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DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE

OF

DELAWARE

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF

THE JAMISON AND GREEN FAMILIES

COMPILED AND PUBLISHED

BY

THOMAS HALE STREETS

THE STREETS FAyilLl^ OF DELA\\'ARE (NO. 4)

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PREFACE.

The present volume, — it being Xos. o and 4 of a
series entitled " Some Allied Families of Kent
County, Delaware." — completes the lineages of
my four grandparents. It is my purpose to extend
the series to take in some closely affiliated families.

Believing, as I do, that local and family histories
should go hand-in-hand, whenever the families here
considered, have touched, however slightly, any
local event or personage, I have incorporated a
notice of them — if they have been worthy of notice
by history or tradition — into these pages. I offer
no other explanation for the extraneous matter that
will be found between these covers.

My thanks are due to Mr. John C. Gooden, of
Wyoming, Delaware, for many acts of kindness and
for assistance rendered in these and other com-
pilations.

Thomas Hale Streets.

Wyncote, Pa., 19L3.

THE NAME

Hale signifies a corner ; ' consequently, it is a
place name. In Welsh and Cornish it is a moor.
Some writers have given to this name a meaning
which implies a physical excellence. This, how-
ever, is merely an inference drawn from the diction-
ary^ definition of the word. In calling it a place-
name, I have followed what I have thought to be
the better authorities.

Hales is a variant of Hale. Some English writers
have maintained that the s is frequently added to
monosyllabic names for no apparent reason what-
ever. My own opinion in this matter I have given
under the story of the monosyllabic place-name of
Street.

^"Family Names and Their Story." By S. Haring-( iould.
Philadelphia. 1910.

THEIR MARYLAND OHlGlX.

From all the evidence which I have been able to
obtain, I am of the opinion that Thomas Hale, the
ancestor of the Delaware family of that name, came
from the neighboring state of Maryland. All the
family affinities, as will be seen later, have been
associated with that state. There have been Hales
(in the singular) on the Eastern Shore and in Balti-
more county from very early times. In the
" Archives of Maryland " there is mention of a
Thomas Hale in Kent county (on Kent Island) in
1638. He w^as 39 years old in 1G50, and it is
stated that he was born in the parish of Wadding-
ton, county of Lincoln, England.

From the same source it is learned that Thomas
Hale w^as a private in the First Regiment, Mary-
land Troops, in 1777. In 1782, Lieutenant Adam
Jamison enlisted Thomas Hale in the Fifth Regi-
ment, Maryland Line, for 3 years. The association
of these names here may have a significance which
is not apparent now, but will be later, when the
close relationship is shown which existed between
these families in Delaware. The Jamisons came to
Delaw^are from Kent county, on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland.

Many old Maryland families have, or have had.

8 THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

their representatives in Delaware. It may be
briefly statCTl tliat this has come about as follows :
The strip of territory bordering on and west of the
Delaware river and bay, which was early known as
" The Three Lower Counties," in contradistinction
to the three upper counties of Pennsylvania, namely,
Philadelphia, Chester and Bucks, was for a long-
time in dispute, being claimed, by his adherents, as
a part of the land granted to Lord Baltimore, and
included in that acquired later by William Penn.
Much of the land in the western portion of the
strip (the name of " State on the Delaware " was
afterwards applied to it) was taken up by settlers
from Maryland, and chiefly from the Eastern Shore,
on grants under the Maryland charter. When a
boundary line was finally established between the
lands of William Penn and Lord Baltimore, and
'' The Three Lower Counties " adjudged the prop-
erty of the former, these land-grants under the
Maryland charter were respected and the land con-
firmed to the settlers by the proprietors of Pennsyl-
vania.'

Nicholas Hale was, apparently, the founder of a

- it may not be generally known how this small strip of territory
acquired statehood. It was not included in Penn's original grant,
but was obtained from the Duke of York, who claimed it as a part
of the Dutch province of XeAv Amsterdam, acquired by conquest.
Penn promised the settlers a separate assembly, and after the Revo-
ution this was continued as a separate State.

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 9

Hale family in Baltimore county. He owned land
there as early as 1688. A search has been made of
the land and probate records of Baltimore county
to discover what, if any, connection exists between
this and the Delaware family. The only result of
the search was to unearth what might be considered
presumptive evidence that such a connection does
exist.

Nicholas Hale's will was executed 27 February,

1729, and probated in Baltimore county, 18 April,

1730. His death is recorded in the records of St.
Paul's parish, Baltimore, 29 March, 1730. (The
name is spelled Haile in both records.) The same
parish records the birth of Henry, son of Nicholas
and Frances Hale, 25 March, 1721. (This son is
not mentioned in the will.)

Henry Hail married 10 September, 1741, Mary
Bradley (Records of St. John's and St. George's
parish — the former in Baltimore and the latter in
Harford county); and on the 19th of October, 1742,
a son, Thomas Hail was born to Henry Hail and
Mary, his wife. This Thomas Hale might very
well be the Thomas Hale of Delaware, who was
married in 1764.

Neale Hale, of Baltimore county, and of the third
generation from Nicholas, in a will executed 8
August, 1813, and probated 20 November, 1813,
mentions a daughter Matilda Hale. Thomas Hale,
of Delaware (who would have been of the same gen-

10 THE nKSCJwMJA^TS OF THOMAS HALE

eration from the founder if he had come down
through Henry) also had a daughter with the, not
common, name of Matilda. George Hale, of Balti-
more, had children Joseph and Elizabeth (from his
will executed in 1788); these were also names of
children of Thomas Hale.

Among the people who dwelt in Smyrna, Dela-
ware (where lived the descendants of Thomas Hale),
enumerated in the census of 1820, was George Hale,
which is a name that appears frequently among the
descendants of Nicholas Hale, his second son being
of that name.

Thomas Hale, of Kent county (Kent Island), ap-
parently, had no connection with the Baltimore
family ; and no connection has been established
with Thomas Hale, of Delaware, except it be in the
name of Thomas.

This is all the evidence I have to present to prove
a connection with the Maryland families.

The name is variously spelled in the Maryland
records. It is Haile, Hailes, Hail, Hails, Hale and
Hales. There were Hales (spelled with the final s)
among the early settlers of Somerset county, on the
Eastern Shore, and there was a Quaker family of
the same way of spelling the name, in New Castle
county, Delaware, early in the eighteenth century.
John Hales was sent to represent the George's Creek
meeting to the Duck Creek meeting, 22nd 5th
month, 1706.

THOMAS HALE OF DELAWARE.

The first notice we find of Thomas Hale in Dela-
ware, or elsewhere, is in the list of persons assessed
for taxes in Duck Creek hundred in the year 1785,
which was the first list of taxables after the war of
independence. (Scharf's "History of Delaware.")

In 1787 Joshua Fisher 3 built a hotel at Duck
Creek Cross Roads (now Smyrna), and in 1792,
when the state legislature met at that place, having
left Dover on account of a conflict with the sherifi'
over the possession of the assembly rooms, it con-
vened at this hotel, then kept by our ancestor,
Thomas Hale, as is shown by the following excerpt
from "The Minutes of the Council of Delaware"
(Delaware Historical Society Publications, Paper

^Joshua Fisher was the son of Fenwick Fisher and Mary HoUi-
day. He died in 1791, unmarried. He was descended from John
Fisher, the emigrant, who had two sons, Thomas and John. Joshua
Fisher was from the line of Thomas. Dr. James Fisher, of Camden,
Delaware, whose daughter, Sarah Ann, married John M. Clayton,
Secretary of State, under President Taylor, was his brother.

Joshua Fisher was admitted to the bar of ^New Castle, 24 Febru-
ary, 1785, and was elected a member of the state house of repre-
sentatives from Kent county in 1790. He was successful in the
practice of law, and acquired much wealth. The Fishers were a
prominent Quaker family of Delaware and Pennsylvania. The
Delaware branch was not, I believe, tainted with disloyalty to the
colonies.

12 TUK DKSCENDAyTS OF THOMAS HALK.

\l): "Resolved : That this House now adjourn to
tliree o'clock in the afternoon, to meet at the house
of Thomas Hale at Duck Creek Cross Roads, and
there sit for the transaction of public business."
The Assembly met at this house 3 May, 1792, and
continued to sit there to the end of the session. It
has been recently torn down to make way for the
erection of a new Federal building.

The trouble with the legislature arose over the
sheriff, John Clayton, demanding the assembly
rooms for certain work, which the legislature, being
then in session, objected to. The sheriff then, by
order of the Levy Court, entered the rooms with a
dravv'n sword and demanded their immediate use
for the workmen. Hence, the precipitate flight of
the legislators to the house of Thomas Hale, at the
Cross Roads.*^

* ''It v.'as at Belmont Hall tliat the first legislature of the vState
under Federal government was convened. The first intention was
to hold the Assembly at the county court-house at Dover, as at that
time there was no state-house for their accommodation; and this
transpiring, the county officers issued a protest, and the Honorable
Body still persisting to convening, they were expelled by the sherifl
at the point of the sword.

"After this abortive attempt Crovemor Tom Collins invited the
Assembly beneath his hospitable roof; and so it fell out that Bel-
mont Hall, 'nigh to Duck Creek cross-roads, now a suburb of the
town of Smyrna, became the center from which the State Constitu-
tion and laws were issued for the well-being of its worthy citizens."
(Howard Pyle, in Hai'pei-'s Xew Monthly Magazine. Volume 59,
July, 1879, page 200.)

Behold, how history is made! A careless writer groups an im-

rilf: DESCESDANTS OE THOMAS HALE. 13

In the Philadelphia Directory for 1791, by
Clement Biddle, three deputy postmasters are ac-
credited to the state of Delaware, of whom one was
Thomas Hale. His residence is given as Duck
Creek Cross Roads (now Smyrna).

His name does not often appear in the deed-books
at Dover. In an indenture made 7 December,
1809, Mordecai Morris and Ann, his wife, conveyed
to Thomas Hale, '' late of the village of Smyrna,"
a lot of one-half acre of land, in or near Smyrna
(L-2-168).

It is also recorded [13 March, 1810], that
"Thomas Hale, of Smyrna, this day, sold to Pres-
ley Spruance a negro boy. Bob, for and during the
term of 12 years, from date hereof, then Bob shall
be free'' (AV-2-81j. At the Court of Common
Pleas, held at Dover, 12 December, 1822, Henry
Stevenson swore he saw Thomas Hale, deceased,
sign his name to the above conveyance. Recorded
1 January, 1823.

In the census enumeration of 1810 (the earlier
censuses of Delaware having been destroyed when
Washington city was sacked and burned by the
British), the family of Thomas Hale, of Smyrna, is
returned as consisting of three persons, namely :
one free white male of 45 years of age and upwards

portant e%'ent about an historic house, and proclaims his fiction to
the world as a truth of history, and others will ring the falsity down
the corridors of time, whilst the facts in the case are easily attainable.

14 THK DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

(evidently the bead of the family ; his wife was
probably then dead), and one free white boy and
one free white girl of 10 and under 16 years of age.
These were, probably, grandchildren, as his young-
est child, Matilda Hale, w^as, at that time, older
than 16 years. As Joseph Hale was unmarried,
and as there is no evidence that Samuel Hale w^as,
at that time, or later, in the state, the only infer-
ence is that the children enumerated above in the
census, if of the Hale family, were offspring of
William Hale. If this surmise be well founded,
then Colin F. Hale had a sister of whom no men-
tion has been made.

It is learned from the administration of the estate
of Joseph Hale that Thomas Hale w^as living as
late as 28 June, 1811, w^hen he, with Matilda Hale
and William Hale, renounced his right, as next of
kin, to administer, and letters were issued to Dr.
Robert and Thomas Jamison. In an indenture
made 27 May, 1812, it is recited that Joseph Hale,
late of Kent county, died intestate, and without
issue, and " left to survive him two brothers, one
sister, and a child of another sister, now^ deceased,
namely : William Hale, Samuel Hale, Matilda, now
the wife of Jacob Streets, and Thomas Jamison, son
of Robert Jamison and Mary, his wife, now de-
ceased, the other sister of the said Joseph Hale,
deceased." As no mention is made of Thomas
Hale in this document, it is evident that he was

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 15

then dead, and that he died between the dates given
above— 25 June, 1811, and 27 May, 1812— the
dates respectively of the letters of administration
and the indenture.

In an old book, that belonged to Sarah A. Streets,
the marriage of Thomas and Sarah Hale is recorded
as taking place on 18 October, 1764. Who Sarah
Hale was we have no means of knowing. The
birth and death of Elizabeth Hale, and the death
of Joseph Hale are also there set down, as given
below :

CHILDREN OF THOMAS HALE AND SARAH

(as known ; order of birth not known):

(2) I. Elizabeth Hale, born 26 May, 1766 ; died

— October, 1769.

(3) II. Joseph Hale, born ; died 16 June,

1811 ; unmarried.

(4) III. Mary Hale, born ; died prior to 28

June, 1811 ; married Dr. Robert Jami-
son.

(5) IV. William Hale, born ; died in 1821 ;

married .

(6) V. Samuel Hale, born ; died ; mar-

ried Elizabeth .

(7) VI. Matilda Hale, born 17 June, 1785; died

25 August, 1860 ; married Jacob Streets.

SECOND GENERATION.

(3) Joseph Hales (Thomas), born ; died

16 June, 1811 ; unmarried.

Joseph Hale was assessed for taxes in what is
now West Dover hundred in the year 1785. He
held the following oflBces in Kent county : Pro-
thonotary, commissioned, 1 October, 1793 (he was
the first to hold that office in the county) ; Register
of the Court of Chancery and Clerk of the Orphans'
Court, commissioned, 18 June, 1794, by Joshua
Clayton, Governor ; Prothonotary (again), com-
missioned, 1 October, 1798, by Daniel Rogers, Gov-
ernor ; and Dedimus Potestatem, 15 January, 1811.
He was holding the last-named office at the time of
his death.

According to Scharf (in his " History of Dela-
ware ") : " On October 18, 1837, it was ordered that
the poplar tree in front of the State-House be cut
down. This tree stood about thirty feet south of
the large elm that still stands [it has since blown

^The accompanying photo-gi-avature of Joseph Hale was taken
from a tinted pastile portrait which had come down to the compiler
from his grandmother Matilda Streets, the sister of Joseph Hale.
The original has been presented to the Court of Chancery and
(^>rphans' Couit at Dover, the clerk of whicli Joseph Kale was the
first incumbent under the state organization.

JOSEPH HALE

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 17

down] in front of the State-House. The elm tree
was planted, March 1, 1801, by Joseph Hale, who
was at the time prothonotary of Kent County "
(p. 1051).

He died intestate, and Robert Jamison admin-
istered his estate, under surety of Thomas Jamison,
for four thousand pounds, given 28 June, 1811, the
next of kin having renounced their right to admin-
ister, 25 June, 1811 (0-1-242).

He died possessed of two tracts of land in Murder-
kill hundred containing 675 acres, which were con-
veyed, 27 May, 1812, to Dr. Robert Jamison, for
$1746.75 (N-2-139).

Other real estate transactions in Dover and
Murderkill hundreds stand recorded in his name in
the deed-books.

(4) Mary Hale f Thomas), born ; died prior

to 28 June, 1811 (the date of the letters granted to
administer the estate of Joseph Hale, at which time
she was dead) ; married Robert Jamison.

Dr. Robert Jamison became a member of the
Delaw^are State Medical Society in 1790. He died
intestate, and Thomas Jamison was appointed ad-
ministrator of his estate, 28 March, 1821 (P~l-235),
and (the administrator not administering) John
Woodall, 2 October, 1832 (Q-1-213). His estate,
consisting of lands in Little Creek hundred, con-
2

J 8 THP: descendants of THOMAS HALE.

4^ining, in 1816, 280 acres, is put down in Scharf s
'' History of Delaware," as one of the large landed
estates of that hundred. He was also possessed of
much land in Duck Creek and Murderkill hun-
dreds. On 29 December, 1800, he emancipated
George Hull, a negro slave (H-2-80).

He probably received his medical degree abroad,
as his name is not amongst the matriculants of the
University of Pennsylvania. He is called Dr.
Robert Jamison by Andrew Jamison, his father, in
a deed of gift of 7 August, 1786.

CHILDREN OF MARY HALE AND ROBERT JAMISON :

(8) I. Thomas Jamison, born ; died ;

married, (1), Rebecca B. Green, (2),

THE JAMISON FAMILY.

There was a "Rev. Robert Jamison, who preached
near Smyrna, apparently, from 1734 until his death
in 1744. . . . The deed for the ground on w^hich
the Presbyterian church now stands, and on w^hich
a church then stood, dated May 12, 1743, was given
to ' Robert Jamison, minister [et al.] , of the Pres-
byterian congregation in and about Dover.' "
(Scharf 's '' History of Delaware.")

The Rev. Robert Jamison came from Ireland.

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 19

He settled in Delaware, and was a member of the
synod in 1734. There is no apparent connection
between him and the family under consideration.
He was married, but, it would seem, left no issue,
as he devised all his property to father, sister and
nephews (1-1-65 and 66).

Our branch of the Jamison family came to Dela-
ware from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Unlike
the Hale family, with whom they contracted mar-
riage relations, they were land-owners, and left a
clue by means of which they can be traced. Genett
Jamesion and Andrew Jamesion, of Kent county,
Maryland, 4 September, 1756, purchased of Hovrell
Buckingham and Mercy [daughter of Thomas
Green], his wife, 275 acres of land in Duck Creek
hundred, Delaware, a part of a tract called '' Fox-
hall," and adjoining the lands of John Rees and
Owen David, on Gravelly Run. The purchase
money was two hundred pounds (0-1-352).
Andrew Jamesion of this deed was a son of Jennett
Jemisson,** of Duck Creek hundred, as is attested by
her will, executed 28 August, 1759, and probated
9 January, 1761. He is appointed executor of her
estate, and to him is left all her real and personal
property, except the following legacies : To sons
Joseph and Joshua Jemisson, each 25 pounds ; to
son Thomas, 30 pounds ; to Rebecca Hull, daughter,

•It will be noticed that the spelling of the name varies.

