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Persoonlijke gegevens PHILIP Ringo 

• Hij is geboren op 23 augustus 1750 in Hopewell Twp., Hunterdon Co., NJ.
• (Genealogy-Ringo #1) in RG #1D2B1 "Ringo Family History".
• Hij is overleden op 10 maart 1785 in Loudoun Co., VA, hij was toen 34 jaar oud.
• Een kind van HENRY Ringo en MARGARET Major
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Gezin van PHILIP Ringo

Hij is getrouwd met MARGARET Padgett.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1772 te probably Loudoun Co., VA.

"It is thought that 1772 was the year in which Philip got married, probably in Loudoun County.  Records of that county are fragmentary and no bond record of their marriage has yet been found.  His new wife was Margaret, who was more commonly known as "Peggy" or "Pegge."  Her maiden name is not known, although there has been much conjecture about it, particularly since several years after Philip Ringo's death she calls herself 'Margaret Ervin,' indicating that by then she had remarried."

"One thought has been that her maiden nae might have been Lewis, since a George Lewis was one of those giving bond for Margaret Ringo, when she acted as Administratrix of Philip's estate, and later acting in that capacity himself. ; This also because "Lewis" has been a frequent first name in that branch of the family.  Another clue to her name lies in a deed in Loudoun County in 1793 to which she was a party.  It is titled "Peggy Ervin & Co. to Thomas Lyne," and was from various children of Ruth Padgett, daughter of John 'Diskin' or 'Deskin.'  One of Philip and Margaret Ringo's grandsons was named William Deskin Ringo."

We will make an observation here also, that, Philip and Margaret Ringo's eldest son, Cornelius "P" Ringo, gave both, his 4th child by his 1st wife, and his 14th child, who was by his 2nd wife, the first name of "Lewis."  His 14th child's full name was "Lewis Washington "Wash" Ringo. ; He was our ancestor. (CJH)

SOURCES: "Ringo Family History Series," Vol. 2 & 3- "The Ringo Family History Series", The Line of Descent from Philip Janszen Ringo, 1981. 13 Volumes, published by "The Freeborn Family Organization, Inc., 518 Alahmar Street, Alhambra, CA 91801.

Kind(eren):

1. Jemina Ringo  1774-± 1819
2. CORNELIUS Ringo  1775-1846 
3. John Ringo  1777-± 1825 
4. Sarah Ringo  1779-????
5. William Ringo  1781-> 1840 
6. Henry Ringo  1783-1849 
7. Reuben Ringo  1784-1830 

Notities over PHILIP Ringo

"Ringo Family History Series," Vol. 2, pgs. 213-219, "Fifth Generation"
"RG #1D2B1  Philip Ringo was the first son of Henry Ringo and Margaret Major.  He was born in Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey on august 23, 1750. ; He was named for his paternal grandfather, Judge Philip Ringo, who willed him 10 pounds, his Great English Bible and Silver Buckles.

"Philip's parents moved from Hopewell about 1762 to a 220 acre farm on the Trenton Road in Amwell.  They lived there until 1768 when they again moved.  This time it was to Virginia, where by 1769 Philip's father was the Road Overseer for the Mountain Road on Piney Branch Creek of Bull Run in Cameron Parish, Loudoun County.  By the time of their arrival there Philip Ringo was 19 years of age and had been doing a man's work for several years.

"On November 17, 1771 Henry Ringo, for himself and his sons, Philip and Samuel, made a 'three lives lease' with John Ralls Sr., Gentleman of Stafford County for 175 acres on Piney Creek Branch of Bull Run in Loudoun County, Virginia.  The terms of the lease of the land was to run through the lives of the father and his two sons, 'which ever was the longest liver.'  The Ringos were to construct a house on the land and by a designated time to have built a tobacco barn also.

"The purchase of a farm in Prince William County, Virginia by Henry on May 5, 1772 apparently placed the property in Loudoun into the hands of Philip Ringo, who made his home there for the rest of his life.  It is though that 1772 was the year in which Philip got married, probably in Loudoun County.  Records of that county are fragmentary and no bond record of their marriage has yet been found.  His new wife was Margaret, who was more commonly known a "Peggy" or "Pegge."  Her maiden name is not known, although there has been much conjecture about it, particularly since several years after Philip Ringo's death she calls heerself "Margaret Ervin," indicating that by then she had remarried.

"One thought has been that her maiden name might have been Lewis, since a George Lewis was one of those giving bond for Margaret Ringo, when she acted as Administratrix of Philip's estate, and later acting in that capacity himself.  This, also, because "Lewis has been a frequent first name in that branch of the family.  Another clue to her name lies in a deed in Loudoun County in 1793 to which she was a party.  It is titled "Peggy Ervin & Co. to Thomas Lyne," and was from various children of Ruth Padgett, daughter of John "Diskin" or "Deskin."  One of Philip and Margaret Ringo's grandsons was named William Deskin Ringo.

