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A FAMILY HISTORY.

Oil A ITER I.

ItKAMllAM AMI 1:LFuKD.

IHAA'^E hei'ii rtMjucstnl liy miiiierous ' iiij; nt' tliu.'^t.' people in Yorksliiro who, :i> i

descendam-i ct' the hmthers Smith, Sewel tells u.'?, emhniced the doetriiies of I

who settled at lUuiiii^tcin, Xew Jersey, that soi-iety, iudepemle'illv (if and pie- ;

ubout the end lit' the sfVeiiiei'iith eciitury, vious to the lahm-s of that 1'2\ anm li-l. 1

to imt into i"Mik t'uvin the inl'or-inatiun 1 'Jdiis Jtiehanl Snivth, wh.i was i,ij-,n a^ I

j>0S.ses.-> relativ(. to tlieir aie-r-ny. While earlv a- A. 1). lO'-'li. lia~ Ifi! a mr.sidii-- j

I could heartily wish tli'; task had de- ahle amount of .MS^;., whieh will he j

volvcd upon tlie ahler and mure jiraetisi.'d hereafter (pioted ; and from whieh ami ' [jen, and the lari^rr knnwlc(l:jo of the i the testimony of Samuel IJupv.oud. {>,[■ \ '

suhjeel, j,os-ev-ed hy the autle.r <jf the llope>v..od),(pre-erVrd hv J..~eph ^-an- .m \

elefrant '.'^lemoirs of tie' Ilili h^amily,"' in his AIS. aceouni of \hv Smith tlimiiv.

I .shall endeavi.ir, with my inferidr re- A. I). 178^,) we (-.in uather a ^i"'d u'li-

sourecs, to sati-^fy the euriosiiy of the eral idi'a of his eharari.i' and pii-iti^Mi.

large elan oi' the deseiaidanis ot' the-e lie w;i- a yeoman, priii.a.M v a " veum.in

brothers, ai\d lay !)efofe them ^ome mat- frceiiolder," in the parish of Jh'.amham,

ters of interest to " the f imily " at least. West Ixiding of Yorkshire, I'^ngl.md.

if not to the geo'-ral puhlie. His i'ather, " Ilieluirthw Sieeth," ami hi-

These hrethren were, it need seareely graiidfithfr, " A\'illelmir- Suivtli,"' (:'-

be premised, '■ Frit.aids " or " (^Juaker-." their names are spelt in the l.,aiir. pari-ii

They were sons of a Riehard Smyth or re^i-ter of r.ramli.am.) held land- din ( ;ly Smithe, wdio heeame a (,>uaker very early ; from the CViiwn, which did nut alienate

ill the history of that scet, helwre the rise its Manor of llr.imhan; in, til afti r tie'

and preaehii;,:;' nf ( J.r.ige I'ox cvi'n, !»'- departure of ih<' la-t memlMi <ii' ii;i-

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family to America. Tiuit tliesf Smitlis wevefire/to/xUni/ teimnt.s ot'tliL' Crown is shown Ity the evidenee of S. Hoinvood, (above mentioned), who visited Rieliard Smitli, the second, in liis own house, which he permitted to be used for the meetings of the Quakers — by that (sec- ondly) of AViniain Dillwyn, who, long afterwards, visited a collateral branch of the family which lemained in Lrandiam — which branch, at the pei-iod of his visit (A. I). 1774), owned the old man- sion built by Richard Suiyth, the lin-t; and (lastly) by the fact that ilie family, for over a century, continued to reside there and paj' taxes in farm jiroduce. The coat of arms which has come down to us is, also, a reliable brunch of evi- dence, as only freeholdei-s were jiermitted to use coats of arms. I rt'grct that to the.se evidences 1 am not, at picscnt, ulile to add that of deeds or wills, as in two visits in Bramhain 1 was unahle to sec the custodian of the records of such documents. I. duuht, indcrd, wh.jtii<T siu'h records were formerly as rcgularlv kcjit there ;ls they are now in some j'arts of Engiand.

Kichaniu- Smylli .>r Richard ^nutli. the second, havii,g eudiraccil religious priuci[)les differing from lliose of the established church, and refusing, witii the well-known pi-ai'lical proiot of the Quakers against State nligions, to )i:>v ecclesiastical Ia\cs, su'.i^rcd lar^e 1.j,-s.-s by the levii's winch were, in conscijucn<'e, made uj'on his proj.crfy. 'J"!ii^ was, no d.iubf. ;• principal ivas^ui f,,r hi.s join-

ing with A\'illiani Penn and others in forming the colony of New Jersey. He invested over a thou.sand jiounds sterling in the purchase of thice projirietary shares in that colony (at the rate of three hundred and tifty]joini(ls]ier share), for himself and his two eldest sons, John and Daniel, all whose names appear as proj)rietaries in the Constitution of that Rrovince. He did not, however, himself remove to America, but continued to live at Rramham until his death, though these two sons with their brothers, Joseph, iimaimel, kSaiiniel and Richard, and one sister, had gone over in llicir father's lifetime.

No imprisonment for dcl.)ts to the est;dilished church ajijiears to have been inllicted ujion Richard iSmith, the second. though his widow, Anne Yates .Smith. w,HS so imprisoned af'icr hi,- drath. A\'ith the Priest of his Parisli, he apjiears to have lived on fricndlv terms, judging by the kindly t'jne <if id.-, Ictlcr tn l'rii>t •lames, still jircservcd. He mcnlinns in line of his MS. that lie had lieen oriiri- nally educated for " the Gnwne," that is, either for the lav, or the chmch, hut that the outbreak of tiie civil war jireventcd his " proceeding."'^' The pictiue we gather from all our scanty infoiinaiion resjiect-

* I iim inl'irni'il hv a li anii^il fiicnil i-f Iho lo!.'iil lir.)rL'«^.^i..ii. liiu!. «hili-" tli,> jihriiJc ■ tiliicalfd for Ilic (;r,wne" iniplii-- .■iilj.r thi- l:i\v iir thi' church, as Ihe thi'-i'n vi.rutinn. till- ('\]iri-.';»i,.n ■■ [TMii-i-iiin;;." is fnc Icchni.-allv :iji|,rM]irii;li-.! lu liir ciiii.iiil.ilp lur llio liar, ■the (i,:-,vn i,< ni.iin.Tii liv liic.sr wh.i hue- rr.civc.l Ihc acailiMllical ih'LTcc .>r iloclnrili l.iiw. i^i Kivinilv vT :q l'h\..ic, fr..ni ihi- iiuiv haic ^rl-rn Ih.- .Tn.i.i'- nn.- irt,-^ that Ki h;.r.i Sti„;h'il,r ,icc.,rpl was a • I'hv-

A FAMILY HISTOKY.

iiii^ liiiii, is that of a well-to-do yeoman iVceliiiUler, descended from old Saxon tVanklin;^, of mild and gentle disjiosi- tion, an enthusiast in religion, and of a certain sturdy, though quiet resolution and independence of act and thought. Of a superior education for the period, and some originality of mind, his native independence of character would be strengthened by the indeiiendence of his jiosiiidii as owner, subject only to a fjuit-rent to the Crown, of the acres on which he daily wrought, and dreamed liis dreams of a holier and hapjaer future for the English race and for the world.

Tiic name Smith is prcijterly spelt (as in tlie old records,) Smyth, Sniithe or Smeith, and tiie quantity of its vowel sliould be long. It is (krivt-d from the verb "to smite,'-' atid aiguilles " he that .«initcs or strikes." It is the oldest name in the Teutonic races derived from func- tion or oliice. save only that of Ko'iiig or King, (Canning,) and hcnre the most numerously rej.ircsented. The arnuirers or Smiths of the early Teutonic clans milked .'^econd to their kings or chiefs, tlieir " mystery " of shaping arms and tools being accounted something semi- divine, and they were said to lie descended from a god. Tlieir '" mystery " was haudetl dinvn froui t'ather to son in fami- he<. Among many evidences of the veneration with whicli they were re- garded, we may take that of the hero Siegfried in the " Niebeluiigen Lied," whnapprenticed himself to a smith as the

first step to a thorough knowledge of arms.

The Saxon franklins were a remnant of the old Saxon nobility who were suffered, by their Xorman conquerors, to retain their lands, subject to quit-rents either to the Crown or to .some of the higher Norman nobles. They were al- lowed to wear a certain amount of defen- sive armor, and to use devices or coats of arms, the principal object of which was to enable heralds or marshals to know, by a glance, whether those owing mili- tary service to the king were duly uj)oii the field when the array of the kingdom was marshaleil. The quit-rents were in lieu of this military service, whicli origi- nally obliged every owner of a "fee," '•feoff" or "fief," from jviug or IJaron, to furni.-h to that king or lord a certain number of men, duly armed and r.iider his own projicr banner, in time of war. Sir A\ 'alter Scott's " Cedric the Saxon," gives us ai\ interesting jiieture oi the sturdy Saxon thane .-oon after the con- quest, repelling the Norman liisckiin w ith ecjual Scorn, and maintaining his iiide- }><'ndence of their liarons by tlie aid of the Crown. In time, the two race- fu-ed together, and even quite early we have instances of such intermarriages, as in the founder of the great Stanley family, a Norman knight known as Sir Adam, who married Aldith, heire-^- of the Saxon family of Stone Leigh, <:ir "the lields of the .stones," (qu. Druid stones?), ami first took the name of " de Aldithhy." from ".\lduh's tiehfs," and when tlie d.-

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scendants of Alditli lifitl finally iulicr- proiier, irith the aii-niciitatiou of the

ited Stone Leigh/-' they took the hi.-tdiae Crown, was hdine on a field alternately

name of "Stanley." AVhat the"nonicn" "argent "and " gule#," by John Smith,

or family name of this Saxon family of Esqnire, of Newcastle, in 15G1. William

Stone Leigh may have been (as distinct ' Smith, of llwssdale Abbey, Yorkshire,

from their territorial apjiellation of Stan- \ temp. Jae. I., aiu-estor of .Tcihii Smitli,

lev), is uncertain. Visconnt Gort, bore a lion rampant "ar-

The Smith coat o^ arms is a lion ram- gent," on a field ".gules,'' (with " a mullet pant, "gules," on a field "argent," be;',!- between two torteaux," on a "chief"), ing the insignia of royalty, cniwn, seep- The.-^e coats will readily Ije recognized by treandorb. These insignia are evidently heralds as allied, and "variations" of an "augmentation," and were jirobably eavli oilier. The additions mi the -'rhicf," granted to the I>ra,mliam Smiths, as in the last, are similar to tlic-e of Tar- holders of land dincily iVom the ('lown. boek. alias Smith, a family fnnii who.-e to distinguish tliem as its immediate vas- ancestors the Derliy-Staiileys derive sals. It is found on documents of Samuel their cre-t of the eagle and child. 'J'his Smith, Treasurer and Secretary of Colin- crest, and tlie Derby " supporter " of a oil of New Jersey under the Ihiti-h gritlin, as well as the arms of an eagle's Crown, in the pcrind immedi.itely pre- leg, used, with the .abdve - chief," by the ceding the levnhition— the aiilli.ir iif a Smiths, formerly of Tarb(,ck aii<l Latham, valuable history of the Province— which commemorate the sri/ure i..f the iniaiit Samuel was eldest son of Richard, (f airth heir of tlio~e estates by an eagle, of the name) eld. '^t .^on of Samuel .■^rnith. There appears to h;ive been ii. .thing to the tir<t, (.f J'.ramhnm. Tin' ]iapi'r- are luvvent a very wealthy man, among the now in pM-,-^^i,,ii (,f \tU de-.-iielant, Saxons, tVoui as<iiiiiiug the title of Thane. Ch.arles ^[,„,le :Morris i.f Thiladeli.hia. Tim- WuliVie Spot, a rich Sax.m or \n-

A similar coat, and with the same glo-Dane, i-^ the tirst rec..rded owner of

colors (ir " tiiictiiits," but with.-ut the' the manor of Jiramliam, au<l al.-o of that

"augmi-ntation," is f luitd ..11 the tomb of i"if Elford, wliich Sir "William Smith

Sir AVilliam Smith, of Elf .rd, Stafford- afterward held from the Crown. AVulfric

shire, (whi-i died in l.-ilT.). associated or Spot is calleii a " thane," yet appears to

"quartere.r' with the b./arin-s ,,f his have been little m..iv than a rich gi'iitle-

maternal ancestors, who would seem to '"an. He is never called a noble (Karl

have l)ccn of another family of Smiths, or Jarl).

The same device of a lion rampant Tlie next rank below thanes, (ancii-nt- '. ly called " Sitlicun.lmen,") embiaee.j tlie

,„ , , arms-b.^aring class ot' franklins, to whi.-h

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Iti'lini.. jIh.uM. 11 Pill, s from r.un-liiiTii. the Smiths mn~t have iielonui'd. J lie

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ycompii (somutiincs owning liiii(l) Reeiii t(. j nies to Amcricu. Tliis old Lane-Fox iK'tl.o^c more^anciently called "ccorls" j Arms w:i.s, as I nnderstood when tliure, or "carles." These three classes, with ! torn down early in tlii.-^ ceutury, and the the jarls and tlic thralls or sert>, com- present one built, preserving,' liowever, prised the whole scale of Anglo-SaxQn I the old style. The front and" hack hall- sciriety. In that society, ranks were less j doors of the present house seem to be iiicelydelinedthanin the Xorman feudal i genuine ancient doors, and if so, were .system, in which system the order of I probably taken from the ol.l .-tiuetme. Knights ("milites") interposed between ' The "earliest register of Kramham the gentlemen ("armigeri" answering to ' church begins A. D. 1.5Ul\ and in the the Saxon thanes and franklins), and the I next year, A. D. loDS, is recorded the r.arons(correspondingtotheSaxoneai-ls"), birth "of IMchardus Smvtli, (the ilrst.) and a lower order of nobles was. in temp, son of Willelmus Smvt!,. ' AVillflnius, Jac. I., created, taking rank betw.rn tlu; (William) whose birth 'is n.-t on record,' knights and ijarons. and call-d /;,//•»„,/.., must have been, however, bnrn in the t-Jie first created being the eminent Sir earlier years of Queen Elizabeth, say Nicholas r.acon. Above the baruns ' about A. D. 15G0 to l.";70 at latent. were dukes, (duces,) wirls, (comites,) ; The architecture (,f tlu' old house, if marquises, (marehiones.) etc. | correctly cijiied in tl,c present one, was

The family, whose hisu.ry T am to ' strikingly >iinilar lu that (.f the more give, owned <i sul)stantial mansion near i modern hramham Hall or Smith Hall Brandiam, which was found, by William ^ built by llichard Smith, the liftli of that J>dlwyn, still in possession of a branch ' name, at Otsego. New York, and which of their des.-endants. The then owners '[ may, thereforejiave Ix^en coi-icl from it. told W. 1). that it wa. built bv Kirhiird iWli cdili.vs r,re in the lat^-r Tudor s:\ le. Smith, the-lirst. in tbr ,lays ,,f Elizabeth The three proprietary, tract, i^urcha-e,!

—the Elizal>elhan or Jacobean period in in New Jersev bv lli",-liard Smith, liie architecture. second, were o"f ih'e extent of thirtv-live

'i he architecture of that prriod would, thousand acres each, (at the jaice of one of course, cliaracterize it. From the sitiia- j.ound sterling per the hundred acres,) tion, as described by W. Dilhvyn. I im- or one luindrM and five thousand aeros iigineit to have been the house afterwards in all— qm'te a barony rather than an

iised as an inn under the name of tho estate— and covere<l much of the ia-t

i^me-FoxAnns.andstandingontiiee.lgo - parts of Uurlington Couniv frmi the

"t the broad domain of Lane-Fox, Lor<l Kancoeas to thcMw.. Eg- IlarlM.rs. It

|hngley,to whose ance.tors tiie manor of ■ was wild land then, but thre( generations

iJnnnham was granted by the Crown afterwards was worth sixty poun.b p, r

"Iter the dej.iuture of the (,iuaker eolo- the humlr.-d acres. The" sum iA' one

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tlioiisaiul and lifty ])ouiu].-;, fur which it ■vvas bouglit, was equivalent, at tliat time, (by the deciear^e of the vahie of money in two centuries,) to from eiglit to ten thousand pounds now.''' Tlie English landed estates of the family were proba- bly of quite moderate extent.

I have thought it jirojier to introduce here a short sketch of the early history of the region around Bj'amham, the ma- terials for which were furnished me chieiiv by a friend, (T. S). The authorities for it are early ."^axon authors, such as Beowulf, Liede, ^\'illiam of AVorcester, etc.

The West Hiding of Yorkshire was tlie original seat of the great Anglo- Saxon conqueror, Hengist. He tixed his court at l)oncaster, (" Tliongca.~rle," so- called from the thongs of ox-hide with which his domains were measured,) somo twenty miles south of Brajuliam, (llie name of " Bramham " signilies "high pastures,") and the ruins of his .-trong- hold of Coiiingsborough ("the Kinu's castle, burg or tower,'') are visible near Doiicaster to tliis day. (See fc^ir "Walter Scott's descri[iti<in of C'oning^boi'o' in "Ivanhoe.")

After llengist's time, the Saxons of this vicinity became riuistianized, and the Bi.-hi.ijiric of lyindesia or Donca.'^ter was formed, embracing Bramham in its wi<lc extent. Under the Anf;lo-l>aiii^h

* Hcfi.lo the oi-i:rin!il CKCxI. Hi, linrJ Smith had to ]n\. I" Iho In.li.iiH .11 Ihr.'o >lKir.'-. iho fiirthir ^alllc of'tJld in );,.i.u.-; ur, ali.'vTilirr, ifjio. oniui!, in rrlalivp valiir. to «i>3ie f ll.iiOO ar thp pre^i-nt tim?

Kings, many Danes settled here, and es- tablished a Danish colony, which lasted two hundred years, they becoming, in time, completely Anglicized. The inde- pendent spirit of these Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-]Janes, and their adhesion to the Danish Sovereigns, leading them to rebel against the Anglo-Saxon King Ethelred, he devastated the Xorth-IIumber king- dom (including Liiidesia) with great .-everity. Other agitations followed, until we hetir of AVulfric Spot, (a nephew of the celebrated Leofric and (iodiva, Earl and Countess of Cnvcuti'v,) who, taking advantage of the tlisturliances of the times, seized upon the church lands of Lindesia : and it ^vas, perhaps, from re- mor,se for this high-handed outrage u]ion "holy church," that we find him, on his death, in A. 1 ). iKOl. br,|ti.atliiiig his manor of lillfurd in Stalf ird.-hire, (after a life-estate therein to his daughter,) to endow the celebrated Abbey of Burton.

At the ]ieriod of the conquest, Lindesia was iiiuiul ill ]po>^es~i'.n (>i' the lirothcrs of the slain King Harold. Earl.- Sweyii and Tosli, wldle Elfonl was held by Earl Algar.

All these' lands licing forfeit to the Conqueror, he bestowed the Bishopric of Lindesia on hi.- fiiUower Bemy or Bemi- giiis, a miin't: ot' Fc-clianip in France. A Danish inva>iiiii in favor of Sv.'eyn and Tosti having be^n reeeivu! in the North-number regiwii "with open ai'ms," the Conqueror, in revenge, ravaged tluit eountrv terribly, and " fmni tlie Ilunilier to the Ttt's," (says Baine, in his Livf-s of

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tlio Arelibisliops of York,) "suffered searcelv a single homestead to remain." Finally, King William Kiifus annexed j this troublesome and indomitable Bish- o]iric to the Archbishopric of York; j from which time forward Bramham seems j to have lain out of the current of great events in English histofy, and to have i remained in ])eaceful oliscurity down to I and beyond tiie first date in our family Jiistory. |

Bramham continued to be a crown manor until after the Smiths It-it Eng- land, (in A. D. ir.7S to IGUU.) and tii.ir hinds Avere, of course, held i'roai the crown. They, doubtless, relinquished their fief on emigrating, and all the lands of the manor were granted by King William and Queen Mary to Ben- son, ]i!s([uire, (father of B(jljert Beiisijn, Lord JIayor of York,) in 1707. The eider Benson fenced in the grand Park, one of the largest in England, from the nuked and elevated ^loor on which it is situated," and the son, who became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and was cn-ated Baron Bingley in 1713, erecte^l, in the reign of Queen Anne, the imposing mansion of Bramham Park House. The , splendid property is now in possession of , tiic Lane-Fox family.'^' '

In the earliest volume of the t'hurcb lic'gister of Bramham, near the Ix'giu-

ning, I found the following record Gothic text, and in Latin :

1593. Bramham.

1G26.

* It is Korlli mciuioiiin;, lliat the rnmain'! ••! the flel)rutc(! Runinn niilitiiry roail, c;ilk'il '■ \V.itl]us ^;rri't " lire in the vii'initv. un.l ihit CiIivlt OotimiU ^:irihed witliin a few luik'S of lirumhiim iu his e.\pe(li- !i"n OL-amst .>5i;olluiid.

18° die Mali, Bichardus Smyth, filius Willll' Smyth, baptizatiis.

And, in its proper place, this second entry : Eichardtts Smithe, filius Bich- ardi Smithe de Bramham, bap- tizatiis fuit decimo quinto Oclo- bris, anno L)omini lit supra.

These entries were politely shown me by the incumbent of the ailjuiiiltig Parish, ^Ir. Gatesford, in charge of r.fainln.m during the absence of its rector. They show that the original sjielling of the name was Stuyth, and the quantity of the vowel long, as has been observed.

The country around Bramham ]m,s- sesscs, in a high degree, the beauties of English rural laitdscape ; gentle hill- slopes rise from the margins of clear tiiul rapid streams, (branches of the AVharfe iiiid the OiHc,) and lead yuti to fertile plateaux with iVe(|iiriit hnmo of npulence and taste, tind sky-pointing cliurch-sjiiiT's. The Jloor, even, is now iu a high state of cultivatii.ii, while the mansions of the gentry wuuld do credit to any part of England.

To .show the connection between >eals of arms and the hohling of landed pt(i- perty, 1 qm>te the fallowing i'rrnu the prefjice to John and John Bernard Burke's " General Armory" :

"Arms were no sooner esteemed as in- controvertible eviileiice of honour and blood, than the jicjs.'^e^>ion was eagerly

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souglit for by all, who, by tlicir own in- dustry, the patronngo of the feudal lord, or through royal favor, had obtained lauded property, but who had not ]ire- viously served in a military eapaeity."

So precise aud important was the con- nection between landholding, military service and the use of these ilisignia, that, as these authors add :

" III Scotland, it was enacted by sundrv statutes, that every frecludder should have his jiropcr seal of arms, and should compear himself at the head court of the siiire, or send his attorney with his said >eal ; and they who wanted (/. ('., had iii.it), such seals even to be emerciat or lined, so that commonly gentlemen sent to the eleik of the court 'their seals in lead, who kept the same in his otiice to produce or compare on occasion, and it was reckoned no less crime than forgery to counterfeit an- other man's seal."'

Similar laws are quoted by (Juilliin as having been in force in JiluLiIand. It thus appeai-s a strong additinnal evidence to the holding of land by llichard and Samuel Smith, of Brandiam, that their eldest descendant, Samuel Smith, the second, should inherit an undoubtedly genuine armorial seal.

Sir "William Smith, of Elford, who had arms similar to our own, inherited Elford in right of his wife, Anne Staun- ton, from lier grandfather. Sir Jdhn Stjinley, Sherilf id' Statlbrddiire, 29th Henry VI., sun nf Sir Thomas Statdev, Sheriff the T-'th of same rei^n, an<l

grandsoit of Sir John Stanley, of Latham. Sir Thomas Stanley had the manor through his wife, a descendant of John de Arderne, " who, in the o"2d E<lward J., paid to the King, £8, G.s.,8(Z., for a relief for one knight's fee, and a half and sixth part of another in Aldclbrd," (or El- ford).— (Shaw's History of Staffordshire). This quit-rent was paid to exonerate the owner from military service.

Sir William Smith was Sberiif of Staf- fordshire, 14th Henry VII., and was twice married, firstly to the above-men- tioned Anne Staunton, and secondly to Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir John Ncvyl, Marquis of Montacute, a brother of the great Earl of "Warwick.

Sir William was buried with his two wives in the chancel of Elford church, under a "splendid altar-tomb," which is described and engraved by Shaw in his excellent folio history of Staffordshire, (1798). The arms of Sir \\'illiam Smith, carved upon tliis tomb, are thus described by Shaw :

'"Sir William's atchievement is, quar- terly; first and fourth, a Held, bearing what seems a liuu ram])ant. Ciii.; ser(in<l and third, Arg., tm a fe.~se Az., between three demi-grifiins Sa., as many be- zants."

The first and fourth (|uarters are, of course, thor-c devoted to the ancestors of the male line. Sir A\'illiam's paternal ancestors, thereti.ire, liore, on a '•fiehl," (without color or " argent,") a lion ram- ]iant "gules'," which, excepting the ri>yal iiisii:nia, i- the same as the arms of the

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linirnliam Smiths. The '■dcini-griiliii.-^" iiii<! " bezants," on the second and third quarters arc, by lierahhc rule, those of vintcrnal ancestors. Yet tliese maternal iiiK-estors must also have heen a branch of tlie Smiths, as several families named Smith in the same county use these as tlieir paternal arms. 1 shonld be glad to call the attention of Mr. Sydney Grazcbrook, author of the elegant little volume, "The Ileraldiy of Smith," to tlic.-e ancient and f )ri;i_itteii Siiiitii arms of a lion ramjiant (inks (in a lifld Ar- gent, and it would be a gnitilicatinn to many Smith desceudanis in America, if, in his next revised and cnrrecled edition, tliey.«hould appear in their jiroper phi'.'e, iis the paternal arms of Sir William Sndtli, of l^lfinl — the arms attrilnited to tliat wiirtiiy in the editinn at pri->rnl ptd)lislied, Ijeiiig imly thu-i' ajipi-iring in tiie " femme" or maternal ([Uartcr- uf his shield. The ri'iiiu- uf Sir William is s]i:dt, ill the in-criptiiin on lii-~ tuinb, ^^ith a y. bk'-' that of ^\'il^anl Siiiytb, of IJramliam, in thf church rc^i-tiT.

Mr. < irazeiirook rcmaik.-, in hi~ ]ire- face: "111 its intfj;! ity. Heraldry is a iiio~t n>rful handiiKiid to ( ii-ncaloL'y, and all who lawfully boar the ^ame arms may be fairly presumed to be nwmbcTs of the saiiio iaiiiily.

"I have considered it the lictter jilan ti> arrange as maiiv of the coals as I '■"iijd, as jifiiiiitici .<, adding otlici's as I'irtii/ioii.i of an original." " Sucii an Jirran-ciiient will tond to firiHl.itc i:i- 'l"'''ii's into the particular Lcmalogy of

any one of these families, it being a well-known practice of the early her- alds- to vary the arms of collaterals; a practice, moreover, which was in vogue among Armigeri tiieniselvcs before the corporation of Heralds was established."

The four ancient coats which I have arranged in my plate arouml that of Smith of Bramham, are, to the jiractiscd in Heraldry, evidently, with our own, vnriiitionx of a conuiRni pruiiil'irr, (pi-ob- al)ly the ICiford coat.) and indicate cog- nate bhiod. The bearings on the "chief" in the two last, " a mullet itetwccn two torteaux," are tilso borne (with the lion on the field, 'i liy Smith, of llamiiicrsmiih, and other Smith families, varying the color.- or " tincture- ;" whii-h shoiv- that the Tarbocks. who "took tlio name of Smitli." must have been, iinriciitly, I'f that family and name, and that they n- siinird their old appellation when they "took" that name. (Tarbock, a-' i- well known, was the t, rrii.irinl name <!eiiveil by this fimily from iiie;r estate of Tar- boek). Tills brintrs into the Smith family the i^ictuie.-ijue old story of the eagle carrying off the infant lieir,-^ com- memorated in the Tarbock-Smiih arms by the eagle's leg, and in tho-e .if 'J"ar- bock de Tathani, and of the JOails of

♦ TliiF story i.i.lli:it one .^iimnirr's iln_\ I0117 !i;;n. llie nur-c of till- inl-iin luir of I.ailiiiiii took hiro out to ( njoy ilm iiulrny air. :nv\ l:iiJ liiii in lii- li--!it l.;i-kot- iriiillo to fIoc'p «|Hin the L'ra.--. wlii'n nri cnorm.nis f.i^'lo, swooiiiuL' iil'on him. lurnril liim ofl' licfon- her CVO-. to his evrv m 11 uLMiriihoriMfr (hiT. From this

unhurt, by a L-aii.m; j..unjr hunlsman.

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THE BURLINGTOX SMITHS.

Derby, (heirs of Lutliam by interninr- riage witli tlie latter family,) by the eagle-aiul-chikl crest aiul the grifiiii stiii- portcr. The coat of Smith Viscount Gort combines the nuillet and torteanx with the lion rampant bearing, (as does, also, that of Pir Thomas Bmith, "clarke of yS counsell "). It should bo remarked,

in passing, that the various terms " tor- teaux," " bezants," " plates " and " hurts," are different names for the same thing under dift'erent colors, viz.: a circular disc. The conclusion I draw from the above data is, that the Bramham-Smiths were a branch of the stock from which Sir William, of Elford, descended.

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THE FAMILY IlECORD.

THE briglitest IiImzoh on tlie ariii^ of I

the Siiiitlis ciF Bnuuham wuuM hu I

that which !-houM ivcord (were such a !

record possible), their a-^ociatidii with i

the dcvotcil liaiid of jiriiiiitivc (^>uaker.-:, i

fuiuulers of New Jer.-ey and I'enii.-yl- , vania.. The " atcluevenieiits" reeonled

in the '"fields "of Heraldry have been

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mostly those " battles of the warrior " ; wliieh are " with confused noise aud gar- i inents rolled in blood." These Smiths ! were soldiers in the forefront of a blijod- j less battle; the battle of the martyrs and [ confessors, which has, for ages, been ' waged in behalf of liberty of thought, [ speech and conscience, against tyranny, i spiritual and piilitical ; a battle in which tiie master virtues are not those of strength and fierceness, Init the bravery of heroic endurance, of unwavering faith and unwearying puti(/nce, <it' kive and forgiveness of enemii-s for Christ's sake, j And it is not easy, in these ilavs of atlUi- 1 eiice, and of a jioliticul and religious | ireedom, bought fur us by.-ueh ancestors ' as these, even to imagine the amount of moral cuurage and resolutii.m wh.ich : • ■nabk'd them to choose, in-tead of the : Case, respect and po.-itiou wliich a sulj- ; mi.'isicjii against their cnuscience would liave |iermitted them to enjoy in their

ancestral home — the wrench of the up- rooting from its native soil of a long- established family, the tedious and dan- gerous voyage in little-known seas on the tiny ships of the period, and tlic final .settlement upon unknown, untilled and forest-covered shores, inhabited, with the exception of a few Swedes and Dutch, only by the roving savage. A very fe^v articles of household use remain from among those which they brought over. Aiiiong these is an ancient oaken chair, still in possession of tlie Alliii-on family. A more interesting relic is tiie Liijie and fimily record in possession of llichard Mott, of Burlington. This I'ible, which is of one of the earliest translations — that published, in l.joT, by the martyr Tyn- dale — gives a strong j'rt'.-nmjitive evi- dence that the spirit of protect which made Quakers and i'Uiigrants of the Smiths under the two C'harle.-es, was in- herited by them from ancestors who were I'l-otestants in the age of Tyndale and of the bloody Queen ^lary.

Jo:-eph Sansom, in the I'cfore-men- tioned account of the Sn;ith family, seems t<i hint tiuit Bobert asul Kieiiaril Smith, martyr.-, under JIary, were of this lineage. 1 have, however, louml no proof of any such counectii u. 'I'he^e

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THE nUULIXGTOX SMITHS.

martyrs were sons of a Simon Sniitli, one of the most active co-operators -with Tyndale in the disscninatiun of Iiis ver- sion of the Scriptures.

The "Smith Uible" contains a family record partly transcribed by Eicharil Smith, No. 5, from an farlier one by Richard, No. 2, whicli goes back to the birtli of Jiis father, Ricliard Smith, the first, but makes no mention of his grand- fatlier, William Smitli. Fruni Ricliard, No. 1, the record is continued regularly through five generations.

The Riblc is of the translation kn'.wn among bibliographers as the " Rogers- Tyndale," or " Tyndale-Rogers " Eible, from its being tlie fi'uit of the combined labors, in translating, of the mrirtvrs Tyndale or Tindal, and Rogers. "All the editions," says an excellent authority, " of the Rogers-Tvntlale are very rare'"' Ours is that published by Rayna'lde and Hyll, a rejirint, in 1.34!l, of tiie original of loo7. The following general descrip- tion is taken partly fr..ni Lawnd.'s' ''Bibliogniphical .Manual," and partly from the book itself.

It is printed in the Gothic or " black- letter " type, and though Lowndes (inds fault with the typo and printing, to me it seems, in the langiuige of a friend," clear and bright throughout; ir,ll jirinted." The title (prcfixeil to ()\A -iVstamcut), printed in red and black ink, reads f' ^ "The Jiyble, whych i,^ all the holy 8cri^|)ture; in whycli are contayned the

* Tl"; rli"t".T:i,.h H i.,k,„ fr,„n th..' sucomi iTllo profi.«,l to till. Xuw Tu.umuut.

Okie and Newe Testament, truelve and I purely translated into Englislie by \ Thomas Matthewe, loo7." (This name [ of Thomas Matthewe, as we shall pre- sently see, was a nom dc phime of Tyn- dale and Rogers}. "And now Imprinted in the yeare of oure Lorde 1'jVJ."

" Esaye, I. Hearcken to, ye heavens, and thou earth, give care; For tlie Lord Speaketh."

"Im])rinted at London by Thomas Raynalde and AVilliam Hyll, dwelling in Panic's churchc yeard."

This is surnHuuled by a wood-cut in nine parts; eight of them Scrijjture scenes, and the ninth representing the King (Henry VIIL,) committing the Bible to the care of priests and nobles. Copious "prologes" to the reader, tables and notes are intcrsjtcrsed. and at the end of the Bible the dates of original print and of reprint are rcjtoated at length. Psalms xci., 5, reads; "So that thou shah not nedc to be afraitd for eny buggcs by ]iyghte, mn- for the arowe that flyeth by daye." (" Buirires," bugbears or apparitions). Fiom this curious text it is sometimes called the "Bugges" Bible, and sometinu's, from the ibllowing from Jer. viii., the "Treakle" Bi'ble.

"The liarve>t is gone, the summer hath an ende, and we are not heljied. 1 am sore vexed, because of the luirte' of my peojile ; J am lievy and abashed, for there is noo more Treakle at Galaad, and there is no i>hy>yciiin y[ can hcale tlie hurtc of my people."

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William Tiiulal ((.■oinnionly spelt Tyn- (lale, but tiie name, as signed by liiniseli", is Tindal), furnished the translation of the New Testament in this ]]ible, and he and Miles Coveiilalo supi)lie<l the five books of ^Nloses. The rest of the work of translation was,ehietly that of John Rogers, the " jiroto-uiarlyr " of Queen Mary's reign. These translators con- cealed their identity under the pseudonym of Thoniiis Matlhcwc, as will be seen by the following extracts fi'om Fox's '' Acts and Monuments of the Church."

Of Tindal, he says that he was bred up from a child at ^Magdalen College, Oxford University, and acquired great learning in the dead languages and skill in Scripture. Embracing reformed tenets from the writings rjf Erasmus, he con- futed in disjmtatioiis the luu-t eniinent Ivomish priests of the day, and awoke such bitter enmity among them that his life wa.s in danger from their machina- tions. After seeking in vain from a powerful patmn tliat pr.:.;roti.in which was neees.sary to him in his pnijio-cd work of translating the Bible, he tied to Holland, and thence ]ias-.c.l into Saxony, where "lie had cmifcrence with Luther and other learned men in those quarters," on liis great design. He then returned to the Netherlands and esUvblished him>elf at Antwerp, where lie finished and ]uinted, in ].">27, his ^I'ew Testament in l-]nglish, wliieii was soon disseminated in his native countrv. He next tran-latcd th.e five Iw.ks of itoses, but in attempting to carry his

work by sea to Hamburg, to confer with ^lilcs or "Sir Myles" Coverdale, then dwelling in Germany, a. learned man and zealous reformer, who had formerly Ijcen an Augustine friar of the monastery of Stoke-Clare, near Iiumstead, Essex, lie suffered shipwreck and the loss of his manuscript. Coverdale and he, there- upon, at once set about making a new translation of the Pentateuch, which they finished in 1521.1, at the house of Dame Margaret Van Emmerson in Hamburg. Tindal then returned to Antwerp fir the better convenience of di.-seminating his translations, and his books having been condemned by the Roman authorities, he was, in 153G, seized by emissaries of the German Emperor's Government, an<l suilered death by lire at Filford, lit ar Antwerp. His last words were : '"Lord, ojieu the King of England's eyes."

John Rogers, like Tindal, was brought uji in an university, that of Cambridge. He was " clio.~en," (says P^ox,) "by the I\[i'rchanis Advnturcrs, to I'C thi-Ir chaplain at Antwerp, in l!rabiiiit, whom he Served to their grxid contentatinn many years. It chanced him there to fall in cmnpany with that worthy. ser- vant and minister of God, "William 'J'indal, and with Miles Coverdale, which botli, for the hatred they bare to Popish super^tition and idolatry and love to true religion, had forsaken tlirir native country. In eoiit'erring Aviih them the Scriptures, he came to great knowledge in the (iu-pel of Ciod, in.-o- much that he cast olf the heavv vuke

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THE UUKUXGTOX S.MITilS.

of Popery, perceiving it to be impure and ''^' * idolatry, and joyncd him- self with them two in that painful and most profitable labour of translating the Bible into the English tongue, which is Intituled 'The Translation of Thomas Matthewe.' " ,

The combined translation, under the pseudonym of Matthewe, was printed, as we have seen, in 1537, and reprinted by Eaynalde and llyll, in liogers' lifetime, in 1519.

Rogers having " cast off the yoke " of PojK'ry, now felt liimself at liberty to disregard the Popish vows of cclil>aey, "thinking an ill vow well broken." He accordingly married, and soon alter ''went to Wittenberg, in Saxony, whrre lie conferred with Luther." Having ac- quired the German, or " High Hutch " language, he was jilaced " in charge of a. Congregation," and continued to preach there many years. On the " banishment of Po]iery" by Edward YI.. he returned to England, and was made PrLlieii'l of St. I'aul's Cathedral. On the accersion of Queen Mary, he was examined before tlie " bloody Bisliop " Bonner, (or Boner, as Fox spells the name,) on January 22d, lo55 ; condemned, and burned February 4th, of same year. Huring the interim

before his execution, he was cruelly re- fused intercourse with his family, and this was no doubt one reason for the common ascription to him of the touch- ing farewell verses entitled " An Ex- hortation to my Children," which Fox, on the contrary, ascribes to Robert Smith, his fellow-sufierer in the same year.

The records in this interesting family

Bible are in the handwriting of Richard

Smith, the llftli of that name, transcribed,

as to the earlier part of them, from

memoranda of Richard Smitli,the second ;

jiart of the earlier Hy-leaves having been

worn out, these w'ere intended to replace

them. They begin with the baptism of

the first Richard Smith, May ISth, 1593,

his marriage A. H. 1U20, and his bui-ial,

]S'ovember I'Jth, 1G47. Then the baji-

tism of Richard Smith, the second, liis

marriage and the births of his twelve

children, making, with his grandfather,

; AVilliam Smith, mentioned in the church

I register, four generations recorded as

! born and attaining maturity in the old

j home. Of these twelve children, three

died in infancy, two died in Englaiul,

j unmarried, and all the others removed to

America. Two additional generations,

born in America, are also recorded in

this Bible.

CHAPTER III.

THE SIX'OXD KICIIARD SMITH OF BUAMIIAM.

EICIIARD S.MITII, the second, wlao ' wiis baptized O.ftobcr lotli, 1()2G, had just attained majority at tlie ]K-riod of his father's decease. He hml been educated (athirge ex[jense), by the latter, "for tlie Gowne," tlie long rohc ov the law, hut ]iis futlier dying, and he suc- ceeding to the iiropcrty just as tl\c ■' civil dissentions " between the King (Charles ! 1.,) and Parliament had readied a climax in the imprisonment of the furmer, thus shaking to its fuuiidatinu tlic whole edifice of civil order, the young lawyer ! did not ''proceed" in his profession. I

He became, very early, a convert to \ tlie. Christian doctrine held by the " Friends' of Truth "'' (jr ("^Hiakers. We ' learn from. Sewel's "llisc. Increase' and : Progress of the Christian Pcnph called Quakers," (1725 edition, j). A'-]), on the ' occasion of Fox's first visit lo Yorkshire ; in IGol, that '■William Dew.sbury was , one of those that ha<l already been iiii- ! iiudlatily convinced, as G. Fox, himself, ' was, wlio, coming tei liiin, found himself \ in unity with him." Again, (p. 53), " G. j

• " The Friends of Truth " wa- thr name ori-inally \ a<!opio(l by this si-ct, nftcrwrirls shortiT.nl to " Friends." Tlic more commonly known niinio of " CJimkers " arose from th'ir \\^\vM\- trrmblinn when on.lcr stronir reli(;ion=i fi-elincr. ;i- wo' m.iv j.-;a!i"'r from -<j'. Fo\'s si^'akin- of one L'.ii.t;un Jirnry a.s •■ s. tiffiti^- nt thr:r trenildin;;.'' " < 'oniniurulcr a o^ali TrcTi>'n!e> ' is 'he description in li-a-.il wrils of the [■eriod.

Fox went to a meeting at Justice Ben- son's, where a people met that were s<'pa- rated from the jmblic worship," to whom his preaching gave " general satisfaction." This shows that Fox found a pcdjih/ of his own religions views ali'eady e>t.ili- lislicd in Yorkshire in IG";], (if wlilcli number must have been Eichai'd ."-^iniih, as, in 1G50, he wrote a sort of tract or general epistle called " A Christian Di- rectory," in which we find the chiei\loe- trine of the " Friends " — that e.f the pre- sence, as a guide, of the Holy Spirit in each heart — clearly set forth, lie says, that feeling oppre.s.-^ed with the weighl of sin upon his conscience, he ajipealed to God in jirayer :

" ■R'ho KD^w.TOil and -.lid to mi' ;

V>'illiiii llioe I h:ive Jot A true and faithful Coun^^•l!or;

A g-uidc unto thy foot — To wil : the Li^'ht within the mind,

AVhifh from my Son doih corto^, To be a guide and iurithorn bright,

Enlightening every room.

"And as this Light of sin convinced,

And evil showed to me. And as I did obedience yield,

Guided by it to be. Po did the Lords (.wn power ajipcar,

From tin to set mc free," etc.

This is signed and dtitei! in his own liand. .v. \i. li;.-,o..

He was married in IG."):!, by i';ml ■2\

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THE I5URLIXGT0X SMITHS.

Beale, Aklermnn of the City of York, to Aimc, daugliter of A\'illiani Yates, of Alborough, a wortliy Quaker gentleman. On tlie visit of ]\Iiles Ilalliead and Thomas SaUliouse, travchng niiiiisters of the " Friends," to his neighborhood, in 165'), tliese preachers having been ar- rested for lioldiiig meetings, we find tliat Ricliard Smith, witli otliers, became security for their ap]icarance at Coin-t, (Sewel). "On the 'Jih of the 12th mo., IfiGO," Ivicliard Smith, being at a meet- ing at Market Wiglitoii in cumpany with "William Smith, of liiestliorp. tlie inti- mate friend of G. Fox, a voluniinons writer and eminent minister of the "Friends," they, together with AA^illiam Yates and "five hnndred " ijtliers, were seized and impi-i-nned in Yi.ik Ca.-tk', "where five of them died tlipnigli the uidiealthyiiess of tlie })laee in wliich they were thronged together. Tlie gieate>t part of them were discharged in abont three months, without either accn.-atiMn or trial, tliough a nundicr were arbitrarily detained some time longer." — (Besses "Sufferings of tlie Qnakers.")

As a further ilhistrafi'in oi' these (nil- rageous severities, ti)ld by an author in no way connected with " Friends," 1 take the following case, being that of a family connection, Charles Llnyij. lM, nf l)u]n- brau, (at a somewhat later period than the above,) from P>urke's work, " A His- tory of the Landed (ientry of fireat ]]ritain :"

"Mr. Lloyd having conscientiously reftised to t,;ko ti\e o.iths of uile-lanee

and supremacy on the accession of Ciiarlcs II., though a more loyal subject did not exi.st in the country, was, at the instiga- tion of his envious neighbour, Edward liOrd Herbert, of Cherbury, who desired his estate, subjected to great pt-rsecntions and losses. His jiosscssions were jnit under prcmunh-c, his cattle sold and his mansion atDolobran partially destroyed. Although a magistrate for ]Montgomery- shire, and in nomination for its shrievalty at the time, the jienal and oppressive laws against sectarians (arising from the excesses of some), were enforced against Mr. Lloyd with ninnitigated rigor, lie was taken, with seven other gentlemen who had embraced the doctrines of the ']''riends,'to AVelshjiool Jail, and confined there tnitil the Act of James 11. was ]iasscd, releasing all inisons (htain<Ml for religious opinions, a jieriod of /en i/car.-<."

This may give an idea of the situation of the wealthier Quakers of those times — in scarce any respect more favorable than that of the b.umbler ones. Confined in noisome prisons, their revenues cut olf or sequestered, many pet. -on.-, of afllnence and position were forced to earn their daily support by hAnyr in their cells, be.-ides being exposed to insult and out- rage from brutal tyrants of jailors, who were often old criminals. A ])risou was then a jdace, of who-e luirrors we can nou' scarcely firm a conception.

It was in the year of his above-men- tioned imprisonment, A. 1). ll'''"<>, that Bichard Smith wrote bis " I,elt( r to a I'rie-t of ihi' Chui-eh of Kn-land," from

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wliicli I take tlic following extracts;* tlicy l)rcathe a spiiit ul' gentle courtesy and Christian love, uiiiteil with firmness and clearness in doctrine. Tlie entire letter was, in 1871, reprinted in the rhiladelphia "Friend." (The Letter).

" Fkie.vd : — I being willing to hear thee teach the congregation that was iissembled at the burial of W. >S.," (not inijtossibly his grandfather, William Smith), "it hath Keen much i:pon me to i-ignify to thee how L do approve of thy teaching. And, also, to show thee what it is in thy worshi]) ] disown, s(j that if thou be able, by plain Serijiture argu- ments, to uphold them, or if thou have an immediate command from the T>ord for to use and to praetiei' tl'.eni, will ; if not, search and try, \ipon ,-iglit of' this, whether the Light of thf Lord d<siis, in thy conscience, which I know leads thee to the performance of manv tliiniis acceptable in the sight of (lod. hear not wituf-s with nie for Ciod. that thou O'.ighte.st like'wise to di-owii tin'm.

"For the Scrii)tiin^ thou didst choose to sjveak from, it was \ery material and fitting for such an occasion, and thy words and observations thereupon, very many of them, dearly to be owned in their places, as they came from thee; in- somuch tliat I, when 1 went from place to ]ilaee after the inini.-try of man, could

* On afccimt of tlio cnntrovorsial thfiracter of tlii^i It'tttT. I ht'>itatc(i tiliuut introiiuciu.i; it: vet. 113 an iiu- il-'-.il.U-d vo.rk "f oiir .^rlv !,n> r-r.ir, Uiou-bt it ijr.l 'ifhl to rrproJuce tlio lurt-'i r r.nru.jti.

even have liad great desire, love and affection to such a teacher ; but now, see- ing tlie Lord, in his endless hjve, hath gathered me from under the ministry of man and nnui's teaching, I can truly say, in the pure sense of the Lord, without boasting, I have received the anointing, and need not that any man should teach me, but as the anoiitting that is in me, which is truth and no lie, teachcth : so here I say, that thou mayest learn to be such a teacher as brings jjcojih.' to my Teacher, whose teachings are such as do not keep people ever learning and never able. to come to the knowledge of the truth ; but doth bring to the way wherein the wayfaring m:iu, though a fool, cannot err; because, that thereby and therein (is fulfilled) the covenant and pronjise of (.iod spoken of in derrniinh xxxi., ',]'■'>, and Hebrews x., Itj, which is the second and Xew Covenant made with man, wherein no man shall need to teach an- other, saying, 'Know the Lord!' because all shall know Him, from the least to the greatest, who enter into this covenant with Him. So 1 say unto thee, that thou mavest be a teacher to bring jieojde hither, thou must come to know- Jesus, and the power of His resurrec- tion, and the fellowship of His sntterings .and l.>e made conformable toifi< ili;itli, and all by the power of the Spirit in thee: for he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of His; antl the time is come that Christ spoke of in the Scriji- ture, that neither at Jeru-alcm nor any oilier mount must the Father be wor-

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sliipctl, but l»y them that worship in spirit ami in tnitii.

"So, to the light, tliu iiieasiu-u of God in thee, I leave thee, ami to the tniu rule or line of measuring- by tSerijituro, to searcli and try tliy siiirit, wlietlier from a true measure of tlie Sj)irit of the living- God, whose badge or marie is hive ; aii(] in that love, -whether or no, I have writ- ten this to thee, to signify to thee of lion- large extent the love of God, which is shed abroad in my heart thiongh Lis free grace, is to thee and thy followers; which is not only to you, Imt also to mv greatest cneniics. Yea, also ! search the Scriptures and see, examine them and try whether this worship I speak of, to wit: the worship in spirit and no other, be left unto Christians; whcilier anv other way but Clnist, the wav, who said of llim<elf, 'I am the light of the woild, that doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world;' and wliLther anv that are saying, ' Lo, here is Christ,' or ' J.o, there is ChVi.-t,' in this form or tliat form, bring themsoives or their h.-an-r- to be partakers of this blessed covenant 1 have here mentioned. |

" And now, what 1 dislike in thy wur- ship, which 1 was an eye-witne.ss of, was : ! 1st. That thoii didst not i)reaeli from the spirit of prophci-y, to the best, of ,„y under:,taiuling ; but liad>t what tiiou didst deliver written, to lo.,k at, and seemed to be able to deliver little with- out looking thereon: so that I did not judge that thou j.n-achnlst what (iod had done for thee, according to the order of

! the holy men of God, as David said, j 'Come and I will show thee what God [ hath done for my .soul ;' oi-, as Paul

exhorted the Corinthians, bidding them I to desire .spiritual gift.s, but rather that I they might proplie.«y ; and that they i might all pi-ophcsy, one by one, that all

might hear and all might be edified.

The Scripture ucttes a cloud of witnesses i who all witness for the Spirit's teaching, j and were taught by its movitigs. So that ; where I find any to teach what thcv j study and write down fioin the letter of I the Scriptures, or from other books, their I teaching can in no wise be a rule tor me

to walk by, nor their worship fi>r me to join -^vithal, who can receive no other i teaching but that which Hows from Jesus, the life of men and the light of the world, and from the Spirit of Tj-uth, the true Teacher of every one that cometh to the Father. Nor can any worship the Father in any other way than in the Spirit of the Son, and in th'- mo\im;s and order of the Spirit's ministration.

" LIdly. In that thou chooscilst a jiart of a Psalm, saying to this purjiose. ' Pet u.-, sing to the -praise of God ' siu-h a par; of such a Psalm; and so read it in metre, and thyself^ and most or all the others with thee, sung it. In that worship, I cannot join with yon, and this is my reason: If I should undertake to sing lAivid'.s eonditiims — not lieing in the same sjiirit and condition that he was in — instead of singing to the jiraise and glory of (;.,d, I should sing lies in His name to His great dishonour. In His

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own line time, the I^onl brought me to see tliat I was not to suig to His praise iiiul glory any other Psalms but by the .Sj)irit, and by a good understanding, not'ording to tluit of Paul, ' Sing with the spirit, and sing witli the understanding :' so that singing in rhyme and metro, aecording to llojikins, Sternhokl and others, (which giving sound onlj- to tlie outward ear), jiroved a burthen too heas-y for ine to bear, and David's spirit in nic Wits thereby wounded, so that I eould not flicn sing David's Psalms with l)avid's spii-it ; the good Spirit of (iod, which guided David in singing, being grieved.

" I could speak of some other things in which I disliked thy worship at that time, but shall, at this time, forbear ; and, as I said, if thou canst, by plain Scri]i- turu testimony, prove thy worship to be the true worship God doth require of thee — well ; if not, and ] have reached somcthijig in thee which tlion canst not sdencc or krcp (piict, and If my testi- mony against these ]H)ints of thy wor- ship be answered by the witness for God 111 tiiy conscience, be not found fighting against God, but submit to the Light, and it follow, and thou shalt be brought into the Lamb's innocent natuie, in which thy W(lr^-hip sliall be built \][Hm the Hock of Ages, which the gates of hell shall never jirevail against ; and to l>e a teacher that shall turn many fmm darkness to light, and from the jiowei- of i^atan unto God; and God will niuk(; thee shine as a iixed star in His ilrn'.a- 4

ment. So, in love to thy soul, I have written this unto thee, leaving the eficet thereof unto my God ; because a tender love is begotten in me toward thee and several other of thy adherents, particu- larlj' that old man who is lied unto you, being persecuted for conscience sake, as, also, to all the rest of your family." [SIGXED.] " E. S."

Whatever be thought of the logic of this argument, it is stated by the writer courteously and in the spirit of a gentle- man, and, for the light it throws on his character, is worthy our jireservafion. The " old man " was, perhaps, a Hugue- not.

Joseph Sansom, in his before-men- tioned i\IS. account of the Smith family, (1788, in jio=session of G. V., I'hiladel- phia,) says : ''liiehard Smith was j.os- sessed of very good natural pans, im- proved by an attentive observation of men and things." He speaks of one nf his MSS. as containing "jume curii,iii- sj>eciraens of his skill in law, jiliy.-ic and divinity," and adds that he (]iiiblirly) "embraced the religions principles of tin- jieojtle called Quakers shortly alter his marriage in IGoo, and afterwards sutii'red grievous jiersecution and imjjrisonment. both under the protectors and alter the restoration, for the ]iid.)]ic testimony which the Lord gave him lo boar among that 2)eo]ile, although he lived to s-ee liberty of conscience jierniitted to dis- senters of all denominations liy a Peiii-li I'rince, about the year IGoJi." (Jhi-

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was King James I [.) "Sainucl IIopwooil, who visited this coutiiunl in tlic servieo of the Gospel early in the present" (18th) "century, said lie had frerjuently heard Eichard Sniitli pivach in his chininey-eonier to the little audience of friends and neighlionrs, -wlio Avere neither afraid nor ashamrd f,, worship God according to th.ir con-ciniees. in that persecuting age, wlicn the nin.-t dev.uit peri'orinanee of pnaeliing, praving or silently waiting u|inn (iod, except under the foims of naliona! wm-lii].. not Midy rendered a man nhnuxiuLrs lo die laws, hut left his ])ersun at the mercy of the rahhlc, and his projierty a [irey to con- stahles and informers. The lines im- posed on tliese occasions were frequently levied with sueh ine.-reraiile .-•vtrltv that th.>].Oi)rere]a-.-e.- of people were -trippe.I of almost every iieee-sary of liie, and, in many instances, those things whieli had been lent them hy their eharitaMe nej-h- bours were also seized upon to manv times the value <if tlir .Icmand. Inendi- bk^ outrages were e .innn'ted upon these innocent and ]>aueut -ulfivrs. Some of tliem actually di(d of the wouud^ tliev received in tin ir peaeial.le me, tings, but no notice was taken ,,f their deaths, and the murderers re|.eate<l tlieir cruelties even in the j>re>enee of the oliieeis of justice. \et tiiey reiiiaiiied innnmalile ill their rc.^ohuion to confe.-.- Cln-i.-t in that despised and j.rr.-eeiiled w.iy into which He had eaileil them, wherein He womlcrfully su].por;ed them agaiurrt all opposition."

It appears, from the nliove-quotcd tes- timony of S. lTopwoo(h tJiat the Friends' meetings of Brandiam were held iji Ivichard SmithV hoii-e, where he exer- cised his ministry, preaching from the chimney-corner to those assembled in the room. It is interesting to figure to one- self wdiat kind of house this ohl man- sion, in which these early meetings were held, may have been. It was, as has before lieen said, probably a substanlial countiy hou.-e between the iiMnor and the I'arm-houte, in the 'J'tidor slvle of architecture, and the " chimiiev-plaee " from wdiieh tliosc discouisis were ileliv- ered was doubtless one of the huge lire- places built in those days, with space for a large fire of logs in the middle and a chijuney-corner settle (jr Ijeiieh at the side, which seat, as the warme^l, was considered the jilace of lienor, and re- served for persons of age and digniiv. Ihe room in which tlic.-e meeting- were hehl w.aild j.rol.ably he " the hall,'" whieh senieiimes gave name to the ]\iv.--(' ; the-e halls were genendly large rooms of a height often extending through the uj.j er story; the main stairwav opened frota them, and they were u>ed for dining and as places of general as.-embly. There was an old house existing some vears back in Burlington County called Eram- ham-hall, and understoi/il to he named from this J'^liigli.di Inane, and I have Ijcfore mentioned a similar one in Olsigo, State of Xew York.

Of tlie ehwe of the life of liiehard Smith, the second, J. San.-om savs:

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" Iliiving preserved the re>iicetal)le (•Iiiiraoter of nn honest iinm and a good Cliristian, imbloiiiislied, even in tlic esteem of many wlio oflieially persecuted his reUgious principles, notwithstanding tlie various difliculties which the 0])en ]>rofe-sion of tlicni innocently incurred, lie died peaceahly at IJrauihaui, in the year IGSS, about tiie feixty-second year of his age."

Richard Smith's uionioranda of the births of his chililrcii, entci'cd in the i'.nnily Lible as aforesaid, furni an inter- esting record of his ])ersecntions and of a final ])eriod of greater ease in tiie coni- inunion of his choice. I have copied (hem with considerable ablji-e\ iation and modern izati(jn :

" ]']ldest, Hannah, signifving merciiiil, taking rest or gracious. ]'.oi:i li)r 2")ih (lay of the montli called Nnvcinbcr, lGo4.

".Second, Mary, b^jrn the Sth day of l)ecembe-r, in the year IGO.".. PHiried the '2Sth d;iy of the ^anie niDiith.

"Third, John, -igiiifyiiig the grace or gift, or mercy of iiod. ]!orn the 27th •lay of March, ir..'.7. '

"Fonrtli. Sarah, .-ignit'ying a ladv, dame or mi-iifs^, (or piinccs-). ISorn n'',u- tin. 1st day of J ).Tfnib,r, in the year IG.JO, and bnrird near the 2(Jth day ot the .lame month.

"Fifth, Dcl.orab, r-ignifyiiig a ^vorlI, (or a bee). I!orn tie- 1^-t day of Soptom- ber, in the year IG'IO.

'■ Sixth, IJtnianiiii, >ignit'ying the son of my riul.t hand, (or :; -on of .-omnv). beea\ise at that time 1 wa- jaisoner for

the testimony of truth. I>orn the 2Gth day of November, in the year 1GG2.

"Seventh, Elkanah, signifying the zeal of God, because then tlic king and parliament liad newly put forth an Act of persecution to banishment. IJorn the 'Jth day of the month called August, 1GG4. iJied the 2,Sth and was buried the 20th of the same month.

"Eighth, Daniel, signifying the judg- ment of God, because at that time the j.lague and other liigli judgments of the Lord was in an high maniu-r stretched over this nation ; liorn the 1-lth day of the eleventli month, IGGo, whicli day I was set free, having been prisoner one month for being at a meeting.

"Niiitli, Ji.i.-epli, signifying inerea,-e, inerea~ing or jierfect, bci'au-o at lliiii time the Inuh was in a poaeealdr, llonri-li::'g, increasing or perfect pp^tui'c, unmolcsicd of the enemies thei'cof, so drawing into pcrtection. Born the 4tli of 3Lacii, 1GG7.

"Tenth, Emanuel." (Entry cut out.)

"Eleventh, S.iuiuel, j-iirnitying ap- pointed, establidied or heard of ( iod : born the 1st day of tbe lliir.l nioiitli. 1G72; because at that timrtlic tnilli wa> e,-tabbV]ie<l. (fir that) the king liad tol- e_ratc<l liberty to all, and truth llouri-lied in a jieaci'able po-tun in ;il! jilaces.

"Twelftli, Ilii'liard, (without .-iguifica- tion,) born the 2.jtli of ibc- -icond niontli, 1(17 i, truth being honorable everywlure."

'i"ho-c curious cxtiart- tion tin- fimily rhroiiiilr, shi'W that tbe jirseentioiir. from which lliidiard Smith and Ids

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fomily (ill particular) suftcrccl, cxtciulwl, chiefly, through the years from IGGO to IGGo, in which latter year the dreadful visitation of the plague seems to have had the effect, by alaiui in g the consciences of " priests and rulers," of inducing thcni to set at liberty those hckl prisoners for conscience' sake, (see the eighth entry). They show, also, an increasing security for the Quakers from that time forward. There are no records in Besse's " yiif- ferings of the Quakers," of pecuniary losses for tithes, etc., sustained by llichard Smith, the second, jirobably because of the early date of such losses; but alter his death we find his widow, Anne Smith,

and her youngest son, " Eichard Smith, of Bramham," (the third of the name,) assessed, in the year 1G90, for tithes, iu the sum (jointly) of £2'^, 17s., (equal to nearly two hundred pounds now), which was taken from them " in linJ, corn, hay, lambs, etc.;" the elder sons having, before and about that time, re- moved to America.'-' Two years before, the widow had been imprisoned at the suit of the ]iarisli ])ricst.

I * Most of tliom .irrivr.l in Amorioa curlv in IfiOl,

i l>ut are siippnscil to lir.ve left I!r;ii;ilip.iii in l<'.:iO. for

I London, the stiirtiup point for vessels of the " l.onilon

i Company." 'I'lio eiilest son, . John, had alreailr failed,

I as pioneer for the family, in 1677.

CIIAPTEIl lY.

EXPATKIATIOX. THE XEW l[OME.

■prClIAEI) S-MITII, the poeoiid, died | JlI January 2(ltli, 1688. On May lotli, i'olkwing, uv three and a lialf j luontlis only al'ler ]ier lui^-huiKr,-; dcatli, j liis ^Yido^v, Ajiuo Yates Smith, was j " comniitted to York Castle at the suit of j William James, Prie.-t of Bramham." | This was undoubtedlj' on a question of ' tillies i-efuscd to be paid, but it would seem a very uuuiauly act ou the part of ! this priest, even though he might con- ' sider liiuiself aggrieved. I

The I'jUglish govcrnnioul, whih jier- j mitting tliis harrying of their faitiiful i and peaceable subjects, the Quakei-.s, by priests, constables and informers at home, were delegating to them more than vice-regal powers as owners of the ciilo- : nits of 5\cw Jersey and Pennsylvania, i vrliose constitutions were framed b}' these ! worthy and religious ])roprietarics with a i noble tenderness for the consciences and i respect for the rights of their subjects of I all faiths and races. Of course the oner- ous burden of a State-church was not allowed to weigh ujion these compara- tively free colonies, and the whole ]'!>licy, towards tlie Quakers, of the government during several reigns, seemed to be that ot encouraging their expatriation, liy kci'ping up !iu iutcniiiilent jicrsccutiun

at home, while removing all pressure from those who joined the colonies, and giving to those who were jiroprietaries therein, the powers both of legislation and of government. A somewhat .-iniilar course had been taken with the Puritans in New England, and doubtless had flio etl'cct, in both instances, of rapidly settling the American wilds with a supe- rior class of colonists. The government did not, however, foresee that this alienat- ing policy, when followed up liy the " taxation without representation " of a subsequent reign, would jii-oduce the entire estrangement and lo-^s of these colonies, so often called " tlie brighie~t jewel in tlie IVitish crow!i.'"

" Thfe peaceable j^osture of truth" a- held by the " Friends," referred to in the above memoranda of Piichard Smith, as established in 1(372 and subsecjuentlv, was due, in part, to the court intlur-nee of William Penn, and jrartly to the jjopish tendencies of King t'liarlr- II., an<l tlie actual Komanism of King James II. Tloman Catholics in Eng- land are, of course, "dissenters'" or "sectaries," and, in order to S2)are (liriii, it l>ecamc necessary to remove the heavy liand of oppressive poiMT 'r'nii the di.-.-enters in i:ciii.-ral, ineludinir

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"Fi'ioncls." Cicilit, unfortunately, cnii- not be given to tlie Estubli^lieil Cluireh for having beeonu' more noble-sjiiriteil, Christianlv-tolerant or libi-ral. Siibicrvi- eucy to a llonianiziug Court \vas, ala^^I the eliicf cause of the cliange in t]ie cutreat- nient of " (hs,~eiit(r>." Tlie course of the churcli was tlie old .■-tory so often repeated in history, that no soouei- dixs a sect escape from inider the heel of ptr- secution for " non-contormity " nf relig- ious ojiinion and i>raetiei', and Ii.'l'miuc itself the (h.niiiiiani or state religion, than it turn-' round ujion other sects, lately its fcllow-suilrrri.-, and seeks to compel, in tlirni. cunt'ormity to its own peculiarities, liy the same eoaise and in- conclusive styli' ol' arniniieiit ju-t u.-ed against itself, brute t'orce, liaiuelv, — ■■^\n.l provn- i;- ,lr„-triii.-5 r,rili".lnx liv uiioytulic blows auil kinnlcs."

Not being dis^wsed to trust implicitlv to a permanence of the improved t.rdei of things, " Friend^ "' began, in tlie huter quarter of tin -eviiiteeuth v-eiiti-,rv, i.i Liok toward- -'tmerica as a hav'.ai of mere as.-uivd re-t and religinu- lilx-rtv. M'ith'iUt relerriiig to I'eun-ylvinia, I will take vy the' lii-tnrv ot' New Jersev as connected with Piieiiard Smith, tlie second, and his miu-. who Avere aiiiouL,"- the earliest ]iriipri( tarie- (pf tlie J'r(.viiice of Nova Ca.'.-area or New ,ler-ev.

I am indebted, r,,i- tlie t'acls frein >\liich tin- little lii-torieal .-keteli is drawn, f(j ,-uiidry paper- in the preeeed-

ings of the Surveyer'.- A- i.i'ieii et'

A\"e-t New Jd-.-eV, to the fundamental

law of New Jersey, Learning and Spicer's laws, and to Samuel Smith's "History of New Jersey," etc. Also U> the IMSS. collections of Jehu F. ^^'atson :ind J. Saiisom and many I\ISS. of ruy own i'aiiiily. Till' now rare work of S. Smith was printed in 17G5.

The early settlers upon the Jludson and Delaware Pavers were Dutch and Swedes, who originally were self-gov- erned, but abrmt A. D. lt)Go-4. the ]!iiii-b Ciovernmeiit, claiming right by discovery, redueed the whole country under their contre!. King (_'har]es IT., by letters patent bearing date 12th of iMarch, 10(53, granted unto his brother. James, Duke of York, his heirs and a-siL,Mis :

"All that Jinn of the mayn land of New Fnglami beLriiming at a certain place called or knuwn by the name vi' St. Croix, ne\t ailjeiuing to New Se(]t- land, in Aineiiea, a.nd frirtn thence exi.nding tilling tlie .-e:i-e'i;i.-t unto ;i eertain plaei/ eajlid ]A':na(piinc Or Pema- qnid, and -o U]i the river thereof to the furt!ie-t head of tlie .-ame as it tendeth northward, and extending from tjieiue to the river 111' Kelielieijue, and SO nji- ward- by the sherte-t eour.-e to the river of Canada northward : and alr-o all tliat i.-land or i-land- eeiiHiiiiiilv eabed liv tlie se\eral name or naiiie- (,{' Matowaeks or Iviiu I-land, Mtiaite, lying and being tnwarils the we.-t of Cape Cud ami the Narraw-Iligaii-etts abutting upmi th(; 111.011 land bilAeeu llie two jiveis tiiere. Called er kiieun le. the .-.evertd names tif

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('oiicfticiit or Iliulson's liivcr; togctlicr, ji!-(i, with the said river called Hudson's Jkivcr, and all the lands from the west ^i(le of Concctieut to the cast side of Uehiwarc I5ay. And, also, all those wveral islands called or known by the names of Martin's Vineyard and Xan- tukes or otherwise Nantukett."

Tlie limits of this grant are quite jii'ohlematical, though interpreted as in- cluding New York, New Eiighmd and New Jersey, bnt the terms of the next, from the l^nkc of York, define the boun- daries of the present New Jersey quite iicL-iirately. The duke, by his deeds of lease and release, dated 2.jd and 24tli of June, IGGl, "in consideration of a com- petent sum of good and lawful money of J'liglaiul," giants and con\eys unto "Jolm L'jrd Berkeley, Ikmin of Stratton, one of the King's Privy Council, and Sir George Carteret, of .Saltrum, in the County of Devon, Knight, and one of the J'rivy Council, and their heirs and a.-signs forever, All that tract of land adjacent to New Ijigland, and lying and l-eang to the westward of Long Island and Manliita.^ I-Iand, and bounded on the east part by the main .-ea and part l>y Hudson's lliver, and halli n]ion tJie west Delaware JJay or Kivn-, and cxtend- elli .-outhward to tiie main ocean as far as Cape ilay, at the mouth of Delaware Jiay, ;ind to tlie nortliv.ard as far as the northernmost branch of the .-aid Jiay or Itiver of JJelaware, which is ibrty-one '^••grecs and tbrty miiuiles of latitii-le, iiiid crosseth over thence in a strait line

to Hudson's River in forty-one degrees of latitude; which said tract of land is hereafter to be called by the name or names of New Ceaserea or New Jersey ; and, also, all rivers, mines, minerals, woods, lishiugs, hawkings, huntings and fowlings, and all other royalties, profits, coiuniodities and hereditaments whatso- ever to the said lands and premises belonging or in any wise aj)[iertainiiig."' [sic^.\i:n.] "Jami;s."

In the same year, the new Lords Pi'o- prietors, Berkeley and Cartei-et, promul- gated a document by way of con.-iitiiiion and fundamental law for their newlv- acquired territories. From this jiajier, entitled "The Concessions and Agree- ments of the Lords l'ro]n-ietors of the Province of New Casarea or New Jer- sey, to and with all and every ol' the Adventurers, and all such as shall >ri[\c or plant tliere," I extract the Ibllowing: Every i'lvc settler who should ■ receivu a grant of land was required to Coi-.jo " arni'd with a good mu-ket. boie twelve bullets to the jioiind, with ten ])ouiids of powder and twenty pounds oi' bidlc!.-, with baiidiliers and match conveiiii nt," and " eve)-y able servant that la- shall carry with him arm'd and provided as atbresaid." They were to "constitute trained bands and companies, witli tiio number of soldiers, I'or the safety, strength and delliisc ot' the .-aid Pun- ince, and of the Ibits, ca.-tjc.'s, (.■ities, eti'.; to sujijircss all nuitinies and rebellions, to make war, oll'cn.-iv.e and defi.i)-ive, with all Indians, strangers and foreigners, as

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they shall sec cause, and to ])ui^ue an enemy as well by sea as liy land." These concessions make no |irovision for inir- chasing the rii;lits or conciliating the feelings of the Indians, hut Governor Philip Carteret, appointed on the day of the date of the concessions, on his arrival late in the summer of the next year, 1GG5, thought it prudent to purchase then' rights. We shall jircscntly have an opportunity of contrasting these with the later concessions of the Quaker pro- prietors.

Berkeley and Carteret held the Pro- vince for over ten years. During this period, Eichard Hartshornc, " a Friend of high standing," settled in East Xew Jersey, having purchased land from for- mer'patentees of the ])iike of York. The Indian claims not having been satis- fied by the duke nor by the patentees under liiin, Pichard found liis lights called in question In- the natives. " The Indians," says he, "eaine to my house and laid their hands on the j.ost and frame of the Imusc and said that house was theirs — they never had anything for it, and told me if I would not buy the land I must be gone. Put I minded it not, thinking it was Davis's land, and thev wanted to get sonietliing of me; tliev at last told me tji^y would kill my cattle and burn my hay if 1 wonlil not buy the land nor ho gonr ; then J went to the patentrcs, which were .lames (jrover, Ilicliard Stout, .iolm Pouml and Piehard Gibbons; they told mo it was never bouiihi, nor had the Indians anvthing

for it. * * I told them I would

not live on those terms, and not only so, but it was dangerous, for the Indians threatened to kill my cattle."

Piehard, afterwards, rejairchased his lands from the Indians. It may well be doubted, and was doubted, by the primi- tive settlers, whether the natives had any more real and intrinsic right to the desert and undivided lands in America, uuini- jn-oved and uncultivated as they were, than the English new-comers. Yet, fol- lowing the safe and royal rule, " What- soever ye would lliat men should do to you, do ye even so to them," jiroved, in their case, as in all others, the best policy as well as the best religion. "While New iMigland and Virginia were scenes of violence and cruelty, and of insecurity of life and property to both Indians ;ir.d English under an opposite policy, in Quaker Xew Jersey, .as afterwanl in Pennsylvania, the two' races lived side by side in mutual good-will, and the In- dians, to use the language of Samuel Smith, " l.iecaine, of a jealous, shy people, serviceable good neighbors."

An account of the new countries, written by the above-mentioned Pichanl Ilartshorne, and circulated among the (^)nake]s, had a great influence in turn- ing the tlionghts of this persecuted com- munity in the direction of America as a iii'w home.

Passing over the temporary reposses- sion of the Province by the Dutch, in ]<')7o, its ri'troci'Si-ion by them to the ICnglish, in IGTo— 1, and the new grants

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tiicrrliv vendcrcd necessary to be made lidiii the King to the Duke of York, iiiiil iVuni the hitter to Berkeley and Car- liTit, to renew tlie title of the latter, invalidated by these transactions, we arrive at the period, A. D. lG7o, when lyord Jkrkeley, becoming weary of his |(r())irietorsliip, offered it for sale at a low priee. At tjiat time, Jdhn Fenwick, of I^indijn, a " I'^ricnd " of considerable nican^. and acting as trustee for Edward liyliynge or ]?yllinge, a gentleman of largo though encumbered estate, con- ctived the idea of inirehasing, conjointly witli JJyllinge as chief, the proprietorship tifiered by Lord Ijcrkeley, and of remov- ing his t'amily to the virgin " land of ]iriimi-e."

Kdward IJyliinge came readily into Fcnwiek's plan, and being himselt' a " Friend," seems to have been sincerely desirous to promote the i-emoval of such "Friends" as wished to join the jiroposcd cnloiiy, thougli he did not inten.d to go tliiihii in p.'i--:Mii. ''1'Ih^ ])r'ipr!i'ti/rslii]i va-; to Ix' in his name, as eliiel', and Fenwick was to receive one-tenth of the lands for acting as liis trustee.

In accordance with their mutual under- standing, Fenwick and Eyllinge now pnx-eeded to make their bargain with I>)rd Berkeley; it was consuinmati d in the same year, by the conveyance to Fenwick, in fru~l for Byllinge and hi- !i-->igns, of Berkehy's moiety or half jiart ol ^^ova C;p.-area or !New Jersey. The luircha<c-mi)ncy recjuired, e\en alluwiiig ioT (lie manifold greater value of money

in tliose days, was ridiculously small ; and yet, such was the situation of Bylliuge's afiidrs, that even this small sum of one thousand ponnds, had to bo advanced by Fenwick. The peculiar circumstances of the case gave rise to misunderstanding and disagreement be- tween Byllinge and his trustee, and they concluded to refer their dispute to Wm. Penn as arbitrator, who, after carefully examining the case, gave his awanl. This not being satisfactory to Fenwick. tlic latter refused to comjily witli it.

A\'illiam Penn's first connectinn witli the colonies appears to have been this service as arbitrator between Byllinge and his trustee. The following letter shows the uncasim-s which the obstinacy of Fenwick. in rei'using to accept his award, brought the wcirthy arbitrator into :

"John Fenwick: — The present differ- ence betwixt thee and Edward J!yl!i:ige tills th"^ hearts of Friends with grief, and with a resolution to take it, in two days, into their consideration to make a jaiblic denial of the perscm that oflers vinleiue to 'die award made, or that will not ej]d it without bringing it u[ion the jmblic stage. Ciod, the rightciuis Judge, will visit him tliat st;inds off. Edward Bylliuiie will refer the matter to me again, if thou wilt do the like. Send me word, and, as opprest as I am with business, I will find an afterminn to- morrow ».(r ]iext day to determine, and -n l-ireveut the mischief that will certainly

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follow divulging it in Webtmiuster Hall. Let nie know by the bearer thy mind. O John ! let truth, and the lumo]- of it in this day, ])revail ! Woe to hiui that causeth ollenses!"

I apiirehend that it was simply the fact of there being a disagreement between two " Fric-iuis," that W. Penn so feared to be " divulgi'd," as likely to bring dishonor u})o:i "Truth." It is well-known that the di.-ciplinc of this sect does not jiurmit Luv-.^uits Victween its members.

"This dispute being at length ad- justed," (in the same year, 1075,) " by the kind offices of Penn, Fenwick em- barked with his family in the ship Grifuth, accompanied by several other Friends, to take ]iosscssion of the land as.signed him. They landed at a ' plca.- ant, rich sjuit'on the Eiver Delaware, where they commenced a scttlenicnt. to which he gave the name of ' .Salcrii,' " (or "])eace.")

Fenwick was of a good and wealthy family, the .-on of Sir V\'illiam Fenwick, of Stanton Hall, Cumberhuul, and lia<! been himself a Major of tlic Parliamen- tary Dragoons. He nuist have been of a somewhat restless and litigious temjier, as he became involved in disputes with the Governor of Xew York, who threw him into prison, and al-o with ^\■illiam Penn, after the hitter's arrival in America. Severe family allliction overtook him and ha=leued his end. On his death-bed he sent for Penn, ii>ked tlii' JatlerV f pix'ivr-

ness for his unfriendly conduct, and appointed him guardian to his children.

The Griffith "was the first English ship that came to the western part of !New Jersey, and none followed for nearly two years." In the list of its passengers occurs the name of John Smith, (of " Smithfield," Salem County,) thought, by some, a cousin of our family.

During this time, Edward P>yllinge, "becoming more embarrassed in his cir- cumstances, was desirous of transii'rring to his creditors his interest in the terri- tory, being the only means he had to satisfy their claims." "At his carnot entreaty, I'enn consented to be associa- ted as joint trustee with two of the creditors, Gawen Lawrie, of Lfindon, and Nicholas Tueas, of Hertford, to carry out his intentions and remlei- tlii' property availalde. Penn thus became one of the chief in-trunients in the settlement of \ew Jersev and (■stabli-li- ment of its colonial gov( rnm<'nt, whieh ]>rejiared him fir the still greater work of founding a colony <4' his own." — (Janney's " Life of Penn.")

"The others aece]>ting tlie charge," (says .'^amuel Smith.) "tlu'y became trustees tor one moiety or lialf jiart of the Province: which, though yet nn<!i- vided, necessity ]iressing, they somi sold a considerable nnmbrr of shares of thoir pro]>riety to ditferent ]innhasers, who thercu|>on became jiroprietors, (according to their ditleront shares,) in common with tJii'iu; anil it beini; neci-sarv that some sehenie should be fallen upon, as

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wfll lor tlie better distribution of rights to laiul, a^^ to promote the settlement and it-riTt;iiii a form of government, confes- sions were drawn, miitutdly agreed on and signed by some of the subscribers, (for tliey did not ali >ign at once). It was next tiie business of tbe proprietors, wiio lield immediately under Lord lierkeley. to ]iiocure a division of the Province."

Till' naine of Iticliard >^initli, as co- iniijirict'ir with liyllin^c- and his trustees, app<-a!s on these concessions next below tbat of JJyllinge and ojijiiisite those of Lawiii' and IVnii. It is evident, from tills, liiat 111- must have been in IjOndon and in conference with thi' trustees at the lime of afiixing his sigiiatuie, whicli is fiu-tlicr co.idii'iued Ijy the tiict that Ins ^■m .b.hii tal<e~ Lit No. '.» in Willi's survt y of JJurlingtou town-lots, among the Lfindoa proj)i-ict(jrs, though liimself a Yorkshireman. Richard Smith, thrrc- fore, was yiie of these oi'iginal co-]iroji;ie- toi> liy /,unl,,i.<r, iiicntiolii'il ill tlio above paragi-apli by Samuel Smitli, and not one of the " Yorkshire creilitors," who afterward took Ihirlinglon town-lots Xos. II to 20, inclusive, on the " Yorkshire -ide" of I5urlingtou. It is every way probalile, then, that he was called into consultation with the other early proprii- lors and sidiscriljcrs, in the formation of the iiriiiKiry law or " Coiieesr^ions."

This douument. dated March 3d, 1G70, »iid entitleil '• The Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freebold- •Ts and Inhabitants of the Province of

West New Jersey, in America," being, in fact, the concession of the Constitu- tion and laws of that province, from the proprietors to the jieople and settlers thereof, and the agTcement thereto and acceptance thereof by the settlers, con- stitutes, to this day, the fiuidamental law of New Jersey: It is signed by one hundred and fifty-one names, being those of ju'oprietors under the trustees of Byllinge, and of holders under old patents of the Dutch and Swedes, and of the Duke of Ydrk.

It will have been observed that Berke- ley and Carteret had held New Jersey as equal ]iartners or"tenants in common," each having an equal right in the whole. The entire rights or " half part " of Lord Berkeley had been transferred to Byllinge and by him to his new trustees, but no territorial division had yet been eftected with Sir G. Carteret, by which the -trus- tees could claim sole property within definite limits. Nevertheless, to accom- modate the jmrchasers and creditors, the tru:rtces agreed upKjn a division of the j)roperty into shares; and, in advance of settlement with Carteret, began to allot them pro rata. The moiety of New Jersey was " cast into one hundred paits, lots or proprieties," ten of which, or one- tenth of the whole, had been allotted, as we have seen, to Feuwiek.

ICdward Byllinge owed to his sevi-ral creditors the aggregate sum of £11,5CK}, a very considerable amount at that period, and actually equivalent, by the decreaso in the relative value of money since, tcj

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about £100,000 now. The largest debts, or those of longest standing, seem to have been due to meuibeis of the " Friends " society in Yorkshire. It was, perliaps, on this account tliat a jirefereiicc was given to creditors from Yorksliire, in tlie following directions to the commissioners of jiropcrty, which place these creditors on an equal footing with original pro- prietors :

'"And the commissioners for the time being arc to take care for setting fortli and dividing all the lands of tlie said province as be already taken up. or bv themselves shall be taken up and con- tracted for with the natives ; and the said land.s so taken up and contracted for, to divide into one hundred parts, as occasion shall require, that is to say, fir evei'v quantity of land that they shall, from time to time, lay out to be ]ilantcd and settled upon, they shall first, for expedi- tion, divide the same int(.i ten equal parts or shares, and, for distinction's sake, to mark in the register, and upon Mime of the trees iK-louging to every tt-iith jiart, with the letters A, 15 and so end at tlie letter K. And after tlie same is so divided and marked, the said commision- ers are to grant unto Thomas Hutchinson, of Beverly ; Thomas Pearson, of lion- ■wicke; Joseph Hehnsly, of Great Kelke ; George Hutchinson, of Shcliiclii, and Mahlon Stacy, of llan-WDnh. all of tin' County of York, or thiir lawful dcputit- or particular commi.-sioju'is, for th.em- sclves and their friends, wiin are a con- siderable number of people, and luay

speedily ])romote the planting of the said province ; that they may have free liberty to make choice of any one of the said tenth parts or .shares, which shall be iir.st divided and set out — being, also, done with their consent — that they may plant upon the .same as they see meet ; and afterward any other person or pri- sons who shall go over to inhabit, and have purchase<l to the iiumber of ten proprieties, they shall and m.ay have liberty to make choice of any of tlie remaining parts or shares to settle in."

The order of choice of allotments thus appears to have been : first, trustees in- tending to settle, (like Fenwick,) and the original purchaser.? who bcciime co-pro- prictoi-s with them and joined v,-ith them in putting forth these concessions; sec- ondly, the Yorksliire cicditors; lastly, any other purchasers to the amount of ten propi-ictics. This arrauLiement gave rise to those -iibdivi-i'iiis ol' West Jersey known as tin' Sulcp.i tentli, I Fenwick's.) the Yorkshire rmth and the IjOndon tenth, which were considered the best lands in the pro\ini-e. After these came the " Irish tenth," etc.

The princijial creditors of I'yllinge in Yorksliire were the five named above in the directions to tiie commissioners ; to these, most of the oth'.T York --hire cred- itors had assigned their clain;s. I:;y two deeds, bearing date the 1st of ]\[arch, A. I>. 1G7G, ]\vllinur and hi.^ trustees made over to thc.-e livi' jier-ons, ten shares of " propriety " in extinction of debts

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iiii.niiiitiiiir to -tooOO, thus .giving fooO I Pentbril uiul Scott, the London proprie-

ii- ihi' thi'M e.stinmtod vnhic of a choice [ tor?:, and Ilehiisley, Stucy and Emlcy the

|.)>i)irietv. The inml dividend of land i Yorkshire ])Voprietors.

nlloiii-d thirtv-iive thousand acres to each , Of tlie one hundred and tifty-one

i.r.iiirietv, giving t'l per the one liundred , names signed totlie'" Concessions," ahont

;icn-- as the average vahie. Tiie best I tliirty are Dutcli and fiwedish, one liiin-

niithiirities make tiie comparative value i dred and four are the new Quaker [>ro-

,<i nicmev to have heen Ijctween eight ' prietors, and the remainder are those of

and nine fiild greater two centuries ago | holders under the Duke of York or

ilian now. 'J'Juis tlie sum of £350 then ' Fenwick. 'J'hc date is March .'id, 1G70.

wnulil he the eipiivaleiit of some £3000 \ The signature of Richard .^mith, of

iKiw. ■ Bi'amham, on tlii~ important docuiiieiit,

The five ahovc-named Yorkshire is in an elegant and "clerkly" hand-

•• l'"rieuds " no douht soon sold out, in writing, with several of the letters formed

part, to others ; for we find the " York- in the old English or Cii.'thic manner.

sliire eomjiany," in ](177, to consist of His eldest son, John, as a jiroj)rietor, was

Iru ]iersons. ^Another company i>f ten entitled to sign ; the name of John

per>ous, for tlic purchase of ten shares, Smith, which we lind ujm)]i the coiices-

was soon made tij) in Eondon, and in thi,-. sions, may, however, he that oi' Jolin, o('

comjiaiiy Kiehard Smith placed his eldest Salem. The second son, Danieh wa^

soil, John, then a youtli of twenty. The.-e also a pro]>rietor ; as he was (;nly a hoy

two companies and the tru>;tees of ' at the time of which we are sjieaking,

Uyliinge unite(l in >eiiding out, in 1(J77, his signature, as li a]ipears .upon tjie

I'oinmissioners " with ]iower to l.uy the conces^ion'-, mu-t iiave heeii aiiixed i>y

lands of the native-, to in-peet the rights him alter his arrixal in .Viu'-riea. in IC.'Jl.

of such as claimed properiv, and to He owned land at I]ur]ingl(jn and at

order tlie lands laid out, and, in general, ]Mesconetcong, and a vast tract at Kgg

III administer the government puivuant Harbor, us title-papers in my jtosses-ioii

to the conces.sions. These commissioners show.

Were Tliomas Olive, Daniel Wills, John This adinirahle constitution, the " C'ou-

Kinsey, John Pentijrd, Joseph Helmsley, : cessions," may owe (as has heen said)

lloheit Stacv, Eenjamin Scott, Kicliai-d part of its insjiiration to the counsels of

<iiiy and Thomas I'oulke," (alsii A\'iliiam Kichard Smith. I suhjoin two"chap-

Kmlcy, as Smith afterwards mentions). ters ;" — (the document it>elf, heautifully

Of the>e, Kinsev, (Jiiv and Fouike ap- j engrossed on vellum, may he .-ecu in the

Jiear to have represented the trustees and i Surveyor-General's fillice, in Jjiirling-

nrlgiiial eo-jiroprielor- ; C)live, "Wills, ' ton:) —

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"CHAPTER XVI.

" That no man, nor number of men ■upon eartli, liatli i)o\ver or authority to rule over men's eonseiciicos in religious matters ; therefore, it is consented, agreed and ordained, that no jierson or pei'sons whatsoever, within the said province, at any time or times hereafter, shall be any- ways, upon any |irctriii.'e whatsoever, called in question, or in the least punished or hurt, either in person, estate or privileLjc for the sake of his opiuion, judgnieiit, faith or wiii'slii[i t<i\v;iids (lod, in matters of relij;ion ; but that all and rvcry sui h person and persons may, from time to time, and at all times, freely and fully have and enjoy his and their judgments, and the exercise of their coii>eiences in matters of religious wiirship th.roughout all tlie said province."

"CHAl'TEU XXV.

* * * " In ciL^c any of tlie pro- prietor.-, freeholder^ or iidialjitaiit.-. shall anywise wrong or inj\n-c any of tlie In- dian natives there, in jierson, estate or otherwise, the comiuissionrrs are {<< take CJire, upon complaint to them made, nr anv one of them, eitlicr by the Indian natives or others, that justice be dene tci tlie Indian natives and ]ilenary :^ati-fac- tiou Ikj made them, airdrding to the nature and cpiality of the olirn-e and injury: And that in all trials wherein anv of the said Indian natives are con- cerned, the trial to be by .--ix of ili<> neighboarho<jd, and .-ix of the saiii In-

dian natives, to bo indiCferently and impartially chosen by order of the com- missioners ; and that the commissioners use tiieir endeavour to persuade the natives to the like way of trial ; when any of the natives do anyways wrong or injure the said proprietors, freeholders or inhabitants, that they choose six of the natives and six of the freeholders or inliabitant.s, to judge of the wrong and injury done, and to proportion satisfac- tion accordingly."

Having promulgated this excellent Charter, the trustees and Ityllinge now proceeded to efl'ect partition with ^ir ( ieoige Carteret, which they did by deed quiniipartite, dated July 1st, 1G7G, iix- ing the dividing line as shown in tho ibllowing extract of a letter from tliem to Ilichard Hart.-<liorne : —

" We have divided with George Car- teret and have sealed deeds of partition, each to the other; and we have all tii.it side on Delaware River fi'om one etui to the other; the line of partition is t'rom the East side of Little Egg Harbor, straight Xorth, through the country, to the iitmo-t branch of Delaware Rivci-, with all powers, privileges and imnnnii- ties whatsoever: ours is called Xew West Jersey, his is called Xew East Jersey.

2d. "We have made concessions liy ourselves, being sucli as Friends here and there (we (piestion not,) will approve <if, liaving sent a copy of them by James Wasse ; there we lay a foundation for after ages to understand their liberty as mi'n and Christians, that they may not

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l»c brought in bondage, but by tlicir own nin?cnt ; for we put tlie po-ucr in the jicHiplc, tliat is to say, they to meet and (■hoo>e one honest man for each propriety who hatli subscribed to tlie concessions; all these men to meet as an assenil>Iy tliere, to make and repeal laws, to choose a governor, or a commissioner, and twelve a>^istants, to execute the laws during their jileasure; so every man is capable to choose or be chosen: ISTo man to be arrested, condemned, impri^oned or mn- iested in his estate or liberty, but by twelve men of the neighbourhood : No man to lie in jirison lor debt, but that liis estate, satisfy as far as it will go, and he set at liberty to work : Xo 2ierson to he called in question or molested for his conscience, or for worshijiing according to his conscience; witii many more things mentioned in tlie said cnnces- sions."

The humane and liberal provision.- I'oi' the protection of Indians and debtdrsarc sjK-cially noticeable. A late writer says : " S) comprehensive and iierfect are the forms of government an<l tlic rights of tlie people as laid down in these conces- sion,-;, tliat it inav well be di.mbted whetlier

we have in any one thing improved the theory and principles."

