The Gabriel Wilkinson Family of Philadelphia

a 23MafgaMPAMNS93a=2.05 2 a a The Pennsylvania a o g, I p3 m N N 63 @3 m GENEALOGICAL N m a Magazine EM NMS3MMMT4iManTaineiMaffdiSKag63&& The Gabriel Wilkinson Family of Philadelphia EUNICE STORY EATON ULLMAN * A MONG the early families closely associated with the shipbuilding industry in Philadelphia and its river commerce during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the Wilkinsons. The family was never particularly prominent, nor very large, and consequently little known to genealogists. The baker Gabriel was the American progenitor. Although Gabriel had numerous children, only his son Anthony, the ship carver, and the latter's son Bryan, a wood carver, are known to have had descendants to carry on the Wilkinson name, while Gabriel's daughters and granddaughters married into other colonial families of genealogical interest. During its first three generations this Wilkinson family of small artisans, shopkeepers and traders and their connections with the Philadelphia waterfront were typical of their contemporaries. GABIUEL WILKINSON, the baker, appears to have been a "loner" in that no evidence has been uncovered to date which links him to any other person having the same surname. No connection has been established between Gabriel Wilkinson and "Will Wilkissen" who was rated as a taxable on the "Easterne Sheare" of the Delaware River in 1677/78. 0 Mrs. Ullman undertook this study of the Wilkinson family as part of the apprenticeship program leading to accreditation as a professional genealogist. J. Thomas Scharf, Elisio, of Delaware 1609-1888 (Philadelphia, 1884), I, 153. There are numerous references to various Anthony and Bryan Wilkinson, in transcripts of English Friends records, but no connection to the Philadelphia Wilkinsons appears. For example, 3n The Publications of the Harleian Society Registers, Vol. VII (1882), 97, there is the baptism of one Gabriel! Wilkinson, son of Nichol., April 11, 1591, at St. Michael, Cornhill, London: in Vol. XIII (1887), 53, the marriage of one Anthony Wilkinson and Joan, Lucas, 2 May 1624, at St. James, Clerkenwell, London. Also, in Joseph Foster, London Marriage Lirenses 1521 - 1869 (London, 1887), 1470, Anthony Wilkinson, baker, married Alice Peacock of London, Spinster, dau. of John Peacock, late of St. Saviour, Southwark, baker, deceased, at St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Smet, London, 15 January 1895/6. 61 62 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Gabriel's first known appearance in the Delaware Valley was in 1686. At that time Francis Johnson, a planter of New Castle County, sold 200 acres to Gabriel 'Wilkinson, baker, of the same place, for "three Barrells of Indian Corn." The land was near Blackbird Creek "bounding on the north west branch of Duck Creek on the south west side." Precisely where Gabriel Wilkinson lived at the time he made this purchase in New Castle County is not known. But five years later, when he paid £16 in 1691 for part of Philip England's Delaware bank lot and improvements on the east side of Front Street north of Mulberry (Arch) Street, he was living in Philadelphia.' This was the first of a series of land purchases Wilkinson made in the Philadelphia area. Once established in the city he soon began to acquire other land which resulted in his eventual ownership of both city lots and country land: three lots within the city of Philadelphia and a tract in Tacony, Oxford Township, Philadelphia County. It is presumed that Gabriel married sometime during his first few years in the city but since no record of his marriage has been uncovered, the name of his wife remains unknown. In 1692, as a "Freeman" of the Province, Gabriel was one of the citizens who petitioned the Assembly protesting a proposed bill which would levy a tax of "one penny per pound out of the supposed value of every man's estate, either Real or Personal, and two shillings per head for those not otherwise Rated." He and the other petitioners considered the proposed tax to be of "no present necessity." Despite their protest, the bill was passed the following year on 15 May 1693, and the assessment completed by the 26th of SZtptember of the same year. Gabriel Wilkinson's estate was rated at Even though he protested the tax on real estate, this did not prevent his acquiring the following year the remainder of Philip England's Delaware bank lot. Approximately five years after acquiring that, Gabriel .Philadelphia Deed Book E-14. 421: 18 December 0 686, Francis Johnmn to Gabriel Wilkinson. Unless otherwise stated all land records and estate proceedings hereinafter cited are Philadelphia County records. Blackbird Creek lies between Odessa and Smyrna, Delaware. "Great Duck - river, Little Duckriver, Blackbird-river, these also took thwr original names from the great number of these fowls which are found there in vast quantities." John F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia, 1877). I, 68. No disposition of the New Castle County tract has been located. Wilkinson apparently did dispose of it as no mention was made of this land in his will. Deed Book E-2-5) 211: 1 Ilm (Jan.) 1690/1, Philip England to Gabriel Wilkbason. The lot was 19 by 26 feet. Witnesses to this deed were James Cooper: cordwainer, and Robe Wallis, plasterer, both of Philadelphia. "An Early Petition of the Freernan of the Province of Pennsylvania To the Assembly 102," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (PMHB), XXVIII, (1914), 495. The tax on Gabriel', estam was 6s. 8d. "The First T. List For Philadelphia County," ibid.' VIII (1884), 90. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 63 purchased a house and lot in Philadelphia for £16 from George Robinson. The lot, at the northeast corner of Sassafras (Race) and Delaware Third Streets, had a frontage of 49'/2 feet on Third and extended 195 feet east along Sassafras. In 1701, he invested in ten feet of a wharf fronting Water Street on the south side of his dwelling on the bank, part of a 4I-foot wharf extending from Front Street 85 feet into the river. About four months later, Wilkinson acquired the rest of the wharf and the land on which it was built from Thomas Peart for £60. The lot on Delaware Front Street, extending 250 feet into the river, was bounded on the north with GabriePs other land and was on the opposite side of Front Street from the house and lot where Thomas Peart was living. A few days later, John Austin confirmed to Gabriel Wilkinson six feet in breadth from the north side of his bank lot length to extend from Front Street to the street under the bank called King (Water) Street. Sometime during the next few years, Wilkinson apparently kept a public house on the bank lot for the convenience of shipwrights working on the waterfront. But in 1706, when he came to renew his license, it was refused. Not understanding the reason for its refusal, he petitioned the Lieutenant Governor, John Evans: The Humble Petition of Gabriel Wilkinson Sheweth — That your peticoner according to practice lately petisoned the Mayor & Aldermen of the City of Philad. that they would please to Recomend your peticoner to your Hon' to have your Lycence for the Keeping a publick house in the house wherein your peticoner Now lives for the year Ensuing but that the ad Mayor & Aldermen (for what reasons your peticoner knows not) rejected the ad petison & refused to recomend your peticoner to your Hon' Now fforasmucla as there is a want of a publick house to Accomodate the Shipwrights & Neighbours thereabouts and your Peticoner being Never guilty M the least of Keeping bad orders in his house nor ill Company your Peticoner humbly prays your Hunt would , Deed Book F-7, 8: 26 2m (Apr.) 1694, Benjamin Chambers to Gabriel Wilkinson. Deed Book G-1, 130: 2 4m (June) 1694, Philip Engl.d to Gabriel Wilkinson. Presumably Engl.d had previously sold to Benjamin Clambers the northernmost seven feet of the bank loc, and on 2 4m (June) 1694, England confirmed the fact for the record and released any interest he might have had in the .tire 26-foot lot. Deed Book 1-7, 32: (as recorded, the actual date of conveyance is unclear, possibly 21 April 1698 or 1699), George Robinson to Gabriel Wilkinson. The lot had been originally granted by patent under William Penn to Jane Bacheler, a First Purchaser. °Deed Book G-1, 131: 5 September, 1701, Damaris Chick to Gabriel Wilkinson. In this mord is the first specific mention of a ' .house" on England's 26-foot lot. The indication is that Gabnel had improved the original structure with a more substantial one. Deed Book P-7, 7: 31 December 1701, Thomas Part to Gabriel Wilkinson. o Deed Book G-2, 478: IS Ilm (J..) 1701/2, Jo). Austin to Gabriel Wilkinson. Austin had previously gr.ted this six feet of his bank lot .'next adjoining Chick's shop" to James Chick but it was never conveyed. Chick died intestate and his vridow Damns Chick administered his estate, selling the premisu together with all her interest in said buildings and bank los. Damans Chick then requested Austin to confirm the sin feet of his bank lot Gabriel Wilkinson. 64 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine be pleased to grant him your lycence for the year Ensuing under Such restrictions & obligations as is usuall in such Cases And your peticoner will ever pray etc /s/ Gabriel 'Wilkinson. Wilkinson, apparently still unable to renew his license, styled himself a yeoman when he added to his Third and Sassafras Street property the following year. He purchased from Samuel Finney, Esquire, of Tacony, for £25 the sixty feet fronting Third Street next to and north of his corner lot.' In December, 1709, Gabriel witnessed the will of his neighbour, the shipwright Bartholomew Penrose, who lived on the bank next to and on the north of Wilkinson's property. Penrose had married Hester Leech, a daughter of Toby and Esther Leech. " Gabriel's acquaintance with Penrose was apparently the first link with the Leech family which culminated in the marriage of a Wilkinson grandson to a Leech granddaughter. Over the years Wilkinson branched out into commerce and by 1715 was calling himself a trader. That year he acquired two more lots, together with messuages, gardens and orchards, on the northeast corner of Sixth and Mulberry Steets. " Less than a year later, Gabriel began to acquire land in the country, presumably for his growing family. His first purchase, for £75, was for a 100-acre plantation and messuage in what was called "Taconick" but was in Oxford Township, Philadelphia County, and was acquired from the heirs of Christian Clawson. In 1719, Gabriel, though still living in Philadelphia, added 218 acres south of and adjacent to the plantation. For this he paid £160. " By 1722, Wilkinson had moved to Tacony and was the tax collector Logan Papers, Vol. 3, 125, Historical Society of Pmnsylvania (HSP). °Deed Book E-3-6, 173: 20 July 1707, Samuel Finney to Gabriel Wilkinson. In 1705, Captain Finney had petitioned the Board of Property for this then vacant lot ..to build a Stable On for Accommodating his Horses" when he casne to town. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XDC, 469. " Will Book C, 295, #2280 1709, will of Bartholomew Penrose. According to Logares 1703 rent roll, as published in the Internal Affairs Monthly Bulletin, Vol. 22, Number 4 (March 1954), 18, Penrose held 108 feet of bank originally of Benjamin Chambers. 11 Exemplification Book 2, 225: 14 June 1715, John Buckley to Gabriel Wilkinson. The lot, 99 feet on Mulberry by 306 feet on Sixth, was patemed to Wilkinson on 10 Match 1715/6, but delivery of the patent to Wilkinson was delayed until about the fifth month, 1718. Pennsylvania [Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 648. This land today is in the third block of Independence Mall. "Deed Book G5-24, 507: 17 April 1716, Clause Clawson to Gabriel Wilkinson. Gabriel', 100-acre purchase fronted on the Delaware River. Dad Book H-21, 326: 10 June 1719, Jolua Ririe to Gabriel Wilkinson. This property formerly belonged to Philip Taylor whose children released their rights in the property to Wilkinson in 1723. Deed Book H-2I, 335: 2 August 1723, Peter Taylor of al. to Gabriel Wilkinson. Gabriel also had to pay 0100 to satisfy a moregage taken out by Taylor on this tract which was held by Kirle's son Brett. Deed Book H-21, 328s 17 August 1723, Brett Kill, to Gabriel 'Wilkinson. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 65 for Oxford Township. " That year may have seen the death of Gabriel's wife. On 14 May 1722, a Mary Wilkinson was buried in Christ Church ground. " If she was Gabriel's wife, she left five children to survive her but no birth dates for any of them are of record. Issue of Gabriel Wilkinson by his 1st Wife: 2. 3. 4. 