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 A 
 
 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TREGO FAMILY 
 
 BY 
 
 A. TREGO SHERTZER, M. D., 
 
 OF BALTIMORE, MD. 
 
 ‘ Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.’''’ 
 
 BALTIMORE : 
 
 PRESS OF ISAAC FRI EDEN WALD. 
 1884. 
 
Copyright , 1884 , by A. Trego Shertzer. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 Shortly before the death of Charles B. Trego 
 he mailed me a copy of his manuscript, com¬ 
 prising twenty pages, of the history of the 
 Trego family in the United States, and with 
 it his preface, to which the reader is kindly 
 referred. In private letters he frequently stated 
 that he hoped some member of the family 
 would carry on the work, but I could find 
 no one willing to undertake the task, so I re¬ 
 solved, in honor to my progenitors, to com¬ 
 plete the history of the Trego family to the 
 utmost of my ability; and now that I have fin¬ 
 ished the work, with all the material facts that I 
 could gather after years of toil, to me it is yet 
 very unsatisfactory. As I gathered records of 
 the family, I had to rearrange the manuscript to 
 some extent, which I did reluctantly, as I de¬ 
 sired and have given the late Charles B. Trego 
 credit for his manuscript where it appears in the 
 work. 
 
 I am indebted to his brother, Robert S. Trego, 
 
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 for much valuable assistance in furnishing me 
 with copies of Monthly Meetings, family records, 
 &c., as well as to other members of the family. 
 As all the information contained in the work was 
 gotten by fragments, through a series of years, 
 I found it impossible to arrange the material in a 
 proper manner without rewriting the whole of 
 it for the fourth time, which I had no desire to 
 do in the first edition; but if every reader will 
 write me positive facts of missing information, 
 and correct errors, giving the page and line, I 
 will revise, correct and issue a second edition. 
 I have drawn a genealogical chart of the family 
 which will be printed if this work is a success, 
 which will enable the reader to fully understand 
 the family records as read. It will appear in the 
 second edition. 
 
 I would like to have the portraits of Peter, 
 Sr., and his family, if any are in existence, for the 
 second edition of the work. Will also insert 
 the photograph of any member of the family 
 for $50. 
 
 A. Trego Shertzer, M. D. 
 
 83 E. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md. 
 
 October 10 th , 1884. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 To Manuscript of the late Charles B. Trego. 
 
 1863. 
 
 Having for a long time regretted that so little 
 was known by the Tregos of Pennsylvania con¬ 
 cerning their origin and descent, I, more than 
 twenty years ago, began to collect such facts as 
 appeared best calculated to elucidate the history 
 of the family. This task I have diligently pur¬ 
 sued ever since, availing myself of every oppor¬ 
 tunity that was presented, and, though by no 
 means so successful as I desired, yet have gath¬ 
 ered a mass of information, which may be inter¬ 
 esting to those members of the family who may 
 feel an interest in the subject. 
 
 I much regret that I did not commence this 
 task before the death of my grandfather, William 
 Trego, who died in 1827. His memory would 
 doubtless have furnished many facts which I 
 have been unable to ascertain, and which have 
 now passed away forever. The Tregos, from 
 
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 their earliest settlement in this country, have 
 mostly belonged to the Society of Friends, and 
 records of that Society, though in many cases 
 defective, have supplied me with an amount of 
 authentic information which could not have been 
 obtained from any other source. The records of 
 ancient deeds, land titles and other documents 
 have also been consulted. I have brought this 
 account up to a certain period, and have left 
 blank pages throughout, in which may be in¬ 
 serted corrections or any additional facts which 
 may be discovered. 
 
 Imperfect as it is, I now leave this history in 
 the hope that some member of the family will 
 continue the work, and make such corrections 
 and additions as will render it more worthy of 
 preservation through future years. 
 
 Charles B. Trego. 
 
 Philadelphia, 1863. 
 
HISTORY OF THE TREGO FAMILY. 
 
 The following account of the Trego family in 
 the United States has been collected from the 
 most authentic accounts that could be obtained 
 at this late day; but the neglect in preserving the 
 family records of early times has left some ob¬ 
 scurity and uncertainty with regard to some of 
 the early patriarchs of the name. This uncer¬ 
 tainty must remain until some documents or 
 records shall be found to remove it, for there ap¬ 
 pears to be no one now living whose memory can 
 supply any traditionary account to throw further 
 light upon the subject. Fifty, or perhaps even 
 thirty, years ago there were those living who 
 might have given important information, from 
 recollection of what they had heard when young; 
 but now it is to be feared that there is little 
 probability of ever ascertaining many desirable 
 facts, the knowledge of which has probably 
 passed away forever with those who had it in 
 possession. 
 
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 The name Trego is undoubtedly of Spanish 
 origin, and persons of that name are said to 
 be residing in Madrid, Spain. It is also known 
 in the province of Yucatan in Mexico. Mr. 
 Stephens, in his book of travels in that country, 
 mentions a Sefior Trego in Yucatan, a man of 
 large possessions and influence, by whom he was 
 kindly entertained. 
 
 Our family, according to all accounts, are de¬ 
 scended from a family of French Huguenots of 
 the same name who were forced to leave France 
 in consequence of religious persecution, about 
 the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 
 in the year 1685. This famous edict, allowing lib¬ 
 erty of conscience to the Protestants and permit¬ 
 ting the public exercise of their religion in certain 
 parts of the kingdom, was issued by Henry IV, 
 King of France, in 1598. It was revoked by 
 Louis XIV in 1685, when a series of the most 
 cruel persecutions were commenced against the 
 Huguenots, by which name the French Protest¬ 
 ants were then known. 
 
 A French historian (Boulainvilliers) says that 
 one hundred thousand persons were sacrificed, 
 and of that number the tenth part perished in the 
 flames, by the gibbet, or on the wheel. To pre- 
 
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 vent the persecuted and devoted Huguenots from 
 escaping from the country, severe laws were en¬ 
 acted against emigration ; but, notwithstanding 
 this, many of them succeeded in leaving France. 
 Another French writer, whose work was pub¬ 
 lished in 1698, speaking of observations made 
 during his travels in England, says that so great 
 was the number of French emigrants in London 
 that there were twenty-two French churches sup¬ 
 ported by the government: about three thousand 
 refugees were maintained by public subscription, 
 many received grants from the Crown, and a 
 great number lived by their own industry. 
 
 About this time many persons were leaving 
 England, to settle in the new colony founded in 
 America by William Penn, in 1681, and as most 
 of them were Friends, or Quakers, who left 
 England in order that they might enjoy, in 
 Pennsylvania, religious freedom and the unmo¬ 
 lested privilege of worship according to the 
 dictates of their conscience, it was natural that 
 they should be joined by some of the French 
 Huguenots then in England, who had left their 
 own country for conscience sake and to escape 
 persecution on account of their religion. 
 
 There is a tradition, in both the Bucks and 
 
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 Chester County branches of the Trego family, 
 that three brothers, named William, James, and 
 John Trego (the latter being probably Jacob in¬ 
 stead of John), being, with many other Protestants 
 driven out of France by persecution, sought 
 refuge in England, and there learning that 
 William Penn had founded a new colony in 
 America, where liberty of conscience and wor¬ 
 ship was permitted to all, they left England, 
 came to Pennsylvania, and settled in that part of 
 Chester County from which the County of Dela¬ 
 ware has since been formed. Settling among 
 Friends, they naturally attached themselves to 
 that society. 
 
 It is most probable, however, that some of 
 the name remained in England. Charles B. 
 Trego says in his manuscript: In the year 1848 
 I happened to learn that there was a person in 
 London named William Trego, of some note 
 as an architect and builder, and hoping to learn 
 something of interest concerning the family, I 
 wrote to him requesting information. He was 
 too much engaged in business to answer my 
 inquiries ; but I received several letters from his 
 father, John Trego, and from his cousin, William 
 Trego, telling what they knew of the English 
 
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 branch of the family. They were unable to trace 
 their descent further back than to a John Trego, 
 who, when a young man, came from Bridgeport, 
 in Somersetshire, to Plymouth, and was master 
 rope-maker in the Government dock-yard at that 
 place. He died about the year 1778, at the age 
 of 73 years, which would make the period of 
 his birth about the year 1705. They also stated 
 that one of the family, named Edward Trego, 
 came to America at some time from 1770 to 
 1780. There are numbers of them in England, 
 mostly in Devonshire, and about Plymouth. I 
 have heard of Tregos in New England; they 
 may be descendants from this Edward Trego 
 who came to America, about one hundred and 
 ten to twenty years ago. 
 
 Let us now see how far the family tradition of 
 three brothers having come from France to 
 America by way of England, is supported by 
 facts upon record. If three brothers left France, 
 it is possible that two of them remained in Eng¬ 
 land, or that they were very young when they 
 came to America, and were the sons of Peter 
 Trego , of whom no family tradition appears to 
 exist; but who is proved, by written evidence, 
 to have been an inhabitant of that part of Chester, 
 
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 which is now Delaware County, as early as the 
 year 1690, and to have been then of mature age. 
 He was doubtless the first of the name in Penn¬ 
 sylvania. 
 
 In a “History of Delaware County,” by Dr. 
 George Smith, published in 1862, among 
 notices of a number of the early settlers within 
 the limits of that County, is the following: 
 
 Peter Trego was probably a resident of some 
 other place in the county before he made a pur¬ 
 chase of fifty acres of land in 1708, in Middle- 
 town, for £ 14, or good merchantable wheat at 
 market price. His wife’s name was Judith, and 
 he had a son Jacob and a son Peter. Jacob was 
 born in 1687, and in 1710 married Mary, the 
 daughter of Edmund Cartledge of Darby, and 
 resided in Merion till 1717, when he removed to 
 Middletown, where he resided at the time of his 
 decease in 1720. He left three children, “Han¬ 
 nah, John and Rachel.” 
 
 My records show that Jacob Trego, also had 
 a daughter Mary, who married a Mr. White, of 
 whom an account will be given later. 
 
 Robert S. Trego, brother of the late Charles B. 
 Trego, who has rendered me much valuable 
 assistance in this work, lately found upon exami- 
 
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 ning the records of Friends Monthly Meeting 
 at Chester, Pennsylvania, the following record : 
 
 Peter Trego was born in France in 1655, as 
 shown by records in the family of Absalom 
 Trego: 
 
 Children of Peter and Judith Trego. 
 
 Jacob, born 8th mo., 7th, 1687; died 4th m., 
 10th, 1720. 
 
 James, born 4th mo., 26th, 1690. 
 
 William, born 6th mo., 3d, 1693; died 1770. 
 
 John, born 12th mo., 15th, 1696. 
 
 Ann, born 8th mo., 28th, 1702. 
 
 Peter and Judith Trego also had a son Peter 
 of whose birth there appears to be no record, 
 though there is of his marriage to Ann Whit¬ 
 aker, nth mo., 5th, 1726. 
 
 The records of Friends Monthly Meeting at 
 Chester show that Peter Trego, Jr., son of Peter 
 and Judith Trego of Middletown, was married 
 to Ann Whitaker, daughter of Charles and 
 Hannah Whitaker, of Ridley, 1 ith mo., 5th, 1726, 
 at Providence. Peter Trego, Jr., appears to have 
 resided in Providence township. According to 
 the same Meeting records it appears that the 
 elder Peter had also a daughter named Ann; 
 the records showing that James Rushton, M. D., 
 
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 of Middletown, and Ann Trego, daughter of 
 Peter and Judith Trego, of the same place, were 
 married at Middletown Meeting House nth of 
 6th month, 1725. 
 
 The notice of Peter Trego in Dr. Smith’s 
 History of Delaware County appears to contain 
 an error. Peter Trego, had purchased fifty acres 
 of land in Middletown before 1708,—though he 
 may have then purchased fifty acres more. 
 
 His sons were Jacob, Peter, William, James 
 and John. By the records in the land office of 
 Pennsylvania, it appears that a warrant for fifty 
 acres of land was granted to Peter Trego on the 
 10th of October, 1690, from William Penn’s 
 Commissioners of Property, William Markham, 
 Robert Turner and John Goodson. 
 
 Williard’s History of the United States, says 
 that William Penn received his grant of Penn¬ 
 sylvania from Charles the Second, March 4th, 
 
 1681. William Penn set sail for America, Sept. 
 9th, 1682, with three ships loaded with emigrants 
 and consigned to the care of his nephew, Colonel 
 Markham. He left Chester on board the Welcome, 
 and with one hundred settlers sailed for his 
 province, landing at Newcastle, October 28th, 
 
 1682. Here a part of the pioneers with Mark- 
 
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 ham began a settlement. From writings and 
 traditional accounts I think there is no doubt 
 but that Peter Trego, and his wife Judith, came 
 over in one of the three ships which landed in 
 this country, October 28th, 1682. The fifty acres 
 of land which were granted to Peter Trego, were 
 situated on the ridge between Chester and Ridley 
 Creeks, in the township of Middletown, now in 
 Delaware County, within half a mile of the 
 present Lima Post Office. It afterwards ap¬ 
 peared, however, that this land had been pre¬ 
 viously granted to Joseph Ege, and had been 
 surveyed and laid out for him by Robert Lang- 
 shore, deputy surveyor general, on the 13th day 
 of October, 1686, four years before the grant to 
 Peter Trego. The title of Peter Trego to this 
 land was, therefore, not confirmed. Joseph Ege 
 sold the land to Randal Malin, but the convey¬ 
 ance was not executed. Afterwards on the 1 ith 
 day of December, 1694, Joseph Ege and Randal 
 Malin conveyed this tract to Peter Trego, for 
 two pounds and five shillings. 
 
 December 10th, 1725, Peter Trego and Judith 
 his wife, conveyed this land to William Trego, 
 probably their son, for fifty pounds; but the 
 deed was not acknowledged until Febuary 9th, 
 
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 1735 . when Peter Trego being deceased, having 
 died in 1730, two of the witnesses appeared 
 before a magistrate and proved that the deed 
 was sealed and delivered by the said Peter Trego. 
 
 On the 10th day. of November, 1733, the said 
 William Trego and Margaret (Moore) his wife, 
 then of Goshen in Chester County, conveyed to 
 James Trego of Concord, probably his brother, 
 the above mentioned tract of land for fifty 
 pounds, the deeds being acknowledged by Wil¬ 
 liam Trego himself as his act and deed, before 
 Caleb Coupland, a Justice of the Peace, on the 
 25th of 12 month, 1735. 
 
 January 20th, 1735, the said James Trego and 
 Elizabeth his wife, then of Whiteland township, 
 Chester County, conveyed this land to Thomas 
 Minshall, of Middletown, for seventy pounds; 
 the deeds were acknowledged before Thomas 
 North, 5th month, 23d, 1764. This tract adjoined 
 lands taken up by the Minshall family at a very 
 early period, and from Minshall Painter, one of 
 their descendants, I [Charles B. Trego, of Phila¬ 
 delphia] have lately received this account of the 
 taking up and transfer of the above-mentioned 
 fifty acres, as shown by ancient deeds in the pos¬ 
 session of Enos Painter, his father, the present 
 
owner of the land. In a letter to me [Charles B. 
 Trego] dated June 30th, 1847, he gives the fol¬ 
 lowing imitation of the signatures of Peter, 
 William and James Trego, and of their wives 
 Judith, Margaret and Elizabeth, to the old deeds. 
 
 I am unable to find the imitations amongst the 
 records of the late Charles B. Trego, hence am 
 unable to give them. 
 
 The records of the Land Office at Harrisburg, 
 also show that 250 acres of land in Chester 
 County, were granted to James Trego, 1st mo., 
 23, 1713-4, and 200 acres to William Trego, 1st 
 mo., 25, 1718. These were doubtless the sons of 
 Peter Trego. 
 
 Among the ancient records of Chester County 
 Court is the following report of a coroner’s jury, 
 by which it appears that one of the jury was 
 Peter Trego:—Edgmont, the sixth of the fifth 
 month 1699, we whoses names are underwritten, 
 summoned and attested by the Coroner to view 
 the body of Sarah Baker, having made strict 
 enquery, and also having had what witnesses 
 could be found, attested to what they knew, and 
 wee can find noe other but that it pleased 
 almighty God to visit her with death by the 
 force of Thunder, and to this wee all unanimously 
 
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 agree. Subscribed with our names the day and 
 year above written. Thomas Worrilaw, William 
 Coeburne, Thomas Bowater, Robert Pennell, 
 Peter Trego, William Gregory, John Worrall, 
 Ephiran Jackson, Charles Whitaker, Joseph 
 Baker, David Ogden, John Turner. [See 
 Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania, Vol. 5, page 
 159]. 
 
 While in France in 1870 and 1871 ,1 examined 
 many old records, in which I could frequently 
 find the name of Tregue, of the House of Bour¬ 
 bons, but in my correspondence with the late 
 Charles B. Trego, he stated, inasmuch as I 
 could not trace any connection between the 
 Tregues of France and Peter Trego, it would 
 be useless to take notes. 
 
 Charles B. Trego says in his MS.: “ In the year 
 1848, I obtained from Jarad Pinkney Irwin, then 
 of Brandywine Manor, Chester County, but 
 since removed to Illinois, much valuable informa¬ 
 tion concerning the Tregos of Chester County. 
 His mother was one of the family, and was, he 
 said, the oldest Trego then living. From her 
 recollections and from some defaced and almost 
 worn-out records then in possession of Absalom 
 Trego, of Honeybrook, Chester County, then an 
 
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 old man, still occupying a homestead which had 
 been long in the family, Mr. Irwin had been 
 able to make out quite a well-connected account 
 of the descendants of William, the son of Peter 
 and Judith Trego, but of their sons Jacob, Peter, 
 James and John, there is no account in the old 
 Honeybrook records, which appear to relate 
 entirely to the family of William.” 
 
 Mr. Irwin sent Charles B. Trego a genea¬ 
 logical record in the form of a tree (which I now 
 have in my possession), beginning with Peter 
 Trego, born in France 1655, died in Chester 
 County 1730, and gives his three sons, James, 
 born 1691; William, bom 1693, died 1770; and 
 John, born 1695. This portion of his account 
 I think cannot be relied upon, and he does not 
 say that he found these names and dates in the 
 old family records at Honeybrook, which appear 
 to have been confined to the family of William 
 Trego only. He is certainly mistaken in omit¬ 
 ting Jacob and Peter, of whom we find accounts 
 elsewhere to prove their existence. 
 
 Dr. Smith in his history of Delaware County, 
 says that Peter Trego had a son Jacob, born in 
 1687, and the records of Darby Monthly Meeting 
 show that Jacob Trego and Mary Cartledge were 
 
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 married at Darby in 1709, and the records of the 
 Monthly Meeting at Chester show that Peter, 
 the son of Peter and Judith Trego, was married 
 to Ann Whitaker, in 1726. 
 
 William Trego, the son of Peter the elder, 
 according to the Honeybrook family records, was 
 born August 5th, 1693, married Margaret Moore, 
 June 26th, 1717, and died 1770. The land in 
 Honeybrook township, afterwards and yet owned 
 by the Tregos, was first entered by John Moore, 
 the father-in-law of William Trego, in March, 
 1718, and in 1733, was conveyed to William 
 Trego. This tract is described in the deed as 
 “joining on the west by lands of James Trego.” 
 Now it has been already shown that in November 
 of the same year, the old homestead of their 
 father Peter, in Middletown, was conveyed by 
 William Trego, then of Goshen, to James Trego 
 of Concord. It would seem from this that 
 neither William nor James resided at that time 
 on their lands in Honeybrook. 
 
 Jarad P. Irwin in his letter to Chas. B. Trego, 
 written April 10th, 1848, says that William and 
 Margaret Trego had ten children, four sons and 
 six daughters, though I am unable to find any 
 mention made of but nine, though I have no 
 
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 doubt but that the statement was correct, as he 
 says one of the sons died quite young; the other 
 three were named William, Benjamin and Joseph. 
 William and Joseph settled in Honeybrook 
 township, in the northwestern part of Chester 
 County, and Benjamin on the old homestead in 
 Goshen, on part of which a portion of the town 
 of West Chester now stands. I have been in¬ 
 formed that when the seat of Justice for that 
 County was removed from Chester, now Dela¬ 
 ware County, the ground for the new court house 
 and public buildings was given for that purpose 
 by Benjamin Trego. 
 
 The six daughters of William and Margaret 
 Trego became respectively by marriage Hannah 
 Hickman, Margaret McPherson, Elizabeth Malin, 
 Mary Malin, these last two having married 
 brothers, sons of Randal Malin, Ann Hunt, and 
 Sarah Eachus. Many persons having these 
 family names still reside in Chester and Dela¬ 
 ware Counties, who are probably their descend¬ 
 ants. 
 
 The second William Trego, son of William 
 and Margaret, was born 1726, and his sons were 
 Isaac, Reuben, Peter and Jacob ; he had one 
 daughter who became by marriage Hannah 
 
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 Clemson. These all had families, and have 
 many descendants yet living in Chester, Lan¬ 
 caster, Juniata, and other counties. Peter was 
 my great-grandfather. 
 
 Benjamin, son of William and Margaret Trego, 
 was born 1730, had two sons and four daughters. 
 The sons were named Emmor and Benjamin ; 
 both of them died unmarried, so that the name 
 by that branch is extinct. 
 
 Joseph, son of William and Margaret Trego, 
 born in 1732, died 1806, married Alice Piersol 
 and had seven sons, William, Moses, Joseph, 
 Eli, James, Jeremiah and Absalom. The daugh¬ 
 ters were Alice Millison, Margaret Irwin, Han¬ 
 nah Lewis, and Sarah, who never married. 
 