20 THE DESCENDAI^TS OF THOMAS HALE.

a striped cotton gown ; to son Alexander Jemisson,
one cow ; to Jennett Jemisson, daughter of Alex-
ander Jemisson, 10 pounds ; to Ann Hutson, one
striped Linsey gown and quilt (K-1-252).

Andrew Jamison, called variously in deeds,
"farmer," "yeoman," "gentleman," was possessed
of much land in Duck Creek hundred. 13 May,
1775, he signed articles of association of a military
company of Duck Creek Cross Roads, under the
command of Captain Charles Pope.^ The company
was organized " for the purpose of acquiring a
know^ledge of military tactics and to assist in the
defence of the country and the preservation of its
rights." (" Delaware Gazette," 3 January, 1826.)

His first wife's name was Mary, as is attested in
a deed of date of 10 August, 1773, where it is re-
cited that Andrew Jamison, farmer, of Duck Creek
hundred, and Mary, his wife, conveyed land (V-1-
118). Her family name does not appear in these
records.

His second wife was Jane. It is recorded in a
deed dated 6 September, 1787, that " Andrew Jami-
son and Jane, his wife," conveyed land (Z-1-151).
In a deed of the following day (7 September, 1787)
the land was conveyed back to Andrew^ Jamison,
and the deed relates that it was a part of the real

^ For an account of Captain Charles Pope see "The Griffin
Family," revised edition.

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 21

estate of Henry Farson, allotted to his daughter,
late Jane Spruance (now the wife of Andrew Jami-
son) (Z-1-153). The land was located in Duck
Creek Neck. Jane Farson was the daughter of
Henry Farson and Mary Hales. She was born 14th
10th month, 1755. Her first husband was John
Spruance, son of Jonn Spruance and Mary Barratt
(widow Worrell).

On 7 August, 1786, Andrew Jamison, -'gentle-
man," of Duck Creek hundred, conveyed land to
Dr. Robert Jamison, of Dover, for five shillings,
love and affection. On the same date, and for the
same consideration, he conveyed land to two other
sons, namely, George Little and Thomas, both of
Duck Creek hundred (Y-1-258 and 259). He con-
veyed land to the amount of more than 1200 acres
to these three sons.

Letters of administration were granted on the
estate of Andrew Jamison, 2 November, 1789, to
Robert Jamison, son, with Henry Farson as surety
(M-1-207). On 25 May, 1790, John Farson was
appointed guardian for Ann Jamison, daughter of
Andrew Jamison, deceased (D-1-266). And on 23
November, 1790, Thomas and George Little Jam-
ison were placed under the guardianship of their
brother, Robert Jamison (D-1-292). At that time
the age of Thomas was more than 14 years, and the
years of George Little and Ann were minus that
age ; as the first-named chose his guardian, while

22 THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

the last two had guardians Hppointed by the Court.
This is the law in the state of Delaware.

According to the records, therefore, the children
of Andrew Jamison, of Kent county, Delaware
(formerly of the county of the same name in Mary-
land), were Robert, Thomas, George Little and
Ann, enumerated in the order of their birth.
Without any doubt, the sons w'ere children by the
first wife, and Ann, the daughter of Jane Farson
(widow^ Spruance). That the boys were children of
the full-blood there is proof in the division, 20
August, 1808, of the land conveyed by Andrew
Jamison to his sons Thomas and George Little.
The latter died in his minority, and his moiety of
the land was divided betw^een Robert and Thomas
Jamison, as his only surviving heirs (L-2-51).
Ann Jamison unquestionably was the child of Jane
Farson, the second wife. She was placed under the
guardianship of that wife's brother, John Farson,
who in October, 1795, it is stated, was the sole sur-
viving executor of his father's (Henry Farson's)
estate.

Thomas Jamison, the surviving brother of Robert,
left a will, dated 28 April, 1812, and probated 18
June, 1812 (0-1-265). He died without issue,
and probably unmarried. He devised his property
to his nephew Thomas, son of his brother Robert,
and to his niece Mary Jones, and to his nephew
David Jones, children of hi'^ sister Ann Jones.

THE DESCENDANTS OE THOMAS HALE. 28

According to information obtained from the
Jones family, Ann Jamison was born 10 June,
1779, died 7 April, 1845, and married, 3 Septem-
ber, 1801, Abel Jones, son of Enoch Jones and
Lydia Howell (daughter of Morris Howell ^ and
Eleanor Rees).

The children of Abel Jones and Ann Jamison
were as follows :

1. Mary Jones, born 13 October, 1802; married

John Ringgold Rees. (See the Rces Gene-
alogy).

2. Enoch Jones, born 31 October, 1804; died 8

October, 1805.

3. David Jones, born 3 February, 1807; died 28

Februaiy, 1845 ; married, 7 Februaiy, 1837,
Mary Wells. (See the Griffin Genealogy.)

4. Abel Jones, born 13 March, 1809; died 26

February, 1811.

5. Thomas Jones, born 23 February, 1811 ; died

9 March, 1811.

6. James Howell Jones, born 7 Decen^ber, 1813 ;

died 29 July, 1864.

7. Lydia Jones, born 26 October, 1816; died 18

September, 1817.

8. Abel Jones, born 11 September, 1819; died 30

September, 1820.

^For further information of these families sec the (iriffin Gene-
alogy, pages 33, 41 and 44.

24 rilK DESCEND A N'lS OF THOMAS HALE.

9. Alexander Jones, born 25 December, 1821 ;
died 18 January, 1855 ; married, 2 April,
1846, Hannah Mary McCrone.
10. Ann Jane Jones, born 15 April, 1826 ; married,
16 December, 1852, John Chapman, of
Spring Garden St., Philadelphia.

Information relating to the other children of
Janett Jamison is fragmentary and uncertain. All
that which follows here was obtained from legal
papers, and most of it, undoubtedly, pertains to this
family, although there is no direct evidence that
such is the case.

Joseph Jamison. The estate of Joseph Jemerson
was administered by Robert Jemerson, 2 Septem-
ber, 1805, with Joseph Hale as surety (0-1-116).

Joshua Jamison, saddler, of Smyrna, purchased
a lot near that town, 25 July, 1769 (S-1-364).

Thomas Jamison, farmer, and Catherine, his
wife, sold, 16 February, 1775, a lot in Duck Creek
Cross Roads (V-1-264). Thomas Jamison, yeo-
man, bought of Joshua Jamison, saddler, 25 Janu-
ary, 1773, a lot near Smyrna (V-1-69).

Alexander Jamison, farmer, 10 August, 1773
(V-1-118). Mary, widow, and Alexander, Jr., ad-
ministered his estate, 25 January, 1786 (M-1-194).

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 25

Mary Jamison sold, 13 May, 1796, all her dower
rights in the estate (E-2-235).

CHILDREN OF ALEXANDER JAMISON :

1. Janett ; mentioned in the grandmother's will

(K-1-252).

2. Mary ; married William Edenfield. She con-

veyed land — part of the estate of her father,
Alexander Jamison, to Joshua Jamison, 25
October, 1787 (Z-1-168).

3. Joshua; sold land, 29 July, 1796, and 13 May,

1796, to Robert Jamison (E-2-198 and 235).

4. Alexander ; died prior to 13 May, 1796 (E-2-235

and 198). No issue.

(5) William Hale (Thomas), born ; died

in 1821 ; married .

According to a family tradition, William Hale
was a sailor in the United States Navy, and was
serving on the U. S. S. Philadelphia, under Captain
Bainbridge, in 1803, w^hen that vessel ran aground
in the harbor of Tripoli, and, while in that state,
was captured by the Tripolitans. Although this
tradition has not been verified, nor can it be, as the
muster-rolls of the vessel for the period covered by
the war with Tripoli are not in existence, having
been destroyed when the British burned Washing-
ton, there is little doubt of its truth.

26 THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

Oral tradition has preserved two incidents of this
period of his life. It is related, that while a pris-
oner of war in Tripoli — or wherever it was he was
confined — he was forced to work on some fortifica-
tions that were in course of construction, and that
one day when the Dey was inspecting the works,
our sailor approached the ruler and asked for
tobacco. We are not informed whether or not his
request was granted.

On another occasion the vessel — whether the
"Philadelphia" or another, it does not say — on
which he was serving, was at anchor in the Dela-
ware river, and was visited by some friends, who
would have used their influence — indeed, did offer
to use it — to obtain for him an oflBcer's commission,
had he allowed it. He declined their proffer of
assistance in language whose meaning was as fol-
lows (only the words used were much more em-
phatic) : '' That he would not live aft."

The name of William Hale appears as the head
of a family at Duck Creek Cross Roads in the census
of 1800. This famil}^ consisted of six persons,
among whom were a boy and a girl under ten
years of age. These may have been the children —
before alluded to — who were with Thomas Hale, in
the census of 1810, and who were then between the
ages of ten and sixteen years. Besides these, the
family comprised one male and one female between
sixteen and twenty-six, one male between twenty-

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 27

six and forty-five, and one female of forty-five and
upward. These figures should not be taken as the
ages of the persons enumerated ; they are the
numerals placed at the head of the columns, and
mean that those tallied therein were between those
ages. In this manner were the early censuses in
this country taken.

As the first census of Delaware — that of 1790 —
was destroyed at Washington (as before noted), it
cannot be determined whether or not William Hale
was a resident of that state, as head of a family,
prior to 1800.

In the census of Maryland for 1790, there was a
William Hale in Kent county — the only person of
the name of Hale enumerated in the county. He
is placed in the column of " Free white males of 16
years and upward, including the head of the family."
The other columns running to the right of his name
are blank, except the last (that for slaves), where is
the numeral 17 ; which would mean that he was
living alone with that number of slaves.

There is no direct evidence that William Hale
was the father of Colin F. Hale. It is only by the
method of exclusion that this conclusion is arrived
at. As Joseph Hale died without issue, and ay
Samuel Hale emigrated to Ohio, there was none
other of this family from whom he could have
taken the name.

Letters of administration on the estate of William

28 THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

Hale were granted, 26 March, 1821, to Colin F.
Hale, who gave bond, with Presley Spruance, Jr.,
in the sum of $150. This would indicate that he
was not possessed at his death with much worldly
goods, as might be expected of a sailor.

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM HALE AND

(9) I. Colin Ferguson Hale, born in 1798 ; died in
1865 ; married Mary Baynard.

(6) Samuel Hale (Thomas), born ; died

— : married Elizabeth .

The following power of attorney, dated 6 April,
1821, is evidence that Samuel Hale and his wife
emigrated to Ohio : " We, Samuel Hale and Eliza-
beth, his wife, of the county of Adams, and state of
Ohio, do nominate and appoint William Hale, of
Kent county, Delaware, our lawful attorney to de-
mand, sue and administer the estate of Joseph Hale,
deceased" (Deed Book N-2-136).

I have been unable to trace this family beyond
this point. Inasmuch as no information is to be
obtained of him from the probate records of Adams
county, the belief is strengthened that Samuel Hale
removed to another locality. The following is
given as a bit of presumptive evidence that such
was the case :

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 29

On the 5th of January, 1866, the will of Allen
Hale, of Abingdon, Knox county, Illinois, was ad-
mitted to probate in the office of the Register of
Wills, at Dover, Delaware. In this will he be-
queathed to his wife, Miriam Hale, property in
Kent county, Delaware, and elsewhere. As one of
the witnesses to the document is appended the
name of Maximillian Jamison.

Considering the intimate relation that existed
between the families of Hale and Jamison in Dela-
ware, and that a branch from both families emi-
grated to states in the Middle West, the thought
suggests itself to me that Allen Hale, of Abingdon,
Knox county, Illinois, may have been descended
from Samuel Hale of Delaware and Ohio.

(7) Matilda Hale (Thomas), born 17 June,
1785 ; died 25 August, 1860 ; married, 10 October,

1811, Jacob Streets, born , died 10 May,

1829, son of Jacob Streets and Elizabeth Harman.

The descendants of Matilda Hale and Jacob
Streets are given in the genealogy of the Streets
family, which follows this of Thomas Hale.

THIRD GENERATION.
(8) Thomas Jamison (Mary, Thomas), born

died ; married, (1), Rebecca Barns Green,

born , died 14 November, 1839, daughter of

Sewell Green and Ann Massey ; (2), .

Thomas Jamison, like his father Robert Jamison,
was a doctor of medicine. He moved to Indiana,
and there engaged in farming. It seems that he
first went to Franklin county, as his first wife, Re-
becca B. Jamison, died at Blooming Grove, in that
county, in 1839. He probably left Delaware some-
time between 1828 and 1832. He was in Duck
Creek hundred, 31 July, 1828, as appears from a
notice printed in the " Delaware Advertiser " of
that date. On 2 October, 1832, John Woodall was
appointed in his stead to administer the estate of
his father, Robert Jamison, which had remained
without a settlement since 1821 (Q-1-213). From
Franklin county he removed to near Richmond,
Wayne county, in the same state.

Elizabeth S. Rees, writing to her son Willard H.
Rees, under date of 28 May, 1848, states that :
*' Dr. Jamison resides in Indiana, and has several
children by his second wife." At a later date — 22
January, 1870 — she further writes, that the only

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 81

members of the family then living were Adeline,
Mary, Sewell R., and Thomas ; that the husbands
of the daughters were in the milling business ; that
Sewell was editing a paper ; and that Thomas was
a mechanic. 9

Dr. Cuthbert Sewell Green, of Middletown, Dela-
ware, in his will, executed 9 July, 1843, left legacies
to his nieces, Anna Maria, Adeline and Mary Jami-
son, daughters of his deceased sister, Rebecca B.
Jamison. What children there were by the second
marriage of Thomas Jamison the compiler has no
knowledge, except the statement given above that
there were "several." No will has been found in
either Franklin or Wayne county.

CHILDREN OF THOMAS JAMISON AND REBECCA B.

GREEN (order of birth unknown) :

(10) I. Anna Maria Jamison, born ; died

; married Danner.

(11) 11. Adeline Jamison, born ; died ;

married Marsh.

(12) III. Mary Jamison, born ; died ;

married Hampton Hall.

'This branch of the Rees family was related to the Jamisons
through the marriage of John Eees with Ann Green, the sister of
Sewell Green. John Rees was the father of Thomas Rees, the hus-
band of Elizabeth S. Rees. They lived in one of the western border
counties of Ohio. For further particulai-s see the Rees Genealogy.

32 THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

(13) IV. Sewell Robert Jamison, born ; died

; married Phoebe .

(14) V. Thomas Jamison, born ; died .

THE GREEN FAMILY.

The Green family of Appoquinimink hundred,
New Castle county, Delaware, to which Rebecca B.
Green belonged, and with which another marriage
alliance is given in this series of genealogies,
namely, that of John Rees with Ann Green (see
Rees Genealogy), came from Maryland, and was,
without much doubt, descended from Thomas
Green, the first proprietary governor of Maryland.

Thomas Green came from England with Leonard
Calvert, who, at his death, named him governor to
succeed him. Calvert, in his will, executed 14
June, 1644, mentions his godson, Leonard Green,
and leaves him some personalty. Thomas Green
was a testator to the will. The latter was governor
of the province in 1647, 1648 and 1649. He mar-
ried, according to the encyclopedias, *' several
times," and left four sons, namely, Thomas, Leon-
ard, Robert and Francis. Three of the sons —
Leonard, Francis and Robert — are on record as
having patented a large tract of land in Charles
county, which they called " Green's Inheritance."

The name of Sewell came into the family through

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 33

a marriage of a Leonard Green ^lot the godson of
Leonard Calvert ; who had but one son, and his
name was Thomas) with Mary Sewell, a sister of
Cuthhert Sewell, of St. Mary's county, who, in his
will of 31 January, 1723/4, probated 7 March,
1723/4, bequeathed his entire property, with the
exception of some minor legacies, to his sister Mary
Green, wife of Leonard Green, and the latter is
named the sole executor of the will. Cuthhert
Sewell was apparently a widower, without children ;
he left personalty to his father-in-law, Adam Head.
Leonard Green, of Charles county (probably the
son of Francis, who had a son Leonard), died in
1733, and left sons, Leonard, Cuthhert, John and
Francis. Leonard Green, Jr., of Charles county
(son of him who died in 1733), died in 1755, and
mentions in his will sons Leonard and Robert,
daughters, Martha and Mary Ann Sewell Green,
and brothers, Cuthhert, Robert and Francis.

Further down than this the name has not been
followed, but enough is given to show how the
name of Cuthhert Sewell came to be incorporated
into this Green family. Whatever may have been
the line of descent, no better evidence is wanted to
prove that the Delaware Greens, of Appoquinimink
hundred, are come down from Governor Thomas
Green, than the persistence with which the name
of Cuthhert Sewell has appeared for so long a time.
Ann Grppn. sistpr of SpwpII C^rt^oi-> T>-..-.r.^i/^/i T^i^,-
/It cias been loarned from land r«-
ccTctsthat Cuthb«iTt Irr^en^of Charles
county, Maryland, son or Leonard j-reon,
of the same, was of .^ent county, Del-
aware, in 1752.

34 THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

Rees, of Little Creek hundred, Kent county, Dela-
ware. It is through this alliance that blood-rela-
tionship exists between the Jamison and Rees
families, already referred to.

Sewell Green, of Appoquinimink hundred, mar-
ried Ann Massey, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca
Massey, of Kent county, Md. Ann Massey died 11
January, 1830.