The sons of the second Eichard Smith, " induced by the grateful prospect of religious freedom after long oppression," removed to America, (with one exception, that of Benjamin, who died single in Eng- land,) at various times from 1G77 to IGO'J. John, the eldest, was the first to emigrate, in 1G77, and to him was allotted Xo. 0 of the city lots in Burlington, on which lot, after his death, his next brotlier, Daniel, built one of tlie oldest mansion^ in Burhngton, still standing. Daniel, Joseph and Emanuel followed John, in 1091 ; next came Samuel, and lastly, in 1099, Ricliard.

The value of seven thou-and ]ioniid^ in goods was paid to the Indians in iiiial satisfaction ot their claims, by tlie hun- dred proprieties; tliis gives siventy pounds per share, wliich being added to fir.-t cost, make- the 'full co.-t of. the ]iru- ]irieties of iiicliard Sniilb and liis eld.'.-t sons, sometiiing "vcr tbiir hun'.lred pounds apiei-e. Tiieir titles cnveied lands in various parts of We>t Jersey, on the Rivers Delaware, Me-;con>'tcoiig,Ran- cocas and JCng Harbor.

CHArT]:ii V,

FR0:M TIFE OLD Ho.MK TO THE NEW.

rririE coiiiiiiis.si(jiicr-i ;iji|i(iiiited liy -L Bylliiige's trustees, tlic London and Yoi-kslili'e proprietors, left ICngland in the slii]> Kent, (iregory MarIo^v. master, early in KuT, "being tlio secimd shi]) li'Oni Loudon lo the western ]iarls." AVlicu about leaving the 'I'lianies. we read that "King Charles II.," (being) "in bis barge, pleasuring on the Thames, came alongside," (and) "seeing a great many passengers, and "(being)" informed whence they weie bound, ashed if tliev were all Qiiakei's, and gave iheni hi-^ blessing." " They arrived at New C'asile the IGth of the sixth month, ( ). S., an<l landed their jiax-eii-ers. two humlred and thirty in numlier, abnut Jlaehonn ereek wiiere the S\ve(l..s had >,inie seatlerin- habitations but ihey were too niinier,,,!^ to be all provided f..r in hon~cs: some were obliged to lay iheir i;ed-; :,,id furni- ture iu Cow-stalls, ami ap].arinients of that sort; among other ineonveuienees to which this expo-iMl ibeni, the .-iiakes were now- plenty enough to be fre,|Uently seen U[m)u the hovel- luider whii-h tluv sheltered : M<.-t of the pa-en-.-rs in linV

ship were of tho-e v.iU^-^l (^liiak( i- some

of good estate-^ in lluL'land." h is likelv lh;Tt our young pioneei-proi'iietor, .biliu Smith, (who was one of liie pa--en!;ers

by this ship,) with the modesty proper to youth, took his chance with those who thus "camped out," and so got his first taste of the roughness of the new home. " The commissioners had betbre leit them, and wei-e, by this time, got to a ])laee called Chygoe's Island,'^' from ('hygoe, an Indian sachetn, who lived there, (afterwards Eurliugton,) their business being to treat with the Indians about the land tliere,and to regulate the settlements, having not only the proprietors', but fiovernor Audro,-'t commis,-ion for that pnrjjose ; for in their passage hither they had liist dropped anchor at Sandy Hook, while the commissioners went to New- York to ac(|uaint him with their design ; tor though they had ee.iielnded the powers ihey had from the )iroprietors were suili- eient te> their purjio,~e, tiie_\ thought it a proper resj.eet to the Duke of York's Commission, to wait on his governor uj.oii the occa.sion ; he treated them civillv, but

*A l;itp l.-cuinr | W. A. .lohusnn. IsTO.i has a.l- v;inri-.l 111., ih.nrv ih;,i S;,iii„..l Smith nu-.. -latin- u mire r..n|.-ctiin. wlirn lie wr..tc r,( the- iD.li.ln =aih.™ I l..>.--i': that th.To r:..ii..>„,|, -a, l,om, niiii tl,at thu M«,MT „r tl..' i-!.,n.l «a? ri.Ti- .l.-u-,.,,. «. Kn-nduiian. \'t -1. ■■.',.11, 111 hi> i.ivii .!(<, ri|.ii..n i.r liis |.r.M.,Ttv. iii:iKt-it -■.„rr,„ia,„>i Matiiiau-rum l>lan(I mid UnV- liiiL'l..ii.-(:) ff /,,.;..,«/, l;,i.-l:u..'i..n. ii cvi.l.-ntlv , ..i,l,l n..i I..-,,. l!ar!..iL.t,..!, I ,,r..|:.r llw ni:il,..r.l v' ,.f th.. iiiH i.iit ami a.-iirali' hi-l..ri:i;;.

t fJovminr uii.l.T the lUiki- of York.

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u.-kcd them if they had auything from ilip duke, liis ma>:tcr? tliey rejilied, noth- ing,' jwrtieularly, but tliat he liad con- veyed that part of his eouiitiy to Lord IJerkeley, and lie to ]}yllinge, etc., in wliicli tlie g(jvernment was as much con- veyed as tlie soil. Tlie governor replied : 'All tluit will not clear jiie ; if I should hurreinler without the duke's order, it is as mueh as my liead is worth ; but if you had but a line or two from the duke, I ; should be as ready to surrender it to you as you wouhl be to ask it.' Ujion whii-h the commissioners, instead of excusing their imprudeui'C in not bringing such an order, began to insist ujion their rights, and strenuously to a.~.scrt their iudepeu- deney : But Andros, cla]ipiiig his hand on his sword, told them tlnit should drfcnd tht- government tioui tliem till lie received orders from the duke, his master, to .surrender it; he, liowever, softened, and told them he woidd do what was in Ills ]>e)wer to make them e;i-y till they could -end home to -ef reihe>s: and, in ordi-r tliereto, woidd commi-sionnte the same fier.<ons mentioned in the conimis- sion ihey produced, 'i'his they accepted, i'.nd uiidertitok to act as magistrates under him till further orders came from Eng- land, and proceed in relation to their land utfairs according to the methods prescribed by the proprietors."

The lands now jiurcha^ed from tlie natives by the commissioners extended from Oldmau's Cieck, the northern boun- dary of the ^^aleln tenth, througli the later divisions of Cllouce.-^tcr, Camden, ti

Burlington and fiercer Counties, to tlie Falls of Delaware and the Assuii}iink Creek. The lands on the Earitan and Muscouetcong ^ycre bought in 1703.

" Having traveled through the country and viewed the land, the Yorkshire com- missioners, Josejih Helmsley, William Emley and Robert Stticy, on behalf of the first purchasers, clio.se from the Falls of Delaware down, which was hence called the first tenth ; the London com- missioners, John I'entbrd, Thomas Olive, L*aniel Wills and Benjamin Scott, on behalf of the ten London projirietors, cho.se at Arwaumus, (in and about where the town of Gloucester now is); this was called the second tenth. To begin a set- tlement there, Olive sent uji servants to cut hay for cattle he had bought. When the Yorkshire commissioners found the others were like to settle at such a dis- tance, they told them if they would agree to fix by them, they would join in settling a town, and that they should have the largest share, ii; consideration that they (the Yorkshire commissioners;, had the best land in the woodn : Being tew, and the Indians numerous, they agreed to it. The connnissioners em- ])loyed Noble, a surveyor, who came in the first ship, to divide the spot. After the main street \s',\s ascertained, he di- vided the land on each side into lots; the easternmost among the Yorkshire pro- j>rietors, the other among the Londoners. To begin a settlement, ten lots of nine acre-s each, bemnding on the west, were laid out ; that done, some ]iassengers from

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Wickaeo, chiefly those concerned in tlie Yorksliire tenth, arrived the hitter end of October. The London connnissioiiers also employed Xoble to divide the part of the island yet unsurveyi'd, between the ten London proprietors, iu the num- ner before mentioned : The town tims by mutual consent laid out, the eouunis- siouers gave it the name, first of Isew Beverly, then Bridlington, but s(jon changed to Burlington."

After giving a list cf the heails of families, passengers Ijy the Kent, Samuel Smith continues :

" John A\'ilkinson and ^\'illialu I'cr- kins''' were, likewise, with their linnilies, passengers, but dying on the voyage, the latter were exposed to additional hard- shi])S, which were, however, moderated by the care of their I'clitiw-pus^engers. Perkins was, i.'urlv in lii'r. ei.invinced of the principles of those calieil Quakers, and lived well in Leieestrrshirc, but see- ing an account of the country wrote by Richard Harl-horne, ami Ibnuing view.- of advantage to hi- t'amily — though in liis fifty-second year — lit', with his wife, , four children and some servants, em- barked in this ship. Among the latter," (servants,) " was one Mar.!;hall, a carjien- ter, particularly serviceable in fitting up habitations for the new-comers: but, it being late in the fdl when they arrived, the winter was much ^peui before the .work was begun ; in the interim they lived in wigwams, built after the manner

• Metorna! (rrandfathcr tu the wife of Riuhard Smilb, th^ f ,arth.

of the Indians. Indian corn and venison, supjilied by the Indians, was their cliief food. These peo[ile were not then nuich corrupted with strong liquors, but gen- erally very friendly and heliiful to the English ; notwithstanding it was thought endeavours had been used to make them otherwise, by insinuations that the iMig- lish sold them the small-]iox in their match-coats. Tliis distemper was among them, and a company getting together to consult al>out it, one of their chiefs said: ' In my grandfathfr's time the small-j'ox came, in my fatJier"s time the small-pox came, and now in my time the small- pox is come." Then, stretching his hands towards the skies, said : ' It came from thence.' 'i'o wdiich the rest assented. '

Thomas Budd. an early settler, reports this speech more at length ; it wa- addressed to the English, as ibllows; " You are our brothers, and we are wil- ling to live like brothers witli you: we are willing to have a broad path for you and us to walk in. and if an Indian is asleep in this jiath. the I'higli.-hman ^hall pa.ss 1)V and do him no hai-m ; and if an Englishman is asleeji in this path, the Indian shall pass him by, and say, 'lie is an Englishman, he is asleep; let him alone, he loves to sleep.' It shall be a jilain path; there must not be in this path a stumj) to hurt our feet. And as to the snuill-jiox, it was once in my grandfiither's time, and it could not be the Engli-h that could send it to us then, there Iwiiig no I'^nglish in the country. And it was once in mv fatiier's time.

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iliiv conlt! not ^eiiil it us tlieii, neitlicr; iiii'l iKiu- it i.s in iny time, I do not be- ll.'vo that tlicy have sent it us now; I do IhUcvo it i^ tlie Man above that hath M'nl it to us."

T. IJiidd adds: "The lu(b"aus have Ihi'ii very serviccalilc to us ijy ;-elliug us venison, Indian corn, pease and beans, li-h and fowl, buclcskiiis, beavei-j otter and otlier skins and furs; tlie men liunt, li-li and fowl, and tlie women plant the corn and earry burthens. There are many of themof a good understanding, consider- in;,' their education, and in their public meetings of business, they liave excellent order, one speaking after another; and while one is speaking, all the rest keep silent, and do not so nuich as whisper one to the otiiei'. We had scvuial mec't- ings with them; one was in older to ]>ut <lown the sale of nim, brandy and oiher strong liquors to tlieiii, they being a ]ieo])]c that have not government of lliemselves so as to drink in moderation. Ai whicli time there were eight kings; (<'ne of them was Ockaniekon, a noted friend to the English), and many oilier Indians. The kings sat on a form, and we on another over against them ; tle-y liad prepared four belts of wampum, (so their current money is called, bring • 'lack and white beads made of a fi-h- '■lieli,) to give us as seals of the covenant •Iiey made with us; one of the kings, by the consent and aj'pointment of the T'^t, stood up and made this following "[H-eeh : ' The strong lii(iior was lii>t solil to us by the Dutch ; and thev were blind,

they had no eyes, they did not see that it was for our hurt. The next people that came among us were the Swedes, who continued the sale of those strong liquors to us; they were also blind, they bad no eyes, they did not see it to be hurtful to ns to drink it, although we know it to be hurtful to us ; but if people will sell it to us, we are so in love with it that we cannot forbear it : when we drink it, it makes us mad, we do not know what we do; v.e then abuse one another, we throw each other into the fire. Seven score of (nir people have been killed by reason of the drinking it, since the time it v,-as tirst sold us: Those jieople that sell it are blind, they have no eyes ; but now theie is a ]ieople come to live among us that have eyes, they see it to be for our hurt, and we know it to be for our hurt ; they are willing to deny themselves the profit of it for our good. These jieople have eyes, we are glad such a jieople are come amongst us; we must jmt it dnwn In- mutual consent ; the ca>k must be sealed up; it must be made fa.-t, it ninst not leak liy day nor liy night, in the ligiit nor in the dark; and we give you these (our belts of wampum, which we would have you hiy up safe and keep by you, to be witnesses of this agreement that we make with you ; and we would have you tell your children that these four belts of wamj'Um are giveu you to be witnesses betwi.\t us and you of this agree- ment.' "

dohn Crips, another settler, says of the city lijt.s in Burlington, under date

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" 2Gtli of eiglitli month, 1G77 :" " The town lots for every propriety will l:ie about ten or eleven acres, which is only for a house, orchard ami gardens ;" and in a letter dated " L'Otli second month, 1678," he says: "Here are several per- sons, men of estates, that have been here, and have gone back to England and sold their estates, and returned with their whole families hither ag;uii."

Two other vessels arrivetl in IJurling- ton, in 1677, the " AVilling Mind," from Ixindon, and the '• Martha," fioni Bur- lington, Yorkshire.

The account of the survey of the city lots in Burlington, by Daniel "Wills, the younger, son of Daniel "Wills, tlie early proprietor and conimissiouer, is as fol- lows: "The commissioners for William Penn, Gawen Lawiie, JS'icliolas Lucas and the rest of the jsroprietors, unani- mously employed liichard Noble to divide the S|>ut where the town was to be, which he did to a general satisfaction. Tiieu his work was to divide it into lots. After the street called High Sm-et was laid out from both, the easternmost side of the street was to l)e divided am.mg the Yorkshire jiroprietors, as thev were then called, and all the land lying on the westernmost side, bounded bv the river and creek, was to i>e laid out, bv the unanimous con-ent of the coniini— sioners, to those that was call.'d the l.-.n- don ten propertys. So, in order lo Kf-in a settlement, the sinveyor was ordrn.l to^iirvey ten lots of iiim- acres i-.u-h, all bounding ujMDn tiie wtstern side of the

High Street. When that was done,Daniel Wills, my father, in the mouth of Octo- ber, I think towards the lattci' end, made what speed he could, winter coming on, to make a settlement there; — so bought up servant.? — also the tw(j John A\'ool- stons, Samuel Clift and his wife and son came up with us. I remember we had ; a north-east storm of wind and rain for forty-eight hours, about the miihlle of which wecame to the lauding; and when ashore, the first thing to Ijc done was to draw lots to find which of tlie ten was my father's. So my father wrote down nine of the proprietors' names in bits of ! paper, and rowlcd them up, for the tenth he did not know; but he i-owh.d up a blank paper for it, and put them all into a hat, covered, and caused an unconcerni'd person to draw them (jut. So tlie blank j lot came out iirst, which was to be ne.xt I the river, and in two months alter the 1 i>er.son arrived and product il his j-ight to ■ it, which was Tlmnias Bu.id, fir>t; second, Thonuis Hooton; third, Daniel Wilis; fourth, John Pentord ; liith. Ridge-. O. Paidyard, (x/V-.); sixth, Tlioinas Ulive; seventh, P.enjamin Scott ; lightii, W"\\- liam IVachy; ninth. John Snuth ; tenth, ' Richard Mew. This being done, we took up our packages, and ilmmgli the woods we Went to find tlie third lot. M'hen there urrivol, all in the rain, we set u]) .Mjn.e forks, and poles upon tiiem, and covered our tents with blan- kets, but all that dl.l but little good, for it rain.'.l thiongh uj^.n us all night. So that betwi.Nl the rain, and smoke of our

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Jirf, uiul wet clothes, which never dried until they dried on our backs, we was very much benumbed. Had not my ililhcr had more courage than either his R)ii or servants, to go out in the dismal, dark night, to get wood to recruit the fire, we might have perished. Eut to pro- ceed : the commissioners, after all this, betook themselves to dividing the York- shire part of the island, and after Thomas Olive came up with his family, the Lon- don commissioners emjdoyed, also, the said liichanl Xoble to divide tlie remain- ing part of the island that was yet mi- surveyed, between the ten proprietors aforesaid. All which lots aforesaid, by order of the commissioners, was surveyed and appropriated to the proprietors in tlie year 1C>77.

"Tiionias Olive and Daniel AVills, my father, was with the surveyors, always one or the other of them ; John Penford and Benjamin Scott being gune fur England before the whole was fiui^lied. Sdiiic time, I tiiink a'lont two yc;irs aft.T, the commissioners appointed William Emley to l>e the proprietDrs' purveyor, and con- sidering it would be necessarv fni' fire- wood, etc., to accommodate the town, they cmjiloyed him to survey oft' so much land adjoining to the said town as might answer to each of the said twenty pro- prietors four liundred acres, which was called 'town bound lands,' tor each jiro- prietor to take it up," {/. c. fire-wood,) " within the said bounds ; and was not dividetl, otherwise than eaeli proprietor took it U]i, but was in general surveyed

out for the service of these twentv pni- I prietors and no others." i (Signed bv William Matlock and

Daniel Wills).

i The fire-wood from four hundred acres

j should have been amply sufllcieiit to keep

i off the winter's cold from our young

jjioneer from Bramham. After his land

affairs in the colony had been dulv

' attended to, John Smith returned to

England and his f;ithei-'s house. This

ajipears, by rmr accounts, to have ijeen

about 1078. He seems to have once

more come to America and to have again

returned about 1GS8, the year of his

father's decease. Finally, on a third and

last voyage to the colony, in comjiany

with his youngest brother, Richard, in

the year 1G90, he died at sea, unmarried,

at about furty-two years of age.

The " fall " or autumn of 1G77, was that in which the Burlington jiroprietors' town-lots and " wood-lots '' were surveyed. In the autumn of the next year, 1U78, ther.' arrived, from Hull, a shiji, con- taining a personage who was to be an important one in our family stury. This was little Mary ^lurfiti. or ?^Iyrlin, a cliiM of three or four years of age, after- wards the wife of the fii-st Daniel Smitli, who arrived with her parents in the sliip Shield, (or Shii-lds,) Daniel Tuwts, cnin- mander, "in the tentii month. O. S., 1G7S." Samuel Smith savs, the " Shield" " droppeil anchor before Burlington, be- ing the first ship that came so far uj> Delaware: Against CVia(piaiinock." (af- tenvards Philadelj.hia,) " being a bold

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shore, ?lie went so neiir in tuniiiig, that part of the tackling struck the trees ; some on board tlien remarked, that it was a fine spot fur a t(j\vn : A fi'csli gale brought her to liurliiigton. She moored to a tree,'^' and the next muniing the people came ashore on the ice, so hard had the river suddenly frozen." In the list of passengers are the names of " Robert Murfin, his wife (Anne) and two children."

Robert j\Iinfin, or 3[yrfin, was of an old Norlh-of-England family, the son (jf Robert Myrfin, of Eaton, Notts. J ex- tract, from an old I'eeord, the following bit of anticjue genealogy, to sIk^w the singular changes of spelling, in the same family, of this name ]\Iyriin. whi(,]] may even be identical with Mt irelield !

"Mirfin or Murlin \v;is ancirntiv ]\Iir- field ; the various ;uicient sjiellings of the name, the recoids of 3Iirlin, of Thureroft, show as follows:

"Hugh ^lirfield, of Mirlleld, married heiress of William de Thureroft, temp. Edward I. Iii.tiie .^ame t:im)lv, E~nu-iis Vesey de Knai'ti'U marries, verv earlv. Matilda, or Maud, daughter of "\\'illiam Myrlin, or Mirfni. alias .Mvrtold., Knight. llalpli Iltittield, of Laugliton en le Mer-

♦ Thi' tree wa^ i.n th^ p,,int bclw.-ii li.l iware au.l .\sisrnnk Ou.'k : thrrc w.i- th.-ii an Imliaii tn«n npna this puiDt with a comclTv. .Inspph ^an-oin. in IT--, »3y3 :— -'111.- Dtlawart- lins miko L'ru.liiallv (.■noriiai hr,j upon it-< bank.-i. Khi.-b arc Ijcr,; vrv lnvv. ami -cm'-, titnei diniutjs tlif m.Hilu.Tia,' li.ni'-'i.r llio dd idIkiIi. itiints; ImiL' -triuir- nf \vami»un anil rude iii-lriiiiH'nt^ of bnsl.aii.lrv an- ort,-,i fMiind by the li.iL'lil..M:r)ii._'

cllildrtL. washed out llpcm the fand, and are t :.-ht

up for a triHe, to swell the coUfcti.ms of the ■:'i:noin

thing, marries Margaret, daugliter of Robert Merfield, of Thurcroi't. Thomas Levett, of Melton, marries, temji. Eliz., the daughter of jMyrfin, of Thureroft," etc.

Of Mary JVIurfin, it is iccorded, that being a child of teiuler ;ige when taken bj' her parents to America, .she got no other schooling than such as her mother Could give her in their new forest-home among the red men ; whose language she actjuired as perfectly as she did her ptirentb' English tongue. 81ie was born in 1G7-1, and iri liJ'Jo, being twenty-one yetirs of age, was married to Daniel ymitli, of Bramham, son of the second Richaril Smith, tunl next brother of tlic Jojm of whom we have just eaui;ht a tew glim)i.-es. "They lived teigether in great harmony near tifty years, timl she bi'ouglu him nine children." She be- came a distinguished minister among the " Friends," and wa.s, moreover, a " muta- ble " housewife.

Her ]iarents, Robert and Anne ^Mtirfni, settled at C'liestertield, near Burlington, in the woods, where the following inci- dent oeeurred snon titter their tnrivtil : "The luditms were verv numerou.-, but friendly and hospittible, bringing in large quantities of corn ;ind venison, which they libenilly exehtinged for household uteii-ils or other little articles freijuently of suiiill value tor which they httd a iani-y. One of the chiefs, ;i tall, likely youth, wtis partieularly tittrticted by a curtain of red stuii' with hirgi' bra-s rini;s which huii:; riiun<i Anne Murlin's

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Intl, iiiul would not be ilenicd so brave a iiicc-f of finery, tliougli tlicy could very illy simre it. He gave tlieni all tlicy ii-ked fur it — jx'rliaps a field or a meadow w;i.< the purchase of the suit — and maiclK-d out of the cabin in tr)uni|ih, with the curtain thrown over his shoul- ders, and looking buck at every step to survey the broad rings that jingled at his heck." A eldest of iVnne Murtin's is still in the family.

" The Indians on this part of the ciin- tinciit, liefVire the Europeans came among tlieiii, were a sober, harmless people, in- spired with sublime and even just ideas of the ]wwer and goodness of < 4od. They were lioth honest and generous to the utmost of their knowledge and abilities, for they had little to spare, living very simply without iiuii-h care and labour, uj>on lish and venison, which were then -l)lenty, together with the spontaneous jiroduee of the liclds and w^ods. The ciiief of.this [ilare, an old man called Ockaniccon. dird slcHtly after tin.' ariival of tlie English.'' '• lie aj.pcars to have U'eii a man of eapacity and rcfiectinn, whose kind receiition of our aneesturs deserves to be gratefully remembiiLd." (J. Ransom).

From a MS. by Mary Mnrtin ^initli, preserved in "Watson's Manuscript An- nals, I take the following : " The Indians iK'ing very numerous and of a strange language, yet, bv (Jud's providence they were made helpful at the first settling, for they brought veiiisnii and ^vild fowls, !ils<j torn, to .sell to the h^ngli.sh. They

was also a defense from the ravenous beasts by hunting them and killing thcni." "Our houses was made of pali.sa- docs, and some of logs, covered with long grass. They pounded the corn by rea- son they ha<l no mill in the country,'^ except by some private families that had a steel mill. Xotwithstauding the mas- ters of families was men of good estates in the world, yet Ijefore they could get the land in order, and get corn and stock about them, they knew great hardships, and went through many difliculties and straits. Yet I never heard them say, ' 1 would I had nut come here,' or rejiiue. It looks something like Joseph's going before his brethren to provide for their coming.

"And after the English did come more and more, there came a sore di^tem- , per among the Indians, that tlu.y dicil mj fast that in some places their b(jdies wasted above ground, they couhl iKjt bury all the dead.

" It was said that an old Indian king," (Okanickon,) "sjiake ]n'oj)hetically be- fore his death and said the Indians should decrease and the Engli.~h in- crease.

" It must be allowed among all con- siderate persons, that this was the haiul of Providence that did thus jirovide and j'rcserve, plant and pluck up. '■■ '''"

" Without any carnal weajiou we entered the land, and inhabited therein as safe as if there had been thousands

ftw veurs afterwar.l.

PI up Uiie tir>t ri-^'uliir llnur inilU

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of garrisons, for the i\Iost High preserved tion of uiaiiy people both in tliis pro- us both from haini of man and heast. , vince and other jihices."

* ''' '" '■'■ '■' '■'' I "They that came first was near two

"As it is said in Holy Wi-it, ' The ; years and a half before they got a mill

preparation of the heart in man is of the to grind their corn; they pounded it one

Lord,' so it may well be believed that day for the next ; yet tliey were content

the liearts of this people was jjrepared and had their health generally verj' well,

for this service, even to labor for the and very few died ibr a long time." replenishing of tliis land, it being a Katharine ]\Iui'lln, a sister of Kobert's,

wilderness, indeed, and they unaccjnainted was married very early, even before tlie

with the natni'c of the soil, and also with constrnetion nf the great meeting-tent,

the inhabitants; altogether as pilgrims and with even inoi-e than the usual idyllic

and strangers, at their lir?t coining amoug simjilicity of the " Friends," to jNIatthew them. ' Chainjiion. This was the first niar-

"It doth ajipear that tlie aforesaid riage in the colony. " I'ho jirelimi-

people was zealous in performing their naries being settled, they soon after

religious services, for they having no assembled a few Friends, proceeded to tlie

house to keej) meetings in, they niaile a nearest public jilace — tiie first cro,-s-way

tent or covert of sail-cloth to meet undci-, they came to — and there sdlomnlv de-

and after they got some little hoiwes to dared that they took eai-h (itlier for man

dwell in, then they did kecjithc meeting and wife, with mutual jimmises of faith

in one of those, until tiny conlcl build a and love, until death sIkjuKI separate

meeting-house. TlnFinas (_)nvr and ^Vil- tluin. After the t'lTemunv thevictuiutd

liam I'eaehy was twn of tjir lir>t sittlers home ((j dinner ami ' made go(jd cheer' on

that had a j.iiblic niini^lry. Samuel some tVesh fislMvhich they purchaMd of a

Jennings and his wite, Aiiiu> Jennings, party of Indians (whom) they met in the

w;ls e;irly comers into America, who wa> path."

of a worthy mcinoiy. endowed with both Another shi]i arrived from Londou in

spiritual and tem]'ond wisdom. Some this year, (1G7S,) and about this time, or

part of his time he was made governor shortly afterward, arrived two jiersons,

of the jiroviiiee of \\\-t Jei-ey. He ilistined to be enrolled as coUaoral aii-

was a .sujipressor of vice and an eneour- eystors of the IJnrlington Smiths. Tlic-e

ager of virtur. Shiirp toward evil-doers, were' Anthony ^lorris and Thomas lia-

but tender and loving to ibnii that ilid pier.

well, giving good coiiii>el and whole-ome Anthony ^loiris was of a n'ood familv,

advice to friend- and urighbonrs. An very numerously represented in A\'alcs.

able mini-trr of the (io-j.el, and laboured It is understood that his jiareiits were in

much therein to the comfort and cdiliea- good business in J.ondou. He writes

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liim.<i'lf " mariner ;" it luis, however, been | fruit to aclmiration, tlieir very liinbs torn

Mi]i|io.~eil that he came over as siipercurno [ to pieces with the weiglit, and most de-

ol'a mercantile venture, in whicli he was | licious to tlie taste, and lovely to.behold ;

interested. His seal upon extant docu- i I have seen an a[iple-tree from a pippin

inentssliows "a lion ]iassant,"andreseni- , kernel, yield a barrel of curious cyder ;

\<U-7i the arms of Morris of Cardigan, i and peaches in such plenty, that some

which family, however, added the "aui;- I people took their carts a peach-gathering;

mentation" of "three scaling-ladders" ! I could not but smile at the conceit of it:

to commemorate tlie eaptui'e of Cardigan ; They are a very delicate fruit, and hang

Ca-tlc by one of the family, in A. D. : almost like our onions that are tied on

11-10, through e.-calade. I ropes: I liave seen and known, this

Thomas llapier was of a wealthy | summer, forty bushels of l.iuld wheat (if

family in Sindersby, Yorkshire, a Itianch | one bushel sown." " AVe have from the

of which exists, or lately existed, in | time called May until ^Michaelmas, great

1-riindon, and has contributed one of the j stoi'e of very gond wild fruits, as straw-

Jyord Mayors of that great metropolis." j berries, cranberries and hurtleberries,

lie married a daughter of the before- 1 which are like our bilberries in England,

iiientioued AVilliam Perkins, or Perkyns, i but far sweeter; they are very whole-

<ii Seilly, t,on of Thomas IVrkyns, son ' some fruits. The cranberries nuich like

ol "the reverend" William Perkvns, a cherries I'or colour and bigness, which

non-conformist; divine, nienlioii.d by may be kept till fniit come in auain ; an

■ plaint Thomas Fidler, in his " l^uglish , excellent sauce is made of them for veni-

Worthies." I son, turkeys and other great Ibwl, and

Both Morris and Papier were meiidiers tliey are better to mnlse tans than either

"fthe colonial le-i.lativea.-srinMies, and goosberries or ehenies; we have them

mihl prefix the title, "the honorable" brought to our hou-es !.y the In, bans in

to their names. The name Papier, in ' great plenty. My brother Pol.ert had

time, lost the /, and was speit Pap.'r. as many cherries this year as would have

The land in wliiel, oui- good and sini- loaded several carls: It is mv iudu'-

I'le-hearted foumlers of states had ••m- , ment, by what 1 have observed," that

harked their flirtiines was virgin wilder- fruit trees in this country destmv theni-

ne^s_ ,,f a light and unexhausted soil, selves by the very weii:lit of their fruit :

:'i'd when the heavy timber-growth was As fbr veni-on and fouls, we have -real

removed, prodn,-ed .-plrndid crop-. A plenty: We have br,,u:;ht h..me to our

■••Iter from .Mahlon Siacy, in IG.M), says: houses, by the Indian.^, .-even or eight

"I liave seen orchards laden with iiit bucks of a dav ; and sometimes put

• TU„ma.s K^^i^^i^.f was ,li-,nli,ni(Ml ^,,,1 tnrn,...i „ui ''^' " ''''-'•'"■''■) " ''"^ '^'aiiy, ha\ ing no oee;i- "f <I.H.rs hv his fmhcr fur JMiniup Ok- i;,iiikcrs. sion for them ; and fisii in their season

'I', t'.l. Line 11, lor 1140 read 110(>.

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very plenteous : ^ly Cousin Revell and I, with some of my men, went, last third mouth, iulii the liver to catch herrings, for at that time they eanie in great shoals into the shallows ; we had neithei- rod nor net ; hut after the Indian fashion, made a round pinfold abuut two yards over, and a foot high, hut left a gap for the fish to go in at, and made a bush to lay in the gap to keej) the lish in ; and when that was done, we took two long birches and tied their tops together, and went about a stmieV cast above our said pinl'old ; then, bawling these birches' boughs down the .-treain, where we drove thousands before us, but"' (only) "so many got into our trap as it would hiild; and then we began to hawl them on shore as fast as three or f uir of ih cuuld, by two or three at a time, and after this manner, in half an hour, we could have tilled a three-bashel .-ack of a.-- good ami large herrings as ever 1 saw." "And though I speak of herrings only, le-t any should think w- have little uther sort.s, we have great ]dentv of most .-orts of lish that ever I saw in 1-jigland, bosidt/s several oile'i- .-orts that are not known there; as rocks, cat-li>h, shad.

sheep's-head, sturgeons ; and fowls plenty, as ducks, geese, pheasants, turkeys aiul partridges, and many other sorts that J cannot remember, and woidd be too tedious to mention." " Indeed, the coun- try, take it as a wilderness, is a brave country," "and for my part, I like it ;<o well I never had the least thought of returning to England, except on the acco\int of trade."

In another letter, he says: "Burling- ton will be a jilace of trade quickly : for here is way for trade: ], with eight more, last winter, bought a good ketch of fifty tons, freighted her out at our own charge, and sent her to Barbados, and so to sail to Salt-tv'rlugas. to take in jiait of hi'r lading in ^ah. and the rest in Jlaiiiiidos goods as she came back, which said voyage >he hath aeconipli>h( d very well, and now rides before Burling- ton, discharging her lading, and so to go to the ^\"est Indies again; an<l we intend to t'p.-ight her out with our own corn."

The voyage of this tiny vessel was tie- lieginning ot'the Burlington A\'e-t India trade, in which onr ancestors engaged lor several fenerations.

chaptp:r VI.

SETTLKM E>'T.

ft

)\\ IK

vJAML'l':LJKNXTNGS,liivtgi)venior ; ut this time stil

O of Werft New Jerscv, was u rullat- i inuiniiig in Englaml, tlmu-li a ininoritv

,.n,l an.rstor of lliat In-anrl, of the I'.ui- of the whole miuiber .,f propriUois, th^^..

Wu-Um Sinitli-, whose resiaencc was persons, among whom was Bylliuge, were '•liranihain." ]!,ivHn-ton Coi.ntv. The ! quietly permitted for a time, by the settl.T

„;.,„.■ was aneimtlv spvlt .lenvi.s and in-oprietors. to exercise their supi^osea . .h-ninu-s. and h.^ has Wvu s,r|.p..-e,l to ^ right of sending out a gover,>or to rule

have been of the same familv as the the settlers "of New Jei'sey. distinguished Sir Soame Jenvns.- Tiie proprietors in England, to get

Ivlward livUino-e, the original pmi.rie- over the diiliculty caused by the preten-

tor of Westdersev under the grants of sions of Bylliuge to the rights ot gov-

thr Duke of York and Lord I'.erkeley, enunent, (and also to do justice to his

still rrtained a hii-.> number ofi.n.prie- large ja-oprietary interest-,) appointed

tarv sliares, and coneeived himself to be him governor. He, in his turn.in.t

slifl in i-ossession of the rights of govern- wishing to remove to A merlca.^appointed meiit there, oiiuinallv derived from the , SamuelJenings hi- d-puty. The latter rnval finiilv. 'fhc niajoritv of the pro- ' removed his fandly from Cole's Ih!l.

privtors re-idin- in New .leis^.v. took the lluekinghamsldre. in " the third month,

irround, which was succesMuliv a-<-rted IGSI)," and anived. in tl,.; Drhiware

:iibse(juenl conti'st, that the rights ot

River about the first of September of

rninentandtheeho;„.ofai:overnor, ' that year. (Vhh his letter to renn.

were traiisft'rred with the land, and re- tie.)

sided in a majority of the actual proprie- Samuel Smith, sjieaking of the year

tors, and this is fullv borne out by the , lUSl, says: " The western j.art oi New language of the "( 'oncc-Mons." As n i Jersey was now liecome populous, by the considerable jn-oportiim, perhaps the ' acee-ssion of many settlers. .leumgs.who larger part of the land, (however,) was : arrived bi-t year about this time, receiv.d

I a. commission fnau Jjylliuge, (whom the

..,., r.~7^! r- T„, ,i„, ■ ' iiroiirietois in Emjland, as mentioned

<M'-t ilmi-iniT, «]il r.-!iil ti...i "f 111- ,•.•;. linii.-.i before, Jiad cho:^en sovernor,) to Ik- hi-s i'..ru:,„j. ..p.ritof yuctnA.me = coanc.l.. | deputy. He called an a.ssemhl;) , aucl

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witli them agreed upon certain finula- . tlic charge of bringing tlicin up to be

mentals of governuient, ;is follows :" paid out of the public stock.

I extract the liist ]iriivisii)ii : "That, whosoever presunicd, directly

"I. That there sIkiH lie a general free or indirectly, to sell any strong liquors

assembly fur the jirovince aforesaid, to any Indian or Indians,should forfeit for yearly and every year, at a day certain, ' every such oiiense, the sum of three

chosen by the tree jieople of the said pounds." (Distinct and strong !) province, whereon all the representatives "That ten men from Burlington, and

for the said province shall be summoned ' ten frtjm Salem, shall bo aji]iointed h>

to ajipear, to con.-ider of ilie affairs of layout and clear a road from Jjurlington

the said jirovijiee, and to make and to Salem, at the ]iublic e.xiiense : ordain such acts and laws as shall be " That two hundred ]i(>unds should lie

re(iuisite and necessary fur the gou<l gov- equally Icvyed and appropiialed for tla'

ei-nnienl and prosperity of the tive ]ieople charges of government, upon the several

of the said jjroviucc; and, (if necessity tenths, twenty jiouuds each; every man

shall require,) the governor for the time to be assessed according to his estate;

being, with the consein of his cuuncil, and all handicrafts, merchants and

may and shall issue out writs tu convene others, at die discretion of the assessors,

the assembly suoner, to consider and Persons thinking them^i'lves aggrievtd,

answer the necessities of the people of had the liberty of a|>pealiiig to the cum- the said ])rovinee."' ; missioners of the tenth they belonged to."

This assembly, the first convened in : The as.sessment of craflsmen and mer-

Kew Jersey, sat fiom the L'lst to the cliants "at the discretion of the asses-

28th of Novemiier, KjS], and passed «ors," was pn.bably s(jun re]iealed. thirty-six law-, of whieli I cuiiden-e a From thi- a-.-eU'.bly's in>tructions to

few from Sraitirs al.siraet, as specially the land-commissioners 1 take the foUow-

interestitiL; : intr-

"Upon pet-suns dying iiite-tate, and 1. " Thai the surveyor shall measure

leaving a wit'e and child ur children, tiie tlie fruut of the River Delaware, begin- ■

administrator to secure two-thirds for the ning at Assunqiink Creek, and from

child or children, the uther tu the widnw; thence down tu Cape May, that the j.oint

where there was no children, one moiety of the cumpas.- mav'be ibund fur the

or half the estate was to go to the next running the partition lines betwixt each

of kin, the other half to the \\idu\v: tenth.

always provided, sueli estate exceedeil 2. " That each and every tenth, or ten

one hundred p.aind-; uihirwi-e the jirojirieties, shall have their proportion

widow to have the whule; and in cases of fri'nl to the lliv- r Delaware, and so of leaving children, and no piovisiou, ; far back into tiie woods :us will make or

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with them agreed upon certain finula- mentals of govornniciit, as follows :''

I extract the first pruvision :

" I. That there shall he a general free assembly for the jiroviiice aforesaid, yearly and every year, at a day certain, chosen by the fj-ee jieojile of the said province, whereon all the representatives for the said province shall be smnnioned to ajtpear, to consider of the ati'airs of the said province, and to make and ordain such acts and laws as ?hall be requisite and necessary for the good gov- ernment and prosperity of the free ]ieople of the said province; and, l^if neccs.-itv shall require,) the governor ior the time being, with the consent of his council, may and shall i^sue out writs to convene the assembly Mj(_)ner, to consider and answer the net-essitit-s of tlie fieople of the said ])rovince.'"

Thiri assembly, the lir.-t convened in New Jersey, sat from the 21st to the 28th of Xovendn-r, 10^1, and ]>as-('d thirty-six law<, of wliirh I cciud.-ii-e a few from Sfaith's abstract, as sjiciiallv interesting :

" UjKju )ier.-(in-; dying intestate, and leaving a wite and child or chihlien, the admiiustrator to secure two-thirds lur the child or children, the other to the widow; wheie there was no children, one moiety or half the estate was to go to the next of kin, the other hah' to tlic \\idow; always provided, >uch e.-tate exceeded one hundreil pound-; oilarwi~e the widow to have the whoh'; and in ca.-cs of leaving children, and no provision,

the charge of bringing them up to bo paid out of the public stock.

"That, whosoever presumed, directly or indirectly, to sell any strong liquors to any Indian or Indians, should forfeit tor every such otlense, the sum of three pounds." (Distinct and strong !)

"That ten men from Burlington, and ten from .Salem, shall be apjiointed tcj lay out and clear a road frum IJurlington to Salem, at the public expense:

" Thai two hundred jiounds should br equally levyed and ajiprojiriated Ibr the charges of government, upon the several tenths, twenty jiouuds each ; every man to be assessed according to his estate ; and all handicrafts, merchants anel others, at the discretion of the as.-ess(.irs. Persons thinking them.-elves aggrieved, had the liberty of a]ipcaling to the com- missioners of the tenth they belonged to." The a.ssessment of crafismcn and mer- chants "at the di.-ci'etii.iii of the a.s.~es- sors," was probably s(jun rejiealed.

From thi- ■■i--en!bly"s instructions to the land-commi.-sioners I take the follow- ing :

1. " That the surveyor ^hall mea.-iire the front of the River Dehiware, begin- ning at ^y^sumpink Creek, and from thence down to Cape !May, that the point of the compass may'be found tiir tiie running the jiartition line- betwixt each tenth.

2. "That each and every tenth, or ten jiropriitii,'.-, .-hall have their proportion of front to theltivr 1 >elawarc, and so far back into the woods a.s will make or

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ntntain sixty-four tlionsiind aerps for tluir first settlement, and for tlie subdi- vidini; the Yorkshire ;ind London two

ti-MlllS.

;{. '"To allow three thousand and two liiindred acres where the parties con- (■■■rried please to choose it within their (luii tenth; to be taken up according to llic i-nles or methods following, viz:"

(I omit the methods).

10. " That every proprietor sliall have fiiiir hundred acres to a |>roprietv, and .-o jiroportionably to lesser quantities for liieir town-lot, over and above tlieir afore- siid three thousand two hundred acres; which may be taken anywheie within tiieir own tenth; either within or witli- • lut the town bounds."

17. " That the proprietors who are yet r.niaiiiiug in Enghnul shall have notice, that we iind it necessary for the speedy K'ttlcuient of this province, and for the interest of all concerned tliei-ciii, to allow I" every jmipricty as af-rcsaid, three thousand tw,i hmidi-d acies I'cr our liivt clioice; and in case much people sh.all ••"ine, as may be reasonably expected, who have purchased no land in England, iind desire to settle aniong-t us; that, then we reserve liberty to take up so iniieli land more as shall fall to every prupiicty, not exceeding five thousand and two iuindred acres, which was allowed to IIS for our first settlement: Provided, "evoi-tlioloss, that none shall take u[iany i'r.>i>orliun of land, but as they shall ^-etile it, or cause it to be settled ; which '■' ''^ '>t' done after the aforesaid three

thousand two hundred acres shall be justly taken uj") and settled."

18. "That all publick highways shall be set forth, at any time or times here- after, at the discretion of tlie commis- sioners for the time being, in or through any lands taken up, or to be taken uji; allowing the owners of such lands when such publick highways shall be laid forth, reasonable satisfaction at the dis- ci'eti(jii of the comniissii)iiLTs, in lieu thereof"

These dividends of the back-lands continued to be made from time to time, as settlement increased and ]ni--hed far- ther and farther into the wilderness, until, as has been said, the final dividend allotted, to each ])ropriety, thirty-five thousand acres.

As we iiave seen the eldest son of Ilichard f^mitli, the second, make his appearance among the earliest settlers, and locate a portion of the immense tract possessed iiy hiiii.-elf, his father and bt(:ither,— as we have heard fVom another member of the family, some of the hard and rough exjierience of the first pioneers, and from some of their worthy compan- ions, liave learned of the compensating richness of tlieirCanaan,and of the gener- ous liospitalify of the natives, it seems ])roper, befbi'e re-introducing the fiimily under the more favorable circumstances of a settled civilization in their new home, to pay a parting tribute to the poor Indian, their liost and humble companion, and see how lie who wa.s Jus'/i/ styled the " noble savage," the "stoic of the woods,"

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appeared to our ancestors before lie be- came corrupted by the contact of inferior Europeans who followed theni.'^'

From a long and interestiuj;' account of the red men, in that <hi\', 1 limit my- self, with regret, to the following ex- tract :

"They were punctual in their bar- gains, and ohsei'ved thi.< so mucli in others, that it was very dillicult i'nr a person who had once filled heieiu to get any dealings witli them al'tcrwaid. In their councils they seldmu or ni/ver interrupted or contradictcil nw iuidtlier; if ever so many were; in cii;ii|>;iiiy, mdv two must speak to each othi'i', and ihe rest be silent till tlieir turn : Their lan- guage was high, lofty and sententious: Their way of counting wa^ Ijv tens, tliat is to say, two tens, thret,- tens, i'nwv ten,-, etc.; when the number got (jiit (if their reach, tiiey pointed to the stars (ir to the hair of their head-^. They lived cliietlv on maize, or Indian corn, roasted in the ashes, sometime-; iieaten ancl lioiieil witli water, calleil honiine; they al~ii made an agreeable cake nl' tlieir pimndeil enrn; and raised beans and peas; but the woods and rivers atl'MiKd them the (.-hief of their provisions: Tliey p(jinted tlieir arrows with asli;irpened ilinty stone, and of a larger sort, with wiihi's lor hamlles, cut their wood; both of tlie-e shaijiened

* It will hiToarKT h.' .--ITU that our aii.i-li.r-. a^ momhers of Iho A-hiimIiIv niiil Council of \ow .l.-r- sev, anil of lliu lir-t ln.l:.iii Aid So.ioly. w,rr iiiii.h concerned in early tji^Jaiic.,,, pariicuhiri\ iliat furiln' benefit of tUc Imiiaiis.

Stones are often found in the fields." " They were naturally reserved, apt to resent, to conceal their resentments, and retain them long; they were liberal and generous, kind and alfable to the Eng- lish. Strict observers of projierty, yet to the last degree, thoughtless tmd inac- tive in acquiring or kee]>ing it : None could excel tliem in liberality of the little they had, Ibr nothing was tliought too good for a friend ; a knife, gun or any such thing givi'ii to one, freipicntly passed through many hands: Their houses or 'wigwams were sometimes to- gether in towns, but mo,-tlv movable, and occasionally fixed near a spring or other water, according to the con\en- iencies for hunting, fisliing, basket-mak- ing or other business of that sort, and built with jioles laid on forked sticks in the groinid, with baik, ilaL;s or bushes on the to]i and sides, with an ojieiiing to the south, their fire in the middle; at night they slept on the ground with their feet towards it; their clothing was a coarse blanket or skin thrown t>ver the shoidder. which eovered to the knee, and a j.ieee of the same tied round their legs, with part of a deerskin sewed round tlieir feet ibr shoes; as they iiad learned to live upon little, tliey seldom expected or wanted to lay iij> much. They weie also moderate in asking a jiriee tiir anv- tliing they had for sale: When a coni- I)any traveled togetlRf, they generally followed each other in silence, scarcelv ever two W'-rc seen by the sitle of laie another; in roads, the mail went iieiiM-e

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ttiili lii< bow and arrow, the woman after, strictly decent and instructive, every one

i:.,t tiiicoinnionly with a cliild at her back, in l)is turn was heard, according to rank

a,,.! ('liier liurdeiis bivides ; but wlien of years or wisdom, or services to his

ill.-,- were loo heavy, tlu> man assisted, country: Not a word, a whisiiei- or a'

'1.. kiiiiw their walks aj;ain in unfre- nuirunir, while any one sjioke ; no inier-

,|ii.-iili-d woods, they hcaiied stones or ' ruption to commend or condemn ; the

iiuiiked trees." : younger sort were totally silent. 'Jliey

•■ 111 [lerson they were upright, and got fire by rubbing wood of particular

-in;it in their limbs bey(md the usual sorts, (as the autients did out of the ivy

|.r..p..rtion in most nations; their bodi(?s and bays,) by turning the en<l of a hard

were strong, but of a strength rather piece upon the side of one that was soft

litl'MJ to endure hardships than to sustain and dry: to forward the lie:u they put

iTiuch bodily labour; very seldom crooked dry rotten wood and leaves; witli the

or.leformed; their features regular ; iheir help ol' fire and their stone axes, they

coiinteiianccs sometimes fierce, in con; mon would fall large trees, and alterwai'ds

Mther resembling a Jew than Christian : scoop them into bowls, etc. From their

the eolour of their skin a tawny reddish infancy they were formed with care to

bi.iwii; the whole fashion of their lives endure hardships, to bear derision, and

of a pieee, hardy, poor and s.|iialid."' even blows jiatiently ; at least with a

" When they I'cgan to drhik. they composed counteiKince : Thoiigb they

ciimmonly continued it as long as the were not easily provoked, it wa~ generally

means of procuring it lasted, in drink hard to be appea.-ed wlieiuver it ha])-

lliey often lay exposed to all the inelem- pened : liberty in its fullest extent, was

rnci.-s .if weather, wliieh intro.lueed a their juling jiassion ; lo this e\ cry other

liiiu of new disorders among tli'-m : consideration was snb-ervieiit ; their

'I'ihy were gnive even t(j sadness upon ehiMri'U were traiie-d up s.i a- to elieiisli

any c-oiiimon, and more so ujioii serious this disposition to the utinor-t ; tlievwere

<>c<".uji()ns; ob.servant of tho.se in com- indulged to a great <l.gree, seldom cluis-

I-aiiy, and resj.eetful to the old; of a tised with blow-, and rarely eliided ; tJieir

(eiii])er cool and deliberate; never in , faults were left Ibr their reason and

liaste to speak, but waiteil for a eertaintv, habits of the liimily lo correct ; they sai.l

that tlie per>oii wlio sp,,ke In'fore them tlu-e Could not be great before tlieir reason

iiad tiiiislied al! lie iiad to say: They commenced; and tliey seemed to abhor

•^vined to hoM Eun.i.e.in \ivacity in a slavish motive to aeiioii, as incoiisi-tcnt

•■•'iitempt, iK-eaiise they found s'lrii as with their notions of freedom and inde-

•-•inie among them, apt to interrujit each pendency; even strong persuasion was

"tiler, and fre.piently sp.-ak all together. industriously avoided, its bordering Uk<^

riwir iH'havioiir in publiek couiieiks was much on defteaidence, and a kind ot

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violeuce offerL'J to tlie will : Tlicy dreaded slavery more than death : They laid no iines fur crimes, tor they ha.d no way of exacting them— the atonement was voluntary:'-' Every ti'iho had jiar- ticulars " (imlividuiils ) "iu whoiu they reposed a confidence, and uidesa they did sometliing unworthy of it they were lield iu resjiect. ^\'ilat were dcnouiiiiated kings, were saelieiii,< distinguished among these; the re.-peet jiaid them was volun- tary, and not exacted or lnuked i'm, iiur the omission regaixlcil : The sachems directed iu their councils, and had the chief disposition of lands. Tu liel[> their uietnories in treaties, they had belts of black and white wamjjum : with the.^e closed their pi-iiud^ in speeches, deliver- uig more or le-s aecoiding to the import- ance of the matter treated el'; this ceremony omitted, all they said jia--e(l for nothing: They treasured these lielts "when delivered t(i them in treaties, kept them as the reeonls <if the natiuii, to have recourse to upon fntiire euiite-io: gov- erned by cu-toius and not by law.-, they greatly revered tho-e of their ance.-teiis, and followed them so imjijieitly, that a new thouirht or action but seldom iii-

* They had. however, a nute justice and mode of e.xecutifin ; Ta-hinwvcau. wliu t);id curamined .1 mur- der in ir.T-J. wa- i.uiii'-lifd a- f..II,,»5: -Tw,. Indians sent liy the sac-hfia-, ci'iiimi;.' lo'l'a^liiowjvan'!; wifrwam in tlieniijlit. Mill- of thi'in h:- parti, ul.ir frii-iid : him he asked if he iiitnn.lfd i.. kdl liiiii : lie answered -no. biittlie sa. liems liav ..rdTrd ^ mi t.. die :' II.' de- manded what lii-^ hnitliers -aid : I.eiiii: t..Id lll.■^ al-o said he must die. he Ih.'ii liehliiii; liis linnds l.ef..r.' In- ezes, -aid. -kill me:' I'pon ihi-llie Mtlu-r Indian, nut h'i.s intimate, sli.it him in tb.> l.re.ist." l.ae..ni.:i.-ni and fortitude worthy .'[ .Spuria !

truded. They long remembered kind- nesses ; families or particulars that had laid themselves out to deal with, eutertain and treat them hospitably, or even i'aiilv in dealings, if no great kindness was received, were sure of their trade: Tlii.s also nnist undoubtedly be allowed, that the origiual and more uncorrujit, very seldom forgot to be grateful, where real benefits had been received. And not- \vithstanding the stiiins of periidy and cruelty, wdiicli in 17-3 1 and since, have disgraced the Inditius on the frontiers ot' these provinces, even these, by an unin- terrupted inteicour.se of seventy yetirs, had oil many occasions given irrefragable proijfs of liberality of sentiment, hospi- tality of action tiiid impressions that seemed to promise a continuation ot' better tilings."

Tlie following narration, by '■C. ^\'.," an Indian interpreter of one of the pro- vincitd governments, i^ives some insi-ht into the natural religion ot' these siiiiple- heailed savages :

'■ Iu the year 17;'>7, I was sent, for the first time, to Onondago, at ilie desire of the goveiiior of \'iiginia ; 1 set out the hitter I'lid of Feiuiiary, very unex[ieet- edly, for a journey of five hundred iMiglisli miles, thruugli a wilderness where there was neither road nor path, and at such a time of year, when crea- tures could not be met with for foiRl ; there were a Dutchman and three Indians with me. Wiieii we were one iiundred and lli'ty miles on our journey, we came into a narrow vallev, aiiout half a mile

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lii-iiail and thirty long, both sides of which were enc'onip;ts?ed with liigli moun- Ut'u\-, on wliicli tlie snow hiy iihoiit three Cvt dcrji; ill it I'tiii a stream of water, iilsi) alioiit three feet deep, which was so iTiKtkod that it always extended from one -ide of the valley to llie other ; in order to avoid wading so often throiigli tlie water, we endeavored to pass along on till' slojie of the mountain; the snow llircc feet dee]), and sn hiird fni/.e on the ln[i tli;it we eould walk n]Hiii it: "We «<■!■(■ "Migcxl to make holes in the snow with our hatchets, that our feet iniglit not slip down the mountain ; and riius we crept on. It happened that llie old Indian's foot slipt, and tlie root of a tree hy which he held, breaking, he slid down llie mountain as from the miif of a h.'ui.-e; but happily was stopt in his tail bv the 1 string whidi iasteiied his pack hitching ! to thu stump of a small tree. The two j Indians could not come to his aid, !ait I our Dutch fellow-traveler did. ami that not withniit visible danger of hi- luvn ' ble: 1 also could not put a tl-ot f .rward till 1 was helped ; after which we laid liold (if the first opportunity to •u, (l,,wii "iTiin into the vall.y : wliicii was not till aticr we laboured hard tbr half an hour, >^iih iiands and feet. AW' bad .ibserved " tree that lay directly olV from where •lie Indian fell ; and when we were come down into tbe valley agiin, we went back •■dHuit one hiindied jiaees, where we saw, 'I'^'t if the Indian had slipM tbiir or live !'"■'•■< further, he would liave fell ,,ver a •■••'•k one iuindred feet ]>erpen<licular.

upon craggy pieces of rocks below. The Indian was astonished, and turned quite pale ; then, with outstretched arms and great earnestness, sjioke these words : 'I thank the great Lord and Governor of this world, in that fie has had mercy upon me, and has been will- ing that I should live longer ;' which words I, at that time, set down in my journal.

" The 9th of April, following, wliile we were yet on the journey, I found my- self extremely weak, through the fatigue of so long a journey, and the cold and hunger I liad suffered ; and there having fallen a fresh snow of about twenty inches deep, also being yet three days' journey from Onondago, in a frightfnl wilderness, my s[)irit failed, my l.ioilv trembled and shook : I lboiii;bt 1 -liould fall down and die; 1 steji'd aside, and sat me down under a tree, exjiectiiig there to die: ily companion^ soon missed me: tbe Indians eaiiie liack and found me .-ittiiig then-: I told tle.iu in one word I would go no t'unher — I weiuld die theie. Tliey remained silent awhile ; at last the old Indian said: '.My de.ir companion, tlioii lia-t hitherto eiieoiir- aged us, wilt thou now quite give up? Kememlier that evil days are better than good days, tbr when we siitlir mueli we do not sin ; and sin will be drove out, of us by snilering: but good days cause men to sin, and God uinnot extend His mercy to them ; but contrarvwise, when it giK-th evil witii us,. Gi>'l hath enm- passiun ujion us.' These words made

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me asliametl ; I rose uji ami traveled dii as well as I coukl."

Of this natural religion, the la>t words of the old king Oclcaiiiek<iii, "the friend of the English," wlio died tlii.-; year, (IGSl,) at EuiHiigtoii, are another in- sianee : they were addressed to lii.s nephew, who succeeded him :

" It was my desire that my brother's son, lahkursoe, should come to me and hear my last words; for him have I ajijiointed king after me.

"My brother's sou, this day 1 deliver my heart into your Ixisdni ; and mind nie. I would have you love what is good, and keep good comjiany ; i-cfuse what is evil, and by all means avoid bad company.

"Now having deliveied my lieajt into your bosom, I also doHver my bixom to keep my heai't in ; be Mire ahvavs to walk in a good patli, and il' any Indians should speak evil ol' Indians or ('bri- tians, do not join in it. init Innh at the sun from the rising of it to the -^ettinu' of the same: In spe.rbr- tbat -ball be made L)etween ti;e Indians and the Christians, if any wripiig uy evil thing be sjioken, do not join with tbat, but join with the good.

" When speeches are made, do not you speak first; be silent, and let all sprak before you, and take g,„,d notice wiiat each man sjieaks, and when von have heard all, join to that wbieli is go,HL

"lirother's son, 1 would bave von cleanse your cars and take all foulnt^s- out, rhatvciii may bear both goo.i and evil, and then join with the gi^id and refuse the

evil ; and also cleanse your eyes, tbat you may see good and evil, and where you see evil, do not join with' it, Imt jo'ni to that which is good."

After the Indian had delivered this counsel to his nephew, T. Budd, one of the proprietors, being present, took the opportunity to remark that " there was a great God, who created all things ; that He gave man an understanding of what was good and bad ; and after this life, rewarded the good with blessings, and the bad acconling to their doings." He answered, " it is very true, it is so ; there are two ways, a broad and a straight way ; there are two paths, a broad and a straight" (narrow) " ]iath ; the worst ;md the greatest nundier go in the broad, the best and fewest in the straight ['atb."

"This king dying soon afterward, was attended to bis grave in the (^>uakers' burial-place in r.niiington.witli solemnity by the Indian^ in their maimer, and with great re>pect by many ol' the Eng- lish >ett!er-, to whom be had been a silii' friend." (Siniib).

^\'e shall see bcrraftfr bow ^tead.y and sincere was the frjcnd-biji with wiiiib the (Quakers eontiiuu-d to reijin'tc tin- early kindness of tbis un^opbi^ticated, manly, but l;i-f-i:iding race. How tine was the eonn~vl (jf the old chief to the young one, to watch the daily march of the sun, and .■-bapc bis own course bv that of the majestic source of light, as pure, as true and as lot'tily sniieiior to the dark aia! groveiing wavs of ibe jdotter and the slanderer!

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rpill-: fir.-t Settlement of till.' llaiicdcas liDiiie: Soon after, at the house of J. Kiver seems to Jate from the ani- Tlioiiias Eves, he saw a buck, ami telling val, ill lGS-2, of a lariie ship, nnnamid, I'ves, he set his dd-s, who followed it to uhirji, having grounded in Delawaiv Raidvoka.- liiver, then frozen ; the Iniek 11. V, lav there eiglit da\s befire >hc running on the ice, sliil u).on his side; .-..iild k' got oif: then, coming up the the dog- seized it; Hi.llinsliead, coming rivr, landed three hundred and sixtv up \vith a knife, eagerly jumped upon |,,,-„.|i^.,.,-s ,,], the ,Ter>ev shore, lietweeii it; the buck rose with him on his back rhiladel|ihia and J'.iirlinglou. "'J'heir and sprung forward," (when) " his feet prnviHons being idgh gniie, they sent ten sjnvading asunder," (he) "sliji'd gently luil.s to an Jmlian tnwn near Uankolcas down on his belly, and gave Hollins- ('ivek, f.ir Inilian corn and ].ea-e: 'J"he head a respite frnni danger and i.pp.ir- kiiig of this tribe being then tliere, funity of killing him. ]'.y these means treated them kindly, and directed sueli two iamilies were supplied with food, to liiilians iis had provisions, to bring it in ' their great joy."

II' \t iiKirniiig, who, accordingly, Imuight Tlie assembly of West Jersey met

pfiity; wliieh beio'j; delivei. d and put again this year; among the niemtiers ii- !'a_'-,the iii. --, nu'ers tuok lra\ e "t' the were John Smith, from Salem, anil Maik king, who kindlv ordered sume of the Xewljy and "W'illium Cooper, from the Iiid.iaiis to earrv their liags f^r them to i tliird tenth, culled the Irish tenth, I'rom their caiK"-." ] Ix-ing chielly settled by Quakers fmm

'■ lii>t,inees of their" (the settlers') i Ireland. " waiit.-:ire many, and thesu)iplies some- ' William Coojier, who was an ancestor times iiiie.\pei-led : the i'amilv of John in the maternal line of one branch of our li..llin-liead, who bvid near Itankokas. family, venuived fnini Coleshill, Hert- I" iie,' im|,r(iviil.-il with powder and shot. fnrd-liire, to the colony, in 107^. In ^^'■re ill ili-tre^s, when IloUinshead, the li'iSO he located a tract in the "t(.wn .' "imuer, theii a lad about thirtieii. going bound" lands of Burlington, and in this !b>-.ngli a eoru-field, siw a turkev; throw- year, (1082,) is returned as tlu> owner of '"■-■ a stick to kill it, another came in tliree hundred acres at Pine Point, (now ■''.-b; ; lie killed both and carried them Cuoper'b Point,) oj)positc the future City

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of Philailel])lua. The names (if this point, of Coo|ier Street, Canideii, and of Coo])er's Creek, preserve lii^ memory to ' thisclaj'. Tlielmliaiisluulareyularferrv, in canoes, letweeii i\rasapha, a village on his land, and Shackamaxou opposite; and this fei-riage was continued in sail- boats, by tlie Coopers and tlieir iieiiihliors, the Kaiglms, at Kaiglni's Point, tlais, without doubt, ori^ginatin;;- tlie ]irosperity of tiie thriviiii;- suburl) of Camden.

Tlie iiicmbeis ,A' the ^\^■st ,lcrsey Assembly hail Jiithcrtd l.ieen ehosen bv the electors from all the tenths indis- criminately ; but this assembly declared it their judgment, and that of those they rej)resented, that the most regular jiieihod "for ]>reserving the libci'ty and projiei'tv of the jieople by a tree a-^scndjlv, was, that such of the ten proprieties as were now peoi)led, shouhl each chuse ten rep- resentatives, (and the otlieis also as thev became ]>eo]i]ed.)"' They resolved, also, that the quorum should cnnsist of twentv- four mendieis, inclmiing the sj'caker; and chose the council, justices, land- coniniissionei-s and other uhicers.

This a.sseiubly enacted the curiou.-. law that "for the more convenient payment of small sums of money, JIark Newbv's coppers, called Pafrirl-'.^ /ia(f-j>rurc;' should pass as current money ; these were Irish halt-jience, a jiarcel of which Newby had bnuight with him. The ' only "small change" cuiient hitherto had been the Indian wampum. j

They directed two hnndreil pounds to be niLsed to defiay the charges of gov-

ernment, and collected in proportionate quotas from the several " tenths."

The reiiresentatives of West Jersey continued to be aniuially chosen, until the surrender of the proprietary govern- ment, in 170-. All the officers of go\-- ernment were chosen by them, e.\ce]it the governor, who was appninted ])y the projirietors, initil the succeeding year, (1G83,) "when the assembly, under- standing that Byllinge, for some selfish reasons, inclined to turn Jenings out, who had hitherto been deputy-gcj'^Ti'nor, to the general satisfaction of the governed — they undertook, by their choice, to con- tinue him governor of the province, j>re- tending " (claiming) "a right to do this, Ijccause, ill the constitutions, power wa.s given to si,\ ])arts in seven of the assem- bly, to make such aiteratidns for the publick good, (the laws of liberty of conscience, of property, of yearly assem- blies, of juries and of evidence, e.\cej)ted), as they ii.uind necessary ; and that no advantage might be taken of such judi- cial proceedings, a.s had not been exactly agreeable to the concessions, they con- firmed and ratified them all."

"There being doubts started, whether the government of West New Jersey had been granted with the soil, and re[iorts industriously spread nji anil down the ]trovince, as well as in England, to the prejudice of the jiossessors' title, as they thought; the assemljly, in the spring, this year," (Kl.Slj,) "thought it their bii-iiie-^s to oliviati.' this and i.itlier j.oints, by unanimously re.--olving, as to the lirst,

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•'I'li.it tlif Iiiiul and govcninient of West Niw .Ici-.r.('y were piirclinsed together;' Aii'l iii:it ii.s to the question, ' Whetlier i!ii' c<iiii'essions agreed njion hy the pro- (iriitiirs and jieopU', and sulisci'ibrd in I/iii(i'iii and West deisey, were agreed ii]«iii In l>e tlie t'luidaincntals and giuund 111' llic giiveiiiiiit'nt of A\'est Jei'sey. or iii'lV Jvcsiilved in tin.' ailii-iiiativi>, /n- iiiiiir i-iiji/ri!(!i(( i/f<' : only .lolin I'\'n\vick .•\ec|iled Ins tentli, whicl; lie said, at that liiMc, was nnt under the- same eireuiii- ■•■tanees ; hut now freely consenteth thereto."

di'niiig- was. at tins assciuhlv, <-/ioiin govfrnor; having, hithei'to, ueted as de|aily only, (jf and for ISylliiigc, gov- iTiior-eleet of the ICiiglish jiiM|irirtuiii's. Tlie eonuuissioners and otlier oliiei'rs of government lieingalso cho-cn. woir didv f|iialilied ; and tlie asseinhly having ai^reed that the governor shouhl also he tlirir eliainnan or sp'-aloT. liitit he should f^it as a nieiidicr with thorn, and have a (louhle voto, atid that tli'-- eoiniei! aI>o should sit aiid vote with theai, jiroeocdod to pass sundry laws.

Ill tliis year, thoro arrived at Philadol- pliia. a gentleman, who, as an ancestor in tiie maternal line of the Snnths of liurlingtoii, demands oiu- attention. Tins wxs Thomas Lloyd, lirsl goveiiior of I'enn.-iylvania, the intimate friend of the proprietary "William IVnn, who h.id come over the previous year.

He was a younger son of Charles Lloyd, Esquire, of Dolobran Hall, .Mont- gomeryshire, in the eommi.-sion of the

peace for that county, and grandson of John Lloyd, Escpiire, of Dolohran, also in the commission of the peyee, a gentle- man "of the old school," who "lived in great state, having twenty-four men with halbertft, his tenants, to attend him to iSIivoid Church, where he ])laci'd them in his great ]iew under the puljat." Thomas Lloyd's mother was Elizaheth, daughter of Thomas Stanley, Esquire, of Knuckyn, "son of Sir I'jiward Stan- ley, son of Sir I'oulk Stanley, son of Sir Piers Stanley, son of Sir liowland Stanley, brother of Lord Strange, of Knuckyn,''' a branch of the Derby family." (Ihirke's "History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain.")

The Lloyd family is one of the most ancient in (ireat IJritain, and doeeiids from the early inde])endent Princes of iJyfed or Dimetia, ami Powys. 'Jdie descent of John Tdoyd is deduced by Pinke, in twenVv-eight >uc<-essive gene- rations, from Miric or Meirig, of Uole>- bran. a nol>lc> under the Ihiti-li King Arthur, who was i.me of the I'our kniizlil?^ who bore the four golden swords befoic that chieftain, at the great I'esiival at Caerleon, when he was crowned king, in the year of our Lord .517. I have my- self seen, near Llangollen, "Wales, the pillar or monument of Eliseg, an ances- tor of the IJoyds, who lived at a ]period v.dien the Pouuins slill ruled }iart of Great Britain. (See " The Lloyd Eami- Iv," hv Charles Perriu Smith).

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Thomas Lloyd was born at Dolobran Hall, ill 1G40. He and his elder brother, Charles, (the heir of the estates, who has been mentioned beture as much jier- seciited on account of liis becoming a Quaker,) were educated at Oxford Uni- versity, and disting'uished themselves bj' superior ability and learning. Becoming convinced of the truth of the doctrines of Fox and his associates, the brothers joined themselves, aljoiit the year lOG'i, to the "Society of Friend.-.,"' and became highly useful and cniinciit inemliers thereof. In IGGo. Tluinias Llnyil mar- ried Mary, daughter of (iilbeiT .Tones, of Welshiiool. Tiiey were the parents of tea children, all, cxri'iii the youngest, born at the ancient Jlail of I)ol(iljran. lu 1()S3, as already rotated, IliiJiiias Lloyd emigrated tcj rennsylvnuia ; the next year he was appnintn! I'lesideiit nf the Council, v.-hieli olfire he held till 1691, when he rece • 'lie commission of governor of the iiri.,in(e. In 1003. the Crown having re-umed t.i itself th<' paramount authority originally granted to Penn, Governor Lliyd was suiicrseded by a governor sent out from England, and died in the ne.xt year, IG','4, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, nnivei'sallv honored and lament''d.

In 1084, "the a-embly of A\','-t .b r- sey at their meeting, the 2r>th nf the third month," "eho-c 'rhdnia-' (.»live governor, and chairnian oi' speaker; in Ixith which capacities the governiir imw actrd ; the several branches of liie leg;.— lature we have seen doin:r their business

in common together : the people's choice the foundation of the whole — whose reji- resenfatives were distinctly i-eturned hdiii their first, second,^ third and Salem tenths, (which were all the tenths yet settled)."

We have also observed that the assem- bly chose the governor as well as all the minor oflicers of government, at their first meeting.

Olive continued governor until IGS-J, when Byllinge, "having desisted from tlie claims which the a.->cmbly and their constituents i]a<l tlumght unju-t, and which had been the cau,-e of iheir undei- taking, in oi'position to him, tw choose tiie governor, and he, in this year, sending a fresh commission to John Skeiiie tn be his deputy, the a^scndily and jici.iplc suli- mittcd t(i him, tlmngh tliey li;id licfmc refused "\\'illi;un A\'elsh in that cajiacity, while Byllinge continued the claims afore.-^aid."

In IGS"), another rolkittral ancestor of our family, .'-^riinuci J!;ici>n. aj^pears in the hi-lury of the province, having been iipjiointed in tliiit year, ;i justice of the peace for .■^ali-m tenth.'-' .'-^time ye;irs betbre, he had pureluL-^ed lands on the Coluui.'iey Bivrr, ne;n- wheie CJrecuwicli now stand-, finm the ludi;!ii s;ichems there; the-e land-, forming ;i peninsula between the Cohau-ey and l'elaw;ire Livers, have ever since bcii known as " Jiaeon's Neck." 'i'he tradition in the fiimily runs, that he wa^ one of three

* JIc was uho a mt-mbcr of a«;cu;bl\ lu this veur.

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l.rotliers wlio came originally to Bam- ' Francis. Jolm, who seems to liave been

vt:ililt', Miissaclmsctts; one remaining and : considerably younger than Sanuiel, niar-

r.iimding a family there, while the otliers ; ried, in 1688, a daughter of the Hon.

left that'town and came to New Jersey. ' John Smith, of Salem, and' was a justiec

'I'liis is borne out by the "Annals of of the peace for Salem in tlie years 1690,

liarnstable," wliicli, at'ter an account of ' 1G1»7, 1609, 1700 and 1701.^^^ His

".Mr. Nathaniel Eacon," who held several ; daughter married a son of Daniel Smilli,

iiii[)()rtant public offices in the early his- : of Bramliam.

lory of that town, and founded a family j To return again to New Jersey politics

there, and the note that " ^Mr. Samuel from 1685 to 1687 ; in the latter year,

Itacon lakes tlie oath of fidelity, 16.37," both the old proprietor, Edward By Hinge,

adds " .Mr. Baron liad '^ ,~'':""' ol' land and Jiis deputy, John Slceine, died. Dr.

ill this fiiwn in 166'J. and lri.~ lieen Daniel Coxe, of London, wlio was already

iliou-ht a brother of Mr. Natlianii-1 and a large proprietor, on Byliinge's death,

l-;ii/.;ilieih wlio were early Jiere. :\rr. [airehased his interest from his heirs,

Samuel Bacon married Martha Fo.xwell, and thus representing the majority of

.Mav iiih, KiD'.l, and had Samuel, March shares held in England, wa-^ elected gov-

!iili, 1670, and ^[aitha, 1671; but at ernor by the English pro]>rietors.

lal liiiH- he eaiiie, or wlun or Ikiw the

ajipointed Edward IJuidoke h

lie

hlit\

tamilv (/l.<nj)jjrar'il fnmi town, i- a (|iii.-- governor, wliieh appointment being uii- lion yet to be setllcil." I objectiniuiblr, w;.s quietly submitted to It"is suppo-sed thai the three brothers, ■ by the West Jersey. Assembly. But, Natlianiel, Samuel ami John, were sons about 1690, Cox; ' iving sent a commi- of a Nathaniel ISacon. who wa~ a mi-in- siou to John 'i ' ..am to act as de]'iity l-T of the lyoiej I'iiriiamnit, and wa- governor, and the latter b<:-iug a Jacobite. luiiislied under Charles 11.. t.T writing lie wa.-. on this ueeonnt, rejeeted by the a lKX>k agaiii>t the established chureli. assembly, who wdv loyal to the reigning 'I'he Puritanism of the father would natu- house.

nilly account fjr the .-ons being of that In 1691, Coxe and tlio-e remaining of

vet, and coming to America with the the original proprietors in England, .-old

I'liritans. Tiie elder Nathaniel, who out to a new company, styled "'llie

died ill ir.tU), was 11 s..n of Sir Natlianiel We-t Jer-'ey Society," of whieh Sir

»n<l a graiul.-on of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Thomas Lane, Knight, and alderman of

lord-kee]ier to (^iieen j:ii/,abetli : and Ejiidon, was the ]irincipal and leading

was, therefore, a nephew of the mvat Sir " r c i „',

,. . -, „!, , Mle was. al^o. a .ui=li(;u of the (|.ioruiii fur ."-ul.-ni

rraiUMS isacon. -Ihe arms iiianleil to (-■,,„„, y .luil't- Ila.nn owm-a iin.|,..rlv nlsu at Cho^-

ti.e family by the iiend.rs coii..g... Eon- -^;:::%^f:^:;::^'::Tij,:^^^^^^

doll, are tho>e of Sir Nicholas and Sir oate of hi:' seci.ud marnagt.

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member. Tliesc new proprietors sent a commission, in 1G92, to Andrew Hamil- ton, as governor. He was accepted by the assembly, and continued governor of West Jersey " while it remained under the proprietary jurisdiction, though with some interru[iti(jn in 1G9S, being, also, some part of the time, governor of East Jersey and Pennsylvania."

The year IG'Jl, wliidi was marked )iv the acquisitinii ot' tin- uiiscltlod tenths of West Jer,-ey by this new sneictv, was that also in wldch ihrrr of llic sous of Richard Smith, of Ih-ainliain, (luUnwiiig the steps of thiir elder broihci-, John, who, fourteen years before, bad crossed tlic ocean for tlie imrpusc of having the family lands siiiveyed and "located,") arrived in Aiiii'iica. Tlir.-c wen', l)anifl, Josejih and l^niaiiml, and llicv were accompanied by thrir >i-|iT i)fbo!ali, whoilicd soon after liei' ai rival. Samuel followed them in If)'.)!. They left at home, ^vitll their motln r, their }oniige-t biotlier, lliebard, a boy ot' seventeen, who, eightyi ;n~ afterwail, !■ j,,iijed them in thoNewAVorld. John having returned for the second time to iaigland, aeeom- panied this yoiniu:e~t brother in bis voyage, hut died betbre its termination. His property was, no doubt, dividi-d among his snrvi\ing biuthers. of ulmni the eldest, D.niid, having married .Maiy Muriin, in Kjri.l, ei-eeiei!, upon .b,bi.'.- " town lot," a line man-ion fbr tiie peri"d, wliieli still remains, though long sinee divided into two snb-laiilial liou-es.

Of it.-, appearance in ]7>5. .lo.-epb

Sansoni has left us the following ski idi : "Tiie house ho" (Daniel Smith) •'buii; within a few years after his arrival in America, in which my grandmother w,i- born, is now standing in Burlington, a curious specimen of the taste and coniii- vance of those times. There is a tradi- tion in the fiimily that his wife, who i-; said to have been a very rtotahJc woman, took the opportunity of her hnsband'- frequent ah.senee when attending,' the assembly, at Andioy, where it was alter- nately held, to make several alteration- in the building.

"A ' broad carriage-way takes up a great part of the first story, and a gi-e:il tire-place and light " (lighted) " elo-ei-, as large a jiroportion of the big jiarlour. In th(^ back jiart of the buildini:. the flues of the chimneys ri-ing from belli sides and nnitini; in one jirodigious -tack over the enfrv, which is arched to ^wy- ]iort it, ti)ini a capacious sniuke-lion-e. This, it is -aid, was fbrmerlv used ly llic neiuldiourhood many mile- round, t 'V the ei'.ring of their winter .-iriie-, and at lu-eserit it i- no h's- remai-k.able for its ftiruisiiing ','ieat numbers of swallows with a siniimer residence. At their iir-t coming in the spring, tln'y gather here in flocks, to ceimiiare notes and j^air

tbem-elves for the senson. They s i

after separate and spread over the coun- try in search of -uitable places fiir buihl- ii:g. In the fill, when they have fledged their yoiuig, and ;ire ]U'eparIng to avoid our rugL'"ed \»!ntei- by guing oil' to soiue warm(;r<-limate,tbiv asseiidde lieie ai;ain.

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!us if to take their leave, anil coiicliulc ii])Oa the course of their journey. Of a iiiihl evening fi-om sunset to dusk, hun- (h-cds of tlicni arc oi'ten seen sailing round the nioutii of this cliiiiiney before tiiey return into it for the night."

From the kite venerable George K. l^u^ith, who was lioiii in this mansion, I learned that the carriage arched-way ran parallel with and adjoining the main hall, allowing guests to descend from tlieir carriages ;it the back hall dmn- under sheltei' ; llie carriages then ]ias>ed out through the arch at the back of the house to the eoaeli-house in the rear. The second-story extended over this car- riage-way, whicii was within the side- wall; heyiind this can-iiige-jias^age and 'ouL-iide the side-wall of tlie hou>c, there was a business oliice, urrd in the next two generations for the business uf a justice of the peace and a law-writer or conveyancer. In the attempted restora- tiiin of the ancient a]i{iearance of this hou,-e, I have copied the .-till exi~-ting ofliee of Robert Hartshdrne as jimbably resembling this side-olHce, and iiave re- jiroduc-od the old-fashioned "sloop" or " pent-house," features which have long disaj)peared. "When at the partially- destroyed Dolobran Hall, in Wales, some years ago, I sketched a chimuey-stack, the only outside feature of that hall remaining unchanged ; this ttack was ni>parentlysimilar to that abuvedescribed.

It is not known what, if any, business WiL< ]>tn-sued l>y J.>anie! Smith ; his incume Iroui real <'state :nu,--l liave been cousider- <»

able. As his father, son (Robert) and grandson (Daniel) ]iosse.ssed a knowl- edge of the law, it seems probable that the law business connected with (at least) his own red estate, was tran.sacted bj' him in this side-office. The house con- tinued in the family during four genera- tions.

Daniel Smith sat .several years in the assembly of West Jersey iin- the ("ity of IJurlington ; in one year, 1716, he and his lii'otlu'r Samuel were, together, its sole re]irescntatives.

His " benevolent and exenijilary con- duct in the various relations of i^rivate life, is well kncjun where he formerly dwelt," "so true is the record of tradi- tion to the memory of those endeared virtues, that wcie once active in ditfusing the blessings of pifty and good-will throughout the ciri-lc of their intluence," says a biographer of the last century.'^ "He several times reprcseiucd the City of Burlington in assemldy, and was an Elder in gOiKl estimation in the religious society of which he wa> a mrndn-r, many years before his decease, in 174.!."

"Maryymith was a woman of very gixid natural jiarts, but little imjirovfti by school-learning ;" (it will be remem- bered that she came over as a young child to the settlement,) " yet she wrote well ibr the times, and spoke the Lulian language fluently. iShe was serviccabh- and exemplary to the church in the ministerial capacity, being freely devoted

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to the honour of God and tlie good of her fellow-creatures. In the year 1728, she visited the southern ])arts of tliis continent, in comjiany with the late Margaret Preston, in the love of the Gospel."

From the recoi-d of deceased ministers and elders of Burlington Meeting, is taken the following note: "3Iary Smith, wife and widow of Daniel Siuith, of IJur- lington, was, several years heforc her de- cease, confined with indisposition i if hulv, wliich she was supported to liear with much resignation to the Divine "Will: A few days before her de]iartnre. a rela- tive going to see hei-, ti^innd her in a lively frame of mind, and lior senses quick and strong, though she was ex- tremely weak ill \„j,]y. She told liiia that, with suhmi>.-iiiii td the Divine A\'ill. she earnestly desin-d a i-emoval to a better world; that, in this tlie time of her great distress, she found Divine Goodness near, the same which li.id vi-ited her in her youthful day-., anil it \v;i- now her sup- p:")rt; that thou-h works were not m.ri- torious, yet she found it very comfortable to remember that she had led a virtuous and religious life, and now she felt nothing in her v.ay. With many more verv reli- gions and sensible expressions. She died the 12th of the fifth month, 1740,"' aged seventy-two years.

The brothers. l)aniel an.d Samuel Smith, of Bramh.am, a]>pear to liave joined the mercantile company of nine persons, mentioned in the letter of Mah'on Stacy, before quoted. Two sons

of Daniel Smith went out to the '\V( >t Indies in the vessels of that companv. and the trade afterwards fell chiefly into the hands of Eichard Smith, (fourth.) son of Samuel Smilh, of Drandiam. To one of her .sous about to leave on thi.- southern voyage, Mary Murfin Smith addressed the following letter: (Ad- dressed, "For Benjamin Smith, in Burlington, in "West Jei-sey, these with care:" and dated from '']Magatv Bav, in Virginia, the 2d of the eight month, 172y;')

"My bear Child: — It being some- what uncertain whether I may get home before thou goest abroad, if it should happen that thou go thi- i'all of the yrai-. therefoie I take this opjiortunity to ^^alute thee with these few line-, de-iring thy prosjiei'ity and welfiire every way.

"My tender advice to thee is. that thou often tliink of thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Live in j'Uic humility, dt.?iring to lie aeipKiinted with God, and love His teachings, :nid in Hi- own time He will moie clearly mako known to tliee what is His will, and enable thee to come uji in the true pei- fornnnice of thy ihity to Him. If thy whole trust and reliance be continually upon the Lord, thou needst not fear hut He will be thy Great Preserver.

" Puzzle nr,t thy thoughts with my-le- ries too high or too deep; ti)r when (iod is pleased to reveal His serrets to u-, 11" will do it in His <,\vn time, and iti 111-^ own way. Let us patiently wait and

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.(Liirtlv lio|ie, and His ])reserving liaml njll lie iiuar in every needful time.

••'I'liii- He liatli been to uic, and I am «. II a--iin'(l .so He will he to thee. E.\- |.<iiriK-e hath brought me to speak of ihc giiodiiess of God, and of His ju-e- ~<Tvirig Iiaiid. Wlien troubles and exer- cIh-s are sufleicd to eome, let us be still and <|iiiet till the storni be over, and He will sjiv, it is enough. Then jovful liviiiiis and thanksgiving will rise and .■nine before God with aeeeptance. A 'acrifiee which will be well [ileasing in lii. si.^ht.

".'^o, my dear ehild, I do recommend lliee, with my own soul, to God Almighty and to His keej)ing. ^Vnd now I I'est liiy lender and loving mother,

'• M. S."

I'aiiiel ^luiih.of Brandiam, wastw-en- ly-six years of age when lie landed in -Ni'w Jeivey, in 1001. He wa.- acroni- I«:iuied by his younger bi ..thci-. .b.-rpli, !i:;>'d twenty-live, and Eiinnticl. a v(,ii;h 'if tweiiiy-Hiie ycar^ i,i' age. Of tlie.--r, •bi-e|ili married Catliariin- Lynch, by wli'iiii lie had one s(a>. id^o nani.-d .b>-cph, «lio died unmarrifd. ])y tlnV event, his liiK' became extinct. The elder Jo.-ejih •^niitli died in 17o0. Emanuel '^ in;irrird Mary Willis, a member of the Church "' Eiigl;ii„l, and left descendants; of his

V.mMmcl or •Mniiuer' .Smith mnrricd M:irv. ■'^nchi.T or (icorfre Willis, a ciiurch-wunlcQ ..r.s'i. •Jin » Chtin-h. ani\. tif, ,,min^' u m.>ml.(.T i,f th:it ',-".'7 ','l*'" !i!ir,<c!rekclf,l L-hnr. h-w^ml.n in tin- vrars "■'•II nnd ;71.-,. Th- t.ii. i..ilii-.:hurihL:n".rti.ld ■• 'fi I'»ri ilenvrd bv di-d from Mr. Joualliau tmith.

line, I have only been able to procure an imperfect account, which I Iiojie to sup- plement in a future edition.. He died in 1720. Of Samuel, who followed in 1694, J. Sansom says: "Samuel Smith, sometime member of assembly for the City of Burlington, and much respected in his public capacity as a man of prin- ciple and conduct, was of a mild and benevolent disposition, rather inclined to retirement, yet no stranger either to the duties or the pleasures of .society; and his early decease, in 1718, was much regretted." Tiie " History of New Jer- sey," gives a short notice of him, as follows: "In 1718, died Samuel Smith, one of the members of assembly for Rurlingtnii ; he had sought happiness in the Cjuiels of obscurity, but being, against his inclination, called to this and other j)ublick stations, he passed through them with a clear reputation." Of*liim, more liercafter.

Kiehai'd .'■^mitli, third, the vouiii;e:-t of th^• Rramham br'nlin-n, foll.iwt-il the othiTs eiuht years Inter, in li'i'.Ki, bi-ing then tweiKy-tive years of ag(-. Ife was, by prot'i-"ion, a I)octor of Medicine. Dr. Richard Smith married Anne ilar- shall, and left numerous descendant.*. He was, early in the eighteenth centurv, appointed, by mandamus from the King, one of " His ^lajesty's Council for Xew Jersey," in which ollice ie' t'outinued for twelve years. (Of this body and its relations with the asscitibly. more here- after.) Dr. Kichard .'-^iiiitli died iiil7.J0, at the ago of sixty-six.

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The family profession, in the lines both of Daniel and of Samuel Smith, was, for several generations, that of tlie law. To this they added the various occupations of extensive land-liolders, farming, mining, n)illing, the surveying, clearing and opening Ijy roads, of tlieir many miles of woodland piopevty. But for the activities of the more enterju'is- ing and of the younger branches, there was also found sco]io in the thriving trade then caiiit-d on from Ihirlingtun to the West Indies. As time wont mi, and land was cleared ami sukl ntF, we lijid some of the lines of their descendants more exclusively interested in law and land-titles, or engaged in larming, while some branches of Satuuel's descendants pushing energetically their West India commerce, became wealthy niercliants. Richard was, himself, a doctor, but the occupations of his descendants varied

between the learned professions and nier- cantile pursuits, similarlj' to those of his brothers' lines.

The history of New Jersey as a pro- vince, being identified with that of its representative assembly, of which ihi; brothers Smith were many years mem- bers, I shall give a short sketch of that history under the proprietary govern- ment and under that of the Crown, and for this purpose go back to the year IG'Jl, ilie dale of the arrival of the brothers, at which point began this antii'ipatory digression to carry on their private story. It will he seen that this public history presents a very ditierent picture from the ideal i)f inolVensive quiet so ardently [iinsued by the iniKicent anil peaceable refugers t'r.ini religiijiis jierserutioii, wlm priiu'ip^dly owned aiul jieopled New Jersey at this iicriod.

CHAPTER VIII.

A PERIOD OF pr:<TrP.BANCE. A TRELUDE OF TUE EEVOLUTION.

V MOrvlC kindly, honest and luw- i ->-- abiding population perliajis never .■\i-tfd, than the Quaker inhabitants of liif proviiiL-os of Ivast and A\'est Jersey, iit this early jieriod. Yet they jiossessed :dl th"' native manliness, love of freedom and hardihood in defending it, of genuine An;;lo-Saxons, notwithstiinding their Ix-aceable religious tenets, as their stub- li'ini contest for proprietiu'v and popular rights, against the encroachment.s of the I'niwn, .suUiciently shows.

In tlu'.-;e encroachment.^, the niunarehs ilifiuM,'lves were generally less to blame liian their ministers ; the " good Queen " .\niie, repeatedly reversed, on tlie jHti- tion of the settlers, the oppressivL' itieas- iir--^ of lier courtiers, and even tieorgc III., though his ill-guid.d obstinacy eventually lost America. w;ls personally "Host kindly-intentioned toward her, and 'villi Utter counsel and a wiser estimate of tlie times and men he had to deal with, might have j.reserved to England ii'-|- magnillccnt Western cmpiic.

Wf liave seen that Dr. Coxe. of Lon-

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Iviwanl J-Jyllinge, the original proprietor "iiider the Duke of York, together with '•'■hh other jinjprietors as still remained '" En-land, transferred his and their

rights, to and in the government and territory of West Jersey, in IC.Ol, to a mercantile company called " '^Ihe A\ est Jersey Society," of which company. Sir Thomas Lane, Knight and Alderman, as the ))urchaser of Coxe's shares, continued to be the most ])owerful member.

It will also be remembered that 15yl- linge and his sncces.<ors conceived the right of nominating the governor of the province to continue to reside in them, while the resilient proprietors in ^\'e■■t Jersey, rejiresenting, in ]irop(ity, the four most valuable tenth.- of the territory, and being, in number, a large majority of the whole uuniber of property-holders, verv justly considered that Byllinge had transferred the riuht.- of government with the soil, and that the nomination of the governor devolved, !>y tiie constitu- tion, ujioii the nuuierieal majority of proprietors as reproeuted in assem- bly. Nevertheless, partly tlinuigh love of England, partly through love of ([uiet and a desire to avoid political agitation in the culony, they waived their right and aeipiiesced in the appointment.s made in the mother country, and received and submitted to tlio governors sent thence, when these were tolerable. S>me that I were disatUrted to the reigning family or 69

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otlierwise unsuitable, tliey exercised their right of rejecting.

This moderation and jdiability of tlie settler-proprietors, must exonerate them from all suspicion of factiousness or ob- stinacy in the contests afterwai-d arising.

In the sj)ring of 101)2, the new Eng- lish proprietors sent their commission to Colonel Andi-ew Ilauiiltun, as governoi', to take the jilacc of 'fathaiii, appdintecl by Coxc, ami ujei-ted by the as.-enddy for being a .Tacnbite. llaniihim being accepted liy the as^cmlily, cinilinued governor of Ixitli the .TerM-ys and also of Pennsylvania, for several years.

The rule of Colojiel ILuailton appeai-s to have lieen highly satisfictnry to the proprietors and settlers fur the nrxt >ix years, and his being, at the same time, chief executive of butli ilic iH virions of New Jersey, faniiliari/.ed the minds uf the people with tlie idea of an union between tlie two jirovinces, an uniiju which was sodii actuallv tu take jilace.