 Of the sons of Joseph Trego, two, Joseph and 
 James, appear to have left no descendants; the 
 others had each a number of children and have 
 a numerous posterity. Many of them remain 
 in Chester County; others are settled in the 
 counties of Columbia and Cumberland, Pennsyl¬ 
 vania, and a number of them have gone to reside 
 in Ohio, Illinois, and other western states. 
 
 It has already been shown that the patriarch, 
 Peter Trego, had a son James who resided in 
 Concord in 1733. The records of Chester 
 
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 Monthly Meeting show that a certificate of remo¬ 
 val from Concord to Goshen, was granted to 
 James Trego and family, 6th mo., 4th, 1735. His 
 family consisted of himself and wife, for it will be 
 shown elsewhere that he died young, leaving no 
 children. He owned land in Honeybrook about 
 that time, and was taxable in Marple township in 
 1722. That he was married appears by the sig¬ 
 nature of his wife Elizabeth, to the deed con¬ 
 veying the original fifty acres in Middletown to 
 Thomas Minshall, in 1735, but of his children-, 
 if he had any, there appears to be no record or 
 account preserved. Neither have I been able to 
 learn anything concerning the children of Peter 
 Trego, junior, who was married to Ann Whit¬ 
 aker in 1726. It is to be presumed that they 
 never had any. There was a John Trego, 
 called “sailor John,” who many years ago some¬ 
 times visited both the Chester and the Bucks 
 County Tregos as a relative; but all knowledge 
 of his parentage appears to be lost. He may 
 have been a son of James or of Peter, Jr. Mr. 
 Irvin says that his mother, a Trego born in 1767, 
 remembered a John Trego, called “sailor Jack,” 
 who once visited them when she was a small girl, 
 say about the year 1773, and that he then ap- 
 
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 peared to be thirty or forty years of age. This 
 would fix the period of his birth not far from the 
 year 1733. It will be remembered that John, son 
 of Peter, Sr., was born 12th mo., 15th, 1696, and 
 that this John might have been a son of James or 
 Peter, Jr., when we know that James Trego was 
 married and lived in Concord township; and 
 that Peter, Jr., who lived in Providence township, 
 was married in 1726. 
 
 Charles B. Trego, says in his manuscript, that 
 he remembered hearing his grandfather and some 
 of the older members of the family in Bucks 
 County, speak of a “sailor John,” who sometimes 
 appeared amongst them as a visitor, and probably 
 was a distant relative. 
 
 Jared P. Irwin, in one of his letters to Charles 
 B. Trego, says : William Trego, my great-grand¬ 
 father, died in Goshen, Chester County, about the 
 year 1770. James, the third son of Peter, died 
 rather young, I think in celibacy. But this is a 
 mistake as is shown by the signature of his wife 
 Elizabeth to the ancient deed already mentioned, 
 though I think there is no doubt but that he died 
 without leaving or ever having any children. 
 
 John, son of Jacob and grandson of Peter, 
 was born in 1714 and died in 1790; he left 
 
Goshen, and settled in Bucks County, and mar¬ 
 ried there, though I am unable to learn when he 
 moved to Bucks County, or who he married. He 
 afterwards visited his friends in Chester County, 
 with his wife and children, one of whom had red 
 hair , which was a subject of general remark, as he 
 was the first of the name known to have red hair. 
 Up to this date, 1884 ,1 have been unable to dis¬ 
 cover any other member of the family having red 
 hair. 
 
 The Trego family all had jet black hair, deep 
 blue eyes, peaked noses, were straight, tall and 
 portly, their hair inclining to become gray at about 
 thirty years of age. Mr. Irwin further says that 
 the William Trego mentioned above, had ten 
 children, of whom three were boys, William, 
 Benjamin and Joseph. Of these ten children, 
 Joseph, the grandfather of Mr. Irwin, was the 
 youngest, and was born Feb. 21st, 1732; I am 
 unable to learn when he died. He and his 
 brother William settled in Honeybrook township, 
 in the northwestern part of Chester County. 
 
 Joseph had eleven children, seven sons and 
 four daughters, and many of his descendants 
 still reside in the neighborhood of Honey- 
 brook. Benjamin remained on the old home- 
 
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 stead. One of his' granddaughters is now the 
 wife of John Rutter, Esq., a member of the West 
 Chester bar. There seems to have been no inter¬ 
 course or acquaintance between the Chester and 
 Bucks County branches of the Trego family for 
 the last sixty or eighty years, and perhaps more. 
 They had almost lost all knowledge of each 
 others existence, and it was not until the winter of 
 1835 and 6, when I [Chas. B. Trego] was serving 
 as a member of the Legislature at Harrisburg, 
 that I had ever seen a person named Trego, 
 except those of my own immediate family rela¬ 
 tions in Bucks County. At Harrisburg I became 
 acquainted with Eli and Joseph Trego, sons of 
 Moses Trego, who was one of the seven sons of 
 Joseph Trego of Honeybrook, as above men¬ 
 tioned. Eli then lived near Harrisburg in Berks 
 County, where he had an iron furnace; but after¬ 
 wards removed several times from one furnace to 
 another. He now, 1847, resides in Danville, 
 Columbia County, where he is, or was, a Justice 
 of the Peace. His brothers, John and Joseph, 
 reside in Cumberland County, about seven miles 
 west of Carlisle. Both own good farms; Joseph’s 
 is adjoining or near that now owned and occu¬ 
 pied by Governor Ritner at Mount Rock; and 
 
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 John’s a little more to the southward. Their 
 sister, Mrs. Mary McKeehan, also resides in the 
 same neighborhood. In 1840, while engaged 
 in that part of the country on the geological 
 survey of the State, I frequently visited them ; 
 and had my quarters for some time at the 
 “Stone Tavern,” on the road from Carlisle to 
 Shippensburg, then kept by Jacob Trego, a son 
 of John. Some time during the following sum¬ 
 mer, my duties on the State Survey called me to 
 Georgetown, a little village on the eastern bank 
 of the Susquehanna about ten miles below Sun- 
 bury, in Northumberland County, a rough and 
 wild region, mostly inhabited by Germans, and 
 little visited by strangers or travellers. Here I met 
 with two men named Trego, who had lived there 
 from their youth, and from long association with 
 people speaking only German, had become assim¬ 
 ilated in language, habits and manners, with the 
 population of the place. I understood that they 
 were sons of Jeremiah Trego, a brother of Moses, 
 above mentioned,—this Jeremiah having settled 
 in that neighborhood many years before, as a 
 teacher. But judging from the present state ot 
 intellectual cultivation among the people, his 
 literary qualifications were either not of a very 
 
high order, or he was unsuccessful in planting the 
 tree of knowledge in that soil so deeply as to 
 produce much fruit in after years. 
 
 It is now time to speak of Jacob, the other son 
 of Peter and Judith Trego, he being the proge¬ 
 nitor of the Bucks County branch of the Trego 
 family. Dr. Smith’s History of Delaware County, 
 informs us that he was born in 1687, and in 1710, 
 married Mary, the daughter of Edmund and Mary 
 Cartledge of Darby, and resided in Merion until 
 1717, when he removed to Middletown, where 
 he resided at the time of his death in 1720. 
 
 The records of the Monthly Meeting of Friends 
 at Darby show that at a meeting held loth mo., 
 7th, 1709, Jacob Trego of Middletown, Chester 
 County, and Mary Cartledge of Darby, declared 
 their intention of marriage. At the next Monthly 
 Meeting, nth mo., 4th, 1709, they were left at 
 liberty to proceed in marriage, and at the 
 following meeting, 12th mo., 1st, 1709, the mar¬ 
 riage was reported as accomplished. 
 
 He left three children, Hannah, John and 
 Rachel. The records of Chester Monthly Meet¬ 
 ing contain the following entry: 
 
 Children of Jacob and Mary (Cartledge) Trego. 
 
 John, born 5th mo., 6th, 1715. 
 
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 Rachel, born 7th mo., 27th, 1719. 
 
 Hannah (no record of birth), died 4th mo., 
 I Oth, 1720. 
 
 Rachel, born 7th mo., 27th, 1719, daughter of 
 Jacob and Mary Trego, married Joseph Johnson 
 of Wrightstown; they had five children, David, 
 born 1747; Mary, born 1749; John, born 1752; 
 Samuel, born 1755; and Joseph, 1759. I know 
 nothing of her sister Hannah, except that she 
 died 4th mo., 10th, 1720. 
 
 Mary Cartledge was the daughter of Edmund 
 and Mary Cartledge, and was born, 8th mo, 
 25th, 1685. 
 
 Edmund Cartledge came from the county of 
 Darby, Derbyshire, England, and settled in 
 Darby township, Delaware County, in 1683, 
 with his wife Mary. He was a faithful member 
 of the Society of Friends, and took part in the 
 performance of public duties of a citizen. He 
 was a purchaser while in England of 250 acres 
 of land in Pennsylvania, and at the time of his 
 death also held land in Plymouth township. 
 His children were John, Mary and Edmund. 
 
 A tombstone, elaborately carved, of which an 
 engraving is in Dr. Smith’s History of Delaware 
 County, was erected to his memory in the Friends 
 
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 burying ground at Darby. When grave stones 
 were prohibited by Friends, this was probably 
 buried, and was recently found in digging a grave 
 in the same burial ground. It bears the following 
 inscription: 
 
 “For the memory of Edmund Cartledge, who 
 died the 26th day of the 2d month, 1703, aged 
 54 years. 
 
 The name of Jacob Trego is signed to a mar¬ 
 riage certificate as a witness, 2d mo., 29th, 1714, 
 as appears by the records of Darby Monthly 
 Meeting. The records of Chester Monthly 
 Meeting show that Jacob Trego and wife 
 brought a certificate from Merion, Haverford 
 Monthly Meeting, to Chester Monthly Meeting, 
 dated 8th of 6th mo., 1717. 
 
 Let us now see how there came to be Tregos in 
 Bucks County. On examination of the minutes of 
 Friends Monthly Meeting at Falls, in the County 
 of Bucks, we find at a Meeting held 7th mo., 1st, 
 1722, a certificate was requested by John Lay- 
 cock to proceed in marriage with Mary Trego, 
 widow of Jacob Trego, belonging to Darby 
 Monthly Meeting in Chester, now Delaware 
 County; and accordingly a certificate was granted 
 at the next meeting. The records of Darby 
 
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 Monthly Meeting show that 9th mo., 7th, 1722, 
 John Laycock of Wrightstown, Bucks County, 
 and Mary Trego of Darby, were left at liberty 
 to consummate their marriage, and at the follow¬ 
 ing Monthly Meeting, 10th mo., 5th, 1722, the 
 marriage was reported as accomplished. 
 
 It is there shown that Mary, the widow of 
 Jacob Trego, who died in 1720, was married in 
 1722 to John Laycock of Wrightstown, Bucks 
 County; and there can be no doubt that she, with 
 her two children, John and Rachel, accompanied 
 her second husband to his residence in Bucks 
 County. This was a farm about half a mile 
 northeastward from the Wrightstown Meeting 
 House, afterwards known as the John White 
 farm, adjoining land of Dr. Isaac Chapman, and 
 now belonging to the Chapman family. 
 
 Charles B. Trego says: I can myself remember 
 passing an old house which stood on this farm, 
 near the path which in my youthful days led us 
 towards the Meeting House; but I believe that 
 no remains of the house that sheltered my great¬ 
 grandfather in his boyhood are now left in the 
 place where it stood. 
 
 John Laycock, as appears by his certificate 
 from a Meeting in Lancashire, England, came to 
 
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 this country in 1717, and his name appears fre¬ 
 quently on the books of YVrightstown Meeting 
 up to the year 1749. 
 
 In an account of the settlement of Wrights- 
 town written by the late* Dr. Isaac Chapman, he 
 says: John Laycock lived in the east of the town¬ 
 ship, and purchased about 100 acres of land, 
 built thereon, was a Minister among the 
 Friends for many years, and of some account. 
 
 He appears to have been a man of great sim¬ 
 plicity and use in his day. On this farm was 
 killed the last bear that was killed in the town¬ 
 ship, in the year 1768 or thereabouts, having 
 in the autumn come down from the mountains. 
 At this place in Wrightstown, with her second 
 husband, lived the mother of John and Rachel 
 Trego, her children by a former husband, Jacob 
 Trego. 
 
 By the records of Wrightstown Monthly 
 Meeting, it would seem that John Laycock had 
 a daughter Mary, as it is recorded that Daniel 
 White of Buckingham married Mary Laycock, 
 Jr., of Wrightstown, 9th mo., 12th, 1751- 
 Witness, Mary Laycock, Sarah White, John and 
 Hannah Trego, and others. This Mary Laycock 
 who signed as a witness, must have been the wife 
 
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 of John Laycock, the widow of Jacob Trego, 
 and mother or stepmother of Mary Laycock, Jr. 
 
 John Trego was her son, then married to 
 Hannah Lester, of the family of Lester in Rich¬ 
 land, near Quakertown, Bucks County. Daniel 
 White succeded to the farm at Wrightstown, and 
 lived there. 
 
 Rachel married Joseph Johnson, who lived at 
 what was anciently called the Verree place, on 
 the road from Wrightstown to Pennsville, 
 about a quarter of a mile southwest from the 
 Meeting House, since owned by Joseph Reeder 
 and by Ira Johnson. 
 
 John Laycock also owned 150 acres of land 
 in the northwestern corner of Upper Makefield 
 township, which became the property of his step¬ 
 son, John Trego. From ancient deeds of con¬ 
 veyance, the history of this tract appears to be 
 as follows : It was part of a tract of 792 acres 
 conveyed by John Clark of London, to John 
 Estaugh of Newtown, Gloucester County, New 
 Jersey, April 16th, 1716. John Estaugh and 
 wife, October 2d, 1728, conveyed this 792 acres 
 to Richard Sunley, tailor, of Wrightstown. 
 This tract included the land afterwards owned 
 by the Tregos, and also the Doan and Wiggins 
 
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 farms in the same neighborhood. October nth, 
 1728, Richard Sunley conveyed 140 acres of the 
 792 to John Parsons, who, March 2d, 1729, con¬ 
 veyed them to John Lay cock; December9th, 1736, 
 John Laycock gave to John Trego, his stepson, 
 a title for the above mentioned 140 acres and 
 ten acres additional, which had been conveyed 
 to John Laycock by Richard Sunley, December 
 4th, 1733. On this tract of land, John Laycock 
 and his stepson John Trego, commenced a 
 clearing, going by a path through the woods 
 from their dwelling in Wrightstown. 
 
 A log cabin was probably the first building 
 erected there; but after the land became the 
 property of John Trego, he built a stone house, 
 considered a fine one at that time, which is yet 
 standing, adjoining the house erected by William 
 Trego, his grandson, about the year 1818. The 
 records of Chester Monthly Meeting show that 
 John Trego was born 5th mo., 6th, 1715. 
 
 The Monthly Meeting of Friends at Richland 
 was established in 1742, and there is no record 
 there of the marriage of John Trego and Hannah 
 Lester. Previous to that time the Richland 
 Friends were members of Gwynedd Monthly 
 Meeting, and the marriage may have taken place 
 there, if it occurred before 1742. 
 
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 Peter Lester (the name was then written Lei¬ 
 cester) settled in Richland about 1738, the deed 
 which he received for his land being made to 
 “Peter Leicester, gentleman, of the city of Phil¬ 
 adelphia,” for 600 acres. His granddaughter, 
 Hannah Lester, born in 1767, was the natural 
 grandmother of the present John J. Moore, of 
 Quakertown (see records of Gwynedd Monthly 
 Meeting now in the hands of George Spencer, of 
 Horsham, Montgomery Co., Pa.). John Trego, 
 who married Hannah Lester, of the family of 
 Lesters in Richland, near Quakertown, Bucks 
 County, had two sons, William and Jacob, and 
 five daughters, Sarah, Joice, Rachel, Mary and 
 Hannah; William was born March 16th, 1744. 
 September 19th, 1768, he married Rachel Hibbs, 
 of Byberry township, Philadelphia County, a 
 near relative of the Cooper family, and a cousin, 
 as I have understood, to the father of James 
 Fenimore Cooper, the distinguished author. 
 
 The homestead farm of John Trego, in Upper 
 Makefield, was divided between his sons William 
 and Jacob. William erected buildings on the 
 eastern part of the tract, and Jacob inherited the 
 other portion, with the buildings which had 
 been occupied by his father. Jacob never 
 
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 married, and at his death his portion of the land 
 became the property of William Trego and his 
 sons, being so bequeathed by the will of John 
 Trego. 
 
 Being sold in 1812 for the purpose of settling 
 up the estate, it was purchased by William, the 
 son of William Trego, who resided on it until 
 the time of his decease in 1850. It then became 
 the property of his son Horace Trego, who very 
 soon, needlessly and greatly to the regret of 
 some members of the Trego family, sold it out 
 of the name to which it had belonged for more 
 than a hundred years. The other portion of 
 John Trego’s land—that which fell to his son 
 William — became afterwards the property of 
 John Trego, a son of William, and now belongs 
 to Morris W. Trego, the son of the last named 
 John Trego. On this farm is the ancient family 
 burying ground, containing the graves of a num¬ 
 ber of the early members of the Trego family. 
 
 John Trego had very black hair, while his 
 sons Jacob and William had red hair. 
 
 Sarah, daughter of John and Hannah Trego, 
 was born in Bucks County, married Joseph 
 Wiggins in September, 1768, and removed in 
 1771 to the vicinity of Deer Creek, Harford 
 
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 County, Md., with their two children, Tracey 
 and Bezalect. 
 
 Mary, daughter of John and Hannah Trego, 
 was born in Bucks County, married Meshach 
 Michiner, of Plumstead ; their children were, 
 Isaiah, Meshach, Elisha, Thomas, Nathan, Mar- 
 maduke, Rachel and Hannah Michiner. 
 
 Joice, daughter of John and Hannah, died 
 unmarried. 
 
 Rachel, daughter of John and Hannah, mar¬ 
 ried a Mr. Skelton, descendants unknown. 
 
 Hannah, daughter of John and Hannah, mar¬ 
 ried a Mr. Stockdale, descendants unknown. 
 
 From the preceding history it is shown that 
 William Trego was the only male descendant of 
 the Bucks County branch who left issue; con¬ 
 sequently all the Tregos of or from that locality 
 trace their lineage to him. Of his once numerous 
 progeny few comparatively remain in the locality 
 of their birth-place. Emigration and death have 
 drawn largely upon them, and the place that 
 knew them once now knows them no more. 
 
 Jacob Trego having died unmarried, the 
 Bucks County branch of the family, in the male 
 line, consists entirely of the descendants of his 
 brother William, who died in 1827. 
 
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 Children of William and Rebecca Trego. 
 
 Taken from family record. 
 
 Thomas, born 15th, 8th mo., 1769; died 7th, 
 8th mo., 1837 ; aged 68 years. 
 
 Mahlon, born 25th, nth mo., 1770; died 22d, 
 3d mo., 1849; aged 78 yrs., 3 mos., 28 days. 
 
 Joseph, born 10th, nth mo., 1772. 
 
 William, born 29th, 9th mo., 1774; died 14th, 
 7th mo., 1850; aged 75 yrs., 9 mos., 16 days. 
 
 John, born 20th, 12th mo., 1776; died 16th, 
 10th mo., 1832 ; aged 55 yrs., 10 mos., 26 days. 
 
 Mary, born 1st, 10th mo., 1778; died 6th, 10th 
 mo., 1784; aged 8 yrs., 5 days. 
 
 Jacob, born 28th, 10th mo., 1780; died 3d, 10th 
 mo., 1870; aged 89 yrs., n mos., 8 days. 
 
 Jesse, born 24th, 8th mo., 1782 ; died 9th, 4th 
 mo., 1783 ; aged 7 mos., 15 days. 
 
 Hannah, born 23d, 10th mo., 1784; date 
 of death unknown. 
 
 Rebecca, born 21st, 8th mo., 1786; died 7th, 
 8th mo., 1875 ; 88 yrs., 11 mos., 16 days. 
 
 2d Mary Trego, born 3d, 10th mo., 1788 ; died 
 1st, 8th mo., 1868 ; aged 79 yrs., 9 mos., 28 days. 
 
 Of these children, Thomas the eldest married 
 Sarah Duffel, of Philadelphia; their children 
 were Samuel, James, William, David, Albert, 
 Harriet, Francenia, Sarah and Hannah. 
 
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 After residing some time in Bucks County, 
 Thomas removed to Harford County, Maryland, 
 in 1812, where he died in 1837. 
 
 William, son of Thomas and Sarah Duffel 
 Trego, was born in Bucks County, Pa., 1796, 
 and died in Baltimore in 1872; he married Miss 
 Emma Patterson of Philadelphia ; they had three 
 children, John, Emma and William ; John was 
 killed at the battle of Chancellorsville, 1864; 
 Emma married a Mr. Rockhill, and for some 
 years has lived in Dresden, Germany. William 
 died young. 
 
 Albert, son of Thomas and Sarah Duffel 
 Trego, was born in Bucks County, Pa., in 1806, 
 died in Baltimore in 1870; his widow is still 
 living; they had five children, John, William, 
 Jason, James and Estelle. 
 
 John, son of Albert, was born near Fallston, 
 Harford County, Md., in 1834, married Adeline 
 Clabaugh of Baltimore, they have three children, 
 Emma, Basil and Nellie. Emma married John 
 H. Emory of Baltimore. 
 
 John Trego owns and manages the Berkeley 
 Springs, W. Va. 
 
 William, son of Albert, was born in 1838: he 
 resides in Baltimore, and is manager of the 
 
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 Express Department of B. and 0 . R. R. He has 
 one child that I know of, a son Albert, he was 
 married in Washington, D. C., November 7th, 
 1883, to Miss Kate B. Carroll, by the Rev. Dr. 
 Addison. Albert Trego is confidential clerk in 
 the office of the general passenger agent B. and 
 O. R. R. 
 
