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Philadelphia, M.iy, 1901. CONTENTS History of the Bringhurst Family 15 Journal of John Bringhurst, Junr 95 Journal of Joseph Bringhurst 107 Notes on the Clarkson Family 115 Notes on the De Peyster Family 123 Notes on the Boude Family 129 Errata and Addenda 135 Index i37 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Bringhurst Arms Frontisl>icce View of St. Nicholas, the Parish Church of Bringhurst, England 17 - Fac-simile of Letter of Attorney of Dr. Thomas Bringhurst 17 '^ Fac-simile of First Two Pages of Journal of John Bringhurst, Jun^ 18 '^ " Rockbourn," First Cotton-Factory in Delaware 22 -- Residence of Late Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst 26 - Fac-simile of Business Letter-Head of James Bringhurst 28 - Silhouettes of Mr. and Mrs. James Bringhurst 30 "^ Fac-simile of Letter of George Washington to John Mitchell 32 ' Fac-simile of Letter of John Mitchell to Washington 34 ^ Fac-simile of Letter of John Mitchell to Washington 36 i^ Fac-simile of Letter of George Washington to Mitchell 36 ^ Portrait of Dr. Joseph Bringhurst 38 - Fac-simile of Letter of John Dickinson to Dr. Joseph Bringhurst 40 "^ Fac-simile of Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Joseph Bringhurst 42 - Fac-simile of Letter of Robert Fulton to Dr. Joseph Bringhurst 42 ^ Fac-simile of Letter of Henry Clay to Dr. Joseph Bringhurst 42 Portrait of Jesse Bringhurst 44 Portrait of Mrs. Jesse Bringhurst 44 • Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bringhurst 46 Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth (Bringhurst) Herkness 48 - Portrait of Joseph Bringhurst 50 Portrait of Edward Bringhurst and his Son, Edward, Jun^ 54 Portrait of Robert Ralston Bringhurst 56 Portrait of Miss Katharine Sexton Bringhurst 58 Portrait of Colonel John Henry Bringhurst 62 Portrait of Rev. George Bringhurst 64 ^ Portrait of William Stuart Bringhurst, PhD 66 ' II LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Portrait of Samuel Bringhurst 68 Portrait of Henry Ryan Bringhurst 70 i^ Portrait of Edward Bringhurst, Jun"", and his Son, Edward 3d 72 \^ " Rockwood," seat of Edward Bringhurst, Junf T2 ^_^ Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. William Joseph Bringhurst and their Children 74 -- Portrait of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst, in Uniform 76 Portrait of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst, taken late in life 78 Portrait of Robert Ralston Bringhurst and four of his sons, — Rev. George, Robert Morris, William White, and Washington Henry 80 Portrait of Major Robert Wilton Bringhurst 82 Portrait of Edward Slater Bringhurst 84 "■ Portrait of William Augustus Bringhurst 86 Portrait of Robert Porter Bringhurst 88 Portrait of Captain Ralston Bringhurst 90 Portrait of First Wife of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst 92 - Portrait of Second Wife of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst 92 Fac-simile of Visiting-Cards of General Kosciusko and Captain Paul Jones 102 Tomb of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhust 106 Early Home of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst, at Logansport, Indiana 112 Portrait of Rev. David Clarkson, D.D 114 Portrait of Hon. Matthew Clarkson, Mayor of Philadelphia 117 Residence of John Bringhurst (1725/95), also Howe's Head-quarters, German- town 128 The Decorations by Edward Stratton Holloway Wi^ H ISTOR Y OF THE BRINGHURST FAMILY HISTORY OF THE BRINGHURST FAMILY HE Bringhursts of the United States are descended from the Bringhursts of Leicestershire, England, vvliere an ancient family of that surname bore for arms, Ac. tzvo bars ertn. in chief three es- callops or. Crest. — An arm emhozved, habited i)i mail ar. holding in the hand ppr. a spike club sa. spikes or. The town and parish of Bringhurst, which antedates the Norman Conquest, and from which the family derived its name, stands in the southeast corner of Leicestershire, in an angle between Northamptonshire and County Rutland, and skirting the river Welland.* According to Leland, the town was given by one Ranulfe, a kinsman of King Edward the Confessor, to the Abbey of Peterborough, in Northamptonshire. Leland writes: " Ranulphus Comes, propinqitis regis Edwardi Confessoris dedit monasterion de Peterburgh, Bring- hurst, Easton, Drayton, Prestgrave, Blathestun and Langeton in Comi- tatii Lccestr." The earliest mention of the surname found by the writer in printed works is that of Robert de Bringhurst, who, prior to 1260, was lord ♦ See Burton's History of Leicestershire, 47. 15 HISTORY OF THE BRINGHURST FAMILY of Broughton, Bringhurst, etc., and had holdings at Drayton, Holt, and Prestgrave. Nichols, in his valuable History of Leicestershire,* accords to this Robert de Bringhurst the arms before given. In 1320 — the time of Edward the Second — one John Bringhurst was summoned to Parliament,! and in 1567 another of the same name was Rector of St. Mary Magdalen, Waltham, Leicestershire. In 1627 Charles Bringhurst, " chirurgeon," had a son James baptized at the church of St. John Baptist, Peterborough, and on 25 June, 1630, William Bringhurst, son of John Bringhurst, of Brabrooke, county Northampton, matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, and four years later received the degree B.A. On 9 March, 1639, Henry Bringhurst, Esqre, and Sir Thomas Rotherham, were elected members of the Parliament of Ireland, from Kings County. In 1660 the Rev. Dr. Isaac Bringhurst graduated at Queen's College, Cambridge, and became rector of Toddington, county Bedford, where he was buried 16 October, 1697, and where a memorial tablet was erected in his church. In 1698 one John Bring- hurst was graduated at Queen's College, and another of the same name in 1739. The Gentleman's Maga::inc of 1736 records the death of " Rev. Mr." Bringhurst, precentor of the Cathedral Church of Ely. The first time the name Bringhurst is found in America is in 1680, when one Thomas Bringhurst appears in the list of inhabitants of St. Michael's Parish, in the Island of Barbadoes, and is credited with having five hired servants, several apprentices, and five slaves, t On 21 March, 1682, the Council of Barbadoes appointed him "caretaker of powder," and on the 13th of June followmg, the same body ordered that he be paid fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty-nine pounds of sugar. § * Vol. ii., part ii., p. 512. t Palgrave's Parliameiitao' Writs, i. 227. X Hotten's Lists. § Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 16S1/S5, pages 20 and 24S (London, 1898). / ? &^? atf^ e^aj:hiH^j^^»£^nM cfi^n^'t^'c^^^-^trz- <9iCt&.' 7^4t^t>-i -^f^H (^^, o^ tW' i 'j"'!iit-'-''»4-*/ii '=^^; Tn^^^rh: ,c^:f^ K.U-SIMII.K OK ],KTTICK HI'' ATTORNKV CIVKN 1!V UK. UUIMAS BRlMilU'KST, OF LONDON, TO HIS WIFK Page 17 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY HOMAS BRINGHURSTS the grandfather of the Bringhursts who emigrated to Pennsylvania about 1 700, was a chirurgeon (physician and surgeon) of London, England, and married 27 August, 1647, Elizabeth Hughes, which facts are obtained from the manuscript " Memorandoms" made by his grandson, John Bringhurst, of Philadelphia, as will be seen by a fac-simile of the first two pages of such manuscript, hereinafter interleaved. It is thought that Dr. Bringhurst was a native of Leicestershire, but it is quite possible that his immediate ancestors had resided in London. On 30 October, 1614, a license was issued there for the marriage of " Thomas Cooper, of St. Clements, Danes, Middlesex, yeoman, bachelor, and Elizabeth Bringhurst, of St. Andrew, Holborn, spinster, daughter of Thomas Bringhurst, late of Easton, county Leicester, yeoman, deceased," and on 17 April, 1607, Katharine, wife of Thomas Bringhurst, was buried at St. James, Clerkenwell, London. Thomas was not a common name in the Bringhurst family, and were a search instituted in London it might be found that one, and possibly both of the Thomases here named, are near connections of Dr. Bringhurst. The latter was living in London 15 November, 1660, on which day he gave to his wife a power of attorney, the fac-simile of which is herewith interleaved. 17 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY JOHN BRINGHURST^, son of Thomas Bringhursti by his wife, Elizabeth Hughes, was born i November, 1655, and died circa 1699. He was apprenticed to Andrew Toaler, stationer in London, and was made a freeman of that city 3 September, 1681. It appears, however, that prior to that date he had begun business as a pubHsher and stationer, as in that year at least two works were issued with his name in the imprint. One of these, and probably his first publication, written by Christopher Taylor, and entitled " An Epistle of Caution to Friends to take heed of that Treacherous Spirit, . . . with a Short Testimony prepared by John Bringhurst," bears this imprint : " Printed in London for John Bringhurst, at the sign of the Book in Grace-church Street, near Cornhill, 1681." John Bringhurst was a member of the Society of Friends, and became known as the Printer and Publisher of Friends' Books. Many of his publications are mentioned in the Catalogue of Friends' Library, and are sufficiently numerous to indicate that his business was prosperous from the beginning. His activity in this direction, however, brought him into trouble. In 1683 he printed a little book, called George Fox's Primer, which contained " a passage liable to misconstruction."* Bringhurst was arrested for printing the same, and, upon trial, was sentenced, 20 Septem- ber, 1684, to pay a fine of one shilling and stand two hours in the pillory. In 1683 Mr. Bringhurst removed from Gracechurch Street to another part of London, which fact is announced at the end of one of his publications in these words : " This is to give notice, that John Bring- hurst, Printer and Publisher, who formerly lived at the sign of the Book, in Gracechurch Street, is now removed to the Sign of the Book and Three Black Birds, in Leaden-Hall-Mutton Market, between the Black Bull and Colchester Arms, where any person may be supplied with Printing, books, and paper, as formerly." Of his career after 1685 but little is known. There is a strong tradition in the family that, following the arrest before mentioned, he suffered many other persecutions on account of his religious faith, and, in consequence, removed to Amsterdam, Hol- land, where his four children who came to America are said to have * Bessie's " Sufferings of the Quakers," i. 466. 18 ( I KAC-SIMILE OK THE FIKST iwn I'AGEi of THE JOURNAL OF JOHN BRINGHURST, JUN". (See over) ''■"-' J C.: ^^,->^.._^ ,....^,.. ;,.,,,..., ..,.,.^ ^.,-,., ,L^.,..ry L^,4 li,,'/k y^..>^ '*;>?,.! ■■■.■yi... .^.hj/f^^^Xf- z;'/!^ P'':V^r^"7^- ■■ .''^' :;'.4. ' **%.■* -^t^i^yi , ,:.■'. ->+.^ >-^«V-' f*^-» ^*-^.^ >^Ct- ^y^^t>^^ .J^**-*-a^^ ^**-//Cc 'C^**-r'ifi^'^^ ■p>^^^^t<^y^j^rf- X^rr'^*-^'*-/^/A • 4,/;..r. i^fcf?^ 9-^1.^/:^^ ;^..,v.^ i-,^., >^,/j^, 7,., ^ 1 C30 1 have a few Lines to Write coueerning my 7)ear Husband. HE was an upright hearted man in his doings , he fetved the Lord with all his Heart, and was lauhful in his place to every one that he was concer- ned with, to do them good, and u was his greatett delight to fee truth profper, efpecialy amongft the young ones, with whom he was concerned, it was hisgreateftjoy and fatisfaclion to fee theLords powct breaking in upon them, fo that he could not but Praife and GlorJfic the Lord many a time for it, often upon his very Death- Bed he lay praifing and glorifying of the Lord for his great mercies bellowed upon him. And although I loft 2 dear and tender Husband, who was very dear in, and tender over me, yet ( be- ing in the Lords will,) I am content with the will' of God, being a!fo that he now reaps the reward, which many a time he travelled for i and in forfaek- jog his country, and his Fathers houfe, to comca- mongft a people that ferved the Lord with upright, nefs of heart, be had his defire anfwi red, and what great joy and peace he departed this Life, and is gone Into everlafting happincfs, to be with the Lord for ever and evermore. Kofina lihurn. THE END. SECOND GENERATION been born.* The date and place of his death have not been definitely ascertained, but he died about 1699, at either Amsterdam or London, more probably at the latter place. John Bringhurst married at London, 2 4th month (June), 1682, Rosina, daughter of Reverend Hillarius and Barbara Prache, or Prachen, and widow of John Matern. She was born in Germany, where her father had been a Lutheran clergyman, or, according to the " Memo- randoms" of John Bringhurst, " a Priest in Orders," and where, in 1671, he and his family, and John Matern, his son-in-law, became converts to the religion of the Friends, which led to their removal to England about that time. Such removal is thus referred to by John Matern in his "Testimony" f written 24 August, 1680, seven days before his death; " The Lord raised a desire in my Father-in-law, who was a Priest . . . to go to the People of the Lord which he had raised, gathered, and chosen for himself in England, . . . and as soon as he made it known to us, his wife and children, we found the same willingness, and freedom also in us to go out from our Fathers :}: House and Kindred, not con- sulting with flesh and blood what would become of us. . . . And after we had made known our Desire and intent to some of our Dearest Friends, ... we left all for the love of Truth, and went away ... in all our Journey the Lord was with us, and brought us safe and well with Joy and Gladness of our Souls, to his Beloved People here in England. Mrs. Bringhurst's father, Hillarius Prachen, died about 1693, and shortly afterwards her mother, sister, and step-daughter came to Phila- delphia, bringing with them a " Certificate of Removal," from Friends in London, which is entered in the records of Friends' Meeting at Phila- delphia, as follows : " To ye frds & Brethren of ye Mo : Meeting at Philadelphia or elcewhere " Whereas Barbara Prachin ReHct of Hillarius Prachin & Mariana Van Btiylaert Relict of John Van Buylaert and Abigaill Matern ye daughter of John George Matern School Master Deceased have an intention of Transporting themselves unto your Country and desire a certificate from us touching their conversation &c. * The " Memorandum" of his son John makes no mention of the family having lived in Holland, while the record of births of Friends' Meeting at Philadelphia notes the dates of birth of the children of John and Rosina Bringhurst, and state that they were "all born at Amsterdam." t " The Testimony of that Dear and Faithful man, John Matern," etc., printed in London, 1680, the last page of which was written'by his widow, as is seen from the fac-simile of the page herewith inserted. t He doubtless refers to his own father. 21 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY " These Therefore may certify all fTrd^ concerned yt upon enquiry made Concern- ing the said Barbara Prachen Mariana Van Buylaert & Abigaill Matern (mother daughter and grand daughter) we do not find but that they are free and clear from any engagements in relation to marriage with any here and have been of sober con- versation amongst friends so wth ye Salutation of dear Love in ye Holy and pretious Truth wee remain in ye ffellowship thereoff your friends & Brethren, from ye frd^ and Brethern of ye 2 weeks meeting in London y^ 5 ^ 1693/4." * After Mrs. Prachen settled in Philadelphia she frequently wrote to Mr. and Mrs. Bringhurst. urging them " to come over," but Mr. Bring- hurst " could not be persuaded with to cross the ocean to a new country," as is learned from the " Memorandoms" of the son, who further writes : " My father being dead, my mother concluded to transport herself & family of small children to Pennsylvania, . . . and accordingly took Pas- sage at London in the Brigantine Messenger, James Guy Master, for herself and four children being Elizabeth, John, Barbara & George, & landed at Philadelphia." The date of their emigration is uncertain, but it was before 16 October, 1701, on which day Mrs. Bringhurst was a witness to the will of Samuel Siddon, of Philadelphia. She died at Philadelphia, 4 January, 1711/12, and her mother died there, 9 March, 1711/12. Children,! born at London, England, or Amsterdam, Holland : 3. RosiNA Elizabeth Bringhurst", born 24 August, 1688; married, 10 Sep- tember, 1713, Emanuel Dungworth, son of Richard Dungworth, of Philadelphia. 4. John Bringhur.st." born 25 February, 1691 ; died 20 September, 1750; married Mary Claypoole. 5. Barbara Bringhurst', born 29 March, 1693; married, 6 June, 1715, William Morrison. 6. George Bringhurst', born 15 May. 1697; died 18 February, 1752; married Anna Ashmead. • The certificate is signed by Thomas Hudsonn, Charles Bathurst, W" Ingram, Thos : Barker, Tho : Cox, W" Saunders, Philip Ford, Theodore Eccleston, John Staples, John Miller, John Tomkins, and Benjamin Bealing. t There may have been other children who died before the family emigrated. » i 3 THIRD GENERATION 4. JOHN BRINGHURST^ son of John Bringhurst^ by his wife Rosina Prachen, was born at London, Eng- land, or Amsterdam, Holland, 25 February, 1691, and died on the Island of Barbadoes, 20 September, 1750. At the age of ten years he was apprenticed to George Guest, of Philadelphia, cooper, which trade he acquired. W-^m S m m^^ and at which he worked for a time, and then determined to try his " suc- cess at sea." He shipped as cooper of the Brig " Elizabeth," Thomas Reed master, and made a voyage to Surinam, returning from which he studied navigation with William Robins, and later made several sea- voyages, which are interestingly related in his " IMemorandoms," printed in full in the Appendix to this volume. After his marriage in 1718, he quitted the life of a mariner and engaged in the cooperage business. In 1727 he engaged in commercip.l pursuits, still retaining, however, his cooperage establishment, in all of which he was successful, as a few years later, with the assistance of two others, he was enabled to pay for the building of the Brigantine " Joseph," and, with his partners, to freight the vessel and send her on voyages to foreign ports. In 1 72 1 he was chosen constable of the city, in 1725 was made Col- lector of Dock Ward, in 1728 was chosen one of the Overseers of the Poor, and three years later was made one of the Overseers of the Public School founded by charter from William Penn, now known as William Penn Charter School, in which capacity he was probably continued until his decease, as, on i March, 1749, he joined with James Logan, Israel Pemberton, Anthony Morris, and the other overseers in conveying land belonging to the School. Mr. Bringhurst was prominent in the community and generally esteemed, and he was frequently called upon by his friends to execute private trusts. He is named as an executor of the will of William Carter in 1738, the will of Thomas Chalkley in 1742, and that of Simon Edghill the following year. He was also a prominent member of the Society of Friends, and was active in all of the religious work of the Monthly Meet- ing at Philadelphia, of which he was chosen an Elder, 30 December, 1748. The high esteem in which he was held by Friends is expressed in a memo- rial of him, printed in "The Friend," volume xxxi., page 108. 23 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY His last will and testament, dated i6 June, 1750, and proved at Phila- delphia, names wife Mary, sons Joseph, James, and John, daughter Mary, wife of Judah Foulke, daughter Elizabeth Bringhurst, and sister- in-law Elizabeth Claypoole. At the time of his death he was on a visit to Barbadoes, whither he had gone a short time before with the hope of improving his failing health. He died there at the house of " widow" Oxley, whose husband. John Oxley, had previously died at Mr. Bring- hurst's house in Philadelphia while on a visit there. He married, 30 October, 171 8, Mary, daughter of John Claypoole, Esqre,* and granddaughter of James Claypoole, Esqi's,! a noted Penn- sylvania colonist. She survived her husband, and died at Philadelphia, 2 July, 1 76 1. Children, born at Philadelphia : 7. Mary Bringhurst', born 18 January, 1720/21 ; died 22 January, 1798 ; married Judah Foulke, Esqfe. 8. John Bringhurst*, born 9 November, 1722 ; died unmarried, 15 De- cember, 1789. He was a prominent iron merchant, at Philadelphia, a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and one of the signers of the Non-Importation Resolutions. 9. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 4 February, 1723/24; died 25 December, 1790. 10. James Bringhurst', born 7 December, 1730; died at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 27 February, 1810; married (i) Anne Pole; (2) Hannah Peters; (3) Ruth Barker. 11. Thomas Bringhurst*, born 17 January, and died 19 January, 1731. 12. Joseph Bringhurst', born 20 March, 1732/33; died at Wilmington, Delaware, in 181 1. He was apprenticed to his father, at the trade of cooper, but eventually followed the footsteps of his father, and became a merchant. He was a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hos- pital and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He * John Claypoole came to Pennsylvania in the ship " Amity" in 1682. He was assistant to Snr\eyor- General Holmes ; Clerk of the Assembly from 16S6 until 16SS ; and in 16S7 became High Sheriff of Phila- delphia, in which office he serv^ed several years. He was son of t James Claypoole, one of the most prominent of those who assisted Penn in founding Pennsylvania. On the organization of the Free Society of Traders in London, 29 May, 1682, Mr. Claypoole was chosen the treasurer of that organization, and retained the office until his death. 6 August, 16S7. In 1683 he was ap- pointed Deputy Register-General of the Province, but declined the office. In 1685 he was commissioned a justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, over which body he presided, and in the same year he was commissioned one of the justices of the Supreme Court. In 1686 he was elected a member of the Assembly, and during the year of his death he became a member of the Provincial Council. For par- ticulars of his ancestry and family, see the " Claypoole Genealogy," by Mrs. Graff, published at Philadelphia in 1893. 24 THIRD GENERATION never married, and left at his death a large estate. For many years he kept a journal, or " Memorandum," in which he noted happenings that interested him, a fac-simile of which is inserted in the Appendix. 13. Deborah Bringhurst*, born 21 December, 1734; died 16 January, 1735. 14. Deborah Bringhurst', born 15 September, 1736; died 16 April, 1737. 6. GEORGE BRINGHURST^ second son of John Bringhurst^ by his wife Rosina Prachen, was born at London, England, or Amsterdam, Holland, 15 May, 1697, ^"^ <^'^d at Germantown, Philadelphia, 18 Feb- ruary, 1752. His life at Germantown began in his youth, when he was apprenticed to Arent Klicken, weaver, a prominent citizen of that town. If he was instructed in the trade of a weaver it would appear that he did not make this his occupation, but engaged in the saddlery business, in which he prospered and came to possess a goodly estate. In the German- town tax-list of 1734 he is assessed for twenty-six and one-half acres, and from this list it is learned that his immediate neighbors were Henry Pastorius, on the one side, and John Ashmead, his father-in-law, on the other. He was one of the fifteen persons present on 14 September, 1740, when the limits of Market Square, Germantown, were surveyed and fixed by Benjamin Eastburn, Surveyor-General of the Province. From a mortgage given by himself and wife Anna, 13 January, 1731/32, we learn that he was then the owner of three tracts of land, one of which he pur- chased in 1726 of John and Mary Jarret. The inventory filed in his estate enumerates several landed possessions in Germantown and a tract of eight and one-half acres in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia. The following is the copy of his last will and testament : BE IT REMEMBERED THAT I GEORGE BRINGHURST OF GERMAN- TOWN in the County of Philadelphia and Province of Pennsylvania Sadler being weak and indisposed in Body, But through the Goodness of God am of Sound dis- posing mind and memory Calling to mind therefore the uncertainty of my time here I have thought it Convenient to settle my outward affairs by this my last Will and Testament First requesting that all and singular my just Debts funeral expences &c. be well and truly paid & discharged, and the residue of my Estate I dispose of in manner folloviring — that is to say I give and bequeath to my beloved Wife Anna Bring- hurst the following Goods & particulars Viz : my best Bead, Beading, Bedstead, Cur- tains and all furnature to the said Bed blonging, A Chest of drawers a looking Glass, a large Arm Chair & a dozen of my best other Chairs, a large Black Walnut Table, a Joynt stool table, a Couch, a pendelum Watch or Clock a Corner Cupboard, an Iron Stove now in Use, warming pan, a Walnut Chest with two drawers, a Cow & dung 25 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY hook & fork & all the Hay & other fodder now in the Barn a Dough Trough a large Brass Kettle & a smaller one a large Iron Pot & a lesser one, a Bell Metal Pot with my Pot racks and hooks a pair of And Irons fire shovel & Tongs & Grid Iron, a Box Iron & heaters, a frying pan & Baking Iron, a flesh fork brass Skimmer & all my Pewter a Tea Kettle two Tea Potts & all other Tea furniture A Quilting frame all my stone Jugs a Cradle & side Sadie, all our Earthen Ware & Candlesticks Snuffers and Candle Box, all our linnens and Woollens both made and unmade into wearables, a Coffee pot a Coffy mill a dressing Box, a little Trunk with a smaller one in it a gold ring a big & little Spinning wheel, a spade & wheelbarrow, all which I give & bequeath unto her my said dear Wife for her Use & to dispose of at her discretion, I give & bequeath to my son John Bringhurst all my Tools for making of Saddles or Sadlary Uttensils whatsoever & in whose hand soever the same are found. I give & bequeath to my Son George Bringhurst a Cros Cut saw & all my Saws & tools or utensils Saddletree making and a Chest to hold part of said Tools & all the wood which I have for making of Saddletrees, as also a Bible my Desk & a pair of Gold Buttons — I give & bequeath to my Daughter Hester Bringhurst a Bed. Beadstead Beding, Curtains & all furniture to the said Bed belonging, a black Walnut Chamber Table, a dressing Box a looking Glass, a pair of And Irons, fire shovel & Tongs & half a dozen of Chairs, and I will that my wearing apparel be made Use of for the Clothing of my two little Sons Samuel and William, all the remainder of my Moveables I will and require to be disposed of and sold and the same with all other my Personal Estate appropriated to the subsistence of my Wife and Younger Children, the which Younger Children I request may be kept to School until! they are capable to be put to prentice which should be at the age of fourteen Years at the longest and in order for the discharging of my Just Debts I will and require that such a part of my Real Estate as to my Executrix & her Assistants herein after named shall seem necessary shall be sold and disposed of in the best manner & for the best price that may be had for the same (with this Proviso that if possible my House wherein I now dwell with some part of my Land and Buildings lying Contiguous & Convenient thereunto be reserved & kept for the Use and Benefit of my Wife and Children in such manner as I shall hereinafter direct) Wherefore I impower & authorise my Executrix hereinafter named, or those whom I may appoint Executors in her room in case of her disability or the Survivor of them to Sell and dispose of part of my Real Estate in manner as is above directed and make and execute good & sufficient Deed or Deeds, Convey- ance or Conveyances for the same to the Purchaser or purchasers & to his her or their Heirs and Assigns forever in fee Simple And with the Money arising by such Sale to pay and discharge all my Just Debts as aforesaid and as to the remaining part of my Real Estate to wit my dwelling House & Lot thereunto belonging I give & bequeath the LTse Rents & Profits thereof to my beloved Wife aforesaid to be appropriated to the Maintaining of herself and the Maintaining Clothing & Schooling of our two Youngest Children until they are put out to prentice. I also give & bequeath the use Rents and Profits aforesaid to my said Wife for and during her Natural Life if she continues so long my Widow, But in Case she intermarries then and in such Case she shall have the Thirds of s', daughter of William Currier, of that place. She died at Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, 22 December, 16S8, theday following the decease of her husband. His mother died there two years later, and letters of administration on her estate were granted to her son-in-law, Toby Leech. The latter was a large landowner and a prominent man in the Province, serving several years in the Assembly. John Ashmead named in the text, son of John and Mar>- (Currier) Ashmead, was bom at Cheltenham, England, 12 July, 1679; died at Germantown, Philadelphia, 7 October, 1742 ; married, 12 October, 1703, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Sellers,! of Darby, Pennsylvania, by his wife Anna Gibbons, boni at Darby, 13 July, 1685. t Philadelphia Will Book L, 506. t SARtt^SL Sellers was an early Quaker colonist. He emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1682, from Belper, county Darby, England, and settled in Darby, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1732. He is the ancestor of the prominent family of that name, in and about Philadelphia. He married in 16S4, Anna, daughter of Henry Gibbons. § ^ Henrv Gibbons emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1682, from Parividge, county Darby, England, with his wife Helen and family. He was a Friend, and resided in or near Darby, Pennsylvania, until his death in 1701. 