in early American history, architecture, and antiques was surging. The 1920’s and 1930’s also witnessed a new appreciation of long-neglected American “primitive” or “provincial” paintings, especially among artists, dealers and curators of contemporary or modern American art. In 1925 Mrs. Nelson published an article about the Kent portraits in the art magazine International Studio. 26 This marked the first publication, as a group, of the work of an anonymous portraitist who consequently became known as the Kent Limner, and who would remain unidentified for the next 33 years. Unfortunately, Mrs. Nelson chose as a central thesis for her article the assertion that itinerant portraitists were “head hunters” who painted headless stock bodies during the winter and sallied forth in the spring, armed with a cartload of nearly-finished canvases, in search of patrons’ heads. This was supported by the recollection by “certain present owners” of hearing their grandparents speak of a man who would drive up from New York with horse and wagon, hire a room in each hamlet, and proceed to paint the likenesses of those who would pay him a very modest fee. 27 While the recollection of [Phillips’s] itinerancy appears accurate, in hindsight we now know that the artist did not come up from New York City but simply across the narrow ridge of the Taconic Mountains which separates Kent, Connecticut from Dutchess County, New York. The “head hunter” method of executing portraits has long since been discredited as without documentation or material evidence. Faces were demonstrably painted first, and no headless portrait has ever surfaced. Nonetheless, and perhaps because of its air of Yankee ingenuity and amusing quaintness, this persistent myth continues to be repeated by small museums and historical societies. Seven of the Kent portraits were given a more formal public viewing at Holger Cahill’s pioneering exhibit “American Primitives” at the Newark Museum in 1930, with but one example (Julia Ann Fuller Barnum) illustrated in the exhibit catalog and in a corresponding article in The Magazine Antiques. 28, 29 No further exhibition or publication of the Kent Limner’s works took place in the following decade, although a Kent-period portrait was listed as by “Phillips” in a 1934 magazine article, a clue apparently missed by early researchers. 30

26 Mrs. H. C. Nelson [Hermine “Helen” Carlotta Nelson], "Early American Primitives," International Studio, Vol.

LXXX, No. 334 (March 1925): pp. 454-459. Mrs. Nelson states that some portraits were “coaxed from dusty attics.” 27 Nelson, pp. 456-457. Note: This is likely the recollection of Miss Mary Ann Hopson (1850-1937), owner of the Fuller and Barnum portrait pairs as of 1925, and probably based on hearing an account by her grandmother, Elizabeth Drake Fuller (1792-1876) who was painted by Ammi Phillips in 1836 [DRA]. 28 Elinor Blake Robinson (comp.). American Primitives: An exhibit of the paintings of nineteenth century folk artists, November 4, 1930 to February 1, 1931. Newark, N.J.: The Newark Museum, 1930. 29 Elinor B. Robinson, “American Primitive Paintings.” The Magazine Antiques, Vol. XIX, No. 1, Jan. 1931, pp. 3336. 30 Frederic Fairchild Sherman, "Unrecorded Early American Painters," Art in America and Elsewhere, Vol. XXII, No. 4 (October 1934): p. 149, portrait of Anna Noxon [not illus.]. See p. 68 in this volume. 107


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 1933: Perry T, Rathbone ̶ “The Kent-Kingston Group” In a Harvard University master’s thesis submitted in 1933 Perry T. Rathbone, later director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, made a connection between the Kent portraits and a group of stylistically similar portraits at the Senate House Museum in Kingston, N.Y. Although the author of these works remained unidentified, Rathbone was the first to span the Hudson River in describing this expanding body of work as the “Kent-Kingston group.” 31 1945: Jean H. Lipman ̶ “I. J. H. Bradley” Ironically, the Holdridges were not the first to announce the “discovery” of the identity of the Kent Limner and the author of related works, only the first to correctly do so. In the July 1945 issue of Art in America editor Jean Lipman published an article “I. J. H. Bradley, Portrait Painter.” Lipman advanced the conclusion, based on four signed portraits, that I. J. H. Bradley (or I. Bradley, or J. Bradley of 128 Spring Street, New York) was responsible for the work of the Kent Limner and related works identified by Perry T. Rathbone as comprising the KentKingston group. In the accompanying checklist of 49 portraits by I. J. H. Bradley the majority have since been attributed to Ammi Phillips. In so doing, Lipman inadvertently published the first significant, albeit incorrectly attributed, checklist of portraits by Ammi Phillips. 32 Lipman also elaborated at great length on the itinerant “head hunter” scenario put forth 20 years earlier by Mrs. Helen C. Nelson, confidently describing it as “common procedure in that day.” This was employed to explain the prevalence of subjects in the Kent and Rhinebeck vicinity being painted by Bradley, who was a resident of New York City. In a 1966 article in the National Gallery of Canada Bulletin, Mary C. Black and Stuart P. Feld provided a revised study of the works of the artist by then identified as John Bradley, who was active in New York, Staten Island, and New Jersey between 1832 and 1847. They began by stating that, after years of study, none of the 45 unsigned paintings in Jean Lipman’s 1945 checklist can be accepted as by Bradley. The Black and Feld article documents 18 additional portraits by Bradley uncovered since the 1945 article, all signed. Of the 45 unsigned portraits in the Lipman checklist, 31 were attributed to Ammi Phillips by 1966. 33 Others whose whereabouts are known are currently (as of this writing) attributed to artists as diverse as Erastus Salisbury Field, M.W. Hopkins, Deacon Robert Peckham, Sheldon Peck, and John Blunt. 1957: Nina Fletcher Little – “One Phillips” In her 1957 catalog of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection at Colonial Williamsburg, the prominent New England antiques collector and historian Nina Fletcher Little connected a pair of anonymous portraits in the museum’s collection to the Kent-Kingston group, tentatively attributed to “one Phillips” and based, in turn, on the reproductions of portraits “by Phillips” discovered in the Ten Broeck genealogy of 1897. 34, 35 She also rejected the previous “I. J. H. Bradley” attribution as unsubstantiated. In so doing, she had nearly solved the puzzle, appending the name Phillips to the expanded group and, based on poses and facial characteristics, bridging the gap to two examples of his much later work. 36

Perry Townsend Rathbone, Itinerant Portraiture in New York and New England, 1820-1840. March 1933. Harvard U., M.A. thesis (unpublished). 32 Jean Lipman, "I. J. H. Bradley, Portrait Painter," Art in America, Vol. 33, No. 3 (July 1945): pp. 154-166. 33 Mary Childs Black and Stuart P. Feld, "Drawn by I. Bradley From Great Britton," [National Gallery of Canada] Bulletin 8, Vol. IV, No. 2 (1966). 34 Nina Fletcher Little, The Abby Aldrich Folk Art Collection: A descriptive catalogue (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1957) p. 353 [not illus.]. For the referenced portrait pair see p. 90 upper left in this volume. 35 Emma Ten Broeck Runk, The Ten Broeck Genealogy (New York: De Vinne Press, 1897), cited by Nina Fletcher Little in 1957 based on a photostatic copy seen at the Frick Art Reference Library, New York, N.Y. 36 The tentative attribution notwithstanding, the portraits were cataloged as “artist unknown, circa 1840.” They were later attributed to Ammi Phillips, New York-Massachusetts border, circa 1850. They were purchased by Mrs. Rockefeller at a 1944 benefit auction in Pittsfield, Mass., to which they had been donated by Edward Duff Balken. 108 31


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 1957: New-York Historical Society – “Ammi Phillips (1787/88-1865), portrait painter” Also in 1957, the New-York Historical Society published an index of early American artists which included “Ammi Phillips (1787/88-1865)” as a native of Berkshire Co., Mass. who had lived for some time in Dutchess Co., N.Y and was known to have painted portraits in Troy [Rensselaer Co.] and Claverack [Columbia Co.], N.Y. 37 A separate index entry for “Phillips” cited the aforementioned Ten Broeck Genealogy and WPA (Mass.): Portraits Found in New York, and suggested that this may be Ammi Phillips. 38 A third entry under “Philips” cited the 1837 portrait of Anna Noxon [p. 68] and also referenced the Ammi Phillips entry. 39 1958 to 1960: Agnes Halsey Jones ̶ “The Border Limner” In the 1950’s Agnes Halsey Jones, art researcher, graduate instructor, and wife of the director of the New York State Historical Association at Cooperstown, N.Y., identified a group of anonymous early-19th Century primitive portraits as the work of the same hand. Many of these were of identified sitters whose locations could be ascertained, and some were dated. Because the locations clustered around the New York-Massachusetts state line, she dubbed the artist the “Border Limner.” A number of these portraits had existed in private collections, were not widely known, and had never been published. That changed in 1958 with museum acquisitions of three major folk portrait collections. Edward Duff Balken (1874-1960) of Pittsfield, Massachusetts donated his entire collection to his alma mater, Princeton University. The Balken collection encompassed several examples, also still anonymous, from the 1810’s through the 1850’s, including the primitive Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich [p. 19] from the New York-Massachusetts border. Selections from the Balken collection had been exhibited at the Carnegie Institute in 1947, with Mr. Goodrich as the only early example. 40 Also in 1958, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. purchased the entire collection of the late J. Stuart Halladay (1892-1951) and Herrel George Thomas (1903-1957) of Sheffield, Massachusetts on behalf of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum at Colonial Williamsburg. The Halladay-Thomas collection was rich with examples of Ammi Phillips’s work, though still anonymous, including six of the Dorr family portraits [p. 20]. Selections from the HalladayThomas collection had been exhibited at the Whitney Museum in 1942, but the only early examples included were the young Robert Lockridge Dorr [p. 20] and the dour Mrs. Jenkins of Albany [p. 17], with no suggestion that they could be by the same hand. 41 Other portraits in the expanding Border Limner group included Alsa and Joseph Slade [p. 23], donated in 1953 by Edgar and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch to the National Gallery of Art, and Mary and Cyrus Spicer [p. 23] owned by descendants. In the catalog for the 1958-59 travelling exhibit “Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York” Agnes Halsey Jones first discussed the work of the Border Limner, including the Dorr family portraits at Colonial Williamsburg, and illustrated the Alsa and Joseph Slade portraits, loaned by the National Gallery of Art, and Harriet Leavens [p. 25], loaned by Harvard University. This was the first published reference to the Border Limner. 42