 James D., son of Albert, was born in 1843, 
 never married. For several years has been 
 clerk in the Freight Department P. W. & B. R. R., 
 President street Station, Baltimore. 
 
 Jason, son of Albert, was born in 1844, died 
 1844. 
 
 Estelle, daughter of Albert, was born 1848; 
 married Henry W. Roane, of the firm of Shipley, 
 Roane & Co., and resides at 585 Lexington 
 street, Baltimore—has children. I regret that 
 no more biographical matter can be given of the 
 descendants of Thomas Trego, as they have 
 failed to give me any information. 
 
 Taken from family records. 
 
 Mahlon Trego, son of William and Rebecca 
 (Hibbs) Trego, born November 25th, 1770; died 
 March 22d, 1849. [Married Rachel, daughter of 
 Joseph and Elizabeth Briggs, 12th mo., nth, 
 1793, she was born September 24th, 1785, and 
 
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 died January 14th, 1840, in Warwick township, 
 Bucks County.] 
 
 Children of Mahlon and Rachel Trego. 
 
 Charles B. born nth mo., 25th, 1794; died 
 1 ith mo., 10th, 1874. 
 
 Albert, born 4th mo., 21st, 1796; died 5th mo., 
 1 Oth, 1797. 
 
 Phineas, born 1st mo., 12th, 1798; died 5th 
 mo., 21st, 1875. 
 
 Elizabeth, born nth mo., 26th, 1799; died 6th 
 mo., 1 ith, 1881. 
 
 Louis, born nth mo., 1st, 1801; died - 
 
 Robert S., born 9th mo., 24th, 1803; still 
 living. 
 
 Mary, born 9th mo., 14th, 1805 ; still living. 
 
 James, born 8th mo., 1st, 1807; still living. 
 
 Jos. B., born 5th mo., 18th, 1809; still living. 
 
 Cyrus, born 9th mo., 15th, 1810; died nth 
 mo., nth, 1866. 
 
 Edward, born nth mo., 3d, 1812; still living. 
 
 Mahlon, born 9th mo., 8th, 1815; died 7th mo., 
 1839 - 
 
 Morris, born 1st mo., 18th, 1819; died 10th 
 mo., 14th, 1843. 
 
 In 1802 Mahlon Trego purchased a farm in 
 Upper Makefield township, on which he resided 
 
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 until his decease in 1849. This farm he sold to 
 his son Charles B. in 1841, but still continued 
 to make it his home. The most of his children 
 remained in Bucks County ; Charles B. removed 
 to Philadelphia in 1822; Joseph B. purchased 
 land in Mercer County, Illinois, on which he 
 settled in 1839; J ames removed to the same 
 neighborhood in Illinois in 1858, with his sister 
 Mary, where they have since resided. 
 
 Joseph, born 10th, nth mo., 1772, the third 
 son of William and Rebecca Trego ; went when 
 a young man to the western part of Pennsylva¬ 
 nia, and settled for a time in the neighborhood 
 of Brownsville, Fayette County. He married 
 there, and afterwards removed to Ohio. 
 
 William, born 29th, 9th mo., 1774, brother of 
 Joseph, and fourth son of William and Rebecca 
 Trego, married Rachel Taylor, and lived for 
 several years in Pineville, Bucks County. He 
 afterwards purchased that portion of his grand¬ 
 father’s land which had belonged to his uncle 
 Jacob, son of John Trego, and lived on it until 
 his decease in 1850. 
 
 6th Gen.—Charles B., son of Mahlon and 
 Rachel Trego, born November 25th, 1794, died 
 November 10th, 1874. Married 1817 to Martha 
 
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 Smith; she was born 1794, and died August 7th, 
 1813. He was a teacher by profession, and re¬ 
 moved to Philadelphia in 1822, where during 
 various periods of his life he held many positions 
 of honor and trust, under both State and City 
 Government. He was also a member of several 
 literary, scientific, and historical societies. When 
 I first entered the University of Pennsylvania in 
 1862, I met him there as a professor in the 
 Literary Department. The first part of this 
 work is taken from his MS. 'Their only child, 
 Frederick Augustus, was born in 1818, in Bucks 
 County, and removed with his parents when 
 young to Philadelphia, where he died in 1881. 
 He married Sallie Woodruff of Trenton, in 1842; 
 she was born in 1823, and now resides with her 
 son, Charles F. Trego, in West Philadelphia. 
 
 7th Gen.—Children of P'rederick A. and Sijllie 
 Woodruff Trego. 
 
 8th Gen.—Mary Francis, born 1843, and married 
 to P. S. Freeland in 1867. Laura Helena, born 
 1848; died 1853. Charles Frederick, born 185 1 ; 
 married to Alice Foxall in 1880. William Willett, 
 born 1855 ; married Mary Schneider, of Wash 
 ington, D. C., 1882. Edward August, born 1865. 
 
 William, born 1774, died 1850, son of William 
 and Rebecca Trego ; married Rachel Taylor. 
 
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 Children of William and Rachel (Taylor) Trego. 
 
 Taken from family record. 
 
 Charles T., born 4th mo., 20th, 1800. 
 
 George, born 8th mo., 8th, 1801 ; died 6th 
 mo., 12th, 1828. 
 
 Anne T., born 5th mo., nth, 1803. 
 
 Watson P., born 1st mo., 22d, 1805. 
 
 William C., born 4th mo., 6th, 1807; died 10th 
 mo., 29th, 1831. 
 
 Elizabeth, born 1 ith mo., 3d, 1810. 
 
 Alfred, born 3d mo., 15th, 1812. 
 
 Smith, born 12th mo., 4th, 1815. 
 
 Jonathan K., born 3d mo., nth, 1817. 
 
 Horace, born 4th mo., 5th, 1819. 
 
 Some of these are deceased and some reside 
 in Illinois. 
 
 John, born 20th, 12th mo., 1776, son of Wil¬ 
 liam and Rebecca Trego, married Mary Morris, 
 and lived for some time on a farm belonging to 
 her father, situated a little north of the meeting 
 house at Wrightstown. He afterwards purchased 
 the farm belonging to his father, the south east¬ 
 ern part of the old homestead of his grandfather, 
 John Trego, and resided on it at the time of his 
 decease, 16th, 10th mo., 1832. This farm now 
 belongs to his son, Morris W. Trego, and has 
 on it the old family burial ground. 
 
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 Children of John and Mary (Morris) Trego. 
 
 Taken from family record. 
 
 Rebecca, born 7th mo., nth, 1802; died 4th 
 mo., 20th, 1823. 
 
 John K., born 7th mo., 24th, 1804. 
 
 Elizabeth, born 7th mo., 14th, 1806; died 10th 
 mo., 19th, 1831. 
 
 Morris W., born 6th mo., 7th, 1808. 
 
 Hannah, born 6th mo., 30th, 1810; died 10th 
 mo., 12th, 1815. 
 
 Lydia, born nth mo., 15th, 1812. 
 
 Seth D., born 9th mo., 15th, 1815. 
 
 Seth D. and Lydia reside in Illinois. 
 
 Jacob, born 28th, 10th mo., 1780, the sixth son 
 of William and Rebecca Trego, married Letitia 
 Smith, and lived for some time at the old home¬ 
 stead, then belonging to his uncle Jacob Trego. 
 After the death of the latter,—and the sale of the 
 farm to William Trego, his brother—Jacob 
 bought land near Pineville, part of which had 
 belonged to his father, and resided there until 
 1846, when he sold his property and removed to 
 Mercer County, Illinois, where several of his 
 sons had previously settled. He died there 
 3d, 10th mo., 1870, aged 89 years n months 8 
 days. 
 
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 Children of Jacob and Letitia (Smith; Trego. 
 
 Taken from family record. 
 
 Smith, born 8th mo., I ith, 1804; died 8th mo., 
 24th, 1804. 
 
 Howard, born Sth mo., 16th, 1805; killed 6th 
 mo., 5th, 1844. 
 
 Allen, born Sth mo., 26th, 1807. 
 
 Curtis, born 9th mo., 1 Sth, 1809. 
 
 Henry, born 12th mo., 29th, 1811. 
 
 Elinor, born 2d mo., 28th, 1814; died 6th mo., 
 Sth, 1826. 
 
 Thomas, born 5th mo., 13th, 1816. 
 
 Rebecca, born 7th mo., 22d, 1818. 
 
 Elias H., born 3d mo., 15th, 1821 ; died 10th 
 mo., 27th, 1826. 
 
 Joseph, born 5th mo., 9th, 1823. 
 
 Yardley, born 10th mo., 17th, 1826. 
 
 All of these, except Smith, Elias and Elinor, 
 who died when children, removed to Illinois. 
 
 Thomas removed from Illinois, and settled in 
 Bucks County, having purchased a farm about a 
 mile west of Doylestown. 
 
 Hannah, born 23d, 10th mo., 1784, daughter 
 of William and Rebecca Trego, married Isaac 
 Beans, of Buckingham, Bucks County. They 
 removed to Harford County, Maryland, but 
 
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 again returned to Bucks County, and after some 
 years removed to Ohio. They had five children, 
 two sons and three daughters. I can find no 
 trace of them. 
 
 Rebecca, born 21st, 8th mo., 1786; died 7th, 
 8th mo., 1875, aged 88 yrs. 11 mos. 16 days, 
 daughter of William and Rebecca Trego, mar¬ 
 ried John Beans, a brother of Isaac Beans above 
 mentioned; and after his death, Thomas Briggs 
 of Newtown township. Her second husband 
 died some years ago, and after his death she 
 resided in Pineville during the remainder of 
 her life. 
 
 Mary, second by same name, born 3d, 10th 
 mo., 1788; died 1st, 8th mo., 1868, aged 79 yrs. 9 
 mos. 28 days, third daughter of William and 
 Rebecca Trego, married her cousin, Mahlon H. 
 West, of Harford County, Maryland, and had a 
 large family of children. Her husband was 
 drowned during a visit to Philadelphia, in 1836, 
 by accidentally falling, in the evening, from the 
 drawbridge which extended across a canal at the 
 west end of the Schuylkill bridge, at Market 
 street. 
 
 Mahlon H. West was the son of Thomas 
 West, who married Elizabeth Hibbs; she was a 
 sister of Rebecca, wife of William Trego. 
 
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 Having given a general biographical and 
 genealogical history of the family from the time 
 of Peter, it now becomes necessary to go back 
 and give the history of each branch separately in 
 order that it may be distinctly understood. 
 
 ist Generation.—Peter, the first, was born in 
 France in 1655, died in Chester County, now 
 Delaware County, in 1730. His wife’s name was 
 Judith, whom he must have married in Chester 
 County, as he landed in this country about the 
 year 1682, and his first child was not born until 
 August 7th, 1687. From old manuscripts we 
 have positive proof that he was not married 
 when he first came to this country, but whether 
 any of his brothers or even his father came with 
 him, is a question which cannot be settled at this 
 late date, as there appears to be no mention made 
 of any but Peter. 
 
 2d Gen.—Jacob Trego, eldest child of Peter 
 and Judith Trego, was born in Chester, now 
 Delaware, County, Pa., August 7th, 1687, and 
 married Mary Cartledge, Dec. 1st, 1709. He 
 was the progenitor of the Bucks County branch 
 of the Trego family, and died at Middletown, 
 April 10th, 1724. Their children were John, 
 Rachel, Mary and Hannah, who died in infancy. 
 
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 2d Gen.—James, born in Chester County, 4th 
 mo., 26th, 1690, second child of Peter and Judith 
 Trego. It is to be presumed from all the records 
 we can find that he died leaving no children. 
 His wife’s name was Elizabeth ; it will be seen 
 elsewhere that he died young, but what year I am 
 unable to state. 
 
 2d Gen.—William, born in Chester County, 
 6th mo., 3d, 1693, third child of Peter and Judith 
 Trego; married Margaret Moore, of Goshen, 
 June 26th, 1717; he had red hair. They left 
 nine children; the descendants of William Trego 
 are known as the Chester County branch of the 
 Trego family, and those of Jacob as the Bucks 
 County branch. 
 
 2d Gen.—John, born in Chester County, 12th 
 mo., 15th, 1696, fourth child of Peter and Judith 
 Trego. Can give no other records of him. 
 
 2d Gen.—Ann, born in Chester County, 8th 
 mo., 26th, 1702, daughter of Peter and Judith 
 Trego; married Dr. James Rushton of Middle- 
 town, I ith of 6th mo., 1725. 
 
 2d Gen.—Peter, Jr., son of Peter and Judith, 
 have no records of his birth; as John was born 
 in 1696 and Ann 1702, it is to be presumed that 
 he came next after John. Peter, Jr., married 
 Ann Whitaker, nth mo., 5th, 1726. 
 
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 3d Gen.—John, born in Chester County, 5th 
 mo., 6th, 1715, eldest child of Jacob and Mary 
 Trego; married Hannah Lester of Richland, 
 Bucks County, date unknown. They left seven 
 children, William, Jacob, Sarah, Mary, Joice, 
 Rachel and Hannah. 
 
 3d Gen.—Rachel, born in Chester County, 7th 
 mo., 27th, 1719, second child of Jacob and Mary 
 Trego; married Joseph Johnson, who lived on 
 the Verree place, on the road from Wrightstown 
 to Pennsville, Bucks County. They left five 
 children, David, born 1747; Mary, born 1749; 
 John, born 1752; Samuel, born 1755; and 
 Joseph, born 1759. 
 
 3d Gen.—Hannah (no record of birth) died 
 4th mo., 10th, 1720, third and last child of Jacob 
 and Mary Trego. Hannah must have died the 
 same year she was born. 
 
 3d Gen. — Mary (no record of birth or death), 
 daughter of John Laycock and Mary, widow of 
 Jacob Trego, married Daniel White of Bucking¬ 
 ham, 9th mo , 12th, 1751 (no records of family). 
 
 2d Gen.—Mary Cartledge Trego, born August 
 25th, 1685, widow of Jacob Trego; it will be 
 noticed that she was two years older than her 
 husband. After the death of her first husband, 
 
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 Jacob Trego, she married John Laycock, Octo¬ 
 ber 5th, 1722. 
 
 4th Gen. — William, born March 16th, 1744, in 
 Bucks County, son of John and Hannah Lester 
 Trego; married Rebecca Hibbs of Byberry, Ben- 
 salem township, Sept. 19th, 1768; he died in 
 Bucks County, in 1827. They had eleven chil¬ 
 dren, Thomas, Mahlon, Joseph, William, John, 
 Mary, Jacob, Jesse, Hannah, Rebecca, and a 
 second Mary. 
 
 4th Gen.—Jacob, born in Bucks County in 
 1746, son of John and Hannah Lester Trego; 
 never married, died in Bucks County in 1810; 
 at his death was buried in the old family burying 
 ground, as directed during his lifetime, beside 
 several of the same name buried at a very early 
 date. 
 
 4th Gen. — Mary, daughter of John and Han¬ 
 nah Lester Trego ; married a Mr. Michener. 
 
 4th Gen. — Hannah, daughter of John and 
 Hannah Lester Trego; married a Mr. Stockdale 
 (no records). 
 
 4th Gen. — Rachel, daughter of John and 
 Hannah Lester Trego; married a Mr. Skelton 
 (no records). 
 
 4th Gen. — Joice, daughter of John and Hannah 
 Lester Trego (no records). 
 
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 4th Gen.—Sarah, daughter and last child of 
 John and Hannah Lester Trego; married a Mr. 
 Wiggins (no records). 
 
 5th Gen.—Thomas, eldest child of William 
 and Rebecca Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 August 15th, 1769; married Sarah Duffel of 
 Philadelphia; died near Fallston, Harford 
 County, Maryland, in 1837. [See page 32.] 
 
 5th Gen.—Mahlon, second child of William 
 and Rebecca Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 November 25th, 1770; died March 22d, 1849. 
 Married Rachel Briggs of Warwick township, 
 Bucks County, December nth, 1793; she was 
 born September 24th, 1775 ; died January 14th, 
 1840. (6th Gen.) Their children were, Charles 
 B., Albert, Phineas, Elizabeth, Louis, Robert S., 
 Mary, James, Joseph B., Cyrus, Edward, Mahlon, 
 and Morris H. All born in West Makefield, 
 Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 
 
 5th Gen.—Joseph, third child of William and 
 Rebecca Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 November 10th, 1772. Went to Fayette County, 
 Pennsylvania, when a young man, married and 
 settled there afterwards removed to Ohio, where 
 some of his descendants are yet probably living ; 
 have no record of his family. 
 
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 5th Gen. — William, fourth child of William 
 and Rebecca Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 September 29th, 1774, and died there July 14th, 
 1850. He married Rachel Taylor. Their 
 children were, Charles S., George, Anna T., 
 Watson P., William C., Elizabeth, Alfred, Smith, 
 Jonathan K., and Horace. 
 
 5th Gen. — John, fifth child of William and Re¬ 
 becca Trego, was born in Bucks County, De¬ 
 cember 20th, 1776. He married Mary Morris; 
 their children were, Rebecca, John K., Elizabeth, 
 Morris W., Hannah, Eydia and Seth D. 
 
 5th Gen. — Mary, sixth child of William and 
 Rebecca Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 October 1st, 1778; died October 6th, 1784. 
 
 5th Gen.—Jacob, seventh child of William and 
 Rebecca Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 October 28th, 1780; died October 3d, 1870. He 
 married Letitia Smith. Their children were, 
 Smith, Howard, Allen, Curtis, Henry, Elinor, 
 Thomas, Elias H., Rebecca, Joseph and Yardley. 
 
 5th Gen.—Jesse, eighth child of William and 
 Rebecca Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 August 29th, 1782; died April 9th, 1783. 
 
 5th Gen. — Hannah, ninth child of William and 
 Rebecca Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 
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 October 23d, 1784; married Isaac Beans, of 
 Buckingham, Bucks County. Their children 
 were, William, Charles, Wilson, Sarah and Mary 
 Beans. 
 
 5th Gen.—Rebecca, tenth child of William and 
 Rebecca Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 August 21 st, 1786. During her single life lived 
 for a time with her uncle Thomas Trego, near 
 Fallston, Harford County, Maryland ; first mar¬ 
 ried John Beans, brother of Isaac Beans, and 
 afterwards married Thomas Briggs, of Bucks 
 County, and resided there during the remainder 
 of her life; she died August 7th, 1S75. They 
 left no children. 
 
 5th Gen.—Mary, second by same name, daugh¬ 
 ter of William and Rebecca Trego, was born in 
 Bucks County, October 3d, 1788. Married 
 Mahlon West, of Harford County, Maryland ; 
 he was drowned by accidentally falling from 
 a drawbridge in 1836. [See page 41.] Their 
 children were, William T., who is married and 
 resides in Cecil County, Maryland ; Jesse H and 
 Elizabeth, died in infancy; Rebecca T., Elizabeth 
 H. (second), Granville S., Amos S., Edward S. 
 and Mary V:; for many years resided in Har¬ 
 ford County. Their mother, Mary, died at 
 
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 Yardleysville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 
 August 1st, 1868. 
 
 6th Gen.—Her daughter, Elizabeth West, 
 married a Mr. Twining, of Wrightstown, Bucks 
 County. 
 
 6th Gen. — Mary West, married a Mr. Gilkison. 
 
 5th Gen. — Mahlon Trego, son of William and 
 Rebecca (Hibbs) Trego, was born in Bucks 
 County, November 25th, 1770; died March 22, 
 1849. Married Rachel, daughter of Joseph and 
 Elizabeth Briggs, 12th mo., nth, 1793. She was 
 born September 24th, 1775 ; died January 14th, 
 1840. 
 
 6th Gen. — Children of Mahlon and Rachel 
 Trego: Charles B., Albert, Phineas, Elizabeth, 
 Louis, Robert S., Mary, James, Joseph, Cyrus, 
 Edward, Mahlon, Jr., Morris. 
 
 Charles B., son of Mahlon and Rachel Briggs 
 Trego, was born in Bucks County, 1 ith mo., 
 25th, 1794; died 1 ith mo., 10th, 1874. Married 
 Martha Smith in 1817, she was born in 1794 and 
 died August 7th, 1883. 
 
 7th Gen. — Their only child, Frederick Augus¬ 
 tus, born - 1818, in Bucks County; he 
 
 died - 1881. Married Sarah Woodruff. 
 
 They left five children, all born in Philadelphia. 
 
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 8th Gen.—Mary Francis, daughter of Fred¬ 
 erick A. and Sarah Woodruff Trego, was born 
 - 1843 ; married James S. Freeland in 1867. 
 
 Laura Helena, their second child, was born 
 1848, died 1853. 
 
 Charles Frederick, their third child, born in 
 1851, married Alice C. Troxall, of Allentown, 
 Lehigh County, Pa., in 1880, and now resides 
 at 631 Union street, West Philadelphia. 
 
 William Willett Trego, their fourth child, born 
 1855, married Mary Schnider, of Washington, 
 D. C., in 1882, where they, reside. 
 
 Edward August, fifth and last child of Fred¬ 
 erick A. and Sarah Woodruff Trego, was born 
 in 1865. 
 
 6th Gen.—Albert, second child of Mahlon and 
 Rachel Briggs Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 4th mo., 21 st, 1796; died 5th mo., 10th, 1797. 
 
 Phineas, third child of Mahlon and Rachel 
 Briggs Trego, was born in Bucks County, 1st mo., 
 12th, 1798, died there 5th mo., 21st, 1875 ; mar¬ 
 ried Letitia Heston in 1821 ; she died in 1825, 
 leaving one son. 
 
 7th Gen.—Oliver, born January 5th, 1822. He 
 married Lucilla Martindell, September, 1848, 
 and removed to Iowa. 
 
