Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924092544133 3 1924 092 544JI33^ COLONIAL FAMILIES OF PHILADELPHIA EDITOR : JOHN W. JORDAN, LL. D. VOLUME II NEW YORK CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1911 Copyright 191 i. The Lewis Publishing Company. (;'i)AT-of-ai;ms op john i^aruner. LARDNER FAMILY. The English family of Lardner, to which Lynford Lardner, Provincial Coun- cillor of Pennsylvania (1755-73) belonged, was one of the old famiHes of Nor- folk or Kent counties, and bore as its arms, "Gu. on a fesse between three boars' heads couped ar. a bar wavy sable." These arms were used as a seal by the Coun- cillor. His great-grandfather Lardner married a Miss Ferrars, and their son, Thomas Lardner, married and had issue: John Lardner, m. Miss Winstanley; of whom presently; James Lardner, distinguished clergyman ; Thomas Lardner ; Sarah Lardner, m. a Springett of Strumshaw, Norfolk. John Lardner, eldest son, father of Lynford Lardner, studied at Christ Col- lege, Cambridge, and received there the degree of Medical Doctor. He had a town house on Grace Church street, London, and a country house at Woodford, Epping Forest, county of Essex; had a good practice and reputation as a physi- cian, and was related to Most Rev. Dr. Thomas Herring, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. John Lardner had issue: Francis Lardner, d. June 18, 1774; bur. St. Clement's, London; John Lardner, d. 1740-1 ; Hannah Lardner, m. Richard, son of William Penn, the Founder, and one oi the Pro- prietaries of Pa.; Thomas Lardner, citizen of London; Lynford Lardner, the Councillor; of whom presently; James Lardner, of Norwich, county Norfolk; Elizabeth Lardner, m. Wells, of county Norfolk. Lynford Lardner, born near London, England, July 18, 171 5, was named for a near relative and friend of the family, Rev. Thomas Lynford, S. T. D., Rector of St. Nicholas Aeon and Chaplain of King William and Queen Mary, and like his father was entered as a student at the Univerity of Cambridge, but later accepted a position in a counting-house in London. His family made an effort to secure him a government position in England, and failing, the influence of his brother-in-law, Richard Penn, secured him an opening in Pennsylvania, and he came to Philadelphia at the age of twenty-five years, sailing from Grave- send May 5, 1740, and arriving in Philadelphia in the beginning of September. He was at once employed in the land office, and assisted in the management of the wild and unsettled lands of the frontier then being rapidly opened up for settle- mnt under the purchase of 1736. August 8, 1741, he was appointed to succeed James Steel as Receiver-General of the Province, and had charge of the collec- tion of the Quit Rents and purchase money due the Proprietaries, as well as act- ing as their commercial agent, in which position he displayed excellent business ability. He was made Keeper of the Seal, December 12, 1746, and held that posi- tion and the office of Receiver-General until March 28, 1753, being succeeded in 926 LARDNER both positions by Richard Hockley, a protege of John Penn, another of the Pro- prietaries. His association with the land ofifice gave him the opportunity to secure grants of valuable lands in his own right and he became a large landed proprietor. As early as 1746, he became the owner of Collady's Paper Mills, Springfield town- ship, Chester (now Delaware) county, and soon after that date he was largely interested in the manufacture of iron in Berks and Lancaster counties. He be- came a Justice of Lancaster County Courts October 16, 1752. His connection with the Penn family gave him a position in the social and business world of Philadelphia which his eminent ability easily qualified him to fill. He was named as one of the directors of the Library Company, of Philadelphia, 1746, and again 1760, and was an original manager of the Dancing Assembly, instituted in the winter of 1748. He was called to the Provincial Council June 13, 1755, and con- tinued a member of that body until his death. The Assembly having made no provision for the raising of troops for the defense of the frontiers, the people of the various counties of the state raised volunteer companies called associators, and elected 'their officers. Lynford Lardner volunteered in the first company of the Philadelphia Associators, was elected First Lieutenant, and with the regi- mental officers of the Philadelphia Regiment, was commissioned by the Provincial Council January 28, 1747; again, March, 1756, he was commissioned Lieutenant of the Troop of Horse organized by the Council with two companies of foot and one of artillery, for the defense of the City of Philadelphia in the French and Indian War. He was also named as one of the commissioners to disburse the money appropriated by the Assembly "for the King's use." He was one of the trustees of the College of Philadelphia, parent of the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. October 27, 1749, he married Elizabeth, born in Philadelphia, 1732, daughter of William Branson, a wealthy merchant in Philadelphia, and sister to the wife of Richard Hockley, who succeed- ed him as Register-General and Keeper of the Seal. After his marriage he resid- ed on the west side of Second street, above Arch, and had his country seat, "Som- erset," on the Delaware, near Tacony, part of which has since been known as Lardner's Point. He owned a number of stores and houses in the vicinity of his residence and a large amount of real estate in the upper part of the city. Over 2500 acres of land were surveyed to him in Bucks county, 1741-51, most of it lying in what became Northampton county, 1752. On a tract of several hundred acres in Whitehall township he erected a commodious building which he named "Grouse Hall," where he and a number of his Philadelphia friends were in the habit of sojourning to shoot grouse and other game abundant in that locality. The "Hall" being painted white, and known by travelers and inhabitants as "the White Hall," is said to have given the name to the township when organized in 1753. Mr. Lardner secured warrants of survey for over 5000 acres of land in Northampton county after its organization. He was a keen sportsman, exceed- ingly fond of outdoor life, and doubtless spent much time in company with his friends upon his wild land in Northampton county, he was also a member of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club. He died October 6, 1774, and was buried at Christ Church. His wife, Elizabeth Branson, died August 26, 1761, and he married (second) at Christ Church, May 29, 1766, Catharine Lawrence, who survived him. LARDNER 927 Issue of Lynford and Elizabeth (Branson) Lardner: Elizabeth Lardner, b. 1750; d. young; John Lardner^ b. Sept. 6, 1752; m. Margaret Saltar; of whom presently; Frances Lardner, b. Nov. 8, 1754; d. unm. ; Hannah Lardner, b. Nov. 28, 1756; d. unm.; William Lardner, b. Dec. 8, 1758; m. (first) Anne Shepherd; (second) Susan Elliott; James Lardner, b. 1761; lost at sea, 1780. John Lardner, eldest son of the Councillor by his first marriage, born in Phila- delphia, September 6, 1752, was a member of the famous sporting club, known as the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, in October, 1775, participated with them in the formation of the "First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry," and participated with it in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown, for which and other meritorious services the gallant troop received the thanks of Congress and the commendation of Gen. Washington. John Lardner was Cornet of the Troop 1779-83, and 1794-96, during the Whiskey Insurrection. He was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly 1791, and was commissioned Captain of the Third Troop of Philadelphia Light Horse, 1798, when war with France was imminent. He died in Philadelphia, February 12, 1825, and was buried at Trinity Church, Oxford township, Philadelphia county. He married at "Magnolia Grove," the beautiful country seat of the Saltar family, December 24, 1789, Margaret, daugh- ter of John and Rachel (Reese) Saltar, born May 8, 1767, and died May 23, 1834. John Saltar was the son of Hon. Richard Saltar, member of Provincial Council and Justice of Supreme Court of New Jersey, and Hannah Lawrence. Capt. James Lawrence, U. S. N., who was killed in battle, was her great-nephew. Their home was on Walnut street, Philadelphia, and their summers were spent at "Somerset." Issue of John and Margaret (Saltar) Lardner: Elizabeth Lardner, b. Jan., 1791 ; d. unm.; Lynford Lardner, b. June 12, 1792, at "Somerset," d. June 23, 1834, graduated at Univ. of Pa., 181 1, received honorary degree of Master of Arts; entered the counting-house of Joseph Sims, 181 5, and was later a merchant; served as member of First City Troop during War of 1812, and was Captain of Troop, 1825-7; served two terms in Pa. Legislature, 1820-21 and 1833-4; married, May 20, 1823, Elizabeth Wilmer, and had issue, John Lardner, a Philadelphia merchant, d. s. p. ; Richard Penn Lardner, b. Nov. 8, 1795; d. May 19, 1882; graduated at University, 1813, degree of Master of Arts, 1817, resided at "Graydon," Montgomery county, and later in the city; Second Lieutenant of City Troop, 1826-7; Treasurer of Phila. and Reading Railroad Co.; m. (first), February 12, 1824, Anna Boswell, b. at Calcutta 1797, d. March 15, 1870, dau. of Capt. James Tennant of the Royal Navy; m. (second) Anna G'bbon, dau. of his first cousin Catharine Lardner, who had m. Dr. John Heyshem Gibbon; John Saltar Lardner, b. Dec, 1797; d. Oct., 1798; William Branson Lardner, b. March 6, 1799; d. s. p. Nov., 1821; member of American Philosophical Society; John Lardner, b. July, 1801 ; d. March 3, 1865: Second Lieutenant of First City Troop, 1833-9; m. Mary Perot Downing. Issue: Charles, d. young; Perot, d. s. p.; Lawrence Lardner, b. Nov. 20, 1802, removed to Oconomowac, Wisconsin; d. there March, 1873; m. Mary, dau. of George Breck, of Phila. Issue: Hannah, d. s. p.; George; Catharine, unm.; Richard, and Alexander; James Lawrence Lardner, b. Nov. 20, 1802; Rear-Admiral U. S. N.; of whom pres- ently ; Henry Lardner, b. Feb., 1804, removed to Michigan; d. there 1852; m. Mary Keyes, and had issue: Henry, m. Lena, dau. of Rev. Phillips; Edward Lardner, b. Oct. 25, 1805; d. s. p. 1824; 928 LARDNER Alexander Lardner, b. March 28, 1808; d. July 14, 1848; some time Cashier of U- S- Bank, Phila.; m. Esther Hoppin of Providence, R. I., and had issue: Mary, wife of Isaac Starr of Phila. ; Esther, d. s. p. James Lawrence Lardner, sixth son of John and Margaret (Saltar) Lardner, born in Philadelphia, November 20, 1802, entered U. S. N. as a midshipman, May 10, 1820, was on the frigate Brandywine that took Marquis Lafayette back to France, 1825, after his visit to the United States. He was commissioned a Lieu- tenant May 17, 1828; was navigating officer of the "Vincennes" in her trip round the world, and served on the flagship of the Mediterranean, Brazil and Pacific Squadrons. In 1850 he sailed for the coast of Africa in the brig, "Porpoise," and being commissioned Commander, May 17, 1851, spent three years in a cruise as commander of that vessel and the sloop-of-war "Dale," returning to Boston, Massachusetts, 1853. He was promoted to the rank of Captain, May 19, 1861, and in September of that year took command of the steam frigate "Susquehanna," of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, blockading the forts of South Caro- lina and Georgia. He took part in the capture of Port Royal, under Rear-Admiral Dupont, and for gallant service in that behalf his name was sent to Congress by President Lincoln for a vote of thanks. After the battle Admiral Dupont wrote Capt. Lardner, "Your noble ship through the whole of the battle was precisely where I wanted her to be and doing precisely what I wanted her to do. Your close support was a very gallant thing." In May, 1862, he took command of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron with the flag of a Rear-Admiral, and, July 16, 1862, was commissioned Commodore. In December, 1862, he returned to Phila- delphia broken in health from a severe attack of yellow fever, by which dread disease the ship had lost forty officers and men. In May, 1863, he took command of the West India Squadron with the rank of Rear-Admiral, and remained on duty until October, 1864. For the next five years he was on special duty as a member of the Courts Martial and Examining Board, and was commissioned a Rear-Admiral July 25, 1866. In 1869 he was appointed Governor of the U. S. N. Asylum at Philadelphia, now called Naval Home, where he remained until 1872, when he was placed permanently on the retired list. He died in Philadelphia April 12, 1881. His death was taken notice of by the Navy Department in the following order : GENERAL ORDER. NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, April 15, 1881. The Navy Department announces with regret, to the Navy and Marine Corps the death, at Philadelphia, on the 12th instant, of the Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, in the seventy- ninth year of his age. Rear Admiral Lardner was appointed a midshipman from the state of Pennsylvania May 10, 1820, and his whole career in the service was marked by purity of character, intelligence and devotion to duty. He was commissioned a Captain May 19, 1861, and was conspicuous as a commanding officer of the Frigate "Susquehanna" in the battle of Port Royal — so much so as to call forth General Orders from the Commander-in-chief commending the valuable services of the ship and the gallantry of her captain, officers and crew. May 19, 1862, he was appointed to command the East Gulf Blockading Squadron which however, he had to relinquish in December of the same year on account of an attack of yellow fever. July 16, 1862, he was commissioned a Commodore and from June, 1864, to October 1864, commanded the West India Squadron. November 20, 1864, in accordance with the provisions of general statutes, he was placed on the Retired List, and promoted to a Rear Admiral thereon July 25, 1866. Among the many prominent commands which he held was that of Governor of the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia, from June, 1869, to June, 1872, for which he was particularly fitted by his experience and sympathetic nature. LARDNER 929 In respect to his memory it is hereby ordered that, on the day after the receipt hereof, the flags of the Navy Yards and Stations, and vessels in commission, be displayed at half mast, from sunrise to sunset, and thirteen minute guns be fired at noon from the Navy Yards and Stations, flag-ships and vessels acting singly. WILLIAM N. JEFFERS, Acting Secretary of the Navy. Admiral Lardner married (first), February 2, 1832, Margaret, daughter of James Wilmer, by his wife Ann Emerson and granddaughter of Solomon Wilmer, of Maryland, by his wife Anne Ringgold. Right Rev. Joseph Wilmer, Bishop of Louisiana, and Right Rev. Richard Hooker Wilmer, Bishop of Alabama, were nephews of James Wilmer, and Major Ringgold, U. S. .A., who was killed in battle, was a relative. Margaret (Wilmer) Lardner died April 25, 1846, and he married (second) her sister, Ellen Wilmer. Issue of Admiral James L. and Margaret (Wilmer) Lardner: James Lardner, d. young; Anne Lardner, d. young; Lynford Lardner, b. Aug. 23, 1839; m. Ella Sweitzer; issue: Margaret, m. Robert M. Bums; Margaret Lardner, b. Oct. I.s, 1841 ; m. Edwin Landis Reakirt. Issue: James Lardner, b. Nov. 8, 1876; d. April 17, 1904; Edvifin Holcomb, b. 1877; Mary Wilmer Lippincott, m. Robert Hartshorne Large; issue: Margaret Lardner: William Mifflin; Sarah Meade. Ellen Wilmer Lardner, d. young s. p. Issue of Rear-Admiral James L. and Ellen (Wilmer) Lardner: Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, b. Sept. 11, 1854; partner of Craig, Heberton & Co., stock- brokers; d. Nov. 19, 1884. He was a member of City Troop, and at the time of his death an officer of that organization; James Lawrence Lardner, lawyer, b. Nov. 26, 1856; he was associated with James W. Biddle in International Fishery Commission, under appointment by President Grover Cleveland. Also member of City Troop. FOULKE FAMILY. Edward Foulke, the ancestor of the Pennsylvania family of the name, came with his family from Merionethshire, Wales, in 1698, and took up seven hundred and twelve acres in Gwynedd township, then Philadelphia county, erecting his dwelling at the present site of Penll)^! station on the North Pennsylvania Rail- road; his son, Thomas, erecting on the same site in 1728, a house which constitutes part of the present structure in which several generations of the family resided. Edward Foulke and his family were part of a colony of Welsh who came over in the "Robert and Elizabeth," Ralph Williams, master, which sailed from Liver- pool, April 18, 1698, and arrived at Philadelphia eleven weeks later. The coming of these Welsh families to Pennsylvania was the result of the settlement of the earlier Welsh colony in the townships of Lower Merion, Haverford and Radnor, where the frugal and industrious Cymric settlers had prospered, and became useful and prominent in Penn's new colony. Their constant communication with friends and relatives in Wales influenced other of their countrymen to seek homes in that section, and Hugh Roberts, one of the settlers on that tract in 1683, making a visit to his native country in 1697, gathered together a large number of Welsh farmers who accompanied him on his return in the "Robert and Elizabeth." They were preceded by two of their number as trustees, William John and Thomas ap Evan, who purchased of Robert Turner seven thousand two hundred and fifty acres of the ten thousand acres purchased of Penn in 1681, and on this tract the remnant of the passengers on the "Robert and Elizabeth," who had sur- vived the "bloody flux" which had carried away forty-five of their number during the voyage, at once settled. Edward Foulke like many of the other Welsh settlers in Pennsylvania, was descended from early Welsh princes, and through them from the Kings of Eng- land. Through his great-great-grandmother, Mary, wife of Robert ap David Lloyd, he had a strain of Norman blood, she being a descendant of King John of England, through his his son, Henry H., and grandson, Edward L, who by his wife, Eleanor, of Castile, had a daughter, Eleanor, from whom descended Elea- nor de Montfort, wife of Llewllyn, the last crowned Prince of Wales, from whom descended Owen Glendower, last native Prince of Wales, who fought long and valiantly for the independence of Wales, but was finally slain by Lord Morti- mer. From his daughter, Lowry, Mary, wife of Robert Lloyd was descended. The ancestry of Edward Foulke and an account of his life in Wales and re- moval to Pennsylvania, are given in a writing by himself four years after his arrival in the Province, and translated into English by his grandson, Samuel Foulke, of Richland, many years a member of Provincial Assembly from Bucks county. Copies of this quaint instrument are in existence, the one in possession of William Parker Foulke is as follows: — "I, Edward Foulke, was the son of Foulke ap Thomas, ap Evan, ap Thomas ap Robert, ap David Lloyd, ap Evan Vaughan, ap Griffith, ap Madoc, ap Jerwerth, ap Madoij ap Ririd Flaidd, Lord of Penllyn, who dwelt at Rhiwaedog. '*' "My mother's name was Lowry, the daughter of Edward ap David, ap Ellis, ap Robert of the parish of Llavor in Merionethshire. FOULKE 931 "I was born on the 13th of the Sth Month, 1651, and when arrived at mature age, mar- ried Eleanor, daughter of Hugh ap Cadwalader, ap Rhys, of the parish of Spytu, in Den- bighshire; her mother's name was Gwen, the daughter of Ellis ap William, ap Hugh, ap Thomas, ap David, ap Madoc, ap Evan, ap Cott, ap Evan, ap Griffith, ap Madoc, ap Einion, ap Merdith, of Cai-Fa-dcg; and was born in the same parish and shire with her husband. "I had, by my said wife, nine children, whose names are as follows : Thomas, Hugh, Cadwalader and Evan; Grace, Gwen, Jane, Catherine, and Margaret. We lived at a place called Coed-y-foel, a beautiful farm belonging to Roger Price, Esq., of Rhiwlas, Merioneth- shire, aforesaid. But in process of time I had an inclination to remove with my family to the Province of Pensilvania; and in order thereto, we set out on the 3d. Day of the 2d. Month, A. D. l6g8, and came in two days to Liverpool, where, with divers others who intended to go the voyage, we took shipping the 17th of the same month on board the Robert and Elizabeth, and the next day set sail for Ireland, where we arrived and staid until the first of the third month, May, and then sailed again for Pennsylvania, and were about eleven weeks at sea. And the sore distemper of the bloody flux broke out in the vessel, of which died in our passage, five and forty persons. The distemper was so mortal that two or three corpses were cast overboard every day while it lasted. "But through the favor and mercy of Divine Providence, I with my wife and nine children escaped that sore mortality, and arrived safe in Philadelphia, the 17th of the Sth Month, July, where we were kindly received and hospitably entertained by our friends and old acquaintance. "1 soon purchased a fine tract of land of about seven hundred acres, sixteen miles from Philadelphia, on a part of which I settled, and divers others of our company who came over the sea with us, settled near me at the same time. This was the beginning of Novem- ber, i6g8, aforesaid, and the township was called Gwynedd, or North Wales. This account was written the 14th. of the nth. Month, January, A. D. 1702, by Edward Foulke." "Translated from British into English by Samuel Foulke." Edward Foulke was a plain Welsh farmer, possessed of an education superior to most of those of hi,i time. He and his family were not members of the Society cf Friends at the time of their immigration, though largely in sympathy with their views as to simplicity and plainness in the mode of life, and eventually joined the Society, of which his descendants were and many still are prominent and consistent members. He died on his plantation at Penllyn in 1741, and his wife, Eleanor, in March 1733-4. Issue of Edward and Eleanor (Cadwalader) Foulke: — Thomas, b. 1683, d. 1762; m. Gwen Evans, of whom presently; Hugh, b. 1685, d. 1760; m. 1713, Ann, dau. of John Williams of Montgomery, and about 1720, located in Great Swamp, Richland township, Bucks Co., where they reared family of eleven children, ten of whom married and reared families, and at death of Ann, the mother in 1773, their posterity numbered three hundred and forty-three. Edward was esteemed minister of Society of Friends for over thirty years. Samuel, eldest son was member of Colonial Assembly, 1761-8, and was succeeded by brother John, who served until Revolution. All four of sons, of Hugh and Ann Foulke, were disowned from Richland Meeting for taking oath of Allegiance to colonies, but the action of meeting therein was overruled by Yearly Meeting and they retamed membership. Many of their descendants have been prominent in affairs of their native county, and several later found homes in Phila. and elsewhere, and enjoyed a like prominence. Job Roberts Foulke, for many years Trust Officer of Provident Life and Trust Company of Phila. was descendant of Hugh and Ann (Williams) Foulke, through son Thomas; Cadwalader, b. i6gi, d. 1743; m. Mary Evans, and lived in Gwynedd until 1731, when he removed to Phila., and engaged in mercantile business, living on north side of High (now Market) St., near Court House. He was appointed justice of Phila. county Nov. 22, 1738, and did large amount of official business. His wife Mary, was dau. of Robert Evans, one of four sons of Evan ap Evan, who emi- grated from Wales with Edward Foulke in 1698, and settled in Gwynedd, and who traced ancestry through long line of Welsh princes to Tyndaethwy, King of Wales, d. 818, or 820. Mary (Evans) Foulke was prominent minister among Friends and travelled exten- sively in that service. She m. (second) in 1744, Thomas Marriott, of Bristol, Bucks Co., and d. 1747. Judah Foulke, only child of Cadwalader and Mary, b. 1722, became prominent citi- zen of Phila. and man of literary taste and fine classical attainments. Was Col- 932 FOULKE lector of Excise, at Phila., 1745-50; sheriff of Phila. Co. 1770-72, and on Dec. 9. 1773. was appointed by Gov. John Penn, "with the advice of Council" Keeper of Standards of Brass for Weights and Measures, for Co. of Phila. He d. at his residence, 34 North Front Street, 1776. He m. Feb. 16, 1743, Mary Bring- hurst, who survived him, dying Jan. 22, 1798, aged nearly 77 years; of their four children, John, Elizabeth, Mary and Deborah, the two eldest daughters d. unm. and Deborah, though twice m. left no surviving issue; Dr. John Foulke, only son of Judah and Mary (Bringhurst) Foulke, b. Phila. 1757. d. 1796, was physician of learning and high repute in his profession; was student at Col. of Phila., and presented himself for graduation in 1779, but vvas pre- vented from receiving his diploma by abrogation of charter, but received his degree of M. D. 1780. On May 4, 1780, he sailed for Europe, to perfect himself for practice of his profession, bearing letters to Benjamin Franklin, then Ameri- can Minister to France, from Joseph Wharton and Thomas Bond. Mr. Whar- ton's letter is as follows : Philadelphia, April 27, 1780. "The bearer, my friend Dr. John Foulke, is a Whig in his principles, has sub- scribed the Test to this State and though from the singularity of the tenets of the Quakers, he has not been active in the field, yet in the line of his physical profes- sion, has been useful in the hospitals. His intention in visiting France is to improve himself in Surgery and Physic; but being a perfect stranger in Paris, will stand in need of recommendation to the most eminent in the Medical branches, as well as for favorable introductions into the hospitals. Will you therefore, my good sir, as my friends is of unimpeached morals, and his relatives long known for good citi- zens, take him by the hand and recommend him to those gentlemen who can be most useful to him? I know you will, and in this happy thought I subscribe myself, Respectfully, etc., Joseph Wharton." To his Excellency, DR. FRANKLIN." While abroad. Dr. Foulke visited also, Germany and Holland, and gathered much useful knowledge, professional and otherwise. He was elected member of American Philosophical Society, in 1784, and was one of its secretaries in 1786, when Franklin was president. Dr. Foulke m. May 8, 1788, Eleanor, dau. of Richard and Lydia Parker, who survived him sixty-four years dying in the summer of i860. Of their three chil- dren only eldest Richard Parker Foulke, left issue, among whom was William Parker Foulke, the eminent philanthropist, and scientist, b. May 31, 1816, d. June 18, 1865. Evan Foulke, fourth son of Edward and Eleanor, b. in Wales, received from his father, a farm of 250 acres in Gwynedd, and lived thereon to his death, 1745. He m. (first) 1725, Ellen Roberts dau. of Edward of Gwynedd, and had one dau. Margaret, who m. John Evans of Gwynedd. Evan m. (second) Anne Coulston and left surviving him one daughter Esther, who m. (first) a Yaxley, and (second) a Johnson. Gwen Foulke, b. in Wales, m. Dec. 6, 1703, Alexander Edwards, Jr., son of Alex- ander Edwards of Montgomery township, and had children Edward, Alexander, Thomas, Joseph, and Jane; Grace Foulke, b. in Wales, m. May 6, 1707, John GrifSth, eldest son of Griffith John, of Merion and had children, Griffith, John, Evan and Susannah Griffith; Jane Foulke, b. in Wales, Jan. 10, 1683-4, ni. June 5, 1713, Ellis son of John Hugh of Gwynedd, and they settled in Oley township, Berks Co., Pa.; she d. Aug. 7, 1766, and her husband Jan. 11, 1764. They had issue, John, William, Rowland, Samuel, Edward and Margaret; Catharine Foulke, b. in Wales, m. June 5, 1713, Theophilus Williams, son of John of Montgomery, and had issue, John, Benjamin, Mary and Eleanor; Margaret, b. in Wales, m. May 23, 1717, Nicholas Roberts, son of Robert Cadwala- der, of Gwynedd, and had issue, Jane, Eleanor and Elizabeth. Thomas Foulke, eldest son of Edward and Eleanor (Cadwalader) Foulke, torn in Merionethshire, Wales, August 7, 1685, married at Gwynedd Meeting House, June 27, 1706, Gwen, eldest daughter of David Evans, of Radnor, and set- tled on a part of his father's lands at Penllyn, erecting the house so long occupied "by his great-grandson, William Foulke, and during the Revolution occupied by the ■widow and unmarried children of his son, William Foulke, and the family of FOULKE 933 Daniel and Lowry (Jones) Wister, including Sally Wister, whose delightful "Journal" was written there. Here Thomas and Gwen Foulke lived their quiet and uneventful life, she dying in 1760, and he in 1762. His sister, Gwen Edwards, was evidently living in a house on the same premises, as Thomas Foulke's will devises her "the use of the house she now lives in." His second son, William, is devised the home plantation of two hundred and thirteen acres, unless his eldest son chooses to accept twenty-five acres in lieu of a legacy of one hundred pounds. Issue of Thomas and Gwen (Evans) Foulke:—- Edward, b. 1707, d. 1770; m. (first) Gainor Roberts, dau. of Edward of Gwynedd, who d. Sept. 14, 1741; and (second) on Oct. 25, 1750, Margaret Griffith, daughter of Hugh of Gwynedd, who survived him. Edward Foulke was man of ability and prominence and served for some years as clerk of Board of Trustees of the Pa. Loan Office, of which board his brother-in-law, Rowland Evans, was one of members. Edward and Gainor (Roberts) Foulke, had issue: Joshua, b. 1731, m. (first) Catharine, dau. of John and Eleanor (Ellis) Evans, of Gwynedd; and (second) Hannah Jones, daughter of John of Gwynedd. His descendants are widely scattered through the west and south. Ann, b. Aug. 22, 1732, m. John Ambler, and had issue : Joseph Ambler, m. Elizabeth Forman; no issue. Edward Ambler, m. Ann Mather, and had issue. John Ambler, Jr. m. (first) Priscilla Naylor; (second) Mary Thomas. Issue by first marriage : Jesse Ambler, m. Ruth Roberts; no issue. Gainor Ambler, m. Isaac Jones, of Montgomery township, where he d. 1840, aged 93 years, and Gainor on June 20, 1847, in 92d year; Isaac Jones was son of Isaac Jones, who came to Montgomery, when a young man, from Merion, being son of David and Katharine Jones, who came from Wales in i6g8, and settled in Merion. Isaac was b. Sept. 5, 1708, and m. 1728, Elizabeth, dau. of George Lewis, then eighteen years of age, with whom he lived for seventy years, both dying in Montgomery he in 1798, and she in 1800, both 90 years of age. Tacy, dau. of Isaac and Gainor (Ambler) Jones, m. Dec. 11, 1810, Edward, son of Amos and Hannah (Jones) Foulke, of whom later; Tacy Ambler, m. Joseph Shoemaker, and had issue six children; Susanna Ambler, m. Jesse Lukens of Towamencin, and had issue, nine children; Eleanor, b. Sept. 15, 1735, m. May 14, 1767, Edward Ambler, son of Joseph Ambler of Montgomery. Issue of Edward and Margaret (Griffith) Foulke (2d wife) : — Hugh, b. Feb. 21, 1752, d. Feb. 23, 1831; lived all his life at Gwynedd, and was earnest and consistent member of Gywnedd Meeting; m. Ann Roberts, and had issue: Cadwalader, of White Marsh, m. Ann Shoemaker; Hannah, for many years teacher at Westtown School; Sarah, m. Alexander Forman, Jr., of Montgomery; Joseph, of Gwynedd, minister of Society of Friends, for many years con- ducted private school for boys at Gwynedd; Hugh, of Gwynedd, (1788-1864) m. Martha Shoemaker, and was father of Thomas Foulke (1829-84), for fourteen years Supt. of Swarthmore Col- lege, m. Phebe Shoemaker; and of Hugh Foulke, prominent educator, first at Gwynedd, later in N. Y. Alice, b. July 15, 1754, d. inf.; 934 FOULKE Hannah, b. Sept. 20, 1755, d. June 24, 1781; m. Edward Stroud and had issue, Edward, Margaret and Tacy. Cadwalader, b. 1758, d. Feb. 27, 1808; m. (first) Phoebe Ellis, and lived in Phila. until death of his wife of yellow fever in 1802; went to Wheeling, West Va. in 1806, where he m. (second) Ann Chirington; later went on trading voyage down Ohio river, and is supposed to have been robbed and murdered by river pirates; His only dau. by first wife, Sarah Fouike, went west with her father and m. there Dec, 1809, William Farquhar, d. Nov. 8, 1810, and she returned to Pa. and was teacher at Westtown Boarding School, 1811-16; m. (second) Jan. II, 1816, James Emlem of Phila., and had by him seven children; William FoulkEj b. 1708, d. 177S, m. Hannah Jones, of whom presently; Ellen, b. Aug. 18, 1710, m. William Williams, and had eight children; Evan, b. Aug. 27, 1712, d. Feb. II, 1748-9; Margaret, b. May 22, 1715, d. Nov. 23, 1734, unm.; Susanna, b. March 17, 1720-1, d. Phila., March i, 1787; m. at Gwynedd Meeting House, Nov. 15, 1748, Rowland Evans, born 1718, died August 8, 1789; son of John Evans of Gwynedd, b. in Denbighshire, Wales, 1689, by his wife, Eleanor Ellis, b. near Dolgelly, Merionethshire, Wales, dau. of Rowland Ellis, distin- guished Welsh preacher among Friends, who is referred to elsewhere in these volumes. John Evans was son of Cadwalader Evans, b. 1664, d. at Gwynedd, i745i youngest of four sons of Evan ap Evan, who came to Pa., i6g8, with Edward Fouike, by his wife Ellen, dau. of John Morris, of Bryn Gwyn, Den- bighshire, Wales, whom he m. in Wales. Cadwalader was eminent preacher among Friends, at Gwynedd. Rowland Evans, b. at Gwynedd and resided there, on father's lands, until 1766, when he removed to Providence township, and in June, 1784, in to Phila, that he has "lately removed from his former residence in Providence township, Phila. Co., and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages, Articles of Agreement, and other Instruments of Writing at his house on the East side of Fourth St., a few doors above Race Street." He was appointed justice of peace of Phila. Co., 1749, 52, 57, 61, and was member of Provincial Assembly, 1761-71. On Sept. 14, 1785, appointed one of Commissioners of General Loan Office of Pa., and held that position to his death, Aug. 8, 1789. He was elected member of American Society for Promotion of Useful Knowledge, prior to its coalition with American Philosophical Society in 1769, and took deep interest in scien- tific research. An obituary notice of him in Gazette at time of his death, says among other things, "previous to the Revolution he was for many years a member of the Legislature and a Justice of the Peace, both of which he filled with great ability, dignity, and applause." All of his six children died without issue. Sarah, b. March 17, 1720, (twin to Susanna), m. William Jones, and left issue, a dau. Sarah, who m. David Green. Caleb, b. Aug. 13, 1722, d. July 7, 1736. William Foulke, second son of Thomas and Gwen (Evans) Fouike, born at the old homestead at Penllyn, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, in 1708, and spent his whole life there, having inherited from his father nearly two hun- dred acres of the land taken up by his grandfather, Edward Fouike, in 1698. He was for many years an Elder and Overseer of Gwynedd Meeting, and a memorial of him was adopted by the Monthly Meeting at his death in 1775. By his will probated November 6, 1775, the home plantation was devised to his son, Jesse, and to his son, Levi, "the plantation where he dwells," while his sons, Caleb and Amos, and his three daughters receive bequests in money. William Fouike married at Gwynedd Meeting House, October 15, 1734, Han- nah, daughter of John Jones, "Carpenter." son of Rees John William, and Han- nah Price, some account of whom and their emigration from Wales, is given in our sketch of Robert Lloyd, who married his daughter Lowry. John Jones, "Carpenter," as he was known, to distinguish him from others of the name, came to Gwynedd township from Merion, about 17 10, and became a large land owner there and was a prominent, active and valuable citizen. FOULKE 935 He was born in Merion, June 6, 1688, and was married at Gwynedd Meeting House, June 9, 1713, to Jane Edwards, daughter of Edward Griffith. She died May 14, 1757. John Jones died December 30, 1774; Gwynedd Monthly Meeting adopted memorials of both him and his wife. They were parents of ten children of whom but four married and left issue, viz: Hannah, above mentioned, who married William Foulke; Priscilla, who married Evan Jones, of Merion; Evan and Jesse, the latter settling in Bucks county. Issue of William and Hannah (Jones) Foulke: — Jane, b. Aug. 22, 1735, m. 1757, George Maris of Gwynedd, son of George Maris of Springfield, Chester Co., and had issue ten children of whom five d. unm. ; Caleb, b. Feb. S, 1736, d. in Phila., Jan. 25, 181 1; went to Phila. in early life and became prominent merchant there, first with his younger brother, Amos, and later with his son Owen, under the firm name Caleb and Owen Foulke; doing a large business in foreign trade; he was signer of Non-importation Agreement Oct., 1765. He purchased farm on Swedes Ford road in Montgomery Co., 1776, and made his home there during the British occupation of Phila. He m. in Phila., Jan. 21, 1762, Jane, eldest daughter of Owen Jones, Provincial Treas., by his wife Susanna Evans; Jane d. in Germantown, 1815. Caleb and Jane (Jones) Foulke had issue: — Owen, b. Phila. June 27, 1763, bur. at Gwynedd, Aug. 30, 1808; for time partner with his father in Phila., later practicing attorney-at-law, at Sun- bury, Pa. He was member of First City Troop, Phila., 1798. Caleb, Jr., b. Phila. Aug. 8, 1770, d. Oct. 15, 1823; merchant; m. (first) Nov. 26, 179s, Margaret Cullen, and (second), 1814, Sarah Hodgkiss, widow, of Germantown; five children of first marriage survived infancy; Charles, m. Eliza Lowery, but left no issue; Jane, d. unm.; Hannah, d. unm.; Lowry, m. (first) Samuel Miles and (second) her cousin Evan Jones of Gwynedd, son of Evan and Hannah. Levi, b. May' 20, 1739, d. June 27, 1815; lived and d. on part of old Foulke home- stead; m. Ann, dau. of Thomas Evans, of Gwynedd, by his second wife, Hannah Morris. They had issue, one son, William, b. 1767, d. 1833, m- Margaret Mcllvaine, and had issue. Amos, b. Jan. 5, 1740-1, m. Hannah Jones, of whom presently; Jesse, b. Jan. 9, 1742-3, d. unm. March 16, 1821; lived with his unm. sister, Priscilla, in old house at Penllyn; Priscilla, b. Dec. 3, 1744, d. Jan. 25, 1821, unm.; Margaret, Sarah and Judah, all d. inf. Lydia, b. Apr. 9, 1756, m. John, (1756-99) son of Jacob and Hannah (Jarrett) Spencer, of Moreland; grandson of Samuel and Mary (Dawes) Spencer; and great-grandson of Samuel Spencer, who came from Barbadoes and was merchant in Phila., at his death in Dec, 1705, by his wife, a dau. of Robert Whitton. John and Lydia (Foulke) Spencer had nine children. Amos Foulke, third son of William and Hannah (Jones) Foulke, born at the old homestead at Penllyn, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, January 5, 1740-1, came to Philadelphia when a young man and engaged in the mercantile business with his elder brother Caleb, under the firm name of Caleb and Amos Foulke. He died in Philadelphia, and was buried as shown by Jacob Hiltz- heimer's diary, August 7, 1791. He married, May 20, 1779, Hannah, daughter of Owen Jones, Provincial Treasurer, by his wife, Susanna Evans. Hannah (Jones) Foulke was born in Philadelphia, December 28, 1749, and is said to have died of the yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793. 18 936 FOULKE Issue of Amos and Hannah (Jones) Foulke: — Susan, b. Oct. ii, 1781, d. Feb. I, 1842, unm.; Edward, b. Nov. 17, 1784, d. July 17, 1851; m. Tacy Jones, of whom presently; George, July 23, 1786, July, 1848, unm. Edward Foulke, eldest son of Amos and Hannah (Jones) Foulke, born in Philadelphia, November 17, 1784, was reared from childhood by his uncle and aunt, Jesse and Priscilla Foulke, at the old family homestead at Penllyn, where his great-great-grandfather, Edward Foulke, had settled in 1699. The house in which his childhood was spent being the scene of "Sally Wister's Journal," in which the home life of Jesse Foulke and his unmarried sister, Priscilla, in the old family mansion, is beautifully portrayed. Edward Foulke succeeded to the old homestead and spent the remainder of his life there, dying July 17, 1851. He married, December 11, 1810, Tacy, daugh- ter of Isaac and Gainor (Ambler) Jones, of Gwynedd, Montgomery county, grandson of Isaac Jones, born in Merion, Philadelphia county, in 1708, who re- moved to Gwynedd when a young man, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of George Lewis, a native of Wales. Isaac Jones Sr. was a son of David and Katharine Jones, who came from Wales in 1699, and settled in Merion. Gainor Ambler, the wife of Isaac Jones Jr., and mother of Tacy (Jones) Foulke, was daughter of John Ambler by his wife, Ann, daughter of Edward and Gainor (Roberts) Foulke, of Gwynedd, and great-granddaughter of Edward Foulke, the founder of the family in America. Issue of Edward and Tacy (Jones) Foulke: — Ann Jones Foulke, b. Sept. 15, 1811, d. June 25, 1883; m. Dr. Hiram Corson; of whom presently; Jesse Foulke, b. June 23, 1813, d. Feb. 15, 1892, unm.; Charles Foulke, b. Dec. 14, 1815; studied medicine, and on graduation located at Gwynedd, removing to New Hope, Bucks Co., 1842, where he succeeded to prac- tice of Dr. Richard Corson, whose daughter, Harriet Mathews, he had married; a sketch of Dr. Corson and his ancestry follows; Dr. Charles and Harriet M. (Corson) Foulke had issue: Dr. Richard Corson Foulke of New Hope; m. Louisa Vansant; Edward Foulke of Washington, D. C, m. Eliza Van Horn; Thomas Foulke; Susan Foulke, b. July 18, 1818, d. Nov. 2, 1886, unm.; Owen Foulke, b. 1820, d. inf.; Priscilla Foulke, b. Oct. 10, 1821, d. Dec. 28, 1882; m. Thomas Wistar, son of Thomas, and had issue: Susan Foulke Wistar; Edward Foulke Wistar; Elizabeth Wistar; Anne Wistar; Jonathan Foulke, b. 1825, d. inf.; Lydia S. Foulke, b. Feb. 18, 1827, d. Aug. 27, 1861 ; m. Charles Bacon, son of John, and had issue : Anna Bacon, m. Robert NeflF, Jr. Rebecca Jones Foulke, b. May 18, 1829; m. 1857, Col. Robert Rodgers, son of Dr Richard Corson, of New Hope; of whom presently; Hannah Jones Foulke, b. Sept. 18, 1831 ; m. May 20, 1862, Francis, brother of Charles W. Bacon, who m. her sister Lydia; they had issue: Lydia Foulke Bacon, b. Dec. 27, 1863; m. Apr. 1890, Thomas H. Miles who d. Nov. 18, 1893; FOULKE 937 Francis Llewwllyn Bacon, b. March i6, 1868; Albert Edward Bacon, b. Sept. 27, 1869; m. Oct. 15, 1902, Ella G. Kitchin, and had issue : Margaret Webb Bacon, b. Apr. 29, 1904; Francis Bacon, Jr., b. Jan. 20, 1907; Emily Foulke, b. Dec. 2, 1834; d. Aug. 23, 1892; m. Charles Lawton Bacon, son of Charles W. Bacon; he d. in 1862; Owen Foulke, b. 1838, d. inf. Ann Jones 1'oulke, eldest daughter of Edward and Tacy (Jones) Foulke, born September 15, 181 1, married, December 26, 1833, Dr. Hiram Corson, of Maple Hill, Plymouth township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, one of the most prominent physicians of his time. He was born at Hickorytown, Plymouth township, Montgomery county, October 8, 1804, and was seventh child and fifth son of Joseph and Hannah (Dickinson) Corson, and of prominent and influential family, early settled in Bucks county. Benjamin Corson, came to Bucks county from Staten Island in 1726, and purchased a farm in Northampton township, where he died in 1741, survived by his wife, Eleanor, and two sons, Cornelius and Benjamin. Benjamin Corson, second son of Benjamin and Eleanor, was born on Staten Island in 1718, and came with his parents to Bucks county at the age of eight years. He married, January 2, 1741-2, Maria Suydam, of a prominent Holland family, long settled on Long Island, from whence several representatives had mi- grated to Bucks county prior to the arrival of the Corson family in that county. In the same year as his marriage, Benjamin Corson, second, purchased a farm in Northampton township, on which he lived until his death on March 19, 1774. His widow survived him and died February 15, 1792, aged seventy-one years, three weeks, and four days. They were the parents of eight children, six sons and two daughters ; the second son, Richard Corson, being the father of Dr. Richard D. Corson, of New Hope, before referred to. Benjamin Corson, third, eldest son of Benjamin and Maria (Suydam) Corson, was born in Northampton township, Bucks county, March 6, 1743, and married there, in 1761, Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Ohl) Dungan, a descendant of the Rev. Thomas Dungan, the founder of the first Baptist church in Pennsyl- vania, coming from New York to Bucks county in 1684. Benjamin and Sarah (Dimgan) Corson lived for a time in Lov/er Dublin township, Philadelphia county, where most of their children were born, later residing in Makefield town- ship, and finally in Wrightstown township, Bucks county, where they both died in 181 1, he on October 2, and she on July 2. They had eleven children, six sons and five daughters, all of whom lived to mature age and married. Joseph Corson, the father of Dr. Hiram Corson, was second son of Benjamin Corson, third, by his wife, Sarah Dungan, and was born in Dublin township, Philadelphia county, March 15, 1764. He was reared on a farm and received a common school education. In 1785 he removed with his friend Samuel Maulsby (son of Hannah Maulsby, who became the second wife of Richard Corson, uncle to Joseph, of whom hereafter) to Plymouth village, Montgomery county, and in the following year married Hannah, daughter of Joseph Dickinson, of White Marsh township, Montgomery covnty, and great-granddaughter of William Dick- inson, of Maryland, who had come to White Marsh from Maryland about a cen- tury earlier. They followed farming in Plymouth township, locating at Hickory- 938 FOULKE town in 1800, where Joseph Corson engaged in store-keeping in connection with the conduct of his farm until his death, April 4, 1834. His wife died December 17, 1810, and he married (second), m 1812, Eleanor Coulston, niece and name- sake of the second wife of David Rittenhouse, the astronomer. She survived her husband and died in Norristown, November 21, 1846. Joseph and Hannah (Dickinson) Corson were the parents of eleven children of whom Dr. Hiram Corson was the ninth; Hiram Corson, LL. D., the distin- guished scholar and author, was his nephew. Dr. Hiram Corson received his early education in the Friends' School at Plymouth Meeting, under Joseph Foulke, and later under his eldest brother Alan W. Corson, an eminent scholar and mathematician. He later attended the Friends' Select School in Philadelphia. After leaving school he assisted his father in the store at Hickorytown until May 9, 1826, when he began the study of medicine in the office of his cousin, Richard Davis Corson, in New Hope, Bucks county, and the following year attended lectures in the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received his medical degree in the Spring of 1828. He at once began to practice in his native neighbor- hood, and soon built up a large practice, becoming one of the best known physi- cians of eastern Pennsylvania. He founded the Montgomery County Medical Society in 1847, and was its president in 1849, and during his whole life one of its most active and prominent members. He became a member of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania in 1848, and was elected its president in 1853 ; became a member of the American Medical Association in 1862 ; became a member of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society in 1874; elected Associate Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1876, an honor conferred upon but very few phy- sicians outside of the city ; life member of Alumni Association of University of Pennsylvania, 1879, vice-president, 1849; elected honorary member of Harris- burg Pathological Society, 1881 ; and of the National Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1894. He was one of the trustees of the Hospital for Insane at Harrisburg, 1877-82. He became a member of the Historical Society of Penn- sylvania in 1884, and contributed a number of papers to its archives. He con- tributed a large number of papers to the "Transactions of the Pennsylvania Medical Society" and the "Transactions of the Ninth International Medical Con- gress." The great work, however, to which he devoted years of effort, was the recognition of the Women's College and its graduates by the medical fraternity and its associations, and securing the passage of laws to have only women physi- cians to have medical care of the insane of their own sex in the State Hospitals. When in 1858 the Board of Censors of the Philadelphia County Medical Society reported their disapproval of any member of the Society holding professional intercourse with the professors or alumni of the Women's Medical College, Dr. Corson took the question before the Medical Society of Montgomery county and, securing the adoption of strong resolutions against the action of the Philadel- phia Society, carried them as delegate to the State Medical Society in i860, where it met with violent opposition. The breaking out of the Civil War, distracted the attention of the medical fraternity, and the matter remained in abeyance until the meeting of the State Society at Wilkes-Barre in 1866, when Dr. Corson renewed his efforts to secure for the Woman's College the proper recognition of the pro- fession, and continued to agitate the matter until 1871, when the obnoxious reso- FOULKE 939 lution of the Philadelphia Society was rescinded, and in 1877 he began the fight for women physicians in Insane Hospitals and secured the enactment of a law to that effect in 1879. For over half a century Dr. Corson was the recognized leader of thought in the community in which he lived and "an exemplar of the highest type." He was from his youth an earnest and active opponent of human slavery and his house was one of the prominent stations on the Underground Railroad. He retired from active practice in 1888, and died at Maple Hill, his residence during nearly the whole of his adult life, on March 4, 1894, in his ninety-second year. Leading newspapers of Philadelphia and adjoining counties pubHshed extended notices of his death and sketches of his life and work, and many of them had beautiful editorial comments on his life and character. The Montgomery County Medical Society held a special meeting, at which resolutions were adopted, and eulogistic addresses delivered, and a Memorial Meeting was held in the Court House at Norristown, May 22, 1896, where addresses were delivered by many prominent men on the life and character of Dr. Corson. From one of these we quote the following extracts. "Dr. Corson may not have been a great man in the sense of a world-wide reputation, yet he towered above his fellows in many points. He was as true as steel to his convictions and maintained them in the face of almost overwhelming opposition. * * * He was original in his methods in dealing with either questions of reform or the treatment of disease." He was one of the first to practice and advocate the use of cooling drinks and the application of ice in the treatment of fevers, and active in the crusade against the use of hot liquids that had largely prevailed in the earlier years of his practice. Issue of Dr. Hiram and Ann Jones (Foulke) Corson: — Dr. Edward Foulke Corson, b. Oct. 14, 1834, d. June 22, 1864; grad. from Med. Dept. of Univ. of Pa., 1855; practiced for short time with his father and at Con- shohocken; was appointed Assistant Surgeon of U. S. Navy and spent three years on board the flagship "Hartford" in the far east, returning in 1861; was made Surgeon of Naval Hospital at Phila., but seeking active duty, was assigned to the "Mohican," on which he served in that vessel's chase after Confederate ship "Alabama" for eighteen months. He d. a few weeks after his rettirn home of typhoid fever. Dr. Joseph K. Corson, b. Nov. 2, 1836; entered drug-store of William and John Savery, Phila., at close of school days and grad. in pharmacy at age of 22; volun- teered in Fourth Pa. Regiment, Apr. 20, 1861, as Corporal, honorably discharged as Sergeant, at expiration of his three months' service, July 26, 1861 ; became Medical Cadet on duty in Army Hospital, Broad and Cherry Sts., Phila., June, 1861, and served to March, 1863, when he graduated from Med. Dept. of Univ. of Pa., and was made Assistant Surgeon of 6th Regiment Penna. Reserve Corps; received brevet as Maj. for faithful and meritorious service during the Wilder- ness campaign in Va., March 13, 1865; returned home at close of war and prac- ticed medicine with father until Nov., 1867, when he entered the U. S. Army as Assistant Surgeon with rank of First Lieut., rose to rank of Maj., and served in various parts of the Union, until his retirement after over thirty years of service, Nov. 30, 1897; m. Nov. 2, 1874, Mary Ada, dau. of Judge William Alexander Carter of Fort Bridger, Wy. ; Caroline Corson, b. Apr. 2, 1839, d. July 25, 1865; Tacy Foulke Corson, b. Jan. 26, 1841 ; m. William L. Cresson, son of James and Mary L. Cresson, and had issue: Charles Follen Corson, b. Nov. 22, 1842, grad. at Univ. of Pa., Coll. Dept.; studied law in office of William Henry Rawle, Esq., Phila., was admitted to Phila. Bar, and practiced his profession until death. May 30, 1889; served in Emergency Regi- ment 1862-3; tn. (iirst) Mary, dau. of Lewis A. Lukens, who d. Dec. 14, 1876; m. (second) 1889, Margaret Slemmer, of Norristown, who survived him; Susan Foulke Corson, b. Aug. 9, 1845, m. Nov. 26, 1868, Jawood Lukens, prominent 940 FOULKE iron manufacturer, youngest son of Leis A. Lukens, original partner in Alan Wood Iron & Steel Co. Jawood Lukens, named for his maternal grandfather J. A. Wood, the earliest iron manufacturer in the Schuylkill Valley, was b. in 1843, grad. at Polytechnic college of Phila. in 1865 as Civil Engineer, took interest in firm of Alan Wood Co. in 1873, but withdrew in 1881, and started the Long- mead Iron Co., with which later was incorporated Conshohocken Tube Works of which he was founder. He was Pres. of Longmead Iron Co. at his death, March 10, igo8. He served in Town Council of Conshohocken; was long director of First National Bank and Tradesman's Bank of Conshohocken, and Quaker City National Bank of Phila.; many years Treas. and manager of Conshohocken Water Works, and filled many other positions of trust and honor; was member of American Institute of Mining Engineers; Engineer's Club, of Phila.; Franklin Institute; Union League, Art Club, and Manufacturers' Club. He had no chil- dren. Bertha Corson, b. Dec. 17, 1847; m. June 17, 1868, James, son of James Yocum, of Phila., where they still reside; they had seven children; Frances Stockton Corson, b. Oct. 25, 1849, m. Nov. 12, 1874, Richard Hopper, son of Charles and Anna (Miles) Day, of Phila.; they live in Gerraantown, and have three children; Mary Corson, b. Nov. 26, 1852, d. unm. Rebecca Jones Foulke, born at Penllyn, May 18, 1829, married, in 1857, Robert Rodgers Corson, then a business man of Philadelphia. He was born in New Hope, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, May 3, 183 1, and was a son of Dr. Rich- ard D. Corson, by his wife, Helen Stockton, daughter of Thomas Potts Johnson, one of the most eminent lawyers of New Jersey; and granddaughter of William Johnson, a native of Ireland, who came to America about 1750, and married some years later, Ruth Potts, of the distinguished family of that name at Trenton, New Jersey. He was a man of high scholastic attainments, and a great student of scientific subjects. After residing some years in Philadelphia, he removed to Charleston, South Carolina, where he died in 1767. Another son, Samuel John- son, born in Philadelphia in 1765, resided many years in Buckingham, Bucks county, and was the grandfather of the late Hon. Edward M. Paxson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Richard Corson, second son of Benjamin (second) and Maria (Suydam) Corson, was baptized at Southampton Church, as "Ryck," the Dutch form of the name Richard, on April 2, 1745. He was probably three times married, as the record in a Bible in possession of his descendants names Hannah (Davis) Mauls- by, the mother of his children, as his "second wife," and gives the date of her birth as January i, 1743, and that of her death as June 4, 1807; whereas at the death of Richard in 1812, his widow "Johannah Courson" renounced letters of administration on his estate. Hannah Maulsby, maiden name Davis, was a widow with one son, Samuel Maulsby, on her marriage to Richard Corson. They lived for some years on the York road at Bridge Valley, Warwick township, Bucks county, where he was proprietor of a hotel, and in 1787, removed to Solebury township, near New Hope, where he purchased in that year a large tract of land. Richard Corson died in Solebury, November 14, 1812, and was buried at North- ampton. He left two children, Richard Davis Corson, of whom presently, and Hannah, who married John Bye, of Buckingham. Richard Davis Corson, M. D., only son of Richard and Hannah, was born, probably in Warwick township, Bucks county, January i, 1785, and was reared in Solebury township, Bucks county. He studied medicine with Dr. John Wilson, FOULKE 941 of Buckingham, but prior to settling down to the practice of his profession, took a trip to India, and practiced medicine and surgery for a year in Calcutta. He returned by way of Charleston, South CaroHna, and was taken sick there and kindly cared for by Dr. David Ramsey, the historian, thus forming an acquaint- ance and friendship which lasted through life. Dr. James Ramsay, son of the historian, was later a student under Dr. Corson at New Hope, and afterwards became Professor of Surgery in South Carolina Medical College. On his return to Solebury, Dr. Corson married, as above stated, Helen Stockton Johnson. He began the practice of his profession on his plantation near Aquetong, Solebury township, conveyed to him by his father in i8og, but about 1814, located in New Hope, where he was a very successful and popular physician, until his death in 1842. Dr. Corson had as medical students many men who later became eminent in the profession, among them. Dr. James Ramsay, before referred to; Dr. Thomas Miner, of Wilkes-barre ; Dr. Theodore Dunn, of Rhode Island; Drs. James McNair, and William L. Van Horn, of Bucks county, the latter afterwards a surgeon in the United States Army ; Dr. Hiram Corson, the eminent physician of Plymouth, Montgomery county, before referred to; Dr. George Maulsby, of Plymouth Meeting, later Surgeon in the United States Navy, and a number of others. Issue of Dr. Richard Davis and Helen Stockton (Johnson) Corson: Caroline Corson, b. 1815, d. May 4, 1838, unm.; David Ramsay Corson, M. D., b. 1817, graduated in Medicine, but d. soon after, Jan. 29, 1841; Harriet Mathews Corson, m. Charles Foulke, M. D., in 1842, as previously nar- rated; Eliza Paxson Corson, unm., of Trenton, N. J.; Richard Corson, d. in his eighteenth year; Helen N. Corson, d. July 20, 1849, in her twenty-fourth year; Thomas Johnson Corson, M. D., b. 1828, studied medicine with his father, and grad. at the Med. Dept. of Univ. of Pa.; located first in Schuylkill Co., Pa., where he practiced two or three years; returned to Bucks Co., finally locating in Tren- ton, N. J., where he practiced until his death in 1879. He m. Mary K., dau. of Geo. Steever of Phila., and had four children, all of whom d. unm. Robert Rodgers Corson, born May 3, 1831 ; married Rebecca Jones Foulke. Robert R. Corson, at the age of sixteen, left New Hope, and went to live with his cousin, George Corson, at Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery county, and entered Tremont Seminary, conducted by the eminent edu- cator. Rev. Samuel Aaron, A. M. George Corson was an active and earnest abolitionist and during the time Robert R. Corson lived with him, his house was a prominent station on the "Underground Railroad," through which many fugitive slaves found their way to freedom, and it was here that the ardent sympathies of the young man were enlisted in behalf of the suffering slaves, as well as in behalf of suffering humanity in general, and the habit formed of ever striving to uplift and improve the condition of his fellow man, that indelibly marked the whole life of the great humanitarian. The poor hunted fugitives would arrive late at night, often in charge of friends from a station nearer the border line of the slave states, and after receiving food and shelter, sometimes for a week or more, were con- veyed in the night to a Friend's house in Upper Bucks county, a distance of about twenty miles, where they would be cared for in a like manner, and then trans- ferred to another station, until they finally reached Canada and freedom. 942 FOULKE On the conclusion of his term at the Treemont Seminary, his health being deli- cate, he went to live with his brother Dr. Thomas Johnson Corson, near Potts- ville, in Schuylkill county, and remained there until 1856, when he removed to Philadelphia and engaged in shipping coal to the eastern markets, in which busi- ness he continued until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, at one time occupying three wharves on the Schuylkill, where he received the shipments of coal from a mine leased at Pottsville. Soon after locating in Philadelphia (in 1857) he married Rebecca Jones Foulke, in whom he found a fitting helpmeet, in sympathy with his large hearted schemes for the amelioration of suffering humanity. Mr. Corson took an active interest in the political campaign of i860, that resulted in the election of Lincoln to the presidency, being one of the active mem- bers of the Union League ; later he devoted much time to active political work in support of the party of freedom. When Philadelphia became congested with the hordes of soldiers pouring in to be drilled and equipped for the defense of the national government, and trans- portation and supplies were inadequate for the demand, and soldiers could be seen loitering on the streets without proper food or clothing, Mr. Corson, was promi- nent among those who began feeding them on the streets and sidewalks. He assisted in opening the old boathouse at the foot of Washington Avenue, on May 27, 1861, as "The Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon," and a few days later, in the cooper shop of William M. Cooper, of the "Cooper Shop Refresh- ment Saloon," and was soon elected secretary of the Union Volunteer Relief Committee, of which Arad Barrows was chairman. This committee not only cared for and fed free of charge soldiers going to the front, but later cared for the sick and wounded returning to their homes from the scenes of carnage at the south, and during the war disbursed approximately six hundred thousand dollars in this commendable work of feeding the hungry and caring for the sick. Bestowing much of his time, both night and day, to the details of this work, Mr. Corson soon learned that there were hundreds of soldiers, worn out by travel and sickness who were unable to reach the hospitals, or reaching them were unable to communicate with their friends and families. He at once set about the work of securing lists of stranded soldiers, which he would send to the governor of the state from which they came, who published them in the newspapers, so that their friends and relatives were enabled to communicate with them. This was the initiative to the organized work in behalf of the soldiers of the war, in which Mr. Corson was so long and meritoriously engaged. In a letter to him from Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, dated June 5, 1862, the governor says, "May I ask it as a favor that you will act as Military Agent of Connecticut for the care of her sick and wounded. * * * "pjjg service would be highly valued by our citizens, and greatly aid and cheer the men." This was followed on June 28, 1862, by a like appointment from Governor Mor- ton, of Indiana; on July 7, from Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts; July 8. from Governor Washburne, of Maine, renewed by Governor Corry, February 26, 1864; on July 16, 1862, by Governor Solomon, of Wisconsin; July 22, 1862, by Governor Holbrook, of Vermont; on July 31, by Governor Olden, of New Jersey; on October i, by Governor Berry, of New Hampshire, renewed on No- vember 22, 1864, by Governor Gilmore, accompanied by a commission with rank FOULKE 943 of Colonel; in November 5, 1862, by Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, re- newed, with rank of Lieutenant Colonel, by Governor Smith, November i, 1864; on December 23, 1863, by Governor Cannon, of Delaware; on July 10, 1864, by Governor Bradford, of Maryland, and also from the Governor of Michigan. Thus Mr. Corson found himself officially employed to look after soldiers by ap- pointment and authority of thirteen states, and it became an important and laborious work, requiring his whole time and the help of four or five assistants, who daily visited hospitals, conferred with the men, looked after their arrearages in pay, and placed them in communication with their friends and the authorities of their own states. He also visited the battle fields of Virginia, immediately after engagements, frequently accompanied by his wife. On hearing of an en- gagement they would hurry to the field with supplies, establishing themselves in a convenient house, secure an ambulance and begin their noble work of caring for the fallen. To cheer and comfort these poor fellows, or take down in writing the last messages of the dying to their loved ones at home were the daily an hourly duties of Mr. Corson, his estimable wiie and their able assistants. Again when, late in the struggle, the poor starved and emaciated soldiers from the prison dens, at Belle Isle, Andersonville and Richmond, arrived at Annapolis, many of them in the last agonies of death, hundreds dying while being transported, it was his pain- ful duty to take down a record of these martyrs to liberty and union, to be for- warded to the states from whence they came. During these trying times, Mr. Corson was in constant communication with and enjoyed the confidence of the authorities of the different states which he represented, as well as with the various military departments of the government, and was thus enabled to be of the utmost assistance to the unfortunate victims of the war. That his noble work in behalf of humanity was to some extent ap- preciated will be shown by the many letters and resolutions transmitted to him from the different state authorities. On February 17, 1863, he received through Governor Sprague the thanks of the state, "for courtesy and kindness to our Rhode Island troops." And on May 26, Governor Smith of the same state writes, "Such generous devotion as you have always shown our suffering soldiers merits both the thanks of our Country and our State." In January, 1866, the State Assembly of Rhode Island adopted resolutions thanking him "for his untiring energy and self sacrificing devotion to the interests of our soldier." On Decem- ber 9, 1865, he was appointed Assistant Quartermaster General of Massachusetts, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, "in recognition of the faithful, energetic and discreet services rendered the state." The above are but specimens of the letters of thanks and resolutions received from the authorities of the different states which he represented. New Hamp- shire, Maryland, Vermont, Indiana, and other states transmitting to him like testimonials of their appreciation of his noble work in behalf of their citizen soldiers. Col. Corson also acted for the diffrent states in raising and equipping colored regiments for the war, and was Secretary of the Pennsylvania Freedsman's Relief Association, which supported one hundred teachers in the South, from 1866 to 1872, establishing schools in Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, Ala- bama, Mississippi and Tennessee. He was also secretary of the committee which collected colored soldiers' and sailors' orphans throughout the states and raised 944 FOULKE funds and purchased buildings for the estabUshment of Colored Soldiers' Orphan School, in Pennsylvania; the state making no provision for them as it did for the wliite orphans. On Mr. Corson's resignation, as the representative of the state of Pennsyl- vania, in relation to disabled soldiers, he received from Lieutenant Colonel John Campbell, Chief Surgeon, District of Pennsylvania, the following: "The agreeable relations, official and personal that have existed during your whole term of service, between yourself and the Medical Director's Office, made it a pleasure to act in concert with you in all efforts for the good of the soldier. * * * For your judicious co-operation with me on all occasions, I tender my sincere thanks. The soldiers of your own and other states in whose behalf you labored, cannot have other than the most grateful recollections of your services. My Dear Colonel." Surgeon Kenderdine, Medical Director, having charge of the sick and wound- ed arriving in the hospitals from the battle fields, on hearing of Col. Corson's resignation, on August 23, 1865, sent him a still stronger testimonial of his ap- preciation of the noble services rendered which concludes as follows: "Your disinterestedness in relieving suffering early won my regard, and every soldier I have sent you for special aid (and they have not been few) has returned con- vinced that all that was possible would be done for him. * * * With such a record you may be proud and safely retire to private life." Not less courageous in times of peace than in the time of war, when the citi- zens of Philadelphia decided to take action to correct political abuses existing in the state and city government, Col. Corson was one of the committee appointed at a meeting of citizens held at the Academy of Music, in June, 1871, to make independent nominations for municipal and legislative offices, and was one of the organizers of the Municipal Reform Association, of Philadelphia, October 26, 1871. Again in 1880, he became a member of the Committee of One Hun- dred, and was one of its first secretaries, filhng that position from 1881 until the dissolution of the Committee in 1885. He was a member of the Board of Di- rectors of Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, one of the incor- porators of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania ; member of the board of Inspectors of the Philadelphia County Prison; of the Board of Directors of Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity; membjr of the Executive Com- mittee of the Philadelphia Fountain Society ; member of the Board of Directors and first treasurer of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; member of the Board of Directors of Hay's Mechanics' Home, and identified with almost all the leading charitable enterprises of the city. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Art Club, member of its House Committee and Chairman of its Reception Committee; and a member of the executive committee of both the Municipal League and the Pennsylvania Civil Service Reform Association. Few citizens of Philadelphia or any other city have maintained so long and honorable a record in the cause of humanity, and the elevation of the human race; and in all his undertakings he has been ably seconded by his estimable wife, Rebecca (Foulke) Corson. They have no children, and Col. Corson was the last of the descendants of Dr. Richard Davis Corson to bear the name of Corson. Col. Corson died February 19, 1904. CRESSON FAMILY. Pierre Cresson, born about the year 1610, is believed to have been a native of Picardy. With others of the Reformed religion he took refuge in Holland, where at an early date he married, and lived at various times in Sluis, Ryswyck and Delft. In 1657, with his wife, Rachel Claes, or Cloos, and their children, he emi- grated to the settlement of New Amstel, on the Delaware river. While in Holland Pierre Cresson had held the position of gardener to the Prince of Orange. His reputation as a farmer of ability doubtless gained for him the notice of Governor Stuyvesant, who, being on a visit to New Amstel, engaged Cresson for service at his bowery, at New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island, to which place he appears to have removed. It was probably shortly after his arrival at New Amsterdam that Pierre Cresson returned to Holland, leaving his family here. He was no doubt sent by Stuyvesant to procure a supply of competent farmers for the governor's lands, whom he brought back with him on the "Gilded Beaver," sailing from Amsterdam, on April 25, 1659. Pierre Cresson and his son, Jacques, were among the early settlers of Harlem, both of them taking up plots and becoming active in the affairs of the new town. When the Director General and Council issued a commission, on Au- gust 16, 1660, for the establishment of the first court of justice at Harlem, Pierre Cresson was one of the three Schepens or magistrates appointed. In June, 1663, at the time of an Indian alarm, military companies were formed for the protection of the settlement, with Pierre Cresson as chief in command, under the title of corporal. In 1680 he removed to Staten Island, where he probably died. Our last record of him is dated August 3, 1681. His widow was living on Staten Island in 1690, but appears to have died shortly after. We find it on record that in 1679 Pierre Cresson had a large family of children and grandchildren. The following list no doubt falls far short of the full number of his children. Children of Pierre Cresson and Rachel Claes: Susanna Cresson, b. Ryswyck; m. Nicholas Delaplaine; Jacques Cresson, d. Aug. i, 1684; m. Marie Reynard; Christina Cresson, b. Sluis; m. (i) Jean Letelier; (2) Jacob Gerretzs Haas; Rachel Cresson, b. Delft; m. (i) David Demarest, Jr.; (2) Jean Durie; (3) Roelof Vanderlinde; Joshua Cresson, bapt. June 8, 1658; Elias Cresson, bapt. Dec. 17, 1662. Jacques Cresson' (Pierre') was doubtless born in Holland, although no record of the date and place of his birth has been found. He must have been young at the time of his arrival in this country, and when the settlement of Harlem was made. He died in New York, August i, 1684. On September i, 1663, Jacques Cresson and Maria (or Marie) Reynard were married, as shown by the records of the Dutch Reformed Church of New York. In 1660 Jacques Cresson was made lancepesade (i. e. assistant corporal) of the first military company of Harlem. In 1663 he was a private in one of the companies under his father's command. In 1669 he was made constable of the 946 CRESSON town, but shortly afterwards concluded to remove to New York. The Harlem property was disposed of and one on Broadway purchased, which was sold by his widow after his death. Maria Reynard, widow of Jacques Cresson, according to the church records, left New York for Curaqoa shortly after her husband's death. She next appears on November 3, 1696, as the purchaser of a house and land at the northeast corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. This measured seventy-four and a quarter feet on Chestnut street, and one hundred and seventy-eight feet on Fourth street. Her sons, James and Solomon, were in membership with Friends in Philadelphia, and her own death on 8mo. 10, 1710, is shown in the records of that Society. Children of Jacques and Marie (Reynard) Cresson: James (Jacobus) Cresson, bapt. Sept. 13, 1665; m. Mary ; Maria Cresson, bapt. Apr. 13, 1670; Susanna Cresson, bapt. Dec. 13, 1671; Solomon Cresson, bapt. June 30, 1674; d. 9, 10, 1746; m. Anna Watson; Abraham Cresson, bapt. May 31, 1676; Isaac Cresson, bapt. May 31, 1676; Sara Cresson, bapt. Dec. 18, 1678; Anna Cresson, bapt. Nov. i, 1679; Rachel Cresson, bapt. July 22, 1682; m. (1) Henry Sluyter; (2) Lawson. Solomon Cresson' (Jacques', Pierre'), baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church, New York City, on June 30, 1674; died in Philadelphia, gmo. 10, 1746; married in Philadelphia Friends' Meeting, iimo. 14, 1702, Anna Watson. Solomon Cresson probably removed with his mother and brother, James, to Curagoa in 1685. While in the West Indies he no doubt acquired that proficiency in the Spanish language which later proved of such benefit to himself and others. Whether he returned with the rest of the family when they settled in Philadel- phia we have no means of learning, but our next definite knowledge of him is at Port Royal, Jamaica, in 1696. According to family tradition he had been sent to the West Indies on business for his brother, James, which proving unsuccessful and his expenses having been considerable in his endeavor to recover a vessel seized by the admiralty, he was so reduced in means as to be compelled, as a sailor, to work his passage back. Of his shipwreck, subsequent viscissitudes and adventures, we are told in the journal written by Jonathan Dickinson, one of the shipwrecked passengers, and first printed in 1699. The barkentine "Reforma- tion" sailed from Port Royal on August 23, 1696, bound for Philadelphia. She had a stormy passage almost from the first, and on September 22d was wrecked oflf the coast of Florida. Both passengers and crew were saved, making a landing on a desolate coast. The castaways were soon discovered by Indians, and as it was known that the English were in great disfavor with the tribes inhabiting these parts, a suggestion was made that they should pass themselves off as Span- iards. This they were enabled to do through the ability of Solomon Cresson to converse in the Spanish tongue. The Indians from the first were somewhat suspicious, but under their escort the party finally reached St. Augustine, after much suffering and great hardships. Some little time was taken for rest and recuperation before the journey was continued to Charleston, where they took passage for Philadelphia. CRESSON 947 Solomon Cresson shortly afterwards purchased a part of his mother's lot on Chestnut street, on which he built a carpenter shop and carried on his business of turner and chair-maker. She later sold to him the house and lot adjoining, on which was afterwards built another three-story brick house. He was made constable of the town, and Watson tells in his Annals of Philadelphia, that in the year 1708, while going his rounds one night, Cresson discovered a riotous party in a tavern and ordered them to disperse. It happened that one of the number was John Evans, Governor of the Province, who called the constable into the house, flogged him very severely and had him imprisoned for two days. Cresson was afterwards fully exonerated. Solomon Cresson prospered in business and acquired considerable property. Before his death he had conveyed to his son, James, a house and lot on the west side of Second street, below Market. In the rear of this property were two houses and lots on the east side of Strawberry Alley, which were given to his son, John. John Cresson was living in another house on the west side of Strawberry Alley at the time of his father's death, and it was in this house that Solomon Cresson died. Falling on the pavement of the Friends' Meeting House, in an attack of apoplexy, he was carried to his son John's house and there expired. This third house on Strawberry Alley the father devised by will to John, to whom came also the easternmost of the three lots on Chestnut street, containing a frame house and the shop. The latter property was sold in two portions, in 1791-92, by Jeremiah, son of John Cresson, to William Prichett and John Scotte. Solomon Cresson's will left land in New Castle county, Delaware, to his sister Rachel Lawson's family, and considerable other real estate to be divided among his grandchildren. The three- story brick house, at the corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets, and that on the lot next east of it, came into the possession of Anna Lobdell and her family. Children of Solomon and Anna (Watson) Cresson: Mary Cresson, b. 9, 23, 1703; d. 7, i, 1720; Anna Cresson, b. 5, 20, 1705; d. i, 3, 1725; Rachel Cresson, b. 5, 17, 1707; d. before 3, 26, 1768; James Cresson, b. 8, 2, 1709; d. 3, s, 1746; m. Sarah Emlen; Solomon Cresson, b. 8, 4, 1711; d. i, 28, 1761; unm.; Rebecca Cresson, b. 6, 27, 1713; d. 4, 7, 1794; m. Isaac Lobdell; John Cresson, b. 6, 28, 1715; d. 8, 20, 1771; m. Rebecca Briant; Samuel Cresson, b. 7, 14, 1717; d. 9, 19, 1717; William Cresson, b. 6, 9, 1718; d. 6, 19, 1718. James Cresson' (Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born 8mo. 2, 1709; died 3mo. 5, 1746; married at Friends' Meeting, Philadelphia, 3mo. 25, 1738, Sarah Emlen, born imo. 19, 1709-10, died 8mo. 2, 1752, daughter of George and Hannah (Gar- rett) Emlen. James Cresson was connected with his father in business. His early death and that of his wife, a few years later, left their two sons to the care of their mother's sister, Mary, and her husband, John Armitt, who had no chil- dren of their own, and by whom they were brought up with loving care. Children of James and Sarah (Emlen) Cresson: George Cresson, b. 2, 15, 1739; d. 9, 27, 1740; Caleb Cresson, b. 8, 20, 1742; d. i, 21, 1816; m. (i), Sarah Hopkins; (2), Anna- bella Elliott; (3), Jane (Cox) Evans; 948 CRESSON Joshua Cresson, b. 2, 30, 1744; d. 10, 21, 1793; m. Mary Hopkins; James Cresson, b. 6, 12, 1746; d. 10, 23, 1747. John Cresson* (Solomon", Jacques', Pierre'), born 6mo. 28, 171 5; died 8mo. 20, 1771. The marriage license of John Cresson and Rebecca Briant, bearing date of August 7, 1736, is on record at Trenton, New Jersey. On 4mo. 24, I737> John and Rebecca Cresson, who were under dealings for their outgoing in mar- riage, presented their acknowledgement, which was accepted and ordered to be read at the close of the first meeting. John Cresson was a "whitesmith." He lived in a house on the west side of Strawberry Alley, which house and one on Lombard street he left by will to his .'-on, James. To Jeremiah were left the three houses on the east side of Strawberry Alley, and to be divided between the two sons were left three hundred acres of land in Cecil county, Maryland, and a pasture lot on Hudson's Alley. Children of John and Rebecca (Briant) Cresson: Jeremiah Cresson, b. 1738; d. 5, 4, 1800; m. (i), Hannah Crean; (2), Martha Rickey; Anna Cresson, d. 6, 17, 1739; James Cresson, b. 12, 30, 1740-1; d. 6, 21, 1799; m. Sarah Hooton; Rebecca Cresson, d. 8, 19, 1743; Hannah Cresson, d. 8, 16, 1745; John Cresson, d. 12, 11, 1745; John Cresson, d. 10, 21, 1756. Caleb Cresson° (James', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born 8mo. 29, 1742; died imo. 21, 1816; married (i) at Haddonfield Meeting, New Jersey, 5mo. i, 1767, Sarah Hopkins, born i2mo. 4, 1748, died gmo. 11, 1769, daughter of Eben- ezer and Sarah (Lord) Hopkins; married (2) at Philadelphia Meeting, 4mo. 16, 1772 Annabella Elliott, born 2mo. 15, 1749; died lomo. 12, 1793, daughter of John and Annabella (Bonnyman) Elliott, formerly of Bolton, Leicestershire, England. He married (3) at Middletown Meeting, Delaware county, 7mo. 2, 1795, Jane, widow of Thomas Evans, and daughter of John and Mary Cox, of Edgmont. There were no children by the last marriage. Caleb Cresson, left an orphan at an early age, served an apprenticeship of six years and four months with Thomas Clifford, in Water street, between Market and Arch streets, but did not engage in mercantile pursuits on his own account. After his marriage he made Haddonfield his home, but returned to Philadelphia after the death of his first wife, living on Cherry street above Fifth, where he and his brother had a large inherited property. He took an active part in the affairs of the Society of Friends, had valuable and important trusts, and gave much time and care to Meeting business. For a number of years he kept the register of burials of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, and was notable for his beautiful handwriting. He left a diary for the years 1791 and 1792, which is a most valued family possession. In 1793, when Philadelphia was visited by the yellow fever, he and his son Caleb remained in the city. The latter was attacked by the epi- demic but recovered. His wife, Annabella, went to Radnor with her son, John and died there of the fever. Child of Caleb and Sarah (Hopkins) Cresson: Mary Cresson, b. 3, 7, 1768; d. i, 20, 1777. CRESSON 949 Children of Caleb and Annabella (Elliott) Cresson: John Elliott Cresson, b. ii, ii, 1773; d. 8, 25, 1814; m. Mary Warder; Caleb Cresson, b. 5, 11, 1775; d. 11, 21, 1821; m. Sarah Emlen; Joshua Cresson, b. 1, 8, 1777; ' and resumed his business there. He became indentified with the various institutions of his adopted city and state, and filled many honorable positions at different periods. He was elected to General Assembly of Pennsyl- vania 1 791, and subsequently to the State Senate, of which body he was Speaker HARE 975 and ex-officio Lieutenant Governor of the state 1796. He was an original organ- izer of the Plrst Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, and a trustee of University of Pennsylvania 1789-1805. He died in Germantown, March 8, 181 1. His widow Margaret (Willing) Hare died September 21, 1816. Issue of Robert and Margaret (Willing) Hare: Richard Hare, b. Sept. 22, 1776, d. July 9, 1778; Charles Willing Hare, b., Westover, Va., April 23, 1778; m., Aug. 30, 1801, Anne, dau. of George Emlen, of Phila., and among their surviving children were George Emlen Hare, D. D., LL. D., S. T. D., and Margaretta Hare, who m. Israel Pemberton Hutch- inson. George Emlen Hare, D. D., LL. D., m. Elizabeth Catharine Hobart, and was father of Right Rev. William Hobart Hare, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Nebraska and Dakota, b. at Princeton, N. J., May 17, 1838, educated at Episcopal Academy of Phila., and Univ. of Pa., received degree of S. T. D. from Columbia College, and that of D. D. from Trinity, Hartford, and Kenyon College, O. He was ordained deacon, 1859; priest, 1862, and was assistant rector of St. Paul's Church, Chestnut Hill, later rector there and of other Phila. churches; was consecrated Bishop of Nebraska, 1873, diocese enlarged to include South Dakota, 1883. Bishop Hare m., 1861, Mary Amory, dau of Bishop Howe. A son, Hobart Amory Hare, M. E).,.b. Sept. 20, 1862, is a prominent physician of Phila.; Pro- fessor of Children's Diseases at Univ. of Pa., 1880; since then Professor of Therapeutics at Jefferson Medical College; Editor of Unh'ersity Medical Maga- zine, i888-g; of Medical News, 1890-1 ; since then of Therapeutic Gazette; mem- ber of various medical associations, and author of a great number of medical works. He m., May 8, 1S84, Rebecca Clifford Pemberton. Martha Hare, b., Phila., Aug. 17, 1779, was named for her aunt, Martha Hare, in Eng- land — in distinction from whom she was called in the family "Aunt Patty;" she was a woman of great intelligence, a leader in society in her day, and at her house all the younger members of the family delighted to assemble; her Sunday morning breakfasts, at which they all gathered, being very famous, and her tea table renowned for the racy bits of gossip that were brought there by her numerous fashionable guests; d. unm., Feb. 4, 1852; Robert Hare, M. D., b. Jan. 17, 1781, d. May 15, 1858; of whom presently; Richard Hare, b., Phila., Sept. 24, 1782, d. Jan. 9, 1796; John Powel Hare, b., Phila., April 22, 1786, d., Newport, R. I., June 14. 1856; was adopted by a maternal aunt and changed his name to John Hare Powel; was Colonel in War of 1812-14, and later Secretary of Legation, at the Court of St. James; m., Oct. 20, 1817, Julia (1798-1845), dau. of Col. Andrew de Veaux (1758-1812), of Beaufort, S. C, and his wife, Anna Maria, of N. Y. (1773-1816), dau. of Philip Verplanck (1736-77) and Aefje Beekman (1736-7-75), both bur. at Fishkill, N. Y., and granddaughter of Philip Verplanck (1695-1771), of Manor of Cortlandt, by his wife, Gertrude Van Cortlandt (1697-1766); Col. Andrew de Veaux was son of Andrew de Veaux, Jr. (1757-1815), by his wife, Catharine Barnwell, b. 1740, dau. of John Barnwell, b. 1711 and his wife, Martha Chapin; John Barnwell being the seventh child of Col. John Barnwell, who came to South CaroHna from DubUn, Ireland, 1701, and m. Anne Berners. Much has been written about Col. Andrew de Veaux, father of Julia (de Veaux) Hare-Powel, but his most brilliant exploit was the capture of the Island of New Providence (Nassau) from the Spanish, 1783, for which the English ParHament com- missioned him a Colonel; he afterwards lived with his wife at "de Veaux Park," at Red Hook-on-the-Hudson, where his entertainments and fine equipages were the talk of the day. His daughter, Julia, is mentioned as "the most beautiful woman in New York City," a reputation which followed her to "Powelton," her husband's residence in Phila. Andre de Veaux, grandfather of Col. Andrew, was a Huguenot settler on the Hud- son, where he d. 1754. His son, Andrew de Veaux (1715-70), m. Hannah, dau. of Col. John Palmer, and his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Sir Edmund Bellinger, of Royal Navy, who m. in England, about 1680, Sarah Cartwright. Col. John Hare Powel and Julia de Veaux had issue: Samuel Powel, of Powelton, Phila., and Newport, R. I. (1818-1885), m. Mary Johnston, and had six children, several of whom reside in Newport, R. I.; De Veaux Powel (1821-48), m. Elizabeth Cooke, and had one dau. — Elizabeth, whose children are the Liirmans of Catonsville, Md. ; Henry Baring Powel (1823-52), m. Caroline Bayard, and had one dau. — Mary, whose children are the Hodges of Phila.; 976 HARE Robert Hare Powel (1825-83), m. Amy S. Bradley, and had six children— several of whom reside in Phila.; Elizabeth Powel (1827-35) '< Harford Powel (1831-5); Julia Powel (1833-84), m. William Parker Foulke, of Phila., and had seven chil- dren, several of whom reside in Phila.; John Hare Powel (1837- 1908), m. Annie Emlen Hutchinson, of Phila., and had two sons, one surviving resides in Newport, R. I.; Ida Powel (1840-1908), married (first) Edward Morrell, and had three children residing in Phila; (second) John G. Johnson, the well-known eminent lawyer of Phila. Bar. Dr. Robert Hare, of Philadelphia, second surviving son of Robert and Mar- garet (\\ illing) Hare, was born in Philadelphia, January 17, 1781, the day of the battle of Cowpens. He received a fair academic education, and early in life had the management of the extensive business established by his father, but soon abandoned it for the study of science; attending lectures in his native city, and uniting himself with the Chemical Society of Philadelphia. In 1801 he invented the compound, or oxy-hydogen blow-pipe, which he described in a memoir to the (Chemical Society, which was republished in Tulloch's Philosophical Magazine, London, 1802, and also in Annals de Chine, \o\. XL\". This apparatus was the earliest and perhaps the most remarkable of his many original contributions to science, and gave evidence of a highly philosophic mind. He experimented with it with Prof. Silliman, and, 1803, constructed for Yale College the first pneumatic trough in which his invention was incorporated, and received from the .\merican Academy of -A.rts and Sciences the Rumford !Medal. He later perfected the voltaic batter)-, by introducing his deflagrator. He was called to the chair of chemistry at University of Pennsylvania 1818, and continued to fill that position until his resig- nation, 1847. when he was made Emeritus Professor. Dr. Hare \'ias fond of graphic illustrations, they abound in his memoirs, and in his compendium and other works. He published a number of papers, pamphlets, etc., on scientific subjects, since much quoted and considered valuable contributions to chemical science. He was an ardent patriot of the school of W^ashington, a Federalist, while that party had a name, later a Whig, a man of unbending recti- tude, and his writings on political and financial questions were marked by vigorous thought and large views. He was a life member of the Smithsonian Institution, to which he gave all his chemical and physical apparatus. He died in Philadelphia, May 15, 1858. ^lany tributes to his worth in the realms of science and literature were published in the newspapers and other periodicals of the day, and an excellent account of his scien- tific attainments of some length appeared in the Journal of Science for July, 1858, which opens by referring to him as one "whose name for half a century was familiar to men of science as a chemical philosopher, and to the cultivators of the useful arts throughout the civilized world." Dr. Robert Hare married, September, 181 1, Harriet, daughter of John Innes Clark, of Providence, Rhode Island, by his wife, Lydia Bowen. She was bom 1782, and died IMarch 19, 1869. Issue of Dr. Robert and Harriet (Clark) Hare: John Innes Clark Hare, b. Aug., 1812, d. inf.; Hon. John Innes Clark Hare, b.. Phila., Oct. 17, 1817, d. there, Jan. 2, 1907; graduated at Univ. of Pa., 1834; studied law and was admitted to Phila. Bar, 1841, and practiced HARE 977 in that city until 1851, when he became Associate Justice of District Court of Phila., of which he became President Judge, 1867, and filled that position until the District Court was abolished by the new Constitution, 1874, and he was made President Judge of Court of Common Pleas thereunder, and filled that position until 1895 ; received honorary degree of LL. D. from his alma mater, 1868; was Emeritus Professor of Institutes of Law at Univ. of Pa., at his death having been made Professor of that department, 1868; became member of American Philosophic Society, 1842; was trustee of the University, 1858-68; was author of American Constitutional Law;, Chancery Reports (II. vols), and (with Horace B. Wallace) of American Leading Cases m., November 16, 1842, Esther C, dau. of Horace Binney, Esq., by his wife Elizabeth Coxe; Theodore Dehon Hare, d. young, 1825. Robert Harford Hare, b. Sept. 19, 1820, of whom presently; Lydia Hare, m. at Providence, R. I., Aug. 15, 1828, Frederick Prime, Esq., of New York; George Harrison Hare, of U. S. N., m. Elizabeth Binney, dau. of Hon. John Cadwalader,. by his wife, Mary Binney; d. s. p., July 22, 1857; Robert Harford Hare, fourth child of Robert and Harriet (Qark) Hare, born in Philadelphia, September 19, 1820, died May 3, 1887. He resided at 2031 De- lancy place, in that city, and at EUicott city, Maryland. He married, August 28, 1845, Caroline, born December 22, 1825, died January 3, 1893, daughter of John William Charles Fleeming, Esq., of New Bedford, Massachusetts, by his wife, Mary Rotch, born November 18, 1793, died August 13, 1878. Issue of Robert Harford and Caroline (Fleeming) Hare: Mary Fleeming Hare, b. June 17, 1846, of whom presently; Harriet Hare, b. July 23, 1847, m., June 25, 1873, George McClellan, M. D., of Phila.;. of whom later. Mary Fleeming Hare, daughter of Robert Harford Hare, by his wife, Caro- line Fleeming, born June 17, 1846, died at her residence, 1812 South Rittenhouse square, Philadelphia, March 20, 1885. She married, February 12, 1874, Sussex Delaware Davis, Esq., of Philadelphia Bar, who was born near Lewes, Sussex county. Delaware, December 30, 1838. He graduated at Princeton University, with degree of A. M., and was admitted to Philadelphia Bar January 11, 1862, and has since practiced his profession in that city. He is a son of Gen. Samuel Boyer Davis, a distinguished officer of U. S. A. during the second war with Great Britain. Gen. Davis was born at Lewes, Delaware, December 25, 1765, and during his youth was a midshipman in the French Navy, was with the French fleet when it was de- feated by the English naval force, June i, 1794. During his absence abroad he married a French lady, and returning to America resided for a time in New Or- leans. Removing later to Delaware, he was at the outbreak of hostilities with the mother country, 1812, at Pilot Town, the site of the old Colonial fort, near Lewes, Delaware. He offered his services to the United States at the outbreak of the war, and served with distinction to its close.' He was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Thirty-second United States Infantry, raised in Pennsylvania and Delaware, May 6, 1813. He was subsequently transferred to the command Forty-fourth Regiment, as Colonel, but resigned his commission and took up his residence in Wilmington, Delaware, from whence he removed to Philadelphia, where he resided a number of years, during a portion of which time he represented the city in Gen- eral Assembly of Pennsylvania. He again removed to Wilmington, Delaware, late in life, and his closing years were spent in that city, where he died September 6,. 1874. 978 HARE At the time of the bombardment of Lewes, Delaware, by the British fleet, under Commodore Beresford, Col. Samuel Boyer Davis was in command of the forces marshalled for the defence of the town and coast, and successfully repelled the attack. He is described as a man of imposing stature, six feet in height, of decid- edly fine appearance, courageous, and possessing qualities of discipline and intellect for the management of men. He was always fond of Lewes^ and after his retire- ment from public affairs, used often to make extended visits to the old town, occupying rooms in the hotel near the site of the old Colonial battery. Gen. Davis was always welcomed on his arrival there by a military salute fired by a company having headquarters at the old battery, and after he had grown feeble with age an iron rod was erected up the side of the stairway to his room on the second floor of the hotel to assist him in ascending, which still remains in its original position. His attachment to the section where most of his life was spent, and where his ancestors had resided for several generations, led to the peculiar name he gave his second son, Sussex Delaware Davis. The American progenitor of the family was Rev. Samuel Davis, a Presbyterian minister, who came from county Armagh, Ireland, and was called to the pastorate of the first Presbyterian Church built in Sussex county, at Lewes, about 1692. Col. Samuel Boyer Davis married Sally Jones, of a family that had originally settled in North Carolina, but located at Wilmington, Delaware, about 1750. Sussex Delaware Davis, was the second son of Col. Samuel B. and Sally (Jones) Davis, and was born at "Delamore Place,'' near Wilmington, Delaware, December 30, 1838. He first attended school at the academy of Rev. Samuel Gay- ley, near Wilmington; was later a pupil at St. Mary's College, a Roman CathoHc institution under the charge of Rev. Patrick Reilly, in Wilmington, and prepared for college under the tuition of \\"illiam R. McAdam, a well-known instructor of youth in Philadelphia. He entered the sophomore class of Princeton College, and graduated with honors, class of 1859. He studied law in the office of Hon. George W. Wharton, in Philadelphia, and was admitted to Philadelphia Bar, 1862. He was appointed by Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, as register in bankruptcy for Philadelphia, and filled that posi- tion until the repeal of the bankruptcy. He was counsel for the Union Pacific Railroad Company at one time and has served as counsel in many important cor- poration cases involving large interests. He served a number of years as a school director from the Eighth \Ndx6. of Philadelphia, and has filled a number of other honorable positions. Mr. Davis is a member, and has been for a number of years, one of the gov- ernors of the Rittenhouse Club, and was, in 1871, a founder of the Junior Legal Club, now known as the Legal Club, of which he has been a number of years a member of the executive committee. He is a member of the vestry of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, and a regular attendant. Issue of Sussex Delaware and Mary Fleeming (Hare) Davis: Samuel Boyer Davis, b. March 9, 1875; Caroline Hare Davis, of whom presently; Robert Hare Davis, b. Aug. 16, 1877, unm. (1907); Sussex Delaware Davis, Jr., d. inf. Caroline Hare Davis, second child of Sussex Delaware Davis, Esq., and his HARE 979 wife Mary Fleeming Hare, was born in Philadelphia, July 20, 1876. She mar- ried, October 8, 1904, William Penn-Gaskell Hall, descendant of the Halls of Leventhorpe Hall, county York, England, seventh in descent from William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and fourth in descent from Peter Gaskell, of Innersly Hall, county Chester, England. Mr. and Mrs. William Penn-Gaskell Hall resided at 11 18 Spruce street, Phila- delphia. They have issue: Mary Fleeming Hare Hall, b. Dec. 30, 1905; William Penn-Gaskell Hall, Jr., b. Sept. 8, 1908. Harriet Hare, second daughter of Robert Harford Hare, by his wife, Caroline Fleeming, born in Newport, Rhode Island, July 23, 1847, married, June 25, 1873, George McClellan, M. D., of Philadelphia, where they reside. Mrs. McClellan is president of Chapter 2 of Colonial Dames of America; vice-president of Morris Refuge Association; founder of Francisvale Home for Dogs; life member of Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children; member of City Park Association and of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. She is a woman of fine literary taste, and author of three novels, "Cupid and the Sphinx," "A Carpet Knight" and "Broken Chords." Dr. George McClellan is a direct descendant of Gov. Bradford, of Plymouth Colony, and of Gen. Samuel McClellan, of Woodstock, Connecticut, a distinguish- ed soldier of the Revolutionary War. Dr. George McClellan, grandfather of the present Dr. McClellan, born at Wood- stock, Connecticut, December 22, 1796, received an academic education in his native town and entered Yale College, sophomore class, at the age of sixteen years. On his graduation he studied medicine, and in 1817 was a student under Dr. Dor- sey in Philadelphia. He received his medical degree in 1819, and began the prac- tice of his profession in Philadelphia, which continued for a period of thirty years. He was founder of Jefferson Medical College, 1825, and filled its chair of surgery until 1838. In 1839 he began a course of lectures in Philadelphia, and founded another Medical School, chartered as "The Medical Department of Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg" in which he was an instructor until its close 1843. Dr. McClellan died in Philadelphia May 8, 1847; he held high rank as a surgeon and physician, and was author of "Principles of Surgery," edited by his son. Dr. John Hill Brinton McClellan, after his decease. He married, September 14, 1820, EHz- abeth Brinton, by whom he had five children. Elizabeth Brinton was the daughter of John Hill Brinton, Esq., of Philadelphia Bar, by his wife, Sarah Steinmetz, and a descendant of William Brinton, of Nether Gournal, parish of Sedgeley, county Stafford, England, who came to Pennsylvania 1684, and settled Birmingham town- ship, Chester, now Delaware county. His second son was Major General George Brinton McClellan, of the U. S. A. Dr. John Hill Brinton McClellan, eldest son of Dr. George and Elizabeth (Brinton) McClellan, born in Philadelphia, August 13, 1823, entered University of Pennsylvania 1837, and graduated with degree of A. B., later receiving degree- of Master of Arts. He entered the Medical Department of the University and received degree of Doctor of Medicine there 1844. He was surgeon to St. Joseph's- Hospital 1850-62 ; filled the same position at Wills Eye Hospital ; was made Pro- 98o HARE fessor of Surgery at the Pennsylvania College 1855; became Fellow of College. of Physicians, Philadelphia, 1849; was a member of Academy of Natural Sciences 1847-74; member of Philadelphia County ^Medical Society and American ^Medical Association from 1849. He was acting assistant surgeon of the United States Army 1861-5, stationed at the Militarj' Hospitals on South street, Philadelphia, at Mowers, \'irginia, and at Chestnut Hill. He edited "Principles and Practice of Surgery," written by his father, Dr. John Hill Brinton McClellan, died at Edinburg, Scotland, July 20, 1874. He married Maria, daughter of Oliver Eldridge, of Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. George McClellan, first above mentioned, born in Philadelphia, October 29, 1849, was a son of Dr. John Hill and Maria (Eldridge) McClellan. He enter- ed University of Pennsylvania 1865, and left at close of his junior year. He grad- uated at Jefferson Medical College in 1870, and has since practiced his profession in that city. He was surgeon to Philadelphia and Howard Hospitals ; Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery at the Pennsylvania School of Anatomy for twelve years; Lecturer on Anatomy at Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1890 to date; Fel- low of College of Physicians since 1873; member of Philadelphia County, Penn- sylvania State, and National Medical Associations, and author of "Regional Anat- omy in its Relation to Medicine and Surgery,'" "Anatomy in its Relation to Art," and numerous essays on medical subjects. He is Professor of Applied Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, and is president of the Medical Qub, and of the Contemporary Club ; vice-president of the Philobiblion Club, and member of the University Club. He married, as before stated, 1873, Harriet Hare. VAN RENSSELAER FAMILY. The Van Rensselaer family, representatives of which have in later years become residents of and indentified with the social and business life of Philadelphia, was the first of the early Dutch Colonial families to acquire a great landed estate in America under the "Patroon" system, and among the first, after the conquest of the Dutch by the English, to have their possessions erected into a "Manor," and was a family of much antiquity in Holland. The family, which is traced four gen- erations back of Kiliaen Van Rennsselaer, the first Dutch Patroon in America, were early seized of, and derived their family name from Rensselaer Manor, three miles southeast of Nykerk, in Guelderland, originally a Reddergoed, a possession carrying with it a title to nobility. Here the family became quite numerous ; there is scarcely a church in Guelderland that does not have tombstones or memorials to dead and gone Van Rensselaers, many of them inscribed with the arms of the family. In the Orphan Asylum at Nykerk, established in 1638, is still preserved a picture representing the founders and first regents of the institution among whom was Jonkheer Jan Van Rensselaer, attired in the dress of the Dutch nobility of that day, and above his head is engraved the family arms. Gules, a cross moline argent ; with crest, an iron basket out of which issue flames or, above a closed knight's hel- met. The ancestral line of the American family so far as traced is as follows : Hendrick Woltees Van Rensselaer, married Sivone Van Indyck, of Hemeg- seet, and had two sons, Johannes Hendrick and Wolter Hendrick ; and three daughters, Guertruv, married the Advocate Swaaskn ; Anna, married By- gimp ; and Betye, married Nogger. Johannes Hendrick Van Rensselaer, eldest son, married Derykebia Van Luxoel, and had two sons, Kiliaen and Wolter Jans. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, married Nelltje Van Vrenoken, and had three sons, Hendrick, Claes, Johannes, and one daughter, Engeltje, married Gerris William Patten. Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, was a Captain in the Dutch army and was killed at the siege of Ostend, June 9, 1602 ; his brother, Johannes, who held the same rank, was killed February 7, 1601, and a monument to their memory is erect- ed in the Protestant Church at Nykerk. The family was long prominent in the civil aiifairs of Holland, many of the name serving as burgomasters, treasurers, etc., in different towns in Guelderland. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, first American Patroon, was the only son of Capt. Hendrick Van Rensselaer, who married Maria Paraat, and had beside Kiliaen, a •daughter, Maria, who married Rykert Van Twiller. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer was born in Guelderland, Holland, near Nykerk, about 1595, and was therefore but seven years of age at the death of his father. He was carefully educated, and suc- ceeding to the titles and estates of the family took a position of great influence in the councils of his native country, arriving at his majority at the most critical period in the history of the United Provinces, when the truce with Spain was just •drawing to a close, and the question of vital importance, whether the war for 982 VAN RENSSELAER absolute independence should be resumed, must be determined. He engaged in the pearl and diamond trade in Amsterdam, and became one of the wealthiest citizens of that city, "at a time when the merchants of Holland like those of Italy had be- come the princes of the land." Kiliaen Van Rensselaer was one of the organizers of the Dutch West India Company, chartered in July, 1621, with a capital of seven million florins, that famous and powerful auxiliary of the government of the Netherlands in the gigan- tic contest against Spain and for national supremacy. The object, as stated in the grant, was, "to establish an efficient and aggressive Atlantic maritime power in the struggle with Spain" and to colonize, develop and rule the Dutch American de- pendencies, of which the country discovered by Capt. Henry Hudson, 1609, known as "New Netherlands" and comprising the present states of New York and New Jersey, was among the most important. It was granted exclusive authority and trade privileges in the Dutch possessions of North and South America, as also on the coast of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to Cape of Good Hope. The affairs of the company were administered by a directorate known as the "Assem- bly of the XIX," from the membership of which an Executive Board was selected to arrange and transact the concerns of New Netherlands, and Kiliaen Van Rens- selaer was a member of both these controlling bodies. He was from its organiza- tion one of its mainstays and his name is conspicuously identified with all its meas- ures and policies, especially the original settlement of Manhattan Island in 1623. He placed at the disposal of the company several of his vessels and twice advanced large sums of money to save its credit. He had a principal part in the adoption, 1629, of the plan of "Freedom and Exemptions," devised to encourage emigration to the New Netherlands. It gave to each member of the company the right to select lands in the province and erect them into a Patroonship, under his own ex- clusive personal proprietorship and govermental authority, with the right to for- ever possess and enjoy all the lands lying within the limits specified, "together with the fruits, rights, minerals, rivers and fountains thereof, fishing, fowling and grinding, to the exclusion of all others, as also chief command of and lower juris- diction thereover, to be holden from the Company as a perpetual inheritance;" provided that he satisfy the natives for the land taken, and transport thereto fifty souls and upwards of fifteen years of age and upwards, before the expiration of the fourth year after the grant ; one-fourth at least to be transported during the first year. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, as the active promotor of the scheme of "Freedom and Exemptions," took prompt action to avail himself personally of its privileges. He employed Sebatiaen Jansen Cool, an officer of the Dutch West India Company in command of Fort Orange, now Albany, New York, to purchase lands of the Indians, and in 1630 he secured all the land on the west side of the Hudson from twelve miles south of Albany to the mouth of the ^lohawk river and stretching back "two days' Journey into the interior ;" which was erected into the patroon- ship of "Rensselaerwyck," confirmed to Van Rensselaer, January 8, 1631, by the "Assembly of XIX." Later purchases included a tract of about the same dimen- sions on the east side of the Hudson, south of Albany and "far into the wilder- ness," the two purchases embracing practically all of the counties of Albany and Rensselaer, and extending far into the present limits of Massachusetts. Subse- quent purchases included Schenectady, Columbia and part of Greene counties The VAN RENSSELAER 983 total, exceeding 700,000 acres, was erected into three patroonships, Rensselaer- wyck, Pavonia, and Swaanendael, the last two eventually reverting to the West Inaia Company. Rensselaerwyck, the greater part of which remained in the exclusive owner- ship and possession of the Van Rensselaer family for over two centuries, was at once placed by its proprietor, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, on the basis of a fully ac- quired estate, and he took active measures for its development, settlement and improvement. Comfortable houses and ample barns were erected for his tenants, near Fort Orange; agricultural implements were provided; saw and grain mills erected and his stores supplied with goods suitable to meet the wants of the colon- ists. He manned the post with his own soldiers, and his own flag flew from its staff. The colonists took the oath of allegiance to him, and justice was administer- ed in his own name. It is not known that Kiliaen Van Rensselaer ever visited Rensselaerwyck, al- though tradition says that he paid it a brief visit in 1637. The affairs of the colony were managed by capable men as vice-directors, the first of whom was Arendt Van Corlaer, a capable and accomplished man, and the last, Schlich- tenhorst, whose daughter, Margaretta, became the wife of Philip Peters Schuyler. Other vice-directors were Dr. Adriaen Van der Donck, the first lawyer in New Netherlands, subsequently patroon of "Colon Donck," later Phillpse Manor; and Dominie Megapolensis, the most accomplished of the early Dutch divines. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer died in Holland in 1646. He married (first) Hillegonda Van Bylaer, and (second) Anna, daughter of Johannes Van Wely, and his wife, Leentje Hackens. All his sons except Johannes, the eldest, were by the second wife. He had, how- ever, in all eleven children; three daughters by the first wife died without issue; Susanna, another daughter, married Jan de la Court and died in Holland; Jean Baptiste and Jeremias, the two eldest sons of the second marriage, were succes- sively patroons of Rensselaerwyck, the latter being the first of the family to settle permanently in America, coming over in 1658 to succeed his brother, Jean Baptiste, who had returned to Holland and become a leading merchant in Amsterdam. Rev. Nicholas Van Rensselaer, fourth son, born in Holland, 1638, was liberally educated and after taking his degree in theology went to England as chaplain to the Dutch embassy there. He came to America in 1674, with letters from the Duke of York, and succeeded his brother Jeremias, who had died at Rensselaerwyck, October 12, 1674, as head of the family at the Manor. He died at Albany, in November, 1678. He married, February 10, 1675, Alyda, daughter of Philip Peters Schuyler, by his wife, Margaretta Van Schlichtenhorst, but left no issue. She married (second) Robert Livingston, grantee of Livingston Manor. Rycker, fifth son, came over with his brother, Jean Baptiste, 1651, a mere child, and was many years a magis- trate at Albany, later returned to Holland and died there in 1695. The other chil- dren were Wolters, who remained in Holland, and Elizabeth, married Jan Van Rensselaer, of the Holland branch of the family. Johannes Van Rensselaer, eldest son of the first patroon, under the laws of Holland was recognized as the head of the family, but the estate descended to all the children jointly. He did not come to America; the management of Rensselaer- wyck continuing under the vice-directorship of Van Corlaer and Van Schichten- 984 VAN RENSSELAER horst, until the latter was succeeded by Jean Baptist Van Rensselaer, May 8, 1652, the latter being the first of the family to assume the directorship, coming over for that purpose in 1651, and bringing with him his brother, Rycker, a mere child. Johannes Van Rensselaer died in Holland in early manhood. He married Eliza- beth Van Twiller and had two children, Kiliaen, the first Lord of the Manor of Rensselaer wyck, and Nella, married Johan de Swardt. Under Dutch rule the colony was a distinct one, not in any manner subject to the political control or jurisdiction of the general administration of New Nether- lands. When converted into an English Colony, in 1664, it was erected into a Manor with no material abridgement of its rights and privileges; the manor or lordship being set aside as a separate political entity' with powers and privileges of police power, appointment of necessary officials, and the control and the adminis- tration of justice, and right of sending a special deputy to the General Assembly of the Province. The latter position was invariably filled by the head of the fam- ily, the first being Jeremias Van Rensselaer, the third patroon, who represented the family and colony in the Assembly from 1664 to his death in 1674. It was this Jeremias who was the ancestor of the later line of the Lords of the ]\Ianor of Rensselaerwyck and of the American family of the name. He was born in Hol- land, 1632, and received a liberal education. He came to America to assume the directorship of Rensselaerwyck, filling that position, and that of the nominal head of the family in America for sixteen years. The Colony had greatly improved and flourished under the wise directorship of Van Corlaer and Van Schlichtenhorst, and nowise suffered under the able administration of the first resident director of the family. He was a man of probity and ability and was devoted to the best inter- ests of the colony. He left a numerous correspondence under the title of "New Netherland Mercury," that constitutes a valuable contribution to the history of the province. He married, July 12, 1662, Maria, sister to Stephanus Van Cortlandt, the founder of Cortlandt ]\Ianor. She was born in 1645, died January 29, 1689. Jeremias was succeeded by his nephew, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, only son of Johannes, by Elizabeth Van Twiller. He died at Watervliet, New York, 1687. He married his cousin, Anna Van Rensselaer, daughter of his uncle and prede- cessor, Jeremias, but had no issue. Kiliaen V.\n Rensselaer, second Lord of the Manor, eldest son of Jeremias and Maria (Van Cortlandt) Van Rensselaer, born at Rensselaerwyck, August 24, 1663, became the head of the family on the death of his cousin and brother-in-law of the same name in 1687. He received a new patent for the Manor, in his own name, May 20, 1704, from Queen Anne, but released to his brother Hendrick, Claverack ]\Ianor, 60,000 acres in Columbia county, which with other lands then vested in the younger branch of the family, descendants of Hendrick. He also settled large tracts of land on his sister, wife of Peter Schuyler. Kilaen Van Rensselaer was constantly in public life from 1691 to 1719, serving as a member of the General Assembly from 1691 to 1703, when he was elevated to the Governor's Council of which he was a member until his death in 1719. He was also for many years Commissioner of Indian Affairs. In this connection it might be remarked that the attitude of the Van Rensselaer family towards the Aborigines was always a conciliatory, friendly and just one, and, while other colonies and settlements suffered depredations from hostile savages, Rensselaer- wyck was always free from their ravages. Kiliaen Van Rensellaer married, Octo- VAN RENSSELAER 985 ber 15, 1701, Maria, his cousin, daughter of Stephanus and Gertrude (Schuyler) Van Cortlandt, of Van Contlandt Manor, by whom he had four sons and four daughters. The eldest son, Jeremias, succeeded him as the head of the family, but died unmarried in 1745, and was succeeded by the second son, Stephen Van Rensselaer^ fourth Lord of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, was born March 23, 1707. He was delicate and took little or no part in pubhc affairs, but held the family position of Provincial Commissioner of Indian Affairs until his death in June, 1747. He married, July 5, 1729, Elizabeth Groesbeck, who died December 31, 1756. They had seven children, several of whom died in infancy. He was succeeded by Stephen Van Rensselaer, II., sixth child, fifth Lord of the Manor, bom June 2, 1742. His father died when he was five years of age, and the affairs of the Manor and estate were administered by his brother-in-law, Abraham Ten Broeck, who had married his elder sister, Elizabeth, and was for several years the family representative in the General Assembly. Stephen II., built the manor house in 1765. He died in 1769, at the early age of thirty-seven years. He married, January, 1764, Catharine, daughter of Philip Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence, by his wife, Christina Ten Broeck. She married (second) Elisrdus Westerlo. Stephen II., had three chil- dren — Stephen III., Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Elizabeth, married John Bradstreet Schuyler, son of Gen. Philip Schuyler. Stephen Van Rensselaer, III., sixth and last Lord of the Manor of Rensse- laerwyck, was born in the city of New York, November i, 1764. He graduated at Harvard, 1782, and assumed the direction of the great estate, adopting a policy of energetic improvement of the vast landed estate of the family of which he was the eldest male representative, and though the law of primogenture had been abrogated a half century before his birth, was the real head of the family and the holder of its lands and wealth. He greatly reduced the rents of the lands and en- couraged the material development of the landed estate. He entered political life in 1789 as a member of Assembly, and served in that body until 1791, when he was elected to the State Senate, in which he served until 1796; was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1795, and filled that position until 1798, and was a candidate for Gov- ernor in 1801, and again a member of Assembly 1808-19. He was one of the first advocates of the erection of the Erie canal, from the Hudson river to the Great lakes, and in 1810 was appointed commissioner to view the route, and made a tour of inspection, the result of which he submitted in 181 1. The second war with Great Britain delayed further action, and he entered the military service. He had been commissioned Major of Infantry in the New York Militia in 1786; became Colonel in 1788 and Major General in 1801. At the outbreak of hostilities in 1812, he was appointed to the command of the United States forces in New York with the rank of Major-General and fought the battle of Queenstown Heights, October 13, 1812. He soon after resigned the command and took no further part in the war. On the return of peace he resumed the agitation in favor of the Erie canal, and the first ground was broken for its construction on the nation's birthday, 1817. Stephen Van Rensselaer was again elected to the Assembly in 1818; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1821 ; was a member of the national House of Repre- sentatives 1823-29; and filled various other positions of honor and dignity. He was regent and chancellor of New York State University; president of the State 986 VAN RENSSELAER Agriculture Society ; first president of Albany Savings Bank, incorporated in 1820, the second oldest institution of its kind in the country. Stephen Van Rensselaer received the degree of LL. D. from Yale University in 1825. In 1824 he founded the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, the first of its character in the United States, liberally endowing it, and sus- taining it at his own expense for fourteen years. He was the last of the family to retain Rensselaerwyck in its entirety. He was a liberal proprietor and persistently refused to sell the lands, devising the major portion of them to his two eldest sons, Stephen IV., and WilHam P. He was known as the "Old Patroon," while his eldest son and principal successor was known as the "Young Patroon." He died at the Manor House, January 26, 1839, in his seventy-fifth year. He married, 1783, Marguerite, daughter of Gen. Philip Schuyler, by his wife, Catharine Van Rensselaer, born 1758, died 1801. He married (second) May 17, 1802, Corneha, daughter of Hon. William Patterson, Justice of the United States Supreme Court, by his wife, Corneha Bell; she was born in 1780, and died in 1844. By his first wife he had three children, the two eldest of whom died in infancy; the third was Stephen Van Rensselaer IV., his father's principal successor at Rensselaerwyck. By the second marriage he had eight children, the seventh of whom was Rev. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, D. D., born at the Manor House, May 26, 1808. He graduated at Yale in 1827 ; studied law and was admitted to the New York Bar, 1830. Concluding to engage in the gospel ministry he entered Union Theological Seminary, and in 1837 became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Burlington, New Jersey. He resigned this charge three years later, and for the next two or three years resided in Washington, D. C, having pastoral charge of two Presbyterian churches. In 1843 he accepted the invitation of the Board of Directors of Princeton Theological Seminary to undertake the task of securing an endowment fund for the seminary ; starting the subscription by a personal contri- bution of $2,000, he secured the desired sum of $100,000. From 1847 to his death at Burlington, New Jersey, July 25, i860, he was corre- sponding secretary and principal executive officer of the Presbyterian Board of Education. He introduced new methods of administration, and extended the scope of educational work of the church ; founded and edited The Presbyterian Magazine and The Home, the School and Church. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of New York in 1845. He was one of the most conspicuous men in the Presbyterian church, and his life was distinguished by ceaseless energy, zeal, sincere piety, and great practical usefulness. Selections from his writings were published in 1861, under the title of "Sermons and Ad- dresses," including an address delivered by him at the centennial celebration of the battle of Lake George. He delivered many funeral and memorial orations and wrote much on the question of education. He married, September 13, 1836, Catharine Ledyard, daughter of Dr. Mason Fitch and Mary Austin (Ledyard) Cogswell, of Hartford, Connecticut, where she was born September 22, 181 1. Her father was descended from the Cogswell family which came to New England from county Wilts, England, and his mother, Alice Fitch, belonged to the famous Fitch family of Connecticut. Mrs. Van Rensselaer's mother, Mary Austin Ledyard was a granddaughter of John Ledyard, who came from England in 1700. C in/M.a^ dJ- icu^ ^eAAJftctaa^ e. '^/>i'ia'e- cz>^^.^e-^::i^-t^^-t2^-e^ (V-tJ-^ ti'&tf'^^^^^ VAN RENSSELAER 9«7 Issue of Rev. Cortlandt and Catharine Ledyard (Cogswell) Van Rensselaer: Capt. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, b. Jan. s, 1838; Capt. 13th Inf., U. S. A., and served with distinction during the Civil War; d. at Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 7, 1864, from effect of wounds received in the battle of Missionary Ridge; Philip Livingston Van Rensselaer, b. Nov. 24, 1839; was Major of 2nd New Jersey Cavalry during the Civil War; d. at Vevey, Switzerland, March 10, 1873; m. Anne Whitmore, of Boston; no issue; Charles Chauncey Van Rensselaer, b. Jan., 1842, d. 1843; Ledyard Van Rensselaer, b. Nov. 20, 1843; physician at BurHngton, N. J.; d. March 26, 1893; Alice Cogswell Van Rensselaer, b. March 19, 1846, d. April 18, 1878; m., May 7, 1868, Rev. Edward B. Hodge, of Phila., where they resided, son of Hugh Hodge, M. D., LL. D.; Elizabeth Van Rensselaer, b. Feb. 22, 1848, d. April 17, 1886; m., Oct. 6, 1868, Gen. Ed- ward Burd Grubb, of Edgewater Park, N. J.; Alexander Van Rensselaer, b. Oct. i, 1850; graduated at Princeton University, class of 1871 ; is a well-known citizen of Phila.; m., Jan. 27, 1898, Mrs. Sarah (Drexel) Fell, daughter of Anthony Joseph Drexel, of the well-known financial house of Drexel & Companv. by his wife, Ellen Rozet, and widow of John Ruckman Fell, of Phila. and Camp Hill, Pa. WETHERILL FAMILY. The Wetherill family, long identified with the business and social life of Phila- delphia, was founded in America by Christopher Wetherill, of Sherbourne, county York, England, who came to New Jersey in 1683 and settled at Burlington, was one of the Proprietors of West Jersey, Sheriff of Burlington county, etc. The Wetherill family is an ancient one in the north of England, the name being variously spelled Weatherill, Weatheral, Wedderelt, Wethereld, and originally doubtless Witherhold. A John Witherhold was bailiff of Newcastle-on-Tyne, A. D., 1259. The family derived its name from the place where we first find it settled, "Wetherhold," later Wetherall, near Carlisle, in county of Cumberland, near the Scotch border. The name originating from a "hold" or keep to which cattle and sheep were driven for safety during the times of border raids and Scotch invasion. Gyles Weatherill, "of Stockton-upon-Tease," county Durham, whose will dated July 12, 1604, is entered on the Durham Registry, was the great-grandfather of Christopher Wetherill, New Jersey emigrant of 1683, and the earliest lineal ancestor of the Philadelphia family of whom we have any definite record. Gyles Weatherill devises to his son, Rowland Weatherill, "the land that I bought in Newbye in the Countye of Yorke," and "all the house or Burgage wherein I dwell ;" to "my sonn Christopher Weatherill All that my Burgage wherein my sonn Rowland dwelleth to hold unto the said Cristofer & to his heirs, for evr," and also a leasehold after the death of the testator's wife. The remainder of his estate is given to his wife, sons-in-law, Anthony Fleetham and George Burdon, and sons Christofer, Bryan and Gyles. A grandson, Gyles Wetherell, son of Rowland, was Mayor of Stockton, 1619-20,. and married Anne, daughter of Henry Marwood, Esq., and sister to Sir George Marwood, Baronet, of Little Bushby, county York, of an old family among the landowners in Yorkshire, descended from the Mallorys of Studely in that county, from the Scropes, and through the Baron Fitz-Hugh and Lord Willoughby d'Eresby from the Hollands, Earls of Kent, the founder of which family. Sir Thomas Holland, married Joan Plantagenet, "The Fair Maid of Kent," grand- daughter of Edward I., who after the Earl's death married her cousin, Edward, the "Black Prince." Burke's "History of the Landed Gentry" refers to this family of Wetherell as long settled in the county of Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire, and de- scribes the arms born by the family as "Argent, two lions passant, guardant, sable, on a chief indented of the last, three covered cups, or." This same coat-of-arms was brought to America by Christopher Wetherill and has been used by his de- scendants in America ever since his emigration. They are almost exactly similar to the arms registered for Sir James Wetherall, of Kelfield, in county of York, in' Herald's Visitation to the County of York, A. D., 1584; as also to those returned to the Herald by Richard Wetherall, of city of Lincoln, Alderman, Justice, etc., in the Herald's Visitation to Lincolnshire, A. D., 1666, Richard being then sixty-four years of age, a son of Richard and grandson of John Wetherall, of Ascrigge in Wainesdale, county York. WETHERILL 989 Christopher Weatherell, of Stockton-on-Tees, county Durham, son of Gyles above mentioned, who died in 1604, married Mary, daughter of John Watson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, merchant, who in 1587 purchased an estate at Little Kepyer, near Crawcroke, county Durham, and died there in 1612, by his wife, Barbara De la Val, of the family of Seaton de la Val, one of the oldest families of Norman descent in Northumberland, bearing arms, "Ermine two bars Vert" with many quarterings. John Watson, Sr., grandfather of Mary (Watson) Wetherell, was Sheriff of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1657; and Mayor of that town, 1574-5; and her brother, Thomas Watson, was Mayor of Stockton-on-Tees, 1623, and six other years, the last A. D., 1656. The arms of the Watson family were, "Argent, on a chevron engrailed, Azure, between three martlets. Sable ; as many crescents Or." Christopher Weatherell was buried in the Parish Church, of Stockton, May 25, 1622. His will dated May 24, 1622, devises "unto Thomas Watherell eldest sonne & to his heires my burgage on the east syde of the Boroughe of Stockton, with th appurtinances" and a leasehold ; to his second son, Bryan Wetherall, a burgage &c., on the West side of of the "Boroughe of Stockton," and unto his son, Robert Wetherall, his interest in a "Tenement farme & tithe of corne wch I hold at Whorl- ton in the County of York." Gives legacies to his wife Mary; his daughter, EHza- beth Wetherall ; to Gyles Wetherell, son of his brother Rowland ; Margaret, daugh- ter of Rowland; Rowland and Alice, son and daughter of his brother-in-law, Henry Burdon ; and Anthony and Margaret Fleetham, children of his sister Mar- garet. Thomas Wetherell, of the town and county of Newcastle-on-Tyne, eldest son of Christopher and Mary (Watson) Weatherell, was a minor in 1624, and was buried December 28, 1672. He was twice married, the name of his first wife and the mother of his children is unknown to his descendants in America. He mar- ried (second) September 12, 1658, Jane Heighington, of All Saints Parish, New- castle, widow, who survived him and was buried October i, 1677. The will of "Thomas Wetherell of the towne and Countie of Newcastle upon Tyne, Merchant," is dated December 23, 1672, and was probated January, 1672-3. It devises a messuage, burgage or tenement and three shops in the town of New- castle, "in a streate or place called Alhallows Banck" and two shops "upon the Tine bridge neare unto the Irongate upon the said Bridge unto my sonn Christo- pher Wetherell and the heires of his bodie," and in default of issue to his daughters, Mary and Margery Wetherell, to whom he devises other real estate, and names his wife Jane and daughter Margery as executrixes. The will of his widow, Jane Wetherell, dated October 11, 1676, and probated in 1678, gives legacies to her daughters: Jane, wife of Thomas Aubone, mariner, and Margary Wetherell; daughter-in-law (step-daughter), Mary Cowle; son-in-law (step-son), Christopher Wetherell, and his son Thomas; cousin, Thomas Watson, son of a cousin, Thomas Watson, deceased, and grandchildren, William and Elizabeth Au- bone. A codicil dated September 20, 1677, mentions granddaughters, Martha and Mary Aubone. Christopher Wetherell, the legatee mentioned in the above will, was the New Jersey immigrant of 1683. He married, February 7, 1672, Mary Hornby, of York, but from Hull, who died in 1680. He was living at the time of his marriage at Sherburne, county of York, and continued to reside there until his emigration to New Jersey, 1683, then producing a certificate at the Friends' Meeting at Bur- 990 WETHERILL lington, from the Monthly Meeting at York, dated 6mo. (August) 2, 1683, as "Christopher Wetherell, late of Sherburne, County of Yorke, Widower." This certificate included his children, Thomas, Phebe and John. The Parish records of Stockton show the baptism of Robert, son of Thomas Wetherell, October 18, 1640; while those of All Saints, Newcastle, show the baptism of Mary, November 14, 1641; Thomas, September 17, 1643; Grace, February 11, 1647; and Marjorie, July 7, 1659; as well as the burial of Grace, July 29, 1649; the sons, Robert and Thomas, probably also died in infancy as neither are mentioned in the wills of their father or step-mother. Christopher Wetherell, emigrant, is thought to have been the youngest of the children of the first marriage. At what date Christopher Wetherill became a member of the Society of Friends does not appear, but it was prior to 1661, in which year his name appears among a list of Friends in Yorkshire who were committed to Beverly Gaol for attending religious meetings at the house of Thomas Hutchinson, "and because they would not promise to refrain from so meeting in the future." Christopher Wetherill purchased after his removal to the Providence of New Jersey, at different periods, three one-thirty-seconds of a share and one one-twelfth of a share of the lands of West Jersey, besides several separate tracts in Burling- ton county and numerous lots in the town of Burlington. He was one of the mem- bers of the Proprietary Council of the Province 1706-7, also filling the office of Sheriff of Burlington county, 1700, and probably held other official positions. On i2mo. (February) 9, 1686-7, Christopher Wetherill appeared before Bur- lington Monthly Meeting of Friends, and proposed his intentions of marriage with Mary Fothergill, and they were married on 2mo. (April) 8, 1687, at the house of William Hayhurst, Neshaminy, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; the residence of Mary Fothergill, being given as "Neshaminy," the original name of Middletown Meeting. On 9mo. (November) 10, 1690, Christopher Wetherill and Elizabeth Pope de- clared their intentions of marriage before Burlington Monthly Meeting, the second time, and were granted permission to proceed with their marriage. He married a fourth time, 1705, Mary Whitton, their intentions being declared the second time, 8mo. (October) i, 1705. He also survived her. Christopher Wetherill resided for a number of years in the town of Burlington, where he owned a great number of town lots ; in addition to such as were laid out to him in right of the different surveys of land elsewhere, he had purchased the lots appertaining to surveys to other persons. He later removed to his plantation in Mansfield township, Burlington county, where he died March 25, 171 1. His unsigned will was proved April 6, 171 1, upon the testimony of Isaac De Cow, that it "Wass Taken in Wrighting from the tstator's mouth March ye 28th, last, ye very Substance of all Devise Butt Nott in forme." It devises to his son, John Wetherill, the money paid to redeem land for him on Tanner's Run in the town bounds of Burlington and a further monetary legacy, conditioned that he release to his brother, Thomas Wetherill, all claim, &c., to the lands ; to Thomas and Phebe Scattergood, and their sons, Samuel and Christopher, and daughter Elizabeth are devised certain lands and other estate, and unto his son, Thomas Wetherill, "Whome I likewise Constitute make and ordaine my onely and sole executor all the Remainder of my Estate both Reall and personall be what it will or where it will, to. him his heires and assigns for ever." WETHERILL 991 The only children of Christopher Wetherill were by his first wife, Mary Hornby, who died in England, 1680, there being no issue by the three American wives. Issue of Christopher and Mary (Hornby) Wetherill: Phebe Wetherill, b., Sherburne, county York, England, Nov. 27, 1672, d. in N. J., March 19, 1744-5; ™-> Dec. 17, 1694, Thomas Scattergood, and had issue; Thomas Wetherili,, b., Sherburne, Nov. 3, 1674, d. 1758; of whom presently; John Wetherill, b., Sherburne, county York, England, 1677, d., Mannington township, Salem county, N. J., 1728; m. (first), June 3, 1700, Sarah Borradail, (second) Anne , who survived him; Samuel Wetherill, b., Sherburne, 1680, d. inf. Thomas Wetherill, eldest son of Christopher and Mary (Hornby) Wetherill, born at Sherburne, county York, England, November 3, 1674, accompanied his father to "New Jersey in 1683, and inheriting the greater part of his father's lands there was a large landholder and prominent citizen of Burlington county. He married, 4mo. (June) 22, 1703, Anne Fearon, "late of England, but now of Bur- lington County," Province of New Jersey ; the ceremony taking place at the Meet- ing House at Chesterfield. She was a da,ughter of John Fearon, and Elizabeth, his wife, of Great Broughton, county Cumberland, England. Peter Fearon, brother -of Anne, produced a certificate at Burlington Meeting, March 21, 1703, from the Monthly Meeting at Pardsey Cragg, Cumberland. The will of Thomas Wetherill, of city of Burlington, Province of New Jersey, Yeoman, dated September 7, 1748, and a codicil dated October i, 1758, was pro- bated September 16, 1759. It devises to each of his sons, Christopher, Thomas •and Samuel, and his daughters, Mary Crispin, Elizabeth Johnson, and Ann Moore, and his wife Anne, lots in Burlington, and to the sons large tracts of land in the ■Great Swamp, Amwell township, Hunterdon county, and other parts of New Jer- sey, and gives legacies to his grandchildren, Thomas and Abigail Bishop, children of his daughter Ann, by her former husband, Peter Bishop. Issue of Thomas and Anne (Fearon) Wetherill: Mary Wetherill, b. Oct. 22, 1704; d. 1790; m., 1724, Silas Crispin, son of Silas Crispin, by his second wife, Mary (Stockton) Shinn, and an account of her descendants is given in our account of the Crispin Family; Elizabeth Wetherill, b. Oct. 11, 1705; m. (first) Thomas Earl, (second) Joseph Johnson, but left no issue; Ann Wetherill, b. Aug. 29, 1707; m. (first), Nov. 15, 1731, Peter Bishop, (second) James Moore ; Christopher Wetherill^ b. Feb. 26, 1710-11, d. 1786; m. Mary Stockton; of whom presently; Thomas Wetherill, b. May 16, 1712; m., May 16, 1744, Katharine Sykes, but left no issue; Joseph Wetherill, b. March 31, 1715, d. in childhood, or at least before his father; unm. and without issue; Samuel Wetherill, b. Aug. 8, 1718, d. Oct. 30, 1789; m.. May 19, 1743, Mary Noble, who d. Sept. 21, 1779; they had six children, two of whom — Mary and Joseph — married and left issue : Mary Wetherill b. May 17, 1745, d. at the residence of her son-in-law, Ebenezer Eevick, in Phila., Dec. 11, 1829; she married at Burlington Meeting, Nov. 26, 1778, Isaac Jones, of Phila., "house carpenter," son of James and Hannah (Hayes) Jones, of Blockley, and they had issue: Samuel Wetherill Jones, Mary Noble Jones, m. Stephen W. Smith, and Elizabeth Wetherill Jones, m. Ebenezer Levick, of Phila. ; the descendants of the latter are given in our account of the Levick Family; Joseph Wetherill, m. Mercy Ridgway, dau. of Job, and left Samuel R. Wetherill. who m. and left issue. 992 WETHERILL Christopher Wetherill, eldest son of Thomas and Anne (Fearon) Wetherill, born at Burlington, New Jersey, February 26, 1710-11, died in city of Burlington, April, 1786. He inherited a large part of the lands descending from his father and grandfather in Burlington, and in the counties of Hunterdon, Morris, Essex, and elsewhere in New Jersey, and at his death devised them to his children, most of whom had, however, previously removed to Philadelphia. His will dated March 27, 1786, was proven April 17, 1786, and appointed his wife Mary and his sons, Samuel, Joseph and Isaac, executors. Christopher Wetherill married, 1735, Mary, fifth child of John Stockton, Judge of Common Pleas Court of Somerset county, New Jersey, 1749, to his death in 1758, Trustee of College of New Jersey, etc., by his wife, Anna, and a sister to Richard Stockton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the most prominent men of New Jersey. John Stockton was a son of Richard. Stockton, from Cheshire, England, one of the first settlers of Princeton, who was son of Richard Stockton, of Malpas, Cheshire, baptized June 12, 1606, and a grandson of Owen Stockton, of Stockton and Kiddington, Cheshire, who died in 1610. Issue of Christopher and Mary (Stockton) Wetherill: Samuel Wetherill, b. June 12, 1736, d., Phila., Sept. 24, 1816; m. Sarah Yarnall; of whom presently ; Joseph Wetherill, b. Sept. 10, 1740, d. Jan. 20, 1820; was a carpenter in Phila. on his marriage at Friends' Meeting there. May 10, 1764, to Anna, dau. of Benjamin Canby, of Solebury township, Bucks county, Pa., proprietor of one of the earliest iron forges in Pa. and another in New Jersey, by his second wife, Sarah Yardley. Joseph Wetherill was a member of the Committee of Observation for Phila., 1774; a delegate to Provincial Convention of Jan. 23, 1775 ; a corporate member of the Carpenter's Company, 1792, its treasurer, etc. His wife, Anna (Canby) Wetherill, d. Sept. 20, 1820; they had issue: Thomas Wetherill, b. March 17, 1765, d. May i, 1824; m., July 26, 1792, Elizabeth Hunt, and left issue; Benjamin Wetherill, b. Sept. 8, 1766, d. July 19, 1808; m. Anne Blakiston; left no issue; Mary Wetherill, b. 1768, d. 1846, unm.; Sarah Wetherill, b. Nov. 4, 1770, d. April 14, 1838; m., June 2, 1803, William Powell, of Phila., and an account of her descendants is given elsewhere in this volume; Anna Wetherill, b. 1773, d. unm., 1849; Christopher Wetherill, b. 1779, d. unm., 1856; Horatio G. and Anne, d. inf. Mary Anna Wetherill, b. Sept. 8, 1742, d. Aug. 8, 1744; John Wetherill, b. July 15, 1746, d. July 30, 1768, unm.; Anna Wetherill, b. May 18, 1750, survived her father, but d. unm.; Isaac Wetherill, b. Feb. i, 1753, d. Aug. 18, 1821; m., May 16, 1776, Rebecca Deacon, and had issue, seven children, six of whom, viz. : Joseph, m. Rebecca Aronson ; Anna, m. Samuel W. Earl; Thomas, m. Rebecca Lippincott; Mary, m. Thomas P. Earl; Sarah, m. William N. Earl; George Deacon, b. Phila., July, 1794, d. April 18, 1875, was a prominent and suc- cessful business man, leaving descendants in Phila. and elsewhere. He mar- ried Catharine Copeland, who died April 16, 1875. Their eldest dau., Anna, m. her cousin, Christopher Wetherill, son of 'Thomas and Rebecca (Lippincott) Wetherill, and their third child, Sarah Wetherill, m. George Northrop, Esq., a prominent member of the Phila. Bar, and their dau., Christine Northrop, m. Samuel Price Wetherill, of Phila., of whom hereafter; Sarah Wetherill, b. Jan. 19, 1755, d. Jan. 12, 1820. WETHERILL 993 Samuel Wetherill, eldest son of Christopher Wetherill, of Burlington, New Jersey, by his wife, Mary Stockton, was born at Burlington, April 12, 1736. (There is some doubt about the correctness of the dates of birth of the children of Christopher Wetherill, who were born before the adoption of the Gregorian Calen- dar in 1752. The dates herein given are from the family record, but since the genealogical charts prepared by the family, have given the Pagan names to months, given in the early records by numerals, thereby giving incorrect dates in all cases prior to 1752, it is probable that these dates are also incorrect. Where it was possible to correct these dates by reference to Meeting records, etc., it has been done). Samuel Wetherill learned the trade of a carpenter, and coming to Phila- delphia followed that vocation there for some years. He was a man of great public spirit and took a lively interest in affairs of his adopted city, as well as of the country at large. The imposition of the Stamp Act and the consequent revolt of the Colon- ists gave an impetus to the laudable effort of Americans to manufacture such articles for which they had been used to depend upon the industries of the old world. Samuel Wetherill was one of the promoters and managers of the "United Company of Philadelphia for the Establishment of American Industries," and he carried the principles of that organization into practical application by establishing, in 1775, at his dwelling-house on South alley, between Fifth and Sixth streets, on a lot extending from Market to Arch streets, an establishment for the weaving, fulling and dyeing of domestic fabrics, which according to his quaint business card embellished with a cut representing a Quaker lady sitting by her spinning wheel, were "suitable for every season of the year, viz. — Jeans, Fustians, Everlastings, Coatings, &c." Finding it necessary to establish a plant for dyeing his goods, there being no such establishment in Philadelphia, he found the scarcity of proper ingredients for his dye-stuffs a serious impediment to the success of his under- taking, and therefore also established a chemical laboratory for their manufacture. The latter enterprise was the foundation of the immense industry in the manufac- ture of drugs and chemicals, carried on by the Wetherill family down to the pres- ent time. During the Revolutionary war Samuel Wetherill supplied, by contract with the Continental Congress, cloth for the manufacture of uniforms for the patriot sol- diers, and was active in the support of the patriot cause. His activity in these matters was deemed by the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends as a devia- tion from their "Ancient Testimony and Peacable principles," and he was dis- owned by them in August, 1779. About 1785 Samuel Wetherill took his eldest son, of the same name, into part- nership, and engaged in the drug business under the firm name of Wetherill & Son, on Front street, above Arch, where "Wetherill's Drug Store" was long an ancient landmark, and the place where his sons and grandsons were brought up in the business of manufacturing chemists. The Wetherill firm was the pioneer in the manufacture of white lead in America in 1790. At about this date they erected a large establishment for its manufacture near Twelfth and Cherry streets, which was burned down in 1813, as it is believed by emissaries of English manufacturers, whose trade the Philadelphia factory had destroyed. The factory was, however, soon rebuilt and the business continued. With or soon after the establishment of the drug business on Front street the 994 WETHERILL Wetherills abandoned the textile manufacturing and turned their attention exclu- sively to the manufacture and sale of drugs, chemicals and paints. Soon after his disownment from the Society of Friends, Samuel Wetherill with a number of other prominent men of Philadelphia, who had also been disowned for participation in the struggle for Independence, among whom were Col. Timothy Matlack, his brother. White Matlack, Col. Clement Biddle and his brother, Owen Biddle (a no less ardent patriot), Benjamin Say, Christopher Marshall, Joseph Warner, Moses Bartram, organized "The Religious Society of Friends, by some Styled the Free Quakers." Samuel Wetherill was the prime mover in this move- ment and the meetings of the society were held for a time at his house and that of Col. Matlack, as early as 1780. The minutes of the Society of Free Quakers open with the meeting held February 20, 1781, and April 24, 1781, they issued an ad- dress to the Society of Friends, pubhshed in the form of a "broadside," claiming a division or share in the property of the Society ; later appealing to the Legisla- ture on the same subject. A subscription was started for the erection of a meeting- house which was contributed to by Washington, Franklin and a nurnber of others beside the members, and sufficient funds being raised, a Meeting House, still stand- ing, was erected at the southwest corner of Fifth and Arch streets, and later a lot was granted them by the State for a burial ground, on the east side of Fifth street, below Pine. To the Wetherill family the Society owed largely, not only its inception, but its perpetuation and usefulness, four generations of the family having served as its clerk. Samuel Wetherill, Sr., was its first clerk and preacher, in the latter capacity attracting considerable attention by his able, logical and eloquent discourses, so much so that the meetings were often visited by numbers of prominent people when it was known that he was expected to preach. Samuel Wetherill continued to preach after he became so feeble that he was carried from his carriage to the "gallery" in a chair. He was a member of Common Council of city of Philadel- phia, chairman of Yellow Fever Committee of that body in 1793, as well as one of the most active of the water committee. He died September 24, 1816. Samuel Wetherill married, April 5, 1762, at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Sarah, born August 27, 1734, died July 27, 1816, daughter of Mordecai Yamall, a valued minister of the Society of Friends, by his first wife, Catharine Meredith. Francis Yamall, father of Mordecai, with his brother Philip, emigrated from Cloynes, county Worcester, England, and settled in Springfield township, now Del- aware county, where 100 acres of land were surveyed to Francis Yarnall, October 17, 1683. He married, in 1686, Hannah Baker, of the Baker family of Edgmont, and later took up 510 acres of land in Willistown township, where he died in 1721. He was a member of Colonial -Assembly in 171 1, and a prominent member of the Society of Friends. Mordecai Yarnall, youngest of nine children of Francis and Hannah (Baker) Yamall, born in Willistown township, now Delaware county, September 11, 1705, died in Springfield township, about the commencement of the Revolutionary War. He married (first) Catharine Meredith; (second) Mary Roberts; (third), in 1768, Ann, widow of Joseph Maris. About 1750 he removed from Willistown to Philadelphia, and resided there until his third marriage, when he removed to Springfield. WETHERILL 995 Issue of Samuel and Sarah (Yarnall) Wetherill: Mary Wetherill, b. Jan. 28, 1763, d. inf.; Samuel Wetherill, Jr., b. April 27, 1764, d. Feb. 22, 1829; m. Rachel Price; of whom presently; Mordecai Wetherill, b. Dec. 8, 1766, d. March 24, 1826; m. Martha (1782-1830), dau of Edward and Sarah (Stille) Yorke, of Phila., and granddaughter of Thomas and Mar- tha (Potts) Yorke, an account of whom and some of their descendants is given in these volumes; Mordecai and Martha (Yorke) Wetherill had one son, Samuel Welherill, b. 1801, d. 1843; m. his cousin, Jane Loveridge, dau. of his mother's brother, Peter Yorke, by his wife, Mary fiaines. Anna Wetherill, b. Aug., 1769, d. inf.; John Wetherill, b. Feb. 5, 1772, d. March 24, 1851; m. Susan, dau. of Reuben and Sarah Garrison, and had issue: Sarah Wetherill, m., 1823, Frederick MontmoUin, and had issue; Harriet Wetherill, m., 1825, David Kyle, and (second) Hugh M. Ward, and had issue by both; Martha Bryan Wetherill, d. unm,, March 8, 1871 ; Susan Wetherill, m., 1849, Paul Hewitt Cushman, and had issue; Rebecca Wetherill, d. unm., at her residence at the southeast corner of Broad and Walnut slreets, Phila., Feb., 1908; Edward Wetherill, Esq., of Phila., m. June 4, 1863, Anna, dau. of Amos and Mary (Newbold) Thorpe, and had issue: Edith Wetherill, b. April 16, 1869; m., Nov. 15, 1900, Frederick Mervin Ives, M. D., of N. Y.; Marian Wetherill, b. Dec. 6, 1870; Blanche Wetherill, b. Nov. 16, 1871, was a student at the Univ. of Pa., 1890-1; Irma Wetherill, b. Sept. 5, 1872; Cora Wetherill, b. Dec. 4, 1876. Sarah Wetherill, b. Sept. 7, 1776, d. Feb. 16, 1840; m., Jan. 3, 1799, Joshua Lippincott, of Phila., b. Aug. i, 1772, d. Aug. 11, 1836; they had issue: Sarah Ann Lippincott, b. 1800, d. 1862; m., Jan. 10, 1821, Benjamin W. Richards; Mary Lippincott, d. unm.; Silina Lippincott, b. Oct. 16, 1S03, d. unm., July 11, 1871; Samuel W. Lippincott, b. March 15, 1806, d. July 20, 1859, unm.; William Lippincott, m. Mary Wilson; no issue; Joshua Lippincott, b. Nov. 21, 1814, d. Oct. 23, 1880; m.. May 21, 1839, Agnea Keene, and had issue : James Dundas Lippincott, b. June 6, 1840, d. 1905; m. (first), April 2, 1867, Alice Potter, (second) ; no issue; Anna Maria Dundas I Oct. 7, 1903, Mary Rowe Dunn; resides in Phila.; they had issue: Anna Wetherill, b. Sept. 21, 1905; Abel Proctor Wetherill, b. July 24, 1876; now associated with his father and younger brother, Webster King Wetherill, in the manufacture of white lead in Phila. ; m., 1905, Sarah Reeve Mullen ; Webster King Wetherill, b. Oct. 19, 1878; member of the family firm in the manufacture of white lead, with his father and elder brother, Abel Proctor Wetherill; m., June I, 1904, Georgine Vaux Cresson; Francis Macomb Wetherill, b. January 27, 1882; student at General Theological Semi- nary, New York City. LIPPINCOTT FAMILY. The family of Lippincott was an ancient one in Devonshire, whence Richard Lippincott came to New England prior to 1640. The name is possibly a corrup- tion of Lovecote, mentioned in Domesday Book, compiled in 1080, and the estate, still bearing the ancient name, is located in Highampton, about thirty miles south- west of Webworthy, the seat of the Lippincott family for three hundred and fifty years. Luffincott, another corruption of the ancient name, being a parish, some twenty miles west of Lovecote on the western border of Devon. The last of the Webworthy family was Henry Luppincott, who died in Barcelona, Spain, in 1779. A branch of this family removed to Sedbury, East Devon, in the middle of the sixteenth century from which descended Henry Lippincott, a distinguished mer- chant of Bristol, England, who was made a baronet in 1778 by George HL Numer- ous Coats-of-Arms have been granted the family at different periods. Richard Lippincott, the ancestor of the family in New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania, was an early Puritan settler in New England. On April i, 1640 he was chosen as a town officer of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and he was admitted a free- man of that town May 13, 1640. He removed a few years later to Boston, where his son John Lippincott was born November 6, 1644, and baptized four days later, as shown by the records of the First Church of Boston. The baptismal record shows that the father was "a member of the Church att Dorchester." He does not seem to have been entirely in accord with the rigid creed of the Puritan church, and had a difference with his church through which he was excluded from com- munion on July 6, 1651. Soon after this date he returned with his family to Eng- land, and became allied with the Society of Friends. With others of that sect he suffered persecution for his religious faith. On February, 1655, he was arrested Papers in the possession of the family of the late J. Dundas Lippincott, of Philadelphia,, show the descent of Richard Lippincott, of Devonshire, who came to Dorchester, Massachu- setts, prior to 1640, to have been as follows : Robert de Lughertcot, held the manor of Luffencot, county Devon, from 27, of Henry III., and granted the same to his younger son; Jordan de Lughencot, who held same from 24, of Edward L; Thomas de Lughencot, held same from 19, of Edward IIL; John de Lughencott, held same in time of Edward IIL; Nicholas de Luffincott, held same in time of Henry IV., and in second year of Henry V. granted it to his son; John de Luffiincott, who married in 1413, A. D., Jane Wibbery, of Wyberry, county Devrn, daughter and heiress of John Wibbery, whose son, John Lippincott, of Wibbery, bore the Arms of the Lughencott family quartered with those of Wibbery; m. Jane de Laploads, of Sydbury, county Devon, whose son, Philip Lippincott, of Wibbery, m. Alice, dau. and co-heiress of Richard Gough, of Kil- ham, CO. Cornwall. M. (second) Jane Larder, of Upton Pym, county Devon; (third) Alice Dyrrant, of Escomb. By Alice Gough. had issue : John Lippincott, eldest son, whose issue became extinct with Henry Lippincott, of Barce- lona, in 1779; Daughters, Margaret, Frances and Mary, and a second son; Anthony Lippencott, m. and had issue; Bartholomew Lippincott, had issue; Anthony Lippincott, b. 1593, father of Richard Lippincott, who came to Mass. and, Thomas, b. 1598; Dorothy, b. 1599; Jane, Mary, b. 1604; Bartholomew, b. 1607. LIPPINCOTT 1009 at Plymouth, Devonshire, by the Mayor of Plymouth, and confined in or near the Castle of Exeter, and again arrested by order of the mayor in 1660, being later released at the solicitation of Margaret Fell, who became the wife of George Fox in 1669. In 1661 or 1662, Richard Lippincott again sailed for America, and located in Rhode Island, then the asylum of several religious sects driven out of the Massa- chusetts Colony by the intolerant Puritans. He joined in the formation of an Association at Newport, Rhode Island in 1664, for the purpose of securing title from the Indians to a large tract of land in New Jersey, and was the largest con- tributor to the fund raised for that purpose. The purchase was effected from the Indian Sachem, Popomma, on April 8, 1665, and the land was confirmed to the Rhode Island company on the following day by Patent from Governor NichoUs. By the terms of the grant all who settled within its limits were to have "free liberty of Conscience, without any molestation or Disturbance whatsoever in their way of Worship," and it was stipulated that at least one hundred families should settle thereon within the space of three years. Richard Lippincott settled at Shrews- bury, Monmouth county, and was one of the founders of Shrewsbury Friends' Meeting of which he was one of the most prominent and active members through- out the remainder of his life. He also took a prominent part in Provincial affairs. The first Provincial Assembly was organized in the Province in 1667, and he be- came a representative therein in 1668 from Shrewsbury. In 1670 he was made one of the "Associates of the Patentees," the first local court of judicature. He was again elected to the Assembly in 1677, and was Coroner of Monmouth county in 1682-3. On August 9, 1676, he obtained a patent for 1000 acres of John Fenwick to be surveyed and laid out in his Colony, and it was surveyed to him on "Cohan- zick River and Wee-hatt-quack Creek." On May 20 and 21, 1679, he conveyed this tract in equal portions of 200 acres each to his five sons. None of them how- ever settled thereon, all disposing of it prior to 1700. Richard Lippincott died at Shrewsbury, November 26, 1683, leaving a will dated November 23, 1683. His wife, Abigail, whom he had married at Roxbury, Massachusetts, survived him fourteen years, and died 6rao. 2, 1.697- Her will, bearing date June 28, 1697, was proven August 24, 1697, and mentions her grandson, John, son of son John, widow and children of son Freedom ; grandchildren, Abigail, Sybiah and Rachel, daugh- ters of daughter Increase, wife of Samuel Dennis; sons. Restore and Remem- brance, and the Friends' Meeting at Shrewsbury. Issue of Richard and Abigail Lippincott: Remembrance, bap. at Dorchester, Mass., Sept. 19, 1641, d. at Shrewsbury, N. J., ApriJ II, 1723; a large landholder there; m. Margaret Barber; had three sons and five daugh- ters; John, b., Boston, Oct. 7, 1644, d. at Shrewsbury, April 16, 1720; m. (first) Sarah Hewett, (second) Jeanette Austin or Aston; sons — Preserve, John and Robert; daughters — Mary, Anne and Margaret; Abigail, b., Boston, Mass., Jan. 17, 1646-7, d. March 9, 1646-7; Restore, b., Plymouth, England, July 3, 1652, d., Burlington co., N. J., July 1741 ; of whom presently; Freedom, b., Plymouth, England, Sept. I, 1655, d. at Wellenborough, Burlington co.