37 George C. Groce and David H. Wallace, New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-

1860 (New Haven: Yale UP, 1957) p. 504, citing information courtesy Ralph D. Phillips. 38 Groce and Wallace, p. 504, citing Runk [op cit.] and Massachusetts Historical Records Survey: Preliminary catalogue of American portraits found in New York (Boston: [WPA], c. 1942). 39 Groce and Wallace, p. 504, citing Sherman [op cit.]. 40 American Provincial Paintings, 1790-1877, From the Collection of Edward Duff Balken, January 9 through February 23, 1947. Pittsburgh: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, 1947. 41 American Provincial Paintings, 1680-1860, from the collection of J. Stuart Halladay and Herrel George Thomas. Benefit Exhibition for the American Field Service, October 27 to November 19, 1942. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1942. 42 Agnes Halsey Jones, “The Border Limner: Active first quarter 19 th century,” in Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York, 1700-1875 (Utica, N.Y.: Winchester Printing for Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1958) pp. 19-21. 109


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 In yet another 1958 windfall, the New York State Historical Association at Cooperstown, New York acquired a significant portion of the huge and previously unknown folk painting collection of the late Marion (1881-1957) and William Gunn (1877-1952) of Newtonville, Massachusetts. 43 Two years were spent evaluating and conserving the new acquisitions prior to public unveiling. The 1960 exhibit catalog, entitled “New-Found Folk Art of the Young Republic” by Agnes Halsey Jones and NYSHA director Louis C. Jones falls short of attributing the portrait of the “Mother and Child in White” [p. 49] to Ammi Phillips, but cites the anonymous artist as belonging to “the same tradition as the Kent and Border Limners.” 44 Whether the Joneses were aware of the Holdridges’ work at the time their 1958 and 1960 exhibit catalogs were being compiled is unclear. In any event, this was the last time the term Border Limner was unassociated with Ammi Phillips. 1958 to 1965: Barbara (Cohen) Holdridge and Lawrence B. Holdridge ̶ “Ammi Phillips, limner extraordinary” The largely unheralded name of “Ammi Phillips” was first associated with his greater body of work by Barbara Cohen (later Holdridge) and Lawrence B. Holdridge. A comprehensive full-page article in the Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) in August 1959 was their first public announcement. 45 This was the product of an intensive year of research and documentation following their 1958 purchase of the signed and dated 1840 portrait of George C. Sunderland [p. 72]. The Ammi Phillips reference in the recently published artists index (see p. 109) prompted the Holdridges to contact genealogical researcher Ralph D. Phillips, whose information had been culled two decades earlier. In addition to determining a few biographical details about Ammi Phillips, their first major insight was that this was the same artist responsible for the small but recognized body of work by the so-called Kent Limner of 1836. With this insight, they amplified the tentative and less-specific attribution by Nina Fletcher Little. These previously anonymous works were represented in several museum collections, including those museums which were recent beneficiaries of the aforementioned Garbisch, Balken, Halladay-Thomas, and Gunn collections. As noted in their 1959 article, Ammi Phillips had not been entirely forgotten in his last residence near Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Indeed, a 1952 exhibit at the Stockbridge Library had featured “family portraits painted by Ammi Phillips a resident of Curtisville 100 years ago.” 46 This knowledge had not been promulgated among art scholars, however, and prior to the Holdridges no apparent connection had been made between this remembered Massachusetts artist of the 1850’s and the anonymous Kent Limner of the 1830’s. The Holdridges’ second, and far less obvious, leap of intuition was that the much earlier and more primitive portraits of Joseph Slade and Alsa Sherman Slade, dated 1816, at the National Gallery of Art were by the same hand. By coincidence, the aforementioned travelling exhibit entitled “Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York, 1700-1875” had opened at the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, N.Y. in June 1958 and the catalog contained the same Slade portraits under the heading “The Border Limner.” Recalling that they had previously been introduced to the term Border Limner by Mary C. Black, then curator of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Holdridges elicited her assistance in further research. The portrait pair of the Rev. and Mrs. John Gabriel Gebhard [p. 31], dated 1820 and signed “A. Phillips”, still with the Gebhard family, bore little resemblance to the work of the Kent Limner but provided a crucial intermediate link. A round of stylistic evaluations and forensic analyses of handwriting and stretcher construction followed. With the assistance of Mary C. Black the Holdridges were able to conclude that Ammi Phillips was not only the Kent Limner of the 1830’s but also the Border Limner of the 1810’s. 47 The conclusion that Ammi Phillips was also the Border Limner was put forth by Cohen and Holdridge from their first article of 1959, but apparently took some time to gain acceptance.

43 The entire collection of 630 paintings was purchased from the Gunn estate by Miss Mary Allis. Of these, 154

were selected with her appraisal and guidance for purchase by Stephen C. Clark, Jr. on behalf of the NYSHA. 44 Agnes Halsey Jones and Louis C. Jones, New-Found Folk Art of the Young Republic (Cooperstown, N.Y.: New York State Historical Association, 1960) pp. 14-15. 45 Barbara Cohen and Larry Holdridge, "Found: A Berkshire Old Master," The Berkshire Eagle, Vol. 68, No. 100 (August 29, 1959): p. 10A. 46 “Historical Data of Interlaken A Library Feature in February,” The Berkshire Evening Eagle, Vol. 60, No. 187 (January 22, 1952): p. 14. 47 Mary Black, "The Search for Ammi Phillips," ARTnews, Vol. 75, No. 4 (April 1976): pp. 86-89. 110


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 The initial regional newspaper article of 1959 may have attracted limited notice but was followed by the Holdridges’ well-illustrated articles on Ammi Phillips in Art in America (Summer 1960) and The Magazine Antiques (December 1961), the latter with a checklist of previously-anonymous works they had identified in museum collections. 48, 49 The Holdridges’ 1961 article included the aforementioned, and previously anonymous, “Mother and Child in White” in their checklist of Phillips’s work (though incorrectly dated to 1816) and citing the Jones’s 1960 exhibit catalog. The first comprehensive exhibit of Phillips’s work, now encompassing the Border Limner period, Kent Limner period, and intermediate works, was staged by the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford in 1965 on the centennial of Phillips’s death. The exhibit was supplemented by an illustrated catalog compiled by the Holdridges which occupied an entire issue of the CHS Bulletin. This was a huge leap in documentation and public awareness, and helped cement, perhaps misleadingly, Phillips’s reputation as a Connecticut artist. 50 Post-1965 A major exhibit of Ammi Phillips’s work at the Museum of American Folk Art just four years later, including late works and accompanied by a hardcover catalog featuring an expanded checklist and chronology by the Holdridges, reached an even greater audience. 51 With the subsequent publication of such iconic works as “Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog” [p. 75], and a surge in interest in Americana, public awareness of Phillips’s work continued to grow. 52 By the time of the museum’s landmark 1994 retrospective, on the 25th anniversary of their 1969 exhibit, this once-anonymous portraitist had emerged from obscurity to become one of the most widely recognized creators of 19th Century American folk art. 53

48 Barbara and Larry Holdridge, "Ammi Phillips," Art in America, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Summer 1960): pp. 98-103. 49 Barbara and Larry Holdridge, "Ammi Phillips, limner extraordinary," Antiques, Vol. LXXXI, No. 6 (December

1961): pp. 558-563. 50 Barbara and Lawrence B. Holdridge, "Ammi Phillips, 1788-1865," The Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 4 (October 1965): pp. 97-146. 51 Barbara C. and Lawrence B. Holdridge, Ammi Phillips: Portrait Painter 1788-1865 (New York: C. N. Potter for the Museum of American Folk Art, 1969). 52 Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog had garnered only an addenda entry in the Holdridges’ 1968 checklist, and was neither exhibited nor illustrated, but was featured prominently in the Whitney Museum’s landmark 1974 exhibit and accompanying book The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876 by Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester. Numerous other publications followed (see Volume 1), including a 1998-issue U.S. postage stamp. 53 Stacy C. Hollander and Howard P. Fertig (curators), Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture (New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1994). 111


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Photo Credits 1 Gideon Smith: Hollander (1994), see bibliography 2 Chloe Allis Judson: Historic Deerfield, 2005.1 3 Charles Rollin Barstow and Pluma Amelia Barstow: Heslip (1990), see bibliography 4 Unidentified Boy: Chrysler Art Museum, 76.53.16 5 Patience Bolles Stoddard and Ashbel Stoddard: Stair Galleries, 2012 6 Unidentified Man: Cottone Auctions, 2015.599 7 Unidentified Woman (aka Mrs. Jenkins of Albany): Sotheby’s, 7591.119 8 Mr. and Mrs. Hardy: Sotheby’s, 1992.47 9 Unidentified Woman and Man: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1969.33.2 and 1969.33.1 10 Unidentified Man: private collection 11 Mr. and Mrs. Folsom: Christie’s, 5148.260 12 Dr. Nicholas Brown Harris: private collection 13 Joseph Heath and Mabel Rising Heath: Washington County Historian’s Office, Fort Edward, N.Y. 14 Moses Cowan: Architectural Digest (June 2003) 15 Harriet Betts Hall and Dr. Philander Hall: Northeast Auctions (11/1993), 677 16 Unidentified Man, Amelia Jeffers, 2025.7.25.17 17 Sara Cornwall Everest and Dr. Isaac Everest: private collection 18 Mrs. Goodrich & child: Berkshire Museum, 37.63 19 Mr. Goodrich: The Art Museum, Princeton University, y1958-65 20 Unidentified Woman: Christie’s, 2468.54 21 Unidentified Man: Skinner, Inc., 3278M.525 22 Polsapianna Bull Dorr, Esther Maria Dorr and Dr. Russell Dorr: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, 58.100.15

