The Record of Some Residents in the Vicinity of Middle Ferry, Philadelphia, During the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century

THE RECORD OF SOME RESIDENT IN THE VICINITY OF MIDDLE FERRY, PHILADELPHIA, DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED AND ANNOTATED BY THE LATE J. GRANVILLE LEACH , ESQ. P ‘ Concerning this Record, Mr. Leach in his manuscript Preface says : The basis of this publication is one of the most extensive private records that has come to my notice during years of genealogical research It waa brought to my attention by Colonel William L, Elkins, during my com pilation of the “ MEMORIALS OF THE READING, HOWELL, YERKES, WATTS, LATHAM AND ELKINS FAMILIES, ** having been in the possession of the Elkins family a hundred or more years Finding, upon investigation, that many of the facts in the record had, seemingly, not been elsewhere preserved, in the interest of perpetuating genealogical data, I urged Colonel Elkina to allow me to print it as a whole, to which he has long since . - . assented. The author of the record is not certainly known It may have been the work of Mrs Sarah Collins, a relative of Mrs Mary ( Points ) Elkina, wife of "William Elkins and grandmother of Colonel Elkins It will be noticed that only four entries were made after the death of Mrs Elkins, 9 September, 1798. Many of the families mentioned are known to have been connected by blood or marriage, and, it seems probable that the writer was related to, , or had a neighborly acquaintance with the various families J j . S P . . . . . G THE RECORD. FRANGIS HAZLKWOOD, son of JOHN I * and MARY IIAZLEWOOD, was born 15 January, 1765. WILLIAM DOYL, son of JOHN and MARY DOYL, born 13 February, 1765. WILLIAM FLAVEN,f son of ROGER and MARY FLAVEN, born 18 May, 1765, * For genealogical notes relating to numbered names, see APPENDIX;, under such numbers. + This name was doubtless Intended for FIshaven, and was written as pronounced , “ Flaven .” Roger Flahaven died at Philadelphia, 21 December , 1792, and the American Daily Advertiser at the next day , contains this mention of him : “Died yesterday morning, aged' 64, Mr. ROGER B'LAHAVEN , Senr. , justly and generally regretted by all who knew him. This respectable citizen devoted the whole of his time to acts of the most unaffected piety, towards his <'Tester , and of benevolence and beneficence towards all who were In the sphere of his acquaintance . He was a 'Staunch Whig during the Revolution , and a firm patriot in all hla opinions and actions/ ’ The maiden name of his wife Mary is not known. He married ( 2 ) , 2 April , 1768, Catharine Swan, by whom he had a daughter , Bridget , who married the eminent Matthew Carey , of Philadelphia, 24 February , 1791, William Flahaven of the text does not appear In the list of Roger and Mary Flahayen’s children, as given , by the late Colonel Joseph Willcox, in his ** Historical Sketches of Some of the Pioneer Catholics of Philadelphia and Vicinity ,” ) { as 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia . 39 - MARY DAYN, daughter of JOHN and MAST DAYN,* was born 21 No vember, 1765 MARY GARDNER, daughter of THEOPHILUS\ and MARY GARDNER, was born 13 January, 1766. ANN PATERSON,$ daughter of MOLS and ANN PATERSON, was born 19 March, 1766. JOSEPH POINTS § was married to ANN TOMSON, 10 October, 1765. SARAH POINTS, daughter of JOSEPH and ANN POINTS, bora 27 June, 1766 ELIZABETH POINTS, daughter of JOSEPH and ANN POINTS, was born 27 April, 1768 ELIZABETH POINTS, died 2 July, 1773, aged 5 years and 2 months . JAMES POINTS, son of JOSEPH and ANN POINTS, bora 13 September, 1769, JOSEPH POINTS, son of JOSEPH and ANN POINTS, bora 3 August, 1771. MATTHEW POINTS, daughter[ ?] of JOSEPH and ANN POINTS, was born 30 September, 1773, ANN POINTS, daughter of JOSEPH and ANN POINTS, was bora 19 March, 1775 ; died 3 October, at one o ’clock in the day, 1775 HANNAH POINTS, daughter of JOSEPH and ANN POINTS, was bora 26 August, 1776. SARAH POINTS was married, 11 October, 1787 Baltimore JAMES POINTS married to COMFORT BURGES, 6 March, 1794. MARIA POINTS, daughter of JAMES and COMFORT POINTS, was bora 18 May, 1795. JOSEPH COLLINS POINTS born 10 July, 1797, son of JAMES and COMFORT SARAH ARHITT, daughter of RICHARDS and ELIZABETH ARMITT, was born 2 December, 1766 ANN ARMITT, daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH ARMITT, was born 26 April, 1768. JOHN MORGAN, son of JACOB * and BARBARA MORGAN, was bora 27 December, 1767, THOMAS MORGAN, son of JAOOB and BARBARA MORGAN, was born 20 April, 1774 ELIZABETH MORGAN, daughter of JACOB and BARBARA MORGAN, was bora 26 February, 1783 THOMAS PEGLAR,!| died 12 January, 1768, ELIZABETH PEGLAR,| ( died 27 December, 1776, aged SO [ years ] and three months. . . . P . . — S . . - G . . •Probably John and Mary Doan. John Dean married , 13 December, 1764, Mary Rose. + Theophilus Gardner married , at Christ Church , 7 September, 1755, Mary - Dyer. On 21 November, 1750, the ship Culloden was registered at Phila delphia. in the names of Theophilus Gardner and Redmond Oonyngham, owners, and on C March , 1750- 1 , the snow Isabella was registered In the names of Theophilus Gardner, Alexander Boyd, Redmond Oouyngbam, and Henry Gamble, owners. + Probably Peterson, § Joseph Points was a Revolutionary soldier, and probably died In the army. Some of his family removed to Baltimore. In the old “ Record " the name Is indifferently spoiled Points and Pints. In church records It is spelled , Pokttz, Points, Pines, Bints, and Pine. Most of the children of Joseph and Ann Points, were baptized at Christ Church, Philadelphia, and the name is spelled Polntz on its church records. Sarah Points , of this family , married James Collins, 20 July, 1754 , called Pines on the Gloria Del , Old Swedes', Records. || Thomas Peglar married 7 October, 1731. Elizabeth Gardner. Christ 1924 Church Records . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX The Record , of Some Resident 40 P GEORGE WHITEFIELD, * died Sunday, 30 September, 1770. SARAH GARDNER, died Tuesday, 10 September, 1771. JOSEPH OGDEN f came to the Middle Ferry,$ 19 October, 1771. JOSEPH OGDEN, JUN., was shot through his right leg, 19 September, 1787, and the 21st., at two in the morning, he died, aged thirty - two years, seven months, one week and two days. JOSEPH OGDEN , left the Middle Ferry, 6 February, 1788. MARGARET GRAY,§ died 27 January, 1768. CHARLES JENKINS, * died 26 February, 1768. JAMES COULTAS, * died 30 January, 1768. ELIZABETH COULTAS, died 29 November, 1769, ANTHONY RODMAN SHURLB, son of SAMUEL and LIDE SHURLE, was born 8 February, 1769. MARY YANHORN, daughter of CATHARINE YANHORN, was born . February, 1770. MARY BOWMAN, daughter of ROGER |J and MARGARET BOWMAN, was born 16 February, 1774. MARY BROOKS, daughter of NICHOLAS and ANN BROOKS, was born 31 July, 1778. SARAH WHEELER,** daughter of SAMUEL and ELIZABETH WHEELER, was born 3 September, 1780. Ably attended his preaching in PMlodielphfa. was born in Chester in 1725, and died at Phila + delphia, 18 January, 1805. For sketch of hie litre with a record of * The eminent English clergyman , The author of the Record ” had pr»b County Joseph Ogden S together his ancestry and descendants, see “The Quaker Ogdens of Philadelphia,” by Gharries Smith Ogden ( PhlladeUphta, 1808 ) . + The Minutes of the Common Council of Philadelphia under date of 81 August, 1771, contain this entry : “ Jonathan Humphries, the Tenant of the Middle Ferry on Schuylkill, G being dead, a Number of persona applied to take a Tjease of the Ferry on the same terms It was let to said Humphries, and the Board now taking into consideration the several applications, it was carried by a majority of voices that Joseph Ogden should have a tease of the same at the rent of £ 200 per annum, for the term of three years, If he should so long live, but without power to assign the lease, and Samuel Rhoiads, James Allen & William Fisher ere appointed a Committee to Inspect the condition of the Ferry.” Of the four ferries which can led PhiLaxtelpthta traffic across the Schuylkill in Colonial times the Middle Ferry , at High Street, now Market, was the most Important. From at least as early as 1685 until 1788, those who held the lease of this water way under varying profits and restrictions were : Philip England, A< juilla Rose, George Gray, James Coultas, Evan Evans, Joshua Bryne, Jonathan Humphreys and Joseph Ogden. Gray 's Ferry lay to the southward, at the present South Street, with Penrose rope ferry below that, white to the north, at Oallowhlll Street, was the Upper, or Bowels’ Ferry Garrigues* Ferry, between what is now North and South Ltaurel Hill Cemetery, on a road leading to the Ridge road, was, at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, known as Mendenhall 's Ferry § MARGARET GRAY may have been of the ancient Gray family of Gray’s Ferry, Philadelphia, though her name does not seemingly appear In Its records. It Is possible that the name “ Margaret” Is miswritten for “Mary,” widow of Joseph Gray, mentioned in Note 4 of Appendix. | ROGER BOWMAN married, 21 May, 1766, Margaret Johnson. Old Swedes* Church Records NICHOLAS BROOKS married , 25 November , 1750, Ann Cad more. Old Swedes* Church Records ** Sarah, eldest daughter of Samuel Wheeler, iron- master ol Philadelphia, by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah ( Mifflin ) Jones, was born on that day, and married John Johnson, Jr. of Philadelphia. Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 1 - . - . . — . . 1924 — In the Vicinity of Middle Ferryf Philadelphia. 41 ALATHEA SPAHAK, daughter of JOHN * and ALATHEA SPAHAX [ SPARHAWK ],* was born 6 May, 1781. FREDERICK BAKER, son of FREDERICK and SUSANNA BAKER, was bom 25 May, 1784. JANE BAKER , daughter of FREDERICK and SUSANNA BAKER, was bom . 8 July, 1786 SARAH STEINMETZ, daughter of JOHN O and CATHARINE STEINMETZ, was bora 26 June, 1769. GEORGE STEINMETZ, son of JOHN and CATHARINE STEINMETZ, was bora 18 July, 1770 DANIEL STEINMETZ, son of JOHN and CATHARINE STEINMETZ, was born 29 November, 1776 GEOROE STEINMETZ, son of JOHN and CATHARINE STEINMETZ, was born 7 December, 1785 WILLIAM ELKINS |married MARY POINTS, 10 January, 1774 JAMES ELKINS, eon of WILLIAM and MARY ELKINS, was bora 16 September, 1774 JOSEPH ELKINS, eon of WILLIAM and MARY ELKINS, was bora 27 April, 1776 WILLIAM ELKINS, son of WILLIAM and MARY ELKINS, was born 27 November, 1778 SARAH ELKINS, daughter of WILLIAM and MARY ELKINS, was bora 29 August, 1780. SARAH ELKINS died 8 August, 1781 ANN ELKINS, daughter of WILLIAM and MARY ELKINS, was bora 16 October, 1782. GEORGE WASHINGTON ELKINS, son of WILLIAM and MARY ELKINS, was born 26 September, 1784 GEORGE ELKINS died aged seven months, two weeks, and three days, 14 May, 1785. GEORGE ELKINS,$ son of WILLIAM and MARY ELKINS, was born 11 July, 1786 ELIZABETH ELKINS, daughter of WILLIAM and MARY ELKINS, was born 1 September, 1788, at nine o 'clock in the morning. ELIZABETH ELKINS died 29 July, 1789, aged ten months and two weeks, 9 April, 1798, WILLIAM ELKINS departed this life, aged 47 years 21 September, 1798, departed this life, MARY ELKINS, wife of WILLIAM ELKINS, after seven days ’ sickness, aged 50 years . . . . . P . . G . S . . — . . — •John Sparhawk married, 2 December, 1779, A Itha or Alathea Webeter. Second Presbyterian Church Records . Alethea Sparhawk married , 23 March, 1806, Adam Gordon. Christ Church , . — Records The grandparents of Colonel William L. Elkina An account of the Elkins family, compiled by the present writer, is given in "Memorials of the Reading, Howell , Yarkea, Watts, Latham and Elkina Families.” Since the "Memorials" were written, It has been ascertained that William Elkins was a Revolutionary soldier , and served In the Third Maryland Continental Line from 1 August, 1780, until 14 November, 1783 Maryland Archives xvlll, 533 + The father of Colonel William L Diking, baptized by Bishop White at Christ Church , 15 August, 1780, where, In his memory , has been placed a stained glass window of unusual beauty. It portrays the Council of Nice, A D. 325, and the organization of the American Church, In Christ Church , 1785 . — . . 1924 , . . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX The Record of Some Resident 42 G S P WILLIAM ELKINS left his own house, 23 July, 1784. MART ELKINS went down to Baltimore, 31 October, 1784. SARAH STANDLEY, 7 married to GODFREY T WELLS, 20 September, 1770 . SARAH TWELLS was delivered of a dead son, 8 March, 1772. WILLIAM TWELLS, son of GODFREY 8 and SARAH TWELLS, was born 22 February, 1773. EDWARD TWELLS, son of GODFREY and SARAH TWELLS, was born 16 September, 1774. JOHN TWELLS, son of GODFREY and SARAH TWELLS, was born 16 September, 1776. CHARLES TWELLS, son of GODFREY and SARAH TWELLS, was born 17 June, 1778. SARAH TWELLS, daughter of GODFREY and SARAH TWELLS, was born 30 August, 1779. ELIZABETH TWELLS, daughter of GODFREY and SARAH TWELLS, was born 3 August, 1781, SARAH GOODMAN TWELLS, daughter of GODFREY and SARAH TWELLS, was born 27 November, 1785. THOMAS PERSON [ PEARSON ], son of JAMES 8 and SUSANNA PERSON, was born July 26, 1768. MARY PERSON, daughter of JAMES and SUSANNA PERSON, born March 8, 1770. SARAH PERSON, daughter of JAMES and SUSANNA PERSON, was bora December 23, 1773. ELIZABETH PERSON, daughter of JAMES and SUSANNA PERSON , was born March 27, 1778. JANE PERSON, daughter of JAMES and SUSANNA PERSON, was born January 19, 1779. JAMES PERSON, son of JAMES and SUSANNA PERSON, was born November 10, 1781. THOMAS HART PERSON, son of JAMES and SUSANNA PERSON, was born June 19, 1783. ANNE PERSON, daughter of JAMES and SUSANNA PERSON, was born February 9, 1785. JAMES ROBERTS * married SARAH POINTS. HANNAH ROBERTS, daughter of JAMES and SARAH ROBERTS, was bora 2 August, 1770. JAMES ROBERTS, son of JAMES and SARAH ROBERTS, bom 18 June, 1773. JAMES ROBERTS,! son of JAMES and SARAH ROBERTS, wa3 born 25 October, 1775. ANN ROBERTS, daughter of JAMES and SARAH ROBERTS, was born February, 1778 . SARAH ROBERTS, daughter of JAMES and SARAH ROBERTS, was born 28 August, 1780. * JAMES ROBERTS died at Philadelphia , 23 September , 1792 , In the forty" sixth year of his age , and his wife, Sarah , died there, 16 August, 1822. Both were interred in St, Peter’s Churchyard , where stones still mark their graves. Five of their children, Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth , Rachel , and Joseph, died of yellow fever In the scourge of 1798. f JAMBS ROBERTS, Junr. , died 26 January , 1S19. By wife Abigail he had Issue. He also Is burled In St. Peter’s Churchyard. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia . 4EJ JOSEPH GAMBLE ROBERTS, son of JAMES and SARAH ROBERTS, was corn 26 October, 1782. RACHEL ROBERTS, daughter of JAMES and SARAH ROBERTS, was born 23 December, 1785. SETH ROBERTS, * son of JAMES and SARAH ROBERTS, was bora 5 Janu ary, about three in the morning, 1788. ELIZABETH ROBERTS, daughter of JAMES and SARAH ROBERTS, was born 4 September, 1790. JAMES ROBERTS departed this life at half after three in the morning, 23 September, 1792. S P SARAH ROBERTS died 19 August , 1798, HANNAH ROBERTS died 21 August, 1798 . ELIZAH [ ELIZABETH ] ROBERTS died 23 August, 1798. RACHEL ROBERTS died 26 August, 1798. JOSEPH ROBERTS died 2 September, 1798, ANN ROBERTS was married to SAMUEL YEAOOCK, 28 June, 1796. SAMUEL S. VEACOCX 10 was born 24 May, 1772. SARAH YEA COCK, daughter of SAMUEL and ANN YBACOCK, was born 2 June, 1797. SAMUEL STALL, married ELIZABETH POINTS,! 18 November, 1770. WILLIAM STALL, son of SAMUEL and ELIZABETH STALL, was born' June 15, 1771. August 28, 1773, ELIZABETH STALL was delivered of a dead child . JOHN STALL, son of SAMUEL and ELIZABETH STALL, was born September 15, 1774. JOSEPH STALL, son of SAMUEL and ELIZABETH* STALL, was born December 16, 1776 , SARAH STALL, daughter of SAMUEL and ELIZABETH STALL, was born October 25, 1779. SARAH STALL departed this life, November 19, at two o 'clock 1780. SARAH STALL, daughter of SAMUEL and ELIZABETH STALL, was born August 7, 1782. WILLIAM STALL, son of SAMUEL and ELIZABETH STALL, was born August 3, 1784. SAMUEL STALL, eon of SAMUEL and ELIZABETH STALL, was born 29 November, in the afternoon about half after five o ’clock, 1788. GEORGE ODENHEIMER, son of JOHN H and MARY OBENHEIMER, was born 10 August, 1771, KXPPELE ODENHEIMER , son of JOHN and MARY ODENHEIMER, was born 20 November, 1772. JAMES REYNOLDS, son of JAMES 1 2 and ELIZABETH REYNOLDS, was born 15 December, 1772. HENRY REYNOLDS, son of JAMES and ELIZABETH REYNOLDS, was born 8 October, 1774 . G — * SETH ROBERTS , baptized at Christ Oliurch, died 21 April , 1834 . Ells wife, Ann , died 28 January , 1823 , in the thirty “Seventh year of her age. They and four of their children , Ann, Thomas W a y n e , Sarah Ann and Martha , are buried in St. Peter’s Churchyard. j- The name Is spelled Plots In the old u Record ,’1 and Pines, on the register of Old Swedes’ * where tbe marriage 1B recorded. ' 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 44 The Record, of Some Resident SARAH REYNOLDS, daughter of JAMES and ELIZABETH REYNOLDS, was born 24 August, 1776. ELIZABETH REYNOLDS, was bora 4 January, 1778. ADAM GIER [GUIER ], eon of ADAM IS and MARY GIER, was born 12 January, 1773. MARY CATHARINE SECKEL, daughter of DAVID I * and MARY SECKEL, was born 7 June, 1780. ELIZABETH MARSHALL, daughter of JOHN * and ELIZABETH MARSHALL was born 20 August, 1773. CHARLES MARSHALL, son of CHARLES 1 B and PATIENCE MARSHALL, was born 2 June, 1774. ANN MARSHALL, daughter of BENJAMIN IS and SARAH MARSHALL, was born 18 June, 1779. and ANN SPARKS, was born 29 MARY SPARKS, daughter of JAMES August , 1773. JAMES SPARKS, son of JAMES and ANN SPARKS, bora 4 January, 1775. JOHN SPARKS, son of JAMES and ANN SPARKS, was bom 23 June, 1777. WILLIAM SMITH, son of WILLIAM IT and ELIZABETH SMITH, was bora 30 July, 1775. JACOB SMITH, son of WILLIAM and ELIZABETH SMITH, was born 30 October, 1781. CHARLES PARISH, son of EGBERT I » and MARY PARISH, was born 3 September, 1775. HARRIET PHILE, daughter of FREDERICK PHILE * 9 and ELIZABETH PHILE, was born 22 November, 1775. MOORE FURMAN, son of MOORE so and SARAH 2 1 FURMAN, was bora 4 March, 1779. ROBERT HARBESON, son of BENJAMIN « and MARGARET HARBESON, was born 13 June, 1779. HENRIETTA MARIA HARBESON, daughter of BENJAMIN and MARGARET HARBESON, was born 23 October, 1786. JAMES GIBBON, son of JAMES and ANN GIBBON, was bom 24 January, 1783. FREDERICK PHILE GIBBON, son of JAMES and ANN GIBBON, was born 18 January, 1784. WiLLiAM BIREN S wife had dead child 22 January, 1781. MR. HOBLE [ HUBBELL] came to live at the Middle Ferry, 9 February, 1788. SUSANNA HOOK died 3 June, 1787, aged seventy-two years. WILLIAM PENN BASON, son of JOHN and JANE BASON, was born 28 March, 1797. JANE BASON, wife of JOHN BASON, died 13 September , 1798. JOHN BASON, was married to ELIZABETH COLLINS, 26 February, 1801. ANN COLLINS moved from her Mother ’s, 16 April, 1801. SARAH COLLINS moved into the New House, 25 June, 1801. G S P ) • Possibly the John Marshall who died at Philadelphia , in November, 1783, and named wife, Elizabeth , In his will of 4 November of that year. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia . APPENDIX. 45 . Genealogical Notes bearing on the Text of the Eecord 1 COMMODORE JOHN HAZLEWOOD, a noted Pennsylvania naval officer in the Revolution, born in England in 1726 ; died in Philadelphia, 1 or 2 March, 1800, aged seventy four years, buried in St Peter 's Churchyard His portrait, by Captain Charles Wilson Peale, artist and patriot, was purchased by the City of Philadelphia and placed in Independence Hall He married, first, 10 August, 1753, Mary, daughter of Charles Edgar, Sen She died 1 December, 1769, aged thirty six years, and he married, secondly 17 July, 1771, Esther, widow of Samuel Leacock, and daughter of Plunkett Fleeson, Esq, The children that he is known to have had, were : i. Thomas Hazlewood , born 30 August, 1757 ; died in 1788 ; was captain in the Pennsylvania Navy in the Revolution, ii. Francis Hazlewood , of the text, born 15 January, 1765 ; died young, iii Susan Hazlewood, died 19 September, 1794 iv John Hazlewood , a lieutenant in the Artillery Company, raised in Philadelphia, in 1794, and in service in the Western Expedition of that year ; he survived hie father but a few weeks and was buried in St, Peter 's Churchyard, 13 April, 1800, v, Ann Hazlewood , living at the date of her father 's will, 22 February, 1799 A compre hensive sketch, with portrait, of Commodore Hazlewood, by J , Granville Leach, will be found in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History for 1902. . . . . - - . . - S P . . 2 G RICHARD ARMITT, a prominent Quaker merchant of Philadelphia, emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1700. The Meeting of Friends at Leek, Staffordshire, England, under date of 2 October, 1701, gave a certificate, in which it is set forth that, Richard Armitt had transported himself to Philadelphia in 1700, and that previously he had “ followed his trade in London, and made some voyages to Spain and to other places." This certificate was signed by many members of the Meeting, his father, John Armitt, being among them. His mother was deceased at that time. He was elected, by the Common Councils of Philadelphia, 13 October, 1723, Clerk of the Market and Collector of the Stall Rents ; on 6 Febru ary, 1727, Wharfinger of the Public Wharfs of the City; on 4 August, 1729, was chosen to collect the money for “ chimney firing, " and, on the same day, was also chosen to “ keep the Fire Engine in repairs, and play the same once a month, for £3 per annum." He died in Philadel phia, 7 August, 1748, having married in October, 1701, Sophia Johnson, daughter * of John Willemse Bockohoven or Bockenhoven, and a Minister in the Society of Friends. She predeceased him, 25 March, 1740. Children of Richard Armitt, born in Philadelphia ; i JOHN ARMITT, born 8 December, 1702 ; died 21 May, 1762, without issue. He was a merchant, “ one of the most valu able citizens " of Philadelphia, and prominent in the Society of Friends, of which he was a Minister. He owned four acres of land in Southwark, Philadelphia ; was one of the first contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and a signer - . * Philadelphia Ef amplification Book , no. 7 , p. 588 ; no. 8, p. 85. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX The Record of Some Resident 46 of the Non - Importation Agreement . He married Mary, daughter of George Emlen by his wife Hannah Garrett, born circa 1707 ; died 20 February, 1791, having been many years an Elder among Friends. Her father was one of the leaders in that Society, and the founder of the Emlen family of Philadelphia. ii. STEPHEN ARMITT, born 17 June, 1705 ; died 29 December, 1751 ; married Sarah Whitpain. THOMAS ARMITT, a brother of Richard, emigrated to Pennsylvania, settled in Philadelphia, where he died, and where he was buried 19 August, 1726. In his will of 28 June, that year, he styles himself “ Cooper, ” and names wife Elizabeth and son Joseph. The wife Elizabeth of the will would appear to have bceu a second wife, as Friends ’ Records note the burial, on Id, 2 month, 1722, of Elizabeth Armitt, wife of Thomas . Children : . Joseph Armitt , died 19 July, 1747 ; married Elizabeth Lisle , ii. Jeremiah Armitt, died 16 February, 1717-18. STEPHEN ARMITT, son of Richard Armitt by his wife Sophia Bocken hoven, was born at Philadelphia, 17 June, 1705, and died there 29 September, 1751 . He was a carpenter and builder ; possessed a good estate, and was a member of the Society of Friends. He married, 2 November, 1732, Sarah, daughter of John and Ann Whitpain, and grandaughter of Zachariah Whitpain * by his wife Sarah Songhurst of Philadelphia, She died at the age of sixty-seven, and wag buried IS February , 1781. Children of Stephen Armitt by his wife Sarah Whitpain, born at Philadelphia : S P 3 * Zachoriah Whitpain, son of Richard and Alice Whitpain , was born iu T /ondon , I6tb 10 mo. , 1665 ; came to Philadelphia, with his brother, John Whitpain, about 1686 and diod there 20 th. 1 mo., 1603 fie married in Philadelphia, 7 December , 1686, Sarah , daughter of John Songhurst, a Welcome passenger and member of the first provincial assembly. She married , second, Charles Sanders ; and third , Dr. Griffith Owen . For Zachariah Whitpain’s account of the invasion of England by the forces of William of Orange, 9 November , 1688/9, see Colonial Records, vol. !, pp. 245-7. Richard Whitpain , the father, had built for him , as early as 1085, a “ great house, 60 foot in breadth and 56 foot in depth.” on the east side of Front Street, below Walnut. In 1687, William Penn thus recommended it for public service in a letter to Robert Turner and others : " Taking into consideration the grea t expenses of Richard Whitpain to the advancement of the province, and the share he taketh here { in England ) on all occasions for its honour, ! can do no less than recommend to you for public service his great house in Philadelphia, which, being too big for a private man , would provide you a convesnfency above what my cottage affords. It were reputable to take at least a moiety of it, which might serve for ail the offices of State.” It is known that* in 1701 and in 1704, " the great front room,” Ln Whit pa In's house, then in the tenure of Joseph Shlppen , was occupied by the . . G . - Assembly, At the time of Richard Whitpain’s death , he owned 7,000 acres of land in the Province, besides several lots of ground in Philadelphia Four thousand of his acres were located In what became Whitpain township Wlssahlckon Creek was at first named Whitpain Creek, so called on account of his large possession at the head of that stream. He died in 1689, his will , dated 27 April , that year , named wife Mary ns executrix. XIX Pennsylvania Archivei, . . sec. ser., 399 1924 . — Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 47 In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia . . SABAH ARMITT, born 15 November, 1733 ; married James Logan, youngest child of James Logan, the Councillor, one of the most eminent of Pennsylvania statesmen of the colonial period. The son was born in 1728, and died 25 September, 1803, without issue ANN ARMITT, born 29 June, 1735; buried 21 January, 1797 n in, JOHN ARMITT, born 21 November, 1737 ; buried 8 July, 1781 ; married, 27 May, 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Howell, of Philadelphia This is the John and Elizabeth Armitt of the test They had three children, Hannah , Sarah and Ann, all of whom died in infancy. Mrs, Armitt who died 29 March, 1807, aged 66, was a sister of Arthur Howell, the eminent Quaker Minister, and half -sister of Sidney, wife of Dr. James Hutchinson , a distinguished sur geon of the Revolutionary Anny, and the ancestor of the late Pemberton S Hutchinson, and Charles Hare Hutchin son, of Philadelphia. iv RICHARD ARMITT, born 13 February, 1739 ; married Elizabeth i . . *# . **« . . - . . Paschall. v. SAMUEL ARMITT, born 17 October, 1742 ; died young. vi.- STEPHEN ARMITT, died 7 April, 1745. vii MARY ARMITT, born 6 August, 1748 ; married 19 July, 1779, Captain Thomas Bell, Revolutionary officer, who died 8 September, 1805 JOSEPH ARMITT, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Armitt, died at Phila delphia, 19 July, 1747 He is styled “ Cooper 1 * in his will of 12 July, in that year, and named therein, wife Elizabeth , and daughters Mary and Elizabeth He married Elizabeth, daughter of Maurice Lisle, Esq , who was Clerk of the Provincial Assembly in 1705, and from 1717 until 1721 Mrs Armitt died 16 April, 1802. Hannah Drinker notes in her JOUR NAL, ” under date of 17 April, 1802: “ Elizabeth Armitt, mother to our old friend and neighbor Betsy Wain, was buried this afternoon, aged 85 years. ” Children of Joseph Armitt by his wife Elizabeth Lisle, born at . . P . - . . S . . G Philadelphia ; 1. MARY ARMITT, died 12 June, 1742. ru MARY ARMITT, died 18 July, 1825 ; married in 1761, Elijah Brown, of Chester County, Pennsylvania, a son of James Brown by his wife Miriam Churchman, born 12 May, 1740 ; died 11 August, 1810. Elijah Brown and his wife Mary Armitt were the parents of Charles Brockden Brown, the noted author, and first American novelist ; and the great -grand - parents of Henry Armitt Brown , Esq., of the Philadelphia Bar, who, at his death , was recognized as one of the greatest orators of this country, • ELIZABETH ARMITT, married 4 December, 1760, Richard Wain, m of Philadelphia and Walnford, New Jersey, by whom she had issue She died 20 February, 1790. Mr Wain died 23 May, 1809. RICHARD ARMITT, son of Stephen Armitt by his wife Sarah Whitpain, was born at Philadelphia, 13 February, 1739 ; married 27 May, 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr John and Frances Paschall, of Darby, Penn sylvania She was buried 24 June, 1773 They are the Richard and Elizabeth Armitt of the text Children : i. FRANCES ARMITT, married 28 April , 1791, Aaron Morton, Esqr., of Bidley, Chester, now Delaware County, Pennsyl vania, son of John Morton, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and had issue. This family removed to Ohio. * *I . ** . . . . . . - P - 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX The Record of Some Resident 48 SABAH ARMITT, bom 1765 ; died 9 September, 1766, aged 14 monthB. SABAH ARMITT ( of the test ) , bom 2 December, 1766 ; died 4 April, 1823 ; married Samuel Worth, of East Bradford, Chester County, and had issue. MARGARET ARMITT, married 26 October, 1786, Jacob Marshall, of West Bradford, Chester County *P li. . iii iv. . 