^ N. J.; "Tanner" letters of Admrn. to his brother. Restore, June 15, 1697; m- Mary Curtis; had son, Samuel, and other children; Increase, b., Plymouth, England, Dec. 5, 1657, d., Shrewsbury, N. J., Nov. 29, 169S; m. Samuel Dennis; loio LIPPINCOTT Jacob, b. May ii, 1660, d., Shrewsbury, N. J., Feb. 6, 1689; m. Ruth Wooley, and had issue — Jacob and Ruth; Preserve, b., R. I., Feb. 25, 1663, d., Shrewsbury, N. J., March, 1666. Restore Lippincott, third son of Richard and Abigail, born at Plymouth, Devonshire, England, July 3, 1653, came to Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, with his parents, when a lad of a dozen years, and lived there until about 1692, though he had purchased land in Northampton township, Burlington county, near Mt. Holly, as early as 1688, and was living on the 570 acres purchased in that year of Thomas Olive, when it was conveyed to him September 21, 1692. On January 10, 1699-1700 he conveyed 309 acres of the 570 acre tract to his son Sam- uel, and continued to reside on the balance of the tract until his death July 20, 1 741. He was a member of the West Jersey Assembly from Burlington county in 1701 and, with other members of the Assembly and Provincial Council, petition- ed King William to confirm Andrew Hamilton as Governor of the Colony. The following year the Proprietors of East and West Jersey surrendered their govern- mental rights to the Crown and Queen Anne united them into one Colony and ap- pointed Lord Cornbury Governor. The first Assembly of the united Province met at Perth Amboy in 1703, and Restore Lippincott was one of the representatives of Burlington county in that Assembly ; was re-elected in 1704 and continued to serve until the Assembly was dissolved in 1706. He was an active and esteemed member of Mt. Holly Friends Meeting and the. Meeting was held at his house prior to the erection of the Meeting House in 1716. He married at Shrewsbury, Novem- ber 6, 1674, Hannah Shattuck, daughter of William Shattuck, born at Boston, July 8, 1654, died prior to 1729, in which year he married (second) Martha, widow of Joshua Owen, of Springfield, and daughter of John Shinn, of Springfield, Bur- lington county. Issue of Restore and Haiwiah (Shattuck) Lippincott: Samuel b., Shrewsbury, Sept. 12, 1675, d. in Northampton township, BurHngton cc, N. J., 1721; m., July 3, 1700, Ann Hulett; Abigail, b. Feb. 16, 1677; m., May 3, 1697, James Shinn; Hannah, b. Nov. 15, 1679; Hope, b. Oct., 1681 ; m., April 15, 1701, William Gladding; Rebecca, b. Nov. 24, 1684; m., June S, 1704, Josiah Gaskill; James, b. June 11, 1687, d. 1760; m., Nov. 10, 1709, Anna Eves, of Evesham, Burlington CO.; of whom presently; Elizabeth, b. March 15, 1690; m., June, 1712, George Shinn; Jacob, b. Aug.,_ 1692; m. July i, 1716, Mary, dau. of Henry and Elizabeth (Hudson) Burr, and settled in Salem co. ; was ancestor of Joshua Lippincott, Phila., director of the Bank of the United States, president of the Lehigh Navigation Co., etc. ; of whom later; Rachel, b. Jan. 8, 1695; m. (first), March 11, 1713, Zachariah Jess; and (second), Nov. 19, 1729, Francis Dawson. James Lippincott, second son of Restore and Hannah (Shattuck) Lippincott, born at Shrewsbury, Monmouth county. New Jersey, June 11, 1687, removed with his parents to Northampton township, Burlington county, when a child. He mar- ried November 10, 1709, Anna, daughter of Thomas Eves, one of the Proprietors of West Jersey, who came from London, England, purchasing one-thirty-second share of the West Jersey lands of Thomas Olive, February 26, 1676-7. He settled on Mill Creek in Burlington county, in what became Evesham township, named for him, where he died in February, 1728-9. His wife was Mary Roberts, whom he LIPPINCOTT loii survived. James and Anna (Eves) Lippincott resided in Northampton township,, and were members of Evesham Friends' Meeting. Issue of James and Anna (Eves) Lippincott: John, m., April, 1740, Elizabeth Elkington; settled in Evesham township; James, d. 1782; m. (first), Nov., 1748, Meribah Rockhill, and (second), in 1751, Elizabeth Lippincott, a widow; Daniel, d. 1776; m. Elizabeth Pim; Jonathan, m., March 13, 1746, his first cousin, Anna Eves; of whom presently; Moses, d. 1752; m., July, 1750, Meribah Mullen, who m. (second), in 1753, Daniel Wills; Aaron, d. in Evesham, 1810; m., 1753, Elizabeth , dau. of Ephraim and Sarah Tomlinson; Increase, m., gmo. 24, 1737, Joshua Humphreys; Anna, m. Thomas Taylor; Jerusha, m., April 16, 1751, Amos Rockhill, of Mansfield. Jonathan Lippincott, son of James and Anna (Eves) Lippincott, resided first in Evesham and later in Northampton township, Burlington county. New Jersey. He died in 1759. He married, March 13, 1746-7, his cousin Anna, daughter of Samuel and Mary Eves, of Evesham, the former being a brother of his mother Anna Eves. They were disowned by the Friends for their marriage, the marriage of first cousins being contrary to "the good order maintained among Friends." Issue of Jonathan and Anna (Eves) Lippincott: James, m., Jan. 28, 1771, Susannah Evans; Levi Lippincott, b. about 1749, d. 1818; m. Lettice Wills; of whom presently; William, m., Aug. 9, 1779, Rhoda Leishman; Samuel, of whom we have no record. Levi Lippincott, second son of Jonathan and Anna (Eves) Lippincott, born in Evesham township, Burlington county. New Jersey, about 1749, spent his whole life as a farmer in that township, dying there in 1818. He married, April 12, 1773,, Lettice, born September 5, 1754, died October, 1841, daughter of Micajah and Re- becca Wills, and of a family long prominent in Burlington county. Issue of Levi and Lettice (Wills) Lippincott: A child, b. in 1774, d. inf.; Reuben, b. Sept. 23, 1775, d. young and unm.; Joab, b. Oct. 2, 1777, d. young and unm.; Beulah, b. Oct. 20, 1779, d. unm.; Ann, b. Oct. 30, 1781 ; m. William Kaighn; Jacob Wills Lippincott, b. Sept. 10, 1783, d. about 1834; m. Sarah Ballinger; of whom presently; Amy, b. Aug. 29, 1785, d. young and unm.; William, b. 1788, d. young and unm.; James Wills, b. 1790, d. Nov. 11, 1819, unm.; Elizabeth, b. 1792, d. about 1827; m. Jacob Hollingshead. Jacob Wills Lippincott, born in Evesham township, Burlington county. New Jersey, September 10, 1783, resided in that township and Springfield township in the same county. He died about 1834. He married, February 6, 1812, Sarah, born near Medford, New Jersey, June 25, 1789, died September 25, 1873, daugh- ter of Joshua Ballinger, of Burlington county. New Jersey, by his wife Rebecca Moore, whom he married at Burlington, November 17, 1783, and a lineal descend- IOI2 LIPPINCOTT ant of Henry Ballinger, one of the Proprietors of West Jersey in 1684, and Mary, his wife, a daughter of Thomas Harding, another of the Proprietors of West Jersey. Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, only child of Jacob Wills and Sarah (Ball- inger) Lippincott, was born at Juhustown, Burlington county, New Jersey, March 18, 1813. He received his early education in the schools of that town, and at the age of sixteen years came to Philadelphia, and was employed in a book store at Fourth and Race streets for two years. His employer having failed in business at the end of that period, the creditors placed the affairs of the store in the hands of Mr. Lippincott. He had full charge of the establishment, and conducted it for five years. In 1836 he borrowed $2,000 of his mother, the only pecuniary assistance he ever received, and launched out into business for himself in the publishing and sale of books, under the firm name of J. B. Lippincott & Company, a firm that in the next twenty- five years became one of the principal publishing houses in the United States. The first fourteen years were devoted principally to the publication of Bibles, prayer- books, and various religious publications. Among the latter were a Commentary on the Bible in six volumes, and "The Comprehensive Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge," which met with a large sale. The business under his energetic and capable management was very successful and, in 1849, h^ purchased the entire stock of the extensive book jobbing and stationary establishment of Grigg, Elliott & Co., then the largest establishment of its kind in Philadelphia. Establishing a thoroughly equipped jobbing department, he reorganized the business in 1850 under the firm name of Lippincott, Grambo & Company, and subsequently located his principal establishment in a six-story building at Fourth and Commerce streets, owned by him, with a manufacturing establishment in a five-story building at Fifth and Cresson streets. In 1851 he made a business trip to Europe and secured the American agency for the English firm of Robert & William Chambers, and placed his mammoth establishment in the fore front of the book trade in America. Mr. ■Grambo retired in 1855, and the old firm name of J. B. Lippincott & Company was resumed and under it the house maintained its supremacy in that line of trade for almost a half century. In 1868 he issued the first edition of Lippincott's Magazine, to this day one of the leading literary monthlies. In 1857 he estabHshed the Medico-Chirurgical Review and continued it until 1861, when it was succeeded by the Medical Times. The publication of the standard and current books of litera- ture and science brought its founder and head in contact with the leading thinkers and writers of his time, while the acknowledged merit of the text books, encyclo- paedias and other works that were distinctively the creation of the firm, illustrate his tireless energy and business capacity for all the details of his business. He ranked for many years as one of the leading business men of Philadelphia and held a large interest in many great enterprises. In 1854 he became a director of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank; in 1861 one of the managers of the Phila- delphia Saving Fund Society; in 1862 a manager of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, and was for twenty years one of the active managers of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company. In 1874 he became a member of the Board of Trustees of Jefferson Medical College, and in 1876, of that of the University of Pennsylvania, and gave active and liberal sup- port to both of these institutions; was conspicuously active in the founding and LIPPINCOTT 1013 support of the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University. He was also for several years president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. At his death on January 5, 1886, all these boards with which he had been so active- ly associated passed resolutions, testifying their appreciation of his worth and serv- ices and their loss in his death. Resolutions were also adopted by representatives of the book trade in Philadelphia, offered by Henry T. Coates, from which we ■quote the following: "In the death of Joshua B. Lippincott, Philadelphia mourns the loss of one of her best known and most active citizens, and the book trade its foremost and ablest member, one to whose energy, decision of character and fore- sight is due the building up of the great house which has aided in making Philadel- phia known and respected not only in this country but also over the whole civilized world. "As a business man he laid the foundations of the house which bears his name, upon the broad principles of commercial honor and personal integrity, and did much to make the name of a Philadelphia merchant respected and trusted. As a citizen he was enterprising and public-spirited, and as a wise and safe counsellor did much to promote many of the great enterprises in which our city is so deeply interested. Straightforward in all his dealings, and courteous in his manner to all, he ever held to the high principle that a merchant's word should be as good as his bond. His name will be one of the memories of the book trade of Philadelphia, and the great house which he founded and which bears his name." He was one of the founders of the Union Club, which became later the Union League, the Social Art Club, and a number of other societies. He married, Octo- ber 16, 1845, Josephine, the accomplished daughter of Seth Craige, one of Phila- delphia's leading manufacturers, by his wife Angelina Shaw, and a descendant of ,a family long prominent in the business and social affairs of Philadelphia. She was born November 19, 1823. Issue of Joshua B. and Josephine (Craige) Lippincott: Craige Lippincott, b., Phila., Nov. 4, 1846; m. Sallie E. Bucknell; of whom presently; Walter Lippincott, b., Phila., March 21, 1849; entered Univ. of Pa., 1862; entered firm of J. B. Lippincott, publishers, on leaving school and retained interest therein after his father's death; m., Oct. 21, 1879, Elizabeth Trotter, dau. of Sigismund Hoeckley Horstmann, of Phila., and they have issue : Bertha Horstmann Lippincott; Josephine Sarah Lippincott, b., Phila., Dec. 31, 1850; m., June ig, 1873, at Phila., James J. Goodwin, and had issue — three sons; Joshua Bertram Lippincott, b. at Melmar, his father's country seat, near Huntingdon Valley. Montgomery Co., Pa., Aug. 24, 1857; entered Univ. of Pa., 1874; became mem- ber of J. B. Lippincott & Co., publishing house, and has. been vice-president of the company since Feb., 1886; is trustee of Univ. of Pa.; manager of Veterinary Hospital; member of Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and of a number of clubs and other social organizations; ra., April 21, 1885, Joanna, b. Dec. 16, 1858, dau. of Joseph and Anna (Levering) ^A^harton, of Phila. They have issue: Joseph Wharton Lippincott, b. Feb. 28, 1887; Marianna Lippincott, b. Sept. 9, i8go; Sarah Lippincott, b. July 14, 1894; Bertram Lippincott, b. Nov. 15, 1897. Craige Lippincott, eldest son of Joshua B. and Josephine (Craige) Lippin- cott, born in Philadelphia, November 4, 1846, was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, entering that institution in 1862, and finishing his education in Europe. He entered the publishing house of J. B. Lippincott & Co. in 1866, and IOI4 LIPPINCOTT has since been prominently identified with that company, succeeding his father as. President of the J. B. Lippincott Co. in 1886, the latter having been President of the company from its incorporation a year prior to his death. He is a member of the Mayflower Descendants ; of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolu- tion, and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and of the Union League, Art and Rittenhouse clubs. He married, April 13, 1871, Sallie E., born in Philadelphia, June 4, 1848, daughter of William and Harriet M. (Ashton) Bucknell, of Phila- delphia, and they reside on West Rittenhouse Square. Issue of Craige and Sallie E. (Bucknell) Lippincott: Jay Bucknell Lippincott, b., Phila., Feb. i, 1872; m., Jan. 20, 1897, Camilla Elizabeth, b., St. Paul, Minn., Sept. I, 1879, dau. of Luther R. and Virginia (Hancock) Hare; they have issue : Cammilla Hare Lippincott, b. Oct. i, 1897; Priscilla Lippincott. Josephine Lippincott, b., Phila., Nov. 4, 1874; m. Maurice J. K., son of Paul S. Reeves, and have issue; Constance Lippincott, b., Phila., Sept. 17, 1883. Jacob Lippincott, youngest son of Restore and Hannah (Shattuck) Lippincott, born in Northampton township, Burlington county, New Jersey, about the middle of August, 1692, married, July i, 1716, Mary, daughter of Henry and EHzabeth (Hudson) Burr, born near Mt. Holly, Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1698. Her father, Henry Burr, having emigrated from London, England, about 1682, and located in that vicinity, became a large landowner. Her mother, Elizabeth Hudson, was a daughter of Robert and Mary Hudson, early settlers in Burlington county. Her eldest brother, John Burr, married as second wife, Susanna (Hud- son), widow of Robert Owen, of Philadelphia, and daughter of William Hudson, one of the early Mayors of Philadelphia, some account of whom is given in this work. Jacob and Mary (Burr) Lippincott spent the first twenty-five years of their mar- ried life in Burlington county, and in 1741, removed to Greenwich, Gloucester county, near Swedesboro and the line of Salem county. New Jersey, about three miles from MulHca Hill. Jacob Lippincott died prior to 1754. Issue of Jacob and Mary (Burr) Lippincott: Joseph, b. 1718, d. 1773; m., April 3, 1752, Rebecca Coates; Benjamin, m. Hope Wills, Jan. 9, 1741; Restore, m., in 1752, Ann Lord, and (second) Deborah Cooper; Caleb, m. Hannah, dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Woolston) Wills; Jacob, settled in Bucks Co., Pa.; Joshua, of Salem, m., 1767, Rebecca Wood, widow of James; Samuel, m., Jan. 7, 1758, EHzabeth Applyn; Caleb, m. Hannah Will; William, removed to Phila.; m. Sarah Bispham; of whom presently; Hannah, m., July 4, 1748, Joshua Lord, of Woodbury; Mary, m., 1746, Jacob, son of Thomas and Abigail Spicer, of Gloucester Co.; Sarah, m. (first) William Haines, and (second), Feb. 13, 1760, Azariah Shinn, of Glou- cester Co. William Lippincott, youngest son of Jacob and Mary (Burr) Lippincott, of Greenwich, New Jersey, removed to Philadelphia when a young man, and became identified with many of the institutions of the city. He was one of the earliest /^ l4>i^i^^^ ct2^^^5#^c*^^ 77v. /,.^iJ/i'j J'uiikir-^ini; LIPPINCOTT lois members of the Pennsylvania Society for the AboHtion of Slavery, being elected a member May 29, 1775. He married Sarah Bispham. Issue of William and Sarah (Bispham) Lippincott: JosHUAj m. Sarah Ann Wetherill; of whom presently; William, m. Christiana Barnes; Mary, m. Samuel Yorke. Issue of Joshua and Sarah Ann (Wetherill) Lippincott: Sarah Ann, m., in 1821, Benjamin W. Richards, Mayor of Phila., 1832; Mary ; Selena, d. unm. ; Samuel, d. unm. ; William, m. Mary Wilmer; Joshua, m. Agnes Keene, grandniece of James Dundas, Lord Dunira. Issue of Joshua and Agnes (Keene) Lippincott: James Dundas, b. 1839; of whom later; Anna Maria, m. Maj. William. Wurts t)undas. James Dundas Lippincott, son of Joshua and Agnes (Keene) Lippincott, was born in 1839, in Philadelphia and died jyiarch 6, 1905, of pneumonia. His life was spent largely in his native city. He graduated froni Princeton University with the class of 1861. He was twice married— first to. Alice, daughter of Thomas Potter, of Princeton, New Jersey. November 21, 1903, he married Isabelle, daughter of Gen. and Mrs. Francis Arrnstrong, formerly of Missouri, but at thfe commence- ment of President Cleveland's second adrninistration the family removed tg Wash- ington, D. C, Gen. Arnistrong having been appointed Coipmissioner of Indian Affairs. 23 NEWBOLD FAMILY. The Newbold family of Philadelphia was founded in America by Michael New- bold, of Sheffield Park, county York, England, who came to Burlington county, New Jersey, 1680, having purchased of George Hutchinson, of Sheffield, by deed of lease and release dated January 28 and 29, 1677-8, one-eighth of three-nine- tieths of the Province of West Jersey, which Hutchinson had purchased of Edward Byllinge, March i, 1676-7. Michael Newbold was born in 1623, and was a son of Thomas Newbold, of Parish of Handsworth, Yorkshire, who was a younger son of John Newbold, of Hackenthorpe, county Derby. Michael Newbold was born in the parish of Handsworth, but in 1664 removed to Sheffield Park, same county, where he held lands as tenant-in-fee of the Earl of Shaftesbury, until his emigration to New Jersey. "Godfrey Newbould, of Handsworth Woodhouse, Parish of Handsworth County of Yorke, Gentleman," was also a proprietary of West Jersey. On September 3, 1681, Thomas Revel, Surveyor General for the Proprietors of West Jersey, surveyed to Michael New- bold, 400 acres on the south side of Assinnicunk or Birch creek, near the present site of Bordentown, and many other tracts were later surveyed to him in right of his purchase before mentioned. He brought with him from England nine of his eleven children and wife Anne, and settled in Burlington county, where he died in February, 1692-3. He was one of the first magistrates of Burlington county and prominent in public affairs. His will dated May 19, 1690, proved February 25, 1692-3, a codicil having been added November 19, 1692, mentions his wife Anne; son Samuel, and daughter Anne, wife of James Nutt, in England ; and his other children, Joshua, (who died in Chesterfield, in 1709) John, (who seems to have returned to England,) is given a legacy "if he returns to West Jersey;" Michael, of whom presently) ; Lettice, and her six children; James, (who died in Mans- field in 1697 without male issue) ; Thomas, (who died in Mansfield in 1696, un- married) ; Mary, and her four children ; Margaret, and her four children ; grand- son Gershom, son of daughter Alice. He was possessed of a large personal estate, a goodly part of which was in England ; several plantations and 600 acres of land not yet taken up, besides several lots in Burlington. Of the daughters of Michael and Anne Newbold, mentioned in the above quoted will of their father, Lettice married, December 6, 1683, John Woolston Jr., of Burlington, of a family later prominent on the west side of the Delaware ; Mary, married by license dated May 12, 1684, Dededia Higgins, of Burlington, later of Somerset county. New Jersey ; Margaret, married by license dated December 30, 1686, Daniel Wills Jr., of Burlington, son of Daniel Wills, "Practitioner in Physick, of the Towne of Northampton," England, who became one of the Pro- prietaries of West Jersey and a prominent official; and James, a son, married by license dated January 16, 1695, Elizabeth Powell, who married (second) by license dated December 21, 1699, Jacob Decow. Michael Newbold Jr., son of Michael and Anne Newbold, born in England, succeeded to a large part of his father's lands and estate in Burlington county, and purchased other lands there, owning at the time of his death, 1721, a farm of NEWBOLD 1017 300 acres in Springfield township, upon which he resided ; 500 acres in the upper part of Springfield, and 400 acres in Hunterdon county. His personal estate amounted to nearly £700, including two negro slaves. He like his father was a Justice of Burlington county, and he also served as an officer under Col. Daniel Cox. His will dated November 29, 1721, mentions children: Thomas, Michael, Ann Beetle, Sarah, Barzilla and Margaret. Michael Newbold Jr. married Sarah, daughter of John Qeayton, one of the earliest settlers of Shrewsbury river, Monmouth county. East Jersey, where he resided until about 1699, when he removed to Chesterfield township, Burlington county, where he died in May, 1704. He was a planter and possessed of a large landed and personal estate in New Jersey, both in Monmouth and Burlington counties. Issue of Michael and Sarah (Cleayton) Newbold: Sarah Newbold, b. Nov. 29, 1700; m. Thomas Boude, of Phila. and West Jersey; Thomas Newbold, b. 1702, of whom presently; Michael Newbold, m. April 15, 1730, Susannah Schooley, and had several children, among them : Anna Newbold, m. Anthony Taylor, of Brookdale Farm, Burlington Co., and was the mother of Anthony Taylor, Jr., of the Phila. firm of Taylor & New- bold, and of Mary and Anna Taylor, successively the wives of Thomas New- bold, the other member of the firm of Taylor & Newbold. Mary, wife of the senior member, being dau. of Caleb Newbold, of Springfield twp., Burlington CO., N. J.; John Newbold, m. Mary Cole, and was the father of Rachel Newbold, who m. her cousin, Daniel Newbold, Judge of Common Pleas, Court of Burlington CO., 1797; Rebecca Newbold, b. Aug. 13, 1739, d. Nov. 16, 1774; m. Dec. 20, 1764, Thomas Earl, of Springfield, Burlington Co.; Cleayton Newbold, m. Mary Foster; Joseph Newbold ; Mary Newbold, m. Robert Emley; Susan Newbold, m. Samuel Hough. Barzilla Newbold; Ann Newbold; Margaret Newbold. Thomas Newbold, son of Michael and Sarah (Qeayton) Newbold, born in Mansfield township, Burlington county, 1702, died in that county in 1741. Like his father and grandfather, he took a prominent part in public affairs during the brief term of his mature years. He was a Justice of Burlington County Courts, 1739, and until his death, and was frequently called upon to act as an executor, administrator, trustee, etc., in the settlement of estates, though practically a young man at his death. He married at BurHngton Friends Meeting, Edith, daughter of Marmaduke Coate by his wife, Anne, daughter of Edward Pole, of Somersetshire, England, who had brought a certificate to Burlington Meeting from a Monthly Meeting held at Sutton, for the Southern Division of the County of Somerset, England, dated 3mo. (May) 25, 1715. Edith (Coate) Newbold married (second) Daniel Doughty, and survived her first husband many years. Issue of Thomas and Edith (Coate) Newbold: Michael, b. April 6, 1726, d. y.; Mary, b. Feb. II, 1728; Caleb, b. Feb. 16, 1731 (from whom descend the Newbolds of New York): Hannah, b. May 27, 1734; William, b. Sept. 10, 1736. ioi8 NEWBOLD William Newbold, son of Thomas and Edith (Coate) Newbold, born 9, 10, 1736, died in Mansfield township, BurHngton county, 1794. He married, under the auspices of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, (intentions declared 4mo. (April) 7, 1757), Susannah, born 1736, daughter of John Stevenson, by his second wife, Margaret Wood, and granddaughter of Thomas Stevenson, (1648-1734) by his wife, Elizabeth, only daughter of Capt. William Lawrence, of Long Island. Thomas Stevenson was one of the prominent men of the English Colony on Long Island, holding in succession the offices of Overseer (1676), Constable (1678), Commissioner (1684), and Justice, (commissioned October 20, 1685). He pur- chased land in West Jersey in 1699, which descended to his son John above named.' The latter was born at Newtown, Long Island, about 1678, and moved to his father's land on Doctor's creek, Nottingham township, Burlington county, New Jersey, about 1700. On March 7, 1705-6, he requested a certificate from Chester- field Meeting to Burlington Meeting, to marry Mercy Jennings, and in 1712 his father conveyed to him the 1000 acres on Doctor's creek, upon which he resided until 1727, when he purchased 200 acres in Hunterdon county, two miles south of Quakertown, where he resided until his death in 1744, being one of the organizers and a trustee of Quakertown Friends Meeting, then known as Kingwood Meet- ing. His first wife, Mercy, daughter of Governor Samuel Jennings, died prior to 1724, in which year John Stevenson married (second) Margaret, daughter of John and Susannah Wood, of Chesterfield township, Burlington county. Susan- nah (Stevenson) Newbold was second child of this second marriage. Her uncle, Thomas Stevenson Jr. (1674-1719), was a large landowner in Bucks and Phila- delphia counties, Pennsylvania, and a member of Pennsylvania Assembly, 1710-19. Issue of William and Susannah (Stevenson) Newbold: Barzilla Newbold, b. 1759, d. Feb., 181S; m. 1788, Euphemia Reading, b. 1761, d. 1837; Thomas Newbold, b. Aug. 2, 1760, d. Dec. 18, 1823; m. (first) at Chesterfield Meeting, Feb. 19, 1789, Mary, dau. of Anthony and Anna (Newbold) Taylor, before referred to; (second) her sister, Ann Taylor. He was many years a merchant in Phila., in partnership with his brother-in-law and cousin, Anthony Taylor, Jr., under the firm name of Taylor & Newbold; Charles Newbold, b. May 26, 1764, d. Jan. 24, 18 — ; m. Hope Sands; Edith Newbold, b. June 30, 1766, d. April 16, 1842; m. Oct. 28, 1789, Joseph E. Laurie; WiLLTAM Newbold, b. April 6, 1770, d. Aug. 11, 1841; m. Mary Smith; of whom pres- ently; John Newbold, b. March 17, 1772, d. June 6, 1841; m. Nov. 12, 1795, Elizabeth Lawrie, b. Jan. 2, 1775, d. March 9. 1843; Susan Newbold, b. 1774, d. 1829; m. 1794, Thomas Clayton. William Newbold, fourth son of William and Susannah (Stevenson) New- bold, born in Mansfield township, Burlington county. New Jersey, April 6, 1770, removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was engaged in business there until his death, August 11, 1841. He married at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Novem- ber 15, 1794, Mary, daughter of John Smith, of Philadelphia. She died April 9, 1816. Issue of William and Mary (Smith) Neivbold: John Smith Newbold, b. 1795, d. 1815; Sarah Newbold, b. 1797, d. 1816; Susan Newbold, b. 1799, d. 1859; Abigail Ann Newbold, b. 1801; m. 1825, Abraham E. Coxe; Mary B. Newbold, b. 1804; m. 1825, John Singer; NEWBOLD 1019 William Henry Newbold, b. 1807, d. March, 1862; m. Calebina Emlen; of whom pres- ently; Richard Smith Newbold, b. 1808, d. 1883; m. 1839, Ellen DaCosta; Emma Newbold, b. i8u; m, 1840, Francis Dehaas Janvier. William Henry Newbold, son of William and Mary (Smith) Newbold, born in 1807, was a prominent banker and stock-broker of Philadelphia, and in 1844 founded the firm of William H. Newbold & Company, later William H. Newbold, Son, & Aertsen, now the well-known brokerage firm of William H. Newbold's Sons Company, organized after the death of the senior member of the firm, which occurred in March, 1862. WilHam H. Newbold married, 1830, Calebina, daughter of Caleb Emlen, and of the prominent Philadelphia family of that name, an account of which appears elsewhere in these volumes. Their city residence was on Spruce street above Broad, and their country residence "Newbold Vernon" at Abington, Montgomery county, on the Old York road, now occupied by their daughter-in-law, Mrs. John Smith Newbold. Calebina (Emlen) Newbold died August, 1872. Issue of William Henry and Calebina (Emlen) Newbold: John Smith Newbold, b. Feb. 20, 1831, d. June 2, 1887; ra. Anna Penrose Buckley; of whom presently; Maria Emlen Newbold, d. unm. 1905; Emma Newbold, m. Richard S. Brock; Katharine Newbold, m. Alfred Pancoast Boiler, b. Phila., Feb. 23, 1840; graduated at Univ. of Pa., College Department, 1858; received degree of Civil Engineer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1861; Asst. Eng. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. 1862; do, of Phila. & Erie R. R. 1864; of Atlantic & Great Western R. R. 1866; Chief Eng. Hudson River R. R. 1866; of West Side & Yonkers R. R. 1880; of Yonkers Rapid Tran.sit Co. 1881 ; of Manhattan Electric Railway 1882; of Albany & Green- bush Bridge Co. 1882; of Staten Island Rapid Transit Co. 1885; built double track bridge over Hudson river at Albany, Croton Lake bridge, railroad bridge over Thames river at New London, Conn., and many other prominent structures; mem- ber of American Philosophical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, Amer- ican Society of Mining Engineers, and is author of a number of publications on highways and bridges; William Henry Newbold, Jr., b. Dec. 31, 1849, senior partner of firm of William H. Newbold's Sons Company; m. 1873, Roberta Gray, and had issue: Katharine Newbold, wife of Robert Kennedy Wurts; Ethel Newbold, wife of E. G. McCullough; Tenchard Emlen Newbold. John Smith Newbold, eldest son of William Henry and Calebina (Emlen) Newbold, born in Philadelphia, February 20, 183 1, entered his father's banking and brokerage establishment at an early age and became senior member of the firm at his father's death in 1862. He was a director of the Philadelphia & Read- ing Railroad Company, and of the Insurance Company of North America, and many years one of the managers of Philadelphia Library Company. He was a vestryman of Christ Church, and of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, at the time of his death. Warden of the Church of Our Saviour, at Jenkintown, and interested in a large number of charitable and philanthropic enterprises and institutions. He died in Philadelphia, June 2, 1887. John Smith Newbold married, April 10, 1856, Anna Penrose, daughter of Qement Adam Buckley and his wife, Sarah Penrose, and granddaughter of Daniel Buckley, the prominent ironmaster of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, heretofore referred to in these volumes. Her mother, Sarah (Penrose) Buckley, I020 NEWBOLD born in Philadelphia, July 28, 181 1, died there, January 21, 1891, was a daughter of Charles Penrose, by his wife, Ann, daughter of Dr. John Rowan, of Salem, New Jersey, and his wife, Sarah, a great-granddaughter of William Hall, who came to New Jersey in 1677, and was a Justice of the Common Pleas Court of Salem County, and a member of the Governor's Council, and who married Sarah Plumstead. Charles Penrose was born in Philadelphia, September 14, 1776, died there June 24, 1849. He was early instructed in the art of ship building, in which his ancestors had been actively engaged for several generations, but abandoned the business in middle Hfe and for many years was actively interested in public affairs. He was made superintendent of the United States Navy Yard at Phil- adelphia in 1812-14; was for many years a director of the Bank of Pennsylvania. Possessed of ample means he was a liberal contributor to charitable and benev- olent enterprises ; was for thirty-one years president of the Southern Dispensary and many years a manager of the Humane Society. Thomas Penrose, father of Charles Penrose, was a ship-builder and merchant in Philadelphia, where he was bom January 22, 1733-4, died November 28, 1815. He was a member of the Committee of Observation in 1775, and was a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1761, and one of its board of managers, 1786-98. He was the originator of the public soup houses in Philadelphia, and contributed liberally to other charitable enterprises. He married Ann, daughter of Joseph Dowding, a prominent lawyer of Dover, Delaware, by his wife Ann, daughter of Judge Richard Richardson. Thomas Penrose Sr., father of the above named Thomas, was born in Phila- delphia, January, 1709-10, died there November 17, 1757. He was a son of Capt. Bartholomew Penrose, the first ship builder of Philadelphia, by his wife, Esther Leech. Thomas Penrose married, October 21, 1731, Sarah, daughter of John Coats, of Philadelphia, brick manufacturer, by his wife Mary, daughter of War- wick and Dorothy Hale. Sarah (Coats) Penrose married (second) Capt. Lester Franklin, of the English Army, and (third) Rev. Anthony Duche. Issue of John S. and Anna P. (Buckley) Newhold: Clement Buckley Newbold, b. July 25, 1857; m. Mary Dickinson Scott; of whom presently ; Arthur Emlen Newbold, b. Aug. 5, 1859; m. Harriet Dixon; of whom presently; Ellen Grubb Emlen Newbold, b. Dec. 9, i860, d. March, 1864; Emily Buckley Newbold, b. April 13, 1865; m. April 29, 1891, Dr. William Johnson Taylor, b. Oct. 13, 1861, son of Major William Johnson Taylor, Sr., by his wife, Mary Eliza Bearden; they had issue: Phoebe Emlen Taylor, d. March 19, 1894; Clement Newbold Taylor, b. March 3, 1892; Marion Taylor, b. March 9, 1895; William Johnson Taylor, b. July 3, 1896; Frances Purnell Taylor, b. April 23, 1903; Penrose Buckley Newbold, b. Nov. i, 1868, d. March i, 1870; Anna Buckley Newbold, b. Jan. 3, 1871 ; m. April 29, i8g6, Beauveau Borie, Jr., b. Sept. 25, 1874, son of Beauveau and Patty (Neil) Borie; they had issue — Patty Borie, b. January i, i8g8; John Sergeant Newbold, b. Oct. 3, 1874; m. Jan. 5, 1902, Virginia Mason, dau. of Mason Campbell, by his wife, Eulalie Keating; issue : Virginia Newbold, b. Sept. 4, 1907. NEWBOLD I02I Clement Buckley Newbold, eldest son of John Smith Newbold, by his wife, Anna Penrose Buckley, born in Philadelphia, July 25, 1857, entered the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, Department of Arts, 1873, class of 1877, and later received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the same institution. On leaving college he became identified with the firm of William H. Newbold's Sons Company, bank- ers and brokers, and continued a member of that firm until 1904, when he retired from active business. He is a trustee of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany, of Philadelphia; manager of the Western Saving Fund Society; trustee of Christ Church Hospital; director of the Farmers' & Mechanics' National Bank, Jenkintown National Bank, Trust Company of North America, Jefiferson Fire Insurance Company, Library Company of Philadelphia, and of the Academy of Fine Arts, of Philadelphia. He is a vestryman of Christ Church, and St. James the Less, of Philadelphia, and of the Church of Our Saviour, of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the University, Union League, Philadelphia and Rittenhouse clubs. His home is Crosswicks House, Abingdon, Pennsylvania. Clement Buckley Newbold married, February 20, 1897, Mary Dickinson, born January 21, 1876, daughter of the late Col. Thomas A. Scott and his wife, Anna Dike, daughter of Robert M. Riddle, Mayor of Pittsburg; (1824-81) president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1874-80, having served the same company in the position of vice-president for fourteen years previous to his elevation to the position of its chief executive, and during that part of this period covered by the Civil War, had charge, under appointment of Gov. Curtin, of the transportation of soldiers and supplies to the front. When the bridges on the Northern Central Railroad at Baltimore were burned. Secretary of War Stanton telegraphed to Col. Scott to take charge of that road, and he was appointed May 3, 1861, Colonel of Volunteers, and on August i, following, Assistant Secretary of War. By building promptly a branch railroad connecting the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad with Annapolis, he opened a route to Washington, avoiding the disaffected district about Baltimore, and thus assured the safe and expeditious transfer of troops and supplies to the national capital. Mrs. Mary Dickinson (Scott) Newbold died May 2, 1905. Issue of Clement Buckley and Mary D. (Scott) Newbold: Mary Dickinson Newbold, b. Nov. 12, 1898; Anna Scott Newbold, b. March 19, ig03; Clement Buckley Newbold, Jr., b. Jan. 17, 1905. Arthur Emlen Newbold, second son of John Smith Newbold by his wife, Anna Penrose Buckley, was born in Abington township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, August 5, 1859. He entered the University of Pennsylvania, College Department, 1875, class of 1879, but left during his sophomore year. He was a member of the Philomathean Society, and the Zeta Psi fraternity there. He is a banker and was for a number of years a member of the firm of William H. Newbold's Sons Company, and now a partner of T. P. Morgan & Company and Drexel & Company; he is also a director in a number of business and financial institutions, and a member of several social organizations. He married, February 25, 1886, Harriet, born February 3, 1866, daughter of Fitz Eugene Dixon, of Philadelphia, by his wife Catharine Chew Dallas, and they reside at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. I022 NEWBOLD Issue of Arthur Emlen and Harriet (Dixon) Newbold: Anna Buckley Newbold, b. Nov. 20, 1886; m. April 29, 1907, Charles H. Krumbhar, Jr.. of Phila.; Arthur Emlen Newbold, Jr., b. July 31, 1888; Fitz-Eugene Dixon Newbold, b. Feb. 20, 189s; Dorothy Emlen Newbold, b. March 8, 1899. MARSHALL FAMILY. Christopher Marshall, a pioneer druggist and manufacturer of chemicals in Philadelphia, and a prominent philanthropist and Patriot, was born in Mary street, Dublin, Ireland, November 6, 1709, and came of a family closely allied with the nobility of Great Britain, connected with the prominent families of DeLacey, Cussack, Grenville, Cowley and others. His brother, Charles Marshall, was an officer in the British Navy, and his sister, Isabella Marshall, married into the well- known county family of Cowley. The father of Christopher Marshall died when he was very young, and his mother marrying a second time, his home life does not seem to have been alto- gether pleasant and congenial. At suitable age he was sent to a college in England, and received an excellent classical and scientific education. At the age of twenty years he besought the consent of his mother to his removal to America, and on her refusal to consent to his removal to a "country populated by savages," he joined a party of fellow students and came to Philadelphia in 1729. For his disobedience he was disowned by his family, and from that time declined to hold further intercourse with his relatives in Great Britain. Soon after his arrival in Pennsylvania, he seems to have located in or near the village of Four Lanes End, now Langhorne borough, Bucks county, and became a member of Middletown Friends Meeting, and is mentioned upon their records as an "apprentice." Some time prior to his marriage, 1736, he engaged in the manu- facture of chemicals at Front and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, the first estab- lishment of the kind in Philadelphia. In 1735 he purchased a property on Chest- nut street, later known as No. 56, opposite Strawberry alley, the present number being 214. He was married at Philadelphia Friends Meeting, First Month, (March) 4, 1735-6, to Sarah, daughter of Robert Thomson, a Philadelphia ship- ping merchant, and his wife, Sarah Hearne, and on 4mo. (June) 3, 1736, was granted a certificate by the Middletown meeting "To ye Monthly Meeting of ye City of Philadelphia," which is as follows : "Dear Friends, these with the salutation of Brotherly Love comes to acquaint you that our present writing is on behalf of our friend Christopher Marshall, who hath signified it his intention of continuing or settling himself amongst you requesting our certificate on that occasion in compliance with which we hereby certifie you coverneing him that after he had honestly served his time with a Friend of our Meeting, he we believe in sincerity, orderly joyned himself with us, since which he hath been careful in attending Meeting, and by inquiry made hath behaved himself in a good degree agreeable to our Holy profession and in what small concerns he had in the world, he hath settled to our satisfaction. We there- fore recommend him to your Christian Care and notice as one in Amity with us sincerely desiring his growth and perseverence in the precious truth, Measurably in which we conclude and subscribe your friends & brethren, Syned in and on behalfe of our Meeting." The above certificate shows that Christopher Marshall previously to his joining the Meeting at Middletown, had served an apprenticeship, "with a Friend of our I024 MARSHALL Meeting," and also shows that he was already established in business in Philadel- phia, by the use of the word "continuing" in the first part of the certificate. He therefore took up his residence at No. 56 Chestnut street, and had estab- lished his chemical laboratory in the rear of the same lot, on what is now Carter's alley. The business was successful and as his sons came df age they were admit- ted to partnership with him. Sarah Marshall, wife and mother, died and was buried at the Friends burying ground, August 4, 1771. Having acquired a comfortable estate,, Christopher Marshall, December i, 1772, retired from the firm of Christopher & Charles Mar- shall, manufacturers of drugs and paints, composed of himself, and his sons, Christopher Jr. and Charles, and by indenture of November 30, 1772, conveyed to them each one-half "share and share alike, all his right, title claim, demand to his third of stock of goods on hand and debts due to said copartnership" (formed March 11, 1765) "subject to the payment of one hundred pounds per annum to him during his natural life" and six months after his decease to pay to their brother, Benjamin Marshall, iiooo. He had previously, by deeds dated Novem- ber 12, 1772, conveyed to his son Charles, twelve separate tracts of real estate in Philadelphia, on nine of which improvements had been erected, and three ground rents, on valuable city property; also a plantation near Mt. Holly, New Jersey, and a tract of land in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. He also conveyed to his other sons valuable real estate in the city and elsewhere. At the date of the dissolving of the partnership of the firm of Christopher & Charles Marshall, by the retirement of Christopher Marshall Sr., the three sons, Benjamin, Christopher Jr. and Charles Marshall, were also engaged in the ship- ping business, and in connection with one Wilkenson Simmons each owned one- fourth interest in the brig, "Burke," plying between Philadelphia and Surinam, since July 31, 1770, and her cargoes. The drug business at the old stand was continued by Christopher Marshall Jr. and his brother Charles until 1804, when it passed to the management of Elizabeth Marshall, daughter of Charles, who con- ducted it until 1825, when it was turned over to her two apprentices, Charles Ellis and Isaac Paschall Morris, an account of whose association is mentioned in our account of the Morris family. In addition to the estate above enumerated which Christopher Marshall turned over to his sons in 1772, he owned an interest in iron forges and furnaces in Maryland. Christopher Marshall married (second) Abigail (Fisher) Cooper, a widow, fifty-two years of age, and moved to a property belonging to her at the corner of Front and Race streets, where he resided until before the occupation of the city by Lord Howe and the British troops, when with other members of the Supreme Executive Council and Committee of Safety he removed with his wife to Lan- caster, where he purchased a house on Orange street, with a large botanical garden attached, in Lancaster, and resided therein for some time. Mrs. Marshall died there September 28, 1782, and he returned to Philadelphia and resided for a time with his son Christopher, on Strawberry alley. He then went to house- keeping in one of his houses on Carter's alley, on the rear of the old homestead. Chestnut street, then occupied by his son Charles. In the cellar of this house there was a spring of salt water so strong that it could be used for pickling meats. Christopher Marshall also had a home just out of the then city limits, in Moyamensing, between Broad street and "Irish Tract Lane," which he called MARSHALL 1025 "The Place," frequently referred to in his diary. This property was given by him to his eldest son, Benjamin Marshall. During the yellow fever epidemic Christopher Marshall spent most of his time at the residence of his granddaughter, Nancy Marshall Bush, in Germantown, and when it subsided he returned to the city, but permanently abandoned housekeep- ing, and thereafter resided with his son, Charles Marshall, at 56 Chestnut street, and there died May 4, 1797. Christopher Marshall Sr. became identified with a number of the prominent institutions of Philadelphia, notably those of a charitable and philanthropic char- acter. He was treasurer of Board of Overseers of the Poor, 1758 ; was a member of the Humane Society, 1780; was one of the organizers of the Society for the Alleviation of the Miseries of the Public Prisons, 1787, and participated in the organization of the first Sunday schools in Pennsylvania, 1791, and was treasurer of the organization then effected. He was one of the original signers of the Non-importation Resolutions adopted at a meeting of the Merchants and Traders of Philadelphia, held November 7, 1765. From the very inception of the Revolutionary struggle he was one of the most ardent of the Patriots in formulating measures to resist the oppression of Great Britain. He was a member of General Assembly, 1774, returned July 15; was later a member of the Committee of Safety ; was a Deputy to the Provincial Conference at Carpenter's Hall, June 28, 1776, and was named as one of the com- mittee to escort John Nixon to the State House yard to read the Declaration of Independence. He was toast-master at ihe first celebration of the signing of the Declaration at Lancaster, July 4, 1777. For his activity in warlike measures he was disowned from the Society of Friends, and in 1780 was one of the organizers and treasurer of the Society of Free Quakers, composed principally of members of the Society of Friends, whose loyalty to their country led them to violate the extreme peace principles of the Society. Christopher Marshall was not, however, a seeker after public position, on the contrary on his retirement from business in 1772, and until his death, he sought to live in retirement and take no part in public affairs. In a letter to his friend. Rev. George Stonehouse, Rector of Grey Friars', Bristol, England, dated May 9, 1774, after his second marriage, he says, "I am a private man, in no office, either in Church, Meeting, or of the State, and stand unconnected with any Society or religious party, living upon my private income." He, however, entertained largely, both at Philadelphia and Lancaster, and his house was open at all times for the accommodation of his many friends and relatives. Members of Conti- nental Congress were regular visitors as will be seen by his "Remembrances," as well as officers of the Continental Army. His town house was occupied by several of Lord Howe's officers, during the British occupation, and many fine pieces of furniture were carried away by them to the barracks, but were returned by the order of Lord Hov/e, when requested by Patience Marshall, wife of his son, Charles. Issue of Christopher and Sarah (Thomson) Marshall: Benjamin Marshall, b. Oct. 4, 1737, d. Jan. 29, 1778; was engaged in the shipping busi- ness with his brothers, Christopher, Jr., and Charles Marshall; was a man of promi- nence in the city; was a TDeputy to the Provincial Conference, held in Phila. July 15, 1774, &c.; m. Oct. 12, 1761, Sarah Lynn, b. Oct. 8, 1739, d. May 7, 1797; they had issue : 1026 MARSHALL Ann Marshall, b. Aug. lo, 1762, d. s. p.; Sarah Marshall, b. Dec. 10, 1763, d. inf.; Hannah Marshall, b. Dec. 5, 1765; m. 1785, Caspar Wistar Haines, b. 1762, d. 1801, son of Reuben Haines, of Germantown, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Caspar and Katharine (Johnson) Wistar. The homestead of the Haines fam- ily in Germantown, still occupied by Jane R. Haines, a descendant of Hannah Marshall, is the famous "Wyck" house, one of the ancient historical land- marks of Germantown. It was here that Reuben Haines, son of Caspar and Hannah (Marshall) Haines, entertained Lafayette in 1824; Mary Marshall, b. July 22, 1769, d. s. p.; Susannah Marshall, b. July 12, 1771, d. s. p.; Christopher Marshall, b. May 10, 1773; m. (first) Mary Dorsey, by whom he had no issue; (second) Phoebe Shotwell, by whom he had eight children, all of whom d. unm., except Sarah, who m. John Livezey; Esther Marshall, b. Nov. 22, 1774; m. 1795, Abraham Garrigues, and had eight children, three of whom, Caspar, William A. and Marshall, married and left issue; Mary Marshall, b. July 17, 1776, d. unm.; Benjamin Marshall, b. Sept. 29, 1777; m. Mary Cruikshank, and had nine chil- dren, only two of whom married, Benjamin m. Harriet White, and Mary m. Israel H. Johnson. Christopher Marshall, Jr., b. March 4, 1740, d. Nov. 29, 1806; of whom presently; Isabella Marshall, b. Jan. 28, 1741, d. inf.; Charles Marshall, b. April 27, 1744, d. Aug. 27, 1825; m. Patience Parrish; of whom later. Christopher Marshall, second son of Christopher and Sarah (Thomson) Marshall, born in Philadelphia, March 4, 1740, while he became nominally a part- ner in the drug business with his father and younger brother Charles, 1765, and continued a member of the succeeding firm of Christopher Jr. and Charles Mar- shall for some years, was probably more actively associated with his elder brother Benjamin in the shipping and commission business, especially until after the death of Benjamin in 1778. His brother, Charles, while associated with both firms, seems to have been the chief apothecary of the firm, and had charge of that branch of the family business. Christopher Marshall Jr. married (first) at Friends Meeting, Philadelphia, October 9, 1760, Ann, daughter of James and Mary Eddy, by whom he had seven children, three of whom survived childhood. Ann (Eddy) Marshall died December 15, 1775; married (second) October 17, 1777, Elizabeth, born in Philadelphia, June 4, 1742, died November 3, 17 — , daughter of Enoch and Ann Flower, of Philadelphia. The marriage took place as shown by the record in the family Bible of Christopher Marshall, "at Friends Meeting in Providence township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, we having passed the Monthly Meeting at Gwynedd, the reason being married there was occassioned by the commotion of the times which obliged us with many more to move out into the country, the British Army being at the time of our marriage in possession of the City." Two children were born to them, one of whom sur- vived; married (third) at Friends Meeting, Market street, Philadelphia, July 30, 1783, Margaret, born April 22, 1747, daughter of Isaac and Hannah Roberts, by whom he had two children. Issue of Christopher Jr. and Ann (Eddy) Marshall: James Eddy Marshall, b. Oct. 4, 1761, d. y.; Isabella Marshall, b. March 7, 1763; m. May 15, 1788, Dr. Caspar Wistar, celebrated physician, organizer of "Wistar Parties;" Christopher Marshall, b. March 10, 1765, d. inf.; Christopher Marshall, b. Jan. 28, 1767, d. May 10, 1769; MARSHALL 1027 Ann Marshall ( Nancy"), b. Nov. 12, 1769; m. (first) at Chew House, Germantown, then the country seat of Blair McClenachan, April 2, 1791, Dr. Solomon Bush; it was at the residence of this couple that Chri.Uopher Marshall, Sr., made his home during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793; Dr. Bush d. "at his farm near German- town June 9, 1795, and was bur. the next day at Friends' Grounds in Germantown. Aged 41 yr. 7m. 26 days," says the record in Christopher Marshall, Jr.'s, Bible. Ann m. (second) Dec. i, 1796, Dr. William Currie, ceremony being performed by Bishop White at_ her dwelling. She had one son, Matthew M. Bush, and five children by Dr. Currie, viz. : Cornelia Currie, b. Dec. 3, 1797; William M. Currie; Isabella Currie; Ann Currie; Margaret Currie. Sarah Ann Marshall, b. Aug. 29, 1771; m. Jan. 30, 1794, Zaccheus Collins, at Friends' Meeting, Phila.; they had issue: Stephen Collins, b. Oct. 3, 1794, d. inf.; Ann Collins, b. Oct. 6, 1795. Christopher Marshall (third of the name), b. May 3, 1773, d. June 30, 1773. Issue of Christopher and Elizabeth (Flower) Marshall: Enoch Flower Marshall, b. Jan. 26, 1780, d. Oct. 26, 1781; Elizabeth Flower Marshall, b. Nov. 26, 1781; m. June 19, 1806, Charles Marshall Slocum, and had eight children. Issue of Christopher and Margaret (Roberts) Marshall: Charles Roberts Marshall, b. Sept. 15, 1787, d. July 7, 1788; Isaac Roberts Marshall, b. July 29, 1789; m. Sarah Hutchin, and had issue — Isaac R. Marshall, Jr. Charles Marshall^ youngest son of Christopher and Sarah (Thomson) Mar- shall, born in Philadelphia, April 27, 1744, became a member of the firm of Chris- topher & Charles Marshall, manufacturers of drugs, chemicals and paints, March II, 1765, a month before he attained his majority. The firm consisted of his father, Christopher Marshall Sr., who had established the business, his elder brother, Christopher Marshall Jr., and himself. As before stated, his father retired from the firm November 30, 1772, and assigned his one-third interest therein to Christopher Jr. and Charles, who at once formed a new firm under the name of Christopher Jr. & Charles Marshall, and continued the business on Car- ter's alley, in rear of house No. 56 Chestnut street, where Charles Marshall was born, and where he always lived, except during the brief period of the British occupation of the city. The firm had also a building known as the Manufacturing Laboratory, near the stone bridge over the Cohocksink creek on north Third street, built by Christopher Marshall Sr., "thus far out of town, to save the deli- cate sensations of the citizens, by the considerate owner Christopher Marshall" says Watson, in his "Annals of Philadelphia." It was used as a place for boiling oil and making hartshorn, and therefore "filled the atmosphere all the country round with a most noisome odor." Later it was used by Dr. William Shippen Sr. for a lecture and dissecting room. In addition to having principal charge of the important and successful drug and color business, Charles Marshall, from July 31, 1770, held a one-third interest in the shipping and commission business with his two elder brothers, Benjamin and Christopher Jr., and with them and Wilkinson Timmons owned the brig "Burke," I028 MARSHALL "and cargoes yt hav? been shipped to Surinam in her" from that date ; he was principal business man of the several firms, receipts appearing on the books show- ing his payment to his partners of their share of the cargoes, profits, etc., and also a general statement of the condition of the several affairs of the three firms at the time the business was turned over to his sons by Christopher Marshall Sr., 1772. From his statement we learn that Christopher Marshall Sr., by deeds dated November 12, 1772, conveyed to Charles Marshall the homestead No. 56 Chestnut street, where Charles was then residing; fifteen feet eleven and a half inches front on Chestnut and extending back fifty-one feet, and two adjoining lots thirty-five feet front, with a garden in the rear, a separate lot;.a brick house and brick store on Vidett's alley; the properties on Carter's alley; three houses on Fifth street between Race and Vine; a house on Fourth street between Walnut and Spruce; two lots on Fifth street; a pasture lot on the west side of Shippen's lane, five acres and 144 perches, to be divided between him and his brother Benjamin; three valuable ground rents; and to him and Benjamin jointly several lots of land in Amwell township, Hunterdon county. New Jersey; a plantation in Cumberland county, and another near Mt. Holly, New Jersey, "at the bridge over Ancocus." Charles Marshall retired from active business in 1801 with an ample fortune and was succeeded by his son Charles. A few years after his retirement, the firm loaned its endorsement to a large amount, without the knowledge of the silent partner, and all connected with it were forced into bankruptcy, including Charles Marshall Sr., who was still a member of the firm. The business was taken charge of by his daughter Elizabeth and eventually extricated from its difficulties. Charles Marshall laid his unfortunate financial affairs before the Monthly Meet- ing of Friends of Philadelphia, by a communication dated 5mo. 30, 1805, and turned over to them his entire estate in trust for the payment of the claims on the notes his firm had endorsed. The letter announcing his misfortune to the Meeting is so characteristic of the man that it is here given in full. "To Jhe Monthly Meeting of Friends in Philadelphia: "Dear Friends: — To be in unity with the Body of religious Society it is a reasonable Condition that the Members should walk orderly. To be found so doing hath, I humbly trust, been measurably my study from my Youth up. By the mismanagement of a Concern (in which I was a Partner), I have been reduced from the Enjoyment of a comfortable competence to an Inability to pay the Demands made upon me. Yet in the midst of my own and my dear family's Distress I have some Consolation in being able to reflect that I have not intentionally been the cause of my Introduction to my present unhappy situation; for altho I was improperly hurried into a measure which I generally disapprove, of giving a partial security to two of the Creditors, in part of their Demands, one of whom especially was peculiarly & critically circumstanced, it was done under an Impression, at the time, that the debts for which I had been made liable were greatly short of what they were afterwards discovered to be. "It would be a very great alleviation of my present distress to look forward with hope and confidence, being unable to satisfy all the remaining claims of my just creditors, but my advanced age, bodily Infirmities & present circumstances forbid the expectation. Altho my prospects be thus gloomy with respect to outward things, yet I am at times favored with a sustaining hope that He whose Mercies are over all His works will not be altogether unmindful of Your afflicted Friend, "Philad'a. sMo. 30th. 1805." "CHARLES MARSHALL." Charles Marshall, in addition to his superior knowledge as an apothecary, was possessed of a fine classical education, having been well educated in the branches then taught, including Latin and Greek, before entering on his apprenticeship in his father's chemical laboratory, and was possessed of a fine literary taste. He was a man of fine appearance and manners ; was six feet tall, slender and graceful. MARSHALL 1029 light complexion and blue eyes, and his prominent features were distinguished for their bland expression — the index of the conscientious integrity of his life. His exceeding love of neatness and cleanliness grew almost to excess during his later years. He lived his whole life in the house in which he was born, except for the brief period of the British occupation of the city, when he removed with his family to a country place in Plymouth township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, where his daughter Sarah, afterwards wife of Thomas Morris, was born. Charles Marshall, though naturally of a somewhat delicate constitution, retained all his faculties, and enjoyed reasonably good health to the end of his days. On August 1 8, 1823, being then in his eighty-second year, he walked into the room in which he was born and laid down upon the bed, and though he had no known ailment, he was sometime afterwards found there dead. Charles Marshall's fame as an apothecary and pharmacist was such that when the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy was established in 1821, though he was far advanced in life and unable to take any active part in its work, he was made its first president, and during the remaining years of his life he gave it his sympathy, support and advice. Charles Marshall married at Friends Meeting House, Second and Market streets, Philadelphia, August 15, 1765, Patience, born in Baltimore, Maryland, November 10, 1745, daughter of John and Elizabeth Parrish, and a descendant of Capt. Edward Parrish, who came to America in 1640, and settled in Maryland. From the Diary of Christopher Marshall, we extract the following account of the marriage of Charles and Patience Marshall: "Charles Marshall & Patience Parrish were married at Friends Meeting House 2d & Market. A Wedding dinner of some pomp was given at the home of her sister Mrs. Collins, 54 High St." From later entries in the diary, we learn that the following persons were recipients of Mrs. Patience Marshall's hospitality, "Chas. Thompson, Jno. Jay & Lady, Jno. Hancock & Lady, George Washington & Lady, Jno. and Saml. Adams, Peyton Randolph, Alexander Hamilton, Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, Anthony Knew, and others." Charles Thomson was at the time Secretary of Continental Congress and Peyton Randolph was its president. Patience Parrish, wife of Charles Marshall, had been originally named Ann Parrish, after an aunt, Ann Helms, but coming to Philadelphia, at an early age to visit another aunt, Patience Howell, she took a fancy to the name of Patience, and after a deal of trouble had her name changed to Patience. Before the calamity which swept away her husband's fortune, their hospitable home was the scene of frequent fashionable gatherings ; among their guests and friends, Washington, Adams, Randolph, Hamilton, Sullivan, Baron deKalb, Benjamin Franklin, and the Abbe Corea. During their temporary residence in Providence township, they were not far from the camp of Washington's army at Valley Forge, and during the spring of 1778 sent presents of early vegetables to Washington, receiving from him a note of thanks that is still in the possession of the family. Patience (Par- rish) Marshall survived her husband, and after his death resided on the south side of Arch street below Sixth, where she died February 5, 1834. Issue of Charles and Patience (Parrish) Marshall: William Marshall, b. May 31, 1766, d. June 13, 1769; Elizabeth Marshall, b. Jan. 28, 1768, d. July 26, 1836; was the proprietress of the drug I030 MARSHALL manufacturing business, established by her grandfather, from the failure of her father in 1805, until 1825; she was a woman of decided character, good business ability, affable, courteous, and well calculated to command respect; Mary Marshall, b. June S, 1770, d. Nov. 20, 1772; Patience Marshall', b. Sept. 21, 1771, d. at Baltimore, Md., Dec. 15, 1834; m. June 8, 1814, Isaac Tyson, of Baltimore; Abigail Marshall, b. March 8, 1773, d. July 16, 1848; m. June 18, 1795, Joseph S. Morris, b. Sept. 15, 1772, d. Feb. 16, 1817, son of Thomas and Mary (Saunders) Morris, of Phila., grandson of Anthony and Sarah (Powell) Morris, great-grandson of Anthony and Phoebe (Guest) Morris, great-great-grandson of Anthony and Mary (Jones) Morris, founders of prominent Phila. family of the name, and great-great-great- great-grandson of Anthony and Elizabeth (Senior) Morris, of London, England. The record of the wedding day of his granddaughter, June 18, 1795, in Christopher Marshall's diary is as follows : "1795, June 18, Near 10 O'clock Joseph Morris and Abigail went in Zaccheus Collins' carriage, rest of the relatives here walked, to Market St Meeting, where Samuel Emlen spoke, William Savery then preached & prayed. The young couple then performed their part, — Cole read the Certificate, and we returned much as we went — daughter Sarah (widow of his son Benjamin) walked with me — large concourse of spectators. We returned with a good many relations to Charles's, spent the time in sociability till we sat down to dinner, say 70 odd persons at two tables — prepared in Ch's large Store-room, well stocked with every necessity suitable, convenient — luxurious, they partook of with great satisfac- tion ; they then devoted themselves as most suitable and agreeable, near 8 o'clock drank tea, coffee, eat cake & fruit &c. I went to my chamber near 10 o'clock, all seemed pleased and delighted." "June 19th. — Sunshiny pleasant Morning. I break- fasted alone, in my Chamber. John Peter's stage with 4 horses came, in which set off at 10 o'clock for Bethlehem, the Bride, & Bridegroom & his & her brother, Thomas Morris & Charles Marshall Junr., Hannah and Rachel Lewis." Joseph S. and Abigail (Marshall) Morris were the parents of eleven children; some of their grandchildren are now residents of Louisville, Ky. Thomas Morris, one of the wed- ding party to Bethlehem, a brother of the groom, two years later married Sarah Mar- shall, sister of the bride. Elizabeth Marshall Morris, dau. of Thomas and Sarah (Marshall) Morris, b. Feb. 2, 1802, m. June 17, 1823, Francis Perot, son of Elliston and Sarah (Hanson) Perot, b. in Phila., Aug. 23, 1796, d. there March 24, 1885; had issue : Elliston Perot, b. Aug. 24, 1824, d. Feb. 25, 1865; m. Caroline R. Corbit; Thomas Morris Perot, b. May 8, 1828; m. Rebecca C. Siter; Sarah Morris Perot, b. Nov. 6, 1831 ; m. Dec. i, 1853, Edward H. Ogden. Charles Marshall, Jr., b. June 2, 1774, d. Sept. 27, 1837; ra. Mary Wallace; of whom presently; Sarah Marshall, b. in Providence twp., now Montgomery co.. May 7, 1777, d. in Balti- more, Md., April 2, 1824; m. June 8, 1797, Thomas Morris, brother to Joseph S. Morris, who had married her sister, Abigail; he was b. July 13, 1774, d. April 14, 1841; they resided at the old Morris mansion on Arch street, and their country resi- dence, "Swarthmore," on the York road ; he was prominent in business and social circles, was fourth Governor of the Society of the State in Schuylkill; member of Common Council; manager of Pennsylvania Hospital; treasurer of Philadelphia Library, etc.; one of their daughters m. (first) Elisha Tyson, (second) Clement Biddle; and another ra. Francis Perot, of the prominent Philadelphia family; Margaret Marshall, b. Feb. 6, 1780, d. July 15, 1780; Ann Parrish Marshall, b. July 2, 1782; Mary Ann Marshall, b. July 4, T7S9, d. Sept. 21, 1881, at Masonville, N. J., and was bur. from her city residence, 1305 Arch street, Phila., being the last survivor of the family. Charles Marshall Jr., only son of Charles and Patience (Parrish) Marshall to live to mature years, was born at the old Chestnut street home, June 2, 1774, died Philadelphia, September 27, 1837. He entered the drug establishment at an early age, and was senior member of the firm in 1805, when it failed. He married, April 26, 1798, Mary Wallace, the ceremony being performed at Christ Church by Rev. Robert Blackwell. Issue of Charles and Mary (Wallace) Marshall: Sarah Marshall, b. 1801 ; m. Col. Robert F. Preston, of Va., d. Dec. 5, 1S27, leaving two children; Charles Marshall, d. inf.; MARSHALL 1031 Mary Marshall, d. inf. ; John Marshall, b. 1803, d. unm,, April 14, 1848; Elizabeth Marshall, b. 1809, d. July 19, 1820; m. Capt. Timothy Rodgers, and had one son, Charles M. Rodgers, who left issue; Wallace Marshall, b. Sept. 16, 1814, of whom presently. Wallace Marshall, youngest child of Charles and Mary (Wallace) Marshall, was born in Philadelphia, September 16, 1814, and followed the family business of a druggist in that city. He died May 6, 1866. He married, June 29, 1842, Rebecca, daughter of Joseph and Esther (Coates) Ridgway, granddaughter of Henry and Hannah (Burr) Ridgway; great-granddaughter of Joseph and Hannah (Allen) Ridgway; and great-great-granddaughter of Richard Ridgway, who came to Pennsylvania in the ship, "Jacob and Mary," of London, arriving in the river Delaware, September, 1679, from Welford, county Bucks, England, by his second wife, Abigail Stockton, of the New Jersey family of the name. Issue of Wallace and Rebecca (Ridgway) Marshall: Charles Marshall, b. May 31, 1843, now residing in Germantown; member of Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution; member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Gene- alogical Society of Pennsylvania, and a member of the Union League of Phila.; m. Nov. 24, 1870, JuHa A. Herring, of Baltimore, Md., and had issue: Charles Marshall, b. Dec. 30, 1873; m. June 4, 1906, Katharine M. Repplier, b. Aug. 17, 1882, and has issue : Helen Repplier Marshall, b. at Germantown, March s, 1907. Francis Ridgway Marshall, b. Dec. 12, 1845, d. May 14, 1898; m. Jan. 24, 1871, Mary J. Chadwick, but left no issue; Mary Ann Marshall, of Phila., unm. MONTGOMERY FAMILY. While there are a number of American families which take a pardonable pride in an ancestry that traces back through Colonial times by an unbroken line, marked by the honorable achievement of its representatives in the different epochs of our history, to a like honorable record of their forbears in the country from which their pioneer ancestor came to American shores, few indeed can trace their ances- tral line, with any degree of accuracy, through as many generations of high and honorable distinction as the Montgomery family. Through the efforts of the late Thomas Harrison Montgomery, of Philadelphia, whose own achievements and life record, as well as those of his immediate ancestors, are a source of pride to the city of their adoption, the family history has been traced in an unbroken line of over thirty generations, covering a period of over ten centuries, representing some of the best blood of France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. The earliest records of the family of Montgomery place its origin in the north- ern part of France in the ninth century, and the name, it is suggested, probably had its origin, or is a corruption of Mons Gomeris, "Comer's Mount," the ancient Cauls (i. e. the Cymni) claiming descent from Comer, son of Japhet, the family taking their name from the locality or territory over which they ruled as feudal lords. The first known to bear the name, according to William, sumamed Cal- culus, the monk of Jumiges, the earliest historian of Normandy, who died 1099, and whose work remains to this day an authority on the events of his time, was Roger de Montgomerie, who was Count of Montgomerie before the conquest of Nor- mandy by the Northmen under Duke Rollo, A. D. 912. A native of Neustria, his ancestors were doubtless, for many generations back, natives of that province, which, when conquered by Rollo, became known as Normandy, and he probably belonged to that numerous class of natives of noble lineage who welcomed Rollo as a relief from the internecine struggles with which France was rent by the ambi- tious designs of the descendants of Charlemagne, to secure, each for themselves, some part of the great empire their illustrious ancestor had left to them. Like many others of the native lords he was not displaced by Rollo, and the elder male line of his descendants continued to rule over the county of Montgomery in Pays d'Auge, consisting of several baronies, until the death of William, Count of Pon- thieu and Montgomery, about 1221, from which date until the close of the fifteenth century it was held by the descendants of his daughter, and was later purchased by James Montgomerie, Seigneur de Lorges, a lineal descendant of the first count, whose father belonged to the junior branch of the Scotland family of Montgomerie; and was held by his descendants for two centuries, the last count of that line dying 1725. From this first Count of Montgomerie down to Roger de Montgomerie, who accompanied Duke William of Normandy to England, the line of descent is as follows : Roger de Montgomerie, Count of Montgomerie, who succeeded his father. Roger de Montgomerie, son of the above, who was the father of William, the next Count of Montgomerie, and Hugh de Montgomerie. William de Montgomerie^ who succeeded his father as Count, and being MONTGOMERY 1033 accused of the murder of Osberne d'Cretan, High Steward of Normandy, and guardian of the infant Duke William, was besieged and killed in his castle by Baron de Glos, Osberne's successor as steward. Hugh de MontgomeriEj Count of Montgomerie, who succeeded his father, the above-named William, and married Count Osberne's cousin Josseline, daughter of Tourode, Sire de Pont Audemer, whose wife was Weva Deceline de Crepon, sister to Duchess Gonnor, wife of Richard sans Peur, and great-grandmother of Will- iam the Conqueror. From this connection probably comes the foundation for the assertion of Count Roger de Montgomerie, grandson of Hugh and Josseline, in the act founding the Abbey of Troard, that father was a "Norman of the Normans," — Ego Rogerus ex N ormannis N ormannus Magni autem Rogerii filius, (Frazer's Memorials, vol. i, p. i) ; as the house of Pont Audemer had a distinguished Norse ancestry, Turode, Sire de Pont Audemer, was a son of Torf, Seigneur de Traille, surnamed Le Riche, who was a son of Bernard, the Dane, Prince in Denmark, and Governor and Regent in Normandy, who received baptism with Duke Rollo. Jos- seline's eldest brother Count Pont Audemer, was father of Roger de Beaumont, whose sons were Robert Earl of Leicester and Henry Earl of Warwick. Roger de Montgomerie, eldest son of Count Hugh and Josseline, Count of Montgomerie and Viscount of Exmes in Normandy, and subsequently Earl of Shrewsbury, Arundel, and Chichester, in England, was one of the most powerful and influential nobles of Duke William of Normandy's court. He commanded the advance division of William's army at the battle of Hastings, October 14, 1066, when King Harold was overwhelmed and killed, a battle that changed the whole destiny of England. His relationship to William, and his valiant services under the Conqueror's banner, both in Normandy and in England, gave him a wide influence, so that after the conquest, he was given first the Earldom of Chichester and Arundel, and soon after became Earl of Shrewsbury, with residence at Rye in Sussex. He captured the old Saxon fortress on the borders of Shropshire, 1067, and built Montgomery Castle and the fortified town of Montgomery, to protect Shrewsbury from the Welsh, and from them the county of Montgomery, Wales, covering their site, was named. He also founded, 1083, the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul. He had married, 1045, Mabel, daughter of and heiress of, William of Talvas, Count of Belesme and Alengon, to whose large estates he suc- ceeded, 1070. He built the castle at Shrewsbury, 1085, and also the castle of Bridgenorth, and Ludlow Castle, and repaired and enlarged the castle of Arundel. Besides his large landed possessions in Normandy, he held three lordships in Wilt- shire, four in Surrey, nine in Hampshire, eight in Middlesex, eleven in Cam- bridge, one in Hertford, one in Gloucester, one in Worcester, one in Warwick, thirty in Staffordshire, and twenty-seven in Sussex, besides the city of Chichester, the castle of Arundel and the county and town of Shrewsbury. By his first wife, Mabel, Roger de Montgomerie had nine children : Robert de Belesme, second Earl of Shrewsbury, an ardent supporter of Duke Robert's claim to the English crown; Hugh, Earl of Arundel; Roger, Ear] of Lancaster, and Count of Marche; Philip, who went to the Holy Land with Duke Robert, of Normandy, and was killed at Antioch, 1098; Arnulph, Earl of Pembroke, of whom presently; Emma, Abbes of Almeneches, d. March 14, 11 13; I034 MONTGOMERY Mathilde, or Maud, m. Robert, Earl of Moreton, in Normandy, and Earl of Cornwall, in England, half-brother to William I.; Mabel, m. Hugh de Chateaureuf; Sybille, m. Robert Fitz Hamon, descendant of second son of Duke Rollo. Count Roger de Montgomerie married (second) Adelaide, daughter of Everard, Seigneur of Puiset, son of Hugh, Lord of Puiset, and had one son, Everard, who became chaplain to Henry I. Arnulph, or Arnaud, de Montgomerie, fifth son of Roger and Mabel, was known as, and exercised the power of, Earl of Pembroke, though the title was never conferred upon him. After his father's death and the accession of Henry I. to the throne of England as the successor of William Rufus, in violation of the compact of the latter with his brother Duke Robert of Normandy, Arnulph, along with his brothers, Robert, Earl of Shrewsbury, and Roger, Earl of Lan- caster, becoming a loyal supporter of the claims of Robert, was banished from the kingdom, and the lands and titles inherited from his father forfeited. In iioo Arnulph, then at Pembroke, crossed over to Ireland and aided Muircertach, King of Munster, to repel the Manx and Swedish invaders of his domain, and to estab- lish himself on his throne ; and entering into an alliance with him, married his daughter Lafracorth, but when Arnulph sought refuge at the court of Muircer- tach, when outlawed by Henry I., the Irish monarch treacherously sought peace with Henry, and securing possession of his daughter, turned against his Norman allies. Arnulph found refuge in Normandy; in 1119 returned to Ireland and became reconciled with his wife, but died the day after the reconciliation. Philip de Montgomerie, son of Arnulph and Lafracorth, born at Pembroke iioi, was but an infant when his father was banished from England. He later went to Scotland with the Earl of Huntingdon, later David I. of Scotland, and about 1 120, married Lady Margaret Dunbar, daughter of the Earl of Dunbar and Marche, receiving the manor and castle of Thornton, in Renfrewshire, as her dower. The first Earl of Dunbar, grandfather of Margaret, was a native English lord who, becoming reconciled to William the Conqueror, was made Earl of Northumberland, but becoming disgusted with the Norman rule, retired to Scot- land, where Malcolm, who married his niece, bestowed upon him the Earldom of Dunbar, which descended to his son the father of Margaret, who married Philip de Montgomerie. Robert de Montgomerie, of Thornton and Eaglesham, son of Philip and Margaret, succeeded his father as Laird of Thornton and Innerswich, and was granted by Walter, High Steward of Scotland, the estate of Eaglesham, forming a parish of that name in Renfrewshire. He died about 1180, and was succeeded by his son. Sir John de Montgomerie, of Eaglesham, who married Helen, daughter and co-heiress of Robert of Kent and Innerswich, thus securing extensive lands and titles. He left issue: Alan, who succeeded him; Robert, living 1200-1230; and William, living 11 99. Sir Alan Montgomerie, of Eaglesham, designated as "Miles" in chartulary of Kelso, obtained title to lands at Innerswich in East Lothian, and in Lanark- shire in the lifetime of his father. He was a witness to the charters granted by Alan Stewart, son of the founder, 1166 and 1214, and to one granted by Walter, the grandson, founder of the Abbey and Monastery of Paisley, 1214-31. He died MONTGOMERY 1035 before 1234, and was succeeded by his son Robert, who, dying without issue, was succeeded by his younger brother, Sir John de Montgomerie, of Eaglesham, who was witness to donations by Walter, High Steward, 1240-50. He died about 1285, leaving issue: Sir John, who succeeded him, of whom presently; Murthau, of county of Ayr; Alan, of Stairr and Cassilis; Thomas, "del Conte de Air," swore allegiance to Edward I., 1296; A daughter, m. Archilbald Muir, of Rowallan, slain at Berwick, when Baliol was routed, 1298. Sir John de Montgomerie, of Eaglesham and Eastwood, designated as "del Conte de Lanark" in Prynne's Collections, was one of the great Barons of Scot- land, summoned to appear at Berwick in 1291, and later compelled to swear fealty to Edward I., as it is said, though his name does not appear on Ragmans' Roll, as do those of his brothers. He held the lordships of Eaglesham and Eastwood, which then, as well as all of Renfrewshire, were included in Lanarkshire, hence the title, "del Conte de Lanark." As soon as Bruce assembled his clan he joined his standard, and remained his staunch supporter until Scottish independence was achieved. He married Janet, daughter of John Erskine of Erskine, one of the Barons who swore fealty to Edward in 1296, and had two sons and a daughter. Alexander de Montgomerie succeeded his father, and was designated on charter of David H. in 1357, as "Alexander de Montgomerie, de Eglisham, filius Johannes de Montgomerie." In 1358 he was one of the barons despatched to England to treat for the release of their captive sovereign who had been taken prisoner at the battle of Durham eleven years before. He was a man of ability and trust and was frequently employed on diplomatic missions. He was known as Lord Montgomerie, by which title his descendants continued to be called before a peerage was granted them. October 24, 1358, he had letters to pass through England on his way abroad with a retinue of sixty, horse and foot. He married a daughter of WilHam, first Earl of Douglas, by his second wife, Margaret, daugh- ter of the Earl of Dunbar and Marche. Was succeeded by his son John, 1388. Sir John de Montgomerie, of Eaglesham and Eastwood, afterwards of Eglin- ton, son of Sir Alexander, married, 1361 Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Hugh Eglinton of Eglinton, and at the death of the latter, 1374, obtained pos- session through his wife of the large possessions of that family, including Ardrossan, which had come to Sir Hugh Eglinton through his marriage with its heiress, probably daughter of Sir Fergus Ardrossan, one of the Scottish nobles who accompanied Edward Bruce to Ireland in 131 5. The family of Eglinton was one of much antiquity in Scotland. From the History of Ayr, and Burke's Peer- ages, we learn that Eglin, Lord of Eglinton, during the reign of Malcolm III., 1057-93, assumed the name of the lordship and castle of which he was the then possessor, and that from him the title and lands descended through his son Bryce de Eglinton, his son Hugh de Eglinton, his son Randulphus de Eglinton, and the latter's grandson, of the same name, whose name appears on the roll of the "Magnates Scotiae" who submitted to Edward I. in 1296, to Sir Hugh de Eglinton, first above mentioned, who married (first) the heiress of Ardrossan, (second) Egidia, daughter of Walter, High Steward, and half sister to Robert II., then 1036 MONTGOMERY widow of Sir James Lindsay, of Crauford, his only child being Elizabeth, who married Sir John de Montgomerie. Sir Hugh was a Justice of Lothian, 1361, and died about 1374, when his large estates passed to the house of Montgomerie of Eaglesham, who made Eglinton their chief residence thereafter. Sir John de Montgomerie quartered his arms with those of the house of Eglinton, viz: — "Gules, three rings, or gemmed azure." He greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Otterburne, where his uncle, James, Earl of Douglas, and his son, Hugh de Montgomerie, were slain in battle, after performing prodigies of valor. Hot- spur was taken prisoner by Sir John, who with his ransom built the castle of Pun- noon, long in the possession of the family. The spear and pennon of the noble Percy were carried with the dead body of Hugh, to Edinburgh, and still remain a trophy of the house of Eglinton. Sir John de Montgomerie, who died about 1398, had, by his wife Elizabeth of Eglinton, four sons : Sir Hugh, the eldest, killed at Otterburne, August, 1388; Sir John, who succeeded him, of whom presently; Alexander, to whom his mother gave a charter of the lands of Bonnington, Barony of Ratho, Edinburgshire ; and Hugh, who lived to an advanced age. Sir John de Montgomerie, who succeeded to the lands and titles of his father, 1398, is referred to as chief of the house of Montgomerie. He was one of the chiefs of the Scottish army which invaded England, 1402, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Halidon Hill, but five years later was in Scotland and introduced the reputed Richard H. of England, to Robert H. of Scotland. On the accession of James L, after his long imprisonment in England, at a Parliament held at Perth, March 12, 1425, Sir John de Montgomerie was among the nobles of highest rank, arrested on suspicion of having profited by their sovereign's imprisonment, but he was immediately released and restored to high favor. He was on the jury to try the Duke of Albany, and was commissioned to reduce the fortress of Loch Lomond, held by the Duke's youngest son, James Stewart. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Maxwell, of Caerlaverock, ancestor of the Earls of Niths- dale, and died prior to November, 1429, leaving three sons and four daughters : — Alexander, who succeeded his father, of whom presently; Sir Robert de Montgomerie, Knight of Giffen, a barony given by Robert II. to Sir Hugh Eglinton, and brought into the Montgomerie family by his (Robert's) grand- mother; Hugh, mentioned in the charter to his brother. Lord Montgomerie, 1452; Anne, m. June 16, 1425, Sir Robert Cuninghame, father of Earl of Glencairn; Janet, second wife of Sir Thomas Boyd, of Kilmarnock, whose dau., Margaret, by a former marriage became L,ady Montgomerie; Isabel, m. Archibald Muir, of Rowallan. Alexander de Montgomerie, first Lord Montgomerie, though his ancestors had been designated by that title for several generations, succeeded his father prior to November 22, 1429, as on that date he is referred to as "Lord of that Ilk," as one of the assize in an action between Renfrew and Dumbarton. He had a commission with his brother-in-law Sir Robert Cuninghame, August 10, 1430, for the government of Kintyre, K*napsale, et al., and also had charters under the Great Seal of a large number of baronies, with the lands appurtenant, between 1430 and 1450. He was distinguished for his loyalty to James I. and his suc- cessor, was a member of Privy Council under both, and also was employed on various negotiations and diplomatic missions with England. The date given by MONTGOMERY 1037 Burke of his elevation to the peerage is January 31, 1448-9, but as he is referred to in the charter erecting the Lordship of Hamilton, July 3, 1445, in connection with others then elevated to the peerage, it is thought that he was elevated at that earlier date. He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Boyd of Kilmarnock, and died October 14, 1465, leaving four sons and four daughters, viz : — Alexander, Master of Montgomerie, of whom presently; George de Montgomerie, of Skelmorlie Castle, now a seat of Earls of Eglinton and Winton; John de Montgomerie, of Giffen, whose son, Robert, went to Prance and founded second branch of Counts of Montgomerie; Thomas de Montgomerie, Parson of Eaglesham, Rector of Univ. of Glasgow, 1476-1510, unm. ; Margaret, m. John, Earl of Lennox, Lord Darnley, from whom descended James VL; Elizabeth, m. John, second Lord Kennedy; Janet, m. Cuninghame, of Kilmaurs; Agnes, m. William Cuninghame, of Glengarnock. Alexander de Montgomerie, Master of Montgomerie, eldest son of Lord Alexander, died 1452, before his father. On January 31, 1448-9, by grant from James IL "To Alexander de Montgomerie, eldest son of our deare cousin, Alex- ander de Montgomerie," the heritable Bailliary of Cuninghame, was conferred upon him. This was the origin of the feud between the houses of Cuninghame and Montgomerie, which continued for a century and was bloody in its conse- quences. The Earl of Glencairn, cousin to Alexander as well as his brother-in- law, they having married sisters, was deeply aggrieved by the grant to the Mont- gomeries, claiming that it belonged rightfully to the male branch of the Cuning- hame family, and the bloody feud between their respective descendants began. Alexander married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Hepburn of Hailes (from whom descended James, Earl of Bothwell), and by her had three sons, viz. : — Alexander, second Lord Montgomerie, of whom presently; Robert de Montgomerie, of Braidstone, got a charter of lands of Braidstone, barony of Giffen, from his grandfather, 1452, and was ancestor of Sir Hugh Montgomery, who, 1622, was created Viscount Montgomerie of Great Ardes, county Down, and whose grandson became Earl of Mount Alexander, 1661 ; Hugh Montgomerie, of Hesselhead (Hazlehead), or Bargraw, had a charter under the Great Seal of the Lands of Freeland, in Lanarkshire, in the isth century. His great- grandson, the Scottish poet, Alexander Montgomery, was born in Hazlehead castle. Alexander, second Lord Montgomerie, succeeded his grandfather in his titles and honors. He married Catharine, daughter of Gilbert, first Lord Kennedy, and died prior to 1484, leaving three sons and a daughter : — Hugh, later Earl of Eglinton, of whom presently; James, of Smithston, near Kilwinning; John, of Bowhouse, m. dau. of Ramsay, of Montforde; no issue; Helen, m. Sir James Bruce, of Airth. Hugh, third Lord Montgomerie, and first Earl of Eglinton, to which latter title he was elevated, 1508, by James IV., was concerned in the revolt of the barons against James HL in 1487, which resulted in that king's death as he fled from the battle field of Sauchie, and the accession of his son James IV., June 11, 1488, with whom Lord Hugh was in high favor and was created Earl of Eglinton, and 1038 MONTGOMERY granted the constabulary of Rothesby. He was one of the lords entrusted by the Duke of Albany with the tuition of James V. during his minority, and was appointed, 1536, joint Governor of Scotland, along with the Earl of Huntley, while James went to France for his bride, Princess Magdalene. Eglinton Castle was burned, 1526, by the Cuninghames, as a result of the family feud before referred to. Earl Eglinton married Lady Helen, daughter of Colin, first Earl of Argyle, and had six sons and eight daughters. He died November, 1545, at an advanced age, and was succeeded by his grandson, his two elder sons having pre- deceased him. His children were : — Alexander, Master of ]Montgomerie, d. s. p. 1498-9; John, Lord Montgomerie, m. Elizabeth, of Edmonstoun, and was father of second Earl of Eglinton; Sir Neil Montgomerie^ of Lainshaw, of whom presently; William, of Greenfield, ancestor of Montgomeries of Stane, Brownland and Bonyglen, Barons of "The Hall;" Hugh, killed at battle of Pinkie, 1547; Robert, Bishop of Argyle, d. 1537; Margaret, m. William, second Lord Semple; Maud, m. Colin Campbell, of Arkinglass; Marjorie, m. William, second Lord Somerville; Isabel, m. John Muir, of Caldwell; Elizabeth, m. John Blair, "of that Ilk;" Agnes, m. John Kerr, of Kersland; Janet, m. George Campbell, Laird of Cessnock; Catharine, m. George Montgomerie, of Skelmorlie Castle. Sir Neil Mon'tgomerie, of Lainshaw, third son of the first Earl of Eglinton, married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Quintin Muir or Mure, Laird of Skel- don, through whom he obtained the lands of Skeldon, Hodow Chapel, Laganfie, Charleswrack and others. He also received by charter from Queen Mary, the lands of Averton and Irvine, barony of Torbolton. October 4, 1545, he received the procuratory in Parliament for his nephew second Earl of Eglinton. His castle and estate of Lainshaw were in the parish of Stewarton, county Ayr. He was killed in the streets of Irvine, as a result of the Cuninghame feud, June, 1547. Left two sons and three daughters, viz : — John, eldest son, m. dau. of Lord Boyd, d. s. p. ; Sir Neil Montgomerie^ of whom presently; Christian, m. Lady Luss; Elizabeth, ra. Hume, of Fastcastle; Helen, m. a Maxwell, of Newark. Sir Neil Montgomerie succeeded to the titles and lands of his father, and married Jean, daughter and heiress of John, fourth Lord Lyle, by which the estate of that ancient and noble family of Scotland was brought into the Montgomerie family, and the Lyle and Marr arms were added to his own. He left three sons and several daughters. His two younger sons went to Ireland, where one, a major in the army of James, was killed at the battle of Boyne, 1690. Sir Neil Montgomerie, of Lainshaw, eldest son of the last named Sir Neil and Lady Jean Lyle, became, 1613, on the death of his cousin, fourth Earl of Eglinton, without male issue, heir male to the title and honors of the fifth Earl of Eglinton, but they with the estates appertaining thereto, were granted to a cousin. MONTGOMERY 1039 Alexander Seton, 161 1, and he was, though tardily, recognized as the head of the house of Eglinton. Sir Neil was, however, the lineal male representative and chief of the Montgomery family, and the eldest male representative of his descendants are to this day entitled to that honor, a recent representative of that honor having been John T. Montgomery, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sir Neil was served as heir to his mother. Lady Jean Lyle, December 20, 1575, as Sir Neil Montgomery of Gallowsberry. He never assumed the title of Lord Lyle, having sold his claim to the estate 1559, but retained the honor and arms of Lyle as heir of a line of that noble family. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Cuninghame, of Aiket, whose great-grandfather was of the Glencairn family, with whom the feud existed, and her brothers Alexander and William, if not herself, were concerned in the murder of Hugh Montgomerie, third Earl of Eglinton, 1586, while on a visit to Sir Neil, and to this suspicion of her connection with the tragic result of the feud between her family and that of her husband, is ascribed the alienation of the title and honors from her children by the fourth earl. Sir Neil died prior to 161 3, leaving four sons: — Sir Neil, succeeded his father and m. dau. of Lockhardt, Laird of Barr. This line failed in third generation; WnLiAM MoNTGOMERiEj of Brigend, of whom presently; James Montgomerie, Minister of Dunlop Church; John Montgomerie, of Cockilbie, m. Jean, dau. of Capt. Daniel Forrester. Was envoy of James VI. to Spain, d. 1683; A daughter, m. Graham, of Gruegar; Mariot, m. Robert Johnston, Feb. 20, 1606. William Montgomerie, of Brigend, second son of the last Sir Neil Mont- gomerie, married Jean Montgomerie, heiress of Brigend, in the parish of Maybole, Earldom of Carrick, county Ayr, and received the grant of Brigend, September 17, 1602. The precept for the grant states that she was daughter of John Mont- gomerie, son and heir of James Montgomerie, of Brigend, but it has not been determined to what branch of the family he belonged. James Montgomerie is mentioned as of Brigend, October 19, 1546, and he married Marjorie Muir. Brigend is situated on the banks of Doon, at the Bridge of Doon, from which it derives its name "Brig -end," nearly opposite Alloway Kirkyard, the scene of "Tarn o'Shanter's Ride." William died between 1652 and 1658. John Montgomerie, eldest son of William of Brigend, died before his father and prior to 1647. He married, 1621, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Baxter, of Shrinston. Their marriage settlement, still partly legible, was brought to America by his grandson William Montgomerie, 1701, and is still in possession of his de- scendants. Hugh Montgomerie, of Brigend, son of John, succeeded his grandfather prior to 1658, and at the death of his uncle, John Montgomerie, of Lainshaw, became eldest heir male and chief of the ancient house of Montgomery. He was seized of numerous lands, mills and other possessions on the "Water of Done," lying within the Earldom of Carrick and Shriefdom of Ayr, but all his worldly goods and lands became dissipated by a series of misfortunes, chief of which it is said was the loaning and pledging of large sums of money to his kinsman the Earl of Loudon, which were never repaid, and for twelve years prior to his death. May 6, 1710, he lived with and at the expense of his second son, James Montgomerie, a I040 MONTGOMERY merchant of Glasgow. In 1692, he, with his eldest son and heir, WilUam Mont- gomerie, of Brigend, conveyed all the estate of Brigend, including the lands of Potterstoun, Markland, Yeomanstoun, Barnstoun and Constable, together with a tenement in the town of Ayr, called "The Skinner's Yeard," and even their seats in the kirk, to their cousin, John Montgomerie, of Booch. Hugh Montgomerie had married, 1653, Katharine, second daughter of Sir William Scott, of Clerkin- ton, eldest son of Laurence Scott of the Buccleuch family, clerk of Privy Council in the time of Charles I. Sir William was knighted by Charles I., 1641 ; was suc- cessively Clerk of Sessions and of Privy Council ; member of Parliament for Had- dington, 1645 ; Ordinary Lord, June 8, 1649 ; one of the Commissioners of county of Edinburgh, 1650; Committee of Estates at Perth, 1651 ; died December 23, 1656. His first wife, mother of Airs. Hugh Alontgomerie, was Katharine, daugh- ter of Alexander Morrison, of Preston-Grange, whose mother was a daughter of Sir John Preston. His second wife was Barbara, daughter of Sir John Dalma- Hoy. Hugh Montgomerie, of Brigend, and Katharine Scott, had two sons and several daughters. He died, as before stated, in Glasgow, May 6, 1710, aged eighty years. He was a strong Non-conformist in religion, a fact that may have contributed to his financial ruin. William Montgomerie, of Brigend, later of Eglinton, near Allentown, Mon- mouth county. New Jersey, eldest son of Hugh Montgomerie and Katharine Scott, was involved, as his father's eldest son and heir, in the financial ruin that overtook his improvident father, and it is stated in letters received by his family after their removal to America, from Robert Alaxwell, a son-in-law, that his uncle, James Alontgomerie, of Glasgow, was "squeezed" and defrauded of a large por- tion of his share in the estate of Brigend by "a rapacious lawyer Sir David Cun- ningham," and that "a part of the estate is to be recovered for the claiming." W^illiam Montgomerie married, January 8, 1684, Isabel, daughter of Robert Burnett, of Leithintie, Aberdeenshire, of the family of Leys Burnett, of which was Gilbert Burnett, Bishop of Salisbury. Robert Burnett was a member of the Society of Friends and in 1682 and 1683 respectively, purchased two 1/24 shares in the Province of East New Jersey, part of which he sold to other Scotchmen, prior to his removal to New Jersey, 1700, although he still retained several thous- and acres, surveyed and unsurveyed. He was therefore a Proprietor of East Jersey until his death, 1714. His will, dated November 24, 1712, and proven November 16, 1714, mentions children: John, Robert, Patrick, Meadie Allen, and Isabel Alontgomerie, the latter with son, Patrick, being named as executors. The date of his arrival in New Jersey is somewhat problematical, but it is clear that he did not arrive until after 1691, as deeds made by him up to that date give his resi- dence as Leithentie, Scotland, while those beginning with September 4, 1700, men- tion him as "late of Leithentie" and that of October 7, 1700, gives his residence as Amboy. Robert Burnett married a sister of Alexander Forbes, of Ballogee. As a member of the Society of Friends he suffered persecutions for his religious con- victions. He, among other Friends, was arrested March 12, 1676, at a conventicle in Aberdeen, and confined in Aberdeen Tolbooth ; a letter written by him while there confined is in possession of his descendants. He was intimately associated with Robert Barclay, of Ury, Scotland, the author of Barclay's "Apology," who was also a Proprietor of East New Jersey. From an affidavit made by one of the younger sons of William and Isabel (Bur- MONTGOMERY 1041 nett) Montgomerie, made after the death of Robert, eldest son, it would appear that they resided in the town of Ayr, after the sale of the Brigend estate, 1692, and came to New Jersey with their children "about 1701-2," the probabilities are, however, since he was unable to fix a definite date, that they accompanied Robert Burnett in 1700. On their arrival they took up their residence on a tract of 500 acres surveyed to Robert Burnett, on Doctor's Creek, about two miles from Allen- town, Monmouth county. New Jersey, for which a deed dated March 20, 1706 was executed by "Robert Burnet, of Freehold, in the county of Monmouth, within the Eastern division of Nova Caesaria, one of the principal Proprietors of the Eastern Division aforesaid, in America, Gentleman," to "William Montgomery, his son-in- law, of the same town, county and division, Yeoman," for 500 acres of land, "whereon ye said William Montgomerie now dwelleth." They named the tract Eglinton, after the paternal estate in Scotland, and it was much added to by suc- ceeding generations of the family, who continued to occupy it for more than a century, the last of the name being Robert Montgomery, died 1828, when it was divided among his daughters. William Montgomerie died at Eglinton, his New Jersey plantation, about 1721. He jmd his wife were members of the Society of Friends when they came to this country, and their children were reared in that faith. Issue of William and Isabel (Burnett) Montgomerie: Robert, b. Brigend, Ayrshire, 1687, d. at "Eglinton," Monmouth county, N. J., 1766; of whom presently; Anna, b. Brigend, Feb. i, 1689-90; Elizabeth, b. Brigend, July 12, i6gi; William, b. town of Ayr, Ayrshire, Feb. 7, 1693, d. Upper Freehold, Monmouth county, N. J., 1771; removed to Phila. early in life, was a merchant there until 1758, and then returned to Monmouth coimty, N. J.; m. (first) Susanna, widow of John Wood, of Burlington county, N. J. (whose dau., Esther, m. his nephew, James Montgomery, son of his elder brother, Robert), and had one dau., Isabel, who m. (first) John Read- ing, Jr., son of Gov. John Reading, of N. J.; (second) Henry Bailey. He m. (sec- ond) Margaret (Price), widow of Benjamin Paschall, of Phila., and dau. of Reese and Sarah (Meredith) Price, of Chester county. Pa.; (third) Mary Ellis, of N. J. His son, by second marriage. Major William Montgomery, b. Phila. 1751, reared in Monmouth county, N. J., joined the army at the outbreak of the Revolution and be- came a Major in the N. J. line, d. in Monmouth, 1815; m. Mary, niece of Gen. Robert Rhea, and had four sons and four daughters. Of the sons, William, Robert Rhea and Jonathan, went to New Orleans, and David to Kentucky, whence most of his descend- ants migrated later to Louisiana. Several grandsons of these four brothers were officers in Confederate army during Civil War; James, b. Ayrshire, Scotland, d. Upper Freehold, Monmouth county, N. J., about 1756; wife Mary; had sons: Robert, m. June 14, 1757, Elizabeth Vance; Alexander, m. Nov. 23, 1761, Eunice West, and was father of Thomas W. Mont- gomery, M. D., a distinguished physician, m. Mary Berrien, and their son was Commodore John Berrien Montgomery, of U. S. N.; James; William. Alexander, youngest son of William and Isabel, is thought to have d. unm.; Jane, m. a Montgomery of Irish branch of family, and removed to Va. Robert Montgomerie, of "Eglinton," Monmouth county, New Jersey, eldest son of William Montgomerie, of Brigend, and Isabel Burnett, born at Brigend, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1687, came to New Jersey with his parents and grandparents in his fourteenth year. On February 8, 1709-10, he married, at Burlington, New Jersey, Sarah, a daughter of Henry Stacy, of Burlington county, and in the divi- I042 MONTGOMERY sion of the lands taken up by Stacy, among his children, a tract of 490 acres in Newton township, Gloucester county, was set apart to Sarah Montgomerie, 171 1, and a few years later, Robert and Sarah Montgomerie removed thither from Mon- mouth county, and erected a house thereon in which they resided until 1721. April I, 171 5, they conveyed, or leased for ninety-nine years, forty acres of this land to Jonathan Bolton and Hannah, his wife, the consideration therefor being that the said Hannah Bolton was to teach or instruct or cause to be taught and in- structed to read English, to do seamstry work or any other art or parts of arts that she, the said Hannah is capable to perform, inform or direct, to all the chil- dren of the said Robert Montgomerie and Sarah, his wife, or either of them. At the death of his father, about 1721, Robert Montgomerie returned to Monmouth, took up his residence at "Eglinton," and resided there until his death, 1766. Other than filling the office of local magistrate or Justice of the Peace he seems to have taken little or no part in official or Provincial affairs. It was during his incumbency of "Eglinton," and after the death of his father, that Robert jMaxwell, son-in-law of James Montgomerie, of Glasgow, brother of William, of Brigend, wrote to John Carlyle, of Alexandria, Virginia, for informa- tion in reference to William Montgomerie and his children, stating that "my wife and I, and his other friend in Scotland, are very desirous to know what may have become of him and his children, and the rather, because we have reason to be fully persuaded that he or his eldest son, has an unquestionable right to the title and honors of Lord Lyle, in Scotland, and also to a part of the estate of Brigend, which was not sold but was squeezed out of his hands by a rapacious lawyer. Sir David Cunningham. * * * in the trials that have been with Sir David's suc- cessors, it hath been cast up to the lawyers that Mr. Montgomerie, of Brigend, was wronged, and that a part of the estate is to be recovered almost for the claim- ing." This information coming to the family at "Eglinton," and a correspondence ensuing with their relatives in Scotland, Robert determined to make a trip to Scotland to claim his inheritance as eldest son, but later abandoned this intention, and no claim was ever made by him or his descendants, to the title and honors that had descended to him from the noble house of Lyle, or as the heir-male and chief of the ancient house of Montgomerie. He was the last of the family to spell the name in its ancient form, his sons all adopting the ending "ry" as the name has since been spelled. His father-in-law, Henry Stacy, came to New Jersey about 1682, built a house and wharf at Burlington, and died there 1684. He was from the "Hamlet of Spitellfields, Parish of Stepney, Middlesex, factor." His wife, Mary, did not accompany him to New Jersey, but died, soon after him, at Waltham Holy Cross, Essex county, England; her brother, James Nevell, as her attorney and executor, conveying the New Jersey lands. Henry and Mary (Nevell) Stacy had children: Samuel, Mary, Elizabeth, and Sarah, all under age at his death, though Samuel, then in New Jersey, went to England to act as joint executor with Nevell, of his mother's will, 1689. Sarah (Stacy) Mont- gomerie died March 9, 1743-4, and Robert, 1766, his will being dated August 28, 1762, and proved October i, 1766. Issue of Robert and Sarah (Stacy) Montgomerie: Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1710-11, m. James Debow. Her grandson, John Debow, b. Aug. 26, 1772, son of Capt. James and Priscilla (Smith) Debow, m. Sarah, dau. of Robert Montgomery, last of the name to occupy Eglinton; and Robert Debow, another son MONTGOMERY 1043 of the Captain, m. Lucy Quay, dau. of Samuel Quay, by wife, Lucy, dau. of Alexander Montgomery, son of James; Elizabeth, b. March 28, 1712; m. Jan. 26, 1738, James Hepburn; had seven children; William, b. July i, 1714, d. inf.; Sarah, b. Oct. 8, 1715, d. April 29, 1753; WiUiam, b. June 24, 1717, d. young; Anna, b. Dec. 5, 1719, d. inf.; JameSj b. Feb. 26, 1720; m. Esther Wood; of whom presently; Anna, b. April 8, 1722; m. March 18, 1754, Stephen Pangboum; Jean, b. March 16, 1723; m. (first) Aug. 5, 1761, Robert English, (second) Dec. 17, 1772, Emer Jackson; John, b. June 20, 1726. James Montgomery, born at Eglinton, New Jersey, February 26, 1720, is spoken of in the records as "eldest son and heir of Robert Montgomerie/' and is said to have been only son of Robert and Sarah, who married and left issue. He married, May 15, 1746, Esther, daughter of John Wood, of Chesterfield, Burling- ton county, who died 1730, by his wife, Susanna, who had married (second) Will- iam Montgomerie, uncle of James ; and granddaughter of William Wood, native of Leicestershire, England, who came to New Jersey in the fly-boat "Martha," autumn of 1677, and soon after married Mary Parnell, a fellow passenger on the "Martha." James Montgomery died 1769 or 1770. Issue of James and Esther (Wood) Montgomery: Rebecca, b. June 28, 1747; m. Joseph Taylor; Robert, b. Oct. 22, 1748, d. July 25, 1828, lived all his life at Eglinton; m. (first) Nov. 14, 1661, Margaret Leonard, (second) June 22, 1788, Elizabeth Newell; had seven children, five by first and two by second wife, several of whom, including the two sons, d. in comparative youth s. p.; John, b. July 7, 1750, removed to Phila. ; of whom presently; William, b. Jan. 20, 1752, also removed to Phila., engaged in the mercantile business with his brother, John, and continued it after death of latter, until his death, March 4, 1831 ; m. Oct. 25, 1781, Rachel, dau. of Samuel Harvey, a Phila. merchant. Their children who lived to maturity were : Esther, b. July 17, 1785, d. Romney, Indiana, Nov. 22, 1853; m. Feb. 6, 1806, Alex- ander William Walker; Joseph, b. July 31, 1788, d. Feb. s, 1859; well-known merchant of Phila.; m. May 28, 181 1, Harriet, dau. of Major Reading Howell; Harvey, b. Oct. 8, 1789, removed to Rochester, N. Y. ; m. Eleanor, dau. of Col. Nathaniel Rochester, founder of the town, and engaged in business there; Mary, b. Dec. 14, 1794; m. March 15, 1815, Prof. Charles D. Meigs, M. D., of Phila., and had issue: Brig. Gen. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, quartermaster General of U. S., b. May 3, 1816, d. Jan. 2, 1892; Charles D. Meigs, Jr., b. July 22, 1817; John Forsythe Meigs, M. D., b. Oct. 3, 1818; William Montgomery Meigs, b. i8ig, d. 1824; Harry Vincent Meigs, b. July 19, 1821; Emily Skinner Meigs, b. Sept. 28, 1824, d. Nov. 22, 1905; m. Jonathan Will- iams Biddle; William Montgomery Meigs, b. April 15, 1826; Samuel Emlen Meigs, b. July 15, 1828; Franklin Bache Meigs, b. Nov. 10, 1829; Mary Crathorne Meigs, b. Aug. 9, 1838. Emily, b. May 8, 1797, d. Aug. 6, 1824; m. May 24, 1814, Thomas H. Skinner, D. D. Sarah, b. Feb. 15, 1754; m. April 2, 1772, Capt. Joseph Reynolds; had thirteen children; James, b. Nov. 22, 1755; educated for the law, but at breaking out of Revolutionary- War, became Lieutenant in N. J. regiment and served under Gen. Richard Mont- 1044 MONTGOMERY gomery in the expedition against Quebec, Dec, 1775; was also at Brandy wine, Ger- mantown and Monmouth; after the war followed the sea for some years, later a merchant; d. Eglinton, June, 1832; m. Ellen, dau. of Daniel Reading, and granddaugh- ter of Gov. John Reading. His son, Brig. Gen. William Readmg Montgomery, b. July 10, 1801, entered West Point, 1821 ; was Captain in 8th Infantry durmg Mexican VVar, and was brevetted Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel, for gallant and meritorious services. Commanded First N. J. Vols, at Bull Run July 21 and Aug. 17, 1861, and was afterwards military Governor of Alexandria; m. Hannah Bullock Wood; d. May 31, 1871; Joseph, b. Aug. 30, 1758, d. 1776, from disease contracted in military service in early days of Revolutionary War. John Montgomery, second son of James and Esther (Wood) Montgomery, born on the old family estate of Eglinton, Monmouth county, New Jersey, July 7, 1750, prior to arriving of age, sold out his interest in the estate of his grandfather, Robert Montgomery, at Eglinton, with his younger brother, William, came to Philadelphia, and engaged in mercantile pursuits, eventually entering into partner- ship with his brother, carried on a successful business until his death, March 16, 1794. He was elected a member of the First City Troop of Horse, March, 1777, served with it in the New Jersey campaign of that year, and shared the trials and triumphs of that gallant company during the subsequent campaigns of the Revolu- tion. The hardships endured in this service laid the foundation of the disease which eventually brought him to his grave at the early age of forty-four years. He and his brother, William, established a reputation and credit as merchants of the strictest integrity; as an evidence of the esteem in which he was held by his associates we quote the following obituary notice from the American Daily Adver- tiser, said to have been contributed by his friend and physician. Dr. Benjamin Rush: "On Monday afternoon were interred at Christ Churchyard, the remains of John Montgomery, merchant, of this city. The numerous and respectable body of citizens who attended his plain and republican funeral, evinced the high ideas entertained of the public and private merits of this excellent citizen. As a mer- chant he exhibited for twenty years, uniform industry, integrity and punctuality ; his word was a bond to all who transacted business with him. His virtues as a citizen commanded esteem and respect wherever they were known. The weakness of his constitution, which laid the foundation of the disorder which carried him to his grave, was thought to have been induced by the toils and dangers to which he exposed himself as a member of the Philadelphia Troop of Horse during the late war. He loved order as well as liberty and was no less attached to the present wise and equal government of his country than he was to its independence. As a son, a brother, a husband, a father, and a friend, he will never cease to live in the bosoms of those to whom he sustained these tender relations." He became an honorary member of the City Troop May 16, 1792, and was a member of Common Council of Philadelphia at the time of his death, many years prior to which he had resided at No. 7 Mulberry street. John Montgomery married, November 3, 1785, Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Keen) Crathome, who survived him over a half a century, dying October 15, 1848, and is interred by his side at Christ Church. Jonathan Crathorne, father of Mrs. Montgomery, was supposed to be a native of England. He was for at least ten years, 1749- 1759, captain of different trading vessels plying between Philadelphia and other Colonial ports, and Spain, England, and the East and West Indies. In 1759 he engaged in business in Philadelphia and MONTGOMERY 1045 died here 1767. He married at Christ Church, August 16, 1760, Mary Keen, of Swedish descent, born at Piles Grove, Salem county. New Jersey, September 29, 1728, daughter of Jonas and Sarah (Dalbo) Keen, granddaughter of Matthias and Hendricka (Claessen) Keen, and great-granddaughter of Joran Keen, or Kyn, born in Sweden 1620, who came to Upland (now Chester) with Gov. Printz, 1642; and also great-granddaughter of Jan Claessen, par Cooper, an early Swedish settler on the Neshaminy in lower Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Issue of John and Mary (Crathorne) Montgomery: Austin, b. Phila., Sept. 16, 1786, lived there all his life, dying Nov. 5, 1855; succeeded his uncle, Robert Montgomerie, of Eglinton, as eldest male representative of ancient fam- ily of Montgomerie; m. Sept. 5, 1809, Isabel Bowen, dau. of John Bowen, and grand- daughter of William Francis Bowen, both of "Bowen Hall," Island of Jamaica; no issue; James Montgomery, D. D., b. Nov. 25, 1787; of whom presently; John Crathorne, b. Nov. 7, 1792, d. N. Y. City, Aug. s, 1867; of whom later. James Montgomery, D. D., second son of John and Mary (Crathorne) Mont- gomery, born in Philadelphia, November 25, 1787, graduated at College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, class of 1805. He subsequently read law in the office of Judge Joseph Hopkinson in Philadelphia, was admitted to Philadelphia Bar June 3, 181 1, and practiced his profession there nearly seven years. He pre- pared himself for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church and was or- dained deacon in Christ Church by Bishop White, August 25, 1816, and priest by Bishop Croes, in St. Michael's Church, Trenton, New Jersey, October 7, 1817, and on the following day was installed as rector of St. Michael's parish. In April, 1818, he became rector of Grace Church, New York City, and remained there two years. Returning to Philadelphia, he became rector of St. Mark's, Mantua, a West Philadelphia suburb. He became very popular as a preacher and was much in demand for special ministerial work. He was elected rector of St. Stephen's Church February 27, 1822, though the corner stone of the church edifice was not laid until May 20, 1822, and filled that charge until his death, March 17, 1834. He married, June, 1816, Eliza Dennis Teackle, of Accomac, Virginia, by whom he had issue : John Teackle, b. April 3, 1817, d. Feb. 20, 1895; member of Phila. Bar; m. June 25, 1856, Alida Gouverneur, dau. of Francis Rawle and Juliana M. (Gouverneur) Wharton, and granddaughter of Isaac and Margaret (Rawle) Wharton; no issue; James Henry, b. Feb. 27, 1819, d. Dec. 22, 1858, merchant of Phila.; Mary, b. Dec. I, 1822, d. July 6, 1824. Dr. Montgomery married (second). May 30, 1827, Mary Harrison White, born at the house of her grandfather. Bishop William White, 309 Walnut street, Phila- delphia, November 9, 1805, died August 2, 1875, daughter of Thomas Harrison and Mary Key (Heath) White, and had issue: Rev. William White, b. May 21, 1828, ordained minister of P. E. Church Sept., 1852; rector of church in Northumberland co., Pa.; Warsaw, N. Y.; Buffalo, N. Y. ; Lyons, N. Y., and other points in N. Y. State; m. April 15, 1857, Gaynor Smith, dau. of Peter and Gaynor (Wallis) Lazarus, of Sunbury, Northumberland county. Pa., and has one surviving son : James Henry Montgomery, b. Feb. 24, 1859, now an eminent surgeon in Erie, Pa., and head of family of Montgomery, in whose possession are the family papers ; he married, 1886, Caroline, dau. of Isaac Skiles, of Uniontown, Pa., and had issue : 1046 MONTGOMERY James Henry Montgomery; Catharine Eglinton Montgomery; John Montgomery; John Hugh ^Montgomery, d. young. Thomas Harrison, b. Feb. 27, 1830, d. April 4, 1905; of whom presently; John Henry Hobart, b. Aug. 26, 1831, d. Oct. 16, 1831; Austin, b. Jan. i, 1833, d. April 13, 1834- Thomas White, father of Bishop William White, was born in London, 1704, and came of an ancient English family of noble lineage, a younger son of William White, of London, by his wife, Elizabeth Leigh, portraits of both of whom by Sir George Kneller being in the possession of William White, Esq., of Philadelphia. At the age of sixteen years, Thomas White was indentured to William Stokes, then going out in the retinue of Charles Calvert, brother of Lord Baltimore, to be clerk of Baltimore county, in Lord Baltimore's Province of Maryland; his father paying one hundred guineas to Stokes, to teach and train his son for the practice of law. Arriving in Baltimore, he became a deputy to Mr. Stokes as clerk of Baltimore county, then including also the present Harford county, and later suc- ceeded him as clerk and also filled the position of Deputy Surveyor of the county. He became a successful practitioner of law, laid up considerable money, and acquired land in Baltimore and Harford counties. About 1730, he married Sophia, daughter of John Hall, of Cranberry Hall, Baltimore county, large landed proprietor, who had died prior to his daughter's marriage, devising her a tract of land on Bush River which he named "Sophia's Dairy," where they took up their residence. Thomas White was an intimate friend of Samuel Ogle, Deputy Gov- ernor of j\Iaryland, and through his influence filled many lucrative and honorable positions in the government. He was successively Major and Colonel of the mili- tary establishment of the county of Baltimore, as well as County Clerk and Deputy Surveyor. He was qualified as vestryman of the parish of Spesutiae, May 29, 1731, and was successively re-elected until his removal from Maryland to Phila- delphia 1745. His wife, Sophia, died June, 1742, and. May 7, 1745, he married (second), at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Esther, widow of John Newman, and daughter of Abraham Hewlings, of Burhngton county. New Jersey, and took up his residence in Philadelphia, still retaining his landed property and interests in Mary- land and making periodical visits there to look after its maintenance and develop- ment; he died there on one of these business trips, September 29, 1779. Col. White at once assumed a prominent position in Philadelphia. He became one of the trustees of the College of Philadelphia, filled that position until his death, and was commissioned Justice of the Peace, May 25, 1752. By his first wife, Sophia Hall, he had three daughters, viz : Sophia, b. May 8, 1731; m. Feb. 14, 1750, Aquila Hall; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 28, 1733, d. unm.; Sarah Charlotte, b. Oct. 25, 1736, d. Nov. 19, 1776, unm. By the second marriage, with Esther (Hewlings) Newman, he had two children : William, the Bishop, b. March 24, 1747-8; of whom presently; Mary, who became wife of Robert Morris, financier of the Revolution, an account of whom and their descendants is given elsewhere in this work. MONTGOMERY 1047 William White, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, first Bishop of English consecration in America, was born in Philadelphia, March 24, 1747-8 (O. S.j, or April 3, 1748 (N. S.)- He was educated at the College of Philadel- phia, now the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from that institution, aged seventeen years, class of 1765. He began the preparation for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, under the guidance and council of Rev. Jacob Duche and Rev. Richard Peters, of Christ Church and St. Peter's. One of the incidents of his student life in Philadelphia was his assistance of his friend and associate, Benjamin West, to elope with Betsey Shewell, 1766. On October 15, 1770, he sailed for England, and was ordained deacon, December 23, following, at the Royal Chapel, London, by Bishop Young, of Norwich. Being too young to receive ordination as a priest, he remained in England one and a half years, living with his father's sisters, Mrs. Weeks and Miss White, at Twickenham. June, 1772, he was ordained as a priest of the Church of England, by Dr. Terrick, Bishop of London, and the same month sailed for home, arriving in Philadelphia, September 13, 1772. He was soon after elected assistant rector of Christ Church and St. Peter's, and became rector of both churches April, 1779. From the be- ginning of the struggle for independence, he took decided ground in favor of the Colonies, and as soon as the Declaration of Independence was announced, dropped from the form of prayer the petition for the King, and took the oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. When cautioned of his danger as a minister of the Church of England, he responded, "I know my danger, * * * but I trust in Providence: the cause is a just one and I am persuaded will be protected." September, 1777, on the defection of Rev. Jacob Duche, he was appointed Chap- lain to the Continental Congress, and continued as such and of the United States Congress, until the removal of the latter to New York, and on its return to Phila- delphia was again and successively re-elected to that position until the removal to the District of Columbia, 1801. In 1782, reaHzing that the Episcopal Church could not survive without organiza- tion, he issued a pamphlet urging its establishment, apart from English jurisdic- tion, but peace, soon declared between the two countries, made this unnecessary. September 14, 1786, he was unanimously elected Bishop of Pennsylvania, and sailing for England, was consecrated there, February 4, 1787, in Lambeth Chapel, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and two other others. SaiUng again for home, he arrived in Philadelphia, April 7, 1787, earnestly took up the work of organizing the church in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and during his long life ever took an active and decided interest in the moral, spiritual and intellectual development of the city of his birth. At the age of twenty-six years he was elected a trustee of the College of Philadelphia, and filled that position in it and its successor, the University of Pennsylvania, until his death, 1836, a period of sixty-two years. He was a founder of the Episcopal Academy, and gave his active and vigorous support to all that pertained to the best interests of the city, consistent with his office as the titular head of his church. He opposed the acceptance by the city of the devise of Stephen Girard, for the founding of Girard College, on the ground that the exclusion of religious training would work incalculable harm to the students there instructed. He was simple, unaffected, earnest, fond of society and its innocent diversions, and despised bigotry and affectation. I048 MONTGOMERY Bishop White married, February ii, 1773, Mary, daughter of Capt. Henry Harrison, who had come to Philadelphia from Lancashire, England, member of Common Council, 1757; Alderman, 1761, and Mayor, 1762, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Mathew Aspden. She died December 13, 1797, and he, July 17, 1836, aged eighty-eight years. They were parents of eight children, of whom five, Ann, Henry Harrison, William, a second Henry Harrison and a daughter unnamed died in childhood ; the three who survived were : Elizabeth, b. 1776, m. Gen. William MacPherson, who had been Adjutant of i6th Regi- ment in English army before the Revolution, and refusing to fight against his countrymen had resigned, and joined the American army; was commissioned Major; was later surveyor of Port of Phila., and Naval Officer and Brigadier General in the U. S. A.; Mary, m. Enos Bronson, of Conn., editor of United States Gazette, published in Phila. She d. 1826. Thomas Harrison White, only son of the Bishop, was born in Philadelphia, November 12, 1779, and followed the business of a wholesale wine merchant there some years. He married Mary Key, who died March 23, 1814, daughter of Daniel Charles and Mary (Key) Heath, of Baltimore. Thomas Harrison White died October 15, 1859. Issue of Thomas Harrison and Mary (Key) White: Mary Harrison White, b. Nov. 9, 1805, d. Aug. 2, 1875; m. James Montgomery, D. D.; Rebecca, d. unm. ; William, member of Phila. Bar, d. 1858; George Harrison, midshipman in U. S. N., resigned and engaged in dry-goods business in Phila.; later again entered navy as a purser, and followed the sea until his death, 1868; m. Margaret Wharton, dau. of Jacob Smith, Esq., of Phila., and has a number of descendants living in Phila.; Richard Heath White, d. inf. The English ancestry of Col. Thomas White, of Maryland and Philadelphia, traced back many generations, by his great-great-grandson, Thomas Harrison Montgomery, was published 1877, in connection with an account of the reunion of the descendants held at "Sophia's Dairy," the old homestead on the Bush River, Maryland, June 7, 1877. Thomas Harrison Montgomery, second son of James Montgomery, D. D., by his second marriage with Mary Harrison White, was born at 987 Arch street, Philadelphia, February 27, 1830, and was baptized at St. Stephen's Qiurch, of which his father was then rector, April 7, 1830, by his great-grandfather, the ven- erable Bishop White. He was but a child of four years at the death of his father and was reared by his good mother, with whom he lived in the most pious and filial intimacy. In 1836 his mother, on the death of her grandfather, Bishop White, moved to 224 Walnut street, where she kept house for her father for two years, and then returned to the Spruce street house where her husband had died, and resided there with her little family until 1856, when she and her son, Thomas Harrison, removed to Germantown, residing together on Church Lane (Mill street) up to the time of his marriage. The companionship of his pious and gifted mother exerted the deepest influence on the whole life and character of her son. Mr. Montgomery's earliest education was acquired at Mr. Bonnar's private school, with a few terms at the grammar school under Dr. Crawford, in Fourth MONTGOMERY 1049 street, birthplace of University of Pennsylvania, and later at Dr. Fairies' famous classical school. He was a frequent attendant at lectures at the Franklin Institute and the old college, but the greater and better part of his education he acquired from his mother, and through his own broad and assiduous reading; particularly on the lines of travel, geography and history. It was always a matter of regret to him that he could not take a college course as did his half-brothers, but the careful, self-reHant intellectual training he acquired under the guidance of his mother more than compensated for this loss. He early acquired the habit of expressing his thoughts on matters that came under his observation, by the writing of a journal which he began at the age of fifteen years. On March 23, 1847, he found his first remunerative employment in the large drug establishment of Charles Ellis & Company, at 56 Chestnut street, in connec- tion with which he took a course in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1848-9, and 1850-1, receiving his diploma from that institution April 4, 1851. In January, 1852, in partnership with his friend, Samuel E. Shinn, under firm name of Mont- gomery & Shinn, he bought out the drug store at Broad and Spruce streets, but ill health compelled him to abandon the business two years later. On his removal to Germantown, 1856, he began his genealogical studies, which resulted in the publication of the "History and Pedigree of Montgomery," 1863. During this period he devoted much time to study and ecclesiastical and charitable work. He was rector's warden of the Church of Holy Cross, Germantown, 1856, and later member of the vestry of St. Luke's Church until his removal from Germantown. He also conducted for several years a Bible class for young men, which he had organized. During his residence in Germantown, Mr. Montgomery became intimately asso- ciated with the family of Dr. Samuel George Morton, the eminent physician, anthropologist and scientist, an account of whom and his family is given elsewhere in these volumes, and, i860, married his daughter, Anna Morton, and settled on Morton street, Germantown, later removing to Shoemaker Lane, Germantown. At the outbreak of the Civil War, though the state of his health would not permit him to go to the front, he drilled with the troops then being recruited. In 1863 he was elected secretary of the Enterprise Insurance Company ; became its vice- president, 1864, and a director, 1866; thus becoming identified with the business wherein he achieved especial distinction by organizing and placing upon a safe financial basis the insurance institutions of Philadelphia and vicinity. In 1871, while convalescent from a severe attack of congestion of the lungs, he wrote the "Genealogy of General Richard Montgomery." Failing to regain his norpial health, on the advice of his physician, he decided to spend the winter at the south, and, October, 1871, sailed from New York for Frederickstadt, Island of St. Croix. A six months' sojourn there saved his life and made him physically stronger than he had ever been before. On October 31, 1871, the Enterprise In- surance Company failed, owing to heavy losses in the great Chicago fire, and on his return to Philadelphia, Mr. Montgomery was, in 1872, appointed general agent of the National Board of Underwriters, and the same year removed with his fam- ily to New York. This responsible position he filled six years, and on his retire- ment, 1878, was the subject of complimentary testimonials to his good work, in all the leading insurance journals, as well as of resolutions adopted by the National Board. In 1878 he accepted the position of manager of the department of per- I050 MONTGOMERY petual insurance, in the Insurance Company of North America, Philadelphia. In 1880, he was elected vice-president of the American Fire Insurance Company, in the same city, and, 1882, became its president, which office he filled until his death. While residing in New York, Mr. Alontgomery was a trustee of the Church of Holy Communion, and was active in founding several charitable societies. On his return to Philadelphia, 1879, he became a member of his ancestral parish, Christ Church, acting for many years as accounting warden, and worshipping at Christ Church chapel. He continued his historical studies and writings, and was a frequent attendant at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. In 1877 he pre- pared a monogram on the descendants of Thomas White, read at a reunion of the descendants held at "Sophia's Dairy," on the Bush River, Maryland, June 7, 1877. In 1882, he purchased a country place near West Chester, Chester county, Penn- sylvania, which he named Ardrossan, after one of the ]\lontgomery family castles in Ayrshire, Scotland, and this became his home for twenty-three years. Mr. Montgomery was elected to the vestry of the Church of Holy Trinity, West Chester, Pennsylvania, and filled the position of rector's warden there until his death. In 1885 he published a history of the Insurance Company of North America, the oldest insurance company in America. Among his other numerous publications of an historical nature, were the "Smith Family of New York," 1879; "Battle of Monmouth as described by Dr. James McHenry, Secretary to General Washing- ton," 1879; "AIss. Notes on the Church in America, by William White, 1747- 1836," New York, 1877; "First Vestrymen of Christ Church," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1895 ; "Diary of Lieut. Francis Nicholls, of Col. William Thompson's Battery, of Pennsylvania Riflemen, January to Septem- ber, 1776," Ibid, vol. XX., 1896; "History of the University of Pennsylvania, from its Foundation to 1770, including Biographical Sketches of Trustees and Faculty;" besides which he completed, 1903, the manuscript history of the Dulany, Heath and Key families. He travelled very extensively in this country and Canada, and made three trips to Europe, 1887-89-91, each time visiting the ancient homes of his ancestors in Scotland. He spent the winters of 1903-4 and 1904-5 at his house, 181 5 DeLancy Place, and died there April 4, 1905. He was buried beside his parents at the Church of St. James the Less, Falls of Schuylkill. His wife and all his children survive him. Mr. Montgomery held membership in the following organizations : The Prot- estant Episcopal Academy, of which he was for a time a trustee; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, since 1866, of which he was a member of the publication committee from that date, and of its council since 1880; life member of the New York Historical Society; member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; the Ethnological Society of New York; the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania; one of the founders of the Society of Colonial Wars, and a mem- ber of its council since 1895; member of the Sons of the Revolution; of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; director of the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society. He was always active in charitable work, and was a man of deep relig- ious feeling and faith. He was throughout his whole life one of the most vigorous supporters and members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and wherever he MONTGOMERY 105 1 was located he was public spirited, giving freely of interest and means. In 1901 he received from the University of Pennsylvania the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. Issue of Thomas Harrison and Anna (Morton) Montgomery: Rebecca Morton Montgomery; Mary White Montgomery; James Alan Montgomery, b. Germantown, June 13, 1866; Professor in Phila. Divinity School; m. (first) Mary F., dau. of Rev. Frank Owen, M. A., British Chaplain at Berlin; d. s. p. He m. (second) Edith, dau. of Newcomb B. Thompson, Esq., by whom he had issue — ^James Alan Montgomery, Jr., Thomas Harrison Montgomery, 3d; Samuel George Morton Montgomery, b. Germantown, May 11, 1868; rector of the As- cension, Parkesburg, Pa.; Anna Morton Montgomery; Thomas Harrison Montgomery, b. N. Y. City, March 5, 1873; Professor in Univ. of Texas; m. Anna Prisciila, dau. of John Braislin, Esq., of Crosswicks, N. J.; issue: Thomas Roger Montgomery; Hugh Montgomery. William White Montgomery, b. N. Y. City, Oct. 28, 1874; Charles Mortimer Montgomery, M. D., b. N. Y. City, Oct. 23, 1876; Emily Hollingsworfh Montgomery. John Crathorne Montgomery, third son of John and Mary (Crathorne) Montgomery, of Philadelphia, was born in that city November 7, 1792, and re- sided there many years, subsequently residing on his estate called "Eglinton" on the Hudson, in New York, and, 1855, removed to New York City, where he died August 5, 1867. He married (first), November 25, 1817, Elizabeth Henrietta, born in Philadelphia, August 31, 1797, died July 11, 1850, daughter of Henry Phillips, who died in Philadelphia, February 11, 1800 (son of John and Sarah Phillips, of Bank Hall, county of Lancaster, England, and grandson of Nathaniel Phillips, of Heath House, county of Stafford), by his wife, Sophia, born Novem- ber 13, 1769, died September 3, 1841, daughter of Chief Justice Benjamin Chew. John Crathorne was prominent in the affairs of Philadelphia, and was at one time postmaster of the city. He married (second), November 27, 1855, Caroline, daughter of Jeremiah Rogers, of New York, and spent the remainder of his life in New York. Issue of John Crathorne and Elizabeth H. (Phillips) Montgomery: John Phillips, b. Sept. 28, 1818, d. Feb. 15, 1875; member of Phila. Bar; m. Nov. 13. 1851, Anna Bowker Clayton, of Lynchburg, Va.; Rev. Henry EgHnton, b. Dec. 9, 1820, d. Oct. 15, 1874; ordained minister of P. E. Church June 28, 1846; rector of All Saints Church, Phila., until 1855, then removed to N. Y. City, and became rector of Church of the Incarnation; m. Sept. 10, 1846, Margaret Augusta, dau. of Judge James Lynch, of N. Y., by his wife, Jeanette Maria, dau. of Dr. Thomas Tillotson, a surgeon during the Revolution, and subsequently Secretary of State of New York, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Chancellor Livings- ton. Dr. Montgomery graduated at Univ. of Pa., with degree of A. M., 1839, was attache of U. S. Legation, Denmark, 1841-2; received degree of Doctor of Divinity at the Univ. 1863; Oswald Crathorne, b. Phila., Aug. 24, 1822, d. Jan. 19, 1891; m. Oct. 3, 1849, Catharine Gertrude, dau. of George W. and Ann (Smith) Lynch, of N. Y., cousin of Judge Lynch, before mentioned; issue: Charles Howard, b. July 16, 1850; m. Fanny Hickman; issue: Mary Oswald; Charles Berwind. George, b. Oct. 28, 1851, d. Feb. 22, 1852; Henry Eglinton, b. Dec. 25, 1852, d. Feb. 10, 1877; I052 MONTGOMERY Thomas Lynch Montgomery, librarian Pa. State Library, b. March 4, 1862; m. 1889, Brinca Georgianna, dau. of Richard A. Gilpin. Austin James, b. Oct. 27, 1824; m. Nov. 10, 1858, Cordelia Riche; Capt. James Eglinton Montgomery, b. Dutchess county, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1826; civil engineer; Captain and Assistant Adjutant General U. S. Volunteers Oct. 21, 1861, Major Aug. i, 1864, Aide-de-Campe on staffs of Generals Newton, Slocum, Canby, Martindale, Granger, Cadwalader and Hancock; mustered out July 10, 1866; private secretary to Admiral Farragut 1867-70, and with him visited every European country; m. (first) Nina, dau. of Jones Tilghman, of Talbot county, Md., by whom he had issue: Lloyd Phillips Montgomery; Elizabeth Phillips Montgomery; Ann Caroline Montgomery; Arthur Eglinton MSntgomery; Edward Lea Montgomery. He m. (second) Mary Seymour Walker, by whom he had issue ; Hugh Eglinton Montgomery, b. 1881. Major Montgomery held several American Consulships abroad, and is now residing at Pasadena, Cal.; Charles Howard Montgomery, b. Sept. 27, 1828, d. May 8, 1848; Sophia Henrietta Montgomery, b. Oct. 16, 1830, d. Dec. 22, 1836; Benjamin Chew Montgomery, b. Jan. i, 1833, d. July 15, 1856; Hartman Phillips Montgomery, b. Sept. 25, 1834; admitted to Phila. Bar July lo, 1850; d. Maysville, Cal., Jan. 22, 1870; Mary Crathorne Montgomery, b. Jan. 20, 1837; m. Sept. 26, 1859, Eugene Tillotson, son of Judge James Lynch, of N. Y. GILLINGHAM FAMILY. Yeamans Gillingham, the ancestor of the Philadelphia and Bucks county family of that name, came from one of the southern counties of England, probably either Kent or Dorset, to Pennsylvania, before 1690; the first record of his resi- dence in this province being the marriage register of Middletown Monthly Meet- ing, Bucks county, where he appears as a witness to the wedding of William Smith and Mary Croasdale, at the house of John Chapman, in Wrightstown town- ship, 9mo. 20, 1690. The following year he purchased one hundred acres of land in Oxford town- ship, Philadelphia county, "By the Mill Race and fronting Tacony Road and ye King's Road," the deed to him from Thomas Fairman (one of Penn's Commission- ers of Property), being dated August 31, 1691. This was in what is now the central part of Frankford, bounded by Frankford creek. Church street, and Frankford road to the Arsenal or River road on the east. On September 26, 1712, he purchased an- other lot of ground in the same locality from John Worrell, and appears to have been seized of other property there. He is mentioned on the tax list of Oxford township as having paid six shillings tax in 1693. He belonged to Abington Meeting of the Society of Friends (as did the other early Frankford Friends), and on 8mo. 31, 1720, was chosen one of its overseers, Richard Worrell being the other. He died about June, 1722, and his will, dated May 9, 1722, was proved at Philadelphia July 21, of that year. By it he left all his estate, real and personal, to his wife, Mary, except fifty pounds each to his sons, James and John. Yeamans Gillingham married, presumably after his arrival in Philadelphia, Mary Taylor, who came from the same part of England about the same time he did. She died in November, 1727, and her will, dated October 20, was proved in Philadelphia, November 20, all in the same year. Of the landed estate left her by her husband she bequeathed only two lots of meadow land in Frankford, each of about two acres, to her daughters, Ann, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth and Susannah, and two acres out of the large plantation "on the mill race and Tacony road" to her two sons, James and John. The main part of the land she did not dispose of by the will, and it was sold by the heirs at a later date. Issue of Yeamans and Mary (Taylor) Gillingham: Rebecca, m. (first) William Wright, of Dublin (Phila. Co); (second) Kirk; liv- ing i2mo. 6, 1766; Ann, b. smo. 8, 1694; m. Henry Paul, of Phila.; Mary, b. lomo. 21, 1698; m. James Willson, of the Northern Liberties, Phila.; Sarah, b. gmo. 27, i6gg, d. before Smo. 5, 1731 ; Ehzabeth, b. 2mo. 22, 1705-6; m. Samuel Eastburn, of Solebury township, Bucks co. ; James, b. Smo. 2, 1708, of whom presently; John, b. smo. 12, 1710; m. Smo. 21, 1735, Ann Jacob; lived in Phila.; Susannah, b. iimo. 29, 1712, d. before 8mo. 5, 1731. J.\MES Gillingham, born on the plantation on Tacony road, Oxford township, Philadelphia, Smo. 2, 1708, eldest son of Yeamans and Mary (Taylor) GiUingham, removed to Bucks county, receiving a certificate from Abington Friends Meeting, IOS4 GILLINGHAM 4mo. 29, 1730, which he presented to Buckingham Monthly Meeting. He settled in Buckingham township, and on October 5, 1731, joined in a deed with the other heirs of Yeamans and Mary Gillingham, his father and mother, for the Frankford property. He died in Bucks county, November 4, 1745, and letters of adminis- tration were granted upon his estate in 1747. James Gillingham married, 3mo. 4, 1730, at Abington Meeting, Martha Canby (born March 9, 1705-6), daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Jarvis) Canby, who married (second) Joseph Duer, of Solebury. Thomas Canby was born in 1667, and was the son of Benjamin Canby, of Thorn, Yorkshire, England. He came to Pennsylvania with his mother's brother, Henry Baker, in the ship "Vine," of Liverpool, arriving in Philadelphia, Septem- ber 17, 1684. He lived for some years on the plantation of his uncle in Bucks county. The uncle, Henry Baker, was one of the leading men of the county, a member of Assembly and justice of the county courts. Thomas Canby married three times, (first), gmo. 2, 1693, to Sarah Jarvis, who was the mother of his daughter, Martha, who married James Gillingham; (second), 2mo. 4, 1709, to Mary, daughter of Evan and Jean Oliver; and (third), 8mo. 9, 1722, to James Preston, a widow. Thomas Canby was prominent in Bucks county, being appointed justice of the county courts, in 1719-22-25-26-27 and 38, and was a member of Provincial As- sembly, 1721-22-30-33 and 38. His son, Oliver, removed to New Castle county, now Delaware, and for many years owned and operated a mill on BrandyTvine creek, which is said to have been the first in operation on that stream. He was the ancestor of a branch of the family, which has long been one of the leading families in and about Wilmington, Delaware, one with which a number of the prominent families of Philadelphia have intermarried at different periods. Issue of James and Martha (Canby) Gillingham: John, b. imo. 19, 1731; m. (first) lomo. 17, 1754, Sarah, dau. of Benjamin and Hannah (Towne) Taylor, of Newtown twp., Bucks co.; and (second) lOmo. 21, 1761, Sarah White, dau. of Joseph and Martha (Taylor) White, of Falls twp., Bucks co., and cousin to his first wife. They were the great-grandparents of J. Gillingham Fell, late of Phila. John Gillingham lived and d. in Buckingham, Bucks co.; Yeamans, b. 8mo. 15, 1734; of whom presently; James, b. 6mo. 30, 1736, d. 2mo. 1, 1781 ; m. 2mo. 15, 1763, Phebe, dau. of John and Han- nah (Lewis) Hallowell, of Phila.; Martha, b. 8mo. 9, 1738; m. 6mo. 9, 1763, Jonathan Kinsey, of Buckingham, Bucks co., son of Samuel and Elizabeth Kinsey; Thomas, b. imo. 16, 1740, lived in Phila.; Joseph, b. 5mo. 14, 1743, d. smo. 17, 1794; m. 5mo. 25, 1768, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Harvey, of Falls, Bucks co.; Mary, b. smo. 26, 1746, d. imo. 21, 1746-7; Lavinia, d. prior to 1757; Benjamin, d. prior to 1757. Yeamans Gillingham, second son of James and Martha (Canby) Gillingham, born in Bucks county, Smo. 15, 1734, after his marriage lived for a time in Sole- bury township, Bucks county, and about 1792, moved to Oxford township, Phila- delphia county, where he resided on the greater part of the original plantation of his grandfather, which he had purchased after it had been out of the family many years. The Friends' Meeting House, on Unity street, Frankford, was built on land given for that purpose by Yeamans Gillingham. He divided his land, during GILLINGHAM 1055 his lifetime, amongst liis eight surviving sons ; the deed to his son, Yeamans Gill- ingham, Jr., from "Yeamans Gillingham, of Frankford, in the county of Philadel- phia, Gentleman, and Bridget his wife," was dated 4mo. i, 1807. He died at Frankford, 2mo. 26, 1825. He married (first), i2mo. 21, 1763, at Buckingham Meeting, in Bucks county, Ruth Preston, born gmo. 15, 1742, died 3mo. 25, 1765, daughter of William and Deborah (Cheeseman) Preston, of Bucks county, and had issue — William, born 3mo. 12, 1765, died 4mo. 18, 1765. He married (second), imo. 13, 1768, at Falls Meeting, Bucks county, Bridget, b. lomo. 21, 1743, died 4mo. 9, 1825, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Lucas) Moon, and great-granddaughter of James Moon, and Robert Lucas, who were among the founders of Bucks county. Robert Lucas, of Beverall, Longbridge, in the county of Wilts, England, arrived in the Delaware river, 4mo. 4, 1679, in the ship "Elizabeth and Sarah," of Wey- mouth, and Elizabeth, his wife, arrived in the ship "Content," of London, in 7mo., 1680, with her eight children, John, Giles, Edward, Robert, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Mary and Sarah. Robert Lucas received a grant of 177 acres of land, below the Fails, on the west side of the Delaware, from Edmond Andross, Governor General under the Duke of York, and it was confirmed by patent from William Penn, 5mo. 3[, 1684. This land he devised to his son, Edward. Robert Lucas was a Justice of Upland Court, 1681, member of Provincial Assembly, 1683, 1687 and 1688, and was a member of the first grand jury in Pennsylvania, summoned 3mo. 2, 1683. His will was signed lomo. 6, 1687, and he died in Bucks county in 1688. His will mentions his wife, Elizabeth, and sons, Edward, Robert, Giles and John, and provides for his younger children who are not mentioned by name. Edward Lucas, son of Robert and Elizabeth, was Supervisor of Highways for Falls township in 1730. He married, 7mo. 3, 1700, Bridget Scott, at the house of Thomas Lambert, in New Jersey, under the care of Chesterfield Friends' Meeting. 