650 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. 6. ISAAC, b. 12th mo. 7, 1718 ; d. about 1787 ; m. 9th mo. 9, 1745, Ann, daughter of Jacob and Ann (Yearsley) Vernon, of Thornbury. His second wife was Mary, the widow of William Clayton, and daughter of Evan and Margaret Evans. 7. JACOB, b. 4th mo. 26, 1720 ; m. 9th mo. 16, 1748, Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Mary Pennock. No children. 8. HUMPHRY, b. 8th mo..10, 1722; d. 11th mo. 5, 1801 ; m. 9th mo. 16, 1748, Sarah Pennock, sister to Hannah. Second marriage, 1st mo. 10, 1788, to Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Agnes Minshall. No children. Ho was among the earliest and most noted of American botanists. 9. JAMES, b. 1st mo. 13, 1725 ; m. 6th mo. 19, 1755, Sarah, daughter of Moses and Esther (Bennett) Waite, of East Caln. The third and fourth generations present the following family record : Child of Samuel (1) and Sarah Marshall. Mary M. Nehemiah Delaplain, and had two children, James and Samuel. Children of Elizabeth (2) and William Woodward. Mary, m. Aaron Mendenhall, Jr., of East Caln. James, m. Sarah Thornbury (?) Abraham, in. and went to North Carolina. William, m. Lydia Lewis and Elizabeth Stalker; child, Thomas S. Woodward. John, W. Lydia Martin, and had children, Joel and others. Hannah, in. Abraham Taylor; children,—William, Elijah, Benjamin, Rachel, and Mary. Children of John (3) and Hannah Marshall. Joseph, d. with smallpox when a young man. Ruth, m. Levis Pennock ; children,—John, Mary, Hannah, Abraham, William, Sarah, Ann, Joseph, and Elizabeth. Betty, d. young. Ann, m. first, Amos Hope, and second, Dr. Joseph Peirce; children, —Mary and Elizabeth Hope; Joseph, John, Irenus, Celia, Matilda, Sarah, and Hannah Peirce. Mary, m. Solomon Harlan and removed to Maryland. John, m. Sarah Miller ; no children. Abraham, m. Alice Pennock ; children,—Hannah, John, Joseph, George, Levi, Vincent, Israel, Eliza, Abraham, Milton, Mira, and Pennock. Hannah, m. James Way and Joseph Cope ; children,—Ann, John, Marshall, Joseph, James, Joseph, Jesse, Hannah, and James Way. Children of Abraham (4) and Rachel Marshall. Elizabeth, m. Joel Bally, Jr.; children,—Abraham, Hannah, Emmor, Jacob, and Rachel. Samuel, m. Rachel Peirce; children,—Ann, Mary, Rachel, Ann, Abraham, Sarah, Humphrey, Hannah, Lydia, Eliza, and Samuel. Mary, m. Jacob Haines ; children,—Rachel, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Hannah, Ann, Prudence, Esther, Mary, and Jacob. Hannah probably died unmarried. Children of Hannah (5) and Joseph Gibbons. James, m. Deborah Hoopes; children, —Alice, Joseph, Hannah, Samuel, Ann, Mary, James, James (2), Deborah, Daniel, Rachel, and Rebecca. John, m. Martha Griffith ; children,—James, Joseph, Ann, John, Esther, Hannah, William, Emily, and George. Joseph, m. Margery Hannum; children,—John, Jane. James, Mary, Joseph, Hannah, George, Ann, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Rebecca. Abraham, m. Lydia Garrett and Mary Canby ; children,—William, Joseph, James, Ann, Hannah, Lydia, Abraham, Hannah, Mary, and Elizabeth S. Mary, m. John Hill; children,—William, Joseph, Humphrey, Hannah, Ann, Rachel, Mary, Lydia, Tacy, John, Deborah, Sidney, and Norris. Ann, m. Isaac Lloyd; children,—Richard, Hannah, Mary, Joseph, and James. Jacob, m. Jane Gibbons, daughter of James and Eleanor ; children,—Lydia, Abraham, Cyrus, Benedict, and James. Hannah, m. Norris Jones; children,—Marshall, Joseph, Rachel, Norris, Hannah, and Margaret. Rachel, in. John Aunt; children,—James, Joseph, Gibbons, Hannah, Naomi, John, and Abraham G. Children of Isaac Marshall (6) by two wives. Joshua (only child of first wife), m. Rachel Baily ; children,— Abraham,* William, Ann, and Lydia. David, in. Mary Buffington; children,—Joseph, John, David, Mary, and Humphrey S. Isaac, m. Susan Buffington ; children,—Job, Mary A., Jesse K., and Jonathan B. Caleb, m. Mary Marshall, daughter of Samuel and Rachel ; children,---Peirce, Evans, Samuel, Isaac, Abraham, Sarah, Lydia, Aaron, Rachel, and Mary. Children of James (9) and Sarah Marshall. Hannah, m. Caleb Peirce; children,—Sarah, Lydia, Esther, and others. Moses, m. Alice Pennock; children,—Sarah, Maria, Humphrey, Aquilla, Moses, and Junius. Jacob, m. Margaret Armitt and Elizabeth Worth ; children,—(by first) Richard, Thomas B., James, Armitt, Jacob, and Margaret; (by second) Mary Ann and John W. James, m. — McLaughlin and Lydia Baldwin ; children,—Sarah, Hannah, Esther, Mary, Gibbons, Ann, Johnson, Phebe, Thomas, Jacob, John, William, Elizabeth, and others. Esther, d. young. HUMPHRY MARSHALL, sixth son and eighth child of Abraham and Mary (Hunt) Marshall, was born in West Bradford, Chester Co., Pa., Oct. 10, 1722. In the days of his childhood educational facilities were scanty and limited, and Humphry used often to state that he never went to school a day after he was twelve years of age. Being constitutionally robust and active, he was employed in agricultural labors until he was old enough to be apprenticed to the business of a stone-mason. This trade he learned and followed for a few years. The walls of his residence at Marshallton still testify to his skill as a practical workman. His first purchase of land, in what is now the village of Marshallton, was a tract of something like thirty acres, bought in 1772 of Sarah Arnold for £151 5s. 4d. Nov. 3, 1774, he purchased of George Martin and wife seventy acres for £210 and Aug. 27, 1782, he bought four acres and twenty-five perches of Thomas Carpenter and wife for £30 in gold and silver. His leisure hours in the winter season were devoted to scientific studies, and he soon evinced a decided partiality for astronomy and natural history. His taste for natural history no doubt was awakened and promoted by his intercourse with and the example of his cousin Bartram. In the year 1773 he commenced his " Botanic Garden," at Marshallton, and it soon contained a rich collection of the forest-trees and ornamental shrubs of our country. The noble magnolias, still flourishing there, are worthy of a visit on any summer day. With the aid of his nephew, Dr. Moses Marshall, he was soon engaged in an active correspondence with Dr. Fothergill, Dr. Lettsom, Sir Joseph Banks, and others, by which England was largely supplied with our vegetable treasures. These active and interesting engagements did not prevent him from attending to the * Abraham Marshall, born 1, 12, 1785, died 2, 10, 1874, aged eighty-nine years. lie married Sarah Broomhall and resided at the original homestead of his great-grandfather, in West Bradford, a portion of the house having been built in 1730. It was enlarged in 1764 by Humphry Marshall, son of the emigrant, and is now owned by Abraham Marshall, son of Abraham, deceased, together with over 100 acres of the original tract. BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 651 business of the religious Society of Friends, of which he was an influential member. He also performed the duties of county treasurer and trustee of the provincial loan-office for several years with exemplary fidelity. In 1785 he published an account of the forest-trees and shrubs of this country, under the title of " Arbustum Americanum, the American Grove." This is believed to be the first truly indigenous botanical essay prepared and published in this western hemisphere, and was a creditable performance. Like its respectable author, however, it was half a century in advance of the community in which it appeared. In 1786 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. In Schreber's edition of the " Genera Planta- HUMPHRY MARSHALL'S RESIDENCE, MARSIIALLTON, CHESTER COUNTY, PA., BUILT 1773. rum," in 1791, a genus of American plants belonging to the natural family of Compositae was dedicated to Humphry Marshall and his nephew, by the name of Marshallia. In the latter years of his life Humphry's vision was much impaired by cataract, and on the 5th of November, 1801, he finally sank under an attack of dysentery, aged seventy-nine years. He was twice married, but had no children. A few years since the authorities of West Chester manifested a becoming sense of what was due to the character and memory of Humphry Marshall by dedicating a public square to the use of the citizens and naming it " Marshall Square." DR. MOSES MARSHALL, son of James, and grandson of Abraham, the emigrant (also the nephew of Humphry Marshall, the distinguished botanist), was born in West Bradford township, Chester Co., on Nov. 20, 1758. He received a tolerable education, both English and classical, and studied medicine with Dr. Nicholas Way, in Wilmington, Del., from 1776 to 1779. He had an extraordinary opportunity of being initiated into surgery in attending the British soldiers who had been wounded in the battle of Brandywine, Sept. 11, 1777, and were removed to Wilmington after that conflict. After practicing medicine a short time, Dr. Marshall became an inmate in the family of his uncle Humphry, devoting his time and services exclusively as an aid to his uncle in the business of collecting and shipping plants and seeds to Europe. He made several long exploring journeys in that pursuit through the wilderness regions of the West and Southwest. He was a good practical botanist, well acquainted with most of our indigenous forest-trees and shrubs, and rendered valuable assistance to his uncle in preparing the " Arbustum Americanum," the earliest native botanical work in the United States. On the 6th of April, 1796, Governor Mifflin appointed him a justice of the peace, in which office he did excellent service as a peacemaker in the community around him. In all his acts Dr. Marshall was a remarkably conscientious man, as well as a cautious, upright magistrate. Dr. Marshall discontinued the business of sending plants and seeds to Europe soon after his uncle's death, and the old garden, though still rich in vegetation, has become, by a culpable neglect, a mere wilderness. He died Oct. 1, 1813, in the fifty-fifth year of his age. JOHN MARSHALL, a cousin of Abraham Marshall, emigrated from Elton, in Derbyshire, England, in 1687, and probably first settled in Blockley township, Philadelphia Co., but within the verge of Darby Friends' Meeting, of which he was an attentive member. In 1688 he married Sarah Smith, of Darby, their marriage being the first that was solemnized at the first meeting-house built at that place. He died 9, 13, 1729. Their children were John, b. 6, 16, 1690, m. Joanna Paschall and Elinor Shenton William, b. 2, 11, 1692, m. in 1711, Mary Sellers, and settled on the Brandywine, in West 652 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Bradford, now Pocopson ; Thomas, b. 12, 10, 1694, m. 2, 24, 1718, Hannah Mendenhall, of Concord, where he settled. His children were Ann, b. 9, 18, 1719, m. Francis Hickman ; Sarah, b. 11, 4, 1721, died young ; Benjamin, b. 11, 31, 1722, m. Hannah Underwood ; Moses, b. 1, 22, 1725, died young ; Thomas, b. 7, 26, 1727, m. Edith Newlin ; Martha, b. 10, 28, 1729, m. William Levis ; Hannah, b. 2, 23, 1733, m. John Way ; John, b. 11, 22, 1734-5 ; Mary, b. 6, 4, 1738, m. Caleb James. Thomas and Edith Marshall had four children,-Esther, Hannah, Thomas, and Phebe (m. Stephen Smith and Joseph Heston). Of these, Thomas was born 12, 8, 1756, d. 8, 13, 1844, m. 4, 21, 1779, Mary Grubb, and had several children, of whom the youngest, Samuel, b. 3, 24, 1789, d. 8, 27, 1832, m. Philena Pusey, daughter of Ellis, and remained at the homestead in Concord, where his son, Ellis P. Marshall, resides. Of his other children, William P. Marshall, b. 12, 21, 1826, is a conveyancer in West Chester, and one of the trustees of the State Normal School there. John Marshall, son of Thomas and Hannah, married, 11, 27, 1760, Hannah James, daughter of Joseph and Hannah, of Westtown, and settled in Kennet. He married again, 4, 27, 1768, Susanna Lamborn, daughter of Robert, of Kennet, and had by both wives the following children : Mary, b. 10, 11, 1761 ; Martha, b. 5, 5, 1764 ; Thomas, b. 4, 22, 1769 ; Robert, b. 9, 15, 1771; William, b. 5, 26, 1773 ; Hannah, b. 1, 7, 1775 ; Ann, b. 8, 22, 1778 ; Martha, b. 8, 20, 1780 ; William, b. 7, 30, 1784, d. 1859, m. Margaret McCammon, and was the father of William Marshall, a lawyer of Philadelphia, and of Susanna J. Wilkinson, of Kennet Square. Thomas, the eldest son, married, 4, 13, 1794, Sarah Gregg, daughter of Michael and Sarah, of Kennet, and had children,-Susanna, Phebe, Hannah, John, Sarah, William, Thomas, Joshua, Carpenter, and Alban. JOHN MARSHALL, the son of Thomas and Sarah Marshall, of Kennet, was born Sept. 1, 1801. He first came to West Chester in 1822 as deputy sheriff under Jesse Sharp, and served in this capacity during the term of that officer. He then commenced the drug business at the stand now owned by Aitken & Sargent, on High Street, and afterwards bought the property later occupied by Thomas Pierce, added hardware to his drug business, and associated with him as a partner Dr. Wilmer Worthington. Nov. 18, 1839, he was elected a director of the 'Bank of Chester County, which position he held, with an interval of one year in every four, until May 1, 1863, when, on the death of Dr. Darlington, he was elected president of that institution. He disposed of his drug and hardware business to his nephews, T. & T. G. Pierce, retiring from active business, with the exception of his duties in connection with the bank. Mr. Marshall was at the time of his death a widower, his wife, a sister of Dr. Wilmer Worthington, having died in 1841. He died June 21, 1873, and left but one child, who is the wife of Evans Rogers, Esq. Mr. Marshall was for more than half a century a resident of West Chester, prominently identified with its interests, and holding many positions of trust and importance among his fellow-citizens. ALEXANDER, MARSHALL was born in Glasgow, Scotland, was a flax-hackler by trade, and emigrated to Pennsylvania just after the close of the war of the Revolution. He settled in Chester County, and served three months with the troops raised to suppress the Whisky Insurrection of 1794, encamped part of the time at Downingtown. He was married to Jane Johnston, and had eleven children,-six sons and five daughters,-the fifth among whom was ALEXANDER MARSHALL, born March 23, 1797, in West Nantmeal (now Wallace) township. In 1819 he married Elizabeth Sloanaker, by whom he had five children, three of whom are still living. He was the second time married, in 1863, to Hopeful (Hoffman) Windle, widow of Davis Windle. In April, 1829, in connection with Nathan Siegfried, a practical printer, he began the publication of The Literary Casket at Yellow Springs, he officiating as its editor. While conducting this paper they printed the first numbers of the Anti-Masonic Register for Joseph Painter. In about a year he sold The Literary Casket to Cheyney Hann= and Morris Mattson, who moved it to West Chester, where it was subsequently merged into another paper. Mr. Marshall was afterwards assistant editor of an agricultural paper, printed at Parkesburg by N. P. Boyer & Co., who sold it to the Potts Brothers, for whom he conducted it as chief editor for some time. In 1844-45 he taught school in Phoenixville. In 1845 he was elected clerk of the Orphans' Court of Chester County, and in December of that year moved to West Chester, where he has ever since resided. After his three years' incumbency as clerk, he was engaged in the nursery business, and later in the manufacture of brick until 1861, when the breaking out of the Rebellion paralyzed this industry for some time. This venerable citizen, a happy type of the old-school gentleman, is the oldest man living in the county who has been connected with the press, having (July, 1881) passed his eighty-fourth birthday.* MARTIN, THOMAS, with Margery (Mendenhall), his wife, came from Bedwin Magna, in Wiltshire, in 1685, bringing children,-Mary, Sarah, Hannah, and Rachel. They settled in Middletown, where their son Moses, and probably other children, were born. We find George and Elinor Martin, for whom we can assign no other parentage. These children married as follows : Mary to James Whitaker, 1690 ; Sarah to William Shewin ; Rachel to Thomas Woodward, 1704 ; Moses, b. 1, 9, 1685-6, in. Margaret Battin, in 1714 ; George, m. Lydia Buffington ; Elinor, in. John Scarlet, 1715. George Martin settled in West Bradford, a little northwest of Marshallton, where he died 6, 22, 1780. His children were Joseph, John, James, George, Rachel (n. to John Hennings), Lydia (m. to James Dilworth), Mary (m. ____ Wood), and Elizabeth (m. to Joseph Passmore and James Chalfant). Joseph married Hannah Harlan, and had children,-Joseph, Caleb, Rebecca (m. to Joseph Woodward), Hannah (m. to Benjamin Miller), Lydia (m. to John Woodward), Mary (m. to Daniel Leonard). Joseph died about 1802. * Since the above was in type be died, July 17, 1881. BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 653 George Martin, Jr., married Martha, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Widdows, who died 9, 13, 1808, aged seventy-nine years, six months, and twenty-eight days. George died 4, 11, 1771, aged forty-five years. He lived with his uncle, Joseph Baffington, in the Forks of Brandywine, or at least his widow remained on the farm for several years after his death. His children were Sarah, b. 1, 11, 1755 ; Ruth, b. 1, 28, 1757 ; Lydia, b. 4, 3, 1759 ; Thomas, b. 4, 12, 1761, d. 8, 24, 1808 George, b. 5, 12, 1763 ; Abraham, b. 9, 26, 1765, d. 4, 2, 1826. Of these, Thomas married Margaret, daughter of Samuel Pennock, and was the father of Samuel, late of Kennet Square, George, Thomas, Simon, and Abraham. George (3) married Amy Buffington, and lived in Newlin township. Children,-Martha, Phebe, Curtis, George Thomas, Abraham, Isaac, and Amy. Abraham married Lydia, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Martin) Woodward, and lived at Marshallton. Their children were George, Joseph, Abner, and Martha. Of these, George was born 1, 9, 1798, but is still an active business man and much interested in local history, with which his memory is well stored. He has long been a store-keeper in the village of Marshallton. Respecting Samuel Martin, of Kennet Square, whose death, on the 17th of 6th month, 1880, resulted from a series of' paralytic attacks, we quote from the Kennet Advance : "Samuel Martin was born on the 29th of August, 1802, near the Forks of the Brandywine, in what was then Pennsbury township, but which now forms a part of Pocopson. lie was the son of Thomas and Margaret Martin, and his mother was the daughter of Samuel Pennock. He early evinced an aptitude for study, and the few leisure periods in his farm-life were given to books. He worked on his father's farm until he had reached the age of twenty-one or thereabouts, when he set out to make his own way in life. By teaching in the winter season he was able to earn money to prosecute his studies the remainder of the year. One of the boarding-schools of that day was conducted by Alexander McKeever, who was at one time located at Gause's Corner, and at this school the subject of this memoir spent a year. In 1824, Mr. Martin, whose first teaching