The petition of Thomas Jamison and Rebecca
Barns Jamison, praying for a division of the estate
of Sew^ell Green, in Appoquinimink hundred, con-
taining 350 acres, — situated north of Murphy's Mill
Pond, and extending to the Papaw Branch, and
from the Cypress Road to the Fulling Mill Road, —
recites : That he left to survive him three children,
who, in point of seniority, were Ann Green (born
15 October, 1789, and died 23 April, 1866), Re-
becca B. Jamison and Cuthbert Sewell Green (com-
monly known as Sewell Green) (N-1-396 and 0-1-
471 ; dated 22 February, 1830, and 4 May, 1833).

"The Delaware Gazette and Eastern Shore Ad-
vertiser," for 26 July, 1794, contains the roster of
the militia of the state of Delaware. Sewell Green's
name appears therein as captain of the 2d com-
pany of the 3d regiment. He was born in 1759
and died 14 February, 1827. The following obitu-
ary notice of him appeared in the "American
Watchman and Delaware Advertiser," of Wilming-
ton, Del., 23 February, 1827:

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. :i5

" At his residence, near Smyrna, on the 14th in-
stant, Sewell Green, Esq., in the 68th year of his
age. It may be truly said of the deceased, that he
lived respected and died lamented by all who knew
him. Exclusive of his attention as a husband, his
indulgence as a father, his kindness as a master,
and his accommodating disposition as a neighbor,
he possessed that lively sense of honor, liberality of
sentiment, warmth of heart, frankness and mildness
of deportment, which characterise a good man."

Cuthbert Sewell Green, son of the above-named
Sewell Green, was graduated from the Medical De-
partment of the University of Pennsylvania in
1824. He married, 2 March, 1837, at St. Ann's
church, Middletown, Natalie Boden (called of
Middletown, born in 1819 and died 5 February,
1854). He died in 1843. His will, dated 6 July,
1843, and probated 8 November, of the same year,
mentions his dwelling farm, called " Ingleside " in
St. Georges hundred. New Castle county ; farms,
called " London Plantation " and " Clifton " in
Maryland ; and a tract of 800 acres in Middle Neck
(between Great and Little Bohemia creeks, branches
of Bohemia river). He directs in his will that the
house which Eldad Lore '" built on his Maryland

^•The name of Eldad Lore brings to our notice the name of
another Green family of this part of Delaware. John Fiske
(Edmund Fiske Green, whose name was changed to that of his ma-
ternal grandparent), the historian, bom 30 March, 1842, died 4

3G THJ'J DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

land be bought, and that the graves of his parents

July, 1901. was the son of Edmund Brewster Green and his wife
Mary Fiske Bound. PMmund Brewster Green, bom 3 Januaiy,
1815, at Smyrna, Delaware, and died 11 July, 1852, of the yellow
fever, at Panama, where he was employed as an engineer in con-
structing the trans-isthmian railroad, was the son of Humphreys
Green, of Philadelphia, a Quaker, who married Jane Lore, sister of
Eldad and Auley Lore. Humphreys Green died about 1857, aged
about 100 years, Eldad Lore, born in 1787 and died in 1859, was
the father of Charles B. Lore, late Chief Justice of Delaware, born
in West Jersey, 16 May, 1831 (American Ancestry, vol. 3, p. 219).

It is well to supplement the above statement with another from a
correspondent, writing to the genealogical depaitment of the New
York ''Mail and Express," over the initials -'L. B. C." (No. 4,
713), who says, that Humphreys Green was bora in West New
Jersey in 1770, and was believed to be of Quaker extraction; that
he married, first, in 1795, Ann Busby, and, secondly, about 1807,
Hannah Heaton; that he removed to Smyrna. Delaware, where
Edmund Brewster Green was born; and, finally, that he lived to be
90 years old, and died in Philadelphia in 1860.

John Fiske' s eminence as a man of letters makes it desirable that
more should be known about his ancestoi-s than is given in the above
account. I am able to add a mite to the meagre stock of knowledge
of Humphrey Green ; and will give a short account of the Green
family of Smyrna, from which he may have descended.

An examination of the probate records at Philadelphia discloses
that Humphrey Green died there intestate, and that his estate was
administered by George Weaver, one of his creditors, to whom let-
ters were granted 4 January, 1850. No distribution was made
among heirs, as the estate was not suflficient to pay his debts, the
assets consisting of one-quarter share of a schooner, charts, chro-
nometers, et cetera, the property evidently of a sea-faring man.

The Green family of Smyrna is descended from William and
Mercy Green, The former, in 1680, patented a tract of 1000 acres
of land called ' ' Gravesend ' ' at the intei-section of Green' s Branch
Avith r>uck Creek, on the southwest. William Green died prior to

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 37

in Maryland be enclosed, and a marble tablet be
placed over them with a suitable inscription upon

the 13th 3rd month, 1713. His sons were George, John and
Thomas. There has been no effort made to run down the descend-
ants of any of these sons except the line of Thomas, the last named,
and the reason for following this one will be apparent. Thomas
Green died in 1766, and left sons, Charles, Thomas, James, John
and William, besides daughters.

This family is closely associated with the beginnings of Smyrna,
inasmuch as they owned all the land on which the town was built.
In the division of the estate of Thomas, the son of William, the
patentee, that part on which Smynia was built fell to James, who
soon began to sell land to settlers. On 16 October, 1765, Charles
Green sold land (a part of " Gravesend " ) , at which time he was of
Penn' s Xeck, Salem county. West Xew Jersey. He married there
(and in the marriage license is called of Kent county, Delaware),
9 April, 1764, Sarah Sheer. C harles Green, of Penn's Xeck, Salem
county, New Jersey, died intestate in 1772 (an inventoiy of his
property was made 20 May, 1773; Sarah, widow, administered).
Will of Sarah Green, of Penn's Xeck, Salem county, was executed
24 June, 1775. She mentions two children only, a son George and
a daughter Margaret.

Here is evidence that one branch of the Green family of Smyrna
removed to West New Jersey, where Humphrey Green was burn,
and that he was not of it. It seems not improbable, however,
that he may have descended from some of the other lines, as they
were numerous. His name is written both Humphrey and Hum-
phreys.

The Lores, who, according to one account, intermarried with
Humphrey Green, are also a family associated with both Delawnre
and West Jersey. No connection, however, has been discovered
between the Lores and the Green family of Smyi-na and this of Ap-
poquinimink hundred, New Castle county — which has been under
consideration— except the brief allusion to Eldad Lore in the will of
Dr. Cuthbert Sewell Green.

38 THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

it, to be furnished by Mr. Tyng, of Middletown.
He names wife, children, nieces (already referred
to), and sister Ann Green (V- 1-2 19).

Natalie Green, widow, names in her will sons,
Sewell, Victor and William ; aunt Elizabeth Cusby ;
brother Joseph Boden, of Philadelphia ; and friend
Ann Green (V-1-512).

CHILDREN OF CUTHBERT SEWELL GREEN AND
NATALIE BODEN :

1. Randolpha Green, born — January, 1838; died

4 August, 1838.

2. Sewell Green, born in 1839 ; died in 1890.

3. Victor Green, born 11 August, 1840; died 3

April, 1873 ; married Letitia Lofland Ross,
daughter of William H. Ross, governor of
Delaware, 1851 to 1855.

4. William Green, born 11 September, 1842; died

13 January, 1881.

(9) Colin Ferguson Hale (William, Thomas),
born in 1798; died in 1865; married Mary
Baynard, daughter of Nathan Baynard and Eliza-
beth Scott, both of Kent county, Maryland.

Colin Ferguson Hale was without doubt named
for the eminent divine of Kent county, Maryland.

THE UEkCEyDAy'LS OF THOMAS HALE. 39

What lelaiioiiship, if any, existed between tlie fam-
ilies, I am unable to say."

Colin F. Hale was treasurer of the town ut\Snjyrna
in 1827 and 1828. In those years he had deeded
to him two tracts of land in Duck Creek hundred
(Deed-books A-3-49 and B-3-148-9).

Sometime after the year 1828 he removed to the
Eastern Shore of Maryland ; for it is recorded in the
deed-books at Dover, that Colin F. Hale and Mary,
his wife, of Kent county, MaryUuid, conveyed land

'' Colin Ferguson, doctor of divinity; a native of Kent county
[Md.]; brought up in the Presbyterian faith; ordained in 1785, by
Bishop Seabury, of Connecticut; became rector of St. Paul's, Kent,
which place he resigned in 1799. He was President of Washington
college, CharlestoAvn [Kent county, Md.]. from 1789 to 1805. He
died in 1806, aged 55 years. ("Clergy in Maryland.")

He was a Scotchman, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh;
one of the most learned divines and distinguished educators in the
country. He was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy
from 1790 to 1798, with a salary of 300 pounds. ( L. Wethered
Barroll, in " Maryland Magazine," June, 1911.)

Johnston, in his ''History of Cecil County," lias this to say of
him: "North Elk vestiy employed one Collin Ferguson as lay
reader" (1780). Twelve years later (1792) he claimed salary as
lay reader for the years 1780 and 1781.

The following probably refer to a son of the above: "Washing-
ton College, Chester Town, Maryland, 26 July. 1819." "Colin
P^erguson, Sec'y." (From an advertisement in *■ American Watch-
man," Wilmington, 31 July, 1819.)

'" Colin Ferguson to Rebecca Hyland, 3 June, 1800." (Marriage
Licenses at Chest ertown, Kent county, Md. )

"At his residence on Sassafras river, 11 July, 1849, Colin Fer-
guson, aged about 68 years." (Newspaper. )

40 THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

ill Duck Creek hundred, 4 September, 1835, and 17
August, 1838 (N-3-156 and 0-3-21).

The land records at Chestertovvn show that Colin
F. Hale bought lands in Kent county, Maryland,
in 1828 and 1832, and made two deeds conveying
lands in 1835.

The following advertisement from " The Dela-
ware State Journal," of 9 January, 1838, show^s
where on the Eastern Shore he lived at that period
of his life :

" The Subscriber offers for sale a valuable Farm,
situate about tw^o miles from Millington, Kent
County, Maryland. It contains one hundred and
fifty-two acres of land : the improvements are a good
two story frame dwelling house and kitchen, a
smoke house, corn crib, and a good brick stable.
There are also on the premises a fine young apple
and peach orchard, and a quantity of excellent
meadow land."

'' Inquire of Colin F. Hale."

*' Near Rockhall, Kent Co., Md.

January 3, 1835."

Rock Hall is situated on Chesapeake bay, south-
west of Chestertown. Colin F. Hale lived midway
between Rock Hall and Chestertown, at a place
now called Rees's Corner, and then known as Hale's
Corner. Millington is about the same distance
northeast of the same place. He was living on the

THE DESC^'DANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 41

Eastern shore as late as 1841 ; for in that year he
subscribed $5.00 to the pay of the rector of St.
Paul's church, Chestertown.'^

From the Eastern Shore he went to Baltimore to
live ; and there he engaged in the shipping busi-
ness, owning vessels — small grain schooners — sail-
ing out of Baltin)ore, and employed in the bay
trade. His name first appears in the Baltimore
Directory of 1845, as '-Hale, C. F. b [carding]
h[ouse], 43 N. Gay st." In 1849 his name appears
as "Hale, C. H., commission mt, 3 Bowley's whf. dw.
15 Hanover st." Sometime after this year (1849)
his name disappears from the Baltimore directories.
It is said that he removed to Charleston, South
Carolina, about the year 1855 ; and he died there
at the close of the Civil War. and is buried in the
cemetery at Mt. Pleasant, Charleston county, in
that state. He was a commission merchant and
dealt in rice.

CHILDREN OF COLIN F. HALE AND MARY BAYXARD :

(15) I. Mary Hale, born ; died young.

(16) II. Colin Hale, born ; died young.

(17) III. Thomas Baynard Hale, born 29 Decem-

ber, 1828, in Smyrna, Delaware ; died
; unmarried.

^* * ' A souvenir history of the Parish of St. Paul, Kent Countr,
Maryland." 1893. By Rev. Christ. T. Denroche.

42 THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

(18) IV. Elizabeth Scott Hale, born ; died in

1868 ; married William Henry Rich, a
Confederate soldier. He was killed
during the war.

(19) V. William Maulden Hale, born in 1833;

died in 1889 ; married .

FOURTH GENERATION.

(13j Sewell Robert Jamison (Thomas, Mary,

Thomas), born ; died ; niariied Phoebe

, born hi 1836, died 21 Apri], 1853.

There is a sampler in existence on which Sarah
Ann Streets, in 1823, worked the initials of the
Jamison family. They are T. J., R. J., A. M. J.,
and R. S. J., and they were supposed to stand for
Thomas Jamison, Robert Jamison, Anna Maria
Jamison, Adeline Jamison, and Robert Sewell
Jamison. The fact, however, that the last-named
is always referred to as Sewell R., leads one to infer
that he may have changed his name from Robert
Sewell to Sewell Robert.

In the '' Richmond Palladium," of 29 April,
1853, appears this obituary notice: "In this city,
on Thursday, 21st instant, after a brief illness, Mrs.
Phoebe Jamison, wife of Mr. S. R. Jamison, aged
about 18 years."

The following is from the "Newspaper History of
Wayne County, Indiana," by a student of Earlham
College, in 1909 : " In the Fall of 1854, Calvin R.
Johnson and Sewell R. Jamison, journeymen
printers on the ' Palladium,' started a paper with
the unique name, ' Broad Axe of Freedom and

44 THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

Grubbing Hoe of Truth.' It was an independent
paper for six months and then became partisan and
advocated the election of Fremont. In 1856, the
last part of the lengthy name was dropped, making
it simply the ' Broad Axe of Freedom.' The firm
had in the meantime changed to Jamison and
Barbank. These men retired in 1857." The news-
paper continued to be published, under its last
name, until 1864 (Young's History of Wayne
County, Indiana).

Sewell R. Jamison next appears in Falls City,
Nebraska. To quote from J. Stirling Morton's
" History of Nebraska " : " ' The Broad Axe of
Falls City,' owned by Maj. J. Edward Burbank,
and edited by Sewell R. Jamison, made its first ap-
pearance in November, 1858. This was the suc-
cessor to a paper of the same name which had been
published at Richmond, Indiana, three years be-
fore, by the same men. Its motto was ' Hew to the
line, let the chips fall where they will ' ; ' There is
a divinity which shapes our ends, rough hew them
as we will.' Jamison was succeeded in November,
1860, by J. D. Irwin, of Ohio, and in the summer
of 1861, Mr. Burbank retired."

This is all that is known to the writer — and all
that he has been able to discover after an unavail-
ing effort to learn more — of Sewell R. Jamison. It
was thought that at one time he was an Indian
agent in Nebraska ; an impression that he was ex-

IHE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 45

isted amongst his relatives in Delaware. But no
record of his ap{)ointment was found at the Indian
Bureau at Washington. Clarence S. Paine, secre-
tary of the Nebraska State Historical Society, and
managing editor of Morton's History of Nebraska,
writes me that he has no record of Jamison ever
having served as an Indian agent. "The fact," he
says, "that Burbank was agent at the Great
Namaha agency, and that Jamison was associated
with him, leads me to believe that he may have
held some position under him as agent."

The Jamison family seems to have been swallowed
up in the great West, that has engulfed so many
families, and from w^hich, like the grave, there is
no return.

(19) William Maulden '3 Hale (Colin Fergu-
son, William, Thomas), born in 1833 ; died 15
March, 1889 ; married C. A. .

''I follow the custom of the family in spelling the name with an
«, instead of an i. This name probably came into the family through
a marriage. The name of an " uncle ' ' John Mauldin clings to the
memory of some of them. Thomas B. Hale remembei-s visiting, in
1850, a "cousin" John Mauldin in Cecil county. An uncle of the
blood would have been a grand-uncle — as Colin F. Hale's wife was
a Baynard — and he would have come from the father's side — as
Mary Baynard' s mother was a Scott. This is my reason for believ-
ing that William Hale's wife may have been a Mauldin.

"Henry, the son of Captain Francis Mauldin, the emigrant,
migrated to South Carolina many yeai-s ago. His grandson, Benja-
min Fi-ancis Mauldin, was a member of the convention which passed

46 THE I)KS( ESDASrs OF THOMAS HALE.

At tlie outbreak of the Oivil War William M.
Hale formed a company of soldiers and was made
captain of it. After serving in this connection for
some time he was appointed a captain of marines
on the gunhoat Nashville. This vessel was chased
and overhauled by a Federal vessel of war off the
coast of Georgia, and to avoid being captured, was
run into the Ogeechee river, and there blown up
by exploding her powder magazine. She was too
small to risk an engagement with her adversary.^*

After this incident in his career, he engaged in
blockade-running between Charleston, Nassau and
Canada. On one occasion, when returning from
Nassau, he had arrived about 60 miles to the east-

the ordinance of secession in 1860." (George .Johnston's "History
of Cecil County, Maryland." )

"The Mauldins of Cecil county are descendants of Fi-ancis
Mauldin and Mary, his wife, who were natives of Wales and settled
in Elk Neck, in 1684, on a tract of land containing upwards of
fifteen hundred acres, which extended from the head of Chesapeake
Bay across the Neck to Elk Eiver, and included Mauldin' s Moun-
tain and the valley between it and Bull Mountain." [Ibid. )

Francis Mauldin was first of Calveit county, Maryland.

^*The Nashville [Rattlesnake] was aground in the Ogeechee river,
under the guns of Fort McAllister, when she was attacked, 27 Feb-
ruary, 1863, by the Montauk, Commander .John Worden, U. S.
Navy, commanding. Commander Worden reported that she was
set afire by a shell from the Montauk.

The officer commanding Fort McAllister says she was set on fire,
but "whether by her commander, or by the shell of the enemy, I
am unable to say. " ( " Official Records of the Union and Confeder-
ate Navies of the War of the Rebellion." Series 1, vol. 13. )

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 47

ward of his home port, and about 15 miles from
the coast, when>day overtook him, and after the
mist of the morning had lifted, he found his vessel
within the range of the guns of an enemy. He had
the alternative of surrendering or beaching. He
chose the latter, and drove his vessel through the
breakers and on to the beach, and there set fire to
her. In this venture he lost §30,000 in gold,
which was his share of the cargo of cotton which he
had successfully carried out to Nassau.