In lO'Jii, a niajdiity i.f the Ji^limli-h proprietors — lu.t repie-inliiig, however, a inajoritv ol'tlic wliiJe nuiulier of siiaies, including t\\n-,: heUl in Aiinriea — cum- missioned ,bTeiniah l!a-,- 1(j sii|ier>eile Colonel llamiltmi in the guvernnn'nt dt' East Jersey, lla^s gave out that hi' had King William Ill.V apprnbuiidii dl' this commis.-idii : '" luit in the next year it appeared tliat l!:!.--- hail mil obiaimd the king's ap]U'db,itIdi\ of In- cdnimi--iun, nor was it gianled liy enuugh ef tbe pro- prietoi-s t(j make it valid, wlijeh inilueed great nuudiei-s ut' the inhal^uants to

refuse obedience to him, and to the magistrates and officers by him appointed ; some persons being imprisoned for relir-- ing obedience, it was resented by othei- \vitli great indignation, and feuds and confusion followed." (East Jersey con- tained but a small proportion of (^>iki- kers.) "To accommodate matters fcji- the present, Andrew Hamilton was again appointed governor, by a fresh commi,-- sion from some of the proprietors ; but a great nuiidjia- I'efused dbedicnce to him. and the magistrates and oliieers under him, in like manner, and fir the same reasons as thev had refused llass and those he appointed. The disorders in the ICastern divisinn at this time made such an impression on the ndnds ut many of the penph-. that tlc-y readily hearkened to overtures made fdi- a sur- render (j1' government. A consideialile part of West Jersey was, also, for similar reasons, disposed to a resignation, 'fiie eomnidtidiis in iMitii, -.vhieh had been inci'easing for some \e:ii>, now seemeii to be got to a crisis, and all thing- temled t<i a surrender of the jiowers of L'"d\ern- ment. which was at lenirlh broni'lit af'-ut in the beginning of"(17(i_', Ajail loth.) Before proceeding with our sketch ot provincial history, farther thai: the end of the seventeenth century, il will be necessary, once more, to digress into the j.arallel histoiy of tlie i'amily, in order to notice the arrival, in company with the founder of reiinsylvania. at hi^ seeond vi-it to h's pri.ivinee, ill l('i[''..K el a collateral anceslur, James Ldgan, alter-

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w.inl I'or iiiiiiiy years Chief Justice ami Pi.-idciit of t'ouncil of Pennsylvania.

Tliis (li:^tinguislied statesman and man of li Iters was of a good Imt impoverished S,-..ii!sli family. His aneestors, by the I'.ilhia's side, hud \>vvu, for matiy eeiilLi- lii-, lairds or " lianius" of Restalrig, a liiir c-late and viUage near Edinburgh; ilii'V owned also, among other estates, l".i-i Ca<tle, a celebrated stronghold on :iie (ierman Ocean, which was taken l)v .•^ir Wah'er Scott as the model tur his de- -iTi;>iieii of (lie Ca-ilc of Kavenswond, in ill'' " Dride of Lammermoor." Tl'.e ! Hinder of the family was Sir John I.>,'aii or Loggan, an JjUglisli general, ^\lie. in the early reign of King A^'illiam llie Iviiin, of Scotland, had the good for- tune to cai)ture thai nioiiaieh when le.id- iiii; iin incursion into i'ingland. The king \v;i> jielij ii, ran-om, and gave his eai.tor an estate in Scotland, on condition of iii~ ii.xing his re.-idence there. Lati'r, "e lind Su ];,,!„. It and Sir ^^'alter I. '-an. ot' tie- aine line, intimate friend-; '■1 lie' heroie'llnice, and metnbers of the ■ai.ill [Kirty of his nearest friends and r-lalives. led by Lord James of Douglas, «lio were intrti-ted by the dying liero **illi tlie ta-k of c<jiiV(ying his Iieart to I'ale-tinc. In the battle in Sj>ain in ^'liich nearly all this party were cut olf, the I,,og;ins were timong the slain, and 'heir family received on this account, the aagiiieiitation of the bloody heart, pierced hy three passion-nails emblematic of the -nirering's of Christ, in their arms King '••■"•rt II. (ll.ibert Stuart, grandson of

Robert Jiruce by tlie mother's side), gave his daughter [Margaret in marriage to a subsequent Logan of Restalrig, endow- ing her with the lands of Grugar, and styling her husband, in the instrument, " militi dilecto, fratri suo," "the beloved knight, his " (the king's) " brother." Tlie line afterward intermarried with tla.' Sum- ervilles, of Cowthally, and other good families, but a false accusation of com- plicity with the mysterious Cowrie plot, in the reign of James YL, oau.-ed it t(.i lie attainted of treason. The informer was afterwards e.xeciited for jierjury, buL not till the lifeless remains of Jiestalrig'-' had been insulted, his estates confiscated and distributed among corrupt court favorite.-;, and his infant sons exiled to Irelan:!. One of them afterward leturneil and tbuinied the family of Logan of th.it ilk, a younger son of which, the Heveieiid Patrick Logan, blaster of Arts in Glas- gow University, wa:> father to James Logan. ( >f his maternal anee-try. we have these note< bv him-elf: '' My mother wa.-> Isaliel Hume, .langhtci- of .lames Hume, a younger brother cif the luai-e of St. Leonards, in tlie south of Scotland. He was manager of tiie e.-tate of the Ivirl of Murray, who owed but never ]iaid him £1000 sterling, though the .-^aid earl lodired for some vears in his

* 'I'Lf intt-Qse luviilty of Sir W. Scott, cau^cti him to bt niuerly prejiiili'A-il a;.'ain<t all tliose even :>us- p.i teil of piotliliL' :iL'AiU>t till- Iiiri2. Ijut l:;i!'ia.-i-.l auilionlii's ri'iiroseut tb.' Iii>t Sir Itoh.Tt L.v'jun of Ito^tiilriir, as a ircnial, hospital.le •■ !;oDtlpm;in of tlic oid.'Q nine," ami tli.- liitc.-l iTiti--, ^ii'ch a- rhani'iiT^ aoil U'll.i.n, ai:.|iiit him uf all tuuipncity m thi: alkgt-J plot of Oowrie.

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liouse ill the Shire of FitV. Jly gniiid- niother before slie mnrriuil w:is Jiclhiu UiinJas, sister of the L;iii(J of J.)uii(l;is, of DiiHstun, ahoiit ciglit miles west (A' Edinburgli, a iine seat. And the lilarl of jMurray assisted my y,raiidralliei- in carrying oft' my graiidiiiuther ;■■ slie was nearly related to the Earl of ranmure, etc."t

Patrick Loiran was cliajilaiu to Lord Belliaveu, of .Stenton, but becoming a Quaker, lost all prospect of advancement in tlic church. After some time spent in Ireland, where dames wms born, his parents returned to Scotland, and iiually removed to London, wheie Patrick Logan became master of the Latin school of the Quakers. Here the fine talents of j'ouiig James, who at twenty-two was master ol' the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Span- ish and Italian langiaiges, as well as a profound scholar in mathematics and the "humanities," atti'acted the attention of William Pciin, and, alter a few ye-ars, during whieli young Logan had em- barked iu business :is a ship]>ing nier- chaut, Perm offered him the employnieut of his secretary. Atter due consideration the offer was accepted, and Logan sailed with Penn, in IG'JH, to the province, where the highest public emjdoyments occupied his energies for many vears. lie accunuilated a fine i'oitiine in liis private busine-,-, and retired ti> lii- iioide country-seat of Stenton, near Philadel-

' It was a '■run:iw;iv" tnatrh ! t Sill- w^< a -r^in.M j.:irhl. r, on ln-r innlhrr's ,-i,lc. of 10 lir-t Kdrl ,.r I'auiniir,'.

jihia, whose ancient groves and antii|ii. walls still form a picture of the past in (jiir day. He was, on the side of In- cidtivated intellect, the familiar assoeia;. of the first philosophers of the periml, while his kind heait made him the frien.i of the poor savage, and, after " Oiiii-," (Penn,) the simplc-heailed Indians h:id no more faithful, no more powerfid pin- teetor than he.

Chief Justice Logan married Sarali, daughtiT of the Honoiable Ciiiirle- Pead, of the Pennsylvania Assendiiy, and by her had several children; anioiiL: others, Hamiah, wife of the Honovalile John Smith, of whom hereafter.

Tlie beginning of the eighteenth len- tury foun<l the minds of ]irojirietnrs and peoj)le, both in England and in N'W Jersey, prejiared for the resumption by the Crown, of the jiowers of government originally delegated by it to the jmipri- etors. The resumption was cfti-'Cted by a legal doeumetit. dated April 1.3th, 17' i-. in whieb the Engli.-h jmipriet.irs and a few American jirojirietoi-s (among whose names we tind that of Lewis .Moiri-), surrender the rights of government to Queen Anne, \\'illiam II L being ii'iW deceased. On the 17th, the (,)iieeii, in full court, accepted the siuren.ler, ami directly afterward appointi'd her e"ii-in. j'idwanl Hyde, Loi d ViM-onnt Conibiiry, grandson to the great Chancellor Clan ii- don, Ciovernor of New Jersey. In his commission he is enjoined to adniiin-ter the oatlis •'ai.[ininle.l by act of parliament to be taken instead of the oatit of al-

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lc.;i;iiicc iiiul supremacy," to the conn- it is manifest that the council was likely

( il, v.lii> are, in turn, to a(l^lini^;ter the to be a body rather ilevoted to the intcr-

r.mie oatlis to him. On vacancies occur- ests of the Crown than to those of tlie

ritif; in the council, the Crown fdl.s them, people, when these inteivsts should lie

Imt tiie governor lias power to sujiply separate oj' eontlictinu- ; also, that too

thi-tn temporarily, whili.' awaiting tlie iinieh power was given to the governor.

lifW a]ipointuients of the Crown. The It was .soon found that there was no re-

ciiimcil, which was formerly apjminted dress fi-om tyranny im the piart of th(>

l.y llie a-seiiihly, is now made an upper gcjvcr.'ior, except tlimugli direct a])peal

li.iii-e, a sort of house of lords or senate, to the si.ivereign ; and tliat tlie coun-

iiidepeiident of the assembly, and de- eil early I'esijlvcd itself into a mere

j»iident dirc'.-tly ujion the (Vuwii, and cliijue nf luoN i.if the chief executive.

Inviiig jiiiwer to jniss u]ion, icjeet or ac- By its energy and devntion, however, the

cepl laws, but not originate iheni, the assembly >ucceeded Imth in establishing

originating jiowcr lieing still cnolined to a cheek u]ion the despotism of the gov-

tlic re])resentalives of the people. ernor, and in expurgating and recon-

\ property (■[ualificatiim was estab- structing the council. li-lied, both lor V(jting in the election of On this first Koyal Council we find the

iiienibers of assembly, and for the mem- names of S.imuel Jenings and Lewis

hers themselves. Ino person wa~ alle.wed Moiris ; the lir>t. cloubilo- appointed to

I" vote in tlie election of niendjcis of conciliate the great ma<s of unrepre^entt'd

:i-.-cndily but such as possosed at least pro]irietors in West Jersey, and the lal-

one liundred acresof land iir f-jO of capi- ter as a -imilai- gratification to tll(l^e in

tal. ,'\nd no one coidd r-pre-ent the East.bi>ey: Lewis Monis wa-. an ac-

|"Mple as a membei-, in a--embly, wim tive, inen.Tuptibh' and jiatriotic repre-

did not jiossess at least one thousand acre.- scntativeof the propriett.r.- and pcojile of

"I land or f.jOO of capital. The a-scin- that section, and we have seen iiini as

bly was to con-i-t of t wenty-fiair mem- one of tlie signr-rs of the ,-urreniiei.

'it-, two to be elected by the Imuseliold- Sauuiel .lenings, our family connection

•■;•- of l!ui-lington, and two by those of and the tJi'st governor of West Jersey,

i'crlh .\ndioy, in h/i-t Jei>ey. fen by the was incapacitated, as a (.,)iiaker, tVoin tak-

Ircfliolders of lla-rt. and ten by those of ing the oaths, and In-^ appointment was,

\\ i--t .lersey. therefore, a dead letter; Morri,-. though

I iie council was to ceiiisist of twtdve not thus inca]iacitateil. was a mere

nuaubers, <inc-half ti-om each tli\i-ion of cipher aniid-t the cli(|uc of politicians

''"' IT'iviiic-o, to be appointed by the who formed the majoritv in the council. * rovMi innn the nominations of the uov- The royal instruction^ trenclied heavily

"Tnor. !■ rom these and other provisions iijion the privileges formerly guaranteed

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to and enjoyed by the people of the Jer- seys; for example, a iState-church was at once set uji and made part of the Eng- lish establishment, in these paragraphs : " You shall take csjiecial care that God Almighty be devoutly and duly served throughout your government, tlie book of common jirayer, as by hnv established, read each Sunday and holy-day, and the blessed sacrament administered according to the rites of the Ciiurch of England.

"You shall be cnreful that the churche- already built there, be well and orderly kept, and that niDi-e be Ijuill, as the colony sliall, by God's blessing, be im- proved ; and that besides a competent maintenance to Ije assigned to the min- ister of each orthodox church, a conve- nient house be built at tiie common charge ibr each niinisiei', and a compe- tent jiropoi'tion (if land assigned him for a glebe and exercise of his industry.

'"And you are to take care that the parishes be so limited and settled, as you shall find niosi ninvcini-nt, fur the accom- plishing this gi)od work.

"You are not to jirefer any minister to any ecclesiastical benefice in that our province, without a certificate from the right reverend father in God, the Lord Bishop of London, of his being con- formable to the doctrine and dL-cipline of the Church of England, and of a good life and conversation."

"And to tlie end the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the said Lord ]3i.-hon of Loudon, may take place in our said pro-

vince .so far as conveniently may be, w. do think fit that you give all countenaih . and encouragement to thecxercise of tlr same."

The African slave-ti-ade was introdm > -I into tlio colony, and even foiced upi/u ii. and made a monopoly for a favored com- pany, in the following :

" You are to give all due encourage- ment and invitation to merchants am! others, who shall bring trade into our said province, or any way conlributf t" tiie advantage thereof, an<l in particu!;u the Royal African Company of Eng- land.

"And, whereas, we are willing to reconi- mend unto the said company, that tin- said province may have a constant ami sufficient sujiply of merchantable Ni- grocs, at moderate rates, in money or commodities; so you are to take especiiil care that payment be duly made, and within a competent time according tn their agreements.

"And YOU are to lake care that tlion.' be no trading from our said province !•■ any place in Africa, within the charttr of the lloyal African Company, otherwi.-e than prescribed by an Act of Parliament; entitled 'An Ad io Settle the Trade to Africa.^

"And }"0U are yem-ly to give unto n-. and to our commissioners for trade and plantations, an account of what uunilicr of Negroes our said province is yearly supplyed with, and at what rates."

The jicople, nearly two-ihirds of whom were Quakers, were burdened with the

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rai^illJ; of military forces, in the follow- iiij,' instructions:

, "Anil, wliercas, the preservation of the norilierii frontiers of our province of New York, against the attempts of any ciicniy by land, is of great importance to I he security of our other northern planta- tions on the continent of America, and iiioiv especially of our said province of Xcw .Terse}', which lies so near adjoining to our province of Xew York, and the churge of erecting and repairing the forlifiuitions, and of maintaining the soldiers necessary for the defense of the ^;||lle, is too great to be borne by the single province of New York, without clue contributions from others concerned tiicrein, for whic^h reason wo have, u]>on ^eve^al occasions, required such contribu- tions to be made, and accordinglj^ settled a quota to regulate thoproportionsthei-eof ; you are, therefore, to take further care, to dispose the general assembly of our Slid jirovince of New Jersey, to the i-ais- iiig of such other supplies, as are or may ""e necessary for the defense of our sai<l province of New York, according to the "ignilicntion of our will and pleasure llicrfin. which has already been made to tlio inhabitants of Xew Jersey, or which ►•hall at any time liereafter be made to .von, our governor," etc.

"And for the greater security of our I'rovinc-e of New Jersey, you are Vi "I'lMMut fit oflicei's and commaudeis in llif several parts of the country bordcr- iii;; iijion the Indians, who, ujion any invasion, may rai>e men and arm., to

oppose them, until they shall receive your directions therein."

Lastly, a muzzle was cla2)])ed upon the press, in the following :

" Forasmuch as great inconvenioncies may arise by the liberty of printing in our said province, you are to provide, by all necessary orders, that no person keep any press for })riiiting, nor that any book, pamphlet or other matters whatsoever, be ju'inted, without your especial leave and license first obtained."

These pleasant features in the gov- ernor's instructions must have made the honest Jerseymen feel they had gotten a "King Stork" to rule them, in jilace of their old "King Logs," the proprietors.

The Earl of Sunderland, of her maj- esty's ministry, was probably the party responsible for the objectionablt' fratures in these instructions, rather than the good Queen lierself. 1 liave quoted these featui'es, rather than the many use- ful and necessary provisions they contain, because the former go to account for the ensuing political ditHculties.

From Samuel Smith's remarks on the surrender, and on the royal instructiuiis, I take the following:

" There does not appear to have been any design" (in the surrender) "to abridge the privileges before enjoyed, nor could it, perhaps, be legally eifected, by any of the steps taken before or in the surrender; for many of the settlers, though they were actually proprietors, do not seem to have bi-en jiavtit-s to the surrender, either by themselves or any legally constituted

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body for tlieiii, excejtt it may be su])- posed, tlicir approving the thing without joining in any one public act to effect it, niade them so.

" The 2:)roprietoi's who signed the in- strument of surrender, considered as to the shares of propriety they held, might be thought of importance enough to be denominated the whole, in barely giving up tlie gorcvnuicnt ; bul it no- where appears, that they liad any legal power to represent the settlers in general, in matters wherein they had admitted tliem to share in their property, whether of land or privilege ; and, as to numbers, were but a small ])art of the proprietors, and a very small part of the settlers.

"Every settler who complied with the terms of scttlenu'Ut ]iublickly established, as well as the y/c/v/c'sr/-, bring entitled to the privileges purelia.-ed or settled under, it could not be lawi'ul, that the act of any fellow proprietor to the last, or landlord to the other, should deprive them of what, by the original fi'ame andconstituiinii- nf the country, or particular agreeinmts, they had a share in ; and" (which) "had been the principal inthiecnient uf their removing hither to .-ettle.

"That the civil and I'di^ious privileges subordinate to, and deri\ed frijm, but not connected with the pciwirs of govern- ment, were the prineijiid indueenient of many of the settlers, to h'avc good habi- tations and remove hither, moik' ac- quainted with the state of things in the original settlement, can iloubt. If, there- fore, every purclia.-i>r and settler had a

right to and property in the privileges conveyed to them, and if the ideas of property' in British subjects are the same in the colonies as in the mother country; according to these, nothing but their own act by themselves as individuals, or as some way represented in legislation or otherwi.^o, c<:>uld deprive them of it ; any- thing less would imjily an absurdity in the term."

To show the conllict between these in- structions and the guaranteed consti- tutions of both Jerseys, the following extracts are made from those instru- ments :

1. Guarantee of freedom from military service.

" It is resolved, that on the one side, no man that declares, he cannot for con- science' sake bear arms, whether projiri- etor or planter, shall be at any time juit upon so doing, in his own person ; nor yetvprni xcnJiiif/ any to serve in hi.^ stefuh and on the other side, those who do judge it their duty t.i bear arms for tin' laiblick defense, shall have their liberty tu do it in a legal way." (Fundamental constitutions of East New Jersey, A. 1 '. ItiSo). The italics are mine.

2. Guarantee of freedom from the suj)port of a State-church.

"All persons acknowledging one Al- mighty and Eternal Go<l, and holdintr themselvts obliged in eon.seience to live cpiietly in civil society, shall no way be molested or prejudged for their religious j'ei-sua.-ioiis and exercise in mattere ot faith and worshi]), nor be eomjielled to

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fa-<iueiit iiiul mainfaln any place of wor- ship or ministry whatsoever ; but none I.I lie uiluiitted to places of public trust, «li(i do not profess faitli in Christ Jesus, 1111(1 will not solemnly tleclare that he is nut obliged, in conscience, to endeavour ulteration in the government, nor does nut seek tlic turning out of any in it, or ilu'ir ruin or prejudice in person or estate, l_H''i-ui~e they are, in his opinion, hereticks, or dilfur, in judgment, from him.'" Ibid.

3. (.luarantee of freedom iVom oaths iiu'ainst conscience, in the courts, and ihiin oaths of allegiance.

"In all courts, persons of all persua- sion-, to apjiear in their ossw way and according to their own manner, and pcr- suually ]ilead their own causes, or, if un- iilile, by tlieii' friend-:: and no jierson allnwrd to take jumiey Uw plca<ling or aiivice in sucli caso.

"All witnesses called to testify to any matter or thing in any court, or before any lawful authm-ity. to didiver tlieir •■vidence by sulrinnlv jironii-ing tn spt-ak liie truth, tiie whule truth and notliing hut the truth, and i\\v iiunishment oi' l.d-('ii(x>d to be the same as in c;u~es of IfTJury," etc. Ibid.

In both divisions of the province the """''■■"■'■/if'^y allegiance to the king,'" was iii:ide etpiivaleut to "swearing" it.

Altlioiigh the Quaker projirietors were,

•'■■ yet, slave-holders, the extension of

-lavcry by the slave-trade, w;is repugnant

'" tlu'in, a.s we ;^ee by the following from

• the Wi-st Jer.->oy " Concessions :"

" Heing intended and resolved, bv tlie

help of the Lord, and by these, our con- cessions and fundamentals, that all and everv i^erson and persons inhabiting-lhe said province, shall, as tiir as in us lies, be free from opjnession antl slavery." (Chap, xxiii.)

The government of Queen Anne, in their instructions to Cornbury, disre- garded the above privileges, guaranteed to New Jersey by their predecessors, as coolly as if no such things had .ever existed.

Aruied with these formidable instruc- tions. Lord Cornbury appeared in New Jersey in Au,gust, 1703. Of him, S. Smith remarks :

" Contrary to the expectation of those concerned in the surrender, we soon find them" (the provinces,) "jointly strug- gling for the ])re?ervati('U nf their \<ii\- ileges againsi the eneroachnients i^t a governor, who, if his abilities had been equal to his liirtli aiul inteve>t, must be allowed to have been as ibrmidabk :.n antagonist in that capacity as any that have come to the colonies; besides being the son of a family that had merited highly in the revolution, he was fir-t cousin to Queen Anne." After publi-li- ing his commission in Uurlington and Amboy, he retiu-ned to New \ork, ot which, also, be was governor, but s<jnn came back and convened the general a-send)!y to meet him at Perth Amboy, on No\ember 10th. Among the mem- bers of this assenibly we find the follow- ing auct->l(irs and coiuiections ut tbe BurHnirtfjn ymiilis: William ."^leveu-

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SOU, son-iii-liuv of Goveriioi' Jeiiiiigs, which, those couseicntiously scrupiiLiu^

and miiterual ancestor of the Smiths of of hcariiig anus, in ninny pai'ts, wer,-

Bramhani, Burlington County ; Joscfih great-sulfei-ers.

Cooper, son of \\'iniaiu Cooper, of " On the 12th of Dcceinhcr, the truv-

Cooper's Point, anJ J(_)lm Sniiili, of ernor adjourned them till next year, wiili

Salen). After hearing a speech iiuui the more encomiums on their conduct than

new governor, and jirescnting him an many of them got from their constitneni,>

address in return, they jia.-sed sevcial on their return home ; during this whole

bills, and adjourned on i>eceiiilier 1 ;!th. session they had tamely sufl'ered tljc

The same assembl}- met Cornhuiy arliiti'ary j)ractices of Cornbui'y in dc-

again on September 7th, 1704. In his prive ihem of three of theii- mo,-t suli-

sjieecli he ■' took occasion to ]ire.-s Inr a stantial memlieis — Thuina> (iardinir,

law to establi-li a militia," and a twi't on Thomas Landmen and Josluia A\'right —

the Higldandsof Xevei-sinic, The house under ]i]-elen>e of their not owning laiiil

took the mattei'S recommendeil, iuti) con- enough to quality them to sit theri',

sideration, but their pr^'efdings, as we though they were known to be men of

may well snjijiose, "not being to the gov- sullicient estates ; and the same assendily,

ernor's mind," he abiiijitly tlissolved at their next mc_-etiiig, at And)oy, in

them on the "iSth, and i,-r-ued writs i'or 1 70-3, themselves declare, ' the meml.cis

tlie election of a new assend)ly. to unct had heretofore satislicd I he house nf their

fit liurlington the lolh of Xoveiiiber, being duly cpialilicd In sit in the same;'

following. : and they were then ailmitted, when the

"This election was indus(riou-ly man- purpo-rs of their exeiusiun were an-

aged, and a ■majority of members pro- swered : This sitting was in ()ctolKT

cured to his Iniiiil." Mi.-t ot' tiie (^»iia- ami Xovi'iiiber, but j-iodiKu-d iioiliing of

kermendjcr.-, iiicliidiiii; our two ancestors, much i;onse,pience ; the .-osion wliiih

no longer appear on tlie list; it wa,- no toHowcd. at the same place, in fletober,

longer an assenddy re|iresentative of the 170C), likewi-e jirovcd un-uccessful, and

jieojile, but rather of the govtaaior's syc(.- n'>w Ctindniry again di>>ulved theassem-

jihants, :ind it is not .-iirjiri>ing to lind blv."

them, in their addre,-s, compliini-iitiiig " The writs for a new a.^.-embly weie

Cornbury. "with going through the rettirnalile to Jiiirlington, ihc .'ith of

atiairs of governnioiu with great dili- Ajiril, 1707. In this asr-eirdily, it soon

gencc and exquisite management, lo the appeared, Condniry had not the suceos

admiration of his jiieiuls, and envy of in elections as in the la>t choice; his

his enemies." conduct was arbitrary and the people

Tliey passed a law for e.-t;ibli,--bing di--atlsf!ed ; tiie a>-eiid.i'y rhu>e S.imtnl

a militia, by the unnecessary severity of Jening<,sj.eaker ; reeeivcil thegeivernor's

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s|H.ti-li, ami soon after resolved into a cMiitiiittoc oftlie ^vllole house to consider LTii'Viincrs ; tliis CMuninittcL' continued rltiiiii,' <'runi day to day, till at length thi'V agreed ujion fifteen resolves, and by IKiition to the rjuoen, laid them before iiiT, on the Sth of the month called Mav." They also ]iresentcd a manly remonstrance to the govei'nor, from which 1 make a few extracts :

" Miiij it jiltii.<r /he Govirivir :

"Wq, her majesty's loyal sul.ijccts, the M'jirc-eiitativcs of the ]'rovince of New Jersey, are heartily sorrjMhat, instead of i-.dsiiig such a i-evenue as is by the gov- <Tiior (as \YC sujipose l)y the qucen'r^ directions,) required of us, we are obliged to lay before him the unlKi]>[iy cireum- i-tances of this jirovinco : it is a ta-k we imdcrtake not of choice, but necessity, imd have, therefore, reason to hope that «hat wc say may mei-t with a more l.i\oiir;d)le recc])tion.

" We [iray the governor to be ;i-.-nred, it i.> imr misfortune extorts this iT(Jcedure from iH, and that we .-hoiild bflray the trii-t re|M>ed in us by our Country, did Wc Hot endeavuur to obtain relief"

Alter this courteous preamble they '■harL;c' him with neglecting the province :

"\\v may not perchaiioe rightly ap- JTi'heiul all the caii-es of our sufferings, I'HI luive rea-on to think .-ome of thi-m urc very nuich owing to the governor's long absence front this province, which renders it yery diflicult to apply to him in s<iine c-.ists which may need a present

help. It were to be wished the affairs of New York would admit the governor oftener to attend those of Xew.Jersey ; he had not then been unacquainted with our grievances, and wc are inclined to believe they would not liave grown to so great a number."

They then ]n-esent what they call their minor grievances, the first being the case of two murderers under sentence of death, who were permitted to go tit large.

"Secondly, we think it a great hard- shij) that jicr.'^on? accused for any crime, should be oldiged to pay court ices, not- withstanding the jtiry have not found the bill against them ; they are men gen- erally chose out of the neighbourhood, :;•■ :;: '^^ ^y],,j c.;iunot well be su]ipOrcd to be ignorant of the character of the person accused, nor want as good inforiuiilion as nrav be had; when, therefore, they do not find the bill, it is very reasonable to su]ipose the accused jicfM)!) innocent, and, cousequcntly. no lev- dtie tVoiu him ; we prav. tlienf 'iv, that the govomor will give his ;issetit to an act of a~<i inbly to prevent the like for the finiiie; oihei- wise, no jierson can He sale from the practices of designing men, or the wicked . effects of a vindictive temper."

Ssme grievances "of a higher nature, and attended v,ith worse consequences," are next complained of:

" In the fii>t place, the governor Ikls prohil'ite<l the iirojirietors' agents, com- moulv called the council of jiroprietfjrs, from granting any warrants for taking u^) of land in the western division of this

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province. We cauiiot see by wbat law or reason any man's jnoperty can be ilis- poscd of by the governor without his consent : The proprietoi's when they surrendered their government, did not part with their soil, and may manage it as they tliink fit, and are not to take directions tVoni any person whatsoever, how and when to do it; if any person concerned be grieved, the laws ai'e open, by which dispntes in ^jroperty are de- cided ; and he doubtless will not be left remediless. We are very sorry the guv- crnor gives us occasion to say, it is a groat encroaelinicnt on the proprietors' liberties; but we are nut. surprised at it, when a greater eneroaehineut on our liberties led the way to it, and that was the governor's let'using to swear or attest three members of the last assemljly upon the groundless suggestions of Thomas Ilevell and Daniel Leeds, two members of the queen's council, by which they were kejit out of tlie u.~>cmljly. A\'e are too sensibly ioucheil with that procedure, not to know what nui-t be the unavoid- able consequences of a governor's refus- ing to swear which of the members of an assembly he thinks lit ; but to take upon himself the power of judging of the qualifications of assembly-men, and to keep them out of the house (as tlie governor did the afure.-aid three mend.ers nigh eleven montiis till hr was s;Ui.-li(.-d in that point), after the hou.-e had de- clared them ([ualitied — is so gnsit a vio- lation of the liberties of the ]ieople, so great a breach of the privileges of the

house of representatives, so much as>iiiji- ing to himself a negative voice to the freeholders' election of their represeiil- atives, that tlie governor is entrcate<l in pardon us, if this is a different trcatniem from what we expected."

"It is notoriously known, that niauv considerable sums of money have bctn raised, to procure the dissolution of tin first assembly, to get clear of the projiri- etors' quit-rents and to obtain such officers as the contributors should approve of ; this house has great reason to believe, the uioney so gathered was given to I^onl Cornbur}', and did induce him totli.-soh: the then assembly, and by his own au- thority keep three mendiers out of ihe next assembly, and ]iut so many me:iii and mercenary men intooificc; by wliicli corrupt practice, !ucn of the licst (stale- are severely liarassed, her majesty's good suljjects in this jjrovinceso im]ioverislied. that they are not able to give that sup- port to her majesty's g.ivei-iinieiit a> i- ilesired, or a.-- they would be otherwi-e inclined to do: and we canufit but Ijc very uneasy, wleMi we fiuil by the.-e Jiew methods of government, our liberties and projierties SO much shaken, that no nian can say he is master of either, liut hold- them as tenant by courtesy, and at will, and maybe stript ot'them aipleasuri': IJh- erty is too valuable a tliim;; to be easily parted with, and when ^uch mean inducement.s pim-ure such vi(dent eii- i.leavours to tear it from us, we must take leave to say, they have neither head-, hcurti), nor souls, that are not moved

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iviili the miseries of their country, aud Mrc not forward with their utmost ])0\ver iiiwliill)' to redress them.

" A\'e conclude, by advising tlie gov- ernor to consider what it is that prinei- )..dlv enguges the affections of a jieople, and he will find no other artifK-e needful than to let tliem be unmolested in the enjoyment of what belongs to tlieni of right ; and a wise man tiiat desjiises not his own haj){)iuess, will earnestly labour to regain their love.

" By order of the liou>r,

"Samuel Jenix(;s, SiimLrr."

" Ky this remoiisti'ance," says Samuel Siiiidi, " may be seen murli of tlif his- tory of the times — and that tlicre were not wanting in the province men uf dis- cernment to see and lament the unhappy ^iluation of their country, and (jf ^})iril t" oppose its greatest enemies : several Kuch were in this assembly : the sjieaker in jiarticular, had very e.irly known Xew Jcrsey, iiad lived, through manyi-hanges mid commotions, to see great alteration^ in it ; much concerned in jiuldick traus- iiclions, he- knew what belonged to a piiblick character; he had governed the wistern j)art of the province for several years, with integrity and reputation : saw the advantages of a just confidence, and liiat — though the olHce was in itself re- i-!Kvtable, it wa.s the honest execution of U acnirding to its dignity, that produced the intended service, and secured the ap- I'robaliou of a kind but watchful mistress, lor .-(icii tjueen Anne was accounted to

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her governors. Jenings was also un- daunted, and Lord Cornbury, on Lis part, e.xacted the utmost decorum. ; while, as speaker, he" (Jenings) "was delivering the remonstrance, the latter frequently interrujited him with a ' stop, what's that,' etc., at the same time putting on a countenance of authority and sternness, with intention to confound him ; uitii due submission, yet firmness; whenever iiiter- ru])ted, he calmly desired li'uve to read the passages over again, and did it with an additional emphasis upon those must complaiuing; so that on the second read- ing they became more observable than Vjefore ; he at length got through ; when the governor told the house to attend him again on Saturday next, at eleven o'clock, to i-eceive liis answer. After the house was gone, Cornbury, with some emotion, told those with him, that Ji inii'j.<

had impudence eiuju<jh to J'ltrc Ihr d /.

He did not get ready till the I'itli. when, sending fjr the hou.~e, he deliveiid liis answer."

."Surely, here is a hue old hisiuric scene, not well to be forgotten ! a thoroughly English .scene ; Engli.-h in its sturdy and undaunted assertion of charteied riglit,. English, no less, in its punctilious ob- servance of the decencies tiiid pro[>rietics of the situation! One fancies the in- domitjible but courteous old (Quaker gen- tleman, standing up manfully, with the protest intiiisted to his care by the re- presentatives of the people, unrolled in his hand ; opjxwite, the lowering yet aristocratic figure of the richly-dresocd

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governor, tlie qiifon'.s Cdiisin, cluifiiii;' at being thus bearded iiiul bruiigbt to bay. There is a grim luimor, too, in tlie Qua- ker's quiet reitei'ation of tlie severer ]ias- sages, "with additiimal ('ni|>hasis," in reply to the governfir's fierce " stO]\ what's that?" Let not the name of olil Sanuiel Jenings be ibrgotten, in the roll of the heroes of Anglo-Saxon and Amer- ican liberty ! Me and his associates sldod stoutly tor right, they showed consjiicu- ously that true manliness and uncon- querable passion i'oi' freedi.ini and oi'der, that have wrought all the tiiuniplis of the English race, and tlic^y have earned the right to an enduring remembrance among its champions.

The governor's reply to the remon- strance wa* long, and coiisi<ted fit' little more thai\ a genei'al denial of all the charges, with a great deal of amusing ill-tempei', childish reciimination and personality. A few sjieeimeii^ will suf- fice: "I can sal'ely .-ay I don't know of any grievances tlii- province !,d>our- iHider, except it be the having a certain number of peojile in it who will never be faithful to, nor live (piietlv undei-, anv government, nor ^^ulfcr their neighbours to enjoy any ]nace. (piiet or luiiipiness, if they can iielp it." " I am of opinion that notiiing ha- hindered tbe ven'_ro:nK-e of just Heaven from falliiiL' niMin this proviuce long ago, init the intinite mercy and forbearance of Almightv ( iod — who has been iibuudantlv provoked bvthe rej>eateti crying sins ot' a jierverse L''en- eration among us, and more esjiecially bv

the dangerous and aboniinal.ile doctriin , and the wicked lives and practices of :i number of people; some of wlifiui, undii the ])retended name of Christians, have dared to deny the very essence and bein:; of the Saviour of the woi-ld." "Ol' all the jicople in the world, the (^luakei- ought to be the last to complain of tlj' hardships of traveling a few miles upon such an occasion," (the being obliged In go U) New- York to get jirobate of wiil-, etc.,) '• will.) never repine at the tvi.iuM' and charges of traveling several hundred miles to a yearly meeting, where it i- evidently known, that nothing was ever done ibr the good of the country, but, on the contrary, contiinial contiisances are carried on Ibr the undei-mining of tli'' government both in f 'linrch and State. " Till re are very few men in the ]iroviiii-.\ except Samuel .lenings and Lewis ilorri.-. men known neither to have good piin- ci[>les nor good morals, who have ver.- tured to accuse a governor of sucli crini'S without any proot' — but they are ea]>abli' of anything but good." " Samuel Jcii- iiigs and I^wis Morris, two men iiotoi;- ou^ly known always to have been oi— turbers of the quiet and peace of ilo-' proviuce, men always possessed with pa-- sionate heats, and the transports of mo-t vindictive temjiers.'" "As for gcttim: clear of the piojirietors' quit-rents, it i- sucli an absurdity ti> mention, that no- body would be guilty of it but Saniia-l Jenings and Lewis ^birris." etc.

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tynuinical disposition, lie possessed little i.r tlie ability of his great ancestor, ( 'iaifiidon. The assembly having, mean- while, become occupied in inquiring into NiiiH' irregular transactions between the i;(ivcrnor and the state treasurer, did nut iiiuke their rejoinder to his intem- pcrale reply until the 2Sth. They then -(•111 it by a c(jminitteo, but he refused to leceive it. Tiiis rejuinder, wliieli was, thereupon, enlereil in the journal of the lioiise, is eoiU'civeil in dignilied terms, iiiu] .vcems an unanswerable linal argn- inenl. I shall quote the slight notice taken of the governor's personal attacks. In reply to his charges of unchristian doctrine, they say : " It is not our busi- ni^-i to enter into religious controversies ; ui' Irave theui to di\iiics, who ought liest I'l undcrr-tand thing-; of that nature, and who may, perhaps, inform us what is Mu-aut by denying the very e-sence of the f^aviour of the world." In return 'i' his coutemptuiius mo'lu of treating 'lieir ciMnplaint of hi- ab>t-ntecism, they '■ay: " Notwitlistandiiig those soft, co.d and considerate terms of ' malicious, ^<.•:^ndalous and frivolous,' with which your excellency vouchsafes to treat the a^^enibly of this province, they are of "I'inion, that no Judieiou- nv impartial 'lien will think it reasonable tint the in- li.ibitants of one provinee .-hould go into !''iiotlier to have their \\ilL~ proved, and lake letters of administration at Fort Ami, frciin the ge.vernor of New York, tbr ^vliat should regularly be done by tin- j;"Vcrnor of New Jersey, in Jersey."

In regard to his unfounded insinua- tions as to the religious meetings of the Quakers, they say : " It is the general assembly of the province of New Jersey that complains, and not the Quakers, with whose per.sons (considered as Qua- kers,) or meetings, we have nothing to do, nor are we coucerned in what your excellency says against them ; they, per- liajis, will think themselves obliged to vindicate their meetings from the asper- sions which your excellency so liberally bestows upon them, and evince to tlie world how becoiriing it is for the gi.iv- eruor of a province to enter the lists of controversy with a peojile who tlioiigiit themselves entitled to Ids pi'otection of them in the enjoyment ot' their religious liberties; tliose of them who are mem- bers of this house, have begLjeil leave, in behalf of themselves and their Ifiends, to tell the governor, they nuist answer him in the words of Nehemiah to San- liallat, contained in the eigiiti: veise of the sixth chapter of Nelaniiah, viz.: 'Tliere is no such thing done as thou savest, but thiai t'eignest them out of thine (jwn heart.'" L;i-lly, to hi- attaeks iqion Jenings and Monis, tliev eahiily re|>ly: "^\s to your exi-ellen(y's rellec- tions o<.\ private men. it is belou the rep- leseiitative liody ot' a province to take anv t'urtliei- notice of tiiem, than to do that ju-tice to the two woithy memljers of this house as to say. they lioth have and deserve belter eharaeiers than your excelleney give- them."

To show the tvranincal stvle of C'orn-

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bury's government, I quote again : "Are not her majesty's loyal subjects hauled . to gaols, and there lie without being admitted to bail ? and the conditions of their recognizances are, that if j-our excel- lency apjjroves not of their being bailed, they shall return to their prisons ; several of her iiiajesty's good subjects forced to abscond and leave their habitations, lieing threatened with imprisonment, and no hopes of ivceiving tlie benefit of the law, when your excellency's absolute will is the sole measure of it: One minister of the Church of England ih-agged hv a sheritl' from Uuvliiigton to Ainlinv. and there kept in custody, without assigning any reason fur ii, and, at last, haided, bv force, into a boat by your excellency, and transiwrted, like a malefhetdr, into an- other govcrniiient, ami tlir-rc kejit in a garrison a ]irisoncr, and no reason assigned for these violent procedures but your excellency's pleasure: Another min- ister of the Church of England, laid under a neces-ity of leaving the province from the reasonable apprehension of meeting with the same treatment ; no orders of men, either sacred or civil, secure in their lives, their liberties or estates; and where these procedures will end, God only knows."

To this energetic protest is added the memorandum : " Divers of the mem- bers of this assembly, being of the people i

called Quakers, do assent to the matter and substance, but make some exception to the stile."

" By order of the house, [signed.] Pam'l Jenings, Speaker.

Dated October 24th, ]707.

Cornbury's most flagrant usuriiatioiis and invasions of the liberties of New Jersey, were those spoken of as the "greater grievances," in this and in tlic original remonstrance; these were, i'or- bidding the proprietors to take uji or di'^- po.*e of land, and, at the same timi', jdacing the records of title in the liands of one of his creatures, a bankru]>t and suspected man named Sonmans, and dis- possessing those wdio had been plaeol in charge of them by the jjrojirietors tlieni- selves — a most serious menace to tlicir estates and rights — and, .secondly, the assuming to be judge of the qualifications of as.semblymen, by keeping three mtm- bers out of their scats for a vear, as ^^e have seen, on a fitlse pretext; "a pro- cedure,'' says the remonstrance, " which tends to ilestroy the very being of as.vcm- blies, by rendering them the tools of a governor's arbitrary pleasure." It i"- hoved the gentle Quakers to stand tirni in the breach, against such foiniidaMe as,«aults on their liberties and properties, as tlie.se, and stand tlicre they did, rigljt manfully and successfidly.

CHAPTER IX.

HELP FKOM THE FATHERLAND.

BESIDES the two remonstrances to the governor, the assembly had, as we have seen, sent a meniorinl, praying for relief, directly to the queen. While tlicsc transactions were proceeding in America, the " "West Jersey Society," of iCiiglisli proprietors of lands in that province, headed by Sir Thomas Lane, al<o took the alarm, and presented a memorial against Cornbury's outi-ageous iiicjisnres, to the lords commissioners for trade and plant-afions.

Tlieir account of the princi]ial grounds of eom]iIaint is so clear, that I partially transcribe it:

" It is one of the terms consented to by yor.r lordships, and one of his excel- lency's instructions, that the general ns- *'inbly shall consist of four and twenty rei)resentatives; two to be chosen by the inhabitants, householders of the city or town of Perth Amboy; two by the in- habit.aiits, househohlers of the city or town of I'urlington ; ten to be chosen by thf freeholders of the eastern and ten by the freeholdere of the western division ; in wiiieh election, every elector is to have one hundred acres of freehold land in his own right, witliiu the divi'^ion for which he ishall choose; and every person elected i-' to liavc one thousand acres of freehold

land in his own right, within the division for which he shall be chosen.

" This instruction, which we relied on as the chief security of our estates in that province, his excellency has not (july violated, but has totally destroyed that part of our constitution ; and in such a manner as will render all assemblies a mere jiiece of formality.

" For setting which proceeding in a due light, we must crave leave to lay be- fore your lordships the account we have received of it from our agent, and other rei)ufable persons of that province.

"An assembly having been called and chosen, in the year 170:^ pursuant to your lordship's instructions, j.reparcd bills for settling the rights of the pro- prietors and plantci-s, ami for rai-ing a revenue of £13fK) jier annum, for three vears, (which they knew was tlie utnicnt the country could bear,) for the sujiptirt of the government ; but his excellency requiring a greater sum, several persons, our constant enemies and invaders of our properties, and who, therefore, opposed tlie bill for settling our rights, undertook to jjrocure an assembly more obedient to his excellency's demands ; and by that and other argument.--, which out of reg-.ird for his honour, we choose to wave tlie

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mention of, prevailed iijioii liiiu to dir^- solve that assembly, and tu L-all anullier to sit iu November last ; the writs were issued, and the election tlirected to be made." After detailing certain irregular practices iu this election, they proceed: " But passing by these and many other illegal artifices used by tliose undertakers to oljtain an as.-cud.iiy to tlu.'ir own humour, we shall insist only u[»on one grand instance, which is not to be par- alleled in any of her iiiaje^ty's planta- tions, and could nut have been attempted without his excellency's encouragement, norputinpracticewithoutliiscDnciincnce. " Wiien tins assembly was niut, and attended his excellency in council, in order to be sworn, ■■' Mr. Iltvell and ^Ir. Leeds, (two of tlie governor's council, and of the undertakers to procure such an assendjly as they had promised,) sus- 2)ecting the strength of their party, ob- jected against thrvi' of the nieujbers returned, as persons not having, each, one thousand acri's of lund, and, tlnicfort-, uuqualiticd to serve in the assL-mbly ; though these jMjrsons had such crrtates iu laud, and were generally known to have so, and at tlie time of their election luul convinced UlvcII and Leeds, who oj)])osed tiieui unilcr that jiruteuce, (if the truth of it; and this (jbji'ctioii was not ex- umiiiable or determinahlu by his excel- lency or his Council, or othciwi.-e than in the house of represcntativi'S, who are the

• The Quajjcr tnPmrirrs "snhscrilioJ "ft!l''crian'-e. in- etead uf taking ttie oatliE, accorilmg to ilie cousiitution.

only proper judges of their own im m- bers; yet, his excellency, upon this ]i.,\. stfggestion of Revell and Leeds, nfu-. •: to swear those members, and exclii'l. ,1 them from sitting to serve their couiiiiy.

"The counties for which they wen- chosen to serve, expressed a great dis-ai- isfactiou at the exclusion of their mem- bers, and these and several other \\[<i\ - sentatives delivered an address to hi- excellency, for having them adiuittiil {•• their i-iglit ; which met with no other ii- ception tiian being called a ]iiece of in- solence and ill-manners.

" By this exclusion of three member.-, and the contempt of the address for thcii admission, the uiulertaki^rs gained :i majority of one in the house of rcpn- sentatives, who adjourned the hearing ot this case until they had reajied the iVuii- of their iniquity, and accomplished tin- ends for wliicli it was contrived; lor wliil>t this ca.~e was depending, a bill !'•; taking away the qualifications of electoi- and tlie elected, and jilacing the riglit .-1 ciioosing and being chosen in the Inr- holders generally, without any expn-- value of their estates, wa.~ prepared ami ]iassed, wherein there is this remarkable and self-condemning declaration ot Id- excellency's proceedings, viz.: that repie- sentativcn met in general asseiiibly are, and shall lie, the judges of the (pialiliea- tioiis of their own meiiibers.

"After this and one otlicr act — W'-re pttssed, a day of hearing w,w allowed to the three exeluded iiieinljers, and no'.ue of it given to Beveli ami Leed-, wlio

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rMHilil not vouchsafe to apjiear, lint, liiiving iiln-.i'iv obtained tlieir ends, graciously fi^'iiificd, by a message, their mistake in ilicir objection to those members."

" The house unanimously declared ih'Tn duly qualified, and sent two of ibfir body to acquaint his excellency of it, and to pray tliey might be sworn ; Imt his excellency, whether nut of a desire of assuming the glory of his arbi- trary proceeding wholly to himself, or of tiiakiiig the country sensible that, iiol- witli^landing the act so lately passed declaring the house judges of their own inenil>ers, he was resolved to exercise that power for the future, told those niessen- ,i;('rs lie must be satisfied of their quali- licsit ions as well as the house: and still keeps thcni out of the assembly.

"Tiu^ we conceive to be the assuming a negative voice to the freeholders' elec- tion of their representatives; and sncli an invasion of the rights (,f the assembly. as will, if tolerated or connived at, jilaee the whole legishitiire in the governor; for if he can, at his ]ileasure, reject three rejiresent-atives, he may reject all, and make what laws he thinks fit, without ihe formality of an assembly."

I II regard to the act above referred to, tlie memorialists contend that even "if the asseinljly ]^.^,] consisted of its full proixirtion of duly elected members — 'lie instruction relating to the election of general assemblies, leaves no power to •he general as,sembly to alter the qualifi- t~Uions of tiie electors or elected ; which wa-> intended to be a standing and un-

alterable part of the constitution, as most agreeable to the constitution of England, where the electors of knights of the counties must have a certain fixed free- hold ; and the elected are generally the principal landed men of their respective counties; but the alteration now made, was intended to jnit the election of I'ep- resentatives into the meanest of the peo- ple,who, beingimpatient of any superioi's, will never fail to choose such irom amongst themselves as may ojijue.'-.s us and destroy our rights."

The memorialists, continuing, jirav their lordshipsto intercedewith thequeen, that the acts of what we may call the "rump " assembly." wheieiii, by tlie arbi- trary exclusion of three members without any just exception, the country was not duly represented,'' may not be conlirmed by her; and that Colonel Lewis ilorris, who was suspended by the governor from his place in the queen's council, " be restored thereto," etc., and that, "as a further security of our estates there, IK I jicr- .son may, at any lime, bo admitted of the governor's council, or to be in the com- mission of the peace, or of the niilitiu, but such who have real estates in tiie province suitable to their stiitions, and who reside there."

Signed by Sir Thomas Lane 'and seventeen others.

Two days after Lord Cornbury had refused to receive the rejoinder of the assembly, he adjourned them until next year, though much imjiortant busi!ieis,a was unfinLshed, tlius escaping, a.s he

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thought, the necessity of attempting to clear liimself of their accusations. ]\Ican- while, he secretly sent to the queen a counter-address, signed by his lieutenant and some of the couucil. In this docu- ment no attempt is made, bej-ond unsup- ported general assertions, to disprove the charj'-es of the assembly ; the whole cause of the trouble is asserted to be "the tur- bulent, factious, uneasy and disloyal principles of two men in that assembly, ]\lr. Lewis Morris and Samuel t'enings, a Quakei-, men to whoui all the factions and confusions in the government of New Jersey and Pennsylvania foi- many yeai-sare wholly owing; and this is done by them, (as we have all the reason in the world to believe,) to encourage, not onlv this government, but, al>o, the rest of vour governments in America, to throw off your majesty's royal preroga- tive, and consequently to involve all your dominions in this part of the world, and the lionest, good and well-meaning fico- ple in them, in conlu-^Ion, liojiing thereby, to obtain their v>icked ])urposes."' They propose, as a " remedy for all these evils," " that your majesty will most graciously please to discountenance those wicked, designing men," and in regard to the "rejoinder" of the assembly, say only : "The hvt libel called 'the reply,' etc., came out so suddenly, that a< yet we have not had lime to answir it in all it.< par- liculai-s ; luit do assure your uiajc-ty it is for the mo>t ]iart, I'aUe in tliet, and tliat part of it which carries any face of trntli, they have lieeii malicious and unju.-t in

not mentioning the whole truth ; whit h would have fully justified my Lord Corii- bury's just conduct."

This weak ajipeal had very little uifcri on the wise and benevolent queen, wlm, declaring " that she would not counte- nance her nearest relation in oppres^in;: her peojile," })romptly removed Cornbiu\ , and ajipointed in his stead a very dill'ii- ent character, dohn Lord Jjovelan, Baron of Hurley, soon to be known in American annals as " the just Luid Lovelace."

"As soon as my loid was su]ier.-ediil, his creditors threw him into the custirdy of the sheriff of New. York ; and br remained there till the death of hi- father, when, succeeding to the Earldcmi of Claren<lon, he returned to England.

" AVc never had a governor mi univi r- sally detested, nor any who so ricbly deserved the publick abhorrence; ni spite of his noble descent, his behaviuni- was trilling, mean and extravagant.

"It was i\nt uncuiinnoii tbr him to dress himself in a womar.'s habit, aii-i then to patrole the (on in whieli la rt-sided ; such freak? of low humour ix- )X)sed him to the universal contempt ol the jieople; but their indignation was kindled by his despotick rule, savage bigotry, insatiable avarice and injustice, not only to the ]iublick, but tvfu his j n- vate creditors, for iie left some ot the lowest tradesmen in his emjiloymcnt un- saiistied in tiieir just demands." (Hi--- tory of New York, ]i. liG).

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-lill ciiiitiiiiK'il s|iCMkcr, l)iit. wtun uut VMlli tlic laliiJis of a loiiu and Ijihv lifi'. ;i!ii! Iicinii ^I'ized with iii(lis|i(isiliiiii, wa-- ..Mi::nl, liiially, to ictirc from tlio a-snu- |.|v in May, 1 fe lived a vear loni;cr, «iliics,-inn tlii' lia]i|iy coniiiieiiccincnt of i/>id Ijiivclat-e's adiuiiiistnition, and dy- iii- '.'ally ill 170!). Tlie historian of New .hiM'V ^unls np Iji- ohai'aiti r as llillows:

'"His iniourity ami liirtitudo in all -Mlion.- woi-c arkiiowli'di^i'd ; his jlid_n- iMi'Ht wa^ the rnlc III' hi- mnducl. and li\' Vslial ran now be i:atlicieil, this sreiu- to have liecn Imt seldii'.'i injndieionsh fnnnded: Alive to the inure ^eneious einotions oi' a niiinl forineil to licnevo- I'-nre and act-; of hniiianity, he was a Iriend to the widow, the i'atherle.-,- and llie iiiihaiii>y; tender, eonipassioniit", di>- iniere.sted — with j;reat o|i{iortiliiitie>." (he) "left hut u small estate; Abhorring' o|.|)ressioii in every shape, his whole eon- duet di.-covered a will to relieve and • "■friend iisankiiid, far ab-ive the liltleiie-s ol' ]iarty or >ini.-lii \ iew-.

"Mueh of hi- time wa> lot,:;- devoted ;>> tiie judjliek ; — A\'e-t Jer-ey and I'l nn- ^ylvallia, and New .b rMy alter thi' .-nr- M nder, iiir tirar twenty-eiuht years r-ui- ei"ively, were rejieated witne>.-es of his •onduel in variiiu- eaparitie-; he -tndied I'eaee and tin- welt'are of mankind, but, "i xinie instanee-, met with iiiii:rateful 'elurns, and tlion-h iii- eiideavojs did Hot idtoi^ether su.eeeed, he survived per- •"iial aeeiisation, in a ureat mea>ure, with '■■~p'vt to him-ell', and a- In the judjliek, .111-; iived lon^^ eliiiuuh to >ee it emer-ing 12 '

from an unproniising state of litigation and eoiitiiiversy, to iiioi'e (jiiiet tlian had been known fiij' many yeai-s.

"His three daughters (who were all the ehihh'en he left,) iiitermai-ried willi three brothers, of the name of Stejiluii- son," (Stevenson,)" whose p.o-terity now resid(,' in New Jersey and I'ennsylvania.''

Among the as-emblvmen of the yc\ir 1 7('.S, we find Thomas llajiier, who has been mentioned as a maternal ancestor, and among tlm-e of 17<l'-), under Lord Lovelaee, we iiiid Samuel Smith, of llramham, member for IJuiIingtim.

(ioveruor .lenings not only intere.-ts us in eonneetion with the liurlingtou Smiths as a eollateral aueestor, Imt be- eau.-e his line oki seat and e,-tate of ( ireen JliU, near Jjurlingtun, beeame, after hi.- dealh, the seat of the family of Samuel Smith, ol' liramham. In his will he direets his ival e.-tate to be sold to pro- vide funds fill- eertain legaeie.- in mniiey. anil it was prnbaldy at this time that the (ireen Hill instate pas.-iii intu the Samuel Smith iirarieh of the Jlurlini;to;i Smiths. A j.art of this estate still belongs to the f iinily.

(liAeriKir Jeiiings's will i- witiie.-sed by Thomas (iardiner, Tlioma- Kapier and Daniel Smith, of J'randiam. These were persiiiud friends; Tiieliard ilill" is made one of the trustees in the will, and l>aiiiel Smith, ti'om his skill in the law. may probably have di'awn it uji. It was

* Itl.li.inl ilill. ilje tlJir, ,.! riiil.i.l. Ipliiu .it ..li' linir iM.iw.r ..r :l.iit <^t^. \;,i. ■ tl,.- Ilili l'.in..:v, inlr.Klurli .11. M. ,iu.l fn.uilo "HL-lurx ut l'fmi>v|. vanm, ' 47.i. 474.

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executwl sevoi'al inoiiilis liffuiv ]iis death, sterliiiii iiKniey, to hr paiil diit (.f i,

oil July 2-ltli, 17<'S, anil aitor a [ifeainblc cfll'Cts tiiorc, to Iniy liiin a ^clilin-. >

liuinbly ofll'riiiL; praiM.,-; to the htnxl for otlierwise, as he shall think tit." Ih.i-

all Ilis favors, ineliuliii^' the pre-eiit are also left to tlie tni-tees. soundness of his iiiiii<l, ;;ives the sum of The eldi>t ui-andson uauied in (;,,■,.

two luuidfeii and twenty-five jiQunds to eriioi' .leninu's's Avill was Isaac I'enniii:-

several of Ilis graiulehildien — eliildivn ol' ton. miu of tlie (d<k.-t dauL;hlei-, Sai.ili

the thi'ee .Stevenson hrotlieis — m.akini;- by her tii'st husband, ]".d\\ard reiniii;,-

iSaiuuel ( ai|>ei!t(.'i and l!iehai<l ilili.of ton, son of Isaac I'enninntoii (!!■

Philadeljihia. trustees duriui; theii' nd- younui'i'). and half-lirother to Ciulirhn ,

iiority, and tiie furtlier auL;:i'e,i;aie sum of ]\[aria Springett. tlie wife of \\'illi;ii;,

two hundred and forty jiounds to a si.-ter. I'eiin. (See " J'enn-- and rcnniiiutni;-."

three cousins ajid a pcJ'sonal tVicnd, t!ie Saraii Jtnings inari'ied, secondly. 'l'iioii,,i.

eminent Thomas J]li\V(jod, author of a Stevenson, by whoiu .~lie left two daiiu'n-

niosl ])icturesque autobiography and an teis. Two other iirandsons are naaie^!.

intimate associate of tlie ininioitaLMilton. deniniis Stevenson and Thomas Steveii-

Tlie testator enijiowers Ids e.xectitors to son, children of the younger dati;4lilr]-.

sell all his real e-tatc ibr the payment of .\nne and Mercy, by the 1ir(.fh(!-.

these legacies tind hi-- debt,-, and makes William and dolin Stevenson. Aiicuj

his three daughters and the ir lin.-bainls the u-ran<ldaut:hters. Anne, child of dnini

residuary legatee.-- and e.Ntenlors. Tlie Stevenson, married J 'aniid Doughty, aid bequest to Ellwood runs thus; ' left one surviving child, I\!ary, who iiiai-

" I give uiid be(|u<'atli unto niy long- rii-d ^VilIialn Lovett Smith, grand-ou ' :

acquainted, worthy aiel eiKhared friend. S.imnel. fjf riramham. Thii- the .ieiiiii_-

'Hioinas Mllwood. of llung'i'.d!!. tear rtock i~ now n pre-enl.'d by the thr. ■

Amei-.-iiani, in y'. ( oiinty oi' J'.iick-. in fiimilies of I'eniiington, Stevenson an i (ireat llritain, the sum of twenty iiound>, , Smith.

CHAPTER X.

TiuvMi'n OF lii5ei;ty and kight.

TN till' pt'i-idd fioiii 170!.» to 1718, the -1- yvav of tlu' ik'atli (if Saimicl Smith, iii' JJnmihaiii, lio am! his eklcr brother, JJaiiiel, sat several years in assembly, for Hiiriiiigtoii, bolli beiu^ tngether there in 1710, and Sannicl hoLliny the office in the year of liis early death. It may, tliercfore, be interesting totraee t!ie pub- lic history of the assembly during that Jieriod, whieji I shall ilo very euisorily.

The accession to the guvei-nment, of J.urd Lovelace, filled the minds of good men in New Jersey with liojic — nor was that hujie belied. " AVilh a change of governors followed a change of measures and favourites; impartiality and .■undour Micceeded trick and design: the to.Js of tlie tanner ad.miui.-trali( Ml, having n<irhi:ig but the protection of that to sujiport tlicm, sunk into neglect."

"i et, the work of Jcnings and Morris Has not complfte; the ba.l govcrnur had bren removed, but his lieuttaiant, Jn- ;:iild>by, i-eniained ; two membvi,- of the *i'uicn's Coiini-il — the must uli]iiixiiiu.> — iievell anil Leeds, liad been ili-plaivd, iiiid tlii'ir srats filled by per-.ms reeom- iiK/iidfd by the West Jersey S<jciety ; and 'wootiiiT scats, naturally falling vacant, had bi'i'ii su])pl:L-d by triijtcl e.\-im.uibei-s •jf tlie as.sembly, Thomas Gardiner and

Thomas Gordon ; Lewis IMorris himself had been restored to his jdace in the council, yet, .still there remained at its board, a majority of tho old " favorites" of Corn bury, who, it was hojied at flr.-l, would now take warning by the fall of their late master. Much iniijuitous legis- lation, too, remained to lie undone, be- fore the field should be clear for a healthy progress.

One of the first cares of the assembly, was to lefute the charges brought against them in tisc addres- to the ipu'cii, of the lieutenant-governor and cijuncil. "The assembly obtaineil from the governor a copy of the address Ijefore inserted, from the iieutenant-govenior and council, to the queen, in 17<'7; they thankeil him fbr the favour, and renui-sted he wmild desire the lieutenant-governor, and all that signed the address, to atteml him at such time as he thought til to appi'int, to prove their allegations; and that the house might liave leave to be present, ami haveopjiortunityof making their deteii-e, in order to clear themselves frenn sueh imputations." Though this audience was granted by Lovelace, the lieutenant- governor and council found means to evade it.

To tiie great disappointment of the 91

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good people of the province, Lord Love- ! lace died in less tlmii ii year after his ar- | rival ; thego'-eriimeut devolved, iii'til the appointment of a successor, upon Ingolds- by. At this time the home government : was engaged in that tremendous sti'uggle against the power of Fi-unce, which forms the grandest feature of Anne's reign, and allthecolonies in America werecalled upon to furnish their quotas of men and money \ to an expedition that was being organized against Canada. 1'hree thousand jiounds toward this expedition were demamled from Xew Jersey. The Quakers had genemlly hit]iert(5 been able to command a majority in the asscmlily. and their time-honored }iroti'st agiiinst war is well known, but on the (juestion of rai-ing these su]iplies they were outvoted by a majority of one, the easting vote Ijeing given by one Midillcton, said to lie. him- self, a Quaker. It is anui<ini: that a merit i-^ made for ihe (^JiiakiT-, in the .~ub- .sequent ap[K:al of the assemlily, out of thi-i c-;isting vote of one of their back- sliding memliers.

In the siunmer of ] 710, the ni'w gov- ernor, 15rigadier-( leneral UoKert Hunter, arrived out from Kngland. He convened the assembly in tlie following December, and made them anaildress of soldier-like brevity. The se-^io]i la-ted ovi-r tw(] months; "'the governor and a--endily agreed cijrdially, but a innjoritv rif the council dill'ered from both, uot\vit]i~tand- ing an accession of divers new mem- bers.

" Ever since the surrender, the province

had been involved in great confusion, on account of the people calkd Quakci^ being denied to serve on juries, under pi (- tence that an oath was absolutely neces- sary ; the inhaliitants in many parts were chieliy such," (/. c, Quakers.) " and jui- ies could not be got without them; tin assemblv seeing the confusion that had and would luiavoidably follow such le- fusal, passed a bill for ascertaining tlie qualification of jurors, atul enabling the people called (.Hiakers to serve on them, and an<ither respecting the aiilrmaliou: Tlie reports of the connuittee will, amon- other things, show the conduct of the council on this occasion."

(The hotise having gone into commit- tee of the whole to eon.-ider papers re- turned by the governor, and the >peak-r having resumed the elndr:) "I'ueior Johnson reported lioni the -aid commit- tee, that the fji'lth article of her niaje-ty'.- in-truetioiis b'-iug r"ad. reijuiring an aet

to be pa--ecl for ilio-e 1 p'othat make a

leligious scruple ef ,-wearinL', to the like etVect of that pa--ed in the 7th and Sth ei King William 11 1, in England, -o f ir a-^ maybe Ci>n-i-lent with go.'d older and government ; that the house ha\ealieady sent up such an act tfi the council t^r their concurrence, as near to the like effect as the circumstance (it' ihi- colony will admii, which the council rijccted witlout coiniiiining the same.

"And further, that the 0 M\ article of her mai''-iy"s in-tnu-tii'ii- I'ting read, requiring an act to be pa-.-eil a.-certain- ing qualifications of jurors ; that ilie.-ame

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H.i- iiu-hnli'-l in the bill entitled, 'An act ' edge his fault to this house— or not? it

r.r a.-ccrtaining the qualifications of ' was carried in the negative.

|r,r..rs and enabling the people called ' " Major Sandford, one of the nienibers

( iii.ikci-s to serve on them,' etc., which the of this house, having acknowledged that

I'.micil rejected without conmiitting the he signed the above-mentioned address to

^,iin._" ! her majesty, was asked if he would ac-

'fhu-^ lialik'd. the assendilv took into knowledge his fault to this house for the

r..i:-iilri-atiMn the militia act, passed in same? his answer wa.*, he signed it as he

(•..iiibury's time, bv whieh the (,)i!akers was one of her majesty's council, and was

ill iii;iiiy parts of the province, had been only accountal)le to lier majesty for the

.jh.illv" iippn— ed. A reliif bill was same; wherefore, the question was put,

j..-r,i, "and dlversulTicirs who hail bocn wh.ijicr r^Iajor Saniltbrd be expelled this

iiMir rigorous in disno-ing, tl\;iii the hi.u-e f,.r tlir ^;lme, or not ? it was carried

!:\v w.irranti.'d, were ^ent for to answer in the allinnative.

r..r iheir eonduL'l at the bar of the house, , '■ Ordered, that Major Saudford be cx-

:i:id ordered to render account of the ' jielled this house, for signing a false and

-...ds di-iraiued." The council rejected \ scandalous paper called the humble ad-

il.i- r. lit'f bill liki' thi^ ntlicis. ' dre-ss of the lieutenant-governor and

.V' >ct, came on the con-id. 'ration of the council, to her majesty, in the year 17<i7;

.■ii:ir-vs made.again-t a firmer assembly and he is exjielled accordingly."

\'< tlie queen ; they undertook to vindi- rursuaiit to the first of the above

■Ml'- the honor of that assendily from resolutions, an address was prepartd and

t'lo-' ;i-pcrsiiais. sent to the (jueen.and a representation to

" 'I'll'- que-lion beiim- ]ait, whither (iovernor Hunter. Thi-^ last \\a> a ].ar-

l!i:> hou-e.do addiv-s her maj.-ty tieular answrr to the charge.- ; 1 extraet

t'T th- justilk-aiiou of the proered- a tew spei'imens : After ;i jm-a ml. le. re-

u.i:- of tiie repre.-eiitative body of this citing the violent and tyianiiieal strain-

(Toviii,.-,., in till- pre-ent tind formei' as- ing of his power- by Cornbury, under -lublirs, or not? it was carried in the : juvtenee of the (ineeu's pivrogiuive ; ids •ilfirinaiive. ' contempt of the laws; his liriberies, ex-

•■.\ motion bring made and the ques- ' tortious, and favoritism toward the most

!i. 11 U-in- put, whether anv jier~oii that unprincipled iioliticians ; the extreme

111- -i-ned the above-mentioned false and and ultra-h-jal measures used against the

-■■■•udalous re[ire-entation of the re]>re- (Quakers, under pretence of their refus-

-ut.itive l)i.dv of this province," (the ing obedience to the militia law ; and the

:id.ins., of the lieutenant-'.iovernor and open onslaught u]iou the rights of the

•""Uiicii to the queen.) "be a fit meml'Cr proprietoi-s, by taking away their title-

'" -it in this hous.'— unless he aeknowl- papers from tiie custody of their author-

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ized agent, '^^ aiul jn'ohibiting tlicin Iroio either selling- or buying land ; — the aKicni- bly review at length the charges con- tinned in the addicts of Ingold.sby and the council, from which I shall only take their really to the absurd insinuation of revolutionary designs on the part of Jenings and Jlorris, and of an abetment of these by the assendily :

"Can it bo thouglit, or cituld the ad- dressers theni.-elvcs ever .-eriously and deliberately tliiid< tliat tlir piovincr el' IS't'W .Iri'M'V, one of the ino.-t incon.-idfi- able of all Iht majesty's colonies, and (he uio.-t iiii-ajiablc of making any defence, a great part of whose jieople are Qiiakei-s, who, by liieir princijiles, aie against lighting, would be so miaccnuntaljl v mad. as to ihrow off their allegiance, (e.— pecially to be the liist in doing it,) and es2)0se themselves to unavoidable ruin and destruction ? Whoever can seriously think this, and with cleliberation a-scrt it, ouglit, very seriuu-ly, ;ind uUhoul nmeh di-Iibfiati"n, I'l' eonlintd (m the .-o- eiety of madmen, as peixms that can seriously and deliberately believe and say anything, which is all we .-hall say to this ridiculous, as widl as malicious charge, and pass to the" (next) "article; than which, nothing more luitrut', and know- ingly so, could be a.-serted, as we shall, by what follows, make out; the article runs thus: Thut thr u<!.<iiiihlii urr rr- solvcd lU'it/ur to sujijiort the qurrn\'< ijriv-

* The uufliurize.l ul-hI ..f tlio i.r..i.rk-t.iri wn, .J. .ho Darclay, uf L'ry. l.rMllnr ,^1' lln- ,i,-ii]igu!»licd umhur of "Barclay's Apoliigy lor the Quakers."

eminent vlth a revenue, nor Jef: ml i' ■' laettJlmj it villi tia.

" jS'ow it is plain, that this Iihu.h' ih \ did deny to raise a suilieient siij.iKut i the government, and took proper e. ■ concerning the militia, as by the se\M:: acts ior those ends does more largely ;;; jiear; nay, when the expedition a^:ii:, Canada was on font, we gave £:;,ih '' for that end, over ;uiil above the supii.ii: of government; and the casting vote l< ; the lai.-ing that niuney, and the seitlii ., the mililia now, was given by ^Ir. lliu:, iliddleton, one reputed a (^)iiakerl"

They then review the numerous (mi- rages on the liberty (if the subjeel, wlii' .' tlie Cduncil. as a Imdy or as in(li\ iihi.e-. in eniulation (jf the ill-examj>le ef tin si master, Coiiibuiy, had e(jmmitted: I' ■ instances ((f wbieb, 1 lake: "A\'eli;ni already laid belbre your excellency sciu'

proofs against Mr. , (jne ot iK'

council, of his extortion, and impri-uiiii.- and ticHhiii the (|neen's .-rilijeet,- : ^^ll". ■' llie>y liad been guilty of the crime- .•:■ ledged against them, ought to lia.ve !-■• ■ jiroseeuted accordingly, and not ■:•" charged on any liojies of private g:ii" . and, if not guilty, ought not to h:'^' been laid in pris(.in and in irons, ami. b\ tho.-e hardships, forced to become hi- - '- vants', rather than endure tie m!"

"l\Iany jieison.-, jirosccuted uj'on ai- f(irmati((ns, have I'cen, at their cxo — 1\' charge, forced to attend court after coin!. and not brought to trvMl, when lliere^^'" no evidence to ground -udi intormati"'-- on ; but they kept pri.-oners in hope lb'''

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fsiiiic iiiii;lit be, ill time, pi-ocured ; and in.i 111' tlioni, to wit: David Jolmston .;iii| lii.-5 wife, after some weeks' imprison- iiKiit, iKit admitted to bail till tliey riiiered into a recognizance, the condi- i»iii of wliieli was, ' Tliut if Lord Corn- Ai/ry inLidUsathJicd with aduiiffinf/ llnni /■' Imil, upon notice thereof »iijiiif.<d to till III, till ij fJunihl riturii to their impris- innit:' His Iordsliij> was dissatisfied, ;uh1 I^'eds and ]ievell, wlio trink tlie r'f(ii:nizance, sent their ordi.'is to tliem to I' lain aecrirdin™ to tlie eimdjlion of it." Xi-Nt tliey take up tlie special luird- ^ilip-■ of the Quakers in not being admitted :i~ Jninrs or as evidence: "Tlie jicople i-.dlcd (Quakers, who are, by her majesty, admitted t(i places (if tlic most ediisider- ■iblc li-n.-t-witliin tliis pi-(jviiice, are sume- iam-< admilti'd to be evidences, and NiMictimes tliey have bei 11 refused to be .I'lriirs or evidences, either in t'ivil nr '■rlmiiiai ea<es ; so tliat their safety, or '"■ei\i!it; the benefit iif lier maj'i-ty's !.iv.,nr. .-eein- not to depend cii the hiws •T her ditvetirtu-;, iiut the luimours and e.ipiieins c>f the gentlemen who were .iiid-es of tlie cdiirts : We take leave to ml'TMi your excellency, tliat the western dni-iun was settled by those peojile, who eonibatted with all tlie inconvenieiiees attending a new settlement ; and with -leat ditlieulty and charge, have, from a wilderness, iiniiroved it to be what you 'i"\v s,v it Ls; there are great numbers of '•''■in in it, and should they not be ad- i»iUed as evidences or jurors, tlicv would " Very unsatu ;" "and the encourage-

ment the gentlemen of the council have given to the meanest of the people, to abuse them, confirms us in the ojiinion, that there w.'ints not those who have will enough to perjietrate the greatest niis- cliiets on tliat ]>eople, when they can escape the punishment due to their crimes."

In conclusion they show that the pre- sent council, wdio, under C'ornbiiry, aided and imitated his tyrannies, are now obstructing every useful measure of legis- lation.

After I'cciting that, " Her majesty has been graciously pleased to remove Colonel Ixichard Ingoldsby from being lieuten- ant-gdvernor, and we cannot suffieientlv express our giatitude for so singular a favour ;" they ask, finally, the further removal of eight members of the council, who are enumerated by name.

The governor received tliis represeiita- tiiiii and demand " kindly ;" lie a-sured them thai the quec^n had oidered liim, it' he ciiuld not ree.mcile the dill'iM-ene.s existing in the provinee, to make a jn-t representation (if them (u lier: "and that lie (lid not duulit Init that upon the rejire-eiitatinii he should make, her niaj- csty would take such measures as should give a general satisfaction."

The queen, accordingly, ujion receiv- ing the appeal of the assembly, backed ijy the representations of the governor, removed tiie eight obnoxious councilors, and filled their jdaces with men more acceptable to the representatives.

In September of this year, (1710,) the

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expedition against Canada, to which New I gated and reformed council pas- Jersey liad, doubtless nuicli against the entitled "An Act that the sole will of her Quaker inhabitants, contri- niation an<l declaration of the pni| '. 1 uted her quota, sailed from ]J(»ton in called (,)uakrvs, siiall be acccjitud iii^i. ■ : thirty-six vcosels ; the result was the : of an oatli in the usual form, and 1.: capture of Port lloyal, in Nova Scotia, qualifying and enabling the said pcnp:.

A more formidable expedition was, to serve as jurors, and to execute an;,

next year, (1711,) set on foot, with the office or place of trust or profit wiilil;:

object of reducing all Canada; Id this this province."

New Jersey again contribntc<l, to the Several otlier excellent laws \v,i. \

amount of five thousand pounds in jiassed, to tlie general satisfaction of il,. |

money and thri'e hundred and sixty men; people. 1

the American f.rces from three New ]n 171G, (the year in which belli if. I

England colonie.-^jo;n..dtlie]]ritis]itv(iops brothers from Biaudiam, f)anict airi |

on board the fleet ; while ihe ciintinucnts .-^amuel Smith, reprc.-entrd IJurlnigi'.i. |

from Counecticut, New York aiid New in as.send)ly,) the people of ( ilouci-i. r ^

Jersey, with the Indians of the live County made the unfortunate choiei' oi |

nations, under Gen. Nicliolson, marrjiid Colonel Daniel Coxe to r"prr.-rnt tli< la, 1

by land from Albany to attack .Montreal, and, still more unfoilunatcly, the a.-.Mia- |

The fleet, con.~i-tiug of >-ixly-riuht V(-- bly chose him speaker. Coxe was a n.ai, |

sels with over six thousand troop,-, sailed of ability and great wealth, the .-ou o! |

from Boston and anchored in the Bay of the firmer j.roprietor. Dr. Coxe, ol Leu- |

Giispe, at the entrance of the St. Law- don, but had lieen one of the late cernii'i j

rence, on the Ibtli of Au-ii-t. On the council of ('urnl.ui'y. ( h\ the deaih e! ,

2.)d, contrary to the advice of llic p:iot>, (,iueeu Anne imd the accc-lon ot Kiiu \

the fleet weighed anchor in the niglit George L, instructions were received 1^ |

and in a log, and running up'm -bore, tlie governor from the new luonareli.

eight transports with eight bundled and commanding him to convene the a-.-eia- |

eiglity-four men were lost. Thi~ calamity bly at Amboy only, in-tead of altevnali !v |

cau.sed the whole exjicdiiion to be ,i;iven there and at Burlington, as had aL\a\- |

up; the great ileet inglorioii-ly ^ailed tor been the cu-tom. Tiii> was in violaiie'i |

England on Seplembcr li'.th, aniving a of the act ratified by (^>ucen Anne, ni

month later; the llag-.-biji, the Edgar, 1710. whicli fixed the j.lace of mceliru

having been Idowii u]i by accident on alternately at each of these two latu-.

the voyage. " Thus concluded, at a great ; and was, besides, very inconvciiicnl '"

expense of men and treasure, an affair the West Jer.-ey members, particulan}

above three years in agitation." ; to those fron. the lower counties. Com

la 1713, the assembly and the eximr- ' took advantage of tin- discontent, to sow

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<li-*-i)nl between the assembly and the ] ■'.ivernor, who was, of course, obliged to c.irrv out the royal mandate. i

'I'lie "ood souse and moderation of the iniijiirily of the assembly, however, ]ire- ' vailed; and Coxe, with some others, cou- tiiiiKirinusly absenting themselves, though ^.•llt for by the scrgeant-at-arms of the lioii-e, were fumlly ex'ielled from tlieir ^r:!is "for contemiit of authority and iirglcrt of tlie service of their enuutry," | and ui-its i--nc(l I'ur new elections.

'I'lie assembly also resiilvcd, that the cxpclU'd niembers should not sit in tlic j'lc-riil session, oven if again ivturned in the ncv,' elections ordered. i

'I'lic last of the evil clique tliat had s'.irnmndcd and al)cttcd Cornbnvy, being now purged fi'om the as-enibly as from the council, the li;i|>jiier ci-a tin- which S.iiiuiel .leuings had labored, i)ut ot' wiiieli lie liad only seen the dawn, U(jw a! length shone fully upon the countiy. I buie-ty and patriotisn\ ruled the ei.ian- ei!- of State, in,-tead of Self-seeking and <-orruiition : in accord with a puMic- -pirilcd governor, the legi.-lative b-idies aeeoniplisheil nnich i'or the good of the provinci\ and in tlic ses-ioii of ibi- year. (ITIC,,) jiassed .-ixteen u-cful laws.

The tougli struggle tor political pari- -■■ation, winch this mod, -t ]>iovincial ii-M'iubly had fouglit tbroo-b, adds new 'ignilirancc to tlic jilain words in wliicb the liistoriaii records the death, in 171S, "t SaiuMcl Smith, of liramhani : "He had sougiit hapjiincss in the rpiiel of (jb- - airily, but being agaiust his iucliiiation

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called to this and other public stations, he passed through them with a clear reputation." Little as such stormy scenes were to the tastes of the quiet and gen- tlemanly '' Friend," he did not slirink from them at the call of duty, Imt stood like a man in his phicc, and struck his iilow with tiie rest for the right, and passed unsullied through a straggle that had ruined some fair reputations.

It was in the better times that had succeeded these stoinis, tliat his brotho', Dr. llichard Sniilh, (third (jf tlic name.) was apjiointed to the King's Council. De-cendanfs of the llramham lu'cthreu are found in the council and asscmldy iiir two mijrc generations, xnitil the Eevolu- tioii swept away all the landmarks of the old society.

The wise and benilu'ent administration of Hunter continued t\\(.i years longer, and ended in 1720, by his resignation, and tiie appointment of ^Vi]|iam liurnet, son of the eminent Hi-hop Durnet.

.V peaceful and uneventt'nl ].eriod ii'iw succeeded. In 17:;.-?, < 'olor.el Lewi- Moi- ris, the co-laboirr of Sanuicl deuings. was appointed governor of New Jersey. Under him, and for several ,-uece— ;\e admini.-trati(_ins, scats in the assendily were Jilled by Richard Smith, of in\>-n Udl, (f.uiih of that name.) and by Joseph Coojier, of Coo]*r'.s Point, (sou of Williau". Cooj>er, and grandfather of the wife of the third Daidel Smith.) The character of Colonel .Morris, as drawn by the ir'-teri'ian of -Vcw .br-ey, does jii.-lice to ills eminent patrioii.-m

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and ability, but at tbe same lime sbows that in old age, lie was opinionated and pertinacious to a degree that often inter- fered with tbe due i^rogress of business. An anecdote preserved, of a rencontre between liiin and Joseph Cooper, derives its point from this pertinacity of his. "At one of tbe tedious sessions in Col. Morris's time, when contrariety of sen- timents had long impeded business, that governor casually meeting him," (.J. C.,) " in the street, said, ' Cooper, I wish you would go home, and send your wife.' 'I

will,' says he, 'if the governor will do the same by his.' An anecdc!.- deservedly expressive as to those gn.Hi women."

Joseph Cooper, who was nineteen yeai, member for Gloucester County, is il- scribed in the obituary, as being of " ;i nobility of disposition and fortitude, .■<u]n- rior to many." The obituary notice i.l Ricluird Sniilli, of (iieen Hill, from tlir '■ History of New Jersey," will be giviii in its proper order, under the "iifth gen- eration."

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THE FIFTH GEXFr,ATH)X.

WE now come to tlie fiftli gener- j ].)r. Riclianl Sinitli uiarried Anna iitiun (if the family, being the [ Marshall, and had five children, Eieliard, lii-st luirii in Ameriea ;— the ehildren of \ James, Rachel, AVilliam and Jonathan ; D.uiiel, Emanuel, Samuel and tlie third j the first three of whom left issue. Uichard Smiih. S The task before us is to trace tin- his-

Dauiel, who married ]\larv Murfin, ' tory of ten persons and their d.-seeivl- had four son=, I)aiiiel, (scivind,) Rolierl, i ants; five of the eldest line, two of the .Ic.hn and Deiijamin, am! a daugliter I middle line, and three of the yonnge.-t Katharine, the youngest child. : line. Let us lirst take up the eldest line,

]':mauuel, who married ALiry Willis, thut of Daniel and Mary :\lurfin Smith. l--fl tluve daughters, Sarah, ^lary and Tiie eldest sou, Daniel Smitji, the

.\nn<'. The lirst two, only, married: second, (member of asseiidily in 17-1-,)

Surah, firstly, to Kiii.-ey, and wa^ l>orn in the year IGIH). lb: niar-

.M'eoiidly, to Samuel Coxe ; Mary to , ried, on "Tenth month 17th, A. D. (ieorge Eyre. As none of the descend- 1711'," Mary Heedt or LLiod, daughter am- of these lines have been of the of Casper ILedt, a Dutch " Friend," family name, and a- I'.manuel, him-elf, ' from Amsterdam ; the only instance in w;ls rather a Brandiam — than a liiirlin-- our family of an iiuermarr'age with the ton — Smith, the-c lim-s <\'i nut come European races who settled here in ad- Mrii-lly within the sci>pe of a hi-tory of vance of the Engli'^h. J. Sati-om, iri tlie Burlington Smith-; I have not b.rn his Smith MS., says. "He was a vt-ry able, iLS yet, fullv to trace them. umiable character, and acijuirid a 011-

Samuel married, firstly, lOlizabeth, : sidei-able fortune by trade," (the \\ c.-t daughter of the ILjii. Edinmid Lovett, ; India trade before mentioned,) "upon member of the I'enusvlvania Assembly, , wdiich he lived hospitubly, and as he had from Rucks Countv — by whom he had I only two daughtei-s to provide for, he ihree children ; and secondiv, Doro- i made a generous distribution of it at his tiica Gyles. His children, (by the lirst j decease." Daniel Smith, (.second,) and his wife only,) were Richard, Saimiel and i next brother, Robert Smith, boru in 1 GPS, Mary; Richard and Mary (,i,iy, left : both continued to reside in the larg-', >s-ue. • ■ 1 old mansion of their father, at the coru'T

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of Ero;ul ;m<l Main Strtrl.-^, Jjiii-Iiiigtoii, | 1700, was, aceordiuu' tu tlie llimilv lii,-- aiul at Dauiel'ti death, in 17G9, it be- ! rajilicr.Josojili Sunsom, "an active, inn 1- came Robeit'ri projicrty. Mary and ■ lii;ent man, and went over to the A\', -; Sarah, Daniel's daui^hfers, married two ! Indies, in 172G, wliorc lie married Anin Philadeliiliiaiis, Tlionias Li-litfont and , Farrel, a woman of lai'oc estate, liv whci;, James Peiidierlon. : lie had issue, Lnt no snrvivors. lie dirl Robert Smith, the second brother, in tlie Island of Jamaica, alxuit 170(1." was for several years in the connnissioii Eenjamin Smith, the iuurth son, w-- of the peace, for Biirlingtun ('oiinty, Iwrn in 1701. " He married Saiali llm- " and filled that and several oilier ]mljlic ling, anil lived many years at rriiiir oftlees with re].ntati.jii."-' Jle married Hojie Mills, on the J )(lawaiv, wliciv In- ]'21izabcth, dau-hter ot' the Hon. John died about the year 17(;0, and was iii- Eacon, ol' Che.icrlield, brother of the terrcd at Bnrlington." Plon. Samuel JJacon. of Salem, who-e The youngest child, Katharine, w;i- descent from lord-kei'|ier Sir ^.'icholas born in 1711. She married, in 17:;i, Bacon, lias lieen indicated. 1 have the , A\'illiam Callendcr, originally of the certificate of the .-ecoiid marriage vi' this : Island of Earbadoes, where his aiicc.-toi- Jolm Jiaeon, sliowin- that he married had held bind as earlv as l(j:lS. At tin' Priseilla, d.-ui;;hler of .bjlni Le|i|iin^i(.iii. lime of their marriagi' he was en'.:a^i d, of Ilousham, County Voile, ]-:nglaiid, in as a nierehan!, in the shiiiimii: trad'' 1/11, at the "friends'" meeting, in Ijctween that island and ^\merica, but Shefliehl. ]:iizabeth Eaeun's mother settled at Pliiladeli.hia on marriage, lb.' was his lii-st wife, J'Jizabeth Smith, oi' bride's ].:irents making this a cuiidiiioii Salem, befoiv m'nlione.l. Hie lather of their eon-eiit. He ie|.re,-enled I'liil.!- afterward rei.ioved to hi- bro;her's [.late d.lpbia in a-embly in the veai- I7.'-;. at liacon's 'Xtek, near Salem, wlnre lie 177,4 and 17.J-j, Eenjamin rraiikl.n died. He had formerly s.rved there as being the other leiire.-entative. lb- justice of the iinonim, etc. Judge iLoliert coiinliy-M-at on the banks of the ] >• ii- Smilh died in 17^1 ; ot' his goudne.ss of ware, known for niaiiv vears ;is " C'allen-" heart, is jireservcd tlie interesting remin- i der's Place," is deseribed as a mo,,t agiee- iscence that two aged hoti-ehold slaves, able relieat, aiidiiere he cxerei-ed a Luge man and wife, were s., .alfeeted by their and genial h.-pitality. Hedjedin 17t'-, kind master's death, that after it they lost and his widow in 17S0. She had n- their spirits, pined away and soon died. moveil, on her hn-band's death, to Ipt The third brother, John Smith, born ; native ]ilaee, Jbirlinuton, but, on the oui-

~~ I break uf tlie lu'Volntionarv War, \\a- "i

To' ""o7'^l' o"'l!'nf't''^' *'">/ '''"'^".t""" "'"^ annoved bv tlic soldiers being qnarnn d 1737-1709, etc. | at IjCT rt'sidouec, that >Aw (.•lu.-ul the lu.ii-*'

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iiinl sjwut her last ilays in Plulrtdcl|iliia. , in return, sugarri, ruin and otlicr trojiical

She was interred among lier ancestors at \ iiroducts. He owned and even Ituill liis

i;in-]ington. The fuuei'al took place j vessels, sending his sons .with iheui as

from the old house, in which she was i supercargoes. His wharves and warc-

liiirji, ihcri the ju'opcriy of her nephew, houses were on what is now called Green

ilie third ]).uiiel Smith; tile jviuains Eaiik, the favorite lounge of the gently [

having lieeii conveyed there liy lioat, in of Burlington, all vestige of its tonnei- '

ihiee hours' sail from Philadelphia. commercial charactei' having long di^ap-

'J'he middle or second line of our peared. The growth of the great marl

fninly, de.-cendiiig from Samuel Smith, of Philadelphia lias absorbed the cmn-

iif liiamham, ha- Init one male repre- mcj-ce that wa< onc(.' ISurlingtcm's, Imt in

.-(aitativc in llii- gen.eiatiun. tho.-e days the elder town was al.-u the

Ivichard Smiili, limnh uf tliat. name, Imsiei- and the richer,

whdin, for distinctiiin's >ake, 1 .-hall call Richard Smith's handsome town-hniHe

l!i(;hard Smith, of ( ireen Hill, was horn , in Ijurliugton, still standing, but eom-

• lidy .'ih, lO'.)!). He nianied. August I'lf^'fcb' "^'''^'''S'''^' '''^'' t'"^'" ■' '''.^''"''^''''^■•'"

-I'lh, 1711.>, Abigail, daughter ol' the tory ou the ronf, from which the .apjJioach

linn. Tl las K;ipier, tbiamaly of Sin- of his returning ships could be early

der-by, York.-liire, .and Abigail, hi, wife, descried. It was biult by him for hi-^ daughter of William Peikiiis. the caily bride, a-< the date, I72<», upon the- still coloin-t, whiise deatli, on board the ship existing wi'athei-vane shows.^'^ Hi- conn- Shield, has already been mentioned. try-liou.->e was the " (.iri'en Hill" jilacc, Iti'-liard Smith api>ears to have combined, originally that of Samuel Jciiings. in an luni-ual decree, the virtues of The obiiuary in onr often-'piotid text- eaiigy and busines- aliiiity with gvnlle- book, tla' '■ 1 li-;oiy uf New Jii-ey." ne.- and tendenie-s of heart. Jlis ho.- runs thus; " A. D. 17ol, the Olh of .Vo- pilaliiy was laigelv exercised toward \ emiier, ilie 1, iu the fifiy-third ye,ii-,,f ir.ivcling Fi lend-, a- extant letter- from hi- age, Richard Smith ; He ri'piv-iiit-d -ueji men as ]-aac Xorri- and others, Purlington iii a— enddy near twi my amjily testify, ile re]iresented Purling- years, through a great variety of dillleull Ion ill as>endilv for nearly twenty vears business; He m.iintained a fair rcpiila- with an abilitv whiidi is witness. -il bv [\u: tion, was instrumental iii jirocuring c-ou- conddcnce of Ins con-tituents and by the siderable provincial b-iielits, and hence, obituary jire-,iitly to be ipioted, while in acpiircd, the love of m:uiy, who had no his private alfairs he showed an cipial opjiortunities of knowing him, but in a •■li'lgy. ]Ie was extensively engaged in , ,, ,„.,„,,„,,j ,,„ ,',„,, r,. u]..r\, iKiwf.n Main ,mM iTlUmeree to the W'e^t llidie.-, .-hippiu'' t« n . r-- -■ .-. ;-, !' -I . . .1 cnr;...iyu inr.. ..>■ e.»

tintlier colonial produce and receiving, ui iturlicgtuu.