was done in the old stone school building which until recently stood at the crossroads near Joseph Walter's, removed to Kennet Square, which at that time possessed no school of any kind. He taught for a time at the school-house on the Toughkenamon road, nearly opposite John Lamborn's, and it was at this school that he was the teacher of Bayard Taylor. In a short time he established a school in this borough, on East State Street, nearly opposite the Friends' meeting-house. Here he was so successful that he was induced to build Eaton Institute. While he was conducting this flourishing school the United States Bank collapsed and the Pennsylvania Bank suspended. He had considerable of his own, and all the money of some minor children for whom he was guardian, invested in the State bank, and the suspension placed him in a trying position. But he kept his courage, and was far-sighted enough to see that the bank would recover. All the spare cash he was able to get he invested in the stock at a greatly depreciated value, and he soon had the satisfaction of reaping a handsome reward. He early began to aid in the material development of the borough by building and otherwise improving. He was one of the chief promoters of the Baltimore Central Railroad, and subscribed liberally. He purchased considerable land along the projected route, which he built upon from time to time and sold. These building operations he continued to within a year of his death, and almost fifty dwellings, or one-fifth of all the houses here, were erected by him, and many a poor man to-day owes his comfortable home to the liberal spirit of Samuel Martin. "Though he retired many years ago from active school-life, his interest in education did not flag. Ile was a warm friend of the public school, and was for many years one of its board of directors. In 1875 he built Martin Academy, designed as a preparatory school for children of Friends, though open to all sects, and in every work of education he exhibited a liberal spirit. "The Society of Friends in this borough, with which the deceased was connected, will long remember his generosity. The new meetinghouse, built a few years ago, was largely the result of his liberality, five thousand dollars, or half the cost, being subscribed by him. He was an acceptable minister in the society, and his ministrations were listened to for many years. "The private life of Samuel Martin was blameless. In all his dealings with his fellow-men he carefully observed that conscientious exactness and strict probity that characterize the just man, and the handsome competency he left behind him was the result of industry, simplicity, and business sagacity. He overreached no man, and asked for nothing that was not justly his own. " Doubtless the deceased will be longest remembered by the children of his town. To every child he was Uncle,' and to every one he was a personal friend. He delighted in doing for them little acts of kindness, and he had the unselfish love of them all. And need we add more of the man who when living desired not his virtues recounted ? It is enough to say that he was a simple, God-fearing, honest man, whose place in the community for which he did so much will be very hard to fill." Moses Martin and Margaret (Battin), his wife, had children,-Adam, George, Hannah, Mary, John, Moses, Margaret, Rachel, and Susanna. They removed to Uwchlan prior to 1737, where Moses died before 1740. John Martin, the son, born 1, 3, 1718, married Hannah Dilworth, and died in Birmingham, 11, 26, 1761, leaving children,-Moses, John, George, Joseph, and Hannah. The widow married John Woodward, of Thornbury, 3, 16, 1763, and was the mother of Thomas Woodward. George Martin, born 6, 9, 1754, died 7, 19, 1825, married, 11, 28, 1776, Elizabeth Reynolds, daughter of Henry and Sarah, and settled in Chichester. Their children were Sarah, b. 9, 7, 1777, d. 4, 18, 1819, m. John Broomall, and was the mother of Hon. John M. Broomall ; Anna, b. 12, 28, 1778, m. John Powell ; Ruth, b. 10, 17, 1780, d. 1, 17, 1878, m. John Sharpless ; Beulah, b. 9, 27, 1782, d. 1, 7, 1818, m. Enos Sharpless, and was the mother of the late John M. Sharpless, of Chester ; Lydia, b. 8, 20, 1784 ; George, b. 2, 28, 1787, d. 7, 26, 1847, father of Dr. George Martin, now of West Chester ; Henry, b. 2, 20, 1789, d. 12, 9, 1791 ; John, b. 8, 6, 1791, d. 9, 9, 1809 ; Elizabeth, b. 8, 6, 1791. MASSEY, THOMAS, migrated to this country prior to 1687, and before he was of age. He probably resided within the bounds of Chester Monthly Meeting from the time of his arrival. In 1692 he married Phebe, the daughter of Robert Taylor, of Springfield, and soon afterwards purchased a large tract of land in Marple, where he continued to reside while he lived. He died 9, 18, 1708, in the forty-fifth year of his age, leaving seven children, viz. : Esther, Mordecai, James, Hannah, Thomas, Phebe, and Mary. The brick house erected by Thomas Massey is still standing in a good state of preservation. His widow married Bartholomew Copock, Jr., then a widower, in 1710. Mordecai remained on the mansion tract, but Thomas and James settled in Willistown. Thomas Massey, Jr., born 11, 21, 1701, died 6, 13, 1784, married his first cousin, Sarah, daughter of Isaac Taylor, and had children,-Sarah, Mordecai, Phebe, Hannah, Mary, Isaac, Elizabeth, Thomas, Jane, Joseph, Esther, Levi, Rebecca, and Aaron. James Massey, born 7, 13, 1697, married Ann, daughter 654 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. of Lewis Lewis, of Newtown, and had issue,-Thomas, Lewis, Abram, James, Mary, William, Phinehas, Mordecai, and Lydia. MATLACK, WILLIAM, then a boy, arrived in New Jersey, in the ship " Kent," in 1677, and in 1682 married Mary Hancock, and had several children, of whom a son, Joseph, married, in 1722, Rebecca, daughter of John and Esther Haines, of Rancocas. In 1729, Joseph and his wife brought a certificate from Friends of Haddonfield, and settled on land devised to her by her father, on the east side of the present borough of West Chester. They had several children, as follows : Jemima, b. 4, 20, 1723, m. James Pennell, 8, 15, 1741 ; Isaiah, b. 2, 25, 1725 ; Nathan, b. 3, 16, 1727, m. Mary Mercer ; Ruth, b. 12, 23, 1729, m. Thomas Sheward, 9, 10, 1748 ; Esther, b. 6, 23, 1733 ; m. George Brinton ; Jesse, b. 10, 2, 1735, died young ; Jonathan, b. 3, 16, 1737, m. Hannah Waln ; Joseph, b. 7, 25, 1740, died young ; Amos, b. 9, 22, 1744, m. Hannah Trego ; Caleb, b. 2, 14, 1750, died young. MAY, ROBERT, was a resident of Maryland, where, May 17, 1724, he married Elizabeth, daughter of James Brooke. They had nine children. He died Dec. 26, 1749. Robert May (2), youngest son of Robert and Elizabeth (Brooke) May, was born Feb. 4, 1749-50 (O.S.), forty days after the death of his father. He married, first, Rebecca Grace, daughter of Thomas and Anna (Nutt) Potts, on Feb. 16, 1786. She was born at Coventry, Chester Co , July 5, 1760, and died July 30, 1789. He owned and carried on the iron-works at the Head of Elk, Md., where he resided until after the death of his wife Rebecca, when he removed to Coventry, Chester Co. lie married, second, Ruth Potts, a sister of his first wife, on March 28, 1792. She was born Sept. 6, 1768, and died Jan. 17, 1820. He had two children by his first wife-Eliza and Rebecca Grace-and seven by his second wife,-Thomas Potts, Robert, Anna Nutt, James (died in infancy), James (the second so named), Newton, and Addison. After he settled in Chester County he became one of the most extensive iron-masters in Pennsylvania. He carried on Coventry Forge, and, in conjunction with Col. Thomas Bull and John Smith, he owned and carried on Joanna Furnace, in Berks County. He also owned in severalty Gibraltar Forge, on the Schuylkill, between. Birdsborough and Reading, and Dale Forge, in Colebrookdale township, Berks Co., about nine miles north of Pottstown. Near this are the extensive iron-mines from which several furnaces derive their ore. These mines were owned by the firm of Bull, May & Smith, above named. Robert May (2) was accidentally killed by a fall from a horse which he was breaking, Nov. 21, 1812. His oldest daughter, Eliza, was born March 2, 1787, and on June 2, 1804, became the wife of Samuel Stevens, of Talbot Co., Md. Mr. Stevens was elected Governor of Maryland in 1824, and held the office three years: While serving in that capacity, Gen. Lafayette visited Annapolis, and was his guest. They were the parents of William Augustus Stevens, who was born April 9, 1S07, graduated at Jefferson College, studied divinity, and became the first pastor of the Presbyterian Church of West Chester, Pa. He died at Warwick, Oct. 3, 1834, and was buried in the yard of the Presbyterian Church in West Chester. Thomas Potts May, oldest son of Robert May (2), was born March 9, 1793, became a clergyman and rector of the Episcopal Church in Norristown, and died Sept. 20, 1819. Robert May (3) was born Jan. 19, 1795, and graduated at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He practiced his profession in northern Chester County, and died Jan. 26, 1866. Anna Nutt May, daughter of Robert May (2), born Oct. 30, 1796, became the wife of David Potts, Jr., of Warwick, and died March 17, 1823. Rev. James May, D.D., second son of that name of Robert May (2), was born in Coventry, Oct. 1, 1805. His studies preparatory to entering college were with his brother Thomas at Pottstown, at an academy in Norristown, and at the school of Rev. Alexander Campbell at Easton, Md., and were so thorough that he was enabled to enter the senior class at Jefferson, where he graduated with high distinction Sept. 25, 1823. He first entered upon the study of the law, but being drawn towards the ministry, after pursuing studies in that direction for a time, he entered the theological seminary at Alexandria, Va., in October, 1825, and was ordained by Bishop White, Dec. 24, 1826. He was settled as rector of St. Stephen's Church, Wilkesbarre, in February, 1827, and remained in that connection ten years. When he took charge the congregation was small, but his influence and talents were such that the church soon prospered, and when he left it was the largest and strongest of his communion in all that section of the State. Jan. 8, 1829, he married Ellen Stuart Bowman, daughter of Capt. Samuel Bowman, and sister of Rev. Samuel Bowman, afterwards assistant bishop of Pennsylvania. She was a lady of personal graces, mental endowments, and a Christian spirit of a lofty order. In February, 1837, he became rector of St. Paul's, Philadelphia, and one of the editors of the Episcopal Recorder. In October, 1838, he went to Europe for the benefit of his health, and returned in November, 1840. In July, 1842, he became Professor of Church History in the theological seminary near Alexandria. In the fall of that year the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Jefferson College. His wife died Jan. 10, 1861. On the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861 the seminary was closed. Its location was such that it was impossible to continue its operations, and the buildings were abandoned, and were soon after converted by the Union troops into a hospital. Dr. May then came to Philadelphia, and for a time took charge of a small church at Providence, Montgomery Co. In September, 1861, he became Professor of Church History and Polity in the Divinity School of Philadelphia. He died Dec. 18, 1863. Dr. May was a man of singular purity, meekness, fervor, and force, and of much more than ordinary learning and ability. As a preacher, he was earnest and faithful, and as a teacher he has had few equals in or out of his church. His popularity with those under his charge was deservedly very great. Newton May, a son of Robert May (2), was born Dec. 26, 1807, graduated at Jefferson College, and received his degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, 1831. He resides at Holmesburg, where he practices medicine. BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 655 Addison May, youngest son of Robert May (2), was born at Coventry, Dec. 18, 1811, graduated at Jefferson College, read law with William H. Dillingham, at West Chester, and located first at Erie, Pa. On June 13, 1839, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Samuel and Martha (Bull) Shafer. After his marriage he settled at Norristown, and acquired a large practice, but owing to failing health he relinquished the practice of his profession in 1850 and removed to Coventry, where he remained till 1859, and then fixed his residence at West Chester. He was one of the founders of the West Chester Trust and Relief Society, and has been its president since its organization ; for several years a member of the board of trustees of the State Normal School at West Chester, and for two years president of the board ; also president of the board of inspectors of the Chester County Prison, and represents Chester County in the board of trustees of the Hospital for the Insane at Norristown, in the organization of which he took an active part. He is also a member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, and of several historical, literary, and scientific associations. His only daughter, Martha, is the wife of Joseph T. Rothrock, M.D., now Professor of Botany in the University of Pennsylvania, a gentleman of culture and of extensive scientific acquirements, whose published works will be found noticed in the article on Bibliography. MENDENHALL, JOHN and BENJAMIN, were early settlers in Concord, and another brother, Moses, resided there a short time, but returned to England. They also had sisters,-Mary, who came over unmarried, and became the wife of Nathaniel Newlin, April 17, 1685, and Margery, who married Thomas Martin, and came with him from England in 1685. They were from Mildenhall, in Wiltshire, which was formerly the family name. John married, in 1685, Elizabeth, daughter of George Maris, by whom he had three children,-George, b. 6, 14, 1686, d. 1758, unmarried ; John, b. 4, 3, 1688, in. Susanna Pierson, 1709 ; Aaron, b. 9, 20, 1690, d. 4, 30, 1765, m. 4, 16, 1715, to Rose Pierson, sister of Susanna, and daughter of Thomas Pierson. John, Jr., and Aaron settled in East Caln, whence John went to Lancaster County, and finally to Virginia. Benjamin Mendenhall married, 2, 17, 1689, Ann, daughter of Robert and Hannah Pennell, of Middletown, by whom he had ten children,-Ann, b. 3, 31, 1690 ; Benjamin, b. 3, 5, 1691, m. Lydia Roberts, 3, 9, 1717 ; Joseph, b. 3, 17, 1692, m. Ruth Gilpin, 8, 30, 1718 ; Moses, b. 2, 19, 1694, m. Alice Pyle, 4, 18, 1719 ; Hannah, b. 6, 11, 1696, m. Thomas Marshall, 2, 24, 1718 ; Samuel, b. 1, 28, 1697 ; Rebecca, b. 10, 10, 1699, m. Thomas Gilpin, 2, 21, 1726 ; Ann, b. 7, 22, 1703, m. John Bartram, 10, 11, 1729 ; Nathan, b. 8, 16, 1705 ; Robert, b. 7, 7, 1713, m. 9, 13, 1734, to Phebe Taylor, 6, 23, 1762, to Elizabeth Hatton, and 2, 6, 1777, to Esther Temple. Phebe Mendenhall, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth, was born 7, 7, 1770, m. Gideon Thomas, and died 1, 19, 1875. Robert had a large number of children, whose descendants are numerous. Benjamin Mendenhall was held in good esteem both in his religious society and as a citizen. His sons Benjamin and Moses were both ministers. Joseph, the second son, removed to the west side of Brandywine, and became an active member of Kennet Meeting. He settled on a large tract of land purchased by his father in 1703. His children were Isaac, Hannah, Joseph, Benjamin, Ann, Stephen, and Jesse. Of these, Isaac married Martha Robinson, and was the father of Joseph, Isaac, Betty, Thomas, Noah, Benjamin, Martha, Dinah, Aaron, Ruth, and Caleb. He was born 8, 13, 1719, and died 8, 18, 1803. His wife died 5, 21, 1766. Aaron, his son, born 2, 20, 1760, married Sarah, daughter of Nicholas Woolas, and had children,-Ann, Isaac, Elwood, Hannah (m. to James Trimble), Sarah (m. to Chalkley Way), and Martha. Isaac, born 9, 29, 1806, married Dinah Hannum, 5, 12, 1831, and has had the following children : Anna (deceased), Aaron, Luther, Sarah (deceased), and Sallie Hannah. Of these, Aaron married Ella Taylor, by whom he had one child, Anna, and his wife dying, he married Hattie Shoemaker, by whom he has two children,-Isaac and Emma. This Aaron resides on the old Mendenhall property, purchased in 1703, part of a thousand acres, beginning on the Brandywine and extending west two and a half miles to the Letitia Penn line, in the shape of a parallelogram. This Mendenhall homestead contains 150 acres, and the house, shown elsewhere, is the third one built, and was erected in 1838. The barn was built in 1796. This homestead and farm is in Pennsbury township, but Aaron's father, Isaac, lives in Kennet township. MERCER, THOMAS, from " Ayno-on the-Hill," in the county of Northampton, with Mary, his wife, were settlers in Westtown, where he died about 1716. His widow died in 1723. Their children, so far as known, were Thomas, b. 1694, m. Hannah Taylor in 1710 ; Mary, in. William Pennell, 8, 26, 1710 ; Elizabeth, m. to Joseph Woodward, 1712 ; Ann, m. to Joshua Peirce, 8, 28, 1713 ; Joseph, m. Ann Wickersham, 1719. Joseph settled in East Marlborough, and had children,-Mary, Ann, Richard, Hannah, Rachel, and Joseph. Daniel Mercer, son of Thomas, of Thornbury, married Rebecca, daughter of John Townsend, and settled in East Marlborough. He died 6, 25, 1807, aged ninety-two, and his wife 10, 13, 1792, aged eighty-two. Their children were Solomon, b. 10, 30, 1736 ; Rebecca, b. 10, 1, 1738 ; Jesse, b. 7, 23, 1740, d. 6, 3, 1763 ; David, b. 6, 23, 1742 ; Daniel, b. 3, 20, 1747 ; Phebe, b. 8, 11, 1750. MEREDITH.