On another occasion his vessel was captured and
he was sent a prisoner of war to Philadelphia. In
a few days he managed to escape, and, dyeing his
beard for a disguise, he reached New York in
safety, and there took passage on a steamer bound
for Mexico, from which country he finally reached
his home port of Charleston.'^

'^Captain Steedman, U. S. Xavy, commanding the U. S. S. Pow-
hatan, reporting the capture of the " Major E. Wallis" [which was
the name of Captain Hale's vessel], off Charleston, in 1863, says:
*' On the night of the 19th instant [April], between the houi-s of 9
and 10 o'clock, while at anchor off this port, a schooner was dis-
covered inside of us, attempting to run out. I immediately fired a
gun, slipped my chain, and stood in chase. After firing a second
gun, she, finding it impossible to escape, hove to.

* * A boat was sent on board in charge of Acting Master E. L.
Haines, who took possession, and transferred the master and crew to
this vessel. The vessel is the schooner Major E. Wallis, of Charles-
ton, William M. Hale, master and half owner, bound to St. John,
New Brunswick, with a cargo of 163 bales of upland cotton."

He subsequently reported: ''Since writing my last communica-
tion information has come to my knowledge which leads me to be-

48 THE DKSVEyDANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

" The Sunday News," of Charleston, S. C, in its
issue of 7 February, 1897, printed a story of the
blockade-running, from " the nutes, scrap-books and
papers of Mnjor E. Wallis." Along with this is
given a partial lisi of the vessels engaged in block-
ade-running from the port of Charleston. In this
list appear the following : '' Schooner, Major E.
Wallis, William M. Hale, owner ; William M. Hale,
captain." "Schooner, Kent, William M. Hale,
owner; William M. Hale, captain."

William M. Hale is described as 5 feet and 10
inches in height, and as weighing about 190
pounds. He commanded one of his father's small
grain schooners sailing out of Baltimore, when he
was only 16 years old. He acquired his love for
the sea at this period of his life. He W'as accounted
a bold and skilful navigator.

The following account of his death is from " The
World," of Charleston, S. C, 16 March, 1889 :

"William M. Hale."

" Close of a Life Full of Usefulness and Vigor."

" As the shadow^s of twilight deepened yesterday

lieve that the crew of the prize schooner, Major E. Wallis, formerly
belonged to the rebel privateer, Nashville, and that her master,
W. Hale, has served as an officer of marines on board the said
vessel." ("Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies
of the War of the Rebellion," Series 1, volume 14, pages 147 and
148.)

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 49

evening a great soul took flight. It was that essence
which had animlated the personage of William M.
Hale, and in his life illustrated some of the noblest
traits of human character.

" Captain Hale had been ill a long time ; prob-
ably a year had elapsed since he had enjoyed good
health. But, through all his suffering, there came
not a murmur of complaint. His hope and his
faith were firmly fixed, and he had no fear of what
the future held for him. All doubt had long ago
disappeared, and he lived and died assured of a
place in that grand temple builded by the Supreme
Architect of all the universe, whose word was the
corner-stone of his faith and whose precepts were
the ashlars of his creed.

" Captain Hale was a Mary lander by birth, but
in early life became a South Carolinian. And
Carolina had no more devoted or daring son than
he, when bravery and patriotism were sorely
needed. About the year 1851 the Hale family
moved south. Ten years later William Hale
entered the Confederate States' service as captain of
a company of cavalry attached to Colonel Christo-
pher Gaillard's command, on ' coast duty.' Subse-
quently this company was disbanded, and Captain
Hale was assigned to the navy, as captain of marines
on board the Confederate ship Nashville, Captain
Baker. The ship was captured in the Ogeechee
river, Georgia, by the Federals, and blown up.
4

50 THE DPJSCEyjJANTS OF THOMAS HALE.

Then it was that Captain Hale entered upon the
most adventurous period of his life — he became a
blockade-runner, from Charleston and Georgetown
to Nassau. He w^as a seaman by nature, a navi-
gator by education, a leader of men by that mys-
terious force we call magnetism ; his spirit knew
not fear, and his daring under trying circumstances
amounted almost to recklessness. These w^ere quali-
ties eminently fitting for the dangerous work in
hand, and they brought him out of many emer-
gencies when one less bold w^ould have given up.

'^ Captain Hale made numerous trips to Nassau,
carrying out cotton and bringing back the neces-
saries of life, so scarce in the Confederate states.
Hairbreadth escapes and adventures, thrilling in
the extreme, were his experience in those days. His
trips were made in small schooners — pilot boats, to
speak correctly — and he invariably slipped through
the cordon of blockaders and got to sea. But on
one occasion the enemy spied him on the high seas
and gave chase. It was after a successful run to
Nassau, and the little schooner was trying to get
back w^th a load of sugar, coffee, and such other
articles as blockade-runners brought. All sail pos-
sible w^as made, but the ^ Yankee ' was surely the
winner if the race lasted much longer. Seeing
nothing but capture, confiscation and imprison-
ment at the end of the race. Captain Hale deter-
mined at once on his course of procedure. The

THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 51

schooner's head was turned directly toward the
beach (the race was off the Carolina coast), free
sheet was paid out, and under full headway the
vessel went on the sand. In an instant vessel and
cargo were in flames and the crew safely ensconced
in the woods.

" The term ' blockade runner ' has now-a-days
come to be associated with buccaneers ; but not so
in the case of this man. He was engaged in the
business for the good of his country, and the people
received the benefit of his successful adventures.

" After the war Captain Hale engaged in the
commission business in Charleston. His early edu-
cation in mercantile matters was obtained in post-
war days on Vendue Range, in association with
those old merchants and traders who made this
city's importance second to none in the South.
Graduating in such a school, he achieved a fair
measure of success in the venture. Subsequently
reverses came, but through no fault of his.

"Captain Hale then moved to Mount Pleasant,
• where he has since lived and practiced those virtues
which make him sincerely beloved by his friends.
He was sheriff of Berkeley county at the time of
his death, serving his second term. His public
spirit led him into politics among the first to answer
the call of Hampton in '76. For some years he
worked arduously for the success of the reform
movement, without reward ; but, finally, his work

52 THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE,

and services were recognized by the people in his
election to the shrievalty. And he made a just and
impartial ofticer.

" Kinder heart never beat in human bosom than
William Hale's. He was the friend of the oppressed
always, and never sent the needy away except with
lighter heart and heavier purse. His generosity
was proverbial, sinking all thought of self when
opportunity was presented to help friend or stranger.
His manner was rugged, honest and whole-souled ;
he had the courage of his convictions,, and never
hesitated to express them in vigorous language, ad-
mitting no doubt. The village of Mount Pleasant
and the county of Berkeley themselves will be a
monument to his memory. No man has done more
for them, individually and collectively.

'' Last night at 8 o'clock Captain Hale died, in
the 58th year of his age. He was surrounded by a
loving family, the principal figure of which was the
tender wife who had been his most conservative ad-
viser, faithful friend and efficient helpmate through
a married life that may be held up as an example*
to their sons.

" The funeral service will be held at the Presby-
terian church. Mount Pleasant, to-morrow morning
at 11 o'clock. Captain Hale was a member of
Etiwan Lodge, No. 95, A. F. M., which will accord
him Masonic honors.

'' The will of God is accomplished ; so mote it be.
Amen."

TEE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS HALE. 53

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM MAULDEN HALE AND

(20) I. William Maulden Hale, born — January,

1862 ; married . He is super-
intendent of the Tennessee Chemical
Company, of Nashville, Tennessee, and
of the Mariette Fertilizer Company, of
Atlanta, manufacturers and importers
of fertilizers.

He has one child, a daughter, Eliza-
beth Maulden Hale, born in 1892.

(21) II. Henry Rich Hale, born .

[No. 4]

THE

STREETS FAMILY

OF

DELAWARE.

THE STORY OF THE NAME

Street, a paved-way. "There went from Lymme
to Cantorbury a Streate, fayr paved, wherof it this
day yt is cawled Stoii}^ Streat." (Leland's " Itiner-
ary," 1536-42.) Street is, undoubtedly, a place-
name.

'•' Street is one of the very few words regarded as
received in England from the Roman invader "
(Century Dictionary). It is derived from strata,
w^hich, when associated with via — as in the phrase,
via strata — meant a paved-way. After its incorpor-
ation into the English language 'street' retained its
associated meaning, and is now used, alone, to
designate a paved-way.

*' There were at that time (fifth year after the Con-
quest) in England four great roads ... of which
two ran lengthways through the island, and two
crossed it . . . (namely), Watlinge-strete, Fosse,
Hikenilde-strete, and Erming-strete " (Guest's " Or-
igines Celticae "). Of these highways, the first-
named, which runs lengthways the island, from
Dover to Chester, is called to this day Watling
Street. The earliest use of the name, as a patro-
nymic, was, undoubtedly, from association with
one or other of these great paved ways.

The following are instances where Street is used

58 THE STREETS FAMILY.

as the name of a place in Great Britain, and, conse-
quently, may have been bestowed upon a person
living there :

There is a parish and a town — the latter of great
antiquity — in the county of Somerset, about one
mile and a half from Glastonbury ; a village on the
Devonshire coast, on the north side of Start bay,
about four miles from Dartmouth ; a village in
Herefordshire, two miles from Pembridge, and a
Street-Court in the same neighborhood. Sussex
has a hundred, a parish and a village of Street, the
last being five miles from Lewes. There is a hun-
dred and a manor of Street in the county Kent,
" taking its name (the Hundred) from the Street, or
via strata of the Romans, near it, now usually called
Stone-street " ' (Hasted's " History of the County
Kent," 1790, Vol. 3, p. 435). In Ireland there is
a parish of Street, comprised in the two counties of
Westmeath and Longford.

As a patronymic the name has great antiquity.
In the Domesday Book it appears as Estraites,
which, evidently, is only a variant of Streets. In
early v/ritings the spelling of the name is various,
the following being the common forms : Stret,

^ A " Stone Street ' ' is still shown on some of the hirge-scaled
maps of the county Kent.

There is a family of the name of Stonestieet in this county — orig-
inally, I believe, in Maryland — that derived its name probably from
this paved-way.

THE STREETS FAMILY. 59

Strete, Streete, Streate, Street, Streat, Streett, and
Streatt.^

The early uses of the name, before it became
fixed as a patronymic, is shown in the following
selections from the " Catalogue of Ancient Deeds."
London. Volume 1 :

"(Herts) A. 1053. Release by Felicia, late wife
of Robert de Strata, to John, the prior, and the
convent of Holy Trinity, London, of land in Berke-
den in fields. (A. D. 1252-1258) "

'' (Bucks) C. 806. Grant by Bartholomew atte
Strete, of Wendovere, and Christina, his wife, to
Simon de Farundone, of Monks' Risborough, of
lands, &c., in the parish of Monks' Risborough, for
their lives. 2 Edward. (1309) "

'' (Suff'olk) B. 1356. Grant by John de la Strete
and Walter Roo, both of South Elmham, to Wil-
liam Ourys, of the same place, of lands in South
Elmham. Sunday after St. Dunstan the Bishop.
13 Henry IV. (1412)"

In the foregoing selections atte is Saxon, and de
and de la are Norman. In the following, from
wills of a later date, the a prefixed to the surname
is an abbreviation of atte (at the), and has the same
significance as the earlier ones, quoted above, from
the deeds :

^'"It was written in the record of Domesday, Estraites, and in
others of later times, Strete" (Hasted,!, c.). There is a Mary-
land family of Streett, from Harford county. Jacob Streets' s name
once appears in the '* Military Archives of Delaware" as Streett.

60 THE STREETS FAMILY.

Will of Johane, wife of John Carre, 20 July, 1497.
" One moity to go towards the education of Thomas
aStrete, son of my brother William aStrete."

Will of Luce Shorte, wddow, of Gillingham, Kent,
4 October, 1603, mentions Marrian Astreates, Joane
Astreates and Sara Astreates, and ^' for overseer I
appoint Richard Astreates of Gillingham." (" Gen-
ealogical Gleanings in England." New England
Historical and Genealogical Register, January,
1896.) In this will both the a and the s are some-
times capitalized together.

Mr. J. Henry Lea, the genealogist (than whom,
probably, no one was better informed), says : " Prob-
ably all the families of the name of Street in Somer-
set and the adjoining counties took their cognomen
from Street, near Glastonbury." From the fre-
quency with which the name appears in deeds and
in church registers, in the southeastern counties,
there w^as, probably, another place of origin in Kent
or Sussex, where, as I have shown. Street is the
name of a place.

In Lower's " Dictionary of the Family Names of
the United Kingdom," Streets is given as "the
pluralization of Street." There is no apparent
reason for this statement, as surnames are not
usually formed by pluralization. According to
Anderson, in his " Genealogy and Surnames," it is
— and it seems to me to be true — the possessive
form of the paternal name, or a patronymic, mean-
ing the *' son of Street."

THE STREETS FAMILY. 61

The earliest expression of this relationship, in
writing, in modern English, was "Street, his son."
The present possessive was formed from this by
dropping son, and retaining only the final s of his.
Hence, the children of Street, when spoken of, be-
came Streets {Street his), the final s being pro-
nounced as an additional syllable. That the chil-
dren of such parents, at an early date, were known
by no other name than the paternal one, in the
possessive, which they afterwards retained as their
own surname, one may very readily believe. In
answer to the query : "Whose child is that?" one
was told : " It is John's," contracted in writing to
Johns = Jones. Monosyllabic surnames ending in
the genitival s constitute a large class.

As an additional contribution to this subject, the
following excerpts, from " Notes and Queries," 8th
series, volume 7, pages 251, 306 and 475, are given :

" I attach no value at all to the final s. It is
very commonly added, sometimes as a possessive,
and often for no reason whatever, especially to
proper names." (Fred. T. Elworthy.)

" In the folk-speech of Lincolnshire and York-
shire it is a very common thing for s to be attached
to the end of short surnames, where the spelling
gives no warrant for any such addition. Thus
Street becomes Streets; Piatt, Platts ; Nail, Nails;
Sayle, Sayles. Many other examples might be
given." (Edward Peacock.)

62 THE STREETS FAMILY.

My own belief is expressed above.

It was the custom in Wales and in the south-
eastern counties of England — the old "Saxon
Shore " — for the heirs of a common ancestor, from
the grandsire downw^ard, to hold jointly the land of
their inheritance, with redistributions — to maintain
equality in the family — to tlie kin of the third gen-
eration, that is, to second cousins. These holdings,
occupied by the heirs, w^ere called after the original
holder, receiving his name with the patronymic
suffix. (Seebohm's " English Village Communi-
ties.") The earliest Anglo-Saxon patronymic suffix
is the genitival terminal ing. Surnames with the
patronymic suffixes ing, son and s form a very large
class.

To summarize : Street is a place-name, and
Streets is a patronymic in s, the final letter having
a genitival value.

OTHERS OF THE NAME OF STREETS

Before proceeding with the history of the family
of Jacob Streets, of New Castle county, I will con-
sider briefly some families bearing the name on the
peninsula formed by the Delaware and Chesapeake
bays.

There were four brothers from Caroline county,
Maryland, of whose antecedents, before coming to
Delaware, nothing is known. Of these, one David
Streets, was a coachmaker, of Wilmington, and let-
ters of administration were issued on his estate to
Margaret, his widow, 18 July, 1864 ; another,
Samuel Streets, was a clock-cleaner and clock-
mender, who died in St. Georges, New Castle county,
leaving, it is said, a daughter. The name of Samuel
Streets appears in the accounts of Red Lion hun-
dred in 1836, and that of David B. Streets in the
Road Account of the same hundred in May, 1839
(Delaware papers). Some of the descendants of
David Streets and of Jeremiah Streets (another one
of the brothers), who were living in Wilmington
quite recently, have their names printed in the city
directory as Street.

Edward B. Streets, the fourth member of this
family, is a farmer, and lives in Talbot county,
Maryland. He wrote that he was born in Caroline

64 THE STREETS FAMILY.

county in 181 9, and lived there until he was
''grown up." He lived for a time in New Castle
and Kent counties, Delaware, and afterwards moved
to the Trappe, Talbot county, where he has con-
tinued to live as a farmer. He was early left an
orphan, and for that reason did not know the first
name of his father ; nor could this information be
obtained from other members of the family.

Edward B. Streets remembered, however, that he
had a cousin, John Streets — who was probably a
son of Thomas Streets, of Queen Anne's county,
Maryland, of whom an account follows. A de-
scendant of the latter stated that Samuel Streets,
the itinerant clock-repairer, used to stay at his
father's house, in Maryland, when on his peripatetic
rounds ; and, that, when the father moved away,
he continued his visits to the son. It is probable,
therefore, that these families are united consangu-
ineously, although the relationship seems to have
been forgotten by the later generations.

There are others of the name of Streets, who are
descended from Thomas Streets (mentioned above),
who settled near Centreville, Queen Anne's county,
Eastern Shore of Maryland, some time in the last
half of the 18th century. His descendants claim
that three brothers — the traditional number — came
from England — from the county Kent, near London
— during the Revolutionary war, and settled in
Maryland. Except they came as soldiers, this story

THE STREETS FAMILY. 65

is so improbable that it is hardly worthy of consid-
eration. But, strange as it may seem, this time
coincides with the only date — equally mythical —
that has been given for the arrival of Jacob Streets
in this country — w^hich can be proved to be wrong
by his record as a soldier of the colonies.