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piiblick cluiiacter. lie was cool and even in his Icmjier, impartial and con- scientious in the discliai-gc of his duty, kind and caiet'al in every paternal rela- tion, and generou-^ in hoth sentiment and conduct."

Dr. Franklin's paper, the Pcimstjlva- iiia Ga-.dic, Noveml)er 21st, ITol, said of Kiehard Smith : " Last week died Richard Smitli, lvsi|., of llurliiiglnii, X. J., and was huried in Fiiends' hnrial gi-onnd in lliat eily ; in wlinin thi.' cliar- acters of a generous, godd-nutured, Ims- pitable man, true jiatrint and good (.'liris- tian, were so ti'uly lilcndcd, that lie lived beloved and esteemed by all who knew him, and his death is lamented as a public loss by tiie jieople uf that pro- vince."

lie died in tlie harness, at Aiobov, wliere he was attending in his jilace as an asseniblyjuan. " Tiie body was brought by his sorrowing sous to Bur- lington fi^r ijiternient, and was met un the road by a pn.vi.-sion ><\' his llll^.w- citizens de.-irous dl'sliowing tlirir respect to his memory.'"

A touching address to his ehildren was found folded together with his will; I venture to quote it in iull. It rennnds one, by its gfntle giaees, of the letter foinieily ipioted, by hi.- grandfather, Jilchard Smith, of IJi'umliam.

" tkULINCTO.N, i'llll of -tth 1110., IT-'iO.

" l)i:.\ii t'tiiLi)i:i;\ : — Inclosed yuu have my will, ivhii li 1 Ii(.|ic you \\\\\ -.^W be satisfied with; 1 liavu made it in the

best and equallest manner I was cap;ilil,. of doing it at this time, and in the cir- cumstances my aflaii's are in at present ; nevertheless, if any diflerencc slumlil arise or Jiappen between you concerniiiL' the niattei's contained in it, or any other occasion or thing, my advice is that In-, she or they concerned, more csjieciallv then retire before the Lord, huiidily beseeching Ilim for a reconciliation, con- sidering, as i-easonable creatures, and a- 1 liaveoii such occasions otten duiie, thai the Great I^ord, at whose dispo.-al ari' ilu- cattle of a tliousand hills, and that ilr can give to whom lie jileasetli ; lie, 1 say, consider, in the di.-peiisations of lli- providence, with your h<)iio>t endeavi.aii--, can give a l.ile.-sing upon it, which may soon make up, or more than compcn-.il" what yi.ai sulfrr in interest tor peai-r" sake, and the imjiriidence it would be to entertain a root of bitterness, jiroducini; strife, hatred, or, at hast, ill-will, oiie t(.iwards another, to the uricving ot' lli'' Holy Spirit and woiiinling yonr o" n soul.-, and tlnaeby ju-tly im-ur the ili- jileasure of Him, whu.-e bles-ing is aliso- lutely neces,-;ii-y, and without which a great deal more wtaild du yoti no good. I have nothing to add on tempi.iral atliiii- : you liavi- know n my mind as to spiritn.iN. I sliall only add that 1 niv on the nun y and gixidiK--.- of Alinighly ( lod, that H' will, through the mediation of Hi- diai Son Jesus, blot (jut and tiugive my tps- pas.ses apiinst Him; ai)i!liunib!v iieploii- His help th;it, tor the time that js -tiM to come, 1 may, throiiirh His gnic<-. '•■■

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iTc-civecl from offeniling against Ilini, iiiiil that I may thus be watchful, looking 1. 1 iiiv ITi/lpei', until the time of ray dis- .-■ikition shall come; that tlien lie may 1h' graciously jilcased to receive my soul into eternal bliss.

"Finally, dear children, live in peace (/lie with another, and with all men as iiiiich as in yon lieth ; so may the God of peace grant you His jicace and the jL-sistaticc of His Holy Sjtirit, whilst you remain in this world of temjitations and troubles, that you, throngli ihe help thereof, may be able to lonk up unio lliin and surmonnt them all, and at last Ix' aeeountcd worthy of His mercy, and II mansion in His house where the wicked •••■ast' troubling and the weary are at rest. S) fervently prayeth your " Af.eetionate father,

liiciiAiiu S-MiTir, Jn."

The "Junior" distiu-uished him from

his uncle. Dr. Eichaixl Smith, who lived till this year, 1750.

Richard Smith's only sister, ]\Iary, born April 15tli, 1701, niarried Joseph Xolile, son of Abel Xoble, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and grandson of William Noble, of Bristol, England.

The last or youngest line of our fannly, in this generation, cmliraecs the five children of Dr. Richard Smith, of Brani- ham, iif whom a secontl "Richard Sndih, Jiiiiioi'," fourth in succession from the fir^t Richard, of Bramham, his brulhir James and sister Rachel, are those, only, of whose issue we have record. The lirst-consiii and namasake of Richard, of Green Hill, married Hannah Peak; James Smith marrieil a lady whose name Ls not ou our record, and Rachel niarried Dr. John Pole, of ]>raitlehay, Somerset, England. On this third line of the family, my information is, at present, by no means as full as could be desired.

ClIAlTEPv XII.

Tin; QUAKin: and the indiax.

WE have aliciiily li;ul rieca>.ioii to ohsci'vo the kindly .-imjilicity of the relations, uoilliy of ilio unldi'n a_Lie, subsisting bi'twci'u the iir,-t (^luaker .-cl- tlers in New Jci-.-ey, timl tlicii- >avai;r neiglihiirs, tlio Lrnni L'^napcor lAhiware Indians. ^Vc avf now to sci- how far and how h.ing this original amity was preserved, what measure of justice and generosity the weaker race reeeived from tliestrongei'. and howourown t'aiuily Imre itself towards the manly but haple-s aborigine-.

It is weir observed by iSamuel AUin- son, ('■' Fragmentary History of the New Jersey Imlians,") tljat "though the Indian is now to u- a vani-ind race, it Ls fell to be o\v;iii: !o eau-e- wliieh i>ur ance^^tors eould not eontrul— tij the adher- ence, V)y the aborigines, to the trihal fee of laud and savage modes of sub-i,-;enee, and their eonsequent disinclination Ibr patient labour. It is desirable to per- petuate a knowledge of the kindly rela- tions whieh sub.-i-ted, if oidy as another proof that hoslilit v is not a ;(' cr.i.^iiri/ state between comparatively rude aiid eivili/ed inhabitants of the ^a^le tenitory."

Among the carlie-i efloi-ts to combine and systematize the benevolonee of indi- viduals toward the red men, was the

" New Jersey Association for helpini; ;!.• Indians," a society whose constitui'h :. was drawn by Saiiuiel Smith, the hi-i..- lian of New Jersey, in 17-37, w]io.-e tii' suli-cription-list was lieadeil by D.ii.iw Smith, of our fifth, and Sjiiuiiel and -h-i i; Smith, of our sixth g( ne;alion, with lii' ])and.?ome aggregate of ninety pouu'!-, and whoso members were nearly ail. also members of the l]urlington Siniili family.'-' Tlie complete li.-t of lat iiih' ;- and sul)-eri]ilions is as follows; (l>;ii";. from S.nuiiel ,\llin-on.)

"Daniel Smith, I'l'O; Samuel Siuiih. £20; John Smith, IT.O; Jo,-hua Kap". fO; Joseph Noble, £-3, S...; ]:duai'i Cathrall, iJ.j, S.<.; William Ibuhn--. £■3; Eii/abeth Siiiitli, Clf, ; Kieli.oo Smith, £.3; Thomas M'ellieriil, '-''■ Wm. Hartsliorne, £:] ; Jonathan Smitii. £;); John Iloskins. Cl : Hannah Har'- borne, £4, Ik; I)aniel Smith, Jr., f-'; Seamon Eodman, £5; Samuel IJodinai;. £.5; Patience Clews, £1 ; John \Vn..i- man, £G."

Except Cathrall, the Harl-liovn-. Patience Clews and the saintly .loim "Woolman, all these were either inenil»i-

* It may Ijc h.p' rciriiirkfil. tluit our fjiiu'.y f..nir-l an almo^t tj.;imliy lur?f jiropcrti.iii »l ili'- '■''-^°" '..," tnbiito.'-i t.' tliat nuw vonerablr m-iitiitii>n. l"f '■'' lin^ton I'lihli.; Li'imry.

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i 1 Mrtli, or marriage coiiiK-ctioiis, of our disjioscd to crush the growing settlement,

; inilv. Daniel Smith, ehlest son of according to the outward appearance of

li.iiii-l, of Jiraiuliani, and Jonatlian things, nothing could have been easier.

•«,niiii. .M.l>., youngest son of Dr. But so far were they from thouglit.'i of

l;.!i:ird, of ]]iamham, represent tlie that kind, tliat they promoted the wcliare

l■.^.. extremes of our liftli generation, of of the whites in almost every instance

.Nlii.-h we are about to take leave; and wiiere it was in their power, cherished

,iiii .i]-,' the marriage connections, J. them through many distressing intervals,

i;.|.-r, . I.. X.ilile, W. Healings, T.Weth- and greatly contributed, under Provi-

. nil iiud ihi; two loidmans are of a, co- dence, to render an otherwi.se inhospit- . '..li ;.;en"ratioii, while all (jtliers belong ^ able wilderness, pleasant to the European

|.. Mill- r-ixlh gciirratiun. strangers. Considering, therefore, the

••■|'lic mnito ailoiited by the sdciely, a ; scattered situation of their posterity, and

V. rv appropriate one, is iVmn J^aiali Iviii., the real wretchedness in which many of

• ;. 7 liiid '.K ' Is nol this the fi.-t that 1 them arc involved through llieir own

l.u,. ,.1„H,.||-.'— til deal thy hiva.l to the bad conduct, and, in part, for want of a

i.uii-ry, and that tliou liring the jioor proper ])lace of residence, where they

liiil are cast out to thv house? When might live comfortably together, and by

ihoii s'.vst the naked that thdU cover hunting and iishing and what they could

liiiii,— tlien shall thou call and the honl raise out of the earth, support themselves

-li.i!! answer; thou shah cry and He shall in a more eonvmient and reputable

-ly, Here 1 am.' " manner tiian they have hitherto done,

■• The preambh' sets forth as 'a truth we are desirous to- procure a suitable

l-'--li ill thr iiu-iiiorv of several vet living, lii^mestead for the trihe. This, in some

•■"■ Weil ;i.s evidc-nced by the eoneurrent iustancei!, might luivc the desired ellect,

i-'-timoiiy of the iii-,.;t svttlers in general.' but if it should not be the case, gratituilp

ili.it llie native Imlian- of New Jersey to the natural and original proprietor.s of

"ete r.-iiiarkai)lv kind to them, not onlv the .soil wiiereou we reside, who treated

"ill'-riiig tliem to sit down and improve our predecessors with such a distiu-

tlieir ]H)ssc^s;iu„s rpiietly, (for which the guished regard, and to who.sc justice and

Indians ii;id a consideration,) but volun- indulgence l/icii, many families, under

'■'rily administering to their iVequent rrovidence, have rca.son to acknowldlgc

'ie,-.-,i;i,.^^ when th.ev coul.l expi-ct no their well-being wo('', seems to demand

"^»ard, :ind when, wilhoiii their assist- some lasting testimonial of our respect

'>-'i'v, sc.nu: of the first .settlers must have to their posterity ; and that, not ordy for

•uneMHl exceedingly ; and this, too. at a the treatment our ancestors then met

'"'le when there were many liundreds of with, but for the prudential rea-soius of

lb' -a I,, ,,iie white; and had tliey been engaging them by .some public act oi U

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Christian benevolence, to continue un- shaken in their fVicnd.-iiip to tiie Eng- lish, to kcej) them out of the way of danger or of being seduced by rambling abroad, and to exiiibit to otiier nations of Indians a standing memento of justice and kindnef^s, ■\vliicli, it may lie reason- ably expected, will Iklvu a strong and lasting influence on their councils, and conduce to the ndvantago of us and ours and our neigldjours i'm- many years lo come. At a time, tliercfire, when our brethren of Pennsylvania, aniinutcd bv the like ciiaritable motives, aic .-bowing their regaid by large donations in favour of the Indians of that province — for the reasons above, and otliers of considerable importance — we, the suliscribeis, do mutually agree upon tlie iiillowing articles."

The first article provides, "That a tract of about two thousand acres of the l.iest land that can be got, nigh or adjoining the Barrens,'^' in the counties of ^Ion- mouth, Burlingtim and (jli.>uce>tor, in New Jei-sey, be ]4inlia-r<!, as soon as conveniently may be, after the .-ulj-erip- tions are compleleil." ]3v tljc .-econd, all the native Indians of New Jersey, who had not freeholds already, with tlieir families and their jiosterity forever, were to be entitled to settle and live on said land free of rent. Tlie ali'airs of the association were to be attended to by six

* Those Barrens were the more moimtaiDOus regions, ftiU covered with primcviil f.ircsr ami not likely to be _soon cleared by the whiles :— hence, foruilnir u ri;iliir;d pre.-ierve fur the riitne. which w.ii lue chief subsist- ence of the Indiaas.

managers and a treasurer, to be ainniall-. elected by the subscribers, and tiiey ;•.],.[ tlieir succe.s.sors were to serve witliou'l I', , or reward.

" They were to purchase the land, liaw the oversight of the resident Indiaii.s nn.l keep a record of tliem, order their u. spective settlements, and adjust all di- putes that might liappen among them. They were diieeted, jirudently, to ili-.- courage intercoiir.-e with i'oreign In- dians, and io pre\ciit siieh from settlin: among tlieni. T!ic di-ed was to be takni liy the managers, in trust for tlie .^n'n- scribers. Any surjdus money was to be expended for the benefit of the Indian-, in building, fencing, stock or implenieni.-, or in providijig sclioi^ls. For the sake of preserving hai'niony ;nid coiKMid, membersliip in tlie a.-soeiation was re- stricted to the 'Society of Friends.'

"jSfo evidence has come to my knowl- edge that this association, with .-uch I'l-aiseworthy oljects, ever went iii:" operation. Tlie j'njeet was jirobably Ibund, in its fieselopnient, to be oi i'-' great magnitude fir jirivate enler]iri-e, and that oilier iniporiaiit objects reijai!- iug governmental action, ought to b' connected witli it. But the jiersons en- gaged in the work were not accustomed to tail in a good cause, ;ind their gener- ous jdan, I have no doidit, f iivsliadowed and was merged in liie aeliou ot the pi'- vincial government the ensuing ye^tr. (S. Allinson.)

A\'hiie this society wa- thus organiz- ing, the governineut of New Jersev h:"'

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l.-M holtliiii,', in 17'5(J, a treaty with the IiiiliaiH, "at which several measures «.Ti" (lisi;u.s>;e(.i and imitually agreed ujion, 11- likely to jiromote the general benefit iiC ilio Eiiglisli and Indians. A law \(;i-i jiassed in accordance with this agrce- fi'-ut. liy the legislature, dated March -l-t, 17-")7, restricting the sale of all in- i.i.vicaling drinks to Indians, declaring vi.id all their debts and ])awn3 for strong iliiidc, ii)i-bidding tlieir ini[irisoiiment for <!• !i;, and the setting of traps of steel or iiHM" (for deer,) "weighing ni..re than il.rcc and a half pounds. The sale of iiidiaii lands was also forbidden ijut uiion careful suj>ervision and in preseril.ied I'lirnis, arid on reasonable ternis." Five i-i)!iimissioDers, one of whom was our "i:ce~tor in the Lcgan line, the lion. Cliarles liead, were appointed to inquire iMlo the liidiaa claims to lands, and re]iort I'l the legislature.

Tile restriction on liiinor-selliri;, car- 'I'd out tlie iiioa-un-,- nuuii earlier

■'■'•'1''>'<1 I'V the (.Mlakc!'^. In ]7()}, ;i..,.

.v--arly meeting of "Triciids," of IJur- liiigic.n, directed, that "If any among us jl" -ell, barter or exchange, direetly or indirectly, to the Indians, anv ix-er, I'randv

it b

ly. or otiier sjurits or strong liquors, _ ci)ntrary to y'' ancient care '■nv-nds have had of iho-e ]mor ignorant Ix-atlien people, and contrary to this rneoting-ste^imony against it, s'ueii loose, •'';'i!-derly walkers .-houid be laboured With, i,„d if not reclaimed, testified '<.;ainst."

At a treaty, held at Crosswicks, in

February, 1758, " Teedyuscung, King of the Delawares, living on the Susque- Iianna, and George Hopenyoke, of the the same place, and the Indians inhabit- ing Xew Jersey, or the major part of them, attended and delivered to the com- missioners a list of all the lands they claimed — -twenty-five different tracts — (some of them extensive and indefinite,) and released to the proprietors of the divisions of New Jersey and the pur- cliasers under them, all lands not so claimed." They also apjiointed five of their number tlieir attorneys to execute a deed for their aforesaid claimed lands.

These five Indian attorneys, who ap- jiear to have had some schooling in the Engli.-h language, wrote a letter to " Friend ^Ir. Israel IVMnbertou," (of Philadelphia,) as a particulai- friend of their race, asking his advice as to their best course, "as we find we are not able to transact in deeji things." "Theeoun- bcl of this honor<dd(; 'Friiiid' ami his associates, pr..Kibly v,-:i-; to a-k («r a sj'ecilied tract of land ibr a re.-idence, in lieu of their extensive, though uncertain and contested, claims of un,-oId territory, ^ucli, at least, was their rc'iue-t, at the next meeting, thus carrying out the idea of the 'New Jersey Association' of the year before.

"The Indian attorneys and a mnnber of their prominent constituents, with several delegates from allii-d trib<'s in Pennsylvania who claimed some right.-; in the soil cif Xew Jersey, met the colo- nial commissioners in conference, at Bur-

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liiigton, on ilie Utli of 'eiglitli iiioiitli,' (August,) 17oS, uikI tlio Indians pre- sented a 2^ reposition in writing, stating that they were desirous that a tract of land in tlie possession of ]!enjaniin Springer, in the townslii[i of J->veshani, in the county of Ihirlington, shoukl be purchased tor tlic liabitatioii of the Dehaware Luhans living soutli of the Earitan; for wliicli tliey unanimously proposed and agreed to release all the rights of tlie Indian- tn lauds in Xew Jersey, exeepi the c-laim <A' Closes To- tanii, near the Itaritan, and such lands as some of them iield under English rights."

B}' a la-^v passed three days afterwards, the legislature authoi'i/.ed the eounnis- sioners to carry this desire into ctfcet hy the pui'chase of a cunvrniciit Had, "in order that the Indians ni;iy l"' giatilicd iu this particular, and that tlicy may have always iu their view a lasting mon- ument of the justice and tendeincrs ol'tliis colony towards them." t'KJd!) A\a,- "aj)- jirojiriat'cd Ic.ir the jmrji'i-r of e.\tingui.~li- ing the .varii.ins Indian ehiin:> in tlie province, exeejiting the riglit of hunting and of fishing." Tlie payment lijr claims south of the- Jlaritan wa.- not to exceed half this sum.

The law also jirovidid, "That the lands to be purchased fur the Indianj, as aforfc-aid, shall not hereafter be ^ui.>icct to any tax."

The proposed tract in Eve-ham, called lulge Pillock, a[ipears to have been promptly purchased, " The deed from Benjaniin Springer and wife, beai-s date

Augnst 2yih, 1758." The title is for (. thousand nine hundred and eighiv-ilir acres, bought, originally, (if liicli:ii'l Smith and Ijenjaniin Moore. A rc--iii- vc}' showed, however, by more aecur:ih lueasuremeut, that three thousand :ni<l ibrty-four acres were included within ili, ancient lines. The consiilcnilion |iaii! Sjiriuger and wife was l'7-lo.

"Thus satisfactoi'ily closed," (-ays >. Allinson,) "the causes liir diilt'inni with the natives south of the Rarii:!:i. Arrangements were alieady in priign.-- by Governor IJernard, fur holding ;i treaty with those north of that river ami their Indian allies in Pennsylvania ami New York, and at a conference held ai Burlington, on the 7th and Sth nf ci-liili month, (August.) 17'jS, the Indian m:;- tors proposed to meet at the old (■..nmil lire, 'at the forks of the ]_)el;iwaiv, the next lull moon alter this,' alleging, that if held on the eastern side of the i)\ii, ■though they should >jieak luud, the di.-tant nalieii- Could not hear, on aeeouii; of the roaring water between tlieiii. Governor Bernard, who appears to ha\e been sincerely desirous to elVect a la^iiui; peace with the Indians, madenoobjeetion to this fanciful reasoning, and as>ented to the pro]iosition. A general eonfereiiee w.as accordingly held at Ea>ton. the minutes of which, so far as tliey related to 2sew .Jersey, with the j'tincipd speeches on both sides, bearing dalo froni the Sth to the 2Gth October, 17"''^. are publi.-hvd al large in '.Smith's Hi-t(^iy of 2sew Jei.-ey.'

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"The genei-ul jmcifieatioii of tlie lu- (linns was then ;i groat object in all the nei.nliljonring eoloiiies, and the governor anil lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania, with six members of the council, ;; enm- niittec of the legislature ami a number of citizens of Philadeliiliia, prineijnillv ' Friends,' wIkjsg jn-esenee was desired bv the Indians — Governor Bernard and the commissioners of New Jei-sey, and George Croghan, de])UTy and Indian agent from JS'ew York, participated in the ])roceed- ings. Moi'e than live liundred Indians, nearly half of wlujiu, however, were women and children, were in attendance, representing the .Six ^iations, the Kela- warcs, Jliiusink.s, Wapings, and varioits other tribes. 'J'he treaty resulted, as was lioi)ed,-in a better iniderstanding lielween tlie parties, and a strengthening nf the bonds of friendshiji. A eiiidinii;il ion- deed of ceded lands in I'eniisylvania was executed by the chiet's of the iniited na- tions, and handed from Indian to Indian all around the hen-e. The deed tor New Jersey south of the llaritan was a]i- provcd and confirmed, and a dei'd Ibr all tlic remaining land in New Jersev wius executed by the chiefs of the I\Iunsies, \\ apings and Pom]>tons, sixteen in num- ber, and aiiju'oveil by tlie ehiefs (if the •"^ix Nations," (the sit-called "mieles" of the Delawares, Minisinks or Munsies, and ^^a[)inga or Pom])tous, of New Jersey.)

"As a consideration for the relinquish- ment of tlu! northern claims, Governor IJernard jiaid to the Indians the stun of one thousand jiieces ' of eight,' to be

divided according to their respective rights. Egohohoun, a Munsy or Mini- sink Indian, and Arpiawaton, a Waping or Pompton, acknowledge, on the back of the deed, the receipt of £o75.

■' Teedyuscung, King of the Dela wares, recpiestcd, for an aged and intirm Waping chief, the favor of a horse to carry him home. Tagashata, ;i Seneea chief, ina<le a similar recpiest for himself, both of which were granted. Thomas King, an iniluential Oneida chief, also desired tliat a nnndicr of wagons might be sent as far as \\'vo)uing, where tiiev liad left their canoes, to earry sueli as were mil able to walk, and the goods wliieh had Iteen given them; also, that a su]i]ily of ])ro\isions might be ])Ut in the wagotis, snfiieient to serve them till they got to their resjiective habitations. A\'ilh mu- tual e.xpressions of good-will, an<l re-o- lutions to keep bright the chain of friend- ship,'the conferences were concluded with great satisfaction.' "

"No sidi.-eqiient controvei'sv arose with our red brethren, and at the treaty at Fort Stanwix, in ITt-Ii, attended by Governor Franklin, tlie Six Nations j'ub- licly acknowledged the repeated instan'Ms of the jnstice of the province, in bring- ing nnirderers " (of Indians) "to con- dign punishment, declared they had lie, claim whatever upon New Jersey, and in the mo-t solemn manner ewnt'ei rid Ujion her the name" of the Gnat Av- biter, or l)oer of Ju.stice, (Sagorigwyog-^- tha.)

In these vears, from 1754 to 17o8,

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while tlie.su peaceful aiuUiononible agree- ments between tlio savage and the civil- .izeJ man, were being originated and consuinnuited at IJurlington and Easton, scenes of a very dilfereiit nature were being transacted in the western wiKls of the provinces of Virginia, Pennsylvaiiia and New Yorlc. The sanguinary strng- gle between the French and Engli.vh, known in ciui- eai'ly annals as "the old French wai-," was then dragging its ^low length alimg. and shortly hefnrc the execution dt' these treaties in the east, the wildernosis aiMund Fort Diiipiesnc, in the we-t, h.ul cchocil to the shouts, the drunrs and the volleys of an Fnglisli liost, ent;rngled and hi.-t in patli!e>s de- files— to the irregular sharji crackle i if the rirtc-shots pi.iuvcd upon lliciu fnim everv bush and coigne of vantage by the liercc and subtle Indians — to the wihl yells ol' savage triumph and the shrieks of mortal agony. 1'he disi/iplined courage of the Britisli had- given way under this new, ni:i.-ked ami deadly mode of wailarc. and their utter destruction had only iM-en averted by the coolness, knowlcilge and heroism of the despised colonel of ti)e provincial cdutingcnt, one Cieorge A\'ash- ington.

.Some eddies tVdin tiiis fierce tempest must needs find their way to the pastoral quiet of the (Quaker liDmes. J have in iny possi --sion a pajK-r fioiu out.' of the collateral linos of ancestry, winch shows liow the passion and agony of this si nig- gle troubled the jieace of one household amonn; them.

Vi'c nuist imagine two fair giib. brought up in all the virginal and luin- llko modesty and innocency of iiui Quaker maidens, Eebccca aiul Esther \<\ name, and we must follow thoni to tin .sanctity of their chamlier.

(I copy, in all its .simplicity, the lan- guage of the aged uarratoi-.)

"llebeccawas asleep and Esther wa- awake; she heard her moaning in great distress; Esther .-aid, ' AVhat is the mal- ter, Becky? what distresses thee .-n much'.'' She replied, it was about a young man ; Esther askeil who it wa-. supposing she wa.s awake; but siic said something so unconnected, that she ti;)und she was sleeping; Esther then awoke hoi', and told her what she said, wliicli she denied; until she founil she h.ul been talking in her sleep: she then said. 'Well, Hetty, thou hast heard what 1 never intended any one should know, and now I will relate all the eiiiiiin- .-tances. 1 bi.eanie acijuainted willi a very handsome, fine-l"oking young man. an oHiccr in the British army; we wire very mucli attached to each other, ami 1 promised to marry him when he return' d ; before he left home, he had a piece n! gold cut in two ]'arts, one piece willi a lock of my hair and tin- fither with a lock of his; the piece with the lock of my hair he ke|it, the other, with his, hi* gave to me. and 1 h.avc it yet ; 1 dreamed, just now, he was taken l)y the Indians and tied to a tree, and he was stuck tiill of pine splints, and then they set liim on fire to burn him to death; at which

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1 wiw ill au agony, at the thouglit of liis was glad she luul told lier before, as she .-unbring-s.' Esther said, ' Wliy, Becky, ' was then a comfort to her in her grief"

lliOLi never said anything about it ; where This- strange and sad little story of

did yon meet?' 'Near home; I knew by-gone love and fidehty was taken down

fiithcr would be very mucli oH'cnded if by one now deceased, from the lips of a

lie knew I had any intention of marry- very aged lady, the danghter of "Esther,"

ing him, a Brijish ofiieer: I luid letteis in iier own simple language.

iVoni him often, but not any for some The Indian, when all liis worst ]-)as-

weeks, which has made me so uneasy : sions were aroused, was sucli as we see

Now, Hetty, as I have told tliee all, liiiu in tiie above ^tory, a lemoi'seless

say nothing about it to any of the family, sivagc ; under tlie mild inthienee of the

and when I hear anything more I will Quakci-, he iR-ranie a diflerent being,

tell thee.' Esther promised mil in w\\. Tlic following aneedntc is prot-rved of

Some weeks after, Eebecca saiil to her, tbc fimons Teedyu>cuiig, circled Kiim-

'Hetty, I want thee to come and ^lecp of the Dclawares in IT^*'!.

with me to-night.' After they had re- "One evening he was sitting at tlie

tired, she told hei' Aw had received a lireside of a ' Friend.' Bntli of them

letter, with the other piece of gold, by a were silently liuikiiig at the iiie, indulg-

youiig man who was in the army wiih ing tlieir own relleetinns. At length tbe

liini : they were bntli taken jiri-oners by .silence was broken by tlie ' I'l-iiiid,' wlin

the Indians, and were tei >ulKr death; .said, ' I will tell thee wbat I have b( en the young oflicer told him he wanted . thinking of [ have lieeii thinking ot' a

him t(i jimmise liim to take a small piece rule deliVeied by the Author of the

(li paper, (which he teiok out of his (.'hi-isiian religii.u. whleli, liniii its e.x-

bn,-ini,, and give il 10 her, an<! tell her cellence, we call the Cnhln Eule.'

he always wnrc it ne.\t his heait, and ' Stoji,' said Teedyuseiin-'. • diMi't prai-e

that his lu^t jirayei-s would be fur her; it to me, but rather tell me what it is.

he tiild him he would if he ever got and let me think fir mysi'lf J .lo not

away; he then said he could be easier. wish ycju to tell me of its excellence;

She then asked what death he died ; he tell me what it is." ' It is tor one man

did not answer. She told him she wished to do to another as he would have the

lo know very nun h ; lie said, 'A most other do to him.' 'Thai's impossible.

Iiorrid death — the Indians tied him to a It cannot lie done.' Tcedyuscung inime-

trec and stuck him with splints, and set diati'ly lejilied. Silence again ensiKd.

him ou firo:'he said the sight was too Teedyusrung lighted bis ]ii].c and walked awful to see, he could not stand to see it ; , about the room. In about a quarter of

at which she nearly fainted. S!ie could an hour he came to his t'ri''nd with

Hot resi iiiuil she had told Esther; .-h'- smiliii'' counlenance, and taking the

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pipe from his mouth, s;iiil, ' Bi-otlior, I their removaL ^tephni Calvin, an in-

have been tlioughtt'iil of what you tolil terpreter at tlie Crosswicks and Ivwtnn

me. If the Great Spirit that made man Treaties, was the schoolmaster. His mhi,

would give him a new Jiaai, he could do Bartholomew, Avhowas ])laeed at riiiuv-

as you say, but not else.' " ton College, through the iniluciice df"

I shall here anticipate the regular (the missi(jnary) " Brainerd. fulluwed

course of history fur the sake uf sh(jwing him in the occupation, and had as ukiiiv

the sequel of the story of the Quakers white as Indian scholars." (Allinson.)

and the Indians in Xe\v .Jer.-ey. He was considered an e.v;cellent teachci',

Upon the l^lilge I'illock tract, now and his school and the settlement were called Brotherton, " tliis remnant of the fn-cpiently visited and benefited by enii- IjCni Lenapf inition, now about one hmi- nenl '• Friends," "but the civilization dri'd in nunibn-, i-ouiiniu-d to re.-idc for c.-tabh'slicd was of a low order. iVi- many years. Thoii- land was excellent sistcnt industry wa> not general, and tlicy for cultivation, 'i'iiey bad a tine cedar- did not ix-eonie a thriving ngricultural swamp, and a waler-powrr and saw-mill, jteople. The tribal fee of land quencher They were contigiious to o.\tciisi\e hunt- individual entei-pri-e." ing-groun<ls in the ' I'ine liarivns,' and "Jn the year ISOl, the Brotherton or within a day's Journey of the sea-const. Edge Biliock Indians, w.re invited by .-i where wild fowl and sbeU-tish were kindred tribo, tb-' Matihrkunnuks," (M"- abundant. The rights of hunting and hicaiis,) "at New Stockbridge, near tishing, as secured by the treaty, were Oneida Lake, to 'pack up their mat,' and freely iisetl, and also the traditionary 'come and cat out of ihtir di^h,' whiili. right uf fdiing timber and cutting tiny said, v,-as lar-e <nnn-b for tlieiu all, ba.sket stuff,^-' mentiou'-d in the confer- aijding, with charact.ri-iic earnc^tii.--. ences, but not referred to in the written that 'their necks weie stretched in lo"k- ugreenients. A numlier of comtbrtable ing toward the lire.-ide of their i/nnnl- dwellings were put up by the iirovince. /■-///„ r till they were as h.ng as crane-l'" A meeting-UouM' was built of logs which 'i'ld^ invitation of their ■•grandchildien" continued as a jilace of wursliip after baving been accepted, the Ibothialeii Indians ai>]i!ied to the legislature tbr

•Theriirht* ,.n-,.intir.(r ati.l fi-!iin.-, un.l . ntiinrr atltli. nit V t' idisp.Ve of their lands. C'lii- r, nu..c or n...U-i:e. ■!.- i.v M->iiiiu- In.li.wi,:;. ivitli.n .!„■ lai-mners were accordingly ap].oinieO I" m.-m..ryori.v,M- i"'.-..i;^. An H.Ut rd.itno iiil..r,„s .Hvide and sell the Bn,therloil tiael. ITK'. Iliat wliin ,a cluM. 11 |iur; V (.1 lQ(![.in^ l:,;.l •■-i.il.- li-lie.l (lii-ni-flvi--. fiT ilirs.' imrp -.ill lii< r.iih.T? and invest the funds ari>ini:, in United

«o.)Ji. at Crii'n Hill 'tliHu-l, j„.r|-,., tlv innili-iisue. (., , , i ,■ .1 i r'. ■• .1 I,,

,.r.^ 01.-.! ^^■o»M hu!. ,i. li.r .r.-s ^iun tli,., .ip|.r.Ki, he.l, ,|ians.

ODodav, tliey silt .t.wii !■. .Ill till ir .tiUKT nu. IT lliu i, , ■ , i

rery iriie in which hi- had taktu refuge : Die Brutlicrtons accordingly rcmovcil

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to New Stockbrulge, where they were cordially received by tlicir allies, the Mohicans. In 1824, the united tribes iinrcluised a large tract on the Fox River, l)ptween Winnebago Lake and Luke Michigan, to which they removed; the lirothertons' portion being paid for by the State Ti-easnrer of New Jersey, out of the United Stales stock held in trust for thciu.

In 1832, the }h-nthcrt(in Indians had diminished in their new home, in the State of Michigan, tu about torly indi- viduals.. "Cherishiug in their hf-redilary poverty a recollection of their abandoned rights of hunting and fishing in Xew Jersey," they deputed Shawuskehuug or Bartholomew S. Qdvin, their oldest chief, the Princeton scholar and Edge Pilli.ick ■ichoolnvLster of half a century before, to solicit from the legislature of the State some compensation therefor.

A report was made in Calvin's liivor, and a bill passed, .Maich 12tli. 1832, uppropriiitiug two thou-aiid d...liiir.-', (the sum named by himself.) for an entire relinquishment of all Indian claims. The letter of thanks of tiiis worthy In- dian to the legislature, I Uike, with most of my information relative to the Brotli- erton Indians, from the able ]iani])hlet of Samuel ^Vlliusim. above mentioned. The " Friends," and their successors in New Jersey, acted, from first to last, toward t!ia<o natives, with ]>erfect justice and lainip.s,s, and with no small degree of brotherly kiudne-is, and >ucii Ls the im- perfection of our nature, that fairness,

and justice, and kindness, when exercised by the strong toward the weak, though no more than duty, seem to call for a gratitude as enthusiastic as that displayed in this letter :

" Bartholomew S. Calvin takes this method to return his thanks to both Houses of the Legislature, and especially to their committees, for their very re- S2")ectful attention to, and candid exam- ination of the Indian claims which he was delegated to present.

" The final act of ollicial intercour.se between the State of New Jersey and the Delaware Indians, who once owned neaily the whole of its territory, has now been consummated, in a manner which must redound to the honour of this growing Stale, and, in all human probability, to the pr(,ilongation of the existence of a wasted yet grateful jieople. Upon this parting occasion, I feel it to be an incumbent duty to bear tlic feeble tribute of my jiraise to the high-toned justice, which, in tliis instance, aiid, .-o tar as 1 am acquainted, in all fjrnier time, has actuated the councils of this commonwealth in dealing with the ab- original inhabitants.

" Not a drop of our blood have you spilled in battle, not an acre of our land have you taken but by our consent. These facts s[.eak for themselves and need no comment. They place the character of New Jersey in bold relief, a liright example to those States within whofC territorial limits our brethren still 1 remain. Nothing, save beuLsous, can

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fall u|JOii liei- from the lips of a Leniii LeiKippi.

" There may be some who would de- spise an Indian benediction; butwlien J return to my people and make known to them the result of my mission, the ear of the Great Sovereign of the I'niverse, which is still open to our ery, will be penetrated with our invocation of bless- ings upon the generous sons of Xew Jersey.

" To those gentlemen, members of the

legislature and others, who have evinerd their kindness to me, I cannot reliain from paying the unsolicited tribute oT my heartfelt thanks. Unable to iTtum tliejii any other compensation, I ferveuily pray that Ciod will have tliem in lli- holy keejiing, will guide them in safely through the vlei.ssitudes of tliis life, and ultimately, through the rich mercies nf our Blessed Kedeemer, receive them \uU) the glorious entertainment oi" His King- dom above."

CHAPTER XIII.

THE SIXTH GEXERATIOX.

OI'' llic .sixth genemtion of our family, we liave already .seen a number of imiiviiiuals, united witli their scnior.s of ilir llfiii generation, in th.' " Xew Jer.sey S.K'lety for helping tlie Indian.s.''

Daniel Smith, second of the name, the fn< .signer of the constitution of tliat ^•l•^■iely, the clde.-t son in the eldest line "f llie family, in the fifth generation, I'-il, .-1- lias lieen observed, only daughters, ilir wives of Thomas Lightfoot and .Iirac-^ I'ci'nlieitiiii.

Till' elilc-t male line of the family ihus cimc to he that of his next brother, l!"l"Tt, who, by his wife, Elizabeth I^u-nn, left three .sons, Jolin, Daniel, (lliiid.) and INtherl, and three dauglitcrs, Kli/-il.ftli, Kathariiir and Sarah. Uf li"->e all died unmarried, but Daniel and KliAiU-th; Elizabeth, by her hu.sband, •"^ uniiri Allinson, left two children, Wil- li.iiii mid :N[ary, who both died unmarried.

'I lie eldest male line of the Burling- '"'1 "^inillis theref.re. is tliat of Daniel ^'n'uh, third of the name, (or Daniel •^'"'itli, .Iu„;,,r, as hesigiH liiin.H'lf dur- "■l: (lie lit;-(ii„e of bis uncle, the aluive- ""u.-d Daiii,;! Smith, second, or senior.) '-'■nnd son of the .said Roliert Smith, .yi-thv of the ]vaee in I'.iirlimit'iii, and i:ii/alK'th llaeon, bis wife. '' j

The younger brothers of Daniel Smith, the second, and of Robert Smith, J. P., wore John, who married vknnc Parrel, of Jamaica, and left no surviving issue, and Benjamin, who married Sarah Burling, and was also without descendant.?. (?)

The descendants of Katharine Callen- der, sister of these four brothers, constitute the second of what are technically called "female lines" of Burlington Smith di'- scendants; the first "female line" l.ieing the descendants of her eldest br<"ilher, Daniel Smith, the second, by his seennd daughter, Sarah, the wife of James Pem- bcrtou ; his elder daughter, Mary Light- foot, having lett no issue. 1'hese dis- tinctions, familiar to English law anil heraldry, are maile here for tlio better classification of the many lines of de- scendants.

Richard Smith, of Cireen Hill, left four sons and one daughtrr, wh(j sur- vived to j'cars of maturity. The d.augli- ter, Elizabeth, lived to the a-c of forty- eight, and was the lOli/abeth ."-^niith who subscribed £1G to the "Xew .ler-cy Society for helping the Indians." -."^iic, however, died unnianied. Tlie bmllirrs, Sanmel, John, "William Envrtt and Ricliard. (fifth of the name,) all inai- ried and left descendants, forming the

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second, third, fourth aud fiftli of the"ma1e liuos " of the JJiirlingtou Smith family.

The descendants of Mary Smith, .=ister of Ricliard, of Green Hill, by her hus- band, Joseph Koble, form the third female line of Burlinglon Smiths.

Itichard Smith, first-cousin of Eiehard, of Green Hill, aud son of Dr. Richard Smith, of Bramhani, leil one daughter, Eachel, who man-ied AVilliam Coxe, and ■Nvliose descendants ibrm the fourth female line of the family.

James Smith, younger brother of Eiehard, and younger son of Dr. llich- ard, of Eramham. had two children, William and Eiehard, of wlioso survival to maturity or posterity I have no record, and suppose they died young.

Lastly, the descendants of Eachel Smith, sisler of these two brothers, by jier husband. Dr. John Pole, form the fifth female line ; thu.s, in this genera- tion, we again have ten lines of descend- ants to fake. account of; possessing, how- ever, thiru-<.'u rq'resentari\es.

It is projtcr, in a genealogical work, to give precedence to the male lines of a family, as these bear the family name. I shall, therefore, lirst take uji those Smiths who are descendants in the five male lines in their order, and then dis- cuss the descendants, not bearing the name of Smith, who are of the five female lines, in their order.

I'he thirteen representatives of the family, in the sixth geuc.'-ation, who left descf-ndants, were: 1. Daniel Smith, Junior; 2. Samuel Smith, (second); 3.

John Smith, (third); 4. AVilliam L<,v<-ii Smith; 5. Eiehard Smith, (fifth); (;. Sarah Smith Pemberton ; 7. Hannah Callendcr, (sole surviving child of Kai!i:i- rine Smith Callender); 8 and 9. Saniud Noble and Mary Noble, children c.i Mary Smith Noble, (third female line): 10. Eachel Smith Coxe; 11, 12 an.l 13. Edward, Thomas and Anna Pule-, (surviving children of Eachel Smiih Pole).

Hannah CV.llendcr marrii;d Saniml Sansom, Mary Noble married Sanui< i Wetherill, and Anna Pole married Janicr- Bringhurst.

Joining the names of these gentlcnirn to those of their wives, as co-rejiresenta- tives of the family, and classifying the representatives under their resjicctive lines, we have as representatives in tlic sixth generation, of the

I^IJeat male line — Daniel Smith, .Tnnior. sen of lli»

Hon. Robert .Smith. J. P. Secfiinl line — Samuel Sniilh, ~| Snn? ef iS'

Thinl lino— Jolin Sinitli. ( Hon. Ki. ):nr.l

roiirtb line— Wm. Lovett Smith, T.-^inUh. of Cma Fifili lino— Itieharil Smith. J Hill.

First female line — Tames and Sarah S. Fcmliiili.D .Second female line — .Samuel and jiannah I-!aDsoL-t. Third female line — Samuel N'olile. Samuel and >I;irv

Wetherill. Fourth female lino— M'llliam aud Kaehel S. Covo. Fifth female line— Edward Pole. Thomas Pole, .lam -'

and Anna Bringhurst.

I j)ropose to give a short accouii' «'! the heads of each of these lines, and annex tables, showing the descent i'' each, from "William Smith, of P.ranihaiii. and their descendttnts as fir as I am accprainted with them, leaving :it iKdli'in of such tiibles a blank space in wiiieli

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I liiiv ilcscoiulant cau enter liis or her I drawn upon. He -ffas many years a

I lainily df.-^ccnt in full. | member and secretary of the King's

I ■ Daniel Smith, Junior, head of the j Council, and treasurer of the province,

I eldest male line, was a man of extensive i besides holding other important public

* reading, gentle, affectionate and religious | offices. His literary ability is well

f iti Ills disposition, but by no means | shown in his laborious and accurate bis-

I devoid of energy. On the contrary, ; toiy, and in many interesting notices of

J^ iK'iiig chosen to the office of surveyor- : his contemjwraries and others of note in

I general of the province, he filled it many ; the province, while the warm and active

I ye-.irs with great ability. He was a real ' l)enevolencc of his charactei- is evidenced

\ e-i;;te lawyer and conveyancer by pro- ' by his efforts in behalf of the jioor of all

V ie-.-ion, and oecujii(^d, during his life, the races, and reflected in many of his

i vr.;eral)!c mansion at liroad and Main writings. He was a successful man vt'

I Siiei Is, Imilt by his grandl'ithcr, Haniel business and active as a nu^nber of his

I Siuitli, of Branihain, and in wliicli bis ; religious society. Corn "twelfth month

failier and his eldest uncle had also j 13th," 1720; he married "eleventh resided. Some of bis verses, still remain- nionth," 1741, Jane, daughter of Josepli iiig.sliowa genuine, though unpretending, Kirkbride, and died shortly before the vein of.|ioetiy. wliile in his |)rofession of , outbi'eak of the Eevolution. His fine real e>l:ite law he left his mark very \ est;ite, " Hickory Grove," near ISurling- disdnctly ujion the history of the land- , (on, continued several generations in the tales of his county. He married Sarah, family, to the present day. daughter of Joshua llajiier or i;a])er, Samuel Smith, who was the eldest him

r>--.jiiire, (.-on of Tlioinas Kajiii r, cjf of the eldest son in the line of Samue! Sindersby, Yoi k-hiie, England); Ju-luia Smith, of Eranduui). u•^ed, as his =eal, the Iviipcr's wife was .'>arah, daughter of the device of a lion rampant prcij.er, gtile.--, Hon. Joseph Coojier, of CVioper's J\)int, crowned, sceptred and oi-hed oi', on a ^on of Hon. "\^'illiam Cooin-r, hereiube- field argent, known as the arms of fore mentioned. Haniel and Sarah Smith, of Eraiuham. He and his next •'^niitli luicl many sons and daughters, as brother, John, had supeiior town-!iou>e-, wdl hereafter appear. He was one of near together, in liurlington ; JolmV liie sub-eribing members of the "New , being that built by their father, Hon. Jei-sey Society for hel]'ing the Indians." llichard Smith. The estate of Cireen Samuel Smith, eldest son of llichard Hill appeai-s to have i>asse<I (ait_ of llie • niith, of (.ireeu Hill, ami Lead of tiie funily in this generation, but was i>ouglit '■<'coiul line of tite J5uilington Snuths, i.s again in the ne.xt bj' John Smith, Junioi-, 'he SauHiel Smith wlio.-e valuable his- son of Sanuiel's brother, the Hon. John '*'iy of New Jersev I have .so lartrelv , Suiith.

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THE BTTRLINGTON SMITHS.

John Siiiitli, the ckler, the next biothcr of Samuel, (born "first month 20tli," 1722,) eoutinucil, with energy, his latlicr's West IniHa trade, and, at an early age, visited those islands in one of Riehanl iSmith's shi])s. He afterwards removed to Philai.lelphia and hecanic a flourishing merchant there, having a handsdinc town- house on Second Street, then the fash- ionable fjuarter, and n fine ciumtry estate at "the I'oinI," on the Delaware above the city. Ih' niarricil IlaniKiJi, ilaughter of the Hi m. .James Lugaii, rhiil' jiistirc and jiresiilciit of council oi' I'ennsyl- vania, of whinn 1 have given a sketch. lie was the chief fomider of, and first insurer in, the Philadelphia (.'ontribu- tioii.ship, the j>ioneer insurance company of that city. He was als,, one of the originators and sccrelary of tlial admir- able charity, tht- I'mn-ylvania Hospital, and establisheil and ownrd the first line of regular pjickets tr.'icliii^- between Phila- delphia anil Lciidi'ii . His health be- coming atfevteil \<Y his maniti'Id ai-ti\i- tie.s, he retired from busim-ss, after his wife's death, to hi.- late fither's mansion, in Burlington, an<l bought, fir a country- seat, Franklin Park, lately the s.'at (if the governor of New tleivey, with its fine herd of over onr hundied deer. While in i'eniisylvania. lie had occupied a seat in the assembly of that province, and on his removal to hi^ nati\t' town, was appointed, by mandamus from the king, one of the Poyal Council f)r Xcw Jersey; and was ahn madi' a ju.-tice of thti j>caee.

He did not long survive his return in Burlington — dying "third month 'JCith/' 1771, in the forty-ninth year of his ai;f. and leaving behind him a character i.l' rare amiability and excellence, commem- orated in the affectionate eulogies nt Robert Proud, Historian of Peii:i~ylv.:- nia, of his brother Samuel and utiicr-. His descendants form the thiid line ef our fauiily.

William Lovett Smith, the third .if these brothers, was bm-u "ninth miinth 10th, 172G.'' He engiiged at fii-t in hi- father's business, and aflerwaid.-, in ngii- culturc, and gave to his estate llii- name of " Bramham,"" frMin the' family lioaie in England. He mari-ied, " ninth miintli loth, 17411,'' ^lary, nnly surviving ( hild of Daniel Doughty and Anna Steven-en, his wife, granddaugiiter (if Sainuel .b n- ings, first governor of West New .fer-ey. and many years s])eaker of the as.-i-mbly. William Lovett Sjniih died ••jiflh inenlh loth, 17US;" his e-tate ,,f " Jirainhau! " still remains in possi ssien (it' bis ile-eeiid- ants, (if the fourth line of Ihirlingmri Smiths.

PJchanl Snnth, y(.ung(\-t son ot Rich- ard, of Green Hill, was boni "third m.mth 22d, 173.3." Of his bdyliddd at (ireen Hill, it is recorded, that the rew of venerable cherry-trees, which litie ihc approach-avemie, were planted liy hi- hand. no duubt with some a.ssistanee troiu older person^. He studied law in the oiiice of ,To.-eph (ialloway, H-i|uire, i" Philadelphia, and became a -uccc.-.-tn' practitioner of that jirotession.

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ri;-j'?l'^^^^%f;

OTSEGO HALL, (FORMERLY SMITH HALL,)

Mansion of Hon. Richard Smith, (5th,) afterward of J. Fenimore Cooper,

(Since de-troyed by f.rc)

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J!r lilli'tl various hoiionihle offices Contiuental Congress as delegate auJ

....iiirricil with the courts, and that of | senator from 2se\v Jersey. IKmvms again

,,,-,,i(i.'r of ]iuriin>,'ton, quite early in returned to the second Continental Con-

l:!'.-, ;iiid inan'ied Elizabeth, daughter of; gress, but soon resigned his seat "on

!!„■ Il(in. .Iiihii li'idinan.one of the New account of indisjiosition." To bodily

lldlMid Uwdiiiaii family. After his ill-health may imibably juivr been -added

l.i..llicr Sauuiirsdeatli, in 1 77('s he tilled a reluctance to lake part in severing our

i!i.- (iliiiv (if treasurer <if New Jersey, connections with tin- mothcr-cninitry, a

,,i,d :d-o sat in the a-sembly. lie had a feeling in which the majority of the

. .tinlry->cat called " J'.raudiani Hall." (^lakei'S shared, ilis j.orlrait, as Srna-

•iiMT dC.-Iroyed by liie, and having, with tor from New Jersey, is iiitrciduce,! into

.■ii.r iiiembcrs of the Smith fannly,jii!r- MdllesonV painting, "The iir,-t Prayer

. l.aM-d a large tract of land on (Jtscgn in Coiigre>s.""-'

Lake, New Yurk, he built thereon an- Itieliard Sudlli died in lyo:;. while (,n

..thcrline hull in the Elizabethan style of a journey in thcyonthern States, ami was

archilectin-c, (lately engraved in a biog- ^ interred at Natchez, jMissi.-^ippi.

laphy ol' Feiiimore Coojicr); lived there ; The descendants of Kicliar.l Smith,

-.]iie years ;ind called it "Smith Hall." ' form the fifth and la.-t of the male lines

■|'hr Sndth^ employwl as their agent, to of the Ijurllngtou Sinitlis, or of those

"v-r~ee their otates at (Jtsego, Judge bt/aring tlic f imily iiamr, and v\lin,(nbo,)

<'o'.p.T, of the Cooper's Point tamlly, cntiMtied t<i dwell in Pminigton Cnunly.

«ho ultimately bimght the property of The descendants in the female lines, ;dl

tb.in. and. changed the nam,' of the hall removed, in this generation, to other

1" "Ol-i^o Hall;" and iiere bi^ son, the Slates, c.\cepling the Wetlieri'll branch,

■« Irbraled novelir-t, Jame.-. FeniiiK^re which also, however, ultimately removed

<'<"i!H,T, was liorn. from Burlington.

l;i'liardSnillh,whowasthetittliofthat The limitation of this book being to

' '!iii-tian name in successive generations give tiie history of the " Purlington

••f Ihe fanuly, was a man of literary eul- Smith-," this involved a full :ind aeeu-

I'nv, ;ind the friend and corropoiideiit rate aeeoiiut of tiie n,ir,s/,ji:-< (whether

"' -"uie of the noted liteiati of the Snnths or not.) of ]iersons iioir bearing

l«Tio,l. sneh a.T Hr. Tobias Smollett, the that family's name and lineage, and wlio

timou.^ uovcli-t and historian, pa'l of are, in short, themselves Ihirhngton

"1 correspondence with him ha.- been Smiths. Also, <,f the <l, sn i,(/ii„!s of

'•'!• iy reimblished. {Al/aii/i'- Mnnthli/, , persons yiw'mr/Vy bearing that name and

i''''l'iil,/j,/ufi JIhtorical Siriihfs JA- bora in Burlington, and who were, there-

'«""■■<, de.) At the outbreak of the » ^r «us" tiu- tt.ihorort!.. ■T.^^.r^MLTpr.,'

'"e\olMtioM, he was elected to the lircrt , c.rJiuir- ^'i e'un-'n-^.

-^ !'- till. Cooper was li.ini at I!urliiiL-t"ii. Imt iiiir.ii-iliateiy

cunveycii Ipy hi.- |.;in-TiLs In (./t-ipi Hull, his

h..,„.-,luii;i- life. ' !■. li;> V.,,.. T,... .; . „:..„,....., _ .. ..

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THE BUKLINGTON SMITHS.

fore, Burlington Smiths. But it would not be strictly relevant, and would swell too much this little volume to attempt a full account of such ancestors of the female lines of descendants, as were not of the family by birth — neither them- selves Smiths, nor ancestors of Smiths.

Sarah Smith, second surviving daugh- ter of the second Daniel Smith, married, as has been said, James Pemberton. He was of the well-kiKiwn and respected Pemberton i'aniily, dt' Philadelphia, tlie son of Israel Pembi'i-inu, tlie eiiiiuent friend of the Iniliaiis, whuse advice they sought, befiire executing the treaty of 1758. At'ter a short marrit-d life, Sarah Pemberton dit-d in couliaement, in 1770, leaving one daughter, Maiy Smith Pem- berton, and haviiij,, a few iiinntlis before her death, jiiiiu'd her hu-band in execut- ing a transfer of thirty-tive tracts of land amounting to many thousaml acres, a part of the property left by lior failier, to her cousins, Daniel Smith, Junior, and ills brother and sister.-. Marv S. Pem- berton niariicJ, in 17'.)ii, Anthony Mur- ris, son of Sanmrl Morris, and great- grandson of thi- lirst AiitliMiiy ^birris, whose early settieniunt at Purliiigton I Jiave mentioned.

Hannah Caliemli-r, solo sarviviiiL;- child of William and Kalhaiim- ('allin- der, married, in 17(Ji', S.uniicl S.uisoni, of the highly-csteenu' 1 Philadrljihia family of Sausom, from whieh Sansoin Street, in that city, tooiv its name, lie was the son of t!u! second Samuel San- som, grand.-ou of Samuel Sansom the

first, and great-grandson of J(]hn S - . som, of Becdon, Berks, England. Ti name of Sansom is supposed u> he ■ : Norman origin, being spelled in i.|.: records, de Saunsume.

The lineage of Josej)h Noble, «!,,, married Mary, sister of Pucluird Smiili, of Green Hill, and founded the tliii.i femtde liue of descendants, hiis be.;, given. His son, Samuel Noble, luarii. i "teuih month 27th, 174C.," l.yh.-., daugliter of Isaac Coiiper, deseendi •: fiom William Cooper, of Cooper's I'oini. ami took up liis residence in Philadel- jihia. His sister, Mary Noble, was mar- ried, '• third month 19th, 1743, in I'liiia- delphia," to Samuel Wetlieriil, second in descent from Christojiher "Wetherill. "i Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England, an earl\ settler in Burlington, and member of tin " Coiuicil of Pro]>rictors."'

Pachcl Smith, granddaughter of l>r. Richard Smith, of Bramham, marrieii A\"illiain Coxe, understO(jd to be a il''- scendant of Dr. Daniel Coxe, of Eor.<liiii. the extensive early proprietor and gov- ernor of West Jersey.

Edward Pole married Mary A\'aniir and left issue.

Thomas Pole, wIkj became a physieiaii. removed to Bristol, JCngland, in 177'. ami died in l.S'J'.t, leaving a dan.^ht'i" married to a genlhinau of Bri-tol, and

another mari-ied to Fowler,of llaUi-

niore, ^Maryland. And Anna Pole, hi- sister, mari'ied James Bringhurst, of the long-established family of Briiigliiirst, o! \\'iluiingtoii, Delaware, originating tie'

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llrtli and last female lino of Smith dc- Rvndaiits.

In the time of the sixth generation, liiirliiigton had changed from its primeval ii-^[K'Ct, when the scattered and humble cottages of the first settlers occupied small ]i:it('he5 of clearing, frowned upon by solid green walls of the interminable virgin forest, and when the frequent light canoe, laden with red men, women jinil babes, skimmed across the sleeping Delaware, between the Indian villages of S:ichein Chygoe, on the island, and King OckanicicoUjOn thonniinlaud. GoodKing Oi-kanickon siept, n(it with his swartliy lalhers, but in his mound in the Quaker Imrial-ground, near where the ipiaint |>.ilyg(innl meeting-house took the place <ii' liic primitive meeting-tent. His red bniliren had mysteriously shiiuik, from the thousands that surrounded the first emigrants, to the bare hundred that occu- pied ihc Edge Pillock or Broihcrton ir..ct; as. the shy deer had retreated U- l"ri- tlic ringing eclnx-s of the axe and the cnishing fuil of the aged monarchs of the wi«'d, u]i into the mountain fastnesses aniiuid tlie sources of tlie Lehigh and IViaware, so the panther, the catamount aiiil the Indian had followed them, and '"'tt their ancient haunts to the new r.iee.

I'ut, though the romance of those '">rly tiiiifs iiad vanished like the niorn- ">•■: <lc\v, a quaint, jieculiar charm haloed •'I'-'iniet and sim[ile commonweahli that li;id suceeeded them. Instead of rude '•'i^ oottag&s, substantial dwellings ru.-e Iti

thickly on the grass}' streets ; the earliest of these, built by the carpenters that came as servants of the ea-rliest settlers, were of timlier, and had the sharp, steep gables characteristic of rural England ; perhaps the only specimen now remain- ing of these, being the old "Green Hill" house, originally built by Samuel Jen- ings. Of little less antiquity -were the massive mansions that immediately suc- ceeded, built of brides brought from England, in which the bkick glazed ■'lu-ader" bricks alternated with the reil, but designed and constructed by tlie Swedisli anil Dutch workmen in the fashion of their countries. These com- fw'table abodes displayed the double pitched roofs, long known as the "Swede" roofs, th.e clustered chimneys ami "coved" cornices, and especially thel )utch "stooji-^'' or "pent-houses," pi-ojecting half roi.iis which overhung the walls at each storey, and ]irofected fi'om the rain, easy benches on which the stout burgher and his " vi'ow." in nordien; Xdv Jersey, and. in the .-^outli, the mild and "snjid" (Quaker, in his " hioad-brim," hi- Imh kl' d shoes, his knee-breeches and his sj^nad- ing coat-skins, with his spouse in her prim caji and "jiinncrs," could loll at ease, at evening, and smoke the pij'C ot' peace "subJovu." The oldest (jf th(-e now rfinaining i~, ujniursiionably. the Smith niansion, at Uroad and Main Streets, tor we hav<' the positive testi- mony of ,|i.-eph Saii-om that his graiid- uaaher, Kath.ahie Callmdir, who v, : .^ born in 1711, lir^i .siw the light witiiin

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THE BtJELINGTON SMITHS.

its walls, and tlint it wns erected by the first Daniel ymith, shortly after his mar- riage, in 1G95. TJie date, therefore, of 1733, in the gable, must have been sub- sequently inserted where we observe it, or, possibly, bungiingly restored from 1703.

Amid mansions such as this, and the town-house of Eichard Smith, of Green Hill, further down the street, erected in 1720, immediately after his marriage, rose the old polygon'-' mcetiug-house, quaint and simi>le as the period, now supplanted by the large structure on Main Street. Tlie title-pa])ei-s show that part of its ground was derived from the Smiths.

The calm of tlie lij'oad ami dreamy river was ruiiled, at iiiit ton frcfjuesit in- tervals, by the bJulT, round bows of the small and clumsy brigaiitines, " snows," and sliips, which, laden with fragrant pro- ducts of the West Indies, came bowling up against the gentle current, under full sail, to unload at liir piimitive wharves of Green Ijank ; an arrival, whieli, no donbt, infused something ul' hurry and excitement into the movements of the staid and Sulier citizens. The light, tlart- ing canoe wxs n(> longer there, but ficea- sionally the twelve-oared gallev would

* The Pric-inj] r.r.t.r of Hi- :n>.Lil,!v mortu:: f.T llio ci'nslruclLi'U i.f thw tMul.iiU'.', (iMii-il twilfih niniiih 5th. h:>2.) ilir.fl- II h: l.r i,.n-iruri.',l ■ ii.-cor.lim; lo a draft nf !^i\->i|niirn liiul.linL'. of IVirlv I'cft -iiiL.iro. fruiu imt to ,.iit." 'llio -ilrafi." .-;till f\i>Uiif,-. .-li.nvs au irrOL'ular liovaeon. 'I'll.' iMiiiiUM-r. l,v liom-hlv .■!, tt cl.K'k fiir:inTl\ liilunL-iii? tu .\larj;arir.Morri- .-inilli. would riiiiiir ivdiLato tlic gi,;ay.iu forai, !._> iLu breudth of ilie '^l-'pc sides.

come sweejiing up from Philadelpliij. sometimes bearing a bridal counianv. sometimes a funeral, often a royal gM\- ernor or other imjiortant personage. An.l now and then, the simpleredman,strayiii:.' down from the inland solitudes, wouM wander, wonderingly, through thesirn;-, puzzled by the novelty of tlie white maii'- civilization, but sure to be received wiiK cordial welcome by the Quaker tea-paiiy, seated before theirdoors,undej' tln^luuliw of the immense buttonwood-irrcs.

Tliese tca-pai'tics, af j'nfro, on tlir open side\Yalk in front of the Iioum-, were exceedingly common in the oml ol the summer evenings, alter the luai ci the day: and tlie declining sniishinc, a- ii came glinting througli tlie waving f(<hai:r of tall buttonwoods, oaks and elms, niu-i have lit up wlu)]e rows (jf such jiaitii-, on both sides, uji and down the br^'ad and quiet street. One can ijnagiue tin' .social chat across rlie stri'i-t, and tlie ii'- quent call li-um one ni-iiihlmr at th^-tai'i • of another, whei-e all lived like one gir:.! family.

It was on one of thesi' ol<l Miinnitr evenings that the tiiX intn)diictioii incur family of the tbunder of the C'olliu- fliinily, ^iiiee, in many wavs, eoniKi'i''' with oui- own, (H'curreil. ]>aac t'lrll'.n- was then a young L)i'Iawariaii, cnniiiij north in search ux cm[il'.p;. mcnt. " 1 hi tradition among our t'ulk^,"' says one nt our elder relative--, " is, that .bihn a:i'l Samuel Smith, th^n uf -Jv l\vz- '"''•'- eil, were drinking tta, nn the pasciiK'e.t in front of tiie hou-e — wi;et!ar tlic y> •'■■'

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123

lucv lioii^e where Julia lived, or the Cole- iiiiiii lioiise where Samuel lived, the tra- diiiuii saith not. A young man, a T-tniimer, in tlio garh of a Friend, passed nloiig and was greeted In' them, fie iiiii-t liavc impressed tlicm tavoui-ably, lor thev asked him to take tea with them, .•iiid made the usual American inquiries. Ill- luld tliem he was a printer, in search of a good ieituation for his business. The limiiiiTs talked with earli other awhile, am! ihcn said the cnhiuy was in want of a printer, and proiD^ed lo him to settle ill J'.iii'liiigton, and they would use their iiiiluence to get him the ollice of king's printer. This is understood to have been till Ih-st of Isaac Collins coming to Eur- linglon.

" In the memoir of 1. (.-., prepared by liis children, it is said that he heard of the deatli of .lames Parker, king's printer for New Jersey, and that, having procured recommendation, he applied for the ollice, and was ajiiiointed in the nutmnn of 177t>. It is probable that it w,L-< oil occiision of this apjmintment the id. )ve incident occurred."

S.mmel Smith had the press of the " king's printer "' moved to Burlington, •it (lie purpose of printing his " History <'l -New Jersey," as ajipeai-s by the fol- I'lwing:

" In 17G4, James Parker, ' printer to thi- king, for the province of New Jei-sey,' e'>in|iilcd and printed a 'Conductor Gen- •■r,ilis,' for justices of the peace, lie then li"!ding that oihce in Miildles^ex County, i>nd the following year, moved his press

from Woodbiidgo to Burlington, for the accommodation of the author of the History of New Jersey, (Smith,) but on the completion of the work it was re- turned to the former place." (White- head's Contributions to E. Jersey His- tory, o7G.)

The following anecdotes of John Snnlh, throw a (piaint light upon the times :

He had retired horn his Philadel[ihia btisincss to Burlington with ini[iaired health, and frequently suifered from sleeplessness at night. On one of these occasions he had, toward morning, fallen asleep, wdieu, about the usual breakfast- hour, he was disturbed by the "bellman," I wjio, according to the ]irimitive custom o*' the place and time, was ringing his bell loudly up and down the street, to announce a sale of some property. Our worshi]iful ancestor, determined not i to be deprived of his nap, and to silence, , at all costs, -that .Ireadfid bell," put his ! head out of tiie window, and 'leiiianded j of the bellman what property wa> tr> he sold. Ujion his answer, "the (itivernor's I Park," he bade the man go home and put up his instrument of torture, proni.- i ising he would himself purchase the proiicrty at the owner's [irie-e. It was in this off-hand way, that hi.-, piireha-e i>t the tine estate of Franklin Park was de- cided upon.

Some time after he had been duly in- vested in this esuite, one of his shijis ar- riving in port, the ciqnain came u[> ti> Burlington to see him, clad in his best,

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the suit iiK'luJing a flaming red waist- coat. To entertain tlie worthy mariner, our ancestor took liim out to Franklin Park to see the deer. As they were pacing quietly along one of the woody glades, near the inclo.^iure, wliich was a fence full eight feet in height, a splen- didly antlered stag suddenly started from the thicket, where he had proljabl}- been asleep, close to them. Ouc glance at the terrilic waistcoat of the captain was enougli ; at a tremendous Hying leap, he cleared the eight-foot boundary, and i3coui-ing like the wind across tlie country, was soon lost forever to our ancestor's sight and pocket !

It must have been some years before tliis, that the governor of iSTew Jersey Celcher, sent over to England for a ladv to come to America to marry him. Slie came, duly consigned to our ancestor, in one of his ships. The gallant Quaker merchant promptly placed her in his private four-oared barge, and in this, .-he was rapidly ,-\vept u]> the Delaware to Burlington,' and to lier expectant guber- natorial lover !

The Quaki.rs, during this fm-t century of the history of Xew Jersey, (from the promulgation of the " Concessions," in 1G7G, to the Declaration of Indejien- dence, in 177G,) were, unquestionably, the predominating and governing class in that little commonwealth, as they were in the neighboring one of I'ennsylvania. The pure, simple and lofiy religious principles, to wliieli they had borne witness, with the generous uad devoted

zeal of true descendants of the martvr- the cheerful courage and enterprise witi, which they had faced and conqiuii.l i; dangers and the hardships of the wil.i. i- ness — the probity, justice and kindu'-- of their dealings with their fellow iik n. had rightfully given them a high innmi standing in the opinion of the cum- raunily — free, as it was, from the advi i-. bias given to English socit'ty by ili.- hierarchy. To these sources of jniblii esteem, were added the large ".-take" they represented in the common wcal, and their nniformh' good cducatinn ; originally the possessors of consider.ilil'. wealth and good social jwsition, tlmt wealth was now increased by the sales nt their great landed estates.

Thougli sometimes out-voteil in lln' assembly, (as when the military snppli'- were carried against them, in 1700, by a single casting vote.) they were not di— couraged by this from continuing to give their counsels to the State; nor did tiny tlieu, (as now,) permit a liigh-wrough'. and over-sensitive conscientionsne-s, t" interfere with their iLsetulness !■; lii' ir country, and render them a cipher in tl" body-politic. They were adniiralily ■ fitted, as a class, to take a leading j'art in government, and such a part was, at this jieriod, by common consent, assignc<l them, both as a right and as a duty.

From the innocence and Christian simplicity cf tlieir private characti'P' arose a similar innocence and simplicity in their modes of jiublic action and gov- ernment, which atl'ect one with emotions

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iuiiij;lccl of amusement and reverence, (luvurnor Thomas IjIovcI, ancestor of ■ilic wife of .John Smith, of Green Hill, H)ii of tlie Hon. John Smith, last above mentioned, .served as a member of tlie omncil in Pennsylvania nndcr Penn as imiiirictary governor, before liis own :i|i|Miintnient as governor. Tiie ibllow- ing summary mode of disposing of a (|iiarrel wliicli had rijiened into a hnvsuit, In-fore the governor and council, provokes !i .'■mile in which there is no ridicule, and frriiis worthy of Arcadia or the ilillen- iiiam :

"At a council held at New Castle, the i:'.ili day of the third month, 1684, present: William Penn, proprietor and governor; Chr. Taylor, William South- orsliy, John Symcock, Thomas Lloyd," and others; " Andrew Joimson, plaiiititf; Hancc Peterson, defendant. j

" Tiiere being a diflerenco depending between them," (the plaintitf and de- f'!i<lant.) "the guvcniur and councill adviscd them t(j shai^e hands aiiil tol'or- give one another : and ordered that they ^ii"uld enter in bonds f)r iifty pound- apiece, for tlieir good aljearance ; w'ch accordingly they did. I

"It was also ordered tliat the records [ ot court concerning the business should li' burnt." (Minutes of the council). '

<^f Thumas Llciyd. during his two ' years' government of the province, it is •""■lated, that he " used sometimes in the evening, before lie went to rest, to go in ' rt'ivon to public houses, and order tlie I'^-ojile he found there to their own ,

homes, till at length he was instrumental to promote better order; and did, in a great measure, supjn-ess vice and immo- rality in the city." (Journal of Thomas Cludkley, p. 182).

In New Jersey, under Jenings, Olive and other Quaker governors, similar sim- plicity of public- methods obtained. Of Olive, when a justice of the peace, we are told, (History of Xew Jersey, p. 209,) that " he conti-ived to postpone sudden complaints, till cool deliberation had shown them to be justly founded, and then seldom failed of accommodating matters without much expense to the parties." He often heard cases in iiis own fields, the stump of a tree furnish- ing the judicial bench !

Yet witii all this simjilicity of man- ners, tlie principal "Friends" were highly educated men. A\'e have had occasion to note the extensive Itai-iiing of Thomas Lloyd and James Logan. From the notes to the " Peim-ylvania Pilgrim," by John G. Whittiei-, I take the following :

"Among the pioneer Friends were many men of learning and broad and liberal views. Penn was conversant with every department of literature and plii- losoj^hy. Thomas Lloyd was a ripe and rare sciiolar. The great Loganian library of Philadelphia bears witness to the varied learning and classical Ia.>te of its donor, James Logan. Tiiomas Story, member of the council of State, master of the rolls and commissioner of claims under ^\'illiam Penn, and an able miu-

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ister of his society, took a deep interest in scientific questions, and in a letter to his friend Logan, written wliile on a religious visit to Great Britain, seems to have anticipated the conclusions of mod- ern geologists. 'I spent,' he says, 'some months esjiecially at Scarborough, during the season of attending meetings, at whose high cliffs and the vaiiety of strata therein, and their several ])ositions, I further learned and was conlirnied in some things, that the earth is of much older date, as to the beginning of it, than the time assigned in the Holy Scriptuie as commonly understood, which is suited to the common capacity of mankind, as to six days of ju'ogressive work, by which I understand certain long and competent periods .of time, and not natural days.'" Nor did the subse(pient gcueratinns neglect to keep up (so far as it could be done without the existence of such na- tional institutions as the universities of Oxford, and Cambridge,) the learning of

their ancestors. In our oviu fauiilv, w have observed, in the gencraticjn \\: discussed, the literary pursuits of 11. .i:. Samuel Smith, eldest, and Hon. Eicliiu Smith, youngest son of Richard Smiili. of Green Hill. The second brother in li,!- family also, the elder John Smith, lik. his brethren^ a man prominent in jmliii- cal life, studiously cultivated the ]\Iu-' in the intervals of private and puliK. business, as may be seen in the quain! and interesting diaiy he has left hehii'l him — some extracts from which I jii - pose to give. He was also the author i.i some controversial works still cxtiini. (Reply to Tennant ou War, 8vo., 1717, etc.)^-^

* (iilbert 'I\-DnaDt, a c]^TL^^nlaD. haviDir :i ai.= cmirM- immilrd to (irnx'.'' th- Chruliaiu Jclui Smith i.i)l,li.ln-,l ari'pl.v, .-.tiU.'.\t;int.« at till,' lime, \\ith a mo.^t f'uvorablf rt.'cepti' n. rf.joiD{icr, ou tlic conlrarv. became waste p it is a curious fact, that larp:e tjiiantitics of were iisecl by the liriti-li soldiers in the batt niantowD as wadding for their fruns ! The.v \iousIy sacked the paper warehouse where booli lav entombed.

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r puis journal was hQ's,\m at tlic ago of -L nineteen, and continued about ten years and tiirows a .strong liglit ujwn tlir aiitlior's character, and on tliat of \\U times. The fii'st entry is:

" Ninth month, 17-11. Having a mind to ^■ee tlie Island of EarV)adocs, and to know llie manner of living at sea, and to .survey tlie woiuleis of the Lord in llie dceji, and having my father's con- sent so to do, I set nut from home for I'liiiadeliihia liy land on tlie Sth of tenth iiiiinth, 174], lieing third day of tlie neck. The next day about t\YO o'clock, 1'. M., I set out from Philadelphia in the brigantiue Burlington, William Curdy, master, belonging to my father, and she and her cargo as.-igncd to me and my oiusin, Samuel Noble, who al-o went witli me."

rhovoyageand desiTijition of the i>land I'resent few points of novelty; I extract Iwo ]>assagcs: premising that though the vi-s,-cls of Piicliiivd Smith still sailed fri_)m iJiirlington, thrv miv, stopp'^d fcr the gn-ater portion of tiieir eaig'i atllieraji- idly growing city of Penn. This voyage '" Itarhadoes occupied five weeks I — eiglit days being consumed in getting; t'ut of llie bay !

"Met a pilol-bixU, by whom we beard

that Captain Eedmon's great ship was lost on the sheers. She was very large, mounting twenty-four guns," etc. " We saw several sail of vessels at sea, but wej-e not chiised by any." All merchant vessels in the.sc times carried a full battery of guus for their jirotectioii from French ships and from pirates, who infested our coasts to an extent that seems incredible now. James Logan mentions a regular settlement of pirates, with a governor of tlieir own, numljering over eiglit hun- dred, at Norfolk, \'irginia. John F. Watson, the Phihideljdiia annali,-L, claims that piracy was suppressed and the last of the pirates executed in 17.'11. That tlii.- was not the case we shall see from this journal.

(.»n his return ; " the day before we saw our eajic-, we saw a great numlur of whale.-, (I believe twenty,) playing in tin; sea, some of which wei'e Very large; three of then: came very near us — 1 believe within ten or fifteen feet of the vessel ; we imagined tlity wcic each (if them above sixty feet long." 171-. "The loth of third mouth we made land, and the 16th we arrived safe in Phiiadeipliia. The next morning, I got a liorse and rode home, where 1 found my lather and family all well, thanks be to God, Uie 127

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father of all our mercies. I also foimd my brother Samuel married to Jaue Kirkbride ; they were married iu the eleventh month last."

"About two weeks after, I went by water to Philadelphia, where I staid about three weeks, to load my father's brigantine for Surranam."

(Trij:) to Xew York before railways, or even stages).

"Soon thereafter, I took a ride witli Cousin Benjamin Sniitli and Cousin Katy Callender to Xew York ; we rode to Eliza bethtowu point, where we left our horses and went by water to York. As we were going along we stopped at Brunswick, which is a very tliriving town, situated very low ; while we staid, I had tlie curiosity to count the houses, and I tliink there v,-a,s about one hundred and forty of them.

" We staid a week in Xew York, whicli is a large, populous city, tlie build- ings mostly larger than iho.^e of Phila- delphia, but tlie town is not niuh so handsome, nor so regularly laid out ; their new Dutch church (as they call it), is a very large building. We ascended to the top of its steeple by one hundred and eighteen stejis, from wiience we iiad a very tine view of the town and the river."

In returning, at the ferry of Cross- wicks Creek, the liorse rari into the creek and overset the chaise, " where, in all probability, we would have been drowned, if God, iu His goodness and mercy, had not sent us relief in the need-

ful time from Mathew Watson's ; bnMi.- came and took us up, but the horse w:i~ almost drowned. This hapjicned alium ten o'clock in tlie morning, and we ^lai.l at Watson's till five o'clock in the al'ii r- uoon, to dry our tilings, etc., and tli;it night we got safe to Burlington. To God be the praise and glory ibr all Hi- manifold favours and abundant loving- kindness to me-ward." '''' '■

"1743, tliird month 19th. I rode to Philadelphia to the marriage of my cousin, Mary Xoble, witli Samuel Weili- erill, which was solemnly jierformcd."

" 10th of fifth month. Being thvt day," (Sunday,) "rode to Germantown meeting. Dined, with several others, at James Logan's." This is his first re- corded visit to the home of his I'uturi' bride.

He began business as a merchant, in Philadelphia, "the 14th of tenth month, 1743," at the age of twenty-one; and next year, 1744, records liis first sliiji- ping venture.

" In the tentli month, 1744. I joiind with Israel Pendjerton, John lieyiRH and Israel Pemberton, Junior, in pur- chasing a small schooner, which we ni;i<!e a brig of, and called her tlie Doljihin ; loaded her ourselves, ajipointed John Peal, master, and she sailed for Barli:i- doos tlic 13th eleventh month."

" The latter end of first month, 171-i. I joined with Mr. Aspden, Jolm Keyn^ll and Israel Pemberton, Junior, in pui- chasing a new vessel, on the stocks, a little below Marcus Hook; we made a

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sliip of her; called her the Bolton; ap- pointed I'^dward Dowers master of her, and she sailed the oth of third mouth, for Dublin and Liverpool."

A lively bit of contcmporai-y journal, sent to L. P. Smith, by Judge Brock, of Biclimond, Virginia, enables us to get a glimpse at the household of James Logan, soon to be so intimately connected with our ancestor. Thechief justice of Penn- sylvania was, at that time, living retired at his "])alaee-like" home, t^tenton, -ivith liis wife and son, James, and one unmar- ried daughter, Hannah. Tiie journal is that of William Black, vho, then quite a young man, acconijianied, as secretary, the commission from A'irglnia, wiiich, with those from Maryland and Pennsyl- vania, effected, in 1744, a treaty with the six nations of Indians, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for the relinquishment of lands, etc. His account of a day at Pliiladelphia, quite sparkles with the cllervesccut s]iiriis of youth.

" )'ii!LAPi;i.rinA, FriJ^iy, .tune iM, 1744.

" The sun had run his course in our Hemisphere for the sjiace of two hours, before the Leaden Scejitre was removed from my Eye-Lids; at last, about lialf an hour pitst G, I had those Instruments of Sight and Doors of the Mind, laid open, and Jumped from my Bed in snuie lia.-te, designing, before that time, to havit lieeii at the Market Place : Tlie days of Mar- ket arc Tuesday and Friday, when you iuay be Supply'd with Every Neei.-..-ary for the Support of Life, tiiro'ut the 17

w'holc year, both extraordinary Good, and reasonably Cheap ; it is allow'd to" (by ?) " Foreigners to be the best of its bigness in the known World, and un- doubtedly the largest in America. I got to this place by 7, and had no small Satisfaction in seeing the pretty Creatures, the young Ladies, traversing the place from Stall to Stall, where they con'd make the best Market, some with their Maid behind tliem with a Basket, to carry hi.uic ihe Purchase, othei-s that were designed to buy but triiles, as a little fresh Butter or a Dish of Green Peas or the like. Had Giiod-Nalure and Humility enough to be tlieir own Porters: I have so much Pegard for the iair Sex, that I imagin'd, like the

Woman of , in the Holy Wiit, Sdiiie

charm in touching evn th<' lieni nf tluir garments: After I had made my Mar- ket, which was one penny wnrtli of ^\ hey and a Ntise-Gay, 1 iJi.-eii-aged my-elf from the Multitude and ma<le tlie Ih-i ..f my way to ^[r. StreltrllV. wlurr I bnak- fasted: alter Breakfast I Fxrhang'd the Commis.-iuner's Bill^ lor tiold and ]\i]ier Money, to the value of 700 and odd Pound.-., and after I settled the Ac- count leturn'd to my Lodgings in ordi.'r to dre.-s my Self, and Join the Conmii- sioners, t^cr., wlio I ).-i.unM alter Diinn'r to pav a Visit tn Mr. Jame- L)gan,who, tlmnigh the Inlirmilies of Olil Age, Jia.^eniMl on with a lingering Di^tcmj.er, had Petlrrd from J;u:-inc.-s to live at a .Beautiful llou.(. h.' h.ul abuut 4 Mi!.- from the Citv : At 1 O'clock, i'. -M.,

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at the Invitation of Secretary Peters, I went witli liim to the three Tunn Tav- ern, in \Yater Sti'eet, where, in Company with the Gentlemen of the Levee & two or three more of the Town I DinVl, and after a few Glasses of Good Madeira, j\rr. Lee, IMr. Littlepage, Mr. 15rooke and my Self, set out in order to Accompany tlie Commissioners to Mr. Logan's; they were gone before we got to their Lodg- ings, but, with the Ilelji of some very good Horses, which wv were Oblig'd to Bome of the Town's Gentlemen for, we soon came up with them, and ]\lr. Strettlc and Son who were with them. We got to Mr. Logan's a few minntes after ?>, and found him hid in the Bushes, an Ex- pression the Indians used when Treating with the Province, at Philadelphia, in July, 17-12, saying, 'They were sorry to lind their Good Friend, James I^ogan, hid in the Pushes,' Meaning it gave them Concern their Friend was so much ojipress'd with Sickness a> to be oblig'd to live a Lilu IJetiied from I'ublie Ailairs: he liad been a very great Benefactor to the Indians, an.d ('(.inducted several Treaties with them, and they, having always found him true to them, had an Extraordinary Kegard lor him.

" The Commissioners had sijme Con- versation with him about the Jiidians, and told him, his advice woub! be nl'tlif last Consequence to them in cnniliictiiig the Treaty ; he aj)pear'd somewhat Pe- served and Spoke very litth' : At last the Tea-Tahle was set, and one of his Daughters 2>rcsented herself, in order to

fdl out the Fashionable 'Warm 'Wuiir: I was really very much surpriz'd at tin- Appearance of so Charming a "Woukui, in a place where the seeming Moros(ii( -.- and Goutified Father's Appearance Pr.iiii- is'd no such Beauty, tho', it muft 1m- allow'd, the Man seem'd to have .soin-,- Eemains of a handsome enough ))er^nii, and a Complection beyond his yeais, li,r lie was turn'd of 70: But; to return tn the Lady, I declare I buiiit my Lips niorr than Once, being (juite thoughtless i>!' the warmness of my Tea— entirely lii>t in contemplating her Beauties. She \\a-i tall and Slender, but Exactly well Shap'd ; her Eyes Expi'css'd a very great ^^oi'i- ness, denoting a Comjios'd Temper ami Serenity of j\[ind. llcr Manm-r wa- Grave and Peserv'd, ami, to be Short, Slie liad a sort of Majesty in her Pei-nii, and Agreeablencss in lier Brhavinur, which at once Surjn'iz'd and Channrd tlie I>eholder: after the Tea-Table was ri_m(iv"d we were going tn take leave, but it appear'd we mu.-t tlrst view his Library, which was Customary with him, to any Persons of Account. lie had really a very line Collection of Books, l"itli Ancient and ^Modern ; he seem'd to Eegrate that none of his Sons knew how to Use them, and that he dcsigu'd tlniu as a Legacy to the City when he I>iod. After tlic Old Gentleman had been Coi.u- plimented on his fine Taste we Departed.

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ilir liiiiiuiiitv iuul hospitality for wliich I,,- v,:is noted, there is abundant cvitlenee. It i- prohable, tliiit the "seeming iiiorose- iK-.-," wJiic-li tliis gay youiiy felloNv, with i!i<' liapjiv, careless sauciiiess of youth, :iiiriliiited to gout, was chiefly due to the ;:nivitv, deliberation and "solidity" of iiiiuiner projier to an aged "Friend," iinl to which our Virginian was nuae- iii-liinied. That James Logan should Uil in due consideration to his distin- ^iii-hed guests is quite unlikely.

'Die fine person and face of James i/'.UMH. alluded to by Mr. ISlaek, are ro- ll'I'ti'd in the laige portrait that now Imiil's in the midst of that library so r'lierously given by him to Philadeljihia. lii-Z'^-^'it'/viVeisstill in the{Sniith) family.

I'ut let us return to our worthy J.)iarist.

"The 11th of fifth month," (174.".,) ■■ we received news of the surrender of J/.iiisburg on the 17th ultimo, to King 'ii'orge; the New England troops, on 'lii- <iceasion, gained much I'eputation ■''ii"iig the tni-ii ]irinripli>d f>r war. Tin v «' ri' enmnianded by William re|.perel, (a .\'ew I'.nglaud man, also,) and assisted I'}' a fleet of ship-: of war umler com- iiiand (if Cajitain Warren. That even- "i> and the next the mob were very rude ui this eity, jireaking many winddws 'liat Were nut illuminated, bul by the ^i;;ilanee(if the inlKiliilants and the prn- •'•■ut conduct <if the then mayor, IMuurd •"■'"IT^'". they were suppn-ssed brfole ''"■y had dnm. much miscliicf." ' "Til,- 4tli of the sixth mouth, 17 1-', '^■■iit by l;ind, witii srvural oilier friends,

to the funeral of my dear uncle, Caleb

I Kaper, at Burlington. I'lie removal of

I this dear relative affected me nuich,botli.

1 because thereby I lost a good friend, the

City of Burlington a good magistrate,

' for he was and liad been mayor iheri'of

several years, and the clnirch an useful,

hospitable and subsUintial member."

I "The snow Friendship, arrived from

Jamaica the 24th of sevi-ntli month.

"We made a ship of her, and jmt ber up

i for London. iShe sailed ibr that port

17th of ninth month.

"Our brigaiiline 1 )olpbiii again ariived

, from Barbadoes the Mlh of eighth

1 month. This voyage we sheathed lier,

and the 24tli of ninth mouth ship liolton

and brig D(J]ihin sailed together from

, the wharf, the shi]i bound for Ireland

' and brig for P.arbadoes." " '•■ '"■ "■'

"Eleventh month :!d, 174.7. In the

] afternoon, the weather being agreeabk',

' John Armitt and I rode to Charles Jt-n-

kins' ferrv on vSchuylkill. \\ e ran :ii:d

walked a mile or two on the ici-. (hi

our wav thithir we stopped to view the

jiroprietor's given-hous.', wbicb, at tb;s

season, is a very agreealile sight; tbe

oranges, Icmon.s and citrons were, some

green, some rijie and smuu in blossom."

The chief j.roprietor. John Peiin. was, at this time, an "absentee," living in F.iigland,andli:s!iiie plai-e of ■'Sprin-t lis- bui-v,"neai- tin' Selmylkiil, was in charge ot' his head gardi'uer, a man of (-(JUsidei- ,;ble scientific culture. .1. I'enii had made irreat etlorts to inlr..diiee the culluie of : tbe I'rencli wine-grape,- ,,;; this manor.

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as appears by ]iis diary, in ])ossessioii of ^ Suniuol, hmkiiig- over the librarv (ifc.iir

my family, having imported skilled vig- deceased iiiiele. Aunt was so kiiel .■-

nerons from France ; but to no jnirjKise, to give Sammy and me several of Ih-

owing to the severity of the Amciieaii books."

winter. The luxuriant growth nt' wild "First month llJth, IT-li). A\'eiit v,

grajK's in the woods, nnsled his iiitlu'i', , Samuel Mcjore's, where we ili-ank tea a lul

William I'enn, also, to attempt the iiitri)- spent a considerable time in vei-v airive-

duction of the delicate French vines, able eonver.sation; had a dispute ii|ii.ii

instead of di'Veloi)in<i' our own hardv ' inoculation for small-pox, two or tine.

varieties. I j)eople in town having got tliat disteiniH r

"I'lth. Dined at Israel I'embeilon's, from Xew ^'ork. It seems ek'ar to ine

and after dinner Jemmy and 1 rude, on that we who are but tenants have no

h<ir.-;ebaek, to Stenton; 11. I'endiertoii and right to pull down the house that belon--

M. Joi-dan went in the chaise. We only to the landloi'd who built them." spent two or three hours very agreeably The s;une sort of aignment is imu

there in company \\h\i .1. Logan, his wife urged bv good peo])le against tlie tran—

and daughter. The r(.iads vtay muddy. fusion of healthy blood into the veins i.t'

"17th. In theafteiaioon Saiuuen\'etli- the sick, on the ground of its beiiiLi a

crill and I- rotle to Burlington; found tampering with the constitution ot' tlie

my relations and tVieinls mo-tly well, giver of the blood. Such ]iersons over-

and several of them eauie to my father's look the olil'ujidiiJii of man to make \i-e

house and s|ient the evening there. Our of bis intellect and of the jjhysical seciei- j

discour-e ran much upon the state of which, from time to time, God revi-als 1. 1 |

their province, oppre->-il by an ill-na- it in tlu' gi-adiial upward progress of ■■in- j

lured a:id supeianniiated go\einoi." race. M"ho now tinds anything impioi:- 1

'J'liis superannuated governor, one in vaccination ? .J

grieves to note, was the formia- useful lietween the above date and the iie\l. i

and ]>atriotic Tewis Morris, lie died John Snnth aii]>ears to have ]>urclia-ed j

tlie following spiing. his estate at " I'oint-iio-point," abo\e \

"l.Sth. The day li.xed for two repre- ' I'hiladelplna. This p(jint dei-ives il- t

seiitalives for their city. .My father and odd name t'rom the gentle eiirve of the j

Cousin D.miel Siinlh were eho.-eu with- 1 )elaware shore. He was now twenty- |

out a di.s.M'nting Vole." four. |

The iiiiiiii'uiioii.^ eleeiion of tlu-e two "Third month, r2ih. At I'oiiit-u>'- |

inemliersof our tiinnly to repre>ent I'.ur- point. l!u-y in looking for l.iiek-. el.-., \

lington in a.~.send.ly. is a remarkable faet. and lunl a good deal of conversation |

"Sjn-nt most of the (Veiling with .\unt with Hugh Kolierts upon gardening, ei.-. 5

M. Hajier's" (laniily,) "with my l>nither .Vureed with (i.'ori;'- .Maitin to level m;. |

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t.-rnicc-walk, leaving it twenty feet wide ; to make a fall thirty incLcs on a bevel ; to level the next plot one hundred feet (It-cji; to do the next fall, turf it and the ^id^•.-.■, and plant the whole, etc., for tweiitv pounds; was, in the afternoon, taken up with draining plans, etc."

" ITtli. After dinner, S. Noble and I, rode to T. Lawrence's plantation, then to ]{ush Hill and Phinistead's, from thence to my place ; on our return we found our new l)rigantine launched ; called her the Addison." (No doubt, named from the essayist. )

"29th. Was at meeting. Eden Hay- duck >Yas married. G. WJiitfield and wile, and several of his hearers were tlicrc." This was the great preacher, ^\'hitfield, then laboring in I'hiladel- [lijia.