'I heir daughter, Elizabeth Lucas, married James Moon, and was the mother of Bridget (Moon) GilHngham. James Moon and Joan, his wife, came from Gloucestershire, England, and set- tled in Falls township, near Morrisville, in 1688. Their son, Roger Moon, married Ann Nutt, 8mo. 23, 1708, and their eldest son, James Moon, born imo., 1713, died 5mo. 9, 1796, married (second) 3mo. 18, 1742, Elizabeth Lucas, before mentioned, and the only surviving child of this marriage was Bridget, who became the wife of Yeamans Gillingham. The will of Yeamans Gillingham was signed, 8mo. 4, 1824, and proven, 5mo. 9, 1825. He and his wife, Bridget, are buried side by side in the graveyard of Frankford Meeting. Issue of Yeamans and Bridget (Moon) Gillingham: James, b. i2mo. 27, 1768, d. 6mo. 5, 1865; m. lomo. 3, 1792, Sarah, dau. of James and Mary (Smith) Wood, of Chester co.; Thomas, b. lomo. 15, 1770, d. April I, i860; m. (first) 1791, Mary Heywood; (second) 1799, Gulielma Spicer, a second cousin; Moses, b. 9mo. 4, 1772, d. lomo. 12, 1829; m. gmo. 2, 1794, Martha Kirkner; John, b. gmo. 30, 1774, d. at Frankfort, unm.; Matthias, b. 2mo. 25, 1776, d. 1797, at Franford, unm.; Yeamans, b. 3mo. 9, 1778, d. 6mo. 3, 1827; m. 4mo. 23, 1803, Sarah Lewis, of Chester CO.; Joseph, b. Smo. ,3, 1780, d. 5mo. 3, 1867; of whom presently; I056 GILLINGHAM Mahlon, b. 7mo. 27, 1782, d. i2mo. 8, 1873; m. lomo. 6, 1808, Susan Clarke, of Prince- ton, N. J.; Stacy, b. iimo. 16, 1784, d. lomo. 12, 1839; at New Orleans, La.; m. i2mo. 4, 1804, Grace Harper, of Frankford, Phila. Joseph Gillixgham, the seventh son of Yeamans and Bridget (Moon) Gilling- ham, born on his father's farm near Carversville, in Solebury township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August 3, 1780, became an eminent merchant in Philadel- phia, living at 66 ^Market street (now No. 223 and occupied by the National State Bank of Camden). He afterwards purchased a country place near Holmesburg, called "'Bellevue," and lived there until 1839, when he removed to a house on the original purchase of his great-grandfather, Yeamans GiUingham, at Frankford, now No. 4419 Frankford avenue, opposite the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Station. In January, 1844, he moved to a house on Twelfth street, Philadelphia, and latei to 1235 Spring Garden street, where he died May 3, 1867. This house is still occupied by some of his children. Joseph Gillingham was one of the pioneers in the introduction of anthracite coal into commerce, and with Joseph White, sold to the city of Philadelphia the water-power of the Schuylkill river for the use of the Fairmount Water Works in 1819. He married, 4mo. 14, 1802, in Buckingham Friends' IMeeting House, Re- becca, daughter of Samuel Harrold, of Bucks county, by his wife, Rachel (Smith) Carver. She was bom in Buckingham township Bucks county, 3mo. 19, 1783, and died in Philadelphia, 3mo. 10, 1871. Samuel Harrold, great-grandfather of Rebecca (Harrold) Gillingham, was born in Normandy, France. He went to Holland and received a lieutenant's com- mission under William, Prince of Orange, afterwards William HI., of England, and accompanied William to England. He was one of those besieged in London- derry, Ireland, and frequently related to his grandson, Samuel Harrold, the suffer- ings endured during that siege. At tlie battle of the Boyne, fought July, 1690, he was severely wounded, and being relieved from active service settled in Ireland, and established there factories for the manufacture of linen. William Harrold, son of Samuel, married Isabella Elliot, also said to have been of Norman descent. Samuel Harrold, son of William and Isabella (Elliot) Harrold, was born in county Cavan, province of Ulster, Ireland, in 1728, and came to America in 1745- He married (first) Elizabeth Russel, and had several children ; she died 5mo. 15, 1777, and he married (second) iimo. 10, 1779, at Buckingham Meeting, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Rachel (Smith), widow of Henry Carver, of Buckingham, and daughter of William and Rebecca (Wilson) Smith; their children were David, born i2mo. 7, 1780; Rebecca, married Joseph Gillingham; Samuel, died lomo. 29, 1803; and Rachel, died 5mo. 18, 1824. Samuel Harrold was an extensive land- holder and prominent man in Buckingham. William Smith, the grandfather of the second wife of Samuel Harrold, was a native of Yorkshire, England, and arrived in the Delaware river in the ship, "Friends Adventure," 7mo. 28, 1684. He purchased land in Wrightstown township, Bucks county, of John Chapman, and afterwards received patents for several hundred acres adjoining, extending to Newtown towTiship, and Neshaminy creek. He married, 9mo. 20, 1690, at the house of John Chapman, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Agnes Croasdale. It GILLINGHAM 1057 was as a witness to this marriage that the name of Yeamans GilHngham first ap- pears in Pennsylvania. Thomas Croasdale, of New Hoy, Yorkshire, England, by deeds of lease and release from William Penn, dated April 21 and 22, 1682, purchased 1000 acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania, and came to Pennsylvania in the "Welcome" with William Penn in the same year, accompanied by his wife, Agnes Hathorn- waite, whom he had married at Wyerside, Yorkshire, 3mo. i, 1664, and their children among whom was the above-named Mary, who married William Smith. She was born in Yorkshire, 8mo. 31, 1669. The Croasdales settled in Bucks county, where 500 acres of their land had been laid out, and the family has always been one of the highest standing in that county. William Smith's wife, Mary Croasdale, died in 1716, leaving eight children, and he married a second time and had seven other children. He died in 1743. William Smith, Jr., son of William and Mary (Croasdale) Smith, born iimo. 2, 1697, married at Middletown Meeting, 2mo. 8, 1722-3, Rebecca, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Baker) Wilson, and after his father's death purchased of his brothers nearly all the landed estate possessed by his father, and later an additional tract in Upper Makefield township. He was Coroner of Bucks county, 1749-51 ; and a member of Provincial Assembly 1753-65, continuously, thirteen terms. His daughter, Rachel, born 5mo. 3, 1737, married (first) in 1755, Henry Carver, and (second) Samuel Harrold, before mentioned. Henry Baker, grandfather of Rebecca (Wilson) Smith, was of New Town, Lancashire, England, Smo. 6, 1667, when he married, under the auspices of Hard- shaw West Monthly Meeting, Margaret Hardman, of Aspull, Lancashire, and settled in West Darby, Lancashire. On 3mo. 27, 1684, they received from Hard- shaw Meeting a certificate to remove themselves and their family "into the Prov- ince of Pensilvania in America," which certificate gives them a very high recom- mendation as to honesty and sobriety. They sailed from Dolyseme, Merioneth- shire, Wales, in the ship "Vine," of Liverpool, and arrived at Philadelphia, 7mo. 17, 1684, accompanied by their five daughters and two sons, "Thomas Canby, his sister's son," and several servants. They settled in Bucks county, where he took up several large tracts of land, and where he became one of the most prominent mentmenof hisday. He was foremanof the first grand jury of the county; overseer of highways ; Justice of the county courts, and a member of Provincial Assembly, 1685-87-88-90 and 98. He married (second) at his own house, under the care of Middletown Meeting, 8mo. 13, 1692, Mary, widow of James Radcliffe, a native of Lancashire, and an eminent minister among Friends. His daughter, Sarah Baker, born at West Darby, Lancashire, Smo. 16, 1672, married at the same time and place, Stephen Wilson, of West Jersey, carpenter, who died 8mo. 29, 1707, and she married (second), in 1709, Isaac Milnor, and died 2mo. 29, 1715. Her first husband and the father of Rebecca Wilson, born 6mo. 29, 1701, who married William Smith, was one of the most active of the members of Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks county, though residing across the river in New Jersey, near the Falls. During the winter months a Meeting was held at his house. He had charge of the erection of the first Friends' Meeting House in Buckingham at the time of his decease. ios8 GILLINGHAM Issue of Joseph and Rebecca (Harrold) Gillinghani : Rachel Harrold, b. 4mo. 8, 1803, d. 6mo. 24, 1803; Samuel Harrold, b. 7mo. 31, 1804, d. 2mo. 10, 1854; of whom presently; Mary Ann, b. 7mo. 30, 1806, d. 8mo. 3, 1807; Anna, b. i2mo. 5, 1807, d. 7mo. 21, 1869; m. June 12, 1833, at "Bellevue," near Holmes- burg, John Ferris, son of Edward and Lydia (Grubb) Gilpin, being his second wife. They had two children, Rebecca Harrold, m. Fairman Rogers, and George, b. Phila., Dec. 21, 1830, m. Sarah C. Winston; EmmeHne, b. Iimo. 11, 1809, d. imo. 23, 1877; m. lomo. 13, 1842, Dilworth Buckman; lived at Fox Chase, Phila. CO., until March 9, 1852, when they removed to Accotink, Va., where she d. ; Elizabeth, b. l2rao. 20, 181 1, d. lomo. 12, 1879, unm.; Rebecca Harrold, b. ilmo. 12, 1813, d. 6mo. IS, 1888, unm.; Josephine, b. 3mo. 3, 1816, d. 4mo. 12, 1817; Joseph Harrold, b. 8mo. 18, 1818, d. 3mo. 7, 1900, in Phila., bur. at Laurel Hill Cemetery; Catharine, b. 11 mo. 20, 1820, unm.; Frances, b. 7mo. 2, 1823, d. 2mo. 22, 1894, bur. at Laurel Hill; Caroline, b. gmo. 17, 1825, unm. Samuel Harrold Gillixgham, eldest son of Joseph and Rebecca (Harrold) Gillingham, born July 31, 1804, died in Philadelphia, February 10, 1854. He married (first), December 12, 1823, at Frankford Meeting, Lucy Lewis Eddy, born May 10, 1803, died September i, 1836, ninth child of George Eddy, of Philadelphia, by his wife Hester, daughter of Ellis Lewis, of Philadelphia, by his second wife, Mary Deshler. Ellis Lewis, was a descendant of the Lords of Nan- nan, Merionethshire, Wales; and Lucy Lewis Eddy also descended from Nathan- iel Newlin, of Chester county, member of Assembly, and from Nicholas Newlin, Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania, in 1685. An account of her ancestry fol- lows this sketch. Samuel Harrold Gillingham married (second), in Philadelphia, June 30, 1839, Louisa M. (Stitcher) Hubbs, a widow, daughter of John and Sarah (Clemens) Stitcher. Issue of Samuel H. and Lucy Lewis (Eddy) Gillingham: Frances Eddy, b. Oct. 4, 1827, d. May 11, 1896; m. March 23, 1852, Dr. Jared Kibbee, of Port Huron, Mich., of which city he was Mayor in 1866. They had issue: Ada Follonsbee Kibbee, m. Theodore R. Wright; Lucy Eddy Kibbee; Harrold Gillingham Kibbee; Henry Clinton Kibbee, m. Louise Halbig; Eleanor P. Kibbee; Frances Lewis Kibbee, m. Cyrus Alvin Hovey. Harrold, b. Sept. 15, 1828, d. Sept. 4, 1829; Rebecca Harrold, b. Sept., 1829, d. inf.; Joseph Eddy, b. July 6, 1830, d. Nov. 7, 1905; of whom presently; Lucy Eddy, b. Sept. 8, 1831, d. Nov. 9, 1832; Lewis Eddy, b. May 17, 1833, d. inf.; George Eddy, b. April, 1835, d. inf.; Louis Harrold, b. July 3, 1836, d. Dec. 14, 1899, in Phila.; m. June 12, 1859, Louise M. Bartle, and had issue : William B. Gillingham; Hattie W. Gillingham. Issue of Samuel H. and Louisa M. (Hubbs) Gillingham: Frank Clemens Gillingham, b. April 14 1840; of whom later. GILLINGHAM 1059 Joseph Eddy Gillingham, eldest son of Samuel Harrold and Lucy Lewis (Eddy) Gillingham, born in Philadelphia, July 6, 1830, was a birthright member in the Society of Friends, and was educated at the Friends' Central School, Phila- delphia. In 1854 he engaged in the lumber business, later organizing the firm of Gillingham & Garrison, afterwards incorporated under the title of Gillingham, Garrison & Company, Ltd., the largest dealers in lumber in the city of Philadel- phia. He built and was president of the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Street Rail- way until it was absorbed by the Union Traction Company. He was the first president of, and up to the time of his death a director of, the Mortgage Trust Company of Pennsylvania; a director of The Investment Company of Philadel- phia; of the American Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia; of the Lancaster Avenue Improvement Company; and of the Bell Telephone Company. He was also president of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company, whose Board of Directors, on November 14, 1905, adopted resolutions on his death in part as fol- lows : "Resolved, That we have received, with deep regret and sorrow, the in- telligence of the death of our late colleague, Joseph E. Gillingham, who for over twenty-five years has been actively associated with us in the management of the affairs of this Company, and during twenty of those years has presided at our meetings with unfailing and impartial courtesy. We desire to place on record our high appreciation of his able and faithful service as Director, and President, and of the uniform cordial kindness that has endeared him to us as a friend, and of the exceptional services rendered by him in the early period of his presidency, during a very trying time in the Company's history, which were of inestimable value." Mr. Gillingham was for a number of years, and until his death, one of the managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, in which he took a special interest and pride, and to which he was a large benefactor during his life and to which also he left a generous bequest. In 1902 he caused to be erected and presented to the Hospital, a building on the grounds of the Women's Department of the Hospital for the Insane, in West Philadelphia, known as the "GiUingham Memorial Build- ing." On one of two tablets in the vestibule is the following inscription : ERECTED ANNO DOMINI 1902 BY JOSEPH E. GILLINGHAM IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE CLARA DONALDSON GILLINGHAM Mr. Gillingham was one of the founders and a frequent contributor to the Veterinary Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was one of the managers from its inception to the time of his death. In this connection it is of interest to note that the investigations conducted in 1892, by Dr. Leonard Pear- don, a professor in this department, at Mr. Gillingham's request, on the condition of the latter's valuable herd of cattle at his country place, "Clairemont," near Villanova Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in Lower Merion, Montgomery county, gave a great impetus to the scientific study and treatment of tuberculosis in cattle, and was the first instance of such an investigation on a large scale in this country. The Medical News in publishing an account of it, in the issue of March 26, 1892, makes this comment: "Mr. Gillingham's action is an example of io6o GILLINGHAM public spiritedness that has seldom been equalled, and the public would profit, immeasurably if others would follow a similar course." In addition to his active efforts and donations in behalf of the Veterinary Department, during his lifetime, he left it a substantial bequest, as he likewise did Haverford College, Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, and the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia. He was also connected with a number of charitable organizations of the city and vicinity. Those mentioned in his will, with most of which he had an official con- nection, were: Bryn Mawr Hospital, Norristown Charity Hospital, Hospital of the Church of the Good Shepherd, near Rosemont, Maternity Hospital, Phila- delphia, Merchants' Fund of Philadelphia, Kensington Soup Society,- Penn Asylum for Indigent ^Vidows and Single Women, Union Benevolent Association of Phila- delphia, Old Men's Home, Home for Incurables, and the Central Branch Young Men's Christian Association; to the latter of which at Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, besides a direct legacy, he left the annual income of a fund to be known as "The Joseph E. Gillingham Fund." Mr. Gillingham was a mem- ber of the Union League Art Club, Merion Cricket Club, Radnor Hunt, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. To the Historical Society he had made various gifts; his last being by his will, by which he bequeathed them, besides a sum of money, an original Orderly Book, used by the American Army at Valley Forge. He took great interest in the work of the Genealogical Society, of which he became a mem- ber on April ii, 1892, within two months of its founding, and became a life mem- ber. May 7, 1894, and was one of its directors from March 7, 1898, until his death. He procured for the Society copies of the birth, death and marriage registers and of the minutes of Abington Friends Meeting, to which some of his ancestors had belonged, and was also its liberal benefactor on other lines, besides leaving it a substantial bequest. About 1876, Mr. Gillingham purchased a tract of land in Lower Merion town- ship, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, which either originally or by subsequent purchases amounted to about four hundred acres of land. Here he erected an ele- gant dwelling, on the highest portion of the tract, commanding a fine view of the country for many miles, which he named "Clairemont," in honor of his wife, Clara. He lived here the greater part of the time thereafter, .and died there on November 7, 1905. As he left no direct descendant, he ordered this property to be held for fifteen years after his death, and then sold. During the latter part of his life he also maintained a city residence at 1421 Walnut street, but after his wife's decease, he sold this and made "Clairemont" his permanent home, living there the life of a gentleman farmer, and though he had a manager and assistants, the farm and dairy were under his constant personal supervision. Everything there was run under the most improved methods of modern scientific farming; the stables, cattle sheds, and dairy, were kept according to the most approved sani- tary principles. Some account of the "Clairemont" herd of cattle, and the judg- ment exercised in its selection, breeding, and management, is given in the article in The Medical News, before referred to. The post-office and railroad station for "Clairemont," was Villanova, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Mr. Gillingham was mentioned in the obituary notices in the newspapers at the time of his death as "one of the best known residents on the Main Line." Funeral services were held at the Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, November 8, 1895, by the rector, GILLINGHAM 1061 Rev. James Haughton, assisted by the Rev. J. Houston Eccleston, of Baltimore, the latter a lifelong friend of Mr. Gillingham. The managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital acted as pall-bearers, and he was buried in the family plot at South Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, where he directed that a gravestone exactly similar to that of his wife, beside whom he was buried, should be erected over his grave. He also left a fund for the care of the family lots, including those of his father, grandfather and aunts, in the same enclosure as his own. Joseph E. Gillingham married, August 23, 1864, Clara, daughter of Jacob and Maria (Conner) Donaldson, of Philadelphia. She died March 21, 1900. After her death, having no children of his own, Mr. Gillingham adopted, as his daugh- ter, Mrs. Anna H. (Wright) Gillingham, the wife of a third cousin, who lived with him thereafter at "Clairemont," and continued to reside there for some time after his death, removing about March, 1906, to Germantown. Frank Clemens Gillingham, only son of Samuel Harrold Gillingham, by his second marriage with Louise Maria Hubbs, and a half-brother to Joseph E. Gill- ingham, was born in Philadelphia, April 14, 1840. He entered the lumber business in 1859, and in 1868, formed a partnership with Rudolph J. Watson, under the firm name of Watson & Gillingham. Mr. Watson dying in 1889, Mr. Gillingham in 1898, took his eldest son as a partner under the name of Frank C. Gillingham & Son. During the Civil War, Frank C. Gillingham enlisted in the One Hundred and Nineteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, was mustered in as Second Lieutenant of Company K, on August 7, 1862, promoted to First Lieutenant Sep- tember 30, 1862, and honorably discharged on a Surgeon's certiiicate, June 4, 1863. He was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Veteran Corps, Union League, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He was a director of the Consolidation National Bank of Philadelphia, and was interested in a number of charitable institutions of the city. He married, September 3, 1862, at her father's residence, in Hainesport, New Jersey, Tacy Shoemaker, daughter of Thomas Edgar and Elizabeth (Shoemaker) Morris. Tacy Shoemaker Morris was eighth in descent from Tobias Leech, mem- ber of Assembly, 1713-1714; seventh from Robert Heaton, member of Assembly 1700; sixth from George Shoemaker, in Pennsylvania 1686; seventh from Henry Comly, 1683-4; seventh from Peter Elliott, 1686; eighth from Richard Wall, 1683; sixth from John Kirk, 1686; sixth from Rynier Tyson, 1683; and sixth from Will- iam Levering, 1685. Frank Clemens Shoemaker's descent from a like ancient and worthy ancestry is given in the preceding pages. Issue of Frank Clemens and Tacy Shoemaker (Morris) Gillingham: Frank Morris, b. 6mo. 13, 1863; m. Oct. 24, 1888, Ida Keen, and has issue — Frank Keen Gillingham, Thomas Morris Gillingham; Harrold Edgar, b. 8mo. 25, 1864; of whom presently; Elizabeth Morris, b. 5mo. 28, 1871; m. Nov. 8, 1900, Charles Schroeder Rich, of Balti- more, Md. ; Catharine, b. smo. 5, 1887, d. Smo. 5, 1887. Harrold Edgar Gillingham, son of Frank Clemens and Tacy S. (Morris) Gillingham, born at Hainesport, New Jersey, August 25, 1864, is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. In the latter society he holds the office io62 GILLINGHAM of treasurer. His ancestors through whom he holds membership in the Colonial Society, besides those just given as his mother's ancestors, were, Yeamans Gilling- ham, Bridget Scott, Sarah Jarvis, Thomas Canby, William Smith, Stephen Wil- son, Henry Baker, Thomas Croasdale, and Robert Lucas, of all of whom some account has been given in these pages. In 1901 Mr. Gillingham published an out- line genealogy of the descendants of Yeamans Gillingham, under the title of "Gillingham Family." He married, February 9, 1891, at St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Louise Hance, daughter of John Hendeson and CaroHne Hearn (Hance) Long, of Philadelphia. In 1901 they lived at 410 West Price street, Germantown, and had one child: Edith Harrold Gillingham, b. 4mo. 14, 1896. Ellis Lewis, the maternal ancestor of Lucy Lewis (Eddy) Gillingham, was one of the early settlers in the Welsh tract, Chester county, Pennsylvania, born in Wales, about 1680, like most of the other early Welsh immigrants to Pennsyl- vania, was a descendant of ancient Welsh princes, and through them to the Kings of ancient Britain. Recent researches show that he was of the same line of de- scent as Rowland Ellis, the eminent Welsh minister of the Society of Friends, who though concerned in the first purchase of lands in Pennsylvania for the settlement of a Welsh colony, did not remove permanently to this Province until 1697. The common ancestry of Rowland Ellis and ElHs Lewis, for fifteen generations, is as follows : (I) Bleddyn, son of Cynfyn, Prince of Powys, married Isabel, daughter of Picot de Say, a Norman knight, and was murdered in 1072. He had by her, (II) Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, Lord of Ystratywy, Cardigan and Nannau, in Merionethshire, who was also assassinated in 1109. He married Gwenllian, daugh- ter of Gruffydd ap Cynan, Prince of Gwynedd, who subsequently married Gruf- fydd. Prince of South Wales. By her Cadwgan had a son, (III) Madoc, ap Cadwgan, who succeeded his father as Lord of Nannau. He married Eva, daughter and heiress of Philip ap Uchtryd, ap Edwin, Lord of Tegeingle, ap Gronwy, ap Einion, ap Owen, ap Howell Dda, King of all Wales, and had issue, (IV) Meuric, ap Madoc, Lord of Nannau, who married GwenUian, daughter and heiress of lerwith, ap Predyr, ap Gronwy, ap Adda, ap David Goch, from Ednowain, ap Bradwyn, Head of the Fifteenth Noble Tribe of Wales, and lineal descendant of the Kings of Britain, and had issue : (V) Ynr, ap Meuric, Lord of Nannau, who married Gwyrvyl, daughter and heiress of Madog ap Llowarch, Vychan, ap Llowarch Goch, ap Llowarch Hol- bwrch, Treasurer of Grufifydd, Prince of Wales, and had issue : Einion ap Ynr, consecrated Bishop of St. Andre's, October 21, 1268, and (VI) Ynr, ap Ynr, generally known as Ynr Vychan, Lord of Nannau, who married Gwenhwyvar, daughter of Grufifydd, ap Gwynn, ap Gronwy, ap Einion, at Seissyllt, Lord of Mathafon. Ynr Vychan presented a petition to Edward, Prince of Wales, at Kensington, in 1304-5, for the office of Raglor of the Comot of Talybon, stating that the King had given it to him for capturing Madoc ap Llewllyn, when the last war had made himself Prince of Wales. His petition, however, was rejected. Ynr ap Ynr was charged with others in the Parliament GILLINGHAM 1063 of 1322-3 with attacking the castle of John Grey, of Ruthen, and setting fire to the town, on the next Wednesday after the feast of St. Gregory, in the fifteenth year of Edward II., 1322. He had by Gwenhwyvar: (VII) Meuric ap Ynr Vychan, Lord of Nannau, living in 1347-8, upon whose tomb in Dolgelly Church, Merionethshire, is his effigy in mail and plate armor, with a shield on his breast, on which is carved a lion, and bears the inscription, "Hie Jacet Meuric Filius Ynyr Vachan." He married Angharad, daughter of Gruflydd, ap Owen, ap Bleddyn, ap Owen Brogyntyn, Lord of Dinmael, and Ediernion, ap Madog, ap Meredyth, ap Bleddyn, Prince of Powys, and was suc- ceeded by his son, (VIII) Meuric Lloyd, ap Meuric, Lord of Nannau, who died before 1400 A. D. He married Mallt, daughter of Howell Pickhill, ap David, ap Gronwy, ap lerwith, ap Howell, ap Meredyth, ap Sandde Hardde, Lord of Morton, in Den- bighshire, and had issue : Gruffydd Derwas, living in 1416, Esquire of the Body of Henry VL, with whose descendants those of his brother later intermarried, and, (IX) Howell Sele, of Nannau, who was killed by his cousin, Owen Glen- dower, because he refused to join him in Rebellion, and his body secreted in a hollow oak, where it remained until the secret crime was revealed by Glendower on his death bed. Howell Sele married Mali, daughter of Einion, ap Griffith, of Cors-y-Gedol, and had a son, (X) Meuric Vychan, of Nannau, who with his uncle, Griffith Derwas, was named among the heirs of a "Wele" of free land in the township of Nannau, in the seventh year of Henry V., 1419-20. Meuric was on a grand jury, at Caer- narvon, in 1444, and was buried in second year of Henry VII., i486, a very aged man. He married Angharad, daughter of David ap Cadwgan, ap Philip Dorddu, ap Howell, ap Madoc, ap Howell, ap Griffith, ap Gronwy, ap Gwrgenen, ap Hold- lien Goch, ap Cadwgan, ap Elystan Glodrydd, Prince of Fferlys, and had a son, (XI) David ap Meuric Vychan, of Nannau, who married Ellen, daughter of Howell ap Rhys, ap David, ap Howell, ap Griffith, ap Owen, ap Bleddyn, Lord of Dinmael, ap Owen Brogyntyn, grandson of Bleddyn, Prince of Powys, whose son, (XII) Howell ap David, of Nannau, is named on the rolls of the county of Merioneth in 15 10. He married Ellen, daughter of Robert Salisbury, of Llanwrst, son of Thomas Salisbury, living in 1451, son of Sir Henry Salisbury, a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, who was a son of Rawlings Salisbury, and grandson of Will- iam Salisbury, member of Parliament in 1322. Howell ap David and Ellen Salis- bury, had issue, Griffith ap Howell, Lord of Nannau, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, who married William ap Tudor, ap Griffith, ap Edyrfedof Egryn Abbey. (XIII) Griffith ap Howell, lord of Nannau, living in 1541-2, married Jane, daughter of Humphrey ap Howell, ap levan, of Yns-y-Maen-Gwynn, a lineal de- scendant of Henry IV., of England ; her mother being Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Herbert, Knight of Colebrooke. Griffith and Jane had two sons, Hugh Griffith, who signed the pedigree as head of the family, July 24, 1588, and, (XIV) John ap Griffith, who married Elizabeth, daughter of David Lloyd, of Trawsfynedd. He held lands in the township of Dyffrydan, in Dolgelly parish, and elsewhere. He had issue three children, Ellen and Jane, and, 26 io64 GILLINGHAM (XV) Lewis ap John, of Dyffrydan, who was living August 28, 1654, then holding lands in Dyffrydan. He married Ellen, daughter of Howell ap Griffith, and had two sons, Rees Lewis, of Dyffryn, grandfather of Rowland Elhs, who later came to Bryn Mawr, Chester county, Pennsylvania, which was named for the seat of the family less than a mile from the market town of Dolgelly in Merionethshire, built by Rees Lewis in 161 7, and where he was living in 1649; and another son, (XVI) Owen ap Lewis, who married Mary, daughter of Tudor Vaughan, of Caer-y-Nwen, in ]\Ierionethshire, a lineal descendant of Griffith Derwas, before mentioned, and had issue : (XVH) Robert ap Owen, who married Margaret, daughter of John ap Lewis, and had issue, among others, Margaret, who became the second wife of Rowland Ellis, of Pennsylvania, and at least one son, (XVni) Lewis ap Robert, who married Mary (who married (second) Owen Roberts), and had by her one son, Ellis Lewis, the emigrant to Pennsylvania, mentioned at the beginning of this narrative. Ellis Lewis, son of Lewis ap Robert, by his wife, Mary, was born near Dol- gelly, Merionethshire, Wales, in the year 1680. His father died when he was quite young and his mother married Owen Roberts, as shown in the preceding pedigree. About 1698 Owen Roberts and his family, including his stepson, Ellis Lewis, concluded preparations to embark for Pennsylvania, and their goods were already on board the ship that was to carry them to Penn's colony in America, where a number of their kindred had previously found homes, when sickness in the family prevented them from sailing and their goods crossed the sea without them. Sometime after arriving at mature age Ellis Lewis removed to Ireland, and from there embarked for Pennsylvania, bringing a certificate from a Friends Meeting at Mount Mellich, Ireland, dated 5mo. 13, 1708. On arriving in Penn- sylvania, he made his home for a time with his cousins, the family of Rowland Ellis, who had not yet removed from Haverford. He later took up his residence in Kennett, Chester county, and was for many years an esteemed Elder of Kennett Meeting, removing later to Wilmington, Delaware, where he died 6mo. 31, 1750. Ellis Lewis was twice married, (first) at Concord Meeting, Chester county in 1713, to Elizabeth, born imo. 3, 1687-8, daughter of Nathaniel Newlin, who owned large tracts of land, and settled in what was named Newlin township, Chester county. He was a member of Colonial Assembly from Chester county, 1698- 1722; justice of the county courts from September 25, 1703, until his death in 1729; and was one of the Proprietaries Commissioners of Property for some time prior to his death (1722-29), as well as a trustee of the General Loan Office of the Province. He was married (first) April 17, 1683, to Mary Mendenhall, of the county of Wilts, England; and (second) to Mary Fincher, 2mo. 17, 1729, who survived him but left no issue. She was daughter of John and Martha (Taylor) Fincher, of London Grove, Chester county. Nicholas Newlin, father of Nathaniel, an Englishman by birth, emigrated to Pennsylvania, with his grown up family in 1683, bringing a certificate from Mount Mellich, Queen's county, Ireland, in 1683, and settled in Concord township. He GILLINGHAM 1065 was justice of the Chester county courts from 1684, until his death in 1699, and a member of Provincial Council, 1685-7. Ellis Lewis married (second) at Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks county, imo. ti, 1723, Mary Balwin, a widow, who survived him, but had no children by him. Issue of Ellis and Elisabeth (Newlin) Lewis: RoBERTj b. imo. 21, 1714; of whom presently; Nathaniel, b. lomo. 11, 1717, d. s. p., imo. 7, 1757; EUis, b. 3mo. 22, 1719, grandfather of Ellis Lewis, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Penna. 1854-57; Mary, b. imo. 6, 1716, d. 8mo. 22, 1760; m. at Kennett Meeting, 8mo. 29, 1734, Joshua Pusey. Robert Lewis, eldest son of Ellis and Elizabeth (Newlin) Lewis, born imo. 21, 1714, was a member of Colonial Assembly from Chester county, 1745-46, but soon after that date removed to Philadelphia and engaged in mercantile pursuits for the remaining years of his life. He was buried at Philadelphia Friends' bury- ing-ground, 4mo. 13, 1790. He married at Concord Meeting, Chester county, 3mo. 23, 1733, Mary Pyle, born 1714, died 6mo. 26, 1782. She was a daughter of William Pyle, of Thorn- bury, Chester county, who was a member of Colonial Assembly, 1721-3, and a Justice of the Chester County Courts, 1724-8. He was a son of Robert Pyle, of Horton, parish of Bishop Cummings, in the county of Wilts, and Ann, of Hilper- ton, daughter of William Stovey, an eminent and early Friend of Wilts, who suffered much persecution for preaching the doctrine of Friends. Robert Pyle and Ann Stovey were married at a Meeting of Friends in Wiltshire, 9mo. 16, 1681, and soon after with Nicholas Pyle, a brother of Robert, emigrated to Penn- sylvania, and settled in Bethel township, Chester county. Robert was a member of Colonial Assembly, 1688-1705, and a Justice 1684-5. His brother, Nicholas, was also a justice and assemblyman for many years. William Pyle, third child of Robert and Ann (Stovey) Pyle, was born in Chester county, iimo. 26, 1685, and died in 1734. He married, in 1707, Olive Bennett. Issue of Robert and Mary (Pyle) Lewis: Ellis, b. July 15, 1734, d. in Phila., 7mo. 24, 1776; of whom presently; NathanieLj ra. Lucy Lawrence; of them later; Robert, m. Frances Smith; William, m. Rachel Wharton; Phoebe, m. (first) Samuel Morton, and (second) James Pemberton; Eli, b. Aug. 3, 1735; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 17, 1736; Mary, b. July 24, 1739, d. March 4, 1794; Lydia, b. Feb. 5, 1745-6; Joshua, b. Dec. 29, 1749; Anne, b. Dec. 26, 1753. Ellis Lewis, eldest son of Robert and Mary (Pyle) Lewis, born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1734, grew to manhood in Philadelphia, and be- came one of the eminent and successful business men of that city. He lived for a number of years in the old "Governor's House," built by Mayor Shippen in 1693, that had been the residence of several colonial Governors of Pennsylvania, includ- io66 GILLINGHAM ing Penn, himself. He also maintained a country place, where he and his family- spent the summer months. He died in Philadelphia, July 24, 1776. EUis Lewis married (first) Hannah Miller, and had by her one daughter, Mary Lewis, who married William Green. He married (second), June 16, 1763, Mary, daughter of David Deshler, son of Captain David, and Marie (Wister) Deshler, who accompanied his uncle, John Wister, to Philadelphia, in 1727, and was asso- ciated with him in the mercantile business. Issue of Ellis and Mary (Deshler) Lewis: David, m. May 22, 1794, Mary, dau. of Col. Thomas Darch, of Pine Hill, near Sunbury, Pa., who had emigrated from Netherclay House, Co. Somerset, Eng. David Lewis, an active and successful business man, was member of firm of Wharton & Lewis; was president of Phoenix Insurance Co.; Lieutenant of militia during the Whiskey Insurrection, and when war with France was threatened; Robert, m. Sarah Fish; Phoebe, m. Hon. Robert Wain, member of Congress from Phila. 1798; Hester, b. 1770, m. George Eddy, about 1791, and had issue : George Eddy; Charles Eddy; James Eddy; Lewis Eddy; Mary Ann Eddy, m. Dr. Pickering; Hester, m. Nathaniel Lewis; Phoebe Wain Eddy, b. 1798, d. May 31, 1833; Catharine Eddy, m. Samuel L. Chapman; Lucy Lewis Eddy, b. May 10, 1803, d. Sept. I, 1836; m. at Frankford (Phila.) Meeting, December 12, 1823, Samuel Harrold Gillingham. Nathaniel Lewis, second son of Robert and Mary (Pyle) Lewis, born in Chester county, came with his parents to Philadelphia in 1749. He officiated as one of the executors of his father's will in 1790, and of that of his brother, Robert in 1795. He married Lucy Lawrence, and had, among other children, Lawrence Lewis, who married Anna Maria Stocker, and their son, Robert Morton Lewis, born in Philadelphia, November 7, 1828, graduated from University of Pennsyl- vania in 1846, married Anna Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Anna Elizabeth (Farmer) Shippen. GRISCOM FAMILY. Andrew Griscom came from England in 1680. He purchased a large tract of land, on which that part of the city of Camden, known as South Camden, now stands, and settled thereon. He married Sarah Dole, probably of the same fam- ily as Joseph Dole who came to New Jersey, from Newbury, Essex county, Massa- chusetts. They had issue, Tobias and Sarah Griscom. Tobias, son of Andrew and Sarah (Dole) Griscom, settled on lands inherited from his father at "Newton," Gloucester county, New Jersey, now in the limits of the city of Camden, where he died in the winter of 1719-20, his will, dated Decem- ber 30, 1719, being proven three weeks later, January 21, 1719-20. He married Deborah Gabitas, who survived him, and died prior to 1736. Tobias and Deborah (Gabitas) Griscom had issue: Tobias Griscom; Andrew Griscom, of whom presently; Mary Griscom, m. Tobias Holloway; William Griscom ; Samuel Griscom, settled in Phila. and became shipbuilder, a prominent industry in that city during colonial days; became possessed of a large landed estate in Phila.; assisted in erection of Independence Hall and was man of prominence, and lived on Arch street between Third and Fourth streets; m. Rebecca James, of Phila., Feb. 6, 1741; had several children, one of them, dau. Sarah, ra. William Donaldson, at Christ Church, Dec. 31, 1770. Andrew Griscom, son of Tobias and Deborah (Gabitas) Griscom, settled near Tuckahoe, on lands that his grandfather had purchased many years previously. He married Susanna, daughter of John and Mary (Chambless) Hancock, of Allo- way's Creek, Salem county, later known as Hancock's Bridge, from a bridge erected by John Hancock over Alloway's Creek in 1708. This John Hancock was a native of London, and came to New Jersey in 1679. He was the founder of a family long prominent in the affairs of New Jersey. The. old family mansion at Hancock's Bridge, erected in 1734, was the scene of the massacre of defenceless non-combatants by the British soldiers under Col. Mawhood in 1778. Andrew Griscom married (second) Mary . William Griscom, son of Andrew and Susanna (Hancock) Griscom, born in Salem county. New Jersey, married there in 1773, Rachel, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Bacon) Denn, of Cohansey Creek, Salem county. New Jersey; grand- daughter of John and Elizabeth (Oakford) Denn, and great-granddaughter of James and Elizabeth (Maddox) Denn. James Denn (son of John Denn, one of the first settlers on Alloway's Creek, Salem county. New Jersey, who died there June 24, 1685, leaving a widow, Mar- garet and several children), married, in 1688, Elizabeth Maddox, who was born in London, England, in 1671. Her father, John Maddox, son of Ralph Maddox, was born in 1638. He located in London in 1668, and in 1669, when he married Elizabeth, widow of Joseph Durham, was residing in the parish of St. Sepulchre, where his daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 167 1. In 1678 John Maddox, his wife, daughter, Elizabeth, stepson, Richard Durham, io68 GRISCOM and three servants, sailed from London in the ship "Surrey" and arrived at Salem, New Jersey, in November, of the same year. In 1682 John Maddox purchased of Isabella Hancock, widow of William Hancock, who had died 1679, one-half of the latter's allotment of 1000 acres on Alloway's Creek, and settled thereon. He died December, 1693, leaving a daughter, Margaret, born June 29, 1689, and a son, John. John Denn, only son of James and Elizabeth (Maddox) Denn, born at Allo- way's Creek, Salem county. New Jersey, August 11, 1693, married, March i, 1717, Elizabeth Oakford, born on Alloway's Creek, May 17, 1698, daughter of Charles and Mary Oakford, and settled on his father's plantation, on which he erected, in or about the year 1725, a stone house on the banks of the creek, which is still standing and owned by his descendants. Elizabeth (Oakford) Denn died in 1727, and John Denn married (second), in 1728, Leah Paul. He died in 1733. By his first wife he had issue, Naomi, born 1718, and John Denn, Jr., born September 28, 1727, and by his second wife, son Paul Denn, born October 18, 1731. John Denn, Jr., son of John and EHzabeth (Oakford) Denn, born September 28, 1727, married Elizabeth Bacon, of Cohansey, Salem county, a daughter of John Bacon, of the celebrated Bacon family of Bacon's Neck, by his wife, Eliza- beth Smith, and had issue, Rachel Denn, who married William Griscom, above mentioned; James Denn, born January 19, 1746-7; John Denn, born 1751 ; David Denn, born 1756; and Martha Denn, born 1758. William Griscom and his wife, Rachel Denn, lived for a few years in the village of Hancock's Bridge, and then he purchased a plantation in the township of Man- nington, Salem county, near Guineatown, where they resided the remainder of their lives. Issue of William and Rachel (Denn) Griscom: John Griscom, removed to N. Y., where he was considered an eminent scholar and was elected Prof, of Chemistry; when past middle life went to Europe, whence his fame as scholar had preceded him, and on his arrival was at once introduced among emi- nent literary people. On return to America, after extensive tour, he published an account of travels under title of "Tour of Europe," which was much read and greatly admired at time for its easy and beautiful language, and has preserved his name as scholar. Soon after his return from Europe, Prof. Griscom travelled through Eastern and Middle States, lecturing on Joseph Lancaster's system of education in Common Schools, which was generally adopted, and he may be considered father of that system in this country; m. (first) Miss Hatch, and (second) cousin, Rachel, daugh- ter of John and Phcebe Denn, of Salem, N. J.; William Griscom, of whom presently; Everett Griscom, drowned at age of sixteen, while bathing. Like all rest of Griscom family, was remarkable for scholarship, being far advanced in studies at his prema- ture death ; he even excelled brother, John, the eminent scholar, above mentioned, and acquired knowledge with greatest facility; Samuel Griscom, lived in Phila., where he was Supt. of Schuylkill Navigation Co. ; m. Ann, dau. of Jeremiah Powell, of Alloway's Creek, Salem co., N. J.; Rachel Griscom; David Griscom, was also above average man in mental abilities, and a noted educator, having select school near Frankford, Phila. After death of his first wife he moved to N. Y., and associated with Joseph Walker, an English Friend there, as tutor of his children. During this time, they all made an extensive tour in Europe, i. e., Joseph Walker, his two sons and David Griscom. After return to America and second mar- riage, Mr. Griscom purchased land near Woodbury, N. J., and started nursery. His physical health was never very good; m. (first) Anne Whitlock, and (second) her sister, Jane Whitlock. William Griscom, second son of William and Rachel (Denn) Griscom, mar- ried Ann, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Stewart, of Salem, New Jersey, and ^l/]G€r?fiy GRISCOM 1069 resided in the early part of their married Hfe in that county, but in later life with their sons, Samuel and William, near Frankford, Philadelphia. Issue of William and Ann (Stezvart) Griscom: Samuel Griscom, who when quite young opened boarding school at Clermont, near Frankford, at same place where his uncle, David, had conducted school several years previously. These Griscom schools (or more properly, this Griscom school, as Samuel probably succeeded his uncle directly) were patronized by best people in that day, and are probably still remembered by some of older residents of the city, who were students there. Samuel Griscom's parents resided with him at Clermont until his marriage with Sidney, dau. of Yeamans Gillingham, soon after which they resided with son, William, as above stated. Samuel Griscom and family moved to Petersburg, Va., when be be- came engineer of that city. William Griscom, m. (first) Mary, a cousin, dau. of James and Anne Stewart, of Cum- berland CO., N. J.; (second) Sarah Whitlock, of Frankford, Phila. co., Pa., dau. of Isaac Whitlock; George Griscom, member of Phila. Bar, m. Mercy Brown; John Denn Griscom, b. in Salem, N. J., March 25, 1809, d. July 23, i8go; of -whom presently ; Mary Griscom, m. Samuel Stewart, of Ind., son of James Stewart, of AUoway's Creek, Salem Co., N. J. They had no children; in 1876 her husband having died, Mary re- turned to N. J. and was hving at Woodbury; Charles Griscom, m. Elizabeth, widow of Joseph Powell, and dau. of William Denn, a cousin in some degree. He d. prior to 1876, leaving widow and six children. John Denn Griscom, M. D., son of William and Anne (Stewart) Griscom, studied medicine, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, and became one of the prominent members of the medical profession in Philadelphia. In later life he spent much time in Europe for the benefit of his health. He mar- ried, November 6, 1839, Margaret W. Acton, born in Salem, New Jersey, Novem- ber 23, 1819, died December 5, 1896, daughter of Clement Acton, of Salem, New Jersey, by his second wife, Hannah, born 1780, daughter of James Mason Wood- nutt, by his wife, Margaret, daughter of Preston and Hannah (Smith) Carpenter, of Carpenter's Landing, New Jersey, and a descendant of Governor Thomas Lloyd, and of Samuel Carpenter and Samuel Preston, Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania. Benjamin Acton, the first American ancestor of Margaret W. (Acton) Gris- com, is first mentioned in the records of Salem county. New Jersey, in or about the year 1677 ; therefore, though there is no exact record of the time of his arrival, he probably came with Christopher White, William Hancock, et al, in the "Kent," which landed at New Salem, August 23, 1677. He purchased of John Fenwick a lot of sixteen acres on Fenwick street, now called East Broadway, on which he built his house. He was also the proprietor of a tannery, an industry engaged in largely by the upper class of the early colonists. He was a worthy and able mem- ber of the Society of Friends, and in 1682, he and another were appointed to re- pair and build an addition to the meetinghouse. When the town of New Salem was incorporated in 1695, Benjamin Acton was chosen Recorder. He was also one of the official surveyors, and took part in laying out the county lands and high- ways. In 1727 he built a brick house on his Fenwick street lot, which is still stand- ing; it was hip-roofed and is now one of the ancient landmarks of the city of Salem. Benjamin Acton married, about 1689, Christiana , and had issue: Elizabeth Acton, b. at Salem, Feb. 26, 1690-1; m. Dec, 1712, Francis Reynolds; Mary Acton, b. Dec. 17, 1692; m. 1715, William Willis; I070 GRISCOM Benjamin Acton, Jr., b. Oct. 19, 1695; of whom presently; Lydia Acton, b. Jan. 24, 1697-8; Joshua Acton, b. Sept. 9, 1700. Benjamin Acton, Jr., born October 19, 1695, inherited his father's lot on Fen- wick street, and in 1729 erected on another part of it a much larger brick dwell- ing, of which, though partly remodelled, the original walls still remain. He also inherited the tannery which he conducted. He married, in 1727, Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Hill, and they had issue, five children, viz. : John Acton, b. Oct. 31, 1728, of whom presently; Joseph Acton, b. Nov. 30, 1730; Benjamin Acton, b. Nov. 15, 1733, d. inf.; Benjamin Acton, b. Feb. 28, 1735-6; Samuel Acton, b. Aug. 31, 1738. John Acton, eldest son of Benjamin and EHzabeth, born October 31, 1728, inherited the family tannery from his father and continued the business. He mar- ried, about 1753, but the name of this first wife is unknown. They had one child: Ci,Emi;nt Acton, of whom presently. John Acton married (second) Mary Oakford, of Alloway's Creek, and had issue : Samuel Acton; John Acton, a sea capt., d. unm.; Elizabeth Acton, m. John Hancock, of Hancock's Bridge; Barbara Acton, m. Samuel Hall, of Delaware family of that name, mentioned hereafter; Joseph Acton. Clement Acton, son of John Acton, by his first wife, married (first) Hannah, daughter of William Hall, an extensive landowner near St. George's Creek, New Castle county, now Delaware; and had by her two children, Benjamin and Han- nah. He married (second), in 1776, Hannah, daughter of James Mason Wood- nutt, by his wife, Margaret Carpenter, as previously stated, and they had issue: Clement J. Acton, removed to Cincinnati, C, and engaged in mercantile business, in connection with cousins, William and Thomas Woodnutt. He m. Mary, dau. of Col. John Noble, of Columbus, O.; Margaret Woodnutt Acton, m. Dr. John Denn Griscom, before mentioned; Issue of Dr. John Denn and Margaret W. (Acton) Griscom, of Philadelphia: Clement Acton Griscom, of whom presently; Hannah Woodnutt Acton, m. Frank Lesley Neall, of Phila., who succeeded his brother- in-law, Clement A. Griscom, as head of great mercantile house of Peter Wright & Sons. Member of Historical and Genealogical Societies of Pa. ; of the Union League, etc., and director of Maritime Exchange of Phila.; William Woodnutt Griscom, b. in Phila., July 6, 1851; entered Haverford Coll. 1866, and left at end of Junior year and entered Coll. Dept. of Univ. of Pa., the Senior Class, in fall of 1869; was member of Philomaethean Society; received degree A. B. in 1870, and A. M. in 1873; president of the Electro-Dynamic Company, of Phila.; member of American Philosophical Association for the Advancement of Science; American Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers; of Franklin Institute of State of Pa., in Phila., and author of "Some Storage Battery Phenomena." He m. 1877, Dora Ingham, dau. of Rev. George Hale, D. D. They resided at Haverford, Pa., on the line of the Penna. R. R. Died Sept. 24, 1897. Mrs. Griscom is member of Penna. Society Colonial Dames of America. GRISCOM 1071 Clement Acton Griscom, eldest son of Dr. John Denn Griscom, by his wife, Margaret Woodnutt Acton, born in Philadelphia, March 15, 1841, received his rudimentary education in the pubHc schools of his native city, and after two years in the Central High School, completed his studies in the Friends' Academy. A descendant of a family which had been identified with the history of Phila- delphia since the seventeenth century, he inherited traits of character which en- abled him to take rank among the prominent men of the city. Upon leaving school, at the age of sixteen years, he entered the old established shipping house of Peter Wright & Sons, as a clerk. Taking from the first an active interest in the business of this important firm, his occupation proved congenial and deter- mined his future career; giving evidence of strong and progressive business traits, he gained at the early age of twenty-two, a partnership in the business. Under his directing influence the firm began to purchase sailing vessels for their trade and the profits increased immediately and largely. More vessels were pur- chased, the business grew to larger dimensions, and eventually Peter Wright & Sons became the agents of the old American Line, one of the prominent Steam- ship Lines of that period. Following this came the formation of the International Navigation Company (whose line of steamships was known as the Red Star Line), accomplished through Mr. Griscom's negotiations, directly, with King Leopold of Belgium, and which company later absorbed the old American Line. Mr. Griscom was elected Vice-president of the International Navigation Com- pany, May 13, 1871, and President, January 4, 1888; his company controlling and operating twenty-six ocean steamships, one of the largest fleets in the trade. The old Inman Line was purchased by the Company in 1886, and subsequently it contracted for the steamships, "New York" and "Paris," in which steamers Mr. Griscom was the first to introduce twin screws for passenger traffic in the North Atlantic trade, and which were so subdivided and constructed as to be absolutely unsinkable. Through Mr. Griscom's energy congressional legislation was secured which permitted these ships to sail under American registry. In line with the patriotic sentiment which prompted this effort was the award- ing of the contract for the ocean liners, "St. Louis" and "St. Paul," to William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company, and the result proved that his confidence in the ability of American shipbuilders to build the ships needed for American trade, was not misplaced. In the Spanish-American War the United States Government secured the use of several of the ships of the International Navigation Company, including the "St. Louis," the "St. Paul," the "New York," which was temporarily known as the "Harvard," and the "Philadelphia," which during her term of government service was known as the "Yale." These vessels played an important part in the naval engagements of the war, thus attaching to them a historic interest. In 1902 the name of the International Navigation Company was changed to International Mercantile Marine Company, and its capital increased to acquire the fleets and business of the White Star Line, Atlantic Transport Line, Leyland Line, and Dominion Line. Mr. Griscom was elected president of the new com- pany, October i, 1902, but resigned in February, 1904, to accept the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 1889 Mr. Griscom was a delegate to the International Maritime Conference I072 GRISCOM for revising the "Rules of the Road at Sea," at which the representatives of twenty-eight nations were present. The Queen of Holland conferred upon Mr. Griscom the Decoration of "Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau" in recognition of the perfect discipline establish- ed upon the steamships of the International Navigation Company; the particular occasion which prompted Her Majesty to confer the decoration being the rescue by the crew of the American Line steamship "St. Louis" of the passengers and crew, consisting of 212 men, women and children, from a disabled Dutch Trans- atlantic steamship, which sank shortly after the last boat-load had left the wreck. Mr. Griscom has also received the Decoration of the Legion of Honor from the French government. Mr. Griscom was president of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers from 1893 until 1903, when he resigned and was made an Honorary Associate Member of the Society. He is also an honorary member of the British Institute of Naval Architects, an honor conferred upon but three others at that time, the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, Lord Kelvin of England, and De Lome of France. The responsible position which Mr. Griscom fills in the Steam- ship Company, with the intercontinental traffic, does not, however, occupy all of his time and attention, and he is actively interested in railroad and banking inter- ests. He was elected a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Septem- ber 24, 1884, and appointed a member of the Road Committee, October 8, 1884. Clement A. Griscom is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars of the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania. He married, June 18, 1862, Frances Canby Biddle, born August 11, 1840, eldest daughter of William Canby Biddle, by his wife, Rachel Miller. See Biddle Family. They resided for some years in the city of Philadelphia, then for a short time at Riverton, New Jersey. Later he acquired a fine estate on the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which he named "Dolobran," after the family home of his ancestor, Governor Thomas Lloyd. Here Mr. and Mrs. Griscom have entertained many distinguished visitors to Philadelphia. Mrs. Frances Canby (Biddle) Griscom is a member of the Society of Colonial Dames of America. Issue of Clement Acton and Frances Canby (Biddle) Griscom: John Acton Griscom, b. March 31, 1863, d. in 1865; Helen Biddle Griscom, b. Oct. 9, 1866; m. June 20, 1889, Samuel Bettle, of a well-known Phila. family; she is member of Penna. Society Colonial Dames of America; they have issue — Griscom Bettle, b. Feb. 19, 1890; Clement Acton Griscom, Jr., b. Phila., June 20, 1868; entered Towne Scientific School of the Univ. of Pa. (Coll. Dept.) 1884, in Sophomore class, and transferred to Wharton School of Finance and Economy, in same Univ., at close of Sophomore year; was member of Delta Psi fraternity; won number of prizes in college athletics; received the degree of Ph. B. 1887; appointed supervisor International Navigation Co. in 1892, and manager of same company in 1894; was Gen. Man. of International Mercantile Marine Co. from organization in 1902, to April, 1904, when he resigned; is president and director of The James Reilly Repair & Supply Co.; president and director of Bell Pure Air and Cooling Co. ; vice-president and director of the Guanajuato Reduction & Mines Co.; director of The American Finance & Securities Co., and of The Devel- opment Co. of America, and of Empire Trust Co. of N. Y.; member of Chamber of Commerce, N. Y. ; N. Y. Produce Exchange; Maritime Exchange, N. Y.; American Academy of Political and Social Science, Phila.; American Museum of Natural His- tory, N. Y. ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, N. Y. ; Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; Penna. Society, Sons of the Revolution; Penna. Society of N. Y.; Society of Colonial Wars; N. Y. Zoological Society; Permanent International Associa- tion of Navigation Congresses; N. Y. Botanical Garden; American Society for Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals ; American National Red Cross Society ; and American GRISCOM 1073 Forestry Association. Married Sept. 18, 1889, Genevieve Sprigg, dau. of Gen. Will- iam Ludlow, U. S. A., who is member of Penna. Society Colonial Dames of America; they reside at 21 Washington Square, N. Y.; they had issue: Ludlow Griscom, b. June 17, i8go; Acton Griscom, b. Aug. 3, 1891; Joyce Olive Griscom, b. Feb. 27, 1893, d. Dec. 3, 1897. Rodman Ellison Griscom, b. in Phila., Oct. 21, 1870; entered Haverford Coll., Pa., 1885, and left at close of Sophomore year, afterwards entering Junior Class, Coll Dept., of Univ. of Pa., 1887; member of Delta Psi fraternity; received degree Ph. B. 1889; was concerned in father's great commercial steamship enterprises, being manager of the International Navigation Co. for some time; for past four years has been member of Banking House of Bartram, Storrs & Griscom; is member of Society of Colonial Wars in Commonwealth of Penna.; of Penna. Society of Sons of the Revolution; and of Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; m. Feb. 17, 1897, Anna Starr, who is a member of the Penna. Society of Colonial Dames of America; they reside at Haverford, Pa.; they have issue: Clement Acton Griscom, 3d,, b. March 13, 1899; Mary Starr Griscom, b. June 26, 1901 ; Rodman Ellison Griscom, Jr., b. Dec. 17, 1904. Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, U. S. Ambassador to Italy, b. at Riverton, N. J., Nov. 4, 1872; entered Coll. Dept. of Univ. of Pa. 1887, member of Delta Psi fraternity, won several prizes in college sports ; received degree Ph. B. 1891, and took two years course in Law Dept. of Univ.; was secretary to Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, U. S. Ambassador to Court of St. James 1893-4; admitted to N. Y. Bar 1896; Deputy District Attorney, N. Y., 1897; volunteer in Spanish-American War, commissioned Capt. and Quarter- master, served four months in Cuba as Aide-de-Camp to Maj. Gen. James F. Wade, recommended for promotion, but resigned to re-enter diplomacy. Appointed secretary Legation, Turkey, July, 1899; Charge d'Affaires, Turkey, 1899-1901 ; Envoy Extra- ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia 1901-02; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan 1902-06; U. S. Ambassador to Brazil 1906-07; U. S. Ambassador to Italy 1907; member of Society of Colonial Wars in Commonwealth of Penna.; m. Nov. 2, 1901, at St. Margaret's Church, London, Eng., to Elizabeth Duer Bronson, of N. Y.; issue^Bronson Winthrop Griscom, b. Rome, Italy, June 2, 1907; Francis Canby Griscom, Jr., b, April 19, 1879; well-known member of Merion Cricket Club, etc., devotes much time to athletics, and holds number of golf championships. CAN BY FAMILY. Thomas Canby, one of the prominent men of Bucks county, Pennsylvania in early colonial days, was born at Thome, Yorkshire, England, in 1667, and was son of Benjamin Canby, by his wife, a sister of Henry Baker, of Lancashire, with whom Thomas Canby came to Pennsylvania in the "Vine," of Liverpool, which arrived at Philadelphia, September 17, 1684. His father, Benjamin Canby, ap- pears to have resided later at Liverpool, as Henry Baker, in his request to Falls Monthly Meeting, 5mo. i, 1685, that the Meeting fix the time that his nephew, Thomas Canby, should serve him in payment for the expenses of his passage to America, and for six months during which "he rested with him at his charge," states that he was a "son of Benjamin Canby, late of Liverpoole." The meeting fixed his term of service at five years. After the expiration of service to his maternal uncle in Bucks county, he located near Abington, Philadelphia county, and on October 27, 1693, married, under the auspices of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Sarah Jarvis, and after residing for a few years near Robert Fletcher, in Abington township, removed to Solebury township, Bucks county, where he pur- chased an interest in the Mills near New Hope, and in 1717 purchased 444 acres of land lying along the Buckingham line, where he resided until 1729, when he purchased 200 acres at the intersection of the Old York road, with the Durham road at the present village of Buckingham, where he resided until about 1740, and then returned to his Solebury farm. He was clerk of Buckingham Meeting, at its organization into a Monthly Meeting in 1720, and served for a number of years as clerk and overseer, and also "had a gift in the Ministry." On 5mo. 6, 1741, he took a certificate from Buckingham Meeting for himself and family to "New Work Monthly Meeting in New Castle county," and located at Wilmington, but remained less than a year, returning to his Solebury farm where he died Novem- ber 20, 1742. He was commissioned a Justice of the Peace of Bucks county, and Justice of the several courts thereof, December 2, 1719, and regularly recommis- sioned until February 23, 1723, from which date to May 12, 1725, he was out of commission, but after the latter date was regularly recommissioned until near the time of his decease, the last commission of which we have record being No- vember 22, 1738. Serving in the Provincial Assembly from Bucks county, in 1 72 1 and 1722, he was again elected in 1730, 33 and 38; and was succeeded in 1739 by his son, Thomas Canby, Jr. Thomas Canby was a man of sterling integrity of character and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all with whom he came in contact, while his many acts of charity and Christian kindness endeared him to the community in which he lived. Sarah Jarvis, first wife of Thomas Canby, died at Abington, April 8, 1708, and he married, June 2, 1709, Mary Oliver, born in Radnorshire, Wales, December 9, 1677, fifth child of Evan and Jean Lloyd Oliver, who left Radnorshire, "about ye beginning of ye 6 month 1682," and arrived at Upland (now Chester), Pennsyl- vania, "ye 28th of ye 8th Month, 1682," according to a record in their own family Bible. Mary (Oliver) Canby died in Solebury, Bucks county, March 26, 1720-1, and on October 9, 1722, he married at Middletown, Jane Preston, a widow, who survived him. CANBY Issue of Thomas and Sarah (Jarvis) Canby: I07S Benjamin, b. at Abington, Sept. 24, 1694, d. inf.; Sarah, b. at Abington, Oct. 23, 1695; m. Sept. 20, 1719, John Hill, of Buckingham; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 24, 1696; m. 1724, Thomas Lacey, of Buckingham; Mary, b. Dec. 14, 1697; m. 1722, Joseph Hampton, of Solebury; Phebe, b. Sept. 19, 1699; ra. (first) Sept. 30, 1719, Robert Smith, of Buckingham; (sec- ond) May 16, I7S3, Hugh Ely, of Buckingham; Esther, b. Feb. 16, 1701 ; ra. (first) John Stapler; (second) John White; Thomas, Jr., b. Oct. 12, 1702; m. Sarah Preston; was member of Colonial Assembly 1739-41; Benjamin, b. Sept. 18, 1704, d. Dec. 17, 1748, in Solebury township; was proprietor of the mills and a forge at New Hope, and of ferry there, known later as Coryell's ferry, and interested in iron works in N. J.; m. (first) May 26, 1724, Martha Preston, and (second) Sarah (Fletcher) Yardley; Martha, b. May 9, 1705; m. (first) James Gillinghara, of Buckingham, and (second) in 1748, Joseph Duer, of Solebury. Issue of Thomas and Mary (Oliver) Canby: Jane, b. June 12, 1710; m. May, 1732, Thomas Paxson, of Solebury, and was great-grand- mother of late Chief Justice Edward M. Paxson, of Phila.; Rebecca, b. Feb. 16, 1711-12; m. May 27, 1730, Samuel Wilson, of Buckingham; Hannah, b. Jan. 3, 1712-13, d. Oct. 25, 1722; Joseph, b. March i, 1714-15, d. Sept. 4, 1718; Rachel, b. Sept. 8, 171 5, d. unm.; Oliver, b. Jan. 24, 1716-17, d. at Wilmington, Del., Nov. 30, 1754; m. Elizabeth Shipley;, of whom presently; Ann, b. July 26, 1718, d. unm.; Lydia, b. Dec. 25, 1720; m. May 27, 1749, John Johnson. Thomas Canby had no issue by his third wife, Jane Preston. Oliver Canby, youngest son of Thomas Canby, of Bucks county, by his second wife, Mary Oliver, born January 24, 1716 (O. S. ; N. S. February 3, 1717), was reared in Bucks county, and removed with his father and step-mother to Wilming- ton, Delaware, in 1741, and engaged in the milling business, owning and operating \the first mill built within the corporate limits of the present city, located on the Rrandywine, about two hundred yards above the present bridge over that stream. He was an active and successful business man, but died in the prime of his life and usefulness, after a sudden and severe illness, November 30, 1754, in his thirty-eighth year. He married at Wilmington, April 22, 1744, Elizabeth Shipley, born in Leicestershire, England, in 1722, daughter of William Shipley, born in Leicestershire, 1693, by his wife, Mary Ann, daughter of Robert and Ann Tat- nall. Robert Tatnall died in Leicestershire, England in the year 1715, leaving a widow, Ann, and seven children, five of whom accompanied their mother to Penn- sylvania in 1725, and settled at Darby, Pennsylvania. William Shipley had mar- ried Mary Tatnall in England, and accompanied the family to Pennsylvania in 1725, and soon after settled at Ridley, Chester county, but removed to Wilming- ton in 1735, and was the virtual founder of that town. His wife, Mary (Tatnall) Shipley, died in 1727, and he married (second) Elizabeth Levis. He died at Wilmington in 1768. Elizabeth (Shipley) Canby married (second), December 3, 1761, William Poole, of Wilmington, and an account of their descendants is given elsewhere in this volume. 1076 CAN BY Issue of Oliver and Elisabeth (Shipley) Canby: Hannah, b. Jan. 2, 1746, d. June 4, 1748; William, b. June 6, 1748, d. April 3, 1830; m. Martha Marriott; of whom presently; Samuel, b. Aug. 6, 1751, d. March 8, 1832; m. Frances Lea; of whom .presently; Mary, b. Oct. 10, 1754, d. March 23, 1797; on May 27, 1790, became second wife of Abra- ham Gibbons, of Thornbury township, Chester co.. Pa., later of Lancaster co., in same state, who was son of Joseph and Hannah (Marshall) Gibbons, of Thornbury, and grandson of James and Ann ( Peirce) Gibbons, great-grandson of John and Mar- gery Gibbons, who came from Warminster, Wiltshire, Eng., and settled in Chester CO. in 1681, founding one of most prominent and distinguished families of that county; the father, grandfather and great-grandfather of Abraham Gibbons, all having repre- sented their county in Colonial Assembly, as well as filling other positions of trust and honor under the Colonial Government and in local affairs of their county and town- ship. His maternal great-grandfather, George Peirce, and his Marshall ancestors en- joying like distinction. Abraham Gibbons, b. in Thornbury, Chester co., Sept. 15, 1741, m. (first) April 13, 1763, Lydia, dau. of WiUiam and Lydia Garrett, of WiUistown, and settled on a portion of a one-thousand-acre tract of land owned by his father, in Lampeter township, Lancaster co. His first wife having deceased, he married Mary Canby, as above stated, in 1790, and they were parents of two daughters, Hannah and Mary, b. 1793 and 1794, respectively. He died of yellow fever, while attending Yearly Meeting at Philadelphia in 1798, his wife, Mary Canby, having died a year previously. On death of their mother, Hannah and Mary Gibbons were adopted into family of uncle, William Canby, of Wilmington, and continued to reside at the old Canby home- stead, until marriage of Hannah, Oct. 15, 1835, to Benjamin Ferris, of Wilmington, whose first wife was Fanny Canby, dau. of William (uncle and foster-father of his second wife), by his wife, Martha Marriott. William Canby, eldest son of Oliver and Elizabeth (Shipley) Canby, born at Wilmington in 1748, on his marriage in 1774, located at Sixteenth and King streets, Wilmington, where he resided until his death in 1830, engaging in the milling business with brother, Samuel. He married, May 5, 1774, Martha Mar- riott, born at Trenton, New Jersey, September 25, 1747, daughter of Thomas Marriott, born at Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, February 21, 1717-18, by his wife, Sarah Smith, born November 2, 1720, daughter of Shobal and Prudence Smith, of New Jersey. Isaac Marriott, the grandfather of the above named Thomas was a son of Richard Marriott, of Wappingham, Northamptonshire, and came from Holborn, London, in 1680. He was one of the Proprietors of West Jersey, and in later years a merchant at Burlington, New Jersey. He married, September 7, 1681, Joyce Olive, and had sons, Isaac, Samuel and Thomas. He took up land in 1681, at the mouth of Rancocus creek, and died in Burlington, 1712. His wife, Joyce, died September 18, 1695, and he married (second) Sus- anna Field, by whom he had sons, Joseph and Benjamin. His son, Thomas, grandfather of Martha (Marriott) Canby, born September 21, 1691, married Martha, daughter of Joseph Kirkbride, of Bucks county, by his first wife, Phebe, daughter of Randolph Blackshaw, and Alice, his wife, who came from Hollingee, Cheshire, in 1682, and settled in Bucks county. Joseph Kirkbride was a son of Mahlon and Magdalen Kirkbride, of Kirkbride, Cumberland, England, and of an ancient family of that name, descended from Richard Kirkbride, who married Euphemia, daughter and heiress of Adam de Levington, Baron of Levington, who died 121 1. Joseph Kirkbride, born in Cumberland in 1662, came to Pennsylvania with Penn in the "Welcome" in 1682, and settled in Bucks county, where he became one of the largest landowners in the county and one of its most prominent men; was Justice of the Courts, 1708-22, and a member of Provincial Assembly five terms, between 1698 and 1716, and regularly thereafter until 1721, when he was CAN BY 1077 succeeded by his son, Joseph Kirkbride, Jr. He married (second) in 1703, Sarah, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy, the first settlers on the site of Trenton, and his son, Mahlon, by this marriage was also for a long time a mem- ber of Colonial Assembly, and prominent in the affairs of his county and province as were others of the family. Thomas and Martha (Kirkbride) Marriott, settled at Bristol, Bucks county, and he was a member of Colonial Assembly from Bucks in 1734 and 1738. Mary, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Kirkbride) Marriott, became the wife of Thomas Shipley, son of William and Mary Ann (Tatnall) Shipley, and eldest brother of Elizabeth Shipley, wife of Oliver Canby. Martha (Marriott) Canby died August 18, 1826, at the age of seventy-seven years. She was possessed of a mind of more than ordinary vigor, and was uni- versally venerated and loved for the purity and excellence of her character, and her practical Christian charity. Issue of William and Martha (Marriott) Canby: Oliver, b. March 15, 1775, d. April i, 1858; Sarah, b. Nov. I, 1776, d. inf.; Fanny, b. June 11, 1778, d. Aug. 3, 1833; m. May 17, 1804, Benjamin Ferris, of Wilming- ton, b. Aug. 7, 1780, d. Nov. 9, 1867; Mary, b. Feb. 11, 1780, d. in Phila., April 12, 1840; m. Nov. 2, 1810, Clement Biddle, b. Aug. 10, 1778, d. Feb. 10, 1856, son of Owen and Sarah (Parke) Biddle, of Phila.: Sarah, b. July 12, 1782, d. March 25, 1783; Anna, b. Dec. 29, 1784, d. Dec. 12, 1867; m. Oct. 12, 1815, David Smyth, b. Jan. 20, 1783, d. Feb. 5, 1866; Marriott, b. Oct. 9, 1787, d. Dec. 10, 1866; m. Eliza Tatnall Sipple; of whom presently. Marriott Canby, youngest son of William and Martha (Marriott) Canby, of Wilmington, or as he came to be known, "Merritt" Canby, came to Philadelphia when a youth to obtain a mercantile education, and became a prominent business man of that city. About 1830, in partnership with Joseph Lovering, he engaged in the business of sugar refining ; their firm being the first to introduce, in Amer- ica, the process of boiling sugar by steam in vacuum. He was successful in his business operations, and in 1835 retired from business and returned to Wilming- ton, where he became prominently connected with a number of important cor- porate institutions, until his death, December 10, 1866. Marriott or Merritt Canby married. May 20, 1830, Eliza Tatnall, a daughter of Hon. Thomas Sipple, of Kent county, Delaware, born 1765, died 1798, Treasurer of State of Delaware, 1787-98, by his wife Ann, daughter of Joseph and EHza- beth (Lea) Tatnall; granddaughter of Garrett Sipple, of Kent county, by his wife, EHzabeth Berry, a descendant of Richard Preston, of "Preston on Patuxet," Maryland, and a cousin of Samuel Preston, Provincial Councillor of Pennsyl- vania; her grandfather, William Berry, being many years a member of Assembly of the "Three Lower Counties." Waitman Sipple, the great-grandfather of Eliza Tatnall Sipple, is said to have come from Virginia to Kent county, where he pur- chased land in 1729, and died in 1762. He married at Duck Creek Meeting of Friends in 1724, Mary, daughter of Nathaniel and Elinor Hunn, born October 16, 1706, died 1774. Eliza Tatnall Sipple, in a memorandum still in possession of her descendants, say of her father's family: "All I can learn of my father's family is that in the early settlement of Virginia, an ancestor by name of Jared 1078 CAN BY Sipple took up lands there. Either he or his sons or grandsons becoming dissatis- fied, removed to Maryland, then to Murderkill Hundred, Kent county, Delaware. Two brothers, Waitman and Jared or Garrett, settled near each other. Waitman Sippie was the father of Garret Sipple who was my grandfather. Garret Sipple married Elizabeth Berry of a well known and highly respected family of Kent county, and had three children, Elizabeth, Lydia and Thomas Sipple, my father. There appears to have been much landed property in the family, grazing and grain farms, &c., besides much cattle and servants. The lands of my grandfather joined the lands of the Dickinson family, — John Dickinson, at one time Governor of the State. I have endeavored to discover what could be attributed to my father's family either good or evil. I cannot learn anything to their discredit but much of virtue, truth and manliness. My maternal ancestors were the Tatnall and Lea family. My father dying when I was two and a half years of age, my mother, Ann Tatnall, returned to the home of her father, Joseph Tatnall, in Wil- mington, and I lost sight of my father's family." Her mother married (second) John Bellach. Jonathan Sipple of this family was coroner of Kent county from 1769 to the organization of the "Three Lower Counties" into the State of Delaware, in 1776. A newspaper notice of the death of Hon. Thomas Sipple, is as follows : "Wilmington, Dec. 8th. 1798. "Died. On the 4th inst. at his seat near Dover, Thomas Sipple Esq., Treasurer of the State. The premature death of this excellent man has deprived this community of a most valuable citizen. His attention to the duties of his office; his punctuality in discharging the pubic engagements; his civility and compliance to those with whom his official station con- nected him; and his attachment to the constitution of his country united all men, and all parties in the Legislature, annually in appointing him to a station which he filled with so much applause. In his private life he was not less amiable and useful. The Poor and the distressed always found in him a bountiful and generous assistance; and the humanity of his heart encircled every child of misfortune. In his still more intimate and dearer con- nection, the sincerest love of his relatives and the warmest attachment of his numerous friends gave the most unquestionable proof of the tenderness and benevolence of a Christian gentleman." Issue of Marriott or Merritt and Eliza T. (Sipple) Canby: William Marriott Canby, b. March 17, 1831; m. June 15, 1870, Edith Dillon Mathews, and had issue: Marriott Canby, b. April 11, 1871 ; Henry Mathews Canby, b. June 17, 1874; William Shipley Canby, b. Dec. 24, 1875. Anna Tatnall Canby, b. June 29, 1833, unm., residing at Wilmington ; Martha Canby, b. May 12, 1836; m. March 21, 1861, Elliston Perot Morris, of Phila., b. there May 22, 1831, son of Samuel B. and Hannah (Perot) Morris. Samuel Canby, second son of Oliver and EHzabeth (Shipley) Canby, born in Wilmington, August 6, 1751, learned the trade of a carpenter and cabinet maker with Ziba Ferris, but on arriving at his majority, engaged in the milling business at the mill formerly operated by his father, living in the house formerly occupied by his parents until 1791, when he erected a large mansion at Fourteenth and Market streets, later occupied by his son, James, where he resided until his death on March 8, 1832, at the age of eighty-one years. He married in 1775, Frances, daughter of James and Margaret Lea, of Wilmington, and of the family so long identified with the milling business on the Brandywine. CAN BY 1079 James Canby, son of Samuel and Frances (Lea) Canby, born January 30, 1781, inherited the mills and business of his father at Wilmington, which he con- tinued to conduct successfully during his life. He was a man of substance and prominence in the city and community, and took a lively interest in local institu- tions. He was one of the projectors of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti- more Railroad, and was the first president of the company. He invested largely in real estate in Baltimore and also in western lands and was one of the prominent business men of his day. He died at the old homestead in Wilmington, May 24, 1852. He married EHzabeth Roberts, of Germantown, Philadelphia, and had among other children, two sons, James Canby, Jr., and Samuel Canby. James Canby Jr., engaged in the milling business with his father and con- tinued it after the latter's death, largely increasing the capacity of the mills as well as the quality of the product. He married S. Matilda Price, and had three daughters, the eldest of whom, Catharine R., became the wife of Rev. Edward Hale, of Philadelphia, and a son, James Benjamin Canby, born in 1848, who in his younger days was associated with the firm of James E. Price & Company, proprietors of the Brandywine Mills, but in 1873 came to Philadelphia and took a position in the counting house of Alexander G. Cattell & Company, and in 1877 succeeded to the business of the firm. He was a member of the Trades League, the Grocers' and Importers' League, the Union League of Philadelphia, the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, the Sons of Delaware, and was twice elected president of the Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia. Samuel Canby, son of James and Elizabeth (Roberts) Canby, was born in Wilmington, Delaware, July 10, 181 1, and died June 20, 1875. He married, June 25, 1832, at Philadelphia, Elizabeth Clifford Morris, born August 19, 1813, died March 10, 1892, daughter of Caspar Wistar Morris, of Philadelphia, born Sep- tember 12, 1764, died February 27, 1828, by his wife, Elizabeth Giles ; and grand- daughter of Captain Samuel Morris, commander of the First City Troop during the Revolution, by his wife, Rebecca Wistar. Caspar Wistar Morris, the father of Elizabeth Clifford (Morris) Canby, like his ancestors for many generations was prominently identified with the affairs of Philadelphia. He was reared in the faith of the Society of Friends in which he retained his membership, though his distinguished father, Captain Morris, had been disowned for taking part in military affairs. He was, however, disowned for joining the Troop, and taking part with it in the quelling of the Whiskey Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania in 1794. He inherited a competence but lost the greater part of his fortune through endorsements for a friend, but by diligent application to business and rigid economy was able to pay the large sums for which he was pledged and again acquired a competence. For several years lie was a partner in the Brewery at 145 Market street, conducted under the firm name of Twells, Morris & Co. In 1813 he was elected a member of the State in Schuylkill, of which his father was for many years Governor, but resigned in 1816. He was one of the first in Philadelphia to burn coal for heating purposes. Caspar Wistar Morris married, November 24, 1795, Elizabeth Giles, born Sep- tember 25, 1774, died March, 1832, daughter of Jacob Giles, of Philadelphia, by his wife, Anna, daughter of Thomas and Anna Clifford. She was a member of the Society of Friends, but was disowned for marrying him. Both Caspar W. Morris and his wife were remarkably handsome in personal appearance, being io8o CAN BY accounted one of the handsomest couples in Philadelphia at the time of their mar- riage. They both belonged to that exclusive set of old aristocratic Quaker fam- ilies that constituted the best society of the city during Colonial days. Samuel and Elizabeth C. (Morris) Canby resided for a number of years near Wilmington, and after the death of his father, James Canby, removed to the old home of his grandfather at Fourteenth and Market streets, Wilmington, vi^here he spent the remainder of his days and where his daughter, Mrs. Charles G. Rumford still resides. Issue of Samuel and Elizabeth Clifford (Morris) Canby: Casper Morris Canby, b. March 25, 1833, d. March 6, 1836; Elizabeth Morris Canby, b. at Wilmington, Oct. 31, 1848; m. Charles Grubb Rumford; of whom presently. Elizabeth Morris Canby, only surviving child of Samuel and EHzabeth C. (Morris) Canby, born October 31, 1848, was married at Wilmington, October 7, 1875, by the Right Reverend Alfred Lee, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Delaware, to Charles Grubb Rumford, Esq., of the Wilmington Bar, born in Byberry township, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, son of Lewis Rumford, by his second wife, Mary Caldwell Gilpin, and a great-great-grandson of John Rumford, who came from England in 1698. On the minutes of the Monthly Meeting of Friends, held at Middletown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, the 4th of the 6th month (August) 1698, it is recorded that "John Rumford lately come from Old England, produced a certificate of his good life and conversation, which was read and accepted." On September 27, 1699, he was married at the same Meeting to Mary Scaife, born in Cheshire, England, August 10, 1678, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Scaife, of Middletown, who had located in Middletown some years previously. In the same year Jonathan Scaife conveyed to his son-in-law, John Rumford, a farm in Middletown on Core creek, where they resided until 1712, when they took a certificate to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and located in Philadelphia county, and later became members of Haverford Monthly Meeting. In 1721 John Rumford removed with his family to Plymouth township, Philadelphia county (now Montgomery county), and took his certificate to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, bearing date July 26, 1721. He became an active and prominent member of this meeting and was named, April 3, 1723, as one of the Friends to visit families at Oley (now Berks) county. He was named as an overseer of Plymouth Meeting by Gwynedd Meeting, and served until July 28, 1724, when he requested to be relieved. He died in Plymouth town- ship, his will bearing date December 26, 1738, being proved February 3, 1738-9. His wife, Mary Scaife, evidently died before this date as she is not mentioned in the will. They were the parents of ten children, seven daughters and three sons, seven of whom and a child of a third were mentioned in the will of the father. The sons were John, Jonathan and Thomas; the latter, the youngest of the family, born October 22, 1719, took a certificate to Newark Monthly Meeting, New Castle county. May 29, 1739. Jonathan Rumford, the second son, born in Middletown, Bucks county, Janu- ary II, 1705-6, took a certificate from Gwynedd Meeting to Concord Meeting in 1738, and married there June 8, 1738, Susanna, daughter of William Nooks, of Birmingham, Chester (now Delaware) county, and two months later took a CAN BY 1081 certificate to Philadelphia Meeting. They later settled in or near New Castle county, and were associated with Wilmington Meeting. Their eldest daughter, Sarah Rumford, married there December 27, 1753, William Shipley, Jr., son of William Shipley, the founder of Wilmington, by his wife, Mary Tatnall. Lewis, son of John and Priscilla (Jerries) Rumford, of Wilmington, was born in Wilmington, October 20, 1796, and married there in 1822, Henrietta M. Grubb, born at Grubb's Corner, New Castle county, Delaware, August 25, 1800, eldest daughter of William Ford Grubb, by his wife, Lydia Williamson. She died at Wilmington, August 6, 1826. After the death of his wife, Lewis Rumford removed to Philadelphia and was engaged in business there for some years. In March 1841 he purchased a farm in Byberry township, Philadelphia county, on which he resided until the autumn of 1853, when he returned to Wilmington, and resided there until his death, Feb- ruary 15, i860. He married (second) February 22, 1838, Mary Caldwell Gilpin, born September 5, 1798, died at Wilmington, Delaware, November 13, 1884. She was a daughter of William Gilpin, born at Wilmington, Delaware, August 18, 1775, died in Byberry township, Philadelphia county, December 2, 1843, by his wife, Ann Dunwoody, and granddaughter of Vincent Gilpin, for many years the proprietor of the large flour mills on the Brandywine, above Wilmington, and a large shipper of flour and other products to the West Indies, and importer of goods from those points, prior to the Revolution, and for some years after. He died, August 5, 1819, in Wilmington. Mary C. (Gilpin) Rumford was a sister to Hon. Edward W. Gilpin, Chief Justice of Delaware. Issue of Lewis and Henrietta M. (Grubb) Rumford: Emily Grubb Rumford, b. Sept. i, 1823, d. Aug. 17, 1886; m. Joshua H. Wollaston, d. s. p. July 21, 1849; Henrietta Grubb Rumford, b. Nov. 19, 1825, d. Aug. 3, 1826. Issue of Lewis and Mary C. (Gilpin) Rumford: Elizabeth Gilpin Rumford, b. in Phila., June 18, 1839; Charles Grubb Rumford, b. Aug. 17, 1841, of whom presently. Charles Grubb Rumford, born in Byberry township, Philadelphia county, August 17, 1 841, received his primary education at the Byberry Friends' School, but his parents removing to Wilmington, Delaware, when he was twelve years of age, he continued his studies there until 1857, when he entered the Commercial and Classical School at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, to prepare for college, and later entered the University of Pennsylvania. Owing to the sudden death of his father, however, he was not able to complete his college course, and returning to Wilmington, he began in 1861 the study of law in the office of his uncle Chief Justice Edward W. Gilpin. Early in the year 1862 he began recruiting a company of Artillery for service in the Civil War, and on August 15, 1862, had secured a sufficient quota of men, and it was mustered into the service of the United States as the First Battery, Delaware Light Artillery, and he was commissioned Second Lieutenant. The battery was first equipped as a four-gun battery, and went into camp at Camp Bradford, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county, for drill and instruction. It was later increased to a six-gvm battery, and on September 6, 1862, Second Lieutenant Rumford was commissioned Junior First Lieutenant. The bat- io82 CAN BY tery remained at Camp Bradford until early in 1863, when it was ordered to Ports- mouth, Virginia. In August, 1863, it was ordered to New York City, to assist in quelling the "draft riots" in that city, and after order was restored was ordered to Camp Marshall, District of Columbia. In January, 1864, the Battery was ordered to New Orleans, Louisiana, and was incorporated into the Department of the Gulf, and after being equipped with horses, started, March 2, 1864, on the Red River Campaign, as part of the Nineteenth Army Corps, under the command of Gen. N. P. Banks. This campaign was a very arduous one of forced marches and considerable fighting. The advance up the Red River for the capture of Shreveport ended with the disastrous battle of Mansfield, when the Thirteenth Army Corps was virtually wiped out of existence, and the whole force fell back to Pleasant Hill, where another battle was fought with better success, but the retreat continued to Alexandria, and the expedition was abandoned. The Delaware Battery was engaged at the battle of Cane River Crossing, April 13, 1864; at Marksville, May 16; at Yellow Bayou, May 18 and 20, and partici- pated in many other engagements. On May 22, the army arrived at Morganzie Bend on the Mississippi River and soon thereafter erected a fort there. During the occupancy of this point, Lieu- tenant Rumford had command of the Delaware Battery for several months and led it in October in a reconnoissance to Atchofelaya river to disperse a force of Confederate troops located there. The Battery remained at Morganzie Bend until December 11, 1864, when it was ordered to DeVall's Bluff, Arkansas, and Lieutenant Rumford remained on duty with it until January 17, 1865, when, owing to severe illness superinduced by climatic influences and the hardships of the campaign, he resigned his com- mission, and was honorably discharged by special order of the War Department. Lieutenant Rumford returned to Wilmington, and on regaining his health re- sumed the study of law and was admitted to the New Castle county bar in 1866. He was Deputy Attorney General of Delaware, 1867-69; Clerk of the United States Circuit and District Courts, for the district of Delaware, 1869-73; was elected city solicitor of Wilmington, July 6, 1875, but declined to accept the posi- tion; was United States Commissioner of Delaware, 1869-75. He was elected a director of the Union National Bank of Wilmington, January 11, 1888, and held that position until his resignation by reason of ill health, January 30, 1901. He was elected a manager of and Vice-President of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insur- ance Company of Wilmington, January 9, 1893, and held that office until his death on November 24, 1901. He was one of the original stockholders of and originators of the Equitable Guarantee & Trust Company, and was elected a di- rector at its institution and held that position until his death. Mr. Rumford became a member of the MiHtary Order of the Loyal Legion, Philadelphia Commandery, February 5, 1890. Issue of Charles Grubb and Elisabeth M. (Canby) Rumford: Samuel Canby Rumford, b. July 23, 1876; m. Dec. 15, 1903, Mary Beatrix Tyson, and they have issue : Lewis Rumford, 3d., b. Jan. i, 1905; Ellicott Tyson Rumford, b. Dec. 10, 1905. Lewis Rumford, Jr., b. Sept. 3, 1877. YARNALL FAMILY. The ancestors of the Yarnall family of Philadelphia and Chester county were Francis Yarnall and his brother, Philip, who came from Claines or Cloynes, a small village in Worcestershire, England, near the city of Worcester, and settled in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1683. Both were unmarried on their arrival in Pennsylvania. They settled first in Springfield township, on one hundred acres of land about one mile from Springfield Meeting House, surveyed to Francis on October 17, 1683, and both were members of Darby Friends' Meeting. Francis married Hannah Baker in 1686, and settled in Willistown township, where he became a prominent man, a provincial magistrate and a member of Assembly in 171 1. He died in 1721. Philip Yarnall, younger of the brothers and ancestor of Ellis Yarnall, who !hree-quarters of a century later became a prominent merchant in Philadelphia, evidently made his home with his brother, Francis, until his marriage in 1694. He purchased 480 acres in Edgmont township, Chester county, in 1687, of George Maris, on which he took up his residence in 1694. In 1713 he purchased 240 acres in the same township, which he soon after conveyed to his son Philip, and later 250 acres in Ridley township, which on his death was devised to his son. Job. He was a prominent and active member of Friends' Meeting and filled the posi- tion of elder. His will, dated August 16, 1733, was proven May 20, 1734. He married, April, 1694, Dorothy, daughter of John Baker, who with his brother, Joseph, and sisters, Mary, who became the wife of William Coburn in 1686, Hannah, who married Francis Yarnall, and Sarah, who married Charles Whit- taker, came from Edgmont, Shropshire, England, and died in Philadelphia, leav- ing a will dated March 12, 1680-1, proved August 31, 1683. The Baker family were the first settlers in Edgmont township, which was named for their old home in Shropshire. John and Joseph and their three sisters, above named, were children of John Baker, of Edgmont, Shropshire, a prominent member of the Society of Friends, on whose records the date of his death is given as 2mo. ('April) 25, 1672. He was born in 1598, and is said to have been a son of Sir Richard Baker, born 1568, died February 18, 1645-6. Dorothy (Baker) Yarnall, was a minister among Friends, and a woman of much intelligence and great sweetness of character. She survived her husband, and died in Edgmont in 1743. Issue of Philip and Dorothy (Baker) Yarnall: John, b. March S, 1695, d. Sept. 5, 1749, at Wilmington, Del.; m. Abigail, dau. of Daniel Williamson, of Newtown, Chester co., and had six children. His eldes.t, Mary, b. 1722, m. (first) Thomas Pennell, (second) John Lea, (third) Jonas Preston, and was mother of Dr. Jonas Preston, of Phila., founder of "Preston's Retreat." Ann, second dau., b. 1729, d. 1797; m. John Thompson, and was grandmother of J. Edgar Thompson, the prominent civil engineer of Phila., and later president of Penna. R. R. Co. The two other daughters, Abigail and Hannah, m., respectively, Jesse and Thomas Garrett. The sons, Thomas and Isaac, were prominent residents of Chester, later Del. co. Reuben Yarnall, grandson of Isaac, was many years resident of Phila.; Philip, b. Nov. 29, 1696, d. Nov., 1758; m. Mary, dau. of Daniel and Jane (Worrilow) Hoopes, granddaughter of Joshua and Eleanor Hoopes, who were among the earliest settlers on the Del., in Bucks co. Philip and Mary Yarnall had nine children : Grace, io84 YARNALL Philip, David, Abraham, Jane, Elizabeth, Esther, Dorothy (m. her cousin, Ephraim Yarnall) and Mary. They intermarried with prominent families of Chester and Del. counties and left numerous descendants; Job, b. March 28, 1698, was an eminent minister among Friends, and d. in Ridley, Ches- ter CO., in 1740; Sarah, b. Oct. 25, 1700; m. April 25, 1726, Evan Ellis, many years member Provincial Assembly from Chester co.; Benjamin, b. Oct. 20, 1702, d. young and unm. ; Thomas, b. Aug. 10, 1705, d. June 13, 1764; m. Nov. 21, 1734, Martha Hammans, and left issue: Margaret, William (ancestor of Thomas Yarnall, the eminent minister), Job, Caleb, Joseph, Hannah and Sarah; Nathan, b. Feb. 27, 1707, d. Jan. 10, 1780; of whom presently; Samuel, b. April 12, 1710; m. Nov. 13, 1740, Sarah Vernon; Rebecca, b. Aug. 6, 1712; m. March 20, 1739-40, William Jones, of Plymouth, now Mont- gomery CO. ; Mary, b. Oct. 23, 1718; m. March 26, 1740-1, Samuel Milnor, of Gwynedd township. Nathan Yarnall^ seventh child of Philip and Dorothy (Baker) Yarnall, born in Edgmont township, Chester county, February 27, 1707, was a prominent and active member of Middletown Meeting, Chester county, and was one of the com- mittee appointed to rebuild the meetinghouse in 1751, and his name frequently appears on the minutes of that meeting as a member of important committees. He was one of the earliest advocates of the manumission of slaves, among the members of the Society of Friends. He married (first) October 13, 1731, at Middletown Meeting, Rachel, born July 10, 1710, ninth of the ten children of Ephraim Jackson, of Edgmont, by his wife, Rachel Newlin, daughter of Nicholas Newlin, of Concord, Chester county; member of Provincial Council, 1685-99, and a Justice of Chester County Courts from 1683, by his wife, Elizabeth, with whom he had emigrated from Mt. Melick, county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1683. Ephraim Jackson came to Pennsylvania from Cheshire, England, as a servant of Jacob Hall, in the ship, "Friendship," of Liverpool, which arrived in Mary- land, January 3, 1684. He married Rachel Newlin in 1695, and the same year purchased land of Philip Yarnall, in Edgmont, and lived there until his death, March 11, 1732-3. He was a member of Provincial Assembly in 1710. Rachel (Jackson) Yarnall died April 11, 1749, and Nathan married (second), May 10, 1750, Hannah Mendenhall, born January 19, 1719-20, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia (Roberts) Mendenhall, granddaughter of Benjamin Mendenhall, who with his brothers, John and Moses, and a sister, Mary, who became the wife of Nathaniel Newlin, son of Nicholas, above mentioned, came from Wiltshire, about 1683, and settled in Concord, Chester county. The name Mendenhall, originally Mildenhall, is derived from the ancient manor of Milden-Hall, in Wiltshire. John Mendenhall came to Chester county as early as 1683 and became a prominent man there; was Coroner of the county 1726-28. Plis brother, Benjamin, is said to have accompanied him; another brother, Moses, and a sister, Maria, wife of Thomas Martin, came from Great Bedwin, Wilts, arriving December 16, 1685, but Moses later returned to England. Benjamin Mendenhall settled in Concord and was an Elder of Concord Meet- ing at his death in April, 1740, and is styled in some of the records as a wheel- wright. He married, April 17, 1689, Ann, eldest daughter of Robert Pennell, who with Hannah, his wife, came from Boulderton, Nottinghamshire, Engfand, bringing a certificate from "Friends at Fulbeck," July 3, 1684, which included YARNALL 1085 Thorn? s Garrett, Hugh Rodnell, and Richard Parker, and their respective wives and children. Robert Pennell settled first in Middletown, and was constable of that township in 1687. He purchased, in 1691, 250 acres of land in Edgmont and added 264 more acres in 1705, adjoining Philip Yarnall. He died there in 1728, and his wife in 171 1, at the age of seventy-one years, leaving seven children. Benjamin Mendenhall, eldest son of Benjamin and Ann (Pennell) Mendenhall, born May 5, 1691, was recommended as a minister of the Society of Friends by Concord Meeting, August 2, 1725, and March 7, 1742-3, received a certificate to pay a religious visit to Friends in Virginia and North Carolina in company with Samuel Hopwood, a minister from England. When about to return to his home he was taken sick, and died at the house of Zachariah Nixon, in Parquimans county. North Carolina. He married, at Gwynedd Meeting, May 9, 1717, Lydia Roberts, born in Wales, in 1694, daughter of Owen and Mary Roberts, who had come from Wales with the Welsh colony of 1697, and settled at Gwynedd. Lydia (Roberts) Mendenhall married (second) William Hammans, and died July 4, 1752. Hannah (Mendenhall) Yarnall, second wife of Nathan Yarnall, was second of the six children of Benjamin and Lydia (Roberts) Mendenhall. She was born January 19, 1719-20, and died August 19, 1760, leaving four chil- dren, of whom Ellis Yarnall, of Philadelphia, was third. Nathan Yarnall married (third) January 5, 1769, at Chester Meeting, Jane, widow of John Bezer. She died May 25, 1775, and he January 10, 1780. Issue of Nathan and Rachel (Jackson) Yarnall: Ephraim, b. July 6, 1733; m. Dorothy, dau. of his uncle Philip Yarnall; (second) Sarah Helton; Nathan, b. June 2, 1736, d. Jan. 10, 1779; m. Phebe Schofield; Benjamin, b. June 5, 1738; ni. April 30, 1761, Elizabeth Folwell; John, b. Feb. 8, 1739-40; m. Feb. 3, 1774, Elizabeth Newli.i; Edith, b. May 13, 1743, d. Jan. 18, 1787: "A Minister distinguishly gifted, and beloved as far as she was known;" m. Dec. 15, 1768, Joshua Sharpless; Joel, b. Aug. IS, i74S, d. May 20, 1768; Samuel, b. May 29, 1748; m. (first) Hannah Hatton; (second) Mary Harrison. Issue of Nathan and Hannah (Mendenhall) Yarnall: Eli, "The Seer," being gifted with an extraordinary faculty of fore-telling events and being conscious of events that were transpiring far beyond his ken; b. March 29, 1753, d. Aug. 25, 1812; m. Priscilla Walker; Joshua, b. Jan. 16, 1755, bur. Oct. 9, 1790; unm.; Ellis, b. Jan. 31, 1757, d. in Phila., Dec. 7, 1847; m. (first) Rachel and (second) Mary Hornor; Robert, d. young. Ellis Yarnall, youngest surviving son of Nathan Yarnall, by his second wife, Hannah Mendenhall, born in Concord township, Chester county, Pennsyl- vania, January 31, 1757, came to Philadelphia when a young man and became a prominent merchant there. He was a member of the Society of Friends and during his long life was ever interested in the amelioration of the condition of the downtrodden and oppressed of the human race. He was an Elder of the Twelfth Street Meeting, and loyally served on a number of philanthropic committees of the meeting, and was deeply interested in the Anti-Slavery movement, the civiliza- tion and Christianization of the Indian, and various charitable and benevolent io86 YARNALL enterprises, giving liberally of his means for the benefit of the poor and afflicted. He died December 7, 1847, i" his ninety-first year, having "lived a life of meek devotion to the service of his Maker." He married Mary Hornor, daughter of Benjamin Hornor, a prominent mer- chant of Philadelphia, a native of Burlington county, New Jersey, who had come to Philadelphia when a boy, and spent the remainder of his life there, first as a hatter and later as a hardware merchant. He was many years one of the man- agers of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for the Improvement of the con- dition of the African Race. He was a man of deep religious convictions, and a teacher in the first Sabbath schools established in Pennsylvania in 1793. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Beakes) Potts, of the promi- nent New Jersey family of the name, and a great-granddaughter of Mahlon Stacy, founder of Trenton. She died in 1795, aged fifty-five years, and he in 1810; his later years being spent with the Coates family, into which two of his daughters married. Mary (Hornor) Yarnall died February 27, 1836, aged seven- ty-four years. Issue of Ellis and Mary (Hornor) Yarnall: Benjamin Hornor Yarnall, of Phila., m. Eliza Coffin, of Nantucket, sister to Lucretia Mott, the eminent preacher, and Anti-Slavery advocate of the Society of Friends; had six children: Thomas C, Ellis, Mary, Sarah, William and Rebecca; Sarah Yarnall, b. 1792, d. 1829, unm. ; Ellis H. Yarnall, b. 1794, d. unm. in 1829; Amy Yarnall, an Elder of Society of Friends; m. (first) Dr. Benjamin Ellis, of Phila.; (second) John Tatum, of Wilmington, Del., a much esteemed minister of Society of Friends; Edward Yarnall, m. Caroline, dau. of Thomas P. Cope, who in 1821 established the first regular line of packet ships between Phila. and Liverpool, a business continued and augmented by his sons and grandsons, under title of Cope Bros.; Charles Yarnall, prominent merchant of Phila.; m. Emma Cope; of whom presently. Charles Yarnall, youngest son of EUis and Mary (Hornor) Yarnall, was born in the city of Philadelphia, November 22, 1800. He received a good classical and general business education, and continuing scholarly pursuits all his life, be- came a fine classical scholar. He was a very public spirited citizen and a man of rare gifts as a scholar and business man. He was one of the founders of Haverford College, and largely instrumental in the remodelHng and reorganiza- tion of the William Penn Charter School of Philadelphia, and says Thomas Chase, president of Haverford College, in a memorial of Charles Yarnall, pub- lished in the North American and United States Gazette, October 24, 1877, "of both these institutions he may be called the father and much of what is best in their organization and methods can be traced to his suggestion." He was a prom- inent and successful merchant and took a lively interest in all that pertained to the best interests of his native city. He died September 28, 1877. He married Emma, daughter of Jasper Cope, of the prominent dry-goods firm of Israel and Jasper Cope, Market street, above Fourth. Issue of Charles and Emma (Cope) Yarnall: Ems Hornor, b. Dec. 23, 1839, Phila.; of whom presently; Anna, b. March 5, 1844, unm. ; residing in Phila. YARNALL 1087 Ellis Hornor Yarnall, son of Charles and Emma (Cope) Yarnall, born December 23, 1839, was prepared for college at Gregory's Classical Academy, and entering Haverford College was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1858. Several succeeding years he spent in mercantile pursuits, being with Whitall, Tatum & Company, manufacturers and merchants of Philadelphia, but gave up a business career to pursue the study of law. He took a course in the Law Depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1866. He was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar the same year, and at once engaged in the practice of the law in the courts of Philadelphia. For some time he was editor of the geographical department of the American Naturalist. He spent several years in travel in European countries returning to his native city in 1894, since which time he was actively engaged in the practice of his profession until his death, which occurred December 18, 1907. An obituary notice in St. Clement's Magazine says of him : "On December 18, ElHs Hornor Yarnall entered into rest. He had been for many years connected with St. Clement's, and was for some time a member of the vestry. Uncompromising in his churchmanship, Mr. Yarnall was a staunch Cathohc, and was a true defender of the Faith in the early history of the parish. Devout in his Christian life, and sincere and straightfor- ward in his dealings with others, he was respected by all who knew him. His illness was of brief duration, aud his death came as a surprise to many. May he rest in peace." He was a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, of the Philadelphia Geographical Society and of other organizations. Mr. Yarnall was married (first) in 1880, to Caroline Ridgeway Rowland, (second) in 1897, to his cousin, Emily Yarnall, who survives him. PEPPER FAMILY. The Pepper family, destined to play an important part in the business and pro- fessional life of Philadelphia, was founded in American by Johan Heinrich Pfeffer, born near Strasburg, Germany, January 5, 1739, who embarked from Rotterdam in the ship "Minerva," Capt. Thomas Arnott, with ninety-one other Germans and Palatines, for Philadelphia, and was qualified as a subject of the English crown at that city on October 13, 1769. Soon after his arrival he located at Schaffertown, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, but in 1774 returned to Phila- delphia, and thereafter made his home in that city, where he acquired much valuable real estate and became one of the prominent business men of the city. The German name of Pfeffer became Anglicized into Pepper and he was known in Philadelphia as Henry Pepper. He died in that city, March 11, 1808. His will, dated December 17, 1807, and proven May 18, 1808, devised to his children and grandchildren houses and lots in different parts of the city, a brewery in Lyecoming county, and valuable real estate elsewhere. His wife Catharine sur- vived him and was devised the house where he dwelt. The children of Henry and Catharine Pepper, as named in his will, were as follows : Catharine Pepper, named in her father's will as "eldest daughter" and "wife of Jona- than Miller;" Philip Pepper, deceased at date of his father's will, leaving son Philip H. Pepper, who d. unm.; Elizabeth Pepper, named in father's will as his second daughter and wife of George Thomson; Sarah Pepper, named in father's will as deceased wife of "late Adam Seybert;" George Pepper, b. March 15, 1779, d. Jan. 6, 1846; m. Mary Catharine Seckel; of whom presently ; Margaret Pepper, named in father's will as his youngest daughter. George Pepper, second son of Henry and Catharine Pepper, born in the city of Philadelphia, March 15, 1779, was placed by his father as an apprentice in the counting house of the prominent firm of Willing & Francis, when a youth, to learn the mercantile business. He developed into a man of almost unequalled business capacity and, engaging in the mercantile business on his own account, became, before reaching middle life, one of the wealthiest men of the city. George Pepper was for many years interested in the brewing business, and resided during the later years of his life at 225 Chestnut street, having a summer residence on an ample estate which he called "Fairy Hill," a part of which is now Laurel Hill Cemetery. He owned at the time of his death a vast amount of real estate in the city, breweries on Cherry and Minor streets, and a large number of houses on Eighth and Market streets, and in other parts of the city. By his will, dated January 5, 1846, and proven January 12 of the same month, the greater part of his real estate holdings were to be held in trust by his executors, who were his wife, Mary, sons, George S. and William Pepper, his son-in-law, Isaac Norris, and Michael Baker, for the benefit of his children and grandchildren, ample pro- vision being made for their improvement. The rapid growth of the city in the years succeeding his death greatly enhanced their value. No estate, with the PEPPER 1089 possible exception of that of Stephen Girard, has contributed so largely to the development of the material wealth of the city of Philadelphia. The accumulated millions derived from it have since largely been devoted to the public use in the establishment of hospitals, free public libraries, etc., and to the general advance- ment of public utilities and benefactions. George Pepper died at his residence, 225 Chestnut street, January 6, 1846. He married. May 13, 1802, Mary Catharine, born in Philadelphia, June 7, 1780, daughter of John David Seckel, and granddaughter of George David Seckel, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Philadelphia, who died in 1797, by his wife, Mary Catharine. Mrs. Pepper survived her husband fifteen years, and died June 21, 1861. Issue of George and Mary Catharine (Seckel) Pepper: Henry Pepper, b. April 1803; many years prominent business man of Phila.; m. Feb. 11, 1841, Sallie Norris, b. Jan. 16, 1814, d. May 19, 1899, dau. of Joseph Parker and Eliza- beth Hill (Fox) Norris; they had issue: Elizabeth Norris Pepper, b. Dec. 19, 1841; m. Feb. 7, 1872, Col. William Brooke Rawle; Henry Pepper, b. Aug. 8, 1843, d. Feb. 28, 1844; Mary Pepper, b. Jan. 11, 1845, d. Jan. 12, 1845; Henry Pepper, b. Nov. 4, 1846, d. March 3, 1880; m. Jan. 16, 1873, Agnes Camp- bell Norris; Mary Pepper, b. Nov. 18, 1848; m. June 21, 1880, John Gwynn; Catharine Pepper, b. May i, 1851, d. May 2, 1851; George Norris Pepper, b. Oct. 18, 1852; Emily Norris Pepper, b. June 28, 1855; m. Feb. i, 1877, J. Wain Vaux, and had issue : Richard Vaux, b. Dec. 13, 1877; Henry Vaux, b. June 12, 1879, banker of Phila.; Norris Wister Vaux, b. Sept. 1, 1881, M. D. Univ. of Pa.; Emily Norris Vaux, b. June i, 1885; m. April 17, 1907, Edward Ingersoll; David Pepper, b. Aug. 6, 1805, d. 1840; m. Emily Piatt, and had issue: William Platt Pepper, b. Sept. 20, 1837, d. April 27, 1907; m. Alice Lyman; of vfhom presently; David Pepper, b. Aug. 21, 1840, d. Oct. 12, 1906; grad. Univ. of Pa., i860; m. Jan. 9, 1864, Sallie Taylor Newbold, and had issue : David Pepper, b. Sept. 4, 1867; m. Nov. 28, 1894, Celeste Page Bowie; Mary Pepper, b. Dec. 3, 1806, m. May 18, 1830, Isaac Norris, Esq., of "Hawthorne," son of Joseph Parker and Elizabeth Hill (Fox) Norris, and had issue; George Seckel Pepper, b. June 11, 1808, d. May 2, 1890; was interested in many philan- thropic enterprises; trustee with nephew. Dr. William Pepper, and William Platt Pepper, of Henry Seybert Fund for care of indigent children ; left large estate, greater part of which was dedicated to public benefactions, principal one being establishment of Free Public Library of Phila.; William PeppEE, M. D., b. Jan. 21, 1810, d. Oct. 15, 1864; m. Sarah Platt; of whom pres- ently; Charles Pepper, b. Jan. 29, 1812, d. Feb. 22, 1812; Catharine Pepper, b. Feb. 20, 1813, d. April 5, 1883; m. (first) Charles Rockland Thomp- son; (second) E. B. Gardette; Frederick Seckel Pepper, b. Dec. 20, 1814, d. Jan. 14, 1891 ; m. Adeline Worrell ; of whom later; Charles Pepper, b. March 11, 1817, d. May 3, 1887; m. Margaret Lamb; Edward Pepper, b. March 11, 1817, d. March i, 1892; m. Sarah H. Cave; Lawrence Seckel Pepper, b. Phila., Oct. 28, 1819, d. there Sept. 10, 1886; entered Univ. of Pa. 1834 (class of 1838), grad. from Medical Department of same institution, class of 1843, degree of M. D. William Platt Pepper, eldest son of David and Emily (Platt) Pepper, and grandson of George and Mary (Seckel) Pepper, born in Philadelphia, September logo PEPPER 20, 1837, entered the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1857, in 1854, was a member of the Philomathean Society and the Zeta Psi fraternity there; he re- ceived his degree of A. B. in 1857, and that of A. M. in i860. He then studied law under the eminent lawyer, Peter McCall, was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar and entered upon active practice of his profession in that city. During the next few years after his admission to the bar, however, he spent some time in foreign travel, giving much attention to the study of art in which he was deeply interested. In 1871 he joined in the formation of the Social Art Club, which resulted a few years later in the formation of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, of which he was through life one of the leading bene- factors, serving for sixteen years as its president. He ever held firmly to the view that the educational features of the work should be maintained and devel- oped, while taking the keenest interest in the museum. He continued to serve as a director of this institution to the close of his Hfe. Another public work in which William Piatt Pepper bore an important part was the establishment and management of the Free Library of Philadelphia. He was a corporate member of the body organized to administer the fund bequeathed by his uncle, George S. Pepper, for the formation of the Library, and on the formation of the present corporation of the Free Library of Philadelphia as a result of that bequest, he became an active member of its Board of Managers and continued to fill that position until his death. In 1870 he assisted in the organization of the St. Mark's Workingmen's Club and Institute for the improvement of the condition of the working men by pro- viding them means for instruction and recreation, the pioneer undertaking of this kind, since followed by a number of others of like purpose throughout the coun- try. The work originated in a night school in which Mr. Pepper was teacher. He was for thirty years an active manager of the Episcopal Hospital, resigning shortly before his death, when failing health prevented him from giving it the attention he believed due to the position. He was one of the founders and from the beginning one of the Board of Managers of the Free Church Association, whose object was to abolish the practice of renting and selling seats in churches, and was for many years a member of the Vestry of the Church of the Ascension. He was a founder of the Church Qub and took an active part in its work ; and was for some years a member of the Board of Council of St. Barnabas Mission. He was widely known for his earnest work and benefactions in behalf of philan- thropy and charity. Mr. Pepper died on the morning of April 27, 1907, at his residence, 1730 Chest- nut street, after a long illness. He married Alice Lyman, daughter of George Theodore Lyman, of Boston, Massachusetts, who with one son, William Piatt Pepper, Jr., of Philadelphia, and three daughters, Mrs. Arthur H. Hacker, of Staten Island ; Mrs. Robert C. Watson, Jr., of New York, and Miss Martha Otis Pepper, of Philadelphia, survive him. William Pepper, M. D., son of George and Mary (Seckel) Pepper, generally known or designated as Dr. William Pepper, the elder, was born in Philadelphia, January 21, 1810. He graduated at the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, with first honors in 1829, and studied medicine under Thomas T. Hewson, M. D., and at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, receiving his degree at the latter institution in 1832. PEPPER 1091 Immediately following his graduation in medicine he prepared to start for Paris, where he spent two years in perfecting himself for the practice of his profession, but an epidemic of cholera breaking out in his native city, he delayed his departure to share in the medical care of the patients in the pest hospital until the plague was entirely stamped out. Returning to Philadelphia near the close of the year 1834 he took up the prac- tice of medicine there and rose rapidly in reputation, and was for many years recognized as the leading consultant in the community in cases of a serious nature. He was for twenty-six years a physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital ; was phy- sician to the Will's Eye Hospital ; and, in i860, was elected Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and served until 1864, when his failing health compelled him to resign. He was a member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, of the various Medical organizations, and of the American Philosophical Society. He died, October 15, 1864, in the prime of his brilliant career. A contemporary has written of him as follows : "At the early age of fifty-five years, he died, just in the maturity of his mental ability, and of his capacity for usefulness ; at the period when the arduous labors of a lifetime would have shown their best results; when the richest fruits of large study and ripe experience were about to be gathered, giving still higher honor to him and greater benefits to the community." Dr. William Pepper married, June 9, 1840, Sarah Piatt, and two of their sons, achieved high distinction as physicians. Issue of Dr. William and Sarah Piatt Pepper: George Pepper, M. D., of whom presently; WiLWAM Pepper, LL. D., of whom later. George Pepper, M. D., the eldest son, born April i, 1841, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, College Department in 1862, and Medical Depart- ment in 1865. On September 15, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Sixth Regi- ment Pennsylvania Cavalry; was promoted to Lieutenant, but was disabled May 22, 1863, and honorably discharged. Taking up the study of medicine under his distinguished father, he achieved considerable distinction prior to his early death, on September 14, 1872. He was chiefly instrumental in founding the Philadel- phia Obstetrical Society, and was its secretary until his fatal illness prevented his attendance. Pie was a member of many medical and learned associations and societies, and shortly before his death was elected accoucheur to the Philadelphia Hospital. He died September 14, 1872. Dr. George Pepper married Hitty Markoe Wharton, daughter of Hon. George Mifflin Wharton, by his wife, Emily Markoe. She married (second) Ernest Zantzinger. Issue of Dr. George and Hitty M. (Wharton) Pepper: George Wharton Pepper, A. M., hh. B., LL. D., b. Phila., March 16, 1867; entered Univ. of Pa. 1883; received degree A. B. 1887; entered Law Department of same Univ., and, receiving degree of LL. B. in 1889, was admitted to the Phila. Bar; has achieved distinction as lawyer, being universally considered leader of the junior bar; has been Algernon Sydney Biddle Prof, of Law at Univ. of Pa. since 1893; was awarded degree LL. D. by that Univ. Tune 18, 1907; member of American Philo- sophical Society; author of "The Borderland of Federal and State Decisions" (1889); "Pleading at Common Law and Under the Codes," 1891 ; "Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania," 1700-1901, and "Digest of Decisions and Encylopsdia of Pennsylvania 1092 PEPPER Law," 1754-1898 (with William Draper Lewis) ; receiver of Bay State Gas Co.; mem- ber of Board of Missions of Prot. Epis. Church and Deputy to its General Conven- tion; m. Nov. 25, 1890, Charlotte R., daiL of Prof. George P. Fisher, of Yale Univ.; they have issue: Adeline Louise Forbes Pepper, b. March 11, 1892; George Wharton Pepper, Jr., b. Jan. 14, 1895; Charlotte Eleanor Pepper, b. May 30, 1897. Frances Pepper, b. Nov. 19, 1869; m. Nov. 4, 1896, J. Alison Scott, and had issue: Frances Wharton Scott, b. Sept. 3, 1897; Joseph Alison Scott, b. Jan. 21, 1900; Ernest N. Scott, b. Dec. 25, 1903. To Dr. William Pepper, the second son of Dr. William and Sarah (Piatt) Pepper, the distinguished physician, scientist and scholar, for twenty years pro- vost of the University of Pennsylvania, it is impossible to do justice in the Hmits of this brief family sketch. A history of his Hfe and distinguished services, by Francis Newton Thorpe, has been recently published, to which we would refer our readers. He was born in Philadelphia, August 21, 1843, and entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1858; was Valedictorian of his class in 1862, and entering the Medical Department of the University, received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1864; Lafayette College conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1881, Princeton in 1888. He was an extensive contributor to the medical literature of his day. He died July 28, 1898. Dr. William Pepper married, June 25, 1873, Frances Sargeant, daughter of Christopher Grant and Frances (Sargeant) Perry, the former a son of Commo- dore Oliver Hazard Perry, by his wife, Elizabeth Champlin Mason, and the latter of Hon. Thomas Sergeant of Philadelphia, by his wife, Sarah Bache, a grand- daughter of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Issue of Dr. William and Frances Sargeant (Perry) Pepper: Dr. William Pepper, b. May 14, 1874; grad. of Univ. of Pa., class of 1894, with degree A. B., and from the Med. Dept. of same institution, with degree M. D. 1897; Fellow of College of Physicians, Phila.; Instructor in Medicine at Univ. of Pa.; assistant physician to Phila. and Univ. Hospitals; member of various medical societies and associations; m. Dec. 31, 1904, Mary, dau. of Lincoln and Mary (Simpson) Godfrey, and had issue : William Pepper, b. Nov. 16, 1905; Dickinson Sargeant Pepper, b. March 12, 1907; Thomas Sargeant Pepper, b. April 14, 1876, d. July 22, 1882; Benjamin Franklin Pepper, b. Jan. 21, 1879; grad. St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass., 1897; entered Coll. Dept., Univ. of Pa., class of 1901; grad. from Law Dept. 1903, and was admitted to Phila. Bar; was private in Battery A, Penna. Volunteer Artillery, in Spanish-American War, April 27 to Aug. 2, 1898; m. June 2, 1902, Rebecca Thomp- son, dau. of George and Anna (Shippen) Willing; had issue: Benjamin Franklin Pepper, Jr., b. June 10, 1905. Oliver Hazard Perry Pepper, b. April 28, 1884; grad. St. Martin's School, Southboro, Mass., 1901; grad. Univ. of Pa., with degree of B. S., and from Med. Dept. of Univ. in 1908. Frederick Seckel Pepper, son of George and Mary (Seckel) Pepper, was born in Philadelphia, December 20, 1814, and died in that city, January 14, 1891. He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1831, class of 1835, and was a member of the Philomathean Society there. He married, March 20, 1851, Adeline, daughter of John R. and Rebecca (Glenn) Worrell, of Philadelphia, of ancient English lineage. PEPPER 1093 Richard Worrell, the pioneer ancestor of Adeline (Worrell) Pepper, emi- grated to Pennsylvania from Oare in the Hundred of Fair-cross, Berkshire (fifty- four miles from London) in 1682, bringing a certificate to the Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends at Philadelphia from "Ye Monthly Meeting, at Oare, in Barkshire," dated "ye 17th of ye ffirst Month, 1682." He died in Philadelphia, 5mo. (July) 10, 1688, and his widow, Sarah Worrell, died twelve days later. They were probably accompanied to Pennsylvania by their sons, John and Richard Worrell, both of whom produced certificates from the same meeting at Oare, dated 5mo. (July) 21, 1682. Richard Worrell, Sr., had been an early convert to the principles and faith of the Society of Friends and was persecuted for his religious convictions as early as 1670. He was an original purchaser of land in the Province of Penn- sylvania of William Penn in 1681, and it was laid out to him, as shown by Holme's map, on Dublin creek, in what became Lower Dublin township, Phila- delphia county. The early Friends Meetings of that section were held at his house. John Worrell, son of Richard and Sarah, whose certificate from Friends at Oare is above recited, was a prominent member of the Society, and a trustee of the property belonging to Dublin Meeting in 1688. He married at Oxford Meet- ing House, June 4, 1689, Judith Dungworth, and his brother, Richard Worrell, Jr., married Rachel May, August 11, 1685. Both have left numerous descendants. John resided at the time of his death in Oxford township, Philadelphia county. His will dated August 17, and proved September 12, 1743, styles him as of "Ox- ford Township, County of Philadelphia, and Province of Philadelphia Malster," and states that he is "very aged." It devises to the children of his son, Isaac, land on the west side of the King's Road, near Frankford, part of a tract he had purchased of Robert Addams, June 7, 1698, "next to son Isaac's land." To his son, Jacob, he devised the balance of the same tract; he mentions his eldest son, John; son, Isaiah; daughters, Hannah, wife of Daniel Bristol; Rebecca, wife of a Samuel Finney, and granddaughter, Elizabeth Bigley. Issue of John and Judith (Dungworth) Worrell: John Worrell, b. April 12, 1690; Elizabefh Worrell, b. July 11, 1691; Isaac Worrell, b. Aug. 21, 169.S, d. 1739; of whom presently; Sarah Worrell, b. Oct. 9, 1695 ; Hezekiah Worrell, b. Nov. 27, 1697; Isaiah Worrell, b. Dec. 29, 1699; Abraham Worrell, b. April 12, 1699; Rebecca Worrell, b. , m. Samuel Finney; Hannah Worrell, m. Daniel Bristol; Jacob Worrell, the devisee of the land near Frankford. John Worrell, like most of the other members of Oxford Friends' Meeting, was an adherent of George Keith in his schism of 1702, and lost his membership in the Society of Friends, and the record of his children born after that date does not appear on the Friends' records. Isaac Worrell, second son of John and Judith (Dungworth) Worrell, pur- chased land near his father and died there in 1739, before his father. As shown by the will of John, above quoted, the children of Isaac were devised a portion of the old homestead, adjoining their father's land. On the land thus devised a 1094 PEPPER house was erected in 1700, which was the home of the descendants of Isaac for nearly two centuries. The land passed to Isaiah, son of Isaac, and from his estate to his son, Robert, who devised it to his daughter, Martha, whose granddaughter, Martha, still owned and occupied the old house in 1892. The will of Isaac Wor- rell was dated January 5, and probated January 26, 1739-40. In it he is named as a "millwright." It devises his farm to his wife, Rebecca, after whose death it passed to his son, Isaiah, as before stated. Isaac retained his membership in the Society of Friends and was a minister of local note. He married Rebecca Haw- ley, who survived him. He left three sons: Isaac Worrell; Isaiah Worrell, d. Aug. 26, 1818; m. Elizabeth Harper; of whom presently; Richard Worrell, d. in early manhood, his widow becoming wife of Mcveagh. Isaiah Worrell, son of Isaac and Rebecca (Hawley) Worrell, of Oxford township, Philadelphia county, inherited the homestead near Frankford, but later became a merchant in Frankford, residing in a house at the corner of Main street and Bristol Road, which he devised to his son, Isaac. He died there August 26, 1818, and was buried in the Friends' burying-ground at Unity and Wain streets, Frankford. His son, Isaac Worrell, was a Captain of the Associated Company of Oxford township, 1776, and was later Captain of the Fourth Company, Second Battalion, Philadelphia County Militia, Col. Benjamin MacVeagh. His brothers, Robert, Isaiah, Joseph and William, all who were old enough, also rendered serv- ice during the Revolution. Isaiah, the father, is also said to have rendered service. Isaiah Worrell married, 1752, Elizabeth Harper, born 1733, died April 25, 1809. Issue of Isaiah and Elizabeth (Harper) Worrell: Isaac Worrell, b. Aug. 16, 1753, d. April 25, 1826; Capt. of Militia during Revolution; m. March 30, 1775, Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Rambo; Robert Worrell, b. Aug. 22, 1754, d. 1841; inherited homestead in Oxford township; was trustee of Presbyterian Church at Frankford; m. Catharine Keiter; Isaiah Worrell, b. Sept. 28, 1755; m. Sarah Coates; Joseph Worrell, b. Sept. 2, 1757, d. June i, 1841 ; Elizabeth Worrell, b. Dec. 21, 1759; William Worrell, b. Oct. 18, 1760; d. in New Orleans, La.; John Hawley Worrell, b. Aug. 12, 1762, d. 1835; m- Mary Nefl; of whom presently; Samuel Worrell, b. Jan. 27, 1764; d. s. p. July 25, 1829; Rebecca Worrell, b. June 6, 1765; Sarah Worrell, b. Jan. 5, 1767; m. Oct. 5, 1794, William Coates; Jacob Worrell, b. Aug. 13, 1768, m. Hetty Rook; Thomas Worrell, b. Aug. 29, 1771, d. Feb. 3, 1837, in Cecil co., Md. ; Mary Worrell, b. March 3, 1773; m. Thomas Knight; Frances Worrell, b. July 26, 1776, d. young; Stephen Worrell, b. June 6, 1778; m. May 26, 1808, Jane Allen. John Hawley Worrell, seventh child of Isaiah and Elizabeth (Harper) Worrell, born August 12, 1762, died in Frankford, 1835, and was buried in the Presbyterian graveyard at the corner of Main and Church streets, Frankford. He married Mary Neff, who was buried in the same graveyard, in 1842, at the age of eighty-two years. They had issue: William Worrell, b. Nov. 24, 1783, d. July 7, i854; m. Margaret Sullivan; John R. Worrell, m. Rebecca Glenn, and had issue: Susanna Worrell m. William T. Lowber; PEPPER 1095 Emma Worrell, m. Samuel F. Fisher; AdEuni; Woerei,!,, m. March 20, 1851, Frederick Seckel Pepper; of whom pres- ently; James C. Worrell. Isaiah Worrell, of Frankford, m. Sarah Buckius; Samuel Worrell, of Clearfield Co., Pa., m. Anna Sullivan; Rudolph Worrell; m. Mary Ege; Hawley Worrell, d. young; Hannah Worrell, b. May i, 1787, d. April, 1888, aged 100 yrs., Iimos. ; m. Mayberry Whit- man; Eliza Worrell, b. June 11, 1793, d. July 3, 1890, aged 97 years; ra. Stephen Belknap; Mary Worrell, b. Feb. i, 1798; m. Abraham Knapp, of Montgomery Square, Montgomery Co., Pa. Issue of Frederick Seckel and Adeline (Worrell) Pepper: John Worreli, Pepper, b. June 24, 1852; m. Emily Adele Buckley; of whom presently; Frederick Seckel Pepper, Jr., b. in Phila., Nov. i, 1853; Susan Worrel Pepper, m. Nov. 3, 1881, J. Howard Gibson, of Phila., and had issue: Adeline Pepper Gibson; Mary Clett Gibson; Henry Clay Gibson. John Worrell Pepper, son of Frederick Seckel and Adeline (Worrell) Pep- per, born in Philadelphia, June 24, 1852, was educated in Philadelphia, and began his business career in the counting house of his uncle, William T. Lowber, in 1868. After thirty-eight years of active business life he retired in 1906, and has since de- voted his time to the care of his estate and his duties as an official of the several corporations and charitable institutions with which he is connected. He is a di- rector of the Philadelphia Savings Fund, of the Insurance Company of North America, of the Trust Company of North America, of the Philadelphia Ware- house Company. He is a member of the Rittenhouse and Philadelphia Clubs, the Philadelphia Racquet Club, the Philadelphia Country Club, the Rabbit Club, and president of the Huntington Valley Country Club. John Worrell Pepper married, June 2, 1879, Emily Adele, daughter of Clement A. and Sarah (Penrose) Buckley, and widow of Edward Lowber, who died De- cember 10, 1866, son of William Twells Lowber, by his wife, Susan Worrell, be- fore mentioned. Clement Adam Buckley, the father of Mrs. John Worrell Pep- per, born June i, 1791, died April 13, 1868, was a son of Daniel Buckley, Esq., the prominent ironmaster of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, by his wife, Sarah Brooke, and a descendant of Adam Buckley, one of the earliest settlers of New Castle county, who was associated with the Grubb family in the ownership of "Stockdale's Plantation" there in early Colonial times. Daniel Buckley was a member of the General Assembly from Lancaster county for several terms. Clem- ent Adam Buckley graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 181 1, was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1814, and continued to practice his profession in this city until his death. He married, September 11, 1833, Sarah Penrose, born in Philadelphia, July 28, 181 1, died there, January 21, 1891, daughter of Charles Penrose, one of the eminent men of Philadelphia in his time, by his wife, Ann Rowan, and of the family of eminent shipbuilders of Philadelphia, founded about 1700, by Capt. Bartholomew Penrose. Capt. Bartholomew Penrose came of ancient English lineage, and just prior to 1096 PEPPER his emigration to Philadelphia in 1700, resided in Bristol, England, where his brother, Thomas Penrose, was a prominent and wealthy shipbuilder. Soon after his settlement in Philadelphia, Capt. Bartholomew Penrose engaged in the ship- building business, and about 1706 built the "Diligence," having for a partner in her ownership and equipment William Penn, and also Col. William Trent, James Logan and others. The earlier voyages of the "Diligence" to foreign parts on commercial ventures were made under the direct command of Capt. Penrose, as shown by Penn's correspondence of that date. Capt. Penrose died in Philadelphia and was buried at Christ Church, November 17, 171 1. He married, in 1693, Esther, daughter of Toby and Esther (Ashmead) Leech, of Oxford, Philadelphia county, an account of whom and the distinguished services of Toby Leech, as a member of Provincial Assembly, etc., is given elsewhere in these volumes. After the death of Capt. Penrose, his widow married Nathaniel Poole, also a shipbuilder, and that business was conducted by descendants of Bartholomew Penrose for several generations, at Philadelphia. Thomas Penrose, youngest son of Capt. Bartholomew and Esther (Ashmead) Penrose, born in Philadelphia, on or about February 1709-10, became associated with his brothers and others in the shipbuilding business and as a shipping mer- chant in Philadelphia. He was the owner of the "Brittania," part owner in 1747 of the "Greyhound," in 1750 of the "Ranger," and in 1753 of the "Neptune." He was an active member of Christ Church and one of the founders of St. Peter's Church, a signer of the petition to the Proprietaries for the use of the lot at Third and Pine streets on which to erect the latter church, though he died No- vember 17, 1757, before the church was erected thereon. Thomas Penrose mar- ried, October 21, 1731, Sarah, daughter of John Coats, a manufacturer of Phila- delphia, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Warwick Hale, and aunt to Mary, the wife of Thomas Plumstead. Mary (Hale) Penrose died July 7, 1777, at the age of sixty-three years, having married (second) Capt. Lester Falkner, and (third) Anthony Duche. Thomas Penrose, Jr., son of Thomas and Mary (Hale) Penrose, born in Phila- delphia, January 22, 1733-4, died there November 28, 181 5, was also a shipbuilder and merchant. In his early life he was in partnership with his brother, James Penrose. He was one of the prominent citizens in the early days of the Revolu- tionary struggle. During the war between England and Spain Thomas and James Penrose constructed the warship "Hero," which they sent out as a privateer to prey upon the Spanish under the command of Samuel Owen. Thomas Penrose was one of the earliest signers of the Non-Importation Agreement in 1765; was named as a Port Warden of Philadelphia in 1766; was selected by the convention, held June 18, 1774, as one of the first Philadelphia Committee of Observation; served in that body until it was superceded by the Council of Safety, and was again named as Port Warden in 1776. Thomas Penrose married July 7, 1757, Ann, daughter of Joseph Dowding, Esq., by his wife, Ann, daughter of Judge Richard Richardson, of Delaware. Charles Penrose, son of Thomas and Ann (Dowding) Penrose, born in Phila- delphia, September 14, 1776, died there of cholera, June 24, 1849. He was in early life interested in the family business of shipbuilding, but having inherited and accumulated considerable wealth retired from business before middle hfe. He was chosen Port Warden of Philadelphia in 1804, and in 1812 was named as PEPPER 1097 superintendent of the Philadelphia Navy Yard at the solicitation of his personal friend, Hon. William Jones, then Secretary of the Navy, under President James Madison, and placed the navy-yard on a much higher plane of usefulness prior to his resignation. He supervised the construction of the man-of-war, "Franklin," for many years the finest and most efficient vessel in the United States Navy. Charles Penrose took a deep interest in philanthropic and charitable enterprises. He was for thirty-one years president of the Southern Dispensary, and many years Manager of the Humane Society. Like his father he was a regular attend- ant of Friends' Meeting, though not a member of the Society. He married, Janu- ary 16, 1800, Ann, daughter of John Rowan, of Salem county, New Jersey, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of Clement and Margaret (Morris) Hall, and a great- granddaughter of William Hall, Provincial Councillor of New Jersey. Charles Penrose and his family resided at the southeast corner of Penn and Shippen (now Bainbridge) streets, where their daughter, Sarah, mother of Mrs. John Worrell Pepper, was born. OWEN FAMILY. Robert Owen^ who came from Merionethshire, Wales, in 1690, and settled on a plantation in Merion township, Philadelphia county, on the present line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, west of Wynnewood station, one of the founders of Merion Friends' Meeting, and a member of Colonial Assembly, 1695-97, belonged to one of the oldest families in Wales, and like all the old families of that region was of royal descent and traced his ancestry back through a long line of princes of ancient Britain. On the direct male hne his descent is traced from Trahairn Goch, ap Madoc, of Llyn, in Caernarvonshire, Wales, who was descended from the princes of South Wales, and a grandson of Rhys Glofif, Lord of Cymtmaen. He died prior to the i8th year of Edward II. Trahairn Goch ap jNIadoc owned large tracts of land in Llyn, and thereby acquired the title of O'Llyn. He mar- ried Gwenervyl, daughter of Magog, ap Muerig, ap Madog, ap loreth, ap Cyndel, ap Elystan Glodrydd, Lord of Fferyllwg, and had issue ; David Goch, who married Maud, daughter of David Lloyd, ap Cynveloc, ap Llewellyn, and had issue : David Vaughan, of Bodreth and Pennllech ; levan Goch, of whom presently ; Mereydd ; and John Carreg-Bach. levan Goch had large possessions in Caernarvonshire, where he was born about 1312. He married Eva, daughter of Einion, ap Celynin, of Llwydiarth, Mont- gomeryshire, ^^'ales, and had issue : Meredydd, who inherited his father's lands ; Madoc, of whom presently ; Morfydd, who married Merdedydd, Lord of Gest. jMadoc, ap levan Goch, born about 1355-60, settled in Denbighshire, \'\'ales, and had son Deikws Dhu. Deikws Dhu, ap Aladoc, of Ysputty-Ievan, Denbighshire, born about 1395, married Gwen, daughter of levan Dhu, ap Madog-Vychan, ap Madog, ap Maelog Crwn, Lord of Llechwedd, Isaaf and Crewddyn, promontory of Great and Little Orme's Head. Einion ap Deikws Dhu, born about 1430, died prior to 15 14, married Morvydd, daughter of Alatw, ap Llowarch, ap Gwynn, ap Llewelln, ap Aleredydd, ap Llew- ellyn, ap Llowarch, ap Urien, ap Tegwored, ap Rothpert, ap Asser, ap Meredydd Goch, of Llynn, son of Collwyn ap Tangno, Lod of Llynn, and had issue : Howel Goch, of whom presently; levan Goch, living 1514; and David Goch. Howell ap Einion, married Mary, daughter of Llewellyn Eurdochog, of laal, Flintshire, Wales, and had two sons, Griffith ap Howell, of whom presently, and David ap Howell. Griffith ap Howell, ap Einion, born 1480 to 1500, married Gwenllian, daughter of Einion ap levan Lloyd, ap Madoc, ap lerwth, ap Llewellyn Chivith, ap Cyn- wrig, ap Bleddyn Lloyd, of Havod Unnos, in the parish of Llangernin, descended from Hedd Nolwynos, founder of the Ninth Noble Tribe of Wales, and had issue : David, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Rhys, of Gerrig; Edward; Lewis, of whom presently; and Catharine, who married Sir Robert ap Rhys. Lewis ap Griffith, third son of Griffith ap Howell, born about 1525, resided at Ysputty-Ievan all his life, died prior to 1601 ; married Ellen, daughter of Edward ap Evan, Esq., of Llanwdllyn, Montgomeryshire, and a descendant of Edward I., OWEN 1099 and had issue : David Lewis, who married Marsley, daughter of David ap Rhys, of Llan Wydd; William Lewis, died prior to 1601, married Margaret, daughter of Lewis David; Evan Lewis, married Gwen, daughter of William Chwar; Rob- ert Lewis, of whom presently ; and John Lewis, who died young. Robert Lewis, fourth son of Lewis ap Griffith, of parish of Ysputty-Ievan, Denbighshire, born about 1555, removed to Merionethshire, settled near Bala, the home of the Price family, and died there 1645. He married Gwenervyl, daughter of Llewllyn, ap David of Llan Rwst, Denbighshire, a descendant of David Goch, and had issue : Cadwalader, Thomas, John, Evan, of whom pres- ently, Hugh, Humphrey, Lowry, Margaret, Jane, Catharine, Ellen and Margaret. Evan Robert Lewis, fourth son of Robert Lewis, born in the parish of Ysputty-Ievan, about 1585, died at Fron Goch, parish of Llandderfel, Merioneth- shiie, about 1662, married Jane, descended from Rhirid Flaidd, Lord of Pennllyn, and had issue : John ap Evan, father of William John, who settled at Gwynedd, Pa., and Griffith John, who settled at Merion, Phila. Co.; Cadwalader ap Evan, who d. unm. ; Owen ap Evan, of whom presently; Griffith ap Evan; Evan ap Evan, ancestor of the Evans family who settled at Gwynedd. Owen ap Evan, of Fron Goch, near Bala, Merionethshire, Wales, third son of Robert Lewis, was born at Fron Goch, about 1636, and died there prior to imo. 6, 1678. He married Gainor John, and had issue : Robert Owen, b. circa 1657, m. Rebecca Owen; of whom presently; Owen Owen, d. s. p. ; Evan Owen, who remained in Wales; Jane Owen, m. Hugh Roberts; Ellin Owen, m. Cadwalader Thomas ap Hugh. Robert Owen, eldest son of Owen ap Evan, born at Fron Goch, Merioneth- shire, Wales, about 1657, came to Pennsylvania in 1690 and settled on a plantation in Merion township, Philadelphia county, where he died seven years later. He was a member of the Society of Friends in Merionethshire, Wales, and was fre- quently fined for being absent from national worship. He married, imo. 11, 1678-9, Rebecca Owen, daughter of Owen Humphrey, Esq., who held title to an estate called Llyn-Du, in the township of Llwyngwill, parish of Llanglynin, Merionethshire, that he had succeeded to about 1664, and was a descendant of Edward HL The marriage certificate of Robert and Rebecca Owen is still in possession of their descendants. On 6mo. 8, 1690, the Quarterly Meeting of Friends at Llyddyn y Garreg, Merionethshire, granted a certificate to Robert and Rebecca Owen, "and their deare and tender children," to Friends in Pennsyl- vania, which is recorded at Merion or Haverford Meeting. Robert Owen was one of the founders of Merion Particular Meeting, and was one of the signers of the protest against the heresies of George Keith in 1692. His wife, Rebecca, died 8mo. 23, 1697, and he on lomo. 8, 1697. He became identified with the affairs of the province soon after his arrival, was elected to the Colonial Assembly in 1695, and served in that body until his death. He was also commissioned a Justice in 1695. He was, from his arrival in the "Welsh Tract," active in local affairs and 1 100 OWEN appears almost constantly as Executor. Administrator and Trustee, indicating that he was a man of ability and knowledge of public affairs. He built a com- modious house in 1695, which was the home of his descendants for many genera- tions. Issue of Robert and Rebecca (Owen) Owen: Gainor, b. 1681, m. Jonathan Jones; Evan, b. 1683, d. 1727; m. lomo. 11, 1711, Mary Hoskins; of whom presently; Jane, b. 1685; Elizabeth, b. 1687, m. David Evans; Owen, b. i2mo. 26, 1690; m. Anne Wood; of whom later; John, b. i2mo. 26, 1692, m. Hannah Maris; of whom later; Robert, b. 7mo. 27, 1695; m. Susanna Hudson; of whom later; Rebecca, b. imo. 14, 1697; bur. gmo. 21, 1697. Evan Owen, eldest son of Robert and Rebecca Owen, born in Merionethshire, Wales, 1683, died in Philadelphia in 1727. He inherited the Merion homestead but sold it to his brother-in-law, Jonathan Jones, and removed to Philadelphia. Was admitted to the freedom of the city April, 1717, with his brother, Robert. He was elected to the Common Council of the city in the same year and was ap- pointed Justice of the County Courts, February 18, 1723. Became Associate Justice of the City Court 1724; Alderman, October 6, 1724: was Treasurer of Philadelphia county from 1724 to his death ; Justice of the Orphans' Court, De- cember 5, 1725, and Master of Court of Equity; elected to Provincial Assembly, 1725, and to Provincial Council, 1726; Justice of Court of Chancery, 1726. He was one of the Trustees named by Act of Assembly to close out the affairs of the Free Society of Traders at their dissolution in 1724. He married, lomo. 11, 171 1, Mary, daughter of Dr. Richard Hoskins, at Philadelphia Meeting. Issue of Evan and Mary (Hoskins) Owen: Robert, d. inf., lomo. 9, 1712; Robert, b. 10, 12, 1712, d. s. p.; Martha, b. 4mo. 12, 1714; Esther, b. gmo. 18, 1716; m. 1743, William Davies; Aurelius, b. imo. I, 1718, d. 5mo. 2, 1721. Owen Owen, second son of Robert and Rebecca born in Merion township, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, i2mo. 26, 1690, died in Philadelphia, 8mo. 5, 1741. He was commissioned High Sheriff of Philadelphia county, October 4, 1726, and on retiring from that ofifice, 1729, was commissioned Coroner and served until his death in 1741. He married 3mo. 23, 17 14, Anne Wood, who died 2mo. 4, 1743. Issue of Owen and Anne (Wood) Owen: Robert; Jane, m. 1769, Dr. Cadwalader Evans, d. s. p. 1773; Sarah, m. March 3, 1736, John Biddle, d. imo. i, 1773; Tacey, m. 1744, Daniel Morris, of Upper Dublin; Rebecca, d. unm., Dec. 10, 1755. John Owen, third son of Robert and Rebecca, born in Merion, Philadelphia county, i2mo. 26, 1692, died in Chester county, 1752. He removed from Phila- OWEN iioi delphia county to Chester county in 1718, and married there 8mo. 22, 1719, Han- nah, daughter of George Maris, a Provincial Councillor and Colonial Justice. John Owen was High Sherifif of Chester county from October 4, 1729, to Octo- ber, 1731 ; October 3, 1735, to October, 1837; October 4, 1743, to October, 1745; and October 7, 1749, to October, 1751. Was a member of Provincial Assembly, 1733 and 1748; Collector of Excise for Chester county, 1733-7, and many years a Trustee of the Loan Office of Pennsylvania. Issue of John and Hannah (Maris) Ozven: Jane, m. Joseph West; George, d. s. p., Phila., 1764, m. Rebecca Haines; Elizabeth, m. James Rhoads; Rebecca, m. Aug. 22, 1754, Jesse Maris; Susanna, m. Josiah Hibberd. Robert Owen, fourth son of Robert and Rebecca, born in Merion, Philadel- phia county, 7mo. 27, 1695, died about 1730, married iimo. 10, 1716-17, Susanna, daughter of William Hudson, Mayor of Philadelphia, Justice, etc., and member of Provincial Assembly, by his first wife, Mary, daughter of Samuel Richardson, Provincial Councillor. Robert Owen settled in Philadelphia on his marriage, was admitted to the freedom of the city in April, 1717, and continued to reside there until his death. His widow married, 3mo. 2, 1734, John Burr, of Burlington county. New Jersey. Issue of Robert and Susanna (Hudson) Owen: Mary, b. 3nio. 3, 1719; m. Henry Burr; of whom presently; IJannah, b. 3mo. 16, 1720; m. (first) John Ogden; (second) Joseph Wharton; Rachel, b. 6mo. 19, 1724. Mary Owen, eldest child of Robert and Susanna (Hudson) Owen, born in Philadelphia, 3mo. 3, 1719, married January 10, 1736, Henry, son of John Burr, (who had married her mother), by a former marriage with Keziah Wright. Henry Burr, the ancestor of the Burr family of Burlington county, came from England, about 1682, then a young man and located near Mount Holly, Burling- ton county. He became the owner of several hundred acres of land, a portion of which he conveyed to his sons, Joseph and John, during his life. He died in 1743, his will being dated October 29, 1742, and proven June 11, 1743. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Mary (Thredder) Hudson, who settled in Burlington, 1682, and died there, in 1697 and 1698, respectively. Issue of Henry and Elisabeth (Hudson) Burr: John Burr, b. May 29, 1691; m. (first) 3mo. 29, 1712, Keziah Wright, and (second) Susanna Owen, nee Hudson; of whom presently; Joseph, b. 1694; m. 2mo. 27, 1726, Jane Abbott, and settled in Bucks co.. Pa.; Elizabeth, b. i6g6; m. Samuel Woolman, and was mother of John Woolman, the emi- nent preacher and pamphleteer; Mary, b. 1698; m. 1715, Jacob Lippincott; Sarah, b. 1701, m. 9mo. 26, 1719, Caleb Haines; Rebecca, b. 1703; m. 1734, Peter White; Martha, b. 1705; m. (first) 1723, Josiah Harris, (second) Timothy Matlack, and was mother of Timothy Matlack; William, b. 1710. not mentioned in father's will; Henry, b. 1713, not mentioned in father's will. 1 102 OWEN John Burr, eldest son of Henry and Elizabeth (Hudson) Burr, of Burlington county, New Jersey, born May 29, 1691, married (first) 3010. 