Jane (Foster) Schreitz, a granddaughter of Jacob
Streets, is the authority for the story. She stated
that her aunt, Catherine (Streets) Othoson, told her
that her brother, William Streets, the eldest child
of Jacob and Elizabeth Streets, was born the year
of his mother's arrival in this country. William
Streets, it is claimed, w^as born in 1781. As the
father is said to have come over in the same vessel,
and at the same time as the mother, his first ap-
pearance here — according to the legend — the truth
of which seems improbable — would have been in
the year 1781.

Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in October,
1781, and, as far as the fighting went, that event
virtually ended the w^ar ; yet, it would appear, that
it was not a very auspicious time for the coming of
English and German immigrants to these shores.
The Pennsylvania Archives give no foreign arrivals
at Philadelphia between the years 1775 and 1786.
Further along in this narrative I shall have occa-
sion to show- that Jacob Streets was in the country
at an earlier date than this. Again family tradi-
tion fails us.
5

66 THE STREETS FAMILY.

A tradition among the grandchildren of Thomas
Streets says that one brother remained in Mary-
land, one went to Virginia and the third went to

parts unknown. The old nursery rhyme of

'' One flew east and one flew west ;
One flew over the cookoo's nest "

might be substituted for these fairy tales.

The children of Thomas Streets were John,
Thomas, James B., William, Samuel and Ann.
The date of birth of John, the eldest, is given as
1800.

There is still another family of the name of
Streets from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, con-
cerning which, however, I have been unable to
collect much information of value. The widow of
one of them (George) was living in Ellicott City,
Howard county, Maryland, as late as August, 1895,
at the advanced age of 92 years. She seemed to
have a good memory, notwithstanding her great
age, and it was from her that I learned all I know
about the family.

The children of this family were James, William,
George, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah and Richard (a half-
brother). The father (name unknown) lived at the
Trappe, in Talbot county (where Edward B. Streets,
of another line, finally moved to). George Streets
was born in 1810, and Marv Streets in 1813.

THE STREETS FAMIL Y. 67

There was a George Streets, private in Captain
Peter Jaquett's company, Delaware regiment of
foot, commanded by Colonel David Hall, during
the Revolutionary war. His pay as a soldier began
24 July, 1779 (Military Archives of Delaware).

The dates of birth in these three Maryland
families, from the adjoining counties of Queen
Anne's, Talbot and Caroline, show that their pro-
genitors were contemporaneous ; and, as they lived
in the same section of country — the Eastern Shore
— it seems they might have been related. They
may have been the three brothers mentioned in the
tradition ; for, as a philosopher has said, " there is a
soul of truth in things erroneous;" and, again, ''a
falsity has usually a nucleus of reality."

Although it is of record that members of the
above-mentioned families have established them-
selves in Delaware at various times, I have been
unable to discover that our Delaware line has had
any connection with them whatsoever. I am in-
clined to believe that Jacob Streets belonged to an
older generation ; inasmuch as his youngest child
was born in 1801, while the eldest of the others was
not born until about 1800.

I have made a careful search of all bearing the
name of Streets in this country, and the result has
been, with those of English origin 3 — where I have

'There are some German families, I learned, who have Angli-
cized their names of Stretz and Streitz into the English one of Streets.

68 THE STREETS FAMILY.

been able to trace them at all — the trail runs back
to the .peninsula between the Delaware and the
Chesapeake bays.

In that section of the country — off the beaten
path of travel, north and south — old English cus-
toms were tenaciously held to ; and it may have
been to this eminently English trait that we owe
the preservation of the final letter of the name.
There has been — and there is yet — a tendency to
drop the final s, as a concession to outside usage
(which persists in writing it dow^n Street), and thus
to conform to the ancestral type.

There remains to be considered a family in Sussex
county, Delaw^are, which stands recorded there from
rather early times. On the " Roll of Recruits in-
listed into Capt. John Wright's Company, May 11,
1759," is David Street, age 23, of Sussex county
(Penna. Archives, 2 series). David Streets'^ is on
the assessment roll of Indian River hundred of
1787, probably the first list of taxables after the
Revolutionary war. In 1822, the names of Win-
gate Streets and Hayslett and Jeremiah Street ^ were
placed on the roll of the same hundred.

* The following item recently appeared in a local newspaper :
"One hundred and twenty-five descendants are left by David P.
Street, who was buried, Sunday, at Millsboro, aged 89 years."

^ From the record of the United Presbyterian churches of Lewes,
Indian Eiver and Cool Springs, Delaware, it is learned, that Haslet
Street and Jenny Ilannon were married, 23 December, 1812 ; and
Jeremiah Street and Bettv Clark were married, 1^ December, 1816.

THE STREETS FAMIL Y. 69

Whatever may have been the origin of this
family at the start, the present-day representatives
of it, in Indian River hundred, — where some still
bear the name of David and Wingate, — are dark-
skinned people, who claim to be descended from a
colony of shipwrecked Moors. Although the wiiite
neighbors smile at this pretension, and regard it as
an ingenuous theory to account for their dark com-
plexions, they have built up the tradition for so
long a time, that they are themselves convinced of
its truth, and do not associate with other dark-
skinned people, whose negro blood is conceded.
So, they have been practically isolated in their
community for a great many years. But, to judge
by the foot-note given herewith, this does not seem
to have lessened their fertility.

A recent historian (Judge Henry C. Conrad, in
his '' History of the State of Delaware ") has this to
say of a similar colony planted in Kent county ;
but, on what authority he does not state : '' one
thousand acres adjoining the settlement of ' Seven
Hickories ' were owned by Moors who came to the
hundred direct from Spain in 1710, and who settled
in a village known as Moortown on the Dover-
Kenton road [in Kenton hundred].

" In 1785 these Moors owned large estates and
had a prosperous and thriving community. John
and Israel Durham were leading members of this
settlement. They and their descendants refused to

70 'I HE STREETS FA MIL Y.

mingle with their white or black neighbors and
have maintained to this day their pure Moorish
blood. Several families now remain in this section
as direct descendants of these Moors." (Volume 2,
page 625.)

One John Street and Joane, his wife, w^ere very
early settlers in Delaware. He took up land there
in 1676 under the government of the Duke of York,
who succeeded the Dutch in ownership. In that
year John Street, James and Edw^ard Williams, and
others, were granted 1200 acres of land on the
northwest side of Blackbird creek. The same year
John Street received another warrant for 200 acres
at the head of Hangman's creek. ^

The records of the Court of New Castle show^ that
John Street lived in " oppoquenemen " (Appoquin-
imink)7 in 1676; for, in that year he registered
there his ear-mark, which was " a Crop on Each
Eare and an underkiell on the Right Eare." He
seems to have been of a litiginous disposition, and
was involved in frequent law-suits ; and was once
fined 200 pounds of tobacco for not working on the
highway. His name ceases to appear in the New
Castle county records after 1679.

In 1681, John Street and his wife Joane show up

'Now called Hangman's Run, a branch of Appoquinimink creek,
on the south side, near Fieldsboro, in Appoquinimink hundred.

^The meaning of this word in the Lenni Lenape language is
"Wounded Duck."

THE STREETS FAMILY. 71

in Sussex county. In 1682, he " is seated upon
land of William Clark, in Kimble neck." In 1683,
he petitioned the land commissioners for 150 acres
of land " where he may find it clear." This peti-
tion was granted, and after its date, there is no
further mention of him in the records.

There are persons of the name of Street in the
low^er counties of the Eastern Shore — certainly in
Dorchester, Wicomico and Somerset — who claim
descent from a .John Street, of England, an immi-
grant.

JACOB STREETS.

Jacob Stkeets, born ; died in 1822 ; mar-
ried Elizabeth Harm an, born ; died ;

daughter of Jacob Harman and Mary, his wife.^

We have little knowledge of Jacob Streets save
what can be obtained from public documents. The
venerable John P. Cochran, ex-governor of the
state, and a native of St. George's hundred, when
interrogated in 1896 — when he was in his 88th
year — as to his recollection of Jacob Streets, stated
that he remembered him veiy well. He recalled
him to mind as going from one farm house to an-

^ Mary Harman was deceased 15th, 12th month, 1803, the date of
Andrew Harman' s marriage certificate, which recites that: " An-
drew Harman, of Georges Hundred, New Castle county and state of
Delaware, son of Jacob Harman aud Marv, his wife, dec'd."

72 THE STREETS EA MIL Y.

other — as was the custom of shoemakers in those
days — making shoes for the farmers' families. Mr.
Cochran fixed his own age at that time as about
sixteen years, which would have carried his recol-
lection back to about the year 1824. He has con-
fused, probably, the elder Jacob Streets with his
son, the second of that name, who was also a shoe-
maker.

After the manner of a current writer of genealo-
gies ^ I might explain here that trades were more
comprehensive in the 17th and 18th than in the
20th century, — that they were less specialized. He
tells us that blacksmiths were then ironmongers
and tailors were cloth merchants; and, it might be
supposed, shoemakers — or cordwainers, as they were
better known as, and set down in the directories in
those days — were dealers in leather. But, what is
in a name? Howbeit, we are told, in the words of
the old song, that it formerly took nine tailors to
make one man.

The name of Jacob Streets appears on the list of
taxables of St. George's hundred for the year 1804,
and is marked with an asterisk, which was used to
designate those who were possessed of a house and
lot. The deed-books of the county give the follow-
ing information relative to his real-estate holdings,
confirming the tax list.

' Frank Willing Leach's "Old Philadelphia Families." Sunday
edition, " The North American," Philadelphia, 1913.

THE STREETS FAMILY. 73

On 14 January, 17^1, Jacob Streets, of New
Castle county, Delaware, cordwainer, bought of
Jesse Higgins, of New Castle county, and Mary, his
wife, two lots of land in Middletown, situated on
the south side of a road leading to Appoquinimink
Landing. One lot had a frontage on the road of
60 feet, and a depth of 148 feet, and contained
8880 square feet. It was bounded on the west by
a lot of Joshua Clayton. The second lot was 76
feet on the road and 148 feet deep, and contained
11,248 square feet, and was bounded by a lot of
John Pennington and land of Mary Peterson. He
gave for these lots forty-one pounds and five shil-
lings.

On 20 May, 1793, he (he was then called ''of
Middletown in St. Georges hundred ") bought froro
the same parties, for eleven pounds and four shil-
lings, a lot — no. 14 — in Middletown, "on the south
side of the road leading to the landing, and joining
a lot of the said Jesse Higgins '° on the west and

^° Jesse Higgins was a notable man of his times, and for a better
understanding of him a further account is here given.

He was bom in 1763, a son of Lawrence Higgins, a Belfast Irish-
man, and Sarah Wilson, a Welshwoman. His wife was Mary
Witherspoon, a daughter of Thomas Withei-spoon, of the Di-awjer
creek settlement.

In settling up the estate of Dr. Bouchelle, a Labradist, of the
Bohemia Manor colony, of which he was executor, he was involved
in so much litigation — in suits and results — that he acquired a great
distaste for the legal profession. "An honest man could not be a

74 THE STREETS FAMILY.

another of the said Jacob Streets on the east, being
60 feet on said road and 148 feet deep, containing
eighty-eight hundred and eighty feet of land."

On 27 December, 1797, Jacob Streets, of New
Castle county, Delaware, cordwainer, and Eliza-
beth, his wife, sold to John Connelly, of the same
county, blacksmith, the lot which was first de-
scribed, containing 8880 square feet, adjoining the
lot of Joshua Clayton, for which he received forty-
five pounds. This was more than he had given for
both lots in 1791. (0-2-224 and 225 ; Q-2-263.)

As no other sales are recorded of him, it is prob-
able that he died possessed of the other lots. It is
a tradition that he died on a Christmas day, and
was buried in the graveyard of the old St. Ann's
church. This church is in Appoquinimink hun-
dred, on the State Road, about three-quarters of a
mile below Middletown, on the south side of Appo-
quinimink creek. The church is said to possess an
altar-cloth presented to it by Queen Anne of Eng-
land. No gravestone marks the spot where Jacob

good lawyer," is a saying attributed to him. He wrote a pamphlet
entitled "Samson against the Philistines," to prove that suits should
be settled by arbitration. It attracted a good deal attention, and
the lawyers, fearing that it might affect their practice, tried to sup-
press it by buying up the entire edition. The pamphlet was pub-
lished by William Duane, a man who achieved much notoriety in
Philadelphia as the editor and publisher of the "Aurora."

8uch was Jesse Higgins, of "Damascus," a mill-site on Dragon
creek, in Red Lion hundred. (Scharf and Conrad.)

THE STREETS FAMILY. lb

Streets was buried, nor is the location of it known
to his descendants.

The earliest date associated with the settlement
of the estate of Jacob Streets — and indicating,
therefore, the probable year of his death — is 24
June, 1822. If, therefore, he died on a Christinas
day, it must have been one preceding that of 1822.
I have ignored the tradition, and have set down
his death as occurring in 1822.

William Streets, administrator of Jacob Streets,
late of New Castle county, deceased, petitioned the
Orphans' Court, held 22 August, 1822, for permis-
sion to sell a house and lot, the real estate of the
said deceased, in the village of Middletown, for the
payment of his debts (L-1-150). Nothing more is
on record either of his death or of the settlement of
his estate. There was, apparently, nothing to
distribute.

The name of Jacob Streets, of New Castle county,
is inscribed on the muster-rolls of the Delaware
soldiers of the Revolutionary War. He was mus-
tered into service 10 July, 1780, and was a member
of the Second Regiment of Delaware troops, Colonel
Henry Neill, commanding, and to Hugh Mc-
Cracken's company." "

" The regiment of Colonel Henry Neill was raised by an Act of
the General Assembly of the Delaware state, passed at Dover, 21
June, 1780. It was mustered into the service of the United Col-
onies at Philadelphia, Pa., 10 July, 1780, and was mustered out 28

76 THE STREETS FA MIL Y.

Copies of papers relating to the military services
of Jacob and Robert Streets, from the office of the
Secretary of State, at Dover, Delaware, are herewith
appended."

"These are therefore to certify that I have En-
listed three effective able bodied Men out of my
Company of the Militia [3rd Regiment], namely:
James Lyle, Jacob Street & John Reid, agreeable to
a late Act of Assembly of the Delaware State, in
order to re-inforce the Continental Army, under
command of the Commander in Chief of the United
forces of America.

" Given under my hand this 8th day of July,
1780.

Thos Witherspoon, Capt."
" To Capt Saml Smith, Esq. )

Lieut, of New Castle Co. /

" This is to certify that I have inlisted for the
Battalion now to be raised agreeable to an Act of
the General Assembly for my Quota the men here-
after named — to wit : Robert Craig, Joseph Hawks,

October, of the same year. It was designated the ''Continental
Regiment, No. 38." It was stationed for duty in Kent county,
Maryland, and served there for tlie jjeriod stated. (Publications of
the Delaware Historical Society. "Historical and Biographical
Papers." Volume II.)

'^Published in 1912, in volumes 1 and II of "Delaware
Archives."

THE STREETS FAMILY. 77

Abraham Gonce and Robert Streets^ as witness my
hand this 8th day of July, 1780.

Jno Crawford."
'' New Castle County, 1 q^
The Delaware State. /

'' The Deposition of Jacob Streets. Taken before
me, Wm Alfree, one of the Justices of the peace for
the said County, this 27th Day of April, 1787.

" This Deponent on his oath saith that he was
Listed under Hugh McCracking, Captain, in
Caronel Henry Neal's Redgment for four months
and that He had a Regularly Discharge from Gen-
eral Pikren, and by order of his Exlency Gen'l
Washington, and he fetch'd nothing with him Ex-
cepting his Napsack & Haversack which to the Best
of his knowledge was Either Give to him or settled
for Before he left the Army, as there was no de-
mand made of them when he Came Away ; And
further he saith that he Did not fetch Anything
Belonging to the Continental Stores.

" And further, that his Brother Robert Streets
was Listed as Above Described and Discharged as
Above who is sence Dead and that he fetched noth-
ing with him only his napsack & haversack which
this Deponent understood was Allso Give or settled
for as Above when Discharged and that he the said

78 THE STREETS FA MIL Y.

Jacob Streets is tlie Heir of tlie said Robert Streets,
Deceased : — and further this Deponent saitheth not.

Jacob Streets."
'' Taken, Signed and
Sworn the Day and year
Above Written, Before me.

Wm. Allfree."

''Sir/

please to pay to Bearer, James Lyle, whatever
will be coming to me and his Receipt on this will
be sufficient, and Sir you'll

Greatly Obblige y'r Humble Sev't
Jacob Streets."
" To Joshua Claton, Esq'r.

" Witness Present,

'' Wm. Allfree."

"Sir/

Pay to George Parker the Am't of Jacob Streets
and Robert Streets Pay due them for their service
in Col. Niels Regiment.

James Lyle."
"To Joshua Clayton,

State Treasurer."

THE STREETS FAMIL Y. 79

^'Rec'd, July 28tli,, 1788, of Joshua Clayton,
State Treasurer, Seventeen Pounds and five shil-
lings in full for Pay of Jacob Street and Rob't
Street Soldiers in Col. Henry Niels Reg't."
''£17.5.0 No. 678
No. 679."

" f Geo. Parker."

It will be noted that the name is given in these
war records both as Streets and Street. The same
spelling is observed in the census returns. In the
second census of Delaware, taken in 1800 — the first,
that of 1790, being destroyed — the name is written
" Jacob Street," of St. George's hundred, New Castle
county. In that for 1810, it is given correctly as
" Jacob Streets," of the same hundred and county.

HARMAN.

A family tradition says that Jacob Streets first
became acquainted with the woman, whom he after-
wards married, on the vessel that brought them
both to this country. The date of their arrival has
been placed in the year 1781. I have already
shown that Jacob Streets was here before that date.
Jacob Harman renounced his allegiance to the
crown of Great Britain, 17 August, 1778.