5. ANTHONY WILKINSON, bur. 10 February 1765, of whom further. to. MARGARET WILKINSON, bur. 26 March 1741, of whom further. hi. MARY WILKINSON, bur. 21 March 1726/7, of whom further. iv. GABRIEL WILKINSON, bur. 18 July 1750, of whom further. v. REBECCA WILKINSON, bur. 5 June 1761, of whom further. About 20 months after the burial of Mary Wilkinson in May of 1722, Gabriel began to dispose of some of his property. On 13 January 1723/4, he sold 51 Va acres from the south side of his 218-acre Tacony tract for E102 to Aaron Goforth, Jr., a Philadelphia carpenter. The following day, for "love and affection," Wilkinson made provision for his living children by his first wife, settling some of his property on them. He divided his Delaware bank lot between his two sons, 1. Anthony and 4. Gabriel, and his Third and Sassafras Street lots among his daughters. Gabriel was probably contemplating another marriage at this time. Although no marriage record has been found, by 13 September 1728, when he had his will drawn up, he provided for a second wife and two additional children. In it he described himself as "sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory." He gave to his "beloved wife Mary Wilkinson all that land and plantation over the run where her Mother now lives on," and also all the land over the run which he bought of John Kirle, both parcels containing about 25 acres which she was to enjoy until their youngest son Thomas should come of age. Forty acres of the land Gabriel lived on in Oxford was also to go to Thomas. To two of his sons, Gabriel and Thomas, and to his grandson, Bryan, he "Meeting of the Comission°` . 13 June 1722," journal of the Proceedings for the County of Philadelphia From March 29, 1718, Microfilm, HSP, hereinafter cited as Journal of the Proceedings. This Mary Wilkinson, however, could have been a daughter of Anthony Wilkinson. " Issue of Gabriel 'Wilkinson by both his first and second "venter" are recited sn Deed Book 13-3, 391: 29 November 1771, John Knowles to Bryan Wilkinson. The order of their birth is uncertain. Since most of the extant vital statistics of the Wilkinson family are entered in the records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, individual mferences to such have not been cited. Unless otherwise stated, all baptisms, marriages and burials are from Transcripts of Christ Church Records in the Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GSP). Other church records cited are alm in the Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. if Deed Book F-3, 373- 15 January 1723, Gabr el Willi'mson 00 Aaron Goforth, Jr. ■ 66 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine gave each a 45-foot square lot from his Sixth and Arch Street property in Philadelphia. His daughter Vashti was to receive £50 when she became eighteen or was married. He directed that his wife was to live in a part of the brick house he was living in for a full twelve months. Having previously granted property or rental income to his older daughters, he provided only a token five shillings apiece to Margaret Mankin and Rebecca Wilkinson, by now the two surviving daughters of his first marriage. To his two eldest sons, Anthony and Gabriel, he gave the remainder of his land and plantation in Oxford, appointing them his executors, directing them to bring up his two youngest children, Thomas and Vashti, who were not to be charged any part of their portion for their maintenance. in After having provided for his family, Gabriel recovered from his illness and lived another five years. He was buried at Christ Church on 21 February 1732/3. His will was proved on 3 March 1732/3, by his two sons and executors, Anthony and Gabriel. The inventory, taken the day before the will was proved, listed the contents in the four rooms in the house, in the garret, in the "cellor" and in the "kitchin.7 On the plantation were ten "Horse Kind," "fourteen cow kind," thirteen sheep, ten "hoggs," "Rie and ffoddor," corn in the ground, plantation utensils, hickory wood on the wharf, and sundry lumber. The total was valued at £236 7s. 4d." Gabriel's second wife Mary lived for forty years after his death. In 1769, as "Widow Wilkinson, old," she was rated at £20 on the assessment list for Upper Delaware Ward immediately after Margaret Barndollar, her husband's granddaughter, with whom she perhaps was living. In 1772, three years later, as "Mary Wilkinson, widow, aged and infirm," she was still living in Upper Delaware Ward. Her income consisted of annuities provided by her husband's grandchildren, all issue of his son 1. Anthony. " A year later she was buried at Christ Church on 4 July 1773. 00 Will Book E, 221, #298: 1732/3, will of Gabriel 'Wilkinson. Gabriel signed with 11 .1s mark as he did in all his transactions. Mary Wilkinson, Gabriel , second wife, has not been identified although adjacent families on Oxford Township have been explored for her identay. ii The inventory is filed with original will of Gabriel Wilkinson. One of the four rooms was WilkmSOn'S "Lodging Room." A "second Room" contained two "ffeather Beads and Bolsters," Dry Beef and "Backon," a "Bagg of Gingor and Cotton and Wollon Yarn," a Spice Box and 0 Box of "ants." The "Third Room," the "Sitting Room," was furnished with two black walnut tables, a large looking glass, "Sconsaws," ten "picktures," "ffeather Bead and Bead Cloths," nine old chairs and a couch. The "fourth Room" was "Comonly cald Rebeccah's Room." In the "cello," were "cyder," vinegar and cherry wme. In the "Kitchin," in addition to cooking utensils, were four firearms. "1769 Proprietary Tax List," City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Archives, Ord Series, XIV, 166. For the 1772 Philadelphia Tax List, see Microfilm XR 697, HSP. The widow. name does not appear on tax lists after In'. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 67 Issue of Gabriel Wilkinson by his 2nd wife Mary: °° vi. VAST-IT! WILKINSON, b. by 1725; d. after 1762; m. 1st, by 4 April 1746, JOHN TATNALL, b. after 1723; d. before 1759. A Philadelphia cordwainer by trade, he was the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Tatnall of the Northern Liberties. 2‘ Known issue: 1. JONATHAN TATNALL, bur. Christ Church 17 June 1751. 2. VAsHT1 TATNALL, bur. Christ Church 1 October 1756. Vashti Tatnall m. 2nd, at St. Michaelis Evangelical Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, 1 January 1759, WILLIAM ROBINSON, a Philadelphia cooper. Witnesses at their marriage were Edmund and Edward Kitsch, Joachim Henckel, and Mary Smith. In 1762, Vashti bought for £10 all her sister Mildred's rights in the estate of their father.. Before the end of the same year, she and her husband and Vashti's niece, Ann Mankin, released their rights in their share of Gabriers 25 and 40 acres m Oxford Township, to Vashti's nephew, 6. Bryan Wilkinson, for £75 13s. 4d." No further record. vii. THOMAS WILKINSON, b. before 13 September 1728, when he was named in his father's will; bur. Christ Church, 10 May 1751. Called a ship carver, he died intestate and without issue having attained at least the age of 21 years. Letters of adnanistratron on his estate were granted 14 May 1751, to John and Vashti Tatnall and to Mildred Wilkinson, Thomas's sisters. His interest in his father's estate reverted to his "two sisters of the whole blood Vasht; [Taman] Robinson and Mildred [Wilkinson] Allen." 25 m. MILDRED WILKINSON, b. after 13 September 1728, when Gabriel's will was drawn, and before 21 February 1732/3, when he was buried. 25 She married at St. Michaelis Lutheran Church, 28 May 1761, EDMUND ALLEN, a. hatter of Philadelphia." About eleven months after their marriage, they sold their right in the estate of her father as well as their rights in the estate of Thomas Wilkinson to Mildred's sister, Vashti. 27 On 18 September 1763, Mildred and Edmund wit" See Nose 15. 51 1n Deed Book G-11, 93: 4 April 1746, John Tatnall, Philadelphia, cordwainer and wife Vashti to John Ross, Vasht4 was of full age. See Deed Book H-2, 224: 20 May 1752, John Taman To Robert Greenway, for Taman's parents. At a rneeting of the county commissioners at Robert's Coffee House 16 June 1744. allowances were made to the tax collectors of such persons as should be thought proper. An allowance for John Tatnall of High Street was made because he was under age. See Journal of Proceedings, cited in Note 13. Recited in Deed Book 1-1, D 29 Amil 1762, Edmund Allen at so. to Vashd Robinson.. "Deed Book GS-24, 513: 22 October 1762, William Robinson et al. to Bryan Wilkinson (40 acres); See also Deed Book GS-24, 509: 29 December 1763, Anthony Wilkinson at al. to Bryan Witkinson (25 acres). 24 See Note 22 for age of Thomas at the time of his decease. Thomas Wilkinson probably had married, but his wife had predeceased him. The settlement of his estate, filed with the letters of administration, reveals expenses "for wine & Liquor at ye funeral of ye deced Os child?' Administration Book F. #711751, mate of Thomas Willdnson. Although there is a marriage record for a Thomas Wilkinson and Elizabeth Carr at Christ Church 11 June 1743, he has not been identified. lush, absence of birth or baptismal dates, it is pruumed that Thomas Wilkinson, ship carver, was too young to have married that year For reversion of Thomas's interest in his father's estate see deeds cited in Note 23. 03 As recited in Deed Book I-1, 1. for which see /Vote 22. 26 Madred's name was given as Milliday so the church record; Morris and Susanna Fitsgarret and Jane Condos were witnesses. See Note 22. 68 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine nessed the marriage of Henry Warran and Sarah Bearey at St. Michaelis Church. No further record of Mildred and her husband has been located in Philadelphia. 1. ANTHONY WILKINSON, Gabriel's eldest son, was born perhaps between 1696 and 1699. While nothing is known of his youth, probably he was apprenticed to one of the several joiners or carpenters in the town, since he later became a "carver." He was married to ELIZABETH, surname unknown, before 1717, when their first known child was born. Between 1717 and 1722, when he was one of the constables in the city, his occupation is uncertain. ' But by 1724, when his father made over to him the messuages and the northernmost 48 feet of his Philadelphia bank lot, he was identified as a carver. From then on Anthony appears to have been engaged in that trade. He prospered in his work, for by 1727 he had expanded his interests. That year his servant, Richard Peckford, a stone cutter by trade, ran away. " In the meantime, Anthony continued to work in wood. In 1728, he was employed by John Reynell to carve a "Lyon" for the Ship Torrington and two years later another for the Snow Delaware." 16 15s. In early February of 1730/1, Anthony purchased for part of a tract in Whitemarsh Township, Philadelphia County, on which were quarries of marble and other stone. This may have been Willsinson's previous source of stone and indicates a serious intent on his part to work in more than one medium. Over a period of twelve years, he acquired the balance of the tract. " Having continued his interest in working in wood, in 1732 Anthony billed Richard Hill of Maryland for cutting a lion for still "At a meeting of the commissioners on 27 March 1723, the treasurer was ordered to pay the sums doe the constables of the city for returnMg the names of the inhabitants to the assessors. Anthony was to receive 9s. 6d. See Journal of Proceedings, cited in Note 13. "Deed Book G-1, 3, 132: 14 January 1723/4, Gabriel Wilkinson to Anthony Wilkinson The lot was bounded on the north with Wilham Powell', lot. Anthony probably lived on his Delaware bank lot throughout his life. For Anthony's run-away servant see American Weekly Mercury, 9 November 1727. ""Some Colonial Ships Built in Philadelphia," by Harrold E. Gillingham, PMHB, LVI, (1952), 160, 162- 1 64. Wilkinson's bill of £4 6o. 6d. for carving the lion for the Torrington appeared in John Reynell's Journal 6 January 1729. Reynell had the Ship Torrington built in Philadelphia for his correspondent Richard Deeble of Plymouth, England, 1728-29. According to Gillingham, "Anthony Wilkinson, the carver of the lion figurehead for this British Ship and Samuel Austin, the maker of the oval table, are craftsmen whose namm appear in several account books of the period." Reynell also had tlae Snow Delaware built for Deeble. Again Anthony's bill for the Lyon appeared in Reynell's Journal under date of 23 9na (Nov.) 1730. Wilkinson charged £4 2s. 6d. The shipwright for the Delaware was Aaron Goforth, Jr., who had purchased the Oxford Township land from Anthony's father. "Deed Book G-3, 70:. 5 February 1710/1, Francis Colds, to Anthony Wilkinson. ,The 85-acre tract bordered Plymouth Township on the northeast and was the northernmost part of Francis Coldee's original Ill acres. The road to Spring Mill can through the southern portion of Coldm's land. Francis Colder and Anthony Wilkmson each held an undivided moiety in common of the quarries of the whole tract and the right to break ground and to dig and have marble and other stones. Colder was also to have the standing corn then growing on the 85 acres. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 69 another boat. Sometime in 1733, he cut a "Freess" and "cote of Armes" for Thomas Penn's barge. His charge to the Proprietor was £6 1 s. " The following year, only three years after investing in the Whitemarsh quarries, Wilkinson purchased for £300 the messuage and six acres of land in the Northern Liberties where Daniel Pegg, Jr., had lived. The premises included houses, outhouses, barns, stables, orchards and gardens. " Having acquired the rights to the entire quarries by 1739, Wilkinson was taking orders for William Holland, a mason, "lately from London." Holland was doing marble chimney pieces, grave stones, mortars, tables, monuments, steps, pavements and hearths in his Water Street shop next door to Stephen Beezley. " While the quarries continued to be worked, Anthony carried on as a ship carver. In 1740 he did extensive work for Reynell on the Mary, another ship being built on the Philadelphia waterfront. For his carving on the Mary, he charged £19, more than four times as much as he had charged for his work on the Torrington and the Delaware." In his will Anthony's father had directed that some of his "large lott" could be sold to pay his just debts. Consequently in the spring of that same year, 1740, Anthony and his brother, 4. Gabriel, as executors advertised part of the Sixth and Mulberry lot for sale but no takers appeared. Within the next few years 4. Gabriel renounced his executorship and Anthony undertook the sole administration of their father's estate. Since the estate was not sufficient to meet the debts and they were unable to sell the lot, Anthony acquired title to it in 1743. " Meanwhile, by the spring of 1741, Anthony had been indicating a more active interest in his quarries. He began advertising "Mason work Logan Papers, Vol. 18, 106, NSF. Wilkinson's invoice to Hill, dated 10 July 1732, was for E7 153. Eld. Besides his charge of E4 I. 8d. for carving the lion, he billed an additional amount for carpentry work on the "rtailbord" and ports. Anthony received bis money in full from Lloyd Zachary 5 September 1732, Anthony's bill to Thomas Penn, dated August, 1733, included a charge of £4 for a thirteen foot, four inch marble slab, making the full amount of the invoice £10 153. Wilkinson received his money in full 11 April 1743, from Lynford Lardner. Penn Accomm, Large Folio, Vol. 1, 23, NSF. 00 Deed Book 0-I0, 67: 16 May 1734, Thomas Green to Anthony Wilkinson. .Anthoray's purchase was formerly part of a 150-acre tract called Hartsfield granted under patent to .jurian Hartsfelder by Edmund Andros, 25 March 1676. Hartsfelder sold 250 acres to Atm Salta, who sold to Daniel Pegg, Sr. Throb-acre tract was situated on the west side of the Kings Road (leading from Philadelphia to Frankford), bordered a 50-foot lane on the north (now Green Street) and Thomas Green's other land on the west and south. 8. Pennsylvania Gazette, 16 August 1739. Hollmd and Beezley were neighbors of Anthony on the Delaware bank. Wilkinson was probably supplying Holland with his marble and stone. “The Ship Mary of Philadelphia, 1740," PM1-13, LVIII, (1934), 144, 145. 80 112e lot offered for sale contained 165 feet front on Sixth by 99 feet east. The Pennsylvania Gazette. 17 April 1740. See recital in Deed Book H-14, 334: 10 March 1746/7, Anthony Wilkinson to William Fort. 70 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine done by Anthony Wilkinson, ship carver, in Water Street just above the street commonly call'd Arch Street, and to be done of the best marble, in the quarry, he having lately found a vein of much better than has been formerly us'd." " By 1746, the unsettled times brought on by the War of the Austrian Succession may well have produced financial problems for Anthony. He began offering for sale some of his own property. In the summer he sold for £80 a lot of ground from his Northern Liberties Pegg tract. In the fall, he mortgaged a 27-foot lot on the Delaware bank to Richard Mather for £500. Early the next year Anthony offered to rent the former Pegg house and wharf in the Northern Liberties "between the Sugarhouse and Poole's bridge," and may have found a tenant since the advertisement did not appear after 24 February 1746/7. On 21 May 1747, he began to advertise for sale or rent sundry lots in the same area between Front and Third Streets." By 1752, Wilkinson may have lost the tenant in the large Northern Liberties house, for it was again advertised for rent. He was some time in finding one, for it was still advertised in the fall as suitable for a ropemaker, brewer, distiller or lumber merchant. He may have found a tenant late in the year as he stopped advertising after mid-December. When he finally disposed of some of the Northern Liberties land, it was by sale, not rental. The ground in 1757 sold to Joseph Fox for £450, on the west side of Second Street and extending by a 50-foot lane (Green Street), was intended for the Barracks. " In the middle years of Wilkinson's life, he was variously known as a stone cutter or carver. His work as a ship carver may have been the predominant trade of his younger years. But he was described as a "The Pennsylvania Gazette, 21 May 1741. 08 Anthony sold a Northern Liberties lot to Jacob Baker, a fisherman, who may have supplied Wilkinson with the sturgeon he had been offering for sale off and on since 1742. The Delaware bank lot which he mortgaged was bounded on the north with ground then or late of Thomas Penrose and southward with ground then or late of Gabriel Wilkinson. Deed Book G-8, 215: 9 October 1746, Anthony Wilkinson to Richard Mather. The former Pegg house was advertised in The Pennsylvania Gazette beginning 20 January 1746/7, and sundry lots in the Northern Liberties in The Pennsylvania Gazette beginnuag 21 May 1747. The advertisement ran for almost a year; the last notice vowed 21 April 1748. 88 Anthony again began advertising his large Northern Liberties house in The Pennsylvania Gazelle 24 March 1752. The property conveyed for the barracks contained 2 acres and 154 perches. Deed Book 0-66, 185: 24 September 1757, Anthony Wilkinson to Joseph Fox. The commissioners bought the Northern Liberties lot after abandoning one near Tenth and Arch Streets. "The title was taken in the name of Joseph Fox, by two conveyances, September 17, 1757 The northern portion of the ground was purchased from Anthony Wilkinson and the southeast portion from Michael Hillegas. Here the Commissioners proceeded to erect buildings for barracks." J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson 'Westcott, History of PhiladelIbia, 1609-1884, (Philadelphia, 1884), II, 1005. here.mafter cited as Scharf and Westcort. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 71 stone cutter of Upper Delaware Ward in 1756," and was consistently so-called in the deeds which settled his estate following his death nine years later. A little over a year before he died, Anthony conveyed his share in his father's plantation in Oxford Township to his son 6. Bryan Wilkinson for £20. 41 Anthony was buried at Christ Church on 10 February 1765. Five days later, letters of administration were granted to his son Bryan and two sons-in-law, Peter Knight and John Knowles. While Anthony died possessed of personal estate amounting to £267, his debts totaled £985. The estate, being liable for the difference of £718, the administrators were ordered by the Orphans Court to sell for the best price sufficient property to pay the debts. Later 6. Bryan, Anthony's eldest son, petitioned the Orphans Court to divide his father's remaining property among his several children and grandchildren. The jury appointed by the court returned their recommendation for partition into seven equal parts on 31 October 1765, nine months after Anthony's decease. His widow Elizabeth had "released unto several heirs all her rights and title of dower in messuages or lots." The jury stated it had "not taken any notice of said Widow's Dower in same but at request of several heirs hath made partition thereof as if said Widow had not any Dower therein?' " No record of the death or burial of Anthony's widow Elizabeth has been found. 00 1n "Taxables in oho City of Philadelphia 1756," The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (PGM), XXII, (1961), 20, Anthony's estate was rated at 050. Upper Delaware Ward ran from From Street north to Vine (or Valley) Street. "Philadelphia in 1750," Old York Road Historical Society Bulletin, VIII, (1944), 24. Deed Book GS-24, 509: 29 December 1763, Amhony Wilkinson et d. to Bryan Wilkinson. Gabriel had given to his son Thomas, when he should become 21, 25 and 40 acres of his Oxford Township plantation. Since Thomas died without surviving issue after the death of his father, the reversion of the 25 and 40 acres of which Thomas died intestate, descended and vested in the surviving seven children of Gabriel, 1. Anthony, the eldest son, having a double share. 5. Rebecca, daughter of Gabriel, also died intestate and without issue, seized of her one-ninth part of the premises, which became vested in 1. Anthony, her oldest brother. He devised his two ninths share and Rebecca's one ninth to 6. Bryan. 41 Administration Book G, 433, #84:1765, estate of Anthony Wilkinson. One of the lots ha the Northern Liberties, bounded on the east by Second Street and on the south side of Green Street, was divided by Anthony's administrators into 17 lesser lots and sold by public vendue on the first of August. See Orphans Court Book H, 241: 8 jun, 1765, 1 August 1765. A map showing the disposition of these lots is in Deed Book 1-4, 292: 24 Augmt 1765, Bryan W'ilkinson to Michael Hillegas. 48 For Bryan's petition to the Orphans Court, Anthony's widow's release of her dower, and the actual disposition of Anthony's property, no Orphans Court entry for 31 October 1765. The Orphans Court records summarize succinctly the holdings of Amhony Wilkinson: three messuages and four lots situated on the east side of Front Street in Philadelphia, one messuage and lot on the east side of Water Street in Philadelphia, one messuage and lot in the Northern Liberties between Front and Second Streets, a water lot in the Northern Liberties subject to a ground rent of E3 Ils., two lots in Germantown, one plantation with two messuages in 07hitemarsh Township, Philadelphia ,County, one full equal and undivided one third part of 50 acres of nod in Oxford Township, Philadelphia County, and three full equal and undivided ninth pans of a lot of ground at Arch and Sixth Streets in Philadelphia The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 72 Issue of 1. Anthony Wilkinson by his wife Elizabeth: i. ANN WILKINSON, b. ca. 1717, bap. at Christ Church, PhiladelphL, 27 October 1721, sr. 4 years; d. Philadelphia, 15 January 1759; m. at Christ Church, 19 May 1744, THOMAS CUTHBERT, b. ca. 1713; d. 11 January 1781, and was burled at Christ Church two days later. Thomas, a mastmaker, was the son of Thomas Cuthbert, shipwright, and his wife, Anne. as Issue, most of whom were bap. at Christ Church: 1. THOMAS CUTHBERT, Jr.., b. 3 Marsh 1745; d. 18 May 1823, bur. St. Peter's P. E. Church, Philadelphia; m. by license dated 22 June 1773, SARAH LATIMER of Delaware. 2. JOHN CUTHBERT, b. 18 June 1746; d. unmarried 31 July 1774, bur. at Christ Church, 1 August 177+ 3. ALLEN CUTHBERT, b. 17 December 1747; d. without issue btn. 31 October 1765, and 25 September 1775. 4. EUZABETH CUTHBERT, b. 23 November 1749; d. unmarried 26 December 1828, bur. Christ Church. I. ANTHONY CUTHBERT, b. 4 March 1750/1; d. 14 November 1832, bur. at St. Peter's Church; m. 1st, at Christ Church, 2 March 1775, SARAH DIXON, b. 13 September 1758; d. 16 December 1792, bur. St. Peter's Church; m. 2nd, at Christ Church, 19 December 1799, MART OGDEN, b. 1 May 1770; d. 7 February 1862, bur. St. Peter's Church. 6. ANNE CUTHBERT, b. 22 September 1752; d. 1 October 1786, bur. Christ Church; m. at Christ Church, 8 December 1785, DR. HENRY LATIMER of Delaware. 7. CATHERINE CUTHBERT, b. 5 February 1754; probably d. bin. 18 September 1798, at which time she was mentioned in Peter Knight's will, and 30 March 1799, when her husband's will was drawn in which he made no provision for her; m. at St. Michaelis and Zion Lutheran Church, 25 June 1774s ABRAHAM COLLINS. 8. WILLIAM CUTHBERT, b. 20 November 1755; d. 23 January 1756, tle. 2 mos., bur. Christ Church. 9. PETER CUTHBERT, 10 January 1757; d. intestate and without issue btn. 16 August 1780, when his father's will was drawn, m which he was mentioned, and the latter's death 11 January 1781." 10. SAMUEL CUTHBERT, b. 1 November 1758; d. January 1839; m. 1st, at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church, 27 June 1782, ELIZABETH JACKSON; bur. Christ Church, 31 May 1807; M. 2nd, at Christ Church, 27 January 1810, HANNAH OGDEN, widow Of Capt. Duet. Ann and Thomas Cuthbert's nine surviving children received in the partition of Anthony Wilkinson's estate effected by the Orphans Court 31 October 1765, in the right of their mother, three messuages and lots on the Delaware bank in Philadelphia between Front and Water Streets . and two lots in the Northern Liberties. In 1776, Ann's seven then surviving children petitioned the Orphans Court for a review of the administration of Anthony Wilkinson's estate by Bryan Wilkinson, Peter Knight and John Knowles. The affair was presumably settled amicably. at k. 44 M. Atherton Lmch Collection, Vol. 110. 