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 8th Gen.—Thomas B., only child of Oliver 
 and Lucilla Trego, was born in Iowa, January, 
 1849; married Martha R. David of that State in 
 1873. Their children were: 
 
 9th Gen. — Lucilla, born December 25th, 1873. 
 
 Mary, born March 13th, 1875 > died July 12th, 
 1876. 
 
 Margaret E., born December 5th, 1876. 
 
 Myrtle, born December 1st, 1880; they reside 
 in Montgomery County, Iowa. 
 
 6th Gen. — After the death of Phineas Trego’s 
 first wife he married Wilhelmina Catell, she was 
 born in 1802; by the second wife he had one 
 child. 
 
 7th Gen. — Edward, born December 6th, 1833 ; 
 married Annie Heston, March 4th, 1858, she was 
 born March 7th, 1837. They reside in Iowa, 
 and have no children. 
 
 6th Gen.—Elizabeth, daughter of Mahlon and 
 Rachel Briggs Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 Nov. 26th, 1799; married John Merrick, Nov. 
 loth, 1826; she died Nov. 10th, 1881. He was 
 born Nov. 26th, 1794, and died Sept. 7th, 1866. 
 Their children were: 
 
 I. Wilson, born October 8th, 1827 ; died April 
 24th, 1828. 
 
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 Geo. T., born February 19th, 1829. 
 
 Jane Eliza, born August 20th, 1831 ; died 
 December 25th, 1864. 
 
 David, born February 4th, 1835 ; died May 
 20th, 1863. 
 
 Joseph T., born November 2d, 1839 1 died Sep¬ 
 tember 17th, 1862; killed in battle of Antietam. 
 
 Edward, born February 2d, 1845 ;- 
 
 6th Gen.—Lewis, son of Mahlon and Rachel 
 Briggs Trego, born in Bucks County, November 
 1st, 1801, died March, i860; married Sarah Wil¬ 
 lard, 1825, she was born 1796; died November 
 27th, 1879. Their children were : 
 
 7th Gen.—Albert, George, Harrison, T. Willis, 
 Caroline, Mary Ann, and a second Harrison. 
 
 Albert, son of Lewis and Rachel Trego, 
 was born in Bucks County, October, 1825 ; 
 married Martha Linton, in 1854; she was 
 born in 1833. He in early life was a teacher, 
 studied medicine, graduated in Philadelphia, 
 1861, practiced in Bucks County until 1878, 
 when he removed to Allen County, Kansas, 
 where he yet resides, engaged in farming and the 
 practice of his profession. 
 
 8th Gen.—Their children, Annie S., born 1856; 
 married, in 1879, Mahlon T. Trego of Harvey 
 County, Kansas. 
 
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 Mary H., was born 1857; married Edwin S. 
 Kirk of Buckingham, Bucks County, Pa., 1881, 
 and resides in Bucks County. 
 
 8th Gen.—Susan L., born 1858; died 1858. 
 
 Ellerslie W., born 1861. 
 
 George L., born 1863; died 1864. 
 
 Albert, Jr., born 1872. 
 
 7th Gen.—George, son of Lewis and Sarah 
 Trego, was born September, 1827. Married 
 Elizabeth Neeld, November 4th, 1847; she was 
 born October 10th, 1829. He died December 
 13th, 1868, from wounds received at battle of 
 Antietam in United States service. Their chil¬ 
 dren were: 
 
 8th Gen.—Annabell, Caroline, Wilbert W., 
 Lewis and Emma. 
 
 Annabell, born August 31st, 1848; married 
 Mathias Harvey, 1867. They have two children 
 (9th Gen.), Wm. H., born July 29th, 1871, and 
 George T., born April 4th, 1877. 
 
 8th Gen.—Caroline, daughter of George and 
 Elizabeth Trego, born September 3d, 1850; 
 married Franklin Buckman, Jr., March 25th, 
 1871. Their children are (9th Gen.), George S., 
 born January 3d, 1871, and Honora, born April 
 29th, 1873. 
 
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 Wilbert W., son of George and Elizabeth 
 Trego, born May 31st, 1853; married Mary Buck- 
 man, sister of Franklin Buckman, October 7th, 
 1873. Their child (9th Gen.), Martha B., born 
 July 24th, 1877. 
 
 Lewis, son of George and Elizabeth Trego, 
 was born March 15th, 1857; married Louisa 
 M. Shaffer, December 12th, 1879. No children. 
 
 Emma, daughter of George and Elizabeth, 
 born February 8th, 1863; married Lewis M. 
 Appleton, March 16th, 1878. Their children 
 (9th Gen.), Annabell, born January 25th, 1879, 
 and Lula May, born May 30th, 1883. 
 
 7th Gen.—Harrison, son of Lewis and Sarah 
 Trego, was born in Bucks County, January, 
 1838; married Margaret Baker, May, i860; she 
 was born August, 1840. Their children were 
 (8th Gen.), Caroline N., born February, 1861, 
 Kate B., born December, 1863, and Albert T., 
 born October, 1870. -Harrison Trego served in 
 the Union Army during the war in Gen. Sher¬ 
 man’s command. After the war was appointed 
 Post Master at Orion, Henry Co., Ills., in 1865, 
 where he still resides and' holds the same 
 position. 
 
 7th Gen.—P. Willis, son of Lewis and Sarah 
 
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 Trego, born in Bucks County, September, 1831. 
 Married Isabell Vanmeetre, November, 1856. 
 He went to Ills, in 1854, and still resides there. 
 Their children were (8th Gen.), Abner, Sarah, 
 Elmer, Mary, Edgar, Jonathan, Stephen, and 
 Leroy. 
 
 8th Gen.—Abner, son of P. Willis and Isabell 
 Trego, born in Ills., December, 1858; married 
 October, 1881. 
 
 Sarah, born in Ills., April, i860; died March, 
 1865. 
 
 Elmer, born Ills., July, 1861. 
 
 Mary, twin sister of Elmer, born in July, 1861 ; 
 died September, 1861. 
 
 Edgar, born in Ills., January, 1863. 
 
 Jonathan, born in Ills., March, 1864. 
 
 Stephen, born in Ills., July, 1869. 
 
 Leroy, born in Ills., October, 1872. 
 
 7th Gen.—Caroline, daughter of Lewis and 
 Sarah Trego, born in Bucks County, July, 1833 ! 
 married Harvey Neal, removed to Ills., and died 
 there in 1877. They left one child (8th Gen.), 
 Willis Neal. 
 
 Mary Ann, daughter of Lewis and Sarah 
 Trego, born in Bucks County, July, 1835; mar¬ 
 ried Lewis Roberts, of Newtown, Bucks County, 
 and died in 1862. No children. 
 
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 6th Gen.—Robert S., son of Mahlon and 
 Rachel Trego, was born in Bucks County, Sep¬ 
 tember 24th, 1803; married Sarah T. Briggs, at 
 Halls Meeting, October 19th, 1831. She was born 
 August 18th, 1808. They are still living at Dol- 
 lington, Bucks County. I am greatly indebted 
 to Robert S. Trego for much valuable assis¬ 
 tance in furnishing copies of manuscript, together 
 with names, dates of births, deaths, marriages, 
 etc. Their children were (7th Gen.), Rebecca B., 
 Emmor K., T. Story, Edgar P., Mahlon T., Wil¬ 
 liam W., Robert Henry, B. Franklin, and 
 Eugene. 
 
 7th Gen.—Rebecca B., daughter of Robert S. 
 and Sarah T. Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 August 4th, 1832; died June 15th, 1835. 
 
 Emmor K., born in Bucks County, February 
 24th, 1834; married Margaret Murfit, November, 
 1856. Their children are (8th Gen.), Mary B., 
 born January 12th, 1861, and Anna M., born 
 February 15 th, 1870. 
 
 Thomas Story, son of Robert S. and Sarah 
 T. Trego, born in Bucks County, January 24th, 
 1836; died September 6th, 1836. 
 
 Edgar P., son of Robert S. and Sarah T. 
 Trego, born in Bucks County, April 1st, 1838; 
 
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 married Jennie Clark, of Ills., in 1861 ; she 
 was born in Ills. He was killed in battle 
 September 19th, 1863. His wife died in 1873. 
 They left no children. In 1858 he went to 
 Henry Co., Ills., and in 1861 enlisted in the 
 United States Army. Was with Col. Mulligan 
 at Lexington, Mo., taken prisoner, exchanged, 
 and shortly after raised a company, joined 8th 
 Kansas Regiment, and was attached to the Army 
 of the Cumberland. Was killed at the battle 
 of Chickamauga, and was interred in National 
 Cemetery at Chattanooga. A county in the state 
 of Kansas bears his name, given in recognition 
 of the services of Captain Edgar P. Trego, to 
 that state. 
 
 Taken from a Bucks Co. Paper for Nov. 1863. 
 
 A correspondent of the Leavenworth Bulletin, 
 who belongs to the 8th Kansas Regiment, and 
 who took part in the great battle of Chicka¬ 
 mauga, has written an account of that bloody 
 struggle. He pays a fervent tribute to the brave 
 spirits w r ho, on that field, yielded up their lives 
 for their country, among whom was Captain 
 Edgar P. Trego, formerly of Bucks County. The 
 circumstances of the death of Captain Trego 
 are thus related by his comrade in arms. Cap- 
 
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 tain Edgar P. Trego was one of the most highly 
 esteemed officers of the Eighth. He was a type 
 of the ancient chevalier, sans pair et sans reproche. 
 The circumstances of his death are peculiarly 
 touching, for he fell a victim to his own manly 
 and generous-impulses. When the regiment was 
 withdrawn, on the evening of the 19th, he asked 
 leave to return and bring away some of his 
 wounded boys. It was about dusk when he 
 passed over the battle-field on his mission of 
 humanity. Firing had ceased. Rebels and 
 Federals were together there, and both parties 
 seemed to regard it, for the time, as neutral 
 ground. But as poor Trego was returning, a 
 ball from one of the Confederate sharpshooters 
 struck him, while he was stooping over a 
 wounded soldier, killing him instantly. Five 
 minutes after he was congratulated upon having 
 passed safely through the fight, he was a corpse. 
 
 7th Gen.—Mahlon T., son of Robert S. and 
 Sarah T. Trego, was born in Bucks County, 
 April 19th, 1840; married M. Matilda Roca- 
 fellow, October 22d, 1862; she was born April 
 6th, 1843, an d died October 19th, 1876. Their 
 children were Fannie C. and Lizzie H. 
 
 8th Gen.—Fannie C., born November 30th, 
 
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 1864; married Joseph P. Trego, of Kansas, 
 1882. They have one child (gth Gen.), Henry 
 S., born May 18th, 1883. 
 
 Lizzie H., born September 1st, 1869. 
 
 After the death of Mahlon T. Trego’s wife, he 
 removed with his two children to Harvey 
 County, Kansas, where he had previously pur¬ 
 chased land in 1879, an d * n the same year married 
 his first cousin Annie S. Trego, daughter of 
 Dr. Albert Trego, of Allen County, Kansas. 
 They have one child (9th Gen.), Ruthie E., born 
 September 8th, 1880. 
 
 7th Gen.—William W., son of Robert S. and 
 Sarah T. Trego, born in Bucks County, May 
 1st, 1842; married Amanda Mahan, Febru¬ 
 ary 14th, 1865 ; she was born October 26th, 1843. 
 Their children are (8th Gen.), Robert T. and 
 Mary M. 
 
 8th Gen. — Robert T., was born May 2d, 1867, 
 and Mary M., June 14th, 1873. They both 
 reside in Bucks County, their native place. 
 
 7th Gen.—Robert Plenry, son of Robert S. 
 and Sarah T. Trego, born in Bucks County, 
 July 21 st, 1844; married Lizzie Lum, January 
 11 th, 1872 ; she was born May 21st, 1845. Their 
 only child (8th Gen.), Lillian, born October 9th, 
 1874; died June 18th, 1875. 
 
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 Robert Henry Trego served an appren¬ 
 ticeship to the Printer’s Craft, in the office of 
 the Bucks County “Intelligencer,” at Doyles- 
 town. Graduated in 1865, and remained in that 
 office until 1869, when he, with a former fellow 
 craftsman, went to Sidney, Ohio, and purchased 
 the “ Sidney Journal,” which they yet publish 
 under the firm name of Trego & Binkley. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin, son of Robert S. and Sarah 
 T. Trego, born in Bucks County, January 16th, 
 1848; married Martha Engle, of Illinois, March 
 5th, 1874; she died childless, March 22d, 1876. 
 He married a second wife Lizzie Engle, April 4th, 
 1878 ; she was born June 22d, 1855. They have 
 one child (8th Gen.), Alice, born October 21st, 
 1879. In 1868 he removed to Henry County, 
 Illinois, where he now resides. 
 
 Eugene, son of Robert S. and Sarah T. 
 Trego, born in Bucks County, October 14th, 
 1851; married Anna Parsonage, March 13th, 
 1873; she was born September 16th, 1853. 
 Their children are (8th Gen.), Lora, born Sep¬ 
 tember 2d, 1875, and Edgar Franklin, born 
 September 19th, 1883. In 1870 they removed 
 to Illinois, and remained there until 1879, wh en 
 they removed to Harvey County, Kansas, where 
 they still reside. 
 
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 6th Gen.—Mary, daughter of Mahlon and 
 Rachel Trego, born in Bucks County, Sep¬ 
 tember 14th, 1805. In 1850 she removed to 
 Mercer County, Illinois, where she still resides 
 with her brother, Jos. B. Trego. Never married. 
 
 James, son of Mahlon and Rachel Trego, 
 born in Bucks County, August 1st, 1807; mar¬ 
 ried Abigail Herron, of Titusville, N. J., Feb¬ 
 ruary 26th, 1834; she was born 1806. Their 
 children were (7th Gen.), Scudder H. and 
 Amanda. 
 
 7th Gen.—Scudder H., born January 1st, 1835 ; 
 married Emmaretta Kinsey, April 7th, 1855; she 
 was born July 15th, 1835. Their children were 
 (8th Gen.), Joseph P. and Lizzie B. 
 
 8th Gen.—Joseph P., was born April 13th, 
 1857; married Jennie C. Trego, born November 
 30th, 1864, daughter of Mahlon Jr., August 2d, 
 1882. They have one child, Henry S., born 
 May 18th, 1883. 
 
 8th Gen.—Lizzie B., can get no record of her. 
 
 7th Gen.—Amanda, daughter of James and 
 Abigail Trego, born in Bucks County, 1836; 
 married B. Rush Blackfar, M. D., of Illinois, 
 1857; he was born 1827. Graduated in Phila¬ 
 delphia as a doctor of medicine in 1849. They 
 
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 have two children, James T., born 1858, and 
 Mary T., born 1864. 
 
 6th Gen.—James Trego, removed with his 
 family to Ills, in 1857, and removed to Harvey 
 Co., Kansas, in 1879, where they yet reside. 
 
 6th Gen.—Joseph B., son of Mahlon and 
 Rachel Trego, born in Bucks County, May 
 18th, 1809; married Nancy Huyck, October 5th, 
 1843; she was born in Ohio, April nth, 1819. 
 He removed from Bucks County to Mercer 
 County, Illinois, in 1837, an d settled there, 
 being one of the earliest pioneers of that county, 
 and where he yet resides, together with all his 
 family. Their children were (7th Gen.), Warren, 
 Arthur, Frank, 2d Warren H., T. Corwin, and 
 Amelia. 
 
 7th Gen.—Warren, born December 9th, 1844; 
 died August 22d, 1847. 
 
 Arthur, born December 12th, 1847; married 
 Josephine Dorman, March 31st, 1876; she was 
 born February 19th, 1855. Have three children 
 (8th Gen.), Mabel C., born April 18th, 1877; 
 Dallas R., born October 4th, 1879; and Lizzie 
 S., born August 30th, 1881. 
 
 Frank, son of Joseph B. and Nancy Trego, 
 born May 27th, 1849; died April nth, 1866. 
 
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 Warren H., son of Joseph B. and Nancy 
 Trego, born September 3d, 1853; married 
 
 Amanda Eckels, November 29th, 1882; she was 
 born February 4th, 1857. No children. 
 
 Thomas Corwin, brother of Warren H., born 
 November 30th, 1857. 
 
 Amelia, born August 26th, 1861; married 
 Frank Purviance, November 22d, 1883. 
 
 6th Gen.— Cyrus, son of Mahlon and Rachel 
 Trego, was born in Bucks County, September 
 15th, 1810; married Susan Brooks, of Newtown, 
 May 9th, 1850 ; she was born October 25th, 1820. 
 He died in Mercer County, Illinois, December 
 12th, 1866. Their children were: 
 
 7th Gen. — Ella M., born June 10th, 1853; 
 married W. H. Weaver, of Wyanet, Illinois, 
 April 9th, 1879. 
 
 7th Gen.—Edwin Augustus, born February 
 21 st, 1856. 
 
 Cyrus Trego and family resided in Bucks 
 County up to 1865, when they removed to Illi¬ 
 nois, where they still reside. 
 
 6th Gen.—Edward, son of Mahlon and Rachel 
 Trego, born in Bucks County, November 12th, 
 1812; married Sarah Fenton, of Newtown, 
 April 31st, 1836; she was born December 12th, 
 
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 1817. They had seven children (7th Gen.), Wil¬ 
 liam Wallace, Elizabeth F., Charles T., Morris 
 H., Samuel Warren, Mary T., and Anna L. 
 
 7th Gen.—William Wallace, son of Edward 
 and Sarah Trego, born in Bucks County, 
 
 March 30th, 1837; married Sarah Bennet, Sep¬ 
 tember 23d, 1861 ; she was born August 9th, 
 1841. They have three children (8th Gen.), 
 Mary Lena, born August 4th, 1862; Lizzie T., 
 born May 7th, 1864; and William Wallace, Jr., 
 August 8th, 1872. 
 
 7th Gen.—Elizabeth F., daughter of Edward 
 and Sarah Trego, born in Bucks County, 
 
 November 8th, 1838; died January 16th, i860. 
 
 Charles T., born April 2d, 1842; died June 
 23d, 1842. 
 
 Morris H., born December 23d, 1843; mar¬ 
 ried Josephine D. Willard, January 15th, 1874; 
 she was born November 3d, 1849. They have 
 one child (8th Gen.), Marion W., born April 23d, 
 I87S- 
 
 Samuel Warren, born June 6th, 1846; mar¬ 
 ried Hannah J. Boucher, April 27th, 1869; she 
 was born September 4th, 1852. They have one 
 child (8th Gen.), Edward T., born February 20th, 
 1870. 
 
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 Mary T., born August 30th, 1848; married 
 John C. Copper, of Philadelphia, September, 
 
 1883. 
 
 Anna L., born January 19th, 1852; died Oc¬ 
 tober 6th, 1869. 
 
 6th Gen.—Edward Trego and family still re¬ 
 side at their native place, Newtown, Bucks 
 County, Pennsylvania. 
 
 6th Gen.—Mahlon, Jr., son of Mahlon and 
 Rachel Trego, was born in Bucks County, Sep¬ 
 tember 8th, 1815 ; married Mary Ann Erwin, of 
 Newtown, October, 1835. They removed to 
 Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he died July, 
 1839; and she died in Newtown, in February, 
 1840. No children. 
 
 Morris H., son of Mahlon and Rachel Trego, 
 born in Bucks County, January 18th, 1819; 
 married Mary Ann Bye, December 27th, 1837; 
 she was born 1819; died June 22d, 1839. He 
 died of consumption, October 14th, 1843. They 
 had one child (7th Gen.), Emeline, born Decem¬ 
 ber 2d, 1838; died May 4th, 1839. 
 
 The foregoing completes the history of the 
 descendants of Mahlon Trego, down to April, 
 
 1884. 
 
 The religious views and associations of the 
 
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 Bucks County branch of the family, show that 
 they were all members of the Society of Friends 
 down to the 5th Gen.; since then, many of the 
 descendants have not formally retained their 
 rights of membership, but all, so far, retain their 
 principles. 
 
 5th Gen.—Joseph B., son of William and 
 Rebecca Trego, born in Bucks County, 10th, 
 nth mo., 1772. Had four children, removed to 
 Ohio. No record. 
 
 William, son of William and Rebecca Trego, 
 born in Bucks County, 29th, 9th mo., 1774; 
 died 14th, 7th mo., 1850, aged 75 years, 9 mos., 
 and 16 days. Married Rachel Taylor [see page 
 36 ]. 
 
 6th Gen.—Charles Taylor, son of William and 
 Rachel Taylor Trego, born in Bucks County, 
 April 20th, 1800; died 1873. Married Anna H. 
 Smith. They had four children. 
 
 7th Gen.—Emelia, born 1825 ; married Aaron 
 Twining, in 1857. They have one child (8th 
 Gen.), Fartnie, that I know of; the widow and 
 daughter reside at Wrightstown, Bucks County. 
 
 Susan, second child of Charles T. and Rachel 
 Trego, was born in Bucks County, in 1827; 
 she married a Mr. Blackfar. 
 
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 George, brother of Susan, was born in Bucks 
 County, 1828; died 1843. 
 
 Rachel Anna, fourth and last child of Charles 
 T. and Rachel Trego, was born in 1830; she 
 married a Mr. Reeder. 
 
 6th Gen.—George, brother of Charles T., was 
 born in 1801 ; died 1829. 
 
 6th Gen.—Anna T., third child of William 
 and Rebecca Trego, born in Bucks County, 
 May nth, 1803; married Charles Magill, in 
 1830. Their children were (7th Gen.), Jacob, 
 William, George, Elizabeth, and Anna. 
 
 6th Gen.—Dr. Watson P., fourth child of 
 William and Rebecca Trego, born in Bucks 
 County, June 2d, 1805; died 1873. He 
 
 married Hannah Paxton, July 14th, 1827. They 
 had nine children. 
 