Although Jacob Streets was an Englishman, and

80 THE STREETS FAMILY.

bis wife a German woman, it might well have been
the case that they both came over in the same
vessel ; for, it was the custom then, enforced by law,
for all British vessels bringing emigrants to Amer-
ica to stop last at a British port, and none but
British vessels could trade between Great Britain
and America. '3

Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, volume 17,
contains the '' Names of Foreigners who took the
Oath of Allegience to the Province and State of
Pennsylvania, 1 727-1775, with the Foreign arrivals,
1786-1808." Amongst those arriving in the ship
"Minerva," Thomas Arnott, Master, from Rotter-
dam, last from Portsmouth, w^as Johan Jacob Har-
man. He qualified by taking the oath of allegiance
on the 10 October, 1768. The only other immi-
grants of that name among the German immigrants
to Pennsylvania, given in the list published in
Volume 17 of the "Archives," are those of Daniel
Harman, his wife Elizabeth, and their children,
who arrived in 1808. The family to arrive last
settled in Berks county, Pennsylvania.

'^ The following notices of arrivals show the prevalence of this
custom: "List of Foreigners Imported in the ship Betsy, Capt.
Samuel Hawk, from Rotterdam, last from Poitsmouth." Some
vessels embarked their foreigners at an English port, as is shown in
the following notice, from a newspaper of the times: "List of For-
eigners Luported in the Ship Pennsylvania Packet, Robert Gill,
Master, from London."

THE STREETS FAMIL Y. 81

The will of Jacob Harman is dated 11 December,
1807. He was of St. George's hundred, New Castle
county, Delaware. He left his property to be
divided amongst his children, without mentioning
them by name.

The '' Distribution Account of Andrew Harman,
administrator of Jacob Harman, late of New Castle
county," dated 24 March, 1809, shows the estate to
have been divided among four heirs, namely, An-
drew Harman, Jacob Streets — in right of his wife
Elizabeth Harman — John Harman, and Hester and
Susan Naudain, grandchildren — children of a
daughter, presumably dead. The amount of
money distributed amongst the heirs was $306.12.

According to one authority, Jacob Harman was
a tanner. It has also been stated by one of his de-
scendants that he was a wheelwright.

Andrew Harman, son of the above, married 15th
11th month, 1803, Sarah Alston, daughter of Israel
and Mary Alston, of Little Creek hundred, Kent
county. Their children were : Andrew ; John
Alston ; Elizabeth, born 6-9 mo., 1810 ; Jonathan
Alston and Jacob (twins), born 21-5 mo., 1815;
Sarah, born 23-1 mo., 1818. Sarah Harman
(mother), born 22-3 mo., 1777 ; died 2-2 mo., 1818.^^

^*18 April, 1825, William Streets was appointed guardian of An-
drew Harman, John Alston Harman, Johnathan Alston Harman,
Jacob Harman and Sarah Harman, all minor orphan children of
Andrew Harman, deceased.

6

82 THE STREETS FAMILY.

Andrew Harman moved into Kent County, and
became a member of tlie Society of Friends there in
1797.

Hester and Susan Naudain were the children of
Cornelius Naudain, as is shown by the records of
the Orphans' Court held at New Castle, 21 May,
1799, when Andrew Harman was appointed guar-
dian of Hester and Susan Naudain, minor orphan
children of Cornelius Naudain, late of New Castle
county, deceased.

Robert Naudain petitioned the Orphans' Court
held at New Castle, 2 August, 1811, for permission
to divide the estate of Cornelius Naudain, late of
New Castle county, deceased. The petition recites
that Cornelius Naudain died in 1798, leaving to
survive him : Robert, Cornelius, Sarah, Rachel,
Hester, Susannah, Mary and Elizabeth ; that Mary
died, leaving children, James Schee, Mary Schee
and Richard Hambly ; that Elizabeth died, leaving
one child, John Deakyne ; that Sarah married
Benjamin Field ; that Rachel married WiUiam
Gooding ; that Susannah married Dickinson Web-
ster ; and that Mary was the wife of Hermanns
Schee.'s

The dates of births and deaths were obtained from the Duck Creek
Friends' records.

^5 Mary Schee, a daughter of Hennanus Schee and Mary Naudain,
married, in 1810, Dr. Arnold Naudain, a graduate from Princeton
College in 1806. and the United States senator from Delaware.
1830-36.

THE STREETS FAMILY. 83

It is plainly evident from the recital of these
petitions, that, as only two of the children of Cor-
nelius Naudain participated in the distribution of
the estate of Jacob Harman, the others were chil-
dred by another marriage — probably an earlier one.

The children of Jacob Streets and Elizabeth
Harman are not known in the order of their birth ;
but William was called the eldest, and Sarah, the
youngest.

CHILDREN OF JACOB STREETS AND ELIZABETH
HARMAN :

(2) I. William Streets, born 12 December, 1781;

died 9 November, 1852 ; married
Martha Hanson.

(3) II. Jacob Streets, born ; died 10 May,

1829 ; married Matilda Hale.

(4) III. John Streets, born ; died ; un-

married.

(5) IV. Kesiah Streets, born ; died ;

married Thomas Fountain.

(6) Y. Elizabeth Streets, born ; died ;

married Richard Vansant. The mar-
riage license of Richard Vansant and
Eliza Streats (sic) is on file at Wil-
mington, Delaware, and bears the date
of 14 November, 1816. She died, it is

84 THE STREETS FAMILY.

said, at the birth of her first child.
Her husband did not long survive her.

(7) VI. Robert Streets, born ; died ;

unmarried.

(8) VII. Catherine Streets, born 3 March, 1795 ;

died 17 August, 1874; married, (1),
Christopher B. Donoho ; (2), Garrett
Othoson.

(9) VIII. Sarah Streets, born 11 January, 1801 ;

died 21 February, 1868 ; married
Charles Foster.

SECOND GENERATION.

(2) William Streets (Jacobj, born 12 December,
1781 ; died 9 November, 1852 ; married, 3 May,
1821, Martha Hanson, bom in 1777, died 31
October, 1833.

William and Martha Streets are buried in the
graveyard of St. Ann's church, near Middletown,
Del. The dates of their death — as here given —
were taken from the stone that marks their burial
place. He died aged 71, and she aged 56 years.
Martha Hanson married late in life, and it will be
noted that lier youngest child was born after she
had completed her fiftieth year, if the birth of Sarah
Streets, as here given, is correct.

William Streets was a shoemaker. His name
appears on the list of taxables for 1804. He was
commissioned Justice of the Peace, 14 October,
1828, and again on 22 November, 1845, and Notary
Public, 20 September, 1838.

While in commission as a magistrate he com-
mitted to jail, as vagrants, Samuel Hawkins and
family, runaway slaves from Queen Anne's county,
Maryland. This action was taken in collusion with
the abolitionists, the better to conceal the slaves
until other means could be devised for sending

86 THE STREETS FA MIL F.

them further north. The committing magistrate
was in sympathy with the abolitionists. It was a
part of a system, better known as the " Under-
ground Railroad." In this case, in a few days, no
one appearing against them, the negroes were lib-
erated by Garrett, a noted Quaker abolitionist of
Wilmington, Del. An account of this affair is re-
lated by John Hunn, in Still's " Underground
Railroad."

In virtue of his office as Justice of the Peace,
William Streets was known as Squire Streets. He
was a vestryman of St. Ann's church, in front of
which, in the shade of a wide-spreading oak, near
the high-road, he lies buried. He was a prominent
mason of his native town. The Union Lodge, No.
5, A. F. A. M., the oldest lodge of Masons in the
state, was reorganized 24 January, 1816. Amongst
the names of the first officers, under the new
arrangement, is J. W., William Streets. The
square stone that marks his burial-place was
erected, as a tribute to his memory, by his brother
masons of Middletown.

Martha Hanson was descended from a Dutch
family, who were early settlers in that part of the
state, which has representatives still living there.
It seems that she might have been the daughter of
John Hanson, of St. George's hundred, who mar-
ried Martha Hanson, the daughter of James and
Priscilla Hanson, of the same hundred.

THE STREETS FAMILY. 87

The following is taken from a pamphlet entitled :
'' St. George's and neighboring Churches," by the
Rev. George Foot : " Hansons (Dutch) are known
to have been land-holders here [about Middletown]
since 1678." The name is frequent in the records
of that section and in its earliest forms appears as
Hans and Hance.

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM STREETS AND MARTHA
HANSON :

(10) I. John Hanson Streets, born in 1822 ; died

15 February, 1875 ; unmarried. En-
listed, 25 October, 1862, for nine months,
in Company 8, Fifth Infantry Regi-
ment, Delaware Volunteers, mustered
out of service, 6 x^ugust, 1863.

(11) II. Amelia Streets, born in 1824; died 30

July, 1907 ; unmarried.

(12) III. Catherine E. Streets, born in 1824 (twin

with Amelia); died 10 February, 1854 ;
unmarried.

(13) IV. Sarah Streets, born 8 August, 1828 ; died

7 January, 1851 ; unmarried.

As none of this family married, the branch be-
came extinct with the death of Amelia Streets in
1907.

88 THE STREETS FAMIL Y.

(3) Jacob Streets (Jacob), born ; died 10

May, 1829; married, 10 October, 1811, Matilda
Hale, born 17 June, 1785, died 24 August, 1860^
daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hale, of Duck
Creek Cross Roads (now Smyrna), Delaware.

Jacob Streets was also a shoemaker. In those
days sons seemed to have followed the trade of their
fathers. In an old note, dated 15 May, 1827,
wherein P. & E. Spruance, merchants of Smyrna,
gave him credit for work done them, are the words :
'' By shoes & Monroes." The latter w^ere probably
a style of foot-wear called after James Monroe, the
then President of the United States.

Jacob Streets was a soldier in the War of 1812,
as is shown by the follow^ing correspondence had
with the Record and Pension Office, War Depart-
ment, Washington, D. C. :

''It appears from the records of this office that
one Jacob Streets was a private in Captain Phile-
mon Green's Company, Comegy's Detachment,
Delaware Militia, War of 1812. His name appears
on a roll of the organization, without date, which
gives the date of his enlistment as May 20, 1813.
On a muster roll of the organization covering the
period from September 7 to October 31, 1813, his
name appears, with the following remark : ' To
what time enlisted ; 6 mos., from May 20, 1813.'
A pay roll of this organization for September and

JACOB STREETS

THE STREETS FA MIL Y. 89

October, 1813, shows the date of expiration of his
service as October 31, 1813, on which date the com-
pany was discharged from the service."

From the Bureau of Pensions, Department of the
Interior, Washington, D. C, was received the fol-
lowing reply to a letter of inquiry :

''You are advised that two land w^arrants for 80
acres each, issued many years ago in favor of
Matilda Streets, wddow of Jacob Streets, for soldier's
service in the War of 1812."

In response to a request to be furnished w^ith a
synopsis of the widow's " declaration," the follow-
ing reply was received from the same Bureau :

"Relative to bounty land claims of Matilda,
widow of Jacob Streets, you are advised that the
soldier served in Captain Green's Co., Delaware
Militia, from May 20 to October 31, 1813, and died
in Smyrna, Delaware, on May 10, 1829. The
claimant alleges she married the soldier, October
11, 1811, in Kent Co., Delaware, and that her
maiden name is given as Hale."

It was thought the widow's " declaration " would
show other war service than the six months in 1813,
with the Delaw^are militia. That he was away from
his wife at another period of the second war with
Great Britain is evident from the following excerpt
from the will of Edward Joy, of Duck Creek hun-
dred, Kent county, Delaware, signed. 23 January,
1817 ; probated, 29 October, 1817 :

90 THE STREETS FAMILY.

" 6th Item. I give and bequeath unto Matilda
Streets for her care and trouble, provided she takes
care of my House and property after my death, and
deliver my keys to William Morris, my executor,
without any loss or trouble, One thousand dollars ;
but if her said [there is no mention of him previ-
ous to this] Husband, Jacob Streets, should return
to this country hereafter, it is my express will that
he should not receive any part of this Legacy left
his wife, and it is for her children's sole use and
benefit." '^

There is abundant evidence to prove that Jacob
Streets returned to his home after the date of the
will and worked at his trade there until his death.
(The cause of the early death of the three sons of
Jacob Streets and Elizabeth Harman was tuber-
culosis.)

22 December, 1826, John Cummins received
money from Jacob Streets for rent of house ; 6
August, 1827, Samuel Priestley acknowledged re-
ceiving money from Jacob Streets for the education
of his son Edward. The earliest receipt has the
date of 15 July, 1826.

Matilda Streets and Sarah Ann Streets, ber

^^ Edward Joy was a large land-owner in the upper part of Kent
county, in Duck Creek and Little Creek hundreds. His daughter
married William Morris — who is mentioned in the will as his ex-
ecutor— and their son, Edward Joy Morris, was the United States
Minister to Turkey from 1861 to 1870.

THE STREETS FAMILY. 91

daughter, are buried in the burying-ground of the
Protestant Episcopal church, near the old settle-
ment on Duck creek, known as Old Duck Creek, or
Salisbury.

CHILDREN OF JACOB STREETS AND MATILDA HALE I

(14) I. Sarah Ann Streets, born 1 August, 1812;

died 8 March, 1838 ; unmarried.

(15) II. Edward Streets, born 29 September, 1814 ;

died 3 September, 1882, married Mary
Elizabeth Griffin.

(5) Kesiah Streets (Jacob), born ; died

— ; married Thomas Fountain, born ; died

in 1830.

Letters of administration on the estate of Thomas
Fountain, of St. George's hundred, farmer, were
granted 20 September, 1830, to Charles Foster,
Elizabeth Fountain, the next of kin, renouncing
her right (S-353). It appears from this that Eliza-
beth Fountain was the eldest and the only one of
the children of Thomas and Kesiah Fountain of
legal age at the date of the granting of the letters of
administration.

The administrator made distribution of the estate
3 September, 1835, amongst the following heirs-at-
law, namely : William Fountain, Jacob Fountain,

92 THE STREETS FAMILY.

Andrew Fountain, John Fountain and Sarah Ann
Fountain. In July, 1833, the administration
charged the estate with the funeral expenses of
Elizabeth Fountain.

CHILDREN OF KESIAH STREETS AND THOMAS
FOUNTAIN :

(16) I. Elizabeth Fountain, born : died in

1833.

(17) II. William Fountain, born ; died ;

married .

It is said that AV^illiam Fountain mar-
ried and had children, and that in a
freshet which occurred at Ellicott Mills,
Howard county, Maryland, whither he
had gone to live, all his family, himself
included, were drowned.

(18) III. Jacob Fountain, born ; died .

(19) IV. Andrew Fountain, born ; died .

(20) V. John Fountain, born ; died

(21) VI. Sarah Ann Fountain, born ; died

married M. C. Barnes.

(8) Catherine Streets (Jacob), born 3 March,
1795; died 17 August, 1874; married, (1), Chris-
topher B. DoNOHo, born , died in 1829 ; (2),

Garrett Othoson, born in 1797, died 18 January,
1855, son of John and Sarah Othoson.

THE STREETS FAMILY. 93

The OthosoDS are descended from Garret Otto,
one of the original Swedish settlers on the Delaware
river, who was appointed one of the magistrates for
New Castle, 25 September, 1676. Two hundred and
seventy-two acres of land, between the two branches
of Drawyer's creek, were patented to Garret Otto, 17
April, 1667.

He made an assignment, dated oth 9br, 1678,
in which it is stated that he married Geertia, the
widow of Cornels [Cornelius] Jossison.'^ Letters of
administration on the estate of Garret Otto were
granted to his widow, Gertry Otto, 18 February,
1684-5 [A-66] ; and on the estate of Gertry Otto,
16 June, 1685 [A-68], she having died before she
began to administer his estate.

Garrett Othoson, miller and merchant, and hus-
band of Catherine Streets, owned and operated a
grist-mill at Noxontown, in Appoquinimink hun-
dred, between Middletown and Townsend. The
mill afterwards became the property of Israel Alston
Harman, a descendant of Jacob Harm an, through
his son Andrew Harman, the brother of Elizabeth
(Harman) Streets.

In a petition of Thomas Donoho to the Orphans'
Court, 2 March, 1831, he recites that Christopher
B. Donoho, of Appoquinimink hundred, died in-
testate, leaving issue, one child, a daughter, named

""Pennsylvania Archives/' 2d series, volume 19, page 410.

94 THE STREETS FAMILY.

Mary Elizabeth Donoho, and that she was at that
time about two years old. The court appointed
Thomas Donoho, of Appoquinimink hundred, her
guardian. Christopher Brooks, of White Clay
Creek hundred, was accepted as surety. From this
fact it may be inferred that the letter B in Christo-
pher B. Donoho's name '* stands for Brooks.''

The Donohos were early settlers in the lower part
of New Castle county, and for further concerning
them see the Griffin Family.

CHILDREN OF CATHERINE STREETS AND CHRISTOPHER
B. DONOHO :

(33) I, Mary Elizabeth Donoho, born 18 May,
1829 ; died 14 October, 1871 ; married
Samuel Othoson.

CHILDREN OF CATHERINE STREETS AND GARRETT
OTHOSON :

(23) XL Elias T. Othoson, born ; died 8 May,

1893 ; married Sarah A. Clark.

^'The name in the Orphans' Court records is written Donaho.
Letters of administration on his estate were issued to Thomas Donoho,
1 September, 1829.

''Elias Skeer Naudain married a daughter of Christopher Brooks,
of Newark, Delaware. A son of this marriage, Dr. Christopher
Brooks Naudain, of Chester county, Pa., married, (2), 19 May,
1864, Jane Burton Harman, bom 1840, daughter of Jacob Harman,
of Wilmington, Del. , and Jane Newlin.

THE STREETS FAMILY. 95

(9) Sarah Stkeets (Jacob), born ] 1 January,
1801 ; died 21 February, 1868 ; married, 26 March,
1822, Charles Foster, born 7 July, 1799 ; died 16
March, 1861, son of Mahlon (died 8 September,
1824) and Ruth Foster.