95, GSP. Thomas Cuthbert did not remarry after the early death of his wife in 1759, only 15 years after their union. After their children passed infancy, Cuthbert became actively engaged in community affairs. In January, 1775, he served as a delegate to the Provincial Convention and that year svas a member of the Committee of Correspondence in Philadelphia. He was a vestryman of Christ Church from 1773 so 1777, agam m 1779 and as 1780. In September, 1776, he was commissioned one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas, Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and Orphans Court for the City and County of Philsdslphia. See also John W. Jordan, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, (New Task, 1911), 1, 466. as Recited in Deed of Partition, 0 - 7, 332. 7 October 1782, Luke Morris et al. to Thomas Cuthbert CO ni. asses Orphans Court Book 11, 2, 13: 8 January' 20 April 1776. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 73 6. ii. BRYAN WILKINSON, b. ca. 1718, of whom further. ELIZABETH WILKINSON, b. ca. May, 1726, bap. at Christ Church, 31 July 1728, sac. 2 yrs., 2 mos., bur. Christ Church, 23 February 1793; m. at Christ Church, 20 June 1752, PETER KNIGHT, b. ca. May, 1726; d. 20 February 1802, a, 79 yrs., 5 mos., bur. Christ Church, 1 March 1802. No issue. In 1748, Knight was lieutenant of Capt. Christopher Robbins company of Col. Edward Jones associated regiment in Philadelphia County. " As a merchant living in Mulberry Ward in 1756, his estate was rated at f16. In the 1765 Orphans Court partition of 1. Anthony Wilkinson's estate, Elizabeth and Peter received two lots in the Northern Liberties and two lots in Germantown. That same year Knight signed a petition, as an inhabitant of the Northern Liberties, praying for street regulators and "more of the forms of a municipal government." He also signed the resolution of 7 November 1765, "not to import any goods from Great Britain until the Stamp Act was repealed." In July, 1776, he was one of the commissioners for Philadelphia County to hear and determine the cases of all persons in prison, and continued active in the patriots' cause during the Revolution.. It was Knight's wharf at the water edge of Green Street in the Northern Liberties, the only one above Vine Street which ran out to a good depth of water, which was used In May, 1778, by the English as art embarkation point for the Meschianza "grand regatta." Sometime after Elizabeth's death in 1793, Knight moved to "Morris Ville" in Bucks County where he was living in September, 1798, when he had his will drawn. 5° iv. REBECCA WILKINSON, bap. Christ Church 31 July 1728, or. two weeks; d. sometime after 8 May 1772; " m. at St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, 18 February 1762, JOHN SALTER, baker; bur. Christ Church, 3 May 1802. They lived in Upper Delaware Ward probably on that part of the Wilkinson lot on the Delaware bank assigned to them in the partition of her father's estate. By the same partition, they were assigned a lot in the Northern Liberties at Duke and Green Streets. Known issue: 1. WILLIAM SALTER, bur. Christ Church, 9 August 1764. 2. JOHN SALTER, Jet., bur. Christ Church, 29 November 1799. This is the only child of this marriage known to have survived infancy. 3. ANTHONY WILKINSON SALTER, b. 14 June 1768, bap. Christ Church, 21 July 1768; bur. Christ Church, 3 September 1769. 4. MARY SALTER, b. 27 January 1770, bap. Christ Church, 30 July 1770; bur. Christ Church, 1 January 1772. v. MARGARET WILKINSON, bap. at Christ Church, 29 April 1731, ae, two weeks; bur. 21 May 1775; m. at St. Paul's Church, 9 July 1762, PETER BARNDOLLAR, son of Daniel and Anna Margaretha Barndollar; d. btn. 25 April 1771, and f Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Seri., II, (1890), 451-2. 48 See Scharf and Westcott, I, 323, cited in Note 39. as See '37atson's Annals, II, 290, cited in Note. 2. "The company began to assemble at three to four o'clock, at Knight's wharf ....By half past four o'clock in the afternoon the whole were embarked ...." 5 . Will Book Y, 657, #21.1802, will of Peter Knight. Having no children of his own, Knight's numerous bequests of his property and of his 6% stock debt of the United Stat., to various other members of the Knight and Wilkinson families are of particular interns. They delineate the relationships of the individuals earned in these two families. In Deed Book D-26, 152: a May 1772, Bryan Wilkinson to Benjamin Horner, John Salter and Rebecca are noted as then owning a lot et the Northern Liberties. 74 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine his wife's death 'm May, 1775. " Peter was a blacksmith by 1765 when he and Margaret were assigned the following three shares in the partition of her father's estate: a tract in Whitemarsh Township, a lot in the Northern Liberties and a part of the Wilkinson Delaware bank lot in Philadelphia, where they made their home for a time. " In debt by 1771, Margaret and Peter granted their three shams to Bryan Wilkinson, peter Knight and John Knowles for the express purpose of their renting or selling the shares to pay off Barndollar's debts.. Issue. 1. ELIZABETH BARNDOLLAR, of full age by 22 June 1785; " bur. St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, 17 September 1808; m. at Christ Church, 29 March 1781, WiLudkaa BREWSTER, mariner. In 1779 at least, Elizabeth was living with Peter and Elizabeth Knight. " Knight provided for her in his will: "To Thomas and Anthony Cuthbert dividends and income of $8,000 6% stock debt of the United States for the separate use of my wife's niece Elizabeth Brewster, wife of William Brewster, and upon this express trust said Trustees to receive said dividends and income and apply same for support of Elizabeth and the maintenance and education of her children." vi. ANTHONY WILKINSON, b. 1 0 February 1735, bap. Christ Church, 22 February 1735; bur. Christ Church, 26 February 1736/7; d. of small pox. vii. MARY WILKINSON, bur. Christ Church 10 December 1787; m. at Trinity Church, Oxford, Philadelphia County, 13 September 1744, JOHN KNOWLES; d. 22 July 1804, in his 84th year, bur. Trinity Church. Knowles was a perukemaker in his younger years. In the 1765 Orphans Court partition of Anthony Wilkinson's estate, John and Mary Knowles were assigned a 30-foot lot fronting Water Street on the Delaware bank and two lots in the Northern Liberties at Front, Green and Duke Streets. By 1769 they writ living in Lower Delaware Ward. " From barber and perukemaker, he progressed to merchant in the years prior to the Revolution. He was commissioned a justice of the peace for Phila delphia County 6 June 1777, an office he held until he resigned 16 February 1786, By 1779 he and his family were living in Oxford Township where he continued to reside until his death in 1804. " Knowles had his will drawn on 02 Peter Barndollar was living 25 April 1771, when he joined his wife Margaret in an indenture of that date. See Deed Book I-10, 74: 25 April 1771, Peter Barndollar et so Bryan Wilkinson et 4. A later indenture describes Peter as "late of the Northern Liberties, Co. Phila., Blacksmith, and Margaret, his wife, both deceased. Margaret survived her husband." Deed Book 0-12, 32IP 27 May 1785. Penntylvanio Archives, 3rd Series, XIV, 166. The estate of Margaret, living in Upper Delaware Ward, was rated at £16 16s. There was no listing for her husband Peter Barndollar. 84 Deed Book I-1i, 74: 25 April 1771, Peter "Berndolar" to Bryan Wilkinson et al. The three properties granted were to be rented or sold to raise the rum of £262 9s. 10d. The money realized was to pay off the debt owed by Peter to his brothers-in-law and the balance was to to to other such creditors of Barndollar whose names were annexed to the deed. 00 Elizabeth was "the only daughter and issue of Peter Berndolar, late of the Township of Northern Liberties, Co. Phila., Blacksmith and Margaret, his wife• ," as recited in Deed Book D-12, 520: 27 May 1785, Bryan Wilkinson et al. to Jonathan Coll? Pennsylvania Archives, led Series, XV, 95. Elizabeth Barndoller's narne appeared on the 1779 tan list indented under that of Peter Knight, of the Northern Liberties, East Part. Ibid., XIV, 151. Knowles' ratable estate was £71 6s. nil. Lower Delaware Ward ran between Front Street and the Delaware River, from High Street southward to Walnut Street. See "Philadelphia in 1750," as cited in Note 40. 08 For Knowles' service as justice of the peace, an Minutes of the SY11reme Executive Council . ... (Harrisburg, 1852), XI, 215, and ibid., XIV, 640. For his residence, see Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Senes, XIV, 677. See also "The Second Troop Phila. City Cavalry, PMHB, XLV, (1921). 284. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 75 30 July 1795, "being advanced in years." It was probated 2 August 1804. u Issue bap. at Christ Church: 1. JOHN KNOWLES, b. 17 August 1745; bur. Christ Church, 18 September 1745. 2. JOHN KNOWLES, (2nd), b. 28 July 1746; bur. Christ Church, 21 November 1756. 3. MARV KNOWLES, b. 12 March 1747/8; bur. Christ Church, 24 October 1761. 4. ELIZABETH KNOWLES, Is. 28 December 1749; d. unmarried March 1831, ae. 81 yrs., bur. Trinity Church, Oxford. Her father gave her the messuage and bank lot on Front and Water between High and Chestnut Streets, presumably, the property in Lower Delaware Ward where they had lived. Knowles reserved for Elizabeth's use clunng her natural life the back part of the dwelling house in which he was living in Oxford Township. This part of the house consisted of two rooms below and two rooms above stairs. Elizabeth was also given all the rest of her father's house and kitchen furniture of which he died possessed. Knowles named her one of the executors of his will. 5. CATHERINE KNOWLES, b. 17 November 1751; deceased by 30 July 1795, when her father's will was drawn; m. Christ Church, 20 May 1770, JOHN HART. To Catherine's four children, Mary, John, and Elizabeth Hart, and Susanna Hall, wife of Joseph Hall, John Knowles gave £100 each. 6. SARAH KNOWLES, b. 26 November 1753; bur. Christ Church, 4 June 1755. 7, SARAH KNOWLES, (2nd), b. 8 January 1756; d. 8 September 1831, ae. 75 yrs., 8 mos.; m. IsAnc KEEN, b. 19 September 1753, son of Matthias Keen and Margaret Thomas; 00 d. 20 February 1808, oar. 54 yrs., 5 mos., 1 da.; both bur. in Lower Dublin (Pennypack) Baptist Churchyard. John Knowles gave to his daughter Sarah Keen, his messuage and bank lot on Front and Water Streets between Mulberry and Sassafras. 8. MARGARET KNOWLES, b. 13 May 1758; bur. Christ Church, 3 April 1760. 9. Jomv KNOWLES, (3rd), b. 24 August 1760; d. 20 August 1819, oar. 58 yrs., 11 mos., 27 das.; bur. Trinity Church, Oxford, In 1795, his father, John Knowles, bequeathed to this only surviving son his plantation and tract of land in Oxford Township, together with all the stock and farming utensils thereon. He also gave him his messuage and lot of ground on Jones's Alley, commonly called Pewter Platter Alley. One half the rent or profit from this property was to be paid to his sister, Elizabeth Knowles. To John, he also gave his "Pint Silver Cann" and two silver table spoons. John was named as the other executor of has father's will. 10. MARY KNOWLES, (2nd), b. 18 November 1762; d. 17 October 1822, in her 60th year; bur. Trinity Church, Oxford; m. Christ Church, 20 November 1782, Elias Toy; d. 14 August 1832, ow. 82 years; bur. Trinity Church, Oxford. Mary was devised her father's messuage and lot of ground on the south side of Gilbert's (Elfreth's) Alley, and his messuage and lot on the corner of Mulberry and Fifth Streets. 2.MARGARET WILKINSON was possibly the eldest daughter of Gabriel by his first wife. She married at Christ Church on 2 February 1715/16, EDWARD MANKIN. He kept a small shop in the house in which his family lived. 05 Will Book I, 220, #64:1804, will of John Knowles. See also "The Descendants of Jorao Kyn, Founder of 50 See Jordan, XIV. 172, cited in Note 44. Upland," PMHB, IV, (15501, 350, 351. 76 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Only a little over four years after his mariage, he had his will drawn up on 4 May 1720, "being sick and weak in body." He gave all his "personal estate goods and chattells rights and credits as well in Europe as in America to be equally divided amongst my dear and well beloved wife Margaret and my two daughters Katherine and Ann ...." He named Margaret sole executrix. The will was probated in Philadelphia 15 June 1720, and the inventory of his estate, appraised at £76 4s. 4d. was exhibited 28 July 1720. In the Mankins' dwelling there was a "midle Roome or Juner Room," and an "other Room." Both rooms contained beds, "the other Room" a cradle in addition. There was a garrett, kitchen and shop. In the latter there was a variety of merchandise: "Chocolat stript tick and holland ... callico, muslin, cambrick ... cantatoon flannule, children's stockings, paper, buttons, buckles, threds and lace, knives, gloves, needles, spice and gingor.'