Nicholas Le Huray, Clock and Watch Maker of the Isle of Guernsey, of Philadelphia, and of Ogletown, Delaware

Nicholas Le Huray Clock and Watch Maker of the Isle of Guernsey, of Philadelphia, and of Ogletown, Delaware Contributed by LEWIS D. COOK, F.A.S.G., F.G.S.P. T 0 complement the brief biographical notice of Nicholas Le Huray by Henry C. Conrad in his "Old Delaware Clockmakers," published in the Papers of the Delaware Historical Society, Volume XX (1898), page 31, the following report is presented. NICHOLAS LE HURAY, clock and watch maker, is so listed in Philadelphia city directoriesfrom 1828 to 1835, at 170 North Second Street. He removed in 1834 to Ogletown, Delaware, and was listed as a licensed preacher under the Reverend William K. Robison, pastor of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church in Kent County, Delaware, in the Minutes of the Delaware Baptist Association, at the meeting held from 6 through 8 June 1835, at that meeting house. He had held the same position previously in the New Market Street Baptist Church on Budd Street (now New Market Street) north of Poplar.' He died testate at his home at "Ogle Town, [New Castle County,] State of Delaware" on 8 February 1837, aged 65 years.' His will, written at Ogletown 8 January 1834, and proved at New Castle 16 February 1837, begins, "Au Nom de Dieu soit, Amen, Niel)! Le Huray, Sr., watch and clock maker, son of Nich native of the parish of Torteval in the Island of Guernsey, but now residing in the State of Delaware," and directs, after debts are paid, that his farm situated in Ogletown, Christiana Hundred, Delaware, with all improvements thereon, be sold within one year after his death for the benefit of his wife and children. He devises to his wife Elizabeth the income from one-third of his personal and real estate, to be paid her annually during her lifetime, after her death the principal to be divided among their This congregation wat established there in 1804, in the Northern Llama of Philadelphia, by twenty members from the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia. J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Venom, History of Philadelphia . . (Philadelphia, 1554), II, 1310. Poulson's AINtri Lat. Doily Advertiser, issue of 13 Feb. 1857. 115 116 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine children as she pleases. The other two-thirds was to be divided equally between his children: Nicholas, Elizabeth, Sophia, Harriet, Charles, Emilia Caroline, and his granddaughter Julia Fries, daughter of his deceased daughter Julia, $1 5 0 to be deducted from the shares of Nicholas and Elizabeth as given them at their marriage. His one and one-quarter acre place three miles above Philadelphia on the Frankford turnpike at the corner of "Heart" Lane, with the stone house and two frame buildings thereon, was to be divided into four lots and sold within one year after his decease, and the proceeds divided as abovesaid. The stock of his store goods, viz: watches, chains, keys and jewelry, to be sold. To his son Charles he gave his watch and clock tools and cloths, watch materials and draws, and appointed his friend Jonathan Bee executor.° Children of Nicholas Le Huray:* i. NICHOLAS LE HURAY, Jr., b. ca. 1795; d. Philadelphia, intestate, 27 July 1846, aged 49 years. Buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Issue, among others: 1. ELEANORA LE HURAY, m. 19 February 1850, WallAm GRIFFITH. 2. GEORGE LE HURAY, in 1860 of Summit, New Jersey. 5. ELIZABETH LE HURAY, M. 28 June 1860, CHARLES SILVER. 