A-NECDOTES 
O F 
GOVERNOR PHILLIP. 
RTHUR P MILL IP is one of thofe officers. 
who, like Drake, Dampier, and Cook, has raifed 
himfelf by his merit and his fervices, to diftin6lion and 
command. His father was Jacob Phillip, a native of 
Frankfort, in Germany, who having fettled in England, 
maintained his family and educated his fon by teaching 
the languages. His mother was Elizabeiih Breach, who 
married for her firft hufband, Captain Herbert of the 
navy, a kinfman of Lord Pembroke. Of her marriage 
with Jacob Phillip, v/as her fon, Arthur, born in the 
parifli of Allhaliows, Bread-ftreet, within the city of 
London, on the nth of Odtober, 1738, 
Being deiigned for a feafaring life, he was very pro- 
perly fent to the fchool of Greenwich, where he received 