29, 1712, Keziah, daughter of Job and Rachel Wright, of Oyster Bay, Long Island. She died April 12, 1731, and he married (second) Susanna, widow of Robert Owen, of Phila- delphia, and daughter of William Hudson. Issue of John and Keziah (Wright) Burr: Rachel, b. iimo. 22, 1713; Henry, b. 8mo. 26, 1715; m. Jan. 10, 1736, Mary, dau. of Robert and Susanna (Hudson) Owen, of Phila.; of whom later; John, b. imo. 25, 1718; Solomon, b. ilmo. 27, 1721; Keziah, b. 2mo. 17, 1724; Joseph, b. 2mo. 11, 1726. Issue of John and Susanna (Hudson-Owen) Burr: Susannah Burr, b. 8mo. 26, 1736, m. Uriah Woolman, 3mo. 2, 1769; Hudson Burr, b. smo. 22, 1745; m. Smo. 4, 1767, Phebe Lippincott. John Burr was appointed, May 8, 1728, Surveyor General of West Jersey. With Isaac Pearson and Mahlon Stacy, Jr., about the year 1730, purchased 311 acres of land on Rancocas creek, in Mount Holly and built an iron furnace and forge in what is now Pine street. Mount Holly, which they operated for many years. The works passed into the hands of Thomas Mayberry prior to the Revo- lutionary War, and during the war a large amount of shot and shells was manu- factured there. for the Continental Army. The works were burned by the British and never rebuilt. John Burr was a very large landowner in New Jersey. • Henry Burr, Jr., son of John and Keziah (Wright) Burr, born October 26, 1715, married as before stated, Mary, eldest daughter of Robert Owen of Phila- delphia, by his wife, Susanna, daughter of William and Mary (Richardson) Hud- son. Rachel Burr, daughter of Henry and Mary (Owen) Burr, born in Burlington county, New Jersey, married November 5, 1764, Josiah Foster, of Burlington county, New Jersey, a Justice of the Courts and very prominent in the affairs of the Province during the Revolution. Mary Foster, daughter of Judge Josiah Foster, by his wife Rachel Burr, mar- ried Samuel Clement, Jr., of Haddonfield, New Jersey, and their son, Robert Wharton Clement, of Haddonfield, New Jersey, married Sarah A. Mathis, of a prominent New Jersey family, and had among other children, Samuel M. Clement, of Philadelphia, who married Annie, daughter of Will- iam Browning of Philadelphia, and had issue: John Browning Clement, m. Dessa W. Crowell; of whom presently; George W. Clement, Phila., m. Margaret McCauley; Samuel M. Clement, Jr., Phila., m. Mabel V. Richardson; Eliza M. Clement, m. Samuel F. Irwin, of Phila.; Sarah A. Clement, second wife of Samuel F. Irwin; Anna May Clement, m. Robert F. Quinn, of Phila. ; Jennie D. Clement, m. Cassius Rarasdell. The Clement family of New Jersey claim descent from Gregory Clement, a cadet of a knightly family of Kent, England, who was a citizen and merchant of OWEN 1 103 London in the reign of Charles I., was chosen a member of Parliament about 1646, sat at the trial of Charles I., January 8, 22, 23, and 29, 1648, and signed the death warrant of that monarch. Was arrested May 26, 1660, after the restora- tion of Charles II., tried, convicted and executed, and his estate confiscated. James Clement, supposed to be a son of Gregory, with wife, Jane, and a brother, Jacob, emigrated to Long Island, about 1670, and settled at Flushing. He was active in the affairs of the English Colony in Queens county, and his name appears frequently on the records of that time. He was Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Queens county in 1699, and served as a Grand Juror in 1702. He married (second) late in life, Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Field. He and his second wife both died in 1724. Issue of James and Jane Clement: James, b. Nov. 21, 1670; m. Sarah Hinchman ; Sarah, b. Sept. 4, 1672; m. William Hall, of Salem cc, N. J.; Thomas, b. Sept. 26, 1674, removed to Gloucester co., N. J.; John, b. Sept. 21, 1676, removed to N. J.; Jacob, b. Dec. 20, 1678; m. Ann Harrison; of whom presently; Joseph, b. April 13, 1681; Mercy, b. April 27, 1683, m. Joseph Bates and settled in Gloucester co., N. J.; Samuel, b. June 28, 1685; Nathan, b. Nov. 29, 1687; Jane, m. Stephen Stephenson. Jacob Clement, married Ann, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hunt) Harri- son, of Gloucester, and settled in that county, of which he was Sheriff in 1709-10, and was one of the signers of the Petition to the King against the alleged illegal acts of Governor Robert Hunter in 1717. Issue of Jacob and Ann (Harrison) Clement: Samuel, m. Rebecca Collins; of whom presently; Thomas, m. Mary Tyley, May .30, 1737; Jacob Clement, a farmer near Haddonfield, N. J., m. Oct. 14, 1741, Elizabeth Tyley; Ann Clement, m. Sept. 21, 1749, Joseph Harrison; Sarah Clement; Mary Clement. Samuel Clement, eldest son of Jacob and Ann (Harrison) Clement, was a surveyor, and took an active part in the political affairs of his time. In 1765 he surveyed and adjusted the disputed lines between the counties of Gloucester, Burlington and Salem, which had long been the cause of contention. He married Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Collins, of Haddonfield, by his wife, Katharine Huddleston, and, in 1735, received a grant from his father-in-law of a large tract of land, adjoining "Mountwell," the seat of the Collins family at Haddonfield, subject to an annuity to Joseph and Katharine Collins for life. Joseph Collins was the son of Francis Collins, born in Oxfordshire, England, January 6, 1635, who came to West Jersey in 1680, and established "Mountwell" on 1000 acres of land surveyed to him in 1682. He was a member of Assembly in 1683, a member of Governor Samuel Jening's first Council, and held many other offices of trust and honor. He was a builder of local note and erected the first meetinghouse at Burlington in 1682, and the courthouse and market-house there in 1683. He was 1 104 OWEN an early convert to Quakerism, and was married at the Bull and Mouth Meeting, London, in 1663, to Mary Mayham, and settled at Ratcliff Cross, parish of Step- ney, county Middlesex, then in the built-up portion of London, where he was a builder and a store-keeper. He purchased a share in the West Jersey lands of William Penn, Gawen Laurie and Edward Byllynge in 1677, but did not remove to the Province until some years later. At the organization of Gloucester county in 1686 he was made one of her first Justices and filled that office many years. As the owner of a 4/7 share in West Jersey, be became a very large landed pro- prietor. In 1696 he conveyed Mountwell with 500 acres and 500 acres to be sur- veyed elsewhere to his son, Joseph. His wife, IMary, died soon after his settle- ment in West Jersey and about 169 1 he married Mary, widow of John Goslin, and daughter of Thomas Budd, another of the West Jersey Proprietaries. He died in 1720, leaving children by both wives. Joseph Collins, the eldest son, died in 1741, leaving one son and three daughters, one of the latter being Rebecca, the wife of Samuel Clement. PETERS FAMILY. Ralph Peters, father of Rev. Richard Peters and WilHam Peters, both of whom came to Philadelphia, and were prominent in the affairs of the Province of Pennsylvania, was Town Clerk of Liverpool, and Sheriff of Lancaster county, England. He was born about 1660 to 1670, and came of ancient lineage. He married Esther Preeson, sister of Thomas Preeson, and of Joseph Preeson, of Accomac county, Virginia, whose widow, Anne, Andrew Hamilton married, 1706. Ralph Peters was a man of considerable prominence, and evidently possessed of considerable landed estate in England and Wales, which descended to his grandson, Ralph Peters, eldest son of William Peters, and through him to the elder male line .of the family in England for many generations. Issue of Ralph and Esther (Preeson) Peters: William Peters, b. 1702, d. Sept. 8, 1789; m. (first) Elizabeth Bailey; (second) Mary Brientnall, of Phiia., where he located after death of first wife, about 1739; see for- ward; Rev. Richard Peters, b. Liverpool, 1704, d. Phila., July 10, 1776; of whom presently. Rev. Richard Peters was placed by his father in Westminster School, and while, there, under the influence of drugs, was entrapped into a marriage with the daughter of the proprietor of his lodging house. She was a woman far beneath him in intellect and respectability, and denying the legality of the marriage, he refused to acknowledge her his wife and never lived with her or held any com- munication with her. He was entered at the college at Oxford, and by urgent wish of his father, later the Inner Temple, and devoted five years to the study of law, though he had always inclined to the ministry. His father finally consented to his taking orders, he was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Winchester, 1730, and a year later as Priest. He was given a curateship under the Earl of Derby, who made him tutor of two of his youthful relatives, whom he accom- panied to Leyden, Holland, 1733. On his return, being assured by his friends that the girl whom he had married at Westminster was dead, he began paying his addresses to a Miss Stanley, sister of his quondam pupils, and was married to her December 25, 1734. He became interested in political affairs, and while tak- ing part in some political demonstration the June following his marriage, a polit- ical opponent produced a woman of low degree, whom it was alleged was the wife he had married at Westminster. Overwhelmed by the result of his youthful folly, or misfortune, he parted from Miss Stanley, and sailing for America, found refuge in the home of Andrew Hamilton, in Philadelphia, whose wife was his relative by marriage. He later became a member of the household of Clement Plumstead, and through the influence of these prominent men and others who interested themselves in his behalf, and after an investigation of his career in England, he was appointed assistant to Rev. Archibald Cummings, Rector of Christ Church. A stickler for the stricter tenets of the established church, his ministry created dissensions in the congregation and he resigned, 1737. Dr. Peters, on resigning from Christ Church, was made Secretary of the Land iio6 PETERS Office, a position he filled twenty odd years, being succeeded by his brother, William Peters, in 1760. He was one of the two commissioners to run a provisional bound- ary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1738, and on February 14, 1742-3, was appointed Clerk of Provincial Council, which position he held until his resigna- tion, June 2, 1762, to accept the rectorship of Christ Church and St. Peters. At the death of Mr. Cummings, 1741, he was persuaded to ask for a renewal of his orders and take the rectorship, but was not appointed. When Franklin and others were making preparations to organize the Academy and Charitable School, parent of the College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Peters was asked to accept its superintendency, but dechned. He was an original mem- ber of the Board of Trustees, and President of the Board, 1756-62. At the death of James Logan, 1747, he was appointed Proprietary Secretary of the Province, held that position until 1762, was called to Provincial Council, 1749, and sat in that body the remainder of his Hfe. He was one of the incorporators of the Phila- delphia Library; the Pennsylvania Hospital; and a subscriber .to the Dancing Assembly, 1749. He began to officiate as Rector of the united churches of Christ and St. Peter's, June, 1762, during the absence abroad of Rector Duche, but was not regularly installed until December 6, 1768; degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by the University of Oxford, 1770. Dr. Peters took an active part in the proceedings of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, and even after accepting the rectorship of Christ and St. Peter's churches went upon several important missions to the Indians, having several times previously served the Council in that capacity. He was one of the four Commissioners of the Province of Pennsylvania, in the conference with the Six Nations, at Albany, New York, 1754, when the Proprietaries acquired by pur- chase the whole southwestern part of the present state of Pennsylvania. He had engaged intermittently in trade, dealt largely in unimproved land on the frontiers, and at the time of his return to the ministry was quite a wealthy man. He served the two churches without salary until the debt contracted by the erection of St. Peter's church was entirely paid. Dr. Peters was a man of many accomplish- ments and extremely useful to the Proprietary government, who valued his serv- ices highly. He died July 10, 1776. His only issue, a daughter, Grace, by his marriage with Miss Stanley, died in infancy. William Peters, brother to Rev. Richard Peters, D. D., and oldest son of Ralph Peters, of Liverpool, was born in that city, 1702. He married (first) Elizabeth Bailey, by whom he had a son Ralph Peters, born 1729, who inherited the English estates of the family, and resided at the time of his death, July 12, 1807, at Plattbridge, Parish of Wigan, Lancashire, England. His wife, Elizabeth died December 5, 1801, aged seventy years. The wife of William Peters dying, he came to Pennsylvania to visit his brother. Dr. Richard Peters, and, being pleased with the country, located in Chester coun- ty, where he was practising law as early as 1739. He married, 1741, Mary, daughter of David Breintnall, Jr., by his wife, Grace Parker, an account of whose ancestry is given below, in 1742 purchased a tract of 220 acres on the west bank of the Schuylkill, and erected thereon a stone house in which he resided until 1745, when he erected the large mansion known as "Belmont," occupied by the family for a century thereafter, and the scene of many notable gatherings and PETERS 1 107 events connected with the history of Pennsylvania, not only during the Revolu- tionary period but for a half century preceding it. William Peters was commissioned a Justice, May 3, 1749, was elected to the Provincial Assembly from Chester county, 1752, and regularly re-elected there- after until 1756, when he declined a re-election and was succeeded by John Mor- ton, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. William Peters became connected with the Pennsylvania Land Office, and, No- vember I, 1760, was appointed to succeed his brother, Dr. Richard Peters as sec- retary of that office, a position he held over eight years. He acquired extensive landed property in Lancaster county and in other parts of the Province, all of which, together with his splendid estate of "Belmont," he transferred to his son Richard Peters, just prior to the Revolutionary War, and returned with his wife to England. He made his residence with or near his son, Ralph Peters, at Knuts- ford, in Cheshire, not far from Wigan, Lancashire, where he and his wife lie buried in the churchyard of All Saints Church. William Peters kept up a con- stant correspondence with his sons in Pennsylvania, after his removal to England. Some of his letters written in 1784, in a good state of preservation, are still in possession of his descendants. He died September 8, 1789, aged eighty-seven years. His second wife, Mary Breintnall, died some years prior to that date. By his first wife, Elizabeth Bailey, William Peters had, besides the son, Ralph, before referred to, a son, James, and a daughter, Eleanor, both of whom died without issue. The son, Ralph, was some years Recorder of Liverpool, and was a celebrated north of England barrister. He married, January 14, 1761, Eliza- beth Entwisle, who died December 5, 1801. He died at Wigan, Lancashire, July 12, 1807. They had issue, a son, Ralph Peters, issue of whom is still living in England. An account of the paternal and maternal ancestors of Mary (Breintnall) Peters, intimately associated with the affairs of Philadelphia, and adjoining parts of the Province of New Jersey, in early Colonial times, is deemed of sufficient interest to be inserted here ; especially for the reason that her descendants have confounded her with another Mary Breintnall, daughter of her uncle, John Breint- nall, and his wife, Susanna Shoemaker. David Breintnall, grandfather of Mary (Breintnall) Peters, came to Philadel- phia from London, England, bringing a certificate from Breach Monthly Meet- ing in Derbyshire, dated 8mo. (October) 10, 1681, addressed to "ffriends at London, or to whome it may Concerne," which was presented at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, where he married, December 6, 1683, Jane Blanchard, who had produced at the same meeting a certificate from Ringwood Monthly Meeting in Hampshire, England, dated 11 mo. (January) 11, 1682-3, their marriage being the second one solemnized under the auspices of the meeting. David Breintnall is mentioned in different records as "haberdasher" and as "merchant," and was prominently associated with the affairs of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. His will, dated October 2, 1732, was proven December 30, 1732. It devises to his son, David, all sums of money he owes and forty pounds in eight payments ; to his daughter Jane Harper, money due from her husband, John Harper, and gives legacies to her children, Mary and Hannah Harper; to his son, Joseph, the dwell- ing house "in which I live," and legacies to his children, Jane Hester, Sarah and Anna; son, John, and grandchildren, David, Mary, Rachel and Elizabeth Breint- iio8 PETERS nail; daughter, Hannah; daughter, Sarah Lancaster and her children, Thomas, John and Sarah Lancaster. A legacy is also given to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Jane (Blanchard) Breintnall died August 25, 1725. Of the children of David and Jane Breintnall, David, the elder, will be referred to later. Jane, eldest daughter, married (first), January 11, 1704-5, Nathan Faucitt, who died 1708; (second), Nijvember 28, 1710, John Harper. Joseph Breintnall, second son of David and Jane, was a prominent member of the small literary circle of Philadelphia, when Dr. Franklin returned from his visit to England. Franklin says of him, "Joseph Breintnall was a copyer of deeds for the scriveners, a good natured, friendly, middle-aged man; a great lover of poetry, reading all he could meet with and writing some that was tolerable ; very ingenious in many Httle knock-knackeries, and of sensible conversation." He was High Sheriff of Philadelphia county, 1755-6-7. He married, December 27, 1723, Esther (born. New Jersey, 1698, died, Philadelphia, October 18, 1762), daughter of George and Esther (Andrews) Parker, and sister to Grace Parker, who married his elder brother, David. Joseph Breintnall died intestate, and letters of administration on his estate were granted to his widow, Esther, April 12, 1746. He had besides the four daughters, mentioned in his father's will, a son, George, born 1733, died February 9, 1776; all these children and their mother, "Esther Breintnall, widow," are mentioned in the will of Mary Andrews, of Philadelphia, aunt to Esther, hereafter mentioned. John Breintnall, third son of David and Jane, married (first) May 23, 1717, Susanna, daughter of Jacob and Margaret Shoemaker, who died February 17, 1719-20, leaving two children, David and Mary, the latter of whom married, February 10, 1742-3, Thomas Kite, son of Abraham and Mary (Peters) Kite. John Breintnall married (second), Octo- ber 29, 1724, Hannah Sharp, daughter of Hugh and Rachel (French) Sharp, of Burlington county. New Jersey, by whom he had six daughters, an account of whom is given in our sketch of the Klapp family of Philadelphia, descended from the youngest of these six daughters, Anna Breintnall, who married William Mil- nor. Hannah Breintnall, daughter of David and Jane, died unmarried, August 25, 1770, aged sixty-three years. Sarah Breintnall, the other daughter, married, July 22, 1714, John Lancaster, of Philadelphia. David Breintnall, father of Mary (Breintnall) Peters, is supposed to have been the eldest child of David and Jane (Blanchard) Breintnall. But little is known of him or his children, if indeed he had other than the one. He seems to have re- sided for some time during his youth in or near Chester, Pennsylvania. On i2mo. (February) 23, 1707-8, Chester Monthly Meeting granted a certificate to David Breintnall, Jr., unmarried, who "having formerly lived amongst us and now residing at Philadelphia," to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, where it was received i2mo. 27, 1707-8. On February 23, 1710, he married Grace, daughter of George Parker, of Philadelphia, formerly of Northampton township, Burling- ton county. New Jersey, by his wife, Esther Andrews, whom he married at Bur- lington Meeting, November 5, 1692; he was living in Philadelphia at the death of his mother, Sarah Parker, widow, of Northampton township in 1722. Esther Andrews was a daughter of Samuel Andrews, one of the Proprietaries and earliest settlers of West Jersey, who as evidenced by will of his daughter, Mary Andrews, of Philadelphia, was a near relative of Sir Edmond Andros, or Andrews (1637-1714), Colonial Governor of New York, etc. PETERS 1 1 09 Samuel Andrews died in Mansfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, leaving will dated September 12, 1693, proven November 10, 1693, which devises his estate to his wife, Mary, and children, Edward, Mary, Mordecai, Peter and Esther, naming his wife and Edward Rockhill, executors, and John Woolston and Samuel Bunting, assistants. On June 13, 1696, the claim of George Parker as devisee under the will of Samuel Andrews, was submitted to arbitrators, and an award of forty acres of land was made to be laid out on north side of Rancocas Creek. On November 10, 1686, Sarah Parker, widow of George Parker, of East Jersey, bought of the attorney of Mary Stacy, deceased, 500 acres on the Ran- cocas, and November 10, 1688, she conveyed to her son, George Parker, 192 acres of this tract. The will of Sarah Parker, of Northampton township, Bur- lington county, widow of George Parker of East Jersey, dated June 25, 1720, devises her estate to her children, George, William, Joseph, Sarah Schooley, and Elizabeth Brown, making her son, Joseph, sole executor. An inventory of her estate, dated May 31, 1722, includes a bond of George Parker, of Philadelphia, for twenty pounds. George Parker, "of East Jersey," husband of Sarah was doubtless George Parker, of Shrewsbury, landowner there in 1685. • The will of Mary Andrews, of Philadelphia (daughter of Samuel and Mary, of Buriington county. New Jersey), dated June 10, 1757, with codicil dated Decem- ber 22, 1758, was proven April 2, 1761. It devises to George Breintnall, son of her niece, Esther Breintnall, the house and lot on Water street, where she dwelt, for life, then to his sons; an adjoining lot to his sister, Jane Breintnall; gives legacies to her niece, Esther Breintnall, widow, and her other daughters, Sarah and Ann Breintnall ; to her three nephews, Mordecai Andrews, son of her brother, Mordecai, and Peter and Isaac Andrews, sons of her brother, Edward Andrews, 1150 acres in Morris county. New Jersey; niece, Sarah Jewell, widow; children of niece, Rebecca Robinson, deceased; niece, Denny Oliver, widow; Mrs. Ann Pidgeon, of Trenton, widow, and her sister, Catharine Pearce; nephew, Isaac Andrews, is to pay Mary Andrews, wife of Mordecai, 30 pounds; Ann Jewell, daughter of niece, Sarah Jewell ; nephew, Nehemiah Andrews, living at Point-no- point ; Sarah Andrews, daughter of nephew, Isaac Andrews ; loving friend, Ann Rundle; Sarah Griscomb, spinster, of Philadelphia; Barbara Grant, of Philadel- phia, widow ; "my Clerk, Henry Tomlinson ; Mrs. Love Vineing, wife of Abra- ham Vining, of Phila. ; to William Peters, son of William Peters Esq. of Phila- delphia, by my niece Mary his wife a lot adjoining my house on Water St. ; to William Peters, the Elder and Mary his wife, a Silver tankard marked E. A. for- merly belonging to Edmund Andrews, heretofore Governor of New York, also my large tankard which has a silver half moon on it and four of my pictures ; to my grand niece Mary Peters, my pair of Bristol Stone necklace set in silver, with the cross belonging to it, and all my gold rings about twenty-six in number, also my gold buttons with my new set of tea table furniture, to wit, silver tea-pot, slop- bowl, sugar pot, cream pot, etc. some of them have my father's arms and my cypher engraved on them, also my brown stone girdle buckle ; to Richard Peters son of William and Mary, a bible ; to William Peters the elder, a tract of land in Kingsessing, formerly belonging to John Boode and John Olgiers, which I pur- chased of Ezekiel Shepherd and a lot in Kensington ; to Contributors to Pennsyl- vania Hospital, certain Ground Rents ; a legacy to Sarah, wife of my nephew Alexander Parker; to Mrs. Moore of Moore Hall, my two parrots, Jacob and 1 110 PETERS Africa. Executors, William Peters, Esq. Benjamin Price, Attorney-at-Law, and Evan Morgan of Philadelphia." We have no record of the death of David and Grace (Parker) Breintnall, but the latter at least was probably deceased before the date of the will of her aunt Mary Andrews, as she, unlike her sister Esther (Parker) Breintnall, is not men- tioned in the will. Issue of William and Mary (Breintnall) Peters: Richard Peters, b. June 22, 1744, d. Aug. 22, 1828; m. Sarah Robinson; of whom pres- ently ; Mary Peters, b. Dec. 18, 1750, mentioned in will of Mary Andrews, m. a Mr. Smith; Thomas Peters, b. Aug. 5, 1752, d. 1781 ; m. Rebecca, dau. of Edward Johnson, M. D., of Baltimore; of whom below. Thomas Peters was a member of First City Troop, Philadelphia Cavalry, and was "one of three or four members of the Troop who went to General Washing- ton and offered bur services to him in anyway we could be of use, at the time of the landing of the British forces on Long Island, and remained with him until the whole Troop was ordered to join him at the second attack on Trenton," writes the said Thomas Peters, 1818. After giving some account of the service of the Troop at I'rinceton and Monmouth he concludes, "I got wet from leaping on a wet horse, fresh from the crossing of the Delaware, which superinduced inflammatory rheu- matism," which eventually disabled him and, "when the British were about to take possession of Philadelphia, I got up to Little York-Town where Congress was and when able was appointed Commissary General of Prisoners, under Congress for that District, and served in that capacity until a few days before the battle of Germantown in which I joined, got into Philadelphia and there remained, which ended my Military career for the time being." He removed to Baltimore, Maryland, at the close of Revolutionary War and died there, 1821. By his wife, Rebecca Johnson, he had ten children, four sons and six daughters, some of whom married and left issue. His son, Thomas, pur- chased a large estate near Baltimore, which he called "Woodlands," which bears the name to this day. He occupied many positions of honor in Baltimore, was elected Mayor, 1808, and several times re-elected; was a Presidential Elector, delegate to various state conventions and also served in State Legislature. Richard Peters, eldest son of William and Mary (Breintnall) Peters, born at Belmont, June 22, 1744, entered College of Philadelphia in 1758, and was vale- dictorian of the class of 1761, he was a fine classical scholar. He studied law, and his ability and indomitable industry enabled him to attain high rank in his profession. His uncle, Richard Peters, and his father were both well versed in the law and were able to advise and assist him, and as assistant to his father in the Land Office he became thoroughly famihar with the land laws and titles to large tracts of land, in the middle western portion of the Province, then being rapidly settled up, and the contention over the titles of which, constituted a large part of the litigation of that period. He took great pains to become familiar with the language of the Germans, who comprised a large proportion of his clientage. He was a man of fine address and a great fund of humor and was a great favorite in all assemblages, no gathering of his friends and associates being considered complete without him. He accompanied his uncle, Richard, to the conference PETERS nil with the Six Nations, at Fort Stanwix, New York, and the Indians were so pleased with his Hvely disposition, that they adopted him into their tribe, christen- ing him "Tegohtias" (paroquet), no doubt on account of his lively "chatter." He was Register of the Admiralty Court from 1771 until the Revolution. At the outbreak of the Revolution he at once took sides with the Colonies with the, utmost zeal, and volunteered for military service. He was chosen captain of a militia company but before rendering any active service, was called to a service more commensurate with his eminent ability, being selected by Congress for the important position of the head of the Board of War, June, 1776, and filling it with eminent ability until December 17, 1781, when, on his letter of resignation being presented to Congress, the following resolution was adopted : "Resolved, that Mr. Peters' letter be entered on the Journal and that Congress are sensi- ble of his merits and convinced of his attachment to the cause of his country and return him thanks for his long and faithful service in the War Department." During the whole of his arduous service he was closely associated with Robert Morris, "the financier of the Revolution," and like him, pledged his private means to enable the struggling Colonies to carry on the war. In constant communication with Gen. Washington, he did his utmost to secure for the use of the army the necessary munitions to carry on the war, though these had frequently to be se- cured without sufficient funds with which to pay for them. In 1779, on his way to a grand fete at the Spanish Ambassador's in Philadelphia, he received a letter from Gen. Washington stating that he was entirely out of lead, and that their small supply of powder was wet, so that, should they be approached by the enemy, they would be compelled to retreat for want of amunition. Knowing nothing of where he could secure the so sadly needed supplies, he was in no humor to enjoy the festive occasion, and his downcast mien, so unusual, attracted the attention of Robert Morris, to whom he communicated his trouble. Mr. Morris was fortunately able to give him some help, one of his privateers having lately arrived with ninety tons of lead taken on as ballast, one-half of which was the property of Mr. Morris and the other half belonged to his partners, Blair McClenachan, and a Mr. Holker, who were also at the fete. Mr. Morris and Mr. Peters sought out the partners. On their refusal to allow the use of their share of the lead without payment, Mr. Morris made himself personally respon- sible for it and assisted Mr. Peters in securing a gang of men to remove the lead and make it into cartridges, and by morning they were able to forward to Wash- ington a large supply of the much needed amunition. This is but a single instance of the association of the two heroic patriots in the trying cause of their country in her darkest days. Again in August, 1781, they were delegated by Congress to visit Washington in his headquarters on the Hudson, and confer with him in reference to his proposed attack on the British in New York, and through them the Commander-in-Chief was induced to abandon the apparently hopeless attempt, and move his army southward to form a junction with the French fleet then off Hamp- ton Roads. Without funds with which to furnish the needed supplies and munitions of war, the expedition could only be accomplished by the respective heads of the Finance and War Departments, promising that these would be furnished. Then followed the strenuous and successful efforts of these two ardent and unselfish patriots to secure these needed supplies, which enabled Washington and his army 29 1 1 12 PETERS to transfer their sphere of action to the Virginia coast, with the result that Corn- wallis was captured at Yorktown, and the American patriots saw there the be- ginning of the end of their heroic struggle for independence. Mr. Peters was always on the alert to secure supplies for the army, and fre- quently became disgusted with the want of patriotism on the part of some of the men with whom he was associated, in withholding their much needed support to the patriot cause. With a strong escort he was in Philadelphia, June i8, 1778, before the last of the evacuating British army was across the Delaware, on its way to New York, to secure clothing and military stores long secreted in that city, and to purchase everything available for the use of the American Army. Gen. Arnold then took command at Philadelphia, and Mr. Peters returned to York to confer with Congress then in session there. He was always distrustful of Gen. Arnold, and always insisted that the funds he had entrusted to him at that time with which to secure military stores for the army in the field, were used by Arnold for the furtherance of his personal ends. Turning over the portfolia of the War Department to his successor, Gen. Lin- coln, in November, 1781, Mr. Peters was elected to Congress in 1782, and partici- pated in the closing scenes of the War of Independence as a national legislator. On the expiration of his term he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly and .was Speaker of that body, 1789, when appointed to the office of Judge of the United States District Court for Pennsylvania, by President Washington, a posi- tion he filled during the remainder of his life, published, 1807, in two volumes his "Admiralty Decisions in the U. S. District Court of Pennsylvania." Judge Peters resided all his life at "Belmont," and, as before stated, it was the scene of many important conferences that had to do with the affairs of the nation, as well as of notable social functions. During the period that Philadelphia was the nation's capital, Washington was a frequent visitor there, as were members of his cabinet, of congress and the diplomatic corps, and many distinguished visitors from abroad were entertained there. The French traveller Chastellux says of "Belmont," " it is a tasty little box, in the most charming spot nature could em- bellish." Marquis Lafayette was entertained there on his visit to America in 1824. This old historic mansion and the grounds surrounding it, where Washington was wont to walk in the beautiful gardens while cogitating questions of State, was included in Fairmount Park in 1867. Soon after the close of the war. Judge Peters travelled extensively in Europe. He was a member of the church of England and was very active in securing Bishops of the Church in America, and advancing the work of the Church on all lines. He took a deep interest in agriculture and horticulture and was president of first Agricultural society in America. In 1797, he conducted a series of experi- ments to determine the value of gypsum as a fertilizer and published a pamphlet giving the result of his experiments. He was active in the advocacy of public im- provements and was instrumental in having the bridge built over the Schuylkill in 1803, being president of the company at whose expense it was erected. He died at "Belmont," August 22, 1828, full of years and honor, universally lamented. Judge Peters married at Christ Church, August 22, 1776, Sarah, daughter of Col. Thomas Robinson of the Pennsylvania Line, who with his brother, Abraham Robinson, lived on Naaman's Creek, Delaware, seven miles below Philadelphia. PETERS 1 1 13 Abraham Robinson and Gen. Anthony Wayne, married sisters, and the family was connected with the most prominent families of the Province. Issue of Richard and Sarah (Robinson) Peters: Ralph Peters, b. Nov. 28, 1777, d. Nov. 11, 1842; m. Catharine Conyngham; of whom presently; Richard Peters, b. Aug. 4, 1779, d. May 2, 1848; m. March i, 1804, Abigail, dau. of Thomas and Ann (McCall) Willing. Richard Peters, Jr., many years reporter of U. S. Superior Court, and published numerous condensed reports of the U. S. Superior and Circuit Courts, and the case of the "Cherokee Nation against the State of Georgia." He was also editor of "Chitty on Bills," and Washington's "Circuit Court Reports," 3d. Circuit. Issue of Richard and Abigail {Willing) Peters: Nancy Bingham Peters, d. Oct. 5, 1879, unm. ; Sarah Peters; Frank Peters, member of Phila. Bar, d. Paris, May 19, 1861; m. Maria Miller; Elizabeth Willing Peters, m. John W. Field, d. s. p. 1900, East Grimstead, Sussex. Maria Wilhelmina Peters, b. "Belmont," Aug. 26, 1781; m. Jan. 6, 1802, at Christ Church, William Shippen, son of Thomas and Ann (McCall) Willing, b. Feb. 6, 1779, d. Aug. 9, 1821; Thomas Peters, b. Nov. 7, 1782, d. Sept. 22, 1784; Sarah Robinson Peters, b. Nov. 5, 1785, d. Sept. 24, 1850; many years mistress of "Bel- mont;" Thomas Peters, b. at "Belmont," Aug. 4, 1787, of whom we have no further record. Ralph Peters, eldest son of Judge Richard Peters, was born at York, Penn- sylvania, November 28, 1777, while the family were in temporary exile there with the Continental Congress, the British army being in possession of Philadelphia. He was educated for a merchant, and sailed for many years as a supercargo for Stephen Girard. He later started into business for himself by sending a vessel to China, in charge of a supercargo, for a cargo of tea. The Chinese merchants .succeeded in palming off on his agent a cargo of willow leaves, and Mr. Peters was financially ruined. His next venture was the renting of the "Bull Farm," now part of West Philadelphia, a fine tract of two hundred acres belonging to his father-in-law, David Hayfield Conyngham, for which he agreed to pay $1000 rent, but was never able to pay a cent. His father then made him agent for hi.' large tracts of land in Bradford and Luzerne counties, and he removed his family to the Falls of Schuylkill, and spent sometime back in the woods, hunting and prospecting the wild lands in what is now the rich coal fields of Pennsylvania, rhe greater part of which, by the way, he and his brothers allowed to be sold for the payment of taxes, after the death of their father, just as they were about to become very valuable. Early in 1821, he removed his family to Wilkes-Barre, then but a village, trans- porting his family and household goods from Philadelphia by wagon, a trip con- suming three days. Here they resided in a house belonging to his brother-in-law, John Nesbitt Conyngham (then a young practicing attorney), known as "Suiton House," near the centre of the village. In 1823 he removed to Bradford county, settled on a tract of recently cleared land, and again made an unfortunate speculation, in the purchase of land for which he was unable to pay, instead of settling on a 1000 acre tract of his father's, ten miles distant. He lived on the Bradford plantation with his family until about 1837, and then removed to Towanda, where his wife died May 14, 1839, and he November 11, 1842. Ralph Peters married, October 2, 1806, at Christ Church, Catharine, born Phila- delphia, August 29, 1786, daughter of David Hayfield Conyngham, of the great 1 1 14 PETERS mercantile firm of Conyngham and Nesbitt, by his wife, Mary West, and grand- daughter of Redmond Conyngham, of Letterkenny, Ireland, who came to Phila- delphia in 1749, and founded the firm, returning to Ireland, 1776. Issue of Ralph and Catharine (Conyngham) Peters: Mary Peters, b. Oct. 26, 1807, d. April 2, 1895, bur. at Woodlands; Richard Peters, b. Nov. 10, 1810, d. at Atlanta, Georgia, Feb. 6, 1889; m. Mary Jane Thompson; of whom presently; Henry Peters, b. Jan. 26, 1813, d. Aug. 11, 1817; Ralph Peters, b. May 3, 181 5, removed to St. Louis, Mo.; m. a Mrs. Carr, or Kerr; no issue; Sarah Helen Peters, b. Dec. 21, 1816, at "Belmont," d. Paris, June 13, 1893; m. 1842, Samuel Lovell Dana, of Wilkes-Barre, Judge of Luzerne County Court; Captain of First Pa. Volunteer Infantry, in Mexican War, 104O-8; Brigadier General 1805; died April 25, 1889. He was b. at Wilkes-Barre, Jan. 29, 1817; Anne M. Peters, b. 1819, d. Feb. 6, 1904, in Paris, unm.; John Peters, b. 1822, d. Aug., 1839; William Graham Peters, b. 1824, d. May 19, 1870; m. 1855, Eugenia E. Coryell, b. July 3, 1832, near Lambertville, N. J., d. May 19, 1879; Eleanor McCall Peters, b. Nov. I, 1829, d. 1869; m. 1854, Dr. Edward Rodman Mayer, of Wilkes-Barre; no issue; Charles Edward Peters, b. Nov. 5, 1826, d. July 29, 1857, unm. Richard Peters, eldest son of Ralph and Catharine (Conyngham) Peters, was born at Germantown, November 10, 1810, removed with his parents to Wilkes- Barre, 1821, and to Bradford county three years later. He attended school in I-"'hiladelphia, and during the residence of the family at Wilkes-Barre also attend- ed school there; about 1826, his grandfather, Conyngham, being on a visit to the family in Bradford county, brought him back to Philadelphia, where he attended school for two years, living with his grandfather, and making frequent visits to ■'Belmont," where his grandfather. Judge Peters, was still living. On his return to Bradford coimty, just prior to the death of Judge Peters, the latter executed a deed to his son, Ralph, for the use of Richard, his grandson and namesake, for 1000 acres of land in Bradford county, but the deed was never recorded and the property was eventually sold for taxes. After a year spent in Bradford county, he decided to take up the study of engineering and surveying, and through the influence of his uncle, Richard Peters, a position was secured for him in the office of William Strickland, the celebrated engineer and architect at Philadelphia. He, at the suggestion of Mr. Strickland, attended lectures at Franklin Institute for eighteen months, and after six months more in the office, he spent six months with a corps of engineers at Delaware Breakwater. His uncle, Richard, then secured him a position with Major Wilson, who was about to survey the route for the Camden & Amboy Railroad. He was later employed on the Philadelphia & Lancaster Road, with headquarters at Downingtown. Returning to Phila- delphia in 1834, he remained there until February, 1835, when he secured a posi- tion under J. Edgar Thompson, with whom he had previously been associated under Major Wilson, and who had then been appointed chief engineer, in charge of the building of the railroad from Augusta, Georgia, to Athens. Before proceeding on his southern trip he made a visit to his parents in Brad- ford county, and saw his mother for the last time, alive. Soon after his arrival at Augusta, Richard Peters was promoted to the position of First Assistant Engi- neer, and on the completion of the road was appointed, October, 1837, superin- tendent of the road. He resided at Augusta until 1845, and prospering financially. PETERS 1 1 15 purchased a steam saw mill and several large tracts of land. On the extension of the road to Marthasville, now Atlanta, he transferred his headquarters to that place, then an insignificant village, boarding with the family of Dr. Joseph Thomp- son, whose daughter, Mary Jane, he married February 18, 1848. At about this time, Mr. Peters purchased and operated a line of stages, from Madison, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama, which, owing to the Mexican war and the consequent migration to the newly acquired territory in the southwest, proved a profitable investment, and was continued until the Civil War. In 1847 he purchased a farm in Gordon county, where he later devoted his attention to breeding of fancy and improved breeds of cattle, sheep, swine and chickens. He, however, continued to live in Atlanta, where he had purchased considerable land on which he erected a home, and later also conducted a well equipped nursery of fruit and other trees. In 1856 Mr. Peters formed a company in which he was a large stockholder, and they erected the largest flour mill in the southern states. The milling business did not prove profitable, but the rapid increase in land values at Atlanta, and the sale of the mill and power plant to the Confederate government, for thfe manu- facture of military ordnance, at the outbreak of the Civil War, fully made up all their losses. Mr. Peters had by this time become prominent in that section ; he was instru- mental in having the first telegraph line built into Atlanta; established the first church there and introduced and fostered a number of other public institutions and improvements. He took a lively interest in his stock farm; his fine herd of Jersey cattle, of which he was the first importer in that section, became justly famous. At the first germination of the seeds of secession he did all in his power to prevent its fruition. He was intimately associated with Alexander H. Stephens, later Vice-president of the Confederacy, but one of the strongest opponents of secession, and a number of letters written by him on the subject to Richard Peters are still preserved by the latter's family. Mr. Peters continued to reside in At- lanta until it was captured by Gen. Sherman. After the close of the war he did much to rehabilitate the shattered industries of his section, and continued to operate his model farm, still conducted by his widowed daughter, Nellie Peters Black, who recently published a delightful his- tory of the Peters family, made up largely of the personal recollections of her father, supplemented by data from papers in the possession of the family and careful research at home and abroad, by members of the family. Richard Peters died February 6, 1889. As before stated, he married at Atlanta, February 18, 1838, Mary Jane, daughter of Dr. Joseph Thompson, of Atlanta. She was born December 31, 1830, and was therefore twenty years her husband's junior. Dr. Thompson was a grandson, of Joseph Thompson, who came from Monaghan county, Ireland, 1740, and located in York county, Pennsylvania, at Dillsburg, named in honor of Mathew Dill, who accompanied him from Ireland. About 1750 Joseph Thompson, accompanied by his two sons, Alexander and Joseph, and several other families from that locality, among whom were members of the Collins family, emigrated to what was later Spartansburg county. South Carolina. Alexander Thompson married Nancy Collins, and his brother, Joseph, married Jane Dill. Joseph Thompson died July i, 1802, and his wife, Jane, died April 7, 1802. iii6 PETERS Dr. Joseph Thompson was fourth son of Joseph and Jane (Dill) Thompson, born September 29, 1797, and died August 21, 1885. He married, May i, 1827, Mary Ann (Tomlinson) Young, a daughter of George and Avaline (Reynolds) Tomlinson, natives of New Jersey, who had settled at Asheville, North Carolina, where their daughter, Mary Ann, was born July 6, 1801. She died at Atlanta, April 23, 1849, and Dr. Thompson married (second) January 19, 1851, a Mrs. Reeder, of Columbia. She died three years later and he married (third), June 29, 1858, the widow of Dr. Thompson, of Macon, Georgia. In the early part of the Civil War, Richard Peters was engaged with a number of others in a scheme for running the blockade of the southern ports. He and his associates owned a number of steamers and for a time were quite successful in bringing into port a large amount of merchandise, in spite of the vigilance of the United States gunboats, and realized a handsome profit thereon. Issue of Richard and Mary Jane (Thompson) Peters: Richard Peters, b. at Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 2, 1848; living in Phila.; m. June 30, 1874, Harriet Parker, b. Aug. 16, 1851, dau. of Samuel Morse Felton, of Mass., by his wife Maria Low Lippit, of R. I., and had issue : Edith Macausland Peters, b. Nov. 2, 1875; Ethel Conway Peters, b. Nov. 19, 1879; m. June 30, 1905, Smedly Darlington Butler, of the U. S. Marine Corps; issue: Ethel Butler, b. Nov. 2, 1906. Richard Peters, b. Dec. 25, 1880; Samuel Morse Felton Peters, b. March 18, 1883; Hope Conyngham Peters, b. March 31, 1890. Mary Ellen (Nellie) Peters, b. Feb. 9, 1851; m. April 17, 1877, George Robinson Black, b. Nov. 14, 183s, d. Nov. 3, 1886, son of Edward Junius Black, of Beaufort District, South Carolina, by his wife, Augusta George Anna Kirkland. Mrs. Nellie Peters Black is manager of the Richard Peters Stock Farm; president of Free Kindergarten Association of Atlanta; member of the Colonial Dames; Daughters of American Revolution; and Daughters of United Confederacy; Ralph Peters, b. Nov. ig, 1853, a prominent railroad official and civil engineer, residing a number of years at Columbus, Ohio, where he and his family occupied a prominent position in social circles, was Gen. Superintendent of Pa. Railroad lines, west of Pitts- burg; Superintendent of Cleveland and Marietta Railroad, and in April, 1902 became president of Long Island Railroad Co. He was for years a vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbus, O., and a Son of American Revolution. He m., June 7, 1882. Eleanor, b. May 17, 1863, dau. of William Augustus and Lucy Ann (Grandin) Goodman, of Cincinnati, O.; had issue: Eleanor Hartshorn Peters, b. May 8, 1884; Pauline Faxon Peters, b. March 14, 1886; Ralph Peters, b. May 5, 1887; Dorothy Peters, b. Oct. 24, 1891; Helaine Piatt Peters, b. Oct. 15, 1896; Jane Breintnall Peters, b. Nov. 2, 1900. Edward Conyngham Peters, b. Atlanta, Oct. 23, 1855; president of Peters Land Co.; member of City Council of Atlanta; president of Interstate Fair Association; presi- dent Atlanta Savings Bank; junior warden All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church, Atlanta; since his father's death, has had full charge and management of Peters estate; m. Nov. 19, 1878, Helen, dau. of Ezekiel and Mary Victoria (Holt) Wimberly, of Baker county, Georgia; issue: Wimberly B. Peters, b. Oct. 13, 1885, and Edna Peters, d. inf.; Catharine Conjmgham Peters, b. Feb. 11, 1853; unm.; Joseph Thompson Peters, b. June 24, 1861, d. Sept. 6, 1862; Stephen Elliot Peters, b. July 27, 1863, d. June 25, 1864; Charles Quintard Peters, b. July 16, 1866, d. unm., Aug. 2, 1894; Anna Mary Peters, b. Atlanta, March 16, 1868; m. April 5, 1888, Henry Morrell Atkin- son, b. Nov. 13, 1862, son of George and Elizabeth (Staigg) Atkinson, of Brookline, Mass.; a leading capitalist of Atlanta, Georgia, prominent in social and church affairs there. LEVICK ARMS. LEVICK FAMILY. The Pennsylvania family of Levick was of French origin, the name being originally written in France, Leveque or Levesque, but the Huguenot ancestor of the American family, having sought relief from religious persecution, settled in England, and the name became Anglicized, having been spelled Levick, the same as the French name of Leveque was pronounced. The Lord Mayor of London, at the time of the Spanish Armada, married Eliza- beth Leveque. There was a tradition in the Levick family, transmitted from father to son to the present date, that there was a Lord Mayor of London by the name of Levick living at that time, but recent investigations show that the Lord Mayor married a Levick, as above stated, a fact which was doubtless the founda- tion for the tradition. Richard Levick, the first of the name to emigrate to America, was supposed to have come from Derbyshire, from the fact that it is recorded in "Besse's Suffer- ings," that one Robert Levick and Brugh had property seized for military fines, which they had refused to pay from motives of conscience, and Richard Levick, being a Quaker, it was supposed he came of the same family. The Levick family, however, had been long settled in Sheffield, England, and a member of the family still residing there recently wrote as follows : "My branch of the family comes from Sheffield. My mother tells me it was our family that first introduced the manufacture of cutlery there, and down to my grandfather's time there was in every generation at least one Levick, a Master Cutler of Sheffield; my grandfather himself being Master Cutler three times." This same correspondent forwarded to a member of the American family a copy of the coat-of-arms of the Sheffield Levicks, of which he says : "I have been told that the cross-cutlet shows that it was originated in the time of the Crusaders. It is my knowledge that it has been in the family at least sev- eral generations and I beheve that it is only of late years that people have been allowed to adopt coats-of-arms. It seems to be probable that one of our ancestors was a Crusader." Richard Levick, the ancestor of the American branch of the Levick family, was a resident on the Delaware, in what is now Kent county, state of Delaware, in the year 1680, and probably earlier. The territory now comprising the state of Delaware was then under the jurisdiction of the Duke of York, and what be- came Kent county, November 25, 1682, after coming under the jurisdiction of William Penn, was known as the county of St. Jones, and Sussex county was known as Deal ; the three counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex, then became "Territories of the Province of Pennsylvania," and so remained until 1776, at first sending representatives to a general assembly of the province, but later main- taining a separate assembly. Richard Levick purchased of an Indian, named Christian Heteloke, six hundred acres of land in Kent county, and settled thereon with Mary, his wife, probably prior to the date of the quaint old deed from the Indian, recorded at Dover, in liber B, vol. i, page 139, which is as follows: iii8 LEVICK February the twenty-fourth one thousand Six hundred eighty. Know all me by these present I, Christian Heteloke have received full Satisfaction for the Indian purchase of Six Hundred Acres of Land of Richard Levetts and doe warrant and Defend itt from any person or persons whatsoever unto Richard Levett him his heirs and assigns as Witness my hand this Day and yeare above Written. Testes, George Martin, Witnesseth my hand. Will: Rodney. Cheristo Wess ye Indian. This was probably the same tract of land surveyed to Richard Levick by Ephraitn Herman, Surveyor, November 30, 1680, "By vertue of a Warrant from St. Jones Cort," and called "Shoulder of Mutton," for wfhich the grant from Ed- mond Andross, Captain, General, etc., for the Duke of York, bore date prior to the Indian deed, above quoted. It was situated on "the West syde of Dellaware Bay and next adjoyning John Brinckloo's Land called 'Lisbon' beginning att a corner & marked re-oake of John Richardson's Land called Northampton stand- ing by the syde of a small Branch, etc.," the "small branch," later known as Little Creek, bounding one entire side of the tract. These dates being old style it would seem that the survey ante-dated the Indian grant, indicating that he was already settled thereon at the time of receiving the recorded grant from Heteloke. As a further confirmation of this theory, Richard Levick was one of the signers of a petition to Edmond Andross, bearing the same date as the Indian deed, for the establishment of a more convenient place of hold- ing court. Richard Levick also purchased, or had surveyed to him, by Thomas William, a tract called "Tidbury," "on the south side of Dover River," which he and his wife, Mary, in open court, in 1684, did "freely & vallentaryly give for the Countiyes use, all theire right and titell of one hundred ackers," upon which to erect a court- house and other public buildings. Richard Levick's career as a public-spirited pioneer of the new country in whose upbuilding and development he bid fair to become a prominent factor, was cut short by his death in or about the year 1686, leaving a widow, Mary Levick, and an infant son, Richard Levick, born May 20, 1680. Prior to 2mo. 7, 1687, Mary Levick had married John. Richardson, Senior, one of the earliest English settlers of Kent county, he having obtained a grant of land there from Edmond Andross in 1676. He was one of the most prominent men of that section and was a member of William Penn's Council in 1683, and a mem- ber of Provincial Assembly. On the date above noted, "John Richardson Senior orders to be recorded y* he nor his hey''^ Executors Adm''^ nor assigns will nor shall Ever Charge any Thing for victualls Cloathing Washing nor Lodgeing to y«^ ace' of Richard Levvitt his wife's son, — Dureing his meanority." (See Kent County Deeds, liber B, vol. i, page 28). On February 28, 1687-88, John Richardson, Senior, enters into articles of agreement for the lease of the plantation late of Richard Levick, deceased, to Francis Wett, for the term of five years. On June 14, 1698, he conveys to his "son-in-law Rich"^ Levite of y= s"* County of Kent," "all that tract called Cardiffe, being part of a tract called York contain- ing 600 acres situated on the north side of Little Creek, formerly in tenure of William Stephens & laid out for 200 acres," "for divers good causes & Considera- tions & more especially for y= love good will & affection w'^'' I y' s'^ John Richeson haue & always doe beare unto my s"^ son-in-law, Rich"^ Levitt." LEVICK 1 1 19 John Richardson entered into a further agreement, dated January 30, 1691-92, duly recorded in Kent county deeds, by which he obligated himself, "his heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns to be att all the Charge Requisitt and necessary for dyetting, and Cloathing, Lodgeing and Scooleing of the said Rich- ard Levitt until hee shall bee at the age of Twenty one yeares and the said Rich- ard Levitt shall not at the age of Twenty one yeares or ever after for ant Charge before Specified be accountable to me my heirs etc." John Richardson, at his death, devised to his widow, Mary, a tract called Will- ing Brook, in Little Creek Hundred, a part of which, one hundred acres, Mary Richardson, on February 10, 1725-26, conveyed to her grandson, John Levick, son of Richard Levick (2), which descended to John's son, Clayton Levick. The re- mainder of the tract of Willing Brook Mary Richardson, by her will dated No- vember 6, 1739, devised to her son, Richard Levick, for life, and then to her three grandsons, Richard, William and Robert Levick, and it continued the home of the Levick family for several generations. Richard Levick (2), son of Richard and Mary Levick, was born in Kent county, 3mo. (May) 29, 1680, as shown by the following certificate of record in that county : John Richardson Sen^ Doth request mee by y' account of y= midwife and his mother now y^ wife of y« said John Richardson y^ pre deceased of Richard Levett y' y' son of Richard Levett deceased is now at y« age of seven years onely Lacking from this date untill ye 20'li day of this instant month. Witness William Berry, Clerk of Kent County, this S'*" day of ye 3d Mo*h 1687 : as Orst of y^ said John Richardson and y^ mother of ye said Child. Richard Levick, the second, married Mary , maiden name unknown. As previously shown he received by deed of gift from his stepfather, John Richard- son, June 14, 1698, the plantation of two hundred acres, called "Cardiffe," where he probably resided until 1720, when he conveyed it to Charles Maram. On Feb- ruary I, 1718, Richard Levick, of Kent county, yeoman, conveyed to Stephen Paradee a plantation situated in Dover Hundred on the north and south sides of a branch called by the name of Pipe Elm Branch, containing five hundred and fifty-seven acres, which was probably the greater part of the six hundred acres originally taken up by his father, Richard Levick, Sr., and represented by the Indian deed before recited. The later years of his life were probably spent on his mother's plantation of Willing Brook, in Little Creek Hundred, which by her will was devised to him for life. Richard Levick died intestate, and letters of administration were granted on his estate to his son, William Levick, and Jonathan Griffin, on April 6, 1735. His first wife, Mary, the mother of his children, having died, he married (second) Ellen Harrison, of Kent county, whom he seems also to have survived. Issue of Richard and Mary Levick: John Levick, m. Hannah , and settled on the 100 acres of the "Willingbrook" plantation, conveyed to him by his grandmother, Feb. 10, 1725-6, and d. there in 1730. his will being probated Dec. I, 1730. It devises his plantation to his wife, Hannah, for life, then to his sons, John and Clayton. Hannah d. about 1751, and in Oct., 1751, John Levick, the son, then a resident of Little Creek Hundred, enters into bond to convey the plantation, late his father's, to his brother, Clayton, who is then occupymg it. The deed in pursuance of this bond is dated Feb. 13, 1652. John Levick, the son, m. Hunn, and had several daughters and a son, Caleb Levick, who emigrated to near Sheppardstown, Va., and m. there, Rachel Bed- inger, of a prominent family of that section, "rhis Caleb Levick was a Captain 1 1 20 LEVICK in the Revolutionary War, and received for his services at the close of the war a grant of large tracts of land further south, to which he removed, and vire have no further record of him or his descendants. Richard Levick (3), was living at the date of his mother's will, Nov. 30, 1730, but did not long survive her, letters of administration on his estate being granted Feb. 21, 1733, to Honour and Richard Levick, probably his widow, and father; if he left any issue we have no knowledge thereof ; William Levick, of whom presently; Robert Levick, mentioned in his grandmother's will as joint legatee of the real estate devised to his father for life, with his brothers, Richard and William, and since Will- iam seems to have come into possession of the entire plantation, it is presumed Robert died without issue. Note. — The sons are given above in the order mentioned by their grandmother, but we have no knowledge of their proper order in respect to age, and Mary Levick was probably the eldest child; Mary Levick, probably d. unm. prior to the date of her grandmother's will, dated Nov. 30, 1730, as she is not mentioned therein; on Jan. II, 1721, Mary Richardson, the grandmother, "for natural love and affection for her grandchildren, Mary Levitt, William Levitt, and John Levitt, sons and daughter of Richard Levitt and Mary, his wife," gives and grants unto Mary Levitt, "my Negro Girl called Hannah, aged four years; to grandson William Levitt, a Negro Girl called Phillis, aged 2 years; grand- child John Levitt, Negro Dirk, aged 17 years;" Sarah Levick, a legatee under the will of her grandmother, of whom we have no further record. William Levick, son of Richard and Mary Levick, and grandson of Richard and Mary Levick, of Kent county, Delaware, was the ancestor of the branch of the family with which this narrative is concerned. He married Sarah, daughter of John and Elizabeth Crippen, of Kent county; her father being a considerable landowner there. The marriage certificate of William and Sarah (Crippen) Levick, as well as those of each succeeding generations of his descendants, with one exception, in the direct line of descent to Lewis Jones Levick, of Philadelphia, are in possession of the Levick family. William Levick (second), son of William and Sarah (Crippen) Levick, was bom in Little Creek Hundred, Kent county, now Delaware, December 12, 1738, died on his plantation in that Hundred, October 23, 1803. He was an elder of Duck Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, and a memorial of him is entered on the records of that meeting, a copy of which is in the collections of the Penn- sylvania Historical Society. He married, somewhat late in life, Susanna Man- love, born 3mo. (May) 26, 1752, died 2mo. (February) 9, 1802, daughter of Mark Manlove, of Kent county, by his wife, Anne Hall, daughter of John Hall, a Colonial Justice of Kent county, and a large landowner there. The Manlove family were very prominent in the affairs of the three lower counties, and were descended from Mark Manlove, an early settler on the eastern shore of Maryland, who died in 1660. His son, Mark Manlove, received a grant of land in Kent county, in 1680, and he and William Manlove were both commissioned Justices of that county, January 2, 1689-90, recommissioned a year later and several times subsequently; and William and George Manlove were members of the Colonial Assembly from Kent county, 1689-92-93. A memorial of Susanna (Manlove) Levick, written by her friend, Sarah Cow- gill, describes her as a woman "of great sweetness of disposition and marked Christian humility of Character." William and Susanna (Manlove) Levick had a large family of sons and daugh- ters ; but two of the former survived childhood, William Levick, 3d., and Eben- ezer, of whom presently. William Levick, 3d., married and left several children. LEVICK 1 121 two of whom, Robert R. £ind Richard Levick, became prominent merchants of Philadelphia. The former was an influential and prominent member of the Society of Friends. He married and has left a number of descendants. Ebenezer Levick, son of William and Susanna (Manlove) Levick (named for his uncle, Ebenezer Manlove), was born in Little Creek Hundred, Kent county, Delaware, 7mo. (July) i6, 1791, and was reared and educated in the simple faith of the Society of Friends, of which during his whole life he remained a consistent member. Left doubly an orphan at the age of twelve years, the next four years were spent among relatives in Kent county, and at the age of sixteen he came to Philadelphia to prepare himself for a mercantile career, and took up his residence with a cousin, Sarah Fisher, also a native of Kent county, Delaware, where he continued to reside until his marriage in 1816. Ebenezer Levick became a prominent merchant and business man in other lines in Philadelphia. He was one of a company who erected large tanneries at Pocono mountains, in Monroe county, Pennsylvania, and frequently made trips to that section in his exercise of supervision of the work there. He was a man of much kindness of heart and great force of character, and was highly esteemed in busi- ness circles, as well as by those with whom he was associated in charitable and philanthropic work in which he took a deep interest. His many good qualities drew about him a host of friends, among whom he was known as a generous, genial, kindly-hearted man, and a useful and public-spirited citizen. He early manifested a deep interest in the public charities and philanthropic enterprises of his neighborhood. He was one of the earliest members of the Northern Dis- pensary of Philadelphia, and of the Northern Soup Society, of which he was for some years the treasurer. In his own family he was not only affectionate and tender, but very indulgent, both as husband and father. His widow says of him, "My children all remember their father, and what a bright cheerful disposition his was ; how fond he was of them, and how thoughtful for their best welfare ; how happy he strove to make all at his home, and how that home was indeed a happy one. Our married life of thirty- three and a half years was very happy, although we knew many vicissitudes and our cup was not an unmixed one. But, I repeat, the love and tender care of my husband never failed me, and He who permitted in best wisdom, trials to come upon us never left us without some pres- ent sense of his loving kindness and tender mercy toward us." Ebenezer Levick died suddenly of apoplexy, on October 11, 1849, in his fifty- ninth year, mourned by all who knew him. Ebenezer Levick married May i, 1816, Elizabeth Wetherill Jones, born in Phil- adelphia, June 5, 1789, daughter of Isaac Jones, of Philadelphia, born in Block- ley township, Philadelphia county, November 25, 1743, died at his residence at Second and Pine streets, Philadelphia, 1807. He married at Burlington Monthly Meeting of Friends, New Jersey, November 26, 1778, Mary Wetherill, born in Burlington, New Jersey, 1745-6, died at the residence of her son-in-law, Ebenezer Levick, in Philadelphia, December 11, 1829, daughter of Samuel Wetherill, of Philadelphia, and Burlington, New Jersey, by his wife Mary Noble, born May 31, 1722, daughter of Joseph Noble, by his wife, Mary Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith, of Burlington, New Jersey, by his wife Elizabeth Lovett, and granddaugh- ter of Richard Smith, of Brahan, Yorkshire, the ancestor of the "Burlington Smiths," some account of whom is given in our sketch of the Logan family, in 1 1 22 LEVICK these volumes. Joseph Xoble was a son of Abel Noble, of Bucks county, by his wife, Alary Garrett, daughter of William Garrett, who came from Leicestershire, England, in 1684, and settled in Chester county, an account of whom and some of his descendants is also given elsewhere in these volumes ; and a grandson of Will- iam Noble^ who came from Bristol, England. Samuel Wetherill, the grandfather of EHzabeth Wetherill (Jones) Levick, was a son of Thomas, grandson of Chris- topher, and great-grandson of John \\'etherill, who lived at Lancaster, England. Christopher settled in Burlington county, New Jersey. Both he and his son, Thomas, were Provincial Councillors of New Jersey. (See Wetherill Family). James Jones, the paternal grandfather of Elizabeth W. Levick, was born in Merionethshire, ^^'^ales, August 31, 1699, and when an infant accompanied his parents, David and Katharine Jones, to uMerion, Philadelphia county, where he married, at Haverford Meeting, October 8, 1727, Hannah Hayes, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Lewis) Hayes, and granddaughter of Richard and Izatt Hayes, who emigrated from Ilminton, Pembrokeshire, Wales, and settled in Haverford, about 1697. All the ancestors of Elizabeth Levick were members of the Society of Friends, before their settlement in America, and she was reared, lived and died in that faith. James Jones died at his residence in Blockley at the age of ninety-two years, and this instance of longevity was duplicated in the case of his grandson, Samuel \Vetherill Jones, the only brother of Elizabeth W'etherill (Jones) Levick, a well- known and highly respected citizen of Philadelphia, who died November 21, 1870, in the ninety-third year of his age. He and his wife, Mary (Coe) Jones, having celebrated the sixty-eighth anniversary of their marriage, on April 7, 1870. He was thirty-five years a director of the Philadelphia Bank, and thirty-seven years a director of North American Insurance Company. He was a lifelong resident of the city of Philadelphia ; an obituary notice in the Philadelphia Press, has this to say of him, "It is not our purpose unduly to eulogize the dead and yet it is but just to say that after a long business career, after a very long private life, there remains of our friend and fellow townsman, the grateful memory of a spotless reputation, and an integrity of character which knew no decay in a life extending over nearly a century." For one year after their marriage, Ebenezer and Elizabeth W. (Jones) Levick resided with her mother. After the death of her husband in 1849, she lived at their old home, near the old Northern District Friends Meeting House, with her children, \\'illiam M. and Hannah (Moore) Levick, for ten years. In 1859 she took up her home with her son. Dr. James J. Levick, and her daughter, Mary J. Levick, at the southwest corner of Twelfth and Arch streets, where she spent the remainder of her long Hfe, dying November 21, 1886, aged ninety-seven years, six months and sixteen days. She was a lifelong member of the Society of Friends ; for the first twenty-eight years of her life of the Monthly Meeting of the Southern District of Philadelphia, then for forty-two years of the Northern Dis- trict and the last twenty-seven years of her life of the Western District, on Twelfth street. In both intellect and character Elizabeth W. Levick occupied a high place, though not prominent in public or organized work she was beloved, respected and honored by a very large circle of friends. Conservative and throughly English in her ideas of the sphere of woman ; a Quaker by descent and conviction ; thorough- LEVICK 1122, ly American in her in-born patriotism, and love of and respect for the institutions of her native country; "her cathoHcity embraced all who came fairly within the circle of her acquaintance, and who were worthy of her regard and friendship. As a hostess, though dignified and graceful, she was nevertheless, genial, and pleasant, and her cordial welcome and polite attention made the most diffident feel at ease in her presence, while those who were much accustomed to society felt it an honor as well as a pleasure, to be her guests." When, in early manhood her eldest son took an active interest in anti-slavery, non-resistance and other reforms, and was in close touch with the leaders of these movements, it was his custom to bring them to his parents' home, during their visits to the city ; and while his mother did not share the ultra views of her son and bis friends, nevertheless leading Abolitionists and other reform leaders found a kindly welcome at her hands and cherished a lifelong respect and admiration of the queenly woman. Again when her youngest son, a physician, brought to his fire- side, men of science and letters from distant states and countries, they received a like welcome and impression. Men of other faiths and nationalities, became her fast friends and admirers. Among her English friends were men of high standing in their native country, and clergymen of different denominations sought and enjoyed her companionship. Among her favorites was General Taffini, com- mander of the Army of Southern Italy, who having married a Philadelphia lady, spent a winter in the city and was a frequent visitor at her house, and became greatly attached to her. This friendship led to a kind message being received by her from King Humbert of Italy. Having read in the papers of King Humbert's visit to his subjects in Naples when that city was suffering from the scourge of cholera, to look after their welfare, she said with emphasis, "That is the right kind of a king. I hope he may have long and prosperous reign, and that he may be blessed in every way." One of her family, writing to the wife of General Taffini, mentioned the expression of Mrs. Levick, and her husband, appreciating the earnestness of her appreciation of the king's act, from his knowledge of the woman, mentioned it to King Humbert, and he said to the General, in a very earnest manner. "Say to that lady that I thank her very much and although I did very little at Naples and deserve no credit whatever, the kindness and sincerity of her admiration and prayers, coming as they do, from such a noble woman, are most grateful to me." For a number of years she was totally blind, but at the age of eighty-four years an operation was performed under the direction of her son and her sight was entirely restored and until her death thirteen years later she was able to see perfectly. It is impossible in this brief sketch to do justice to the character of this noble woman, suffice it to say, that it is to such American mothers that we owe the perpetuation of the best of our American institutions. Issue of Ebenezer and Elizabeth W. (Jones) Levick: Joseph Wetherill, d. in infancy; Richard d. in infancy; Samuel J., b. Aug. 30, 1819, d. April 19, 1885; m. (first) Ellen Foulke; (second) Sus- anna Morris Mather; of whom presently; William M., b. 1821, d. June 10, 1874; was a member of the Phila. Bar; he confined him- self to that branch of the law, having to do with real estate and the administration of estates, and says a biographer, not of his faith or family, "wielded an influence, and was in control and had the direction of interests to an extent totally unknown nor dreamed of by the members who met with him as the quiet unobtrusive business man." He m. Oct. 5, 1845, Hannah Moore, daughter of Richard and Sarah Moore, of 1 124 LEVICK Quakertown. Both were for many years active and consistent members of Green Street Friends Meeting. They were much given to hospitality, entertaining number- less country Friends. His widow and two daughters survived him; Dr. James J. Levick, b. July 28, 1824, d. June 25, 1893; was one of Phila.'s most promi- nent physicians; he was educated at Haverford Coll., and received his medical degree at the Univ. of Penna. in 1847, and built up and retained an extensive and lucrative practice; was resident physician of Penna. Hospital, 1849-1851; and a member of the medical staff of that institution from 1856 to l86g; elected Fellow of the College of Physicians, April 1851; forty-one years physician to Magdalen Asylum; physician to Will's Eye Hospitaf, 1853-1865; member of the Am. Med. Assn. from 1864 to his death; member of Academy of Natural Sciences, of Phila., from 1865; of Philadelphia Co. Med. Scvciety from 1853; of Hist. Society of Penna. from 1855, and was an authority on historical subjects, especially in reference to the early settlement of Penna.; prepared a paper on the early physicians of Phila., for the Association of the ex-Resident Physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital, which was exhaustive, and instructive. He was early identified with the Welsh Society, and was the author of "The Early Welsh Quakers and Their Emigration to Pennsylvania," and a number of other historical works. He was also a frequent contributor to medical and other scientific journals, and a man of considerable literary and poetic talent. He was un- married. He was a member of Twelfth Meeting of Friends. Samuel J. Levick, in the autumn of 1840, made an extensive trip with his father through what was then our western states. Leaving Philadelphia in Au- gust by stage-coach to Quakertown, thence to Easton, they spent a few days at his father's Monroe county tanneries, and then took stage to Bound Brooke, New Jersey, from which point they proceeded in cars to Elizabeth Point, and from there by steamboat to New York, by the same conveyance up the Hudson to Kingston, where they stopped to visit extensive tanneries, then proceeded to Albany, thence via Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Niagara Falls, to Buffalo, where they took a steamer to Cleveland, Ohio, and spent some weeks in visiting friends and relatives in different parts of Ohio, and returned by way of Richmond, Indi- ana, through Cincinnati, to Pittsburg. A journal of this trip was faithfully kept by him and records many novel ex- periences in the primitive mode of travel of that day. From Pittsburg, he drove home with his own horse and buggy, purchased in Ohio, reaching Philadelphia, October 22, 1840. Samuel J. Levick, began to address Week-day and First-day Aleetings, of Friends for worship, about the middle of the year 1840, and became a recorded minister of the Society in 1842. On his return from his W^estern trip in October, 1840, he spent the greater part of the winter months in Philadelphia, and being about to marry, he and his father arranged for the purchase of a farm near Moorestown, New Jersey, but before the coming of spring, and his marriage to Ellen Foulke, at Richland Meeting, on March 4, 1841, the seller had declined to part with his farm, and his father, on March 31, 1841, purchased for him a farm of eighty-five acres in Richland township, near his father-in-law, Caleb Foulke, about one mile from Quakertown, Bucks county, where the newly married couple took up their residence on April 8, 1841. Here his daughter, Jane, was born, and the mother died on August 13, 1842. Taking his orphaned daughter to his parents in Philadelphia, he continued to conduct the farm with Keziah Foulke as a house- keeper, until his second marriage, on November 17, 1844, to Susanna Morris Mather, of "Wood Lawn," Penllym, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He took his second wife to "Spring Lawn," as he had named his Richland farm, and resided there until 1848, when he returned to Philadelphia, and engaged in the mercantile business with his brother, William M. Levick. During the prevalence LEVICK 1 125 of the cholera epidemic in Philadelphia, he removed his family to "Wood Lawn," the home of his wife's parents, for the summer of 1849 '< himself remaining in the city, except over "First Day." He again took up his residence in Philadelphia, in 1850, and resided there until 1857, when he removed to Quakertown, Bucks county, returning to Philadelphia, October 20, 1874, where he continued to reside until his death at his home in West Philadelphia, April 19, 1885. The family, however, spent most of their summers in Quakertown. During his whole active life, after attaining manhood he continued actively in the ministry of the Society of Friends, and travelled extensively in that service. During the Civil War, Samuel J. Levick manifested an active interest in the struggle for the preservation of the Union. He loved his country and abhorred slavery, so he felt that the one should be preserved and the other destroyed, though as a Friend and advocate of peace he deplored the means employed. Near the beginning of the war, whilst visiting at the house of a friend in New York, he made the statement, that at the breaking out of the war he felt that it was the beginning of the end of slavery. This was a year before the promulgation of the Emancipation Proclamation. He was frequently in Washington and had personal interviews with every President from Lincoln to Arthur. For Lincoln he had the greatest admiration and esteem, and between them there was the utmost freedom of intercourse. He had several interviews with Lincoln and Secretary Stanton, in reference to the attitude of the Society of Friends toward the administration and their peculiar position in reference to the war and slavery. On his return to Philadelphia, in 1874, he was elected a member of the board of managers of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals, and in the following year was made its Secretary, a position he filled during the remainder of his life, giving much attention to the work of the society in his own city, and taking an active part in the work elsewhere. In 1877 he was one of the two delegates from Pennsylvania to the convention called by the Humane Society of Illinois, which resulted in the formation of the International Humane Society, of which he was made treasurer, and a member of the Advisory Com- mittee and the Committee on Legislation, and as such attended the next six annual meetings of the Society, held in the various States of the Union. He was a charter member of the Pennsylvania Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children, incorporated March 10, 1877, and was a member of the Board of Man- agers for the remainder of his life. His voice was always raised for the pro- tection of all Hving creatures from cruelty and suffering. He took an active inter- est in the movement that led up to the celebration of the Bi-Centennial of the founding of Pennsylvania, in 1881, and was a member of the Executive Com- mittee of the Association having it in charge. He took a Hvely interest in the public schools, and in the proper rearing of youth. He was always sure of an appreciative audience at the Fourth-day Meetings at Race Street Meeting, when several hundred school children were present, and he had a happy faculty of being able to interest the children to whom on such occasions he invariably directed the greater part of his remarks. He died very suddenly at his home in West Phila- delphia, April 19, 1885, without having been confined to his bed, though he had been aihng slightly for about a week. He was buried at Merion Meeting grave- yard, where a number of his Welsh ancestors lay buried. Samuel J. Levick married, first, at Richland Meeting, Bucks county, Pennsyl- 1126 LEVICK vania, March 4, 1841, Eleanor Foulke, born in Richland township, March 12, 1816, daughter of Caleb Foulke, born in Richland, August 28, 1781, died there Feb- ruary 22, 1852; by his wife, Jane Green, born in Richland, February 8, 1785, died March 3, 1835; daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Roberts) Green, granddaughter of Joseph and Catharine (Thomas) Green, of Springfield township, Bucks county. Caleb Foulke, was the eldest son and third child of Everard Foulke, born in Richland, September 8, 1755, died there, September 5, 1827; many years a Justice of the Peace, and one of the Assessors of the House Tax, attacked by the insur- rectionists, in Upper Bucks county, under John Fries, during the "Fries Re- bellion" in 1798. Everard Foulke married Ann Dehaven, of Dutch ancestry, a descendant of Everhart In de Hofien, one of the early settlers of Germantown, and they were the parents of nine children. Everard Foulke was the eldest son of Thomas Foulke, of Richland, born March 14, 1724-25, died March 31, 1786; by his wife, Jane Roberts, daughter of Ed- ward Roberts, of Richland, a native of Merionethshire, Wales, an esteemed min- ister of the Society of Friends, by his wife, Mary Bolton, born in Cheltenham township, Philadelphia county, November 4, 1687, daughter of Everard and Elizabeth Bolton, who came from Ross, Hertfordshire, England, in 1682, and settled in Cheltenham, where Everard Bolton was a very prominent man in Colo- nial times. Thomas Foulke was a son of Hugh Foulke of Richland, by his wife, Ann Wilhams, and grandson of Edward Foulke, of Gwynedd, who with his wife, Eleanor, and nine children, came from Wales, in the "Robert and Ehzabeth," in 1698, and settled in Gwynedd, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county ; an account of whom and some of his descendants is given elsewhere in these volumes. Benjamin G. Foulke, a brother of Eleanor (Foulke) Levick, and a prominent residtnt of Richland, Bucks county, married Jane Mather, a sister to Susanna, the second wife of Samuel J. Levick, and was therefore, doubly a brother-in-law of Samuel J. Levick. Job Roberts Foulke, of Philadelphia, for many years Trust Officer of the Provident Life and Trust Company, of Philadelphia, is a son of Benjamin G. and Jane (Mather) Foulke. Eleanor (Foulke) Levick, survived her marriage less than a year and a half, dying at "Spring Lawn," the Richland home of Samuel J. Levick, August 13, 1842. Her only child, Jane Foulke Levick, born in Richland, March 10, 1841, married Edwin A. Jackson, of New York City, where they thereafter resided ; and are the parents of two children, Jane J. Jackson, and Edwin L. Jackson. Samuel J. Levick married, second, on November 17, 1844, Susanna Morris Mather, born August 2, 1819, at "Wood Lawn Farm," the home of her maternal ancestors for many generations, in Whitpain township, Montgomery county. She was the daughter of Charles Mather, by his wife, Jane Roberts, daughter of Job and Mary (Naylor) Roberts, granddaughter of Isaac and Mary (Morris) Mather, of Cheltenham; great-granddaughter of Richard and Sarah (Penrose) Mather, and great-great-granddaughter of Joseph Mather, the American progen- itor of the family, by his wife, Elizabeth Russell. John Russell, the father of Elizabeth (Russell) Mather, purchased of William Penn, in 1683, a large tract of land in Cheltenham, Philadelphia, now Mont- gomery county, and it descended to his only daughter, Elizabeth, the wife of Joseph Mather, who about 1727, conveyed the land inherited from her father to LEVICK 1 1 27 her son, Richard Mather, who married Sarah Penrose, daughter of Captain Bar- tholomew Penrose, of Philadelphia, shipwright and mariner, by his wife, Esther Leech, born 1682, died 17 13; daughter of Toby Leech, who came from Chelten- ham, county of Gloucester, England, in 1682, with his wife Esther Ashmead, and settled in what was named Cheltenham township (Philadelphia county), after his old home in England. Toby Leech became a large landed proprietor in Chelten- ham and elsewhere and was one of the most prominent men of his time, serving as a member of the Provincial Assembly, 1713-1720, and filling many other posi- tions of honor and trust. Richard Mather, in 1746, joined with his sister-in-law, Dorothy (Penrose) Shoemaker, in the erection of the old Shoemaker mill, in Cheltenham, still in active operation at Ogontz. Richard and Sarah (Penrose) Mather, had several sons, among whom the Cheltenham plantation was divided, and a portion of it, set apart to Isaac Mather, lying along the hne of Abington township, at Chelten Hills, is still owned and occupied by his grandson, Isaac Mather, now in his one hundredth year. Mary Morris, the wife of Isaac Mather, of Chelten Hills, was the daughter of Joshua Morris, and granddaughter of Morris Morris, one of the earliest land- owners in Richland township, who had come from Wales with his father Evan Morris, born in Grikhoth, Caernarvonshire, Wales, in 1654, died in Abington township, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania. Morris Morris and Joshua Mori is were members of the Assembly. An account of the convincement of Evan Morris, of the faith of Friends, while a resident of Wales, written by his son, Morris Morris, is, in the original hand- writing, in possession of his descendant, Eleanor Foulke, of Quakertown, daugh- ter of Benjamin G. Foulke, before mentioned. Morris Morris married Susanna Heath, daughter of Richard Heath, of Phila- delphia, one of the earliest Quaker emigrants to Pennsylvania. She was for forty years an eminent minister of the Society of Friends and travelled extensively in that service, both in America and Europe, having visited Great Britain three times after she was forty years of age ; and before her first trip abroad, having travelled through the Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland ; and later in New England, New Jersey, and other parts of the Colonies. On her first trip to Great Britain she was absent nearly three years, ministering to Meetings in England and Ireland. Her second visit, in her sixty-second year, occupied nearly two years and her last visit at the age of seventy years, occupied a year and a half. During the early part of their married Hfe, Morris and Susanna (Heath) Morris, resided on a farm in Abington township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, from whence they removed to Richland, where he had purchased one thousand acres of land, cover- ing a large portion of the present borough of Quakertown, about 1723; Richland Meeting House was erected on land donated by him. Morris Morris died at Richland, June 2, 1764, in his eighty-seventh year, and his wife Susanna, on April 28, 1755, in her seventy-third year. Charles Mather, the son of Isaac and Mary (Morris) Mather, of Cheltenham was the father of Susanna Morris (Mather) Levick, who was named for her distinguished ancestress Susanna (Heath) Morris. Charles Mather married in 1807, Jane Roberts, daughter and only surviving child of Job Roberts, widely known as "The Pennsylvania Farmer," from the title of a valuable book publish- 30 1 128 LEVICK ed by him in 1804. He was born on his "Wood Lawn Farm," in Whitpain town- ship, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, in 1756, in the house in which he died August 20, 1851, erected by his grandfather, John Roberts, in 1715. He was a son of John Roberts and his wife, Jane Hank, whose grandfather, Cadwalader Evans, of Gwynedd, traced his ancestors back to the grantees of their "j\lagna Charter." and grandson of John Roberts, by his wife, Elizabeth Edward; great-grandson of Robert Cadwalader, who came from Wales, in 1697, and settled at Gwynedd. Job Roberts was probably the most progressive and successful farmer of his time, originating many imjxirtant improvements in agriculture of a practical nature. Early in life he displayed unusual mechanical and agricultural enterprise. In 1780 he drove to Gwynedd Meeting in a carriage of his own manufacture, said to have been the only carriage, then or for twenty-five years thereafter, seen at that Meeting. "Altogether, his learning, his enterprise and his fine character, made him a notable figure of his time," says Howard M. Jenkins in his "Historical Collections of Gwynedd." He did much to improve the methods of farming; was with Judge Peters, a pioneer in the use of gypsum, or land plaster, as a ferti- lizer ; introduced the feeding of green fodder to cattle, instead of grazing, and was one of the first to introduce and breed Merino sheep in Pennsylvania. In 1804, he published "The Pennsylvania Farmer," in which he explains the improved methods by which he was able to raise three hundred and sixty bushels of wheat on a lot of six acres, practically double what his neighbors were able to produce. On the marriage of Jane Roberts to Charles Mather, her father erected for them a fine and spacious stone house, on his "Wood Lawn Farm," which has since been known as "Wood Lawn," in which Samuel J. Levick was married in 1844, to Susanna Morris Mather, and which has been at intervals the summer home of their children and grandchildren, making the eighth generation to reside at the old homestead. Charles Mather died in 1830, and his widow, Jane, survived him seventeen years, but was for many years a helpless invalid from rheumatism ; the wedding of her daughter being permitted to be held in her house, by Gwynedd Meeting, instead of at the Meeting House, because she was not able to go to the Meeting House. Charles and Jane (Roberts) ^Mather were the parents of six daughters, and two sons. Job Roberts Mather, who occupied the old home; Jane (Mather) Foulke, of Quakertown and Susanna Mather Levick, of Philadelphia, were the last of the eight to survive. Susanna Morris (Mather) Levick survived her husband nineteen years. She died suddenly on April 4, 1904, at the age of eighty-five years. She retained all her faculties to the last and was remarkably active for one of her years, and took a lively interest in the events of the day. While residing with her son, Charles J. Levick, in Denver, Colorado, she felt it her duty to exercise the right of suffrage afforded to her sex by the laws of that state. She crossed the continent twice after she was seventy-eight years of age, and enjoyed travelling exceedingly, being a keen observer of both people and places. She was possessed of a sweet disposition, combined with a strong character inherited from a long line of Welsh ancestors. She was a lifelong member of the Society of Friends as had been all her forbears for many generations, and for many years filled the position of elder in the Society. She was a firm believer in the principles advocated by that relig- ious society, and was possessed of an unbounded Christian faith. LEllCK 1 1 29 Issue of Samuel J. and Susanna M. (Mather) Levick: Lewis Jones Levick, of Phila., b. Richland, Bucks co., Pa., Oct. 15, 1845; now an active business man of Phila.; m. Sept. 6, 1876, Mary D'Invilliers; Charles M. Levick, b. Richland, Bucks co., Pa., Sept. 23, 1847, now residing in Denver, Col.; m. Henrietta (Wilson) Levick, widow of his brother, William E. Levick; Samuel J. Levick, Jr., b. Feb. 17, 1849, d. at Quakertown, Bucks co.. Pa., in 1880; m. June 13, 1872, Annie E. Bullock; they had issue: Anna Lucile Levick ; Florence M. Levick; Elizabeth W. Levick. William E. Levick, b. in Phila., Jan. 30, 1853, d. there 1890; m. Henrietta Wilson; James Morris Levick, b. Quakertown, Bucks co., Pa., Aug. 28, 1858, d. there Aug. 16, 1864. ASHTON FAMILY. The Ashton family of Philadelphia descends from the Assheton family of Ash- ton-under-Lyne, founded by Ormeus Fitz Ailward, to whom Albertus de Greslet, third Baron of Manchester, gave one carucate of land in Eston, besides a knight's fee in Walton, Parbold and ^Vrightington, as marriage portion with his daughter, Emma, who became the wife of the said Ormeus. Through her the Asshetons trace their ancestry back to the first barons of the city of Manchester, and were, by the same connection, undoubtedly of Norman extraction. Roger Fitz Orme de Assheton, in accordance with the feudal custom of the day, received from his uncle, Albertus de Greslet, Jr., a confirmation of the grant of land made to his father, and also a grant in fee of all Eston (Assheton), and thus became the first Lord of Assheton-under-Lyne. Sir Thomas de Assheton, the son of Roger Fitz-Orme de Assheton, is regarded as the first Knight of the line. Sir John de Assheton, his son, was summoned to Parliament in the seventeenth year of the reign of Edward II, and August 27, 1335, was awarded a charter to have a "free warren" in his demesne of Assheton. Sir Robert de Assheton was returned to Parliament in 1324; May 15, 1359, he was appointed to the governorship of Guynes, near Calais, and in 1363 was made Lord Treasurer of England. In 1368 he obtained a grant of the castle of Land- gate, near Calais, and in 1369 was made Admiral of the Narrow Seas. In 1373 he was Treasurer of the Exchequer, and the year following Vice-Chamberlain to the King. In 1381 he was appointed Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports for life. In 1346, while the King was absent in France, the Scots made an inroad into England, and Thomas de Assheton, fighting under the Queen in defense of Eng- land, distinguished himself by capturing the royal standard of Scotland and was knighted for his heroism on the occasion. Sir John de Assheton was Knight of the Shire for the county of Lancaster in the sixth, twelfth and thirteenth years of the reign of Richard II. Sir John de Assheton, grandson of the above named Sir John, was summoned by Henry, Duke of Lancaster, to receivethehonor of Knighthood of the Bath on the eve of his Coronation as Henry IV., October 13, 1399. He was returned to Parlia- ment in 141 3, and was one of the influential nobles of his time, succeeding in ren- dering the subordination of the Asshetons to their superior lord merely nominal. In 1413 he was chosen Knight of the Shire, and in 1417 was appointed Senseschal of Bayeux. In 1419 he was appointed Governor of Hadupais, and the same year became Constable of Constance. He caused a detailed and accurate survey of his possessions to be made, resulting in a "Custom Roll and Rental," which has be- come one of the most valuable documents in the north of England, as it illustrates the customs of those days, and shows the relation which existed at that time be- tween the lord of the manor and his serfs. Sir John de Assheton left several sons, among whom were Thomas, who suc- ceeded to his estates ; and Ralph, who married the daughter and heiress of Rich- ASHTON ARMS. ASHTON 1 131 ard Barton, of Middleton, and thus became the progenitor of the Asshetons of Middleton. Ralph Assheton was knighted, and on account of his alleged tyranny, has been generally accepted as the "Black Knight," and thus giving rise to the custom known as "riding the Black Knight," which as recently as 1884 was popular in the borough of Ashton-under-Lyne. The demonstration took place annually on Easter Sunday, and the town was visited by crowds of people from the surrounding towns and villages. Sir Thomas Assheton, son of Sir John, above mentioned, left issue : Sir John, eldest son and successor ; Edmund, who became seated at Chadderton, in Oldham, through his marriage with Johanna, daughter of Richard Radclifif, and thus be- came the progenitor of the Asshetons of Chadderton ; Geoffrey, who married the daughter and heiress of Thomas. Manners, of Shepley, and became the progenitor of the Asshetons of Shepley; Nicholas, Sergeant at Law 1443, Justice of the King's Bench 1445, married Mary, daughter of Lord Brook. Sir John Assheton, eldest son of Sir Thomas, fought by the side of his sovereign in the battle of Northampton, July 10, 1460, where, previous to the engagement, he received the honor of knighthood. Sir Thomas Assheton, son and heir of Sir John, last mentioned, was knighted at Ripon in 1401. He died in 1516, and was the last survivor of the elder male line of the senior branch of the family of Assheton ; the Une being continued by the Asshetons of Middleton, Chadderton and Shepley, above mentioned. Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Assheton, married Sir William Booth, and thus became the ancestress of the Earls of Stamford and Warrington, by whom the manor and chief part of the hereditaments of the Assheton family of Ashton- under-Lyne were inherited. It is through Geoffrey, son of Sir Thomas Assheton, who married the daughter and heiress of Thomas Manners, of Shepley, that the Ashtons of Philadelphia descend from the Asshetons of Ashton-under-Lyne. Jonathan Assheton, a scion of this family, came to Philadelphia about 1683. He was born in county Lancaster, England, and was a relative of Robert Assheton, who came to Philadelphia in 1699, father of Ralph Assheton, the prominent Pro- vincial Councillor, etc., said to have been a cOusin of William Penn. Jonathan Assheton was admitted a freeman of the city of Philadelphia, July 13, 1795, as shown by the "Minutes of the Common Council of Philadelphia," in the writing of Robert Assheton, as clerk of the Council. Jonathan Assheton was one of the early members of Christ Church, and the book containing the earliest records of that church has on its title page this inscription, "Jonathan Assheton, his Book," and these early records are in his handwriting. His official designation was "Clerk of the Church of England in America." His signature appears among others, to a letter to the Bishop of London, of March 31, 1715, testifying to the character of Rev. Francis Phillips, then rector of Christ Church. He was buried at Christ Church, January 23, 1727-8. His wife, Hannah, died August 22, 1726, and is also buried at Christ Church. Isaac Ashton, son of Jonathan and Hannah Assheton, born in Philadelphia, April 19, 1709, was baptized at Christ Church, by the name of "Ashton," in which form the name has since been spelled by the family. He died in Philadelphia, November 15, 1751. He married Sarah Fordham, who died January 29, 1735-6. William Ashton, son of Isaac and Sarah (Fordham) Ashton, was baptized at 1 132 ASHTON Christ Church, Philadelphia, December 21, 1736. He was a soldier in the Revo- lutionary War, died in Philadelphia, September 24, 1800, and was buried at Christ Church. He married at Christ Church, November 4, 1758, Marion Catharine Easterly, born June 13, 1736, died December 17, 1800, also buried at Christ Church. George Ashtox, son of WilHam and Marion Catharine (Easterly) x\shton, born in Philadelphia, December 14, 1774, was engaged in shipbuilding in his native city during the active years of his life, being many years senior member of the firm of Ashton & Rambo. On September i, 1794, he was commissioned by Gov- ernor Thomas Mifflin, Second Lieutenant of the Ninth Company of Artillery, in the Artillery Regiment of the City of Philadelphia, his name being spelled in the commission, "Asheton." He married Elizabeth Hughes, who died March 2, 1844. George Ashton died April 18, 1838, and was buried beside his paternal ancestors in Christ churchyard. George and EUzabctli (Hughes) Ashton had issue: William Easterly Ashton, of whom presently; Daniel Rambo Ashton, of whom later. Rev. William Easterly Ashton, son of George and Elizabeth (Hughes) Ashton, was born in Philadelphia, May 18, 1793, and was baptized at Christ Church, of which his ancestors had been members for several generations. He, however, was converted to the Baptist faith by Rev. William White, pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Philadelphia, and was licensed to preach March 23, 1814; in the following year was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church at Hope- well, New Jersey, where he served one year, and then resigned to accept the pastorate of the Baptist Church in Blockley, Philadelphia, where, during the next eight years, he established a reputation as an eloquent and forceful preacher. During this period he founded and became the head of a seminary for girls, in which he lectured on the natural sciences. On March 7, 1833, he accepted a call to the Third Baptist Church of Philadelphia, to which he continued to minister until February 23, 1835, when he resigned, owing to ill health. He was a member of the Theological Institution of the Baptist General Convention of Philadelphia, which became Columbian College, Washington, D. C, in 1821, later Columbian University. He was the first president of the Baptist General Association of Pennsylvania, and chairman of its executive committee. He was elected the first head of Haddington College, but declined, accepting, however, the professorship of natural science in that institution. The degree of M. A. was conferred upon him by the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. Rev. William Easterly Ashton married (first) Harriet, daughter of Hudson and Hannah (Woolston) Burr, of New Jersey, granddaughter of Joseph and Mary Burr, and great-granddaughter of John Burr, and his wife, Susanna, widow of Robert Owen, of Merion, Philadelphia, and daughter of William Hudson, of Philadelphia, an account of whose ancestry and descendants is given elsewhere in these volumes. Rev. William Easterly Ashton married (second) Sarah Keen, born in Philadelphia, October i, 1797, died June 17, 1875, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Knowles) Keen, of Philadelphia, and seventh in descent from Joran Kyn, one of the chief Swedish proprietors at Upland, now Chester, Pennsylvania, ASHTON 1 133 long before the grant of the Province to Wilham Penn, and who is referred to in these volumes as an ancestor of the Yeates, Brinton, McCall, Swift and other prominent Colonial families of Philadelphia and vicinity. Joran Kyn (the Swedish form of the name, later anglicized into Keen), came to America with Governor John Printz, in the ship "Fama," which sailed from Stockholm, August 16, 1642, and arrived at Fort Christina, New Sweden, on the Delaware, February 15, 1643. In a "Rulla" issued by Printz at "Kirrstina," June 20, 1644, and still preserved in the royal archives at Stockholm, he is mentioned as a soldier in the Governor's Life Guard, and in a "List of Persons living in New Sweden, March i, 1648," he is similarly described. He acquired an un- usually large tract of land in New Sweden, extending along a great part of the eastern bank of Upland Kill, now Chester Creek^ for a mile and a half above its mouth, at the northwestern portion, upon which Crozer Theological Seminary is now located; it was three-quarters of a mile in width, and reached to the east along the river as far as Ridley Creek. Hans (John) Keen, son of Joran Kyn, is supposed to have been born on the Delaware soon after the arrival of his parents ; he at least became the possessor of two hundred acres of the land granted to his father as early as 1678. He died prior to 1693, and his widow, Willemka, several years later married Casper Fisck, of Gloucester county, New Jersey, and survived him many years ; her maiden name and parentage are unknown. Matthias, eldest son of Hans and Willemka Keen, born at Upland, removed in his youth farther up the Delaware and became a considerable landowner in Oxford township and vicinity, in Philadelphia county. He took a deep interest in religious matters, and was one of the largest contributors to the support and ad- vancement of the Swedish churches in and around Philadelphia, particularly to the fund for building Gloria Dei Church in 1700. He was chairman of the build- ing committee, having in charge its erection, and was a trustee and vestryman there until his death in Oxford township, July 13, 1714. He was returned as a member of the Provincial Assembly, October 8, 1713, qualified as such and par- ticipated in the proceedings of the session of 1713-14, but died before the time for his re-election. Matthias Keen married Henricka Clausen, or Johnson, daughter of Jan Claus- sen, an early settler on the Neshaminy, in Bristol township, Bucks county, where he had obtained a grant of a large tract of land from Edmond Andross, under the jurisdiction of the Duke of York, later confirmed by patent from William Penn. All the children of Jan Claussen, according to Dutch custom, took the name of Johnson. Matthias Keen and his wife participated with the other heirs of Jan Claussen in the distribution of the real estate in Bristol township, Bucks county, part of which descended to their children. Matthias Keen married (second) Sarah , who survived him. He had six children, at least five of whom were by his first wife. John, son of Matthias and Henrietta (Claussen) Keen, was born in Oxford township, Philadelphia county, in 1695, and inherited from his father four hundred acres of land there and in Lower Dublin township, as well as an interest in his mother's real estate in Bucks county. He took an active part in public affairs, and was one of the petitioners to the Assembly for the passage of an act confirm- ing the title of the early Swedish settlers to the land taken up by them, and which 1 134 ASHTON had descended to the present holders, thus ending the controversy between his compatriots and the Proprietary Land Office ; through his efforts a bill was intro- duced but failed of passage. He was a member and warden of Gloria Dei Church, and one of the largest contributors towards rebuilding the parsonage of that church, destroyed by fire in 1717. He died February 22, 1758. John Keen married, November, 1713, Susanna, eldest daughter and second child of James Steelman, of Great Egg Harbor, Gloucester county, New Jersey, by his wife Susanna, daughter of Christian Stoy, an early Swedish settler on the Delaware, mentioned as a member of Wiccacoe congregation in 1693. Susanna (Steelman) Keen died November 9, 1753. John and Susannah Keen were the parents of seven sons and four daughters ; Mary, eldest daughter, married Toby Leech; Matthias, second son, married (first) Mary Swift, 1743, sister of John and Joseph Swift, the progenitors of the Swift family of Philadelphia, an account of which is given in these volumes. James, eldest son of John and Susannah (Steelman) Keen, born in Oxford, Philadelphia county, married there Mercy Ashton, daughter of Joseph Ashton, of Lower Dublin township, and granddaugh#r of Joseph and Jane Ashton. James Keen died intestate at an early age, and letters of administration were granted on his estate to his widow, Mercy, Decemberj^4, 1742. On March 29, 1745, she married Isaac Williard, whom she also survived, and died in 1760. John, son of James and Mercy (Ashton) Keen, born in Oxford township, March 4, 1738-9, inherited land in Oxford township, but sold out there in 1762 and removed to Lower Dublin township, and later to Northern Liberties, Phila- delphia. In 1782 he purchased a portion of the old Keen homestead devised by his grandfather to Jacob Keen, in Lower Dublin township, and settled thereon. He was one of the original trustees of Lower Dublin Academy at its incorpora- tion in 1794, and served until his death in 1808. He was also a vestryman of Trinity Church, Oxford, but both he and his two wives are buried at Pennepack Church. John Keen married (first) May 6, 1762, Sarah Swift, born November 28, 1743, died September 6, 1782, daughter of Dr. Samuel Swift, for thirty years a vestry- man and warden of Trinity Church, Oxford, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Duffield, of "Benfield," in the Manor of Moreland. Dr. Samuel Swift was a grandson of John Swift, many years a Colonial Justice and member of Assembly from Bucks county. John Keen married (second) in 1785, Mary, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Fisher) Hall. She was born September 29, 1742, and died February 14, 1816, having survived three husbands — Jacob Laughlin, Simeon Cornell and John Keen, respectively. John Keen died May 17, 1808. His will, c ited January 28, 1802, proved May 23, 1808, devised his estate to his wife, Mar} ; sons, John and Jacob; children of his son, Samuel, and daughter, Sarah ; to to his daughter, Esther Kenteen. In Poulson's Daily Advertiser, of May 30, 1808, appears the following obituary notice of John Keen: "Died at his farm in the County of Philadelphia, the 17th instant, deeply lamented by his relatives and friends, Mr. John Keen, in the 70th year of his age. He was an affectionate father and husband, and a kind and social neighbor. During his long and painful illness, a Christian fortitude and pious resignation were strongly evinced. A long train of friends and acquaintances who followed his remains to the grave manifested the esteem in which he was held." ASHTON 1 135 Samuel, son of John and Sarah (Swift) Keen, married Sarah, daughter of John Knowles, of Oxford township, and they were the parents of Sarah Keen, wife of William Easterly Ashton. As before stated, many of the descendants of Joran Kyn intermarried with promment Colonial families of Philadelphia. His granddaughter, Catharine Sandelands, born January 26, 1671, married Jasper Yeates, and was the ancestress of that distinguished family. Anne Yeates, daughter of Jasper and Catharine, became the wife of George McCall, the progenitor of that family in Philadelphia. Mary, daughter of Jonas and Sarah (Dahlbo) Keen, and a great-granddaughter of Joran Kyn, born September 29, 1728, married Jonathan Crathorne, and their daughter, Mary, born August 4, 1765, married John Montgomery, of Philadelphia, son of James Montgomery, of Eglinton, Monmouth county. New Jersey, and great-grandson of William Montgomery, of Brigend, Ayreshire, Scotland. Dorothy, another daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Keen) Crathorne, born April 24, 1767, married September 15, 1791, Richard Dale, the distinguished American Naval Officer. Margaret, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Keen) Stout, born 1764, married General William MacPherson. Margaret McCall, born April 6, 1721, married February 3, 1759, Joseph Swift, a brother of Alary Swift, the first wife of Matthias Keen, before mentioned. Anne, daughter of Samuel and Anne (Searle) McCall, born March 30, 1745, married June 8, 1763, Thomas Willing, son of Charles and Anne (Shippen) Willing. Samuel Keen Ashton, son of Rev. William Easterly and Sarah (Keen) Ash- ton, born April 6, 1822, died February 11, 1895; received his early education at Germantown Academy, and from there entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1837, and received his degree of A. B. in 1841, and later the degree of A. M. Entering the Medical Department of the same University he received his degree of M. D. in 1843, ^nd engaged in active practice of his profession^ which con- tinued during a long and active career. He was a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania. Ht was the author of a "Memoir of the Rev. William Easterly Ashton, A. M.," his father, published in annals of the American Baptist Pulpit i860. Dr. Ashton married November 7, 1844, Caroline Melinda, daughter of Thomas Tucker Smiley, M. D., by his wife, Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Esther (Hawkins) Loud, of a family long associated with the affairs of New Castle comity and the eastern shore of Maryland. Dr. Samuel Keen Ashton was buried in the churchyard of St. James the Less, the funeral services being held in Christ Church, with which parish his ancestors had been prominently identified for six generations. Dr. Samuel Keen and Caroline M. (Smiley) Ashton had issue: Caroline M. Ashton, b. Oct. 6, 1845, d. Dec. 14, 1846; Sarah E. Ashton, b. Dec. 6, 1846, d. Nov. 15, 1851 ; Kate Ashton, b. May 20, 1849; m. Newcomb B. Thompson, and had issue: Edith Thompson, m. James Alan Montgomery; Ellen B. Thompson, m. Walter Pyle; Katharine Ashton. WilUam Easterly Ashton, b. Oct. 12, 1851, d. Oct. 28, 1851 ; 1 136 ASHTON Harriet AI. Ashton, b. March 28, 1853; Emma L. Ashton, b. Aug. 21, 1855, d. Dec. 16, 1895; m. Dalton, son of Rev. Benjamin Dalton Dorr, rector of Christ Church, Phila., by his wife, Esther Odin, and had issue : Odin Dorr, Ashton Dorr, Emma Ashton Dorr; William Easterly Ashton, b. June 5, 1859, received early education at private schools of Phila.; entered the Univ. of Pa. 1875, class of 1879; later entered Medical Dept. of same institution and received degree of M. D. 1881; received same degree at Jefferson Medical College 1884; received degree of LL. D. from Ursinus College 1904; was Demonstrator of Clinical Obstetrics and Chief of Clinic Diseases of Women at Jeffer- son Medical College; is Professor of Gynecology to the Medico Chirurgical College, and Gynecologist to the Medico Chirurgical Hospital, Phila., having previously filled same position at Phila. Hospital. He is member of Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Obstetrical Society of Phila., the Medical Jurisprudence Society of Phila., the American Medical Association; fellow of the American Gynecological Association, one of founders of Congress Internationale de Gynecologic et D'Obstetrique, and con- nected with number of other medical and scientific organizations; he is author of "Compendium on Essentials of Obstetrics," which has been translated into Chinese, of work on gynecology (1905), as well as of frequent contributions to journals on sub- jects appertaining to surgery. He is vestryman of Christ Church and secretary of vestry; a member of Society of Colonial Wars, of Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, and member of University and Racquet Clubs of Phila.; m. Oct. 5, 1891, Alice Elizabeth, dau. of ]\Iitchell G. Rosengarten, and they had issue : Dorothy Ashton, b. July 27, 1892, d. April 2, 1893. Esther Ashton, b. Oct. 10, i860; Sarah Keen Ashton, b. May 2, 1862; m. Dec. 29, 1898, Charles Edouard Quebil; Samuel Keen Ashton, b. June 4, 1863, d. June, 1898; Thomas George Ashton, M. D., b. April 6, 1866; m. Mary Lincoln Henszey; of whom presently; Sophie M. Ashton, b. May 18, 1868; m. Henry, son of John and Elizabeth (Evans) Tucker, and had issue : William Ashton Tucker, b, Oct. 2, 1900; Elizabeth Russell Tucker, b. Aug. 14 1902. Thomas George Ashton, son of Samuel Keen and Caroline 'M. (Smiley) Ashton, born April 6, 1866, received his early education in the Germantown Acad- emy and the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, and was graduated a Doctor of Medicine by the Jefferson Aledical College of Philadelphia in 1888. After serv- ing a term as interne in the Philadelphia General Hospital, he became actively attached to the teaching corps of his alma mater in the branch of Clinical Medi- cine, having been appointed Demonstrator on that subject and Assistant Visiting Physician to the Jefferson Aledical College Hospital. In 1903 he was elected .\ssistant Professor of Clinical Medicine by the Trustees of Jefferson Medical College. In 1904 he was elected by the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at that institution. He has held the position of Visiting Physician to St. Mary's Hospital, and the Philadelphia Polyclinic Hospital. He is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: a Fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, and a member of various other medical societies. Is visiting physician to the Philadelphia General Hos- pital, and the author of various articles appertaining to the subject of internal medicine. He is a member of the Markham Club, the Racquet Club, and of the Society of Colonial Wars. Dr. Thomas George Ashton married November 7, 1900, Mary Lincoln, daugh- ter of William P. Henszey, Sc. D. (Univ. of Penna.) and a member of the firm of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, by his wife Anne B. Hitchcock. Mary Lincoln (Henszey) Ashton is ninth in descent from John Howland, a passenger on the "Mayflower," landing at Plymouth, Mass., in 1620, through his daughter Hope; fifth in descent from Benjamin Lincoln of Hingham, Massachu- ASHTON 1137 setts, a member of Provincial Council of Massachusetts, from 1753-70; and fourth in descent from Benjamin Lincoln, his son, born in Hingham, Massachu- setts, January 24, 1733. He was chosen in 1762, Justice of the Peace for the county, and one year later Justice for the Province. In 1770, he represented Hingham in the Provincial Legislature, and in 1774 was made the representative of the town of Hingham, in the General Court, ordered by Governor Gage to convene at Salem in the following month. Governor Gage postponing the Court, it resolved itself into a Provincial Congress, with John Hancock as president, and Benjamin Lincoln as secretary. He was elected to the second Provincial Congress, which met at Cambridge in February, 1775, and was a member of the Third Provincial Congress from May to July, 1775, and during the last week of its session, acted as its President, in the absence of James Warren. In 1771, Benjamin Lincoln was appointed Major of the Third Regiment of Suflfolk, then commanded by Josiah Quincy, and one year later was made its Lieutenant Colo- nel. In February, 1776, he was commissioned by the Council, Brigadier General, and the following May promoted to the rank of Major General, with general direction over the military afifairs in Massachusetts. He was severely wounded, October, 1777, during the operations of General Gates against Burgoyne before Saratoga. He was commissioned by Congress February 19, 1777, a Major- General of the Continental Line, and in September, 1778, was appointed to com- mand of the American Army in the Southern Department. At the surrender at Yorktown, he conducted the vanquished army of Lord Cornwallis to the field where they were to lay down their arms. On October 30, 1781, General Lincoln was appointed Secretary of War by Congress, and he retained that position until the close of the Revolutionary War. In January, 1787, he was placed in command of the State Troops of Massachusetts to put down the Shay Rebellion, and in 1788 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts. In 1789 he was appointed Collector of the Port of Boston by President Washington, and during the autumn of the same year was appointed with Cyrus Griffin and David Hum- phreys, a commissioner to treat with the Creek Indians on the borders of the Southern States, and in April, 1793, a commissioner to treat with the Indians north of the Ohio, his colleagues in the latter commission being Beverly Ran- dolph, of Virginia, and Timothy Pickering. He was one of the founders of the Society of the Cincinnati, and was its president until his death on May 9, 1810, at the age of seventy-seven years. In 1780 Harvard University conferred upon General Lincoln the honorary degree of Master of Arts. Mary Lincoln (Henszey) Ashton is also sixth in descent from Captain Eben- ezer Hitchcock, born August 24, 1694, a soldier in the French and Indian wars, who received his commission as Lieutenant from Governor Shirley, at Louisburg, June 28, 1745 ; seventh in descent from Joseph Sheldon, of Sheffield, a represen- tative from that town in the General Court of Massachusetts in 1708, and a direct descendant of Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury ; tenth in descent from George Wyllys, second Governor of Connecticut, born in Fenny Compton, county Warwick, England, 1570, died Hartford, Connecticut, March 9, 1645, who ardently espoused the cause of the Puritans, and in 1636 sent his steward, William Gib- bons, with twenty men, "to purchase and prepare for him an estate suitable to his rank" in Hartford Connecticut, on which Gibbons was to erect a house and pre- pare for the reception of his master and his family. Governor Wyllys arrived in 1 138 ASHTON 1638, and at once became an important member of the Connecticut Colony. He was one of the framers of the Constitution in 1639, and was chosen one of the six magistrates of the colony at the first election, holding that office until his death. He was chosen Deputy Governor in 1641, and Governor in 1642. Mrs. Ashton is ninth in descent from John Pynchon, Governor of Springfield, Massachusetts, born in England in 162 1, who accompanied his father William Pynchon, named by Charles I, in March, 1629, as one of the original patentees in the Charter of the Colony of Massachusetts, who came over with Governor Winthrop in 1630, and was selected one of his eighteen assistants, but returned to England in 1652, and died at Wraysburg, Buckinghamshire, October 29, 1662. John Pynchon, the son, was Colonel of the First Regiment of Hampshire county and was in active service during King Philip's War, and the first French war. He was appointed one of the commissioners to receive the surrender of New York by the Dutch in 1664; was a deputy to the General Court of Massa- chusetts, 1659-65; assistant magistrate under the first Charter, 1665-86; coun- cillor under the presidency of Dudley, 1686, under Sir Edmond Andros, 1688-9, and under the new charter from 1693 to his death on January 7, 1703. He mar- ried October 30, 1644, Amy, daughter of Governor George Wyllys, above men- tioned, and their daughter Mary, married August 6, 1670, Captain Joseph Whit- ing, Treasurer of Connecticut for thirty-nine years, having succeeded his father who had held the same office for thirty-seven years ; Mrs. Ashton being eighth and ninth in descent, respectively, from these two worthy officials. She is also ninth in descent from William Ames, D. D., "of famous memory;" Fellow of Christ College, Cambridge, and driven from England for non-conform- ity; sent by the States General of Holland to the Synod of Dort to "aid the Presi- dent of the Synod by his suggestions ;" and author of the "Medulla Theologiae" and other works, whose portrait, painted in 1633, hangs in Memorial Hall, Cam- bridge. Eighth in descent from Urian Oakes, fourth president of Harvard Col- lege, of whom Cotton Mather says, "as a theologian deservedly famous, a truly charming orator, a learned and orthodox pastor of a church at Cambridge, a most sagacious president of Harvard College, a recipient of the highest commenda- tions for piety, learning and eloquence." She is fifth in descent from Rev. Gad Hitchcock, D. D., born February 12, 1719, at Springfield, Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard, 1743; who in May, 1774, was called upon to deliver the election sermon in the Old South Church, Boston, before the Legislature and the Governor, being the occasion of the elec- tion "of His Majesty's Council for the said Province." Governor Gage was filled with wrath, on account of the boldness of the views expressed in the sermon, and negatived the election of thirteen of the councillors, elected in accordance with the views expressed, and adjourned the legislature to meet at Salem, June 17, as a punishment, and at Salem again adjourned them, but they locked the doors, refused admission to the Governor's messenger, and transacted their busi- ness in spite of him. Dr. Hitchcock received the degree of D. D. from Harvard in 1787. His son Dr. Gad Hitchcock, from whom Mrs. Ashton is fourth in descent, born November 2, 1749, was surgeon in Col. Simeon Gary's regiment in the \\'ar of the Revolution and afterwards appointed surgeon of Gen. Fellows' Brigade Hospital, in the Jerseys. ASHTON 1 139. Mrs. Ashton is also fifth in descent from Col. John Bailey of the Second Mass- achusetts Regiment in the War of the Revolution. Issue of Thomas George and Mary L. (Henszey) Ashton: — Thomas Ashton, b. Aug. 24, 1901, d. the same day; Anne H. Ashton, b. Sept. 22, 1902; William H. Ashton, b. Dec. 24, 1904; Caroline Ashton, b. Jan. 22, 1908. D.-iNiEL Rambo Ashton, another son of George and Elizabeth (Hughes) Asiiton, and younger brother of Rev. William Easterly Ashton, above mentioned^ was born in Philadelphia in 1803, and died there May, 1881. He married Eliza- beth Josiah, daughter of Joseph Marsh, and his wife Hannah, daughter of Capt. Adam Hubley, of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolution ; granddaughter of Colonel Joseph Marsh, of the Artillery Battalion of Philadelphia in 1780. Issue of Daniel Rambo and Elizabeth Josiah (Marsh) Ashton: Joseph Hubi,ey Ashton, b. March 11, 1836, d. March 7, 1907; of whom presently; Virginia Ashton, b. Sept, 9, 1839; James William Ashton, b. Jan. 18, 1843; m. Cornelia Elizabeth Jones; of whom later. Joseph Hubley Ashton, son of Daniel R. and Elizabeth J. (Marsh) Ashton, born March 11, 1836, died March 7, 1907, was graduated from the Department of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, in 1854, and at once entered upon the study of law. At an early age he removed from Philadelphia, (where he had first filled the position of Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania) to Washington, D. C, and when still under the age of thirty years was appointed Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. His exclusive duty in that office was to represent the government in all cases involv- ing the award of prizes for the capture of ships, engaged in running the block- ade, and all sea-going craft, employed in carrying contraband goods during the Civil War. In several years service of this kind Mr. Ashton devoted himself with intense professional zeal to the mastery of international law, becoming well equipped for the important positions he was later called upon to fill. In 1869, soon after Hon. Hamilton Fish became Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Grant, there had sprung up between Secretary Fish and Mr. Ashton, a close personal, professional and official intimacy, which continued during the whole of Secretary Fish's incumbency of the State Department, and personally until his death. When the Mexican Claims Commission was organized in 1869, Mr. Ashton was named by Secretary Fish as counsel for the United States to appear before this commission. In the importance of the questions raised before this tribunal and in the magnitude of the money involved, aggregating $350,000,000,, this commission was then without precedent, nor has any subsequent tribunal equalled it in respect to the amount of money involved. The Commission was in session for ten years, and two thousand claims were submitted to it and adju- dicated. One claim entered by the Mexican Government against the United States, on account of Indian depredations, amounted to $50,000,000. Mexico was represented by the eminent jurist Caleb Gushing, who advised them that the claim was a good one and would be allowed. By patient and painstaking work on the II40 ASHTON part of J. Hubley Ashton, documents were discovered disproving the validity of the claim and it was disallowed, thus saving the United States $50,000,000. The great argument upon the subject of contract claims, involving the jurisdic- tion of international commissions over contracts, practically established the atti- tude of that commission and all subsequent ones, including that of the more recent Venezuelan Commission, before which Mr. Ashton again represented the United States. Mr. Ashton's masterly distinction between citizenship and nationality, set forth in one of his arguments before an international tribunal, has at last been practically accepted by civilized nations as a fundamental principle, always to be recognized. He demonstrated that nationality is a question of inter- national law, and established the definition of citizenship as involving purely a question of municipal law. These two now well established principles were finally and adequately set forth in arguments made while representing the United States as counsel. Mr. Ashton was also distinguished before the Supreme Court and among the great lawyers for his marvelously accurate historic memory. He never erred in a statement of historic fact. He needed to give no reference when alluding to these facts. His statements were invariably accepted by the Court. He had no remarkable elocutionary or rhetorical powers, as these terms are com- monly understood, but he possessed to a remarkable degree the talent for abso- lutely lucid statements of fact and law, and their application to the case in hand. He was one of those lawyers, who, when pleading before the United States Supreme Court at Washington, was sure to command the never wandering atten- tion of every justice of that bench. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Georgetown College, Washington, D. C, in 1872. Joseph Hubley Ashton died March 7, 1907. He married Hannah, daughter of William and Harriet Wakeman, who was born December 2, 1843, and died August 17, 1906. They had one daughter, Elizabeth. James Willi.'\m Ashton, the other son of Daniel R. and Elizabeth J. (Marsh) Ashton, born in Philadelphia, January 18, 1843, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with the degree of A. M. Class of 1863. He entered the Univer- sity in 1859, and was awarded the Freshman and Sophomore declamation prizes and also the Junior English prize, and was president of the Zelosophic Society. He received leave of absence of the trustees in 1862, and entered the military service as Second Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 157th Pennsylvania Regiment, United States Volunteers, and was connected with the Army of the Potomac. He was wounded before Petersburg, Virginia, June, 1864, and was honorably discharged by reason thereof, September, 1864. He studied for two. years at the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, and later at the Theological Seminary at Newton, Massachusetts. He was for some years a Bap- tist clergyman and pastor of churches of that denomination at Watertown, New York, and Norwich, Connecticut. He was awarded the honorary degree of D. D. by Hobart College, Geneva, New York in 1890, and since 1892 has been a Prot- estant Episcopal Clergyman, being ordained by the Right Reverend William Bacon Stevens, Bishop of Pennsylvania, June, 1892. He was rector of the Church of Annunciation and Grace Church of Philadelphia for some years and is now rector of St. Stephen's Church, at Olean, Cattaragus County. New York. He married Cornelia Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick Jones, and a lineal descendant of Theophilus Eaton, first Governor of New Haven, 1638. --'^^T^'J?^ ""-I BRINGHURST AlUIS. BRINGHURST FAMILY. The family of Bringhurst in the United States is descended from an ancient family of that name, long seated in Leicester, England, who bore for arms, az. two bars erm. in chief three escallops or, and crest, an arm embowed, habitted in mail, or holding in the hand ppr. a spiked club, sa. spikes or. The town and parish of Bringhurst, from which the family surname is derived, antedates the Norman Conquest. It is situated in the southeast corner of Leices- tershire, in an angle between Northamptonshire and the little county of Rutland, and skirts the river Welland. According to Leland, the town of Bringhurst, with those of Easton, Drayton, Prestgrove, Blatheston and Langton, the first four of which were later held by the Bringhurst family, were given by one Ranulfe, a kinsman of Edward the Confessor, the Anglo Saxon King of 1042-66, to the abbey of Peterborough, in Northamptonshire. The statement as made by Leland is as follows: "Ranul- phus Comes propinquis. Regis Edwardi Confessoris, dedit Monasterion de Peter- burgh, Bringhurst, Easton, Drayton, Prestgrove, Blathestun and Langdon, in Comitatu Lecestr." J. Granville Leach, LL. B., the eminent genealogist and historian of Philadel- phia, in his "History of the Bringhurst Family," pubhshed in 1901, for Capt. Robert Ralston Bringhurst, of Philadelphia, from which the information con- tained in this sketch is largely gathered, states that the earliest mention of the surname of Bringhurst found by him was Robert de Bringhurst, who prior to 1260 was Lord of Broughton and Bringhurst, and had holdings in Drayton, Holt and Prestgrove, and Nichol's "History of Leicestershire," accords to him the arms described at the head of this article. In 1320 a John Bringhurst was summoned to Parliament from Leicestershire, and in 1567 another of the same name was rector of St. Mary Magdalen, Waltham, Leicestershire. In 1627 Charles Bringhurst "Chirurgeon" had a son James baptized at the Church of St. John fhe Baptist, Peterborough, and June 25, 1630, William Bringhurst, son of John Bringhurst, of Brabrooke, Northamptonshire, matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, and four years later received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. On March 9, 1639, Henry Bringhurst, Esq., and Sir Thomas Rotherham were elected mem- bers of Parliament of Ireland, from King's county. The Rev. Dr. Isaac Bring- hurst, graduated at Queen's College, Cambridge, 1660, and became rector of Tod- dington, county of Bedford, and was buried there October 16, 1697: a memorial tablet being erected to his memory in his parish church. One John Bringhurst was a graduate of Queen's College, 1698, and another of the same name in 1739. The earliest record we find of the name in America is that of Thomas Bring- hurst, who appears as an inhabitant of St. Michael's parish. Island of Barbadoes. 1680; he is credited on Hotten's Lists as having five hired servants, several ap- prentices and five slaves; on March 21, 1682, the Council of Barbadoes appointed him "Caretaker of Powder." Thomas Bringhurst, earliest lineal ancestor of the Bringhurst family of Philadelphia, was a "chirurgeon" of London, and as shown by a manuscript 1 142 BRINGHURST record made by his grandson, John Bringhurst, of Philadelphia, was married, August 27, 1647, to Elizabeth Hughes. He was doubtless of the Leicester family of Bringhurst, as there are records showing that members of the Leicester family had located in London, more than a generation earlier. On October 30, 1614, a license was issued there for the marriage of Thomas Cooper, St. Clement's Danes, Middlesex, yeoman, bachelor, to "Elizabeth Bringhurst, of St. Andrews, Holbom (London) Spinster, daughter of Thomas Bringhurst, late of Easton, Leicester, yeoman, deceased." On April 17, 1607, Katharine, wife of Thomas Bringhurst, was buried at St. James, Clerkenwell, London; these two items of record may have referred to the same Thomas Bringhurst, and as the name of Thomas was not a common one, it is probable that he was a connection and possibly an an- cestor of Dr. Thomas Bringhurst, above referred to, as married in 1647. Dr. Thomas Bringhurst was Uving in London, November 15, 1660, when he executed a general power of attorney to his wife Elizabeth to transact business for him, the original of which is in possession of the Philadelphia family. John Bringhurst, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hughes) Bringhurst, was born in London, England, November i, 1655, and died there about the year 1699, or 1700. In his youth he was apprenticed to Andrew Toaler, a stationer of Lon- don, and was made a freeman of the city, September 3, 1681. Prior to the latter date he began the business of a publisher and stationer, at least two of his works being pubHshed in 1681. One of these, possibly his first publication, was "An Epistle of Caution to Friends to take heed of that Spirit of Licentiousness, &c.," written by Christopher Taylor, "With a Short Testimony prepared by John Bringhurst," and bears this inscription: "Printed in London for John Bring- hurst, at the Sign of the Book, in Gracechurch Street, near Cornhill, 1681." John Bringhurst was a member of the Society of Friends, and is known to have been the publisher of a number of books mentioned in the "Catalogue of Friends' Library." In 1683 he published a book entitled "George Fox's Primer," and it being asserted that it contained "a passage liable to miscontruction" he was ar- rested for printing it, and on trial was convicted and sentenced, September 20, 1684, to pay a fine of one shilling, and to stand two hours in the pillory. In 1683 he makes the following announcement at the end of one of his publications : "This is to give notice that John Bringhurst, Printer and Publisher, who formerly lived at the Sign of the Book, in Grace Church Street, is now removed to the Sign of the Book and Three Black Birds, in Leaden-Hall-Mutton Market, between the Black Bull and Colchester Arms, where any person may be supplied with Print- ing, Books, and paper, as formerly." Tradition relates that he suflPered many persecutions for printing of books ex- pounding the doctrine and faith of the Society of Friends, and that to escape these persecutions removed for a time to Amsterdam, Holland. This statement seems to be borne out by the fact that the record of the dates of the birth of his children who later accompanied their mother to America, on the records of Phila- delphia Monthly Meeting, states that they were "all born at Amsterdam, Hol- land." He seems, however, to have returned to London and died there. John Bringhurst married in London, June 2, 1682, Rosina (Prachen) Matern, widow of John Matern and daughter of Hilarius Prachen or Prache, a Lutheran Minister of Germany, who became a convert to Quakerism in 1671, and soon after with his wife Barbara, two married daughters, and son-in-law, John Matern, BRINGHURST 1143 migrated to England. A "Testimony" of John Matern, written August 24, 1680, but seven days before his death, gives the following information : "The Lord raised a desire in my father-in-law, who was a Priest, * * * to go to the People of the Lord which he had raised, gathered and chosen for Himself in England, * * * and as soon as he made it known to us, his wife and children, we found the same willingness and freedom also in us to go out from our father's house and kindred, not consulting flesh and blood, what would become of us, — and after we had made known our Desires and Intent to some of our Dearest Friends, — we left all for Love and Truth and went away. In all our Journey to London, the Lord was with us and brought us safe and well with joy and gladness of our Souls to his Beloved People here in England." Hilarius Prachen died in 1693, and shortly after his death his widow Barbara, with her widowed daughter, Maria Van Buylaert, and her granddaughter, Abi- gail Matern, emigrated to Philadelphia, bringing a certificate from the Two Weeks Meeting, which is as follows : "To ye ffrds & Brethren of ye Mo. Meeting at Philadelphia or elsewhere : — "WHEREAS, Barbara Prachen, relict of Hilarius Prachen & Maria Van Buylaert, Re- lict of John Van Buylaert and Abigail Matern, ye daughter of John George Matern, School Master, deceased, have an intention of transporting themselves unto your Country and desire a certificate from us touching their conversation &c. "These therefore may certify all ffrds concerned, yt upon enquiry made concerning the said Barbara Prachen, Maria Van Buylaert and Abigail Matern (mother, daughter and grand- daughter), we do not find but that they are free and clear from any engagements in relation to marriage with any here, and have been of sober conversation amongst ifriends, so wth ye salutation of dear Love in ye Holy and pretious Truth, wee remaine in ye fellowship thereof, youre friends & Brethren. "ffor ye flfrds. and Brethren at ye 2 Weeks Meeting in London, ye Sth of 12/M0. 1693-4." The "Memorandoms" of John Bringhurst, of Philadelphia, state that after his grandmother, Barbara Prachen, his aunt. Van Buylaert, and his half sister, Abi- gail Matern, settled in Philadelphia, that they frequently wrote to John Bring- hurst and his wife in London, to "come over," but that "he could not be persuaded to cross the ocean to a new Country." The "Memorandoms" further continues, "My father being dead, my mother concluded to transport herself & family of small children to Pennsylvania, and accordingly took passage at London, in the Brigantine, 'Messenger,' James Guy, Master, for herself and four children, being Elizabeth, John, Barbara & George & landed at Philadelphia." No date of their sailing or arrival is given, but it was prior to October 16, 1701, on which date Mrs. Bringhurst subscribed as witness to the will of Samuel Siddon, in Philadel- phia. She died in Philadelphia, March 9, 1711-12. She was born in Germany, and married there as shown by the testimony of her husband, prior to 1671, John Matern, a "School Master," with whom, and her parents, she removed to London, England, where her first husband died August 31, 1680. She published, after his death, "a few lines" in commemoration of his works and piety. She had by him at least one daughter, Abigail Matern, who as heretofore shown accompanied her grandmother and aunt to Philadelphia, 1694. Issue of John and Rosina (Prachen) Bringhurst: (All born either in London or Amsterdam). Rosina Elizabeth, b. Aug. 24, 1688; came with her mother to Phila.; m. there, Sept. 10, 1713, Emanuel Dungworth, son of Richard Dungworth, of Phila.; John, b. Feb. 25, 1690-91, d. Sept. 20, 1750, in Barbadoes; m. Mary Claypoole; of whom presently; 31 1 144 BRIXGHURST Barbara, b. March 29, 1693; m. June 6, 1715, William Morrison; GeoRGEj b. May 15. 1697, d- at Germantown. Phila., Feb. 18, 1852; m. Anna Ashmead; of whom later. JoHX Brixghurst, eldest son of John and Rosina (Prachen) Bringhurst, and the author of the "Memorandoms" so freely quoted from in this narrative, was born in London, or Amsterdam, February 25, 1690-1, and accompanied his widow- ed mother to Philadelphia in his tenth year. Almost immediately on their arrival he was apprenticed to George Guest, to learn the trade of a cooper, and followed that vocation in Philadelphia until the death of his mother, when, having a taste for life at sea, he shipped as cooper on the brig, "Elizabeth," Thomas Reed, Master, and made his first voyage to Surinam (Dutch Guiana j, South America. Evidently pleased with his sea experiences, on his return he studied navigation with William Robins, and later made several trips to different points, and gives an interesting account of his experiences on these voyages in his "^Memorandoms," which show that he was a man of more than ordinary business ability and force of character. After his marriage in the autumn of 1718, he abandoned the sea and engaged in the cooperage business on his own account in Philadelphia, and in connection therewith invested in small "ventures" in the sailing vessels leaving Philadelphia for southern and West Indian ports. In 1727 he engaged in the mercantile trade, but continued his cooperage business also, meeting with such financial success that in 1729 he had accumulated sufficient capital to enable him with two others to have built at Philadelphia the brigantine, "Joseph," and freight it for a voyage to foreign ports, and thereafter until his death, 1750, engaged more or less extensively in the shipping trade. He was a prominent and useful man in the community, filling a number of official positions, and executing innumerable private trusts. He was chosen constable of his district of the city in 1721; was made tax-collector of Dock Ward, 1725 ; one of the Overseers of the Poor in 1728, and in 1731 was made one of the Overseers of the Public School chartered by Williarn Penn, and still known as the "William Penn Charter School," and continued to fill that position with interest and zeal until his death. On March i, 1749, he joined with James Logan, Israel Pemberton, Anthony ^Morris and the other Overseers in the conveyance of land belonging to this school. He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends, "an Elder, active and serviceable in the church, and demonstrated a sincere regard for the prosperity thereof ; exemplary in attending religious meetings, and in the careful education of his children." says a Memorial of him adopted by the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Being afflicted with ill health he made a visit to the Barbadoes in the hope of regaining his health, but died there September 20. 1750, at the house of the Widow Oxley, whose husband, John Oxley, had previously died at John Bringhurst's house in Philadelphia, while there on a visit. His will dated June 16, 1750, names his wife, Mary; Sons, Joseph, James and John; daughter, Mary, wife of Judah Foulke; daughter. Elizabeth Bringhurst. and "sister" Elizabeth Claj'poole. John Bringhurst married. October 30, 1718, Mary, daughter of John Claypoole, the first of that distinguished family to come to Philadelphia, sailing in the "Amity" from the Downs, xA-pril 23, 1682, as an assistant and clerk to Capt. Thomas Holme, Commissioner and Surveyor General of the Province of Penn- sylvania. He superintended the erection of the "Claypoole House" in Phila- delphia prior to the arrival of his father, James Claypoole, Treasurer of the Free BRING HURST 1145 Society of Traders, Register General and Justice of the Supreme Court. John Claypoole was Clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 1686-90, and High Sheriff of Philadelphia, 1687 to 1690, and 1693 to his death, September 8, 1700. Mary (Claypoole) Bringhurst survived her husband nearly eleven years, dying in Phila- delphia, July 2, 1 76 1. Issue of John and Mary (Claypoole) Bringhurst: Mary, b. Jan. 18, 1720-1, d. Jan. 22, 1799; m. Judah Foulke, a prominent and active citi- zen of Phila. ; he was a Collector of Excise 1745-50; High Sheriff 1770-73; Marshal of Admiralty Court 1770-74; Clerk of Market and Sealer of Weights and Measures 1775; and was appointed by Continental Congress, March 25, 1775, to sign Conti- nental bills; John, b. Nov. g, 1722, d. Dec. 15, 1789, unm. ; was a prominent iron merchant of Phila.; an early contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and prominently identified with many of the Colonial institutions of Phila.; was a signer of the Non-importation Resolutions of 1765; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 4, 1723-4, d. Dec. 25, 1790, unm.; James, b. Dec. 7, 1730, d. at Portsmouth, R. I., B'eb. 27, 1810; m, (first) Anne Pole, (second) Hannah Peters, (third) Ruth Barker; of whom presently; Thomas, b. Jan. 17, 1731, d. Jan. 19, 1731; Joseph, b. March 20, 1732-3, d. in Wilmington, Del., 181 1; was apprenticed when a youth to his father's trade of a cooper, but later became a prominent and successful mer- chant; he kept a journal, covering the period from his father's death to his final removal to Wilmington, Oct. 7, 1808, after which the only entry is the memoranda of the death of his brother, James, at Portsmouth, R. I., Feb. 27, 1810; as this journal notes the happenings in an active business life of more than half a' century, it contains an immense fund of valuable information, of historical interest; the writer was never married, and the family notes have largely to do with his brother, James, and his family; he was member of American Philosophical Society, and a man of culture and substance, highly esteemed in the community; Deborah, b. Dec. 21, 1734, d. Jan. 16, 173S; Deborah (second of the name), b. Sept. 15, 1736, d. .'\pril 16. 1737. George Brixghurst, younger son of John Bringhurst, of London, by his wife, Rosina (Matern) Prachen, accompanied his mother to Philadelphia at about the age of three years, and in due time was apprenticed to .Arendt I living in England 1781; Mary Franks, b. Jan. 25, 1747-8, d. i774; MOORE 1 153 Rebecca Franks, b. 1760; m. Lieut. Henry Johnson, in command at Stony Point, when surprised by Gen. Wayne; went to England at close of war; inherited Baronetcy of father and attained rank of General in English Army. Frances Moore; Daniel Moore, sent to England to be educated, graduated at Oxford and became dis- tinguished advocate, and member of Parliament; daughter, Frances, m. Hon. Thomas Erskine, Lord Chancellor of England; William Moore, of Moore Hall, b. Phila., May 6, 1699; of whom presently; Charles Moore, bur. at Christ Church, Phila., Aug. 17, 1712; Somerset Moore, bur. at Christ Church, Phila., Oct. 4, 1712; Richard Moore. William Moore, son of John and Rebecca Moore, known as "William Moore of Moore Hall," was born in the city of Philadelphia, May 6, 1699, and at the age of fourteen years was sent to England to be educated. He graduated at the University of Oxford in 17 19, and returned to Philadelphia, where he married in 1722, Williamina, daughter of David, fourth Earl of Wemyss, who with her brother, James, later fifth Earl of Wemyss, had been driven from Scotland in 1716 on account of her father having espoused the cause of the Pretender. According to Burke, the Earls of Wemyss trace their origin to John, the baronial Lord of Weems, whence the surname is probably derived, who was a younger son of the celebrated MacDufif, Thane of Fife, vanquisher of the tyrant Macbeth, immortalized by Shakespeare. According to Fordun, Sir Michael Wemyss, with Sir Michael Scot, was, in 1290, sent by the Lords Regent of Scot- land to Norway to conduct the young Queen Margaret to her new dominions, but she died on the journey at the Orkneys. This Sir Michael Wemyss swore fealty to Edward L, of England, in 1206, with most of the other powerful barons of Scotland. He witnessed the settlement of the Crown of Scotland on Robert the Bruce, and his heirs as Robert L at Ayr, April 25, 1315. From Sir Michael descended, Sir John Wemyss, of Wemyss, who married (first) in 1574, Margaret eldest daughter of William, Earl of Morton, by whom he had no issue ; and (second) in 1581, sister of James, Earl of Moray, by whom he had among others. Sir John Wemyss, of Wemyss, created Baronet, May 29, 1625; elevated to the Peerage of Scotland, April i, 1628, as Baron Wemyss of Elcho, and advanced to the dignity of Earl of Wemyss, in the county of Fife, and Lord Elcho and Methel June 25, 1633. Though indebted for these high honors to Charles L, he took sides with the Parliament Party. He married in 1610, Jane, daughter of Patrick, sec- ond Lord Gray, by whom he had six children and was succeeded in 1649 by his son, David, second Earl of Wemyss, who married (first) in 1628, Jane, daughter of Robert Balfour, Lord Burleigh, by whom he had only one surviving child, Jane, first the wife of Archibald, Earl of Angus, and second of George, Earl of Suther- land. David married (second) Lady Eleanor Fleming, daughter of John Flem- ing, second Earl of Wigton, but she had no issue. He married (thirdly) Mar- garet, daughter of John, sixth Earl of Rothes, who had been widow successively of James, Lord Balgony, and of Francis, Earl of Buccleigh, by whom he had one daughter, Margaret, in whose favor he resigned his peerage to the Crown, and she, August 3, 1672, obtained a new patent, confirming the honors of the family upon her ladyship, with the original precedence. David, the old Earl, died in 1680. 1 1 54 MOORE Lady Margaret Wemyss, as Countess of Wemyss, married Sir James Wemyss, of Caslysyerry, who was created Lord Burntisland, April 15, 1672. They had issue, besides David their successor, Anne, who married David, Earl of Levin and Melville, and Margaret, who married David, Earl of Northesk. The Countess married (second) George, first Earl of Cromarty, but had no issue by him. She died in 1705, and was succeeded by her only son, David, fourth Earl of Wemyss, who was appointed by Queen Anne, Lord High Admiral of Scotland. He married (first) in 1697, Lady Anne Douglass, daughter of William, first Duke of Queensbury, sister to James, Duke of Queensbury and Dover, and to William, Earl of March. He married a second time, but had no issue by that marriage. He died March 15, 1720, leaving issue: James, his successor, as the fifth Earl of Wemyss, and, Williamina, who married William Moore of "Moore Hall." Tradition relates that the mother of Williamina, who died in childbirth, had re- quested that her child if a male should be christened William after her brother, the Earl of March, and it being a girl was christened Williamina out of respect for her wish, hence the peculiar spelling of the name. William Moore, on his marriage settled on his father's tract of two hundred acres of land on Pickering creek, west of the Schuylkill, in Charlestown township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, and erected "Moore Hall" on an elevation, over- looking the Schuylkill and miles of surrounding country, about twenty-five miles from Philadelphia, and lived there the remainder of his life. He was a member of Provincial Assembly 1733-40, and in 1741 was commissioned a Justice and pre- sided as President Judge of the Common Pleas, Quarter Sessions and Orphans' Court of Chester county, from April 4, 1741, until the Revolution. He was also Colonel of a Chester county Regiment, during the Colonial wars in 1747 and 1755. He lived at Moore Hall in considerable style, maintaining a retinue of slaves and servants, and entertaining lavishly in Colonial times. In 1758 he was arrested for publishing an address severely criticising the Provincial Assembly, and with his son-in-law. Dr. William Smith, Provost of the College of Philadelphia, was brought before the Assembly, where both refused to make any defense, he merely admitting the authorship of the paper. Dr. Smith carried his appeal to the Privy Council in England and was sustained by that body on February 13, 1760. An aristocratic gentleman of the old school, he had no faith in the "rabble," as he termed a large mass of the enthusiastic patriots of 1775-6, and remained to the last a staunch Tory. While the Continental Army were at Valley Forge, Col. Clement Biddle was quartered at "Moore Hall," and the Committee of Corre- spondence held a session there in 1778. William Moore died at "Moore Hall," May 30, 1783, aged eighty-four years. His will devised his whole estate to his wife, of whom he says, she was "never frighted by the rude rabble or dismayed by the insolent threats of the ruling powers ; — happy woman, a pattern of her sex and worthy of the relationship she bears to the Right Honorable and Noble family from which she sprang." She did not long survive him, dying December 6, 1784, in her eightieth year. Judge Moore was an enthusiastic churchman, and was a vestryman of St. James Prot- estant Episcopal Church of Perkiomen, and of St. David's, Radnor, where he and his wife are buried and where a tablet erected to their memory bears the following inscription : MOORE 1155 TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM MOORE, ESQUIRE, Of Moore Hall, in the County of Chester and WILLIAMINA, His wife. He departed this life, on the 30th day of May 1783 Aged 84 years. She died on the 6th day of December 1784, in the 8oth year of her age. This venerable pair lived together in perfect love, and unremitted Harmony and Confidence, for the long period of 63 years: dispensing the best of Life, with an ardent and uninterrupted zeal, revered by their Children, Beloved by their Friends, respected by the Community, in which they passed their lenthened days, — Benevolence & urbanity beamed on all who entered their Hospitable Mansion : they administered comfort to the Poor, & to the Afflicted, encouraging, a modest merit and protecting humble honesty, though covered with rags. He presided in the Common Pleas, Quarter Sessions & Orphans' Courts in this County for a great length of time, As a Judge, & as a Magistrate he was indefatigable in Exececuting the solemn charge of these important stations acquitting himself with intelligence, impartiahty & dignity. He was a tender father, — a true Friend, — an indulgent Master. She was one of "the brightest patterns of excellent nature" Possessing a- highly cultured understanding, she was mild, considerate, kind & good. She was eminently distinguished by her amiable disposition & unassuming manners ; with calmness, but with resolution, she bore the heaviest afflictions, — the severest trials of the uncertain World: and evinced her firm reliance upon a state of happiness, far beyond the grave. "That state celestial where no storm assails. No ills approach, — where bliss alone prevails." Issue of William and Williamina (Wemyss) Moore: Rebecca, b. at Moore Hall, Feb. 21, 1724-5, d. Jan. 9, 1728; William, b. Oct. s, 1726; Williamina, b. Feb. 21, 1728; m. Aug. 4, 1748, Dr. Phineas Bond, of Phila. ; John, b. Oct. I, 1729, d. Feb. 2, 1730; John, b. Jan. 21, 1731 ; m. Dec. 3, 1758, Anne O'Niel; Rebecca, b. in Phila., Feb. 21, 1732-3, d. Oct, 20, 1793; m. William Smith, D. D.; Thomas William, b. at "Moore Hall," June 12, 1735; merchant in New York City; d- in England; m. Anne, widow of Dr. Richard Ascough, Surgeon in British Army, July 6, 1 761; Margaret, b. March 26, 1738, d. July 17, 1745; Mary, b. July 8, 1741 ; Anne, b. at "Moore Hall," Oct. 14, 1742, d. Dec. 20, 1810; m. June 2, 1774, Dr. Charles Ridgely, b. Salem, N. J., Jan. 26, 1738, d. Dover, Del., Nov. 25, 1785; member of As- sembly and of convention that framed the constitution of 1776; Frances, b. March 10, 1744-5; James Wemyss Moore, b. July 22, 1747; went to S. C. during Revolutionary War, served as Surgeon in Continental Army, under Gen. Gates ; m. Susanna Jones, and d. when comparatively young, leaving son who studied medicine in Phila., but d. young, and daughter, Willamina, who m. Maj. John Berrien, son of Judge John Berrien, a warm personal friend of Gen. George Washington. SMITH FAMILY. Rev. William Smith, D. D., first Provost of the College of Philadelphia, later the University of Pennsylvania, was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, September 7, 1727, and came of a noble English family. His ancestry as entered of record at the University of .Aberdeen, his alma mater, was as follows : John Smyth (later spelled Smith), a descendant of Roger de Clarendon, son of Edward the Black Prince, born in the year 1500, was sheriff of counties of Essex and Hertsford, 1539. He married Agnes Charnolts, of an ancient Lan- caster family, and was succeeded by his son, Sir William Smith, who died in 165 1, leaving an only son, William Smith, born 1620, who was the father of, Thomas Smith, born at Aberdeen, in 1692, married Elizabeth Duncan in 1724. She was a daughter of Alexander Duncan, Esq., of Lundie county, belonging to a Dundee family of remote antiquity, who married a daughter of Sir Peter Mur- ray, Bart, of Auchtentyre, and had beside Elizabeth, a son Adam Duncan, born 1725, who adopted the naval profession and became celebrated as "the hero of Camperdown." He entered the naval service in 1746, under Robert Haldane, and became Rear Admiral of the Blue in 1789, passing through all the intermediate grades. On October 11, 1797, he achieved a splendid victory over the Dutch fleet, under Admiral de Winter, off Camperdown, and was elevated to the peerage October 30, 1797, as Baron Duncan of Lundie, and Viscount Duncan of Camper- down. He married Henrietta, second daughter of Right Honorable Robert Dun- das, of Arniston, Lord President of the Court of Session, and niece of Henry Dundas, Lord Dunira, first Viscount Melville. He came to Philadelphia later, and resided for a time at the corner of Front and Arch Streets. Thomas and Elizabeth (Duncan) Smith had issue: William Smith, D. D., b. Sept. 7, 1727, bapt. at Aberdeen Kirk, Oct. 19, 1727; of whom presently; Isabella, b. 1728, d. unm. at Falls of Schuylkill, Phila., Pa., 1802, Thomas Smith married (second) Margaret Campbell, and had issue: Charles, who came to America, but later returned to London, and d. there; Thomas, came to Pa. and became Judge of the Supreme Court, Jan. 31, 1794, d. i8ti; James, sailed for America, but was lost at sea. Dr. William Smith entered the LTniversity of Aberdeen in 1741, and received his degree there, after the prescribed term of six years, in 1747. The next three years were spent in teaching, preparation for the ministry and careful study of the best methods of teaching useful knowledge. The year 1750 was .spent in Lon- don, where his first articles on educational topics were published. March 3, 1751, he embarked for New York, and landed there on May i. He became acquainted with the family of Thomas Martin, of Long Island, and was selected by Martin as tutor for his children and remained there until August, 1753. During the last year of his tutorship, he published a pamphlet entitled "A Gen- SMITH 1 1 57 eral Idea of the College of Mirania," written for the purpose of demonstrating his views of the requirements of an institution of learning in a new country. It attracted considerable attention, and came to the notice of Dr. Benjamin Franklin and a number of other Philadelphians, who were then about establishing the "Charitable School and College of Philadelphia," which ultimately became the University of Pennsylvania; and, May 25, 1853, he was tendered the position of teacher of natural philosophy, logic, etc., in the new institution. The offer was a flattering one to the enthusiastic young teacher but before accepting, he decided to return to England and take holy orders. He therefore sailed for England on October 13, 1753, and arriving in London December i, was ordained as Deacon on December 21 by the Bishop of London, and as Priest by the Bishop of Carlisle, two days later. On December 26 he started for a farewell visit to the home of his father in Aberdeen, and, December 31, preached his first sermon in the old Kirk in which he was baptized. After a few months spent in his native place, he again embarked for America and arriving in Philadelphia, May 22, 1754, was two days later inducted into the office of Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, and Professor of Natural Philosophy in that institution, and took up his duties on May 25. Dr. Smith, at once threw his whole energy into the task of building up a model institution of learning in the city of his adoption. He was foremost in collecting money for the college at home and abroad and in securing for it in the following year a liberal charter. To his earnest and untiring efforts in its behalf and the enthusiasm which these inspired in other friends of learning, the College was largely indebted for its rapid rise to a place of prominence among the institutions of this country. He became at once thoroughly American and took a deep inter- est in the policies and institutions of his adopted country. He edited a magazine, the best which up to that time had appeared in America, superintended the publi- cation of several books of poems and "The History of Bouquet's Expedition against the Indians," and several other publications. Becoming secretary of the American Philosophical Society, he took a lively interest in the general promul- gation of useful knowledge. No one exercised a more beneficial influence in the development of a taste for literary pursuits in the city of Philadelphia. His plan for the education of the Germans in Pennsylvania proved futile, because of the racial characteristics of this peculiar element in the settlement and civilization of the new world. In politics he was an adherent of the Proprietary party, and wrote extensively in defense of Penn's Charter in 1764, when Franklin and others wished to surrender it to the Crown. During the French and Indian Wars, he preached at least six military sermons. In 1758 he returned to England, principally to prosecute his appeal to the Privy Council, from the judgment of the Pennsylvania Assembly, on his political con- duct and that of his father-in-law, William Moore, of "Moore Hall," and was successful in his suit. While abroad he visited his alma mater, the L^niversity of Aberdeen, and received from it the degree of D. D. ; the University of Oxford also conferring upon him the same honor. In 1762 he again visited his native land, this time in behalf of his College, and in conjunction with Sir James Jay, collected in, 873 for its benefit. On this trip the University of Dublin conferred upon him the degree of D. D. In 1770, he went to South Carolina to collect money for the College. He was 1 1 58 SMITH from the outset in entire accord with the opposition to the oppressive measures of Great Britain, that preceded the Revolutionary struggle, and gave the cause of the Colonies the support of his voice and pen. A number of the Trustees, patrons and faculty of the College, were, however, pronounced Tories, and the war brought serious disaster to the institution ; much of its property being confiscated and its usefulness for a time was entirely suspended. During this interval, Dr. Smith removed (in 1780) to Chestertown, Maryland, and took charge of the parish and school of Kent county ; the latter two years later growing into Washington College under his fostership. He was made Bishop of Maryland in 1783, and did much to build up the Protestant Episcopal Church in that state, as well as in the State of Pennsylvania. In 1789 he returned to Philadelphia and succeeded in having the charter of the college restored as well as the estate belonging to it that had been confiscatd. He died in Philadelphia, May 14, 1803, leaving behind him a record of half a century of loyal work in behalf of education in all that that word implies, which, in view of the difficulties encountered and surmounted, has seldom if ever been surpassed. Dr. Smith married July 3, 1758, Rebecca, daughter of William Moore, Esq., of "Moore Hall," Chester county, Pennsylvania, by his wife, Williamina, daughter of David, fourth Earl of Wemyss, an account of whom and their ancestry is given above. Mrs. Smith was a lady of rare accomplishments and a fitting helpmeet to the distinguished scholar and divine. She died at Philadelphia, Sepftember 20, 1793- Issue of Dr. William and Rebecca (Moore) Smith: William Moore Smith, b. June i, 1759, d. March 12, 1821 ; m. June 3, 1786, Ann Ru- dolph; of whom presently; Thomas Duncan Smith, b. Phila., Nov. 18, 1760, d. July 9, 1789, at Huntingdon, Pa.; educated at the College of Phila., studied medicine and located at Huntingdon; was commissioned Justice of Huntingdon co. Nov. 23, 1787, two months after its organiza- tion into a county; Williamina Elizabeth, b. July 4, 1762, d. Dec. 19, 1790; Charles Smith, LL. D., b. March 4, 1765, d. April 18, 1836; m. March 3, 1791, Mary Yeates; of whom later; Phineas Smith, b. Jan. 31, 1767, d. Aug. 16, 1770; Richard Smith, b. Jan. 25, 1769, d. s. p. Oct. i, 1823; studied law in Phila., admitted to Bar Feb. 27, 1792, settled at Huntingdon, Pa.; m. Letitia Nixon, dau. of John and Letitia (Nixon) Coakley, of Lancaster, Pa.; Rebecca, b. April 11, 1772, d. March 9, 1837; m. Samuel Blodgett, May 10, 1792; Eliza, b. May 16, 1776, d. Sept. 25, 1778. William Moore Smith, eldest son of Rev. William Smith, D. D., by his wife, Rebecca Moore, born in Philadelphia, June i, 1759, graduated at the College of Philadelphia in 1775. He studied law and on his admission to the Bar, located at Easton, Pennsylvania, where he practiced for a number of years. He was for several years the agent for the settlement of British claims in America, under the Jay treaty. He was a man of fine literary taste and was the author of several political pamphlets, essays, etc., and published a volume of poems in 1786, which waS re-published in London the same year. He died March 12, 1821. He mar- ried June 3, 1786, Ann Rudolph. Issue of William Moore and Ann (Rudolph) Smith: William Rudolph, b. Aug. 31, 1787, at La Trappe, Montgomery co., Pa., d. in Wis., Aug. 22, 1868; m. (first) Eliza Anthony, and (second) Mary H. Vandyke; of whom pres- ently; SMITH 1159 Samuel Wemyss Smith, b. Sept. I, 1796, d. Jan. 6, 1819; Richard Penn Smith, b. March 13, 1799, d. Aug. 15, 1854; educated in Phila. and Hunt- ingdon, Pa.; studied law under William Rawle, Esq., at Phila., and was admitted to Bar, in 1820; inheriting from father and grandfather a taste for literary pursuits, he published series of essays in the Union, under title of "Plagiary," which possessed considerable literary merit. About 1822 he purchased the "Aurora" of Mr. Duane, and was editor for five years, after which he returned to practice of his profession, but made frequent contributions to periodicals of the day. Among his published works are, "The Forsaken," a novel, 1831; "Actress of Padua and Other Tales," 1836; "Life of David Crockett," 1836; and a number of short tales. He wrote the "Tragedy of Caius Marius" for Edwin Forrest, and a number of comedies and tragedies, among them the "Venitian," in five acts. He m. (first) May, 1823, his cousin, Elinor Matilda (Blodgett) Lincoln, dau. of Samuel Blodgett, by his wife, Rebecca Smith, dau. of Rev. William Smith, D. D., who had previously m. Abel Lincoln, of Mass. She d. June 5, 1822. Richard P. Smith m. (second) 1836, Isabella Stratton, dau. of Christo- pher and Elizabeth Kinsall, b. Nov. 27, 1812, d. May 17, 1880. William Rudolph Smith, eldest son of William Moore and Ann (Rudolph) Smith, born at La Trappe, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1787, was educated under the care of his father and at the College of Philadelphia, and later travelled with him in Europe, acting as his secretary when one of the Com- missioners of Jay's treaty. He studied law under Thomas Kearsly of the Middle Temple, London, and returning to Philadelphia was admitted to the bar in 1808, and a year later located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and began the practice of his profession. He was District Attorney of Cambria county. He had served as a member of the Third Troop of Philadelphia Light Plorse while a resident of that city, and on the outbreak of the second war with Great Britain, became Colo- nel of the Sixty-second Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia, and served in the ex- pedition against Canada, participating in the battle of Lundy's Lane. In 1827, he removed to Bedford county and in 1837 was appointed commis- sioner to treat with the Chippewa Indians for the purchase of their lands on the Mississippi River. Strongly impressed with the possibilities of the newly acquired territory, he removed in 1838, to Wisconsin territory of which he was appointed Adjutant General. He was active in the Convention that adopted the first con- stitution of the State in 1848, was Clerk of the State Senate, 1849-50, and Attor- ney General, 1856-8. He published, 1854, a history of Wisconsin. He died Au- gust 22, 1868. WiUiam Rudolph Smith married March 16, 1809, Eliza, daughter of Joseph and Henrietta (Hillegas) Anthony, of Philadelphia. She was born in Philadel- phia, August 12, 1789, and died January 10, 1821. Her father, Joseph Anthony, was born in Philadelphia, January 15, 1762, and died August 4, 1814. He was married by Bishop William White, December 29, 1785, to Henrietta Hillegas, born in Philadelphia, September 23, 1766, died October 3, 1812, daughter of Michael and Henrietta (Boude) Hillegas, and granddaughter of Michael Hillegas, who with wife, Margaret, emigrated from Germany and located in Philadelphia in 1747. Michael Hillegas, Jr., born in Germany, April 22, 1729, came to Philadel- phia with his parents, when a youth, and became prominently identified with the institutions of that city, representing the city in the Provincial Assembly 1765-76; was one of the committee appointed to audit the accounts of the General Loan Office, and in 1771 was one of the Commissioners appointed to improve the navi- gation in the Delaware. He was a member of the Committee of Observation for Philadelphia in 1774; on June 31, 1776, was made Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, and on May 31, 1776, was named, jointly with George 32 ii6o SMITH Clymer, Treasurer of the United Colonies, and from August 6, 1776, to Septem- ber II, 1789, was sole Treasurer of the United States. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society, April 8, 1768, and was one of the most active of its members as evidenced by his correspondence with Dr. Franklin on various scientific subjects. He died in Philadelphia, September 29, 1804. He married at Christ Church, May 10, 1753, Henrietta Boude, born January 17, 1731-2, died January 25, 1792, daughter of Samuel Boude, who had married Deborah, daughter of Peter Coxe; and granddaughter of Grimstone Boude, of a distinguished and noble English family. Issue of William Rudolph and Elisa (Anthony) Smith: William Anthony Smith, M. D., b. Nov. 13, 1809, d. Oct. 20, 1887; graduated Univ. of Pa. 1832; Surgeon of U. S. Vols. 1862-66; for a time prisoner in Libby Prison; mem- ber of Historical Society of Pa.; m. May 23, 1842, Rebecca C. Bellas; Thomas Duncan Smith, b. Feb. 7, 1812, d. Oct. 11, 1880; of whom presently; Henrietta Williamina Smith, b. May 2, 1814, d. Nov. 7, 1873; m- July, 1855, Robert Enoch Hobart, of Pottstown, Pa.; Anne Amelia Smith, b. March 13, 1816, d. July 28, 1890; m. April 5. 1838, John Potts Hobart, of Pottstown Bar, Schuylkill co. ; Algernon Sydney Smith, b. Feb. 3, 1817, d. Oct. lo, 1818; Eliza Anthony Smith, b. Oct. 27, 1820, d. June 9, 1825. Hon. William Rudolph Smith married (second) October 25, 1823, Mary Ham- ilton Vandycke, born at Marysville, Tennessee, April 17, 1805, fourth daughter of Dr. Thomas James Vandycke, of the United States Army, by his wife, Penelope Smith Campbell. Issue of Hon. William Randolph and Mary H. (Vandycke) Smith: Rudolph Vandycke Smith, b. Sept. 5, 1825, d. June 17, 1857; Richard Moore Smith, b. Oct. i, 1828; Penelope Campbell Smith, b. Aug. 2, 1830, d. Dec. 17, 1852; Letitia Nixon Smith, b. Jan. 5, 1833, d. Feb. 24, 1833; John Montgomery Smith, b. Oct. 26, 1834; Maria Letitia Smith, b. Sept. 10, 1836, d. Dec. 26, 1852; Samuel Wemyss Smith, b. April 10, 1840; Mary Eliza Smith, b. Jan. 24, 1845; Henry Hobart Smith, b. May 21, 1848, d. April 18, 1850. Thomas Duncan Smith, second son of William Rudolph and Eliza (Anthony) Smith, born at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1812, studied law under his uncle Richard Penn Smith, and was admitted to the Bar of Philadelphia coun- ty, and practiced law there until his death, October 11, 1880. He married Febru- ary 3, 1847, Sarah Wurts, daughter of Robert and Mary (Campbell) Barns, who was born September 25. 1820. Issue of Thomas Duncan and Sarah Wurts (Barns) Smith: Mary Barns Smith, b. Nov. 21, 1847; Thomas Duncan Smith, Jr., b. Nov. 27, 1849, d. Dec. 31, i860; William Rudolph Smith, b. Oct. 13, 1851 ; of whom presently; Catharine Wurts Smith, b. Sept. 25, 1853, d. Aug. 25, 1855; Sarah Wurts Smith, b. May 6, 185S; .■\nne Hobart Smith, b. Dec. 20, i860; Henry Austia Smith, of Phila. Bar, b. Feb. 3. 1864. SMITH 1161 William Rudolph Smith, second son of Thomas Duncan Smith, Esq., by his wife, Sarah Wurts Barns, born in Philadelphia, October 13, 185 1 ; married, Octo- ber 7, 1875, Elizabeth Rhoads, daughter of Dr. George and Anna Bailey, born October 23, 1852, died February 15, 1889. He married (second) Sarah Whelen Bruen, a great-granddaughter of Judge Charles Smith. Issue of William Rudolph and Elisabeth Rhoads (Bailey) Smith: Laura Bailey Smith, b. Jan. 11, 1878; m. Jan. 21, 1905, Charles Hudson, and had issue, Elizabeth Hudson, b. Jan. 21, 1906; Thomas Duncan Smith, b. Dec. i, 1880 ; George Valentine Smith, b. June 24, 1883. Charles Smith, LL. D., third son of William Smith, D. D., by his wife Re- becca Moore, daughter of William Moore, of "Moore Hall," born in Philadelphia, March 4, 1765, was educated under the care of his father, then Provost of the College of Philadelphia, and at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, founded by his father; graduating at the latter institution, May 14, 1783, being the Valedictorian of his class. He studied law with his elder brother, William Moore Smith, at Easton, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1786. He soon after located at Sunbury, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and practiced law there for a number of years, acquiring considerable eminence in his profession. He was a delegate from Northumberland to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1790, and represented his district in the Pennsyl- vania Assembly in 1803, 07, and 09, and in the State Senate in 1816. When the "Laws of Pennsylvania," were published in 1810-12, under the au- thority of the Legislature, Mr. Smith furnished valuable notes for the work. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1805, and was one of its active members for many years. In 1819 the University of Pennsylvania conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D. and on March 27 of that year he was appointed President Judge of the Ninth Judicial District, comprising the counties of Cumberland, Franklin and Adams. On April 28, 1820, he was ap- pointed Judge of the Circuit Court for the District of the city and county of Lancaster. On assuming the latter position he erected a handsome residence, near Lancaster, which he named "Hardwicke," and resided there for a number of years. He later removed to Baltimore, Maryland, and after a residence there of a few years removed to Philadelphia, and died at his residence, No. 12 Clinton Square, in that city, March 18, 1836, and is buried at the Church of the Epiphany. Judge Smith married at Lancaster, March 3, 1791, Mary, eldest daughter of Judge Jasper Yeates, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of Col. James Burd, a distinguished officer in the Colonial wars as well as in the Revolution. Mary Yeates Smith was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1770, and died in Philadelphia, August 27, 1836. Issue of Judge Charles and Mary (Yeates) Smith: Jasper V'eates Smith, b. March 15, 1792, d. Nov. 19, 1822, unm.; William Wemyss Smith, b. March 20, 1795, d. at Huntingdon, Pa., March 27, 1828; Willamina Elizabeth Smith, b. Oct. 3, 1797, d. at Lancaster, Jan. 9, 1848; m. Feb. 22. 1822, Thomas McElwee, of Lancaster co. Bar; Sarah Smith, b. March 24, 1802, d. at Baltimore, Md., 1846; m. Jan. 20, 1S23, Leonard Kimball, of Baltimore Bar; ii62 SMITH Charles Edward Smith, b. March 6, 1804, d. January 2, 1829; m. Rebecca Owen Grogan, of Baltimore; Mary Margaret Smith, b. Oct. 16, 1808, d. Jan. 11, 1869; m. George Brinton, of Phila., b. March 7, 1804, d. June 30, 1858, son of John Hill and Sarah (Steinmitz) Brinton, of that city, and descendant of William Brinton, who came from Stafifordshire, Eng- land, in 1684, and settled in Chester, now Delaware co. Issue of George and Mary Margaret {Smith) Brinton : John Hill Brinton, b. May 21, 1832, distinguished physician, surgeon, professor of surgery, etc., at Jefferson Medical College and Univ. of Pa.; Surgeon U. S. Vols. Aug. 3, 1861, to March 9, 1865; Mary Yeates Brinton; Sarah Frederica Brinton, m. Dr. J. M. da Costa, of Jefferson Medical College; Margaret Yeates Brinton, ra. Nathaniel Chapman Mitchell, of Phila. Bar. Theodore Horatio Smith, b. Jan. 20, 1809, d. March 27, 1837; Catharine Yeates Smith, b. Dec. 31, 1810, d. July 3, 1817. BROCK FAMILY. John Brock, ancestor of the Brock family of Philadelphia and Bucks county, Pennsylvania, came from near Stockport, in the county of Chester, England. He had purchased i,ooo acres of land of William Penn, to be laid out in the new Province of Pennsylvania, and preceded Penn to that Province, arriving in the river Delaware, 7 mo. (September) 28, 1682, in the "Friends Adventure," Capt. Thomas Wall. He brought with him three servants, William Morton, Job Houle and Ellis Eaton. Of the 1,000 acres purchased by John Brock of William Penn by deeds of lease and release, bearing date, the second and third days of March, 1681, six hundred acres were laid out to him in Makefield township, Bucks county, just below the present borough of Yardley, on which he settled and lived until his death in 1700. The remaining four hundred acres of his purchase remained un- located at his death and was included in the inventory of his estate filed by his administratrix, and bearing date to mo. (December) 28, 1700, as "ye four hun- dred acers of Land, unpatented." John Brock became at once a prominent man in the affairs of the little Quaker colony on the Delaware, and was the close associate of his neighbors, William Yardley, Richard Hough, William Biles and Thomas Janney, all of whom were members of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, as well as prominent officials of the county. John Brock was commissioned Sheriff of Bucks county in 1683, and filled that position for three years. He was commissioned as a Justice of the Peace and of the Courts of Bucks county, January 2, 1689; was recommis- sioned July 13, 1693, and continued to fill that position until his death, late in 1700. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and was unmarried on his arrival m Pennsylvania, but married soon after Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth Rowden, the second wife of Dr. Thomas. Wynne, by a former marriage. On the records of Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends appears the record of the birth of four children of John and Elizabeth Brock, but the minutes of that meeting give no mention of his marriage there or of a certificate being granted to him to marry elsewhere. He should properly, considering the location of his plantation, have been a member of Falls Meeting, but at that early date the bounds of the two first Meetings of the county were not very clearly defined. Letters of Administration were granted at Philadelphia, October 17, 1704, on the estate of John Brock, late of Bucks county, to his widow, Elizabeth Brock, and she gave bond in the sum of five hundred pounds with William Biles and Richard Hough as sureties. The inventory of his estate made 10 mo. (Decem- ber) 28, 1700, by Richard Hough, Peter Worrall and Jacob Janney, was filed at the same time. It is made up principally of household goods, farming implements and stock; the plantation of six hundred acres is valued at four hundred pounds, and the four hundred acres, "unpatented," at thirty pounds. No settlement seems to have been filed by the Administratrix, who several years after his death mar- ii64 BROCK ried Richard Eyres, of Burlington county, New Jersey, and took up her residence there with her husband. The Makefield plantation probably came unto the possession of the eldest son, John Brock, the second, who was almost sixteen years of age at the death of his father, and was probably of age at the marriage of his mother to Richard Eyres. "John Brock, the 2d," also died intestate, and evidently unmarried, at least with- out issue, and letters of administration were granted on his estate at Philadelphia, October 2, 1712, to Mary Brown, probably his sister, and wife of Joseph Brown, of Makefield, son of George and Mercy, the pioneer ancestors of the Brown fam- ily of Lower Bucks. He is called "John Brock, the 2d, of Makefield, Bucks County," in the grant of letters, and Abel Janney was the surety of the Adminis- tratrix. The inventory is made by Thomas Yardley, Thomas Ashton and Abel Janney. On November 3, 1713, "Richard Eyre, of the County of Burlington, Province of West Jersey, and Elizabeth his wife (relict of John Brock, late of the County of Bucks, in the Province of Pennsylvania, deceased)," convey to Ralph Brock, of the said county of Bucks, millwright (son of the said Elizabeth, by John Brock, aforesaid), all the right title and interest of the said Richard and Elizabeth in the 600 acres of land in Makefield and the 400 acres of unlocated land of which said John Brock died seized. On December 10, 1713, Ralph Brock, of Makefield, Bucks county, millwright, conveys to John Lambert, of Nottingham, New Jersey, 223 acres of the 600 acres laid out to his father, as "son and heir of said John Brock." In a deed dated June 12, 1729, Ralph Brock, "late of Makefield," conveys to John Cawley forty- five acres as part of the 1,000 acres purchased by his father of William Penn, reciting that "since the death of his said father said Ralph Brock having obtained releases from under the hands and seals of all his brothers and sisters, of, in, and to, all their right title and interest in the said one thousand acres." In another deed dated April 28, 1732, from Ralph Brock, of Bucks county, carpenter, to Thomas Yardley, it is recited that "by the death of John Brock, late of Bucks County, father of the said Ralph, the 600 acres of which the tract hereby conveyed is a part, legally descended to John Brock, eldest son of the said John Brock, deceased; and by the death of said John Brock, the son, descended to and became the right in law of the said Ralph Brock, his eldest brother," Ralph Brock eventually removed to Philadelphia, and died there intestate and insolvent, and letters of administration were granted to William Ball, of that city, "principal creditor." He was evidently unmarried, no wife joining in any of the deeds above quoted. The record of the births of the children of John and Elizabeth Brock on the Middletown, Bucks County, Monthly Meeting records, is as follows : — "John Brock, b. imo. 7, 1684, died imo. 15, 1684; John Brock, b. 8mo. 14, 1685; Ralph Brock, b. imo. 30, 1688; John Brock, b. 8mo. 30, 1690." The last item is very evidently an error, as the records above quoted show that John Brock was the "eldest son" and died in 1712. That there were a number of other children of John and Elizabeth Brock is also very evident from the fact that Ralph refers to releases from "all his brothers and sisters," using the plural in both instances, though his brother John was then deceased. "Mary Brown," BROCK 1 165 the administratrix of John Brock, the second, was doubtless one of the sisters, and Richard Brock, we know, was one of the other brothers. Thomas Brock, Sheriff of Bucks county, 1693-5, was probably brother of John Brock Sr. He was a considerable land owner in Bucks county at different periods prior to 1700, was later a resident of Burlington county, New Jersey, and died in Philadelphia, apparently without issue. The younger children of John and Elizabeth Brock probably accompanied their mother and stepfather to New Jersey, where there was a number of the name in the next generation. One of these without doubt a grandson of John and Elizabeth, and probably a son of Stephen Brock, of Buckingham, on tax lists of 1722-6, applied for membership in Kingwood, or Quakertown, Monthly Meeting, in Kingwood township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, 10 mo. (October) 9, 1755, and at the next meeting declared intentions of marriage with Jane Sim- cock, and on the records of that Meeting appears the births of six children, Mary, Daniel, Jacob, Jane, Alice and Stephen, the first in 1756 and the last 1766, and another was born later, and on 2 mo. 7, 1770, John Brock requests a certificate for himself, his wife Jane and seven children to Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Virginia, and it is granted. Richard Brock, one of the younger sons of John and Elizabeth Brock, was born in Makefield, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, about 1695, and in 1718, married Susanna Scarborough, born 5 mo. (July) 19, 1697, died prior to 1727, daughter of John Scarborough, of Solebury township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, born in London, England, in 1667, died in Solebury i mo. (March) 27, 1727; who came to Bucks county with his father, John Scarborough, of the parish of St. Sepulchre, London, in 1682, and settled in Solebury in 1698. He was a promi- nent man in the community and one of the founders of Buckingham Meeting of Friends, and is mentioned on the records of the Quarterly Meeting at Philadel- phia, among the "Friends eminent for their piety and virtue since their first settle- ment in America." Richard Brock continued to reside in the vicinity of the place of his birth, in lower Bucks county, for some years after his marriage, as he appears as a wit- ness to the will of Isaac Atkinson, who resided in Bristol township, just west of the Manor of Pennsbury, in 1721. He died, however, in Solebury township, shortly prior to 1753. The children of Richard and Susanna (Scarborough), as shown by the will of John Scarborough, were : John, Elizabeth, Mary and Susannah. John Brock, only son of Richard and Susanna (Scarborough) Brock, was born in Bucks county, about the year 1720, and left an orphan at an early age, was probably reared in the family of some of his mother's relatives in Solebury, where the Scarborough family were large land owners. He was evidently a birthright member of Buckingham Monthly Meeting, that Meeting having been erected into a Monthly Meeting out of Falls Monthly Meeting at about the time of his birth. On 3 mo. 26, 1753, he declared intentions of marriage at Abington Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia county, with Sarah Jenkins, and was directed to produce a certificate at the next meeting. On 4 mo. 30, 1753, he produced a cer- tificate from Buckingham Meeting, and they were given permission to marry. The marriage took place at Abington, 5 mo. (May) 4, 1753, and the certificate ii68 BROCK a large landholder and prominent citizen of Bucks county, and has left numerous descendants who held a like high place in the affairs of the county, colony and state. Joseph Fell, the maternal great-grandfather of Sarah (Kirk) Brock, was born at Longlands, the seat of his family for many generations, in the parish of Rockdale, county of Cumberland, England, October 19, 1668, and married there, in 1698, Bridget Wilson. In 1704, with his wife and two sons, Joseph and Ben- jamin, he emigrated to America, and located for a short time in lower Bucks county, but in 1706 removed to Buckingham township, where he took up large tracts of land and became one of the most prominent men of that locality. His wife Bridget dying, after the birth of several other children, he married (second) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Rebecca (Dungan) Doyle, and lived to rear a large family of children who have left numerous descendants. Benjamin Fell, second son of Joseph and Bridget (Wilson) Fell, was born at Longlands, Cumberland county, England, November i, 1703, and was therefore an infant when his parents came to Bucks county. On his marriage to Hannah Scarborough, August 27, 1728, before recited, his father conveyed to him a tract of land in Buckingham on which he resided until his death, September 12, 1758, having been thrice married and was the father of eleven children. Isaac Kirk, the grandfather of Sarah (Kirk) Brock, was an early purchaser of large tracts of land in the then unsettled portions of Bucks county, among which was a large tract of land in Springfield township, upon which his son, Stephen, the father of Mrs. Brock, settled in early life, and where he resided the greater part of his Hfe, inheriting the lands there, as well as a portion of the Buckingham homestead at his father's death. On the marriage of John Brock, in 1789, to Sarah Kirk, he located at Spring- town, a little hamlet in Springfield township, near the upper line of Bucks county, and engaged in the mercantile business there until 1823, when he removed to the vicinity of Doylestown, and after about five years residence on a small farm there removed to Philadelphia, where he died January 20, 1844. During his residence in Upper Bucks he owned, at different {Periods, in addition to his store stand in Springtown, a small farm in Springfield, and also a tract of land in Durham township. Sarah (Kirk) Brock died at Springtown, October 6, 1802, as shown by the records of Richland Monthly Meeting of Friends, where the family held member- ship. About a year after the death of his first wife John Brock married (second) Massey, daughter of Arnold Warner, by his wife, Margery Hall, born March 23, 1734-5, daughter of Mathew Hall, who came from Birmingham, England, about 1725, and married, in 1731, Sarah (Scarborough), widow of George Ha- worth, of Solebury, Bucks county, and daughter of John and Sarah Scarborough, and sister to Hannah Scarborough, the wife of Benjamin Fell, above mentioned. Arnold Warner, the father of Massey (Warner) Brock, was son of Isaac War- ner, of Blockley, Philadelphia, by his wife, Veronica Cassell; grandson of John and Ann (Campden) Warner, and great-grandson of WilHam Warner, the pioneer settler of Blockley. Issue of John and Sarah (Kirk) Brock: — Stephen Brock, b. at Springtown, Bucks co., Pa., June 29, 1790, d. at Doylestown, Bucks CO., Aug. II, i860; sheriff of Bucks co., 1821-3: and 1827-8, inclusive, tvio BROCK 1 169 terms of three years each ; prominent landowner and bushiess man of upper and central Bucks; m. Mary, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Preston) Jones, of Buck- ingham, Bucks CO., and was father of eight children, several of whom became prominent in business affairs of Phila., where descendants of the name still reside; John Brock, b. Jan. 24. 1792; m. Catharine Egert, of whom presently; Phebc Brock, b. 1794, m. Charles Watson, b. Oct. 18, 1790, son of John and Mary (Jackson) Watson, of Buckingham; and removed to Phila., where their six children continued to reside; Charles Brock, m. Eliza Zeigler; resided in Bucks co., until 1820, then removed to Phila., where he was prominent flour merchant; d. prior to 1846; had six children, Charles, William, Sarah, Samuel, Louisa, wife of William Fry, and Christiana, wife of Jacob Jenkins; Issue of John and Massey (Warner) Brock: Mary Warner Brock, m. Oct. 11, 1827, Mark L. Wilson, of Milford township, Bucks CO., b. Oct. 27, 1802, son of Moses and Jane (Lester) Wilson; and with his parents and their three children, Stephen B., Shipley and Elizabeth, removed to Milford, Ind., in 1834; EHzabeth Brock, m. Joseph Meredith, of Buckingham, Bucks co., and both lived all their lives there ; left four children, only one of whom married — Sarah, wife of George Watson, of Phila. John Brock, son of John and Sarah (Kirk) Brock, born at Springtown, Bucks county, January 24, 1792, removed to Doylestown, the county seat of Bucks county, on arriving at manhood, and engaged in the mercantile business there until 1818, when he removed to Philadelphia and entered the employ of James Whitehead. He was a Lieutenant in the State Troop during the War of 1812-14. On removing to Philadelphia, he engaged in the grocery business with Thomas M. Rush, under the firm name of Brock & Rush, on North Second street, later with Peter Herzog and Jacob Gulp Co., and in 1842, John Brock, Sons & Co., and was one of the largest wholesale grocery firms in the city, doing a large and profitable business. John Brock was one of the early purchasers of coal lands, in Schuylkill county, and founded the town of Ashland, in that county, and one of the pro- moters of the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company. His sons, George E., Will- iam Penn and Charles, were for some years associated in business with him in Philadelphia. John Brock married,- in 181 5, Catharine Egert, born May 4, 1799, died Decem- ber 23, 1845. daughter of George Egert, of Philadelphia, by his wife, Mary Kunckel. During the later years of their life John and Catharine Brock resided at their country residence near Ogontz, on the York Road, in Cheltenham township, Montgomery county, where he died January 24, 1864. Issue of John and Catharine (Egert) Brock : George Egert Brock, b. in Doylestown. Bucks co.. Pa., May 20, 1816, d. in village of Cornwells, Bensalem township, Bucks co., Sept. 25, 1894; was reared and educated in Phila., and entered father's wholesale grocery as clerk at early age, was taken in as partner on coming of age and succeeded his father in the busi- ness, carrying it on until 1857, when he retired and, purchasing a farm of 200 acres in Warwick township, Bucks county, resided thereon for some years and then purchased country seat near Maud, Bensalem township, where he lived retired until his death; never married; William Penn Brock, b. in Phila., July 4, 1819; educated by private tutors; entered father's store and later became partner with his father and brother George E., and continued in business until 1857, when he retired from active business; travelled extensively in Europe, residing for thirty years in Vienna, Austria; II70 BROCK member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, and of Washington Grays; member of Union League, Art Club, and other organizations; unm.; d. Nov. 22, 1909; Mary A. Brock, b. in Phila., 1821; m. Col. Gustav Schindler, of Imperial Royal Engineers, of Austria, and resided many years in Vienna; now living in Phila.; John Penn Brock, b. in Phila., Dec. 27, 1823, d. Lebanon, Pa., July 3, 1881; m. Julia Watts Hall, of whom presently; Charles Carroll Brock, b. in Phila., July 4, 1826, d. there Oct. 26, 1866; entered Univ. of Pa., Jan. 4, 1841, and received degree of A. M. at that institution, 1844; member of Zelosophic Society; became member of firm of John Brock & Sons Co., wholesale grocers, in 1841, and was one of prominent business men of Phila.; m. Margaret, daughter of John K. Smith, and had issue: Catharine Brock, d. young; Paul Brock, d. in Cal.; Richard Brock, living in Phila.; Mary Schindler Brock, m. John D. James, of Doylestown, and has three daughters ; Richard Stockton Brock, b. in Phila., Dec. 21, 1830; entered Univ. of Pa. Sopho- more class, 184s, was member of Zelosophic Society there; graduated with degree of A. B. 1848, receiving degree of A. M. at same institution in 1851 ; studied law at Phila., but never practiced; after several years of travel abroad returned to Phila. in 1874, and became member of well known firm of W. H. Newbold's Sons & Co., bankers and brokers, with which he was actively associated until 1897, when he retired; m. Oct. 24, 1872, Emma, dau. of William H. and Calebina (Emlen) Newbold; they have no children. John Penn Brock, third son of John and Catharine (Egert) Brock, born in Philadelphia, December 27, 1823, received his primary education in private schools of his native city, and entered the University of Pennsylvania, in 1839; was a member of the Zelosophic Society there, and received his d^ree of A. M. in 1843. He studied law in the office of Horace Binney, and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar. John Penn Brock enlisted in the United States Army during the War with Mexico, and on June 21, 1848, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Eleventh Regiment United States Infantry, and served until mustered out with his regiment, August 15, 1848, at the close of the war. John Penn Brock married, May 20, 1846, Julia Watts, daughter of Robert Coleman Hall, of Muncy Farms, Lycoming county, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of David Watts, of Carlisle, Cumberland county, a distinguished member of the bar in both Cumberland and Northumberland counties,' who died at Carlisle, September, 1818, by his wife, JuHana, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Miller, Second Pennsylvania Continental Line, member of the Cincinnati. He was father of Frederick Watts, President Judge of Cumberland county, 1848-51, and descendant of Col. Frederick Watts of "Flying Camp" during the Revolution. Charles Hall, the paternal grandfather of Julia Watts (Hall) Brock, born 1767, was of a prominent Maryland family. He read law with Thomas Hartley, at York, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar of Northumberland county at the May Sessions of 1791. He became one of the prominent practitioners at that bar, making his home in Sunbury, where he erected a handsome brick residence at the northeast corner of Market and Front streets, one of the most imposing private residences of that day in Sunbury. Charles Hall married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Coleman, the prominent and wealthy iron founder of Cornwall, Lebanon county (some account of whom will be given later in this narrative), who gave to his daughter, Elizabeth Hall, valuable lands at Muncy. Lycoming county, known as "Hall's Farms," later as BROCK 1 171 "Muncy Farms," which became the seat of her son, Robert Coleman Hall, before mentioned. Charles Hall died in Philadelphia, January, 1821, at the age of fifty- three years. John Penn Brock died at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1881. Issue of John Penn and Julia Watts (Hall) Brock : Ella Brock, b. Aug., 1849, in Phila., m. Feb. 10, 1872, Dr. Wharton Sinkler, of 1606 Walnut street, Phila., son of Charles Sinkler, of Eutaw, S. C, later of Phila., by his wife Emily Wharton, of eminent Phila. family; Arthur Brock, b. Nov. 8, 1850, d. Dec. 23, 1909; m. Sarah Coleman; of whom further ; Charles Hall Brock, b. May 12, 1852; of whom later; Horace Brock, b. April 15, 1854; m. Deborah Norris Coleman; of whom later; John William Brock, b. Nov. 23, 1855; m. Mary Louisa Tyler; of whom later; Julia Watts Hall Brock, b. May 20, 1858; m. Dr. Robert W. Johnson; of whom later; Colonel Robert Coleman Hall Brock, b. July 26, 1861, d. Aug. 9, 1906; m. AHce Gibson; of whom later; Hubert Brock, b. March 28, 1863, d. Nov., i8g6, unm.; of whom later. Dr. Wharton Sinkler was graduated from the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, March 13, 1868, and was elected resident physician at the Episcopal Hospital on April i, of the same year. He subsequently held the posi- tion of attending physician at this hospital, and has been for many years a mem- ber of the Board of Managers. He is also attending physician to the Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases; a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania; president of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Epileptic Hospital and Colony Farm; a member of the Association of American Physicians, American Medical Association, American Neurological Association, American Philosophical Society, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and several other medical societies and associations. Dr. Wharton Sinkler is a director of the Phila- delphia Contributionship, the oldest fire insurance association in Philadelphia. He belongs to the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity, and the Alpha Mu Pi Omega (med- ical) Fraternity, and of the following clubs and social organizations; the Aztec Club of Mexico, the Rittenhouse Club, the University Oub, the Huntington Valley Country Club, and the Southern Club of Philadelphia. He is also a mem- ber of the vestry of St. James Protestant Episcopal Church of Philadelphia. Dr. Wharton and Ella (Brock) Sinkler have issue: Julia Ursula, b. November S, 1872; Charles Sinkler, b. Feb. 6, 1874; grad. at Univ. of Pa., with degree of A. B. in 1^3, and received the degree of LL. B. at same institution in 1896; admitted to Phila. Bar, and became member of law firm of Williams & Sinkler ; is member of Law Association of Phila.; of Univ. Club, of which he is treasurer; of Phila. Club; Southern Club; Democratic Club; and Univ. Barge Club; is author of "Expert Testimony," in Baudry's Diseases of the Eye; John Penn Brock Sinkler, b. Sept. 10, 1875; grad. from Univ. of Pa., Department of Architecture, 1898; member of American Institute of Architects; of T. Square Club, Philadelphia, University, and University Barge Clubs; Francis Wharton Sinkler, b. July 14, 1877; graduated at the Univ. of Pa., with degree of A. B. in 1897; and received degree of M. D. from Medical Department of same institution in 1900; is practicing physician in Phila.; Fellow of College of Physicians of Phila.; member of Phila. County Medical Association, Ameri- can Medical Association and Pathological Society of Phila.; Sec. of Phila. Dis- pensary; Assistant Physician of Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases; one of visiting physicians to Episcopal Hospital Dispensary; member of University and University Barge Clubs; 1 172 BROCK Seaman Deas Sinkler, b. May i8, 1879; student at Univ. of Pa., class of '99, Scien- tific Department; member of firm of Rhodes, Sinkler & Co., bankers and brokers, Phila.; member of Phila., Merion Cricket, and University Barge Clubs; m. April, 1902, Emelie Beauveau, dau. of James Mauran Rhodes, Esq., of Phila.: they have issue: Wharton Sinkler, ,sd., b. Jan. 7, 1903; James Mauran Rhodes Sinkler, b. March 21, 1905: Emelie Beauveau Sinkler, b. May 23, 1908. Emily Sinkler, b. Dec. 24, 1881, d. Jan. 16, 1884; Wharton Sinkler, Jr., b. July 2, 1885 ; grad. at Univ. of Pa., degree of A. B., class of igo6: member of Varsity foot-ball teams in 1903 and '04; member of University and Philadelphia Barge Clubs; holds position with Brown Bros., bankers; Ella Brock Sinkler, b. June 29, 1887. Arthur Brock, eldest son of John Penn and Julia Watts (Hall) Brock, born in Philadelphia, November 8, 1850, was educated at the private schools of Dr. Lyons, and Dr. Faires in Philadelphia and at the Philadelphia Polytechnic School. On May 29, 1879, he married Sarah, second daughter of Hon. George Dawson Coleman, by his wife Deborah Norris Brown; and in connection with his younger brother, Horace Brock, who had married Deborah Norris, another daugh- ter of George Dawson Coleman, succeeded his father-in-law in the management of the North Lebanon Furnaces, erected by Mr. Coleman in 1846-7. The Brock brothers relinquished the management of the furnaces at the death of the widow Coleman in 1894, but Mr. Brock continued to hold large interests in iron and steel industries. He was chairman of the Board of Managers of the American Iron and Steel Manfg. Co. and connected with many financial and industrial enter- prises ; trustee of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., director of the Fidelity Trust Company of Philadelphia ; director of the First National Bank of Lebanon, etc. He was a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club, and a member of other social and political organizations. He died December 23, 1909. Robert Coleman, the great-grandfather of Sarah (Coleman) Brock, was born near Castlefin, county Donegal, Ireland, November 4, 1748, and came to Philadel- phia in 1764, with letters of recommendation to Blair McClenachan, and members of the Biddle family, and was by them recommended to James Read, Esq., then Prothonotary of Berks county, in whose employ he remained for two years. He then became clerk and bookkeeper for Peter Grubb, at Hopewell Furnace, and six months later accepted a like position with James Old, the proprietor of Quito- pahilla Forge, near Lebanon. When Mr. Old became successively proprietor of the Speedwell Forge and the Reading Furnace, Robert Coleman accompanied him. While at the latter place he married, October 4, 1773, Anna Old, daughter of his employer, born May 21, 1756! .\fter his marriage Robert Coleman rented the Salford Forge, near Norristown, which he operated for three years. In 1776 he removed to the Elizabeth Furnace, which he rented and later purcliased grad- ually of its owners, Stegel, Stedman and Benezet, and became one of the most successful iron-masters in the Lancaster and Lebanon iron districts. He was elected to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania in 1788, and was many years an Associate Justice of the Courts of Lancaster county. He purchased an interest in the famous Cornwall ore-beds of the Grubb family, still held by his descendants. He retired from business in 1809 and spent the last years of his life in Lancaster. He built the Colebrook Furnace on the Conewago, six miles southwest of Corn- wall, Lebanon county, in the ownership and operation of which he was succeeded BROCK 1 1 73 by his son, Thomas Burd Coleman, and the latter in turn by his son, William Cole- man, in 1848, and he in 1861, by his son Robert H., and daughter, Annie C, wife of Archibald Rogers. Elizabeth Coleman, daughter of Robert and Anna (Old) Coleman, married Charles Hall, before mentioned, and was the grandmother of Julia Watts Hall, the wife of John Penn Brock. James Coleman, another son of Robert and Anna (Old) Coleman, married Harriet Dawson, of Philadelphia, and during his whole life was interested in the iron business in Lancaster and Lebanon counties. George Dawson Coleman, son of James and Harriet (Dawson) Coleman, was born in Philadelphia, January 13, 1825, and died at Lebanon, September 9, 1878. He received his primary education under private tutors in Philadelphia and enter- ed the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and later the College Departmnt of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the degree of .\. M. in 1843; and was a member of the Philomathean Society there. In 1846, in connection with his brother, Robert, he began the erection of the Lebanon Furnaces, one mile northwest of Lebanon, and they were the first to use successfully anthracite coal in connection with hot blast in the manufacture of iron, their first blast being made in February, 1847. In 1857 Robert Coleman withdrew, and the business was continued by George Dawson Coleman until his death, in 1878, when as before shown he was succeeded in its management by his sons-in-law, Arthur and Horace Bi"ock, and they in turn, after the death of the widow in 1894, by B. Dawson and Edward R. Coleman, who operated it until 1901, when it was purchased by the Pennsylvania Steel Company. George Dawson Coleman was one of the most successful and progressive iron- masters of Pennsylvania. He was well and favorably known throughout the state as a public-spirited and enterprising citizen and patriot. During the Civil War he raised and equipped at his own expense the Ninety-third Pennsylvania Regiment, United States Volunteers, and followed their career in the field with peculiar interest, and assisted the widows and orphans of those who fell in the defense of the Union. He also devoted large sums to general charity. He was an active member of the Sanitary Commission, and frequently superintended personally the delivery of stores on the battle field. He was a member of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1863-4, and of the State Senate, 1867-9. He was a member of the State Board of Public Charities, from its organization in 1869 to his death ; and many years president of the First National Bank of Lebanon. George Dawson Coleman took a deep interest in the religious welfare of those in his employ, building and supporting churches at both Elizabeth and Lebanon Furnaces. Several years prior to his death he presented to St. Peter's Church of Philadelphia, his grandfather's house at the corner of Front and Pine streets, and added a large contribution for arranging it for mission work. His whole life was an example of generosity and kindness of heart rarely equalled, — no man in the community was more universally loved and respected. George Dawson Coleman married, January 13, 1852, Deborah Brown, born August 15, 1832, daughter of William Brown, of Philadelphia, by his wife, Deb- orah NorriS, born October 2, 1800, died February 4, 1864, daughter of Joseph Parker Norris, born May 5, 1763, died June 22, 1841, by his wife, Elizabeth Plill, 1 174 BROCK daughter of Hon. Joseph Fox, Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly, by his wife, Elizabeth Mickle. Deborah Brown Coleman died August 19, 1894. George Dawson and Deborah (Brown) Coleman had issue, thirteen children, six of whom died in their minority ; those who survived were : Deborah Norris, who became the wife of Horace Brock, hereafter mentioned; Sarah, the wife of Arthur Brock; Fanny; Harriet Dawson; B. Dawson, and Edward R. Coleman, later proprietors of the Lebanon Furnaces ; and Anne Caroline. Issue of Arthur and Sarah (Coleman) Brock: Julia Watts Hall Brock, b. March 9, 1880; Fanny Brock, b. Sept. 14, 1881; Sarah Coleman Brock, b. Apr. 27, 1883; Ella Brock, b. Dec. 9, 1894; Elizabeth Norris Brock, b. July 4, 1898. Charles Hall Brock, third child of John Penn and Julia Watts (Hall) Brock, born in Philadelphia, May 12, 1852, entered the University of Pennsylvania as a partial student in 1869, but left by reason of his health in his Sophomore year. He was also a student at Faires' School and St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. He later entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, but his health breaking down he left before graduation. He was a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, and was one of the founders of the Corinthian Yacht Club, and a very enthusiastic yachtsman. He is a also a member of the Rittenhouse Club. He is unmarried. • Horace Brock, fourth child of John Penn and Julia Watts (Hall) Brock, bom in Philadelphia, April 15, 1854, was educated at Dr. Faires' and other schools of Philadelphia. He was for some time a civil engineer for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. He married, May 15, 1878, Deborah Norris, daugh- ter of Hon. George Dawson and Deborah (Brown) Coleman, of Lebanon, before mentioned, and in the same year, in connection with his brother, Arthur Brock, went into the iron business at the Lebanon Furnaces, and later became interested in a number of business and financial enterprises. He was for many years presi- dent of the First National Bank of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where he resided with his family for a number of years. The family now reside in Philadelphia. Issue of Hora<:e and Deborah Norris (Coleman) Brock: John Penn Brock, b. Sept. 23, 1879; grad. at Yale Univ., class of 1900; is engaged in iron business at Lebanon; is Vice-President of the American Iron & Steel Mfg. Co.; m. Pauline Biddle, of Phila., and they have issue: Anna Biddle Brock, b. Aug. 21, 1906; Deborah Norris Brock, b. Nov. 8, 1884. m. Jan. 4, 1910, Quincy Bent. John William Brock, fifth child of John Penn and Julia Watts (Hall) Brock, born in Philadelphia, November 23, 1855, was a student at Dr. Faires' Select School, where he prepared for college, and entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1869, and graduated from that institution with the degree of A. B. in 1873, and received the degree of A. M. at the .same institution in 1876. He was a member of the Philomathean Society, and of the Zeta Psi Fraternity there. After some time spent in foreign travel, he entered himself as a student at law in the office of Richard C. McMurtrie, Esq., and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1878. He was in active practice of his profession until 1881, when he became interested Lewis Historical Pub. Co BROCK 1175 in railroad enterprises and construction. He was connected for a few years with the Norfolk & Western Railroad ; and in 1886 constructed the Poughkeepsie Rail- road bridge, and portions of the railroads connected therewith ; was president of the Central New England Railway, which was afterwards acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company. In 1903 he became interested in railroad construction and mining operations in the State of Nevada. He is President of the Tonapah Mining Company and the Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad Company in that State. He is also interested in the manufacture of iron in Pennsylvania, in which other members of the family hold large interests. John William Brock married, November 12, 1879, Mary Louisa, daughter of George Frederick and Louisa Richmond (Blake) Tyler, of Philadelphia, and they reside at 1417 Spruce street, Philadelphia. Mr. Brock is a member of the Penn- sylvania Society^ Sons of the Revolution; of the Rittenhouse Club, and was one of the founders of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia ; and is also a mem- ber of a number of other social organizations. He is a life member of the Frank- lin Institute; a director of the Land Title and Trust, Company of Philadelphia ; has been for twenty years treasurer of Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. Issue of John William and Mary Louisa (Tyler) Brock: George Tyler Brock, b. Oct. i, 1880, d. inf.; John William Brock, Jr., b. Feb. 14, 1883, grad. at Harvard Univ., class of 1905; Sidney Frederick Tyler Brock, b. May 5, 1885; grad. from Harvard Univ., class of 1906, with degree of B. S., and is mining engineer; m. Nov. 17, 1909, Marjorie Elliot; Arthur Brock, Jr., b. Jan. 12, 1887; graduate of Harvard Univ., class of 1908; Norman Hall Brock, b. Apr! 23, 1890; student at Harvard Univ.; Louisa Blake Brock, b. Sept. 27, 1894. Julia Watts Hall Brock, sixth child of John Penn and Julia Watts (Hall) Brock, born in Philadelphia, May 20, 1858, married, October i, 1879, Dr. Robert W. Johnson, of Baltimore, Maryland. He was born at Rockland, Maryland, Sep- tember 8, 1854; A. B. Princeton, '76; M. D. University of Pennsylvania, 1879; president of Clinical Society of Maryland; president of Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; Prof essor of Surgery of Maryland Medical College ; member of Southern Surgical and Gynecology Society ; fellow of American Surgical Asso- ciation; etc. Issue of Robert W . and Julia Watts Hall (Brock) Johnson: Anna Julia Johnson, b. July 15, 1880 ; m. Lieut. Gordon Johnston, of Ala., Lieut, in U. S. Army, May 25, 1904; Ella Brock Johnson, b. July 26, 1882; m. 1905, James Mauran Rhodes, Jr., of Phila.; William Fell Johnson, b. Aug. 18, 1884; grad. at Princeton Univ., class of 1905 ; law student; Katharine Barker Johnson, b. Oct. 7, 1885: m. May i, 1907, Robert Garrett, of Baltimore; Robert W. Johnson, Jr., b. June 3, 1891 ; John Penn Brock Johnson, b. Sept. 3, 1894; d. Sept, 29, 1896. Colonel Robert Coleman Hall Brock, son of John Penn and Julia Watts (Hall) Brock, was born in Philadelphia, July 26, 1861. His early education was 1176 BROCK acquired at Dr. Faires' School in Philadelphia, and he later took a course at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, under Dr. Henry A. Coit, and subse- quently entered Worcester College, Oxford University, England, whence he was called home before receiving his final degree by reason of the fatal illness of his father, who died soon after he arrived. He entered the law offices of Hon. George M. Dallas, as a student-at-law and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar. As a lawyer he took no active part in the courts, turning his attention more particularly to matters pertaining to estates and corporations, and the large financial interests and projects in which he and his brothers were interested. In 1888 he became a member of the firm of W. H. Newbold, Son & Company, Bankers, and remained in that firm until 1894, when he retired and travelled in Europe for some months to retrieve his impaired health. Inheriting from his father an ample estate, he was permitted to gratify his tastes for literary and scientific pursuits, and on his return from his European tour, he became one of the most active and enthusiastic workers in the field of Science. He had been a member of the Franklin Institute since 1889, and his well trained mind, and active almost restless energy, contributed greatly to the efficiency and usefulness of that institution. He was elected a member of the Board of Man- agers in 1901, and filled that position at the time of his decease. He was a mem- ber of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania from 1883 ; a member of the Philo- technic Society, and its president from 1886-9; a member of the American Philo- sophical Society, since 1898 ; of the Archaeological Society of Pennsylvania, from 1901, President 1903-5, and Vice-President at the time of his decease; made a member of the Philobiblion Society, 1903 ; became a stockholder of the Academ)' of Fine Arts, September i, 1901, and a director in 1904; became a member of the Numismatic Society, February 2, 1882 ; was a director of the Epileptic Hospital at Oakbourne, Philadelphia ; he rarely missed the meetings of the managing boards of the institutions with which he was connected, and was exceedingly useful in these organizations, and was always ready by counsel, personal effort, and liberal pecuniary contributions to alleviate want and suffering. He became a member of the Rittenhouse Club in 1890; the University Club in 1897; the Philadelphia Club in 1898; the Union League, October 18, 1905; and was a member of the Corin- thian Yacht Club of Philadelphia, and the New York Yacht Club, and was master of the details of managing craft of all kinds. He was also an enthusiastic automo- bilist, making many extensive and interesting tours. He became a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution. May 4, 1901. He was also a mem- ber of the Art Club of New York several years prior to his death. In 1904 Robert Coleman Hall Brock was elected Colonel of the Second Regi- ment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, and held that position until his death. Col. Brock died at Wynnewood, August 9, 1906, of a somewhat lingering illness, he having been unable to accompany his regiment to the annual encampment at Gettysburg for that year. At the meeting of the board of managers of the Franklin Institute, held Sep- tember 19, 1906, a committee was appointed to draft a suitable memorial of their deceased colleague. Col. R. C. H. Brock, and their report was entered in the Journal of the Institute for December. 1906. After giving a sketch of the useful BROCK 1 177 and active life of Col. Brock, the memorial concludes with the following well- merited tribute to his worth : — "His courtesy and gentleness of manner were as remarkable as his extreme modesty and kindness of heart. He embodied the best type of a useful citizen,— one whose brains and hands were always at the service of his fellows for worthy objects, — and of the American gentleman, exemplifying in his own conduct how a large fortune could be worthily enjoyed and at the same time used for noble purposes." Col. Brock married, April 23, 1884, Alice, daughter of Henry C. and Mary (Klett) Gibson, who survives him. Issue of Robert Coleman Hal! and Alice (Gibson) Brock: Alice Gibson, b. June 23, 1885; Henry Gibson, b. Nov. 23, 1886: Robert Coleman Hall Jr., b. June z^, 1890, d. Nov. 22, 1900. Hubert Brock, eighth and youngest child of John Penn and Julia Watts (Hall) Brock, born March 28, 1863, died unmarried, November, 1896. He was a student at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and entered the Towne Scientific School of the University of Pennsylvania, in 1880; was later trans- ferred to the Wharton School of the same institution, as a special student, but left during his Sophomore year. He was a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. He travelled extensively in foreign countries, making a complete trip around the world. THOMAS FAMILY. The Thomas family, of Merion, Philadelphia county, trace their ancestry, like most of the other Welsh settlers of Merion, through a long line of Welsh princes,^ back to the fourteenth century. The earliest ancestor of whom we have any distinct record, was : Jenkin ap Adam, Lord of Kevendyglwj'dd, living in the time of Edward III. and Richard II., of England. He is said to have borne the surname of Herbert, and to have been a descendant of a Norman family of that name, famous prior to the conquest of England by William I. He had a son : GwiLiM (William) \v Jenkin, Lord of Kevendyglwydd, who married Wenl- lian (died 12)77)' daughter of Howell Vychan, descended from Ynir, "King," or Lord, of Gwent, and their fourth son was : Thomas ap Gwilim, of Perthir, who died in 1438. He married Maud, daugh- ter and heiress of Sir John Morley, and their fifth son was : Sir William ap Thomas, knighted in 1426, died in 1446. He acquired the castle and demesne lands of Raglan, from his maternal ancestors the Morley fam- ily, and married for his second wife, Gwladys, daughter of Sir David Gam, and widow of Sir Roger Vaughan, of Tre'twer. Her father David Gam, son of Llewlyn, was knighted on the field of Agincourt, in 141 5, as he was dying from wounds received in that sanguinary conflict. He was of a fierce and warlike dis- position, it being said of him, that "he lived like a wolf and died like a lion." He was a strong partisan of the English under Henry IV. and Henry V., and for the former, undertook to assassinate, in 1402, his own brother-in-law, the famous Welsh patriot Owen Glendower. Sir William ap Thomas was also at Agincourt. He was sometimes called William Thomas Herbert. He had by his second wife several sons, of these was WilHam Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, and: Sir Richard Herbert, of Coldbrook House, about a mile from the town of Abergavenny, in Monmouthshire. He was slain at Banbury in 1469. Of him his great-grandson. Lord Herbert, of Cherbury, wrote: "That incomparable hero who twice passed through a great army of northern men, alone, with pole- axe in his hand, and returned without mortal hurt, which is more than is famed of Amardus de Galle, or Knight of the Sun." This Sir Richard Herbert married Margaret, daughter of Thomas ap Griffith Nicholas, of Dynevor, and sister of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, who slew Richard III. on Bosworth Field. They had issue : Sir William Herbert, from whom descended Hugh Gwyn, of Peniarth; the Powells, of Llanwddyn ; the Humphreys, of Llwyndu ; the Owen family, of Mer- ion, Pennsylvania, and through them the Cadwaladers, and others, thus being the lineal ancestor of many of the early families of Philadelphia. The Thomas family, however, descend from the second son: Sir Richard Herbert, of Montgomery Castle, called also of "Cwm Ystwith and Pencelly," who was gentleman usher to King Henry VIII., and resided in great luxury at Blackball, where he entertained on the most lavish scale. He THOMAS 1 1 79 married as his second wife, Jane, daughter of Gwilim ap Rees Philip, of Llyn- howell, in Carmarthenshire. Their fourth child was : Jane Herbert, who married (first) Thomas Lloyd, and (second) William Awbrey, Esquire, of Aberkynfrig, who died June 27, 1547. He was a son of Hopkin Awbrey, by his wife, a daughter of John Griffith, of Gwyn; and grandson of Jenkin Awbrey, Esquire, by his wife, Gwenlliam, daughter of Owain ap Grif- fith, of Taly Llyn. The Awbreys trace their descent from Stiant Awbrey (brother of Lord Awbrey, Earl of Bullen, and Earl Marchall, of France, who came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066), whose son, Sir Rinallt Awbrey, married a daughter of the Earl of Clare and Priany, and had a son, William Awbrey, of Aberkynfrig, married to Julia, daughter of Sir William Gunter, and their son Thomas Awbrey, married Ann, daughter of John Cayraw, Baron of Cayrowe, and had a son Thomas Awbrey, of Aberkynfrig, Constable and Ranger of the Forest of Brecon, who married Johann, daughter of Trahaerne ap Einion, Lord of Comond, and had by her a son, Thomas Awbrey Goch (red-haired), who mar- ried Nest, daughter of Owain Gethyn, of Glyn Taway, and had by her Richard Awbrey, who married Creslie, daughter of Phe ap Eledr, and had Gawlter Aw- brey, who married Juhan, daughter and heiress of Rees Morgan ap Einion, of Carmarthenshire, and had Morgan Awbrey, of Aberkynfrig, who married Alice, daughter of Watkin Thomas David Lloyd, and was the father of Jenkin Awbrey, Esquire, of Aberkynfrig, above mentioned, the grandshire of William Awbrey, who married Jane Herbert. Richard Awbrey, of Aberkynfrig, eldest son of William Awbrey, by his wife, Jane Herbert, sold the estate of Aberkynfrig to his cousin, Dr. William Awbrey. He died in 1580, leaving issue by his wife, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Gunter, of Gileston : Richard Awbrey, of Llanelyw, "who departed this life Anno. 1646," and was buried under the floor of the chancel of the church of Llanelyw. His grave is covered by a flat tombstone which forms part of the pavement of the chancel, bearing this inscription : "Here lyeth the body of Richard Awbrey of Llanelyw, Gent, who married Anne Vaughan, daughter of William Vaughan of Uanelyw, and had issue : William, Richard, Thomas, John Theophilus, and Elizabeth. Died the 23 day of September, 1646." The armes of the Awbrey and Vaughan family are engraved upon this tomb. Of these six children of Richard and Anne (Vaughan) Aubrey, the first and third are both ancestors of the Thomas family of Merion, since William Aubrey, the eldest son, who had heired his father's estates, being a Puritan and Parlimentarian, and having no son, on his father's death in 1646. married his daughter Elizabeth to William Aubrey, the eldest son of his brother, Thomas, in order to keep the estate in the Puritan stock, his next younger brother, Richard, Vicar of Boughrod, in Radnorshire, and an adherent of the King. The latter instituted proceedings to recover the property after the death of his elder brother, but the matter was finally settled by arbitration. William Aubrey, son of Thomas, is said to have been a member of the Soci- ety of Friends, but if so, it would seem that he returned to the Anglican church, judging from the place of his burial. His sons, Richard and William, and his daughter, Martha, were certainly "Friends." ii8o THOMAS William Aubrey's tombstone at Llanelyw Church bears this inscription : "Here lyeth the body of ^^'illiam Awbrey, of Lllanelyw, son of Thomas Awbrey, Gent. Married Elizabeth, daughter of William Awbrey. Had issue Ten: Rishard, William, 2, Thomas Theophilus, Anne, Alary 2, Martha, & Elizabeth. Departed this life in Hope of a Joyful Resurrection, the 16 of December 1716, aged 90." Of the children of William and Elizabeth Aubrey, of Llanelyw, William mar- ried Letitia, daughter of William Penn, the Founder of Pennsylvania. AIartha Aubrey, the ninth child of William and Elizabeth Aubrey, of Llanelyw, born about 1662, became a member of the Society of Friends, and is said to have accompanied her relatives, John and Barbara (Aubrey) Bevan, to Pennsylvania in 1683. Whether she came thus early to America, or according to another authority, accompanied her affianced husband, Rees Thomas, several years later, has not been clearly established. True it is that she married Rees Thomas at Haverford Meeting, in the Welsh Tract of Pennsylvania, April 18, 1692. He was a descendant of the Thomas family of Wencoe, Wales, and nephew of John Bevan, as shown by a letter written to his father-in-law, William Aubrey, April 29, 1695, from which it is to be inferred that his father was Rees. son of Hopkin Thomas, who married a daughter of Evan ap John, of Treverigg, and sister to John Bevan. He was also cousin to Barbara (Aubrey) Bevan, her mother, the wife of William Aubrey, of Pencoyd, being a sister to his father. Rees Thomas purchased 30D acres in the Welsh Tract, Alerion township, of Sarah, widow of John Eckley, the deed being dated August 15, 1692. He subse- quently purchased other land adjoining of Edward Pritchard. The plantation owned and occupied by him was located near the present Rosemont Station, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, ten miles west of Philadelphia. A greater part of it remained in the ownership of his descendants for four generations. Rees Thomas was a prominent man in the community, serving several terms in the Colonial Assembly, the first in 1702, and the last in 1720. He was also com- missioned a Justice of Philadelphia county, June 14, 1722. His will proved Feb- ruary 12, 1742-3, was dated September 10, 1742. His wife, Martha, died March 7, 1726-7. She was a very estimable woman, and much beloved and respected in the community in which she lived she was for many years an Elder of the Society of Friends, and prominent in benevolent and charitable works. A quaint little volume of poems extolling the virtues of Martha (Aubrey), wife of Rees Thomas, was printed in 1727, by Samuel Keimer, of Philadelphia, no copy of which is now known to be in existence. It was reprinted in 1837, by her descendant, Mary (Thomas), wife of Jona- than Jones, of Wynnewood. The title page is as follows : — A Collection of Elegiac Poems Devoted to the memory of the late Virtuous and excellent Matron and worthy Elder in the Church of Christ, (Of the Society of Friends) MARTHA THOMAS Late wife of REES THOMAS, of Merion, in the County of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania; and daughter of WILLIAM AWBREY, THOMAS 1181 Of Llan Elew, in the County of Brecknock, in Great Britain. Who departed this life On the 7th of the Twelfth Month, 1726-27. "A Woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. "Give her the Fruit of Her Hands, and let her Works praise her in the Gates." Prov. xxxi, 30, 31. PHILADELPHIA; Printed by Samuel Keimer, in Second Street, MDCCXXVII. Issue of Rees and Martha (Aubrey) Thomas: — Rees, b. Apr. 22, 1693; m. Elizabeth Jones, dau. of Dr. Edward Jones, by wife Mary Wynee. They had two daughters, Letitia, m. David Evans, and Anne m. Samuel Williams; Aubrey, b. Jan. 30, 1694-5, i"- Gulielma, dau. of William Penn Jr. and grand- daughter of William Penn, the Founder. They resided in Eng. ; Herbert, b. Nov. 3, i6g6, m. Mary Havard, dau. of John; d. without issue; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 10, 1698, m. Samuel Harry, of Chester Co., and left issue ; William, b. July 2, 1701, of whom presently; Richard, b. July 23, 1703, d. a young man, unm. William Thomas, fourth son of Rees and Martha (Aubrey) Thomas, in- herited a portion of the homestead, on which he erected a substantial stone house, and greatly improved the plantation. According to the testimony of his great- granddaughter, Mary Jones, "he was a mild tempered man, very constant in the attendance of Religious Meetings." He lived all his life on the old homestead, dying there June 13, 1776. He married, May 12, 1724, Elizabeth, daughter of David Harry, of Chester county, a colonial justice, and member of assembly from that county, 17 16-7. Issue of William and Elisabeth (Harry) Thomas: — Rees, of whom presently; Martha, m. Dr. John Llewlyn, "a surgeon of Consequence and respectability" in Merion township; Mary, m. Peter Evans; lived to advanced age but had no children; Hannah, m. Jonathan Powell, but left no issue; Elizabeth, m. Abraham Evans, of Gwynedd township, and had several children; Jonathan, resided many years in Chester Co., d. there at advanced age; was twice m. ; by first wife had children Rees, Rebecca, Elizabeth, and Richard; by second wife, Ann Haley, had William, Samuel and Ononah; David, d. on his farm in Merion township; m. Rhodes and had children, Martha, Lydia, Aubrey, William and Eleanor; Richard, m. Ann and had daughters Elizabeth, Martha, and Ann. Rees Thomas, son of William and Elizabeth (Harry) Thomas, married November 3, 1758, Priscilla, only daughter and heiress of John and Mary Jermon, who lived near the Friends' Meeting House in Radnor township, Chester county, and were people of substance and respectability. Rees and Priscilla Thomas resided on a portion of the old Thomas homestead, which they greatly improved, erecting the "Mansion House," occupied by his son, William, as late as 1829, and also other substantial buildings. Neither, however, lived beyond their prime, Priscilla dying July 6, 1769, and her husband only surviving her a few years, died in his forty-fifth year. Their seven children were all minors at the death of their parents, and their paternal grandfather dying at about the same time as 1 182 THOMAS their father, they were left to care for themselves in the troublous times of the first years of the War of Independence and failed to receive the educational ad- vantages that should have been theirs under happier circumstances. Iss%(e of Recs and Priscilla (Jennon) Thomas: William, b. July 8, 176—, m. April 5, 1786, Naomi Walker, b. Feb. 17, 1765, d. May 4, 1817, of whom presently; Mary, m. Anthony, eldest son of Abraham and Hannah Tunis, of Lower Merion, and had eight children, viz. : Charles, William, .'\braham, Rees, Priscilla, Jane, Aubrey and Richard; John, d. s. p. to 1829; Hannah, was living with brother William on old homestead, unm. in 1829; Rees, went to Ky., about beginning of century; Jonathan, also removed to Ky. : Priscilla, d. prior to 1829, unm. William Thomas, son of Reese and Priscilla (Jermon) Thomas, inherited the old Thomas homestead, and the "Mansion House," erected by his father, in which he lived all his life. He married, April 5, 1786, Naomi, daughter of Joseph Walker, of Great Valley, Chester county, and a descendant of Lewris Walker, who emigrated from Merionethshire, Wales, in 1686, and settled in the Welsh Tract of Alerion and Haverford, marrying, in 1693, Mary Morris, a fellow passenger on the ship that brought him to Pennsylvania, though said to have been of English parentage. They reared a family of eight children in the simple faith of the Society of Friends, one of whom was father of Joseph Walker, who was likewise a consistent and earnest member of the Society. He was a farmer and resided on his farm near Valley Forge, in Treddyfrin township, during the war of the Revolution. His granddaughter, Mary (Thomas) Jones, before re- ferred to in these pages, writes of him in 1829, as follows: "They," referring to Joseph W^alker and his wife, "were exemplary and pious people and I believe respected by all who knew them. I have heard many testify in an uncommon manner of the affection and grateful remembrance they had of the noble and gen- erous acts of kindness and hospitality extended by my dear grandfather to them- selves and others during the Revolutionary W'ar and since. They being members of the Society of Friends, whose principles would not permit my grandparents to take an active part, either offensive or defensive, in the struggle at that time. They therefore, united their efforts to do all that was in their power to relieve those that were in trouble or distress, without respect to persons or party, and many were the opportunities that presented for exercise of that law of kindness, and acts of charity to the poor half clad and shivering soldiers, as well as private individuals. General Wayne having chosen their house as his headquarters for six months during the winter that General Washington had his army in winter- quarters at the \'alley Forge, which was a few miles from my grandfather's dwelling. They were of course surrounded by the American Army and conse- quently witnessed a great portion of the distress and suffering of that eventful period." Naomi (\\'alker) Thomas, was born February 17, 1765, and died May, 1817, her husband surviving her many years. Issue of William and Naomi (Walker) Thomas: — Mary, eldest child, m. (first) Charles McCIenachan, and (second) Jonathan, son of Owen and Susannah (Evans) Jones of Merion, and great-grandson of Dr. THOMAS 1 183 Edward Jones, pioneer of the Welsh Tract. Mary Jones was publisher of second volume of the volume of poems, mentioned in early part of this narrative, and also prepared narrative of her family from time of arrival in Pa. to 1829, from which we have freely quoted. Reese, b. March 24, 1789, d. March 27, 1835; m. Rebecca Brooke; of whom presently; Sarah, m. Dr. James Anderson; Joseph, d. unm.; Emily, m. Isaac W. Roberts; Pricilla, m. George T. Stuckert; Louisa, m. John C. Evans; William, m. Tacy Roberts; Jane W., m. John Cleaver. Reese Thomas, eldest son of William and Naomi (Walker) Tliomas, born in Merion, March 24, 1789, married, March 29, 1810, Rebecca, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Brooke, of Gulph Mills, Upper Merion township, Montgomery county, a distinguished officer and patriot in the Revolutionary War, by his wife, Anna Davis. Reese Thomas, after his marriage, became the proprietor of the famous Gulph Mills, which he operated until succeeded by his son, William Brooke Thomas, in 1832. He died at Gulph Mills, March 27, 1835. He was a man of high standing in the community, and one of the original anti-slavery men of Montgomery county. Issue of Reese and Rebecca (Brooke) Thomas: — William Brooke, b. May 25, 1811, d. Dec. 12, 1887; m. Emily Wilson Holstein, of whom presently; Benjamin Brooke, m. Ann Condon; Louisa, m. Amos Corson; . Priscilla, m. (first) Isaac Barber, (second) Ogden Cuthbert; Naomi, never m.; Mary Ann, never m.; Emily, m. Jonathan Trego; Rebecca, m. Milton Allen: Reese, d. in childhood. William Brooke Thomas, eldest son of Reese Thomas and his wife Rebecca Brooke, was born May 25, 181 1, in Haverford, Upper Merion township, Mont- gomery county, on the property which the Friends afterward bought from his parents for the erection of Haverford College. The family removed to Gulph Mills, which had been inherited by his mother from her father Benjamin Brooke. Here Mr. Thomas was instructed by his father in the manufacture of flour, and on his father's death succeeded to the proprietorship of the mills on coming of age in 1832. He operated the mills until 1842, and after a year, in which he en- gaged in the mercantile business at Lyonsville, removed to Philadelphia, where he began the manufacture of flour on a small scale, at Thirteenth and Willow streets, using at first but a twenty horse power engine. His business increasing, he secured another mill at Thirteenth and Buttonwood streets and installed an additional eighty horse power plant. Still unable to supply the demand for his products, he erected a larger mill and added a three hundred horse power plant, making in all four hundred horse power; operating twenty-four pairs of buhrs, turning out 1,200 barrels of flour, and using over 5,000 bushels of wheat per day. This was far in excess of the capacity of any other mill in Philadelphia or its ii84 THOMAS vicinity, and an exceedingly unusual one prior to the introduction of the roller process and the establishment of the vast milling plants of the northwest, several years later. Mr. Thomas was, at this period, by far the largest purchaser of grain for domestic purposes, in Philadelphia. He was one of the earliest advocates of an association of grain and feed ship- pers ; was one of the organizers of the Corn Exchange Association, and its first president in 1853. He was re-elected in 1854 and thereafter declined the position, but continued to be one of its prominent members for many years, being recog- nized on the floor of the Exchange as one of the leading business men of the city. He was possessed in a high degree of the qualities that go to make the successful merchant and business man ; intelligent, energetic, industrious, selfreliant, quick in dicision, upright, and honorable in all his dealings. "Of him," says A. G. Cattell, President of the Exchange, in a memorial delivered before that body at its annual meeting, January 31, 1888, "it may be truthfully said, his word was as good as his bond * * * for thirty years our firm had large business trans- actions with him reaching in the aggregate, millions of dollars, nearly all of which was done without so much as the scratch of a pen between us, and I can bear testimony that, so far as I can remember, there was never even the shadow of a dispute in regard to a single transaction." Mr. Thomas was also one of the prominent members of the Board of Trade, of Philadelphia, and for many years a director of the ^Manufacturers' Insurance Company. He was also president of the Corn Exchange Bank. He was early interested in the Anti Slavery cause and was the first vice-presi- dent of the Montgomery County Anti-Slavery Society organized in 1837, and served on important committees of that organization. His name appears on the memorials adopted by the Anti-Slavery Association of Philadelphia, of which the Montgomery Society was a component part. His four sisters were also active members of the local society and all active in the cause, contributing work of their own hands to be sold at the fairs held annually to raise funds to be used to con- tinue the crusade against human slavery. He was an active partisan of the Free Soil party and voted for John P. Hale for President in 1852. It was natural, therefore, that ]Mr. Thomas, though formerly a Democrat, should have been one of active participants in the formation of the Republican party. He assisted in the preliminary arrangements for the campaign of 1856, and took a very active part in that determined struggle, both in Philadelphia and the country at large. He was elected to the Common Council of the city, by a combination of Peoples' and Republican parties. He was a member of the National Convention that nominated Lincoln at Chicago, in i860, and on his return, entered heart and soul into the contest for his election, with the battle cry of "No further extension of human slavery." When Lincoln's election was accomplished and the storm clouds of rebellion began to lower, he was one of those who went to the national capital to stand by his chosen leader and see that he was vested with the high office to which he had been elected. Enrolling himself as a member of Hon. C. M. Clay's company of volunteers, and with musket on shoulder, with them he paced the city, "keeping watch and ward over the centre of the nation's hopes and fears," during the Baltimore riots of April, 1861. He was appointed by President Lincoln, Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, in the early days of his administration, and brought to the performance of the THOMAS 1 185 duties of that responsible position a strong will and well balanced mind; — familiar, far beyond the average, with the commercial laws and usages, — he man- aged the office with an ability and honesty of purpose which when he retired from the position brought him the universal plaudit, of "Well done thou good and faithful servant." In August, 1862, Mr. Thomas formed the employees of the Custom House into a military company, known as the "Revenue Guards" and after they were sufficiently drilled in military tactics, and equipping them at his own expense, was commissioned their captain on September 14, 1862 ; having written to the Treasury Department asking for leave of absence from his office of Collector of the Port, that he might go with them to the front. Secretary Chase tried to con- vince him that he could render more efficient service to his country by retaining the office, but Mr. Thomas, with characteristic decision of character, had decided for himself as to his sphere of action, and immediately wrote to the Department that unless they chose to grant him the desired leave of absence, they should consider his letter a resignation of the position of Collector of the Port. He at once answered Governor Curtin's call for troops by organizing a second company of "Revenue Guards" and marching the two companies to Harrisburg, where he was made Colonel of the 20th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was with them, at Hagerstown, Maryland, on the Saturday following the battle of Antietam, to assist in repelling the threatened invasion of Maryland and Pennsyl- vania, where he remained until the danger was over. In June, 1863, when Lee again invaded Maryland, Col. Thomas, at once marched his regiment, then 1200 strong, to Harrisburg, where he was ordered to guard the Northern Central Railroad, a matter of vital importance to the Army of the Potomac. His regiment was afterwards engaged with the enemy at Wrightsville and York, Pennsylvania, where Colonel Thomas, in command of the forces, prevented the enemy from crossing the river. He then joined Gen. Meade and aided in the pursuit of Lee, in full retreat southward. In July 1864, the term of enlistment of his old regiment having expired, Col. Thomas organized the I92d Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, with seven com- panies from Philadelphia and three from Reading, the former largely equipped at his own expense, and placed himself and his command at his counti"y's service. He was ordered to garrison Fort M'Henry, at Baltimore, then to Johnson's Island, and next to guard the large military stores at GallipoHs, Ohio, then threatened by the rebels, and remained at that post until November, 1864; thus in his three years of service he had participated in four campaigns, in each of which he displayed many of the highest qualities of a soldier. On his return to Philadelphia, Col. Thomas was elected Brigadier General of the Fourth Brigade, First Pennsylvania State Guard, which rank he held at the time of his death. An article in Harper's Weekly, of June 9, 1866, giving a brief sketch of Gen. Thomas, accompanied by his portrait, concludes as follows : "His mihtary record would be honorable to any soldier ; it is doubly so as that of a man holding respon- sible civil position under the National Government. His duties as Collector of the Port would have excused Colonel Thomas from any active part in the war, but he refused to throw off one responsibility by pleading another. His adminis- tration of the Custom House has given entire satisfaction to business men, as well ii86 THOMAS as to the Government, and there is no citizen of Philadelphia in whom a deeper trust is more worthily reposed by the community." Gen. Thomas was a good citizen, a steadfast friend, and a wise counsellor. He was conspicuous in philanthropic enterprises, a great benefactor of the poor, and deeply interested in most of the charitable and benevolent institutions and projects of Philadelphia from the time of his settlement there. Religiously, he was in later life an attendant at Dr. Furness's Church. He died in Philadelphia, December 12, 18S7, in his 77th year, honored and lamented by all who knew him. Gen. Thomas married, September 26, 1836, Emily Wilson, daughter of Colonel George Washington Holstein, of Upper Merion, by his wife, Elizabeth Wayne Hayman, and they celebrated their golden wedding at Philadelphia, on September 26, 1886. Matthias Holstein, the great -great-grand father of Mrs. Thomas, was born July I, 1681. He married, October 10, 1705, Brita Rambo, a descendant of one of the earliest Swedish settlers on the Delaware. Matthias Holstein was a mem- ber of Assembly, 1718-22-24-25. His son, Matthias Holstein, Jr., who was born February 2, 1717, died December 12, 1768. Matthias Holstein Jr. was Lieutenant of the Philadelphia Associators in 1747. Andrew Holstein was one of the trus- tees of Christ (Swedes) Church of Merion, to whom Peter Rambo conveyed the land in 1757, upon which the church, and its predecessor, the stone school house, which did service a,s a place of learning and worship, were erected. The wife of Matthias Holstein Jr. was Magdalene Ruling, born in 1717, died December 4, 1799. Samuel Holstein, son of Matthias and Magdalene (Huling) Holstein, was the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Thomas, and was born March 11, 1745, and died December 22, 1802. He married, November 12, 1771, Rachel Moore, born Octo- ber 8, 1746, and their son, George Washington Holstein, born April 10, 1778, died March 10, 1841, married, November 5, 1801, Elizabeth Wayne Hayman, born April 5, 1780, daughter of Capt. William Hayman, of the United States Navy, Commander of the ship "Hope" in 1781. Capt. Hayman was a son of William Hayman, Surveyor General of Exeter, England, and was born in Exeter, February 22, 1740, and died in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, September 23, 1826. He married, October 15, 1772, Ann, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Iddings) Wayne, sister to Gen. Anthony Wayne of the Revolution. The Wayne Family, to which Capt. Anthony Wayne, the first .American ancestor in Pennsylvania belonged, is mentioned in the early records of the coun- ties of York and Derby, England, where for many centuries and down to the present time, they have held a most respectable position among the gentry; some of the name still being found in the parishes where their ancestors held lands in Derby centuries ago. The names of Francis, Gabriel and Anthony Wayne, appear on the list of soldiers of the civil wars of England, and the arms cut on the seal ring which Anthony Wayne brought with him to Pennsylvania, correspond with those cut upon the tombstones of the Waynes in the ancient burying-ground of the family in Derby, viz: "Gules, a chevron ermine, between three inside gaunt- lets, or," but the Crest, "a stag's head erased, or," differs from the crest now used by the Derbyshire family. Captain Anthony Wayne was bom in Derbyshire, near the border line of Yorkshire, in 1666, and at an early age adopted the profession of arms, for which THOMAS 1 187 he seems to have inherited a decided preference. While a lad he served under John Churchill, in Holland, and later under the great Duke of Marlborough, with his lifelong friend John Hunter. Whether he accompanied the Army of William of Orange to England, or joined it later in Ireland, does not appear. At any rate he was in command of a troop of horse at the battle of Boyne, in 1690, where he was still associated with his friend Hunter, and at the conclusion of peace, both settled as graziers in the county of Wicklow, Ireland, on land confiscated by William and conferred upon them as his loyal supporters. At about this date, Capt Wayne married, at Rathdrum, county Wicklow, Ireland, Hannah Faulkner, of Holland descent. In 1723 Captain Anthony Wayne emigrated with his family to America, land- ing at Boston Massachusetts, from whence he made his way to Chester county, Pennsylvania, where his old companion in arms, John Hunter, had settled in 1722. By deed dated May 11, 1724, he purchased of Thomas Edwards 386 acres of land in Easttown township, being named in the deed, as "Anthony Wayne, Gentleman." On May 31, 1729, he conveyed forty acres of this land to his son Francis Wayne, and having added about the same quantity by purchase in 1735, on February 20, 1738-9, conveyed the balance of tlie whole plantation to his son, Isaac, conditioned on the payment of an annuity to the parents during life. Capt. Anthony Wayne died in Easttown township, December 2, 1739, and was buried at St. David's Church, in Radnor township, of which he had been a vestry- man and pew-holder from the time of his arrival in Chester county. Issue of Captain Anthony and Hannah (Faulkner) Wayne: — Francis, b. in Ireland, about 1690, d. in Chester Co., Pa., Jan. 31, 1763; m. Elizabeth Jackson, and had issue; Gabriel, b. in Ireland about 1694; Isaac, b. 1699, d. 1774, m. Elizabeth Iddings, of whom presently; Humphrey, b. 1701, m. Priscilla Iddings; Jacob, m. Elizabeth , William, b. 1708, d. Apr. 22, 1726; John, executor of his father's will in 1739; Sarah, m. James Norton; Ann, m. Samuel McCue; Mary. Is.«iAC Wayne, third son of Capt. Anthony Wayne, born in Ireland in, 1699, acquired the home plantation from his father just prior to the latters death, and spent his life thereon, naming the estate "Waynesborough." He was a man of great force of character and became prominently identified with provincial affairs. He was a captain in the provincial forces during the Indian troubles of 1755, raising a company for the defense of the frontier after Braddock's defeat, with which he was stationed at De Puy's, now Monroe county, until January, 1756, when he was ordered to Nazareth, Northampton county, where he was at the time Benjamin Franklin took charge of fortifying our northeastern frontier. He recruited another company when the trouble was renewed in 1757-8, and served with it on the frontier. He was elected to the Colonial Assembly in 1757, and annually re-elected thereafter until 1764. He was, like his father, a prominent member of the vestry of St. David's Church, where he was associated with his lifelong political opponent, William Moore, of Moore Hall. Capt. Wayne accu- mulated a handsome estate, and greatly enlarged and improved the mansion at ii88 THOMAS W'aynesborough, which descended, at his death in 1774, to his eldest surviving son, Gen. Anthony W^ayne. Capt. \\'ayne married, in 1738, EHzabeth, daughter of Richard and Margaret (Phillips) Iddings, of Chester county. She survived him many years, dying in May, 1793, at the age of eighty- four years. Issue of Captain Isaac and Elizabeth (Iddings) Wayne: — William Wayne, d. inf.; Gen. Anthony Wayne, b. Jan. i, 1745, d. Dec. 15, 1796, ra. Mary Penrose; Hannah Wayne, m. Samuel Van Lear: Ann Wayne, b. 1751, d. June 9, 1807, m. Oct. 15, 1772. Capt. William Hayman, of U. S. Navy, before mentioned. Issue of Gen. William B. and Emily W. (Holstein) Thomas: — Anna Elizabeth Thomas, m. Feb. 3, 1858, Nathan Brooke, of Media, son of Hon. Hugh Jones Brooke and wife Elizabeth Longmire, and had issue : William Thomas Brooke, m. May 11, 1881, Rebecca Chapman; Ida Longmire Brooke, m. Dec. 14, 1881, J. Howard Lewis, Jr.; Hugh Jones Brooke, m. Apr. 25, 1893, Harriet Boyer Weand; Hunter Brooke; Emily Thomas Brooke, m. May 12, 1903, John Brander Austin, Jr. Benjamin Brooke, d. inf.; Rebecca Brooke, m. Nov. 20, 1867, George Hamilton Colket, son of Coffin and Mary Pennypacker (Walker) Colket, Pres. of Germantown, Norristown and Chestnut Hill R. R. Co., and the City Passenger Railway Co., up to time of death. They had issue : Emily Thomas Colket, m. Oct. 30, 1889, Harrison Koons Caner; Mary Walker Colket; Tristram Coffin Colket, m. Nov. 15. 1900, Eleanor Lippincott; George Hamilton Colket. Mary Amies Brooke, m. Feb. 25, 1874, Hunter Brooke, son of Hon. Hugh Jones Brooke and wife Elizabeth Longmire, of Media. They had issue : Helen Brooke, m. Jan. 21, 1905, George Callendine, son of Col. Jonathan McGee and Mattie (Callendine) Heck, of Raleigh, N. C; -Marie Thomas Brooke, m. April 14. 1909, George \V.. son of William P. and Emeline Hill Clyde, of Xew York. JoH.N Brooke, the ancestor of Hunter Brooke, above mentioned, came from Yorkshire with sons, James and Matthew, in the latter part of the seventeenth century; having purchased of William Penn, seven hundred and fifty acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania. He died, however, at the house of William Cooper, of Pine Point, Gloucester county, New Jersey, leaving a will dated Octo- ber 25, 1699, and proven March i, 1699-1700, which leaves legacies to the children of his three children in England, viz : Son, Jonathan and daughters, Abigail, wife of Robert Todd, and Elizabeth, wife of Joshua Sickes. His sons, James and Matthew, evidently accompanied him to America and later settled in Limerick township, Philadelphia, now Alontgomery county, Pennsylvania. J.\MES Brooke, son of John, died in Limerick township, in the year 1720. JoN.\THAN Brooke, son of James, died m 1751, his will being proven on Octo- ber II, of that year. By his wife, Elizabeth Reece, of Welsh descent, he had one son, James Brooke, born in 1723, died June, 1787, who married Mary Evans, also of Welsh descent. C^PT.MX Benj.amin Brooke, son of James and Mary (Evans) Brooke, born in Limerick township, September 24, 1753, was a distinguished patriot in the Revolutionary War. He was a man of considerable energy and force of char- THOMAS 1 189 _acter, and at the outbreak of the Revolution, he ardently espoused the cause of the colonies, and although he had but recently married and established himself in a good business, he at once volunteered for military service in the field and was commissioned Lieutenant of a Company of Foot, in the Third Battalion of Asso- ciators of Philadelphia county, and leaving his bride of a few months, marched with his command to Amboy, New Jersey. From that time until the close of the war, he was actively engaged in the patriotic struggle. Fie was commissioned Captain of his company, then in the Sixth Battalion, May 12, 1777. Capt. Benjamin Brooke, married, April 25, 1776, Anna Davis, of Welsh ances- try, born November 29, 1754, died September 7, 1823. He died at his residence, Gulph Mills, Upper Merion township, July 22, 1834. They were the parents of Rebecca Brooke, who married Reese Thomas, before referred to, and among others, of Nathan Brooke, born February 8, 1778, who was a farmer and promi- nent business man of Lower Merion, and died there, February 5, 1815. He mar- ried, October 11, 1804, Mary, daughter of Hugh Jones, of Marble township, Chester county, born in Merion, May 12, 1746, died in Marble, December 29, 1796, by his wife, Mary, daughter of James and Hannah (Morgan) Hunter, of Radnor, born November 12, 1757, died August 20, 1820. Hugh Jones Sr., the grandfather of Mary (Jones) Brooke, was born in Merion in 1705, died there, August 8, 1790. He was the original owner of "Brooldield," north of Bryn Mawr, later owned by Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, having purchased first a part of the Lloyd plantation, taken up by Robert Lloyd, and later added largely thereto Honorable Hugh Jones Brooke, of Radnor, son of Nathan and Mary (Jones) Brooke, born December 27, 1805, died December 19, 1876, was for over half a century prominently identified with the affairs of Delaware county and the city of Philadelphia. He was many years a member of the State Senate of Penn- sylvania and filled various other public positions of trust and honor. Trie was largely instrumental in securing the construction of the Philadelphia, Media and Westchester Railroad, and was identified with a number of other public improve- ments, amongst them the Pennsylvania School for Feeble-minded Children, ■erected near Media, and Brooke Hall Female Semmary, erected by him in Media. He was for many years President of the Farmers' Market Company, of Phila- delphia. He married, April 16, 1829, Jemima Elizabeth Longmire, a native of Nottingham, England, and they had issue : — Anna Elizabeth Brooke, d. in childhood; Nathan Brooke, d. May 13, 1885; m. Anna Elizabeth Thomas; Mary Brooke, d. inf.; Francis Mark Brooke, d. Dec. 29, 1898; m. July 19, 1862, Adelaide Hunter Vogdes; Hannah Maria Brooke, m. John L. Evans; Colonel Benjamin Brooke, b. Dec. 13, 1840; d. March 12, 1902, unm. At the out- break of War of Rebellion, he enlisted in 124th Pa. Infantry, under Col. Joseph Hawley, and as Sergeant of Company D of that Regiment, fought in battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville. When term of enlistment expired, he recruited Company B of 203rd Infantry, with which he was at storming of Fort Fisher, where he was severely wounded. He was again wounded in front of Wilmington, N. C, in one of last battles of war. He was then promoted to Lieut.-Col. of 203rd, and came home with that rank. At close of war, he was offered commis- sion in regular army, but declined; Hunter Brooke, m. Mary Amies Thomas; Jemima E. Brooke, d. inf.; Sarah Ann Brooke, m. George M. Lewis. HOP KIN SON FAMILY. Thomas Hopkinson, founder of the Philadelphia family of that name, was son of Thomas and Mary Hopkinson, and was bom in London, England, April 6, 1709, where his father was a prosperous merchant. He attended Oxford Uni- versity, but did not graduate there. He studied law at London, and soon after attaining his majority, emigrated to America. He and his family seem to have had influential friends in Philadelphia, where the young barrister was appointed deputy to Charles Read, then Clerk of the Orphans' Court of Philadelphia county, and on the death of Read was commissioned his successor, January 20, 1736-7, and filled that position until his death on November 5, 1751. On the same date he was commissioned Master of Rolls for Philadelphia, and served until 1741. He was also Deputy Prothonotary under James Hamilton, was commissioned Pro- thonotary November 24, 1748, and served until his death. He was commissioned a Justice June 30, 1749, and a Judge of Vice Admiralty of the Province January 17, 1744-5, and became a member of Provincial Council May 13, 1747. He was also a member of Common Council of Philadelphia from October 6, 1741, to his death. He was a man of high scholastic attainments and deeply interested in scientific and literary subjects. Dr. Franklin, in one of his dissertations on elec- tricity, says, "The power of points to throw off electrical fire was first communi- cated to me by my ingenious friend, Thomas Hopkinson, since deceased, whose virtue and integrity in every station of life, public and private, will ever make his memory dear to those who knew him and knew how to value him." He was an originator of the Philadelphia Library, an original trustee of the College of Phila- delphia (later University of Pennsylvania), first president and one of the most prominent members of the American Philosophical Society. He was from his arrival in Philadelphia until his death prominent in the political and social life of Philadelphia. He was one of the early subscribers to the Dancing Assembly, one of the exclusive social institutions of Colonial Philadelphia. Thomas Hopkinson married at Christ Church, September 9, 1735, Mary John- son, born in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle county, August 4, 1718, died in Philadelphia, November 9, 1804. Her grandfather, George Johnson, was a son of William Johnson, of Laycock, county Wilts, England, and Elizabeth, his wife, and was born at Laycock, Wiltshire, about 1620. He was admitted to the Middle Temple, May 2, 1645 • admitted to the bar, November 24, 1654, and was a Sergeant-at-law in reign of Charles H., who granted him the reversion of the office of Master of Rolls, August 15, 1677, but he did not live to realize the grant, dying May, 1683, before the office became vacant, his wife, Mary, surviving him. A grandson, first cousin of Mrs. Hopkinson, was James Johnson, Lord, Bishop of Worcester. Baldwin Johnson, father of Mrs. Hopkinson, born at Laycock, Wilt- shire, baptized October 25, 1672, removed to the Island of Antigua, and thence to the Lower Counties on the Delaware, where he married Jane, widow of William Dyer, of Kent county (son of Mary Dyer, the Boston Quaker martyr), who had settled in Delaware about 1669. HOPKINSON 1 191 Issue of Thomas and Mary (Johnson) Hopkinson: Francis, b. Sept. 21, 1737; m. Anne Borden; of whom presently; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 15, 1738; m. Rev. Jacob Duche, first pastor of St. Peter's Church, Phila., and first chaplain of Continental Congress; later became "disaffected" to the cause of American independence, went to England and d. there; Mary, b. July s, 1741, d. Aug. 9, 1741; Mary, b. Oct. 9, 1742, d. s. p., Jan. 2, 1785; m. Sept. 4, 1765, John Morgan, A. B., M. D., graduated at Univ. of Pa., (A. B.) 1757; studied medicine under Dr. John Redman, and was director general and physician in chief of General Hospital, Continental Army, 1775-7; member of Society of Belles Letters, Rome; Academy of Surgery, Paris; College of Physicians, London; College of Physicians, Edinburgh, and College of Physicians, Phila.; d. at Phila., Oct. 15, 1789; Jane, b. Oct. 3, 1744, d. unm., Baltimore, Aug. 6, 1811; Anne, b. Nov. 23, 1745, d. Baltimore, Md., April 26, 1817; m. April 26, 1775, Dr. Samuel Stringer Coale, who studied medicine under Dr. John Morgan, and practiced in Balti- more; Thomas, b. Sept. 7, 1747, d. May 26, 1784, graduated at College of Phila., 1766, studied divinity, went to England and France, 1773, returned to Phila., 1774, with a view of taking charge of a mission in Bucks co., but became pastor of St. Thomas' Parish, Baltimore co., Md., Dec. 10, 1775; later had a charge at Shrewsbury, Kent co., and subsequently in Mathews CO., Va. ; Margaret, b. July 21, 1749, d. Sept. 9, 1751. Francis Hopkinson, son of Thomas and Mary (Johnson) Hopkinson, born in Philadelphia, September 21, 1737, was one of the first pupils of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, now University of Pennsylvania, and graduated there 1757. He studied law under Benjamin Chew, Esq., then Provincial Councillor and Attorney General of the Province, and was admitted to the Bar of Philadel- phia county 1 761. The same year he officiated as Secretary at a treaty with the Indians, and commemorated that event in his first poetical effusion, entitled "The Treaty." He became secretary of the Philadelphia Library Company 1759, and was librarian 1764-5. He was also secretary of the vestry of Christ Church and assisted in organizing the library of that church. In May, 1766, he went to Europe with his friend, Redmond Conyngham, who was returning to his estates at Letterkinny, Ireland; arriving at Londonderry June 27, 1766, he spent several weeks in Ireland, and then proceeded to London, where he remained for about one year, with occasional visits to Hartlebury Castle, the home of his mother's first cousin, the Bishop of Worcester. He was hospitably received and entertained by persons of distinction in London, and associated with Hon. John Penn, Lord North, Benjamin West, and others of like distinction. He made an eflfort to obtain the appointment as one of the Commissioners of Customs in North Amer- ica, but did not succeed. He returned to Philadelphia and took up the practice of law, and also devoted some attention to mercantile pursuits, having his store, dwelling and law ofHce on Race street, above Third. He became a member of the American Philosophical Society 1768, and was warden of Christ Church 1770-1. In March, 1772, he was made Collector of His Majesty's Customs at New Castle, the last to serve under the Crown, performing the duties, however, by deputy. He married September 11, 1768, Amie Borden, of Bordentown, New Jersey, made his principal residence for some years in that town, and became a member of Provincial Council of New Jersey (1774-6), was chosen by the Provincial Con- vention, June, 1776, one of its delegates to the Continental Congress, and was one of the committee of that body to draft the Articles of Confederation. He voted 1 192 HOPKINSON in favor of declaring the Colonies independent, and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Francis Hopkinson was delegated by Congress to the important positions of head of Xavy Department, and Treasurer of Continental Loan Office, and he espoused the cause of the struggling Colonies with the utmost zeal and patriotism ; in addition to bringing to official position an executive ability amounting to genius, his ready pen was of incalculable benefit to the cause of independence, his poems, political songs and essays, with their humorous satire, received the widest circula- tion, and did very much to arouse and foster the spirit of national independence and cheer the flagging spirits of its defenders. He had acquired quite a reputation as an author prior to the Revolution, and his "Pretty Story,'' published 1774, in pamphlet form, met with great success, as did his "Prophecy,'" 1776, the cutting satire of his "Political Catechism,'' and other essays, poems and popular airs, did much to expose the weakness of the philosophy of the nation's enemies, and it is impossible to overestimate "the irresistible influence of the ridicule which he poured from time to time upon the enemies of those great political events." Plis "Battle of the Kegs,'' written 1778, his best known ballad, described an attempt on the British fleet at Philadelphia by floating torpedoes down the river, and brought out the ridiculous side of the terror it caused among the British officers in the greatest possible manner. On July 16, 1779, he was appointed by the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, to succeed George Ross as Judge of the Admiralty, and held that position until 1790, when the office was abolished by the adoption of the new constitution. He was then appointed by President Washing- ton, Judge of the newly established District Court of the United States, for the District of Pennsylvania, and died while filling that position. May 9, 1791, from a stroke of apoplexy, which he survived but two hours. In 1789 he published a volume of his decisions as Judge of the Admiralty Court. His best known writ- ings were "The Pretty Story," 1774; "The Prophecy," 1776; "The Political Catechism," 1777; "The Treaty," 1762; "The Battle of the Kegs," 1778; "History of a New Roof," descriptive of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, 1790; "Typographical Method of Conducting a Quarrel," "Essay on White Washing," and "Modern Learning." An edition of his "Miscellaneous Essays and Occa- sional Writings" was published in three volumes, Philadelphia, 1792. We are indebted to the work of O. G. Sonneck, entitled "Two Studies in Early .American Music," published in 1905, for a minute account of the attainments of Francis Hopkinson in music. It shows that he stood in the centre of musical life in Philadelphia, and that he was pre-eminent as a psalmodist, teacher, organist, harpsicordist, essayist, composer and improver of the harpsicord; that he was selected, 1764, by the consistory of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York, to versify the Psalms of David in English; that he was the first native poet-composer of the United States, and probably the first native to produce a musical composition, which latter distinction Francis Hopkinson him- self claimed in the dedication of his "Seven Songs" to George Washington, "How- ever small the Reputation may be that I shall derive from this Work, I cannot, I beheve, be refused the credit of being the first Native of the United States who has produced a Musical Composition." Francis Hopkinson married at Bordentown, New Jersey, September 11, 1768, Anne, daughter of Joseph Borden, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel HOPKINSON 1 193 and Mary Rogers. The great-great-grandparents of Mrs. Hopkinson, Richard and Joan Borden, settled at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, prior to 1638, and their son, Benjamin, born at Portsmouth, May 16, 1649, married at Hartford, Con- necticut, September 22, 1681, Abigail, daughter of Henry Glover, and removed to Shrewsbury, New Jersey, where their seventh child, Joseph Borden, grand- father of Mrs. Hopkinson, was born, March 12, 1687. He was the founder of Bordentown ; married Ann Conover, and died September 22, 1765, leaving one son, Joseph, father of Mrs. Hopkinson, and a daughter, Mary, wife of Chief Justice Thomas McKean. Mrs. Hopkinson died at Bordentown, August 31, 1827. Issue of Francis and Anne (Borden) Hopkinson: James, b. Oct. 30, 1769, d. Aug. 12, 1775; Joseph, b. Nov. 12, 1770, d. Jan. 15, 1842; m. Emily Mifflin; of whom presently; Elizabeth, b. July 26, 1772, d. 1839; m, Jonathan William Condy, A. B., of Phila. Bar; Mary, b. Nov. 28, 1773, d. Oct. 17, 1806; m. Nov. 4, 1794, Isaac Smith, M. D., of Balti- more, Md., later of Northampton co., Va. ; their second son, Francis Hopkinson Smith, b. March 14, 1797, m. Sept. 5, 1820, Susanna Brown Upshur, dau. of John Teackle, of Craddock, Accomac co., Va., and was father of Francis Hopkinson Smith, the well-known author, artist and lecturer, b. 1838; Thomas, b. Dec. 31, 1775, d. Jan. i, 1776; Anne, b. Oct. 19, 1777, d. Sept. 19, 1868; m. Nov. 10, 1802, Ebenezer Stout; Thomas, b. Sept. 23, 1779, d. Nov. 5, 1779; Francis, b. May 13, 1781; m. Hewitt, of Baltimore, Md.; Sarah Johnson, b. May 26, 1784, d. Aug. 19, 1785. JOSEPH Hopkinson, eldest surviving .son of Francis and Anne (Borden) Hop- kinson, author of "Hail Columbia," was born in Philadelphia, November 12, 1770, and baptized at Christ Church, January 5, 1773. He graduated at University of Pennsylvania, and studied law with Judge Wilson and William Rawle. He com- menced practice at Easton, Pennsylvania, but soon after returned to Philadelphia, and became one of the leading lights of the bar of that county and city, acting as counsel in many celebrated cases, among them the libel case of Dr. Rush vs. Cob- bett, and the impeachment proceedings against Justice Chase, in which Mr. Hop- kinson especially distinguished himself. He was a member of the National House of Representatives, 181 5-19, and voted against the rechartering of the United .States Bank. He held an exceedingly high position as a public speaker ; Sander- son, in his "Life of the Signers,'' referring to the inpeachment proceedings against Judge Samuel Chase before the United States Senate, 1805, says: "The speech of Mr. Hopkinson, then a very young man, has not been exceeded as a specimen of powerful and brilliant eloquence, in the forensic oratory of the country." At the conclusion of his term in Congress he resided three years in Bordentown. In 182S he was appointed by President Adams, Judge of the United States District Court, an office held by his father at the time of his death, and he too filled it until his death, January 15, 1842. He was vice-president of the American Philosoph- ical Society, and president of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, the latter of which institutions owed its existence to a large extent to his exertions. He was a warm friend of education, and gave hearty support to the various educational institutions of his native city. He was a Federalist in politics. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1837, and as a member of the Committee on Judiciary, contended successfully for life tenure for Judges of the higher courts. He was author of various addresses and published articles on legal and ethical 1 194 HOPKINSON subjects. His authorship of the national song, "Hail Columbia," came about in rather a singular manner. In 1798, when war with France was thought to be immment and inevitable. Congress was in session in Philadelphia, and political excitement on this subject ran very high. A friend of Mr. Hopkinson connected with a theatre in Philadelphia, was given a benefit, and realizing that the only way he could secure a full house was to introduce something of a political nature, the public mind being so much engrossed with political questions, appealed to his friend and old schoolmate, Joseph Hopkinson, for advice and assistance in secur- ing a patriotic song to be sung at his benefit. Mr. Hopkinson told him to call the next afternoon and he would furnish him with a song. It was an immense suc- cess, and was encored and repeated night after night for weeks, the audience joining in the chorus, and it was sung in the streets in large assemblies and pro- cessions and in an incredibly short space of time was being sung and applauded in ail parts of the United States. Joseph Hopkinson married February 27, 1794, Emily, daughter of Gen. Thomas Mifflin. Issue of Joseph and Emily (Mifflin) Hopkinson: Thomas Mifflin, b. Dec. 18, 1794, d. s. p., May 9, 1871 ; m. Mary Pearson ; Francis, of Bordentown, N. J., b. July 20, 1796, d. June 2, 1870; m. Jan. 13, 1829, Ann Biddle, dau. of Charles Biddle; James, b. Aug. 25, 1797, d. Oct. 10, 1800 ; Joseph, b. Jan. 8, 1799, d. Sept. 9, 1799; Elizabeth Borden, b. Jan. 6, 1800, d. Sept. 20, 1891 ; m. (first) May 19, 1824, John J. Keating, of Phila. ; (second) WilHam Shepard Biddle; John Penington Hopkinson, M. D., b. Dec. 26, 1801, d. s. p., March 6, 1836, while demon- strator of anatomy at Univ. of Pa.; Joseph, b. March 20, 1803, d. young; Alexander Hamilton, b. Aug. 4, 1804, Lieutenant in U. S. N., d. on the "Lexington," off Malta, Aug. 11, 1827; Emily, b. Nov. 30, 1805, d. April 9, 1806; George, b. Oct. 4, 1807, d. young; James, b. May 18, 1810, d. Jan. 28, 1875; m. June 12, 1844, Carolina Lafayette Seabrook, of South Carolina; OtlvER, b. July 24, 1812, d. March 10, 1905; m. Eliza Swaim; of whom presently; Edward Coale, b. Feb. 14, 1814, d. s. p., while in service of U. S. N. as midshipman; Joseph, b. March 30, 1816, graduated at Univ. of Pa., 1833, with degree of M. D.; surgeon U. S. N.; m. (first) Joanna McCrea, (second) Sarah Wistar; d. Phila., July 11, 1865, while in charge of the Mower Hospital. Oliver Hopkinson, son of Hon. Joseph and Emily (Mifflin) Hopkinson, was born in Philadelphia, July 24, 18 12, and went to a school at a very early age at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, of which Rev. Dr. Brownlie was principal. He sub- sequently attended the Academy of Dr. Wiltbank, in Philadelphia, then the Rock- hill Academy, conducted by Mr. Sams, at Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, where he remained two years. While at Rockhill Academy he spent his Saturdays and Sundays at the manor of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, with whose family the Hopkinsons had long been intimate, and of whom Oliver Hopkinson preserved a recollection as a venerable and dignified gentleman. He entered the freshman class (class of '32), University of Pennsylvania, De- partment of Arts, 1828. At his death he was the oldest living graduate. While at the university he was a member of the Zelosophic Society and took an active ^. y'V^i^ ^i^/^c>it^^f-^<^ HOPKINSON 1 195 part in its exercises. He obtained his degree of Bachelor of Arts 1832, and of Master of Arts 1835. After graduation he began the study of law in the office of Hon. John Sergeant, but discontinued, entering the corps of civil engineers of Moncure Robinson, and under him was engaged for two years in surveys in Pennsylvania and Virginia, one of them being the experimental survey for the Philadelphia & Reading Rail- way, between Philadelphia and Reading. Having resumed the study of law in the office of William M. Meredith, Mr. Hopkinson was admitted to the Philadelphia liar 1837, and as assistant to Mr. Meredith, then United States District Attorney, conducted, before Justice Baldwin, the memorable trial of Alexander W. Holmes, who was one of the crew of the ship, "William Brown," and was on trial for man- slaughter on the high seas ; Holmes had hurled a passenger overboard from an overloaded life-boat, containing the survivors of the wreck of the ship. Mr. Hopkinson was a member of the Volunteer Corps, National Grays, Captain Fritz, and subsequently a Lieutenant in the Cadwalader Grays, Captain Scott, with which company he took part in the suppression of the riot in Queen street, 1844, when an attempt to burn a Catholic Church was apprehended. The next night he had command of the detachment detailed for the protection of St. John's Church, and of the arsenal opposite the church. He served in the War of the Rebellion, as Lieutenant Colonel of First Regiment, Delaware Volunteers, and was wounded at the battle of Antietam. "To him/' as stated in a history of the regiment, "more than to anyone, the regiment owed its acknowledged skill and efficiency as skirmishers, he having drilled them with special pains and remarkable success." While the regiment was encamped at Old Point Comfort he witnessed the famous combat between the "Monitor" and the "Merrimac." He resigned his commission on surgeon's certificate of physical disability, but in 1863, when Lee invaded Pennsylvania, he was tendered command of the Fifty-first Pennsylvania (Second Coal Regiment), which he accepted and held during that regiment's term of service. Mr. Hopkinson inherited his grandfather's fondness for music and was well known in Philadelphia as an amateur violinist. His home at 1424 Spruce street was for many years the place for reunion of artists and lovers of music. Among his earliest recollections was that of Joseph Bonaparte, who resided at Borden- town. New Jersey, and who was a frequent visitor at his father's house. He remembered going with his parents on many occasions to dine with the "Count" at "Point Breeze," titles which Bonaparte had adopted for himself and his resi- dence. Oliver Hopkinson married, 1845, Eliza, daughter of William Swaim, a Captain in the War of 1812, of Huguenot descent, whose ancestors settled in Connecticut early in tlje seventeenth century. One of Mrs. Hopkinson's ancestors was a mem- ber of the first General Court ( the name for the Legislature in the New England Colonies) of that Colony, held at Hartford, April 26, 1636. Mr. Hopkinson preserved his faculties in a remarkable degree, even after he was ninety years old, and for only a very few of his last years chd failing sight prevent his active participation in rendering classical music at the gatherings at his home. He died March 10, 1905, at his residence, 1424 Spruce street, Phila- delphia. 1 196 HOPKINSON Of JNIr. Hopkinson's six sons, four were graduates of University of Pennsyl- vania: Joseph, '69, Coll.; Edward, '72, Coll.; Oliver, Jr., '80, Coll., and '83 Medi- cal Department; and James Swaim^ '82, Coll. Issue of Oliver and Eliza (Swaini) Hopkinson: William Francis, b. May 8, 1846, graduated from Polytechnic College, Phila. ; assistant civil engineer Pa. Railroad; m. Oct 14, 1880, Jeannette Hileman, of Altoona, Pa.; they reside (1907) at Williamsport, Pa., and have issue : Walter Waring, b. June 29, 1881, at Altoona, Pa.; Gabriella Biddle, b. Sept. 8, 1883, at Elmira, N. Y. Joseph, b. Feb. 25, 1848, graduated from Univ. of Pa., A. B., 1869; A. M., 1872; received freshman and sophomore declamation prizes; member Delta Psi fraternity; admitted to Phila. Bar; m. in Phila., April 7, 1879, Catharine Frances, dau. of William M. Baird, of Phila.; residence, 1302 Spruce street, Phila.; they have issue: Frances, b. March 22, 1880; Marguerite Baird, b. Oct. 26, 1883. Edward, b. Nov. 11, 1850, graduated at Univ. of Pa., A. B., 1872; A. M., 1875; member Philomathean Society, Univ. of Pa.; admitted to Phila. Bar, Dec. 1876; m. in Phila., Nov. II, 1884, Abbie Woodruffe, dau. of Richard Colegate Dale, of Phila.; they have issue : Edward, b. Phila., Sept. 29, 1885; student at Univ. of Pa.; Richard Dale, b. in Phila., July 11, 1887; student at Univ. of Pa. Elizabeth Borden, b. Paris, France, March 7, 1852; member of Pa. Society of Colonial Dames of America, and Daughters of American Revolution; m. in Phila., June 4, 1878, Richard Loper Baird. Mr. Baird graduated from Polytechnic College, Phila., 1870, and from Law Dept. of Univ. of Pa., (LL. B.) 1874, and was admitted to Phila. Bar, 1875. He was State Clerk under Phila. City Treasurer, W. Redwood Wright; Chief of Law Division of Phila. Custom House under Collector John Cadwalader; and United States Appraiser of Port of Phila. during President Cleveland's second administration. He is a member of the Law Association of Phila., Univ. Barge Club, Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, and Young America Cricket Club. Issue of R. Loper and Elizabeth Borden (^Hopkinson) Baird : Oliver Hopkinson Baird, b. March 22, 1879; member of Pa. Society, Sons of Revolution, and Germantown Cricket Club; Elizabeth Biddle Baird, b. Feb. 4, 1881 ; m. June i, 1905, Charles Edwin ShuU, and has issue : Elizabeth Borden Hopkinson ShuU, b. March 20, 1906. Richard Loper Baird, Jr., b. Sept. 13, 1882. Isabella Mease, b. March 8, 1854, d. Sept. 26, 1855; Emily Olivia, b. July 15, 1855; member of Pa. Society, Colonial Dames of America; m. Oct. 31, 1882, Hood Gilpin, b. Phila., Oct. 19, 1853, son of Charles and Sarah Hamilton (Hood) Gilpin. Mr. Gilpin entered Univ. of Pa., 1868, was president of Zelosophic Society there, and graduated with degree of A. B., 1872, and A. M., 1875; was admitted to Phila. Bar, Dec. i, 1874; Assistant United States District Attorney, Eastern District of Pa., Nov., 1875, to Jan., 1885; School Director, Eighth Ward, Phila., from Dec. 31, 1889, to the present time; president of Board from April 6, 1896, to Feb. 7, 1906. Issue of Hood and Emily Olivia (Hopkinson) Gilpin : Francis Hopkinson Gilpin, b. Aug. 3, 1883; graduated from Univ. of Pa., class of 1904, in Mechanical Engineering Dept. ; member Sigma Chi fraternity and Engi- neer's Club of Phila.; Gabriella Gilpin, b. March 14, 1885; Hood Gilpin, Jr., b. Aug. 3, 1891; student at William Penn Charter School, Phila. Oliver, Jr., b. Phila., Dec. 7, 1857; graduated from Univ. of Pa., A. B., 1880, and M. D., 1883; distinguished merit for graduation thesis in medicine; resident physician, Epis- copal Hospital, Phila., 1884-85; District Physician, Twenty-sixth Ward, Phila.; mem- ber Medical Association, Phila. County Medical Society, Obstetrical Society, Phila.; Historical Society of Pa., and Pa. Society, Sons of Revolution; m. Nov. 2, 1887, Julia Frances, dau. of Alfred Thompson, of Bordentown, N. J.; resided 1606 S. Broad street until death of father, when he removed to 1424 Spruce; issue: Emily Gilpin Hopkinson, b. March 28, 1890. Julius, b. July 2, 1859, d. June I, 1906; m. Sept. I, 1885, Lillie Bartels, and has issue : Oliver William Hopkinson, b. May 31, 1886. HOPKINSON 1 197 James Swaim, b. Phila., Oct, 2, 1861 ; received early education in classical institute of Dr. John W. Faires, Phila., and entered freshman class, scientific course, Univ. of Pa., 1878, receiving degree of Bachelor of Science, 1882; he then entered the service of Pa. Railroad Company, and became supervisor of Susquehannah Division, stationed at Lock Haven, Pa.; m. Oct. 11, 1894, Irene, dau. of Simon S. Bowman, of Millersburg, Pa.; was member of Pa. Society, Sons of Revolution; d. Phila., Jan. 5, 1906; Gabriella Butler, b. Oct. 29, 1863, d. Sept. 9, 1882, unm., bur. at Laurel Hill Cemetery; Laura, b. Sept. 17, 1865, d. Aug. 6, 1866. UPDEGRAVE FAMILY. The earliest ancestor of the Updegrave family of Pennsylvania, of whom we have any record, was Herman Op de Graeff, born in village of Aldekerk, or Alde- kerry, on Lower Rhine, November 26, 1585. On August 16, 1605, he married Grietje Pletjes, and removed to Crefeld, borders of Holland. He was a delegate from the Crefeld district to the Council of Dordrecht in 1632, when was formu- lated the first Mennonite confession of faith. He died at Crefeld, December 27, 1642. Isaac Op De Graeff, only son of Herman and Grietje (Pletjes) Op de Graefl, of whom we have any record, was born at Crefeld, Germany, February 28, 1616. The name of his wife, nor the date of his marriage, have not been ascertained, but he is said to have been the father of eighteen children, of whom four, Her- man, Dirck, Abraham and Margaret, were among the first colony of Germans and Palatines to found a home in Pennsylvania. With ten other families they left Crefeld in 1683, and sailing for Philadelphia, arrived there October 6, 1683, and October 14 took up their residence at Germantown, on land previously purchased by them collectively, under the title of "The Frankfort Company." Little time intervened between their arrival and the beginning of the winter season, and many of the families, including the Op de Graefifs, made their homes, until the following springs in caves on the banks of the Delaware. The original of the following curious paper is still in existence : "We whose names are to these presents subscribed, do hereby certify unto all whom it may concern. That soon after our arrival in the Province of Pennsylvania, in October, 1683, to our certain knowledge, Herman op de Graeff, Dirk op de Graeff, and Abraham op de Graeff, as well as ourselves, in the cave of Francis Daniel Pastorious, att Philadelphia, did cast lots for the respective lots which they and we then began to settle in Germantown; and the said Graeffs (three brothers) have sold their several lots, each by himself, no less than if a division in writing had been made by them. "Witness our hands, this 29th. Novr., A. D., 1709. LENERT ARETS JAN LENSEN THONES KUNDER WILLIAM STREYPERS ABRAHAM TUNES REINER TYSEN JAN LUCKEN." The three Op de Graeff brothers were linen weavers, Abraham, youngest of the trio, being especially expert in the art of weaving. Though followers of Menno Simon, the Op de Graeffs for a time affiliated with the Friends, to which faith a number of the Germans in the Colony had been converted prior to their removal from their native country, and Dirck Isaacs Op de Graeff (as he was usually known, though the only one of the brothers to retain his father's given name as a stJrname, according to the Dutch custom), re- mained a member of the Society until his death in 1697. He was a representative of Germantown Meeting in the Monthly Meeting at Abington, and was sent by that Monthly Meeting to the Quarterly Meeting at Philadelphia, 6mo. 27, 1697. Both Dirck and Abraham Op de Graeff were signers of the famous protest against human slavery, presented to the Monthly Meeting at Lower Dublin, 2mo. 30, UPDEGRAVE 1199 1688; which remarkable document coming from and written by Germans less than five years in this country, we deem of sufficient interest to be reproduced here in full. It is as follows : "This to the Monthly Meeting, held at Richard Worrel's : — "These are the reasons why we Are against the traffic of men's body, as foUoweth : — Is there any that will be done or handled at this manner? Viz, to be sold or made a slave for all the time of his life? How fearful and faint hearted are many at sea, when they see a strange vessel, being afraid it should be a Turk, and that they should be taken and sold for Slaves in Turkey. Now what is this better done, than Turks do? Yea, rather it is worse for them, which say they are Christians; for we hear that the most part such Negers are brought hither against their will and consent and that many of them are stolen, now though they are black we cannot conceive there is more liberty to have them slaves as it is to have other white ones. There is a saying that we shall do to all men like as we will be done our- selves, making no difference of what generation, descent or color they are. And thise who steal or rob men, and those who purchase them, are they all not alike? Here is liberty of conscience, which is right and reasonable; here likewise ought liberty of the body except of evil doers, which is another case. But to bring men hither, or to rob, steal and sell them, against their will, we will stand against. "In Europe there are many oppressed for Conscience sake; and here there are those oppressed which are of black color. And we who know that men must not commit adultery, — some do commit adultery in others, separating wives from their husbands, and giving them to others; and some sell the children of these poor creatures to other men. Ah! do consider well this thing, you who do it, if you would be done in this manner, and if it is done according to Christianity. You surpass Holland and Germany in this thing. This makes ill report in all those countries of Europe where they hear of it, that the Quakers do here handel men as they handel there the Cattel, and for that reason some have no mind or inclination to come hither. And whom shall maintain this your cause or plead it? Truly we cannot do so, except you shall better inform us thereof, viz, that Christians have liberty to practice these things. "Pray, what thing in the world can be done worse towards us, than if men should rob us away, and sell us for slaves to strange countries; separating husbands from wives and children? Being now this is not done in the manner we would be done at; therefore we contradict, and are against this traffick of men's Bodys, and we who profess that it is not lawfuU to steal must likewise avoid to purchase such things as are stolen, but rather help to stop this robbing, and stealing if possible. "And such men ought to be delivered out of the hands of the robbers, and set free in Europe, then in Pennsylvania to have a good report, instead it hath now a bad one, for this sake in other countries. Especially whereas the Europeans are desirous to know in what manner the Quakers do rule in their Province, and most of them do look upon us with an envious eye. But if this is done well, what is done evil? If once these slaves, (which they say are so wicked and stubborn men) should join themselves fight to for their freedom and handel their masters and mistresses take the sword at hand and war against these poor slaves like, as we are able to beheve some will not refuse to do? Or have these poor negroes not as much right to fight for their freedom as you have to keep them slaves? "Now consider well this thing, if it is good or bad. And in case you find it to be good, to handel these blacks in that way, we desire and request you, hereby lovingly, that you may inform us herein which at this time never was done, viz, that Christians have such liberty to do so. To this end we shall be satisfyed on this point, and satisfy likewise our good friends and acquaintances in their native countries, to whom it is a terror or fearful! thing that men should bee handled so in Pennsylvania. "This is from our Meeting at German Town, held ye i8th of ye 2d. Month, 1688; to be delivered to the Monthly Meeting at Richard Worrell's. "[Signed! GERRET HENDRICKS, DERICK OP DE GRAEFF, FRANCIS DANIEL PASTORIUS, ABRAHAM OP DE GRAEFF." It bears the following endorsements : "At our Monthly Meeting at Dublin, ye 30th. of ye 2d. Month, 1688 : — We having in- spected ye matter above mentioned and considered of it, we find it so weighty that we think it not expedient for us to meddle with it here, but do rather commit it to ye consideration of ye Quarterly Meeting; ye tenor of it being related to ye Truth, "Signed on behalfe of ye Monthly Meeting, "JO. HART." "This above mentioned was read in our Quarterly Meeting, att Philadelphia, the 4th of the 4th Month, '88, and was from thence recommended to ye Yearly Meeting, and the above I200 UPDEGRAVE said Derick, and the other two mentioned therein, to present the same to ye above said Meeting, it being of too great a weight for this meeting to determine. ''Signed by Order of ye Meeting, "ANTHONY MORRIS." When George Keith issued his famous schism against the Friends in 1692, Herman and Abraham Op de Graeff signed his "Protest," while Dirck apposed him and signed the "Testimony" against him in 1693. When William Penn issued the charter incorporating Germantown, August 12, 1688, all three of the Op de Graeff brothers were named as Burgesses, and Dirck was a Bailiff of the town, 1693-94. He died without issue, 1697, and his widow, Nelcken, died in 1719. Herman Op de Graeff, eldest of the brothers, removed to Kent county, now Delaware, 1701, died there in 1704. He left one daughter, Margaret, who mar- ried Peter Shoemaker, Jr., son of Peter, who had come from Kreigsheim, Ger- many, and they have left numerous descendants in Bucks and Montgomery coun- ties. Herman is not known to have had male issue. Abraham Op de Graeff was therefore the ancestor of all who bore the name in Pennsylvania. He was one of the first Burgesses and Bailiffs of Germantown, and was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania in 1689-90-92. In 1709 he purchased a large tract of land in "Van Bebber's Township," a name applied generally to the early settled part of the Perkiomen region of Philadelphia county, from the fact that six thousand six hundred and sixteen acres were taken up there by Matthias Van Bebber, in 1704, and later partitioned among a number of the Germantown families and later German immigrants. The Op de Graeff purchase was located in what became Perkiomen and Skippack township in 1725. Abraham Op de Graeff removed to that section, as several deeds of record of the date 1710 give his residence as "Perkiomy." He died there and was buried in the old Mennonite burying-ground at Skippackville. The one thousand acres of land purchased by the three Op de Graeff brothers of Jacob Telner, agent for the Frankfort Company, by deed dated at Amsterdam, June 11, 1683, was never partitioned between them, though each had conveyed certain portions thereof. The remainder as shown by later deeds descended to Abraham, by right of sur- vivorship, and was conveyed partly by him and partly by his sons and daughters in 1715, after his death Catharine, wife of Abraham, evidently died prior to 1710,. as she does not join in deeds of that date. Issue of Abraham and Catharine Op de Graeff: Jacob, b. Germantown, d. Skippack, 1750; m. Anneken In de Hoffen; of whom presently r Isaac, m. Mary Basilher, removed to Chester co. 1732, and is supposed to be the ancestor of the Updegraves, later prominent in York co. ; his son, Jacob, who m. Sarah Butler, was father of Sarah Optigrove, who m. Joseph Whittaker, iron master, and ancestor of Gov. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker; Margaret, m. Thomas Howe, tailor, of Germantown, later of "Parqueomen;" Anneken, m, Feb. 6, 1710-11, Herman in de Hoffen, brother of Annecken, wife of her brother, Jacob; settled with him at Skippack, with his brother, Eberhardt in de Hoffen, and both are bur. in the old Skippack burying-ground; Elizabeth, m. Peter Von; but d. prior to 1711; probably without issue. Jacob Op de Gr^veff, as his name appears to deeds, though his children seem to liave been the first to spell the name in its present form "Updegrave," was possibly the eldest son of Abraham and Cathrina or Tryntje Op de Graeff. As shown by UPDEGRAVE 1201 the record of his marriage he was born at Germantown ; though according to Gov. Pennypacker's "Settlement of Germantown" he appears of record there as early as 1701, in which year he was fined for "taking a horse out of Custody." On the records of the Dutch Reformed Church of Bensalem appears the following record of his marriage : "April 29, 1712 : Jacob Op de Graeff, Jong Mahn, Geboren in Germantown, an noew voonende op Schepack, met Annechen ten houven, Jong Dochter geboren ten Muhlheim- aender-Roer." Of the same date we find the record of the marriage of "Peter ten heuven jong mahn, geboren et Muhlheim-on-der-Roer to Sydonia an Leuvenigh jong dochter, geboren at Germantown," and residing in Rocks township. Also the marriage, on February 6, 1710-11, of "Harmenken ten Heuven" to "Annechen Op de Graef ;" and on April i, 171 1, of Peter Von, widower of "Elizabeth Op de Graef," to Ger- ritje Jansen. Who this Elizabeth Op de Graef was does not appear, but she was possibly another daughter of Abraham and Tryntje, who having died before her father, and without issue, her name does not appear in the partition of his lands. Evert or Eberhardt in de Hoffen as his name appears on a tombstone in Skippack burying-ground, came from Muhlheim-on-the-Rohr, and was a resident of Ger- mantown, 1699, and possibly much earlier, though probably not as early as the Op de Graeff family, since his children seem to have been born at Muhlheim. Besides Peter, Herman and Annechen, above mentioned, he had a son, Eberhardt, born 1682, died 1746, who with a son of the same name, born 1708, and a wife, Anna Maria, is buried at Skippack. The name became anglicized into De Haven, and is now quite common in various parts of Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Jacob Op de Graeff as shown by the record of his marriage was a resident of "Schepack," Philadelphia county, 1712. On June 2, 1713, he was one of the petitioners, among other "People of Skeepack and Adjacent Plantations," for a road from that section to Farmer's Mill, and was also a petitioner for the formation of the township of Skippack and Perkiomen, 1725. In 1721 he purchased land there of Matthias Van Bebber and Hermione, his wife, which in 1740 he conveyed to his son, Abraham. He also owned considerable other land there which he conveyed to his son, Edward. The name of his wife as given in these deeds was Susanna ; whether, since she signed by mark, this was a mistake of the scrivener, or whether he had married a second time prior to 1740, is problematical ; it seems hardly probable that the Dutch name of Annecken could have been corrupted into Susanna. There is little doubt that his sons, Abraham and Edward, were at least sons of Annecken, as Edward, younger of the two, probably was named for his maternal grandfather, Eberhardt (otherwise Edward) in de Hoffen. The will of "Jacob Op de Graf, of Perqueomin, in county of Philadelphia," dated September 21, 1750, and proven at Philadelphia, October i, 1750, mentions sons, Abraham and Edward, daughters, Elizabeth, Cathrina, Margaret and Ene- ken, and son-in-law, Richard Gable. Abraham Updegrave, eldest son of Jacob and Annecken (in de Hoffen) Op de Graeff, was born at Skippack, about 1714, died there in the winter of 1787-8. In 1740 his father conveyed to him a farm of one hundred acres in Perkiomen and Skippack township, on which he resided and of which he died seized, intestate, letters of administration being granted on his estate, January 5, 1788, to his eldest I202 UPDEGRAVE son, Henry Updegrave, his widow, Christine, renouncing. Since the Mennonite denomination to which he belonged kept no record of marriages, the date of his marriage and the maiden name of his wife have not been ascertained. Issue of Abraham and Christine Updegrave: Henry, who purchased the homestead of the other heirs in 1791 ; Edward, b. about 1740, of whom presently; Beredina, m. John Smith; Hannah, m. Joseph Tyson; Susanna, m. John Tyson; Elizabeth, unm. in 1791; Mary, m. Nicholas Johnston. Edward Updegr^we, second son of Abraham and Christine Updegrave, born in Perkiomen and Skippack township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, about 1740, removed to Plumstead township, Bucks county, about the time of attaining his majority, and was the owner, at different periods, of several tracts of land in that township, at one time owning and operating a distillery there. In 1776 he was arrested by order of the Bucks County Committee of Safety, on the charge that he had uttered expressions "disrespectful to Congress and the Associators," l>ut when summoned before a committee appointed to investigate the charge, they found that "his remarks had been nothing more than a reflection upon the char- acter of some of the Plumstead Associators," and on taking the oath and making the declaration that he meant no disrespect to Congress, he was discharged. The date of his death has not been ascertained, but he lived to a ripe old age, and was well remembered by his grandson, Joseph Updegrave, of Doylestown, who died about 1894, aged about eighty years. He is described as a typical "Dutchman" in personal appearance, rather short of stature, but heavily built, with short neck, peculiar to those of Holland descent. He was an expert performer on the violin, and frequently officiated at local gatherings as a musician. He was living in 181 5 when he was administrator of the estate of his son-in-law, John Closson. Edward Updegrave married (first) about 1767, Sarah, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Harmer) Mitchell, of Buckingham, and (second) (prior to the convey- ance of his father's lands to his brother, Henry, in 1791) Elizabeth, supposed to have been the sister to his first wife. William Mitchell, whose daughter, if not daughters, Edward Updegrave mar- ried, became a landowner in Upper Buckingham, Bucks county, about 1740, and in August, 1742, at his request was admitted as a member of Buckingham Friends' Meeting, and taking a certificate from that Meeting to Abington Meeting was mar- ried there in November of the same year to Elizabeth, daughter of George and Anne (Williams) Harmer, and granddaughter of William and Ruth Palmer, of Upper Dublin township, Philadelphia county. William Harmer, her grandfather, was a son of George Harmer, of Mounden, Parish of Redboren-Chiney, county of Wilts, England, and with his brother, George, came to Philadelphia, 1682, and became a large landowner in the city and county of Philadelphia ; his son, William, married Eleanor, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Bevan) Richardson, and granddaughter of Samuel Richardson, Pro- vincial Councillor, and of John Bevan, an account of whom and some of their de- scendants is given in our account of the Bevan and Richardson families in this work UPDEGRAVE i20j William Harmer was also the ancestor of Gen. Josiah Harmer, first commander- in-chief of the United States Army, after Washington. He was a member of the Society of Friends and brought a certificate from the Monthly Meeting at Purton, Wiltshire, dated 4th mo. (June) 5, 1682, which was deposited at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. He married Ruth , who survived him and married John Inglis, 1737, he having died in Upper Dublin about 1733, leaving a will dated Jan- uary 21, 1731-2. William and Ruth were the parents of eight children: Jane, married 1712, John Bradfield, of Buckingham, Bucks county; Elizabeth, married Joseph Townsend, of Byberry, same year; William, before mentioned, married Eleanor Richardson, 1717; George, father of Elizabeth (Harmer) Mitchell; Ruth,, married John Thompson, of Warwick, Bucks county ; John ; Joshua, married Jane Jones, 1726, settled in Springfield township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery, county ; daughter, married Philip Williams, mentioned in his will. George Harmer, son of William and Ruth, took a certificate from Abington Meeting to Gwynedd Meeting to marry, and on the records of the latter Meeting we find the following, under date of March 26, 1724, "George Harmer, son of William, of Upper Dublin township. Yeoman, married to Anne Williams, daughter of Evan Williams, deceased, of same county, at the house of John Jacobs at Per- queomen ; among the witnesses are John, Joshua and William Harmer ; Joseph and Elizabeth Townsend; John Thompson, and David and Elizabeth Williams." George Harmer was a carpenter, and purchased one hundred and four acres of land at Abington in 1724. The date of his death has not been ascertained. Evan Williams, father of Anne, wife of George Harmer, was a son of David Williams, of Llansphen, Parish of Llandilwawr, Caernarvonshire, Wales, who brought a certificate for himself, wife and family to Radnor Meeting, where it was recorded May 26, 1693. Evan Williams, "Batchelor," and Margaret Richards, "Spinster," both of Haverford, Welsh Tract, were married at the Public Meeting House at Haverford, July 7, 1697. Margaret Richards was a daughter of John and Susan Richards, who brought a certificate from Dolgelly Meeting in Merioneth- shire, Wales, August 8, 1690. Evan Williams settled on the Skippack, Philadel- phia, now Montgomery county, where he died, leaving a will dated August 26, and proven March 3, 1715-16, in which are mentioned his sons, Lewis and David, and daughters, Anne and EHzabeth. The latter married Matthias Rittenhouse and was the mother of David Rittenhouse, eminent astronomer, and treasurer of Penn- sylvania during the Revolution. Lewis Evans married Jane, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, of Merion, 1723, died at White Marsh 1727. His brother, David, died in Norriton, 1731, unmarried, leaving his estate to his sisters, Elizabeth Rittenhouse and Anne Harmer. William Mitchell, father of Sarah (Mitchell) Updegrave, died in Buckingham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, leaving a will dated October 24, 1760, proven December 9, 1760, by which he devised his real estate to his wife, Elizabeth, for life, then to his children. The widow, Elizabeth Mitchell, nee Harmer, who had married (second) Asa Fell, died prior to January 14, 1780, on which date the children made conveyance of the real estate. The children of William and Elizabeth (Harmer) Mitchell, as shown by the deed above recited and other records, were : 1204 UPDEGRAVE Elizabeth Mitchell, single in 1780, but became the second wife of Edward Updegrave prior to 1791, when she joined him in the conveyance of his father's real estate; Sarah, m. Edward Updegrave, about 1767, and was living in 1780, but deceased prior to 1 791; George, m. Aug. 21. 1776, Susanna Belts, at Wrightstown Friends' Meeting; William, m. Nov. 14, 1776, Mary Brown, of Buckingham: Ann, m. John Poole, of Warwick, now Doylestown township, and with him removed to Baltimore co., Md. The children of Edward Updegrave, all probably by first wife, Sarah ^litchell, were : Elizabeth, b. May i, 1769; m. 1788, John Closson, of Plumstead township, Bucks co.; Sarah, m. Samuel Heiser, and resided near Evansburg, Montgomery co.. Pa.; bur. at the Trappe; Joseph, b. 1778, d. at Doylestown, Bucks co., Aug. 31, 1863; m. Feb. 29, 1814, Elizabeth Gasho, of Upper Providence, Montgomery co. ; Henry, of Plumstead township. Bucks co., who has descendants of the name still resid- ing in that vicinity; Susanna, an invalid. CLOSSON FAMILY. The name Closson, like that of Clawson, Clauson, Classon, Claessen, had its origin in the Dutch custom of attaching "sen" to the father's given name to form the surname of the child, thus the sons of "Claus," the Dutch form of Nicholas, were named "Claussen," or more commonly Classen or Claessen, and when the family had been resident in America for a few generations and became closely associated with the English they adopted the customs of their neighbors, and re- tained a permanent surname, instead of changing with each generation. Two or three branches of the Classon-Clauson family became residents of Pennsylvania (luring Colonial times, all probably descended from early Dutch emigrants to New- Netherlands. Jan Classen was one of the earliest Dutch settlers on the Delaware, residing on or near Burlington Island in 1676, and the following year obtained a grant of land on the Neshaminy, in Bucks county, in the present limits of Bristol township, and obtained permission from the Court at Upland to settle thereon. This land amounting to five hundred and thirty acres was confirmed by William Penn, in 1684, to Jan or John Clauson, and descended to his children, all of whom, however, took the name of Johnson, according to the Dutch custom. Christian Classon, of "Tiacominck" (Tacony), purchased, in 1685, "a parcel of Meadow Ground, being in the swamp adjoining the land belonging to the township of Tiacominck, joining to the River Delaware." This Christian Classon died about 1700, and his widow, Margaret, married Thomas Jones. The children of Christian and Margaret Classon zvere: Claus Classon, b. 1684; m. at the First Presbyterian Church, Phila., Sept. 27, 1714. .\nnc Lynde; Cathrina, b. 1688, d. s. p. ; Christina, b. 1690; John, b. 1692; m. Ann , who d. 1753; had one daughter, Mary, married George Heap, at Christ Church, Sept. 2, 1738; Cornelius, sometimes confoimded with Cornelius Clawson, of N. J., of whom see for- ward; Elizabeth, b. 1695, d. unm. ; James, b. 1696, d. 1718, unm. ; Christian, b. Sept., 1697, d. inf. ; Gustavus, administrator of James in 1718; Gertrude, d. unm.; Margaret, m. Skidmore. Another branch of the Closson family, whose descendants became residents of Philadelphia and vicinity, was founded in this country by Captain Gerrebrandt Claessen, of New Amsterdam, who obtained a grant of land in Bergen county, New Jersey, of Philip Carteret, and died there in 1708, leaving a widow, Mary, who died in 1714, and children: Cornelius; WilHam ; Nicholas; Herbert; Neiltje, wife of John Jurian; Meyfie, wife of Dirck Van Lout; Mary, wife of Geret \'on Wagoner; and Peter. William Clawson, supposed to be a son of Gerrebrandt, settled at Piscataway, Middlesex county. New Jersey, where he purchased land as early as 1683. He died there in 1724, leaving a widow, Mary, and children as follows: i206 CLOSSON Cornelius, eldest son, who d. in Piscataway, 1758, leaving sons : Cornelius, William and Zachariah, the first and last of whom removed to Pa. ; and several daughters. The son, Cornelius, m. Anna Burcham, at Chesterfield Meeting, 1728, and brought certificate to Falls Meeting Bucks co., 1733. Their son, Cornelius, m. Jennet Cowgill, and settled in Solebury, Bucks co., and their daughter, Mary, m. Aaron Philips, of Solebury, 1756; Benjamin, of whom we have no further record; Josias, d. intestate in Somerset co., N. J., 1733; William, of whom we have no further record; John of whom we have no definite record; Gerrabrant, of whom we have no further record; Joseph, of whom we have no further record; Thomas, d. in Piscataway, 1761; had children: Brant, William, Richard, d. in Bucking- ham, Bucks CO., Pa., 1754, leaving a widow, Alice; John, Josias, Brant, Mary, Eliza- beth, Hannah, Sarah; Mary, m. — Drake; Haimah, unm. in 1723. This narrative has to do with the descendants of one John Closson, who at his death, December 6, 1756, was a tenant on land belonging to Thomas Watson, of Buckingham, lying just over the line of Buckingham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in the township of Warwick. Letters of administration were granted on his estate to his widow, Sarah, January 14, 1757, with John Wilkinson and Joseph Sackett, of Wrightstown, as sureties. In her account of the estate, filed March 15, 1758, she is allowed a credit, "for victualling, cloathing and school- ing two children, from December 6, 1756, to the date of her settlement; and for payment of a bond and interest to 'Richard Furman,' amounting to thirty-seven pounds, nineteen shillings, one pence." This Richard Furman was father of Sarah Closson, the widow and accountant, and resided from 1710 to his death in 1757, in "'the township of Trenton," New Jersey. He was a great-grandson of John Furman, who is said to have come from Wales to Massachusetts, where he was a freeholder as early as 1631. He was one of the fifty-five original pur- chasers of ]\Iiddlebury (later Newtown), Long Island, from the Indians in 1656, and died there about 1665, leaving two sons and three daughters. His son, John Furman, born 1 631, died 1677, was a freeholder of Newtown, Long Island, in 1666. He left one son, Jonathan, who left no posterity so far as known. Josias Furman, probably eldest son of John Furman, pioneer, appears of record at Middlebury, Long Island, as early as July 6, 1657, and became a free- holder there in 1665. He was Commissioner of Highways in 1700, and died at Newtown, Long Island, 1709, leaving sons: John, Josias, Joseph, David, Samuel, Jonathan, and daughters: Martha and Rebecca. Of these, at least three, Josias, Samuel and Jonathan, located near Hopewell, New Jersey, and left issue there. Josias Furman, second son of Josias Furman, of Newtown, Long Island, born there, or in New England, 1645, died at Hopewell, New Jersey, August 8, 1742, aged ninety-seven years, having either accompanied or followed his son, Richard, to New Jersey, in 1710. He married Sarah Strickland, also of New England ancestry, whose father was likewise an early settler on Long Island, and had issue : Tosiah, married Sarah W^ood, and was the father of James C. Furman, D. D., and several other children; Richard, above mentioned; Sarah, married Ralph Hunt; Mercy, married Thomas Burroughs ; Martha, married Edward Hunt. Richard Furman, father of Sarah Closson, was born at Newtown, Long Island, and December 18, 1710, purchased of Jasper Smith, of Maidenhead, New Jersey, one hundred acres of land, lying in the townships of Hopewell and Maiden- CLOSSON 1207 liead, near Trenton, New Jersey, and removed thither, later purchasing consider- able other land in that locality. His will, in which he is named as "Richard Fur- man, of the township of Trenton," bears date February 13, 1751-2, was proven November 8, 1757. He married Sarah Way, who survived him, and they were the parents of six children : Josiah, Jonathan, Francis ; Sarah, married John Closson ; Mary, married a Clark; Elizabeth, married Thomas Kitchin. From the fact that Richard Furman, whose daughter John Closson married, resided in the immediate neighborhood of Thomas Closson, whose other son, Richard, located in Bucks county, near John, of Warwick, it is assumed that John Closson, of Warwick, Bucks county, was son of Thomas Closson, and mentioned in his will in 1756. John Closson, June 27, 1746, "aged thirty-two," joined Captain Trent's com- pany for the campaign against Canada, and with that company went into winter quarters at Albany, New York, winter of 1746-7, and was discharged October 31, 1747, "the intended expedition against Canada having been abandoned." He was already a resident of Pennsylvania at the date of his enlistment, and his occupa- tion is given as "cordwainer," the known occupation of John Closson, of War- wick. The theory that Thomas Closson was the father of John, of Warwick, is further corroborated by the fact that both the latter's sons named a son, Thomas, by no means a common name in the Closson family, here or elsewhere. The only two children of John and Sarah (Furman) Closson, of whom we have any record, were: William Closson, of Wrightstown, Bucks co., witness to a marriage at Wrightstown Meeting, 1756; was a "cordwainer" in that township, and d. there in 1784; m. at Dutch Reformed Church of Northampton and Southampton, Bucks co., Oct. 23, 1766, Rachel Stout; issue: Isaac Closson, a carpenter in Wrightstown until 1815, when he removed to War- wick, and in 1820 removed to Brownsville, Jefferson co., N. Y.; m. Oct. 25, 1806, Ruth Tomlinson; Thomas Closson, of Wrightstown, had son, Abel, who d. in childhood, May 28, 1814, and possibly other children. John Closson, b. about 1738, d. in Plumstead township, Bucks co. ; of whom presently. John Closson, son of John and Sarah (Furman) Closson, of Warwick, Bucks, county, was born about 1738. The first record we have of him is in 1759, when his name appears on the tax list of Warwick township. Soon after this date he married and settled on fifty acres of land in Plumstead township, Bucks county, where he continued to reside the remainder of his life, living to a good old age ; was buried at Red Hill Church, in Tinicum township. The name of his wife has not been ascertained, but he had the following children : Elizabeth, b. 1762, d. May 15, 1847; was admitted a member of Wrightstown Friends' Meeting, as "daughter of John Closson of Plumstead," Dec. 2, 1783, and m. there April 14, 1784, Isaiah Warner, of the prominent Warner family of Wrightstown, de- scendant of William Warner, of Blockley, Phila.; John, b. Dec. 6, 1764; m. 1789, Elizabeth Updegrave; d. 1815; of whom presently; Rebecca, d. unm.; Barbara, m. Benjamin Clark; Martha, m. (first) Jonathan Marker, (second) Jonathan Keller; Sarah, m. (first) Samuel Shaw, (second) John Stover; Mary, m. Andrew Price; Amelia, m. Jacob Housel; 35 i2o8 CLOSSOX Thomas, m. Sept. 8, 1796, before John Reading, Esq., of Amwell, N. J., EKzabeth Naylor, dau. of David, of Amwell; William, m. at Nesharainy Church, Nov. 19, 1794, Sarah, dau. of George Wall, Esq., a distinguished officer in the Revolution, member of Supreme Executive Council of Pa., Sheriff of Bucks co., etc. William Closson was a merchant in Solebury township, Bucks CO., 1797-1805; had nine children, among them George Wall Closson, Treasurer of Bucks CO. 1842-4, who has sons living in Bucks co. ; Prudence, ra. Jan. 25, 1799, before John Reading, Esq., George Wall, fourth, one of the sons of Col. George Wall, above mentioned, and has numerous descendants in Bucks CO.; Isaac, m. Anna Maria Niece, and had eight children, the youngest being Isaac, of Carversville, Bucks co., b. 1816; James, m. Mary Tomlinson; d. March 30, 1815. leaving three children: Joseph, Isaiah and Elizabeth. JoHX Closson, eldest son of John Closson, of Plumstead, and grandson of John and Sarah (Furman) Closson, of Warwick, was born December 6, 1764, and was reared on his father's farm in Plumstead township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania. He married, about 1789, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Sarah ( Mitchell ) Updegrave, of Plumstead, whose ancestry back through the founders of Germantown, to Herman Op de GraeflF, one of the formulators of the Men- nonite creed at Dordrecht, Germany, in 1632, is given in this volume, under the heading of Updegrave family John Closson was a farmer in Plumstead and Tini- cum townships, and died in January, 1815. His widow, Elizabeth (Updegrave) Closson, survived him many years, dying at the home of her daughter, Sydonia Emerick, in Solebury township, Bucks county, 1837, and is said to have been buried at Buckingham Friends' burying-ground. She was born May i, 1769. Issue of John and Elisabeth (Updegrave) Closson: Amos, b. Nov. 29, 1790, d. Oct. 26, 1865, at Carversville, Bucks co. ; m. l8ll, Mary Davison, of Plumstead, and had nine children, most of whom removed to 111.; two of his grandsons were prominent business men of Chicago. A son, John, recently d. in New Britain, Bucks co., aged 81 years, and his youngest son, Isaiah, is still living at Carversville; Sarah, m. Thomas Pickering; Lavinia, m. Washington Van Dusen; Sydonia, ra. (first) Samuel Emerick, of Solebury, (second) Joseph Anderson, of Buck- ingham, Bucks CO.; Mary, m. Robert Roberts, and removed to 111. ; Julia Ann, m. Peter Case, of near Doylestown, and has descendants of the name still residing there; Susanna, m. May 4, 1833, Phineas Hellyer, of Buckingham, and d. the following year; Elizabeth, m. Hoover; Levi, m. Mary Cox, and lived for some years near Doylestown, removing later to Chicago, where he and his sons were prominent business men; John, b. 1797, d. 1842; m. Mary Loucks. John Closson, fourth of the name in succession, and of the seventh generation from Captain Gerrebrandt Claessen, of New Amsterdam, was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, 1797; married Mary, daughter of John and Barbara (Libhardt) Loucks, and granddaughter of Henry and Barbara (Heaney) Loucks, of Rockhill, Bucks county, later of Windsor township, York county, Pennsylvania. Heinrich Loucks, grandfather of Mary (Loucks) Closson, came from Ciermany in the ship, "Minerva," which arrived at Philadelphia from Rotterdam, November 9. 1767. He settled in Rockhill township, Bucks county, and in 1775 married Barbara, daughter of John and Catharine (Worman) Heaney; in 1777 he pur- CLOSSON 1209 chased a farm of sixty acres in fiaycock township, on which he resided with his family until 1795, when they removed to Windsor township, York county, Penn- sylvania, where Henry Loucks died April, 1806, his wife, Barbara, having died about 1800. John Heaney, father of Barbara (Heaneyj Loucks, was son of John Heaney, or Hoenig, one of the earliest German settlers on the Tohickon, in Rockhill town- ship, where he owned and operated a mill, to which his son, John, succeeded. The latter was later a merchant in Bedminster township, and one of the most promi- nent men of that locality. He was many years a Justice and was a member of Provincial Assembly 1774-75. He died in 1787, leaving a large family of chil- dren. His wife was Catharine, daughter of John Worman, who came from Ger- many in the ship, "Mary," June 28, 1735, and settled in Rockhill township, where he was one of the trustees of Tohickon Lutheran Church in 1753. He later re- moved to Bedminster township, and was a prominent man and large landholder there, and in Tinicum township ; dying in the latter township, near the present site of Wormansville, in 1768. Henry and Barbara (Heaney) Loucks were the parents of at least five children, as follows : John Loucks, b. Aug. 22, 1776, in Bucks co., d. near Marietta, Lancaster co. ; m. Barbara Libhardt : Henry Loucks, b. April 23, 1778, removed to York co., later to Hempfield township, Lancaster co., near Marietta; Daniel Loucks, b. Jan., 1780, d. Windsor township, York co., 1829; Catharine Loucks, b. Haycock, Bucks co.. May 4, 1783; m. Abraham Moser, of York co. ; Jacob Loucks, b. Haycock, Bucks co., Dec, 1784, d. Marietta, Lancaster co., Pa.; m. Catharine, dau. of John Alter, of Hempfield township, Lancaster co. ; with his brother, Henry Loucks, was an extensive wagon manufacturer at Marietta. Henry Libhardt, grandfather of Barbara (Libhardt) Loucks, and great-grand- father of Mary (Loucks) Closson, was a native of Germany, and an early settler in Hellam township, York county, and died there at an advanced age in 1773. He owned and operated a mill in Hellam township for several years. His eldest son, Henry Libhardt, married Barbara, daughter of Henry Smith, who in 1736 took up a tract of land on the west side of Susquehanna river, then in Lancaster county, later Hellam township, York county, and lived there until his death in 1771. Henry Libhardt, Jr., lived in Windsor township, York county, until 1773, when he purchased the Smith homestead in Hellam township, and re- sided thereon until his death in 1796. He was a Justice of the Peace for some years after the Revolutionary War. His daughter, Barbara Libhart, who be- came the wife of John Loucks, was nineteen years of age at the death of her father in 1796, and married John Loucks soon after that date. Mary Loucks, daughter of John and Barbara (Libhart) Loucks, born in 1799, married John Closson, about year 1819, and they settled in the city of Philadel- phia, where John Closson died in 1842, and his widow, Mary Loucks, in 1879. Roth are buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Issue of John and Mary (Loucks) Closson: John, d. young; Josiah, m. Elizabeth Smith and resided in Phila. ; issue: Ethelinda, wife of John Morton, of Phila.; I2I0 CLOSSON John Closson, dec; Thomas Sloan Closson, of Phila. Barbara, m. Joseph Cook; Mary, living in Phila., unm.; Eliza, m. Charles W. Roberts; James Harwood Closson, b. Phila., Sept. 23, 1826, d. at City Point, Va., Nov. 23, 1864; m. Josephine Banes, b. at Matanzas, Cuba, June 24, 1828, d. Phila., July 31, 1862. James Harwood Closson was commissioned Xovember 19, 1861, First Lieu- tenant of Company G, Ninety-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, then being recruited at Philadelphia, for three years service in the Civil War, and with that regiment went into service, December 4, 1861. After a few months service at Alexandria, the regiment participated in the Peninsular campaign and from that time was in the forefront until the close of the war, occupying advanced positions at the battle of Fredericksburg, where the Major of the regiment was killed; at Chancellorsville ; in the Mary land campaign; and by a forced march reach- ed Gettysburg in time to take an active part in that memorable battle, charging up Little Round Top as the Confederates charged up the opposite side, and during the whole battle being exposed to the hottest of the enemy's fire. During the fall of 1863 it was engaged in the valley of Virginia, and in the advance on Richmond was "Constantly in the front, and actively employed." It passed through the fear- ful carnage at Cold Harbor and was again in the front at Petersburg. On March I, 1864, Lieutenant Closson was promoted to Captain of Company H, same regi- ment. In the advance to Hatcher's Run, October 28, 1864, he was mortally wounded, and died at City Point, Virginia, November 23, 1864, from secondary liemorrhage following the amputation of his limb. Issue of Captain James H. and Josephine (Banes) Closson: Edward M., d. unm.; Franklin Banes, d. unm.; Edward Foster, d. unm.; Robert Dickinson, d. unm. ; Alice Josephine; Dr. James Harwood Closson, b. Nov. 27, 1861; m. Mary Elizabeth Bell, of Phila.; of whom presently. Josephine Banes, who became wife of James H. Closson, was a daughter of Joseph Banes, by his wife, Hannah Foster, and through her mother was a descend- ant of several early Colonial families of Philadelphia, among them that of Buzby, the first American progenitor, of which John Buzby brought a certificate to Phila- delphia Friends' Meeting, dated 2mo. 4, 1682. On the paternal side Josephine (Banes) Closson descended from one of the oldest families of Lancashire, England, representatives of which had found homes in Pennsylvania at different periods and were among the first purchasers of land of William Penn, in his Province of Pennsylvania. Her lineal ancestor, Matthew Baines, of \^'yersdale, Lancashire, married at Lancaster Monthly Meeting, lomo. 22, 1672, Margaret, daughter of William Hatton, of Bradley, Lancashire, and several children were born to them in Lancashire. In the autumn of 1686 William and Margaret Baines, and at least two of their children, Eleanor, born October 22, 1677, and William, born July 14, 1681, embarked for America, but both par- ents died on the voyage, and the children on their arrival at Chester were taken CLOSSON 121 1 in charge by Friends, of Chester county. Matthew Baines, as appears from a letter, written by Phineas Pemberton, to John Walker, in England, dated "Penn- silvania from ye ffalls of Dellaware in ye County of Buckes, the 13th day of ye ist Mo. 1688," carried a letter from Henry Coward, of Lancashire, to James Harri- son, father-in-law of Phineas Pemberton, and one of William Penn's confidential friends and advisers in Pennsylvania; and that when about to die he made the request that James Harrison should have the care and tuition of his children. That part of Pemberton's letter pertaining to the Baines children is as follows : ''My very deare love to Hen: Coward & his wife. I Rd. his letter to father Con- cerneing Mat : Banes but have not time now to write. He died att sea & desired father in Law might have the tuition of his Children, but father was dead before his children came in; however I went to see after them; they Enclined to stay in Chester County where they landed to wch I was willing, P'vided flriends would see after them Els if they would not I told ffriends I would. Ye Boy is put out to one Joseph Stidman who is said to be a very honest man. Ye girle is with John Simpcocke & hath 40 or 50 s. wages per annum. The boy is to be w'th sd Stid- man untill he comes to ye age of 20 yeares, wch is ye customary way of putting forth orphans in these P'ts. My deare love to friends at Lancaster, remember mee if thou hast opportunity to Judith Hunter and to old Tho. Rawlinson if living." The Baines orphans appear to have had some small estate as "at an Orphans' Court held att Chester ye 6th day of ye ist. Moneth, 1687.'' It is "Ordered that ffrancis Little give in Security to this Court to pay vnto John Sim- cocke and Thomas Brassie, as Trustees to William- and Elin Baines for ye sum of twenty Eight Shillings." Francis Little was several times cited by the court to pay over the funds in his hands belonging to William and Eleanor Baines, and the matter was not concluded until October, 1689, "att what time he made his appear- ance and produced a receipt in full satisfaction." Eleanor Baines married Thomas Duer, of Bucks county, at Falls Meeting, Sep- tember 26, 1694, and they were the ancestors of a numerous and prominent family of that county. In an old Bible of the Duer family is found the record of the birth of the first three children of William Baines, the brother of Eleanor, who after the completion of his apprenticeship with Joseph Stedman and the death of the latter, married and settled in Southampton township, Bucks county, near the Ime of Warminster, where he died in 1729. The maiden name of his wife, Eliza- beth, has not been ascertained. They were the parents of nine children : Joseph, Mathew, Thomas, William, James, Elizabeth, Timothy, Jacob and Ehnor, all of whom married except Elinor, and they have left numerous descendants in Bucks county and elsewhere; several of them later becoming prominently identified with the business and professional Hfe of Philadelphia. Four of the sons, Mathew, William, Timothy and Jacob, settled in Buckingham and Solebury townships, Bucks county, and most of their descendants spelled the name Beans. Timothy removed late in life to Fairfax, Virginia, while Joseph, Thomas and James re- mained in the township of their nativity and adjoining parts of Philadelphia county. Joseph Banes, eldest son of William and Elizabeth Baines, of Southampton, born September 24, 1708, was the ancestor of Mrs. Josephine Closson. He mar- ried May 17, 1733, at First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Esther Evans, of Welsh ancestry, who was baptized at Pennypack Baptist Church, Philadelphia I2I2 CLOSSON county, at the age of twelve years. Joseph Hkewise became a member of that church by baptism, August 2, 1740, and they were later members of Southampton Baptist Church. He was a farmer and owned one hundred and sixty acres of land in Southampton, which descended to his sons and grandsons. Joseph and Esther (Evans) Banes, of Southampton, had issue, as follows: John, of Southampton, married Elizabeth (Shaw) Randall, and had children: John, James and Esther. Mathew, of whom presently. James, died in Southamp- ton in 1815, had three sons: Dr. Artilerius Valerius, a physician of Philadelphia county, later of Licking county, Ohio : Leman, a prominent Bucks county official ; and Dr. Josiah D. Banes, a prominent physician of Byberry, Philadelphia county. Seth, married his cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Sands) Banes, and lived and died in Southampton. Mathew Banes, son of Joseph and Esther (Evans) Banes, was born in Southampton, 1735, died there, December i, 1788. He was a member of Captain Folwell's company of Southampton Associators, 1775-6. His wife, Sarah, born in 1738, survived him many years, dying September 27, 1823, and both are buried at Southampton Baptist Church. They had three sons and two daughters, viz. : Joseph Banes, "Preceptor" of Lower Dublin township, Philadelphia, one of the executors of his father's will; Evan Banes, M. D., co-executor with Joseph of their father's will in 1788, but "removed out of the State" about 1790; Euphemia, married Joseph Leedom ; Letitia, married George Foster ; Ervin, of whom pres- ently. Ervin Banes, grandfather of Mrs. Josephine Closson, was a minor at the death of his father in 1788. He married Hannah, daughter of Thomas Dickinson, of an old Colonial family of Pennsylvania, and had the following children : Evan Banes, married Martha Woodington, and died in Bensalem township, Bucks county, 1845 ; ^nn Banes ; Euphemia Banes ; Charles Banes, of Bristol, Pennsyl- vania, who married Ann Phillips ; Susan, married Hazel Woodington ; Joseph Banes, father of Mrs. Josephine Closson, who married Hannah Foster. Hannah Foster, wife of Joseph Banes, and mother of Josephine (Banes) Closson, was a daughter of Miles Foster, born in Lower Dublin township, Phila- delphia county, by his wife, Hannah Buzby, and granddaughter of William Foster, of Lower Dublin, by his wife, Mary, a descendant of Miles Strickland, a Colonial merchant of Philadelphia, who died there in 175 1. He and his son, Thomas, had produced certificates at Abington Meeting, 1718, from Dublin, Ireland. From the records of Burlington (New Jersey) Monthly Meeting of Friends and other sources we learn that William and Josiah Foster, brothers, and sons of Josiah Foster, of Rhode Island, came to New Jersey and settled in Mansfield township, Burlington county, 1684. They were members of Burlington Monthly Meeting, and the children of William and Mary Foster, as recorded on the records of that meeting, were : Hannah Foster, b. 6nio. 31, 1684; Mary Foster, b. 6mo. 10, 1687; m. 1709, George Matlack; William Foster, b. lomo. 26, 1689; m. 1712, Experience Whilden; George Foster, b. i2mo. 10, 1691 ; Josiah Foster, b. iimo. 21, 1693; Joseph Foster, b. 6mo. 27, 1696; C LOSS ON 1213 Charity Foster, b. 4mo. 6, 1700; Thomas Foster, b. gmo. 15, 1793; m. Lucy DeLaval; Rebecca Foster, b. lomo. 20, 1796; m. 1726, Thomas Haines. Thomas Foster, youngest son of William and Mary Foster, of Mansfield, mar- ried Lucy DeLaval, and had issue : William Foster, m. Mary Strickland; Mary Foster, m. Daniel Street; Thomas Foster, m. Mary ; Jehu Foster, m. Elizabeth Vansant. William and Mary (Strickland) Foster were members of Byberry Friends' Meeting, settling for a while in Oxford township, Philadelphia county, and later located in the township of Lower Dublin, same county, a quarter of a mile south of the Lower Dublin Academy, where their children were born. Mary (Strick- land) Foster died in 1825, at the age of eighty-eight years. Issiic of William and Mary (Strickland) Foster: Strickland Foster, m. (first) Letitia Banes, (second) Mary Johnson; William Foster, m. Anna Haines; Josiah Foster, bur. at Byberry; Thomas Foster, m. Mary ; Miles Foster, m. June 6, 1799, Hannah Buzby, and settled on the old homestead, where their daughter, Hannah (Foster) Baines was born; Joseph Foster, lived with his brother. Miles, on the homestead; Mary Foster, m. Joseph Knight; George Foster, m. Mary Subusa. lived near Middletown Meeting. The family of Strickland, or Stirkland, as it was anciently written, is probably of Saxon origin, being settled at or before the Norman conquest at Strickland or Stirkland, parish of Moreland, Westmoreland, where it continued for several generations. William de Stirkland, of this family, having married Ehzabeth, daughter of Sir Ralph D'Aincourt, of Sizergh, in Cumberland, Knight, who eventually became the heiress of her brother, Ralph, who died without issue, they removed to Sizergh, where their descendants have continued to reside to the present time, as appears from authentic documents in Burns' "History of Westmoreland and Cumberland."