4. ANNE ELIZABETH LE HURAY, d. August, 1828. ELIZABETH LE HURAY, b. ca. 1796; d. Philadelphia, 7 September 1843, in her 48th year. She married in or before 1822, ISHI HUNT CRAVEN, b. c.a. 1791; d. 30 June 1860, in his 70th year in Germantown, Philadelphia. Buried in Ronaldson Cemetery, corner of Ninth and Bainbridge Streets, Philadelphia, without gravestone. His estate is not found in the Philadelphia probate records. Son of William Walling Craven of Oxford Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, and grandson of Thomas Craven (1708-1775), a schoolmaster,' Ishi Craven WRS a midshipman in the United States Navy during the first ten months of 1809, then resigned at New York after duty on the U.S. Brig Siren. He is listed in Philadelphia city directories of 1818-1830 as an accountant; in 1837 as a member of the firm of Otis and Craven, lumber merchmts; 1839-1842 as a teller in the Schuylkill Bank; in 1854-1860 as a broker, member of the firm of I. Craven and Company, note and stock brokers. He was a charter member in 1820 of the Second Universalist Church of the Restoration, Philadelphia, 2S the register indicates. Issue: 1. ALFRED CRAVEN, d. Yorkville, S. Carolina, 1872; had a son Alfred Craven, Jr., and two daughters. 2. CAROLINE CRAVEN, m. THOMAS F. BRADY, and in 1860 resided in High Street, Germantown, Philadelphia.° 3. LOUISE HARRIET CRAVEN, d. unm. 6 New Cesde County Will Book T, 290, will of Nicholas Le Finny. • As named in his will, and in death and marriage notice in Poulson', American Daily Advertise, 'See George N. Mc/T..1e, ed., Colonial F071taill of tke Unikd Stain of America (Baltimore, 1914), IV, 104. Caroline Craven and Thomas F. Brady had issue I. Carolina Brady, in. Frank Higgins, son of Dr. Frank Higgins of Was Philadelphia. 2, Moven F. Brady, Jr Nicholas Le Huray, Clock and Watch Maker 117 March 1869, aged 40 years; bur. Ronaldson Cemetery, Philadelphia. 4. ISHI BULLMAN CRAVEN, b. Philadelphia, 31 October 1829; d. Brooklyn, New York, 13 December 1902; bur. Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. He m. 1st, in Chester, Pa., 23 August 1855, MARY BUNTING Davis, b. 1 July 1836; d. Jersey City, New Jersey, 5 February 1863, dau. of David and Grace Ann Davis; bur. in Philadelphia. They had five children, Ishi B. Craven m. 2nd, in 1874, Emmk CECELIA HARVEY, b. Campobello, Maine; d. 9 October 1920; bur. Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. 5. Emmk MATILDA CRAVEN, d. Omaha, Nebraska; m. Philadelphia. BENJAMIN Kraus who d. September 1892; bur. Brooklyn, New York.' 6. Viacmrk CRAVEN, d. urun. 1889; bur. Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn. 7. EDMUND (EDWIN?) CRAVEN, b. 1822; d. Philadelphia, 5 December 1831. SOPHIA LE HURAY, named in her father's will of 1834. iv. JULIA LE HURAY, b. ca. 1808; el. 28 July 1828, in her 21st year,' m. JOHN FRIES, and had issue Jum6 FRIES, named in the will abovesaid. v. HARRIET LE HLTRAY, b. ca. 1811; d. 24 April 1837, in her 27th year; bur. from her brother Nicholas Le Huray's residence, "on the Frankford Road near the Hart Tavern," Northern Liberties, Philadelphia. She m. in Philadelphia, 20 April 1829, JOSEPH N. GOODRICH, the Rev. Elisha Cushman officiating. Issue: Four children.' vi. CHARLES LE HURAY, b. ca. 1814; d. "in New Castle county, Delaware, near Newark," 8 June 1836, in his 23rd year." vii. EMILIA CAROLINE LE HURAY, named in her father's will. 7 E11=a Matilda Craven and Benjamin tlarris had issue: 1. Florence N. Hann, in 27 Nov. 1858; m. Carl A. Jacobean. 1. Sarah Virginia Harris, m. 1s1, /mar 1,1, Smith, end 2nd, Frank Leslie. 3. Emma Matilda Harris, m. George Tallman and resided in Omaha, Nebraska. Poulson's American Daily Advertner, issue of 30 July 1323. Ibid., issues of 29 Apr. 1329, and 26 Apr. 1837 10 55C4 issue of 16 June lass. WHEREAS a certain John Nelson of Franklin county, North Carolina, formerly from Ringsess, Pennsylvania, died last November in the aforesaid state, intestate; if there is any of said Nelson's Relations now living, they are desired to apply to JAMES DYER, at Mr. Robert Furriiss's in New-castle, on Delaware, where they will hear of something greatly to their advantage; or to Colonel Simon Jeffrey's, in North Carolina. Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser 22 September 1781