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COLONIAL FAMILIES
OF
PHILADELPHIA
EDITOR : JOHN W. JORDAN, LL. D.
VOLUME II
NEW YORK CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1911
Copyright 191 i. The Lewis Publishing Company.
(;'i)AT-of-ai;ms op john i^aruner.
LARDNER FAMILY.
The English family of Lardner, to which Lynford Lardner, Provincial Coun- cillor of Pennsylvania (1755-73) belonged, was one of the old famiHes of Nor- folk or Kent counties, and bore as its arms, "Gu. on a fesse between three boars' heads couped ar. a bar wavy sable." These arms were used as a seal by the Coun- cillor. His great-grandfather Lardner married a Miss Ferrars, and their son, Thomas Lardner, married and had issue:
John Lardner, m. Miss Winstanley; of whom presently;
James Lardner, distinguished clergyman ;
Thomas Lardner ;
Sarah Lardner, m. a Springett of Strumshaw, Norfolk.
John Lardner, eldest son, father of Lynford Lardner, studied at Christ Col- lege, Cambridge, and received there the degree of Medical Doctor. He had a town house on Grace Church street, London, and a country house at Woodford, Epping Forest, county of Essex; had a good practice and reputation as a physi- cian, and was related to Most Rev. Dr. Thomas Herring, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
John Lardner had issue:
Francis Lardner, d. June 18, 1774; bur. St. Clement's, London; John Lardner, d. 1740-1 ;
Hannah Lardner, m. Richard, son of William Penn, the Founder, and one oi the Pro- prietaries of Pa.; Thomas Lardner, citizen of London; Lynford Lardner, the Councillor; of whom presently; James Lardner, of Norwich, county Norfolk; Elizabeth Lardner, m. Wells, of county Norfolk.
Lynford Lardner, born near London, England, July 18, 171 5, was named for a near relative and friend of the family, Rev. Thomas Lynford, S. T. D., Rector of St. Nicholas Aeon and Chaplain of King William and Queen Mary, and like his father was entered as a student at the Univerity of Cambridge, but later accepted a position in a counting-house in London. His family made an effort to secure him a government position in England, and failing, the influence of his brother-in-law, Richard Penn, secured him an opening in Pennsylvania, and he came to Philadelphia at the age of twenty-five years, sailing from Grave- send May 5, 1740, and arriving in Philadelphia in the beginning of September. He was at once employed in the land office, and assisted in the management of the wild and unsettled lands of the frontier then being rapidly opened up for settle- mnt under the purchase of 1736. August 8, 1741, he was appointed to succeed James Steel as Receiver-General of the Province, and had charge of the collec- tion of the Quit Rents and purchase money due the Proprietaries, as well as act- ing as their commercial agent, in which position he displayed excellent business ability. He was made Keeper of the Seal, December 12, 1746, and held that posi- tion and the office of Receiver-General until March 28, 1753, being succeeded in
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both positions by Richard Hockley, a protege of John Penn, another of the Pro- prietaries. His association with the land ofifice gave him the opportunity to secure grants of valuable lands in his own right and he became a large landed proprietor. As early as 1746, he became the owner of Collady's Paper Mills, Springfield town- ship, Chester (now Delaware) county, and soon after that date he was largely interested in the manufacture of iron in Berks and Lancaster counties. He be- came a Justice of Lancaster County Courts October 16, 1752. His connection with the Penn family gave him a position in the social and business world of Philadelphia which his eminent ability easily qualified him to fill. He was named as one of the directors of the Library Company, of Philadelphia, 1746, and again 1760, and was an original manager of the Dancing Assembly, instituted in the winter of 1748. He was called to the Provincial Council June 13, 1755, and con- tinued a member of that body until his death. The Assembly having made no provision for the raising of troops for the defense of the frontiers, the people of the various counties of the state raised volunteer companies called associators, and elected 'their officers. Lynford Lardner volunteered in the first company of the Philadelphia Associators, was elected First Lieutenant, and with the regi- mental officers of the Philadelphia Regiment, was commissioned by the Provincial Council January 28, 1747; again, March, 1756, he was commissioned Lieutenant of the Troop of Horse organized by the Council with two companies of foot and one of artillery, for the defense of the City of Philadelphia in the French and Indian War. He was also named as one of the commissioners to disburse the money appropriated by the Assembly "for the King's use." He was one of the trustees of the College of Philadelphia, parent of the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. October 27, 1749, he married Elizabeth, born in Philadelphia, 1732, daughter of William Branson, a wealthy merchant in Philadelphia, and sister to the wife of Richard Hockley, who succeed- ed him as Register-General and Keeper of the Seal. After his marriage he resid- ed on the west side of Second street, above Arch, and had his country seat, "Som- erset," on the Delaware, near Tacony, part of which has since been known as Lardner's Point. He owned a number of stores and houses in the vicinity of his residence and a large amount of real estate in the upper part of the city. Over 2500 acres of land were surveyed to him in Bucks county, 1741-51, most of it lying in what became Northampton county, 1752. On a tract of several hundred acres in Whitehall township he erected a commodious building which he named "Grouse Hall," where he and a number of his Philadelphia friends were in the habit of sojourning to shoot grouse and other game abundant in that locality. The "Hall" being painted white, and known by travelers and inhabitants as "the White Hall," is said to have given the name to the township when organized in 1753. Mr. Lardner secured warrants of survey for over 5000 acres of land in Northampton county after its organization. He was a keen sportsman, exceed- ingly fond of outdoor life, and doubtless spent much time in company with his friends upon his wild land in Northampton county, he was also a member of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club. He died October 6, 1774, and was buried at Christ Church. His wife, Elizabeth Branson, died August 26, 1761, and he married (second) at Christ Church, May 29, 1766, Catharine Lawrence, who survived him.
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Issue of Lynford and Elizabeth (Branson) Lardner:
Elizabeth Lardner, b. 1750; d. young;
John Lardner^ b. Sept. 6, 1752; m. Margaret Saltar; of whom presently;
Frances Lardner, b. Nov. 8, 1754; d. unm. ;
Hannah Lardner, b. Nov. 28, 1756; d. unm.;
William Lardner, b. Dec. 8, 1758; m. (first) Anne Shepherd; (second) Susan Elliott;
James Lardner, b. 1761; lost at sea, 1780.
John Lardner, eldest son of the Councillor by his first marriage, born in Phila- delphia, September 6, 1752, was a member of the famous sporting club, known as the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, in October, 1775, participated with them in the formation of the "First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry," and participated with it in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown, for which and other meritorious services the gallant troop received the thanks of Congress and the commendation of Gen. Washington. John Lardner was Cornet of the Troop 1779-83, and 1794-96, during the Whiskey Insurrection. He was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly 1791, and was commissioned Captain of the Third Troop of Philadelphia Light Horse, 1798, when war with France was imminent. He died in Philadelphia, February 12, 1825, and was buried at Trinity Church, Oxford township, Philadelphia county. He married at "Magnolia Grove," the beautiful country seat of the Saltar family, December 24, 1789, Margaret, daugh- ter of John and Rachel (Reese) Saltar, born May 8, 1767, and died May 23, 1834. John Saltar was the son of Hon. Richard Saltar, member of Provincial Council and Justice of Supreme Court of New Jersey, and Hannah Lawrence. Capt. James Lawrence, U. S. N., who was killed in battle, was her great-nephew. Their home was on Walnut street, Philadelphia, and their summers were spent at "Somerset."
Issue of John and Margaret (Saltar) Lardner:
Elizabeth Lardner, b. Jan., 1791 ; d. unm.;
Lynford Lardner, b. June 12, 1792, at "Somerset," d. June 23, 1834, graduated at Univ. of Pa., 181 1, received honorary degree of Master of Arts; entered the counting-house of Joseph Sims, 181 5, and was later a merchant; served as member of First City Troop during War of 1812, and was Captain of Troop, 1825-7; served two terms in Pa. Legislature, 1820-21 and 1833-4; married, May 20, 1823, Elizabeth Wilmer, and had issue, John Lardner, a Philadelphia merchant, d. s. p. ;
Richard Penn Lardner, b. Nov. 8, 1795; d. May 19, 1882; graduated at University, 1813, degree of Master of Arts, 1817, resided at "Graydon," Montgomery county, and later in the city; Second Lieutenant of City Troop, 1826-7; Treasurer of Phila. and Reading Railroad Co.; m. (first), February 12, 1824, Anna Boswell, b. at Calcutta 1797, d. March 15, 1870, dau. of Capt. James Tennant of the Royal Navy; m. (second) Anna G'bbon, dau. of his first cousin Catharine Lardner, who had m. Dr. John Heyshem Gibbon;
John Saltar Lardner, b. Dec, 1797; d. Oct., 1798;
William Branson Lardner, b. March 6, 1799; d. s. p. Nov., 1821; member of American Philosophical Society;
John Lardner, b. July, 1801 ; d. March 3, 1865: Second Lieutenant of First City Troop, 1833-9; m. Mary Perot Downing. Issue: Charles, d. young; Perot, d. s. p.;
Lawrence Lardner, b. Nov. 20, 1802, removed to Oconomowac, Wisconsin; d. there March, 1873; m. Mary, dau. of George Breck, of Phila. Issue: Hannah, d. s. p.; George; Catharine, unm.; Richard, and Alexander;
James Lawrence Lardner, b. Nov. 20, 1802; Rear-Admiral U. S. N.; of whom pres- ently ;
Henry Lardner, b. Feb., 1804, removed to Michigan; d. there 1852; m. Mary Keyes, and had issue: Henry, m. Lena, dau. of Rev. Phillips;
Edward Lardner, b. Oct. 25, 1805; d. s. p. 1824;
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Alexander Lardner, b. March 28, 1808; d. July 14, 1848; some time Cashier of U- S- Bank, Phila.; m. Esther Hoppin of Providence, R. I., and had issue: Mary, wife of Isaac Starr of Phila. ; Esther, d. s. p.
James Lawrence Lardner, sixth son of John and Margaret (Saltar) Lardner, born in Philadelphia, November 20, 1802, entered U. S. N. as a midshipman, May 10, 1820, was on the frigate Brandywine that took Marquis Lafayette back to France, 1825, after his visit to the United States. He was commissioned a Lieu- tenant May 17, 1828; was navigating officer of the "Vincennes" in her trip round the world, and served on the flagship of the Mediterranean, Brazil and Pacific Squadrons. In 1850 he sailed for the coast of Africa in the brig, "Porpoise," and being commissioned Commander, May 17, 1851, spent three years in a cruise as commander of that vessel and the sloop-of-war "Dale," returning to Boston, Massachusetts, 1853. He was promoted to the rank of Captain, May 19, 1861, and in September of that year took command of the steam frigate "Susquehanna," of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, blockading the forts of South Caro- lina and Georgia. He took part in the capture of Port Royal, under Rear-Admiral Dupont, and for gallant service in that behalf his name was sent to Congress by President Lincoln for a vote of thanks. After the battle Admiral Dupont wrote Capt. Lardner, "Your noble ship through the whole of the battle was precisely where I wanted her to be and doing precisely what I wanted her to do. Your close support was a very gallant thing." In May, 1862, he took command of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron with the flag of a Rear-Admiral, and, July 16, 1862, was commissioned Commodore. In December, 1862, he returned to Phila- delphia broken in health from a severe attack of yellow fever, by which dread disease the ship had lost forty officers and men. In May, 1863, he took command of the West India Squadron with the rank of Rear-Admiral, and remained on duty until October, 1864. For the next five years he was on special duty as a member of the Courts Martial and Examining Board, and was commissioned a Rear-Admiral July 25, 1866. In 1869 he was appointed Governor of the U. S. N. Asylum at Philadelphia, now called Naval Home, where he remained until 1872, when he was placed permanently on the retired list. He died in Philadelphia April 12, 1881. His death was taken notice of by the Navy Department in the following order :
GENERAL ORDER.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Washington, April 15, 1881.
The Navy Department announces with regret, to the Navy and Marine Corps the death, at Philadelphia, on the 12th instant, of the Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, in the seventy- ninth year of his age.
Rear Admiral Lardner was appointed a midshipman from the state of Pennsylvania May 10, 1820, and his whole career in the service was marked by purity of character, intelligence and devotion to duty. He was commissioned a Captain May 19, 1861, and was conspicuous as a commanding officer of the Frigate "Susquehanna" in the battle of Port Royal — so much so as to call forth General Orders from the Commander-in-chief commending the valuable services of the ship and the gallantry of her captain, officers and crew.
May 19, 1862, he was appointed to command the East Gulf Blockading Squadron which however, he had to relinquish in December of the same year on account of an attack of yellow fever.
July 16, 1862, he was commissioned a Commodore and from June, 1864, to October 1864, commanded the West India Squadron. November 20, 1864, in accordance with the provisions of general statutes, he was placed on the Retired List, and promoted to a Rear Admiral thereon July 25, 1866.
Among the many prominent commands which he held was that of Governor of the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia, from June, 1869, to June, 1872, for which he was particularly fitted by his experience and sympathetic nature.
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In respect to his memory it is hereby ordered that, on the day after the receipt hereof, the flags of the Navy Yards and Stations, and vessels in commission, be displayed at half mast, from sunrise to sunset, and thirteen minute guns be fired at noon from the Navy Yards and Stations, flag-ships and vessels acting singly. WILLIAM N. JEFFERS,
Acting Secretary of the Navy.
Admiral Lardner married (first), February 2, 1832, Margaret, daughter of James Wilmer, by his wife Ann Emerson and granddaughter of Solomon Wilmer, of Maryland, by his wife Anne Ringgold. Right Rev. Joseph Wilmer, Bishop of Louisiana, and Right Rev. Richard Hooker Wilmer, Bishop of Alabama, were nephews of James Wilmer, and Major Ringgold, U. S. .A., who was killed in battle, was a relative. Margaret (Wilmer) Lardner died April 25, 1846, and he married (second) her sister, Ellen Wilmer.
Issue of Admiral James L. and Margaret (Wilmer) Lardner:
James Lardner, d. young; Anne Lardner, d. young; Lynford Lardner, b. Aug. 23, 1839; m. Ella Sweitzer; issue: Margaret, m. Robert M.
Bums; Margaret Lardner, b. Oct. I.s, 1841 ; m. Edwin Landis Reakirt. Issue: James Lardner, b. Nov. 8, 1876; d. April 17, 1904; Edvifin Holcomb, b. 1877;
Mary Wilmer Lippincott, m. Robert Hartshorne Large; issue: Margaret Lardner: William Mifflin; Sarah Meade. Ellen Wilmer Lardner, d. young s. p.
Issue of Rear-Admiral James L. and Ellen (Wilmer) Lardner:
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, b. Sept. 11, 1854; partner of Craig, Heberton & Co., stock- brokers; d. Nov. 19, 1884. He was a member of City Troop, and at the time of his death an officer of that organization;
James Lawrence Lardner, lawyer, b. Nov. 26, 1856; he was associated with James W. Biddle in International Fishery Commission, under appointment by President Grover Cleveland. Also member of City Troop.
FOULKE FAMILY.
Edward Foulke, the ancestor of the Pennsylvania family of the name, came with his family from Merionethshire, Wales, in 1698, and took up seven hundred and twelve acres in Gwynedd township, then Philadelphia county, erecting his dwelling at the present site of Penll)^! station on the North Pennsylvania Rail- road; his son, Thomas, erecting on the same site in 1728, a house which constitutes part of the present structure in which several generations of the family resided.
Edward Foulke and his family were part of a colony of Welsh who came over in the "Robert and Elizabeth," Ralph Williams, master, which sailed from Liver- pool, April 18, 1698, and arrived at Philadelphia eleven weeks later. The coming of these Welsh families to Pennsylvania was the result of the settlement of the earlier Welsh colony in the townships of Lower Merion, Haverford and Radnor, where the frugal and industrious Cymric settlers had prospered, and became useful and prominent in Penn's new colony. Their constant communication with friends and relatives in Wales influenced other of their countrymen to seek homes in that section, and Hugh Roberts, one of the settlers on that tract in 1683, making a visit to his native country in 1697, gathered together a large number of Welsh farmers who accompanied him on his return in the "Robert and Elizabeth." They were preceded by two of their number as trustees, William John and Thomas ap Evan, who purchased of Robert Turner seven thousand two hundred and fifty acres of the ten thousand acres purchased of Penn in 1681, and on this tract the remnant of the passengers on the "Robert and Elizabeth," who had sur- vived the "bloody flux" which had carried away forty-five of their number during the voyage, at once settled.
Edward Foulke like many of the other Welsh settlers in Pennsylvania, was descended from early Welsh princes, and through them from the Kings of Eng- land. Through his great-great-grandmother, Mary, wife of Robert ap David Lloyd, he had a strain of Norman blood, she being a descendant of King John of England, through his his son, Henry H., and grandson, Edward L, who by his wife, Eleanor, of Castile, had a daughter, Eleanor, from whom descended Elea- nor de Montfort, wife of Llewllyn, the last crowned Prince of Wales, from whom descended Owen Glendower, last native Prince of Wales, who fought long and valiantly for the independence of Wales, but was finally slain by Lord Morti- mer. From his daughter, Lowry, Mary, wife of Robert Lloyd was descended.
The ancestry of Edward Foulke and an account of his life in Wales and re- moval to Pennsylvania, are given in a writing by himself four years after his arrival in the Province, and translated into English by his grandson, Samuel Foulke, of Richland, many years a member of Provincial Assembly from Bucks county. Copies of this quaint instrument are in existence, the one in possession of William Parker Foulke is as follows: —
"I, Edward Foulke, was the son of Foulke ap Thomas, ap Evan, ap Thomas ap Robert, ap David Lloyd, ap Evan Vaughan, ap Griffith, ap Madoc, ap Jerwerth, ap Madoij ap Ririd Flaidd, Lord of Penllyn, who dwelt at Rhiwaedog. '*'
"My mother's name was Lowry, the daughter of Edward ap David, ap Ellis, ap Robert of the parish of Llavor in Merionethshire.
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"I was born on the 13th of the Sth Month, 1651, and when arrived at mature age, mar- ried Eleanor, daughter of Hugh ap Cadwalader, ap Rhys, of the parish of Spytu, in Den- bighshire; her mother's name was Gwen, the daughter of Ellis ap William, ap Hugh, ap Thomas, ap David, ap Madoc, ap Evan, ap Cott, ap Evan, ap Griffith, ap Madoc, ap Einion, ap Merdith, of Cai-Fa-dcg; and was born in the same parish and shire with her husband.
"I had, by my said wife, nine children, whose names are as follows : Thomas, Hugh, Cadwalader and Evan; Grace, Gwen, Jane, Catherine, and Margaret. We lived at a place called Coed-y-foel, a beautiful farm belonging to Roger Price, Esq., of Rhiwlas, Merioneth- shire, aforesaid. But in process of time I had an inclination to remove with my family to the Province of Pensilvania; and in order thereto, we set out on the 3d. Day of the 2d. Month, A. D. l6g8, and came in two days to Liverpool, where, with divers others who intended to go the voyage, we took shipping the 17th of the same month on board the Robert and Elizabeth, and the next day set sail for Ireland, where we arrived and staid until the first of the third month, May, and then sailed again for Pennsylvania, and were about eleven weeks at sea. And the sore distemper of the bloody flux broke out in the vessel, of which died in our passage, five and forty persons. The distemper was so mortal that two or three corpses were cast overboard every day while it lasted.
"But through the favor and mercy of Divine Providence, I with my wife and nine children escaped that sore mortality, and arrived safe in Philadelphia, the 17th of the Sth Month, July, where we were kindly received and hospitably entertained by our friends and old acquaintance.
"1 soon purchased a fine tract of land of about seven hundred acres, sixteen miles from Philadelphia, on a part of which I settled, and divers others of our company who came over the sea with us, settled near me at the same time. This was the beginning of Novem- ber, i6g8, aforesaid, and the township was called Gwynedd, or North Wales. This account was written the 14th. of the nth. Month, January, A. D. 1702, by Edward Foulke."
"Translated from British into English by Samuel Foulke." Edward Foulke was a plain Welsh farmer, possessed of an education superior to most of those of hi,i time. He and his family were not members of the Society cf Friends at the time of their immigration, though largely in sympathy with their views as to simplicity and plainness in the mode of life, and eventually joined the Society, of which his descendants were and many still are prominent and consistent members. He died on his plantation at Penllyn in 1741, and his wife, Eleanor, in March 1733-4.
Issue of Edward and Eleanor (Cadwalader) Foulke: —
Thomas, b. 1683, d. 1762; m. Gwen Evans, of whom presently;
Hugh, b. 1685, d. 1760; m. 1713, Ann, dau. of John Williams of Montgomery, and about 1720, located in Great Swamp, Richland township, Bucks Co., where they reared family of eleven children, ten of whom married and reared families, and at death of Ann, the mother in 1773, their posterity numbered three hundred and forty-three. Edward was esteemed minister of Society of Friends for over thirty years. Samuel, eldest son was member of Colonial Assembly, 1761-8, and was succeeded by brother John, who served until Revolution. All four of sons, of Hugh and Ann Foulke, were disowned from Richland Meeting for taking oath of Allegiance to colonies, but the action of meeting therein was overruled by Yearly Meeting and they retamed membership. Many of their descendants have been prominent in affairs of their native county, and several later found homes in Phila. and elsewhere, and enjoyed a like prominence. Job Roberts Foulke, for many years Trust Officer of Provident Life and Trust Company of Phila. was descendant of Hugh and Ann (Williams) Foulke, through son Thomas;
Cadwalader, b. i6gi, d. 1743; m. Mary Evans, and lived in Gwynedd until 1731, when he removed to Phila., and engaged in mercantile business, living on north side of High (now Market) St., near Court House. He was appointed justice of Phila. county Nov. 22, 1738, and did large amount of official business. His wife Mary, was dau. of Robert Evans, one of four sons of Evan ap Evan, who emi- grated from Wales with Edward Foulke in 1698, and settled in Gwynedd, and who traced ancestry through long line of Welsh princes to Tyndaethwy, King of Wales, d. 818, or 820.
Mary (Evans) Foulke was prominent minister among Friends and travelled exten- sively in that service. She m. (second) in 1744, Thomas Marriott, of Bristol, Bucks Co., and d. 1747.
Judah Foulke, only child of Cadwalader and Mary, b. 1722, became prominent citi- zen of Phila. and man of literary taste and fine classical attainments. Was Col-
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lector of Excise, at Phila., 1745-50; sheriff of Phila. Co. 1770-72, and on Dec. 9. 1773. was appointed by Gov. John Penn, "with the advice of Council" Keeper of Standards of Brass for Weights and Measures, for Co. of Phila. He d. at his residence, 34 North Front Street, 1776. He m. Feb. 16, 1743, Mary Bring- hurst, who survived him, dying Jan. 22, 1798, aged nearly 77 years; of their four children, John, Elizabeth, Mary and Deborah, the two eldest daughters d. unm. and Deborah, though twice m. left no surviving issue; Dr. John Foulke, only son of Judah and Mary (Bringhurst) Foulke, b. Phila. 1757. d. 1796, was physician of learning and high repute in his profession; was student at Col. of Phila., and presented himself for graduation in 1779, but vvas pre- vented from receiving his diploma by abrogation of charter, but received his degree of M. D. 1780. On May 4, 1780, he sailed for Europe, to perfect himself for practice of his profession, bearing letters to Benjamin Franklin, then Ameri- can Minister to France, from Joseph Wharton and Thomas Bond. Mr. Whar- ton's letter is as follows :
Philadelphia, April 27, 1780. "The bearer, my friend Dr. John Foulke, is a Whig in his principles, has sub- scribed the Test to this State and though from the singularity of the tenets of the Quakers, he has not been active in the field, yet in the line of his physical profes- sion, has been useful in the hospitals. His intention in visiting France is to improve himself in Surgery and Physic; but being a perfect stranger in Paris, will stand in need of recommendation to the most eminent in the Medical branches, as well as for favorable introductions into the hospitals. Will you therefore, my good sir, as my friends is of unimpeached morals, and his relatives long known for good citi- zens, take him by the hand and recommend him to those gentlemen who can be most useful to him? I know you will, and in this happy thought I subscribe myself, Respectfully, etc.,
Joseph Wharton." To his Excellency, DR. FRANKLIN."
While abroad. Dr. Foulke visited also, Germany and Holland, and gathered much useful knowledge, professional and otherwise. He was elected member of American Philosophical Society, in 1784, and was one of its secretaries in 1786, when Franklin was president.
Dr. Foulke m. May 8, 1788, Eleanor, dau. of Richard and Lydia Parker, who survived him sixty-four years dying in the summer of i860. Of their three chil- dren only eldest Richard Parker Foulke, left issue, among whom was William Parker Foulke, the eminent philanthropist, and scientist, b. May 31, 1816, d. June 18, 1865. Evan Foulke, fourth son of Edward and Eleanor, b. in Wales, received from his
father, a farm of 250 acres in Gwynedd, and lived thereon to his death, 1745.
He m. (first) 1725, Ellen Roberts dau. of Edward of Gwynedd, and had one dau.
Margaret, who m. John Evans of Gwynedd. Evan m. (second) Anne Coulston
and left surviving him one daughter Esther, who m. (first) a Yaxley, and
(second) a Johnson. Gwen Foulke, b. in Wales, m. Dec. 6, 1703, Alexander Edwards, Jr., son of Alex- ander Edwards of Montgomery township, and had children Edward, Alexander,
Thomas, Joseph, and Jane; Grace Foulke, b. in Wales, m. May 6, 1707, John GrifSth, eldest son of Griffith John,
of Merion and had children, Griffith, John, Evan and Susannah Griffith; Jane Foulke, b. in Wales, Jan. 10, 1683-4, ni. June 5, 1713, Ellis son of John Hugh
of Gwynedd, and they settled in Oley township, Berks Co., Pa.; she d. Aug. 7,
1766, and her husband Jan. 11, 1764. They had issue, John, William, Rowland,
Samuel, Edward and Margaret; Catharine Foulke, b. in Wales, m. June 5, 1713, Theophilus Williams, son of John
of Montgomery, and had issue, John, Benjamin, Mary and Eleanor; Margaret, b. in Wales, m. May 23, 1717, Nicholas Roberts, son of Robert Cadwala-
der, of Gwynedd, and had issue, Jane, Eleanor and Elizabeth.