- The first of the name of Strickland, or Stirkland, on record was Walter de Stirkland, living in the reign of King John, whose son and heir, Adam, in the seventh year of that reign was one of the hostages for the future good conduct of Roger Fitz-Reinfred, who had sided with the rebellious barons. The family must have been of great consequence in ancient times, as we find no less than five places of the same name in Westmoreland, Strickland Hall, Strickland-Kettle, Strickland magna, Strickland parva, and Strickland-Rogers. Gough in his edition of "Camden's Brittania," says, "Strickland gave name to a family of Ancient renown;" and Fuller, in his "Worthies," calls it "a right worshipful family." William Strickland, who was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle in 1400, at his own expense, cut a canal from the town of Penrith to the river Petterell for the navi- gation of boats to the Irish sea. He died in 1419. A branch of the Sizergh or of the Westmoreland family settled at Boynton, Yorkshire, where they resided as early as the reign of Edward IV. In the 1 2 14 CLOSSON Sizergh papers it is stated that Sir William Strickland, of Boynton, on the Wolds, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir ^^'alter Strickland, of Sizergh, Knight, by his wife, Catharine, daughter of Sir Ralph Neville, of Thornton Briggs, Knight ; and the parish records of Boynton show that William Strickland died in 1592, and his widow, Elizabeth, in 1597. This WilHam Strickland, or Strykeland, was probably son of W^illiam Strick- land, the first of this branch of whom we have any record. He was one of those who were actuated by the chivalric spirit of discovery, in the reigns of Henry VH. and Henry VUL, and became the companion of Sebastian Cabot in his voyages to the coast of America. King Edward VI., in the fourth year of his reign (1550), granted a pension to Sebastian Cabot, then far advanced in years, and April 20, 1550, granted to Cabot's associate, "WilHam Strykeland of Bynton on the W^olds," as shown by the records of the Heralds Office and by the original grant now in possession of the family, a coat-of-arms and crest. In this grant William Strykeland assumed, as a record of his adventures, the turkey cock for his crest ; a bird at about that period first introduced to the knowledge of Europe. It is not known whom \Villiam Strykeland married or when he died, the early records of the family having been almost entirely lost during the Civil War in the reign of Charles I. A portrait, however, of this distinguished gentleman, in naval uniform of the time, with the sea and a vessel in the background, is still extant at the family seat at Boynton. He was succeeded by Sir William Strickland, before mentioned, who married Elizabeth, daughter of his probable kinsman. Sir Walter Strickland, of Sizergh, Cumberland, by his wife, Catharine, daughter of Sir Ralph Neville, of Thornton Briggs, Yorkshire, Knight. Sir William and EHzabeth had a son, Walter, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married, December 23, 1596, George Dakns, of Ives, Buckingham, Esq. Sir William Strickland was returned a member for Scarborough, 1558-62-71, and died 1592. His wife died 1597, and both are buried with many others of the family at about this time in the Church of Wintringham, near Matton. Walter Strickland, son of Sir William and Elizabeth, married Frances, daugh- ter of Peter Wentworth, of Lilingston-Dayrell, Bucks, Esq., by whom he had issue : William Strickland, who succeeded him; Walter Strickland, b. 1600; studied law and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn; was a person of great influence during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, and later of Richard Cromwell; on Oliver being declared Protector, Dec. 16, 1653, was made one of fourteen members of Privy Council; was one of those who attended the installa- tion of Oliver, June 11, 1657; named as one of the visitors to university founded at Durham, as "our right trusty and right well beloved Walter Strickland, member of council, etc.:" was named, Jan. 20, 1656, as one of the "House of Peers," and there- after known as "Lord Walter Strickland;" sent, in Sept., 1642, as Ambassador to the States General of the United Provinces at The Hague, and again in 1651; after the restoration received full pardon and retired to Flamborough, Yorkshire, where he d. and was bur. in 1671 ; m. Anna, dau. and sole heiress of the famous Col. Sir Charles Morgan, Governor of Bergh-op-Zoom, in Brabant, but is said to have left no issue; Anne Strickland, b. and d. 1591 ; Keziah Strickland, m. Sept. 30, 1628, Robert Dompton, of Driffield; Ursula, m. Oct. 26, 1630, Robert Berwick, of York; Milcha, m. June 15, 1631, Thomas Middleton, of Belsay, Northumberland, Esquire. Walter Strickland, father, died at Boynton and was buried at Wintringham, February 29, 1636; Frances, his wife, buried there April 27, 1636. William Strickland. Esq., elder son of Walter and Frances, had the honor of CLOSSON 121 5 knighthood, and was created a Baronet, July 30, 1641 ; married (first) 1622, Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Cholmondeley, Bart., of Whitley. She died 1624. Married (second) Lady Frances Finch, eldest daughter of Thomas, Earl •of Winchelsea; he was prominent under the Protectorate; appointed, May, 1657, a visitor to University at Durham ; June 26, same year, attended in the procession the inauguration of Cromwell, as one of his Privy Council, when he was repre- sentative in Parliament of East Riding of Yorkshire, so elected in first Parliament. Summoned as Lord Strickland to House of Peers, January, 1659 ; died September 12, 1673, and his wife. Lady Frances, December 17, 1663, both buried at Boynton, where monuments to their memory were erected by their eldest son, Sir Thomas Strickland. Sir Thomas Strickland married, 1659, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Francis Pile, of Compton-Beauchamp, Berkshire, Bart., and had issue: Sir William, his successor, born March 23, 1664-5, married August 23, 1684, Eliza- beth, second daughter of William Palmes, of Old Malton, Esq. ; Walter, born October 25, 1667, married a daughter of Pierson, of Newthorpe, and had issue ; Thomas, born May i, 1669, living in 1738; Frances, born June 19, 1670; Charles, born October 27, 1672, an officer in the navy, commanded "the Southampton" at taking of Vigo, 1703, died an Admiral, 1724; Nathaniel, died in infancy. Sir Thomas was member of Parliament for Heden and Beverly, representing latter in last Parliament, begun 1658, dissolved April 22, 1659. He died November 20, 1684, and Lady Strickland, June 13, 1674, both buried at Church at Boynton. Sir William Strickland, fourth Baronet, had William, his successor, bom 1686; Thomas, born August 28, 1687; Walter, born May 31, 1690; Charles, an officer in the army, member of Parliament, etc., killed in a duel at York, 1706. Sir William died 1724, and his widow in 1740, at Boynton. John Buzby, weaver of Milton, parish of Shipton, "being about to transport himself across the seas," obtained a certificate from the Friends' Meeting at Mil- ton, which was deposited at Philadelphia Meeting. He and his wife, Marie, evi- dently resided in or near Oxford township, Philadelphia county, and were mem- bers of Oxford Meeting, held for a time at the house of John Hart, Byberry, as two of his daughters were married "at a Meeting held at the house of John Hart." Issue of John and Marie Busby: John Buzby, m. Mary Taylor, 1690; d. 1699, Phila.; will dated 8mo. 3, 1699, proved Oct. 12, 1699, mentions his father and mother, John and Mary Buzby, and brothers and sisters named below; William Buzby, m. Sarah Seary, at a Meeting held at John Hart's, smo. 28, 1685; d. 1716; Edward Buzby, m. Susanna Adams, 1695; d. 1726; Richard Buzby, m. Hannah, dau. of Thomas and Jane (Atkins) French, of Phila.; Marie Buzby, m. Hunt, mentioned in brother John's will, 1699; Elizabeth Buzby, m. 7mo., 1683, James Morris, at John Hart's; m. (second) prior to 1699, Davis; Nicholas Buzby, m. Mary French; of whom presently; Sarah Buzby, m. 5mo. 27, 1696, Richard Tomlinson, at Abington Meeting. Nicholas Buzby, son of William and Marie Buzby, of Philadelphia county, married at Burlington Monthly Meeting, New Jersey, Smo. 30, 1695, Mary, bap- tized at Whitton, Northamptonshire, England, August 8, 1675, daughter of Thomas French and his wife, Jane Atkins, whom he married at Whitton, June i2i6 CLOSSON 12, 1660, and came to Burlington, New Jersey, in 1680, an entry in his family Bible is as follows: "I and my wife and 9 children through the great mercy of God, came into this country and landed at Burlington, the 23d of 7mo. 1680." His wife, Jane, died 8mo. 5, 1692, and he married (second) at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 8mo., 1696, Elizabeth Stanton. The will of Thomas French, proved at Burlington, May 3, 1699, states that he is about to sail for England, and devises to his wife, Elizabeth, four hundred and twenty acres of land in New Jersey, and two hundred to his son, Charles ; mentions land at Neather Heyford, England, and gives legacies to daughters, Rachel Allen, Hannah Buzby, Sarah Wood, Mary Buzby, Jane Hall, Lydia and Rebecca, and sons, Thomas and Rich- ard French. Nicholas Buzby died in Wellingborough township, Burlington county. New Jersey, leaving a will, dated August 22, 1727, which was proved October i, same year. It metions his wife, Mary; sons, Thomas, John, Isaac, William, Benjamin, and daughters, Lydia, wife of James Mason, and Mary, Jane, Elizabeth and Sarah Buzby. He had purchased of his brother-in-law, Charles French, a farm in Wellingborough, May 24, 1714. Thom.\s Buzby, son of Nicholas and Mary (French) Buzby, married under the care of Burlington Meeting, at the house of her father, Thomas Haines, No- vember, 1727, Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Austin) Haines, of Northampton township, Burlington county, and granddaughter of Richard Haines, of "Aynoe on ye Hill," England, who with wife, Margaret, and children embarked for America in 1682. He died on the voyage, and his widow subsequently mar- ried Henry Burcham (in 1685), "late of Neshaminy Creek in Bucks county." Thomas Buzby died in Wellingborough, 1773, devising his plantation where he dwelt to his son, Thomas. Thomas Buzby, son of Thomas and Margaret (Haines) Buzby, born April 4, 1739, married in October, 1765, at Evesham Meeting, Tabitha Hugg, born March 18, 1745. He married (second) November 18, 1788, Hannah, widow of Ephraim Haines, who died 1815^ and he in 1816. Issue of Thomas and Tabitha (Hugg) Busby: John Buzby, b. Oct. 24, 1766; Thomas Buzby, b. Dec. 25, 1768; William Buzby, b. Nov. 25, 1773; Isaac Buzby, b. April 24, 1775; Hannah Buzby, b. April lo, 1781; m. June 6, 1799, Miles Foster, and was disowned by Burlington Meeting, April 7, 1800, for marriage to one not in membership. Hannah Foster, daughter of Miles and Hannah (Buzby) Foster, married Joseph Banes, and Josephine Banes, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Foster) Banes, married James H. Closson. James Harwood Closson, M. D., youngest son of Captain James Harwood Closson, by his wife, Josephine Banes, was born in Philadelphia, November 27, 1861. He was educated at the Philadelphia public schools, and at private schools of that city, supplemented by a special c'ourse at Lafayette College, Easton, Penn- sylvania. Taking up the study of medicine he entered Hahnemann Medical Col- lege, and graduated from that institution in 1886; locating in Germantown he began the practice of his profession, in which he has been since actively engaged, having a very extensive practice and standing high in his profession. ^i?'^^- 0&nue^. /h&^ CLOSSON 12 17 Dr. Closson is a member of Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania; New England Society; Colonial Society; Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution; Netherland Society; Pennsylvania German Society ; Sons of Delaware ; American Psychological Society ; American Institute of HomcEopathy ; Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania ; Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Philadelphia ; Germantown Medical Club; has been president of the last two organizations, and has also served as secretary of Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania. He is an associate member of George G. Meade Post, No. i. Grand Army of the Republic, and a member of the Loyal Legion. He is a member of the Pennsylvania For- estry Association ; Lafayette College Alumni Association ; Zeta Psi fraternity ; is associated with Union Lodge, No. 121, Free and Accepted Masons, and German- town Chapter, No. 208, Royal Arch Masons ; Germantown Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 82, and a member of the following social organizations : Bellfield Country Club ; Germantown Cricket Club ; Union League, and the United Service Club. He is also a member of the Site and Relic Society of Pennsylvania ; Repub- lican Club of New York City, and the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick. Dr. Closson married October 22, 1891, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Wilson, former president of the Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank of Philadelphia, and Mary (Bancroft) Bell, of Philadelphia, and a descendant of early Colonial settlers in New England and New Jersey. They reside at 53 West Chelten avenue, Germantown, Philadelphia. Issue of Dr. James H. and Mary Elisabeth (Bell) Closson: Josephine Banes Closson, b. Sept. 12, 1893; James Harwood Closson, Jr., b. June 18, i8g6; Mary Bancroft Closson, b. Dec. 29, 1898. Mary Elizabeth (Bell) Closson, wife of Dr. James Harwood Closson, is a daughter of the late Samuel Wilson Bell, for some years president of Farmers and Mechanics National Bank of Philadelphia, by his wife, Mary Elizabeth Ban- croft. Through her mother, Mrs. Closson is descended from numerous Colonial families of New England and New Jersey. Through her maternal grandmother, Olivia (Bradbury) Bancroft, she is a descendant in the ninth generation from Thomas Bradbury, who, early in 1634, appeared at Agementicus, now York, Maine, as the agent of Sir Francis Gorgas, Proprietor of the Province of Maine. Thomas Bradbury was one of the original proprietors of the town of Salisbury, Massachusetts ; a Judge of the Court, and Captain of the military company there. He died March 16, 1695. He married, 1636, Mary, daughter of John and Judith Perkins, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who was tried and convicted at Salem, as a witch, but escaped punishment, and died December 20, 1700. William Bradbury, youngest of the seven children of Thomas and Mary (Per- kins) Bradbury, born September 15, 1649, died December 4, 1678; married March 12, 1672, Rebecca (Wheelwright) Maverick, widow of Samuel Maverick, Jr. (son of the King's Commissioner), who died in Boston, December 20, 1664, and daughter of Rev. John Wheelwright, founder of Exeter, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Edward Hutchinson, and granddaughter of John Hutchinson, Lord i2i8 CLOSSON Mayor of London, England. She died December 20, 1678. William and Rebecca (Wheelwright-Maverick) Bradbury had three children, all of whom were men- tioned in the will of their grandfather, Thomas Bradbury, viz. : William, Thomas and Jacob. Jacob Bradbury, third son of William and Rebecca (Wheelwright) Bradbury, born September i, 1677, died May 4, 1718; married, July 26, 1698, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Stockman, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of Major Robert and Sarah (Sanders) Pike, and they had five children: Dorothy, Elizabeth, Anna, Ann and Thomas. Thomas Bradbury, only son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stockton) Bfadbury, born August 16, 1699, married, April 16, 1724, Sarah Merrill, of Salisbury, Massachu- setts, and in 1744 moved to Biddeford, Maine. He was Captain in command of the Block House there in 1748, and rendered considerable service in the Indian wars. He died in 1775, leaving twelve children surviving him. Moses Bradbury, fourth child of Thomas and Sarah (Merrill) Bradbury, bom at Salisbury, Massachusetts, February 14, 1731, married Mary Page, and lived at Biddeford, Maine, where their seven children were born. Nehemiah Bradbury, third child of* Moses and Mary (Page) Bradbury, of Biddeford, Maine, married (first) Elizabeth Cole, of Biddeford, and had six chil- dren: Thomas, Eliza, Sarah, Cyrus, Olivia and Nehemiah. After the death of his wife, Elizabeth, he married a second time. Olivia Bradbury, daughter of Nehemiah and Elizabeth (Cole) Bradbury, born at Saco, Maine, 1805, while on a visit to Philadelphia, married there, Captain Daniel Eldredge Bancroft, of the Merchant Marine, and a member of the New Jersey families of Eldredge and Bancroft. She died at the residence of her son- in-law, Samuel Wilson Bell, in Germantown, June i, 1895. Mary Elizabeth Bancroft, daughter of Captain Daniel Eldredge and Olivia (Bradbury) Bancroft, born in Philadelphia, July 12, 1833, married there, Samuel Wilson Bell, later president of the Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank of Philadelphia ; great-grandson of Samuel Bell, a native of Coleraine, Ireland, who came to Philadelphia in the ship, "West Point," in 1798 with sons John, James and Samuel. Samuel Bell, grandfather of Samuel Wilson Bell, born in Coleraine, Ireland, 1777, came to America in 1798, and became a prominent commission merchant there. He died December i, 1848, at the age of seventy-one years, and was buried at Woodlands Cemetery. His will, dated October 20, 1848, and proved December 30, 1848, mentions his wife, Ann; sons, Alexander and James Bell; daughters, Ann, wife of Hugh Catherwood ; Sarah, wife of Samuel Reed ; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel F. Reed. Samuel Bell, as well as his three sons-in-law, was a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. Hugh Catherwood, who was named as executor of his father-in-law's will, died November 13, 1863, and his widow, Ann (Bell) Catherwood, died January 22, 1886. Samuel Bell married Ann Wilson, and they were the parents of the five children mentioned in the will, above quoted. Alexander Bell, son of Samuel and Ann (Wilson) Bell, is buried at the old Pine Street Presbyterian Church. He married Eliza Maclllheny, and they had three children : o-d^y?;?'^?-*^'^^ (C-^Wiig-e^^-e- c^^cJ-ex-^'^O'tiy^^^ CLOSSON 1219 Samuel Wilson Bell, before mentioned, m. Mary Elizabeth Bancroft; James Eldredge Bell, m. Ella Hand; John Petts Bell, m. Kate Elizabeth Jarden. Samuel Wilson and Mary Elisabeth (Bancroft) Bell had issue: Frank W. Bell, b. 1858, d. 1861; Henry Darling Bell, ra. Gertrude Prescott, and had Prescott Bell; Charles Bancroft Bell, m. Jane Berlin, dau. of Marcellus and Jane (Berlin) McDowell,, and had Charles Edward Bell; Samuel Ashton Bell, m. , and had issue : Dorothy, Edgar and Samuel Wilson Bell; Mary Elizabeth Bell, b. Nov. 15, 1861, in Phila.; m. in Second Presbyterian Church, Germantown, Oct. 22, i8go, by Rev. C. H. P. Nason, to James Harwood Closson,. M. D., and they have issue: Josephine Banes Closson, b. Sept. 12, 1893; James Harwood Closson, Jr., b. June 18, 1896; Mary Bancroft Closson, b. Dec. 29, 1898 SELLERS FAMILY. The Sellers family, which for two and a quarter centuries has been identified prominently with the affairs of Philadelphia and vicinity, is descended from Sam- uel Sellers, who came to Pennsylvania from Belper, Derbyshire, England, 1682, with his brother, George, and settled at Darby. He was of an old and well connected family of Derbyshire, where his ancestors had held a respectable position for several generations. Though he seems to have Tseen convinced of "the Truth," as held by the Society of Friends, before coming to Pennsylvania, he was born prior to the association of his parents with that Society, and his baptism appears on the records of the parish church of Duffield, near the place of his nativity, with that of the other children of Thomas and Elizabeth Sellers, the record of these children being as follows : John, bapt. Aug. 20, 1648, bur. April 28, 1664; Elizabeth, bapt. Jan. 13, 1649; Mary, bapt. Sept. 7, 1651 ; George, bapt. Feb. 13, 1652; Samuel, bapt. Feb. 3, 1655; Sarah, bapt. June 20, 1663. George Sellers, eldest surviving son of Thomas and Elizabeth Sellers, of Bel- per, county Derby, whose baptism is recorded as occurring on February 13, 1652, came with or followed his brother, Samuel, to Pennsylvania, though his name does not appear in the Township Book of the early settlers of Darby, as does that of Samuel, nor upon the records of Darby Meeting. He was, however, settled in Darby prior to 1686, in which year he died, and his estate, including fifty acres of land, live stock, and other personal estate, passed to his younger brother, Samuel. A tradition in the family relates that he and his brother, Samuel, built a house there, which constituted the kitchen part of the old homestead, known later as "Sellers Hall," but contemplating marriage, he began the erection of a house, on what was known as "Walnut Hill," closeby the site of "Sellers Hall," which uncompleted at his death was never finished or occupied. In confirmation of this tradition, the site alluded to was marked until well on in the nineteenth century by the remains of the foundation of this contemplated residence ; the stone was removed by a namesake, George Sellers, and used in the erection of the present terrace wall in front of ""Sellers Hall," between garden and meadow. As the first patent to Samuel Sellers for the site of "Sellers Hall" was issued in 1690, though it is known that both he and his brother, George, were residents there several years previously, it is probable that the land was taken up by them jointly, and on the death of George, without issue, the patent issued to Samuel. Samuel Sellers, youngest son of Thomas and Elizabeth Sellers, baptized at Duffield church, Derbyshire, England, February 3, 1655, was, as evidenced by au- thentic records, one of the earliest settlers of Darby township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, just on the outskirts of Philadelphia county. He was one of those Friends who, in 1682, established Darby Meeting of Friends, and was one of its most respected and prominent members. He was also prominent in the aflfairs of SELLERS 1221 the ancient township of Darby; serving as constable in 1688, supervisor of high- ways in 1692, and fence viewer for several terms from 1693 to 1716. He acquired by patent in 1690, one hundred acres of land, lying along the western side of Cobb's creek, then known as Mill creek, and south of the present West Chester road. In 1691 he added seventy-five acres adjoining. He was a weaver by trade and probably utilized the water-power of Cobb's creek (where his grandson, John Sellers, later erected a saw mill, grist mill, and worsted mill) for the operation of his primitive looms. He died in Upper Darby, November 22, 1732. Samuel Sellers married at Darby Meeting, August 13, 1684, Anna, daughter of Henry and Eleanor Gibbons, who had come with her father from Parwich, Derby- shire, 1682, being mentioned in the certificate he produced at Darby Meting from Friends at Parwich. The declaration of intentions of marriage of Samuel Sellers and Anna Gibbons was the first entry on the minutes of Darby Meeting, under date of "5010. 2d. 1684." Anna survived her husband over ten years, dying Janu- ary 19, 1742-3. Issue of Samuel and Anna (Gibbons) Sellers: Sarah, b. July 13, 1685; d. April 3, 1766; m. Oct. 12, 1703, John Ashmead, b. at Chelten- ham, England, July 12, 1679, d. at Germantown, Phila., Oct. 7, 1742. He came to Pa. with his father, John Ashmead, 1682, who settled in and gave the name to Cheltenham township, Phila., now Montgomery co. Capt. John Ashmead, of the U. S. N., during the Revolution, commander of the ship, "Mars," the brig, "Eagle," and other vessels of the Pennsylvania Navy, and later years. Senior Warden of the Port of Phila., was a grandson of John and Sarah (Sellers) Ashmead. John Wayne Ashmead, grandson of Capt. John Ashmead, by his wife, Mary Mifflin, a niece of Gov. Thomas Mifflin, b. in Phila., May 16, 1806, was a distinguished member of the Phila. Bar; Deputy Attor- ney General for Phila.; member of Legislature; District Attorney for the Eastern District of Pa. ; and in the latter position conducted a number of very important cases for the United States. He was the author of "Ashmead's Reports of Decisions of Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia." He was the father of Henry Graham Ashmead, the well-known journalist, historian and author of Delaware co., Pa.; Mary, b. Dec. 13, 1687; m. (first) May, 1711, William Marshall, son of John and Sarah (Smith) Marshall, from Elton, Derbyshire, and they settled near the forks of the Brandywine, in Chester co., where William was drowned in 1727. She married (sec- ond) 1730, Isaac Vernon, son of Robert and Elinor (Minshall) Vernon, of Bradford. Chester co. ; being his second wife; Samuel, Jr., b. May 12, 1690, d. June 3, 1773; m. Sarah Smith; of whom presently: Anna, b. April I, 1693; rri. Pritchard; mentioned in her father's will, with a son, Samuel Pritchard; George, b. Oct., 1695, d. Sept. 6, 1711; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 22, 1699-1700, d. Sept. 8, 1711. Samuel Sellers Jr., eldest son of Samuel and Anna (Gibbons) Sellers, born in Darby township. May 12, 1690, like his father followed the trade of weaving and succeeded the latter in the conduct of the business. In 1714 his father con- veyed to him the homestead farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres of land, subject to a life interest to his father and mother, and he spent his entire life thereon. He was Supervisor of Highways for Darby township, 1725-30, and after the division of the township was Constable of Upper Darby in 1748, and Super- visor in 1752. He was an ingenious and enterprising man and greatly improved the weaving establishment started by his father by the introduction of inventions of his own, one of them a machine for twisting of worsteds. He died June 3, 1773, and an obituary notice of him, which appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette of June 9, says that he was "a kind husband, a tender parent, a good neighbor, and above all an honest man." It also states that he "left sixty-four children, grand- children and great-grandchildren." 1222 SELLERS Samuel Sellers, Jr., married at Darby Meeting, October 28, 1712, Sarah, born at Darby, May 30, 1689, daughter of John Smith, from Croxton, Leicestershire, Eng- land, by his wife, Eleanor Dolby, whom he married at Harborough, Leicestershire, May 4, 1669, and came with her to Darby in 1684, where both were esteemed min- isters of the Society of Friends. Eleanor died at Darby, September 10, 1708, and John, January 12, 1714-15. Their daughter, Sarah (Smith) Sellers, died at Upper Darby, May 24, 1778. Issue of Samuel and Sarah (Smith) Sellers: Samuel, b. July, 1715, d. Jan., 1786; m. Sept. 28, 1737, Jane, dau. of George and Hannah Wood, of Darby, and soon after that date settled in West Bradford township, Chester CO., near the forks of the Brandywine, where he lived the remainder of his life; they had six children, two sons and four daughters; the latter marrying into the prominent families of Peirce, Wickersham, Trimble and Taylor; Hannah, b. Feb. 10, 1717-18, d. April 12, 1810; m. (first) Richard Lloyd, son of Robert and Lowry (Jones) Lloyd, who d. Aug. 9, 17SS; (second) Nov. 29, I7S7, Lewis Davids; an account of her descendants and those of her two sons, Hugh and Isaac Lloyd, is given in this work, under the heading of "Lloyd Family;" Elizabeth, b. Sept. 15, 1719, d. Oct. 30, 1794; m. Nov. 22, 1738, John Hunt, of Kingsessing, Phila. CO., b. June 6, 1716, d. Jan. 6, 1791, son of James and Rebecca (Faucet) Hunt; had children : Sarah, Rebecca, James, Hannah, John and Ann ; John, b. Nov. 11, 1721, d. June 22, 1727; Mary, b. Dec. 6, 1723, d. May 16, 1777; m. Feb. 27, 1744, David Gibson, of Kingsessing, Phila. CO., b. Nov. 30, 1721, son of Nathan Gibson, a native of Westmoreland, England, who came to Pa. in 1719, by his wife, Ann, dau. of James Hunt, of Kingsessing, by his second wife, Elizabeth Bonsall; David and Mary (Sellers) Gibson had issue: Sarah, Jonathan, Nathan, David, Jr., Anna and Samuel; Joseph, b. June 15, 1726, d. Dec. 12, 1790; m. March 13, 1751-2, Hannah, eldest dau. of William Paschall, by his wife, Hannah (Lloyd) Roberts, dau. of Robert and Lowry (Jones) Lloyd, before mentioned, and widow of John Roberts; Hannah (Paschall) Sellers was therefore a niece of Richard Lloyd, who married her husband's eldest sister, Hannah Sellers; Joseph and Hannah Sellers had two children: Joseph, Jr., and Sarah; John, b. Nov. 19, 1728, d. Feb. 2, 1804; m. Ann Gibson; of whom presently. John Sellers, youngest son of Samuel Sellers, Jr., of Upper Darby, by his wife, Sarah Smith, was born at "Sellers Hall," the old family homestead. Upper Darby, November 19, 1728. In 1752 his father conveyed to him the homestead and one hundred and thirty-four acres, and he subsequently purchased other property ad- joining it. He erected on Mill creek a saw mill, grist mill, and also introduced machinery for weaving wire, the first, so far as known, ever set up in America. He also owned a tannery on the West Chester road, at a place known as "Way- side." John Sellers in addition to being a pioneer manufacturer on certain lines and the promoter of important industries in his neighborhood, took a deep interest in scientific research. He was one of the original members of the American Philo- sophical Society, and one of the committee of that organization in 1769, with David Rittenhouse and others to observe the transit of Venus and report their observa- tions for the benefit of science. He was a skilled surveyor and engineer, and was one of the commissioners appointed to build the Court House and prison for Ches- ter county in 1780; in 1783 was one of the commission to consider the opening of canal communication between the Schuylkill and Suequehanna rivers ; in 1786 one of the committee to consider the erection of the first Market street bridge over the Schuylkill; in 1789 a commissioner to run and mark the line between Chester county and the new county of Delaware. SELLERS 1223 Public-spirited and capable, he was called upon to take an active part in county and state affairs throughout his life. He was elected to the Colonial Assembly as a representative of Chester county in 1767, and was regularly re-elected to each session to and including that of 1771. In 1770 he was commissioner to lay out the road from the "Middle Ferry" to Strasburg. From the very inception of the struggle for Independence he was one of the most active Patriots of his section. He was appointed one of the Boston Port Bill com- mittee, and was a deputy to the first Provincial Conference of representatives of the Colonies at Philadelphia, July 15, 1774. His activity in the matter of prepar- ing to defend the rights of the Colonies by force of arms led to his disownment by the Society of Friends, in which his ancestors had held membership for a century. One of the items charged against him by the Meeting, being the signing of paper money designed for carrying on the war, and another that he had "sawed stuff for military purposes," at his saw mill. Being thoroughly in earnest and patriotic in his efforts, he appears to have resented the interference of the Meeting, and ex- pressing himself forcibly and to the point, was promptly disowned. He gave loyal support to the patriot cause during the whole struggle and at its close was elected to the General Assembly, but declined to serve. He represented Delaware county in the State Constitutional Convention of 1790, and was elected to the State Senate, the first to serve, under the constitution then adopted, for Delaware county, and served one term. He died at Sellers Hall, Upper Darby, Delaware county, Febru- ary 2, 1804. John Sellers married at Darby Meeting, April 26, 1749, Ann, born January 22, 1729-30, daughter of Nathan Gibson, a native of Westmoreland, England, who brought a certificate from Kendall Monthly Meeting of Friends there, 171 3, and married at Gloucester, New Jersey, December 7, 1719, Ann (Hunt) Blunston, widow of John Blunston, Jr., and daughter of James Hunt, of Kingsessing, Phila- delphia county, who had come from Kent county, England, 1684, by his second wife, Elizabeth (Wood) Bonsall, of Darby. Ann (Gibson) Sellers survived her husband and died April 6, 1805. Both are buried at Darby Meeting. Issue of John and Ann (Gibson) Sellers: Elizabeth Sellers, b. Jan. 4, 1750, d. March 23, 1774; m. June 9, 1768, Nathan Garrett, of Darby, b. May 18, 1745, d. April 9, 1827, son of Nathan and Ann (Knowles) Garrett, of Darbv, erandson of Samuel and Jane (Pennell) Garrett, of Darby, and great-grandson of William and Ann (Kirk) Garrett, who came from Harby, Leices- tershire, 1684, and settled in Darby; Elizabeth (Sellers) Garrett left issue: Ann, Sarah and Samuel; her husband, Nathan Garrett, m. (second) July 6, 1780, Hannah Rhoads, (third) June 26, 1799, Elizabeth (Davis) Dunn; Nathan Sellers, b. at Sellers Hall, Nov. 15, 1751, d. at "Milbank," his country residence in Upper Darby; he received a common school education, and in his boyhood was ap- prenticed to Henry Hale Graham, Esq., of Chester, "Scrivener," to learn convey- ancing, and was intended ultimately for the profession of the law, but during his leisure he devoted his attention to the industries established by his father, and eventu- allv abandoned his intention of studying law and devoted his attention exclusively to mechanical pursuits and surveying; in 1775 he was active in the formation of the local militia companies and was disowned by the Friends; he became Ensign of a company in Col. Jonathan Paschall s regiment of Associators, but was called from active mili- tary service to undertake the manufacture of paper moulds for the government by a special resolution of Continental Congress, Aug., 1776; in this work he was assisted by his brother, Samuel, until the latter's death, Dec. 10, 1776; the supplies for the manufacture of these moulds having been previously imported he was forced to devise the appliances for their manufacture as well as the moulds themselves; he continued to be employed in this work until the close of the war, and established a reputation in that line of work that was the foundation of his future success and fortune; in 36 1224 SELLERS 1777 he was appointed by the Council of Safety to make a survey of the river Dela- ware for use in erection of fortifications and obstructions for the defense of Phila., and was one of those commissioned to sign the paper currency emitted by Congress to carry on the war; he was also suggested for the appointment to the position of Prothonotary and Clerk of the Courts of Phila., but continued to devote his attention to the manufacture of paper moulds ; after the close of the war, he formed a partner- ship with his brother, David, under the firm name of Nathan & David Sellers, in the manufacture of paper-making machinery, much of which was of their own invention, and later added the manufacture of carding machinery; he served on many important commissions under the state and city, in the installment of impoitant improvements for transportation, etc., and was for several terms a member of Common Council of the city, being nominated and elected by both political parties; he resided up to 1817 in the city, and then removed to "Milbank," where he died; m. at Phila., May 4, 1779, Elizabeth, b. in Phila., Oct. 2, 1756, dau. of Joseph and Mary (Johnson) Coleman, and granddaughter of Dr. Joseph and Mary (Thomas) Coleman, and great-granddaughter of Thomas Coleman, of Scituate, Mass., where her ancestors had settled; issue: Coleman Sellers, b. at Darby, Nov. 27, 1781, became early associated with the business of the firm of Nathan & David Sellers, and was the inventor of a number of their improved manufacturing devices; on the dissolution of the firm he formed the new firm of Coleman Sellers & Sons, and in 1828 erected a manufacturing plant on Cobbs' creek, and they later undertook the manufacture of railroad locomotives of new and improved design; he d. at his residence, No. 10 North Sixth street, Phila., May 7, 1834; he was one of the commissioners for the erection of the Eastern Penitentiary in 1821. Three of his sons were promi- nent engineers and manufacturers, and established rolling mills, iron works, etc., in Ohio, and elsewhere in the west, and took an active part in the building of the great transcontinental lines of railway; Samuel Sellers, b. Dec. 30, 1753, d. Dec. 10, 1776; was associated with his elder brother, Nathan, in the manufacture of paper moulds for the government at the time of his decease ; David Sellers, b. April i, 1757, d. in Phila., Dec. 2, 1813; was the junior partner in the firm of Nathan & David Sellers, of which his sons, Samuel and James, later became members; m. Dec. 23, 1779, Rachel Coleman, sister to his brother Nathan's wife, and had ten children; Sarah, b. Dec. 10, 1759, d. April 3, 1766; • John Sellers, b. Dec i, 1762, d. at his country residence "Hoodland," in Upper Darby; m. Mary Coleman; of whom presently; James, b. Sept. 21, 1765, d. Nov. 12, 1770; George Sellers, b. Feb. 12, 1768, at Sellers Hall, which he inherited and spent his whole life there; d. April 3, 1853; he was a man of poetic tastes and the author of a number of poetical pieces; m. Sept. 8, 1808, Ann Evans, dau. of Joshua and Abigail (Evans) Ash, of Phila., d. Nov. 4, 1856; Joshua, b. March 13, 1770, d. March 14, 1770 ; Ann, b. Dec. 31, 1774, d. Oct. 24, 1775. John Sellers, sixth child and fourth son of John and Ann (Gibson) Sellers, was born at the old homestead of "Sellers Hall," Upper Darby, December i, 1762. He learned the trade of a tanner at a tannery then owned by his father on the West Chester road, near the old homestead, at a place known as "Wayside," and at the age of seventeen years began to tan skins on his own account. After following the business for some years at "Wayside," he removed to Philadelphia and erected a tannery on Dock street, where he carried on business until 1795, when he formed a partnership with Joseph Keen, a currier, under the firm name of Keen & Sellers, and they carried on the tanning business on Chestnut street, below Fourth, opposite Carpenter's Hall, until 1808, when Mr. Sellers retired from the firm and removed to a farm he had purchased near the old homestead in Upper Darby, to which he removed, later known as "Hoodland." He thereafter chiefly devoted himself to the care and improvement of his farm, which he later extended by purchase; though he operated to some extent the adjoining tannery at "Wayside," where he had learned his trade, and which with that portion of the homestead on which his father had erected the grist and merchant mills, he inherited from his father's . SELLERS 1225 estate, manufacturing card leathers for the firm of Nathan & David Sellers, com- posed of his two elder brothers. In 1821 he began the erection of a handsome resi- dence on his farm which he called "Hoodland," and removed into it with his family in 1824. John Sellers married at Philadelphia, April 2y, 1786, Mary, born in Philadelphia, September 9, 1761, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Johnson) Coleman, and a sister to the wives of his two eldest brothers, Nathan and David. She was a descendant of one of the early Quaker families of New England, who suffered persecution from the intolerant Puritans, her ancestors having settled in Massachusetts in 1638. Her grandfather. Dr. Joseph Coleman, of Prince George's county, Maryland, who married Mary Thomas, was a son of Thomas Coleman, of Scituate, Massachusetts. Issue of John and Mary (Coleman) Sellers: Charles, b. Aug. 14, 1787, d. Oct. 10, 1787; John, b. Oct. 7, 1788, d. Oct. 19, 1788; John, b. Sept. 29, 1789, d. July 20, 1878; m. Elizabeth Poole; of whom presently; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 26, 1791; m. at Darby Meeting, May 3, 1810, Abraham L. Pennock; Ann, b. Sept. 27, 1793, d. June 11, 1815, unm. John Sellers, only surviving son of John and Mary (Coleman) Sellers, was born in Philadelphia, September 29, 1789. His mother died when he was about five years of age, and he was reared at the home of his grandparents, John and Ann (Gibson) Sellers, Upper Darby, and received his education in the common schools of that neighborhood. He learned the milling trade under Thomas Steel, who then operated the mill owned by his grandfather and later by his father, and in 1814 assisted in building the new mills, known as the Millbourne Mills, and now for many years operated by the Millbourne Mills Company, whose well-known brands of flour have been a staple in the Philadelphia and other markets for nearly a century, the foundation for the extensive business conducted by these mills being laid by John Sellers, on the site of the present mills. He resided from the time of his marriage until 1858 in the old Millbourne house adjoining the mills, and in that year removed to a residence he had erected on higher ground to the west of the mill, where he died July 20, 1878. He was a much respected member of Darby Meeting of Friends and a regular attendant of their Meetings during his whole life. He was an earnest though conservative Abolitionist during slavery days, and on the organization of the Free Soil party, took an active interest in its campaigns, being a delegate to the National convention of that party at Buffalo, 1848. He was an earnest advocate of popular education and was one of those who founded and assisted in maintaining the Union School, on the Marshall road in Upper Darby, and was a director of the Upper Darby School District, and treasurer of the board, from the establishment of the Common Schools there until he retired by reason of his old age. He was also treasurer of the West Chester Turnpike Company, and held a number of other positions of trust. John Sellers married at Friends' Meeting, Wilmington, Delaware, April 10, 1817, Elizabeth, born April 28, 1792, died at the Millbourne place. Upper Darby, January 3, 1859, daughter of William and Sarah (Sharpless) Poole, and a de- scendant of two old families of Pennsylvania. Joseph Poole, great-grandfather of Elizabeth (Poole) Sellers, was a son of William Poole, of Parish of Bromfield, county Cumberland, England, by his wife, 1226 SELLERS Jeanette Twentyman, and was born in Cumberland, 1704. He came to Pennsyl- vania when a young man and settled in Bucks county where he married Rebecca, bom September 9, 1702, daughter of Abel Janney, born in Mobberly, Cheshire, England, December 29, 1671, by his wife, Elizabeth, born at Dorehouse, Yorkshire, October 17, 1673, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy, who came to New Jersey, 1679, and were the first settlers on the site of Trenton, New Jersey. Thomas Janney, father of Abel, baptized at Stiall, Cheshire, England, January 11, 1634, became a minister among Friends, and married, November 24, 1660, Mar- gery Heath, of Horton, Yorkshire, came to Pennsylvania, in ship, "Endeavor," arriving in Delaware river, September 20, 1683, with their four sons: Jacob, Thomas, Abel and Joseph, and settled in Bucks county. He was a member of Provincial Council, 1683-86 ; many years a Justice of Bucks County Courts, and a member of Assembly. He died while on a religious visit to the place of his nativ- ity, at the house of his sister, Mary Burgess (where he was born), February 12, 1696-7. Abel Janney was a Justice of Bucks county, 1708-10, and a member of Provincial Assembly, 1710-21. Joseph Poole died at Newtown, Bucks county, 1766. His widow, Rebecca, survived him many years and died at the residence of her son, William, at Wilmington, Delaware. They had eight children of whom William, eldest, born January 26, 1728-9, settled in Wilmington, Delaware. He married( first) June 27, 1754, Martha Boberts, and (second) December 3, 1761, Elizabeth (Shipley) Canby, widow of Oliver Canby, of Wilmington, and daughter of William and Mary (Tatnall) Shipley, of Wilmington, an account of whom and their respective ancestry is given elsewhere in this publication. William Poole, Jr., son of William Poole, of Wilmington, by his second wife, Elizabeth ( Shipley) Canby, born at Wilmington, August 4, 1764, was apprenticed as boy to a silversmith, but on his marriage engaged in the milling business on the Brandywine, near Wilmington, where he resided until his death. May 25, 1829. He married, at Middletown Meeting, Chester county, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1791. Sarah, bom September 25, 1769, died at Wilmington, September 13, 1823, daughter of Benjamin Sharpless, born January 26, 1709, died March 16, 1785 ; by his second wife, Martha, bom February 8, 1724, died October 20, 1812, daughter of Benjamin Mendenhall, a minister among Friends in Chester county, born May 5, 1691, died while on a religious visit to North Carolina, July 13, 1743, by his wife, Lydia Rob- erts, a native of Wales. He was a son of Benjamin Mendenhall, who came from Wiltshire, England, and married, in 1689, Ann Pennell, of Chester county. Ben- jamin Sharpless was a son of Joseph Sharpless, born in Hatherton, Cheshire, Eng- land, September 28, 1678, died in Chester county, 1757, by his wife, Lydia, daugh- ter of Ralph and Mary Lewis, who came from Glamorganshire, Wales, with John Bevan, 1683, and settled in the Welsh Tract of Haverford and Merion townships. John Sharpless, father of Joseph, and the ancestor of the prominent Chester county family of the name, was a son of Geoffrey Sharpless, of Wybunbury, Ches- ter county, England, who had married Margaret Ashley, June 27, 161 1. John Sharpless, born at Wybunbury, baptized October 15, 1624, became early convinced of Friends' principles. He married, June 27, 1662, Jane Moore, at Hatherton, Cheshire, and emigrated to Pennsylvania with his family, landing at Chester, Oc- tober 14, 1682, died in 1685, his widow surviving until 1721. William and Sarah (Sharpless) Poole had ten children, of whom Elizabeth, wife of John Sellers, was the eldest. SELLERS 1227 Issue of John and Elisabeth (Poole) Sellers: Mary, b. June 2, 1818, d. Dec. 15, 1894; m. Edward Bancroft, son of John and Elizabeth Bancroft, who came from England 1824; Edward and Mary (Sellers) Bancroft re- sided in Providence, R. I., where he was a member of the firm of Fairbanks, Bancroft & Co., machinists, until 1849, and then removed to Phila. and entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, William Sellers, d. there 1855; they have three children, viz.: John Sellers Bancroft, a machinist with William Sellers & Co.; m. (first) Eliza- beth H. Richardson, (second) Anne E. Richardson; Anna P. Bancroft, m. Elwood W. Coggswell, merchant of New York City; Elizabeth Bancroft, wife of Stephen Parrish, of Phila. Sarah Poole Sellers, b. Feb. 18, 1820, d. inf.; William Poole Sellers, b. April 13, 1822, d. inf.; John Sellers, b. Sept. s, 1823, d. inf.; William Sellers, b. Sept. 19, 1824, served an apprenticeship as a machinist in the works of his uncle, J. Morton Poole, at Wilmington, and in 1745 took charge of the machine shops of Fairbanks, Bancroft & Co., at Providence, R. I.; returned to Phila. two years later and began manufacturing on his own account; formed a partnership with his former employer and brother-in-law, Edward Bancroft, under firm name of Bancroft & Sellers, in 1848, and at death of Mr. Bancroft, in 185s, established firm of William Sellers & Co., at Sixteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue; among the leading ma- chine and tool manufacturers in this country; he was president of Franklin Institute since 1864; was one of the original members of the Union League; trustee of the Univ. of Pa. since 1866; several years a director in Phila. & Reading R. R. Co.; Phila., Wilmington & Baltimore R. R. Co. ; member of National Academy of Sciences, at Washington, D. C. ; president of Edge Moor Iron Co., who established an extensive plant near Wilmington, 1868; and president of Midvale Steel Co., 1873-87, and one of its largest stockholders; member of American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Mechanical and Civil Engineers of Great Britain, and Societe d'Encouragement pour L' Industrie National, of Paris; John Sellers, Jr., b. July 27, 1826; of whom presently; Georse H. Sellers, b. Aug. 21, 1828, d. in Wilmington, Del., June 7, 1897; m. Annie Wilson ; Sarah Ann Sellers, b. Aug. 21, 1828 (twin to George H.) ; m. June 4, 1856, Clement B. Smyth, a prominent iron manufacturer of Wilmington, Del.; vice-president and treas- urer for many years of Diamond State Iron Co.; Martha Sellers, b. Oct. 2, 1830, d. Dec. 11, 1899, unm.; Frances Sellers, b. Sept 23, 1833; m. April 26, 1855, Eli Garrett, of Wilmington, treas- urer of Edge Moor Iron Co. at his death. May 25, 1886; Nathan Sellers, b. July 18, 1836; m. June 30, 1863, Mary H. Keen, and had three chil- dren, all of whom d. minors. John Sellers, Jr., second surviving son of John and Elizabeth (Poole) Sellers, was bom at Millbourne, Upper Darby, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1826. He received a good practical education, and early in life assisted his father in the management of the Millbourne Mills, erected by his great-grandfather in 1757, and retained an interest therein until 1848. In that year he went to Cincin- nati, Ohio, travelling by stage coach and river steamboat, and entered the employ of a prominent mill operator there, and later accepted a clerkship in the Lafayette Bank, of Cincinnati. After travelling through some of the then unsettled portions of the country farther west, he returned to Philadelphia in 1849, ^"d established an iron foundry there, which he successfully conducted until 1853, when he became a member of the firm of Bancroft & Sellers, founded by his brother, William Sellers, and his brother-in-law, Edward Bancroft, and aided in building up an extensive business in the manufacture of tools, and continued a member of the firm of Will- iams Sellers & Company, organized in 1855, and when that company was incor- porated in 1886 he became its vice-president and treasurer, both of which positions he still fills. In 1885 the Millbourne Mills Company was incorporated, to operate the mills at Millbourne, established by his great-grandfather in 1757, and since 1228 SELLERS operated successively by his grandfather, father and himself, and he was made president of the corporation, a position he filled until his resignation in 1902. Mr. Sellers was with his brother, William, one of the incorporators of the Edge Moor Iron Company, in 1869, and from that time until his resignation, October 2, 1901, filled the position of vice-president of the corporation, in which he still holds a large pecuniary interest. He is also a director and large holder of stock in the Mid- vale Steel Company of Philadelphia. Mr. Sellers was one of the original members of the Union League of Philadel- phia and assisted in the preparation of a history of that organization recently pub- lished. He is also a member of the Franklin Institute. John Sellers, Jr., was one of founders of "The Nation," a periodical published in New York City since 1865, and contributed to its columns. He married at Philadelphia, October 6, 1853, Ann Caroline, daughter of Joseph Swift Keen, a prominent lumber merchant of Philadelphia, by his wife, Ann Longstreth, and a descendant of Joran Kyn, who accompanied Governor John Printz from Sweden to the Delaware in 1643, and settled at Upland, now Chester. Her mother, Ann Longstreth, was a descendant of Bartholomew Longstreth, of Londstreth Dale, Yorkshire, who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1698, and settled in Bucks county. Some account of this family will be found in this publication under the title of the Longstreth family. Issue of John and Ann Caroline (Keen) Sellers: Lucy Sellers, b. July 12, 1854; m. Oct. 16, 1879, George Taylor Barnes, of Phila., b. June 29, 1846, d. Jan. 30, 1900; they had issue: John Sellers Barnes, b. May 30, 1881 ; Caroline Sellers Barnes, b. Dec. 28, 1883; Natalie Sellers Barnes, b. May 23, 1889. Howard Sellers, b. March 22, 1857; m. Oct. 18, 1888, Sarah Mendenhall Worrell, of Wilmington, Del., b. June 27, 1865; Elizabeth Poole Sellers, b. Nov. 4, 1858; m. June 15, 1887, Granville Worrell, of Wilming- ton, Del., b. Sept. 21, 1836; they have issue: Howard Sellers Worrell, b. March 26, 1888; Granville Worrell, Jr., b. June 17, 1896. Mildred Sellers, b. Dec. 4, 1859; m. Feb. II, 1885, William EUery Almy, of Washington, D. C, b. Nov. 9, 1856, d. Aug. i, 1901; they have issue: Marion Sellers Almy, b. Aug. 14, 1888; Helen Almy, b. Aug. 2, 1890; Ann Caroline Almy, b. Feb. 18, 1894; William Ellery Almy, b. Nov. 18, 1901. Marion Sellers, b. July 27, 1869, d. Nov. 8, 1877. GRUBB FAMILY. The various members of the Grubb family in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and elsewhere in this country are mainly, if not entirely, descendants from early English settlers. The family is a very old one in England, and the name, spelled in the early rec- ords either Grubbe or Grubb, appears in the ancient records of Kent, Cornwall, Hertfordshire, and other English counties, as early as 1300, and in some instances still earlier. The English stock generally is of Danish derivation. The Royal Archives at Copenhagen show that the Grubbes have been, since 11 27, one of the oldest, and, at times, most distinguished noble families of Denmark, and connected with many families of high rank in Germany and Austria. The following are the earliest settlers of the name of Grubb in the United States : Thomas Grubbe, who settled in 1623, and John Grubbe, 1626, in Jamestown Colony, Virginia. They appear to have come from Hertfordshire, England, and their descendants now reside in Virginia, Kentucky, and other states of the Union. These seem to have gradually changed the final e, to s, as they now spell the name Grubbs. Among them is Judge Charles S. Grubbs, of Louisville, Kentucky. Thomas Grubb, of Piscataway, Middlesex county. New Jersey, who left a will dated 171 1, in which he mentions his wife, two daughters, and one son, Thomas Grubb. A Robert Grubb, living in the township and county of Burlington, New Jersey, 1795, may have been his descendant, as appears by a deed executed by him and Sarah, his wife, at that date. Descendants of Thomas Grubb may, there- fore, be still living in New Jersey or elsewhere. Henry Grubb, of Chester county, whose will was proved in Philadelphia, 1726 (Will Book E, p. 20), shows that he left a wife, Catharine, and children whose names are not given, but does not disclose whether he left any male descendants. Some of the name who claim to be descended from him assert that he was of Swiss or German origin, his name being a modification of the name, "Grobb," "Grube" or "Greup," and a number of the name, evidently of German extraction, are found a generation later in Berks and adjoining counties. Henry Grubb, another early settler of the Grubb name, came from Cornwall, England, prior to 1679, and landed at Salem, New Jersey, where he was a witness to the marriage of William Clark and Honor Huling, January i, 1679-80. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and February 24, 1682-3, to"^!^ ^ certificate from Salem Meeting to Burlington Meeting and married there. May 24, 1683, Mary, daughter of William and Mary Perkins, who had come in the ship, "Kent," and settled at Burlington. He produced at Burlington Meeting the certificate he had brought from Friends in Cornwall, England, signed, among others, by his mother, Wilmot Grubb, Joanne Grubb and Anthony Grubb. As recorded in a book of certificates received at Burlington Meeting, it bears no date, though it ajjpears among those dated 1676-7. Henry Grubb purchased land in West Jersey and resided in the town of Burlington ; was named in deeds as a "victualler," and later as an "Innholder." He left no male descendants of the Grubb name. The I230 GRUBB records of the Burlington Meeting give the births of three children of Henry and Mary (Perkins) Grubb: David, born i2mo. 4, 1685-6, died 3010. 4, 1687; Mary, born iimo. 6, 1688-9; Elizabeth, born 6mo. 12, 1691. The will of Henry Grubb, of Burlington, dated February 11, 1695-6, was proven January 24, 1705-6; it de- vises his estate to his "mother Wilmot Grubb, living at Stoke Climsland, county of Cornwall, England," to his wife, Mary, and his two daughters, Mary and Eliza- beth. His wife is named as sole executrix, but if she should remarry, his brother- in-law, Thomas Rapier (who had married Mary's sister, Abigail Perkins), and John Hollingshead are to act as guardians and trustees of his daughters. Besse's "Sufferingr of the Quakers," states that Henry Grubb, of Stoke Clims- land, Cornwall, was committed to and imprisoned in Trematon Castle, Cornwall. He was doubtless the father of Henry Grubb, of Burlington, New Jersey, as the parish record of Stoke Climsland contains the baptismal record of "David, son of Henry Grubb and Wilmuth his wife, born 22, January 1658," and also a certificate of the burial of "Wilmuth Grubb, Quaker, 4th Feby. 1696," about the date of Henry Grubb's will, and before news of her death could have reached him in New Jersey. It has been assumed by some writers that Henry Grubb, of Burlington, was a brother to John Grubb, of New Castle county, now Delaware (hereafter mention- ed), since both came from Cornwall, and at about the same time settled on nearly opposite sides of the river Delaware; because Henry was a family name in the Delaware family, and because one of John's grandsons named a daughter, "Wel- meet," which resembled the name of Henry's mother, Wilmot or Wilmuth. On the other hand the descendants of John, of Delaware, held, among other reasons, that since the name of John does not appear on the baptismal record of the chil- dren of Henry and Wilmuth at Stoke Climsland, he could not have been a brother, though since the name of Henry himself, shown by his will to have been a son, does not appear on record there, this argument alone is not conclusive. However, John Grubb was never a Quaker, though his sons, with the exception of Emanuel, became such, and the name Henry being such a common one everywhere, and the name Wellmeet, like Speedwell, Hopewell, Charity, Prudence, etc., being common- ly used Christian names in those days, there is little basis for the conjecture of relationship on such grounds. John Grubb, the most prominent of all these early settlers of the name and the ancestor of the now numerous family of the name in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and elsewhere, is said to have been born in Cornwall, England, 1652, and to have come to the Delaware river, in the ship "Kent," 1677. He obtained a grant of land at Upland, now Chester, Pennsylvania, 1679, and at Grubb's Land- ing, New Castle county, now Delaware, 1682, and subsequently elsewhere, in both the Lower Counties, as Delaware was then known, and in Pennsylvania. According to researches made by his descendant, Hon. Ignatius C. Grubb, of Wilmington, Delaware, during his various visits to England, John Grubb belonged to a county family of note in Wiltshire, which had settled in that county as early as 1550, and much earlier in Hertfordshire, where Henry Grubbe, in 1506, mar- ried Joan, daughter of Sir Richard RadclifTe, who died in 1485, on Bosworth Field, in support of King Richard III., and whose descendants are still prominent citizens of the neighboring counties in England. GRUBB 1231 The ancestry of John Grubb, of Grubb's Landing, New Castle county, has been traced to Henry Grubbe, Esq., who was elected a member of Parliament for De- vizes, Wiltshire, in the fourteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1571). He died in 1581, and was the ancestor of Walter Grubbe, member of Parliament, 1685; and of General John Heneage Hunt Grubbe, Commander at Quebec, of Major Thomas Hunt Grubbe, who was wounded in battle under General Lord Packenham, at New Orleans, 1815; and of Admiral Sir Walter Hunt Grubbe, K. B., K. C B., now of the Royal Navy, England. Thomas Grubbe, Esq. (eldest son of the said Henry Grubbe), of Potterne, De- vizes, Wiltshire, died there February 2, 1617. His second son, Thomas Grubbe, M. A., born at Potterne, Devizes, Wiltshire, 1581 ; graduated at Oxford University, and became rector of Cranfield, Bedfordshire. John Grubb, Esq., second son of Thomas Grubbe, M. A., born in Bedfordshire, England, i6io, died at Potterne, Wiltshire, 1667, was a royalist and an adherent of the Church of England, during the Civil War, and after the execution of Charles I., settled in Cornwall, where, as Judge Grubb has ascertained, he married Helen Vivian, and was the father of — John Grubb, the early settler on the Delaware, who was born in Cornwall, 1652, and whose wife was Frances Vane, of Kent county, England. This John Grubb, son of John and Helen (Vivian) Grubb, the pioneer settler, with William Penn, Richard Buffington, and others, signed the Plan of Government for the Province of West Jersey, bearing date March 3, 1676, and at the age of twenty- five years sought his fortune and a career in the New World. Whether he emigrated direct from Cornwall is not certainly known. As his father was buried in 1667, in the family Churchyard at Potterne, Wiltshire, it is possible that John may have lived in Wiltshire at about the time he came to America, This is not unlikely, inasmuch as John Buckley and Morgan Drewett, whose land immediately adjoin- ed his at Grubb's Landing, on the Delaware, as well as others among his friends and contemporaries who resided at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, and the neigh- boring townships, all emigrated from Wiltshire. During his thirty years of rugged and arduous pioneer life on the Delaware he proved himself to be a man of enterprising, vigorous and sterling qualities, and of practical business ability. He was prominent and influential in his section, and successful in his career as legislator, magistrate, farmer and leather manufacturer. He not only cleared and cultivated the various tracts of land he owned, but he also, in practical recognition of the needs of a pioneer people, erected a tannery near Grubb's Landing and was one of the earliest manufacturers of leather in Penn's new Province. He also, conformably to the provisions of Penn's very practical law and the custom of the most prominent settlers, had each of his sons taught a practical trade, in order that they might be prepared for every contingency incident to those early times. In November, 1679, a tract of three hundred and forty acres of land on Ches- ter creek, near Upland, now Chester, Pennsylvania, was conveyed to him and Richard Buffington. He with this Richard Bovington or Buffington, with whom he was closely associated, were defendants in a suit brought to the Court at New Castle, 1680, by Robert Wade, in reference to their tenancy or purchase of land belonging to Wade, and other matters in dispute. On September 19, 1682, "Stock- dale's Plantation" of eight hundred acres in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle 1232 GRUBB county, was surveyed to John Grubb, though a portion of it was in dispute be- tween him and the Proprietary Government for a number of years, as shown by the correspondence of James Logan, Secretary of the Proprietors. It was located on Naaman's creek and the Delaware river, and came to be known as Grubb's Manor Lands. On May 9, 1691, there was surveyed to him by virtue of a war- rant dated April 26, 1684, four and a half acres for a tan yard, on which he erect- ed a tannery. At the Court at Chester, January 6, 1684, he made a deposition in reference to a matter then pending, and is mentioned as "about thirty-two years of age." He was commissioned a Justice of New Castle county, May 2, 1693, and was elected a member of the Colonial Assembly, 1692-98-1700. On June 3, 1698, Alice Gilpin, widow of Thomas Gilpin, conveyed to him one hundred and eight acres of land near Grubb's Landing, on the Delaware, and in 1707 John French, Sheriff, conveyed to him one hundred and seventy-five acres in Brandy- wine Hundred. In 1703-4, he purchased land at Marcus Hook, Chichester town- ship, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he was living at the time of making his will in which he is named as of the county of Chester. He died at Marcus Hook, March, 1708, in his fifty-sixth year, and was buried there in St. Martin's Churchyard. He was not a Quaker, but like his ancestors adhered to the Church of England. His will was proved, filed and recorded in the Register of Wills' Office at Philadelphia, March 26, 1708, but as he was a large landowner in New Castle county a copy thereof was filed in the Wills' Office at New Castle, Delaware. Frances (Vane) Grubb, of Grubb's Landing, married (second) Richard Bufl- ington, her first husband's friend and associate, as has been shown by deeds sign- ed by them and by other circumstances, and thereafter lived in Bradford township, Chester county, where she died, prior to 1721. Issue of John and Frances (Vane) Grubb: Emanuel Grubb, b. July 19, 1682, d. Aug. 9, 1767; m. Ann Hedge Cock, or Koch; of whom later; John Grubb, b. Nov., 1684, d. March 15, 1758; m. Rachel Buckley; of whom later; Charity Grubb, b. at Grubb's Landing, New Castle co., and thought to have been third child; married prior to her father's death (1708), Richard Beeson, son of Edward Beeson of New Castle co., later of Nottingham, Chester co., near the Maryland line. They became Friends, and from 1742 to 1754, lived in Frederick co., Va., but were settled in Roan co., N. C, 1758, as letters to her brothers and sister show; it was their son, William Beeson, who named a daughter "Welmeet," referred to in the early part of this narrative; their grandson, Henry Beeson, founded Beesontown, now Union- town, Fayette co.. Pa.; Phebe Grubb, m. (first) Richard Buffington, son of Richard Buffington, second husband of her mother, Frances (Vane) Grubb, and they settled near Marshallton, Del., where he d. 1741, leaving twelve children; they were Friends; in 1752 Phebe m. (second) Simon Hadley, of Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle co.; she survived him also and d. March 4, 1769; among the descendants of Richard and Phebe (Grubb) Buffington is Hon. Joseph Buffington, Judge of the Third Pennsylvania District, U. S. Circuit Court ; Joseph Grubb, b. at Grubb's Landing, New Castle co., purchased 106 acres of land on the Delaware, between Naamans creek and Stockdale's Plantation, Brandywine Hun- dred, New Castle co., on which he resided; he d. intestate 1747, leaving sons and daughters; a daughter, Ann, m. 1738, Samuel Lodge, of Brandsrwine Hundred, from whom the family of that name now resident there descended; she d. 1803; Henry Grubb, b. at Grubb's Landing, New Castle co., is not known to have m.; in 1722 he purchased 250 acres of land at Grubb's Bridge, near the present Wawa Station, West Chester Railroad, Delaware co.. Pa.; his will, dated July 3, 1770, devised his land to his nephew, Peter Grubb, of Lancaster co., "Ironmaster," an account of whom is given later in this narrative, subject to the payment of debts and legacies to his nephew, Curtis Grubb (brother of the above-named Peter), and Curtis' son, Petei Grubb; he d. subsequent to Jan. 20, as appears by his deed of that date; GKUBB 1233 Samuel Grubb, b. at Grubb's Landing, New Castle co., joined Concord Friends' Meet- ing, Chester co., Pa., July 17, 1732, and m. at that Meeting, July 26, 1745, Mary, dau. of Isaac Bellerby, of New Castle co., and died prior to May 17, 1760, as appears by his brother, Nathaniel's will of that date, leaving to survive him his wife, Mary, but apparently no children ; he had learned the trade of a mason and was an enterprising and practical business man; in 1722 he purchased 181 acres of land in Bradford town- ship, Chester co., of Thomas Buffington, and erected a brick mansion house thereon, near the present Lenape Station, and belonging recently to Dr. Jacob Price ; he owned, also, valuable iron ore lands, in connection with his brother, Peter Grubb, and was associated with him in the manufacture of iron in Lebanon, then Lancaster CO., Pa.; his will, dated Jan. 14, 1760, gave his brick residence and a few acres of land to his wife during life, and 200 pounds per annum for three years; and the land in equal portions to each of his nephews, Curtis and Peter Grubb, sons of his youngest brother, Peter Grubb; he also gave legacies to his sisters. Charity Beeson and Phebe Hadley, and his brother, Henry Grubb; also a legacy to the Pennsylvania Hospital, Phila., and a fund for building the Friends' Meeting House at Birmingham; to his deceased brother John's son, Samuel Grubb, he left the estate, real and personal, devised to him by his father, John Grubb; and to his brother, Nathaniel Grubb, all the residue of his estate ; as he devised all his estate to collateral relatives and charities it is to be presumed that he left no children; Nathaniel Grubb, b. at Grubb's Landing, New Castle co., is said to have learned the trade of a carpenter ; he became a man of substance and prominence in Colonial affairs; he settled in WiUistown township, Chester co.. Pa., where he purchased 500 acres of land, Nov. 16, 1726, and erected a grist and sawmill on Crum creek, and also owned houses and lots in Phila., as well as property at Marcus Hook; he was appoint- ed one of the trustees of the Provincial Loan Office 1758, and was a member of Pro- vincial Assembly from Chester co. 1749-58; m. Dec. 23, 1725, at Concord Meeting of Friends, Ann, dau. of John and Margaret Moore, of Thornbury township, Chester co., and they were both prominent and active members of Goshen Meeting; he survived his wife a short time and d. in 1760; by his will, dated May 17, 1760, he devised all his estate to his children ; issue : Nathaniel, m. Sarah Reese, at Willistown, 1771 ; Phebe, m. William Worrell, of Marple township, Chester co., 1759; Charity; Margaret ; Ann; Samuel; Mary; Frances. Peter Grubb, b. at Grubb's Landing, 1702, became the prominent iron master of Lebanon, and an account of him and his descendants will be given later. Emanuel Grubb, eldest son of John and Frances (Vane) Grubb, was born at Grubb's Landing, New Castle county, July 19, 1682, three months before Will- iam Penn landed at Chester, on his first visit to his new Province of Pennsyl- vania, and died there August 9, 1767. He married, 1708, Ann Hedge Cock, born February 27, 1694, died January 24, 1772. She was a granddaughter of Otto Ernest Koch, or Cock, as spelled by the English, Secretary to the Swedish Gov- ernor, John Printz, at Tinicum Island, and presiding Justice of the Upland Court in 1680, and a member of the first English Governor, William Markham's Coun- cil, 1681. She was also a descendant of Colonel John Fenwick, founder of Fen- wick's Colony, Salem county, New Jersey, 1675, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Covert. Emanuel Grubb resided until his death on a portion of Stockdale's Plantation, which was named "Stockdales," after it was resurveyed in 1735, and divided be- tween Emanuel Grubb, his brother, John Grubb, and Adam Buckley. He also purchased other tracts in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county, and in the Province of Pennsylvania; was a man of note and influence in his time, and of exemplary character and rare physical vigor. In 1727 he was commissioned one of the Colonial Justices, to hold the Court of Common Pleas and other courts of 1234 GRUBB New Castle county; was an active member of the Episcopal church, and from 1725 until his death, 1767, was a vestryman of St. Martin's Church, at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. He, his son, Emanuel, and grandson, James Grubb, con- tinuously and successively served as vestrymen of that church for an unbroken period of over a century. An obituary notice, published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, August 20, 1767, says of Emanuel Grubb: "He died at Brandywine Hundred, on the loth instant in his eighty-sixth year, and was interred in the Churchyard at St. Martin's Lower Chichester (Marcus Hook), Chester County." It also says, "that he was bom in a temporary cave dug into the clay bluff on the edge of the Delaware River, during the building of his father's house, not far from where he always lived and where he died; and further that he was the first child born of English parents in the Province of Pennsylvania." Whilst it has been shown that a few English children were born in the Colony before him, yet it is true that he was the first English child bom after the grant of the Province of Pennsylvania to William Penn, March 4, 1681, so far as yet appears. He left a will, dated May 5, 1764, and proven August 19, 1767, on which is a wax impression of Emanuel's very antique family signet ring, and now possessed by his lineal descendant, Judge Ignatius C. Grubb, of Wilming- ton, Delaware. Issue of Emanuel and Ann Hedge (Cock) Grubb: John Grubb, d. young and childless, not mentioned in his father's will; Edith Grubb, admitted to membership in Concord Meeting of Friends Jan. 7, 1733-4; '"■ there, Jan. 23, Richard Thatcher, of Thornbury township, Chester co., son of Jonathan Thatcher, who was b. in Berkshire, England, Feb. 15, 1667-8, d. in Thornbury, Chester CO., 1750; by his wife, Hannah Dicks; and grandson of Richard Thatcher, who with Jane, his wife, and two children, Jonathan and Jane, came to Pa. about 1685; Richard Thatcher d. 1763, and his widow, Edith Grubb, 1771; they had ten children, five sons and five daughters, who have left numerous descendants in Chester co., Phila., and elsewhere ; Joseph Grubb, m. Dec, 1745, Hannah, dau. of William and Ann Ford, and had three children; he d. before his father, and his widow m. David Johnson; Thomas Grubb, mentioned in his father's will, no further mention, unless he was the Thomas Grubb, Ensign of Associators, in Lancaster co., 1747-8 (Penna. Arch., 2d series, vol. ii., p. 436). Henry Grubb, living in Brandywine Hundred, 1771 ; supposed to have been the Henry Grubb who m. Patience Clayton, 1758; Frances Grubb, d. inf.; Nicholas Grubb, m. Mary , d. intestate 1748; James Grubb, d. before his father, no record of descendants; Emanuel Grubb, Jr.. b. at "Stockdales," Dec. 10, 1729, d. Aug. 8, 1799; m. Aug. 16, 1751, Anne, dau. of William and Anne Ford, b. 1735, d. Aug. 13, 1803; Captain of "Upper Regiment, New Castle County," 1756; principal legatee under his father's will, charged with the support of his mother; had issue: Benjamin; Susannah; Joseph; Frances ; Peter; James, b. June 25, 1768, d. April 4, 1827; m. Sarah Ford; of whom later; Nicholas ; William Ford, b. Feb. 13, 1773, d. July 30, 1849; m. Jan. 4, 1798, Lydia William- son; of whom later. Peter Grubb, m. Dec. 24, 1754, Jane, dau. of Benjamin Ford, and d. shortly after mar- riage, without issue; Anne Grubb, m. Black, mentioned in her father's will; Benjamin Grubb, mentioned in his father's will, no further record. GRUBB 1235 John Grubb, second son of John and Frances (Vane) Grubb, born at Grubb's Landing, New Castle county, Delaware, November, 1684, was an extensive land- owner in New Castle county. In addition to several other tracts in Brandywine Hundred, he obtained fifty-six acres of Stockdale's Plantation on the Delaware river, at Grubb's Landing, and two hundred acres of an adjoining tract called ""Mile End," on the division of lands in 173S, between himself, his elder brother, Emanuel, and his wife's brother, Adam Buckley. He also owned considerable land in Chichester township, Chester county. He married Rachel, born April 4, i6cjo, died December 15, 1752, daughter of John and Hannah (Sanderson) Buck- ley, of Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county. He died March 15, 1758. In his will, dated March 10, 1753, he devises his property to his sons and daughters, and provides for the emancipation of his negro slaves. He was buried at the Friends' burying-ground, at Chichester, Pennsylvania. John Grubb was co- executor with his mother, Frances, of his father's will. Issue of John and Rachel (Buckley) Grubb: William Grubb, eldest son, b. Nov. 16, 1713, d. Feb. 10, 1775; m. Jan. 11, 1738-9, at Chichester Friends' Meeting, of which he had been made a member, October 3, 1738, Lydia, dau. of William and Mary Hewes, b. 1719, d. Feb. 22, 1774; they lived on a farm in Chichester township, devised to him by his father. William Grubb, one of the sons of William and Lydia (Hewes) Grubb, settled in Va. about 1771, first in Berkeley co., and later in Jefferson co., where he d. leaving seven children; John Grubb, another son of William and Lydia (Hewes) Grubb, m. Nov. 23,. 1769, Hannah, dau. of Joseph and Mary (Caldwell) Gilpin (see Gilpin family); they resided in Wilmington, Del., where he d. Feb. 11, 1804; he and his wife had seven children, of whom Joseph m. Hester Spachman, Jan. i, 1793, and had eight children, viz.: Samuel S.; Edward, m. Elizabeth Seal, and their daughter m. E. Tatnall Warner, of Wilmington; Hannah; James G.; Sarah; George S. ; Elizabeth; Joseph C. Grubb, of Wilmington, b. 1813, d. 1879, ni- Hannah A., dau. of Joseph Hill, and had by her three sons and five daughters, now residing at No. 4222 Walnut street, Phila. Samuel Grubb, fourth son of John and Rachel (Buckley) Grubb, b. March 28, 1722, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle co., became a member of Chichester Meeting of Friends, Aug. 4, 1746; m. there, Sept. 30, 1746, Rebecca, b. Jan. 30, 1727, d. Dec. 6,^ 1760, dau. of William and Mary Hewes, of Chichester, and sister to his elder brother, William's wife; ra. (second) July 15, 1752, Lydia, b. June 12, 1732, d. Sept. 23, 1782, dau. of Joshua and Margery Baker, of Chichester; d. in Pennsbury township, Chester CO., Jan. 21, 1769. Isaac Grubb, one of the sons of Samuel and Rebecca (Hewes) Grubb, b. Dec. 11, 1749, d. Nov. 5, 1831 ; m. Margaret Crawford, and they had eleven children, one of whom Adam Grubb, b. Feb. 6, 1787, d. Aug. 27, 1867; m. Juliana Talley, by whom he had, among others, Isaac N. Grubb, of Brandywine Hundred, New Castle CO., Del., Commissioner of the Levy Court of New Castle co., b. March 25, 1823, d. Sept., 1906, leaving a son, Newton Grubb; Lydia Grubb, daughter of Samuel Grubb, by his second wife, Lydia Baker, b. July 21, 1766, d. May 3, 1831 ; m. Nov. 22, 1788, Edward Gilpin, son of Vmcent and Abigail Gilpin, and an uncle to Edward W. Gilpin, Chief Justice of Delaware. Edward and Lydia (Grubb) Gilpin had eight children, among them Charles and John Ferris Gilpin. Charles Gilpin, b. Nov. 17, 1809, d. 1891; was Mayor of Phila., 1850-53: U. S. District Attorney for Eastern District of Pa.. 1864-68; they had eight children, among whom were Hood Gilpin, Esq., and Washington Hood Gilpin, of the Phila. Bar.; John Ferris Gilpin, b. 1796, m. (first) Mary Levering, (second) Anna Gill- ingham, by whom he had two children : Rebecca, m. Fairman Rogers, of Phila. ; George Gilpin, of Phila., m. Sarah E. Winston. James Grubb, son of Emanuel Grubb, Jr., by his wife, Anne Ford, born at "Stockdales," New Castle county, Delaware, June 25, 1768, inherited from his father a portion of the paternal estate, taken up by his great-grandfather, John 1236 GRUBB Grubb, 1682, and was an extensive landowner and leading citizen in New Castle county, of which he was many years a magistrate. He died April 4, 1827. His wife was Sarah, daughter of John and Prudence (Clayton) Ford, and a descend- ant of William Clayton, one of the Justices of the first Court held at Upland, under the Proprietary Government, by Governor William Markham, September 13, 1681, and a member of William Penn's Council, 1683-84; also a descendant of Walter Martin, member of Colonial Assembly of Pennsylvania, and the donor of the land on which St. Martin's Church at Marcus Hook was erected. James and Sarah (Ford) Grubb had eleven children, only three of whom, Ann, James and Wellington, have left descendants. Wellington Grubb, of "Stockdales," son of James and Sarah (Ford) Grubb, was bom at Grubb's Landing, New Castle county, Delaware, December 25, i8ii, died in Wilmington, Delaware, February 10, 1853, having removed to that city in 1849. He was the owner of a fine farm and timber land in Brandy wine Hun- dred, and also of valuable real estate in Wilmington. He married Beulah C, daughter of John Allmand, Esq., by his wife, Beulah Buckley. On the paternal side Mrs. Grubb was a descendant of Captain John Allmand, who was commis- sioned a Captain in the Provincial Service in 1747, in one of the "Two Regiments of New Castle County," under Colonels John Gooding and William Armstrong (Penna. Ach., vol. ii., p. 440). On the maternal side she was a descendant of John Buckley, member of Colonial Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1697, and of Adam Buckley, one of the joint owners of Stockdale's Plantation, with Emanuel and John Grubb, and a Justice of the Provincial Courts of New Castle county, 1736. WelHngton and Beulah C. (Allmand) Grubb left two children: Hon. Ignatius C. Grubb and Louisa O. Grubb. Hon. Ignatius Cooper Grubb, only son of Wellington and Beulah C. (All- mand) Grubb, was born on the old homestead, "Stockdales," Grubb's Landing, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware, occupied continuously by his lineal ancestors in succession, for over a century and a half, prior to his birth, April 12, 1841. He was educated at the Delaware Academy, Wilmington, under the direction of Colonel Theodore Hyatt, and having then completed the entire classical course at Yale College, became a student at law in the office of his guar- dian, Victor Du Pont, Esq., Wilmington. He was admitted to the Delaware Bar, November, 1862, and early became a successful lawyer and eloquent and force- ful advocate. He began to take an interest in political affairs at an early age and became a sagacious and influential leader of the Democratic party in his state. He was especially strong as a constitutional lawyer and has frequently been called upon to argue and decide questions of the utmost importance to the people of his state. While Secretary of State, under Governor Cochran, he was instrumental in settling the controversy with the state of New Jersey over the fishing rights, arising out of the "Twelve Mile Circle" boundary dispute. He was the author and ardent advocate of the "Grubb Representative Constitutional Amendment," by which the representation of New Castle county in the State Legislature was to be increased and more equitably apportioned; and has been active in his ad- vocacy of constitutional reform on other lines. He was Clerk of the House of Representatives of Delaware, 1867; Deputy Attorney General, 1869; City Solici- tor of Wilmington, 1871 ; Secretary of State, 1875-79; and Register of Wills for the county of New Castle, 1884-86; Associate Justice of the State of Delaware, GRUBB 1237 May 25, 1886, and filled that position until June 10, 1897, when the office was annulled by the adoption of the new constitution of the state; he was ten- dered the Chief Justiceship, 1893, which he declined, owing to impaired health at that time. On June 12, 1897, he was appointed Associate Justice at Large of the Supreme Court of Delaware, under the new constitution, and still fills that posi- tion. From the time of his elevation to the bench of the State Judiciary, he has been frequently called upon to preside in the Courts of New Castle, Kent and Sussex counties, during the absence or disability of the Chief Justice. From 1886 to June 10, 1897, he presided almost continuously, in lieu of the Chancellor, in the Orphans' Court of New Castle county, and has also sat as one of the Judges of the late Court of Errors and Appeals, and present Supreme Court. Judge Grubb, prior to his elevation to the bench, took an active part in the coun- cils of his party, and was the Delaware member of the National Democratic Com- mittee, 1880 to 1888. He has always been a champion of education and was some years a member of the State Board of Education. As a member and president of the Historical Society of Delaware, he has prepared a number of valuable papers for their archives ; one of special note and value, historically, entitled, "Colonial and State Judiciary of Delaware," was dehvered December 21, 1896, giving a history of the administration of justice, in "The Three Lower Counties," and the "State of Delaware," with brief biographies of the presiding Justices, from the settlement of the Swedes on the Delaware to the present time. Judge Grubb is a member of the American Geographical Society; Deputy Gov- ernor-General of the Society of Colonial Wars, being a member of the Delaware Society thereof; member of Council of American Bar Association; has been a vestryman of Trinity (Old Swedes') Church, Wilmington, for many years, and a member of the Diocesan Club of Delaware. He has travelled extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico, British and South America, as well as in the United States. During his visits to Great Britain, he has devoted considerable time to researches in ancient annals in reference to his English ancestry, and much of the early history of the family given in this narrative has been gleaned from his notes thereon. William Ford Grubb, youngest son of Emanuel Grubb, Jr., by his wife, Anne Ford, born in Brandy wine Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware, February 13, 1773, died at Grubb's Corner, New Castle county, July 30, 1849 ; lived for many years in the fine old mansion house at Grubb's Corner, that had belonged to his father. He married, January 4, 1798, Lydia, born August 6, 1775, died July 22, 1856; eldest daughter of Adam Williamson, born at Newtown, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1751, died in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware, July 17, 1831 ; by his wife, Mary, born April 12, 1752, died October 2, 1821, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Caldwell) Gilpin, of Concord, Chester county, later of Brandywine Hundred. Daniel Williamson, great-grand- father of Adam Williamson, came from Cheshire, England, 1682, and settled first in Marple township, Chester county, removed to Newtown township about 1690, and to Edgemont in the same county in 1723. He died in the latter township in 1728, having become a considerable landowner and prominent man of that section. He married Mary Smith, 1685, and his son, John Williamson, born September 11, 1690, inherited lands at Newtown, and died there in 1760. John Williamson mar- ried, February, 1714, Sarah, born in Middletown, Chester county, October 12, 1694, 1238 GRUBB died at Newtown, May 29, 1789, daughter of George Smedley, pioneer ancestor of Smedley family of Chester county. Both John WilHamson and Sarah, his wife, were ministers of the Society of Friends and travelled extensively in that service. John Williamson, son of John and Sarah (Smedley) Williamson, and father of Adam Williamson, first above mentioned, was born at Newtown, Chester, now Delaware, county, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1727-8, died there November 11, 1794. He married, December 13, 1750, Elizabeth, born September 21, 1730, died July 22, 1805, daughter of Adam Buckley, of Brandywine Hundred, joint owner with John and Emanuel Grubb, of "Stockdale's Plantation;" by his wife, Ann Marten ; and granddaughter of John and Hannah Sanderson Buckley, with whose descendants the Grubb family were much intermarried. Issue of William Ford and Lydia (Williamson) Grubb: Walter W. Grubb, b. Oct. 25, 1798; m. Margaret Ritchie; Henrietta M. Grubb, b. Aug. 25, 1800, d. Aug. 6, 1826; m. Lewis Rumford; of whom presently ; Albert G. Grubb, b, Jan. 20, 1803; m. Elizabeth McCarty, and had issue, among others: Goodcil B. Grubb, of Columbus, O.; Lewis J. Grubb, of Beverly, Washington CO., O. Charles Truitt Grubb, b. at Grubb's Corner, New Castle co., March 28, 1805, d. at St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 21, 1837; was a member of the New Castle Bar, and resided at Wilmington, Del.; m. Nov. 19, 1836, Anna Eliza, b. at Wilmington, Jan. 29, 1807, d. there, July 30, 1874, dau. of Dr. John Vaughan, by his wife, Eliza Lewis; had issue: Eliza Clewlow Lewis Grubb, b. at Wilmington, Del., Dec. 17, 1837; m. at St. Mark's Church, Phila., Sept. 10, 1863, William Henry Swift, of Wilmington, b. at Norristown, Montgomery co.. Pa., Sept. 14, 1836, son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Royer) Swift. Harry B. Grubb, b. June, 1807; m. Elizabeth Henderson; had issue, among others: Mrs. Lydia A. Waters, of Phila. ; Charles L. Grubb, of Phila. Lucelia E. Grubb, b. June 17, 1810, d. Feb. 21, 1845, unm.; Caroline M. Grubb, b. June IS, 1814, d. Sept. 21, 1862, unm.; William L. Grubb, b. at Grubb's Corner, New Castle co., Sept. 15, 1819, d. at Canton, O., Sept. IS, 1862; ra. in Phila., Sept. is, 1840, Sarah Ann Brown, b. in Freehold, N. J., March 28, 1818, d. at the residence of her daughter, Evalina McKean (Grubb) Brooks, at Oakland, Cal., March 29, 1884; had issue : Charles Truitt Grubb, b. Phila., Dec. 3, 1842; m. there, Dec. 16, 1873, Mary E. Harding, of Blockley; resided at Wayne, Delaware co.. Pa.;- no issue; Lucelia Caroline Grubb, b. Phila., June 26, 184s; m. there. May 20, 1866, John Grantham Harding, of Bustleton; Evalina McKean Grubb, b. Freehold, N. J., Oct. 11, 1848; m. at Phila., June 12, 1877, Frank H. Brooks, b. Phila., March 3, 1847, son of Oliver and Sarah Cornish Brooks, of that city; settled in Oakland, Cal., banker; Sallie E. Grubb, b. Chester, Pa., April s, 1854, d. Phila., July 19, 1864; William L. Grubb, b. Chester, Pa., Sept. 21, 1856; removed to Portsmouth, Va.; m. Berkeley, Va., April 13, 1882, Kate Estelle West, of Berkeley, Va., and has issue. Henrietta M. Grubb, eldest daughter of William Ford and Lydia (William- son) Grubb, of Grubb's Corner, New Castle county, Delaware, born August 25, 1800. She married Lewis Rumford, born at Wilmington, Delaware, October 23, 1796, died there, February 15, i860, son of John and Priscilla (Jefferies) Rum- ford, of Wilmington, and great-great-grandson of John Rumford, who came from England, 1698, settled in Middletown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, bringing a certificate from Friends in England, which was accepted by Middletown Monthly Meeting, August 4, 1698. He married, September 27, 1699, Mary, born in Che- shire, England, August 10, 1678, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Scaife, of GRUBB 1239 Middletown. They resided in Middletown, Bucks county, where Jonathan Scaife had conveyed them a farm in 1699, until 17 12, when they removed to Philadelphia county, and from there to Plymouth township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery, county, 1721, where John Rumford died in January, 1738-9. He was for some years an Overseer of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting. John and Mary (Scaife) Rumford had issue, ten children, seven daughters, and three sons: John, Jona- than and Thomas. The latter took a certificate to Newark Monthly Meeting in New Castle county, May 29, 1739, when in his twentieth year, he having been born at Plymouth, October 22, 17 19. Jonathan Rumford, born in Bucks county, November 11, 1705, married at Concord Meeting, Chester county, June 8, 1738, Susanna Nooks, of Birmingham township, Chester, now Delaware, county; and they settled in Philadelphia county. They were frequent attendants at Wilming- ton Meeting of Friends, and a number of their descendants later resided in Wil- mington. Their daughter, Sarah Rumford, married William Shipley, Jr., son of William Shipley, of Wilmington, 1753. Lewis Rumford was for a number of years a hatter in Philadelphia. In March, 1841, he purchased a farm of sixty acres in Byberry township, Philadelphia county, and resided thereon until the autumn of 1853, when he sold it and re- turned to Wilmington, Delaware, where he died February 15, i860. Henrietta M. (Grubb) Rumford, wife of Lewis Rumford, died August 6, 1826; he married (second) February 22, 1838, Mary Caldwell Gilpin, bom September 5, 1799, died at Wilmington, Delaware, November 13, 1884. She was a distant cousin of her husband's first wife, being a daughter of William Gilpin, born at Wilmington, Delaware, August 18, 1775, died in Byberry township, Philadelphia county, December 2, 1843, by his wife, Ann Dunwoody; and granddaughter of Vincent Gilpin, the prominent miller and exporter of flour, who had mills on the Brandywine, above Wilmington, during the Revolutionary War (died August 5, 1810), by his wife, Abigail Woodward. Vincent Gilpin was a son of Joseph and Mary (Caldwell) Gilpin, before mentioned, and a brother to Mary (Gilpin) Will- iamson, maternal grandmother of Henrietta M. (Grubb) Rumford. Issue of Lewis and Henrietta M. (Grubb) Rumford: Emily Grubb Rumford, b. Sept. i, 1823, d. Aug. 17, 1886; m. May 26, 1849, Joshua H. Wollaston, b. June 23, 1822, d. July 21, 1849; they had no issue; Henrietta Grubb Rumford, b. Nov. 19, 1825, d. Aug. 3, 1826. Issue of Lewis and Mary C. (Gilpin) Rumford: Elizabeth Gilpin Rumford, b. Phila., June 18, 1839; Charles Grubb Rumford, b. Byberry township, Philadelphia co., Pa., Aug. 17, 1841, d, Wilmington, Del., Nov. 24, 1901 ; educated at Lawrenceville High School, N. J., and Univ. of Pa.; studied law with his uncle. Chief Justice Edward W. Gilpin, of Wil- mington, and was admitted to New Castle Bar, 1866; Lieutenant of First Battery, Del. Light Artillery, Sept. 6, 1862, to Jan. 17, i86s. and in active service during the Civil War; member of Military Order of Loyal Legion, Phila. Commandery; Deputy Attorney General of Del., 1867-69; Clerk of U. S. Circuit and District Courts of Del., 1869-73 ; director of Union National Bank of Wilmington, 1888-190T ; manager of Mutual Fire Insurance Comoany of Wilmington, 1893-igoi ; m. at Wilmington, Oct. 7, 1875, Elizabeth Morris, b, Wilmington, Del., Oct. 31, 1848, dau. of Samuel Canby, of Wilmington, by his wife, Elizabeth Clifford Morris, of Phila. ; they had issue : Samuel Canby Rumford, b. July 25, 1876; m. Dec. 16, 1903, Mary Beatrix Tyson; Lewis Rumford, b. Sept. 3, 1877. I240 GRUBB Peter Grubb, youngest son of John and Frances (Vane) Grubb, of Grubb's Landing, New Castle county, was born 1702, and was quite young at the death of his father in 1708. He removed with his mother to Bradford, Chester county, Pennsylvania, on her marriage with Richard Buffington. Such records as we have of his correspondence and business transactions would seem to indicate that his education had been limited in common with the others in that early period of meagre and crude school facilities, but his energy, enterprise and business ability were far above the average. He is registered as "single free-man," in Kennett township, 1726, and is mentioned as "Peter Grubb of Bradford, Yeoman." He was to receive from Abraham Marshall, one hundred and forty pounds for the erection of a mill, and was to expend of his own funds an equal amount, and in consideration thereof was to enjoy a one-half interest in the mill, Boulting Mills & Mill House, and all the lands on which the said mill was erected, with mill race, mill dam, etc., together with one-half of the mulcture, tolls, profits, etc., of the said mill or mills. How long the unique partnership was continued we are not informed. Peter Grubb was admitted a member of Friends' Meeting, January 3, 1731-2, and on the same day made his declaration of intention of marriage with Martha, widow of Jame's Wall, and daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Bates, of Gloucester county. New Jersey. Peter was, however, taken with the smallpox, and the mar- riage was delayed until he should sufficiently recover, and took place at Cain Meeting, April 12, 1732. Martha (Bates) Wall had a son, John Wall, by her first marriage, who married Phebe, daughter of Richard Buffington, Jr., by his wife, Phebe, sister to Peter Grubb, and Mary Bates, a niece of hers, married Richard Buffington, 3rd, son of Richard and Phebe (Grubb) Buffington. Peter Grubb was assessed in East Cain township, 1735, and that was his last appearance on the tax lists of Chester county, he having at about that date re- moved to Lebanon township, Lancaster county, now Lebanon county, and begun there the mining and manufacture of iron. Certain it is that he was the first to discover and begin the development of the rich ore beds at Cornwall, Lebanon county, but there seems to be some dispute about the date of his first operations there. He had doubtless been prospecting for some time in that locality prior to taking up land there and it is known that he obtained warrants of survey, dated respectively, November 2, and November 6, 1734, for two hundred acres each at Cornwall, then in Lancaster county. It further appears that a portion of the land on which the ore beds were located was purchased by him of William Allen. In a "History of Iron Manufacture in Pennsylvania," published in 1878, by James M. Swank, a circumstantial account of how Peter Grubb acquired the title to this land is given that may be correct, though it has been generally asserted that his pur- chase of the Allen land ante-dated his original surveys. This error possibly occurred from the fact that his patent did not issue until after the deed from Allen was executed. The Allen tract of five hundred acres was located on a warrant issued to Joseph Turner, under date of May, 1732, and Turner assigned his warrant to William Allen, April 5, 1734, and Allen's transfer to Peter Grubb was dated the 28th and 29th of November, 1737, and the patent issued to Grubb, August 21, 1745- Peter Grubb had meanwhile taken out warrants of survey for several other tracts, viz., April i, 1737, for three hundred acres; December 2, 1737, two war- GRUBB 1241 rants, for an aggregate of two hundred and fifty acres; May 24, 1738, for one hundred and twenty-five acres. The first furnace is said to have been erected by Peter Grubb, 1735, about five- eighths of a mile from the site of the Cornwall furnace, but it was probably a bloomery that occupied that site, marked by cinders many years after. Peter Grubb's iron industry at Cornwall was at least launched prior to 1739, as on September 2, the old lease, still preserved, was executed by "Peter Grubb of Lancaster County, Ironmaster," to Samuel Grubb, of East Bradford, Chester county, "Mason," and Joseph Taylor, of Kennett township, Chester county, black- smith and wheelwright, on three hundred acres of land in Lebanon township, Lancaster county, for the "mining of all metals & minerals, except iron." This lease states that Peter Grubb, "Intends to build a furnace, on land adjacent to the said three hundred acres," and reserves the right to dig, mine, etc., on the land leased. Cornwall Furnace was doubtless named by Peter Grubb in honor of the place of nativity of his father in England. It is the oldest furnace in this country still in operation, and was noticed by Acrelius in his history as early as 1756. Hope- well Forge was erected by him at about the same period. To a letter to his sister, Phebe Buffington, dated "ye 24th of ye 3d. Mo. 1743," Peter Grubb adds the fol- lowing "Note"— "Wee shall Blow in tomorrow & we believe ourselves to be in good circumstances for a good Blast." Peter Grubb having lost his first wife in 1740, married (second) February 10, 1741-2, Hannah, widow of Thomas Marshall, and daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Pennell) Mendenhall, of Concord, Chester county, and soon after that date seems to have removed to Chester county, as in the lease executed June 13, 1745, "Peter Grubb, of Chester county, yeoman," transfers to John Crosby, Esquire, Caleb Pearce, Peter Dicks, Jacob Carter, John Pennell, John Crosby, Jr., George Church- man Samuel Grubb, and Samuel Walker, of Chester county ; Peter Marshall, of Lan- caster county; Ebenezer Curry, of Philadelphia, merchant, and John Wallace, of Philadelphia, merchant, as partners and company; the Iron Works, called Corn- wall Furnace and Hopewell Forge, and four contiguous tracts of land of which said Peter Grubb is seized of in Lebanon township, containing in all six hundred and thirty-seven acres, whereon the furnace is erected, and two tracts of land in War- wick township, containing two hundred and eighteen acres, whereon a forge has been erected, for the period of twenty years at the annual rental of two hundred and fifty pounds ; Peter Grubb to retain the use of the soil, when not occupied in the transaction of the iron business. Having thus disposed of his iron works for a term of years he removed to Wil- mington, at about the date of the lease, as November 21, 1745, Bradford Monthly Meeting of Friends sent the following certificate to Newark, now Kennett Month- ly Meeting, under whose care the Wilmington Friends then were: "Whereas Peter Grubb has removed from amongst us and being now settled within the verge of youre Meeting, without requesting our certificate; Therefore this Meeting thought fit to send a few lines by way of certificate in Order to joyn him under your care &c." His second wife, being a member of Concord Meeting at the time of her mar- riage to him, received a certificate to Sadsbury Meeting to be near her new resi- 1242 GRUBB dence, and that meeting endorsed her certificate to Newark Meeting, November 6, 1746. Peter Grubb died intestate at or near Wilmington about 1754, and his widow probably returned to her own people in Chester county, as her will, dated at Wil- mington, September 20, 1768, was proved in Chester county, October i, 1770. His children were all by his first wife, Martha (Bates) Wall. Issue of Peter and Martha (Bates) Grubb: Curtis Grubb, b. 1733, d. Jan. 22, 1789; of whom presently; Peter Grubb, Jr., b. Sept. 8, 1740, d. Jan. 17, 1786; m. Mary Shippen Burd; of whom presently. Curtis Grubb, eldest son of Peter and Martha (Bates) Grubb, born about 1733, probably in Chester county, Pennsylvania, married at Trinity (Old Swedes') Church, Wilmington, Delaware, April 11, 1754, Ann Few, but the union proving an unhappy one, they were divorced by an Act of Assembly, September 24, 1757, "Curtis Grubb, late of Wilmington, in the county of New Castle, but now of the Province of Maryland, Mariner," executed a power of attorney to his brother, Peter Grubb, of Province of Pennsylvania, to enable him to sell the property of said Curtis Grubb in Wilmington and in Chester county, and requiring him to account for the proceeds thereof to his uncle, Samuel Grubb. At about this date Curtis Grubb sailed for Europe and was absent until about 1763. On his return he took up his residence at the Iron Works in Lebanon town- ship, and, the twenty years lease having expired, became an iron master and took charge of the furnace and forge established by his father, a two-thirds interest in which he had inherited from his father, in right of his "double share" as eldest son, under the intestate laws of that date. He had also inherited lands from his uncle Samuel, owning through these channels and subsequent purchase several hundred acres in Lancaster county, much of which was later owned by his son, Peter, who succeeded him as an "Iron master." Curtis Grubb died January 22, 1789, leaving a widow, Ann (his third wife), who seems to have been the widow of his cousin, Samuel, son of Nathaniel; she died in 1795. Curtis Grubb was a member of the Committee of Safety of Lan- caster, 1774-5, and Sub-Lieutenant of the county with rank of Colonel in 1777. Peter Grubb, Jr., second son of Peter and Martha (Bates) Grubb, born Sep- tember 8, 1740, lost his mother at his birth. He probably removed with his father and step-mother to Wilmington, 1745, but after the death of his father, June 4, 1754, his uncle, Samuel, was appointed his guardian, and he probably resided with him in Chester county. He was constituted attorney for his brother, Curtis, as above stated, June 4, 1757, though only seventeen years of age, to sell the real estate owned by them jointly at Wilmington. He did not, however, fulfill the trust until his arrival at legal age, in the deed, dated February 19, 1762, he is styled as of Aston township, Chester county, but less than a month later had removed to his paternal inheritance in Warwick township, Lancaster county, being styled in deed, dated March 16, 1762, as of that township. He inherited the two hundred and twenty acre farm in Middletown, at the present site of Wawa, Chester county, from his uncle, Henry Grubb, but conveyed it to William Pennell, December 31, 1775. Peter Grubb married, November 28, 1771, at "Tinian," Lancaster county, her C_>^4/rg<^-?-^^ C_^€)tZ-^>&-d^ GRUBB 1243 father's seat, Mary Shippen, born at Shippensburg, January 13, 1753, daughter of Col. James Burd, of the Provincial and Revolutionary Armies, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of Edward Shippen, of Lancaster, and sister of Chief Justice Edward Shippen. The spring following his marriage, Peter Grubb located at Hopewell Forge, Warwick township, Lancaster county, and engaged actively in the iron business in connection with his brother; retaining the one-third interest in the Cornwall furnace and ore beds, and in Hopewell forge, inherited from his father, and later purchasing a large tract of land and erecting Mount Hope furnace and forge. From the very inception of the Revolutionary struggle, both he and his brother, Curtis were foremost in the patriot cause, both being elected to the Committee of Safety of Lancaster county, December 15, 1774, Curtis from Lebanon, and Peter from Warwick township. Curtis was commissioned by the Assembly of Penn- sylvania, June 15, 1775, Colonel of Lancaster County Associators, his commis- sion being signed by John Morton, Clerk of Assembly, and Peter was selected as one of the Deputies from Lancaster county to the Provincial Convention at Phila- delphia, January 23, 1775. Peter was elected Captain of the Warwick Associators on their first organization, and when the militia was organized into battalions he was commissioned Colonel of the Eighth Battalion, and with it took part in the Jersey campaign of 1776. The following order of Gen. Ewing is found among the Revolutionary archives : "Directions to be Observed by Colonel Grubb. "If the Enemy should attack the Ports of Bergen Point this night, or tomorrow morn- ing, and should be likely to force their way to Powles Hook, Colonel Grubb must immedi- ately throw himself into that Fortress with his whole Battalion and assist the Garrison in defending it to the last extremity. "James Ewing, "August 20th. 1776. "Brigadier General." Peter Grubb was also a member of Assembly from Lancaster county during the Revolutionary period. His wife, Mary Shippen (Burd) Grubb, died at Hope- well Forge, February 23, 1774, and he January 17, 1786. Issue of Colonel Peter and Mary Shippen (Burd) Grubb: Allen Burd Grubb, M. D., b. at Hopewell Forge, Lancaster co.. Pa., Sept. 12, 1772; studied medicine and soon after taking his degree removed to Tenn., when it was almost a wilderness, and lived and d. there ; Henry Bates Grubb, b. Feb. 6, 1774, d. March 9, 1823; m. (first) Ann Carson, (second) Harriet Amelia Buckley; of whom presently. Henry Bates Grubb, second son of Colonel Peter and Mary Shippen (Burd) Grubb, born at Hopewell Forge, Lancaster county, February 6, 1774, like his father, lost his mother almost at birth. He was reared in the household of his maternal grandparents. Colonel James and Mary (Shippen) Burd, at "Tinian," their seat in Lancaster county. On arriving at mature years he assumed charge of the iron manufacturing interests inherited from his father, and made his home at the Mount Hope Furnace, erected by his father in 1784. He also purchased, 1802, Codorus Furnace and Forge, and early became one of the prominent iron masters of Pennsylvania. He died, intestate, at Mount Hope Furnace, March 9, 1823. Henry Bates Grubb married (first) at Pine Grove, June 18, 1805, Ann, daugh- ter of John Carson, of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. She died at Mount Hope Furnace, October 19, 1806, in her twenty-sixth year, leaving an infant spn : 1244 GRUBB Henry Carson Grubb, b. Sept. 20, 1806, who in his youth changed his name to Henry Grubb Carson; he d. at Lancaster, June 6, 1873. Henry Bates Grubb married (second) December i, 1808, Harriet Amelia, daughter of Daniel Buckley, of "Competence Farm," Pequea, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, by his wife, Sarah Brooke, and of the same family of Buckley with whom earlier generations of the Grubb family had intermarried. Issue of Henry Bates and Harriet Amelia (Buckley) Grubb: Bates Buckley Grubb, b. Nov. 19, 1809, d. young; Edward Burd Grubb, b. Dec. 17, 1810, d. Aug. 27, 1867; m. Euphemia Brown Parker; of whom presently; Charles Buckley Grubb, b. Feb. 12, 1813, d. unm., Aug. 15, 1833; Clement Brooke Grubb, b. Feb. 9, 1815, d. Oct. 31, i86g; m. Mary Brooke; of whom presently; Mary Shippen Grubb, m. Sept 2, 1846, George Worthington Parker; Sarah Elizabeth Grubb, b. Nov. 19, 1818, d. Nov. 27, 1884; m. Feb. 16, 1846, John George Ogilvie, from New Castle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, younger son of the Earl of Airlie; they had issue: John Malcolm Ogilvie, d. young; Elizabeth Gibson Ogilvie, m. Dr. Herbert Morris, of Phila. Alfred Bates Grubb, b. at Mount Hope Furnace, Jan. 6, 1821, d. Feb. 2, 1885; he m. March 25, 1858, Ellen Farnum; of whom presently. Edward Burd Grubb, eldest son of Henry Bates Grubb, by his second wife, Harriet Amelia Buckley, born at Mount Hope Furnace, Lancaster county, Penn- sylvania, December 17, 1810, was educated at York, Pennsylvania, and at an early age assumed the leading management of the large iron interests left by his father. Soon after attaining his majority he obtained permission of the Orphans' Court to take charge of the several furnaces and ore banks belonging to his father's estate during the minority of his younger brother and sisters, and taking his next younger brother into partnership, operated the Mount Hope and other furnaces with marked business ability and enterprise. In 1845 his youngest brother became his partner in the Mount Hope Furnace, and he acquired the Mount Vernon Furnace on the west bank of the Conewago, with several thous- and acres of land, containing rich ore deposits, and erected there extensive forges, mills, etc. He also owned and successfully operated the Codorus and Manada furnaces, and in the division of his father's lands and valuable iron interests, was allotted a one-sixth interest in the Cornwall ore mine, Lebanon county, the scene of his great-grandfather's first successful operations in the manufacture of iron a century previously. While on a visit to Europe, 1835-6, Edward Burd Grubb visited the iron pro- ducing districts of England and made a close study of the most improved pro- cesses of manufacturing iron, and on his return introduced the first successful use of heating blast for iron furnaces in America. In 1840 Edward Burd Grubb purchased the country seat of Horace Binney, Esq., at Burlington, New Jersey, and removed there with his family. He soon after relinquished the active management of the iron interests in Pennsylvania, and for the remainder of his life, lived retired on his handsome estate. Mr. Grubb was a deep reader and thinker, well informed on literary and scientific subjects, but of a quiet dignified and retiring disposition. He was a member of the Prot- estant Episcopal church, and for many years warden of the church at Burlington, GRUBB 1245 and was a trustee of Burlington College. He was closely identified with the affairs of Philadelphia and a member of the Philadelphia Club and Athenaeum. As an early member of the Union League of Philadelphia, during the Civil War, he was active in his assistance in raising and equipping troops for the preserva- tion of the Union. He died at Burlington, New Jersey, December 27, 1867. Edward Burd Grubb married, November 9, 1837, Euphemia Brown, daughter of Isaac Brown Parker, of Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, later a prominent lawyer and citizen of Burlington, New Jersey, by his wife, Maria Ross Veazey, whose descent from the prominent Veazey family of "Cherry Grove," Cecil county, Maryland, is as follows : John Veazey, progenitor of Veazey family of Cecil county, Maryland, is said to have been a descendant of Nathaniel Veazey, who owned shares in three of the Bermuda Islands in 1663, and who had a patent for a tract of land in Somerset county, Maryland, called Bermudas Hundred, bearing date April 9, 1674. Family tradition says that the Maryland family of Veazey belonged to an Eng- lish family of Norman descent, and the name is said to have been derived from a plant known in English as Vetch or tare, and in French as vesce. It somewhat re- sembled a pea vine and was extensively grown in Normandy as fodder for cattle, and certain lands where it was grown came to be known as Veacey lands ; in like manner the proprietors of these lands came to be known by the name (prior to the adoption of surnames), to distinguish them from other branches of the same family. Thus the name in various anglicized forms, as Vesci, Vesy, Vasey, Veasey, Veasie, Veazy and Veazey, appeared later in different portions of the British Isles. On April i, 1687, John Veazey purchased a tract of land in Cecil county, Mary- land, called "Manchester," on the south side of Bohemia river; and on January 5, 1694, purchased another tract called "True Game." These tracts are included in the property, since known as "Cherry Grove," the homestead of the family for many generations, and where their old family burying-ground is located. John Veazey was of the Protestant faith and was elected church warden of the parish of North Sassafras, or St. Stephen's, Cecil county, January 14, 1698. He left a paper in the form of a will which was never probated and is still in the possession of Mr. James W. Veazey, of Cecil county, in which he mentions his wife, Martha, to whom he gives a life estate in his dwelling and plantation, and also mentions his five sons to whom he devises real estate and personal property. The five sons of John and Martha Veazey, of "Cherry Grove," were : William Veazey, a freeholder and planter of Cecil cc, Md.; m. Rosamond ; d. 1733. leaving an only child, b. l6g6, Susanna Veazey, who m. March 25, 1717, John Ward, son of William and Elizabeth Ward, of Cecil CO., and had five daughters and two sons, William and John; Joshua, a son of the latter, m. his cousin, Sarah Veazey; George Veazey, second son, a freeholder and planter of Cecil co. ; church warden and vestryman of St. Stephen's; m. Nov. 19, 1708, Alice, dau. of William and Elizabeth Ward, before mentioned; m. (second) 1716, Katharine Beard; had two daughters by first marriage : Elizabeth Veazey, m. Anthony Lynch ; Eleanor Veazey, m. Thomas Price. Edward Veazey, of whom presently; James Veazey, removed to St. Ann's Parish, Cecil co. ; m. Nov. 22, 1716, Mary Mercer; both d. 1768; had two daughters and four sons: Dr. Thomas Veazey; Edward Veazey; 1246 GRUBB James Veazey, served in Lee's Legion in Revolution; William Veazey, Captain in Revolutionary Army, 1776. Robert Veazey, church warden and vestryman of St. Stephen's 1732-36; m. Jan. i, 1718, Lucy Dermot; had four daughters and one son: Col. John Veazey, Jr., member House of Burgesses, 1768-74; delegate to several Provincial Conventions at Annapolis, 1774-75; signer of Association of Free- men of Maryland, July 26, 1775 ; chairman of Committee of Observation for Cecil CO., 1776; Colonel of Bohemian Battalion, 1776; member first General Assembly of Md., Feb. 5, 1777; Register of Wills, Cecil co., etc.; his son, Ed- ward Veazey, was Captain of Seventh Independent Company of Md. troops, and was killed at the battle of L. L, Aug. 27, 1776. Edward Veazey, third son of John and Martha Veazey, was in possession of the two plantations seated by his father, "Manchester" and "True Game," includ- ed in "Cherry Grove," 1707; and in the same year was in possession of "Essex Lodge," which has been the homestead of his branch of the family to the present time, being the first of the family to hold that estate. He was church warden of St. Stephen's Parish, February 10, 1707; vestryman, April 21, 1712, and served until 1719. He married Susanna , and had an only child : Colonel John Veazey, born February 12, 1701, who inherited "Cherry Grove" and "Essex Lodge," and acquired other lands in Cecil county. Veazey's Neck, and the arm of the Bohemia river on its southern side, called Veazey's Cove, de- rived their names from him. He lived at "Essex Lodge" and died there May 4, 1777. He was church warden of St. Stephen's Parish, Cecil county, 1726-34-45, as Captain John Veazey, and in 1748-49 as Major John Veazey ; vestryman, 1726- 29-31-35-45-46-58-65; qualifying as vestryman in 1756, is styled Colonel John Veazey. He was Associate Justice of the Cecil County Court, 1735-40; one of the Jus- tices of the Quorum, 1741-57; one of Judges of Assize for Cecil county, under commission to hold special court of Oyer and Terminer, and General Jail Delivery 1749-62, being several times recommissioned for the above positions between the years above stated. He was Captain in the Provincial forces and later Major as previously shown ; as Major was commanding officer of the military forces of the county, in 1748-49, and is designated as Colonel in the parish records of St. Stephen's and in patents for land acquired after 1756. A letter addressed to him by Governor Horatio Sharpe, under date of March 9, 1758, addresses him as Colonel and gives him directions as commanding officer of Cecil county, as to forwarding troops for the defence of Fort Frederick, during the French and Indian War. Colonel John Veazey married Rebecca, daughter of Colonel John and Mary Ward, of Cecil county, born November 2, 1705, died April 24, 1761. Issue of Colonel John and Rebecca (Ward) Veazey: Edward Veazey, of "Cherry Grove," d. there, April 24, 1784; High Sheriff, Cecil co., 1751-53; ni. Elizabeth DeCourcy, June 19, 1755, and had seven children, the youngest of whom, Thomas Ward Veazey, inherited "Cherry Grove," was a member of the House of Delegates from Cecil co., 1811-12; Lieutenant Colonel of Forty-ninth Regi- ment in War of 1812; Governor of Md., 1836-8; John Ward Veazey, planter of Cecil co., Justice of Peace, 1776-85, who has left numerous descendants; William Veazey, of "Good Luck" plantation, Cecil co.; m. Mary Loutitt, and had one daughter, Mary Veazey, who m. her cousin, Gov. Thomas Ward Veazey; Dr. Thomas Brockus Vbazey, of whom presently; Rebecca Veazey. GRUBB 1247 Thomas Brockus Veazey, M. D., born March 29, 1750, youngest son of Colo- nel John and Rebecca (Ward) Veazey, planter and physician of Cecil county, Maryland, at the death of his father succeeded to the family estate and homestead of "Essex Lodge," and lived there until his death in 1806, when it descended to his youngest son, Thomas B. Veazey, and at the latter's death in 1844, to his only child, Arabella Veazey, who married William Knight. Thomas Brockus Veazey was church warden of St. Stephen's Parish, May 15, 1786, and vestryman, June 7, 1779, to his death in 1806. On May 13, 1792, he was elected Lay Delegate to the Church Convention at Annapolis, held May 30, 1792, the first convention of the Episcopal church in Maryland. He married, March 29, 1781, Mary, born May 21, 1766, daughter of Rev. William Thompson, rector of St. Stephen's Parish, by his wife, Susanna, daughter of Rev. George Ross, of New Castle, Delaware. Rev. William Thompson was born May 22, 1735, and was a son of Rev. Samuel Thompson, of Pennsylvania, and a nephew of General William Thompson, of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolution. He was ordained deacon and priest of the Episcopal church in the palace of the Bishop of London, at Fulham, December, 1759, and was appointed rector of St. Mary Ann's Parish, in Cecil county, Maryland, by Governor Eden, June 23, 1773, on behalf of the Rt. Hon. Henry Harford, Lord Proprietary of Maryland. On July 6, 1779, he was selected by the vestry of St. Stephen's Church as their rector and so continued until his death. He was in entire sympathy with the Patriot cause in 1776. Rev. William Thompson married, October 29, 1762, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Susanna, daughter of Rev. George Ross, whose descent from the Earls of Ross is given later in this narrative. Issue of Dr. Thomas B. and Mary (Thompson) Veazey: Dr. John Thompson Veazey, b. July 22, 1783, d. March 30, 1839; m. Sarah, dau. of Will- iam and Ann (Veazey) Ward, and lived for a time at "Mount Harmon," on the Sassafras river, and in 1825 settled at "Mount Pleasant," near Earleville, where he d.; he was the father of Rev. George Ross Veazey, of Baltimore; Juliana Ross Veazey, m. Thomas Savin; Maria Ross Veazey, b. at "Essex Lodge," July 29, 1787; m. April 27, 1811, Isaac Brown Parker, and was the mother of Euphemia Brown Parker, who m. Edward Burd Grubb, of Burlington, N. J.; Thomas Brockus Veazey, Jr., inherited "Essex Lodge," where he was b., Jan. 30, 1792, and where he and his wife, Ann, dau. of William and Ann (Veazey) Ward, both d. in 1844. Rev. George Ross, first rector of Emanuel Protestant Episcopal Church at New Castle, several of whose descendants have been prominently identified with the history of Pennsylvania, was a lineal descendant of the second Earl of Ross, and his father, David Ross, was the second Laird of Balblair, Parish of Fern, near the town of Tain, shire of Ross, North of Scotland. There seems to have been no blood connection between the first Earl of Ross, who had a mandate from Malcolm, King of Scotland, to protect the Monks of Dumferline, in 1153, and the subsequent Earls of Ross. Ferquahard, second Earl of Ross, founded the Abbey of Fern, Parish of Fern, before referred to, and was knighted and created Earl of Ross, June 15, 1215, by Alexander H., of Scotland. His son, William was the third Earl of Ross, 1232, and married Jean, daughter 1248 GRUBB of William Comyn, Earl of Buchan; died in 1274, and was succeeded by his son, Hugh, the fifth Earl, who married (second) Margaret, daughter of Sir David Graham, of Old Montrose, prior to 1329, by whom he had several children, among them his third son, Hugh Ross, who became Laird of Ranches, and first Laird of Balnagown, one of the great landed estates of Scotland. He married Margaret de Barclay, and died in June, 1371 ; was succeeded by his son, William Ross, second Laird of Balnagown, who married Christian, daughter of Lord Livingston, and their son and heir was Walter Ross, third Laird of Balnagown, and Lord Rariches in 1398. Walter married Catharine, daughter of Paul McTyre, and had a son, Hugh, the fourth Laird of Balnagown. William, second son of fourth Laird of Balnagown, became Laird of Little Allan, and married Grizel MacDonald, and had two sons, the younger of whom, Walter Ross, became first Laird of Shandwick. He died in 1531, and was buried at Feme Abbey, founded by his ancestor Ferquahard, Earl of Ross, nearly two centuries before. Walter is said to have been married several times. By his wife, Janet Tullock, he had four sons, the third of whom, Hugh Ross, became the first Laird of Balnachy, or Ballymuckie, whose eldest son, Donald, was second Laird of Balnachy, and died 1603. Walter Ross, son of Donald, became third Laird of Balnachy; married Jean Douglass, and dying in 1625, was succeeded by his son, Hugh, as the fourth Laird of Balnachy. He died about 1649, and his son, George Ross, became fifth Laird of Balnachy, and married Margaret McCullough in 1649. Andrew Ross, a younger son of George, fifth Laird of Balnachy, became the first Laird of Balblair. He was succeeded by his son, David Ross, second Laird of Balblair, and the father of Rev. George Ross, of New Castle, Delaware. David Ross, second Laird of Balblair, Parish of Fern, Rossshire, Scotland, succeeded to the estate of Balblair at the death of his father, April 15, 1678, and died on or before April 13, 1710, the date of the Sasine record by which his chil- dren inherited. He married Margaret Stronach, who survived him, the marriage taking place on or before July 8, 1681, on which date she is mentioned on the Sasine record as his "spouse." David and Margaret (Stronach) Ross had issue: Andrew Ross, who became the third Laird of Balblair 1710, prior to which date he m. Margaret Gallic; he was a Scrivener and lawyer in Edinburg, and d. prior to 1730, and left an only son: Andrew Ross, surgeon at Kingston, Jamaica, who in 1730 sold the estate of Bal- blair to John Cruikshank, merchant, of London; Andrew d. s. p., and the title of fifth Laird of Balblair, vested in John Ross, Esq., of Phila., eldest son of Rev. George Ross, of New Castle, as eldest male heir of the House of Balblair; the estate of Balblair was fonveyed by John Cruikshank, 1732, to William Ross, son of Andrew Ross, seventh Laird of Shandwick, also a writer of Edinburg, b. 1694, d. unm., April, 1739. Hugh Ross, brother of the above William, b. 1695, d. April 13, 177s; was a merchant of London; m. Aug. 4, 1749, Elizabeth, only dau. of Alexander Ross, of Little Dann; at death of his brother, William, Hugh Ross inherited the estates of Balblair and Shandwick; a letter written by him in 1764 to John Ross, Esq., of Phila., is still in existence, which says: "You stand Cadet of the decayed house of Ballamuchy. Balblair of your title was purchased by my brother, as it was part of his house originally. It remains yet. My eldest brother dying a bachelor, you shall find me his heir, as the history- grapher of Scotland's deductions show." Rev. George Ross, "second son," b. 1679, d. 1754; of whom presently; Hugh Ross, "third son," is supposed to have been the father of David Ross, of Balblair, who as "son of Hugh," according to the Sasine record, came into his inheritance Aug. 19, 1701; GRUBB 1249 Elizabeth Ross, m. David Munro, eighth Laird of Allan, a writer of Edinburgh, who appears also to have lived at Dann House, parish of Edderton; he d. 1765, evidently without issue, as he left his estate to his nephew, Charles McKensie, son of Margaret Munro, who then assumed the name of Munro; the arms of Elizabeth (Ross) Munro are described as "Gules, three lions rampant, argent," and motto, "Nobilis est irs Leonis;" this is supposed to represent the arms of the Ross family of Balblair, as it corresponds with a painting of the coat-of-arms said to have belonged to Rev. George Ross, now in the possession of his descendant, Mrs. John H. Rodney, of New Castle. Rev. George Ross, second son of David Ross, of Balblair, as stated by himself in a brief autobiography written for his son, John Ross, Esq., of Philadelphia, was "born in the North of Scotland in the Shire of Ross in the Parish of Fern, about four or five miles from the Shire (town) between two Friths, one the Frith of Murray, the other the Frith of Dornoch. The land lying between the two Friths terminates in the noted point called Tarbat Ness." "He was put to school very early and made some progress in the Latin tongue under the care of the schoolmaster, and being a promising genius his father asked him, as they were going to a farm a little distance from home, 'What would he be?' to which he answered, 'A Scholar.' Young as he was crede inspiratione . 'A scholar you shall be,' repHed the father." Of this father, David Ross, of Balblair, the son writes, "he was a gentleman of moderate fortune, but of great integrity." And to his son in the note that accompanied the autobiography he writes : "If my posterity contract any blemish, it must be from themselves : No original guilt can be imputed to them. It is well the rise of many families in these parts, like the head of the Nile, is unknown, and their glory consists in their obscurity. It is your satisfaction that it is otherwise with you : Your escutcheon is without blot or stain. Contend, therefore for the honor of your family by a kind and generous behavior towards the several branches of it, relieve them from contempt by your beneficence, and put them above the world by exer- cising that ability towards them which God has blessed you with, which, if you do, God will gather you. in his good time, to your honest and worthy progenitors. I have a quick sense of your filial favors, and you may be assured, dear son, that I am your most obliged and affectionate father. "To John Ross, Esquire. "George Ross." The autobiography continues ; "When he was about fourteen years of age, his eldest brother Andrew, requested his father to send him to him at Edinburg. Accordingly he was sent, but for the first twelve months little to his advantage, for instead of advancing him in his learning, he made him attend his office, and write from morning till night, — often without his dinner, — to his great disappointment; not through want of affection to his brother, but hurry of business and much company. His father, being informed of this low or no education ordered him to be put to school and fitted for the University. Andrew lost his slave, and George was once more put in the way of being a scholar. "He took his degree of Master of Arts, in Edinburg, in 1700, and with this feather in his cap returned home, and became the tutor to the son of Lord of May, for which he was allowed ten pound Sterling per annum, — great wages in that part of the world, and at that time of day. "Having some cash of his own, and somewhat anxious to see Edinburgh again, and taking leave of his father, not without some coolness on the son's side, for that his father did not add weight enough to his blessing as the son expected, — even at that time he was not without the thought of foreign countries, — I say, taking leave of his father, he proceeded on his journey to Edinburgh, and there entered his name among the students of divinity; worthv Mr. Meldrum being the professor. "There was great hope of seeing worthy Mr. George mount the Presbyterian pulpit, but Alas! the closer he applied himself to reading the stronger his aversion grew to the party then uppermost in Scotland, he observed the leading men of that side to be sour, censorious and hypocritical. "The young student decided to attach himself to the Church of England and after a diligent study of its principles, wrote to Aeneas McKensie, Chaplain of the Earl of Cro- marty, Secretary of State for Scotland, then at London, inquiring as to his prospects for advancement in England, and receiving an encouraging reply, with the assistance of his brother and the leading men of the Episcopal party in Scotland was enable to make his way I250 GRUBB to London with a recommendation from the Bishop of Edinburgh. On his arrival he pre- sented himself to the Bishop of London, who received him kindly and ordered him to attend the next ordination, at which time he, his friend McKensie and several others were put in Deacon's orders, nine days after his arrival in London. He was soon promoted to a chap- laincy on board a man of war, at a salary of eighty pounds sterling per annum; but not liking the captain he returned to London, and found his friend McKensie making appUca- tion to the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign parts, then newly incorporated, for a mission abroad. Mr. Ross was easily persuaded to join him in the application, and their applications resulted in both being appointed missionaries, McKensie to Slatan, in Ireland, and Ross to New Castle on the Delaware, in America." Mr. Ross arrived at New Castle in 1703, and continued as rector of Immanuel Church, to use his own words, "save for a few years whem he removed for his father's health, till this time, being in his seventy-third year." Mr. Ross was an exceedingly active and zealous clergyman and his ability was unquestioned; the memory of his service of nearly fifty years in Immanuel Church deserves to be treasured by his descendants and by his successors in that church, the early his- tory of which is the record of his services. One of his descendants, Miss Mary Ross, of Lancaster, caused to be erected in that church a suitable memorial tablet to his memory. He served as rector from 1705 to 1708, and again took charge in 1714, and served until his death in 1754, in his seventy-fifth year. His father ■died in 1710, and from his allusion to the state of his father's health being the occasion of his resigning his charge for "a few years," it is to be presumed that he returned to his native land to visit his dying parent. Rev. George Ross married (first) Joanna Williams, of Rhode Island, probably shortly after his arrival on the Delaware, as August 28, 1708, in a letter to the secretary of the Society for Propagation of the Gospel, he writes, "and now I have a family which I must take care to provide for." Joanna (Williams) Ross died September 29, 1726, and a few years later he married (second) Catharine Van Gezel. Issue of Rev. George and Joanna (Williams) Ross: David Ross, of whom we have no record; Margaret Ross, bapt. as an infant at St. Paul's Church, Chester, Oct. 12, 1712; d. 1771; m. (first) Rev. Walter Hackett, rector of church at Appoquinink for about five years; m. (second) Rev. William Currie, many years rector of St. David's Church, Radnor, by whom she had issue : Ross Currie, b. 1750, who was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Jan. 5, 1776, in Capt. Huling's company. Second Battalion, Col. Arthur St. Clair; was pro- moted to First Lieutenant of Capt. John Rees' company, in the same battalion, and served under his uncle, Gen. William Thompson, in the campaign in Canada, and was taken prisoner at Three Rivers, Jan. 8, 1776; later settled in Nova Scotia; Richard Currie, of Capt. Samuel Evans' company, Chester co. Militia, served in the Jersey campaign of 1776, was taken sick at Amboy, and returned home to die; bur. at St. David's, Sept. 16, 1776; m. Hannah Potts, and had issue: William Currie, M. D., m. a dau. of John Morton, signer of Declaration of Inde- pendence; no issue; Margaret Ross Currie, m. Thomas Walker. John Ross, b. at New Castle, 1714, bapt. as an infant, Oct. 14, 1714, d. in Phila., May 8, 1778; a distinguished lawyer. (It was for him that Rev. George Ross wrote the autobiography above quoted). Married at Phila., Dec. 29, 1735, Elizabeth Morgan; he was one of the most distinguished lawyers of his day, and was for some years Attor- ney General for the Three Lower Counties; he amassed a large fortune; they had issue : John Ross; Elizabeth Ross; Margaret Ross; GRUBB 1251 Catharine Ross, m. Henry Gurney, of the British Army, but had no issue. Aeneas Ross, b. at New Castle, Sept. 17, 1716, d. 1782; studied for the ministry, was ordained by the Bishop of London, was rector of Christ Church, Phila., at Oxford, Chester co., White Marsh, and other churches; was in charge of Immanuel Church, New Castle, many years prior to his death; m. at Phila., Jan. 3, 1745, Sarah Leach, and had issue : Joanna Ross, m. Oct. 13, 1775, at New Castle, Capt. Thomas Holland, of the Delaware line, who was killed in the Revolution; m. (second) James Arm- strong; no issue; John Ross, m. Elizabeth Griscom; the "Betsy Ross," said to have made the first American iiag, is also said to have been a daughter of Aeneas. Anne Ross, b. 1719; m. John Yeates ; had a daughter who m. a Scotchman by name of Watson, and went to Scotland with him; Jacob Ross, M. D., practiced as a physician at New Castle. Issrie of Rev. George and Catharine (Van Gesel) Ross: George Ross, b. at New Castle, May 19, 1730, d. at Phila., July 13, 1779; studied law with his half-brother, John Ross, and on being admitted to the bar, settled at Lan- caster and became one of the leading lawyers in Pa.; was a member of Colonial Assembly from 1768 to 1776; Judge of Court of Vice Admiralty, 1776, and from the inception of the Revolutionary struggle, was one of the foremost patriots in the Colony; was a delegate to the Provincial Convention of July 15, 1774, and the several subsequent conventions and conferences; a member of the State Committee of Safety during its whole existence; Colonel of militia; member and vice-president of the Supreme Executive Council; member of Continental Congress until his resignation,, because of ill health, 1777, and signer of the Declaration of Independence; was ap- pointed by Congress Judge of the Court of Admiralty, March I, 1779, and d. while holding that office, at Phila., July 13, 1779; m. at Lancaster, Aug. 17, 1751, Ann Lawler'; Gertrude Ross, d. 1802; m. (first) John Till, (second) Jan. 11, 1763, at New Castle, Hon. George Read, member of Continental Congress, one of the framers of the U. S.. Constitution, and member of the first U. S. Senate; Judge of the Admiralty Court; president and Chief Justice of Del., and signer of Declaration of Independence; they had issue: George Read, Jr., m. Oct. 30, 1786, his cousin, Mary, dau. of Gen. William Thomp- son, by his wife, Catharine, dau. of Rev. George Ross ; William Read; John Read; Mary Read, m. Col. Matthew Pearce, of Cecil co., Md. Catharine Ross, b. at New Castle, 1739, d. Dec, 1809, at Chambersburg, Pa.; m. March. 29, 1752, at Lancaster, Pa., Capt., afterwards Gen. William Thompson, of Carlisle, Pa.; he was b. in Ireland, and came to America in 1750; served as an officer in the Provincial service, during the French and Indian War; was commissioned by Con- gress, June 25, 1775, Colonel of the First BattaHon of Riflemen, and the first in any of the Colonies south of New England to join the American Army before Boston; he was commissioned Brigadier General March i, 1776, and was in command at New York for a short time; April i, 1776, took command of the expedition against Canada,, and was captured by the British at Three Rivers, June 8, 1776, and was not exchanged until Oct., 1780; d. at his plantation, near Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 3, 1781, aged forty-five years; was nephew of Rev. Samuel Thompson, and a first cousin to Rev. William Thompson, who m. Susanna, dau. of Rev. George Ross; they had eight children; Elizabeth Ross, m. at Phila., June 26, 1761, Col. Edward Biddle, of the Phila. family, an eminent lawyer at Reading, and an officer of Colonial troops in the French and Indian War: member of Colonial Assembly, 1767-7S, and speaker thereof in 1774; member of Continental Congress, First and Second Sessions, resigned on account of ill health and d. at Baltimore, Md., Sept. s, 1779; Susanna Ross, b. at New Castle, Jan. 17, 1738, d. at Carlisle, Pa., March i, 1801; m.. Rev. William Thompson; of whom presently; Mary Ross, b. at New Castle; m. at Christ Church, Phila., Jan. 6, 1763, Mark Bird, of Birdsboro, Berks co., Pa.; Colonel of a Berks co. regiment during Revolution; re- moved to N. C. after the Revolution and d. there; a son, William Bird, m. Mary, dau.. of George Ross, signer; James Ross, m. Eleanor , and had issue : Thomas Ross, b. 1767; Ann Ross, b. 1769; James Ross, b. 1772. 1252 GRUBB Rev. William Thompson, who married Susanna, daughter of Rev. George Ross, of New Castle, by his second wife, Catharine Van Gezel, was a son of Rev. Samuel Thompson, and a first cousin to his brother-in-law. General William Thompson. He was rector of St. Ann's Parish, Cecil county, Maryland, from 1773 to 1779, becoming rector of St. Stephen's Parish in the same county, in the latter year, and serving until his death in 1786. He married Susanna Ross, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1762. Issue of Rev. William and Susanna (Ross) Thompson: Ross Thompson; Gerhard Thompson ; Samuel Thompson; William Thompson; Mary Thompson, b. Jan. 9, 1765, d. at Carlisle, Feb. 5, 1825; m. March 29, 1781, Dr. Thomas Brockus Veazey, of "Essex Lodge," Cecil CO., Md., and had issue: Dr. John Thompson Veazey, m. Sarah Ward; Juliana Ross Veazey, m. Thomas Savin; Maria Ross Veazey, m. Isaac Brown Parker, of Burlington; Thomas B. Veazey, Jr., of "Essex Lodge;" m. Anne Ward. Maria Ross Veazey, second daughter and third child of Dr. Thomas Brockus Veazey, of "Essex Lodge," Cecil county, Maryland, by his wife, Mary Thomp- son, was bom at "Essex Lodge," July 29, 1787, and on April 27, 181 1, married Isaac Brown Parker, then of Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, but later a prominent lawyer of Burlington county. New Jersey. In 1833 he inherited from his maternal uncle, John Brown, of Philadelphia, a fortune of $750,000, which at his death had increased to $2,300,000. Issue of Isaac Brown and Maria Ross (Veazey) Parker: Mary Veazey, b. at Carlisle ; m. there, Jonathan Moore, of CarHsle, and d. Feb. 28, 1896. at an advanced age; Euphemia Brown Parker, m. Nov. 9, 1837, Edward Burd Grubb, Esq.; John Brown Parker, a prominent lawyer of Carlisle, Pa., afterwards removed to Phila., but d. in Carlisle; m. (first) Margaret Brisbane, (second) Sarah Richards; by first wife had: Lieut. Col. Isaac Brown Parker, of Gen. W. S. Hancock's staff, in the Civil War; d. unm. ; Capt. Alexander MacDonald Parker, of the Anderson Cavalry, Civil War; d. unm.; William Brisbane Parker, m. Jennie Jones, of Chicago, and had one child, Alex- ander Brown Parker; Sarah Parker, m. Frank Stanley, of Phila., son of Andrew Stanley, of England, and had one daughter; Maria Veazey Parker, m. William Hart Frailey, of Phila., son of Com. J. W. Frailey, of the U. S. N.; she survived her husband, but had no children. By his second wife John Brown Parker, had two daughters: Emmeline Knox Parker; John Brown Parker, Jr. William Brown Parker, m. Margaret Ellis; George Washington Parker, m. Mary Grubb, and had one dau., Mary Veazey Parker, m. William Welch, of Phila.; Emmeline Hamilton Parker, m. Francis Johnson, of New York; Thomas Brockus Parker, m. Helen MacGregor; Marcia Ross Parker, m. Hon. Chapman Freeman, of Phila.; Virginia Richmond Parker, m. John Baptiste Marie, of New York. GRUBB 1253 Issue of Edward Burd and Eupliemia Brown (Parker) Grubb: Maria Grubb, d. young; Gen. E. Burd Grubb, b. Nov. 13, 1841; of whom presently; Isaac Parker Grubb, b. 1843; entered the Union Army during the Civil War, became Assistant Adjutant General, Thirty-seventh Regiment, N. J. Volunteers, under his elder brother, Gen. E. Burd Grubb, and d. before Petersburg, Va., Aug. 11, 1864; Henry Bates Grubb, b. 1848; residing at Burlington, N. J.; m. Anne Shaw, dau. of Rt. Rev. William H. Odenheimer, Episcopal Bishop of N. J., and had issue : Edward Burd Grubb, now dec. Charles Ross Grubb, living in Paris, France; m. Florence Reynolds, niece of Brig. Gen. John F. Reynolds, U. S. A., and had issue : Parker Ross Grubb. Euphemia Parker Grubb, m. Demetrius Corkez, of Roumania. Brigadier General E. Burd Grubb, eldest son of Edward Burd Grubb, by his wife, Euphemia Brown Parker, born in Burlington, New Jersey, November 13, 1841, prepared for college at the Burlington grammar school, and entered Bur- lington College, from which he graduated with the highest honors of his class in i860. Almost immediately after the issuance of President Lincoln's first call for troops to support the Union and suppress the Rebellion, 1861, General Grubb entered the volunteer service of his native state, as a private, was promoted Sergeant, and soon after to the rank of Second Lieutenant, of his company, in the Third Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, which he accompanied to the front. He was at the first battle of Bull Run, July of 1861, and also at the hard fought battle of Gaines' Mill, where eleven hundred of the two thousand men in his brigade were either killed, wounded or taken as prisoners. He had previously been promoted to First Lieutenant of Company D, and dur- ing the battle of Charles City Cross Roads, performed the perilous duty of carry- ing despatches to and from General Slocum, in the face of the direct fire of the enemy. When General Kearney was transferred to the command of a division, Lieutenant Grubb was assigned to a position on the staff of General Taylor. He was promoted Captain of Company B, Third Regiment. He was promoted to Major of the Twenty-third Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, November 23, 1862, and to Lieutenant Colonel, December 26, 1862. At Fredericksburg he personally led the right wing of his regiment, and received high commendation in official reports for gallant action in that battle. A chronicler of this battle says of him : "It was due to him that the right of the regiment, then thrown into confusion by the terrible fire to which it was subjected, was rallied and led into the thickest of the combat of Fredericksburg." At the battle of Chancellorsville, being then the Colonel of the Twenty-third. Regiment, after having his horse shot under him, he led his men on foot. He was extremely popular with the men who fought under him, and exercised a great influence with them on all occasions. He was instrumental in ending a mutiny in the camp at White Oak Church. The time of enlistment of the Twenty-third Regiment having expired, it went home to be mustered out just at the time of Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania, and 'Colonel Grubb was successful in assembling the men, and inducing them, with practical unanimity, to volunteer for the emergency ; and the regiment led by him was the first to arrive and report for duty at Harrisburg. In July, 1863, Colonel Grubb was commissioned by the Governor of New 1254 GRUBB Jersey to command the military camp at Beverly. While there he recruited the Thirty-fourth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, and sent it to the front. At the request of Governor Parker he afterwards recruited the Thirty-seventh Regiment, and at its head left Trenton, June 28, 1864, and with it fought with conspicuous bravery and efficiency before Petersburg. Major General Birney, in general orders referred to the Thirty-seventh Regiment as an exceptionally superior regi- ment Colonel Grubb was breveted Brigadier General of Volunteers, March 5, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service during the war. Of General Grubb, as a niilitary officer it has been said, "Though a strict dis- ciplinarian, he was at all times highly popular with the men, managing to so direct those of his command that duty became a pleasure, and he never asked his men to face any danger which he was unwilling to share." Among his private papers are preserved all his successive commissions, from Sergeant to Brigadier Gen- eral. Annually on the third day of May, for many years, he has entertained at his beautiful country place near Edgewater Park, New Jersey, the survivors of the Twenty-third Regiment, his old command. At the session of the New Jersey Legislature of 1906, an Act was passed and approved by the Governor, March 9, 1906, of which the following is a copy of the title and preamble : "An Act, to authorize the erection of a monument on the battle field of Salem Church, in the State of Virginia, to commemorate the services of the Twenty-Third Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, in the Battle of Salem Church and other engagements of the Civil War, and to appropriate money to pay the cost of the erection and dedication of the same. "Whereas, the Twenty-Third Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, rendered va'iant and distinguished service in the Battle of Salem Church, in the County of Spottsyl- vania and State of Virginia, fought on the third day of May, 1863; as well as in other en- gagements of the Civil War; and "Whereas, in order to perpetuate the memories of said battle of Salem Church and in other engagements in which the said regiment participated, as well as to promote the spirit of patriotism in their descendants and others, the surviving members of said regiment formed themselves into an association known as the 'Association of the Survivors of the Twenty-Third Regiment of the New Jersey Volunteers,' which association, upon each re- curring anniversary of the Battle of Salem Church, meets to revive the memories and asso- ciations of said battle, "Whereas, the land whereon said regiment fought in said battle and on which the lines of battle were formed, where said regiment sustained and delivered the most severe charges of the day; where the greatest victories of the battle were achieved and the greatest losses sustained by said regiment, consecrating it as historic ground and endearing it to the memory of all who trod its soil, had been purchased by Edward Burd Grubb, then Colonel of the said regiment, and by him deeded to trustees for said association, to be held by said trustees and their successors as a perpetual memorial of said battle of Salem Church; and "Whereas, the said association is desirous of erecting upon the land so held for them in trust, a suitable monument commemorative of the said battle, but are without means wherewith to accomplish the same and desire State aid in the premises; therefore, "Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, i. The sum of six thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, &c. &c." The military record of General E. Burd Grubb in the United States service as taken from the official records of the State of New Jersey, is shown by the fol- lowing certified copy thereof: "Office of Auditor General. "Trenton, New Jersey, May 20, 1904. "It is certified, and the records of this office show, that E. Burd Grubb, was en- rolled as a private in Company C, Third Regiment Infantry, New Jersey Volunteers, on the twenty-fifth day of May, 1861; and was mustered into service of the United States as such for a period of three years from the twenty-fifth day of May, 1861; promoted First Sergeant, May 25, 1861 ; commissioned Second Lieutenant, June 13, 1861 ; First Lieutenant, GRUBB 1255 Company D, November 8, 1861; Captain, Company B, August 21, 1862 — declined; commis- sioned Major, Twenty-third Regiment Infantry, November 24, 1862; Lieutenant Colonel, December 26, 1862; Colonel, April 9, 1863; mustered out with regiment, June 27, 1863, at Beverly, New Jersey, expiration of term of service; commissioned Colonel, Thirty-seventh Regiment Infantry, June 23, 1864, for 100 days; mustered out with Regiment, October i, 1864, at Trenton, New Jersey, expiration of term of service; commissioned Brigadier- General, United States Volunteers, by Brevet, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865. "R. Heber Brentnall, "Adjutant General." After leaving the army, General Burd Grubb resided until 1873 in his native place of Burlington, being for several years a member and for two years president of the Common Council of that city; also serving as trustee of St. Mary's Hall. In 1874 he purchased a handsome estate on the Delaware river at Edge water Park, New Jersey, which he has since made his home. He was for eighteen years, 1878-96, Captain of the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, and also served as Colonel of the Sixth Regiment, National Guard of New Jersey. In October, 1881, he commanded the New Jersey Battalion at the Yorktown Cen- tennial. He was Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic for New Jersey, 1886, and at the expiration of his term in 1889 was appointed by President Harrison one of the board of visitors to the Military Academy at West Point. In 1889 he was nominated by the Republican party for the office of Governor of New Jersey, but owing largely to the extensive election frauds practiced in that campaign was defeated. On behalf of the citizens of his native state, he thereupon devoted himself actively to the prosecution of persons concerned in this corrupt practice and was instrumental in having sixty-nine of them convicted and sent to prison. In September, 1890, General Grubb, at the request of his intimate and personal and political friend, Hon. James G. Blaine, then Secretary of State, was appoint- ed and accepted from President Harrison the position of Minister to Spain. The special object of the appointment was to secure the adoption of a treaty with the Spanish Government for reciprocity of trade between the United States and Spain and her colonies of Cuba and Porto Rico. This treaty was successfully negotiated by General Grubb the following year and during its operation showed a gain of $27,000,000 in the American commerce; but it was abrogated by the passage of the Wilson Tariff Bill, during the Cleveland administration, and the restoration of the duty on Cuban sugar, which, under the Aldrich Clause of the McKinley Bill, had been suspended during the continuance of the Reciprocity Treaty. In addition General Grubb secured the rescinding by the Spanish Gov- ernment of the prohibition against the importations of American pork, a signal diplomatic triumph. An other important incident of General Grubb's ministerial career was his establishing the precedent in the law governing the right of asylum of a foreign subject in this country. Rufine Rueda, a Cuban murderer, who had fled to Key West, Florida, was kidnapped there by the Spanish authorities in collusion with the police of the city ; this irregular and illegal proceeding resulted in negotiations which General Grubb conducted through diplomatic channels, covering a period of six months, which concluded with the return of the prisoner to Key West and the pursuance of proper proceedings for legal extradition. General Grubb resign- ed as Minister to Spain in August, 1892. 