Around 1672 he was involved in the tobacco trade on Virginia.
He was on a commission to consider the tobacco trade with Virginia in 1627-8.
At the time, Spain held a virtual monopoly on the lucrative tobacco trade.
The tobacco trade has become part of Gibraltar culture and is legal there, but not at the other end.
The town was connected to the railway system in the second half of the 19th century, and tobacco trade boomed.
He was a dominant figure in the tobacco trade.
Instead, in 1875 at age 17 he moved to Boston to learn the wholesale tobacco trade under a family friend.
Although the youngest of his brothers, he was the first in his family to become involved with the tobacco trade.
Maybe something like putting a cigarette in one's mouth, given the ghosts of the tobacco trade, he said.
In 1844 Phillips gave evidence before the select committee on the tobacco trade.