Thomas Foulke, eldest son of Edward and Eleanor (Cadwalader) Foulke, torn in Merionethshire, Wales, August 7, 1685, married at Gwynedd Meeting House, June 27, 1706, Gwen, eldest daughter of David Evans, of Radnor, and set- tled on a part of his father's lands at Penllyn, erecting the house so long occupied "by his great-grandson, William Foulke, and during the Revolution occupied by the â– widow and unmarried children of his son, William Foulke, and the family of
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Daniel and Lowry (Jones) Wister, including Sally Wister, whose delightful "Journal" was written there.
Here Thomas and Gwen Foulke lived their quiet and uneventful life, she dying in 1760, and he in 1762. His sister, Gwen Edwards, was evidently living in a house on the same premises, as Thomas Foulke's will devises her "the use of the house she now lives in." His second son, William, is devised the home plantation of two hundred and thirteen acres, unless his eldest son chooses to accept twenty-five acres in lieu of a legacy of one hundred pounds.
Issue of Thomas and Gwen (Evans) Foulke:—-
Edward, b. 1707, d. 1770; m. (first) Gainor Roberts, dau. of Edward of Gwynedd, who d. Sept. 14, 1741; and (second) on Oct. 25, 1750, Margaret Griffith, daughter of Hugh of Gwynedd, who survived him. Edward Foulke was man of ability and prominence and served for some years as clerk of Board of Trustees of the Pa. Loan Office, of which board his brother-in-law, Rowland Evans, was one of members.
Edward and Gainor (Roberts) Foulke, had issue:
Joshua, b. 1731, m. (first) Catharine, dau. of John and Eleanor (Ellis) Evans, of Gwynedd; and (second) Hannah Jones, daughter of John of Gwynedd. His descendants are widely scattered through the west and south.
Ann, b. Aug. 22, 1732, m. John Ambler, and had issue : Joseph Ambler, m. Elizabeth Forman; no issue. Edward Ambler, m. Ann Mather, and had issue. John Ambler, Jr. m. (first) Priscilla Naylor; (second) Mary Thomas.
Issue by first marriage : Jesse Ambler, m. Ruth Roberts; no issue.
Gainor Ambler, m. Isaac Jones, of Montgomery township, where he d. 1840, aged 93 years, and Gainor on June 20, 1847, in 92d year; Isaac Jones was son of Isaac Jones, who came to Montgomery, when a young man, from Merion, being son of David and Katharine Jones, who came from Wales in i6g8, and settled in Merion. Isaac was b. Sept. 5, 1708, and m. 1728, Elizabeth, dau. of George Lewis, then eighteen years of age, with whom he lived for seventy years, both dying in Montgomery he in 1798, and she in 1800, both 90 years of age. Tacy, dau. of Isaac and Gainor (Ambler) Jones, m. Dec. 11, 1810, Edward,
son of Amos and Hannah (Jones) Foulke, of whom later; Tacy Ambler, m. Joseph Shoemaker, and had issue six children; Susanna Ambler, m. Jesse Lukens of Towamencin, and had issue, nine children;
Eleanor, b. Sept. 15, 1735, m. May 14, 1767, Edward Ambler, son of Joseph Ambler of Montgomery.
Issue of Edward and Margaret (Griffith) Foulke (2d wife) : —
Hugh, b. Feb. 21, 1752, d. Feb. 23, 1831; lived all his life at Gwynedd, and
was earnest and consistent member of Gywnedd Meeting; m. Ann Roberts,
and had issue:
Cadwalader, of White Marsh, m. Ann Shoemaker;
Hannah, for many years teacher at Westtown School;
Sarah, m. Alexander Forman, Jr., of Montgomery;
Joseph, of Gwynedd, minister of Society of Friends, for many years con- ducted private school for boys at Gwynedd;
Hugh, of Gwynedd, (1788-1864) m. Martha Shoemaker, and was father of Thomas Foulke (1829-84), for fourteen years Supt. of Swarthmore Col- lege, m. Phebe Shoemaker; and of Hugh Foulke, prominent educator, first at Gwynedd, later in N. Y. Alice, b. July 15, 1754, d. inf.;
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Hannah, b. Sept. 20, 1755, d. June 24, 1781; m. Edward Stroud and had
issue, Edward, Margaret and Tacy. Cadwalader, b. 1758, d. Feb. 27, 1808; m. (first) Phoebe Ellis, and lived in Phila. until death of his wife of yellow fever in 1802; went to Wheeling, West Va. in 1806, where he m. (second) Ann Chirington; later went on trading voyage down Ohio river, and is supposed to have been robbed and murdered by river pirates;
His only dau. by first wife, Sarah Fouike, went west with her father and m. there Dec, 1809, William Farquhar, d. Nov. 8, 1810, and she returned to Pa. and was teacher at Westtown Boarding School, 1811-16; m. (second) Jan. II, 1816, James Emlem of Phila., and had by him seven children; William FoulkEj b. 1708, d. 177S, m. Hannah Jones, of whom presently; Ellen, b. Aug. 18, 1710, m. William Williams, and had eight children; Evan, b. Aug. 27, 1712, d. Feb. II, 1748-9; Margaret, b. May 22, 1715, d. Nov. 23, 1734, unm.;
Susanna, b. March 17, 1720-1, d. Phila., March i, 1787; m. at Gwynedd Meeting House, Nov. 15, 1748, Rowland Evans, born 1718, died August 8, 1789; son of John Evans of Gwynedd, b. in Denbighshire, Wales, 1689, by his wife, Eleanor Ellis, b. near Dolgelly, Merionethshire, Wales, dau. of Rowland Ellis, distin- guished Welsh preacher among Friends, who is referred to elsewhere in these volumes. John Evans was son of Cadwalader Evans, b. 1664, d. at Gwynedd, i745i youngest of four sons of Evan ap Evan, who came to Pa., i6g8, with Edward Fouike, by his wife Ellen, dau. of John Morris, of Bryn Gwyn, Den- bighshire, Wales, whom he m. in Wales. Cadwalader was eminent preacher among Friends, at Gwynedd.
Rowland Evans, b. at Gwynedd and resided there, on father's lands, until 1766, when he removed to Providence township, and in June, 1784, in to Phila, that he has "lately removed from his former residence in Providence township, Phila. Co., and is prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages, Articles of Agreement, and other Instruments of Writing at his house on the East side of Fourth St., a few doors above Race Street." He was appointed justice of peace of Phila. Co., 1749, 52, 57, 61, and was member of Provincial Assembly, 1761-71. On Sept. 14, 1785, appointed one of Commissioners of General Loan Office of Pa., and held that position to his death, Aug. 8, 1789. He was elected member of American Society for Promotion of Useful Knowledge, prior to its coalition with American Philosophical Society in 1769, and took deep interest in scien- tific research. An obituary notice of him in Gazette at time of his death, says among other things, "previous to the Revolution he was for many years a member of the Legislature and a Justice of the Peace, both of which he filled with great ability, dignity, and applause." All of his six children died without issue. Sarah, b. March 17, 1720, (twin to Susanna), m. William Jones, and left issue, a
dau. Sarah, who m. David Green. Caleb, b. Aug. 13, 1722, d. July 7, 1736.
William Foulke, second son of Thomas and Gwen (Evans) Fouike, born at the old homestead at Penllyn, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, in 1708, and spent his whole life there, having inherited from his father nearly two hun- dred acres of the land taken up by his grandfather, Edward Fouike, in 1698. He was for many years an Elder and Overseer of Gwynedd Meeting, and a memorial of him was adopted by the Monthly Meeting at his death in 1775. By his will probated November 6, 1775, the home plantation was devised to his son, Jesse, and to his son, Levi, "the plantation where he dwells," while his sons, Caleb and Amos, and his three daughters receive bequests in money.
William Fouike married at Gwynedd Meeting House, October 15, 1734, Han- nah, daughter of John Jones, "Carpenter." son of Rees John William, and Han- nah Price, some account of whom and their emigration from Wales, is given in our sketch of Robert Lloyd, who married his daughter Lowry.
John Jones, "Carpenter," as he was known, to distinguish him from others of the name, came to Gwynedd township from Merion, about 17 10, and became a large land owner there and was a prominent, active and valuable citizen.
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He was born in Merion, June 6, 1688, and was married at Gwynedd Meeting House, June 9, 1713, to Jane Edwards, daughter of Edward Griffith. She died May 14, 1757. John Jones died December 30, 1774; Gwynedd Monthly Meeting adopted memorials of both him and his wife. They were parents of ten children of whom but four married and left issue, viz: Hannah, above mentioned, who married William Foulke; Priscilla, who married Evan Jones, of Merion; Evan and Jesse, the latter settling in Bucks county.
Issue of William and Hannah (Jones) Foulke: —
Jane, b. Aug. 22, 1735, m. 1757, George Maris of Gwynedd, son of George Maris of Springfield, Chester Co., and had issue ten children of whom five d. unm. ;
Caleb, b. Feb. S, 1736, d. in Phila., Jan. 25, 181 1; went to Phila. in early life and became prominent merchant there, first with his younger brother, Amos, and later with his son Owen, under the firm name Caleb and Owen Foulke; doing a large business in foreign trade; he was signer of Non-importation Agreement Oct., 1765. He purchased farm on Swedes Ford road in Montgomery Co., 1776, and made his home there during the British occupation of Phila. He m. in Phila., Jan. 21, 1762, Jane, eldest daughter of Owen Jones, Provincial Treas., by his wife Susanna Evans; Jane d. in Germantown, 1815.
Caleb and Jane (Jones) Foulke had issue: —
Owen, b. Phila. June 27, 1763, bur. at Gwynedd, Aug. 30, 1808; for time partner with his father in Phila., later practicing attorney-at-law, at Sun- bury, Pa. He was member of First City Troop, Phila., 1798. Caleb, Jr., b. Phila. Aug. 8, 1770, d. Oct. 15, 1823; merchant; m. (first) Nov. 26, 179s, Margaret Cullen, and (second), 1814, Sarah Hodgkiss, widow, of Germantown; five children of first marriage survived infancy; Charles, m. Eliza Lowery, but left no issue; Jane, d. unm.; Hannah, d. unm.;
Lowry, m. (first) Samuel Miles and (second) her cousin Evan Jones of Gwynedd, son of Evan and Hannah. Levi, b. May' 20, 1739, d. June 27, 1815; lived and d. on part of old Foulke home- stead; m. Ann, dau. of Thomas Evans, of Gwynedd, by his second wife, Hannah Morris. They had issue, one son, William, b. 1767, d. 1833, m- Margaret Mcllvaine, and had issue. Amos, b. Jan. 5, 1740-1, m. Hannah Jones, of whom presently; Jesse, b. Jan. 9, 1742-3, d. unm. March 16, 1821; lived with his unm. sister, Priscilla,
in old house at Penllyn; Priscilla, b. Dec. 3, 1744, d. Jan. 25, 1821, unm.; Margaret, Sarah and Judah, all d. inf.
Lydia, b. Apr. 9, 1756, m. John, (1756-99) son of Jacob and Hannah (Jarrett) Spencer, of Moreland; grandson of Samuel and Mary (Dawes) Spencer; and great-grandson of Samuel Spencer, who came from Barbadoes and was merchant in Phila., at his death in Dec, 1705, by his wife, a dau. of Robert Whitton. John and Lydia (Foulke) Spencer had nine children.
Amos Foulke, third son of William and Hannah (Jones) Foulke, born at the old homestead at Penllyn, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, January 5, 1740-1, came to Philadelphia when a young man and engaged in the mercantile business with his elder brother Caleb, under the firm name of Caleb and Amos Foulke. He died in Philadelphia, and was buried as shown by Jacob Hiltz- heimer's diary, August 7, 1791. He married, May 20, 1779, Hannah, daughter of Owen Jones, Provincial Treasurer, by his wife, Susanna Evans. Hannah (Jones) Foulke was born in Philadelphia, December 28, 1749, and is said to have died of the yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.
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Issue of Amos and Hannah (Jones) Foulke: —
Susan, b. Oct. ii, 1781, d. Feb. I, 1842, unm.;
Edward, b. Nov. 17, 1784, d. July 17, 1851; m. Tacy Jones, of whom presently;
George, July 23, 1786, July, 1848, unm.
Edward Foulke, eldest son of Amos and Hannah (Jones) Foulke, born in Philadelphia, November 17, 1784, was reared from childhood by his uncle and aunt, Jesse and Priscilla Foulke, at the old family homestead at Penllyn, where his great-great-grandfather, Edward Foulke, had settled in 1699. The house in which his childhood was spent being the scene of "Sally Wister's Journal," in which the home life of Jesse Foulke and his unmarried sister, Priscilla, in the old family mansion, is beautifully portrayed.
Edward Foulke succeeded to the old homestead and spent the remainder of his life there, dying July 17, 1851. He married, December 11, 1810, Tacy, daugh- ter of Isaac and Gainor (Ambler) Jones, of Gwynedd, Montgomery county, grandson of Isaac Jones, born in Merion, Philadelphia county, in 1708, who re- moved to Gwynedd when a young man, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of George Lewis, a native of Wales. Isaac Jones Sr. was a son of David and Katharine Jones, who came from Wales in 1699, and settled in Merion. Gainor Ambler, the wife of Isaac Jones Jr., and mother of Tacy (Jones) Foulke, was daughter of John Ambler by his wife, Ann, daughter of Edward and Gainor (Roberts) Foulke, of Gwynedd, and great-granddaughter of Edward Foulke, the founder of the family in America.
Issue of Edward and Tacy (Jones) Foulke: —
Ann Jones Foulke, b. Sept. 15, 1811, d. June 25, 1883; m. Dr. Hiram Corson; of
whom presently; Jesse Foulke, b. June 23, 1813, d. Feb. 15, 1892, unm.;
Charles Foulke, b. Dec. 14, 1815; studied medicine, and on graduation located at Gwynedd, removing to New Hope, Bucks Co., 1842, where he succeeded to prac- tice of Dr. Richard Corson, whose daughter, Harriet Mathews, he had married; a sketch of Dr. Corson and his ancestry follows; Dr. Charles and Harriet M. (Corson) Foulke had issue:
Dr. Richard Corson Foulke of New Hope; m. Louisa Vansant; Edward Foulke of Washington, D. C, m. Eliza Van Horn; Thomas Foulke; Susan Foulke, b. July 18, 1818, d. Nov. 2, 1886, unm.; Owen Foulke, b. 1820, d. inf.;
Priscilla Foulke, b. Oct. 10, 1821, d. Dec. 28, 1882; m. Thomas Wistar, son of Thomas, and had issue: Susan Foulke Wistar; Edward Foulke Wistar; Elizabeth Wistar; Anne Wistar; Jonathan Foulke, b. 1825, d. inf.;
Lydia S. Foulke, b. Feb. 18, 1827, d. Aug. 27, 1861 ; m. Charles Bacon, son of John, and had issue :
Anna Bacon, m. Robert NeflF, Jr.
Rebecca Jones Foulke, b. May 18, 1829; m. 1857, Col. Robert Rodgers, son of Dr
Richard Corson, of New Hope; of whom presently; Hannah Jones Foulke, b. Sept. 18, 1831 ; m. May 20, 1862, Francis, brother of Charles W. Bacon, who m. her sister Lydia; they had issue:
Lydia Foulke Bacon, b. Dec. 27, 1863; m. Apr. 1890, Thomas H. Miles who d. Nov. 18, 1893;
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Francis Llewwllyn Bacon, b. March i6, 1868;
Albert Edward Bacon, b. Sept. 27, 1869; m. Oct. 15, 1902, Ella G. Kitchin, and had issue :
Margaret Webb Bacon, b. Apr. 29, 1904; Francis Bacon, Jr., b. Jan. 20, 1907; Emily Foulke, b. Dec. 2, 1834; d. Aug. 23, 1892; m. Charles Lawton Bacon, son of
Charles W. Bacon; he d. in 1862; Owen Foulke, b. 1838, d. inf.
Ann Jones 1'oulke, eldest daughter of Edward and Tacy (Jones) Foulke, born September 15, 181 1, married, December 26, 1833, Dr. Hiram Corson, of Maple Hill, Plymouth township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, one of the most prominent physicians of his time. He was born at Hickorytown, Plymouth township, Montgomery county, October 8, 1804, and was seventh child and fifth son of Joseph and Hannah (Dickinson) Corson, and of prominent and influential family, early settled in Bucks county.
Benjamin Corson, came to Bucks county from Staten Island in 1726, and purchased a farm in Northampton township, where he died in 1741, survived by his wife, Eleanor, and two sons, Cornelius and Benjamin.
Benjamin Corson, second son of Benjamin and Eleanor, was born on Staten Island in 1718, and came with his parents to Bucks county at the age of eight years. He married, January 2, 1741-2, Maria Suydam, of a prominent Holland family, long settled on Long Island, from whence several representatives had mi- grated to Bucks county prior to the arrival of the Corson family in that county. In the same year as his marriage, Benjamin Corson, second, purchased a farm in Northampton township, on which he lived until his death on March 19, 1774. His widow survived him and died February 15, 1792, aged seventy-one years, three weeks, and four days. They were the parents of eight children, six sons and two daughters ; the second son, Richard Corson, being the father of Dr. Richard D. Corson, of New Hope, before referred to.
Benjamin Corson, third, eldest son of Benjamin and Maria (Suydam) Corson, was born in Northampton township, Bucks county, March 6, 1743, and married there, in 1761, Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Ohl) Dungan, a descendant of the Rev. Thomas Dungan, the founder of the first Baptist church in Pennsyl- vania, coming from New York to Bucks county in 1684. Benjamin and Sarah (Dimgan) Corson lived for a time in Lov/er Dublin township, Philadelphia county, where most of their children were born, later residing in Makefield town- ship, and finally in Wrightstown township, Bucks county, where they both died in 181 1, he on October 2, and she on July 2. They had eleven children, six sons and five daughters, all of whom lived to mature age and married.
Joseph Corson, the father of Dr. Hiram Corson, was second son of Benjamin Corson, third, by his wife, Sarah Dungan, and was born in Dublin township, Philadelphia county, March 15, 1764. He was reared on a farm and received a common school education. In 1785 he removed with his friend Samuel Maulsby (son of Hannah Maulsby, who became the second wife of Richard Corson, uncle to Joseph, of whom hereafter) to Plymouth village, Montgomery county, and in the following year married Hannah, daughter of Joseph Dickinson, of White Marsh township, Montgomery covnty, and great-granddaughter of William Dick- inson, of Maryland, who had come to White Marsh from Maryland about a cen- tury earlier. They followed farming in Plymouth township, locating at Hickory-
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town in 1800, where Joseph Corson engaged in store-keeping in connection with the conduct of his farm until his death, April 4, 1834. His wife died December 17, 1810, and he married (second), m 1812, Eleanor Coulston, niece and name- sake of the second wife of David Rittenhouse, the astronomer. She survived her husband and died in Norristown, November 21, 1846.
Joseph and Hannah (Dickinson) Corson were the parents of eleven children of whom Dr. Hiram Corson was the ninth; Hiram Corson, LL. D., the distin- guished scholar and author, was his nephew.
Dr. Hiram Corson received his early education in the Friends' School at Plymouth Meeting, under Joseph Foulke, and later under his eldest brother Alan W. Corson, an eminent scholar and mathematician. He later attended the Friends' Select School in Philadelphia. After leaving school he assisted his father in the store at Hickorytown until May 9, 1826, when he began the study of medicine in the office of his cousin, Richard Davis Corson, in New Hope, Bucks county, and the following year attended lectures in the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received his medical degree in the Spring of 1828. He at once began to practice in his native neighbor- hood, and soon built up a large practice, becoming one of the best known physi- cians of eastern Pennsylvania. He founded the Montgomery County Medical Society in 1847, and was its president in 1849, and during his whole life one of its most active and prominent members. He became a member of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania in 1848, and was elected its president in 1853 ; became a member of the American Medical Association in 1862 ; became a member of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society in 1874; elected Associate Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1876, an honor conferred upon but very few phy- sicians outside of the city ; life member of Alumni Association of University of Pennsylvania, 1879, vice-president, 1849; elected honorary member of Harris- burg Pathological Society, 1881 ; and of the National Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1894. He was one of the trustees of the Hospital for Insane at Harrisburg, 1877-82. He became a member of the Historical Society of Penn- sylvania in 1884, and contributed a number of papers to its archives. He con- tributed a large number of papers to the "Transactions of the Pennsylvania Medical Society" and the "Transactions of the Ninth International Medical Con- gress." The great work, however, to which he devoted years of effort, was the recognition of the Women's College and its graduates by the medical fraternity and its associations, and securing the passage of laws to have only women physi- cians to have medical care of the insane of their own sex in the State Hospitals. When in 1858 the Board of Censors of the Philadelphia County Medical Society reported their disapproval of any member of the Society holding professional intercourse with the professors or alumni of the Women's Medical College, Dr. Corson took the question before the Medical Society of Montgomery county and, securing the adoption of strong resolutions against the action of the Philadel- phia Society, carried them as delegate to the State Medical Society in i860, where it met with violent opposition. The breaking out of the Civil War, distracted the attention of the medical fraternity, and the matter remained in abeyance until the meeting of the State Society at Wilkes-Barre in 1866, when Dr. Corson renewed his efforts to secure for the Woman's College the proper recognition of the pro- fession, and continued to agitate the matter until 1871, when the obnoxious reso-
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lution of the Philadelphia Society was rescinded, and in 1877 he began the fight for women physicians in Insane Hospitals and secured the enactment of a law to that effect in 1879. For over half a century Dr. Corson was the recognized leader of thought in the community in which he lived and "an exemplar of the highest type." He was from his youth an earnest and active opponent of human slavery and his house was one of the prominent stations on the Underground Railroad. He retired from active practice in 1888, and died at Maple Hill, his residence during nearly the whole of his adult life, on March 4, 1894, in his ninety-second year. Leading newspapers of Philadelphia and adjoining counties pubHshed extended notices of his death and sketches of his life and work, and many of them had beautiful editorial comments on his life and character. The Montgomery County Medical Society held a special meeting, at which resolutions were adopted, and eulogistic addresses delivered, and a Memorial Meeting was held in the Court House at Norristown, May 22, 1896, where addresses were delivered by many prominent men on the life and character of Dr. Corson. From one of these we quote the following extracts. "Dr. Corson may not have been a great man in the sense of a world-wide reputation, yet he towered above his fellows in many points. He was as true as steel to his convictions and maintained them in the face of almost overwhelming opposition. * * * He was original in his methods in dealing with either questions of reform or the treatment of disease." He was one of the first to practice and advocate the use of cooling drinks and the application of ice in the treatment of fevers, and active in the crusade against the use of hot liquids that had largely prevailed in the earlier years of his practice.
Issue of Dr. Hiram and Ann Jones (Foulke) Corson: —
Dr. Edward Foulke Corson, b. Oct. 14, 1834, d. June 22, 1864; grad. from Med. Dept. of Univ. of Pa., 1855; practiced for short time with his father and at Con- shohocken; was appointed Assistant Surgeon of U. S. Navy and spent three years on board the flagship "Hartford" in the far east, returning in 1861; was made Surgeon of Naval Hospital at Phila., but seeking active duty, was assigned to the "Mohican," on which he served in that vessel's chase after Confederate ship "Alabama" for eighteen months. He d. a few weeks after his rettirn home of typhoid fever.
Dr. Joseph K. Corson, b. Nov. 2, 1836; entered drug-store of William and John Savery, Phila., at close of school days and grad. in pharmacy at age of 22; volun- teered in Fourth Pa. Regiment, Apr. 20, 1861, as Corporal, honorably discharged as Sergeant, at expiration of his three months' service, July 26, 1861 ; became Medical Cadet on duty in Army Hospital, Broad and Cherry Sts., Phila., June, 1861, and served to March, 1863, when he graduated from Med. Dept. of Univ. of Pa., and was made Assistant Surgeon of 6th Regiment Penna. Reserve Corps; received brevet as Maj. for faithful and meritorious service during the Wilder- ness campaign in Va., March 13, 1865; returned home at close of war and prac- ticed medicine with father until Nov., 1867, when he entered the U. S. Army as Assistant Surgeon with rank of First Lieut., rose to rank of Maj., and served in various parts of the Union, until his retirement after over thirty years of service, Nov. 30, 1897; m. Nov. 2, 1874, Mary Ada, dau. of Judge William Alexander Carter of Fort Bridger, Wy. ;
Caroline Corson, b. Apr. 2, 1839, d. July 25, 1865;
Tacy Foulke Corson, b. Jan. 26, 1841 ; m. William L. Cresson, son of James and Mary L. Cresson, and had issue:
Charles Follen Corson, b. Nov. 22, 1842, grad. at Univ. of Pa., Coll. Dept.; studied law in office of William Henry Rawle, Esq., Phila., was admitted to Phila. Bar, and practiced his profession until death. May 30, 1889; served in Emergency Regi- ment 1862-3; tn. (iirst) Mary, dau. of Lewis A. Lukens, who d. Dec. 14, 1876; m. (second) 1889, Margaret Slemmer, of Norristown, who survived him;
Susan Foulke Corson, b. Aug. 9, 1845, m. Nov. 26, 1868, Jawood Lukens, prominent
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iron manufacturer, youngest son of Leis A. Lukens, original partner in Alan Wood Iron & Steel Co. Jawood Lukens, named for his maternal grandfather J. A. Wood, the earliest iron manufacturer in the Schuylkill Valley, was b. in 1843, grad. at Polytechnic college of Phila. in 1865 as Civil Engineer, took interest in firm of Alan Wood Co. in 1873, but withdrew in 1881, and started the Long- mead Iron Co., with which later was incorporated Conshohocken Tube Works of which he was founder. He was Pres. of Longmead Iron Co. at his death, March 10, igo8. He served in Town Council of Conshohocken; was long director of First National Bank and Tradesman's Bank of Conshohocken, and Quaker City National Bank of Phila.; many years Treas. and manager of Conshohocken Water Works, and filled many other positions of trust and honor; was member of American Institute of Mining Engineers; Engineer's Club, of Phila.; Franklin Institute; Union League, Art Club, and Manufacturers' Club. He had no chil- dren.