11 April, 1834, Charles Foster announced to his
friends and the public, through the medium of the
" Delaware Gazette and American Watchman," of
Wilmington, that he had assumed charge of the
" Middletown Inn," lately under the management
of Nathaniel Covington. He retained the manage-
ment of the inn for two years. He also held the
office of postmaster of Middletown. He seems to
have been a man of some prominence in the town
and in the affairs of the family.

CHILDREN OF SARAH STREETS AND CHARLES FOSTER :

(24) I. Ruth Ann Foster, born 1 December,

1822; died ; married David C.

Rose.

(25) II. Mary Elizabeth Foster, born 7 August,

1824 ; died 25 August, 1825.

(26) III. Jane Shade Foster, born 30 January,

1827 ; died ; married Charles

Schreitz.

(27) IV. George Jackson Foster, born 3 April,

1829 ; died ; married, 7 August,

1855, Margaret N. Zanes, of Wilming-
ton, Delaware.

96 THE STREETS FA MIL Y.

(28) V. Robert Foster, born 23 February, 1832 ;

died 11 March, 1833.

(29) VI. Sarah Frances Foster, born 26 May,

1834 ; died ; married, 6 July,

1854, George W. Barnes, born in 1827;
died 19 June, 1860, of Middletown,
Del.

(30) VII. Rhoda Catherine Foster, born 2 March,

1836 ; died 25 June, 1878 ; married,
27 May, 1862, Clayton W. Wilds, of
Middletown, Del.

(31) VIII. Charles H. Foster, born 14 February,

1838 ; died ; married ;

moved to California.

(32) IX. Mary Elizabeth Foster, born 12 Feb-

ruary, 1840; married Job Chamberlain.

(33) X. Jacob Mahlon Foster, born 20 Feb-

ruary, 1842 ; married, 16 October,
1872, Sarah I. Eliason.

(34) XL Caroline Matilda Foster, born 5 July,

1844 ; died 20 January, 1854.

THIRD GENERATION.

(15) Edward Streets (Jacob, 3, Jacob), born 29
September, 1814 ; died 3 September, 1882 ; mar-
ried, 30 November, 1842, Mary Elizabeth Griffin,
born 25 December, 1819 ; died 13 December, 1881,
daughter of Jacob Rotheram GriflBn and Susan
Rees.*'

Edward Streets was a bricklayer and stone-
mason. He learned these trades in Philadelphia,
where he served an apprenticeship in them. After
completing his service and mastering the trades, he
returned to his native town, where he began busi-
ness as a contractor and jobber of building.

He continued in this business until 1859, when
he purchased a farm of a little more than one hun-
dred acres, on the Middle Alley Road, about six
miles from Smyrna, his native town ; and there he
moved his family in the spring of 1859.

It was from this farm — then the property of
Simon Spearman — that the first shipment of peaches
grown on the Delaware peninsula was sent to a
distant market, about the year 1840. (Scharf's

2° For the ancestry of these, see tlie genealogies of the Rees and
Griffin families.

7

98 THE STREETS FAMILY.

" History of Delaware."). Some of the old trees of
the original orchard were still standing and bear-
ing fruit when Edward Streets bought the land in
1859.

He was one of the charter members of the Morn-
ing Star Lodge, No. 6, of the I. 0. 0. F., of Smyrna,
instituted 18 June, 1842.

Children of Edward Streets and Mary
Elizabeth Griffin :

(35) I. Jacob Griffin Streets, born 17 February,

1845 ; married, 21 April, 1874, Harriet
Newell Brooks, daughter of Capt. Enoch
Brooks. He was graduated from the
Hahnemann Medical School, Philadel-
phia, Pa., in the class of 1866. He re-
sides (1912) and practices his profession
in Bridgeton, New Jersey, w^here he set-
tled in 1868, having previously prac-
ticed medicine for a short time in Potts-
town, Pa.

(36) 11. Thomas Hale Streets, born 20 November,

1847 ; married, 7 September, 1875, Pris-
cilla Walker, daughter of Thomas R.
Walker and Mary Baynes, of Chester
Co., Pa. He was graduated from the
Medical Department of the University
of Pennsylvania in the class of 1876.
He entered the Medical Corps of the

THE STREETS FAMIL Y. 99

United States Navy as Assistant Sur-
geon in 1872 ; was promoted to Passed
Assistant Surgeon in 1875 ; to Surgeon
in 1887; to Medical Inspector 1899;
and to Medical Director in 1903. He
was retired from active service 20 No-
vember, 1909, having reached the retir-
ing age of 62 years, w^hen retirement is
compulsory.

(37) III. Samuel GrifiQn Streets, born 7 September,

1850 ; died 27 September, 1868.

(38) IV. William Eliason Streets, born 25 October,

1853 ; died 10 July, 1858, from a kick
of a horse.

(39) V. David Rees Streets, born 3 August, 1856 ;

died 15 July, 1906 ; married Caroline
Eudora Carll.

(40) VI. Edward Streets, born 29 March, 1859;

married Susan Shahan.

(22) Mary Elizabeth Donoho (Catherine, 8,
Jacob), born 18 May, 1829 ; died 14 October 1871 ;
married, in 1850, Samuel Othoson, born 27 Feb-
ruary, 1822, died 28 January, 1884, son of Samuel
and Alice Othoson.

Samuel Othoson was a farmer. He died near
Townsend, Del. His wife died at St. George's,

100 THE STREETS FAMILY.

where all their children, except the eldest, were
born.

CHILDREN OF MARY E. DONOHO AND SAMUEL
OTHOSON :

(41) I. Catherine Streets Othoson, 27 Novem-

ber, 1854; married, 13 April, 1893,
Henry Harper. Residence, Phila-
delphia, Pa.

(42) II. Mary Othoson, born 30 November,

1856. Residence, Sassafras, Kent
county, Maryland.

(43) HI. Samuel Othoson, born 5 April, 1858.

Residence, Sassafras, Kent county,
Maryland.

(44) IV. Garrett Othoson, born 15 September,

1859. Residence, near St, George's,
New^ Castle county, Delaware.

(45) V. Perry Othoson, born 3 March, 1861;

married, — January, 1893, Annie
Hutchinson. Residence, Townsend,
Delaware ; afterwards moved to near
Sassafras, Md.

(46) VI. Annie Othoson, born 27 March, 1863 ;

died 13 September, 1892, at Sassa-
fras, Maryland ; married, 22 March,
1883, Edward Walters.

(47) VII. Elias Othoson, born 20 June, 1867;

married, 17 January, 1894, Martha

THE STREETS FA MIL Y. 101

Hurlock. Residence, near Kennedy-
ville, Kent county, Maryland.
(48) VIII. Ida Othoson, born 25 September, 1870;
died 14 December, 1893.

(23) Elias T. Othoson (Catherine, 8, Jacob),

born ; died 8 May, 1893 ; married, 26 January,

1864, Sarah Alvina Clark, born 19 March, 1840,
at St. George's, New Castle county ; died 15 Decem-
ber, 1882, daughter of Isaac V. Clark and Sarah R.
Belville, of Odessa, Delaware. She is buried at St.
Ann's church, Middletown, Del.

Elias T. Othoson was a farmer. He was born at
Ginn's Corner, Appoquinimink hundred. New
Castle county, and died near Stanton, Mill Creek
hundred, in the same county.

CHILDREN OF ELIAS T. OTHOSON AND SARAH A.
CLARK :

(49) I. Garrett Othoson, born at Liston's

Corner, New Castle county, Delaware.

(50) II. Isaac Clark Othoson, born at Liston's

Corner ; married Catherine Pierce.
Residence, near Elkton, Cecil county,
Maryland.

(51) III. Lillie Othoson, born at Liston's Corner.

102 THE STREETS FAMILY.

(62) IV. Margaret C. Othoson, born at Liston's
Corner ; married Henry Stirling.
Residence, Kirkwood, New Castle
county, Del.

(53) V. Lawrence Othoson, born at Liston's

Corner.

(54) VI. Elwood Othoson, born at St. George's,

New Castle Co.

(55) VII. Howard Othoson, born at St. George's.

(56) VIII. Era Othoson, born at St. George's.

(24) Ruth Ann Foster (Sarah, 9, Jacob), born

1 December, 1822 ; died ; married, 10 July,

1845, David C. Rose, born 13 April, 1823, son of
Truman Rose and Mary Tool, of Sussex county,
Delaware.

David C. Rose married, secondly, 16 November,
1865, Martha Anne Burgess. He was a farmer,
and lived on rented farms in Kent and Sussex
counties. In 1888 he was appointed a justice of
the peace, and after that date he lived in Odessa,
New Castle county.

CHILDREN OF RUTH ANN FOSTER AND DAVID C. ROSE :

(57) I. Sarah Rose, born ; married John

Barrick.

(58) 11. Truman Rose, born ; died .

THE STREETS FAMILY. 103

(59) III. Franklin P. Rose, born .

(60) IV. David C. Rose, born 31 August, 1858;

married Mary H. Thomas.

(26) Jane Shade Foster (Sarah, 9, Jacob), born

30 January, 1827 ; died ; married, 14 May,

1854, Charles Schreitz.

children of jane shade foster and charles
schreitz :

(61) I. Leslie Schreitz, born 22 May, 1855; mar-

ried Emma Wright.

(62) II. Caroline Maria Schreitz, born 6 Decem-

ber, 1857.

(63) III. Frederick Charles Schreitz, born 25 May,

1859 ; married Mary McArdle.

(64) IV. Sarah Jane Schreitz, born 12 July, 1861 ;

married John H. Clendaniel, a farmer,
residing near Kennedyville, Kent,
county, Maryland.
{^o) V. Ruth N. Schreitz, born 22 September,
1863 ; married William A. Rhodes.

FOURTH GENERATION.

(39) David Rees Streets (Edward, Jacob,
Jacob), born 3 August, 1856 ; died 15 July, 1906 ;
married, 2 October, 1884, Caroline Eudora Carll,
born 6 December, 1859, daughter of Robert Bruce
Carll and Elizabeth Priscilla Rose, of Bridgeton,
New Jersey.

David Rees Streets was graduated from the Med-
ical Department of the University of Pennsylvania
in 1880, and from the Hahnemann Medical School
of Philadelphia, Pa., in 1881. His preparatory
education was received at the South Jersey Insti-
tute of Bridgeton, New Jersey. He practiced his
profession in Bridgeton until his death in 1906.

Children of David Rees Streets and Caroline
Eudora Carll :

(66) I. Dorothy Streets, born 22 November, 1885.

(67) II. Mary Streets, born 30 July, 1887.

(68) III. Carll Rees Streets, born 10 February,

1891.

(40) Edward Streets (Edward, Jacob, Jacob),
born 29 March 1859 : married Susan Shah an, born

THE STREETS FA MIL Y. 1 05

1 October, 1854, died 6 March, 1894, daughter of
Jacob Shahan.

CHILDREN OF EDWARD STREETS AND SUSAN SHAHAN :

(69) I. Harry Streets, born 23 July, 1884.

(70) II. Mary Elizabeth Streets, born 26 Decem-

ber, 1885 ; married William Hutchison.

(71) III. Mabel Priscilla Streets, born 8 September,

1892.

(60) David C. Rose (Ruth Ann, Sarah, Jacob),
born 31 August, 1858 ; married, — May, 1879,
Mary H. Thomas, daughter of Daniel Thomas and
Susan M. Smith, of Wilmington, Delaware.

David C. Rose was elected a representative of the
state legislature from the eleventh (Newark) district,
8 November, 1898, on the Democratic ticket. Dur-
ing his service in the legislature he was an active
and an uncompromising foe of Addicks in his efforts
to become a United States senator.

children of DAVID C. ROSE AND MARY H. THOMAS :

(72) I. David L. Rose, born in 1880.

(73) II. Roy Cleveland Rose, born in 1885.

(74) III. Maude Raymond Rose, born ; mar-

ried Winfield M. Coverdale.

FIFTH GENERATION.

(70) Mary Elizabeth Streets (Edward, Ed-
ward, Jacob, Jacob), born 26 December, 1885 ;
married, 1 February, 1911, William Hutchison,
born 2 August, 1880, son of William Hutchison
and Virginia Wilds (see page 133, Griffin Family,
No. 253).

children of MARY ELIZABETH STREETS AND
WILLIAM HUTCHISON :

(75) I. Mary Streets Hutchison, born 26 October,
1912.

William Hutchison is descended in the fourth
generation, on his father's side, from Mary Griffin,
who married William Hutchison (Nathaniel and
William) ; and on his mother's side, in the third
generation, from Mary Jane Spruance, who mar-
ried John Wilds (Virginia). Mary Elizabeth
Streets is descended from the same two families on
her father's side, from Jemima Spruance, who mar-
ried David Rees, whose daughter, Susan, married
Jacob Rotheram Griffin (Mary Elizabeth and
Samuel), being of the fifth generation from the
Spruance line and of the third from the Griffin.

INDEX TO PLACES.

Abington, 111., 29

Adams County, Ohio, 28

Appoquinimink 70, 73

Appoquinimink Hundred,

32, 33, 34. 37, 70, 74, 93, 94

Atlanta, Ga., 53

Baltimore County, Md., 9

Baltimore. Md. , 7, 8, 10, 41, 48

Belmont Hall, 12

Berkeden 59

Berkeley County, S. C, 51, 52

Berks Co., Pa 80

Blackbird Creek, 70

Blooming Grove, Ind., 30

Bohemia Manor 73

Bohemia Eiver, Md., 35

Bridgeton, N. J., 98, 104

Calvert County, Md., 46

Camden, Del., 11

Canterbury, 57

Caroline Co.. Md., 63, 67

Cecil County, Md., 39, 45, 46

Centreville.Md 64

Charles County. Md., 32, 33

Charleston, S. C,

41, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51

Charlestown, Md., 39

Chester 57

Chester County, Pa., 94,98

Cool Springs, Del.,

Connecticut, 39

Cypress Road , 34

Dartmouth, 58

Devonshire 58

Dorchester Co., Md., 71

Dover, 57

Dover, Del.,

11, 12. 13, 16. 17. 21,29,39,76

Dragon Creek, 74

Drawyer's Creek, 73, 93

Duck Creek, 10, 36

Duck Creek Cross Roads,

11, 12, 13, 20, 24, 26, 88
Duck Creek Hundred,
11, 18, 19, 20, 21, 30, 39, 40. 89, 90

Duck Creek Neck 21

Eastern Shore, Md. .
7, 10, 19. 39. 40, 41, 64, 66, 67, 71

Elk Neck. Md., 46

Elkton, Md 101

Ellicott Citv, Md., 66

Elicott Mills, Md., 92

Erming Strete, 57

Falls Citv, Neb 44

Fieldsboro, Del.. 70

Fosse 57

Franklin County. Ind., 30. 31

Fulling Mill Road, 34

Georgetown, S. C, 50

George's Creek, 10

Gillingham 60

Ginn's Corner, 101

Glastonbury, 58, 60

Gravelly Run 19

Great Bohemia Creek, 35

Great Namaha, Neb. , 45

Green' s Branch, 36

Hale'sCorner 40

Hangman's Creek 70

Harford County, Md., 9, 59

Herefordshire, 58

Hikenilde Strete, 57

Howard County. Md., 66, 92

Ireland, 58

Indian River Hundred, 68, 69

Kennedyville. Md 101,103

Kent Countv. Del., 11. 14, 16,
17, 22, '28, 29. 34, 37,64,
69,82 89

108

INDEX TO PLACES.

Kent County, Md., 7, 10, 19,

27,34,39, 40,41 76

Kent, England 58, 60, 64

Kent Island, Md., 7, 10, 38

Kenton Hundred, 69

Kimble Neck, 71

Kirkwood, Del., 102

Knox County, 111 29

Lewes, 58, 68

Lincolnshire, 7, 61

Liston's Corner, 101, 102

Little Bohemia Creek, 35

Little Creek Hundred, 17, 34, 81, 90

London, 58, 64,80

Longford, 58

Lymme, 57

Manldin Mountain, 46

Middle Alley Road, 97

Middle Neck, 35

Middletown, Del., 31, 35, 38,
73, 74, 75, 85, 86, 87, 93,

95,96, 101

Millington, Md., 40

Millsboro, 68

Monk's Risborough, 59

Moortown, 69

Mount Pleasant, S. C, .. 41, 51, 52

Murderkill Hundred, 17,18

Murphey's Mill Road, 34

Nashville, Tenn., 53

Nassau 46, 47, 50

Newark, Del., 94, 105

New Amsterdam, 8

Newcastle, 11,70,82,93

New Castle County, 10, 32, 35,
37, 63, 64, 70, 73, 74, 75,

81,82, 94

New York, N. Y., 47

North Elk, Md., 39

Noxontown, Del., 93

Odessa, Del, 101, 102

Ogeehee River, 46, 49

Old DuckCreek, 91

Panama, 36

Papaw Branch, 34

Pembridge 58

Penn's Neck, N. J 37

Philadelphia, Pa.,

24, 36, 38, 47, 65, 75, 97, 98, 100

Portsmouth , 80

Pottstown, Pa., 96

Queen Anne's County, Md.,

64, 67, 85

Red Lion Hundred, 63, 74

Rees's Corner, 40

Richmond, Ind., 30, 44

Rock Hall, Md., 40

Rotterdam, 80

Salem County, N. J., 37

Salisbury, Del., 91

Sassafras. Md., 100

Sassafras River, Md., 39

Saxon Shore, 62

Seven Hickories, 69

Smyrna, Del., 10, 11, 12, 13, 24,
35, 36, 37, 39, 41, 88, 89,

97, 98

Somerset, 58, 60

Somerset County, Md., 10, 71

South Elmham, 59

St. Ann's, 74, 85, 86, 101

Stanton, Del., 101

Start Bay, 58

St. George's, Del.,

63, 99, 100, 101. 102
St. George's Hundred,

35,71,72, 73,79,81,86,91

St. John, N. B., 47

St. Mary's County, Md., 33

Stone Street, 58

Stony Streat, 57

Street, 58, 60

Street Court, 58

Sussex County, Del., 68, 71, 102

Sussex, England, 58, 60

Talbot Co., Md 63, 64, 66, 67

Townsend, Del., 93, 99, 100

Trappe, Md., 64,66

Tripoli, 25

Waddington, England 7

Washington, D. C, ...25, 26, 45, 88

Watling Street, 57

Wayne County, Ind., 30, 31, 43

Wendovere, 59

INDEX TO PL A CES. 109

West Dover Hundred 16 WilmiDgton, Del..

