So now William has been located in Shelby County. I’ve never had higher hopes of finding someone in the records and been let down so much! You really need to temper your attitude when traveling and researching. It can be an emotional rollercoaster if you let it.
Now, about what I was able to find. 2 records contain the name William Phillips: A call for jury duty on July/August 1819 and an order to be an overseer of a road construction (No date that I could find, but likely in the 1820s). As Debra pointed out, that means that we have records of him living here starting in 1819. Now, we have a record of William Phillips buying land in Shelby County in 1824, but at the same time there is no record of that land being sold in Shelby County. What happened to the land? Looking at the image of where that property was located, and it was right on the border of Jefferson County and Shelby County. I’m going to double-check in Jefferson County to see if not only there are records in Jefferson County, but if it shows that land being sold.
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