Bertha Corson, b. Dec. 17, 1847; m. June 17, 1868, James, son of James Yocum, of Phila., where they still reside; they had seven children;
Frances Stockton Corson, b. Oct. 25, 1849, m. Nov. 12, 1874, Richard Hopper, son of Charles and Anna (Miles) Day, of Phila.; they live in Gerraantown, and have three children;
Mary Corson, b. Nov. 26, 1852, d. unm.
Rebecca Jones Foulke, born at Penllyn, May 18, 1829, married, in 1857, Robert Rodgers Corson, then a business man of Philadelphia. He was born in New Hope, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, May 3, 183 1, and was a son of Dr. Rich- ard D. Corson, by his wife, Helen Stockton, daughter of Thomas Potts Johnson, one of the most eminent lawyers of New Jersey; and granddaughter of William Johnson, a native of Ireland, who came to America about 1750, and married some years later, Ruth Potts, of the distinguished family of that name at Trenton, New Jersey. He was a man of high scholastic attainments, and a great student of scientific subjects. After residing some years in Philadelphia, he removed to Charleston, South Carolina, where he died in 1767. Another son, Samuel John- son, born in Philadelphia in 1765, resided many years in Buckingham, Bucks county, and was the grandfather of the late Hon. Edward M. Paxson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Richard Corson, second son of Benjamin (second) and Maria (Suydam) Corson, was baptized at Southampton Church, as "Ryck," the Dutch form of the name Richard, on April 2, 1745. He was probably three times married, as the record in a Bible in possession of his descendants names Hannah (Davis) Mauls- by, the mother of his children, as his "second wife," and gives the date of her birth as January i, 1743, and that of her death as June 4, 1807; whereas at the death of Richard in 1812, his widow "Johannah Courson" renounced letters of administration on his estate. Hannah Maulsby, maiden name Davis, was a widow with one son, Samuel Maulsby, on her marriage to Richard Corson. They lived for some years on the York road at Bridge Valley, Warwick township, Bucks county, where he was proprietor of a hotel, and in 1787, removed to Solebury township, near New Hope, where he purchased in that year a large tract of land. Richard Corson died in Solebury, November 14, 1812, and was buried at North- ampton. He left two children, Richard Davis Corson, of whom presently, and Hannah, who married John Bye, of Buckingham.
Richard Davis Corson, M. D., only son of Richard and Hannah, was born, probably in Warwick township, Bucks county, January i, 1785, and was reared in Solebury township, Bucks county. He studied medicine with Dr. John Wilson,
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of Buckingham, but prior to settling down to the practice of his profession, took a trip to India, and practiced medicine and surgery for a year in Calcutta. He returned by way of Charleston, South CaroHna, and was taken sick there and kindly cared for by Dr. David Ramsey, the historian, thus forming an acquaint- ance and friendship which lasted through life. Dr. James Ramsay, son of the historian, was later a student under Dr. Corson at New Hope, and afterwards became Professor of Surgery in South Carolina Medical College. On his return to Solebury, Dr. Corson married, as above stated, Helen Stockton Johnson. He began the practice of his profession on his plantation near Aquetong, Solebury township, conveyed to him by his father in i8og, but about 1814, located in New Hope, where he was a very successful and popular physician, until his death in 1842. Dr. Corson had as medical students many men who later became eminent in the profession, among them. Dr. James Ramsay, before referred to; Dr. Thomas Miner, of Wilkes-barre ; Dr. Theodore Dunn, of Rhode Island; Drs. James McNair, and William L. Van Horn, of Bucks county, the latter afterwards a surgeon in the United States Army ; Dr. Hiram Corson, the eminent physician of Plymouth, Montgomery county, before referred to; Dr. George Maulsby, of Plymouth Meeting, later Surgeon in the United States Navy, and a number of others.
Issue of Dr. Richard Davis and Helen Stockton (Johnson) Corson:
Caroline Corson, b. 1815, d. May 4, 1838, unm.;
David Ramsay Corson, M. D., b. 1817, graduated in Medicine, but d. soon after, Jan. 29, 1841;
Harriet Mathews Corson, m. Charles Foulke, M. D., in 1842, as previously nar- rated;
Eliza Paxson Corson, unm., of Trenton, N. J.;
Richard Corson, d. in his eighteenth year;
Helen N. Corson, d. July 20, 1849, in her twenty-fourth year;
Thomas Johnson Corson, M. D., b. 1828, studied medicine with his father, and grad. at the Med. Dept. of Univ. of Pa.; located first in Schuylkill Co., Pa., where he practiced two or three years; returned to Bucks Co., finally locating in Tren- ton, N. J., where he practiced until his death in 1879. He m. Mary K., dau. of Geo. Steever of Phila., and had four children, all of whom d. unm.
Robert Rodgers Corson, born May 3, 1831 ; married Rebecca Jones Foulke.
Robert R. Corson, at the age of sixteen, left New Hope, and went to live with his cousin, George Corson, at Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery county, and entered Tremont Seminary, conducted by the eminent edu- cator. Rev. Samuel Aaron, A. M. George Corson was an active and earnest abolitionist and during the time Robert R. Corson lived with him, his house was a prominent station on the "Underground Railroad," through which many fugitive slaves found their way to freedom, and it was here that the ardent sympathies of the young man were enlisted in behalf of the suffering slaves, as well as in behalf of suffering humanity in general, and the habit formed of ever striving to uplift and improve the condition of his fellow man, that indelibly marked the whole life of the great humanitarian. The poor hunted fugitives would arrive late at night, often in charge of friends from a station nearer the border line of the slave states, and after receiving food and shelter, sometimes for a week or more, were con- veyed in the night to a Friend's house in Upper Bucks county, a distance of about twenty miles, where they would be cared for in a like manner, and then trans- ferred to another station, until they finally reached Canada and freedom.
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On the conclusion of his term at the Treemont Seminary, his health being deli- cate, he went to live with his brother Dr. Thomas Johnson Corson, near Potts- ville, in Schuylkill county, and remained there until 1856, when he removed to Philadelphia and engaged in shipping coal to the eastern markets, in which busi- ness he continued until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, at one time occupying three wharves on the Schuylkill, where he received the shipments of coal from a mine leased at Pottsville. Soon after locating in Philadelphia (in 1857) he married Rebecca Jones Foulke, in whom he found a fitting helpmeet, in sympathy with his large hearted schemes for the amelioration of suffering humanity.
Mr. Corson took an active interest in the political campaign of i860, that resulted in the election of Lincoln to the presidency, being one of the active mem- bers of the Union League ; later he devoted much time to active political work in support of the party of freedom.
When Philadelphia became congested with the hordes of soldiers pouring in to be drilled and equipped for the defense of the national government, and trans- portation and supplies were inadequate for the demand, and soldiers could be seen loitering on the streets without proper food or clothing, Mr. Corson, was promi- nent among those who began feeding them on the streets and sidewalks.
He assisted in opening the old boathouse at the foot of Washington Avenue, on May 27, 1861, as "The Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon," and a few days later, in the cooper shop of William M. Cooper, of the "Cooper Shop Refresh- ment Saloon," and was soon elected secretary of the Union Volunteer Relief Committee, of which Arad Barrows was chairman. This committee not only cared for and fed free of charge soldiers going to the front, but later cared for the sick and wounded returning to their homes from the scenes of carnage at the south, and during the war disbursed approximately six hundred thousand dollars in this commendable work of feeding the hungry and caring for the sick.
Bestowing much of his time, both night and day, to the details of this work, Mr. Corson soon learned that there were hundreds of soldiers, worn out by travel and sickness who were unable to reach the hospitals, or reaching them were unable to communicate with their friends and families. He at once set about the work of securing lists of stranded soldiers, which he would send to the governor of the state from which they came, who published them in the newspapers, so that their friends and relatives were enabled to communicate with them. This was the initiative to the organized work in behalf of the soldiers of the war, in which Mr. Corson was so long and meritoriously engaged.
In a letter to him from Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, dated June 5, 1862, the governor says, "May I ask it as a favor that you will act as Military Agent of Connecticut for the care of her sick and wounded. * * * "pjjg service would be highly valued by our citizens, and greatly aid and cheer the men." This was followed on June 28, 1862, by a like appointment from Governor Mor- ton, of Indiana; on July 7, from Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts; July 8. from Governor Washburne, of Maine, renewed by Governor Corry, February 26, 1864; on July 16, 1862, by Governor Solomon, of Wisconsin; July 22, 1862, by Governor Holbrook, of Vermont; on July 31, by Governor Olden, of New Jersey; on October i, by Governor Berry, of New Hampshire, renewed on No- vember 22, 1864, by Governor Gilmore, accompanied by a commission with rank
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of Colonel; in November 5, 1862, by Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, re- newed, with rank of Lieutenant Colonel, by Governor Smith, November i, 1864; on December 23, 1863, by Governor Cannon, of Delaware; on July 10, 1864, by Governor Bradford, of Maryland, and also from the Governor of Michigan. Thus Mr. Corson found himself officially employed to look after soldiers by ap- pointment and authority of thirteen states, and it became an important and laborious work, requiring his whole time and the help of four or five assistants, who daily visited hospitals, conferred with the men, looked after their arrearages in pay, and placed them in communication with their friends and the authorities of their own states. He also visited the battle fields of Virginia, immediately after engagements, frequently accompanied by his wife. On hearing of an en- gagement they would hurry to the field with supplies, establishing themselves in a convenient house, secure an ambulance and begin their noble work of caring for the fallen. To cheer and comfort these poor fellows, or take down in writing the last messages of the dying to their loved ones at home were the daily an hourly duties of Mr. Corson, his estimable wiie and their able assistants. Again when, late in the struggle, the poor starved and emaciated soldiers from the prison dens, at Belle Isle, Andersonville and Richmond, arrived at Annapolis, many of them in the last agonies of death, hundreds dying while being transported, it was his pain- ful duty to take down a record of these martyrs to liberty and union, to be for- warded to the states from whence they came.
During these trying times, Mr. Corson was in constant communication with and enjoyed the confidence of the authorities of the different states which he represented, as well as with the various military departments of the government, and was thus enabled to be of the utmost assistance to the unfortunate victims of the war. That his noble work in behalf of humanity was to some extent ap- preciated will be shown by the many letters and resolutions transmitted to him from the different state authorities. On February 17, 1863, he received through Governor Sprague the thanks of the state, "for courtesy and kindness to our Rhode Island troops." And on May 26, Governor Smith of the same state writes, "Such generous devotion as you have always shown our suffering soldiers merits both the thanks of our Country and our State." In January, 1866, the State Assembly of Rhode Island adopted resolutions thanking him "for his untiring energy and self sacrificing devotion to the interests of our soldier." On Decem- ber 9, 1865, he was appointed Assistant Quartermaster General of Massachusetts, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, "in recognition of the faithful, energetic and discreet services rendered the state."
The above are but specimens of the letters of thanks and resolutions received from the authorities of the different states which he represented. New Hamp- shire, Maryland, Vermont, Indiana, and other states transmitting to him like testimonials of their appreciation of his noble work in behalf of their citizen soldiers.
Col. Corson also acted for the diffrent states in raising and equipping colored regiments for the war, and was Secretary of the Pennsylvania Freedsman's Relief Association, which supported one hundred teachers in the South, from 1866 to 1872, establishing schools in Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, Ala- bama, Mississippi and Tennessee. He was also secretary of the committee which collected colored soldiers' and sailors' orphans throughout the states and raised
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funds and purchased buildings for the estabUshment of Colored Soldiers' Orphan School, in Pennsylvania; the state making no provision for them as it did for the wliite orphans.
On Mr. Corson's resignation, as the representative of the state of Pennsyl- vania, in relation to disabled soldiers, he received from Lieutenant Colonel John Campbell, Chief Surgeon, District of Pennsylvania, the following:
"The agreeable relations, official and personal that have existed during your whole term of service, between yourself and the Medical Director's Office, made it a pleasure to act in concert with you in all efforts for the good of the soldier. * * * For your judicious co-operation with me on all occasions, I tender my sincere thanks. The soldiers of your own and other states in whose behalf you labored, cannot have other than the most grateful recollections of your services. My Dear Colonel."
Surgeon Kenderdine, Medical Director, having charge of the sick and wound- ed arriving in the hospitals from the battle fields, on hearing of Col. Corson's resignation, on August 23, 1865, sent him a still stronger testimonial of his ap- preciation of the noble services rendered which concludes as follows: "Your disinterestedness in relieving suffering early won my regard, and every soldier I have sent you for special aid (and they have not been few) has returned con- vinced that all that was possible would be done for him. * * * With such a record you may be proud and safely retire to private life."
Not less courageous in times of peace than in the time of war, when the citi- zens of Philadelphia decided to take action to correct political abuses existing in the state and city government, Col. Corson was one of the committee appointed at a meeting of citizens held at the Academy of Music, in June, 1871, to make independent nominations for municipal and legislative offices, and was one of the organizers of the Municipal Reform Association, of Philadelphia, October 26, 1871. Again in 1880, he became a member of the Committee of One Hun- dred, and was one of its first secretaries, filhng that position from 1881 until the dissolution of the Committee in 1885. He was a member of the Board of Di- rectors of Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, one of the incor- porators of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania ; member of the board of Inspectors of the Philadelphia County Prison; of the Board of Directors of Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity; membjr of the Executive Com- mittee of the Philadelphia Fountain Society ; member of the Board of Directors and first treasurer of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; member of the Board of Directors of Hay's Mechanics' Home, and identified with almost all the leading charitable enterprises of the city. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Art Club, member of its House Committee and Chairman of its Reception Committee; and a member of the executive committee of both the Municipal League and the Pennsylvania Civil Service Reform Association.
Few citizens of Philadelphia or any other city have maintained so long and honorable a record in the cause of humanity, and the elevation of the human race; and in all his undertakings he has been ably seconded by his estimable wife, Rebecca (Foulke) Corson. They have no children, and Col. Corson was the last of the descendants of Dr. Richard Davis Corson to bear the name of Corson. Col. Corson died February 19, 1904.
CRESSON FAMILY.
Pierre Cresson, born about the year 1610, is believed to have been a native of Picardy. With others of the Reformed religion he took refuge in Holland, where at an early date he married, and lived at various times in Sluis, Ryswyck and Delft. In 1657, with his wife, Rachel Claes, or Cloos, and their children, he emi- grated to the settlement of New Amstel, on the Delaware river.
While in Holland Pierre Cresson had held the position of gardener to the Prince of Orange. His reputation as a farmer of ability doubtless gained for him the notice of Governor Stuyvesant, who, being on a visit to New Amstel, engaged Cresson for service at his bowery, at New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island, to which place he appears to have removed. It was probably shortly after his arrival at New Amsterdam that Pierre Cresson returned to Holland, leaving his family here. He was no doubt sent by Stuyvesant to procure a supply of competent farmers for the governor's lands, whom he brought back with him on the "Gilded Beaver," sailing from Amsterdam, on April 25, 1659.
Pierre Cresson and his son, Jacques, were among the early settlers of Harlem, both of them taking up plots and becoming active in the affairs of the new town. When the Director General and Council issued a commission, on Au- gust 16, 1660, for the establishment of the first court of justice at Harlem, Pierre Cresson was one of the three Schepens or magistrates appointed. In June, 1663, at the time of an Indian alarm, military companies were formed for the protection of the settlement, with Pierre Cresson as chief in command, under the title of corporal. In 1680 he removed to Staten Island, where he probably died. Our last record of him is dated August 3, 1681. His widow was living on Staten Island in 1690, but appears to have died shortly after. We find it on record that in 1679 Pierre Cresson had a large family of children and grandchildren. The following list no doubt falls far short of the full number of his children.
Children of Pierre Cresson and Rachel Claes:
Susanna Cresson, b. Ryswyck; m. Nicholas Delaplaine;
Jacques Cresson, d. Aug. i, 1684; m. Marie Reynard;
Christina Cresson, b. Sluis; m. (i) Jean Letelier; (2) Jacob Gerretzs Haas;
Rachel Cresson, b. Delft; m. (i) David Demarest, Jr.; (2) Jean Durie; (3) Roelof
Vanderlinde; Joshua Cresson, bapt. June 8, 1658; Elias Cresson, bapt. Dec. 17, 1662.
Jacques Cresson' (Pierre') was doubtless born in Holland, although no record of the date and place of his birth has been found. He must have been young at the time of his arrival in this country, and when the settlement of Harlem was made. He died in New York, August i, 1684. On September i, 1663, Jacques Cresson and Maria (or Marie) Reynard were married, as shown by the records of the Dutch Reformed Church of New York.
In 1660 Jacques Cresson was made lancepesade (i. e. assistant corporal) of the first military company of Harlem. In 1663 he was a private in one of the companies under his father's command. In 1669 he was made constable of the
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town, but shortly afterwards concluded to remove to New York. The Harlem property was disposed of and one on Broadway purchased, which was sold by his widow after his death.
Maria Reynard, widow of Jacques Cresson, according to the church records, left New York for Curaqoa shortly after her husband's death. She next appears on November 3, 1696, as the purchaser of a house and land at the northeast corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. This measured seventy-four and a quarter feet on Chestnut street, and one hundred and seventy-eight feet on Fourth street. Her sons, James and Solomon, were in membership with Friends in Philadelphia, and her own death on 8mo. 10, 1710, is shown in the records of that Society.
Children of Jacques and Marie (Reynard) Cresson:
James (Jacobus) Cresson, bapt. Sept. 13, 1665; m. Mary ;
Maria Cresson, bapt. Apr. 13, 1670;
Susanna Cresson, bapt. Dec. 13, 1671;
Solomon Cresson, bapt. June 30, 1674; d. 9, 10, 1746; m. Anna Watson;
Abraham Cresson, bapt. May 31, 1676;
Isaac Cresson, bapt. May 31, 1676;
Sara Cresson, bapt. Dec. 18, 1678;
Anna Cresson, bapt. Nov. i, 1679;
Rachel Cresson, bapt. July 22, 1682; m. (1) Henry Sluyter; (2) Lawson.
Solomon Cresson' (Jacques', Pierre'), baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church, New York City, on June 30, 1674; died in Philadelphia, gmo. 10, 1746; married in Philadelphia Friends' Meeting, iimo. 14, 1702, Anna Watson.
Solomon Cresson probably removed with his mother and brother, James, to Curagoa in 1685. While in the West Indies he no doubt acquired that proficiency in the Spanish language which later proved of such benefit to himself and others. Whether he returned with the rest of the family when they settled in Philadel- phia we have no means of learning, but our next definite knowledge of him is at Port Royal, Jamaica, in 1696. According to family tradition he had been sent to the West Indies on business for his brother, James, which proving unsuccessful and his expenses having been considerable in his endeavor to recover a vessel seized by the admiralty, he was so reduced in means as to be compelled, as a sailor, to work his passage back. Of his shipwreck, subsequent viscissitudes and adventures, we are told in the journal written by Jonathan Dickinson, one of the shipwrecked passengers, and first printed in 1699. The barkentine "Reforma- tion" sailed from Port Royal on August 23, 1696, bound for Philadelphia. She had a stormy passage almost from the first, and on September 22d was wrecked oflf the coast of Florida. Both passengers and crew were saved, making a landing on a desolate coast. The castaways were soon discovered by Indians, and as it was known that the English were in great disfavor with the tribes inhabiting these parts, a suggestion was made that they should pass themselves off as Span- iards. This they were enabled to do through the ability of Solomon Cresson to converse in the Spanish tongue. The Indians from the first were somewhat suspicious, but under their escort the party finally reached St. Augustine, after much suffering and great hardships. Some little time was taken for rest and recuperation before the journey was continued to Charleston, where they took passage for Philadelphia.
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Solomon Cresson shortly afterwards purchased a part of his mother's lot on Chestnut street, on which he built a carpenter shop and carried on his business of turner and chair-maker. She later sold to him the house and lot adjoining, on which was afterwards built another three-story brick house. He was made constable of the town, and Watson tells in his Annals of Philadelphia, that in the year 1708, while going his rounds one night, Cresson discovered a riotous party in a tavern and ordered them to disperse. It happened that one of the number was John Evans, Governor of the Province, who called the constable into the house, flogged him very severely and had him imprisoned for two days. Cresson was afterwards fully exonerated.
Solomon Cresson prospered in business and acquired considerable property. Before his death he had conveyed to his son, James, a house and lot on the west side of Second street, below Market. In the rear of this property were two houses and lots on the east side of Strawberry Alley, which were given to his son, John. John Cresson was living in another house on the west side of Strawberry Alley at the time of his father's death, and it was in this house that Solomon Cresson died. Falling on the pavement of the Friends' Meeting House, in an attack of apoplexy, he was carried to his son John's house and there expired. This third house on Strawberry Alley the father devised by will to John, to whom came also the easternmost of the three lots on Chestnut street, containing a frame house and the shop. The latter property was sold in two portions, in 1791-92, by Jeremiah, son of John Cresson, to William Prichett and John Scotte.
Solomon Cresson's will left land in New Castle county, Delaware, to his sister Rachel Lawson's family, and considerable other real estate to be divided among his grandchildren. The three- story brick house, at the corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets, and that on the lot next east of it, came into the possession of Anna Lobdell and her family.
Children of Solomon and Anna (Watson) Cresson:
Mary Cresson, b. 9, 23, 1703; d. 7, i, 1720;
Anna Cresson, b. 5, 20, 1705; d. i, 3, 1725;
Rachel Cresson, b. 5, 17, 1707; d. before 3, 26, 1768;
James Cresson, b. 8, 2, 1709; d. 3, s, 1746; m. Sarah Emlen;
Solomon Cresson, b. 8, 4, 1711; d. i, 28, 1761; unm.;
Rebecca Cresson, b. 6, 27, 1713; d. 4, 7, 1794; m. Isaac Lobdell;
John Cresson, b. 6, 28, 1715; d. 8, 20, 1771; m. Rebecca Briant;
Samuel Cresson, b. 7, 14, 1717; d. 9, 19, 1717;
William Cresson, b. 6, 9, 1718; d. 6, 19, 1718.
James Cresson' (Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born 8mo. 2, 1709; died 3mo. 5, 1746; married at Friends' Meeting, Philadelphia, 3mo. 25, 1738, Sarah Emlen, born imo. 19, 1709-10, died 8mo. 2, 1752, daughter of George and Hannah (Gar- rett) Emlen. James Cresson was connected with his father in business. His early death and that of his wife, a few years later, left their two sons to the care of their mother's sister, Mary, and her husband, John Armitt, who had no chil- dren of their own, and by whom they were brought up with loving care.
Children of James and Sarah (Emlen) Cresson:
George Cresson, b. 2, 15, 1739; d. 9, 27, 1740;
Caleb Cresson, b. 8, 20, 1742; d. i, 21, 1816; m. (i), Sarah Hopkins; (2), Anna- bella Elliott; (3), Jane (Cox) Evans;
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Joshua Cresson, b. 2, 30, 1744; d. 10, 21, 1793; m. Mary Hopkins; James Cresson, b. 6, 12, 1746; d. 10, 23, 1747.
John Cresson* (Solomon", Jacques', Pierre'), born 6mo. 28, 171 5; died 8mo. 20, 1771. The marriage license of John Cresson and Rebecca Briant, bearing date of August 7, 1736, is on record at Trenton, New Jersey. On 4mo. 24, I737> John and Rebecca Cresson, who were under dealings for their outgoing in mar- riage, presented their acknowledgement, which was accepted and ordered to be read at the close of the first meeting.
John Cresson was a "whitesmith." He lived in a house on the west side of Strawberry Alley, which house and one on Lombard street he left by will to his .'-on, James. To Jeremiah were left the three houses on the east side of Strawberry Alley, and to be divided between the two sons were left three hundred acres of land in Cecil county, Maryland, and a pasture lot on Hudson's Alley.
Children of John and Rebecca (Briant) Cresson:
Jeremiah Cresson, b. 1738; d. 5, 4, 1800; m. (i), Hannah Crean; (2), Martha
Rickey; Anna Cresson, d. 6, 17, 1739;
James Cresson, b. 12, 30, 1740-1; d. 6, 21, 1799; m. Sarah Hooton; Rebecca Cresson, d. 8, 19, 1743; Hannah Cresson, d. 8, 16, 1745; John Cresson, d. 12, 11, 1745; John Cresson, d. 10, 21, 1756.
Caleb Cresson° (James', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born 8mo. 29, 1742; died imo. 21, 1816; married (i) at Haddonfield Meeting, New Jersey, 5mo. i, 1767, Sarah Hopkins, born i2mo. 4, 1748, died gmo. 11, 1769, daughter of Eben- ezer and Sarah (Lord) Hopkins; married (2) at Philadelphia Meeting, 4mo. 16, 1772 Annabella Elliott, born 2mo. 15, 1749; died lomo. 12, 1793, daughter of John and Annabella (Bonnyman) Elliott, formerly of Bolton, Leicestershire, England. He married (3) at Middletown Meeting, Delaware county, 7mo. 2, 1795, Jane, widow of Thomas Evans, and daughter of John and Mary Cox, of Edgmont. There were no children by the last marriage.
Caleb Cresson, left an orphan at an early age, served an apprenticeship of six years and four months with Thomas Clifford, in Water street, between Market and Arch streets, but did not engage in mercantile pursuits on his own account. After his marriage he made Haddonfield his home, but returned to Philadelphia after the death of his first wife, living on Cherry street above Fifth, where he and his brother had a large inherited property. He took an active part in the affairs of the Society of Friends, had valuable and important trusts, and gave much time and care to Meeting business. For a number of years he kept the register of burials of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, and was notable for his beautiful handwriting. He left a diary for the years 1791 and 1792, which is a most valued family possession. In 1793, when Philadelphia was visited by the yellow fever, he and his son Caleb remained in the city. The latter was attacked by the epi- demic but recovered. His wife, Annabella, went to Radnor with her son, John and died there of the fever.