° 4° By early 1723/4, Margaret was living in a house on part of the Delaware bank lot which her father, Gabriel, had just granted to his son 4. Gabriel. At the same time that Gabriel reserved this dwelling for Margaret, he gave her the corner lot from his Third and Sassafras Street property." Ten years later, Henry Wells, husband of Margaret's sister 3. Mary, named Margaret his sole executrix in his will which he had drawn up on 1 December 1733." Following his death in early January of the next year, Margaret undertook the management and disposal of his estate not disposed of in his will, for the education, maintenance and putting his son out apprentice to such trade as should best suit him. Margaret was running a shop in 1734, probably as a means of providing for her family. In 1735 it was located on Market Street and she was advertising "Good Florence Oyl in Flasks" for sale." Six years later she died and was buried at Christ Church 26 March 1741. As she died intestate, her daughters "Catherine" and Ann Mankin were appointed administrators of her estate. A little over a year later they advertised for sale their mother's two small messuages and lot of land on the north01-Will Book D, 159, #1861720, will of Edward Mankin. The inventory of Mank 'n estate ts filed with the original will. 0 7or residence of Margaret on the Delaware bank see Deed Book 0-2, 479" 14 January 1723, Gabriel Wilkinson, Sr. to Gabriel Wilkinson, Jr Whether the house in which Margaret was living by 1723/4 was the one occupied by the Mankins before Edward's death ts not known. Margaret's gift from her father of the Third and Sassafras Street property is referred to in Deed Book 0-2, 476: 14 January 1723, Gabriel Wilkinson to Henry Wells of al. 03 Will Book E, 269, #349:1734, will of Henry Wells. In the event of the death of Henry's son before dle age of 21, Margaret was to receive his estate. 04 Margaret may have continued to run boo husband's shop following his death in 1720. John Reynell Ledger 1734-36, 6, 7, 18, 23, HSP. Margaret's purchases from Reynell would indicate they were more than would be required for a small family. She advertised the 'Florence oyl" m two issues of The Pennsylvania Gazette, 19-26 June and 10'17 July 1735. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 77 east corner of Third and Sassafras Streets. Those indebted to the estate and those having accounts against it were desired to bring in same to the administratrixes. Margaret's death having left the estate of Henry Wells unadministered, new letters of administration were granted to Robert Greenwar " Issue of 2. Margaret Wilkinson by her husband Edward Mankin: i. KATHERINE MANKIN, may have been born by late 1716; bur. Christ Church, 5 June 1761; m. at Christ Church, 8 December 1759, EDWARD HILL; d. in Bensalem Township between 5 October 1766,. when he signed his will, and 17 November 1766 when it was proved." No Issue. ii. ANN MANKIN, b. by 4 March 1720, when she was mentioned in her father's will; bur. Christ Church, 25 February 1777; unmarried. Edward Hill of Bensalem Township, her brother-in-law, gave her £50 in his will. 3. MARY WILKINSON is presumed to have been the second daughter of Gabriel Wilkinson by his first wife. She was married to HENRY WELLS, a mariner, by 14 January 1723/4, when her father made over to her the easternmost portion of his Third and Sassafras Street property." The marriage was of short duration, for she died a little over a year after the birth of her second child, and was buried at Christ Church 21 March 1726/7. Little is known about her husband. In August of 1732, he cleared the port of Philadelphia in command of the Sloop Bacchus for Cork. Less than a year later, he took the Ship Molly to Lisbon and just before he wrote his will, he entered Philadelphia's harbor in the Ship Molly from Barbadoes." Henry had his will drawn on 1 December 1733, "being sick and weak in body." He gave his son Henry his lot of ground "situated in or near the place called or known by name of the race place in Philadelphia" at Sassafras east of Third, originally part of his fatherin-law, Gabriel Wilkinson's earlier purchase. Buried at Christ Church 18 January 1733/4, the inventory of his estate was taken on 2 March 1733/4. His goods and chattels were valued at US 12s. 6d. Among AdminPtration, Book D, 243, #79:1741, estate of Margaret Mankin. Although Margaret died toward the end of February, her burial was delayed for almost a month. The Third and Sassafras Street lot offered for sale had been given to Margaret by her father and contained in breadth on the north side of Sassafras 64 feet by 159'/a feet in length on the can side of Third Street. The Pennsylvania Gaaette, 22, 29 April and 5 May 1742. See Administration, Book E, 66, #132:1743, estate of Henry Wells. Robert Greenway waz another brother-in-law of Margaret Mankin. 555 Abstract of Bucks County Wills 1685-1795, Will Book No. 3, 156, GSP, for will of Edward Hill. 6, Deed Book G-2, 476: 14 January 1723/4, Gabriel Wilkinson to Henry Wells. The lot conveyed included a building. 56 5ee TO, Pennsylvania Gazette for Wells' voyages: Cork, issue of 724 August 1732; Lisbon, issue of 3'10 May 1733; Barbadoes, issue of 25 October 1 November 1733. 78 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine the usual items of household furnishings, there were 114 cannisters of damaged tea, one quadrant, navigation books, and 21 gallons of rum." Issue of 3. Mary Wilkinson by her husband Henry Wells: i. MILDRED WELLS, bap. Christ Church, 27 February 1723/4, ae. 9 days; d. before her father drew up his will 1 December 1733, as he made no provision in it for her. HENRY WELLS, bap. Christ Church, 9 February 1725/6." He probably lived with his aunt, 2. Margaret Mankin, after his father died in 1733/4, since she was named executrix of his father's estate. He may have been apprenticed to his uncle, Anthony Wilkinson, as a ship carver, for early in 1748 he was doing the carving for the Ship Tetsworth being built in Philadelphia for Elias Bland & Company of England. " In 1747, he mortgaged his lot on Sassafras between Second and Third Streets for /125. ' 2 In 1749, the Philadelphia tax collector reported that a Henry Wells of Mulberry Ward had run away. If the same man, Wells may have had difficulty meeting the payment due on his mortgage. In June of the next year, Wells' uncle, Robert Greenway, husband of 8. Rebecca Wilkinson, purchased the Sassafras Street lot for £265. Lynford Lardner, by authority from Richard Penn, the mortgagee, acknowledged receipt of the £125 and interest from Henry Wells on 30 May 1750.. By 1771, when Henry was living in "Falls" Point near Baltimore, Maryland, he sold his share in his grandfather's Oxford Township land for £17 105. to his uncle 6. Bryan Wilkinson.. His further history has not been explored for this report. 4.GABRIEL WILKINSON, second son of Gabriel Wilkinson and his first wife, was born sometime after 1708. He was apprenticed as a shipwright for in 1723/4, when his father gave him the southernmost 34 feet of his Delaware bank lot, he was so-called, though probably not 69 Will Book E, 269, will of Henry Wells as c'sed in Note 63. The inventory is filed with the original Will. Curiously, there was no mention of any rooms in the inventory, indicating that Henry lived in lodgings. The furniture immiud included "apparel', a bedd & furniture, a Tea bed, blanket and quik, etc., 1 old chest of Drawers, table and 2 oval tables, 12 old brocken chairs, 1 corner cubbard and tea table, one large looking glasse and one small table, one pr- of Brass Daggs and 1 pr. Irons, 1 fire shovele & Tongues, 1 small Iron pots, 1 brass Kettle, etc., 1 china bowie, cups & saucers, etc., 6 silver spoons and a small ladle." 70 1t is evident from various lmcl records, that the Christ Church baptismal record which lists Henry as the son of Thomas and Mary Wells is in error as to the name of the father. Henry's bill, for £21 16s. 4d., appeared in Reynell's account book 27 April 1748. "As a lion figurehead was not mentioned ha the order for the Tetsworth or in the statement of its final cost, it is presumed Henry Wells, the Carver, executed the usual regulation 'fiddle-head' and the carving on the larboard 'wing transom.'" PMHB, LVI, 1810 as cited in Note. 30" Deed Book G-9, 8: 12 May 1747, Henry Wells to Richard Penn. The 8123 and interest was conditioned for payment by 11 May 1741At sleeting of the Philadelphia commissioners on 28 February 1749, William Trotter, tax collector of the cny for 1748, was allowed 6 shillings for Henry Wells of Mulberry Ward who had run away. Journal of the Proceedings, as cited in Note 13. Deed Book 1-7, 34: 10 June 1749, Henry Wells to Robert Greenway. Deed Book G-9, 8: 12 May 1747, HenrY Wells to Richard Pens. 74 Deed Book GS-24, 317. 10 July 1771, Henry Wells Bryan Wilkinson. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 79 yet of full age." He followed this trade throughout his relatively short life. He married 23 December 1730, at Christ Church, SARAH RIDGE, daughter of Daniel and Martha Ridge. Sarah was baptised at Christ Church 13 September 1709. The evidence suggests that Gabriel was not strong or was plagued by ill-health. There is no record of his investment in real estate and, possibly because of his frailty, by 1743 he had ceased to act as a coexecutor of his father's estate. When his will was drawn on 7 October 1749, he indicated that he was "of sound mind and memory though at present much indisposed as to health." He appointed his wife, Sarah, and his eldest daughters, Anne and Sarah, executrixes. He empowered his wife to sell all or any part of his estate except his share of the plantation in Oxford Township. The interest of the money arising from such sale, after payment of his debts and funeral expenses, was to go to her, she maintaining and educating his four children, Daniel, Anne, Sarah and Mary, as far as it would go until they came of age. As they came of age, the principal was to be shared equally among them. To his son Daniel, he gave all his share of his father's plantation in Oxford Township and his negro boy, Caesar. Sarah, his wife, was to have his negro woman, Esther, and all his per-. sonal estate." Gabriel died nine months later and was buried at Christ Church 18 July 1750. About two months after his death, Sarah advertised his house and Delaware bank lot for sale. She found no takers, for in the spring and early summer of 1752, when she was still living on the bank, she again advertised the same property for sale. When no buyer appeared, a public vendue was advertised for Monday, 25 September, at James's Coffee-house to dispose of the property. In November, George 01(111, a Philadelphia merchant, bought for £350 that portion of the property which fronted on the east side of King Street. Almost a year later Sarah sold the northernmost 20 feet of her husband's 40-foot bank lot between Front and King Streets for £80 to her son-in-law, James Seth." 05 At a meeting of the commissioners held 11 May 1729, John Reeve, collector, was allowed 7s. 6d. for Gabriel Wilkinson, Jr., of Upper Delaware Ward, as he was trader age. See Journal of the Proceedings, cited m Note 13. Deed Book G-2, 479: 14 January 1721/4, Gabriel Wilkinson, Sr. to Gabriel Wilkinson, Jr. Will Book I, 291, #183:1750, will of Gabriel Wilkinson. It was proved 15 August 1750, and letters tmtamentary were granted to his wife, the other two executrixes being minors. "The Pennsylvania Gazette, 27 September 1750, 21 May 1752, and 27 August 1752. Deed Rook I05:5ONovembe:0 1;52,. Sa.r sh teh Wilkinson to George O'Kill. Deed Book H-f, 210: 1 October s..h wa 80 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Sarah presumably continued to live on the southernmost twenty feet of the bank, purchasing the property from her husband's estate." But by 1755, when she took out a license to keep a tavern, she was probably living in 1-ligh Street Ward where, as a freeholder, she was listed the following year when her estate was rated at £16. °° This location may have been on the east side of Second Street around the corner from Pewter Platter Alley, the property devised to her by her father, Daniel Ridge." The tavern provided support for herself and the children still living with her. Although Sarah had most likely moved from the bank lot by 1755, she did not sell the remaining 20 feet, where she had made her home, until 1761 when she conveyed it to John Elton. Then at the end of 1763, Sarah and her four children sold their interest in her husband's share of his father's estate in Oxford Township for £20 to her nephew 6. Bryan Wilkinson." Sarah continued to keep a tavern until 1767, the last year she took out a tavern license.' In mid-December of that year she had her will drawn, when she was still in "bodily health and of sound mind and memory." She gave her two daughters, Sarah and Mary, her "wearing apparrell" to be divided equally between them. She gave to Mary her Negro woman, Esther, and to her son, Daniel, two silver table spoons, her gold sleeve buttons and her family book "wrote by the Rev. Mr. Samuel Clarke." Sarah appointed her sons-in-law, Joseph Donaldson and Joseph Claypoole and her two daughters, Sarah and Mary, executors and executrixes. They were impowered to sell all the rest of her estate and the money realized divided into four equal parts: one part each to her daughters Sarah and Mary, one part to her grandchildren Charles, James, Gabriel, Jacob and Sarah Seth, the five children of her daughter Ann, deceased, to be equally divided among them. Her son, Daniel, was to receive £150 out of the remaining fourth part three months after her decease. All the rest of the fourth part was to be invested and the interest paid to her son Daniel during his life. Upon his decease, the principal was to go to his child or children that should be then living." " Recited in Deed Book H-5, 208: 1 October 1753, Sarah Wilkffison to Abel James. Richard Peters Cash Book 1738-1738, HSP. Sarah Wilkinson took out a license as 2 tavern' keeper who did not sell wine. PGM, XXII, 22, cited in Note 40. Recited in Deed Book H-165 55. 