28 T ., ^\ m^^Tdi FOURTH GENERATION 7. MARY BRINGHURST*, eldest child of John Bringhurst* by his wife Mary Claypoole, was born at Philadelphia, 18 January, 1720/21 ; died there, 22 Janu- ary, 1798; married, 16 February, 1743/44, Judah Foulke, Esqre, born at Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, 30 July, 1722; died at Philadelphia, 24 January, 1776; son of Cadwalader Foulke by his wife Mary Evans. Mr. Foulke was a promi- nent and active citizen of Philadelphia. From 1745 until 1750 he was Collector of Excise; in 1770, 1771, and 1772 was High Sheriff of the county; from 1770 to 1774, Marshal of the Admiralty; in 1773 was appointed Clerk of the Market, and during the same year was commis- sioned by Governor John Penn, Sealer of Weights and Measures for the county. In 1754 he was elected a member of the " Colony-in-Schuyl- kill," the oldest social organization in America, and in 1758 he became a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital. In 1763 he was chosen a member of the " Fishing Company of Fort St. David's," in 1765 was a signer of the famous " Non-Importation Agreement," and on 25 March, 1775, was chosen by Congress one of the signers of the one million dollars of Continental bills ordered to be issued at that time. Children ; 25. Cadwalader Foulke', born in 1748. 26. Mary Foulke^ born in 1753. 27. John Foulke", born in 1757; died in 1796; became an eminent physician in Philadelphia ; was educated at Robert Proud's noted school ; studied medicine, and graduated therein at the College of Phila- delphia, in 1789, and then went to Paris " to improve himself in Surgery and Physics." Before his graduation he served in a medical capacity in the Revolution. Robert Morton, in his Diary, under date of 8 October, 1777, writes : " I went to see Doc. Foulk amputate an American soldier's leg, which he completed in 20 minutes, while the physician of the military hospital was 40 min. performing an operation of the same nature ;" and Dr. Barnabas Binney, writing from the " General Hospital, French Creek, 30 miles from Phila- delphia," under date of 31 August, 1778, in mentioning a number of medical men with the army, says, " Young J. Foulk is with post; a pedantic young Quaker still." Dr. Foulke is said to have been the earliest demonstrator and lecturer on anatomy in the Medical College of Philadelphia, and during the yellow fever epidemic of 29 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 1/93 he absented himself from his home for days at a time, de- voting his attention to the sick in the infected districts. He was a member of the College of Physicians, and an officer of the American Philosophical Society, before which body he delivered the annual oration in 1789. He married, 8 May, 1788, Eleanor, daughter of Richard Parker, and had issue. 28. Elizabeth Foulke°, born 28 September, 1758; died 19 October, 1820. 29. Deborah Foulke", born 28 September, 1764; married (i) William Pear- son ; (2) Isaac Tyson. 10. JAMES BRINGHURST\ son of John Bringhurst=' by his wife Mary Claypoole, was born at Philadelphia, 7 December, 1730; died at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 27 February, 1810, and was buried in the Friends' burying-ground at Tiverton, in that State. His early business career was that of a master carpenter and builder, but he subse- quently became a merchant, and acquired large wealth. His father-in- law, John Pole, a wealthy merchant of Philadelphia, owned a country- seat, embracing a large tract of land on Gray's Ferry Road, at what is now Thirtieth and Thirty-first Streets. After Mr. Pole's death in 1755, Mr. Bringhurst, partly through the inheritance of his wife, and partly by purchases from the other heirs of Pole, became the possessor of this estate, and there maintained a handsome and well appointed country-seat for many years. A portion of the estate remained in the Bringhurst family until 1850.* Mr. Bringhurst would seem to have had some knowl- edge of carriage-building, — the occupation for several generations of many of the Bringhursts of the Germantown branch of the family. Hannah Callender, in her Diary under date of 26 August, 1761, writes: " Parents consenting Anna Pole, Betsy Bringhurst, H. Callender, James Bringhurst, and Samuel Sansom set out for Bethlehem and the country adjacent, intending a tour of a week or ten days in a complete light wagon (for a pair of horses) made by Jaines Bringhurst." f He was a member of the Carpenters' Company, of which he was Warden in 1769, and one of its managers in 1772/75, and was one of the trustees to whom was conveyed the land on which the noted " Carpenters' Hall" is built. In 1 761 he became a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital. * Robert Morton, in his Diary, under date of 20 October, 1777, at which time the British Army were in possession of Philadelphia, notes that a foraging party, consisting of Hessian soldiers, foraged at the planta- tion of James Pemberton, and " from thence they went to J. Bringhurst's place, where they took all the Hay and most of ye Potatoes which belonged to the tenant." (See Pennsylvania Magazine of History, i. 20.) t Pennsylvania Magazine of History, xii. 448. 30 FOURTH GENERATION and in 1768 a member of the American Philosophical Society, and he was a member of the building committee which conducted the construc- tion of the Hall of the society in Independence Square. A fac-simile of his notice to attend a meeting of the society is here inserted.* He re- S I R, d/^^^^ //■ TOU are reqiiejled to attend a Meeting of the American Philosophical Society, to be held at the HotiJ'e of the Prefident, Dodor Franklin, thh Evening, at 'li/i 0' Clock; when a Number of Gentlemen, propofed as new Members, will be ballotled for. /^^O^^^^J'^'^^ V tired from business some years before his death, and the last two years of his life he resided in Rhode Island. Mr. Bringhurst's family was prominent in social circles in Philadelphia, and in the Directory of the city and in his will he is styled " gentleman." He was a member of the Society of Friends. He married (i), February, 1761, Anne, daughter of John Pole,t of Philadelphia, by his wife Rachel Smith. She died at Philadelphia, 5 March, 1777, aged 44 years. He married (2), circa 1778, Hannah Peters, who was buried 19 September, 1782, aged 31 years. He married (3) Ruth Barker, born 15 January, 1746; died 6 December, 1815; daughter of Abraham Barker, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, by his wife Susanna Anthony. * The meeting was held 17 April, 1789, when La Princesse Catharine d'Aschkaw.of Russia, Don Francis de Gardoyne, " auditor of the Rota for the Crown of Castile at the Court of Rome," John Stephens, Jun"", of New Jersey, the eminent engineer and scientist, General Winthrop Sargent, and others were elected to membership. t John Pole was born in England, 31 December, 1705, and died at Philadelphia, 5 January, 1755. He married at Friends' Meeting-House, Burlington, New Jersey, 22 January, 1735, Rachel, daughter of Dr. Richard Smith, of Burlington, by his wife Ann Marshall. In the marriage record he is styled as " of Bustle- hay, Wivelscombe, Somersetshire," from which it is apparent that he had but recently come to America. After his marriage he settled in Philadelphia, where he was a prosperous merchant, and became possessed of a large estate. For an account of his wife's family, which was a prominent one in New Jersey, see " The Smith Family of Burlington." 31 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY Children, all by his first wife, and born at Philadelphia: 30. John Bringhurst', born i April, 1762 ; died 4 August, 1763. 31. John Bringhurst°, born 25 April, 1764; died 16 June, 1800; married Mary Lawton. 32. James Bringhurst°, born 4 March, 1766; died 27 May, 1818; married (l) Rachel Settle; (2) Ann Carroll. 33. Joseph BRINGHURST^ born 6 October, 1767; died 26 July, 1834; married Deborah Ferris. 34. Jonathan Bringhurst', born 8 May, 1769; died 9 November, 1818, unmarried. 35. Edward Bringhurst°, born 16 December, 1770; died 26 September, 1794, unmarried. 36. Rachel Bringhurst°, born 15 February, 1775; died 16 February, 1777. 15. SARAH BRINGHURSTS eldest child of George Bringhurst^ by his wife Anna Ashmead, was born at Germantown, 20 April, 1724; died before 6 June, 1760; married at Christ Church, Philadelphia, 23 January, 1749/50, George Palmer, of Germantown, who was buried there, 15 April, 1781. Children, all born before 1760: ZT- Elizabeth Palmer'. 38. Anna Palmer'. 39. Mary Palmer'. 40. George Palmer'. 16. JOHN BRINGHURST^ eldest son of George Bringhurst^ by his wife Anna Ashmead, was born at Germantown, 19 February, 1725/ 26; died there, 18 March, 1795. He resided at what is now the south- east corner of Main and Bringhurst Streets, his estate at that point con- sisting of a tract of nineteen acres. Some years after his death his heirs divided the tract into building lots and opened through the land the street bearing the family name. Mr. Bringhurst was a prominent citizen of Germantown, and there conducted an extensive business as a coach and chaise builder. He was one of the first, if not the first, to build what is known as the " Germantown waggon," in the construction of which he largely engaged shortly after the Revolution. In 1780 he built a " chariot" for General Washington, who, in a letter from " Head- quarters" of the Army, under date of 20 March, that year, to John Mitchell, deputy quartermaster-general of the army, writes : " You do 32 3^'^ f ^^yC^ a^^ '2 x. ^.d,-£^:. V FOURTH GENERATION me a favour by enquiring, & letting me know as soon as possible, if any good coach-maker in Phila or German Town (Bringhurst for instance) will engage to make me a genteel plain chariot with real Har- ness for four horses to go with two postilions. I wish to know the terms and in how short a time it can be done." Ten days later he further writes : " In case you should purchase, please to have my arms and crest properly dispd of on the chariot," and four days later Mr. Mitchell writes to Washington : " This day I went to Germantown & have prevailed on Mr. Bringhurst to let you have a Chariot he has in hand — it appears to be good Work & well seasoned timber, the size is 3 feet 63/2 inches high and 3 feet 10 inches wide — & will have a very very good second Cloth or better if to be got, this will be ready in 6 weeks." From other letters which passed between General Washington and Mr. Mitchell on this subject, it appears that the price of the chariot was £210 in gold; that Mr. Bringhurst purchased General Washington's old coach, for which he paid £2^, and that the chariot was used for the first time, in the latter part of June, to carry Mrs. Washington from Philadelphia to Mount Vernon. Under date of 26 June, Mr. Mitchell writes : " Mrs Washing- ton is very well and expects to sett ofif for Virginia on Sunday next — the chariot will be finished on Thursday or Friday next, & I believe will please your Lady." That Mr. Bringhurst came to be recognized as the foremost man in Philadelphia County in his line of business is apparent in that he was selected to lead the coach-builders in the famous " Federal Parade" which took place in Philadelphia, 4 July, 1788, to celebrate the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.* In 1760 Mr. Bringhurst, with his brother George, conveyed a lot of ground to the trustees of the Germantown Union School, now the Ger- mantown Academy, on which lot the present Academy building stands. From the founding of the Academy until his decease he held almost con- tinuously some position of trust in connection with it. He was a member of its first building committee, and many years one of its trustees, and president of the board of trustees in 1787/89. In 1769 he became a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and in 1775 he was a mem- ber of the Committee of Correspondence for Philadelphia County. Mr. * In the printed account of this Parade, the XLIX Section in the line is thus noted : " Coach Makers.— Preceded by Mr. John Bringhurst in a phaeton, drawn by two horses, and bearing a draft of a coach on a white silk flag." 3 33 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY Bringhurst was one of the wealthiest citizens of his day in German- town, and in the tax-hst of 1780 his estate is rated the second highest in the hst. His will, dated 27 December, 1794, proved 4 April, 1795, names wife Elizabeth, children Mary Shute, George Bringhurst, Mar- garet Simmons, Anna McCullough, Sarah Bringhurst, Elizabeth Dunant, and Isaac, Jesse, and Thomas Bringhurst, and sons-in-law James Sim- mons, John McCullough, and Edward Dunant. He married ( i ) Mary Finney, daughter of Charles Finney by his wife Elizabeth Tregeny. She died about 1753, and he married (2), circa 1754, Elizabeth Shute, born 12 November, 1735; died at Germantown, 18 April, 1808. Both she and her husband are buried in Hood's Ceme- tery, Germantown, where a large flat stone, with inscriptions, marks their graves. She was a daughter of Joseph and Anne Shute.* * Thomas Shute was the first of that surname in Pennsylvania. He was a Quaker and came to the Province as early as 1690. The first mention of him there is under date of 25 August, 1690, when he purchased of Samuel Carpenter one hundred acres of land in Bristol township.f He is on the tax-list of that township, 28 Sep- tember, 1693, but during that year he sold the property purchased of Carpenter to John Lukens, of German- town.} He later purchased one hundred and twenty acres in the Northern Liberties, and about the same time a tract of eleven hundred and thirty acres, bordering on Bucks County, and some of the land being in that county.§ On 21 February, 1723124, he bought of Charles Read and others a lot of ground on Pine Street, between Ninth and Tenth Streets, containing in front three hundred and ninety-six feet and in depth three hundred and sixty-six feet. His last known acquirement of land was on 2 December, 1742, when he bought a tract of forty acres in the Northeni Liberties. He was one of the substantial citizens of Philadelphia, hut does not seem to have aspired to public office, as his name is not found in the civil list of his day. He mar- ried (i). 9 October, 1694, Elizabeth, daughter of John Hood, of Darby. She died 4 May, 1695, and he married (2), 29 December, 1696, Elizabeth, daughter of William Powell, of Philadelphia. Mr. Shute died at Philadel- phia, 3 December, 1748, and his wife Elizabeth Powell died 3 July, 1743. His last will and testament, dated 10 December, 1748, was proved at Philadelphia the following year, from which it would appear that his chil- dren living at the making of his will were Christian, Joseph, William, Jacob, and Isaac. Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Powell) Shute : L Christian, married, 25 smo., 1717, Samson Davis, n. Joseph Shute, married. HI. William Shute, married, 30 June, Elizabeth Steel, daughter of James Steel, Register-General of Pennsylvania. IV. Thomas Shute, died i November, 1738. V. Isaac Shute, died 16 September, 1702. VI. Elizabeth Shute, died 28 romo., 1736. VIl. Jacob Shute, married, 27 August, 1725, Mary Royden. VIII. Ann Shute, died 21 August, 1735. IX. Abraham Shute, died 7 December, 1718. X. Isaac Shute, died 1755. Joseph Shute, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Powell) Shute, was born in Philadelphia, and probably died there, although the record of his death has not been found ; nor has the record of his marriage, or the name of his wife, been found. He resided in the Northern Liberties, on a tract of two hundred acres, which came to him under his father's will. A part of this tract he conveyed to his grandson, George Bringhurst. t Philadelphia E.xemplification Deed Book VII., 446- t 'bid., 443. § 'bid., II., 209. 34 ^'« ':;■■ s.j/^-y'""-'-'''"""^'"'~^""''""T I.ETTKR 111'' JOHN MITCHELL TO CiENEKAL WASHINGTON Page 33 (See over) ci. ^,- / . Z' .•/-.V;-^/'-'^ i\. '/f'/&^'^<'"' '■ FOURTH GENERATION Children, born at Germantown : 41. Mary Bringhurst", born 14 May, 1751 ; married John Shute. 42. George BR^NGHURST^ born 20 June, 1755; died 29 December, 1829; married Anna Clarkson. 43. Margaret BRINGHURST^ born circa 1757; died 8 February, 1798, in her 41st year; married James Simmons, who died at Germantown, in 1809.* 44. Anna Bringhurst", married John McCullough. 45. Sarah Bringhurst°, born in 1761 ; died 27 October, 1831. 46. Isaac Bringhurst', married Mrs. William Williams. 47. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 5 September, 1765; died 3 November, 1822; married, 26 April, 1786, Edward Dunant, born 5 January, 1764; died 22 May, 1813; both buried in Christ Church graveyard, Philadelphia. 48. Jesse Bringhurst', born in 1770; died 24 April, 1822; married Mildred Keen. 49. Thomas Bringhurst\ born 21 June, 1775; died 8 August, 1849; mar- ried Mary Fraley. 19. GEORGE BRINGHURST*, second son of George Bringhurst^ by his wife Anna Asliinead, was born in Germantown, 12 September, 1732; died there, 7 April, 1797, and is buried in Hood's Cemetery. He resided on Main Street, Germantown, where he owned several houses. He was for some years one of the trustees of the Germantown Union School, now Germantown Academy, and a contributor to its support. His will, dated 7 April, 1797, proved 21 of the same month, f styles him " Saddletree Maker," and names wife Sarah, and the children given below, in the order named. He married, 14 October, 1760, Sarah Trump, of Whitemarsh township; she died April, 181 2, in the seventy-fifth year of her age. Children, born at Germantown : 50. Ann BRINGHURST^ married, as first wife, Shubert Armitage, a lieu- tenant in the Revolutionary Army, by whom she left her surviving four children: 51. Mary'; 52. Almisa"; 53. Rebecca"; and 54. George'. ♦James Simmons, by his wife Margaret Bringhurst, left three children sun-iving him, — to wit, John Bringhurst Simmons. WilHam S. Simmons, and Catharine Simmons. The latter married Colonel Condy Raguet. a prominent Philadelphian. who ser\ed in the war of 1S12. first as captain of the Washington Guards, and later as lieutenant-colonel of the battalion commanded by Colonel Clement C. Biddle. Colonel Raguet was bom at Philadelphia, 28 Januarj'. 17S4, and died there, 22 March, 1S42, and a sketch 01 him will be found in Appleton's " Cyclopaedia of American Biography," v. 160. t Philadelphia Will Book X,, 567. 35 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 55. William BRINGHURST^ born circa 1765 ; died February, 1850. 56. George Bringhurst',* born 1767; died 4 April, 1798. 57. Mary Bringhurst', died 7 November, 1797. 58. Clement Bringhurst', died in i860; married. 59. Robert Bringhurst", born in 1778; died 2 November, 1832; married Margaret Brewster. 22. SAMUEL BRINGHURST*, son of George Bringhurst^ by his wife Anna Ashmead, was born at Germantown, Philadelphia, 6 January, 1740; died there, 8 May, 1818; married, circa 1765, Susanna Keen, born 9 August, 1744; died 2 January, 1818; daughter of Matthias Keen f by his first wife Mary Swift, sister of John Swift, Esq>"e, who was for many years Collector of the Port of Philadelphia. From 1784 until 1815 Mr. Bringhurst was a trustee of the Germantown Union School. Children, born at Germantown : 60. John Bringhurst", born in 1768; died in infancy. 61. Matthias Bringhurst", born in 1770. 62. John Bringhurst", born in 1771 ; died in 1816. 63. Tacy Bringhurst", born 5 March, 1776; died 6 August, 1840; married Samuel Ashmead. 64. Samuel Bringhurst", born in 1778. 65. Henrietta Bringhurst", born in 1781. 66. Matthew Bringhurst", born in 1783. 67. Anna Bringhurst", born in 1785. 68. Mary Bringhurst", born 24 August, 1787; died 28 July, 1871 ; married William Lehman. 24. WILLIAM BRINGHURSTS youngest child of George Bring- hurst^ by his wife Anna Ashmead, was born at Germantown, Philadel- phia, 24 June, 1745; died i6 October, 1798; married, 4 June, 1769, Mary Morris, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Morgan Edwards, " at the house of the widow Morris in Arch Street/* Philadelphia. * It is possible that he had married, as the records of Old Swedes Church, Philadelphia, note the burial, 5 August, 1795, of Sarah Bringhurst, " lo months old," daughter of George and Elizabeth Bringhurst, and Eliza Bringhurst, " 7 months old," daughter of George Bringhurst. t Matthias Keen was a descendant of Joran Kyn or Keen, an early Swedish colonist on-the-Delaware, and the founder of the well-known Keen family of Philadelphia. The History of this family, written by Gregory B. Keen, Esq", the present librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, is printed in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History, Volumes H. to VH., and is one of the most interesting publications on family history that has appeared in Pennsylvania. 36 /^'<-y^c--X- ^,<^' ^-v ,-^?^ -, ■- LETTER OF CENERAI. WASI 1 1 M , ll iN 111 JOHN MITCHELL, CJLTAKTE|;JL\S lER ( ;!• NKK AL OE ITII.. AKMV IN HIE REVOLUTION Page 32 @r< ''^'^ ' ^''^-'-^"^^K^^/y^^. ^i . ^^ -^'"^ ^^p '^'"«- ^ // ^ LKITEK TO lUiNERAL WASHINGTON FROM IJEI'UTY QUARTF.KMASI EK-CENERAL jnilN MIICHEI.I. Page 33 FOURTH GENERATION Children : 69. Israel Bringhurst", born 28 February, 1770; died 27 December, 181 1; married Mary Lewis. 70. Esther BRINGHURST^ born 27 February, 1772. 71. Joseph Bringhurst', born 21 January, 1774. 72. Mary Bringhurst', born 2 December, 1776. ■Ji. Anna Bringhurst", born 29 May, 1779. 74. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 21 January, 1787; died 24 November, 1850; married, 22 June, 1803, Adam Herkness. THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 31. JOHN BRINGHURST^ son of James Bringhurst* by his wife Anne Pole, was born at Philadelphia, 25 April, 1764; died there, 16 June, 1800; married, 30 April, 1789. Mary Lawton, of Newport, Rhode Island; died at Philadelphia, 11 February, 1793. Her father, Robert Lawton, was a prominent and wealthy citizen of Newport, and his daughter " Polly," as Mary was called, was a noted Revolutionary Belle. Count Segur, a French officer, wrote of her : " So much beauty, so much simplicity, so much elegance, so much modesty were never before combined in the same person. Her gown was white like herself, whilst her ample muslin neckerchief and the envious cambric of her cap, which scarcely allowed me to see her light colored hair, and the modest attire, in short, of a pious virgin, seemed vainly to endeavor to conceal the most graceful figure and the most beautiful form im- aginable. She was a nymph rather than a woman. Her eyes seemed to reflect as a mirror the meekness and purity of her mind and the good- ness of her heart. She received us with an open ingenuousness which delighted me, and the use of the familiar word thou, which the rules of her sect prescribed, gave to our new acquaintance the appearance of an old friendship." Her marriage to John Bringhurst was a great social event at New- port, and her life was a brilliant one socially, and there are many inter- esting reminiscences about her visits to the Presidential mansion. Her married life, though bright, was brief, and it is said that her husband was never the same after her death, and that he always wore around his neck a miniature containing a lock of her hair. Child: 75. John Bringhurst", born 29 August. 1792; died at the residence of his grandfather Lawton, at Newport. 23 January, 1803. 32. JAMES BRINGHURST^ JUNR, son of James Bringhurst* by his wife Anne Pole, was born at Philadelphia, 4 March, 1766; died there, 27 May, 1818. He was an iron merchant for many years, and later became a clerk in the United States Bank. He married (i), 12 August, 1789, Rachel, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Bettle. She died at Phila- 38 KR. JCISKIMI BRINCHIiRSI (Kroin a portiail in oil hy Rnbcn. Kultoti) I'age w FIFTH GENERATION delphia, 25 August, 1795, aged 27 years. He married (2) Ann Carroll, who survived him, and died about 1829. The first three children below named were by his first wife, and the remaining three by the second. Children of James Bringhurst, Junf, born at Philadelphia : 76. Joseph Bringhurst', born 18 February, 1790; died 23 August, 1863; married Elizabeth Evans. 77. James Bringhurst', born 4 April, 1792; died 14 July, 1854; married Rebecca Ryan. 78. S.^R.\H Ann Bringhurst', born 3 July, 1794; married. 24 January, 1821, William Gregory, and had daughter: 79. Rachel B.', born 20 January, 1823, and died young. 80. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 8 November, 1802; died 27 December, 1873 ; married William Lloyd Maddock. 81. Mary Bringhurst", born 14 October. 1805; died 26 September, 1835; married William Wilson Longstreth. 82. John Bringhurst', born 12 October, iSio; died 2^ February, 1871 ; married Rebecca Lydia Graves. 33. DR. JOSEPH BRINGHURST', son of James Bringhurst* by his wife Anne Pole, was born at Philadelphia, 6 October, 1767; died at Wilmington, Delaware, 26 July, 1834. He received a liberal education, and then studied medicine and engaged in practice therein. In 1793 he removed to Wilmington, where he established a drug business in con- nection with his profession, a custom quite common with the physicians of that day. His office, drug-store, and residence were at what is now 317 Market Street. Wilmington, where the drug business is still carried on by members of the Bringhurst family, in which it has continued for one hundred and seven years. Dr. Bringhurst took a deep interest in public affairs. In 1799 he was clerk to the borough of Wilmington, and in 1802 was appointed by President Jefferson postmaster of that place, and was reappointed by Presidents Madison and Monroe, but in 1820, on Monroe's election to a second term, he was succeeded by Nicholas Gilpin Williamson, Esq""^. Dr. Bringhurst was on terms of intimate friendship with the eminent Colonel John Dickinson, author of the " Farmer's Letters," Revolution- ary patriot, member of the Continental Congress and of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, and among the family papers of Dr. Bringhurst are many letters from Mr. Dickinson. One of 39 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY these is a letter of congratulation to Dr. and Mrs. Bringhurst on the birth of their daughter Mary Dickinson Bringhurst, who was named in honor of Mrs. Dickinson. Dr. Bringhurst was with Mr. Dickinson almost daily during his last illness, and was probably the last man to con- verse with him. He was at his bedside the second and third nights preceding his death, and made notes of his interviews, which he gave to Mr. Dickinson's daughter. These came into the hands of Dr. Charles J. Stille when writing the " Life of John Dickinson," and bear this endorse- ment : " Notes taken by J. Bringhurst of a conversation he had with my ever dear and lamented father on the night of the nth, and another two nights previous to his decease." As these " notes" relate to some of the most important public events then transpiring, they seem worth recording, and are given in a note below.* Dr. Bringhurst notified * " nth [February-, 1808]. To-night my venerable friend J. Dickinson was so much affected by his fever that his mind was much disturbed, but amidst all his flights the benevolence of his heart was eminently con- spicuous. After giving him a drink, I observed that I hoped he felt pleasant. ' No,' he replied, ' I can expe- rience no pleasure while my fellow-beings are oppressed by such heavy calamities.' Shortly afterwards he said, ' I wish ' What dost thou wish, my dear friend ? ' 1 wish,' he answered, ' happiness to all mankind —the blessings of peace to all the nations of the earth, and these are the constant subjects of my morning and evening prayers.' " i2th. About midnight the dear and venerable man seemed to be deeply concerned for the affairs of our country, and distressed by the threatening prospects which were crowding upon it. He expressed such deep anxiety that I was grieved by his affliction and wished to give a more agreeable turn to his meditations. I asked whether he had heard the late news. ' What news ?' he inquired. That there was a prospect of peace for our country, I answered. ' No,' he obser%ed. ' My dear friend, thou surprises! me. Let me see the National Intelligencer, for I wish to be made acquainted with the chain of events.' I informed him that the paper had not arrived at my office, but from other papers I learned that France had offered to guarantee the independence of the United States, and to present us the Floridas. He replied, with much earnestness, 'Why, my friend, thou astonishest me. That event is so very unexpected and extraordinary that 1 can scarcely credit it.' I observed that the matter seemed to be stated as a fact. ' By what course did the news arrive,' he inquired, ' by New York or Norfolk ?' I replied that I knew not from which port it came, but I had seen it in two papers, and that it was cause of great joy. ' Yes,' he exclaimed, with great emphasis and ani- mation of countenance, ' it fills my whole heart with joy. At the very moment when the most awful calami- ties were threatening our beloved country, when the most terrible disasters were pressing upon us, such a happy change is altogether unexpected and amazing. But what could possibly have induced Bonaparte to act a part so magnanimous? While he was in the full career of victory— preparing to crush England and ready to shake us to pieces— to stop in the midst of his race and make so great a sacrifice is truly wonderful. What could have induced him to do so?' I observed that perhaps he desired to excell in fame all other Con- querors—that in addition to the character of a great warrior he wished to shine on the page of history as the splendid benefactor of mankind. ' True,' he said, ' that is a just observation, it is very probable. But I strongly suspect that the Court of Petersburg has been concerned in this business, and would not settle terms with him, untill he performed some act that should show his disposition to insure the future peace of the world.' That is possible, I answered, but come from what it may, it was a source of great comfort. ' Yes,' he exclaimed; 'did I not tell thee some time ago that man's extremity was God's opportunity for Glory? Oh, my dear friend, thou hast made my heart glow with joy— there is an image of gratitude impressed upon my heart that 1 cannot express and words cannot describe. Oh, thou Great— Glorious and all perfect Being —Thou Sovereign and Lord of the Universe— who livest from Everlasting to Everlasting— we most humbly pray thee, thro' the merits of thy Son, the blessed Jesus, our Saviour, permit us to entreat the blessings of thy peace for the Nations, and to thank thee, most awful and adorable God, for the treasures of thy Good- ness ' Here his voice became inaudible.