and 58.100.16 23 Paulina Dorr: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, 79.100.7 24 Henrietta Dorr: The Art Museum, Princeton University, y1958-66 25 Catherine Van Slyck Dorr: Hollander (2009), see bibliography [private collection] 26 Joseph Priestly Dorr: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, 79.100.8 27 Robert Lottridge Dorr: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, 58.100.8 28 Russell Griffin Dorr: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, R58.100.25 29 John Haynes: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. 30 Phebe Haynes: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. 31 Rebecca Rouse Eddy and Jonathan Eddy: private collection 32 Wilbur Sherman and Sarah Stearns Sherman & daughter: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008.198.1 and 2008.198.2 33 Caleb Sherman: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008.198.3 34 Unidentified Woman: Olde Hope Antiques 35 Johan Georg Fake, Jr. and Catherine Sneider Fake: Antiques, 2004 [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc.] 36 Unidentified Woman, Christie’s, 23266.523 37 Unidentified Woman (possibly Mrs. Phillip Slade): Sotheby’s, 7521.38 38 Alsa Sherman Slade and Joseph Slade: National Gallery of Art, 1955.5.53 and 1955.5.52 39 Sarah Bull Dorr or Amy Chase Bull: Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum, Rockford, Ill. 40 Mary Eddy Spicer and Cyrus Spicer: Christie’s, 9052.320 41 Milton Dorr: Antiques & Fine Art [Katcher Collection] 42 Sarah Bull Dorr and Col. Joseph Dorr: Historic New England, 1992.168 and 1992.167 43 Milton Dorr: Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum, Rockford, Ill. 44 William Learned Marcy: Bonhams Skinner, 32309.77 45 Mrs. Crane and Dr. Crane: Newark Museum, 2001.69.2 and 2001.69.1 46 Unidentified Man and Woman: private collection 47 Philip Slade: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 64.309.3 48 Napoleon Bonaparte Buell: Copake Auction, 2007.1.1.110 49 M.A. Barker: Washburn Gallery (Antiques, December 1978) 50 Harriet Campbell: Clark Art Institute, 1991.8 51 Harriet Leavens: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1945.27 52 Jerusha Rogers: Northeast Auctions (8/2014), 299 53 Mary Elizabeth Gale: Washburn Gallery, 1976 [Barnaba-Rolf Photography] 54 Frederick A. Gale: American Folk Art Museum [J. David Bohl] 55 Rhoda Goodrich Bentley and Louisa H. Bentley: Sotheby’s, N09805.877 56 Rev. Jonas Coe: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1997.195 57 William Northrup Bentley: David A. Schorsch & Eileen M. Smiles, Woodbury, Conn. 58 Unidentified Woman: Sotheby’s, N09805.983 59 Unidentified Boy: private collection 60 Mary Ann Steenback Gale: Antiques & Fine Art (2006)

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61 Jonas Coe Heartt: Clars Auction Gallery, 2016.2211 62 Philip Titus Heartt: Olde Hope Antiques 63 Unidentified Girl: Amon Carter Museum, 1967.199 64 Nancy Caldwell Church Robinson and Gen. David Robinson: Sotheby’s, 4911M.12 65 Ruth Haynes Palmer: David A. Schorsch & Eileen M. Smiles, Woodbury, Conn. 66 Sally Morgan Walbridge: Christie’s, 1129.144 67 James Van Schoonhoven: Sotheby’s, 5736.283 68 Unidentified Man: Christie’s, 1959.727 69 Jane Daney Smith: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1983.164 70 Nancy Smith Lamphear: Sotheby’s, N10303.1075 71 Amy Lottridge Davis and Ann Jane Davis: private collection 72 Betsy Brownell Gilbert: The Huntington Library, L2015.41.163. 73 Harriet Hill: private collection [HPF] 74 Catherine Couenhoven Clark: The Clark Art Institute (2017) 75 Unidentified Woman and Man: Sotheby’s, 6957.1643 76 Unidentified Woman (aka Jane A. Fort Van Rensselaer): Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Art Museum, 58.100.36 77 Judge James Vanderpoel and Anna Doll Vanderpoel: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1958.30.1 and 1958.30.2 78 Unidentified Man: Shelburne Museum, 1955-512.3 79 Samuel Robert Campbell and Sarah Mynderse Campbell: private collection 80 Jane Ann Campbell: Heslip (1990), see bibliography 81 Rev. Isaac Newton Wyckoff and Elizabeth Ogden Wyckoff: private collection 82 George Edward Selby: Joan R. Brownstein 83 Gen. Charles Whiting and Margaret Rogers Whiting: The Caldwell Gallery, Hudson, N.Y. 84 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, N08665.49 85 Unidentified Woman: Christie’s, 13791.633 86 Bithiah Soullard Haskell and John Haskell: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. 87 Unidentified Man: Nye & Co., 2026.5.1.654 88 Gertrude Snyder Harder and William G. Harder: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, 58.100.29 and 58.100.28 89 Catherine Douw Hoffman Philip and Col. Henry G. Philip: Connecticut Historical Society (1965), see bibliography 90 Dr. Thomas Brodhead: R.H. Blackburn & Assoc., Kinderhook, N.Y. 91 Robert Richard Morris and Frances Ludlum Morris: Briggs Auction, Inc. Garnet Valley, Pa., 2022 92 Dr. Asa Jordan: D.L. Straight Auctions, 2022 93 Rev. John Gabriel Gebhard and Anna Maria Magdalene Carver Gebhard: American Folk Art Museum, 2022.17.1 and

2022.17.2 94 Dr. John A. McClellan: Northeast Auctions, 2015.833 95 Lydia Schureman Sluyter and Rev. Richard Sluyter: Northeast Auctions, 1989.654 96 Jonathan Lane: Northeast Auctions, 2015.659 97 Eliza DuBois: Antique Associates at West Townsend 98 Hannah Cooper du Bois: The American Museum in Britain 99 Garret du Bois: Pook & Pook, 2006.44 100 Mary Thorn Du Bois and Coert Du Bois: Sotheby’s, N08728.462 101 Charles Louis du Bois: Peter Tillou (Antiques, January 1976) 102 John A. Sleight: Frick Art Reference Library [Ira W. Martin] 103 Ruth Roe Sleight and Abraham Sleight: Currier Museum of Art, 1982.27.2 and 1982.27.1 104 Fyler Dibblee (possibly): Christie’s, 2095.546 105 Tobias Teller and Caroline Sammis Teller: Copake Auction, 2007.1.1.100 106 Col. Nathan S. Beckwith and Elizabeth “Betsey” Gale Beckwith: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 79.133.2 and 79.133.1 107 Unidentified Man: Skinner, Inc., 2669.90 108 Dr. Israel Reynolds: Huntting (1897), see bibliography 109 Charlotte H. Newcomb Benedict and Dr. Abijah Gilbert Benedict, Springfield Museum of Art, 2000.020 and 2000.019 110 Lois Atherton Allerton: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.395 111 Dr. Cornelius Allerton: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.394 112 Polly Smith Husted: Sotheby’s, N07095.759 113 Bonhams: Unidentified Woman (Lois Atherton Allerton), 22282.4094 114 Lois Hamlin and David Hamlin: Bonhams & Butterfields 115 Unidentified Man and Woman: Northeast Auctions, 2009.429 116 Unidentified Woman: Christie’s, 8238.29 117 Phoebe Lewis Smith and Judge Isaac Smith: Christie’s, 1247.90 118 Unidentified Man and Woman: Robert C. Eldred & Co., 2018.1035 119 William Schuneman and Elizabeth De Meyer Schuneman: Christie’s, 2200.49 120 John Kenyon (possibly): Northeast Auctions, 2007.661 121 Clarine Peck Van Bergen (possibly): Albany Institute of History and Art

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122 Louisa Heyer Jackson: Frick Art Reference Library [Ira W. Martin] 123 Anna Shuler Cady: Frick Art Reference Library [Ira W. Martin] 124 Rev. Winslow Paige and Clarissa Keyes Paige: Frick Art Reference Library [Ira W. Martin] 125 William Cockburn: Frick Art Reference Library, 16721 [Pennington Studio, Kingston, N.Y.] 126 Maria Van Leuven Overbagh and Rev. Peter Abraham Overbagh: Antiques (March 1987) 127 Overbagh family member: private collection 128 Blandina Margaret Oliver: Frick Art Reference Library, 16720 [Pennington Studio, Kingston, N.Y.] 129 Maria Oliver Hardenburgh and Jacobus Hardenburgh: Christie’s, 7000.429 130 Dr. Abraham Ten Eyck De Witt: Rufus King Museum 131 Rev. Thomas De Witt: Frick Art Reference Library [Ira W. Martin] 132 Leah Dubois Wynkoop De Witt: Historic Huguenot Street 133 Unidentified Man: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2002/1.99 134 Ten Eyck De Witt: Frick Art Reference Library 135 John Ten Eyck: Frick Art Reference Library 136 Anna Eltinge Wynkoop and Derrick Wynkoop: Sotheby’s, N08053.922 137 Blandina Ten Eyck: Hollander (1994), see bibliography 138 Unidentified Man and Woman of the Van Keuren family: The Huntington, 2016.25.107 and 2016.25.106 139 Member of the Newkirk Family: Hudson River Antiques, Highland, N.Y. 140 Philip Bevier Hasbrouck and Esther Bevier Hasbrouck: Historic Huguenot Street/ Locust Lawn Estate [David Stansbury] 141 Ann DeWitt Bevier: Bevier (1916), see bibliography 142 Jane Bevier Deyo: Doyle New York (2015), 8 [Sotheby Parke Bernet, 4316.859] 143 Levi Decker Hasbrouck and Hylah Bevier Hasbrouck: Historic Huguenot Street / Locust Lawn Estate [David Stansbury] 144 Aaltje Swartwout Sleight: Holdridge (1968), see bibliography 145 Anna Seward Swartwout: Yost Conservation LLC, Oxford, Conn. (2018) 146 Unidentified Man: Christie’s, 2533.258 147 Sarah Maria DuBois (Easton) or Jane Hasbrouck (Hasbrouck): Historic Huguenot Street 148 Maria Eliza Hasbrouck (Reeve): Brownstein and Terkowitz (2007), see bibliography [Michael Gold] 149 Kate Elting (Crispell): Brownstein and Terkowitz (2007), see bibliography [Thomas Eaton] 150 Elizabeth Smith Hunter and David Hunter: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. 151 Catharina Van Keuren (Dubois): Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2009 exhibit catalog 152 Ann Eliza Sloan Dorrance and Dr. Benjamin Brewster Dorrance: Sotheby’s, 5429.473 153 Letitia Sloane (Chapman): Sotheby’s, N10303.1106 154 Daniel Bull: Sotheby’s, 7521.30 155 Hannah Bull Thompson: The Huntington Library, 83.8.38 156 Alexander Thompson II: Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, 86.16.12 157 Robert R. Thompson and Sarah McCurdy Thompson: Christie’s, 7294.66 158 Luther Halsey: Monmouth County Historical Association 159 Samuel Sloane: Sotheby’s, N10303.1106 160 Unidentified Man and Woman: Sotheby’s, 6866.574 161 Peleg Pelton: New York Historical Society, 1984.70 162 James Ketcham: Cordier Antiques & Fine Art (5/2008) 163 Alsop Vail: Christie’s, 8238.17 164 Pauline Darling Denton and Samuel Denton: Olde Hope Antiques 165 Unidentified Man: Christie’s, 2095.630 166 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, 5680.1562 167 Unidentified Man and Woman: Saratoga Fine Art [Emily Esser photo] 168 Unidentified Woman: Metropolitan Museum of Art, L1992.16.3 169 Dr. Gabriel Norton Phillips and Elizabeth Payne Phillips: University of California Berkeley Art Museum 170 Cicero Hinds: Sotheby’s (5/2005), 120 171 Unidentified Man: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., 3978.8 172 Unidentified Woman: David Wheatcroft [David Stansbury] 173 Unidentified Man: private collection 174 Esther Cummins Fisk: Frick Art Reference Library 175 Rev. Ezra Fisk: Cordier Auctions (5/2008) 176 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, 5551.1103 177 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, N07905.765 178 Unidentified Man: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 2009.12 179 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, 5429.486 180 Dr. Seth Capron and Eunice Mann Capron: Catalog of American Portraits (private collection) 181 Unidentified Man and Woman: Heritage Auctions, 8058.67065 182 Ester Stakley or Betsy Sutherland: Kuehnert’s Auction Gallery (2007), 1014 183 Unidentified Woman: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, 2007.70