Child of Caleb and Sarah (Hopkins) Cresson:
Mary Cresson, b. 3, 7, 1768; d. i, 20, 1777.
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Children of Caleb and Annabella (Elliott) Cresson:
John Elliott Cresson, b. ii, ii, 1773; d. 8, 25, 1814; m. Mary Warder; Caleb Cresson, b. 5, 11, 1775; d. 11, 21, 1821; m. Sarah Emlen; Joshua Cresson, b. 1, 8, 1777; <!• 3. 24. 'i'777; Mary Armitt Cresson, b. I, 21, 1778; d. 1, 29, 1780; William Cresson, b. 1780; d. 3, 10, 1789.
Joshua Cresson" (James*, Solomon", Jacques', Pierre'), born 2mo. 30, 1744; died lomo. 21, 1793; married at Haddonfield Meeting, 4mo. 26, 1770, Mary Hop- kins, died 2mo. 19, 1801, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah (Lord) Hopkins, sister to his brother Caleb's wife. They were the granddaughters of John Had- don, nephew of Elizabeth Estaugh, whose romantic story is so beautifully told by the poet, Longfellow.
Children of Joshua and Mary (Hopkins) Cresson:
Sarah Cresson, b. i, 27, 1771; d. 9, 23, 1829; unm. ;
James Cresson, b. 2, i, 1772; d. 12, 17, 1773;
Ebenezer Cresson, b. 3, 3, 1774; d. 8, 11, 1800; unm.;
Samuel Cresson, b. 9, i, 1775; d. i, 21, 1777;
Joshua Cresson, b. 3, 24, 1782; d. s. p. 5, 8, 1841; m. Hannah Raper;
John Armitt Cresson, b. 5, 18, 1784; d. 8, 18, 1814; unm.;
George Cresson, b. 5, 17, 1787; d. 9, 21, 1798;
Samuel Cresson, b. 3, s, 1791 ; d. 4, 15, 1831 ; m. Elizabeth M. Blackwood.
Jeremiah Cresson', (John*, Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born 1738; died 5mo. 4, iSoo; married (i) Hannah Crean, born 1740, died 8mo. 24, 1790; mar- ried (2) Martha, daughter of Keirl and Sarah (Milner) Rickey, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, sister of the husband of his daughter, Mary.
Jeremiah Cresson was a private in Capt. Tench Francis's Company, First Battalion, Philadelphia Militia, in August, 1781, in the War of the Revolution. He lived on Fourth street, between Market and Chestnut streets.
Children of Jeremiah and Hannah (Crean) Cresson:
Rebecca Cresson, b. 12, 12, 1760; d. 8, 19, 1761;
John Cresson, b. 6, 28, 1762; d. 11, 8, 1764;
Rebecca Cresson, b. 2, 10, 1764; m. William Prichett;
Mary Cresson, b. 8, 4, 1766; d. 11, 23, 1846; m. Samuel Rickey;
Hannah Cresson, b. 12, 30, 1769; d. 2, 19, 1794; m. Joseph Matlack;
John Cresson, b. 5, 7, 1772; d. unm.;
Eleanor Cresson, b. 5, 26, 1774; d. 10, 3, 1776;
Richard Crean Cresson, b. i, 7, 1777; d. 7, 9, 1837; m. Elizabeth Stroud;
Eleanor Cresson (2d), b. 11, 25, 1781; m. Richard Massey.
James Cresson" (John*, Solomon", Jacques", Pierre'), born i2mo. 30, 1740-1 ; died 6mo. 21, 1799; married, 3mo. 12, 1772, at Philadelphia Meeting, Sarah Hooton, born i2mo. 18, 1747, died 3mo. 13, 1803, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Head) Hooton.
James Cresson lived on Second street, above Market, in one of the two houses bequeathed to him by the will of his father-in-law, Benjamin Hooton. He was a lumber merchant, and was for eighteen years a minister among Friends. A por- tion of his journal, written while on a religious visit to Barbadoes, is still in existence.
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Children of James and Sarah (Hooton) Cresson:
Benjamin Cresson, b. i, 23, 1774; d. 8, 19, 1827; m. Deborah Phipps;
Rebecca Cresson, b. 7, 30, 1775; d. 6, 4, 1837; m. Philip Garrett;
James Cresson, b. 10, i, 1776; d. 6, 16, 1843; m- (0, Hannah Humphreys; (2),
Sarah Parrish; John Head Cresson, b. 6, 28, 1779; d. i, 12, 1845; m. Rachel Walter; Joseph Cresson, b. 6, 22, 1781; d. 2, 11, 1861; m. Mercy Chapman; Hannah Head Cresson, b. 11, 25, 1782; d. 4, 20, 1784; Sarah Cresson, b. 11, 7, 1784; d. 8, 28, 1788;
Elizabeth Cresson, b. 11, 18, 1786; d. s. p. 3, 14, 1854; m. Samuel Mason; Sarah Cresson (2d), b. 6, 9, 1789; d. 11, 16, 1851; unm.
John Elliott Cresson' (Caleb", James*, Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born iimo. II, 1773; died 8mo. 25, 1814, at number 74 High (or Market) street, Philadelphia; married, 4mo. 28, 1794, Mary Warder, died imo. 13, 1863, aged eighty-seven years, daughter of Jeremiah and Deborah (Roberts) Warder. John Elliott Cresson was a conveyancer.
Children of John Elliott and Mary (Warder) Cresson:
Elliott Cresson, b. 3, 2, 1796; d. 2, 20, 1854; unm. An eminent philanthropist;
Warder Cresson, b. 7, 13, 1798; d. 11, 6, i860; m. Elizabeth Townsend;
Annabella Cresson, b. 6, 22, 1800 ;
Deborah Ann Cresson, b. 8, 4, 1802; d. 10, 25, 1823;
Sarah Emlen Cresson, b. 7, i, 1806; d. 2, 3, 1878; m. John M. Dickey;
Caleb Cresson, b. 2mo. 1808; d. 9, 30, 1809;
Clement Cresson, b. 9, 2, 1810; d. s. p.; m. Margaretta Bonsall;
John E. Cresson, b. 6mo. 1814; d. 5, 3, 1816.
Caleb Cresson" (Caleb', James', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born 5mo. 11, 1775 ; died iimo. 21, 1821 ; married, 6mo. 4, 1807, at Arch Street Meeting, Phila- delphia, Sarah Emlen, bom 6mo. 19, 1787, died 3mo. 28, 1870, daughter of Caleb and Mary (Warder) Emlen. The following sketch of Caleb Cresson, Jr., was written by his nephew, Elliott Cresson :
Caleb Cresson was one of the most eminent and highly respectable merchants of Phila- delphia. Having amassed a large fortune * * * he retired from commercial pursuits; and possessing a strong philanthropic and enlightened mind, devoted his time to objects of public utility and benevolence. He was one of the original projectors and most liberal patrons of the "Asylum for Persons Deprived of their Reason," "The Pennsylvania Insti- tution of the Deaf and Dumb," and in early life was a most efficient member of our Free School Establishment and Prison Society, and of the latter was secretary at the time of his death. Of the Schuylkill Navigation Company he was a most indefatigable director, and when public confidence had at several different times flagged from the failure of similar schemes, his subscribing large sums added to the reliance placed on his excellent judgment, re-established the drooping concern.
It was not only in public institutions that he shone thus conspicuously; his feeling heart sought out objects among the widowed, the fatherless and them who had no helper, and aided their necessities, as he supposed, unknown to the world. When thus in the meridian of his usefulness, and from the vigor of his excellent constitution his fellow citi- zens fondly hoped his days would be lengthened out to a good old age, it pleased Provi- dence to call him from his works to rewards; and although he made no high profession to men, his unblemished life, spotless integrity, and peaceful end furnish us wxih the consoling hope that he is in the fruition of that life which is the portion of the righteous * * *
It was with this valued relative I served my apprenticeship. On my coming of age he declined business in my favor, and by aiding me with the loan of a large sum to conduct it prosperously, together with the paternal regard and advice he often extended to me in great measure supplied the loss I had sustained in the death of an affectionate father. '
Children of Caleb and S(frah (Emlen) Cresson:
Mary Emlen Cresson, b. 12, 16, 1809; d. 12, 7, 1890; m. Joseph P. Smith; Emlen Cresson, b. 3, 12, 1811; d. 3, 2, 1889; m. Priscilla Prichett;
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Caleb Cresson, b. 9, 22, 1812; d. 3, 14, 1858; m. Hannah M. L. Gordon; William Penn Cresson, b. 6, 13, 1814; d. 8, 7, 1892; m. Susan Vaux; Charles Caleb Cresson, b. 2, 27, 1816; d. i, 9, 1902; unm.; Annabella Elliott Cresson, b. 4, 8, 1818; d. 4, 4, 1869; m. B. Wyatt Wistar.
Samuel Cresson' (Joshua", James*, Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born 3mo. 5, 1791; died 4mo. 15, 1831 ; married, lomo. 2, 1812, at Haddonfield Meeting, New Jersey, Elizabeth M. Blackwood, born 5mo. 31, 1792, died 7mo. 29, 1837, daughter of John and Ann (Mickle) Blackwood, of Gloucester county, New Jersey.
Children of Samuel and Elizabeth M. (Blackwood) Cresson:
Samuel Emlen Cresson, b. i, 25, 1814; d. 8, 19, 1819;
John Blackwood Cresson, b. 9, 9, 1817; d. 10, 23, 1876; m. Amanda Webb;
Mary Ann Cresson, b. 3, 17, 1819; d. 12, 28, 1821;
Elizabeth Mickle Cresson b. 3, 5, 1824; d. 3, 6, 1824;
Sarah Emlen Cresson, b. 3, 20, 1821; d. 4, 7, 1862;
Joshua Cresson, b. 12, 19, 1825; d. 11, 11, 1885.
Richard Crean Cresson', (Jeremiah', John*, Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), bom imo. 7, 1777; died 7mo. 9, 1B37; married, lomo. 9, 1800, in West Marl- borough, Chester county, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Stroud.
Children of Richard C. and Elisabeth (Stroud) Cresson:
Lydia Stroud Cresson, b. 8, 3, 1803; d. 3, 31, 1872; unm.;
Jacob Keen Cresson, b. 8, 23, 1806; d. 7, 8, 1834; unm.;
Eleanor Keen Cresson, b. 8, 8, 1809; d. 11, 8, i8go; m. James Stiles;
Jeremiah Cresson, b. 8, 6, 1812; went West and was never heard from;
Ann Baker Cresson, b. 10, 24, 1814; d. 2, 2, 1894; unm.;
Thomas Stroud Cresson, b. 2, 14, 1816; d. 8, 24, 1825;
Elizabeth Stroud Cresson, b. 11, 9, 1818; d. 9, 9, 1845.
Benjamin Cresson' (James', John*, Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born imo. 23, 1774; died 8mo. 19, 1827; married, lomo. 22, 1795, Deborah Phipps, born 3mo. 18, 1774, died 8mo. 9, 1857, daughter of Stephen and Deborah (Kite) Phipps, of Philadelphia.
Benjamin Cresson began his business career as a hatter, succeeding his grand- father, Benjamin Hooton, at the old stand of the latter, number 14 North Second street. He eventually became connected with his brothers in the china business.
Children of Benjamin and Deborah (Phipps) Cresson:
Sarah H. Cresson, b. 9, 26, 1796; d. 7, 13, 1808;
Deborah P. Cresson, b. 12, 9, 1797; d. 4, 6, 1848; m. Joseph Kite;
Susannah Cresson b. 11, 28, 1799; d. 8, 14, 1808;
Rebecca G. Cresson, b. 4, 9, 1802; d. 4, 30, 1858; unm.;
James H. Cresson, b. 12, 26, 1803; d. 2, 3, 1880; unm.;
Mary P. Cresson, b. 2, 27, 1806; d. 3, 17, 1876; m. Thomas Lloyd;
Sarah Cresson, b. 7, 10, 1808; d. i, 28, 1810;
Elizabeth P. Cresson, b. 8, 23, 1811; d. 7, 14, 1838; unm.;
Anna Cresson, b. 12, 5, 1813; d. 8, 27, 1888; unm.:
Sarah Ann Cresson, b. 12, 31, 1815; d. 2, 2, 1829;
Stephen P. Cresson, b. 10, 25, 1818; d. 10, 25, 1818.
James Cresson' (James", John*, Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born lomo. i, 1776; died 6mo. 16, 1843; married (i), smo. 8, 1800, Hannah Humphreys, bom 19
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gmo. 6, 1776, died 8mo. 8, 1812, daughter of Richard and Ann (Morris) Humph- reys; married (2), iimo. 14, 1816, Sarah Parrish, born 7mo. 2, 1771, died with- out issue, 4mo. 16, 1845, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Parrish.
James Cresson and his brother, John H. Cresson, about the year 1800, en- gaged in the shipping business, which they relinquished in a few years for the importation and sale of china and queensware. In a short time their brother, Joseph, joined the firm, which continued in successful operation until 1830, at which time, having secured what they considered a competency, the brothers re- tired from business. Alter tnis James removed to Columbia, Lancaster county, where he made his home for the remainder of his life. He died while on a visit to Philadelphia.
Children of James and Hannah (Humphreys) Cresson:
Ann Humphreys Cresson, b. I, 21, 1801; d. 3, 11, 1831; m. Benjamin Valentine; Tacy Cresson, b. 11, 11, 1802; d. 5, i, 1841; m. Albert G. Bradford; Hannah Cresson, b. 10, 6, 1804; d. 4, 11, 1841; unm.; James Cresson, b. 10, 22, 1806; d. i, 30, 1872; m. Mary J. Leedom; Martha Warner Cresson, b. 12, 6, 1808; d. 9, 9, 1877; m. (i), Enoch P. Walker; m. (2) Charles W. Roberts.
John Head Cresson' (James', John*, Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born 6mo. 28, 1779; died imo. 12, 1845; married, iimo. 4, 1801, at Arch Street Meeting, Philadelphia, Rachel Walter, born 4mo. i, 1779, died 3mo. 14, 1863, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Pennell) Walter.
Children of John H. and Rachel (Walter) Cresson:
James Cresson, b. 8, 4, 1802; d. 8, 17, 1802;
Rebecca Walter Cresson, b. 9, 18, 1803; d. s. p. i, 4, 1825; m. Thomas Savery;
Waiter Cresson, b. i, 7, 1805; d. 7, 10, 1805;
Charles Cresson, b. 8, 5, 1806; d. 10, 21, 1807;
Edmund Cresson, b. 10, 30, 1807; d. 2, 8, 1808;
Elizabeth Hooton Cresson, b. 12, 15, 1808; d. 10, 21, 1851; m. William Savery;
William Cresson, b. 11, 12, 1810; d. 2, 24, 1874; m. Ann R. Leedom;
Thomas Cresson, b. 7, 13, 1812; d. 7, i, 1813;
Benjamin Cresson, b. 11, 8, 1813; d. 4, 12, 1814;
Walter Cresson, b. 3, 11, 1815; d. 3, 29, 1893; m. Alice Hannum;
Mary Walter Cresson, b. 2, 26, 1817; d. i, 23, 1888; m. John W. Dixon;
Sarah Hooton Cresson, b. 9, l, 1819; d. 2, 19, 1897; unm.;
John Cresson, b. 4, 15, 1821; d. 6, 7, 1901; m. Alice J. Leedom.
Joseph Cresson' (James', John*, Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born 6mo. 22, 1781 ; diea 2mo. 11, 1861 ; married, 6mo. 9, 1803, Mercy Chapman, born i2mo. 25, 1782, died 4mo. 13, 1858, daughter of John and Mercy (Beaumont) Chapman, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania.
Children of Joseph and Mercy (Chapman) Cresson:
Sarah Cresson, b. 3, 14, 1804; d. s. p. 12, 27, 1830; m. Frederick Fraley;
John Chapman Cresson, b. 3, 16, 1806; d. i, 27, 1876; m. Letitia L. Massey;
Jane Chapman Cresson, b. 12, 28, 1810; d. 3, l, 1897; m. Frederick Fraley, his sec- ond wife. Mr. Fraley d. on Sept. 23, 1901, in his 98th year, after a busy, useful life, full of well earned honors;
Joseph Cresson, b. 7, 21, 1813; d. 3, 12, 1884; unm.;
Charles Cresson, b 7mo. 1817; d. 12, 6, 1817;
Mercy Anna Cresson, b. 4, 19, 1819; d- 6, 18, 1886; unm.;
Rebecca Garrett Cresson, b. 3. 10, 1823; d. 10, s, i860; unm.
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Warder Ckesson', (John E.', Caleb", James', Solomon", Jacques^ Pierre"), born ymo. 13, 1798; died in Jerusalem, Palestine, iimo. 6, i860; married, i2mo. 12, 1821, Elizabeth Townsend, born iimo. 29, 1799, died 8mo. 5, 1882, daughter of Ezra and Elizabeth (Paul) Townsend.
Children of Warder and Elisabeth (Townsend) Cresson:
Emma Cresson, b. 9, 30, 1822; d. 4, 13, 1891; m. Alexander F. Porter;
John Eluott Cresson, b. 8, 6, 1824; d. 9, 26, 1903; m. Clementine Banes;
Mary Cresson, b. 10, 4, 1826; d. i, 21, 1827;
Jacob Cresson, b. 5, 27, 1828; d. 6, 18, 1865; m. (i), Mary A. Young; (2), Benja- line French;
Eliza Cresson, b. i, 24, 1833; d. 5, 14, 1835;
Clement Cresson, b. 9, 22, 1835: d. 4, 12, 1903; m. Laura J. Witzell;
Ezra T. Cresson, b. 6, 18, 1838; m. Mary A. Ridings;
Annabella Cresson, b. 10, 8, 1840; d. i, 28, 1889; m. James W. McAllister.
Emlen Cresson' (Caleb°, Caleb', James', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born March 12, 181 1; died March 2, 1889; married Priscilla Prichett, died January 12, 1902, daughter of William and Edith (Hatten) Prichett, and granddaughter of William and Rebecca (Cresson) Prichett. She died January 12, 1902.
Emlen and Priscilla P. Cresson, by will, created a fund amounting to about sixteen thousand dollars annually, for travelling scholarships to be awarded by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as a memorial to their son, who had been a student in that institution. He was a young man of much talent as a painter, and his early death was much regretted by his many friends.
Child of Emlen and Priscilla (Prichett) Cresson:
William Emlen Cresson, b. March 15, 1843; d. Aug. 5, 1868.
Caleb Cresson' (Caleb', Caleb", James', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born September 22, 1812; died March 14, 1858; married, November 22, 1848, Hannah M. L. Gordon, born February 29, 1823, died December 28, 1858, daughter of Mordecai Lewis and Hannah Marshall (Shoemaker) Gordon.
Children of Caleb and Hannah M. L. (Gordon) Cresson:
Caleb Cresson, d. young;
Sarah Emlen Cresson, m., but with her children, again took the name of Cresson. Issue:
Mary Cresson, m. Oct., 1897, Henry Lee;
Sarah B. Cresson, m. June 15, 1898, Charles Norman Trump;
Herman Cresson.
William Penn Cresson' (Caleb', Caleb', James', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born June 13, 1814; died August 7, 1892; married, November 26, 1835, Susan Vaux, born January 6, 1813, died June 29, 1890, daughter of George and Eliza- beth H. (Sansom) Vaux.
William P. Cresson retired from active business life in 1857. He was a man of wide benevolence ; was third president of the Howard Hospital at Broad and Catherine streets, which he was instrumental in founding ; was a charter member of Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, and for thirty years one of its vestrymen. He was a charter member of the Philadelphia Art Club; a member of the Union League, etc.
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Children of William P. and Susan (Vaux) Cresson:
George Vaux Cresson, born Sept. lo, 1836; died without issue, Jan. 18, 1908, at "Caversham;" m. Dec. 23, 1863, Mary Beavan, dau. of James W. and Emily (Stevenson) Cooke, who d. Oct. 3, 1907, at their home, "Caversham," in Ash- bourne, Montgomery Co., Pa. Mr. Cresson was Prest. of the George V. Cresson Co., at Eighteenth St. and Allegheny. Ave. This enterprise, which he inaugurated in 1859, has attained great proportions. He was for three years Pres. of the Manufacturers' Club; was member and officer of Franklin Institute; member of Engineers' Club, etc., and a vestryman of St. Paul's P. E. Church, Cheltenham;
Caleb Cresson, b. Nov. 22, 1839; m. Isabella B. Gumbes;
Mary Emlen Cresson, b. 2, 11, 1846; d. 2, 8, 1908; m. 11, 22, 1876, Caleb Cresson, son of B. Wyatt and Annabella E. (Cresson) Wistar;
Elizabeth Vaux Cresson, b. 7, 27, 1850; d. 7, 17, 1899; m. Hillborn T. Jones, whose name was changed by law, to Cresson. Issue: William Penn Cresson; Emlen Vaux Cresson.
Susan Vaux Cresson, b. 9, 13, 1852; d. young.
John Blackwood Cresson' (Samuer, Joshua", James', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre"), born September 9, 1817; died October 23, 1876; married Amanda Webb, who died July 22, 1885, daughter of Samuel Webb.
Children of John B. and Amanda (Webh) Cresson:
Samuel Webb Cresson, b. 7, 28, 1840; d. 8, i, 1840;
Samuel Emlen Cresson, b. i, 15, 1842; d. 5, 17, 1842;
Charles Clement Cresson, b. i, 24, 1843; d. 3, 16, 1906; m. Adelia Van Derlip;
Mary Cresson, b. 5, 5, 1845; d. 4, 20, 1850;
Eliza Cresson, b. 5, 17, 1847; d. 4, 20, 1850;
Anne Maria Cresson, b. 7, 25, 1850; d. 6, 21, 1895; unm.;
Sarah Emlen Cresson, b. 8, i, 1856; d. 10, 31, 1857;
Amanda Webb Cresson, b. 12, 4, 1857; m. 3mo. 1879, Joseph S. Kite;
John B. Cresson, b. 10, 17, 1864; d. smo. 1889, at Galveston, Tex.
James Cresson' (James', James', John', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born in Philadelphia, lOmo. 22, 1806; died in Norristown, Pennsylvania, imo. 30, 1872; married, 5mo. 23, 1832, Mary Jones Leedom, born gmo. 4, 1805, died 6mo. 26, 1891, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Jones) Leedom.
James Cresson owned and operated for a number of years two iron ore fur- naces at Spring Mill, on the Schuylkill River.
Children of James and Mary J. (Leedom) Cresson:
Jonathan Leedom Cresson, b. 4, 3, 1833; d. 3, 12, 1846;
James Clarence Cresson, b. 9, 19, 1835; d. 6, 6, 1881; m. Ella B. Drake;
Richard H. Cresson, b. i. 18, 1838; d. 6, 11, 1839;
William Leedom Cresson, b. 3, 13, 1840; m. Tacy Corson;
Mary L. Cresson, b. 2, 25, 1841; d. 9. 5. 1844;
Hannah H. Cresson, b. 2, 10, 1843; d. 8, 31, 1844;
Frances Caroline Cresson, b. 11, 14, 1844; m. 12, 26, 1866, William Wright;
Mary Hannah Cresson, b. i, 24, 1846.
William Cresson' (John H.°, James', John', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born in Philadelphia, iimo. 12, i8io; died in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, 2mo. 24, 1874; married, smo. 11, 1853, Ann R. Leedom, born smo. 21, 1811, died i2mo. 24, 1886, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Jones) Leedom. William Cresson became blind in early childhood as the result of an illness. In spite of this afflic- tion he was well informed on all subjects, and was gifted with a cheerful disposi- tion and good sound judgment.
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Child of William and Ann R. (Leedom) Cresson: Lucy Cresson, b. 3, 30, 1854; d. 8, 4, 1854.
Walter Cresson' (John H.', James', John', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), bom in Philadelphia, 3mo. 11, 1815; died Germantown, Philadelphia, 3mo. 29, 1893; married, 5mo. 29, 1844, at Concord, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, Alice Hannum, born 6mo. i, 1824, daughter of Joseph and Ann (Fairlamb) Hannum.
Children of Walter and Alice (Hannum) Cresson:
John Head Cresson, b. 3, 28, 1845; d. 8, 9, 1847;
Anne Hannum Cresson, b. 4, I, 1847;
Alice Hannum Cresson, b. 12, 24, 1848; m. Edward F. Pugh;
Sarah Cresson, b. 6, 14, 1852;
Walter Cresson, b. 9, 10, 1857; d. 12, 15, 1857.
John Cresson' (John H.', James', John', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), bom Philadelphia, 4mo. 15, 1821 ; died 6mo. 7, 1901 ; married, 6mo. 7, 1843, Alice Jones Leedom, born 6mo. 21, 1820, died gmo. 17, 1902, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Jones) Leedom, of Philadelphia.
John Cresson was for many years manager of the city gas works at Ninth and Diamond streets.
Children of John and Alice J . (Leedom) Cresson:
Jonathan L. Cresson, b. 3, 23, 1844;
William H. Cresson, b. 7, 25, 1846; m. Elizabeth W. Wood;
B. Franklin Cresson, b. i, 18, 1848; m. Martha Chambers;
Charles E. Cresson, b. 11, 23, 1849; d. g, 23, 1867;
John H. Cresson, b. 7, 19, 1852; d. 7, i, 1856;
Edith Cresson, d. inf.
Lydia L. Cresson, b. S, 28, 1854; m. Francis Herbert Janvier;
James Cresson, b. 6, 14, 1861; ra. Ellen Louisa G. Fair.
John Chapman Cresson' (Joseph', James', John*, Solomon', Jacques', Pierre"), born 3mo. 16, 1806, in Philadelphia; died there, imo. 27, 1876; married. May 8, 1827, Letitia L. Massey, bom December i, 1804, died November 17, 1888, daughter of Charles Massey.
John C. Cresson was a man of marked ability and early took high rank among the scientists of the day. In 1837 he became Professor of Mechanics and Natural Philosophy at the Franklin Institute. Within a few years of this time the honor- ary degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by the University of Pennsylvania, and shortly after the University of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, made him Ph. D. In 1839 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society, became one of its vice-presidents in 1857, and was senior vice-president for a number of years before his death. In 1855 Dr. Cresson was unanimously chosen president of the Franklin Institute. In 1852 he became one of the trustees of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania.
