Phillips, Isaac, 1791-1851

Contains the original of Jacob Raphael Cohen's (1810-1811) will, of and the inventory of his estate (1812). Of special note in the will are his requests regarding the manner of his burial and the furnishing of oil for the eternal light in the Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia.

Collection consists of genealogies of several families: the Phillips family, descended from Phineas (Pinchas) Phillips of Bohemia; the Moss-Harris family of Samuel Lyons Moss and his wife Isabelle (Harris) Moss; the Nathan family, descended from Nathan Nathan of Amsterdam; the Samuel family (an expansion based on an original 1912 volume by J. Bunford Samuel called Records of the Samuel family); the Lopez-Moses family, descended from David Lopez and Priscilla Moses; and the De Leon-Hendricks family, descended from Jacob De Leon and Hannah Hendricks.