"Fiftli month, 9tli. AA'c had a report i;ist 7th day, by a vessel at Newcastle, from Ireland, that the rebels in Scutland wcredofealed, and to-day. tlie news by the l>ost, confirms the same ; they had a very hlofxly battle, wherein the Pretender's iirmy received a total defeat, but he, witli 11 few of his attendants, escaped. To- night, there were a few illuminations, Iwnfires, etc.

" 10th. The mayor ordered there ^llOuld be no bonfires in the habitable part of the city, and his order was oU'yod, and the mob pretty civil, tho' lliey broke a few Friends' windows." - " bjth. At meeting. I was, as at many "tb'T times, favoured with a sight of the ^^''•aknoLs and the vileness of mv natural

disposition, which, with the remembrance of the tender mercies I liavc repeatedly received, bowed me very low, and made, me abhor myself Oh! may the same sense always keep me in a humble fiunie of soul. ])rank tea at S. Ransom's. Head Pope's Miscellany."

The sacredl}' iirivate nature of mem- oranda like the above, and tliose es- pecially, relative to his conrtshii), has made me hesitate to cojiy them. Put they give so cliarmiiig and artless a self- portraiture, of a nature so jiure and pious, tliat I concluded to introduce them to readers who are also family connec- tions.

" 24th. This day was olisei'ved, by liic governor's order, a tlumksgi\ iii;j: <lay, for the victory over the Scotch reluls, l.iy all but Friends, of wlioni, too many con- formed, by keeping tlieir shops sluit, etc.'' Tlie " Friends " were thoroughly loyal, but their consciences would not permit them t<:i join in a celebration of act.- of war. TIk/ next entry records a tlispute with Abel Noble, chief feunder of the " Free-Will Baptists," and the father-in-law of John Smith's aunt, Mary (Smith) Noble.

"25th. Had, in the evening, the com- ])any of Abel Noble, with whom liad a long dispute. I undertook to jirove him no Christian, and in doing it, was so close upon him, 'that he was very angry, and gave me an account of abundance of judgments which had happened upon people who dilfered with liim, as, their buckwlieai being killed bv tlie I'rost, tlieir

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houses burnt, or dying soon after, with a deal more of such dark nonsense."

"Sixth month, 12tli. I dined with John Barti'am, wlio was very civil in showing his rarities of sundry sorts." (The eminent botanist, founder of " Bart- ram's Botanic Garden.")

" lijth. After dinner, went to tlie post- ofSce ami received a letter from Edward Peniugton, advising that our fine brigan- tine, the Addison, was talcon bj- a French privateer, within siglit of Antigua, and carried into IMartinico. This, tho" a veiy great disuppointnient tomyliopes of that beautiful vessel, I endeavoured to bear with patience and resignation. Tiien, John Dillwyu and several other friends going to Point, I rode with them, and we spent most of the afternoon at ray jilace."

" Eiglith montli, 1 Itli, Entered into partnershii) wiih ^Vbel James," (fatlicr of the late Professor Thos. C. James,) " and from thence to

" IStli.- Have been so bu.-y that I liave not had time to keefi the journal reguiarlv.''

" 1740, Elevcntli month, 1st. Spent the evening at a juiblic house witli sev- eral friends of the young sort, where we agreed to meet once a week to have sup- per, etc." (A Quaker club !) " In the evening, read awhile in Chambers' Dic- tionary."

"3d. Afler dinner, rode with A. Jann.s, Jemmy Pemljerton, etc., to Sehuylkiil, had a small sj)cll of shfctlng, but not quite agreeable, the ice being rough. Head in tlie evening, in J)on Quixotte."

" 8th. Had, part of the evening, the

company of Benjamin Lay, the cynic philosopher."

"10th. Had several of my friends i.. spend the day witli me at my plaut;ition."'

" 11th. Dined at Israel Pembcrton'^ with Hannah Logan, etc. Spent the evening in reading Sir Thomas MoreV 'Utopia.' "

" 14th. Dined at Stentou, and was very handsomely entertained."

"IGth. S2)ent the day at my \Am\- tatiun," (with some ten friends, who an- n;iincil,) " Found an agreeable place to slidi' on the creek. We went and re- turned in slays," (sleighs) "all safe and pleased."

"Twelfth month, 7th. "Waited iipnn Eachel Pemberton to Stenton. FuumI oidy their own family there. Lodged there to-night."

"8th. AV'aited upon the agreenblc women, to Germantown meeting, dined and drank tea at Stenton. Beturued home, having been very courteously en- tertained.'"

" 21st. Heard as soon as I came down- stairs that our ship, Frlend:5hip, had ]'nl into Antigua, having sprung aleak a; sea, and the vessel was like to be I'l'U- denuicd there, her upper-works being rotten. "We soon received a letter fivni Captain Lisle, which confirmed it. 'i In- very great disappointment I bear \\iil'' resignation and cheerfulness, considering that 1 know not whether it is best for nie to be rich or poor."

"2Gth. Spent the forenoon, as yester- day, at my plantation. Planted souic

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spruce-trees, and my gardener jjlanted peas and beans.

"1747, first month 7tli. Morning; biisv at my plantation in planting tidip root^s.

" 9th. Spent the day as above, in planting pinks, sweet-Williams, filberts, hazelnuts, I'oses and gooseberry bushes. Had E. Gathrall's company. The first appearance of greenness in meadows, witli the singing of black-birds, the chirp- ing of blue-birds, the ' voice of the turtle.' A little moderate exercise antl a useful book, b}' turns, all ln'Ijied to make this an agreeable day."

(Simplicity and sociability of manners, pij)e-smoking, etc.)

" r2th. Tea at William Callender's ; brought home the five volumes of the Jewish Sjiy ; lent them to Anthony Benezet for his mother. (Mem. My name is not in them.)"

"20tli. Supped at ^M. Jordan's with Eliza Wyatt and Sally. A^'aited ujion them home and smokcl a Ciiristian ])ipe there, etc."

" 2'kh. Kode to plantation and had a Jtretty deal of comjiany there."

"30th. Waited upon the governor in the morning with a register for our new snow, Prince William, which he readily signed and wi.-hed us good success with her. Went to plantation ; saw comjiany go to Samuel Parr's, so I walked over Ui K-e them, and after drinking tea there, Ihcy came and spent some time with luc, and I was well jilcAsed with their com- pany."

"Second month 9th. A pretty deal of company at Abel James's. I was sufiicieutly roasted about remaining sin- gle, etc. AA'as a little in the evening at Eliza Wyatt's," (an elderly lady) T" 1 presented her with a large pearl tobacco- box set in silver, in hopes of being remembered by her when she smokes a pipe."

" 10th. Attended the marriage of my piartner with P. Chalkley ; spent part of the evening at M. Jordan's, and the remainder at William Logan's with that dear creature, H. L., the charms of wliose conversation excel, if possiljle, those of her person. Her discourse seemed more agreeable than common this evening, after being pestered with much impeili- neuce in the afternoon. Oh I cnuld 1 be blest with the iiivor of retiring to it ujpun every occasion :

" ' Soft source of comfort, kiod relief from care. And tis lior IcMst perfection to he f^iir !' '

"24th. I drank tea at C'uu-in Xanny Smith's in cnnipany with sijine fine wch men who verilieil tlie ancient remark, 'women's tongues of a?pen leaf aie made.' "

" Tliir<l m(MUh 9th. Picked some rijic strawberries in my garden to-day, and was very nnieh pleased with I'l.'aiJinu; Paradise I^ost, particidarly si> v.iih thc' conversation of Adam mul lOve in Para- dise; part of Eve's speech struck my fancy so, that 1 think I can remendier it well enough to set it down ; the latter ])urt of it being apropos to my pn^eiit circumstances :

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" ' With tbee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their changes,"" etc.

(All copied out.)

The entries during this spring and summer show that " the town " snifered several false alarms, from French priva- teers reported in the bay ; that some cases of yellow fever were developed, etc.

" Eicjhth month -!4tli. A very pleas- ant day, whieli I was exceedingly glad of, as 1 undi'rstoud II. Logan went to Eurlington last night, and she set out from thence with my sister this morning for Shrewsbury.

"28. Was this morning in a most uneasy disposition of mind, having an eager inclination to go to Luiliugton to meet the friends from Shrewsbury, and was afraid to do it lest it .shoidd disoblige my dearest Hannah, wlio, T expected, would be among them. Tliese diti'erent passions contested so long that they actually made me sick ; however, love prevailed, and I I'rivately went. They got to ]}urliiigton mk.u at'ier I did; 1 met II. at my bn;itlii.r's ; h.ul but little of her eumptiny ; tln.iught she did not like my coming. Oh I racking thought !

"29tli. II. Logan, with the friends at my lather's," (this must have been at Ricliard Smitli's country-seat, elsewlicre called his •' plantation," at Green Hill.) "I was exceedingly ]iieasrd to ^-ei- her there, ami yet truinbiid lot il was not a pleasure to her to bo ibcii.'. \\'hat pain is there in a state of doubt and inicei- taiuty."

Governor Andrew ]'>elcher, of New

Jereey, was on the most intimate terms with Hon. Eichard Smith and his fandly, and it is recorded that he attended tlie wedding of ^Villiam Lovett Smith in the only four-wheeled carriage then cxistiijg in that colony. This intimacy and the delicacy of Hannah Logan's health, (which suflered from the horseback-rid- ing— then the ordinary mode of travel- ing,) will explain the next entry, which appears to have been made at Samuel Smith's country-seat of Hickory Grove, where our journalist was staying.

"Eighth month SOth. I sent a man to Burlington to V)eg the loan of the governor's four-wheeled chaise, which he readily sent. I wrote to him upon it, and to my dear father by the same ojiportunity, wherein I told him, auKuig other things, that tin' iiealth of what is dearer to me than life, occasioned my taking that step. About ten o'clock the chaise came, and Jane and Hannah riding in it, we gut in ja'ctfy good time to Iilvesham meeting. A IVt dinner, roile to Elizabeth Estaugh's," (I'dizabeth 11-- taugh, whose maiden name was Haddosi, was the founder of the jiretty town ol Haddonlield.) "The good widow re- ceived ns kindlv, but the jdeasure that I shouhl otherwise liave had in this even- ing'> eonversation was lost by dear Han- nah's having got a pain in her hiai!, which 1 thought occasioned liy riding t(H> far to-tlay.

"Eighth month olst. Leaving th'' friends at J]. Est.angh's, I rr.de home, and sent niv man to Mount Holly to

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bring their horses down to them ; visited several friends ; heard of the arrival of our snow, Prince William, at Barbadoes, and think this has been a week of con- tinual mercies to me ; may I be bowed in deep thaiikfidness to the Fountain of all goodness. Who doth whatever He pleaseth, and if it be iu His pleasure to favour ine with more blessings, ^Y]lich I know I do not merit, or to try me with distress and pain, which, for my many failings and errors, 1 ju-tly de.-ervo, may I always be helped lo say, iu trutli and siiu-erity, ' Thy vrill be done, and let all Thy disjtensations produce jiraise and renown to Thine ever worthy name.'"

The first geutlcmea iu the community were, at this period, mcmbci-s of the "Fire Comjiany " spoken of in the next entry, which had been, in fict, chietly founded and organized by John Smith, under the name of the " Philadelphia Contributionshipfor insurance from losses b}- Fire.'' An fXpcdili on was at this time being set on fxit a'j;ainst the I'reiicii, the funds fjr whii-li were to be raised liy lottery, and it was proposed that the in- surance comjiany should invest in this lottery. The " association " spoken of, was a volunteer military organization, in which some young Quakers participated.

"olst. 1 spent tlic evening with our fire company ; twenty-two of us met, and the association was much the subject of convci-sation ; I said but very little, but wlien it was propose<l that our 'oank stock should be applied towards purchas- ing lottery tickets, and that it should be

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put to a vote by balloting, I opposed that, telling them that I feared, if we took that private method, perhaps some might vote for it tliat would not openly, and if that should be the case, I thought as we were members of a society tliat had made it a part of their discipline to caution against being concerned in lotte- ries, it would not be to our reputation. After some debate the question was jmt, whether . we should vote by ballot or oi)cnly, and carried for the latter, tliir- tcen to nine ; and whctlier our bank stock should be so ajiplied, and cai'ried in the negative — nineteen to three."

" Eleventh month 1st. The associa- tion marched through some parts of the citj- ill eleven companies. Chose the following officers, viz.: Aljraham Taylor, colonel, etc., etc. It is very remarkable that, on this occasion, though jieople of other denominations are so universally afraid, there was not above ten or twelve under our profession that bore arms iii this city. Gilbert Tennaiit's seniKiii on tlie lawfulness of war came out t(_)-(k'.y, and I was so moved at the deceits and quirks m it, that I determined to essay an answer, and accordingly began one.

" 2d. Kept close to answering G. Ten- uant.

"3d. We had, in the Tiioniing, a very largo meeting at the bank ; it having hern mentioned last lirst day that some extracts of the discipline were to be read to-day. This drew abundance of people, and some not of our jirofesiion. I read the extracts; was a little confused at

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first, but after awhile read intelli- gibly.

" 8th. Finislieil iiiy answer to G. Ten- iinnt anil sent to J. P., Jr., for correc- tion and amendment; it contained thirty- four sides of paper, very close wrote, which, considering it was begun but this day week, and many interrujitions in the time, by company, etc., shows that I have not been very idle."

Tlic sermon and John Smith's reply may be found in the Pliiladeljihia Library. |

" 2oth. Called my piece ' The Doc- trine of Christianity, as held by the people called Quakers, vindicated, in an- swer to G. Tennant's sermon on the law- fulness of war.' "

"'2Gth. .-^n advertisement was in Franklin's pajuT, purporlin;j; that the above treatise will be ]iubli.-;lied the oOth instant, to be given away at the printer's.

" oOtli. This b'/inj: t!ie day my jiieeo Ciune out, the printr-i'.-^ bouse, and indeed my own, was like a fair; people came so thick to get them. Dr. Hall told me that he never saw a, pamjihletin so much request at first coming out, even in Lon- don ; had a variety of sentiments upon it.

"Twelfth month ."^d. Paid a visit to the widow, Sally M'.rii-, where I found H. IjOgan; met in the evening with the latter, accidentally," (?) " at Benczet's ; waited upon iier to J. P., Jr's., where we supjied, then aceomp:ini.;u lier to her brother's, and had an opportunity of

some converse with her ; made proposals of waiting upon her at home, and of asking her parent's consent, if such a thing was not absolutely disagreeable to her; I was in a good deal of confusion, but her good nature bore with it, without endeavouring to increase it, and thougli 1 could not perceive she was willing I should take that step, she consented to receive another letter from me, upon my prom- ising not to take that for any encourage- ment, etc. ; many were the revolving thoughts with which my mind was crowded after this conversation, and yet, upou the whole, I found my affection encreased by her generous behaviour, aim was thankful for the opportunity T IkuI, of so much converse with her. 1 pray God to pour down His choicest bless- ings upon her head.

"5th. I wrote a long letter to dear Hannah, and got her brother, William, to undertake the delivery of it. I fold her, in it, my mind very freely; the ground upon which I had formed my unalterable resolution of having her, it possible; and, as there was some diffi- culty whether my waiting upon her parents would be di.sagreeable or not, I begged the favour of a line or two ujwn that subject, promising the utmost secrecy. Had, in the evening, the company ot A. Farrington," (an eminent minister of the "Friends,") "and my brother, William. Abraham told me he was very well satis- fied with my treatise; that he had Ixgnu to answer G. Tennant's sermon, but telt a full stop in his mind, and was told it

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was in better hands, and plainly saw where, etc."

. " 7th. Several of us supped and spent the evening at Governor Belehcr's, who treated us sociably and handsomely." (At Burlington.)

" 10th. Understood, when I camchome, that A. Farrington had rccominended my ti'eatise at Concord Quarterly Meet- ing, and told the age of the person who wrote it." (Twenty-five years.)

" 17th. Drank tea at J. I'enibcrton's, of Hannah Logan's making — nectar and amlii'osia." (We have already seen the bewildering effect of this tea on another young gentleman.)

" 20th. It is remarkable what an in- crease of the number of beggars there is about tliis town, this winter; many more than I have before observed, and I have not sent any away empty-handed that hath a])plied to me. A fellow-feel- ing of the infirmities and wants of our brethren (as all mankind are,) is a duty, and not sufliciontly praetibed witlmut ad- ministering relief, when in our power.

" 23d. After dinner, I rode to Stenton: the roads very muddy, and my thoughts disturbed with pain and anxiety, lest this visit should be disagreeable; was, however, courfeously received, but I thought my friend, Hannah, was not very well pleased with it, which fjuite dampened my spirits. Janas told me he was glad to see me, and had frequently cxjKetulated with his son for not bring- ing me oftener, etc. Carried up with uic the York "' (New York) "paper, which

contained two forged letters, in the names of Ebenezer Large and Michael Lightfoot," (prominent " Friends ") "and that Admiral Boscawen had taken sis French men-of-war, and several East India-men.

" 24th. Understood, in the morning, that dear Hannah was unwell, so that, tho' I staid till ten o'clock, she did not appear, which gave me great pain. I had intended to ask her father's and mother's consent to make free with the house, but, as I could not account for her indisposition, I was afraid to do it, lest it would disoblige her ; how pain- ful and grievous my reflections upon this occasion \Yere, is more pungently felt, than I am eitlier able or willing to describe. i\Iy good friend, her iather, took me into his library, and took a great deal of pains to entertain me there, but my thoughts were so fixed and intent upon his daughter, that much of it was lost. I left Btenton aljout teu o'clock ; overtook a man who was a stranger to me; after some conversation, he let me know he had been bred a Presbyterian, and was now about turning Quaker, and appeared to be only turning from a name to a name; whereupon I found freedom to give him a pretty deal of advice re- specting the teaching of the Spirit, the danger of resting in form, and the ne- cessity of l>eing acquahited with, and wearing the yoke and cjoss of Christ, etc."

" 1748, first month 0th. I took a ride to GcrRUUitown, under j'leteuce of g<-tting

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some cyoiis," (scions,) " but really upon more important business. Called at Stenton ; found company there, who soon departed. I intended to stay all night, and accordingly did so. Had an ojipor- tunity of telling my mind to James and his wife separately. They treated me civilly, referring me entirely to their dauglitei', and the old gentleman told me if I Avas her choice he ^Y0uld give his consent. I had some of the dear crea- ture's company, but our conversation was so much of the ambiguous kind, that after a loving and fi'iendly parting, I retired to bed full of doubt and per- plexity, and got but little slee]). In how much pain is a situation between ho]ie and despair !" * '■' * '•■

" 27th. j\[y gardener, M. Jenkins, died to-day of a pleurisy. I rode in the evening to Stenton ; Eichard Peters was there. I had an opportunity of some very agreeable conversation with my charmer, but lier conduct is so cautious and well guarded tiiat 1 do not yet know whether I dare hope to gain her or not. "Second month 10th. 1 was in the morning very unwell, having had a poor night's rest; but thought, perhaps, the sight of my dear Hannah might be as like to cure me as anything else; where- Ibre I went to Gerniantown meeting, which was silent, and after to Stenton, where I was very agrei.ably entertained ; had, in the evening, tlie cliarmer's com- pany till ten o'clock ; and it was more deliglitful to me tiian ever, .'md gave me greater grounds of Imiie tlian I durst

before entertain; and the old gentlen];'.ii treated me in a veiy generous nuinui r, advising me how to court, to have jki-- severance, etc., and acquainting me that he had said more to his daughter dii my behalf than he had ever done fiii Thos. Crosby's, though he was to havt' £20,000.

"11th. After a pleasant night's rc^t, and breakfasting with my good friend.-, I leturned home in a comjiosed, serene frame of mind, and my mind sonicwliat employed upon the Divine kindness lo me all my life long, and at this time in particular. He has been a tender Father, the best Friend and kindest Benefactor; His hand has been full of blessings, and He hath jjlentifully caused them to descend upon my head ; His mercies arc new every day, and His loviiig-kindin.--- often more tliau I durst ask or think. And, oh! what is it for! I have mvei- merited anything ; my returns have rather been like sour grapes, than .suit- able. May my future life be chetrt'iilly and freely spent in doing the will of so gracious and good a God, who is slow tu anger, deliglits in mercy, and with Hun is plenteous redemption. jMay the image of the earthly be wholly j>ut oil", and may I, in future, faitbftiliy bear the image of the heavenly."

" 14th. In the evening, I rode to Sten- ton, and had a great deal of conversatii'H with my friend Hannah of the nio-t solid and improving kind; found h' '' very much undetermined in lier senti- ments ; however, patience and resigna-

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tion is my best fortress, and hojie my only comfort. ' IIojic, tlie glad ray, glanced from eternal good.' Whether I can be so happy as to succeed in my wishes of having her for a partner or not, I have found benefit in her conver- sation, and a near friendship is begot between us, that I hope nothing will be ever able to bre;ik."

" loth. Got up early and saw old Hannibal," (a negro slave,) "just before lie died."

"18th. In the evening, rode to Ston- ton, and understanding that Hannah was at Fair Hill, (Isaac Norris's,) rode to meet her, and did so just at I. Norris's fence, and had her dear company back and till pretty late in the evening. She .seems not yet determined in hei' sentiments, but uses me witli the utmost genero'^ity and tenderness." * ''' * *

The record of John Smith's early morning visit to the bedside of the aged slave, Hannibal, calls for some remai'ks on the existence and conditions of slavery in the Quaker communiiies. In Xew Jersey, as we have seen, slavery was early introduced, and fortified by the legishition of the mother-country, under Queen Anne's government. It was also fostered by the English govenimcnt in Pennsylvania. The (Quakers, however, soon became uneasy with the evil, and, as is well known, were the iirst of all sects to purge themselves from it, and have, ever since, been its most uncom- l)romising antagonists. At the period of this journal, however, it still cxistetl in a

mild and humane form among the " Friends."

- Hector St. John, Esquire, who wrote concerning the state of slavery in Penn- sylvania as it was just before the period of the Ecvolution, says: "In Pennsyl- vania they enjoy as much liberty as their masters ; are as well fed and as well clad; and in sickness are tenderly taken care of — for, living under the same roof, they are, in eflect, a part of the family." "A far happier race," he adds, "than those poor, siifiering slaves of the Soutli."''' • "Tlie first efforts ever made in Penn- sylvania," (says J. F. Watson,) " towards the emancipation of the blacks, proceeded from the society of Friends in German- town." " These, in the year 16SS, under the auspices of F. D. Pastorius, moved a petition or remonstrance to the yearly meeting of Friends, saying, in eflect, it was not Christian-like to buy anil keep negroes."

Five years later, the "Friends" Yearly Meeting of Philadelpiiia,'" on the " ISth of eighth month," It'iO:), issued its "ex- liortation and caution to Fiiends con- cerning buying and keeping necrrots." In pursuance of this advice, the jmrchase of negro slaves soon ceased among " Friends." The children of slaves, however, continued to grow up as slaves,

* Meaning, no (kniV.t, tliosc on rice and sui-ar )ilan- tntU'DS ia tlio fxtreme fouth. or tlmso ia tlif \VfEt Indies, fur in Virgini:i and .M;irvl;iad llie i-lavos. :U Ihis period, were niddly treated. The eNpressiun "tnjov as iniieh lilierlv os tlieir ma.~ters," must, of cuursc, be taken with <nmli(;catiuu. "As mm li !il"Tlr o-s the rltiUlrtn o'f llieir maiters," would, cu Ooutjl, haTC been strictlv true.

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until the persevering eflbrts of (among others,) the saint-like John "Woolmau, the eminent philanthropist Anthony Benezet, and the eccentric '" philoso- pher," Benjamin Lay, induced the " Friends," gradually and finally, to emancipate all their slaves.

" Before the Revolution," continues Watscn, "it was a common incident in Philadelphia, to send family servants to the jail to get their dozen lashes, for acts of insubordination. This was done at the pleasure of tlie master, and was, usually, executed on receiving a written message from the ownei's."

As the so-called " wliitc slaves " or re- demptioners, arc also alluded to in this journal, I add a few notes respecting them.

Large numbers of Germans, many Irish, and some English of the lowest classes, were now swarming into the country, without means to pay tlieir passage over sea. It was a } perfectly well-uiiderstood arrangement, (hat, on their arrival, they, or rather their ser- vices, were to be sold, ibra term of years, to the highest bidder, to con!j)ensate the ship-master for their conveyance. They were, within this period, transferable from one owner to another, as the slaves were, and, it is even asserted, were lialile to tlie discipline of the whip, like tlie negro slaves, in ease of insubordination. From this low original are derived some families now wealtliy, who, perhaps, de- riving, like Anticus, a rude vigor from their nearness to the earth, have wrought

their way uj) to riches, and the conse- quent position. These families gener- ally retain, sometimes modified, thtir Germanic or Irish patronymics."'

The Germans were the most numerous class of " redemptioners." "In ITli'J, the Palatine" (German) "servants were disposed of at ten pounds each, for live years of servitude." Less valuable ser- vants brought five jjounds only, and the term of servitude was longei-, sometimes eight, and even fourteen years. In 1T2S, an advertisement reads : " Lately im- ported, and to be sold cheap, a parcel of likely men and women servants." These were, probably, servants from Europe. In 1737, there is advertised in the Penn- sylvania Gazette: "For sale, a parcel of English servants from Bristol." Among Irish redemptioners, the most remark- able case, was that of tlie rightful Lord Altham, James Annesley, who, when an orplian boy, was enticed on board an emigrant vessel, sailing from Dublin, in 172s, by the agents of his uncle, Iliehard Annesley, who designed to possess him- self of the title and estates ; and, being sold for his pass:ige-money on his arrival at Philadelphia, served twelve years as a farm-servant, on the Lancaster Iload. When his time was out, he returned to Ireland, where he sued for his rights, and

* It must uot be ."^ujtpos'.'d. iiowfjMT. tbi'.t a (JornKiD or Irish palroLvmic. in I'hilii(li.'l]ihivi. )i.:^.s,-:iir;/v im- jilics a ■•rciicmplir.u.-r" uriL-in. Nut to i^poak ot the sivarms of more imulirn immigrants, a nmiilitT of suli- Etnntial German (Jiialicrs. wliose iji'sci;n(lanls arc nuratroiis and rrsjH'ri-.a^le, settled earl\.al Ciiroian- to«n, i'Liiaddptiia LV.iintv. Of these, was the c.\ctl- lent !■". D. J'astonus, above mentioned.

obtained a verdict. His uncle, however, carrying the cuso up, by appeal, to the Hoa.se of Lords, the unfortunate young lord died while the case was pending. To return to John Smith's journal : " 30tli. In the evening, rode to ."-^len- tou, and found my friends alone ; had my dear Hannah's company till ten'-' o'clock, and employed the time in sociable, improving conversation ; she let me know she had not freedom to give it entirely up — and had not concluded to accept my proposals, and would, there- fore, have me look upon my visits there entirely upon uncertainty, etc. ; howevei', she was so cheerful and agreeable that I will yet liope.

" Third month 1st. Had some further conversation with my charmer, and a great deal with the old gentleman, her father; he enquired into my circum- stances, and repeated his willingness to my having his daugliter ; and told nie, if I got her, he would give nie seven hundred and fifty pounds sterling ; that slic had already five hundreil acres of land of her own; woiilil liave two thou- sand pounds more at his deatli, and one thousand more at lier mother's. He desired me to acquaint him when I had any grounds of hope, because he found himself declininir, liad a mind to settle

* Tli05C evenini; hour-i af oflnn pr.isoil hy sunin mv into wli.iic hixwU tl.i- \vm\:\\ iuul |ki--ci1, :niil tliv- henllliliA ;inil eminonllv [in. per hoi.r ul' "U'U u'rlouk, ' sul.MitMti'cl I.y tlii, Mii'iiiMv.ii l.iii sl;ii,l indiviJuul; so tliat, wli.TL' liiis luiiir "jLiirs. it 13 generally sal'i; to UQjcrstaiiJ a cODsiderablv later uue !

Ids afftiirs, and would make me an e.Kecutor, etc."

" 2(1. I came out of meeting, cxiiceting Governor Belcher and my I'ather down, who, accordingly, came t.i dinner with me, and sjient tlie evening — wliidi oeeti- sioned the comjtany of .'^eva'al friends.

" oth. Several of us wailed upon the governor to Stenton. where we, were very elegantly and tigreeidjly enterttiined. Richard Peters rode in tlie chai-e with me. Tlie rest of the comp-.niy were .Tulm Kinsey, my father, I. Prinberion, Junior, and AV. Logan."

" Sth. Kept my chaniljir, with the tootiiache. . Iletid Dr. SoiitiTs .Sermon-: and Steele's 'Christian Hero,' wliieli I had borrowed from my dear Hainiah.

" loth. I rode in the evening to Sleii- ton, and Iiad my dear llannairs company till near ten ; and enjoyetl it in a sweet sense of pure love, vrhicii united as nearly together, and opened a frt'C and fnniliar conversation, fdi- which, oh ! that I may be made thaidcfid enuugli.

" lOth. Had .-cveral lifiiirs' conversa- tion with di'ar Haninih, and was fully conlirnied lliat her principal obitctions again.st acce[itiiig my pr(.p(i-als were re- moved, ;ind ilia! she was tVeer antl easier to condescend (li>r, so 1 may truly c;ill it,) to becuine mine. Lkv-ed be the , God and Father of all my mercies, tor I this unspeakable favoin-; niay every moment i.if my future life be entirely and with'jut rc-ervc, devoted (o :lie service of 1 so gre;:t and g(jod a IJiing, whir is thus I heaping unmerited kindness upon me.

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"My soul was in our conversation, and is, at present, bowed under the sense of His favourable dealing, and my utter incajiacity, of myself, to make any suitable returns. O gracious and in- finite God, be Tliou jilea.sed to help my weakness, strengthen my feeble desires to love and serve Thee above every otiier consideration ; pardon my former erriugs and strayings, and, oh ! malce me every whit clean. Let Tliy pure love guide me througli all future dangers ! Let it lead me from one degree of grace to another, until I am made complete in Thy beloved Son ! And, as Thou hast favoured my dear Hannah and me with a degree of Tliy uniting love, blessed and holy Fatlier! increase it, 1 piav Thee, that we may Ik-, truly and Ibrevcr, one another's joy in Thee; that we may never deviate from Tliy ways. Tiien wilt TJiou continue to own us with the bedewings of celestial rain — ilie sweet oversliadowiiigs uf Jjiviue gmjihu-.-js — through time — itud at Ja.^t admit us. through infinite favour, to join the Heavenly host, in never-ccx-ing songs of praise to Thy high, liuly and ever-worthy name."

"26th. The town was alarmed with the news of a Spanish brigantiue priva- teer being at licedy Island, and nnich frightened were many pi'uple about it."

As tliLs vessel appears not to have been sailing under the French l!ag, slic could not claim tlic protection of letters of marque from France, nor profess to be cajrviuLT on the warfare of that nation

against England. She was, therefore, no privateer in the proper sense, but a pirate, and probably liailed from the Spanish West Indies. The name pri- vateer, was frerinently applied, at this l>eriod, to pirates.

" 29th. The disturbance about the privateers being in the bay, and at our cajie, continues and increases ; it is now said there are four or five.

" 31st. N. Chubb, wlio goes about with a subscription ]niper, to lend niuney to the president and council, upon the pres- ent emergencj', came to me, but 1 was not free to sign it ; h(jwever, I considered what Friends could do in the present circumstances — five or six privateers at the ca[jes — the assembly had made no provision for any exigencies of govern- ment, and the council either vrould not or could not hjrrow money upon the credit of the assemljly's repaying it — I thought, if a scheme could he drawn up, reciting what J. Kinsey, tiie sj'eaker. had said in council, viz. : that he believed if they were jnit to any e.\]'ense in dis- charge of what tliey conceived to be their duty, that an adequate i>rovision would be made by the assembly in sup- port of government — and binding the subscribers to fulllll the intent and uKnu- iug of that declaration— it would liclp to ^till the noises and clamours of tlie people, and ])C a means of healing the disturb- ances at present among us. According to this scheme, 1 inadvertently, without consulting with anybody, drew up au in- strument of writing, and signed it with

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one lumdred pounds. Jemmy Pember- ton followed me with the same sura, and probably many more would have done so."

Ey this public-spirited act, John Smith had, however, unfortunately com- mitted himself to the plans which were being pushed by Chubb and -others, and to Vi'hich James Logan himself, it is believed, was not averse, and which con- tcmjilatod the fitting out a ship-of-war to chastise the aforesaid pirates or priva- teers— a measure contravening the peace princijdes of " Friends." On reflection, he consulted with his friends, and during the day, he and J. Pembertou decided to withdraw the subscription }iaper. In a man so extensively engaged in ship- ping busines.s, this transaction shows tlie thorough sincerity of his convictions of the unlawfulness of all warlike action to a Christian.

"Fourth month 2d. In the afternoon, I rode to Sfenlon, ai;d >?ally Morris being there, I took a chaise to bring her hdine with rae; found friends well. Had my dear Hannah's company till eleven o'clock ; told her the whole of the above affair, and had some solid satisfaction in her remarks on that and other things."

"4tli. About noon, received a letter from ray dear father in answer to one I had wrote hira, wherein I luid told him that I had sonie hopes the alfuir at Sten- ton would meet wiih all desirable success. He tells me, in answer to it, that lie is very well pleased witli it, and desires that such a blessing may be sanctified to 13

rae. Bids me to ask Hannah to give | him leave to provide a four-wheeled chaise of the best sort, etc. I wrote him by brother Samuel, who returned this afternoon, a letter of thaidcs. In the evening, AYilliam Logan and I took a walk to the State-house, and in our return, called at his house, where we found his wife and my dear Hannah just come to town ; had there, also, some of John Churchman's company."

"5th. AVeut to Wm. Logan's, where I had Hannah's company for some time ; she seems now almost determined to put the afiair entirely off, which gives me a gi-eat deal of iniin. It was diliicult enough to bear the doubts and fears I had l)efore I made suit, but now, when I thought I had rational grounds to hope I should gain her, to have the afflicting prospect of being denied, is abundantly more so.

"Gth. Cool and some rain; my mind to-day was so melancholy and dull on the foregoing account, that I went b\it very little out and did but very little ut home.

" 1 omitted mentioning in the jiroper place, that poor N. Cliubb, the latter end of last week, became delirious; supjiosed to be occasioned by his having schemes for raising money to lit out shijis-of-war to t;ikc the pirateers " (sic.) "at the capes, etc., too unich at heart, and gi'ing about in hot days, drinking hard and being without sleep, etc. On the iiret day, he jumped out of a window two stories luL'h and broke both his Ic-s, and

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to-day, I understand he is in a dangerous condition." (He died soon afterward.)

" llth. Su]iped at I. Pembertoii, Ju- nior's, Avitli IT. Logan, A. Bcnezet and ■wife, etc. Waited upon Ilanuali to her brother's, and they being gone to bed, had her company till after ten o'clock, and we had, together, a great deal of melting conversation, she being deter- mined to put the thing entirely o&; but with much jicrsuasion, I got a little liberty for one other tiujo upon il. tho' she told me she could not give nic the least hope by jiutting it off to a future time."

" 21st. In the evening, I rode to .Sten- ton and had my dear Hannah's company till after — o'clock," (hour altered to ten); "found her still in disposition to defer the alfair till sometime bciico, and desirous of my not making fn-ipuMit visits until she can see clearer whctLer it is her place to accept my pri)posal or not, which, as I perceived it would be agree- able to her, I consented to; and then we eonvei-scd together in a free, cheerful and agreeable manner.

" '2'2d. Had a good deal of Hannah's comjiany this morning, and an opportu- nity of some conversation with her father and mother separately. I acquainted them how the atTair was circumstanced, and the reasons for my not making visits so frequent as I could v>-ish ; they treated me, now as heretofore, very kuidly and generously, and I left Hannali in a much easier and plea.*anter disjiositiou than for some time before, which gives me a gre;it deal of solid satisfaction."

The next few entries give glimjiscs of the dark side of slavery, of old-fasli- ioned amusements, remedies and reading.

"28th. As I was sitting at my dnor this evening, I perceived a bricklayei-, who works at building Captain Dowcrs's house, and his negro, diflcriug," (quar- reling); "saw the master strike him; upon which the negro ran down to tlie end of the wharf and several after him ; when he got there, he swore, if bis mas- ter struck him again, he would jum]i olV and drown himself, which the masler unhappily doing, the fellow was as good as his word, jumped off and perished before anybody could save him. This affair affected me much.

" Fourth month 29th. After dinner, I took Captain Dowers," (master oi' one of John Smith's ships,) "in my chair," (gig,) " to the Falls of Schuylkill— we went in the rain, fished in the rain and came home in it, yet caught but few.

" Fifth month 3d. < >uite unwell : took some camomile tea, which threw me into a fine sweat, but I slept 1ml little.

"4th. Kept ray bed most of the day ; read Joseph Andrews.

"6th. I kept house. Employed I'art of the day in reading in the writings of our ancient and valuable friend, ^\ illiam Smith," (of Besthorp,) "and several chajiters in the Book of Job.'

There is an amusing contrast between such reading and that of the day before — Fielding's Josejih Andrews.

" IStli. Ilode to Germantown meeting, which was very lajge. I suppi'-e tln're

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was thirty clmises and chairs from town tliere — many friends dining at Stenton. I had the pleasure of dining with dear Hannah at a side-tal)le, whicli I prefer to the most sumptuous and exact enter- tainment without her."

" Fifth montli ICtli. After dinner, I rode to Burlington to see my father, who liath been some days indisposed, in com- pany with Robert Sniitli, his son, and T. Lightfoot. Soon after I got into niy father's house, a messenger arrived from Amboy with a letter from Captain I'eale, advising that our snow was safe arrived at New York," (she had, perhaps, made her poi't there to avoid the jtirates at the capes,) " and importing tlie necessity of some immediate advice, so that I deter- mined fo set out (thither) early in the morning; because, to take time to send for either of the other owners, would make a great delay.

" 17tli. A cloudy day and very pleas- ant to travel ; set out with the messenger | that brought us the news, viz.: Ivek. ' Fifzrandolph," (an ancestor of the Ran- - dolphs, of Philadel]ihia,) "about six i o'clock in the morning. Baited at Cros- wicks, dined at Cranbury, baited again at South River and got to Amlioy before dai-k. I

"18th. Set out for " (Perth) "Amboy about seven, and getting a ready passage I over the Narrows, at Symmons' Ferry, | u])on Long Island, opposite New York, I about one ; got to the city soon after ; 1 went to a tavern and called for some i dinner; while I wa.s eating it, saw Capt. j

Peal going down to the wharf, which I was very well pleased with.

" The wind and tide suiting, we got a pilot and sent the snow over to the Kills, ordering the captain, after entering her at Amboy, to bring her back again ; the reason of our entering there is to save the tonnage, there being a law in New York imposing a duty of two per cent. a ton upon all vessels entering from be- yond sea, not owned there. Drank tea at Spencer's, in the broad way, in com- pany with a sister of Lady Warren's, viz.: John Watt's wife, and several otlier fine women.

" 19th. The captain returned with the snow before night, having entered and cleared at Amboy. I dined to-day at Spencer's — dinner dressed after the French mode.

" 20th. A hot day. Got the vessel to the wharf about ten o'clock, and began to unload."

After lauding the cai go— containing, among other things, eighty-three i)ipes of wine — and some days spent m social intercourse, (visits to Samuel Bowne, Henry Haydock and Edward Burling, are mentioned,) he continues :

" 22d. Took leave of ray kind friends and left New York about tour o'clock ; got to Amboy about fen, which is com- puted twenty-five miles ; I was hindered a full hour at the ferry at the Narrows, besides what I was at the two other fer- ries; waited ujion the collector and pa:d him his fees; lodged at Richard Fitz- randolpli's.

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" 23d. A pleasant day to travel. Left Aniboy about six o'clock. After I had got over South Kivor Bridge, I took tlie left- hand road instead of the right, and rode near ten miles out of my way ; however, I got to Cranbury and dined there; baited at Croswicks, and got to Burling- ton about eight o'clock."

Tiie dcscrijitioa of this journey is ex- tracted to show the primitive mode of intercourse at this time between Piiila- delphia and Xew York. The Fitzran- dolphs, who then acted as messengers between the cities, aftervvanl set on ibot a line of stage-coaches to facilitate travel.

" 26th. Was at meeting. This was to me a peculiarly good meeting. I waited in it for a sense whether it would be suitable for me to renew my visits to dear Hannah Logan, and in waiting, my mind was filled with sweetness, and en- larged in pure love and a particular open- ness and fjeedom, so tliat I deterjuined in the affirmative. Had Lrael I'ember- ton and his wife and Jemmy, William Logan and his wife to dine witli me; in the evening, I rode to Stenton. Hannah and her mother were not at home, but soon came, and my deare.^t creature re- ; ceived me with a decent, agreeable free- I dom, and we conversed together with solid delight and pleasure. I retired to rest iu tlie amis of meicy, my soul ascending in praise and gratitude to tlie great Healer of breaches and liestorerof , paths to dwell iu. I

"27th. A warm day. Had mv dear Hannah's company several hours, and '

received the fullest assurance of a recip- rocal love and tenderness. Our conver- sation was in boundless confidence, and with the most ]ierfect harmony ; our souls seemed entirely kr.it and united together, and we jointly breathed " (the prayer) " that the eternal One might bless u> in a sacred and indissoluble tye, and might make us one another's joy in Him. ^^'e had the pleasure to reflect that we had a true regard to His fear and sought His direction and bles.-'ing above all other con- sidei-ations in this affair, and to consider tiiat a good hand had sanctified all our difticultiesand fears, and given us a liberty to love one another without reserve. 3Iav we both forever lean upon His eternal arm, and, oh! may I, who am doubly obli- gated by this fresh instance of His matchless mercy, make it the principal study and endeavour of my life to plrasc and serve Him who has dealt thus boun- tii'ully with me. I ]iroposed our going to the next nu)nthly meeting. iMrih tn Hannah and her mother, and they tonk till to-morrow evening to consider of it. 1 got home to dinner, and spent some time after at AX'illiam Logan's.

" 28th. In the evening, rode to Sten- toii, but the old gentleman's reasons against going to-morrow were so strong, that I was obliged to submit to them. Had, however, my dear Hannah's com-_ pany till nine o'clock in the freest and most agreeable manner; then "W'illinni Ixigan and I rode home together. My father came to town to-day, which wa~ the reason I returned to-ni^-ht.

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"29tli. Appointed one of the repre- sentatives to tlie Quarterly Meeting."

The "monthly " meetings, for business, were, tlien, usually composed of several neighbouring congregations of "Friends." They were subordinate to the quarter- yearly assemblies, of several montlily meetings, and these, to the j'early meet- ings, comjKised of several quarterly meetings. It was customary, for persons about to marry, to declare their intention in (wo successive monthly meetings be- fore consummating it. The singular prohibition, jircsently alluded to, t'rom marrying the first cousin of a deceased wife, is now dropped from the discipline, as well as the second " passing " of meet- ing, from usage.

" yixth month 1st. Attended our quarterly meeting. The meeting for business hehl till near five o'clock, occa- sioned by the reipiest of Merion and Abington monthly meetings, that the rule which prnhibit.s a man from marry- ing his wife's first cousin, might be c^ir- ried up to the yearly meeting to be re- considered; this caused a long debate, and it was at length concluded to refer it hack to the monthly meetings, tiiat they might further consider of it, before it is carried up.

" 9th. Kode, in the evening, to Sten- lon, and spent the time to my very great satisfaction, and, I hope, to Hannah's; we conversed together upon the highest, IIS well its tlie lowest subjects, in a jdeas- aut and open manner, and in pure love and jK-rfect confidence. And greater tem-

poral happiness cannot be. Omj'soul ! for- eyer bow before the blessed Dispenser of all good, in deeji thankfulness and rever- ence, for thus liiglily favouring of thee, (Who) " " " •

" ' In a true and fiiitlifiil frirnd. Hath doubled alt my store.'

" 10th. Had some of my charmer's company and conversation, and returned home to dinner. ICmjiloyed the re- mainder of the day in business, and spent the evening alone; having lost a great part of the relish I used to have for other company, beside inydcar Han- nah's, now I know the value of hers.

"11th. Spent some time, after meet- ing, at Win. Logan's, who kimlly in- formed me that his mother, etc., intended to go a-fishing, to-morrow morning, ami I immediately concluded, in my mind, to make one of the company, but the tear of disobliging my Hannah, gave me a good deal of une;L=iuess. Spent the even- ing at home aloiie.

'• r2th. A very ]>le;i^ant day. 1 r'.'de, in the morning, to the Fall- of Schuyl- kill;-^ tbund there my dear Hann.iii, lisliing, at some distance from the n-.-t of the company, so I had an opiiortiuiity to make an apology for my coming, which site very generously received, and I had the i)leasantest day in tishing, that I ever

* The Falls, now no lonfjor cxi-TiHir. v. r' ili. r. a romantic cataract: tlif ■■ i>ackwatcr " of tip- i'.-.:.-- mounl L>am caused thrni to disappear, 'llu' Kfl rN' Ilou-e. still .staudinj;. where tin' li^hinq'-party dined, waa built before the landuiL' cf Wiltiam I'enM : il i-i rteurdc.l U.al, tuere beiu.- lii' u D" r.'.i.i- m lie- ; ".;r.'-:. . !!..■ !i,-ii •, f.-r !Ih niirtar. nsed in the U>M.v> ■ «-i< brouglil through the wouds, ou the baclv.s of lud;a:.i.

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employed that waj' before; waited, as mucli as I was capable of, upon myllaniiali and her niotlier, and we caught some fish; part of which llie old gontlonuin and Jemmy took home with tlieni for dinner, and the remainder we, that is, Wm. Logan and his wife, my charmer and I, took witli us to John Roberts's, who" (had) "kind)}- invited us to Ids house; we dined tlicrc, took a nap of sleep, and returned to our diversion ; caught enough to return to Stenton, i'or supper, and got safe t];ere about seven. I liad my dear Hannah's blessed company till tu'elve, and we never had a more agree- able time together; I do not mean to tlie senses altogether, but pleasure to the mind, being mutually favoured with a degree of the heart-melting love of (.iod, which cemented us together, and made us one, in Him ; praised be His most glorious name, great and marvelous are His works, tender and kind His dealings. He hath dune more ibr me, inwardly and outwardly, than I ever could ha\e asked or thuught. May 1 always ascribe the honour to Him thai ruleth on high, and whose dominion is everlasting.

" 13th. Wm. Ixjgan and I, having got home about seven o'clock, had Peter Fearn and A. Benezetdine with me; the latter, alter dinner, with 1". ("athrall, went with me to see C'nnradus Mattliew. an ancient hermit, who lives in a lune house, about seven miles from town, un Wissahickon Itoad, and had done so above thirty years, having taken po.sses- ijiou of that house, upon the death of

Kelpius, a learned man, who lived there in the same recluse manner. Conrad [- a Switzer by birth, but talks Engli-h intelligibly ; we found him in pretty g.i.nl health. When he understood that 1 w:i- the author of the answer to G. I'ennant's sermon, etc., he expressed a good deal uf gladness to see me, saying his mind had been often with me, and that he thanked God for giving me His grace in that service.

" We went fi'om thence to Stcplifii Benezet's, at Germanto^vn, and the old gentleman was glad to see us; we drank tea with him, and returned home; on tlie way, met Daniel Mackanat, who in- formed us that Capt. IMesnard was ar- rived from London, which ])iece of gO"_«i news, gave me a great deal of plea>uic Found, liy oin- Icti'-rs, that we have :. cargo on board of about £1,100 sterling, and I have sundry agreeable things U>\ my own use.

" loth. Ill the evening, rode to Pteii- ton ; took with me a jdan of lln- damage done by the fire in LoiiddU, and ga\f t" the old gentleman; and the nmea/inc- for March and A]ird, which 1 fit «ith Hannah, wdiosedear and most aceej>tali!e company I had till past eleven u'cluek, and the time seemed too slnirt to say ilie man}- things which occurred in ?■> de- lightful a situation. An intimate, .'Ociai'le and perfectly free conversation willi a woman of good sense and good nature, and both teiniK'red and sioverned liy reliui''a, iseertainlythegreate-t temporal hai'i'inc-- tliat a man can possibly enjoy, and inv

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being thus liiglily blessed, makes inc sometimes reflect, with woiuler and aniaze- iiient, ' Good God! what am I, tliut Thon liast tlius marked mc out for one of the liappiest of Thy crealit)n ! I often see myself an object so low, who has fre- quently run so retrograde to Thy will, that 1 am unworthy of the least of Thy liivours, and yet, how art Thou multi- plying and heaping Thy kindnesses ujiou my head I No works of mine have e\-er merited of Thee but wrath ami con- demnation; this dis})lay, then, of love, is mere mercy and free loving-kind- ness!' Oh, may my life be one con- tinual rctu)-n of gratitude, for so much overflowing of kindness and benignity !"

"2od. Had a pretty deal of conver- ^~ation with Parah Logan, upon myallair, jiressing to go to the next monthly meet- ing, but Ibund the present indi.■^position of the family," (James Logan and his son were unwell,) "and some other difli- culties being in her way. and slie being of o]iinio_n that everything might be made easy by the next aftt-r, I submitted to defer it till then. 1 also aciiuainted the old gentleman that I expected to suc- ceed, and had my dear friends comjiauy till about eleven o'clock, then rode liomc. I

"31st. Captain Eankin came up, to- day, and brought in a cargo of above I -1,000 sterling, from Liverjiool. Heard that Conrad Matthew, the hermit, died ; yesterday." |

" Seventli month 4th. Captain Lawsou nrrived from Linidon, with whom ciime ;

jjassengcrs, the Widow Teal and her daughter — recommended to me by Gov- ernor Belcher; I went on board the ship, and conducted them, with Captain Jevison, another passenger, to my house; had their company to dinner. AVaitcd upon the gentlewomen to view the town, and their dress being a little peculiar, occa- sioned them to be very much noticed. Found, by our letters, that we have goods to the amount of near £1,000 sterling," (on board.)

He then says, that Captain Lawson, being a stranger in the city, "desired us to accept of the care of his Palatines," (Ger- man redemptioiiers,from the Pfalz or Pal- atinate,) " which we consented to. I, yesterday, sent a messenger to ac- quaint Governor Belcher of the ladv's arrival, and, this day, received a letter from him, acquainting iiie, with his thanks for my care, etc., that he intended to marry the widow.

"Gth. At the reipic-t of the gt-ntle- women, 1 javiured a boat of tour oars, and wailed ujiun tliein to Bni'lington ; the wind lieing fair up, and having one sail, wc made our passage in three hours. The governor received us very kindly, and ajipcared exceedingly jileased with his company. I stept to see my father's family, and set off about one; got home before dark, leaving my guest.s with the governor.

"7th. Busy ill selling Palatines, and other affairs, which, in the evening, I will- ingly lell for the .sake of mj' dear Han- nah's company, which I had atSteuton till

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eleven o'clock, in a freedom perfectly engaging."

At Ills next, visit, lie was suddenly seized with violent fever and ague, and was confined to bed at Slenion, for a week. On the 19lh, being recovered, " taking an af}ection:ite leave of my very kind friends, I returned home in the four-wheeled chaise."

On the 20th, he records the lamented death, from yellow fever, of John Dillwyii, grandfather of William and George Dillwyn, afterwards intimately connected with our family.

" 21st. Read in T. Story's Journal, and Henry Fielding's Miscellanies." Asingu- \oj: pair of authors!

"24th. I waited upon the old gentle- man to requej^t his consent to our pro- jiosingour marriage to tlie ne.xt monthly meeting, but he told me lie could not consent j'ct, which disappointment Ihit- tcred me a good deal, but as I could not get hi^ rca-iju-- ('jr it, I was obliged to be content; i\ad two or tliree hours en^irar- ing conversaiiiin witli his daughter at'ter- wards, wl'.icii clicered and raised my spirits that were ]i..-fjrc very low."

He has anotlier attack of tiie ague, and before recoveringhis strength, attends " meeting."

"30th. I came home very weak and faint; but having recruited a little in the evening, 1 rodf to Stoiitim ; was very much fatigued with the ride, but my dear Haunali's company was so jirecious a balsam, that it seemed to restore hlrengtli to nie, so tliat 1 sat u[i with lier

I till past eleven o'clock, and was tbcn much livelier and better than I had bfcn any time in the day. AVe conversed t(j- gether in as near and agreeable a man- ner, if not more so, than we evei' did before ; for the increase of winch dear

■ invaluable and inseparable union, (_) Ciod I make me forever truly trankfull I

I acknowledged my obligation.s to .1. Logan

; lor his kind message to me by his wife." (This message was, that " after ilie ne.xt monthly meeting he would be quite easy," tjiat the marria2;e should be announced

' ■ ■ ^

\ in meeting.)

" Eightli month otli. A raw, disa- ; greeable air. After some .sweet conver- ! sation with my Hannah, the old gentk^- man called me to do .some writing, telling me with a verj' pileasant ;nr, that if 1 did not, my sjiouse tliat was to be, nni~t ; and 1 as pleasantly thanked him for the ex- pression, and told him I would do it to save lier the trouble ; it took me alout an hour. J then accom]ianied my charmer and her mother down the Ian'.-, and we parted at the gate — they going to their meeting and I homeward. Called at Fair Hill to inquire how Isaac Norris is, he having been ill of a fever."

Several visit.s to Stenton are now re- corded.

"21st. Had several agreeable friend- to dine with me, viz.: Sojihia Hume, Eliza and ."^ally Morris, Israel reinber- ton, his wife and his sister, Prisciha Waterman, AVilliam I/igan and his wife, young Israel and .lemniy J\'ml»Tti'ii, ^lichael Li'jlitfoot, Katv and Hannah

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CiiUeuclcr; and I was much pleased with their comjiany." This baclieloi's dinner appears to have been given on the ap- proaching (lej)arture of twoot' tlie guests, Sophia Hume, a preaelier, and -lames J'cmberton, on a "religious visit," to England.

" 24th. A large company of us waited uj)OU Sophia Hume and Jemmy I'eni- berton, to Chester. The two Hannahs'' (his inamorata and AVni. Logan's wife,) '■ being in a chaise, 1 took care to keeji near tbriii; they having an inclination to go on board the ship will] the friends, J. J*., dr., William Lugan and J, with several others, went with thi-m ; we staved two or three hours un Ixiard ; di-ank tea there, then, taking an affectionate leave of friend Htime, and dear Jemmy and Cap- tain ^lesiiard, we returned on shore.

"2oth. In the evening, waited upon my Hannah, to Steiiton ; jiiiiposed to hei- mot 1 ler our goingtd till' monthly meet- ing wxi sixth d.iy, and <\iv readilv agr.-ed to it. 1 had my d. ar J lannah's company till ].a.-l ten," (hour again altered,) "and w(! fully agreed upon the above affair.

" 26th. Talked with the old gentleman 111)011 the foregoing subject, and found ho understood and assented to it; then took an hour or two's very agreeable con- versation with my dearest jewel. Re- turued home beti^re noon ; sent a lad, in tlic afternoon, to Burlington, with letters to my father and sister, to acfiuaint them Witli our having come to the aforesaid con- clusion, and to desire their company."

" 27th. I\Iy father and sister came to town in the afternoon. In the evening, I I'ode to Stenton ; found the old gentle- man not very well, but he told me he hoped his indisposition would not prevent or hinder our proceedings.

"28th. James Logan being pretty well recovered, we set out about nine, viz. : Sarah and Hannah in the clause, and I on horseback, .lames gave me his consent, in writing, to the monthly meeting, and my father and S. Logan gave theirs, verbally. "We got to town about ten ; they went directly to meeting. I changed my clothes, and put on a nmv suit of hair candjlet ; then with my father aud partner went also. 3L Vm\- len and H. Halibrd preached, and Susanna Morris had a sweet [irayer : in passing, we were preserved in a good degree of calmnfess; some friends thought 1 spoke too loud, but everybody agreed that Hainiah sjioke as well as could be."

" Ninth month loth. I wrote a letter to my dear Hannah, and sent it l>y my old .servant, Thomas Smith." (probably a freed negro,) " who is returned to my ser- vice again as a cook, at £20 per an- num. \V;i.s at the burial of Samuel Carpenter, and helj)cd twice to carry th'' corpse."

Second " ])assing " of meeting : "25th. A pleasant day, the weather being very moderate. Waited upiin my best friend and her mother to town;

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came liome and dressed ; tLon, with my brother Samuel, went to our montlily meeting. ]M. Einlen preached and B. Trotter prayed. I had Jjeen hurried in preparing to get to meeting in time; how- ever, I was favoured witli a degree of cahnne^ss, and we botli spoke distinctly and intelligibly, having <iur eye to God and trust in llim."

" 29th. In the evening, waited upon my dear Hannah Jiome, and had some of her precious company. We fully concluded upon next fourth day (/. ?., to-morrow) week, to have our marriage solemnized."

" 6th. A cold, cloudy day, very like for snow; after the necessary preparations. I set out for Stenton,oii horseback, having Sally Morris and Joyce Beuezet in my chaise ; found Rachel Pembertou, etc., there, and had an agrcealilo evening, ex- cept the pain that the prospect of ncit having my fiither with us to-morrow gave. My brothers, Samuel and liieh- ard, being come to Philadelj'hia, and not having lieard why /'^ did not.

" 7tli. A clear, moderate and pleasant day. Had all the company that wo ex- pected, except Isaac Xorris, etc. Sev- eral that wei'e not invited, were so com- plaisant as to come from town upon this occasion. The meeting" (Germantown) "was pretty full, and a solid, good time. I felt, in it, a degree of the heart-tender- ing love of God, which was a strengili and comfort. Sarah jMbrris and il. Lightfoot preached, and J. Beuezet prayed ; then we solemnized our mar-

riage in an awful'' and intelligiljle man- ner; had our friends company " (to din- ner,) "and the entertainment for tli('ia was very agreealile."

" Sth. A very pleasant day. Several of our agreeable friends staitl at Stcutun all night, and to-day we had theirs, ami the company of several others fruin town. Spent the day to general satis- faction.

"9th. Rode to town with my sister. Received the compliments of several of my acquaintances; went back in the afternoon. In the evening, ] had a chilly fit, and after it a hot fever, which held most of the night. Took the bark.

" 10th. Read two manuscrijit treat i.-es oil the Passions, of Father Logan's writ- ing.

"lltli. We had several to vi>it u- at Stentoii, viz. : Richard Peters, Eilward Shippen, B. Franklin, l)r. >.Ioore, etc."

" 12tli. Snowy, blowing weatiier; had, last night, another fit of the ague and fever, but to-day took a quantity of bai k. Read a treatise on learning, wrote by oiie Baker, which jileased me. And t'n cotnjiany of my most agreeable spou.-e made my indisposition quite toleralile to what it would have been without her.

" 14th. A rainy day. Read Leonidas. b\' Glover.

" 15th. Intended to have taken my s[>ouse home to-day, but brother Wm.' Logan came up, and discouraged us, by telling us of the badness of the roads. Father Logan gave me a letter to Ins

* Thai is, in a mtinncr full of awe.

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hrnther. Dr. Logan, of Bristol, desiring liiiii to j>ay £500 sterling to my order, cle. I told him that I had found in his daughter all that I had s-OLight, that I thanked him for -what he had given, and .should be quite content," etc.; "'he further told nie, that he had heretofore L^iven Hannah five hundred acres of laud, in JJucks County, and the dear ereature generously offered to make nie a present of it."

" ICth. hitejiheu ISenezet visited us. Df. ^loore and J)ieky Hill eanje u|) in the afternoon. About four o'ehndc, my dear spou.^e and I set out in the four- wheeled chaise, having her brother ^\'il- iiani in company. J^ister Hannah eame after us, in the chaise that Aunt I'emlier- lon rode up in, who intends ti.i .--tay a niglit ^vith mother; we were weleonjed lionie by my sisters, Jjetty and denny, and had uncle and Isse Penibei'ton, .lemniy Logan, etc., to spend the evening with us."

Sucli was the sinii'lieity of a wedding and home-bringing, a hundred and tiiirty years ago! The home to which John J^mith conducted bis Hannah, was in Second Street, then the fisliionable <|uarter.'^ Among the peculiarities of tiie time wliich this diary brings out, w'ere the numerous cases of inllanimatory disea.sc and of low fevers, for which the general defect of drainage and the quag-

mire-like roads were, no doubt, partly acconutable.'^'

Through tlie.se unniacadanii/.e^l roads, worn into deep gullies by winter frosts and rains, and often overspread with pools of standing water, a wedding comjiany at a country house would conic, ]iicking tlieir way carefully, and at a snail's pace, in their two-seated two-wheeled "chairs," their four-wheeled chaises or on horse- back. At the inansion-d<.ii)is they wuuld l)e [lolitcly handed tlown by weD-bicd negro servants, Ijrouglit up in the t'aniily, fur the "redemptioncis" were only eni- jiloycd in the rougher kinds ol' service. The costumes worn, in a ]'arty such as this, among "Frienils," can be nearly in- ferred fi-om recoids of the time. It is generally sujipo.^ed that the prcM'nl Quaker garb has ix nialned unchanged from the origin of the sect. Such, liuw- ever, is by no means liie care. The views and aims of that lespectable body have always been, to avoid following the changing fa.~bion ut' "llie woiM." as a sinful waste ot time, monev and thoughl. Human nature ha.-, however, been Iom strong (,or too w'/ak,) f.r ibis excellent principle, and theimwu jieeiiliar ta.-bions, changing impercejitibly with the exi- gencies and conveniences ot' tin' times, have always moved in lines jpaiallel to the similar changes of those ol' the "world's people." Thciirescnt broad-brimuied silk

t It wai nearly opposite llie " ^late-roof man-ion" "f the proprietary I'min; a ri'lii- wliich iia^ latt-ly, to tSf Ui>£rrdL<:e f>f

l"liila.Hphi •10 for the Corn IvNthau"

In those (lays, horses (roinjr lo (Jt-rmautowii .Mills. I'lently l..-t thiir (■.■rn-l.af- lu llo- <|im-niire. can- .1 " Lopan's linn " ovorrlowinp iht- roaJ. u*.-ar s>a'iiloii

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THK BrilLTXGTOX SMITHS.

hat worn hy tlieui, is loss siinihir tn the njipn^xiniated in dress to the world, liL,.

felt coeked-liat of their imcestors, than it llichard Hill, no doubt woie ruilles on

is to the nuw fashioiiahle "stove-pi]ie," bosom and wrist. "Hair camlet" ae-

froin which it diOi'rs neither in ueneral pears to have been a ia-^hionable matirial

form nor in material. among the plainer '' Friends " for cnai-,

The dress now worn by the bisluips of while the "gayer," or, as they were thru

tlio Churcli lit Kngland is nearer to a called, the "liner" sort, woi-e \elvet of

correct jireservalion ot the costume in dilferent colors. The coats were en;

use at the jxaiod of " I'rinids'" origin, nearly collarle.^s. vei'v wide-skii tnl, like

than their own i.-. The portraits of a w ide' " saek-coat " in that I'e.-pcel, wiili

(ieoige Fo.x and .lames Nayior show the the i'ront edges overlapjiing each otln r

"shovel" hat, anil the nearly collarless when buttoned, but ne.itly litting to ll.'

stralgiit, saek-cut coat, worn buttoned, clie-t and aini,-: they had vei-y lavii''

together with the linen bands (the ends di")nbli_'d (ailV^- and great ont-ide pockri-;

of the n^•ck-tie,) hanging liom the iieek witli ilajis, both ornamented with larue

down tiie brea-t, i;ow woiii !iy J:;pi>eopal bullous, the pockets being on the iioi;i

and Jiomau bi^lmps. The eonlempoiary of the skirts. The front edges wen- enl

portrait of Nayloi', ,-iill pre-ei'ved in the jierfeclly straight from neck to >kiit, with

library o!' IV-ter's < 'oiii! nieeting-hou-e. biutons clo-ely set nearly tie' wliolr

London, .-liows, ako, that he wore his lengtii, from the neek to the lo\ver edu'-. full beard and moustaehe. These coats were not vei-y materially

The "shovel" hat, a low-crowned lilt, diii'e)-ent i'rom the ordinai'y co-tume of

with broad brims mneli cinled at the the j^eriod ; but when the heavy rolling

side-, became llan-foini,/d, in time, by the collar and the •' sua.llow-tailed " cut ol

inerea.-ing breaiilii of t!ie Itriin-, whieh the -kins were intro.Iuiid iu the "worM,

requii-ed them to be looj.ed nji to the the " Frienils " narrowed their skirt~ ini"

crown to prevent tlieii- Happing abclUt the somewhat bri:i:id "coat-tail-," ronl gave

ears, into the ihrec-ci'mered cockeil-hat. the >lraight-liueof ihel'nHitedges a genlle

looped up at three points. Tins I'ashiiin curve, thus producing -what was termeii*.

tlie "Friends" fallowed, tlioii^h their in I'hiladelphia, the "shad-bellied " coal,

bi'ims were, perhaps, of a h-s e.xtrava- I'rom the resemblance of its oinlines to

ganl breadlh, ami li >.- farcoly " co( ked" those of that fivorite fish, and whieh

than thosiof the " worlil's peoph ." Wi-^ resianbles much more the nioilern "dre^--

were univer.-ally worn, even ijy bow-. coat" than it does the garment of their

The gentlemen, then, n ho attended dohn ancestors. The extremely iiaiaow ^tand-

Smitli's wedding, c.ime in eoeked-hats ing collar was, at the sanu' time, eon-ioii-

and wigs, and gmeially in j'lain linen ablv heighliiii d. i|iou"_di not enonL;li in

band- about the luck, though .-ome w ho doul.de or " roll" it. The coat of lln'

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Ejiiscojxil bishoji luis undergone a similar clKinge, but not to an equal extent. The eiiange from the " coeked-liat " to the jiresent form worn by " Friends," also followed, though with less extreme varia- tion, the eorre.?]ionding change in the " world."

" .Small clothes," or " knee-breeches," buttoned or buckled at the knee, with silk stockings and low shoes with large, conspicuous buckles of steel or silver, (among the '• world's ]ieoj)le" sometimes ornamented with real Brazilian dia- monds,) completed the gentlemen's dress. Canes were always carried, witli heads of ivory, silver or gold; and they were iisu.ally much longer than at present. Theivory-aud-silver-headed canenf I'jii- iel Smith, of ]]ramham, is still in pos- session of a. descendant, in Philadelphia.

The dress of female "Friends" under- went equally great changes. At the period of .Inhn Siuiih's wedding, the Quaker ladies wiire (besides ca])s ;is nuw, though iif difll'reiit form.) stays and hixijis, and liigh-heeled shoe-;, willi pat- tens or clogs for muddy weather. 'J'he body of the dress was cut low in the neck, with a kerchief as at jiresent, but with sleeves only to the elbow, behtw which a S(jrt (if lung gainitlct, generally of white silk, protected the arm. The stays gave a tight waist, which de.~eended in a long jioitit njion the jietticoat, wliich wa.s seen through tlie open front of the drf«3. The cap was quite ditferent frorii the present one, oidy covering the top of tile head. . •

The gowns (usually of heavy rich silk or satin tor such occasions,) were worn open in front, "to display- a finely- quilted Marseilles, silk or satin jietticoat and a worked stomacher on the waist." (d. F. Watson.) A wedding-gown of 1770, an heirloom in my family, is (ait in this style. " The plainest women among the Friends, (now so averse to fancy colours)," says "Watson, " wore their coloured silk aprons, say of green, blue, etc. This was al a time wlien the ' ga}' ' wore white ajirons. In time, white ajiro'.is v.ere disused." ( by the latter,) "and then the Friends left olf their colored ones and used the white."

It apjiears from the following extracts, from a letter of Ivirhard Shackleton. (177C,) and from oi>e oi' Small Hill l)illwvn, wite ot' the eminent niiiii-ui . George Dillwyn, written while the latter was on a "religious visit" in England, that these aprons were even v.orti during the tiuies of religious wor-hiji, as a special eostuiue i'or tlio-e seasons.

"What siial! I .-ay about these green aprons? 1 think we are ijf one mind about them. I I'elieve it is ilie M.a.^ter's mind that His disciples and fjlloweis should be distinguished from the wurld by a singularity of external a[i[ieaianie. I siqijxise it is also His will tn;it a eeilain jieculiaritv of haliit shoidd distingui-ii them on the solemn oceasioii ot' assem- bling tor L>ivine worshiji, <r other reli- gious perlbnnaiici.'s." (Richard Sliackle- tou, Uallitore, Hthoftiiird month, 177<-'.)

" I think the women here are tar betijre

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the men, * * * they dress ex- tremely neat and exact, a few of the plainest with black hoods and green aprons. Some go to nieeliiig without aprons, but generally carry tine nuisliii or cambriek ones in their jiockets to ])ut on when they get in the house ; if ur don't bring one, they always offer." (.S. H. Dillwyn, London, seventh month 2Gth, 178-1.)

"We see l)y this that tlic fa:^liion was just then changing from the green sillc to tjie white cambric ajiron. This fashion was doubtless quickly followed in America.

" The same old ladies, among Friends," (continues ^Vatson,) "whum we can remember as wearers of the wliilu ajirdns, Wore also large while beuver hats, with scarcely the sign of a crown, and wliich wa.s indeed conlined to the ]ic;id by ^ilk cords tied under the chin." An aged relative told n\e tbai ^he i-enieniliurcil a distinguished femak' jaeacher, .-ilting in the''gallery "of :i coniiti-y ni. cling iii ^um- m<-r, witli unc of the-<- bn.ad, tlat, di-b- like wiiite bc':iver< <<\i iicr head, when a ciX'k, flying in through tlic Ii.iw, ojicn window brhind the gallt ry. ami, jjcrliajis, mistaking the hat for the luad »{ a barixd, perched upon it and uttered a vigorous crow! These hais Avere succeeded by the totally ditffreiit " wagnu" bonnet, su cidled from their rcstinbhuice to the top of a "Jersey" wagon, ;ind much less becoming to a briglit, youiht'ul face than the llat hat; these were always of l.ilack silk, ami bad a " j>i ndant pieee of like silk liam/imr froiil tiie i'oiinet '.oid eoyer-

ing the shoulders." These, in turn, weri' supplanted by the present bonnet of " coal-scuttle " form, now usually made of white or stone or dove-colored silk.

Our picture of the lady guests who ilescended from the heavy old veliicles at Stenton-liouse doors on the occasion of John Smith's wedding, must, however, include the coquettish round white beaver fiat hats, a style little dift'ering from that worn at the j)eriod by the ladies of " the world."

Soon after the wedding, the new-married pair started to pay a visit to the groom's family, in Burlington, and we are at iirsi startled to learn from the diary the sur- prising fact of the J)elaware being so Solidly frozen as to bear a vibicle am! boi'.-es on the 17th of November!

It would seem, however, that the diarist, though writing many years aliei- the authorized "change of style,'' .-till used "old style "in his dates; tluis, mo,-i of them must be I'cad as twc) months later tlian they appear.

" Eleventh month 17th. Cousin Katy Callender, niy t'ather, my spouse and myself set out in his slay," (sleigli,) " about ten o'clock, and got to Ihirlingtmi befoi-e four. Led our horses over Xe- shannny, which we cro.~s<'d by walking on the ice, a.s we did, also, i)elaware, hni might have safely rode over each ; found a kiiid and welcome reception t'rom onr relatives and friends at JJurlington.

"lyth. We dined at father's, as did several other relatives ; we iiad a jirelty Toanv visit.s in the afternoon and even-

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iii;^. Ill tlic ev(.'ning visited Cousin BeUy vn\ov lJ;niiiltoii, of rciinsylv;ini;i, and

Suiith and her mother ; both unwell. liis own aiijiointment as justice of the

"]9lh. Jly father gave me a paper peaee. In ]\Ia\-, he huys a lavgr tract nf

containing an account of .sonic of my tinilier land, at [Mcsciiniteiini!,, of Ins

dear and pious motlier's expressions in father's lirst-eDUsin, Jlohcit Suntli. at

lier last illness. Wo were at meeting, £(>() ]ier the hundred acres, and sutlers

which was .silent ; Governor IJeleher was , a severe loss by a burglary at his office.

there: sjient some time at brothei- "Sixth month ItUh. Alioiit four

Samuel's with us. as diil several of our u'clock, 1 went tii the State-lLaisc tn hear

relations — making a large council. the Indian treaty ,there being lwi)bundrcd

"l^Olh. This is my birthday, being ami sixty Indians of different natiini^ mi

HdW tweiity-.-ix yrai-s (if age. 1 could tdWii. The Statc-lbiu-c v.a- extremely

wi>.h the time had been better imprnviMJ. la'iiwdi'd; (;i,na>weiigomailea Idiigspecch,

"•Jlst. Taking leave, we crus-ed the which. 'tis likely, will be printeib" (. I. S.'s

river as before, divers friends and ivla- brother-in-law, William Logan, was the

tions accompanying us tnJSristol: IV.mi most prominent of the commi>-iiineis who

thence we set out fir hdiiie. I having my negotiated this treaty.) ''As I was guing

spoir-e in father's chaiM, and Cou-in up there, 1 heard the nu.-emf.irtable

.Idhiiiiy Smith, Cdusiii Katy in A/x news of nur line brig, Ciialkley, being

[ fatlier's; ,lemmv Logan, who came up cjisl away upon the llog-tic- : .-hi', with

I yesterday, on hoi.-ebaek. Cousin Ibib- what caigo tlie owners had on board.

|, . ert" (Smith) "and brother Samuel ac- eost us i-_',0OO, and have but t^TOll in-

j conipanied us to Xc^baminy, when' we sured thereon, the ]ireminm of whic'ii

i took leave of them, and reached home eo~t f-Ml This, having ibllou e.l -evnal

I; alMint three o'clock." other 1o-m-s, made me thougliiliil, iii;: 1

i- Jhiving aecom|ianied our diarist totlie was fav.nired to re.-ign, in a good degiee,

I close of the year 17-lS, and of his own to the will of ])iviuc I'rovidence."

\ twenty-sixth year, and >eeii him hap- In August, he records the d. alb ot !i;-

r pity married — to avoid giving him an connection, the Hon. .bi,~eph Tooiier, and

f uiuhie share of space in this woik, 1 several vi.-ils to the widow, at ("oo]ier.-

[ sliall hencefirward conline myself to P.iinl. and the birth of hi- elde,-t ilaiigh-

j: sidecting the main point- only, from his t-r, Sarah Logan Smith.

i iiiteresthig Journal. The March, of "Ninth month 14th. About ten

I 1719, he describes as cxtrcm.civ hot ; he o'clock. M. Lightfoot, .bilin Luke, I'aac

■| employs a gardenci-, fir the Point I'laii- (irecnleai'c, Captain .hnues,brotber >am-

I tatioii, ;it 1";0 per annum, and buys uei and myself, went to the " (< 'oopcr si

I s-vera! rerlcmptioiier servant-. In April, "f. rry,int(aiding to have -one to Ihii bng-

\ iie record- ^cveral dinner- with (iov- ton liv tlie new road, but the boat bi'iug

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too lUiiTuw, and iiiiHkillful iiiaiuii^L'1-s, line month, for lighting thoin every night

of the horses iind my hoy tumljk'd into for a month. Ruad, to-day, in. Law'.-

tho river, not \vithnut danger, hnt we all answer to Hoadley, and coiiied several got well a.-hoi-e again, and, ahonl twelve, ; passages, set oil' again, ////.-■• side cf tlie river." : "22d. The river was fast." (Giving up the attem|it to erossl) "Went , "2(ith. At meeting. I dined with thr

over Dunks' ferry," (at Jlurlington,) governor," (llamilldU : invited pivvi. .u-

"and got well up liefore dark, ('aptain day;) "the rest of the eonipany were

,lames,,]Mhii j.nke, Sammy and 1, lud.i^e.l Wm. Allen," (ehief justire,) "Kiclianl

at fidh.r's, whieh is the llrst time J ha\t' Peters, 0)nsin Jsse, .Icnuiiy and .lohniiy

hcen at J'.uilingtoii .-iiire fatlur iiu.vcd," J'einherton, and hrother William Logan:

(into town fnim his (ire. 11 Hill place.) we were very ciNilly and haiid.-omrlv

The errand of this ]iarty was tiiat;eiul entertained, themaniagr of WiHianiLuv.tt Smith. "2Slh. Was at meeting. After diii-

"l.")tli. Th.- governor, his wife and ner, .lohn Armit and 1 rode to Seliuyl-

lier daughter, ami many otlirr> of us, kill-house, and tryed a little at sheeting;

rode to JKniiel ])oiighty's in the morn- we ealied in onr way at James Ale.\-

iiig, and from theiiee to I'pprr Spring- aiider's, the proprietors' gardener's," (at

iiefl meeting. M. Lightti>.l |iivae!ie(l Sjiringettsliuiy,) "he showed u-' hi- solar

and praved; then hrotln r M'illiam wa- mi.avsrope, and his sy.-,tem of tin'

married," sp.aking audihly. Alter he, heavens, in wheels," (orrery.) A seien-

his wife, their parents, the governor, and tiiie gardener!

hi> wili' and daughter, hail .-i,i;ned In the "first month." 17-'-<), hoth

the eevtifuate, it was imaitioin ,1 that if daine.s Logan and Uiehard Smith -how

there wa.- aiiyi.mly there, wh.i did not go symptoms of their approaehing di-ohi-

lo the hoii.-e, they might sign there, hut tion ; the former heing struck with

nohody doing it, 1 eonelnded the meet- palsy.

ing ill geiiei-al eaim.' home to dine with "Third mouth lltii. ]Icard. in the

us, where plentiful provision was made. evening, that John Kin-ey was taken,

Tneles Nohle and ]lapia-, T. Wetherill, ahoiil noon to-day, with a lit, alter he

Junior, mv hrother Kiehard and ], re- had he<ai pleading a eail-e at the Supreme

turned t... r.uilingion." Court, at Burlington, and was earned

(Sireet li-htiiig and early winter.) into Daniel Smith's," (the old hoii-e ;>l

••'i'eiith m.Mitii 21 -t. railed at the I'.road and .Main Stivets,) "and Doctor

tavern, where the owners of lamjis wire l!ond was immediately sent for. I rode

met, to eon-nlt fir llie hetter li;.:hling to Stentoii after night, them. We simied an agreem-nt with a "12th. Heard, early in the monim;;.

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o'clock last evening. The loss of this "■rent and good man occasions a general lamentation, and, to present appearance, is irreparahle.

" loth. About two we went to the hni-ial. I. Peniherton, .Jiiniui-, ^^"l]ianl Jjiigan, brother Sanuiel and I took up the corpse; we also carried it into the meeting and brought it out again. There was the greatest concourse of jjeoiile that ever I .saw upon any occasion."

"30th. At tlie vendue of J. Kiiisey's goods, and

"olst. Again at the same. I had before .said I would give the appraise- ment, viz.: £8G, for the four-wheeied chaise and horses ; they were, therefore, set uj'. at that, and nobody bidding, they were cryed otf to me ; 1 also bought some ]>]ate," etc.

"Fourth month 7th. Understood I was chosen a niemljer of the school cor- jioration to-day, in the room of John Kinsey, Escj.-

"Scvi'iitli miiiith Mth." lie attends ilurliugton yearly meeting. " My father b'-ing so unwell, I was obliged to tyke tiie necessary cart' to entirtain friend- at fuller's house, which 1 clieerfully and ("irefully discharged thru' all the time ol the meeting.

" I'llh. Had the comjxiuy of many fri'^nd-;; fither having rod(> to ids planta- li'ia in the morning Id take phy.-iek, I r'Kli- thitlier in the afternoon." The lather's he;dth now rapidly declining.

"24th. Having an invitatii^n to iline ^wth the Su])reme Court, (from W'illiani 21

Allen, the new chief justice,) I accord- ingly went, and was resiiectfully treated."

On the 1st of August, he records his election as a mendjcr of the Pennsyl- vania assembly. In the same month, the celebrated Benjamin Franklin jan for city recorder, but was defeated by Tench Francis. .John Morris was elected com- missioner at this time. On " tenth month 15th," he records the birth of his son James.

1751. "Fourth month lltli. Yester- day I signed the subscrijition paper for the Provincial Hospital with £50." (His father also subscribed £20, and his brother William £10.)

" Fifth month 2d. Understood 1 was yestei-day chose, by the contributors to the I'cnnsylvania Hospital, to be one of the managei-s thereiif, and had notice to meet the rest in the aiternoon."

" Eighth month 1st. Got home from Purlington in the dusk of the evening. Found the people in a foam of politicks." At this election he was a second time chosen n\eniber of assembly, and his friend, Benjamin Franklin, was elected burgcr-s. On the od, he is appointed audit(n- by the ^^upreme Court, together with Franklin and John IMililin. On the 15th, he attends the wedding of James Peniberton.

On the 31st of August, he records the death of James Logan ; '■ he expired in a very easy manner, about twenty min- utes after twelve o'clock." Shortly after the funeral, "'ninth month 5th," he sfts out for Ambov, New J(_i>cy, to see his

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fatlier, tlicii in attendance as a member of tlie asseniblv there, and dangerously ill.,

" 7tli. Spent two hours witli my dear fatlier, whom I found very weak and low, havhig had an imposthume on his lungs broke yesterday, but was able to throw up the matter. I would have set u[) with him to-night, hut sister Betty was not willing.

"8th. Visited my i'athci' early, and found him rather easier in his breathing, and having Ijusincss at Burlington, and Cousin JonalJiau'" (SuuiIk) "being will- ing to slay till to-monuw night, and father being quite easy that I should go, telling me that 1 could do nothing for him if I staitl, tlierelore, after being with him till near tun o'clock, we took our leave, /.<■., Cousin dobn Smith and ]. of my dear i'atlar and sister Jjetty, and set out about eleven o'clock," for Burling- ton, which they reached about ten o'clock at nigl.t.

'■ 'Jtli. J!ioilu:r William set out in the morning for Amboy, and after dinner, 1 rode home; iiiiind my dear wife and babe well.

" lOtli. About ten o'clock, Cousin A\'illiam Smith came to let mc know that my dear t'atlii/r cluingctl about live hours after J k-it him, and that hi< life was despaired of 1 tbereforc imme- diately sent to mother J,og:in to (ic>iic the loan of Gerard, to dii\(' my chaise, and he cpiickly coming, I took brother Kichard with ine in it, and got to Jiiir- liuKton before dark.

"11th. AVere up by break of d;,v, intending to be at Amboy to-niglit, bu; just as we were ready to set out, a im - seiiger came, who had rode all niglii to acquaint us, that our dear fatlni- d.- parted this life about five o'clock In tin- evening of seventh day, and that tiny had Itroiight the corpse to Craiibiny Imm night ; wherefore, after giving soini' liii:il tears vent, on the loss of a most ii-ndcr and aifectionate parent, I got a ini\— cm:'-!- to go to Philadelphia v.itli a Iciicr to in;, sjiouse, acquainting her with wliMt «;i~ necessary on so mournful an occ.ision ; then brother Kichard and I set out, and met the corpse at Crosswicks ; livm whence we accompanied it to Burlington, wheie Ave reached about tin o'clock. The jieople of Builingtoii were very respectful in meeting us on tlic road.'

The funeral took jilace next day, tli" 12tli.

" loth. f)ur dear father's will wa- inclosed in an afli'Ctioiiate letter to u-. of wliich I took a copy."

This excellent letter has already been copied in a previous eha]iter.

The journal chroiiicli's, oti "second month "Sth, 1752." the birtli of lb'' writer's second dangbler, Ilannab, and abruptly closes on the 'JTtb of tb.n month.

On "eleventh month 2d, 17''.1." l'""

youngest scin, .lobii, at'tcrward- ol dreen

Hill, was born, and si.x weeks later, the

father was called u]u:in to surrender to

; tiie grim me.-<enger, his beloved wile,

. Hannah, who died "on the ISth of

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twelilli mouth, 1761." A toucliing • sketch of her by her luisband, says: I

" AVe were happily married at Ger- i maiitown meeting, on the 7th of the tenth month, 174S. From that tinu^, slie always continued to take suitable op]->or- tunities of retirement, and to read the Holy Scriptures, but without lessening the proper concern about family affairs, ill the pruileiit direction of which few- could exceed her, or in the duties of friendship and good ueiglilniiuliMud; in tiie relations of a child, ^Yife and iiiotlu r, she was tenderly and anxiously careful to fill up lier jilacc, and having, herself, bad the benefit of an excellent mother's ex- ample, she tried to follow her, as well in her general conduct as in the more jiri- vate endearments of family order and liarinoiiv. She was a candid interpreter of the conduct of lier acqiiaiutance; she did not indulge a curiosity to know, (nuicb less to meddle with,) other people's concerns, and pd-e-.-ed a painful sen- sibility of anv ciiin'i.a-sntion intrnduced at the ex]iensc of tin' reputatii'U (■( ai>- seiit jiersons ; and wished that the in- genuity sometimes bestowed that way, niight be employed on the improveiuent, rather than the faults of mankind.

"She departed this life on the TStli of twelfth month, 1701, and ;l- it was the chief desire of her hcail tn live in tiie name and power of .lesus Christ, and to confass Him, bv an humble, meek and ]>ious conduct, I have a reverent eon- lidence that she enjoys His ble.-.-cd prom-

ise, of being owned by Him before His Father and the lioly angels."

The next year, (1762,) John Smith returned to Burlington, bis n;itive place, to end bis days there, and purchased Franklin Park, as a cijuntry-seat, not long afterward. He was appointed a member of the king's cotuicil for New Jersey, soon after his return, and died, :\bircii 2Gth, 1771, at the early age of forty-eight.

His character, as drawn by Ttob.-rt Proud, in bis History of Pennsylvania, is as follows :

"John Smith, of Purllngtou, New Jerscv, son of llichard, formerly ol' the same place, and brother of Samuel Smith, aiilhor of the History of New Jersi'V, was of a family originally from Yorkshire, in Ivigland, ;ind died oi; tlie 2Uth day of the third month, 1771, in the Ibrty-ninth year of his :ige.

"As be w.is a jierson of an amiable i character, good ixample and publie u-e- fulness, not only in the jmAinee of New .)i rsev, but al-.) in that of I ViinsvU aiiia, it may not be iini>ro]" r in this pfiee to mention respecting him, that iieing brought up to mi/reantile atVairs, he livetl several years iu Philadelphia, as a mer- chant, having married Hannah, the daughter of Jarne- Lou'an, E-i|nire, a woman of good and amiable onalMies. ■■'■ •■■ vVfter her death, in the year 1 702, he retired to Ibirlingtoii, the plaee of his birth, having beer, a very useful and valuable member of s,„_.i,.ty. and served several years in tiie piovinciiil iis-eiiibly

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of Pennsylvania, witli good ability, repu- tation and integrity, besides being much engaged in the affairs of his own religious society of the peojile called Quakers, in riiiladelphia, by whom he was highly esteemed and beloved for his good sense, liberal and generous sentiments, agree- able and instructive conversation, his ex- tensive abilities and generally beneficent life and kind services, which were so very considerable as to leave lasting im- pi-essions on thuusaud,^ of his friends and acquaintances in that city, and to render his memory dear tn manv.

"After his return t(i Ihnliiigton, he was appointed, by mandanuis froju tlie king, one of the council of New Jersev, in which office he continued to be usefhl to the jiublic, and at tlie same time, par- ticularly sei'viccablc to liis own i-cli^inus society, till the time of lii< siekness and death. He was endowed with great con- ciliating abilities, and the preservatiuu of peace and concord ausun- mankind was nuicli the .-iibj.'rt of 1,1.^ attention and delight.

"He wa.? engaging, open, friendly and undesigning in his addre.-s and behaviour, of a cheerful and benevolent disposition, well skilled in the laws of his country, and very ready, gciii n.us and scrvicLMblc in giving his advice and assistance.

"In his religious character, ho ex- hibited an excrlkiit examplo ot' tine practical Cluisliaiiily, fr,x' t'rom alili'- tation and narrovnicss of mind: he «a-, in s'everal relations, one ot' the be-t oi neighbours ;iud of men. '■' *

"As he was a person of good natural parts, much reading, and conversed wiih ' all ranks of men in his own con'ntrv, Ik wrote several pieces to good advanta-e on diiierent, but generally the most in- ' teresting subjects of a religious, nioial and civil nature, some of whicli have been published for general benelit."

(A .series of articles in the I'enii.-yl- vania Gazette, signed "Atticus," was among his contributions to literature, be- side several theological woiks.)

His brother Sanuiel, in an aflictionate sketch of his character, wiitten for in'.-, children, says :

"Though somewhat warm in his natu- ral tempier, he had the skill of manag- ing it to that degree, that few of lii> aefjuaintance have seen it lullled; lie kept the best part uppcrmo-i, and was always ready to use it for the bemlit of others. He was frank and gcner(.ais in his disposition : he abhorred a trick in commerce or conduct; a lilth action wa- apt to alarm liis resentment, biu not lo fix it to tlie hurt of any man, A wiekrd or a mean action foiuid in him no(juarter ; to .such, indoeij, i.e had an nnconinion aversion; whenever 1 have seen his colour rise, it was, jirobably, for some- thing of that kind. He aiiiiod to be strictly just to man, and to his ;Makei, honest. ^- -■^- - '^

■'His alt.iehmeiit to the reh-ioii of Id- education was strong, but not blind ; having examined it, as its iniooriaiicc re- (juired, it became tlie' reli-iou ol hi-< judgment, and he bore his (e.-timonv I"

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if, ill ;ill its brandies, witli exemplary perseverance and fulelity. "' '"'

"His integrity and probity, in all stations, were unblemished. For his al)ili- tics, his charities were very extensive ; he felt more than is comnionl}' t'elt tor others, and to do a good olfice to any man seemed the height of his pleasure.

"He knew the iusullieieney of aiiv efforts of his own in religion, and did not affect too nuieli freedom with it in couuiioii conversatiun," (for) "lie thought he had seen the subiect rendered un-

lovely, and the jirofcssion rather discred- ited by bold pretensions ; but was en- couragingly kind to appearances of real 2)iety, however small. ■■■ '■'■ Actions, lie thought the best intcr2)reters to others, of a man's religion.

"He was, in every conjugal relation, afll'ctionately tender; a fond fa 1 her, an indulgent master; he was more. ]-5iit 1 must stoji — he was — my brother, my most intimate friend and companion ! I lo.^t all that could be lu-t in tho.-e relations."

CMAPTEK XV

SEVKXTII GKXi:i;AX10N'. T}IK EEVOM'TloN.

WK )i(.i\v eoiiio to tlie seventh gener- utiijii of the l:iiiiily,theln«t,w]iicli, as an entire geiior:ition, was limn before the Jievohitionury Wuv, ilirmnh some nieiiilK.-r.-< uf the I'inhth yiiieratioii were ah'e;i'ly horn at its oii!l.>real:.

The seeoml son of tii'- iTon. John Bniilli, of Franklin J\irlc, nur diari^l, wa?, as h:is been n!enti(jneil, John .Smith, Esqnire, of Green Hill. His wile, Gulielnia Maria I\[orris, was daughter of William Morri:?, (descended froin the early settler, Anthony ^Vforris, hefuri' mentioned,) and Of thu lutli/r's wiii', Margaret Hill, daughter of liiehard Hill, of HillV l\nnt, Maryland. (>i-e "Eook of the Hill Family,") aie! gn at- granddauginLT of 'riirima- Lloyd, hr.-! governor of IV'nnsyivania, nndrr thv proprietary.

Margaret Hill Morris hfi a charming diary, illustrative ot' the Revolutionarv period, which I jirojio^e to draw u|ion for this ehapter. Although it has ali'eady Vjceu juivately printed, and is well-know n to nio-t memhers of the family, J know nothing belter in the iamily jiapers to take tor my illustration of this e.xeiting period. Her sentini.nt-. like the-'- of many " Frii'iid.-," were lavorahle to the old regime. As an illustration of the

feehngs of the Whig (,)uaker ladie-, ] will add a letter of Heborah J.ouaii, wife of 8eiuitor George Logan, (jf I'emi- sylvania, and niece, by marriage, of JLju. John Smith aiid Hannah Ij^igai;.

;\Iargaret Hill .M(jrris was also an an- cestress in the chlcxt line of our family, her daughter, Deborah, having l.ieeonie the ■ivifc of lienjamiii Smith, son of iJaniel Smith, Junior.