-Several persons of this name were among the early settlers in Pennsylvania, all doubtless from Wales, where they were a distinguished family. DAVID MEREDITH, of Whiteland, whose wife, Sarah, was a daughter of William Rush, died in 1754, leaving children, -Joseph, William, David, John, Rebecca Jenkin, Susanna Hayes, Hannah Guest, Rachel Conolly, and Mary Bane. David, Jr., married, about 1737, Elinor, daughter of George and Ann Garrett, and died in Whiteland, 1755, leaving children,--Ann, Esther, Hannah, Daniel, George, Sarah, Elijah, and Alice. His lands passed into the Jacobs family. SIMON MEREDITH, son of Hugh Meredith, son of Meredith William, son of William Evan, son of Evan David, son of David Vaughan, came from Radnorshire, Wales, 656 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. and settled in what became Nantmeal township prior to 1718. In January, 1706, one John Meredith writes from Fairfield (N. J.) to his brother, Abraham Scott, in Philadelphia : " I am master of a Free school, originally intended for a grammar school, My sallary being about 50 pound a year in their pay, which with good management I find will maintain my family pretty well ;" wished to sell his house at Burlington, etc. Oliver Meredith writes from Newport, Sept. 17, 1711, to his aunt, Hannah Scott, in Philadelphia, and says, " My father remembers his love to you and prays you to take care of the letter that is for unkle Simon and give it into his own hand, and first send him word by one of the country people that you may see by chance." Simon Meredith died in Nantmeal about the year 1745, leaving four sons,-Hugh, John, James, and Thomas. It is said that the family came to Chester County in 1708 and lived for some time in a cave on property since of the Reinhart family, and the cave is remembered by persons yet living. Of Hugh, the eldest, and Thomas, the youngest son of Simon, we know nothing further. James is said to have removed to Bucks County prior to 1738. An uncle, Thomas Meredith, whose residence is supposed to have been in Jersey, took up 500 acres on Neshaminy near Doylestown. He had a son Thomas, who from too much study became insane, and, being heir to the land in Bucks County, imagined himself a baron and wished to build a castle thereon. His cousin James was induced to live there and take care of him until his death. His son Hugh, a prominent physician, was an ancestor of Hon. Henry Chapman, judge of our courts for about three years. John Meredith, second son of Simon, was born 2d mo. (April) 9, 1699, in Radnorshire, and. died 3, 4, 1769, in Vincent township ; married, 9, 29, 1727, Grace Williams, daughter of Robert and Gwen Williams, of Goshen, born 3, 12, 1707, died 10, 25, 1785. She is said to have had dark eyes, an interesting countenance, quiet, dignified manners, and much force of character. Her father-in-law, a cavalier, would never use the language of Friends to any but her, for whom he showed that deference. John became a Friend in 1753 through his wife's influence, together with most of their children, who were as follows : 1. Enoch, b. 6, 18, 1728 ; d. 11, 28, 1807. 2. Simon, b. 10, 12, 1729 ; d. 5, 29, 1828. 3. James, b. 10, 11, 1731 ; d. 6, 11, 1741. 4. Infant son, b. 9, 11, 1733 ; d. 9, 26, 1733. 5. Jane, b. 11, 30, 1734 ; d. 6, 6, 1741. 6. Elizabeth, b. 9, 18, 1736 ; m. Amos Davies. 7. Ann, b. 6, 6, 1738 ; m. Robert Milhous. 8. Hannah, b. 5, 1, 1741; m. John Pugh. 9. Jane, b. 1, 12, 1742-3; m. Evan Lewis. 10. Grace, b. 11, 13, 1744 ; m. John Lewis. 11. John, b. 4, 29, 1747 ; d. 8, 4, 1828. 12. Ruth, b. 3, 17, 1750 ; d. 8, 16, 1759. Enoch Meredith (1) married, 12, 18, 1752, his cousin, Jane John, daughter of Griffith and Ann, born 2, 5, 1725, died 9, 1, 1795. Their children were,-13. James, b. 10, 1, 1753 ; d. 2, 13, 1838. 14. Elizabeth, b. 4, 30, 1755 ; d. 8, 22, 1759. 15. John, b. 3, 21, 1757 ; d. 8, 29, 1759. 16. Hannah, b. 1, 2, 1759. 17. Ezra, b. 11, 5, 1760. 18. Abel, b. 8, 8, 1762 ; d. 8, 11, 1825. 19. Enoch, b. 1, 18, 1766 ; d. 11, 3, 1769. 20. Jane, b. 11, 26, 1767. 21. Thomas, b. 10, 29, 1770. Simon (2) married, 4, 30, 1755, Dinah, daughter of Hugh and Mary Pugh, of Uwchlan, and resided in Coventry. Dinah was born 7, 20, 1734, died 5, 4, 1824. Their children were,-22. Mary, b. 7, 6, 1756 ; d. 10, 1, 1758. 23. Grace, b. 9, 26, 1757 ; d. 5, 17, 1759. 24. Joel, b. 3, 30, 1759 ; d. 10, 14, 1827. 25. John, b. 2, 6, 1761 ; d. 1, 31, 1776. 26. Mary, b. 11, 6, 1762 ; m. Joseph Barnard. 27. Grace, 1)-10, 13, 1764 ; d. 5, 23, 1815. 28. Rebecca, b. 8, 10, 1766 ; m. Joseph Hawley. 29. James, b. 9, 4, 1768 ; d. 7, 24, 1854. 30. Jesse, b. 8, 13, 1770 ; d. 4, 14, 1851. 31. Elizabeth, b. 5, 2, 1772 ; d. 2, 4, 1859. 32. Hugh, b. 6, 21, 1774; d. 10, 22, 1810. 33. John, b. 12, 26, 1776 ; d. John Meredith (11) married, 6, 13, 1776, Mary Jones, daughter of Evan and Susanna, born 6, 20, 1753, died 5, 8, 1777 ; second marriage, 10, 18, 1780, to Elizabeth Kirk, daughter of William and Sibbilla, born 11, 24, 1756, died 6th mo., 1794; third marriage, 3, 22, 1796, to Rebecca Thomas, of Vincent, who died 11, 21, 1807 ; fourth marriage, 3, 22, 1809, to Rachel Evans, daughter of Elihu and Mary, who died 12, 12, 1810. His children were Mary, Simon, Beulah, William, Isaiah, John, Enoch, and Mary. James Meredith (29) married Mary Leedom, of Haver-ford, in 1799, and left one son, the late Isaac Meredith, who died 9, 28, 1874, near Kennet Square. Jesse (30) married Phebe, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Downing, of Downingtown, who died 10, 7, 1845, leaving two children,-Elizabeth D. and Richard S., of whom the latter died 11, 25, 1855. John (33) married, 4, 16, 1800, Ann Mendenhall, daughter of Stephen and Margaret, of Concord, where he settled for some years. Issue.-Simon, b. 1, 14, 1801 ; Stephen M., b. 8, 14, 1802, d. 12, 23, 1874 ; Jesse P., b. 5, 22, 1805, d. 7, 12, 1827 ; Esther T., b. 2, 23, 1807, m. Jesse Hawley ; Hugh, b. 11, 20, 1815, went South ; James M., b. 1, 6, 1819. Stephen M. Meredith, born in Concord, removed with his parents when young to South Coventry ; was a well-known physician, and took an active part in political and educational matters ; died at St. Mary's, Warwick. James M. Meredith, his brother, was some time an editor in West Chester, now of Berks Co., Pa. MICHENER.*-The name Michener occurs on the records of Philadelphia as early as 1686. I. John and Sarah Michener appear to have been the primal American progenitors of the family. They had six children. In 1715 they removed with their family to Abington. II. William Michener, son of John and Sarah, was born 1696. He married Margery Kester. They had ten children. He was an early settler in Plumstead, Bucks Co., where he owned 400 acres of land in 1725. His widow died there 2, 15, 1821, aged ninety-three years. III. John Michener, son of William and Margery, was born 3, 2, 1721. He married Mary Hayworth. They had nine children, of whom two-Mahlon and Arnold-removed to and settled in Chester County, the former in New Garden, the latter near Downingtown, where their descendants may still be found. * Furnished by Dr. Ezra Michener. BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 657 III. Mordecai Michener, son of William and Margery, was born 1, 30, 1723. He married Sarah, daughter of John and Elizabeth Fisher, in 1748. He retained a patrimony of his father's estate. They had ten children. In 1784 he sold his farm (130 acres) and removed to a farm in Londongrove, near West Grove meeting-house, with his wife and three unmarried children,-Mordecai, Elizabeth, and Catharine,-accompanied, about the same period, by four others, married,-John, Barak, Deborah, and Robert,-with their families. Mordecai died 9, 25;1795, aged seventy-two years ; Sarah died 6, 6, 1812, aged ninety years. 1. John was born 12, 21, 1750. He married Martha Longstreth. They had ten children. They removed to Bradford in 1788, and two years later to (now) Penn township near Jennersville. In 1805 the whole family removed to the State of Ohio. John died in 1837, aged eighty-six; Martha in 1815, aged fifty-nine. 2. Barak was born 3, 17, 1754. He married Jane Wilson. They had six children. They came to Chester County in 1784, and located near to West Grove meeting-house. In 1814 they removed to Ohio, whither their children, who were mostly married, soon followed them. Jane died in 1831, aged eighty-two years ; Barak died in 1838, aged eighty-four years. 3. Deborah was born 4, 3, 1757. She married Mordecai Balderson. They had thirteen children. On removal to Chester County they settled on a farm adjoining that now owned by Thomas M. Harvey. The family all removed to Ohio in _____-. Mordecai died in 1820, aged sixty-five years ; Deborah died in 1828, aged seventy-one. 4. Mordecai was born 1, 28, 1759. He married Alice Dunn, who had also removed from Bucks to Chester with her parents, Ralph and Anna Dunn. They had four children, of which the present writer was the baby. They retained the homestead near West Grove. Mordecai died 1, 6, 1854, aged ninety-five years ; Alice died 8, 30, 1824, aged sixty-two years. 5. Elizabeth was born 3, 18, 1762. She married Joseph Brown, who also came from Bucks with his father, Abraham Brown. They had twelve children. Joseph retained the homestead of his father near Jennersville. Four of their children after marriage removed to Ohio. Joseph died 5, 5, 1851, aged eighty-eight years ; Elizabeth died 7, 7, 1811, aged forty-nine years. 6. Robert was born 10, 15, 1763. He married Sarah Stradling. They had one child. They came to this county in 1795, and resided near Jennersville. In 1813 they returned to their native county. Robert died 4, 4, 1849, aged eighty-five years ; Sarah _____. 7. Catharine was born 11, 8, 1766. She married William Thompson. They had eight children. They all went to _____ . William died 7, 19, 1806, aged -; Catharine subsequently married Eli Kennard. They had one child. The survivors of the family all went to Ohio. Catharine died 9, 6, 1850, aged eighty-three years. III. William, son of the above William and Margery Michener, was born 6, 8, 1729. He married Martha Doane. They had eleven children. Five of them obtained a residence in our county. - 83 - 1. Elizabeth was born 1755 (?). She married Charles Plumley. Their descendants still reside among us. Elizabeth died 1820, aged sixty-five years. 2. Joseph was born 11, 19, 1757. He married Anna, daughter of Ralph and Anna Dunn. He owned a farm adjoining the West Grove Meeting property. They had five children. Anna died 7, 29, 1796, aged thirty-eight years. He subsequently married Rebecca Good. They had four children. Joseph died 8, 10, 1853, aged ninety-five years ; Rebecca died 8, 29, 1858, aged eighty-nine years. 3. Martha was born 10, 15, 1761. She married David Stackhouse. They removed with their family and settled in New Garden, where their son, Silas Stackhouse, now in his eighty-seventh year, and numerous other descendants, reside. David died 1, -, 1853, aged ninety-four years ; Martha died 10, 30, 1848, aged eighty-one years. 4. William was born _____ . He married Ann Beans, and had five children. They lived on the Toughkenamon Vineyard farm, where some of their descendants still live. William lived to a good old age. 5. Jonathan was born _____ . He married Susanna Doane. They had ten children. Their son William, now in his eighty-sixth year, is living with his daughter near Jennerville. There has for a long period been quite a number of Micheners and their descendants living in the northeastern section of the county, but I have not ascertained to which branch of the family they belong. It is worthy of notice in this connection that soon after the close of the Revolutionary war a very remarkable emigration took place from Bucks to Chester County. The emigrants appear to have been mostly Friends, and very largely from Buckingham Monthly Meeting to that of New Garden, as they were then constituted. If my notes are correct, during the ten years from 1784 to 1795 New Garden Monthly Meeting received certificates of membership for two hundred and seventy members. Of this number, one hundred and eighty-one were from Buckingham Monthly Meeting alone. About forty of them were Micheners. Two suggestions have been offered for this unusual emigration, the hope of finding a more fertile soil, and the prosperous condition of the society of which they were members within the limits of the Western Quarterly Meeting. These may have been causes ; but when I remember the terrible tragedy of the Doanes, which had very recently occurred in the immediate vicinity, with the violent excitement, embittered feeling, and suspicion which prevailed, it looks more like a modern hegira of the lovers of peace and quietness to escape the confusion and perhaps danger by which they were surrounded. In the above notes I have given the ages of the ancestral members of the family so far as known. The result is interesting. The mean age of the whole 24 persons is 78.58 years ; of the 20 elder ones it is 84 years ; and of 18 it is 87.11 years. DR. NATHAN MICHENER.-One of the oldest and best-known families in the county is that of Michener, especially noted in the medical profession. Dr. Nathan Michener was born in Berks County, Nov. 26, 1775, and graduated at a 658 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. medical college in Philadelphia. He first located to practice medicine at Marisville, in East Pikeland township, where he remained a short time and then removed to South Coventry, where for over half a century he was a distinguished and successful practitioner. He was married by Rev. William Hunter, Jan. 25, 1824, to Sophia Chrisman, who was born June 12, 1802. To them were born eleven children,-Sarah Ann, b. Dec. 18, 1825, m. Joseph Holscomb ; George C., b. March 16, 1827, of Phoenixville ; James, b. March 8, 1829 ; Mary T., b. May 10, 1831, m. Lewis Stubblebine ; Phebe Ann, b. March 7, 1833, in. Morris Lisley ; Rebecca L., b. March 22, 1836, m. Wilmer Griffith ; Nathan, Jr., b. May 16, 1840 ; Clarissa Catherine, b. Sept. 22, 1842, m. Sewell B. Morrow ; Isabella Workman, b. Aug. 31, 1845, m. Rev. A. L. Wilson, of the M. E. Church ; Zachary Taylor, b. April 9, 1849, died in infancy. Dr. Michener died Dec. 11, 1866, and his venerable widow still survives him. He belonged to the Society of Friends, and was a man universally esteemed for his eminent ability and noble qualities of heart. At his death he left a nice homestead place of ninety acres, and a name honored for his great services to suffering humanity. MILHOUS, THOMAS, married Sarah, daughter of James and Catharine (Lightfoot) Miller, in Ireland, and came to Pennsylvania in 1729, settling first within the limits of New Garden Monthly Meeting, and about the year 1744 removing to Pikeland. Their children were as follows: John, b. 1, 8, 1722-3, at Timahoe, in Ireland ; James, b. 7, 21, 1727 ; Thomas, b. 2, 27, 1731 ; Robert, b. 11, 26, 1733 ; Sarah, b. 4, 3, 1736, m. Thompson Parker ; William, b. 6, 12, 1738. Several members of this family have been prominent in the Society of Friends. MILLARD, THOMAS.-Three brothers of the Millard family came from England together about the middle of the last century, of whom one settled in Connecticut, one in New York, and the third in Berks County, of this State. He had a son Joseph, born nearly opposite Douglassville, and moved, in the spring of 1784, to West Nantmeal township. He was a miller and millwright, and carried on a mill at Pottstown, and afterwards in West Nantmeal ; was a justice of the peace from 1797 up to about 1816, and his old magistrate's dockets are now in possession of his grandson, Thomas. The mother of Joseph was a Miss Lincoln, also an emigrant from England. Jonathan, son of Joseph Millard, was born at Pottstown, Feb. 19, 1783, and married Sarah Harvout. He moved when four years old to West Nantmeal, and there died in June, 1868. His wife, Sarah, died Jan. 28, 1851, aged seventy-two years. They had two children,-Joseph and Thomas. The latter, the youngest, was born Aug. 14, 1816. He was raised on the farm and attended the public schools of the neighborhood. He was married Jan. 24, 1839, to Jane, daughter of James and Margaret (Cake) Cutler. The Cutlers were of Scotch-Irish and the Cakes of German descent. To Thomas and his wife were born three children,-James, deceased in his nineteenth year ; Jonathan, residing near Barneston ; and 'Toward, living at home, but in the mercantile business at Robert's old stand in East Nantmeal. In 1869, Thomas retired from farming, but still owns and resides on his splendid farm of 150 acres. He is a director in the National Bank of Honeybrook, and has been since its organization in 1868. He is one of the managers of the Penn Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Chester County. He was many years a director of the East BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 659 Brandywine and Waynesburg Railroad, and for six years secretary of its board. He has served nineteen years as school director, and was three times elected a justice of the peace, but refused to qualify. He has repeatedly served as auditor, and is now one of the county directors of the poor, having been elected in 1879, and having previously served in same office from 1875 to 1878. He followed surveying and conveyancing until his health and other growing business cares forced him to quit. His farm has been in possession of the Millard family since 1787, and no deeds have been made for it since 1793, it having passed to its present possessor by descent. He is a Republican in politics, in which he ever takes a great interest. His son Howard was in the three months' State service when Lee made his raid into the State in 1863. MILLER, GAYEN, with Margaret, his wife, was one of the first settlers in Kennet township, where he bought land in 1702. Their children were James, b. 11, 5, 1696, m. Rachel Fred, 4, 20, 1721; William, b. 8, 30, 1698, m. 7, 30, 1724, to Ruth Rowland ; Robert, b. 3, 3, 1703, m. Ruth Haines ; Sarah, b. 9, 1, 1704, m. Joshua Johnson ; Mary, b. 2, 7, 1707, m. William Beverly ; Patrick, b. 12, 28, 1708, m. 9, 5, 1735, to Patience Haines; Samuel, b. 4, 14, 1711, m. 4, 29, 1732, to Margaret Halliday ; Elizabeth, b. 5, 7, 1713, m. Joseph Dickinson ; Joseph, b. 7, 14, 1715, m. 2, 18, 1738, to Jane Kirk ; Benjamin, b. 6, 4, 1717, m. 10, 7, 1738, to Martha Walter ; John, b. 11, 6, 1720-1, m. 8, 28, 1741, to Margaret Smith ; George, b. 5, 19, 1723, married out of meeting. Robert and Ruth Miller settled in East Caln, and had children,-Margaret, Solomon, Dorothy, Patience, Hannah, Hannah (2), Warwick, Isaac, Jacob, Rebecca, Rachel, Joseph, Rachel (2), Sarah, Ruth, Benjamin, and James. James Miller, son of James and Rachel (Fred) Miller, born 10, 30, 1728, married, 8, 16, 1751, Sarah Way, and 5, 25, 1758, Phebe Jones, and settled in Sadsbury. DR. WARWICK MILLER was born in Sadsbury township, Chester Co., near what is now the village of Atglen, on March 18, 1785. His parents were James and Phebe Miller. He was the youngest of twelve sons. He received a good, plain English education in our common schools, and studied medicine with Dr. William A. Todd, of Downingtown. He attended the medical lectures of the University of Pennsylvania, but was content to practice without a degree. He located himself at Sadsburyville, in his native township, where he soon gained the confidence of the people, and was rewarded by a goodly portion of the practice. He changed his location a few times, but always within the limits of Sadsbury. Dr. Miller was twice married. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of James Truman, of Sadsbury, to whom he was married Oct. 7, 1812. She died Sept. 27, 1817, without issue. His second wife was Martha B., daughter of William Clingan, Esq., to whom he was married Nov. 15, 1820. By this lady he had two sons,-William Clingan and James Edwin Miller. The health of Dr. Miller becoming precarious, he was removed to the house of his father-in-law, Wm. Clingan, in West Fallowfield, where he remained, laboring under hydrothorax, until his death, which occurred April 23, 1825. In his day few men were more highly esteemed or more confidingly approached, always bearing the name and character of a high-minded, dignified, honorable, and worthy citizen. JOHN MILLER, a settler at what is now Avondale, may have been a brother of Gayen Miller, of Kennet. The time of his arrival appears to have been in 1709, and his 660 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. death occurred in 1714. His mill was the first in that region, and it is said that settlers in Lancaster County patronized it. The children of John and Mary Miller were James, b. 1st mo., 1693, near Charlemont, county Armagh, Ireland, m. 3, 24, 1722, to Ann Cane ; Mary, m. to Joseph Hutton ; William, b. 2d mo., 1698, in the county Tyrone, Ireland, m. Ann Emlen, of Philadelphia ; Joseph, m. to Ann Gilpin ; Martha, m. to John Jordan and Nathaniel Houlton ; Sarah, m. 5, 25, 1723, to Nehemiah Hutton ; Elizabeth, m. 8, 22, 1729, to William Chambers ; Susanna, m. 2, 18, 1734, to Joseph Jackson ; Elinor, m. 4, 19, 1729, to Richard Chambers. JAMES MILLER, possibly a brother to Gayen and John, married Catharine, daughter of Thomas Lightfoot, in Ireland, and in 1729 came to Pennsylvania. His wife, a minister, died soon after their arrival at Philadelphia. He settled in New Garden, but is thought to have removed before his death. His children were Sarah, m. to Thomas Milhous ; Elizabeth, m. to Thomas Hiett ; James, in. to Rachel (Fred) Miller and Rebecca Kirk ; Mary, m. to Isaac Jackson, 4, 11, 1730 ; Katharine, m. William Jackson, 9, 9, 1733 ; Ann, married, 2, 19, 1733, to William Farquhar ; Hannah, in. to James Jackson. MINER, CHARLES, was born Feb. 1, 1780, in the town of Norwich, Conn. He was of the Puritan stock, his lineal ancestor, Thomas Miner, having been a member of the Assembly of Connecticut in 1654. In 1799, in the nineteenth year of his age, he removed as a Connecticut claimant to Wyoming Valley, and settled in Wilkesbarre, following his brother Asher, who had emigrated a year or two earlier. In 1801, Asher Miner established the Luzerne Federalist. It was a sheet of very moderate dimensions, for two reams of its paper were placed in an ordinary bag and conveyed on horseback from the paper-mill in Allentown to Wilkesbarre, and this was done once in two weeks. The press on which the Federalist was printed was brought from Norwich, Conn., on a sled, by Charles Miner and S. Howard. In 1802, Charles became associated with Asher Miner in conducting the Federalist, which they ably edited until 1809, when it was transferred to Steuben Butler and Sidney Tracy. These latter gentlemen, in 1811, enlarged the paper and changed its name to the Gleaner, with the motto, " Intelligence is the life of liberty." In a few months Mr. Tracy withdrew from the establishment, and was succeeded by Charles Miner, who, in connection with Mr. Butler and others, ably conducted the Gleaner until 1816. It was in the columns of the Gleaner that Mr. Miner made himself celebrated as a writer. For this paper were written those beautiful essays from the desk of " Poor Robert the Scribe," a series of weekly essays, filled with good sense, combining amusement with instruction, which were read with pleasure at every fireside in the country, which have been many times reprinted, and which may even at this day be found in school-books, as lessons of wisdom not to be put aside nor forgotten. In this paper, too, Mr. Miner published many articles upon the subject of anthracite coal, a subject the importance of which was just beginning to dawn upon the minds of the people of the valley. It was the object of Mr. Miner to extend that interest, to enlighten the minds of those who would not believe abroad, and to disseminate the theory that anthracite would burn as readily as bituminous coal. He hoped one day to see the mines of ore opened and their treasures spread throughout the land, and he hoped to see the valley of Wyoming, then almost a wilderness, blossom as the rose. Determined, however, not to be a theorist only, but to carry out in practice what he had taught others through the columns of his paper, he in 1813, with others, leased the Mauch Chunk mines, and in the same year floated an ark-load of coal to Philadelphia. In 1807 and 1808, and again in 1816, he was a member of the Legislature from Luzerne County. There he advocated and almost originated that scheme for internal improvements which at a later period terminated in the North Branch (of the Susquehanna) Canal. In 1816 he took charge of a paper in Philadelphia entitled The True American, and conducted it one year. In 1817 he removed to West Chester and purchased The Chester and Delaware Federalist, the name of which he subsequently changed to that of The Village Record. This paper was conducted by him with unusual ability until 1834, when he sold it to Henry S. Evans. Its literary character during his editorship was far above that of the ordinary weeklies of that day. He wrote for it a series of essays of much merit under the signature of " John Harwood," which added to its popularity. From March, 1825, to March, 1829, he was a member of Congress from Chester County. He was a useful and able member, took great interest in the subject of slavery, to which he was opposed, and made efforts to abolish the slave-trade and slavery in the District, or at least to diminish the wrongs and outrages perpetrated at the Federal capital. He failed in those attempts, but happily lived to see a consummation far surpassing his most sanguine expectations,-the virtual abolition of all slavery in the District and all the States. He awakened the country to the silk-growing business, and drew and introduced the first resolutions on the subject, and wrote the able report which was introduced by Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer, as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. Mr. Miner was the associate of the great men of his day. Intelligent and social, he was attractive, and the ease and brilliancy with which he expressed his thoughts on paper made him useful as well as ornamental in advancing the doctrines of his party, and in furthering the objects of the mighty leaders who wielded the baton of power. Henry Clay, at that time Secretary of State, recognized at once the abilities and usefulness of the member from Pennsylvania, made him his friend personally, as he knew him to be politically, and looked to him more than any other gentleman of the House to carry out his views upon the subjects of internal improvement, the tariff, and a United States bank. In 1834 he returned to the Wyoming Valley, where he devoted some years to collecting materials for a " History of Wyoming," which was published in 1845. After this he furnished contributions to the newspapers upon various BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 661 subjects of interest to the community until advancing years and the infirmities of age compelled him to desist. He continued to reside in the Wyoming Valley until his death, Oct. 26, 1865, at the age of eighty-five years. Mr. Miner, in youth and in age, was the perfect gentleman, a true type of what is termed a gentleman of the old school. He was easy and winning in his manners, scrupulously neat and precise in his dress, kind of heart, courteous in demeanor to all who approached him, open and generous in purse even to his own detriment, and a lover of all those nobler qualities which help to make up the true and honest man. In conversation he was peculiarly agreeable,- no tongue more eloquent than his, so smooth its compliments, so polished its language. He was a model journalist and statesman, and the father of a school of sound thinkers. During a portion of the time he resided in West Chester he owned and occupied what has since been known as the Dallett farm (now owned by Dr. Jacob Price), which he called " Spring Grove," and which, while he resided there, was a favorite resort for the young people of West Chester. He always took a friendly interest in the young, and they, on their part, were greatly attached to him. The following will illustrate this mutual feeling : passing along the street one day, he was met by a boy, who inquired of him " whether the peaches were ripe at Spring Grove ?" He alluded to it in his paper, and remarked, in substance, Well did the young rogue know that when the peaches were ripe at Spring Grove he would have his share of them." MODE, ALEXANDER, received a certificate from Chester Monthly Meeting 2, 27, 1702, to remove to Bucks County and marry Ellen, daughter of William Dunkin, of Byberry. Perhaps the same person was of Duck Creek in 1721, and married Sarah Hussey, a widow, of Newark Monthly Meeting, in that year. Alexander Mode, doubtless his son, born 9, 16, 1713, died 3, 20, 1751, settled in East Fallowfield township about 1739, and married, 4, 18, 1741, Rebecca, daughter of John Allen, of Londongrove, by whom he had children,-William, b. 10, 18, 1742 ; Emey, b. 8, 30, 1745, d. 1785, m. 9, 23, 1767, to William Greave ; Ruth, b. 10, 21, 1747, d. 4, 5, 1789, m. Samuel Cook ; Hannah, b. 4, 18, 1750, d. 9, 23, 1791, m. 4, 11, 1770, to Francis Wilkinson. William Mode married, 11, 14, 1764, Phebe, daughter of Joseph and Mary Taylor, of West Marlborough, and had children,-Alexander, Mary, Rebecca, Emey (Amy), William, Phebe, Allen, Alexander, and Phebe. In 1776 he had a saw- and fulling-mill, and on February 17th advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette a runaway servant-boy or apprentice in a lengthy verse. MONTGOMERY, ALEXANDER, and William Nevin received patents, April 18, 1744, for two tracts of land in Londonderry, containing together 650 acres. The will of Alexander Montgomery, of Mill Creek, New Castle Co., dated Sept. 10, 1746, gave his moiety of the land to his sons William and Daniel, they paying something to the other children. Oct. 13, 1761, John Montgomery and wife Esther, Moses Montgomery and wife Elizabeth, William Montgomery and Margaret Montgomery released to Daniel his share of the land, and on the 26th of the same month Daniel Montgomery, of Philadelphia City, glazier, sold to his brother William, of Londonderry. The latter was about ten or eleven years old at the time of his parents' death. Daniel and Margaret are said to have removed to Northumberland County at the same time as their brother William. WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, third son of Alexander and Mary Montgomery, was born in Londonderry township, Chester Co., Aug. 3, 1736. He was raised in a district and among a people where the spirit of independence seemed to be indigenous, and only required an exciting cause to develop it. When the difficulties with the mother-country became serious, Mr. Montgomery was one of the large committee appointed by a county meeting held at Chester Dec. 20, 1774, to aid in organizing an acceptable government to supersede the old provincial establishment. He was one of ten delegates from Chester County to the Convention assembled in Philadelphia, Jan. 23, 1775, which substantially took charge of the Commonwealth ; and was also a delegate to the Provincial Conference of Committees, which in July, 1776, appointed members of Congress from Pennsylvania who had nerve enough to vote for the Declaration of Independence. In June, 1776, he was colonel of the Fourth Battalion of Chester County, which then required four hundred and fifty stand of arms for service. During his absence in the field his place as a member of the Convention was filled by his brother-in-law, Thomas Strawbridge, as a delegate from Chester County. Col. Montgomery's battalion of the " Flying Camp" was probably in the battle of Long Island, in August, 1776, inasmuch as several of his officers were in Fort 'Washington at the time of the unfortunate capture of that post in the month of November following. Some time in the fall of 1776 or early in 1777, Col. Montgomery removed to the frontier region, in the county of Northumberland, having purchased in 1774 a tract at the site of the present town of Danville (now Montour County), where the settlers were then constantly annoyed by the Indians. On one occasion he was driven from his home for a time by the cruel chief Montour, who ravaged those settlements. In 1779 and 1780, Col. Montgomery was a member of Assembly from Northumberland County. In 1790 he was elected to the State Senate, and in 1792 he was chosen a member of the Third Congress. April 17, 1793, he was commissioned major-general of the militia of the counties of Northampton, Northumberland, and Luzerne. In 1801 he was appointed by Governor McKean an associate judge of Northumberland County. He was also at one time deputy surveyor of that county, and had held other important appointments, such as commissioner to adjust the Connecticut land claims in Wyoming Valley, etc. He died May 1, 1816, in the eightieth year of his age, and was interred in the Presbyterian graveyard at Danville. His descendants have been, and continue to be, among the most public-spirited and valuable citizens of the district where they reside. William Montgomery was a man of excellent character, and of great influence in his day. Nothing of imp, nce in his section of country was undertaken without consult- 662 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. ing him. He was the Nestor of the early settlers, and his advice was law with them. His first wife was Margaret Nivin, by whom he had children,—Mary, who died at twenty-three years of age ; Alexander, who died in infancy ; Margaret, who died in the same year with her sister ; William, b. about 1762 ; John, b. about 1764 ; Daniel, b. Oct. 30, 1765 ; and Alexander, who died young. . By a second wife, Isabella Evans, he had Robert, b. April, 1773 ; Hannah, b. Jan. 22, 1775; Alexander, b. Oct. 8, 1777 ; Margaret, b. Jan. 8, 1784. Isabella died August, 1791, and in April, 1793, he married Hannah, widow of Matthew Boyd, and sister of Judge James Boyd, of Chester County, but had no children by the last wife. Daniel Montgomery, the third son, born in Londonderry, died Dec. 30, 1831. He married Christiana Strawbridge, Nov. 27, 1791, by whom he had nine children. He was one of the most prominent citizens of the region around Danville, which name is said to have been given in compliment to him, and, being appointed major-general of militia in 1809, he was known as Gen. Daniel Montgomery. Alexander Montgomery, son of William, married Jane Boyd, daughter of John and Mary, of Chester County, and had four daughters, one of whom married M. C. Grier, and was the mother of J. A. M. Grier, known in politics as the " original" Garfield man. Another married A. F. Russel, to whom we are indebted for some of the family h istory. MOORE, WILLIAM, of Moore Hall.—William Moore was a son of John Moore, collector of the port of Philadelphia, and was born in that city on the 6th of May, 1699. In his early youth he was sent to England to be educated, and he 'graduated at the University of Oxford in 1719. His wife is said to have been a descendant of the Earl of Wemyss, and this tradition receives support from the fact that in his will her husband refers to the noble and honorable family from which she sprang. John Moore having become interested in the Pickering tract in Charlestown township, Chester Co., Pa., gave his proportion,—a lot of 240 acres on the Pickering Creek, adjacent to the Schuylkill,—in 1729, to his son William, who had been living on it for some years, and who there passed the remainder of his long and eventful life. On it the latter erected a frame house, which was later superseded by a stone mansion overlooking the river, which is still standing, and has ever since borne the name of Moore Hall. He also built a saw-mill and the Bull tavern, a famous hostelry in the colonial days. He lived in considerable style, and had a number of slaves and other servants. In the Weekly Mercury for Feb. 28, 1737-8, he advertises for sale " a young man who understands writing and accounts, and lately kept school." He was an enthusiastic churchman, and at different times was a vestryman of St. James' Episcopal Church, on the Perkiomen, and of Radnor Church, in Delaware County. He was colonel of one of the Chester County militia regiments during the time of the trouble with the Indians. As became a gentleman of his standing, he early began to take a part in political affairs, and in 1733 was sent to the Assembly, being re-elected each succeeding fall until 1740. There is a letter to him in the Taylor MSS., which says,— " A few days agoe a noted minister of the Gospel, beyond New Garden, and several of his congregation told me they were Informed by Isaac Wayne that thee declines Serving the County as a representative in Assembly the ensuing year and has Consented that he shall put thy name with his on a Tickett for Sheriff in order to Establish him in that post. This Information flies like the wind and has given a vast number of those who were in thy Interest a violent shock to hear that a Gent. on whom they so much relied should desert their service at a time when ye Publick affairs seem to challenge the Strictest attendance for to help a p'son of so feeble a charracter as Wayne into an office which so little Concerns the true Interest of an English Subject as that of Sheriff." This letter probably marks the beginning of an antagonism between Wayne, the father of the Revolutionary general, and Moore, which subsequently led to important results. It also lends some strength to the belief that during the time of his legislative service Moore belonged to the Quaker and anti-proprietary party. An anonymous piece of satire concerning him, purporting to be a confession, published in 1757, says,— " I once made myself believe I could act the Patriot and accordingly made Interest to be chosen for a Representative. Then I opposed loudly all Proprietary Innovations and was warm for the Liberty of my Country but getting nothing but the Honour of serving my Country I found that a Post of Profit might with my skill be more advantageous." In 1741 he was appointed by the Governor a justice of the peace and judge of the County Court. For about forty years thereafter he was president judge of that court. Whatever may have been his previous political creed, it is certain that henceforth he was one of the most decided and influential friends of the proprietaries in the province. In the disputes between the Governor and the Assembly he took an active part, and on the 23d of November, 1755, he wrote to the Assembly that two thousand men were coming down to Philadelphia from Chester County to compel them to pass a militia law, a measure to which the Quaker majority were opposed. This was the first step in a struggle, of which he was the central figure, that shook the whole province, and finally required the intervention of the throne to decide. During the two succeeding years a great many petitions were presented to the Assembly by citizens of Chester County charging him with tyranny, injustice, and even extortion, in the performance of the duties of his magisterial office, and asking for his removal. The names that were signed to them are too numerous to be repeated here, but among them were some of the best people in the county. It is manifest to the impartial reader that while the haughty and aristocratic bearing of Moore doubtless gave offense, and may have at times led to arbitrary decisions, political rivalry had much to do with the complaints. In a broadside published in reply, Moore explains the circumstances of each case in detail, and says that the petitions were procured by Isaac Wayne, with whom he had had a quarrel, through spite and rancor, by " riding night and day among ignorant and weak