*' 40 ^ ? i FIFTH GENERATION President Jefferson of Mr. Dickinson's decease, and the President acknowledged the same in a letter, a fac-simile of which is herewith interleaved. Dr. Bringhurst was intimately acquainted with the noted Robert Fulton, and through him became interested in steam navigation on the Delaware River, and a fac-simile of one of Fulton's letters to him on this subject is also herewith inserted. He was also much interested in all matters which tended to advance the material concerns of Wil- mington, and was an active promoter and partner in the first cotton factory erected in Delaware. (See accompanying portrait.) He sent some specimens of the productions of the factory to Henry Clay, who acknowledged the same in a letter, of which a fac-simile is herewith inserted. Dr. Bringhurst possessed a well-cultivated mind, and was an easy and graceful writer, as is evidenced by his manuscripts, which compose several volumes.* Under date of 4 March, 1796, he wrote to William Cowper, the celebrated poet, and in 1800 the letter was printed in Eng- land under the title, " Copy of a Letter from a Young Man, a Quaker, in Pennsylvania, to the late William Coivper, Poet," and the same was later reprinted in the British Friend. He married at Wilmington, 11 July, 1799. Deborah, daughter of Ziba Ferris, of that place, by his wife Edith, a daughter of Benjamin Sharpless, of the well-known family of that name in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She was born 2 March, 1773; died 20 August, 1844. Children : 83. William Bringhurst', born 25 September, 1800; died 14 June, 1818. 84. Mary Dickinson Bringhurst', born 4 July, 1806; died 12 January, 1886; married George Vernon Moody. 85. Joseph Bringhurst', born 26 September, 1807; died 14 March, 1880; married Anna Richardson. 86. Edward Bringhurst', born 22 May, 1809; died 8 February, 1884; mar- ried Sarah Shipley. 87. Ziba Ferris Bringhurst', born 19 September, 1812; died 6 March, 1836; married Amy Dixon. * The " GenealogA- of the Sharpless Family," in mentioning Dr. Bringhurst, says, " He was gifted with an intellect of no common order; he had cultivated and improved it by extensive reading, and nature had supplied him with an easy elocution, which enabled him to communicate with clearness and facility, and rendered his conversation a source of instruction and pleasure." 41 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 42. GEORGE BRINGHURST', son of John Bringhurst* by his wife Elizabeth Sliute, was born at Germantown, 20 June, 1755, and died at Pliiladelphia, 29 December, 1829, where tombstones in Clirist Church burying-ground mark his last resting-place, and that of his wife. He was one of the patriots of the Revolution, and in 1776 served as second lieutenant of a company in the battalion of the Flying Camp of Philadelphia County, commanded by Colonel Lewis.* Mr. Bringhurst followed the business of his father, and became one of the leading car- riage and coach-builders of his day in Philadelphia. From 1816 until his decease he was a vestryman of Christ Church, and was a trustee of Christ Church Hospital. He married, 27 July, 1780, Anna Clarkson, born at Philadelphia, 23 June, 1758; died there, 21 February, 181 3; daughter of Honorable Matthew Clarkson, who was three times mayor of Philadelphia. Mr. Bringhurst and Robert Ralston, Esq^e, were the executors of Mr. Clarkson's will. (See Notes on the Clarkson Family.) Children, born at Philadelphia : 88. Matthew Bringhurst', born 28 November, 1781 ; died 20 April, 1782. 89. John Gull Bringhurst", born 13 December, 1782; died in 1817 ; mar- ried Susan Millis. 90. Mary Anna Bringhurst', born 29 December, 1783: died 15 Septem- ber, 1856; married Thomas Mifflin Hall. 91. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 2 December, 1785; died in 1861. 92. Susanna Bringhurst", born 2 March, 1787. 93. Cornelia Bringhurst'. born 3 September, 1788; died 5 March, 1872; married Samuel Bonnell. 94. Sarah Bringhurst', born 20 April, 1792; died in 1873. 95. Bernard Bickham Bringhurst', born 25 March, 1793 ; died young. 96. Gerard Clarkson Bringhurst', born 3 October, 1794. 97. Robert Ralston Bringhurst', born 4 May, 1797; died 23 December, 1863 ; married Mary Wood. 48. JESSE BRINGHURST^ son of John Bringhurst* by his wife Elizabeth Shute, was born at Germantown, in 1770, and died there, 24 April, 1822, in the fifty-second year of his age. He married, 13 Septem- ber, 1791, Mildred Keen, born in 1771 ; died 5 December, 1840, in the seventieth year of her age. She was a daughter of John Keen, Esq''e, by his wife Mildred Cooke, daughter of James Cooke, of London, Eng- * II Pennsylvania Archives, second series, 559. 42 l-fll -- /■■ - tH3-C-aA-J^ df fixe, />T<,^ prr\yn.C^^yO^ ^ O-L/A^ txjeco f^ci\j~t.'yy\..rrn.iy>\A- ; ,->, - v^y /Ci-^ -; v.jH^'m-^ //^ j(r^-&^k J )rxyr^^4iu/h^ . gesoi. «:)K!.. LETTER UK I'RKSU iK.s I J 1.1 1 i.k.m ._\ 1.. UK. Page 4 1 '"g"' /I yy 2<:tt V—- /«-£-« zi^<^ <^-^^ /\-cU^tT-t-^i~t /U-^^ C-':^ , '^ ?^ Vj^'X^ -J^u^.; . LETTER OF KOIJERT FULTON TO OK. JOSEPH BRINGHURST Page 41 (See over) o Aa^^^ /3^ ^^>y //^^ Jii/^ , /^ •^T-»y^r*-t^'^ -^y LETTER OF HKNKY rl.AV Tci 1)K. JOSEI'H KKlNiailk^l Page 4 1 FIFTH GENERATION land. Both Mr. Bringhurst and his wife are buried in Hood's Cemetery, Germantown. He succeeded his father in the coach-building business at Germantown, and later conducted that business at Philadelphia. His portrait, also that of his wife, are herewith inserted. Children : 98. Mildred Shute Bkinchur-St', born 11 June, 1792; died i September, 1793- 99. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 25 February, 1794; died 7 September, 1876; married John Gamble. 100. John Keen Bringhurst", born 6 September, 1795; died 30 June, 1868; married Elizabeth Culnan. loi. Thomas Bringhurst", born 18 May, 1797; died 3 September, 1798. 102. Mary Shute Bringhurst", born 15 November, 1798; died 8 May, 1888; married (l), 6 August, 1818, John J. Souder; (2) David Gregory. 103. Margaret Simmons Bringhurst', born 17 November, 1800; died 8 April, 1807. 104. George Bringhurst*, born 14 September, 1804; died 8 July, 1828. 105. Matthias Keen Bringhurst', born ii October, 1806; died 18 Octo- ber, 1841 ; married Rebecca Sharp. 49. THOMAS BRINGHURST^ son of John Bringhurst^ by his wife EHzabeth Shute, was born at Germantown, 21 June, 1775; died there 8 August, 1849; married, by Right Rev. WilHam White, 18 June, 1801, to Mary Fraley, horn at Germantown, 18 July, 1781; died at Philadelphia, 24 October, 1858; daughter of Henry Fraley,* of Ger- mantown, by his wife Susanna Margaretta Rice. Mr. Bringhurst was • Hrnrv Frai.ry was born in Switzerland, 27 March, 1744, and died at Germantown, Philadelphia, 20 Au- g:ust, 1S21. His parents were Heinrich and Elizabeth Froli. His father was a " house carpenter," and Henry succeeded him and carried on building business for many years. Some of the houses built by him are still standing. In 1796 he and his son John Fraley purchased of Joseph Shippen a tract of land on Manheim Street in the neighborhood of what is now the Manheim Cricket Grounds. They immediately divided it into about fifty building-lots, and styled it the Village of Manheim (Deed Book D 63, page 304). A cross street, running at right angles with Manheim. which was evidently the main street, was called Federal. A street parallel to Manheim was called Columbia, and another Tammany. But the lots were bought by persons of means from Philadelphia, and instead of a populous village, of which all trace is lost, they were consolidated into a few large countr>-seats. Thus Fraley became one of the first, if not the first, of the suburban town projectors of Philadelphia. He was a member of Jacob Sommer's Company of Philadelphia Associators during the Revo- lution. His carpenter-shops, which were situated on the site of the present St. Stephen's Methodist Church, were burned by the British during their occupation of Philadelphia. Tradition says that these .shops had been used for the manufacture of gun-carriages by the Americans. His house stood at what is now the en- trance to St. Stephen's Church. In later years he was a drum-maker, which business was afterwards carried on for many years by his son-in-law, Thomas Bringhurst. Watson, in his *' Annals of Philadelphia," men- tions that Washington was a frequent visitor at Fraley*s carpenter-shops, and that Fraley had taken part in some of Washington's campaigns.— J. Harrv Bockics, 43 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY a prominent citizen of Germantown, and was one of the leading coach- builders of his day. A fac-simile of his business card is on the opposite page. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Bringhurst are herewith inserted. Children, born at Germantown : io6. Margaketta Simmons Bringhurst', born 2 July, 1802; died 2 Decem- ber, i88i ; married Francis William Bockius. 107. Rebecca Bringhurst', born 18 December, 1803 ; died 25 August, 1849; married Jacob Crhall. 108. Elizabeth Ann Bringhurst,' born 26 February, 1805 ; died 22 Novem- ber, 183s; married, 17 March, 1828, James Whitehead. No issue. 109. Susanna Fraley Bringhurst', born 17 March, 1807; died 27 December, 1894; married Benjamin Whittington. no. Sarah Bringhurst', born 15 October, 1808; died recently. 111. Mary Shute Bringhurst', born 14 April, 1810; died 27 February, 1895. 112. John Henry Bringhurst', born 21 January, 1812; died 24 December, 1898; married (i) Eliza Blair; (2) Louisa Bedford. 113. George Bringhurst', born 22 November, 1813; died 10 April, 1820. 114. Frances Louisa Bringhurst', born 21 June. 1816; married Dr. Wil- liam Smith. No issue. 115. Martha Jane Bringhurst', born 9 March, 1819; died 3 December, 1892 ; married Dr. Charles A. Smith. 116. Emeline Catharine Bringhurst', born 19 May, 1821 ; died 19 May, 1890. 117. Cornelia Elinor Bringhurst', born 16 May, 1823; died 9 January, 1898; married Lewis G. Wunder. 58. CLEMENT BRINGHURST^, son of George Bringhurst* by his wife Sarah Trump, was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, and died at St. Louis, Missouri, in i860. His will, dated 20 July, i860, was proved at Philadelphia, 18 October, same year. The date of his mar- riage or the name of his wife have not been ascertained. She probably died in the lifetime of her husband, as she is not mentioned in his will. Children, born at Germantown : 118. Mary Elizabeth Bringhurst', married William Stewart Garvin, and died without issue. 119. Augustus L. Bringhurst', born circa 1803; died in 1852; married Maria Louise Waters. 120. George Clement Bringhurst", died after i860, unmarried and without issue. He was an executor of his father's will. 44 JESSE BRINGHURS1 Pane 42 MRS JESSK BRINGHI-RSI Page 42 FIFTH GENERATION 59. ROBERT BRINGHURST^ son of George Bringhurst* by his wife Sarah Trump, was born at Germantown, in 1778, and died there, 2 November, 1832. He married, 2 June, 1803, Margaret Brewster, born 22 March, 1786; daughter of Wihiam Brewster by his wife EHzabeth,* a daughter of Peter Barndollar by his wife Margaret Wilkinson. After the deatii of Mr. Bringhurst, she is said to have married, as second hus- band, one Batsford, and to have died in Boston, Massachusetts. Children, born at Germantown : 121. William Robert Bringhurst", born 20 October, 1804; died 10 Feb- ruary, 1880; married (i) Julia Hulings; (2) Virginia Manlove. 122. Tudor Robert Bringhurst", born in 1808; died July, 1843; married Caroline Shingle. 123. Cordelia Bringhurst", died at the home of her brother William, at Clarksville, Tennessee, 18 August, 1887, aged about eighty years ; married Johnson. 63. TACY BRINGHURST^, daughter of Samuel Bringhurst^ by his wife Susanna Keen, was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 5 March, 1776; died there, 6 August, 1840; married, 9 October, 1794, Samuel Ashmead, Esqi^e, of Germantown, born there, 29 January, 1771 ; died there, 3 March, 1856; son of Captain Jacob Ashmead f by his wife Mary Naglee. Both Mr. Ashmead and his wife are buried in Hood's Cemetery, Germantown. Mr. Ashmead resided for a time in Mont- gomery County, and on 3 August, 1807, was commissioned by Governor McKean first lieutenant of Fourth Troop of Horse, First Brigade, Sec- ond Division, of the militia of Bucks and Montgomery Counties, to serve four years. Children: 124. Samuel Ashmead', born 19 December, 1795; died 31 March, 1864; married, 26 April, 1817, Susan Colladay, and had issue. 125. William Ashmead", born 30 October, 1797. * She is named in the will of Peter Knight, in 179S, as a niece of his wife. Mr. Knight was a wealthy merchant at Philadelphia, and married a Miss Wilkinson. t Captain Jacob Ashmead was born at Germantown, 30 May, 1742; died there, 10 July, 1S14; son of Samuel Ashmead by his wife Esther Morgan, and grandson of John Ashmead by his wife Sarah Sellers. Captain Ashmead was an officer in the Revolution. On 27 October, 1775, he was commissioned first lieu- tenant and promoted to captain, 6 September, 1776, First Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel John Philip De Hass, Sen', and in October the same year he became captain in the Second Pennsylvania, Continental Line. He remained in active service until 16 May, 1780, when he resigned his commission. 45 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 126. John Ashmead", born August, 1799. 127. Charles Ashmead', born 1801 ; died in infancy. 128. Edward Ashmead", born 5 December, 1803 ; died 22 May, 1849. 129. Joseph Keen Ashmead', born in 1806. 130. James H. Ashmead', born 8 October, 1810. 131. Susan Keen Ashmead", born 8 October, 1814; married John Diller, Esqre, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, who died 19 September, 1888. 68. MARY BRINGHURST', daughter of Samuel Bringhurst* by his wife Susanna Keen, was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 24 August, 1787; died at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 28 July, 1871 ; married, 28 November, 181 1, William Lehman, born at Germantown, 14 Febru- ary, 1785; died at Lebanon, 17 September, i860; son of Benjamin Lehman * by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Keyser, of German- town. Mr. Lehman was for many years a prominent builder and ma- chinist at Germantown. About 1824 he was appointed superintendent of carpentry of the Union Canal Company, and, to assume the duties of the position, he removed to Womelsdorf, Berks County, where he resided one year. Then in the progress of the work he removed to Leba- non, having been appointed the resident engineer and general superin- tendent of the Canal, which position he retained until 1848, when he resigned his charge, and was succeeded by his son, Benjamin Bringhurst Lehman, who had long been his assistant in the various duties of his office. Mr. Lehman was one of the founders of the Lebanon Bank, and for many years a director of the same. A fuller sketch of his life than is here given will be found in " History of Lebanon County" (1883), pages 279, 280. Children, all born at Germantown : 132. Lorenzo Levering Lehman', born 25 September, 1812; died at Leba- non, 23 September, 1858; married Elizabeth Gergas, of German- town. 133. Benjamin Bringhurst Lehman", died young. 134. Elhanan Lehman", born 26 June, 1815; died 2 November, 1820. 135. Benjamin Bringhurst Lehman', born 8 September, 1818; died at * Godfrey Lehman emigrated from Herrnhuth, Germany, in 1731, and settled at Germantown, where he died 4 October, 1756. His son Christian emigrated at the same time, and became a prominent convejancer and sur\'eyor, and was commissioned by Governor John Penn a notary public. He was born 7 November, 1714, and died 2S December, 1774. leaving among his children a son Benjamin, named in the text, who was bom at Germantown, 14 January, 1760, and died there, 7 January, 1840. 46 FIFTH GENERATION Lebanon, November, 1891 ; married, 10 October, 1839, Susanna Mustin, of Philadelphia. 136. Susanna E. Lehman', born 10 August, 1821 ; died at Philadelphia, 13 June, 1850 ; married Dr. Robert S. Woddrop, of Philadelphia. 137. Samuel Bringhurst Lehman", born 8 February, 1824; died at Phila- delphia, 13 June, 1900 ; married Elizabeth Goodman, of German- town. 69. ISRAEL BRINGHURST«, eldest child of William Bringhurst* by his wife Mary Morris, was born at Germantown, 28 February, 1770; died at The Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 27 December, 181 1. He married, 27 September, 1792, Mary Lewis, born at Gwynedd. Pennsylvania, 4 July, 1771 ; died at The Trappe, 11 August, 1846; daughter of Isaac Lewis by his wife Sarah Jenkins. Mr. Bringhurst learned the trade of coach-making, and the Philadelphia Directory of 1791 styles him "coach-maker," with 167 Chestnut Street as his place of business. He shortly afterwards removed to The Trappe, Montgomery County, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. Children, probably all born at The Trappe : 138. William Morris Bringhurst", born 20 April, 1794; died unmarried, 4 May, 1857. 139. Ends Lewis Bringhurst", born .^o January, 1797; died unmarried, at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 11 February, 1863. He was graduated at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and became a successful practitioner in medicine at Lavvrenceville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 140. Wright Armat Bringhurst", born 29 June, 1799; died at The Trappe, 2 October, 1876. He was a prominent citizen of Montgomery County, and represented that county in the Legislature in 1835/36. He died unmarried and without issue, and left an estate of one hun- dred and sixty thousand dollars, over one hundred thousand dol- lars of which he bequeathed to Upper Providence township and Norristown and Pottstown boroughs, to be invested in dwelling- houses, and the income to be used for the benefit of the poor. 141. Israel Bringhurst", born 23 July, 1804: was accidentally killed 13 May, 1816. 142. Anne Bringhurst", born 8 March, 1807 ; died without issue, 12 May, 1880; married Dr. William B. Hahn. 143. Lewis Bartle.son Bringhurst", born 6 September, 1810. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and died unmarried, at Louisville, Kentucky, 26 November, 1832. 144. Mary Matilda Bringhurst", born 21 November, 1801 ; died 12 June, 1834; married Francis Hobson. 47 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 74. ELIZABETH BRINGHURST^ youngest child of William Bringhursf' by his wife Mary Morris, was born at Germantown, 21 January, 1787; died 24 November, 1850; married, 22 June, 1803, Adam Herkness, who died at Philadelphia, 24 April, 1832. A news- paper obituary describes him as a " native of Scotland, and for many years a respectable inhabitant of this city." Children : 145. Mary Herkness", born 28 September, 1804; died 21 December, 1830. 146. Walter Herkness", born 27 October, 1807; died 25 June, 1840. 147. William Herkness', born 20 February, 1810; died 17 October, 1833. 148. Adam Herkness", born 25 January, 1812; died 14 January, 1830. 149. Elizabeth Herkness", born 25 April, 1815; died 30 April, 1834. 150. Alfred Morris Herkness", born 2 August, 1818; died 12 February, 1898. 151. Benjamin Leander Herkness", born 20 April, 1821 ; died 5 July, 1897; married, 26 October, 1847, Mary Jane Lodor, and had issue: 152. Alfred Morris Herkness', born 11 August, 1848. 153. Benjamin Theodore Herkness', born 31 May, 1853; mar- ried, 2 April, 1874, Virginia Palmer. 154. Leander Herkness', born 31 March, 1858; died 9 July, 1867. 155. Isabella Herkness", born 3 July, 1825; died 9 May, 1846. EI.IZAIIETH KRINCHURST, WIFE OK ADAM HEKKNEsS Page 47 SIXTH GENERATION 76. JOSEPH BRINGHURST«, son of James Bring- hurst-', Jimi", by his first wife Rachel Bettle, was born at Philadelphia, 18 February, 1790; died at Lionville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 23 August, 1863; mar- ried, circa 181 1, Elizabeth, daughter of David Evans, of Chester County. She died before her husband. Mr. Bringhurst carried on business as a watchmaker at Philadelphia, which he relinquished on account of failing health and settled on a farm at Lion- ville, where he died. Children : 156. Samuel Bringhurst', born 21 December, 1812; died 12 April, 1888; married Eleanor Beitler. 157. Thomas Bringhurst', born 10 August, 1814; died 24 March, 1861. 158. Joseph Bringhurst', born 10 November, 1816; married Susan Kern, and both are deceased.* 159. William Bringhurst', born 8 November, 1818; died 17 February, 1883 ; married Ann Dilworth. 160. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 9 November, 1820; married, January, 1853, Azariah Carson, born at Churchtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 16 January, 1824 ; and now resides at Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Issue: 161. Frank R. C.\rson', born 24 August, 1855; married, 6 January, 1881, Emma M. Hiester. 162. Annetta W. Carson", born 17 August, 1858; married George W. Patterson. 163. Anna E. Carson', born 18 October, i860; married John Long Fredericks. 164. John Bringhurst', born 25 September, 1823 ; died 6 June, 1827. 165. Anna Bringhurst', born 31 August, 1825; married Adam Staley. 166. John Bringhurst', born 27 June, 1838; married (i) Eliza March; (2) Rebecca Williamson; (3) Elizabeth Slack. 77. JAMES BRINGHURST^, second son of James Bringhurst^ Junr, by his first wife Rachel Bettle, was born at Philadelphia, 4 April, 1792; died at Wilmington, Delaware, 14 July, 1854; married, 28 April, 1818, Rebecca Ryan, born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 3 August, 1793; died at Wilmington, 4 March, 1845; daughter of John Ryan. Mr. Bringhurst was for a time engaged at Philadelphia in the manufac- * An accurate record of the family of Joseph and Susan (Kern) Bringhurst has not been secured. They are said to have had four children, — to wit : Elizabeth, who married Benjamin Lanning; Susan, who married Harry Roth ; Anna, who married William Bowen ; and William. 4 49 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY ture of shoes, but later removed to Wilmington, where, for some years previous to his death, he was librarian of the Free Library in that city. Children : 167. James Bringhurst', born 24 February, 1819; died at Jerseyville. Illi- nois, 23 June, 1870; married Mary Ryan. 168. Hannah Harlan Bringhurst', born 13 February. 1821. 169. Sarah Ryan Bringhurst', born 27 September, 1823. 170. Henry Ryan Bringhurst', born 20 September, 1825; died 25 Octo- ber, 1899; married Elizabeth Ashburnham Smith. 171. Mary Bringhurst', born 24 February, 1829. 80. ELIZABETH BRINGHURST^, daughter of James Bring- hurst*. JuiT", by his second wife Ann Carroll, was born at Philadelphia, 8 November, 1802; died there, 27 December, 1873; married, 24 Feb- ruary, 1823, William Lloyd Maddock, born at Philadelphia, 27 Febru- ary, 1804; died there, 19 May, 1867; son of Ezekiel Edwards Maddock by his wife Phebe Hilderburn. Mr. Maddock was a merchant. Children : 172. Anna Maddock', born 14 November, 1823; died 7 December, 1869; married Samuel Baugh. 173. Phebe Maddock', born 31 October, 1825; died 28 May, 1829. 174. Mary L. Maddock', born 22 December, 1827; died 17 March, 1880; married Edward J. Crippen, a merchant grocer of Philadelphia. 175. William L. Maddock', born 21 November, 1831 ; died 30 December. 1873, unmarried. 176. John B. Maddock', born 30 September, 1835; died 12 October, 1876; married Emeline Holland. 177. Henry Maddock', born 15 June, 1838; died 22 December, 1840. 178. Edward Maddock', born 20 March, 1841 ; married, 12 June, 1883, Mar- garet Elizabeth Eccles. 81. MARY BRINGHURST*, daughter of James Bringhurst^ Junr, by his second wife Ann Carroll, was born at Philadelphia, 14 October, 1805 ; died there, 26 September, 1835; married, 23 October, 1827, Wil- liam Wilson Longstreth, born at Philadelphia, 14 Noveinber, 1802; died there, 3 June, 1829 ; son of Joseph Longstreth by his wife Margaret McKee. Mr. Longstreth was engaged many years as a hardware mer- chant, on Market Street, Philadelphia, being a member of the firm of 50 JOSEPH BRrNGUlRSl Page 52 SIXTH GENERATION Longstreth & Boldin. He became interested in coal transportation, and took charge of the Beaver Meadow Coal and Railroad Company, and succeeded in bringing that corporation into a prosperous condition. He was for some years president of the company, the interests of which became closely identified with the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and in 1864 was merged into the latter. Mr. Longstreth was chosen presi- dent, the late Judge Asa Packer being vice-president. This position he held until 1868, when he resigned, and Judge Packer was chosen to succeed him. Mr. Longstreth, however, continued a member of the board and chairman of the Finance Committee, and was the owner of a large interest in the road. Children, born at Philadelphia: 179. Joseph Longstreth', born 16 August, 1828; died 24 December, 1850; married Sarah Atlee. 180. James Longstreth', born in 1830; died in infancy. 181. William Longstreth', born 14 April, 1832; married, 16 November, 1866, Ada Zilla Smith, born 17 September, 1838. 182. Margaret Longstreth', born 12 January, 1835 ; married Horace J. Smith. 82. JOHN BRINGHURST", son of James Bringhurst^ Junr, by his second wife Ann Carroll, was born at Philadelphia, 12 October, 1810; died there, 23 February, 1871 ; married Rebecca Lydia Graves, daughter of Bartholomew Graves, Esqi'e, who was Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the County of Philadelphia, from 1830 until 1836. Mrs. Bringhurst died there, 16 May, 1880. Mr. Bringhurst was a druggist, and for some years prior to his death his place of business was at Tenth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. He resided at his death at 2002 Chestnut Street, where his youngest daughter now (1901) resides. Children, born at Philadelphia : 183. William Longstreth Bringhurst', died in New Jersey, 6 January, 1S84; married (l), September, 1863, Ellen McNamee, born at Philadelphia, 25 October, 1839; died there, 18 May, 1877; daugh- ter of John McNamee by his wife Ann Gallagher; married (2), 7 March, 1879, Laura Sharp. Issue, all of whom, except the 51 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY youngest, were by the first wife: 184. Mary Elizabeth Bring- hurst", born 25 January, 1865; married John P. Sweeney. 185. John Bringhurst', born 30 December, 1868. 186. William Bring- hurst", born 11 October, 1870. 187. Charles Bringhurst', born 27 May, 1873. 188. Edward Bringhurst', born 13 September, 1875. 189. Alfred Bringhurst", born 11 September, 1880. 190. Mary Graves Bringhurst', died 17 November, 1897; married Mor- decai Dawson Evans, who died 23 March, 1898. 191. Rebecca Lydia Bringhurst'. 