BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 575 GREEN, THOMAS, with Margaret, his wife, and sons Thomas and John, arrived in this country from England in 1686, and settled in Concord. A daughter, Mary, wife of Richard Moore, came in company with them. Thomas bought 400 acres of land in 1691, which he divided between his two sons. John died unmarried in or before 1695. From the will of Margaret Green, who died in 1708, it would appear that she had also a son, Robert Green. Thomas Green, Jr., died about 1712, leaving a widow, Sarah, and sons Thomas and Robert. Thomas married Mary , and lived in East Cain for some time. He seems to have been interested in the subject of ironworks on Brandywine. Robert was born in Concord or Birmingham about the year 1694, and married, 9, 18, 1724, Rachel Vernon, of Bethel, daughter of John and Sarah (Pyle) Vernon. He died in Birmingham, 3, 20, 1779, in his eighty-fifth year, and his wife 2, 17, 1751. Their son, Robert Green, married Hannah Clayton, of West Bradford, 6, 10, 1756, and died in Birmingham, Delaware Co., about 1790, leaving children,-Jesse, Amos, Silas, Robert, Lot, Abigail (married to Nathaniel Hollingsworth), Rachel, and Rebecca. Jesse Green, born 4, 23, 1757, died 3, 12, 1844, married, first, 1, 14, 1789, Edith Thatcher, daughter of William and Sarah, of Thornbury, and, second, 3, 12, 1795, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Deborah Cope, of East Bradford. By the first wife he had one son, William, and by the second John, Edith (married to Thomas Darlington), and Samuel C. Green. Jesse died at the residence of son William, in East Bradford. William Green, born 12, 18, 1791, died 4, 19, 1881, in West Chester. He married Phebe Hatton, who survives him, together with his children,-Edith, Jesse C., and Ann Eliza. Jesse C. Green is a well-known dentist of West Chester, and aside from his profession is a devoted student of physical science, and president of the Microscopical Society. GRIER, REV. NATHAN, was the son of John and Agnes (Caldwell) Grier, who came to this country from the north of Ireland. He was born in Bucks Co., Pa., in September, 1760 ; pursued his preparatory studies under the direction of his brother, Rev. James Grier ; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1783 ; was licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and became pastor of the church of " Forks of Brandywine," Chester County, as the successor of Rev. John Carmichael, in 1787. He possessed natural and acquired endowments which fitted him for great usefulness. He had a very commanding voice, and an earnestness and solemnity of manner which secured attention. He spoke as one who felt the weight of ministerial responsibility. He was a man of great firmness of purpose. What he regarded as duty must be done. In all his relations he always endeavored to know what was right, and to maintain it with vigor and independence. He was possessed of a social disposition, and in familiar intercourse with his friends he received and imparted much enjoyment. His reputation as an eloquent .preacher and a learned divine brought under his care an unusual number of students for the ministry. There were at that time no theological seminaries, and young men were trained for the ministry under the direction of the older and more cele braced divines. He had under his care at different times twenty students in theology, seventeen of whom entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church, one the Episcopal ministry, and two never applied for licensure. Among these students were David McConoughy, D.D., who became president of Washington College, Pennsylvania ; Levi Bull, D.D., who became an eminent minister in the Episcopal Church ; Robert White, Samuel Parke, and the preceptor's sons, Robert S. Grier and John N. C. Grier. His wife was Susanna, daughter of Robert and Margaret Smith, by whom he had three daughters and two sons. Two of his daughters became the wives of Rev. Robert White and Rev. Samuel Parke,, who had pursued their theological studies under his care. His oldest son, Robert S. Grier, was pastor of churches in Carlisle Presbytery, and the youngest, John N. C. Grier, D.D., succeeded his father as pastor of Forks of Brandywine in 1814. Rev. Nathan Grier died March 30, 1814, in the vigor of life, and in the midst of usefulness. He was pastor of the Brandywine Church twenty-seven years. ROBERT SMITH GRIER, the son of Rev. Nathan and Susanna (Smith) Grier, was born at Brandywine Manor, Chester Co., May 11, 1790. His father was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the Forks of Brandywine. He was prepared for college at the Brandywine Academy, and graduated at Dickinson College, Sept. 27, 1809. He studied theology under the instruction of his father, and was licensed to preach by New Castle Presbytery, September, 1812. He was installed pastor of churches near Emmettsburg, Md., in April, 1814, and remained in the one charge until his death, Dec. 28, 1865. In his preaching he was clear, energetic, and instructive, and his ministrations were characterized by punctuality, fidelity, and ability. As an illustration of his intrepid fidelity, it may be mentioned that years before the system of slavery appeared, to the eye of the nation as it now appears, and although he resided in a State where the system was legalized, he openly opposed it as a crime against God and man, and vindicated all proper measures to deliver the slave from bondage. He lived to see the system eradicated. GRUBB, JOHN, with his wife Frances, was a resident of Upland as early as 1679, but does not appear to have been settled there as early as 1677. In 1679, jointly with Richard Buffington, he purchased 300 acres of land on the southwest side of Chester Creek above Chester, and may have resided there some time. His occupation was that of a tanner. His children were Emanuel, John, Joseph, Henry, Samuel, Nathaniel, Peter, Charity, and Phebe, all of whom were living at the time of his death in 1708. His daughter Charity was married to Richard Beeson prior to his death. He does not appear to have been a Quaker, and probably was an Episcopalian. His age was about sixty years. Samuel Grubb settled in East Bradford on the farm now of William Gibbons. Nathaniel married Ann Moore and settled in Willistown. lie was a member of Assembly, trustee of the loan office, etc. Peter Grubb went to what is now Lebanon County, where he was a prominent iron-master. Phebe married Richard Buffington, Jr., and Simon Hadly. 576 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. GORDON, JOHN, an emigrant from Scotland, settled at the time of the Revolutionary war near Downingtown, in this county, and married Jane Downing, of an old-established family at that point. Their son Joseph married Rebecca Rogers, to whom were born eight children, of whom the second child, JOHN ROGERS GORDON, was born 6th mo. 25, 1817, in Uwchlan township, as was his father before him. He passed his boyhood on the farm, attending the common schools, and one winter at Jonathan Gause's academy at Unionville. He was married, 3d mo. 3, 1847, to Leah A. Essick, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Essick, by whom he had three children, of whom one (William) is living. His wife died in 1852, and he was the second time married, 4th mo. 7, 1859, to Deborah H., daughter of Isaac and Mary (Hawley) Smedley. In the spring of 1847 he moved to his present farm of 147 acres. He has repeatedly acted as supervisor. He belongs to the Society of Friends of Uwchlan Meeting, at Lionville. On his paternal side he is of Scotch extraction, and on the maternal of Welsh. Since his first marriage he has built three dwelling-houses, in addition to several barns and many other valuable and lasting improvements to his real estate. His homestead is splendidly located in a fine section of the county and in a good neighborhood. GUSS, CHARLES, born in Baden, Germany, in 1732, came to Trappe, Montgomery Co., about 1750, and in 1764 was living in Pikeland township, Chester Co., where he was a school-teacher. He married Mary Shunk, July 12, 1761. She was born May 4, 1741, and died April 30, 1821. Charles died Sept. 1, 1795, and both are buried at Rhodes' Church, in East Vincent. Their children were Mary Magdalene, b. March 29, 1762 ; Charles, b. Jan. 3, 1765 ; Rachel, b. March 29, 1767, m. Conrad Holman ; Catharine and Elizabeth, twins, b. Jan. 30, 1770 ; SaMuel, b. Feb. 15, 1773, d. April 20, 1818, m. Barbara Knerr ; Salome, b. Sept. 10, 1777, m. Conrad Holman. Samuel and Barbara Guss removed to Perry, and thence to Juniata County, and died at Mifflin. They had ten children, of whom their son Samuel, b. July 4, 1796, lived at West Chester, married Sevenia Ruhl, and was the father of Col. Henry R., Samuel, Levi, and Francis M. Guss. HADLY, SIMON, with Ruth, his wife, came from Ireland about the year 1712 and settled in the edge of New Castle County, near New Garden, where a house built by him in 1717 is still standing and occupied as a residence. His children were Joseph, b. 8, 25, 1698 ; Deborah, b. 2, 25, 1701 ; Joshua, b. 3, 6, 1703 ; Simon, b. 12, 23, 1704-5, d. 11, 4, 1730-1 ; Hannah, b. 11, 16, 1709-10 ; Ruth, b. 12, 6, 1711-2 ; Katharine, b. 2, 25, 1715 ; Ann, b. 12, 7, 1717-8. The mother died 12, 18, 1750-1, and was buried at New Garden, after which Simon married Phebe, widow of Richard Buffington, of Bradford. The name is now written Hadley, and the descendants are very numerous in this county and elsewhere. HAINES, JOHN, was a settler at Lumberton, N. J., as early as 1683, and is said to have lived at first in a cave. Tradition also states that he sent for his father and brothers to come over to this country, and that the father died at sea. There is a deed on record from Edward Byllinge to Richard BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 577 Haines of " Anoe on ye hill, in ye County of Oxon," for 100 acres of land in New Jersey. This " Anoe" is supposed to refer to Aynho, in a point of Northampton, which extends into Oxfordshire. Richard Haines was doubtless the father of John, Richard, William, Thomas, arid Joseph, who all lived for a time in Burlington County. John Haines, husbandman, and Esther Borton, both of Northampton River, were married, 10, 10, 1684, in Burlington County. She was doubtless the daughter of John and Ann Borton, of Ayno, in the county of Northampton, b. 5, 25, 1667. John and Esther had children,-John, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Mary, Esther, Isaac, Caleb,. Josiah, Rebecca, Phebe, Ann, and perhaps others. The father purchased 965 acres of land in Goshen, Chester Co., in 1702, including that part of West Chester south of Gay Street. He also purchased in 1710, 251 acres to the northeast of West Chester. In 1715 he conveyed to his son John 365 acres of the first tract, and by his will, in 1728, devised of the remainder 150 acres, bounded northward by the north line of the Agricultural Society's ground, and eastward by the borough line, to his son Isaac ; to his son John, 50 acres next his other land, and to his daughters, Rebecca, Phebe, Esther, and Mary, each 100 acres. All of these children, except Esther and Mary, came to Goshen. Rebecca married Joseph Matlack; Phebe married John Burros (Burroughs?), Esther, Thomas Evans, and Mary, Thomas Lippincott. John Haines, Jr., with Elizabeth, his wife, came from New Jersey in 1711. His wife died about 1726, and in 1728 he married Jane Smith. He returned to New Jersey before his death. Isaac Haines came over as early as 1714, and in that year married Catharine, daughter of Ellis David, of Goshen. His father conveyed to him in 1717 the 254 acres on the northeast side of West Chester, and there he built a house and made his residence. This land was divided by will between his sons Ellis and Josiah, the latter receiving the homestead part, which in 1787 he sold to William Rogers, from Vincent. The children of Isaac and Catharine were Esther, b. 6, 13, 1715 ; Hannah; b. 1, 4, 1717, m. to John Eachus ; Isaac, b. 8, 10, 1718 ; Mary, b..6, 2, 1720, m. William Wall and Martin Jane, b. 12, 18, 1721, m. Joseph Yarnall ; Ellis, m. 8, 10, 1751, to Margaret Jones; Lydia, m. 2, 1, 1748, to Ellis Williams; Josiah, m. Ann Husband ; Phebe, m. to Daniel Durborow Sarah. Isaac Haines, Jr., was married, 8, 5, 1744, to Mary, daughter of Lawrence and Ellen Cox, of Willistown, and settled on his father's land, on the south side of West Chester. His children were Elisha ; Eleanor, m. to Jacob Butler and Thomas Frame ; Isaac, m. about 1772 to Lydia Davis ; Caleb, b. 6, 17, 1754 ; Jesse, b. 9, 14, 1756, d. 9, 8, 1856, m. 10, 6, 1785, Rachel Otley, daughter of James and Ann ; John, m. to Jane Sharpless ; Jacob, m. 11, 6, 1783, to Martha Sharpless, 4, 6, 1797, to Mary Hoopes, and 5, 14, 1801, to Lydia Thomson. The children of Isaac and Lydia Haines were David,. Ezra, Mary, Isaac, Lydia, George, and William. The children of Jesse and Rachel Haines were Mary, Jacob, b. 7, 6, 1788 ; Reuben, Jesse P., William Ellis, b. 5, 1, 1794, d. - 73 - 4, 6, 1880, and Thomas. Of these, Jacob married Rachel Ellis, and was the father of Dr. William E. Haines and others. Ezra Haines, during the latter part of his life, was a merchant in West Chester. He was born 12, 2, 1774, and died 5, 28, 1861. His wife was Ann, daughter of Reuben and Lydia (Townsend) John, and their children were John T., Lydia, Eber D., Maria, Reuben, Isaac, and Jane. His brother David was a carpenter and builder in West Chester, and was the father of Benjamin F. Haines, long time keeper of the county prison. George Haines, another brother, was the father of Garrett (now deceased), Granville B., a merchant in Philadelphia, and of George Haines, of West Chester. TOWNSEND HAINES* was born at West Chester, Chester Co., Pa., on the 7th day of January, 1792. Caleb, the father of Townsend, was born June 17, 1754. He was living with his father, and had about attained his majority when the war between the colonies and the mother-country began. The Friends of the period, being averse to war, were accused by their ardent and patriotic countrymen of being disaffected to the American cause. Caleb Haines was frequently involved in disputes in consequence of accusations against his friends and family, and came to be regarded as a partisan of the royal cause. Deeming himself unsafe at home in the heated political condition of the country, he in the fall of 1777, in company with two companions of about the same age, fled to Philadelphia, and took refuge with the British army, then occupying that city. There, after a short delay, he enlisted in the troop of Col. Tarleton, and served in that troop to the end of the Revolutionary war. This troop suffered large losses in the campaigns of 1779, '80, and '81, in the Carolinas and Virginia. Caleb Haines stated to me on one occasion that there were three times as many men belonging to this troop killed as it at any time contained. On the termination of the Revolutionary struggle, Caleb Haines became a refugee from his country, and lived in Nova Scotia till an act of amnesty was passed by Congress. He then returned to West Chester, where he married early in 1791. His wife was Ann Ryant, daughter of Charles and Hannah Ryant. She was a woman of poetic temperament, fond of reading, and addicted, when young, to versification. Townsend was her eldest son, and was born in a log house on the West Chester and Wilmington road, about one hundred and fifty yards south of the present residence of Enos Smedley, in the borough of West Chester. The house was standing within forty years, and is still recollected by many of our citizens. In 1796, Caleb Haines removed from West Chester to a farm in West Goshen, which he leased of the heirs of Francis Hoopes. In 1806 he became a lessee of Mary Ellicott, of 400 acres of the Avondale farm in New Garden, and resided there till April, 1809. He then purchased .a farm of 179 acres in East Nottingham, and resided there till his death, Nov. 12, 1846, in the ninety-third year of his age. He was a man of excellent sense, quiet manners, and amiable disposition. Memoir. prepared by Hon. Joseph J. Lewis. 