Persons using many Persuasions and Promises." The Assembly, after a hearing of the petitioners, which was many times adjourned in order to give him an opportunity to be present, but which he declined to attend, on the ground that they had no authority to make the investigation, determined that he had been guilty of extortion, and many other fraudulent, wicked, and cor- BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 663 rupt practices, and asked for his removal from office. Soon afterwards, on the 19th of October, 1757, Moore wrote a paper, printed in Franklin's Gazette and some other newspapers, in which he fiercely reviewed the action of the Assembly, calling it " virulent and scandalous," and a continued string of the severest calumny and most rancorous epithets conceived in all the terms of malice and party rage," and based upon petitions procured by a member and tool of the Assembly at a tavern when the signers were incapable of knowing what they did. Immediately after the meeting of the new Assembly, which was composed mainly of the same persons as the preceding, a warrant was issued to the sergeant-at-arms for the arrest of Moore. He was seized at his home at Moore Hall by two armed men one Friday evening, early in January, 1758, hurried away to Philadelphia, and there confined in jail. A warrant was also issued for the arrest of Dr. William Smith, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, who it was believed had been concerned in the preparation of the libelous address. They were both brought before the Assembly, where they refused to make a defense, though Moore admitted that he had written the paper, and refused to retract its statements. It was ordered that he should be confined until he should make a recantation, and that the address be burned by the hangman. They were both given into the custody of the sheriff, with directions that they should not be discharged upon any writ of habeas corpus. They were, however, released in this way, after the adjournment of the Assembly, in about three months. In August the Governor, after a series of quarrels with the Assembly about it, examined a number of witnesses, and went through the form of a trial, as a result of which lie announced that Moore had purged himself of every one of the original charges, and that he had never known a more full and clear defense. Smith went to England to prosecute an appeal to the crown, and on Feb. 13, 1760, there was signified formally to the Assembly " His Majesty's high displeasure" at their unwarrantable behavior in assuming power that did not belong to them, and invading the royal prerogative and the liberties of the people. The time had not yet come when this authority could be resisted, and Moore and his friends came off victorious. As in most political contests, there was much unnecessary heat and some truth on both sides. There is plenty of contemporary evidence to show that Moore, admirable as was the part he played in those old days, and loath as we would be to take even one horse-tooth button set in brass from the dimity coat be wore, was haughty in temper, and none too gentle in the exercise of power. " Unless they put me to the necessity of bringing ejectments, and in that case they are to expect no favor," he wrote in 1769 to Benjamin Jacobs about some people who had made improvements on some of his lands. " This is a season," he adds, " when most or all farmers have their barns or stock-yards filled with the produce of their plantations." John Ross, the celebrated Philadelphia lawyer, noted in his private docket, in November, 1765, that a case in which he represented some young Quakers accused of a criminal charge had been adjourned three times by Moore without cause, though seventeen witnesses were present,— " the first instance of that kind of oppression that ever happened in this Province,"—and that it was supposed to have occurred "from his great love to Quakers." At the time of the outbreak of the Revolutionary war he was an old man of about seventy-six years, and much troubled with the gout. He was, however, keenly alive to the importance of the struggle, and his sympathies, like those of the greater number of men who had secured wealth, position, and reputation under the old order of things, were entirely on the side of the crown. The rebels he regarded as a rude rabble. Jacob Smith, a sort of political eavesdropper, made an affidavit that he heard Moore say, at Moore Hall, on the 7th of May, 1775, that the people of Boston were a " vile set of rebels," and that "he was determined to commit every man to prison who would associate or muster." There was much excitement abroad, and it was the way of the new men who were coming into power to compel by force those who were suspected of Toryism to recant. On June 6th the committee of Chester County, of which Anthony Wayne was chairman, visited Moore Hall for this purpose. Broken with years and ill in health, the judge was brought to bay, confronted with a power which Great Britain, in eight years of war, was unable to subdue. The spirit, however, with which two decades earlier he had defied the Assembly and suffered imprisonment was still 'undaunted, and the paper he signed said, " I also further declare that I have of late encouraged and will continue to encourage learning the military art, apprehending the time is not far distant when there may be occasion for it." The latent sarcasm was entirely unnoticed, and the committee unanimously resolved that a perfectly satisfactory answer had been given. On another occasion a party from the American army, among whom was Isaac Anderson, afterwards a member of Congress from this district, which was sent to deprive the Tories of arms, went to Moore Hall, and found its haughty occupant confined to his easy-chair. Among other things they discovered a beautifully wrought sword, whose handle was inlaid with gold and silver, which had probably been an heirloom. They were about to carry it off, when the judge asked permission to see it once more. It had scarcely been given to him before, with his foot on the floor, he snapped the blade from the handle. Then, clinching tightly the hilt, he threw to them the useless blade, and with a gesture of contempt, and eyes gleaming, cried, " There, take that if you are anxious to fight ; but you have no business to steal my plate !" While the army was at Valley Forge, Col. Clement Biddle and others were quartered at Moore Hall, and a committee of Congress met there in the early part of 1778. Moore died on the 30th of May, 1783. He and his old antagonists, the Waynes, rest together in peace in the graveyard at Radnor. Moore lies directly in front of the door, and all the worshipers at that ancient and celebrated church as they enter pass over the remains of one who during his life was probably the most conspicuous and heroic figure in the county of Chester. Among his descendants are the Cadwaladers and Rawles of Philadelphia, the Goldsboroughs and Duponts of Delaware, and some of the English and German nobility. REV. CHARLES MOORE.—George Moore and his wife, 664 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Jane (Jordon), came from the north of Ireland about the year 1760, and settled in Philadelphia, in which city they located on Market Street, between Second and Third Streets, and where he lived and died, Dec. 27, 1787. Their son, Rev. Charles Moore, the subject of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia, Jan. 30, 1771, and departed this life July 17, 1847, at his residence, West Vincent township, Chester Co. He was in his sixth year at the time of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, and was at the State-House and heard the tolling of the old bell that proclaimed the birth of a new nation. He was reared and educated in the Episcopal faith or church, and it was the intention of his parents that he should become a clergyman in that denomination. He was married to Margaret, daughter of William and Eliza Carroll, of Philadelphia. Rev. Charles Moore early in life obtained peace with God through Christ and united himself with the Old Swedes' Protestant Church, of Philadelphia, in which for several years he faithfully discharged the duties of clerk. In 1797, when the yellow fever prevailed in Philadelphia, and after he and his wife had recovered from an attack of it, he removed to Concord, Delaware Co., and there connected himself with the Episcopal Church. This church being without a stated ministry, upon its solicitation he officiated for some time in the public service in reading sermons, making exhortations, etc. During his residence here he occasionally attended the Baptist meetings, and under the preaching of Rev. Joshua Vaughan his attention was called to the subject of Christian baptism, which caused him to enter upon a more thorough and careful examination of this and other Bible doctrines. In October, 1802, he was baptized by Rev. Mr. Vaughan in the Brandywine at Chads' Ford, and received into the fellowship of the Brandywine Church, Delaware County. His mind having been exercised in regard to preaching, and believing it to be his duty, and the church readily agreeing with him in this view, he received a letter of license to preach the gospel in September, 1812. He continued to supply this church until October, 1813, when he was ordained as their pastor. He continued to preach here for six years, supplying at the same time monthly the Rock Springs Church. In 1819 he accepted a unanimous call to the Vincent Baptist Church, Chester County, as pastor, where he labored acceptably and faithfully until the spring of 1844, embracing a period of twenty-five years, when increasing infirmities induced him to retire from the active duty of the ministry. He was a good preacher, and the fact of having been a hard Bible student did much in establishing this character for him. As a man, he was plain, grave, and reserved, and in the pulpit solemn, affectionate, natural. He is said to have preached the first temperance sermon in this county. His ordinary plan of sermonizing was textual. He was strictly Calvinistic in doctrinal views, and wove a strong warp of doctrines in all his pulpit discourses. Few men have passed through so long a life with a character so free from blot or stain. His character as a man, as a Christian, and as a minister was irreproachable. His memory is embalmed in many hearts as a good and devoted minister. His children were nine in number, viz. : Eliza B., Sarah, Robert, Lydia, Margaret, William C., Gideon F., BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 665 Charles, and Hannah Jane. His son Robert married Rachel Smedley, and left five children,—Charles C., Thomas M., Gideon S., Francis J., and Leonard K. Moore, all of whom now reside in Upper Uwchlan township, Chester Co., and own adjoining farms. DR. JOSEPH MOORE was the second son of Nathaniel and Hannah Moore, and was born about the year 1758, in the township of Goshen, Chester Co., Pa. His mother was the widow of Henry Collins, her name previous to her first marriage being Hannah Hunt. We are unable to learn anything definite with regard to his education, either preliminary or medical. From what is known of him, however, we have reason to believe he obtained a tolerable English education, and that he attended the lectures at the medical school in Philadelphia but, as was usual at that day, he took no degree. His preceptor was Dr. Kennedy, of East Whiteland township, Chester Co. After completing his studies he commenced the practice of medicine, residing in the same house in which he was born. In the year 1780 he married Sarah Jefferis, daughter of Emmor and Elizabeth Jefferis, of East Bradford township, Chester Co., and by this connection he had five children,—four sons and one daughter. Their names were Joseph, Emmor, Jefferis, James, and Eliza. Joseph studied medicine with Dr. Jacob Ehrenzeller, and emigrated to Mississippi, where his other brothers and sister, who married Passmore Hoopes, also in a few years took up their abode. About the year 1792, Dr. Moore removed from Goshen to West Chester, where he continued the practice of his profession until within a short time of his death, which took place about the 5th of July, 1799, of consumption. His wife survived him about one month. Dr. Moore was a man highly respected, and he was considered skillful in his profession, much 'esteemed as a citizen, and kind, attentive, and popular as a physician. He died at the age of forty-one years, deeply lamented by his numerous friends. MORGAN, JACOB B.—James Morgan and his wife, Jane, with their children, Margaret, John, Evan, and James, natives of Nantmeal, Radnorshire, Wales, set sail for this country in 1691. Both of the parents died at sea, and the captain of the vessel having been prevailed upon to enter a Maryland port, they were buried at the head of the Bay of Bohemia. All of the children settled in this county, and James and Evan subsequently became distinguished as clergymen. John purchased a farm near Morgan's Corner, in Radnor township, now Delaware County. His grandson, Mordecai Morgan, was appointed a lieutenant of the Pennsylvania militia, July 15, 1776, participated in the battle of Brandywine, in September, 1777, and died in 1794, leaving eight children. Of these, Dr. Mordecai Morgan became a surgeon in the United States navy, and at the time of his death was fleet-surgeon of the West India Squadron. He was a man of literary taste and culture, and made translations of several of the Italian poets. In " Hazard's Register" may be found a biographical sketch of the noted Dr. John Davis, written by him. John Morgan, another brother, was born in Radnor township in 1786, and learned the trade of a carpenter. In 1808 he removed to Charlestown township, and opened a store at the Fountain Inn. Soon afterwards he built the General Pike - 84 - tavern, at which place he was for a number of years postmaster and justice of the peace. About 1818 he purchased a farm, a large portion of which he retained until his death in 1871, and until a populous town had grown up around and beyond it. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1828 and in 1839. He was president of the Phoenixville Bridge Company, a street bears his name, and he died at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, possessed of wealth and universally respected. His second son was Jacob B. Morgan, born in 1814, who was educated in the common schools and West Chester Academy. He subsequently taught school and entered a store. He was postmaster of Phoenixville under the administrations of Presidents Pierce and Buchanan. In 1868 he was elected cashier of the National Bank of Phoenixville, which position he has held to the present time, and his management of the bank has been marked by a large increase of his business and a great extension of public confidence. He was married in 1849 to Lavina C., daughter of John Vanderslice, by whom he has had four children. He has served as justice of the peace, been five times chief burgess of the borough, a director in the school board, and treasurer of the same. In 1873 the teachers gave him an elegant testimonial for his ability, suavity of manner, and general conduct in his administration as a school director. He has served in the borough council (1857), and was vice-president of the Perseverance Building and Loan Association. He was cashier of the Bank of Phoenixville, organized under State law on March 12, 1859, and which he held until it was merged with the National in 1868, when and in which he held the same position, and which he now so efficiently fills. He is a fine business man, conspicuous for his straightforward conduct in life and for his constant efforts to aid in everything tending to improve the borough and its people, by whom he is universally loved and respected. MORRISON, JOHN A., M.D., is of Scotch-Irish descent. His great-grandfather, Gabriel Morrison, came to 666 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. this country from Ireland about the year 1735, and settled near where his great-grandson, John A., now resides, who was born in 1814, in the southern end of Lancaster County, Pa., but who for forty-four years has been a resident of Chester County, located in Cochranville. His life has been employed in the practice of medicine and in the pursuit of agriculture and the mercantile trade, with the exception of a few years spent in public life. He represented Chester County in the Thirty-second Congress, from 1851 to 1853, and was eight years in the customs service in Philadelphia, a portion of the time as United States special drug examiner, and afterwards as United States appraiser. He is now retired from public life, although maintaining his relations to the Democratic party and interested in both local and general affairs and now, at the age of sixty-seven years, is enjoying that unobtrusive repose which he prefers to the turmoils of politics or the vexations of office. MOWRY, CHARLES, was a native of Litchfield, Providence Co., R. I., where he was born in 1777. His career in Chester County as editor and publisher of the Temperate Zone and American Republican is given in the article on newspapers. On his removal to Harrisburg, after disposing of the American Republican, he purchased the Harrisburg Republican, the publication of which he continued under the title of the Pennsylvania Intelligencer. This paper he eventually disposed of to Simon Cameron, who had been associated with him as journeyman and co-partner in its management, in order that he might assume the duties of canal commissioner, to which he had been appointed, and which he held during the administration of Governor Shulze. During his career as editor he acquired considerable celebrity as a political writer, and exercised a marked influence upon the policy of his party. Mr. Mowry's wife was Mary, daughter of George Richmond, of Sadsbury township, to whom he was married March 31, 1812. He died July 29, 1838, leaving six children,—three sons, since deceased, and three daughters, one of whom is the widow of Samuel D. Young, and another, the youngest, the wife of Hon. David Fleming, a leading member of the Harrisburg bar. MORTON, JOHN, one of the most sterling patriots of our Revolutionary era, was born in the township of Ridley, Chester (now Delaware) Co., in the year 1724. His family was of Swedish origin. He was chosen a member of Assembly in 1756, in which situation he was continued nearly twenty years and wherever good service was required in any important department of the government, so long as he lived there we are we are pretty certain to find the name of John Morton. When the day of trial came on the great question of independence, the Pennsylvania delegation to the Continental Congress, on the 4th of July, 1776, stood four in favor and five against that momentous proposition. The delegation consisted of the following members, viz. : John Morton (Speaker of the Assembly at the time of their appointment, Nov. 4, 1775), Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, James Wilson, John Dickinson, Charles Humphreys, Edward Biddle, Thomas