85. JOSEPH BRINGHURST^, third child of Dr. Joseph Bring- hurst^ by his wife Deborah Ferris, was born at Wihnington, Delaware, 26 September, 1807; died there, 14 March, 1880; married, 6 October, 1842, Anna Richardson, born at Wilmington, 11 August, 1816; died there, 28 May, 1889; daugliter of John Richardson, of Wilmington, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Joseph Paxon by his wife Sarah Rod- man. Mr. Bringhurst succeeded to the drug business of his father, from which he retired in 1852. In 1832 he became a founder of the Wilming- ton Savings Fund, with which institution he continued to be identified until his death, serving as its president the last eight years of his life. In 1843 lie was chosen a director of the Bank of Delaware, and about i860 he was chosen to the directorate of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, and was for many years one of the most active and trusted officers in the management of that corporation. In 1864 he was made a director of the Delaware Railroad, and later became a director in the Chester Creek and Delaware and Dorchester Railroads, the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Delaware, the Wilmington Coal Gas Company, and of other corporations, and at the time of his death he still retained a place in the boards of management of all the corpora- tions before mentioned. No man in Wilmington was more largely trusted, and at his decease he was regarded as the wealthiest man in that city. Governor Ponder, of Delaware, sought to compliment Mr. Bringhurst by appointing him on his staff, with the rank of colonel. Mr. Bringhurst, however, never took any part in such capacity, as he was throughout his life a consistent and valued member of the Society of Friends. A Wilmington newspaper, editorially commenting upon his death, said : 52 SIXTH GENERATION " Mr. Joseph Bringhurst, whose death last evening is chronicled in our local col- umns, was a very well-known and successful business man whose business activity did not end with his formal retirement from the avocation in which he laid the foundations of his large fortune. There are few men, indeed, in our midst whose death will deprive so many boards of directors of the services of a useful and cheerful companion. It is principally as a business man that Mr. Bringhurst was known to the community at large, as he never was ostentatious in his charities, yet we have yet to hear of any worthy charity that ever applied in vain to him for help, and his benevolence was by no mean.'; confined to this assistance of organized charitable work. He was, indeed, ' a cheerful giver,' but, as a rule, preferred to be his own almoner, and many a poor family will learn of his death with a sincere sorrow, which those who merely knew him as a .successful business man would never suspect. But it is not the recipients of his direct charity alone who will remember him with gratitude. Though he went about it quietly, he did probably as much as any other one man who has lived in this community in giving a start to many now successful business men, to whom he loaned capital from no selfish motives and at no little risk, out of pure kindness of heart and a desire to see others get along as he himself had done." Children, born at Wilmington : 192. John Rich.\rdson Bringhurst', born 8 January, 1845; married (i) Elizabeth Tatnall ; (2) Annie S. Stokes; (3) Esther Harlan Wilson. 193. Marg.\ret Richardson Bringhurst', born 13 November, 1847. 194. Ann.\ Bringhurst', born 9 October, 1856; died 16 May, 1878. 86. EDWARD BRINGHURST*, fourth child of Dr. Joseph Bring- hurst^ by his wife Deborah Ferris, was born at Wilmington, Delaware, 22 May, 1809; died there, 8 February, 1884; married, 8 May, 1832, Sarah Shipley, born 28 May, 1812; died 13 October, 1896; daughter of Samuel Shipley,* of Wilmington, by his wife Elizabeth Jefferis, daugh- ter of Captain James Jefferis. Mr. Bringhurst was a director of the National Bank of Delaware, the Newcastle County Insurance Company, and the Wilmington Savings Fund, and a member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Children's Home, and the Fountain Society, being at the time of his death president of the latter institution. He also filled many positions of private trust. * Samuei, Shipley was the elder brother of Joseph Shipley, the late London financier, and member of the banking firm of Brown, Shipley & Co. They were sons of Joseph Shipley, the elder, by his wife Mary Levis, and grandsons of William Shipley by his wife Mary Tatnall. William Shipley \vas born in Leicestershire, England, in 1693, a?id in 1725 came to Pennsylvania, later removing to what is now Wilmington, Delaware, of which town he has been styled " the virtual founder." In 1735 he built a brick mansion house at the southwest comer of Fourth and Shipley Streets, a portrait of which is given in Scharf's " History of Delaware." page 632. " It was the largest building within the present limits of Delaware." He died there in 1768. 53 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY Children, born at Wilmington : 195. Samuel Bringhurst', born 27 May, 1833 ; died 26 October, 1834. 196. Edward Bringhurst', born 10 October, 1835 ; married Anna J. Webb. 197. Ferris Bringhurst', born 10 October, 1837; died 16 March, 1871; married, 5 December, 1861, Mary W., daughter of Mahlon Belts, Esqf^, by his wife Mary Seal. 87. ZIBA FERRIS BRINGHURST", youngest child of Dr. Joseph Bringhurst'' by his wife Deborah Ferris, was born at Wilmington, Dela- ware, 19 September, 1812; died there, 6 March, 1836; married, in 1832, Amy Dixon, who died 3 November, 1846; daughter of Isaac Dixon by his wife Margaret Roberts. Children, born at Wilmington : 198. William Bringhurst', born 20 April, 1833 ; died at Philadelphia, 27 January, 1898; married Amanda Melvina James. 199. Margaret Roberts Bringhurst', born 28 September, 1834; died 12 July, 1857. 89. JOHN GULL BRINGHURST", son of George Bringhurst* by his wife Anna Clarkson, was born at Philadelphia, 13 December, 1782; died there in 1817; married, 4 September, 1808, Susan Millis. In the Philadelphia Business Directories of 1808, 1809, and 1810, Mr. Bringhurst is styled " Druggist." Children, born at Philadelphia : 200. Anna Clarkson Bringhurst'. married William S. Torr. 201. George Hunter Bringhurst', born i November, 1810; died 20 Febru- ary, 1889; married Nancy Trott. 90. MARY ANNA BRINGHURST", daughter of George Bring- hurst^ by his wife Anna Clarkson, was born at Philadelphia, 29 Decem- ber, 1783; and died there, 15 September, 1856; married, 29 January, 1803, Thomas Mifflin Hall, Esq^e, of Philadelphia; bom there, 21 Janu- ary, 1777; died there, 8 September, 1818; son of John Hall by his wife Margaret Nesmith. He resided on Sixth Street, in a large double house on the present site of the Ledger Building. 54 EDWARIJ BRINGHURST, SEN»., AND HIS SON EDWARD Page 53 SIXTH GENERATION Children : 202. An'xa Hall', born 21 December, 1803; died 29 August, 1845. 203. John Hall', born 11 August, 1806; died 10 May, 1894; was gradu- ated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1823 ; studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1827, and practised law until 1832, when he studied theology, and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church ; was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, New Jersey, from 1841 until 1884, when he be- came pastor emeritus ; received the degree of D.D. from Princeton in 1850, and was an author of some note. He married (i), 20 December, 1827, Mary Margaret Garrett, born 20 May, 1805 ; died 4 June, 1830; daughter of Levi Garrett; (2) Mary Mitchell Keppele, born 28 February, 1805; died 14 October, 1855; daughter of Hon. Michael Keppele, who was Mayor of Philadelphia in 181 1. 204. Marg.\ret Hall', born 24 August, 1808: died 17 December, 1895; married, 29 January, 1829, George Rowell Garrett, born 13 Octo- ber, 1802; died 26 April, 1881. 205. George Bringhurst Hall', born 30 July, 1810; died 9 April, 1844; married, 6 December, 1831, Mary Stevenson. 206. Edward Augustus Hall', born 13 October, 1813 : died 28 June, 1885; entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1829. and left in his junior year to study medicine, and became a physician. He mar- ried, 20 November, 1851. Catharine Moore, daughter of Thomas Lea. 207. Charles Hall', born 4 February, 1816; died 24 July, 1853; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1834, and became a merchant in Philadelphia. He married, 25 September, 1838, Maria, daughter of Samuel Brooks. 93. CORNELIA CLARKSON BRINGHURST«, daughter of George Bringhurst^ by his wife Anna Clarkson, was born at Philadel- piiia, 3 September, 1788; died there. 5 Marcli, 1872: married, 8 Decem- ber, 1 818, Samuel Bonnell, born at Philadelphia, 6 August, 1790; died there. May, 1862; son of Charles Bonnell. Children, born at Philadelphia : 208. Mary Ann Bonnell', born circa 1822. 209. Samuel Bonnell', born 29 February, 1824 ; died 20 January, 1885 ; married Mary S. Oliver. 210. George Bringhurst Bonnell', born 28 August, 1825; married, 28 May, 1858, Elizabeth L. Dobleman, bom 14 February, 1829 ; died 19 July, 1859. 55 T THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 211. Charles Russell Bonnell', born 6 May, 1827; died suddenly, 26 December, i8go. He graduated at the Central High School, after which he entered mercantile business as a clerk, but subsequently became a divinity student. He was ordained a deacon by Bishop Potter, and elevated to the priesthood by Bishop Williams. His first charge was Calvary Church, then at Front and Margaretta Streets, Philadelphia, whence he was called to St. Thomas's Church, Whitemarsh. He subsequently went West to engage in missionary work, and labored successfully in Salem and Portland, Oregon, and in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington Territory. On his return East in 1877, he took charge of a church in Allentown, Pennsylvania, for a year, and thence went to Lock Haven, in that State, for four years. After a winter spent in Bermuda, he helped to start a little church in Eagle's Mere, Pennsylvania, and in 1886, organized St. Stephen's Church at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a mission of St. David's Church, Manayunk, in which rectorship he was serving at his death. He married Elizabeth Boyd Kester, who, with two children, survived him. 212. Cornelia Bonnell', born August, 1829. 213. Sallie S. Bonnell', married Henry H. Houston, Esq^^, born 3 Octo- ber, 1820; died 21 June, 1895. Mr. Houston was a resident of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, and a prominent and wealthy capi- talist. For some years preceding his death he was a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 214. William White Bonnell', died in infancy. 97. ROBERT RALSTON BRINGHURST^, son of George Briiig- hurst^ by his wife Anna Clarkson, was born at Philadelphia, 4 May, 1797, and died there, 23 December, 1863: married, 13 November, 1817, Mary Wood, born in Ireland, 12 August, 1798; died at Philadelphia, 25 September, 1851. He was a cabinet-maker, but later engaged in the undertaking business. He was a member of Christ Church. Children, born at Philadelphia : 215. Thomas Hall Bringhurst', born 20 August, 1819; died 23 May, 1899; married (i) Mary J. Stewart; (2) Elizabeth Ross. 216. Mary Wood Bringhurst', born 31 May, 1821 ; died at Atlantic City, 4 August, 1890; married John S. Hopper. 217. Anna Clarkson Bringhurst', born 14 January, 1823 ; died at Atlan- tic City, 29 July, 1893. 218. Washington Henry Bringhurst', born 9 October, 1824; married Anna Torr. 219. Sarah Bringhurst', born 7 March, 1826; died 2 January, 1898; married, 11 December, 1851, Samuel L. Tanguy, of Philadelphia, 56 KOBKKI RAr.STt>N KKIN';niJR.Sr Page .V> SIXTH GENERATION now residing at Logansport, Indiana ; born 28 September, 1824. Issue: 220. George B. Tanguy', born 20 September, 1S52; mar- ried, 12 October, 1887, Frances Close. 221. William B. Tanguy'. 222. George Bringhurst", born 16 October, 1827; married Emma Seal. 223. Elizabeth Bringhurst', born 3 February, 1829; died 4 February, 1842. 224. Robert Morris Bringhurst', born 9 October, 1831 ; died 28 January, 1876; married Alice Rooke. 225. William White Bringhurst'. born 28 January, 1834; died 6 August, 1868; married Jennie R. Kendrick. 99. ELIZABETH BRINGHURST^, daughter of Jesse Bringhurst* by his wife Mildred Keen, was born at Germantown, 25 February, 1794; died there, 7 September, 1876; married, 24 October, 1818, John Gamble, born at Parish Berton Overy, Leicestershire, England, 20 February, 1796; died at Philadelphia, 17 June, 1878; son of John Gamble by his wife Mary Pateman. Mr. Gamble was a wealthy morocco and leather manufacturer. Children : 226. John Keen Gamble', born 13 August, 1818; died 17 June, 1891; mar- ried, 25 October, 1840, Margaret R. Larison, born 25 October, 1819; died 21 April, 1859. Mr. Gamble was a partner of his father in the morocco and leather business many years. In 1856, 1857, and 1858, he was a member of Select Council of Philadelphia from the Twenty-second Ward, and a member of the Board of School Directors of that ward from 1870 until 1879. 227. George Washington Gamble', born 23 June. 1821 ; married, 13 Feb- ruary, 1843, his cousin Mary Souder, daughter of John Keen Bringhurst, born 3 August, 1823 ; died 4 August, 1885. Mr. Gamble was a wealthy manufacturer, and a member of Councils from the Thirteenth Ward of Philadelphia from 1858 until i860. 228. Mildred Gamble', born 2 March, 1823 ; died 2 April, 1824. 229. Charles Gamble', born i November, 1824; died 15 July, 1825. 230. Robert Bringhurst Gamble', born 15 January, 1827; married, 27 April, 1848, Margaretta Sutor Batchelder, born 23 December, 1826. 231. William Pateman Gamble', born 20 October, 1828; died 4 February, 1880; married (l) Jane Josephine Farren, born 21 July, 1828; died 19 July, 1867 ; (2) Mary Littlefield. 232. Mary Elizabeth Gamble', born 4 April, 1830; died 19 April, 1899; married Lemuel Burgess Justice. 233. Edmund Nelson Gamble', born 17 September, 1831 ; died 23 April, 1883 ; married Caroline Bachman. 57 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 234. Emma Matilda Gamble', born 14 October, 1835; died 7 January, 1887; married (i) Wilson Brown, died 13 March, 1859; (2) Joseph P. Keen; (3), 24 June, 1878, Abraham H. Parker. 100. JOHN KEEN BRINGHURST«, son of Jesse Bringhurse by his wife Mildred Keen, was born at Germantown, 6 September, 1795; died at Philadelphia, 30 June, 1868; married, 10 August, 1822. Eliza- beth Culnan, born 8 March, 1796; died at Philadelphia, 2 February, 1885; daughter of Charles Culnan * by his wife Margaret. Mr. Bring- hurst was a printer and publisher, being the first of the family to adopt the occupation of his ancestor, John Bringhurst, of London. He was at one time a member of the printing firm of Stavely & Bringhurst, pub- lishers of the Episcopal Recorder. On his tombstone in Hood's Cemetery, Germantown, he is styled " John Keen Bringhurst, Printer." Children, born at Philadelphia : 235. Mary Souder Bringhurst', born 3 August, 1823; died 4 August, 1885 ; married, 13 February, 1843, George Washington Gamble (227). 236. Anna Maria Bringhurst', born 4 November, 1826 ; married, 2 March, 1856, Franklin Starne Miles, born 1828: died 8 August, 1883; son of Benjamin and Esther Starne Miles. Issue: 237. Mildred Cook Miles', born 29 May, 1858. 238. Benjamin F. Miles', born 14 May, i860. 239. Jesse Bringhurst', born 10 February, 1830; married, 8 September, 1853, Sarah Crandall Perry, born at Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 12 April, 1832; daughter of Samuel Perry by his wife Isabelle Wilson. Issue: 240. Frank Perry Bring- hurst', born at Norristown, 16 July, 1854; married, 5 October. 1896, Ella Camden, born in France; daughter of Robert Camden, of Philadelphia, by his wife Ella Theobald. 105. MATTHIAS KEEN BRINGHURST^, son of Jesse Bring- hurst"* by his wife Mildred Keen, was born at Germantown, 1 1 October, 1806; died at Milton. Florida. 18 October, 1841 ; married Rebecca Sharp, who died at Brighton, Illinois, in July, 1870: daughter of Charles and Rebecca Sharp, of Philadelphia. * Charles Cui.n.^n was buried in St. Peter's chuich-yard, lo September. iSiS, " in his S5th year," and his wife, Margaret, was buried there, 25 November. 1847, " in her 91st year," 58 MISS KATHARINE SEXTON |;RING1I1'K> : Pnge \VARI) BRINGHURST, 3" Page 73 FkoNI VIF.W OF •• R(K;KW(i(1D," HOME OF EDWARIi HRINGHURST, lUN". Page 7S REAR VIEW OF " RiKKWoou," HOME OF EDWARK BRINGHURST, Jl'N". |PW^»||i|Bif|i SEVENTH GENERATION Elizabeth Tatnall, born 29 September, 1847; died 19 January, 1874; daughter of Joseph Tatnall by his wife Sarah Richardson; (2), 16 June, 1 88 1, Annie S. Stokes, born at Louisville, Kentucky, 2 March, 1861 ; died at Marshallton, Delaware, 23 April, 1882; daughter of James Stokes, of Louisville, by his wife Annie M. Stotsenberg; (3), at Darlington, Maryland, 20 April, 1887, Esther Harlan Wilson, daughter of William Worthington Wilson by his wife Annie E. Ferguson ; born at Darlington, 3 February, 1858. In 1874 Mr. Bringhurst acquired an interest in the rolling mills at Marshallton, Delaware, now the Mar- shallton Iron and Steel Company, of which he is the president, and in 1887 he became the sole owner. He is secretary and treasurer of the Wilmington and Chester Turnpike Company. His two eldest children are by the first wife, the third by the second, and the youngest by the last wife. Children : 370. Joseph Bringhurst', born 15 September, 1871 ; graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1898, and is now practising in his profession, at West Chester, Pennsylvania. He married (i), 4 April, 1896, Helen Norwood, daughter of William Wilson by his wife Annie Ferguson. She died 21 May, 1898. He married (2), 14 June, 1900. Elizabeth, daughter of George B. and Sarah Savery Meller, of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Issue: 371. Esther Wilson Bringhurst", born 2 February, 1897. 372. Frederick Bringhurst', born 12 December, 1873. 373. Margaret Bringhurst", born i April, 1882. 374. John Richardson Bringhurst', JuNf, born 27 September, 1895. 196. EDWARD BRINGHURST", JUN^, son of Edward Bring- hurst® by his wife Sarah Shipley, was born at Wilmington, Delaware, 10 October, 1835; married, 22 April, 1862, Anna J., daughter of Thomas D. Webb by his wife Mary H. James; born 13 April, 1843. Mr. Bringhurst succeeded his father in the drug business, which he con- tinued until 1876, when he retired from active business. He has been a director of the National Bank of Delaware for over twenty years; is vice-president of the New Castle County Fire Insurance Company ; presi- dent of the Wilmington and Great Valley Turnpike Company; a director of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad Company and the Front and 73 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY Union Passenger Railway Company of Wilmington, and a member of the Delaware Historical Society. He resides at his seat " Rockwood," near Wilmington. It is one of the finest estates in Delaware, and was formerly the property of his kinsman, the late Joseph Shipley, noted financier and capitalist, of the firm of Brown, Shipley & Co., of London, England. The mansion-house (see accompanying views) is surrounded by nearly three hundred acres of land. Children, born at Wilmington : 375. Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst', born 8 October, 1863 ; married, i June, 1886, John Gait Smith, of Kilwaughter Castle, Ireland, and of New York, son of Samuel Smith, of Kilwaughter Castle, by his wife Marianne Bryan. Mr. Smith died 25 April, 1899. 376. Mary T. Bringhurst', born 24 June, 1865. T,Tj. Edith Ferris Bringhurst', born 30 March, 1874 ; married, 2 June, 1897, Alexander Sellers, son of William Sellers. Issue : 378. Anne Bringhurst Sellers', born 9 March, 1898. 379. William Sellers', born 19 September, 1899. 380. Alexander Sellers', born 22 February, 1901. 381. Edward Bringhurst', 3'', born 4 July, 1884. 198. WILLIAM BRINGHURST^ M.D.. eldest child and only son of Ziba Ferris Bringhurst® by his wife Amy Dixon,* was born 20 April. 1833; died at Philadelphia, 27 January, 1898; married, at Philadel- phia, 16 January, 1869, Mrs. Amanda Melvina James, born at Philadel- phia, 6 December, 1829; died 21 February, 1888; widow of Thomas M. James, and daughter of George Veale, from Sunderland, Durham, England, by his wife Margaret Froert, of Delaware. He learned the drug business, but afterwards studied medicine, and in 1876 was gradu- ated M.D. from the Jefferson Medical College, and entered on the prac- tice of medicine at Philadelphia. Dr. Bringhurst was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and devoted much attention to the study of the subjects embraced within the objects of that institution. He was well known for his humanitarian views, and highly esteemed by all who knew him. During the Civil War he was in the hospital service of the army, and was at one time a member of the Delaware Battery. * Amy Dixon was the aunt of Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, President of the Academy of Natnral Sciences. 74 MR. AND MRS. Wll.I.IAM .lOSKI'll KRINGHl'KSI \VI I H THKIR IBlREIi CHILDREN Page 75 SEVENTH GENERATION Child : 382. William Joseph Bringhurst', born at Philadelphia, 17 February, 1870 ; married, 7 February, 1892, Mary Frances Kelly, born at Newark, New Jersey, 17 July, 1870; daughter of James Kelly by his wife Katharine Finnegan. Issue: 383. Ethel Margaret Bringhurst*, born 27 February, 1893. 384. Frances Bringhurst", born 4 July, 1895. 385. William Bringhurst", born 25 April, 1898. 200. ANNA CLARKSON BRINGHURST^ daughter of John Gull Bringhurst® by his wife Susan Millis, was born at Philadelphia, i April, 1809; died there, 20 August, 1892; married William Savery Torr, born at Philadelphia, 13 October, 1805; died there, 19 July, 1895; son of John Torr by his wife Elizabeth Roth. Children, all born at Philadelphia : 386. Anna Torr', born 25 March, 1832 ; married Washington Henry Bring- hurst. (See No. 218.) 387. Julia Torr', died at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1876; married Neufville. 388. William Henry Torr', died at KnoxviUe, Tennessee; was a lieutenant in the army. 389. Ellen Torr', died at Philadelphia, in i860. 390. Lucy Torr', twin to Ellen. 391. Fanny Torr'. 392. Harry Torr', born in 1843; died at Logansport, Indiana, 19 March, 1896. 393- Josephine Torr', born in 1845 ; died at Philadelphia, in i860. 394. Elizabeth Torr'. 395. Charles Clarence Torr'. 201. GEORGE HUNTER BRINGHURST', son of John Gull Bringhurst* by his wife Susan Millis, was born at Philadelphia, i Novem- ber, 1810; died at Houston, Texas, 20 February, 1889; married, 14 June, 1842, Nancy Trott, born at Rutherford County, Tennessee, 20 October, 1821; died at Houston, Texas, 8 March, 1859; daughter of Henry Trott by his wife Elizabeth Patton. Mr. Bringhurst removed from Philadelphia to Texas about 1835, and served with the Texas troops in the war with Mexico in 1836. He held many positions of public trust at Houston, Texas, and was for twenty-three years Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of Texas. 75 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY Children : 397. John Henry Bringhurst', born 11 February, 1844; died 3 September, i8go; married Minerva Abercrombie. 398. Anna Maria Bringhurst", born 18 December, 1845; married, about 1869, Nathaniel Parker Turner. Issue: 399. Kate Turner". 400. Maissie Turner". 401. Sarah Bringhurst', born 14 April, 1847; died about 1875 or 1876; married, about 1870, Samuel Tinsley. 402. Christiana Bringhurst", born 5 June, 1849; died 19 October, 1864. 403. George Ruthvan Bringhurst', born 9 December, 1850; married Nettie Eloise Burke. 404. Thomas Bringhurst', born 14 April, 1853; married, 16 December, 1886, Emma Hannah Conklin. 215. COLONEL THOMAS HALL BRINGHURST^ son of Robert Ralston Bringhurst*' by his wife Mary Wood, was born at Phila- delphia, 20 August, 1819; died at Logansport, Indiana, 23 May, 1899. He was reared under the parental roof, and received his education in the public schools of Philadelphia. Upon leaving school he was apprenticed to the trade of cabinet-making. In 1840 he went to Alabama, but the following year removed to Dayton, Ohio, where he remained until 1845, when he went to Logansport, Indiana, and there erected a saw-mill at the mouth of the Eel River, and engaged in the manufacture of lumber for the Eastern markets, making a specialty of walnut veneer. His business career, however, was interrupted by military service. In May, 1846, he enlisted in the First Regiment of Indiana Volun- teers for service in the Mexican War. The regiment went to Mexico, and while in the field he was promoted to second corporal. Returning from the war, he was mustered out of service at New Orleans, 15 June, 1847. Upon reaching home he resumed the operation of his saw-mill, which he successfully conducted until 1849, when, at the solicitation of the Whigs, who wished a party organ in that locality, he purchased the office and equipments of the Logansport Telegraph. With that plant Colonel Bringhurst established the Logansport Journal, which he conducted as editor and proprietor until 1870, making it one of the leading newspapers in that part of the State. He built up a large circulation, and the enter- prise proved a profitable one. He was twice elected mayor of Logansport, first in 1853, and next in 1855, serving four years. In 1861 his editorial 76 COI.ONKI IIIOMAS MAI I. BKINGHURST (Fro,., a pl,o,osrapl, of hi.u wi.en in co.nma,,,! of the 40tli Indiana Volunteers) I'age 7S SEVENTH GENERATION duties were interrupted, wlien he again " donned the bhie as a defender of his country." He assisted in raising and enhsting the Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteers, of wliich he was commissioned major, 30 September, 1861; heutenant-colonel, 25 May, 1862; and colonel, 6 August, 1862, with which rank he served until the close of the war. receiving his dis- charge at Louisville, Kentucky, 4 September, 1865. His regiment figured prominently in the Mississippi River campaign, being with Grant until Vicksburg was invested, and he later rendered active and meritorious service in Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana, being with General Banks on the Louisiana and Texas expe- ditions, participating in the investment of Vicksburg and in the Red River campaign. His war service lasted nearly four years. His first experience in battle was at New Madrid. Missouri, and he participated in the engagements and battles of Ruddle's Point, Fort Pillow, Mem- phis, St. Charles, Arkansas, Devaul's Bluff, Yazoo Pass, Fort Pember- ton. Grand Gulf, Vicksburg, Champion Hill, Port Jackson, Teche, Car- rancro. Red River, and Yellow Bayou. He was particularly distinguished in the battles of Port Gibson and Champion Hill, and was mentioned in orders by his commanding officers for gallantry and good conduct. His coolness and quick decision saved Burbridge's brigade from defeat and probable capture in Louisiana in 1863. During his entire service he was never in hospital, never wounded, and never a prisoner of war. At his grave, on the occasion of his burial. Captain Swigart, an oflicer of his regiment in the Civil War, said, " He loved his country, he loved his flag, he loved his country's institutions ; he loved the men who stood for all these, and deeper than all else he loved the men whom he commanded. . . . We loved him because he took us as beardless boys, as awkward squads, and made us veteran soldiers. . . . The private soldiers received the same consideration from him the officers did, and we all loved him for it. . . . We loved him because he never asked us to go where he would not go. . . . He did not say, ' Go on, boys.' It was always, ' Come on, boys.' " Four years after his retirement from the army, and a year before he severed his connection with the Logansport Journal, he was appointed a special agent of the Post-Office Department, which position he resigned in 1876. About this time he made a trip to Philadelphia, and was 77 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY caught in a railroad wreck that came near costing him his life, and which disabled him for the rest of his life. The year following his retirement from the Post-Office Department he became a partner in the Logansport Manufacturing Company, and for some years he was vice-president of the company, and under his able management the enterprise became one of the leading industrial concerns in that section of the State. In mentioning his death, the Logansport Journal says, — " One of the most conspicuous figures in the history of Logansport was Thomas Hall Bringhurst, who for more than a half-century was a resident of this city, during which time he was a leading spirit in many of its business and public enterprises. Through two wars he loyally maintained the honor of his country, and at all times and in all places he was known for his fidelity of purpose, his lofty principles, and his strict adherence to the ethics which govern all human existence." No citizen of Logansport was ever more honored at his death than was Colonel Bringhurst. During the hours of his funeral business in that city was generally suspended, the public schools adjourned their sessions, and the city and county offices were closed. His body lay m state at his residence for three hours, and a vast concourse of people passed in and out to view the remains, while about the coffin stood six of the Logan Greys in uniform, silently guarding the still form. The cortege which proceeded from his residence to the cemetery was thus formed : Squad of police. Martial band. Mayor, city councils, and officials. Company M. G. A. R. and old soldiers. Rev. W. E. Beiderwolf and other clergymen of the city, in carriages. Honorary pall-bearers. Veterans of the Mexican War. Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteers. Logan Greys. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Funeral car. 78 COLONEL THOMAS HALL HKINCHURSl (From a photograph ol him late in life) Page 76 ftx y SEVENTH GENERATION Fire department. Citizens in carriages. Colonel Bringhurst was a delegate to the first National Convention of the Republican party, and participated in the nomination of General Fremont for the Presidency. He was for some years a member of the Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Grand Army of the Republic. He married ( i ) , by Rev. David E. Thomas, at Piqua, Ohio, lo May, 1848, Mary J. Stewart, born in 1823; died at Logansport, 28 July, 1855; (2), 11 March, 1857, Elizabeth Ross, born 5 March, 1834, daughter of Ezekiel Ross by his wife Martha Kay. Children, born at Logansport : 405. Robert Ralston Bringhurst', born 2 February, 1849; married Mary Caroline Yerger. 406. Elizabeth E. Bringhurst', born 30 July, 1850; married, 28 May, 1872, Dr. Henry C. Gemmill. Issue: 407. Thomas Hugh Gem mill', born 6 May, 1873; died 13 September, 1873. 408. Henry C. Gem- mill', JunR, born 17 May 1874. 409. Arthur Stewart Ge.mmill". born 18 August, 1876. 410. Robert Bringhurst Gemmill', born 16 May, 1879. 411. Thomas Bringhurst Gemmill', born 14 Feb- ruary, 1881. 