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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
RELATING TO

GWYNEDD

A TOWNSHIP OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, SETTLED,
1698, BY IMMIGRANTS FROM WALES,

WITH SOME DATA REFERRING TO THE ADJOINING TOWNSHIP
OF MONTGOMERY, ALSO SETTLED BY WELSH

By HOWARD M. JENKINS,

OF GWYNEDD,

AUTHOR OF VOLUME ONE, MEMORIAL HISTORY
OF PHILADELPHIA

SECOND EDITION

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA :

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
1897

First Edition, 1884.
Second Edition, 1897.

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LIST OF CONTENTS.

I. Tlic Place : The Scope of Its History, i

II. Remarks upon the Geology of the Toivnship, ... 1 1

III. Traces of the Indians, 15

IV. The Arrival of the Welsh Settlers, 21

V. Edzvard Foulke's Narrative of his Removal, , . . 33

VI. The Origin of the Tozunship's Name, 40

VII. Number of the First Settlers : Grozvth of Popu-
lation, 50

VIII. The First Settlers' Homes: Personal Details, . . 55

IX. Establishment of the Friends' Meeting, 73

X. Details Concerning the Early Friends, 83

XI. Narrative of Jo] in Humphrey, of Merion, .... 94

XII. Early Mojithly Meeting Records of Mai^riages ;

Other Lists of Marriages and Deaths, . . . .108

XIII. Evans Family Genealogy, 147

XIV. Roberts Fannly Genealogy, 196

XV. Foulkc Fannly Genealogy, 233

XVI. The Early Roads, 282

XVII. Early Settlers in Montgomery, 298

XVIII. Affairs Before the Revolution, 304

IV

LIST OF CONTENTS.

XIX. Gzuyncdd in the Midst of the Revolution : Sally

Wister's Journal, 312

XX. Revolutionary Details, 349

XXI. Taxable s in Gzvynedd i)i lyyS, 358

XXII. The Boones, Lincolns, and Hanks, 369

XXIII. St. Peter's Church, 375

XXIV. Social Conditions Among the Early Settlers, . . . 383
XXV. Agricidttire , Slaves, Schools, Hotels, Stores, etc., .392

XXVI. Genealogical Details Concerning Early Families, . 410

XXVII. Biographical Notices, 427

XXVIII. Additional Chapter — iSgy, 445

HLUSTRATIONS.

Facing Page

House on the Site of Edward Foulke's Original Dwell-
ing AT Penllyn. Etching by Btanche Dillaye 33

Plan, Showing Location of First Settlers' Tracts 58

William John's House, 171 2. From a Photograph, iSqy,

by Arthur Hugh Jenkins 67

The Old House of Owen Evans (later the Residence
of Caleb Foulke, and Dr. Meredith). Etching by
Blanche Dillaye, 71

The Meadow-Bank at Robert Evans's. Etching by Blanche

Dillaye, 76

Friends' Meeting House at Gwynedd, built 1823. From

a Sketch by Miss E. F. Bonsall, 82-^

Charles Roberts, of Philadelphia. Copy of Phototype by

F. Gutekunst &^ Co. , from a Painting 203

Howard M. Jenkins. From a Photograph by F. Gutekunst &^ Co., 418

PREFACE.

(to edition of 1884.)

THIS volume is by no means a History of Gwynedd. I have not
attempted to make it that. I have simply gathered materials of
a historical and biographical nature relating to Gwynedd, and have ar-
ranged them as nearly as practicable in the order of time. The careful
reader who may observe that many things are not dealt with which it
would be the duty of a history to include will find an explanation of the
fact in the plan itself.

So far as the materials which the volume does contain may be con-
sidered, I believe them very trustworthy. My effort especially has been
to achieve that degree of accuracy where the percentage of error does
no harm. Of errors there are some, no doubt : no such collection of
facts, made up largely of specific statements, with names and dates, has
ever, with the extremest care of author and printer, been able to avoid
some mistakes. Those which have been noticed as the work was passing
through the press are stated below.

The size of the work has disappointed me. I have reached the
limit assigned it without exhausting the materials I had collected for it,
and many subjects which I had intended to treat fully have been of
necessity treated briefly.

It should be explained that the dates used have respect always to
"Old" and "New Style." In 1752 the English Parliament passed an
act by which the new year subsequently began on January ist, and Janu-
ary became, therefore, the "First Month," as now. Previously, March
had been the " First Month." This fact should be carefully kept in mind.
In all dates in the book, preceding 1753, the months' numbers correspond

VI PREFACE TO EDITION OF 1884.

with the old rule : beginning with that year they correspond with our
present system.

With respect to the spelling of names, both of families and of in-
dividuals, considerable variation will be remarked. The simple expla-
nation of this is that in the documents and printed matter which furnish
my authorities, these speUings vary continually. The same person is
often differently called — e. g., WiUiam John is sometimes WiUiam Jones ;
the female name Ellen is spelled also Ellin, and again Eleanor, — even
when referring to one and the same individual. My plan has therefore
been to use names as I found them, unless the spelling was plainly an
error.

Acknowledgment should be especially made, here, for the assistance
I have had in the collection of materials. To Rev. George D. Foust, for
his article on St. Peter's Church, to William J. Buck, for aid and sug-
gestions, to S. B. Helffenstein, for notes concerning his grandfather's
family ; my thanks are due. Charles Roberts, of Philadelphia, who is
collecting the data for an elaborate and complete genealogical record of
his family, has aided me with unwearied interest. Mrs. WiUiam Parker
Foulke, whose death, some months before the completion of the work,
deprived me of a most valuable coadjutor, made an important contribu-
tion to it, by preparing a full record of her husband's branch of his
family. And in conclusion it must be due to Edward Mathews to say
that no one has made more faithful, patient, or valuable original research
into the Township's early history. His papers I have carefully consulted,
and in certain parts of the book freely drawn upon.

NOTE TO SECOND EDITION

THE volume having gone " out of print," within a year or two of its
issue from the press, at the beginning of 1885, I have now reprinted
it. The original text has been left without change, except where additional
or more exact information made it improper to let it pass uncorrected.
There are, in this way, a number of minor variations from the first edition.
I have added a chapter, in order to give some additional notes which
seemed of interest.

In the three main genealogical chapters, there have been important
additions furnished me by members of the Evans and Foulke families, and
the Roberts chapter has been carefully revised, and has passed under the
inspection of my friend Charles Roberts, who has given long-continued
attention to the collection of his family data.

I have endeavored, in reprinting, to correct the errors noted under
this heading, in the First Edition. No doubt some new ones have been
made in the present One.

Page 95, lines 16 and 18 from top, Llwyn Griuill should be Llwyn
Gwril (Loo-in Goo-ril) ; and line 24, Llivtindu should be Llwyndu (Loo-
in-du).

Page 127, 8th line from top, Rebecca Moore should be Elizabeth.

Page 424, 1 2th line from top, Conrad S. Castner died Fifth month 18,
1897, in his 59th year.

A record of the resurveys of the lands in Gwynedd appears in the
Minutes of the Board of Property, at their meeting, 25th and 26th of
Eleventh month (January), 1702, (printed in Penna. Archives, Second
Series, Vol. xix., pp. 355-6). It does not differ in essential particulars
from the facts herein given (p. 56 et seg.).

Avalon, Gwynedd, Pennsylvania,
Sixth month i, i8gy.

I.

The Place : The Scope of its History.

FROM Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, a line drawn west
of north and extended eighteen miles will end in the
Township of Gwynedd. Approaching the place on such a
line, the surface of the country rises, and at last attains an
elevation of four hundred feet above the sea, where it forms
the water-shed that divides the drainage of the Delaware and
the Schuylkill rivers. Upon the western slopes of this water-
shed the lands of the township chiefly lie, and the greater
part of their rain-fall, feeding affluents of the Wissahickon, that
rise in springs within the township, pass by them, or by the
main stream, — which traverses Gwynedd from north to south,
having risen just over the line, in Montgomery, — down to the
Schuylkill. From the northwestern part of the township, how-
ever, the drainage goes west by north through the Towamensing
and other tributaries of the Skippack, into the Perkiomen, and
thus reaches the Schuylkill far above the Wissahickon ; while
the rain-fall upon a few hundred acres in the extreme eastern
corner of the township passes south and east to the Neshaminy,
and through it to the Delaware.

The township is a parallelogram, containing nearly seventeen
square miles, and occupied by over three thousand people.^

[iThe reference here is to the census of 1880, and covers not only the two townships,
Upper and Lower Gwynedd, into which the old township was divided in 1891, but also
the Gwynedd part of the population of the boroughs of Lansdale and Ambler, and the
whole of the borough of North Wales. — Xote, iSqGl.