578 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. The boyhood of Townsend Haines differed in no respect from that of other farmers' sons in a similar condition of fortune. Nine months of each year were spent in assisting in the labors of the farm. During the three winter months of each he usually attended some common country school, in which he learned reading, writing, arithmetic, and acquired some general notions of geography. In October, 1809, he entered the boarding-school of Enoch Lewis at New Garden, and remained with him as a pupil about nine months. During this period he became pretty well acquainted with English grammar, improved his knowledge of arithmetic, and studied algebra, geometry, practical surveying, mensuration, and trigonometry. In that school he was made for the first time to comprehend the processes by which scientific truth was evolved, and was inducted into a mode of abstract reasoning which attained a conclusion that was irresistible. He was subjected to a mental drill of which previously he had no conception, and not only learned perfectly well what he did learn, but acquired a consciousness of complete mastery over his acquisition. In later life he appreciated this more highly than he did while at school, and he often acknowledged his obligations to his teacher. Mrs. Lewis was accustomed to give attention to the reading and grammar classes, and imparted to Townsend some ideas of elocution, which were of value to him in his subsequent career at the bar. She was a woman of a superior and well-cultivated mind, sweet affability of manners, and of uncommon eloquence, and her intercourse with the pupils was of the most agreeable kind. Her kindness to Townsend, and her considerate treatment of him, so won upon him that he made it a special object to please her, and gave particular attention to the branches of study of which she took cognizance. Townsend Haines left Enoch Lewis' school with the reputation of a youth of bright parts, capable of rapid acquisition but indisposed to effort, and rarely doing himself full justice. He immediately engaged to teach a country school, and continued in that occupation for several years, with occasional intervals, however, during which he assisted his father on his farm. While teaching he read extensively, and among other subjects, mental philosophy obtained a considerable share of his attention. He also learned to speak in public by attending the meetings of debating societies, in which, after a few discouraging attempts, he became conspicuous as a debater. He was not well satisfied with his avocation as a teacher, and began to look forward to preparing himself for some other occupation more congenial with the disposition and temper of his mind. In 1815 he removed to West Chester, and took lessons of Mr. Glass in Latin, in order the better to qualify himself for a profession. After a few months he entered the office of Isaac Darlington, Esq., then a leading member of the Chester County bar, and commenced the study of the law. He was a diligent student, read carefully and thoroughly, and Feb. 7, 1818, was admitted to practice. For a time Mr. Haines' practice was inconsiderable. The principal part of the law business of the county was divided among a few of the elder practitioners, who were experienced and able men. For some time he was obliged to be content with a small amount of Orphans' Court business, and with defending in the criminal courts persons charged with offenses against the peace of the Commonwealth. In this latter line of practice he soon acquired BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 579 popularity, and it constituted a good introduction to the trial of jury cases in the Common Pleas. Towards the end of the first year after his admission to the bar he considered his prospects sufficiently encouraging to warrant him in assuming additional responsibilities. Jan. 4, 1819, he was married to Anna Maria Derrick. She was the daughter of Philip and Sarah Derrick, the former of whom was then deceased. Her family was highly respectable, and distantly connected with his own, his grandmother and her great-grandmother being the same person, Hannah (Sharpless), the wife of Charles Ryant. In the fall of 1822 he lost by death his brother, William Haines, then a member of the Chester County bar. He was a young man of brilliant talents and promising expectations. His death was a subject not only of deep private grief; but was also a public loss. He had the family gift of versification, and was a good writer and a fine speaker. Soon after Mr. Haines was admitted to the bar he was invited to deliver an oration on the anniversary of American independence. He accepted the invitation, and his oration created some sensation, principally by reason of the political sentiments announced in it. Having lived in the State of Delaware immediately prior to his entering upon the study of the law, he had been for some time without a vote in Pennsylvania, under the constitution as it then existed, and he had to choose to which of the two parties, Federal or Democratic, he would attach himself. He availed himself of the opportunity afforded him by the occasion to declare his preference for the Democracy, to the disappointment of many of his friends and associates, who were mostly of the opposite party. He voted with the Democrats that year, and steadily till the gubernatorial election of 1823, when, a division having occurred in the party, he went with the portion denominated Quids, who nominated Joseph Heister for Governor, in opposition to James Findlay, the regular party candidate. Heister was supported by the Federalists and elected, and a number of Democrats who in the struggle affiliated with their former antagonists remained with them in subsequent contests. Among these was Mr. Haines, whose personal popularity made him an important acquisition to his new friends, and in 1826 they showed their appreciation of his ability to serve them by electing him a member of the State Legislature. In 1827 he was re-elected. In the Legislature his party, though strong in talent, was weak in number. Mr. Meredith, of Philadelphia, then a very young man, was a leading spirit, and fought the battles of his party with an eloquence and ability that distanced all rivalry. Mr. Haines co-operated cordially with him, and, though diffident and disinclined even to share the responsibility of leadership or to become in any way prominent, was a valuable and efficient coadjutor. During the first session they were together at the seat of the State government, he contracted with Mr. Meredith a friendship which continued without interruption as long as he lived. He was not active or laborious in committee, or forward in debate, and was indeed rather an unfrequent speaker, but when he did speak he was forcible and made a decided impression on the House ; and he rarely failed to satisfy his audience that his efforts were not equal to his abilities, and that whatever power he exhibited, he had much more in reserve. After the close of his second term in the Legislature, Mr. Haines was nominated for Congress by the Adams party of the Congressional district of Lancaster, Chester, and Delaware Counties as successor to Mr. Miner, who declined being a candidate. The Adams party combined the elements of opposition to the Jackson Democracy, and was composed of the mass of the old Federal party, and such small portion of the old Democratic party as did not sympathize with the movement in favor of the great military chief, and was not involved in the tempest of popular enthusiasm which was bearing him onward. The district had been for many years largely anti-Democratic, and Mr. Haines expected an easy victory ; but in this he was disappointed, and, contrary to general expectation, the Congressional Jackson ticket was elected. This political defeat brought to Mr. Haines some change of prospect, and he began, as soon as the excitement attending the contest passed away, to give more attention to business than he had hitherto done. Gen. Barnard, who was one of the leaders of the bar, on the inauguration of Governor Shulze, in December, 1826, had been called to Harrisburg to serve as Secretary of the Commonwealth ; and in December, 1827, John Duer, an old practitioner of large practice, had died. These changes in the condition of the bar opened a fine field for the younger members of the profession, and some of the more enterprising entered at once into sharp competition for the business that had been relinquished by their two elder brethren. Mr. Haines possessed a large share of public confidence, and if he had cared to exert himself, might at once have secured a sufficient accession to his practice to satisfy his wishes, even if they had been less moderate than they were ; but his attention at that time being largely occupied by politics, he moved along in his profession in the easy way to which his habits inclined, and made no effort to avail himself of the advantages offered by events. Business solicited him, but the interest he took in it was not of a kind that contributed to its growth. When the tumult of the great contest for President subsided, disappointed and chagrined by the result, professional employment became measurably a relief to him, and he engaged in practice with more earnestness than he had previously manifested. A number of cases of importance were committed to his care, and his efforts exhibited unusual ability, and were attended by remarkable success. He had much skill in cross-examination, and seldom failed in an attempt to extort the truth from an unwilling witness. This he did, not by browbeating, for to that unmanly practice he never resorted, but by a kind and candid manner which appealed to the better feelings and overcame the repugnancy of the witness, and by a judicious train of questions which made the answer desired the natural sequence to prior admission. But it was principally in addressing juries that his power was displayed. He had a handsome person, a dignified and imposing presence, a voice at once strong and musical, a gray-e, deliberate, earnest, and forcible mariner, a lively imagination, which gave him the command of appropriate images, and a comprehensive. 580 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. grasp that enabled him to deal with facts in the style of a master. In technical knowledge he was deficient. He usually trusted to his colleague for the law of the case, and rarely attempted to argue to the court on the admissibility of evidence: As an advocate, he was strong, luminous, brilliant, and sometimes even grand. As a mere lawyer, he was unready, subject to surprises, and never forcible in argument, except after laborious preparation, to which he was averse. At the time Mr. Haines engaged in practice, and for several years later, there was among certain members of the bar a good deal of unkind feeling, which was often openly manifested during the trial of jury cases by much asperity of personal remark, of which each in turn was the subject. But although Mr. Haines was frequently associated with counsel who seldom let slip an opportunity to sting an antagonist, I can remember, in the course of the twenty-eight years we practiced together, no single instance of his being involved in a personal controversy with a brother-lawyer. His demeanor was so uniformly courteous and his conduct so scrupulously fair that he provoked no resentment ; he easily made allowance for a retort causelessly severe occurring in the heat of argument under the impulse of transient excitement, and his ready wit often enabled him to turn aside with a laugh an envenomed shaft flung at his colleague. He was sensitive withal, and if he received an insult which lie deemed intentional or wanton, he was not of a disposition to pass it by unnoticed ; but lie would not create a scene in court, or be provoked to become a party to an altercation by which his personal dignity or the dignity of the bar might be compromised. The effort put forth by Mr. Haines to achieve distinguished success at the bar, being out of accord with his natural dispositions, and unsustained by high aspirations, was of short duration. How long it continued I cannot say, for, from my own observation, I could not be quite sure of its actual existence, and I know of it only from himself; but it was persisted in long enough to satisfy him that a larger business was certainly within his power, and that all that was necessary on his part to obtain it was a willingness to devote to it the time and attention it would require. But he was destitute of that spontaneous energy that demands employment as a necessity, and he preferred an easy, unanxious life, with no more care than was required by a moderate practice, to larger gains and high professional position accompanied by continual toil. " I counted," said he, " the cost of the career that I saw open before me, and asked myself whether it would afford compensation for the sacrifices it would involve, and the answer was, it would not." Hence he relapsed into his old easy way, sure that his talents and experience would command employment sufficient for his needs, without the laborious diligence which higher aims would exact, and allow him a comfortable exemption from the corroding cares that feed on the vital forces of the intellectual and physical man when engaged in an ambitious struggle for professional eminence. Although Mr. Haines thus declined to assume the labors and responsibilities of a leader at the bar, and voluntarily permitted it to be taken by such enterprising competitors as might have the energy and ability demanded by it, no cause could be well manned for a severe and protracted contest without his services being brought into requisition ; and he was, therefore, almost uniformly engaged in all heavy trials where two or more counsel were employed on a side. If in these lie aided but little in the discussion of mere legal points, he was at least a powerful coadjutor where a verdict was to be wrung from the popular arm of the court by a skillful manipulation of the testimony or by eloquent appeals to sympathy. In cases of disputed boundaries of lands, and of conflicting claims to water-rights, and in that large class of actions in which damages for injuries to person, property, or reputation were demanded, be was in special request, as well as in those falling within the jurisdiction of the criminal courts, where the offenses charged were of great magnitude, or involved the character and standing of persons previously of good repute. He carried with him into court the same sensibilities and large-hearted sympathies which be manifested in private life. And speaking, as he was apt to do, under the sway of the emotions awakened in his own breast by circumstances of injury or misfortune, with voice, mien, tone, emphasis, and language singularly effective to reach home to the heart, it was- hard for a panel of unsophisticated jurors to escape the infection of the feelings by which he was visibly impressed, or for opposing counsel to prevent its influence from becoming apparent in the verdict. As a jury lawyer he was very successful. For cases of abstruse law he had no taste, and lie never followed any judgment or decree on error or appeal into the Supreme Court, nor did he ever make an argument in that court., though often solicited. For sharp practice, which often rewards vigilance at the expense of justice, he entertained a positive aversion, and would not resort to it, whatever the provocation. His extreme indulgence to others, which was the natural effect of his temper and disposition, rendered others usually indulgent to him, and enabled him to move along with freedom in the easy way that was most agreeable to him, little anxious lest he should be tripped unawares by unheeding the exigency of a rule, or by the non-observance of some technical requisition. In the year 1829 the popular excitement against the institution of Freemasonry, which had previously raged with great intensity in New York, reached Pennsylvania, and an organization as an Anti-Masonic party for political purposes was effected. This new party was constituted partly of the old Federal and partly of the old Democratic party, and without political principles of its own or the pretense of them, and merely by the coherent force of hostility to Masonry and ambition for power, was able to array itself in a very formidable manner against every other party. It soon obtained an ascendency in Chester County, and in the Congressional district of which the county was a part, and for several years controlled the elections. Mr. Haines was a. Mason, and therefore subject to the ban of exclusion from office laid on all members of the obnoxious order. Whether the subversion of Masonry—the ostensible object of the party—should be attained or not Mr. Haines cared nothing, for he considered the institution not of sufficient value to become. the subject of an embittered contest between members of the same peaceful community, BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 581 and he had no doubt that the excitement, if left to take its sweep without opposition, would soon expend its power and disappear. But when it assumed the character of a personal attack, as for a time it was made to do upon Masons, as men who were represented to be associated by ties which imposed obligations inconsistent with civil order and social duty, his feelings became warmly enlisted. It was in 1832, when Anti-Masonry, aspiring to the dignity of a national party, had nominated candidates for the Presidency, that its adherents in some parts of Pennsylvania gave to their accusations against the members of the Masonic brotherhood their most offensive form, and these Mr. Haines felt himself called upon to repel. Besides anonymous articles which he prepared for the press, he drew up a vigorous protest, which was published and widely circulated. It was signed by himself, by Charles Miner, William H. Dillingham, Ziba Pyle, William Williamson, and a number of other well-known and leading citizens of Chester County. This paper made a decided impression upon the reflective part of the community, but it inflamed excited partisans to more envenomed hostility, and Mr. Haines came to be regarded, after Mr. Miner's removal from the county, towards the close of the year, as mainly responsible for the sentiment which prevented a co-operation in the district of all the opponents of the Jackson administration under Anti-Masonic leaders. An organization designated " National Republican," which had been formed soon after the inauguration of Gen. Jackson, and which, under the auspices of Mr. Clay, was in vehement opposition to the administration, was maintained in this part of the State on its own independent ground. In the elections of 1833, in which there was no issue on any national question, the " National Republicans" in the county voted with the Democrats, and the Anti-Masons were overwhelmingly defeated ; but in the following year, during which the anti-bank policy of the President agitated the country, the " National Republicans" generally sustained the Anti-Masonic nominations as a preferable alternative, though not with a hearty cordiality. In 1835 they had no distinctive party organization in the county or district, but a larger part of them, under an invitation extended to them by resolutions of Anti-Masonic meetings, became associated with the Anti-Masons in the support of Joseph Ritner for Governor; but Mr. Haines, it is believed, did not vote for him. Whatever others might, he declined to have any connection with a body of men professing as their object the disfranchisement of all Masons, on the ground of their implication in a supposed conspiracy against the supremacy of the laws, though in other respects they might agree with him. His course differing from that of many of his friends, was a subject of pretty severe animadversion, but it was consistently maintained and persisted in, and for several years he continued to hold a position with a small body