"In 1772, though, Philip and Margaret were just into what they must have both hoped would be a long and happy marriage.  Philip Ringo was regularly taxed on 175 acres of land as a tenant of Ralls, and he and his wife made their home there, where on March 4, 1774 Margaret gave birth to their first child, Jemina.  By 1778 two more children were born to the young couple, Cornelius and John, and in that year Philip Ringo bought 8 acres of land nearby from John Walker but sold it the next year to Joseph Frost.

"By 1782, when the existant tax records of Loudoun start, Philip Ringo is also listed in the Personal Tax List as a male over 21 (actually 32 years of age) and owning three horses and seven cattle.  By that year also, he and his wife had two additional children, Sarah and William.  Meanwhile in 1780 the Ringos were forced to give an 'indenture of offment' (relinquishment) for Frost to whom they had sold land earlier.  This deed revealed that the land in question had at one time been part of property owned by an 'Elijah Major,' the name given to the first child of Joseph Ringo, Philip's youngest brother.

"The Philip Ringos continued to make their home at the same location during 1783 and 1784, paid taxes as assessed, and had two additional children, Henry and Reuben.  In 1785 their marriage was tragically cut short and Henry Ringo sadly wrote in his great Bible, 'March 10, 1785 Departed this life my beloved son Philip Ringo about sunset.'

"On August 8th of that year 'Margarete Ringoe, widow of Philip' was appointed to administer his estate.  George Lewis and Robert Braden went security on her bond.  The Taxes that year were listed in the name of Margaret Ringo and in 1786 in the name of 'Peggy' Ringo.  On February 13th an inventory of Philip Ringo's effects was made by Zachariah Lyon and Thomas Oden, which revealed that among them was 'shoe tools and leather.'  Philip had apparently combined tobacco farming with an old family trade, shoemaking.  One other item of note found was a 'sundial,' perhaps unusual for a back-country farmer.

"The administration of Philip's estate dragged on for a rather long time.  There seems to be little doubt that this was because of an attempt by all concerned to provide for the seven orphaned children.  With Philip's widow about to take a new husband, the solution must have been the taking of responsibility for them by their grandfather, Henry Ringo, with his daughter, Frances, then 23, having many of the duties of a foster parent.  In any event all Philip's children accompanied the rest of the Ringos, when they made their trek in 1789 from Virginia to Kentucky.

"On March 15, 1790 the Loudoun County Court appointed George Lewis as Administrator of the unsettled estate of Philip Ringo.  In October of that year a payment of 19 pounds was made by George Ralls to the estate and was acknowledged there by 'me, Margaret Ervin.'  (Philip Ringo's widow was now apparently married to a Mr. Ervin).

"Philip Ringo's estate was not finally closed until 1798 by which time his oldest son, Cornelius P. Ringo (P. for son of Philip) was married and living in Montgomery County, Kentucky.

"Of Philip Ringo's 'orphaned' children the oldest Jemina and the youngest, Reuben, both wound up living in Washington, the county seat of Mason County (KY); William eventually made his home in Greene County, Indiana; Cornelius, John and Sarah either remained in Montgomery or nearby Clark County, Kentucky, while Henry moved from Montgomery County northwest to Fleming County, not too far from Philip's first cousin, Alburtis Ringo, where he took up another old family trade, at what is still known as Ringo's Mills, Kentucky."

"Ringo Family History Series," Volume 2, pgs. 113-114, 117, 119 (Henry Ringo & Margaret Major)
Page 113-114:
"When his father, Philip, died in 1757, Henry Ringo was to receive "That tract or lott of land on which he now lives in Hopewell (Township), bought of John Cox Esquire." ; A family record says that Henry's children born before this date were born "at" or near "Pennington."  There is no record that his home during those days was at or near Pennington, nearly the only village in the Hopewell township, and perhaps this reference is in that context, rather than as an exact location.  No deed has yet been found for his property.

"In any event, it would appear that within about five years, Henry Ringo had disposed of the place in Hopewell Township inherited from his father, and had installed his growing family on two hundred and twenty acres in Amwell township on the Trenton Road and just a few hundred yards form the Hopewell Line.  (The area of his farm includes the crossroads presently known as "Syndertown" approximately four miles south of the village of Ringoes)....."