2 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Fairly to be called a hill country, if compared with levels beside
the sea, or valleys along the great rivers, it yet is no more than
a moderately elevated part of that remarkable agricultural region
which, occupying all south-eastern Pennsylvania, reaches north-
ward and westward to the Blue Mountains and the river
Susquehanna. Covered with woods when the white settlers came,
at the end of the seventeenth century, then cleared, and since
continuously tilled, this is a township, simply, of farming land ;
its surface rolling, but not rough ; its soil moderately fertile, but
demanding patient and careful cultivation. Natural wealth,
except that of the soil, it has done ; if minerals lie beneath the
surface, they are at such a depth as would baffle the miner.

Such history as may be presented concerning this township
and its people is necessarily limited in scope. Beginning less
than two centuries ago, when its occupancy by European settlers
bep-an, we resign to the mists of the unknown all the life it may
have had in the ages preceding. And even within the period ot
our knowledge, its movements and experiences have been void of
extraordinary features. During two hundred years, the upland
farmers, leveling their woods, plowing, planting, harvesting,
threshing, seeking the markets of the city with their surplus,
have typified the rural industry of their country. Neither sea
nor river was at hand to disturb their occupation of tillage ; the
great highways of travel lay upon other routes ; the coal, the
iron, the oil, that elsewhere have attracted new people, changed
ownerships, built towns and cities, and altered alike the face of
the country and the composition of society, have been here
unknown. The echoes of the Revolutionary cannon reached
the place, but other than this all its knowledge of wars has been
brought from far beyond its borders. No Indians molested the
early settlers ; wild beasts did not prey upon them ; pestilence
did not destroy, nor famine starve them.

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What history, then, bclont^s to the place? Such only as
a quiet community of plain people, sharing the general interests
of their country, concerned for its welfare, agitated by its dangers,
rejoiced by its successes, may have had ; such as the condition
of a simple and orderly existence may present ; such as comes
from those features of human experience which are common to
man everywhere, — his birth, his struggle for existence, his
defeats and triumphs, despairs and rejoicings, sickness and health,
death and burial ; the character he presents in life, the name he
leaves behind him. With such materials the present volume
must be content chiefly to deal, making its pages justify them-
selves, if possible, by merits of sincerity and precision, — con-
tributing thus to the great records of the time a leaf of small
dimensions, but careful and trustworthy so far as it extends,
To that historical method which begins by the patient accumu-
lation of facts, and which draws no conclusion until the facts are
faithfully studied, the highest respect is due, and it therefore is
fair to suppose that the glimpse which we obtain of a people's
life by the study of the experiences of a single community has
a substantial value in history. To cut down through the strata
at a single place may disclose the formation underlying a wide
district.

Analyzing the township's history, it might be said that in a
large way, and having reference partly to its exterior relations, it
has had these five periods :

1. That of the Settlement : 1 698-1 720.

2. That of Growth : 1 720-1 775.

3. That of the Revolutionary War: 1775-1783.

4. That of the Changes, social, industrial, and political, which
followed the Revolution : 1 783-1 820.

5. That of development and culture since 1820.

But an outline, less general, and more distinctly drawn from

4 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

the place, may be presented. The township's own experiences,
it may be said, have been these :

I. That of the first settlement, its conditions new and strange
to the Welsh husbandmen ; the marked characteristics of the
little colony ; its distinctly Welsh features ; the unity of nearly
every member in a single family, by ties of blood or marriage,
the friendly habit of mutual help, the simplicity of manners, the
fervor of religious expression. In this time the Quaker element
was predominant, the headship of Penn commanded an almost
filial respect, and the movement of the community was centered
in the Friends' meeting, whose spiritual and temporal affairs were
the great objects of its attention.

II. Following this there came a time of removals and changes.
Of the original company some were dead. There were de-
partures to Richland, to Perkiomen, to Providence, to the Oley
settlement on the upper Schuylkill. Thomas Evans, re-married
in his old age, removed to Goshen, and Cadwallader Foulke,
quitting farm life for city life, went to Philadelphia. Later the
tide of migration to Virginia and the Carolinas, which took the
Boones, Hanks, Lincolns, and others, from Berks county, shook
the settlement of Gwynedd and Montgomery, in which the
departing pioneers had many kinsmen. But in this period, too,
there were new comers. The German element began to appear.
The Schwenkfelders came in a body. The Welsh homogeneity
began to break up, and the township became, as the Pennsyl-
vania colony did, and as the State to-day is, one of varied popu-
lation and characteristics.

III. To this succeeded the time when in this community, as in
every one from Boston to Savannah, the earlier colonial influ-
ences declined, and the new springs of energy, which in the
wider field were to manifest themselves in the effort for Inde-
pendence, began to show themselves. There were some changes

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in agriculture. The earlier methods had to be improved.
Pasture and hay lands spread from the meadows into the upland
fields, by the sowing of timothy-seed, and later by the sowing of
clover-seed, and the use of land plaster. Grazing therefore in-
creased, and a rotation of crops began to be followed ; hedges
were planted, tillage became more thorough, and presently the
plow with the iron mould-board appeared.

This period included the time of the Revolution, but from
that great convulsion there sprang new conditions that must be
separately mentioned.

IV. The struggle for Independence, its successful result, and
the formation of the national constitution, profoundly agitating
the country at large, stirred to the depths the life of each com-
munity, however remote and rural. These events brought hot
political contention. Parties arose, and their lines were sharply
drawn. The simple social conditions of the earlier time were
modified, and while there were complaints of a decline in
religious warmth, it was said, too, that morals were more lax,
and intemperance more common. But there appeared then a
development of a material nature. Turnpikes began to be made,
the almost universal habit of riding on horseback was modified
by the appearance of " pleasure carriages," the streams were
bridged, common roads increased and received more care in their
construction. At the same time, stimulated by the party excite-
ments, county newspapers began to be established, and the rise
of a taste for reading caused the formation of the small, but yet
useful, local libraries.

To this period may be assigned all the years from the close
of the Revolution up to and including the War of 1812-15.

V. From the close of the second war with Great Britain, a
period of twenty-five years, ending in 1840, was marked by
many new and interesting features. The financial depression of

6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

1817, following the collapse of the depreciated paper money of
the war, and of the industries which had sprung up during non-
intercourse with England, tended strongly to develop and increase
the removals to the Western country, — chiefly Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois, — which then continued for many years. Between
1820 and 1840 was the great period of the State's "internal
improvements," the multiplication of turnpikes, the digging of
canals, the beginning of railroads. This, it is true, had but a re-
flected influence in Gwynedd, yet it, like every other part of the
State, felt the stimulus of the general activity and enterprise.
In this period the public-school system was definitely established
in the township, and the general tendency toward more education
and culture was strongly shown. The county newspapers had
reached a position of enlarged importance, and political discussion,
though it was now partially relieved of the bitterness and heat
which had accompanied the earlier party contests, was conducted
earnestly and vigorously during the campaign in which John
Quincy Adams once, and then General Jackson twice, won the
Presidency. The political activity of the people, and their move-
ment by local leadership, — indicating the wider distribution of
intelligence and political interest, — is quite observable during this
time. In it, too, the postal service was increased, the mails were
more frequently carried, and new post-offices were established j
and it is notable that the influence of the proximity and growth
of Philadelphia began to be more felt.

VI. Since 1840, one general and two special conditions have
marked the life of the township. The one is that unexampled
and wonderful advance toward greater luxury and culture which
has been everywhere the experience of the American people,
and in which this community shared. The others have been the
revolution in agricultural operations effected by the invention of
better implements and machines ; and the changes in the town-

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ship's population, order of life, occupation, and interests, which
followed the construction of the railroad. All these were
part of a large movement ; they occurred within the same
period ; and it is not entirely practicable to distinguish the precise
influences which each exerted ; yet they may be to some degree
separately described. The change in agriculture had already
given some signs of its presence in 1840, but it has chiefly been
effected since. The flail gave way to the thresher, the sickle to
the cradle, and it to the reaping machine, the scythe to the
mower, the rude " fans " or " windmills " to improved and
elaborate cleaners. The horse-rake has been two or three times
developed, the hay-tedder and manure-spreader have come into
occasional use, and while the grain-drill has almost completely
superseded the picturesque marching man who scattered his seeds
broadcast, the self-binding machine has partly taken the place
of the " hands " who entered the harvest field to rake and
bind. In fine, the whole system of farming is changed ; in the
busiest season one man does at least the old work of three,
and operations that were once necessarily tedious and small
of proportion have risen to extensive methods and great possi-
bilities.

The building of the railroad gave the township a new life.
Enlarged knowledge of and communication with the outer world,
the enormous increase of actual locomotion, the influx of new
people, the rise in the price of lands, the building of villages
and ultimately of considerable towns at the railroad stations, the
creation of a new market system, the changes in the form of the
produce sent to the city for sale, were in part the results of the
new influence. But besides these, there came from the city many
more visitors and boarders, many more purchasers of land.
The social structure as it had existed was first dissolved and then
made over, and it became greatly less homogeneous and unified.

8 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

When the raihvay trains began to run, the old life of the township
ended, and a new age was reached.