of men, who were in sympathy with him, separate and apart from the two great parties that were contending for the political control of the State. That body, though small in number, was sufficiently considerable to influence to some extent the result of elections, and their views and feelings could not with safety be disregarded. In 1836 the names of two of them were placed on the Demo, cratic ticket and elected, but Mr. Haines, who was nominated by the same party as delegate to the convention to amend the State constitution, was defeated by a small majority. The lesson administered by that election to the Anti-Masons and Republicans, then become Whigs, who were acting with them, induced a spirit of moderation and a disposition to greater harmony. In 1838 those who acted with Mr. Haines held a county meeting, and adopted an address and resolutions which he had prepared. The address stated that that branch of the Whig party had had no distinctive organization for several of the past years. " Leaving to others," it says, " the control of nominations and the formation of tickets, they had acquiesced in a state of things which they could not approve, and had sustained their own principles by choosing between evils. The adoption of this course induced many of our friends to join in the ranks of the Jackson party, and led the main body of the Whigs to unite with and assist the Anti-Masons in the election of their candidates. Either alternative required sacrifices that it was painful to make." The resolutions proposed an arrangement with the Anti-Masons and the Whigs associated with them, by which each branch of the body thus to be consolidated should have a potential voice in the selection of candidates ; and Mr. Haines was appointed to present the resolutions to the other branch of the general Whig party, which was to assemble in county meeting the next day. This duty was performed, but the proposition did not prove acceptable and was rejected. Report of the proceeding was made to his friends, who, from their having first met for the purpose of organizing as a distinct body on Monday, were thenceforth denominated the " Monday Whigs." The " Monday Whigs" thus became recognized as a distinct body, between whom and the Anti-Masons and their Whig allies on the one hand, and the Democrats on the other, there were well-defined lines of demarkation. In order to maintain their organization it was necessary that they should have the control of a newspaper press. Mr. Haines therefore purchased the establishment of the American, Star, which had been previously published at Coatesville, and which he removed to "West Chester, and became its editor, and the recognized leader of the " Monday Whigs." He wrote easily and well, and if success in a newspaper enterprise had been his aim, and had need of no other kind of ability than that of a ready and able writer, he might have commanded it. But his objects were special and temporary, and did not contemplate competition with other newspaper establishments for reputation or business, and hence he gave to the Star but an inconsiderable share of his attention. Yet his paper usually contained a large amount of editorial matter written in an attractive style, and in a tone of great moderation and candor. He could not be provoked to forget his dignity or self-respect under any circumstances, and he kept his columns at all times clear of personalities and of epithets of abuse, and presented his views with a calm decorum suitable to his character. His career as an editor was a short one, but the times were warm with political controversy, and his position, to some extent, one of personal antagonism.. Yet, though he wrote forcibly and earnestly, 582 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. he could say when he had laid aside his pen, after several years of practice, that he had alienated no friend and made no enemy. An effort was made in 1839 to reconcile the " Monday Whigs" with their brethren in the county, then acting with the Anti Masons, but it failed, and the " Monday Whigs" retained their organization and formed their own ticket. Though able to poll rather less than five hundred votes, their separate action so operated in favor of the Democrats that the ticket of the latter was elected by upwards of twelve hundred majority. The effects of the feud thus became strikingly apparent, and the expediency of cultivating more amicable relations between the different branches of the Whig party was strongly enforced. The Whigs and Anti-Masons were powerless without the aid of the " Monday Whigs," and it was necessary that they should be conciliated, or the expectation of future success be abandoned. This consideration acquired force from the fact that a Presidential contest of more than ordinary interest, and attended by more than ordinary excitement, was at hand. An effort was then made to organize the elements of opposition to the administration, and the object was accomplished without great difficulty. The result demonstrated the importance of this little event. The majority for the Harrison ticket in the State was less than the number of votes polled by the " Monday Whigs" in this county, and if they had not been conciliated, Harrison would not have been elected. When the " Monday Whigs" became merged in the great party that elected Harrison to the Presidency, the particular vocation of the American Star was gone, and Mr. Haines disposed of his press at the first convenient opportunity. From this time the even tenor of his professional life continued for some years without interruption. Judge Darlington had died in the year 1839, and had been succeeded by Mr. Bell, whose large practice was divided among his fellow-members of the West Chester bar. The share that fell to Mr. Haines was not considerable, merely because he was indisposed to accept the conditions which a heavy practice imposed. He still preferred his ease, accompanied by the inconveniences of a narrow income, to persistent mental labor, however sweet its promised rewards. On this point he and the public seem to have come to a pretty satisfactory understanding. While in severely contested jury trials his services were always in requisition, his chamber and Orphans' Court practice exhibited little or no visible growth. In 1846, Mr. Haines was a candidate for nomination on the Whig Congressional ticket of the district, but failed of success by a single vote. This defeat was the result of his opposition to Anti-Masonry, which was unforgiven by the section of the united party to which he had stood opposed. Although his popularity in his native county was somewhat affected by the distractions of local politics, his influence and authority as a political leader were not without their proper appreciation in the wider sphere of State politics. When, therefore, on the death of Francis R. Shunk, Governor of Pennsylvania, William F. Johnston became his successor, he, on the 26th day of July, 1848, tendered to Mr. Haines the office of Secretary of the Commonwealth. The offer was accepted, and within a few days lie entered upon the duties of his appointment. Mr. Johnston having been elected Governor at the ensuing fall election, Mr. Haines was reappointed in January following, and he remained in office till Feb. 13, 1850. During the period of his official service as Governor Johnston's secretary and principal adviser his public duties were not onerous, and lie had leisure to attend the sessions of the courts in his native county. He availed himself of the opportunity to retain his connection with professional practice, and he was frequently engaged in jury trials, usually as assistant, and not as original counsel. As Secretary of the Commonwealth, Mr. Haines was ex-officio superintendent of common schools, a position which at that time afforded fine opportunities of usefulness in maturing a system then only of sixteen years' growth, and still in a state of imperfect development. lie was friendly to a scheme of public instruction, and believed it to be one of the highest duties of the State to take care that the children of the citizens should not be allowed to grow up in ignorance and he was not unaware of the need of much hard work to be done by some comprehensive and well-informed mind, before the common schools could become the efficient means of the mental and moral culture which the public welfare and the popular sentiment required. He made two reports, which contained some valuable suggestions, but which did not aim at striking out a complete and comprehensive system, such as he might have done had he been able to devote to the subject the amount of labor that it required. While Secretary of the Commonwealth lie gained many friends by his social disposition, his attractive conversation, and agreeable manners. The impression he made upon the members of the Legislature and other public men whom lie met with at Harrisburg, was that of a man of decided intellect, yet averse to labor and studious of his ease. lie was a most agreeable talker, and although not a full man, like Burke, nor profound, like Coleridge, whatever he said seemed most happily suited for the time and the occasion, and he had the art of so pointing a moral and adorning a tale that his remarks, however trite or trifling, were invested with the interest of freshness and novelty. If not prompt in business, his conduct was at least free of offense to those with whom, by his official position, he was brought into contact and if he sometimes gave cause for complaint by an inveterate habit of procrastination, he silenced all murmurs by his easy and graceful courtesy. He was therefore popular at the seat of the State government as a Secretary, and was even more liked as a man. Feb. 13, 1850, Mr. Haines was appointed by President Taylor Treasurer of the United States. His appointment was promptly confirmed by the Senate, and a few days afterwards he removed to Washington and entered upon the duties of his office. Those duties, at the time, were by no means arduous. His clerks had been well trained and understood their business, and the head of the bureau had little to do beyond affixing his signature to official papers. This position he certainly enjoyed ; his responsibilities were not onerous and he had abundance of leisure on his hands, BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 583 and if there could have been an assurance of its permanency his highest aspirations would have been satisfied. He knew well, however, that there was little probability of the patronage of the government continuing in the hands of his party beyond the existing Presidential term to which Gen. Taylor was elected, and that on the accession of a Democratic President he would be obliged to retire. Believing that his duty required him to be generally at his post, his visits to West Chester, while he continued to be Treasurer, were brief and only occasional, and he withdrew almost altogether from professional practice. He was not accustomed, at Washington, to mingle to any considerable extent in the gayeties of the capital. His wife had become, some years before, a member of the Society of Friends, and conformed in plainness and simplicity to the usages of the people of her religious profession, and consistently abstained from intercourse with the world of fashion which she had renounced. He occasionally attended the President's levees and the receptions of the heads of departments, but more from considerations of respect to the incumbents of those government offices, with some of whom he was on terms of personal intimacy, than with a view to social enjoyment. He almost uniformly spent his evenings with his wife, preferring her society, to which her sweet and cheerful spirit lent a perpetual charm, to the brightest and gayest the capital could afford. It was only in her absence, on her rather unfrequent visits to West Chester, that any inducement could be presented strong enough to lead him abroad on festive occasions,, and when he accepted invitations to evening entertainments he was uniformly among the very first to withdraw. Late hours were unsuited to his habits. From his youth he had been accustomed to retiring early, and whether at West Chester, Harrisburg, or Washington, he was usually in bed before any of his neighbors, even those of the most primitive style of living. His practice in this respect was so strongly marked as to be a subject of pleasantry with his friends. It used to be a common joke that ,he went to rest at the same time that the chickens went to their roost. He gave, however, no more hours to repose than his neighbors. Although he was in bed before them at night, he was astir several hours in the morning while their heads were still on their pillows. Summer and winter he was usually abroad at the first peep of day. The insecurity of the tenure of the office of Treasurer at Washington made a more permanent position, though attended with greater labor, acceptable. He therefore, on being elected in the fall of 1851 to the president judgeship of the Fifteenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of Chester and Delaware, resigned his treasurership and returned to West Chester. In December of that year he was sworn into office. The term for which he was elected was ten years, and he continued for that period to preside in the courts of the two counties. At the end of his term he was not a candidate for re-election, and he returned' immediately to the bar and resumed practice, without any apparent diminution of vigor and with all his forensic powers unimpaired. In February, 1865, his wife died after a short illness. Her loss was severely felt. She had every quality calculated to make his home delightful, and he ceased to take an interest thenceforth either in society or business. In his own domestic circle he was constantly reminded of her absence, and he became in great measure weary of life. Towards the early part of September of the same year he was attacked by dysentery. His disease in its first stage had no alarming symptoms. To nobody but himself did it appear to threaten a fatal termination. In his depressed condition of mind, however, and with a certain presenti-. ment of approaching death, his recovery became hopeless. His anxiety for relief from the burden of life made death welcome. He died in the following October, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. "Men of genius, tread lightly over his ashes, For he was your kinsman." Judge Haines had a talent for poetry, which, if it had been cultivated with assiduity, would have gained for him more than a local reputation. But he wrote only as the occasion prompted. His pieces were struck off at a single heat, and were subjected to no thought beyond the first effort. I have some twenty or more of them in my possession, and the most of them bear the marks of incompleteness, easily discoverable by a critical eye, and which a revising hand would have removed. He once recited to me an admirable poem, which he had recently written, which I thought needed only some slight retouching to be perfect in its finish and exquisite in expression. He answered my suggestion by saying, " I think I will give it. another touch or two some of these days, when I feel in the humor." But I have never seen or heard of it since, except that Mr. Hickman once told me that the author had repeated it to him. Among the effusions of his pen the following may be considered as a just specimen of his style : BOB FLETCHER. I once knew a ploughman, Bob Fletcher his name, Who was old and was ugly, and so was his dame; Yet they lived quite contented and free from all strife, Bob Fletcher, the ploughman, and Judy, his wife. As the morn streaked the east, and the night fled away, They would rise up to labor refreshed for the day; And the song of the lark, as it rose on the gale, Found Bob at the plough and his wife at the pail. A neat little cottage in front of a grove, Where in youth they first gave their young hearts up to love, Was the solace of age, and to them doubly dear, As it called up the past with a smile or a tear. Each tree had its thought, and the vow could impart That mingled in youth the warm wish of the heart; The thorn was still there, and the blossoms it bore, And the song from the top seemed the same as before. When the curtain of night over nature was spread, And Bob had returned from the plough to his shed, Like a dove on her nest he reposed from all care If his wife and his youngsters contented, were there. I have passed by his door when the evening was gray, And the hill and the landscape were fading away, And have heard from the cottage, with grateful surprise, The voice of thanksgiving, like incense, arise. And I thought of the proud, who would look down with scorn On the neat little cottage, the grove, and the thorn, And have felt that the tinsels and pleasures of life Were dross, to contentment with Bob and his wife. 584 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. DR. WILLIAM E. HAINES was the son of Jacob and Rachel Haines, and was born at Westtown, Chester Co., Pa., on the 30th of the 10th month, 1816. In his childhood he early displayed the activity of mind and energy of purpose which characterized his riper years, engaging in everything he undertook with zeal and efficiency. He was first sent to school at Westtown Boarding-School, and continued his attendance there until the autumn of 1823, when his father removed to Muncy Valley, in Lycoming County. In 1831 he was again sent to Westtown School, where he remained for three years engaged in the study of mathematics and other branches of a sound English education, as well as the Greek and Latin languages. By his manly rectitude, no less than by his industry and ready acquisition of knowledge, he won the respect and esteem of his teachers, while his natural animation, joined to an innocent play of wit, rendered him an agreeable companion to his schoolmates, with some of whom he formed friendships which were as ,lasting as his life. His close application acting upon a constitution naturally delicate, so far impaired his health