38 1256 GRUBB He inherited an interest in the Pennsylvania iron mines at Cornwall, purchased by his great-great-grandfather nearly a century and a quarter before his birth, and is president of the Lebanon Valley Furnace Company, being of the fifth generation in direct line of iron mine owners and manufacturers of iron in the Cornwall region of Pennsylvania. As the eldest male representative of Peter Grubb, Jr., an officer of the Revolutionary Army, he is a member of the Society of Cincinnati ; he was the organizer and for several years governor of the Society of Colonial Wars in New Jersey, having previously been a member of the Penn- sylvania Society. He is a Master Mason and an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle ; the Patriotic Sons of America ; and among the social organizations of which he is a member are the Rittenhouse Club, United Service Club of Philadelphia, and the Riverton Yacht Club. He was four times elected Captain of the First Troop, City Cavalry, and served as such for eighteen years. General Grubb married, 1868, Elizabeth Wadsworth, daughter of Rev. Dr. Cortland Van Rensselaer, by his wife, Catharine Ledyard Coggswell, and grand- daughter of Major General Stephen Van Rensselaer, the last patroon of Van Rensselaerwyck. She died April 17, 1886. General Grubb married (second) November 3, 1891, Violet, daughter of Thomas Sopwith, Esq., by his wife, Gertrude Messiter. Her father is a mining engineer of London, England, and Linares, Spain ; having a summer residence on the Island of Lismore, off Oban, on the coast of Scotland. Her mother is a collateral relative of the Beresford family of England. A sister of Mrs. Grubb is a wife of Captain Frederic Morgan, of the Royal Navy, now naval attache of the British Embassy in Paris ; another sister is the wife of Frederic Raike, Esq., King's Messenger to King Edward VH., of England. Mrs. Grubb was decorated by Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain, with the Order of Maria Louisa, one of the most exclusive orders in Europe. She is not alone the only American woman, but the only woman of any republic, upon whom this decoration has been conferred; when admitted she took the place of an Archduchess of Austria; the only other British members at that time were Queen Victoria ; the Princess of Wales, now Queen Alexandra ; and the Duchess of Westminster. Mrs. Grubb, though of English birth, is a descendant of several of the early settlers in the Colonies of America. She is a member of the Colonial Dames of America, as tenth in descent from Tristram Coffin, born in Brixton, Devonshire, England, 1605, came to New England in 1642, and settled first in Salisbury, of which town he was Commissioner ; was one of the Proprietors and first settlers of Nantucket, and Chief Magistrate there, June 29, 1671, to his death in 1681. Ninth in descent from Tristram Coffin, Jr. (1632-1 704), Lieutenant at Newbury, Massachusetts, 1583, and Deputy to the Provincial Legislature of Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1685, and 1700-02. He married Judith, daughter of Captain Edmund Greenleaf, "Head of the MiHtary Forces under Gerrish ;" Ensign, 1639 ; Lieutenant, 1642; Captain, 1645. Eighth in descent from Nathaniel Coffin (1669-1749), Deputy to the "General Court" of Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1719-20; and member of King's Council, 1730. He married Sarah, daughter of Captain Samuel Brocklebank (1625-76), Captain in King Philip's War, killed at battle of Sudbury, April 21, 1676. GRUBB 1257 Seventh in descent from John Coffin, who married Judith, daughter of Ed- mund Greenleaf (1692-1712), and daughter of Captain Stephen Greenleaf (1630- 90), Representative in General Court, 1676-86; Ensign 1670; Captain, 1685, and drowned while on the Port Royal Expedition. Dr. Nathaniel Coffin (1716-66), son of John and Judith (Greenleaf) Coffin, was father of Dorcas Coffin (1751-1801), who married Thomas Coulson; their son, John Coulson, was grandfather of Gertrude (Messiter) Sopwith, mother of Mrs. Grubb. General and Mrs. Grubb are members of the Philadelphia Assembly. Issue of General E. Burd and Elisabeth IV. (Van Rensselaer) Grubb: Euphemia Van Rensselaer Grubb, m. Nov. 20, 1895, Charles D. Halsey; they reside in New York City, and at Seabright, N. J. ; they have issue : Van Rensselaer Halsey; Charles Day Halsey. Issue of General E. Burd and Violet (Sopwith) Grubb: Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., b. March 20, 1893; Margaret Shippen Burd, b. May 27, 1902, d. April 10, 1904; Violet Dorothea Grubb, b. July 3, 1905. Clement Brooke Grubb, fourth son of Henry Bates and Harriet Amelia (Buckley) Grubb, born at Mount Hope Furnace, Lancaster county, Pennsyl- vania, February 9, 181 5, was educated under the care of Dr. William Augustus Muhlenburg, at Flushing, Long Island. At the death of his father in 1823, all the children were minors, Qement B. being but eight years of age and his eldest brother, Edward Burd Grubb, in his thirteenth year. In 1833, the latter having attained his majority, obtained the consent of the Orphans' Court of Lancaster county to, with his brother, Clement B., then eighteen years of age, assume charge of the Cornwall ore banks, and the four furnaces of Mount Hope, Manada, Mount Vernon and Codorus ; they maintaining the dower interests of their mother therein, and paying the proportionate interest of the appraised value thereof to the guardians of the three surviving minor children, Mary Shippen, Sarah Eliza- beth and Alfred Bates Grubb. This partnership of the brothers, Edward B. and Clement B. Grubb, in the management of the furnaces and ore beds belonging to the estate of their father continued until 1845, when all the children having arrived at legal age there was a partial division of the iron interests among three of the brothers. Clement Brooke Grubb sold his interest in the Mount Hope Furnace to his younger brother, Alfred Bates Grubb, and retaining an interest in certain ore beds, erected the St. Charles Anthracite Furnace, at Columbia, Pennsylvania, and later added the Henry Clay Furnace. Subsequently his son, Charles Brooke Grubb, became his partner in the iron business. After his marriage, Clement Brooke Grubb made his residence in Lancaster, where he was a vestryman of St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, and for twenty years president of the First National Bank of Lancaster. In later years he made his winter residence at 2105 Walnut street, Philadelphia, and he was one of the first members of the Union League of that city. Clement Brooke Grubb married, February 27, 1841, Mary, born March 20, 1258 GRUBB 1821, eldest daughter of Charles Brooke, a prominent iron master of Chester county, by his wife, Jane Barde. He died at his residence in Lancaster, Penn- sylvania, October 31, 1889, and his widow survived until February 23, 1899. Issue of Clement Brooke and Mary (Brooke) Grubb: Harriet Brooke Grubb, b. 1842, d. 1906; m. 1862, Stephen Baldwin Irwin, a descendant of the well-known families of Muhlenburg and Heister of Pa. ; and had issue : John Heister Irwin. Charles Brooke Grubb, partner with his father in the iron manufacturing business in Lancaster co., and his successor; Mary Brooke Grubb, m. Josh Bond Beall, of a distinguished Georgia family, a Captain in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, but since 1865 a resident of New York City; they had issue: Mary Lilly Beall; Ethel Grubb Beall, m. Aug. 7, igoi, Lieut. Com. George Tucker Smith, Surgeon in the U. S. N., who d. March 10, 1903; they had issue: George Tucker Smith, Jr. Florence Beall. Ella Jane Grubb, m. L. Heber Smith, iron master, of Joanna Furnace, Berks co., Pa.; representing the fifth generation on the paternal side to occupy the same estate; he was a Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; they had issue: Clement Grubb Smith, m. Edith Watts, dau. of George S. Comstock; Heber L. Smith, m. Nelly Oliver, dau. of George F. Baer, president of Phila. & Reading Railroad; Mary Grubb Smith; Daisy Emily Smith, m. William Stuart Morris, a descendant of the prominent Morris family of Phila., an account of which is given in these pages; son of Dr. Cheston Morris, by his second wife, Mary Ella Stuart, grandson of Dr. Casper and Anne (Cheston) Morris, great-grandson of Israel Wistar and Mary (Hollingsworth) Morris, and great-great-grandson of Capt. Samuel Morris, the commander of the First City Troop, Phila. Cavalry, in the Revolution; they had issue: Heber Smith Morris; Stanley MacDonald Smith; William Howard Smith. Daisy Elizabeth Brooke Grubb, of Phila., unm. Alfred Bates Grubb, youngest son of Henry Bates Grubb, by his second wife, Harriet Amelia Buckley, born at Mount Hope Furnace, Lancaster county, Janu- ary 6, 182 1, was in his third year on the death of his father, and was reared and educated under the care of his mother, and on leaving school became associated with his two elder brothers in the management of Mount Hope and other furnaces belonging to his father's estate. On the division of his father's iron producing properties in 1845, he purchased the interest of his brother, Clement Brooke Grubb, in the Mount Hope Furnace and other interests connected therewith, and, originally as the partner of his eldest brother Edward Burd Grubb, assumed the management of the Mount Hope Furnace, the sole interest in which he later acquired and continued to operate it until his death, February 2, 1885. He was a well-known and prominent iron master of Lancaster county, and became identified with a number of financial and industrial enterprises there and elsewhere. He was one of the organizers of Manheim National Bank, and one of its directors from the organization to the time of his decease. He was also a large stockholder in the Schuylkill Navigation Company and for many years a member of its Board of Directors. He was one of the active members of the Union League, and gave his active support to measures for the preservation of the GRUBB 1259 Union in the dark days of the Civil War. In later life a portion of his winters were spent in Philadelphia and he was a member of the Philadelphia Oub. Alfred Bates Grubb married, March 25, 1858, Ellen Farnum, a descendant of Roger Williams, the famous pioneer Baptist of Rhode Island, through the fol- lowing lines. Roger Williams, born in England, 1599, son of WilHams, baptized at Gwinsea Cornwall, July 24, 1600, took his degree at Pembroke College, January, 1627; studied for the church and was admitted to holy orders and had a parochial charge prior to coming to Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he arrived in 1631 ; became pastor of Church at Salem, April 12, 1631 ; removed with a few followers to Narragansett Bay in 1636, and in June following embarked for Rhode Island, ob- tained Charter from the Crown, 1644; was Governor, 1654-8; died 1683. Mercy Williams, daughter of Roger, bom 1640, died 1705; married Resolved Waterman, born 1635, died 1670, their daughter, Waite Waterman, born 1666, died 171 1 ; married John Rhodes, born 1658, died 1716, and their daughter, Phoebe Rhodes, bom 1698, died 1761 ; married Samuel Aborn, born 1697, and their daughter, Phoebe Aborn, born 1730, died 1809; married Christopher Waterman, who was the commander of an English man-of-war during the war between England and France, was wounded in an engagement with the French and died of his wounds in 1757 ; their daughter, Mary Waterman, born 1752, died 1846; married Joseph Whitney, bom 1741, lost at sea in 1780; their daughter, Elizabeth Whitney, born 1779, died 1857, married Royal Farnum, born 1775, died 1845; their son, Henry Farnum, born 1806, died 1855; married Caroline Burnice Potter; their children were, Caroline Farnum, married Edward R. Bell; Henry Farnum, mar- ried (first) Camilla Laconte, (second) Margaret Wynde ; and Ellen Farnum, married Alfred Bates Grubb. fssue of Alfred Bates and Ellen (Farnum) Grubb: Ellen Farnum Grubb, of Phila., unm.; Anna Newbold Grubb, m. George J. Chetwood, of N. J.; Alfred Bates Grubb, Jr., b. Phila., Aug. 21, 1861 ; of whom presently: Rosalie S. Grubb, m. May, 1896, Charles Gibson Grosholz: Mary Elizabeth Grubb, of Phila., unm. Alfred Bates Grubb, only son of Alfred Bates and Ellen (Farnum) Grubb, born at Philadelphia, August 21, 1861, became associated with his father in the operation of Mount Hope Furnace and succeeded him in its ownership and management. He also succeeded his father as a director of the Manheim National Bank, and is a director of the Pennsylvania Trust Company of Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania. He is associated with the Philadelphia Branch of the prominent banking house of N. W. Harris & Company of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago and Pittsburg ; and is a member of the Philadelphia Club, and other social organizations of Philadelphia. Alfred Bates Grubb married, June 25, 1896, Bessie Lehman, daughter of Ste- phen and Hannah (Keyser) Benton, and resides in Philadelphia. HANCE FAMILY. John Hance came from England or Wales to New England, about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was made an inhabitant of Dover, New Hamp- shire, June 6, 1656, removed from there to Monmouth county. New Jersey, and was a Deputy and Overseer of the Court at Portland Point, Middletown, Mon- mouth county, December 28, 1669. He was one of the associated patentees of Middletown and Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, who purchased large tracts of land there about 1665, being mostly New Englanders, some of whom had resided in the little English colony on Long Island for a few years previously. He was a magistrate of Monmouth county, under the brief rule of the Dutch in 1673, and was one of the patentees of Middletown and Shrewsbury, who petitioned Gov- ernor Carteret, May 28, 1682, protesting against the sitting of "so-called Deputies or Representatives of Elizabeth Town, Newark, Woodbridge, New Piscataway and Bergen" at Elizabeth Town. His name appears as that of one of the persons filling various important local and provincial positions at different periods down, to December i, 1698, when he is returned by the Sheriff as one of those elected to represent Shrewsbury in Colonial Assembly. He was one of the first settlers of Rumsome Neck, now Seabright, Monmouth county, where he located a large tract of land, patented to him at different periods, comprising over five hundred acres of land, the "Home Farm," on which he lived containing two hundred and forty-seven acres. His wife, Elizabeth, is supposed to have been a daughter of Thomas Hanson, who was also an inhabitant of Dover, New Hampshire, in 1656, as on February 4, 1697-9, Tobias Hanson, grandson of Thomas, executes a power of attorney to his "uncle John Hance, of Shrewsbury," to act as his general agent in New Jersey. Tobias Hanson had a patent for a tract of land adjoining John Hance in Shrewsbury, prior to 1685. John Hance was named in the will of Colonel Lewis Morris, as oiie of the over- seers of the will in 1690. He was one of those licensed to purchase lands of the Indians, at Manasquan, July 9, 1685. His will, dated March 24, 1707-8, and proved January 27, 1710-11, mentions his wife, EHzabeth; sons, John and Isaac; daughters, Mary Antram, Elizabeth Worthley, Deborah Corleis, and Judith Hard- man. It also mentions Tobias Hanson and Samuel Childe, of Piscataway, New England. His widow, Elizabeth, survived him many years. Issue of John and Elisabeth (Hanson) Hance: Mary, b. Sept. 29, 1670; m. May 4, 1696, James Antram, of Burlington co., N J.; d. be- tween 1736 and 1 741 ; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 8, 1672, d. May 7, 1749; m. March 12, 1695-6, John Worthley, of Shrewsbury, who d. Dec. 3, 1715; Deborah, b. May i, 1675, d. April 3, 1757; became second wife of George Corleis, of Shrewsbury; Judith, b. Oct. IS, 1678; m. May 24, 1706, Edward Hardman; Hester, b. March 30, 1681, probably d. young, not mentioned in father's will-, John, b. May 11, 1683, d. Feb. 26, 1728-9; m. (first) Joyce Borden, dau. of Francis, (sec- ond) Elizabeth Corleis; Isaac, b. Oct. 25, 1685, d. Sept. 15, 1764: of whom presently. HANCE 1261 Isaac Hance, youngest son of John Hance, resided all his life on the Rumsome farm, patented to his father. He married (first) August 25, 1710, Rachel, daughter of Thomas White, of Shrewsbury, and granddaughter of Samuel White, one of the first patentees of Shrewsbury. She died August 30, 1734, and he married (second) Content (Worley) Bills, widow of Thomas Bills, daughter of Edward and Lydia Worley. She was born November 9, 1694, and died prior to April 30, 1736, on which date Isaac married (third) Joanna, daughter of Nathaniel Bills. He married (fourth) February 8, 1750, Mary, widow of Ephraim Allen, and daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Patterson) Cook, who survived him, dying 1774. Isaac Hance died in Shrewsbury township, Monmouth county, New Jer- sey, September 15, 1764. Issue of Isaac and Rachel (White) Hance: Timothy, b. March 21, 1714, d. 1781; m. Rebecca Allen; of whom presently; John, b. May 6, 1720, d. 1769; m. Jan. 13, 1760, Catharine Waples; Jacob, b. May 3, 1729, d. June 21, 1798; m. (first) Dec. 6, 1750, Ann White, who d. 1757; (second) Feb. 8, 1759, Elizabeth Corleis. Timothy Hance, eldest son of Isaac and Rachel (White) Hance, bom in Shrewsbury township, Monmouth county. New Jersey, March 21, 1714, married, October 9, 1736, Rebecca Allen, granddaughter of Jedediah Allen, who came to New Jersey from Sandwich, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, and became prominent in New Jersey. Rebecca died October 23, 1759. The will of Timothy Hance was dated March 15, 1781. Issue of Timothy and Rebecca (Allen) Hance: Rachel, b. Jan. 27, 1738; m. March 7, 1759, Thomas Kirby, of BuHington, N. J.; David, b. Sept. 18, 1739, d. June 6, 1825; m. Hannah Cooke; of whom presently; Isaac, b. Feb. 3, 1741 ; m. Feb. 16, 1763, Deborah Irons; Jeremiah, b. July 14, 1746; m. Dec. 15, 1774, Phebe Woodmanse; Mary, b. Sept. ii, 1749; m. John Craft; Elizabeth, b. April 22, 1751 ; m. Tobias Riker. David Hance, eldest son of Timothy and Rebecca (Allen) Hance, born in Shrewsbury township, Monmouth county, resided at Rumsome until about 1775, when he removed to Bordentown, Burlington county, New Jersey, purchasing a property at the corner of Burlington and Prince streets, where he resided until his death, June 6, 1825. He married, June 23, 1762, Hannah, born March 15, 1742, died March i, 1820, daughter of Ebenezer Cooke, of Manasquan, Shrews- bury, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of John Tilton, of Shrewsbury. Her brother, William Cooke, also removed to Bordentown, and subsequently owned and oper- ated the mills at Cookstown, Burlington county, known for many years as "Cooke's Mills." Issue of David and Hannah (Cooke) Hance: Ebenezer, b. March 14, 1763, d. Jan. 18, 1795; m. 1787, Esther, dau. of John and Rebecca (Borden) WooUey, who after his death m. his brother, Timothy Hance; Timothy, b. May 24, 1765, d. Oct. 29, 1839; m. (first) 1789, Sarah, dau. of Thomas and R?chel Thompson, who d. Nov. 4, 1800; (second) 1807, Mrs. Rebecca Fennemore; (third) March i, 1807, Esther (Woolley) Hance, widow of his brother, Ebenezer; Jediah, b. June 20, 1767, d. Jan. i, 1827; m. (first) Sarepa Burr; (second) Elizabeth (Grubb) Antram; of whom presently; Hannah, b. Aug., 1777, d. May 4, 1861 ; m. Jeremiah Kenworth Bell ; 1262 HANCE Jeremiah, b. Nov. 14, 1779, d. March 28, 1855; m. Feb. 6, 1812, Mary, dau. of John and Tacy Thorne, b. 1790, d. 1859; Sarah, b. Dec. 27, 1780, d. Dec. 23, 1851; m. John Adams; no issue; Lydia, b. Oct. 29, 1783, d. Aug. s, 1869, unm. Jediah Hance, third son of David and Hannah (Cooke) Hance, born at Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, was reared in Burlington county and spent his whole life there, dying January i, 1827, in the sixtieth year of his age. He married (first), October 16, 1791, Sarepa Burr, of one of the oldest and most prominent families in Burlington county, born February 27, 1770, died September 15, 1811; (second), February 16, 1815, Elizabeth, widow of Aaron Antram, and daughter of Robert and Sarah Grubb, born December 9, 1772, died January 16, 1826. His children were all by the first marriage. Issue of Jediah and Sarepa (Burr) Hance: Edward, b. July 7, 1792, d. Sept. 2, 1814, unm.; Ann, b. Nov. 8, 1794, d. Oct. 15, 1876; m. Oct. 12, 1815, Josiah Letchworth; Isaac Burr. b. Aug. 23, 1796, d. Feb. 27, 1851; m. Rebecca Ann, dau. of Thomas and Rachel (Wooley) Hance; Eliza, b. Jan. 16, 1798, d. Aug. 9, 1864; m. March 16, 1823, George English, b. Jan. 16, 1800, d. May 25, 1863 ; David E., b. Aug. 22, 1803, d. Dec. i, 1875; m. Sarah J. Lancaster; of whom presently; Hannah, b. April 23, 1805, d. April 13, i860; m. Sept. 8, 1836, John McCloud, b. May 15, 1787, d. March 22, 1872. David E. Hance, youngest son of Jediah and Sarepa (Burr) Hance, born in Burlington county. New Jersey, August 22, 1803, came to Philadelphia when a young man and engaged in business there ; became an active business man of that city and died there December i, 1875. He married, January 27, 1830, Sarah Jordan Lancaster, born June 7, 1807, died August 26, 1896. Issue of David E. and Sarah J. (Lancaster) Hance: Edward H., b. Phila., Nov. I, 1833; now a resident of Germantown, Phila.; m. Nov. S, 1857, Charlotte E., dau. of Anthony and Elizabeth (Beckenbach) Miskey, and had issue : Anthony Miskey Hance, b. in Germantown, July 20, 1859; graduated at Univ. of Pa. 1879; member of firm of Hance Brothers & White, manufacturing chemists, of Phila.; m. June 22, 1892, Sallie M., dau. of John M. Robinson, of Queen Anne co., Md. ; resides in Germantown; no issue; Mary Miskey Hance, b. June 18, 1862, d. May 25, 1897, unm.; Edward H. Hance, Jr., b. at Germantown, July 23, 1867; was student at Univ. of Pa., but left before graduation, to enter into business with firm of Hance Brothers & White, manufacturing chemists; m. June lo, l8go, Helen, dau. of Edward B. Orne, of Phila., by his wife, Maria Bolden, and has issue : Edward H. Hance (3), b. Dec. 15, 1893; Anthony Miskey Hance, Jr., b. March 15, 1896. Joseph Crozer Hance, b. Phila., Feb. S, 1838, d. there, Nov. 13, 1905; m. Nov. 7, 1861, Emma Elizabeth, dau. of Jacob and Mary (Coleman) Alter; and had issue: Emma Alter Hance, b. Sept. 6, 1863 ; m. June 6, 1894, Robert William Blake ; issue : Emma Constantia Blake, b. Aug. 13, 1895: Robert Dayton Blake, b. Nov. 11, 1899; Mary Elizabeth Blake, b. Feb. 12, 1901. Alter Lancaster Hance, b. Dec. 20, 1872, d. Feb. 28, 1873. RIDGELY FAMILY. Colonel Henky Ridgely came from Devonshire, England, in 1659, and set- tled in Ann Arundel county, Maryland, on a tract of over six thousand acres, four miles from the present site of Annapolis, which he named "Wardridge," being surveyed to him February 20, 1660-1. He was Major of the Provincial troops of Ann Arundel county, in 1661, and Colonel of the militia of that county until Octo- ber 4, 1699, having petitioned the year previous to the Governor and Council, "being aged and infirm," that he might be relieved and discharged from his mili- tary command. His request not being granted, he again petitioned on the above date, "being very ancient, and desirous to lay down his commission as Colonel of Ann Arundel County ;" this time his petition was granted. As a Justice of Ann Arundel county for many years, he experienced the same difficulty in obtaining a release from magisterial service as in the case of his military service, indicating that his service in both capacities had been more than satisfactory to the Provincial authorities. In the Records of Council for 1696 appears a minute of the receipt of a petition of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ridgely praying for a quietus as to his service as magistrate, for the reason of "being in years and having lately received a fall from his horse, whereby he is disabled of the use of his right arm, which renders him incapable to make use of his pen, beside the great disquietude which by public business is created to him." His petition was referred to the commis- -sioners of Ann Arundel county and "if nothing be objected, then His Excellency will consider of giving him quietus." He was for some years a member of Gov- ernor's Council, and in 1683 one of the commissioners appointed by that body to survey the land for and manage the building of the courthouse for Ann Arundel Town. Pie was also a member of General Assembly of the Province of Mary- land, and as such in 1692, with his close friend and associate Nicholas Greenbury and others, signed an "Address of thanks" to their Majesties, William and Mary, for sending them a Protestant Governor. He died in Queen Anne's Parish, April 2, 1710, having removed to that parish, the residence of his then wife Mary, in 1705, and was made a vestryman there, April 17, 1705. The records of St. Anne's Parish show that the church was completed in 1705, and "Madam Ridgely peti- tioned for a pew." She was the only lady so designated on the records. Colonel Henry Ridgely was three times married. His first wife was Elizabeth Howard, who it is believed came from England in the same ship with him. She died without issue, and he married (second), about 1668, Sarah , who was the mother of his children. His third wife, whom he married shortly prior to May 16, 1696, was Mary, widow of Mason Du Vail. She survived him and married Rev. Jacob Henderson. Issue of Colonel Henry and Sarah Ridgely: — Henry, born Oct. 3, 1669, d. March 19, 1699; m. Katharine Greenbury; of whom presently; Rachel, married Charles, son of Col. Nicholas Greenbury, and brother to Katha- rine, wife of her brother Henry; Charles Ridgely, of whom we have no further record; Sarah, married (first) Brewer; (second) Thomas Odell. 1264 RIDGELY Henry Ridgely (2), eldest son of Colonel Henry Ridgely, by his wife Sarah, was bom at "Wardridge," October 3, 1669, and died there, March 19, 1699. He is styled on the records "Henry Ridgely, Gentleman," and appears to have resided on the home plantation from the time of his marriage in 1689 to his death. He lies buried in the old family burying-ground, at "Wardridge," where the blue flag- stone imported from England and erected over his grave, bears this inscription : — " Here lyeth the Body of Mr. HENRY RIDGLET, Who was borne ye 3d. day of Oct. 1669: and departed this life on ye 19th day of March. 1699." His will, dated September 13, 1699, and proven April 26, 1700, makes his "Honoured father and Loveing brother Charles Greenbury" trustees, and devises his home plantation to his wife Katharine for life, with 200 acres adjoining; to his son Nicholas 225 acres, and 292 acres on the northeast side of "the great branch of the Potomac;" to son Charles, 150 acres; and to his daughter Ann, a plantation called "Hunting Quarter." Henry Ridgely (2) married, in 1689, Katharine Greenbury, who survived him, and married (second), prior to 1 703, John Howard, by whom she had one daugh- ter, Katharine Howard. Issue of Henry and Katharine (Greenbury) Ridgely: — Henry; Nicholas, b. Feb. 12, 1694, d. in Dover, Del., Feb. 16, 1755; m. (first) Sarah Worth- ington; (second) Ann French Gordon; (third) Mary Middleton Vining; Charles; Ann; Elizabeth. Colonel Nicholas Greenbury, maternal grandfather of these children, was born in England, in 1627, and came to Maryland in the ship "Constant Friend- ship," in 1674, with wife Ann, three servants, and children Charles and Kath- arine. In 1680 he acquired by patent a tract of land lying between the Margethy and Severn rivers, containing 450 acres, known as "Greenbury's Point." He sold his original purchase in 1685 to Captain John Worthington, and purchased of the heirs of Ralph Williams, a tract of 253 acres adjoining, which, with other tracts purchased later, also became known as "Greenbury's Point," though the Williams tract was originally called "Towne Necke." Here Colonel Greenbury lived and died, and here he and his family lie buried, though the chapel and vault in which the remains of himself and wife were deposited have now disappeared "and are under the buildings of Captain Taylor, the present owner of Greenbury's Point," states Rev. Ethan Allen, in his "Historical Notes of St. Anne's Parish." The inscriptions on the tombstones of Colonel Nicholas Greenbury and his wife, copied in 1897, are as follows : — " Here lyeth interred, The Body of COLLN. NICHOLAS GREENBURY, Who departed this life the 17th Day of December, 1697 A tates ma, 70" Here lyeth Interred The Body of, Mrs. ANN GREENBURY, Who departed this life the 27th day of April, 1698 A tates ma, 50" Ann, wife of Colonel Greenbury, is supposed to have been the daughter of Roger Newman, an Englishman, who was closely identified with the Greenbury RIDGELY 126s family in life, and at his death was buried in their private burial lot, where his tombstone was engraved with the coat-of-arms of his family. As a further con- firmation of this theory, his large estate was bequeathed to Colonel Charles Green- bury, son of Colonel Nicholas and Ann. Colonel Nicholas Greenbury was commissioned Justice of the Peace for Ann Arundel County, Maryland, April 28, 1686; was a member of General Assembly and of the Governor's Council. He was senior member and President of the Council of Sir Lionel Copley, Royal Governor, on May 18, 1692, and at the death of Governor Copley, September 12, 1693, filled the position of acting governor by virtue of his position as President of Council, until the arrival of Lieutenant Gov- ernor Sir Francis Nicholson, from England, on May 7, 1694. He continued President of the Council to his death in 1697, and, says one of Maryland's his- torians, "seems to have been one of the greatest men of that time and place." Upon the arrival of Governor Nicholson, Colonel Greenbury was appointed as the head of a commission to lay out one hundred acres in lots and streets as the new capital of the state, now Annapolis. He and his wife Ann had issue: — Katharine, b. in England, about 1670, m., 1689, Henry Ridgely Jr., (second) prior to 1703, John Howard; Col. Charles Greenbury, b. in England, m. Rachel, eldest dau. of Col. Henry and Sarah Ridgely; Nicholas Greenbury Jr., b. Md., d. y.; Elizabeth Greenbury, b. Md. ; m. Robert Goldsborough; Ann Greenbury, m. John, son of Maj. John Hammond. Judge Nicholas Ridgely, second son of Henry and Katharine (Greenbury) Ridgely, and grandson of Colonel Henry Ridgely and of Colonel Nicholas Green- bury, was born on his father's plantation, "Wardridge," February 12, 1694. He continued to reside in Ann Arundel county until 1732, when he removed to Duck Creek, Kent county, Delaware, and shortly after to Dover, Delaware, his home place being "Eden Hill," about a mile from Dover, now owned by his great-grand- son. Dr. Henry Ridgely, of Dover. He also owned "Fox Hall," including a planta- tion of four hundred acres, which Hkewise is still owned by his lineal descendants^ being until 1898 the property of his great-granddaughter, Ann (Ridgely) du Pont, wife of Charles Irenee du Pont, and since that date the property of her daughter, Amelia Elizabeth du Pont. Judge Ridgely became at once prominent in the affairs of the lower counties on the Delaware, filling the offices of Treasurer of Kent County,. Clerk of the Peace, Justice of the Peace, Prothonotary and Register in Chancery. In 1746 he was commissioned Judge of the Supreme Court of the Three Lower Counties, New Castle, Kent and Sussex, which became the State of Delaware in 1776, and filled that position until his death in Dover, February 16, 1755. In 175 1 he was commissioned by an Act of Assembly to lay out a market and super- vise the erection of the first market house in Dover. On May 20, 1736, as fore- man of the Grand Jury, he signed the petition to King George II., against granting a charter to Lord Baltimore that should abrogate the proprietary rights of the Penn family in the Three Lower Counties. Judge Ridgely was selected by and appointed guardian of Caesar Rodney in 1745, and his papers give evidence of his warm interest in and attachment to his ward, who later became the eminent patriot of Delaware. "He died full of years 1266 RIDGELY and of honors, * * *^ charitable without ostentation, religious without bigotry, and his country celebrated his obsequies with tears and embalmed his memory with praise and applause." Under his tutelage and care were trained three noted men of Delaware — his son, Hon. Charles Ridgely, Caesar Rodney, and his step-grandson U. S. Senator John Vining. Judge Nicholas Ridgely, like his distinguished grandsire, was thrice married. He married (first), December 26, 171 1, Sarah, daughter of Colonel John and Sarah Worthington, of Ann Arundel county, who died March 16, 1721. On De- cember 5, 1723, he married (second) Ann, widow of James Gordon, daughter of Robert and Mary French, of New Castle county, on the Delaware, who died No- vember 21, 1733. His third matrimonial alliance was made December 23, 1736, with Mary, widow of Captain Benjamin Vining, and daughter of Judge Hugh Middleton, of Salem county, New Jersey, who survived him. Issue of Judge Nicholas and Sarah (Worthington) Ridgely:— Sarah, b. Nov. 20, 1713, d. Mnm., Dec. 6, 1736; Rebecca, b. Oct. 15, 1714; m. Oct. 30, 1731, Benjamin, son of John Warfield, of Ann Arundel county, Md. ; Rachel, b. Feb. 7, 1716; m. April 20, 174Q, Hon. John Vining, Chief Justice of Three Lower Counties, and had two sons, Nicholas and Benjamin, neither of whom left descendants; Ruth, b. March 16, 1718, m. James Gorrell; had daughter Sarah Gorrell, b. Aug. 14, 1749; Ann, b. Feb. 18, 1720, d. unm.; Issue of Judge Ridgely by second wife, Ann (French) Gordon: — Mary, m. Patrick Martin; one child, Mary, d. unm.; Issue by third wife, Mary (Middleton) Vining: — Charles Greenbury, b. Jan. 26, 1737, d. Nov. 25, 1785; m. (first) Mary Wynkoop; (second) Ann Moore; of whom presently; Sarah, b. Sept. 30, 1743; m. Rev. Samuel McGaw; had one son d. inf.; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 15, 1745; m. June 20, 1761, Thomas Dorsey, of Elk Ridge, Md.; left numerous descendants. Mary (Middleton) Vining, third wife of Judge Nicholas Ridgely, had by her first husband. Captain Benjamin Vining, two children who lived to mature years, John and Mary. The son, John Vining, became first Chief Justice of the Three Lower Counties, in 1764; was Speaker of the Assembly, 1766-68; Trustee of Loan Office for Kent County; and filled other positions of trust and honor. He married (first) his step-sister Rachel, daughter of Judge Nicholas Ridgely, by his first wife, Sarah Worthington, by whom he had two sons, one of whom died in childhood, and the other of whom became a promising young lawyer, but died unmarried. He married (second) Phoebe Wynkoop, by whom he had a son John, who became a brilliant lawyer, and member of the first Continental Con- gress. He had also a daughter, Mary Vining, a beautiful girl and prominent belle of the Revolutionary period. Mary Vining, daughter of Captain Benjamin and Mary (Middleton) Vining, married Rev. Charles Inglis, for some years rector of Christ Church, Dover, afterwards rector of old Trinity Church, New York City, where he was officiating at the outbreak of the Revolution, and though RIDGELY 1267 threatened with death if he persisted in praying for the King in the opening serv- ices of his church, held fast in his loyalty to the crown, thereby suffering the con- fiscation of his property and banishment to Nova Scotia, where he became the first Colonial Bishop. His first wife, Mary Vining, left no issue ; he married (second) a New York lady, and had several children, one of whom succeeded him as Bishop of Nova Scotia, and another son distinguished himself at the siege of Lucknow. Dr. Chakles Greenbury Ridgely, eldest child and only son of Judge Nich- olas Ridgely, of Dover, Delaware, by his third wife, Mary (Middleton) Vining, was born January 26, 1737, at Salem, New Jersey, where his maternal grand- father, Judge Hugh Middleton, had been for many years a prominent man in public affairs, and owned a very large estate called "Barriton Fields." His mother's first husband, Captain Benjamin Vining, was also of Salem county, though of a New England family, his father, William Vining, being at one time "Collector of Salem and Marblehead in New England." The son Ben- jamin removed from there to Philadelphia, where he was a Justice of the Peace, 1715-22, but later removed to Salem, New Jersey, where he died leaving a large estate to his widow, who on her marriage to Judge Ridgely surrendered it entire to the children of her first marriage. Dr. Charles Greenbury Ridgely acquired a good classical education at the Col- lege of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania, and studied medicine under the direction of Dr. Phineas Bond, who later became his brother-in-law by the marriage of both to daughters of Judge William Moore, of "Moore Hall." On acquiring his medical diploma. Dr. Ridgely located at Dover, where he prac- ticed his profession with marked success, acquiring such a reputation for profes- sional skill, that he was frequently called in consultation to all parts of the "Lower Counties" as well as to Philadelphia. He also became prominent in public affairs, almost from his first establishing himself at Dover. The Delaware Register, vol. ii, p. 166, has this to say of him: "He was not only distinguished as a learned and popular physician, but his powerful and active mind, his liberal reading on other subjects beside those of his profession, his strict integrity and honor, and his remarkable urbanity of manner, recommended him to his fellow citizens as a suitable candidate for a variety of public stations. According, from a short time after his settlement in Dover until his death, he scarcely passed a year in which he did not fill some important office, and frequently several of them." He was elected to the General Assembly of the Three Lower Counties in 1765, and re-elected in 1766-67-68-73-74-76, and was a delegate from Kent county to the Convention held at New Castle, August i, 1774, to select delegates to the first Colonial Conference held at Carpenter's Hall, September 5, 1774, when Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean and George Read were selected as delegates. He was also a delegate to the Convention which at the suggestion of the Continental Con- gress assembled at New Castle, on August 27, 1776, and after a session of twenty- six days promulgated on September 20, 1776, the first constitution, and launched into existence the independent state of Delaware, and dissolved all connection of what had been the "Three Lower Counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex on the Delaware" with the crown of Great Britain. Among his fellow delegates were Nicholas Van Dyke, Richard Bassett, Jacob Moore and Thomas McKean. He was a Justice of the county of Kent from November i, 1764, until the adoption of the constitution of 1776, and was again called to the bench under the new 1268 RIDGELY government then established. He died at Dover, November 25, 1785, near the end of his forty-eighth year. Dr. Charles G. Ridgely married (first), June 1 1, 1761, Mary, daughter of Abra- ham Wynkoop, of Holland lineage; (second), June 2, 1774, Ann, daughter of Hon. William Moore, of "Moore Hall," Chester county, Pennsylvania, by his wife Willamina, daughter of the Earl of Wemys, Scotland. Issue of Dr. Charles G. and Mary (Wynkoop) Ridgely: Nicholas Ridgely, b. Dover, Sept. 30, 1762; read law under Judge Robert Golds- borough, Cambridge, Md.; admitted to Bar at New Castle, 1787, and became one of the most distinguished members of the Delaware Bar. He was appointed Attorney General of the State, 1 791, and filled that position with eminent ability ten years; was member of Constitutional convention of 1792, and was thereafter repeatedly elected to General Assembly of State, and drafted the principal legisla- tion made necessary by changes in the constitution. In 1801 was appointed Chan- cellor of the Court of Chancery, to which, through his influence in the Assembly, had been transferred the entire jurisdiction of the Orphans' Court, and equity proceedings, and the rules of court, forms of practice, and general principles of procedure adopted by him, are still in use, and he is justly considered the founder of chancery jurisprudence in Delaware. He held the office of Chancellor until his death, April i, 1830, a period of nearly thirty years. His "Notes of Decisions in Chancery" are still the authority on those matters. He left no descendants. Charles Ridgely, died in early manhood. Abraham Ridgely, was an eminent physician, and prominent in political circles of his time, filling position of Secretary of State and other important offices; died without issue. Issue of Dr. Charles G. and Ann (Moore) Ridgely: Mary, m. Dr. William M. Morris; had one son, William Morris, m. a Miss Harris, of Harrisburg, Pa., and had children; Mary, wife of Caleb Penniwell, and Walter Morris; Henry Moore, b. Aug. 6, 1779, d. Aug. 6, 1847; m. (first) Sarah Baning; (second) Sarah Ann Comegys; of whom presently. Willamina, died in childhood. Ann, died in childhood. George W., became midshipman U. S. N.; lost at sea. Henry Moore Ridgely, son of Dr. Charles G. and Ann (Moore) Ridgely, born at Dover, Delaware, Augu.st 6, 1779, graduated at Dickinson College, studied law with his cousin, Charles Smith, Esq., at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was ad- mitted to the Delaware Bar in March, 1802. About the time of his admission to the Bar, Dr. Barrett, of Dover, a friend of Mr. Ridgely, having been grossly in- sulted by a Mr. Shields, of Wilmington; in accordance with the custom of the time, sent a challenge to the latter by Mr. Ridgely. Shields refused to meet Dr. Barret, and, acting in a very ungentlemenly manner to the bearer of the challenge, finally challenged him to a duel. Mr. Ridgely, though the quarrel was not origin- ally his, felt obliged to accept and in the duel which resulted was so severely wounded that for a time his life was despaired of, but after a painful and pro- tracted prostration fully recovered. Public opinion was so aroused against his antagonist that he left Wilmington and never returned. Mr. Ridgely became one of the ablest and most successful lawyers of his time, as well as a prominent business man and statesman, and he early manifested an interest in political affairs, became a leader of marked prestige, and was the success- ful standard bearer of his party in many important elections. He was repeatedly RIDGELY 1269 elected to the State Legislature, and assisted in framing many of the most im- portant statutes of the State; was elected to Congress in 181 1, and re-elected two years later by a large majority. At the termination of his second term he declined a renomination, preferring to give his entire attention to his large practice, but was induced to accept the position of Secretary of State in 1817, a position he again filled in 1824, and as the incumbent of that office performed a most valu- able work for posterity in collecting and arranging the scattered and imperfectly kept archives of his native state. He was elected to the United States Senate in 18)27, and held a prominent place in that body, as he had in the lower House, by his advocacy of a protective tariff and other important measures of national legis- lation. Mr. Ridgely, though filling at the behest of his fellow citizens many important offices, apparently cared nothing for public office or for the furthering of his per- sonal ends. He was tendered the Chancellorship of the State in 1830, and later the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, but declined both these high honors, yet, because he felt he could intelligently serve the public interests, accept- ed the comparatively unimportant and nonlucrative office of Commissioner of the Levy Court of Kent County, and patiently devoted his time to restoring the offices of the county to an orderly condition. Again believing that there was mismanage- ment of the County Almshouse, he sought and obtained the office of trustee, and was able to institute a number of reforms, that added greatly to the comfort of the paupers and reduced the expense of their support. In business and financial circles Mr. Ridgely held the same high position, filling a number of positions of trust and honor. He was elected President of the Farmers' Bank of Dover at its incorporation in 1807, and filled that position for a period of forty years. Henry Moore Ridgely married (first), November 21, 1803, Sarah, daughter of John Baning, of Dover, by his wife, Elizabeth (Alford) Cassius, said by a traveller of note, to have been "the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in Europe or America." She was daughter of Philip Alford, a wealthy West India merchant, who with his wife Charity came to Philadelphia and resided for some years on Second street, making periodical trips to the West Indies in the transac- tion of his business, during one of which he was lost at sea with many of his valuable papers. Charity Alford, the widow, later removed to Dover with her widowed daugh- ter, who in 1786 married John Baning, son of Philip Baning, of Dover, born there, 1740, and died February 15, 1791. After the death of John Baning his widow married (third) Dr. William McKee, a graduate of the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and a skilled physician of Wilmington, Delaware. Sarah (Baning) Ridgely died January 14, 1837, and Mr. Ridgely married (second), March 17, 1842, Sarah Ann, daughter of Governor Cornelius Comegys, who survived him. He died on his sixty-eighth birthday, August 6, 1847. His fifteen children, six of whom survived him, were all by his first wife, Sarah Baning. Issue of Henry Moore and Sarah (Baning) Ridgely: — Charles George, b. Aug. 12, 1804, d. July 15, 1844; educated at St. Mary's College, Baltimore; entered West Point and graduated there with high honors and com- missioned Second Lieut. First U. S. Infantry, July I, 1826; resigned Feb. 22, 1827; sometime Professor of French at West Point Military Academy; studied law and practiced at Georgetown, Del.; sometime member Delaware Legislature; 1270 RIDGELY • Elizabeth, b. Feb. 27, 1813, d. 1833; educated at Madame Grelland's school, Phila., and afterwards went much into society in that city, where she was admired, being a very beautiful girl of much ease and grace of manner. She was also a great belle in Washington society during the term of her father in the U. S. Senate; Ann, born Feb. 21, 1815, d. Oct. 20, 1898; m. Charles Irenee Du Pont; of whom presently; Henry, b. April 15, 181 7, m. Virginia Jenkins; had issue : Ruth Anna, m. (first) Richard Harrington; (second) Dr. James Wilson. Had issue by Harrington : Ridgely; Samuel Maxwell; Virginia. Nicholas, b. Dec. 13, 1820, m. Mary R. Tilden; had issue, Henry Moore and Mary Tilden Ridgely; Eugene, b. May 4, 1S22, m. Mary A. MifHin; had issue: Daniel, m. Ella Madden; Willamina Moore, b. May 27, 1827, m. Alexander Johnson; had issue: Henry Ridgely, Nicholas Ridgely, Ann da Pont, James, Elizabeth, died in infancy; Edward, b. Jan. 31, 1831, m. Elizabeth Comegys; had issue: Harriet, married Dr. D. A. Harrison, Edward, died young, Sarah, Henry, married Mabel Fisher. Seven other children d. in inf. Ann RidgelYj second surviving daughter of Henry Moore Ridgely by his wife, Sarah Baning, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, inherited the grace and beauty of her grandmother, and was possessed of a no less lovely disposition and manner, as well as fine intellectual powers. She was entirely educated under her father's personal care, certain hours of every day being spent in his study reading aloud to him, and daily contact with a man of his finely cultivated mind and intellectual tastes, early formed those of her own. At the age of twelve years she had read all of Shakespeare, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Dryden's Virgil, and was familiar with most of the other classical writers as well as the modern poets. She was much admired in society. May 11, 1841, she became the second wife of Hon. Charles Irenee du Pont, of "Louviers," Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware, son of Victor du Pont, by his wife, Gabrielle Josephine La Fitte, de Pelleport, daughter of Gabriel Renee Louis La Fitte, Marquis de Pelle- port, of noble French lineage. He was born at Charleston, South Carolina, March 29, 1797, where his father, Victor du Pont de Nemours, was then French Consul. The fainily later returned to France, but again came to America, with Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, the father of Victor, and a younger brother Eleu- there Irenee du Pont, the founder of the powder works on the Brandywine, arriving at Newport on New Year's Day, 1800. Victor du Pont removed to New Castle county in 1809, and settled on the banks of the Brandywine, where Charles Irenee du Pont was reared, and later became interested in manufacturing interests in that locality, and was the owner of extensive tracts of land there and elsewhere and was prominently identified with the affairs of the State, serving several terms in the legislature, and was a member of the State Senate in 1841, and again in 1855. In the latter year he was RIDGELV 1271 instrumental in securing an appropriation from the State Treasury to assist in building the Delaware railroad, of which he was one of the projectors, and was for many years a director. He was also a director of Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company; exerted a wide influence in the development of the resources of his native state and the promotion of internal improvements, and for many years president and director of the Farmers' National Bank of Wil- mington. He died January 31, 1869. Charles Irenee du Pont married (first), October 5, 1824, Dorcas Montgomery Van Dycke, daughter of Hon. Nicholas Van Dycke. She died in 1838, leaving three children, and he married (second), May 11, 1841, Ann Ridgely, who sur- vived him nearly thirty years, dying October 20, 1898, in her eighty-fourth year. They had issue : Amkua Elizabeth du Pont^ of whom presently; Henry Ridgely du Pont, b. at Louviers, Nov. 19, 1848; d. April 29, 1893; studied law with his half-brother, Victor du Pont, and admitted to Bar of New Castle cc, 1871; appointed U. S. Jury Commissioner, 1870. Amelia Elizabeth du Pont, daughter of Charles Irenee du Pont, by his second wife, Ann Ridgely, married, July 5, 1866, her cousin, Eugene du Pont, eldest son of Alexis Irenee du Pont, youngest son of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours, the founder of the firm of "E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company," in 1802, by his wife, Sophie Madelline Dalmas, and Eleuthere Irenee du Pont was the younger son of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, Inspector General of Finance and Commerce, under Louis XVI. of France, and the founder of the family in America, by his estimable wife Nicole Charlotte Marie Louise le Dec de Rencourt. Alexis Irenee du Pont, was born on the banks of the Brandywine, New Castle county, Delaware, February 14, 1816, and was educated at the Mount Airy School, near Philadelphia, and at the University of Pennsylvania, and about the year 1836, became actively identified with the powder manufacturing plant established by his father, and continued a member of the firm of "E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company," until his death on August 23, 1857, from injuries received in an ex- plosion of a portion of the works on the preceding day. He married, December 16, 1836, Joanna Smith, daughter of Francis Gurney Smith, of Philadelphia, who survived him and died August 29, 1876. Eugene du Pont, soon after the tragic death of his father, became a member of the firm, with his uncle. General Henry du Pont, his younger brother, Francis Gurney du Pont, and his cousins, Irenee and Lammot du Pont, sons of his uncle, Alfred. The firm under the original name, having by this time vastly extended its scope, owning and operating ten different plants in Delaware and Pennsylvania. Issue of Eugene and Amelia Elisabeth (du Pont) du Pont: — Ann Ridgely du Pont, born April 22, 1867, married June 26, 1894, William C. Peyton, son of Bernard and Estelle Peyton of San Francisco, Cal., and they have issue : Bernard Peyton, born January 29, i8g6. Alexis Irenee du Pont, born August 2, i86g; graduated from Harvard College, 1892; now secretary and treasurer of the E. I. du Pont Company. Eugene du Pont, born July 7, 1873; graduated from Harvard College in 1897; is now an officer in the E. I. du Pont Company. Amelia Elizabeth du Pont. Julia Sophia, married, November 3, 1903, James Newman Andrews, son of Gen. John N. Newman, and Lucy (McEntee) Andrews and they have issue: 39 Lucy Andrews, born October 21, 1904. DU PONT FAMILY. Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, founder of the American branch of the family of du Pont, was born in Paris, France, December 14, 1739, and died at the Eleutherian Powder Mills, on the banks of the Brandywine, New Castle county, Delaware, August 17, 1817. He was a son of Samuel du Pont, born 1710, died June 7, 1775, by his wife Anne Alexandrine de Mountchanin (married, May 19, 1737) ; grandson of Jean du Pont (died 1731), by his wife Marie de la Port; and great-grandson of Jean du Pont (died 1715), by his wife Marie du Buse; and great-great-grandson of Abraham du Pont, born 1566. Pierre Samuel du Pont was educated for the medical profession, but never entered into its practice. Becoming early interested in economic questions, he published in 1762 a treatise on national finance, which attracted the attention of the celebrated economist, M. Quesnay, who became his friend and associate. Du Pont published several other pamphlets and numerous articles in the popular style of the period preceding the French Revolution, in the Journal de L' Agriculture, du Commerce, et des Finance, and the Ephemerides du Citoycn, of which journals he was successively editor. An article published in 1764, on "Export and Manu- facture of Cereals," attracted the attention of Turgot, another leader of the French school of economists, later Minister of Finance to the unfortunate Louis XVI., who became du Font's staunch friend and patron. His journal, the Ephemerides du Citoyen, being suppressed by governmental edict, du Pont accepted the oftice of secretary of Council of Public Instruction from Stanislaus Poniatowski, King of Poland, and being made also governor, guardian and tutor of the King's nephew. Prince Adam Carlowkski, spent the next two years in Poland. At the expiration of that time his friend and patron Turgot, who had been made successively Minister of Marine and Minister of Finance, recalled du Pont de Nemours to Paris, and for the next two years the young patriot was engaged in ably seconding and assisting that most able and un- selfish patriot and statesman in his unsuccessful effort to establish governmental and economic reforms, far in advance of his age, that have made his name famous in the history of political science. Du Pont de Nemours shared his patron's dismissal in May, 1776, and retired to Gatinais, in the neighborhood of de Nemours, his ancestral estate, and em- ployed himself in agricultural improvements and literary and scientific pursuits. During this six years' retirement he wrote a translation of Ariosto, and in 1782, on the death of his patron, published his "Memoires sur la vie Turgot." In the same year he was appointed by Vergennes, with the English commissioner. Dr. James Hutton, to prepare the treaty for the recognition of the Independence of the United States, and a treaty of commerce between France and Great Britain in 1786. At about the latter date he was called to the Council of State of France, and appointed Commissary-General of Commerce and Inspector-General of Agri- culture. During the French Revolution, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was an ardent advocate of a constitutional monarchy as against the extreme views of the DU PONT ARMS. DU PONT 1273 Republicans, and on the memorable day of horrors, August 10, 1792, with his youngest son, Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours, went armed to the Tuilleries, to defend the royal family from the anticipated attack of the frenzied mob. Through the courage and activity of the son, the lives of both him and his father were saved, and they later found temporary refuge in the observatory of Mazarin College, under the protection of their friend, the astronomer Lalande. While in hiding, Pierre Samuel wrote the famous "Philosophy L'Univers." Finally cap- tured and imprisoned in La Force, he and his son only escaped the guillotine by the timely death of Robespierre, and the reactionary movement having set in, du Pont became a member of the Council of Five Hundred, and by his policy of resistance to the Jacobins made himself a leader of the reactionary party. When the Republicans broke up the Council, September 4, 1797, du Pont de Nemours' house was sacked by the mob, and by the influence of Chenier he barely escaped death or transportation. Despairing of being of further use to his country, to which he had given the best years of his life and almost life itself, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours decided to emigrate to America, and, accompanied by his two sons, Victor Marie (who had but recently returned to France from a diplomatic mission in America) and Eleuthere Irenee, and their families, he embarked for America, and they landed at Bergen Point, New Jersey, January i, 1800, where he continued to reside with his elder son for two years. In 1802, the affairs of his native country having somewhat cleared, he returned to France and was offered official position by the great First Consul, but declined it, and devoted himself exclusively to literary pursuits. He was employed by the United States to assist in arranging the treaty of 1803, by which the great territory of Louisiana, extending from the Mississippi to the Pacific, was ceded to the United States by France. Through his services in this capacity he acquired the friendship and confidence of Thomas Jefferson, then President of the United States, and was by him requested to pre- pare a plan of national education, which was published in 1812, and, though never adopted by the United States, its salient features were incorporated into the plan of education adopted by France, which forms their present code. On the down- fall of Napoleon in 1814, du Pont de Nemours again entered the service of his native country, becoming Secretary of the Provisional Government, and on the restoration of the monarchy became a Councillor of State. On the return of Na- poleon from Elba in 1815, he left France permanently, and, again coming to America, made his home with his sons on the banks of the Brandywine, near Wilmington, Delaware, where he died August 6, 1817. He had been for nearly a half century an extensive and prolific writer on scientific, political and literary subjects and published many works of the highest merit. He was a member of the Institute of France, and contributed many valuable papers to its archives. Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours married, January 26, 1766, Nicole Char- lotte Marie Louise le Dec de Rencourt, a woman of rare qualities of mind and character, a loving and devoted wife and mother, who died in France in 1784. Issue of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and Marie Louise le Dec de Ren- court: — Victor Marie du Pont de Nemours, b. 1767, d. 1827; m. Gabrielle Josephine de la Fitte de Pelleport; of whom presently; 1274 DU PONT ElEuthere iRENiE DU Pont de Nemours, b. in Paris, France, June 24, 1772, d. at Nemours, New Castle cc, Del., Oct. 31, 1834; m. Sophie Madelline Dalmas; of whom later. Victor Marie du Pont de Nemours, eldest son of the distinguished statesman and patriot, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, and his wife, Marie Louise le Dec, born in Paris, France, October, 1767, received an excellent education in the best educational institutions of his native country, and in 1774, at the age of sixteen years, entered the Bureau of Commerce, at Paris, of which his father was In- spector General. From June, 1785, to January, 1787, he travelled over the greater part of the kingdom in the collection of statistics on French agriculture, commerce and manufactures, for the use of the Department of Commerce and Agriculture over which his father was then presiding. In 1787 he was appointed an attache of the French Legation in the United States, and spent two years in this country. Returning to France, he filled various official positions there until 1791, when he again came to America as Second Secretary of the French Legation, and was promoted to the position of First Secretary in 1795. Again returning to France in 1796, he was appointed French Consul at Charleston, South Carolina, and re- moved there with his young wife. He returned to France in 1799, but in the latter part of the same year emi- grated permanently to America, with his father and younger brother, landing at Bergen Point, New Jersey, where he resided until 1809, when he joined his brother on the Brandywine, near Wilmington, Delaware, where he established a woolen mill, and was actively engaged in the manufacturing business for the remainder of his days. He was for some time a member of the General Assembly of the State of Delaware, and took an active interest in the affairs of his adopted country. He also filled the position of Government Director of the Bank of the United States, at Philadelphia, dying in that city, while on a business visit, Janu- ary 30, 1827. Victor Marie du Pont de Nemours married at Paris, France, April 9, 1794, Gabrielle Josephine de la Fitte de Pelleport, daughter of the Marquis Gabriel Renee Louis de la Fitte de Pelleport, a noble of ancient lineage, and a member of the household of Count D'Artois, later Charles X., and Lieutenant Colonel of Infantry. She was born at Stenay, France, March 20, 1770, and died at "Lou- viers," the seat of the family near Wilmington, November 6, 1837, having sur- vived her husband nearly eleven years. An obituary of her written by her son, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis du Pont, U. S. N., is in part as follows : "Died at Louviers, on the Brandywine, November 6, 1837, Gabrielle Josephine de Pelleport, relict of the late Victor du Pont, whose memory is still cherished by the friends who have mourned him in this State. The deceased was born in 1770, and was educated at Versailles, where her father, the Marquis de Pelleport, held an appointment in the household of the King's brother. She witnessed the commencement of all the monstrous events of the Revolution of 1789, the con- templation of which made her appreciate more fully the blessings of peace and tranquility which she found in her adopted country." Issue of Victor Marie and Gabrielle Josephine (de Pelleport) du Pont: — Amelia Elizabeth du Pont, b. 1796, d. 1869; of whom later; Charles IreneE du Pont, b. Charleston, S. C, March 29, 1797, d. "Louviers," Jan. 31, 1869; m. (first) Dorcas Van Dycke; (second) Ann Ridgely; of whom presently; DU PONT 1275 Samuei, Francis du Pont, b. Bergen Point, N. J., Sept. 27, 1803, d. Phila., June 23, 1865; m. Sophie Madelline du Pont; of whom presently; Julie Sophie du Pont, b. Bergen Point, N. J., June 4, 1806, d. 1882; m. 1824, Commo- dore Irvine Shubrick, and they had issue : Thomas Shubrick, Francis Shubrick, Elisha Shubrick, Gabriella Shubrick, Richard Shubrick. Rear Admiral Samuel Francis du Pont, youngest son of Victor and Gabri- elle Josephine, born at Bergen Point, New Jersey, September 27, 1803, removed with his parents to "Louviers," on the banks of the Brandywine, at the age of six years. On December 19, 181 5, he was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy at the instance of President James Madison, who had offered him a cadetship in the United States Mihtary Academy at West Point, New York, but he chose the Navy. Ex-President Thomas Jefferson, the staunch friend of the family, in a letter to his father congratulating him on the appointment of his son. expressed the prophetic hope that he might become an Admiral. The young mid- shipman made his first cruise of three years in the "Franklin" as an aide to Com- modore Stewart, and was transferred to the "Erie" before his return. He was made a Sailing Master in 1824, and promoted to Lieutenant in April, 1826, and in 1835, during the Florida War, was in command on the "Warren" and the "Con- stitution" in the Gulf of Mexico. From 1839 to 1842 he was in the Mediterranean, and in that year was made Commander, and took command of the frigate "Con- gress." In 1845 he had command of the flagship of Commodore Stockton's Pacific Squadron, and made a brilliant record during the War with Mexico. He was made a Captain in 1855, and sent on an important mission to China. In i860 he was in command at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and at the outbreak of the Civil War, on his own responsibility, sent an armed steamer to Chesapeake Bay to protect the transit of the United States troops to Annapolis. In September, 1 861, he was appointed flag-officer, and placed in command of the South Atlantic Squadron, and carried General W. T. Sherman, and his command of 10,000 men to the attack on Port Royal, South Carolina. He attacked and captured Ports Walker and Beauregard in November, 1861, and, moving down the Florida coast, captured nearly every post on his way. He was commissioned Rear Admiral, July 16, 1862, and in 1863 conducted the attack on Fort Sumter and Charleston. In July, 1863, he was relieved of active command and returned to his home near Wilmington. He died in Philadelphia, June 23, 1865. Rear Admiral du Pont was the author of a treatise on the use of floating batteries for coast defense ; was one of the commission to consider the project of establishing the Naval Academy, in 1844, and formulated the plan of its organiza- tion. He married, in 1833, his cousin, Sophie MadelHne du Pont, daughter of his uncle, Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, but they had no issue. A statue was erected to his memory by the United States Government, in du Pont Circle, Washington, D. C. Charles Irenee du Pont, eldest son of Victor M. and Gabrielle Josephine, was born at Charleston, South Carolina, March 29, 1797, while his distinguished father was filling the position of French Consul at that port. Therefore, with the exception of a portion of the year 1799, when his parents resided in Paris, he was a lifelong resident of the United States, his parents having permanently located in this country at Bergen Point, New Jersey, on the first day of the nineteenth century. At the age of twelve years he removed with his parents to Brandywine 1276 DU PONT Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware, where, the remainder of his life was spent. At an early age he became actively interested in the woolen mills estab- lished by his father at "Louviers," and continued to conduct them after his father's decease. He took an ardent interest in the development of the resources of his adopted State; was one of the promoters of the Delaware railroad, of which he was one of the original board of directors. He was later a director of the Phila- delphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, and of the Farmers' Na- tional Bank of Wilmington. He was several times elected to the General Assem- bly of the State of Delaware, and became a member of the State Senate in 1841 and was again elected to the same body in 1855. During the later years of his life he lived retired at the family seat of "Louviers," taking little part in public affairs. Hon. Charles Irenee du Pont married (first), October 5, 1824, Dorcas Mont- gomery Van Dycke, born at New Castle, Delaware, February 4, 1806, died at "Louviers," July 9, 1838. She was the seventh child of Hon. Nicholas Van Dycke, of New Castle, a distinguished lawyer, member of Assembly, member of Congress, and United States Senator from Delaware, by his wife Mary Van Leu- vanigh, and therefore of Holland descent of both paternal and maternal lines; on the paternal from Jan Tomasse Van Dycke, who emigrated from Holland in 1652, and on the maternal side from Bartholomew Van Leuvanigh, an emigrant of about the same date. Hon. Charles Irenee du Pont married (second). May 11, 1841, Ann Ridgely, born February 21, 1815, died October 20, 1898, daughter of Hon. Henry Ridgely, member of Congress, and United States Senator from Delaware, by his wife, Sarah Baning. Ann Ridgely du Pont was a lady of much grace and beauty and of unusual intellectual powers, the favorite and companion of her intellectuaj father; she became, like him, a great classical scholar and linguist. Issue of Charles Irenee and Dorcas M. (Van Dycke) du Pont: — Mary Van Dycke du Pont, b. April 19, 1826, lived near Wilmington, Del., unmar- ried; d. Sept. 25, 1909; Victor du Pont, b. May 11, 1828, d. May 13, 1888; m. Alice Hounsfield; of whom presently; Charles Irenee du Pont, Jr., b. Aug. 5, 1830, d. Jan. 7, 1873; Nicholas Van Dycke du Pont, d. inf. Issue of Charles Irenee and Ann (Ridgely) du Pont: — Amelia Elizabeth du Pont, b. "Louviers," Feb. 26, 1842; m. July 5, 1866, her second cousin, Eugene, son of Alexis Irenee du Pont, and grandson of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours, founder of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co.; of whom later; Henry Ridgely du Pont, b. "Louviers," Nov. 19, 1848; d. April 29, 1893, unm.; stud- ied law with his half-brother, Victor du Pont, and was admitted to Delaware Bar in 1871; practiced at Wilmington, Del.; was appointed U. S. Jury Commissioner for Del., 1870. Victor du Pont, eldest son of Hon. Charles Irenee du Pont, by his wife, Dorcas Montgomery Van Dycke, was born at "Louviers," May 11, 1828, and spent his boyhood there. He entered Delaware College at Newark, and after graduating there entered Harvard University, from which he graduated in the class of 1846. In the same year as his graduation he began the study of law in VAN T.R^TVKNIGH ARMS. 4 V .*•> ** * / VS ^_ ? > ^^^o^ VAN "DYKE ARMS. HOUNSFIELD ARMS. DU PONT 1277 the office of Hon. Edward W. Gilpin, Chief Justice of Delaware, and attended lectures at Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1849. He at once entered upon the practice of his profession at Wilmington, and became one of the leading practitioners of the State in point of legal ability. He was several times appointed Chancellor ad litem to adjudicate difficult questions, and could have held high judicial position could he have been induced to accept, but preferred to devote himself to the practice of his profession. He early manifested an interest in political affairs, originally as a Whig, with which party all his fam- ily had been affiliated, but the association of a number of prominent members of that party with the Know-Nothing, or American party, in the crusade against persons of foreign birth, drove him into the Democratic party, with which he thereafter affiliated. He was exceedingly popular with the masses and influential in political circles, and was several times urged to become a candidate for Gov- ernor of the State; in 1874 an especially strong effort was made to induce him to become a candidate for that office, to which he would certainly have been elected could he have been induced to accept the nomination tendered him. He was also pressed to become a candidate for United States Senator, but persistently refused to accept any office that interfered with the practice of his chosen profession. He was for some years a member of the Board of Visitors to the United States" Mili- tary Academy at West Point, and was a Presidential Elector for McClellan in 1864. He took an active interest in the business and financial institutions of his native State; was a director of the Union National Bank from 1852, and its president from 1866 to his death; was many years a director of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Wilmington, and its president from 1880 until his death ; a director of the Wilmington & Reading Railroad Company ; and con- nected with a number of other local institutions. He was considered a practical and sagacious business man, and a successful and faithful manager of large busi- ness interests entrusted to his care and management in the Hne of his profession. He was a vestryman of Trinity (Old Swedes) Protestant Episcopal Church, and took a deep interest in religious and charitable enterprises and institutions ; sjtti- pathetic and charitable by nature, he was a large, though unostentatious contrib- utor to charity and benevolence. He died at Wilmington, April, 1888. Victor du Pont married, October 16, 1851, Alice Hounsfield, and they had issue, as follows : — Victor du Pont, Jr., b. June 30, 1852; of whom presently; Mary Lammott du Pont, b. Aug. 9, 1854; m. Apr. 24, 1878, William du Pont; (second) Dec. 5, 1893, Willard Saulsbury, Jr., of the Wilmington Bar; Ethel du Pont, b. June 13, 1857; m. Feb. 13, 1890, Hamilton Macfarland Barks- dale; issue: Greta du Pont Barksdale, b. Jan. 3, 1891 ; Hamilton Macfarland Barksdale, Jr., b. Oct. 25, 1895, d. inf.; Samuel Francis du Pont Barksdale, b. July 24, 1896, d. inf.; Ethel du Pont Barksdale, b. August 26, 1898; Charles Irenee du Pont, b. Aug. 15, 1859, d. Oct. 4, 1902, unm.; Samuel Francis du Pont, b. 1861, d. inf.; AucE DU Pont, b. Oct. 13, 1863; m. Jan. 17, 1889, Gen. Thomas Coleman du Pont, son of Antoine Biderman and Ellen Susan (Coleman) du Pont, and grandson of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours; see account of his line later in this narra- tive; Samuel Francis du Pont, b. June 14, 1865, d. Aug. 27, 1893; unm.; educated at Univ. Pa., where he was a member of the K Z fraternity; was clerk in employ of 1278 DU PONT E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, and later treasurer of the Rapauno Chem- ical Company; Greta du Pont, b. Aug. 25, 1868, d. Dec. 29, 1878; Sophie du Pont, b. Apr. 8, 1871; m. Feb. 3, 1904, Bruce Ford; Rene de Pelleport du Pont, b. Feb. 28, 1874; m. Jan, 9, 1904, Leroy Harvey; had issue : Alice du Pont Harvey. Victor du Pont, jr., eldest son of Victor and Alice (Hounsfield) du Pont, bom in Wilmington, Delaware, June 30, 1852, is still a resident of that city. He IS a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and the eldest male repre- sentative of the American branch of the du Pont family. He is a member of the Delaware Society of Colonial Wars, the Netherland Society, the Wilmington Country and Whist Clubs, and other social organizations. He married, February 4, 1880, Josephine, daughter of Joseph and Emma (Neill) Anderson, of Philadel- phia. They had issue : — Victor du Pont (3d), b. Feb. 19, 1882, m. June 2, 1906, Elizabeth Tybout Everett, dau. of Charles and Emily (Tybout) Everett. Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours, youngest son of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, and the founder of the famous du Pont Powder Works, in New Castle county, Delaware, in 1802, was born in Paris, June 24, 1772, and was edu- cated on his father's estate of Bois des Fosses, near the village of Chevennes, De- partment of the Seine and Marne. His favorite studies were botany and chem- istry, in both of which he greatly excelled. At the death of his mother in 1784, when he was at the age of thirteen, he was placed by his father under the tutelage of the famous chemist Lavoisier, whom Turgot had made superintendent of the government powder works at Essone, France, and he early acquired a knowledge of the special science of powder making that has made his name famous over the civilized world. He had not yet attained his majority, when his father established the large printing and publishing house (June 8, 1791) at the head of which he placed his son. After the terrible ordeal at the Tuilleries on August 10, 1792, when by his sagacity and courage he saved his father and himself from arrest and slaughter by the infuriated mob, he found shelter for a time at Essone, but was finally arrested and confined with his father at La Force, and, escaping the guillotine by the timely death of Robespierre, he was able during the reactionary period to re- sume the publication business and assist his father in the various official positions he held from 1795 to 1797. In 1799 he emigrated to America with his father and brother, and a few months after their arrival in America, January i, 1800, learn- ing that the powder manufactured in America was far inferior to that manu- factured abroad, conceived the idea of establishing a plant in America, and at once returned to Essone, France, and made a careful study of the most improved methods used there, and returned to America in August, 1801, with plans for a factory, and began to look about for a suitable site upon which to erect his plant. Thomas Jefferson, with whom his distinguished father had become acquainted, was anxious to have him locate in Virginia, but in June, 1802, he purchased a large tract of land on the Brandywine, four miles from Wilmington, Delaware, and removed his family there in July and began the erection of the "Eleutherian Powder Mills," on a barren rocky tract of land on which there was then no human DU PONT 1279 habitation or other improvement, a cabin being fitted up for the reception of his family until more commodious quarters could be erected. His later residence was, it is said, built from a single rock quarried from the spot where it now stands, and is known as "Nemours." The business was a success from the start, and by 1810 the invested capital of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company exceeded $75,000, and was many times doubled in the half century following, branch estab- lishments being erected in Montgomery, Schuylkill, Luzerne and Northumberland counties, Pennsylvania, and in New Jersey and other parts of the United States. E. I. du Pont de Nemours, generally known as Irenee du Pont, was a man of extraordinary business ability, a man of simple unostentious manners and tastes, generous and sympathetic, honorable in all his dealings, his highest ambition ap- parently being to be useful and productive in the great plan of the universe, rather than to amass riches or acquire glory for himself. He was foremost in the de- velopment of agriculture and industrial enterprises in his adopted state, and was greatly loved by all who knew him. He was a director of the Bank of the United States at Philadelphia, and closely allied with the business and industrial interest of the City of Brotherly Love, where he died while on a business visit, October 31, 1834- Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours married in Paris, France, November 26, 1791, Sophie Madelline Dalmas, who was born in Paris, July 22, 1775, and died at "Nemours," on the Brandywine, November 27, 1828. Issue of Eleuthere Irenee and Sophie Madelline (Dalmas) du Pont: — Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, b. France, 1792, d. on the Brandywine, 1861; m. Ferdi- nand Banduy; no issue; Evalina Gabrielle du Pont, b. France 1796, d. 1863; m. in 1816, Antoine Biderman; issue, James Biderman; Alfred Victor Philadelphus du Pont, b. Paris, France, April 11, 1798; d. "Nem- ours," Oct. 4, 1856; m. Margretta Elizabeth Lammot; of whom presently; Eleuthera du Pont, b. Dec. 7, 1806, d. Jan. I, 1876; Sophie Madelline du Pont, b. 1810, d. 1888; m. her cousin, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis du Pont, (see above); no issue; Henry du Pont, b. Aug. 8, 1812, d. Aug. 8, 1889; m. 1837, Louisa Gerhard; of whom later; Alexis Irenee du Pont, b. Feb. 14, 1816, d. Aug. 23, 1857; m. 1836, Joanna Maria Smith; of whom later. Alfred Victor P. du Pont, eldest son of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours, by his wife Sophie Madelline Dalmas, was born in Paris, France, April 11, 1798, and was less than two years of age when he accompanied his parents to America, and had just passed his fourth year when the family located on the Brandywine, New Castle county, where his father had established his Eleutherian Powder Mills, some months earlier. After the completion of his education he was asso- ciated with his father in the manufacture of powder, and became thoroughly con- versant with the various processes used. On the death of his father, 1834, he became the head of the firm of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, and the principal management of its affairs devolved upon him; his brother Henry, who had resigned from the army the same year of his father's death, becoming a member of the firm ; and the youngest son, Alexis Irenee, becoming a member of the firm on coming of age two years later. Alfred Victor P. du Pont, was a man of fine executive ability, and under his management the business established by i28o DU PONT his father continued to prosper and expand. Like his father, he was a man of generous and sympathetic nature, considerate of the wants and needs of the immediate community in which he Hved, which was largely supported by the establishment of which he was the responsible head, and now grown to large pro- portions. He was also a public-spirited citizen, actively interested in the develop- ment of the natural resources of his State and the establishment of better trans- portation facilities. He died at "Nemours," the family seat on the Brandywine, New Castle county, October 4, 1856. Alfred Victor P. du Pont married, October 28, 1824, Margaretta Elizabeth Lammot. Issue of Alfred Victor P. and Margaretta Elizabeth (Lammot) du Pont: — Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, b. Aug. 13, 1825, d. Jan., 1887; m. Jan. 18, 1849, Peter Kemble; issue. William Kemble, Meta K. Kemble, Mary Charlotte Kemble, Peter Kemble, Jr., Richard Law Kemble. Emma Paulina du Pont, b. July 23, 1827, at "Nemours;" unm.; Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, b. Aug. 3, 1829, d. Sept. 17, 1877; entered Univ. Pa., 1844, grad. 1848; identified with firm of E. I. du Pont de Nemours, and member from time of coming of age; m. Oct. 28, 1858, Charlotte Sheppard Henderson, dau. of Col. Archibald Henderson, M. C. from Delaware; issue: Annie Cazenove du Pont, b. May i, i860, d. Oct., 1899; m. Absolom Waller; no issue ; Marguerite Lammot du Pont, b. Dec. 21, 1862, Swamp Hill, Del.; m. Sept. 20, 1881, Cazenove G. Lee, had issue: Cazenove Lee, Jr., Maurice du Pont Lee; Alfred Irenee du Pont, b. May 12, 1864; m. Jan. 4, 1887, Bessie Gardner, had issue : Madeline du Pont, Bessie du Pont, Alfred Victor du Pont, Victorine du Pont. Maurice du Pont, b. May 8, 1866, m. Margaret M. Fitzgerald; had issue: Char- lotte du Pont, Fitzgerald du Pont, Nesta P. du Pont; Louis Cazonove du Pont, b. Jan. 27, 1868, d. 1892, unm.; Lammot du Pont, b. April 13, 1831, d. March 29, 1884; m. Mary Belin; of whom presently; Alfred Victor du Pont, Jr., b. Apr. 18, 1833, d. May 16, 1893; unm.; entered Univ. Pa., 1847, grad. 1851; member of Zelosophic Society there and of the K Z fraternity; was for a time connected with E. L du Pont de Nemours Co.; later engaged in other manufacturing enterprises, in connection with younger brother, Antoine Bidermann du Pont, at Louisville, Ky., where he died; a year prior to his death he built and endowed a Manual Training School and presented it to city of Louisville; Mary Sophie du Pont, b. Dec. 3, 1834, d. Dec. 27, 1869; m. Feb., 1862, Charles ,Irenee du Pont; had issue: Victorine Antoinette du Pont, Charles Francis Philip du Pont. Antoine Bidermann du Pont, b. Oct. 13, 1837; m. Ellen Susan Coleman; of whom presently; Lammot du Pont^ second son of Alfred Victor P. and Margaretta Elizabeth (Lammot) du Pont, born at "Nemours," New Castle county, Delaware, April 13, 1831, prepared for college at Crawford's School and Academy, Wilmington, under Rev. E. H. Gayley, and entered the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1849. Immediately on his graduation he entered the firm of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, and took especial charge of the chemical department of the business. By means of a series of experiments he greatly improved and increased the explosive power of the black powder manufactured by the firm. He became a member of the firm on coming of age, and his inven- tive genius resulted in revolutionizing the manufacture of powder; the processes introduced by him giving to the product of the Eleutherian Mills many times the DU PONT 1281 explosive power of that formerly produced. Under the impetus of these im- provements, the business greatly expanded and the firm operated ten different plants in Delaware, and in different parts of Pennsylvania. In 1880 Lammot du Pont withdrew from the firm of E. I. du Pont de Nem- ours Company and established a plant at Thompson's Point, New Jersey, specially designed for the manufacture of dynamite and atlas powder; forming the Repauno Chemical Company, with Gen. Henry du Pont, WiUiam du Pont, his brother Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, and his cousin Col. Henry A. du Pont, present U. S. Senator from Delaware. Lammot du Pont removed to Philadelphia in 1881, where the main offices of the company were located, and devoted himself with characteristic energy to the development and management of the business of the new company, until his untimely death on March 29, 1884, from injuries received in an explosion at the works in New Jersey. Lammot du Pont was a broad minded and public spirited man ; frank and cordial in his manners, he invariably won the respect and esteem of all with whom he came in contact. During the Civil War he was an ardent supporter of the government, assisting materially in raising and equipping troops for the suppression of the Rebellion. He married, October 13, 1865, Mary, daughter of Henry Belin, then of Wil- mington, Delaware, but formerly of Philadelphia. Issue of Lammot and Mary (Belin) du Pont: — Isabella d'Audslot du Pont, b. Oct. 22, 1866, d. June 29, 1871 ; Louisa d'A. du Pont, b. June 25, 1868; m. 1904, Charles Copeland; issue: Lammot du Pont Copeland, b. 1905; Pierre Samuel du Pont, b. Jan. 15, 1870; Sophie Madeline du Pont, b. May 23, 1871, d. unm., 1904; Henry Belin du Pont, b. Nov. 5, 1873; m. 1897, Eleuthera du Pont Bradford; issue: Edward Bradford du Pont, d. inf.; Henry Belin du Pont, Jr.; William K. du Pont, b. March 29, 1875, d. Dec. 23, 1907; m. 1899, Ethel Halleck;. issue : Lisa du Pont, b. Apr. 7, 1900, d. Oct. 17, igoo; Samuel Halleck du Pont, b. Nov. 10, 1901 ; Paulina du Pont, born August 18, 1903; Wilhelmina H. du Pont, b. July 17, 1906; Irenee du Pont, born Dec. 21, 1876; m. 1900, Irene Sophie du Pont, daughter of Francis Gurney and Elise Simons du Pont; had issue: Irene Sophia du Pont, b. Dec. 2, igoo; and four others; Mary A. B. du Pont, b. Nov. 30, 1878; m. 1904, William W. Laird; Lammot du Pont, b. Oct. 12, 1880; m. 1903, Nathalie D. Wilson; had issue: Nathalie Wilson du Pont, b. Aug. 4, 1904; and others. Isabella M. du Pont, b. May 31, 1883; m, 1908, Hugh Rodney Sharp; Margaretta du Pont, b. May 12, 1884; m. 1906, Richard R. M. Carpenter. Antoine Bidermann du Pont, son of Albert Victor P. and Margaretta EHz- abeth (Lammot) du Pont, born at "Nemours," October 13, 1837; entered the Scientific Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1854, and graduated in 1856, was a member of the Zelosophic Society, and K Z fraternity there. In 1857 he went to Louisville, Kentucky, and became interested in the manu- facture of paper there in connection with his elder brother Alfred Victor du Pont, and also in the management and development of steam and street railways, coal mining properties, and many other commercial and industrial enterprises in Kentucky and elsewhere. He was importantly connected with the Southern Ex- position in 1883, and was subsequently actively associated with the publication 1282 DU PONT of a daily newspaper in Louisville. In 1894 he went abroad, where he resided for six years, and on his return made his home among his kindred in Delaware. Antoine Bidermann du Pont married, April 18, 1861, Ellen Susan Coleman, daughter of Thomas Cooper Coleman, of' Louisville, Kentucky, by his wife Dora Morgan. Issue of Antoine Bidermann and Ellen Susan (Coleman) du Pont: — Margretta Elizabeth du Pont, b. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 28, 1862; m. June, 1888, Michael Bannon Coleman; had issue: Arthur M. Coleman, Greta C. Coleman, Alfred C. Coleman. Thomas Coleman du Pont, b. Dec. 11, 1863, Louisville, Ky.; m. Alice du Pont, of whom presently; Antoine Bidermann du Pont, Jr., b. Apr. 26, 1865; m. June, 1892, Ethel Clarke; had issue: Alleen du Pont, Ethel du Pont, Victorine du Pont. Dora du Pont, b. Jan. 17, 1867, d. April 15, 1891; m. Oct. 13, 1886, Henry R. Phillips; had issue: Dora du Pont Phillips; Zara du Pont, b. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 28, 1869; unm.; Paulina du Pont, b. Louisville, Ky., July 6, 1871 ; m. Feb. 12, 1895, Henry Furlong Baldwin; had issue, Paulina du Pont, Richard du Pont, Henry du Pont and Mar- gretta du Pont Baldwin; Evan Morgan du Pont, b. Dec. 15, 1872; m. 1901, Helen Augusta Quinn; has issue: James Quinn du Pont, Bidermann Thomas du Pont, Rosina du Pont and Ellen Coleman du Pont. General Thomas Coleman du Pont, present head of the E. L du Pont de Nemours Company, founded by his great-grandfather in 1802, is the eldest son of Antoine Bidermann and Ellen Susan (Coleman) du Pont, and was born in Louisville, Kentucky, December 11, 1863. He was educated at Urbana Univer- sity, Urbana, Ohio; the Chauncey Hall School, Boston, Massachusetts, and in 1884 graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. On his graduation he engaged in the occupation of a mining engineer in Kentucky. In 1894 he went to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and became prominently identified with the steel manufacturing interests there, and later participated in the con- struction, development and operation of electric railways. In March, 1902, he became executive head of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company at Wilmington, Delaware, a position he still fills. He has of late years taken an active interest in political affairs, and was chairman of the Republican State Committee of Delaware during the Roosevelt administration. He also fills the position of Brigadier General on the staff of Governor Lea, of Delaware. Gen. T. Coleman du Pont married, January 17, 1889, Alice, daughter of Victor and Alice (Hounsfield) du Pont, of Wilmington, an account of whose ancestry has been already given. Issue of T. Coleman and Alice (du Pont) du Pont: — Ellen Coleman du Pont, b. Dec. 23, Alice Hounsfield du Pont, b. Dec. 15, 1891 ; Francis Victor du Pont, b. May 28, 1894; Rene de Pelleport du Pont, b. May 25, 1897; Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, b. June 18, 1902. Henry du Pont, third son of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours, born at "Nemours," the family seat on the Brandywine, near Wilmington, Delaware, August 8, 1 81 2. He was appointed a cadet to the United States Military Acad- emy at West Point, graduated there, July i, 1833, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Fourth United States Artillery. His career in the regular army DU PONT 1283, of the United States was however brief; he resigned June 15, 1834, returned to "Nemours," and became identified with the firm of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, of which he became a member after the death of his father, the same year of his return home. He was for many years closely identified with the development of the business of the firm, of which he continued a member until 1880, when he joined his nephews in the formation of the Rapauno Chemical Company, and the erection of the large plant at Gloucester Point, New Jersey, for the manufacture of dynamite and atlas powder. He was actively identified with the affairs of his native State, and many years an officer of the State militia. He died August 8, 1889, on his seventy-seventh birthday. He married, in 1837, Louisa Gerhard, and they had issue : — Coi,. Henry Algernon du Pont, b. July 31, 1838; m. Mary Pauline Foster; of whom presently; Evalina du Pont, b. Oct. 9, 1840, unm., living near Wilmington; Ellen du Pont, b. March 29, 1843; Sarah du Pont, b. Jan. 29, 1847, d. April 29, 1876; Louisa du Pont, b. Feb. 23, 1845, d. July 2, 1863; Victorine du Pont, b. March i, 1849; Sophie du Pont, b. Jan. i, 1851; Constance du Pont, d. inf.; William du Pont, b. Aug. 21, 1855, living in Orange, Virginia; m. Mary Lammot du Pont. Colonel Henry Algernon du Pont, United States Senator from Delaware, eldest son of Henry and Louise (Gerhard) du Pont, was born at "Nemours," Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware, July 30, 1838. He received his early education .in private schools, and entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1855, Class of 1859, but left in his Junior year to enter the United States Mili- tary Academy at West Point, to which he had been appointed a cadet, July i, 1856.. He graduated at West Point on May 6, 1861, at the head of his class, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant of the Engineer Corps, U. S. A. On May 14, 1861, he was promoted to First Lieutenant, in Fifth Regiment, U. S. Artillery, and served in the defences of Washington, D. C, with Company D, Fifth Penn- sylvania Volunteers, to July i, 1861, and with his own regiment at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1861, to April 18, 1862 ; at Fort Hamilton, New York, April 19, 1862, to July 4, 1863; was Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, April,. 1862, to July, 1863, of troops in New York Harbor. He was Adjutant of the Fifth U. S. Artillery from July 6, 1861, to his promotion as Captain in command of Light Battery B in that regiment at its organization in 1862; was on detached service from regimental headquarters with this Battery from July 5, 1863, to March 24, 1864, during which time he was in the field in Pennsylvania, Mary- land, Virginia and West Virginia ; during Siegels' campaign in the Valley of Vir- ginia he participated with Battery B in the battle of New Market, May 15, 1864. He was Chief of Artillery, Department of West Virginia, May 24 to June 28, 1864; commanded- Battery B, with Fifth U. S. Artillery, during Hunter's Lynch- burg campaign; at battle of Piedmont, June 5; engagement at Lexington, June II ; battle of Lynchburg, June 17-18; Liberty, June 19; Mason's Creek, June 24, 1864. On July 28, 1864, made Chief of Artillery of West Virginia, and served in Sheridan's campaign in the Valley of Virginia, commanding the Artillery- 1284 DU PONT Brigade of Crook's Corps, and taking part in engagements at Cedar Creek, Au- gust 12; Halltown, August 23-25-27; Berry ville, September 3; Winchester, Sep- tember 19; Fisher's Hill, September 22; Cedar Creek, October 13-19, 1864. Was Chief of Artillery, Department of West Virginia, January 8, 1864, to close of the war, in command of Light Battery B, Fifth U. S. Artillery, at Cumberland, Md.. July 20, to October 20, 1865, and at Hampton, Va., October 21 to October 30; and at post of Fortress Monroe, October 31 to December, 1865. He was trans- ferred to the command of Light Battery F, Fifth U. S. Artillery; in Camp Will- iams, October 18, 1866, to June 7, 1867, when he was detached and ordered to temporary command of post of Fortress Monroe, Va. Rejoining his battery July 17, 1867, he received the thanks of Major-General Schoiield, commanding First Military Department, for "his efficiency at Fortress Monroe." He com- manded post of Camp Williams, and Light Battery F, Fifth U. S. Artillery, July 15, 1867, to October i, 1868; was in command at Sedgwick Barracks, Washing- ton, D. C, and of Battery F, October 7, 1868, to July 3, 1870; served at Fort Adams, Newport, R. L, with same battery, July 5, 1870, to May 17, 1872. He resigned from the army March i, 1875. Colonel du Pont was made Brevet Major, U. S. A., September 29, 1864, "for gallant and meritorious conduct at Opequan and Fisher's Hill, Virginia;" Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. A., October 19, 1864, "for distinguished services at the battle of Cedar Creek;" was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor, "for most distinguished gallantry and voluntary exposure to the enemy's fire during this battle." Returning to his native State on his resignation from the army, Colonel du Pont was president and general manager of the Wilmington & Northern Rail- road Company, 1879 to 1899. He was one of the incorporators of the Rapauno Chemical Company, and largely interested in a number of other industrial and business enterprises. He however retired from active business several years ago and devoted himself chiefly to agricultural pursuits at his beautiful country seat, "Winterthur." On June 13, 1906, he was elected to the United States Senate for the unexpired term beginning March 4, 1905, and expiring March 4, 191 1, taking his seat December 3, 1906. Colonel Henry A. du Pont married Mary Pauline, daughter of Herman Ten Eyck Foster, and they have issue: — Louise Eleuthera du Pont; Henry du Pont, unm. Alexis Irenee du Pont, youngest son of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nem- ours, the founder of the Eleutherian Powder Mills, in New Castle county, by his wife, Sophie Madelline Dalmas, was born at "Nemours," his father's seat in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county, February 14, 1816. He was educated at Mount Airy School, near Philadelphia, and at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating at the latter institution in 1836. He became identified with the busi- ness of the firm of E. L du Pont de Nemours Company on his graduation, be- came a member of the firm on arriving at the age of twenty-one years, and was actively interested in the business of manufacturing powder until his death on August 23, 1857, from injuries received in an explosion of a portion of the powder works on the day preceding. Fie was prominent in church and philan- rjDGELY ARMS. DE PELLEPORT ARMS. '^L. ^VEJIYSS ARJtS. MOORE-HALL ARMS. DU PONT 1285 thropic work, and was the principal founder of Christ Church, in Christiana Hundred, New Castle, and wholly the founder of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church of Wilmington. He was also active in securing the renewal of reHgious services at Old Swedes, Trinity Church, Wilmington. Alexis Irenee du Pont married, December 16, 1836, Joanna, daughter of Francis Gurney Smith, of Philadelphia, who survived him, and died August 29, 1876. Issue of Alexis Ircnce and Joanna (Smith) du Pont: — Frances Elizabeth du Pont; Eugene du Pont^ m. July 5, 1866, Amelia Elizabeth, dau. of Hon. Charles Irenee du Pont, by his second wife, Ann Ridgely; of whom presently; Alexis Irenee du Pont, Jr., born June 5, 1843; entered Sophomore class, Univ. of Pa., i860, grad. 1863, and from Medical Dept. 1866; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Hon. Edward Bradford, of Wilmington, Del.; Irene Sophia du Pont, m. son of Mr. Dimmick; Eleuthera Pauline du Pont; Francis Gurney du Pont, b. May 27, 1850, d. Nov. 7, 1904; m. Ehse W. Simons, of whom presently; Joanna Maria du Pont. Eugene du Pont, eldest son of Alexis Irenee and Joanna (Smith) du Pont, was born on the banks of the Brandywine, in New Castle county, Delaware, November 16, 1840, and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, gradu- ating there in 1861 ; was a member of the 0. K. Z. Fraternity there. On the reorganization of the firm of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, after the death of his father and his uncle, Alfred Victor du Pont, he became a member of the firm with his uncle, Gen. Henry du Pont, his younger brother, Francis Gurney du Pont, and his cousins, Eleuthere Irenee and Lammot du Pont, sons of Alfred Victor, and took an active interest in the growing business of the firm, continuing actively associated with the home plant at the Eleutherian and other mills in New Castle county, when other members of the old family firm withdrew to form the Rapauno Chemical Company. He was a member ot Sterling's Independent Company of Delaware, U. S. Volunteers, and saw active service during the Civil War. Eugene du Pont married, July 5, 1866, Amelia Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Charles Irenee du Pont, by his second wife, Ann Ridgely. Issue of Eugene and Amelia Elisabeth (du Pont) du Pont: — Ann Ridgely du Pont, b. April 22, 1867; m. June 26, 1894, William C, son of Bernard and Estelle Peyton, of San Francisco, California, and has issue: Bernard Peyton, b. Jan. 29, 1897. Alexis Irenee du Pont Jr., b. Aug. 2, 1869; Eugene du Pont Jr., b. July 7, 1873; Amelia Elizabeth du Pont; Julia Sophia du Pont, m. Nov. 3, 1903, James Newman Andrews, son of Gen. John Newman and Lucy (McEntee) Andrews, and they have issue: Lucy Andrews, b. Oct. 21, 1904. Francis Gurney du Pont, youngest son of Alexis Irenee and Joanna (Smith) du Pont, born May 27, 1850, graduated from the University of Penn- sylvania in the Class of 1870, and became at once identified with the firm of E. I. 'du I'ont de Nemours Company, and a partner after coming of age. He died 1286 DU PONT November 7, 1904. He married, October 17, 1871, Elise Wigfall Simons, daugh- ter of J. Hume Simons, and they had issue : — Francis Irenee du Pont, b. Dec. 3, 1873; m. Sept. i, 1897, Marianna Rhett; had issue: Emilie Francis du Pont, Hubert Irenee du Pont, Elise du Pont, Francis du Pont, Edmund du Pont. Eleanor Ball du Pont, b. April 17, 1875; m. Feb. 24, 1897, Robeson Lea Perot; Irene Sophie du Pont, Alexis Felix du Pont, b. Apr. 14, 1879; m. Apr. 9, 1902, Mary Richards Chichester; had issue; Alexis Felix du Pont, Jr., b. October 2, 1905. Ernest du Pont, born Dec. 5, 1880; m. Feb. 5, 1903, Josephine Lapsley Brinton; had issue: Ernest du Pont, Jr., Nov. 17, 1903. Lionel du Pont, b. May 20, 1882, d. Sept. 20, 1882; Theodore Hume du Pont, b. Oct 6, 1884; Reginald Ashley du Pont, b. Oct. 22, 1885, d. inf.; Eleuthere Paul du Pont, b. Apr. 24, 1887; Archibald Marion Lasesne du Pont, b. Feb. i, 1889. VAN DYCKE FAMILY. Jan Tomasse Van Dycke emigrated from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1652, and settled at New Utrecht, Long Island, in 1657, being one of the patentees of that town in that year. On October 2, 1659, he was appointed Sergeant, "to keep order," and is on record as constable of the town in 1671. He also appears of record as a local magistrate. He died prior to August 11, 1678, on which date his widow married Tielman Jacobus Van der Meyer. Jan Thomas Van Dycke was twice married. By his first wife (name unknown), he had sons: Thomas Janse, Derick Janse, Carel Janse and Pieter Janse. He married (second) Tryntje Achies Haegan, who survived him, and had by her five children : Achies Janse ; Hendrick Janse, settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania ; Jan Janse ; Annetje Janse, married Adrien Willemse Van Pelt; and Marretje Janse. Thomas Janse Van Dycke^ son of Jan Thomas Van Dycke, born in Holland, accompanied his father and brothers to New Netherlands, 1652, and was a patentee at New Utrecht, Long Island, December 26, 1661, and a schepen, or magistrate, there in 1673. Soon after the latter date he located at Gowanus, now Brooklyn, where he was assessed in 1675-76. He owned a farm there which he sold to Wouter Van Pelt, September 17, 1695. The date of his death is unknown. He married Marytje Andriessen, and had at least five sons : Claes, or Nicholas, of whom presently ; Isaac, settled in Middlesex county, New Jersey ; Jan, or John, also of Middlesex, New Jersey ; and Andreas. Claes or Nicholas Van Dycke, thought to have been the eldest of the sons of Thomas Janse and Marytje (Andriessen) Van Dycke, took the oath of alle- giance at Gowanus (Brooklyn) in 1687. He married (first), April 20, 1689, Tryntje Rienerse, daughter of Reiner Arendts, of Flatbush, Long Island; (second), July 3, 1692, Fransyntje (Frances) Hendricks, of Flatbush. He possibly resided for a time with his brothers on the Raritan, in New Jersey, where a Nicholas Van Dycke appears in 1702, but if so, returned to Brooklyn, and April 6, 1724, sold his farm there and removed with his family to St. George's Hundred, New Castle county, now Delaware. According to an entry on the flyleaf of the old Van Dycke Bible, printed in Holland in 1710, now in possession of Mary Van Dycke du Pont, of Wilmington, Delaware, which contains a record of the mar- riage of Nicholas Van Dycke and Fransyntje Hendricks, and of the birth of their children, Nicholas Van Dycke removed to Delaware at a much earlier date than that above given, and it is probable that he resided in Delaware some years prior to conveying his Brooklyn farm. The entry, is as follows, so far as it refers to Nicholas Van Dycke, first, — "Nicholas Van Dyke, the ist, was born at New Utrecht, Long Island. He was the son of Thomas Janse Van Dyck and grandson of Jan Thomas. He removed to Delaware, 171 1, and lived on a farm at Berwick, Dutch Neck, New Castle County. He was a deacon of the Reformed Dutch Church in Brooklyn, New York, before removing to Delaware. In 1715 he was a member of Captain Daniel Nersen's Company of Militia." Nicholas Van Dycke died in New Castle county, October 27, 1729, and his widow Frances died there, January 25, 1749-50. By his first wife, Tryntje Arendts, he had one child, Tryntje, baptized at Brooklyn, August 24, 1690. 1288 VAN DYCKE Issue of Xicholas and Frances (Hendricks) Van Dycke. — Thomas, b. Apr. i, 1693; George, b. Oct. 4, 1694; Maria, b. July 3, 1696; Henricus, b. May 3, 1698, died young; Johannes, b. Mar. 22, 1700; Abraham, b. Jan. 22, 1702; Antje, b. July 5, 1704; Nicholas, b. Jan. 6, 1706, of whom presently; Henricus, "of the Raritan" b. Feb. 10, 1709; Margeretje, b. Jan. 11, 1711. Daniel, b. Nov. 3, 1713. Nicholas Van Dycke (2), eighth child of Nicholas Van Dycke the elder, by his second wife, Fransyntje Hendricks, born at Brooklyn, Long Island, January 6, 1706, removed with his parents to New Castle county, and married there, May i, 1734, Rachel Allee. He died February 20, 1755, and she on August i, 1791, "aged nearly 75." Nicholas Van Dycke (3), son of Nicholas and Rachel (Allee) Van Dycke, was born at New Castle, September 25, 1738. He studied law and attained high eminence m the practice of his profession in the Three Lower Counties. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was one of the foremost patriots of the Colony, and took an active part in civil and military matters relating to the establishment 01 maepenaence. He was a Major of Militia; a deputy to the Convention that framed the first State Constitution of Delaware, and became President of the State. He was a member of Continental Congress, and as such signed the Articles of Confederation under which the United Colonies were governed until the adoption of the National Constitution in 1787, in the framing of which he also participated. He was Governor of Delaware from February 8, 1783, to October 27, 1786. He died at New Castle, February 19, 1789. Nicholas Van Dycke (3) married (first), September 11, 1766, Elizabeth Nixon. She died January 2, 1770, "aged 24 years, six months, 8 days, and 3 hours, having been born July i, 1745, about 8 o'clock, A. M." He married (second), November 2, 1774, Charlotte Stanley. Nicholas Van Dycke (4), father of Dorcas Montgomery (Van Dycke) du Pont, and son of Nicholas Van Dycke (3), by his first wife, Elizabeth Nixon, was born at New Castle, December 20, 1769. He entered the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and graduated with high honors in 1788. He studied law under his brother-in-law, Chief Justice Kensy Johns, and was ad- mitted to practice at the Delaware Bar in 1791. He rose rapidly and attained high distinction in the practice of his profession. He became a member of the House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in 1799, and was elected to Congress in 1809, and to the United States Senate in 1817, and served until his death on May 21, 1826. He married, December 6, 1792, Mary Van Leuvenigh, born June 13, 1768, died May 6, 1831, sixth child of Zachariah Van Leuvenigh, of New Castle, by his third wife, Ann Armitage; granddaughter of John Van Leuvenigh, a "shopkeeper," of New Castle, who died in 1754 (Will dated Jany. 14, 1753. proven Dec. 31. 1754). by his wife Catharine; and great-granddaughter VAN DYCKE 1289 of Hendrick Van Leuvenigh, who died in New Castle in 1716; (letters of admin- istration to his widow, Catharine, May 14, 1716). Zachariah Van Leuvenigh, said to have been a descendant of Bartholomus Van Leuvenigh, who emigrated from Holland, was born as early as 1720, per- haps earlier. He was a tanner at New Castle. He married (first) Esther, daugh- ter of Stephen Lewis, by whom he had one daughter, Rebecca, married Captain Richard McWilliams. He married (second), February 4, 1749, Ann Coombs; no children. He married (third), November 24, 1755, Ann, daughter of James Armitage, Justice of the Courts of New Castle County, by his second wife, Mary Land. Zachariah Van Leuvenigh died at New Castle, February 25, 1789. By his third wife Ann Armitage, he had issue : — James, b. Dec. 27, 1756, d. Sept. 15, 1757: Mary, b. Sept. 28, 1758, d. July 15, 1759: John, b. June 16, 1760, d. Dec. 25, 1790; Nancy, b. May 2, 1762, d. Feby. 25, 1779; William, b. July 25, 1764, mentioned in father's will; Sarah, b. Apr. 28, 1766, d. June 28, 1784; Mary, b. June 13, 1768, d. May 6, 1831 ; m. Dec. 6, 1792, Nicholas Van Dyckk Thomas, b. Apr. 20, 1770, d. Nov., 1771 ; James, b. Dec. 16, 1771, d. Sept., 1772; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 17, 1773, d. Feby., 1848; m. Feb. 17, 1795, John Bird (3) ; George, b. Aug. 11, 1775; living 1789. James Armitage, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Van Dycke, was born at Holmefreth, parish of Kirkburton, Yorkshire, England, and came to Pennsyl- vania in 1702 with his parents, Benjamin and Mary Armitage, who settled in Bristol township, Philadelphia county, on the old York road, near Milestown, where they died, Mary on February 16, 1728, aged 70 years, and Benjamin on November 28, 1735, aged 75 years. Benjamin Armitage was a son of James Armitage, baptized at Huddesfield, Yorkshire, February, 1633-4, by his wife, Martha Hatfield, whom he married February, 1660, and grandson of Godfrey and Anne Armitage, of Lydgate, Yorkshire. Enoch Armitage, a first cousin of Benjamin, came to New Jersey in 1719, and was prominently identified with the affairs of that Province, where he has left descendants in the female line. Benjamin Armitage Jr., brother of James of New Castle, inherited the home- stead in Philadelphia county, and died there at an advanced age, leaving a number of descendants who were prominent in the affairs of Philadelphia City and County in Revolutionary days. James Armitage removed to New Castle county in his youth, and was sev- eral times commissioned a Justice of New Castle County, the first commission of which we have a record being April 20, 1727, and the last in 1749, probably hold- ing commission during the whole intervening period and certainly in 1733 and 1738. He married (first) Hannah , by whom he had one daughter: — Hannah Armitage, b. Nov. 6, 1715, m. Rev. Francis Allison, D. D., eminent divine and teacher, of New Castle and Philadelphia. James Armitage married (second) Mary, daughter of Francis Land, of New Castle, who died in 1736, by his wife. Christian Hill; and granddaughter of Sam- 1290 VAN DYCKE uel Land, of the Parish of St. Martin's, county of Middlesex, England, who purchased 500 acres of land of Captain John Fenwick, May 14, 1675, and came to the Delaware in the "Griffin," September 23, 1675, with the other Fenwick colonists, and soon after removed to New Castle, where he was living with his wife Dorcas, when he wrote a letter to Captain Fenwick in 1678. He was com- missioned Recorder and Deputy Treasurer of New Castle in 1684, and died there in 1686. His wife was Dorcas Williams, daughter of James and Mary Williams, of New Castle. He received a grant of land in New Castle from Edmund An- dross, Governor General, &c., for the Duke of York, March 25, 1676. Issue of James and Mary (Land) Armitage: — Enoch, b. Jany. 22, 1825; m.; had issue; Samuel, b. Jan. 26, 1730, private in the Colonial war of 1758, under Captain John Singleton ; Mary, b. Oct. 17, 1731; m. Thomas Dunn; John, b. Jany. 3, 1734, d. 1764; m. 1755, Frances Elizabeth Cooch, of Newark, Dela- ware; Ann, b. May 18, 1737; m. Nov. 24, 1755, Zachariah Van Leuvenigh, above men- tioned; Dorcas, b. Mar. 17, 1741; m. Robert Montgomery; Nathan, b. Sept. 30, 1744; Sarah Armitage, b. Dec. 19, 1746; m. 1774, Governor Thomas McKean, Chief Justice and Governor of Pennsylvania; colonel of Associated Battalion of Phila. Co., etc. SHIPLEY-POOLE AND BANCROFT FAMILIES. William Shipley, of Lowley and Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, the founder of the Shipley family in Pennsylvania, was born in Staffordshire, in 1693, and married there in 1717, Mary, daughter of Robert and Ann Tatnall, of Leicestershire, England, and with her, her widowed mother and brothers and sisters, embarked from Bristol, England, for Philadelphia in the spring of 1725. The ship on which the Tatnalls and Shipleys were passengers arrived in the river Delaware, off Philadelphia, in July, 1725, and there having been several cases of small-pox on board during the passage, they were refused permission to land at the city wharves. The vessel dropped down the river and after some days delay, landed her passengers below the city, near the old Swedes Church, where they remained some weeks before being allowed to enter the city; some of them said to have been quartered at the old Blue Horse Tavern. The Shipleys and Tatnalls on being released from their temporary quarantine located in Darby township, Chester county, removing later to Springfield township, where Mary (Tatnall) Shipley died in the early part of 1727. William Shipley married (second), in 1728, Elizabeth Levis, born December 20, 1690, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Clator) Levis, of Springfield, Chester county, formerly of Darby, Leicestershire, an account of whose emigra- tion, etc., is given elsewhere in these volumes. Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley was sister to Mary (Levis) Pennock, whose daughter Elizabeth Pennock, became wife of Edward Tatnall, brother of Mary Tatnall, first wife of William Shipley. At about the date of his second marriage, William Shipley purchased land in Ridley township, Chester county, and settled thereon. Elizabeth Levis, second wife of William Shipley was a distinguished and much esteemed Minister of the Society of Friends, and travelled extensively "in the service of Truth" in all parts of the colonies settled by Friends, and in 1743 made a visit to England. She had gone to North Carolina, in company with Esther White, and sailed from there to England, and remaining abroad nearly two years visited Friends in all parts of England and Ireland. Soon after her marriage Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley claimed to have seen in a dream, the place of her future home, and while travelling in the ministry, some years after her marriage, in New Castle county, she recognized in the little village of Willing Town, now the city of Wilmington, the place she had seen in her dream, and which the guide of her vision had assured it was the design of Provi- dence, William Shipley and his family should settle, and where "they should be- come instruments of great benefit to the place and people, and the blessing of heaven should descend upon them and their labours," and prevailed upon her hus- band to remove to that town. They removed to Wilmington in 1735, and Will- iam Shipley became its virtual founder, taking an active part in the introduction of new industries and in the municipal affairs of the town. He was elected its first burgess, November 23, 1739, and again elected September 12, 1743. He died December 19, 1768, and his widow Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley, died October 16, 1777, and was buried at London Grove Friends burying-ground, Chester county. 1292 SHIPLEY-POOLE AND BANCROFT Issue of William and Mary (Tatnall) Shipley: — Thomas, b. Leicestershire, Eng., 1718, d. at Wilmington, Del., Nov. i, 1789; m. Mary Marriott, of whom presently; Ann, b. Leicestershire, 1720, m. Joseph Maris of Springfield township, Chester, (now Delaware) county; Elizabeth, b. Leicestershire, 1722, d. Wilmington, Del., Nov. 15, 1789; m. (first). Oliver Canby; (second) William Poole, of whom presently; Mary, b. Darby, 1727, drowned in crossing the Brandywine, 1753. Issue of William aiid Elisabeth ( Lei'is) Shipley:— Sarah, b. May 25, 1729; m. Dec. 6, 1750, Robert Richardson, of New Castle co.; William, b. 1731; m. Dec. 27, 1753, Sarah Rumford; d. Nov. 19, 1794. Thom.\s Shipley, eldest surviving child of William and Mary (Tatnall) Shipley, born in England, June 24, 1718, came with his parents to Pennsylvania in 1725, and either accompanied his father to Wilmington in 1735 or followed him later. He purchased the mill erected by Oliver (3anby in 1755, but in 1762 erected the famous old Shipley Mill, and entering into partnership with his cousin, Joseph Tatnall, conducted it for eight years, when Joseph Tatnall withdrew from the firm and associated himself with Thomas Lea, and erected the mills on the Brandywine, still operated by the Lea family. Thomas Shipley married, Novem- ber 15, 1744, Mary Marriott, born at Bristol, Bucks county, November i, 1719, died February 21, 1771, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Kirkbride) Marriott, before mentioned, and aunt to Martha Marriott, who married his nephew, Will- iam Canby. Thomas Shipley died November i, 1789. Issue of Thomas and Mary (Marriott) Shipley: — William, b. May 9, 1746, d. unm., Feb. 14, 1816; Samuel, b. Aug. 30, 1747, d. inf.; Martha, b. Oct. 2, 1748, d. Feb. 6, 1749; Mary, b. Sept. 2, 1750, m. Phineas Buckley; d. in N. Y., 1795; Thomas, b. Sept. 9, 1751, d. inf.; Joseph, b. Nov. 11, 1752, d. 1832; m. Mary Levis, of Springfield, Del. co., who d. 1843. He inherited mill property, and continued to operate it until his death. For his descendants see below; Sarah, b. Sept. 6, 1755, d. in Phila., 1834; m. Cyrus Newlin, had children Mary and Thomas Newlin; Ann, b. Jan. 29, 1758, d. 1808; m. 1792, John Jones, had children, Cyrus and Lydia; Anna, b. Aug. 22, 1760, d. 1805; m. William Byrnes, had one son Thomas Byrnes. Issue of Joseph and Mary (Levis) Shiplex: — Samuel, b. Feb. 12, 1777, engaged in milling business with father, and continued it after latter's death, with brother John; d. 1844; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. James Jefferis ; Mary, b. Dec. 27, 1778, d. 1844; m. John Dixon, of Wilmington; Thomas, b. Sept. 30, 1780, engaged in flour shipping business in Phila.; on business visit to south of France, was stricken with sun stroke, and never fully recovered; d. 1813; John, b. Dec. 25, 1782; engaged in milling business with father and brother Samuel: d. unm. Aug. I, 1863; Anna, b. July 26, 1788, d. in 1852, unm.; Elizabeth, b. June 10, 1789, d. July, 1865, unm.; Sarah, b. March 3, 1791, d. Aug. 27, 1872, unm.; Margaret, b. Dec. 8, 1793, d. 1832, unm.; SHIPLEY-POOLE AND BANCROFT 1293 Joseph, b. Apr. 12, 1795, entered counting house of Samuel Canby, of Phila., at age of eighteen years, and, 1819, went to England in employ of John Welsh, of Phila., (father of the U. S. Minister to Eng., 1878), and while there entered into part- nership with William Brown, of Liverpool, founding famous firm of Brown, Shipley & Co., of Liverpool and London, and was in active business there for thirty years. He retired in 1851, and returning to Delaware, erected handsome residence in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county, where he resided with his unm. sister Hannah, until death May 9, 1867, unm. Hannah, b. May 3, 1801, resided at Rockwood, Del., with brother Joseph; unm. Elizabeth Shipley, second daughter of William Shipley, by his first wife, Mary Tatnall, born in Leicestershire, England, in 1722, came to Philadelphia with her parents in 1725, and married (first) at Wilmington, Delaware, June 23, 1744, Oliver Canby; an account of her descendants by this marriage is given in this volume under the title of the Canby Family. Oliver Canby died November 30, 1754, and Elizabeth married (second), December 3, 1761, William Poole, born at or near Newtown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1728-9, and removed when a young man to Wilmington, Delaware, and married there, June 27, 1754, Martha Roberts; Elizabeth (Shipley) Canby being his second wife. William Poole, of Workington, parish of Bromfield, county of Cumberland, England, grandfather of the William Poole above mentioned, married Jeannette Twentyman, and had several children the youngest of whom, Joseph Poole, born at Workington in 1704, emigrated to Pennsylvania when a youth, and located in Bucks county. He married, in 1727, Rebecca Janney, born September 9, 1702, daughter of Abel Janney, born in Mobberly, Cheshire, England, December 29, 1671, by his wife, Elizabeth Stacy, born at Dorehouse, Yorkshire, England, Oc- tober 17, 1673, daughter of Mahlon Stacy, founder of Trenton, New Jersey, by his wife, Rebecca Ely. Abel Janney was a son of Thomas Janney, a distinguished minister among Friends, who was baptized at Stiall, Cheshire, England, January II, 1634, and was a son of Thomas Janney, of Stiall, baptized June 27, 1605, by his wife, Elizabeth Worthington, whom he married, September 3, 1625 ; grandson of Randle Janney, baptized February 23, 1579-80, by his wife, Ellen Alrood, whom he married, July 14, 1602 ; great-grandson of Thomas Janney, of Stiall, by his wife, Jane Worthington, whom he married, December 7, 1578; and great great-grandson of Randle Janney, of Stiall, parish of Wilmeslow, county of Chester, England, who died about the year 1596 at a very advanced age. Thomas Janney, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Worthington) Janney, born in 1634, was "convinced of the Truth as held by Friends, at the first preaching thereof in the County of Chester, in 1654." In 1655 he took up the ministry in that Society, and travelled extensively in England and Ireland. He married, November 24, 1660, Margery Heath, of Horton, Staffordshire, at the house of James Harrison (who had married her sister, Ann Heath), in the township of Pownal Fee, near Stiall, the ancestral home of the Janney family. Thomas and Margery (Heath) Janney resided at Stiall, and Mobberly, Cheshire, until 1683, and their six children were born there, Jacob, Martha, Elizabeth, Thomas, Abel and Joseph ; the two daughters dying there and the four sons accompanying their parents to Pennsylvania in 1683 ; whither Thomas Janney had been preceded by his brothers-in-law, James Harrison and William Yardley, who had married respectively Ann and Jane Heath, sisters of Margery (Heath) Janney. Thomas Janney had purchased of William Penn, under date of August 12, 1682, 250 acres to be laid out in Pennsylvania, and embarked with his family in the ship "En- 1294 SHIPLEY-POOLE AND BANCROFT deavor" which arrived in the Delaware river, September 29, 1683. His land was laid out on the Delaware in Lower Makefield township, and he later purchased 1500 acres in the same locality. He was an intimate friend of William Penn, who placed great confidence in his integrity and fidelity to the best interests of the Province. He was elected to the Provincial Council in 1684, qualifying March 20 of that year, for a term of three years, and was twice recommissioned for the same length of term, the last time in 1691. He was also commissioned a Justice of the Courts of Bucks county, April 6, 1685, and continued in commission until near the time of his decease. He was one of twelve commissioners apjxiinted to divide the county into townships in 1690, and filled a number of other important positions in the County and Province. He continued his services as a minister, and travelled extensively in New England, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsyl- \'ania and Mar)land, and in the early part of 1695, made a religious visit to his native country, in company with Griffith Owen, sailing from the shore of Mary- land, May 31, 1695. They travelled through Wales, and many parts of England, and he reached the place of his birth in 1696, after a serious illness which over- took him in Derbyshire. When about to return to Pennsylvania, he suffered a relapse and died at the house of his sister, Mary Burgess (the place of his birth), February 12, 1696-7. His wife, Margery, survived him and died prior to 1700. Abel Janney, the father of Rebecca (Janney) Poole, was the fifth child of Thomas and Margery (Heath) Janney, and was born at Mobberly, Cheshire, December 29, 1671. He accompanied his parents to Pennsylvania in 1683, and married at Chesterfield Meeting, Burlington county, New Jersey, February, 1699- 1700, Elizabeth Stacy, taking certificate for that purpose from Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks county, dated 12 mo. (February) 7, 1699-1700. They settled in Makefield, Bucks county, where he died prior to 1743. He was a justice of Bucks county, 1708-10, and a member of Provincial Assembly, 1708-21. They were the parents of seven children of whom Rebecca, who married Joseph Poole, was the second, bom November 9, 1702. His brother Jacob, also became a resi- dent of Delaware and married Elizabeth Levis, a granddaughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Clator) Levis, before mentioned. Joseph Poole settled in Newtown, Bucks county, soon after his marriage, purchasing of the heirs of John Wally large tracts of valuable land there taken up by Shadrach Wally, and which had greatly increased in value. He died in Newtown in 1766, and his widow Rebecca (Janney) Poole died at the residence of her son William Poole in Wilmington, Delaware. Joseph and Rebecca (Janney) Poole had issue: — William, b. at Newtown, Bucks co., Jan. 26, 1728-9; d. Wilmington, Del., April 6, 1779; m. (first) Martha Roberts; (second) Elizabeth (Shipley) Canby; of whom presently ; Elizabeth, b. Nov., 1730, m. Thomas Yardley, of Newtown; Rebecca, b. Jan., 1732-3, d. aged seventeen years; Joseph, b. Feb., 1734-5; killed by team he was driving, when a young man, unm.: Abel, b. March, 1736-7, scalded to death at age of four years. Thomas, d. Sept., 1739; m. and settled in N. J., later removing to Vt. ; had children, Rebecca, Joseph, William, Richard, Helen and Elizabeth; Sarah, b. March, 1740-2; m. Paul Pennington; Amos, b. Dec, 1744, d. soon after attaining manhood, unm. WiLLi,\M PooLE, as before stated, removed to Wilmington when a young man. SHIPLEY-POOLE AND BANCROFT 1295 He lived there the remainder of his life, dying April 6, 1779, and his widow, Eliz- abeth, dying December 16, 1789. William Poole, had by his first wife, Martha Roberts, a son Joseph, who mar- ried (first) Mary Hammond, and had a son Joseph. He married (second) Eliz- abeth Cox, and had issue, William, Moses, Robert and Constant. William Poole was one of the committee appointed by the American Philosophical Society on January, 1767, to observe the transit of Venus. William Poole Jr., only son of William and Elizabeth (Shipley) Poole, was born at Wilmington, August 4, 1764, and was apprenticed in his boyhood to the trade of a silversmith, but early in life engaged in the milling business at Wil- mington, where he resided until his death on May 25, 1829. William Poole, Jr., married at Middletown Meeting, Chester (now Delaware) county. May 5, 1791, Sarah Sharpless, born September 25, 1769, died September 13, 1823, daughter of Benjamin Sharpless (born at Nether Providence, Chester county, January 26, 1708-9, died in Middletown, March 16, 1795), by his second wife, Martha Mendenhall (born February 8, 1724-5, died October 20, 1813), daughter of Benjamin and Lydia (Roberts) Mendenhall, of Concord, Chester county; the latter born in Wales and the former a son of Benjamin Mendenhall, who came from Wiltshire, England in 1685, and married in 1689, Ann, daughter of Robert Pennell, of "Chester River," Chester county, Pennsylvania. Geoffrey Sharpless, the earliest known lineal ancestor of Sarah (Sharpless) Poole, was resident of the parish of Wybunbury, county of Chester, England, and married there, April 27, 161 1, Margaret Ashley, and their son, John Sharp- less, baptized at Wybunbury, August 15, 1624, married there, April 27, 1662, Jane Moor, born at Hatherton, Cheshire, in 1638, and with her and their children emigrated to Pennsylvania, landing at Chester, August 14, 1682. They settled on land previously purchased of William Penn, and John Sharpless died June II, 1685, and his widow Jane, November i, 1722. Joseph Sharpless, eighth child and fifth son of John and Jane (Moor) Sharp- less, born at Hatherton, Cheshire, November 28, 1678, died in Middletown, Ches- ter county, Pennsylvania, in 1757. His wife was Lydia Lewis, born at Treverigg, Glamorganshire, Wales, May 8, 1683, died 1763, daughter of Ralph and Mary Lewis, of Treverigg, who in the year of her birth, came to Pennsylvania with John Bevan, and settled in Haverford township, later removing to Upper Darby, where Ralph died in 1712 and his wife Mary, 1704. Benjamin Sharpless, above mentioned, was the third child and second son of Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Sharpless. Issue of William and Sarah (Sharpless) Poole: — Elizabeth, b. April 28, 1792, d. Jan. 3, 1859; m. April 10, 1817, John Sellers, of Phila., later probably of Upper Darby, Delaware co., Penna.; Rebecca, b. Aug. 21, 1793; d. Aug. 13, 1794; Mary, b. Feb. 21, 1795; d. Dec. 29, 1863; m. May 8, 1823, David, son of David and Mary (Corbit) Wilson, of Odessa, Del., and resided for some years at Odessa, removing later to Ind. Samuel, b. Nov. 3, 1796, d. at Crozerville, Delaware co.. Pa., March 27, 1870; m. (first) at Chester, Pa., Apr. 27, 1825, Sarah Ann West, who d. July 17, 1828; (second) at Downingtown, Pa., June 15, 1837, Jane, dau. of Joseph and Ann S. Richardson, who d. Sept. 10, 1839; (third) at Philadelphia,, Sept. 13, 1843, Myra E. Temple, who d. at Wilmington, Jan. 15, 1854; and had issue: Jane T., b. 1844; m. James Bratton. 1296 SHIPLEY-POOLE AND BANCROFT Hannah, b. Oct. 10, 1798, m. William E. George, and had one surviving child Rebecca W., b. March 17, 1837, m. William Thomson; William Shipley, b. Apr. i, 1801; d. Apr. 20, 1857; m. Dec. 11, 1834, Lydia Menden- hall, great-granddaughter of Benjamin and Ann (Pennell) Mendenhall, before mentioned; and (second) Jan. i, 1850, Lydia Sharpless (Marsh) Hannum, dau. of Ralph Marsh, M. D., of Concord, by his wife Deborah Hill, and widow of William F. Hannum, of Delaware CO., Pa.; Sarah, b. Jan. 28, 1804; m., June 25, 1829, Joseph Bancroft; of whom presently; Martha, b. Dec. 29, 1807, d. March 13, 1885; m. at Wilmington Meeting, May 9, 1833, Henry Gibbons, M. D., son of Dr. William Gibbons, of Wihnington, by wife Rebecca Donaldson, and great-great-great-grandson of John and Margery Gibbons, of Warminster, Wiltshire, Eng., who settled in Chester co., 1683; Anna, b. Feb. 7, 1810; m. at residence of her brother-in-law, John Sellers, in Upper Darby, Jan. 29, 1857, Jesse Hallowell, of New Castle co., Del. ; John Morton, b. July 10, 1812, d. Nov. 25, 1879; m. July 10, 1839, Ann, dau. of Thomas and Lydia (Baker) Supplee of Phila. He learned trade of machmist, at Matteawan, N. Y., and for some years carried on business of machinist at Rock- ford, Del. ; removing to Wilmington, 1847. He was actively interested in the cause of popular education and served for a number of years on Board of Education, and was a member of City Council several years. John Bancroft, the father of Joseph Bancroft, who married Sarah Poole, was born July 16, 1774, and was a son of John and Grace (Fielden) Bancroft, of Salford, the twin town of Manchester, England, and was a dealer in timber, and manufactured chairs and other articles in that important manufacturing centre of Great Britain, until his removal with his family to .America in 1822. Soon after their arrival they settled in \^^ilnlington, Delaware, and established a small woolen mill, but moved to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, in 1826, and started a flannel manufactory there in which he was joined by his sons, Samuel and Thomas, and the business grew to large proportions. He married at Bolton Meeting of Friends, Elizabeth Wood, of Bolton, a sister to Martha Wood, who married Jacob Bright, and was mother of the late Right Honorable John Bright, the distingfuished member of Parliament. John Bancroft belonged to an ancient family of Cheshire and Lancashire, Eng- land, probably of the same lineage as John Bancroft, who with his wife Jane, came to New England in the good ship "James" in 1632, and settling in Lynn, Massachusetts, founded the New England family of Bancroft. His great-great- grandfather, John Bancroft, of Etchells, near Stockport, in the county of Ches- ter, a few miles from Manchester (born 1633, died 1699), married in 1663, Mary Janney (born 1638, died 1707), of Cheadle parish, Cheshire, where Thomas Janney, of Bucks county, resided before coming to Pennsylvania; a cousin of that distinguished minister of the Society of Friends, to which she too belonged. She has been credited as a sister of Thomas Janney, the emigrant ancestor of the Bucks county family, but investigations recently made in England by a descend- ant of the latter show that this Mary Janney was a daughter of Randall and Anne (Knevelt) Janney, and therefore a first cousin of Thomas the minister. John Bancroft, who married Mary Janney, in 1663, probably came of a family that had been resident in Cheadle parish, Cheshire, for two centuries prior to the date of his marriage, and according to reliable information born 1638, the son of Richard of Crossacres, who died 1684; the grandson of William of Scowhill; will dated and proved 1631 ; and the great-grandson of William of Cheadle, died perhaps 1600. Henry Bancroft having been made rector of that parish, January 2y, 1449, and Sir George Bancroft was resident there in 1533. Henry Bancroft was mayor of Stockport in 1669, and a John Bancroft, of Sutton, was SHIPLEY-POOLE AND BANCROFT 1297 disclaimed at Market Cross, Cheshire, September 28, 1664, with others of Mac- clesfield Hundred, "as gentlemen not entitled to bear Arms, because they refused to enter their pedigrees and have Arms either granted or confirmed by the Heralds." Roger Bancroft was Mayor of Macclesfield, 1629-30, and 1633-34;, and Robert Bancroft was constable of Cheadle, when on October 20, 1659, with John Bancroft, yeoman, aged 45, he gave testimony against Rev. Peter Harrison. William de Bancroft and Roger de Bancroft, sons of Roger de Bancroft, made deeds to Henry de Bancroft for lands formerly of Bertram de Bancroft, in Ban- croft, Cheshire, prior to 1300. John and Mary (Janney) Bancroft had issue, seven children, viz: — Jacob, of whom presently; David, b. 1666, d. 1687; Dinah, b. 1668, m. 1690, Thomas Burbick, Jr.; Joseph, b. 1671, d. 1675; Mary, b. 1673, m. 1691, Samuel Heald; Sarah, b. 1677, d. 1681 ; John, b. 1682. Jacob Bancroft, eldest son of John and Mary (Janney) Bancroft, born near Stockport, July 13, 1664, died December 13, 1742, married, in 1689, Ruth Laurance, of Morley, Cheshire, born July 8, 1664, died May 9, 1725, of a family of high standing in Cheshire, and they had issue : — John Bancroft, of whom presently; Rachel, b. 1693, d. 1756; m. 1718, Robert Woodcock; Alexander, b. 1695, d. 1756; David, b. 1697, m. 1721, Jane Bewley; Mary, b. 1699, d. 1766; m. 1720, Nicholas Barrington; Sarah, b. 1703; John Bancroft, eldest son of Jacob and Ruth (Laurance) Bancroft, born December 4, 1691, died April 22, 1756; married, in 1725, Catharine Towers, born 1 701, died 1734, and had issue: — Mary, b. 1726, d. 1731; Rachel, b. 1728, m. Daniel Wyer; Jacob, b. 1730, d. 1762. John Bancroft married (second), in 1740, Sarah Burgess, born 1701, died 1774, and had issue : — Sarah, b. 1742, d. 1780; John, b. 1745, d. 1747; David, b. 1747, d. 1811; m. 1781, Hannah Beeby; had four children; John, of whom presently: John Bancroft, youngest son of John and Sarah (Burgess) Bancroft, born in or near Stockport, Cheshire, June 29, 1750, married at the Friends' Meeting at Manchester, England, September 23, 1773, Grace Fielden, bom November i, 1747, died August 8, 1806, daughter of Abraham Fielden, of Todmorden Hall, Lancashire (born July 25, 1704, died May 14, 1779), by his wife Mary, daughter of John Merrick, of Edsworth, Cheshire ; granddaughter of Joshua Fielden, of Bottomley, by his wife Mary Sutcliffe; great-granddaughter of Joshua Fielden, 1298 SHIPLEY-POOLE AND BANCROFT of Bottomley, who joined the Society of Friends in 1644, and married, December 21, 1656, Martha Greenwood, of HoUingsworth, parish of Rochdale, Lancashire. The last mentioned Joshua Fielden was a son of Abraham Fielden, by his wife Elizabeth Fielden, daughter and co-heiress of James Fielden, of Bottomley, in Walsdon, near Todmorden, county of Lancaster; and Abraham was the second son of Nicholas Fielden (son of William Fielden, of Liventhorpe, parish of Brad- ford, Yorkshire), who removed from Yorkshire to Huddersfield, in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire, and married Christobel, daughter of John Stansfield, of Stansfield Hall, in the beautiful valley of Todmorden, who traced his descent from a companion in arms of William the Conqueror; the name being derived from the Lordship of Stansfeld, parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, held by his fore- T)ears under grant from William the Norman. The Greenwood family was like- wise one of the most ancient in the county of York. John Bancroft and his wife Grace Fielden lived near Manchester, where he was a lumber merchant. His wife Grace, dying in 1806, he married (second), in 1808, Elizabeth Dodgson, nee Butterworth. He died December 26, 1832-33. John and Grace (Fielden) Bancroft h Hepzibah Coleman, was born November 20, 1754, and died July 3, 1829. He was a son of John Russell (died 1789), who married, 1731, Ruth Starbuck, born February 24, 1714-15, died October 5, 1772; and grandson of Daniel Russell, bom 1680, died 1763, by his wife, Deborah, daughter of Thomas and Deborah (Coffin) Macy, before mentioned. Sylvanus Hussey, before mentioned, married Abial, daughter of John Brown, by his wife, Rachel, daughter of Captain John and Priscilla (Grafton) Gardner, and granddaughter of Thomas Gardner. Mrs. Hinchman is also descended from Richard Gardner, another son of Thomas Gardner, one of the founders of the Cape Ann colony, and afterwards a member of the Town Council of Salem. This Richard Gardner married Sarah Shattuck, whose brother, Samuel Shat- tuck, was the bearer of the famous mandate from Charles IL to Governor Endi- cott, forbidding the execution of Quakers, quaintly described in Whittier's poem, entitled "The King's Missive." John Brown, above mentioned, was a son of John Brown who married, 1658, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart (son of Edmund and Margaret (Dewey) HINCHMAN 1331 Hobart), who founded the first church at Hingham, Massachusetts. Theodate Bachelder, above mentioned, was a daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachelder, who founded the first churches of Lynn, Massachusetts, and Hampton, New Hamp- shire, and was ancestor of Daniel Webster and many other prominent people of New England and elsewhere. Mary Swain, who married Barnabas Russell, 181 1, was a daughter of Francis Swain, Jr., who married, 1767, Lydia, daughter of Robert Barker, by his wife, Jedidah, daughter of James and Rachel (Brown) Chase; granddaughter of Lieu- tenant Isaac and Mary (Tilton) Chase; and great-granddaughter of Thomas and Ehzabeth (Philbrick) Chase. And Robert Barker, great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Hinchman, was a son of Samuel Barker, by his wife, Bethiah Folger, grand- daughter of Peter Folger, and cousin of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Samuel Barker, who married Bethiah Folger, 1718, was a son of Isaac Barker, of Duxbury, Mass- achusetts, by his wife, Judith Prence, or Prince, whom he married, 1665 ; daugh- ter of Thomas Prince, born at Lechdale, Gloucestershire, England, 1600 ; died in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1673. He was Governor of Plymouth colony eighteen years ; Assistant Magistrate, thirteen years ; Treasurer, one year ; Commissioner, twelve years ; and member of Council of War, five years. Record says of him : "He was a worthy gentleman and very able for his office, and faithful in the dis- charge thereof, studious of peace, a well wisher to all that feared God and a terror to the wicked." Thomas Prence married (second), 1635, Mary, daughter of William Collier, who "came early to Plymouth ;" was Assistant Governor of the colony twenty-eight years; member of Council of War, and of Provincial Con- gress ; and one of the committee of two appointed by Congress to sign the Articles cf Confederation. Thomas and Mary (Collier) Prence were parents of Judith Prence, who married Isaac Barker, and were the great-great-great-great-great- grandparents of Lydia S. (Mitchell) Hinchman. Francis Swain, Sr., great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Hinchman, married, 1736- 37, Mary Paddock, a descendant of Richard Sears, of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, who came to America, 1630, with the last of the Scrooby Congregation of Leyden, and landed at Plymouth, but later removed to Yarmouth; was a member of Colonial Court, 1662. His ancestry is traced back through many generations in England. John Swain, father of Francis Swain, Sr., married, 171 1, Mary, daughter of Moses Swett, of Hampton, New Hampshire, who was a Commissioner to settle the boundaries between New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He was a son of Benjamin Swett, a soldier in King Philip's War, holding commissions as Ensign, Lieutenant and Captain. A historian has said of him: "Swett won for himself a high rank among the heroes of the Colonial Wars. He was always in that post which most required sagacity and courage." Moses Swett married, 1687, Mary Hussey, a granddaughter of Christopher and Theodate (Bachelder) Hussey, before mentioned. Her father, John Hussey, was second son of Christopher, and was reared in Hampton, New Hampshire, where he was appointed as a member of Provincial Assembly, but being unwilling to take the oath of office required, did not serve. He removed from New Hampshire to New Castle county, on the Delaware, then under the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, 1688, and represented that county in the Pennsylvania Assembly, 1696, no oath being required in Pennsylvania at that time. 1332 HINCHMAN Mrs. Lydia S. (Mitchell) Hinchman has compiled and published considerable genealogical and historical work relating to her New England ancestry, the most important of which is, "The Early Settlers of Nantucket," a work of much merit. She is a member of the Society of Colonial Dames of America, and is identified with other historical and patriotic societies. Issue of Charles S. and Lydia S. (Mitchell) Hinchman: Mary Mitchell Hinchman, b. July 25, 1873; m. Oct. 5, 1898, Isaac LaBoiteaux, of Cin- cinnati, O.; they have issue: Constance LaBoiteaux, b. July 27, 1899; Lydia Mitchell LaBoiteaux, b. Oct. 4, 1903. C. Russell Hinchman, b. Feb. 21, 1875; m. April 24, 1901, Elizabeth Schofield Brooke Hopkins, who like her husband is a lineal descendant of George and Sarah (Wain) Shoemaker, being a descendant of Isaac, son of Matthias Tyson, and grandson of Rynear Tyson, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Isaac Shoemaker, and his wife, Dorothy Penrose, of Cheltenham; C. Russell and Elizabeth S. B. (Hopkins) Hinchman, have issue : Martha Tyson Hopkins Hinchman, b. March 14, 1902. Margaretta Shoemaker Hinchman, b. July 12, 1876; Anna Barker Hinchman, b. Nov. 25, 1877; Walter Swain Hinchman, b. Sept. 14, 1879. McILVAIN FAMILY. The Mcllvain family, one branch of which has been seated in or near Philadel- phia for the past six generations, is descended from an ancient and honorable family of the name in Ayrshire, Scotland, representatives of which have emigrated to America at different periods, some direct from county Ayr, and others from county Antrim, Ireland, whither some of the Ayrshire family had migrated in the middle of the seventeenth century. The Mcllvains of Ayr were Lairds of Grim- met and Attyquyne, from 1520, and were possessed of the ancient castle of Thomaston, parish of Kirkowald, county Ayr, built by Thomas, Earl of Carrick, nephew of Robert Bruce, about 1333, from about 1600 down to the death of John Mcllvain, then the eldest male representative of the family, 1747. They were closely connected with the Kennedys, Earls of Casselis, whose castle Dunmore,, parish of MayboU, stands not far distant from Thomaston. The ancient castle of Thomas-Towne, the seat of the Mcllvain family, passed from the Carricks to their descendants, Corries of Kelwood, and through the marriage of John Mc- llvain, Laird of Grimmet and Attyquyne, prior to 1600, to Annie Corrie, it passed into the possession of the Mcllvain family, and was occupied by them until the middle of the eighteenth century. John Mcllvain's daughter, Margaret, married, about 1630, Alexander Kennedy, of Craigoch, grandson of Gilbert Kennedy, Earl of Casselis, and a descendant of King Robert III., of Scotland, through his daugh- ter, Princess Mary. From a quaint old account of the prominent families of Ayr we quote the fol- lowing : "There is no record extant quhat surnames hes bene gratest in this provence of old; hot the most ancient gentry now possessors thereof, ar, Cathcarts, dicenditt of the Housse of Carltone Fergusons, of the Housse of Kelkarrane Corries, of the Housse of Kelwood Mures, of the Housse of Muchemarrane Shawes, of the Housse of Keires Mack Alexander, of the Housse of Corstrye Mackilvands, of the Housse of Grimmet." An ancient description of the Earldom of Carrick is in part as follows : "This country of old gave the title of Earl of Carrick to Robert Bruce. It is the ancient seat of the Kennedies whose principal dwelling was the Castle of Dunmore standing on the seaside in a rockie shoar in the parish of MayboU. Al the houses of the gentry of this coun- try are seated pleasantly and commodiously. Those upon the sea coast are the Castle of Grenard and the Cove ; not far from it lyes the House of Newark, a good old Castle south- east from the other. Southward from this lyes the House of Thomas-Towne, once the resi- dence of the Corrys', but now of McLevain ( Mackilveane) of Grimmet, a very pretty house with gardens, orchards and parks around it; both these ly in the parish of Kirkowald." Alan Makilvene had a charter from James V., October 16, 1529, for the lands of Grimmet and Attyquyne. He was, however, seated at Grimmet prior to this date, as in 1527 "Alan Makilvene, Laird of Grimmet, was fined £100 for not enter- ing his friend, Gilbert Kennedy, Earl of Casselis, to appear for participation in the slaughter of Robert Campbell, of Lochfergus, Alexander Kirkwood and Pat- 1334 McILVAIN rick Wilsone Campbell having a short time before killed the old Earl of Casselis, father of Gilbert, and had himself been killed by the young Earl and his adher- ents." At about the same period an incident of the turbulent times is related as follows : "The Laird of Drumurchie besieged the house of Auchinsull and took prisoners, the Countess of Casselis, the young Laird of Grimmet, and Quinton Crawford. A fatal en- counter took place between the Earl of Casselis and the Laird of Bargany in which Gilbert Kennedy's horse was slayne and the Earl's broderes brydell was schott in tua, quhairby his horse kaist him and straik his airme out of juntt. The young Laird^ of Grimmett was strucken throw his chin and he and his horse bayth strucken to the eird." Inasmuch as this narrative refers to Gilbert Kennedy, as distinct from the Earl of Casselis, whom he succeeded about 1527, it evidently antedates the slaying of the old Laird by Campbell, above mentioned, and shows the Mcllvanes to have been possessed of Grimmet at a still earlier date. The charter of James V. was evidently one of confirmation of a former grant by his predecessor, James IV., or more likely still by James III., whose custody during his reign as an infant, 1461, was entrusted to Bishop Kennedy, of St. Andrew's, from whom he was ab- ducted by Lord Boyd, and held until 1469, when he was rescued by his friends, among whom may have been the M'llvains, who received the grant of Grimmet, in recognition of their loyalty. That the M'llvains were seized of Grimmet at about this period is proven by ex- tracts from the Protocol Book of Gavin Ros, a Notary of county Ayr, for the years 1512-32. The memoranda of instruments executed before this notary in- clude a number in which the M'llvains were principals, and show that Gilbert M'llvain, the father of Allan M'llvain, above mentioned, "had occupied and intro- mitted with the lands of Grumet and Attiquyne," for the space of forty-five years, prior to August, 1529, as shown by his own deposition taken at that date before Notary Gavin Ros, at the Tolbooth of Ayr. The first reference to Gilbert M'llvain in this ancient Protocol Book, is over date of May 16, 1529, when "Gilbert M'Ylveyne of Grumete promised faithfully to fulfil all things communicated between him and Quintin Schaw, tutor of Keris concerning certaine Merk lands in terms of an Agreement between them at the time Gilbert repledged certain goods for Quentin Schaw, tutor, in whose name Quentin Schaw, King's Messenger asked instrument, etc. Done at Grumet 16 May 1529." By this agreement certain lands of Grimmet were alienated, as "Will- iam Campbell, bailie of Gilbert M'Ylveyne, of Grummet, in terms of a precept by the latter passed the lands of Grummet, and there on the ground gave sasine of the two-merk lands of Over-Grummet lying in the Earldom of Carrick, and Sherifdom of Air, to Quintin Schaw, tutor of Keris, according to his charter of May 19, 1529." The grant and confirmation of the lands of Grimmet to Allan M'llvaine is shown by the following entry in the Protocol Book : "Nevin, sergeant and officer of the bailie of Carrick, producing letters of the King under the signet, obtained by Allan M'Ylveyne, of the non-entry of the lands of Grumet from the decease of the late Nigel M'Ylveyne, in virtue of which letters the sd Sergeant assigned a Court of the bailery of Carrick to be held at Burmehillis near Maybole, on "Tuesday 6th July next and summons Gilbert M'Ylveyne possessor of _ ye lands and all others having interest to appear said day and place with evidence they wish to use for the time. Done at Ayr, June 1529," McILVAIN 1335 Who "the late Nigel M'Ylveyne" was and what relation he bore to Gilbert and Allan, his son, does not appear. Allan M'Ylveyne having secured the grant of Grimmet, entered into bonds to assign the tenancy and use thereof, for a nominal sum, to his father for life, as shown by several instruments executed before Notary Ros, the principal of which is thus entered on the Protocol Book : "Sir John Kennedy, Prebendary of Maybole and John Campbell of Over-Skeldoune be- came sureties and cautioners for Allan M'Ylveyne that he shall do and fulfil all things com- municated in word between him and Gilbert M'Ylveyne his father namely that he shall make Gilbert his assignee in and to the five-merk lands of Attiquin for Gilbert's life-time, and that within twenty-four hours after Allan shall obtain the non-entry of the lands under the pain of 1000 merks, and then he shall give security to Gilbert of the lands for life, Gilbert paying an annual rent to Allan. Done in the Tolbooth of Air, August 1529. Witnesses, Gilbert Kennedy of Kirckmichel, John Kennedy, Alexander Muir and Sir John Campbell, Chaplain." On the same date, "Gilbert Kennedy of Kirckmichel, compearing in the Tol- booth of Air before Charles Campbell, Macer of the Sheriff of Air, in that part specially constituted in the cause of recognition between Gilbert and Allan M'Yl- veyne^solemnly protests that whatever shall be done in said cause before said Judge, should not prejudice David M'Ylveyne, son of Gilbert Kennedy's sister, as to the right which he has to the lands of Attiquin." Then follows the deposition of Gilbert M'Ylveyne, as to his tenancy of Grumet and Attiquin for forty-five years past, above quoted. The instrument making the grant to Gilbert from Allan is thus entered: "Allan M'Ylveyne having non-entry of the lands of Grummete in terms of letters from the King under the privy seal to said Allan, made and constituted Gilbert M'Ylveyne his father his lawful assignee in and to the five-merk lands of Attiquin and pertinents, namely the four-merk lands he now inhabits, * * * for his true life, giving him power to intromit with labour, transfering all right and claim of Allan and his heires, and this because of paternal love, special favour and that he may fully obtain his father's blessing — chiefly be- cause the said Gilbert is his father and now is aged and if he (Allan) shall prosecute the premises to extremity that may turn to Gilbert's utmost loss and irreparable injury — for which Gilbert shall pay yearly during his life twenty shillings. Done at Air, August 1529." John M'llvene's name appears on the Protocol Book as a witness at the Burgh of Ayr, December, 1530. The bond of Gilbert Kennedy, of Kirckmichel, to indemnify Allan M'Ylveyne, of Grimmet, from any loss by reason of his becoming his surety "to enter and undergo the Cause of the Kingdom for homicide committed at Barbeth, and to pay and refund to Allan and his heires the rents and profits of Neder Grumet uplifted and to be uplifted" by reason of said surety, was entered at Ayr, January 2, 1 530. There is also on the Protocol Book entries in reference to the redemption by Allan M'llvene, 1531, of the two merk lands alienated to Quentin Shaw by his father in 1529. GiLBERTO M'Ilvene, "filio et haeredi Alani M'llvene de Grimmet," and his spouse, Janet Corry, had a charter of confirmation of the lands of Grimmet from Queen Mary, dated May 4, 1546. Gilbert M'llvene died at the battle of Fawside (Pinkie), September 18, 1547, and was succeeded by his son, Patrick Mcllvane, of Grimmet, who was served heir of his father, October 25, 1547, in the lands of Nether and Over Grimmet and Attyquyne. His name occurs as a witness in a deed, dated January 4, 1586-87, and he and his son, John, were both in the follow- ing of the Earl of Casselis at Lady Corse in 1601. His will was "maid and gevea up be Johnne Schaw in Largis of Stratoun, executor." He died in 1613. 43 1336 McILVAIN John McIlvane, son of Patrick, seems to have predeceased his father, as the latter seems to have been succeeded by John McKelvaine, son of the former. From a charter granted to "Joanni M'llvane de Grimmet" by James VII., in 1597, it appears that his wife was a Kennedy, their son "Johnne McKelvane, of Grimmet" was alive in 1632, as shown by the will of his wife, Anne Corrie, who died in Feb- ruary, of that year. This will shows that she had children, Margaret, Agnes, Helein and Mareonne M'llvane, "bairnes lawful to ye defunct." These may have been only the minor children, as it appears through this marriage the Mcllvanes acquired Thomastoun, the seat of the family for many generations thereafter, of which Anne Corrie, first wife of John Mcllvane, was the heiress, the heir appar- ent thereof, as shown by the will of Captain James Corrie, having died prior to 1645. Inasmuch as the property descended to the Mcllvanes, Anne must have had male issue. John Mcllvane married (second) Juliane Schaw, who died in December, 1641, leaving issue: Anna and Juliane. Margaret Mcllvane, daughter of John Mcllvane, of Grimmet, by Anne Corrie, above mentioned, married Alexander Kennedy, of Craigoch, before mentioned, and the will of Sir Alexander Kennedy, of Culzean, father of Alexander, of Craigoch, in 1652, mentions "John M'llvane of Grimmet." The later Earls of Casselis were descended from the Mcllvanes, through the marriage of Margaret, daughter of Alexander Kennedy, to David the Earl. QuiNTiN M'Ilvane, of Grimmet, was served as heir of his father, John M'll- vane, of Grimmet, in the lands of Thomaston, October 8, 1669. Thomaston de- scended through the eldest male line of the Mcllvane family to John Mcllvane, of Grimmet, whose will was recorded January 15, 1741, and from him to his son, John Mcllvane, the younger, of Grimmet, merchant, whose will is dated May 20, 1747, and was given up in 1748, by James Ferguson, writer, in Ayr, as creditor upon a bill signed by the deceased. This latter John Mcllvaine was probably the last of the family who possessed Thomaston. The foregoing represents only the elder male line of the Macilvain family of Ayr, which doubtless by the middle or end of the seventeenth century had become quite numerous. Numerous families of Carrick, county Ayr, with whom the Mc- llvanes were connected, removed to Carrick-fergus, Antrim county, Ireland. In a "Declaration by the Commission for Settling and Securing the Province of Ulster," dated at Carrick-fergus, May 23, 1653, appear the names of William Schaw, Captain Ferguson, Quintin Kennedy, William Crawford and others with whom the Mcllvains of Ayr were intermarried or associated. The date of the removal of the Mcllvains to county Antrim is unknown. They were early con- verts to Protestantism, and staunch supporters of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Among the Mcllvains who came to Pennsylvania direct from Ayr, Scotland, were William and David Mcllvaine, of Philadelphia, merchants, who came over about 1730. Both married into a family that had come from Ireland at about the same date; David to Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Alexander Graydon, of the Provincial Battalion of Bucks county, 1747, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Caleb Emerson ; and the latter to Ann Emerson. Graydon and Emerson came to Philadelphia with their families from Ireland in 1729, and the former, who mar- ried (second) at Christ Church, 1747, Rachel Marks, removed to Bucks county, where he was later associated with William Mcllvaine in the purchase of mills, MclLVAlN 1337 etc., in Bristol borough, and a large tract of land known as "Fairview" in Bristol township. The will of David Mcllvaine, of Philadelphia, probated November 23, 1756, mentions his brother, William, of Philadelphia, his nephew, William, to whom he bequeaths a silver hilted sword, and a sister, Ann, in Ayr, Scotland. William, the brother, who removed to "Fairview," Bristol, Bucks county, about 1763, died there in 1770, and his will mentions his son, Joseph, who was Colonel of the Fifth Associated Battalion of Bucks county in the Revolution; his son, WilHam, now in Scotland; wife, Margaret; daughter, Mary; and brother and sister-in-law, David and Elizabeth Mcllvaine, both deceased. This will devises to his children a property in Ayr, Scotland, inherited from his father, Joseph Mc- Ilvain, whose will is dated May 19, 1762. A New England branch of the family, descended from Robert Mcllvain, who is said to have emigrated from Scotland to the north of Ireland, about the begin- ning of the eighteenth century, and with his wife was murdered in their bed by their Roman Catholic neighbors, when their third son, Daniel, was an infant. The latter was educated at Dublin, and at the age of nineteen years accompanied his elder brothers, William and John Mcllvain, to New England, from the parish of Sisson, county Donegal, Ireland. Daniel settling in Boston, taught school there for about forty years, removing to Windham, New Hampshire, 1762, with his sons, WilHam, John and Daniel, the latter of whom died in 1833, at the age of eighty-four years. William Mcllvain, eldest of the three emigrant brothers, set- tled in Casco Bay, now Portland, Maine, and John Mcllvain, the other brother, removed to the south. There was a Mcllvain family in Sussex county, Delaware, where we find David and Andrew Mcllvain subscribers to the church fund of Cool Spring Presby- terian Church, at Lewes, 1763. Andrew died September 13, 1789, at the age of sixty-four years. James Mcllvain, of Sussex county, advertised in the American Weekly Gazette for a runaway slave in 1752, was married to a widow by the name of Derr in 1762. All three were probably sons of a Rgbert Mcllvain, of the same locality, born about 1700, who had a son, Andrew, who was married to a widow in 1771. James McIlvain, of county Antrim, Ireland, married there prior to 1725, Jane, daughter of Hugh and Margaret Heaney, later of East Fallowfield, Chester coun- ty, and about 1740 came to Pennsylvania with wife, Jane, and children, Andrew, John, Hugh, William, Jane and Margaret, and settled in Chester, now Delaware county. The will of Hugh Heaney, of East Fallowfield, Chester county, probated March 30, 1764, mentions his wife, Margaret, and daughter, Jane Mcllvain. Issue of James and Jane (Heaney) Mcllvain: Andrew Mcllvain, b. 1725, d. Nov. 22, 1782, in Ridley, Chester co., and is bur. in the Presbyterian burying-ground at Middletown ; John McIlvain, b. 1726, d. April 19, 1779; m. (first) Mary Roman; (second) Lydia Barnard; of whom presently; Hugh Mcllvain, d. unm., in Ridley, Chester co., 1794; will proved Nov. 25, 1794; William Mcllvain, b. 1730, d. Oct. 20, 1784, bur. in the Presbyterian burying-ground at Middletown, as were his two wives; "Jane, died August 19, 1778, aged 44 years," and "Sarah, died April 20, 1782, aged 55 years," the will of William Mcllvain, of Ridley, dated February 25, and proved Dec. i, 1784, mentions "cousin William Mcllvain; Jean Mcllvain, daughter of Andrew; John, son of Isaac Mcllvain; brothers Hugh and Andrew; and niece Judea Mcllvain; John Crosby and Andrew Mcllvain, named as exrs., letters granted to John Crosby, Andrew Mcllvain being deceased;" Jane Mcllvain, d. young and unm.; Margaret Mcllvain, d. young and unm. 1338 McILVAIN John McIlvain, son of James and Jane (Heaney) Mcllvain, born in county Antrim, Ireland, 1726, came with his parents to America. When a youth he ap- prenticed himself to Jacob Roman, proprietor of a mill on Crum creek, Ridley township, Chester county, whose daughter, Mary Roman, he married about 1755, and, after the death of Jacob Roman, which occurred in 1748, became himself the proprietor of the mill, and died there April 19, 1779. After the defeat of Wash- ington's Army at Brandywine, 1777, his forces were scattered along the road ex- tending from Leiperville to Darby township line, and after midnight of the day of the battle General Washington rested at the house of John Mcllvain. John Mcllvain was, like practically all his Scotch-Irish compatriots, a member of the Presbyterian church, but united with the Society of Friends some time after his first marriage with Mary Roman in 1755. Mary was a granddaughter of Philip Roman, one of the leading members of the Society of Friends in Chester county, and the early meetings were frequently held at his house. On Mary (Ro- man) Mcllvain being treated with for marriage to one not a member and "by a Priest," she replied to Concord Meeting, in December, 1755, that she did not desire to be "under the care of Friends" and refused to acknowledge any contri- tion for her marriage by a priest, as the Quakers denominated all "hireling min- isters." She and her husband evidently united with Concord Meeting later, however, as in September, 1761, John Mcllvain was treated with by that meeting for his mar- riage to his first wife's cousin, Lydia Barnard, which was consummated at the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, September 9, 1761. They, however, made an acknowledgment for the breach of discipline and were retained in mem- bership at Concord Meeting. Lydia Barnard, second wife of John Mcllvain, was a daughter of Richard, Bar- nard, second, of Doe Run, West Marlborough township, Chester county (born 1684, died 1767), by his wife, Ann, daughter of Abiah Taylor, Jr., of Dedcott, Berkshire, England (son oi Abiah), who married at Farringdon Meeting, Berk- shire, April 18, 1694, Deborah Gearing, and in 1702 came to Pennsylvania and settled in East Bradford township, Chester county, where he erected a mill, and in 1724, a house, still standing. Richard Barnard was a son of Richard Barnard, who came from Sheffield, England, with his wife, Frances, at about the time of landing of William Penn. He owned land near Chester as early as 1683, was a grand juror of Chester county in 1686, and died intestate in 1698. His daughter, Mary Barnard, married Jacob Roman in 1712, and was the mother of Mary Roman, first wife of John Mcllvain ; his son, Richard, married at Concord Meet- ing of Friends, December 7, 171 5, Ann Taylor, above mentioned. Lydia (Bar- nard) Mcllvain survived her husband, and died in 181 1. She was granted letters of administration on her husband's estate, he having died intestate, 4th Mo. 19, 1779. Her will, dated 8th Mo. 28, 1807, mentions her sons, John, Jeremiah, James, Richard and Hugh ; and daughters, Judith Maris and Lydia Wetherill. The mar- riage certificate of John Mcllvain and Lydia Barnard is still in possession of the Mcllvain family of Philadelphia ; it is as follows : WHEREAS, John Mcllvain of the Township of Ridley, in the County of Chester, and Province of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, and Lydia Barnard, daughter of Richard Barnard of Newlinton in the County and Province aforesaid, having published their intentions of mar- riage with each other as an Act of General Assembly of this Province in that case so made McILVAIN 1339 and provided directs and no lawful impediment appearing to obstruct their intended pro- ceedings. Now these are to certifie all whom it may concern, that for the full accomplishing of their said intentions this ninth day of the ninth month, called September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one, they, the said John Mcllvain and Lydia Barnard, appeared in a publick Assembly of people, for that purpose met together in East Bradford in the County aforesaid, and the said John Mcllvain taking the said Lydia Bar- nard by the hand, did in solemn manner declare that he took her to be his wife, promising through Divine assistance to be unto her a loving and faithful husband until death should separate them, and then and there in the said Assembly, the said Lydia Barnard did in like manner declare she took the said John Mcllvain to be her husband, promising through Divine assistance to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until death should separate them (or words to that effect). And, moreover the said John Mcllvain and Lydia Barnard, she according to the custom of marriage, assuming the name of her husband as a further con- firmation thereof, did then and there to these presents set their hands. JOHN McILVAIN LYDIA McILVAIN. "And we whose names are hereunder subscribed being present with the Justice at the solemnization of their said marriage and subscription in manner aforesaid as witnesses thereunto, have also to these presents set our hands the day and year above written. Thomas Worth, Justice George Faussett Susana Worth Isaac Roman Ann Carter Hannah Roman Andrew Mcllvain James Mcllhenny Mary Carter Wm. Mcllvain Elinor Foset Daniel Culin Jacob Carter Sarah Keeth Wm. Worrall Hannah Carter Thomas Barnard Joseph Carter Charles Granhime Samuel Thornton Philip Roman." Issue of John and Mary (Roman) Mcllvain: Isaac Mcllvain, m. Susan Crosby and had two children : John Mcllvain; Thomas Mcllvain. Mary Mcllvain, m. at First Presbyterian Church, Phila,, Dec. 12, 1775, William Mc- llvain, son of her father's cousin, Gilbert Mcllvain, of Baltimore, Md., and removed to Frankf ord, Ky. ; they had seven children, viz. : Hannah Mcllvain, m. James Rankin, and had three children, viz. : Orville Rankin, b. Feb. 19, 1813, d. Sept. g, 1852; m. Jan. 6, 1836, Melissa Fairchild Gray, b. Oct. 14, 1817, d. Dec. 22, 1893; and had issue, nine children, viz. : Ruth Anna Rankin, b. Oct. 7, 1836; m. Nov. 27, 1855, Benjamin Wilson Smith, b. Jan. 19, 1830; now living in Indianapolis, Ind. ; they had issue : Lilian Gray Smith, b. Nov. 16, 1856; Eva Wilson Smith, b. April 6, 1859; Ida Virginia Smith, b. Sept. 18, i860; Orville Rankin Smith, b. Dec. 8, 1864, d. March i, 1865; Bernard Gilbert Smith, b. April 2, 1866, d. Nov. 13, 1885; Nelly Colfax Smith, b. Nov. 24, 1868; Benaldine Smith, b. Dec. 28, 1870; m. William T. Noble; Guy Mcllvain Smith, b. Dec. 2, 1872; m'. June, 1898, Dora Isa- belle Moore, and had issue: Ruth Benaldine, b. Aug. 17, 1899; Frederick Merrill Smith, b. July 25, 1907. Paul Queale Smith, b. Nov. ig, 1874, d. May 27, 1879. James Alanson Rankin, b. May 8, 1838, d. June 6, 1894; private Forty-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, Civil War; Oliver Smith Rankin, b. Oct. 14, 1840; soldier during Civil War, not heard of after battle of Chickamauga, in which he took a conspicu- ous part; Tarvin Rankin, b. 1842, d. same year; John Robert Rankin, of Washington, D. C, b. Jan. 20, 1843; m. Mar- garet Boyd, Oct., 1893; had issue: Boyd, Helen Gray and Ruth I340 McILVAIN Fisler Rankin. He was a member of Twenty-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, Civil War; Elisha Cowgill Rankin, b. Oct. s, 1847, d. Oct. 30, 1907; member of 133rd Regiment, Indiana Volunteers; Agnes Rosabel Rankin, b. Jan. 7, 1850; Louisa Melissa Rankin, b. May 13, 1852; Orville Blackstone Rankin, b. May 13, 1852, d. Aug. 17, 1900. Susan Rankin, b. May 26, 1846; m. Thomas Talbot, of Greencastle, Ind.; Sarah Rankin, m. Alexander Dunnington, of Green Castle, Ind. Mary Mcllvain, m. — Riley; Margaret Mcllvain, m. Davis; Ann Mcllvain, m. Thomas Walls; Rosa Mcllvain, m. Calvert; Hugh Mcllvain, lived between Maysville and Lexington, Ky.; John Mcllvain. Issue of John and Lydia (Barnard) Mcllvain: Judith Mcllvain, b. May 18, 1762, d. March 2, 1843; m. Sept. 7, 1791. Dr- Jonathan Maris, b. Dec. 31, 1765, d. Feb. 28, 1797, son of George and Jane (Foulke) Maris; they had one son, Jesse Maris, an account of whose ancestry and descendants is given in these volumes; John Mcllvain, b. Aug. 19, 1763, d. July 8, 1815; was engaged in the lumber business in Ridley, Chester co. ; m. Ann, or Nancy, Pennock, of "Primitive Hall," her father's place in Chester co., b. Aug. 19, 1763, d. Nov. 10, 1826; no issue; Lydia Mcllvain, b. Dec. 6, 1764; m. at Chester Monthly Meeting, March 7, 1804, William Wetherill, a native of England; they had one son: John M. Wetherill, b. Dec. 27, 1804; m. Mary Smith; they had four children: Jane, George, John, Lydia. Jeremiah McIlvain, b. June 29, 1767, d. Feb. 19, 1827; had a sawmill and tan-yard on part of the homestead property in Ridley, and after the death of his brother, John, continued the lumber business there; m. Nov. i, 1792, Elizabeth Spencer, and had issue; see forward; James McIlvain, b. Feb. 14, 1769, d. Oct. 19, 1850; m. Nov. 4, 1801, Mary Robinson, dau. of Abraham, b. Nov. 18, 1770, d. 1838; (second) Mary Ann Coulter, by whom he had no issue; by his first wife he had six children; an account of whom follows; Margaret Mcllvain, b. Feb. 14, 1771, d. Feb. 4, 1809; m. at the home of her mother, Lydia Mcllvain, under the care of Chester Friends Meeting, Nov. 6, 1793, William Foulke, only son of Levi and Ann (Evans) Foulke, and great-great-grandson of Ed- ward Foulke, Welsh immigrant, who arrived in Pennsylvania with his wife and family in 1698, and settled at Pennlyn, Gwynedd township, Philadelphia, now Mont- gomery CO.; William Foulke was b. at Gwynedd, Oct. 7, 1767, d. there, April 6, 1833; they had issue : John Mcllvain Foulke, b. Jan. 18, 1795, d. March 13, 1874; moved to Baltimore and m. there, April 10, 1822, Ann Sinclair; from Baltimore he removed to Cin- cinnati, O., where he was extensively engaged in business; two children: Edward Foulke, of Emory, 111., b. July 30, 1834, d. Nov. 6, 1900; m. Ade- laide Colladay, and had five children; Lydia A. Foulke, b. June 27, 1837; m. Nov. 21, 1881, David Wilson, of Evans, 111.; she was a teacher of Friends' School at Gwynedd, and for three years during the Civil War was a volunteer nurse in the U. S. General Hospital. Levi Foulke, b. April 6, 1796, d. Jan. 4, 1878; m. Oct. 27, 1838, Eliza Ann White, of Washington, D. C, and had issue: William L. Foulke, b. July 28, 1840, d. Sept. 14, 1906; m. Beulah Delarue; Eliza Lockwood Foulke, b. Jan. 31, 1845; m. Sept. 23, 1880, Frederick R. Augustus; Margaret Virginia Foulke, b. Aug. 7, 1848; m. Sept. 8, 1868, Robert O. Kirby; Harriet Ellen Foulke, b. April 17, 1852; m. July 21, 1872, Joseph M. Dill; Anna M. Foulke, b. April 9, 1798, d. Nov. 19, 1873; ni. Aaron Lukens; they had issue : William F. Lukens, d. unm.; McILVAIN 1.