29 May 1761, Common Recovery between Joseph Donaldson and Sarah Wilkinson. eo Deed Book H-14, 329: 27 May 1761, Sarah Wilkinson to Jno. Elton. The consideration money was £350. Deed Book G5-24, 509: 29 December 1763, Sarah Wilkinson et of. to Bryan Wilkmson. "Tavern Licenses, 1762-1776, Secretary's office, Ledger A, 136, HSP. "will Book Q, 355, #301:1776, for will of Sarah Wilkunon. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 81 Six months after Sarah wrote her will, intending to give up her tavern, she bought a house and lot on the west side of Bread Street (Moravian Alley) and the north side of Quarry Street for E226." She had moved to this location in Mulberry Ward by 1769, when her estate was rated at £32 10s., and continued to live here until her death eight years later." She was buried at Christ Church 1 October 1776. Issue of 4. Gabriel Wilkinson by his wife Sarah Ridge: i. ANN WILKINSON, bap. Christ Church, 17 November 1731, see. two weeks; dec'd. by 17 December 1767, when her mother's will was drawn; m: at Chnst Church, 11 October 1750, JAMES SETH. A ship joiner, he was living in Lower Delaware Ward in 1756 when his estate was rated at £20. By late 1763, the family had moved to Maryland... Issue: 1. CHARLES SETH, b. probably 28 July 1751; bap. Christ Church, 3 July 1756. He may be the Charles Seth listed in the 1790 Census in Queen Anon COUnty, Maryland. 2. jAmEs SETH, b. Philadelphia, 25 October 1753; bap. Christ Church 3 July 1756, possibly the James Seth listed in the 1790 Census in Talbot County, Maryland. 3. ELIZABETH SETH, bap. at Christ Church, 3 July 1756; bur. Christ Church, 18 November 1756. " 4. GABRIEL SETH, b. in Philadelphia, 1 March 1761; bap. Chnst Church, 15 October 1761. 5. jAcos SETH, b. probably in Maryland, 25 January 1764; bap. Christ Church, 25 July 1764. 6. SARAH SETH, probably born in Maryland. She was mentioned in the will of her grandmother, Sarah (Ridge) Wilkinson, 17 December 1767, as issue of her daughter Ann. ii. GABRIEL WILKINSON, b. ca. March, 1733 bap. Christ Church, 7 July 1734, oar. 16 months; bur. Christ Church, 15 August 1734. iii. SARAH WILKINSON, bap. Christ Church, 21 October 1734, or. one month; bur. Christ Church, 28 February 1793; m. at Christ Church, 1 August 1751, JOSEPH DONALDSON, bap. Christ Church, 3 September 1729, or. one month; bur. Sc. Peter's Churchyard, 10 May 1806. A hatter, he was the son and only Tssue of William and Elizabeth (Benney) Donaldson. Joseph and Sarah were living in Chestnut Ward in 1754... Later they moved to the northeast " Deed Book I-3, 586; 24 June 1768, 11.:chard Peters et al. to Sarah 'Wilkinson. Silo 1769, Sarah was listed as having one servant, probably Esther, given to her by her husband and mentioned in her will. Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIV. 206. For 1772 Philadelphia Tax Ent, see Note 19. See Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Seri., XIV, 284, for 1774 Provincial Tax. Both listings show Sarah Wilkinson in Mulberry Ward " When Junes and Ann Seth mld their share of Gabriel Wilkinson's estate in Oxford Township, they were described as "of the Province of Maryland," as recited in Deed Book GS-24, 5095 29 December 1763, Anthony 'Wilkinson et al. to Bryan Wilkinson. W The Christ Church baptismal records contain some obvious errors as to the Seth children. Charles Seth's date of birth is given as 28 July 1757, although he was baptised on 3 July 1756. The birth date of Elizabeth Seth is given as being 30 November 1756, although she, too, was baptised 3 July 1756. It probably thSs Elizabeth Seth who on buried on 18 November 1756; no other daughter is known to have been born to James Seth by that date. 88 Joseph's parentage is recited in Deed Book G-12, 471: 25 May 1750, William Donaldson to Joseph Donaldson. Joseph was among a list of persons who probably resided in Laetitia Court and Black Hone Alleys His taxabk income on f24; his tax 4s. 6d. See "Taxables in Chesnut, Middle and South Ward Philadelphia: 1754," PGM, XXI, (1959)o 169. Donaldson's some did not appear on the 1756 Tax List. 82 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine corner of King and High Streets, to property purchased by them for £1,000 in 1768," by which time Donaldson was a successful merchant. In 1782, he pur chased for £2,100 from his son-in-law, Jacob Spicer, a messuage and lot 91 ground on the north side of High Street and the east side of Sixth Street in Hudson's Square. 50 They were living here in 1790 when the census was taken. Sometime after his wife died in 1793, Donaldson moved to Near Jersey.. On 4 Apnl 1806, when Donaldson had his will drawn, he described himself as a gentleman of Franklin Park, Burlington County, in perfect health and of sound mind and memory. To his son Joseph Donaldson he gave $500, and to his daughter Elizabeth Spicer, two houses and lots of land situated in Sterling Alley in Philadelphia, which he had bought of Joseph Dean. To Mary Donaldson, another daughter, he gave his house and Inc at the northeast corner of High and Sixth Streets, his rnessuage and lot on the east side of Sixth Street between High and Mulberry adjoining his corner lot, a lot in the Northern Liberties at the corner of Sixth Street and Poplar Lane, and all his household and kitchen furniture. Immediately after the decease of his daughter Mary, his 40-foot lot on the east side of Sixth was to be given to his granddaughter Sarah Donaldson. To his daughter Sarah Roe, he gave his house and lot on the northwest corner of Mulberry and Fifth Streets. To his daughter Christiana Seawright, he gave all his house and lot on the north side of Mulberry between Fifth and Sixth Streets, adjoining the corner lot devised to his daughter Sarah Roe. He gave his grandson Philip Holebrook Nicldin 100 Spanish milled dollars. His executors were ordered to sell certain other properties to pay his debts. All the residue of his estate, he gave to his son Joseph Donaldson who, with his sister Mary Donaldson, and Charles Biddle were appointed executors. " Issue: 1. JOSEPH DONALDSON, JR., b. 28 May 1752; bur. Christ Church, 21 January 1809; m. SARAH, surname unknown, by the fall of 1781. In 1776 he was a merchant on the Island of St. Eustatius. He was elected a member of The Schuylkill Fishing Company, 5 October 1791." 2. ELIZABETH DONALDSON, b. 18 October 1753; bur. Christ Church, 29 October 1810; m. at Christ Church, 25 July 1776, ‘Incon SPICER, merchant; d. 3 December 1806, at Franklin Park, N.J.; bur. Christ Church, 5 December 1806. They had moved to Germantown in 1782 from Spicer's Sixth and High Street property in North Ward when he sold that property to his father-in-law' 3. WILLIAM DONALDSON, b. 30 January 80 Deed Book I-5, 289: 5 November 1768, Philip Kearney to Joseph Donaldson. I0 Deed Book D-5, 237: 24 August 1782, Jacob Spicer to Joseph Donaldson. The propetty comprised two lots: one, the corner lot at Sixth and High Streets, 20 fm on High and 100 feet on Sixth; the second, on the east side of Sixth Street, 40 feet in breadth on Sixth and 20 feet in depth. Adam Eckert, who erected the house on the comer lot between 1772 and 1777, had sold to Spicer. This site today is in the second block of Independence Mall. Or Heads Of Families At The First Census...1790, Pennsylvania, (Washington, D.C., 1908), 223, I.reinafter cited as Pennsylvgrnia 1790 Census Donaldson's move to New Jersey is reeked in Deed Book IF-It, 606: 1 September 1803, Joseph Donaldson to Elizabeth and Sarah Donaldson, his granddaughters, daughters of his son Joseph. 02 Will Book 1, 503, #42:1806, will of Joseph Donaldson. 88 For his residence on the Island of St. Eustatius, see letter of Joseph Donaldson, Jr., 27 November 1776, to Col. Owen Biddle in the Pennsylvania Archives, lad Series, I, 649. For membership in The Schuylkill Fishing Company, see A History Of The Schuylkill Fishing Company Of The State In Schuyl- kill 1732-1888, (Philadelphia. 1889), 375. Donaldson resigned from the company 29 March 1805' The Gabr;el Wilkinson Family 83 1755; bur. Christ Church, 18 October 1756. 4. SARAH DoNALDsoN, b. 15 June 1756; bur. Christ Church, 15 August 1757. 5. WILLIAM DONALDSON, (2nd), b. 9 October 1757; bur. Christ Church, 27 September 1760. 6. MARY DONALDSON, d. in Germantown, 29 March 1830; bur Christ Church, 31 March 1830, unmarried. 7. SARAH DONALDSON, (2nd), d. after 18 May 1806; " M. at Christ Church, 12 April 1785, WALTER ROE. 8, ADIN DONALDSON, b. 15 March 1764; bur. Christ Church, 13 May 1768. 9. DEBOI,H DONALDSON, b. 24 October 1765; bur. Christ Church, 6 January 1791; m. at Christ Church, 26 May 1785, Pmtur H. Nmx.LIN, merchant; b. ca. 1760: bur. Christ Church, 4 November 1806, in his 47th year. 10. WILLIAM DoNALDsoN, (3rd), b. 6 August 17673 bap. Christ Church, 7 July 1769. Not mentioned in his father's will of 4 April 1806. as 11. ANN DONALDSON, b. November 1770; bap. Christ Church, 11 December 1770. Not mentioned in her father's will. 12. CHRISTIANA DoNALDsoN, b. 18 July 1772; m. at Christ Church, 4 July 1796, JAMES SEAWRIGHT. She was named in her father's will. iv. REBECCA WILKINSON, bap. Christ Church 24 January 1737, ac. two months; bur. Christ Church, 4 December 1738. v. MARY WILKINSON, bap. Christ Church, 2 September 1738, ac. one month; bur. Christ Church, 15 June 1785; m. at Christ Church, 13 October 1756, JOSEPH CLAYPOOLE, bap. Christ Church, 27 August 1734, ae. six weeks; bur. Christ Church, 21 May 1809. A hatter, he was the second son of Hannah and George Claypoole. In 1756 they lived in High Street Ward.. EMIR:" 1. SARAH CLAYPOOLE, b. 12 July 1757; d. 10 June 1787, after bearing her ninth child, in her 29th year; bur. Christ Church, 11 June 1787; m. Christ Church, 21 September 1775, JAMES WITHY, hatter. 2. HANNAH CLAYPOOLE, b. 5 September 1758; d. in Philadelphia of yellow fever sometime between 1 August and the middle of December 1793; . m. Christ Chureh, 20 December 1792, EPHRAIM CLARK, watchmaker; b. ca. 1755; bur. Christ Church, 8 May 1844, car. 89 years. 3. MARY MORRIS CLAYPOOLE, b. 14 June 1760; d. at Frankford, 17 September 1823, bur. Christ Church, 18 September 1823, unmarried. 4. DEBORAH CLAYPOOLE, b. 1 December 1762; bur. Christ Church, 4 December 1791, unmarried. 5. ANN CLAYPOOLE, b. 31 October 1764; d. 20 February 1832; m. JACOB CLARK. 6. REBECCA CLAYPOOLE, b. 18 January 1769: M. at Christ Church, 9 April 1801, JOSHUA MADDOX. 7. JOSEPH CLAYPOOLE, b. 14 August 1770; d. 1834; M. ANN WOODHOUSE. 8. ELIZABETH CLAYPOOLE, b. 11 November 1772; d. at Frankford 17 March 1823; bur. Christ Church, 18 March 1823, unmarried. vs. GABRIEL WILKINSON, bap. Christ Church, 2 November 1740, ac. S mos., 7 das.; bur. Christ Church, 15 August 1747. vu. DANIEL WILKINSON, b. before 7 October 1749, when his father's will was " Sarah Roe witnessed a deed of this date for which see Deed Book EF23, 543: 18 May 1806, Jacob Spicer et al. to Joseph Donaldson. A William Donaldson witnessed a deed for Joseph Donaldson us 1784, but is not ident;fied as Joseph's son. See Deed Book 0 - 12, 265: 3 February 1784, Joseph Donaldson to Dr. Benjamin Rush. . 0 Joseph Claypooles parentage is given in Deed Book H - 12, 494: 8 January 1762, George Claypoole to Jouph Claypool,. For his residence in High Street Ward, see PGM, XXII, 21, as cited in Note 40. " The issue of Mary and Joseph Claypool, are taken from Rebecca Irwin Graff, Genealogy Of The Claypool, Sandy of PhiladelPhia 1588-1893, (Philadelphia, 1093), 77, Appendix It, x. 05 See Yellow Fever Deaths In Philadelphia 1795, 1797, 1798, 93 0 CV. 84 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine drawn in which he was mentioned, bur. Chnst Church, 30 March 1769; m. at Gloria Do) (Old Swedes) Church, 9 August 1763, SARAH BOWD. A hatter by trade, in 1764 Damel .sold a 45-foot square lot on the east side of Sixth Street from the Delaware to lus mother, Sarah Wilkinson, for £60.. Known issue: 1. FERDINAND° Wkirrwsow, b. 3 November 1763, bap. Christ Church, 19 February 1764, named for his grandfather, Ferdinand° Bowd, a Philadelphia mariner. 2. GABIUEL WILKINSON, b. 28 May 1765, bap. Christ Church, 26 August 1765; bur. Christ Church, 25 October 1766. 