412. Julia Gemmill', born 18 January, 1885. 413. Washington Henry Bringhurst', born 6 June, 1852; died Septem- ber, 1852. 414. Anna Bringhurst", born 12 September, 1853 ; married, 10 October, 1878, Howard F. Lauderdale, and had issue: 415. Howard Lau- derdale". Child by second wife: 416. Mary Bringhurst', born i December, 1859; married, 27 January, 1880. Lon A. Bond, of Chicago. Issue: 417. Thomas Charles Bond', born 8 January, 1881. 418. Elizabeth Ross Bond', born 13 Janu- ary, 1888. 218. WASHINGTON HENRY BRINGHURST^ son of Robert Ralston Bringhurst* by his wife Mary Wood, was born at Philadelphia, 9 October, 1824; married at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Philadel- phia, 1 1 January, i860, Anna Torr, born at Philadelphia, 25 March, 1832; daughter of William S. Torr by his wife Anna Clarkson Bring- hurst (200). Mr. Bringhurst graduated at the Central High School, 79 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY Philadelphia, and was among- the adventurers who went to California in 1849. Returning from there, he shortly afterwards settled at Logans- port, Indiana, where he went into the drug business, in which he is still engaged. He has for some years been a member of the Educational Board of Logansport. He has long been interested in the genealogy of the Bringhurst family, and his collection of genealogical material has aided in the preparation of the present work. Children, born at Logansport, Indiana: 4ig. Henry Washington Bringhurst', born 13 June, 1861 ; married, 10 May, 1890, Delia Zipf, of Cliicago. Issue: 420. Horace Morton Bringhurst Zipf', born at Seattle, Washington, 30 January, 1891. 421. Charles Alfred Bringhurst', born 20 August, 1862; died 2 Novem- ber, 1865. 422. Alfred Theodore Bringhurst', born 22 December, 1867. 423. Josephine Bringhurst', born 30 October, 1870. 424. William Lawrence Bringhurst', born 30 January, 1872; died 11 April, 1872. 222. REV. GEORGE BRINGHURST", son of Robert Ralston Bringhurst" by his wife Mary Wood, was born at Philadelphia, 16 Octo- ber, 1827. He was graduated in the classical course of the Central High School, Philadelphia; continued his classical studies under a private tutor, and then studied theology under the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania, and the Rev. Jaines Vaughan, D.D. ; was^ ordained to the diaconate of the Episcopal Church by Bishop Potter in 1855, and advanced to priest's orders the following year by Bishop Lee, of Delaware. He became a pioneer of the mission work in the " slums" of Philadelphia, its head-quarters being the Church of the Crucifixion. For some years he had fifty convicts in the Eastern Penitentiary under his spiritual care, and during the Civil War he was the first delegate of the United States Christian Commission, and during his service with the Lhiion army in that capacity he ministered to fifty thousand sick and wounded soldiers. In 1865 he organized the Midnight Mission of Phila- delphia. He was Rector of All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church and the Church of the Messiah, the edifice of the latter having been con- structed under his rectorship, and for the past quarter of a century he has been the Rector of the Church of the House of Prayer, at Branch- 80 RdKKR i RAI.STliN HKINIiUtlRS r (Page 56) and his sons KKV. GEORGE URINGHOKST Wir.I.lAM WIMTE BR1N(;HI!RS1 Page 80 Page 81 ROBERT MORRIS BRINGHURST WASHINGTON HENRY BRI.NGHURSl Page Si pa^e ,,, SEVENTH GENERATION town, Philadelphia, where the silver jubilee of such rectorship was held October, 1900. He married, 2 May, 1850, Emma Seal, born at Philadelphia, 25 June, 183 1 ; daughter of Joseph H. Seal by his wife Esther L. Mort. Child, born at Philadelphia : 425. Emma Louisa Bringhurst', born 30 January, 1851 ; married, 20 Octo- ber, 1870, Julius A. Kaiser, born 25 July, 1846; son of Henry and Christine Kaiser. Child : 426. George Bringhurst Kaiser', born 14 April, 1873. 224. ROBERT MORRIS BRINGHURST^ son of Robert Ralston Bringhurst^ by his wife Mary Wood, was born at Philadelphia, 9 Octo- ber, 1 831; died 28 January, 1876; married, 20 October, 1857, Alice Rooke. Children : 427. Mary Bringhurst", born 4 October, 1859; married, 13 December, 1883, Louis A. Flanagan. 428. Florence Bringhurst', born 22 December, 1863; died 4 August, 1880. 225. WILLIAM WHITE BRINGHURST^ son of Robert Ral- ston Bringhurst" by his wife Mary Wood, was born at Philadelphia, 28 January, 1834; died 6 August, 1868; married, 4 April, 1863, Jennie R. Kendrick, born 2 November, 1836; daughter of George W. Kendrick by his wife Maria McDonald. Child: 429. Robert Ralston Bringhurst', born 23 December, 1866; married, 11 November, 1891, Fanny Hodgson, born 9 December, 1871 ; daughter of Frederick A. Hodgson by his wife Fannie Cooper. Issue: 430. George Kendrick Bringhurst", born 25 May, 1893. 431. Dorothy Hodgson Bringhurst', born 23 February, 1895. 432. Frances Bringhurst', torn 2 August, 1897. 241. GEORGE WASHINGTON BRINGHURST^ son of Mat- thias Keen Bringhurst" by his wife Rebecca Sharp, was born at Phila- delphia, 27 April, 1831; resides at Litchfield, Illinois; married (i) Cornelia Anna Hanley; (2), 28 September, 1880, Rebecca Brown, 6 81 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY born at Astoria, Illinois, 5 January, 185 1; daughter of James Brown by his wife Rachel Pierce. In 1861 Mr. Bringhurst responded to the call for seventy-five thousand volunteers, and served in the Union army three years. For two years he was gun-sergeant in Company K, Second Illinois Light Artillery, and for one year served in the Commissary Department of the Army of the Mississippi. He was first a Whig, then a Know-Nothing, and afterwards a Republican, voting for Abraham Lincoln twice. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. Children by first wife : 433. Minnie Bringhurst', born in 1867; resides at St. Louis, Missouri; married. 434. Edgar Allen Bringhurst', born at Alton, Illinois, 4 July, 1868 ; resides at St. Louis, Missouri; married, 31 August, 1893, Minnie Waugh Andrew, born at Buffalo, Missouri, 17 July, 1873 ; daughter of John Scott Andrew by his wife Mary Agnes Gibson. Issue : 435. Vera Grace Bringhurst", born 27 August, 1896. 436. Evan Glen Bringhurst", born 10 August, 1898. 437. Ernest W. Bringhurst', born at Trenton, Illinois, 17 December, 1873 ; resides at St. Louis, Missouri ; married, 1 1 November, 1894, Othelia G. Smith, born at St. Louis, Missouri, 24 June, 1876; daughter of Valentine Smith by his wife Mollie Kile. Issue: 438. Viola G. Bringhurst", born 29 April, 1896. Children by second wife: 439. Mabel Wh-ev Bringhurst', born 28 October, 1881. 440. Harry Earl Bringhurst', born 2 April, 1884. 441. George Robert Bringhurst', born 3 September, 1886. 303. MAJOR ROBERT WILTON BRINGHURST^ son of Augustus L. Bringhurst" by his wife Maria Louise Waters, was born at Alexandria, Louisiana, 13 December, 1840. He was educated at schools in Alexandria, Virginia, Schenectady, New York, and at Union College, in the latter State, where he was graduated a civil engineer in 1 86 1. Upon returning home he was appointed assistant engineer of a railroad in Louisiana, which position he resigned to enlist in the Con- federate army, where he served four years, first as assistant military engineer in the Army of the Middle States, then as engineer in the Trans- 82 MAJDK KOIIERI WILToN BRINOUURSI Page 82 SEVENTH GENERATION Mississippi Department, and later as chief engineer in the Department of Arkansas. He was at one time in charge of the pioneer corps with General Sterling Price in Missouri, and closed his military career in Texas. After the war he was commissioned civil engineer and surveyor of Alexandria Parish, Louisiana, in which position he served over thirty years. He is now engaged as a planter, and is at the head of the Bring- hurst Land and Real Estate Agency at Alexandria. He married, 25 November, 1865, Judith Taliaferro Leckie, born at Alexandria, Louisi- ana, 25 November, 1843; graduate of the New Orleans High School; daughter of William R. Leckie by his wife Elvira Sexton. Children, born at Alexandria : 442. Maria Louise Bringhurst", born 19 October, 1866; died 11 Septem- ber, 1896; married, 25 February, 1895, W. E. Allen. 443. Albert Henry Bringhurst', born 21 June, 1868; died at Franklin, Louisiana, 19 June, 1900: married, 12 June, 1895, Florence Kramer, born 5 December, 1873 ; daughter of Joseph Kramer by his wife Mary Miller. Issue: 444. Reta Gladys Bringhurst", born 7 March, 1897. 445. Lydia Hazel Bringhurst', born 9 November, 1900. 446. George Augustus Bringhurst", born 16 August, 1870 ; died 5 Octo- ber, 1888. 447. Katherine Sexton Bringhurst', born 10 August, 1873. 448. Elvira May Bringhurst', born 26 May, 1875. 449. Robert Wilton Bringhurst', Junt, born 28 September, 1877; real estate agent, and surveyor of Rapides Parish, Louisiana. 450. Newton Taliaferro Bringhurst', born 6 September, 1879 ; a college student (1901) at Ashland, Virginia. 451. Francis LaDoux Bringhurst', born 28 August, 1881 ; a student (1901) at Purdue University, Indiana. 452. Mary Waters Bringhurst', born 22 July, 1883. 304. \\ILLL\M STUART BRINGHURST", Ph.D., son of Augustus L. Bringhurst" by his wife Maria Louise Waters, was born at Alexandria, Louisiana, 27 August, 1844; married Nettie Powers Houston, youngest daughter of Major-General Sam Houston, the first President of the republic of Texas, and afterwards governor and United States Senator of Texas. Mr. Bringhurst was educated in Louisiana and Germany, and received the degree of Ph.D. from the Univer- sity of Tubingen, Germany. He has been a teacher for many years. 83 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY He was for ten years professor of English in the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, and is now a teacher of Greek and Latin in the High School at San Antonio, in that State. Children : 453. Samuel Houston Bringhurst', born 3 March, 1878; died 11 October, 1895. 454. Charles Raguet Bringhurst', born 24 May, 1880; died 3 July, 1882. 455. William Stuart Bringhurst', born 23 August, 1883 ; died 10 Octo- ber, 1884. 456. Nettie Houston Bringhurst'. born 6 November, 1887. 457. Anna Katherine Bringhurst', born 28 January, 1890; died 6 August, 189s. 305. CHARLES ERNEST BRINGHURST^ son of Augustus L. Bringhurst® by his wife Maria Louise Waters, was born at Alexandria, Louisiana, 9 November, 1847, where he now resides. He married Sallie Sellers Waters, born 15 February, 1857; died 20 October, 1891 ; daugh- ter of William Waters, Junf. Children : 458. Julius Rene Bringhurst', born 17 April, 1878; died 25 October, 1879. 459. Ernest Randolph Bringhurst', born 11 April, 1881 ; died 22 April, 1881. 460. Charles Francis Bringhurst', born 25 April, 1882. 461. George Hugh Bringhurst', born 21 January, 1885. 462. Jennie Bringhurst', born 20 May, 1886; died 25 March, 1889. 463. Mary Thornton Bringhurst*, born 9 July, 1888. 314. EDWARD SLATER BRINGHURST^ second son of Wil- liam Robert Bringhurst'', Esq^e, by his wife Julia Hulings, was born at Clarksville, Tennessee, 10 June, 1842. He followed his father in the business of carriage-building, and is now the manager of the Bringhurst Buggy Company, at Clarksville. He has held the office of marshal of that city. He married, 29 April, 1869, Mattie Eliza Champion, born at Eddyville, Kentucky, 18 October, 1845; '^^^'^ ^t Winchester, Virginia, 1 1 March, 1885 ; daughter of Dr. Alford H. Champion by his wife Mary Scott. Child : 464. Mary Bringhurst', born 4 February, 1871. 84 KIlWAKIl SLATER liklM;iirKM' Page 84 SEVENTH GENERATION 315. WILLIAM RUFUS BRINGHURST^ son of William Robert Bringhurst^ by his wife Julia Huliiigs, was born at Clarksville, Tennes- see, 4 November, 1844; married, 29 April, 1869, Sarah Scott, born at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, i September, 1855 ; daughter of William Henry Scott by his wife Mary Jane Greenfield. Mr. Bringhurst resides at Clarksville, where he has held the offices of Coal Oil Inspector and Election Commissioner. Children : 465. Mary Lulu BRINGHURST^ born 16 November, 1S70; is State Librarian of Tennessee. Sbe married, 15 October, 1S88, W. P. Epperson, who died 10 December, 1900. 466. K.\TE HuLiNGS Bringhurst', born 3 June, 1872; married, 18 April, 189J, Walter Clarke. 467. Theodore Plummer Bringhurst', born 7 May, 1874. 468. Edward H. Bringhurst", born 12 February, 1877. 469. Clara Wisdom Bringhurst', born 20 June, 1878. 470. Harry Fauche Bringhurst', born 18 November, 1881. 471. Anna Bell Bringhurst', born 6 August, 1883. 472. Sallie Scott Bringhurst', born 19 May, 1885. 473. William Rufus Bringhurst", born 29 October, 1887. 474. Mary Greenfield Bringhurst', born 23 February, 1890. THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 338. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BRINGHURST*, son of Samuel Bringhurst^ by his wife Eleanor Beitler, was born at Lionville, Uwchlan township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 26 January, 1839; married (i) Selinda Dalby Palmer; (2) Susan A. Steele; (3) Mary J. Stapeley. Mr. Bringhurst removed with his parents to Utah in 1847, and since 1866 has resided at Toquersville, in that State, where he has held the offices of Assessor and Collector of Taxes, High Sheriff, and County Judge, and is now a Bishop in the Church of Latter- Day Saints. Children by first wife : 475. William Augustus Bringhurst". 476. Howard Bringhurst". 477. Eliza Bethula Bringhurst". 478. Mary Eleanor Bringhurst". 479. Mifflin Morris Bringhurst". 480. Lorenzo Bringhurst". 481. George Robert Bringhurst". 482. Franklin Palmer Bringhurst'. 483. Daniel Bringhurst". 484. Henry Bringhurst". Children by second wife : 485. John Samuel Bringhurst". 486. Anna Augusta Bringhurst". 487. Joseph Alma Bringhurst". 488. Mary Elizabeth Bringhurst". 489. Eleanor Cambel Bringhurst". 490. Mohonari Louis Bringhurst". 491. Jesse Wilford Bringhurst". 492. Laur Selinda Bringhurst". Children by third wife : 493. Marias William Bringhurst". 494. Vida Bringhurst". 495. Samuel Bringhurst". 496. Vera Bringhurst". 497. Leo Bringhurst". 498. Charles Bringhurst". 86 WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BRINGHURST, BISHOP OF THt CHURCH OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS Page 86 EIGHTH GENERATION 342. SAMUEL BRINGHURST«, son of Samuel Bringhurst^ by his wife Eleanor Beitler, was bom at Salt Lake City, Utah, 7 April, 1850; married, 6 December, 1888, Sarah Orr, born at Grantsville, Utah, 4 January, 1865; daughter of Robert Orr by his wife Sarah Wickel. Mr. Bringhurst resides at Taylorsville, Utah. Children : 500. Ada Eleanor Bringhurst', born 27 March, 1890. 501. Florence Bringhurst', born 29 January, 1892. 502. Bessie Bringhurst', born 11 February, 1894. 503. Marion Bringhurst', born 11 August, 1896. 504. Edna Bringhurst', born 3 November, 1898. 344. JOHN BEITLER BRINGHURST^ son of Samuel Bring- hurst^ by his wife Eleanor Beitler, was born at Salt Lake City, Utah, 13 June, 1854; married, 3 January, 1876, Emma Frances Tripp, born at Salt Lake City, Utah, 15 October, 1858; daughter of Enoch Bartlett Tripp by his wife Jessie Eddins. Mr. Bringhurst resides at Taylorsville, Utah. Children : 505. Jessie Bringhurst', born 22 July, 1877; married, 15 October, 1896, Webster. 506. Emma Eleanor Bringhurst', born 14 February, 1879. 507. Mary Bringhurst', born 19 February, 1881. 508. John Tripp Bringhurst', born 11 August, 1883. 509. William Albert Bringhurst', born 13 January, 1886. 510. Lucy Bringhurst', born 6 January, 1888. 511. Samuel Enoch Bringhurst', born 27 January, 1890. 512. Joseph Willard Bringhurst', born 31 August, 1892. 513. Louis Howard Bringhurst", born 13 April, 1895. 514. Arthur Bryant Bringhurst', born 7 December, 1897. 515. Heber Grant Bringhurst', born 20 August, 1900. 349. ELIZA JANE BRINGHURST*, daughter of William Bring- hurst^ by his wife Ann Dilworth, was born near Salt Lake City, Utah, 14 August, 1851; married, 29 May, 1871, Amasa Lyman Haymond, born at Des Moines, Iowa, 8 December, 1848; son of Edward Owen Haymond by his wife Margaret Ann Sissel. 87 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY Children : 516. Am ASA L. Havmond", Junt, born 8 April, 1872. 517. Marion Bringhurst Raymond", born 14 March, 1S74. 518. Frank Owen Haymond', born 10 August, 1876. 519. Louise Bringhurst Raymond', born 24 September, 1878. 520. William Bringhurst Raymond', born 10 December, 1881. 521. George Dilworth Raymond', born 28 August, 1884. 522. John C. Raymond', born 4 November, 1887. 523. Ann Eliza Raymond', born 22 January, 1890. 524. Walter Creed Raymond', born 2 December, 1893. 525. Elma Florence Raymond', born 2 December, 1893. 350. ANN DILWORTH BRINGHURST^, daughter of Wilham Bringhurst' by his wife Ann Dilworth, was born near Salt Lake City, 13 August, 1853; married, z-j February, 1871, John A. Groesbeck, who resides at Salt Lake City; born at Springfield, Illinois, 14 July, 1849; son of Nicholas Groesbeck by his wife Elizabeth Thotnpson. Children : 526. John A. Groesbeck', JuNf, born 22 March, 1872; married, 29 Novem- ber, 1892, Jessie Clawson. 527. Frank Groesbeck', born i December, 1873; married, 12 December, 1894, Nell Young. 528. Clara Groesbeck', born i November, 1875 ; died 20 June, 1890. 529. Ann Louise Groesbeck', born 14 June, 1878 ; married, 20 October, 1897, Earl Vivian McCune. 530. Florence Groesbeck', born 7 August, 1880. 531. Walter Scott Groesbeck', born 6 September, 1882. 532. Emma Elizabeth Groesbeck', born 10 October, 1884. 533. Mark Bringhurst Groesbeck', born 27 October, 1887. 534. Milton Dilworth Groesbeck', born 18 February, 1895. 535. Grant Allen Groesbeck', born 31 May, 1897. 351. DESERET BRINGHURST*, daughter of William Bring- hurst'' by his wife Ann Dilworth, was bom in California, 25 December, 1856; married, 20 November, 1879, Milan Lucian Crandall, born at Springville, Utah, 30 October, 1856; son of Martin Pardon Crandall by his wife Mahala Fuller. 88 ROHF.KT roRTF.K BRINfJHl'RSI EIGHTH GENERATION Children : 536. Milan Lucian Crandall", Junt, born 9 August, 1880. 537. William Bringhurst Cr.\ndall°, born 30 May, 1883. 538. Ann Dilworth Crandall", born 30 September, 1888. 539. Ivy Lucile Crandall', born 23 December, 1891. 352. CLARA OLIVIA BRINGHURST«, daughter of William Bringhurst" by his wife Ann Dilworth, was born at Salt Lake City, 1 1 July, 1858; died 2 January, 1898; married, 6 May, 1878, Edward James Hall, now a resident of Springville, Illinois. Children : 540. Elinor Bringhurst Hall', born 28 October, 1879. 541. Wilton D. Hall", born 21 August, 1881. 542. Mabel Hall', born 9 August, 1886. 543. Ferol Hall', born 6 January, 1890; died i December, 1891. 353. JOHN FRANK BRINGHURST*, son of William Bring- hurst' by his wife Ann Dilworth, was born at Springville, Utah, 13 December, 1861, and resides there; married, 22 October, 1885, Mahala Harriet Crandall, born 12 December, 1866, daughter of Martin Pardon Crandall, of Springville, by his wife Harriet Taylor. Children : 544. John Frank Bringhurst', Jun"", born 22 August, 1886. 545. William Bringhurst', born 14 March, 1888. 546. Harriet Bringhurst', born 6 April, 1890. 547. Norma Bringhurst', born 29 April, 1892. 548. Mark Dilworth Bringhurst*, born 26 September, 1894. 549. Joseph Crandall Bringhurst', born 24 February, 1897. 550. Gideon Martin Bringhurst', born 6 December, 1899. 366. ROBERT PORTER BRINGHURST*, the sculptor, son of Dr. James Bringhurst' by his wife Mary Ryan, was born at Alton, Illi- nois, 22 March, 1855; married, 8 November, 1877, Mary Frances Coolidge, born at Litchfield. Illinois, 31 May, 1858; daughter of Henry A. Coolidge by his wife Amanda Almine Horton. Mr. Bringhurst received his early education in the schools of Alton and Jerseyville, 89 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY Illinois. During his boyhood he displayed talents for art, but never took an active interest in sculpturing until after his marriage, when he removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he now resides, and where, in 1880, he entered the St. Louis School of Fine Arts as a pupil, and studied there for three years, when he went to Paris and entered the ficole des Beaux Arts. He remained in Paris a year, then returned to St. Louis, but a few months later left again with his family for the French capital. This time he remained three years, during which he exhibited at the salon two years. His works, " The Young Mother" and " The Awakening of Spring," were awarded honorable mention. Mr. Bringhurst returned to St. Louis to accept a position as instructor in sculpturing in the School of Fine Arts, which position he now holds. At the World's Fair in Chicago Mr. Bringhurst was awarded a first- class medal for his work. There were only twelve medals given to American sculptors. At the Tennessee Centennial he was awarded the first money prize of two hundred dollars. He has recently completed a beautiful statue, " The Kiss of Immortality," designed for a tomb. Children : 551. Robert Porter Bringhurst", born i September, 1878; died 5 January, 1879. 552. Walter Scott Bringhurst', born 20 February, 1881. 553. Camille Coolidge Bringhurst", born 7 December, 1885. 554. GuiLDA Cecelia Bringhurst", born i November, 1888. 397. JOHN HENRY BRINGHURST*, son of George Hunter Bringhurst' by his wife Nancy Trott, was born at Houston, Texas, 1 1 February, 1844; died there, 3 September, 1890; married, 16 September, 1873, Minerva Abercrombie, born at Waverley, Texas, 23 May, 1854; daughter of John Conner Abercrombie by his wife Jane Minerva Sims. Mr. Bringhurst resides at Houston, Texas. Children : 555. Jack Conner Bringhurst", born 14 September, 1874; died 22 July, 1875- 556. George Hunter Bringhurst", born 14 November, 1877; died 28 August, 1878. 90 UATIAIN KOKKR 1 RAI^TOS RRINGHURST Page )l EIGHTH GENERATION 557. Jane Minerva Bringhurst", born 21 January, 1879; died 21 January, 1881. 558. Kate Bringhurst", born 23 September, 1880. 559. Carrie Bringhurst", born 14 October, 1882; died 21 June, 1S83. 560. Minnie Bringhurst', born 22 August, 1883 ; died 4 December, 1884. 561. John Henry Bringhurst", Juxr, born 11 October, 1885. 562. James Marion Bringhurst", born 24 July, 1886; died 15 Marcb, 1887. 563. Charles Bringhurst", born 11 March. 1888; died 19 March, 1888. 564. George Hunter Bringhurst", born 28 December, 1889; died 19 June, 1891. 403. GEORGE RUTHVAN BRINGHURST*. son of George Hunter Bringhurst" by his wife Nancy Trott, was born at Houston, Texas, 9 December, 1850; married, 16 October. 1879, Nettie Eloise Burke, born at Houston, Texas, i August, 1854; daughter of Andrew Jackson Burke by his wife Eloise Lusk. Mr. Bringhurst was Secretary and Treasurer of Houston from 1886 until 1890, and was chief dei)uty sherifif of Harris County, Texas. He resides at Houston. Children : 565. Henry Brashear Bringhurst", born 29 July, 1880. 566. George Ruthvan Bringhurst", Jun^, born 2 September, 1881. 567. Fannie Eloise Bringhurst", born 26 July, 1887. 568. Edmund Leslie Bringhurst". born i July, 1895. 405. CAPTAIN ROBERT RALSTON BRINGHURST*, eldest child of Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst", was born at Logansport, Indiana, 2 February, 1849, and removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1868, where he succeeded his uncle in the undertaking business, at 38 North Eleventh Street, in which he is still engaged. He was for many years connected with the National Guard of Pennsylvania, being com- missioned, 9 September, 1878, first lieutenant of Company A, State Fen- cibles Battalion, to rank as such from 8 July, same year; promoted, 25 March, 1879, to captain of Company C, which commission he resigned 4 March, 1883. The next year he was elected first lieutenant of Company K, First Regiment Infantry, and commissioned, 26 November, to rank from 27 October, 1884; promoted captain, 15 September, 1886, to rank from 6 July, 1886. resigning the same, 30 April, 18S8. Captain Bring- hurst was elected a member of the Ninth Sectional School Board of 91 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY Philadelphia, in June, 1885, and was annually re-elected until 1890, when he was unanimously elected president of the board, and re-elected in 1 89 1, during which year he was elected a member of Select Council from the Ninth Ward, in which position he is still serving, having been three times re-elected for terms of three years. He is chairman of the Water Committee, as well as a leading member of the Finance Com- mittee, and in his councilmanic office he has warmly supported all wise and wholesome legislation. He took an active interest in furthering the completion of the Boys' High School, and was especially active in favor- ing the teachers', firemen's, and police annuity funds measures. He was a member of the Councils' Committee appointed to look after the families of Philadelphia soldiers in the war between Spain and the United States, and chairman of the sub-committee of Councils that went South to care for and bring home the sick soldiers. As a business man Captain Bringhurst has met with substantial suc- cess, and his patrons are among the leading families of Philadelphia. He was president of the National Funeral Association for four years, of the State Association for two years, and of the local association for one year. Captain Bringhurst has long been interested in the history and gene- alogy of the Bringhurst family, and it is due to such interest that the present volume is published. He is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsyl- vania Society of Sons of the Revolution. He married, 17 April, 1873, Mary Caroline Yerger, born at Philadel- phia, 15 August, 1855; daughter of John R. Yerger by his wife Mary, daughter of Henry Nagle. Children, born at Philadelphia : 569. Mary Louisa Bringhurst', born and died in 1874. 570. Helen Bringhurst', born 3 September, 1875. 571. Bessie Ross Bringhurst', born 26 October, 1877. 572. Anna Clarkson Bringhurst', born 31 December, 1882. MAKV J. STEWART, FIRST WIFE OF COLUNEl THOMAS HA 1,1. BRINGHURST FaKC 79 V _.,... KI.1ZABETH ROSS, SECOND WIFE OF COLONF.L IliOMAS HAI.l. BRINOHURSI Page 79 THE TESTIMONY Of that Dear and Faithful Man, fOH3\C MArE%3\Co Who had Lived Six Years and Faithful- ly ferved the Lord in his Vocation in the Family oi C. T. now Dwelling at Edmonton in Middlefex, ALSO, Other Blcded Teftimonies concerning Him, and the T r u t h ic felf j With fomething concerning his Bleffed Condition in the limexjf his bicknefs, and when He was near his Departure. WITH Several Tefiimonies of 5enfible Children who had been under His Tuition. fubljjijed that God may have his Glory inTre-^ fervtng Im Faithful ones Faithful to the end. A. P. LONDON, Vrinied, and are to be Sold by JEen. Clark »n Ceorge-Tard in Lumbard-Jireet. i68o, 94 JOURNAL* OF JOHN BRINGHURST, JUN^ ^H^ EMMORANDOMS of things Worthy Notice and the W II ^^ time when they Happened within the memory of John ^^ ^[^/ Bringhurst Jr. Only went back to my Grandfathers and mothers on Both sides. My Grand father Thomas Bringhurst was a Chirurgeon of London, married Ehzabeth Hughes tlie 27th 6mo. 1647. My Father was Born i^t 9mo 1655, was put prentice to Andrew Toaler Stationer in London and was made free of said City 3d 7mo 1681 Sett up his Trade & kept the sign of the Bible in Grascious Street. My Mothers Father Hilerias Prache was a Priest in orders in Gar- mina & my Mothers first Husband John Matern was a School Master there, was both convinced of the Truth Profest by the people called Quakers in the Year 1671, not having any to joyn with there, writ to frds in Holland & London and Received sattisfactory answers to com over accordingly my Grandmother & Mother being also convinced they all left Germoney went to Holland & from thence to London where John Matern Kept School at Christopher Taylors at Edmonton where he died the 5th 7mo i68o.t My Father was married to Rosina Matern the 2, ^ ; 1682. Grand- Father Prache Died and Grandmother Barbarah Prache with her daughter Marion Killey % and my Mothers Daughter Abigail Matern § * Copied from the original in possession of Mr. John Richardson Bringhurst, of Wilmington, Delaware. t Immediately after his decease his friends issued a booklet, the title-page of which has been reproduced, and is herewith inserted. A copy of the work is in the possession of Mr. Edward Bringhurst. Jun'. of Wil- mington, Delaware. It is chiefly made up of short "testimonies" written by pupils under his instruction at Christopher Taylor's boarding-school. Among the scholars who thus bore testimony was Edward Pening- ton. half-brother by marriage of William Penn. who came to Pennsylvania with Penn in i6sk8, and in 1700 became Surve>or-General of the Province and the founder of the Penington family there. Young Pening- ton was a son of Isaac Penington, an eminent Quaker minister and writer, and grandson of Sir Isaac Penington, Lord Mayor of London in 1643. X As " widow" Mariana von Beylaert, she married, at Philadelphia, 9 November, 1697, William Kelley, of Darby, Chester County, Pennsylvania. g Abigail Matern married, as second wife, at Friends' Meeting, Philadelphia, 9 May, 1698, John Bettle, and had children : William, Hannah, and Samuel, and possibly others. She died in July, 1713, and he in April, 1715. 