that he was compelled to relinquish for a time the pursuits in which he was so much interested and to return home, which he did in August, 1834. Soon afterwards he determined upon the practice of medicine as the vocation of his life, and entered the office of Dr. Rankin, a respectable practitioner in the town of Muncy. He devoted himself with new zeal to the studies which were to be so interwoven with the success of his future life ; during the summer in the office of his preceptor, and in the winter by an attendance upon the lectures in the University of Pennsylvania. Towards the close of the winter of 1837 his health again began to decline, but he was able to continue his attendance upon lectures and his assiduous reading till the close of the session, and to pass the examination for a degree with credit. He was scarcely twenty-one years of age when, after some search for a suitable field for practice, he settled upon Springfield, Delaware Co., as the sphere where he should assume the onerous responsibility, and encounter the ill-repaid toil, the struggles against prejudice and mistrust, and the anxious solicitude for success which too often attend the commencement of practice. Although almost immediately employed by many families in his neighborhood as they had occasion, he had, however, much leisure time, which was employed in adding to his stock of medical knowledge, as well as reading upon general subjects. In the following winter he delivered a course of lectures upon chemistry at the Springfield Library Rooms, which were listened to with interest by a numerous audience. His manifest ability, clear judgment, and efficient action soon won for him a confidence in the estimation of the public, which was heightened by the kindness, dignity, and rectitude which characterized him ; so that his practice continued rapidly to increase until the summer of 1840, when he was seized with a severe illness. This malady, the exact nature of which is not known, after confining him some weeks to his bed, left him so enfeebled as to compel him to seek renovation and repose amid the bracing air of the mountains of Lycoming and the much-loved society of his paternal home. After some weeks thus spent he returned to his practice, which became sufficiently lucrative to justify him in the following spring in purchasing the premises immediately opposite the Springfield meeting-house, upon which he resided the remainder of his active life. On 10th mo. 7, 1841, he married Mary, eldest daughter of Joseph Rhoads, a union which contributed greatly to the happiness of his after-life. In his personal appearance at this time Dr. Haines was of medium height, his figure slender and hair light, complexion fair, and his face, though not handsome, was rendered agreeable by an expression of intelligence, dignity, and benevolence. His manners partook less of artificial polish than of a true politeness, which arose from native kindness of heart and that just sense of self-respect whereby he scorned not the humblest and rendered to the highest the deference due from an equal to excellence and worth. Though little disposed to converse freely in the presence of numbers, among his more intimate friends his manner was easy and affectionate, heightened by a play of genial wit. Towards his patients his conduct was most admirable. He was regarded by them as a friend and brother ; for while his abilities, medical skill, and mild dignity of deportment inspired them with respect, his kind sympathy won their grateful affection. In the spring of 1842 an epidemic of typhoid fever prevailed in the circuit of his practice. While busily engaged in attending to others his own family was attacked, and finally himself, in consequence of which he was confined for several weeks to his house. After his recovery he wrote a short account of the epidemic, which was published in the American Journal of Medical Sciences. Dr. Haines was a member of the religious Society of Friends, to whose doctrines he was strongly attached, regarding religion not as an abstract speculation, but as a practical law of life, affecting every action, regulating a man's whole being, and requiring of him the practice of every virtue. He died 4th mo. 18, 1846. JOSEPH HAINES, one of the five brothers who settled on Rancocas Creek, in New Jersey, removed with Dorothy his wife, to Nottingham, Chester Co., in the year 1714. His first wife died 1, 7, 1719, at the age of thirty-nine years, and he married, 1, 1, 1721-2, Elizabeth, daughter of James Thomas, of Whiteland. He died 9, 12, 1763, and his widow 11, 24, 1796, aged about one hundred years. A nephew, Jacob, son of William, also settled in Nottingham, and some of his descendants lived in Lancaster County. Joseph Haines' children were William, died young ; Sarah, died young ; Ruth, b. 8, 28, 1709, m. Robert Miller, of' Caln ; Miriam, m. Robert Halliday ; Solomon, died young ; Patience, b. 11, 24, 1715, m. Patrick Miller Dorothy, b. 11, 24, 1718 ; Sarah, b. 9, 27, 1722, died 12, 19, 1745-6 ; Deborah, died young ; William, b. 4, 8, 1725, d. 9, 19, 1800 ; Reuben, b. 9, 26, 1726, d. 8, 7, 1745 ; Solomon, died young ; Joseph, b. 11, 9, 1730 ; Anne, b. 7, 24, 1732 ; Margaret, died young ; Nathan, b. 2, 28, 1735 ; Daniel, b. 9,15, 1736 ; Isaac, b. 4, 19, 1738 ; Deborah, b. 1, 15, '1740, d. 5, 2, 1784 ; Job, b. 8, 26, 1744. BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 585 The children of Joseph Haines were twenty in number, and with such a start it is not surprising that the name of Haines is very common in the southwestern part of our county and in the adjacent county of Lancaster. HALL, SAMUEL, a weaver, was living in Kennet about 1710, and died in 1738, leaving children as follows : Mary, m. to Robert Whitacre ; Sarah, m. to David Bally ; Phebe, m. to Calvin Cooper ; Elizabeth, m. to Robert Whiteside ; Hannah, Dinah, Susanna, Margaret, George, Samuel, James, and Charles. George Hall married Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Jane Hoopes, and is said to have had twenty-four children. Samuel, the father, and George were weavers. Charles Hall married Sarah Taylor, and his descendants are living in Kennet. HAMILL, ROBERT, was born July 22, 1801, and died March 18, 1876, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. His father, Israel Hamill, was born Dec. 2, 1776, and died June 30, 1838. He was a son of Robert Hamill, who was born in the north of Ireland, Aug. 5, 1719 (O.S.). Joan (first wife of this Robert) was horn Feb. 11, 1721 (O.S.). They were married in 1743. Their children were Martha, Mary, Phebe, Eliezer, Priscilla, and Ebenezer. Joan died Aug. 15, 1757, and was interred in the Upper Octorara New Side burying-ground, where most of the name have since been buried. Mary died Sept. 10, 1759, at sea, aged twelve years, and was laid in the same burying-ground. This would imply that the parents came to this country about the middle of the eighteenth century, and had left part of their children behind for a short time. Phebe died Sept. 19, 1779. The father then married Jean Shields, and their children were Elisha ; Ruth, m. John Rodgers ; Mary, m. Samuel Richmond ; Jemima and Keziah (twins), d. in infancy ; Phebe, m. Mr. Hogg ; John Caldwell, Israel, and Phinehas. Martha died Aug. 21, 1784. Robert Hamill died Aug. 3, 1803, and Jean, his wife, died Dec. 1, 1807, aged seventy-two years. When Robert Hamill came to this country he settled in Fallowfield, now Highland township, one mile south of Parkesburg. Israel Hamill (the father of Robert Hamill, the subject of this sketch) was married to Mary Scott, a daughter of James and Hannah (Allison) Scott, who were of Scotch descent. Mary was born in June, 1776, and died Jan. 21, 1861. They had eleven children, to wit : Elisha, Robert, Hannah, m. James Cochran ; Jane, m. Jacob ,Seltzer ; James, d. 1836 ; William, and Israel, d. 1840 ; the other four died in infancy. Robert Hamill, Esq., married Jane Cochran, a daughter - 74 - of James and Martha (Elton) Cochran, who died March 19, 1831, aged thirty-nine years, leaving four children, viz. : Martha (m. Dr. John G. Gibson), Israel, James Cochran, and Jane, who was married to Evan Chalfant. James Cochran, the father of Mrs. Jane Hamill, was a son of Stephen, one of three brothers (James, Stephen, and David) who came from Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century. James Cochran died Dec. 12, 1812, aged seventy-four years. Martha, the wife of James, died April 11, 1826, aged seventy-five years. Robert Hamill then married Mary, a daughter of Samuel and Margaret Walker, who died in 1839, without children. He afterwards married Eliza, a daughter of Wothel and Catharine (Barr) Baldwin, who is now (New-Year's, 1881) living. By that union they had eight children, viz. : Robert Albert, Eliza Emma, Edwin A., Millard Fillmore, Samuel Dale, and Addie, and two others who died in infancy. Robert Hamill's residence was in Highland township, formerly a part of West Fallowfield. He was a justice of the peace 586 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. for many years, and until he refused to serve any longer. As an evidence of the confidence and esteem of his neighbors and friends, he was called upon to fill various offices and positions of responsibility and trust. Israel, the eldest son of Robert and Jane Hamill, the contributor of the materials of this biography, is married to Mary Ann, a daughter of James and Hannah (Fleming) Pinkerton, is an adherent of the Presbyterian faith and practice, as all his ancestry have been, both paternal and maternal, and he, his father (Robert Hamill), his grandfather (Israel Hamill), and his great-grandfather (Robert Hamill) from his settlement in this county have always had a residence within the bounds of old West Fallowfield and, what is a remarkable fact, neither of them moved from the place of their first settlement in life. HANNUM, JOHN, with his wife Margery, were settled in Concord as early as 1688. He died in 1730, and his widow about 1742. Their children were James (who died in 1717), Robert, George, John, Mary (m. Thomas Smith), Elizabeth (m. Thomas Broom), Margery (m. Anthony Baldwin), Ann (m. John Way), and Sarah (m. Jacob Way). John Hannum, Jr., married, 10, 29, 1731, Mary Gibbons, but she probably died without issue, and he married, 8, 8, 1741, Jane, daughter of John and Elizabeth Neild, by whom he had children,-John, William, James, Margery (m. Joseph Gibbons), and Mary (m. Richard Cheyney). The father died 3, 5, 1773, in Concord, and his widow 11, 14, 1808, in her eighty-ninth year. William Hannum remained at the homestead in Concord. James settled on Doe Run, but died at Downingtown, 9, 28, 1809, in the sixtieth year of his age. John (3) settled on a large farm on the Brandywine and Valley Creek, in East Bradford, which had been purchased by his father. He was an active Whig, and an influential citizen of Chester County from the days of the Revolution to the day of his death. Dec. 20, 1774, a general meeting of the citizens of Chester County was convened at the court-house, in the borough of Chester, to devise measures for the protection of their rights as freemen, in pursuance of the recommendation of the Continental Congress. A committee of seventy were appointed accordingly, of whom John Hannum was one. From that time he was a zealous participant in all the movements which led to and resulted in the independence of the United States. Most of the time he was a magistrate, and was often employed by the civil authorities in important confidential business, as well as holding a commission in the militia. At the time the British army invaded Chester County, on its way from the Head of Elk to Philadelphia, Col. Hannum resided at the " Centre House" (now in the village of Marshallton), between the two main branches of the river Brandywine, and the night of Sept. 10, 1777, was passed by Thomas Cheyney, Esq., a relative of Col. Hannum, at the house of the latter. (At that perilous crisis it was not deemed prudent for Squire Cheyney to lodge at his own house.) Next morning-being Brandywine battle-day-the two set out together to visit the American army, known to be then in the vicinity of Chads' Ford. As they descended towards the west branch of the stream, near Trimble's mill and ford, they discovered coming down from the hills opposite a very numerous body of soldiers, evidently British. This very much surprised Messrs. Hannum and Cheyney, and they moved round the adjacent hills, in order to observe the direction taken by the enemy. Finding them going toward Jefferis' Ford, on the east branch, and believing them to constitute the chief portion of the English army, our friends resolved at once, and at some personal risk, to proceed with the intelligence to Gen. Washington. Squire Cheyney, being mounted on a fleet hackney, pushed down the stream from Jefferis' Ford until he found the American commander-in-chief and had the interview mentioned on page 71. Col. Hannum remained with the army during that unfortunate day, and in its retreat, and continued with his old friend, Gen. Wayne, until the night of the " Paoli massacre." After that cruel affair Col. Hannum returned to his residence, where, a short time afterwards, he was captured one night in his bed by a party of British light-horse, who had been piloted thither by a Tory neighbor, and he was carried a prisoner to Philadelphia. The party robbed Mrs. Hannum of her gold watch, and took everything of value in the house that they could carry away. The colonel subsequently made his escape, and was soon actively aiding the great cause in which he had embarked. May 6, 1778, the Council taking into consideration the appointing of commissioners, agreeably to the act of attainder, etc. : " Ordered, That the following persons be appointed, to wit : For the county of Chester, William Evans, Thomas Cheyney, Thomas Levis, Patterson Bell, and John Hannum." Sept. 25, 1779, two affidavits of the circumstances of Col. Hannum's escape from the enemy were read, and ordered to be forwarded to Gen. Washington. Col. John Hannum to President Reed : " BRADFORD, June 15, 1780. "Sir, Pursuant to your orders, I have collected 28 cattle and 101 sheep, all that I could collect in so short a time; having not received your orders till the 11th instant. "It gives me concern that the army is reduced to the extremity they are, being well assured that one person may be found that will engage to furnish the Pennsylvania troops with every necessary provisions, and to suffer death the day they are destitute thereof." Nov. 7, 1781, Col. Hannum resigned his office of justice of the peace, in consequence of his election to the General Assembly and on the 9th of the same month he resigned the office of commissioner of forfeited estates in the county of Chester. April 16, 1782, an order was drawn in favor of Col. John Hannum for his services as one of the auditors for settling the depreciation of the pay of the Pennsylvania line. Col. Hannum was elected to the Assembly in the years 1781, '82, '83, and '85, and again in 1792. He was also a delegate from Chester County in the State convention for ratifying the Constitution of the United States. While in the Assembly he was instrumental in procuring the repeal of the Test Law, which was enacted during the struggle for independence, in order to keep the opponents of that measure out of the government of the State, and prevent their mischievous interference. When independence was established the " Test" was considered a grievance, and its repeal was agreed to. Col. Hannum, in conjunction with his friend, John Patton, was probably the most active and influential man in the county in procuring the removal BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 587 of the seat of justice from Chester (the ancient Upland) to the vicinity of the Turk's Head, in Goshen township. Hannum and Patton were the real founders of West Chester, and the proper authorities have justly complimented the memory of those efficient men by giving to the old Strasburg and Boot roads, within the borough, the names, respectively, of Hannum and Patton Avenue. In 1783, Col. Hannum was appointed Register of Wills and Recorder of Deeds of Chester County, which offices were held by himself and his son Richard to the time of his death. He died Feb. 7, 1799, and was interred in the burial-ground at Bradford Meeting-house, Marshallton. His wife, Alice, was the daughter of Jonathan and Deborah Parke, of East Bradford, born 5, 12, 1744, died 3, 17, 1830. Their children were John, b. 6, 8, 1768, m. to Sarah Jackson ; Jane, b. 12, 27, 1769, m. to John Douglass ; Jonathan, married and went to Kentucky ; Mary, m. William Kinnard ; Washington Lee, b. 10, 26, 1776, went to Kentucky Richard M., m. to Charlotte Ruston, and went to Kentucky ; James, Caleb, and Deborah, who married Emmor Bradley. HAPPERSETT, REESE, D.D., the son of Melchi and Rebecca Happersett, was born in Brandywine Manor, July 31, 1810. He was educated at Washington College, Pa., and licensed to preach in 1839. He was agent and secretary of the Board of Domestic Missions of the Presbyterian Church for seventeen years. He then removed to California, and took charge of a church there, and died Oct. 2, 1866. He never married. He was generous, frank, and amiable, and was held in high esteem. HARLAN.-" George Harlan ye sone of James Harlan of Monkwearmouth was baptized at Monkwearmouth in Old England ye 11th day of 1 mo : 1650." Children of George and Eliza. Harlan (four born in Ireland and the others in Pennsylvania) : 1. Ezekiel, b. 7, 16, 1679 ; m. Mary Bezer and Ruth Buffington. 2. Hannah, b. 2, 4, 1681 ; m. Samuel Hollingsworth, 1701. 3. Moses, b. 12, 20, 1683-4 ; m. Margaret Ray, 1712. 4. Aaron, b. 10, 24, 1685 ; m. Sarah Heald, 1713-4. 5. Rebekah, b. 8, 17, 1688 ; d. 8, 17, 1775 ; m. William Webb, 1, 22, 1709-10. 6. Deborah, b. 8, 28, 1690 ; m. Joshua Calvert, 1710. 7. James, b. 8, 19, 1692 ; m. Elizabeth -, 1716. 8. Eliza., b. 8, 9, 1694 ; m. Joseph Robinson, 1713. 