 7th Gen.—Albert Haller, born 1828; died 
 1830. 
 
 Howard Augustus, born December 10th, 1829. 
 
 Alfred Homer, born December 21st, 1830. 
 
 Albert Haller, the second by same name, born 
 1833; died 1834. 
 
 Sarah Elizabeth, born August 8th, 1834. 
 
 Louis Granville, born 1836; died 1840. 
 
 William T., born October 28th, 1837. 
 
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 George T., born 1841 ; died 1841. 
 
 Henry Taylor, born 1844; died 1845. 
 
 Howard Augustus, son of Dr. Watson P. 
 and Hannah P. Trego, married Catherine H., 
 daughter of John and Jane Smith, May 5th, 
 1853. They have three children : 
 
 8th Gen.—Helen W., born September 9th, 
 1856; married Henry F. Church, December 
 13th, 1873. They have one child (9th Gen.), 
 Mary F., born April 5th, 1875. 
 
 8th Gen.—Lavinia R., their second child, born 
 January 5th, 1861. Not married. 
 
 Mary B., their third child, born February 
 25th, 1864. 
 
 7th Gen.—Howard A., is a dentist by profes¬ 
 sion ; practices in Newtown, Bucks County. 
 
 7th Gen.—Alfred Homer, third child of Dr. 
 Watson P. and Plannah P. Trego, married Chris¬ 
 tiana Emery, November 25th, 1856. They had 
 two children : 
 
 8th Gen.—Lillie, born March 21st, 1858; 
 died April 20th, 1862; and Annette, born 
 
 November 8th, 1868. 
 
 Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Watson P. 
 and Hannah P. Trego, is still living. Never 
 married. 
 
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 William T., seventh child of Dr. Watson P. 
 and Hannah P. Trego, married Anna Rebecca, 
 daughter of Howard L. Trego, who was a son 
 of Jacob, born 1780; died 1870; this would 
 make them third cousins. Anna Rebecca was 
 born June 20th, 1835; married August 19th, 
 1857. They have one child, Francis C., born 
 July 18th, 1858. 
 
 6th Gen.—William C., fifth child of William 
 and Rachel Taylor Trego, never married, having 
 died at the age of 24 years. 
 
 Elizabeth, sixth child of William and Rachel 
 T. Trego, born November 3d, 1810; she went 
 west and married William Blackfar, in 1835. 
 They had four children (7th Gen.), William, 
 Elizabeth, Mary Anna, and Samuel. 
 
 Dr. Alfred, seventh child of William and 
 Rachel Trego, born March 15th, 1812; married 
 Mercy A. Featherby, in 1839. They had seven 
 children: 
 
 7th Gen.—George T., born 1842. 
 
 Laura, born 1843. 
 
 Mary, born 1849. 
 
 Benjamin, born 1851. 
 
 Isabella, born 1854. 
 
 Horace, born 1858. 
 
 Oscar, born 1862. 
 
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 Dr. Alfred Trego died some years ago. His 
 widow still lives in Illinois. 
 
 6th Gen.—Smith, eighth child of William and 
 Rachel T. Trego, born January 4th, 1815; died 
 1867. He married Anna Phillips, in 1839. 
 She is now dead. They had four children, 
 
 7th Gen.—Sarah Jane, born 1839; never mar¬ 
 ried. 
 
 Anna Mary, born 1841; died 1859. 
 
 Martha, born 1846; married Judge D. New- 
 lin Fell, of Philadelphia, and now resides at 1534 
 N. Broad St., that city. 
 
 Rachel Emma, born 1848; never married. 
 
 6th Gen.—Jonathan K., ninth child of William 
 and Rachel T. Trego, born in Bucks County, 
 Pa., March nth, 1817, was an artist by profes¬ 
 sion ; he married Emily B. Thomas, in 1841. 
 They had six children. 
 
 7th Gen.—Edwin Horace, born 1842; died 
 1879. He practiced medicine for some years in 
 Philadelphia, with good success, and in the 
 midst of a lucrative practice and in the prime of 
 life was removed by death. I have no date of 
 the birth of his two sisters (7th Gen.), Elma 
 Rebecca, and Elma Frances. Their sister Anna 
 Louisa was born 1852, and their brother Wil- 
 
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 liam B., known as the boy artist, was born in 
 1858. 
 
 From the Cleveland Press, 1879. 
 
 There probably has never been, in the whole 
 history of modern art—certainly not in this 
 country—a more remarkable leap from obscurity 
 to fame, than has been achieved by William 
 Trego, the boy artist of Detroit, by his now fa¬ 
 mous historical painting, entitled “The Charge 
 of Custer at Winchester.” For some weeks past 
 paragraphs have been floating around the news¬ 
 papers, giving some hints of his work as it pro¬ 
 gressed, but the public were hardly prepared for 
 the reception of a painting of such surpassing 
 excellence as it proves to be. Indeed, none but 
 a favored few have had access to it until it was 
 placed on exhibition in the art gallery of the 
 Michigan State Fair. There, however, it has 
 been seen and admired by thousands, and art 
 connoisseurs universally agree that it is one of the 
 best historical paintings of the kind that has ever 
 been produced by an Ameiican artist. 
 
 As the title indicates, it represents the famous 
 cavalry charge of the gallant Custer at the battle 
 of Winchester. The principal figure is, of course, 
 
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 the yellow-haired chieftain mounted on his 
 blooded black charger, dashing across the field 
 at the head of his regiment. His sword is raised 
 high in air, and his face, which is a portrait, ex¬ 
 presses all the fire and lofty courage and enthu¬ 
 siasm which characterized the man, and made 
 him pre-eminent as a cavalry leader. Indeed, 
 his whole attitude is expressive, in an eminent 
 degree, of that resistless courage which bore 
 down all opposition, and made him the terror of 
 his foes and the admiration of mankind. The 
 figure of the horse beneath him is in perfect 
 keeping with the rider, and both seem imbued 
 with the same spirit. Behind, and stretching 
 out to the middle ground, are his followers, in¬ 
 spired by his magnetism and emulating his 
 gallantry and courage, each separate figure filled 
 with life and tempestuous motion. Away in the 
 background, half hidden by the smoke of battle, 
 are a battery of field-pieces and a line of suppor¬ 
 ting infantry. The ground over which they are 
 charging represents an old, worn-out field, with 
 the reddish clay which characterizes the “sacred 
 soil’’ of Virginia. 
 
 There is nothing in the whole range of art so 
 difficult of achievement as the representation of 
 
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 a troop of cavalry in rapid motion. But the 
 artist has overcome all difficulties and given a 
 scene replete with fiery energy and vigorous 
 action. The details of the picture are also 
 admirable in their fidelity to nature and history, 
 and the coloring is beyond question one of the 
 finest achievements of modern art. 
 
 The artist, William Trego, is a son of J. K. 
 Trego, formerly of Philadelphia, a portrait and 
 animal painter of much more than a local reputa¬ 
 tion, and one of the finest colorists in America. 
 Of course the son has had from his childhood 
 the advantage of the careful training of his 
 father in all the technique of art, and his won¬ 
 derful skill in drawing and coloring is, therefore, 
 both hereditary and acquired. The “Charge of 
 Custer,” however, is purely an achievement of his 
 own unaided genius, as he has neither sought nor 
 accepted instructions or advice from any one; 
 and considering the fact that he has not yet 
 attained his majority, the picture may well be 
 considered as one of the most extraordinary 
 paintings ever produced by an American artist. 
 
 As anything relating to the personality of a 
 popular favorite is of surpassing public interest, 
 it may be well to remark that it is in one sense 
 
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 due to his greatest misfortune that Willie Trego 
 has attained such proficiency with his brush at 
 such an early period of his life. When he was 
 but a child he was stricken with disease which 
 resulted in the almost total paralysis of his arms 
 and hands, and the partial paralysis of one of his 
 lower limbs. The result is that he is slightly 
 lame in one leg and almost totally helpless in his 
 arms and hands, and it is apparently almost 
 impossible for him to handle a brush. There is, 
 probably, nothing else in the whole range of 
 physical labor that he is capable of doing; and 
 yet so persistent have been his exertions, and so 
 deeply is he imbued with the love of art, that he 
 has overcome all physical defects, and the 
 strokes of his brush are as vigorous as if he 
 possessed perfect command of all his muscles. 
 Mentally, he is brighter than most boys of his 
 age, and he studies with an enthusiasm and a 
 singleness of purpose that is rare, indeed, in one 
 so young. In preparing himself for the task of 
 painting Custer’s charge he eagerly devoured 
 everything that has ever been written of his hero, 
 and is probably better acquainted with his life 
 and character than almost any other man who 
 did not know him personally. It is a part of 
 
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 our human nature to admire in others those 
 qualities which we are prevented from exercising 
 ourselves, and it is probable that this accounts 
 for young Trego’s penchant for portraying in 
 his pictures the intensity of tempestuous phy¬ 
 sical motion. Debarred by misfortune from the 
 possibility of taking that physical exercise which 
 is so desirable in one so young, he finds employ¬ 
 ment in portraying it in others. So bountifully 
 does a kind Providence compensate the unfor¬ 
 tunate for the loss of power in one direction, by 
 bestowing a superabundance of gifts in another. 
 Young Trego is peculiarly modest and unobtru¬ 
 sive in his manners, and rather shrinks from 
 than courts his present popularity. A brilliant 
 future is before him. 
 
 A Suit for a Prize. 
 
 Philadelphia, April 5th, 1884.—Wm. T. Trego, 
 an artist of this city, brought an action to-day 
 against the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 
 for the recovery of the $3000 prize offered by 
 the Academy last fall for the best picture upon a 
 Revolutionary subject. The judges decided that 
 Mr. Trego’s picture was the best entered for the 
 competition, but that it was not of sufficient merit 
 to be entitled to the prize offered. 
 
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 7th Gen.—Benjamin T., sixth and last child of 
 Jonathan K. and Emily B. Thomas Trego, was 
 born 1861. 
 
 6th Gen.—Horace, tenth child of William and 
 Rachel T. Trego, was born April 5th, 1819. He 
 never married, and is the only one of the family 
 now living; he resides in Bucks County. 
 
 Joseph, the eleventh and last child of William 
 and Rachel Taylor Trego, was born in 1772, 
 and removed to Ohio; he had four children; 
 am sorry that I can give no other information. 
 
 5th Gen.—Children of Jacob Trego, born 
 October 28th, 1780; died October 3d, 1870; he 
 was the fifth one of nine children of William, 
 who was born 1744; died 1827. Jacob married 
 Letitia Smith, October 12th, 1803 ; she was born 
 September 29th, 1782, and died August 1846. 
 They had eleven children : 
 
 6th Gen.—Smith, the first, born August nth, 
 1804; died August 24th, 1804. 
 
 Howard L., born in Bucks County, Pa., 
 August 16th, 1805 ; he married Annie Tillyer, 
 April 4th, 1833; she was born May 16th, 1815. 
 In 1842, he removed with five of his brothers 
 to Ills., where he was killed by the falling of his 
 house, which was struck by a tornado June 5th, 
 1844. He had four children : 
 
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 8th Gen.—Charles, the first child, born January 
 27th, 1834; died July 20th, 1834. 
 
 Ann Rebecca, born June 20th, 1835 ; married 
 William T. Trego, son of Dr. Watson P. Trego 
 and grandson of William, August 19th, 1857. 
 They have one child (9th Gen.), Frances C., 
 born July 18th, 1858. 
 
 Charles T., the second son of Howard L., by 
 the same name, was born December 16th, 1837 ; 
 he married Medora Harris, May 14th, 1863; 
 she was born September 3d, 1841. He is now 
 engaged in business in Chicago, Ills., and is 
 senior member of the firm of Trego & Smith, 
 116 and 118 La Salle St. They had six children : 
 
 9th Gen.—Florence M., born April 14th, 
 1864; died April nth, 1866. 
 
 Charles Howard, born August 29th, 1866. 
 
 Estelle, born December 21st, 1870. 
 
 Frank Harris, born November I ith, 1872. 
 
 Allen, born October 28th, 1875, and Medora, 
 born November 20th, 1878; died April 19th, 
 1879. 
 
 7th Gen.—Jesse R., fourth and last child of 
 Howard L. Trego, born December 1842; and 
 killed at the time, and by the same tornado that 
 killed his father, June 5th, 1844. 
 
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 6th Gen.—Allen, brother of Howard L., born 
 August 26th, 1807; married Kezia Carver, Sep¬ 
 tember 30th, 1830; she was born January 16th, 
 1812. They had three children: 
 
 7th Gen.—Wilson G., born April 14th, 1833; 
 died September, 1834. 
 
 Watson C., born July 23d, 1835 ; he is mar¬ 
 ried. 
 
 Mary Ellen, born May 8th, 1841 ; died De¬ 
 cember 7th, 1862. 
 
 6th Gen.—Curtis D., brother of Howard L. 
 and son of Jacob, born in Bucks County, Pa., 
 September 18th, 1809; he married Mary Gilbert, 
 October 30th, 1834. She was born February 
 14th, 1814. He was one of the six who removed 
 to Illinois in 1842, and he now resides at Dexter, 
 Iowa. They had nine children. 
 
 7th Gen.—Elizabeth J., born October 4th, 
 1835 ; she died October 5th, 1847. 
 
 Alfred Henry, born June 16th, 1838; he mar¬ 
 ried Frances Caroline Reed. He had five chil¬ 
 dren. 
 
 8th Gen.—Charles Henry, born August 3d, 
 1870. 
 
 Carrie Jean, born June 14th, 1873. 
 
 Percy Belle, born June 20th, 1875; died No¬ 
 vember 24th, 1875. 
 
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 Edward Francis, born September 22d, 1876. 
 
 Sidney Reed, born October 24th, 1880. They 
 reside at Hoopston, Iowa. 
 
 7th Gen.—Jacob Rush, third child of Curtis 
 D. Trego, born September 27th, 1840; he mar¬ 
 ried Hannah Wilkins, and now resides at Wiola, 
 Iowa. They have five children (8th Gen.), Ida 
 Eva, born July 12th, 1864; Mary Frances, born 
 January 18th, 1868; Clarence Wilkins, born 
 July 1st, 1872; Helen Gertrude, born Novem¬ 
 ber 9th, 1876; and Rush Roy, born January 
 8th, 1882. 
 
 7th Gen.—Letitia Ann, fourth child of Curtis 
 D., born February 12th, 1842; married Almon 
 Clark. They have four children (8th Gen.), 
 Faura May, born November 21st, 1868; Cora 
 Bell, born January 25th, 1870; Emma T., born 
 September 30th, 1873; and Grace Favina, born 
 May 16th, 1877. 
 
 7th Gen.—Mary Emma, fifth child of Curtis 
 D., born July 12th, 1848; married William L. 
 Kendall. They had but one child (8th Gen.), 
 Curtis Trego Kendall, born July 8th, 1872, and 
 died September 4th, 1872. They reside at Dex¬ 
 ter, Iowa. 
 
 7th Gen.—Frederick, sixth child of Curtis D., 
 born August 8th, 1850; he is not married. 
 
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 Frank Weston, seventh child of Curtis D., 
 born July 4th, 1853 > died November 13th, 1865. 
 
 Helen R., eighth child of Curtis D., born June 
 13th, 1855; married Joseph Engle. They have 
 two children (8th Gen.), Minnie Estella, born 
 May 22d, 1876; and Edgar Curtis, born Septem¬ 
 ber 9th, 1879. 
 
 7th Gen.—Lavinia, ninth and last child of 
 Curtis D. Trego, was born March 19th, 1857; 
 she is not married. 
 
 6th Gen.—Henry S. Trego, brother of Curtis 
 D.,and son of Jacob, was born in Bucks County, 
 Pa., December 29th, 1811. He removed to Illi¬ 
 nois in 1842, and now resides at Orion in that 
 state. He married Rebecca B. Engle in 1848. 
 They had two children (7th Gen.), Willett, born 
 June 19th, 1849; I am not informed if he is mar¬ 
 ried. Lucretia M., second child of Henry S., 
 born August 14th, 1852. She married William 
 Creig, but is now dead. 
 
 6th Gen.—Eleanor, sister of Henry S., born 
 February 8th, 1814; died May 8th, 1826. 
 
 Thomas W., brother of Curtis D. and Henry 
 S., born May 13th, 1816. He married Elizabeth 
 B. Betts, August 21st, 1851. She was born 
 March 21st, 1821. They have five children, all 
 living. 
 
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 7th Gen.—Nellie H., born May ioth, 1854; 
 married Hamilton Henry Gilkyson, March 4th, 
 1880; (they have (8th Gen.), one child, Thomas 
 Walter, born December 18th, 1880.) Thomas 
 Walter, born October 29th, 1855; Joseph Rus¬ 
 sell, born April 28th, 1858; Edward Augustus, 
 born Dec. 15th, 1859; an< ^ M. Sidney, born De¬ 
 cember 9th, 1862. 
 
 6th Gen.— Rebecca, sister of Curtis D., born 
 July 22d, 1818 ; married Jonathan W. Woodruff, 
 December 24th, 1844. He was born May nth, 
 1818. They never had children. 
 
 6th Gen.—Elias H., brother of Rebecca, born 
 March 15th, 1821 ; died October 27th, 1826. 
 
 Joseph H., M.D., brother of those above, born 
 in Bucks County, Pa., May 9th, 1823. He mar¬ 
 ried Alice Manington in 1850; she was born 
 November 17th, 1832. They have nine children, 
 all girls. Joseph H. graduated at Jefferson 
 Medical College, Philadelphia, March, 1849. 
 practiced medicine in Illinois and Kansas until 
 1861 ; was in the volunteer service during the 
 war, but, owing to long and continued exposure 
 while in the South, lost his health, which unfitted 
 him for the arduous duties required of a general 
 practitioner. Since January, 1865, has been 
 
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 continuously in official business. Is now en¬ 
 gaged in a general land, loan, and collection 
 agency, and he is also a Notary Public, in 
 Mound City, Kansas, where he resides. 
 
 7th Gen.—His first daughter, Kate L., born 
 1851, married Cortland L. Long in 1873; 
 Eleanor, born 1853, married William B. Helm, 
 in 1875; Helen W., born 1855, married Robert 
 Fleming, 1880; Rebecca W., born 1859; Sophia 
 M., born 1862; Louie M., born 1866; Sarah 
 W., born 1868; Octie, born 1872; and Martha, 
 born 1876. I regret that I am unable to give 
 dates of birth, marriages, &c., and children, if 
 any. 
 
 6th Gen.—Yardley Briggs, son of Jacob and 
 Letitia Trego, born in Bucks County, Penn¬ 
 sylvania, October 16th, 1826. In 1846 his father 
 and family removed to Mercer County, Illinois, 
 where he married Mary Ann, daughter of Owen 
 and Urith Dean, August 26th, 1857. She was 
 born in Illinois, June 7th, 1837. They for some 
 time resided in Mercer County, afterwards re¬ 
 moving to Deanington, now Orion County, 
 Illinois, and from thence to Keswick, Iowa, in 
 1865, where his father gave him a farm of forty 
 acres. In the fall of 1875 he sold the forty 
 
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 acres, and bought eighty acres near Keswick, in 
 Keokuk County, Iowa, where he now resides. 
 They have five children (7th Gen.), Charles 
 Davis, Effie Anna, Medora Belle, Willet D., and 
 Byrd Allison. 
 
 Charles D., born in Mercer County, Illinois, 
 July 1st, 1858; married Leni Leoti Pierce, 
 August 28th, 1876. They built the first house 
 in Keswick, now quite a village, They now 
 reside near Kellogg, Jasper County, Iowa. They 
 have two children (8th Gen.), Forrest Franklin, 
 born September 4th, 1877; and Mabel Keswick, 
 born December 6th, 1879. 
 
 7th Gen.—Effie Anna, born in Henry County, 
 Illinois, September 22d, 1861 ; was married to 
 Milton F. Deal, of Iowa, August 31st, 1884, by 
 the Rev. H. Rosenberger of the P. M. Church. 
 Mr. Deal was born in Mercer County, Ohio, 
 August 28th, 1855, and removed to Iowa with his 
 parents in 1865. 
 
 Medora Belle, born in same county, October 
 6th, 1863. 
 
 Willet D., born in Washington County, Iowa, 
 June 21st, 1866. 
 
 Byrd Allison, born in Scott County, Iowa, 
 August 2d, 1868. 
 
SECOND PART. 
 
 Having completed the history of Jacob Trego 
 and his descendants, we will now take up that of 
 William, his brother. 
 
 2d Gen.—William, third child of Peter, Sr., 
 and Judith Trego, was born near Honeybrook, 
 Chester County, 6th mo., 3d, 1693, and died 
 there in 1770. Married Margaret, daughter of 
 John Moore, June 26th, 1717, in Goshen. (See 
 pages 14, 15, 86. They had nine children, three 
 sons and six daughters. 
 
 3d Gen..—Margaret, their first-born, married 
 a Mr. McPherson. 
 
 Hannah, their second-born, married a Mr. 
 Hickman. 
 
 Benjamin, their third child, born in Chester 
 County, in 1730. He had six children: Ben¬ 
 jamin, Emmor, Edith (married a Mr. White), 
 Mary (married a Mr. Weaver), Bathsheba (mar¬ 
 ried a Mr. Ash), and Hannah (married a Mr. 
 Matlock). See page 16. 
 
 4th Gen.—Benjamin and Emmor both died 
 unmarried. 
 
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 Mrs. Mary Weaver had four children (5th 
 Gen.), her first-born, Edith, married a Mr. Hart¬ 
 man ; her second child, Emmor T., removed to 
 Ohio ; have no record of her third child, Isaac; 
 her fourth and last child, named Maria, married 
 a Mr. John Rutter, attorney at law, in West 
 Chester, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Bathsheba Ash had two sons, John P. and 
 Martin. They both removed to Illinois. Have 
 no record of them. 
 