When the City Gas Works was first put into operation in 1836, he was made its superintendent and almost directly after, its engineer, which position he held for twenty-eight years. He was one of the original commissioners of Fairmount Park and was appointed chief engineer, resigning in 1875 on account of ill health. He was elected president of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Com- pany in 1847, and held the position until his death.
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Children of John C. and Letitia L. (Massey) Cresson:
Charles Massey Cresson, b. 2, 3, 1828; d 12, 27, 1893; m. (i), Caroline Gay; (2),
Sarah Loder (Vinton) ; Mercy Anna Cresson, d. y.; Sarah Cresson, d. y.
John Elloitt Cresson" (Warder', John E.', Caleb', James*, Solomon', Jac- ques", Pierre'), born 8mo. 6, 1824; died gmo. 26, 1903; married Clementine, daughter of Evan Banes.
Children of John Elliott and Clementine (Banes) Cresson:
Benjaline French Cresson, b. 2, 12, 1848; d. 12, 26, 1851;
Charles King Cresson, b. 11, 15, 1849; d. 3, 22, 1868;
Mary Warder Cresson, b. 10, 24, 1851; m. (i), Isaac R. Cassell; (2), John Warden,
Sr.; Francis Clement Cresson, b. 9, 9, 1853; m. Annie M. Craven. Have issue; Annabella Cresson, b. 4, 14, 1857; m. Harry B. Sloman; John Feaster Cresson, b. 3, 6, 1859; m. Emma L. WooUey. Have issue; Elizabeth Townsend Cresson, b. 2, 27, 1861 ; d. 6, 24, 1871 ; Martha Virginia Cresson, b. 12, 9, 1863; m. Charles E. Aaron; William Whildey Cresson, b. 4, 27, 1866; d. 4, 13, 1899; m. Mary P. Lardner. Have
issue.
Jacob Cresson' (Warder', John E.', Caleb', James*, Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born 5mo. 27, 1828; died 6mo. 18, 1865; married (i) Mary A. Young; (2) Benjaline French, died 6mo. 30, 1892.
Children of Jacob and Mary A. (Young) Cresson:
Marie Virginia Cresson, b. 11, 25, 1851; m. 5, 3, 1885; George M. D. Bellows;
Elliott Cresson, b. 3, 31, 1854; m. Mary Ann Clark. Have issue;
Edith Frances Cresson, b. 9, 7, 1855; d. s. p. 9, 16, 1888; m. Benjamin W. Hartley.
Child of Jacob and Benjaline (French) Cresson:
Susanna E. Cresson.
Clement Cresson' (Warder', John E.', Caleb', James', Solornon', Jacques', Pierre'), born gmo. 22, 1835; died 4mo. 12, 1903; married Laura J. Witzell. Children of Clement and Laura J. (Witzell) Cresson:
Clara Virginia Cresson, b. 7, 14, i860; m. Charles P. Watson;
Ella Florence Cresson, b. 3, 17, 1862; m. (1), Clarence M. Busch; (2), Derwent
DeForest; Laura May Cresson, b. 10, 18, 1868; m. Greene Kendrick.
Ezra Townsend Cresson', (Warder', John E.', Caleb', James*, Solomon', Jacques", Pierre'), born 6mo. 18, 1838; married Mary Ann, daughter of James and Diana Ridings.
Children of Ezra T. and Mary A. (Ridings) Cresson:
George Bringhurst Cresson, b. 11, 15, 1859; m. Mary E. Isaac. Have issue;
Emma Cresson, b. 7, 31, 1862; m. Richard Ogden;
Warder Cresson, b. 10, 7, 1867; entered the Univ. of Pa. 1883, and left at the close
of the Freshman year. Grad. at Lehigh Univ. in 1890 ; m. Florence Brobat; Ezra Townsend Cresson, b. 12, 18, 1876; William James Cresson, b. 2, 22, 1879.
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Caleb Ceesson' (William P.', Caleb', Caleb', James', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born November 22, 1839; married, December 6, 1866, Isabella, daughter of Samuel and Frances (Wetherill) Gumbes. Caleb Cresson entered the Sopho- more class of the University of Pennsylvania in 1857, and graduated in i860. Resides in Philadelphia, and at Oaks, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.
Children of Caleb and Isabella (Gumbes) Cresson:
Francis Macomb Cresson, b. Nov. 18, 1867; m. Nov. 28, i8gg, Eleanor Percy Coates. Have issue;
Isabella Cresson, b. Oct. 7, 1870;
Susan Vaux Cresson, b. Apr. 16, 1873; m. June 21, 1899, Charles Wetherill Gumbes, Jr.;
Caleb Cresson, b. Jan. 9, 1867;
Georgena Vaux Cresson, b. Aug. 23, 1882; m. June i, 1904, Webster King Weth- erill.
Charles Clement Cresson' (John B.', Samuel', Joshua', James*, Solomon', Jacques'', Pierre'), born January 24, 1843; died at San Antonio, Texas, March 16, 1906; married, March 2, 1870, Adelia, daughter of Judge Van Derhp, of Texas.
Charles Clement Cresson enlisted as a Second Lieutenant in the Sixty-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry, Augfust 3, 1861, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colo- nel in 1864. In 1866 he was honorably discharged, but was commissioned on May II, 1866, in the Seventeenth U. S. Infantry, as Second Lieutenant. He was trans- ferred to the Thirty-fifth Regiment, September, 1866, and in 1870 was assigned to the Seventh Cavalry Regiment ; was transferred on December 23, 1870, to the First Cavalry, and retired April 4, 1879. He was brevetted for gallant service, First Lieutenant, Captain and Major, in 1867, and Lieutenant Colonel in 1870.
Children of Charles C. and Adelia (Van Derlip) Cresson:
Charles Clement Cresson, b. 3, 23, 1873; Mary Chabot Cresson, b. 3, 22, 1876.
James Clarence Cresson' (James', James', James', John', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born September 19, 1835; died June 6, 1881 ; married, February i, 1865, Ella Blow Drake, died June 15, 1883, daughter of Chief Justice C. D. Drake, of St. Louis, Missouri. Resided in West Philadelphia.
Children of J. Clarence and Ella B. (Drake) Cresson:
Charlotte Cresson, b. 2, 13, 1866;
J. Clarence Cresson, b. 11, 20, 1871; d. 2, 13, igo6.
William Leedom Cresson' (James', James", James', John', Solomon', Jac- ques^ Pierre'), born March 13, 1840; married, February 8, 1865, Tacy, daughter of Dr. Hiram and Ann (Foulke) Corson, of Plymouth, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. Resides in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Children of William L. and Tacy (Corson) Cresson:
Caroline Corson Cresson, b. 2, 7, 1866; James Cresson, b. 5, 12, 1869; Nancy Corson Cresson, b. 9, 12, 1872; Mary Leedom Cresson, b. 12, 30, 1873.
William Henry Cresson' (John', John H.', James', John*, Solomon', Jac- ques", Pierre'), born July 25, 1846; married, April 30, 1878, Elizabeth Wells
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Wood, daughter of Hon. John and EHzabeth (Wells) Wood, of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
Children of William H. and Elizabeth IV. (Wood) Cresson:
Emily Cresson, b. 2, 6, i88o; m. John Lowe Newbold; Henry Barker Cresson, b. s, 30, 1881.
Benjamin Franklin Cresson' (John', John H.', James*, John*, Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born January 18, 1848; married, September 12, 1871, Martha A., daughter of Harmon Augustus and Susan Eliza (Beebe) Chambers.
Children of B. Franklin and Martha A. (Chambers) Cresson:
John Cresson, b. 8, 18, 1872; d. 9, S, 1872;
B. Franklin Cresson, b. 10, 23, 1873;
Joseph Lea Cresson, b. II, 9, 1875; d. I, 9, 1876;
Edward Cresson, b. 8, 23, 1879; d. 7, 12, 1883;
Ahce Cresson, b. 12, 16, 1881;
Susan Cresson, b. 7, 18, 1883; d. 3, 30, 1884;
Edith Cresson, b. 7, 18, 1883;
Clara Cresson, b. 10, 15, 1887.
James Cresson' (John, John H.', James', John', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born June 14, 1861 ; married, January 27, 1881, Ella Louisa Griffith Fair. Children of James and Ella L. G. (Fair) Cresson:
John Howard Cresson, b. 12, 6, 1881; Eloise Cresson, b. 7, 27, 1884; Dorothy Cresson, b. 10, 16, 1887; Nellie Cresson, b. 10, 21, 1891.
Charles Massey Cresson' (John C, Joseph', James', John', Solomon', Jacques', Pierre'), born February 3, 1828; died December 27, 1893; married (i), about October, 1847, Caroline, daughter of Edward F. Gay; (2) Sarah Loder (Vinton).
Charles M. Cresson, M. D., entered the Sophomore class in 1844 and was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1847. He took his degree of M. D. from Jefferson College in 1849. Having early made a special study of chemistry, he was manager and chemist of the Philadelphia Gas Works from 1849 until 1864. For fifteen years he was chemist of the Philadelphia Board of Health, and also of the Fairmount Park Commission. He was an active and prominent member of the Franklin Institute from 1849, «md of the American Philosophical Society from 1857.
Dr. Cresson opened the scientific department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1868; of the Reading Railroad Company in 1869, and that of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in 1883.
Much of his early life was devoted to mechanical and architectural drawing for the Philadelphia Gas Works, and he spent considerable time in its chemical laboratory. He was later elected First Assistant Engineer of the Gas Works. In 185s the whole of the management of the mechanical department and the manu- facturing devolved upon him. At the time of his death Dr. Cresson was the old- est gas engineer, educated for the business, in this country.
He devoted much time to the study and examination of waters, chemically and microscopically; and the successful determinations of causes of disease
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carried by the water supply of cities and towns actively engaged his attention. He published from time to time a number of pamphlets: "The Manufacture of Gas," "Explosion of Steam Boilers," "The Effects of Electricity upon the Tensile Strength of Iron," "Wood Preservation," "Paper Manufacture," "Water Sup- plies of Cities," &c. He was connected with many Masonic Orders.
Dr. Cresson was a skilful musician, giving his services for many years as organist to the Church of the Atonement. As an amateur he took an active inter- est in photography, which he practiced, and maintained a familiarity with the current improvements in the art.
Children of Charles M. and Caroline (Gay) Cresson:
John Edward Cresson, d. inf.; Clara Cresson, m. Alfred Crossman ; George Gay Cresson, b. 1855.
MARIS FAMILY.
Tradition relates that the Maris family, founded in Pennsylvania by George Maris, of Grafton Hyford, parish of Inkborough, county of Worcester, England, in 1683, was of French Huguenot origin, a representative of the French family seeking refuge in England from religious persecution, prior to the promulgation of the Edict of Nantes in 1598. Of the direct antecedents of George Maris, little or nothing is known.
From Besse's Sufferings of the People called Quakers, we learn that George Maris was fined twenty pounds for having a meeting at his house, and that he was afterwards taken by an assize process and "sent to Prison on the 23d of the month called July, 1670, and continued there above 8 months, but never knew for what cause he was so long imprisoned."
On the Sixth of 3d month (May), 1683, George Maris and Alice, his wife, received a certificate from a Meeting of Friends "att Hattswell, In ye P'sh of Inkborough, and County of Worcester" directed to "Friends in Pensilvania" which says of him that "His Life and conversation hath adorned the Gospel of Christ and hath bene A Good Exampel I his place. And a man, ye bent of whose heart hath been to serve ye Lord, And all People in his Love: and hath not spared to spend and to be spent for ye service of Truth. And Wee can say wee do not know of any person either fifriend or others that hath aught against him, his wife or children, upon any just account whatever." Eight days later than the date of this certificate, or on May 14, 1683, he received from Robert Toomer, of the city of Worcester, a deed for i,ocx) acres of land to be laid out in Pennsyl- vania, and soon after embarked with his family for Pennsylvania, to take up his land and found a home in Penn's colony. He and his family, on their arrival, appear to have remained for a time in the neighborhood of Darby, at which meet- ing the quaint certificate above quoted was deposited. On October 16, 1683, four hundred acres of land were surveyed to him in Springfield township, Chester (now Delaware) county, on which he erected a habitation, on the site of "Home House," erected there by his son in 1722, and which continued to be the home of his descendants for many generations.
George Maris was a man of ability and standing, and at once was called upon to take a prominent part in public affairs. He was commissioned a justice of Chester county courts, July i, 1684, and is said to have attended every session of the Court until and including the year 1690. He seems to have been out of commission for the year 1691, and was then again commissioned and served to the close of 1693. He was elected to the Colonial Assembly as a representative of Chester county, in 1684, and regularly re-elected thereafter until 1695, when he was called to the Provincial Council, of which he remained a member until his death on January 15, 1705-6, at the age of seventy-three years. His wife, Alice, had died March 11, 1699. George Maris was an acknowledged and esteemed minister of the Society of Friends, both in England and in America.
Issue of George and Alice Maris: —
Alice, b. in Worcestershire, Eng., Oct. 17, 1669, d. Dec. 10, 1726; m. Jan. 15, 1684-s Jacob Simcock, also born in Eng., son of John Simcock, of Ridley, Chester Co
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who came from Cheshire, Eng., and was member of Provincial Council almost continuously 1683-1700; Speaker of Assembly 1696; Chief Justice, of Province of Pa., 1690-93, and "one of the chief men of the Province." Jacob Simcock was coroner of Chester Co., from 1691 for several years; George, b. in Worcestershire, Dec. 2, 1662, d. at "Home House" Chester Co., Pa.,; having purchased portion of homestead of his father Apr. 18, 1693; m., 1690, Jane Maddock, by whom he had four children. She d. Aug. 28, 1705, and he m. (second), 1718, Jane Hayes, widow, of Haverford. He was member of Colonial Assembly, 1717;
Elizabeth, b. Apr. 3, 1665, m. 1685, John Mendenhall, who had come from Wilt- shire, and settled in Concord. He gave land on which Concord Meeting House was built, 1697;
Ann, b. Aug. 18, 1667, d. — -; m. Oct. 14, l6go, John Worrilow, of prominent Chester Co. family;
John, b. May 21, 1669, d. Maich 8, 1747, m. Susannah Lewis; of them presently;
Richard, b. Nov. 20, 1672, d. 1745; was a member of Colonial Assembly 1714; m. in 1698, Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan Hayes, of Marple township, Chester Co. She d. Oct. 9, 1720. Their eldest daughter Mary, became wife of John Bartram, eminent botanist, who established "Bartram's Garden," still an object of interest to Phila- delphians; and Elizabeth, second daughter, m. James Bartram, brother of botanist; Jonathan, eldest son, was minister among Friends, and m. Ann Wain, dau. of Richard of Gwynedd. Joseph, another son, m. Ann, dau. of William Shipley of Wilmington; and William, son of Jonathan, m. Jane Beaumont, of Bucks Co. and was virtual founder of village of New Hope, Bucks Co., and established a bank and number of industrial establishments there.
John Maris, second son and fifth child of George and Alice Maris, born in Worcestershire, England, May 21, 1669, was fourteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to Pennsylvania. He succeeded to "Home House" at the death of his father in 1705, and erected the present dwelling there in 1722. He was returned as a member of Colonial Assembly in the years 1709- 12- 16- 19-20. He was appointed an Elder of the Society of Friends in 1718, and was a prominent member of the Society and community. He died at "Home House," March 8, 1747. He married, November 21, 1693, Susannah Lewis, of Haverford township, born in Glamorganshire, Wales, in 1673, died 1755.
Issue of John and Susannah (Lewis) Maris: —
George, b. Aug. 31, 1694, d- Nov. 30, 1760; m. Sarah Levis, of them presently;
Sarah, b. March 31, 1697-8, m. 1789, John Bennett;
Alice, b. March 11, 1699-1700, m. Aug. 10, 1721, Jacob Bourne;
Mary, b. March 9, 1700-1, m. Nov. 29, 1722, Joseph Taylor;
Hannah, b. Oct. 8, 1702, m. in. 1719, John Owen and m. 1725, Michael Harlan. Her
dau. Rebecca Owen became the first wife of Jesse Maris, son of George and
Sarah (Levis) Maris, hereafter mentioned; Susanna, b. July 6, 1704, m. (first) Daniel Jones and (second) on Oct. 30, 1740,
John IJavis; Jane, b. Aug. 9, 1705, d. Oct. 21, 1720;
Katharine, b. July 8, 1707, m. (first) Willis; (second) John Pusey;
John, b. Jan. 15, 1709-10, d. March 19, 1792; m. Katharine Bound Hayden; James, b. Apr. 28, 1711, d. Oct. 15, 1820; Elizabeth, b. Feb. I2, 1713, d. Oct. 9, 1720.
George Maris, eldest son of John and Susanna (Lewis) Maris, bom at "Home House," August 31, 1694; married Sarah Levis, daughter of Samuel Levis, of Willistown, Chester county, Pennsylvania. Samuel Levis was a son of Christopher and Mary Levis, of Harby, Leichestershire, where Samuel was born September 30, 1649, ^"d married, May 4, 1680, Elizabeth Clator, of Nottingham, England, and having, in conjunction with William Garrett, purchased 1,000 acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania, came to that Province in 1684, and located.
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first at Darby, and later in Willistown township, Chester county. He was a member of Provincial Assembly, 1689-94, and again in 1698-1706-07-08; was a justice of Chester county, 1686-9, and a member of Provincial Council in 1692. He died in 1734, leaving five children, two sons, Samuel Jr. and William, and daughters, Mary, wife of Joseph Pennock; Sarah, wife of George Maris, and Elizabeth, second wife of William Shipley, the virtual founder of Wilmington, Delaware. Sarah was born in 1694, and died December 26, 1723.
George Maris inherited "Home House," the ancestral home of the family, and died there, November 30, 1760.
Issue of George and Sarah (Levis) Maris: —
James, b. Dec. 17, 1720; m. Rachel Evans, at Gloria Dei, (Old Swedes) Church, Phila., June 11, 1752;
George Maris married (second) October, 1725, Hannah Massey, daughter of Thomas Massey.
Issue of George and Hannah (Massey) Maris: —
Jesse, b. Dec. 10, 1727, d. Nov. 20, 1811, was High Sheriff of Chester Co., Oct., 1769, to Oct., 1771; m. Aug. 22, 1754, Rebecca Owen, his cousin, dau. John and Hannah (Maris) Owen; and (second) on Sept. 4, 1771, Jane Ashbridge;
Alice, b. 1729, m. 1749, John, son of Evan Lewis, of East Cain, Chester Co. On March 26, 1762, she received certificate for herself and her three children, Joel, Hannah and Evan, to Meeting of Friends, at Fairfax, Va.
George Maris married (third) Mary, widow of Joseph Busby, of Goshen, in July 1730. She died without issue, and he married (fourth), September 14, 1732, Ann Lownes, born October i, 1707, died December 19, 1780, daughter of George and Mary (Bowers) Lownes, of Springfield, Chester county, and granddaughter of Hugh Lownes, of Gawsworth, Cheshire, England, who married, December 2, 1658, Jane Stretch, of Roade, Cheshire, at the house of William Davenport, in Leeke parish, Cheshire. Hugh Lownes died in Cheshire, leaving to survive him his widow Jane, and four children. They were members of the Society of Friends and Jane Lownes suffered persecution for her religious belief in 1678. She was an original purchaser of one hundred and fifty acres of land of William Penn, and with her children came to Pennsylvania to settle thereon, but died in a few years after her arrival. The land was laid out in Springfield township, Chester county, November 10, 1682, and it is said that the family resided thereon in a cave for some time after their arrival. The site of this cave was marked by a stone planted by her descendants in 1799, which bears the date of the patent for her land, April 10, 1685. The children of Hugh and Jane (Stretch) Lownes were: James, who married, in 1692, Susanna Richards, and removed to Philadelphia in 1711; George, the father of Mrs. Ann Maris; Joseph, who was constable of Springfield township, 1687-8, but later removed to Bucks county, where he has descendants; and Hannah, who married at Darby Meeting, in 1689, Thomas Collier.
George Lownes, second son of Hugh and Jane (Stretch) Lownes, was bom in the county of Chester, England, and came to Chester county, Pennsylvania, with his widowed mother, brothers and sister in 1682. On July 28, 1701, he declared intentions of marriage with Mary Bowers, at Chester Monthly Meeting, and Au- gust 25, 1701, that meeting gave them permission to marry. He purchased the
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homestead taken up by his mother, November 18, 1715, and died there in 1740, his will being dated August 8, and proven December 5, of that year. His vifife, Mary Bowers, born May 20, 1679, was a daughter of Benanuel Bowers, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and granddaughter of George and Barbara Bowers, who were residents of Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1637; of Plymouth in 1639, and soon after of Cambridge, where George died in 1656. Benanuel Bowers married, December 9, 1653, Elizabeth Dunster, a niece of Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College, and the youngest of their nine children was Mary Bowers, who married George Lownes in 1701. Issue of George and Mary (Bowers) Lownes: —
Jane, b. March 10, 1702-3, m. at Springfield Meeting, June 4, 1726, Jonathan Maris,
son of Richard, of Springfield; Esther, b. Sept. 2, 1703, m. May 26, 1720, Samuel Ogden, son of David; Ann, b. Oct. i, 1707, d. Dec. 19, 1780; m. Sept. 14, 1732, George Maris. George, b. Apr. 28, 1709, m. at Christ Church, Phila., May 21, 1734, Elizabeth, dau.
of Mordecai Maddock, of Springfield;
Benanuel, b. , ra. Alice Williamson in 1744, and inherited homestead.
Mary, who m. Nov. 22, 1744, Isaac Hibberd.
Issue of George and Ann (Loivnes) Maris: —
George, b. June 24, 1733, d. young;
Susannah, b. Sept. 2, 1734, m. Nov. 4, 1756, John Hall;
Jehu, b. Apr. 15, 1736, m. in 1779, Jane Humphrey;
George, b. Jan. 20, 1737, d. Aug. 20, 1803; m. Jane Foulke. Of them presently.
Isaac, b. Apr. i, 1740, m. Elizabeth Howell;
Elizabeth, (Betty) b. Apr. 2, 1742;
Caleb, b. Aug. 25, 1744, d. Oct. 26, 1839;
Ann, b. Apr. 30, 1751, d. , m. Hatton.
George Maris, son of George Maris, by his fourth wife, Ann Lownes, born at "Home House," January 20, 1737, married at Gwynedd Meeting, December 6, 1757, Jane Foulke, born August 22, 173S, died January i, 1807, daughter of William and Hannah (Jones) Foulke, of Gwynedd. An account of her ancestry is given in these volumes under the title of "The Foulke Family."
George Maris, was a considerable landowner in Montgomery and Chester counties.
Issue of George and Jane (Foulke) Maris: —
William, b. May 4, 1759, d. unm. Nov. 19, 1801;
Amos, b. 1761, d. inf.;
Jesse, b. Sept. 9, 1763, d. unm., June 25, 1792;
Jonathan, b. Dec. 31, 1765, d. Feb. 28, 1797; m. Judith Mcllvaine; of them
presently; Ann, b. Dec. 12, 1767;
Hannah, b. Jan. 31, 1770, m. March 8, 1796, John Wilson; Susanna, b. Dec. i, 1771, m. Apr. 21, 1795, Lewis Heston; Rebecca, b. Aug. 13, 1773, d. Apr., 1807; m. May 17, 1796, Jarret Heston; Jane, b. Sept. 28, 1775, d. unm. Nov. 13, 1806; George, b. Sept. 28, 1775, d. unm. June 13, 1805.
Jonathan Maris, born December 31, 1765, was only son of George and Jane (Foulke) Maris. He married, in 1791, Judith, daughter of John and Lydia Mc- Ilvain, of Ridley, Chester county, and died six years later, leaving an only child :
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Jesse J. Maris, born in North Wales, Montgomery Co., June 18, 1793. He married, October 4, 1815, Mary West, born July 11, 1795, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Pusey) West, and niece of Benjamin West, the famous painter.
Some account of the earlier generations of the West family is given in these volumes under the title of the Gilpin Family, Thomas West, of Long Crandon, county of Bucks, England, the great-great-grandfather of Mary (West) Maris, having married Ann Gilpin, in England, and two of their sons later emigrated to Pennsylvania, and settled in Chester county.
John West, son of Thomas and Ann (Gilpin) West, came to Pennsylvania, 1715, a widower, and married there, 1720, Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mar- gery Pearson, who came to Pennsylvania in the "Welcome" with William Penn, in 1682. John West returned to England in 1765, and died in Marlborough, Oxfordshire, in 1776. His children by Sarah Pearson were, William, Samuel, Mary and Benjamin, the latter being the distinguished artist, born in Chester county in 1738.
William West, eldest son of John and Sarah (Pearson) West, born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1724, was grandfather of Mary (West) Maris. He learned the trade of cooper in Philadelphia and followed that vocation until 1765 and then purchased a farm in Upper Darby (now Delaware) county, and became a successful and eminent agriculturist; was elected to honorary membership in the Board of Agriculture, of England. He married in 1767, Hannah, daughter of John and Hannah (Passmore) Shaw, the former of whom died on his way from England to found a home in Pennsylvania. William and Hannah (Shaw) West were the parents of four children, Passmore, Samuel, Hannah and Sarah.
Samuel West, second son of William and Hannah, was born in Upper Darby, February 13, 1771, and died February 13, 1853. His father purchased for him a farm of three hundred acres in Chester county, which he called "Shepherd's Plain," where he resided from a few years after his marriage until his death. He married at London Grove Meeting, May 20, 1796, Mary, daughter of Joshua and Mary (Miller) Pusey, and of a family that has been prominent in the affairs of Chester county from the time of Penn to the present time. She died November 6, 1832.