9. Joshua, b. 11, 15, 1696-7 ; m. Mary Heald, 1719. George Harlan settled at first about where Centreville, New Castle Co., now is, but later in life removed farther up the Brandywine, and purchased 470 acres in Kennet, now Pennsbury, township. While living here he had for his neighbors over the creek, in a great bend, a settlement of Indians. After they had left he obtained, in 1701, a warrant for 200 acres in this bend of the creek, which was granted " in regard of the great trouble and charge he has bore in fencing and maintaining the same for the said Indians while living thereon." George Harlan died in 1714, and was buried by the side of his wife at Centre Meeting. "MICHAEL HARLAN came from the North of Ireland with his brother George about the year 1687-And ye begin- ning of the year 1690 he married Dinah ye Daughter of Henry Dixson and settled first Near ye Center meeting house in Christiana Hundred & County of New Castle on Delaware and afterwards removed into Kennett in Chester County where they Lived many years haveing the following Issue (viz.) :" 10. George, b. 10, 4, 1690 ; m. Mary (Baily) Stewart. 11. Abigail, b. 9, 23, 1692 ; m. Richard Flower, 12, 17, 1724-5. 12. Thomas, b. 4, 24, 1694 ; m. Mary Carter, 1720. 13. Stephen, b. 2, 1697 ; m. Hannah Carter, 7, 26, 1723. 14. Michael, b. 2, 7, 1699 ; m. Hannah Maris. 15. Solomon, b. 10, 7, 1701. 16. James, b. 1703 ; m. Susanna Oborn, 10, 19, 1733. 17. Dinah, b. 8, 23, 1707 ; m. Thomas Gregg, 2, 10,1729. Ezekiel Harlan appears to have been an enterprising citizen, and somewhat of a land speculator. His first wife was the daughter of William and Sarah Bezer, of Chichester, to whom he was married in 1700. In 1706 he married Ruth, daughter of Richard Buffington, Sr., of Bradford. His children were William, b. 9, 1, 1702 ; Ezekiel, b. 5, 19, 1707 ; Elizabeth, b. 6, 6, 1713, m. William White ; Mary, b. 4, 12, 1719, m. Daniel Webb ; Joseph, b. 6, 4, 1721; Ruth, b. 1, 11, 1723, m. Daniel Leonard ; Benjamin, b. 8, 7, 1729. There is a tradition that Ezekiel went to England to get some property which he or the family had inherited, and having converted it into cash was about to return, when he was taken with the smallpox and died. His will, dated Nov. 14, 1730, states that he was " about to take a voyage into Old England," and it was proved Dec. 14, 1731. The future will probably witness periodical attempts on the part of the descendants to get possession of a supposed fortune in that country. George Harlan (10) married, 12th mo., 1715-6, Mary, daughter of Joel and Ann Baily, and widow of Alexander Stewart, of Kennet. He purchased from Nathaniel Newlin 300 acres in Newlin township, near the present village of Embreeville. This upon his death, in 1732, he devised to his son John, subject to payments to the other children. His widow died in 1741. Their children were John, m. Sarah Wickersham ; Rebecca, m. to Stephen White ; Dinah, m. to Robert Davies ; Hannah, m. to Joseph Martin ; Joel, b. 11, 10, 1724, d. 9, 3, 1796 ; Michael ; George, m. Susanna Harlan. When Mason and Dixon, in 1764, began their labors to establish the line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, they first measured a line from the most southern part of Philadelphia due west thirty-one miles to the land of John Harlan, where they planted a stone ; and after making some astronomical observations, ran a line thence southward fifteen miles, to ascertain the northern line of Maryland. Joel Harlan, son of George and Mary, married, 10, 16, 1746, at Kennet Meeting, Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Johnson) Wickersham. Of their children, the first two were born in East Marlborough, the next three in Londonderry, and the youngest in Newlin. They were as follows : Dinah, b. 7, 16, 1747, d. 3, 20, 1824, m. Joseph Richardson ; Ruth, b. 11, 31, 1750, m. Job Pyle ; Mary, b. 3, 5, 1753, d. 11, 18, 1829, m. John Jackson ; Caleb, 588 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. b. 5, 9, 1755, d. 5, 6, 1834, m. Hannah Edwards ; Joshua, b. 7, 7, 1757, d. 11, 29, 1839 ; Joel, b. 8, 16, 1764, d. 4, 29, 1842, m. Lydia Smedley. Caleb's children were Mary, Levi, Martha, Lydia (married John Trimble), Caleb, Hannah (married Robert Ingram), and Joel, born 8, 26, 1800, who married Margaretta, daughter of Dr. Abraham Baily, and resides on a part of the original Harlan tract in Newlin. Joshua was the father of Gen. Josiah Harlan, who spent considerable time in the service of Dost Mahomed, Ameer of Cabul, and was the author of " A Memoir of India and Avghanistaun," 1842. Joel Harlan, son of Joel, was the father of Mary, wife of John J. Monaghan, Esq. HARLAN, ABRAM DOUGLAS, son of Ezekiel and Hannah M. Harlan, was born in West Marlborough township, Chester Co., Pa., Sept. 3, 1833. When eleven years of age he removed with his parents to Coatesville, which has since been his home. He was educated in the public and private schools of his native county. At the early age of thirteen years he began business-life in a country store at Mortonville. About a year afterwards he found a situation in Philadelphia as the errand-boy of a trunk manufactory, and removed for his services two dollars per month and his shoes. By patient, persevering effort, industry, and economy he ascended step by step until he became a merchant on his own account, and was able to open a general store in Coatesville. He was an enterprising and very successful merchant. In October, 1862, pressed by the call of duty to his country, he left his business at considerable financial loss, and voluntarily entered the army. He served as a private soldier in an independent company of cavalry, and was first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster of the 157th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. In politics Mr. Harlan has always been an ardent Republican. As such he has filled the following positions : He was transcribing clerk of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives during the sessions of 1864, and message clerk of the same body during the sessions of 1865, 1866, and 1867. He was a representative delegate from Chester County in the Republican State Convention of 1872, and one of the assistant clerks of the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania during its entire session (1872 and 1873). He edited and published a small volume entitled " Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania, 1872 and 1873, its Members and Officers." He served under the Hon. A. P. Tutton, supervisor of internal revenue, as a special clerk for nearly two years, and when that gentleman was appointed collector of customs of the port of Philadelphia, he appointed Mr. Harlan, on account of his eminent fitness, to the responsible position of assistant cashier. Under Gen. Hartranft he holds the same position. As a citizen at home, Mr. Harlan has been identified with all the educational and progressive interests of Coatesville. For fourteen years he has been a member of the school-board, and has done much for the advancement of the schools. For five years he was secretary of the board, and during the last nine years he has been its president. He was the first to suggest the introduction of gas-works into the borough, and as early as 1868 secured a charter for the same. He originated and organized the Coatesville Building Association, and during its existence was one of its chief managers. He conceived the idea of the Fairview Cemetery, and was instrumental in obtaining the charter and in the formation of the company. After the close of the war he became a dealer in real estate, and through his agency much of the farm-land within the borough limits has been laid out in building lots, houses have been erected, and streets have been opened, graded, and paved. At eighteen he became a member of the Coatesville Presbyterian Church, and has ever taken an active interest in its welfare. In the twenty-first year of his age he was elected superintendent of the Sabbath-school of his church, and, excepting three years during the war, he has since held that office. Under his management the school has enjoyed a continuous season of prosperity, and is to-day one of the most flourishing in the county. For a number of years he was one of the trustees of the church ; for ten years its treasurer ; and in November, 1871, was elected a ruling elder, which position he still holds. He was sent by the Presbytery of Chester as a commissioner to the General. Assembly of 1880. Mr. Harlan was married, Jan. 1, 1857, to Miss Lizzie P., daughter of Samuel W. and Jane B. Scott. To them have been born three children, viz. : Walter L., died in infancy ; Justin E., graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, now practicing dentistry in Philadelphia ; and W. Scott, a member of the class of 1882,. Lafayette College, classical course. Mr. Harlan may well be regarded as one of the marked and self-made men of Chester County,-successful in business ; influential in the politics of the community and of the State ; honored, useful, and influential in the church. HARPER, JOHN, was one of those Chester County patriots who in the beginning of the year 1776 stepped forward to join the Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, raised by authority of the Continental Congress, and placed under the command of Col. Anthony Wayne. Mr. Harper was appointed ensign of the company commanded by Capt. Persifor Frazer, and was also made quartermaster of the company, which marched with the battalion to the Canadian frontier, and passed the campaign in the region around Ticonderoga. He was afterwards ensign of Capt. James Taylor's company. At the close of the campaign, Wayne rose to the rank of a brigadier, and a fifth battalion, or regiment, was organized, under command of Col. Francis Johnston and Lieut.-Col. Persifor Frazer. Harper ultimately attained to the rank of brigade major, and was stationed, with that corps and others, under Gen. Wayne, near Chads' Ford on the Brandywine, Sept. 11, 1777. A few days after that unlucky battle Col. Frazer and Maj. Harper, while on a reconnoitring excursion, were made prisoners by a party of British under Gen. Grant, and taken to Philadelphia, to experience the tender mercies of the infamous Cunningham. Col. Frazer effected his escape some time afterwards, but Maj. Harper was kept a prisoner until Nov. 4, 1780. When the Revolutionary struggle was over, Maj. Harper became a public-house keeper in the borough of Chester, and in 1784 he was elected to the office of coroner for the county. Soon afterwards the good people of the bailiwick were greatly excited by BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 589 the effort to remove the seat of justice from ancient Upland (Chester) to the " Turk's Head," in Goshen (now the borough of West Chester), and when the Uplanders set out for the threatened purpose of dissolving the " Cestrian" Union, and demolishing the new buildings at the " Turk's Head," the command of the field-piece was vested in Maj. Harper. Happily, no mischief was done. Peace was restored, and the worthy major lived, afterwards, to be " mine host" of the Turk's Head, and also to keep the public-house in the ancient village of Dilworthstown, where he died in the beginning of the present century, and was interred in the cemetery at Cheyney's Shops. His respectable descendants, of the third and fourth generation, are still to be found in West Chester. HART, JOHN, of Chester County, the second son of Col. Joseph Hart, of Bucks County, was born at Warminster, Nov. 29, 1743. He married, Sept. 13, 1767, Rebecca Rees, of the Crooked Billet, and soon after removed to Chester County, where he purchased a mill and land near " Old Church." From Chester County he was a delegate to the conference of the provincial deputies, held July 15, 1774, a member of the Constitutional Convention of July 15, 1776, and appointed justice of the peace July 25, 1777. Owing to his warm espousal of the cause of the colonies, he was so persecuted by the Tories in 1778 that he was obliged to leave his mill and return to Bucks County, where he spent the remainder of his life. In the spring of 1779 he succeeded Henry Wynkoop as treasurer of Bucks County, and was one of the victims of the Doane robberies, in October, 1781. He died at Newtown, June 5, 1786, at the age of forty-three years. HARTMAN, GEORGE.—The founder of the Hartman family in Chester County was John Hartman, a native of Schwerin, Hesse-Cassel (now Prussia). In 1753 he, with his wife, whose maiden name was Moses, emigrated to America with a family of five sons—John, Joseph, George, Peter, and Christopher—and several daughters, and landed in Philadelphia. Of these, Christopher, born May 6, 1750, married, in August, 1776, Mary Hutchinson, of Mercer Co., N. J. In 1795 they moved to Lexington, Ky., and in 1801 to Clermont Co., Ohio, where he died March 16, 1833. One of the daughters, Mary, married a Rice, an officer in the Revolutionary war. John, the emigrant, was twice married, and Abigail, a daughter by his second wife, married Zachariah Rice, and was the mother of twenty-two children, seventeen of whom walked in procession to their mother's grave. Zachariah Rice did much work for the government during the Revolutionary war, and assisted in building the hospital at Yellow Springs. One of Mr. Rice's daughters married Daniel Kable, of Morgantown, Pa. She was the grandmother of Mrs. Dr. Hartman, of West Chester. John Hartman the elder, with his family, settled west of the Yellow Springs, where he purchased a tract of several hundred acres. The vicinity of the Yellow Springs was at that period settled almost entirely by Germans, some of whose descendants still occupy the farms owned by their grandparents. The farms of East and West Pikeland were at that period much larger than at present, many containing from 300 to 500 acres of land. That of Christian Hench, on which Joseph Tustin now resides, contained 300 acres. Peter Hartman, the son of John Hartman, was placed in Philadelphia, with a wealthy German acquaintance of his father, to learn the sugar-refining business, which, however, he soon abandoned to join the Continental army, in which he served as an officer. He took an active part in public affairs, and from the commencement of the war he was an ardent and active patriot. Peter Hartman married a widow named Stein, by whom she had one son, George. Mrs. Stein had been previously twice married,—to a Mr. Orner, by whom she had one son (Valentine), and afterwards to Mr. Stein, by whom she had five children. Her maiden name was Smith, and she had emigrated from Germany when young. George Hartman, son of Peter Hartman, when sixteen years of age, was, at the instance of his father, taught to beat the drum, and in a short time his proficiency was such that he received the appointment of drum-major, and was taken by his father through his military campaigns. He was at different periods during the war stationed at Fort Bergen, Billingsport, and other places. A few days before the battle of Brandywine he was taken sick with the camp fever at Chads' Ford, and was carried by four men on a litter after night to his father's house near the Yellow Springs, sixteen miles distant, where he could be under the care of his father's family physician, Dr. Roger Davis. The Tories were harassing the Whigs of the neighborhood by domiciliary visits about this time, and as Maj. Hartman wore the Continental uniform, he was in constant danger of being captured, to avoid which he was carried from one neighbor's house to another in the night, and often concealed in the cellars through the day, his medical attendant being notified in advance whenever a change of location was deemed necessary. About this time the old powder-magazine on French Creek (portions of which were standing some years ago) was blown up, and other damage inflicted on the inhabitants of the neighborhood by the Tories. These depredations, however, were soon ended by the American army going into winter quarters at Valley Forge. During the winter of 1777, while the army was encamped at Valley Forge, George Hartman and his father were occupied with their four-horse wagon going around the neighborhood collecting meat, flour, potatoes, cabbage, and all other edibles they could obtain by contribution from the farmers, together with clothing and straw for the soldiers' tents. The Whig ladies knit hose and mittens for the soldiers, and contributed delicacies of all kinds for the sick. Whenever a load was collected they hauled it to camp, and on their return would bring a load of sick soldiers to the hospital at the Yellow Springs. They often received the thanks of Gen. Washington for their efforts to sustain the army. George Hartman married Mary Elizabeth Hench, a daughter of Christian Hench. Mr. Hench had seven sons and two daughters. The sons were men of remarkable physique, all being over six feet in height, and all perished in the Revolutionary war. The last one, named Peter, when his period of enlistment had expired, re-enlisted before returning home, knowing that his mother would not consent to his return to the army. When he returned home his mother recognized him while a long way off, clad 590 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. in a new uniform, and told the family she knew he had re-enlisted. In a few days he rejoined the army never more to return. George Hartman was at one time sheriff of Chester County. Of three children born to him, the third and only surviving one was Gen. George Hartman, the subject of this sketch, who was born in East Pikeland township, May 5, 1793. When a young man he designed entering the mercantile marine, and with this view he studied astronomy, navigation, and surveying, under the direction of a private tutor. Before attaining his majority war was declared by the United States against Great Britain, and he applied himself at once to the study of military tactics, in which he became quite proficient. He was the first drill-officer of the " American Grays," a company formed at West Chester about that period. In the summer of 1814 he enlisted in Capt. John G. Wersler's company of volunteers, the Great Valley Light Infantry, and was appointed orderly sergeant. Owing to having received an injury about the time this company was mustered into service, he was dropped from the roll. On his recovery, however, his proficiency in military tactics recommended him to favorable notice, and, notwithstanding his youth, he was elected captain of the second company of the Sixty-fifth Pennsylvania Militia Regiment, commanded by Col. John L. Pearson. His company consisted of one hundred and fourteen men, drafted from the neighborhood of the Yellow Springs and Kimberton. His commission from Governor Snyder bore date Sept. 17, 1814. After his term of service expired he was appointed deputy sheriff of Chester County, under his father. Aug. 31, 1821, he was commissioned by Governor Heister as colonel of the Fifty-seventh Regiment Militia, and May 10, 1833, by Governor Shulze, as captain of a volunteer company, called the " Chester County Fencibles." Aug. 3, 1835, he was elected brigadier-general of the First Brigade, Third Division, of the militia. After the death of Maj.