Philip's parents moved from Hopewell about 1762 to a 220 acre farm on the Trenton Road in Amwell and just a few hundred yards from the Hopewell Line.  (The area of Henry's farm includes the crossroads presently known as "Syndertown" approximately four miles south of the village of Ringoes).  They lived there until 1766-1768 when they again moved.  (CJH)

"Henry was there March 8th, 1763 when at a meeting of the citizens of Amwell at Ringo's Tavern, he was selected to be the Overseer for Rock Road.  (That part of the Trenton road which ran south from the village through Rocktown to the Hopewell line).

"This would seem to indicate that the children of Henry Ringo and Margaret Major born before that date, Philip 1750, Peter 1751, Cornelius 1753, Major 1755, John 1758 and Samuel H. 1761, were born in Hopewell Township.  Joseph, born only a few days later than when Henry became Road Overseer, must have been born in Amwell in 1763 and also their only daughter, Frances in 1766.

"Research indicates that the Henry Ringo family left New Jersey in 1768 and a year later (1769) Henry was the overseer for the Mountain Road near Piney Creek of Bull Run in Loudoun Co., Virginia.

"Loudoun County, Virginia, "In that county, on November 13th of 1769, Henry Ringo was appointed overseer of "The Road", where William Stanhope was formerly surveyor."

"By the year 1770, both brothers Henry and Cornelius, from whom present descendants of the Ringo name came, are to be found living in Loudoun County, Virginia, in the Northern Neck area, which touches on the present-day District of Columbia.  By 1772 he had moved again, this time to a farm of 130 acres in Prince William Co., VA, located on Young's Road.

"Now the surviving Ringos were living in a new colony, where nearly evryone was of British extraction with only a handful of settlers of Huguenot and German origin, plus some, loke the Ringo family, who had drifted there from other colonies.  There the movement of people had already begun from the Tidewater areas west, toward the mountains beyond the foothills, near where Henry and his brother had settled.

"On June 10th, 1771 Henry Ringo in Loudoun was again appointed an Overseer of the lower part of The Road between Piney Creek and Little Creek.  The road repairs were to be divided up between him and Samuel Wyckoff.  (Perhaps another immigrant from New Jersey).  On November 19th, of the same year Henry made a long term lease on 175 acres of land on Piney Branch of Bull Run, Cameron Parish, Loudoun County, Virginia, thus better locating their new home.

"However, on May 4th, 1772 Henry Ringo left his leased in Loudon County in the hands of his eldest son, Philip, then 22 and took up residence in Prince William County to the east and somewhat closer to civilization.  There he bought 130 acres from Anthony Seale and his wife.  The farm was located on Young's road about 30 miles by road from Manassas, then the county seat."

With the death of their first born son, Philip, in 1785, the time seemed right for the Ringos Family to make another move.  "Henry Ringoe and Margit, his wife" sold their 130 acres, house and outbuildings for 140 pounds current money of Virginia to Moses Cocke of Westtown Township in the County and State of Pennsylvania.  Henry, wife, and all the children except John, left Virginia in the summer of 1789.  By 1792, Henry Ringo was listed in the Tax List of Fayette Co., KY as a resident.  Fayette Co., became Clark Co., which later became Montgomery Co., KY.

"Ringo Family History Series," Volume 3, pg. 3.
"Philip, was born 23 August 1750 in Hopewell Twp., Hunterdon Co., NJ (died 10 March 1785 in Loudoun Co., VA).  He was the first son of Henry Ringo and Margaret Major and named for his grandfather, Judge Philip Ringo, who had been born in New York City in 1682, and who on April 21, 1757 willed him ten (10) pounds, the Great English Bible,and a pair of Silver Shoe Buckles.  In 1766 (s/b 1768) he moved with his father to Virginia and in 1771 leased land with his father and his brother, Samuel, on Piney Creek of Bull Run in Loudoun County, Virginia.  He married about 1772 Margaret "Peggy", maiden name unknown.  They had seven (7) children, Jemima, Cornelius, John, Sarah, William, Henry, and Reuben, before his (Philip's) death in Loudoun County, Virginia 10 March 1785.  Tax records and deeds indicated that he bought land in Loudoun County from John Walker, 4 May 1778 and sold some land to Josiah Frost 10 Dec. 1779.