Willing, and Andrew Allen, Esquires. The first four were in favor of the measure, but, being in a minority, the State appeared to be against it. There were but five of the Pennsylvania delegation, however, occupying their seats on the occasion of the final vote. These were Franklin, Wilson, Morton, Humphreys, and Willing. The first three voted in favor of the Declaration and the last two against it, and thus the vote of Pennsylvania, which, on the adoption of the resolution of independence on the 2d of July, had been cast against it, was now cast in favor of the Declaration, and the unanimity so important was secured. Dickinson and Morris, who had voted against the resolution of independence on the 2d of July, were not present on the 4th of July, when the final vote was taken, or if present did not occupy their seats. It is said by some writers that they were not present, and that their absence was brought about by the influence of Samuel Adams, one of the warmest friends of independence. Thomas McKean, one of the delegates from Delaware, in a letter written in 1817, says that they were present, but did not take their seats on that day. At all events, they did not vote, and thus permitted the Declaration to be adopted. The probability is that, seeing that all the colonies except Pennsylvania had now a majority of delegates in favor of independence, and that the Declaration would certainly be adopted, they were not willing by their votes to place Pennsylvania in the position of being the only colony in opposition to it, and hence, although they doubted the expediency of the measure, withdrew, and permitted the vote of the delegation to be cast in its favor. John Morton lived in a section of the country which was very hostile to independence. His neighbors and friends, almost to a man, entertained views on this subject different from his own, some because they were favorably disposed to the crown, and others because they believed the day of reconciliation had not passed, and that the time had not come when the colonies could safely sever their connection with the mother-country. When the subject was before Congress, they sought to induce him to vote against the measure, and admonished him of the disastrous results which would inevitably follow if the colonists should fail, as in their opinion they undoubtedly would. Their efforts, however, were of no avail, and he enrolled his vote in favor of independence, and thus secured that unanimity so essential to the success of the cause. John Morton did not live to see the result of the effort to achieve independence. Having affixed his signature to the immortal document, he closed his valuable life in the month of April, 1777, at the age of fifty-three years. He was so conscious that he had performed an act which would commend him to posterity that on his death-bed, when the censure of his friends was strongly present to his mind, and when the cause of the colonists was gloomy in the extreme, he sent to them this prophetic message : " Tell them that they will live to see the hour when they shall acknowledge it to have been the most glorious service that I have ever rendered to my country." As a private citizen, he possessed an unusual share of esteem his moral character was above all stain, and every act of his life, of which we have any knowledge, shows that BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 667 he possessed that rarest of mental faculties,—good judgment. He was the first of the signers of the Declaration who died. It may be added that when the British army passed through the neighborhood of his late residence, after the battle of Brandywine, they despoiled his widow and children of property to the value of three hundred and sixty-five pounds,—Pennsylvania currency, nearly equal to one thousand dollars,—a very considerable sum in those days. ROBERT W. MORTON.—James Morton emigrated from the northern part of Ireland, near Belfast, just previous to the Revolutionary war. He first settled near Hoopes' Mills, in Honeybrook township, and married, after his arrival in Chester County, Isabella Mann, who was born in his native place in Ireland. To them were born six children,—three sons and three daughters,—of whom Robert was the eldest. He was born Oct. 2, 1779, and married Elizabeth Moore (his first wife), by whom Robert Whitehill Morton was born, Oct. 2, 1817. He worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-one, and was educated at the neighborhood subscription schools, working in the summer and attending school in winter. He studied surveying with Squire Beynard Way, a noted surveyor of that day. He began farming on his own account in 1842, in which he continued to 1855 on the old farm. He then farmed in Lancaster County until 1869, during which time he was ten years justice of peace, and engaged in conveyancing and surveying. The First National Bank of Honeybrook was organized February, 1868, with $100,000 capital, and he was in April following elected its cashier, which position he has held to this time. This is the only bank in this section of the county, and does a very large business, and has the entire confidence of the business world and public generally. He was married April 16, 1846, to Jane, daughter of John Robinson, Esq., of Salisbury, Lancaster Co. He has served three terms of three years each as school director, and is very active in school matters. He is strongly attached to the principles of the Republican party, but has always refused to be a candidate for office. He is of Scotch-Irish extraction on both sides of his family, and comes of the old Presbyterian or Seceding element. He owns a farm in Lancaster County, on which is a saw-and clover-mill, also a farm in Honeybrook township, on which is a grist-mill. He is a man highly esteemed in the business and social world. JOHN W. MORTON.—Robert Morton, son of James, the emigrant, from near Belfast, Ireland, married for his second wife Nancy Walker, by whom he had only one child, John Walker. He was born April 29, 1824, in Honeybrook township. He spent his boyhood on the farm, and received the usual educational advantages the country schools then afforded. He was married Nov. 27, 1862, to Victoria, daughter of William E. Lewis. She died April 12, 1876. He was the second time married, March 12, 1878, to R. E. Dorlan, daughter of Samuel B. Dorlan, of Dorlan's Mills, Upper Uwchlan township, by whom he has had one child, John Ralph, born March 13, 1879. He owns, in the southern part of Honeybrook township, one hundred and fifty acres of land, a part of the original Morton homestead tract. In 1879 he was elected a justice of the peace for the term of five years, the same office his father, Robert, and his two half-brothers, Robert W. and William, once filled. 668 -HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. He served in the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania militia (three months' men) in the summer of 1863, in the Rebellion. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a ruling elder in the same, as was his father before him. He has been Sunday-school superintendent. He is a Republican in politics, and has ever been active for his party. He removed in 1878 from his farm to the borough of Honey-brook, where he now resides in easy retirement, renting out his fine farm. His father, Robert, died April 11, 1852, aged seventy-two years ; his mother, Nancy (Walker), died May 10, 1865, aged seventy-six years. He enjoys the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens. MOYLAN, STEPHEN, a Revolutionary officer, was colonel of the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment of light dragoons. He was born in Ireland in 1734, and at the breaking out of the Revolution offered his services to Gen. Washington. He was at Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777, with Wayne in the expedition to Bull's Ferry, July 20, 1780, and in 1781 accompanied Gen. Greene to the southward. Nov. 3, 1783, he was made a brigadier-general by brevet. The following particulars appear in Saffell's " Records of the War," page 51: " Sept. 30, 1779, Paid by Mr. Pierce to Patrick Bennett, for recruiting the 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons, to be accounted for by Colonel Moylan, $5000." Col. Moylan's name also appears in the list of officers of the Continental army entitled to half-pay.—Saffell, p. 427. Col. Moylan was appointed register and recorder of Chester County on the 7th of April, 1792, to succeed Persifor Frazer, deceased, and resided on a farm in the township of Goshen, in said county. He held those offices until Dec. 13, 1793, when he was succeeded by Col. John Hannum. NEWLIN, NICHOLAS, a gentleman in easy circumstances, with his wife and children, emigrated from Mountmellick, in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, in 1683, and settled in Concord, (now) Delaware County. It is claimed by some of his descendants that he was an English gentleman of ancient family, and that he was descended from the De Newlandes, who were manor lords under the early Norman kings of England. Be this as it may, he was a member of the Society of Friends, and brought with him to this country a certificate of membership, in which the meeting expresses dissatisfaction with his intended removal, and intimates that he was fearful of suffering there for the testimony of Jesus, or that he coveted worldly liberty.* Whether the intimation therein * This certificate of membership is as follows : " At the request of Nicholas Newland, we do hereby certify that the said Nicholas Newland acquainted our Mens' Meeting with his intention of removing himself and his family out of this nation into New Jersey or Pennsylvania, in America, and we have nothing to charge against him or his family, or to their conversation in the world, since they frequented our Meetings, but has walked honestly among men for aught we know, or can hear of by enquiring, which hath been made; but our Friends Meeting are generally dissatisfied with his so removing, he being so well settled with his family, and having sufficient substance for food and raiment, which all that profess Godliness in Christ Jesus ought to be content with, for we brought nothing into this world, and we are sure to take nothing out, and he hath given us no satisfactory reason for his removing ; but our Godly jealousy is that his chief ground is fearfulness of sufferings here for the testimony of Jesus, or coveting worldly liberty, all which we certify from our Mens' Meeting at Mount Mellick, 25th of 12mo., 1682. " And we further certify, that enquiry hath been made concerning the clearness of Nathaniel and John Newland, sons of said Nicholas Newland, from all entanglement of marriage, and that they are released for aught we find. BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 669 conveyed as to the cause of his removal was correct or not, his conduct here showed him to be a man firm in the performance of what he believed to be his duty under all circumstances. In 1685 he was appointed to a seat in the Provincial Council, and was for a time one of the justices of the courts of Chester County. He had a large estate in Concord and Birmingham, and built a mill at the former place in very early times. Friends' meetings were held at his house as early as 1687, and after his death were continued for a number of years at his widow's. He died at Concord in May, 1699, and was there buried. Elizabeth Newlin, his widow, died in 1717. Their children were Nathaniel, John,-who died unmarried,-Elizabeth, and Rachel. Elizabeth Newlin, in 1683, married Thomas Burton, of Rasenagh, Queens Co., Ireland. They had children,-Mary, Elizabeth, Rebecca, and Martha. She married a second husband, William Pagett. Her father devised to her 250 acres of land in Birmingham. Rachel Newlin, in 1685, married Ephraim Jackson, of Edgmont. They had nine children,-John, Joseph, who died young, Joseph, Nathaniel, Josiah, Samuel, Ephraim, Mary, and Rachel. NATHANIEL NEWLIN, son of Nicholas, was born about the year 1660, and emigrated from Ireland with his father in 1683, and April 17, 1685, married Mary Mendenhall, who came from Wiltshire, England. He resided at Concord, and was quite a prominent person, both in the meetings of Friends and in the community at large. In 1698 he was elected to the Provincial Assembly as a representative from Chester County, and continued in that body at different times for several years. In 1700 he was one of the committee to consider and draw up a new frame of government and to revise the laws. He was subsequently appointed one of the proprietaries' commissioners of property, and a justice of the county courts. In 1722 he became one of the trustees of the general loan-office of the province, which position he continued to hold till the time of his death, when he was succeeded by Justice Richard Hayes. He continued to reside in Concord as long as he lived, and owned a large amount of real estate there as well as elsewhere. A brick dwelling-house, which he erected at Concord in 1699, was standing until within a few years past. In 1724 he became the owner of over 7000 acres in one tract, since known as Newlin township. It was in relation to the occupancy of this tract that he had the dispute with the Indians. Although advanced in life, he married again, 2, 17, 1729, Mary Fincher, and his death occurred in May of the same year. His widow removed to Londongrove, where she died the next year. Nathaniel Newlin was the only son of Nicholas Newlin who left issue. His children were,-1. Jemima ; 2. Elizabeth ; 3. Nicholas ; 4. Nathaniel ; 5. John ; 6. Kezia ; and 7. Mary. "Signed by the advice, and in the behalf of the Meeting, Tobias Pladwell, William Edmundson, Christopher Raper," and others. The original of the foregoing certificate is in the handwriting of William Edmundson, as appears by his signature thereto. The name Newland may either have been misspelled by him, or afterwards changed. It has always been spelled Newlin in this county. 1. Jemima Newlin was born 12, 9, 1685-6 ; married. 10, 4, 1712, to Richard Eavenson, of Thornbury. 2. Elizabeth Newlin was born 1, 3, 1687-8 ; married in 1713 to Ellis Lewis, of Radnor, and left four children,-Robert, Mary, Nathaniel, and Ellis. They resided in Kennet. 3. Nicholas Newlin (2) was born 3, 19, 1689 ; married, in 1715, Edith, daughter of Nicholas and Abigail Pyle. She was born 1, 20, 1695, in Bethel. He became the owner of 250 acres in Birmingham which had belonged to his grandfather, Nicholas Newlin (1), but he continued to reside in Concord. 4. Nathaniel Newlin (2) was born Jan. 19, 1690-1, and in 1710-11 married Jane, daughter of Richard and Jane Woodward, of Middletown. He served in the Provincial Assembly for a number of years as a representative of Chester County. He resided at Concord, where he died in February, 1731-2. His widow died in 1737. They left nine children,-Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Nathan, Rachel, Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, and Martha. 5. John Newlin was born 12, 28, 1691 ; married, in 1711, Mary, daughter of Richard and Jane Woodward, of Middletown. She was a sister of his brother Nathaniel's wife. He died in 1753. His widow, Mary Newlin, of Concord, died 11, 24, 1790, having attained the great age of one hundred and one years. She preserved all her faculties to the last moment of her life. They had children,-Nathaniel, John, Jane, Rebecca, Mary, and perhaps others. His sons appear to have settled in Newlin township, but their parents continued to reside in Concord. 6. Kezia Newlin was born 12, 22, 1695-6, and married William Baily, of Kennet. 7. Mary Newlin was born 2, 2, 1699, and in 1724 married Richard Clayton, of Concord. She left no children, and her property was inherited by her eldest brother, Nicholas Newlin. Nathaniel Newlin (3), son of Nathaniel (2), married Esther Midkiff, who survived him. His son, the Hon. Nathaniel Newlin (4), was a member of the State Senate, and of the Convention which framed the constitution of 1790. It is said he was offered a seat in Congress by the dominant party on several occasions, but refused it. Joseph Newlin, son of Nathaniel (2), married, in 1740, Phebe, granddaughter of Ralph Lewis, an eminent Welsh settler. He died 1768, his wife surviving, and left his plantation to his eldest son, Ellis Newlin, who, in 1771, married Jane Mason. They had three sons,-Joseph, William, and George. It will thus be seen that Nathaniel Newlin (1) left three sons,-Nicholas, Nathaniel, and John ; that of these Nathaniel had sons,-Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, and Nathan; and that John had sons,-Nathaniel and John. From these, or some of them, the families in Pennsylvania bearing the surname of Newlin have probably all descended. NILES, HEZEKIAH, was born Oct. 10, 1777, at the residence then of James Jefferis (now of John James), on the east side of the main branch of the Brandywine, near Jefferis' Ford. When Howe's army moved from the Head of Elk for Philadelphia, it was generally expected that the march would be by way of Wilmington, Del., and to evade 670 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. the evils of such a visit Mrs. Niles, being a resident of that place, and near her confinement, sought a refuge in the family of James Jefferis, aforesaid, where Hezekiah was born, about four weeks after the military passed by. On this ground he is claimed as a Chester County man. The Hessian auxiliaries of Britain were notorious for maltreating and plundering the inhabitants. They menaced the life of Mrs. Niles for hesitating to surrender her personal property and her son mentions more than once, in his Weekly Register, that the myrmidons of George III. threatened to bayonet him before he was born. When Hezekiah was old enough to engage in a profession he was apprenticed to learn " the art preservative of all arts," and at the close of the last century was one of the firm of Bonsall & Niles, printers and publishers, in Wilmington. In 1801 this firm was employed in publishing a revised edition of the political writings of John Dickinson, in two handsome octavo volumes. The printing establishment in which Mr. Niles was then concerned was unsuccessful. For some time after the failure Mr. Niles was connected with a periodical, to which he contributed amusing essays under the title of " Quill-driving, by Geoffrey Thickneck," and then he became for several years editor of a daily paper in the city of Baltimore. But the great work of his life was his incomparable Weekly Register, a compendium of general intelligence, commenced at Baltimore in 1811, and conducted by H. Niles for a quarter of a century with untiring industry and consummate ability. Referring to it in one of his letters, he says,— "Whatever may be its merits, I can say this, that it is the most laborious publication that, I believe, ever issued by the editorship of one man. A daily paper—of which I had six years' experience—is mere play compared with the toil of this thing." He also compiled a volume entitled " Principles and Acts of the Revolution," highly illustrative of opinions and events in that stormy period. Hezekiah Niles was a kind, amiable, sagacious man, an earnest politician, and a zealous Republican. Skilled in the science of political economy, he was at once a ready writer and an accomplished advocate of the protection due to our national industry. In the latter years of his life Mr. Niles was disabled by a paralytic affection, and retired to Wilmington, Del., whither he went, as he said, " To die and be buried with his kindred." He departed this life April 2, 1839, in the sixty-second year of his age. NIXON, COL. JOHN.