-Gen. Isaac D. Barnard, he was elected and commissioned major-general of the Third Division. In February, 1839, he was appointed recorder of deeds for Chester County by Governor Porter, and (owing to an amendment to the State constitution making the office an elective one) the following November elected to the office for three years. • He was an expert penman and mathematician, and for many years was the principal surveyor and conveyancer in the northern part of the county. In all his business relations he was regarded as a gentleman of unswerving integrity. For many years he was a member and officer of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, East Pikeland township. He died Nov. 5, 1878, aged eighty-five years and four months. His children were Dr. William D., Granville S., Mary T. (now the widow of Isaac Sloanaker), Joshua W., G. Washington, Elizabeth Raby, and Albert S., and two who died young. His son Dr. William D. Hartman, a physician of West Chester, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1839. His tastes are scientific, and he has devoted especial attention to conchology, entomology, geology, and mineralogy. His collection of shells is the largest and most valuable in the State, outside of Philadelphia. HARTSHORNE, JOSHUA, is descended from a family of that name who came from England and settled in what is now Cecil Co., Md., about the year 1700, where they engaged in agricultural pursuits, taking an active part in the affairs of the colony and during the war of the Revolution. His uncle, John Hartshorne, entered the service in the Third Regiment of the Maryland line, served during the war, and was discharged colonel of the regiment at its close, November, 1783. Joshua Hartshorne, who was born June 17, 1804, was the third son and fourth child of Jonathan Hartshorne and his wife, Mary Gillespie, who was of Scotch-Irish extraction. He received his education under the care of the learned Rev. Dr. Magraw, of West Nottingham Academy, Cecil Co., Md. He subsequently removed to Chester Co., Pa., and engaged in merchandising. In 1839 he was elected a member of the Lower House of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and served one term. In 1844, the same year of the exciting Presidential campaign between Polk and Clay, he was elected a member of the State Board of Railroad and Canal Commissioners, and served three years, being the last year president of the board. On retiring from office, in 1848, he engaged in the iron business at Baltimore, Md., and after residing there about thirty years he returned to Chester County, and settled at West Chester. HARVEY, WILLIAM, was born 9, 5, 1678, in the parish of Lyd ( ?), in Worcestershire, England, whence he came to Pennsylvania in 1712, bringing a certificate from Friends of Worcester, which was received by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting 7, 26, 1712. He married, 6, 12, 1714, Judith Osborn, widow of Peter Osborn, who had come over in the same vessel. She was born at Bilson, in Staffordshire, 1683. He was by occupation a maltster, and in 1714 purchased 300 acres of land on Brandywine, in Ken- BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 591 net (now Pennsbury), Chester Co., upon which they settled in the following year. William died 6, 20, 1754, and his wife 5, 1, 1750. They had children,-Hannah, b. 6, 18, 1715, m. Jacob Way ; William, b. 2, 9, 1717, d. 4, 24, 1813, m. Ann Evitt ; Isaac, b. 9, 21, 1718, d. 11, 3, 1802, m. Martha Newlin and went to the South ; Amos, b. 10, 3, 1721, m. Kezia Wright ; James, b. 6, 21, 1723, d. 10, 9, 1784. William and Ann Harvey had children,-Judith, m. Francis Lamborn ; William, b. 6, 3, 1744, m. Susanna Pusey and Mary Chandler ; Amos, b. 4, 7, 1749, d. 4, 15, 1825, m. Hannah Pusey ; Peter, b. 10, 20, 1751, d. 9, 13, 1824, m. Jane Walter ; Caleb, b. 1746, died in infancy. Amos and Hannah (Pusey) Harvey had children,-Joshua, b. 11, 26, 1769, m. Susanna House ; Ellis, b, 7, 1, 1771, d. 1772 ; Eli, b. 12, 29, 1772, d. 1, 10, 1846, m. Mary Painter and Rachel (Hollingsworth) Harvey ; William, b. 1, 2, 1775, d. 8, 26, 1850, m. Sarah Marshall ; Mary, b. 12, 9, 1779, d. 4, 17, 1839, m. Stephen Webb ; Ann, b. 5, 31, 1783, m. Jesse Sharpless ; Phebe, b. 6, 17, 1787, m. Evan Phillips ; Lydia, b. 11, 19, 1789, m. Joel Jones ; Hannah, b. 11, 29, 1793, m. John Phillips. Eli Harvey was the father of Chalkey Harvey, near Chads' Ford, and of Dr. Elwood Harvey, of Chester, who are much interested in collecting the family history. Joshua and Susannah Harvey were the parents of Pusey, Ellis, Sarah, Townsend, and Joshua Harvey. Of these, Sarah T. H., widow of George Pearson, is living, and also interested in tracing the numerous and wide-spread branches of the family-tree. Pusey Harvey, born 1, 17, 1794, died 4, 22,-1851, married Phebe, daughter of John and Hannah Way, of Kennet, and was the father of several children,-John, Hannah, Amos, Lea, Jacob W., Susanna, Mary W., and Sarah. JACOB W. HARVEY was born 10th mo. 1, 1826, in Pennsbury township. His parents being strict members of the Society of Friends, he was carefully trained in his youth within the pale of that sect. In 1844 he apprenticed himself to Isaiah Price, of West Chester, to learn the trade of a bricklayer, which he afterwards followed several summers, teaching in the winters. Habits of industry formed in childhood, together with an innate thirst for knowledge, led him to a just sense of the value of spare moments, and while many of the other workmen were lounging between the hours of labor, he was reading philosophy, history, botany, astronomy, and other branches of useful learning. At nineteen years of age he became a pupil of the Unionville Academy, then under the charge of Jonathan Gause. He was married in 1850 to Maggie Nields, and entered into business of his trade in 1851, in Philadelphia, which he followed for four years, building over one hundred houses in that time, making (to use his own words) " many friends, but little money." In 1855 he accepted the principalship of the Kennet Square High School. In 1857 was made principal of the Fairville Institute, which he conducted for ten years, and until he purchased and removed to the Unionville Academy, where he still resides. In 1877, Dr. Wickersham, State superintendent of public instruction, appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the 592 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. county superintendent, that office being made vacant by the death of Hiram F. Pierce. In 1878 and 1881 he was re-elected by a vote of the school directors of the county, which position he still holds, and which, by his industry, faithfulness, and self-sacrifice, he conducts with marked success. His public institutes are deservedly popular, and there can be no doubt that he is exerting a healthful influence over the public schools of the county. His gentlemanly deportment, affability of manners, and genuine sympathy for teachers are securing for him a place of esteem in the minds of those over whom he is placed. He deserves a place among the unpretending but faithful friends of education. HASLETT, DR. JOHN DAVIDSON SMITH, was born in the township of West Fallowfield (now Highland) on the 31st day of August, A.D. 1828. He was a son of James Haslett, Esq., an active and influential citizen in his day, and a soldier in the war of 1812, first as a private and afterwards holding the position of adjutant. He received part of his education at Unionville Academy, though he was in a large measure self-instructed. His inclinations always lay in the line of mental effort, and he applied himself to the acquisition of knowledge with an earnestness and energy that gave proof he understood its value as an element of power in man's life,—a mighty lever in every scheme of noble ambition. Soon after attaining his majority he conceived the idea of becoming a physician,—a choice of profession wisely made, and one for which his active intellect and strong physical constitution admirably fitted him. He commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Samuel C. Harry, in March, 1853, and selected the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, as his alma mater, at which institution he graduated in March, 1855. Then came the puzzling question where to settle. The medical fraternity was neither weak in numbers nor confined in locality, but had so plenteously disposed themselves over the land that to discover a " good opening" seemed an impossibility. Talent and resolution, however, will always work its way, and these were combined in Dr. Haslett. Following the " course of empire," he turned his steps " westward," and in October of the same year commenced practice in Alexandria, a small town in the northeast part of Missouri. The place, however, did not suit his tastes and acquirements, and in June of the following year he went to St. Louis, where his success at once became certain, and where he afterwards resided. He readily gained the esteem and confidence of the older physicians of the city, and by devoting himself with the ardor of one who loves his vocation to the duties of his profession, soon became known as a skilled and successful practitioner. In 1859 he was elected corresponding secretary of the St. Louis Medical Society of Missouri, an association numbering about eighty members,—certainly an honor after so brief a residence, and a testimony of his high professional standing. In September, 1861, a few months after the outbreak of the Rebellion, he was appointed and commissioned by Governor Gamble surgeon of the 9th Regiment Missouri Volunteers, then under the command of Gen. Fremont. After he was superseded, they were united with the " Army of the Southwest," under Gen. Curtis. On the 28th of January, 1862, he was detached as post-surgeon to take charge of the hospitals at Otterville, Mo. In this situation he performed his duties with great efficiency, and his report to the head department at St. Louis, on closing the hospitals, about two months afterwards, was regarded as the clearest and most satisfactory of any that had been received. The contingencies of war occasioning a frequent transfer of regiments from one army corps to another, Dr. Haslett in the spring of 1862 became connected with the Army of the Mississippi, under Gen. Grant and in June of this year was appointed surgeon of the First Brigade, Fourth Division. In the latter part of September this division was transferred to Buell's army, and he marched with it to Louisville when that city was threatened with an attack by the rebels. When the Army of the Ohio, under Gen. Buell, marched from Louisville to attack the rebel invaders, Dr. Haslett accompanied it, holding the position of surgeon 59th Illinois, and acting surgeon Thirtieth Brigade, Ninth Division. Soon after, on the 8th of October, 1862, he was killed at the battle of Chaplin Hills, near Perryville, Ky. It was near sunset when the battle commenced, and the officers of one of the regiments being sick and absent from their posts, Dr. Haslett went into the fight to cheer and encourage the men, a duty for which his intrepid nature well fitted him. While the battle was still going on, he rode to the rear to see that the ambulances and his assistants were in right position for duty, and was returning to the field, when he met two soldiers carrying back a wounded captain. Directing them to lay him in a slight ravine close by, to be safer from the enemy's fire, he ordered the soldiers back to their place in the ranks, and was preparing to dress the officer's wounds, when he was struck by a musket-ball in the neck and instantly killed. During the night, the enemy having gained possession of the ground for a time, they robbed his body of everything valuable. In the morning, our forces being ordered to press forward, in passing over the field where he lay, hastily built a protection around his body, when two days after, the earliest moment then possible, Capt. Snyder, of the 59th Illinois, a brave and humane officer, with two assistants, buried him on the spot where he fell. A brother residing in Kansas City, on hearing of his death, immediately came on, and having secured his remains, brought them to his native home in Chester County, where they were reinterred in the family burying-ground at Fagg's Manor. Dr. Haslett possessed those qualities of mind that fitted him to deal successfully with men and command the largest influences. Of a social and generous nature, with a fine address and large intelligence, he was not long in forming an agreeable fellowship with those among whom it was his lot to dwell. He had aspirations, but not beyond his abilities and whatever distinction he attained was by virtue of a well-cultured mind and a determination to succeed. He took a deep interest in the political affairs of the country, watching closely the course of legislation, and was an ardent advocate of whatever policy commended itself BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 593 to his judgment. No cause in which he engaged ever suffered from want of enthusiasm on his part ; no work was confided to him that he did not labor to do it well. Both as a writer and speaker he possessed excellent capabilities. He sometimes addressed public assemblages, and with good elocutionary abilities and a fine discernment, always in a manner at once pleasing and effective. He wrote with facility and with much vigor and grace of expression, and his contributions to the public journals, discussing as they did topics of immediate interest, were always attractive to the general reader. Dr. Haslett was still a young man, not having reached the prime of manhood when he was killed. A bright future was before him, and his fame steadily enlarging when his career was suddenly ended. With the many heroic spirits who periled life and lost it in the service of their country, he has passed to his final rest ; yet will he be long remembered as one who shunned no duty in the hour of danger, and who sealed his loyalty with his blood. HAWLEY, BENJAMIN, born 8, 5, 1703, died 7, 29, 1782, son of Thomas and Frances (Malin) Hawley, of London, came to Pennsylvania in 1722, and lived some years with John Willis, Jr., in Thornbury ; married, 1, 5, 1730, Dinah Gabiter, daughter of John Gabiter, of the parish of Giles in the Fields, London, who died 11, 26, 1761, in her sixty-third year. In 1735 he took a voyage to England, and returned the next spring, making also two other voyages in 1759 and 1769. He followed farming and teaching school, mostly in the neighborhood of Birmingham ; was married at Birmingham Meeting, 4, 20, 1763, to his second wife, Catharine Hillborn, and spent the last years of his life at his son Joseph's, in West Bradford. He was buried at Birmingham, as was his first and perhaps his last wife, who died 5, 13, 1789. His gun-barrel, which he brought from England, is in possession of his great-grandson, Thomas P. Hawley, of West Chester, who has refitted it. A Bible, printed 1599, was given him by his sister Mary in 1735-36, and is now in possession of Rebecca (Hawley) Chambers. It contains the births of his children, as follows : Benjamin, b. Nov. 18, 1730 ; d. 10, 26, 1815; m. Mary Johnson, 4, 22, 1756. Mary, b. Oct. 5, 1732 ; m. Hugh Kirgan. Joseph, b. March 21, 1735 ; d. 11, 21, 1817 ; m. Elizabeth Spackman and Agnes Jones. William, b. Sept. 17, 1737 ; d. 6, 2, 1826 ; m. Hannah Taylor, Elizabeth Eavenson, and Phebe Hoopes. Susanna, b. March 28, 1740 ; d. 7, 21, 1770 ; m. Christopher Nupher. John, b. March 11, 1743 (or '45). Joseph Hawley, son of Benjamin and Dinah, was married, 4, 28, 1762, to Elizabeth Spackman, daughter of Isaac and Esther Spackman, of Wiltshire, England. She was born 7, 21, 1735, near Malmsbury, and died 8, 25, 1796. Joseph was married again, at Bradford Meeting, 4, 3, 1800, to Agnes Davis, daughter of Evan and Susanna Jones, of Uwchlan, being her third husband. She was born 12, 1, 1745-6, and died 8, 2, 1817. Their children were Esther, b. 2, 18, 1763 ; d. 10, 28, 1816 ; m. Daniel Kent. Dinah, b. 12, 21, 1764 ; d. 12, 24, 1768. William, b. 7, 18, 1766 ; d. 5, 8, 1836 ; m. Ann Marshall. Mary, b. 9, 14, 1768; d. 9, 15, 1771. Elizabeth, b. 5, 29, 1770; d. 9, 75 22, 1851 ; m. Richard Woodward. Joseph, b. 11, 12, 1772 ; d. 12, 21, 1851 ; m. Elizabeth Woodward. Isaac, b. 8, 6, 1775 ; d. 1837 (?), unmarried, at Downingtown. John, b. 9, 25, 1778 ; d. unmarried ; made a will dated 5, 22, 1814. Benjamin Hawley (2) married, 4, 22, 1756, Mary, daughter of Benjamin Johnson, of East Bradford, and settled in that township, near his brother Joseph, who was in West Bradford. Their children were Caleb, b. 4, 23, 1757 ; m. Hannah Battin, 5, 30, 1782. Thomas, b. 12, 6, 1758 ; d. 4, 17, 1780-1 ; buried at Bradford, 4, 19, 1781 (diary). Joseph, b. 6, 6, 1760 ; d. 10, 5, 1856 ; m. Rebecca Meredith, 5, 23, 1798. Robert, b. 3, 28, 1762 ; m. Patience Yearsley, 11, 21, 1787. Rachel, b. 8, 3, 1763; m. Arthur McCann. Hannah, b. 4, 7, 1766. Mary, b. 9, 2, 1767 ; m. John Ingram. Lydia, b. 2, 28, 1769 ; d. 12, 28, 1770, in morning ; buried 12, 29, at Bradford. Susanna, b. 9, 11, 1770 ; m. Elisha Davis, 12, 12, 1793. Tamer, b. 5, 2, 1772 ; m. Joshua Hicklin, 12, 17, 1801. Rebecca, b. 1, 9, 1774 ; d. 3, 18, 1859, unmarried, at Aaron Garrett's ; buried at Goshen, 3, 20, 1859. Dinah, b. 1, 18, 1776 ; m. John Hicklin, 5, 21, 1801. Benjamin, b. 5, 18, 1777 ; d. 8, 17, 1857 ; m. Deborah Hoopes, 3, 26, 1801. Phebe, b. 1, 14, 1779 ; d. 2, 11, 1782 ; buried at Bradford, 2, 13, 1782. Mary Hawley, the mother of these, died 4, 27, 1822, in her eighty-ninth year. Joseph and Rebecca (Meredith) Hawley, of Uwchlan, were the parents of Joel Hawley, ex-associate judge of our courts, now living in -West Chester. He is the father of Col. Joseph W. Hawley, of Media. HAYES, HENRY, " lately arrived in this province," obtained a warrant Sept. 3, 1705, to take up 500 acres, one moiety of 1000 acres originally purchased from William Penn by Richard Hands, of Swarford, in the county of Oxon, England, and on 11th mo. (Jan.) 28, 1705, obtained another warrant for 484 acres, the remainder, deducting liberty land near the city of Philadelphia. By virtue of the first warrant he took up 384 acres on the west branch of Brandywine, just south of the present Coatesville, and in the following year 600 acres were surveyed for him, including the present site of Unionville. Afterwards he obtained several hundred acres, extending from the last tract to the northwest corner of East Marlborough, and received a patent Nov. 25, 1717, for 1100 acres in this township. He was an active citizen, and a justice of the peace and of the Common Pleas for several years. His wife, Rachel, living in 1736, was perhaps mother of all his children, but he left a widow named Isabella. His children, so far as known, were,- 1. William ; 2. Richard ; 3. Joseph ; 4. James ; 5. John ; 6. Stephen ; 7. Thomas ; 8. Mary ; 9. Joanna ; 10. Margaret ; 11. Elizabeth ; 12. Anne ; 13. Rachel (m. William Wickersham) ; 14. Ruth (m. ____ Heaney) ; and 15. Lydia (m. Thomas Nichols). (1) William Hayes m. Jane James, 11, 19, 1725-6, and settled on part of his father's land. Children.