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184 Frances Seybolt Vail: Christie’s, 8238.17 185 Anne Stoddard Pelton: New York Historical Association [Annual Report, 1983-1984] 186 Unidentified Woman: Christie’s, 8238.28 187 Catharine Helen Miller Bull: Antiques (January 1971) 188 Unidentified Woman: Galerie St. Etienne 189 Ruth Wolsey Griffin: Frick Art Reference Library [Thurman Rotan] 190 Elizabeth Du Bois Bailey, Skinner, Inc., 3278M.756 191 Abigail Greelé Eliot: Frick Art Reference Library (gift of Eliot Rowlands) 192 Col. William Shultz Little and Betsey Ketcham Little: Newark Museum of Art, 84.564 193 Mrs. Andrew Thompson: Hudson River Valley Institute 194 Unidentified Woman and Man: Godel & Co., New York, N.Y. 195 Unidentified Woman: National Gallery of Art, 1959.11.9 196 Thomas Borland and Elizabeth Armstrong Borland: Frick Art Reference Library (gift of Mrs. Louis V. Mills) 197 Unidentified Woman: Brunk Auctions (2023), 944 198 Unidentified Man: Doyle New York (2015), 10 199 Unidentified Man and Woman (aka Mr. and Mrs. Warburton): Philadelphia Museum of Art, 73-258-1 and 73-258-2 200 Dr. David Reeve Arnell: Stair Galleries, 2014.565 201 Dr. John T. Jansen and Clarissa LeFevre Dolson Jansen: private collection 202 Unidentified Woman: Sotheby’s, 5551.1038 203 Henry Cuddeback and Esther Gumaer Cuddeback: Estate of Mind Auctions (2021) 204 Stacy Beakes, Jr. and Mary Smith Beakes: Historical Society of Middletown and Wallkill Pct. [author photos] 205 Samuel Callender Howell and Sally Jane Beakes Howell: Sotheby’s, 6075.101 206 Dr. Charles Winfield and Margaret Crawford Winfield: Sotheby’s, 6483.29 207 Unidentified Man and Woman: eBay, January 3, 2018 208 Col. James Smith and Fanny Waterbury Smith: William Doyle Galleries (1982) 209 Unidentified Child: National Gallery of Art, 1953.5.59 210 Unidentified Woman and Child: New York State Historical Association, N-267-61 211 Mary Elizabeth Smith: Terra Foundation for American Art, 1992.56 212 Leonard Allis: Sotheby’s, 7253.275 213 William Wheeler and Eleanor Knox Wheeler: private collection 214 Catherine A. May (Stimson): National Gallery of Art, 1978.80.16 215 Charles Augustus Marvine: Main Street Museum, White River Junction, Vt. [2017] 216 Malina Wheeler Knapp: Deposit Historical Society 217 Unidentified Man: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, 58.100.42 218 Unidentified Man: private collection 219 Unidentified Woman: Frick Art Reference Library (gift of Harry Shaw Newman Gallery) 220 Ebenezer Punderson: Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, New York, N.Y. 221 Palmer Cook and Mary Halsey Cook: Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa. 222 Samuel Deuel: Neal Auction (11/2009), 14 223 Clarissa Benton Hunt and Joseph Drake Hunt: Wilderstein Preservation, Rhinebeck, N.Y. 224 Mr. & Mrs. John Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 0000.0202 and 0000.0201 225 Margaret Platt Bockee: Butterscotch Auction Gallery (2018) 226 Mary Christopher Van Doorn Couch and Dr. John Whitfield Couch: Hirschl & Adler (1988), see bibliography 227 Unidentified Woman: Christie’s, 9686.524 / H.L. Chalfant 228 Philo Reed and Abigail Reynolds Reed: Stair Galleries (2009), 186 229 Mariah Durkee Soggs: Christie’s, 6400.83 230 Dr. Elmore Everitt, M.D.: Shelburne Museum, 1961-1.84 231 George Greenwood Reynolds and Abigail Penoyer Reynolds: San Diego Museum of Art 232 Robert Hoag and Phebe Pugsley Hoag: Northeast Auctions (2005), 1331 233 Olivia Kimberly Adams: Clars Auction Gallery (2005), 6396 234 Abigail Adams Hoag: Clars Auction Gallery (2005), 6395 235 Tripp Hoag and Sally Ann Hoag: Sotheby, Parke Bernet, Inc., 4369.230 236 Isaac Hunting: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. 237 Rhoda Bennett Couch: Skinner, Inc., 2509.833 238 Hannah Lewis Husted Hunting: Charles Lenhert 239 Unidentified Woman: Lewis Scranton, Killingworth, Conn. 240 John Garnsey and Mercy Mead Garnsey: Eldred’s, 2015.1352 241 Unidentified Man and Woman: Hunter Museum of American Art, 1993.17 and 1993.16 242 Mary Hamilton Ingraham: Skinner, Inc., 2640B.70 243 Morgan Hunting and Julia Barton Hunting: Benson Ford Research Center, Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village 244 Lucy Hamilton: Northeast Auctions (10/2007), 662 245 Louisa Park Benjamin: Frick Art Reference Library [Carl. L. Lanio, Kansas City, Mo., 1948]

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246 Charles Wesley Powers: Frick Art Reference Library [Carl L. Lanio, Kansas City, Mo., 1948] 247 Jane Ann Benjamin Powers: Dayton Institute of Art 248 Unidentified Woman: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques 249 Mary Powers: Public Museum of Grand Rapids, 184408 250 Caroline Powers: Public Museum of Grand Rapids, 123111 251 Unidentified Woman: Giampietro Gallery 252 Sherman Bassett and Hannah Sornborger Bassett: Currier Museum of Art, 2003.1.1 and 2003.1.2 253 Dr. Peter Bennett Guernsey (and patient): New York State Historical Association [private collection] 254 Mary Ann Thorn Guernsey: Tillou (1973), see bibliography 255 Fanny Brush Rundle: San Diego Museum of Art, 1934.19 256 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, N08665.77 257 Unidentified Man: Mattatuck Historical Society, X68.166 258 Mrs. Cobb: Courtesy Howard Fertig 259 Thomas Isaac Storm: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980.360.1 260 Hendrick Hulst and Aletta Van Alst Hulst: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1971.24.1 and 1971.24.2 261 John Van Deusen, Senate House Historic Site, Kingston, N.Y. (Antiques, Sep 1982) 262 Dr. Horatio Dewey, Senate House Historic Site, Kingston, N.Y. (Antiques, Sep 1982) 263 James Elting: Carlsen Gallery (6/2011), 131 264 Katherine Salisbury Newkirk Hickok: Florence Griswold Museum, 2002.1.103 265 Dr. Levi King and Lovisa Peck King: Mr. & Mrs. William H. Smith, Fairbanks, Alaska 266 Horace Austin and Mary Ludlow Austin: Antiques, May 1979 (George E. Schoellkopf) 267 Elsie Salisbury (Newkirk) or Catherine Newkirk Salisbury: Greene County Historical Society 268 Gen. Samuel Ten Broeck: Columbia County Historical Society 269 Leonard William Ten Broeck and Helen Livingston Ten Broeck: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1977.16.1 and