—Richard Nixon, a native of Wexford, Ireland, emigrated to this country in the first half of the eighteenth century. His son John, the subject of this sketch, was born in Chester Co., Pa., and having received a good education, became a merchant in Philadelphia. He was one of the founders of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, in 1771, and was an ardent patriot. He was one of the Committee of Safety, often presided as chairman, and served on the Committee of Accounts. As lieutenant-colonel he commanded the City Guard of Philadelphia from July 19, 1776, and was one of the navy board. He commanded the Third Pennsylvania Battalion in the defense of the Delaware in 1776-77, and during his absence at the camp at Valley Forge, and the occupation of Philadelphia by the British, in the winter of 1777-78, his country-seat was burned by the enemy. The Declaration of Independence was first read in public by him on the 8th of July, 1776, four days after its final adoption, from the platform of an observatory in the State-House yard, which had been erected in 1769 to observe the transit of Venus over the sun, to an assemblage of the people of that city and vicinity. The people listened in silence and with solemn thought upon the momentous character of the act. When the old Bank of Pennsylvania was established by subscription, July 17, 1780, to procure supplies of provisions for the then extremely destitute armies of the United States, he was chosen one of the first directors. He was president of the Bank of North America, which grew out of and superseded the old Bank of Pennsylvania, from its organization in January, 1782, until his death, about Jan. 1, 1809. Col. John Nixon was a gentleman of more than average ability, upright, patriotic, enthusiastic, and hospitable. He was highly esteemed by his brother-officers and fellow-citizens generally. NUTT, SAMUEL, the founder of the Coventry Iron-Works, came from Coventry, in Warwickshire, bringing a certificate from the Monthly Meeting of Coventry, dated 2, 7, 1714, which was presented at Concord Monthly Meeting 10, 13, 1714. No further notice of him appears on the records of the latter meeting. Before leaving England he, on the 4th of May, 1714, purchased from Benjamin Weight, of Coventry, 1250 acres of land in Pennsylvania, some of which was laid out in Sadsbury township, now owned by William L. Paxson and others. He is said to have returned to England to bring over skilled workers in iron, and it may be that his nephew of the same name accompanied him hither at that time. Samuel Nutt, Sr., married Anna, widow of Samuel Savage, and daughter of Thomas Rutter, and her daughter, Rebecca Savage, became the wife of Samuel Nutt, Jr., May 17, 1733. In the Pennsylvania Gazette of May 29, 1740, we find the following: "We hear from French Creek, in Chester County, that on Monday last Mr. Robert Grace, a Gentleman of this city, was married to Mrs. Rebecca Nutt, an agreeable young Lady, with a Fortune of Ten Thousand Pound." Samuel Nutt, Jr., left no son, and the name became extinct in that family. (See p. 34.) OGLER, SEPTUM'S AUGUSTUS, M.D., was born in Charleston, S. C., on Sept. 17, 1821 died in East Whiteland township, Chester Co., Pa., Nov. 26, 1857, and is interred in St. Paul's graveyard, West Whiteland. He was the seventh child of Thomas and Sarah Ogier. His father was a Frenchman, and was engaged in the mercantile business between Charleston and Marseilles, France. The family were Huguenots, and during the troubles in France between the Protestants and Roman Catholics, during the reign of Charles IX., were forced to flee from the country. Dr. Ogier, as a child, was remarkable for his sprightliness, great amiability of character, and affectionate disposition, traits that were of great service to him in after-life in BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 671 making him a successful physician. He received a collegiate education, first graduating at the South Carolina College and afterwards at Yale. In 1840, at the age of nineteen, he entered the office of his brother, Dr. Thomas Louis Ogier, a distinguished practitioner in Charleston, and commenced the study of medicine. He graduated at the State Medical College of South Carolina, at Charleston, in 1842. To further perfect himself and to secure a better opportunity to study surgery he came North, and in 1843 entered the Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, where he again received a medical diploma. It was while engaged in studying that he made the acquaintance of Miss Catharine Gross Brinton, daughter of Maj. Thomas H. Brinton, of Delaware Co., Pa., whom he married in 1845, and with his bride returned to his native city, intending to engage in the practice of medicine. The climate of the South not agreeing with his wife's health, he returned North the next year and settled in Philadelphia, where he was induced to engage in the business of an apothecary. The business being distasteful to him, he abandoned it and removed to Glenloch, then called " The Steamboat," and boarded with the late E. Dunbar. At that time Dr. Stephen Harris removed from that section of the county, and Dr. Ogler, it appears, was just the man to take his place ; this was in 1849. He came among the people an entire stranger, but from his gentle and kindly disposition it was not long before he became very popular, and soon acquired a large though not lucrative practice. He was always to be found at his post of duty, whether it was in the hovel of the poor or in the elegant mansion of the wealthy, nor were his ministrations alone confined to those of a physician for the ailments to which the body is heir, but he consoled the grief-stricken when the Angel of Death visited an abode, and did not feel it beneath a man to weep with the afflicted and give them Christian consolation. He placed his standard high, and steadfastly aimed to reach it. Almost immediately after his settlement in Chester Valley he connected himself with the Chester County Medical Society, and became one of its most active members. He was chosen for one year its president, and on several occasions represented the society in the National and State Associations, and was at the time of his death one of the standing secretaries of the latter association, to which he had been elected in 1856. He was the author of several medical papers. He was an active member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and was for a number of years one of the vestrymen. Nov. 26, 1857, he came to a most untimely and melancholy death. He had been engaged during the day in making professional visits, and was on his way home, between the hours of four and five o'clock in the afternoon, and whilst attempting to cross the Pennsylvania Railroad at Frazer, within sight of his home, the fast passenger-train bound west struck his carriage, killing him almost instantly. His death threw a great gloom over the whole community and the medical gentlemen of the county. He left a wife and five children, to wit : Thomas Louis, Catharine Brinton, Mary Brinton, AEmelius St. Julien, and Carolina Blanche. The two youngest daughters are deceased.  PAINTER, SAMUEL, is supposed to have come from that part of England bordering on Wales, and his name is found as a lot-owner in Philadelphia in 1705. His son Samuel purchased 532 acres of land in Birmingham in 1707, and his father bought adjoining land in 1711. The son was married, 4, 7, 1716, at Concord Meeting, to Elizabeth Buxcey, a sister to the wife of John Passmore, of Kennet. Their children were Mary, m. to Isaac Gilpin ; Samuel ; John, m. to Agnes Cobourn and Sarah Yeatman ; Thomas, m. to Grace Cloud ; Ann, m. to Robert Chamberlin ; and Lydia. Samuel (3) married, 6, 5, 1741, Esther, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Gilpin, of Birmingham. Their children were James, m. to Jane Carter ; George ; Lydia, m. to Isaac Baily ; Joseph ; Thomas ; Hannah, m. to Joseph Townsend, of Baltimore ; and Samuel. Of these, Joseph, b. 4, 1, 1748, d. 10, 24, 1804, m. Elizabeth Woodward, b. 6, 12, 1748, d. 8, 24, 1808, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Kirk) Woodward. They lived in East Bradford, now Birmingham township, where he followed the fulling business. Of their five children, Joseph Painter was born 7th mo. 5, 1782, and was married at Bradford Meeting, 9th mo. 12, 1805, to Lydia Marshall, daughter of Samuel and Rachel Marshall, of West Bradford, born 8th mo. 2, 1788. They resided for many years in East Bradford, but settled in West Chester in 1829. Their children were,-1. Mary Ann, b. 7, 11, 1806, d. 11, 11, 1809 ; 2. Rachel M., b. 4, 17, 1808, d. 11, 15, 1865 ; 3. Samuel M., b. 9, 16, 1809, m. 10, 17, 1839, Ann Vickers, of Uwchlan, daughter of John and Abigail Vickers ; 4. Elizabeth P., b. 5, 31, 1813, m. Joseph Vickers, d. 9, 8, 1863 ; 5. Lydia S., b. 8, 3, 1815, d. 11, 24, 1832 ; 6. Sarah, b. 12, 8, 1816, d. 6, 30, 1817 7. Joseph H., b. 10, 5, 1818, m. 2, 19, 1840, Esther, daughter of Joseph and Charity Kersey 8. Mary H., b. 9, 30, 1820, m. 12, 30, 1840, Chalkley M. Valentine ; 9. James G., b. 5, 12, 1823, m. Mary H. Pierce ; 10. Cyrus P., b. 11, 20, 1825, m. Abigail A. Alison ; 11. Thomas, b. 7, 7, 1830. Joseph Painter died 8th mo. 12, 1855, and his wife, Lydia, 5th mo. 10, 1857. Joseph Painter was a man of strong character, and for many years wielded a controlling political influence in the county. Immediately succeeding the alleged abduction and murder of Morgan by the Freemasons, the feeling against the Masonic order was very high all over the land. In 1829, Mr. Painter published a few numbers of a paper at Yellow Springs, which was printed by Alexander Marshall, and devoted to the interests of the Anti-Masonic party. Later in the same year he established at West Chester the Anti-Masonic Register. (See page 331.) About six months after starting his paper at West Chester, he built a frame office at the east end of what is now the Mansion House. He began his paper at Yellow Springs with only one hundred and fifty subscribers, but in two or three years his list increased to over two thousand. His papers were delivered all over the county, at the stores and elsewhere, to subscribers by riders outside of the post facilities. For a decade of years the Anti-Masonic party, of which his paper was the organ, swept the county, and elected Governor Ritner to the gubernatorial chair. 672 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Mr. Painter was an able writer and first-class business man, and in the publication of his paper a power in the county and State. He amassed a snug competence. His paper took advanced ground in favor of the cause of temperance, and was strongly anti-slavery, opposing the holding of human beings in bondage, and attacking the slave dynasty and interests in every conceivable way. Mr. Painter was one of the agents of the " Underground Railroad," through whom many a slave found a channel for escape to Canada and the more Northern States. During the height of the Anti-Masonic furor the Masonic lodge at West Chester surrendered its charter. Mr. Painter was a humanitarian in its broadest sense, a friend of liberty and good society, and a foe to tyranny, whether in governmental, religious, or mental economies, and for a long period was the brilliant and trusted leader of a party whose most able exponent he was with his trenchant pen and iron will. James Painter, son of Samuel (3), was married, 5, 9, 1771, to Jane Carter, daughter of John and Hannah (Cope) Carter, of East Bradford (now Birmingham) township, and settled close by her father's late residence. Their children were Elizabeth, Enos, John, Hannah, and Phebe. Enos, the only one that married, was born 12, 1, 1773, died 5, 30, 1857 ; married Hannah, only daughter of Jacob and Ann Minshall, of Middletown, Delaware Co., and settled on her father's farm. At this homestead Minshall and Jacob Painter, his two unmarried sons, spent their lives, which were largely devoted to the acquisition of knowledge, the care of a botanical garden, and collection of family and local history. The former was one of the founders of the Delaware County Institute of Science. Their brother James, born 12, 17, 1802, married, 5, 6, 1835, Betsy G., daughter of William and Betsy Thatcher, of Thornbury, and settled on the ancestral farm on the Brandywine. He died 3, 25, 1867, after which his widow removed to West Chester. Their children were William T., Hannah, Minshall, Mary, and Annie. Of these, the eldest, William T., was born 4th mo. 23, 1836, and married, 10th mo. 13, 1864, Hannah Mary, daughter of Job and Sarah S. Hayes, of Newlin township. He settled at the homestead of his father, formerly of East Bradford, but now of Birmingham. His children are George, born 12th mo. 8, 1866, and Mary B., born 9th mo. 12, 1870. His wife, Hannah Mary (Hayes), died 5th mo. 26, 1880. His dwelling-house was erected in 1773, and its immediate locality was the scene of Revolutionary conflicts, the Brandywine battle being fought only two miles from it. The American army passed by the Painter house, and his grandmother, a stanch patriot, making bread, the soldiers, hungry and tired, ate all the dough and drank the well dry. PALMER, R. and E.-John Palmer emigrated from England to this State shortly after the organization of Chester County, and 7th month 26, 1688, purchased by patent a hundred acres in Concord township (now Delaware County). About this time he married Mary Suddery (Southery), daughter of Robert Southery, a fuller by trade, and late of Westbury, county of Wilts, in Great Britain. They were originally Friends, but left the society through the defection of George Keith. Their only son, John, married Martha Yearsley, 4th month 9, 1714. The fifth child of this couple was Moses, born 5th month 26, 1721, and who married, 2d month 17, 1745, Abigail Newlin, and for his second wife Abigail Sharpless, 11th month 22, 1752. Joseph, the third child of Moses' second marriage, was born 4th month 21, 1759. He married, 5th month 18, 1785, Hannah Peters, and of their nine children Wilson, the sixth, was born 2d month 4, 1798, and married, in 1825, Ann J. Jaquette. Of their seven children, Rees, the fifth, was born March 5, 1834, and Eli, the sixth, Sept. 10, 1835. Rees Palmer, married, Feb. 14, 1861, Mary S. Nields, daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Smedley) Nields, and to them have been born George Jaquette, June 25, 1862 ; Anna Maria, Dec. 16, 1864, d. July 31, 1866 ; Mary Nina, Dec. 12, 1867 ; Charles, July 12, 1870 ; Eliza D., March 18, 1872 ; and H. Ralph, April 28, 1876. Eli, brother of Rees Palmer, was married Nov. 30, 1865, to Marianna, daughter of R. Baker and Susan (Woodward) Smedley. Their children have been Linda B., born Nov. 30, 1866 ; Alice S., May, 1870 ; Louis M., and Florence E. R. and E. Palmer opened a large stove, tinware, and furnishing store in 1857 on Church Street, and moved to their present location on Market Street in 1861, where they have been in active and successful business ever since. PARISH, DR. CHARLES W., son of Charles and Ann Parish, was born in London, England, on Feb. 5, 1793. He was educated at home. He had a capacity for the rapid acquisition of knowledge, and mastered with great facility every branch of study he undertook, and hence at an early age his mind was well stored with useful information. Aug. 12, 1815, he married Ann Aldred, daughter of Richard Aldred, of London, and soon thereafter came to Philadelphia, where he found himself surrounded by strangers, and in possession of very limited means of support. He engaged in teaching, and also turned his attention to the study of medicine, for which he had always had a strong partiality, and after attending three courses of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania he commenced practice in 1821, in connection with his medical preceptor, Dr. Thomas Dunn. He soon concluded to change his field of labor, and with that view visited West Chester, but finding the field there occupied, he continued his journey to Marshallton, where he located in 1822, and spent the remainder of his life in the faithful and diligent pursuit of his professional duties. For many years he was the principal physician of the neighborhood in which he lived, and he enjoyed in an eminent degree the confidence of the people. On June 4, 1848, he met with an accident, by the running away of his horse, which occasioned the loss of a leg by amputation and the use of an artificial limb thereafter, which greatly interfered with the proper performance of his professional duties. He died Dec. 17, 1856, from an attack of pneumonia. Dr. Parish was endowed by nature with more than ordinary intellect. He possessed a discerning and comprehensive mind, capable of penetrating the mysteries of science, as well as enjoying the beauties of poetry and pleasures of literature, all of which received a portion of his attention. He had a retentive memory, and was possessed of considerable conversational powers, which made him an agreeable companion. JOSEPH PYLE. Robert Pyle came from England and settled in Chester County. Joseph, the son of Robert, had a son of the same name who settled in Marlborough, between Londongrove meeting-house and the State road. His son James married Mary, daughter of Robert Bunnell, and to them were born the following children : Joseph ; James B., married to Susan, daughter of Levi Hayes, near Unionville; Alice, married to Isaiah Faddis; Mary, married to James Burdsal; Elizabeth, married first to a Mr. McLaughlin, and second to Aaron Pierce ; Sarah, married to Christopher H. Webb ; Ann ; and Philena, married to Eli Hutton. Joseph, the subject of this sketch, was born in 1794, in Marlborough township, near Londongrove. He was raised on the farm, and educated in the early subscription schools. He began farming in the State of Delaware, where for seventeen years he was thus engaged on rented land, in which time he saved some fourteen thousand dollars. In 1840 ho removed to Laurel, purchasing the " Laurel Iron-Works" and farm of three hundred and sixty acres. The farm he leased for three years. lie afterwards sold the works, with one hundred acres, retaining the remaining part of his purchase, which, before his death, he had increased to some five hundred acres. He was married April 15, 1824, to Mary A., daughter of James and Margery (Mason) Cloud, by whom he had ten children, of whom the following eight are living : Sarah, married to Daniel Ramsey; Cloud; Mary, married to Ebenezer Worth ; Elizabeth Ann, married to Levis Passmore, and