95 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY afterwards Bittle was concerned to go to Pensilvania and all setled in Philadela, Who often wrote to my Father and Mother to com over to them but my Father could not be prevaild with to Cross the ocean to a New Country in his old age. I was born the 25; i2mo 1695 and my Father Died . . . My Father being Dead my Mother concluded to transport herself & family of small children into Pensilvania where her Mother, Sister & Daughter was and accordingly Tuck Passage at London in the Brigt Messenger Joshua Guy Master for her self and four children being Elizabeth, John, Barbarah & George and landed at Philadel. My sister Elizabeth was put Prentice to Mary Cook * Shop keeper and I was put prentice to George Gust f of Phila, Cooper the 12th gmo 1701. My Brother George was prentice Arnel Klinkin of Germantown wever My Sister Barbarah to John Billender & wife but did not serve out her time there. After I had served about five years My Master Broke up Hous and went to Barbados and I was assigned over to Edward Mayes of Bristol Boulter & Shopkeeper the 24, 8mo. 1707 and worked with Samuell Bustil for him. My Master died the 2d mo 1709. I had then about Ten Months to serve which I did by advice of My Mother with his widow and was badly requited being put off verry Bare with Clothes & those not good in kind. After I had served out my time & was free I went to work journey work with Charles Lavalley about 3 or 4 miles back of Bristol where I continued til I came to Philad gmo 171 1, then boarded with my sister Eliz. who had a Room in the House with my Mother and Grandmother and I work'd journey work with Nath" Allen. My Mother died the . . . Grandmother Prache died 9th imo 1711/12. My Sister Elizabeth was married to Emanuell Dungworth. I had by this time experienced that working Journey work would not advance me for I spent as fast as I got it and my Mother & Grand * Probably a daughter of the elder James Claypoole, and wife of Francis Cooke, a councilman of Phila- delphia under the charter of 1701 and afterwards a member of the Assembly. t Son of George and Alice Guest, early colonists. The father is said to have built the Blue Anchor Tavern. He died in 1685. His family lived in a cave on coming to Philadelphia, and, we are told by Watson, he built the first house in Philadelphia, which was unfinished at the time of Penn's arrival. The will of his widow, Alice Guest, is dated 4 August, and proved 5 September, 1705, names sons George and John; daughter Elizabeth, wife of Arthur Holton; daughter Phebe, wife of Anthony Morris ; and grandson William Say, son of William Say by a daughter of Alice Guest, then deceased. 96 JOURNAL OF JOHN BRINGHURST, JUNR Mother dead Resolved to try my Success at Sea for my Mother had Desir'd me not to go as long as Shee Lived. I shipped my self Cooper of the Brigt Elizabeth Thomas Reed [1713] Master for Surienam at three pounds Ten shillings pr month. Sd vessel belonged to Wiliam Allen,* We made Sd voyage in six months and on my Return I Larnt Naviga- tion with W"i Robbins. Shipd my self on board the Sloop Dimand Antho : Burton f Master for Surienam which Sd voyage we compleated in abt 4 months & half arrived 24"' gmo 1714. Shipped Mate on board Sloop King George, John Willson Master, Evan Owin :]: March* to Barbados the first mo. 1714/15. Compleated this Voyage in 4 mos and made one other voyage this Summer in Said Sloop to Barbados and Returned the Latter end of 9mo 171 5. Sd. Sloop lay up all Winter and I improved my Navagation and went in Sd Sloop the 3'' Voyage to Barbados in the Spring and Com- pleated this Voyage in Less than 3 mos 4th mo 1716, then went a fourth Voyage in Sd Sloop with same Master, Joshua Cochfield Merchant to Curaco where Said Sloop [was] seased for entering her cargo short of what it was by information of Sd Cochfield as was supposed Shee was tryed after the manner of the Dutch Condemned & Sold at Vendue to . . . for Eleven Hundred pieces of Eight. They fitted her out with a Cargo and sent her over to the Main where the Spaniards tuck her and her cargo from the Duch and there was an End of the King George. I was advised by the Governor & Fiscall to arest the Master for my wages which I did & in one Sute recovered my own and all the Sea- mens to the time the Vessel was Seased and after a Stay of about Seven weeks We tuck our Passage in a Sloop to New York, that is the Master, my Brother W"i Morrison who was one of the Sailors & my self and from New York by land to Phila where came the i6''i day of Qmo * He was prominent among the early merchants of Philadelphia, and father of Hon. William Allen, mayor of Philadelphia and chief justice of Pennsylvania. t Captain Burton was of Bucks Coutity. Pennsylvania. t Evan Owen was a wealthy merchant and a conspicuous man in the public life of Philadelphia, where he died in 1727. He was a member of Common Council from 1717 until 1724; alderman from 1724 until his death ; justice of the Court of Common Pleas from February, 1724, until his death ; treasurer of Philadelphia in 1724/26; member of the Assembly in 1725; master in chancery in 1726; and at his death was a member of the Provincial Council. He married. 11 December, 1711, Mary, daughter of Dr. Richard Hoskins; and 9 February, 1727/28, his widow petitioned the Ori)hans' Court for leave to sell the real estate of her late husband, located in Pennsylvania and New Castle County. The petition set forth that she had three minor children. 7 97 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY 1 71 6. When I came found the Master in Prison and I was arrested and gave five hundred pounds Bail to answer the Sute of Richd Hill * & owners of the Sloop afores'd. But never Brought it to a Tryall but after a considerable time Spent & nothing don Richd Proposed if I would consent to pay Twelve pounds and three pistoles to the Lawyers he would Discharge me this was the amount of my wages I Received at Coraca I considered myself out of Business & they had imployed all the Lawyers So consented to pay Sd Sum Demanded without any Law or Reason that ever I could Discover Since, so gave Bond for my money was all gon what with living at Coraca at five peices of Eight a week besides [ ] Expenses paying my Passage to New York & by land from thence & kept out of Business many months after was now got in Debt and Shipp'd my self mate of the Sloop John & Sarah belonging to W™ Allen Miles Hardin Master for Surienam & Virginia this was the 4th month 171 7. We arrived in York River the gt'i gmo here I Received my wages and Sent it up by Thomas Wells to my Sister to discharge all mv Debts. We left Virginia the 5th 11 month to Medera from thence to Phila where we arrived the 3d month 1718. I went in the Same Sloop one other voyage to Surienam mate and Cooper & had wages accordingly. We Tuck our Departure ii'l^ 4mo and arrived there 15th 5mo where we Stayed till 19th 7mo and arrived the 17"! 8mo at Phila. Having for Several Years had an intimate acquaintance with my friend Mary Claypoole and Concluded to Consumate my intentions of Marriage whenever my Circumstances in Life would admit having a Little Recruited my Loss in the Coraca Voyage had abo't forty pounds Clear Money I married the 30*11 gmo 1718 and Tuck a Large Room & Sellor of John Songhurst f for one Year where we lived till 2d 5mo 1 719 when we Removed to a house and Cooper Shop I tuck of George * Richard Hill was mayor of Philadelphia at that time and a member of the Provincial Council. An interesting sketch of him is printed in Keith's " Provincial Councillors." t Son of John Songhurst, a writer and preacher of note in the Society of Friends, one of the passengers in the "Welcome," and a member of the first and several subsequent Assemblies. At his death he was probably residing in West Jersey, where his will was dated 26 7th month, 16S7, and proved 2 December, 1689, in which is named son John, and daughters Elizabeth and Sarah. Elizabeth married John Barber, who in his will, executed on the "Welcome," 20 7th month, 1682, names his wife as the "eldest daughter of John Songhurst." Sarah married (1) John Whitpain; (2) Charles Sanders; (3) Dr. Griffith Owen. 98 JOURNAL OF JOHN BRINGHURST, JUN^ Yard for Eleven pounds a Year and Lett the Residue of my time in John Songhursts Room to Mary Sutten afterwards Carter for 25/ My wife was Brought to Bed with a Dead Child the evening we Removed. I should first have taken notice the Sloop of which I came in Mate was Condemed & Laid up as not fitt to go again to sea and I being imployed the first winter by G. C. in hewing hhds staves for Jonathan Dickinson * on his wharf and thinking he & George Claypoole might be good Customers inclined to Stay a Shore and Sett up my trade at this lower part of the Citty and Communicating my thoughts to William Bevins he told me he had had an intent to Remove soni time if I would Take that place he would sell me all his Stock of Stuff &c which I consenting to do we made a Bargain & I tuck the House & Shop aforesd and this Year Tuck John Hooper prentice. 1720. My wife Miscarried and was very sick for three months. Eliz. Claypoole came to live with us. My daughter Mary was born the i8'h 11 mo 1 720/1. 1721. My wife was aflicted with a Great Deal of Sickness & weekness almost all the time She was with Child of my son John who was born 9th gmo 1722. I was then made the Constable, 5 5mo 1722. Jno Dickinson died this year. Joseph Warton f came prentice s'h mo 1721. My daughter Elizabeth was born 4th i2mo 1723/4. My wife having been aflicted with weekness wich Rendered her oncapable of walking as far as the meeting hous which put me on to Buying a hors & so carried her Behind me for Some time & after Bo' a Side Sadie for her to Ride by herself a Boy going to take care of the hors for which pur- * Jonathan Dickinson was a Philadelphia merchant of much distinction. He was clerk of the Assembly in i&SS and 16S9, and was a member of that body in 1710 and in five other years. On 16 March, 1711, he was commissioned a justice of the courts of Philadelphia County, in which office he was serving at his death, and 2 October, 1711, he was chosen by Common Council an alderman of the city, and the following year was elected mayor. At the close of his mayoralty term, 5 October, 1713, he resumed the aldermanic office, in which he continued until i October, 1717, when he was again elected mayor for the usual term of one year, at the expiration of which time he again resumed the office of alderman, which he held until his death, in 1722. In the proceedings of Councils, 4 July, 1720, is this interesting entry : "Alderman Morris, Alderman Dickinson, Alderman Norris, and Alderman Logan, do undertake to lend the sum of one hundred pounds each for building forty-eight New Market Stalls." Mr. Dickinson is most widely known as the author of " God's Protecting Providence." t Joseph Wharton was a son of Thomas Wharton, the founder of the Wharton family of Philadelphia, and became a successful merchant. He resided at his death, in July, 1776, at his country seat, Walnut Grove, which was made famous as the scene of the Meschianza. (See " The Wharton Family," by Miss Anne HoUingsworth Wharton, page 9.) L-ofC. 99 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY pose I this Year [1724] Bot a Negro Boy of Peter Evans * wife named Prince But he grew so wicked I was forced to sell him into the Country & Bot [1725] Nemo and my pasture at Wekecoa and Tuck Thomas Bar- nett prentice. Was made Collector of Dock Ward. 1726. This Year Tho. Armitt Died & his hous advertised in the Mercury for sale I told my wife I'de go & luck at it. She asked me how I wold pay for it however I went and the Widow showed me the hous all over & when I was Coming away she told me many people had been to look at it but had not bid her anything I was going to blame that Conduct in them till I recolected I was going to do so my Self & thereupon Bid her two hundred pounds & after Bot it for two hundred and twenty pounds though she would not make the Deeds to me because the money was due to John Richmond. So conveyed to him & he to me. I also sold the hous I lived in after I had fitted the hous I had Bot & had moved into it to Saml Bould But the Neighbores disliked having a Smith Shop neer them So took it again and sold it to W'" Beven who was Returned from Virginia (1727) where he'd lived at York River Most of the time after he left this place and got verry little Beforehand til he Returned to the place he left. I lett him have it five pounds Cheaper than I had sold it before he being the Person that had lett me into it where under Providence I got be- forehand and Carried on a Trade of Merchandise with a small Stock which helped me forward into a good way of getting. Went to Conis- togo with Govr. Gordin to treat with the Indians, George Claypoole and many others with us. Finding my wife was wholly incapacitated to walk a Broad I Bought a two wheeled Chaise for her to Ride in which answered the purpose well. 1728 This Year Bo* a Negro woman from Tho^ Fenton. Tuck Evan Thomas prentice. Went to Long Island Yearly Meeting in Company with Geo Claypoole 3mo was made one of the overseers of the poor with Simon Edgell & Ed. Warner.f 1730 My wife was Iirot to Bed of her son James 71'! lomo 1730. * Peter Evans was commissioned High Sheriff of Philadelphia in 1707, and served in that office several years ; also in that of Register-General of the Province. + Edward Warner, a prominent Quaker, who was annually elected a member of the Assembly from 1735 until his death in 1754. On 29 January, 1733, he married Anne, daughter of Hon. William Coleman, one of the justices of the Supreme Court of Peimsylvania. 100 JOURNAL OF JOHN BRINGHURST, JUNR My wifes uncel Geo. Claypoole died and not Long after five of his Children out of Six. My four Children had the small pox & my wife the mesels. This Year I was chosen one of the overseers of the Public Schools. 1 73 1 My wife was Brought to Bed of son Thomas 17th 11 mo 1 73 1. Lived two days. Buried the 20th. This Year Bot a negro woman called Pender. 1732 Thos Barnett was free & his mother over persuaded me to take another of her sons prentice, this Year being her son William. 1733 My son Joseph was born the 20th imo 1732/3. 1734 Daughter Deborah born 21st lomo 1734 Died i6th iimo following. John Doyle came prentice. 1736 Deborah 2d of that name born 15"! of 7mo. Agreed with William Watson Shipwright to build the Brigt Joseph between Jos. Jackman of Barbadoes, Jos Maddox * & myself in thirds. 1737 My son Joseph had the small pox verry Badly this Year. Deborah the 2d Died i6*h 2mo this Year of the small pox. My son John was prentice to my self to learn my Trade of a Cooper. The Brigt Joseph landed Loaded & Sailed to Barbadoes Ralph Loftus Mt. This first Voyage did not answer and therefore we set Joseph a price to Buy or Sell & sent her to Barbadoes the Second Voyage and our friend John Fothergal & Leitch Seided went in her from hence 8t'i lomo. There was Collected by John Kinsey f & Self among ffriends of Phila. for this Eastern prince So Cal'd & Delivered him in Gould 100 pistoles and we Delivered him at Same time for frd of Chester County twenty pistoles. 1738 The Brigt Joseph Returned from Barbadoes & brought our partners Resolution to sell & Jos. Maddox & I bought his third & held her in Equal halfs. Capt" Loftus Staid at home to Marrie & John Sims went Master of Sd Brigt to Lisbon Loaded Chiefly on Freight * JosHliA Maddox, who was a merchant of Philadelphia, and died there iS April, 1759. He was elected a member of Common Council 4 October, 1739 ; was commissioned a justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1741 ; and in 1749 was chosen one of the first trustees of the College of Philadelphia, now the ITniversity of Pennsylvania, all of which positions he retained until his death. His portrait by Hesselius, in 1751, is mentioned in Scharf and Westcott's " History of Philadelphia," page 1512. t John Kinsev was, at the date mentioned, a noted lawyer and a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, and later became attorney-general and chief justice of the Province. A sketch of him, prepared by the present writer, may be found in Appleton's " Cyclopaedia of American Biography." lOI THE BRINGHURST FAMILY with flour by William Allen, on her Return James Coultas * was Shipped Master & we Loaded her our selves to Lisbon Chiefly with flour & Re- turned by Medera. Took Alexander Pret prentice this Year. 1739 Sent Brigt Joseph to Medera & one Voyage to Lisbon with wheat on our account. Went to Shrowsbury Yearly Meeting with Rob' Jordan & others. 1740 This Year Cap" Coultas Stayed home We shipped John Hamilton master of the Brigt Joseph & Loaded her with wheat on our account. I went to the Yearly Meeting on Rode Island from thence to Boston in Company with W"i Buckley 4th month. 7th mo 2d Bot Yi Sloop Union in Compy with Samuell Morris, Miller. Lett her to W"' Allen to freight to Jamaica. Called her the James & Shipt Thomas Collins Master, James Marshall Mate Sailed 16th On my Return from Burlington Yearly Meeting the 25th was told the Brigt Joseph was Taken on her Return from Lisbon by the Spanish fleet Bound to West Indies as also Capt" Green and Capt Man in 2 ships belonging to this port. 8mo 31st Robt Jordan f applied to our Monthly Meeting for a Cer- tificate to Friends at Barbados he having a concern to visit it & some other islands where there is no Setled meetings of Frds which was given him 28th pmo following. But no companion offering to go with him my son John shewed a Desir to it which increasing I did not find freedom to forbid finding it agreeable to Robt Consented the 2d lomo when all was to Provide for his Voyage Robt having Taken his Passage & to Sail in a Week. However we got things in pretty good order by the time but the Vessel was full so gave my Son a Purs of Gould to bear his expence and laid in a good Sea Store. They Sailed from Chester about 4 in the afternoon the iQth & got out the Capes the * James Coultas commanded a company in Colonel Abraham Taylor's Regiment of Foot in 1747/4^. and in 1756 was commissioned leutenant-colonel of the regiment commanded by Colonel Jacob Duche. From 1755 until 175S he was high-sheriff of Philadelphia, and was for several years a justice of the peace and the courts there. An interesting sketch of him, by Dr. Robert Patterson Robins, appears in " Pennsylvania Magazine of History," xi. 50. t Robert Jordan was a native of Virginia, and a noted Quaker minister. He removed from Virginia to Philadelphia, where he died 5 October. 1742. He married Mary, widow of Mayor Richard Hill and daughter of Nathan Stanbury, Esq'*. 102 'E p fll lis re =" ^ ^ P) rr =•■0 2 rs ffi S « OS < i; c U = 5' " o w 2 - S H.8 ♦ ^ + ?»-«-♦-«»-•-«>-• -I.-^*-..-^ •-?« 1 " ^^^^f >^^^-^ ^U: < Y f u i,:t.i ^3 ^ > a ^ ^ ; ^- C ^ * ??3%^= ■— < o i i^ ir? 2: 1 t rJ ' W 1 ^» ;- a ? ' ■-' ' ? JOURNAL OF JOHN BRINGHURST, JUNR iith lomo 1740. I received a Letter by the Pilott from the Cape Hinlopen of his being Sea Sick in the Bay. Rec^ a letter from Tho^ ColHns of his haveing been Blowen off of our Coast the 14* gmo after Springing his Mast & SpHtting his Sails & was got to Antigue & Refitting. This day imo 9 our fr^s mett at the Meeting Hous to begin a Sub- scription for the poor Suffers in Carrolina by a Dredful Fire whereby about three hundred houses was Consumed & Rob' Strettle,* Job. Good- son,! Joseph Noble & myself Desired to Receive Same & Lay it out in Bread & flour &c & send them. I mo loth This Day a Boat with a great Quantity of fish was Drawn over a great part of the River on the Ice but in the afternoon it broke loose & Drove. I gave 14s for half Cord Saplin hickry & this is the Sixth load Wood Ive had since I was out & thought myself well Stocked before this hard Winter tried it & many others. 1 740/ 1 I mo 15th This Evening Sloop James Thos Collins Master arrived from Antigua wher She was Drove by Distress of weather after Splitting his Sails & Springing her mast put off of their Course the I4tli lomo 1740 & arrived at Antigua imo 30. William Perdue Shipped Master of Sloop James putt in a new mast and Sheathd her & Loaded with pipe staves & Bees wax for Madera. Left town the 25th 2mo and the Capes the 9th 3mo, 1740. 4-6 [1741] This Day I was taken Sick with a feaver & two days after with a Pain in the Side which Continued for abo* a week in which time I was Sweat, Vomited, Purged, Bled twice then Blister Plaster and Continued weak for five or six weeks after. 6-14 Walter Rodman ^ his Wife & Sister came from Rode island the two first Lodged in my hous the other two at Cadwallader Foulks § (7-28) & Stayed here till after the Meeting then Returned. The 26. Robt Jordan, My wife, Son John & I went to Burlington, Came Back 28th * Robert Strettell was for twenty years a member of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania and held many other important offices. Keith's " Provincial Councillors " contains a sketch of Mr. Strettell and a record of many of his descendants. t Job Goodson was a physician of note in his day, and served several years in the Assembly. J Dr. Walter Rodman was a son of Dr. Clarke Rodman, of Newport, Rhode Island. (See " Genealogy of the Rodman Family," by Charles Henry Jones, Esq", page 17.) g Caowalader Fovlke was the father of Judah Fouike, Esq", who married Mary, daughter of John Bringhurst, the author of this diary. 103 THE BRINGHURST FAMILY being Second day. Fifth day my Daughter Mary & Sarali Dilwin Returned by Land from Trenton. 8-21 John Bowers came up to Cort Ehz; Roberts. This year all the old assessors was Chosen & Jno Hyat for Sheriff by the Governor. Thos Chalkley went to Tortola. 10-14 Capt" Bowers arrived from Antigua brought a letter to me from John Pickering Governor of Tortola & one from Tho^ Chalk- ley * to his wife. Reported Thos Chalkley was dead at Tortola. 10-24 This day came our frd Samuell Hopwood & Jos Clark accompanied him from Rode island. 1 1-5 Sam' Hopwood, Jos Clark, Rob' Jordan, Israel Pemberton,t John Dilwin :|: & Phoebe Morris § dined at our House. II- Captn Stamper arrived from Antigua & brought a letter from John Pickering Confirming the News of Thos Chalkleys decease at his hous in Tortola. 12 Writ to Doct. Clark & Walter Rodman inclosed Pickerings letter of Tho^ Chalkleys Decease and one of John Bells printed Epistle by Jos. Clark. Agreed with Saml Morris for % Brig Carpenter Run to Madera & back. Paid him his freight 55£. Black Joseph Shipd in Sd Brig. Gave Cpt Cribb Jos', freedom if he slid be Taken by the Spaniards under my hand attested by Clement Plumsted under his seal. Writ to David Barclay & son for Insurance. 1742 4mo 25 William Thomas with John Pickering's son John & Christopher Fleming came by Land from New York to my hous. John Cadwalader || & John Estaugh went to visit frds of Tortola. * Thomas Chalkley, a Quaker preacher and writer of considerable renown, was born at London, England, 3 March, 1675, and died in Tortola, West Indies, 4 September, 1741, and was for forty years a member of Friends Meeting at Philadelphia. He left an interesting journal of his " Life, Labors and Travels," which was published with a collection of his tracts, Philadelphia, 1747: New V'ork. iSoS. f Israel Pemberton, a leading merchant, and one of the most prominent members of the Society of Friends in Philadelphia. {See sketch of him and of other members of his family, prepared by the present writer and published in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. t John Dilwyn, a prominent Quaker of Philadelphia, was chosen a member of Common Council 3 October, 1732, and sat for the last time in that body, 9 October, 1747. § Wife of Anthony Morris, and daughter of George and Alice Guest. She died in March, 176S. Mr. Morris was one of the chief merchants of the city, and was largely interested in the manufacture of iron. He served five years in the Assembly and was for forty-eight years a member of Common Council, serving first as councilman and aftervvards as alderman. In 1747 he was elected mayor, but did not accept the office. II John Cadwalader was a member of Abington Mouthy Meeting in Pennsylvania, and John Estaugh was a member of Haddonfield Monthy Meeting in New Jersey. Both were prominent Quaker ministers, and both died at Tortola on the visit named. 104 JOURNAL OF JOHN BRINGHURST, JUNR Left this 13'h 8mo 1744 when they both ended their days in tlieir Masters service tlie lomo following. William Thomas Left my hous 2d mo 2d & New Cassel the 3d to Return to Tortola by way of Antigua. John Oxley arrived 3mo 9th & was brought to my hous in a poor State of helth his Servant Sebina came with him and Peter Fern he Continued to grow weaker & weaker & departed this Life the 23d Was bore to Meeting the 24th & interred Edmon Peckover was at Meeting & Spoke with Power. John Gurley in the Nonparel from Tortola arrived 6-3 Sailed from hence the 14th 11 mo 1743. 9-20-1744 My Son John Sailed in Sloop Sea Ranger Thos Fowle Master to Barbadoes on account helth & Trade. Brig Argyle Thos Coutam Master Consigned to him imo 2d. 3mo 20 1745 My son John went to Jamaca in Brig Conclusion Robt Edes Master Consigned him, also Sloop Diamond John Trott Master Was loaded & consigned to him. On his Return was Cast away in the Constitution in Portmorant Keys But Saved their money & some clothes. 3-10-1746 Son John Went to Jamaca in Sloop Ann, Benj James Master, Consigned to him. TOMB OF COI.ONEI. 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Page 1 IS NOTES ON THE CLARKSON FAMILY HE HONORABLE MATTHEW CLARKSON, founder of the Clarkson Family of New York and Philadelphia, came to America in the ship " Beaver," in 1690/91, under appointment from the king to the Secretaryship of the Colony of New York. He was a son of the Rev. David Clarkson, D.D., an eminent English divine, and his mother, Elizabeth Clarkson, is said to have been a daughter of Sir Henry Holcroft by his wife Lettice Aungiers, daughter of Sir Francis Aungiers and granddaughter of Edward Fitz- gerald, Earl of Kildare, of Ireland. Upon his arrival in New York, 29 January, 1690/91, Mr. Clarkson entered upon his duties as Secretary of the Colony,* and continued to fill the position until his death, in 1702. On 19 January, 1692, he married Catharine, daughter of Captain Gerritt Goosen Van Schayck,t of Albany, New York, by his wife Annetje Leivens. * In 1S68 he was chosen one of the vestrj- of Trinity Church, New York, and the pew-right which he held in the first building has remained in the family to this day. t Captain Van Schayck was a merchant and brewer at Albany in 1649. On 8 April, 1656. he was nomi- nated by the " Court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck," to the " Worshipfull, Valiant, and honorable Herr general, and right honorable Sirs of the Council," for appointment as magistrate or commissary at Albany, but does not appear to have received such appointment until 1662, when he sat in court as one of the magis- trates. He doubtless held such position many years, as he is known to have been in office in 1663, 1667, 1668, l67i,and 1672, and among those who served with him were Colonel Philip Pieterse Schuyler and Richard Van Rensellaer. On 23 September, 1670, he was commissioned lieutenant of the troop of horse at Albany, under the command of Captain Jeremiah Van Rensellaer, and was later promoted captain. His widow, Annetje Leivens, removed from Albany to New York and joined the Dutch Church there, "5 NOTES ON THE CLARKSON FAMILY Children, all born in New York, and baptized in the Old Dutch Church of that city : I. Elizabeth Clarkson, baptized 8 January, 1693. Major Charles Lodo- wyck, an eminent New Yorker, was sponsor at her baptism. II. David Clarkson, baptized 19 August, 1694; died in 1751; was a prominent merchant and the grandfather of Major-General Mat- thew Clarkson, a distinguished officer of the Revolutionary army. He married, 25 January, 1724. Ann Margaret, daughter of Rev. Bernardus Freeman, of New York. III. Levinus Clarkson, baptized 6 September, 1696; Johannes VanCort- landt being a sponsor at his baptism. IV. Matthew Clarkson, baptized 9 April, 1699. (See below.) CAPTAIN MATTHEW CLARKSON, third son of Hon. Matthew Clarkson by his wife Catharine Van Schayck, was born in New York City, where he was baptized 9 April, 1699, ^"^ where he died in 1739. He was a successful merchant there, and his family occupied a promi- nent position in the social life of the city. At the time of his death he commanded one of the military companies of New York, to which position he was commissioned in 1738. He married, in 1720, Cornelia, daughter of Captain Johannes De Peyster by his wife Anne Bancker. (See Notes on De Peyster Family.) Upon the death of Captain Clarkson, his widow married Rev. Gilbert Tennent, an eminent Pres- byterian clergyman, who was then pastor of a church at New Bruns- wick, New Jersey, but who shortly afterwards accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia, and there removed with his wife and her unmarried children, to which removal may be ascribed the origin of the Philadelphia branch of the Clarkson family. Mrs. Tennent died at Philadelphia, 25 May. 1753. Children of Captain Matthew Clarkson, all born in New York, and baptized in the Old Dutch Church there : I. Catharine Clarkson, baptized 25 January, 1721 ; married, 1739, Samuel Hazard, Esq''", by whom she had Ebenezer Hazard, Post- master-General of the United States (1782/1789), and the father of Samuel Hazard, the distinguished annalist. 4 September, 1691, and there died in 1702. Her will, dated 27 April, and proved 19 November, 1702, names son Levinus, daughter Gerritje Dryer, daughter Catherine, wife of Matthew Clarkson, daughter Maria, wife of John Van Cortlandt, daughter Margaretta, and granddaughter Margaret, wife of Robert Livingston, Junior.* * New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1976, page 56. 116 HON. MAITHEW Cl.ARKSON, MAYOR OF I'HII.ADELI'IIIA Pane 117 ^.