 3d Gen.—Elizabeth and Mary, daughters of 
 William, and sisters of the first Benjamin, 
 married two brothers, sons of Randal Malin, 
 mentioned in former pages in connection with 
 certain lands. 
 
 Their sisters: Sarah married a Mr. Eaches, 
 and Ann a Mr. Hunt. 
 
 [Letter from Jared P. Irwin to the late Charles 
 
 B. Trego , sent me by R. S. Trego in 1884.] 
 
 Brandywine Manor, April 10 th, 1848. 
 My very dear sir: 
 
 What I have seen, permit me to relate. 
 
 Having obtained some additional facts relative 
 to our ancestry, I hasten to communicate them 
 to you. My venerable uncle Absalom, who 
 
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 still occupies the old Trego homestead, informed 
 me that he had long since seen an old record of 
 the family, but that he believed that it was worn 
 out and entirely lost many years ago. At this 
 I felt grieved, and asked permission to have a 
 peep into the old family archives, which he 
 kindly permitted, and after ransacking diligently 
 for some hours we found about twenty small 
 slips of the record , torn in every possible shape 
 and form. I went to work fixing and pasting 
 together, and after a half day’s hard toiling, I 
 succeeded in bringing from nonentity, almost, the 
 following very interesting record: 
 
 William, son of Peter and Judith Trego, born 
 July 3d, 1693. 
 
 Children of William and Margaret Trego : 
 
 1. Joseph, born May 14th, 1722. 
 
 2. Hannah Hickman, born May 19th, 1724. 
 
 3. William, born January 8th, 1726. 
 
 4. Margaret McFerson, born March 28th, 
 1728. 
 
 5. Benjamin, born June 2d, 1730. 
 
 6. Joseph (2d), born February 21st, 1732. 
 
 7. Elizabeth Malin,born November 16th, 1733. 
 
 8. Mary Malin, born August 14th, 1735. 
 
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 9- Sarah Eaches, born August 26th, 1737. 
 
 10. Ann Hunt, born May 5th, 1739. 
 
 Margaret, daughter of John and Margaret 
 Moore, born April 24th, 1699; married William 
 Trego, June 26th, 1717. 
 
 Joseph Trego and Alice Piersol; married 
 October 1 ith, 1753. 
 
 Their children: 
 
 1. William, born September 1 Sth, 1754; died 
 1814. 
 
 2. Moses, born September 22d, 1759; died 
 1791. 
 
 3. Alice Millison, born November 10th, 1761 ; 
 died 1807. 
 
 4. Joseph, born December 14th, 1763; died 
 1794. 
 
 5. Eli, born February 1st, 1766; died 1825. 
 
 6. Margaret Irwin, born February 2d, 1767. 
 
 7. James, born April 23d, 1769; died 1792. 
 
 8. Jeremiah, born July 30th, 1771 ; died 1830. 
 
 9. Sarah, born September 14th, 1773; died 
 1796. 
 
 10. Absalom, born March 31st, 1776. 
 
 11. Hannah Lewis, born October 28th, 1778; 
 died 1846. 
 
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 You see William had two sons called Joseph. 
 The first when about six years old was riding a 
 horse to the field, when a big Irish girl, who was 
 guiding the horse, fell off upon the little boy 
 and killed him. On the right hand column of 
 the preceding page I have given you my grand¬ 
 father’s issue. You see they have all gone to 
 rest, save my mother and Absalom. Joseph died 
 October 29th, 1806, aged near 75 years. His 
 wife (7 ny grandmother) died January 19th, 1820, 
 aged 85 years. Yet the most of their*children, 
 as you can see, died rather young. 
 
 My grandfather was a very active business 
 man; he left home in the morning before break¬ 
 fast on a short errand, had a paralytic stroke, fell 
 from his horse, and the noble animal stood by 
 his side without moving a foot for some hours, 
 when he was found, conveyed home insensible, 
 and died same evening at the old homestead in 
 Honeybrook. 
 
 Benjamin, his elder brother, lived and died in 
 Goshen, in a good old age. He had two sons, 
 Emor and Benjamin, Jr., and four daughters. 
 His daughters were Hannah Matlack, Edith 
 White, Mary Weaver, and Bathsheba Ash. 
 They are all dead but Mrs. Ash, who lives in 
 
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 Alton, Ills. She has two sons, one of whom is 
 married to my sister, and has seven sons. 
 
 Mrs. Weaver has Emor Trego Weaver, Isaac, 
 Edith Hartman, Elizabeth Weaver, and Maria 
 Rutter, of Westchester. Emor and Benjamin 
 both died in celibacy, hence the name from that 
 branch is extinct. Emor .was a great limner, 
 went to England, painted for his Majesty, ac¬ 
 quired a clever fortune, put his trunks on board 
 a vessel, but by some accident missed the vessel, 
 came in another, but his trunks, money, and the 
 vessel were all lost. He afterwards went to 
 Tennessee, purchased a large tract of land, and 
 died there rather young. He was said to be the 
 handsomest man in Chester County. He was 
 gentlemanly and polite in his manners to a pro¬ 
 verb, and loved by everybody. 
 
 William, the eldest son, who owned part of 
 the original tract in Honeybrook, and which is 
 still held by his descendants, I believe, every 
 foot of it, as well as my grandfathers. He 
 reared the following children: ist. Hannah 
 Clemson. 2d, Isaac Trego, who died about four or 
 five years ago, aged 85 ; he has three daughters 
 living in Kennet Square (maids), but no son liv¬ 
 ing,—three died bachelors, hence the name will 
 
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 soon be extinct there. 3d, Sarah Way. 4th, 
 Reuben, who has three sons living, viz : Emor, 
 near the Warwick mines, Jesse and Cyrus. 5th, 
 Peter, died a year or two ago, aged 82 years. 
 He has living, William, John, George, Robert, 
 Benjamin, Levi and Davis, in all seven, and all 
 married and have .children. 6th, Jacob, who 
 has Evan, Isaac, William and James. But I 
 find I will never get done, so I will try and put 
 them all into a tree and send them to you, so 
 that you may burn them or do as you please with 
 them. [I have his original tree, as likewise one 
 by Charles B. Trego of the entire Trego family, 
 which I have twice enlarged by adding many 
 new names — Shertzer.] But then what has 
 become of James and John, your great-grand¬ 
 father, not one word can I find of them? 
 
 The land owned by the Tregos in Honeybrook 
 was first entered by John Moore, my great-great¬ 
 grandfather, in March, 1718, but I think no deed 
 was made until 1733, when it was deeded to 
 my great-grandfather, William Trego, and in 
 giving the distances it says, “joining on the west 
 by lands of James Trego.’’ Now by reference 
 to Mr. Painter’s letter, you will see that in No¬ 
 vember of same year, 1733, my great-grand- 
 
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 father, William Trego, conveyed the old home¬ 
 stead, in Delaware County, to James Trego. 
 My mother, the oldest Trego living, still con¬ 
 tends that her uncle James (this is an error , it 
 was Joint) went to Bucks County, and that they 
 never heard of his death. Now if he is not a 
 son of James, then Sailor Jack is. My mother 
 says she saw this Jack about the year 1773, and 
 that he appeared to be 30 or 40 years of age 
 then, consequently was born about the year 1738. 
 
 There are only three now living of the third 
 generation of the Chester County branch, viz : 
 My mother, Absalom and Bathsheba Ash, of 
 Illinois. 
 
 You see that two of old William’s daughters 
 married two brothers, sons of Randal Malin, the 
 person mentioned in Mr. Painter’s letter. My 
 grandfather was often heard to speak of Randal 
 Malin. 
 
 The name in Mr. Painter’s letter agrees pre¬ 
 cisely with this old record, so there can be no 
 mistake about our old persecuted Huguenot an¬ 
 cestor Peter Trego, who no doubt left France in 
 1685, tarried two or three years in England, 
 (according to tradition), and arrived here prior 
 to 1690. The tradition is, that the first of the 
 
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 name in this country came from France, and as 
 I could not trace the name farther back than the 
 three brothers, I committed an error in a former 
 communication to you, which you will please 
 expunge from your sketch book. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Jared P. Irwin. 
 
 To Charles B. Trego. 
 
 Jared P. Irwin says Peter Trego arrived in 
 this country prior to 1690; it has been already 
 shown by the Chester Monthly Meeting, that his 
 son Jacob was born 1687, &c. 
 
 3d Gen.—William, son of William, grandson 
 of Peter, Sr., born near Honeybrook, Chester 
 County, Pennsylvania, in 1726. Am unable to 
 say who or when he married. He as well as 
 his children adhered to the religion of their 
 fathers, viz. Quakers. He had five children, four 
 sons and one daughter. 
 
 4th Gen.—His first child, Hannah, married a 
 Mr. Clemson. Can find no accounts of her 
 family. Their second child, Peter, my great¬ 
 grandfather, born near Honeybrook, in 1765, 
 and died there in 1846. He had fifteen children, 
 namely (5th Gen.): Benjamin, Robert, George, 
 
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 William, John, Levi, David, Elizabeth, Julia, 
 Anna, Mary and Christiana, and three others. 
 Am unable to give the order of their births and 
 deaths. Benjamin had five children; he lived 
 and died near Oakland Mills, Juniata County, 
 Pennsylvania. Robert had three children (6th 
 Gen.), Martin, Mary, and Christiana. Can get 
 no accounts of them. George had four children, 
 though I can only give an account of three, 
 Jacob, George and Fannie. Can give no records 
 of births, &c. Jacob died in California; the 
 other three married in the Van Norman family, 
 and are living near Oakland Mills, Juniata 
 County, Pennsylvania. 
 
 5th Gen.—William, my grandfather, born near 
 Honeybrook, in July, 1776, and died there 
 February 12th, 1861. He married Mary Neal, of 
 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in July, 1818. 
 He lived and died on a farm presented by his 
 father, adjoining the homestead; they had four 
 children, three daughters and one son (6th Gen.): 
 Catherine, born 1824, died 1826; Lavina, born 
 1829, died 1849; Mary, born 1822; William, 
 born 1819, died October, 1861. All members of 
 the society of Friends. William, their first, born 
 near Honeybrook, in July, 1819, and died of 
 
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 consumption, near Lancaster City, Pennsylvania, 
 October, 1861, on his farm, upon which he had 
 resided for several years. He married Mary 
 Maul, of Carlisle, in 1842. She died, May, 1853. 
 They had five children, two daughters and three 
 sons (7th Gen.), Mary A., born 1843; Jane, born 
 1845; William, born 1847, died 1851; Daniel, 
 born 1849, died 1849; John, born 1854. 
 
 Mary, his first, born in 1843, married James 
 Brown,and now resides in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Jane, their second, born June 15th, 1845. She 
 was a very handsome blonde, rather tall, and of 
 very fine figure, with large lustrous gray eyes. 
 She married Major Richard Graham,U. S. Army. 
 He was killed by the Indians, in 1864, in Arizona. 
 She is now the wife of David Mock, of Chicago, 
 Illinois. 
 
 William, third child of William, was born in 
 1847, died in 1851. 
 
 Daniel, fourth, born 1849; died 1849. 
 
 John, their fifth and last child, was born, as 
 were the others, on their father’s farm near Lan¬ 
 caster, in 1854; killed by having the top of his 
 head kicked off by a horse, in 1857. 
 
 6th Gen.—Mary, my mother, daughter of 
 William, and granddaughter of Peter, born near 
 
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 Honeybrook, July 20th, 1822; married Jacob 
 Shertzer, of Petersburg, Lancaster County, Pa., 
 February 3d, 1841. He was born near Peters¬ 
 burg, June 15th, 1820. He has always been a 
 farmer, and member of the M. E. Church, as are 
 all the the family, except myself, I belonging to 
 the P. E. Church. Mother up to the time of her 
 marriage belonged to the Friends, whose customs 
 she still adheres too. 
 
 Children of Jacob and Mary Trego Shertzer 
 (from family records): 
 
 7th Gen.—Mary Ann, born 4th mo., 14th, 
 1842, 11.30 P. M. 
 
 Abram Trego, born 5th mo., 16th, 1844, 8.30 
 P. M. 
 
 Isaac Peter, born 2d mo., nth, 1846, 8 A. M. 
 
 Jacob Henry, born 12th mo., 17th, 1847, 9.30 
 P. M. 
 
 David William, born 2d mo., 20th, 1850, 4 
 A. M. 
 
 Catherine Elizabeth, born 4th mo., 18th, 1852, 
 
 4.30 P. M. 
 
 Anna Elizabeth, born 7th mo., 10th, 1854, 
 
 4.30 P. M. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin, born 3d mo., 30th, 1856, 
 
 12.30 P. M. 
 
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 Hannah Elizabeth, bom nth mo., 8th, 1857, 
 
 9.30 P. M. 
 
 Fannie Priscilla, born 4th mo., 13th, i860, 
 
 3.30 P. M. 
 
 John Amos, born 4th mo., 27th, 1862, 4.30 
 P. M. 
 
 Henry Reuben, born 7th mo., 12th, 1864, 3.30 
 P. M. 
 
 Mary A., born April 14th, 1842, never mar¬ 
 ried, and now resides in Petersburg, Pa., with her 
 grandmother and bachelor uncle, father’s side. 
 She is a member of the Methodist Church. 
 
 A. Trego Shertzer, M. D., was born in Lan¬ 
 caster County, Pa., May 16th, 1844. In his 
 ninth year his parents removed with him to Bal¬ 
 timore County and placed him at the Grinton 
 Academy, which he attended for six years. In 
 1859 h e entered the Belair Academy, Harford 
 County, Md., where he continued his studies for 
 three years. In 1862, he went to Philadelphia, 
 where he entered as apothecary to the Naval 
 Asylum, which was at that time under the charge 
 of Dr. David Harlan, Surgeon U. S. Navy. 
 Whilst at the Asylum he studied medicine in 
 the office of Dr. Lenox Hodges, Professor of 
 Obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania. 
 
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 He remained at the Asylum, acquiring practical 
 pharmaceutical and general medical experience, 
 and also continuing his studies with Professor 
 Hodges, until the spring of that year, when, 
 March 6th, he was appointed Surgeon Apothe¬ 
 cary in the U. S. Navy and ordered to duty on 
 board the U. S. Steamer Mary Sanford, of the 
 South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, remaining 
 with her during her cruises among the Bahamas, 
 the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico, and re¬ 
 turning with her to Philadelphia in the ensuing 
 fall, where he resumed the study of medicine in 
 the office of Dr. Joseph Leidy, Professor of 
 Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. 
 Mr. Shertzer remained in Philadelphia until the 
 winter of 1867, when he entered the Naval 
 Academy, Annapolis, as apothecary of the first 
 class, occupying that position until November, 
 1868, when he commenced a regular course of 
 medical studies by matriculating at the Univer¬ 
 sity of Maryland and entering, as a private stu¬ 
 dent, the office of the late Professor Nathan R. 
 Smith. Under the instruction of that eminent 
 surgeon and physician, and by reason of his own 
 talent and application, student Shertzer became 
 particularly efficient in anatomy and surgery, 
 
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 and in the private and university examinations 
 always acquitted himself with great credit. In 
 the spring of 1869 he graduated with honor at 
 that institution. Soon after his graduation Dr. 
 Shertzer was elected as assistant surgeon of the 
 Eighth Maryland Regiment, and was also ap¬ 
 pointed surgeon in charge of the hospital for 
 disabled soldiers in Baltimore, and entered regu¬ 
 larly upon the practice of his profession at the 
 corner of Exeter and Granby streets, where he 
 continued in its successful prosecution until the 
 breaking out of the Franco-Prussian War in the 
 spring of 1870. Bismarck having called upon the 
 German Patriot Aid Society of America for sur¬ 
 geons, the branch society of Baltimore appointed 
 a board of examiners, consisting of Drs. Abram 
 B. Arnold, G. Edward Pape, and L. F. Mora- 
 witz, to examine such candidates as might 
 appear before them, through notification in the 
 public press. Dr. Shertzer passed a most credi¬ 
 table and successful examination, not only in sur¬ 
 gery, the grand essential, but in general medi¬ 
 cine and in German, a perfect knowledge of the 
 latter also being indispensable. He was immedi¬ 
 ately sent to Germany, via New York and Glas¬ 
 gow, making his way to Coblentz, on the Rhine, 
 
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 where he had been ordered to report for duty. 
 He remained in the Garrison Hospital at Cob- 
 lentz, performing, in the most skilful manner, all 
 the most important capital operations of an army 
 surgeon until October ioth, 1870, when he was 
 sent to take charge of Ritebahn Hospital, Saar- 
 brucken, on the frontier of France and Prussia. 
 While there he was sent to Meaux, Metz, and 
 other places in France, to apply the anterior 
 splint of the late Professor N. R. Smith, his old 
 preceptor in the Maryland University, he being 
 the only surgeon in the Prussian service who 
 was thoroughly conversant with the proper 
 method of applying that valuable surgical ap¬ 
 paratus. P'or his efficient services Dr. Shertzer 
 received a gold medal from the Hospital Com¬ 
 mission of Prussia, and also the iron cross, 
 and a silver medal from the Prussian Secre¬ 
 tary of War. 'He resigned his position in 
 the Prussian service May 14th, 1871, and after 
 making an extensive tour through Switzer¬ 
 land, Germany, Italy, France, England and 
 other countries, visiting en route the leading 
 hospitals of those countries, he returned to 
 America in the fall of 1871, and re-established 
 himself in the practice of his profession at his 
 
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 old location in Baltimore, in which he has since 
 continued uninterruptedly, distinguishing him¬ 
 self by the performance of many difficult surgi¬ 
 cal operations, with scarcely a single fatal result. 
 Very soon after his return to Baltimore he was 
 appointed recruiting surgeon for the U. S. Marine 
 Corps, and also recruiting surgeon for the Army, 
 which was then operating against the Modoc In¬ 
 dians. Declined the Chair of Professor Opera¬ 
 tive Surgery in 1875. Dr. Shertzer’s ances¬ 
 tors, on the paternal side, were, for three gen¬ 
 erations, natives of this country, all of them 
 farmers. As the name would imply, they 
 were of German descent, coming from the 
 Rhenish Provinces. The mother of Dr. 
 Shertzer is a daughter of the late William 
 Trego, of Chester County, Pa., whose father, 
 grandfather, and great grandfather, bearing the 
 same name [this is an error, my great-grand¬ 
 father’s name was Peter], trace their pedigree back 
 to an illustrious progenitor, known as “ Peter the 
 Great,” of the House of Bourbon, who was 
 banished from France in 1584, and, coming to 
 America the same year, settled in Chester 
 County, Pennsylvania. From him all the Tregos 
 in the United States descended .—National Bio- 
 
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 graphical Cyclopaedia of Representative Men of 
 Maryland and District of Columbia. 
 
 A. Trego Shertzer, M. D., married Sarah C., 
 daughter of the late Dr. John Tyrrel and Marga- 
 rette Gray Bradbury, of North Carolina, October 
 7th, 1875. Both being members of the Episcopal 
 Church, the marriage service was performed by 
 Bishop Alfred Lee, of Delaware. She was born 
 on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, January 8th, 
 1846. We have two children (8th Gen.), Tyrrel 
 Bradbury, born in Baltimore, August 21st, 1876, 
 and Edna Gray Howard, born in Baltimore, De¬ 
 cember 7th, 1882. 
 
 Isaac P., my brother, was born February 1 ith, 
 1846; married Mary E., daughter of Daniel and 
 Rachel Price, of Baltimore County, Maryland, 
 July 19th, 1874. She was born May 16th, 1855. 
 They have three children: Henry A., born April 
 30th, 1875 ; Annie E., born October 18th, 1876; 
 and Lillie V., born March 14th, 1880, all in 
 Baltimore County. They are members of the 
 Methodist Church. He is a farmer and artist. 
 
 Jacob H.,born December 17th, 1847; married 
 Anna Mary, daughter of Henry and Henrietta 
 Cronhardt, January 13th, 1875. They have four 
 children : Mary, Cora L., Lenard and Henrietta. 
 
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 He owns a fine farm at Timber Grove, Baltimore 
 County, Maryland, where he resides. 
 
 David W., born February 20th, 1850. He 
 owns a fine farm upon which he resides, near 
 Mount Washington, Baltimore County, Mary¬ 
 land ; married Kate, daughter of William and 
 Sarah Collins, of Baltimore County, October 
 18th, 1877. She was born January 25th, 1854. 
 They have two children : Monroe and Bertha. 
 
 Catherine E., born in Baltimore County, Mary¬ 
 land, April 18th, 1852; married August Hart¬ 
 man, of Baltimore County, a manufacturer of 
 agricultural implements. 
 
 Anna E., born in Baltimore County, August 
 loth, 1854. She was drowned in a spring, July 
 28th, 1856. 
 
 Benjamin F., born in Baltimore County, March 
 30th, 1856. He is general salesman with Hood, 
 Bonbright & Co., Philadelphia. He is an active 
 member in the Methodist Church, frequently 
 assisting ministers in their ministerial work. 
 
 Hannah E., born in Baltimore County, Novem¬ 
 ber 8th, 1857. She married Charles Ohme, of 
 Litiz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where 
 they reside. Have two children. 
 
 Fannie P., born in Harford County, Maryland, 
 April 13th, i860; not married. 
 
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 John A., born in Harford County, Maryland, 
 April 27th, 1862; died there December 20th, 
 1863. 
 
 Henry R., born in Harford County, Maryland, 
 August 12th, 1864; he is in the wholesale 
 grocery business, Philadelphia. 
 