The general changes that have taken place in the country, and
which are to be seen in Gwynedd, included, as I have already
said, those which came directly from the railroad, and if it had
not been constructed at all they would still have occurred,
much the same in character, though not so marked in their ex-
tent. With the schools established, the county newspapers in-
creased in influence, the little libraries slowly increasing, and all
the great outer world thundering so near by, the township could
not fail to rouse and stir. Mails that had come once or twice a
week now came on every working day, and daily newspapers
from the great cities were found a necessity to those who would
keep abreast with the course of affairs. The movement in all
ways became more quick. The pressure of occupation upon
time became more urgent. Before this period the fast horse had
been a runner to be ridden ; now he became a trotter to be
driven. From the interest in Lady Suffolk and Tacony and
Flora Temple came their swift successors whose speed made
"two-forty" seem slow. The old "gigs" and " chairs," with
their round springs, disappeared, and the family driving to church
or meeting, or setting out on some distant visit, called for a com-
fortable carriage instead of the old and plain " dearborn " wagon.
The harness began to have silver mountings, the driver covered
his knees, not with a quilt or "coverlid" from the housewife's
stock, but with a robe of buffalo-skin. The young man going
out on errands of gallantry had his " falling-top," the successor
of the "tilbury," and no longer was content to own a horse and
saddle. Dress grew more costly and elegant, the country tailors
were crowded outside by the influx of "ready-made" clothing
from the cities, and the country stores that had been able to satisfy
their female customers with calico or delaine, saw them go to the

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great city bazaars for more costly and elegant fabrics. Organs
and even pianos found their places in the farmers' homes, — an
innovation and a step in luxury that a decade or two before
would have been thought monstrous, — while the young women,
as they glanced at their music-books, the farmer as he read his
newspaper, or footed up his market account, the wife as she
sewed, or mended, or darned, had the aid, not of the old candle,
nor even of the later " camphene " and " fluid," but of " coal
oil," warranted to stand the "fire test," and equaling in the
quality of its light the best which could be commanded by
luxurious dwellers in cities.

Altogether, these and many other changes by which they
were accompanied, amounted to a revolution of social conditions.
The extent of the progress had been wonderful, but in no par-
ticular more so than by comparison. If we shall divide the
history of Gwynedd since its settlement into one period of a
century and a half, and another of less than half a centur}^, and
compare the changes of the two, we shall see the former appear
a monotonous and stagnant level, while in the later and briefer
one, Enterprise, Ingenuity, and Culture have gone forward by
leaps rather than by steps.

Chronological Sketch.

1698, March, the Township purchased for the Welsh Company.

April, the Welsh Company sail from Liverpool.

July, they reach Philadelphia.

November (?), the settlers occupy their lands.
1700, The first Meeting-House built.
1700-01 (?), William Penn visits Gwynedd.
1701-02, Re-surveys and Commissioners' patents for the lands.
1 71 2, The second Meeting-House built.
1 7 14, the Friends' Monthly Meeting established.
[1718, death of William Penn.]

lO HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

1719, Montgomery Baptist Church organized.

1 73 1, Baptist Church of stone, at Montgomery.

1734, Arrival of the Schwenkfelders.

1740, Boehm's Church (German Reformed, Whitpain), built.

1745, Malignant and fatal epidemic.

1769, St. John's Church (Lutheran, Whitpain), organized (probably).

1772-76, St. Peter's Lutheran and Reformed Church established.

[1775, Outbreak of the Revolution.]

[1776, Declaration of Independence.]

1777, October, The American troops in the township ; march to and retreat

from Germantown.
November, movement of the troops to Whitemarsh.
December, their movement to Valley Forge.

1778, June, Movement of the army from Valley Forge to New Jersey.

[1783, Independence acknowledged by Great Britain.]
1784, Montgomery County erected.
1796, The Library at Montgomery Square established.

[1799, Sower's newspaper begun at Norristown.]

[1800, Wilson's (later Winnard's) newspaper begun at Norristown.]

[1804, Asher Miner's newspaper begun at Doylestown.]

1804-05, Chestnut Hill and Spring-House turnpike built.

[1812-15, War with Great Britain ]
181 3, Bethlehem Turnpike begun.
1823, Third (present) Friends' Meeting-House built.
1830, State Road laid out.
1840, Public School system adopted by the Township.

[1846-47, War with Mexico.]
1847-48, Spring-House and Sumneytown Turnpike built.

1856, North Pennsylvania Railroad completed to Gwynedd.

1857, North Pennsylvania Railroad opened to the Lehigh river.

[1861-65, War of the Rebellion.]
1869, Borough of North Wales incorporated.
1872, Borough of Lansdale incorporated.
1874, Stony Creek Railroad completed.

II.

Remarks upon the Geology of the Township.

C"^ WYNEDD lies along the southern edge of, and just within,
^ the extensive but simple and monotonous formation called
by geologists the Mezozoic, or Red Sandstone, belt. The
underlying rocks of the township vary in color, though they are
mostly red, or reddish, and range from a tolerable sandstone to a
decomposing shale ; except that through the hill upon the
Swedes-Ford road, tunneled at one point by the railroad, there
passes a trap dyke of much harder rock, of an earlier formation
than the Mezozoic.

The belt of Mezozoic, says Prof Rogers, in his report of the
Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, is very extensive. Begin-
ning upon the right bank of the Hudson river, and extending
along it from New York Bay to the base of the first ridges of
the Highlands, it stretches south-west, traversing New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, and, in a more interrupted manner,
Virginia and North Carolina, so that its total length is not less
than five hundred miles. In Pennsylvania, it begins with a
breadth of thirty miles, along the Delaware, its southern limit
being a point about half way between Yardleyville and Morris-
ville, and thence, with a southern limit more or less sharply de-
fined by streams and escarpments, it passes westward to the
Schuylkill above Norristown. Its width there is less than on
the Delaware, and for the remainder of its course through Berks,
Lancaster, Dauphin, York, and Adams, it spreads over a section
about ten miles wide between the Schuylkill and Susquehanna,

12 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

and about fifteen between the latter river and the line of
Maryland.^

The Mezozoic are those of the secondary formation, and
containing evidences of plant and animal existence in what is re-
garded as the second age of life. These rocks are conglomerate
sandstone, slate, and shale, their predominating color being red
or rusty gray, — hence the alternative name given the belt which
they characterize, — the New Red Sandstone.

Prof. J, P. Lesley, State Geologist of Pennsylvania, — chief,
for many years, of the " Second Geological Survey of Pennsyl-
vania,"— sends me these notes on the geology of Gwynedd :

" In Bucks and Montgomery counties, the geology of the
southern belt has been well worked up. But the rest of both
counties contains but one monotonous formation, that of the
Mezozoic red sandstone and shale, the rocks all dipping one way,
and containing no minerals of any value, — only building stone
and trap dykes. Gwynedd township is situated in the lower
part of this great formation. The geology is exceedingly simple ;
but a local geologist in any township might find a few fossils by
long and laborious search.

" In Gwynedd, the most interesting point is a small trap dyke
which was cut in the body of the hills through which the North
Pennsylvania railroad tunnel was driven. The next most interest-
ing point is the fact of the presence of a plant bed similar to that
cut by the Phoenixville tunnel. No connection between them
has yet been established, but they may very well be the same.

1 It may be suggested that this is the region of the German farmers of Pennsylvania,
— the "High Dutch" Palatinates, — Lutherans and German Reformed; and the
explanation of the fact that they chiefly hold these red-rock lands would involve a
curious study of the characteristics of the varied nationalities that have peopled
south-eastern Pennsylvania. Broadly speaking, the German farmers have held this
region, and gradually bought out other nationalities, because of their closer economy in
agricultural methods, and their contentment vi^ith smaller returns.

GEOLOGY OF 77//: TOWNS! I IP. 1 3

" Whether this trap be connected — underground — with the
trap of Bowman's hill, south of Lambert vi lie, on the Delaware ;
or whether it be in any way connected with the great fault of
Barrville, Greenville, and Centre, east of Doylcstown, is not
known. This last fault brings up [in Bucks county] the lime-
stone floor, on which the Mezozoic rocks repose ; how deep this
floor lies under Gwynedd township is a problem, but it must be
at least one or two thousand feet.

" This is absolutely all the geology of Gwynedd that can be
generally stated. No region can be more barren of general
geological interest. But there are special problems of high
scientific interest to be settled by special local work."

Prof. H. Carvill Lewis, of Philadelphia, who has made im-
portant studies in the geology of south-eastern Pennsylvania,
has been particularly attracted by the plant bed opened in the
tunnel referred to by Professor Lesley. In a letter, March 14th,
1884, he says: "I have recently obtained quite a number of
fossils, both shells and plants, from the railroad cut at Gwynedd,
and find some of them identical with those occurring in a certain
plant bed on the Schuylkill above Phoenixville. There are three
fossil horizons near Phoenixville — the bone bed in the old tunnel,
the plant bed in some old quarries near the north end of the old
tunnel, and the shell bed at the lower end of the tunnel. The
latter lies probably one thousand feet below the others. I
believe the plant bed to be identical with that at Gwynedd.
Fossil foot-marks of turtles occur in this bed at Phoenixville ; at
Gwynedd there occur stems of calamites, seeds of a land plant,
marine fucoids, foot-prints, minute shells of a species of Posidonia,
etc., showing as at Phoenixville a commingling of fresh water
and marine organisms. The theory that the Triassic deposit was
made by a great north-east flowing river, which, in the neigh-
borhood of Phoenixville, widened to become a marine estuan.