afterwards to Charles H. Pennypacker ; Philena, married to William P. Phipps ; Anna M., married to J. Bernard Walton ; Joseph, married first to Emma Harlan, and subsequently to Maggie J. McFarland; and Emma L., married to Jonathan K. Taylor. Joseph Pyle died Nov. 27, 1854, and his wife, Mary A. (Cloud), Nov. 1,1880. He served in the school board, and often in other township positions. Was a member of the Society of Friends, and a Republican in politics, and always a zealous antislavery man. He was a systematic farmer, and universally esteemed as an upright man in his dealings and deportment. In 1844 he built a stone residence on the homestead farm now owned by his son, Cloud Pyle, while the latter erected the brick building (see engraving) on the lower place in 1860, where he now resides. Cloud, the eldest son, was born Oct. 27, 1826, and was married June 1, 1856, to Mary L., daughter of James and Hannah K. (Betts) McFadden, of Kennet township. They have one living child, a son, Carleton J. Mr. Pyle is an excellent farmer, largely engaged in dairying, and has one of the best farms in the township, on which are fine improvements. His residence is near Laurel Station, and post-office at Mortonville. RESIDENCE OF CLOUD PYLE, EAST FALLOWFIELD ELISHA C. PINKERTON. Samuel Pinkerton, son of an Irish emigrant, was born in 1770, in this county, and married Sarah Chrisman, a descendant of Daniel Chrisman, who came from Germany in the ship "Alexander and Ann," Sept. 5, 1730. To them were born nine children, viz. : Robert; Elisha C.; David ; John ; Thomas ; Mary, married to Robert Harris ; Jane, to William Baker ; Agnes, to Isaac Bice; and Elizabeth, to John Brown. Of these, Elisha Chrisman Pinkerton was born Aug. 4, 1803, in East Brandywine township. He early learned the trade of a weaver, and carried on that business until 1853 in Upper Uwchlan township. In 1840 he purchased a farm, and from that time united farming with weaving. He was married Dec. 4, 1834, to Rebecca, daughter of George and Anna (Ramstin) Stiteler, from which union were born the following children : George Stiteler Pinkerton ; Elizabeth, married to Edwin M. Philips, now deceased; Morgan Hoffman Pinkerton, deceased; Anna Mary, married to George L. Maris ; and Vernon Pinkerton, deceased. Elisha C. Pinkerton died April 3, 1877, and his widow resides with her son George S. He served frequently in his township as supervisor and inspector, and was a liberal contributor to the churches, especially the Baptist and Methodist. Was a Democrat in his politics, but never sought office. After 1853 he retired from weaving and attended to his farm, which at his decease consisted of one hundred and eleven acres, now owned by his son George S. His son Morgan H. was in the nine months' Pennsylvania volunteers in the Rebellion, and died in the service of the United States. His son George S. was born Nov. 5, 1835, and attended the boarding-school of Jesse E. Philips, in East Nantmeal township. lie married, March 8, 1865, Elmina McCachran, of Lancaster County, by whom he had two children, Eudora and Clara May. Feb. 26, 1877, his wife died, and March 6, 1879, he married Sally A. Dowlin, of East Brandywine township, the fruits of which union are one girl, Lizzie. He is a farmer and grazier, a Democrat in politics, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to Patrons of Husbandry, Grange Lodge, No. 58, and like his father, Elisha C., is a man universally respected in the community for his probity of character and habits of industry. RESIDENCE AND FARM OF GEORGE S. PINKERTON, UPPER UWCHLAN BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL - 673 PARKE, THOMAS, born about 1660, married Rebecca Hooper (?), who was born about 1672. They had the following children, all born in Ireland : Mary, b. Sept. 18, 1693, m. Thomas Valentine ; Robert, b. March 23, 1694-5, d. Feb. 9, 1736-7 ; Susanna, b. Dec. 22, 1696 ; Rebecca, b. Jan. 22, 1698-9, m. Hugh Stalker ; Rachel, b. Dec. 26, 1700, m. William Robinson ; Jean, b. April 6, 1703, d. April 12, 1705 ; Thomas, b. March 13, 1704-5, d. Oct. 17, 1758 ; Abel, b. Feb. 22, 1706-7, d. July 21, 1757 ; Jonathan, b. April 18, 1709, d. April 5, 1767 ; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 5, 1711, d. April 16, 1746, m. John Jackson. Thomas Parke appears to have been a farmer in Ireland, and in the year 1720 owned some land in Ballileau, Ballaghmore, and Coolisnactah. On May 21, 1724, with all of his family except Mary and Susanna, he went on board, at Dublin, the ship " Sizarghs," of Whitehaven, Jeremiah Cowman commander, and on August 21st they arrived in Delaware Bay. Thomas Parke leased a property from Mary Head, near Chester, as a temporary home, but on December 2d purchased 500 acres from Thomas Lindley in the Great Valley, on the west side of what is now Downingtown. Of this land he gave to his son Abel 100 acres, to Robert 124, on which was a very large spring, and to Thomas, Jr., 276 acres, retaining a life-estate therein. He died 1, 31, 1738, and his widow 6, 21, 1749. He was an elder of Caln Meeting, and well esteemed by Friends. Of his children, Robert followed conveyancing and clerking at Chester, and acted as recorder of deeds under Joseph Parker for some years. He died unmarried. Thomas, Jr., married Jane Edge, 2, 26, 1739, and became the owner of all the original tract, including the " Ship" tavern, which was first opened by his brother Abel. His children were Robert, m. to Ann Edge ; Sarah, m. to Owen Biddle ; Rebecca, m. to William Webb ; Hannah, m. to Benjamin Poultney ; Thomas, m. to Rachel Pemberton ; Jane, and Jacob. Jane Parke continued to keep the Ship tavern after her husband's death until her marriage, 8, 10, 1763, to James Webb, of Lancaster County. Jonathan Parke married, 2, 29, 1731, Deborah, daughter of Abiah and Deborah Taylor, of East Bradford, and settled on 200 acres of land which her father conveyed to them. He also owned land in the southeast part of the borough of Downingtown, and is said to have built a substantial stone house, now near the toll-gate. His son Abiah lived on this last property, and may have built the house. The children of Jonathan and Deborah were Joseph, Deborah, m. to Samuel Cope ; Abiah, m. to Ruth Jones ; Rebecca, m. to James Webb, Jr. ; Alice, m. to Col. John Hannum ; Jonathan, m. to Jane Buchanan ; and Mary. Joseph Parke remained at the homestead, and lived almost a century. He was twice married, and by his first wife had one son, Abiah, who took sides with the British during the Revolutionary war, and for one of his exploits piloted a party of the enemy by night to capture his uncle, Col. Hannum, then keeping the " Centre House," in Marshallton. The final turn of events making it unsafe for him to remain in the neighborhood, he " left the parts" and went to Canada, but was never heard of after alive. Several years ago Edward Townsend, son of John Town- - 85 - send, of West Chester, being in the West, fell in company with a half-breed Indian named Joseph Parke, as he was descending the Missouri in a steamboat. From their mutual inquiries, with subsequent developments, it appeared that Abiah Parke had married a woman of the Shawnee tribe of Indians, then near Malden, in Canada, and had left two sons, Joseph and William. The tribe had removed to the waters of the Maumee, in Ohio, and from thence to Kansas. Joseph Parke, being a person of energy and ability, became the chief of the tribe, but lived in a style of civilization. In 1852 he visited Chester County and made some effort to obtain a share of his grandfather's estate, but did not succeed. His death occurred about 1857, and that of his brother William three years previously. THOMAS PARKE, son of Thomas and Jane, was born in the township of East Cain, Chester Co., Aug. 6, 1749. Having a desire to engage in the study of medicine, he went to Philadelphia at the age of sixteen years, to acquire a preliminary education, and there became a pupil of Robert Proud, the Quaker historian. In 1767 he began his medical studies under Dr. Cadwalader Evans, of Philadelphia, and took the degree of Bachelor of Medicine at the college and academy in the same city on June 5, 1770. In the year 1771 he crossed the Atlantic to avail himself of the advantages of medical instruction in Great Britain. He first visited London, where he enjoyed the friendship and kind offices of the justly distinguished Dr. John Fothergill. He next proceeded to the school at Edinburgh, then in the zenith of its strength, where lie attended the lectures of Cullen, Black, and Monro. Returning to London, he attended the clinical practice of Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals, and finally set his foot on his native shore in the year 1773. In 1775 he was married to Rachel, eldest daughter of James Pemberton, and immediately established himself in the practice of physic at No. 20 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, where he remained upwards of forty years, well known as a skillful, kind, and attentive physician. In 1816 he removed to Locust Street, where he resided during the remainder of his life. He lost his wife, to whom he was most affectionately devoted, in the year 1786, and never again married. He was a member of the principal scientific, literary, and benevolent institutions of the city. In 1774 he was chosen a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1776 he became a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and in May, 1777, was unanimously appointed. one of the physicians of that institution,-a station which he held uninterruptedly for more than forty-five years. In 1778 he was elected a director of the Philadelphia Library Company; in which situation he was continued until his death, -a period of nearly fifty-seven years. In 1787 the College of Physicians was established, of which he was one, and continued a member until his death. At the decease of Dr. Adam Kuhn he succeeded that gentleman as president of the college, in July, 1818. Dr. Parke died on Jan. 9, 1835, in the eighty-sixth year of his age, being at that time the oldest physician in Philadelphia. He was not only an excellent physician, but also 674 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. a public-spirited citizen and an excellent man,-at all times the intimate, the constant, and highly-valued friend of Humphry Marshall. ARTHUR PARKE was a native of Ballylagby, in county Donegal, Ireland. He, with his wife, Mary, and four children,-Joseph, John, and Samuel Parke, and a daughter, the wife of William Noblett,-came to this country prior to 1724. He took up a large tract of land lying along the Limestone road, in West Fallowfield township, embracing what is now divided into seven farms. He died in February, 1740, and his real estate came by devise to his sons, Joseph and John. They divided it between them, Joseph taking the southern and John the northern portion. Joseph resided for some years on his tract, which included the homestead, and then sold it and removed to Georgia. John erected buildings on the part taken by him, where the present John A. Parke resides. He died July 28, 1787, at the age of eighty-one years. His wife, Elizabeth, died May 21, 1794, at the age of eighty-two years. Their children were Arthur, Joseph, John, William, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane, David, and Samuel. The entire Parke family in the western part of the county, together with many families bearing other honored surnames, are their descendants. Arthur Parke (son of John) was born Sept. 12, 1736, and died July 11, 1822. He left eight children, the descendants of whom are numerous, among them Rev. John L. Withrow, now pastor of the Park Congregational Church, Boston, and Alfred P. Reid, Esq., now a member of the bar of Chester County. Joseph Parke (son of John) was born Dec. 21, 1737, and died July 2, 1823. He was twice married. His children by his first wife were John Gardner, Joseph, and Keziah, and by his second wife, George W., James, Letitia, David, Samuel, William, Agnes, and Harriet. John G. Parke (born Nov. 21, 1761, died Oct. 25, 1837) was a member of Assemby in 1818, and was the founder of Parkesburg. His children were Joseph, Samuel, Robert, John, Francis, and David. Of these, Samuel was a member of the bar of Lancaster County, and Robert was a member of Assembly in 1843-45, and for six years associate judge. Keziah Parke was the wife of Col. Joseph McClellan, a noted patriot of the Revolution, a sketch of whom is given in this volume ; George W. (born Oct. 18, 1780, died Feb. 25, 1860) was at one time register of wills ; Letitia was the wife of the late Henry Fleming, of West Chester ; and Samuel (born Nov. 25, 1788) graduated at Dickinson College in 1809, studied divinity with Rev. Nathan Grier, at Bandywine Manor, and was pastor of Presbyterian Churches in York County for forty-three years. He died Dec. 20, 1869. His wife was a daughter of his preceptor, Rev. Nathan Grier. His son, Rev. Nathan Grier Parke, graduated at Jefferson College in 1840, and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1844, and is now pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Pittston, Pa. John Parke (son of John) was born in 1739, and died Nov. 15, 1823. His children were Elizabeth, Mary, Arthur, Jane, and John. Elizabeth married Thomas McClellan ; Mary married Samuel Thompson, and was the mother of the wife of Hon. Walter H. Lowrie, late chief justice. of Pennsylvania, whose son, Rev. Samuel Thompson Lowrie, was a professor in the Western, Theological Seminary, at Alleghany, and is now pastor of a church in New Jersey ; Arthur was the father of Samuel R. Parke, now president of the Parkesburg National Bank ; and John was the father of John Andrew Parke, who now owns and resides at the old homestead in Highland township. PARKER, ABRAHAM, of Ravenroyd, near Binglay, in Yorkshire, was buried at Binglay March 5, 1670. Isabell Parker was buried at Binglay July 20, 1667. Their children were Sarah, b. May 29, 1656; Jonas, b. Sept. 9, 1660; John, b. May 26, 1664. It appears that John Parker came to Chester County prior to 1688, and in 1695 returned to England. In 1700 he had come back, but was now removed to Philadelphia, to which place he received a certificate from Chester Monthly Meeting, and in the same year married Mary Doe. Their children were Jane, b. 1, 24, 1701-2, m. Samuel Gilpin in 1722 ; Abraham, b. 10, 9, 1705 ; John, b. 12, 28, 170910, d. 6, 9, 1719. The father, who was styled a " skinner," probably a leather-dresser, died 3, 7, 1717. He owned near 500 acres of land in East Caln township, which was sold after his death. Abraham Parker came to Chester County and married, 9, 19, 1735, Eleanor, daughter of Isaac and Catharine Richardson, of Whiteland. He was a carpenter by trade, but appears to have engaged in tavern-keeping. He was at the " Anvil" tavern in 1750 and later, but is supposed to have been in Wilmington for some years prior to that time. He died about the close of 1752, and his widow married, 10, 4, 1764, William Wickersham. She was born 10, 28, 1714, and was buried 12, 17, 1791. The children of Abraham and Eleanor Parker were Mary, b. 9, 23, 1736, m. David Reynolds in 1756 ; Elizabeth, b. 4, 13, 1738, m. William Reynolds in 1761 ; Lydia, b. 1, 22, 1740 ; Hannah, b. 8, 7, 1742 ; Ruth, b. 11, 19, 1744 ; Sarah, b. 9, 4, 1746 ; John, b. 8, 22, 1748 ; Kezia, b. 8, 5, 1750, m. Peter Wickersham, 5, 19, 1773. John Parker, son of Abraham, was a noted minister of the Society of Friends. He settled at Parkerville, which was so named in honor of the family. He was married, 6, 2, 1774, at Kennet Meeting, to Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Milhous, by whom he had the following children : Abraham, Isaac, Elizabeth (married to Jacob Baily), Thomas, Joseph, Benjamin, Richardson, John, Hannah, Susanna, Wistar, Caleb, and Mary. The father died 7, 12, 1829. John Parker, Jr., married Rebecca, daughter of William and Jane Webb, and left one son, William W. Parker, who resides at Parkerville. Wistar Parker married Abigail N., daughter of John and Mary (Speakman) Jackson, born 9, 13, 1801, died 3, 3, 1874. They resided at Parkerville, where Wistar died 6, 18, 1847, leaving children,-John J., for several years a coal merchant, and now in the brick-making business at West Chester; Samuel J., a dry-goods merchant at the same place ; Mary S., wife of S. Townsend Brown, dentist, residing in Germany ; Henry, deceased ; Dilwyn, ex-recorder of deeds for this county ; and Ellen B., wife of Dallas Reeve, of Churchtown, Md. BENJAMIN PRIZER. The Prizer family is of German descent, and was found early in the settlement of Pennsylvania. John, son of Henry Prizer, married Margaret Place, to whom were born twelve children,—eight sons and four daughters,—of whom the third son and fourth child was Benjamin, born in Skippack township, Montgomery Co., Nov. 14, 1806. His brother Henry, the eldest of the family, established the first boarding-school in Montgomery County, and in his young days was a pupil of ex-Governor Francis It. Chunk and Joseph Royer, both noted pedagogues in their day. His father, John, was a stone-mason, and was born and died in Upper Providence township, Montgomery Co. Benjamin was raised on a farm, but early learned the milling business. In 1829 he started in East Coventry in a grist- and saw-mill, where be continued six years. He then came to Kimberton, in East Pike-land, and began milling in an old mill which he bought and repaired. Here he continued until 1867, when he erected his present substantial mill, now in successful operation. He was married Dec. 8, 1835, to Catharine, daughter of Jacob Chance, of Lawrenceville. They have had five children, of whom Benjamin F., Catharine, Emeline, and Elizabeth are deceased. John is the only one living. The latter operates the mill, and, with his family, resides with his parents. Mr. Prizer began life with a combined capital of good character, energy, and industry, and has acquired a competence of this world's goods and a respected name. He served as a director in the Phoenixville National Bank two and a half years, being elected in its first board, and is now a director in the Spring City National Bank, having been elected at its first organization. Originally a Whig, then a Republican, he is now most actively identified with the Temperance Prohibition party. Attends the Lutheran Church, but is a member of no denomination. He has by his example and influence ever greatly aided the temperance cause. He has ninety acres of land, on which, in 1878, his residence, one of the finest in the township, was erected. He is now erecting another substantial building of stone adjoining the mill. He has been repeatedly called upon to view and lay out roads, assess lands, and often appointed as an administrator, committee on insane, and guardian of children. His real estate is a part of the original Penn purchase, and is most pleasantly located. Mr. Prizer designed the plans for the erection of his mill and handsome residence, the latter one of the best laid out dwellings in this part of the county. RESIDENCE AND MILLS OF BENJAMIN PRIZER, EAST PIKELAND.