3 General JACOB MORGAN, a son of Colonel Jacob Morgan, and grand son of Thomas Morgan The grand-father, a native of Wales, came to Pennsylvania, some years prior to 6 December, 1740, when he made his will, probated at Philadelphia, 25 March, 1741, in which he is styled “ of Lancaster County, yeoman, ’ ’ and named wife Elizabeth , sons John, Francis, William, and Jacob, and grand daughter Elizabeth Morgan. His son, Colonel Jacob Morgan, resided in Caernavon Township, Berks County, near what is now Morganstown, and died there, 11 November, 1792, aged seventy six years. The latter was one of the leading men of that county, and in active service in the French and Indian War As early as 1754, he was in command of a company stationed at Fort Lebanon, and on 5 December, 1755, was commissioned Captain in the First Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regiment, and commanded at the above fort. In 1758, his company formed a part of the Second Battalion of the same regiment, and participated in the expedition against Fort Duquesne On 24 April, 1764, be was commissioned a justice of the peace and of the courts of Berks County, to which he was several times re commissioned, aerving from the time of his first appointment until after 9 October, 1784, the date of his last commission He was a delegate to the Provincial Conference held at Carpenter 's Hall, Philadelphia, over which Benjamin Franklin presided , from June 18 to June 25, 1776 From 22 May, 1777, until 8 January, 1781, he was Lieutenant of Berks County, with the rank of colonel, and as such, was at the head of military affairs in that county, and rendered constant and most valuable services to the cause of Independence Colonel Morgan was a man of wealth, and had large landed interests His will , dated 7 March, and proved 19 November, 1792, named eldest son Jacob ; daughters Rebecca Price, Sarah Jenkins, and Mary Hudson ; son Benjamin ; grand-children John Price, Elizabeth Price, Jonathan Hudson, Nicholas Hudson, and Rachel Witherell, and 3on in -law Joseph Jenkins, and mentions three thousand acres of land which he had received for his services as ‘ ‘ Captain in the Provincial service, ’ 1 also two thousand one hundred and twenty acres which he held 1 in the right of Edward Biddle Captain and Quarter Master, ” in the same service General Jacob Morgan, of the text, eldest son of Colonel Jacob Morgan, was born in Berks County, in 1742, and died at Philadelphia, 18 September, 1802 , Inheriting the military spirit, he joined the Provisional Army of Pennsylvania when but seventeen years of age, was commissioned Ensign in the company of Captain Levi Trump, Second Battalion, Pennsylvania Regiment, on 12 March, 1758 ; was lieutenant, 1758 59, and appointed Adjutant to this Battalion, 21 April, 1760, then under the command of the distinguished Hugh Mercer, who, becoming an officer in the Revolutionary Army, fell in the battle of Princeton At the out - . - - P . . S - . G . . . - ‘ . - . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania - PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia. 49 break of the Revolution, young Morgan took bia stand on the side of the colonies, becoming in 1775, Major of the First Battalion Philadelphia Associators, under Colonel Jobn Dickinson, succeeding Colonel Dickinson in command of the regiment, 4 December, 1776 On 29 March, 1777, he was tendered the position of Lieutenant of the City of Philadelphia, but declined the office On 20 May, 1777, he became a member of the Supreme Executive Council of the State, and from 17 October, until 4 December, 1777, was also a member of the Council of Safety Some writers have erroneously assumed that it was his father who was a member of the Supreme Executive Council. That it was the son, is shown by his letter to Governor 'Wharton, resigning the position, which is signed “ Jacob Morgan, Jun*\ 1’ This letter, dated 4 April, 1778, gives as his reason for such action, that he “ might accept the office of quarter master for the County of Berks, * ’ being conscious, he writes, f ' that I can render my country more service in that office than in the Executive Council.'’ He held the office of Quarter Master, or, as the position was technically termed, “ Deputy Quarter Master General, ” from the time he left the Council, until 14 August , 1780, when the Council appointed him and “ Superintendent of the Commissioners for purchasing provisions forage for the Army, and of the Waggon Masters of the State, ” which high office was tendered him by General Joseph Reed, the Chief Executive of the State, in the following letter: . . P . * * Sir, We find the furnishing the spec:tick Articles required by Congress from thi3 State so arduous & difficult a Business that it is impossible for us, compatible with our other Duties to continue our Superintendance in the Manner we have done some Time past, & therefore have come to a Resolution to appoint a suitable, capable Person, with a competent Salary , as Superintendant of Purchases in this State, And upon Consideration of a suitable Character find no Person so acceptable as yourself I am authorized to request you to engage in it, & take the whole direction in this State, for which we have concluded to allow £1000 Pr Ann ., in specie or the Exchange. It will be necessary for you to move to this City, or at least to reside here yourself , which we are informed you had in Contemplation before You will please to give us your Answer as soon a3 possible, & as the Business is of great Importance to the United States in general & this in particular, we hope you will not decline it. You may depend on being supported in the Office with our utmost Weight & Influence, & that all necessary advances of Money will be made you, to enable you to discharge the Duties of the Office with Ease & Credit so far as our Abilities & Circumstances will admit I am, Sir, Your Friend & Obed., H ’bble Servt., JOS. REED Indorsed, July 25, 1780 Col. Jacob Morgan, Reading, Berks County ’’ General Morgan is the only person who held such commiseionship, and he is supposed to have retained the same until the close of the Revolution, although the latest mention of his name in the State Archives, in this capacity, is under date of October, 1781. In 1779, he became a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, and was placed on its Honorary Roll in 1793, in which year he was elected a member of the Assembly, and was commissioned Brigadier General in the militia, and placed in command of the Second Philadelphia Brigade, continuing in such command until bis death For some years prior to his death he was the leading sugar refiner of Philadelphia. S " G . . . . — . . . . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 50 The Record of Some Resident He married, 29 December, 1764, Barbara, daughter of John Lesher, Esqr., of Olay, Berks County, Children : i. JOHN MORGAN ( of the text ) , bora 27 December, 1767 ; died young ; is probably the “ son who was buried in Christ Church burying ground, 21 November, 1778 " ii, RACHEL MORGAN, born 13 January, 1772 ; died 17 February, 1817 ; married first, 1 January, 1791, Andrew Douglass, who died 4 June, 1802, aged forty years, son of Captain George Douglass of Berks County ; married second, 15 March, 1894, as third wife, Colonel James Ash, who died 24 January, 1830, in the eighty-second year of his age m, THOMAS MORGAN ( of the text ) , born 20 April, 1774 ; died 11 April, 1794 ELIZABETH MORGAN ( of the text ) , was born 26 February, 1783; married 3 September, 1801, William Sergeant, Eaqr., born 1 January, 1776; died 7 March, 1807 ; son of Honorable Jonathan Dickinson. Sergeant, and grandson of Jonathan Dickinson , the first president of Princeton College Mr Sergeant wae graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1782, and admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1795 v GEORGE WASHINGTON MORGAN, married 9 February, 1797, Betty, daughter of George Lieb, Esqr. of Philadelphia, and sister of Honorable Michael Lieb . * . * . . . . . P . 4 CHARLES JENKINS, in. his will of 14 January, 1767, is styled “ Inn Keeper } } It named his father, Stephen Jenkins ; wife Mary ; children Sarah, William, Joseph, Hannah and Mary He married, about 1739, Mary, daughter of Joseph Gray by his wife Mary Hastings Mary Jenkins, in her will dated 30 September, 1792, proved 13 July, 1797, made bequests to: “ daughters Mary Nicholas, Sarah, wife of Josiah Harmar ; son Joseph and his wife Hannah ; son in -law William Kendley ; grand-child Charles Jenkins Kendley and his wife Cynthia, the son of William Kendley and deceased daughter Hannah ; grand children Sarah, Samuel, Nicholas, Charles Jenkins, William and Mary Jenkins Nicholas ( “ children of Samuel Nicholas and my daughter Mary, bis wife ") ; Charles Jenkins Harmar and Eliza Harmar, children of Jo3iah and Sarah Harmar Executors, Cousin George Gray, daughters Mary Nicholas and * Sarah Harmar. JOSEPH GRAY, father of Mrs Jenkins, and son of George Gray of Barbados and Philadelphia,- by his wife Mary, daughter of Alexander Beardsley of Philadelphia, was born in 1696, and died in 1755 His will, in which he named wife Mary, children, Mary wife of Charles Jenkins, Samuel and George, and grandchildren William and Joseph, sons of son William deceased, was proved 10 October in that year His nephew, Honorable George Gray, member of the Pennsylvania Assembly from 1772 until 1775 ; member of the Committee of Safety, 1775 1777, and of the Pennsylvania Board of War from 1777 until the close of the Revolution, of which latter body he was for some time the chairman, was the author of the famous “ Treason Resolutions, " reported to the Assembly by the Committee of which he was the chairman In 1780, he again became a member of the Assembly serving until 1787, and was the speaker of that body in 1783 4 He was a prominent brewer, as had been his father, of the same name, and, as were other members of the Gray family. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and of the State in . . S . . G - . . . - . -. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia. 51 . Schuylkill, the latter “ the oldest social organization in the world J J He died in 1800, at his seat, “ Whitby Hall, ” near Philadelphia For a fuller account of the Gray Family, see “ Our Ancestors, ” 24-30. . 5 COLONEL JAMES COULTAS, a prominent figure in the colonial history of Philadelphia , was born near Whitby, Yorkshire, England, and was a son of Henry Coultas by his wife Margaret Chapman, the latter, it is said, being a great grand-daughter of Sir William Temple, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin Colonel Coultas emigrated to Philadelphia before 1735 He bought a plantation of three hundred acres on the west side of the Schuylkill River, in what was known as Bloekley town ship In 1744, he leased from City Councils the Middle Ferry, which franchise he exercised many years, and, in 1757, he is recorded as making a charge against the City of twelve pounds for ferriage in 1755, of Halket ’s and Dunbar 's regiments of the King 's troops It was prin cipally through his energy that the first steps were taken towards render ing the Schuylkill River navigable. In 1748, he commanded one of the companies of Associators, raised for service in the War then pending, and in February, 1756, he was chosen lieutenant colonel of the County Regiment, of which Jacob Duch 6 was colonel He was High Sheriff of the County from 4 October, 1755, until 25 October, 1758, and was for some years one of the justices of the peace and of the courts of the county. He died without issue, having married, 13 March, 1735, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Mary Ewec. She died 29 November, 1769, as stated in the text. An extended and interesting sketch of Colonel Coultas, by Dr Robert Patterson Robins, will be found in the “ Pennsylvania Magazine of History, ' ’ xi, 50 -57 - . . - . - P . S . . - . 6 JOHN STEINMETZ was a son of Daniel Steinmetz The father came from Germany to Philadelphia, in the ship ‘ i Dragon, '' Charles Hargrave master, in 1732, and took the oath of allegiance there, 30 September , in that year He was a retail merchant, being styled “ shopkeeper ” in sundry land conveyances. He died at Philadelphia, before 23 December, 1760, on which day his will was proved He had wife Anna “ Maria, ” ( Mary ) and children : Jacob, wh-o married and had issue ; Daniel who died in “ foreign parts, ” unmarried and without issue ; Anna Maria (so named in her father ’s will, but called Mary in that of her mother ) married Frederick Schneyder, “ merchant, ” before 19 March , 1761, when he and his wife mortgaged land “ late of Daniel Steinmetz ; John of the text ; Elizabeth who married, first, Valentine Stellwagon of Philadelphia and had issue : John Stellwagon, Daniel Stellwagon and Elizabeth Stell wagon ; married, second, Jacob Schreiner , “ gentleman ”; Cathannc, who married Rev John W G. Nevelling of Hunterdon County, N J ; Susanna , who married as first wife, 26 March, 1768, Dr Jacob Swope, and Margaret who married 4 March , 1770, William Bell, “ merchant ” The will of the widow of Daniel Steinmetz, made 20 May, 1771, and proved at Philadelphia, 10 September, 1789, gives her Christian name as Mary JOHN STEINMETZ, the son, was born, in 1740, probably at Philadelphia He doubtless received his early business training in the store of his father, G . . . , ” , . - . . . . , . . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . PGM Vol IX The Record of Some Resident 52 and, shortly after the latter ?s death, engaged in trade on his own account, becoming one of the principal wholesale merchants and importers of his day in Philadelphia, In 1765, he was one of the signers of the Non importation Agreement On 27 January, 1776, he and his partner and brother-in law, Henry Keppele, presented their petition to Congress " claiming satisfaction for the loss of their ship and cargo seized by one of the King 's Ships of War " Mr Steinmetz was a warm supporter of the cause of Independence. In 1780, he subscribed two thousand dollars to the Pennsylvania Bank to raise provisions for the Continental Army, and in that year, and in several subsequent years, he was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly A candidate on the Con stitutional ticket for delegate to the State Constitutional Conven tion of 1787, he failed of election He died at Philadelphia, 6 September, 1803 The newspaper notice of his death, reads : "Died, on Tuesday morning last, at his Seat near the Old York Road, JOHN STEINMETZ, Esquire, aged sixty three years, for upwards for forty years an eminent merchant of this City, and for several years a representative for this City in the Legislature of Penn sylvania " In his will, dated 16 April, 1802, he is styled " Esquire " The instrument named four children : John Sally wife of John H, Brinton, Elisabeth and Daniel , He married, 18 April, 1765, Maria Cath arine, daughter of John Henry Keppele, Esqr , of Philadelphia, by his wife Anna Catharine Barbara Bauer, and granddaughter of Hans Caspar Wistar, founder of the Philadelphia family of that surname Children of John and Maria Catharine ( Keppele) Steiometz : i. JOHN STEINMETZ, baptized " John Henry, " born 5 Pebru ary, 1766 ; died 22 August, 1811 His newspaper obituary reads : Died on the 22d instant, at his Seat, Eslington Hall, near the Ridge Road, in the 44 th year of his age, MB JOHN STEINMETZ, formerly a respectable merchant of this City " ANNA MARIA STEINMETZ , born 28 January, 1767 ; died young 11, SARAH STEINMETZ ( of the text ) , born 26 June, 1769 ; died in. died 12 December, 1843 ; married John Hill Brinton, Esqr iv GEORGE STEINMF/CZ ( named in text ) , born 18 July, 3770 ; died young v ELIZABETH STEINMETZ, died unmarried. VI. DANIEL STEINMETZ (of the text ) , born 29 November, 1776 ; died in 1840 ; married Elizabeth Le Viscount Clinton, GEORGE STEINMETZ ( of the text ) , born 7 December, 1785 ; vii probably died young, as he is not named in his father ’s will SARAH STEINMETZ, daughter of John Steinmetz and Maria Catharine Keppele, born at Philadelphia, 26 June, 1769 ; died there 12 December, 1843 ; married, 30 April, 1795, John Hill Brinton, Esqr , born in Cheater County, 18 August, 1772 ; died at Philadelphia, 7 May, 1827 Mr Brinton was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1790 ; studied law, was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1793, and became one of the prominent lawyers of his day He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and from 1806 until 1822, a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania - . - . . . - . . - . P . , , , - . S . ( ( I m # + 4 . . . . G . - W . . . . . . . . . . Children : * 1, CATHARINE ANN BRINTON, born 4 June, 1796 ; died 22 April, 1866 ; married, 16 May, 1816, Edward Ingersoll, Esqr., sou of Honorable Jared Ingersoll Issue: 1. Catharine . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 53 In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia . , . . , . , . , . . . . . ** JJ , * . Ingersoll who married William Tilghman, Escjr , and had issue 2 Sarah Frederica Ingersoll who married William Phillips, and had issue 3. Jared Ingersoll who married Jane Truefitt, and had issue. 3 Elisabeth Ingersoll who marrietj William Lowber, M D , U S N , and had issue JOHN STEINMETZ BRINTON , born 20 July, 1798 ; died 4 December, 1825 ; married 25 February, 1825, Adelaide Gouveneur She died 9 August, 1825 ELIZABETH STEINMETZ BRINTON , horn 15 March, 1800 ; married, 14 September, 1820, Dr George McClellan, an eminent physician of Philadelphia, of whom, see sketch He in 11 Appleton ’s Cyclopedia of American Biography was born at Woodstock, Connecticut, 23 December, 1796, and died at Philadelphia, 9 May, 1847 Issue : 1 Dr John 3UI Brinton McClellan , born at Philadelphia , 13 August, 1823 ; died at Edinburgh, Scotland , 20 July, 1874 ; an eminent physician and medical teacher ; married Maria Eldridge, and had issue, of whom, is the late Dr George McClellan of Philadelphia. 2 Sarah Frederica McClellan , married Thomas C English, Esqr , and had issue 3 General George Brinton McClellan the noted military commander of the Civil War, born 3 December, 1826 ; died 29 October, 1885 ; married Mary Ellen Marcy, and had issue 4 fValter Livingston McClellan died young 5. Arthur S McClellan 6 Mary Phillips McClellan ANNA MARIA BRINTON, bom 5 September, 1801 ; died 18 . August, 1876 ; married , 4 October, 1832, Honorable Charles Sidney Coxe, a noted jurist of Philadelphia , born at Philadelphia , 31 July, 1791 ; died there, ] 9 November, 1879 ; son of Honorable Tench Coxe Issue ; 1 Brinton Coxe , born 3 August, 1833 ; died 15 September, 1892 ; lawyer and author, and President of the Historical Society of * Pennsylvania, 1884-1892 ; married, 10 October, 1872, Maria Middleton , daughter of Joshua Francis Fisher, Esq* ,, and had issue 2 Anne Brinton Coxe 3. Rebecca S Coxe , 4 Mary Coxe, died in infancy 5. Henry Brinton Coxe , born 6 February, 1841; married Isabella, daughter of Alexander Brown, and had issue 6. Alexander Brinton Coxe married Sophia, daughter of Bichard Norris, and had issue 7, Honorable Eckley Brinton Coxe born 4 June, 1839; died 13 May, 1896; married Sophia Georgianna, daughter of Joshua Francis Fisher, Esqr 8 Major Charles Brinton Coxe, born 4 February, 1843 j died 3 January, 1873 ; married Elizabeth S Sinkler 9 John Brinton Coxe died in infancy GEORGE BRINTON , born 7 March, 1804 ; died 30 Tunc, 1858 ; married 27 July, 1831, Mary Margaret, daughter of Honorable Charles Smith, EL,D., and grandson of Rever end William Smith, D. D , the first Provost of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. Issue : 1 John Hill Brinton M D , born 21 May, 1832 ; one of the leading physicians of Philadelphia, and for many years a pro fessor in the Jefferson Medical College ; married, 13 Sep tember, 1866, Sarah Ward, and had issue 2 Mary Teates Brinton born 22 November, 1834 3 Sarah Fredericka Brinton born 23 June, 1839 ; married in 1860, the eminent Jacob M DaCosta, M D , of Philadelphia, and had issue 4 Margaret E Yeates Brinton born 3 Sep tember, 1843; married 5 November, 1868, N Chapman Mitchell, Esq* , and had issue KEPPELE BRINTON, born 17 June, 1805 ; died 1 March, 1806. SARAH FREDERICA BRINTON, born 10 February, 1808 ; died 32 May 1869 ; married, 29 December, 1831, William White i . . in . . .’’ . . . . iv. . . . , , P . . . . . . . . , . , . . *i vii 1924 . , . . . . . . . . . . . , v. . . G , * . . . . . . . . S . vi. . .. .. . . . . . , . -, - , Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX The Record of Some Resident 54 Jr., Esqr., born 1 July, 1810; died 20 December, 1858, and had issue. Wm. White was a son of Thomas Montgomery White, and grandson of Bight Reverend William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania. vm. MARY C, BRINTON, born 10 July, 1809 ; married 25 October, 1838, Clement Stocker Phillips, and had issue. DANIEL STEINMETZ, son of John Steinmetz by his wife Catharine Keppele, was born 29 November, 1776 ; died in 1840; married, 1 March, 1808, Elizabeth LeViscount, daughter of Robert Clinton, by his wife Margaxetta Whitesides, born 7 August, 1790 ; died 27 October, 1865. Children : I. SARAH STEINMETZ , died young. CATHARINE STEINMETZ, married William Mann, M. D., and u. had issue. m. ELIZABETH STEINMETZ, born S February, 1810 ; married 27 October, 1831, Thomas Bireb, born 1 May, 1812 ; died 21 February, 1883, and had issue, iv. JOHN STEINMETZ, died in infancy. V. LOUISA STEINMETZ, married Edwin Smith, M. D., and had issue. vi . MARY STEINMETZ. DANIEL STEINMETZ, married Emma Taylor, and had issue, VII. vm. CHARLOTTE STEINMETZ. ix. GEORGE STEINMETZ, married Maria Lloyd, and had issue. x. JOHN STEINMETZ , born 22 September, 1830 ; died 30 July, 1877 ; married 5 November, 1857, Frances Morris, daughter of Oliver Spencer Janney, and had issue. A Chart of the Steinmetz Family, containing the names of six generations, has been prepared by Major Joseph AUison Steinmetz, a son of John and Frances M. ( Janney ) Steinmetz. xi. MARY A. STEINMETZ , married John C. Miller, and had issue. - , * * " P *4 # « * « * S ' 7 WILLIAM STANDLEY, father of Mrs. Twells, and eldest son of Luke Standley was born in 1725, and died 9 August, 1807 He married, 17 September, 1748, Elizabeth Fulton, who died 10 February, 1793, in the seventy-second year of her age He was one of the leading potters of his day On 1 May, 1754, he was elected a member of that ancient institution, the “ State in Schuylkill, * * and in the same year, became a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital His will, dated 11 June, 1807, named daughter Sarah Twells ; grand-children Godfrey and Elizabeth Twells ; grand -children William, Richard, and Hugh, children of my late son Richard, deceased ; ” Maria and Sarah Slyhoff , “ children of Michael and Margaret Slyhoff , ” and Rev Joseph Pilmore, and appointed as executors, daughter Sarah Twells, and “ my old friend ’ 1 Lawrence Seckel The will of his brother, Mark Standley of Philadelphia, “ merchant, ” dated 8 December, 1757, shows him to have bad children, Richard, Sarah and William at that time . G . . . “ . . . 8 GODFREY TWELLS, born at Royston, Cambridgeshire, England, circa 1743, died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19 January, 1802, “ in his 59 th year, ” as is told by his gravestone in Christ Church burying ground He came to Philadelphia sometime prior to bis marriage, and established himself in the brewing business, becoming one of the prin - . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia , 55 . cipal brewers in that City In 1795 he succeeded to the business of Reuben Haines, who was the leading brewer in Philadelphia, and was the one chosen to lead the Company of Master Brewers in the noted Federal procession of 4 July, 1789, to celebrate the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. In 1801, Casper W Morris became a partner of Mr Twells, under the firm name of Twells, Morris & Company Although a native’ of England, Mr Twells gave cordial support to the cause of Independence, and on 30 June, 1775, he was chosen one of the signers of the Bills of Credit issued by Pennsylvania in ' support of the Revolutionary struggle. In October, of the same year, he became a member of the famous Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse, now known as the First Troop of Philadelphia City Cavalry, and re mained so until 10 September, 1787, when his name was placed on the Honorary Roll of that organization He married, according to the text, 20 September, 1770, Sarah, daughter of William Standley, bom at Philadelphia, 23 April, 1752; died there, 13 July, 1829. Mr. Twells made his will 9 September, 1801, in which was named : wife Sarah ; father in-law William Standley ; daughter Elizabeth, and sons Godfrey, Standley, Edward and Richard. Children ( all of whom, with the exception of the eons mentioned in the will, are named in the text ) : 1. SON, died at birth, 8 March, 1772 11* WILLIAM: TWELLS, born 22 February, 1773 ; buried 25 July, 1778 III EDWARD TWELLS, born 16 September, 1774 ; buried 25 February, 1776, IV. JOHN TWELLS, bora 16 September, 1776; buried 24 August, 1783 V, CHARLES TWELLS, born 17 June, 1778 ; buried 23 November, 1779 VI . SARAH TWELLS, bora 30 August , 1779 ; buried 2 January, 1780. * Vll . ELIZABETH TWELLS, born 3 August , 1781 ; married Edward LfOwber, M D viii, GODFREY TWELLS , died 9 December, 1825, in the 40th year of his age He had been a merchant in Philadelphia, but retired from business and removed to Delaware County, where he died SARAH GOODMAN TWELLS, born 27 November, 1785 IX STANDLEY TWELLS, born in 1788 ; died 12 June, 1842. EDWARD TWELLS, bora 25 February, 1789 ; died 22 Decem XI . ber, 1828 ; married Sarah Wharton Chancellor XL 1 , RICHARD TWELLS, born circa 1792 ; died 27 February, 1852, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. ELIZABETH TWELLS, of the text, daughter of Godfrey Twells by his wife Sarah Standley, was born at Philadelphia, 3 August, 1781 ; married 26 August, 1809, Dr Edward Lowlier, born 6 October, 1784 ; a descend ant of the early Lowber family of Kent County, Delaware. In 1804, he was graduated A B., and in 1807, M. D , at the University of Penn sylvania, and practiced medicine in Philadelphia In 1809 lie was appointed Lazaretto Physician Children: WILLIAM TWELLS LOWBER, married Susan Worrell. L SAJIAH LOWBER, died unmarried , 11. in MARY LOWBER died 25 October, 5852 ; married , as second wife, John Welsh, United States Minister to the Court of St James. . . . . - - P . . # . - S m m* . . G * . . . . . . . - - . . . . . - # . . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 56 The Record of Some Resident EDWARD TWELLS, eon of Godfrey Twells by his wife Sarah Sfcandley, and second to bear that Christian name, born at Philadelphia, 25 Febru ary, 1789 ; died there, 22 December, 1828; married 8 February, 1816, Sarah Wharton, daughter of William Chancellor by his wife Hannah, daughter of Joseph Wharton, born in 1797 ; died 19 October, 1863 On 3 August, 1812, he became a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, from which he resigned 22 November, 1817 Children: i. WILLIAM CHANCELLOR TWELLS, bom in 1816 ; died 22 March, 1852 ; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835 EDWARD TWELLS . XL HANNAH CHANCELLOR TWELLS, died 15 September , 1888 ; 111, married Joseph Tiers, who was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania , and had issue iv. SARAH TWELLS, married Lewis F. Robertson of South Carolina, and had issue ANN FRANCES TWELLS, died 31 March, 1901. vi * ELIZABETH L TWELLS, . died 4 November, 1863 ; married Gustavus English, and had issue * Vll MART TWELLS, died 1 June, 1892. - . . . « 4 I * . . . . . P # 9 CAPTAIN JAMES PEARSON, the eldest son of Thomas Pearson, by his wife Hannah, daughter of John Blunston, Jr., and grand daughter of Hon , John Blunston many years a member of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, was bora at Darby, near Philadelphia, 1 November, 1735, and died at Philadelphia, 20 August, 1813 A master carpenter and builder and also a prominent surveyor, he was for twenty -seven years one of the managers of the Carpenters ’ Company, and a member of the Committee of that organization under whose direction the famous Carpenters ’ Hall was built In 1782 he was appointed one of the Surveyors of Philadelphia, and retained this position until hie death On 3 June, 1769, he was one of the Committee to assist David Ritten house in taking the transit of Venus ; and in 1780, be was commissioned Captain of the Fourth Company, Philadelphia Artillery Battalion. His will, dated 17 August, 1813, named wife Susanna and children Henry Paschall Pearson, Mary Pearson, Jane Serrill, Hannah Pearson, James Hart Pearson, Anna Pearson, Susanna Powers and Martha B Pearson His other children has doubtless died previously Eight children of the second marriage are mentioned in the text He married, first, 18 October, 1758, Mary, daughter of Dr John and Frances Paschall of Darby, who died 25 January, 1764, His second marriage, 6 October, 1767, was to Susanna, daughter of Thomas Hart by his wife Mary Combs, Children by first wife : i. John Paschall Pearson, buried 24 January, 1764 ii Henry Paschall Pearson Issue by second wife : iii 2' homes Pearson born 26 July, 1768 ; died young, iv. Mary Pearson born 8 March, 1770 v Sarah Pearson, born 23 December, 1773 vi Elisabeth Pearson, born £ 7 March, 1778 vii Jane Pearson, born 19 January, 1779 ; died 13 viii James Hart December, 1844 ; married Captain George Serrill Pearson born 10 November, 1781. ix Thomas Hart Pearson, born 19 June, 1783 x Anne Pearson, bora 9 February, 1785 xi. Susanna Pearson married 28 May, 1808, Thomas Powers, of Philadelphia, by whom she had a son, the late Thomas Henry Powers, wealthy manu - S . . G . - . . . . , . . , 1924 . . . . . . . . Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania , . . . . . . . . PGM Vol IX 57 In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia . facto re r and capitalist, whose daughter, Mary Powers, married John Campbell Harris, Esqr xii Hannah Pearson, xiii Martha B Pearson, born circa 1790; died 8 May, 1869, aged 79 years . . . . . 10 CAPTAIN SAMUEL S. VEACOCK , died 2 December, 1811, aged thirty eight years and seven months, Ann, his wife, died 26 March, 1866, in eighty-eighth year, Both are buried at St. Peter ’s, as are their daugb ters, Jane Veacock , who died 5 December, 1858, and Sarah, of the text, who died 21 June, 1875, widow of William Eckhart Lehman, Esqr., son of Dr. George Lehman by his wife Catharine Eckhart. William Eckhart Lehman died at Philadelphia, 26 June, 1854, in the sixty fifth year of his age. His father , Dr. Lehman , was Postmaster of Philadelphia from 1845 until 1849. Honorable William E Lehman , son of William Eckhart Lehman, by his wife Sarah Veacock, was born in Philadelphia, 21 August, 1821, and died at Atlantic City, New Jersey, 10 July, 1895; was graduated in 1841 at the University of Pennsylvania ; admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1844, was member of Congress in 1861-63 and, in the latter year, was Captain and Provost Marshal of U. S. Volunteers, First District, Pennsylvania. P . 11 JOHN ODENHEIMER, born in Germany circa 1720, came from Mayence on the Rhine to Pennsylvania in 1742, in the ship Loyal Judith, ’’ and on 3 September, of that year, took the oath of allegiance at Phila delphia, where he settled, becoming a flour merchant On 29 June, 1766, he purchased of Dr. Thomas Oadwalader, a lot of ground at the South East corner of Fifth and Market Streets, where he built a large threestory brick house, with open grounds planted with trees and shrubbery, fronting on Market Street, where he resided On 28 September, 1771, he bought of Joseph Mather, a plantation of one hundred find seventy seven acres, called * ' Ridley, ” situated on Ridley Creek, in Chester, to which he removed prior to 1 July, 1782, when he sold his estate on Market Street, Philadelphia, to William Sheaff , merchant, for £2500, being described in the deed of conveyance as < ( o f Chester, Gent J } In 1764, he became a member of the German Society of Philadelphia, and in 1774, a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital. He died on his plantation at Chester, 5 or 24 of September, 1807 He married 17 September, 1761, at St Paul ’s, Philadelphia, Mary, daughter of John. Henry Keppele, Esqr., wine merchant, born at Heilbron, Wurtemburg, in 1716, by his wife Anna Catbarina Barbara Bauer, She died in 1793, Both were buried at St Michael % Philadelphia Michael Keppele, mayor of Philadelphia, in 1811, was of this family Children (so far as known ) , probably bom in the order named, as they are thus given in a deed dated 31 January, 1799 : J. MARGARET ODENHEIMER , married 12 May, 1791, George Kerlin, son of William Kerlin of Chester, and had issue, n. JOHN ODENHFJMER , died unmarried, 26 November, 1816 ; was commissioned Coroner of Delaware County, 17 October , 1795, and served until October, 1798, when he was com missioned High Sheriff of the County, in which he served three years, and was re-elected to the same office, 16 October, 1804, serving again for the usual term of three years In 1802, he was chosen one of the County Commissioners ‘‘ - S . - . G - . . . . . . - . . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 58 The Record of Some Resident m i . ni HENRY ODENHEIMER, died at Chester in 1794 ; married Sarah Kerlin. iv. GEORGE ODENHEIMER ( named in the text ) , bom 10 August, 1771, probably died young v. KEPPELE ODENHEIMER ( named in the text ) , born 20 Novem ber, 1772 ; joined in a deed 31 January, 1799 vi. CATHARINE GROSS ODENHEIMER, married Major Thomas Hiil Brinton. For issue of , see GENEALOGY OP THE BRINTON FAMILY. * vii WILLIAM ODENHEIMER, died 29 November, 1821. ** YJH, MARY ODENHEIMER, born circa 1778 ; died 29 December, 1869 ; married Peter Deshong,* of Cheater, and had issue : 1. John Odenheimer Deshong . 2. Maurice W Deshong . 3 Lcntise Deshong Mrs. Deshong was Postmistress at Chester for a number of years ix. SARAH ODENHEIMER , probably died unmarried . HENRY ODENHEIMER, the one time proprietor of the * i Washington House, '' at Chester, then the best known hostelry between Philadelphia and Baltimore, born at Philadelphia ; died at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1794; married Sarah, daughter of William Kerlin, a prominent citizen of Chester. After Mr. Odenheimer 's death, his widow married Major Joseph Piper, of that place, who succeeded to the management of the hotel, by whom she also had issue. Children : i. JOHN WILLIAM ODENHEIMER , merchant of Philadelphia ; died at Burlington, New Jersey, 4 July, 187<J, in the eighty seventh year of his age ; married Henrietta Burns and was the father of that indefatigable parish priest and scholarly churchman, the Bt Bev. William Henry OdeDheimer, D D., 1817-1879, for twenty years rector of St Peter 's, Phila delphia, 1839-1859, which charge he resigned to become Bishop of New Jersey, 13 October, 1859. In 1874 he was consecrated Bishop of the new Diocese of Northern New Jersey He is said to have confirmed nearly twenty thousand . - . * . . . . P . S - . . . . G persons. ii , WILLIAM HENRY ODENHEIMER, born in 1792 ; died 12 November, 1815 ; was appointed Midshipman in the United States Navy, through the influence of Commodore Truxton, an intimate friend of his parents. He was with Commodore David Porter on board the Essex , in the War of 1812, " at the battle of Valparaiso, and for his bravery and heroic conduct, was promoted Lieutenant. He was stationed on board the Franklin seventy-four gun ship, after the war, and lost his life from a severe cold caught by jumping overboard to save the life of the steward who was near drowning. He was buried w'ith military honors at St. Michael 's Church, Philadelphia. , 12 JAMES BEYNOLDS was one of the police commissioners appointed by Lord Howe on the capture of Philadelphia. He was a vestryman of Christ Church, in 1774, 1778, and 1780, and a Warden in 1777. He died at Philadelphia, 20 October, 1794, and his wife, Elizabeth, died there, 16 May, 1783, aged forty-four years, and both were buried ia Christ Church ground The Philadelphia Gazette of 27 October, 1794, makes this mention of Mr Beynolds ' death : “ On Monday evening a . . * For some aieeount of the Eteshon CHESTER," pp, 3o£, 3G7 * 1924 ^ family Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Martin 's "HRSTORY OF PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia. 59 . last departed this life, in the 58th year of his age, Mr JAMES REYNOLDS, carver and gilder, of this City ; and on Tuesday evening his remains, at tended by a number of respectable citizens, were interred in Christ Church burial ground Arch Street His children will have reason long to lament the love of a kind indulgent father. His relations and acquaintances, a faithful friend, and Society, an active honest man, > The records of Christ Church give the baptisms of sis children of James and Elizabeth Reynolds: l. MARY REYNOLDS, born 9 November, 1700, ANN REYNOLDS, bom 20 October, 1768, ii , * ELIZABETH REYNOLDS, born 18 December, 1770, died young , in. iv. JAMES REY NOLDS (of the text ) , born 15 December, 1772. HENRY REYNOLDS ( of the text ) , born 8 October, 1774 ; v. married 15 December, 1796, Peggy, daughter of Henry Naglee vi SARAH REYNOLDS ( of -the text ) , born 24 August, 1770. vii . ELIZABETH REYNOLDS ( of the text ) , born 4 January, 1778. — — . j . * f e e - . . 13 ADAM GUIER, a wealthy farmer and grazier, resided at Kingsessing, Philadelphia, and died there in November, 1789. Of him, Jacob Hilt zeimer, the diarist, said , under date of 15 November, 1789 : “ Attended the funeral of Adam Greyer, but, finding be was to be buried at Kingsessing could not go being unprepared for thet distance '' Upon the capture of Philadelphia by the British, Lord Howe stationed, troops on Mr Guier 's plantation, and quartered some of them in his mansion house Such occupation resulted in great damage to Mr Guier, his loss there from being later appraised at £2284, 13», 6d. At his death, Mr. Guier was possessed of a large landed estate, located in Philadelphia, Cumberland, Luzerne, and Northumberland counties, Pennsylvania, and also in Dela ware and Virginia, and the account filed at the settlement of his estate indicates that he was a partner in several commercial firms By his will, dated 28 October, and proved 23 November, 1789, he gave a legacy to the United Swedish Churches of Wiccacoe, Kingsessing, and Upper Merion, and another for the use of the school at Kingsessing It is also learned from his will that he held a certificate for £4050 in specie due to him by the State of Pennsylvania, He left bequests to his wife and five children and to nephew and nieces : John, Elizabeth and Mary Ann, children of his late sister, wife of William Lowman He married, first, 21 February, 1761, Jane Meakaon or Maekson ; * second, 28 December, 1771, Mary Kearney. His children , with the ex ception of the son Adam, were by the first marriage Children : i MARY GUIER, died 30 November, 1809 ; married David Seckel. ’ q v, ii. JOHN GUIER , married 12 June, 1788, Dorothy, daughter of George Cooper of Philadelphia She died 2 February, 1823 Mr Guier was a wine merchant By deed of 12 June, 1813, his wife joined him in conveying an estate to their children, to wit : Maria Cooper Sheatf , Sophia Gray, John Guier, Junr., and Adam Guier. The two sons were residents of Union County, Pennsylvania, on or before 11 October, 1821. P - . . . - S . - G . . . . . - . . . . . ' * St. Michael’s and Zion Church Records. t Philadelphia Deed Root . G . W. R . No. o. f . 3S. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX The Record of Some Resident 60 The daughter, Maria Cooper, married first, James Kennedy ; second, Henry Seekel Sheaff ; third, Thomas Scott The daughter, Sophia, married Robert E Gray, one of the leading brewers of Philadelphia iii. WILLIAM GUIER, married 21 June, 1787, Susanna, youngest daughter of George David Seekel. q. v. Mr Guier was a merchant, and on 19 May, 1794, he became a member of the Troop of Philadelphia Light Horse, now known as the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. iv JANE GUIER. v. ADAM GUIER ( of the text ) , born 12 January, 1773 ; died in infancy. vi. ADAM GUIER, died 25 August , 1832, aged fifty-seven years, six months, and twenty -three days, as is learned from his tombstone in the graveyard of St Thomas ’s Episcopal Church, Kingsessing, Philadelphia He married, 13 October, 1796, Mary, only daughter of Lawrence Seekel, Esq* , by his wife Barbara Christler q. v. . . . . . . . . 1 . 14 GEORGE DAVID SECKEL, father of John David Seekel, of the text, was a native of Germany, and died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1798 He is no doubt the George David ‘‘Sockel ’’ who came to Philadelphia in the ship “ Betsey, ” Richard Budd n, master, and took the oath of allegiance there, 27 August, 1739 It is possible that his parents had previously come to America, as it is evident that he had brothers and sisters in Philadelphia He was a land owner in that City, and in his will, dated 15 December, 1784, proved 30 November, 1798, is styled “ Gentle He married, 17 August, 1745, Ann Catharine Enkels, or Ann man Maria Catharine Enkels,* called “ Mary Catharine in his will She died before her husband Both were members of St Miehael ’s and Zion Lutheran Church, where their marriage is recorded, and where most, if not all, of their children were baptized. Children : i. LAWRENCE SECKEL, born 11 May, 1747 ; died 6 March, 1823; married (1) Barbara Chrystler ; ( 2 ) Maria Graeff . JOHN DAVID SECKEL, born 29 January, 1749 ; died 6 Novem u. ber, 1815; married Mary Guier • in MARIA BARBARA SECKEL, baptized in 1751; died 13 August, 1817 ; married William Sheaff , iv GEORGE FREDERICK SECKEL, born 13 January, 1754 ; died un married in 1792 His will was proved 10 May, 1792 V. WILHELM SECKEL, born 16 March, 1757 ; died unmarried, HENRY SECKEL, born 26 March, 1759 ; died in 1797 ; a wine vi merchant ; married 24 June, 1785, Sophia, daughter of George Cooper She died in September, 1798 Issue: 1 George David Seckel , died of yellow fever, 29 September, 1798 2 Henry Seckel , who is described in deed of 5 April, 1813, as “ of Bristol township ’’ when, with wife Alice, he conveyed land to his brother, John Cooper Seckel, 3 John Cooper Seckel , with wife Eliza joined in deed of 5 April, 1813 4 Joshua Cooper Seckel , whose wife Catharine, daughter of Anders Eisenhut, died 6 March, 1821; he married, second, Mary E Wilstach 5 Sophia Cooper Seckel , married 15 April, 1813, Joseph Gray, Jr., “ mariner, ” and with him joined in a deed of 25 May, 1825. . ^ P . . S .” m »* . G . iv - ”. . - . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . * Family papers of the late David Pepper of Philadelphia. St. Michael's and Zion give the bride’s name as Frau Eckelst. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Records of PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry, Philadelphia. 