Samuel and Mary Pusey West were the parents of four children, Mary, the wife of Jesse J. Maris ; Hannah, who married, October 6, 1819, Dr. Robert Mendenhall Huston, a native of Abingdon, Virginia, but reared from the age of ten years in Chester county, and for many years a very prominent physician of Philadelphia, died there, August 3, 1864, and his widow, on November 18, 1893, at the age of ninety-seven years ; William and Sarah Ann West.
Jesse J. Maris was but four years of age at the death of his father. Dr. Jona- than Maris, and he went to live with his maternal grandmother, Lydia Mcllvain, in Ridley township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where his early life was spent and his early education acquired in the old stone schoolhouse, still standing. He finished his education at the New Garden Boarding School, Chester county, under the celebrated mathematician, Enoch Lewis. At the close of school days he entered the counting house of his uncles, the firm of R. & H. Mcllvaine lumber merchants of West Philadelphia, and remained with them several years, receiving a thorough commercial training. About the year 1814, he went with his friend.
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Pennock Passmore, on a journey over the Alleghany mountains, and as far west as Cincinnati, Ohio, then but a straggling village, and returned by way of Buffalo, New York, then recently burned by the Indians, leaving but a few houses stand- ing. The trip was made on horseback, much of it through an almost pathless wilderness, crossed only by narrow and obscure bridle paths. He next settled on a farm in Montgomery county, devised him by his uncle, William Maris, but a year later returned to Ridley, Delaware county, and set himself up in the lumber business there. On October 15, 1815, he married Mary West, as before stated, and went to live at Gwynedd on a farm left him by one of his Foulke ancestors. In 1820, they settled on a farm in Chester county, given to Mrs. Maris by her father, and there they passed the remainder of their lives. A man of untiring energy, broad and philanthropic views, generous and conciliatory in his inter- course with his fellow men, he exerted a wide influence for good in the com- munity in which he lived. His house was ever open to friends, acquaintances and travelling strangers, who shared the simple and unostentatious welcome of a model rural home. He was often called upon to act as peacemaker in local dis- putes, and frequently filled the position of executor, guardian, trustee, etc., in the settlement of estates and the transaction of business in his locality. He was a life-long member of the Society of Friends, and love to God and man were the ruling motives of his life. In 1841 he was elected President of the Bank of Dela- ware county, and was annually re-elected to that position until his death, Decem- ber 15, i860. His kind courteous manner and conscientious care in the trans- action of the business of the bank, and intercourse with its patrons, contributed largely to the prosperity of the bank, and confided in and trusted by all who knew him, his death was regretted by none more sincerely than by those who knew him as President of the Bank of Delaware county with which he was so long con- nected. He was active in the anti-slavery movement, and especially prominent in the effort to prevent the kidnapping and carrying away into slavery of free negroes ; with two other members of the Society of Friends he attended several sessions of the Legislature and labored for the passage of a law to effectually pre- vent this evil, an effort in which they were finally successful. His widow, Mary (West) Maris, died October 9, 1878.
Issue of Jesse J. and Mary (West) Maris: —
Hannah Maris, b. Sept. 18, 1816, d. Apr, 6, 1887; became second wife of John
Stokes, June 3, 1884; John McIlvaine Maris, b. Sept. 20, 1818, d. Apr. 23, 1892; m. S. Louisa Wain-
wright, of whom presently; Samuel West Maris, b. July 17, 1821, who m. Oct. 8, 184S, Sarah, dau. of Richard
Wetherell; William Maris, b. Nov. II, 1823, m. Dec. 26, 1883, Lillian Hart, of Chester; Jesse Emlen Maris, b. Nov. 6, 1825, m. Apr. 6, 1856, Mary C. Gaskill; Sarah Ann Maris, b. Apr. 15, 1828, d. Apr. 21, 1871, unm.; Dr. Edward Maris, b. March 15, 1832, d. June 13, 1900; was eminent physician; m.
(first) Oct. 14, 1857, Eleanor K., dau. of Dr. Stephen and Catharine (Murray)
Wood, of N. Y. ; she d. Apr. 14, 1871, and he m. (second) June 5, 1873, Rachel,
dau. of Joseph and Mary (McCollum) Scattergood; she d. Jan, 5, 1903; had issue
by first wife, four children; Mary West Maris, b. Sept. I, 1835, m. Oct. 3, 1855, George Sellers Garrett, of
Landsdowne;
John McIlvain Maris, second child and eldest son of Jesse J. and Mary
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(West) Maris, born in Ridley township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, Septem- ber 20, 1818, received the major part of his education at Westtown Boarding School, an educational institution under the care of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends in Chester county. He taught the first public school in the district in which his father lived, and in 1836 became an assistant teacher in the school of the late John Bullock, at Wilmington, Delaware. Later in the same year he re- moved to Philadelphia, and began his mercantile career. He soon after engaged in the wholesale drug business, at 711 Market Street, where his son, Henry J., still conducts the business under the old firm name of John M. Maris & Company, his father continuing actively associated with the business until about five years before his death. He was one of the organizers of the Drug Exchange, and its first president In 1859 he was appointed one of the Guardians of the Poor, and in i860 became president of the board, and during his administration many reforms were instituted in the care and maintenance of the poor at the almshouse, and in the medical service at the hospital connected therewith; a staff of physicians being organized, and a number of the leading physicians of the city became asso- ciated with the medical service at the hospital. Mr. Maris was appointed inspector of the Eastern Penitentiary in 1871, and continued to fill that position until his resignation twenty years later ; during a portion of which period he was treasurer of the Board of Inspectors. Mr. Maris became a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church, and took an active interest in church work, contributing liberally to charity and mission work. He was actively associated in the organization and building of the Methodist Church, at Broad and Arch streets of which he was a trustee from its organization to the day of his death. He died in Philadelphia, April 23, 1892.
John M. Maris married, October 14, 1846, S. Louisa, eldest child of William Wainwright, for many years one of the prominent business men of Philadelphia, serving for a number of years as President of the Commercial National Bank of Philadelphia, by his wife, Mary Wood Reeves, of Woodbury, New Jersey, and of a family long prominent in the affairs of New Jersey. She survived him almost eighteen years, dying April 15, 1910.
Issue of John M. and Louisa (Wainwright) Maris: —
William Wainwright Maris, b. Sept. 20, 1848; m. Oct. 12, 1876, Anne, dau. of Dr. William and Anne Gerhard, and they have issue : Anne Gerhard Maris, b. July 6, 1878; John Mcllvain Maris, 3d, b. Aug. 31, 1879; Henry Jesse Maris, b. June 18, 1850; member of firm of John M. Maris & Co.; m. Apr. 14, 1880, Susan, dau. of Robert and Susan D. Bryson, Harrisburg, Pa! They had issue:
Dorothy Wainwright Maris, b. Apr. 30, 1883; m. June 19, 1905, Alexander Payson Knapp, of Baltimore, Md.; they have issue Alexander Maris Knapp, b. April 25, 1907. Henry Mcllvain Maris, b. Jan. 13, 1889; Louis Bryson Maris, b. March II, 1894, d. May 21, 1900. John Mcllvain Maris, Jr., b. Jan. 6, 1854; m. (first) June 17, 1880, Eleanor Bowman, dau. of Col. John B., and Eleanor (Bowman) Musser; (second) Adelaide Lama- reaux, of N. Y.; had issue, by first wife, four children, three of whom survive- Louisa Wainwright Maris, b. May 5, 1881, m. Jan. 12, 1904, Parke Ross' of Chicago, 111., and they have issue : '
Louisa Maris Ross, b. Nov. i, 1905; James Bowman Maris, b. Jan. 10, 1885; m. Dec. 29, 1906, Edna Carpenter
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Saybold, of Cincinnati, O.; Arthur Mcllvain Maris, b. Nov. 9, 1886; George Maris, b. Nov. 7, 1855, d. Jan. 11, 1890, unm.; Theodore Maris, b. Sept! 6, 1864, unm.;
Mary Louisa Maris, b. Apr. 11, 1866; member of Colonial Dames of America; m. Dec. 12, 1899, Isaac Roberts, son of Dr. Nathaniel R. Newkirk and his wife Martha Reeve, dau. of John and Anna (Hall) Bacon, of N. J., and descendant of Samuel Bacon of Barnstable, Mass., 1653, who was prominent in Colonial aiifairs in both East and West Jersey:
Isaac R. and Mary Louisa (Maris) Newkirk, have issue: —
Louisa Maris Newkirk, b. Jan. 23, 1901 ; Martha Bacon Newkirk, b. Jan. 23, 1904.
HARE FAMILY.
The Hare family is of French-Xorman origin, being descended from Jervis, Earl of Harcourt, in France, who came into England with William the Conqueror io56, from whom descend the Hares of Stow Bardolph, of which the American family is an offshoot. The branch of the family, descendants of Jervis, from which descended the Harcourts, formerly Barons of Wingham, and the Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, bore the arms formerly borne by Jervis, Earl of Harcourt, while the Hares of Stow Bardolph descended from Sir John Hare, Knight, son of Jervis, bore the same arms, with the augmentation of a chief indented or, granted to Sir John.
The lineage of the family of Hare "claimed to be a scion of the house of Hare- court, or Harcourt, in Lorraine, who were Counts of Normandy," is given in Burk's "Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies" as follows :
Sir John Hare, Knight, of Homerfield, Suffolk, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John de Ashton, and left a son and heir,
^^'ILLIA^I Hare, Esq., who married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Mydleton, Knight, of Mydleton Hall, in Lancashire, and was succeeded by his son,
John Hare, Esq., who married Agnes, daughter of Sir John Shirley, Knight, of Whiston, in Sussex, and died leaving a son and heir,
Sir Thomas Hare, Knight, who married Julia Hussey, of Lincolnshire, and was succeeded by his son,
Nicholas Hare, EIsq., who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas de Wallingham, Knight, and succeeded to the hereditary estate of Wakeless Manor, hundred of Wangford, Suffolk, which extended into Homerfield, and was the father of
Richard Hare, Esq., who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Seckford, Esq., of Suffolk, and was succeeded by his son and heir,
John Hare, Esq., who married Jane Melville, and was succeeded by his son,
Thomas Hare, Esq., who married Joyce, daughter of John Hyde, Esq., of Norbury. and was father of
John Hare, Esq., who married Catharine, daughter of Richard de Aunderson, and was succeeded by his son,
Nicholas Hare, Esq., who was father of
John Hare, Esq., who married Elizabeth, daughter of Fortesque, Esq.,
and had two sons, the elder of whom. Sir Nicholas Hare, of Brusyard, Suffolk, purchased, 1553, the liberty of the hundred of Clockhouse, which included Stow Bardolph, and thirty-one towns adjoining. This ancient franchise was granted by King Edgar to the Abbey of Ramsey, to which it belonged until Henry Y\U., at the dissolution of the monasteries, granted it to Lord North, who sold it to Sir Nicholas Hare.
Sir Nicholas Hare, was twice chosen Speaker of House of Commons, reign of Henry VHL, was ^Master of Requests, and Chief Justice of Chester. He was sworn in as ]Master of Rolls by the Pri\Tf Council, and was later Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. He married Catharine, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Ba^s-
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inghourn, Knight, of Woodhall, in Hertsfordshire, and had issue, three sons and three daughters. The sons — Michael, WiUiam, and Robert — leaving no issue, his estates descended to
John Hare, Esq., second son of John Hare, of Homerfield and Brusyard, Suf- folk, who on failure of male issue of his elder brother. Sir Nicholas Hare, suc- ceeded not only to the hereditary estates but to Stow Bardolph, purchased by Nich- olas 1553. The name of the wife of this John Hare has not been ascertained, but he had ten children, namely:
Nicholas Hare, a bencher of the Inner Temple, who rebuilt the mansion house at Stow Bardolph, at an outlay of £40,000, and also erected a spacious dormitory adjoining the chapel there, for the reception of his remains and those of his fam- ily. He died 1591, leaving his estate to his next brother, Ralph Hare, who died without issue 1601, leaving it to the next brother, Richard Hare, Esq., known thereafter as "of Stow Bardolph," in whose line it descended for many generations. Roland and Edmond, the two next sons, died without issue. Hugh Hare, sixth son, also a bencher of the Inner Temple, and Master of the Court of Wards, also died without issue, and by will, dated December 25, 1619, devised an estate ex- ceeding £99,400 equally to his two nephews, John Hare, grandson of his brother Richard, and Hugh Hare, son of his younger brother, John.
Thomas Hare^ seventh son, of Leigh, in Essex, was the ancestor of the Hare family of Philadelphia ; of him presently.
John Hare, eighth son, married (first) Lucia, daughter of Barlow, Esq.,
by whom he had no issue; (second) Margaret, daughter of John Crouch, Esq., of Combury, Hertfordshire, who after his death became third countess of Henry, first Earl of Manchester. By her he had two sons — Nicholas, who died without issue, and Hugh Hare, who was created Lord Coleraine August 3, 1625, and mar- ried Lucia, daughter of Henry, first Earl of Manchester, by a former marriage, the Earl's third wife being Hugh's mother.
Two daughters — Margaret and Elizabeth — complete the list of the ten children of John Hare, of Brusyard, Suffolk, and Stow Bardolph.
Thomas Hare, Esq., "of Leigh County Essex," seventh son of John Hare, of Stow Bardolph, was buried at Saint Bartholomew-by-fhe-Exchange, London, May 24, 1572, as "Captain Hare." By his wife, Catharine, who was living May 6, 1572, he had five sons and three daughters.
Samuel Hare, eldest son of Capt. Thomas Hare, baptized 1548, died December 25, 1619. He married Melcah, daughter of James Colemore, merchant of Lon- don, and had among others
John Hare, Esq., of Leigh, county Essex, eldest son, bom 1592, who married and had issue:
Richard Hare, Esq., eldest son, of whom presently;
Samuel Hare, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Edwards, Esq., of Arsley, county Bedford;
had two daughters — Mary, who m. John Battersby, Vicar of Kirby, county Essex; and
Jane.
Richard Hare, eldest son of John Hare, of Leigh, county Essex, born 1636; married (first), 1663, Katharine, daughter of Richard Edwards, Esq., of Arsley, county Bedford; (second), 1669, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Naylor, Esq., and a aunt of George Naylor, of Hurstmonceaux, whose sister his son. Bishop Hare, later married.
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FiLvxcis Hake, D. D., Bishop of Chichester, only son of Richard Hare, Esq., born November i, 1671 ; married (first), 1709, Bethia, only daughter of Francis Xaylor, Esq., of Hurstmonceaux Castle, county Sussex; (second), 1728, Mar- garet, daughter and co-heiress of Joseph Alston, Esq., of New House, county Suffolk, and of Easthampton, county Berks.
While the several biographers of Bishop Hare give the date of his birth as No- vember I, 1671, the records of St. Paul's parish, Covent Garden, show the baptism of '"Francis, son of Mr. Richard Hare, by Sarah his wife," as occurring Novem- ber 15, 1670. From the same parish register we learn that "Bethia, ye wife of Dr. Hare, Dean of Worcester," was buried at St. James, Clerkenwell, London, January 18, 1725.
The record of the marriage of Francis Hare, Bishop of St. Asaph, widower, and ]\Iargaret Alston, of Edwardston, county of Suffolk, spinster, on April 23, 1728, at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, also appears on the St. Paul's records.
Bishop Hare was educated at Eton, and admitted to King's College, Cambridge, 1688, graduating with degree of B. A. 1692, and receiving degree of M. A. 1696, and D. D. 1708. While at Cambridge he was tutor of Sir Robert Walpole, and also of John, son of the distinguished Earl of Marlborough, the ]\Iarquis of Blan- ford, who died at college, February 20, 1702-3.
In 1704 Dr. Hare was appointed Chaplain General to the Army in Flanders, and he described the campaign there, in a series of letters to his cousin, George Naylor, of Hurstmonceaux Castle, which have been preserved, and in a journal preserved among Archdeacon Cox's papers in the British Aluseum.
In the autumn of 1709 he married his first cousin, Bethia Naylor, who became the heiress of Hurstmonceaux, upon the death of Grace Naylor, only daughter of her brother, George Naylor. The Hares took up their residence at Hurstmon- ceaux on their marriage, but Dr. Hare was obliged to join the camp near Douay the following April, and he left his wife at Hurstmonceaux with her family, which ever afterwards continued to be her home, little Grace, the heiress, being left to her guardianship. Bethia (Naylor) Hare died 1725, and her niece, Grace Naylor, dying 1727, Hurstmonceaux descended to Francis Hare, son of the Bishop and Bethia, born ^May 14, 171 3, who eventually changed his name to Francis Hare Naylor, and, after his father's death married a sister to his step-mother, Charlotte Alston.
Hurstmonceaux Castle, the home of Bishop Hare during the minority of his son, Francis, is located less than four miles from the Sussex coast, at a point where the huge remains of the Roman Andreda break the otherwise monotonous sea-line, but divided from the sea by the flat marsh and meadow lands, known as Pe^ensey Level, the sea itself having once rolled almost to the ancient manor house of Monceaux, which preceded the castle on the same site. The latter is now in rums, but still most grand and stately in its premature decay. It was built in the reign of Henry \T., and is said to have been the earliest large brick build- ing in England after the time of Richard II., and is considered a most valuable specimen of the transition of domestic building from a fortress to a manor house. Bishop Littleton writing of it in 1757, states that in his opinion it was at that time the largest inhabited house in England belonging to a subject. Its name is derived from the Saxon word Hurst, meaning a wood, and the name of the ancient holders
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Henry II. visited and slept in the old manor house, and one of his nobles, Roger de Tourney, was accidentally killed by an arrow while hunting in the park. In the reign of Edward II., Maud de Monceaux married Sir John Fiennes, Lord of Dacre, and brought the castle into that family, who held it until 1708, when Thomas Lod Dacre sold it to George Naylor.
Dr. Hare, in addition to the office of Chaplain General to the Royal forces, held the chaplaincy to the Duke of Marlborough, and in 1710 was made Royal Chap- lian by Queen Anne. He was elected a fellow of Eton 1712, became rector of Barnes, in Surrey, 1713, and held a prebend in St. Paul's from 1707 until his death, resigning the rectorship of Barnes 1723. In 1715 he was appointed Dean of Worcester, and 1722 was made usher of the Exchequer by Henry Pelham, brother of his sister-in-law, Lady Grace Naylor, wife of George. In 1726 he exchanged Worcester for the richer Deanery of St. Paul's, which he held until his death, and December 19, 1727, was consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph, from which he was transferred to the See of Chichester 1731. He had lost his Royal-Chap- laincy about 1718, in consequence of his share in the Bangorian controversy, but on the accession of George II. he was in favor with Queen Catharine, who pur- posed making him Bishop of Bath and Wells, but the ministry remonstrated against giving these best preferments to the newly consecrated bishop. His fame as a preacher had, however, by this time become widespread. In 1736 his old pupil and fast friend and associate in letters. Sir Robert Walpole, proposed him as successor to Archbishop Wake, then rapidly failing, but Bishop Hare had recently opposed the government in some measures for the relief of dissenters, and Lord Herney, who had encountered him in that controversy, successfully re- monstrated against the appointment, saying that the bishop was "haughty, hot- headed, injudicious and unpopular." This seems to have been in some measure true, as Cole sums up his character as follows : "The Bishop was of a sharp and piercing wit, of great judgment and understanding in worldly affairs, and of no less sagacity and penetration in matters of learning, and especially of criticism, is sufficiently clear from the works he left behind him; but that he was of a sour crabbed disposition is equally manifest." The few influential friends he retained in his later years were the Pelhams, Walpoles, and other friends of the old Naylor connection.
Bishop Hare was a prolific writer, principally on religious and ecclesiastic sub- jects, and of a controversial nature. His second marriage, April, 1728, to Mary Margaret Alston, brought him a large fortune in the estates of "New House," in Suffolk, the ancient manor of Hos-tendis, Norfolk, and the Vatche, near Chalfont St. Giles, in Buckinghamshire. They resided at the latter place during his later years, and there the seven children of his second marriage were born. Here he devoted his leisure to literary pursuits. His publication, 1724, of a new quarto edition of Terrance, with notes, founded partly on communication from Bentley, which led to a controversy between him and Dr. Bentley, theretofore his intimate friend, who had intended to publish them, himself, which lasted many years. Dr. Farr says of the bishop that "he proved himself quite a match for his antagonist, in his knowledge of the genius and spirit of the language." Bishop Warburton classes them together, "Good sense," he says, "is the foundation of criticism : that it is which made Dr. Bently and Dr. Hare the two greatest critics that were ever in the world." Bishop Hare was a fine Hebrew scholar, and published an edition
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of the manor named Monceaux. In the time of Walerau de Monceau, 1264, of the Psabns, 1736, in that language.
Bishop Hare died at the Vatche, September 26, 1740, and was buried in a mauseleum that he had built for his family adjoining the church of Chalfont St. Giles. "Great was the lamentation for him both in public and private," Bishop Warburton wrote, "in the death of Dr. Francis Hare, the world has lost one of its. best patrons and supporters of letters and religion," and many others have award- ed a favorable verdict to Bishop Hare as a writer. jMary Margaret (Alston) Hare, widow of the bishop, died 1784.
Francis Hare Xaylor, son of the bishop, by Bethia Naylor, having died without issue 1775, and Hurstmonceaux devolved upon his half-brother, Robert Hare, the eldest of the children of the bishop, by Mary Margaret Alston, who was named for his father's friend and relative, Sir Robert W'alpole. This Robert Hare mar- ried (first), 1752, Sarah Selman, who died 1763, leaving a son, Robert Hare, who became Canon of W inchester. The latter had a son, Francis, who like his half- uncle, changed his name to Francis Hare Xaylor. Robert Hare, son of the bishop, married (second) Henrietta Henckell, and resided at Hurstmonceaux. They dis- mantled the castle, erected a new mansion, and lived in such extravagance that they wasted and alienated the greater part of the fine estate. The history of this branch of the family in detail is continued in Augustus John Cuthbert Hare's "Memorials of a Quiet Life."
Richard Hare, Esq., of Limehouse, London, and of Woohvich, county Kent, and father of Robert Hare, who came to Philadelphia 1773, was born 1700. He is mentioned in various records and at different periods, as an "Esquire," a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex, as a Gentleman Commoner, and as a "Brewer of Porter." He is believed to have been of the family of Hare of Stow Bardolph, county of Norfolk, but he lived a quiet and busy life at Limehouse, where he was head of one of the largest establishments for brewing porter in England in his day. He is known to have been twice married, but little record has been found of his first wife. He had been a widower for some years when he married at Bath Abbey, 1745, ^lartha, daughter of Henry Harford, Esq., of Bath, county Somerset, a nonjuring Episcopal clergyman, and of the Harfords of Blaize Castle, county Carnarvon, \A"ales. She was baptized at Bath Abbey, November 13, 1717.
Richard Hare died July i, 1776, leaving a will by which he devised a large estate to his five sons and three daughters, who survived him ; his third son being Robert Hare, the founder of the family in America. Issue of Richard and Martha (Harford) Hare:
Richard Hare, Esq., bap. at Bath Abbey, county Somerset, April 25. 1747: d. in the same kcality as his birth, Xov. 22, 1825. On his tomb in the churchyard of the parish church at Weston, a suburb of Bath, county Somerset, is the following inscription:
"Richard Hare, Esq., F. L. S. (Fellow of the Linnaen Society) of the family of Hare of Stow Bardolph, in the County of Norfolk, who died Xoveraber 22nd, 1825, aged 78 yeares."
He m.. May 14, 1778, .-Vnne Hornby, of Gaestang, Lancashire, and had issue, four sons and four daughters, of whom but two, a son and daughter, lived to maturity.
The dau., Anne Eliza Susan Hare, b. June 7, 1788, m., iScfe, at Bombay, Andrew Mocre Dawe. a paymaster of 2nd Battalion of His Ma.iest}-'s 56th Regiment, and
eldest son of Hill Dawe, Esq., of Ditcheat Manor House. They had issue, two sons
Henrj- .Andrew Dawe, b. June 9, 1809, at Bombay, d. s. p. in Van Diemen's Land, had m. Jane Murray, dau. of a Scotch clergyman; the other son. Hill Richard Dawe b July. 1810, d. s. p. at Ditcheat Manor, 1857. '
Richard Hare, 3d, son of Richard and Anne (Hornby) Hare, b. Nov. 20, 1793 m
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June i8, 183s, Mary Comb, b. at Little Grimsby, Lincolnshire, May I, 1810, dau. of John Maddison, later of 19 Green Park, Bath; they had issue: Mary Hornby Hare, b. Aug. 11, 1840, d. unm., Dec. 14, 1878;
Lieut.-Col. Richard Thomas Hare, now on retired list of Indian army, served
with Bengal Artillery throughout suppression of Indian Mutiny, siege of Delhi,
etc. ; was mentioned honorably for zeal and coolness in situations of danger,
and recommended for Victoria Cross. He afterwards assisted in Relief of
Lucknow, and took part in battle of Cawnpore. Since his retirement he has
lived at Bath. He m. Gertrude Adelone Spear, and has two daughters, viz. :
Ethel Gertrude Hare, Mabel Maddison Hare;
Robert Powel Hare, the other son, b. July 22, 1842, is also Lieutenant- Colonel in
Royal Artillery, and now on retired list. He m. Christian S., youngest dau. of
late Donald MacLaine, of Lochbuy, Argyleshire, and had issue — Richard Hare,
Gwendoline Hare, Mabel Hare, Mary Hare, Stuart Hare.
Rev. James Hare, second son of Richard Hare, of Limehouse, and Martha Harford, b.
1748; graduated at Baliol College, Oxford, and became Vicar of St. Margaret's, county
Wilts, Diocese of Salisbury, and Chaplain to the Marquis of Buckingham, and the
Countess Dowager Bathurst. He was inducted unto the Rectory of Colu, St. Denys'
Gloucestershire, Feb. 19, 1797. Buried in the churchyard there, his tomb bearing the
following inscription :
"Rev. James Hare, A. M.
Late Rector of this Parish.
Died October 23d, 1808,
Aged 60 years."