I'.efore inlrodui'ing her diary, however, I will give a list of the meniliei.- of the family in the seventh generation, leaving all details of their births, marriages and deaths to the genealogieal tables at the end of the book.

In the eldest male line, we have tla' seven son.< and one dau'jhter of Daniel Smith, (" Daniel Smith,.! unior, "the third of that name,) all of whom grew iiji and marrietl, except the danght<-'r, who diiii single. They were, L Joshua Mii'fv Smith, 12. Ijenjamin Smith, '■'>. Mary Smith, 4. lianiel Smith, (fourth.) ■'>■ ]\obert Smith, (third.) C. John D.Smith. 7. C4eorge II. Sutith, y. .loseph I >• Smith.

Ill the second line, two son> ami i"" daiigliters L'l the Hon. Samuel Smith, ol Hickory Grove, all of whom luarned and left i.-sue, but the r-eeund daughter,

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who died single. Tliev were : 1. Jo-;ei)li Smitli, 2. Abigail Smith, o. S;iruli Smith,

4. Hichard Smith, (sixtli.)

Ill the third line, two sdns and two daughters of the Hon. .Tolm Smith, all of whom married and left i^-ue. They were :

1. Sarah Logan Smith, '2. James Smith, :]. Hannah Smith,-!. John Smith, Junior, (afterward.s of Green Hill.)

In the fourth line, four .-uns anil four daughters of "William Lovett Smith, all of whom lel't de>eendant>. e.veept the eldest ?on and .second daughter, wljn died young. They were: 1. LoNcrt Smith,

2. Daniel Doughty Smith, o. Samuel Smith, 1. Anne Smith. 5. IClizaheth Smith, ('). .Vhigail Smith. T.Mary Smith, 8. William ]>ovett Snulh, Juninr.

In the liftli line, live son.-; i>f the Hon. Riehar.l Smith, (ilttli of that name,) of whom the eldest died unm.arried, the second left issue, the third and fnuth, probably, left no issue,''' and tie- llfth died young. L'luy weie: 1. ."^e.immon Rodman Smith, "_'. Jliehai-.l leiiman Smith, ;].'Jiiliii Smith, -1. Willet Smith,

5. Ivodnian Sinitii.

The tirst female line is reiireM-ntid by the only child of Jame.-- and Sarah ."^mith Peinberton, ]\Iary Smith I'emberton.

The second female line contains five children of Samuel Sansom and Hannah Cullender, of whom the youiige-t two died in infancy. They were: 1. Wil- liam Sansoni, 2. Sarah Sanse>m, 3. Jo^-eph

* They ar.' martojH ■•dif.l yo.in-. ' hut tvilh a nnle fif XTtirrroqaliuH, in the tables I copy.

Sansom, 4. Katharine Sansom, 5. Samuel Sansom.

The third female line (first section,) contains nine children of Samuel Xo!)le and Lydia Cooper, namely: ]. Joseph Xoble, (died young,) 2. Daac Xoble, (died young,) 3. Hannah Noble, 4. Samuel Xoble, (died young,') .j. William Xoble, (died young,) (i. Eichard Noble, (died unmarried,) 7. ]\fary Xoble, (died voung,) S.Samuel Xolde, '.). Marmadiike Xoble, (died young.)

'J'hc second seetion of the third female line includes six children of Samuei Wetherill and ?ilaiy Xoble, namely : 1. 'J^homas Wetherill, "2. Mary Wetherill,

3. Joseph Wetherill, 4. Elizabeth Weth- erill, o. Samuel Wetherill, C. Ann AVethcriU. Of these, all died unmarrird, excejiting -Mary and Jo^'ph.

'J'he fourth female line contains nine children of William and liachel Smith Coxe, namely: 1. Willi;im S. ( 'oxe. 2. Jlieliaid s". Coxe, 3. Kli/abeth Cixe.

4. :\Iaria Coxe, .3. Margaret Coxe, (i. jMuily C'.)xe, 7. Harriet Coxe, S. Anne Coxe, 'J. Daniel Coxe. Of iIr-c, I iKive only record- of th- marriages of the lir-t three.

The fifth female line includes, in its first and second sections, six sons and two daughters of Edward Tole, and fair sons and three daughters of Dx. 'J'hoinas IV-l-', who-e names and descendants wiiUiJipear in the tables.

The third section of the fifth female line embraces the names of six sons a!:d a daughter of James Uringhur-t an !

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Anna Pole, viz. : 1. .John, (dictl yoiiu.a-,) 2. Jolm, 3. James, 4. Jose]ili, 5. Jonatliaii, (died s. p.,) 6. ICthvard, (died s. p.,) 7. Eacliel, (died s. ]>.) Of these, nuniliers two, three and ioiir left issue.

Each meiiilier of the sevcntli gener- ation leaving issue, will have a table to him or lierself, aiuoiig the gencalogieal tables at the end of the book f but, e.\- cepting to add the iliai'v already lefei-reil to, I shall attrnipt no further historical illustrations of the lives of ineiidjers, or of contcn)j)orary events connected with the family. Its history has now been traced from its recorded origin, with William Smith, of Eramhau], cijrn \. D. 1570, to the time of the American Revolution, a period of over two liundred yeai-s, embracing all the most characti'r- istie events, and the individuals who gave to our sejit its distinguishing familv traits: with tiie cataclv>m of tiie l\ev-

* Having received tiie ii;uii'.s ..I' ,.ne Ime of tlie il. scendant.-i of Kmaiiiiel Snii'li. i I' lirjmh.im. 1 i-'uii give them a table at ilie eud : tlinimh. [ivi.|Kr'.v -iM'^ik iiifr. not ol' t!ie Hiirhii-l..!! Sid.iIi.-. i1m v have a ,:,m mon Engli-li auofptiy.with "iirs. ."^hguld otiier lint of the descendants ul' Kmanuel Smitli be receivei hereafter, thev will be in5<-rted on flv-leaves.

olution, which swept a\v;iy the old ordir of tilings, and the i'amily traditions and idiosyncrasy with it, it is best to ele-e, the object of this work being rather the revival of the past than the jiortrailiiie of the j>re.seut. The old race of f^)uakei- gentry, a true aristocracy, or " ])retlom- intmcebf the best," however modest, si m pie and unassuming, both by nature and the intiuence of a self-denying religion — earnest, j'ious, jihilauthropic — useful ainl energetic alike in public ami in [nAaie life — proprietiiries, legi-ilators and state-- men — has 2'fisseil away, leaving but the reminiscence of their character behind. Their private virtues and warm allectinii.- indeed, still survive, in beloved and lionored individuals, Imt their mori' cmi- sjiicuotis and distinguishing jmblic vir- tues, as memliers of a governing cl:i-s, their characteristics of the old nijimr, have disajijjeared. The zealotrs aid, which the "Friends" formerly rendered to the cause of pure and righteous go\- (>rnment, has long been witlidrawn; it is their country's misfortune; is it uot ab<i their own ?

CHAPTER XYI.

A T I) 11 Y LADY IX THE K E V O L V T I (J

[Ertrads from the Journal 0/ ilargard Ihll J/o rris]

DECEMBER Gth, 177G. Being on [ hundred miles from her; I thouglit of II visit to my friend, ]M. S., at Had- ' my own lonely situation— no luisbnnd to (lonfield, I was preparing to return to my ' cheer with the voice of love mv siiikinLi;

i'amily, when a jierson fiom Phi!adel2)hia told me that the ju'ople there were in great conimolitin ; that the English Hcet was. in the river, and hourly expected to sail up to the city; that the inhabiiants were removing into the conntiy; and that several persons of considrraMc i-eputc had been discovered to have formcil a

spirits. My little flock, too, wilhnut a father to direct them huw to stixr. All these things crowded into my liiind at once, and I felt like one forsaken; a Hood of frieiuily tears came to my re- lief, and 1 felt a luuuble confidence that He who had been with me in six iroidjlcs, would not forsake me now, ^^'llile I

design of setting fire to the city, ami ' cherished this hope, my traiKiniiity ^vas

were summoned licfore the Congress and restored, and I felt n" sei.sati'in but d

strictly enjoined to drop the horrid pur- ' humble acquiescence to the Divine will, pose. AVhen I heard the above rej'Ort,

my heart almost died within me, and I cried, surety the Lor<l will not ].nni-h the innocent with the guilty, and I wished there might be found some in- terceding Lots and Abrahams amongst our jicu^ilc. On my journey home, I was told the inhabitants of our little town," (Burlington, New Jersey,) " were going in haste into the country, and that my nearest neighbuurs were already re- moved. AVlien 1 heard this, 1 felt my- self quite sick ; 1 was ready tn faint, I thought of my S. D.," (her sister, Sarah _Dillwyn, wife of <ie''irge, then ab-ent,) "the beloved cumpaniMii dI my wideiwed state — her hu,~band at a distance of some

and wa.s fi.\voure<] to find my family in good health on my arrival, and my dear companion not greatly di-compo.rcd, tnr which fiivour 1 (k>ire to Ije tndy thankfid.*

" December 7th. A letter tVcmi my next neighbour's hu.sband, at the camji, wariie.l her to be gone in ha,-te. and many j'U- sons coming into town to-day, l)ri)iight intelligence that the Briti-li army were advancing toward u-;.

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ends witli the same accounts, and we hear to-day that tlie regulars are at Trenton. Some of our neighbours gone, and others going, makes our little bank " (Green Bank, on the river,) " look lone- some. But our trust in Providence is still firm, and we dare not eveii talk of removing our tamily.

"December 9th. 'Jliis evening, were favoured with the companv of our faith- ful friend ami brother, 'B. AV." (Bd. Wells.) '' Tliis testimony of his love was truly acceptable to us.

" December lOth. To-day, our amialile friend, E. C." (Hetty Cox) "and her family bade us adieu. My brother also left us, but returned in le.-sthan an hour, telling us he could not go away just as the Hessians were entering the town ; but, no tr(Xiiis cnming in, we urged him to leave us next niurniiig, uhieli he con- cluded to do, after jireparing us to ex- ])ect the Hessians in a few hours. A number of galleys have been lying in the rivi'r, bel'ore tln' town, fi.r two days [la.-t.

"I)ecember 11th. After various re- ports from one hour to .another of light- horse approaching, the people in town had certain intelligence that a large body of Hessians were come to Bordentown, and we might expect toK'C them in a ft \v hours. About ten o'ehxk, of this day, a Jiarty of about ^i\ty men marched down the main .--trect ; as tiiey parsed along, they told our doctor" (Odell,) "and some other persons in the town, that a large niimbei' of Hes.^ians were advanc-

ing, and would be in the town in less than an liour. This party were riflemen, who, it seems, had crossed the river somewhere in the neighbourhood of Bordentown to reconnoitre, and, meeting with a superior number of Hessians on the road, were then returning, and took Burlington in their way back. From us thev crossed to Bristol, and by the time they -were fairly embarked, the He.<sians, to the number, as we heard, of four or live hundred, had jiassed what we call York Bridge. On the fir;-t certainty of their approach, John Lawrence ami two or three others thought best, for the safety of the town, to go out and meet the troops. He communicated his in- tention to one of the gondohi captains, who approved of it, and desired to be in- formed of the result." (The gon .Io!a> or galleys were American gun-boats.)

" The gentlemen went out, and though the Hessian colonel " (Coinu Donop or "de Xope,'") "spoke but little English, yet they found that, upon being thii- mii in a jieaceable manner on behalf of the in- habitants, he was ready to promi:^e them safety and security, to exchange any messages that might be jiropcr with the gentlemen of the galleys. In the mean- time, he ordered his troops to halt; tiny remained in their ranks betwien ii;e bridge and the corner of Main Strn-I, waiting an answer I'lom on board, d- J- and T. H. w-ent down to report what had J)a^.-ed, and told Captain ]\Inore that tin- colonel had orders to (piarter hi- tnw.p^ in Burlington that Mii;ht, and that if the

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iiiliabitantswercqiiipf niul pcaceaLlc, and woulil fiirnisli liiin witli qiuirteis and ro- fi-cslunc-nt, lie would pledge liis honour that no manner nt" ili^order should liap- ]ien to disturb or alanu the iieojile. Captain Moore replied that, in his opin- ion, it \YOuld lie wrung in such a case to fire on the town, hut that he would go down and consult with the commodore, and return an an-\vcr as soon as might he. While this answer was waited tor, ])r. Odell was fold it wonl.l boa satisf'a.- tion both to the Hessian coinmandaiit and to our own jieople, to have a ]iersiiii who could serve as interj)retcr belweeu them. Not doubting the foreigner could ppcak French, the doctor went to him, and he had the sali^lactinn to find it probable, at h'a-^t, that he niiglit be of service to the jieopic of tbe town. The coniinandaut seemed highly pleased to find a jierson with whom he could con- verse with ease and precision.

"He desired tli.'d.,ptor to tell tlie gen- tlemen of the town to tlio same piiipoit Ji? above, with this additioii : that he e.\- I>ected there would be I'ouud no pensons in tiie town in arms; nor any arms, am- munition or eft'ects, belonging to persons that were in arms against the king, con- cealed by any of the inhabitants; that if any such effects were thus secreted. the house in which they were found would ijc given up to pillage ; to prevent which, it would be necessary to give liim a just and fair account of such elfects, which account he would fjrward to the general, and that if we aeteil ojienly and

in good faith in these respects, he re- peated his assurances, upon the honour of a soldier, that he would be answerable for every kind of disorder on the part of his troops. They remained in profound silence in their ranks, and the com- mandant, with some of his ollicers, came into town as far as J. ]j.'s, where they dined, waiting the commodore's answer.

" The doctor says that as he thought he observed much of the gentleman in tbe commaudanl. and tbe a[ipearanee, at least, of generosity and humanity, he took an opportunity to inform him that there was an old friend of his (the doc- tor's) who was a colonel, and of some estimation, in the Continental army; that he was at present with General Washington, and thai his lady, an timiable woman, had gone into tlie country with most of her elVects; that the doctor was , ignorant of the place of her retreat, hut that before her departure she had begged him, on the footing of former friend-hip, to lake into his hon-e, and, if he migbl be permitted, to keep as under his i^ro- tection, .some few thing- which she cotdd not remove, and told the commandant he was ready to give an exact aecouiU ot such of her effects as he had thus taken charge of; and -at the same time con- fli.-ed that when he took them, it was in the hoi>e of being suffered to preserve them f.r his frieml. The connmindant told him, without a moment's hesitation: 'Sir, you need not be at the trouble of giving any further account of those thintrs vou have .-o candidiv mentioned ;

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be assuiod that wliatever cfl'ects have been entrusted to you in this way, I sliall consider as your own, and they shall not be touched.' From this answer, he was encouraged to hope he might be of still further service to his fiiends, and in the full jiersuasion that notliing would occur to disturb the peaceable disposition that was making; but, as it happened, the coni- niiidore Jiad received- intelligence of a jnirty oi' Hessians having entered JJur- lington bci'oi-c CVijitaiii .Abiorc got down to iiiin, and had uKkit'd up Irjur gidleys tu i]iv (jn tlic town whnevcr am two or tliree jm isoii.- tlioujd lie H'cii together. C^aptain Muore niel and iiaikd tliciii, one after another, but the wind \vas so high tliat he was nut lieard or nndei>t(iiid. The liiiir giiiuldlas came np, tniil the lirst of theiu Jippi'ariiig befuie the main street, J. L., T. JI. and \V. J).-«ent down upon the wharf and waved a hat, the signal agreed on with Captain Moore for the boat to conio ashore, and give tlie commodore's answer iiv jieacc. To the astonishment of these gentlemen, all the answer they received was first a swivel shot. Xot lielieving it possible this could be designedly dcjiie. ihiy stood still, Jiiid J. L. agiiin waveil his hat, and wa.s answered with an eighteen-pounder. ]}ot]i the.-^e fires, as the gondola pcojile have since told its, were made witii as good aJnv as coidrl lie taken, as thev took il for "ranted it was at Iks-sians

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tliey fired. However, as it was impos- sible to conjecture that such conduet could have happened, or to suspect stieh a mistake, it is no wonder the t()Wii \v;i~ exceedingly alarmed ; looking upon il in the light of a cruel as well as unprovoked piece of treachery. Upon this news, the commandant rose calmly from table, and his officers with him went out to eight or ten men, who had come to the door as a small body-guard. lie turned to the doctor, as he went into the .■^tI■eet, and said he cunld easily di>po-e of his people out of tlie ]iossil)ility of danger, but tjiat m'vich niiscJiief miglit be done to the town, and that lie would take a view of the gondolas, and see what measures might lie neeessarv on his part; but tli;it he should be sorry to be (he o^■ea^ion of any damage or distress to tic? iidiabitani~. He walked down the street, and icnt dil- ferent ways three sentinels, in Indian iili' together, to view and report to him ^vli;it they saw.

" f "hes<' iK-ing now and then ^^eu at diilcrent time<, iniluced tlio peoj'Ie on board to believe that the houses were tidl of Hessians, and a cannonade was eou- tinued till tiiiuost dark, in diflcrent direc- tions, sometimes along the street, some- times across it. Several hou-es were struck and a little damaged, biU not one living creature, either man or bca-t, killed or wounded. About dark, I lie gondolas fell down a little w:iy below the town, and the night was passed in (piiet.

" While all tl)i- tumult was in town, we, on our peaccliil bank, iginaant ot llie

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occasion of the firing, were wondering what it could mean, and unsuspecting of danger, were quietly jiursuiug our busi- ness in the family, when a kiml neigh- bour informed ns of the occasion, and urged ui to go into the cellar as a [ilaee of safety. AVe were prevailed on by him to do so, and remained th(?re till it eoa.-ctl. "December 12th. Tlie people of the galleys, suspecting that some troops were yet either conceah'tl in the town, or neighbonrhuod of it, have l.ieen vei-y jealous of the inhaliilant^, who have often been alarmed with reports that the city would be set on fire; many have gone in htiste and great distress into the country, but we still hope no mischief is seriously intended. A number of men landed on our \>;u\k this morning, ami told us it was tlieir settled jiurpose to set fire to the town. I begged them not to set my house on fire; they asked which was my house, and they said they knew not what hindered them from firing on it last niglit, for seeing a light in tlie chambere they thought there were Hes- sians in it, and they pointed their guns iit it several times. I told them my children were siek, whicli ohligeil me to burn a light all night. Though they did not know what hindered them from firing ou us, 1 did; it was the (jnardiau of the widow and the oi-phan, wlio took us into His sate keeping, and pre-erved us from danger; oh, that I may kefji liuiuble, and !«; thankfid for this, as well iis other iavours vouchsafed to my little flock.

''December 13th. This day we begau to look a little like ourselves again. The troops were removed some miles from town, as we hear, and our fi'iends • began to venture out to see us ; Imt the suspicions of the gonilola men still con- tinued, and search was made in and about towii for nicn distinguished l)y the name of tories. About noon, of this day, dear brother 11. "W.," popped in upon us; he had heard the filing yes- terday, and being anxious for our safely, he ran the ri^k of venturing among.-t us to see how We had fared; surely, this proof of his love will never be forgotten by mc while my memory lasts ; he left us after dinner.

"December 14th. This day there was no appearance of the formiilable Hes- sians. Several of our friends called to see us; amongst tlie nr.mlier «a- oiu''' (Dr. Odell,) " esteemed by the whole fam- ilv, and very intimate in it; but the S|iirlt of the devil still continued to rove through the town in the .-haj.e <'f toiy- hunters. A message was delivered to eair intimate fi'iend, iiitormiiig him a j^arty of armed men were ou the search lor him; his lioj-.-e was brought, and he le- tired to a jilace of safety. Some of I he gentlemen who entertained the foreigners, were pointed out to the gondola men ; two worlhyinhabitantsj-were .-ei/.ed upon, and drairired on board.

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"From tlic lotli to tlio IGtli, wc luid I digiiificil by that name, had claimed the various )-eports of the advaneing and re- | slielter of my roof, and wa.^ at tliat vcrv tiring- of the enemy; partie=! of armed I time concealed, like a thief, in an auger- men i-Lidely entered the town, and dili- hole ;'^' I rung the bell violently, the sig- gent search was made for tories; some of ' nal agreed on if they came to ^^■arch,and the gondola gentry broke into and pil- ! when I thought he had ci< [it int(j the laged Pid. Siiiiih's house on the baid^. : liole, I put on a very sinjple look, and About noon, this day" (KUli,) "a very i cried out, 'Bless me, 1 hoiie you are not terrible account of thousands coming into Hessians.' 'Do we look like Hessians?' town, and now actually to be seen on asked one of them, rudely. 'Indeed,! Ciallows J [ill; my incautious son''' i don't Icncjw.' 'Did you ever see a Hes- caught up the spy-gkiss, and was run- sian?' ' Xo, never in my life; but they ning toward.-, the mill to look at them, are mm, and you are men, and may bo I told him it Would be liable to miscon- Hessians for aijything 1 know; but I'll struction, but he jinvailed on me to al- go with you into Colonel Cox's house, low him to gratify his curiosity ; he went, tiiough indeed it was my son at the mill ; but letiirned nuich dissatlslicd, for no lie Is but a boy, and meant no harm ; hi' troo])S could he see; as he came back, wanted to see the troojis.' poor Dickf took ihe glass, and n:>ting it "So I marched at the head of them, .ng;un=;t a tree, took a vitw of the ll.et ; opened the door, and searched every both of th'/sc were oliserved by the jilace, but we eould find no tory ; strange people on board, who suspected it was i where he could be. "\\'e returned — they anenemy that was wateliingtlieir motions. ■ greatly disappointed — l,pleaseil to lliink They manned a boat, and sent her on my house was not susj)ectcd. Tlie ea]>- shoro; n loud knocking at my door tain, a smart little fl-Uow, named Sliiji- brongiit me to-it ; 1 was a little ihitrered, ],eii, said lie wi-hed he could m c the sj'V- and kej)t lot-king and unlocking that I gla.-;s. S. ]^>. ]iroduced it, and verv civilly might get my rnllloil face a little com- ' desired his acceptance of it, which I was I'oscil: at last I opmed it, and halt' a sori-y for, as I often amused myself in dozen men, all armed, demamled the looking through it. Thev kit us and key of the empty hoirse. I asked them : searched J. Y.'s" (James ^'erlt_■(•,) "and what tlii-y wanted there; they said to the two next liouses, but irUuiw could they

search fir ad d tory who had b..an lind. 'J'his transaelion reached the to>vn,

spying at them from the mill. The and Colonel Cox was very angry, and

ntime of a tory, so near an/ oini duor, ordered the men on board. Intiieeven-

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ing, I went to town with my refugee, and 1 " December 28tli. Early this inorirmg,

placed him in other lodgings." { the troops marched ont of tuwn in high

" December 27th. A letter from Gen- spirits. A flight of siiuw tliis njurning

eralKccd to his brother," (American com- ' drove the gondolas again down the river,

mander at Eiirlington,) "informing him ]\Iy heart sinks when I think of the

that Washington had an engagement \ numbers unprejiared for death who will,

with the regulars, on the 25th, early in ' probably, be sent in a few days to appear

the morning, taking them by surprise; , before tie Judge of Heaven. The

killed fifty ajid took nine hundred pris- j weather clearing up this afternoon, we

onei-s. The loss on our side not known, ' observed several boats, witli sokhei's

or, if known, not snilered to be public. " and their baggage, making up to our

It seems this heavy loss to the regulars wharf; as I looked at them, 1 llionglit I

was owiuir to the prevailing custom ' saw a face that was not strange to me,

among the Hessians of getting drunk on and, taking tt nearer view, tound it was

the eve of that great day which brought the well-known fice of my bolov<d

peace on earth and good-will to men; but brother and friend, G. Dillwyn. M hen

oh! how unlike Ciiristians is the manner I saw the coin[ianions he was among, I

in which they celebrate it. Can we call thought of what Solomon said of liis be-

OurselvesGhristians, while we act so eon- loved, that she was like tin apple-tree

trary to our ^^lastia's rules? lie set the amongst the trees of the wood. A\ hm

e.xamplc wdiieh \ve iirofess to follow, and he came into the house, my kindred

here is a recent instance that we only , heart bade him welcome to the hospit-

jirofe.ss it ; instead of good-will, envy and able roof— for so must I evev diem ilinl

liatred seem to be the ruling jia-ions in roof wliieh has slRlteivd me ami my

the breasts of thousands. This evening, little ilcek— though our joy at mating

the 27th, al.riut tlirer. tliousaiul of the him was eheckod by the pro-p.-.-t boioiv

Pennsylvania militia and other troops and around. A man, who >e.'med to

landed in the neek, and marched into have command over the .-oldn is Jn-t

town with artillery, l>aggage, etc., and are landed, civilly a^ked tor the keys ol

quartered on the inhabitants. One com- Colonel Cox's house, in which they

pany was lodgeil at .1. V.'s, and a guard stowed their baggage, and t..ok ui' tluii-

placed between his house and ours, ^\'e quarters for the night, and were very

were so favoured as not to have any sent quiet.

to our house. An ollieer spent the even- " December 29th. This inoi luiig'tlie

ing with us, and appeared to be in high soldiers at the next hoiwe prepand to

spirits,and talked of engaging the English dei>art, and, as they pa^.-ed my door, they

asa very trilling alfair— nothing so etL-y as stopped to bless and thank me lor the

to drivethem overthe North Kiver, etc." , food I sent them, which I received, not

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as my diio, but as belonging to my BLidfv, who IkuI roaclifd a morsel to them by my hand. A great luunber of soldiers ill town to-day ; another company took possession of the next house wlien the first left it. The inhabitants iiuich straightened for bread to supiily tlie sol- diers, and firewood to keep them warm. This seems to be only one of the many calamities of war.

"December MOlh. A nuiiiber of poor so]dici>, siclc and wounded, lu-ought into town tii-day, and lodgeil in thi' court- house; some of them in jii'ivate houses. To-day, I hear, soveial of oui' towiisnien have agreed to procure wooil for the sol- diers; but tliey found it was attended with considerable dillieulty, as niol o^ the wagons usually employed to bring in \vood were pressed to take the sitldirr's baggage.

" iJecember 01st. ^\'e have been told of an engagement beiween the two armies, in which it was said the English had four liuiidred taken prisoners, and three hiin- dreiJ killed and wounded. The report of the evening contradicts the above in- telligence, and there is no certain account of a battle.

" Jamiary 1st, 1777. This Xe\v Year's day has not been ushered in with the usual rejoicings, and 1 believe it will be the beginning tif a surruwl'ul year t(i very many |KMple. Yet the tlatterer, hope, bid> nie ki.ik f irwaiil with cunlideiiir tu llini who can bring nut nf this confii.^ion the greatest order. I do nnt hear that anv me--engers have l>een in tuixn fiDUi tlie camp.

"January 3d. This morning we heard veiy distinctly a heavy firing of cannon; the sound came from about Trenton, tind at noon a number of soldiers, ujiward^ of one thousand, came into town in gn-at confusion, with baggage and some ctiiuioii. From these soldiers we learn there was a smart engagement yestei'day, at Trent. hi, and tluit they left them engaged near Trenton Mill, but were not able to say which side was victorious. They were again quartered on the inhaijJIants, an<l we again exempt frnm the (aniiber of having them lodged in our house. Sev- eral of those who lodged in Colonel Cox's house last week, returned to-niglit, and asked for tlie key, which 1 gave them. About bed-time, I went into the next house to see if the tires were sate, and my heart was melted to m,'i.' such a num- ber of my fellow-creatures lying like swine on the floor, fast aslee]i, and many of them without even a blanket to cover them. It seems very strange to me, that such a number should beallnwfd teieuUH' from the Ciimp at the viy time nl the engagements, and I .shrewdly snsjMvt they have nni away, fur thry can givf tH> account why they came or wlu le they are to inarch next.

"January 4th. The a'-enunts hourly cianing in are so contradiet<'ry and vari- ous, that we kni»v not which to giv" credit to. A\'e bavr lieaid, our people iiave gained another vi<-tory : that lii'' l-aiglish are ileeing before them, -oiu.^ al UnuL-wiek, some at J'riiMotoii. ^\ •' hear, to-day, tliat Sliarp Delany and -\.

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^[orris," (Captniii Antlinny Morn'p, her cousin,) "and otlicrs of the Pennsylvania militia are killed, and that the Count de N0J10 is numbered with the dead ; if so, the Hessians have lost a brave and lui- niane commander. The prisoners taken hy our troops are sent to Lancaster jail. A number of sick and wounded lirougiit into town, calls upon us to extend a hand of charity towards tlieni. Revc-ral of //;// soldiers left the next house, and retunird to tlu' phice iVoni wliciirc lliey eanir. Upon my (piestioniii!;- tliem ]iretty cloc, I brougiit several to confess they lia.l run away, being scared at the heavy firing on the 3d. There were several jiretty, innocent-looking lads among thrill, and T syni[>atiiizcd with their niotiiers, when I saw ihem pi'ej>ariiig to return to the army.

"January 5th. I iieard to-ilay tliai Captain Siiippeii, who flireatened to ^luiot my son' fw s]iying at the gondola-, is killed. T foi-gave him long age. for tlie fright he occasioned me, ;inii fL-lt sorry when I h.'ard he was d.-ad. We are toKl to-day that General Mercer is killed, and ^lilllin i- wriiiiidi'd ; what sad liavoc will this dreadful war make in mir land!"

"January 9th. We hear to-day that our troops have driviMi the Knglish to iJrunswick, and some si'.y there has been auotlier battle. All the officers went out ol town to-day. Tlie repoit of poor A. Morris being killed, is confirmed iiy an officer who was in the battle. A\'e liear tliat Washington has sent tn buy uji a nuTuliL'rof stiires, from whence it is con-

cluded he is going into winter cpiarters. Tlie weather very cold ; some snow fall- ing has also filled the river with ice, and we expect it will he strong enough to walk over in a day or two, and give an opportunity, to those inclined to escape, of crossing over, which, for several weeks past, has hern atti-nded with some dif- ficulty ; all the boats belonging to the town being seized upon by the gentlemen of the galleys, and either borne away, or broken to pieces, wliich they said was done to j)revent the Ilcssians irom cross- ing the livrr; and, on the h.iino jiietence, a number of bridges have been taken nji, and ofliers so niiirh damaged as to make it diflicult ihv travelers to pass from hence to Phila<lelphia. S.-venil of the ^,,Miors, who were brought into town sick, have died, and, it is fl-aivd, the di.-onl. r by whicii they were alltirte<l i^ iiilections.

"January 11th. A\'e.ither very cold, and the river quite sliiit. I ]iity the poor sojdiei-- now on tluir iiiaii-h, many of whom will, prolialily. iif ou; in the li'Ms this cold night. W'lvdl cau-c have 1 for gratitude, that I and my hou-elioid ale slielterrd from the .-torm: oh. that the hearts of my otls]iiiiig may Icani to iru-l in the God of their inntln r. He who lias condescended to pre-erve us in great daii;;i'r, and kept our fei-t from \\atiilrr- ing from the habit;ition Hi- gi>odiie-.- has allotted to u-.

"January f2tli. We are told to-day of the robbery of one of the coimiiis- sarie-s; the sum lo-t i- said to b.' flO,"""). J have nut heanl who is suspected ot

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committiug the robbery. Tlie Earl of !

B 11,'^' who quitted his liabitation on

the first alarm of the Hessians coming in, is i-eturncil with his family. We liave some hopes thai imi' refugee will be presented with a pair of lawn sleeves, when dignities beeume cheap, and .•^ii])- pose he will then ihink himseli' toD hiij to creep intu his DJd auger-hole : luit 1 shall renn'nd him o.f the iilwr. if ] live to see him cicaicil first 11 ]> of

li n.";-

".lanuary l-llli. A letter from my amiable frien<i, E. C, infuruis me her husband's Ijatlalion was in the fnmt of the battle at i'l'inceten, and hchaved r<'- markably well; they ti.iok two hundred prisoners, and left ciglity on tlic lii'l<l : he acknowledges liie jiresrrving Iiand of Providence, in bringing him .-ali' tliioiigli such a scene ol' blood, etc. 1 hear <ien- eral Howe sent a rerpiest to A\'ashington, desiring three clays" ef.ssation of aun.-., to take c-are of the wiinmf.l, and bury tin- dead, which w.'is )it'u~i<l : wlint a w.x'tul tendency war h:L-; to hardeu the human licart against the tender ii-eiings of hu- manity! Well it may be called a Iturrid

* Ironic:il.

t 'this wii.5 th." lK'run'..iirTiti of St. .MarvVCliunlLuu liilnii Tlio |.n>i-iit ri'it<.r ..f Si. .M

■HiMorv,.!' tlio eliur.li iii lairiiiiL'tmi. s:u-: - 'I ii, uii;.',t-1h.1i'. U. wlii.li til.; l,|iKik,Ti-<- Iliiw plavflillv at- lu.l.'^. was. n(.il..i,l>t, llic S-,-,^f (•/,„,„(„,-. I, ;,,],. r'tl,,' ronl' ol tiic t-oiuln-ajl iiinL; o!' Ijtr ri'Milrn. c. nitrrnl

I'rom a n.om r.cli..ini!i_- l.y (.'|..-niii- a li.]. ml I.lraw-

inu' nut till.' sLcivi'S, pnini: iiji tlii' nrnvaWr lia. k. and adniiltinr; a inT^un. liy Hixipin;;. to a dark. I)iit i|uite roomy aparlnn'iit. whii-li coiili! (Mi1\ Ij*' ruTcriil In tlii^j liu>ti'n.Mi< wav. llff.-r. 111.- G.iM-rn.r rraiiklin.lion^o wx.. .I.'mnl. :„;i. in l-T.-l, I \vr„t i;,:,. ih,, s,.<,.et Cliaiuljcr «itb f.\lraoriliaarv mlirost."

..Iio.l I	)r. (1.1.
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art, thus to change the nature of man. I thought that even barbarous nation- had a sort of religious regard for their dead. A friend from Trenton tells me ]ioor A. Morris died in three hours alter he was wounded, and was buried in Friends' burying-ground, at Stony lirook. Also Captain (Shijipen was buried by him. The .same friend told us that a man was killed in his bed, at the hou-e of Staeey I'otts, at Treiitou, in the time of the engagement there. au<l that rott>'s daughter, about the age of mine, went from home to lodge, the night ]ireeeding the battle, and leturuiiig in the morning, just as slie stepped into her father's door, a ball met her, took tlie comb out of her hair and gently grazed the .ddu of bei' head without doing her any furih<-r injury: who shall dare to say they are shot at random '.'

" January loth. 1 was a good deal alfected this evening, at seeing the hearse in whicli (ieneral .Mereer's b.idy was eoiiveved over the river, on the a e. to lie buried at Philadelpiiia ; ynnv ('aptaiii Shipipen's body was also taken over at the same time to bi buiied there."

"February od. To-day api)eared in print a proclamation of General \\ a-b- ington's, ordering "all jiersoiis who liad taken protections of the king's commis- sioners, to come in thirty days, and swear allegiance to the United State.- "> America, or else repair with their finii- lics to the lines of the Eritidi tnMp-. What will become of our retugee no" ! "Felmiarv 4th. To-'la\ eight boat.-

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!

full of soldiers sailed up tlie river to join ' morning, the alarm guns at Prineeton,

the Continental forces ; they appeared to Trenton, ]3ordcnto\vn and Bristol were

be very merry, with their drums beating tii-ed, and answered Ly - those below.

and their colours Hying; this is said to About nine o'clock, the gondolas and

be the day ap])ointed tin- our friends, barges began to appear in sight, and from

who are jirisoncrs, {i> hiive a hearing be- that time till nine at night, there have

fore Putnam; a man, who is not a lover gone u[> the river li\e uv six gondolas.

of peace, told us it was expected there Several Hat-bottomed b^als are also gone

would be bloody work on the occasion. to Bristol. There is a i'e]iort nf a battle

" Febrimry Gth. .Several hundred sol- tn-day, which seems ]iMibablt/, as we have

diers, who were returning from the camp, heard much firing above. ]'.y a ]ierson

Were quartered on thi' inhabitant.--, and i'mm Bordenldu ii, we hrar twelve ex-

in general, I hear iiehaved well. presse- came in there tn-day I'roiii eaiiiji.

"I'ebrnary 7lh. All the s'lldirr.^ i|Iko- Some (if tin- gondola men ;md tlnir wives

tered uu the town la-t night, went a\\ay bi-ing sick, and no doctor in t<i\\n to a]i-

to-day. The ]nasoners taken IVom our j.ly to, they were told that Mrs. M. was a

town and ilount Holly, discharged and >kilirnl ^voman, and kept med.iciue,- to

returned home; -several of tluiii much give'to the j.oor; and. )iotwith-tan.liiig

fatigued, and some sick." their late atti'mpts to slioot my poor lioy,

(The journal is now .-omewhat delirienl they vi'iitiucd to come to nic, and, in a\cry

in interest until ) humlile maiinn-, begged me to eouie and

"June 10th. A person from the camp do something fii' them. At first J

came to town to engage a luimbei' of tlmnglit th,-y might have :id<'.-ign t'.> put

guides (logo back wilb him.) who weie a trick on me, and get me aboard of tli'ir

well acquainted with the ditlerent roads goiidol.i, and then pilhiire my liou-e as

to Philadelpliia, that in ca.-e our people they had done .some others ; b\it, on ask-

should be obliged to retreat they may ing where die .-ick fill> were, wa.- t-!d

not be at a loss. they were lodged in the governor's hou-e.

"June 11th. Certain intelligeiKje ai- So I went to see tin ni. There were

rived, per express, that the Engli-h are .several, both men and women, very ill

at Bound Brook, the Americans .at .Mor- with a f'ver." "! treated them aeeordinL;-

ristown. to art. ami they all uoi well. I thou-la

".Innelotb. Jvoly thi- morniie.; the 1 had received all my p;iy. wiieii tbcy

soldiers beat to march tVoin Bii-tol, and tlianklully ackiiowh d^;. d my kindne-s,

in the couree of the day, sevei-al lioats but lol in a short time atterwards, a very

full of soldiers, with the Pennsylvania rough, ill-l "..king man came to the door

nulitia, sailed up the river. and a-ked for me. W'lr n 1 uent to l;;i;i,

"June 14tii. IJefore daylight tin.- he <liew me aside and ;-..-ked if 1 iiad any

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friends in Pliiladelphia. Tlie question ! a letter, a bushel of salt, a jug of iim- alarmed uie, supposing there was some ' lasses, a bag of rice, some tea, coffee and mischief meditated against that ]ioor city; sugar, and some cloth for a coat fur uiv however, I caludy said: '1 have an an- jjoor boys— all sent by my kind si.-lcis. eient father-in-law, some sisters and ilow did our heai'ts antl eyes ovei'llnw other neai' friemls there.' 'Well," .stid with love to them, and thanks to cmr the man, ' do you wish to lioar from them, , Heavenly Father for .such seasonable .-iip- or send anything byway of relVeshment i plies. May we never forget it. JJcin- to them? If yiai dn, I will take charge ' now so rich, we thought it our diUv lo of it, and bring yon liack anything you hand out a little to the pour aruund u.- may sc-iiil iov.' 1 was vi-ry much sur- who were mourning for want of salt : mi pri.-ed, and tlumght, in Ijc suie, lie only we thvideil the bushel, and gave a pint wanteil tu gel pmvi.-iuns in take to the t-i every luioi- jierson that came for it, and gondolas, wheal be tuld me his wife was had a great jileiity f ir uur own ii-e. In- one of those I had given lurdicine tu, and deed, it seemed as if our little stoiv iii- this was tlie only thing lie could do to crea.xed by distributing it, like the bread pay me for my kindness. My heart broken by our Saviour to the mulliliide. leaped with joy, and I set aliout prej.ar- which, when he had ble.s.-ed it, wa> .-. ing something ibr my dear absi^nit friend,-, marvelouslv multiplied. A quarter of beef, .some veal, towls and "One morning, having bit my cli;!i!i- llour were .soon put up, and about mid- bi-r at an earlier hour than usual, and night tlie man called and took thiaii casting my eyes towanls the river, wa- aboard of his boat, lie lett lliem at surpri-eil to set- ,some hujidreds of boal-, | Kobert lb.pkin>'s, a; tbo roiiit, from all lillcd with Ibiti.-li solditis. 1 ran to 1 whence my bclovd tiirnd-; to..k tlu/m to my dear (j. l).'s ro..ni, and bcL'-ued liiiu 3 town; and, two nights atl.'r, a loud to get uji and see the .-igiit. He went !o | knocking at our front door greatly the window, and 1 waited to hear wluil | alarmed u^. Opening the ehandjcr win- he would say; but, as he .-aid nolliiuLj, I | dow, wt> heard a man's voice saying, called out to him, ' lirother, what .-hall | 'Comedown softly and open the door, we do now?' He opened his door, and | but bring no liubi." Theie was some- sweetly and calmly said, ' Let u-, my | tlung mysterious in sucii a call, and we sister, keeji still and quiet ; 1 believe no _j concluded to go down and srt tl\o camlle harm will happen to ns ;' and indeed ue \ in tie- kitch.-n. Wlaai we got to the were favoured with remark;ible siilha-- : | front door, we asked, ' \Vho are you?' even the children seemed to jiariake of it. | The man rej)lied,'A friend.ojieiKpnekly ;' The boats weie ordered up the river to] loi- : 60 the door was opened, and who ^lloul.i dentown to burn all the gondola-;" " the 3 it hv but our hone,-l gondola man, with hist b.xit we saw. was a small one. with )

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only three iiieu and the rowers in it; thcj' Avere not soldiers : when they came op- posite to the town wliarf they stopped rowing and pulled oil' their hats and bowed to the people on the wharf. \Vc lieard afterwards it was our jioor rel'ugee, Dr. S. Burling, and .1. Stansbury, who intended to have come on shore and paid us a visit, but so many people appearing on the wdiarf they tliouglit it safest to take to their oars and follow the fleet. One large ve-sel, witli cannon, was in tlie fli-et, and when they returned, were or- dered to lire if tliey saw soldiers on the wliarf or about tlie streets. It seems the soldiers had notice of tlie time when they were to I'eturn, and they plaeed themselves along the shore ipiite down to the ferry; it was first-ilay at'ternotjn, and all the family luit myself' gone to meet- ing, and I was lying on the bed, and hearing a large gun, looked out of the window, and saw the iai'ge ship .^o clo.-e to our luiidilig that I thought they weii' cotniiig ashore ; when, behuMI ihuy firnl two or three of their great guns, which shook the h(iu-e, and went through the walls of our iie.xt-door neighbour, who was a ca]itain in the relicl army. I still kept at the window, unapprehensive of danger, and seeing a man on the deck talking ami pdinting to my hi.iu-e, one of ihein said, ' In that liuu-e lives a woman to whom I am indebted t'wr my life ; she ^iheUered nic when I wa.- driven linmmy ow-u liou.^e,' etc. Thi.- 1 w;i.s afterwards told by a (lerxiii wlii hi-aid it ; it i> needless to add it was our poor refugri.-.

A rebel quartermaster, w ho had received some little civilities from my t^. I), and myself, asked me one day if I did not wish ti> see my friends in Philadelph'a ; I said it was the wish nearest my heart; he said he woidd accompany me as far as Frankfort, if 1 would promise to take no kind of provision with me, and that he would meet me at the same jilace and conduct me home again. Such an offer was not to be slighted. I went to my friend, A. 0..and askecl her if shewi.mld venture to bear me comjiany. She \ny- fully agreed, and we borrowed a hoi>e and chair, and early ne.xt morning set out. Our quartermaster being our guard, and good neighbour J. ^'. went with us to the ferry, to .sec us safe over. A\'c got to A. James's" (former parlni'r of the elder John Smith) "place in theafternodn. and sent notice to our fiieiids in to\Mi, and ne.\t nioiinng my father, brothers ]\Ioore and A\ ells, and niv t«o sister.-, with Dr. (J., elc, met us at Kiaisington, for tiny daivd not go further, that being the I!riti.-li lines. I belifve ihei'e iievi-r was a more h'art-tendering meeting. 1 had not seen my lather and sisters for many months, ami the dangi'rs \m' werr surrounded with, and the proliabilily of this being the la.-t lime we might meet on earth, together with the rep(Ht.- of iln' great .scarcity of provi.-ions in tnwii, and a thousand otlier things, all eontrihuled to make it an awfiillv atUeting meeting. My sisters went to A. J.'s ]ilaee and dined with me. . .\. < ', -layi'd with her hu-band tdl estiiiiiL;, wlun mv dear s^--

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ters left me and returned to tnwn. The ' out at the same instant; Nanry liuld tlir parting was almost too niucli for iiio. I liorse while I rolled a stone luhind tli. thought we were taking a last i'arewell of wheel, and there we stooil at'iaid (o >iir each other, but pai't we must; they went from the horse, and thinkin- we >hi.iil(! to town, and Naney and myself retired be obliged to leave the chair and lend ilu soon to bed, expecting our quartermaster horse home. At last we ventured to the to call on us by daylight, but no news door of a small house bard by; a ni:in did we hear of him ; but a heavy firing came out, and with the help of XancyV in the morning made us fearful we ribbons and my garters fixed us off, and should not get safe home. About nine we once again mounted the eli;iir, and o'clock .some stragglers stop]>ed at our walked the hor.-e till we came nmr ihr i]uarters, and said there had been a i!ri-lol road, when- we heaid tlio W-viy skirmish between the English and was guarded, and none sulfeifd t(j em-s. Americans, and, hkhv terrible still, that llnwrver, we kept on, and at leiigili liarties were ordered out to bring in all reached the ferry, where, instead of they shoidd meet witli ; this intrlligenee armed men, we eoidd liardly iind nnc made as conclude in ventuie hiunewartls man to put us over. At last we got ovir. without our guide ; we got into oni- chair and now being on onr own shore, w br- and whipped and cut our dull lior-e at .a gan, like people ju<t esca]ied from sliip- strange rate. Several jtartiis [,;|..-('(1 and wreck, to review the dangias ]ia>t, am! repassed, and iinestioiied ns about whence congratulate ourselves on our arrival in a we came, and where we were going — they safe port; and I hope not witliout a sin- .said if we were going to liuilington, we cere, though silent ackiiowlL-dgnieut ot should be stopped at the ferry and taken the .;;ood hand tliat liad voueh-af.d lo to 'Washington's headipKirlei-s, lor tht-rr biiiig us so fir on our \\ay to our loin iy was a rrport that womon had brrn into haiiilation-. ^Vlien wu arrived at my town and brougiit out good^. \\\- kept dooi-, my belov.-d S. I), liad the ne.-h- our minds pi-etty cabn, hojiiu'j^ that if we hours and childnai all -itting witu her ; got sale to the ferry, as we were su well her tend','!', anxious mind filled with a]i- known, we should meet no more dangers, ]ii-elieusions for our sat'ety. As wi' had and we got along well till we got to the stayc'd a day longer than we intended, hill beyond the Ked Lion, whieh being it was eonjei'iiuvd by cur wi-e neighbotir, very bad, and we still pre--ing our p'".r d. V., that some terrible' thing had liai'- iiorse lo make me>re ha^le, be made one pened : nothing le^s than that the hoi-e. violent e.xerlion to reach the top of ihe which was his, had been seized, and we hill, when, to (uir utier ili-may, the kept in Peiin-ylvania. Kd. Smitli. who swiugletrei.' broke, au<l tli-' chair be-au lent the chair, wa< i-piaify alainied tei lo roll down the lull. W<- both jnnipi'd the file of his eairia-e; and S. 11., wii.,

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loudly exclaimed against the expedition, said we were certainly carried to head- (liiartcrs ; and as Nancy's husband was in the Eritish pay, it would l;i> hai-d with her for his sake ; hut, behold 1 ;ill tlieir wise conjectui-es proved like the croaking of the raven, for, in the midst of it all, we appeared before them in our ]iroper persons, before our arrival was announced. Some cried out, whcre's the liorse ? where's the cliai]-'.' where have vou been ? etc. \\'e utivlv told them all

was safe, tlien sat down to a good disli of tea, and rehearsed all we liad scen.lioard and suffered ; when we were seriously ad- vised never to engage again in such a perilous undertaking ; and we as seri- ously assured them that if we did, we would look out for a stronger lioise and chair, and he our own guide, lor that our late expedition, so fiir from being a dis- couragement, was like a whet to a hungry man, which gave him a better ai>)>etite fur bis dinner.''

V

CIIAPT]]R. XYII.

A WHIG LADY IN THE llEVOLITTIOX.—

[Letkr from Dchm-ah U

IN answer to my pHteenied I'rieud | AVattfonV^' qiiiTies, respecting wlmt | I can reiuemlier of tlie state of things, facts i and the expression of public ojiinion dining tlic memoralilo years of 1777 and 177'S, when the ho,~tik> army of ti real ]>rit4iin oeeu[)itd I'hiladeljJiia, I will give my recollections as briefly and sim- ply as I can ; approving much of his \ diligence in endeavouring to collect all | the information now to be obtained from those wlio still survive, whd had lived at that stormy jieriod. and jno^t heartily do I rcci]iroeate tlir vi-h, that our beautiful city may never again lie forced to receive into its domicile the armed bands of a menaciug fie, mir its >(iil evei' aiiaiu iie pressed by tin 'h-Lt df a fireii^ii invader. " I wa-^ about ten yjar.s of a:;e at the lime, ami can well remember th( previous gliwni sjiread over the mimls of the in- habitant-:, (I niiw write from reculh'cted ideas and without consulting any docu- ments or dates), fi'oni the time it was thought the enemy would ad\auce thro' the Jersies ; the very darki>i Injur of the Revolution apj'caring ti.i me to bi.- that preceding the capture of the lles.-ians, at Trenton ; those who favoured the iriiv-

.Ii.hii F. ■\Vals,.D. auth.T uf •' Ann

nf I'hila-

-ItECOI.EECTIOXS OF DEBORAH L0C;AN.

>^a/i to John F. WaUon.']

ernment at home, as England was thru called," (the tories,) "became elated and the Whigs depressed; this may aeeouni for a good deal of severity that was !i.-rd before the constituted authorities of llial time left thr city; in visiting the in- habitants and inspecting what stores of jirovisions they had, taking, in some iu- stiinces, what thej' deemed sujierlluou-, especially blankets, of which our army were in gi-eat lu'cd ; they had -eveial ti-om my mother, and came to soareh tlif house for arms, laU vei-y ci\illy took my word that we had none seci-eted. *.>ar large, old house in Chestiuit ^treii. afforded an abundant supply i.if lead, which was an article in great di naind : I'oi the watcr-sjKjuts. ].ip(> and liniuL' ot i.-isterns, of whicli we IkuI many, w.'irall torn off and taken. After the ]'iiliH<' authorities had left the city.it was a vci; gloomy time indeed; we knew the iiu ni_\

', had landed at the head of JClk. Imt oi their jirocedure and movements wr had but vaL'iie informatiiju, t'oi- uonr "'i'' Ivt't in the city in jiublic employ to whom e.\p]-e.-ses would bo addressed, 'i h'' '1''.^" of the battle of j'irandywine was ono ol deep anxiety; we heard the firing and knew of an eng.igcnimt brtwein ihe

I aimies without ex]i(_cting in!modi:in' I'l- ] .-: i

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formation of the result, when towards night, a horseman rode at full speed down Chestnut Street and turn'd round Fourth to tlie Indian Queen ])ublic-house; many , ran to iiear what he luid to tell, and ns I | remember, his account was pretty near the | trutti,iie toldof I^afayette being wounded. ;

"We were then for some time in igno- ' ranee of the marcli of tlie armies, but j were certain they wiiuhj bdce possession ( of the city; and an cwuinL'-, or jierhaps | two, previous to that e\ent, we were | itlarmed witli thi; most awi'idly grand display of an Aiii'dra IJorcali- in the heavens whicli we lind ever seen. At first some suggested that the crimson- } stain'd streamers, which flashed over us i witti ever-varynig nKitious, was occa- sioned liy the fires of the army, but j when convinced tlitit it was too vast to be attributed to iunnan ajrencv. suiiei-sti- tion mingled with our fears, and i'ow weiv philosoj)hic enough to regard it as a natural Mpjirarance withuut jHtncnf; i'jr my own jvirt, what 1 litnl read of tlie siege of Jeru.-alem and the dreailful sight.s which tliat nufortuiiate people im- agined they .saw in tlie heavens, wjien they averted their eyes from the liorrors of tlie Ciirtli, jireseuted itself to iny mind and filled it with the most mehmeholy reflections.

" Wc had for a neighbour and an iii- tiniatc acquaintance, a vtrv amiable ]'2nglish gentleman, who had been in the British army'^' and liad lell the service

who niarrie.l lawyer

•This wa.5 Hfnrv liurnoy .lohii liossMaiifhtor l-:illi,riii in th.' Ijouvo (if .r,.|iu RciJ's. i

^ l^aiik of LTnitC'l

24

upon marrying a rich and excellent lady of Pliiladelphia some years before. He was a person .so much liked and esteemed by the public, that he remained unmo- lested at a time when the committee of ]nibiic safety sent many excellent citizens into banishment, without a liearing, njion the most vague and unfounded sus- picion, but contented themselves with only taking his word of honour, that lie would do nothing inimical to tlie country, nor furnish the enemy with any iiif irni- iition. He eiideavoiiied to give my mother confidence that the inhabitants would not be ill-treated, saying, tliat the army must indeed be very much altered from what he had known, if strict dis- cipline would not i>e enforced, and the inhabitants and tlieir projierty respecteil. A family from New Yuik. of an old gentleman and liis wife and six lovely girls, their daughters, wlni had let't that city u[ion their ap[iro:ich, were induced to st:iy upon the representation oi' ^Ir. Ciurney ; one of the young ladies vras ill and no sort of convenience adequate to the removal of the family could at the time be' procured. He advised that we sliould all be well dresse^l and that we should kee]) our houses closed. Tlic army murched in and took possi.'s.-ion of the town in the naiiiiing. ^\ i' were u]i- stairs and saw them ]ia-s to the State- Hiai.-e; they looked well, clean and^vell- clad, and the contrast between them and our own jioor, barefooted and ragged tnxjps wa.'-; very great, and caus'd a feel- ing of de.-iiair; it was a solemn and im-

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pressive day, but I saw no exultation in the enemy, nor indeed in those who were reckoned favourable to their success. Early in the afternoon, Lord Cornwallis' suite arrived and took possession of inj' mother's house; ICnoch Story, a tory gen- tleman of the city, coming to apprise her of it and advise her not to rcsi.st, as the troops must be quartered upon the inhabitants, and he said it would be better to have an officerof high rank ; butmyniotherwasap- pallcd by the numerous train wliieb tmik possession of her dwelling, and shrank i from having such inmates, for a guard was mounted at the door aiul the yard filled with soldiers and baggage of every dcscrijJtion, and I well remember what we thought of the haughty looks of Lord Ivawdon and the other aid-de-camp, as they traversed the a]iaitniL-nts. ^ly mother dusired to speak with Jjord Corn- wallis, and he attended her in the front parlour ; she told hiiu of lier situation ami how imj".i.^^ib]e it would bu tin- hrr t^) stay in hi.r own house with such a numerous train as comjiosed hi- lni-d- ship's establishment. He brhavcd wiili great politeness to her, said he should be sorry to give trouble and would have other quarters looked out for him. They withdrew that afternoon and he was ac- commodated at Peter Eeeve's, in Second near Spruce Street, and we felt very glad at the exemption, but it did not la,-t long, for directly the quartermasters were cm- ployed in billeting the troups, and we hail to find riMim for two oilicer-i of artillery, and afterwards an addition

for two gentlemen, secretaries of Ixird Howe.

" The officers very generally, I believf, behaved with politeness to the iidiabit- ants, and many of them upon going away, expressed their satisfaction that ikj injury to the city was contem]>lated by their commander; they said that living among the inhabitants and speaking the saini' language, made them uneasy al the tluiught of acting as enemies. One nf our ollicers \\as a Scotchman, ]iretty fai- advanced in life, sensible, solier and sedate, he had lieen long in tlie army and acquainted with mankind in cam]' and foreign countries. He s}ioke fiecly of the war and of the little honour to l>c gained by it; lie strove to give as little trouble as possible, and charged a soldier who waited on him, to be assisting in cutting wood and bringing water tor the kitchen. The secretaries als(j brhavrd in a most unexceptionable maniirr; our of tliem, a Mr. Davis, was his lordship'- |irivate secretarv; the other, Ambro-i' Serle, Esquire, was secretary tfi the com- mission that came out aliout that timr to ofViT peace upon condition of indtpi ad- ence lieing retracted; terms, that they soon understood would not be accci'tid. Upon the arrival of the commi-sionrrs, even I\Ir. and Mrs. Gurney were com- ■ pelled to receive inmates; and Mr. ]-din. (afterwards Lord Ancklanjl,) "and h'.- young wife, a daughter of Andiow l.lb- ott's, and whose mother Wius a lady ot ihr riumstpad family, of Philadelphia. Ns.rr the iiersons: thev w-ere very indiu'i:'"'

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at this, aiul Mrs. Guriicy insisted she woukl only receive them as guests, a measure which it seemed surprising should have been complied with, and I believe was afterwards regretted by them- selves, for the ex]iense was considerable, and the pleasure bearing nothing ade- quate to the trouble and vexation.

"At first, provisions were scarce and dear, and we had to live with much less abunduiKr than we had liecn accustomed to ; hard money was indeed as dillieult to come at as if it had never be(ju taken from the mines,excciit with those who had things to sell for ihe use of the army ; they had given certificates to the farmers as they came up thro' Chester County, of the amount of stores they had taken, and upon these being presented for ]iay- ment at headijuariers, they were duly lionoured. My mother received a season- able supply in this way, frdin |iersons who we're in her debt, and had bi-t-n ]iaid for whtU the army liad taken. Edith Clieyney had received a pntty tievcr sum, wliicli her husband had diiretnl her to taki' to tuy mniht/r in part pay- ment of what had licoi Ifiit to tht-m in good money years before, to preserve their place IVom the hiinds of the slierilf; but when she saw the guld uii tlie table, she could not resolve hi part with it till, but reserved some to take home, of whieh she wa.s robbed on the way by some oi' the lawless banditti who iuie.-'ted tin- roads near the lines. Many persons had buried tlieir ]'i:ile and money, and some were simjile euougii to put tlu.ii papers

into such recesses, wliere they, of course, if kept aiiy time, mouldered and were ruined. Everything considered, the citi- zens fared b(.'tter than could have l)een expected, and tlio' it was certainly dis- agreeable ill many places, on account of the dirt, yet tlie city was healthy. The enemy appeared to have a great di'al of shii)ping in the Delaware; I counted sixty vessels that looked of large size, moored so close to each other, that it seemed as if yon could not put a band between them, near to where the navy- yard now is, and all the wliarves and places seemed crowded. There was se-irce anything to sell in the shops when lliey came into the town, and the ptiper money jiad de[ireeiated to nothing. 1 remeiid.ier two pieces of silk that I saw on .-ale a little before their arrival, at one hundred dollars per yard. Tea was fifty or sixty dfillars jier pound.

"The day of the battle of( lermaiil-iwii, we heard the liring all d^iy but kii'.'W not theie.-uli. Toward.- eveniiii: they bn/u-bt in the wounded. The pii-oiieis w.re carried to the .-^tate-llou.-e b.bbie-. and the street was presently filled wilb women, taking lint and bandages and eviiy re- freshment which they thought tlieir suf- feriug countrymen might want. 1 -aw an ollieer stop one of tiie.se group- and a-k them, m half jest, why they diil not uirry such things to the other hospitals where the woumled Briti-h were. 'O sir,' answered a lively girl, who had a deep iiUere-t al-tuki .iiiHiig her bill ^ -s ; people, ' permit Us to go to your enemie-,

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we know your ability and liuiiuiiiity to your own wounded men, or tlicy sliould have some of our things liicewisc' They were sufl'ered to proceed, and after tlie others were dressed, tlie surgeons at- tended to tlieia likowiM-'. The i.iar- barous treatment of |iris(inei's in the prison, by the provost,'-' was udl known to us in tlie city at the time, and I have hojied, for the sake of huniauity, it was not so bad as was afterwaids rejiorted, tlio' he was certainly a wicked and in- human iiiNtruinent. Wny, willi all the polish of courteous chivalry, is a dread- ful evil, and jiroductive of great itnsery and woe ; but when fiends, in the slia2)e of cruel and unprincipled men, mingle in the sanguinary bnsine.-s it is Indy the work of hell,4ind there is no i-elief af- forded to the jiieture.

"The soldiers, when preparing togoout on an expedition, used to express very pious wishes that some of their oflicers might be kilk-d in order that pvciiiintioii might take jilaee; this was in thu artil- lery. Otir eaplain's man UMtd to tell the girls in the kitelie-n, that his master questioned him .-o elo.-dy about every- thing which he procured, that he never had a chance to get any plunder ; he did not dare, he said, to take even a ebiekcn without jjaying for it, but it may be easily thought, few were so scru]iulous.

"General Howe, during the time he staid in I'hiladelnhia, seized and kept for

* Conytipham Sr.mo .if tlii? Brilii^h o^i.■<^r= thrm- elves sjiiike wiib inili^'iiatiim ol Ins Ijarbanty.

his own use Mary Pemberton's coach and horses, iu which he used to ridr about the town. The old oflicers ap- peared to be uneasy at his conduet, and some of tlicai freely expressed their opinions. They said, that bei'oie his promotion to the chief commaml, he sought for the counsels and company of oflicers of experience and merit, and that when lie knew such were on guard at their diilerent quarters, he would go and sit with thorn, and converse on sub- jects of science and seek for intoi'niatioii. i!ut now his companions were usually a set of boys, the most dis.sipatcd set of I'ellows in the army, and he snifered ' Mr. A\'a.-h- iiigton' to circumvent iiiin in all his plans. 'I'hey admitted, tho'relu<-tantly, as may ]»■ thought, the great prudence and \\cll- devised conduct of (jiir illusLiious eoin- man<ler.

" Lord Howe was much more sedate and dignilied than his brother; really digni- fied, fir he did not seem to alTcet any pomp or ]iarade ; and I have known him, Avhen he wanted Captain Duneaii, of the ' ]ilagle,' (who used to come eon- sUuitly over to our garden, when in at- tendance on his lordship,) walk in at tin- gate and up the piazza, to look for him. insicad of sending a messenger. Jtelorc they left the city, he observed to Iiis .-' c- retary that they hail made mneh ii>i- ot my inother's liou-e and garden, and lie should like to reiiuinerate her tor it, and he offered to lake my youngest iirotlier as a inidsliipnian on boani of ins sliip, but this, inv mother's feelini; toward her

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own coutitry, and lier religious princi- ! ])les equally forbudc. |

"Tliey were exceedingly chagrined and ' surprised at the capture of Burgoyne, and at first would not snfi'er it to be mentioned. We liad received undoubted intelligence of it, in a letter from Charles i Thompson, and njion communicating this i circunistauce to Henry Gurney, his in- terrogations forced an acknowledgment ; from some of the superior officers, that it ; was, as he said, too true. !

"One of niy acijuaintanccs, indeed an intimate one, performed the part of a ' Nymph of the Blended Rose,' in tlie S[ilendid festival of the Meschianza, but I saw no part of the show, not even the ! decorated hall, where the knights and i ladies supped amidst the 'grand salams' of their turbaned attendants; nor even tlie liidotto jiart, which was gazed at from the wha r ves and warehouses by all the uninvited part of the population of the town, except the ^stncicr Frinuls; not that I wanted curio-ity, but its gratification was forbidden to me, and I couM liut ac- knowledge the propriety of the j)rohibi- tion. But the exjiectation and exhilara- tion wiiich it caused amongst the gay and young can hardly be imagined, and the tH'ect of the tournament and the dance, as described by them afterwards, grand and imposing in the highest de- gree. It was upon this ocaision, that tile old officer 1 have before spoken of, observed, that if ' Mr. Waijhington ' acted with his accustoim-d prudence lie would not disturb them whilst they were

engaged in such work. The ttistes and talents of the unfortunate Andre were put in full requisition lor this en- tertainment, and many of the decorations of this room, it was said, were arranged by him, and the scenes painted on can- vas by his own hands, some of which, I was recently told, were still remaining in some houses in the neighbourhood of the hall of celebration.

" Now I have mentioned Major Andr(', I am reminded of an anecdote rcspect- ing him, not indeed in strict keeping with the character which he sustained, but which I give on the authority of Charles Thompson, ICsquire, who heard it from DuSimitiere himself. That gen- tleman had staid in the city during it^ occupation by the British, and being intimately ac(iuainted with Andre, he waited on him to engage his attention to the protection of the Library and otiier public institutions upon the evacuatirin of the city. Andre occujiied J.)r. Frank- lin's house, in which his t'uruitaie and books were left. Simitiere found him in the doctor's library, engaged in jiackiisg up books, which he to<ik with lii< nwn baggage; he specified in particular a splendid work which had been still left in the doctor's keeping; it was a jire.-i'Ut from L<juis X^T. of France, to the Phi'f*- sophical Society. I think, he slid, it was in twenty-tiiur volumes, suiierbly boaiul. Its editors were the Jesuits in China, and it was a work of great learning and in- genuity: 'Tlie Notiti.-i of the (.'hiii'^e.' Sirniticre declare',! that lie w;us cim-

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founded at what lie saw, and en- deavoured, tlio' indirectly, to awaken bini to a proiier sense of the turpitude of the action, by relating what he had just witnessed of the honourable eouduet of General Knij)haMsL-n, who had occu- pied General Cadwallader's house, and who had caused an inventory to be taken of its contents when he entered it, and was that morning engaged in examining that all was right upon hLs departure; but the hint was useless and the btioks were removed. The streets seemed al- wayB well filled, both with ntheers and soldiers, and 1 belies e they iVequently attended diiferent places of woishin ; but Fj'iends' meetings were not much to their tiistes. They had their own chaplains to the different regiments, which appeared to us a mere mockery of religion. Parson Eadger was chaplain to the artillery, and he was billeted at John Field's, who, with his wife, were very jilain Friends in our neighbourhood; the hou-e was v<rv small and he hail the tioiit raum ujj- stuii-s, and as he was a ji:)lly, good-teni- JK-Ted |>crson, he was much liked by the young fellows, who u.->-d to call and see liim after jKirade, till liis room and the st;iirs and porch, and chairs out on the jiavemcnt, in fuu- weather, would becpiite filled with them; they aiijieared to i'c very merry, but the family spoke verv well of his manners aiid bLhavimir, ami it nuist be conles.sed that the citizens generally fared better than was aniici- pafed from their occujiation ef the t(jwn. " Even ^Vhi^' ladii-., nt-nt to llie Mt-s-

chianza and to balls, but I knew of verv few attachments formed; nor, with iIm- exception of one instance, oi' any waui of jiropriety of behaviour.

"When they left the city, ami tin- officers came to take leave of their ac- quaintance and express their good wjsho, it seemed to us that a considvralilr change had taken place in their prosjicct- of success, between the time of their entry and departure. They often sj.oke freely in conversation on these subjeei-, and admitted that our country ollerecl great facilities. AVe saw some for the last time in the evening, many went in the night, and on the morning of the

of June, the suite of Lord Ilo\\e

departed. 'J'he secretaries went ; they had only a lodging at our house, but went always to his lordshiji's table. 'I'lie other officers found their own provision- and had their servants to dress them. They had beds, liedding antl uleiisil- from the tiunilies where thev were (jiiar- tered, and in most cases, their eivihty made the hirsiness moi'e toleialile. i knew an instance where an old ollicer was 02)posed to the utmost of dri/ le-i-t- ance, and he as intent on gaining admis- sion as he would have been of urging on the surrender of a fortress, 'f lie family formed a terrible idea vi' him, and thought that they should have a mi-i uncomfbrtiible time with such a bluster- ing inmate, but by degrees this subsided, they became so plea-sed with him. ll'-i' ' Cajitain Scott ' was (pioti d as auth'irity bv them on everv occasion.

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'"Tlie Honourable Cosmo Gordon' staid all night at his quarters, and lay in bed so long the next morning that the family thought it but kind to awaken him and tell him ' his friends, the rebels, were in town.' It was with great difliculty he procured a boat to put him over the Delaware, perhaps he and his man were the last that embarked. jMaiiy soldiers hid themselves in cellars and other places, and staid behind, (I have heard.) In two houi-s after we saw the la.^t of them, oui- own dragoons gallojied down the street.

" Adjutant Heed, of the artiileiy, had been billeted at neighbour Horn's. She was the wife of au infirm but patriotic mail, wlio was out in tlie service of his country. The adjutant was afflicted with the gout, which she knew huw to luirse, and when he was about to depart he told his hostess that they might have all they left behind at the artillery park " (the Ptatc-IIou.-;e yard.) "It wa< an ckM be- quest, but .«he was anxiuus to avail her- self of it, and came over tn my mother to consult what w;i.-: U> be di.nc. The result was to procure airt.s ami haul awav the hickory-wood directly. Jly mother t<jld her that the public authorities would visit that place immediately ami not regard the adjutant's proposition. IJut before they appeared the bovs disputed the damagf-d jxiwdcr and otlier things wiiich were leit.

"When our own troops took po,s.sej- sion of the .■ity. Cneral .\rnold, then flushed with the rieeut cajiture of I!ur-

goyne, was appointed to the command of it, and his quarters, (as if we had been conquered from an enemy,) ap- pointed at Henry Gurney's ! '^i'hcy were appalled at the circumstance, but thought it prudent to make no resist- ance, when, to tlieir agreeable surprise, his politeness and that of his aids. Major Franks and Cajitain Clarkson, made the imposition sit light, and in a few days he removed to Mrs. Master's, in ^Market Street, that ha<l been occupied as head- quarters by General Howe, where lie entered on a style of living but ill- according with republican simidicity, giving sumptuous entertainments that involved him in exj^enses and debL«, and must jirobably laid the founda- tion of his necessities and jjoverty. of his future del'ection and treason to his country.*

"The various events of the war and tlie fact.s that have since been elicitc<l make it no enlhusiaslic view of the sub- ject to .^ay, that Hivine I'rovideiu-c favoured our cause; and it most happily at length triumphed ; but there were times in which the bad pabsions ami ill-humour of many of those who were engaged in it-s defence, were much l>ettcr calculated to drive their ojiponents into

* General Arnold was lamo and n^^cd a cnitch : hi-s livmenes!^ was ucc.asioncd hv his wounds at i^'ucficr. He murried Miss >hippcu. o!' riiiladLlplua. i.ne of Ihe belles wiio ti^nired .n General Howes eutrrlaiutn.-nis. Colonel A. .Mr Lane tt)l!l nie he early saw Arnold's siiirtl of extortion and deceit. As a L'eneral olti. er and because he niaih' complaint itf ir. Iho 'jr'tu ral <in\ iiuii out on a liazariloud >'-outim,' fvpoJitu'n into .I.T-.s.Kli.TehpKopod hewo>d.l havetM-otieiil oil I — .Votk'v...- .1, I' AVatsov.

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the service of the enemy, than to keep distress, wlien actcil ii]hiii, tliui f, II 1,, them true to themselves. Often the i oiilyupou their hel2>lessaiuliii;i(H-iiit i most wanton sacrifice of the projierly of 1 ilies, and tlirew a mourniid Av.ul.' . individuals took place upon account of ' the succeeding soeiics. liut the w;-.; the militia fines, and the ill-gotten ' and humanity of the illiistrinus tV.iu gains were pocketed hy the commissaries • of the Constitution of llic.-c Sini.-, 1. and tax gatherers. salutary enactment have judifii.u-lv |

"The confiscation of the estates of i videdagainstany future reiieiitlnn ..)'■ those who had joined the British was no useless severity and di.-tress. jMiblic l)enefit, and occasioned scenes of "Dehok.mi Lik.an.

CHAPTER XVIII.

MARRIAtiE AXD OISITUAKY XOTIC'KS.

The following marriage auJ obituary notices, during the Eevolutionary j^eriod, of members of the family of the Hon. John Smitli, have been cojiied fi'om the " Penim/han'in Gazrltc," }niblishcd in I']iiladel])liia.

Marriage of the diai'i-t's eldest son. {Fmnnylvaula Gazette, Januaiy 23d, 1772:)

" On Jlonday the 13th inst., was mar- ried, at ]»urlingtoii, Mr. James >^iulth, •son of the Hon. John Smiih, Esquire, deceased, to Miss Hetty Hewlingv, an agreeable young lady."

Death of Iillizabeth i-^mith, the " sister Betty" of the diary. {Pennstjlcanin Gazette, October 14th, 1772:)

"On the 3d inst., was interred at Bur- lington, after a solemn meeting on that occasion, Elizabeth J^mith, in whom were haj^iily united many pious excellencies ; by a steady conformity to the Divine will, shebecameeminentlvdistinguished : beiuir occp in council, sound in judgment ; awful* her manners, refined her senti- ments and graceful her deportiuent. She J)a.s.sed through a large share of bodily afiliction with great patience aud sta- I'iiity, having a for(5t;i.ste of that joy

' IMgnifieJ. 2o

which is unsiieakablc aud full of glory."

Marriage of the diarist's nephew, son of Hon. Samuel Smith. {Pini)f<ulfaiiia Gazette, June 14th, 1775:)

" On Tuesday, the Glh inst., was mar- ried Joseph Smith, Esquire, of liurling- ton, Treasure!' of "West New Jersey, to Miss James, the amiable and agreeable daughter of Abel James, Esquire, of this city."

Death of the Hon. Samuel Smith. {PcKHStjlcania Guzetti ,^v^\ 17tli,1770:)

"On the 13th inst., after a short ill- ness, died at Burlington, in the hfty-sixth year of his age, Samuel Smith, Esquire, a worthy and useful member of the com- munity. At an early periwl in lite he was called to act in its service as a rejire- sentative in the general as-embly <.if New Jersey, and one of the juovineial treasurers, and afterwards apjiointed to a seat in the king's council. In thejse sev- eral stiitious he acquitted liimself witli ability, integrity and au unblemished rejjutation : noa- was his character h-s.^ rcsi)ectable, when considered as a iiieii}- ber of the religious society of the jieo])ie CJilled Quakers, in whose burial-ground Ilia remains were inti.rrod the 15th in.-i., attended by a largo number of relations,

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neighbours and friciuls, who loved and esteemed liini whilst living, and paid tliis last tribute of their regard witli a solemn sincerity."

The Pcnnsi/lrania G(i-:ctlc having taken the patriotic side in the controversy of the day, while the king's council of New Jersey clave to the cause of their monarch, the justice of the encomium of the Gazette upon Samuel Smith, a mem- ber of that council, cannot be questioned.

ADDITIO-VAL NOTES. — STEXTOX.

Of Stenton, the mansion of Chief Justice Logan, the home of the maiden- hood of Hannah Logan, afterward the wife of the Hon. John Smith, and tljc married home of Deborah Korris L^gan, wife of Senator Logan, and autlior of the above letter, Thom})son Westcott says : ("Historic JNIansious of Philadeljiliia," p. 147,) "The house is believed to have been finished in 1728. Sirs. Sarah But- ler "Wister, in the skftcli of JJeborali Logan, in Wortliy Wono n of our Fir.H Q-ntiiri/, describes Stenton with a loving minuteness which fills out a perfect pic- ture: ' liound the house there was the quiet stir and movement of a country place, with its large gardens full of old- fashioned flowers and I'ruits, its jioultiv- yard and stables. The latter were connected with the house by an uiuier- grouud ])assage, which led to a concealed staircase and a door under the roof, like the pricsCs escape in some old Engli.-h conntrv-seaLs. * * '■' The ofliees sur-

rounded the main building, connected with it by brick courts and covered wavs. They were all at the back,- and so di-- posed as to enhance the picturesque ami dignified air of the old mansion, tlie in- terior of which is as curious to modern eyes as it is imposing. One enters by a bi'ick hall, opposite to which is the mag- nificent double staircase, while right ami left are lofty rooms covered with line nld- fashioned wood-work, in some of tlu m the wainscot being carried up U.i iln' ceiling above the chimney-place, wl.irli in all the apartments was avast ('inn- ing set round with blue and white .-..■iilj>- tured tiles of the most grotesque dr\in -. There are corner cujilxiards, and, iii.-iim- of the rooms, cupboards in arched iilih' - over the mantel-pieces, capital slin«- cases for tlie lare china and niagnilin n! old silver which adornetl the dinin r- table on state occasions. Half ei' il.f front of the house, in the s(_riiiul-!"t;.. was taken nj) by one large, linely-liL;lii'<i ruom, the library of the book-l'A u:.; ma'iters of the place.'

"The grounds were adorned wiili '•■'^' old trees. A sjdendid avenue <■!' b""- locks — which legend woidd only be s.-ii'-- fied with declaring weie planti 1 i} "William Tenn, although he, pri-.r m.'-'' was dead years befure Stentmi iva- bui;: — led up to the house. Tbe A\'in-eli'" »•- ing meandered through t]:e ]'!;(ii!a'.i"i'- lighting up the landseaj.e with or:.-''!- ness wherever its ])laeid suiiaeewa- •■<"' Stenton w:is a lion.-e for th- li\ i'::'. ' •;' the aliection v hi-h t!ie owner- iial (••' •'

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connected with tlie estate in time a last jX'3(ing-j)lace for the dead. Tiie family {graveyard is romantically situated, sur- rounded jvith old trees and with all ac- cessories of a sjiot to be [licked ont as a beautiful garden of the dead."

A grand avenue of yews led to this family cemetery ; all of the trees of wliicli have died within lifty 3'ears.

THE FDUXDKKS OF NEW .l]:i;SKY.

Henry Annill ]>rown, in his able and elocjuent address on the occasion of the bi-centennial commemoration of the set- tlement of Burlington, thus speaks of the first settlers and framers of the Con- .slituli(;n of New .Tersey: '"I wish,' wrote one who had witne-sed the beginning,* ilescribing in her old age the dangers and trials of her youth, '1 wish lliat tliose who may come after may consider liiese things.' Seven score years have gone since that was written. The heart that held ihat liojie has long been still. The hand that wrote those words has been motionless for more than a century, and the kindred to whom they were ad- dressed have vanished from the earth. Jhit here, to-day, in that ancient town, strangely unaltered Iiy the changes of I wo centuries — here amid scenes with which those venerable eyes were so tamiliar — we who have 'eoiue after' have assembled to fulfill that jiious wish, to 'consider those things' with reverence

' -\Iary Murfia .Smith.

and gratitude and take care that they be held hereafter in eternal remembrance and everlasting honor. * * '•' They" (the fii'st settlers,) "were animated hy the truest spirit of philanthropy, by the sincerest love of liberty, by the warmest devotion to what they understood to be the command of God. And they were, after all, worthy to laj' the foundation of a free and hnniane government. Inde- pendence of thought, freedom of person, liberty of con.science; these were the things they all believed in and for them were ready to make any .sacrhice. For liberty they had suffered each and all. For it, men like them had scorned dan- ger and gone chanting into battle. For the sake of it they had even welcomed the horrors of civil war. For it they had charged their brethi'en at Naseby and ridden rough-shod over their kin- dred upon ]\Iarston Moor. And now they were ready, if the day were lost at home, to abandon all and seek it beyond the sea. On liberal {/rinciples, then, did they naturally determine to build up their new government in the wilderness, where a century afterward their children, tor whom they were making so many sacrifices, were destined to fight over again the same battle, with an cijual courage and devotion. Little did they dream— those sterii yet gentle men of peacf — when they gave to their infant coin- monwealth freedom from all taxation, except what its own assemblies should imjxise, that a hundred years later Eng- land would rise nj), sword in hand, to

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THE EUJiLINGTOX SMITHS.

take it back; that for the sake of a principle wliicli they never thought to call in question, the little town wliich they were about to found would one day tremble at the roar of contending can- non, and the banks of the Delaware be stained with English blood! Could they have been pei-mitted to foresee the strug- gle that was j'et to conic, they could not more wisely have jirepared posterity to meet it. Fii-st they created an executive and legislative power; the foi'iner to be chosen by the latter, the assembly by the peo]ile, voting to be by ballot, and every man cajiable to choose and to be chosen. Each member of the assembly, they agreed, 'hath liberty of speech,' and shall receive for wages one shilling per day, ' that thereby he may be known as the WM'aw/of the people.' No man should be imprisoned for debt, nor, without the verdict of a jury, dei)rived of life, liberty or estate, ' and all and every person in the j)rovince shall, by the help of the Lord and trR--e fiintlamentals, be free from op})ression and slavery.' The In- dian was to be jnotected in his rights and the orphan brought uji by the State. Religious freedou], in its broadest sense.

was to be secured, and no one ' in the least punished or hurt, in person, estate or privilege, for the sake of his opinion, judgment, faith or worship toward (id.l in matters of religion; for no man nor number of men upon earth have ponrr to rule over men's consciences.' ' Such,' writes one who, though an alien to their blood and of an hostile creed, could do them justice, 'is an outline to the com- position which forms the first essay of Quaker legislation, and entitles its au- thors to no mean share in the honour of planting civil and religious liberty in America.' Happy would it have been for the children of those simple-minded men had they never departed from idea^ so true, so wise and so humane I The authors of this document, adopted and signed on the 3d of ]\Iarcli, IGT'i, .--eLin to have seen the goodness of their handi- work. ' There,' they cry, in words which are at once a i^ojihecy and a con- fession of faith, 'we lay a foundation fur after ages to understand their liberty, as men and Christians, that they may not be brought in bondage but by their own consent. For in: pul the poirtr in Ihr people' "

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

197

TABLE I.

FIRST SEVEN GENEKATIONS.— DESCENDANTS OF DANIEL SMITH, JR.— ELDEST MALE LINE.

1. William Sniitli, of Jirainham, York-

shirt', Borii«^ (circa) A.D. lolO. Married, A. D.

Died, A.]).

2. Richard Smitli, of ]->ranihain,

Baptized,:MaylS,A.D.1503. I\Iarricd, A. D.

Died, Nov. 19, A.D. 1G17. ?.. Richard ^iiiith (second,) of Braiidiaiu, ■ Bapti/,ed,Aug.l5,A.D.lG2G Married, Feb. 25, A.D. 1G53, Anne, daughter of William Yeates, of Alboroiij;li. Died, A.D. IGSS.

4. Daniel Smltli, of Bniu.ham, (]ii<>].ri- etor, etc.,) Born, Nov. 14, A.D. IGOo. Mariied, A. D.

Mary, daughter of Robert Muriin of Eaton, Nottingham- shire, England. Died, August 4, A. D. 1742.

* Owing to tlie Bri'iuliam ("iiurcli Keiri.^tcr e.xtend- inff back no fiirllior tlian I.iO'i, the e\iict date of William .Sniitli's birth will, perhtif 3. D'jvsr be ascer- taiaed. I liopc, horcafter, !.• -ujiplT ;ho5e of his mar- nape aud d'alh frfm thai ilr^'i-ter. Oth^r blanki, iu dates niit iti my ("■--.■--;o;i. will, j.erhaps. be tilled by snbscrib'.TS whu have iheae date.-.

Robert Smith, of Burlingtoi), New Jer.sey, (J. P.) Born, " A.D. IG'JS.

Married, A.D.

Elizabeth, dauglitcr of John Baeuii, of Chesterfield, alterward of Bacon's Neck, N. ,1. Died, A.D. 1781.

Daiii'l Smith, (dr.,) of Burlington, Born, A.D.

Married, A. I).

Sarah, daughter of Jo-hua ]\a)ier.

Dk-d, A. D.

A. .Joshua RaperSmith.of I'lurlington Born, A.I).

Married, A.D.

Susanna, dan. of Jo>e].h Jirinker. Died, A.D.

. B. Benjamin Smith, of Burliiigt'in, Born, A. D.

Married,Nov.ll, A.D. 1781). Deborah, daughter of William MorrLs aud :Margufet Hill Morris, his wife. Died, Nov. , A. D. 1793. . C. J*Iary Smith,

' Born, A. D.

Died, A. D.

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7. D. Daniel Sniitli, of Burlington, Born, A. D.

Married, A.T).

Hannah, dau. of Barzillai Coate. Died, A. D.

7. E. Robert Sniitii, of ]5urlingtun, Born, A.D.

Married, A. D.

Mary, daughter of Job Bacon, of " Bacon 'sXeel^," Green- wich, New Jersey. Died, A. D.

7. F. John D. Sniitli, of Pbilad-'lpbia, Born, A.D.

Married, A. D.

Elizabeth, daiigliter of TllOlna!^. Died, A. D.

7. G.	George R. Suiitli, phia.	of I'hil
	Born,	A.D.
	Married,	A.D.
	Anne, daughter of	AllK,^ (i,-
	of Over	)rook, 1
	sylvania.
	Died,	A.D.
7. H.	Jof-ejili D. Sniilli, ton.	of Jim
	Boin,	A.D.
	Married,	A. 1 >.
	Sarali, daugliter of	^\
	of Phiiadelphl..
	Died, (s. p.)	A.D.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

190

TABLE II.

ELDEST LINE, (A.) DESC'EXPAXTS OF JOSHUA KAPER SMITH,

EIGHTH GENERATION.

A. C'atliariiie Smith,

Boi-ii, A. D.

Died, A.I).

B. Koliert J. Smitli, of Bui-lington,

Born, A. D.

Jlarried, A . I ). Susanna, daugliter of Drinker. Died, (s. p.) A. D.

C. Jo.tejili II. Sruitli, of Burlington,

Born, A. I).''

Died, A.D.

D. Kaper Smith, of Burlington,

Born, A.l).

Died, A.D.

E. Sarah Riper Smith,

Born, A. 1).

F. Henry Smith,

Died an infant.

G. George D. Smith, of Cincinnati,

Ohio, Born, A.D.

Jlarried, A. I ). Hannah, daughter of Palmer.

H. Susanna Drinker Sniitii,

Born, A. D.

Died, A.D. 1S7C.

XINTU GF.XEKATIOX.

(Descendants of George D. Smith.)

9. A. Henry Howard Smith, of Ohio, Born, A.D.

Married, A.D. Rachel, daughter of Cameron. 9. B. Frances E. Smitli,

Born, A.D.

9. C. Bobert Clinton Smith, of Clii'ton, Born, A.D.

Married, A.D. Mary E. B., daughter of Alfred Smith of Bhihida. 9. D. Laura Giljiin Smith,

Born, A.D.

9. E. Alice Anna Smitli,

Born, A.D.

Died, A. 1 ).

TENTH GENERATION.

Cliildren of Henry Howartl Smith.

10. 1. Anna G. Smith,

Born, A.D.

Ciiildren of Robert Clinton Smith. 10. 1. Ethel Genevieve Marguerite Clin- ton Smith. Bolu, A.D. 167G

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

GENliALOGICAI. TABLES. 201

TABLE 111.

ELDEST LI.N'E, (B.) DICSC'EXDANTS OF BEX.IAMI.N S.\[IT1I.

EIGHTH GEXicKATKiN. I 9- B. Jolio ]\lorton Siuitli,

Born, A. 1).

Did, A.l).

cS. A. ]\I:ifg;irot .Mori'is Siiiilli,

Born, Sent. --'0, A. 1). 17'JO. ,^ ^, ^^ ^, ^, .,

1 )ioa, Oct. .\. I ). is.-,.^. ^- ^- ^^■•''y }}'''^"'' •^"'''''-

y. B. Daniel B. Suiitli, lit' ( iiTiiiaiituwii Born, July 14, A. D. ]7'.t2 Married, June lo, A.l ). lSl.'4, Esther, duughter of John -A],,rioji, te.vth gexeii.vtio.x

of Pliilmleh.hia.

Born, A. D.

Died, A. 1 ).

(Children nt' lienjaniin B. Smith,)

NINTH (.;i:N];r;ATic >x.

10. 1. Biiliei-l .Miirtnn Sniitii.

(Descendants of D.iniel 11. Smith.) Born V D

U. A, Ik'tijamiii Iviiiei- Smith, 10. '2. A\'illiam W'liailnn Smitii,

Born, .Alar. ;;i, A.D. IS'J.3. Koni, A. D.

Married, A.\). 10. :'.. .Viina Whaimn Smitli,

Hetty Fi-her,daiightei' of WilHam Horn, .\. 1 ).

■• and Dehorah Wharton, lO. 1. IC-ther -Mm ton Smil li,

of Pliiladeliihia. i Born, A.D.

202 GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

GENKALOOICAL TA ISLES.

•20:5

KLDicsT Lixi;, (('.) — iii;sri:\J>ANTs of damki, smith, (rorirni.)

ICIGHTII (;ENi:nATi()X. ' 8. J). ]iar/.illai Tuato Siiiitli, <>l' Uiir-

lingtoii,

8. A. Eli/.aliftli Siuitli, I Born A. 1).

Died an infant. ' Died, A. D.

S. I'.. (■ali-bj;ajierSiiiiili,,,f Hiiirnigtun, 8. E. William Smitii

Born, A.J). Died in intaiu'y.

Died, A.J). ,

„,,,,..,., ' ■ NINTH (JKNrr.ATIoN.

b. I . i>en|ainni hniiili, i

]>Q,.,i, A.D. (Child of Benjamin i^niilli.)

JIarried, A. D. ; 9. A. Barelay Arnev Smith,

Anne, daughter of J)aniel Arney. Born, A. J).

Died, A.D. ! Died, A.D.

204

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

'JWIU.K V.

ELDiosT mxj:, (]).) — iii;s(i-,Mi.\XTs oj' i;()1!i;j:t sjiriu, (tjiiki).)

EIGJITII (4EXj:jiATI0-\.

NINTH ni:NEKATION.

8. A, 8. 1!.

8. ('.

8. 1).

.lol) Jlacoii Sinitli, I'ifd ;iii iiifanl. ( '.iMiliiic .M. Siiiiili.

I'.dni, Aj.ril 17. A. 1 >. ].S(i.'i.

Married, .Iniic 22, A. D. 1825,

to ^loni.^ ^:;|ylilll, ni' (ireen

Hill.

J>ic'.l, Xov. 1.5, A, I). ]S72.

3]ary Lciwiulcs Smitli,

J'.orii, .lime ]. A. ]). 1S()7. Married, A. J). 183G,

to Dr.Clias. Kvaiis,,,n'|]ila. J^lizabeth Jtacoii ."^iiiilli,

Born, Feb. 2S, A. I). 1810. 0. C. Elizabeth IJacon Smiih, Died, A. D. | Died younp,-.

(Cliildreii oi' M<iriis Smith.)

0. .\. lliehard Morri.s Smith, of " Stan- ley,"Philadeliihia ( 'tiiniiy. Peiin^^vlvania, Porn, Aug. 22, A. D. 1S27. ."\rarried,Mar.30, A. 1 ). Ibl-',. Aiina.daughter of'C'hai'lesKaiglin, of "Kaighii's Point," New Jersey.

9. P. Poberl Lindley Siiiilh, Died vouii".

206

GENEALOGICAL TAliLIvS.

TA]]L1-: Vi.

ELDKST I,IXi:, (]■>.) — DKSCENDANTS OF JOHN D. SMITH.

EHiirnr gi:m;i;atio.v. I nixth ge.\ei;atiox.

8. A. Kdwanl T. Smith, ..f PliiladL4- j (< "liiWrcn of Echvard T. .Siiiitli.)

j U. A. Aiini' Jiacou Smitli,

],ina,

IJoiii, A.I).

]Man-iwl, A.D.

xViinc, daughter of Job Jjacon, (second.)

])iod, A.l). 8. 1!. Mary J). Smith,

J3o!ii, A.l).

Married, A.D.

Joseph Edge, of l)ar!iu^t(iii, • Maryland. 8. C. Daniel Smith, of rhllad-lphia.

norn, A.JX

S, D. .\lfred Smith, nf I'hiladelphia, iVirn, A.D.

:\Iarried, A.J).

Esther, daiightei' nt' Rh.xul-. Died, A.D.

8. E. Ambrose Sniitli. n[' Philadeljiliia, IJorn, A. D.

Married, A.D.

Mary, daiigliter nl' ( 'ha,^. 1 )(i\vnini:, of Downiiig.-town, L'liester County.

lioni, A.D. y. ]3. Juhvard Itaeon Smitli,

r>orn, A. D. 'J. C Norman Maealester .Snuth,

Porn, A.J).

Married, A.D. Sarah J., daughter of

(Children ol' Joseph Ji;dge.) '.•. D. Jlebceea l^d-e.

