Of the more than 380 men named Phillips who have been DNA tested thus far, there have been very few DNA matches between Phillips families whose roots are in the northern states of the USA and Phillips families whose roots are in the southern states of the USA. However, a rather high profile Northern Phillips family just got a DNA match with a man who traces his Phillips roots back to Beaufort County, SC. I am referring to Phillips Family Group 30, which descends from the well known Puritan, Rev. George Phillips of Watertown, Massachusetts. This is a very interesting development for Group 30. Either one branch of Rev. George's family migrated down to South Carolina in the early 1700s, or else a separate branch of the family migrated directly from England to South Carolina independently from Rev. George's well-documented branch, which migrated from Essex, England to Boston in the late 1600s.