^4 r Elizabeth S. Lukens, d. unm.; David Lukens, d. unm.; Margaret A. Lukens, m. Albin M. Sniedley; Mary Lukens; Edward Lukens, m. Sarah W. Holdman ; Ellen Lukens ; Richard Henry Lukens, d. unm. William Foulke, b. Feb. 24, 1802, d. July 12, 1882; lived on the ancestral estate in Gwynedd township; m. April 7, 1825, Susanna Conard, dau. of Jonathan and Hannah, b. July 7, 1802, d. June 21, 1871 ; had issue: Hannah C. Foulke, b. March 12, 1826, d. July 16, 1876; m. Oct. 10, 1850, George A. Newbold, son of Samuel and Abigail, and had two children : Clara M. Newbold, b. June 18, 1852, m. June 26, 1889, Solon Heywood Williams; William F. Newbold, b. Oct. 17, 1856; Elizabeth C. Foulke, b. June 10, 1827, d. June 17, 1849; m. April 8, 1847, Daniel Foulke; one child — Anna, m. Henry S. CoUaday; Margaretta Foulke, b. Sept. 11, 1830, d. Dec. 18, 1865; m. Nov. 17, 1864, James Q. Atkinson, of Upper Dublin, Pa.; Lewis Morris Foulke, b. Aug. 6, 1832, d. July 3, 1906; m. June 12, 1871, Susan Elizabeth Edson; he went to Cal. in 1853; was for several years U. S. Supervisor of Internal Revenue, and in later years a large ranch- man; five children: Elizabeth Edson, Edson Louis, Margaret Harriet, Leland Stanford and Lewis Morris, Jr. ; Anna Mcllvain Foulke, b. June 5, 1834; m. Feb. 15, 1855, Charles Bird Shoemaker, of Cheltenham, son of Richard M. and Amelia B., and had issue: Charles Francis, b. Oct. i, 1856, d. March 13, 1876; William Foulke, b. Feb. i, 1859, d. Aug. 20, 1885; Amelia Bird, b. April 20, 1862, d. Oct. 26, 1863; Benjamin Hallowell, b. Nov. 30, 1864, m. Dec. 26, 1907, Caroline B. Conard; Lewis Foulke, b. July 1, 1867, m. June 22, 1899, Lucretia, dau. of Hugh and Martha Gibson Mcllvain ; Ella Foulke, b. July II, 1873; m. Oct. 4, 1894, Thomas C. Satterthwait; Ellen Foulke, b. July 7, 1838, d. Dec. 29, 1863; m. Joseph K. Matlack, of Chester co. ; one child — Marion Matlack, m. Sumner G. Brosius; William Henry Foulke, b. April 26, 1840. Richard Mcllvain, b. Dec. 15, 1772, d. Sept. 15, 1852; m. May 22, 1806, Susan, dau. of John and Mary Humphreys, and resided at Market street and Lancaster avenue, Phila., adjoining his brother, Hugh Mcllvain; one son: J. Humphreys Mcllvain, b. April 13, 1809; m. Nov. 29, 1837, Mary, dau. of Ben- jamin and Grace Oakford; no issue. Hugh McIlvain, b. May 19, 1775, d. Nov. 24, 1838; m. Jan. 9, 1806, Hannah Hunt; of whom later. The old mansion of John Mcllvain, in which the above children were born, still stands to the west of the Chester turnpike, or "King's Road," as it passes through Old Ridley, now known as Leiperville, Delaware county. The residence of his son, John, much larger, and also in good condition, stands nearly opposite. John Mcllvain, Sr., had a quarry near his gristmill and made scythe stones. After his death his widow, Lydia, who continued to reside on the property, continued this business, carrying the whetstones often as far as Philadelphia in her saddle-bags. Issue of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Spencer) Mcllvain: Sarah Mcllvain, b. Oct. 27, 1793, d. July 28, 1795; Lydia Mcllvain, b. Oct. 4, 1795, d. Dec. 28, 1854; m. Dec. 6, 1815, Edward H. Bonsall, b. May 28, 1794, d. April 14, 1879; issue: Spencer Bonsall, b. Nov. 30, 1816, d. April 14, 1888; m. May 10, 1854, Helen Crosby Morton, b. Dec. 23, 1826, d. Dec. 17, 1879; issue: William Morton Bonsall, m. April 3, 1893, Helen Klander; issue: Eleanor C. M. Bonsall. William Milhous Bonsall, b. 1818, d. i8ig; William Bonsall, b. 1820, d. 1823; Edward H. Bonsall, Jr., b. Sept. 23, 1821, d. June 3, 1841; 1342 McILVAIN Jeremiah Bonsall, b. May 28, 1825, d. July 29, 1892; m. Sept. 29, 1851, Margaret F. Hutchinson ; issue : Lydia Bonsall, b. Dec. 20, 1854, d. July 27, 1875; Robert Hutchinson Bonsall, b. April 10, i8s7; Edward Home Bonsall, b. Nov. 19, 1859; m. Oct. 4, 1887, Hannah Rodney Tunnelle ; Henry Bonsall, b. May i, 1862, d. May 4, 189S; Alfred J. Bonsall, b. June 14, 1869, d. inf.; William Spencer Bonsall, b. June 14, 1869, d. inf.; Elizabeth Paxson Bonsall, b. Dec. 22, 1871, d. Dec. 25, 1874. Charles Bonsall, d. inf., 1827; Elizabeth Bonsall, b. 1829, d. 1830; Jane Bonsall, b. 1831, d. 1832; Joseph Hartshorne Bonsall, b. July 7, 1833, d. April 9, 1876, unm.; Jesse Maris Bonsall, b. Jan. 15, 1836, d. Nov. 11, 1841. Eliza Mcllvain, b. Jan. 13, 1798, d. July 19, 1874; m. Jacob Hewres; issue: Spencer Hewes; Charles Hewres. John Mcllvain, b. May 2, 1800, d. Sept. 26, 1801 ; Spencer Mcllvain, b. March 27, 1803, d. Dec. 13, 1889; m. Sarah Crosby, b. April 25, 1801, d. Dec. 21, 1865; issue: Ann Eliza Mcllvain, b. Jan. 28, 1833; m. Feb. 18, 1857, Edward Clark Diehl; issue : Sarah M. Diehl, b. 1859; Ella Fonche Diehl, b. 1861 ; Mary Diehl, b. 1868. Henry Mcllvain, b. July 20, 1834, d. Dec. 27, 1893; m. Sarah C. Pearson; issue: Spencer Mcllvain, b. March 6, 1859; Edward Pearson Mcllvain; Henry Mcllvain. John Spencer Mcllvain, b. Sept. 24, 1805, d. Jan. 23, 1880; m. Sept. 2, 1827, Susan Crosby Morton, b. April 27, 1809; issue: Edward Bonsall Mcllvain, b. March 17, 1830, d. Nov. 13, 1856, on the Island of St. Thomas, West Indies; Jeremiah Mcllvain, b. Feb. i, 1808, d. in Harford co., Md., May 26, 1893; m. March 8, 1833, Ann Crosby Harlan, widow of Dr. Ellis C. Harlan, dau. of John S. and Sus- anna Morton, and sister to Susan Crosby Morton, who m. his brother, John Spencer Mcllvain; she was b. Aug. 2, 1804, d. March 29, 1866; issue: George W. Mcllvain, b. July 9, 1840; m. Rachel, dau. of Dr. Samuel and Susanna G. Ramsey; issue : John Morton Mcllvain, b. Aug. 22, 1868; m. Dec. 24, 1897, Mary E. Fred- enburgh ; Bernard Stump Mcllvain, b. July 29, 1871, of Churchville, Md. ; d. July 8, 1908; Henry Stump Mcllvain, b. Nov. 24, 1877. Anne Crosby Morton Mcllvain, b. Aug. i, 1842. Ann Mcllvain, b. May 4, 1810, d. Dec. 13, 1893; m. Nov. 7, 1832, Levis Miller, of Media, Pa., son of George and Mary, b. July 16, 1806, d. Oct. 24, 1891; issue: Elizabeth Spencer Miller, b. Dec. 21, 1833, d. July 6, 1905; m. Nov. 7, 1855, Joseph Bunting, son of Josiah and Sarah (Sellers) Bunting, b. June 12, 1830, d. Jan. 29, 1890; issue: George Miller Bunting, b. July 28, 1856; m. Nov. 12, 1882, Caroline Sellers Keen, b. April 20, 1859; issue: Howard Keen Bunting, b. Dec. 5, 1883; Edith Sellers Bunting, b. Nov. 26, 1886; Clement Smith Bunting, b. Aug. 29, 1891 ; George M. Bunting, Jr., b. Oct. 27, 1895. Anna Miller Bunting, b. Oct. 4, 1859; m. April 19, 1906, Morgan Bunting, son of Joseph Bunting, Jr., and wife, Emma; he was b. Jan. 14, 1863; Edgar Thomson Miller, b. May 4, 183S; m. Nov. 7, 1865, Mary Haldeman, b. April 24. 1840, d. March 9, 1909; issue: McILVAIN 1343 Elizabeth Haldeman Miller, b. July 11, 1868; m. Feb. 9, 1901, Samuel S. Evans, of Cedartown, Ga. ; issue : Dorothy M. Evans, b. Dec. 24, 1901 ; Samuel S. Evans, Jr., b. March 5, 1905. John Spencer Miller, b. May 5, 1872; m. Dec. 21, 1904, Adele Robinson; Dr. Clarence Haldeman Miller, b. Jan. 10, 1881 ; m. Sept. 3, 1906, Alma Satterfield; Marion Miller, b. April 8, 1885; m. Oct. 6, 1906, Dr. Samuel Lloyd Mc- Carthy, and had Edgar T. M. McCarthy, b. Nov. 28, 1907, d. Feb. 7, 1908. Mary Lavinia Miller, b. Feb. 19, 1837, d. Oct. 20, i860; George Deeble Miller, b. Feb. 3, 1839; m. Oct. 17, 1865, Ann C. Thomas, and re- sides in West Phila. ; issue : Henry Spencer Miller, b. Aug. 31, 1866; Dr. Mary Thomas Miller; Anna Mcllvain Miller, m. Nov. 18, 1902, Edward T. Biddle; issue: George Deeble Biddle, b. Aug. 3, 1905; Mary Taggart Biddle, b. July I, 1907. Anna Miller, b. April 28, 1841 ; m. Oct. 6, 1864, Col. Joseph W. Hawley, of Media, Pa.; issue: Mary Miller Hawley, b. April 14, 1868; m. Nov. 15, 1893, Justice Mitchell Thompson. Levis Miller, Jr., b. Feb. 27, 1843, d. (unm.) after 1864; enlisted Oct. s, 1861, as a private in Seventieth Penna. Regiment (Sixth Cavalry), was taken prisoner at battle of Beaver Dam, Va., May 10, 1864, and is supposed to have died on the way home after being exchanged ; Samuel Miller, b. Feb. 25, 1845, d. Sept. 15, 1908; m. Nov. 12, 1902, Louisa G. McCarty; Sallie Levis Miller, b. Sept. 9, 1847, d. June 13, 1894; m. April 15, 1884, Clement W. Smith, who d. June 25, 1890; no issue; Katharine Miller, b. Nov. 22, 1850; m. Nov. 7, 1879, Albert Levis, b. Feb. 25, 1847, d. Jan. I, 1898; issue: Samuel Garret Levis, b. June 26, 1882 ; Spencer Mcllvain Levis, b. Dec. 6, 1883, d. June 30, 1884; Clement Smith Levis, b. Jan. 26, 1886. Ellen Miller, b. Feb. 5, 1853; m. Nov. 29, 1876, George M. Booth, president of First National Bank, of Chester; issue : Levis Miller Booth, b. Jan. 19, 1878; m. April 24, 1902, Alice Lippincott; had issue: George Martin Booth, b. May 18, 1904; Robert Lippincott Booth, b. July 29, 1907; Helen Lippincott Booth, b. Oct. 21, 1908; Elizabeth Martin Booth, b. March 23, 1882; m. March 23, 1908, Robert Emerson Lamb; Newlin Trainer Booth, b. Oct. 23, 1886. Hannah John Miller, b. March 23, 185S; m. Nov. 7, 1881, Joseph E. Mickle; issue: Joseph Evans Mickle, b. July 3, 1883; m. Oct. 23, 1907, Edith Lucy Cowley; issue ; Joseph Evans Mickle, b. Oct. 30, 1908. Grace Evans Mickle, b. July 2, 1885; George Miller Mickle, b. Dec. 28, 1886; Francis King Mickle, b. Aug. 17, 1889. Samuel Mcllvain, b. Dec. 6, 1813, d. Nov. 11, 1833, unm. James McIlvain, of Ridley, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, fifth child and third son of John and Lydia (Barnard) Mcllvain, born in Ridley, February 14, 1769, died there, October 19, 1850. He married, November 4, 1801, Mary Rob- inson, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born November 8, 1770, died 1838. He married (second) Mary Ann Coulter, by whom he had no issue : Issue of James and Mary (Robinson) Mcllvain: John Mcllvain, b. Oct. 18, 1802, d. April 10, l86g; m. Elizabeth Rugan Matlack, of a prominent Colonial family of New Jersey, Phila. and Chester co. ; issue: 1344 McILVAIN Henry Clay Mcllvaine, b. Feb. 20, 1838, d. Oct. 12, 1900; m. in Annapolis, Md., Oct. II, 1870, Fanny N. Randall; Abraham Robinson Mcllvaine, of Phila., b. Nov. 18, 1847; m. June 24, 1875, at "Glen Isle Farm," Downingtown, Pa., Elizabeth Eshelman; is.sue: Fanny Edge Mcllvaine, b. July 24, 1878; John Gilbert Mcllvaine, b. Dec. 4, 1880; Herbert Robinson Mcllvaine, b. March 16, 1883; Donald Mcllvaine, b. July 28, 1892. William Herbert Mcllvaine, b. March 7, 1852, d. July 21, 1861. Hon. Abraham Robinson McIlvain, b. Aug. 14, 1804, d. Aug. 22, 1863; m. Anna G. Mulvaney; of whom later; William Mcllvain, b. July I, 1807, d. at Reading, Pa., Nov. 9, i8go; m. April 17, 1834, Sarah Crosby Morton; issue: Charles Mcllvain, b. Sept. 20, 1835, d. Sept. 21, 1835; Crosby Morton Mcllvain, b. Sept. 27, 1837, d. July 3, 1895; m. Jan. 12, 1865, Sidney Harvey Leoser; issue: Howard L. Mcllvain, b. Jan. 19, 1866; m. June 27, 1894, Elizabeth Parry Clapp; issue: Sidney L. Mcllvain, b. Oct. 2, 1896. Mary Mcllvain, b. Nov. 4, 1869; m. Jan. 26, 1898, John J. Kutz; issue: Sidney Mcllvain Kutz, b. Jan. i, 1899. Annie Morton Mcllvain, b. Nov. 20, 1877; m. April 8, 1903, John 1,. Mickle. Howard Mcllvain, b. Oct. 26, 1839; enlisted Sept. 24, 1861, in Independent Battery B (Durell's Battery) ; was commissioned First Lieutenant; was killed at White Sulphur Springs, Va., Nov. 15, 1862, while commanding the left section of the Battery, encouraging his men in a desperate artillery duel with the Confederate Artillery; Lieut. Charles A. Cuffel, of the Battery, in his "Durell's Battery in the Civil War," says of Lieut. Mcllvain : "He died the death of a hero, bravely fighting for his country like the soldier that he was. The entire command, officers and men lamented his death and regarded it as an irreparable loss. He was beloved by the whole battery, and especially by the men in his own section. The captain keenly felt the loss of his right-hand man and trusty lieutenant, the one to whom he always turned when an important duty was to be perform- ed. Whenever a responsible or dangerous task was to be executed Mcllvain was called to lead. He did not appear to know fear, but was cool and collected in the thick of the fight as when calmly sleeping under the canopy of his tent. He was kind and just to his men, and would have resented an act of injustice to any one of them; he was capable of maneuvering and fighting a much larger command, and would, no doubt, have been advanced to high rank in the service had his life been spared to the close of the war;" William Robinson Mcllvain, b. Jan. 28, 1841; m. Dec. 31, 1862, Emily Reed Smith; issue : Edv^ard Morton Mcllvain, b. Oct. 2, 1863; m. at St. Ann's Church, Annap- olis, Md., Oct. 10, 1894, Amy Roger Robinson; issue: Edward Morton Mcllvain, Jr., b. July 4, 1895. Howard Mcllvain, b. July 5, 1865, d. March 8, 1868; William Mcllvain, b. Nov. 7, 1870. Albert Mcllvain, b. Dec. 7, 1843, d. same day; Ann Eliza Mcllvain, b. April 4, 1845; Sallie R. Mcllvain, b. Aug. 23, 1849, d. Aug. 27, 1850; Spencer Lightner Mcllvain, b. Aug. 11, 1852; Sarah Crosby Morton Mcllvain, b. May 22, 1853, d. May 24, 1853. Sarah Robinson Mcllvain, b. Sept. 25, 1809, d. April 21, 1882; Anthony Wayne Mcllvain, b. Dec. 25, 1811, d. Oct. 31, 1831 ; Susan Humphreys Mcllvain, b. Aug. 21, 1814, d. May i, 1832. Henry Clay McIlvaine, eldest son of John and Elizabeth R. (Matlack) Mc- llvain, born February 20, 1838, was educated at private schools and at the North- west Grammar School, Philadelphia, under the celebrated Aaron B. Ivins; entered the Central High School, February, 1853, leaving there in July, 1855, to become a student at the Philadelphia Polytechnic College, from which he graduated in 1856. McILVAIN 1345 He then entered the Pennsylvania raih'oad shops at Altoona, Pennsylvania, and served a full term of three years. He then applied for a position of fireman and engineer on the road that he might become familiar with the practical and actual work of a locomotive. After six months experience on a train running from Philadelphia to Columbia, he entered Baldwin's Locomotive Works, and pursued his studies at home for admission as an engineer in the United States Navy. He was appointed Third Assistant Engineer, United States Navy, February 17, i860, and made his first cruise on the Sloop-of-War, "Powhattan," Home Squad- ron, to which he was ordered in May, i860. He was appointed Second Assistant Engineer, with rank of Midshipman, November i, 1861 ; raised to rank of Ensign, January 6, 1862; First Assistant Engineer, with rank of Master, March i, 1864; raised to the rank of Lieutenant, July 25, 1866; and resigned and was honorably discharged, June 21, 1869. He served on the "San Jacinto," east Gulf Squadron, 1862-63; the "Augusta," North Atlantic Squadron, 1863-65; was instructor in steam engineering at the United States Naval Academy, and on the practice ship, "Winnipeg," 1865-68. His last service was on the "Gettysburg," in charge, at the time of his resignation, June 21, 1869. Throughout the service he was known as an ideal officer; his professional attain- ments, his readiness and scrupulous care in the accompHshment of what was re- quired of him, made him beloved by all who knew him or had the privilege of being his shipmate. He was elected a member of Pennsylvania Commandery, Military Order of Loyal Legion, September 4, 1867 ; was a member of its Council, 1897-98, and its treasurer, 1899, to his death in Philadelphia, October 12, 1900. A memorial of him prepared by order of the Commandery, by three Engineers of the United States Navy, as a committee, after giving his official record, concludes as follows : "Mere platitudes and set phrases are useless. Harry Mcllvaine, as we all knew him, in the service, in business, in his pleasures, in any light, from which he might be viewed, was a lovable, gentle, warm hearted and sympathetic friend, and shipmate ; always the same, always sincere, always true." Lieutenant Mcllvaine married at Annapolis, Maryland, October 11, 1870, Fan- nie N. Randall, and they had issue : Alexander Randall Mcllvaine, b. Oct. 2, 1877; Elizabeth R. Mcllvaine, b. Feb. 21, 1879; m. June 2, 1906, E. Crosby Kindleberger ; issue : Katharine W. Kindleberger; Mary Lindsay Kindleberger. Frances H. Mcllvaine, b. Oct. 10, 1882; m. Nov. 11, 1906, Lieut. Roger Williams, U. S. N.; issue: Roger Williams, Jr., b. Dec. 10, 1908; Katharine Wirt Mcllvaine, b. Oct. 21, 1884; Ellen Cheston Mcllvaine, b. June 23, 1886; Henry Clay Mcllvaine, Jr., b. Sept. 3, 1889. Hon. Abraham Robinson McIlvaine, second son of James and Mary (Robin- son) Mcllvain, born in Ridley, Chester county, August 14, 1804, was named for his maternal grandfather, Abraham Robinson, of New Castle county, Delaware, who was a member of Assembly there, 1776-77; a member of the Committee of Safety for New Castle county; raised a battalion for service in the Revolution; was authorized to sign paper money for state of Delaware ; and served as Judge 1346 McILVAIN of Court of Common Pleas, and Orphans' Courts, of New Castle county. Through his mother, Mr. Mcllvaine was also a great-great-grandson of Isaac Sharp, one of the proprietors of West Jersey, a large landholder in and Judge of Salem county, and a member of four successive assemblies of State of New Jersey. Abraham Robinson Mcllvaine was elected to General Assembly of State of Pennsylvania, 1836, and declined a nomination to the State Senate at the expira- tion of his term as Assemblyman in 1838. He was a member of the Electoral College in 1840 and voted for the successful candidates for President and Vice- President. He was elected to the Twenty-eighth United States Congress, from the Seventh Pennsylvania District, as a Whig, and re-elected to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses. He was a strong advocate of a protective tarifif, and his voice was frequently heard on the floor of the house on this subject. He was intimately acquainted with General Winfield S. Scott, John Quincy Adams, Abra- ham Lincoln, and other of the most prominent statesmen of his day. In Mr. Mcllvaine's "National Album," John Quincy Adams wrote an original verse, and their respective famihes were on intimate terms ; Mr. Mcllvaine was one of the delegates selected by Congress to escort Mr. Adams' remains to Springfield, Mass- achusetts, for burial. When Lincoln was elected President of the United States, he wrote to his old friend, Abraham Mcllvaine, asking who would be acceptable to Pennsylvania as a member of his cabinet, and Hon. Simon Cameron, who re- ceived the appointment, later wrote to Mr. Mcllvaine, stating that Mr. Lincoln had told him that he owed his appointment to the recommendation of Mr. Mc- llvaine. Abraham R. Mcllvaine located on a farm in what was known as Springton Manor, northern part of Chester county, where his farm of three hundred and fifty acres is still known as "Springton." It is beautifully situated, sloping down to and overlooking the historic Brandywine Valley. He was a leading man in his neighborhood, much loved by his neighbors and had a wide circle of friends. His family still have numerous letters written to him by President Lincoln after his election. He was president of the Agricultural Society of Chester and Delaware counties, and filled other positions of trust and honor. Mr. Mcllvaine married, March 16, 1830, Anna Garrison, daughter of Patrick Mulvaney, of St. Clairsville, Ohio. He died October 22, 1863. Issue of Abraham R. and Anna G. (Mulvaney) Mcllvaine: James Patrick Mcllvaine, b. Feb. 21, 1831, d. unm., Nov. 10, 1854: Mary Elizabeth Mcllvaine, b. June i, 1833, d. March 29, 1839; William H. Mcllvaine, b. March 16, 1835, d. Sept. 22, 1841 ; Charles Mcllvaine, b. May 31, 1840; m. Oct. 20, 1864, Sarah Gibson, dau. of Hugh and Martha (Gibson) Mcllvain; no issue: Mary R. Mcllvaine, b. May 13, 1842; Elizabeth Mulvaney McIlvaine, b. July 17, 1844; m. Oct. 15, 1868, John Gibson Mc- llvain, of firm of J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., Phila., son of Hugh and Martha (Gib- son) Mcllvain; see forward; Sallie Robinson Mcllvaine, b. Oct. lo, 1852; m. Dec. 6, 1883, Frank P. Miller, b. Jan. 25, 1858; issue: Anna Mcllvaine Miller, b. Dec. 6, 1887. Hugh McIlvain, fifth son and youngest child of John and Lydia (Barnard) Mcllvain, was born in Ridley, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1775. In 1798 he started the lumber business in what is now West Philadelphia, establish- HANNAH HUNT. THE FIRST PUPIL AT WESTTOWN SCHOOL. McILVAIN i2>A7 ing the business since carried on by his descendants near the site where he erected the Mcllvain Mansion in 1803, at Market street and Lancaster road, on land later purchased by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, just west of the present tunnel, and continued to live there until his death, November 24, 1838. He was a mem- ber of the Society of Friends. He was a man of quiet and unobtrusive disposi- tion, of good business ability and sterling integrity, holding a high place in the esteem of the community in which he lived, loved and labored, though taking little part in political or public affairs. From the "Monthly Sketches" we extract a portion of a testimonial of his worth and virtues, written nearly a year after his decease : "* * * His virtuous life prepared him for the scene and he met the King of Terrors in all that dignified and manly composure (which indeed characterized his whole life) and en- abled him to overcome Death and the grave, and with pious and almost unexampled resig- nation through a depth and intensity of suffering he verified the truth that death may be divested of its sting and the grave shorn of its victory. "He settled in this place in the year 1798 and though nothing can be said (neither can it be desired) of any part he has performed in the theatre of 'Political Life,' for though we find high eulogiums passed upon such, yet after all their devotion to their country and their coimtry's cause, we look to the private domicile as to a Talisman of their worth and to the social fireside as a mirror of their virtues. If reflected by such a mirror, if such be the blessed sanctuary where the flame of devotion and of all social virtues has kindled and burned with a steady uninterrupted and increasing brilliancy until the lamp of life is ex- tinguished, it affords a living memorial which indeed the pen cannot strengthen. Such was particularly his happy allotment. Of a quiet and unobtrusive disposition with a retired- ness of character, his manners were nevertheless of that peculiar form which although staid and sedate were ever open, serene and cheerful. If was only to those to whom he was most intimately connected who could fully appreciate his worth. The unfeigned emotion with which he would frequently mingle his feelings with those of others in their enjoyments- contrasted with his general staidness of demeanor, was particularly attractive, tending to endear and strengthen the social ties, and are such as add a peculiar charm to many virtues. He was an ardent admirer of the works of nature, and in pointing out her beauties, his countenance beamed with devotional feelings, and it was easy to portray therein that he soared from 'Nature up to Nature's God'." "From such a life the result was as might naturally be expected, serene and tranquil. It is not for me to harrow the feelings of the survivors with a minute detail of his sufferings, only known to those around him throughout which, weekly and daily expecting his close, not a murmer escaped his lips ; on the contrary he expressed his fears that he was not sufficiently patient, evincing that resignation to the Divine will was the constant prayer of his soul. On being asked how he felt, he replied, 'AH peace, all peace.' He affectionately took leave of all his children making some requests as to the manner in which he wished them to live; he took his departure in the full possession of his faculties until the close, in which he exemplified the fulfillment of the promise that 'the reward of righteousness is peace, and the effect thereof, quietness and assurance forever.' "nth Mo. 7th, 1839" Hugh Mcllvain was married January 9, 1806, in the new Meeting House at Darby, to Hannah Hunt, they being the first couple married therein. Hannah (Hunt) Mcllvain was born in Darby, November 14, 1786, died in Philadelphia, October 11, 1829. "Endeared to her family and friends by every tender tie that could bind the human life." She was a daughter of John and Rachel (Gibbons) Hunt, and was the first girl entered as a pupil at Westtown Boarding School, on its opening day, in May, 1799. The "Westonian," a publication of the institution, in its issue of Sixth Month, 1901, contains a silhouette portrait of Hannah Hunt, and a short sketch of her life from which we extract the following: "One would like to give free play to his imagination and his pen in an attempt to describe "A noble type of good Heroic womanhood." 1348 McILVAIN which the institution has fostered among her numerous followers. * * * The original Westtown girl is described as having been of medium size, handsome, with dark blue eyes, brown hair, pretty complexion, a bright cheerful and affec- tionate disposition and very conscientious." She was the great-great-granddaughter on two lines of James Hunt, of Kent, England, who emigrated to Pennsylvania, 1684, with his two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, and settled in Kingsessing, Philadelphia. His first wife, whose maiden name was Chambers, had died in England, and he married (second), 1686, Eliza- beth, daughter of Richard Bonsall, of Darby, Chester county, and had by her two children, Ann and James. The latter born April 14, 1691, died April 10, 1743; married, November 5, 1712, Rebeckah Faucit, born March 24, 1696, died Decem- ber 26, 1770, daughter of Walter Faucit, of Haverah Park, West Riding of York- shire, England, who was married. May 23, 1675, to Grace Atkinson, at the house of Henry Settle, in Netherdale, Yorkshire, and with her emigrated to Pennsyl- vania in 1684, and settled on a tract of land extending from Ridley creek to Crum creek, in Ridley township, Chester county. Walter Faucit, a recommended minister among Friends, was one of the signers of the testimony against George Keith in 1692. He was appointed one of the "Peace Makers" for Chester county in 1685, and was a member of Provincial Assembly in 1695. He died in 1704. His wife, Grace, died, and he married (sec- ond), June 14, 1694, Rebecca Fearne, who survived him and died September 16, 1756. She was a daughter of Joshua Fearne, of Ashoner, Derbyshire, England, who with his mother, Elizabeth Fearne, and sisters, Elizabeth and Sarah, emi- grated to Pennsylvania, 1682, settled in Darby, where he died in 1693. He was Sheriff of Chester county. Justice of the Courts, 1689-93 ; member of Provincial Assembly, 1690-93, and was one of those selected to testify against George Keith. He married, 1687, Abigail Bates, of New Jersey, who died in 1691. JohnHunt, son of James and Rebeckah (Faucit) Hunt, born June 6, 1716, died January 6, 1791 ; married, November 22, 1738, Elizabeth, born September 15, 1719, died October 30, 1794, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Smith) Sellers, of Darby, and granddaughter of Samuel Sellers, the emigrant to Darby from Derby- shire, England, by his wife, Ann Gibbons. John Hunt, father of Hannah (Hunt) Mcllvain, was a son of John and Elizabeth (Sellers) Hunt; was born August 18, 1753, died August 16, 1836. He married, October 29, 1777, Rachel, born April 26, 1760, died February 15, 1845, daughter of Joseph Gibbons, born October 24, 1712, died 1779, one of the most distinguished men of Chester county, a member of Provincial Assembly for fifteen consecutive terms, 1743-63, by his wife, Han- nah, born November 7, 171 5, sister to Humphrey Marshall, the celebrated botanist, and daughter of Abraham Marshall, from Gratton, Derbyshire, England, who set- tled at Darby, 1700, and removed to the forks of the Brandy wine, in Chester county, 1707, by his wife, Mary, daughter of James Hunt, emigrant, before men- tioned, by his first wife. Elizabeth Hunt, other daughter of James Hunt, by his first wife, married, 1696, William Bartram, and became the mother of that other noted botanist, John Bartram, of "Bartram's Gardens," so familiar to Philadel- phians. The ancestry of Rachel (Gibbons) Hunt, back to John Gibbons, emigrant from Derbyshire, is given in these volumes under the title of the Gibbons family. McILVAIN 1349 Issue of Hugh and Hannah (Hunt) Mcllvain: Rachel Mcllvain, b. Nov. s, 1806; m. Oct. 27, 1830, Samuel Hutchinson; both are bur. at Darby Friends' burying-ground ; left no issue; John H. McIlvain, b. Sept. 22, 1808, d. April 26, 1885; the eminent naturalist; m. Sarah Ann Jackson ; of them presently ; Lydia Mcllvain, b. Jan. 28, 181 1, d. unm., Dec. 14, 1876, bur. at Darby; James Mcllvain, b. Aug. 17, 1813, d. April 19, 1894; m. March 23, 1837, Rebecca Budd Sterling, of Burlington co., N. J., b. April 12, 1815, d. Nov. 18, 1903, and located in that county; both are bur. at the Friends' burying-ground at Mount Holly, N. J.; issue: Edith S. Mcllvain, b. Jan. 10, 1838, unm.; Charles Henry Mcllvain, b. Dec. 23, 1840; m. Oct. 11, i860, Elizabeth Cooper Gahan, b. March 8, 1842; residence, Mt. Holly, N. J.; issue: Harry Charles Mcllvain, b. Nov. 16, 1862, d. Aug. 11, 1863; Sterling L. Mcllvain, b. Jan. 18, 1870, d. Aug. 26, 1874; Clarence Eugene Mcllvain, b. March 8, 1872; m. Alice Weiss; James Mcllvain, b. Feb. i, 1874; m. Elizabeth Mincer; Lewis Henry Mcllvain, b. July 5, 1876; m. Hester Shark; Florence Gertrude Mcllvain, b. Nov. 22, 1882, d. Dec. 24, 1882. Anna E. Mcllvain, b. Jan. 27, 1843; m. April 16, 1863, Wilham Stokes, of Mount Holly, N. J., b. Sept. 10, 1827; issue: James Mcllvain Stokes, b. Sept. 27, 1865 ; m. Dec. 19, 1894, Evelina Bart- lett, b. Aug. 22, 1871 ; issue : Francis Stokes, b. Jan. 15, 1896. William Jarrett Stokes, b. March 26, 1868; m. March 14, 1891, Margaret Perkins, b. July 4, 1870 ; issue : Edith Sterling Mcllvain Stokes, b. Aug. 24, 1895. Thomas Sterling Mcllvain, b. Feb. 25, 1846, d. June 18, 1905; m. Oct. 25, 1871, Mary Louisa Zelly, b. Nov. 19, 1849; issue: Norman Coppuck Mcllvain, b. Nov. 24, 1872, d. Feb. 21, 1873; Horace Kemble Mcllvain, b. Jan. 25, 1874; Florence Edith Mcllvain, b. Jan. 2, 1883. Julia P. Mcllvain, b. May 22, 1852; m. Feb. 10, 1881, Charles F. Hulme, b. Dec. 7, 1848, d. May 4, 1896; no issue; Clara J. Mcllvain, b. Aug. i, 1854, d. March 30, 1875; James S. Mcllvain, b. Dec. 6, 1859, d. May i, 1907; m. June 15, 1881, Anna P. McBride, b. Sept. 14, 1862; issue: William Gibbons Mcllvain, b. Oct. 27, 1882; m. Nov. 7, 1906, Sarah Stout; issue : Marguerite Stout Mcllvain. Edwin Hulme Mcllvain, b. Feb. 23, 1887. Hugh McIlvain, b. Nov. 14, 1815, d. Feb. 25, 1879; m. Martha Gibson; of whom later; Hannah Mcllvain, b. Dec. 22, 181 7, d. Jan. 11, 1891 ; m. Oct. 6, 1841, John Sidney Keen, of Phila., b. Jan. 8, 1819, d. Dec. 25, 1872; both bur. at Woodland Cemetery, Phila. ; issue : Mary H. Keen, b. Aug. 8, 1842; m. June 30, 1863, Nathan Sellers, b. July 18, 1836; issue : Norman Sellers; Sidney K. Sellers. Joseph S. Keen, Jr., b. Jan. 24, 1845; ni. Nov. 29, 1871, Charlotte Siter Perot, b. May 15, 1851; Mr. Keen is general manager of the American Pipe Manufactur- ing Co., Phila.; issue: Harold Keen; Lucy A. Keen, b. Feb. 28, 1851 ; m. Oct. 23, 1872, Samuel C. Woolman, grain merchant and president of the Commercial Exchange, Phila.; b. April 12, 1839; issue : Helen Woolman, b. Oct. 4, 1873; Bertha Woolman, b. July 21, 1878; m. April 25, 1905, Charles Stuart Somer- ville; Walter Woolman, b. Jan. 20, 1880; m. Mabel ; Francis Woolman, b. Aug. 6, 1886, d. Dec. 30, 1902; Clarence Woolman, b. Oct. 21, 1888. 1350 McILVAIN Caroline Sellers Keen, b. April 20, 1859; m. Nov. 22, 1882, George M. Bunting, treasurer of American Pipe Manufacturing Co.; issue: (See Ante.) Howard Keen Bunting, b. Dec. 5, 1883; Edith Sellers Bunting, b. Nov. 26, 1886; Clement Smith Bunting, b. Aug. 29, 1891; George M. Bunting, Jr., b. Oct 27, 1895. Abraham G. Mcllvain, b. May 7, 1820, d. June 12, 1836, while a student at Westtown Boarding School; bur. at Darby; Naomi P. Mcllvain, b. Sept. 19, 1823, d. Dec. 13, 1909; m. May I, 1845. Charles Long- streth Mather, of Mt. Holly, N. J., b. Jan. 31, 1816, d. July 17, 1902, bur. at Mt. Holly, N. J.; issue: Elizabeth Mather, b. Feb. 14, 1846, d. Sept. 29, 1863; Lydia M. Mather, b. May 18, 1848; m. June 10, 1874, Samuel Mather, of Rich- mond, Ind. ; issue: Ernest Mather; Irene Mather; Naomi Mather; Lindley Mather; Earl Mather. Charles Sidney Mather, b. April 19, 1850; m. Oct. 16, 1873, Tacie A., dau. of John Stackhouse and Phebe (Gilbert) Mitchell, Bucks co.. Pa., b. Nov. 2, 1849; Littie Avaline Mather, b. Aug. 18, 1874; m. George Mitchell; John Mather, b. Sept. 29, 1876; m. Ethel Byles; Charles Mather, b. March 10, 1879; Howard Mather, b. Oct. 12, 1881; Milwood Mather, b. Jan. 11, 1884; George Mather, b. April 21, 1887. Susan Longstreth Mather, b. May 7, 1853; Naomi Mather, b. April 9, 1857; m. April 5, 1899, Clarence Loveland, of Mount Holly, N. J.; issue: Helen Loveland, b. Feb. 2, 1900. Hugh Mcllvain Mather, b. June i, 1859, d. Aug. 30, 1861. Richard Mcllvain, b. July 5, 1826, d. July 15, 1826, bur. at Darby; Susan Humphreys Mcllvain, b. Feb. 15, 1828, d. July 17, 1894; m. Feb. 3, 1853, Alfred Bunting, Justice of Phila., b. March 25, 1817, d. Jan. 24, 1886; both bur. at Laurel Hill; issue: George Middleton Justice, b. July 5, 1854, d. at Denver, Colo., May 21, 1898, unm.; Alfred Rudulph Justice, b. Feb. 19, 1857; vice-president of the A. R. Justice Co., Phila., residence Narberth, Pa.; m. April 11, 1892, Jessie Lewis; issue: Mildred Lewis Justice, b. April 27, 1893; Philip Syng Justice, b. April 6, 1896; Jean Gilpin Justice, b. Jan. 17, 1899. Herbert Mcllvain Justice, b. June 30, 1859, d. Nov. 19, 1906; m. Nov. 15, 1893, Minnie Estelle Vickers; no issue; Florance Milwood Justice, b. May 25, 1864; president of the A. R. Justice Co.; •m. March 17, 1886, Mary Syng Letchworth; issue: Marion Thornton Justice, b. Aug. 19, 1887; Caroline Letchworth Justice, b. April 26, 1889; Sue Melanie Justice, b. Jan. 12, 1891 ; Elizabeth Syng Justice, b. July 10, 1896. Mary F. Justice, b. Dec. 11, 1865; m. Nov. 14, 1895, Henry Pratt Canby, of Fernando, Cal. ; issue : Alfred Justice Canby, b. June 23, 1897; Caroline Prescot Canby, b. July 2, 1899; Margaret Lesley Canby, b. Aug. 6, 1904. John H. McIlvain, second child and eldest son of Hugh and Hannah (Hunt) Mcllvain, born in West Philadelphia, September 22, 1808, became an eminent (•rnithologist. He was educated at Westtown, and other Friends' schools, and McILVAIN 1351 early developed a love of nature, inherited from ancestors from whom descended both the celebrated botanists, John Bartram and Humphrey Marshall. John H. Mcllvain's special study was Ornithology, and his knowledge of birds was not surpassed by any ornithologist of his day. This knowledge was not obtained from books, but from personal observation, and actual acquaintance with the wild birds in their native haunts. Gifted with a marvelous memory, he knew instantly the note of every migratory bird he had once heard. It was the writer's good fortune to have made many trips with Mr. Mcllvain ; on one occasion we visited Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains, our object being to familiarize ourselves with the nesting habits of the birds of that region. We stopped at a small hotel kept by "Sammy Case." I awakened early and heard the note of a bird unfamiliar to me. Calling Mr. Mcllvain's attention to the song, he became quite excited and pronounced it a Mourning Warbler (Geothlypis Phila- delphia), though he informed me that he had heard the note but once, over thirty years before. In half an hour I brought in the bird, which sure enough proved to be a fine specimen of the Mourning Warbler. During our stay in Tobyhanna from June i to 10, we came across a number of other specimens of this Warbler, which were doubtless breeding there, but the most diligent search failed to disclose one of their nests. Mr. Mcllvain was very observant; he was not only familiar with the notes of the various birds, but their movements and characteristic poses were so well known to him as to indicate the name of the particular bird without the necessity of a very close inspection. He watched our Ruby Throated Humming Bird (Trochilus Columbris) building its lichen covered nest and lining it with soft tomentum from the stem of the fern — and such was his ingenuity that with a little practice he was able to produce an imitation, which it was extremely difficult to distinguish from the original. Professor Spencer F. Baird, of the Smithsonian Institute, was visiting him at his home, and being asked if he could tell the original nest, laughingly replied that he thought he could, but on being shown the two side by side selected the one made by Mr. Mcllvain as the original. The mounted specimens of birds in Mr. Mcllvain's collection were characterized by lifelike attitudes so true to nature that he easily surpassed any other artist in this particular field. This was recognized in the award to him of the first prize for mounted birds at the Centennial- Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876. Although undoubtedly Mr. Mcllvain discovered more than one variety of bird, he never presented his claims for recognition before any scientific society. Hef objected to having birds named after him because his particular desire was to have his name associated with the Warbler. His wish in this respect was finally real- ized late in life by the naming of a West Indian Warbler for him, although it would have been more gratifying to have had an American Warbler bear his name. His friend. Major Charles F. Bendire, had the highest regard for Mr. Mcllvain, and presented him with many varieties of birds from Arizona. Mr. Mcllvain made his first trip to the Rocky Mountains in compahy with John K. Townsend ; his second trip was made in 1854. Gold furnished the pretext for the journey, but was not the lure. From his journal we can picture his trip across the plains, where roamed the buffalo in countless numbers ; savage Indians made the trip at that time rather a perilous undertaking, and more than one of his com- 1352 McILVAIN panions lost their scalps. But no dread of the Indians marred the unalloyed pleasure he felt in the acquisition of ornithological treasures. He had a feeling of security when in the company of Indians, they seemed to know intuitively that he was their friend. Many of the most celebrated Indian chiefs were personally known to him, and his collection contained Indian costumes, head dresses, bows and arrows, etc., mainly presented to him by these chiefs. When delegations of Indians came east to visit the "Great Father" at Washington, Mr. Mcllvain frequently entertained them, and it was through his influence that they permitted themselves to be photographed. Besides his fine collection of birds, Mr. Mcllvain left a large and unique col- lection of Indian relics which were scattered at his death. Several cases of his mounted birds are in the possession of his children, Mrs. Edward L. Rogers and Mrs. Howard Watkin, of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, witnesses to the skill of a rare genius. John H. Mcllvain died at his residence, 3303 Baring street, Philadelphia, April 26, 1885. He married, August 31, 1840, Sarah Ann Jackson, born May 3, 1817, died March i, 1902. Both are buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia. Issue of John H. and Sarah Ann (Jackson) Mcllvain: Harriet Mcllvain, b. July 3, 1841 ; m. Edward L. Rogers, of Wynnewood, Pa., grain merchant, formerly president of the Commercial Exchange, Phila. ; they now reside on Wynnewood ave., Narberth, Pa. ; issue : Charles M. Rogers; Laura Rogers, m. Paul Loder; Elsie Rogers, m. Oct., 1906, Theodore Loder. Charles J. Mcllvain, b. May 5, 1843; m. Mary E. Werntz; issue: Hattie Mcllvain; Charles J. Mcllvain, Jr., m. April 25, 1899, Mabel Dickerson; issue: Mabel Dickerson Mcllvain, b. Dec. 26, 1904; John Hunt Mcllvain, b. March 13, igo8. Anna Mcllvain. Alfred H. Mcllvain, b. Jan. 5, 1847; m. (first) Jessie Griers ; issue, John G. Mcllvain; m. (second) Laura ; Samuel H. Mcllvain, b. Oct. 5, 1849; m. Ann Hahn; issue: Nellie and Harold; Laura Mcllvain, b. Feb. 9, 1858; m. Sept. 12, 1883, Howard Watkin, of Wynnewood, Pa. ; issue : Helen Lilian, d. in childhood; Frank M., b. June 28, 1889; Marguerite, b. March 18, 1893. Hugh McIlvain, third son of Hugh and Hannah (Hunt) Mcllvain was born in Philadelphia, November 14, 1815. After completing his education he appren- ticed himself to a builder, and when of age engaged in that business for himself, which he continued until after the death of his father. On January i, 1839, he entered into the lumber business with his brothers, John H. and James Mcllvain, and remained in that business until his death, February 25, 1879. He was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, and inherited the strict business integrity of his father, and the happy genial disposition of his mother; always seeing the bright side of everything ; having a keen insight in the wants of others and aiding with a generous hand those less fortunate than himself. He married, November 3, 1842, Martha Gibson, at the home of her father, John Gibson, then a beautiful place known as "Upland," in Kingsessing township, Phil- McILVAIN 1353 adelphia county, western bank of the Schuylkill. She was born August 31, 1824, and was also a birthright member of the Society of Friends. They were the first couple allowed by Darby Meeting to be married at home. Hugh and Martha Gibson Mcllvain resided at the old Mcllvain homestead at West Chester road and the old Lancaster turnpike, which Hugh had inherited from his father, until October 16, 1866, when they moved to their new home erected on the property in Kingsessing, inherited by Martha from her father's estate, it having descended from her great-great-grandfather, Nathan Gibson, who purchased it in 171 2. Although the parents of a large family of children, Hugh and Martha (Gibson) Mcllvain devoted much time to charity and good works. Their home was always a bright, cheerful center of intellectual and social life. Hugh inherited from his mother's family, the Hunts, some of the same tastes that were shown by the emi- nent botanists, Humphrey Alarshall and John Bartram, priding himself in having his orchards, gardens and lawn well filled with selected plants, fruit and shade trees. He was also fond of nature on other lines, as was shown by his fine herd of Jersey cattle. He was awarded five first prizes out of seventeen, and a bronze medal at the Centennial Exposition in 1876, for his Jersey cattle, and he would have had the first prize for the herd had one of the animals been a few months older. Hugh and Martha (Gibson) Mcllvain were both instrumental in the establish- ment of the Friends Meeting at Fifteenth and Race streets, and both were active in its educational interests, being members of the school committee until their deaths. Hugh was one of the two original trustees of the property. It was also largely through their influence that the Friends Meeting and schools were started at Thirty-fifth street and Lancaster avenue. Through his efforts the Lumber- man's Insurance Company of Philadelphia was incorporated, and he was selected as its first president, which office he held until his death. Martha (Gibson) Mcllvain was a member of the Board of Managers of the Home for Destitute Colored Children and acted as treasurer for twenty-five years, spending much time in the care and oversight of the institution. During the agitation in the Society of Friends for higher education, Hugh and Martha (Gibson) Mcllvain were among the first to offer their services, and assisted in the establishment of Swarthmore College, he being appointed chairman of the Building and Property Committee, and she one of the Household Com- mittee ; both giving active and valuable service on the various committees of the Board of Managers while health permitted. Martha Gibson, born August 31, 1824, died December 6, 1890, who married Hugh Mcllvain, November 3, 1842, was a daughter of John Gibson, of Darby, by his wife, Sarah Jones; granddaughter of Samuel Gibson by his wife, Mary Price; great-granddaughter of David Gibson, by his wife, Mary Sellers; and great-great- granddaughter of Nathan Gibson and his wife, Ann (Hunt), Blunston. Nathan Gibson, last mentioned, emigrated to Pennsylvania from Kendal, county of Westmoreland, England, March 6, 1712-13, and settled in Kingsessing, Phila- delphia county, where he died February 15, 1757. He became the owner of con- siderable real estate in the district of Kingsessing, which he devised to his son, David, subject to payment of legacies to other children and grandchildren. He 1354 MclLVAIN was a man of prominence in the community, and identified with the local institu- tions of his section. In 1743, when the Darby Library was established, he was one of the founders, and was chosen its first treasurer. The supply of the books came directly from London until 1760. When we consider the difficulty in obtain- ing books and the scarcity of money in those early days, the effort to found and maintain an institution of this kind for the instruction of themselves and their posterity, is in the highest degree creditable to the founders. Nathan Gibson married, 1719, Ann (Hunt) Blunston, widow of John Blunston, and daughter of James Hunt, of Darby, before referred to as the ancestor of Hannah (Hunt) Mcllvain, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Bonsall, of Darby. Richard Bonsall had emigrated from Moulldridge, Derby- shire, 1683, with his wife Mary, and at least four of his nine children, of which Elizabeth, who married James Hunt, December 9, 1686, was the second. They were members of the Society of Friends, as were the Hunts. Richard Bonsall died September 13, 1699, and his wife Mary, August 24, 1698. Thomas Pearson, mentioned in the will of Nathan Gibson, as "son-in-law," had married Hannah Blunston, daughter of his wife Ann, by her first husband, John Blunston ; Ann died March 26, 1751. Nathan and Ann Gibson had three children, viz: Joshua, born March 30, 1720; married Mary Fowler; David, of whom pres- ently; Ann, born January 22, 1729-30; married John Sellers. David Gibson, second son of Nathan and Ann (Hunt) Gibson, born at King- sessing, Philadelphia, November 30, 1721, inherited his father's real estate there, and lived all his life in that township, dying June 9, 1791. He married, February 27, 1744-45, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Smith) Sellers, of Darby, whose ancestry is given in these volumes under the title of The Sellers Family. She died May 16, 1777. David and Ann (Sellers) Gibson had seven children, viz: Sarah, born December 4, 1748; married, October 16, 1766, Nathan Jones, of whom presently ; Jonathan, David and Ann, died in infancy ; Nathan, born July 16, 1752; married, 1773, Sarah Howell; Samuel, of whom presently; Ann, bom April 8, 1765, married, 1784, WilHam Hill. Samuel Gibson, son of David and Mary (Sellers) Gibson, born at Kingsessing, Philadelphia, April 4, 1762, died in that township, June 27, 1836. He was the owner of considerable real estate there and at Upland, and extending along the Schuylkill. He married. May 23, 1788, at Merion Meeting, Mary Price, who died November 9, 1809, aged forty years and twenty-four days. She was a daughter of John Price, of Lower Merion township, Montgomery county, born August 27, 1721, died 1792, and his wife, Mary Davis, born May 24, 1731, died April 8, 1808. John Price was of Welsh ancestry, a son of Reese Preese (Ap Rees), bom in Merionethshire, Wales, January 11, 1678-79, died in Merion, Philadelphia county, 1760; married (first) at Radnor, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1705, Sarah Mere- dith, and (second) December 9, 1718, Elizabeth, daughter of Ellis and Lydia (Humphrey) Ellis, both natives of Wales, Lydia Humphrey coming to Pennsyl- vania in 1682, with her widowed mother and brother and sisters, the family set- tling in Haverford, Chester county; Ellis Ellis emigrating with his father, Thomas Ellis, from Pembrokeshire, Wales, 1683, and settling in Haverford, where he died in 1706, and his wife, Lydia, in 1742. Elizabeth, third child, born April 14, 1689, married Rees Preese or Rees Ap Rees, December 9, 1718. Edward McILVAIN 1355 Rees, father of Rees Ap Rees, was a son of Richard Ap Rees or Price, of Tyddin Tyfod, Merionethshire, Wales, who died in Wales in 1685. Edward Rees and his family came to Pennsylvania in the ship "Lyon" with Dr. Edward Jones, in August, 1682, and settled in Merion, Philadelphia county, being one of the found- ers of Merion Meeting in 1695, and donated the land upon which the Meeting House was built, the lot being a part of his plantation, which extended along both sides of the old Lancaster road, now Montgomery avenue, purchased in 1682. He married in Wales, Mably, daughter of Owen ap Hugh, a lineal descendant of Marchwethian, Lord of Isaled. She died April 19, 1699, and he married (second) Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Rees) Humphrey, of Wales. His son Rees, before mentioned, was by the first wife. This Price family was descended from King John of England (1199-1216) by his second wife Isabella, through his son Henry HI, and grandson Edward I, who married Eleanor, daughter of Ferdinand HI, of Castile; Eleanor, daughter of the latter, marrying Henri, Count de Barr, of France, their daughter, Eleanor de Barr, became the wife of Llewellyn ap Owen ap Merededd, of Wales, from which period the line of descent of the Price family is as follows : Thomas ap Lewellyn, son of Llew- ellyn ap Owen ap Merededd by Eleanor de Barr, married Eleanor, and had Eleanor, who married Gryfifydd Vychan IV, and had Owen Glendower Tudour, Prince of Wales, who married Maud, daughter of lef ap Howell ap Ada, and had Lowry, who married Grufifydd ap Enion, of Corsygedol, Merionethshire, and had Mary, who married Robert Lloyd ap David Lloyd and had Thomas Lloyd, who married Catharine, daughter of Robert ap Griffith, and had Mary, who married Richard, of Tyddyn Tyfod, and had Rhys ap Richard, who had Griffith ap Rhys, who had Richard Price, as the name "ap Rhys" then came first to be written, who died in Wales in 1685. The children of the latter, exclusive of Edward, above mentioned, who was his eldest son, were Jane, married Cadwallader Morgan of Merion, Philadelphia county; Hannah, married Rees John Williams, of Merion, an account of whom and some of their descendants is given in these volumes in the account of Robert Lloyd and some of his descendants; a daughter, married John William ; Thomas Price, remained in Wales. Samuel and Mary (Price) Gibson had issue: John, of whom presently; Ann, born Avigust 24, 1792; married (first) Thomas Paschall, by whom she had Stephen and Mary A. Paschall, and (second) June 13, 1833, Halliday Jackson. John Gibson, only son of Samuel and Mary (Price) Gibson, born at King- sessing, Philadelphia, January 13, 1790, inherited under his father's will the plan- tation called "Upland" in Kingsessing township, on which he was already resid- ing, containing 121 acres, and several other lots of land in said township, and lived there all his life, the township being incorporated into the city of Philadel- phia in 1854, as the twenty-fourth ward. He was also seized of a farm of 150 acres in Merion which he and his wife conveyed to his sister, Ann P. Jackson, 1848. He died at his residence in the twenty-fourth ward of city of Philadel- phia, the old Gibson homestead at Gibson's Point on the West Bank of the Schuylkill River, February 4, 1858, at the age of sixty-eight years. He married (first) October 26, 1815, Sarah Jones, who died May 26, 1847, aged fifty-two years, two months and seven days; (second) February 28, 1850, Martha Jones, sister to his first wife, who survived him. 1356 McILVAIN Sarah and Martha Jones, the two wives of John Gibson, were the daughters of his first cousin, Gibson, son of Nathan and Sarah (Gibson) Jones. This Jones family, Hke the other famihes with which the Gibsons had intermarried, was of Welsh ancestry, being descended from John ap Thomas, of Llaithgwn, Pennllyn, Merionethshire, Wales, "Gentleman" who was associated with Dr. Edward Jones, of Bala, in the purchase of five thousand acres on the Schuylkill, comprising the Welsh tract in Merion and Haverford townships, of William Penn in 1681, and the organization of a colony of Welsh Friends to settle thereon. Dr. Edward Jones came to Pennsylvania on the "Lyon" in 1682, to locate the land, and have surveyed the various purparts to the respective purchasers, and John ap Thomas intended to follow with the other purchasers, but was taken ill when about to sail and died May 3, 1683. He was a son of Thomas ap Hugh of Wer Fawr, parish of Llandderfel, Comot of Pennllyn, county Merioneth, gentleman, who died prior to 1682. John ap Thomas became a member of the Society of Friends in 1672, and it was by reason of the persecution of himself, family and friends for their religion that he decided to establish a colony for them in Pennsylvania. His widow, who was a daughter of Robert Hugh, immediately after his death and burial, with her four sons, four daughters, and servants, in all about twenty persons, set sail for Pennsylvania in the ship "Morning Star," and arrived in Philadelphia, November, 1683. One son and two daughters died on the voyage, and the remainder of the family pro- ceeded to the land laid out to the deceased father and husband, by virtue of his individual purchase of one thousand two hundred and fifty acres. It was called Gilli yr Cochiald, and the log house erected thereon by Katharine and her sons was standing until a few years ago. Records show Katharine Thomas to have been a woman of great force of character and of much Christian worth ; old manuscript letters in possession of the family show her to have been connected with many of the oldest British families. Her death is thus recorded in the family Bible, "Our dear mother Katharine Thomas, departed this life the i8th day of ye II month 1697, about ye 2d or 3d hour in ye morning (as we thought) & she was buryed next day." The surviving children of John ap Thomas and his wife Katharine Robert were: Thomas Jones, married at Merion, June 23, 1702, Anne, daughter of Grif- fith John ; Robert, of whom presently ; Evan John, died in 1697, unmarried ; Kath- arine, married. May 3, 1696, Robert Roberts ; Elizabeth, eldest daughter, married in Wales, Rees Evan. Sidney Rees, daughter of the last named couple, married Robert Roberts, son of John Roberts, of Pencoyd, and an account of her descend- ants is given elsewhere in these volumes. By the will of John ap Thomas his one thousand two hundred and fifty acres were divided in equal shares of three hundred and twelve and one-half acres each between his four sons, Thomas, Robert, Evan and Cadwalder, with subdivision to the survivors in case of death of any under age. His personal estate, including an interest in the Free Society of Traders, was devised to his wife and daughters. His wife was named as sole executrix, and ten "dear trusty & well beloved friends" are named as trustees or overseers, among whom were his son-in-law, Rees Evan, of Pemaen, near Bala; his colleague. Dr. Edward Jones, of Bala; Thomas Ellis, of Cyfenedd, emigrant before referred to ; Dr. Thomas Wynn ; McILVAIN 1357 John ap John ; Edward Moris, and Robert Owen ; all doubtless prospective settlers in the recently purchased "Welsh Tract" in Pennsylvania, all at least emigrating soon after. Robert John, or Jones, son of John ap Thomas and Katharine Robert, born in Llaithgwm, Merionethshire, Wales, became a useful and prominent member of the Welsh Colony, and acquired considerable land in addition to what he had inherited from his father, devising at his death to his children about one thousand four hundred acres. He was commissioned a Justice, 1715-18-19-22-25 ; and a member of Provincial Assembly, 1706-07-11-12-13-14-15-17-18-19-20-21-22. His will, dated September 21, 1746, was proved October 17, 1746. Robert Jones married, January 3, 1693-94, at Radnor Monthly Meeting, Ellen, sister of David Jones, of Blockley. She died May 8, 1745. They had ten children, the four eldest of whom died young and unmarried, as did one of later birth ; those who survived were Ann, born 1702; married James Paul; Catharine, born 1704; married Thomas Evans; Gerrard, born 1705; married (first) Sarah Lloyd, 1729, and (second) 1742, Ann Humphrey; Robert, of whom presently; Elizabeth, born 1715; married, 1748, Daniel Lawrence. Robert Jones, son of Robert and Ellen Jones, born in Merion township, Phila- delphia county, August 3, 1709, died there March 31, 1770. He was named as an executor of his father's will and inherited thereunder the homestead plantation of three hundred and twenty-five acres and one hundred acres in Goshen township, the former included the historic Gulph Mills in the present township of Upper Merion, Montgomery county. He married, 1734, Margaret, daughter of John Knowles, of Oxford township, Philadelphia county, who came from Berkshire, England, with his mother, Elizabeth Knowles, prior to 1700, and in 1705 married Ann, daughter of Joseph and Margaret Paull, who had emigrated from Ilminster, county Somerset, England, about 1685, and settled in Oxford township. Mar- garet (Knowles) Jones died January 17, 1777. Robert and Margaret (Knowles) Jones had ten children, of whom Nathan was the fourth. Nathan Jones, born March 14, 1739-40, died in Cumberland county, Pennsyl- vania, about 1807. He married, October 16, 1766, as above stated, Sarah, daugh- ter of David and Mary (Sellers) Gibson, at Darby Meeting House. In 1778 Nathan and Sarah Jones and five children took their certificate from Haverford to Darby Meeting, and in 1785 with wife and seven children he brought his certifi- cate back to Haverford, from whence they removed to Cumberland county. After her husband's death, Sarah (Gibson) Jones and her son Norris returned in 1807 to Darby. They had in all ten children, the eldest, Gibson Jones, married, 1794, Beulah, daughter of Azariah and Sarah (Lippincott) Shinn, of Gloucester county. New Jersey. He died November 27, 1804, at Darby, and his widow, December 17, 1804; they had three children: Sarah, born February 19, 1795; married John Gibson (his first wife) ; William, born October 15, 1797; Martha, born May 16, 1802 ; became second wife of John Gibson. The children of John and Sarah (Jones) Gibson were : Samuel, born August I, 1818; married, May 28, 1845, Hannah Serrill; Mary Beulah, died in infancy; Martha, born August 31, 1824; married, November 3, 1842, Hugh Mcllvain; Ann, born August 22, 1827; married. May 6, 1846, Isaac Dixon; Mary, born June 9, 1358 McILVAIN 1833; married, May 11, 1854, Isaac Haldeman; Emma, born November 30, 1837; married, August 28, 1862, Davis R. Pratt, M. D. Issue of Hugh and Martha (Gibson) Mcllvain: Sarah Gibson Mcllvain, b. Jan. 2, 1844, d. Jan. 22, 1891 ; m. Oct. 20, 1864, Charles Mc- Ilvaine, b. May 31, 1840, d. Aug. 4, 1909, son of Hon. Abraham R. Mcllvain, above mentioned, by his wife, Anna G. Mulvaney; no issue; John Gibson Mcllvain, b. July 23, 1845; senior member of firm of J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., of Phila., lumber merchants; m. at "Springton," Chester co., Pa., Oct. 15, 1868, Elizabeth Mulvaney Mcllvaine, dau. of Hon. Abraham Mcllvain, of "Spring- ton," above mentioned, by his wife, Anna G. Mulvaney; they reside at East Down- ingtown. Pa. ; issue : Abrara Robinson Mcllvain, b. Aug. 20, 1869, d. Oct. 21, 1889; Martha Gibson Mcllvain, b. Nov. 4, 1877; m. April 18, 1906, Maurice Ostheimer, M. D.; issue: Alfred James Ostheimer 3d, b. April 25, 1908. John Gibson Mcllvain, Jr., b. July 4, 1881 ; m. Dec. 14, 1904, Lily Cortelyou, dau. of Lowell M. Palmer; Walter Biddle Mcllvain, b. Sept. 8, 1884; m. Alida B., dau. of Thomas E. Baird. Hannah Mcllvain, b. April 12, 1848, d. March 31, 1905, bur. at Westfield, N. J.; m. Nov. 19, 1868, Charles Miller Biddle, b. Feb. 3, 1844, son of Robert and Anna (Miller) Biddle; member of Biddle Hardware Company, of Phila., treasurer of Swarthmore College, &c.; they resided at Riverton, N. J.; issue: Anna Biddle, b. Nov. 24, 1869; m. Nov. 23, 1893, Joshua Woolston Atlee, b. Feb. 1, 1867; issue: Clara Atlee, b. March 19, 1896; Charles Biddle Atlee, b. July 27, 1898. Martha Mcllvain Biddle, b. March 28, 1871 ; Helen Biddle, b. May 16, 1875; Hannah Mcllvain Biddle, b. Aug. 14, 1878; Charles Miller Biddle, Jr.. b. Aug. 14, 1878; m. Oct. 17, 1904, Anna H. Lippincott, b. Dec. 27, 1879; issue: Anna Lippincott Biddle, b. Sept. 18, 1908. Robert Biddle 2d, b. Feb. 19, 1880. Anna Mary Mcllvain, b. Sept. 14, 1850; m. Nov. 2, 1876, Henry C. Biddle, brother of Charles M. Biddle, who m. her sister, Hannah; he was a woolen and cloth merchant of Phila., and d. June 28, 1886, in his 41st year; bur. at Westfield, N. J.; issue: Hugh Mcllvain Biddle, b. Aug. 29, 1877; m- Oct 19, 1904, Adelaide Elma Steele, b. May 10, 1876. Mary Biddle, b. March 19, 1879; m. March 31, 1902, Nathan Myers Fitler, b. Nov. 2, 1878; issue: N. Myers Fitler, Jr., b. June 26, 1903; Henry Biddle Fitler, b. June 3, 1905. Henry Canby Biddle, Jr., b. April II, 1880; m. April 21, 1908, Margaret Seton Fleming, b. Oct. 26, 1887; Lilian Biddle, b. July 11, 1881; Robert Ralston Biddle, b. Jan. 18, 1885. Martha Mcllvain, b. Jan. 14, 1855; m. April 15, 1880, Andrew M. Eastwick, of Phila., b. Sept. 29, 1859, son of Andrew M. and Lydia A. Eastwick; they reside at Fifty- ninth street and Elmwood avenue, Phila.; issue: Helen Mcllvain Eastwick, b. June 3, 1881 ; m. John K. Harper; issue: John Roberts Harper, b. Jan. 7, 1908. Andrew Maurice Eastwick, b. Oct. 20, 1885. Emma Mcllvain, b. Dec. 23, 1856; m. Oct S, 1893, William J. Cooper, of firm of Wm. J. Cooper & Co., hardware, &c., Camden, N. J., b. June 24, 1849; residence, 715 Cooper St, Camden; son of John and his wife, Mary M.; Hugh Mcllvain (3rd), b. June 7, 1862, member of firm of J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., lumber merchants; m. Nov. 26, 1885, Mary Hibbard Bunting, at the home of her par- ents, Spring Hill, now Secane, Delaware co.. Pa. ; her mother being the fifth genera- tion to own the old homestead known as "Greenbank;" Mary Hibbard Bunting was b. March 4, i860, dau. of Samuel Sellers Bunting and his wife, Anne Hill Hibbard; Samuel Sellers Bunting, b. April 23, 1828, was a son of Josiah Bunting, of Darby, and McILVAIN 1359 his wife, Sarah Sellers; Anne Hill Hibbard, b. May 5, 1831, dau. of Isaac Hibbard, of Upper Darby township, and his wife, Susan Fairlamb; Hugh and Mary B. Mcllvain built their home in 1885-86 at Sixtieth st. and Elmwood ave., Phila., on property pur- chased from his mother, it being part of the property owned by Nathan Gibson, who settled there in 1712, Hugh being the sixth generation to live thereon. Issue of Hugh and Mary Bunting Mcllvain : Edna Bunting Mcllvain, b. March 21, 1890; Mary Bunting Mcllvain, b. Jan. 28, 1891 ; Hugh Mcllvain, Jr., b. Dec. 4, 1892, d. Sept. i, 1893; Hugh Mcllvain, Jr., b. Dec. 17, 1895, d. Feb. 1, 1900; Richard Mcllvain, b. March 18, 1900, d. March 18, 1900; Margaret Gibson Mcllvain, b. Aug. 27, 1904, d. July 11, 1905. Helen Mcllvain, b. Feb. 14, 1865 ; m. Oct. 18, 1887, Samuel J. Bunting, b. Nov. 27, 1862, son of Samuel J. and Susanna L. Bunting, of Sharon Hill, Delaware co.. Pa.; issue: Samuel J. Bunting, Jr., b. May 31, 1889; J. Gibson Mcllvain Bunting, b. Nov. 5, 1896. Lucretia Mcllvain, b. July 30, 1867; m. June 22, 1899, Lewis Foulke Shoemaker, b. July I, 1867, son of Charles B. Shoemaker, of Phila., by his wife, Anna M., dau. of William and Susanna Conard Foulke, and granddaughter of William Foulke, of Gwynedd, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John and Lydia (Barnard) Mcllvain; he is senior mem- ber of firm of Lewis F. Shoemaker & Co., Phila.; issue: Helen Shoemaker, b. April 16, 1900; Lewis Foulke Shoemaker, Jr., b. April 24, 1902; Anna Mcllvain Shoemaker, b. April 6, igo6. All the above children of Hugh and Martha (Gibson) Mcllvain were born at the old Mcllvain homestead at Market street and Lancaster road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, except Lucretia, youngest, who was born at the new Mcllvain homestead built on the Gibson estate. Fifty-ninth street and Elmwood avenue. All of them were birthright members of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadel- phia, held at Fifteenth and Race streets, and all were married by the Friends' ceremony. Since James Mcllvain and his wife, Jane Heaney, came to America with their children in 1740, the Mcllvains have been found in various branches of trade. Their son, John, having apprenticed himself to Jacob Roman, miller, at Ridley, married his daughter, Mary, in 1755, becoming owner of the gristmill soon after Jacob's death, and later the stone quarries on Crum creek. Mary having died, he married, in 1761, Lydia Barnard. After John's death, Lydia continued running the gristmill and quarries ; raising her large family in strict accordance with the principles of the Society of Friends, and starting her boys in business as soon as they were old enough to assume the responsibilities. Her son, Jeremiah, had a sawmill and tanyard adjoining the gristmill, and his brother, John, a lumber yard nearby. It remained for their brother, Hugh, however, to start one trade which has been continuous and should be mentioned here. Hugh Mcllvain, in 1798, established at West Chester road and Old Lancaster road. West Philadelphia, the lumber business, with the assistance of his brother, John, which has since been the pride of the family and is now being continued by his descendants. He continued under the firm name of Hugh Mcllvain until 1801, when his brother, Richard, was admitted into the partnership ; they trading as Richard and Hugh Mcllvain until 1832, when Richard retired. Hugh continued alone until 1835, when his son, James, entered into partnership with him, trading as Hugh Mcllvain & Son until the death of Hugh, November 24, 1838. The first of the following year, 1839, the three sons, John H., James and Hugh, 1360 McILVAIN 2d, entered into partnership, continuing the business of their father. John soon withdrew, leaving James and Hugh, 2d, trading as James and Hugh Mcllvain until 1854, when Hugh, 2d, having bought his brother's interest, continued as Hugh Mcllvain until 1868, when his son, J. Gibson Mcllvain, was taken into part- nership ; they trading as Hugh Mcllvain & Son until the death of Hugh, 2d, Feb- ruary 25, 1879. J. Gibson Mcllvain continued alone until January i, 1888, when his brother, Hugh Mcllvain, 3rd, was admitted and the firm name changed to J. Gibson Mcllvain & Company, which title has since been used, they having admitted J. Gibson Mcllvain, Jr., into the firm, ist Mo. ist, 1903, and his brother, Walter B. Mcllvain, ist Mo. ist, 1908; the members of the firm now being, J. Gibson Mc- llvain, Hugh Mcllvain, 3rd, J. Gibson Mcllvain, Jr., Walter B. Mcllvain. The business was established at the Junction of West Chester road and Old Lancaster turnpike, about the present location of the Pennsylvania Railroad sta- tion at Thirty-second street, north side of Alarket street. This at that time was the junction of the three main thoroughfares, Darby road, or King's highway, to Chester, now known as \\"oodland avenue ; Old Lancaster turnpike to Lancaster, now Lancaster avenue ; and the West Chester road, afterwards called Washington street, and later Market street, leading westwardly to West Chester and eastward- ly to Philadelphia, crossing the Schuylkill river over the Middle ferry at the loca- tion of the present Market street bridge. This was an ideal site, being near the river, and at that time most of the lumber was received by boat, although some came from the country mills by team over the three highways mentioned above. This site was occupied until the firm moved, in 1852, to the northwest corner of Thirty-fourth and Market streets. As the business increased later Hugh Mc- llvain, 2d, found it necessary to occupy, about 1872, another piece of ground at the northwest corner of Thirty-sixth and Market streets, which he had purchased. Later, the business still increasing, J. Gibson Mcllvain and Hugh Mcllvain, 3rd, purchased, in 1892, the property comprising about fifteen acres, lying between Woodland avenue and Gray's avenue. Fifty-sixth and Fifty-eighth streets, belong- ing to the estate of Mark Devine, deceased, which he had originally purchased from John Gibson, their grandfather. This was considered the most suitable site on account of the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio railroads crossing each other within it ; also being within short hauling distance from the Schuylkill river. After making connections with both railroads, building their sheds, stocking them with selected hardwoods and building materials, they celebrated the centennial anniversary of the business established by their grandfather in 1798, by moving May I, 1898, from their old office, 3401 Market street, to the new location at Fifty-eighth street and Woodland avenue. As was published by the New York Trade Journal, in 1898: "We do not know but we are led to believe that this is the only instance of the kind in the United States of a lumber concern One Hundred Years old, at least by succession in a direct line in three generations." Within a few years after this date, the business grew to such an extent that they soon had most of the fifteen acres well covered with lumber, carrying prob- ably the heaviest stock of any yard in the city. At 8:17, on the evening of March 27, 1906, fire was discovered, the origin of which is unknown, the center of the yard, including the sheds, or in all, about four acres, being completely destroyed. McILVAIN 1361 Ten million feet, or $335,000 worth, of as choice hardwoods as was ever accumu- lated in any one place was consumed by the flames in about seven hours. This was probably the most spectacular fire that has ever occurred in Philadel- phia, the light from the fllames being observed for many miles. The city of Cape May fearing a great conflagration, telephoned to the authorities at Philadel- phia for information. It was observed that flocks of all kinds of birds, including ducks and geese, were attracted by the light and flew into the flames. On account of changing conditions, the property surrounding the yard building up as a residential section and the firm's wholesale business having increased, they did not rebuild their sheds, but continued to carry carload lots of hardwood, ex- pecting to sell the property for building purposes. In the meantime, they estab- lished new offices in the Crozer Building, 1420 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, where they have continued to push their growing wholesale hardwood trade in carload lots, shipping direct from stocks they now carry at the mills at various originating points. At this date, it is a record that the three generations have continued the business successfully for one hundred and ten years, and two members of the fourth gen- eration have lately been admitted to the partnership, as before mentioned. KNIGHT FAMILY. Lower gives as the probable derivation of the surname Knight, the Anglo-Saxon Cniht, meaning a youthful warrior, or military follower. There are a number of English families of the name apparently not being in the slightest degree related to each other. The American branch of the family is descended from one of these families that appears in Worcestershire as early as 1346. WiLLiELMO Knyght, de Bradley, according to the Lay Subsidies of Worcester, 1346, paid eight shillings for the fifth part of a knight's fee, in the Hundred of Oswaldelow, formerly held by William de Bradley. He had issue: Ralph Knight^ of whom presently: Richard Knight, who on Nov. 29, 1385, appeared as prosecutor in an action against the community of Basford, Nottingham ; Johannes Knight, who was enrolled as Burgess, June, 1395, of Nottingham. Ralph Knight, "filius Willielmo Knyght," appears in 1374 in a Pedes Finium, versus William Lee and Isabel, his wife, in Clapham, Surrey, having purchased of them lands in Clapham. He had issue : WiLUAM Knight, of whom presently; Johannes Knight, who, with wife, Johanna, sold certain lands in Wandlesworth, Surrey, to John Lacey, Richard Forder, and Richard Danyell, 1418. William Knight, "filius Ralph Knight," purchased land in Effyngham, Sur- rey, 1412, of Robert Blake, of London, and Constance, his wife, as shown by Surrey Fines, 14 Henry IV., No. 103. He had issue: William Knight, of whom presently; Oliver Knight, who, in 1483, had of Richard Martyn and Alyce, his wife, lands at Sut- ton, Surrey; Henry Knight, who had in 1500, land in Croydon, Surrey, of Matthew Mylshe and Alia- nor, his wife. William Knight, son of William Knight, married Eleanor, daughter and co- heir of "Johannis Iwardly, of Buck ;" died in 1498, leaving issue : John Knight, of whom presently; William Knight, who leased lands of Thomas Sampson John Knight, son of William and Eleanor Knight, married Margaret, daughter of George Wharton, and had issue : Richard Knight, of All Saints, Worcestershire, who made his will March 20, 1571, and from whom descend the Worcestershire Knights; John Knight, of whom presently. John Knight, son of John and Margaret Knight, had property at Scowde, Worcestershire, is mentioned in the Churchwarden's account of St. Michael's parish in Bordswaine, Worcester, 1547; leased land in Berkshire in 1548; by his KNIGHT ARMS. KNIGHT 1363 marriage with Elizabeth Smythes became possessed of the estate Smythes of Ling- field, county Surrey. By her he had one son, John Knight, who inherited Smythes of Lingfield, county Surrey, from his mother, and at his death, 1581, it was inherited by his son, George Knight, a yeoman of Lingfield, county Surrey, who married Alice, daughter of Richard Brown, and had issue : John Knight, of whom presently; Mathew Knight who had wife, Agnes, and a son, John, to whom administration on his estate was granted Dec. 12, 1596, as of Lydd, Kent; Robert Knight, b. 1533, became Rector of Wotton, Surrey, 1554; Nicholas Knight, b. 1538, who with his brothers settled in county Gloucester, where he m. Feb. g, 1560, Elyn Bradshaw; Richard Knight, of Eastrington, Gloucester, to whom was granted, 1533, certain tithes anciently belonging to the Abbey of Gloucester, in Farley, near Amney; his son and heir, Robert Knight, had a living in the manor of Eastrington, 1572; another son, Richard Knight, is mentioned in the will of his cousin, Francis Knight, 1616. John Knight, son of George Knight, of Lingfield, Surrey, by his wife, Alice Brown, was born in Lingfield, 1540; married. May 4, 1567, Isabel Saxbie. In 1577 an escheat was issued against his property in county Gloucester for con- tumacy. "John Knighte, 'ghostly counselor'," appears as a witness to the will of William Bodman, shipwright, Bristol, dated September 4, 1575, and proved De- cember 5, 1775. He was buried at Cowden, October 28, 161 1. John Knight mar- ried (second) in Standish, county Gloucester, December 8, 1575, Silvester Berde. He had issue : John Knight, of whom presently; Alexander Knight, who with some of his relatives returned to Worcestershire; Philip Knight, who also settled in Worcester; James Knight, whose three daughters, Eleanor, Margaret and Mary, are mentioned in the will of his brother, Henry Knight, 1639; Matthew Knight, who had a daughter, Frances, and a son, John; Henry Knight, whose will, made at Gloucester, April 24, 1639, mentions Alice, late wife; sons, Robert (eldest), Henry (second son, who m. July 31, 1654, Sarah Taylor, and had issue), Richard (youngest son) ; daughters, Elizabeth, Susan, Margaret, Anne and Mary Knight; the three daughters of his brother, James, above mentioned; and devises "messuage and garden in parish of St. John the Baptist ;" Francis Knight, an Alderman of city of Bristol, whose will, made Aug. 8, 1616, and proved Oct. 12, 1616, mentions son, Francis, his wife, Katharine, and son, John; son Edward's children, Bridget, Robert and John; daughter, Martha, wife of William Challoner, of Bristol, merchant, and their children, Robert, Francis, Martha, Joane, William and Thomas; "sister Bentley's children;" Frances, daughter of brother, Mat- thew; Thomas Knight, "and the rest of brother John's children;" cousin, Richard Knight; brother-in-law, Robert Aldworth; this Robert Aldworth, with Giles Elbridge, both merchants of Bristol, had a grant of 12,000 acres of land on the river Pemaquid, from the President and Council of New England, Feb. 29, 1631-2, and also 100 acres additional for every person transported thither by them. John Knight, son of John and Isabel (Saxbie) Knight, married (first) a daughter of Jeremy Blanck, and (second) 1590, EHzabeth Willis, of Bretforton, county Worcester, of the Willis family of Fenny Compton, county Warwick, from whom descended Gov. George Wyllys, (born in Fenny Compton, 1580) whose will made at Hartford, Connecticut, December 14, 1644, and proved in London, February 9, 1647, devises to his son George certain property "provided he come over to New England." Of this family was also Francis Willis, of the parish of Ware river, county Gloucester, Virginia, progenitor of the prominent Virginia family of the name of Willis. 1364 KNIGHT John Knight, by his two wives, had issue : Edward Knight, of whom presently; Stephen Knight, who gave a recognizance, dated at Stokes Prior, Gloucestershire, Dec. 20, 1620, for the appearance of William Christopher, but who a few years later settled as a mercer in the nearby parish of Bromsgrove; Francis Knight, who settled in Honeybourne, county Gloucester; m. in Weston Subedge, 1626, Mary Winston, of Laburton; Frances Knight, spinster; Richard Knight, who in 1616 lived in Severn Stokes, Worcester, but m. in the Parish of Frampton on Severn, July 23, 1627, Margaret Hemmons, and had a son, Richard, who m. Nov. 23, 1663, Margaret Savage, and they in turn had a son, Richard, who m. July 29, 1711, Rebecca Gabb. On August 24, 1671, a grant of arms was given Richard Knight, and his nephew, Richard Knight : Gules, three bends or, on a canton sable a spur or; Crest, a spur or, between two wings saljle; Thomas Knight, m. Oct. 20, 161 7. Alice Osborne, and had a son, Thomas, m. May 6, 1649, Elizabeth Hume. Edward Knight, of Woodbury Hill, Worcester, married Alice Dimery, and had issue : Giles Knight, of whom presently; Francis Knight, m. July 31, 1654, Elizabeth Jarat; John Knight, settled in South wark, Surrey; William Knight, m. Sept. 26, 1653, Joane Davis, (second) July 4, 1664, Elizabeth Cooke; Richard Knight, of Cowden, who with his uncle, Richard Knight, before mentioned, was granted the arms and crest, before described, Aug. 24, 1671 ; m. Sept. 27, 1652, Agnes Cowley; issue: Richard Knight, m. April 27, 1690, Mary Lippite. Giles Knight, son of Edward Knight, of Woodbury Hill, Worcester, and his wife, Alice Dimery, born May 9, 1614, married (first) Elizabeth Williams, a sister of Thomas Williams, of Whetenhurst, Gloucestershire, whose son, Richard Williams, was a settler in Taunton, Massachusetts, and was accompanied to America by a sister, Elizabeth Williams. Giles and EHzabeth (Williams) Knight had four sons, all of whom emigrated to America, viz : Thomas Knight, of whom presently; Benjamin Knight, settled in Bensalem township, Bucks co.. Pa.; Abel Knight, who went to N. C, where his descendants still reside; John Knight, located in Mass., where his cousins, Richard and Elizabeth Williams, had previously settled; his descendants are quite numerous and now widely scattered over the New England States and Canada; some of them having acquired considerable prominence in public affairs; among these being Jeremiah R. Knight, U. S. Senator from R. I. Giles Knight married (second) Elizabeth, daughter of George Payne. She is referred to in the will of John Elbridge, (son of Giles Elbridge, before referred to as one of the grantees of twelve thousand acres of land in New England) of the Parish of St. Peter's, Bristol, county Gloucester, dated September 11, 1646, as "cousin Elizabeth." Giles Knight, son of Giles and Elizabeth (Payne) Knight, came to Pennsyl- vania with William Penn, in the "Welcome," in October, 1682, and settled in Byberry, Philadelphia county. He had married in England, Mary, daughter of Joseph English, of Horsley, (about twenty-five miles northeast of Bristol, Glou- 1 ■ ^^^^^K 1 IBBBBWBI as- ^ i^^HI ^^^^B HvT'- 1 •? 1 k 1,. t 1^ Will ^ 1 ■|H^^HB1 U?i5!-^^^*«^tii C.^^L^*«-a^^^^ KNIGHT 1365 cestershire), who accompanied him to Pennsylvania. This Joseph Enghsh was an original purchaser of one thousand acres of land of William Penn, five hundred acres of which were laid out to him in Byberry, near the site of Byberry Friends Meeting House, and another tract of five hundred acres in Warminster township, Bucks county, on which he settled on his second marriagS, 1684, to Widow Joan Comly ; he divided his Byberry tract between his son, Henry English, and his son-in-law, Giles Knight. Pie died in Bucks county, 1686. Joseph English and his son-in-law, Giles Knight, were members of the Society of Friends prior to their emigration to Pennsylvania, and were among the first members of Byberry Meeting. Giles Knight was a man of prominence and ability, liberal and progressive in his views. He died August 20, 1726, and his widow, Mary (English) Knight, died July 24, 1732. They have left numerous descend- ants in Bucks and Philadelphia counties, who, in the successive generations to the present time, have taken a prominent part in the affairs of their respective coun- ties as well as of the Province and State. Thomas Knight, one of the sons of Giles Knight, of Gloucestershire, by his first wife, Elizabeth Williams, came to America in 1683, and settled in Burlington county, New Jersey. He married, by New Jersey license, dated August 12, 1686, Elizabeth Browne, of Burlington. Little is known of his subsequent life, or of the time and place of his death or that of his wife. Isaac Knight, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Browne) Knight, married at Haddonfield, New Jersey, 1728, Elizabeth Wright. He died March 22, 1750, and his wife, November 27, 1746. She was a daughter of Jonathan Wright, many years a member of Assembly from Burlington county. Jonathan Knight, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Wright) Knight, was the owner of considerable real estate in Burlington and Gloucester county. He mar- ried 1756, (first) in Gloucester county. New Jersey, Elizabeth Clement, of an old New Jersey family, some account of which is given in these volumes; (second) Elizabeth Delap, or Dunlap, as the name is usually spelled, April 8, 1765 ; (third) March 13, 1769, Isabel Davis. William Knight, only son of Jonathan, by first wife, Elizabeth Clement, was the owner of several hundred acres of land at Collingswood, Gloucester, now Camden county. New Jersey, inherited from his father. He married, March 18, 1784, Elizabeth Webster, of Haddonfield, New Jersey, and had two sons, viz : Samuel Knight, born February 3, 1785; married Sarah, daughter of Richard and Sarah Williams, of Philadelphia, and on his marriage settled in Philadelphia ; and, Jonathan Knight, born June 6, 1788, married, November 15, 1809, Rebecca, born April 5, 1789, daughter of Edward Zane Collings, of Newton township, Gloucester county, New Jersey, and his wife, Sarah Thomas. He inherited a portion of the lands of his grandfather, near Collingswood, but was obliged by reverses to sell the greater part thereof. The land belonging to the family of his wife, Rebecca Collings, [See "Collings" and "Lane" families, First Settlers in Newton Township — Clement] had largely passed out of the family prior to her marriage, but some of it was held by Edward Zane Collings, third of the name, a half century later. 1366 KNIGHT Issue of lonathan and Rebecca (Callings) Knight: Martha Washington Knight, b. April 9, 1812; m. James Harding Stevenson, of Phila.; Edward Collings Knight, b. Dec. 8, 1813; of whom presently; Isaac Knight, b. Nov. 14, 1815; Samuel Knight, b. April 7, 1818; Sarah Collings Knight, b. Oct. 20, 1819; m. Aaron Albertson Hurley, of Phila.; Jonathan Knight, b. Sept. S, 1821, d. inf.; Jonathan Knight, b. Nov. 24, 1823. Edward Collings Knight, born at Collingswood, New Jersey, December 8, 1813, went to Philadelphia, 1832, at age of nineteen, and secured a position as clerk in the grocery establishment of Atkinson & Cuthbert, South street wharf, and remained with them for four years, leaving them in 1836 to establish himself in the grocery business on Second street. Having acquired a thorough business training, and possessed of fine executive and business ability, his business thrived from the start. In 1844 he engaged in the importation of coflfees on a large scale and became a ship owner, and in 1846 removed to the southeast corner of Chestnut and Water streets, and added to his wholesale grocery, commission, and importing business, that of sugar-refining, and in 185 1 organized the firm of E. C. Knight & Co., sugar refiners, and became widely known as a merchant and business man. The sugar-refining business eventually outgrew the original plant, and in 1881 the immense refining plant was erected on Mr. Knight's property, Delaware avenue between Bainbridge and South streets, and extending back to Penn street, one of the most complete and convenient refineries in this country, with a capacity of fifteen hundred barrels per day, their trade extending to all the larger cities of the United States. Mr. Knight early in his business career became interested in railroad enter- prises ; he was elected a director of the Pennsylvania railroad, and it was largely through his instrumentality as chairman of the committee that the American Steamship Line, between Philadelphia and Europe, was established, and he was appointed its first president. He later withdrew from the Pennsylvania railroad directorship, and became a director of the Central railroad of New Jersey, of which he was president from 1876 to 1880. In 1874 he organized, and was chosen president of the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad Company, which position he held until his death, July 22, 1892. He was also a director of the Philadel- phia & Reading, and of the North Pennsylvania Railroad companies, and was president of the latter. He was also the first president of the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, of Philadelphia. Probably one of the most interesting events of his long and successful career was his invention, in 1859, of the sleeping car, later known as the Pullman Sleeper, the company organized by him for its manufacture having sold their patents to the Pullman Company in 1868. In 1873 Mr. Knight was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, and his sound opinions and advice as a busi- ness man had unusual weight in the formulation of much of the best provisions of the present organic law of this Commonwealth. He was chosen president and was one of the most active promoters of the Bi-centennial Association of 1882, commemorative of the landing of William Penn. He was for many years a director of the Union League, and was a presidential elector in i860. {/p^^f^ CO?vnjc- (/h.. /'Gn^/ut. KNIGHT 1367 Though early transplanted to Philadelphia, where his whole active life was spent, always making it his residence, and doing all in his power to promote the best interest of the city, Edward Collings Knight always retained a keen interest in Collingswood, the place of his birth. Whenever opportunity offered he pur- chased, bit by bit, the lands that had formerly belonged to the Collings and Knight families, and after obtaining them all, he set aside eighty acres and donated it as a public park in memory of his parents, and placed in trust, one hundred thousand dollars, the interest of which to be always used in maintaining and beautifying the grounds. Edward Collings Knight married, July 20, 1841, Anna Marie, daughter of James Magill, of Maryland, and his wife, Ann Marie Leinau (see DeLignaud Family). Issue of Edivard Collings and Anna Marie (Magill) Knight: Jonathan Knight, b. May 28, 1842; Anna Magill Knight, b. Oct. 2, 1848; Edward Collings Knight, Jr., b. May 16, 1855, d. inf.; Annie Collings Knight, b. March 25, 1861 ; Edward Collings Knight, Jr., b. Dec. 14, 1863. Edward Collings Knight, Jr., born in Philadelphia, December 14, 1863, mar- ried, June 3, 1886, at St. Paul's Church, Chestnut Hill, Clara Waterman, daugh- ter of Edmund Parsons Dwight, and his wife, Clara, daughter of Isaac Skinner Waterman, who was born in Philadelphia, November 18, 1803, and married, March 3, 1831, Mary L. Woodward. He was a son of Isaac Skinner Waterman, grandson of Jesse Waterman, of Philadelphia, and great-grandson of Bernoni Waterman Jr., of the Barbadoes. Edmund Parsons Dwight was a son of Jonathan Dwight ; grandson of Capt. Justus Dwight; great-grandson of Captain Nathaniel Dwight, who was commis- sioned Captain in 1757, and marched to the relief of Fort William Henry; great- great-grandson of Justice Nathaniel Dwight, Justice of the Peace and of the Courts of Hampshire County, Massachusetts ; and great-great-great-grandson of Capt. Timothy Dwight, who held a commission in the Colonial Army from 1676 to 1693. The father of Capt. Timothy Dwight was John Dwight, founder of the family in America, who came from Dedham, England, 1634, and settled in Water- town, Massachusetts, 1635, and the following year became one of the nineteen grantees and owners of Dedham and adjacent lands in Massachusetts. Edward Collings Knight Jr. and his wife, Clara Waterman (Dwight) Knight, have one daughter, Clara Waterman Knight, b. April 27, 1887; m. Dec. 31, 1907, at St. Mark's Church, Phila., Sidney Jones Colford, Jr., of New York; Sidney Jones Colford, Jr., is a son of Sidney Colford Jones, who prior to his marriage, Oct. 8, 1882, to Laura Frances Chartrand, changed his name to Sidney Jones Colford; his father was Lewis Colford Jones, who m. Aug. 11, 1849, Catharine Margaretta Berryman; a son of Isaac Col- ford Jones, who m. Dec. 10, 1823, Rebecca Mason ; and grandson of John Jones, who m. April 29, 1779, Eleanor Colford. KLAPP FAMILY. The Klapp family of Philadelphia is descended from the ancient family of Clapp, long settled in Devonshire, which claimed descent from Osgod Klapa, a Danish noble at the Court of King Knut, (1017-33), and from whom Clapham, Surrey, where he had a seat, is supposed to have derived its name. The Clapp family were long possessed of the Manor and estate of Salcome, in Devon, and bore as their arms, ''Quarterly, first and fourth, ermine, three battle axes ; second, sable, a griffin passant, argent; third, sable, an eagle with two heads, displayed within a border engrailed, argent." Representatives of this family were among the early Puritan settlers of New England, five landing at Dorchester, Massachusetts, between 1630 and 1640; and a sixth coming later to New York founded the Philadelphia branch of the family in America. Dr. George Gilson Clapp, founder of the American branch of the family with which this narrative is concerned, was born in England, presumably in the county of Devon, and was educated for the profession of medicine. The account of his life and travels prior to his arrival at New York about the year 1670, is largely traditional, though verified at material points by documentary evidence. In sub- stance it is as follows : Possessed of an ardent thirst for knowledge, Dr. George Gilson Clapp visited many of the countries of Europe, extending his travels through Palestine and some parts of the Turkish Empire, and visiting the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem in the character of a pilgrim, the only mode in which it could be visited in safety. He is said to have spent nearly twenty years in foreign travel and expended the greater part of a large fortune before his return to England. He commenced the practice of medicine in London, but left there during the prevalence of the Great Plague in 1665, and emigrated to South Caro- lina, and removed thence to New York about 1670. He located in the county of Westchester, where he practiced his profession. He was esteemed one of the most learned men of his time, and his knowledge of science was so much in advance of his time that he was credited amongst many of his neighbors with the possession of supernatural powers. John Clapp, son of George Gilson Clapp, was also a physician. He married and had four sons: Henry, Gilson, John and Elias. John, third son, became a member of the Society of Friends, married, in 1713, Eliza Douglass Quinby, of a family later prominent in Pennsylvania, and had four sons, and a daughter Phebe, who married Edward Halleck, of Long Island. He was the ancestor of the Clapps of Greenwich, Connecticut, and of a branch of the family now numerous in Canada. Elias Clapp, son of John, and grandson of George Gilson Clapp. was the father of four sons : Joseph, Benjamin, Henry and John ; the latter of whom was the father of Allen Clapp, M. D., of Philadelphia, born May 5, 1768; for twenty- five years superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital ; married at Christ Church, Philadelphia, April 14, 1795, Margaret Redmond, and had one son William Red- mond Clapp, many years a resident of Trenton, New Jersey. KLAPP 1369 Joseph Clapp, son of Elias Clapp, of Westchester county. New York, mar- ried Mercy Carpenter, and settled near the town of La Grange, Dutchess county. New York, where he died during the Revolutionary War. Henry Klapp, son of Joseph and Mercy (Carpenter) Clapp, and fourth in descent from Dr. George Gilson Clapp, born in Dutchess county. New York, about 1765, was the ancestor of the Klapp family of Philadelphia, and the first to spell the name with a K. When a young man he removed to the neighborhood of Albany, New York, where he married Mary Ostrom, of Holland ancestry. He became closely associated with Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer, the fifth patroon of Van Rensselaer- Wyck, the manorial estate of the family near Albany ; a member of the Colonial Assembly, State Senator, General of the New York troops in the War of 1812, founder of Rensselaer Institute, at Troy, New York, etc., and on the death of Henry Klapp, when his children were quite young Gen. Van Rensselaer became their guardian, and did much for their future welfare. Issue of Henry and Mary (Ostrom) Klapp : Joseph Klapp, M. D., b. Dec. 7, 1783, d. in Phila., Dec. 28, 1843; m. Anna Milnor; of whom presently; Harvey Klapp, M. D., came to Phila. after the establishment of his brother there, and studying medicine under him, became a popular and successful physician, but died at the early age of forty years. He m. (first) Rebecca Pelts; (second) Anne McKnight, a niece of Commodore Decatur. By his first wife he had issue: Mary Klapp, m. Richard W. Steel, a merchant of Phila. ; Rebecca Klapp, became the second wife of Richard W. Steel, her sister, Mary, having d. soon after her marriage; Gertrude Klapp, m. Howard Hinchman, of Phila., merchant; Elizabeth Klapp, m. Capt. Stites, of the U. S. N. Hon, John Klapp, of La Grange, Dutchess co., N. Y., who began the study of medicine with his brother, Joseph, in Phila., but at the age of 21, returned to New York and m. the daughter of Gen. Samuel A. Barker, of La Grange, and lived for a number of years on the estate of his father-in-law, later engaging in business in Poughkeepsie, where he d. at the age of 83 years. He was a soldier in the War of 1812-14, and saw active service on the frontiers of New York, filling the position of Quartermaster; was a member of the General Assembly of New York, in 1824, etc. He had issue: Henry Augustus Klapp, M. D., d. at Fishkill, N. Y.; m. Nancy Grant, and left issue; John Randolph Klapp, M. D., studied medicine with his uncle. Dr. Joseph Klapp, of Phila., and went to Ohio, later to 111.; left a large family; Edward Meritte Klapp, b. 1815, d. in Palmyra, N. Y., 1840 ; Philip Schuyler Klapp, who made a trip around the world at the age of 17 years; later studied medicine with his brother, Randolph, in Ohio; d.. in early life, unm. ; Louisa M. Klapp, m. William F. Aldrich, a lawyer of New York City, and re- sided during his lifetime in Brooklyn. Her sons became prominently interested in mining interests in Ala., and their mother joined them there. Dr. Joseph Klapp, eldest son of Henry and Mary (Ostrom) Klapp, born near Albany, New York, December 7, 1783, after receiving a good preliminary educa- tion under the care and direction of his guardian, Gen. Van Rensselaer, was placed by him in the office of Dr. Benjamin Rush, the celebrated physician in Philadelphia, and he entered the Medical Department of the University of Penn- sylvania, from which he received his degree of M. D. in 1805. Dr. Rush formed a strong personal attachment for his young student, and after his graduation from the University with the highest honors, induced him to settle for practice of his profession in Philadelphia. Dr. Joseph Klapp acquired considerable prominence in the practice of his pro- I370 KLAPP fession, being esteemed as one of the most successful medical practitioners of his day. He was a founder and for a time a Professor and Lecturer in the Jefferson Medical College, and Physician to Philadelphia Hospital, resigning both these positions by reason of the pressure of his large private practice. He was the author of a number of essays on medical science which were re-published in several European languages, giving him an international reputation as a student and writer on scientific subjects. Like his cousin, Allen Clapp, M. D., he was a gentleman par excellence, and impressed all who met him by his courtly manners and intellectual conversation. He died suddenly December 28, 1843, at the Phila- delphia Courthouse, where he was attending court to give testimony concerning the sanity of a patient in an important case than pending. Dr. Joseph Klapp was married at Christ Church, by Bishop White, August 24, 1805, to Anna IMilnor, born August 23, 1783, died July 27, 1841, daughter of William Milnor, Esq., for many years United States Gauger of Port of Philadel- phia, by his wife, Anna, youngest daughter of John Breintnall, of Philadelphia, by his second wife, Hannah, daughter of Hon. Hugh Sharpe, of Burlington, New Jersey. The ancestry of Anna (Milnor) Klapp is as follows : The Milnor family, (whose name was originally spelled Millner, or Milner, and probably pronounced "Miller," as in many cases both on English and Pennsyl- vania records, we find it so spelled, except in the case of an original signature), was one of ancient lineage, residing for many generations at Milner Hall, near Leeds, England, where a representative of the Philadelphia family was enter- tained some years ago by a descendant of the elder branch of the male line, still holding the ancestral home, tenanted by his ancestors for centuries. Dr. Isaac Milner, Dean of Carlisle, England, and his distinguished brother, Joseph Milner, (1744-1815), the eccentric ecclesiastic historian, author of the History of the Church of Christ, were of this famil}'. The earliest direct ancestor of Anna (Alilnor) Klapp, of whom we have any definite record, was Daniel Milner, of Pownall Fee, Yorkshire, the record of whose death appears on the registry of Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, as occurring on "8mo (October) 3, 1685," and his wife Ann, whose death as shown by the same record occurred on "lomo. (Decem- ber) 29, 1688." When Daniel Milner came to Pennsylvania does not appear, but the Record of Arrivals in Philadelphia shows that Joseph Milner, of "Poonel," and his mother, Ann Milner, arrived together. This Joseph Milner was party to a suit in the Common Pleas Court of Bucks county, in 1684, originating in some transaction between the said Joseph Milner and Thomas Janney, the eminent preacher among friends, also a native of Pownall Fee, Yorkshire, as a trustee for John Xeild, a servant of Janney, who accompanied the latter to Pennsylvania in the ship, "Endeavor," which arrived in the Dela- ware, 7mo. 29, 1683. The date of the transaction as recited in the suit was "5mo. 1683," at least two months before the arrival of Neild in Pennsylvania, and prob- ably therefore consummated in Pownall Fee, Yorkshire, thus identifying the "Poonel" mentioned in the record of the arrival of Joseph and Ann Alilner as "Pownall Fee," the English home of the Janneys. Daniel and Ann Milner had besides Joseph Milner, a daughter Sarah, a record of whose death on December 17, 1689, appears at Middletown, before mentioned: KLAPP 1 37 1 and probably Isaac Milner, "of Hopewell, Burlington County Province of West Jersey, husbandman," who on October 19, 1708, was married at Falls Monthly Meeting, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, to Sarah (Baker) Wilson, widow of Ste- phen Wilson, of Anwell township, New Jersey, but a member of Falls Monthly Meeting. She was a daughter of Henry Baker, one of the prominent men of Bucks county, and the marriage took place, by permission of the Meeting, at the home of her brother, Samuel Baker, at Baker's Ferry, now Taylorsville, Bucks county, the scene of Washington's crossing of the Delaware in 1776. This Isaac Milner purchased a farm in Bristol township, Bucks county, where he died in 1712, and his widow, an eminent preacher among Friends, died April 6, 1715. They had two sons, Isaac, born August 17, 1709, and William, born in 171 1, who was the ancestor of most of the Milnors of Bucks county. Both Joseph Milner, great-grandfather of Anna (Milnor) Klapp, and his father, Daniel Milner, were purchasers of land of William Penn before coming to Penn- sylvania, and their respective names appear on two tracts of land adjoining each other on Holm's map, lying just below the tract of Henry Baker at Baker's Ferry on the Delaware in Upper Makefield township, each apparently of about five hun- dred acres, though there is no record available of the grant of warrants of survey to that amount. A warrant was issued June 19, 1683, for the survey of fifty acres to Daniel Milner, and one on October 26, 1683, for three hundred acres to "Joseph Milliner." After the death of Joseph Milner, to wit, March 31, 1701, a warrant was issued for the resurvey of his land, two hundred and ninety-six acres and three hundred acres, and another on April 31, 1701, for two hundred and fifty acres. A return of this survey of eight hundred and forty-six acres in "two parcels" was made February 19, 1 701-2. A return of survey of three hundred and forty-six acres, for "Milliner Heirs" is made March 19, 1701-2, and on Oc- tober 16, 1703, a return of one hundred acres for "Ralph Miller," making an aggregate of about one thousand three hundred acres. The three hundred and forty-two acres were doubtless patented to John Knowles, in right of his wife, Sarah Milner, daughter of Joseph, as he received a patent for that amount of land, which descended to his representatives, a part of it to the present generation. On May 9, 1723, John Milner conveyed to his brother-in-law, Timothy Smith, two hundred acres that had descended to him from his father, Joseph Milner, but no deeds are of record showing the partition of the land among the heirs of Joseph and Daniel Milner. Joseph Milner was a man of substance and prominence in Bucks county affairs. He was a member of the Grand Jury, June 10, 1685; was appointed as one of a jury to lay out roads in Falls township, in 1692; was an officer of the Court at various periods in and prior to 1697, and was elected to the Assembly of Pennsylvania in 1695. In the latter instance his name appears of record as Joseph "Miller," as do the names of his sons in the granting of deeds of land in Bucks county, though in the latter case the signature invariably appears as "Milner." Joseph Milner died in the winter of 1699-1700, and letters of administration were granted on his estate in Philadelphia to his widow Pleasant ; even in this case the name is spelled "Miller" in the grant of letters, though on the inventory it is plainly written "Millner." Joseph Milner married, at the house of Phineas Pemberton, "Grove Place," in 13/2 KLAPP Falls township, Bucks county, but under the care of Middletown Monthly Meet- ing, on July lo, 1690, Pleasant Powlin, or Paulin, who survived him and married (second) January 8, 1 700-1, Francis Hague, of Bucks county, being his second wife; and surviving him also married (third) September 13, 1712, George Clough, of Falls township, whom she also survived. Joseph and Pleasant Paulin (Milner) had issue: Joseph Milner, b. June i, 1691; inherited a portion of his father's land, and has de- scendants living in that vicinity; Mary Milner, b. Nov. 27, 1692, of whom we have no further record; Sarah Milner, b. July 27, 1694; m. Sept. 5, 1716, John Knowles, and settled on part of her father's tract, on "Knowles' Creek," RIakefield township, where descendants of the name resided to the present generation; John Milner, b. March 18, 1695-6, d. at Burlington, N. J., Aug., 1741; m. Martha Tay- lor; of whom presently; Jane Milner, b. April 26, 1698, d. May 12, 1698; Rachel Milner, m. Jan. 2, 1716-17, Timothy Smith, Sheriff, 1728-30, and 1734-36; and he purchased 200 acres of the original tract surveyed to his father-in-law, Joseph Milner, of his brother-in-law, John Milner, in 1723. John ]\Iilner, second son of Joseph and Pleasant (Paulin) Milnor, born in Alakefield township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 18, 1695-6, married under the care of Falls Meeting, in 1717, Martha Taylor, permission granted at the Monthly Meeting held February 6, 1716-17. She was a daughter of Philip and Juliana Taylor, early settlers in Oxford township, Philadelphia county, and the founders of the prominent family of the name in Bucks county, for whom Taylorsville was named. It is not known that Philip Taylor ever lived in Bucks county, and his daughter Martha probably accompanied her brother Benjamin when he settled in Makefield township. Elizabeth Taylor, another sister of Ben- jamin, married John Hough, son of Richard Hough, Provincial Councillor, etc., and they settled on the Richard Hough plantation on the Delaware, called "Hough- ton," adjoining the Milner tract. John Milner continued to reside in Makefield. probably on his inheritance of two hundred acres of his father's tract until 1723, when by deed dated May 29, 1723, he conveyed it to Timothy Smith, and at about that date removed to Burlington county. New Jersey. He was one of the trus- tees of Falls Monthly jMeeting, to whom the land belonging to that meeting was conveyed in 1721. The will of John Milner, of Burlington, is dated August 10, 1741, and was proved five days later, August 15, 1741. It mentions his "loving wife Martha," who is to bring up their sons, Thomas and William, till they be fit to learn some trade, she to act as their guardian until they be of the age of twenty-one years, if she long remain his widow ; in case of her re-marriage his son Joseph is to act as guardian and in case of his death the second son John. It also mentions daughters Martha and Mary. Martha (Taylor) Milner married (second) June 2, 1752, Reese Peters, of Philadelphia, and removed with him to that city. William Milnor, born at Burlington, New Jersey, 1737, the father of Anna (Alilnor) Klapp, was the youngest son of John and Alartha (Taylor) Milner. He accompanied his mother to Philadelphia on her second marriage, then a lad of fifteen, and in compliance with the direction in his father's will, and the almost universal custom of the day, that boys of whatever station should be apprenticed to some useful trade, he was apprenticed to the cooper trade, which he followed KLAPP 1373 for some years, later engaging in trade, and shipping business at the "Old Ferry" at the foot of Walnut street, where he was located at the outbreak of the Revolu- tion. Though a birthright member of the Society of Friends, and affiliated with Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, where his marriage took place in 1760, his patri- otism led him to violate the ultra peace principles of that Society, by becoming a member of the Associators of Philadelphia, the first armed force organized for the defence of the liberties and rights of the Colonies, under the direction of the Committee of Safety, and we find him enrolled as a member of Captain Cowper- thwaite's company, First Battalion, Philadelphia Militia, in 1776. From correspondence in the possession of his descendants in Philadelphia it appears that William Milnor was personally associated with George Washington, and enjoyed his confidence and friendship. From one of these letters bearing date January, 1776, it appears that William Milnor had previously to that date applied for a captain's commission in the Continental service, but later withdrew it ; the letter stating the reasons for withdrawing. A letter from Washington also shows that the latter was in some way associated with William Miller in the matter of salting and shipping fish, as Washington states in this letter, "I have not been unmindful of my promise in reference to the fish-house." A tradition relates that William Milnor was factor for Washington at Mt. Vernon, but it seems hardly probable, as Milnor was during this period in business in Philadelphia. The letter to General Washington of January, 1776, is in part as follows: "Your kind favor of 20th December came safe to hand and gave me relief. I am happy in assurances that I have not displeased you in my conduct so far I am unhappy however, because I cannot get into the Army — I had thrown in a petition for a Captaincy and had the greatest prospect of Success, Mr. Franklin, in consequence of your letter had made the way clear for me * * *." There follows some explanation in reference to the objections of his family and the necessity of continuing his business or suffer such loss as would place his family in danger of want, he continues, "Their reasonings, together with the entreaties of my dear partner, prevailed on me to withdraw my petition. I never found any prospect of fatigue an annoyance to any undertaking, when a probability of a good genteel sustenance for my little flock offered in view ; and this business would be very agreeable one to me if these unhappy disturbances were at an end. But I cannot conclude this letter until I have assured your Excellency that I shall remain a poor, unhappy wretch, as long as I am chain- ed, and cannot take an active part in my Country's cause. Whether a true patriotic concern for my Country, or secret thirst after honor, or both combined, is the spring by which my spirits are actuated, I have the vanity to believe the former is the chief motive, and that only the experience is wanted to make me a soldier." The name of William Milnor appears on the list of those taking the oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and renouncing allegiance to the English crown, less than two weeks after the passage of the act requiring such oath. William Milnor was disowned from the Society of Friends for his activity in military affairs, and at the close of the Revolution was one of the founders of the Society of Free Quakers, to which a number of prominent Philadelphians. who like him had been disowned, belonged. At about the time of the adoption of the Constitution, William Milnor was appointed United States Ganger for the Port of Philadelphia and held that posi- tion until his death, February 5, 1807, at the age of seventy years. His will shows that his son Isaac had largely fulfilled the duties of the office during the later years, when his father's age and debility had prevented his active participation therein, and Isaac was named as his successor and held the office many years. 1374 KLAPP William Rlilnor resided at the time of his death on '"the north side of Morris Alley," which property he devised to his wife Anna. He also owned property in Frankford and at Bush Hill, which he directed to be sold. William Milnor married at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, November 20, 1760, Anna, daughter of John Breintnall, by his second wife, Hannah Sharpe, and granddaughter of David Breintnall, who came to Philadelphia from London, England, in 1681, bringing a certificate from Breach Monthly Meeting, in Derby- shire, dated 8mo. (October) 10, 1681, addressed to "flfriends at London or to whom it may concern." He married at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, December 6, 1683, Jane Blanchard, who had produced a certificate from Ringwood, Hamp- shire, dated iimo. (January) 11, 1682-3, theirs being, it is said the second mar- riage solemnized under the care of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. David Breint- nall engaged in the mercantile business in Philadelphia until his death in 1732. His will dated October 2, 1732, was proved December 30, 1732. It mentions his sons. David and John, daughters, Jane Harper, Hannah Breintnall, Sarah Lancaster ; son-in-law, John Harper, and grandchildren, Jane, Hester, Sarah and Anna Breintnall, daughters of his son Joseph ; Mary and Hannah Harper ; David, Mary, Rachel and Elizabeth Breintnall ; and Jane, Thomas, John and Sarah Lancaster. Jane (Blanchard) Breintnall died August 25, 1725. Of the children of David and Jane (Blanchard) Breintnall, David Breintnall Jr. married, February 23, 1710^-11, under the care of Philadelphia Monthly Meet- ing, Grace, daughter of George Parker, of New Jersey, by his wife, Esther, daughter of Samuel Andrews, an early settler of New Jersey, a near relative of Sir Edmond Andross, Governor and Captain General under the Duke of York, for New York and New Jersey, as Elizabeth Andrews, of Philadelphia, a sister of Esther, devises to her grand-niece, Mary (Breintnall) Peters, daughter of David and Grace (Parker) Breintnall, and wife of William Peters, and mother of Judge Richard Peters, "a silver tankard marked 'E A' formerly belonging to Sir Edmond Andrews, heretofore Governor of New York"; she also devises to Mrs. Peters silverware "that have my father's arms and my own cypher engraved on them." Jane Breintnall, daughter of David Sr., married, January 11, 1704-5, Nathan Faucit, of Philadelphia, who died in 1708; (second) November 28, 1710, John Harper, mentioned in her father's will as "son-in-law." Joseph Breintnall, second son of David and Jane, married, December 27, 1723, Esther, another daughter of George and Esther (Andrews) Parker, and she and her children, George, Jane, Esther, Sarah, and Anna, are mentioned in the will of Mary Andrews before referred to. Joseph Breintnall died intestate in 1746, and his widow Esther, October 18, 1762, aged sixty-four years. Hannah Breintnall, mentioned in her father's will above quoted, died unmar- ried, October 12, 1737. Sarah Breintnall, remaining daughter, married, July 22, 1714, John Lancaster. John Breintnall, father of Anna (Breintnall) Milnor, and grandfather of Anna (Milnor) Klapp, was probably the third son of David and Jane (Blanchard) Breintnall. He was born in Philadelphia, and was a birthright member of Phila- delphia Monthly Meeting, and married under their care. May 23, 1717, Susanna, daughter of Jacob Shoemaker, by his wife Margaret. They came to Philadelphia in the ship, "America," with Francis Daniel Pastorius, in 1682. Susanna (Shoe- KLAPP 1375 maker) Breintnall died February 22, 1719-20, leaving two children : David Breintnall, 3d., and Mary, married February 10, 1742-43, Thomas Kite, and not William Peters as stated in the Peters Genealogy. John Breintnall married (second) at Northampton Meeting House, Burlington county, New Jersey, under the auspices of Burlington Monthly Meeting, October 29, 1724, Hannah, born 1707, daughter of Hon. Hugh Sharpe, of Eellingborough township, Burlington county, by his wife, Rachel (French) Allen. Hugh Sharpe, was in his youth and at the time of his marriage a resident of Gloucester county, New Jersey, and was of the same family, possibly a son of Thomas Sharpe, one of the earhest English purchasers of land in the Fenwick Colony, who on September 19, 1681, with Mark Newby, William Bates, Thomas Thackera, and George Goldsmith, "sett saile from ye harbour belonging to ye City of Dublin, in ye Kingdom of Ireland, in a Pink called Ye Owner's Adventure, whereof Thomas Lurtin, of London, was Commander — who being taken sick, his mate John Dagger took command, * * * and be ye good Providence of God, we arrived in ye Capes of Dellaware ye Eighteenth day of November fol- lowing, and so up ye bay until we came to Elsinburgh and were landed with our goods and Families att Salem, where we abode ye Winter." So reads the narra- tive of Thomas Sharpe of his coming to America, and continues, "It being favor- able weather, purchasing a boat amongst us, we had an opportunity to make search up and down yt wch was called ye Third Tenth which had been reserved for ye Proprietaries dwelling in Ireland." As a result of these "searches up and down ye Third Tenth" Thomas Sharpe and his party "pitched down by Newtowne Creeke" in what became later Newton township, Gloucester county, where Sharpe took up a large tract of land and continued to live until his death in 1729, having filled a prominent place in the affairs of the Province. His will does not mention a son Hugh, but neither does it mention other children whom contemporary records show to have belonged to him. His son, John Sharpe, took a certificate from the "Monthly Meeting held at the House of Thomas Shakle" on Cooper's creek in Newton township, dated January 8, 1707-8, to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, where it was received on January 30, 1707-8. He, like Hugh Sharpe, later set- tled in Burlington county, where he died in 1725. The name of Hugh appears in the family line of this branch of the family in nearly every generation. On April 10, 1710, Hugh Sharpe and Rachel, his wife, took a certificate from this "Monthly Meeting at the House of Thomas Shackle" to Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, and settled in Wellingborough township in Burlington county, where he is closely associated with John Sharpe and his family, a witness to the will of John and his son John, and to numerous deeds made by that family. Hugh Sharpe was elected to the Provincial Assembly of New Jersey in 1707, and "being a Quaker" made his declaration as such on taking his seat in that body, March 3, 1708, and his name appears on the Journal of the Council of New Jer- sey, as having appeared before that body as one of a committee from the Assem- bly in 1709-10-13. He was commissioned as one of the "Commission of ye Peace of ye County of Burlington" March 28, 1719, and was again commissioned as a Justice of Burlington county in 1739, and probably served from the date of his first commission until his death in 1742. In 1715 he purchased of Thomas More, of New Inn, county Middlesex, England, ''one full share or Proprietary right, 1376 KLAPP being one-ninetieth share" in the Province of West Jersey, and there was sur- veyed to him thereunder several large tracts in different localities, notable among them being a great tract in Wellingborough township, whereon he resided, known as "Neninave's Land." He was very prominent in the affairs of that locality, his name appearing frequently on the official records, as officiating in the settlement of estates, etc., being usually denominated in these records as "Gentleman" though sometimes as "Yeoman." His will dated October 5, 1741, proved January 13, 1742, devises to his wife Rachel a lot fronting on Pearl street in Buriington and thirty pounds annually for life; to his "daughter-in-law" (stepdaughter) Mary Mickle, wife of John Mickle, "all manner of debts owing to me by her;" to Friends I\Ieeting at Burlington five pounds ; "having sold to my son-in-law Will- iam Coate my plantation whereon I now dwell" for 800 pounds, he directs that Coate pay 400 pounds thereof to his other son-in-law, John Breintnall ; and after the death of his wife all his estate is to be divided equally between his two sons- in-law, William Coate and John Breintnall, who are also named as executors. In 171 1 Hugh Sharpe received a certificate from Burlington Meeting to return to England, but we have no record to show that he made such a journey. Hugh Sharpe married, about the year 1705, Rachel (French) Allen, widow of Matthew Allen, of Chester, Burlington county. New Jersey, and daughter of Thomas French, of Whitton, Northamptonshire, England, who married there June 12, 1660, Jane Atkins, and as shown by an entry in his family Bible, "i and my wife and nine children through the great mercy of God came to this country and landed at Burlington on the 23d of the 7mo. 1680." His wife Jane died October 5, 1692, and he married (second) at Philadelphia, October, 1696, Elizabeth Stan- ton. Thomas French died in 1697 or 1698, when about to re-embark for England. The record of the baptism of his children, nine of whom accompanied him to New Jersey, appears of record at Whitton, and Rachel, the third and eldest surviving child, was baptized April 3, 1664. She accompanied her parents to New Jersey in 1680, and married (first) Matthew Allen, of Chester, aforesaid, one of the largest landowners in West Jersey, son of Jedidiah Allen, who had come to New Jersey from New England. Matthew died in 1701, leaving sons Matthew and Thomas, and daughters, Mercy and Mary, the latter, who married (first) Jarvis Stockdell, and (second) John Mickle, being the "daughter-in-law" mentioned in Hugh Sharpe's will. Hugh Sharpe was appointed guardian of Thomas Allen, February 12 1708-9, the letters of guardianship stating that he had married Rachel Allen, the mother of the minor. Hugh and Rachel (French) Sharpe had two daughters, Hannah, married John Breintnall, in 1724, and Rebecca, married William Coate, at Burlington Meeting in 1727. The will of John Breintnall, of Philadelphia, dated June 5, 1747, and probated July I, 1747, nine days after his decease, devises all his estate to his wife Hannah, and his six daughters by her, naming her as executrix. The will of his widow, Hannah Breintnall, dated June 26, 1769, and proven August 27, 1770, devises her estate to her daughters, Rachel Lewis, Rebecca Weyman, Elizabeth Ackley, Martha Lowther, Letitia Tillyer and Anna Milnor. Thomas Say, of Philadelphia, is named as executor. Hannah (Sharpe) Breintnall was a member of Philadelphia KLAPP im Monthly Meeting, having brought a certificate from BiirHngton Monthly Meeting, dated 6mo. 27, 1725. Of the son of John Breintnall by his first wife, David Breintnall 3d., little is known; he was devised "one shilling and no more'' by his father's will. The daughter Mary, by first wife, married at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, February 10, 1742-43, Thomas Kite, son of Abraham and Mary (Peters) Kite, of Blockley, and grandson of James Kite, by his wife, Mary Warner, of the Warners of Blockley, an account of which is given in these volumes. The record of the mar- riage of Mary Breintnall to Thomas Kite states specifically that she was a daugh- ter of John Breintnall by his wife Susanna, deceased, and thus proves that the statement in the Peters genealogy that she married William Peters in 1743 is an error; the Mary Breintnall who married William Peters being her cousin, the daughter of David Breintnall, Jr., by his wife Grace Parker. The latter fact is abundantly confirmed by the will of Mary Andrews, before quoted, which specifi- cally states that Mary Peters was her grandniece, granddaughter of her sister Esther (Andrews) Parker; no relationship existed between Mary Breintnall, daughter of John and Mary Andrews. ]ohn Breintnall and his second wife Hannah Sharpe had issue: Rachel Breintnall, m. at Phila. Monthly Meeting, Nov. 26, 1747, Jonathan, of Phila., son of Evan and Mary Lewis, of Merion; Rebecca Breintnall, m. at Christ Church, Phila., July 5, 1751, Edw/ard Weyman; Elizabeth Breintnall, m. at Phila. Monthly Meeting, May 28, 1752, Thomas, son of Thomas Ackley, of Oxford; Martha Breintnall, m. May 11, 1752, at Christ Church, James Lowther; Letitia Breintnall, m. Tillyer, mentioned in her mother's will; Anna Breintnall, m. at Phila. Monthly Meeting, Nov. 20, 1760, William Milnor, of Phila., before mentioned. William Milnor and his wife, Anna Breintnall, had issue as follows : John Milnor, b. June 18, 1761, d. July 11, 1761 ; Isaac Milnor, b. Jan. z, 1763, d. Oct. 20, 1820; m. Hannah Parrish. He was elect- ed a member-of the State in Schuylkill, June 24, 1810. He assisted his father in the duties of U. S. Ganger of the Port of Phila., and succeeded to that posi- tion in 1807, and filled it until his death in 1820; Rachel Milnor, b. Feb. 16, 1765; m. Jonathan Roberts, and had a number of chil- dren, whose births are recorded in a book in possession of the Klapp family; Rebecca Milnor, b. July 30, 1767, d. Aug. 14, 1767; Hon. William Milnor, b. July 26, 1769, d. Dec. 13, 1848; resided for a time in Penn's Manor, Bucks co., where he owned a farm. He was elected to the U. S. Congress from Bucks co. in 1808, and re-elected in 1810. At the expiration of his second term he removed to Phila. (1812), and engaged in the wholesale iron business. He was again elected to Congress from that city, 1815, and again in 1821, serving in the loth, nth, 14th and 17th congresses. He was elected a member of the State in Schuylkill, Oct. 2, 1816, was one of the committee who selected the second site of the Castle near Grays Ferry in 1821 ; was elected a Councillor in 1822, and Secretary of State in 1825. He was one of the Re- ception Committee when the State entertained Lafayette in 1825, and in 1829, wrote a "History of the State in Schuylkill," which was published in the fol- lowing year. He was elected Mayor of Phila. in 1829, and at the expiration of his term in 1831 removed to Burlington co., N. J., where he resided until his death in 1848. He m. Aug. 10, 1792, Margaret Purves, b. Aug. 10, 1773, and they had five children : Dr. William Milnor, physician, and a surgeon of the U. S. N.; Anna ; John Milnor, removed to Baltimore, m. and left issue; James Milnor, d. in Phila., at the age of twenty-one. Thomas Milnor, youngest son, b. Jan. 13, 1804, was a druggest in Phila. until 1833, when he removed to Burlington, N. J. He d. at the latter 1378 KLAPP place, March 16, 1868. He was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Burlington Co., and had served as a member of City Council while a resi- dent of Phila. He m. Marianne Van Reynegom, and had issue : Francis William Milnor, b. May 25, 1830, d. Sept. 24, 1895; m. May 9, 1865, Jane Maris, dau. of Henry and Margaret (Maris) Morris, b. Sept. s. 1831, and had issue: Thomas William Milnor, b. Oct. 27, 1866; m. Alice, dau. of Robert Franklin and Mary Frances Baley, b. Sept. 29, 1866; Francis William Milnor, b. Nov. 30, 1871, d. inf.; James Rockwell Milnor, b. 1833, d. 1855, unm.; Anna Purves Milnor, b. 1835; m. 1857, Caspar Wistar Morris, b. 1832, d. 1895; had issue: Thomas Milnor Morris, b. 1859; m, 1886, Mary Wasser-, Caspar Wistar Morris, b. 1861; Marian Milnor Morris, b. 1864; m. 1892, Richard Wistar Davids, b. 1861, and had issue: Elizabeth Jacobs Davids, b. 1895; Jacob Giles Morris, b. 1867; m. 1898, Bertha Haydon, and had issue: Ellen Haydon Morris, b. 1899, d. inf.; Rebecca Davids Morris, b. 1870; m. 1889, Philip W. Heraty, b. 1868, d. 1903, and had issue: Edward John Heraty, b. 1890; Margaret Louise Heraty, b. 1891 ; Philip Heraty, b. 1896; Marian Morris Heraty, b. 1900. Rebecca Davids (Morris) Heraty, m. (second) 1904, Dr. J. E. Wasser, and had issue : Anna Rebecca Wasser, b. 1905; John Edward Wasser, b. 1906. Jeanie Frances Morris, b. 1875; m. 1897, Norman Prentice Sloane, and had issue : Worrell Wistar Sloane, b. 1898; Winifred Morris Sloane, b. 1900; Henry Milnor Sloane, b. 1902; Marian Morris Davids Sloane, b. 1904; Norman Prentice Sloane, b. 1905. Benjamin Milnor, b. June 12, 1771, d. July 8, 1772; Hon. James Milnor, D. D., b. in Phila., June 25, 1773, was a student at the Univ. of Pa., entering the Coll. Dept in 1789, and taking his degree in 1793. He studied law under William Rawle, Esq., and on his motion was admitted to the Phila. Bar, in 1794. He practiced his profession in Phila. until 1813, and was known as the "honest lawyer," a tribute paid him by Stephen Girard. He was a member of Common Council, and also of Select Council, 1808-13, serving as president of the latter body, 1808-09. He was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Pa., 1865-13. He was a representative in the Twelfth U. S. Congress, 1812-14. Taking up his studies for the ministry he became assistant rector of Christ Church and St. Peter's in 1814, and served until 1816, when he was appointed rector of St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church, which charge he filled until his death in that city, April 8, 1845. He vvas a man of fine intellectual ability, a great student, and one of the most eminent and learned divines, and controversial writers on religious subjects of his time. He m. Eleanor, dau. of Henry Pauling, of Norristown, Pa., of a family long prom- inent in Montgomery co., and doubtless of the same ancestry as his great-great- grandmother, Pleasant Paulin. They had two sons, viz. : William Henry Milnor, b. in Phila., 1807; studied medicine with his uncle. Dr. Joseph Klapp, and graduated from the Medical Dept. of the Univ. of Pa.; practiced niedicine in New York City, until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he entered the U. S. A. as surgeon, and d. in the service at Savage's station, five miles from Richmond, Va., in the spring of 1862. He was twice Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity of the State of New York. He m. (first) his cousin, Anna Milnor, dau. of his uncle and preceptor. Dr. Joseph Klapp, by his wife, Anna Milnor (see forward) ; and (second) in 1840, her sister, Margaret Milnor Klapp; by the latter he had issue : Anna Milnor, m. a Mr. Eastern, of New York, and had issue; KLAPP i2,7<) James Milnor, b. 1842, d. unm., 1866; Rev. Charles Edward Milnor, of Phila., b. June 24, 1847, prepared for College at Episcopal Academy, Phila., and entered Kenyon College, Ohio; prepared for the ministry at the Episcopal Divinity School, Phila., was ordained a deacon in 1874, and in the same year was ordained a priest by Rt. Rev. William Bacon Stevens, Bishop of Pa., at St. Andrew's Church, Phila.; m. June 22, 1880, Annie E. Hopper, of Phila.; Eleanor Milnor, b. 1852, d. l866. Charles Edward Milnor, b. in New York City, Aug., 1822, d. May I, 1877; was educated at "China Hall," Bristol, Bucks CO., Pa., and at the Muh- lenberg School, and then entered the New York College; became a stock broker in New York City; m. at Grace Church, Newark, N. J., in 1848, Susan Ely, dau. of John Henry and Lydia Haines (Ely) Stephens, for- merly of Lyme, Conn., and had issue : Eleanor Milnor, m. Sept. 4, 1873, Rear-Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich, and had issue, Eleanor Goodrich, m. June I, 1901, Douglass Camp- bell, and Gladys Goodrich, unm.; Susan Vincent Milnor, m. June 12, 1873, Elmslie M. Gillet, and had issue : Alice, m. Henry Mott Branson; Bertha, m. Lieut. William Patterson, U. S. Coast Artillery; Jane Haxall, m. Morris Ketchum; Charlotte Milnor, m. Arthur Paul Adenauh; Langdon, of New York, unm.; Mildred. Alice Milnor, unm., resides in New York City; Jeanette Stephens Milnor, unm., resides in New York City. Anna Milnor, b. May 25, 177S, d. Nov. 18, 1778; Nancy Milnor, b. Aug. 7, 1779, d. Sept. 6, 1780; George Washington Milnor, b. Feb. 15, 1781, d. Aug. i, 1781; Anna Milnor, b. Aug. 23, 1783, d. July 27, 1841 ; m. Dr. Joseph Klapp. Issue of Dr. Joseph and Anna (Milnor) Klapp: WiniAM Henry Klapp, M. D., b. Oct. 14, 1808; m. Rebecca Plumsted Devereux; of whom presently; ■ Henry Milnor Klapp, M. D., graduated from the Univ. of Pa., Dept. of Arts, and entered Jefferson Medical College, Phila., from which he received his degree of M. D. in 1859; for many years physician at Moyamensing Prison, later filling the same position at the State Penitentiary, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, at Phila. He was a writer of considerable merit on medical and other subjects, and travelled extensively in the Orient and South America; d. s. p.; Anna Milnor Klapp, b. 181 1; hrst wife of Dr. William Henry Milnor, above mentioned; d. s. p.; Mary O. Klapp, b. 1813, d. 1861, m. Rev. Henry Whitesides, b. 1807, d. 1861 ; a brother of Sarah Whitesides, who m. Charles Jones Wistar, of Germantown; Joseph Klapp, M. D., b. Jan. 21, 1817, d. Feb. 26, 1885; m. Anna Pauline Van Lew; of whom presently; Ellen Klapp, b. 1820, d. Aug. 26, 1855; m. Jan. t2, 1844, Rev. Thomas Franklin, D. D., of Phila.; Margaret Milnor Klapp, b. 1823, d. Sept. 1863; m. in 1840, her cousin, Dr. William Henry Milnor, of New York, being his second wife; Rebecca Milnor Klapp, b. 1825; m. Samuel Phillips Mitchell, of Richmond, Va., and had issue. William Henry Klapp, M. D., eldest son of Dr. Joseph Klapp, of Philadel- phia, by his wife, Anna Milnor, born in Philadelphia, October 14, 1808, was named for his grandfathers, William Milnor and Henry Klapp, of Renssalaer-Wyck, New York. He was educated at private schools in Philadelphia and entered the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Arts, from which he graduated with 1380 KLAPP the degree of Bachelor of Arts, July 26, 1827, and delivered the classical oration at the public commencement of that year. He was a member of the Philomathean Society at the University. Upon leaving the Department of Arts he entered the Medical Department of the University, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine on March 24, 1830, and entering upon the practice of his profession in the then District of Southwark, Philadelphia, soon built up a large practice. In 1832 he was appointed one of the assistant physicians to the hospital opened by the Board of Health in Catharine street, for the reception of Cholera patients, during the prevalence of the epidemic at that time. He received from the University the degree of Master of Arts in due course. Upon the opening of the new prison for the county of Philadelphia in 1838, Dr. Klapp was elected its physician, which office he filled for fourteen years, his resignation bearing date February 9, 1852. He was also one of the board of managers of the Episcopal Hospital. In 1849 the dreaded Cholera made its appearance amongst the inmates of the county prison, but so judicious were the means adopted by Dr. Klapp, that very few deaths occurred. In August, 1839, Dr. Klapp was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and was also chosen by the Philadelphia County Medical Society to represent it at the American Medical Association which met in Boston in 1849, and again represented the Philadelphia Society in the meeting at the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in 185 1, and at the meeting in Philadel- phia in 1855. Dr. Klapp had an extremely sensitive organization, and was consci- entious to a fault, attending to his extensive practice day and night, year in and year out; he refused to take any rest until the necessity was forced upon him, and the propriety of restricting the circle of his practice within much narrower limits. On July 5, 1855, when in his forty-seventh year he had an alarming ill- ness, but he so far recovered as to again begin his office practice. A second attack occurred, however, in about a year, and he died September 28, 1856, and is buried in St. Peter's Churchyard, Philadelphia. Dr. William Henry Klapp was married at Philadelphia, January 9, 1833, by his uncle, the Rev. James Milnor, D. D., to Rebecca Plumsted, daughter of John Devereux, of Philadelphia, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Benjamin Hutton, of Southwark, by his wife, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Plumsted, Esq., of Phil- adelphia, and "Mount Clement," New Jersey, by his wife, Mary Coates, and there- fore a descendant of Clement, the eminent Colonial merchant, and statesman of Philadelphia. Rebecca Plumsted (Devereux) Klapp was born in Philadelphia October 16, 1808, died November 7, 1892, and buried in St. Peter's Churchyard. Issue of Dr. William Henry and Rebecca P. (Devereux) Klapp: Devereux Klapp, b. Feb. i, 1834, d. unm., Sept. 7, 1874, at Rome, Italy, and was bur. in the Protestant Cemetery in that city. He was graduated from Burlington College in 1852, and received his degree of Master of Arts from the same college in 1855; and was a member of the Alpha Chapter of the Delta Psi fraternity; Anna Klapp, b. April 4, 1836; m. at St, Peter's Church, Phila., by Rev. George Leeds, May I, 1861, Langdon Williams, of Boston, Mass. (son of Nathaniel Langdon Will- iams, by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of James and Sarah (Crowninshield) Devereux), b. June 24, 1829, A. B. and LL. B., Harv. Univ.; d. in Rome, Italy, May 9, 1872, and was bur. in the Protestant Cemetery there; they had issue: Langdon Williams, b. March 28, 1862, in Phila.; graduated Johns Hopkins Univ., A. B., 1886; and has been a master at the Episcopal Academy, Phila., for some years; m. at First Unitarian Church, Jamaica Plains, Boston, Mass., Dec. 28, 1896, Marian, dau. of Richard and Mary Rebecca Perkins Adams (Allen) Robins; KLAPP 1 38 1 William Klapp Williams, b. Sept. i, 1863, in Phila., d. at Montecito, Cal., June 4. 1897, and bur. in Roxbury Cemetery, Boston, Mass. He was a graduate of Johns Hopkins Univ., A. B., 1886, and Ph. D., 1889; John Devereux Williams, b. April 18, 1872, d. at Rome, Italy, May 31, 1872, bur. at Protestant Cemetery there. Harry Milnor Klapp, b. Oct. 3, 1837, d. March 2, 1839, bur. in Trinity Church, Phila.; George Gilson Klapp, b. in Phila., Nov. i, 1839; educated at Episcopal Academy, Phila., and entered the Univ. of Pa., 1854, but left at close of sophomore year; member of Delta Psi fraternity; m. in Wilmington, Del., Oct. 2, 1866, by Rev. Leighton Coleman, to Mary Eloise, dau. of Henry B. and Mary Elizabeth Shaw, of Natchez, Miss., and had issue : Walter Devereux Klapp, b. Aug. 11, 1867; m. at Natchez, Miss., Jan. i, 1891, Katharine, dau. of Col. Eugene and Stella Hunter, of Clinton, Miss., and had issue : Mary Devereux Klapp, b. Oct. 15, 1891; Ronald Devereux Klapp, b. March 23, 1895 i Edgar Alan Klapp, b. Aug. 19, 1897. Edith Lattimore Klapp, b. Oct. 14, 1868; Herbert Langdon Klapp, b. Aug. 14, 1870; George Gilson Klapp, b. Sept. ii, 1873, d. inf.; George Gilson Klapp, b. May 25, 1876, d. inf.; Mary Eloise Klapp, b. July i, 1878, d. inf. Laura Etchingham Klapp, b. in Phila., March 10, 1842; Joseph Klapp, b. in Phila., Dec. 28, 1843, d. March 26, 1845, bur. in Trinity Church, Phila., Frederick Klapp, b. Phila., Oct. 26, 1846; m. at St. Luke's Church, Liverpool, England, March 6, 1875, by Rev. John R. Eyre, Edith, dau. of Henry Leslie, Barrister of Lon- don, England, and had issue : Edith Devereux Klapp, b. Feb. 10, 1876; Paul Shirley Klapp, b. April 1, 1879; m. in Church of Immaculate Conception, Minneapolis, by Rev. Father O'Callahan, Feb. 27, 1906, Suzanne Urban, dau. of Cornelius and Margaret McCauley, and had issue: Shirley Margaret Klapp, b. March 9, 1907. Anna Louise Klapp, b. June 29, 1881 ; Freda Leslie Klapp, b. March 8, 1884; Langdon Williams Klapp, b. May 10, 1887, d. at Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 18, 1894; Alexis Plumsted Klapp, b. Feb. S, 1892. William Henry Klapp, b. Oct. 13, 1849, of whom presently; Bertha Klapp, b. March 21, 1851. William Henry Klapp, M. D., youngest son of Dr. William Henry Klapp, by his wife, Rebecca Plumsted Devereux, was born in the city of Philadelphia, Octo- ber 13, 1849. He received his secondary education at the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, from which he graduated with high honor in 1866, and entered Harvard University in 1867, receiving his degree of B. A. from the latter institu- tion in 187 1. He was immediately appointed one of the classical masters at the Episcopal Academy, and while performing his duties as such entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1876. He received the Alumni prize for the best original thesis, his subject being, "The Physiological Action of Strychnia." During his undergraduate period of study, he served as assistant to Dr. Francis Gurney Smith, Professor of Physiology at the University, and shortly after grad- uation was appointed Demonstrator of Physiology at the University. He never practiced medicine. During all this time he was deeply interested in his work at the Episcopal Academy, and wrote several articles on classical subjects, which were published in the current literature of the day. In the face of much opposi- tion, he was the first to introduce the Roman method of pronunciation of Latin in 1382 KLAPP Philadelphia, and published a monograph on the subject. He was one of the charter members of the University Club, and has been treasurer of the Central Committee of Alumni of the University of Pennsylvania since its foundation by statute of the Board of Trustees. He was one of the charter members of the Contemporary Club of Philadelphia and took a deep interest in it, serving for many years on the Board of Governors, and was its president, 1900-01. Shortly after Dr. Klapp's graduation from Harvard, Asa I. Fish, Esq., formed a small club of young men to meet every two weeks during the winter months to read Horace and other Latin authors ; and on the death of Mr. Fish, in 1879, Dr. Klapp was elected Dean of this Horace Club. Contrary to the usual short life of such associations, the Horace Club still lives, and holds its meetings every winter; within a limited circle, it has been a marked literary centre in Philadelphia. Dr. Klapp has travelled extensively in Europe, visiting it to study its antiquities and art. He is a member of the American Philological Association; the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania ; and the Pennsylvania Society of the Archaelogical Institute of America. He is the fifty-seventh member of the Society of Colonial Wars as sixth in descent from Clement Plumsted, and fifth in descent from William Plumsted. In 1886 he was one of the active graduates in the production of "The Acharnians" by the students of the University of Pennsylvania, in Phila- delphia, May 14 and 15, and in New York, November 19. In recognition of his services in this behalf the University presented him with a silver loving cup, the inscription upon which was written by Dr. Horace Howard Furness. At the public Commencement in June, 1886, he was given the honorary degree of Master of Arts. Having entirely dropped his medical studies. Dr. Klapp devoted himself to literature and art, and to the interests of the Episcopal Academy, to which he was devotedly attached. On the resignation of his predecessor, in July, 1891, he was elected Head Master of the Academy and at once entered upon his duties, and commenced that expanded career as an educator to which his tastes and attain- ments seemed to call him. His selection for the place and his acceptance of it were not accidents, but the result of his previous masterful service as a classical instructor, his sound scholarship, and his evident success in influencing the young men of his classes. From the beginning of his work in this position, he set out with distinct ideals of the dignity and inherent nobility of a life given to education ; looking upon teaching as a profession, calling as it does for equal preparation and powers, with those of the other learned professions. He constantly used his place and influence to raise the standing, and increase the respect for the teacher in the community. A teacher in his eyes must be one who takes a broad serious view of his work, and means to give his life to it, as a profession ; he resolutely refused to regard the school as a temporary refuge for a yoimg man of doubtful equipment until he saw something more to his liking. The members of his corps must be especially prepared and carefully selected men, and for this kind there should be a suitable and dignified recompense. The teaching profession has undoubtedly risen in the estimation of the community, and it is due to the work and influence of those, who like Dr. Klapp, have labored to that end and expressed decided opinions of its worth and dignity. Dr. William H. Klapp has taken a prominent part in various associations of schoolmasters, and in the societies having to do KLAPP 1383 with the inter-relations of School and College, serving for several years upon the College Entrance Examination Board. Under his administration the Episcopal Academy has entered upon a period of expansion and success that has trebled the number of students and greatly increased its repute as an educational institution. Its success and perpetuation, and the elevation of the dignity of the profession of teaching are his highest aims, to which he has devoted his talents, his scholarship and his life. Joseph Klapp, M. D., fifth child of Dr. Joseph Klapp,by his wife, Anna Milnor, was born in Philadelphia, January 21, 1817, and prepared for college at private schools of that city. In 1833 he entered the College Department of the University of Pennsylvania, but in 1834, during his sophomore year, left the college to attend the classical school at "China Hall," Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. While at the University he was elected to membership in the Zelosophic Society. In 1837 he matriculated as a student in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and he received his medical diploma there, April 16, 1839. He established himself in practice in Philadelphia, and was the first of the medical profession to specialize, making a specialty of diseases of the digestive organs. On September 18, 1839, Dr. Klapp was elected a member of the Frankhn Insti- tute of Philadelphia. He was a visiting physician to several of the hospitals of his native city at different periods. In conjunction with Dr. Partridge, Dr. Klapp founded the "Howard Hospital and Infirmary for Incurables" in 1853, the plans being formulated by him, and until his death, February 26, 1885, was associated with this hospital as chief of its Medical Staff, occupying the chair of Diseases of the Digestive Organs. In 1863- 64, during the War of the Rebellion, Dr. Klapp was commissioned Assistant Sur- geon, United States Army, and detailed to the Military Hospital at Sixth and Master streets, where, with Dr. Robert M. Smith, he had charge of the second floor. Dr. Paul Beck Goddard was Surgeon-in-Chief, and among Dr. Klapp's colleagues were Doctors William Pancoast and Matthew Knorr. Dr. Klapp was for many years one of the leaders of the vestry of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church. He was for many years prominent and active in the Masonic fraternity in Philadelphia, having joined Lodge No. 51, in 1848. He was also a prominent figure in the Board of Directors of the Girard Fire and Marine Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, up to the time of his death. He was a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, a Fellow of the College of Physicians, and a life member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. At a time when Dr. Joseph Pancoast contemplated retiring from the Chair of Surgery at the Jefferson Medical College, Dr. Joseph Klapp was urged to allow his name to be proposed as Dr. Pancoast's successor. While appreciating the honor Dr. Klapp joined other friends of Dr. Pancoast in persuading the latter to retain the chair. Dr. Klapp was a man of strong and pleasing personality and fine literary ability and tastes, combined with extreme sensitiveness and modesty. His happiest hours were those, when released from the pressure of professional duties, he could retire to his own drawing room and join his wife, family and friends, in social intercourse. His genial and pleasant manners made him the beloved physician of the southern portion of the city where he resided, and he left, 46 1384 KLAPP among the old residents, many recollections of his kind and thoughtful interest in his fellowmen. Dr. Joseph Klapp was married on January 12, 1844, by the Rev. J. H. Morrison, Rector of St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, at the Van Lew mansion, the residence of her mother, to Anna Pauline, born October 7, 1820, daughter of John and Eliza Louisa (Baker) Van Lew. Her father, John Van Lew, born in Jamaica, Long Island, March 4, 1790, was a son of J. Frederick Van Lew, by his wife Elizabeth Van Lew, a daughter of John Van Lew, born in Flushing, Long Island, 1763, died 1812, by his wife Martha, and a descendant of Frederick Van Lew, who with a brother, Jan Van Lew, or Van Lewen, as the name was orig- inally spelled, emigrated to America from Utrecht, Holland, about 1660, and at Jamaica, Long Island. John Van Lew, father of Mrs. Klapp, removed to Rich- mond, Virginia, and was an extensive merchant there, having in operation at one time five separate commercial establishments. He died in Richmond in 1843. Eliza Louisa Baker, mother of Mrs. Klapp, born in Philadelphia, in 1798, died there, September 13, 1875, was a daughter of Hon. Hilary Baker, Mayor of Phila- delphia, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1789-90, Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia, and an officer of the First Artillery Regi- ment of Philadelphia, 1780, by his wife, Anna Maria or "Polly". Kreider; grand- daughter of Johan Hilarius Baker or Becker, born in Bonnheim, Duchy of Hesse- Darmstadt, February 25, 1705, who with his wife, Catharine Reinke, emigrated to America in 1754, and until the founding of the Germantown Academy in 1761, conducted a German School in Germantown. On the organization of the Union School, which later became the Germantown Academy, John Hilarius Baker was selected as instructor in German, and filled that position until the battle of Ger- mantown temporarily broke up the school, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he died June 23, 1783. He was a son of Johan Joachim Becker, born March 24, 1657, died December 2, 1737, by his wife, Susanna Heilfrich; and grandson of August Becker, born 1621, died February 25, 1678, by his wife, Barbara Nuss. Issue of Dr. Joseph and Anna Pauline (Van Lew) Klapp: Elizabeth Louise Klapp, b. Nov. 26, 1844; m. at St. Andrew's Church, Phila., Nov. 3, 187s, by the Rev. William Paddock, to Dr. Benjamin Franklin NichoUs, of Spartans- burg, S. C, b. Dec. 3, 1847; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Phila., in 1875; was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at Jefferson College, and filled that position until forced to resign by ill health; was one of the visiting surgeons of the Pennsylvania Hospital; corresponding secretary of Philadelphia County Medical Society, and succeeded his father-in-law. Dr. Joseph Klapp, at the latter's death, in the Chair of Diseases of the Digestive Organs at the Howard Hospital and Infirmary for Incurables; a member of the Obstetrical Society of Phila.; the Phila. Chapter of the Alumni of Jefferson Medical College. He d. Feb. 15, 1895, and is bur. in the old Klapp family vault in the graveyard of Trinity Church, Phila.; they had issue: Joseph Klapp Nicholls, b. Dec. 25, 1876; matriculated at Law Dept. of the Univ. of Pa., 1901 ; a member of the Law Academy of Phila., the General Alumni of the Univ. of Pa., the Alumni of the Central High School of Phila., the Penna. Society Sons of the Revolution, the Historical Society of South Carolina, and of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; Andrew Barry Crook Nicholls; Catharine Louise Nicholls, and others who d. inf. Anna Milnor Klapp, b. Nov. 19, 1846, d. Feb., 1888; m, at St. Andrew's Church, Phila., Oct. 12, 1869, 'Theodore Truesdale Lines, of New York, formerly of Conn.; they had issue : C_>