	Iluni,	A	J).
'.». E.	JCinina Jvlge,
	JJorD";	A	D.
'J. F.	Jane Edge,
	15oru,	A.	D.
9. G.	Edward Edge,
	J'orn,	A.	D.

(Children of Alfred Smith.) 0. II. Margaret S?nith,

l!orn, A.D.

Whirried, A.D.

to Dr. Townsend I'eniu'ek. of Chester Couiitv.

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9. I. Mary Elizabeth Elioads Suntli, j tenth generation.

Bom, A.I). j (Children of Norman M. Smitli.)

Mairied, A. D. 10. 1. Gertrude Bacon Smith,

to Robert Clinton Smith, | i>oj.,j^ gcpt_ 17^ a. I). ISCS.

of Clifton, Maryland. j iq o. Fannie Scully Smith,

,, ,, .IP 1 I' ^, • , ,■!„ -1 1 1 1 • Born, Nov. G, A. D. ISCiO.

9. iv. Alfred K. Smith, ot rhiladeliilLia, I ., t • ttt 1 . • , i- 1

,, . 1^ I 10. o. Jennie \\ ar(_l >-mith, died vounir.

J>orn, A. 1). - o

Married A.l). I (Chihlreii of B. ClintiJii Smith,)

Albina, dauditer of J. S. Criflith, ' 10. 1. Ethel Genevieve ]\hiri;uerite Clin-

of Baltimore. | ton Smith,

Died, A.]). 1870. I B.orn, A.I). 1877.

208

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TABLE VII.

ELUIST LINE, (F.) CHILDUEN 01' GEOKGE R. SMITU.

EIGHTH GEN'EEATIOX.

8. A. Kebccca .Smith,

]5orn, A. D. 8. B. Eiliiiuiul Smith.

].)ied. ill ini'aiRV.

8. (J. Waher Smith, of rhihiilulj.liia.

P.oni, A. I).

Died, A. L».

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

209

TABLE VIII.

SECOND LT>E. — FIRST SKVEX GENiniATIOXS.^I'AIIT OF EIGIITU. BF.SCENIJAXTS OF

SAMUEL SMITH, (SECOND.)

1. William Smith, of IJniiiiliani, York- j G. A. Samuel Smith, (second, )oflIicl:ory shire, I Grove, (oldest sun,)

Born, Dec. IS, A.D. 1720. Married, Nov. A.D. 1711, Jane, daughter of Jose])h Kirkhi-i'le. Died, A. ] ).

(The lion. Samuel Smith, the historian.)

Born, (circa) A.D. 1.".70. Married, A.D.

Died, A.D.

2. Biehard Sniith, of I'.rainham, Baptized, May IS, A. ]).1.:>!):1. Married, A.D.

Died, Nov. U), A.D. 1G47.

3. Bichard Smith, (second,) uflhandiam,

Bapti7.ed,Aug. 1 5, A.D. 1G2G.

Married,Feb.2o,A.D. 1G.33,

Anne; dauglitcr of William Yeates,

of .Vlhiinmgh, Yorkshire.

Died, " A.D. IGSS.

4. Samuel Smith, of l^ramham,

Born, March 1,A.D. 1G72. ! 7. B, Abigail Smith, • ' ^[arried, A. 1 ). j Born, A. D.

Elizabeth.daughterofKdmondL.Attt. j Married, A.D.

of" Bucks County, I'a., | to George Bowne, of Xe>\

seuondlv, (s. p.,) Dorotliea i York.

Gyles.' I Died, A.D.

Died", April 18, A.D. 171 S 0. Ricliard Smith, of (ireeii Hill,

Born, July 5, A.D. IGKO. ^j^.^.

7. .\. Joseph Smith, of Hiekoi-y Grove, Born, A.D.

Marric'd, A.D.

Mary, daughter of r.urling,

secondly (s. ]>.,) Martha, daughter of Abel Jame-;. Died, A. D.

7. C. Sarah Smith, Born ,

A. D. A. D.

■ Married, Aul;.20,A.1).171'.», Abigail, daughter of Thomas liapier, 7. D. Bichard Smith, (sixth,) ot >roons-

of Sindersby, Yorkshire, ; town,

England. " \ Born, A.D.

Died, Nov. '.», A.D. Hoi. i Married, A.D.

(Member of Assemblvlbr 20 , Hannah, .laughter of Burling.

yeai^.) ' J'-'- ^■^•^'•

27

210 GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

EIGHTH GEXEEATIOX. EIGHTH GENEKATTON.

(Child of .Tosepli Sinitli.) ! (Children of George ]3o\vne.)

8. A. Saimiol J. Smith, of lliekory .seo A. to E. Tubie ix.

Gi'ove,

Born, A. D. _^ , ,, i.. , , , • i • ,i s

1^. , , 1^ : (Descendants oi Kiehard Smitli, sixth.)

"The JJard of Hickory; See Table X.

CJrovo."

GKNKALOUIC'AL TAIiLES.

211

TAliLE IX.

SKCOND LIM;. DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL S^rITH, (SECOND.) DESCENDANTS OE

GEOllCJE JiOWNE AND AJilGAlL .SMITH.

EuaiTii GENEiiATioN. . ! 9. E. Abby ]]0\V1R',

S. A. lldbfi-t, L. IJowiie, of Xew York, Born,

Born, A. 10771. 9. F. Matilda Bowne,

A. J ).

Married, A. 1).

Amy, daugbter of Robinson,

secondly, Xaoini, daiigliter of Leggctt.

Died, A^J).

8. B. Saiunel S. Bowne, of New York,

Born, A. D.

Jlarried, A. D.

to Stejibcn A. Frost. 9. G. Amelia Bownc,

r,orii, A. J).

9. 11. Haunali ]j(i\vn

	. Born,		A.D.1772.			Born,	A. D.
8.	C. George JJowne,
	o '			9.	I.	Gulielnia Bowne,
	Born,		A.D.
	Died,		A. D.			Born,	A.D.
8.	D. Jo.se[i]i Bowne,					(Cbildren of Joseji	1 Bowne.)
	Born,		A.D.	9.	A	Ricbard Bowne, (>	econd,)
	Married,		A.D.			JSorn,	A.D.
	Mary, daugliter oi		Leggett.
8.	E. Ricbard Bowne,			9.	B.	f^anmel J'.owne,
	Born,		A. D.			Born,	A.D.
	NINTH GENERATION.	9.	C.	Abigail Bowne,
	(Cliildren of Robert	L	Bowne.)			Born,	A. D.
9.	A. George Bowne, (t	lird.)			Married,	A.D.
	Born,		A. D.				Mott.
9.	B. Rowland Bowne,			9.	D.	Rebecca Bownc,
	Born,		A.D.			Born,	A.D.
9.	C. Eli/.a Bowne, Born,		A. D.	9.	E.	F. George Bowne Died young.	.Id.-epb I'xiwn
1>.	J >. Amy Bowne,			9.	G.	William Bowne,
	Born,		A.D.			Born,	A.D.

212

GEXEALOGICAL TABLES.

TEXTU GE.N-EKATioN. (Children of Samuel llowiic.)

(Children of Ilit-iiai-d liowne, second.) i 10- 1- Charles Dowue, 10. 1. .lo.-iej)h Bowne,

Horn, A. D.

10. 2. Edwar.l Jiowne,

Born, A.D.

10. 3. Jane Bowne,

r.orn, A. D.

10. 4. Isaac liowiio,

Jiorn, A.l).

10. .5. Stejilien Ciernion liowne.

Born, A. D.

10. 6. Saninel Bowne,

lioru, A. JJ.

10. 7. -Alai-y Bowne,

Born, A.l).

10. 8. Maria Bowne,

Born, A. 1).

10. ■). Jeruslia licnvne,

Born, A.I).

10. 10. William Bowne,

Born, A. D.

Born, 10. 2. John Bowne,

Born, 10. 3. Amy Bowne,

Born,

A. 1). A.I).

A.l).

(Children of Abigail Bowne Motl.) 10. 1. Joseph Mott,

Born, A. D.

10. 2. Mary Motl,

"Born, A.I).

10. 3. Ezra ]\Iott,

Born, A.l).

(Children ol' William liowne.) 10. 1 . Emma liowne,

Born, A.l).

10. 2. Mary Bowne,

Born, A.J).

(The above table from Jacol.) T. liowiu of Glen Cove, L. I.)

/^-'14 GENEAIA)GICAL TABLKS.

TAHLE X.

sfxo.VD Li.vr:, iontixukd. — descendants of iiiciiai:!) smith, sixth.

EIGHTH tlEXEIIATION. 9. 15. Ricllllld Slllifll jMoilis,

8. A. Jane ]J. Smith, ' i'^"'"' ^^^■'- "'' A.D. ISOI.

Bon,Mayn. A.D.177G, , ,, ... ^Yy""JrV'"-

!>• 1 . -■ I y. I . li,dnuiiid Morns, 01 JJuiinii;t.in,

8. 15. Marv Sniitl,, " ' i ^'°'''' ^"S- 28, A. U INH.

" ij, T -,- ■ T^ n— . Mamed,Dec.2'J,A.I). lS-_'7.

Boil), Jan. lo, A.D. 1//.S. ., ,, , ' / , ,''

Marricd.0et.-_'.3.A. D. 17Uy. '^^"'"^V"' , "'^ "' . "^^ "

* !>• 1 1 Trn ir Died. A. I).

to Kicliard Hill Morns. „ ,, .,, , ,, ... . ,„ .,

Died, Jan. 1.5, A.D. 1848 "^^ ^- ^^''"^'' ? T' ^^"''''' "' ^ '"'''-

8. C. Amelia Smith, } ,. '^^'if"'

1, AT 1- ( i> -.-ro ]5orn, ;Marcli 4. A.D. ]SHi.

Bom, May 2(, A.D. 17S8. ,, . , ., ,.,,.>, ...

T,. 1 • . ,, ]\Iarncd,UcL IL', A.D. ls.;i,

Died, A.D. 1 1 r , ,

c 1 V , 1 1, ., .., ,. ,, ,. Anne, dan:.;iiter i.t ,knk>.

8. D. Joseph J. . >iiiit]i, (if Burlm-tun, ,, ,, , ',,

T> A -1 •>,, » i> i-,„, •'• 1^- -Viina Mar>:aretta .Morns,

Born, Ann! I'O, A. D. 1,!)(J. „ "^ ,^ , . ix -, , ,

■pj. J ' \ F) ' ' •^•^*- ^'''^-■

Q T? 14 1 ij c •■! ' Married, Julv;51, A. 1). Iti^;-".,

8. L. Hannah B. !~'milli, i , '- ,

T> -ir 1 .!> V T^ 1-,,.. to Joseiili Moan.

■ Born,Mareh L'J, A. D. l/'JJ. ^. , ,, ^ , . , , ...,

,f ■ , , ,, l»ied, Nov. It;, A. D. h^-.\. JJarried, A. i).

'■ to Eok-it Mott. . (Children of Rol.,-rt :\lott.)

Died, A.D. : 9. A. BichardF.Mott,ofHick.:r_v( irow.

j Born, A.D.

NINTH GENERATION. I Married, A. D.

/^,, •, , ,. ,-, TTH Tr ■ s ' Su-sau, daui^hter of Tlioina-.

(Lliildren of K. Hill jTorns.) ^

9. A. William Henry .Morris, of B.ur- ""^■''" genkkation.

jiiirrton. (Children of W. H. Morris.)

Born, Get. 20, A.J). 1799, 10. 1. Martha M(xu-e Morris,

Married,Jiinel4,A.l).lS2o, : Born, A.D.

Margaret E., daughter of j Married, A.]).

Maris. | to William Ciimnien', "t

Died, March 24. A. D. 184G. i Philadel]ihia.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

215

10. 2. Elizabeth :\Iaris Morris,

]!orn, A. T).

Married, A.D.

to Dillwvn 1-^mitli, of Wc.<t

Hill. 10. o. Jane X[aris Morri.?,

Eorn, A. D.

Married, A.D.

to Fj-ancis Milner, of ]!iir-

liiigtou.

(Cliildreii of li^dimmd ;Morri>.) 10. 1. Anna Margaietta Morris, Born, A.D.

:\larried, A.D.

to Marcus F. Ilydr.

10. 2. IClleii Amelia Morris,

Born, A.D.

10. 3, 4, y. Kiehard, Cliarles, Bieliard,

Died yoniig. 10. G. :\rary Ann ^forris,

Born, A. D.

10. 7, S. Edmund, Emma Elizabeth,

Died young. 10. 9. Heniy ]!. :Morris,

Born, A.D.

/:'

216

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TAP.LE XI. SEC'ONl) LINK. — l)I><Ci:XI)ANTS OF laciIAKD S.MITII, (siXTIl.)

TEM'ii GENEiiATiox. (Children (if Fiiiiieis Milm-i-.)

(Children of Charles M. Morris.) 10. 1. William Jenks .Morri.s

Eorn, A.JX

l(t. 2. Mai-y Anna Morris,

r.orn, A. D.

(Children of Richard F. Mott.) 10. J. Amelia Smith Mott,

Born, A. 1).

10. 2. liiehartl Moll,

Borii, A. D.

10. 3.

10. 4.

ELEVENTH r.EXERATlON.

(Children of William Cinmmeri'.)

11. 1. Morris Gnnimere,

Born, A.I).

11. 2. Margaret Morris (iumnierr. Born, A.I).

11. o. Frances Gumnn'j-r,

Born, A.I).

11.4. William Henry (iummcrr. Born, " A. D.

11. ].

(Children of Marcns F. Hyde.) 11. 1.

GENEALOGICAL TAULKS. 217

TABLE XII.

TRIED LIXE. — -DESCENDANTS OF JOHX SMITU, Or FRAXKLIX I'AUK. — FIK.ST SEYKN GEXEKATIOX.S.

1. William Sniilli, of Braniliam, York- 5. Richard Smith, of Green Kill,

shire, I Born, July 5, A . 1 ). 1 r,: );L

Born, (circa) A.D. 1570. I ]Married,Aug.'2(), A.D.lTl'.',

Married, A.D. ' Al.igail, daughter of Thomas Rapier,

I>ietl, A. I). of Sindersby, Yorkshire,

2. Liehard .Smith, of Brainham, i ,- i x- o v ..i--,

l.ai,tized,Mavlb,A.D.].j93. i\< , r\ i i .■ .,'>

,,_.,., (.Memlteroi Assemblv ior JO

Married, A.D

i:)Ied, Xov. 19, A. D. 1G17

I 3. Ilichnrd Smith, (second,) of Brani-

5 ham.

years.)

! G. ]]. John Smith, of Franklin J'ai'k,

Born, Jan. -JO, A.D. ITl'-J.

, -,. ■, '' Marri.-,], Oct. 7, A. D. 17-)S,

I ]5aDti7.ed,Au-.].D,A.D.lG2r.. ir,„„,i, i i, r t t

I 1 . ^-^ , -■- . llannan, ilnnjliter ol .lami-- Luiran,

Married, ]\-1..2-"). A.D. li;.">.^, ,-\,, , ,•,■<■ t ',•

' II, ' "^ stenton, ( hiet Ju-tict-

Anne, danghtcr .,t W.llian, Ycates. ^,f Pennsvlvania.

°hi, /^"""■"•'S''' ^'^'■''- ■ Died, March -C, A. D. 1 771 .

„" ■ (Member of Kind's ( 'liiincil.

I^'^''l' A.D.IGSS. j ofXewJerse.v.,

■1. Samuel Smith, of Brandiam, 7. A. Sarali Lo"-an Sn)ith,

Born, March 1, A. D. 1G72. Ilorn, Aug. '2'.», .V. D. 171'.*.

Married, A.D. Married, .May ]'.», A. D. 1 7iiS,

Elizabeth, daughter of Kdmond Lov- i to William j)ill\vvn, ..f

ett, of Bucks County, I Philadelphia, aftciwanl ..f

Pennsylvania; secondly, i Uigham Didge, Mi.Ml.-

(s. p.,) Dorothea (iyles. sex, England.

Died, April IS, A.D. 171S. Died, Aju-il 23, A. D. 17119.

28

218

GENEALOGICAL TABLK.

7. B. James Sniitli, of PhilaJelpliia, 7. D. John Smith, {.Iuiii,,r,) „f Greui

Eoiu, Oct. 15, A.J). IT-JO. Hill,

Married.Jiin.i:!, A.l). 1772, ; Boiu, Nov. L', A. I). 17r,I.

Esther, daugiitcr of M'iUiain Hew- j Mamed, Ai-ril S, A. D. 1 7s |,

'i"gs, I Gulielma Maria, daiit;htci- of Wil-

J^i'^'tl' A. 1>. j li;„,i ]\£orri.s and Margai-ut

7. C Ilaiinah Smith, fjjjj

Born, Oft. -29, A.]). 1753. DjeJ, April 18, A. D. ISO:). Married, Jan. A.]). 1780, j to John Cox of Oxniead. '■ Died, A. 1). i

GENEALOGICAL TABLFCS. 210

TABLE Xlir.

THIRD LINE. DESCENDANTS OF JOHN SJIITH, OF FKANKLIN FAUK. DESCENDANTS

OE JAMES SJIITII.

EIGHTH GENEIiATFON. 8. G. CllurlcS Lo^au Siiiilli,

(C'liikl of William J)illwvii.) ' ^ioi'". -^l'"'^'l' 1*'. -\-^'- ^'^^■

^, , c- , r>-,, " ' l^it'^1. -^I'lV 11- A.l), )8J1. o. A. husannali Dillwvii,

J5orii, ^faivli •■',, A.J). 170'.». S. II. Al)ipiil liowiie Siiiitlj,

Married, April IG, A.J). UVo. Jiorii, De-emher 2, A. I ). 17SS.

fo Samuel J-]inlcn, of "West Marriud, A.J).

Hill. to Jolin Drinker.

J)ied,(s.j,.)Xov.LM,A.J). ISIO. Died, A. D.

^Children of James i^mitli.) 3_ j^ JClizaheih ^^iiiitli,

8. A. liaunah Smith, r.orii, Augii-t l'.j, A.D, I 7',m;).

Born, Nov. 20, A.D. 1773. I Married/ A.J).

Married, A.I). } to Mordecai Jx'wis, uf J'liila-

to Henry S. Drinker, of I del])liia.

I'liiladeljihia. ! Died, . A.D. Died, A.D. 8. B. Sarali Loiran Smitli,

S. K. SiHaiiiiaii J ). Smilli,

1, .. ,o > ,> 1--0 ' J'-orn, March .'>, A.D. ]7'J2.

Born, Sept. 28, A.D. 1 / /S. , m • . \ ,,

,, . , ... I Married, A.J).

Married, A.J). | '.,.,,•

, „ , ,^ , , ,. ,„ ., to bamuel Allinson.

U) llujrh lioberts, 01 1 iiila- i ,,. , ...

, , , .° I Died, A.D.

delpliia. I

Died, A. J). 8. h. James Logan Smith, of Xewea.-tle.

8. C. John J. Smith, of J'hiladeljihia, Delaware,

. Born, Julv 20, A.J). 17N). I5orn, Sejit. 14, A.D. 17'.i:;.

Married, " A.D. Married, AAX

Mary, daughter of George Boherts. Eliza Aldeti ; seccjiidly, .Mary.

Died, A.D. daughter of C'ouper, wl

8. D, E, F. lilizabeth, William, James, Newcastle.

JJied young. Died, A.D.

220

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

NINTH GEXEKATION.

(Cliiklren of lleiiry S. Drinker.)

9. A. Willi;mi Drinker,

Born, Oet.^lier 14, A. D. 1795.

Married, A.J).

Elizabeth Kodnian.

Died, (s. 1..,) A A).

9. 15, I}'. Henry .S., Jaines,

Died ill infancy. 9. ('. Esther DiinkiT,

Horn, X..veinUrl,A.D. 1798.

.Afarriod, A.D.

to Pembertun I'lea.sants. 9. D. EHzaheth Drinker,

Born, Dee. 11, A.D. 1801.

Married, A.D.

to Saimiel C. I'axson.

Died', A.D.

9. E. Sarah Drinker,

Born, May 9, A.D. 180:i.

jMairied, A. D.

to James Biddle.

Died, A.D.

9. E. Henry Drinker,

Born, Angnst 11, A.D. ISOl.

Married, A.D.

Eranccs, daugliter vl' Mditnn.

Died, " A.D.

9. (i, H, I. Hannah, >[ary, Charle-s

Di<'d yumi!;. 9. K. Saiuhvith Drinkei',

Born, Nov. 19, A.D. 18(i8.

]\Iarried, A. D.

Susanna, daughter of Sliuher.

Died, A.D.

9. L, M, X. diaries, Edward, Edward,

Died youni;-.

GENKALOGICAL TABLES.

221

TABLE XIV.

THIKFl LIXE. DESCE.\I1ANT8 OF ,I011.\ SJIITIl, OF FK.iXK I.I.N' I'AKK. DESC'E.NDANTf

OF JAMES SMITH.

TENTH GENERATION.

(Child of Pfiuborton I'leasank.) 10. 1. Annie Pleasants,

Boin, A.l).

(Children of Saimiel C. I'axson.)

(Cliildrcn of James Biddle.)

(Children of Ilenrv 1 )iiiiker.) 1(». 1. .Margar.t Mortnn Drinl^er,

Porn, A.l).

10. 2. Hannah ])rinker,

Born. A. D.

10. 3. Henry Drinker,

Born, A. D.

(Ciiildren of Sandwitli J,)rinker. 10. 1. ('atharine Diinker,

lioni, A.l).

10. 2. Robert :\Iorton Drinker,

Born, A.D.

10. 3. Henry Drinker,

Born, A.D.

]0. 4. Elizabeth Drinker,

Porn, A. D.

222 GENEALOGICAL TABLICS.

TABLE XV.

THll;i) LI.VK. DESCEXDAXTS OF JOHX SMITH, IIF FltAXKIJN FAKK. J)l:s( KMiA M>

OF JA>rKS SJIITII.

NINTH GEXEiiATiox. | (Children of ^Moi-dccai Lewi.-.)

(Cliildi-cii of IIiii;li IvoIk'Hs.) i 9. A. Juines Smitli Lewis.

11. A. Elizabeth Luhcrts, j Born, A.D.

Born, A.]). | Married, A.]),

jrarried, A.]). i daughter of ];:i\\l<-.

to AVilliaiii Liisli, M.]). 9. P>. Josejih Saunders l>c\vis,

9. B. Sarah Bobert.<, , Born, A. 1).

Born, A. I). j

i\Iarried, A.D.

toGoveriJOi' Ed\vai-d Cole.' 9. C. Mary Pvobeils,

'Born, A.J).

Married, A.J). 9. D. Alexander Lewi.s,

to (icorge Jioberts Smith. Born A.D.

(Children of John J. Smith.) 9. A. George Bobert.'^ Smith,

'j5ora, A.D. 9. E. i:<ther lAwis

Married, A.D. Born, A.D.

Mary, dau-hler of Jlu-h Ixoberts. " J)ied, May IC, A.D. 1806. 9. B. Alexander Smith,

9. C. Charles Ijewis,

J^orn, A. Y).

Born, A. D.

9. F. Henry Jjewi.s,

Born, A.J).

■ I 1 I ■ 1 ' (Children of Saninel AUinson.)

(Children o( John Drinker.) „ . ,, . .,,.

^ 9. A. J'^sther Alhnsun,

9. A. Mary J)rinker, ' Born, Dec. A.D. ISll.

Bom, A.D. j Married, A.D.

toH. J'. JIu-hes. of'TlH' Priory," Waltliam.~iu". j Es.sex, England.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

223

'J. B. Mnitlirt Allinsou,

Bom, Dec. A. 1). 1814.

(Children of James Logan Sniitli.) 9. A. Catharine xYUlen Smith,

Born, A. D.

Died, A. D.

9. B. Annie Couper Smith,

Born, A.D.

Married, A.D.

TENTH GENERATION.

(Children of Alexander I'rondfit.) 10. 1. John Trondfit,

Born,

A.D.

10. 2. Mary Conper Proudfit,

Born, A. D.

to Alexander Prondfit. ; -m ■> \i i c ... u,.,, inr

10. o. Alexander Conjier rruiullit.

9. B. Es;ther Smith,

Born, A.D.

9. B. Ellen Lui'^an Smith,

Born, A. D.

I'oi'n,

A.D.

224

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TAIJLE XYI.

DESCENDANTS OF JAMIS SMITH. — IIVGIIES FAMILY OF WALTJI AMSTOW.

TENTH GENEKATIOX.

(Children of Heiiiy P. Iluglics.)

10. 1. Hetty ]{;ii/.aljetli Iluglics, Born, "^A. D.

Jlarriwl, A.]).

to Albreclit C Eggcrs.

10. 2. Annie ilargiiret Hughes, Born/ ^V.I).

Married, A. D.

10. 3. ]\Iary Strotlier Huglie?,

Born, A.]).

Married, A.D.

to John y. Coiisens.

10. 4. Henry Pearse Hughes,

J^orn, " A. D.

Married, A. D.

pjiuma S., daughter of Couseus.

10. 5. ICimna Martlia Iluglies,

P.orn, A.D.

10. G. Genrgina .VHin.-ou Huglies, Born, A.]).

Married, A. I).

to G. K. Hignett. 10. 7. WiHie P. Hughes,

Born, ^ A.H.

rklarri.d, A. I).

JCditli, daughter ol' Gouseu

10. 8. AHce iMuily Huglies,

Born, " A. ]).

Married, A. 1).

to Henry Layton.

10. 9. Susan l)ilI^Yyn Hugiu's,

Born, " A.]).

! 10. 10. dolni Artluir Hughes, i Born, A. I).

ELEVENTH GENERATION. (C'iiildreii of A. G. Eggers.) 11. 1.

((Iiihh-eii of dolm S. Cousens.j 11. 1.

(Cidldren of IP I'carsc Hughes.) 11. 1.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

225

29

22G

GENKAI.OGICAL TABLICS.

TABLE XYU.

THI1;L> LIXK. Dn^KXDANTf, OF JOIIX s>riTir, OK FI.'AXKl.IN PAPK. Dl;stK.\I)A>

OF .lOlIX fSMITll, OF G1;1;KX IlILl,.

EIGinil GEN]~,r.ATJOX.

(CliikhviM.I'.Joliii Smith, (if (iivni Hill.) 8. ,\. Hcmy Hill Siiiitli,

iJii'd yiiuilj;. y. 1!. Margaivt Hill Siiiilli,

Burn, A. 1).

Maniwl, Oct. ol, A.J). 1812], to SaiiiiK'l Hillos, of Wil- luiiig'ton. 8. V. JJiclianl .^L Smitlj, of We-t Hill, iioni. Jiiiu- -j;, A. 1>. 1788. ]\laiTiwl,Sc],t.L'(), .V. 1). 1810, SlHaiiiiali,(lauglitt'nitl-aac('o]liiis. Died, ¥,A<. IJ, A.J). I.slY). 8. J). Barlid Smith,

Jkini, .May •_'(;, .\. J). 17'.fJ. Marri.-d,.lmir-_'S, A.J). ISi'ii,

to (ii.'Oi i:i' Siowai(l-oii. Died, (\-u.\>iT 7, .\. D. 18;;;1. 8. E. Mileah M. Smith,

Died voiiiil;. 8. F. . I, ,1,11 .lay Smith, ,,f Jvy E„d,i;v, J'.oni, .hiiir ICi, A. JJ. 17'.*8. Marricd,Ai.iilr_'.A.J). 1821, Rachel ('., daui^'htiT ol' J;i,hert IVaisall, of Flu>hii,L', L. J. 8. G. Jlorris Smith,

Born, Augn.-t •_"..), A. J ). 1801.

Married, .hiiif 22, A. 1 ). 182o,

' C'uroliiie.dauijfhti'riii'Boliei t Smith.

Died, March 28, A. 1). ]n;2.

NINTH G FX F i; ATIOX.

(Children of Samuel Hille.-<.)

9. A. Gulielma M. Hilles

_ Born, A. D.

Married, A. D.

toCharle.^JloNvland.ufllil!- ton, Delaware.

'.). J). William Samuel Hilles.

Bom, A.D.

.Married, A.D.

Sarah, daughter of J )r. ■I'hdUia- Allen. Died, A.J). 1S7I'.

9. ('. John Smhh J lilies,

J'.orii, A.D.

.Married. A.J).

Sarali, daui;hter of .lii-r|ih 'latuin Died, A.D. 187.V

(Children of Richard M. Smith.) !). A. Gulielma Maria Smith,

B(,ru, A.D.

.Married, .A.D.

to .lo^iahi;. Breve.. ,f" Lo- cust Shade," New .lersey.

9. J!. Rachael Collins Smith,

JJorn, A. D.

.Afanied, A.D.

to .Mattli.'w H..wland, o!

New l!edf..id.

I GKNEALOGICAL TABLES. '2'27

I 9. C. Dillwyn Smith, 9. B. John Stewardson,

f Born, A.J). Born, A. IX Married, A.D. Died, A. D.

i Elizabeth Maris, diiunliter (if Wil- 'J. V. .Maria Ste\vai(lM)ii,

5 liam Menry .Morris. Died young.

I (('hil(h-en of Cieor-e Stewardson.) 9. 1>. -Margaret Stewardsun,

i- ;». A. Tiionias .Stcwardson, .lunior, of Born, A. D.

\ " Hul.smoor." '--'• ^- (jeorge Slewardson,

i Jlorn, A.]). lyi'S. JHedyouiig.

I Married, A.D.

i Margaret, daughter of Jteuljen

I Haines.

228 ■ GE.NKALOUICAL TAJILES.

Ti\BLE XYIll.

THIRD LIXE. — LiESCENDAXTS l)F JOHN SMITH, OV FKANKI.IN rAi;K.

NINTH GicxEKATiox. I ((Children of Mol■l■i:^ Smith.)

(CliiljR'ii of John Jay Smith.) y. ^V. Ivicliiinl Morris Smith, of "Slan-

9. A. Jvlov.l IVarsall Smitii, le.V."

■ j;orn. A.D. '■ Born,Augu.st22,A.]). ISl'7,

jMiirriwl, A.D. Man-ied,:\Iar.30, A. JJ. 1S7.\

Hannah E., dauglitcr of Isaac V. Anna, daughter of C1iarle.sKai-hii.

Jones, of "Kockkmd." of "Kaighn's Point," N.J.

D. 1$. Ailiaiius Smitli, [). E. llohcn LimUey Smitli,

Ijuiu, Se]it. ;'.(_>, A.D. 182r>. Died young.

J>ied. A.D. 18-12. y. c. Elizabeth Bacon Smith,

y. C. lillizabetli J'eai-^all Smith, | l>it>d young. Born, A.D.

^ ^ , ,, ,, . , ' TENTH (iENEEATKlX.

9. D. Kchert Pfar..ali Smith,

]->,,)-ji^ A. D. 1827. (C'hihlrcn nf ('hark;- Ilowland.)

Marrie.k A.D. 10. 1. Margaret Smitli Howhin<k

Hannah,' daughter of J. M. • I'.orn, A.D.

Whiialk : Married, A.D.

'..». E. (iuHehna Maria Smith, to John Cookman.

JJied young. 10. 2. Susannah D. Howkmd,

9. ¥. Horace Jolm Smith, of Cieorge's Born, A. ]>.

Hill, " , 10. 3. Charles Howland,

15orn, A.D. I Born, A.D.

Married, Oct. 7, A. D. iy.-)7. ' Married, A. D.

^Margaret, daughter of ^\'illianl Mary.dauglitei'of ^luri'ay Shijilcy .

W. Longstreth. of Cincinnati.

9. G. Margaret Hill Smith, 10. 4. Eachel Smith Howland,

Died young. Born, A. J).

I GENEALOGICAL TABLi:S. 220

f (Children of William P. llillcs.) (Children ol' .Tolni S. Ililles.)

I

5 10. 1. Thomai? Allen Ililles, 10. 1. Anne T. Hilles,

t Born, A.U. " Born, A. D..

10. 2. Susan Allen Ililles, 10. 2. William Ililles,

Boin, A.D. Born, A.]).

Marrie<l, A.I),

to Isaact Shearman.

10. 3. Samnel E, Ililles, 10. 3. Joseph T. Ililles,

Born, A.I). Born, A.U.

10. 4. :\largaret Ililles, I 10. 4. Margaret Hilles,

Born, A.D. I Born, A. IL

P. 229. Lino 4, for Susan AUrji Ililk-^ n.-iid Su.van Watson Hille

280 G km: A LOGICAL XAJ5Jj;8

TAl'.LE XIX.

TIllKI) LINE. DLSCLKDA.N'J>; (IF JOHN SMITH, OF KIIANKLIN VAKK

Ti;,vTii Gf;xj:i;ATioN.

10. -1. William ])ill\vyii llowhiml,

(Cliihli-eii of .Tosiah R. Kecvo.) ]!ovn, .March 12, A. D. IS.".:;.

10. 1. Su.-uii lu'cvi-, (C.'liililreii(it'J'lionia>SLf\van.l.-(.ii],Jiiniiir.i

Eoni, A.D.

Died, A. J ).

lU. 1. Arthur Stcwanl.suii, Died vuu))"-.

10. (-■>. Eleanor StuwarcKon,

Born, A.D.

10. 2. liicliardion Ilcevo,

Dorii, A.D. ^"- -• 'Toiin ^teward^on,

1/1 •> T • 1 T5 I -\r i\ liorn, A. D.

10. o. Jobiali Keevt', Juihui-, M. D.,

];q,.,, A.D. I'J- '5- I'^iiilyn ]>aniar Stewardsoii,

:MarriiHl, A.D. 5*>'wi), A.D.

Jeaniiette, , daughter of John : ](). 4. Edmund Crcn.sliaw Stewarr Johnson. I Dorii, A.l).

10. 4. Elizabctli Reeve, ! 10. 5. Mary Steward.ou,

Boni, A.]). ];^,.,,^ A.D.

10. O. George "JJilhvyn rvecve.

Born, " A.D.

Married, A.D.

Sarah, daughter of J. f 'imilort. (Children of R. I'earsall Smith.)

(Children of Matthew ] lowland.) R). 1. Eleanor Smith, 10. 1. Susannah l)ilhvyn Howland, Died you iii;'.

Born, May 27, A.D. iS-io. Died, " A.D.

10. '2. Richard Smith iJowland, Dlrl' \ D

Born, July li', A.D. 1S47.

Married, " A.D. ^*^- ■^- ^^'''y ^^'^'''''" ^'""1''

daughter of ^^'^™' ^'^•^*-

10. 3. Morris Howland, 10. 4. Lloyd l^gan Smith,

Born, Dee. 11, A.D. 1850. Born, A.D

10. 'J. Eraiiklin Whitall Smith, Born, A. D.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

231

10. r>. l^achel Smitli,

Born, A.]).

10. 4. ]\[argaret Loiigstretli Smitli, Born, Oct. 20, A. 1).

10. G. Alice Smitli,

r,oru, A. 1).

ELKVEXTII (iEN'ERATIOX.

(C'liildren of John Cookman.) (Ciiildren of Horace J. Smitli.) , , ,

10. 1. Allianus Longstrelli Smitli,

lioni, 'Sldi: •-".), A. 1). 1800.

10. 2. Mary J>ringiaust Longstretli Smith, Born, Aug. :!0, A. D. 1 803.

(C'liiMreii of Charles llowlaiid.) 11. 1.

10. 3. Wilson Longstreth Smith,

Born, April 28, A. J). 1807. 11. 1

(Children of Isaac Shcarnian.)

232 GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TxVlJLE XX.

TfriKl) LINE. DESCEXDANTS OF JOHN SMITH, OF FRAXKLIN I'AUK.

EIGHTH GEXEKATjiix. 9. C. Isaac ])avis,

(Children of .loliu Cox, of Oxiiioad.) l^orn, A.l),

8. A. Sarah Cox,

Died young.

8. B. Hannah Ci)X, ^, i, ,-, i, •

1. ,, 1 . ^-^ -,-T •'• J'. Ceoi-nc J 'avis,

liorn, yept. 8, A. D. 178-1. '%, ' , ,,

T>r • 1 17, Horn, A. J).

Married, A. D.

to Dr. George Davis.

Died, ^ A.D.

NINTH (,i:nei;ation. 9 j? L^wis Davis,

(Cliil<lren (.r Dr. Cenrge Davis.) I'.orii, A. D.

9. A. John (ox Davis,

IJorn, A. 1).

1*. 1!. JuHaiia Davis,

Born, A.D.

9. F. Jane Davis,

B,.rn, .V.D.

GENEAJ.OUH^AI. TAJiLIS.

Ii33

TAIJJ.E XX i, KOUiiTH Lixi:. — i>j;sri:\iiAXTs of wii.i.iam i/»vi:tt sMixii. — rii;sT si;vj;.\

GEN]:i[ATK)NS.

Manic'il, A. 1).

Died, A. I).

]. William S„iitl,, or Bntiuliani, York- ,3. liidKud S.niih, „r ( livci Hill,

■^''''■'^■' _ J'.iirn, Julv .-., A. D. JG'.i'.i.

IJoni, (ciiva) A.I). 1,570. MaiTi^.l,.\u-.2<). .\.J).17i;).

Abigail, ilaiiL^liter nj' 'riiuiiia.^ Jtajiifi'. of Siu.kasl.y, Y.,rlcsl,iir, •2. Ridiard Smith, ..f jiramhani. ) P:ii.-laii,l.

]!apli«..l,MaylS,A.)).l,V.):_;. ^^'""■^' ^"'- ''' A.l». ly.M.

.Married ' \ 1) (-MeintxT of A.v-endily liu-L'n

Died, Xov. ]0, A. I). 1G17 yeai-.')

G. A\'illiamLovi'ItSmith,(if" ]!i-am!iairi,"

;!. llichaiil Smith, (-iroml,) of ]!iam- , J'.oni, Sejit. IM, .\.J). K'Ji;.

li'iiii- -Maniod,Sp|,t.ir),A.l>. 171'.*.

]'.a[itizcil,Ati-. 1,'i,A.|). IGl'd. Maiy. daiiulit.r nf Daniel DmuuIiIv.

Married, F,i..L'.-,, A. 1>. IC,-,:;, " J)iL'd, JVc. l-i, A. J). 17:'l.

Anrif, daiii^ditcr nf Williaui Yeatcs, '

' ,. .,, I . ,- , I sj;vi:XTii (_iLM;i:Aii(iN.

01 .ilhoroiiL^li, 1 ork-

^]ji,.^> ' ((.'hildrfii ol' \V. J^uN.'it Smith.;

Died, A. D. KJSS. 7. A. Lovett Smith,

J)ied yomii;.

4. Siuiiuel Smith, nf I'.ramliam, 7. I'.. Daniel Duii-hty Smith, ..f "Sha- \',nin, Mareh 1, A. D. 1G72. run,"

MarriL-d, A. D. J'.oni, duly :.".•, A. I ). 1 7."".l .

Klizahi;th, <lau;4hter of lOdnK.iid l>ov- .Married, ' A. I ). 177l'.

Ctt, of IJiiek.- ('(itiiity, JOiizaheth, daughter of d.jnathaii

Pennsylvania; -ec(indly, Sclaiolev, (" SehooleyV

(d. !..,)] ).,iv,tl,ea (iyle-/ , Muunt.")

Died, April 1^, A. D. 17KS. Died, dulv 27, A. D. 1.^-7.

30

234 GENEAL0GIC.4L TABLES.

7. C. SaiiuiclSmitli,of"SohoolcyFanii," j 7. G. ftfary Smith,

Boiii, June 4, A. J). 17o5. Married, A. D.

Abigail, dauglitei- of .1uii;itliaii Schuole^', (" Scliooley's Mount.") Died, A. D.

7. I). Anno Siiiilh,

Bom, Feb. 12, A.]). IvoS. Mairicd, A.J).

to .loiiii (;ill, of Iladdoii- lield. Died, A.l).

7. E. Elizalieiii .'^mitli,

]Jied young. 7. F. ^Abigail Plinth,

Born, Xov. 7, A.l). Mi'i.'i. Married, A.J),

to Jol)n Ear), of

Born, duly 7, A.J). i:(\». Married, " A. J).

to Jiarzillai Burr. J)ied, A.]).

7. IJ. William J.ovett Smith, (j^ivond.) of " Braniham," JJurliiig- ton County, Iwrn, Nov. 11, A.J). 177;!. Married, A.JJ.

Jiliza, daughter ol' General ddlm I^ncey, of Died, " A.J).

J)ied

A. 1).

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TABLE XXII.

FOITRTH LIXE.^DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM I.OYETT SJIITII.

EIGHTH gexei;atiox. (CliTldrcii of 1). Doughty Sniitli.)

8. K. Josc[)li Siiiitli, of " r>r;im]iaiii,"

Born, .Inly 10, A. 1 ). 17S'.). Married, " A.D.

A, )'.. Anno Smilli. Mary Sniitli, | ^^'''-'''i. 'I^uigliter oi' Aruoy Liiipiii-

Dio.l young. t'O't-

,, , ,, ■ ■,, '^ Dio.l, Anrll ]C. A.J). ISfV..

L . .lonallian ^nutli, ,,,•■,•• i

1 \- 1 -NT -I ,■ \ 1 » 1 Q ( -, I ] )iod voniig.

Died, jNov. Hi, a. J). LS4<j. • , . , .

(ClLildren of Samuel Sniitli.)

A.D. A.D.

A. I).

A.D. A. D. A. D.

8. L). John Sehooley Smith,

I'.orn, I)ee. 1, A.D. 1777. Dip.l, Jan. 7, A.D. 18P.L'. K, ]•:. l':ii/.al.etli Smith,

Born, Dec. 21, A.D. 177i>. Married, A.D.

loJaniesShreve,uf"Sli)ck- lun." Di.'d, Oet. 11, A.D. ]8.->4. 8. F. .}:wo\> .Smith,

l.)ied young. 8. G. Daniel Doughty Smitii, (-^eeMuil,) Born, Aiiril Hi, A.D. 178:!. • Died, July 11, A.D. l.S'JO. g. A. Mary Gill, 8. H. Ezekicl Smith, Born, A.D.

Died voung. ! Wed, A.D.

8. I. rvelK.c.-u Smith, ' S. B. John Gill,=^'roud, (J. 1'..) -f Ha,

Born, Mar. l'U, A.D. 1787. donlield.

Marrieil,])ec. 17,A.D.1S07, , Born, A.D.

toJosejm White, of Mount i Married, A.D.

Holly. ! Sarah, daughter of lL.|.ki;:

Died, Jan. 3, A.D. 18tV.. ' I'l'^l A.D.

8. A. William Smith, l;<.rn. ]\[arried, Mary, daughti'r .if llinry Uidg- way. Died." 8. B. Charles Smith, J5orn. Married, Died, 8. C. Samuel Smith,

Died yoiHig. (Ghildren of Jdm Gill.)

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(CliildiC'ii of John E;irl.) 8. A. William Lovett Eiu-1,

]3oni, A. D.

Married, A. D.

(Cliildreii of Barzillai Burr.) 8. A. Lydia liiirr,

Born, A.L).

Married, A.]).

Harriet, daughter of Cui'tis; ! to Natluin Atkinson,

secondly, Eveline, daugli- ^ 8. Ji. Bai'zillai ]'>urr.

		ter of		• Jiorn, A.D.
		Died,	A.D.	Married, A.J).
8.	B.	Joim Smith Ivirl,		Anne J). Beatty.
		Born,	A.D.	8. C. Eichard Ihirr,
		Married,	A.D.	Born, A.D.
		Keziah, daughter of	Shreve.	.Married, A.J).
		] )ied,	A. ]).	Anne Jlanijitdii.
8.	C.	Elizab.'lh Ivirl,
		Born,	A. D.	(Of these children, only I^ydia
		Married,	A. D.	issue.)
		Died, (s. ]).,)	A.D.
8.	I).	Mary ]iarl, liorn, Marrird, toSanniei 1-211 iield." Died,	A.D. A.D. s.(if"S|iring- A.J).	■

I GENEALOGICAL TABLES. 237 I

< • I

TAELE XXII].

FOUnT}! LINE. ]>ESCEXPANTS OF WILLIAM LHVETT SMITH.

EIGHTH GE.VEEATiox. ' 9. ( ". Elizalx'th SrluKiIcy Slircve, (Cliildreu of W. LovcU Siiiiili, >tr(iii(l.) VMvn, A.]).

8. A. Thomns ]j. ^^niilh, (.Imlgr uT ^ii- •'• l-*- ]^(--ulali Saiisoin Slircvi",

preine ('(.iirt,) of Xew ; IjW', A.J).

Albauy, Indiana, ! Married, A.I).

Pxirn, A.l). ' to Jiarclay Wliitr, (.f'-Slii,

Married, A. \). ISOG, ' ran."

Anne ]\[. E., daughter of William '.•. E. ^^arali liiddlc Shreve,

Evany, of Willih.lown, I'a, ]iorn, A.]).

8. ]J. Henry W. .^niitli, '' 9. E. llehv.ra Land, Slnvvi-.

JWn, A.I). j'.Mrn, A.]).

-Married, A. I). Marrie.l, A.l).

Laura, daughter of ])avid ]jeon- to Danirl Smith White,

ard; secondly, -\nielia G., daughter of IL Fo.-^ter. (Childi'en of Jo^'ph, White.)

8. ('. .•hini^ L. Smith,

Born, A.]).

Married, A. 1).

to Dr. Eugene I'ahner, St. Janie.s, Louisiana.

9. A. John .h.-iah \\'hile. of

Horn, A.]).

>Farried, A.i).

Mary K., daughter of Di'. X. Shoe- maker ; secondly, A liii;aih XINTll GENK];ATir)X. ' daughter of E. A\'( aver,

(f'hildren of James Shrew.) ; 9. V,. Rmiel Smith White,

;». A. Stacy ]!iddle Shreve, [ Born, A.D.

Born, A.l). 31arried, A.J).

.Afarrieil, A.J). Rel)eeea L.. daughler of Jam<'>

Susan JL, (laughter of Shreve.

Woodward. 9. C. JClizabeth \\'hite.

9. B. J)aniel Sniitli Shreve, Born, A.J).

JJorn, A.J). Married, A.D.

Died, March 1."^, A. 1). iklG. to J<,-hu.a Lipi.iiicott.

238 GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

9. D. Saiali Siiiitli White, ' 9. H. Anna ]\Iaria White,

Born, A.I). [ Born, A.D.

lYwd, Nov. 3, A. I). ItioS. Married, A.D.

9. E, Anna White, to John C). Hunt, .M. J ).

IJied young-. (Cliihlren of Joscpli Smith.)

9. F. Howard White, I 9_ a. Daniel Doughty Smith, (tliir.l,)

]}orn, A. ]■).

Born, A.]).

Died, Aug. 19, A. ]J. 18:iS. Married A.]).

9. G. Barehxy White, ; Emma, daugliter of Olipliaiu.

Born, A. D. j

Married, xV. ]>. (Continued in next tahh'.)

Keheeca il., dauglitei- of B. S. I^amb; secondly, JJeuhih S., daugliter of James Shreve.

GENKAI,OU](AL TAJSLiy.

230

TA]'.J>E XXIV.

FOUKTII LINE. DESCENDANTS (IF WII.EIAM EOVK'JT SJIITJI.

NINTH OENEKA'nON.

(Cliililren of J(nc]i1i Sniitli, rontiniuMl.) 1). B. Rebecca Wliitc Smilli,

Born, A. I).

Married, A.\).

to Franklin W. Jvirl. 9. C. Elizabctli S. Sinitli,

Died young-. 0. D. William Lovrtt Sinitli, (lliiid.)

Born, A.lJ.

Died, June '-'."i, A.D. ISG.'l 9. E. Lydia Lippincott Smith,

Born, A.D.

Married, A.D.

to Stacy 1!. Lipj'incolt. r». F. .Io.-eph W. Smith,

Died j-oung. 9. G. Eilwood L. Smith,

Born, A.J).

Died, Aug. L'o, A.J). 18.53. 9. H, I,Iv. Anna, George W.,Jonatiian,

JJied young. 9. L. James L. .Smith,

Jiorn, A.D.

Married, A.D.

Virginia, daughter of JJe la

Mothe. '.). M. Anna Maria Smith,

Died young.

(Children of William Smith.)

1». A. IJenry Smith,

Jiorn, A.I).

Married, A.J).

Mary, daughter of T. Ewaii.

1). J]. Job Stockton Smith,

VjOyu, A.J).

Married, A.D.

Eliza, daughter of I>a\vrence.

(.). C. J-:iizahelh Smith,

Born, A. J ).

Married, A. J ).

to Elias i;. Fell.

0. JJ. Jonathan J-.. Smith,

I^,orn, A.J).

Married. A.D.

Mary A., daughter ol' Val-

entine.

9. E. William Smith, Junior,

l?orn, A.D.

Married, A.J).

Achsah, daughter of White.

9. I-". Samuel Smith, Junior,

Born, A.JJ.

^larried, A. D.

Elizabeth R., daughter of Butterworth.

2-iO GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

(Cliild of Charles Pmitli.) ' 9. 1). AVilliain H. Gill, 9: A. Abigail Sniitii, ]!orii, A.J).

I'.oni, A.J). " Married, A.J). '

Married, A.J). riiu'bc, daiiuliter of ."^luvvr.

to .loseiih Liii|iiiie(ilt. (Children of W. I.ovett J::arl.)

(Children ef lion. John Cill.) ;). A. (jieorge M. J:arl,

9. A. lleheeea tiill, I "l5orn, A.J).

JJorn, A.D. { Married, A.J).

-^Jiii'i'iwl. A.J). ' Sarah A., daiio-hler of I'.owtr.

9. n. J^dgar Jvirl,

lioiD, A.J).

Died, A. J ).

to Samuel S. Willits. 9. J!. Anna Cill,

Pied youni;. 9. C. John ( lill, (third, )of( ■anideii. New

JP'-~t'y, ■ (Continued in ne.\t table.)

J'.orn, A. J ).

Married, A.J). i

ICIizabeth, dauuhler of !

Toiniinsoii. i

GKNEALOGICAT, TABLES.

241

TABLE XXV.

FOURTH I.IXK. DESCr.N'DAXTS OF WIT.I.IAJI I.OVETT S.MITII.

NINTH GENEIIATION.

(Cliililiou of W. Ivovctl Eai'l.coiitiniiixl.)

9. V. Matv Vm-\,

" lioiii, A. D.

Miinicd, A.]),

to Thiukleiis lIooiHT.

II. ]). ILuTiof Earl,

Horn, A.J).

.Ariini.>il, A.D.

to Dr. A. ];. Merrltt.

'.». E. William Ivul,

J )ie(l yoiuig.

SI. E. Daiii.l \\'. Ivirl,

];„rn, A. I).

' Marrinl, A.D. Ilel'/n. ilau-litir of Ilalrli.

(Ciiil.hvn of .Tohn Smith Earl.)

!». A. Maria Ivarl.

1 lii'ij yiiuny;. ;». B. William L. ICarl,

Born, A.I).

1 )i,.,l. .\. I).

(Children of Samuel Ellis.) 'J. A. Beh.-eea Sharp I'.llis,

I'.orn, A.D.

.Married. A.D.

to llichard ('. Woolston. :{1

9. B. Eli/a Elli.s,

Born, A.D.

Died, A. IX

'.I. C. Henry Ellis--.

"];orn, A. JJ.

Married, A.D.

Edith, daughter of Earl.

9. D. Peter Kllis,

Born, A.D.

Married, A.D.

Ophelia, daughter .>f G'ke.

(Ciiildren of N. Atkin-mi.)

9. A. C'harles Atkinson,

I'.orn, A. D.

0. B. .Anne .Vtkin.~on.

Born, A.D.

Married, A.D.

to Benjamin AVright.

9. C Bar/.illai ]*.. .Vtkin.-dU,

Born, A.D.

Married, A.D.

Mary, daughter of Eelley.

(Children .if .ludge Th. L. Smith.)

'.I. A. ]\Iarv Smith,

"jiorn, A.D.

Married, A.D.

to David II. Mae.\<lam.

242

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

9. B. Tlionms L. Smitli, (second,) Eoni, A. D.

(Chiklrwi of Ile-n-y W. Smith.) 9. A. Mary Smith,

Ijoiii, A.D.

Married, A. I).

9. B. Laura Smith Born,

A.]).

9. C. Eobcrt Marshall Smilh,

Born, A.J).

(The tables of the Fourth Line, l\>>iu

to Nicholas L. Tilghnian. Barclay White.)

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

243

TABLE XXVI.

FIFTH LT\E. — DESCENDANTS OF EICIIAED SMITH, (fIFTH,) OF OTSEGO

1. Williaiii Siniili, of Eraiiiliam, York

slnrc,

Bom, (circa) A.D. 1.370.

Mank'.l, A.D.

J)kcl, A.D.

2. Eiclianl Smith, of Bi-aniluun,

Baptizea.May 18, A.D. l.")'.i:',. Manitcl, " A.D. Dic.l, ^ov. r.>, A.D. li'Al.

3. IlicliarJ Smith, (second,) of Braiii-

Lam,

Baptized,Aiig.l5,A.D. 1626.

:M:uTlpd,Fch.2.j, A. D. 16.38, Aiuie, (huiL^htiT oi' ^^■illiam Yoate;:, of Alhoroiigh, York- si lire.

Died, A. D. IGSS.

o. Bichard Smith, of Circeii Hill, \

Born, July .5, A.D. 16'.)'.). MaiTied,Aug.2(), A.D.lTl'.i, Abigail, daughtei' of Thomas Bajiier, of Sindersby, Yorkshire, England. Died, Xov. !). .\. D. 1731. (^Icinberof Assembly I'mi- LIO yeai's.) 6. Richard Smith, (fifth,) of "Siuitli I-Iall," Otsego, Born, Mar. 22, A.D. 1733. ^[arricd, A. J ).

Elizabeth, daughter ot' Don. .b^lm Boduian. Died, A.D. 1^)8.

(.^lember of tlie ( '..ntinental Congress.)

4. Samuel Smith, of Jiramham, I

Born, March 1, A.D. 1672. ; seventh geneeation.

Married, A.D. | 7. A. Seammon Bodman Smith,

Elizabeth, daugliter of Edmund Lov- \ Born, April 8, A.D. i7t

ett, of I'ucks ('iiunty, 7- I'l. Bichard Budman Siiiilhj

Bcnnsylvania ; secondly, i Ijorii, June ".1, ,V. D. 17)

(s. p.,) Dor(5thea Gyles. I Married,

Died, April 18, A.d" 1718. |

(MenJjerofAs-embly.X.J.) '

A.D.

Anne, daughter (.f Ibiwi

Died, A.D.

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GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

l>ie(l, A.J).

7. E. KiidiiKui Sniitli, Died voiiiu

7. C. Joliii Smith, 8. M. Margaret Howell Bmill],

liorii, April 1, A.J). 170(3. JJorii, June :JN, A. J). 17'.'>.

Died, A.J). •

7. D. M'illet ymith. v <• < i \ v m

b. C . barali Ann ^nlltll,

Born, Nov. ]•_', A.J). 17G7. ij^m, Oct. 11, A. J). Jsio.

Married, June A.J). ISlu. to Tlionia.s Lloyd "W'liar- ton, of riiiladolphia. EIGHTH GE.\tl;.\TIij-\. J)ie(l, A.D. JS-IC.

(Children of R. Rodman Sniith.) ^^ D. Mai-y Smith,

8. A. I-:iizabetli .-;)ni;li, ^'"'i". A.J).

Jiorn, J)ec. :j(.), A.D. 17i)(j. ^ ''^d, A. J).

Married, A.J). «■ 10. Jiiehard Howell Smith,

to William fond, of Great JJoni, Aug. 17, A. J).. l^dH.

Mills, St. Mary's County, Married, A.J).

Maryland.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

245

TA15LE XXYII.

FIVTH LINE. — DESCENDANTS OF lUCHAliD SMITH, OF OTS];gO.

NINTH (iENEliATION.

(Childivii uf William 1"..;k1.)

(Children of K. Howell >Sniitli.) 9. A.

9. A.

(Chikhvu uf T. J>. Whaitoii.)

'•>. A. Lucv WhaitDii,

" lioni, A. 1X1841.

9. 1>. Fj-aiiecs Wliaiton.

Born, A. D. 1843.

FIEST FEMALE LINE. DESCENDANTS OF DANIEL SMITH, OF iiRAJIHAM.

1. William Smith, of Bramliam,

I5uni, (eimi) A. D. 1570. Married, A. 1 ).

Died, A.l).

0. Sarali Rmitli,

Eoni, A. ]J.

MaiTie.l,Mai-.22,A.l). ITi'.d,

to JaiiK'S Penilicitoii, (if

Philadelpliia. Died, Nov. l^S, A. D. 1770. 7. Mary Smith Pfinljertdii,

IJorn, Xov. Ji», A. D. 1770. .Alarrie.l.MavKsA.J). 171)0,

to Anthony Morris, son nf

Samd .Morris, nf Wa<li-

ington, D. ('. Died, Feb. L'O, A.D. LSOS.

2. Riehard Smith, nl' Urandiam,

r,a[.ti/.e.l,AhiylS,A.J).ir)!):]. ^larried, " A.D. Died, Nov. r.), A. D. 1047.

3. Riehard Smitli, (second,) of'Bramham. I

J]a]>tized,Aug. 15, A.D. 1G2G. \ Married, Feb. --'5, A. D. 1053, j Anne, daughter of William Yeates, of Alborough, Yorkshire. : Died, A.D. ]C)SS. r;r(;ii'ni (;i:xi:i;AT[0.\.

4. Daniel Smith, of JJrandiam, (I'rdiiri- , (Children (if AntlnMiy Morris and Maiy

etor, etc.,) Smith l'end.)ei'ton.)

Iwirn, Xnv. M, A. D. IdOo. ,S. A. i'lurbi' I'ciiilKa'ioii Morris, Man-ic'd, .\. 1). i;,,n,, Apiil d, A. I ). 17'.n.

Mary, daughter of Robert Murliu, Died, A. I ).

ofEaton,Nottiughamshire. ' ,s. R Relieeea W'istar iMorris. Died, Aug. 4, A.D. 1742. Borii, Sept. C, A.D. ]7ii:'>.

5. Daniel Smith, (second,) of Jlurlington, .^^al■ried, A.l).

Rorn, A.J). IGOO. to Chailes d. N(.)ursc.

Married, Oct. 17, A.D. 1719, Died, A.D.

I\[ary, daughter of Cas])ar lioedt. 8. ('. daiues Rembertdii Morris,

DietC A. D. 1769. Born, June 21, A. D. 1795.

(Member of Assemldy, New ^Tarried, A.D.

.br'rsL'v.) Txtuisa, dauiihtcr of (iardinrr.

8. J^. Luni^;i I'lMiibc'iluii INIorris,

lioni, July :]0. A.]). 171)8. Mm-iicd, A. 1).

to Williniii ( 'lia<k'rton. DieJ. A.i).

xixTH Gi;.\ i:i;atiox. (ChiUlreii of C'luirlcs J. Nour.so.) '. '. -V. M;iiy J. bourse,

Eoni, A. D.

'■'. ]:'). Caroline R. Xourse,

J^orn, A. L).

MarricHl. A.D.

to J!. Dulaiiev.

'K ( '. JvOiiisa Noiii'se,

Honi, A.D, '

MarricMl, A. 1 >.

to C'lmrlos l'\)n-('^^l.

U. D, E. Rosa Xourse, .lulm Xoiirse,

'.). F. Charles J. jSToiirso, (secontl,) I'.urn, A. ] ).

Married. A.D.

Maruaret. dauiiliter of Iviiulile.

248

GENEALOGKJAI, TABLKS.

TAllLE XXIX. FIRST FEMALE LIXE. — DESCENDANTS OF DANIEL SMITH, OF BUAMIIAIL

(Cliildieii of William Clmdeiton.) 9. A. Mary (.'liadei-ton,

" Born, A. 1).

9. B. Phwbe ChaJeiton,

Bom, A.l).

9.	G. Phwbi. P. Xourse,
	Born,	A. 1).
9.	PI. James B. X^our.se,
	IVini,	A. ] ).
<(.	I. Elizulieth Ximr.-i',
	Born,	A.D.
	■Married,	A.l).
	to Charles Simms.
9.	K. Ilenrlelta C. Xourse,
	Born,	A.D.

L. Israel P. Xourse, Born,

A.D.

(Children of .1. Peniherton .Morri.s.) A. Phineas Penilierton .Morris, Born, A. D.

M^uried, .A.D.

.Marlh.a ('.. dan.-hter of Bowers". K Kosa .Morri.-,

Born, A. D.

.Married, A. D.

to PI. Komilly.

C. ]']li/.;i ]\Iorris,

Born. A.l).

D. Mary .Morris.

"l!..ru, A.P).

PI Isahella Mnrris,

pH.rn, A.D.

F. William Morris

P.urn, .V.I).

TENTH <;fn i:i;ation. (Child]-en of B. Dulaney.)

10. 1.

GKNEALOGICAI. TABLES. 249

2J0

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TAELE XXX.

8ECti\D FEMALE LLVi;. DKSClC.VDA.VTs OF ])A.\I];L SMI'IH, OF J'.KAJIIIAM. DF-

SCENJ)AXTS OF SA51UJ;L .-^ANSOil.

1. William Smith, of Jiriiinliaiii, G. Huiiuuli C'alli.'iiilei-, .«ole .-^iirvivinj;

I5oni, (circa) A.I). ]."")70. child,

Manic.l, A.J). i ]!,,ni, A. D. 1737.

J'i'''l A.]). j :\[amc.l, A.L). 17GL',

>) 1); 1 1 w- -.i 1- 1. 1 't) Samuel Saiiscjiii, ul'

1. Jilclianl Sm.'lJi. ol Ilraiiiliam. i„ •, i i i ■

i> .■ lit -,.,,., -,,., J iiiladi liiliia.

]!ai.tJzc<l,.Mav]S,A.]).]o!l3. ' ir i , i.

Ml ■ VI. \^W'\, A.]).

-Marricil, A.l).

JJicd, Xc.v. Yd. A.]). I(;i7. 7. A. William .<an.oni, 3. Riclianl Smith, (-cr,„Ml,)nf]],,,mham, -''■^"■"- A.lJ. 17<i3.

JLipti/cLAu-. l-"i,A.I). li;-_'i;. .Mamcd,l-M,. _'."., A.l I. lO.".:;,

^lanic.l.Dcc. l.S, A.I). 17>^. Su.'<:miiah, ilaughter of .luliii Hca.l.

Aniic, (laiii;litci (if William V.-ans

V AliH.rnn.uh, York.hiiv. ^''"'' ^- ^•

])ic-.l. A.J). li;s.^. - ,, >., , ^

4. I)ani,d Smith, (>r Uraniham, (Pj-opri- I'""'- A. D. 17i;l.

ctor, etc.,) .^ral■I■ic(l, A. D. 1757,

JJi.Mi, Xuv. 14. A.J). 1 (■,(;.-,. to j;ili-imi I'cn,i.

MaiTic.l, A.J). l->'f^l. A.I).

-Marv, daii-htcr i.l' Itolicrt .Muiiiii, i.r - ,, j i ■

,, ^ ^- • 1 , ■ / . *- . J()><'|ili Sansom,

r.aton, .NoHniuh.aiii.^hiic. ' , . ,^ ,- .-

ir 1 1 .11 I . , - , , lioni, A. J). I i''-.

JJicd, Aiimi-t !, A. J). / ■_'.

-Manic], A. U.

."). Kathai-iiie Sinitli. Bciilah, dau-htcr uC

Jiorn, .\. J). 1711.

.Manicd. A, I). I7:;i, Died, A.D.

to William Calhaidrf, ,,f

J'hiladiljihia. 7. I >, Jv Kaihaiiiic, .'^.iiiiihl,

Died, A. J). 17.S',I. J)icdv,.nim.

GEXEALOCtICAL tablem.

251

EIGHTH (;i:xi;i;ati()N. (Children iif William Sans(jni.)

8. A. Eliza Ili'ad Saii^iiii),

]!oni, (>■(. !(, A. 1). \:S'.K

Married.Mar. II, A.l). J, so;), to George Yaux.

Died. Jan. 20, A.I). 1S7(). 8. J]. William Saii,~om.

J)ied yomi-. <S. C ilanuali Sansom,

litiin, .ALiy I. .v. 1). ]S(j:;.

Die-d, June 1, A. 1). \SiU\.

-MNTll tii;\]:i;AT!l)N.

(C'hildi-eii nf tieurge Vaux.)

U. A. I'^iaiK-es \'aux,

ISoiii, April •_'(), .\. 1». ISld. Married, A.I).

to Died, dan. -JT, A.D. 1S7(). '.I J>.- A\'illiam San-uni "\'aiix.

Born, .May 1'.), .V.D. IsH. >rarried, Im'1.. 1'.I,A.]). ISL"), Emily, dauuliler oi' Eredi.-iic (jrac-tl'.

9. C. Susan Vaux,

J!orn, Jan. (J, A. D. ISllj.

]\Iar!icd,N,,v.'J(;.A.D.-ls:;."',. til William ]'. ( 'nss(jn. 0. D. .Mary E. Vaux.

l!orn, Ang. 17. A.D. isi I.

Died, Aug. L'7, .V.]). 18 1-1, '.). E. Elizalielli Vanx,

lioni, M:u. •_':;. A.D. 181(;,

Married, Dee. C, .\. ]). IS-! 7, '

toN. Hicks (irahai:,. j

'.*. F. IJanJiali San-uin N'anx. |

jM.rn, .Nov. H), .\. D. ISl'O. '

Married. June 1 I. A.D. IM^, ; to A\'illiani r. Cliandkr. 0. G. Janus \'anx, i

Died young. I

'.). H. Emily \'anx,

Jlorn. .Vj.ril I, A. D. 1 S ■_'.-,,

Died. dan. ;;. A. D. Is.'.]. !t. 1. Anna ."^. \'aux,

liovn, Xiiv. k;. a. D. ]s-_'r,.

])ied. dune. . A.J). IS.-, 1. 0. K. Ueiji'ge \ aux.

Born, A|iril :'.<>, A. D. l^:..

Married. (.)et. ."). .\. J). ]>■',[>. Sarali, daugliter el' Eevi M^rri-. el' " Ilarritiin."

■'.'"'JSEcr

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TABLE XXXI.

SECOND FEMALE LINE. HESCENDANTS OF DANIEL SMITH, OF BLAMIIAM. — DE- SCENDANTS OF SAMUEL SANSOM, I'ONTINUED.

TENTH GENEiiATiox. | (Cliildreii of A\'. V. Cliamlkr.)

(Cliihlivi. uf ^Vln. S. V:uix.) K'- 1-

10. ].

(C'liiklrfu of Win. P. Civs-on.) 10. 1.

(Cliildron of X. Hicks Gniliaiii.) 10. 1.

(C'liiUln.n of George Yaux.

10. 1.

GENEALOGICAL TAliLES.

258

TABLE XX XII.

SECOND ri:.MALi: li.vp.. DESCEXUAX1>

DICSCE.N'DANTS OK h

J'.IGHTII i.r.NKRATIOX. 1

(Cliildreu of Elliston Perot.) |

S. A. Fninci-; iVrot,

Itfirii, A. I).

Man-icil, A.I).

Elizabeth, tlaiig'liter of ^loriis. S. ]]. SautiOin Pcrut,

Boin, A. 1).

Died, A. D. IS 10.

S. C. Ilauuali I'eiot,

Born, A.I).

Married, A. D.

to Samuel B. Morris. .S. I). Joseph J'urot,

Born, A.l).

Married, A.I).

Sarali, daii;j:liter of Morri.s.

S. E. William S. Perot,

Born, A. 1).

Married, A. I).

Mary "\V., daughter of Poultney.

NINTH Gl.N IJ'.ATION.

(Childri^n of Eranei.- Perot.) 9. A. Ellistoii Perot, (.-eeoiul,)

Born. A. D.

Married, A. D.

Caroline, ilaughter of Corbit.

; (11- I>ANli;l, SMITH, (IF lillAMIIAM.

iAMUJ'!. SANSCOl, (15. ■)

1 0. B. Thoma.s Morris Pei-iit, I Born, A.l).

.Alavried, A.l).

Bebeeea ('.. daughter of Siler.

9. C. Sai-ah Perot, ; Born, A.I).

j Married, A. I).

' to Edward II. Ogdeii.

(Children nf Samuel B. .Mniri,-,) It. A. Samuel B. Morri>, (seeoud.) Born, A. !).

Married, A. I J.

Lydia, daughter of 9. B. Beulah :\Ioriis.

]5orn, A. D.

Married, A.D.

toCharle.si;!ioa.]-,(.flIad donfitld. 9. C. EUi.stou P. Morris,

Born, A.I).

Married, A. D.

(Children of Joseph Perot.) 9. A. John Perot,

I'.orn, A.J).

Died, A. D. 9. B. Anna Perot,

Born, A.D.

Died, A.D.

254

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

A. JJ. A.D.

A.D. A.D.

A.J). A.J).

9. C. Joseph ,S. Terot, Born, ]\I;irric(l,

Sallif, (hiii-liter of Jjea.

•J. J). I-:ili,t..ii jri'erot, Jjorn, jManied, daughter of 9. E. Hannah l\n-ot, Jjorii, ^Jarriod,

to Galloway C. .>[orns. (Cliildicn of M'm. S. I'on.t.) 0. A. James J^ IVrot,

I'orn, A.J).

Uied, A. 1). 1S72.

'.). J>. Sanson! JVrot,

Born, A.J).

I\rarried, A.J).

8arah T., ilanghter of Slter.

'•'. C. Sarah S. I'erot,

Born, A. U.

Married, A. J).

" to Samuel JIusion.

9. D. Laetitia P. Perot,

Born, A.J).

j _ Married, A.I),

to Morris JIarker.

9. E. (.Iiarles J'ouhney J'erot, j Born, . A. \).

j ^Married, A.J).

I . ]\Jary, daughter of Jvnowk>.

9. F. JJannah J'ei'ot,

Born, A.D.

Married, A.D.

to Chark's J-vieiiard^on.

9. G. Elizabetli W. J'ejot,

Jiorn, A. D.

'•'. JJ. Annie S. J'erot,

Born, A. 1).

9. J. yUiry W. J'enit,

Born, A. J).

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

255

TABLE XXXIII.

SECOND FEM,\Li: LlXi;. DES( HXDANTS OF DAMKI. SMITH, (iF J',l; AM 11 AM. DE- SCENDANTS OF SAMUEL SANSd.M, (1!.)

TENTH ceni;i:ation. ' (Cliildreii of franiiRl 11. .Mcjni^, second.)

(C'liildreii uf I]llistoii rerot, secoud.) -^q j

10. 1.

(Children of T. M(.iii< IVn.t.

JO. 1.

(Cliildivii (if Charlc-^ IMinad.-.)

10. 1.

(Ciiildreii of K. II. O-dc-n.)

10. 1.

(Cliildrcn of Elliston 1'. Morris 10. 1.

25(>

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

(C'liililrcn of Josri.h H. Perot.) (Cliiklrcii of SanuR'l Huston.)

10. 1. 10. 1.

(Cliildnii of 10. J.

]:ili<t(in L. renit.) (Cliildivn ^)\' .Morris Ihu-ktr.)

JO. 1.

(CliiMrc-n (if Call.iwiiy ( '. .Morri-.) (Cliil<lrcii of C1i:irKv- I'. IVml.) |

10. 1. 10. 1. I

(C'liildrcM of Saiisom rcrot.) (Cliililicii of Ciiarlcs HicliaMl-on)

10. 1. 10. 1.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES. 257

^

TABLE XXXIV

THIRD FEMALE LINE. — DESCEXDAXTS OF SAMUEL SMITH, OF JiliAJIHAM. — ])E-

f, SC'ENDAXTS OF JfAKY SMITH XOIU.F.

!

1. William Siuitli, of liiamliam, [ 6. A. fc?uniuel X'oble,

Borij, near A. 1). i.'.TO. Bom. oth mo. 2^,, A. I). 1720

{. 2. Biclian-1 Smitli, of I'.iamlK.m, ' Mam.xl,l(»mo.27, A. ] ). 174r,,

^ Baiitizea, Max IS, A. J). K>\r.). ^^y'^'''' fl'iugl''"' oi I^^iae Cooi).t.

!. . , . ' . "'■ ' ■ ""

[ o. Riclianl Smilli, (>eennil,) of Bi-am-

Died, C.tii mo. Ki, A. D. 1787

>. luim, ' "'• J^- ^l^iiry Xoble,

I Bajitizr.l.Au- ]"., A.J). l(;2i'.. ' Born, :M mo. SI, A. D. 1722.

I Marri.'.l, Feb. 2o, .V. 1 ). l(;.'.:i, . Marvi.Hl.Sdmo.lO. ,V. ] ). 171:'.,

t Anne, daii-hter oC WiUiaiii Yeates. I in Philadeljiliia, to Saniu-l

I , o 1 ^' • 1 1- T> 1 Wetlierill, of ]>uilinL;ti>n.

f 4. r^amiiel bmitli, i/t l>raiiiliain, ' „ , . .'

I P Af 1 1 \ n ir-o ' Died, 9tli mo. 9, A.J). 1</'.'.

I Born, .March 1, A. 1). l(i(2. '

Married, A. D. (). C, 1), E, F. Jo-epli, Elizabeth, Kieb-

IClizabet.h, daiiirliter i.f Jvhii md Iviv- ar<l, Hannah,

ftt, of Bucks County, ; JJicd young.

Pennsylvania: sccimdlv, ' ,. ^, ,, ,, ^- i i

, • -^ , n , ' •-'• 'j- -Martini Xoble,

(s. ]>.,) Uorothea Gvles. „ ,, ,- \ t\ i--m

-r.- ■, ', .;..,, , \^ ,-, . Born, 12tli ino!-].), A. J). 1 /-.I.

Died, dth mo.^- 18, A. D. 1/ IS. -,^• i \ t»

I iJic<i, A. i).

o. Marv Smith, i

Born, -1th mo. 1.^., A. I). 1701. *J- H. Abigail Xoble,

Married, 2d mo. 1 0, A. I ). 1 fl 0, i^'<^^l y^""?-

to Jo--ei,li Xoble. of I'hila- ■

delpliia. , seventh geneeation.

D^e'^' S^^' mo. .->, A. D. 173a. ; (Cluldreu of .<anu,el Xoble.)

♦ The fourth month. A|iril. pf 111.; i.rt.-.Di re. knn- ' 7 .\. B .lo^ei.h Xuble. I.~aac Xoble, in^;. Ka» the secouil in..i.th of the o!J stvle- Tlie ' ' 1 v 1

present dutc is •■ Dcw stvle."' The next, - old style." 1 l)iea VOUng.

258

GEXKAJ.UGICAL TAJSLES.

7. C. Haunali Noble,

Eoru, lOtliino. oU,A.

Marriud, Otli mo. 7, A. to A\'illiain Norton,

Died, ]()tli mo. l.'7, A. 7. D, E. .-jauiuel Nolilc, Willia

Died youiii;-. 7. F. Richard Nobk',

Born, 4tli nio. 2, A.

Died, 8tii mo. 28, A. 7. G. j\Iary Nolile,

Died yonnf;. 7. H. Samuel Noble, (b-eeond,)

Born, lOth mo. 2-1, A.

Married, olli mo. 2'.», A

Elizabeth, daughter of

Tomkin,-!; .■secondly

daughter of Samuel

Died, Otli mo. I'U, A. 7. I. ^rnrmadiike Noble,

Died yiiun-.

KIGHTH GEXrr.ATiON.

(Children of William Norton, .lunior.) 8. A. Samuel Nuit.,ii,

Born, :u\ ino. L'c, A.J). 177-"'.

Died, -^tli mo. '..', A.D. ly;;i.

8. B. William Norton, Died young.

	(Children of Sanuiel	Noble,
D. 17o2.	8. A. Eliza Noble,
D. 177-1,	Born,	A
Junior.	Died,	A
D. 17'.».3.	8. B. Haunali Noble,	(second.
m Nolile,	Born,	A
	Died,	A
	8. C;. Lydia Nol)le,
D, 1700.	Born,	A
D. 1824.	Died,	A

D. 170(i. .D.17'.)2, Eobert ■. Sarah, W.'b-ter. D. 181;;.

8. F.

8. (t

D. Joseph Noble,

Boru, otlj mo. 22, A Died, lOth mo. S, A Ji Charles Noble, Mi).,

Born, lOth mo. 1, A Married,10thmo.2i),i Mary,daugl]ter of Willia son; secondly, daughter of i->ied,' A

J..ydia Noble,

Boru, 10th mo. 20. A

Married, Dec. 20, A

to Thomas B. Lon

Samiiil ■\\"(lister Nobl<',

Born, Augu-t 1't. A

-Married, 0':t. :_;o, A.

Elizabeth 11., daughter

blather.

H. Richard Noble,

Born, January 1, A.D. 18

second.)

. D. .D.

)

.D.

.D.

.D. . D.

.1). I7:"'.i. .D. 18.M

.D. 1>01. V.D.ISL'O, m Stcvcii-

Adelini Milwan . D. 1-S7

.D. isi*:;. 1). 1S2.-.,

;>llelh.

D. 1.^1 •-.

D. ISll. of John

GENEALOGICAL TABLES. 269

TABLE xxx^^

THUH) FEMALi: LIXJ;. DKSCEXDANTS OF SAMUEL SMITH; 0]'' Bl;A:MnAM.

NINTH CiEN'EKATlo.v. ] 9. 1). I^ydia Xolilc ] vinL;-ln'(l],

(Children of Ih. Cha... XoWe.) I l^'-'™- '1='"- ^^' '^- ^'^ l^^'-

9. A. William Steveii^on Xuhle. ^ Mamed, A.D.

Born, Dec. 7, A. D. ISP.i; Married, A.D.

to Thomas P. Bnwleit. 9. E. Eaeliel (). ];(mp,strelli, Marv, dau-hfer of Backus. ' Born, J\r. 1:!, A. 1). 1835.

' ] )ied^ Ajiril IS, A. I). 18G7. Marned, A. J ).

9, ]5. (Charles Xobl,', Junior. to John L. Lon-stroth.

Boin, Jnne KJ, A.D. IS 10. •'■ F. Margaret M. Longstreth, Married,A,.ril'J7..\.D.ls7(', ^'>"'' F^''"' "' ^'^•^^- ^''^•''^•

Sallie, danuhtrr of Helper. Married, A.D.

9. C. .Marv K. Xolde. to Edwin E.^r^rhuenluTger.

' ]:orn, A.D. ''• <^'- ^^="T !■■ L""S^tn-th,

Died, Mav •_'], A.D. 1871. ^"™- '^"'^ ^■^- -^- ""• ^'^^"•

9. D. Amund;. Xnhle'. Married, Dnu. A.D. IS.:!,

to Benjamin Siair. t. II. Samuel X. Lonn-tretii. to Frederiek Baekus. Born, Felx 11. A.D. ISJ:)

9. T. Morris Long.-.tretli, .M.l).,

Born,' Feb. L'l, A.D. IS^G. Mairicd, A. D.

Mary, daughter of Hasting.-.

Born,. Maivh l'l. A.D. 1847. Married, Dee. IS. A. I). LSI

(Children of Th. B. L.mg.-treth.) 9. A. Elizabeth Toiukin^ Longstrcth, Born, Xov. 21, A.D. 1820 Married, A.D.

to William Ciirii,- Taylor. (Children of Samuel \V. Xoble.)

9. B. Sarah X". Lougstreth. 9. A. Henry A. Xuble,

Born, Jan. 11, A.D. 1829. r.orn, Cet. 21, A.D. ]81">.

Married, A.D. Married, A.D.

to Charle.5 C. Loiig.-treth. Drusilla, daughter of Murray.

9. C. Margaret M. Long.^reth, ' 9. B. SaiaJi Xoble,

l)iod vonng. i Died voung.

260

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

9. 0. John yi. Xoble, TEXTH gexetsatiox.

Horn, JuuL' 1, A. 1). 1818. (Children of Wni. S. Noble.)

Died, Feb. lo, A.J). 1S7L'. 10. 1. Frederick C. Xoble.

i). D. Siunnel Xoble, Born, Xov. 18,	A	1).	1819.	Born, 10. 2. William Xoble. Born,	A.D. A.D.
9. E. Clara Xoble, Died young.				10. 3. j\Iaud Xoble. Born,	A.D.
9. F. Howard Xoble,
Born, Xov. V2,	A	D.	1852. .	■

9. G. Lydia L. X<.l:ile, Died vouu"-.

(Children of Charles X'^oble, Junioi.) A.D.

9. ir. Fi-anklin Xobk',

Born, June 1 7, A. D. 18."),3. 10. I. Walter XobI

Born, 9. 1. Thomas B. Xoble, 10. 2. Be.s.^ie Xoble.

Born, Nov. 24, A.D. IS.",?. Born, A.D.

9. K. Charles .M. Xoble,

Born, Sept. -3, A. D. 1859.

i

9. L. :\[ary T. Noble, I

• Bom, .lune 29, A.D. 18(;l. ,

9 M. Anna Ndble. '

Born, JX-e. 10, A.D. 18C2.

9. X. j:iizabctli Xoble, (Children of Fre<lerick Baekus.)

Born, .Ian. 2, A.D. ISCO. 10. 1. Charles X. Baekns. Died vounj;. ]5orn, A. D.

: 10. 2. Helen Backus. I Born, A.D.

I 10. 3. Adeline X. Baekus.

Born, A. D.

GICNEALOGrCAL TABLES.

2C.1

TEN'TH GENERATION, fONTINUED.

(CJlnldi'Cu of AVilliaiii Curtis Tayloi'.)

10. 1. Caniline .Tu^tirL- 'I'aylijv,

Born, l-_'tli 1110. :'.l, A. ]J. ISoO. 10. 2. Ilc'k-u Long-^tretli Tayl.a-,

Died young. 10. ;l Kodiiey Longsticlli Tayldi-,

Born, lOtirnio. ].">, A. D. 18.")7. 10. 4. Norton Longrrtretli Taylor,

Horn, 2d mo. 9, A. 1). l.sc,]. 10. "). Agnes Long^^tretli 'J'aylin',

Born, .".til ni.i. 'J, .V. ]). ISC.").

(Children of E. F. Sclioenberger.) 10. 1. Lydia L. Sehoenbergor,

Born, od 1110. 27, A. D. 1-S<;1. 10. 2. Frederick Sehoeiilior-ir,

L)icd young. 10. 3. ]\Iary Helioenberger,

Born, 8d 1110. 2d, A. D. ISCS. 10. 4. Carl Schocaiberger,

Born, 2d 1110. 21, .\. D. 1S71.

(Children of Benjaiiiiii Stan'.) 10. 1.

(Children of Clia--. C. Loiig-.tretli.)

10. 1. Helen T. Li.ngvtivth,

I'orn, (ith mo. 17, A. J). lS.""il,

10. 2. Emily Long-^tivtli, Died young.

10. o. Morris l^ongstretli,

Born, 2d mo. 7, A. D. IS'.S. 10. 1.

10. 4.; Sidney E. Loiigstreth, \ Died young.

10. .">. Jo>e|ih Loiig--trtlli,

■ r.orn, Ist mo. 211, A. J>. ISiW

(Chil Iren of Dr. .Morris Eong-treth.)

(Children of Th. P. Bowlett.)

10. 1. Morris l_/)ng>tretli Bowlett,

Born, 0th mo. 10, A. D. IS.-.G.

10. 2. Howard I>. Bowlett,

Born, I'th mo. 7, A. D. IS."/,).

10. ■■]. Helen L. Jtowlett,

Born, 2d mo. 2, A. D. ISti.").

(Child of John E. Loiig<treth.) '

10. 1. Edward T. Eoiig-treth,

Born, Oth mo. 20, A. 1). 1S72.

(Children of Henry A. Noble.) 10. 1. Carolim' Xoblr.

llorn, .\.D.

10. 2. Helen Noble,

Born, A.D.

262

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TABLE XXXVI.

THiri) nCMALE I>IXi:, (P..) — lilOSCl^XHAXTf- OF SAMUKL SMITH, OF BKAMHAM. — DK- SCICXDAMS OF MAKY .SM Fl U XOilLE.

Sj;VFXTii G F.V JU; ATIO.V. (Childivn ..r Sainiirl Wetlinill.) 7. A. 'J'li..i„a-, Wclljfi'ill,

]]oiii, A.l). 17 11.

Died, A.]). 17(il.

7. K .^laiy A\etbenll,

Jioiii, A.J). 17-1(1.

MuiTioJ,Gtlimo. 11, A.lJ. 1778,

to Isaac June*, of Pliikuk-l-

jiliia.

J)ictl, A.l). IS'-':).

8. 15. Saimu'l ^^^ Junes,

]]orn, mil 1110. S, A.]). 17.S1. Manieil, A.J),

^larv, tlaiii;lilcr of Jtuljcit Cce. j')ied,(.Cii.,)Xov.7,A.JAlS7:;.

N. C. Marv X. Jones,

JJoi-n, Aiii;iist 2S, A.D. 17M. MaiTied, April 8, A.J). ISO!,

to iSti'jilien W. Siiiiili, of

Saleiii, X. J. Die,!, A.l).

7. C. Joseph Wetlieiill,

J]oni, A. J). 1748. , 8. 1). J-:ii/.al.etli W. .I.mes,

Jlarricd, A.D. 178'J, i'"ni, June ."., A.J). 178'.

Mercy;. daugliter ..f J. Itid-way, .Married, .May 1, A.D. ISP

of JCi,';' Jiarlior. to JCbenezer Levick, el' Kei

Died,' A.D. 1820. County, Delaware.

7. D. J-:ii/.aljctli Wetherill,

Jiorii, A.D. 17.".1'. (Childreii of JoM-jJi Wetherill.)

Die.l, A.J). 17'.)'.). ^ . .. ... . ...

^ ,, . , ,,• , ■,, , 1 8. A. Alarv Wetherill,

7. J-^. .Nuilliel \\ etherill, (seei)lid,) ! ,'. ,

Died young.

Jjorn, j:)ied,

7. F. Ann Wetherill,

Died young. f:k;htii (n:.M;i; atiox. (ChiMreii of Jsaac Jones.)

8. A. Martha Jones,

Died youug.

A.D. 17.V,. i

A.D. 1S()2. , 8. 1). Samuel K. Wetherill,

J torn, July 11, A. D. 17'. '2.

Married, " A.D.

Mary, daughter (if \\'aher Wil-.in :

secoiidlv. .\iin, dm-lit' r i>l

M'alier'Wil-on.

Died, February 1, .V.D. ISi'..;.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

268

NINTil GENEilATIOX.

(Children of Stephen AV. Sniitli.)

9. A. Mary Smith,

Died young-.

n. B. Hannah J. Smith,

Born, A.]).

Married, A. D.

to Sanuiel Shej >] m rd, of Salem ^■

County, X. J. Died, (s.'p-,) \.i).

iK C. Sarah E. Smith,

Born, A. ]).

Married, A.J).

to William II. IMiodes, uf

Newport, ]!. 1. Died, Xov. L'l, A.D. 1S7(;.

9. D. Samuel Sinith, Died young.

0. E. Kaae .1. Siniih,

. livrn, A.J).

''Married, A.D.

Martha II., daughter of Chase. Died, A. D.

9.	F.	James W. Smith, I3orn, A. D. ]Married, A. D. Harriet, daughter of James J J. Burnet. Died, A.D.
9.	G.	Elizabeth .J. Smitli, J^orn, A. D. Died, A.D.
9.	H	Thomai- Smith, Born, A.D. Married, A.D. daughter of Died, (s. p.) A.D.
9.	I.	Charles AV. Smith, J'-orn, A.D. Married, A. D. Sally, daughter of C. Luinherl. Died, A.D.
9.	K	Clmndes.s Smith, Born, A. I).
9.	L.	GJenieut II. Smith. B.orn, A. D. ^farricd, A.D. Mary ('.. thniglit.-r of J)i'. S. j:ii,- len, of J'liiladel],hia.
>.).	M	Mary Anna Smith, Died young.

264

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TA15LE XXXVIl.

TIIIKD FLMALI", ].1NE, (15.) — 1)E8LEN1)A\TS OF SAMl'Ll, SJIITJI, OF liliAMliAM.

NINTH GENEKATfOX.

(Cliildren of ICb^'uezcr Ijeviek.) ;). A. Joseph ^\'. Leviek,

I)ie(l ycjuiij;. 0. U. .Saimirl J. Leviek.

IJoni, A.D.

iMarrird, A.JJ.

Elecinfii-,daugbtcr of'C'alelj Foulke, of Eiclilaiid, I'liieks Co., Peiiiisylvaiiia ; fc^PComHy, Susanna M., (luuglittr of ■Charles .Matlier, of \\'oO(l- la\Yn, Montuoinery ( 'o. 9. C. William M. Leviekl

IJoni, A.D.

Mari-ir,!, AAJ.

HannalJ, dauyliti'i' of Itirhard Moore, of liioldund, Bnuks County, Pennsylvania. Died. June 10. A.D. 1874. !). D. llieliard Levirk,

Died younii. 9. E. Janie.s Jones Leviek. ;\1. D., riiila- deljjhia, Boru, A.D.

9. F. Mary J. Leviek,

' Born, A. D.

9. G. Elizabetli K. Leviek,

Born, A. D.

9. H. Anna Leviek,

Born, A.D.

Married, Jan. :!, A.D. lS."il, to J. Lewis Crew, of IJirh- inond, ^'a.

Died, June 111, A.D. ]S7l>.

(Children of .Simucl 11. Wetli.Till.) 9. A. Ann Eliza AVethcrill.

Born, A. D.

Died, A. 1).

9. B. Mary AVetherill,

" Born, A. D.

9. C. Sarali JaneAVetherill,

Born, A.D.

9. D. J..sej.h WetlieriU,

Born, A.D.

Married, A.D.

Hannah, dau-liler of Ijlwani Winslow, of lUiilalo.

TENTH (iENERATION.

(CliiWren of AVilliain H. Kiiodes.)

10. 1. Mary J. Rliodes,

Born, A. D.

Married, A.D.

to J. Speneer, of I'enlyn- 10. 2. Hannah Bliod-s, Died young.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

2Go

10. 3. Emily EhoclGs,

Dit'd young. 10. 4. Elizabeths. Eiiodcs,

Boni, A.l).

(Childreu of Isaar J. Smith.) 10. 1. N. Holhmd Smith,

Bora, A. I).

iSIarried, A. D.

Mary, daughter of G. Kuon-. 10. 2. llL'leu Smitli,

Born, A. ]).

(('iuhiren of .Taiiu-s W. Smitli.) 10. ]. .lames Willis Smith,

Born,

.Alari'ied, Louisa, (laughter 10. -2. Adola K. .<inilh. Died young 10. o. Rosalie Smith. Born,

A.l). A. 1 ).

Carman

A. T).

(Children of Charles W. Smith 10. 1. Krien .^mitli,

Born. A. D.

Married, A. D.

to Sylvester AVelsl Kentucky.

(Cliildren of Samuel J. Lcvick.) 10. 1. Jane F. Levich,

Born, A. 1).

Married, A.]).

to Ijdwin A. .laek.son, of Kichland. 10. 2. Lewis J. Levick,

r.orn, A. 1).

Married, Sept. 5, A. D. 1870, ^lary, daughter of Charles d'lnvil- licis. 10. .'J. Charles .M, Levick,

Born, A.T).

10. 4. Samuel ,1. Leviek, .huiior,

Born, A.]).

Married, A.l).

Anna, daughter of J. B.ulloek.

10. 5. William E. Leviek,

Born. A.J).

10. 0. J. Moni.-, L.vick, Lied young.

266

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TABLE XXXVIII.

XHIUD I'E.MALK LIXE, (]j.) — DE^;OENDA^■TS OF SAMUEL SMITH, OF BKAMHAM.

TENTH (.:en]:i{ation. (Children of \\'iii. ]\J. Lt^vick.) 10. 1. Sarah L. Lcvick. l)ic(l youiiL;'. lU. 2. Anna F. Levifk,

Born, A. D.

10. .3. EHzabcili-I. Levick,

Born, A. 1).

(Cliililren of J. Lewis Crew.) 10. 1. Klizuhctli Crew,

Died yniing. 10. 2. .Mary L. Crew,

Born, A. D.