1977.16.2 270 Elizabeth McKinstry Livingston: Frick Art Reference Library [Ira W. Martin] 271 Judge John Sanders III: Schenectady Historical Society, 2011.80.51 272 Jane Livingston Sanders: Pook & Pook, Inc. (2021), 304 273 Unidentified Woman and Man: Princeton University Art Gallery, y1958-79 and y1958-78 274 Elizabeth Mygans: Antiques & Fine Art (2010) 275 Welcome B. Arnold and Mary L. Rowe Arnold: Frick Art Reference Library [Ira W. Martin] 276 Unidentified Woman: Tillou Gallery (Antiques, January 1982) 277 John Van Leuven Overbagh: private collection 278 Dr. William Cantyne De Witt: Frick Art Reference Library [Geoffrey Clements] 279 Elizabeth Hardenbergh De Witt: Northeast Auctions (2014), 192 280 Henry Schenck Teller and Jane [Catherine] Storm Teller: National Gallery of Art, 1953.5.30 and 1953.5.31 281 Unidentified Woman: Sotheby’s, 6899.94 282 Marius Schoonmaker: Sotheby’s, 5744.165 283 Sarah Ann Palen Northrop and Lewis Northrop: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, K1986.3 and K1986.2 284 Unidentified Man: Hemphill (1978), see bibliography 285 Mrs. Day and Mr. Day: National Gallery of Art, 1953.5.29 and 1953.5.28 286 Unidentified Man and Woman: Christie’s, 8238.32 287 Mrs. Mayer and Daughter: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 62.256.2 288 Helen [Lena] Ten Broeck: Joan R. Brownstein 289 William Henry De Witt and Catherine Ten Broeck De Witt: private collection 290 Jacob Wessel Ten Broeck, Sr. and Anna Benner Ten Broeck: author photos 291 Hannah Masten Radcliff: Frick Art Reference Library [Ira W. Martin] 292 Henry Lawrence and Christiana Rockefeller Lawrence: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History 293 Jacob Hasbrouck De Witt: Frick Art Reference Library [Ira W. Martin] 294 Abraham Patterson: Sotheby’s, 6444.211 295 James de Long: Sotheby’s, 5810.1132 296 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s: 6444.197 297 John Hughes: Sotheby’s, N08708.1062 298 Unidentified Woman and Man: Sotheby’s, 6731.25 299 Caroline Jane Opie: Sotheby’s, 5744.11 300 William Stevens: Sotheby’s, 5280.188 301 Margaret Stevens Bentley or Elizabeth Buckley: Village Green Antiques, Richland, Mich. (Antiques, January 1982) 302 Unidentified Man: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques 303 Unidentified Man and Woman: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc, 4209.246 304 John Guy Vassar, Jr.: Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center [author photo] 305 James Ketcham: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014-152-1 306 Lois Belding Ketcham: Marguerite Riordan [Antiques, May 1980]

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307 Unidentified Man: Christie’s, 1387.76 308 Unidentified Woman and Man of the Russell family: Sotheby’s, 7420.423 309 Rufus Fuller and Elizabeth Drake Fuller: Kent Historical Society 310 Almira Lucretia Mills Adams: Corbis Images, IE001821 [Geoffrey Clements] 311 John Milton Raymond and Florilla Mills Raymond: Frick Art Reference Library [Peter A. Juley & Son, 1925] 312 Hannah Mills Raymond (Newcomb): Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pa., 6427.263 313 Matthew Starr Barnum: Rathbone (1933), see bibliography 314 Julia Ann Fuller Barnum: Robinson, Antiques (January 1931) [Newark Museum] 315 Phoebe E. Preston Haviland: Frick Art Reference Library [Peter A. Juley & Son, 1925] 316 Marquis de La Fayette Phillips and Jane Maria Pells Phillips: Sotheby’s / private collection 317 A.E. Allen: Christie’s, 3703.98 318 Abraham Burton and Celia B. Sayrs Burton: Antiques (January 1968) [John Gordon] 319 Jane Eliza Allen Wright: private collection 320 Unidentified Man: private collection 321 Unidentified Man and Woman: Sotheby’s, 6392.686 322 Unidentified Man: Frick Art Reference Library reproduced from Lipman (1942), see bibliography 323 Peter Cornell: Maine Antique Digest (May 1988) 324 Thomas Cornell: Maine Antique Digest (May 1988) 325 Jeremiah Russell and Elizabeth Moose Russell: Christie’s, 1591.121 326 Unidentified Woman: Skinner, 3303T.1499 327 Isaac Cocks and Martha Van Duzer Cocks: private collection 328 Unidentified Woman: Sotheby’s, N07959.307 329 Jeanette Payne: Northeast Auctions / Godel & Co., New York, N.Y. 330 Ann Miller Tompkins: Joan R. Brownstein 331 Mary Hoyt: Christie’s, 1787.291 332 Unidentified Man and Woman: Sotheby’s, NY7705.134 333 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, 7590.473 334 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, N09609.5071 335 Unidentified Woman: Crystal Bridges Museum of Art [photo courtesy Washburn Gallery] 336 Unidentified Man: David Wheatcroft 337 Helen Cornell Manney: Dutchess County Historical Society 338 Sarah Rogers: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1973.92.1 339 Unidentified Woman: Sotheby’s, 7590.470 340 Elder Luman Burtch and Esther Patrick Burtch: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, L146.78.1/2 and

L146.78.2/2, or EL.2001.2.1 and EL.2001.2.2 341 Anna Farrington Noxon: Washburn Gallery (1976) 342 Hoag family member: private collection 343 Archibald Campbell: Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College 344 Elizabeth Mitchell Campbell: private collection 345 Unidentified Woman: Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, 84.22 346 Unidentified Man and Woman: Doyle New York, 12AM02.7 347 Unidentified Woman: Shelburne Museum, 2002-32 [Bruce Schwarz] 348 Jonathan Akin Taber and Abigail Julia Ayers Taber: private collection 349 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, N08400.206 350 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, N07959.309 351 Unidentified Woman (aka Mrs. Zachariah Flagler): Princeton University Art Museum, y1958-60 352 Jeannette Elizabeth Woolley: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 69.7 353 Frances Sprague Foster and Judge Ebenezer Foster: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques 354 Augusta Maria Foster (Raymond): David A. Schorsch & Eileen M. Smiles 355 Sarah E. Haxtun (probably): Christie’s, 21026.472 356 Unidentified Girl, possibly a Raymond family member: Sotheby’s, N08280.7 357 Unidentified Man and Woman: American Folk Art Museum, 1991.30.2 and 1991.30.1 358 Unidentified Woman: Sotheby’s, 5680.1510 359 Preston Wing: Sotheby’s, 6392.881 360 Egbert Sheldon and Phebe Ann Wing Sheldon: Sotheby’s, 6392.880 361 Unidentified Man and Woman: Skinner, Inc., 2640B.15 362 Unidentified Woman: Sotheby’s, N07960.16 363 Mr. Doane: Doyle New York (2015), 7 364 Unidentified Man and Woman: Sotheby’s, N08512.177 365 Polly Clason Brady: Sotheby’s, N09805.1025 366 Gerard Crane and Roxanna Purdy Crane: Somers Historical Society 367 George C. Sunderland: private collection

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368 Rev. Ashbel Green: The First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia 369 Rev. Walter Smith Lyon: Emeline Howe Malpas, Little River, Ca. 370 Unidentified Man: Samuel Herrup Antiques 371 Mr. and Mrs. Vail from Afton, N.Y.: Pook & Pook (2014), 674 372 Unidentified Man: Pook & Pook (2012), 79 373 Mr. Goodwin: Antiques & The Arts Weekly (Feb 5, 1993) 374 Mr. Bates: Skinner, Inc., 2384.463 375 Unidentified Man: Doyle New York, 15AM02.5 376 Unidentified Man and Woman: Cottone Auctions (2006), 240 377 Unidentified Man and Woman: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 73-263-1 and 73-263-2 378 Unidentified Woman: Milwaukee Art Museum, M1966.113 [P. Richard Eells photo] 379 Jacob Wessel Ten Broeck, Jr. and William Henry Ten Broeck: Skinner, Inc., 2640B.7 380 John Younie Luyster: Chrysler Museum of Art, 74.6.4 381 Unidentified Boy, possibly Aaron D. Smith: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001-13-1 382 Rachael Ann Maria Overbagh Ostrander and Titus Ostrander: Jane Katcher Collection 383 Unidentified Boy: Princeton University Art Museum, y1958.75 384 Unidentified Girl: Princeton University Art Museum, y1958.74 385 Unidentified Child: Sotheby’s, N10306.1637 386 Unidentified Child: Sotheby’s, N08710.303 387 Unidentified Girl: American Folk Art Museum, 2001.37.1 388 Unidentified Girl: Christie’s, 16796.1205 389 Unidentified Girl: Christie’s, 1787.289 390 Unidentified Girl: Terra Foundation for American Art, 1992.57 391 Unidentified Girl: Sotheby’s, N08823.260 392 Mary Margaret Deuel: Sotheby’s, N08665.1 393 Henry Soggs and Mary Jane Soggs: Northeast Auctions (2006), 859 394 James Mairs Salisbury: Gavin Ashworth Photography, New York City 395 Andrew Jackson Ten Broeck: private collection 396 William Frederic Taber: private collection 397 William Edward Haxtun (probably): Olde Hope Antiques 398 William Woolley Haxtun: Connecticut Historical Society (1965), see bibliography 399 Almira Haxtun: Connecticut Historical Society (1965), see bibliography 400 Haxtun kitten (canvas fragment): Connecticut Historical Society (1965), see bibliography 401 Sarah Woolley Haxtun: private collection 402 Benjamin Haxtun: Connecticut Historical Society (1965), see bibliography 403 Joseph White Phillips: Fishkill Historical Society [author photo] 404 Elias Phillips and Elizabeth Northrup Phillips: Fishkill Historical Society [author photos] 405 Unidentified Man: Christie’s, 1787.290 406 Elizabeth Phillips Storm and John Curry Storm: Fenimore Art Museum, N0001.1983 and N0023.1982 [Richard Walker] 407 Unidentified Woman: Christie’s, 2133.324 408 Joseph Bogardus and Barbara Moffet Bogardus: Fishkill Historical Society 409 Isaac Simmons and Sarah Simmons: private collection 410 Harriet Simmons Hasbrook: Sotheby’s, 5736.270 411 Catherine Collins Flagler: private collection 412 Phebe Van Amburgh Hasbrook and Francis Jacob Hasbrook: Catalog of American Portraits [private collection] 413 Elnathan Haxtun: Christie’s, 22325.449 414 Tunis Cooper and Maria Budd Cooper: Cottone Auctions (2005), 152 415 Unidentified Man: Leslie Antiques Ltd., New York 416 Ira Williams and Melissa Calkins Williams: Sharon Historical Society 417 Hon. John Cotton Smith: Sharon Historical Society 418 Phebe Doud Gay: Sharon Historical Society 419 Calvin Gay: Sharon Historical Society [author photo] 420 Anna Van Voorhis: Doyle, New York 421 Sarah (Sally) Totten Sutherland: Christie’s, 9468.25 422 Unidentified Woman: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, 64.100.5 423 Thomas Parker: Northeast Auction (2007), 110 424 Charles Brown and Elizabeth Marshall Brown: Pugsley (1976), see bibliography 425 Catherine De Cantillon Stoutenburgh: private collection 426 Tobias Isaac Stoutenburgh and Maria Albertson Stoutenburgh: private collection 427 Unidentified Woman of the Stoutenburgh family: Capsule Auctions (2020), 66 428 Unidentified Man and Woman: Northeast Auctions (2006), 1042 429 Deacon Benjamin Benedict: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. (1970)