 5th Gen.— John, son of Peter and brother of 
 my grandfather William, born in Chester County, 
 and had five children (6th Gen.), John, Mary, 
 Isaac, Peter and Hannah. Am sorry can get no 
 account of any of them. 
 
 5th Gen.—Levi Bull Trego, brother of John 
 and son of Peter, born in Chester County, Penn¬ 
 sylvania, November 28th, 1815. When quite 
 young he removed to Huntingdon County, Penn¬ 
 sylvania, where he married Mary J. Wilson, of 
 Chester County, February 2d, 1843. She was 
 born January 25th, 1822. He died of paralysis, 
 October 26th, 1880, leaving a family of a wife 
 and nine children. He enlisted over age, and 
 served two years and six months in the late war. 
 In early life he worked at his trade as stone¬ 
 mason, until he saved money enough to pur¬ 
 chase a 196 acre farm, near McCoysville, Juniata 
 County, Pennsylvania, upon which he spent the 
 remainder of his days as a general agriculturist. 
 
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 Of his fifteen brothers and sisters, only one is 
 yet living, Davis, unmarried, and living in Honey- 
 brook, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 
 
 6th Gen.—He had nine children: Christiann, 
 Robert K., Mary E., John W., Margaretta L., 
 Solomon H., Levi L., Matilda J. and Charles L. 
 
 Children of Levi B. and Mary Wilson Trego. 
 (Lrom Lamily Records). 
 
 6th Gen.—Christiann, born nth mo., 8th, 1843. 
 
 Robert Kurtz, born 5th mo., 9th, 1845. 
 
 Mary Elizabeth, born 9th mo., 15th, 1847. 
 
 John Wilson, born 9th nro., 10th, 1849. 
 
 Margaretta Lee Emma, born 8th mo., nth, 
 1851. 
 
 Solomon Hertzler, born nth mo., 24th, 1853. 
 
 Levi Latimer, born 1st mo., 23d, 1856. 
 
 Matilda Jane, born nth mo., 15th, 1879. 
 
 Charles Laird, born 2d mo., 13th, 1863. 
 
 They were all born in Juniata County, Penn¬ 
 sylvania. 
 
 Christiann, eldest child of Levi B. and Mary W. 
 Trego, born November 8th, 1843. After finish¬ 
 ing her education, she became a teacher in the 
 county schools, and resigned her position to 
 marry Christian R. Richards, which was cele¬ 
 brated March 29th, 1866, by the Rev. J. J. Ham- 
 
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 ilton. He is employed on the railroad, and lives 
 near Eshcol, Perry County, Pennsylvania. Have 
 seven children: Charles, Carrie,Banles, Howard, 
 Dora, Mary and William. 
 
 Robert Kurtz, born May 9th, 1845 > married 
 Milda Manda Sheaffer, February 17th, 1874, by 
 the Rev. Mr. Frazier. He is a bricklayer by 
 occupation, as well as a teacher in the public 
 schools and agriculturist, and lives near Lloyds- 
 ville, Perry County, Pennsylvania. Have three 
 children : Henry, Arthur and Ira. 
 
 Mary Elizabeth, born September 15th, 1847. 
 She belongs to that class known as spinsters, 
 and was left an ample fortune to sustain the 
 dignity of her station by a childless uncle and 
 aunt, Solomon and Mary Hertzler. 
 
 John Wilson, born September 10th, 1849; 
 married Mary, daughter of John and Mary 
 Sullivan, in Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio, 
 July 4th, 1872, by the Rev. Mr. Wallace. He 
 keeps a tinsmith and hardware store in Mifflin, 
 Juniata County, Pennsylvania. They had four 
 children : living, Ida, Emma Clara, and Brooks; 
 one dead, named Carrie. 
 
 Margaretta Lee Emma, born August 1 ith, 
 1851. After graduating at Millersville, Lancas- 
 
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 ter County, Pennsylvania, she was appointed as 
 a teacher in the public schools. She died June 
 15th, 1880. 
 
 Solomon Hertzler, born November 24th, 1853; 
 graduated at Millersville College. Taught school 
 a few years, and is now practicing law in Quincy, 
 Illinois. 
 
 Levi Latimer, born January 23d, 1856, and 
 now carries on the business of tinsmith, in Eshcol, 
 Perry County, Pennsylvania. Unmarried. 
 
 Matilda Jane, born November 15th, 1859; 
 married December 25th, 1879, by the Rev. Mr. 
 Wallen, Peter J. Trego, son of John and grand¬ 
 son of Peter, of Berwyn, Chester County, Penn¬ 
 sylvania. He carries on the business of tinsmith. 
 
 Charles Laird, born February 13th, 1863. 
 
 5th Gen.—Mary, daughter of Peter, and sister 
 of Levi B., married Solomon Hertzler. She 
 died July 2d, 1878, and he March 2d, 1880. 
 They had no children. Lizzie M. Trego, her 
 niece, daughter of her brother Levi B., became 
 their heir, and among other things was left a set 
 of silver spoons that had been handed down six 
 generations on her grandmother’s side, whose 
 maiden name was Jenkins. 
 
 David, son of Peter and brother of the above 
 ones—have no record of him. 
 
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 4th Gen.—Reuben, born in Chester County, 
 Pennsylvania, in 1763, was a son of William, 
 born 1726; had eight children (5thGen.), Hannah, 
 Cyrus, Jacob, Emmor, Mary, Jesse, Ameon and 
 William. Have no history of them. 
 
 4th Gen. — Jacob, born in Chester County, Pa., 
 1767, brother of Reuben. Had nine children 
 (5th Gen.), Caleb, James, Isaac, Mary, Evan, 
 William, Rachel, Jacob and Edith. 
 
 James, son of Jacob, had five children : Wil¬ 
 liam, Grace, Elbe, Nathan and Reuben. This 
 last William had three: Frank, Horace and 
 Mania. 
 
 Isaac, son of Jacob, had four children : Re¬ 
 becca, Eddelto, Mary, and one other. 
 
 Evan, son of Jacob, had two daughters: Sal- 
 lie and Adeline, supposed to be living in Juniata 
 County, Pa. 
 
 William, son of Jacob, had three children : 
 Rebecca, Henry and Sarah. [I regret that I 
 can give no fuller account of the family.] 
 
 4th Gen.—Isaac, born in Chester County, 
 1759; died there 1804; a son of William, and 
 brother of Jacob, Reuben, Peter, and Hannah 
 Clemson. Isaac had nine children (5th Gen.), 
 Mary, Ruth Ann (she never married, and lived 
 
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 for many years at Kennett Square, Chester Coun¬ 
 ty), Anna, Rebecca, Abner, Rachel (she married 
 a Mr. Reel and had six children : Wesley, Isaac, 
 Clementine, Samson, Fannie and James Reel); 
 David, Peter and Lloyd. 
 
 The above completes all the information I could 
 get of William, son of Peter Trego, Sr., and his 
 descendants, except his son Joseph, whose de¬ 
 scendants comprise the third part of this history. 
 
THIRD PART. 
 
 Joseph, born 1732, died 1806; son of Wil¬ 
 liam, born 1693, grandson of Peter Trego, Sr. 
 
 Historical Letter. 
 
 Philadelphia, Feb. 25th, 1882. 
 
 A. Trego Shertzer, M. D. 
 
 Dear Sir: I received a postal from you, dated 
 February 22d, 1882, requesting me to send you 
 the names of father, grandfather, and names, &c., 
 of other relatives. I will do so, as far as I can, 
 with pleasure. Unfortunately I am not in pos¬ 
 session of any of the old records, consequently, 
 my information to you, I fear, will be of small 
 account. 
 
 My great-grandfather’s name was Joseph Tre¬ 
 go. He was an old man at the time of the 
 Revolution. He lived on a two hundred and 
 forty acre farm in Honeybrook Township, Ches¬ 
 ter County, Pa., that he purchased when it was 
 all under timber. He owned several other tracts, 
 
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 all in the same township. His children’s names 
 were (as far as I know), William, Eli, Joseph, Jere¬ 
 miah, Absalom, Margaret, another daughter, 
 name to me unknown. William was my grand¬ 
 father. He was a volunteer rifleman in the Revo¬ 
 lution from three to five years. His wife’s first 
 name was Betty or Betsey ; do not know who the 
 others married, except Absalom, he married 
 Hannah Lewis, of Delaware County, Pa. Mar¬ 
 garet married Israel Irwin; her sister married 
 Evan Lewis, brother to Absalom’s wife. Wil¬ 
 liam’s children’s names were as follows : John, 
 Daniel, Joseph, Vincent, Thomas, Hannah, 
 Orphia, Alice and Elizabeth. John and Daniel 
 emigrated to Ohio some fifty years ago. Both 
 raised families. John’s are all dead but one, 
 name now is Mary Middleton, of Alliance, Ohio. 
 Some of Daniel’s are living, he had three sons 
 in the Rebellion. Joseph raised a family, Wil¬ 
 liam, Isaac, Abner, Daniel, Elizabeth and Ann. 
 Thomas is the only one living now, he had a 
 family, but they are all dead. Elis address is 
 Green P. O., Lancaster County, Pa. Vincent 
 was my father, he has been dead about thirty-six 
 years, was over forty-eight years old. Mother’s 
 name was Lydia Lewis, sister to the two others 
 
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 spoken of; she died thirty-eight years ago, aged 
 fifty eight years. So you see my father and my 
 great-uncle, Absalom, married sisters, which 
 mixed relationship wonderfully. Hannah married 
 Thomas Sloan, who lived long, and died near 
 Newark, Delaware. They raised several girls, 
 one of them, now Mrs. Mary Smith, lives at 22d 
 and Pine streets, Philadelphia; she might give you 
 some information. Orphia married Samuel Wil¬ 
 son, they have four children living: Absalom, 
 Isaiah, Mary and Alice ; the three first have the 
 same address, Suplee, Chester County, Pennsyl¬ 
 vania. Alice married Daniel Pyle, they had 
 four children: Bewregett, Joseph, Taylor and 
 Alexander; address the three former at Green, 
 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth was 
 married twice, first to a Mr. Terrell; children’s 
 names: William, Isaac, and Daniel Gilpin Terrell; 
 address Isaac, at Green, Lancaster County, Pa. 
 Her second husband, Thomas Stubbs; children : 
 Cooper, Edward and John; address Cooper, 
 care of Isaac Terrell, Green, Lancaster County, 
 Pa. Eli had sons and daughters, Joseph, Eli, 
 Maria, Matilda, and probably others. Joseph 
 had three sons, that I know, Eli, James and Wil¬ 
 liam. Eli’s address is Isabella, Chester County, 
 
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 Pa., James at Cupola, Chester County, Pa., and 
 William, at Brandywine Manor, Chester County, 
 Pa. Absalom had five children, as follows: 
 James, Evan, Joseph, Agnes and Alice; all are 
 dead but Alice. This last Joseph’s widow is liv¬ 
 ing at Suplee, Chester County, Pa. She is the 
 most likely one to have the old records, as old 
 Absalom remained on the old homestead from 
 birth until death removed him. Joseph (his son), 
 and Margaret, Joseph’s wife, remaining with 
 him. (I should have given you her name on the 
 preceding page.) Lewis Frescoln, a grandson 
 of old Absalom, and son of Agnes, would be 
 likely to have an old record ; address Isabella, 
 Chester County, Pa. Margaret, Absalom’s sister, 
 married one Israel Irwin, had sons and daughters; 
 names, Israel, Joseph, Jared, Hannah, Margaret, 
 and one daughter went to Illinois, cannot remem¬ 
 ber her name; she married one John Ash, they 
 raised a large family in Alton, Illinois. Jared 
 also went to Illinois, has a fine family. I am told 
 his son Cooper Irwin, is or was Mayor of Spring- 
 field, Ills. Joseph Irwin has one son living 
 above Philadelphia, on the Schuylkill river, he 
 is an educated man. I do not know his address, 
 but could get it. 
 
Hannah is my stepmother, lives in Honey- 
 brook, Chester County, Pa. She is 87 years 
 old, and very intelligent. I expect she remem¬ 
 bers much about the old stock. Her name is 
 now Hannah Trego, as she was my father’s 
 second wife, and now his widow ; Honeybrook 
 is her address. I will give you the address of a 
 few more. William Trego, Cupola, Chester, 
 Pa.; again, William Trego, Honeybrook, Chester 
 County, Pa.; Isaac Trego, near Brooklin, Down- 
 ingtown, Chester County, Pa.; Isaac Trego, Guth- 
 reyville, Chester County, Pa.; Daniel Trego, 
 Honeybrook, Chester County, Pa. Vincent 
 Trego (my father), had four children by his first 
 wife (none by the second), names as follows : 
 Lewis, Thomas, Alice Ann and Harris, all are 
 deceased but Harris, the writer of this. Lewis 
 was sixty, Alice Ann about forty-five, and Thomas 
 six months. I was born in Chester County, 
 Honeybrook Township, on the 7th day of Feb¬ 
 ruary, 1831 ; married Anna May Hines, March 
 6th, 1858; her father’s people were natives of 
 Maryland, has an uncle Edward Hines, south of 
 Baltimore. We have four children, named as 
 follows: Hibbard Rambo, born February 14th, 
 1859; Ella,born March 18th, i860; Thomas Har- 
 
ris, born February 24th, 1870; Frank, born June 
 24th, 1876. I think it is most likely that the 
 Tregos first settled in Bucks County. There are 
 many of them there. I think they landed about 
 1686 or ’ 7 - I have been at Newtown, Bucks 
 County, twenty-six miles from Philadelphia, on 
 the Newtown Railroad ; there are some in that 
 place, and I have heard of many through the 
 County. Doylestown is the county seat of 
 Bucks County; and West Chester, of Chester 
 County. By searching the records at the county 
 seats could there not be much information got 
 in regard to the first settlers and landowners 
 by the name of Trego? 
 
 There are Tregos in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 
 also some in Montgomery and Berks County. 
 My brother, Lewis, married Elizabeth Stauffer; 
 they have children living; the mother is still 
 living. They have one son in Iowa, George 
 Washington Trego, aged about thirty-five years; 
 the others live in Chester County, Pennsylvania; 
 their names are Vincent, Allen, Mark, Agnes 
 and Susan. My sister, Alice Ann, has children 
 living ; their names are Harris (a printer in Wil¬ 
 mington), Thomas, Jacob, Clara and Eva; all in 
 
Philadelphia; her husband, Kellom Rambo, is 
 living. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Harris Trego, 
 
 354 N. 31st St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 3d Gen.—Joseph, born in Chester County, 
 Pennsylvania, 1732; died October 29th, 1806; 
 son of William, born 1693; died 1770, and 
 grandson of Peter, the first. Owned and lived 
 on a two hundred and forty acre farm, in Honey- 
 brook Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 
 that he purchased when it was all under timber. 
 He owned several other tracts of land, all in the 
 same township. He had seven children, five 
 sons and two daughters (4th Gen.), Hannah, 
 Jeremiah, William, Absalom, Moses, Eli, and 
 one daughter ; name unknown. 
 
 Moses, eldest child of Joseph, was born, as were 
 all the others, in Honeybrook township, in 1750; 
 he died in 1791. He had fivechildren (5th Gen.), 
 Rebecca, who married a Mr. Spangler, John, 
 Eli, Joseph, and Mary, who married a Mr. Mc- 
 Keehan. 
 
 John had five children (6th Gen.), Levi, sup- 
 
posed to have lived and died in Cumberland city, 
 Maryland, Jacob, Hannah, Rebecca and Matilda, 
 who married a Mr. Shannon. 
 
 5th Gen.—Eli had five children, Edith, Wil¬ 
 liam, Kerlin, John and Eli. Edith married a 
 Mr. Leib. 
 
 William, son of Eli, born in 1815, has one 
 child, a daughter. 
 
 Mary, born in 1841, married to a Dr. Mc- 
 Kenny, and now resides near Frederick, Mary¬ 
 land; she has a son, Willie. 
 
 Children of Joseph Trego, born 1732; died 
 October 29th, 1806. 
 
 Moses, born 1750; died 1791. 
 
 William, born 1754; died 1814. 
 
 Eli, born 1766; died 1825. 
 
 Margaret, born 1767; died-; married Jared 
 
 P. Irwin. 
 
 Jeremiah, born 1771 ; died 1830. 
 
 Absalom, born 1776; married Hannah Lewis. 
 
 Hannah, born 1795 ; still living in Chester 
 County. 
 
 William, son of Eli, grandson of Moses, for 
 many years owned and manufactured pig iron in 
 the northern part of Pennsylvania. Some twenty 
 years ago removed to Baltimore, Maryland, 
 
where he owned a large iron works at the south¬ 
 west corner of Eden street and Canton avenue, 
 together with Mr. Peter Thompson, the firm 
 name being Trego and Thompson. In 1878 he 
 retired from business, and bought a farm two 
 miles west of Frederick City, Maryland, where 
 he and his wife still reside, together with their 
 daughter and son-in-law, Dr. McKenny. 
 
 6th Gen.—Kerlin, son of Eli, and grandson 
 of Moses, had four children, Marion and three 
 others. No record. 
 
 John, brother of Kerlin, was born 1808; died 
 1862. No record. 
 
 Eli, brother of John, and son of Eli, is still 
 living; has a grandson, B. F. Trego, living at 
 Akron, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. No 
 record. 
 
 5th Gen.—John, son of Moses, had five child¬ 
 ren, Matilda Shannon, Rebecca, Hannah, Jacob, 
 and Levi, who removed to Cumberland city. 
 No record. 
 
 Joseph, son of Moses, had three children, Dallis, 
 Cornog, Mary E. (she married a Mr. Warey), 
 and Rachel, who married a Mr. Lang, of Pitts¬ 
 burg, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Mary, a sister of Joseph, married a Mr. Mc- 
 Kehan. 
 
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 4th Gen.—Absalom, born in Honeybrook 
 township, in 1776, brother of Moses, and son of 
 Joseph, married Hannah Lewis, of Delaware 
 County, Pennsylvania. They had five children 
 (5th Gen.), Joseph, Evan, James, Alice and 
 Agnes. No record. 
 
 4th Gen.—William, son of Joseph, born 1754; 
 died 1814; brother of Absalom (his wife’s first 
 name was Betty or Betsy). He was a volunteer 
 rifleman in the Revolutionary War, from three 
 to five years. They had nine children( 5th Gen.), 
 Vincent, Joseph, John, Orphia, Daniel, Thomas, 
 Alice, Hannah and Elizabeth. 
 
 Vincent, born near Honeybrook, Chester 
 County, Pennsylvania, 1798; died 1841. He 
 married Lydia Lewis, sister of the wife of 
 Absalom Trego. She was born in 1786, and 
 died 1844. A second sister of Lydia married 
 Evan Lewis (6th Gen.). They had four children, 
 Harris, Alice A., Thomas and Lewis. 
 
 6th Gen.—Harris, son of Vincent, born in 1831, 
 is a merchant, and lives at 354 N. 31st street, 
 Philadelphia. He has four children (7th Gen.), 
 Frank P., born 1876; Thomas H., born 1870; 
 Ella P., born i860, and Hibberd R., born 1859. 
 
 6th Gen.—Thomas and Alice, brother and 
 
sister of Harris; have no children. Their 
 brother, Lewis, has six children (7th Gen.), 
 Agnes, George W. (born 1847), Vincent, Allen, 
 Mark and Susan. 
 
 5th Gen.—Joseph, brother of Vincent, and son 
 of William, had six children (6th Gen.), Isaac, 
 William, Abner, Daniel, Elizabeth and Ann. 
 
 5th Gen.—John, brother of Vincent, son of 
 William and Betty Trego, was born in Honey- 
 brook township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 
 January 17th, 1784. He married Mary, daughter 
 of John and Elizabeth Cook, of Chester County, 
 Pennsylvania., November 18th, 1807. She was 
 born September 13th, 1778, and died Janu¬ 
 ary 17th, 1864, aged 76 years, 8 months and 13 
 days. She was a faithful wife, patient under 
 every difficulty—a loving and affectionate mother, 
 and an exemplary Christian. She as well as her 
 family were members of the Society of Friends. 
 They had eight children (6th Gen.), Hannah C., 
 Isaac C., Betty, Elizabeth C., John, Sarah C., 
 Vincent and Mary. 
 
 Hannah C. was born in Chester County, Penn¬ 
 sylvania, December 16th, 1808, and died un¬ 
 married, July 10th, 1831. She was a young 
 woman of more than ordinary talent, and was 
 
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 beloved by all who knew her for her amiable dis¬ 
 position and virtuous qualities. 
 
 Isaac C. was born January 30th, 1810, and 
 died unmarried, July 2d, 1833. He was a young 
 man of unusual piety and, like his sister, was 
 greatly beloved. 
 
 Betty was born January 27th, 1811, and died 
 March 21st, 1812. 
 
 Elizabeth C. was born February 2d, 1813, and 
 died March 5th, 1813. 
 
 John was born May 14th, 1814; died June 
 26th, 1859. When about twenty-one years of 
 age he had an attack of scarlet fever, which 
 prostrated him for several months and so shat¬ 
 tered his constitution that he never recovered 
 good health; at that time he promised his 
 Heavenly Father if his life was spared he would 
 devote it to his service. He lived a practical 
 consistent Christian life, and died with the peace¬ 
 ful assurance that his life was approved of the 
 Master. He was a minister in the Society of 
 Friends for several years before his death. He 
 married Sarah Ann Harlan, August 22d, 1839. 
 They had two children (7th Gen.), Hannah A., 
 born May 2d, 1843; she was married to Hiram 
 Platt, of New Brighton, Beaver County, Penn- 
 
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 sylvania, November 2d, 1865, where they now 
 reside, having removed from Salem, Ohio, in the 
 spring of 1866. They have had three children, 
 (8th Gen.), Percival T., born August 4th, 1866; 
 Arthur Vincent, born July 12th, 1874; Raymond, 
 born September 7th, 1881 ; died October 27th, 
 1882. 
 