^..y^.' NOTES ON THE CLARKSON FAMILY II. Matthew Clarkson, baptized lo April, 1723; died young. III. John Clarkson, baptized 30 June, 1725 ; died young. IV. Anna Clarkson, baptized 10 September, 1727; married, as second wife, 13 May, 1761, Rev. Samuel Finley, D.D., President of Prince- ton College. V. Matthew Clarkson, baptized 20 June, 1729; died young. VI. David Clarkson, born 5 January, 1731. VII. Matthew Clarkson, baptized 25 April, 1733; died 5 October, 1800. VIII. Levinus Clarkson, baptized 14, August, 1734. IX. Cornelia Clarkson, baptized 12 October, 1737. X. Gerardus Clarkson, baptized 26 December, 1738; died 19 September, 1790. He was a physician of Philadelphia; was a surgeon with the Pennsylvania Troops in the Revolution ; was one of the founders of the College of Physicians, and its first treasurer ; was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He married. 13 May, 1761, Mary Flower, daughter of Samuel Flower, of Philadelphia. Many of Dr. Clarkson's descendants have been prominent. HONORABLE MATTHEW CLARKSON, son of Captain Mat- tliew Clarkson by his wife Cornelia De Peyster, was born in New York, in April, 1733, where he was baptized in the Old Dutch Church, 25th of that month. When he was about ten years of age he removed with his mother and step-father, Rev. Gilbert Tennent, to Philadelphia, where he resided during the remainder of his life, and there rose to prominence. He was carefully educated under the direction of his eminent step-father, and it is believed that he was intended for professional hfe, but he made choice of a business career, and as early as 1760 he is found to have been engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he continued throughout his life. One of the earliest mentions of his name in Philadelphia is under date of 5 October, 1762, when he presented to Common Council a " Ground Plot of Philadelphia," which he proposed to publish, with a dedication to the city, whereupon Council voted " to give the said Matthew Clarkson the simi of Ten pistoles towards defraying the ex- pense of the plate, on condition, nevertheless, that the public Squares laid down in the original plan of the City be so described that the claim of the inhabitants of the said City thereto may not be prejudiced."* Some time later he became a notary public, and on 19 August, 1771, he was commissioned a justice of the Court of General Quarter Sessions * Minutes of Common Council, 676. 117 NOTES ON THE CLARKSON FAMILY of the Peace and of the Courts of Common Pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia, to which positions he was recommissioned, 2"] April, 1772.* Mr. Clarkson was an ardent patriot in the Revolution. In 1775, when the first troops were organized in Philadelphia, he was commis- sioned quartermaster of the First Battalion of Associators, and on 1 1 December of that year he was chosen by the Continental Congress one of the commissioners to sign the four million dollars of bills of credit ordered printed by that body, and on 9 March, 1776, to a similar posi- tion, to sign the four million dollars of bills ordered to be issued at that time; and on 19 August, that year, he was chosen by the same body one of those " to oversee the printing of Continental bills." In 1776 the Assembly of Pennsylvania recommended that the Coun- cil of Safety appoint " a proper person Marshall of the Court of Ad- miralty for this Province," in response to which, the Council, 10 April, 1776, " having considered the application of the different candidates," resolved, " That Mr. Matthew Clarkson be, and he hereby is appointed Marshall," which important position he held until 1780. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Pennsylvania, which institution was formed in 1780, with the object of furnishing provisions for the Continental army, his subscription to the enterprise being £2500. In 1785 he was elected a delegate to Congress, but declined the honor. In 1790, under the new City Charter which then went in force, Mr. Clarkson was elected one of the Aldermen of Philadelphia. The Board of Aldermen at that time elected from their number the mayor of the city, and on 16 April, 1792, Mr. Clarkson was chosen mayor, and was re-elected in 1793, 1794, and 1795, in which office he served with conspicuous ability, and upon relinquishing the mayoralty he re- sumed his place as Alderman, which he retained until 1798. In 1768 he became a member of the American Philosophical Society; was for some years clerk of the Philadelphia Contributionship and a director of the Philadelphia Library; in 1794 he was elected a director of the Bank of the United States, and was for some years a vestryman of Christ Church. He died at Philadelphia, 5 October, 1800, and was buried in Christ Church burying-ground. He married, 13 June, 1753, ♦ Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, ix. 760; x. 46. 118 NOTES ON THE CLARKSON FAMILY Mary, daughter of Thomas Boude, of Philadelphia, by his wife Sarah Newbold.* She was born at Philadelphia, 14 February, 1735, and died there, 27 November, 1794. Mrs. Elizabeth Drinker, in her *' Journal" (now published), thus mentions Mrs. Clarkson, under date of 28 No- vember, 1794: *' M. Clarkson, wife to our present Mayor, was buried this afternoon. She was a pretty girl when Polly Bond. I went to school with her." Children, all born in Philadelphia: I. Cornelia Clarkson, t born 7 June, 1755; died June, 1756. II. Thomas Clarkson, born 6 December, 1756. III. Anna Clarkson, born 23 June, 1758; married George Bringhurst. (See Bringhurst Family, No. 42.) IV. Matthew Clarkson, born 3 June, 1761. V. Levinus Clarkson, born 14 August, 1762. VI. Cornelia Clarkson, born 29 March, 1764. VII. David Clarkson, born 28 March, 1765. VIII. Sarah Clarkson, born i April, 1766; died 29 December, 1820; mar- ried, 24 November. 1785, Robert Ralston, Esq*"®.! IX. Gerard Clarkson, born 7 July, 1772. * Saram Newbold was horn 20 November, 1700, and was a daughter of Michael Newbold, Esq"*, of Burlington County, New Jersey, by his wife Rachel, daughter of John Clayton. Michael Newbold was a justice of the peace of Burlington County, where he was a large landowner. His father, Michael Newbold, bought land in the county in 1677. and in a deposition dated in 16S2 he is styled "of Sheffield Park Gate," Yorkshire, England, at which time he was aged fifty-eight years. t The eldest daughter, Cornelia, was baptized at the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and the other children were baptized at Christ Church. J Robert Ralston was one of the most prominent citizens of Philadelphia in his day. He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 18 December, 1761, and died at Philadelphia, 11 August, 1S36. At an early age he engaged in business as a merchant in that city, and amassed a large fortune in the East India trade, of which he gave liberally to philanthropic enterprises. In 1793, when the French privateers were inflicting great damage to American commerce, Mr. Ralston was chosen, at a public meeting of merchants, one of the committee to collect information respecting such damage, and to lay the same before the President of the United States, and in 1794 he was secretarj- of a public meeting of citizens to raise funds for the relief of the families of the soldiers who marched to Western Pennsylvania to suppress the Whiskey Insurrection. In 1795 he was chosen by the Legislature one of the trustees to distribute funds appropriated by the State for the relief of the French refugees. In 17 — he was elected a member of Common Council, and in iSoo he was the president of that body, and was later elected a member of Select Council, over which body he presided from 1806 until i9o8. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and in iSoS was one of its committee to raise funds for the relief of the sailors in want on account of the Embargo Act then in force. In 1816 he became a founder and one of the first directors of the Second Bank of the United States, and during the same year he was a founder of the Religious Historical Society, of wliich he was elected vice-president the fol- lowing year. He was also, during that year, elected president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting Public Economy. In 1819 he was secretary' of a public meeting held at the mayor's office in aid of the sufTerers of the great fire at Wilmington, North Carolina, and was also secretary of a meeting held at Independence Hall about the same time to consider an application to Congress to resist the extension of slaver\' " in the new States," and was made a member of the committee of correspondence to further such object. Mr. Ralston was a founder and one of the first trustees of the Philadelphia Exchange, and was active in promoting the construction of the building which still stands at Third and Dock Streets. He was also active in furthering 119 NOTES ON THE CLARKSON FAMILY the organization of the Presbyterian Board of Education, and was its first president, and contributed largely to the establishment of the Widows' and Orphans' Asylum and the Mariners' Church in Philadelphia, and he founded the Philadelphia Bible Society, which was the first of the kind on this continent. He was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which he was ruling elder from 1802 until his death. His funeral sermon, preached by Rev. Ashbel Green, D.D-, is published. Mr. Ralston's children by his wife Sarah Clarkson were: i. Robert Ralston. 2. William Cox Ralston, born 27 October, 1786; died 18 September, iSii. 3. Maria Ralston, born 25 December, 17S7. 4. Matthew Clarkson Ralston, bom 21 August, 1789. 5. Rebecca Ralston, born 3 March, 1791. 6. Elizabeth Ann Ralston, born 2 November, 1793. 7. Ashbel Green Ralston, born 11 October, 1796. 8. Gerardus Ralston, born 19 Sep- tember, 1798. 9. Sarah Ralston, born 10 February, 1800. 10. Abigail Hazard Ralston, bom 13 September, 1801. II. Samuel Finley Ralston, baptized 16 January, 1803. 12. Henry Rutgers Ralston, baptized i June, 1806. His will, dated 7 June, 1831, names son Robert ; son William, " deceased ;" son Matthew Clarkson ; son Ashbel Green; son Gerard; daughter Abigail Proudfit; son Henry Rutgers; "late daughter" Sarah Cox, and her children, Robert Ralston Cox, Maria Cox, Sarah Ralston Cox, and John Cox; daughter Maria and her son, Robert Ralston Dorsey ; Sarah Clarkson and her two sisters, " daughters of my late brother-in-law," Levinus Clarkson ; two cousins, Rebecca Ralston and Mary Ann Eyre, daughters of " my late uncle George Ralston;" " children of my late half-sister," Sarah Slemons ; Benjamin Dean, " late of Washington, now of Philadelphia, son of late half-brother, William Dean." A codicil to the will, dated 8 July, 1S34, speaks of his daughter Maria as deceased, and names her children : Robert Ralston Dorsey Elizabeth, wife of James Cox. and Maria Dorsey, NOTES ON THE DE PEYSTER FAMILY Johannes De Peyster, Esq'° = Cornelia Lubberts. Captain Johannes De Peyster = Anne Bancker. Captain Matthew Clarkson = Cornelia De Peyster. Honorable Matthew Clarkson = Mary Boude. George Briiighurst = Anna Clarkson. Robert Ralston Bringhurst = Mary Wood. Colonel Thomas Hall Bringhurst = Mary Jane Stewart. Captain Robert Ralston Bringhurst. NOTES ON THE DE PEYSTER FAMILY OHANNES DE PEYSTER, ESQRE one of the early emigrants to New Amsterdam (New York), and the founder of the noted American family of that surname, was of French descent, but a native of Harlem in Holland, whither his ancestors had fled to escape the persecution of Charles IX. against his Protestant subjects. He came to New York as early as 1649, ^"d there engaged in mercantile pursuits, and rose to prominence in public life. His first position was a military one, that of adelborst or cadet in one of the Burgher corps, to which he was appointed in 1653.* He was one of " The Six" who were appointed to draw up the first charter for New Amsterdam, and under which a municipal government was or- ganized in the name of the " Schout, Burgomasters, and Schepens." In 1655 he was commissioned by Governor Stuy\'esant one of the schepens, to which position he was again chosen in 1656, 1658, and 1662. As one of the schepens he became a member of what was known as the Burgomaster's Court, which body governed the affairs of the city, and exercised executive, legislative, and judicial powers. Many governmental changes followed the conquest of New York by the English, among which was a change in the corporate title of the city, from that before given, to " Mayor, Alderman, and Sheriff," and the court formed by these officials was afterwards known as the * O'Callaghan's Histor>' of New Netherlands, i. 559. 123 NOTES ON THE DE PEYSTER FAMILY " Mayor's Court." The decree of Governor Richard Nicolls making this change is dated 12 June, 1665, ^t which time Captain Thomas Willett was appointed mayor. The following year Johannes De Peyster was chosen alderman, to which position he was re-elected in 1667, 1669, 1673, and 1676. In 1677 he was deputy mayor of the city, and in that year declined the mayoralty on account of his imperfect acquaint- ance with the English language. In 1668 he was chosen one of the two Overseers of Orphans, or WeesmasterS; a trust of large importance, the overseers, or " Orphan Masters," as they are usually called, having the possession and control of all the estates of orphans in the city. On 2 April, 1670, the Mayor's Court selected four men " for the laying out and Paving of the Streets," one of whom was Mr. De Peyster. He was a member of the Dutch Church of New York, and served in the offices of deacon and church warden. The date of Mr. De Peyster's death has not been ascertained, but it is believed that he died prior to 1686, although no mention of his widow as such, who survived him many years, is found until 1689. He married, in the Old Dutch Church at New York, 17 December, 1651, Cornelia Lubberts, also from Harlem, Holland, She is said to have been a relative of the De La Noys, and probably a sister of Marritie Lubberts, wife of Abraham De La Noy, who was keeper of the " City Tavern" in 1652, and the first of that family in America. Mrs. De Peyster made her will 19 January, 1699, with two codicils, the first dated 22 December, 171 1, and the second in 1714. It was admitted to probate 25 September, 1725. Supposing that to have been the year of her death, and that she was eighteen years old when married, her death must have occurred at the advanced age of ninety-two years. Children of Johannes De Peyster, Esqi'e, by his wife Cornelia Lub- berts, all baptized in the Old Dutch Church in New York : I. Johannes De Peyster, baptized August, 1653 ; died in infancy. II. Johannes De Peyster, baptized 7 October, 1654 ; died young. III. Abraham De Peyster, baptized 8 July, 1657; died 8 August, 1728; was one of the leading men of his day in New York. He was a captain, afterwards colonel, of militia ; alderman, afterwards mayor of the city; judge of the Supreme Court; member of the 124 NOTES ON THE DE PEYSTER FAMILY Governor's Council, and, as its presiding officer, at one time acting governor of the colony, and in 1706 was appointed treasurer of the colonies of New York and New Jersey. IV. Maria De Peyster, born 5 September, 1659; died 3 May, 1701 ; mar- ried (i) Paulus Schrick; (2) John Spratt; (3) David Pro- voost, Junr, Mayor of New York in 1699. She had issue by the second marriage only. In an article in the " New York Genea- logical and Biographical Record" for July, 1878, she is thus mentioned : " This lady, whom we regard, by reason of her birtli and alhaiices. as one of the most remarkable women boni in New Amsterdam, was thrice married, and it is hazarding little of historical accuracy to say that a complete account of her family connections, by birtfi and marriage, would include a fuller his- tory of the civil and military affairs of colonial times than the same account of any other person born during the Dutch possession of Manhattan Island.*' V. Isaac De Peyster, baptized 16 April, 1662 ; married 27 December, 1687, Maria Van Baal, of Albany, and had ten children, all baptized in the Dutch Church in New York. VI. Jacob De Pevster, baptized 23 December, 1663 ; d. s. p. VII. Johannes De Peyster, baptized 21 September, 1666. (Of him see fol- lowing page.) VIII. CoRNELis De Peyster, baptized 4 October, 1673; was a captain of the militia, and otherwise prominent. He married (i), 19 Sep- tember, 1694, Maria Bancker; (2) 21 July, 1711, Cornelia Dissin- ton, widow of Alexander Stewart. Had issue by both wives. IX. Cornelia De Peyster, baptized 4 December, 1678 ; married, 18 Au- gust, 1699, Alexander Stewart. She died without issue, and Mr. Stewart tnarried, for second wife, Cornelia Dissinton. CAPTAIN JOHANNES DE PEYSTER, seventh child of Johannes De Peyster, Esqi'e, was baptized in New York City, 21 September, 1666, and died tliere, 25 September, 171 1. He was a prominent and influential citizen, and highly esteemed for his public worth, as well as for his private virtues. On 8 October, 1686, he was commissioned ensign of a company of Foot in New York City, and was preferred to a lieu- tenancy in the same company, 13 December, 1689, his brother Abraham being then in command of the same. In 1698 he was mayor of New York, and from that year until 1701 was a member of the Colonial Assembly. In 1700 he was commissioned captain of a troop of horse, which position he probably retained several years. He married, at Albany, New York, 10 October, 1688, Anne, daugh- 125 NOTES ON THE DE PEYSTER FAMILY ter of Gerrit Bancker, Esqre,* by his wife Elizabeth Dirckse Van Eps, of that city. She was born at Albany, i April, 1670, and died . Children of Captain Johannes De Peyster by his wife Anne Bancker, all born in New York, and baptized in the Old Dutch Church of that city: I. Johannes De Peyster, baptized 24 July, 1689; died young. II. Gerardus De Peyster, baptized 23 January, 1691 ; died young. III. Elizabeth De Peyster, baptized 25 September, 1692. IV. Johannes De Peyster, baptized 14 April, 1694. V. Cornelia De Peyster, baptized 15 December, 1695; married Mat- thew Clarkson. (See Clarkson Lineage.) VI. Gerardus De Peyster, baptized 10 October, 1697. VII. Anna De Peyster, baptized 24 January, 1700; married Jan Van Teerling. VIII. William De Peyster, baptized 15 October, 1701 ; died young. IX. Abraham De Peyster, baptized 27 February, 1704. X. William De Peyster, baptized 8 May, 1709; married Margaretta Roosevelt. XI. Catharine De Peyster, baptized 22 July, 1711. * Gerrit Bancker came to Albany, New York, about 1656, and was probably from Amsterdam, Hol- land, where he had a brother William living as late as 1700. He was a merchant, and owned considerable real estate at Albany, also at Schenectady. In a bond dated 28 August, 1660, he is styled " the Honorable Gerrit Bancker." He married Elizabeth, daughter of Dirk Van Eps by his wife Maritie Damens. His will, dated 25 November, 1690, was proved 7 May, 1691. After his death his widow removed to New York and opened a store there, where she died 3 July, 1693. The inventory filed in her estate shows that she had houses and lands in Schenectady, Albany, Catskill, and New York, besides a large amount of personal property. His son Evert Bancker was a leading citizen at Albany, and was mayor of that city in 1695/96, and 1707/9. NOTES ON THE BOUDE FAMILY <0 c > w -^ n t: p; o K s s r^ > 7: Z V. c _ z „ NOTES ON THE BOUDE FAMILY APTAIN ROBERT RALSTON BRINGHURST, of Philadelphia, is descended from the Boudes of that city. His great-great-grandfather, Hon. Mat- thew Clarkson, of Philadelphia, married Mary Boude,* who was a daughter of Thomas Boucle, Esq^e, by his wife Sarah Newbold,t and grand- daughter of Grimstone Boude, a merchant of the same place. The following interesting article on the Boudes, by Miss Emma St. Clair Whitney, is from the " American Historical Register," vol. i. pp. 367-370. "SOME STORIES OF COLONIAL FAMILIES. "BOUDE OF PENNSYLVANIA. " The Boude family was of French origin, and a branch of the family settled in county Essex, England, as early as, if not before, the time of Henry IV. Grimstone Boude, who was the ancestor of that branch of the family from which the Boudes of Pennsylvania are de- scended, was born in England about the year 1661. He was the grand- son of Adlord Boude, Esq^e, who married Henrietta, the daughter of Sir Edward Grimston. Their son John was the father of Adlord and Grimstone Boude, who came to America. " The Grimston or Grimstone (originally De Grymestone) House is traced in the English peerage to Normandy, and in the year 1066 is recorded the granting of the Grimstone estate in Yorkshire by Wil- liam the Norman. A member of the family was standard-bearer to * See Notes on the Clarkson Family, page 119. t Daughter of Michael Newbold, Esq", of Burlington County, New Jersey. 9 129 NOTES ON THE BOUDE FAMILY William at the battle of Hastings. Another (Sir Harbottle Grime- stone, born 1596, died 1683) was speaker of the House of Commons at the Restoration and Master of the Rolls. The present representative of the family in the English peerage is Lord Verulam, Viscount Grim- ston. The motto of the family is ' Mediocra firma,' — i.e., the middle station is the safest. " Grimstone Boude and his brother came to America near the close of the seventeenth century, and settled at Perth Amboy as agents of the East New Jersey proprietors. In ' Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New Jersey,' vol. iii., mention is made of a depo- sition of ' Grimstone Boude, merchant, aged thirty-eight or thereabouts.' The document is dated May 10, 1699; the name in the opening sen- tence is written without the final e, but the signature has it. " Grimstone Boude afterwards removed to Philadelphia, where he died April i, 1716. In his will, which is on record in Philadelphia, dated February 3, 1715, he states that he is a merchant, and mentions his wife and five children by name. He wills as follows : " ' To my eldest son, Joseph Boude, one gold ring of the value of twenty shillings lawful money of America. To my son, Samuel Boude, my largest silver tank'd, one silver porringer, one silver spoon, one feather bed with the furniture and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and the sum of ten pounds lawful money of America. To my son, John Boude, my quart silver tankard and one feather bed with the fur- niture and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and the sum of ten pounds lawful silver money. Unto my son, Thomas Boude, my least silver tankard, one feather bed with the furniture, etc., and the sum of ten pounds lawful silver money. Unto my daughter, Henrietta Boude, one pint silver mug, one silver porringer, and one silver spoon, one feather bed with the furniture, etc., and my negro woman, Joan, and the sum of ten pounds lawful silver money. Unto my dear and well-beloved wife, Mary Boude, all and singular the residue and remainder of my personal estate. I nominate and appoint my said wife sole executrix of this my last will.' "The eldest son, Joseph Boude, married, September 5, 1716, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Elizabeth Baldwin. Their son Thomas was buried in Christ Church burying-ground August 10, 1769. No 130 NOTES ON THE BOUDE FAMILY descendants of this pair are now known. Joseph subsequently removed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His name appears among the members of the Lancaster Library Company, which was organized in November, 1759 (see "History of Lancaster County," by Ellis and Evans), and was yet living there in 1776, where he was visited by Matthew Clark- son, who married his niece. Nothing more is known of him. " The second son, Samuel Boude, married Deborah, daughter of Peter Cox, and lived in Philadelphia, where he died May 19, 1733. In his will he describes himself as a merchant, and mentions his wife Deborah and two children, John and Henrietta. His son John, born November 17, 1728, died before he attained his majority, and Henrietta, born January 17, 1731/32, died January 25, 1792; buried in Christ Church burying-ground. She married. May 10, 1753, Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States, and lived in Philadelphia. From them are descended the Anthony, Dillard, Hobart, Kelly, Nicholls, Smith, Whelen, and Whitney families. " Grimstone Boude's third son, John, married Gertrude , and lived in the southern part of Philadelphia (Wicaco), where he died March 23, 1747/48. In his will he describes himself as an Inn-holder, and mentions his wife, two children under age, and one unborn, and bequeaths quite a large estate to them. He spells his name Bood, which was the pronunciation at that time, as Bowd became afterwards. The names of his surviving children were Jonathan and Jemima. The rec- ords of Christ Church, Philadelphia, show he had other children, — Mar- garet, Rebecca, and Joseph,— who evidently died before their father. They also show the death of Lydia, the posthumous child referred to in his will. Nothing more is known of his children. "Thomas, the fourth son of Grimstone Boude, born about 1700, died in Philadelphia September 11, 1781. He married Sarah Newbold, and had eleven children, six of whom died in infancy. " Samuel, their eldest child, born about 1723/24, studied medicine in Philadelphia, and removed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he married, January 16, 1749, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Blun- ston) Bethel. He practised medicine in Lancaster, and seems to have been a very prominent man. His name appears among the subscribers to the building fund of St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in 1750, 131 NOTES ON THE BOUDE FAMILY and also among the original members of the Lancaster Library Asso- ciation in 1759. He removed to Garden Point, a few miles distant from Charlestown, Maryland, about 1766. It is probable he died there not many years after, though neither the time nor place of his death is recorded. They had eight children, — Sarah, Thomas, Sarah, Samuel, Elizabeth, Mary Bethel, John, and Henrietta. From them are descended the Heise, Merrill, Whitehill, Barber, Clingan, and numerous other families. " Elizabeth, third daughter of Thomas and Sarah Boude, born De- cember 5. 1726, married John Nigely (also spelled Neighly, or Naglee) at Christ Church, November 14, 1745. " Mary, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Boude, born February 14, 1735; died November 27, 1794; married, June 13, 1753, Matthew Clarkson, who was a prominent merchant and citizen of Philadelphia, and died October 5, 1800. He was mayor of Philadelphia for three terms, and occupied that office during the terrible epidemic of yellow fever in that city in 1793/94. He conducted himself with great bravery and discretion. From this couple are descended the Clarkson, Bring- hurst, Ralston, and other families. " Joseph, tenth child of Thomas and Sarah Boude, born December 13, 1740, was a soldier in the Revolution; taken prisoner, and, accord- ing to tradition, died on one of the enemy's terrible prison-ships in New York harbor. " Thomas, eleventh child of Thomas and Sarah Boude, born August 10, 1743, was a sea-captain and was lost in a shipwreck. " Henrietta, youngest child and only daughter of Grimestone Boude, was baptized November 19, 17 10, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, and married, August 30, 1733, in that church, to Richard Sewell. " The Boude family in this generation is represented in nearly every State in the Union. Many of the name are still living in Maryland, Vir- ginia, and Kentucky. " In conclusion of this brief sketch, I desire to express my great obligation to Dr. John Knox Boude, of Washington, D. C, for valuable assistance in its preparation. " Emma St. Clair Whitney." 132 NOTES ON THE BOUDE FAMILY To the foregoing article by Miss Whitney may be added a few facts. Thomas Boude, the father of Mrs. Mary Clarkson, was a master bricklayer, and was employed in the mason work in the construction of Independence Hall.* He was a member of St. John's Lodge, the first Masonic organization established in Philadelphia, and he was Coroner of Philadelphia from 1754 until 1759. On 24 May, 1781, he conveyed a house and lot in Front Street, Philadelphia, to his daughter, Mary Clarkson. t His brother, Dr. Samuel Boude, was Chief Burgess of Lan- caster in 1 76 1, and was the father of Samuel Boude and Thomas Boude, officers in the Revolutionary Army. Samuel was Second Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment, and was killed, 1 1 September, 1777, in the battle of Brandywine. Thomas was commissioned, 8 July, 1776, Second Lieutenant in the Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel Anthony Wayne; promoted in January, 1777, First Lieutenant; and later. Captain, for gallantry at Stony Point. He served until the close of the war, and was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. Later in life he became a brigadier-general of the Penn- sylvania Militia, and was a member of Congress in 1801-1803. He died at Columbia, Lancaster County, 24 October, 1822, in the seventy- ninth year of his age. * Etting's Histor>- of Independence Hall, t Philadelphia Deed Book, D, 3, p. 339. ERRATA AND ADDENDA Page 49, No. i66. The date of birth of John Bringhurst should be 6 June, 1832. Page 53. In Shipley note it is stated that Joseph Shipley was a grandson of William Shipley. It should read : grandson of Thomas Shipley by his wife Mary Marriott, and great-grandson of William Shipley. Page 54, No. 196. The date of birth of Edward Bringhurst should be 10 October, 1834. Page 63, No. 273. Mrs. Llewellyn T. Barr died 23 April, 1901. Page 80, No. 419. Alice Constance Bringhurst, daughter of Henry Washington Bringhurst, was born 6 May, 1901. Page 80, No. 420. Horace Morton Bringhurst Zipf should be Horace Morton Bringhurst. INDEX Abercrombie, Minerva, 76, 90 John Conner, 90 Allen, Nathaniel, 96 William, 97, lOJ William (Hon.), 97 W. E., 83 Andrew, John Scott, 82 Minnie Waugh, 82 Anthony, , 131 Susanna, 31 Armitage, Almira, 35 George, 35 Mary, 35 Rebecca, 35 Shibert, 35 Arniitt, Thomas, 100 Aschkaw, La Princesse Catharine d", 31 Ash, Mary Elizabeth, 61 Ashniead, Anna, 22, 27 Charles, 46 Edward, 46 Jacob (Captain), 45 James H., 46 John, 25, 27, 28 John, 45 John', 46 Joseph Keen, 46 Mary, 28 Samuel, 36, 45 Samuel, Junr, 45 Susan Keen, 46 William, 45 Atlee, Sarah, 51 Aungiers, Francis (Sir). 