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430 Mr. and Mrs. Keese: Stair Galleries (2018), 79 431 Rachel Divine: Copake Auction (2013), 30a 432 Unidentified Man (“Dr. J. Ransom, DD”) and Woman: Sotheby’s, N07998.178 433 Unidentified Woman: EBTH, Inc., 18DCC700.116 434 Col. Henry Rundall and Nancy Totten Sutherland Rundall: Kenneth Hammitt (Antiques, Jul 1971) 435 Unidentified Man and Woman: Christie’s, 2815.164 436 Julia Anna Stone Morehouse: Copake Auction (9/2011), 25 437 Theron Bronson and Maria Rachel Munsill Bronson: Alex Cooper Auctioneers (2018), 912 438 Margaret Phelps Higley: Falls Village-Canaan Historical Society 439 Rebecca Beebe Rockwell: Frick Art Reference Library [Ira W. Martin, 1942] 440 Judge Miles Tobey Granger and Caroline S. Ferguson Granger: Weston’s Auction Gallery (2004) 441 Sarah J. Kinney: Litchfield Historical Society 442 Nisus Kinney: Litchfield Historical Society 443 Sarah Wakefield Kinney: Carlsen Gallery (2004), 172 444 (possibly) Sen. John Henry Hubbard and Julia Ann Dodge Hubbard: Post Road Gallery 445 Lucius Culver: Litchfield Historical Society 446 Unidentified Woman: Bruce Museum 447 Theron Daniel Ludington and Eleanor Bailey Ludington: Christie’s, 2287.125 448 Augustus Miles and Roxa Norton Miles: Pook & Pook, Inc. (1998), 221 449 Unidentified Woman: Newark Museum, 66.620 450 Unidentified Man: private collection 451 Mr. and Mrs. Seymour of Connecticut: Skinner, Inc. (2009), 953 452 Milo Bartholomew and Milia Holbrook Bartholomew: Shannon’s, Milford, Conn. (2013), 177 453 Ada Kesting: New England Auctions (2024), 252 454 William Miles: The Salisbury Association, Inc. 455 Possible Miles family member: Holley-Williams House Museum, Lakeville, Conn. [author photo] 456 Unidentified Woman: Sotheby’s, N08158.350 457 Dr. Ovid Plumb and Abiah Lawrence Plumb: Pook & Pook, Inc. (1998), 220 458 Unidentified Woman: Skinner, Inc., 2824T.1070 459 Unidentified Woman: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, 2015.062 460 Mr. and Mrs. James Reed: CRN Auctions (2023), 175 461 Dyer Hotchkiss: Torrington Historical Society 462 Electa Susannah Brace Hotchkiss: Torrington Historical Society 463 Edward C. Hotchkiss: Torrington Historical Society 464 Lucia E. Hotchkiss: Torrington Historical Society 465 Henry E. Hotchkiss: Torrington Historical Society 466 Susan W. Kinney: Gratz Gallery, New Hope, Pa. 467 Emily Miner Palmer Fox: Tillou Gallery 468 Maria Rachel Munsill Bronson and Wilbur Bronson: Jane Katcher Collection 469 Jane E. Kinney: author photo 470 Unidentified Man and Woman: Sotheby’s, 7590.469 471 Leonard Richardson and Lucy Anne Barnum Richardson: private collection 472 Milo Barnum Richardson: private collection 473 Edward Hiram Bronson and Henry Theron Bronson: Katcher (2011), see bibliography 474 Unidentified Children: Christie’s, 8984.24 475 Virginia Ludington and Theron Simpson Ludington: Christie’s, 2287.124 476 Unidentified Man and Woman: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, 48.100.1 and 48.100.2 477 Nathan Gaylord Benjamin: Carlsen Gallery (2004), 171 478 Henry W. Langdon: private collection 479 Unidentified Man and Woman: Leland Little Auctions (2024.6.27), 1305 and 1303 480 Unidentified Man and Woman: Skinner (2012), 334 481 Unidentified Woman: Pook & Pook, Inc. (2014), 673 482 Unidentified Man: C. L. Prickett 483 Dr. Clarkson T. Collins and Lydia Coffin Collins: American Folk Art Museum, 2016.18.3 and 2016.18.4 [Adam Reich] 484 Unidentified Man and Woman: Sotheby’s, 5599.65 485 Unidentified Woman: Northeast Auctions (2005), 614 486 Dr. Joseph Priestly Dorr, private collection [courtesy George C. Colcough, Jr.] 487 Henry Sisson and Lucy Amanda Howe Sisson: Doyle New York, 15AM02.8 488 Unidentified Man: Christie’s, 9686.929 489 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, 4211.588 490 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, 5141.334 491 Unidentified Man: private collection

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492 Unidentified Man: Sotheby’s, 6613.94 493 Mr. Cooper: Christie’s, 6320.119 494 Unidentified Man: Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, 430.723 495 Unidentified Man: Marguerite Riordan (Antiques, Nov. 1974) 496 Unidentified Man: Peter Jung [Yost Conservation] 497 Ebenezer Chadwick: Charles L. Flint Antiques 498 Asa Beckwith: Doyle New York, 15AM02.7 499 Unidentified Man: Skinner, Inc., 2460.259 500 Unidentified Boy: private collection 501 Unidentified Man: Christie’s, 8238.31 502 Unidentified Man: Freeman’s, 1456.171 503 Unidentified Man: James D. Julia, Inc. (2014), 2211 504 Lorrin Smith and Eliza Smith: George E. Schoellkopf, New York, N.Y. (1975) 505 Elisha Barnes: Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Mass., 1972.18 506 Thomas Williams Barnes and Zilpha Arnold Barnes: Berkshire Co. Historical Society, author photo 507 Caroline H. Williams Barnes: Berkshire Museum 508 Perry Green Comstock and Elizabeth M. Comstock: Stockbridge Library Association 509 Mrs. Lyman: Doyle New York (2015), 15 510 Ethan Allen Van Deusen and Clymena Tobey Van Deusen: Frick Art Reference Library [Thurman Rotan] 511 Henry Sedgwick: Richard Opfer Auctioneering (2004), 186 512 Unidentified Man: Christie’s, 8238.30 513 Sarah King Dewey and Harriet Maria Dewey: private collection 514 Chauncey Erastus Dewey and Caroline Bailey Dewey: Charles L. Flint 515 Unidentified Woman: Quinn’s Auction Galleries (2014), 249 516 Thomas Carter: The Stockbridge Library Association (1991) 517 Anna Benedict Smith: Wintergarden Auction Service (2013) 518 Enos Smith: Christie’s, 6842.155 519 Edward Church Carter: Doyle New York (2015), 9 [Sotheby’s, 7329.130] 520 Anna Electa Carter, Mary Adele Carter and John Calvin Calhoun Carter: Heritage Auction Galleries, 5057.64068 521 Unidentified Girl (aka Mary O’Connel): Princeton University Art Museum, y1985-71 522 Emily Cooper: private collection 523 Edward Harmon Langdon: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques 524 Unidentified Boy: Freeman’s, 1530.472 525 Florence Maria Carter: Christie’s, 2815.250 526 Unidentified Boy: Hollander (2009), see bibliography [private collection] 527 Unidentified Woman and Boy: private collection 528 Unidentified Boy: William J. Jenack (2017) 529 Unidentified Woman: Larry Burke, Inc. 530 Unidentified Boy: Christie’s, 4999.185 531 Unidentified Boy: Skinner, Inc., 2608.917 532 Unidentified Child: Jones and Mears, Hudson Valley Regional Review (1987), see bibliography 533 Duane Bailey Dewey: private collection 534 Elizabeth Harris Husted: Holdridge, Antiques (1961), see bibliography 535 George W. Beckwith: Jones and Mears, Hudson Valley Regional Review (1987), see bibliography 536 Boy of the Overbagh family (attributed to John Vanderlyn II): Frick Art Reference Library, 40069 (courtesy Senate House

Association, Kingston, N.Y.) 537 Eleanor Ward Humphrey (by Ezra Ames): Princeton University Art Museum, 2000-320 538 Ann Dunkin and Dunkin Henry Van Rensselaer (by Bass Otis): Albany Institute of History and Art, 1995.31 539 William Cockburn (attributed to John Vanderlyn): Frick Art Reference Library, 15355 [Ira W. Martin] 540 Rev. Ammi Ruhamah Robbins (by Reuben Moulthrop), Yale University Art Gallery, 1943.104

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My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Index to Named Examples (Volume 2)

Bronson, Maria Rachel Munsill and Wilbur Bronson, 88 Bronson, Theron, 83 Brown, Charles, 81 Brown, Elizabeth Marshall, 81 Buckley, Elizabeth, 62 Buell, Napoleon Bonaparte, 24 Bull, Amy Chase, 23 Bull, Catharine Helen Miller, 45 Bull, Daniel, 41 Burtch, Esther Patrick, 68 Burtch, Luman (Elder), 68 Burton, Abraham, 65 Burton, Celia B. Sayrs, 65 Cady, Anna Shuler, 36 Campbell, Archibald, 68 Campbell, Elizabeth Mitchell, 68 Campbell, Harriet, 25 Campbell, Jane Ann, 29 Campbell, Samuel Robert, 29 Campbell, Sarah Mynderse, 29 Capron, Eunice Mann, 44 Capron, Seth (Dr.), 44 Carter, Anna Electa, Mary Adele Carter and John Calvin Calhoun Carter, 96 Carter, Edward Church, 96 Carter, Florence Maria, 96 Carter, Thomas, 95 Chadwick, Ebenezer, 93 Clark, Catherine Couenhoven, 28 Cobb, Mrs., 56 Cockburn, William, 36 Cocks, Isaac (aka Captain Isaac Cox), 66 Cocks, Martha Van Duzer (aka Mrs. Isaac Cox), 66 Coe, Jonas (Rev.), 26 Collins, Clarkson T. (Dr.), 91 Collins, Lydia Coffin, 91 Comstock, Elizabeth M., 94 Comstock, Perry Green, 94 Cook, Mary Halsey, 51 Cook, Palmer, 51 Cooper, Emily, 96 Cooper, Maria Budd, 79 Cooper, Mr., 92 Cooper, Tunis, 79 Cornell, Peter, 66 Cornell, Thomas, 66 Couch, John Whitfield (Dr.), 52 Couch, Mary Christopher Van Doorn, 52 Couch, Rhoda Bennett, 53 Cowan, Moses, 18 Crane, Dr., 24 Crane, Gerard, 72 Crane, Mrs., 24 Crane, Roxanna Purdy, 72 Cuddeback, Esther Gumaer, 47 Cuddeback, Henry, 47 Culver, Lucius, 84