 7th Gen.—Sarah E., second child of John, Jr., 
 and Sarah A., was born July 27th, 1846; married 
 Joseph R. Mitchell, of Howard County, Mary¬ 
 land, May 1st, 1872. They remained in Salem, 
 Ohio, two years, then moved to San Francisco, 
 California, where they now reside. They have 
 one child (8th Gen.), Mabel Eloise Mitchell, 
 born April 20th, 1878. 
 
 6th Gen.—Sarah C., daughter John, Sr. and 
 Mary Trego, was born in Honeybrook township, 
 Chester County, Pa., February 25th, 1817; married 
 John W. Satterthwait, February 25th, 1836; she 
 died February 10th, 1849. They had two children : 
 Hannah, born 1837, and George, born March 3d, 
 1842. George has four children, am unable to 
 give their names, &c. He resides in Urbana, 
 Champaign County, Ohio. 
 
 6th Gen.—Vincent, brother of Sarah C., was 
 born in Honeybrook township, Chester County, 
 
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 Pa., June 1st, 1819; married Delila Burns, Janu¬ 
 ary 23d, 1844. In 1852 he removed from Ma¬ 
 honing County to Carrollton, Carroll County, 
 Ohio, and engaged in the practice of medicine, 
 in which he was very successful for a number of 
 years. He then lost his sight and was blind for 
 two years, but partially recovered, then his 
 health gradually failed and he died February 
 13th, 1875. His wife died March 21st, 1877. 
 They had but one child (7th Gen.), Mary Laura, 
 born in Mahoning County, Ohio, July 27th, 1847, 
 and died September 8th, 1879; she married 
 Dallas C. Peirson, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, 
 November 9th, 1869; he died May 2d, 1878. 
 They had two children: Laura Naomi Peirson, 
 born December 31st, 1870; Charles Vincent 
 Peirson, born March 3d, 1878; died October 9th, 
 1878. 
 
 6th Gen.—Mary C., daughter of John Trego, 
 Sr., was born in Honeybrook township, Chester 
 County, Pa., February 2d, 1822; married Charles 
 Middleton, of Alliance, Ohio, where they now 
 reside, July 19th, 1849. He is a Minister of the 
 Gurney Branch of the Society of Friends, of 
 which both are members. 
 
 In April, 1824, John Trego, Sr. (5th Gen.), 
 
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 removed with his family from the old homestead 
 in Chester County, Pa., to Smith township, 
 Columbiana County, now Mahoning County, 
 Ohio, at that time almost a perfect wilderness, 
 which was infested with wild animals of various 
 kinds, as well as Indians, both of which had a 
 safe refuge in the dense surrounding forest. 
 
 The family endured many privations and hard¬ 
 ships incident to a life in a new country, but as 
 for the younger members, these only served to 
 school them in habits of industry and energy, 
 and under the guidance and counsel of a wise 
 Christian mother, they formed characters of firm 
 integrity from which they never wavered. Their 
 father never belonged to any religious society, 
 notwithstanding his family, as well as the entire 
 Trego family up to this time, belonged to the 
 Society of Friends. The mother and most of 
 the children belonged to the Society of Friends. 
 Their son, Vincent, when young joined the 
 Baptists, but after the family of John Trego 
 moved to Carrollton, they joined the Presby¬ 
 terians, which was the only religious denomina¬ 
 tion in that section of the country. Some of the 
 members of the family have since re-united 
 themselves with the Friends. 
 
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 5th Gen.—Orphia, daughter of William and 
 sister of John, married Samuel Wilson. They 
 have four children living (6th Gen.), Absalom, 
 Isaiah, Mary and Alice; the three first live at 
 Suplee, Chester County, Pa. 
 
 5th Gen.—Alice, sister of Orphia, married 
 Daniel Pyle, they had four children (6th Gen.), 
 Bewregett, Joseph, Taylor and Alexander; the 
 three first live at Green, Lancaster County, Pa. 
 
 5th Gen.—Daniel Trego, son of William, and 
 grandson of Joseph, was born in Honeybrook 
 township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, May 
 8th, 1796; he married Sarah Waters, December 
 26th, 1826; she was born January 1st, 1806. 
 Soon after their marriage they settled in Honey- 
 brook township, and there he was engaged for 
 five years running a grist and saw mill. In 1831 
 he sold his property in Chester County and re¬ 
 moved to Columbiana County, now Mahoning 
 County, Ohio, where he bought a farm, and was 
 engaged in farming until the spring of 1838, 
 when they sold their farm, and moved to Rich¬ 
 land, now Crawford County, Ohio, where they 
 bought a farm and resided there until called to 
 their eternal home. His wife died May 22d, 
 1871, and he died January 2d, 1876. 
 
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 6th Gen.—Daniel Trego had ten children : 
 
 Samuel Waters Trego, born November 3d, 
 1827-. 
 
 Ann Elizabeth Trego, born September 21st, 
 1829. 
 
 Elmira Trego, born February I2fch, 1831. 
 
 Agnes Trego, born November 2ist, 1833. 
 
 Francis Marion Trego, born December 17th, 
 1835. 
 
 Vincent T. Trego, born February 28th, 1838. 
 
 John Harrison Trego, born May 31st, 1840. 
 
 Alice Ann Trego, born July 14th, 1843. 
 
 Mary Trego, born April 22d, 1846. 
 
 Morris Winfield Trego, born January 24th, 
 1848. 
 
 Samuel W., son of Daniel and Sarah Trego, 
 born in Honeybrook township, Chester County, 
 Pennsylvania, November 3d, 1827; he was in 
 his fourth year when his father removed to the 
 Richland County farm, which at that time was a 
 wild uncultivated County, and no road within 
 half a mile of the farm; he assisted in clearing 
 the land, and getting it ready for the plow, which 
 was finally accomplished ; and here, after years 
 of toil, Daniel Trego raised a large family. 
 Samuel W., tiring of a backwoods life, re- 
 
solved to see more of the world (in the spring of 
 1852 the California gold fever having broke out). 
 On the 15th day of March, he, in company'with 
 Gilbert Newel, of the same neighborhood, started 
 in a two-horse wagon for the land of gold. In 
 Cincinnati they were joined by Eugene Page and 
 wife; she being a sister of Newel’s. At this point 
 they took the steamer for St. Joe, on the Missouri 
 River, this at that time being the frontier of the 
 Western country. On the 5th of May they 
 started on their long journey through the 
 western wilds. In their travels they frequently 
 fell in with parties going the same way and with 
 the same object in view. They arrived safely in 
 California on the 15th of September, after a 
 journey of six months. He remained in Cali¬ 
 fornia until January 5th, 1859, when he started 
 for his home in Ohio, arriving there, nearly 
 penniless, July 3d, 1859. 
 
 Shortly after his return home, he married 
 Amelia Howe, September 4th, 1859. the 
 spring of 1850 he bought a farm in Auburn 
 township, Crawford County, Ohio, where he still 
 resides. He has five children: Alta M. Trego, 
 born August 24th, i860; Ulysses C., born April 
 nth, 1862; died March 15th, 1881 ; Eunice L., 
 
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 born March 12th, 1867 ; Alonzo M., born Janu¬ 
 ary 15th, 1869; Corbie S., born January 9th, 
 1872 ; died September 27th, 1872. His wife, 
 Amelia, having died September 27th, 1872, upon 
 the same day of his son, Corbie S., he married 
 for his second wife, Mary E. Elser, October 29th, 
 1874. She has been a confirmed invalid since 
 1879. On the 7th of November, 1862, Samuel W. 
 Trego enlisted in the 64th Regiment, Company 
 H, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; took an active 
 part in the battle of Chicamauga, as his first 
 lesson in the art of war, and shortly afterwards 
 in the battles near Chattanooga. On the first of 
 May, 1864, he with his regiment was ordered in 
 the Atlanta campaign. On the 18th of June, 
 1864, was wounded in the left thigh by a musket 
 ball, in the battle at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia. 
 This was his last active duty ; during the remain¬ 
 der of the war was detailed for guard duty over 
 Confederate prisoners, on Johnson’s Island, 
 opposite Sandusky, Ohio. After having served 
 three years, he was mustered out at Camp Chase, 
 Ohio, November 7th, 1865. For the wounds he 
 received while in the army he is a life pensioner, 
 and will receive quarterly dues while our great 
 government lasts, held together by the sighs and 
 
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 tears, and the maimed of the many thousands 
 wounded during the late war. 
 
 6th Gen.—Ann Elizabeth, second child of 
 Daniel and Sarah Trego, born September 21st, 
 1829; died February 21st, 1841; unmarried. 
 Elmira, their third child was born February 12th, 
 1831 ; she was married to John Griffith, Decem¬ 
 ber 28th, 1852. They have four children : Milton 
 W., born December 19th, 1853; Sarah A., born 
 February 2d, 1856; Orrissa T., born April 9th, 
 i860, and John Howard Griffith, born May 5th, 
 1867. Daniel Trego’s fourth child, Agnes, born 
 in Smith township, Columbiana County, Ohio, 
 November 21st, 1833; died January 27th, 1854; 
 unmarried. Their fifth child, Francis Marion, 
 was born in Smith township, Columbiana County, 
 Ohio, December 17th, 1835, never married. 
 When the war broke out he enlisted as a private 
 in the 64th Regiment, Company H, Ohio Vol¬ 
 unteer Infantry. He was a good and faithful 
 soldier, and when his first term of enlistment 
 expired, in 1863, he immediately reenlisted for 
 three years more. During his service in the 
 army he never received a rank higher than 
 Orderly Sergeant. On the 20th of July, 1864, 
 in the vicinity of Peach Tree Creek, near Atlanta, 
 
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 Georgia, while on the skirmish line in front of the 
 Confederate lines, he was shot through the head 
 and was killed instantly. He was a consistent 
 member of the Methodist Church. Daniel 
 Trego’s sixth child, Vincent T., was born in 
 Smith township, Columbiana County, Ohio, Feb¬ 
 ruary 28th, 1838; he was five weeks old when the 
 family moved to Richland County, same State. 
 He grew to be a sprightly boy, always full of fun 
 and oddities. When about sixteen years old 
 he would wear his hair long, and go to fairs, and 
 personate Indians. In 1861 (when the war broke 
 out), on the 7th day of September, he volun¬ 
 teered in the 15th Regiment, Company I, Ohio 
 Volunteer Infantry, and served over four years 
 in the service. He enlisted a second time in the 
 fall of 1863 as a veteran. When discharged from 
 the service in the fall of 1865, was 1st Lieutenant 
 of the above regiment. After leaving the army, 
 took charge of the home farm, providing for his 
 aged father and mother to the time of their 
 death. He was a very hard worker, exposing 
 himself to all kinds of weather—frequently run¬ 
 ning a large sugar camp alone ; he contracted a 
 heavy cold which settled upon his lungs, in the 
 summer of 1879, and he died from consumption, 
 
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 April 14th, 1880. He was the only member of 
 the family of Daniel Trego that ever had this 
 much-dreaded disease. He married for his first 
 wife, Laura Carlisle, December 25th, 1866; she 
 
 died-; for his second wife, he married Mary 
 
 E. Dull, May 5th, 1870; by his last wife he had 
 three children : Marion Winfield Trego, born 
 April 9th, 1872 ; Henry Dull, born August 9th, 
 1875, and Maud Augusta, born November 8th, 
 1880. 
 
 John Harrison Trego, seventh child of Daniel 
 Trego, was born May 31st, 1840; he lived 
 on the old homestead until the fall of 1866, 
 having married Nancy Mount, October 21st, 
 1866. He removed to a farm that belonged to 
 his father, Daniel, in Auburn township, Craw¬ 
 ford County, Ohio, where he still resides. He has 
 four children : Fannie Trego, born September 
 1st, 1867; Justice, born May 23d, 1873; Andrew 
 E.,born August 18th, 1876; John H., born July 
 9th, 1879. 
 
 Alice Ann, eighth child, born July 14th, 1843 > 
 died unmarried, 1852. 
 
 Mary Trego, ninth child of Daniel, was born 
 April 22d, 1846; she married William Keller, 
 April 17th, 1870; the same spring they moved 
 
to Allen County, Indiana, where they now re¬ 
 side, engaged in farming. They have two chil¬ 
 dren : Clara and Herschel. 
 
 Morris Winfield, tenth and last child of Daniel 
 Trego, was born in Auburn township, Crawford 
 
 County, Ohio, January 24th, 1848; died -, 
 
 1849. 
 
 5th Gen.—Thomas, son of William and brother 
 of Daniel, was born March 6th, 1804. Had four 
 sons: John, Joseph, Daniel and Vincent; they 
 are all dead. He now resides in Goshen, Ches¬ 
 ter County, Pa. 
 
 5th Gen.—Elizabeth, sister of Alice and 
 Orphia, was married twice, first to a Mr. Terrell. 
 They had three children : William, Isaac and 
 Daniel Gilpen Terrell. Isaac lives at Green, 
 Lancaster County, Pa. 
 
 For her second husband she married Thomas 
 Stubbs. They also had three children : Cooper, 
 Edward and John Stubbs. John lives at Green, 
 Lancaster County, Pa. 
 
 5th Gen.-—Hannah, sister of Elizabeth, mar¬ 
 ried Thomas Sloan. She lived to be quite aged 
 and died near Newark, Delaware. They had 
 several daughters, one of them, now Mrs. Mary 
 Smith, lives at 22d and Pine streets, Philadel¬ 
 phia. 
 
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 5th Gen.—Joseph, brother of John and Daniel, 
 was born in Honeybrook township, Chester 
 County, Pa. Had six children : William, Isaac, 
 Abner, Daniel, Elizabeth and Ann. 
 
 5th Gen.—Vincent Trego, ninth child of Wil¬ 
 liam, was born in Honeybrook township, 1799; 
 died there in 1846. He married Lydia Lewis; 
 she was born in Chester County, Pa., in 1786; 
 died there 1844. Vincent and his uncle Absa¬ 
 lom married sisters. 
 
 4th Gen.—Eli, son of Joseph Trego, was born 
 in Honeybrook township, Chester County, in 
 1766, and died there in 1825. He had seven 
 children : James, Joseph, Eli, Eliza, Maria, Elsie, 
 and Matilda. Eliza married John Mast, and re¬ 
 moved to Urbana, Ohio. Had several children. 
 Maria married Gotlieb Gibler, or Ceibler ; moved 
 to Vincent township, Chester County, Pa., still 
 lives there ; have several children. Elsie mar¬ 
 ried Hiram Killian. They live at Cupola, Ches¬ 
 ter County, Pa., and have several children. 
 
 Matilda married Peter Trego, son of-. Had 
 
 one child, a daughter Mary, who married James 
 Grow, and now lives at Wagontown, Chester 
 County, Pa. 
 
 These brothers, James and Eli, both married 
 
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 and moved to Hinkletown, Lancaster County, 
 Pa. James died 1881. Joseph P., their brother, 
 and son of Eli, was born near Honeybrook, 
 Chester County, Pa., December 31st, 1800; died 
 March 12th, 1878. He married Mary Dunwodie, 
 March 2d, 1824; she died October 28th, 1864. 
 December 20th, 1866, he married a second time 
 to Maria Valette; she died June 13th, 1871. 
 Had no children by last wife, but four by the 
 first; namely: Eli D., James G., William P. and 
 Mary G. 
 
 5th Gen.—Eli D., son of Eli and grandson of 
 Joseph, was born in Chester County, Pennsyl¬ 
 vania, January 26th, 1826; married Hannah, 
 daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Atkins, Janu¬ 
 ary 13th, 1859. They have four children living, 
 and one dead, which died in infancy; their 
 names are: Mary E., born October 25th, 1859; 
 Joseph A., born October 2d, 1862 ; Eli D., born 
 February 24th, 1865, and George W., born 
 November 8th, 1866. They reside at Isabella, 
 Chester County, Pennsylvania. No records. 
 
 James G., son of Eli, was born in Chester 
 County, Pennsylvania, June 25th, 1828; never 
 married; lives on the old homestead of 224 acres, 
 which his father purchased of A. Neasbit and 
 
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 wife, in 1830. James G. has in his possession 
 some of the old William Penn deeds, with the 
 seals and ribbons. 
 
 William P., son of Eli, was born in Chester 
 County, Pennsylvania, October 30th, 1830; mar¬ 
 ried Elizabeth A. Grow, January 20th, 1864. 
 They had nine children. He now resides at 
 Brandywine Manor, Chester County, Pennsyl¬ 
 vania—his native place. 
 
 Children of William P. and Elizabeth Grow 
 Trego: 
 
 Girl, July 1st, 1874; born dead. 
 
 Boy, August nth, 1875 ; born dead. 
 
 Girl, October 28th, 1879; born dead. 
 
 Mary Jane, born November 12th, 1862. 
 
 Laura Eliza, born March 15th, 1866. 
 
 Emma Kate, born October 2d, 1868. 
 
 Cora Edna, born May 18th, 1871. 
 
 Joseph P., born August 6th, 1876. 
 
 Mabel Grace, born October 15th, 1880. 
 
 5th Gen.—Mary Jane, daughter of Eli, and 
 sister of William P., was born in Chester County, 
 Pennsylvania, October 17th, 1835; died January 
 16th, 1845. 
 
 Eli, son of Eli, and brother of William P.,was 
 born 1826. No record. 
 
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 Genealogy Unknown. 
 
 Near Cambridge, Dorchester County, Mary¬ 
 land, are two families by the name of Trego. 
 William H. Trego, of that place, informs me 
 that his grandfather, Leven Trego, came from 
 England, where he left two brothers many years 
 ago, and settled in Dorchester County, Mary¬ 
 land. He left several children—though 1 only 
 know the names of two : Thomas James, and 
 James. Several of the descendants of James are 
 now living in this city; one of his daughters is 
 the wife of Captain William Hubbard, 22 North 
 Ann street, and a widowed daughter resides 
 with Mrs. Hubbard. One of his sons, George 
 W. Trego, now resides at 102 Harlem avenue, 
 in this city; he was born in Dorchester County, 
 Maryland, October 9th, 1828; married Rebecca 
 Kinnamon, of Talbot County, Maryland, October 
 15th, 1861; she was born March 3d, 1841. He 
 is a master sailmaker. They have two children, 
 Ella Isolino, born May 1st, 1863; not married, 
 and James Henry, born August 24th, 1865. He 
 is a clerk in the employ of George H. Edgar & 
 Co. 
 
 Thomas James, son of Leven Trego, born in 
 Dorchester County, Maryland ; married Susan 
 
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 Lamdin, of that county. They had eight chil¬ 
 dren : William Henry,born September 26th, 1835 ; 
 married Sarah E., daughter of Greenberry 
 Vickers, March 6th, i860. They have seven 
 children: Mary E., born i860 ; Sarah, born 1862; 
 William, Thomas, Anne, born 1866; Susan and 
 Rosa. 
 
 Leven, Jr., son of Leven, born in 1837; mar¬ 
 ried Sarah C. Wheatley, of same county, January 
 1st, i860. They have three children : Emma, 
 born 1863; Arthur, 1865, and Elmer, born 1872. 
 
 Sarah A., daughter of Leven, Sr., born in 
 1839; died young. 
 
 John, son of Leven, Sr., born in 1841. His 
 brother, Thomas James, was born in 1844 ; never 
 married. Their brothers, Joseph R., born in 
 1847 ! Charles W., born in 1854, never married ; 
 their sister, Sarah E., born December 1st, 1849; 
 married James T. Brown, of Baltimore, and now 
 resides at 60 S. Ann street in this city; they have 
 two children. 
 
 There is a John Trego who lives, and has been 
 a Justice of the Peace for many years, near Bel- 
 air, Plarford County, Md. He has quite a family. 
 I tried several times to get his genealogical 
 record, but he, like many other members of the 
 family, failed to furnish it. 
 
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 Taken from a Pennsylvania paper. 
 
 J. Calvin Noggles and Emma C. Trego, were 
 married in Centreville, Cumberland County, Pa., 
 February 22d, 1883, by the Rev. C. E. Keller of 
 the Lutheran Church. I tried in vain to get an 
 account of Emma C. and her family. 
 
 This completes my task. Here I take leave 
 of you, dear reader, for a season, ere I resume 
 the pen. Time, that unerring interpreter, will, 
 no doubt, alter to some extent my work. May 
 God defend us, save, and unite our people. 
 
 Furnished me by Dr. E. Michener, of Chester 
 County, Pa., grandson of Meshack Michener, 
 too late to insert in its proper place. 
 
 Mary, daughter of John Trego, married Me- 
 shack Michener, at Falls Monthly Meeting, 
 Bucks County, Pa., in 1761. He was born in 
 1737, died 1836, aged 99. Upon the death of 
 his first wife, he married Mary Brooks. He had 
 ten children, five by each wife, though only nine 
 are given. 
 
Children of Meshack and Mary Trego Michener. 
 
 Isaiah, born 1762, died 1835, aged 73; mar¬ 
 ried Margaret Shepherd. 
 
 Joyce, born 1764, died in infancy. 
 
 Mary, born 1767, died in infancy. 
 
 Rachel, born 1769; married Aaron Malms- 
 bury. 
 
 Meshack, born 1771; married Mary Shep¬ 
 herd. 
 
 Children by last Wife. 
 
 Elisha, born 1773, died 1835. 
 
 Nathan, born 1775, died 1866, aged 91 ; mar¬ 
 ried Sophia Chrisman; she died, aged 79. 
 
 Thomas, born 1778 ; married Mary Bradshaw. 
 
 Marmaduke, born 1780; married Hannah 
 Stradling, born 1783. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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