5. REBECCA WILKINSON was the youngest daughter of Gabriel's first marriage and in all probability the youngest of his first five children. She was still living at home and unmarried in early 1723/4, when her father gave her Charles Henzley's yearly rental of £8 for part of his Third and Sassafras Street lot. Presumably she continued to make her home in her father's house "' until the time of her marriage at Christ Church, 9 October 1733, to MARTIN BALL. He was master of the Brigantine Mulberry which regularly entered and cleared the port of Philadelphia in the early 1730's for Maryland, Antigua, Barbadoes, Jamaica and Lisbon. °' He was buried at Christ Church 7 October 1737. They had no issue. Rebecca married, second, at Christ Church, 7 October 1741, ROBERT GREENWAY, a merchant-attorney of Philadelphia. 102 I n 1746, Greenway became librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and on 1 May 1748, was admitted member No. 30 to the Schuylkill Fishing Company."' Kmetime during the same year, Robert Morris, Jr., the future "Financier of the American Revolution," began making his home with the Greenways."' By 1756 at the latest, the Greenways were living 89 Th, la of ground was part of the great lot of Gabriel Wilkinson, his grandfather, which Gabriel had granted his son 4. Gabriel. "Gabriel departed this life leaving his eldest son Heir at Law who in March last in County Court of Common Pleas suffered a Common Recovery of the premises ...." See Deed Book 1-7, 53: 28 March 1764, Daniel Wilkinson to Sarah Wilkinson. For rental of the Third and Sassafras Street property see Deed Book GWC-30, 301: 14 January 1723/4, Gabriel Wilkinson to Rebecca Wilkinson. The inventory of her father's estate mentions the room "comonly said Rebeccah's Room." Ball was listed as a non-resident and taxed six shillings on 1 June 1733. See Journal of the Proceedings, cited in Note 13. not Greenway appears first as an xquaintance or friend of Rebecca'. brothel. I. Anthony. As early as 1734, he had witnessed the first of several indentures of Anthony , See Deed Book G-10, 67: 16 May 1734, Anthony , Wilkinson to Thomas Green. 103 Nathaniel Burt, The Perennial Philadelphians (Boston, 1963), 239, 240. "The C.ompany's first librarian, a Swiss called Louis Timothee, soon resigned and moved to South Carolina, and Franklin himself had so take over the job for three months. The first man to really stick at it was Robert Greenwar who held the post from 1746 to 1760, and Ile was succeeded by none other than Francis Hopkinson." For Greenway's membership in the Schuylkill Fishing Company, see A History Of The Schuylkill Fishing Company, 360, cited in Note 93. Robert Mortis, Senior's will was signed 17 April 1749; in it he gave to his frknd "Mr. Robert Greenway _Ten pounds sterling and to him and George OKili of Philadelphia one Mourning Ring each.... (Rem I give all my Lands and Tenements whatsoever whereof I shall die seised in Possession, Reversion or The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 85 in Dock Ward.'°0 Five years later Rebecca died intestate and without issue,'" and was buried at Christ Church 5 June 1761. Greenway continued to live in Philadelphia for a time after his wife's death. However, by the time he signed his will on 15 January 1763, he was living at Bank Eccles, a plantation in Bensalem Township, Bucks County.' He was buried at Christ Church 15 September 1763. 6. BRYAN WILKINSON, the eldest and only surviving son of 1. Anthony Wilkinson and his wife Elizabeth, was born about 1718. 1" He may have been apprenticed to his father as he followed his interests, working first in wood and later in stone. Bryan was living in Philadelphia, presumably at home with his family, when he married at Trinity Church, Oxford, 11 May 1745, HESTER LEECH. "' She was born 29 August 1720, and was baptised at Christ Church, 2 September 1720, the daughter of John and Mary Leech and a granddaughter of Toby and Esther Leech. Eight months after their marriage Bryan purchased for £130 a 27 - foot lot on the east side of Front Street between Sassafras and Vine Streets. Here he located his shop and practised his trade as a carver. Whether he made his home at this location is not known; no specific mention of a messuage on the lot was made at the time of his purchase. Bryan, however, lived in Upper Delaware Ward.°'° In the late summer of 1756, Bryan presented to the Assembly's Committee of Accounts, a bill for carved work done for the State House (Independence Hall) amounting to £85 8s. 10d. In January of the following year, he received a total of £35 on account. The balance he did remainder to a youth now living with my Friend Robert Greenway in Philadelphia known there by the name of Robert Morris Junior who arrived bi Philadelphia from Liverpool,, sometime in the year 1748 ...)." Greenway was also mmed one of the executors of Robert Morris, Senior's estate. See Annapolis, Maryland Wills, No. 6, Folio 347: 13 September 1750. ..0 PGM, XXII, 13, cited in Note 40. Greenway's estate was rated at £50. Dock Ward ran from Walnut Street to South Street, between the Delaware md the Schuylkill. See "Philadelphia in 1750," 24, as cited in ibid. Recited in Deed Book G5-24, 509: 29 December 1763, Anthony 07ilkinson et 4. to Bryan Wilkinson. Greenway named among his executors his good friends Robert Morris, Philadelphia merchant, and John Edwards, of Philadelphia, who had lately lived with him. To his nephew William Giveaway, he gave his share "of and in the Library books and effects belonging to the library Company of Philadelphia." To his niece, Sarah [Greenway), he gave the picture of his late wife. Will Book N, 21, #14:1763, will of Robert Greenway. i. 00 Bible Records, Vol. 1, 75, Ph 42.15, GSP, for Jacob Duffield Bible transcript. 00 Bible Records, Vol. 6, 151, Ph 42.20, GSP. 110 For purchase of the 27-foot Front Street lot, we Deed Book EF-4, 374: 13 January 1745, Thomas Coombe 09 00. to Bryan Wilkinson. For his residence in Upper Delaware Ward, we PGM, XXII, 20, cited in Note 40. au. 86 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine not receive until September, 1769." 1 By a series of transactions, all on 1 March 1762, Bryan bought seven full equal and undivided eleventh parts of 100 acres in Oxford Township to the north of his grandfather's earlier purchase. His purchase, at the rate of £30 per share, was made from the heirs of Christian Clauson."2 Following the death of his father 1. Anthony early in 1765, Bryan and his brothers-in-law undertook the administration of his estate. Two months later, a partition of the lands held by Anthony at the time of his death and not subsequently sold, was effected by the Orphans Court, and distributed among his children. Bryan was assigned 75 acres in Whitemarsh Township with a marble quarry, 20 acres in Oxford Township, and three lots in the Northern Liberties in the vicinity of Front, Green and Duke Streets." Although Bryan was in possession of a considerable amount of real estate by late 1765, both by outright purchase and by the Orphans Court distribution, he continued to live in Upper Delaware Ward for some time thereafter.'" A little over four years after his father's death, Bryan petitioned the Orphans Court to make partition of the remainder of the large lot of ground at Sixth and Mulberry Streets which had been purchased by his grandfather, Gabriel Wilkinson, in 1715. The partition was rejected by the Court as prejudicing the whole. Whereupon Bryan and his brotherin-law, John Knowles, after requesting that the remainder of the lot be adjudged to them, paid to the other children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren of Gabriel Wilkinson the Elder, their shares of the £540 valuation established by the Court. Also adjudged to them, at the value of £110 was the 45-foot square lot, part of the above great lot, which Gabriel had devised to his son Thomas. Bryan and John then began to sell off portions of the great lot. By 1770, Bryan was known as a stone cutter as well as a ship carver, working in both wood and stone as his father had done before him. Two years later he was termed a stone cutter of Upper Delaware Ward when his property was rated at £94 15s. 6d. In addition to his dwelling, he 111 Bryan's bill, dated 20 Argos; is undoubtedly the basis for the claim that the carved work in the interior of Independence Hall was aceented by him. See Pennsylvania Archives, lob Series, VII, 6429, 6446. See Deed Book AWM-8, 160' John Hall to Bryan Wilkinson, 2 shares; ibid., 563: Francis Alison to Bryan 'Wilkinson, 1 share; ibid., 566; Matthias Keen to Bryan Wilkinson, 3 shares; ibid., 569 , Francis Alison to Bryan WillMsson, 1 share. 110 Orphans Court Book H, 241: 31 October 1756. mPennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIV, 165. He was rated on an estate valued at £112 7s. 6d. See for example, Deed Book 1-7, 74: 2 December 1769, Bryan Wilkunon of no. to Jacob Chrystler; Deed Book 1-5, 486: 31 July 1769, Bryan Wilkusson of al. to Feta DeHaven. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 87 had an empty house, shop, stores and a wharf in North Delaware Ward." In late December of 1774, Bryan was advertising his marble cutting business: "Bryan Wilkinson and son — Beg leave to inform their friends in particular, and the Public in general, they carry on the Marble Stone cutting business, in all its branches, at their shop in Water St., near Vine St., Philadelphia where may be had at short notice, chimney pieces of all kinds and grave stones neatly lettered, as cheap as any on the Continent of America; They having the best marble quarry of their own, is a great means of rendering their works as cheap, if not cheaper, than any other person's.'"" By late 1781, Bryan had moved to Oxford Township. Although descriW as a stone cutter and a ship carver for a time, he probably was more or less retired when he moved out of the city, and eventually established himself as a farmer. After the death of his son Anthony in 1784, and Anthony's widow Deborah in early 1786, Bryan and Hester made a home for their three grandchildren, Bryan, Elizabeth and Mary.' 15 On 8 September 1791, Bryan's will was drawn. There was no indication of any last illness as he was described as "being of sound and well disposing mind, memory and understanding." His estate was to be divided into five equal parts, one-fifth part to each of his children Rebecca Holmes, Hester, and John Wilkinson, a sailmaker. The remaining two-fifths was to go to his grandchildren, issue of his deceased daughter Elizabeth Craig, Esther and Margaret Craig, and of his deceased son, Anthony, Elizabeth, Bryan and Mary Wilkinson. To his beloved wife Hester, he gave the interest and income of all his real and personal estate for her life in lieu of, and in full satisfaction of, her dower or thirds in his estate. He appointed her, his son John and daughter Hester, his son-in-law Thomas Holme, and his friend and son-in law Captain James Craig executors."' Bryan was buried m Christ Church yard 1 Octobr 1794. His burial was followed less than two weeks later by the death of his wife Hester on 9 October 1794. She was buried at Christ Church 12 October 1794, three days before Bryan's will was proved.' i 50 Bryon is also called a stone cutter In Deed Book 110, 51: 14 December 17700 Peter Barndollar to Bryan Wilkinson et al- See the 1772 Philadelphia Tax List cited in Note. 19. 000 Pennsy/vansa Packet, 5, 19 December 1774. 000 Bryan's household in Oxford Township M 1790 comprised one male over 16 (Bryan), one male under 16 (his grandson Bryan), and four femalm, (Bryan's wife Hester, his unmarried daughter Hester, and his two orphaned grmddaughters, Elizabeth and Mary). Pennsylvania 1790 Census, 207. 10 Will Book X, 128, #91:1794, will of Bryan Wilkimon. 500 See Bible Records, Vol. I, cited in Note 108, for death date of Hester. Bryan's death, m cited in the same record, 29 October, is obviously m error Bryan's age at death was given 76, Hester's as 73. 88 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Issue of 6. Bryan Wilkinson by his wife Hester Leech: i. ELIZABETH WILKINSON, B. 17 February 1745/6; bap. Christ Church, 19 March 1746; bur. Christ Church, April 1771, Sr. 25 years; m. at Christ Church, 31 July 1764, JAMES CRAIG, Philadelphia mariner, b. ca. 1737; d. 29 September 1800, Sc. 63 years; bur. Christ Church. Issue: I. ESTHER CRAIG, b. 16 September 1761; d. 15 June 1818, bur. Christ Church; m. before the end of 1790, JOHN GREEN, Philadelphia mariner; b. 11 February 1766; d. 20 February 1831, bur. Trinity Church, Oxford. 2. MARGARET QUM, b. 26 November 1767; d. 3 October 1858, bur. Christ Church; m. at Christ Church by Bishop White, 28 April 1808, JOHN BAPTIST GUENAT, Philadelphia merchant; d. 20 February 1819, bur. Christ Church. 3. BRYAN WILKINSON Owe, b. 20 December 1769; bur. Christ Church, 29 July 1771, sr. 1 yr., 6 mos. MARY WILKINSON, b. 18 September 1748, bap. Christ Church, 6 November 1748; d. 29 May 1751, bur. Christ Church. iii. ANTHONY WILKINSON, b. 25 March 1751, bap. Christ Church, 21 April 1751; d. intestate before 28 January 1784; m. at Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 12 May 1774, DEBORAH SINCLAIR, d. Inn. 6 November 1785, when her will was dated, and 9 January 1786, when it was proved. 