"On 8  March 1785 (?, Henry's Bible and others say that he died on the 10th-CJH), in Loudoun Co., VA) Court, "Margarete Ringoe, widow of Philip appointed administrator, Geo. Lewis and Robr. Broden, Security."  Margaret Ringo continued to pay personal taxes under that name in 1785 and 1786.  On 15 March 1790 George Lewis was appointed executor of the estate of Philip Ringo, replacing Margaret (Peggy).  On 11 October 1790 papers were apparently filed by George Lewis to close the estate.  One of these was a payment by George Ralls (from whom Philip Ringo had leased 175 acres) for money due Philip and paid to his widow.  She received the payment by writing, "received by me Peggy Ervin," 11 October 1790 (Could Ervin be a mis-reading of Evans? [RFG]

"From the above information it would appear that Margaret (Peggy) Ringo had remarried to a Mr. Ervin.  George Lewis was probably a close relative of Peggy Ringo as relatives often helped in settling an estate; so her maiden name may have been LEWIS but at this time there is no proof. ; It is true that there were descendants with a given name of Lewis but that proves nothing.  More research should be done to learn the true identity of Peggy and what became of her after 1790."

Clues to the Maiden Name of Philip Ringo's wife, Margaret "Peggy:"
On March 15, 1790 George Lewis was appointed executor of the estate of Philip Ringo, replacing Margaret "Peggy." ; On October 11, 1790 papers were apparently filed by George Lewis to close the estate.  One of these was a payment by George Ralls (from whom Philip Ringo had leased 175 acres) for money due Philip and paid to his widow.  She received the payment by writing, "received by me Peggy Ervin," October 11, 1790.  (Could Ervin be a mis-reading of Evans?).

Philip and Peggy's son, Cornelius "P" Ringo, born 7 June 1775 in Loudoun Co., VA.  He married 1st, Nancy Frazer, 26 October 1797; their fourth (4th) child had the given name of "Lewis"; Cornelius married 2nd, Elizabeth, maiden name unknown, by whom Cornelius had a fourteenth (14th) child whom he named Lewis Washington "Wash" Ringo.  The two half-brothers both of whom were named "Lewis,"  were very close all their lives; they lived in Edgar Co., IL in 1850, next door to one another.

It appears that Margaret (Peggy) Ringo had remarried to a Mr. Ervin.  George Lewis was probably a close relative of Peggy Ringo as relatives often helped in settling an estate; so her maiden name may have been LEWIS, but at this time there is no proof.  There were many descendants with the given name of Lewis.

Another clue to her name lies in a deed in Loudoun County in 1793 to which she was a party.  It is titled "Peggy Ervin & Co. to Thomas Lyne," and was from various children of Ruth Padgett, daughter of John "Diskin" or "Deskin."  One of Philip and Peggy Ringo's grandsons was named William Deskin Ringo.  Another name that seems to be given to many descendants, usually as a middle name, DESKIN, may have been Peggy's maiden name.  [CJH].

Philip's father, Henry Ringo, and mother, Margaret Major sold their land and removed to Kentucky.  On April 16th, 1788 "Henry Ringoe and Margit, his wife" of the County of Prince William in the Commonwealth of Virginia sold their 130 acres, house and outbuildings for "one hundred and forty two pounts current money of Virginia" to Moses Cocke of Westtown Township in the County and State of Pennsylvania.  Their son, Cornelius was already in Kentucky to make preparations for their arrival.  Henry Ringo, his wife, and all the rest of their children except son Johm, took off "lock, stock and Barrel" from Virginia in the summer of 1789.  Accompanying them on the long, arduous and still dangerous trip were all of the orphaned children of their son, Philip; Peggy was still living at this time.

From Philip's brother, Joseph Ringo (1D2B7), we found, Volume 2, pg. 273:
"By November 7, 1789 Joseph Ringo was in Mason County, Kentucky witnessing a deed with his brothers, Peter and Major.  Reconstructing the lives of Henry Ringo and his children makes it exceedingly clear that the summer of 1789 was the time of the great move from Virginia to Kentucky for them.  The cavalcade, at least, Henry Ringo, then 64, Margaret, his wife, 57, sons, Peter 37, Major nearly 34, Samuel 28, and Joseph 26.  In addition all evidence indicates that they took with them the orphaned children of Philip Ringo, Jemina 15, Cornelius 14, John 12, Sarah 10, William 8, Henry 6, and Reuben Ringo not yet 5 years of age, under the watch of Frances, 23."

Philip Ringo's descendants can be found in Volume 3 of the "Ringo Family History Series."

SOURCES: "Ringo Family History Series," Vol. 2, pgs. 115, 119, 121, 213-219 (1D2B & 1D2B1), & 273; Vol. 3, pg. 3, (1D2B1), Volume 2 "The First Five Generations of the Ringo Family in America"; Henry Ringo & Margaret Major's son, Philip Ringo, Fifth Generation, Vol. 3, pg. 3, and his descendants; from "The Ringo Family History Series", The Line of Descent from Philip Janszen Ringo, 1981. 13 Volumes, published by "The Freeborn Family Organization, Inc., 518 Alahmar Street, Alhambra, CA 91801.  Henry Ringo's "Ringo Family Bible."

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