-16. John, b. 8, 2, 1726; m. Hannah Kirk. 17. David, b. 8, 14, 1728 ; m. Ann Bailey. 18. Sarah, b. 12, 24, 1730 ; m. William Lamborn. 19. William, b. 594 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. 8, 8, 1733. 20. Hannah, b. 1, 1, 1736 ; m. Samuel Swayne. 21. Mordecai, b. 5, 29, 1738 ; m. Ann Greave. 22. Thomas, b. 3, 24, 1741. 23. Joshua, b. 3, 24, 1741. 24. Abram, b. 9th mo., 1743. 25. Rachel, b. 3d mo., 1747. (2) Richard Hayes died in the winter of 1742-3, in West Marlborough, leaving widow, Mary, and children,-26. Henry ; 27. Margaret (m. Jeremiah Starr) ; 28. Mary (m. Ebenezer Speakman) ; 29. George ; 30. Jonathan ; and 31. Jesse. Of these, Henry married, 9, 17, 1748, Ann Strode, daughter of John and Magdalen, and was probably the sheriff of that name in 1773 and '74. (3) Joseph Hayes married, 8, 26, 1727, Jean Woodward, daughter of Richard, of West Bradford, and settled on part of his father's land. He died, 1748, leaving issue, -32. Isaac ; 33. Henry ; 34. Abigail ; 35. Joseph ; 36. Caleb ; 37. Ruth. (4) James Hayes married Mary Cox and settled in East Fallowfield, near Doe Run, where he died about 1758. His children were Nathan, Henry, Sarah (m. Aaron Baker), Rachel, Hannah (m. James Clark), and Lydia. (7) Thomas Hayes obtained in 1732, 177 acres of his father's land, near Unionville. He was married, 10, 11, 1734, to Mary, widow of Alphonsus Kirk, Jr., and daughter of Thomas and Mary Nichols. He left two children,-Samuel and Dinah ; of whom the first became the owner of the property by release from his sister in 1760. Samuel and Elizabeth, his wife, had the following children : Ann, b. 1, 12, 1761 ; Lydia, b. 1, 12, 1763 ; Job, b. 10, 26, 1764; Thomas, b. 2, 6, 1766; Mary, b. 7, 19, 1767, m. Thomas Jackson ; Sarah, b. 4, 16, 1769 ; Jonathan, b. 2, 3, 1771, d. 4, 16, 1790 ; Ruth, b. 10, 24, 1772 ; Dinah, b. 3, 6, 1775, d. 6, 7, 1798, m. John Commons ; Nathan, b. 8, 20, 1776 ; Elizabeth, b. 4, 25, 1778 ; Jane, b. 9, 18, 1783. Job Hayes purchased the homestead in 1792, and continued to reside thereon. By Sarah, his wife, he was the father of four children, viz. : Thomas, b. 8, 9, 1785, d. 6, 26, 1786 ; Nathan (M.D.), b. 2, 5, 1787, of whom hereafter ; Levi, b. 2, 5, 1789, whose son Job lives at the homestead ; Job, b. 12, 21, 1792, d. 10, 2, 1794. (21) Mordecai Hayes married, 4, 18, 1764, Ann, daughter of John and Jane Greave, and settled in Newlin township. Their children were Jane, Jacob, Eli (married Sarah Ward), John, Jonathan, and Mordecai, who married, 12, 24, 1801, Mary House, and left a son, Jacob, late of Newlin, whose residence is shown elsewhere. William M. Hayes, Esq., of West Chester, is a son of Jacob Hayes. (33) Henry Hayes married Elizabeth ___ , and their daughter Elizabeth, born 10, 15, 1769, married Emmor Baily. (36) Caleb Hayes married, about 1758, Mary Baily, daughter of Thomas and Sarah, and had six children,-Isaac, Anne (married John Cooper, and went to Ohio), Caleb, Ellis, Ruth (married Joseph Brown), Abigail (married Richard Milleson). All the family except Isaac went West. John Hayes, a son of (35) Joseph, had large possessions on the Miami River, and raised cattle extensively. Caleb Hayes died in Newlin, 1786. Isaac Hayes, son of Caleb, born 10, 12, 1762, died 10, 4, 1844, married Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail Walton, and resided in East Fallowfield. Sarah was born 10, 15, 1770, and died 9, 16, 1843. Their children were Elizabeth, b. 6, 8, 1795 ; m. Robert Letchworth. Israel, b. 9, 9, 1797 ; d. 9, 15, 1830. Rebecca, b. 12, 16, 1799 ; Abel I. Thomas. Mary, b. 2, 21, 1802 ; m. Daniel B. Thompson. Benjamin, b. 8, 28, 1804. Sarah, b. 1, 20, 1808 ; m. Thomas Shields. Isaac, b. 11, 30, 1810 ; d. 4, 10, 1878. Benjamin Hayes, son of Isaac and Sarah, married, 11, 16, 1826, Ann, daughter of Jacob and Jemima (Kay) Borton, born 7, 25, 1800. They sold the homestead several years ago and removed to West Chester, where they now reside. Their children were Mary B. (married William L. Bailey), Jacob Borton (married Hannah Thompson), Isaac Israel (unmarried), Edward (married Mary I. Ellis), Benjamin (died in infancy), and Anne J. Hayes. The following sketch of Isaac I. Hayes is taken from " Biographical Sketches of Members of Assembly of New York," 1880 : " Mr. Hayes was born in Chester Co., Pa., March 5,1832; is of English and Irish extraction ; was educated in public and private schools, and in the academy at Westtown, Chester Co., Pa. ; graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1853; has been a farmer, teacher, physician, and Arctic explorer, and is at present an author and lecturer on literary and scientific subjects and travels. "Soon after graduating he accompanied Dr. E. K. Kane on his Arctic expedition as surgeon, and was absent two years and a half. In 1860 he commanded an expedition to the same region, and was absent about a year and a half. This was entirely a private and purely scientific enterprise, and the expedition was fitted out after three years' effort, partly at Dr. Hayes' expense and partly at the expense of individuals and scientific societies. He also explored Greenland in 1869, and visited Iceland in 1874 to take part in the millennial celebration of the colonization of that country. In 1872 he published a paper, which attracted some attention, in relation to the injury being done to the harbor of New York by encroachments along the water-front. Other papers on bydrographic subjects, in connection with commerce, occasionally appeared from his pen. Besides numerous pamphlets and papers on various scientific subjects, especially in relation to exploration and travel, he has written the following works : ' The Open Polar Sea,' `An Arctic Boat Journey,' `Cast Away in the Cold,' and 'The Land of Desolation.' In the Arctic regions he reached a point within 480 miles of the North Pole, nearer than any other explorer had ever approached. For his discovery of the most northerly known land he received gold medals from the leading societies of the world, and numerous decorations. Early in the war of the Rebellion he entered the army as brigade surgeon. He afterwards became a surgeon of the United States Volunteers, with rank of major and brevet rank of colonel. He built and commanded until the close of the war the army hospital at West Philadelphia, Pa., capable of accommodating 4000 patients. It was the largest hospital ever built, and was famous for its good discipline and hygienic regulations. Since 1865 he has resided in New York City. " Dr. Hayes was formerly a Whig, but since 1856 he has been a Republican. He took part in the convention which nominated Fremont, and subsequently rendered efficient service to that candidate on the stump. He also stumped this and other States in the last Presidential canvass. Ile was a member of Assembly in 1876, '77, '78, '79, serving the first year on Ways and Means, and Insurance, the second on Commerce and Navigation, Ways and Means, and Insurance, the third as chairman of Canals, and member of Ways and Means, Cities and Insurance, and the fourth as chairman of Cities, and member of Canals and Rules. He was elected in the fall of 1876 by a majority of 725, his plurality in 1875 being 1375, and a majority over two candidates of 1060, the largest ever given in the district, except under the Tweed regime, when fraudulent voting was charged. His majority in 1877 over John Carey (Tam. Dem.) was 716, which was 300 ahead of the State ticket. "In 1878 his plurality was 1277, and last fall his majority was 1602 over Hollis L. Powers (Dem.). In the House he has been identi- BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 595 fled with important New York City measures, the State Survey Bill, reform in pilotage laws, free canal advocacy, speedy completion of unfinished insane asylums, etc., and was the author of the 'free canal resolutions,' the 'Hayes' Finance Bill,' and other notable measures." JOHN HAYES, of Oxford, died in August, 1766, perhaps a son of Henry, of Marlborough. His widow, Margaret, died about 1783. Their children were David, John, Mary (m. James Dickey), Elizabeth (m. Walter Hood), Hannah, (m. William Bailey), Ann (m. William Starrett), Margaret (m. Robert Buntin). Hayesville takes its name from this family. DR. NATHAN HAYES, son of Job and Sarah Hayes, was born in the township of West Marlborough, Chester Co., Feb. 5, 1787. He received a good common education in the vicinity of his birthplace, and at a later period acquired some knowledge of the Latin language. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. T. Griffith, a practitioner in the village of Unionville ; but Dr. Griffith removing from the county before the preliminary studies of his pupil were completed, those studies were subsequently prosecuted under the direction of Wm. Baldwin, M.D., then of Wilmington, Del., and since known as the sagacious and indefatigable explorer of the botanical treasures of the Southern States. In the spring of 1808, Mr. Hayes received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. The subject of his inaugural thesis was the " Modus Operandi of Medicines," and at the public examination on its merits the professor who had charge of it undertook to be severely critical : he made an abrupt and rather harsh attack upon some of the views advanced by the young candidate, and as Mr. Hayes was remarkably quiet, unpretending, and withal somewhat rustic in his manner, the professor evidently expected to abash and utterly disconcert the awkward-looking country student, who had thus ventured to entertain ideas not sanctioned by the school. But young Hayes was not the person to quail before mere human authority, nor to accept the dogmas of any school unquestioned. Much to the surprise of the professor, as well as to the amusement of the numerous audience, he calmly undertook to " argufy the topic" with his critical teacher ; and he maintained his positions with so much tact and resolution that it was deemed expedient, after an edifying trial of skill, to let the discussion drop, and permit the intractable candidate to carry his opinions, as well as his diploma, with him to Chester County. The fact was, Dr. Hayes, with a singularly cool, deliberate, unsophisticated, and rather unpolished manner, possessed an intellect of rare strength and shrewdness, with a fearless independence of character. He was always ready to discuss any topic, whether of professional or general interest, and never hesitated to make known and vindicate his own views, either in public or in private. On receiving the honors of the university, Dr. Hayes commenced the practice of medicine in the township of Edgmont, Delaware Co. At the end of about a year, however, he removed to the neighborhood of Unionville, where he settled, built himself a handsome residence, and continued the practice of his profession during the remainder of his life. In the year 1812 he married Sarah, daughter of John Lungren, of Chester Creek, Delaware Co., by whom he had four children, among them Ferdinand E. Hayes, Esq., now deceased. Dr. Hayes was constitutionally somewhat predisposed to pulmonary consumption, to which formidable disease he fell a victim in the month of July, 1819. Thus was cut off, in the flower of his age, one of the most sagacious and promising members of the medical profession which the county of Chester has produced. One who knew him well closed an obituary notice of him with these appropriate words : " Men of genius, tread lightly on his ashes, for he was your kinsman." HEMPHILL, JOSEPH, son of Joseph and Ann (Wills) Hemphill, was born in the township of Thornbury, Chester Co., Pa., Jan. 7, 1770. The county was subsequently divided, by which event the larger portion of the township, including the birthplace of Mr. Hemphill, was taken into what is now the county of Delaware. Alexander Hemphill, the grandfather of our subject, came from the county Derry, Ireland, when his son Joseph was about eight years of age, and settled in Chester County, aforesaid, where that son became the industrious proprietor of a valuable farm and the father of eight children. Our Joseph (the grandson of Alexander), in 1788, was placed in a grammar-school then recently established at West Chester (the new seat of justice in the county), to be prepared to enter the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated in the university in 1791, and the theme of his speech at commencement, indicative of his humane disposition, was the impolicy and unnatural severity of imprisonment for debt. Soon after graduating he began the study of law under the direction of the late Thomas Ross, Esq., one of the fathers of the West Chester bar. In August, 1793, he was admitted to practice in the courts of Chester County. His obliging disposition and remarkably bland manners speedily secured to him many friends, and he succeeded, in the commencement of his practice, far beyond his own expectations. About this period his father died intestate. Joseph had then accumulated little or nothing in the way of fortune, but, believing he could gain a respectable living by his pro: fession, he declined the acceptance of any part of the estate, and gave releases to his brothers and sisters. Early in his career he became a zealous advocate of internal improvements, and at a public meeting made a speech, in which he took an enlarged view of the subject, anticipating the rise of a great country in the West, and the appearance of populous cities on the borders of the lakes. Many who were then incredulous listeners to his glowing descriptions lived to see them extensively realized. In 1797, Mr. Hemphill was elected a member of Assembly, and was continued for three years. In his first session he succeeded in obtaining the passage of a law for the erection of a poor-house in Chester County, which was the first one authorized by law in any of the counties. He was an active member, and aided in promoting the final compromise of the Wyoming controversy. In 1800 he was elected to the Seventh Congress of the United States, from the district composed of the counties of Chester and Delaware. His appearance in the councils of the nation was in the first session of Jefferson's administration. Mr. Hemphill 596 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. was opposed to the repeal of the judiciary law which had been passed near the close of Adams' administration ; and he made a speech against the measure, which was much admired for its argumentative power and persuasive eloquence. It was considered as highly promising for the first essay of a young member. It was, however, his only effort of the kind during that Congress ; and as lie was not returned to that body until some years afterwards, his intimate friends, in allusion to a well-known instance of a member of the British Parliament, used jocularly to call him " Single-Speech Hemphill." At a subsequent period, and while a representative from Philadelphia, he made a number of able and instructive speeches. Before the expiration of the term of the Seventh Congress Mr. Hemphill removed to Philadelphia, where he continued to reside during the remainder of his life. In 1805 he was elected to the State Legislature, where he was instrumental in effecting several important and valuable modifications of our judicial system. In September, 1806, he married Margaret, daughter of the Hon. Robert Coleman, of Lancaster, Pa. In those days, and until 1811, when his other engagements permitted, Mr. Hemphill practiced law in the counties of Chester and Delaware. He was engaged in nearly all the important cases, and was remarkably successful. He had the art, in an eminent degree, of making his cause plain and simple, reducing complicated questions to the level of a common understanding. He was particularly distinguished for a bland, persuasive style and candid, winning manner, by which an advocate most surely reaches the hearts and gains the confidence of a jury. Those were times of high party excitement, but Mr. Hemphill never experienced any cessation of private esteem from political opponents. Though