105 Anthony carried on the marble business with his father at their shop in Water Street near Vine. So far as is known, during the Revolution he was the only male Wilkinson under arms, serving as captain in the Fourth Battalion of Philadelphia City Militia under Lt. Col. Jonathan B. Smith. '° When Anthony's widow, Deborah, signed her will on 6 November 1785, she was "sick and weak in body." She gave her brother, James Carman, £50, and the rest of her estate to her three children, Bryan, Elizabeth and Mary Wilkinson, to be equally divided among them when they Came Of age. Known issue: 1. ELIZABETH WILKINSON, b. 18 March 1775, bap. Christ Churek, 9 June 1785. 2. BRYAN WILKINSON, b. 4 January 1777, bap. Christ Church, 9 June 1785; d. 14 July 1822, bur. All Saints' P. E. Church, Lower Dublin; m. before 1813, REBECCA, surname unknown, la. 13 March 1785; d. 18 June 1833, bur. All Saints' Church, Lower Dublin, so 3. MARY WILKINSON, b. 30 July 1779, bap. Christ Church, 19 August 1781. These three "surviving" children of Anthony and Deborah Wilkinson petitioned the Orphans Court 6 December 1794, praying that "they may IM Esther and John Green's first known child, James Craig Green, was born 6 August 1791. See Sophie Selden Rogers Collusion, A-X, 270, GOP. In Bryan Wilkinson was named administrator of his son Anthony's estate 28 January 1784. Admin istration Book I, 78, #8'1784. Anthony's widow Deborah certified 6 February 1784, that she released her r3ght to administer the estate of her late husband to her father-in-law. Will Book T, 264, #156I1785, will of Deborah Wilkinson. Since Deborah mentioned a brother, James Carman, in her will, she apparently had been married so a Sinclair, but no record of the marriage has been found. Pennsylvania Archives, 6th Series, I, 269, 300, 752. The death date of Bryan Wilkinson and the bitth and death date of his wife Rebecca are from the cemetery records of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Lower Dublin. See Church Cannery Records, Philadelphia, Pa., Ph 33E, 29, GOP. Bryan and Rebecca's fins known child, Anthony Wilkinson, was born 23 January 1813, as given in the same record. On 12 November 1822, Rebecca Wilkinson indicating her desire for Thomas Chappell to administer her husband's estate, kitten of administration were granted to him. Administration Book M, 366, #327:1822, atmte of Bryan 'Wilkinson. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 89 be admitted to appear and choose Thomas Holme, who is their nearest relation as their Guardian," Iv. REBECCA WILKINSON, b. 22 August 1753, bap. Christ Church, 19 September 1753: d. 11 October 1805, air. 52 years, bur. Lower Dublin (Pennypack) Baptist Church; m., 1st, at Christ Church, 25 September 1773, CAPT. DAVID HARROW; bur. Christ Church, 30 December 1775; m., 2nd, at Christ Church, 2 June 1785, THOMAS HOLME, farmer of Lower Dublin Township; b. 16 January 1748/9; d. 26 May 1826, in his 78th year; bur. Lower Dublin (Pennypack) Baptist Church of which he was a deacon for many years- Thomas was the son of John and Jane Holine of Lower Dublin. John Holme had devised to his two sons, John and Thomas, "all his lands at and about Pennepacka." By 13 May 1790, the sons had made a partition of this Holmesburg tract to their mutual satisfaction.'" For many years Thomas was a trustee of the Lower Dublin Academy... Known issue,.. 1. Jalirs C. HOLM, Northern Liberties, storekeeper;.° appeared as candidate for membership at First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, 31 October 1831. 2. GEORGE W. HoLme, b. ca. 1788, bap. Lower Dublin . (Pennypack) Baptist Church, 1822; d. 9 July 1864, after a brief illness, at his residence in Hohnesburg, air. 76 years; m., 1st, before 1820, SUSAN, surname unknown; b. ea. January, 1800; bap. Lower Dublin (Pennypack) Baptist Church, 1822; d. 4 June 1828, die. 28 yrs., 5 mos., 18 das.; bur. Lower Dublin (Pennypack) Baptist Church.'" George m., 2nd, at First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, probably sometime in 1830, CATHERINE G. Davis, living 00 27 July 1860, when she was mentioned in her husband's will. " 2 Catharine requested a letter of dismission from the First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, to the Baptist Church at . "Penepack" on 31 October 1831. George, who "had been of great help since being of full age," was directed by his father's will to carry on the family farm where his father had lived. Except for the period between 1842 and 1848, when he was a lumber merchant, George was farming. The Washington Lumber DO After their father's death in 1784, the children's grandfather, 6. Bryan Wilkinson, administered his estate and took care of the children. Bryan's death in the fall of 1794 prompted the children to petition the Orphans Court for ,guardian of their persons and property. Orphans Court Book 17, 121: 6 Decor- . ber 1794. A child of "the widow Wilkinson, Philadelphia, ae. 1 year," buried at Second Pr.byterian Church 8 October 1785, has not been identified, nor has the widow Wilkinson, unless she was Anthony's widow. Deborah. "7 The parents of Thomas Holm, are given in Deed Book D-48, 465: 13 May 1790, Thomas Holme to John Holm. The disposition of the Holmesburg tract is recited in the same deed. Holmesburg was Washington or Washingtonville prior to 1801. See Rev, S. F. Hotchkin, The Bristol Pike, (Philadelphia, 1893), 196. . 2. From no. of Carl T. Smith, taken from Samuel C. Willits' manuscript History of Lower Dublin Academy in the Holm.burg Public Library. ...The three sons of Thomas Hohne, who survived him, are recited in his will proved 2 June 1826. See Will Book 8, 595, #85:1826, will of Thomas Holme. ". James C. Hassle was the eld.t no of Thomas as recited in Deed Book GS-27, 43: 24 December 1838, Edmund Green end. to John D. Wentz. For trade of Jam. see Deed Book 03,1-30, 674: 13 February 1833, James C. Holm, to A. Abel. For, death of George "W. Holme see Public Ledger and Daily Transnipt, Philadelphia, Monday, 11 July 1864. George and Susan Holm< married prior to the birth of their son, Wm. H. Holme, who died 30 August 1821, aged 14 months, 5 days. See Genealogical No., Vol. XIII, 231, 233, Gen 232, GSP, for Tombstone Inscriptions From The "Pennepeck" Baptist Graveyard near Bustleton. 332 See Will Book 53, 274, #342:1864. will of George W Hohne. 90 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Yard, later the Holmesburg Lumber Yard, was run as a partnership by George W. Holme and Abraham Pennock. 3. MORGAN HOLME, bap. at Lower Dublin (Pennpack) Baptist Church in 1 822; m. HANNAH J., surname unknown, before 4 August 1834. Morgan was described as a cabinet maker 1826, but from 1827 on, he was apparently farming. an His father left him a lot in Holmesburg known by the name of Green Tree. 4. HETTE HOLME, bur. in the "Pennypeck" Baptist Graveyand near Bustleton, or. 2 yrs., 7 mos. v. HESTER WILKINSON, b. Philadelphia 17 May 1758, bap. Christ Church, 4 June 1758; d. 9 July 1845, ae. 87 years, bur. Trinity Church, Oxford; m. after 180$, THOMAS HOLME, husband of her deceased sister Rebecca. Hester renounced as one of the executors of her father's will before 27 February 1795.. 3 vi. JOHN WILKINSON, sailmaker, b. 1 June 1761, bap. Christ Church, , 26 December 1761; d. 12 April 1839, or. 78 yrs., 10 mos., 12 dos., bur. Trinity Church, Oxford; m., 1st, at St. Paul's P. E. Church, 23 April 1789, MARTHA VANSKIVER. No known issue. He m., 2nd, 7 November 1793, PHOEBE DUFFIELD, daughter of Jacob and Mary Duffield, b. 15 April 1771; d. 4 September 1803, or. 32 yrs., 6 mos. John m., 3rd, 10 May 1804, TACY DUFFIELD, daughter of Jacob and Mary Duffield, b. April, 1788; d. 24 July 1844, ae. 56 yrs., 8 mos., 23 das., bur. Trinity Church, Oxford. 553 John presumably lived in Oxford Township until after his father's death in 1794. By 1797, he was living in the city at 13 Key's Alley and was described as a sailmaker; he continued to live in the city until some time in the year 1803. He may have moved back to Oxford Township fo1lovrin4 his wife's death in 1803... From then until his death in 1839, Wilkinson remained in Oxford Township, calling himself a farmer. He signed his will 17 June 1837. After devising property to his wife Tacy, he gave to his children, "John, Phoebe, Margaret, Eveline, Anthony and William for their own personal use, the sum of $373.33 to be equally divided between them ...." The rest of his estate riot previously disposed of was to be sold and the proceeds equally divided among his children, naming Retry, John, Phoebe, Margaret, Eveline, Anthony, William and Charles. He appointed as executors and trustees his two sons, Jacob and Charles, (John and Charles were so-named in the first part of his will), and his friend Edmund Green. Issue of John Wilkinson by his 2nd wife Phoebe Duffield: 3" I. JACOB WM188 Morgan's wife, Hannah J., joined hiss in a deed in 1834, for which see Deed Book GS-47, 488: 4 August 1834, Morgan Holme to George 'W. Holme. See Deed Book GWR-10, 308: 19 July 1826, George W. Holme to Morgan Holme for Morgan's trade as a cabinet maker. Beginning in 1827, Morgan was described as a farmer. See Deed Book GWR-17, 154: 20 April 1827, F. Maghee to Morgan Holme. For Hester's death, see Bible Records, Vol. 6, 151, cited in Note 109. For recital of Hester', renunciation as executrix of her father's estate, see Deed Book D-55, 6: 27 Februuy 1795, John Wilkin son el alt. to Peter Swayer. 18, The vital statistics of John Wilkinson's family are taken, for the most pare, from the Jacob Duffield Bible Record cited in Note 108. 088 John Wilkusson first appeared in Oxford Township tax lists in 1786 as a single man. In 1789 he was listed as "meried," and in 1790 was head of his own household which included two females. He remained on the Oxford tax lieu through 1795. See Oxford Township Tax Lists, 1786-1796, Municipal Archives, City Hall, Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania 1790 Census, 207. In 1796 he was not listed as a resident in Oxford Township. See Philadelphia Direelory for 1797, 190, for his residence in the city. In 1803, he appears in both the city directory and on the Oxford tax list. 180 The issue of John Wilkinson are recited in Ins will signed 17 June 1837 . Will Book 13, 160, #98:1839, will of John Wilkinson. The Gabriel Wilkinson Family 91 b. 6 May 1795, bap. Christ Church, 18 November 1796. 2. HETTY WILKINSON, b. 17 October 1796, confirmed at All Saints' P. E. Church, Lower Dublin, 23 May 1813; d. 12 April 1865; m. at Trinity Church, Oxford, 4 March 1819, LEvi SHEPHERD. 3. WILLIAM B. WILKINSON, b. 9 November 1799; d. 7 July 1819. 4. CHARLES WILKINSON, Northern Liberties, innkeeper, b. 4 September 1801, bap. Christ Church, 9 October 1801; d. before 1 April 1846u8 m. at First Prtsbyterian Church of Kensington, 24 December 1833, JANE HASLAM. 5. PHOEBE WILKINSON, b. 1 September 1803, bap. Christ Church, 29 July 1807; m. at Trinity Church, Oxford, 20 September 1838, BENJAMIN H. BROWN. Issue of John Wilkinson by his 3rd wife Tacy Duffield: I 6. MARGARET WILKINSON, M. at Trinity Church, Oxford, April 1837, DAVID CONRAD, Northern Liberties, flour merchant. 7. JOHN 3 ,7mxtiqsox, Ja., b. 16 February 1806. A farmer, he was first of Oxford Township;'" by 2 July 1846, he was of the Northern Liberties. 8, EvgLrNE WILKINSON, b. 2 May 1810; d. 10 March 1885, in her 75th year; m. at All Saints' Church, Lower Dublin, 24 October 1833, Hutam CASTOR; b. 12 November 1809; d. 9 February 1886, in his 77th year. 9. ELIZABETH ANN WILKINSON, b. ca. 1813; d. 30 September 1832, or. 19 yrs., 6 mos. 10. ANTHONY WILKINSON, Northern Liberties, brick layer; 551 bap. at TrinIty Church, Oxford, 14 July 1829; m. CAROLINE, surname unknown, before 2 July 1846. 11. WILLIAM B. WILKINSON, (2nd), Northern Liberties, flour merchant; b. after 7 July 1819, when the first William B. Wilkinson died; bap. Trinity Church, Oxford, 14 July 1829; m. before 2 July 1846, SUSAN, surname unknown. ILINSON, In concluding this study of the early Wilkinsons, it is perhaps of interest to note that by the opening of the nineteenth century, the Wilkinson males who survived were only five in number: Bryan, son of Anthony and Deborah; Charles, son of John and Phoebe; and John, Anthony and William B. Wilkinson, sons of John and his third wife Tacy. None of them are known to have followed the trades of their progenitors — ship-carving and stone cutting. Yet by the middle of the century, Philadelphia directories list a number of Wilkinsons, some of whom were engaged in these trades. Their ancestory, however, has not been explored for this study. 588 For residence and occupation of Charles Wilkinson, see Deed Book ALL-13, 222: 20 January 1838, Charles Wilkinson to John Wilkinson. For reference to Charles' death, see Deed Book AWM-5, 577: I April 1846, John Wilkinson to David Conrad. ,. 88 The issue of Tacy Duffield Wilkinson, and their spouses, are recited in Deed Book AW3.4-I8, 55: 2 July 1546, David Conrad et al. to John Wilkinson. The order of their births is not known. 1,10 Deed Book AM - 16, 296. 29 January 1829, John Wilkinson to John Wilkinson, Jr. ...For residence and trade of Anthony Wilkinson see Deed Book AWM-64, 506: 7 April 1940, Anthony Wilkinson to Jacob G. Conrad.