61 . SUSANNA SECKEL, married 21 June, 1787, William Guier. viii. PHILIP SECKEL, died 24 April, 1815, aged forty years; married 28 June, 1795, Elizabeth McCutcheon. vu # LAWHENCE SECKEL, eldest son of George David Seckel, was bora at Philadelphia, 11 May, 1747 ; died 6 March, 1823. He was a merchant, and a prominent citizen of Philadelphia, where he served as a member of City Councils, and of the Board of Port Wardens, and also as a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly. He was deeply interested in charitable and philanthropic matters, was a founder and first treasurer of St. John 'te Evangelical Lutheran Church , Philadelphia, the first to be organized as an exclusively English Lutheran Church, and the only one which has maintained a continuous existence since 1806. From 1790 until 1820, Mr. Seckel was a manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital ; was some years a manager of the Philadelphia Dispensary, and a trus tee of the Young Ladies Seminary, of which the Reverend Samuel Magaw was the president. He married, first, 18 August, 1775, Barbara, daugh ter of Jacob Chrystler. She was living 5 April, 1779, when she joined her husband in a deed. He married, second, 31 July, 1783, Maria Graeff. By his first wife he had but one child, Mary, and by his second wife he is known to have had two sons, and one daughter. It is possible that he had other children. _ 1 P - Children : MART SECKEL, married Adam Guier q , v. i. li . GEORGE L SECKEL, married 11 August, 1806, Elizabeth Habucker, and had issue iii , LAWRENCE SECKEL, JR., buried 3 September, 1817, aged twenty seven years, seven months and six days ; is probably the one of this name who served in the War of 1812, in the Second Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse, under Captain William Rawle, Junr. The military service may relate to his cousin, Lawrence Seckel, a son of John David Seckel, iv CATHARINE SECKEL , buried in St John 's Lutheran Churchyard, 22 September, 1815, aged thirty one years, four months and twenty days JOHN DAVID SECKEL, SO baptized, the second son of George David Seckel, was bora at Philadelphia, 29 January, 1749 ; died there, 6 November, 1815 In a deed executed by him and his wife in 1800, he is styled “ gentle man " He was a large landed proprietor He owned League Island, a tract of over two hundred and twelve acres, and there had his country seat He had other large holdings in the southern section of the City, some of which are within the bounds of the recently established League Island Park On one of his farms was a pear tree, which is said to he the progenitor of what is known as the “ Seckel " pear. Mr Seckel 's town house was at the north - west corner of Eighth and Market Streets, where now stands the extensive buildings of Strawbridge & Clothier He was married by the Rev William H Muhlenberg, 18 June, 1776, to Mary, daughter of Adam Guier, q. v., a wealthy resident of Kiugsessing, bora 28 November, 1760 ; died 30 November, 1809 Mrs. Seckel, her husband and several of their children were buried in the grounds of St John ’s Lutheran Church * . . . - S v . G . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . * All that was mortal of those of the Seckel name buried In St. John’s Churchyard was removed to the George David Seckel lot in Laurel Hill In July , 1924 , when the church property was condemned by the Delaware River Bridge Commission and ordered demolished . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX The Record of Some Resident 62 Children: i . . *9 u f in, iv, - GEORGE DAVID SECKEL, born 22 February, 1778 ; died un married 4 November, 1857 ; buried at Laurel Hill, MART CATHARINE SECKEL, of the text, born 7 June, 1780 ; died 21 June, 1861 ; married George Pepper, Esqr. q. v. SUSANNA SECKEL, born 7 August, 1782 ; died 28 August, 1782. ADAM SECKEL, boro 3 October, 1784 ; died 22 May, 1842 ; married, and had issue. He was a brewer, and, with his brother Lawrence, conducted what was known as the i t Pennsylvania Brewery ” His brother, George David Seckel, in his will, dated 1 November, 1854, names among other legatees, Mary Seckel and Gertrude Jennens, ‘ 1 daugh ters of my brother Adam Seckel, deceased ’’ JOHN DAVID SECKEL, born 5 February, 1786 ; died 28 Sep tember, 1818 ; married, and had issue His brother, George David Seckel, in will mentioned above, gives a legacy to i t John David Seckel, son of my brother John David Seckel. * * JANE MART SECKEL, born 10 April, 1788 ; died 24 October, . - . V, . . vi 1788. * WILLIAM SECKEL, boro 28 October, 1789 ; died 28 November, vn 1815 ; buried at St John 's. vrn FREDERICK GUIER SECKEL, born 25 March, 1792 ; died 15 July, 1792, FREDERICK SECKEL, born 13 September, 1793; died 3 Decem ix ber, 1849 ; was a brewer, and at one time, the partner of his brother in -law, George Pepper, and at another, of his brother Adam Seckel On 13 May, 1816, he was elected a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, from which he resigned, 2 December, 1826 LAWRENCE DAVID SECKEL, born 10 November, 1795 ; died at x. Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, 13 May, 1836 ; married 23 May, 1816, Marie, daughter of John Burgess. xi HENRY DAVID SECKEL, born 5 November, 1797 ; died at Sea, 2 January, 1831 MARIA BARBARA SECKEL, eldest daughter of George David Seckel, by hia wife Ann Maria Catharine Enkels, was boro at Philadelphia, in 1751; died there, 13 August, 1817 ; married 1 July, 1773, William Sheaff , who died 11 August, 1803, aged fifty -eight years Mr Sheaff was a prominent and wealthy wine merchant of Philadelphia, and one of its influential citizens By his will, made three days before his death, he gave his entire estate to his wife, making no mention of children, but from the will of his widow and other sources, it is learned that, he had theso here given Children : i. MARIA CATHARINE SHEAFF, married 6 August, 1795,* Henry William Muhlenberg, son of the Honorable Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, boro in 1772 ; died in 1805. Issue : 1 Reverend William Augusttts Muhlenberg , D D . 1796 1877 ; died unmarried, was an eminent Episcopal clergyman, of whom see sketch in ‘* Descendants of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, ' * printed by the Pennsylvania German Society in 1900 2. Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg died un married, 3 Mary Ann Muhlenberg, married John Rogers, and had issue 11. ANN CATHARINE SHEAFF, married 26 July, 1798, John Keppele Ilelmuth, a graduate of the University of Penn sylvania, and a son of the noted Lutheran clergyman, Bev . # . . P « » # . - . . G . . S . - . . . . , . . # * . - , - . - * Records of St. Michael’s and Zion Churches. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia . .. 63 erend Justus Christian Henry Helmuts , D D , by his wife Barbara Keppele He died 19 June, 1839 Issue : 1 Henry William Helmuth, 2, William Sheaf Helmuth M D married first, Ann Elizabeth Sima ; second, Mary King Belt 3 Maria Barbara Helmuth 4 Ann Catharine Helmuth. 5 John Henry Helmuth married Janette Tod 6 iSusanna Helmuth 7 Caroline Helmuth married George Zantzinger 8 Elisabeth Helmuth, married Thomas Cuth bert Percival 9 George Helmuth. 10 Richard Helmuth ( twin ). m* GEORGE SHEAFF, born in 1779 ; died in September, 1851; married 26 June, 1800, Ann Catharine, daughter of Honor able Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, born in 1781; died in 1865 Issue: 1 William John Sheaff married Eugenia Frances, daughter of John S Hiester by his wife, Mary Catharine Muhlenberg and had : CATHARINE ELISABETH SHEAFF, who married Alexander Murray Stewart, and ELLEN FRANCES SHEAFF, who married General David McMurtrie Gregg, a distinguished cavalry officer of the Civil War, and recently, Auditor General of Pennsylvania 2. George David Sheaff 3. Frederick Augustus Sheaff 4 Ann Catharine Sheaff 5. Mary Sheaff married George Eigenbrodt, no issue 6 Ellen Sheaff . 7. Henry Muhlenberg Sheaff 8 Emmeline Sheaff married James Horatio Watmough, some years Paymaster General of the United States Navy. 9. John Peter Dmid Sheaff married Fanny Platt, no issue iv WILLIAM SHEAFF, died 6 October, 1803, without issue v. HENRY SECKEL SHEAFF, died 13 August, 1813, without issue ; became a member of the First Troop of Philadelphia City Cavalry, in 1809, and married Maria Cooper, daughter of John Guier by his wife Dorothy Cooper , JOHN D SHEAFF, called “ of Philadelphia, gentleman, ’ J in vi, deed of 16 May, 1846. TIL SUSANNA SHEAFF, born in 1783 ; died 2 April, 1831, aged forty eight years and four months ; buried at Christ Church ; married Thomas Barton Zantzinger, Esq , son of Captain Paul Zantzinger of Dancaster, Pennsylvania by his wife Esther, daughter of Rev Thomas ana Esther ( Rittenhouse ) Barton, born 6 January, 1776 ; died in Philadelphia, 19 December, 1847. Issue : 1 William Sheaff Zantzinger , M D , bom 22 November, 1805; died at Canandaigua, New York, 11 December, 1888 ; married Mary, daughter of James Carroll and had issue. 2 Benjamin Barton Zant zinger bora 1 August, 1809 ; died 30 January, 1810 3. George Zantzinger born 9 December, 1810 ; married 15 March, 1838, Caroline, daughter of John K. Helmuth 4 Henry Zantzinger bora 13 August, 1812 ; died 29 June, 1851, unmarried. 5 Mary Catharine Zantzinger born 3 ,1 tine, 1814 ; died unmarried 2 March, 1849 6. Esther Cornelia Zantzinger bom 25 March, 1816 ; buried at Christ Church , 11 January, 1899. ** viu. GEORGE FREDERICK SHEAFF, died unmarried . . . ., . , ' . . - . . , . .. . , . . . . , , . . S . .. P * . , . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . - * G . . . . . . , -. , , . , . . . , 9 MART CATHARINE SECKEL, of the text, eldest daughter of John David Seckel by his wife Mary Guier, born 7 June, 1780; died 21 June, 1861; was married by the Rev Justus C. Henry Helmuth, D D , 15 May, 1802, to George Pepper, Esq., born 15 March, 1779 ; died 6 January, 1846, son of Henry and Catharine Pepper HENRY PEPPER, father of George Pepper and founder of the Pepper family of Philadelphia, was born near Strassburg ( Alsace ) , 5 January, . . . . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX The Record of Some Resident 64 , . 1739 He sailed from Rotterdam in the ship Minerva Captain Thomas Arnott, master, 13 October, 1769, accompanied by his wife Catharine. After a few years residence at Schafferatown, Lebanon County, Penn sylvania, he settled in Philadelphia, engaged in the business of brewing, attained a large measure of success therein and accumulated much wealth His death on 11 March, 1808, was thus noted in the Pennsylvania Gazette of March 14 : “ Died on Friday night, in the 70th year of his age, Mr Henry Pepper, after a lingering and painful illness, which he bore with the moat exemplary fortitude and resignation His wife Catharine, born 28 February, 1746; died 28 June, 1813 According to his will dated 17 December, 1807 ; proved 18 May, 1808, he held houses and lots in Philadelphia, a brewery in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania and valuable estate elsewhere His children, named therein, were: 1. Philip Pepper , born 24 May, 1769 ; died in October, 1800, 2 Catharine Pepper married first Benjamin Miller ; second Jonathan Miller Issue : i CATHARINE MILLER, ii MICHAEL MILLER , iii. JONATHAN MILLER, married Elizabeth Hiester and had two daughters, Maria Elizabeth Miller, who died in infancy, and Julia Hiester Miller who married Henry Van Read and had issue 3 Elizabeth Pepper married 22 June, 1803, George Thomson, who died 20 August, 1824, Issue: i GEORGE HENRY THOMSON, born 27 October, 1803, died 29 April, 1863 ; married Rebecca Harrison, ii CHARLES ROCKLAND THOMSON , born 18 September, 1810; died 5 April, 1844 ; married his cousin, Catharine Pepper, iii THEODORE THOMSON; born 1 December, 1812 ; died 21 February, 1839 ; married and had issue 4. Maria Sarah Pepper born 24 May, 1776 ; died 23 December, 1801; married 4 January, 1798, Adam Seybert, M. D., born 16 May, 1773 ; died at Paris, Franee, 2 May, 1825, one of the most eminent scientists of his day and Democratic member of Congress 1809 to 1815, 1817 to 1819 Issue: i. CATHARINE SEYBERT, born 4 August, 1800 ; sdied 30 January, 1801 ii HENRY SEYBERT, born 23 December, 1801; died, unmarried, 3 March, 1838, philanthropist, founder of the Seybert Institute 5 George Pepper q v 6 Margaret Pepper born 21 March, 1789; died, unmarried, 21 March, 1849 GEORGE PEPPER, born , as before stated, 15 March, 1779, was educated for mercantile life and entered the counting house of the eminent mer chants Willing & Francis, where he was becoming well equipped for a successful business career, when, owing to the death of his elder brother, Philip, in 1800, he was called, at the age of twenty one, to assist his father in the conduct of his extensive brewery interests He inherited large means from his father , which, by sagacity and industry, he converted into still greater wealth, until, with the single exception, possibly, of Stephen Girard, he became the richest citizen of his day. His town house on the north side of Chestnut Street below Eighth, had a garden which was a picture of good taste and science with a greenhouse, the first built in Philadelphia Early in life Mr. Pepper owned the “ Plantation House, “ the present site of the United States Naval Asylum, the one time country seat of James Pemberton, who died in 1808 Later he had a beau tiful suburban seat, known as 4 4 Fairy Hill, ’ near the ground on Ridge Road, now occupied by the Laurel Hill Cemetery. He paid much attention to horticulture and had a fine nursery of fruit and other trees His collection of eamelias numbering twenty-eight or more varieties was, . — . . . . . . . , . P . . . , . . . . . G . S , . . ,. . . k . - - . . . ’ . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia . 65 . perhaps, the finest in the United States His death is referred to editorially in The United States Gazette of January 8, 1846 : “ We learn that George Pepper, Esq , died on Tuesday night, at his residence on Chestnut street, below Eighth Mr Pepper was among the most respected and wealthy of our citizens, perhaps the wealthiest He lived an irre proachable life, and amid all the vicissitudes of the time, sustained a lofty integrity. ' ’ Professor Thorpe ’s ‘ * BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR or WIL LIAM PEPPER T contains a St Memin portrait of George Pepper and says of him, in part : Bong before be reached middle life he was one of the wealthiest men in the city. . . . His large estate has been the source of many benefactions to the City of Philadelphia Several millions derived from it have been devoted by gift and bequest to public uses, of which the best known are the city hospitals, the free public library and the University of Pennsylvania No other estate, accumulated in Philadelphia, during the first half of the Nineteenth Century, excepting that of Stephen Girard, has contributed so generously to* (science and education. His widow, Mrs Mary ( Seckel ) Pepper, reached the advanced age of eighty one yeans possessing remarkable energy and activity of mind and body and devoting herself up to her very last days to the good and happiness of others,* Children : i. HENRY PEPPER, born 18 April, 1803 ; died 6 July, 1859 ; married 11 February, 1841, Sally, daughter of Joseph Parker Norris by his wife Elizabeth Hill Fox, bom 16 January, 1814 ; died 19 May, 1899. Mr. Pepper was a director of the Green Tree Insurance Company and a con tributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital Issue : 1 Elizabeth Norris Pepper , married Colonel William Brooke Rawle of the Philadelphia bar, no issue 2 Henry Pepper , died young 3 Mary Pepper , died young. 4. Henry Pepper , Esq., married MT3. Agnes Campbell Norris, no issue. 5 Mary Pepper, married John Gwinn, no issue, 6 Catharine Pepper , died young. 7. George Norris Pepper, died un married 8. Emily Norris Pepper, married J Wain Vaux, Esq , and has four children { * It, DAVID PEPPER, born 6 August, 1805; died 20 June, 1840 ; married 13 December, 1836, Emily Platt, daughter of William and Maria ( Taylor ) Platt, who died 25 DeeembeT, 1875. Issue : 1 William Platt Pepper , Esq ., many years president of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, one of the founders of the Art Club and one of the organizers of the Charity Ball, married( Alice Lyman, and had issue. 2. David Pepper, compiler of ‘ Notes on the Ancestry of John Platt, * ’ privately printed, married Sallie Taylor Newbold and had ssue, one of whom, DAVID PEPPER , JR ., survives. UL MARY PEPPER, born 3 December, 1806 ; died 27 January, 1862 ; married 18 May, 1830, Isaac Norris , Esq , brother of Sally Norris, wife of Henry Pepper. Issue : 1 George Pepper Norris , married Agnes Campbell Price, and had issue. 2. Isaac Norris , Esq ., married Clara Lamb and . . . . * - . . . . S P - . . . . . . # . G . . . . . . m i * . . * An article on the Pepper Family , by Frank Wilting L/eaeh , Esq . , appeared in the series “ OLD PHILADELPHIA FAMILIES " in The North American, Phila delphia, September 29 , 1907. There is also a sketch of the family In COLONIAL FAMILIES OF PHILADELPHIA ( 1911 ) , Volume II , pp. 1088 -1095. j- For fuller details of this branch , see under Norris, Keith’s “ PBOVINCIAL COUNCILLORS OF PENNSYLVANIA, pp. 68- TO. - 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 66 The Record of Some Resident . , has issue.* 3 Mary Pepper Norris married Travis Cochran and has issue, 4 Joseph Parker Norris died young 5 Henry Pepper Norris married Elizabeth Ebbs and had one son 6. Joseph Parker Norris , married Isabel Nevins Fry and had seven children 7 William Pepper Norris married Laura Cambios and had one son, CHARLES CAMBLOS NORRIS, M IX GEORGE SEOKEL PEPPER , born 11 June, 1808 ; died unmarried 2 May, 1890; was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1830 ; one of the founders of the Academy of Music, and at one time its president ; was for some years president of the Academy of Fine Arts ; left large estate much of which . . . , , . . . . . iv was devoted to public benefactions. WILLIAM PEPPER, M. D., bora 21 January, 1810 ; died 15 October, 1864 ; married 9 June, 1840, Sarah Platt. Issue: Y. . I. George Pepper , M IX, married Hitty Markoe Wharton ( who married, second , Ernest Zantzinger, Esq ) and had three children, of whom the only surviving son , George . Wharton Pepper, Esq., is United States Senator from Penn sylvania ; and the only daughter, Frances Pepper , married J Allinson Scott. 2 . William Pepper M . IX, LL D. one of Philadelphia 's most distinguished citizens of his own or any other generation, married Frances Sergeant Perry and had four children 3 Maria Pepper married John Sergeant Gerhard, Esq,, and had four children. 4 Emily Pepper married Bthelbert Watts, formerly United States Consul at St Petersburg, and had four children. 5 Catharine Thomson Pepper, married James Biddle Leonard and had three children, of whom Sarah Pepper Leonard, married Philip H. Brice, and Katharine Biddle Leonard, married, as first wife, John O. Platt. 6. Faring Platt Pepper married Sydney L Wright and had three children 7 Albert Pepper died young CHARLES PEPPER , died young. vi - . CATHARINE PEPPER, born 20 February , 1813 ; died 5 April, vu 1883 ; married, first, 5 September, 1843, her cousin, Charles Bockland Thomson, who died without issue 5 April, 1844 She married, second, 4 May, 1853, Emil B Gardette, M D Issue: Julia Gardette married James Bobb Maury, who died 31 October, 1905, leaving four children , viii FREDERICK SECRET. PEPPER, bom 20 December, 1814 ; died 14 January, 1891 ; married 20 March , 1851, Adeline, daughter of JohD R Worrell, Esq of Philadelphia Issue: 1 John Worrell Pepper , married Mrs, Emily Adel© Lowber, widow of Edward Lowber and daughter of Clement Adam Buckley, no issue 2 Frederick Seek el Pepper , Jr 3 Susan Worrell Pepper married John Howard Gibson, son of Henry Clay Gibson by his wife Mary Klett, and had three children CHARLES PEPPER , bora 11 March , 1817 ; died 3 May, 1887 ; married Margaret Lamb Issue : Charles Bockland Pepper died unmarried, 7 March, 1890 EDWARD PEPPER, born 11 March, 1817 ; died 1 March, 1892 ; x married 6 July, 1842, Sarah H , daughter of Thomas Cave Issue: 1. Mary Pepper, died young. 2 Sallie Pepper , married Samuel Kerr Ibbetson 3 Edward Pepper, M I )., married Marie Anna Desboeufs, and had one daughter, Mary Pepper 4 Frederick Pepper. xi LAWRENCE SECKEL PEPPER, born 28 October, 1819; died 10 September, 1886, unmarried . , S . . , . , P . . . . , , , . . . . . G Y . . . , . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . * See Keith's PROVINCIAL COUNCILLORS OR PENNSYLVANIA. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX I n the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia. 67 15 BENJAMIN MARSHALL and CHARLES MARSHALL were sons of Christopher Marshall, Sen** , the noted Revolutionary diarist and patriot, of whom, see sketch in Appleton ’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, contributed by the present writer By his first wife, Sarah, daughter of Robert Thompson, whom he married 4 March, 1735, and who died 1 August, 1771, he had throe sons : i. BENJAMIN MARSHALL, bom 4 October, 1737 ; died 29 January, 1778, at “ Newton Hall , ” near Whitemarsh , was a merchant ; signed tho Non -Importation Agreement, and was a Deputy from Philadelphia to the Provincial Convention held in that City, 15 July, 1774. He married Sarah Lynn, who died 7 May, 1797, and by whom he had issue. Their descendants became allied by marriage with the Cope, Johnson, Haines, Stewardson, Warden, Wister, Voorhees, White and other families. * u. CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, Junr,, bom 24 March, 1740 ; died 29 November, 1806 He was a member of the wholesale drug and chemical firm of Christopher Marshall & Sons His partners for many years, being his father, and his brother Charles, the father retiring from the firm about the beginning of the Revolution His house furnished a large amount of medicines and surgical supplies to the Continental Army, and on 2 May, 1777, Congress * ‘ voted that Christopher Marshall, JunL, and Charles Marshall be paid $4151.48 for sundry medicines and ehirurgieal instru ments supplied by them for the use of different battalions of Continental forces ” lie married (1) Ann, daughter of James Eddy ; ( 2 ) , Elizabeth, daughter of Enoch Flower ; ( 3) , Margaret Roberts. His descendants became allied by marriage with the Bacon, Bush, Coleman, Collins, Currie, Pease, Parker, Rawle, Wister and other families, iii. CHARLES MARSHALL, born 27 April, 1744 ; died 18 August, 1823 ; was a noted pharmacist and was active in founding tho Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, of which he was unanimously elected the first president He married, at .Friends Meeting, 15 October, 1765, Patience, daughter of John Parrish , of Baltimore, Maryland His family became allied by marriage, with the Biddle, Bissell, Ellison, Morris, Ogden , Perot, Ridgway, and Tyson families . . * . . P . - S . G , . - . . 16 JAMES SPARKS, a sea-captain, came from England, and settled in Philadelphia prior to 1751 He sailed chiefly to porta in Great Britain He is no doubt the “ Sparks ” mentioned as master of ship James and Mary, in a letter of William Strahan, dated at London, 21 February, 1763. In 1767, he was captain of the Mary and Elisabeth , a ship of large dimensions for that time, one hundred and eighty tons. He was in Philadelphia at the time Lord Howe captured that City, and was selected by him, one of the commissioners to make selection “ of a watch of one hundred and twenty men to keep order in the city. ” He was selected a member of the Committee to collect sub scriptions for the support of the Almshouse, and also, one of the managers of a Lottery for the benefit of the poor * Captain Sparks made several purchases of land in Philadelphia, the first being under date of 28 August, 1765, which property he conveyed in May, 1782, his then wife . . — . * Scharff and Westoott's HISTORY OP PHILADELPHIA , 359. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX The Record of Some Resident 68 Ann joining in the deed, in which he is styled * * gentleman. ’* Some years later he returned to England, and in a deed of 11 March, 1790, recorded at Philadelphia, he is described as James Spark, of Philadelphia, now dwelling in Kinsay in Worcestershire, England. ’ * By this deed he conveyed land in Philadelphia in trust for his daughter Margaret, wife of James Newport, and, in a note to the record of the same, is the statement of James Reynolds that, f < Captain James Sparks since his return to reside in England has assumed and constantly writes hi3 name Spark ” Captain Spark ’s religious associations were with Christ Church, of which he was a vestryman in 1774 and 1778 There several of his children were baptized, and there his three marriages are recorded He married (1) 4 June, 1751, Mary Harry ; ( 2) 8 January, 1766, Sarah Ozier ; ( 3 ) 19 November, 1772, Ann Pearson, and had issue by each wife. Children : i. JOHN SPARKS, died 20 November, 1754. it . DOROTHY SPARKS, born circa 1756 ; married, 7 June, 1775, Ebenezer Large, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, and later a merchant of Philadelphia. Their daughter, Sarah , married Thomas Mifflin, a nephew of Major General Thomas Mifflin, and the father of the late William Mifflin, who, at his decease, was the head of the Mifflin family of . . P . . Philadelphia Ul . MARGARET SPARKS, born 3 May, 1757 ; married James Newport RACHEL OZIER SPARKS, born 3 July, 1768. iv . V. MARY SPARKS, of the text, born 29 August, 1773. VI . JAMES SPARKS, of the text, born 4 January, 1775 Vll . JOHN SPARKS, of the text, born 23 June, 1777. 17 WILLIAM SMITH, married 12 February, 1766, Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Garrigues He was a customs broker, and is usually styled “ broker ” when mentioned in records He was one of that noted com pany of prominent Philadelphians, most of whom were Quakers, who, in 1777, being suspected of sympathies for the Royalist side in the Revolutionary war, were exiled to Virginia, a proceeding that, in the light of to-day, seems to have been both unwarranted and unwise, Mr Smith died at Philadelphia, 26 July, 1782, aud on the following day, Elizabeth Drinker made this note in her Journal : “ H D [ her husband Henry Drinker ] went this morning to ye Funeral of Win. Smith, Broker ” From a petition filed in the Orphans Court, 6 November, 1782, it appears that his wife Elizabeth , and seven children survived him Of whom two, William and Jacob were of the text 9 * * . S . . G — . - - — . . . . , . . 18 ROBERT PARRISH , married Mary, daughter of George Wilson, as shown by deed of 7 December, 1767, by which he and his wife Mary, conveyed land late of said George Wilson, deceased John Parrish, a merchant of Philadelphia, a younger brother of Robert, married Ann, another daughter of said Wilson. Robert Parrish bought land in Philadelphia as early as 1 June, 1759,* and his name frequently appears in landed transactions. Elizabeth Drinker in her Journal, under date of 17 May, 1781, says: . * Philadelphia Deed Book D, 1. folio 32. 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 6& In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia . “ My husband was this evening at the funeral of Mary Parish wife . of Robert Parish ? * Mr Parrish died at Philadelphia, 15 February, 1815, in the eighty eighth year of his age, and the newspaper notice of his death states that he had resided in Philadelphia seventy two years. He was a member of the Society of Friends . - - . 