a decided Federalist, many of his best personal friends belonged to the Democratic party, and in business, applications were as frequently made to him from one side as the other. By an act of March 30, 1811, a new court, styled the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, was established for six years, to be composed of a president and two assistant judges. Simon Snyder, as decided a Democratic Governor as was ever elected in the State, commissioned Mr. Hemphill president of the court. At the expiration of the six years (a most laborious term) the court was continued, and Judge Hemphill was recommissioned as president. He served in that station nearly eight years, and soon after his resignation (induced by delicate health and weak eyes) he was elected a representative in the Sixteenth Congress. During the first session of this, his second term in Congress, he was appointed chairman of the Committee on the Slave-Trade. At this session, also, the exciting discussion on the attempt to restrict slavery in Missouri took place, in which Judge Hemphill took a distinguished part. The advocates of restriction were much gratified with it, and the suavity of his manner was such that the opponents of the measure could take no offense at his course. While in Congress Judge Hemphill, in conjunction with the Hon. Charles Fenton Mercer, of Virginia, labored zealously for the suppression of the African slave-trade ; and they united in a report on the enormities of the traffic, which was eulogized in the Edinburgh Review and the British House of Commons ; also, and more especially, in a letter from Mr. Wilberforce, a member of Parliament, addressed to William Lowndes, an amiable and patriotic statesman of South Carolina. In February, 1823, Gen. Mercer introduced a resolution denouncing the slave-trade as piracy, which passed the House by a vote of 131 to 9. The labors of Judge Hemphill in behalf of every measure calculated to promote the prosperity and exalt the character of the republic were as gratifying to his constituents as they were honorable to himself. He was ever ready to aid in the good work of improving the condition of our country, whether by fostering human freedom, encouraging the national industry, making roads and canals, improving our rivers, or protecting our harbors by the construction of breakwaters. Every enterprise calculated to enhance our welfare found in him a ready advocate and a steadfast friend. He also cordially favored the enactments for relieving the wants of the war-worn veterans of the Revolution. In politics Joseph Hemphill was mild, but without disguise or concealment. Elected mainly by the old Federal party, he nevertheless voted during his second period in Congress, with but few exceptions, with the majority of the representatives from Pennsylvania. In a speech in his place in 1825 he remarked, "During the six years I have been here I have never given a vote to embarrass the administration." In 1827 he made a voyage to the Old World, visiting, in his tour, the most interesting countries of Europe. After his return, the interest felt in the national industry induced him to engage in the manufacture of porcelain, but the enterprise was unsuccessful. In the latter years of his life Mr. Hemphill's health became very infirm, and he died May 29, 1842, in the seventy-third year of his age. His remains repose in the cemetery at Laurel Hill, Philadelphia. WILLIAM HEMPHILL, born Dec. 6, 1776, son of Joseph and Ann, married Ann, daughter of Col. Joseph McClellan, born Aug. 15, 1787, by whom he had four children,—James A., Joseph, Elizabeth (b. Jan. 26, 1810, m. to Dr. Wilmer Worthington), and Keziah (m. to Judge Bell). JOSEPH HEMPHILL, second son of William and Ann (McClellan) Hemphill, was born in West Chester, Dec. 7, 1807. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, the Hemphills having come to this country from the town of Newtown Limavady, county Londonderry, Ireland. Among his teachers in his youth were Jonathan Gause and Joshua Hoopes, of West Chester, and James W. Robbins, of Lenox, Mass. He read law with his brother-in-law, Hon. Thomas S. Bell, and was admitted to the bar Aug. 3, 1829. He held the office of deputy attorney-general for Chester County during the entire administration of Governor David R. Porter, from January, 1839, to January, 1845, when he declined a reappointment. He was married Nov. 22, 1841, to Catharine Elizabeth Dallett, daughter of Elijah and Judith Dallett, of Philadelphia. From the time of his admission to the bar to his death, Feb. 11, 1870, he was engaged in the practice of the law. Belonging to a family that was attached to the legal profession, Mr. Hemphill worthily maintained the forensic distinction they had acquired. His career as a lawyer, BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 597 which extended through a period of forty years, was characterized by a remarkable degree of fairness towards an opponent in the trial of a cause, a quiet yet resolute bearing, close attention to the details of the case in hand, and the most watchful care over the interests of his clients. His interrogation of witnesses was wholly free from a hectoring and overbearing manner, while he was adroit and persevering in his efforts to elicit the truth and to expose prevaricating hesitancy. In addressing a jury his manner was at once subdued and forcible, and the precision with which his statement of facts was made, and the logical mode in which his arguments to the court were presented, excited the admiration of his fellow-members of the bar. It was said of him that he never entered upon the trial of a cause without the most careful preparation, and when the cases in which he was concerned were called for trial, he was never found to be a laggard from want of previous attention, but was ever ready to proceed with becoming promptitude. Wholly free from rant or vociferation, when deeply interested in an important case his manner of delivery was forcible, and his language was marked by purity and grammatical accuracy. He was not only a sound and well-read lawyer, but an excellent belles-lettres scholar. He took a deep interest in public events, and his mind was stored with contemporaneous history, both local and general. In politics he acted with the Democratic party, and for forty years had taken a leading part in its counsels, speaking at public meetings and supporting its nominations. But his patriotism rose above party, and he hesitated not to rebuke it when it was in conflict with his sense of duty. He enjoyed every mark of confidence from his party friends, having been nominated on several occasions for representative to the Legislature and to Congress, and once for president judge of the judicial district composed of Chester and Delaware Counties. At different times he was a director in the banks of West Chester, where his duties were discharged with ability. After the cares of business he delighted in conversation with his family and friends, and his house was the home of a generous hospitality. Few men in the community in which he lived had more attached friends, and none were more worthy of them. His life was one of unsullied honor, of incorruptible integrity, of unselfishness, and of perseverance in what he deemed to be right, and he had a freedom from arrogance of bearing, a uniform gentleness of manner and equality of temper in all the varied scenes of life, which endeared him to all who knew him. He left six children to survive him,-1. Joseph ; 2. Ella, married John Dallett ; 3. Elijah Dallett ; 4. Ann, married Albin Garrett ; 5. Catharine Dallett, married John S. Wilson ; and 6. William. His son, Joseph Hemphill, is a member of the bar of Chester County, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania of 1872-73. HECKEL, SR., DR. FREDERICK WILLIAM, was born at Saarbruck, on a branch of the Rhine, in Germany, and on the line between Bavaria and Lothringia, in January, 1800. He left his native land contrary to the wishes of friends, and, being a liberalist in opinion, came to America, in 1823, to seek a new home under a free and better government. After traveling extensively over this country he finally settled, in 1825, in East Vincent township, in this county, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, comprising the present homestead farm of his son, Dr. F. W. Heckel. He had studied medicine in the best 598 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. schools of Germany, and immediately began the practice of his profession in his new home. He married, May 17, 1825, Margaret, daughter of John Barnard Bowers, of Fort Washington, N. Y. Her father was an educated German, who left his Fatherland on account of political proscription, settled in New York, and was a friend of John Jacob Astor, then rising into wealth and prominence. Their children were Louisa Rosanna, m. Dr. Charles Zeller ; Dr. Frederick William ; Mary Matilda, deceased ; Chas. Augustus, who became a noted physician, and died in 1877 ; Dr. Edward Bowers ; and Emma Augusta, deceased. Dr. Heckel practiced medicine from 1825 to his death, June 30, 1861, with the exception of a few years, when ill health prevented. He was one of the most active practitioners and prominent men in northern Chester County. He was identified with the Democratic party, which often honored him with nominations, but which the large majority of the opposite party rendered futile. A finished German and French scholar, he was also erudite in varied learning and the classics,—in short, one of the best-read men in the county. In all branches of medicine and surgery he was proficient. He came to the county a stranger, but his ability, suavity of manner, and learning soon brought him a large and lucrative practice. A Lutheran in religious conviction, he was a Christian in the broadest sense, and free from sectarian bias. For many years an invalid, he was prevented from taking the lead in public affairs in this part of the State, for which his executive ability and learning so notably fitted him. His wife, Margaret (Bowers), survived him eight years, and died in 1869. She was a lady of remarkable and varied accomplishments, a loving helpmate, whose genial nature not only aided and cheered his life, but gained her troops of warm friends. DR. FREDERICK WILLIAM HECKEL, JR. (one of the most successful practitioners of medicine in Chester County), of East Vincent township, was born Feb. 24, 1829, on the Heckel homestead, part of which is now owned by him. He received a thorough academic education, in which he was greatly assisted at home by his father, Dr. F. W. Heckel, Sr. He began studying medicine in his seventeenth year, reading with his father and Dr. Charles Fronefield, late of Philadelphia ; attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, in which he was graduated April 7, 1849, the youngest of his class, and received his diploma from the fathers of medicine in America. He spent one year in partnership with his father, and then, in his native township, began practice by himself. There he remained, in a constantly increasing practice, until 1858, when he removed to his farm near Phoenixville, which he had shortly before purchased. After the death of his father, in 1861, he removed to his present residence, where he has since resided, engaged in the practice of a profession he adorns by his learning and skill. In September, 1862, he was commissioned as assistant surgeon in the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and in December following was promoted to be surgeon, and ordered to take charge of the medical department of the 165th Pennsylvania Infantry, with which he served until it was mustered out, acting part of the time as brigade surgeon. He was married July 4, 1852, to Henrietta II., daughter of Isaac and Mary (Hoffman) Chrisman, of Schuylkill township. She died Nov. 26, 1876, and he was the second time married, Feb. BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 599 13, 1878, to Emmeline, daughter of Michael and Rebecca (Brooke) Towers, by whom he has one son, Frederick T. He has taken an active part in politics, and was the Democratic candidate for State senator in 1880, and received the largest vote of any one upon his State or county ticket. His voice was frequently heard upon the stump in the Presidential canvass of 1880, and his speeches added largely to his reputation as a man of ability. As a member of Spring City Lodge, No. 553, took the symbolical degrees of Masonry in 1874, and is also a member of the Lutheran Church. The doctor is a gentleman of broad and liberal views, and is highly esteemed in the community. He has an elegant home, with pleasant surroundings, where he and his accomplished wife are noted for their hospitality. HENDERSON, JOHN, of New London, married Margaret, daughter of Susanna McKean and aunt of Governor McKean. He was from the north of Ireland, as were the most of the settlers in that township. Edward Henderson, of New London, who died in 1732, mentions in his will his brothers John and David. John and Margaret Hen-demon had children,—Andrew, the eldest son ; Edward, John, Elizabeth, married a Hall ; and Margaret, married to a Crawford. John removed to Kentucky, where a township was named for him. Andrew married Elizabeth Finney, daughter of William, and sister of Judge Walter Finney, and died in New London in 1762. Their children were John, William, Thomas, Andrew, and Elizabeth, who married William Carlisle. William and Andrew were officers in the Revolution, and the first a member of Assembly. They settled in Huntingdon County, where Andrew was for a long time prothonotary. Thomas was drafted and served in the Revolution. His mother during the Valley Forge encampment took her stock of blankets and stockings there and gave them to the soldiers. She died in 1816, aged eighty-eight years. Thomas married Jane Evans, daughter of Col. Evan Evans, of London Britain. He was for a long time a magistrate and a highly-esteemed citizen ; died Feb. 8, 1823, aged about sixty-six years. He left six daughters,—Margaret E. and others,—who sold the farm about twenty years ago, which had been in the family since the first settlement, and removed to Wilmington, Del. HIBBERD, JOSIAH, resided in Darby, and Nov. 9, 1698, married Ann Bonsall. This marriage was not accomplished according to Friends' rules, because the bride's father would not give his consent, and at that time it was thought that the meeting could not in any case allow a marriage without parents were consenting. The children of Josiah and Ann, with the years of their births, were as follows : John, 1699 ; Joseph, 1700 ; Josiah, 1701; Abraham, 1703 ; Mary, 1705 ; Benjamin, 1707 ; Elizabeth, 1708; Sarah, 1710 ; Isaac, 1712 or 1713 ; Ann, 1715 ; Jacob, 1718. John settled in Willistown, having a certificate of membership from Darby to Goshen Meeting, dated 9th mo. 6, 1728, and the following year was married, at Newtown Meeting, to Deborah, daughter of Lewis and Mary Lewis, of Newtown. She died in 1744, and on the 30th of 11th mo., 1745 or '46, he was married to a second wife, Mary, daughter of Benjamin Mendenhall. She died in 1760, and he in 1766. By his first wife his children were Abraham, Ann, Phineas, John, and Samuel ; by the second, Deborah, Lydia, Mary, Jacob, Martha, Amos, and Abraham. The first Abraham " passed meeting" with Mary Hoopes, but the marriage was prevented by his death in the 11th month, 1758, and his name was given to a son born a few weeks after. Benjamin Hibberd obtained a certificate from Darby to Goshen in 1732, and settled in Willistown (where his brother John had preceded him four or five years), and in the same year married Phebe Sharpless, by whom he had children,—Josiah, Jane, Hannah, Joseph, Benjamin, Caleb, and Phebe. Benjamin Hibberd (son of Benjamin) was the father of Amos, whose son Enos is the present owner of the homestead. Josiah Hibberd's son John lived on and owned the land now occupied by William Evans and Franklin Leonard. He left two sons, Samuel (who was a scythe- and. sickle-maker) and Phineas, who owned the farm where Franklin Leonard lives. He had no children, and left his farm to Abner Barrett. Samuel was the father of Nanny Evans (mother of Hibberd Evans). All these farms, and that where Caleb Hibberd lived (grandfather to Walter Hibbard), were purchased by Josiah Hibberd before he left England. The indenture was made April 5, 1682, which is some months before William Penn landed at Chester. Thus it appears that the ownership of the lands of Enos Hibberd has been in that name one hundred and ninety-nine years, and the lands have been lived upon by them since the year 1722, making one hundred and fifty-nine years. Caleb Hibberd, son of Benjamin (1), was the grandfather of the late Walter Hibbard. He married Phebe Thomas, daughter of Isaac Thomas, the grandfather of the late Dr. Isaac Thomas, of 'West Chester. Daniel Hibberd married Rachel, daughter of Richard and Mary Bonsall, in 1697, and lived in Darby. Their children were Mary, Aaron, Moses, Phebe, Hann* and perhaps others. It is presumed that Daniel was a brother of Josiah. Walter Hibbard, a son of William and Jane (William-son) Hibbard, was born in Willistown township. In early life he followed the profession of school-teacher in his native district, and about the year 1837 became a resident of West Chester, where he resided uninterruptedly up to his death. Shortly after taking up his residence in this place he was chosen clerk to the board of county commissioners, in which position he continued for several years. Subsequently he opened a conveyancing office, and resided in the building now occupied by Bernard Bowen, on East Market Street, and from there removed a few years afterwards to his late residence on South Church Street. He first became identified with the National Bank of Chester County in November, 1850, when he was chosen as one of its board of directors. He continued in the board a term of three years, and after the lapse of three more was again elected in 1857. Serving a term of three years, he was again elected in 1864, and on June 27, 1873,