Westmeath 58 31.63.83,86,94,95,105

West New Jersey 36, 37 Yorkshire, 61

White Clay Creek Hundred, 94 Yorktown, 65

Wicomico Co., Md., 71

INDEX TO NAMES.

Alfree, "William, 77

Alston, Israel, 81

Alston, Mary, 81

Alston, Sarah, 81

Araott. Thomas SO

Astreates, Joane, 60

Astreates, Marrian, 60

Astreates, Richard, 60

Astreates, Sara, 60

aStrete, Thomas 60

aStrete, William, 60

atte Strete, Bartholomew, 59

atte Strete, Christina 59

Baltimore, Lord, , 8

Bainbridge, Captain, 25

Baker, Captain, 49

Barnes, George W. , 96

Barnes, M. C, 92

Barratt, Mary 21

Barrick, John 102

Barrol, L. Wethered, 39

Baynard, Mary. 28,38,41,45

Baynard, Nathan, 38

Baynes, Mary, 98

Belville, Sarah R, 101

Biddle, Clement, 13

Boden, Joseph, 38

Boden, Natalie, 35, 38

Bouchelle, Dr., 73

BoHnd, MaryFiske, 36

Bradley, Mary, 9

Brooks, Christopher, 94

Brooks, Enoch, 98

Brooks, Harriet Newell, 98

Buckingham, Howell, 19

Buckingham, Mercy, 19

Burbank, J. Edward, 44,45

Burgess, Martha Ann, 102

Busby, Ann, — 36

Calvert, Leonard, 32,33

Carll, Caroline Eudora, 99, 104

Carll, Robert Bruce, 104

Carre, Johane, 60

Carre, John. 60

Chamberlain, Job, 96

Chapman, John, 24

Clark, Bettv .".. 68

Clark, Isaac V 101

Clark, Sarah Alvina 94, 101

Clark, William, 71

Clayton, John 12

Clayton. John M., 11

Clayton, Joshua. ..16, 73, 74, 78, 79

Clendaniel, John H., 103

Cochran, John P., .'. 71

Collins, Thomas, 12

Connelly, John , 74

Conrad.' Henrv C, 69

Coverdale, Winfield M., 105

Covington, Nathaniel, 95

Craig, Robert, 76

Crawford, Jno., 77

Cummins, John, 90

Cusby, Elizabeth, 38

Danner, , 31

Danner, Anna Maria, 31

David, Owen. 19

Deakyne, Elizabeth, 82

Deakyne, John 82

de Farundone, Simon, 59

de la Strete, John, 59

Denroche, Christopher T 41

de Strata, Felicia, 59

de Strata, Robert 59

Donoho. Christopher Brooks,

84, 92. 93, 94

Donoho, Marv Elizabeth, 94, 99

Donoho. Thomas, 93.94

Duane, William, 74

Durham, Israel, ,. 69

112

INDEX TO NAMES

Durham, John, 69

Edenfield, William, 25

Eliason, Sarah I. , 96

Elworthy. Fred. T 61

Farson, Henry, 21, 22

Farson, Jane, 21, 22

Farson, John, ^ 21, 22

Ferguson, Colin 39

Field, Benjamin, 82

Field, Sarah 82

Fisher. Fenwick, 11

Fisher, James, 11

Fisher. John 11

Fisher, Joshua, 11

Fisher, Sarah Ann, 11

Fisher, Thomas, 11

Fiske, John, 35, 36

Foot, George 87

Foster, Caroline Matilda, 96

Foster, Charles, 84, 91, 95

Foster, Charles H. , 96

Foster, George Jackson, 95

Foster, Jacob Mahlon, 96

Foster, Jane Shade, 95, 103

Foster, Mahlon 95

Foster, Mary Elizabeth, 95. 96

Foster, Rhoda Catherine, 96

Foster, Robert, 96

Foster. Ruth, 95

Foster, Ruth Ann, 95,102

Foster, Sarah Frances, 96

Fountain, Andrew, 92

Fountain, Elizabeth, 91, 92

Fountain, Jacob, 91,92

Fountain, John 92

Fountain, Kesiah, 91

Fountain, Sarah Ann, 92

Fountain, Thomas, 83,91

Fountain, William, 91, 92

Gaillard, Christopher, 49

Garrett. , 8o

Gill, Robert, 80

Gonce. .\braham, 73

Gooden. John C 3

Gooding. Rachel, 82

Gooding. William 82

Green. Ann, 31, 32, 33, 34, 38

Green, Charles, 37

Green, Cuthbert, 33

Green, Cuthbert Sewell,

31, 34, 35, 37, 38

Green, Edmund Brewster, 36

Green, Edmund Fiske, 35

Green, Francis, 32, 33

Green, George, 37

Green, Humphrey, 36

Green, Humphreys, 36

Green, James, 37

Green, John, 33,37

Green, Leonard, 32, 33

Green, Margaret, 37

Green, Martha 33

Green. Mary, 33

Green, Mary Ann Sewell, 33

Green, Mercy, 19, 36

Green, Natalie, 38

Green, Philemon, 88, 89

Green, Randolpha, 38

Green, Rebecca Barns, 18, 30, 32

Green, Robert, 32, 33

Green. Sarah. 37

Green, Sewell,

30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38

Green, Thomas, 19, 32, 33, 37

Green, Victor, 38

Green. William 36, 37, 38

GriflBn, Jacob Rotheram, 97, 106

Griffin, Marv 106

Griffin. Mary Elizabeth. 91, 97, 106
Hail and Haile, see Hale.

Haines, E. L 47

Hale, Allen, 29

Hale, Colin 41

Hale. Colin P'erguson,

14, 27.28,38,39,40,41,45

Hale, Elizabeth 10, 15, 28

Hale, Elizabeth .Maulden, 53

Hale, Elizabeth Scott. 42

Hale, Frances 9

Hale, George, 10

Hale, Henry, 9, 10

Hale. Henry Rich, 53

Hale. Joseph. ♦

10, 14, 15. 10, 17, 24, 27. 28

iNDEX TO NAMES

113

Hale, Mary,....;.9, 15, 17.

18,

•88,

41

-Hale, Matilda,

9, 10, 14, 15,

29,

83.

8f8

•Hale, Miriam,

9q

Hale, Neal

9

Hale, Nicholas, .,..

....g

!.9,

10

:Hale, Samuel, 14, 15,

27,

^28.

29

Hale, Sarah,..

.15.

,88

Hale, Thomas,

7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,

26,

29.

,88

Hale, Thomas Bavnard,...

.41.

.45

Hale, William.

14, 15, 25, 26,

27,

28,

45

Hale, William Maiilden.

42, 45,- '47,

48,

49.

,53

Hales, John,

i-

10

•Hales. Marv,

?1

Hall, David,

67

Hall, Hampton,

31

Hall, Mart,..;

31

-Hambly, Richard,

82

Hance, . ...

87

Hannon, Jenny,

68

Sanson, James,

86

Hanson, John, ..

86

Hanson. Martha

.83,

85,

.86

Hanson, Priscilla,

S6

Harman, Andrew, 71,

81,

82,

,93

Harman, Elizabeth

' 29,71,80,81,

83,

90,

,93

Jlarman, Daniel,

"

80

Harman, Israel Alston, ..'.

93

Harman, Jacob.

71,79. 81,

83.

,93,

,94

'Harman, Jane Burton, ....

94

"Harman, Johan Jacob,....

80

Harman, John

81

Harman, John Alston,

81

Harman, Jonathan Alston

'81

Harman. Marv,

J..

,1.1.:

■71

Harman, Sarah,

■

,. ■ .

81

Harper, Henry,

100

Hdwk. Samuel,

80

•Hawkins, Samuel,

' ■>■

85

Hawks, Joseph

..',

76

Head, Adam, ,,.

..

...

^33

•Heaton, Hannah,

36

Higgins, Jesse, 73, 74

Higgins, Lawrence 73

Higgins, Mary 73

Hollidav, Mary, 11

Howell,' Lvdia, 23

Howell, Morris, 23

Hull. George, 18

Hull, Rebecca, 19

Hunn. John 86

Hurlock, Martha 101

Hutchinson, Annie 100

Hutchi.son, Mary Streets, 106

Hutchison, Nathaniel, 106

Hutchison. William, 105, 106

Hutson, Ann, 20

Hvland, Rebecca, 39

Irwin, J. D., 44

Jamesion. Andrew, 19

Jamesion, Genett, 19

Jamison, Adam, 7

Jamison, Adeline 31, 43

Jamison, Alexander 24, 25

Jamison, Andrew 18. 20, 21, 22

Jamison, Ann, 21, 22. 23

Jamison, Anna Maria 31, 43

Jamison, Catherine, 24

Jamison, George Little, 21, 22

Jamison, Jane 20

Jamison, Janett, 24,25

Jamison, Joseph, 24

Jamison, Joshua, 24, 25

Jamison, Mary, .. 14, 20, 24, 25, 31

Jamison, Maximillian 29

Jamison, Phoebe 32. 43

Jamison, Rebecca Barns,.. 30, 31, 34
Jamison. Robert,
14, 15. 16, 17, 18, 21, 22. 25, 30, 43

Jamison, Robert Sewell, 43

Jamison, Sewell Robert,

31, 32, 43, 44,
Jamison. Thomas, 14, 16, 17, 18,

21,22,24.30,31,32,34 43

Jaquett, Peter, 67

Jemerson, Joseph 24

Jemerson, Robert, 24

Jeraisson, Alexander, 20

Jemisson, Jennett 19, 20

114

INDEX TO NAMES.

Jemisson, Joseph 19

Jemisson, Joshua 19

Jemisson, Tliomas, 19

Johnson, Calvin K., 43

Johnston. George, 46

Jones, Abel 23

Jones, Alexander, 24

Jones. Ann, 22

Jones, Ann Jane, 24

Jones, Enoch, 23

Jones, David 22,23

Jones. James Howell, 23

Jones. Lydia, , 23

Jones. Mary, 22,23

Jones, Thomas 23

Jossison, Cornels [Cornelius] ... 93

Jossison, Geertia, 93

Joy, Edward, 89,90

Lea, J. Henry, 60

Leach. Frank Willing, 72

Lore, Auley, 36

Lore, Charles B., 36

Lore, Eldad, 35,36,37

Lore. Jane 36

Lyle, James, 76,78

Marsh, 31

Marsh, Adeline, 31

Massey, Ann. 30, 34

Massey, Joseph, 34

Massey, Rebecca, 34

Mauldin, Benjamin Francis 45

Mauldin, Francis, 45, 46

Mauldin, Henry, 45

Mauldin, John, 45

Mauldin, Mary, 46

McArdle, Mary 103

McCracken, Hugh, 75, 77

McCrone, Hannah Marj^, 24

Monroe. James, 88

Morris, Ann, 13

Morris, Edward Joy, 90

Morris, Mordecai 13

Morris, William 90

Morton, J. Sterling 44, 45

Naudain, Arnold, 82

Xaudain, Christopher Brooks,... 94
Naudain, Cornelius 82, 83

Naudain, Elias Skeer, 94

Xaudain, Elizabeth, 82

Naudain, Hester,.... 81, 82

Naudain, Mary, 82

Naudain, Rachel, 82

Naudain, Robert, 82

Naudain. Sarah, 82

Naudain, Susan, 81, 82

Naudain, Susannah, 82

Neill, Henry, 75, 77, 79

Newlin, Jane 94

Othoson. Alice, 99

Othoson, Annie, 100

Othoson, Catherine Streets, 100

Othoson, Elias 100

Othoson, Elias T., 94,101

Othoson, Elwood, 102

Othoson, Era, 102

Othoson. Garrett,

84, 92, 93, 100, 101

Othoson. Howard, 102

Othoson^ Ida, 101

Othoson, Isaac Clark, 101

Othostm, John. 92

Othoson, Lawrence, 102

Othoson, Lillie, 101

Othoson, Margaret C, 102

Othoson, Mary, 100

Othoson, PerrV, 100

Othoson, Samuel, 94, 99, 100

Othoson, Sarah, ._ 92

Othoson (Streets), Catherine, .. 65

Otto, Garret, 93

Otto, Geertia, 93

Ourys, William, 59

Paine, Clarence S 45

Parker. George, 78, 79

Peacock. Edward, 61

Penn, William, 8

Pennington, John, 73

Peterson, Mary 73

Pickering, General, 77

Pierce. Catherine, 101

Pope. Charles, 20

Priestley, Samuel 90

Pyie, Howard, 12

Eees, Eleanor, 23

INDEX TO NAMES.

115

Rees, Elizabeth S 30, 31

Eees, David, 106

Rees. John,... 19, 31, 32, 34

Rees, John Ringgold, 23

Rees, Susan, 97, 106

Rees, Thomas, 31

Rees, Willard H 30

Reid. John 76

Rhodes. William A 103

Rich. William Henry 42

Rogers. Daniel, 16

Roo, Walter 59

Rose. David C, ....95. 102, 103, 105

Rose, David L 105

Ro.se, Elizabeth Priscilla 104

Rose, Franklin P 103

Rose, Maude Raymond 105

Rose, Roy Cleveland, 105

Rose, Sarah, 102

Rose, Truman, 102

Ross, Letitia Lofland 38

Ross, William H...... 38

Schee, Hermanns, 82

Schee, James, 82

Schee, Mary, 82

Schreitz, Caroline Maria 103

Schreitz, Charle.s, 95, 103

Schreitz ( Foster j, Jane, 65

Schreitz, Frederick Charles. 103

Schreitz, Leslie. ^ 103

Schreitz, Ruth X., 103

Schreitz, Sarah Jane 103

Scott. Elizabeth 38,45

Seabury, Bishop, 39

Sewell, Cuthbert, 33

Sewell. Mary 33

Shahan, Jacob, 105

Shahan, Susan, 99, 104

Sheer, Sarah, 37

Shorte, Luce 60

Smith, Samuel 76

Smith, Susan M., 105

Spearman, Simon 97

Spruance, E[noch], 88

Spruance, Jane, 21.22

Spruance, Jemima, 106

spruance, John. ...^ 21

Spruance. Mary Jane, 106

Spruance. P[resley], 88

Spruance, Presley 13. 28

Steedman, Captain, 47

Stevenson, Henry, 13

Stirling, Henry, 102

Stonestreet 58

Streats, Eliza 83

Street. David, 68

Street. David P 68

Street, Ha.slet.... 68

Street] Hayslett, 68

Street, Jacob, 76,79

Street, Jeremiah, 68

Street, Joane, 70

Street, John 70. 71

Street, Robert 79

Streets, Amelia 87

Streets, Ann 66

Streets, Carll Rees, 104

Streets, Catherine, 84, 92, 93

Streets, Catherine E. , 87

Streets. David '. 63, 68, 69

Streets, David B 63

Streets, David Rees, 99, 104

Streets, Dorothy, 104

Streets, Edward,

90. 91, 97, 98, 99, 104

Streets, Edward B.,... 63, 64, 66

Streets, Elizabeth, ^tb^ 66, 74, 83, 93

Streets, George, 66, 67

Streets, Harrv, 105

Streets, Jacob, 14, 15, 29, 59, 63,
65, 67. 71, 72, 73, 74, 75,
76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 88, 88,

89 90

Streets, Jacob Griffin , 98

Streets, James, 66

Streets, James B., 66

Streets, Jeremiah, 63

Streets. John 64. 66. 83

Streets. John Hanson 87

Streets, Ke.'^iah 83, 91

Streets. Mabel Priscilla, 105

Streets, Margaret, 63

Streets. Martha, 85

Streets. Marv 66.104

M6

INDEX TO NAMES.

fStreets. Marv Elizabeth 105. 106

Streets, Matilda 14, 16, 89, 90

Streets, Richard, 66

Streets, Robert, 76, 77, 78, 84

Streets, Samuel 63, 64, 66

Streets, Samuel Griffin, 99

Streets. Sarah, 66, 84, 85, 87, 95

Streets, Sarah Ann, 15, 48, 60, 91

Streets, Thomas, 64, 66

Streets, Thomas Hale, 98

Streets, AVilliam,

65,66,75, 81, 83, 85, 86

Streets. William Eliason, 99

Streets. Wingate, 68,69

Streett, Jacob, 59

Taylor, President, 11

Thomas. Daniel, 105

Thomas, Mary H 103, 105

Tool, Mary, , 102

Tyng, —,..... .-...i 38

Vansant, Richard, 83

Walker, Priscilla, 98

Walker, Thomas R., i.^j(J..^.,9l

Wallis, Major E., ,„„.. ^l^M

Walters, Edward, k< -JjOO

Washington, General, 77

Weaver, Georsre, 3^

Webster, Dickinson, ,...82

Webster, Susannah, ,h.m — , 82

Wells, Mary, 23

Wilds, Clayton W., 96

Wilds. John, 106

Wilds, Virginia, 106

Williams, Edward, 70

Williams, James, .. 70

Wilson, Sarah, 73

W^itherspoon, Mary, , 73

Witherspoon, Thomas -..73, 76

Woodall, John, ;..17, 30

Worden, John, v^ ....... 46

Worrell, Mary, 21

Wright, Emma, 103

Wright, John, ;..;,:,». 68

Zanes, Margaret N., 95

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