14 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

emptying into the ocean near the mouth of the Hudson, is con-
firmed by my recent investigations.^ Both sides of the deposit
are bounded by a conglomerate, representing the pebbly beach."

In the lower end of the township the soil is more or less
sandy ; the clay loam lies above the line of the Spring-House,
Southward from this place, on the low ridge along the road to
Penllyn, and down the turnpike toward Philadelphia, there are
banks of good building sand, from whose quarries supplies have
been drawn for local use, during many years. But in contrast
with this, the flat lands near North Wales (distant from these
sand pits, say 3 )^ miles), have a bed of good clay from which
bricks for building purposes have been and are still (1884) made ;
and even along the southern slope of the Treweryn, less than a
mile from the Spring-House, enough clay was found, some
twenty-five years ago, to warrant the erection of a kiln, and the
burning of bricks.^

The building stone from the quarries of the township vary in
quality. The best of them have been freely used in dwellings,
bridges, and other structures. The fault of the red rocks
usually is their soft and shaley nature, which will not withstand
the influences of air and moisture ; but care in selecting the
hardest generally secures a satisfactory wall.

1 This is a bold and striking theory. The " Triassic deposit " of which Prof. Lewis,
speaks is, in other words, the " belt " of Mezozoic or red rocks ; and the explanation that
they are simply the deposit of a gigantic river, rising probably in North Carolina, and
flowing north-east to the great sea, above New York city, is a remarkable chapter in
modem geological research. Assuming the truth of the theory, nearly the whole of
Gwynedd lay in this great river, whose shore ran along the south-eastern border of the
township.

[Since the issue of the original edition. Prof. Lewis has died, having achieved for
himself a high repute in science. In 1885, being then professor of geology in Haverford
College, he went to Europe to prosecute his geological studies, and died in Englard.
His early death was a cause for general regret. His wife (see Foulke Genealogy /(JjA)
was the daughter of William Parker Foulke, and a descendant of Edward Foulke, the
immigrant. — Note, i8q6^

2 This kiln was built by Robert Scarlett, on his field near " Brushtown," by the road
that leads southwest from the toll-gate. It was abandoned after a few years' use.

III.

Traces of the Indians.

OF those inhabitants of Gwynedd, few or many, who were
here before the Welsh settlers came, we know but little.
They have left us but few evidences of their occupancy. That
the place was not entirely a solitude is proved by the discovery,
here and there, of some of the stone implements and weapons
such as it is known the Indians used. These, however, are
comparatively rare, and though I cannot claim to have made a
thorough examination or inquiry concerning every part of the
township, yet I feel safe in saying that the aboriginal remains in
Gwynedd are only sufficient to show that the place was visited
by the Indians, and may have been, at times, occupied by small
numbers of them. This, indeed, might be predicted of the
place from a knowledge of its situation and natural features.
The Indians of south-eastern Pennsylvania were not a large body
of people, and they did not make their homes in the high
grounds, but in the lower, along the large streams, and where
fertile, open spaces made it easy to plant their crops. But
Gwynedd would have been a place resorted to by hunting
parties, and occupied occasionally, or even permanently, by a
band under some minor chief. The arrow-heads and other
objects that have been found in certain places suggest the latter ;
they indicate by their number more than a passing chase, or
even a brief stay at that point.

Of record evidence, concerning the Indians in Gwynedd,
there is next to nothingf. I have met with but one allusion in

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print which is worth attention. In the memorial of Gwynedd
Monthly Meeting concerning Ellen Evans, wife of John (son of
Cadwallader the immigrant), who died in 1765, it is recorded
that she " delighted to converse with our uninstructed Indians
about their sentiments of the Supreme Being ; and often said
she * discovered evident traces of divine goodness in their un-
cultivated minds.' "

Nor are the traditions concerning them very numerous.
One of the most interesting is that of the Indians who brought
coal to the smith's shop, where Mumbower's mill now stands,
on the Wissahickon. The story is this : This mill property
was owned from 1777 to 1794 by Samuel Wheeler, a black-
smith, and apparently something of a cutler and tool maker.
(It is said that he made swords during the Revolutionary
time.) To his shop there came, one day, some Indians who
wanted repairs made to a gun. Wheeler said he could not
make them, as he had no coal, when an Indian, departing for
a short time, returned, bringing with him enough coal for the
purpose. This tradition is ascribed to a daughter of Wheeler,
a Mrs. Johnson, of Germantown, who many years afterward
used to occasionally visit Gwynedd. (The question with
Wheeler was as to the place where the Indians got the coal,
but it had doubtless been brought from a distance, probably
the upper Schuylkill.)

Mrs. Shelve, the mother of Mrs. John B. Johnson, who
died at a very advanced age, say thirty years ago, spoke of the
time " when the Indians went away " from the neighborhood,
and said that one of them, an old woman, stayed behind and
continued to live, by herself, in a hut or " wigwam," in what was
known, in later times, as the " back woods " on Johnson's farm.

Mr. Mathews, in his articles on Gwynedd, says that in the
eastern corner of Thomas Layman's farm, half a mile southwest

TRACES OF THE INDIANS. 17

of North Wales, there have been and may be found a great
number of arrow-heads and other Indian relics. " Tradition
relates that here was the scene of a battle between two hostile
tribes of Indians, in which the missiles of destruction flew
thick and fast."

The same idea of a battle has been formed concerning a
locality on the Treweryn, near Ellen Evans's. David C. Land,
who has made a collection of Indian relics, says he found many,
including axes, spear-heads, and arrow-heads, at this place, and
he thought the presence of so large a number indicated a hostile
encounter.

But it is natural that the stone relics should be found along or
near the streams. There is where the Indians would fix their
lodges, convenient for fishing, and also to utilize a sunny open
space for their corn-fields. And in such a place, after they had
thus been encamped for a season or a longer time, their arrow-
and spear-heads, etc., would naturally be discovered. John
Bowman says that he found many arrow-heads and some other
relics in the meadow along the run, east of his father's house ;
and on the Treweryn, Thomas Scarlett found an axe, " with a
hole neatly drilled through it," the finest axe, I am told, dis-
covered in the township.

EUwood Roberts, now of Norristown, but for several years a
resident on the State road, just up the hill westward from the
Wissahickon, made quite a collection of arrow-heads, spear-
heads, etc., picked up on the fields in the vicinity. He has
kindly furnished me drawings and descriptions of several
specimens. One is a hammer, which he thinks may have been
used " in fashioning the flint implements, by pounding on a rude
knife of bone or horn." His arrow-heads are mostly white flint ;
one spear-head is jasper. Some articles that were found, he says,
were unfortunately not preserved ; " among the rest I remember

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a small fragment of stone hollowed out, no doubt part of a
mortar used for pounding hominy in. I also have a dim recol-
lection of a stone that had been used as the pestle." All these
objects, Ellwood says, " were found on the upland, near the house
in which I lived," and not along the creek in the meadows ; but
he adds : " I have always believed, from certain indications, that
the right bank of the Wissahickon, just above the State road,
where ' the old fulling mill ' formerly stood, is rich in such re-
mains, but as it has not been plowed within my recollection, I
have had no opportunity of verifying my conclusions."

Charles L. Preston has shown me some arrow-heads and
other relics. They were to be found, he says, in plowing
the fields of the Foulke estate (Dr. Antrim's) near the
meeting-house. David C. Land gave an axe, found along the
Treweryn, to the son of the author ; and John Bowman gave
me a curious implement, in form something like an axe, but
with a point, rather than sharp edge, and one end ground off
obliquely, and with perfect smoothness, near the grooved place
where the handle has been fitted. John also had a round pestle,
such as was used by the squaws for pounding corn in the mortar.
Charles F. Jenkins, besides the axe given him, as stated, has a
small collection of other objects, mostly arrow-heads. Some of
these are very perfect. Usually they are flint, but one is a fine
jasper, and one is of the softer bluish gray stone found in the
township. Prof Brunner,^ of North Wales, describes to me two
arrow-heads, found by Benjamin Bertolet, in 1889, in a field
adjoining the Stony Creek Railroad, on the farm now owned by
Seth Lukens (formerly the Pope farm). One of these is a white
flint, and the other is a flint of greenish tinge.

1 I wrote to Prof. Brunner concerning the collection of Indian relics at his Academy
(belonging to Dr. Slifer), but none of them were certainly known to have been found in
Gwynedd.