115 Lettice, 115 Bachman, Caroline, 57 Bacon, J. D., no Bain, H. Robert. 60 Baldwin, Elizabeth, 131 Bancker, Anne, 116 Evert, 126 Bancker, Gerrit, 126 Maria, 125 William, 126 Barber, , 132 John, 98 Barclay, David, 104 Barker, Abraham, 31 Ruth, 31 Thomas, 22 Barndollar, Elizabeth, 45 Peter, 45 Barnett. Thomas, 100, loi Barr, Clara Violetta, 63 Llew-ellyn T., 63 Batchelder, Margaretta Sutor, 57 Bathurst, Charles, 22 Baugh, Samuel, 50 Bauman, J. A. (Rev.), 65 Bealing, Benjamin, 22 Bedford. Louisa. 44. 63 Beitler, Eleanor, 49. 69 Bells, John, 104 Berryhill, Rebecca, 67 Bethel, Mary, 131 Samuel, 131 Bcttle, Hannah, 95 John, 95 Rachel, 32, 38, no Samuel, 38, 95 Sarah, 38 William. 95 Betts, Mahlon, 54 Mary W., 54 Bevins, William, 99. 100 Biddle, Clement C. (Colonel), 35 Billender, John, 96 Bingham, Henry H., 65 Binney, Barnabas (Dr.), 29 Birchall. Elizabeth L., 60 Blair. Eliza, 44, 63 James, 63 137 INDEX Blish, Henry, Co Bockius, Camelia Elinor, 60 Charles Franklin, 60 Emeline Catharine, 60 Francis William, 44, 59 J. Harry, 43, 59 Jacob Miller, 60 Johan Gottfried, 59 Johannes Wendell, 59 Joseph, 59 Joseph Henry, 60 Lodovic, 59 Mary Fraley, 60 Peter Lodovic, 59 Thomas Bringhurst, 59, 60 Bond, Elizabeth Ross, 79 Lon A., 79 Thomas Charles, 79 Bonnell, Charles, 55 Charles Russell, 56 Cornelia, 56 George Bringhurst, 55 Mary Ann, 55 Sallie S., 56 Samuel, 42, 55 William White, 56 Booth, E., Ill Boude, Adlord, 129 Elizabeth (dau. Dr. Samuel), 132 Elizabeth (dau. Thomas), 132 Grimstone, 129, 130, 131 Henrietta, 130, 132 Jemima, 131 John, 130, 132 John Knox (Dr.), 132 Jonathan, 131 Joseph, 130, 131, 132 Lydia, 131 Margaret, 131 Mary, 119, 129, 130, 132, 133 Rebecca, 131 Samuel, 130, 131. 132, 133 Thomas, 119, 131, 132, I33 Bould, Samuel, 100 Bowen, William, 49 Bowers, John, 104 Boyd, George (Rev.), 63 Brambley, Sarah, 68 Brayton, P., 108 Brewster, Margaret, 36, 45 William, 45 Broades, Arthur, 28 Bringhurst, Ada Eleanor, 87 Albert Clement, 66 Albert Henry, 83 Alfred, 52 Alfred Theodore, 80 Ann, 35 Ann Dilworth, 70, 88 Anna*, 28 Anna" (dau. John), 35 Anna' (dau. Wm.), 37 Anna" (dau. Joseph), 49 Anna' (dau. Joseph), 49 Anna' (dau. Colonel J. H.), 64 Anna' (dau. Samuel), 69 Anna' (dau. Colonel T. H.), 79 Anna Augusta, 86 Anna Bell, 85 Anna Clarkson (dau. John Gull), 54, 75 Anna Clarkson (dau. Robert Ral- ston), 56, 79 Anna Clarkson (dau. Captain Robert Ralston), 92 Anna Katharine, 84 Anna Hoops", 71 Anna Hoops", 71 Anna Maria', 58 Anna Maria', 76 Anne, 47 Annie, 71 Arthur Bryant, S7 Augustus L., 44, 66 Barbara, 22, 96 Bernard Bicknam, 43 Bessie, 87 Bessie Ross, 92 Betsey, 30 Camille Coolidge, 90 Carrie, 91 Charles, 16 Charles (s. Wm. Longstrcth), 52 Charles (s. Wm. Augustus), 86 138 INDEX Bringhurst, Charles (s. John Henry), 91 Bringhurst, Elizabeth" (dau. George), 42 Charles Alfred, 80 Elizabeth" (dau. Joseph), 39, 50 Charles Edward, 68 Elizabeth" (dau. Jesse), 43, 57 Charles Ernest, 66, 84 Elizabeth' (dau. Robt. Ralston), 57 Charles Francis, 84 Elizabeth' (dau. Joseph), 49 Charles Harper, 70 Elizabeth' (dau. Joseph), 49 Charles Raguet, 84 Elizabeth Ann, 44 Charles Sharp, 59 Elizabeth Ashburnham, y2 Charles Shingle, 68 Elizabeth E., 79 Charles Sumpter, 68 Elizabeth Shipley, 74 Christiana, 76 Ellen, 71 Christopher Manlove, 57 Ellen Matilda, 67 Clara Olivia, 70, 89 Emeline Catharine, 44 Clara Violetta, 64 Emma Eleanor, 87 Clara Wisdom, 85 Emma Louisa, 81 Clement, 36, 44 Emmaline, 64 Cordelia, 45 Enos Lewis, 47 Cornelia Clarkson, 42, 55 Ernest Randolph, 84 Cornelia Eleanor, 64 Ernest W., 82 Cornelia Elinor, 44, 65 Esther, 37 Daniel, 86 Esther Wilson, 73 Deborah, 25 Ethel Margaret, 75 Deseret, 70, 85 Evan Glen, 82 Dorothy Hodgson, 81 Fannie Eloise, 91 Edgar Allen, 82 Ferris, 54 Edith Ferris, 74 Florence', 81 Edmund Leslie, 91 Florence', 87 Edna, 87 Frances" (dau. Robert Ralston'), 81 Ed\vard^ 32 Frances' (dau. Wm. Joseph), 75 Edward", 41, 53 Frances Louisa, 44 Edward', 54, 72, 95 Francis Augustus, 66 Edward' (s. Wm. Longstreth), 52 Francis La Doux, 83 Edward' (s. Edward, J unr), 74 Frank Perry, 58 Edward H., 85 Franklin' (s. Chas. Sharp). 59 Edward Slater, 67, 84 Franklin' (s. Chas. Shingle), 68 Eleanor, 69 Franklin Palmer, 86 Eleanor Canibe), 86 George (Rev.), 57, 80 Eliza, 36 George', 22, 25, 27, 96 Eliza Bethula, 86 George*, 26, 27, 28, 33, 35 Eliza Jane, 70, 87 George' (s. James'), 34 Elizabeth (w. of Dr. Thomas), 17, George' (s. John*), 34, 35, 42, 119 95, 96 George' (s. George'), 36 Elizabeth' (sometimes called Rosina George" (s. Thomas'), 44 Elizabeth), 22, 96 George", (s. Jesse'), 43 Elizabeth', 24, 99, 109 George Augustus, 83 Elizabeth', 35 George Clement. 44 Elizabeth' (dau. Wm.) ■ i7, 48 George Hugh, 84 139 INDEX Bringhurst, George Hunter', 54 75 Bringhurst, Jessie', 34, 35, 42, 43 George Hunter' (s. John Henry), 90 Jesse', 58 George Hunter" (s. John Henry), 91 Jesse Wilford, 86 George Kendrick, 81 Jessie, 87 George Robert', 82 John, 15 George Robert", 86 John, 16 George Ruthvan, 76, 91 John", 18, 21, 22, 58 George Ruthvan, Junr, 91 John', 17, 21, 22. 23, 95, 96, 103 George Washington, 59, 81, 82 John* (s. John'), 24, 102, 103, 105, Gerard Clarkson, 42 109 Gideon Martin, 89 John* (s. George'), 26, 27, 28, 2,2, a Guilda Ceciha, 90 John' (s. Samuel*), 36 Hannah, 28 John' (s. James*), 22, 38, 107 Hannah Harlan, 50 John", 38 Harriet, 89 John' (s. James'), 39, Si Harriet Fleming, 68 John', 49, 70 Harry, 71 John' (s. William Longstreth'), 52 Harry Earl, 82 John' (s. James'), 71 Harry Fauche, 8s John Beitler, 69, 87 Heber Grant, 87 John Frank, 70, 89 Helen, 92 John Frank, Junr, 89 Henrietta, 36 John Gull, 42, 54 Henry, 86 John Henry (Colonel), 44, 61, 62, Henry, Esq™, 16 63 Henry Brashear, 91 John Henry', Junr, 64 Henry L., 69 John Henry', Jun"", 76, 90 Henry Ryan', 50, 71, 72 John Henry", Junr, gi Henry Ryan', 72 John Keen, 43, 57, 58 Henry Washington, 80 John Richardson, 53, 72, ^2, 95 Hester, 26, 27, 28 John Samuel, 86 Horace, 68 John Tripp, 87 Horace Morton, So Jonathan, 32 Howard, 86 Joseph*, 24, loi, 107 Isaac, 34, 35 Joseph', (s. James*), 32, 39. 4a 41. 7i. Isaac (Rev. Dr.), 16 108, no Israel, iJ. 47 Joseph' (s. William*), 37 Jack Conner, 90 Joseph' (s. James'), 39, 49. 109 James, 16 Joseph' (s. Joseph'), 41, 52, 53 James*, 24, 30, 31, 100, 107, 108, III Joseph', 49 James", 32, 38, 109 Joseph' (s. John R.), 73 James', 39, 49 Joseph' (s. John'), 71 James', 50, 71 Joseph Alma, 86 James', 71 Joseph Crandall, 89 James Marion. 91 Joseph Robert, 67 James Minerva, 91 Joseph Willard, 87 Jean Vicar, 63 Josephine, 80 Jennie, 84 Julia, 67 140 INDEX Bringhurst, Julius Rene, 84 Bringhurst. Mary Elizabeth", 44 Kate, 91 Mary Elizabeth'. 63 Kate Hulings, 85 Mary Elizabeth' (dau. Samuel'), 69 Katharine, 17 Mary Elizabeth' (dau. William Long- Katherine Sexton. 83 streth), 52 Laur Selinda, 86 Mary Elizabeth", 86 Leo, 86 Mary Graves, 52 Leona, 71 Mary Greenfield, 85 Lewis, 70 Mary Louisa, 92 Lewis Bartleson, 47, Mary Lulu. 85 Lorenzo, 86 Mary Matilda, 47, 68 Louis Howard. 87 Mary Shute' (dau. Jesse"), 43 Lucy, 87 Mary Shute" (dau. Thomas'), 44 Lydia, 71 Mary Souder, 57, 58 Lydia Hazel, 83 Mary T., 74 Mabel Wiley, 82 Mary Thornton. 84 Margaret, 35 Mary Waters, 83 Margaret Blair, 64 Mary Wood, 56 Margaret Richardson. 53 Matthew', 36 Margaret Roberts, 54 Matthew", 42 Margaret Simmons, 43 Matthias, 36 Margaretta Simmons, 44. 59 Matthias Keen, 43. 58 Maria Louise' (dau. Major Robert Mifflin Morris, 86 Wilton), 83 Mildred Shute, 43 Maria Louise' (dau. Francis Augus- Minnie', 82 tus), 66 Minnie", 91 Marias William, 86 Mohonari Louis, 86 Marion, 87 Nettie Houston, 84 Mark Dilworth, 89 Newton Taliaferro, 83 Martha Jane, 44, 64 Norma, 89 Mary' (dau. George') , 28 Rachel, 32, 108 Mary* (dau. John'), 24, 29, 99. loj. Raymond Kopp, 71 no Rebecca', 28 Mary' (dau. John'), 35 Rebecca", 44, 60 Mary' (dau. George*) . 36 Rebecca', 63 Mary' (dau. William ). 37 Rebecca Hulings. 67 Mary' (dau. Samuel') . 36, 46 Rebecca Lydia, 52 Mary", 39, 50 Reta Gladys, 83 Mary' (dau. James'), 50 Robert", 36, 45 Mary' (dau. Colonel Thomas Hall), Robert'. 67 79 Robert Morris, 57, 81 Mary' (dau. Edward Slater), 84 Robert Peirce, 69 Mary' (dau. Robert Morris), 81 Robert Porter, 71, 89, 90 Mary', 87 Robert Porter, Jun"", 80 Mary Anna, 42, 54 Robert Ralston", 42, 56 Mary Dickinson, 40, 41 Robert Ralston' (s. William White) Mary Eleanor, 86 81 141 INDEX Bringhurst, Robert Ralston' (Captain) Bringhurst, Walter Scott, 90 (s. Colonel Thomas Hall), 79. 91. Washington Henry', 56, 75, 79 92, 129 Washington Henry', 79 Robert Tudor, 68 William, 16 Robert Wilton (Major), 66, 82 William', 26, 27, 28, 36 Robert Wilton, Junr, 83 William', 36 Rosina (Mrs.), 22 William", 41 Sallie Scott, 85 William' (s. Joseph"), 49, 69, 70 Samuel', 26, 27, 36 William' (M.D.) (s. Ziba Ferris), 54, SamueP, 36 74 Samuel' (s. Edward"), 54 William' (s. Joseph'), 49 Samuel' (s. Joseph"), 49, 69 William' (s. William Longstreth), 52 Samuel', 69, 87 William" (s. John Frank), 89 Samuel", 86 William" (s. William Joseph), 75 Samuel Enoch, 87 William Albert, 87 Samuel Houston, 84 William Augustus', 69, 86 Samuel Parker, 71 , William Augustus", 86 Sarah, 36 William Joseph' (s. Dr. William), 75 Sarah', 27, 28, 32 William Joseph' (s. William'), 70 Sarah', 34, 35 William Lawrence, 80 Sarah", (dau. George'), 42 William Longstreth, 51 Sarah" (dau. Thomas'). 44 William Morris. 47 Sarah', 56 William Robert, 45, 66 Sarah', 76 William Rufus', 67, 85 Sarah Ann, 39 William Rufus', 85 Sarah Ryan, 50 William Stuart', 66, 83 Susan, 49 ' William Stuart', 84 Susanna, 42 William White, 57, 81 Susanna Fraley, 44, 61 Wright Armat, 47 Tacy, 36, 45 Ziba Ferris, 41, 54 Theodore Plummer, 85 Brooke, Mary Ann Ritchie, 59 Thomas (Dr.), 17, 95 Robert, 59 Thomas, 16 Brooks, Maria, 55 Thomas, 17 Samuel, 55 Thomas', 24, loi Brown, Amanda, 60 Thomas', 34, 35, 43, 44 Elizabeth Ashburnham, 72 Thomas", 43 James, 82 Thomas' (s. Joseph"), 49 Rebecca, 59, 81 Thomas' (s. Colonel John Henry), 63 Wilson, 58 Thomas", 76 Bryan, Marianne, 74 Thomas Hall (Colonel), 56 76. 78, Buckley, William, 102 79 Budd, James Fletcher, 60 Tudor Robert. 45, 68 Burke, Nettie Eloise, 76, 91 Vera, 86 Andrew Jackson. 91 Vera Grace, 82 Burton, Anthony, 97 Vida, 86 Cadwalader, John, 104 Viola G., 82 Callender, Hannah, 30 142 INDEX Camden, Ella, 58 Claypoole, Mary, 22, 44, 98 Robert, 58 Clayton, John M. (Hon.), 72 Cantrill, Empson Bird, 59 John, 119 Matah Cordelia, 59 Rachel, 119 Carpenter, Samuel, 34 Clingan, , 132 Carroll, Ann, 32, 38 Close, Frances, 57 Carson, Anna E., 49 Cochfield, Joshua, 97 Annetta, 49 Coleman, William (Hon.), 100 Azariah, 49 Colladay, Susan, 45 Frank R., 49 Colley. Thomas, 109 Carter, Lucy Wright, 67 Collins, Thomas, 102, 103 William, 23 Conklin. Emma Hannah. 76 Clialkley, Thomas, 23, 104 Conrad, Henry C, 72 Champion, Alford H. (Dr.), 84 Cook. Francis, 96 Mattie Eliza, 67, 84 James, 42 Clark, Joseph, 104 Mary, 96 W. B., 108 Mildred, 42 Walter, 85 Coolidge, Henry A., 89 Clarkson, Anna (dan. Mayor Matthew), Mary Frances, 71, 89 35. 42, 119 Cooper, Fannie, 81 Anna (dau. Captain Matthew), 117 Thomas, 17 Catherine, 116 Coultas, James, 102 Cornelia (dau. Captain Matthew), "7 Coutam, Thomas, 105 Cornelia (dau. Mayor Matthew), 119 Cowper, William, 41 David (Rev.), D.D., 115 Cox, Deborah, 131 David (s. Mayor Matthew), 116, 119 Elizabeth (Mrs.), 120 David (s. Captain Matthew), 117 Henrietta, 131 Elizabeth, 115 James, 120 Gerard, 119 John, 120 Gerardus, 117 Maria, 120 John, 117 Peter, 131 Levinus (s. Captain Matthew), 117 Robert Ralston. 120 Levinus (s. Mayor Matthew), 119, 120 Sarah (Mrs.), 120 Matthew (Captain), 116, 126 Sarah Ralston, 120 Matthew (s. Mayor Matthew), 11 9 Thomas, 22 Matthew (Mayor), 42, 117, 118, 119. Crandall, Ann Dilworth, 89 129, 131 Ivy Lucile, 89 Matthew (Hon.), 115 Martin Pardon, 88, 89 Matthew (Major-General), 116 Mahala Harriet, 70, 89 Sarah, 119, 120 Milan Lucian, 70, 88 Thomas, 119 Milan Lucian, Jun'', 89 Clawson, Jessie, 88 William Bringhurst, 89 Clay, Henry, 41 Crawford, Ada, 65 Claypoole, Elizabeth, 24, 99 Crhall, Charles Engle, 60 George, 99. 100, loi Elizabeth Fraley, 61 James, 24, 96 Jacob, 44, 60 John, 24, 91 Mary Ann, 60 143 INDEX Crhall, Rebecca Milner, 6l Susannah Margaretta, 6l Thomas Bringhurst, 60 William Henry Fraley, 60 Cribb, Captain, 104 Crippen, Edward J., 50 Crotch, W., no Culnan, Charles, 58 Elizabeth, 43, 58 Margaret (Mrs.), 58 Currier, Mary, 28 William, 28 Damens, Maritie, 126 Darling, Sarah, 61 Davis, Samson, 34 Dean, Benjamin, 120 John Sterling, 63 William, 120 De Hass, John Philip, Sen^ (Colonel), 45 De La Noys, Abraham, 124 De Peyster, Abraham (Colonel), 124, 125 Abraham (s. Captain Johannes), 126 Anna, 126 Catharine, 126 Cornelia (dau. Johannes, Esq^e^ 125 Cornelia, 116 Cornelia (dau. Captain Johannes), 126 Cornells, 125 Elizabeth, 126 Gerardus, 126 Isaac, 125 Jacob, 125 Johannes (Captain), 116, 124, 125, 126 Johannes, Esqre, 123, 124 Johannes, (s. Captain Johannes), 126 Maria, 125 William, 126 Detwiler, Daniel D. (Dr.), 68 Stanley Hobson, 68 Dickinson, John (Colonel), 39, 40, 41, 99, III John (Mrs.), 40 Jonathan, 99 Dillard, , 131 Diller, John, 46 Dilwin, John, 104 Dilwin, Mary, 104 Sarah, 104 Dilvvorth, Ann, 49, 69 Caleb, 69 Dissinton, Cornelia, 125 Di.xon, Amy, 41, 54 Isaac, 54 Samuel G. (Dr.), 74 Dobleman, Elizabeth L., 55 Dorsey, Maria, 120 Robert Ralston, 120 Drinker, D., in Elizabeth (Mrs.), 119 Henry, in Duche, Jacob (Colonel), 102 Dunant, Edward, 34, 35 Dungworth, Emanuel, 22, 96 Richard, 22 Eastburn, Benjamin, 25 Eccles, Margaret Elizabeth, 50 Eccleston, Theodore, 22 Eddins, Jessie, 87 Edes, Robert, 105 Edghill, Simon, 23, 100 Edwards, Morgan (Rev.), 36 Emlen, Samuel, 108, no Epperson, W. P., 85 Ernst. Baltzer, 59 Anna Maria (Mrs.), 59 Estaugh, John, 104 Evans, David, 49 Elizabeth, 39, 49 Mary, 29 Mordecai Dawson, 52 Peter, 100 Eyre, Mary Ann, 120 Fairman, George, 65 Farren, Jane Josephine, 57 Fenton, Thomas, 100 Ferguson, Annie E., Ti Fern, Peter, 105 Ferris, Deborah, },2, 41, no Ziba, 41 Finnegan, Katharine, 75 Finney, Charles, 34 Mary, 28, 34 Samuel (Rev., D.D.), 117 144 INDEX Fitzgerald. Edward, Earl of Kildare, 115 Gamble, Robert Bringhurst. 57 Flanagan, Louis A , 81 William Pateman. 57 Fleming, Christopher, 104 Garrett, George Rowcll, 55 Harriet, 68 Levi. 55 John, 104 Mary Margaret. 55 Flower, Mary, 117 Garvin. William Stewart. 44 Samuel, 117 Gemmill, Arthur Stewart, 79 Floyd, David, 64 Henry C. (Dr.), 79 Cornelia Eleanor, 64 Henry C, Jun"". 79 Mary Bringhurst, 64 Julia, 79 James, 64 Robert Bringhurst. 79 Ford, Philip, 22 Thomas Bringhurst, 79 Fothergal, John, loi Thomas Hugh, 79 Fothergill, Samuel, 107 Gergas, Elizabeth, 46 Foulke, Cadwalader, 29, 103 Gibbons, Anna, 28 Cadwalader", 29 Helen (Mrs.), 28 Deborah, 30 Henry. 28 E., no, III Gibson, Mary Agnes, 82 Elizabeth, 30 Goodman, Elizabeth, 47 John, 29, no Goodson, Job, 103 Judah, 24, 29, 103 Gordin, Governor, 100 Mary, 29, in Gotwaltz, Elizabeth, 68 Fowle, Thomas. 105 Graff, Mrs., 24 Fox, George, 18 Graves, Bartholomew, 51 Fraley, Henry, 43 Rebecca Lydia, 39, 51 John, 43 Green, Captain, 102 Mary, 35, 43 Ashbcl (Rev., D.D.), 120 Franklin, Benjamin, 31 Greenfield. Mary Jane. 67, 85 Fredericks, John Long, 49 Gregory. David, 43 Freeburn, Jane, 64 Rachel B., 39 Freeman, Ann Margaret, 116 William, 39 Bernardus (Rev.), 116 Grimston, Edward (Sir), 129 Fremont, John C. 79 Henrietta, 129 Froert, Margaret, 74 Groesbecl:, Ann Louise, 88 Friili, Elizabeth, 43 Clara, 88 Heinrich, 43 Emma Elizabeth, 88 Fuller, Mahala, 88 Frank, 88 Fulton, Robert, 41 Florence, 88 Gallagher, Ann, 51 Grant Allen, 88 Gamble, Charles. 57 John A., 70, 88 Edmund Nelson, 57 John A., Junr, 88 Emma Matilda, 58 Mark Bringhurst, 88 George Washington, 57, 58 Milton Dilworth, 88 John, 43, 57 Nicholas. 88 John Keen, 57 Walter Scott, 88 Mary Elizabeth, 57 Guest, Alice (Mrs.), 96, 104 Mildred, 57 Elizabeth, 96 145 INDEX Guest, George, 96, 104 Henekel, Mary Ann Dorothea, 64 George (s. George), 23, 96 Herkness, Adam, 37, 38 John, 96 Adam, Jun"", 48 Phebe, 96, 104 Alfred Morris", 48 Gurley, John, 105 Alfred Morris', 48 Hahn, William (Dr.), 47 Benjamin Leander, 48 Haines, Reuben, 59 Benjamin Theodore, 48 Hall, Alice, 107 Elizabeth, 48 Anna, 55 Isabelle, 48 Charles, 55 Leander, 48 Edward Augustus, 55 Mary, 48 Edward James, 70, 89 Walter, 48 Elinor Bringhurst, 89 William, 48 Ferol, 89 Hiester, Emma M., 49 George Bringhurst, 55 Hilderburn, Phebe, 50 John, 54 Hill, Henry Van Reid, 64 John', 55 Richard (Mayor), 102 Mabel, 89 Richard, 98 Margaret, 55 Hillegas, Michael, 131 Thomas Mifflin, 42, 54 Hinchman, Joseph H., 61 Wilton D., 89 Hobart, , 131 Hamilton, John D., 102 Hobson, Francis, 47, 68 Hanley, Cornelia Anna, 59, 8i Frank M., 68 Hardin, William Allen Miles, 98 Freeland G., 68 Harris, A. Jackson, 60 John, 68 Harrity, William F., 65 Mary M., 68 Hart, Catharine, 64 Sarah, 68 Haslett, James, 59 Hodgson, Fanny, 81 Haughton, John, 108 Frederick A., 81 Haymond, Amasa L., Jun'', 88 Holcroft, Elizabeth. 116 Amasa L., 70, 87 Henry (Sir), 115 Ann Eliza, 88 Holland, Emeline, 50 Edward Owen, 87 Holmes, Thomas, 24 Elma Florence, 88 Holton, Arthur. 96 Frank Owen, 88 Hood. Elizabeth. 34 George Dilworth 88 John, 34 John C, 88 Hopper, John, 99 Louise Bringhurst, 88 John S., 56 Marion Bringhurst, 88 Hopwood, Samuel, 104 Walter Creed, 88 Horton, Amanda Almine, 89 William Bringhurst, 88 Hoskins, Mary, 97 Hazard, Ebenezer, 116 Richard (Dr.), 97 Samuel, 116 Houston. Henry H., 56 Samuel (analyst''. 116 . Nettie Powers, 66. 83 Heise, , 132 Sam (Major-General). 83 Hendricks, Ella M., 68 Hudsonn. Thomas. 22 Henekel, John Michael (Dr.), 64 Hughes, Elizabeth, 17, 95 146 INDEX Huidekoper, Henry S., 65 Keser, Harry J., 64 Hillings. Julia, 45, 66 Kester, Elizabeth Boyd. 56 Marcus, 67 Keyser, Elizabeth, 46 Thomas, 67 Peter, 46 Hurst, Jane, 60 Kile, Mollie, 82 Hyatt, John, 104 Kinsey, John, loi Ingram, William, 22 Klincken, Arent, 25, 96 Jackman. Joseph, loi Knight, Peter, 45 James, Amanda Melvina (Mrs.), 54, 74 Kramer, Florence, 83 Benjamin, 105 Joseph, 83 Mary H., 73 Lanning, Benjamin. 49 Thomas M., 7J Larison, Margaret R., 57 Jarret, John, 25 Lauderdale, Howard, 79 Mary, 25 Howard F., 79 Jefferis, Elizabeth, 53 Lavalley, Charles, 96 James (Captain), 53 Lawton, Mary, ^2., 38 Jefferson, President, 39, 41 Robert, 38 Jenkins, Sarah, 47 Lea, Catharine Moore. 55 Jewell, Martha, 64 Thomas, 55 Johnson, , 45 Leberman, Ferdinand, 64 Jones, Charles Henry. 103 Leckie, Judith Taliaferro, 66, 83 John, 27 William R.. 83 Jordan, Robert, 102, 103, 104 Lee. Bishop, 80 Justice. Lemuel Burgess, 57 Leech, Toby, 28 Kaiser, Christine (Mrs.), 81 Lehman, Benjamin, 46 George Bringhurst, 81 Benjamin Bringhurst, 46 Henry, 81 Christian, 46 Julius, A., 81 Elhanan, 46 Kay, Martha, 79 Godfrey, 46 Keen, Gregory B., 36 Lorenzo Levering, 46 John, 42 Samuel Bringhurst, 47 Joran, 36 Susanna E., 47 Joseph P.. 58 William, 36, 46 Matthias, 36 Leivens, Annetje, 115 Mildred. 35, 42 Levis, S3 Susanna. 28. 36 Lewis, Colonel. 42 Kelly, James, 75 Isaac, 47 Mary Frances, 75 Mary, 37. 47 Kelley, Marion. 95 Lincoln, Abraham, 62, 82 William, 95 Lippincott, Ella, 66 Kendrick, George W.. 81 Littlefield, Mary, 57 Jennie R., 57, 81 Livingston, Margaret (Mrs.), 116 Keppele, Mary Mitchell. 55 Robert, Jun"", 116 Michael (Hon.). 55 Loder, Mary Jane, 48 Kern, Susan, 49 Lodovvyck, Charles (Major), 116 Kersey, Jesse, no Loftus, Ralph, loi Keser, Carl William, 64 Logan, James, 23 147 INDEX Longstretli, James, 51 Joseph, 50 Joseph, Juni", 51 Margaret, 51 William, 51 William Wilson, 39, 50, 51 Lubberts, Cornelia. 124 Marritie, 124 Liikens, John, 34 Lusk, Eloise, 91 Mackenet, Daniel, 27 Madison, President, 39 Maddock, Anna, 50 Edward, 50 Ezekiel Edwards, 50 Henry, 50 John B., so Mary L., 50 Phebe, 50 William L., Juni", 50 William Lloyd, 39, 50 Maddox, Joseph, loi Mahon, John Alexander, Jun^, 65 John Alexander, M.D., 65 Man, Captain, 102 Manlove, Christopher, 67 Virginia, 45, 67 March, Eliza, 49, 70 Henry, 70 Mary (Mrs.), 70 Marshall. Ann, 31 James, 102 Louise, 66 Marvilius, Johannes Heinrich, 59 Phillipina Catharina, 59 Matern, Abigail, 21, 22, 95 John, 21, 94, 95 Rosina, 20. 95 Mayes, Edward, 96 McCord. Sarah Elizabeth, 61 McCnllongh, John, 34, 35 McCune, Earl Vivian, 88 McDonald, Maria, 81 MtKean, Thomas (Governor), 45 McKee, Margaret, 50 McNamee, Ellen, 51 John, 51 Mecke, Clara Bringhurst, 64 George, 64 George Kenneth, 64 Mary Kate, 64 Meller, Elizabeth, Ti George B., -jt, Sarah Savery (Mrs.), "jz Mengle, Annetta Margaret, 64 Merrill, 132 Michener, Fannie, 64 John Hart, 64 William, 64 Miles, Benjamin F., 58 Benjamin Starne, 58 Esther Starne (Mrs.), 58 Franklin Starne, 56 Mildred Cook, 58 Miller, John. 22 Mary, 83 Sebastian, 59 Susanna, 59 Millis, Susan, 42, 54 Mitchell, John, 32, },}, Monroe, President, 39 Moody, George Vernon, 41 Mooney, Caroline Elizabeth, 61 Moore, Ann, 108 John Hamilton, 68 Sarah, 109 Sarah A., 68 Morgan, Esther, 45 Morris, Anthony, 23, 96, 104 E., 108 Mary, 28, 36 Samuel, 102, 104 Thomas, III Morrison, William, 22. 96 Mort, Esther L.. 81 Morton, Robert, 29, 30 Samuel, 107 Mustin, Susanna, 47 Myers, Samuel Newton, 61 Nagle, Henry, 92 Mary, 92 Naglee, John, 132 Mary, 45 Neale, Samuel, 107, 108 148 INDEX Neilds, Benjamin, 72 Nelson, Nancy, 67 Nesmith, Margaret. 54 Neufville, , 75 Newbold, Michael, Sen"", iig, 129 Sarah, 129, 131 Nicholls, 131 Richard (Governor). 124 Noble, Joseph, 10^ Offley, D., 108 Oliver, Mary S., 55 Orr, Robert, 87 Sarah, 87 Owen, Evan, 97 Griffith (Dr.), 9? Oxley (Mrs.), 24 John, 24, 105 Joseph, 107, 108 Packer, Judge Asa. 51 Palmer, Anna, 28, i2 Elizabeth, 28. 2>2 George, 27, 28, ^2 Mary, 28, 32 Selinda Dalby, 69, 86 Virginia, 48 Parel, Sarah, 59 Parker, Abraham H. 58 Eleanor, 30 Elizabeth Alice, 71 Richard. 30 Pastorius. Henry. 25 Pateman, Mary, 57 Patterson. George W.. 49 Robert, 31 Patton, Elizabeth, 75 Paul, Susan. 63 Paxon, Joseph, 52 Margaret, 52 Pearson, William, 30 Peckover, Edmond. 105 Peddle, Charlotte, 61 Pemberton. Israel. 23, 104 James. 30. 1 1 1 John. 109 Penington. Edward. 95 Isaac, 95 Isaac (Sir), 95 Penn, John (Governor), 29, 46 William, 23, 28, 95 Perdue, William, 103 Perry, Samuel, 58 Sarah Crandall, 58 Peters, Hannah, 24 Pickering, John (Governor). 104 Pierce. Rachel. 82 Plummer, Thaddeus, 67 Theophilus, 67 Theophilus, Jun"", 67 Plumsted, Clement, 104 Pole, Anna, 24, 30, 31, 107, 108 John, 30, 31 Ponder, Governor, 52 Poston, Benjamin Franklin, 67 Frank Hulings, 67 John Hamill, 67 Philander Dake, 67 Potter, Bishop, 56, 80 Powell, Elizabeth, 34 William. 34 Prache, or Prachen, Barbara, 21. 22, 95, 96 Hillarius (Rev.) 21, 95 Rosina, 21 Prct, Alexander, 102 Preuss, Barbara Cecelia, 61 Price, Sterling (General), 83 Pritchard, Edward S., 61 Proud, Robert, 29, 107 Proudfit, Abigail (Mrs.), 120 Provoost. David. Jun^, 125 Raguet, Condy (Colonel). 35 Ralston, Abigail Hazard, 120 Ashbel Green, 120 Elizabeth Ann, 120 George, 120 Gerardus, 120 Henry Rutgers, 120 Matthew Clarkson, 120 Maria, 120 Rebecca, 120 Rebecca (dau. George), 120 Robert, 42. 119 Robert, Jun^, 120 Samuel Finley, 120 149 INDEX Ralston, Sarah, 120 Scott. Robert Henry, 67 William Cox, 120 Sarah, 67, 85 Read, Charles, 34 Walter Greenfield, 67 Reed, Thomas, 23, 97 William Henry, 67 Rex, Abraham, 59 William Reese, M.D., 64 Anna (Mrs.), 59 William Reese (Rev., D.D.), 64 Margaret, 59 William Rufus, 67 Reynell, John, 108 Seal, Emma, 57, Bi Rice, Susanna Margaretta, 43 Joseph H.. 81 Richardson. Anna, 41, 52 Mary, 54 John, 52 Segur, Count, 38 Sarah, 7^ Sellers, Alexander, 74 Richmond, John, 100 Alexander", 74 Ridgway, Mary, 109 Anne Bringhurst, 74 Roberts, Elizabeth, 104 Samuel, 28 Margaret, 54 Sarah. 28, 45, 66 Robins, Robert Patterson (Dr.), 102 William. 74 William, 23, 97 William", 74 Rodman, Clarke (Dr.), 103, 104 Sewell, Richard, 132 Sarah, 52 Sexton, Elvira, 83 Walter, 103. 104 Sharp. Charles. s8 Rodney, Rev. Mr., 60 Laura, 51 Rooke, Alice, ,S7, 81 Rebecca, 43, 58 Roosevelt, Margaretta, 126 Sharpless, Benjamin. 11 Rosch, Barbara, 59 Edith, 41 Rose, Thomas, 27 Shingle, Caroline, 45, 68 Ross, Elizabeth, 56, 79 Shipley, Joseph, 53, 74 Ezekiel, 79 Sarah, 41, S3 Roth, Elizabeth, 75 Samuel, 53 Harry, 49 William. 53 Royden, Mary, 34 Shippen, Joseph, 43 Ruckert, Johan Katharine, 64 Shute, Abraham, 34 Ryan, John, 49 Ann, 34 Mary, 50, 71 Anna, 34 Rebecca, 39, 49 Christian, 34 Samson, Samuel, 30 Elizabeth, 28. 34 Sanders, Charles, 98 Isaac, 34 Sargent, Winthrop (General), 31 Jacob, 34 Saunders, William, 22 John. 35 Say, William, 96 Joseph, 34 Schlatter, Gerardus, 59 Mary (Mrs.). 34 Schrick, Paulus, 125 Thomas, Senr, 34 Schuyler, Philip Pieterse (Colonel), 115 Thomas, Tunf, 34 Scott, Burgess Henry, 67 William, 34 Edward Greenfield, 67 Siddon, Samuel. 22 Julia Bryan, 67 Simmons, Catharine, 35 Mary, 67, 84 James, 34. 35 150 INDEX Simmons, John Bringhurst. 35 Steel, Elizabeth, 34 William S., 35 James, 34 Sims, Jane Minerva, 90 Steele, Susan A., 69, 86 John, loi Stephens, John, Jun"", 31 Sissel, Margaret Ann. S7 Stevenson, John, 107 Slack, Elizabeth, 49, 70 Mary, 55 Slemons. Sarah, 120 Stewart, Alexander, 125 Slifer, Anna Floyd, 64 Mary J., 56, 79 Jacob, 63 Stille, Charles J. (Dr.), 40 John Henry, 63 Stokes, Annie S., 53. 73 Josiah Freed, 63 James, 73 Mary Bringhurst, 63 Storer, John, 109 Paul Bringhurst, 64 Storey, Lyde, 61 Walter Bringhurst, 63 Stotsenberg, Annie M., 73 Smith, 131 Stuyvesant, Peter (Governor), 123 Ada Zilla, 51 Super, Henry W. (Rev.), 68 Charles A. (Dr.), 44, 64 Sutten, Mary, 99 Charles Henry, 61 Sweeney, John P., 52 Charles Louis, 64 Swift, John, 36 Charles T., 64 Tanguy, George B.. ^7 Elizabeth Ashburnliam, 50, 72 Samuel L., 56 Fannie Jeannette Bliss, 65 William B., 57 Franklin (Captain), 72 Tatnall, Elizabeth, 53, 73 Horace J., 51 Mary, 53 Irene Elizabeth, 65 Taylor, Abraham (Colonel), 102 John Gait, 74 Christopher, 18, 95 Mary Bringhurst, 65 Harriet, 89 Nannah, 63 Teerling, Jan Van, 126 0. P. (Rev.), 68 Tennent, Gilbert (Rev.), 116, 117 Othelia G., 82 Theobald, Ella, 58 Rachel, 31 Thomas, David D. (Rev.), 79 Richard (Dr.), 31 Evan, 100 Samuel. 74, 109 William, 104, 105 Valentine, 82 Thompson, Elizabeth. 88 William (Dr.), 44 Thorn, Ella, 65 Songhurst, Elizabeth, g8 Thornton, James, log John, 98, 99 Tinsley, Samuel, 76 John, Junr, 98 Toaler, Andrew, 18, 95 Sarah, 98 Tomkins, John, 22 Sender, John J., 43 Torr, Anna, 56, 75, 79 Spavold, Samuel, 107 Charles Clarence, 75 Spratt, John, 125 Elizabeth, 75 Stamper, Captain, 104 Ellen, 75 Stanbury, Marv 102 Fanny, 75 Nathan, 102 Harry, 75 Stapeley, Mary J., 69, 86 John, 75 Staples, John, 22 Josephine, 75 151 INDEX Torr, Julia, 75 Lucy, 75 William Henry, 75 William S., 54, 75, 79 Tregeny, Elizabeth, 34 Tripp, Emma Frances, 69, 87 Enoch Bartlett, 87 John, 105 Nancy, 54, 75 Trump, Sarah, 28, 35 Turner, Kate, yd Maissie, 76 Nathaniel Parker, 76 Penelope, 68 Tyson, Isaac, 30, iii Van Baal, Maria, 125 Van Buylaert, John, 21 Mariana, 21, 22, 95 Van Cortlandt, Johannes, 116 Van Eps. Dirk, 126 Elizabeth Dirckse, 126 Van Rensellaer, Jeremiah (Captain), Richard, 115 Van Schayck, Catharine, 115, 116 Gerritje, 116 Gerritt Goosen (Captain), 115 Levinus, 116 Margaretta, 116 Maria, 116 Vaughan, James (Rev., D.D.), 80 Mary K., 63 Veale, George, 74 Verree, James, 63 James, Juni", 63 John P. (Hon.), 63 John Paul Bringhurst, 63 Vicar, Jean, 63 Walker, Robert, 108 Wain, N., 108, no Ware, Edmund, 67 Warner, Edward, 100 Washington, General, 32, Jil' 43 Waters, John Richard (Hon.), 66 Maria Louise, 44, 66 Sallie Sellers, 66. 84 William (Captain), 66 William, Junf, 84 115 Watson, John, 109 William, loi Watts, Elizabeth, 67 Frederick (General), 67 Wayne, Anthony (Colonel), 133 Webb, Anna J., 54, y^ Thomas D., "jt, Webster, , 87 Whelen, , 131 Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth (Mrs.), 99 Joseph, 99 Thomas, 99 White, William (Right Rev.), 43 Whitehead, James. 44 Whitehill, , 132 Whitney, , 131 Emma St. Clair (Miss), 129, 132, 133 Whitpain, John, 98 Whittington, Benjamin, 44, 61 Francis Louisa, 61 George Washington, 61 Henry Baeder, 61 John Bringhurst, 61 Louis Augustus, 61 Mary Bringhurst, 61 Sallie Darling, 61 Sarah Ann. 61 Susanna Fraley, 61 Thomas Bringhurst, 61 William Penn, 61 Wickel, Sarah, 87 Wilkinson, Elizabeth. 107 Margaret, 45 Williams, William (Mrs.), 35 Willis, Clarence Addison, 65 Williamson, Nicholas Gilpin, 39 Rebecca Catharine, 49, 70 Willett, Thomas, 124 Wilson, Esther Harlan, 53, T2, Isabelle, 58 John, 97 Rachel, 107, 108 William Worthington, 73 Winder, Catharine, 68 Wister, William Wynne, 59 Wood, Mary, 42, 56 152 liNDEX Woodrop, Robert S. (Dr.). 47 Wunder, John Henry, 66 Woollerton, Eliza, 70 Lewis Gilliam. 44, 65 Wright, Postmaster, 65 Lewis Jeanes, 66 R., 108 Thomas Bringhurst, 65 Wunder, Ella Sickles, 65 Yerger, Mary Caroline, 79, 92 Frank Augustus, 65 John R., 92 Ida Virginia, 66 Young, Nell, 88 Jacob N., 65 Zipf. Delia. 80 THE END H 254 79 V .'^ % -^ ■J %- K^ . " B y O ' • kJ ■■>• A' ,0^ *•. ^' 0^ ,."•« "^o ^-^^ .""■. ^•^^^ ^ ./^ ^>:i^'; \^^^^'^^§^'. %/ ;>^m:' \^^^ ^v?^'. %/ ;:; j>u^ /"^^^ .. ,., , y-v V §.. k*'' ''^ V •^^0^ :^^. -^^^ ;^»?^' %/ =^ %,^ .\^v "\/ :;$#te %.<^ "I V .-4^ ^^c,'^ .n -„ - . < A. /... c^ ^'. -^^.^ .y^:. -,^/ ,;^, %^/ .^, -,^/ ,;^<, *.,^^,c° ,^r^._ .^^ .V . ^_. ^v-^^ c°r». <^. •'.% co^^>;^'> ^^.-^^'^^X ^c«\';^^^ / ' . . * ^-- \y '^*S', \, ,/\ii&, \^^.^' :m.^ ^ :'^o^^:^'- %/.:^^ V//^i^^ %^ A^ "^ \^ , . 'i • 0^ . N. MANCHESTER, INDIANA 46962 1 r-.^ ■-