Adams, Almira Lucretia Mills (later Perry), 64 Adams, Olivia Kimberly, 53 Allen, A.E., 65 Allerton, Cornelius (Dr.), 34 Allerton, Lois Atherton, 34 Allis, Leonard Newton, 50 Arnell, David Reeve (Dr.), 47 Arnold, Mary L. Rowe, 59 Arnold, Welcome B., 59 Austin, Horace, 57 Austin, Mary Ludlow, 57 Bailey, Elizabeth Du Bois, 45 Barker, M.A., 25 Barnes, Caroline H. Williams, 94 Barnes, Elisha, 94 Barnes, Thomas Williams, 94 Barnes, Zilpha Arnold, 94 Barnum, Julia Ann Fuller, 64 Barnum, Matthew Starr, 64 Barstow, Charles Rollin, 16 Barstow, Pluma Amelia, 16 Bartholomew, Betsy Barnum (possibly), 90 Bartholomew, Hiram (possibly), 90 Bartholomew, Milia Holbrook, 85 Bartholomew, Milo, 85 Bassett, Hannah Sornborger, 55 Bassett, Sherman, 55 Bates, Mr., 73 Beakes, Mary Smith, 48 Beakes, Stacy Jr., 48 Beckwith, Asa, 93 Beckwith, Elizabeth ‘Betsey’ Gale, 33 Beckwith, George W., 98 Beckwith, Nathan S. (Col.), 33 Benedict, Abijah Gilbert (Dr.), 33 Benedict, Benjamin (Deacon), 82 Benedict, Charlotte Newcomb, 33 Benjamin, Louisa Park, 55 Benjamin, Nathan Gaylord, 90 Bentley, Margaret Stevens, 62 Bentley, Rhoda Goodrich and Louisa H. Bentley, 26 Bentley, William Northrup, 26 Bevier, Ann DeWitt, 39 Bockee, Margaret Platt, 51 Bogardus, Barbara Moffet, 78 Bogardus, Joseph, 78 Borland, Elizabeth Armstrong, 46 Borland, Thomas, 46 Bradley, Mr. (aka Mr. Day), 60 Bradley, Mrs. (aka Mrs. Day), 60 Brady, Polly Clason, 72 Brodhead, Thomas (Dr.), 30 Bronson, Edward Hiram and Henry Theron Bronson, 89 Bronson, Maria Rachel Munsill, 83 121


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Dakin, Dewitt Clinton, Sr. (Mr.), 86 Dakin, Dewitt Clinton, Sr. (Mrs.), 86 Davis, Amy Lottridge, 27 Davis, Ann Jane, 27 Day, Mr. (aka Mr. Bradley), 60 Day, Mrs. (aka Mrs. Bradley), 60 de Long, James, 62 De Witt, Abraham Ten Eyck (Dr.), 37 De Witt, Catherine Ten Broeck, 61 De Witt, Elizabeth Hardenbergh, 59 De Witt, Jacob Hasbrouck, 61 De Witt, Leah Dubois Wynkoop, 37 De Witt, Ten Eyck, 38 De Witt, Thomas (Rev.), 37 De Witt, William Cantyne (Dr.), 59 De Witt, William Henry, 61 Denton, Pauline Darling, 42 Denton, Samuel, 42 Deuel, Mary Margaret, 76 Deuel, Samuel, 51 Dewey, Caroline Bailey, 95 Dewey, Charles Asaph (possibly), 95 Dewey, Chauncey Erastus, 95 Dewey, Duane Bailey, 97 Dewey, Horatio (Dr.), 57 Dewey, Sarah King and Harriet Maria Dewey, 95 Deyo, Jane Bevier, 39 Dibblee, Fyler (possibly), 33 Divine, Rachel, 82 Doane, Mr., 71 Dorr, Catherine Van Slyck, 20 Dorr, Henrietta, 20 Dorr, Joseph (Col.), 23 Dorr, Joseph Priestly, 20 Dorr, Joseph Priestly (Dr.), 91 Dorr, Josephus, 23 Dorr, Milton, 23 Dorr, Paulina, 20 Dorr, Polsapianna Bull & Esther Maria Dorr, 20 Dorr, Robert Lottridge, 20 Dorr, Russell (Dr.), 20 Dorr, Russell Griffin, 20 Dorr, Sarah Bull, 23 Dorrance, Ann Eliza Sloan, 40 Dorrance, Benjamin Brewster (Dr.), 40 du Bois, Charles Louis, 32 Du Bois, Coert, 32 du Bois, Garret (possibly), 32 du Bois, Hannah Cooper, 32 Du Bois, Mary Thorn, 32 DuBois (Easton), Sarah Maria, 40 DuBois (Hasbrouck), Pamela, 40 DuBois, Eliza, 32 Eddy, Jonathan, 21 Eddy, Rebecca Rouse, 21 Eliot, Abigail Greelé, 45 Elting, James, 57 Elting, Kate, 40

Everest, Isaac (Dr.), 19 Everest, Sarah Cornwall, 19 Everitt, Elmore (Dr.), 52 Fake, Catherine Sneider, 22 Fake, Johan Georg, Jr., 22 Fisk, Esther Cummins, 43 Fisk, Ezra (Rev.), 43 Flagler, Catherine Collins, 79 Flagler, Zachariah (Mrs.), 69 Folsom, Mr., 18 Folsom, Mrs., 18 Foster, Augusta Maria (later Raymond), 70 Foster, Ebenezer (Judge), 70 Foster, Frances Sprague, 70 Fox, Emily Miner Palmer, 88 Fuller, Elizabeth Drake, 64 Fuller, Rufus, 64 Gale, Frederick A., 25 Gale, Mary Elizabeth, 25 Garnsey, John, 54 Garnsey, Mercy Mead, 54 Gay, Calvin, 80 Gay, Phebe Doud, 80 Gebhard, Anna Maria Magdalene Carver, 31 Gebhard, John Gabriel (Rev.), 31 Gilbert, Betsy Brownell, 28 Goodrich, Mr., 19 Goodrich, Mrs. & child, 19 Goodrich, Zilphia Stone (possibly), 26 Goodwin, Mr., 73 Granger, Caroline S. Ferguson, 83 Granger, Miles Tobey (Judge), 83 Green, Ashbel (Rev.), 72 Griffin, Ruth Wolsey, 45 Guernsey, Mary Ann Thorne, 56 Guernsey, Peter Bennett (Dr.), 56 Hall, Harriet Betts, 18 Hall, Philander (Dr.), 18 Halsey, Luther, 41 Hamilton, Lucy, 54 Hamlin, David, 34 Hamlin, Lois Davis, 34 Hardenburgh, Jacobus (possibly), 37 Hardenburgh, Maria Oliver (possibly), 37 Harder, Gertrude Snyder, 30 Harder, William G., 30 Hardy, Mr., 17 Hardy, Mrs., 17 Harris, Nicholas Brown (Dr.), 18 Hasbrook, Francis Jacob, 79 Hasbrook, Harriet Simmons, 79 Hasbrook, Phebe Van Amburgh, 79 Hasbrouck (Reeve), Maria Eliza, 40 Hasbrouck, Esther Bevier, 39 Hasbrouck, Hylah Bevier, 39 Hasbrouck, Jane, 40 Hasbrouck, Levi Decker, 39 Hasbrouck, Philip Bevier, 39 122


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Haskell, Bithiah Soullard, 30 Haskell, John, 30 Haviland, Phoebe E. Preston, 64 Haxtun kitten, 77 Haxtun, Almira, 77 Haxtun, Benjamin, 77 Haxtun, Elnathan, 79 Haxtun, Sarah E., 70 Haxtun, Sarah Woolley, 77 Haxtun, William Edward, 76 Haxtun, William Woolley, 77 Haynes, John, 21 Haynes, Phebe Peck, 21 Heartt, Jonas Coe, 26 Heartt, Philip Titus, 26 Heath, Joseph, 18 Heath, Mabel Rising, 18 Hickok, Katherine Salisbury Newkirk, 57 Higley, Margaret Phelps, 83 Hill, Harriet, 28 Hinds, Cicero, 43 Hoag, Abigail Adams, 53 Hoag, Phebe Pugsley, 53 Hoag, Robert, 53 Hoag, Ruth Wright, 68 Hoag, Sally Ann, 53 Hoag, Tripp, 53 Hotchkiss, Charles, 87 Hotchkiss, Dyer, 87 Hotchkiss, Edward C., 87 Hotchkiss, Electa Susannah Brace, 87 Hotchkiss, Henry E., 87 Hotchkiss, Lucia E., 87 Howell, Sally Jane Beakes, 48 Howell, Samuel Callender, 48 Hoyt, Mary, 67 Hubbard, John Henry (Sen.), possibly, 84 Hubbard, Julia Ann Dodge (possibly), 84 Hughes, John, 62 Hulst, Aletta Van Alst, 56 Hulst, Hendrick, 56 Hunt, Clarissa Benton, 51 Hunt, Joseph Drake, 51 Hunter, David, 40 Hunter, Elizabeth Smith, 40 Hunting, Hannah Lewis Husted, 53 Hunting, Isaac, 53 Hunting, Julia Barton, 54 Hunting, Morgan, 54 Husted, Elizabeth Harris, 98 Husted, Polly Smith, 34 Ingraham, Mary Hamilton, 54 Jackson, Louisa Heyer, 36 Jansen, Clarissa LeFevre Dolson, 47 Jansen, John T. (Dr.), 47 Jenkins, Mrs., 17 Johnston, Melinda Arnold (possibly), 59 Jordan, Abram (Dr.), 31