TRACES OF THE INDIANS. 1 9

It will be seen from the details I have given ' that the Indian
relics of the township are moderately numerous, and found in all
parts of it, but more frequently along the streams ; and that they
are such as have been studied and classified by collectors in other
parts of south-eastern Pennsylvania^ — the general habitat of
the tribes to whom such Indians as were hunters, or visitors, or
dwellers in Gwynedd belonged. The list includes arrow-heads
for the chase, or for war; the larger " spear-heads," which may
have been used as weapons, or as knives for skinning animals,
cutting up their flesh, etc. ; the heavy flat axes, grooved around
for the reception of thongs or strips of hide which attached it to
the handle ; the other axes, more round than flat, which may
have been used to gouge out the charred interior of a tree, set
on fire to cause its fall, or make it available as a boat, — and in-
deed for many other purposes ; the mortars and pestles for
pounding corn ; and perhaps some others. I have seen no bone
relics, nor any of pottery, found in the township.

I conclude my notes on the subject with some details
furnished me by my friend Hugh Foulke, concerning an inter-
esting locality, associated with the Indians by tradition. In a
letter, written in the autumn of 1883, he says : " More than fifty
years ago, my father took me to Yocum's woods, and pointed out
a clearing of perhaps half an acre, which he told me was called
'the Indian Garden.' I afterwards visited it several times. It

' As it is more than likely that collections of relics found in the township have not
come to my attention, I can only say that I printed communications in the newspapers
at North Wales and Norristown, asking information, concerning the subject, to which I
received one reply, — that of Elwood Roberts. But whatever else there may be doubtless
is of the same general sort as those described, and therefore of no special importance as
increasing our knowledge of the subject.

' A very intelligent and thorough study of the subject, with a great number of
engravings showing the different forms of Indian relics, will be found in Prof. D. B.
Brunner's work (Reading: 1881), "The Indians of Berks County." He substantially
disposes of the subject, within reasonable limits, for all south-eastern Pennsylvania.

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then impressed me as something quite phenomenal, being entirely-
free from underbushes, or any other growth, save the monotonous
furze grass which one sees on poor worn-out land. As I re-
member, it was a perfect square of about half an acre, and was
surrounded by dense woods. I think it is about half a mile
from the Spring-House, and in a direction a little west of north.
From it the ground descends to the Treweryn, which is a few
rods distant. It was not far from the lands of Jacob Danenhower
(now George H.), Peter Lukens, and Wm. Buzby ; but I think it
belonged to Reuben Yocum."

IV.

The Arrival of the Welsh Settlers.

nnWO Welsh farmers, William John and Thomas ap Evan,^
representatives of a company of friends and neighbors in
Wales who had decided to emigrate to Pennsylvania, were in
Philadelphia at the end of the year 1697.^ Their presence there
was due to a series of circumstances. Fourteen years before
the great " Welsh Tract " of forty thousand acres, on the west
bank of the Schuylkill, embracing what is now the townships
of Lower Merion, Haverford, and Radnor, had been bought and
in time . occupied ^ by Welsh people, many of them from the
northern counties of Wales — principally Merionethshire, Denbigh-
shire. Montgomeryshire, and Flintshire. This large body of
immigrants, containing many persons of character, and quite a
number of considerable means and cultivation, had prospered in
the new colony. The "Welsh Tract," wisely located, including
much fertile land, near to the markets of Penn's quickly rising

1 Seethe Thomas Evans patent, which calls them " yeomen."
* In February, which was then (" Old Style ") the last month of the year.
' " This intended barony had its origin in the desire of the Welsh purchasers of
Pennsylvania lands to be seated together, and in a promise exacted from Penn before
leaving Wales that this desire should be gratified." — Smith's His. Del. Co. Penn's
warrant to Thomas Holme, Surveyor General, directing him " to lay out y* s"* tract of
land in as uniform a manner as conveniently may be, upon y® West side of Skoolkill
river, running three miles upon y* same & two miles backward, & then extend y' parallel
with y« river six miles, and to run westwardly so far as till y« s* quantity of land be
Compleately surveyed to y™," was dated at Pennsbury, ist mo. 13th, 1684. David
Powell, a Welshman, whom we shall meet in Gwynedd, was sent by Holme to do the
field work of the surveys, beginning in April of that year.

22 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

city on the Delaware, became in ten years after its purchase
populous and attractive.

The records of the Friends' meetings at Merion, Haverford
and Radnor show the extensive communication between the
settlers on this Tract, and their friends and kindred in the old
country, between 1684 and 1698. Many new comers brought
certificates from home, and several who were here went back on
different errands. Undoubtedly, there was much said and
thought, amongst the Welsh highlands, of the settlement on the
Schuylkill. "Now I return," says Samuel Smith, in his History
of Pennsylvania,

' ' to give some account of the Welsh settlers. Those that were already
arrived were of the stock of the ancient Britons. They came chiefly from
Merrioneth Shire, North Wales, in Great Britain, being mostly relations
and neighbors in their own country, several of them being tenants and
having great families. They had heard a good report of Pennsylvania,
that lands were cheap, taxes light, clear from oppression as to Tythes and
church rates, and most of them were religious men, of good report in their
own country. About this time, Hugh Roberts, a zealous minister among
the Quakers, of whom we have seen some mention before, went from
Pennsylvania to visit Wales, his native country, and had a successful visit
to the end of his mission and greatly to the satisfaction of his country-folks,
who held him in great esteem."

This visit of Hugh Roberts to his old home was in the year
1697, and to it we may ascribe, largely, the migration of the
Welsh company who found their new homes in Gwynedd.
Hugh Roberts commanded a large influence among the Welsh
Friends. Joining them early, suffering persecution with them,
he was a preacher of considerable power, and a man of activity
and energy,^ and he appears to have had more than an average
share of wealth. Having come to Merion with the first

1 " He was a man of much enthusiasm, — ' a Hve man,' as would be said in these
days, — and his journals and letters abound with evidences of it." — Dr. James J. Levick's
paper on the Merion Friends, in Penna. Magazine, Ao. 15.

ARRIVAL OF THE WKLSIf SETTLERS. 23

Welsh immigrants, in 1683/ he had bought several tracts of land,
and had helped much to promote the contentedness and comfort
of the people. He twice visited Wales, after his first removal, it
■ being on his second visit that he gathered the Gwynedd company.
Samuel Smith in his History, already cited, further says :

" 1698. Several settlers, as we have seen, have already arrived from
Wales, to Pennsylvania. Hugh Roberts, whom we left on a visit there
from hence, stayed from this year, when, being about to return, a number
of the inhabitants of North Wales, who had resolved to return with him.
having settled their affairs for that purpose, they together in the spring
sailed from Liverpool in a vessel belonging to Robert Haydock, Ralph
Wilhams, commander, and touching at Dublin, sailed from thence the first
of the Third month.

To the success of the Merion colony, therefore, and to the
active persuasions of Hugh Roberts, the emigration of the
Gwynedd company is largely to be ascribed.

The two " yeomen," William John and Thomas ap Evan,
were in advance of the main company. They had come to
select a place, and from this circumstance, as from other evidences,
we must regard them as the chiefs, so far as business interests
are concerned, in the Gwynedd settlement. That they preceded

1 Hugh Roberts and family, of Llanvawr parish, Merionethshire, brought their cer-
tificate, dated sth mo. 2d, 1683, from Penllyn monthly meeting, to Friends in Pennsyl-
vania. On his return from his second visit home, he brought a certificate from the meet-
ing at Llyn Braner, dated ist mo. i6th, 1697-8. In 1695 he and Joseph Kirkbride, of Bucks
county, went on a religious visit to New England, they being the first from Pennsylvania
who had preached there, except John Delavall and Jacob Telner, in 1692. It was on
another visit of the sort that he (H.R.) died, on Long Island, at the house of John
Rodman, in the 6th mo. (August), 1702. His will, which is dated the 25th of the pre-
ceding month, shows his large ownership of property. He divided it amongst his three
sons, Robert, Owen, and Edward, the last named receiving his home plantation, in
Merion, 200 acres, "called Chestnut Hill." The will mentions other tracts — one of
HOC acres " at Goshen," and one of 400 acres, " that was Jos. Claypoole"s." It was a
part of his original purchase in Merion that, having passed from his son Edward, ini72i,
to the George family, was in 1867 given to the City of Philadelphia by Joseph and
Rebecca George, and is now the beautiful part of Fairmount Park known as " George's
Hill." His son Robert removed to Maryland; Owen and Edward were prominent
citizens, the latter a merchant in Philadelphia, and Mayor of that city, 1739-40.

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the other immigrants, to choose land, was according to the habit
of the Welsh. Speaking of Rowland Ellis, of Merion, Proud
says in his History :

" In 1682, he sent over Thomas Owen and his family to make a settle-
ment. This was the custom of divers others of the Welsh, at first, to send
persons over to take up lands for them, and to prepare it against their
coming afterward."

How much examination the two agents gave to the land
offered them before they made a selection is not known. There
is no distinct evidence that they ever saw the Gwynedd tract, be-
fore purchasing it, but we may presume they did. That they
rode up from Philadelphia for the purpose, — or, possibly came
across from Merion, with some friend and guide, — is a reasonable
presumption. There is a tradition that they passed through
Whitemarsh, but declined to buy there because the heavy timber
on the limestone lands of that township would make the labor of
clearing too severe.^ But while it may easily be that they looked
at Whitemarsh, this explanation of a choice elsewhere seems
questionable ; as a matter of fact, the Gwynedd lands were
heavily timbered, as the descriptions by metes and bounds of the
several tracts show. I can easily see strong reasons, entirely
aside from this, why a purchase in Whitemarsh would not suit :
in that township prices of land had already risen, and there
remained no large undivided tract, such as the Welsh party re-
quired. They desired to settle together, and therefore would
wish to buy an extensive and compact body of land.

The land at Gwynedd was owned by Robert Turner, of
Philadelphia. How it happened to be his is fully recited in the
confirmed titles which the settlers subsequently acquired by
patents from William Penn, in 1702, and though it cumbers this
chapter, and interrupts my narrative, I think it best to present at

' See Wm. A. Yeakle's Historical Papers on Wliitemarsh. The tradition was pre-
served by the late Benjamin Jones, son-in-law of John Wilson.

ARRIVAL OF THE WELSH SETTLERS. 25

this point the full text of one of these confirmatory patents, —
that to Thomas Evan, or Evans. It is as follows :

^I9)tntdttt ^ Clltl true and Absolute Proprietary and Governor
in chief of the Proviance of Pennsylvania and Territories thereunto
belonging.

To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting —

Whereas by my Indenture of Lease and Release bearing date the two
and twentieth and three and twentieth days of March in the Year One
thousand Six hundred and Eighty-one, for the consideration therein
mentioned, I granted to Robert Turner his heirs and Assigns Five thousand
Acres of land in this Proviance under the Yearly quitrent of One Shilling
Sterling for Every hundred acres forever and by my Indenture bearing date
the fifteenth day of August in the Year one thousand Six hundred and
Eighty-two for the Consideration herein mentioned I released to the said
Robert Turner his heirs and Assigns forty-five Shillings Sterling part of the
said yearly Rent, to the End that five shiUings only should remain and be
paid Yearly for the said Five thousand Acres for Ever ;

And Whereas by Severall Like Indentures of Lease and Release
bearing date therein mentioned I granted to John Gee of the Kingdom of
Ireland his heirs and assigns Two thousand five hundred acres, to Joseph
Fuller of the said Kingdom his heirs and Assigns Twelve hundred and fift)^
Acres, and to Jacob Fuller also of the said Kingdom Twelve hundred and
fifty Acres, being in the whole Five thousand Acres under the Yearly
quitrent of one ShiUing Sterling for Every hundred Acres thereof forever,
which said last recited severall parcells of Two thousand five hundred
Acres, Twelve hundred and fifty Acres, and Twelve hundred and fifty acres
the said John Gee, Joseph Fuller and Jacob Fuller by Several Indentures of
Lease and Release duly Executed did grant and make over to the said
Robert Turner his heirs and Assigns To hold to the said Robert his heirs
and Assigns forever, By which said severall hereinbefore recited Indentures
the said Robert became Invested with a right to Ten thousand Acres of
Land in the said Province, part of which being laid out in several parts
thereof the remainder and full Compliment of the said quantity, being
Seven thousand Eight hundred and twenty Acres, was laid out by Virtue of
several warrants from myself in one tract in the County of Philadelphia in
the said Proviance ; And Whereas the said Robert Turner by his Deed
poll duly Executed bearing date the tenth day of the first Month March

26 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

One thousand Six hundred and Ninety-Eight, for the Consideration
herein specified did grant and convey the whole Seven thousand Eight
hundred and twenty Acres of land to William John and Thomas Evan both
of the County of Philadelphia, Yeomen, to hold to them their heirs and
assigns forever a certain part of which Seven thousand Eight hundred and
twenty Acres of land Reputed to contain Seven hundred acres of land in
the actual possession of the said Thomas Evan then being, was Resurveyed
by Virtue of a general warrant from my now Commissioners of Property
bearing date the Nine and twentieth day of September last past and found
to be situate and bounded and Containing as follows viz. : Situate in the
Township of Gwinned in the County of Philadelphia Beginning at a stake
standing at the Corner of Edward ap Hughs land from thence running by
a line of Marked trees South East two hundred perches to a corner, Marked
hickery tree growing at the corner of the Land of Cadwallder ap Evan,
from thence running by a line of Marked trees by the said land of
Cadwallder ap Evan and the land of Robert ap Evan South forty-four
degrees and a half West Nine hundred perches to a corner Marked hickery
tree, from thence running North west one hundred and Seventy-six perches
to a Marked tree growing at the corner of Robert Johns Land, from thence
running by the said Land of Robert John and the said Edward ap Hughs
land North forty-three degrees and a half East Nine hundred perches to the
first Mentioned Corner Stake, being the place of beginning. Containing
one thousand and forty-nine Acres, to Seven hundred acres whereof the
said Thomas Evan having a right as aforesaid and seventy acres more being
allowed in measure, and requesting to purchase of me the remaining two
hundred and Seventy-nine acres and thereupon a confirmation of the whole
One thousand and forty-nine acres of land at the Yearly quitrent of one
English Silver Shilling for ever under my great Seal of the said Proviance.

SCnom ^c that as well in Consideration of the severall hereinbefore
recited grants and conveyances as of the sum of Sixty-one pounds Eight
pence three farthings Silver money of the said proviance to my use paid
by the said Thomas Evan for the purchase of the Two hundred and Sevent)-
nine acres and for Redeming the quitrent as aforesaid, and in full of all
arrears of quitrent for the said one thousand and forty-nine acres to the
first day of this instant first Month called March the Receipt of which
Sixty-one pounds Eight pence three farthings I doe hereby acknowledge
and thereof and of every part and parcell thereof I doe acquitt, release

ARRIVAL OF THE WELSH SETTLERS. 27

and by these presents forever discharge the said Thomas Evan his heirs,
Executors and Administrators, I have given granted released and Con-
firmed and by these presents for me my heirs and successors do give grant
release and confirm unto the said Thomas Evan his heirs and assigns for-
ever All that the said one thousand and forty-nine Acres of Land as the
same is now set forth bounded and limited as aforesaid with all Mines
Minerals, quarries Meadows pastures Marshes Swamps Cripples Savannas
Woods under- woods Timber and Trees, Ways passages Yards Houses
Edifices Buildings Improvements, Waters, Water Courses Liberties Prof-
fets Comodoties Advantages Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever
to the said One thousand forty-nine acres of Land as to any part or par-
cell thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining and Lying within the
bounds and limits aforesaid, and also all free leave right and Liberty to
and for the said Thomas Evan his heirs and assigns to Hawk Hunt Fish
and Fowle in and upon the hereby granted land and Premises or upon any
part thereof (three full and cleer fifth parts of all Royal Mines free from
deductions and Reprisalls for diging and refining the same only Excepted
and hereby reserved) ;

To HAVE AND TO HOLD the said one thousand and forty-nine acres of
Land and all and singular other the premises hereby granted with their
and Every of their appurtenances (Except before excepted) to the said
Thomas Evan his heirs and assigns to the only proper use and behoof of
the said Thomas Evan his heirs and assigns forever. To be holden of me
my heirs and Successory Proprietaries of Pennsylvania as of our Manor or
reputed Manor of Springetsbury in the said County of Philadelphia in free
and Common Succage by fealty only in Lieu of all other services, Yealding
and paying therefor Yearly from the first day of this instant first Month
called March to me my heirs and successors at or upon the first day of
the first Month called March in Every Year forever thereafter at Philadelphia
one English Silver Shilling or value thereof in Coyn Currant to such
person or persons as shall be appointed from time to time to receive
the same.

In Witness 1 have (by Virtue of My Commission to my Proprietary-
Deputies hereinafter named for the said Proviance and Territories bearing
date the Eight and twentieth day of October which was in the Year of
our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and one) Caused my great Seal
of the Proviance to be affixed hereunto.

Witness Edward Shippen Griffith Owen Thomas Ston,- and J^mes

28 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Logan my said Deputies or any three of them at Philadelphia the
Eighth day of the first Month called March in the Second Year of the
Reign of our Soverayn Queen Ann of England &c. and the three and
twentieth of my Government Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred

and two.

Edward Shippen Griffith Owen
Thomas Story James Logan

[Recorded the 26th ist Mo., 1703]

It will be seen that Robert Turner had acquired his title to
the lands which we are considering as the net result of several
purchases of rights to locate, and that he was presumed to have
in the tract no more than 7820 acres. On Holme's " Map of
Original Surveys," the drafts of which were begun about 168 1,
but which were continued and added to, for some time afterward,
the locality of Gwynedd is shown divided lengthwise about
equally, the north-eastern half being marked "John Gee &
Company," and the lower, or south-western, " Robert Turner."
At the time, therefore, when this part of the map was made, the
transactions between Gee and Turner, by which, as recited in
the patent, the latter acquired the entire title, had not been com-
pleted ; and at what date their completion was effected is left
uncertain. But it was before 1698 ; when the two Welshmen,
in Philadelphia, were seeking for land. Turner's large and com-
pact tract drew their attention, and he, doubtless, having waited
a good while for a purchaser, cheerfully bargained with them.^

1 Robert Turner was a prominent man in the early history of Pennsylvania. He
came here about 1682, and died in 1701 Before coming he was a merchant in
Dublin, and it was to him that Penn addressed the letter from London in March,
1681, in which he announces the final granting of the patent for the Province:

" Thine I have, and for my business here know that after many waitings, watch-
ings, solicitings, and disputes in council, this day my country was confirmed to me
under the great seal of England, with large powers and privileges, by the name of
Pennsylvania, — a name the King would give it in honor of my father. I chose New
Wales, being, as this, a pretty hilly country, but Penn being Welsh for a " head,"
as Penmanmoir, in Wales, and Penrith, in Cumberland, and Penn, in Buckingham-

ARRIVAL OF THE WELSH SETTLERS. 29

The title of Turner was passed to John and Evans, as appears
by the recital in the patent, on the lothof First month [March],
1698. No doubt they entered immediately into possession, but
as to this we have no certain knowledge. The most definite ac-
count we have of the time when the settlers actually entered
upon their lands, is that given by Edward Foulke, — which I
shall quote in full, later, — and he was one of the main company
of immigrants, who did not reach Philadelphia until July. (On
March loth they had not set out from their homes in Wales.
It was the 3d of the month following that Edward and his family
left Coed-y-foel, to take the ship at Liverpool.)

But it is fair to presume that the two representatives lost
no time in repairing to their purchase. It was a wooded
upland. The timber was well grown, — oaks, hickories, chest-
nuts the most conspicuous and useful. Of Indians, there were
few, if any. Of neighbors there were some in the township be-
low, but none in those beyond Gwynedd. Horsham had been
taken up soon after Penn's lirst visit, and Upper Dublin received
some settlers a little later. In Whitpain, the family of that name
had located as early as 1685, and other settlers in the interval.

shire, the highest land in England, called this Pennsylvania, which is the high or
head woodlands ; for I proposed, when the Secretary, a Welshman, refused to have
it New Wales, Sylvania, and they added Penn to it, — " etc — See letter at length in
Janney's Life of Penn.

Robert Turner was one of the Quaker Company (which included William Penn)
that purchased East Jersey in 1681-82, from the estate of Sir George Carteret, and
as the Pennsylvania undertaking was largely the outgrowth of that in New Jersey,
he was, no doubt, one of of Penn s intimate business friends. He was an active
man in Philadelphia, and built, it is said, the first brick house in the city, at the
south-western corner of Front and Mulberry streets. From 1687 to 1689 he was
one of the Commissioners for Penn who carried on the government of the Province,
and from 1686 to 1694, and again in 1700-1701, he was one of the Proviacial
Council. He was also a justice of the peace, and a commissioner of property.
In the controversy between the Friends and George Keith, he, for a while, sup-
ported the latter. He left two daughters, from whom numerous Philadelphia families
trace a line of descent — the Learnings, Rawles, Colemans, Pembertons, Fishers and
Hollingsworths.

30 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

But Montgomery, Hatfield, and Towamensing were unoccupied,
and the Welshmen, as they began to ply their axes, waked the
echoes of the undisturbed wilderness. They were on the
frontier of civilization, at this part of the line.

The main company of immigrants sailed from Liverpool on
the 1 8th of April. Their ship was the Robert mid Elizabeth, its
master Ralph Williams, its owner Robert Haydock, of Liver-
pool. They touched at Dublin, before proceeding on their
voyage, and it was not until the ist of May, that they
finally spread the ship's sails for the new world. Precisely
who were on board, besides Edward Foulke and his family,
it is unsafe to say, but Hugh Roberts, returning from his
visit, was with the company, and it is safe, undoubtedly,
to regard the three brothers of Thomas Evans, — Robert,
Owen, and Cadwallader, — Hugh Griffith, John Hugh, and
John Humphrey, with their families, as of the number. As
to the others who are known to have been first settlers, we can
only suppose them to have been aboard this particular ship be-
cause the company is commonly spoken of by all authorities as
coming together ; and I expressly reserve Robert John from the
list, because I think it extremely probable that he was first a
settler in Merion.^

Forty-five of the passengers, — a very large part, doubtless,
of the whole number, — and three of the sailors, died of
dysentery.^ It was not until the 17th of July,^ eleven weeks to a
day after they had left Dublin, and fifteen after starting from their

1 My reasons for this opinion, though they are not conclusive, will be stated
farther on.

* Smith's History of Pennsylvania makes this statement ; Edward Foulke does not
mention the three sailors.

* Smith, who is followed by Proud, says the 7th of July ; but Edward Foulke,
mentioning the 17th, adds,' "We were eleven weeks at sea," which fixes the latter
date.

ARRIVAL OF THE WELSH SETTLERS. 3 I

homes in Wales, that they reached port in Philadelphia, and set
foot in the land of their adoption. Edward Foulke's narrative
shows that they were kindly received, as we feel sure they would
be, by the Welsh settlers who already were settled here ; and
the women and children found homes for several weeks among
old friends or kinsfolk in Philadelphia, or at Merion, until the
men had prepared shelter, and laid in food for the winter.' It
was " at the beginning of November," that Edward Foulke says
he " settled " in his new home, and " divers others of our com-
pany, who came over sea with us settled near us at the same
time." This is explicit enough ; the interval from the middle of
July to the beginning of November had been occupied in the
erection of houses, and probably the gathering of such crops as
had been planted by William John and Thomas Evans, after
getting possession in the spring. Something might have been
done, indeed, by the settlers, after their arrival in July, to secure
provisions for winter. They could have made a crop of buck-
wheat,^ and they could have saved some forage for their cattle
from the natural meadows along the streams. In August the
blackberries would be ripe, and later the chicken- and fox-grapes,
the chestnuts, shellbarks, and walnuts. But their great depend-
ence, naturally, was of two sorts ; the crop of Indian corn, such
as it might be, which William John and Thomas Evans had pro-

1 Smith's account is this : " Shortly after they got out to sea the bloody flux began
among the passengers, and proved very mortal, forty-five of them and three sailors,
having died before their arrival at Philadelphia, which was not till the seventh of Fifth
month following. When arrived they met with a kind reception, not only from their
relations and acquaintenances that were in the country before, but from others who
were the more strangers to them in that they understood not their language, so that it
then appeared to them that Christian love presided even among those of different
speech and profession, for they were not now many of them of those called Quakers."

' The Swedish settlers who preceded the Welsh, raised buckwheat here, and their
habit was to sow it about the end of July. Early in August turnips could be sown, but
they were not much raised, Acrelius says, even as late as 1750.

32 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

cured to be planted ; and the supplies of food secured from the
settlers in adjoining townships. Nor can we doubt that their
old countrymen west of the Schuylkill gave them liberal aid,
without money and without price. To have failed in this would
have made them unworthy the name of Welshmen.

V.

Edward Foulke^s Narrative of his Removal.

FOUR years after the arrival of the settlers, Edward Foulke
wrote, in Welsh, an account of his removal. This,
translated into English many years later, by his grandson,
Samuel Foulke, of Richland,^ is a unique document. It is the
only account of this immigration known to exist, written by one
of the Gwynedd company, and it is more circumstantial and
precise than almost any other referring to any of the Welsh
settlers in Pennsylvania. Many copies of it are in existence,
and it has been three or four times printed. No version of it
within my knowledge differs materially from any other as to
essential facts, but there are slight differences among different
copies in the genealogical accounts which it presents. The copy
here used is from that preserved by the late William Parker
Foulke, of Philadelphia, as follows :

A brief Genealogy of Edward Foulke, with an account of his
family and their removal from Great Britain to Pennsyl-
vania, written by Imnself, originally in British?

" I, Edward Foulke, was the son of Foulke, ap Thomas, ap Evan,
ap Thomas, ap Robert, ap David Lloyd, ap David, ap Evan Vaughan
(ap Evan), ap Griffith, ap Madoc, ap Jerwert, ap Madoc, ap Ririd
Flaidd,^ Lord of Penllyn, who dwelt at Rhiwaedog.

iWho was a member of the Colonial Assembly, 1761-68. See data concerning
him, in this volume.

2 This introduction was added, no doubt, by "Samuel Foulke, upon making the
translation into English.

* This name, in the old copies of the narrative that I have seen, is generally given
as Ririd Blaidd, which is an error. Rhirid Flaidd was a well-known figure in Welsh
history, and is strictly identified with the person meant by Edward Foulke, by the fact
that he was " Lord of Penllyn." See/>osi.

34 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

"My mother's name was Lowry, the daughter of Edward, ap David,
ap Ellis, ap Robert, of the Parish of Llanvor in Merionethshire.

" I was born on the 13th of 5th month, 1651, and when arrived at
mature age, I married Eleanor the daughter of Hugh, ap Cadwallader,
ap Rhys, of the Parish of Spytu in Denbighshire ; her mother's name was
Gwen, the daughter of Ellis, ap William, ap Hugh, ap Thomas, ap David,
ap Madoc, ap Evan, ap Cott, ap Evan, ap Griffith, ap Madoc, ap Einion,
ap Meredith of Cai-Fadog ; and (she) was born in the same parish and
shire with her husband.

" I had, by my said wife, nine children, whose names are as follows :
Thomas, Hugh, Cadwallader, and Evan ; Grace, Gwen, Jane, Catherine,
and Margaret. We lived at a place called Coed-y-foel, a beautiful farm,
belonging to Roger Price, Esq., of Rhiwlas, Merionethshire, aforesaid.
But in process of time, 1 had an inclination to remove with my family to
the province of Pennsylvania ; and, in order thereto, we set out on the 3d
day of the 2d month, A. D. 1698, and came in two days to Liverpool,
where, with divers others who intended to go the voyage, we took shipping,
the 17th of the same month, on board the Robert and Elizabeth, and the
next day set sail for Ireland, where we arrived, and staid until the first of
the 3d month, May, and then sailed again for Pennsylvania, and were
about eleven weeks at sea. And the sore distemper of the bloody flux broke
out in the vessel, of which died five and forty persons in our passage ;
the distemper was so mortal that two or three corpses were cast overboard
every day while it lasted. But through the favor and mercy of Divine
Providence, I, with my wife and nine children, escaped that sore mortality,
and arrived safe at Philadelphia, the 17th of the 5th month, July, where we
were kindly received and hospitably entertained by our friends and old
acquaintance.

"1 soon purchased a fine tract of land of about seven hundred
acres, sixteen miles from Philadelphia, on a part of which I settled,
and divers others of our company who came over sea with us, settled
near me at the same time. This was the beginning of November, 1698,
aforesaid, and the township was called Gwynedd, or North Wales.
This account was written the 14th of the iith month (January), A.D.
1702, by Edward Foulke. Translated from British into English by
Samuel Foulke."

Referring to the ancestry mentioned by Edward Foulke, it

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ED WARD FO ULKE ' S NA RRA TJVE OF HIS REMO VAL. 35

may be remarked that RhiricI Flaidd, " who dwelt at
Rhiwaedog," is frequently alluded to in the Welsh chronicles of
the later half of the twelfth century. Details may be con-
veniently found concerning him and several families of North
Wales who trace their descent from him, in the Annals and
Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales, ^
under the particular chapter devoted to Merionethshire. It says

(p. 678) :

"This distinguished man, Lord of Penllyn (a cantref containing five
parishes north of the Bala Lake), Eifonydd, Pennant, Melangell, and (ilyn,
in Powis, and, as some say, of eleven towns or trefs in the hundred of
Oswestry, has been occasionally described, but erroneously, as founder of
one of the fifteen noble tribes of North Wales. At the same time his
territories were larger and his influence much more extensive than those
of several of the founders of noble tribes. He flourished at the time of
Henry II., and his son Richard I.* Paternally his descent was from
Cynedda Wledig, but maternally it is alleged that his lineage was Norman,
his mother being a descendant of Richard Earl of Avranches, by his son
William, whose brother was Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester. Whether
Rhirid was called Flaidd (the wolf), from a cognomen of his maternal
ancestors, or from the possession of a hungry and savage nature, it is not
easy to say. His eldest son Madoc' had a son, Rhirid Fychan (the
younger, or the little), who married into the family of Fychan ( Vmeg-han),
of Nannau, and from him were descended the subsequents Vaughans of
Nannau and Rhug. From his son David Pothon, who married Cicely,
daughter of Sir Alexander Myddleton, Lord of Myddelton, in Shropshire,
the Myddletons of Chirk Castle were descended, retaining the maternal
name."

[P. 684.] " Vaiighan of LlatiiiwchllyTi. — This family of Vaughan, of
the sept of Rhirid Flaidd, Lord of Penllyn, were long settled in the parish
of Llanuwchllyn, probably at Glan-Llynn, on the margin of Bala Lake
* -x- * * The head of this house in 1588 was Robert Vaughan, Esq.

1 By Thomas Nicholas, M.A., Ph.D., F. G. S. London : 1872.

2 This was late in the twelfth century. Henry II. reigned 1154 to 1189, and Richard
1189 to 1199.

3 Edward Foulke, it will be observed, traces his line to Madoc.

36 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

His arms according to Divnn, were — Vert, a chevron between three
wolves' heads erased, arg. — the insignia of Rhirid Flaidd.

"Edwards of Prysg. — John Edwards, of Prysg, near Llanuwchllyn,
living in 1588, was of the lineage of Rhirid Flaidd, Lord of Penllyn, in
the same line ^ * * with the Vaughans of Llanuwchllyn, mentioned
above. The arms of Edwards of Prysg were those of Rhirid Flaidd, —
Vert, a chevron between three wolves' heads erased, arg.''

[P. 682.] " Rhiwaedog, near Bala, a spot of historic interest by
reason of the great battle which tradition relates was fought here between
the Welsh, under Llywarch Hen, the prince-bard, and the Saxons, when
the a^ed bard lost Cynddelw, the last survivor of twenty-four sons, whose
sanguinary character gave its name to the place (rhiw, a declivity ; and
gwaedog, bloody.) It is situated in the narrow and long valley of Hirnant,
nearly two miles from the Dee, and an equal distance from the mansion of
Aberhirnant. Rhirid Flaidd is said by Yorke (' Royal Tribes') to have
dwelt at Rhiwaedog."

[P. 682.] "While Merionydd was the central and most prominent
district in these parts, and as such most frequently mentioned, the cantref
of Penllyn, about the Bala Lake, now forming parts of Merionethshire, was
also an important lordship, always or mostly under separate government

* * * * . Penllyn was the patrimony of Rhirid Flaidd, temp. Henry
H., and continued in his son Madoc and grandson Rhirid Fychan (cor-
rupted 'Vaughan'), from whom several of the chief old families of
Merionethshire bearing that name are traced."

[P. 705.] " Lloyd, John, Esq., of Plas-issaf, Merioiiethshire.'^ * *

* * , This family derives its descent from Rhirid Flaidd, of Rhiwaedog,
Lord of Penllyn, from whom are descended the Lloyds of Rhiwaedog,

* * * * etc."

Edward Foulke, whatever may have been the relative rank
and influence of his ancestor Rhirid Flaidd, in the rude age
when he figured as a local chieftain, was himself a plain Welsh
farmer, occupying, as he says, the farm of Coed-y-foel, a part
of the estate of Roger Price,^ of Rhiwlas. This farm is still
known by that name, and is owned (1883) by Richard J. Lloyd-

1 His arms are those of Rhirid Flaidd, with a crest added, — a wolf's head erased.
» He was High Sheriff of Merionethshire, in 1710.

EDWARD FOULKE'S NARRA TIVE OF HIS REMOVAL. 37

Price, Esq., of Rhiwlas, a lineal descendant of Roger. Its name
signifies " the wood of the bare hill," — i. e. a wood around the
base of a hill whose crown is bare, — and this describes the
place. It lies along the river Treweryn, in a charming valley,
on the east side of the stream.^ Rhiwlas is distant a mile, and
the market-town of Bala about two miles. The Treweryn is a
considerable stream, coming down from the mountains, north-
west of Bala, and flowing for several miles east and south through
a narrow valley between the mountains called, on one side,
Arenig Vawr (great), and Arenig Bach (little). The parish is
Llanvor, from which many of the Welsh settlers in Eastern
Pennsylvania came, and the region, picturesque and romantic,
is fairly characteristic of northern Wales. Many names near by
will be recognized by students of the records of immigration that
came from these parts, — Bala, the town and the lake ; the river
Dee, famous for its beauty ; Rhiwaedog, celebrated in Welsh
history ; the swift and clear Treweryn ; and numerous others
mentioned in the old accounts.

His narrative of his removal indicates that Edward Foulke
possessed some education, and it must have been superior to the
average of his time. His " Exhortation," addressed to his
children, late in life, is a good piece of composition. Some
details concerning his Hfe in Wales, previous to his removal,
have come down by tradition, and are doubtless trustworthy.
His purpose of immigration, it is said, was formed from his con-
viction of the hardships and injustice inflicted upon those sub-
ject to a monarchical government. He had attended, the
tradition says, at a military muster or drill, required by law,
when a person in his company, a kinsman, engaged in exercise
wdth a broad-sword or other weapon, had the cap of his knee

1 For assistance as to these details I am indebted to HowelW. Lloyd, