PHILLIP GOODBREAD, Jr.57 - son of Phillip and Catherine Goodbread, was born around 1762 in North Carolina and died in the fall of 1839 in Nassau Co. Florida. He married about 1785 Catherine Souder, who was born about 1765 and died after 1840.

Phillip Goodbread, Jr. served as a Private in Capt. Robert Porter's Co. "G", Tryon Co. NC troops during the Rev. War in 1777 as did his father and brothers. In June 1780 he and his brother Thomas were captured by the British and he became a Tory, serving with the British Loyalists troops, and in 1782 when he was accused of treason in Rutherford Co. NC, fled to Florida. In 1783 Phillip Goodbread was listed as a a Private in Capt. William Young's troops in Florida, as part of the 1783 Spanish Census of Florida. In 1786 Phillip moved from Florida to Cumberland Island, Camden Co., GA, where he resided until 1835, returning to Florida where he died four years later. He is buried at old Germantown, on a bluff overlooking St. Mary's River, Camden Co., GA. This cemetery has been destroyed by vandals.

The book “Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War” by Murtie June Clark shows both Phillip Jr. and his brother Thomas served six months from 14 June to 13 Dec. 1780 as Privates in Maj. Zachariah Gibbs' Reg., Spartan Militia, Ninety-Six Dist., SC, as among the men who came to Orangeburg, SC with Lt. Col. John H. Cruger and Capt. William Young. Although there are no further records of service by Phillip's brother Thomas, Phillip continued to serve in the Loyalist army through Dec. 1782, as shown in the Pay Abstracts. Shortly thereafter he fled to British Florida, where he again served the Loyalist side, serving with Lt. Col. Young's Troop in Aug. 1783.

In 1763 Spain had traded Florida to Britain for Havana. In 1783, at the end of the Revolution Britain returned Florida to Spain, who immediately ordered a census of the inhabitants. Phillip Goodbread, Jr. appears on that census. Immediately Spain required all inhabitants to take the Oath of Allegiance to the King of Spain and join the Catholic Church. Phillip Goodbread, among many others, moved across the line into Georgia, rather than meet Spain's requirements. He settled on Cumberland Island off the Coast. This Island was captured and occupied by the British for three months during the War of 1812. The British issued a proclamation freeing all the slaves, but In 1786 Phillip received his first Head Right Survey for 200 acres in Camden County, GA. He received additional grants through 1824, for a total of 1282 acres. (Georgia Land Office Records on microfilm at Dept. of Archives & History, Atlanta). His head right of 200 acres in 1786 was on Cumberland Island, the others on the mainland on Phil's Ford, White Oak Creek. In 1799 he took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Georgia and the United States.

Phillip Goodbread, Jr. left no will, but from 1819 through Dec. 1838 Camden Co. GA deed books K, Land N show he executed deeds of gift to his sons, daughters and grandchildren, disposing of his lands and slaves.

Although no marriage record has been found, Phillip married Catherine Souder about 1786, probably in Camden Co. GA They had eight known children, all born on Cumberland Island, Camden Co., GA:

<1> Thomas Goodbread;
<2> Priscilla Goodbread
<3> Catherine Goodbread, born and died 1791;
<4> John Starling Goodbread;
<5> Phillip Goodbread III, born 1800, died 1801;
<6> Joseph Goodbread, born 1803, died 1804;
<7> Adam Souder Goodbread;
<8> Jacob Tapley Goodbread.

(This is Mr. James T. Goodbread's line and he shows as his sources, family Bibles, deeds Camden Co. GA, and Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia by Folks Huxford).

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For good information on the family of Phillip Goodbread Jr. and Catherine Souder, see “Hamilton County, Florida; Goodbread-Souder Family Records.”724