10. '■]. Anna K Cix-w, Junior,

Born, A. 1).

10. 4. MarLjaret M. Ciew,

I)ieil yiinni;. (Ciiil(h-en of Jor^eph WetherilL) 1(1. 1. Samuel Edward Wetlierill,

Born, A. D.

10. 2. Jane Wethe: Born,

10. 4. Cliarles II. Wethcrill,

Born, A. IX

ELEVENTH G ENEUATION.

(Children of Jolin S|ieneer.) 11. 1. Laura Speneer,

Born, A.l).

11. 2. ^\'illianl (Sjieneer,

I'.orn, A.l).

1 1. :!. Jesse .Speneer,

r.orn, A.l).

11. 4. Emily Sjienccr,

iiorn. A.]).

(Children of N. Ilnlland Smith.) 11. 1.

(Children of J. Willi.- Smith.) 11. 1.

A. D.

10. :]. Mary Wetherill,

Born, A.D.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

2G7

(Children of Sylvester Welsli.)

11. 1.

(Chili.lreii of Lewis J. Leviek.) 11. 1.

(Children of Samuel J. Leviek, Junioi-.) 11.. 1. Anna L. Leviek,

Born, A.l).

11. 2. Florence Leviek,

Bom, A. D.

268

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TABLE XXXTX.

FOUETH AXU FIFTH FEMALE LINES. DESCENDANTS OF KICIIAED SMITH, (THIED,)

OF BEAMIIAM.

1. A\'illi;nii Smith, cif Bniinliain,

Born, near

A.]). lolO.

2. Bicliaril Sniitli, iif Jji'amliani,

];ai)tize(], -May ] .s, A . J ). ] 5m.

3. Richard Smith, (scfond,) tit' ]'>rain-

hani.

O. -J. Raciicl Smith,

Born, A. D.

Marriwl, A.]).

to Dr. .lohnr.ile.oflirattlr- hay, S(imei.~t't.''' Diid, A.]).

■3. 4. William Smith,

Born, A. J).

BaptimI, Alio. 1.:., A.J). 1G2<!. - - , ,, >., m ath ^ . ^ ^^ I y. o. Jonathan bmith, .M.]).,

. ' Born, A. U.

Anne, daughii r of "\\ illiam \ I'alc.-.

SIXTH gj:xei;ation.

4. Richard Smith, (thin!,) .M.l>., of (Children of Richard Smith, f.iurth.)

Bramham, Born, I'd ino. '_'•"), A. IJ. Hi74. -Marric.l, \.\).

Al!ne,.d;ui;:lit(:r of .Mar-hall.

Died, A.D. 17".<i.

(Member of Kind's C'lHiucil. )

FIFTH GENEEATION.

5. 1. Richard Sniith, (fourth,)

Born. A.]l.

-Married, A. D.

Hauuah, daughter of Teak.

Died, ^ A. D.

0- '	. .Tame.-' Smith,
	]!orn.	.\.D.
	Married,	A. D.

(J. A. Rachel Smith, (second,)

Bom, A.D.

Married, A.J).

to William ('iixe. J)ied, A. ]).

(Children of James Smith.) r.. A. ^^'illiam Smith,

Born, A.D.

6. B. Richard Sniith,

Born, A.D.

(Children of J.»r. John J'ole.) G. A. Anna Bole,

J torn, :;d mo. L'2, A.D. 17:'' Married, 11 th mo. A.l>. IT''

to James Bringhnrst. Died, ;W mo. .3, A.D. 177

* Or, iiusllihav, ^VIve!^t■,ulnbu. Sum.r.-tt.

OENEAI.OCaOAL TAliTRS. '2(>9

6. B. John Pole,

Born, 11 til mo. :], A.D. IToS.

Died, 4th nio. A. IJ. 1757, at St. Malo'f^, France. 6. C, D, E. Grace Pole, JOlizuhelli Pole, Mary Pole,

All died in infancy. <i. F. Edward ]>ole,

liorn, od mo. 129, A.D. 1717.

Married, mo. A.D. Mary, danghter of Warner.

Died, lOlh mo. 17, A.D. l.Sl.^. 6. G. Bieliard I'ole,

Born, ^th mo. :), A.D. 174'.).

Died,(s.],.,) mo. A.D. 6. II. Ann IN.le,

Born, nth mo. 2, A.D. 1ir>l.

Died, mo. A.D.

6. I. Thoma-; Pole, M.D., of Bristol,

England, Born, lOth mo. ]'■'>, A.D. 17o:i. Married,10tlinm.ir.,A.I).1784, Elizabeth, danghter of liarrelt. •Died, mo. A.D.

SETKNXii (.;i;\i;i;ATtoN. (Children of William Co.\e.)

7. A. William ^. ('oxe, .>- v n i-,'<

^ . -p, Born, 4th mu. 1'.., A.D. 1.1 ■ I.

Born, A.D. AT • 1 \ 1) 1-S7

,, . 1 . ,. Married, A. i'. !/>/. Married, mo. A.D.

, . ,. -r. Marv. dan'jhter of Lawt.m.

7. C.	Elizaheth Co.xe,
	Born,	A. ] ).
	Married,	A.D.
	to Wilham M	Aliirtiit
	Died,	A.D.
7. D.	Maria Coxe,
	Born,	A. I).
7. E.	Margaret Goxe,
	1>01U,	A. D.
7. F.	lOmily Coxe,
	Born,	A. D.
7. G.	Harriet Coxe,
	Born,	A. D.
7. II	Anne ('oxe.
	P.orii,	A.D
7. 1.	Daniel Coxe,
	Born,	A.D

(Children of James Bringhnist.i 7. -A. .lohn ISringhiirsI,

J , , ,. r, Marv, dauiihter of

dauQ-liter oi Bar- •.' , '^

baroux.

Died, June IS, A.D. isoo.

Died, mo. A. D. 7. B. James Bringhnrjt, {scenml.)

7. B. Richard .S. Co.xe, Born, ;]d mo. 4, A.D. hlM.

Born, A.D. Married, A.D. 17M».

?ilarried, mo. A.D. Rachel, daughter of Bi-ttle:

Marv, danghter of C.rifVith.s. secondly, Ann Carmll.

Died, "" mo. A.D. Died, od mo. 4, A. D. IMl--^.

270 GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

7. C. Josejili Eiinghurst, ] 7. H. Joseph,

Born, lOth mo. Ci, A. D. 17G7. ' Died young.

Marrie(l,7thmo.ll,A.r). 17'.»'.i, 7. I. Kaclicl Sniitli I'ole, Deborah, daugliter of Ziba Feiii>. Born, 1st mo. 8, A. D. 17U2.

Died, A.D. 1834. Died, A.]).

7. D. Jonathan Bi'inghiust,

Born, 5th mo. S, A.D. 17G0.

Died, 11th mo. 9, A.D. 1818,

(Chihlren of Tlionias Pole.) A. John Pole,

Born, 7th mo. A. D. 1 7S."

(unmarried.) t^. , ,-, 1 -, - , t^ ,0,,..

^ ., ,, , ,1, . , \ Djed,llthmo. lo, A.D. I80:;.

/. Ji,. l^ilwaru J.>nn^luIIvt, t, -.r -r, i

i> i.-).i 1,. I II 1 — ,, 7. B. iMarv Ann role,

Born, llitii niij. ](., A. D. 1 ( /(). _,; _, .,,>,_,

TV 1 <i,i ■),• \ i> i-(n Lorn, /th mo. •>, A.D. l/b(j.

Died, . '.It h iiiu. Jii, A. D. 1 /'.J4, ,, ; ,,^, , . ,, ,,„_

Married, 10th 1110. 1, A.D. 1807,

(unmarried.) 7. F. llachel Bringhurst, Died an infant.

j to Francis Martin ]'"o\vhr.

! Died, A. D.

; 7. C, D. Thomas, (first,) Thomas, (s(

(Children of ICdward Pole.) ' . °"^^')

Died v<iun<;. 7. A. Mary P,,]e, - j, ^^^^j^^, p^,^. ^

Lorn, 2d mn. 1.., A.D. 1775. g^^,^^ ^,j ,^,„ ,.,^ ^j, l^,,,

Married.inhmo. 10, A.D. isi 1.

Died, A. D.

(unmarried.) * x- 1 • 1 t> i ri'.; , 1

^ ' : to2vehemuuiDuck,uil>nstol.

7. B. Auu Pole, , _ -TT' fv 1 .1 III

^ . ' ' /. 1*. Lliza belli J ole,

Born. A.D.

G. William Maisball Pul-,

Born, A. D.

Died young. 7. C. ThomiTs I'ule,

Born, 10th mo. •_'•;, A. D. 1778.

Died, A. D.

(unmarried,) ElftUTU GEXERATIOX.

7. D. John Pole, (Children of William ;?. Co.\e.

Born, rJth mo. 4, A.D. 1780. «. A.

Died, A. D.

(unmarried.) 7. E, F. Edward, (first,) ICdward, (sec- ond,) ;

Died young. 7. G. Edward Pole, Junior,

Born, od mo. 1st. A. D. 17.SG.

Married, A. D.

Died, A. D. 1

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

271

(Children of Richard S. Coxe.)

8. A.

(Children of AVni. Mi'^^lurtrie.)

S. A.

(Children of James r>ringhurst, second.) 8. A. Joseph Bringhurst, (second,)

Born, 2d mo. J 8, A.T). 17'.H). Married, 8th mo. o, A.D. 1>S]1, Elizabeth, daughter of J'^van^;. Died, ' A.D.

8. V>. dames Bringhinst, (third,)

Born, 4th mo. -1, A. 1). 17'.*-'. Married. 4th mo. liH, A . 1). ] SIS, Kchecea, daughter of Jvyan.

Died, ' A.D.

8. C. ^arah Ann I'lringhur^t,

Born, 7th mo. :;, A. 1). 17'.M. Married, 1 >l mo. iM, A.D. ISLM ,

to William Gregory. Died, AJJ.

8. D. Eliza Bringhur-t,

Born, ] 1th mo. S, .\. ]). isn-j. Marri.-l, A. D. is^':'..

to \\'iliiam Madd..ck. 8. E. Mary Bringliurst,

liorii, 10th uio. 14, A.D. 1S(I.'.. Married,'Jlhmo.-_M, A.D, \y.\o. to William W". Dnng-trnh. 8. F. .Inhn ]'.iiiighur>t, (third.)

Born, inth mo. 12. A. D. 1S]U. Married, A.J).

Bebecca, dauL;hter of (jreavos.

(Child of John Bringhurst.) 8. A. doim Jjringhurst, .luninr,

15orn, A.D. 17S;i.

Died, A. D.

(unmarried.)

(Children of .lo.-ejdi Bringhur.'^t. I 8. A. William W. Bringhurst,

Born, ;iih mo, 2.'., A.D. ISuo. Died, Stli mo. 14, A. 1). J. -'IS. 8. B. Mary D. Bringhurst,

Born, 7th uuK 4, A.D, iso''.. Marrird, A.D.

to Edward Moodv.

272 GENEALOGICAL TABL13.

8. C. Joseph Bringluust, (tliinl,) (Cliiklrcn of Ncliemiali I)n<-k.)

Born, 9th 1110. 2(J, A. D. 1S07. 8. A. Elizabeth Duck, 8. I). Eilwanl Briii-hiii5t, Born, A.l).

Born, .">th mo. 22, A. D. ISO'j.

Murried, A.D. IS , S. B. Bachel Bole Duck,

Sarah, dauglitev of Phipk-y. Born, A.D.

8. E. Ziba Eerriri ]!ringliiii>t,

Born, !)th mo. I'.i, A.]). 1S12. 8. C. AiiieHa Duck,

((_'hikh'cn tif Edward Pok', Junior.) 8. A.

Born, A.D.

8. D. John ^'. Duck,

Born, A.D.

. 8. E. EHzabeth Amelia Duck,

Born, A. D.

8. F. Catherine Poukon l)uck.

Born, A.D.

(Children i.f Francis M. Fowler.)

8. A. Henry Fowler, xixth gexkkatiox.

Born, A.D.

(Children of Jo.-ej.h P.iiiigliurst, secniid.i

8. B. Hannah Fowler, '.'. A. Samuel Briiighui-t,

Born, ^ A.D. Born, 12ih m.,. 21. A. D. 1>12.

0. B. Thomas 15riiighur?t, 8. C. Francis Envler, i:5^„.,i^ St], „„j i,)^ v.D. IM 1.

Born, A.D. Married, A.D.

o T^ T 1 o 1 T- 1 9. C. Josei>h Briii-liuist, (fourth.)

8. D. John Pole I'owler, ; ■ - * i, ,ci,'

T, , ,^ Born, lltli mo. 11, .V. D. IMo.

Born, A.D.

9. ]>. William Ihinghur.-t,

8. E. Marlannr Fowler, Born, 11th in,,. IS, A. D. ISIS,

r.orn, A.D. Married, A.D.

9. E. Elizabeth Bringliuvst, 8. F. p:iizabelh I'^uwler, Korn, lOtli mo. 9, \.l). lS2i>.

Born, A.D. Married, A.D. 18 .

to Aziiriali Coivon.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES. 273

9. F. John Bringluirst, (Children of William Maddock.

Born, yth mo. 'Jo, A. I). ]S2;3. Married, A. I). ''■ ^- ^""'^ Maddoek,

daughter nf jMarcli ;

Born, A.l).

secondly, Rebecca, dan-hter Married, A. I).

of Williams. ^ '" ^'"""^' ^'='i'S''-

9. G. Susan Bringluirst, : 9. B. Mary Maddock,

Ijorn, A.D. \ Born, A.l).

Married, A.]). j Married, A.D.

to Milton Jjurns, New York. to Edward Crijijien.

9. n. Aiuia ]]rini;hursl, |

]!orn, '" A.D ; 9. C. William Maddoek,

Married, A.B. \ ^°™' -''■^^■

to Adam Stayley. ! ^''''^' A.IJ. LS

(Children of James Bringhurst, third.) 9. I). Julm Maddoek, 9. A. James Bringhurst, (fourth,) Born, A.l). IS

Born, -Al mo. '-'4, A.l). 1819. ^Married. A.D.

9. B. Hannah Bringhurst, ' g jj_ j^j^^^,,,^, ^,,,|j^,i.

Born, 2d n,o. i:J, A. D. 1821. ^^^^.^^^ j^ ^

9. C. Sarah Bringhurst, '

Born, 9th mo. 27, A. D. 1823. rf -i ;i i, , *- \v \v i ' .i x

' (Lliildren of \\ m. \\ . Longstreth.)

(Children of A\'illiani Gregory.) 9. A. Kachel B. Gregory.

9. A. Joseph J.ong.tr.th,

Born, A. D. ls2S.

Born^lsri^i^'2(», A.D. 1823. Married,]! mu. 2;i, A. D. isi;,,

Sarah, daughter of Ivlwin A the

9. B. William Longstreth,

Born, llh mil. A. D. 1832. Married, 11 mn. 13. .V. I). ISDii, Ada, daughter of ,1. 1'. .'-^iiiilh.

9. C. Margaret Lung-^treth,

Born, 1st mil, 12, A. J), is;.;.",.

Married, 1 Oi h im i. 7, A.D. 1 s.',7,

to lloraee J. Smith, c!'

George', Hill, I'hilaiirlT.hia.

274

GKNEALOGICAL TABLES.

(Children of John Briiinliiiist, tliird.) (Children of Edward Brinj;liursf.)

9. A. jNIary Bringliurst, U. A.

Born, A. 1). IS . . '

Married, A. J). I

to M. Dawson Evans. i

9. B. \\'illiam Bringhurst,

Born, A. D.

Married, A. I).

9. C. Rebecca ]^>ringliursl,

Boin, A. 1).

GENEALOGICAL TABLLS.

27.5

27G

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

TABLE XL.

DLSCJOXDANXS OF EMAXUKL SMITH, OF LKAMllAM. DESCENDANTS OF GICO. EYRE,

OF IJUKLINGTON.

L \\'illi:iiii Smith, of ]!|-Iiiiili;i]ii,

J!(irii, near A.J). Io70.

2. Ivieluml Smith, ut' i'.ianihani,

]!ai.tizi'(l,M:,y 18, A.J). 1.3',):;. •^ Jvichanl Smith. (<i'con(l,)(if]!ramham,

naiitizccl,.\np,-. 1.3, A. J). 102G. -i- I'^iiiaiuuJ Smith, nf Jiramhain,

Born, " A.L). 1670.

Married, A.J).

Mary, dan^liter of (i. WilU.-.

7. B, JIannali Eyre, Jjied young.

7. C. George Eyre,

Died young.

7. J). Lydia Evre,

Born, July 28, A. 1). 17(;7. Married, Jan. 8, A.J). 17'.>1,

(o Ealpli Hunt. Died, I'eb. A. JJ. 18:;i.

J)ii

A. ]). ]72f). 7. E. Sanniel J-:\

d. .Mary Smith, (seeond daughter,) Jiorn, A.D.

3Iarried, A.J).

to George ICyre. <-'. .Manuel I'^vre,

J!orn, ' • A. D.

^Married, A. D. ]7<;i,

^fary, daught( i- of JOvre.

Died, Xovendier 1, A. J). ISO,").

sEVi:Nru <;j Nr.i;ATii>N. (Ciiildren (,f .Alanuel j:yre.) 7. A. ^Fary lArc,

J'.orn, .luiie 8, A. 1). 17i;--'. Married, Aug. 4, A. D. 1788. to Jsaac (AkUs; sreondly, U> Thomas Jlohinxiii.

Died, J)ee. lu, A.J), is:;:-;.

Died young. 7. F. Elizaljftli Eyre,

Born, January -3, .V.J). 1771. Married, " A.D.

to <^)iiamrell, (or

QuandrilL) Died, ."^ei't. I--', A,D. Iclf..

7. (t. .'^arah ICyre,

Born," October -J, A.D. ]77'_'.

7. li. JCsther Eyre,

JJorn, Mareh A.D. 1771.

]>icd young.

7. I. Ann Eyie,

Born, A. lA 177.3.

Married, A. J >.

to I-il!l<'-

Died, October o, A.D. 1N3.3.

GENEALOGICAL TAliLES.

277

7. K. Mamiel Eyre, Junior,

]3orii, Febnuiry 1, A, D. 1777.

Married, Dec. 1, A.D. ISOl',

Juliet, dauglitcr of Phillips;

secondly, July 10, A.D.IHOG,

Anne Louisa, daughter of

Connelly.

Died, Febnniry '.i, A/D. 1S4.J.

7. L, M, N. ]5enjaniin, Harriet, Clarissa,

Died young.

EIGIITII GKNE1!AT10\.

(Children of I\Ianuel ]i]yre. Junior.)

8. A. Juliet rhilli].s Kyre,

Eoru, April •_".),

Died, duly 8. B. Mary Eyre,

Born, Xov. G,

Married,

to Kobert Jilgle M.D.

Died, July 17, 8. C. Manuel Eyre, (third,

Died young. 8. D. John. CuiMully Eyre

Born. ."^ej-t. l!7,

Died, Oct.^ber u, 8. E. Anne Connelly Eyre,

Born, Sej.t. 24, A. D. 1813

Died, January 21, A. D. 184 1

A. D. 1807. A.D. 182.-,.

A.D. ISOS. A. D.

feld Griffith,

A.D. 1873.

A. D. 1811. A.D. 184H.

F. Harriet Eyre,

Born, Feb. 13, A.D. 181(i. ]\Iar)ied, A. D.

to John Ashhnrst.

G. Ellen Eyre,

Born, Dec. 2r3, A.D. 1817. Married, A. D.

to Charles Bell Gibstm, il.D. II. Manuel Eyre, (third,)

Born, Dec. 18, A.D. ISJD. Married, A.D.

Eliza, daughter of Paintei'.

I. i\rahlon Dickerson Eyre,

Born, April Bl, A.D. 1.S21. Married, A. D.

Isabella (Jlivia C., daughter of Smyth. K. Wilson Eyre,

Born, April 15, A.D. 1823. Married, A.D.

Louisa J^ineoln, daughter of Lear. L. Virginia ICyre,

Born, dune 1, A. D. 182.">. Married, A. ]).

to Manning Iveniiaid. M. Richard Al-up JCyre, Died young.

278

GKNKAI.OGICAL TAIil.KS.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CJIAI'TKR I.

iratuliam un.l 1;1|;h,!— Oilni,, of the Family— (^eiu-ral do-^ci-Iptioii of Bramliaiii aii/*^"^" Elfiinl— Early lii^lory— Allinity wllh otluT fainilirs iiifurml from similarily of arms, ••....... ' 7_17

CHAl'TER 11.

The Family llmml— An early aii.l rare editimi of iho Scripture.-.— Short ae.e>uiit of this version anil it.- translators— Family reeonl eulereil therein by the seeoml Kiehanl

Smitli,

n--2i

chaptej: III.

Tile seeond Iliehan! Smith of Bramham— Ontline of his biography — .Si)ecimen of his I«K.'try— His htirr t.. a i>rie,-,t e.f the Establi^llea Chureli— KocorJs of the birtlis of his children, 21-29

ClIAl'TEK IV.

Hviiatriatioii — The ni w home— The motive- and prime nmveis of the emiitnitidn of tlic QnaUer.s— Patents and charters of the Duke of York and llerkeley f..r .\m -irau hind-- The "Friend.-" purelia-e the territories^ of Berkeley— They issue a Cnsti- tulioii — Jls liUr.d and admiral. le eharaet.T— Richard .Smith (the second) one of il-i iiLSpirers, , 29-40

(■J7'J)

280 TABLE or CONTENTS.

CHAPTER V.

From the old home to the new — The eldest son of Richard Smith (the second) fails in the Kent as pioneer of the liimilv — LauduiLr of the tiuakers at Chygoe's Island — Survey for a town — The friendliness of the Indians — John Smith allotted number nine of the }>urlington town lots — Arrival of the Murfin family, of A. Morris and T. Rapier — Fir>t impressions of the settlers, ....... 40-51

ClIAPTKll VI.

Settlement — Arrival of Samuel .Teniugs — First as>cnd)linf: of tlie I,''i;islaturc of Xew .Jer-

sev — Their wise laws — .Sheteh of the Indian character, mode of government, etc., .jl— j9

CHAPTER VII.

Peaceful davs — Settlement of the Rancocas — Arrival of W. Cooper, T. Lloyd and the brothers p.acnu — Early Provincial legislation — .-Vrrival of Daniel, .IoS'^i)h, Emanuel and Deborah Smith— Description of the mansion of T>aniel Smith, in Burlington — Daniel Smith cleeteil to the .\-~rml,ly~Minri.-- Mary Miirhn — Her cliaiiicttr — Mar- riao-es of Joseph and Emaiuicl Smiih — .\rrival of Sjimurl and Ki'-hard Smith — Tiiev are cliosen member,- of tiie Coumil and .V:-emlily — Their cliuraders and oc- cupations, .;........... 6J-(iJ

CHAPTER VIII.

A pt-ritxi of ili?tnrbance — .V prelude .>f tlie Kfvobitiici — Reginniug of troubks in New Jer-ev, bv tlie ajipointment of J. P>ass to .~uiicr-..ue (Juv. Hamilton — Arrival ot J. I>o_'an — His linr-.ige and cliaracter — Re-umption ol'tlic ri'.dit- of guvernment in Niw Jer~iv bv the Crown — S. Jenings and L. Morris aji|Miintcd on thr fn-^t Koval (;miiii- cil — ( )pprcs.sive legislation of England — Arrival 'if Lord Cnrnliury — Samuel .IcniiiL'^ ele-cted Speaker of the Assembly — The Assembly reinonstrale with Cnrnbury on hi- tyrannical conduct in the government — His reply and tlirir r'yiiiider, . . t/.t— S.)

CHAPTER IX.

Help from the Fatherland — The Engli-h ])r(iprietors unite with tin- Xew Jersey A.-semlily in a jietitinii to (ini'Cn ,\nne agaiu-t the u-urpations and tyraimv of ( ornbiiry— 1 li'.' (.^ueen removes Cnrnbury Inim the guV riiment, and appolul,- Lord LiveLwe Cmv- ernor — Death and will uf Sauniel Jcning- ♦ . 8o-!il

TABLE OF COXTEKTS. 281

CHAPTER X.

PAGE.

Triumpli of liberty niiil right — Dtatii of ]mi\\ Lovelace — The Lieutenunt-Gnvernor and CViuncil coiitiiuic the o]ipi'essive eoiirso of Cornbur}' — On an aJilres^> from the Assem- bly, the Queen removes eight members of tlie Council — Capture of Port Poynl by tlic combined ]?rifisli and American forces — Failure of tlio attack on Montreal — The Assembly and cximrgated Council remove the disabilities of the Qnalcers — Death of Queen Anne, and accession of George I. — Contumacy of SptiiUcr Co.xe and other members of lljc Assendjly — Tiiey arc expelled — Dr. Picliard Sujitli appointed to the King's Council — C'ol. Lewis Jiorris apjKiinted Governor, .... 91-99

ClL-^PTEll XL

The fifth gcneralion — Some aceounl of (he fil'lh ^eiieratinn of the family, the first genera- tion born iii America — Children of Daniel and Emanuel Smith — Samuel Smith niar- ries Elizabrlh, daugliter of the Don. Edmund Lovctt— His children— (/hildr.n of Dr. liichard Smith — Ilobcrt Smith, (Judge of the Court of Common Picas, j marries Elizabeth lx'.cf)u — Katharine Smith nuirries William Callendcr, of Parbailoes — Character of \\'. Callendcr — Kicliard Smith, of Green Hill; Ins character and obituary in the I'ani^sijlinnia GatdU- — His « ill— Marriages of the children of ] >r. Pichard S;.iitli, 99-104

CHAPTER XIL

The (^uaker and the Indian — The niembers of the " New Jersey Society fcjr Helping the Indians';- It- .ibjcrt, and plans— They are carried inloellut by the Ic'ji-lati..ri of the Assembly of N'W Ji-r-cv — 'J'he Guvcrnment piinJuL^.- land- ol' P. njamin Spnni;er, formerly of Richard Sr.iith and Jjirijamin .Mi.^re, and <rt,- thrm apart ;l- a re=..Tvati"n for the Lidians, south of the Raritan — It ]airchas<-s the claims of tlir Lidians north of the Raritan — Anecilote of the old ]'"reneh war — Ancrdote of Teedyusciiiii: — Lile of the Indians at lirotherton — Their emigration liom New Jersey — The Government j.urchases their rights of hunting and fishing, ...... 101-115

CHAPTER XIIL

The sixth generation — Some account of the sixtii generation, their marriages, etc. — Danii 1 Sii.itb, Jr., Snrv(yor-( ieneral of New .Icrsey — His character — Character of Sinnel Smith, Secretary of Coiiui'il and 'I'rcxsurcr of New Jersey — His valuable hi-lory ol' the Provinn' — .lohn Smith, mtmlier of Assembly an<! Jusliec of the i'eaic- in I'enn- sylvania, marrlr- Hannah, il.uightir of the Hon. James Logan — Romosis to New Jer.sey, an.l i^ apjiointcd to the Jving's (.'oiincil — His character — William Lovctt

282 TABLE or C'OXTICNT.S.

r.vGi: Siriith, of BmmlKim, marries a dt;.sceiitlaiit of Governor .IcMiings — Uidiaril .Siiiitli (llie

fiftli) — His territory at Otsego — Clioseii Treasurer of New Jersey — fs elected to the

first and second Coutiiiental C'onirre.-s — Is aii|(olntcd .Secretary of Congress — .SiL'Os tlie

issues of tlie pulilic money — Si;rlcli of linrliiigton life before tlio Kevoliitiun — Sim-

l)licily of QuaUer numners and gover cut — Tlie "Friends," nevertlicle.-s, ^llu«l] to

1)C men of iiigU cultivation, ......... ll.'j-127

CHAPTER XIV.

.lohn Smith's Journal, with comments — Glim|)>e of Stenton and its inhabitants — .Slavery in the Quaker community — The " White Slaves," or redemptioner^ — I'ira(';> and |n'ivateors — Dress of " Friends" at this period — Dcatiis of James Lngan and Klehind Smith, of Green Hill— Deulli- ami obituaries of John Smith and Hannah L.ijan Snnth, l-iT-Hid

■ CllAPTEU XV.

Seventh generation — The Kevohition — The seventh geniTation enumerated — Outbreak of

the Pevolntion, .' lGG-109

CHAPTEU XVI.

Kevolutionary diary of Margaret Hill Moiris, 1G9-1S4

CHAPTEU XVII.

Pecollcctions of Debondi Logan 184-1 !I3

CHAPTEi; XVIII.

Marriage and obituary notices — .Steiiton — -The tbundi'rs of Xesv Jersey — Geneahigiea!

tiibles, ' . . 193-27S

INDEX OF PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE VOLUME.

Aklitliley, Sir Adain de,			9	Benson, Justice, .	. 21
, Alexander, .Tames,			IGO	" Rob't, Lord Bingley,	. 13
Allen, William, Chief -hi^tk	e.	1(10,	101	Berkeley, Lord, . . 31-33	35,41, 51
Allinson, Mary, .			115	Beruanl, Gov., .	108, 109
" Saioufl,		lOG,	11.5	Bingley, Ijane-]'\)X, Lord, .	. 11
SamuelJ., . 10	4, 10	S, 112,	113	Black,' William, . .	129, 131
M'illiani,			11.5	Bond, ])r., ....	. 160
Althain, .Taiuos Anne-ley, L	.r,l.		112	Bonner, Bi.-imp, .	. 20
Aiincslcy, lliehard,			142	Boscawen, Admiral,	. 139
Andre, Major,			189	Bound, John,	. 32
'• Andres, Gov. Sir Edmund,			40	Bowne, Samuel, .	. 147
' Aquawaton, Chief,			109	Brainerd, Missionary, .	. 112
Armitt, John,		131,	100	Bringhurst, Edward, .	. 108
Arnold, (Jen.,			191	" Anna Pole,	. 110
Aspdcn, Mr.,			128	" James, . 110, 12	), 1G7, 108
Auckland, Lord,			186	" John,	. 108
Laeon, Elizabeth,	c	3, 100,	115	John, (2d,)	. 108
" Sir Fraiiei;, Lord St.	A!lx	n's, .	03	" Jonathan, .	. 108
" Ju.lL-e Jul,,,, .		03,	100	Jo>e,,h, . .	. 108
" Sir Nathaniel, .			03	Puichel, .	. 108
'• Nathaniel, (liil,)			63	Brock, Judge,	. 129
" Nathaniel, (3d,)			63	]?rooke, Mr.,	. 130
" Sir Nicliolxs,		n, 03,	lOo	Brown, Heiirv Armitt,	. 195
" lion. Samuel, .		yi, 63,	100	Bruce, King IvnlnTt, .	Tl
Badger, Parson, .			190	Budd, Thomas, .	42-4 1, 58
Barclay, John,			94	I'urgoyne, Gen., .	. Ih9
" Robert, .			94	Burling, Edward,	. 147
Bartram, John, .			134	&indi, .	. 100, 115
BiLSS, Jeremiah, .			70	Dr. S., .	. 181
Bealc, I'aid,			21	Burnet, Bijlm]), .	97
Belcher, Gov. Jona'n, 1"21,	\:M)	13'.i,	143,	Gov. William,	97
	l.T	1, I. 00,	100	Byllinge, Eduard, 33-38,40,41	51, 00-03,
Benezet, Anth., . . 1."	■), 14	2, i4i;,	15(1		09
" Joyce, .			151	Cadwallader, I ieii..	. P'O
" StejJien,		150,	155	Callender, Hannah, . 110, 12	1, 152, 107 283

284

INDEX Ol' I'EIWOXS MEXTlONIiD IN THE VOLUME.

Callonflcr, Katliariac Siiiitli, 11

1

William, . . IC

Calvin, IJartlicilomew S

" Sleplicii, . Carpenter, Saiuiicl, Carteret, Sir (ie(jr!;e,

'• Gov. I'liilip, Cathrall, Edward, Cedric, (he Saxon, Clialkley, ■I'lioinas, Cliauipion, Matiliew, Cheyne}-, Kdilli, . Cluilb, N., Cluircliinaii, .loliii, Cliygoe, Saehem, Clarendon, Earl of, Clarkson, Capt., . Clews, Patience, . Clii't, Jolin, Collins, Isaac, Coiiyiiglnuii, Provost, Coo]icr, Isaac,

" Lydia, . Coojier, .Taine.-. Feiiiiuore,

'■ .i.,-cpi,, ;.

.Ind-e, .• Sarah, . William, Cornbiiry. Lurd, 72, 77, 78, M.l-.S

11, 135, 150

9

125, VV>

-18

. 187

144, 1-15

. 1-15

40, 121

72, S3

. 101

. 104

. 44

122, 12.3

. 128

. 120

120, 1G7

. 119

97, 98, 117

. 119

. 117

117, 120

;7,.S8, 91,

93-97

Coriiwalli-, Gen., .... l.St!

Coventry, Lcoi'ric and Godiva of, . 12

, 120, 121,

8, 152 158

,»0, 120, 135

112, 113

. 112

90, 153

31-33, 35

Co.Ke, Harriet, " ^Margaret, . ■■ Maria, " Kaclicl Smitli, " Kicliard S., -

Samuel, " William S., " William S., Jr.,

C'owtlially, Somervile (

Crip,s, Jolm,

Croglian, George,

Crosby, Thomas,

Cnrdy, William, .

iJavis, Mr.,

Delany, Sharp, .

Derhy, Stanleys, Earls " Thomas Staidc

Uewsbury, \\'illiam,

Dillwyn.'Gcorgc, ].: '■ " .John, .

SandiUill,!

2, i;

, 1

Coverdale. Miles, Co.x, Colon,!, .

■' i:>thcr, Co.Nc, .Vnnc, " Dr. l»ani.4, " Daniel, 1 2d,) •' Daniel, (.;d,) '• Kli/.aUjth, . •' Emily,

. 19

174-170

170, 17s

. Hi7

0, 96, 120

9(j, 97

. u;7

. 107 . 107

William,

Dono]>, Count,

J-)onglas, ]/ord .Tame- o

Dnnghty, Danh-l,

thcarti-t, Mary, .

Dowers. Capt.,

Driiry, Capt.,

Dnni-an, Capt., .

Dniidas, Ikthia, .

Egohohoim, Chief, •

Eliseg of Llangollen,

Elliott, Andrew,

EIIwoihI, Thomas,

Endcn, .M.,

Jvuley, W iiliam,

E-ta\igli, Elizalieth,

Eves, Thomas, .

1-ATc, (reorge,

I'arrel, .\miic,

,t Earl i7, 10

5s, u;

8, 11,

. 107

. . 107 . 107

no, i(;7

. 107 99

120,	107
	107
	71
	43
	109
	140 1 •>'7
	1 I t ISO
	170
It	, 15
", .	01 01
175,	180
134, 17-1,	152 isl,
	182
152,	172
1 7tt,	177
118,	71 lOo
	122
90,	118
129,	MO
	21
	188
	72
	109
	01
	ISO
1 %•"?	90 1 \ 1
1 '>■>, ", -11	, 45
	1.3G
	59

lOo, 11."

INDEX OF PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE VOLUME.

2«^

	P.IOE			PA.^R
Fari'ington, Abr'in,	. 138, 139	Haydoclc, Henry,		. 147
Feani, Peter,		. 150	Helrasly, Joseph,		. 3G, 37, 41
FeiHvick, John, .		. 33-37, Gl	Hcngist, the Saxon,		. 12
Fitzrandolplis, the,		. US	Herbert of Cherbnry,	[.ord	22
Fitzrandulph, V.yA-ku-	,	. 147	Heulinsr--, Father,		. 193
liichar	1,	. 147	" ' AVilliam,		. 101, 1115
Field, John,		. 190	Hill, :\[ar-arct, .		. IGG
Fox, Ge..r-e,		21,22, f;2, loi;	" Kiehar.l, .89,	«0, 1	55, 15G, IGG, 181
Foxu-ell, >[artha,		. G3	Hills, Dr., .		. 1G9, 178
Fowler, V. ^[., .		. 120	Hoedt, Caspar, .		. 99
Fonlkc, Thnneis,		. 37	'• >rarv, .		. '99
Franci-, Tench, .		. IGl	Hollin-^head, John,		. 59
Fnmkiiii. lieiijaiiiin,	loO, 10-2, i:?,s, ],jl,lijl.	]ioolon, Thoma^,		44
	ISO	Hopkins Kobei-t,		. 180
Gov. Will	ini, . . 109, 169	Hopwoo.l, Sanuiel,		7, 8, 2G
Fnink.s, Major, .		. 191	Hopenyoke, George,		. 107
Galloway, Jo.'^ejili,		. 118	Horn, Mrs.,		. 191
Gatesford, Mr., .		. 13	Hoskins, John, .		. 104
Gardiner, Thomas,		. IS, S9, 90	H.iwe, Admiral Lord,		. 18G, 188, 190
Gerard, .-lave,		. 1(12	" (Joneral, .		. 178, 188, 191
Gibbons, ];icliard.		32	Hume, Isabel, .		. 71
tiordon, Hon. C'ljsnif		. 191	" Jame-, .		71
" Thomas,		. 91	" Sophia,		. 152, 153
Gort, John Smith, V	iseount	K), IG	Hunlokc, Eduard,		G3
Guwrie, Farl of, .		7]	Hunter, Gov. Robert,		. 92, 93, 97
Grazelirook-, .'Sydney,		. lo	Hutcliin-on, ( ieorge.		. 3G
Greenleal'e, I-^uie.		. 1.09	Th.,H'ias,		36
<;rover, Jaine^, .		;;o	lalikursoo. King,		58
(Jurnev, f'atliarine.		. ISG, l.':7	Ingoldsby. Richard,		92, 91, 95
" ' Henry, .	. IS	3, ISG, is'j, 191	James. Al.. 1,		34, 135, isl, )'xi
Ciuy, Kiehurd, .		37	" Capt., .		. 159, liiO
(iyle.s, Dorothea, .		. 99	•' Mis,s,		. 193
Jlall'ord, Henrv, .	. ~	. 153	Professor T. C.		. 13'4
Ilalhead.Mile;,		. 22	" Prie-t ^^'illianl,		. 9, 29
Hall, Dr., .		. 13S	Jegon, Pierre,		1"
Hamilton, Gov. \uA	'■\V,	G4, 70, 15;>, Kill	JiaiiriL'-, .Vnne, .		48, 90
Hannibal, slave.		. 141	Jenings, Merry, .		-01)
Hart^horne, Ilannuli,		. 104	" Gov. Samnil,	48,	51, GO, 61,73. 7s,
Itiehard,		. 32, 3S, 42	81-84, ss-91, 94,	97,	101, ll.s, 121, 125
Robert,		. G5	.Teinngs, .Sind:, .		51,:'il
AVilliaiu		. 104	Jenkins, M. andj'..		. 131, I 10
Havdoek, Kden, .		. 133	Jenyn.s, Sir Si.anie,		. 51

286

INDEX OF PEKSOXS MENTIONED IN THE VOLUME.

132,

Jevison, Capt., ..... 151 Johnson, Andrew, .... 126

Dr., 92

AV. A.,

Jolinstoii, David, Jones, Gillicrl,

" Mary, Jordan, M.,

Kuiglins, of Kaiglm's ]*oint Keljiius, tlic Hermit, . Tlionias Kinjr, Chief, .

Kinsi'v, , .

'■ " Join,, . Kiikl.iide, Jane, .

JlW],ll, .

)<ni|ihausen. Gen., Lafayette, Marqni^ de, Lanihert, Tljonias, Lane, Sir Thomas, Large, Ebcnczer, Ixiwreneo, Joliii,' . T., . Lawric, Gawen, . Lawson. Ca|it., . Lay, Benjamin, . Leeds, Daniel, Jx'e and Littlepago, Messrs., Ijeji]iington, John,

" Priseilla, .

Lightfoot, Mary S., .

" Mieljael, l:iO, 1.j2, l.Vl, i:,;», Kin

" Thomas, . . 100, 115, 147

Lisle, Capt., 1,34

Logan, Deborah Xorris, KJC, LSI, 192, 191

" Senator George, . . IGC, 191

" Hannah, 72, 118, 129, 1.3J-136, KJ.S-

141, 143-150, 152, 1G3, IGU, 194

" Hannah Emlen, . . 153, 155

" Hon. James, 70-72, 118, 125-132,

139, 140, 145, 151-151. 100, 161,163-

194

Ix)ga!i, James, Jr., . 129,150,155,159

40 95 62 62

135

60

. 150

. 109

. 99

143, 144, 160, Kil

. 117, 128

. 117

. 190

. 185

. 78

. 03, 69, 85, 87

. 139

. 170-172

. 133

. .34, 35, 44

. 151

. 134, 142

. 80, 8(5, 91, 95

130

100

100

115

			PAGE
Logan, Sarah Read,		151	153, 162
" William, Jr., 135, 1	38,	143,	145,148-
150,	152	-155, 159-161
" William, M.D., of ]	Jri.-	tol.	. 156
" Rev. ratri,-l<, .			71, 72
" oi' Rcstalrig, familv	of,		. 71
Lloyd, Cliarles, .			22, 61, 62
" John, of Dolol.ian,			61
" Gov. Tliomas, .	61,	''-,	125, 1(!6
Lovelaee, John Lord, i if 1 1 u	■hy	,88	89,91,92
Lovctt, Elizahetli,			. 99
" Edmoiul,			. 99
Lncas, Xicholas,			.34, 44
Luke,'john,			159, 160
Lyneh, Catharine,			. 67
IMaehanat, Daniel,			. 150
MacLanc, Col. .V.,			. 191
Marlow, Gre^orv,			. 40
Marshall, \".			. 42
Anna, .			. 67
iNlartin, George, .			. 132
Masters, .Mr-^'., .			. 191
Matloeic, William,			. 45
Jlatthew, Conrad,			150, 151
Matthewe, Thomas, .			l.s-20
Mercer, Gen.,			177, 178
Mesnard, Capt., .			150, 153
Mew, Kirl.ard, .			. 44
Middleton, Hngh,			?2, 94
Mililin, (Jen.,			. 177
•• John, .			. 161
Mirie of Dolol.ran,			. 61
Montaeuti', Maiqnls of.			14
Mollesnn, Gilbert,			. 119
Moore, Ijenjajiiiri,			. 108
" Doetor, .			154, 155
" Capt;iin, .			171, 172
" Hannah, .			. 181
" Sainnei, .			. i:',2
S. Preston,			. 181
Morris, ATithony,	48	, 49	120, 166
AiUlion'y, 3d, .			. 120

INDEX OF PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE VOLUME.

287

Morris, Captain Aiitlionv		176-178	Olive, Thomas, 37, 41,	44, 4	5, 47, 48, 02,
" Cliarlus Moore,		. 10				125
" Deborah,		. 166	Panmuro, Earl of,			. '72
Eliza, .		. 152	Parker, James, .			. 123
" Giiliclma M., .		. ICO	Parr, Samuel,			. 135
Jolin,		. 166	Pastorius, Francis	D., .		. 141,142
" Doctor John, .		. 174	Peachy, William,			44, 48
" Colonel Lewis, 7l	, 7o, 8-2, 83, 87, 88,	Peak, Hannah, .			. 103
	91, 9t, 97	, 9S, 132	Peal, John,			. 12S
Mar-aret Hill,		lOG, 169	Pealc, Captain, .			. 147
liiehanl Hill,		. 174	Pearson, Thomas,			30
" Sanmel, .		. 120	Pemberton, Israel	107,	120,	128, 132, 133.
Sarali, .	138, 1-15,	152, 154				14s, 152, 155
■' Su.-annah,		. 153	Israel	Jr.,	12s,	3s, 14:;, 1-10,
William,		. 100		15-.	, 153	155, lOo, l,;i
M..tt, Rieharil F.,		. 17	" James	100,	1 1 5,	no, 120, J,;:',
Murtin, Ainie,		40,47		133,	1 39,	145, MS, 152,
" Ivatharine,		. 48			153	KiO, 101, 107
Mary, .	. -15, 46, 04, 99	" John,			. 100
lIoKrt, .		. 46	Marv,			. Iss
]{,.lKlt, I'd, .		. 46	Mar'v	Smith		. 120, lii7
Murray, Karl of.		71, 72	Kaeh,	1, •		. 132. 133
Mvrlin of Tluireroft, .		. 40	" Sarah	Smith	116	120, 115, 107
!\aylor, James, .		. 156	Penfonl, John, .			37, 41, 44, 45
Newby, Mark, .		69, m	Peninjiton, Edwai	d, .		9n, l:;i
Nicholson, (^leiicral,		. 96	" I>;uiC,			90
' X..Me, Abel,		103, 133	Penn, John. " the	Vmeri	■an,"	. 131
j " Hannah, .		. 107	" William, S,	29, 3	3, 34,	35. 44, 51. lil.
" Isaac,		. 167	0	2 72	90,	25, 132, 1 t'.',
Josejih, 103-100,	llij, Jl'O,	160, 107				155, 194
" Marmadnke,		. 107	PepiM'rell, Sir Wil	iam,		. l.!l
" Mary, . 11 (J	1-JO, VIS,	133, 107	Perkins, Abi-ail,			49. lol
" Marv fi^mith.	. 103,	116, 133	William,				42,49, lol
" Mar'v,Jr,		. 107	Peters, liichaid, .			140	143, 154, 100
" K'iehanl, .	41, 42, 4	, 45, 107	Peterson, Ham-e,				. 125
" Samuel, . IIG	120, 127,	133, 107	Peters, Secretary,				. i;'.o
'■ Samuel, Jr.,		. 107	Pole, Anna, ' .				no, 120, li;^
" William, .		103, 107	" Ivluard, .				no, 120, Km
Norris, Laae,	. 101,	141, 154	" Dr. John, .				103, no, 120
.Ockaniekon, King, .	. 43, 47	, OS, 121	" Rachel Sniit	1,			. no
Oiltll, Ann,		1M-I,s3	" Thomas, .				no, 120. loT
" Doctor, . 170	171, 173,	17,s, Isl	Proud, KoUrl, .				. n.-v, 10.;

288

IXDKX OF I'EI'.SOXS MLNTIONEl) l.X THE VOEUMK.

	l-AnE				PAOK
Potts, Stiicy,	. 1 7S	Sanson	1, Samuel, . 110,120,	133, 1G7
I'lum.strad lamily,		. i;);)			Sannu'l, 2.1,		120, Km
I're^ton, Mai^'arct,		<iG		"	Samuel, 3(1,		110,	120, 1G7
Piitnaiii, Goiicral,		. 179		"	Sarah, .			. 1G7
Itankiii, C'a|itain,		. 151		"	William,			. 107
IfajiiiT or Kai.cr, Al.intiil,		. 101	Sci	tt.	IViiJaiiiiii,			37, 4.'>
Cal.b,		. i;!i		'	L'aptain,			. 190
Jn.l.,u,,		101, Km		' Sir Walter,			. 71
Tlhiiiias,		. 101	Se	If,	Ambro.-o, .			. 180
liapiur, Tlioiiias,		48, 49, S',)	Shack	ftnn, liiuhanl,			. 1.57
Kapcr, Jo-liiia, .		. 117	Sh	IWl	<kcluing, Chid;		. 113
" Sarali, .		. 117	Sliiijpcn, Captain,	174	177, 17,S
" Th.ana-, .		. il7			IvJwar.l,			131, l.'il
" M		. 132		"	Miss, .			. i;ii
Kaw.lMi,, l.nr,I, .		. ISO	Si(	-i'r	cl, tho h.n..			9
l;.aa, lIuii.ClK.rl..-., .		72, 107	Sii	liti	■rr, .Moi,-. iHi,			. 189
" .I„lu,, . .		. 1.S0	Sh	uinc	, .l,.lin, .			G2, G3
" Sarah, . .		. 72	Sii	ith	Al.i-ail, .			. 107
l;<ea, A.ljulant, .		. 191		'	Al%iil, 2.1,			. 107
" Oin.a-al, .		. 1 7.')			Ahi-ail 11.,			. 1 r,:)
i;LM!maii, Caiitaiii,		. 127			Anne,		99	]■■;-,. it;7
];.t've, I'cl.r. .		. i«(;		'	Anne Yart.-,			.-<. 2S, 29
];emi, ];i-l,o|, orLi,„l,.-ia,		12			lioiijamiii, 27,	39, Gii, 9;i,	lod. ll,-.,
Uovcll.ThuMia.-, .	8(	, 8G, 111, 90				128, 100
Kcviitll, .Inlni, .		. 128		'	Charle> IVrriii,	. 01
i;.,'l„>rls, lli.-ii, ; .luhi,, ;. .		. i.;2 . l.JO			Daniel, S, 27, 37, 39, 1.",, Ml. !il, 9i;, :i'.i. ji-:,	117, 122
];,.linan, Kli/aL.th, .		. 119		'	])aniel,2.1.;i9. Km. PH, i.,;,	11'', 120,
Hun. .F..l,„, .		. 119				l.o7, IGO
S-.iiii.iii (.ir .S.aiiiii	1),	10 1, -105			l)anieU3.!, GO, 97, 101, It 1,	11. ".-11 7,
Samu.^l. " .		l(il, lO.j			120	1 17, li;i;
Holers, .)(.l>ii, .		18-20			Daniel, 4tl	. loi;
]Jos>,tatl.ar;i.o, . " .lulu,, . .		. 18.J . 18.-J		,	D.niiel Don,i;uty, Deh.irali, " '.	. 107 27, f.i
Iludyara, ili.l-c. ()., .		. 44			Kliz;il.eth, 100, lol, 11.-,	1 ■"..'., i;i3
Salthousc, Tiio[iias,		22		'	Elizahelh, 2.1. .	no, 107
San.liWnl, Major.		93			Kii/,al..'lli l;a...i,, .	. 109
.><aiiMiin, llaiinalit;., .		. IIG		'	Klkanah,	27
•' Jo..,,l.. 7, 17,-.'.-M	11, 3i	, 4i;, 47, G(,		'	p:inannel, 8, 27, 39, 01, G	7, '.19, IGS
G.-., (u, " - .lnl,„, .	n, 1	M), 122, l(i7 . 120			C.M.rj-e 11., • . Hannah, . . .' 27	CO. 100 1-.2. 11,7
KafinrlnL-, .		. 1G7			Hannah !/..j;ai,			109, 102

IXDEX OF PEKSOXS MENTIONED IX THE VOLUME.

■2i^U

Smiiii, Jiiiiics, . . ^ty^, mi, i(;i5, los

" Jane KiiUln-i.le, . . .136

" Joliii, 8, 27, -is, ;;:,, ;;7, ;;!i, 4(», 4t-4G, C-l, 100 •• John, -2.1, . . W, 115, lo'.l, ir,2

" J.ilui, ufXru Ca-llr, . . 10

J(.l/H, (if Sal.jiM, :'.t, ;',7, ."i'.), 0:i, 78 lloii.J..lm, 011,72, II) I, 1 16-118, 122, 12:1, 120-127, l;12, l:)n, { 137. l:l>;, 1 11, 14:;, 14.''i, Mi;, l.-,r,-i:,s, k;:;, 1(;(;, 172, isl, l!i:!, im I " .loliM,ltli,Mr(;iv.r. Hill, 117,12.7, li;2. I

16(

" .iciii, ]i i(;t

JoMutlr.iii.M. 1)..(;7, !i;i, lol, 1(15, 162 I " Sainiu'l, ."j.l,

Jusi-|>li, S, 27, :;:i, 61, (;7, 167, 193 ! " S.irali, " Jo>q.li ]»., . . . . 1G6 " Joliiia ];. 166

Kathariiir . . H9. 10(1, 1;;,;

•' I.lov.l I'rar-all, . . . 129

LnJutt, li;7

" Margaivt .Moiii- 122

Mary, 27, Oil, Km, iiii, ii'2, 1(;6, 167 " Man- Mill lin, . 47, ii5-ii7, 99, 195 " Ita.-l'i.l 99, 10:'.

Ui.-liapl. 1-t. IM^ 17, l<. 2' I, in.;, in^

" liithanl, 2.!, s, II, 12. 14. is. ■J(i--_'2,

25-:;ti, ■:,.;, 37, ;;9, 46,

5:5,64,102 *• ]iM4uir.l, 3(1, s, 27, 2S. 39, 15, 6 I, I17,

as, 97, 99, 105, 116, 120,

162 Uichard, 4tl), ifi. 42, r.i;, ;i7, 99, 101-

10;;, in;- lis, 120, 122, Sninlirit, Dr. T 126, 127, 1.32, \:y,, 14:;, Soinnau-, I'.t. r

Smith, Uichar.I U..(lnian, 167, 173, 174, 1<S2

" J!.«li,ian, . .• . . I(i7

" 11(111, Ii(iliei-t, 20, 27, r,5, 9'.i, lito, 115,

116, 1 17, 15'.i

" Koh.a-t, 2.1, , , . .115

" ll.ilKTt, .3(1 166

" SaiiuK'l, 8, 14, 27, 39, (;5-6S, Sil-91,

96, 97, 9!l, lol, 1 17

" 11(111. .Saiiiiicl, 2il, 10, 14, 3 1, :;2, :!1,

35, 40, 42, 45, 51,

75,77, 81, 101,111;- 119, 122, 123, 126, 128, 132, 136, 145,

151, 151I-16I. k;:;.

161, I61;, 193, r.ii

. 167

n, 99, 100, 120, li;7

. 159, 1(;7

Sarah L.i-in, .

ScaiiiiiKUi (.S'aiiKai) lldiliiiaii •. 1(;7

.Simon, IS

of4'avl...ch and l^itham, . . 10

Th..!,,:,- 153

Willct 167

Sir William, ..n-Jfcpl, , 10, 1 l-IC

William, (if l;..~4, ,1c, . . 10

A\'i!liam,ol'l;L-tli..,|,, . 22. 116

William, . . 9!i, llC. 1<;2. l<:-~

^Villi.lm Lovctt, 90, 11 1;, 1I>, 1:;';.

13S, KJii, ICl, 1(.7

William I...vctt, Jr., . .167

th, Ui.hai-.lii-, . . . 7, II, 13

(.r Smiihc, Kichanlu.-, . 7, .s,]:;

\Vill.4mii-, (ir William. 7, 11, 1:!, 15,

].S, 20, 2:!, 16S

. 119

. 125

1.53, 159-Ii;i, 11;:; .s,aiihri>'v\, William, .

liichanl, .Ir., 4th, . 99,103,116 S|.(,t, Wulli 1.-, .... 10,12

liiihard, 5lh. 1 1, lS,2o,27, 101, 116, S|H-iiiL'-(r, Itciijaiiiiii I08

lis, 1 1;', 12i;, 151, 160, 11)7 S|,riii-clt, Cuii.lma Maria, . . 190

Uichanl,6ili, .... li,7 Suicy, Mahlcn, . . . :;6, 4:i, i;6

21)0

INDEX OK I'KUSOXS M EXTIONKD IX THE VOLUME.

St&cVj Roliurt. Stonlcy, of .StiinoleiL:! " Sir Edwnnl,

" Eliziiliftli, " Sir FoiilU, " Sir Joiiii, " Sir Pitis,

Sir Kowlnn.l

" L(iril Str;uii:i', .)f K

Tiioiims, (,rKmi,-kN

Sir'JhoiiK,.,

SlaTisliiiry, .1.,

St.Mltnn/Lunl ];.lli;i

StrvcD-uii, Aiinu,

AlllR',

Jujin,

" TIlOllKH,

TlioniM-, 2,1, ^Villi:llil,

till' bl.,li„ T-

Story, EiicH-1],

"' Tlioin;is . Stout, llifliai-il, . Strfttell, Mr., . Stuart, KiiiLT Riilii ri, Sun.l.rhm.l, Karl of, Syii,.n,k,J..liri,-. Taj-.L-hula, Clii-f, T.,~hi.»vyr.,i,, . • Tatliaiii, .Tolin, . Taylor, A liraliani,

'• Cliri>|n|ili(.r, Teal, tlic widow, TfC'ilyiiscni]'.:, Kiii;^, Tcniianf, Gill.ert, . 1 Tlioni]i>c)ii, Char'fs, Totainy, Mom-<, . Towi.-,']>aiiifl, . Trotter, IJriijainii), Tyiidair, ,.r Tliulal, W \'aii HiMi]ifri<iii, Map.,'

li, 1

41,-4!) Verrec, James, .

!(t Warner, Mary, .

(il , M'arrei), Captain,

Gl Wasluni'tOM, Ooloncl tJ

17-1, 175, 181, 1S2 . . . 120 .

. i;!i

"Visv, . . 110

61 " General,4 71, 17.J, 177, 178, ISS,

14 j 189

01 I Warren, Lady 147

Gl i M'assc, .lames. ' ^8

Gl Watson, John F , SO, 127, 111, 142, ]o7, ION,

GI 14	Mattliev	^.
ISl	Waterman, I'ris,	ill
70	Walt, Jolui,
lis	\\\i~>, Conrad,
iio	Wells, llael.el,
ilO	" Ka-liard,
90	Welsh, William,
90	Westeott, Tlioiii|	so

77,90 M'cllierill, CIn i>t..|.lHr

S9 '■ Mary .\ol,l,

ISG " Sanuiel,

120 ' " Thomas,

32 " Thomas, Jr,

29, i:i0 Whitefield, (ieorge,

71 Whittier, John <;.,

70 Wilkin-.n, John,

120 Willi-., Mary, .

109 ■• (ieoPic, .

OG Wills, Daniel. .

0.3, 70 : " D.ini.l, Jr,

137 ' Winter, .Snah linthr.

120 ' Woohn.an, .lohn, .

101 ! Woolston, John, .

9,111 " John, Jr.,

-<, 100 j Wright, Joslma, .

1«9 ; Wyatt, Elizi,

Kl.s '' Sally,

40 Vans, .\nne,

101 '• William, .

17-19 York. Jam.-, Dnke r| 19

:, r.

184,	191
	128 1 '.0
	1 •_>_ 147
	01;
	l.si
'0, 173,	LSI
	02
	194
	120
IIG,	120
-'0, 12s,	l:!2
101,	loo
	IGO
	133 120 42
G7 ,41,44	, 99 07 , 40
41	, -<•■>
	19]
101,	142
	44
	41
	78
	130
	130

INDEX OF NAMES OF THE EIGHTH AND NINTH GENERATIONS, GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

Alliiison, ]"~ilier, Manilla, Atkinson, .Vniie,

" Jxirzillai L>. C'liarlrs, liowne, Aljliy,

Abigail, . " Amelia, . " Amy,

Eliza, . Gcorgi-, 2a, " George, 3il, " , GeorL;e,4tli, " _Guliclnia, " Hannah, Jo^cpli, . Jo^ei.h, 2,1, Matilda, Hebecf-a, Ki,-l,ara, llichard, 2d, Kobcrt L., Kowlaml, " Samuel, . " .Samuel S.,

A\iniam, Bringhur.-t, Anna,

F.ilwar.l,

Ell/.a,

l::iiz;iU.tl.,

222	JUing	lini>t	Hannah, .
223			.lames, 3.1,
2-11			James, 4th,
211	'		.].>1h,.
-.^41	'		John, 2(1, .
211			John, 3.1, .
211			Joseph,
211			J.^seph, 2.1,
211			Josepli, 3.1,
211			Mary,
211			Mary, 2.1, .
211			Mary D., .
211			llebeeea, ,
211			S^irah,
211		'	Sarah A., .
211		'	Snsan,
211		'	Thonuus, .
211		'	^Villiam, .
211			William, 2.
211			William W
211			Ziba F., .
211	}5urr	Bar/.illai, .
211	"	I,y.l	ia.
211	"	]{iel	lar.l, .
211	Clia.	ertnn	, Mary,
211			rh.ebe, .
273	Cox,	Han	lah, .
27 2	"	San.	1,
271	D.^v	-. '■•■	irge, :
272		Is	ac,

273 271 273 273 271 271 272 271 272 271 274 271 274 273 •.'71 273

23iJ 23t; 23G 2 IS 2 IS

2\)-2

INDEX OF NAMES OF TlIK EIGilTU AND NINTH GENEKATIONS,

PAGE	PAGE
Davis, Jane, 232	Ellis, Eliza, 241
" Jolm Cox,				2.32	" Henr)-,				241
" Juliana, .				232	'• Peter,				241
" Lowis,				232	" Ilebeeea S.,				241
Dillwyn, Susmnali,				219	Evre, Anne C, .				277
Drinkur, Cliarlcs,				220	■" Ellen, ..				277
Charles, 2d,				220	" Harriet,				277
Edward,				220	" John 0., .				277
Edward, 2d,				220	'• Juliet P., .				277
" Elizalx'tli,				220	" Mahlon U.,				277
E^ther,				220	•' Manuel, 3d,				'111
" Hannali,				220	" Marv,				211
Henry,				220	" Uleliard A.,				277
" Henry S.,				220	" Virijiuia, .				277
" James, .				220	" ^Vilson, .				277
" ]\Iary, .				220	l-'owler, Elizabetli,				272
Mary, 2d,				222	'' Francis,				272
" Sandwitli,				220	" Hannah,				272
" Saraii, .				220	Heury, .				272
William,				220	John'p.,				2,72
Duck, Amelia,				272	'■ Marianne,				272
" Catliarine P.,				272	Ciill, Anna,				240
" Elizalieth,				272	" John, 2d, .				235
" Elizabetli A.,				272	" Jolm, 3d,				240
" Jolni N., .				272	- Marv,				23.5
" Kaeliel P.,				272	■• l;-i.ee.-,v, .				2)0
Earl, Daniel \\\				LMl	•• William 11.,				24n
'•• Ed,i;-.ir,				211	Gn:je.ry, Karhel ]!.,				27;;
" Eliz;d*tli, . .				23G	Hilk->, (i.ilielma M.,				. 220
" George M.,				2tO	Jolm .S., .				220
" Harriet,				241	William S.,				. 220
" Jolm S., .				230	Jones, Elizabeih W.,				. 202
" Maria,				241	'■ Marv X., .				. 2G2
" Marj-,				230	" Sanmel W.,				. 202
" Mary, 2d, :				. 241	Levick, Anna, .				. 204
" '\\'iliiara, .				. 241	Elizabeth R.,				. 204
" William Lovett,				. 23i>	Jame-s J., M.	[^.,			. 204
'■ William Eovett,	2d,			. 241	Joseph ^^'.,				. 20 4
Edge, Edward S.,				. 200	.Maiy J.,				. 204
" Emma,				. 200	]{i.-hard,				. 204
" Jane,				. 200	Samuel J.,				. 204
" Rebecca S.,				20 G	' '• William M.,				. 204

GEXEALOGKAL TABLES.

2'j;j

PiCE
Lewis, Alexander, .... 222	Noble, Anna,
" Cliarles, .			222	" . Chark^s, M. D.,
" Estlier, .			222	" Charles, Jr.,
" Hciiiv,			222	" Charles M., .
" James S.,			222	" Clara,
" Josepl] .S.,			222	" Eliza,
Loiigstretli, Elizabeth T.,			259	" Elizabeth,
" Josc]ili,			273	" Franklin,
" l^rargaret, .			273	" Hannah, .
" j\[argaret M,,			259	" Hetiry A.,
Margaret M., 2d			259	" Howard, .
" Miivy 15., .			259	" John M.,
Mnrri-, .M.]).,			259	" ],ydia, .
llaehel O.,			2 5 it	" Lydia L.,
" Samuel N.,			209	" Marv K.,
Sarah N., .			259	" Marv T., .
AVilliain, .			273	" Kiehard, .
Maddock, Anna,			27.''.	" Sanuiel, .
Edv.ard, . Juhn,			273 273	" Sanuie-l \V., '■ Sarah,
iMarv,			273	•' Thnnias L., .
AViliiani, .			273	" William S., .
Morris, An}ia Maiuaretta,			2U	Norton, .Samuel,
Beiilah, .■" .			253	Xourse, Caroline R., .
Charle< Mc,„re,			214	Charles J., 2d,
Edmund,			21!	Elizabeth,
ElJA-l, .			2-1 s	Henri.-tta C, .
Eli;-t..n I'., .			253	Israel P.,
I>al..lh,,			2 -IS	" Janie.s B.,
Jainis 1'.,			210	John, .
Louisa 1'., .			240	LMli^a, .
Mary, .			248	Mary, .
" I'hineas P.,			248	Pho'be 1'., .
rhud.e ]'.			24(3	'' Itosa,
]!elH-.ra \V., .			216	I'erot, .Xnna,
l;iehard .Smith,			214	" Annie S., .
Itosa,			2 IS	•' Charles P.,
SamuM IJ., 2d,			25.3	" Eliz.,b.th W., .
William,			24S	" Elli.-ton, 2d, .
William Henry,			214	" Elli-ton L.,
.M..tt, Kirhai-.l F.,			214	'• Frauei^ . ■ .
\uble, Aman.la, .			25'.)	. " Hannah, .

294

INDEX OF XAMKS OF THE EIGHTH AND NINTH GENEKATIONy,

PAGE	PAUF
Perot, Hanuali, 2d, .... 254	Smith, Barzillai C, .... 203
" Hannali, od,				. 251	" Benjamin,		.. 203
" James P.,				. 251	" Benjamin K., .			201
" John,				. 253	" Caleb P.,			203
" Joseph,				. 253	" Caroline M,, .			204
" Jo^ejili S.,				. 25-1	Catl)ai-i)ie,			199
" ].aetitia P.,				254	" Catha)'iiie Aldeii,			223
" U-Avy W.,				254	" C'hamless,			263
" Sanson), .				253	•' Charles, .			235
'■ Sanson), Sd,				254	" Chai'les L.,			219
" Sarah,				253	■' ■ Charles W., .			2G3
" Sarah S., .				2.34	Clen)ent 11. , .			203
" Tliom:us MoitIs,				253	•' J>ani,.l, .			2(14
" AVilliain S.,				253	" Dani.l 1!.,			201
Prondfit, Alexander C.				223	'• Danirl l)(.„-hiy, 2d,		235
John; .				223	" Jianirl Don-hlv, .3d,		238
Mary C,				223	•' Diihvvii, .		227
Eolx-rts, l>li/,alietl),				222	" Kdnnuid,			208
Ma)-y, .				222	" lOdwanl Jiaeon,			200
S.-irah, .				222	•' ]-:dwai-.l T., .			2(i4
Sanson), Kli/,a ]!.,				251	" Eliz,ibeth, " 1-^i; ,.,1 .1, 0 1		23	3, 2.!9
1 laiiiuui, Slireve, IJcnhih S.,				2.jl 237	j Ji/;ii II 1 n. _i 1, . '■ Elizabeth, .3d, .			2 1 ■' 244
'' Daniel Smith, .				237	" Eliz;dKth 15., .			21 >1
'• Elizabeth S., .				237	" Eli/abetl, li., 2d,		2<	4,22.s
" ];ebecui L.;				2;! 7	•' Elizibdh .1., .			2ii3
•• .Su-ah ];., ■				237	•' Eli7.:,b.:l, 1'., .			228
Stacy L.,				237	■■ Eb/.ibeih S., .			23!i
Smith, Alii'rail, .				240	'■ Idlen LoL-an, .			222
'^ Ahipdl B.,				219	'• 1:IK>u,k1 E, .			23'.t
" AlLaniis, .				228	•■ E-li,M-, .			0...1
" Alexander,				222	" Erancc- E., .			199
" AllVed, .				204	" Ce0)-i;rl).,			199
" Alfred K.,				207	GeofLte K.ibcrts,			222
" Aliee Anna,				199	'• Cen,-,. W.. .			239
" An)l)io>e,				204	" (juliehna .\laiia,			220
" Amelia, .				214	" Gnliebna Maria, L'd,			22S
" Aima, .				2.39	" nannah, .			219
'• Anna Maria,				239	" Hannal) I)., .			214
" Anne Baeon,				20(i	" Hannah J.,			2f,:!
" Annie Coiiper,				22-3	•' ll.a.ry, . " .		1911. ■s:[i
" B;irelay A.,				2o;;	'■ Ibiiry Hill, .			Tn;

GENEALUGICAL TAULE.S.

'2i>5

Smith,

, llenrv llowan lleiiiy M'., Horace J., Isaau J., . Jatiips, .Taincs L., James Ix>;:;an, James AV., Jane B., . Jane L., . Jo!) Bacon, Job Stockloi], John J., . John Jay, Jolin Morion, John S., . Jonathan, Jonathan, "iil, Jonatljan II. Jo.-:cpli, Jo<cpli II., Joseph R., Jo-eph A\'., Ijaura, Lanra (i., J>l.._va ]'., Lyiiia L., Mar^Tin t, Maryarct II., Margaret II., 2 Margaret II., 3 Margaret M., Mary, Mar'v, 2d, Mary, 3d, Mao', 4l]i, Mary Anna, Mary D., Mary E. ii., Mary I.., . Mary Mortein, Milenh M.,

24

199	Smith, ]\Iorris, .
237	" Xorman M.,
228	" Kachel, .
2G3	" Kachel C,
239	" Eaper,
239	" Echecca, .
219	" Iveheeca, 2J,
2G3	" Rebecca AV.,
214	" Bichanl II., .
237	'• EicharJ M., .
204	" Richard Morris,
239	Robert Clinton,
219	" Robert J.,
22G	" Roljcrt I.indley,
201	" Robert .AI., " .
235	" Robert P.,
235	" Samuel, .
239	" Samuel, 2d,
239	'' Samuel J.,
235	" Sarah A.,
199	'• Sarah E.,
214	" Sarah L.,
239	" Sarah R., .
242	" Susiinnali iJillwvn
199	" Sn.s;innLili Drinker,
22s	" Thonia-, .
239	" Tlio.na- L., .
2UG	•• Walter, .
220	" AVilliam, .
228	" AVilliam, 2d, .
244	" AVilliam, Jr., .
201	" AVilliam Lovett, 2
214	Steward<on, George, Jr.,
, 242	John,
244	Maria, .
203	Margaret,
203	Tlioma.-, Jr.,
204	Yau.v, Anna S., .
207	" ElizaU'th,
204	" Emiiv,
201	" Frances, .
220	(jeorge, .

2'J(j . INDEX OF	NAMES OF THE EIGHTH AND NINTH GENEUATION.S.
Vaux, James, 25]	Wliarlon, Frances, .... 245
" Hannah 8.,			251	Lncy,			245
" jSIary E., .			251	White, Ann.i,			238
" Susan,			251	" Anna Maria, .			238
" William S.,			251	" iJarolay, .			238
AVelliiTill, -Ann ]'".liza,			2(i-i	" IHiniel Smith, .			238
" Josf]ih,			204	" Elizabeth,			237
" Mary,			2G4	" Howard, .			238
" Sanuiel K.,			262	" John Jusiah, .			237
" Sarali Jane,			2G4	" Sarnli .'^niith.			238

(f^ / / ■ f ,y </ ^/. >/<?.> ' (0[^rta^^s//o cuuf^n/c'l' o^zyn^r/n^zJ c_y07/ti^,-t-

Note.— The arm:* given in plioto£;raph opposite' \<. CI, are tho^e of Collwyn. tlie most ani'iPiit rei-nrclH^i y,xv..- i.l anrfstorts r! li.t r>oloiinin IJoyi-. The ch,rr,.K \v«? aflorwur'!? 1 !,i">-l h. tw. .mi the ihreo cocks, ami tijf cre-O'-'iit put un Illl^, »- marks of vana'.'wn \\v\ K.vi:\'-y, In .ii-tinpuis!i tlu/ Iiclctrun liuti^e .is a \ oiu.^'t hrr.ticli of Cnli\vyn'~ litu-. '\\:> Stanii'v arm.-- iii t'.j-it i.lu.toj;r:i|li are iii-o ti..- nrigiiial Stanley arms, wh'ili wito i.i'i. 7 iiy Ui> KnH'kyn i'-i:i:ily i'V :\,e <T' ■•■• •;! as a mark of cadency. I-'ntd ih- liir'j lir.in l.'.oyjs ai;.i il;.- KtiD.kyn .-u.i.:.;., tosk a new crcsJ also, llie Stanleys iif.uij; tlioir.s ironi tliu «M_(/ su;-_i'Orier ol ti.- Derby arms.

o>' TnF.

"CHYGOE'S ISLAND" OF SAMUEL SMITH.

On tlie 18th of Anyu-t, ITiTl.', llit.- "Court :it I'phunl," mm Clit.-ttr, in Penusylvnuia, wai t'iii]io\v<'ix'il \>y ihc Cmirt at >;t\v York, then the Mat ct' government for the Engli-li p(,-sev-i(iu.s in >'e\v York, ] Viin.-ylvania and Xtw Jersey, to investi.L'-ate a uui-iidn oi title to land. In the next year, KlT.'i, the Dutcli reconquered tla-ir lliniar i>..s>e?<iou» in these regions from tlie Engli.-li. This repossession was viii'v hrii-f, the territories being restored to the Engli.-h in KJTJ. The CVmrt at l'[>land, ori-inally founded by tlie hr'.vfdr.-, coiitinUMl to exercise its jiiriMlirtinu dmin- tlii> Dutch repossession, from " l\ri,-tiua- KJH " to "the head of the river," the falls of the Delaware, near Trenton.

The English, 111! !).•(•. iiiiiiig finally ma-ters of the territory, continued the Upland Court in its juri-diction, and the five judw^ of Swedish extraetion were reappointed Ijy Sir IMiuuini Ahdms. The coidlictiug litli>, derivt^d, some Iroiu the Duke of York, some from Berkeley and Carteret, and some fi'.m Edward Byllingi; and his Tru-iees, -were referred to it as a Court of Appeal.

Such a case of conlliciiiig title or-currfl on " nov'r ■-'oth, KnO," in an action of "Trespasse" brought by " IVtrr degou ]*lt." again>L ■' Tli(Uuas "Wright il' Godfrey Hancock, I>ett.-," the ionuor liaving title under ]k-ik>!..'y a:id Car- teret, and the latter clainnng under Byllinge, a piece of land ilnis <!cs(,-ribed iu tlie i)laintifi"s speeiiieations : "y'Landc CalKd Lea~y Point Lying and being oner agst. mattinagiMin Eyhiud a Jlurlinutdii." Eca-v Puint, :vc(^rd- ing to Edward Arni-trong, who edited the Pecords of I'ldand diuit, lor the Historical Society of Poii]i-ylv;\ni;i, " wa.~ proiiably the ujiper point of land at Burlington, tormed at tin- Junction of the Assiscunk with tii.^ Delaware, and called by Lind.-troni (.MS. Map , ' .\>.<iij[iii',h,' the lower ]>oint being called by same authority ' Mn/.d-lmn-i'-ira.' " ?[r. Armstrong adds : " ' Mat- tinagcom Eyliind,' mentioned in a sidxu.iucnt jiagi; as ' TiunaLreong Island," is the jirescnt Burlington Island, called by Lin.l-trom (MS. Mu]!;, ' Tiune- koucks Eyland lie de Tinne.lnnck." "

I consider this ovidence coii(du.-ive as to the fact of Lcasy Point, the pro- perty of Peter Jrgon, beint: i tiot identical with, liut) oppus'dc to, "over agaiust," the two i-land- with the Indian nanus, on one of which Burlington had, already in ItlT'.i, lieen built. It was the point of th<' iii'iin hind abuve Burlington, on the opposite side of Assi-^eiink creek. The i.^lund point con- tiguous to Burlington, was lM•eu[^i.:d at the dati> of the settlement (pf the Quakers, a,> we know Ircni divers authorities, by the villaL'e anil ceiiieLery of an Indian sachem. There i> i;o ^ullicie■nt reason l':ir di^believing the state- meut of Samuel Sniilh that this .-richein'.- name \va- ( 'hyL-oe, merely because of the somewhat .-imilar name of Pierre Jegou, who oeeujiied tlie opposite jioisit.

THE FOLLOWIXG GEXEALOGICAL LISTS WERE RECEIVED TOO LATE FOR BINDING.

CHIL1)1;E>; of I;ENJAMIX JIAPEK SMI-TIL— (Page 201.) (conp.r:cTFD list.)

KI><'TII nr.XERATIOX.

10. 2. William Wiuirtnn Smith,

Eoru Aug. , A. D. 1SG1.

Beijjaiiiiu Kiipcr Smith,

L(iru jNIarch ol, A. D. l^i-".. ! lO. 3. Annu Wliartim Smith, I\IaiTied Juno 6, A. D. 18V.», Esther Fi.-her, JaULrhttT ni William aud Drlmrah Fi-lu-r Whartuu.

TENTH c;i;xkt:atiox.

10. 1. Enbert jSlortou Sn)ith,

Bom Sept. 8, A. D. ISfiO. Died Oct. IG, A. D. 1604.

Boru Jan. 2-3, A. D. 1SG4.

10. 4. Esther Morton Smith,

Born AiiriI2:j, A. D. ISG.^).

10. 5. DJiorah Fisher Smith,

Born July 5, A. D. F^HO. Died Aug. 25, A. D. 1S77.

10. G. Edward Wharton Smith,

Born Jan. 18, A. D. 1875.

DESCKNDANT.s OV JAMES .SMITH T.EWI^.— (Page 22i.)

NINTH ci:nehation. 10. 4. Wiliiani Rawle I>e\vis,

^ ., ^ . BornSei)t. 2:3, A. D. 1840.

James Smith Lewis, I

Boru :\rav 2."., A. D. 1.^00. 10. 5. :Mor.lecai Lewi-^ ^-^t-coiid

:\rarricdS,.j.t.ll,A.J».i.>:;;';, Eebecea Shocn.akrr, daught'T of William Rawle; died July 20, F<5(i.

TENTH GENER.VTION.

10. 1.

Anil Emily Lewis,

]?orn July 5, A. 1). 1834. Married A. I). ,

to Wilfiam Hay. 10. 2. Charle., L-nvis Cseemid i.

Born Feb. .3, A. D. 1S3G. Died Aug. 21, A. D. 18.37. '' • •)■ Samuel Burgi- laavle Lewis, 1m, ra .^^pt. 3, A. i>. 1>-;S.

Born Jinr-JO. A. D. 1^43. .^Iarrii'dFeh.21,A.I).l>71, Myra, tiaughter of Lutlier Hay mend.

10. 6. James Lewis,

Boru Jan. 18, A. D. 184G. 10. 7. Franei- Rawlc Lewis,

. Boru June 0, A. D. ISF'^.

10. 8. Josephine Lewis,

Boru Feb. 22, A.I). 185G.

EI.ZVENT!! GENEKATIuN.

(Children of V\'illiam Hay.)

11. 1. James Hay,

l;,,iii -ian. !', A. \>. IS.jfl.

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

11.	2.	William Hay,		(Children ol'^Mordecai Le\vi.s (second.)
11.	3.	Eoru May 20, A. D. George Burwi'll Hay, Boru July '27, A. D.	1857. 18G0.	11. 1. Myra Ilaymond Lewis, 'Burn :\larch 22, A.D. 1872.
11.	4.	Nathaniel Biirwell Hay		11. 2: Wirt Lewis,
		Bom :May 7, A. D.	186:1	Boru Nov. 10, A. D: 1S7G.

FAMILY OF THOMAS STEWARD.SON, Junior, (Pagks 227, 230.)

NINTH GF.XEllATION.

9. A. Thomas Stewardson, .]r.,

Boru .June 6, A. D. 1820.

Married Nov. 7, A.D. 1854, ^largaret, daughter of Keubeu Plaints. 9. B. John Stewardsoii,

Boru Aug. 2:], A. D. 1830.

Died Juue 20, A. D. 18-5(3. 9. C. Gulieluia Maria .'^le\\ards(jn,

BoruMarehl, A. D. 18:;2.

Died duly 24, A. D. 1841.

9. D. ilarixarut Stewardson,

. Boru Aug. 2!), A. D. 1834.

9. E. George Stewardsuu,

Boru March 2, A. I). 183(5. Died March 1, A. D. 1839.

TKNTII GEXEUATION.

(Children of Thomas Stewardson, Jr.)

10. 1. John Stewardson,

BoruMarch21,A.D. 1858.

10. 2. Arthur Stewardson,

Boru ]May 4, A.D. ISGO. Died Oct. 2, A. D. isGl.

10. 3. Endyn Lamar Stewardson,

Born Jan. G, A. D. 18i;3.

10. 4. Edmund Austin Stewardson. Born Jan. 7, A. D. 18G5.

10. 5. Mary Morton Stewardson,

Born Jan. 8, A. D. 18G8.

10. G. Eleanor Fercy Stewardson,

Boru March 8. A.D. 1871.

I)E.SCEXDANTS OF TJIOMAS LLOYD WHARTON AND S.ARAH ANN SMITH.— (rAGES 211-45.)

KKillTir (ii:NEI!ATION.

NINTH GENEKATIOX.

Sarah Ann Smith, ! 9. 1. Lucy Wharton,

]5oru Oct. 11, A.D. 1800. I Born A. D. 1841.

iMan led ,1 un.- :;u, A.D. 1840, ' Married A pril 1 8, A.D.l.--;(;5,

Thomas Lloyd Wharton.. -on of Kear- I to Jo.seph W. Drexcl. ~>ju <>i'

my and .Maria S. Whart.jn. Fraiici- Martin r)re\rl,and

Die.! March 17, A. D. 184G. I Catharine H., hl^ wiii'.

GKXKALOGICAL TABLES.

9. 2. Frances Whart.ni, . 10. 3. Elizal.etli Dnxol,

Bom :^lay :;i, A. D. 1S4:1. Boni A],!-!! 2('., A. D. 1SC.8.

MaiTiod Fell. 2:;, A.D. 1S(J4, (ChiMivn ..f Guy V. Iknry.j

toGuy \MIciiry,-<,n.. f:\Iaj. .1- jq |_ llL-niy,

Seton Henry, jlriti.-li army, Eiini A. D.

and Arietia L., his wife. , 23;,,^ \_ X). 1.SG7.

TicNTii cKNEHATrox. 10. '2. Saiilru ITcnry,

Born Nov. 9, A. D. ^Ht^l. (Chil.lreii of Jl.^eI.h Urrxel. )

, 10. 3. Henry,

10. 1. Calharine Drex./l, JJorn ' " A. D.

B.,ru Feb. 1-3, A. D. 18GC. Di.'.l A. 1). LsTl.

10. 2. Luey ]h-exel, 10. 4. 'J'iioiuas T.loyil Henry,

Burn Ai)ril 2(1, A. D. l6iJS. Born Oci. 20, A. D. 1872.

DESCENDANTS OF lUOHAKI) .-MITII AND HAXXAfl PEAK.

For the fi;lh.\viii,L:- li-t of tlie .l.<-,vii, hints of Bieh-vtl ami Haniu-.h ( lVa10 ^niilh, 1 aiu iuiUbted to 3[r. C. It. Hi!di.liuru, of the Atiieu.euin. (P. 2i;S.)

Btaehcl, uau^ht. r of Bioliar.I ami | ' ilaugliter of Williaii; ami

Hannah f P. a!: t '^iiiith, h.ini hVh. i Aliigail Gritiith. Uc died

2l', 177;') ; died .Tai}- 7, is:;2 ; mar- ; lS.37.

ried, Ai>ril — , 17n'.i, William (_.i\r, :]. Eli/alntl; Ooxo, horn Nov. M, ol' Burlington, .siiu ot' "William Coxo 17!):'> ; man-ied, Jiini' 1,

by hii wifo 3Iary, daiiLriifer of the Isl], Williuni Meilunrie,

liou. Teneh Francis, of Philad.li,hi;i. ; s..n of William McMiirlrie,

I'orn .May ■',, 17o2; died 1\!). 2"j, Viy hi- wifr Anna Carmirk.

l<)i. ' . ■ .-^h- di.-d Dec. id, lS7.""i.

' 4. Maria C'oxe, born .Jan. 2."), 17!h; ; Issue of William and Ba.chel (Smith ) : dic(l, nnniarricd Am'. 1

C"xc. ; ]s:;i.

1. William Sndili Coxe, bom April 7). ^largarel Cuxe, Ixjru Pejit. ]<>,

lb, 1790; married, Xuv. .'i, ]7!l.S; died An- "0, isOl.

182.:., Jane i:iiza, dan-hter 0. Fniily i\>\,; bom Feb. 19, 1801 ; of John A. Barbaroux, of married, Oct. S, 1822. the

St. Domin-o, by his v.ife ' Kcv. Charhs Pettit Mell-

IMark' Amarinthe dc J'ou- vaine, afterward ]5i-hoi) ot'

yate. He died ls:]7. Ohio.

2. Richard Smith Coxe, born Jan. 7. Mar-arct Coxe, l>ora .May 9, 1803;

30, 17112; mai-ricd, .bin. ' died, nnniarried, Sept. 1'),

23, 18D], ^ii-au liradlbrd, ! 18").').

GENEALOGICAL TABLES.

8. Anne, died, an infant, Jan. 7, 1801.

9. Anne Coxc. born Dec. 10, 1807 ;

married, .Oct. 15, 1S31, \ Rev. Cliauneey Coltnu, sou j of Gad and Anne Coltou, | born Aug. r.O, 1800 ; died | April 15, 187(;. i

10. Harriet Coxo, born Feb. 8, 1811 ; '

married, April 1"), L'^'IG, j liev. Alfred Taylor Bled- i soc, son of Closes and Sopliia i Bled.oe, born 1810. |

11. Daniel James Coxe, born Sept.o, i

1814; died ."^cpt. 17, 1815. j

(Cbildren of William S. and June E. Coxe. J

1. William Coxe, died when about

seven years oi' ape.

2. Edward Devousselle Coxe, born

Oct. , 18"20; married, first, , ?Nlartlia ,

and had

a. Charles Coxe.

b. IMargavet Coxe.

3. Mary Amariutbe Coxe, born

Mareh, ISijl ; married Otley, and has i^-ue.

4. Kiehard Smith Coxe, born July ,

1833 ; married,

Mildred Carter ^Vhite, and

had

a. Grace; b. Mary; c. Lilla,

and a sou \vho died

young.

(Children of I'liehard S. and Susau 15. Coxe.)

1. Susau Bradibrd Coxe, born ,

1818; marriinl. , 1S42,

Hanson Weiglitiuan, and had

a. Louisa Weightmaa, born

Feb. , 1843.

b. Richard Coxe Weight-

man, born Nov. , 1844.

c. Roger Weightraan.

d. Hanson Weightnian, dieil

young.

e. Susan Weightnian.

/. Chai'les Weightnian, died

tct. ] 4. f/. Emmeline Weightnian.

2. iMary Coxe, boru " ,1823;

married, , Mehan,

juid had

u. Jane, married and died

in 1874, leaving a

child. 0. . son, died young.

c. Alexander Mehan.

3. Itichanl Coxe, died young.

4. William Coxe, died young.

(Children of William and Elizabeth (Coxe) :Mc.Murtrie.)

1. Anna Mc^furtrie, born Fib. 18.

1.S12; died May 20, 1812.

2. William McMurtrie, born Jiily

25, 1 SI 3: difdCri. 8, 1^14.

3. William Me:\furtrie, born Cet. !',

1815; died Nov. 3, IMd.

4. ilaria INIcOIurtrie, born Aug. — ,

1817 ; married ,

George Washington Biddle, son of Clement Biddle by his wife, ]Mary Barclay. ai;>J I liad

a. George Biddle, bnrn

1843; married Nov. .'■•.

1.S7G, :Mary Jbi.-aek.

: dau-hterof J.'hn K'.ar-

GEXEALOGICAL TABLES.

ney Iiotlgers, of New York.

b. Algernon .^idney Jliddle,

born Oct., ]S-17.

c. Artliur Jjidillo, l.inrn

1852.

5. Iiifliard Coxe Mc?*Iurtrie, born

Oct., 181 It; married, Caroline, dauirliier of Dan'l Murray, of Maryland, by his wile JIary Dorsoy, and Lad

0. Ellen ]McMuririe.

b. :\rary L)..r.-y Mc:\[ur-

Irie. e. ]-:iizabetli Coxe MeMiir-

ti-le. (/. Caroline :\IeMurlrie.

6. William Henry MeMurtrie, born

:Slareli d, 1822; died Ang.

1, 1821.

7. Emilv ?([eMurtrii', born .]uly 2:1,

"■ lt>24 ; died Teb. 2.:), 184:].

8. Elizabeth Me^lurtrie. bnrn Jldy

, ]82'.i; niarriid Mai. ■Cen. (ieor.L'e Archibald • JMcCall, I'.' .< A., ^on of Archibald iMcCall by his •wife JClizabcth Cadwiihider, and had 0. Archibald McCall, born

, 18r)2. b. Emily .AfcCall, born

1NJ4. r. ]:iizabeth M< Call. ,/. G.nrje M. Call. ,. ];ichard .MeCall.

9. 'Ellen McMunrie, born April 11.

l.^:_14; dii d, unnuuried. March 21, 184:3.

(Children of the lit. Kev. Chas. P. I\Icllvaine.j

1. Maria ^rdlvaine, died younp;.

2. Joseph lleathcote ^lellvaine, bom

1824 ; died l8Gu.

3. Bloomfield ]\lellv;une, born

1826 ; died young.

4. Emily :\lellv;dne, born 1828;

died 1 8.30. .5. Maria ]McIlvaine, born 18::I1 ; niairied, 1S4^, Kev. Geo. Washington L)ul)ois, and liad

a. Emily Dubnis, inarri<>d,

1872, Kev. :^Iaekey.

b. Geo. .Mcllvaine Dubois.

c. Charles Dubois, died

young.

d. Henry Dubois.

e. Sarah Dubois.

/. Henrietta Dubois. .'/. , a »tD.

0. ^Margaret ^lellvaine, liorn May, 1834; married J. Mc.-.-er, of Eondon, Eng.

,7. Emily Ec.mI Mcllvaine, bom l8:lij; married .loliu llt\s- .son, and had a. Ella He\vsou. h. Josephine Hcwmiu.

8. r.ev. Charles E. Mellvaine, bom 1839; married. I,sti7, Cle- mentiua, daughter of the Rt. liev. Alfred Lee, Bishop of Delaware, and liad

a. Charles ^Mellvaine, died

young.

b. Julia Mellvaine.

c. Emily Mellvaine.

d. , boru 1877.

	GENEALOGICAL	TALI	ES. 9
9.	Auua Piei'ivp.i int ^Icllvaine, l)oru 1842. rChildren of the I!fv. Cliamiccy Culton.)			James Hamet, of New York, and had a. Albert llamet. b. Virginia Hamet. c. Louisa Ilamet.
1.	William Coxc Cultoi], born Aug.	2.	Eniil}	' Bledsoe, died young.
	30, IS:;;]; luarricil, Nov. 30,	3.	Einih	- Albcrtine l^>ledsoe, born
	1858, ]']lizabcth McLcane,			Kov., 1840; married, 1mi3,
	and died July 19, 18G6,			liev. William Diuwiddie,
	leaving one child.			and had
	a. Charles Chauncey Col-			(7. Wm. Dinwiddle.
	tuu.			h. Sophia Dinwiddle.
2.	Charle.s ^McJIvaine ('cilton, horn			c. Alfred Bledsoe Dlnwid-
3.	Kov. 21, l.So"); died Jan. 21, 18:17. Charles :\lcllvnine Colton, born Dec. 10, 1^37; died, un-	4.	Ivouis	die. (1. KoLiert Leo Dinwiddle. e. Edgar Diuwiddie. a Bledsoe, born 1843.
	married, March 1, 1804.	5.	Eliza	K'th McMurtrie Bled,-oe,
4.	Franci.s Fellows Colti.n, Ijoru July 20, 1841 ; died .Alay, 1n42.			lioru l."^40 ; marrie<l, 1^70. J. F. Waylaud, of Va., auvl
5 6.	llev. liii-hard Francis Colton, born -March lii, 184:5. IMargaret Ceiilia ChIujI!, horn Oct. 2, 1847 ; died, unmar- ried, :Marcli 17, 1870. (Chihlren of the P.ev. Alfred T.			had a. Emily Wayhuid. born 1^71 ; dhd i^Td. b. Henry Waylaud, born 1872. 0. Albert Waylaud, burn 1874.
	Bledsoe.)	6.	Albert F.l.'d-oe, born l^^oQ; uIlh!
].	.Sij.hia Bled-i>e, born March, 18:j7 ;			\f<'u.
	juarried, L'^OO, the IJev.	7.	Anna	Bledsoe, born 18ol.

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