He m. Mary Goddard, and had three sons, the youngest, of whom Richard Goddard Hare, b. 1778, became Lieut.-Gen. Hare Clarges, succeeding to estates of Sir Thomas Clarges; m., about 1847, Anna Lethbridge; d. s. p., 1859. Robert Hare, third son of Richard Hare, of Limehouse, of whom presently; John Hare, fourth son, was a barrister of Inner Temple, and was killed by Arabs, near Hasha, in desert of Arabia, while on a mission to India. A print of his coat-of-arms, with martlet in chief, indicative of his cadency in and descent through the family of Hare of Stow Bardolph, with motto "Stet pro Actione voluntas," is in the possession of Mrs. Harriet Hare McClellan, of 11 16 Spruce street, Phila., a descendant of his brother, Robert Hare; d. unm., April 15, 1784; Charles Hare, fifth son, b. 1756, d. 1801, was Captain in Royal Navy, and served under Lord Hood in evacuation of Toulon, having command of fireship, "Vulcan," in de- struction of French fleet. He afterwards served with distinction under Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, when he repulsed Napoleon at Acre. His wife's name is un- known. He had one son :
Charles Hare, b. 1788, d. 1859, became Lieutenant in Royal Navy; m. and had several children. His eldest son was drowned in the Birkenhead ; a son, George Hare, also of Royal Navy, d. in Athens; other descendants are said to be living in Canada; Charlotte Hare, a dau. of Capt. Charles Hare, b. 1791, m. Admiral John Alex- ander, of Royal Navy, and had a son — John Alexander, m. Lady Bruce, and had issue: Mary Hare Alexander, afterwards Madam Villani, of Brussells, Belgium. Martha Hare, sixth child and eldest daughter of Richard Hare, of Limehouse, b. 1758, d. 1840, No. 6 Somerset place, Bath, unm. She was a woman of rare intelligence and warm feeling, who was fond of reading and always well informed as to history and her own times; a woman, in fact, possessing, to a rare degree for that period, the courage of her convictions; Charlotte Hare, seventh child of Richard of Limehouse, was devotedly attached to her elder sister, Martha, with whom she lived until her own marriage late in life, to Rev. Mr. Essen; d. about 1803, soon after marriage; no children; Mary Hare, eighth child, was living at the death of her father, 1776; soon after d. unm.
Robert Hare, third son of Richard Hare, of Limehouse, county Middlesex, by his wife Martha Harford, was born at Woolwich, county Kent, England, Janu- ary 28, 1752. He received a fine classical education in his native country, and, 1773, came to Pennsylvania and located in Philadelphia, where he eventually be- came a prominent business man. He was a great reader and very fond of nature, and a refined and polished gentleman. In the spring of 1774 he became interest- ed in some colonization schemes of William Allen, who owned vast tracts of land
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in Pennsylvania and New York, and in company with that gentleman made a trip to Niagara and Canada, returning by way of Boston. During this journey, to what was then the frontiers of civilization in America, he kept a journal begin- ning with the start from Philadelphia, May 3, 1774, and ending with his arrival at Boston, July 22, of same j-ear. This journal, since published in pamphlet form and in the "Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania," is a delightful narrative of the daily occurrences of a memorable trip through a primitive coun- tr\-, embellished with glowing descriptions of the country passed through and a clear, concise and intelligent record of his impressions of the people he met on the joume}-. The outward trip was made by way of New York City, from whence they sailed up the Hudson in a sloop to Albany, and after a brief halt there, were the guests of Sir W'ilham Johnson, the great Indian agent of the northern district, and of his son, Sir John Johnson, the American royalist during the Revolution, as well as of Col. Claus, son-in-law of Sir William. After a visit to Niagara and other points on the great lakes, of which the journal gives a vivid description, the journey extended to ^Montreal and other points in Canada, thence back to Albany, and from there to Boston. During the latter part of the trip the journalist refers to the opinion expressed by the people he met of the unwise and uncalled for out- rage inflicted on the people by the British Parliament in the passage of the Boston Port Bill, in a manner which indicates that he shared their indignation and resent- ment, but since the journal was intended for the perusal of his parents in England it is guarded in its expressions on political subjects. Certain it is, however, that, though during the trip he was thrown in close contact with a number of people who were afterwards prominent royalists, the writer developed a strong sym- pathy with the patriot cause, notwithstanding his recent arrival in .America.
Returning to Philadelphia, he engaged successfully in business there, and, No- vember 16, 1775, was married to Margaret, youngest daughter of Charles Willing, one of the most prominent merchants of Philadelphia, in the days of that city's commercial supremacy, just prior to the Revolutionary War. He was bom in Bristol, England, May 10, 1710, and came to Philadelphia at the age of eighteen years, to take charge of a mercantile business established there by his family. He was a Captain in the Provincial forces 1747; a Justice of the City Courts many years; twice Mayor of the city; one of the founders and first trustees of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, progenitor of the University of Pennsyl- vania; and filled innumerable positions of trust. His wife was Anne, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Grosse) Shippen, and Margaret was the youngest of their eleven children.
Robert Hare's connection by marriage with these prominent famalies increased his standing as a merchant and business man, and probably helped to develop his sympathy with and interest in the patriot cause. This interest, however, was not sufficient to induce him to take up arms against his native country-, and during the British occupancy of Philadelphia he removed to Virginia and made his residence with Col. \Mlliam Byrd, of ^^'estover, who had married Mary W'ilUng, a sister to Mrs. Hare. On the evacuation of Philadelphia by the British, 1778, Mr. Hare returned to that cit>' and resumed his business there. He became indentified with the various institutions of his adopted city and state, and filled many honorable positions at different periods. He was elected to General Assembly of Pennsyl- vania 1 791, and subsequently to the State Senate, of which body he was Speaker
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and ex-officio Lieutenant Governor of the state 1796. He was an original organ- izer of the Plrst Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, and a trustee of University of Pennsylvania 1789-1805. He died in Germantown, March 8, 181 1. His widow Margaret (Willing) Hare died September 21, 1816. Issue of Robert and Margaret (Willing) Hare:
Richard Hare, b. Sept. 22, 1776, d. July 9, 1778;
Charles Willing Hare, b., Westover, Va., April 23, 1778; m., Aug. 30, 1801, Anne, dau. of George Emlen, of Phila., and among their surviving children were George Emlen Hare, D. D., LL. D., S. T. D., and Margaretta Hare, who m. Israel Pemberton Hutch- inson.
George Emlen Hare, D. D., LL. D., m. Elizabeth Catharine Hobart, and was father of Right Rev. William Hobart Hare, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Nebraska and Dakota, b. at Princeton, N. J., May 17, 1838, educated at Episcopal Academy of Phila., and Univ. of Pa., received degree of S. T. D. from Columbia College, and that of D. D. from Trinity, Hartford, and Kenyon College, O. He was ordained deacon, 1859; priest, 1862, and was assistant rector of St. Paul's Church, Chestnut Hill, later rector there and of other Phila. churches; was consecrated Bishop of Nebraska, 1873, diocese enlarged to include South Dakota, 1883.
Bishop Hare m., 1861, Mary Amory, dau of Bishop Howe. A son, Hobart Amory Hare, M. E).,.b. Sept. 20, 1862, is a prominent physician of Phila.; Pro- fessor of Children's Diseases at Univ. of Pa., 1880; since then Professor of Therapeutics at Jefferson Medical College; Editor of Unh'ersity Medical Maga- zine, i888-g; of Medical News, 1890-1 ; since then of Therapeutic Gazette; mem- ber of various medical associations, and author of a great number of medical works. He m., May 8, 1S84, Rebecca Clifford Pemberton. Martha Hare, b., Phila., Aug. 17, 1779, was named for her aunt, Martha Hare, in Eng- land— in distinction from whom she was called in the family "Aunt Patty;" she was a woman of great intelligence, a leader in society in her day, and at her house all the younger members of the family delighted to assemble; her Sunday morning breakfasts, at which they all gathered, being very famous, and her tea table renowned for the racy bits of gossip that were brought there by her numerous fashionable guests; d. unm., Feb. 4, 1852;
Robert Hare, M. D., b. Jan. 17, 1781, d. May 15, 1858; of whom presently; Richard Hare, b., Phila., Sept. 24, 1782, d. Jan. 9, 1796;
John Powel Hare, b., Phila., April 22, 1786, d., Newport, R. I., June 14. 1856; was adopted by a maternal aunt and changed his name to John Hare Powel; was Colonel in War of 1812-14, and later Secretary of Legation, at the Court of St. James; m., Oct. 20, 1817, Julia (1798-1845), dau. of Col. Andrew de Veaux (1758-1812), of Beaufort, S. C, and his wife, Anna Maria, of N. Y. (1773-1816), dau. of Philip Verplanck (1736-77) and Aefje Beekman (1736-7-75), both bur. at Fishkill, N. Y., and granddaughter of Philip Verplanck (1695-1771), of Manor of Cortlandt, by his wife, Gertrude Van Cortlandt (1697-1766); Col. Andrew de Veaux was son of Andrew de Veaux, Jr. (1757-1815), by his wife, Catharine Barnwell, b. 1740, dau. of John Barnwell, b. 1711 and his wife, Martha Chapin; John Barnwell being the seventh child of Col. John Barnwell, who came to South CaroHna from DubUn, Ireland, 1701, and m. Anne Berners.
Much has been written about Col. Andrew de Veaux, father of Julia (de Veaux) Hare-Powel, but his most brilliant exploit was the capture of the Island of New Providence (Nassau) from the Spanish, 1783, for which the English ParHament com- missioned him a Colonel; he afterwards lived with his wife at "de Veaux Park," at Red Hook-on-the-Hudson, where his entertainments and fine equipages were the talk of the day. His daughter, Julia, is mentioned as "the most beautiful woman in New York City," a reputation which followed her to "Powelton," her husband's residence in Phila.
Andre de Veaux, grandfather of Col. Andrew, was a Huguenot settler on the Hud- son, where he d. 1754. His son, Andrew de Veaux (1715-70), m. Hannah, dau. of Col. John Palmer, and his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Sir Edmund Bellinger, of Royal Navy, who m. in England, about 1680, Sarah Cartwright. Col. John Hare Powel and Julia de Veaux had issue:
Samuel Powel, of Powelton, Phila., and Newport, R. I. (1818-1885), m. Mary
Johnston, and had six children, several of whom reside in Newport, R. I.; De Veaux Powel (1821-48), m. Elizabeth Cooke, and had one dau. — Elizabeth,
whose children are the Liirmans of Catonsville, Md. ; Henry Baring Powel (1823-52), m. Caroline Bayard, and had one dau. — Mary, whose children are the Hodges of Phila.;
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Robert Hare Powel (1825-83), m. Amy S. Bradley, and had six children— several of whom reside in Phila.;
Elizabeth Powel (1827-35) '<
Harford Powel (1831-5);
Julia Powel (1833-84), m. William Parker Foulke, of Phila., and had seven chil- dren, several of whom reside in Phila.;
John Hare Powel (1837- 1908), m. Annie Emlen Hutchinson, of Phila., and had two sons, one surviving resides in Newport, R. I.;
Ida Powel (1840-1908), married (first) Edward Morrell, and had three children residing in Phila; (second) John G. Johnson, the well-known eminent lawyer of Phila. Bar.
Dr. Robert Hare, of Philadelphia, second surviving son of Robert and Mar- garet (\\ illing) Hare, was born in Philadelphia, January 17, 1781, the day of the battle of Cowpens. He received a fair academic education, and early in life had the management of the extensive business established by his father, but soon abandoned it for the study of science; attending lectures in his native city, and uniting himself with the Chemical Society of Philadelphia. In 1801 he invented the compound, or oxy-hydogen blow-pipe, which he described in a memoir to the (Chemical Society, which was republished in Tulloch's Philosophical Magazine, London, 1802, and also in Annals de Chine, \o\. XL\". This apparatus was the earliest and perhaps the most remarkable of his many original contributions to science, and gave evidence of a highly philosophic mind. He experimented with it with Prof. Silliman, and, 1803, constructed for Yale College the first pneumatic trough in which his invention was incorporated, and received from the .\merican Academy of -A.rts and Sciences the Rumford !Medal. He later perfected the voltaic batter)-, by introducing his deflagrator. He was called to the chair of chemistry at University of Pennsylvania 1818, and continued to fill that position until his resig- nation, 1847. when he was made Emeritus Professor.
Dr. Hare \'ias fond of graphic illustrations, they abound in his memoirs, and in his compendium and other works. He published a number of papers, pamphlets, etc., on scientific subjects, since much quoted and considered valuable contributions to chemical science. He was an ardent patriot of the school of W^ashington, a Federalist, while that party had a name, later a Whig, a man of unbending recti- tude, and his writings on political and financial questions were marked by vigorous thought and large views.
He was a life member of the Smithsonian Institution, to which he gave all his chemical and physical apparatus. He died in Philadelphia, May 15, 1858. ^lany tributes to his worth in the realms of science and literature were published in the newspapers and other periodicals of the day, and an excellent account of his scien- tific attainments of some length appeared in the Journal of Science for July, 1858, which opens by referring to him as one "whose name for half a century was familiar to men of science as a chemical philosopher, and to the cultivators of the useful arts throughout the civilized world."
Dr. Robert Hare married, September, 181 1, Harriet, daughter of John Innes Clark, of Providence, Rhode Island, by his wife, Lydia Bowen. She was bom 1782, and died IMarch 19, 1869.
Issue of Dr. Robert and Harriet (Clark) Hare:
John Innes Clark Hare, b. Aug., 1812, d. inf.;
Hon. John Innes Clark Hare, b.. Phila., Oct. 17, 1817, d. there, Jan. 2, 1907; graduated at Univ. of Pa., 1834; studied law and was admitted to Phila. Bar, 1841, and practiced
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in that city until 1851, when he became Associate Justice of District Court of Phila., of which he became President Judge, 1867, and filled that position until the District Court was abolished by the new Constitution, 1874, and he was made President Judge of Court of Common Pleas thereunder, and filled that position until 1895 ; received honorary degree of LL. D. from his alma mater, 1868; was Emeritus Professor of Institutes of Law at Univ. of Pa., at his death having been made Professor of that department, 1868; became member of American Philosophic Society, 1842; was trustee of the University, 1858-68; was author of American Constitutional Law;, Chancery Reports (II. vols), and (with Horace B. Wallace) of American Leading Cases m., November 16, 1842, Esther C, dau. of Horace Binney, Esq., by his wife Elizabeth Coxe;
Theodore Dehon Hare, d. young, 1825.
Robert Harford Hare, b. Sept. 19, 1820, of whom presently;
Lydia Hare, m. at Providence, R. I., Aug. 15, 1828, Frederick Prime, Esq., of New York;
George Harrison Hare, of U. S. N., m. Elizabeth Binney, dau. of Hon. John Cadwalader,. by his wife, Mary Binney; d. s. p., July 22, 1857;
Robert Harford Hare, fourth child of Robert and Harriet (Qark) Hare, born in Philadelphia, September 19, 1820, died May 3, 1887. He resided at 2031 De- lancy place, in that city, and at EUicott city, Maryland. He married, August 28, 1845, Caroline, born December 22, 1825, died January 3, 1893, daughter of John William Charles Fleeming, Esq., of New Bedford, Massachusetts, by his wife, Mary Rotch, born November 18, 1793, died August 13, 1878. Issue of Robert Harford and Caroline (Fleeming) Hare:
Mary Fleeming Hare, b. June 17, 1846, of whom presently;
Harriet Hare, b. July 23, 1847, m., June 25, 1873, George McClellan, M. D., of Phila.;. of whom later.
Mary Fleeming Hare, daughter of Robert Harford Hare, by his wife, Caro- line Fleeming, born June 17, 1846, died at her residence, 1812 South Rittenhouse square, Philadelphia, March 20, 1885. She married, February 12, 1874, Sussex Delaware Davis, Esq., of Philadelphia Bar, who was born near Lewes, Sussex county. Delaware, December 30, 1838. He graduated at Princeton University, with degree of A. M., and was admitted to Philadelphia Bar January 11, 1862, and has since practiced his profession in that city. He is a son of Gen. Samuel Boyer Davis, a distinguished officer of U. S. A. during the second war with Great Britain. Gen. Davis was born at Lewes, Delaware, December 25, 1765, and during his youth was a midshipman in the French Navy, was with the French fleet when it was de- feated by the English naval force, June i, 1794. During his absence abroad he married a French lady, and returning to America resided for a time in New Or- leans. Removing later to Delaware, he was at the outbreak of hostilities with the mother country, 1812, at Pilot Town, the site of the old Colonial fort, near Lewes, Delaware. He offered his services to the United States at the outbreak of the war, and served with distinction to its close.' He was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Thirty-second United States Infantry, raised in Pennsylvania and Delaware, May 6, 1813. He was subsequently transferred to the command Forty-fourth Regiment, as Colonel, but resigned his commission and took up his residence in Wilmington, Delaware, from whence he removed to Philadelphia, where he resided a number of years, during a portion of which time he represented the city in Gen- eral Assembly of Pennsylvania. He again removed to Wilmington, Delaware, late in life, and his closing years were spent in that city, where he died September 6,. 1874.
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At the time of the bombardment of Lewes, Delaware, by the British fleet, under Commodore Beresford, Col. Samuel Boyer Davis was in command of the forces marshalled for the defence of the town and coast, and successfully repelled the attack. He is described as a man of imposing stature, six feet in height, of decid- edly fine appearance, courageous, and possessing qualities of discipline and intellect for the management of men. He was always fond of Lewes^ and after his retire- ment from public affairs, used often to make extended visits to the old town, occupying rooms in the hotel near the site of the old Colonial battery. Gen. Davis was always welcomed on his arrival there by a military salute fired by a company having headquarters at the old battery, and after he had grown feeble with age an iron rod was erected up the side of the stairway to his room on the second floor of the hotel to assist him in ascending, which still remains in its original position. His attachment to the section where most of his life was spent, and where his ancestors had resided for several generations, led to the peculiar name he gave his second son, Sussex Delaware Davis.
The American progenitor of the family was Rev. Samuel Davis, a Presbyterian minister, who came from county Armagh, Ireland, and was called to the pastorate of the first Presbyterian Church built in Sussex county, at Lewes, about 1692.
Col. Samuel Boyer Davis married Sally Jones, of a family that had originally settled in North Carolina, but located at Wilmington, Delaware, about 1750.
Sussex Delaware Davis, was the second son of Col. Samuel B. and Sally (Jones) Davis, and was born at "Delamore Place,'' near Wilmington, Delaware, December 30, 1838. He first attended school at the academy of Rev. Samuel Gay- ley, near Wilmington; was later a pupil at St. Mary's College, a Roman CathoHc institution under the charge of Rev. Patrick Reilly, in Wilmington, and prepared for college under the tuition of \\"illiam R. McAdam, a well-known instructor of youth in Philadelphia. He entered the sophomore class of Princeton College, and graduated with honors, class of 1859. He studied law in the office of Hon. George W. Wharton, in Philadelphia, and was admitted to Philadelphia Bar, 1862. He was appointed by Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, as register in bankruptcy for Philadelphia, and filled that posi- tion until the repeal of the bankruptcy. He was counsel for the Union Pacific Railroad Company at one time and has served as counsel in many important cor- poration cases involving large interests. He served a number of years as a school director from the Eighth \Ndx6. of Philadelphia, and has filled a number of other honorable positions.
Mr. Davis is a member, and has been for a number of years, one of the gov- ernors of the Rittenhouse Club, and was, in 1871, a founder of the Junior Legal Club, now known as the Legal Club, of which he has been a number of years a member of the executive committee. He is a member of the vestry of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, and a regular attendant. Issue of Sussex Delaware and Mary Fleeming (Hare) Davis:
Samuel Boyer Davis, b. March 9, 1875; Caroline Hare Davis, of whom presently; Robert Hare Davis, b. Aug. 16, 1877, unm. (1907); Sussex Delaware Davis, Jr., d. inf.
Caroline Hare Davis, second child of Sussex Delaware Davis, Esq., and his
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wife Mary Fleeming Hare, was born in Philadelphia, July 20, 1876. She mar- ried, October 8, 1904, William Penn-Gaskell Hall, descendant of the Halls of Leventhorpe Hall, county York, England, seventh in descent from William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and fourth in descent from Peter Gaskell, of Innersly Hall, county Chester, England.
Mr. and Mrs. William Penn-Gaskell Hall resided at 11 18 Spruce street, Phila- delphia. They have issue:
Mary Fleeming Hare Hall, b. Dec. 30, 1905; William Penn-Gaskell Hall, Jr., b. Sept. 8, 1908.
Harriet Hare, second daughter of Robert Harford Hare, by his wife, Caroline Fleeming, born in Newport, Rhode Island, July 23, 1847, married, June 25, 1873, George McClellan, M. D., of Philadelphia, where they reside. Mrs. McClellan is president of Chapter 2 of Colonial Dames of America; vice-president of Morris Refuge Association; founder of Francisvale Home for Dogs; life member of Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children; member of City Park Association and of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. She is a woman of fine literary taste, and author of three novels, "Cupid and the Sphinx," "A Carpet Knight" and "Broken Chords."
Dr. George McClellan is a direct descendant of Gov. Bradford, of Plymouth Colony, and of Gen. Samuel McClellan, of Woodstock, Connecticut, a distinguish- ed soldier of the Revolutionary War.
Dr. George McClellan, grandfather of the present Dr. McClellan, born at Wood- stock, Connecticut, December 22, 1796, received an academic education in his native town and entered Yale College, sophomore class, at the age of sixteen years. On his graduation he studied medicine, and in 1817 was a student under Dr. Dor- sey in Philadelphia. He received his medical degree in 1819, and began the prac- tice of his profession in Philadelphia, which continued for a period of thirty years. He was founder of Jefferson Medical College, 1825, and filled its chair of surgery until 1838. In 1839 he began a course of lectures in Philadelphia, and founded another Medical School, chartered as "The Medical Department of Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg" in which he was an instructor until its close 1843. Dr. McClellan died in Philadelphia May 8, 1847; he held high rank as a surgeon and physician, and was author of "Principles of Surgery," edited by his son. Dr. John Hill Brinton McClellan, after his decease. He married, September 14, 1820, EHz- abeth Brinton, by whom he had five children. Elizabeth Brinton was the daughter of John Hill Brinton, Esq., of Philadelphia Bar, by his wife, Sarah Steinmetz, and a descendant of William Brinton, of Nether Gournal, parish of Sedgeley, county Stafford, England, who came to Pennsylvania 1684, and settled Birmingham town- ship, Chester, now Delaware county. His second son was Major General George Brinton McClellan, of the U. S. A.
Dr. John Hill Brinton McClellan, eldest son of Dr. George and Elizabeth (Brinton) McClellan, born in Philadelphia, August 13, 1823, entered University of Pennsylvania 1837, and graduated with degree of A. B., later receiving degree- of Master of Arts. He entered the Medical Department of the University and received degree of Doctor of Medicine there 1844. He was surgeon to St. Joseph's- Hospital 1850-62 ; filled the same position at Wills Eye Hospital ; was made Pro-
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fessor of Surgery at the Pennsylvania College 1855; became Fellow of College. of Physicians, Philadelphia, 1849; was a member of Academy of Natural Sciences 1847-74; member of Philadelphia County ^Medical Society and American ^Medical Association from 1849. He was acting assistant surgeon of the United States Army 1861-5, stationed at the Militarj' Hospitals on South street, Philadelphia, at Mowers, \'irginia, and at Chestnut Hill.
He edited "Principles and Practice of Surgery," written by his father, Dr. John Hill Brinton McClellan, died at Edinburg, Scotland, July 20, 1874. He married Maria, daughter of Oliver Eldridge, of Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. George McClellan, first above mentioned, born in Philadelphia, October 29, 1849, was a son of Dr. John Hill and Maria (Eldridge) McClellan. He enter- ed University of Pennsylvania 1865, and left at close of his junior year. He grad- uated at Jefferson Medical College in 1870, and has since practiced his profession in that city. He was surgeon to Philadelphia and Howard Hospitals ; Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery at the Pennsylvania School of Anatomy for twelve years; Lecturer on Anatomy at Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1890 to date; Fel- low of College of Physicians since 1873; member of Philadelphia County, Penn- sylvania State, and National Medical Associations, and author of "Regional Anat- omy in its Relation to Medicine and Surgery,'" "Anatomy in its Relation to Art," and numerous essays on medical subjects. He is Professor of Applied Anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, and is president of the Medical Qub, and of the Contemporary Club ; vice-president of the Philobiblion Club, and member of the University Club. He married, as before stated, 1873, Harriet Hare.
VAN RENSSELAER FAMILY.
The Van Rensselaer family, representatives of which have in later years become residents of and indentified with the social and business life of Philadelphia, was the first of the early Dutch Colonial families to acquire a great landed estate in America under the "Patroon" system, and among the first, after the conquest of the Dutch by the English, to have their possessions erected into a "Manor," and was a family of much antiquity in Holland. The family, which is traced four gen- erations back of Kiliaen Van Rennsselaer, the first Dutch Patroon in America, were early seized of, and derived their family name from Rensselaer Manor, three miles southeast of Nykerk, in Guelderland, originally a Reddergoed, a possession carrying with it a title to nobility. Here the family became quite numerous ; there is scarcely a church in Guelderland that does not have tombstones or memorials to dead and gone Van Rensselaers, many of them inscribed with the arms of the family. In the Orphan Asylum at Nykerk, established in 1638, is still preserved a picture representing the founders and first regents of the institution among whom was Jonkheer Jan Van Rensselaer, attired in the dress of the Dutch nobility of that day, and above his head is engraved the family arms. Gules, a cross moline argent ; with crest, an iron basket out of which issue flames or, above a closed knight's hel- met.
The ancestral line of the American family so far as traced is as follows :
Hendrick Woltees Van Rensselaer, married Sivone Van Indyck, of Hemeg- seet, and had two sons, Johannes Hendrick and Wolter Hendrick ; and three daughters, Guertruv, married the Advocate Swaaskn ; Anna, married By- gimp ; and Betye, married Nogger.
Johannes Hendrick Van Rensselaer, eldest son, married Derykebia Van Luxoel, and had two sons, Kiliaen and Wolter Jans.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, married Nelltje Van Vrenoken, and had three sons, Hendrick, Claes, Johannes, and one daughter, Engeltje, married Gerris William Patten.
Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, was a Captain in the Dutch army and was killed at the siege of Ostend, June 9, 1602 ; his brother, Johannes, who held the same rank, was killed February 7, 1601, and a monument to their memory is erect- ed in the Protestant Church at Nykerk. The family was long prominent in the civil aiifairs of Holland, many of the name serving as burgomasters, treasurers, etc., in different towns in Guelderland.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, first American Patroon, was the only son of Capt. Hendrick Van Rensselaer, who married Maria Paraat, and had beside Kiliaen, a •daughter, Maria, who married Rykert Van Twiller. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer was born in Guelderland, Holland, near Nykerk, about 1595, and was therefore but seven years of age at the death of his father. He was carefully educated, and suc- ceeding to the titles and estates of the family took a position of great influence in the councils of his native country, arriving at his majority at the most critical period in the history of the United Provinces, when the truce with Spain was just •drawing to a close, and the question of vital importance, whether the war for
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absolute independence should be resumed, must be determined. He engaged in the pearl and diamond trade in Amsterdam, and became one of the wealthiest citizens of that city, "at a time when the merchants of Holland like those of Italy had be- come the princes of the land."
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer was one of the organizers of the Dutch West India Company, chartered in July, 1621, with a capital of seven million florins, that famous and powerful auxiliary of the government of the Netherlands in the gigan- tic contest against Spain and for national supremacy. The object, as stated in the grant, was, "to establish an efficient and aggressive Atlantic maritime power in the struggle with Spain" and to colonize, develop and rule the Dutch American de- pendencies, of which the country discovered by Capt. Henry Hudson, 1609, known as "New Netherlands" and comprising the present states of New York and New Jersey, was among the most important. It was granted exclusive authority and trade privileges in the Dutch possessions of North and South America, as also on the coast of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to Cape of Good Hope. The affairs of the company were administered by a directorate known as the "Assem- bly of the XIX," from the membership of which an Executive Board was selected to arrange and transact the concerns of New Netherlands, and Kiliaen Van Rens- selaer was a member of both these controlling bodies. He was from its organiza- tion one of its mainstays and his name is conspicuously identified with all its meas- ures and policies, especially the original settlement of Manhattan Island in 1623. He placed at the disposal of the company several of his vessels and twice advanced large sums of money to save its credit. He had a principal part in the adoption, 1629, of the plan of "Freedom and Exemptions," devised to encourage emigration to the New Netherlands. It gave to each member of the company the right to select lands in the province and erect them into a Patroonship, under his own ex- clusive personal proprietorship and govermental authority, with the right to for- ever possess and enjoy all the lands lying within the limits specified, "together with the fruits, rights, minerals, rivers and fountains thereof, fishing, fowling and grinding, to the exclusion of all others, as also chief command of and lower juris- diction thereover, to be holden from the Company as a perpetual inheritance;" provided that he satisfy the natives for the land taken, and transport thereto fifty souls and upwards of fifteen years of age and upwards, before the expiration of the fourth year after the grant ; one-fourth at least to be transported during the first year.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, as the active promotor of the scheme of "Freedom and Exemptions," took prompt action to avail himself personally of its privileges. He employed Sebatiaen Jansen Cool, an officer of the Dutch West India Company in command of Fort Orange, now Albany, New York, to purchase lands of the Indians, and in 1630 he secured all the land on the west side of the Hudson from twelve miles south of Albany to the mouth of the ^lohawk river and stretching back "two days' Journey into the interior ;" which was erected into the patroon- ship of "Rensselaerwyck," confirmed to Van Rensselaer, January 8, 1631, by the "Assembly of XIX." Later purchases included a tract of about the same dimen- sions on the east side of the Hudson, south of Albany and "far into the wilder- ness," the two purchases embracing practically all of the counties of Albany and Rensselaer, and extending far into the present limits of Massachusetts. Subse- quent purchases included Schenectady, Columbia and part of Greene counties The
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total, exceeding 700,000 acres, was erected into three patroonships, Rensselaer- wyck, Pavonia, and Swaanendael, the last two eventually reverting to the West Inaia Company.
Rensselaerwyck, the greater part of which remained in the exclusive owner- ship and possession of the Van Rensselaer family for over two centuries, was at once placed by its proprietor, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, on the basis of a fully ac- quired estate, and he took active measures for its development, settlement and improvement. Comfortable houses and ample barns were erected for his tenants, near Fort Orange; agricultural implements were provided; saw and grain mills erected and his stores supplied with goods suitable to meet the wants of the colon- ists. He manned the post with his own soldiers, and his own flag flew from its staff. The colonists took the oath of allegiance to him, and justice was administer- ed in his own name.
It is not known that Kiliaen Van Rensselaer ever visited Rensselaerwyck, al- though tradition says that he paid it a brief visit in 1637. The affairs of the colony were managed by capable men as vice-directors, the first of whom was
Arendt Van Corlaer, a capable and accomplished man, and the last, Schlich-
tenhorst, whose daughter, Margaretta, became the wife of Philip Peters Schuyler. Other vice-directors were Dr. Adriaen Van der Donck, the first lawyer in New Netherlands, subsequently patroon of "Colon Donck," later Phillpse Manor; and Dominie Megapolensis, the most accomplished of the early Dutch divines. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer died in Holland in 1646. He married (first) Hillegonda Van Bylaer, and (second) Anna, daughter of Johannes Van Wely, and his wife, Leentje Hackens.
All his sons except Johannes, the eldest, were by the second wife. He had, how- ever, in all eleven children; three daughters by the first wife died without issue; Susanna, another daughter, married Jan de la Court and died in Holland; Jean Baptiste and Jeremias, the two eldest sons of the second marriage, were succes- sively patroons of Rensselaerwyck, the latter being the first of the family to settle permanently in America, coming over in 1658 to succeed his brother, Jean Baptiste, who had returned to Holland and become a leading merchant in Amsterdam. Rev. Nicholas Van Rensselaer, fourth son, born in Holland, 1638, was liberally educated and after taking his degree in theology went to England as chaplain to the Dutch embassy there. He came to America in 1674, with letters from the Duke of York, and succeeded his brother Jeremias, who had died at Rensselaerwyck, October 12, 1674, as head of the family at the Manor. He died at Albany, in November, 1678. He married, February 10, 1675, Alyda, daughter of Philip Peters Schuyler, by his wife, Margaretta Van Schlichtenhorst, but left no issue. She married (second) Robert Livingston, grantee of Livingston Manor. Rycker, fifth son, came over with his brother, Jean Baptiste, 1651, a mere child, and was many years a magis- trate at Albany, later returned to Holland and died there in 1695. The other chil- dren were Wolters, who remained in Holland, and Elizabeth, married Jan Van Rensselaer, of the Holland branch of the family.
Johannes Van Rensselaer, eldest son of the first patroon, under the laws of Holland was recognized as the head of the family, but the estate descended to all the children jointly. He did not come to America; the management of Rensselaer- wyck continuing under the vice-directorship of Van Corlaer and Van Schichten-
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horst, until the latter was succeeded by Jean Baptist Van Rensselaer, May 8, 1652, the latter being the first of the family to assume the directorship, coming over for that purpose in 1651, and bringing with him his brother, Rycker, a mere child. Johannes Van Rensselaer died in Holland in early manhood. He married Eliza- beth Van Twiller and had two children, Kiliaen, the first Lord of the Manor of Rensselaer wyck, and Nella, married Johan de Swardt.
Under Dutch rule the colony was a distinct one, not in any manner subject to the political control or jurisdiction of the general administration of New Nether- lands. When converted into an English Colony, in 1664, it was erected into a Manor with no material abridgement of its rights and privileges; the manor or lordship being set aside as a separate political entity' with powers and privileges of police power, appointment of necessary officials, and the control and the adminis- tration of justice, and right of sending a special deputy to the General Assembly of the Province. The latter position was invariably filled by the head of the fam- ily, the first being Jeremias Van Rensselaer, the third patroon, who represented the family and colony in the Assembly from 1664 to his death in 1674. It was this Jeremias who was the ancestor of the later line of the Lords of the ]\Ianor of Rensselaerwyck and of the American family of the name. He was born in Hol- land, 1632, and received a liberal education. He came to America to assume the directorship of Rensselaerwyck, filling that position, and that of the nominal head of the family in America for sixteen years. The Colony had greatly improved and flourished under the wise directorship of Van Corlaer and Van Schlichtenhorst, and nowise suffered under the able administration of the first resident director of the family. He was a man of probity and ability and was devoted to the best inter- ests of the colony. He left a numerous correspondence under the title of "New Netherland Mercury," that constitutes a valuable contribution to the history of the province. He married, July 12, 1662, Maria, sister to Stephanus Van Cortlandt, the founder of Cortlandt ]\Ianor. She was born in 1645, died January 29, 1689.
Jeremias was succeeded by his nephew, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, only son of Johannes, by Elizabeth Van Twiller. He died at Watervliet, New York, 1687. He married his cousin, Anna Van Rensselaer, daughter of his uncle and prede- cessor, Jeremias, but had no issue.
Kiliaen V.\n Rensselaer, second Lord of the Manor, eldest son of Jeremias and Maria (Van Cortlandt) Van Rensselaer, born at Rensselaerwyck, August 24, 1663, became the head of the family on the death of his cousin and brother-in-law of the same name in 1687. He received a new patent for the Manor, in his own name, May 20, 1704, from Queen Anne, but released to his brother Hendrick, Claverack ]\Ianor, 60,000 acres in Columbia county, which with other lands then vested in the younger branch of the family, descendants of Hendrick. He also settled large tracts of land on his sister, wife of Peter Schuyler.
Kilaen Van Rensselaer was constantly in public life from 1691 to 1719, serving as a member of the General Assembly from 1691 to 1703, when he was elevated to the Governor's Council of which he was a member until his death in 1719. He was also for many years Commissioner of Indian Affairs. In this connection it might be remarked that the attitude of the Van Rensselaer family towards the Aborigines was always a conciliatory, friendly and just one, and, while other colonies and settlements suffered depredations from hostile savages, Rensselaer- wyck was always free from their ravages. Kiliaen Van Rensellaer married, Octo-
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ber 15, 1701, Maria, his cousin, daughter of Stephanus and Gertrude (Schuyler) Van Cortlandt, of Van Contlandt Manor, by whom he had four sons and four daughters. The eldest son, Jeremias, succeeded him as the head of the family, but died unmarried in 1745, and was succeeded by the second son,
Stephen Van Rensselaer^ fourth Lord of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, was born March 23, 1707. He was delicate and took little or no part in pubhc affairs, but held the family position of Provincial Commissioner of Indian Affairs until his death in June, 1747. He married, July 5, 1729, Elizabeth Groesbeck, who died December 31, 1756. They had seven children, several of whom died in infancy. He was succeeded by
Stephen Van Rensselaer, II., sixth child, fifth Lord of the Manor, bom June 2, 1742. His father died when he was five years of age, and the affairs of the Manor and estate were administered by his brother-in-law, Abraham Ten Broeck, who had married his elder sister, Elizabeth, and was for several years the family representative in the General Assembly.
Stephen II., built the manor house in 1765. He died in 1769, at the early age of thirty-seven years. He married, January, 1764, Catharine, daughter of Philip Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence, by his wife, Christina Ten Broeck. She married (second) Elisrdus Westerlo. Stephen II., had three chil- dren— Stephen III., Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Elizabeth, married John Bradstreet Schuyler, son of Gen. Philip Schuyler.
Stephen Van Rensselaer, III., sixth and last Lord of the Manor of Rensse- laerwyck, was born in the city of New York, November i, 1764. He graduated at Harvard, 1782, and assumed the direction of the great estate, adopting a policy of energetic improvement of the vast landed estate of the family of which he was the eldest male representative, and though the law of primogenture had been abrogated a half century before his birth, was the real head of the family and the holder of its lands and wealth. He greatly reduced the rents of the lands and en- couraged the material development of the landed estate. He entered political life in 1789 as a member of Assembly, and served in that body until 1791, when he was elected to the State Senate, in which he served until 1796; was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1795, and filled that position until 1798, and was a candidate for Gov- ernor in 1801, and again a member of Assembly 1808-19. He was one of the first advocates of the erection of the Erie canal, from the Hudson river to the Great lakes, and in 1810 was appointed commissioner to view the route, and made a tour of inspection, the result of which he submitted in 181 1. The second war with Great Britain delayed further action, and he entered the military service. He had been commissioned Major of Infantry in the New York Militia in 1786; became Colonel in 1788 and Major General in 1801. At the outbreak of hostilities in 1812, he was appointed to the command of the United States forces in New York with the rank of Major-General and fought the battle of Queenstown Heights, October 13, 1812. He soon after resigned the command and took no further part in the war. On the return of peace he resumed the agitation in favor of the Erie canal, and the first ground was broken for its construction on the nation's birthday, 1817. Stephen Van Rensselaer was again elected to the Assembly in 1818; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1821 ; was a member of the national House of Repre- sentatives 1823-29; and filled various other positions of honor and dignity. He was regent and chancellor of New York State University; president of the State
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Agriculture Society ; first president of Albany Savings Bank, incorporated in 1820, the second oldest institution of its kind in the country.
Stephen Van Rensselaer received the degree of LL. D. from Yale University in 1825. In 1824 he founded the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, the first of its character in the United States, liberally endowing it, and sus- taining it at his own expense for fourteen years. He was the last of the family to retain Rensselaerwyck in its entirety. He was a liberal proprietor and persistently refused to sell the lands, devising the major portion of them to his two eldest sons, Stephen IV., and WilHam P. He was known as the "Old Patroon," while his eldest son and principal successor was known as the "Young Patroon." He died at the Manor House, January 26, 1839, in his seventy-fifth year. He married, 1783, Marguerite, daughter of Gen. Philip Schuyler, by his wife, Catharine Van Rensselaer, born 1758, died 1801. He married (second) May 17, 1802, Corneha, daughter of Hon. William Patterson, Justice of the United States Supreme Court, by his wife, Corneha Bell; she was born in 1780, and died in 1844. By his first wife he had three children, the two eldest of whom died in infancy; the third was Stephen Van Rensselaer IV., his father's principal successor at Rensselaerwyck. By the second marriage he had eight children, the seventh of whom was
Rev. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, D. D., born at the Manor House, May 26, 1808. He graduated at Yale in 1827 ; studied law and was admitted to the New York Bar, 1830. Concluding to engage in the gospel ministry he entered Union Theological Seminary, and in 1837 became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Burlington, New Jersey. He resigned this charge three years later, and for the next two or three years resided in Washington, D. C, having pastoral charge of two Presbyterian churches. In 1843 he accepted the invitation of the Board of Directors of Princeton Theological Seminary to undertake the task of securing an endowment fund for the seminary ; starting the subscription by a personal contri- bution of $2,000, he secured the desired sum of $100,000.
From 1847 to his death at Burlington, New Jersey, July 25, i860, he was corre- sponding secretary and principal executive officer of the Presbyterian Board of Education. He introduced new methods of administration, and extended the scope of educational work of the church ; founded and edited The Presbyterian Magazine and The Home, the School and Church. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of New York in 1845. He was one of the most conspicuous men in the Presbyterian church, and his life was distinguished by ceaseless energy, zeal, sincere piety, and great practical usefulness. Selections from his writings were published in 1861, under the title of "Sermons and Ad- dresses," including an address delivered by him at the centennial celebration of the battle of Lake George. He delivered many funeral and memorial orations and wrote much on the question of education. He married, September 13, 1836, Catharine Ledyard, daughter of Dr. Mason Fitch and Mary Austin (Ledyard) Cogswell, of Hartford, Connecticut, where she was born September 22, 181 1. Her father was descended from the Cogswell family which came to New England from county Wilts, England, and his mother, Alice Fitch, belonged to the famous Fitch family of Connecticut. Mrs. Van Rensselaer's mother, Mary Austin Ledyard was a granddaughter of John Ledyard, who came from England in 1700.
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Capt. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, b. Jan. s, 1838; Capt. 13th Inf., U. S. A., and served with distinction during the Civil War; d. at Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 7, 1864, from effect of wounds received in the battle of Missionary Ridge;
Philip Livingston Van Rensselaer, b. Nov. 24, 1839; was Major of 2nd New Jersey Cavalry during the Civil War; d. at Vevey, Switzerland, March 10, 1873; m. Anne Whitmore, of Boston; no issue;
Charles Chauncey Van Rensselaer, b. Jan., 1842, d. 1843;
Ledyard Van Rensselaer, b. Nov. 20, 1843; physician at BurHngton, N. J.; d. March 26, 1893;
Alice Cogswell Van Rensselaer, b. March 19, 1846, d. April 18, 1878; m., May 7, 1868, Rev. Edward B. Hodge, of Phila., where they resided, son of Hugh Hodge, M. D., LL. D.;
Elizabeth Van Rensselaer, b. Feb. 22, 1848, d. April 17, 1886; m., Oct. 6, 1868, Gen. Ed- ward Burd Grubb, of Edgewater Park, N. J.;
Alexander Van Rensselaer, b. Oct. i, 1850; graduated at Princeton University, class of 1871 ; is a well-known citizen of Phila.; m., Jan. 27, 1898, Mrs. Sarah (Drexel) Fell, daughter of Anthony Joseph Drexel, of the well-known financial house of Drexel & Companv. by his wife, Ellen Rozet, and widow of John Ruckman Fell, of Phila. and Camp Hill, Pa.
WETHERILL FAMILY.
The Wetherill family, long identified with the business and social life of Phila- delphia, was founded in America by Christopher Wetherill, of Sherbourne, county York, England, who came to New Jersey in 1683 and settled at Burlington, was one of the Proprietors of West Jersey, Sheriff of Burlington county, etc.
The Wetherill family is an ancient one in the north of England, the name being variously spelled Weatherill, Weatheral, Wedderelt, Wethereld, and originally doubtless Witherhold. A John Witherhold was bailiff of Newcastle-on-Tyne, A. D., 1259. The family derived its name from the place where we first find it settled, "Wetherhold," later Wetherall, near Carlisle, in county of Cumberland, near the Scotch border. The name originating from a "hold" or keep to which cattle and sheep were driven for safety during the times of border raids and Scotch invasion.
Gyles Weatherill, "of Stockton-upon-Tease," county Durham, whose will dated July 12, 1604, is entered on the Durham Registry, was the great-grandfather of Christopher Wetherill, New Jersey emigrant of 1683, and the earliest lineal ancestor of the Philadelphia family of whom we have any definite record. Gyles Weatherill devises to his son, Rowland Weatherill, "the land that I bought in Newbye in the Countye of Yorke," and "all the house or Burgage wherein I dwell ;" to "my sonn Christopher Weatherill All that my Burgage wherein my sonn Rowland dwelleth to hold unto the said Cristofer & to his heirs, for evr," and also a leasehold after the death of the testator's wife. The remainder of his estate is given to his wife, sons-in-law, Anthony Fleetham and George Burdon, and sons Christofer, Bryan and Gyles.
A grandson, Gyles Wetherell, son of Rowland, was Mayor of Stockton, 1619-20,. and married Anne, daughter of Henry Marwood, Esq., and sister to Sir George Marwood, Baronet, of Little Bushby, county York, of an old family among the landowners in Yorkshire, descended from the Mallorys of Studely in that county, from the Scropes, and through the Baron Fitz-Hugh and Lord Willoughby d'Eresby from the Hollands, Earls of Kent, the founder of which family. Sir Thomas Holland, married Joan Plantagenet, "The Fair Maid of Kent," grand- daughter of Edward I., who after the Earl's death married her cousin, Edward, the "Black Prince."
Burke's "History of the Landed Gentry" refers to this family of Wetherell as long settled in the county of Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire, and de- scribes the arms born by the family as "Argent, two lions passant, guardant, sable, on a chief indented of the last, three covered cups, or." This same coat-of-arms was brought to America by Christopher Wetherill and has been used by his de- scendants in America ever since his emigration. They are almost exactly similar to the arms registered for Sir James Wetherall, of Kelfield, in county of York, in' Herald's Visitation to the County of York, A. D., 1584; as also to those returned to the Herald by Richard Wetherall, of city of Lincoln, Alderman, Justice, etc., in the Herald's Visitation to Lincolnshire, A. D., 1666, Richard being then sixty-four years of age, a son of Richard and grandson of John Wetherall, of Ascrigge in Wainesdale, county York.
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Christopher Weatherell, of Stockton-on-Tees, county Durham, son of Gyles above mentioned, who died in 1604, married Mary, daughter of John Watson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, merchant, who in 1587 purchased an estate at Little Kepyer, near Crawcroke, county Durham, and died there in 1612, by his wife, Barbara De la Val, of the family of Seaton de la Val, one of the oldest families of Norman descent in Northumberland, bearing arms, "Ermine two bars Vert" with many quarterings. John Watson, Sr., grandfather of Mary (Watson) Wetherell, was Sheriff of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1657; and Mayor of that town, 1574-5; and her brother, Thomas Watson, was Mayor of Stockton-on-Tees, 1623, and six other years, the last A. D., 1656. The arms of the Watson family were, "Argent, on a chevron engrailed, Azure, between three martlets. Sable ; as many crescents Or."
Christopher Weatherell was buried in the Parish Church, of Stockton, May 25, 1622. His will dated May 24, 1622, devises "unto Thomas Watherell eldest sonne & to his heires my burgage on the east syde of the Boroughe of Stockton, with th appurtinances" and a leasehold ; to his second son, Bryan Wetherall, a burgage &c., on the West side of of the "Boroughe of Stockton," and unto his son, Robert Wetherall, his interest in a "Tenement farme & tithe of corne wch I hold at Whorl- ton in the County of York." Gives legacies to his wife Mary; his daughter, EHza- beth Wetherall ; to Gyles Wetherell, son of his brother Rowland ; Margaret, daugh- ter of Rowland; Rowland and Alice, son and daughter of his brother-in-law, Henry Burdon ; and Anthony and Margaret Fleetham, children of his sister Mar- garet.
Thomas Wetherell, of the town and county of Newcastle-on-Tyne, eldest son of Christopher and Mary (Watson) Weatherell, was a minor in 1624, and was buried December 28, 1672. He was twice married, the name of his first wife and the mother of his children is unknown to his descendants in America. He mar- ried (second) September 12, 1658, Jane Heighington, of All Saints Parish, New- castle, widow, who survived him and was buried October i, 1677.
The will of "Thomas Wetherell of the towne and Countie of Newcastle upon Tyne, Merchant," is dated December 23, 1672, and was probated January, 1672-3. It devises a messuage, burgage or tenement and three shops in the town of New- castle, "in a streate or place called Alhallows Banck" and two shops "upon the Tine bridge neare unto the Irongate upon the said Bridge unto my sonn Christo- pher Wetherell and the heires of his bodie," and in default of issue to his daughters, Mary and Margery Wetherell, to whom he devises other real estate, and names his wife Jane and daughter Margery as executrixes. The will of his widow, Jane Wetherell, dated October 11, 1676, and probated in 1678, gives legacies to her daughters: Jane, wife of Thomas Aubone, mariner, and Margary Wetherell; daughter-in-law (step-daughter), Mary Cowle; son-in-law (step-son), Christopher Wetherell, and his son Thomas; cousin, Thomas Watson, son of a cousin, Thomas Watson, deceased, and grandchildren, William and Elizabeth Au- bone. A codicil dated September 20, 1677, mentions granddaughters, Martha and Mary Aubone.
Christopher Wetherell, the legatee mentioned in the above will, was the New Jersey immigrant of 1683. He married, February 7, 1672, Mary Hornby, of York, but from Hull, who died in 1680. He was living at the time of his marriage at Sherburne, county of York, and continued to reside there until his emigration to New Jersey, 1683, then producing a certificate at the Friends' Meeting at Bur-
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lington, from the Monthly Meeting at York, dated 6mo. (August) 2, 1683, as "Christopher Wetherell, late of Sherburne, County of Yorke, Widower." This certificate included his children, Thomas, Phebe and John. The Parish records of Stockton show the baptism of Robert, son of Thomas Wetherell, October 18, 1640; while those of All Saints, Newcastle, show the baptism of Mary, November 14, 1641; Thomas, September 17, 1643; Grace, February 11, 1647; and Marjorie, July 7, 1659; as well as the burial of Grace, July 29, 1649; the sons, Robert and Thomas, probably also died in infancy as neither are mentioned in the wills of their father or step-mother. Christopher Wetherell, emigrant, is thought to have been the youngest of the children of the first marriage. At what date Christopher Wetherill became a member of the Society of Friends does not appear, but it was prior to 1661, in which year his name appears among a list of Friends in Yorkshire who were committed to Beverly Gaol for attending religious meetings at the house of Thomas Hutchinson, "and because they would not promise to refrain from so meeting in the future."
Christopher Wetherill purchased after his removal to the Providence of New Jersey, at different periods, three one-thirty-seconds of a share and one one-twelfth of a share of the lands of West Jersey, besides several separate tracts in Burling- ton county and numerous lots in the town of Burlington. He was one of the mem- bers of the Proprietary Council of the Province 1706-7, also filling the office of Sheriff of Burlington county, 1700, and probably held other official positions.
On i2mo. (February) 9, 1686-7, Christopher Wetherill appeared before Bur- lington Monthly Meeting of Friends, and proposed his intentions of marriage with Mary Fothergill, and they were married on 2mo. (April) 8, 1687, at the house of William Hayhurst, Neshaminy, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; the residence of Mary Fothergill, being given as "Neshaminy," the original name of Middletown Meeting.
On 9mo. (November) 10, 1690, Christopher Wetherill and Elizabeth Pope de- clared their intentions of marriage before Burlington Monthly Meeting, the second time, and were granted permission to proceed with their marriage. He married a fourth time, 1705, Mary Whitton, their intentions being declared the second time, 8mo. (October) i, 1705. He also survived her.
Christopher Wetherill resided for a number of years in the town of Burlington, where he owned a great number of town lots ; in addition to such as were laid out to him in right of the different surveys of land elsewhere, he had purchased the lots appertaining to surveys to other persons. He later removed to his plantation in Mansfield township,