Jordan, Asa (Dr.), 31 Judson, Chloe Allis, 16 Keese, Mr., 82 Keese, Mrs., 82 Kenyon, John (possibly), 36 Kesting, Ada, 85 Ketcham, James, 42, 63 Ketcham, Lois Belding, 63 King, Levi (Dr.), 57 King, Lovisa Peck, 57 Kinney, Jane E., 88 Kinney, Nisus, 84 Kinney, Sarah J., 84 Kinney, Sarah Wakefield, 84 Kinney, Susan W., 88 Knapp, Malina Wheeler, 50 Lamphear, Nancy Smith, 27 Lane, Jonathan, 31 Langdon, Camilla Harmon (possibly), 91 Langdon, Edward Harmon, 96 Langdon, Henry W., 90, 96 Langdon, Wilbur Curtis (possibly), 90 Langdon, William S. (possibly), 90 Lawrence, Christiana Rockefeller, 61 Lawrence, Henry, 61 Lawrence, John, 51 Lawrence, John (Mrs.), 51 Leavens, Harriet, 25 Little, William Shultz (Col.) and Betsey Ketcham Little, 46 Livingston, Elizabeth McKinstry, 58 Ludington, Eleanor Bailey, 84 Ludington, Theron Daniel, 84 Ludington, Virginia and Theron Simpson Ludington, 89 Luyster, John Younie, 74 Lyman, Mrs., 94 Lyon, Walter Smith (Rev.), 72 Manney, Helen Cornell, 68 Marcy, William Learned, 24 Marvine, Charles Augustus, 50 May (Stimson), Catherine A., 50 Mayer, Mrs. & daughter, 60 McClellan, John A. (Dr.), 31 Miles, Augustus, 85 Miles, Frederick (possibly), 86 Miles, Roxa Norton, 85 Miles, William, 86 Morehouse, Julia Anna Stone, 83 Morris, Frances Ludlum, 31 Morris, Robert Richard, 31 Mygans, Elizabeth, 58 Newkirk family member, 38 Northrop, Lewis, 60 Northrop, Sarah Ann Palen, 60 Noxon, Anna Farrington, 68 O’Connel, Mary (aka), 96 Oliver, Blandina Margaret, 37 123


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Opie, Caroline Jane, 62 Ostrander, Rachel Ann Maria Overbagh and Titus Ostrander, 74 Overbagh family member, 37 Overbagh, John Van Leuven, 59 Overbagh, Maria Van Leuvan, 37 Overbagh, Peter Abraham (Rev.), 37 Paige, Clarissa Keyes, 36 Paige, Winslow (Rev.), 36 Palmer, Ruth Haynes, 27 Parker, Thomas, 81 Patterson, Abraham, 62 Payne, Jeanette, 67 Pelton, Anne Stoddard, 45 Pelton, Peleg, 42 Perry, Almira Lucretia Mills Adams, 64 Philip, Catherine Douw Hoffman, 30 Philip, Henry G. (Col.), 30 Phillips, Elias, 78 Phillips, Elizabeth Northrup, 78 Phillips, Elizabeth Payne, 43 Phillips, Gabriel Norton (Dr.), 43 Phillips, Jane Maria Pells, 65 Phillips, Joseph White, 78 Phillips, Marquis de La Fayette, 65 Plumb, Abiah Lawrence, 86 Plumb, Ovid (Dr.), 86 Powers, Caroline, 55 Powers, Charles Wesley, 55 Powers, Jane Ann Benjamin, 55 Powers, Mary, 55 Punderson, Ebenezer, 51 Radcliff, Hannah Masten, 61 Ransom, Jane Tallmadge (possibly), 82 Ransom, Jonathan LeFevre (possibly), 82 Raymond family member (possibly Frances Anne Foster), 70 Raymond, Florilla Mills, 64 Raymond, Hannah Mills, 64 Raymond, John Milton, 64 Reed, Abigail Reynolds, 52 Reed, James (Mr.), 86 Reed, James (Mrs.), 86 Reed, Philo, 52 Reynolds, Abigail Penoyer, 52 Reynolds, George Greenwood, 52 Reynolds, Israel (Dr.), 33 Richardson, Leonard, 88 Richardson, Lucy Anne Barnum, 88 Richardson, Milo Barnum, 88 Roberts, Emily Armeda, 96 Robinson, David (Gen.), 27 Robinson, Nancy Caldwell Church, 27 Rockwell, Rebecca Beebe, 83 Rogers, Eveline Cornell (possibly), 68 Rogers, Jerusha, 25 Rogers, Sarah, 68 Rundall, Henry (Col.), 82

Rundall, Nancy Totten Sutherland, 82 Rundle, Fanny Brush, 56 Russell family man & woman, 63 Russell, Elizabeth Moose, 66 Russell, Jeremiah, 66 Salisbury, Catherine Newkirk, 57 Salisbury, Elsie (later Newkirk), 57 Salisbury, James Mairs, 76 Sanders, Jane Livingston, 58 Sanders, John III (Judge), 58 Schoonmaker, Marius, 60 Schuneman, Elizabeth De Meyer, 36 Schuneman, William, 36 Sedgwick, Henry, 95 Selby, George Edward, 29 Seymour, Mr., 85 Seymour, Mrs., 85 Sheffield, Mr., 42 Sheffield, Mrs., 42 Sheldon, Egbert, 71 Sheldon, Phebe Ann Wing, 71 Sherman, Caleb, 22 Sherman, Sarah Stearns & daughter, 22 Sherman, Wilbur, 22 Simmons, Isaac, 79 Simmons, Sarah, 79 Sisson, Henry, 91 Sisson, Lucy Amanda Howe, 91 Slade, Alsa Sherman, 23 Slade, Joseph, 23 Slade, Philip, 24 Sleight, Aaltje Swartwout (possibly), 39 Sleight, Abraham, 32 Sleight, John A., 32 Sleight, Ruth Roe, 32 Sloane, Letitia (later Chapman), 40 Sloane, Samuel, 41 Sluyter, Lydia Mary Williamson Schureman, 31 Sluyter, Richard (Rev.), 31 Smith, Aaron D. (possibly), 74 Smith, Anna Benedict, 95 Smith, Eliza, 93 Smith, Enos, 95 Smith, Fanny Waterbury, 49 Smith, Gideon, 16 Smith, Isaac (Judge), 35 Smith, James (Col.), 49 Smith, Jane Daney, 27 Smith, John Cotton (Hon.), 80 Smith, Lorrin, 93 Smith, Mary Elizabeth, 49 Smith, Mrs., 54 Smith, Phoebe Lewis, 35 Soggs, Henry and Mary Jane, 76 Soggs, Mariah Durkee, 52 Spicer, Cyrus, 23 Spicer, Mary Eddy, 23 Stakley, Ester, 44 124


My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips - Volume 2 Standish, Hannah (unidentified child), 75 Stevens, William, 62 Stoddard, Ashbel, 17 Stoddard, Patience Bolles, 17 Storm, Elizabeth Phillips, 78 Storm, John Curry, 78 Storm, Thomas Isaac, 56 Stoutenburgh family member, 81 Stoutenburgh, Catherine De Cantillon, 81 Stoutenburgh, Maria Albertson, 81 Stoutenburgh, Tobias Isaac, 81 Strong, Benjamin (possibly), 46 Strong, Frances Smith (possibly), 46 Sunderland, George C., 72 Sutherland, Betsy, 44 Sutherland, Sarah (Sally) Totten, 80 Swartwout, Anna Seward, 39 Taber, Abigail Julia Ayers, 69 Taber, Jonathan Akin, 69 Taber, William Frederic, 76 Teller, Caroline Sammis, 33 Teller, Henry Schenck, 59 Teller, Jane [Catherine] Storm, 59 Teller, Tobias, 33 Ten Broeck, Andrew Jackson, 76 Ten Broeck, Anna Benner, 61 Ten Broeck, Helen (Lena), 61 Ten Broeck, Helen Livingston, 58 Ten Broeck, Jacob Wessel, Jr. and William Henry Ten Broeck, 74 Ten Broeck, Jacob Wessel, Sr., 61 Ten Broeck, Leonard William, 58 Ten Broeck, Samuel (Gen.), 58 Ten Eyck, Blandina, 38 Ten Eyck, John, 38 Thompson, Alexander II, 41 Thompson, Andrew (Mrs.), aka, 46 Thompson, Hannah Bull, 41 Thompson, Robert R., 41

Thompson, Sarah McCurdy, 41 Tompkins, Ann Miller, 67 Vail, Alsop, 42 Vail, Frances Seybolt, 45 Vail, Mr., 72 Vail, Mrs., 72 Van Bergen, Clarine Peck (possibly), 36 Van Deusen, Clymena Tobey, 94 Van Deusen, Ethan Allen, 94 Van Deusen, John, 57 Van Keuren (Dubois), Catharina, 40 Van Keuren family man & woman, 38 Van Leuven, Rachel DeWitt (possibly), 37 Van Rensselaer, Jane A. Fort, 28 Van Schoonhoven, James, 27 Van Voorhis, Anna, 80 Vanderpoel, Anna Doll, 28 Vanderpoel, James (Judge), 28 Vassar, John Guy Jr., 63 Walbridge, Sally Morgan, 27 Warburton, Mr. (aka), 47 Warburton, Mrs. (aka), 47 Wheeler, Eleanor Knox, 50 Wheeler, William, 50 Whiting, Charles (Gen.), 29 Whiting, Margaret Rogers, 29 Williams, Ira, 80 Williams, Melissa Calkins, 80 Winfield, Charles (Dr.), 48 Winfield, Margaret Crawford, 48 Wing, Preston, 71 Woolley, Jeannette Elizabeth, 70 Wright, Abraham D., 65 Wright, Jane Eliza Allen, 65 Wyckoff, Elizabeth Ogden, 29 Wyckoff, Isaac Newton (Rev.), 29 Wynkoop, Anna Eltinge, 38 Wynkoop, Derrick, 38

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