Esther B. Seixas Phillips

Esther B. Seixas Phillips was the daughter of Benjamin Mendes and Zipporah Levy Seixas. Born in New York, she was one of eleven children, including Rebecca Seixas Hart and Moses Seixas. She married Naphtali Phillips in 1823. She was his second wife, the first having been her cousin, Rachel Seixas Phillips with whom he had already had eleven children. The new couple would add four more children to that brood. One of her children, Rachel, would marry Adolphus Simeon Solomons. Like Solomons’ mother, Julia, Phillips followed her child to Washington, DC, where she died in 1872.

Esther B. Seixas Phillips

mid–19th century