19 1>R. FREDERICK PHILE, was a prominent physician and surgeon of Philadelphia, and was engaged there in the practice of his profession at the commencement of the Revolution, in which he served as Surgeon. On 27 June, 1776, Congress voted him pay for his attendance on the Fifth Pennsylvania Battalion , from “ the time of their embodyment to 13th of June, 1776 “ On 20 February, 1777, Congress ordered that he be paid $199.48 “ for medicine and attendance to the German Battalion in Philadelphia, “ and on 2 May, 1777, $1312.33 “ for sundry medicines administered by him to several Battalions of Continental forces ’ ’ On 20 June, 1778, he exhibited to the Supreme Executive Council of Penn sylvania “ an account of services done by him for the State as a physician, “ which was ordered paid, also a bill “ f o r provisions pur chased by him for the use of the men belonging to the State fleet . ’ ’ On o April, 1777, he was appointed naval officer of the Port at Phila delphia. The Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania on 18 April, 1789, adopted the following resolution : . P . - - - S “ Resolved, That Frederick Phile, Esquire, hath acted as Naval Officer for the Port of Philadelphia from the 5th day of AprL in the year 1777 to this present time, and has executed the several duties of said office with fidelity and to the satisfaction of the Board , “ This action of the Council was no doubt taken to further the appointment of Dr Phile as Naval Officer of the Port, tinder the government formed by the first constitution of the United States, and no doubt had its influence with President Washington, as he appointed Dr Phile to the position, which he held until his death, serving in all, as Naval officer of the Port, for a quarter of a century In August, 1778, Dr. Phile was chosen by Congress , one of the signers of the Continental Currency, He was a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital ; a member of Christ Church, of which he was a vestryman in 1783, and a member of the famous society, Sons of St Tammany ; ) > his Sachem name being, i , Pechcmelind. t 7 On 24 September, 1784, he became possessed by patents of a tract of three hundred and thirty -five acres on the Allegheny River, iu Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania , which he called Pbilesburg He also owned various lots of land in Philadelphia, one of which he and bis wife Elizabeth sold by deed of 30 July, 1782, it being the same that George Heyl, i f merchant > f and Dorothy his wife had conveyed to him, 20 April, 1782 He died at Philadelphia, 19 October, 1793, a victim of the yellow fever scourge of that year. By his wife Elizabeth, (laughter of John Parrish of Baltimore, and sister of Patience, wife of Charles Marshall, q. v,t he had the follow ing children, born at Philadelphia. There may have been others: G . . . “ . . - 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX 70 The Record of Some Resident ANN PHILE, born 9 December, 1761; married, 14 March, 1782, Captain James Gibbon ii. ELIZABETH PHILE , bom 22 February, 1765 ; married, 15 August , 1789, Ebenezer Stott, of Castle Dykes, in Dumfries, Scotland Mrs Stott was a founder of tbe Ladies Depoei tory, Philadelphia, and widely known for her charitable activities Her portrait and that of her husband were painted by Sully 111. THOMAS PHILE, burn 1 July, 1766 SARAH PHILE, bora 2 September, 1767 IV * V* HANNAH PHILE, of the text, born 28 February, 1769 ; died 3 March, 1825; married 20 November, 1791, Frederick de Montmollin, a native of Switzerland, who came to America before the Revolution, and had issue vi . CHARLOTTE PHILE, born 14 May, 1771; married 16 June, 1792, Jacob C. Wyckoff V 1L MARY PHILE, married 18 August , 1792, John Knapp, * viu . HARRIET PIIILE, bom 22 November, 1775, and is probably the same who married Richard C Harrison , 3 September, 1816. IX. EMILY PHILE, bora February, 1778 ; married Moses Musgrove , . I . . . v 4 . - . . . . . * P 4 . ' P 20 COLONEL MOORE FURMAN, born 1730 ; died at Trenton, New Jersey, 16 March, 1808 He was a merchant, and, for many years, a member of the firm of Coxe and Furman, afterwards Coxe, Furman and Coxe, of Philadelphia, his partners being William Coxe, Esqr., and his son Colonel Tench Coxe The firm of Coxe and Furman were signers of the Non -Importation Agreement in 1765 In 1775, he was commissioned Captain in one of the Philadelphia Battalions of Associators and, later in the Revolution, he was Deputy Quarter Master General of the Continental Army for New Jersey In a letter, dated at Trenton, 24 March , 1780, to Colonel Charles Pettit, the Assistant Quarter Master General, he thus writes of the shortage of provisions for the army : 11 My difficulties increase, and will soon , I fear, bo insurmountable. My circumstances therefore, like the Irish Resolves, need no preamble Our army some days fast, some days have half allowance , and but few days the whole ration > t He married, 17 March, 1768, Sarah, daughter of Townsend White, Esqr., born at Philadelphia , May, 1745 ; died at Trenton, New Jersey, 6 January, 1796, by whom he had issue : Adrian Furman , Ann Maria Furman , Moore Furman ( of the text ) , and John Furman, . ‘ . S . G . . . 21 TOWNSEND WHITE, father of Mrs. Sarah Furman, wad a prominent Philadelphian, and one of the leading merchants of that City On 4 October, 1757, he was elected a Common Councilman, and served in that office until Councils were disbanded by the Revolution He was one of the contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital from its foun dation in 1751 ; was a signer of the Non -Importation Agreement in 1765, and a member of the Pushing Company of Fort St David ’e. He was actively identified with Christ Church, a vestryman there for over thirty years, serving from 1748 until 1772, and from 1778 until 1787, He married, 13 June, 1741, Ann, daughter of James and Belitie Renaudet. Later in life he removed to New York, and there died. His daughter, . . . 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia . 71 Ann, was the wife of William Constable, one of the principal merchants of that City Mr Constable resided in Philadelphia for some time, and in 1781 2, he was a member of what is now known as the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. . - . 22 BENJAMIN HARBESON was a coppersmith, and a man of estate and influence He was one of the signers of the Non -Importation Agreement , and a delegate to the noted Provincial Convention held at Philadelphia , 23 January, 1775 On 5 December, 1776, he was commissioned Captain in the Second Battalion, Philadelphia Associaters.* Lt is learned from Christopher Marshall ’s ‘* Diary, ’ ; that Mr Harbeson and Jedediah Snowdon composed a committee who carried a numerously signed petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly, in December, 1777, praying that body “ to call out the whole force of the State while there is prospect of cold weather lasting, in order to attack Gen Howe in and out of our City, and there by entirely ruin his army & rid the colonies of such cruel masters '’ Mr Harbeson was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, where moat of his children were baptized. He died at Philadelphia, 24 September, 1809, in the eighty -first year of his age, and his death is thus mentioned in the Daily Advertiser : ‘ ‘ DIED, on Sunday morning, the 24th inst , Mr BENJAMIN HARBESON, senior, of this City, after a lingering illness Mr Harbeson was re markable for his industry and punctuality was an indulgent parent, a benevolent man and his deportment through the course of a long life, 81 years, exemplary, and held out a suitable example for imitation. ’’ He married, first, 30 July, 1754, Eliphel Harper, who died circa 1771 ; second, 27 February, 1772, Margaret Combe, who died 15 March, 1789, , who survived her bus aged forty-nine years ; third, Catharine band, and died 16 November, 1814. Children by wife Eliphel Harper : I. MARGARET HARBESON, died 19 September, 1804 ; married in December, 1787, Abraham Kintzing, Junr , bom 1763 ; died in June, 1835, son of Abraham Kintzing f The son was an eminent merchant, and for some years, the partner of the distinguished merchant, Henry Pratt , grandfather of the late Henry Pratt McKean, Esqr. His children were : 1 Maria Kintzing , married 5 December, 1809, Frederick W Sperry. 2. Ella Kintzing , married 9 February, 1815, Pollard E. Birckhead. 3 Abraham, Kintzing . 4, Tench Coze Kintzing , married, first , 28 October, 1815, Eliza Gravenstine ; second, Mary Fenton 5 Benjamin Earb eson Kintzing , died 2 March, 1825; married 15 May, 1811, Margaret Siddons. A sketch of Mr Kintzing is printed in Simpson's “ Eminent Philadelphians ” The portraits of Mr and Mrs Kintzing were painted by Sully . . . . . . P a - — - — G . . S — . . - . , . . . . . . . . . . * Pennsylvania Colonial Records, Old Series , xl , 32. - Abnarham Kintzing, the father, deposed before Isaac Howell , one of the f justice® of Philadelphia , September 19, 1780, thatr “ according to the Records and aocompt left by his parents he was born In the mouth of March, one thousand seven hundred amd twenty seven " ( 1727 ) . On January 4 , 1781, Mr. Kintzing was directed , by the Supreme Executive Council of the Pennsylvania, to keep possession of Hogg Island [ of present day shipping activities] on behalf of the State, a« part of the confiscated property of Joseph Galloway . Pennsylvania Archives , Old Series, yol . ril , 591. — 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX In the Vicinity of Middle Ferry , Philadelphia . 71 Ann, was the wife of William Constable, one of the principal merchants of that City Mr Constable resided in Philadelphia for some time, and in 1781 2, he was a member of what is now known as the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. . - . 22 BENJAMIN HARBESON was a coppersmith, and a man of estate and influence He was one of the signers of the Non -Importation Agreement , and a delegate to the noted Provincial Convention held at Philadelphia , 23 January, 1775 On 5 December, 1776, he was commissioned Captain in the Second Battalion, Philadelphia Associaters.* Lt is learned from Christopher Marshall ’s ‘* Diary, ’ ; that Mr Harbeson and Jedediah Snowdon composed a committee who carried a numerously signed petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly, in December, 1777, praying that body “ to call out the whole force of the State while there is prospect of cold weather lasting, in order to attack Gen Howe in and out of our City, and there by entirely ruin his army & rid the colonies of such cruel masters '’ Mr Harbeson was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, where moat of his children were baptized. He died at Philadelphia, 24 September, 1809, in the eighty -first year of his age, and his death is thus mentioned in the Daily Advertiser : ‘ ‘ DIED, on Sunday morning, the 24th inst , Mr BENJAMIN HARBESON, senior, of this City, after a lingering illness Mr Harbeson was re markable for his industry and punctuality was an indulgent parent, a benevolent man and his deportment through the course of a long life, 81 years, exemplary, and held out a suitable example for imitation. ’’ He married, first, 30 July, 1754, Eliphel Harper, who died circa 1771 ; second, 27 February, 1772, Margaret Combe, who died 15 March, 1789, , who survived her bus aged forty-nine years ; third, Catharine band, and died 16 November, 1814. Children by wife Eliphel Harper : I. MARGARET HARBESON, died 19 September, 1804 ; married in December, 1787, Abraham Kintzing, Junr , bom 1763 ; died in June, 1835, son of Abraham Kintzing f The son was an eminent merchant, and for some years, the partner of the distinguished merchant, Henry Pratt , grandfather of the late Henry Pratt McKean, Esqr. His children were : 1 Maria Kintzing , married 5 December, 1809, Frederick W Sperry. 2. Ella Kintzing , married 9 February, 1815, Pollard E. Birckhead. 3 Abraham, Kintzing . 4, Tench Coze Kintzing , married, first , 28 October, 1815, Eliza Gravenstine ; second, Mary Fenton 5 Benjamin Earb eson Kintzing , died 2 March, 1825; married 15 May, 1811, Margaret Siddons. A sketch of Mr Kintzing is printed in Simpson's “ Eminent Philadelphians ” The portraits of Mr and Mrs Kintzing were painted by Sully . . . . . . P a - — - — G . . S — . . - . , . . . . . . . . . . * Pennsylvania Colonial Records, Old Series , xl , 32. - Abnarham Kintzing, the father, deposed before Isaac Howell , one of the f justice® of Philadelphia , September 19, 1780, thatr “ according to the Records and aocompt left by his parents he was born In the mouth of March, one thousand seven hundred amd twenty seven " ( 1727 ) . On January 4 , 1781, Mr. Kintzing was directed , by the Supreme Executive Council of the Pennsylvania, to keep possession of Hogg Island [ of present day shipping activities] on behalf of the State, a« part of the confiscated property of Joseph Galloway . Pennsylvania Archives , Old Series, yol . ril , 591. — 1924 Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX The Record of Some Resident 72 >B * 11 BENJAMIN HARBESON, boTn circa 1765 ; died 11 July, 1824 ; married, 21 January, 1804, Sarah, daughter of Honorable Matthew Lawler, an officer of the Revolution, and Mayor of Philadelphia from 1801 until 1805, MART HARBESON. SARAH HARBESON, baptized 10 August, 1770 ; probably died - *i* - 111 IV , . young JOSEPH HARBESON, baptized 28 September, 1770; died 3 V, February, 1822, in. the fifty second year of his age; married 22 May, 1794, Susanna, daughter of Benjamin Cottman Children by wife Margaret Combe : VI . ELIZABETH HARBESON , bom 11 July, 1774 ; buried 8 October, 1823 ; married 5 January, 1797, John H Barnes, an in surance broker * Vll , CATHARINE HARBESON, born. 4 August, 1775 ; married, 13 October, 1796, Thomas Waterman rai, ROBERT HARBESON ( named in text ) , born 13 June, 1779 ; died 2 August, 1800 IX. HENRIETTA MARIA HARBESON ( named in text ) , born 23 October, 1780 ; died 23 October, 1809 ; married 21 March, 1805, Quint in Campbell, who was for some years the cashier of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and from 1839 until 1853, the president of the Insurance Company of Penn sylvania He died 2 March, 1863 By his wife Henrietta Maria, he had sons Thomas Campbell and William Campbell An interesting sketch of Mr. Campbell will be found in Winslow ’s “ Biographies of Successful Philadelphia Merchants (1864 ) . - . . # # . P . . * . . . ” S 23 CAPTAIN JAMES GIBBON , a distinguished officer of the Revolutionary Army, was a son of James Gibbon by his wife Mary Miller, who was a sea-captain, and master of the ship Ann, registered at Philadelphia, 22 April, 1752, and of the ship Nelly registered there, 27 July, 1753, of which latter vessel he was a part owner. The last ship of which he is known to be master, was the Hosanna of 100 tons, registered at Philadelphia, o August, 1766 He died intestate, and letters of ad ministration upon his estate were granted, 13 January, 1772, unto bis widow, Mary Gibbon. His personal estate was appraised at over £589, Sterling, including silver plate valued at £129, 19s, a large amount of plate for a family of that time The son, James, of the text, was com missioned, 8 January, 1776, ensign of Captain Christopher Stuart 's Company, Fifth Pennsylvania Battalion, commanded by Colonel Robert Magaw, and was taken prisoner, 16 November, 1776, in the unfortunate capture of Fort Washington New York, Later he was exchanged, and on 15 February, 1777, promoted first lieutenant in the Sixth Penn sylvania Continental Line. In July, 1778, he was appointed an aid de camp on the staff of Brigadier General William Irvin, At the storming of Stony Point, one of the most brilliant actions in the whole war, he led the forlorn hope, composed of twenty men, losing seventeen killed and wounded General Anthony Wayne in a letter to President Reed, 26 July, 1779, says: “ Gibbon of the Sixth and Knox of the Ninth, two young gentlemen, led the van of each column ; Gibbon lost 17 men. ? t On the same day Congress breveted these officers captains, and adopted the following resolution : - G , , . . - - - — 1924 - . — Copyright The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania PGM Vol IX