A founder of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, Phillips was the father of twenty-one children and the grandfather of Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish Commodore in the United States Navy.
A founder of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia during the war, Phillips and his wife had a total of twenty-one children. JHU Press, 2010 another was Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish Commodore in the United States Navy.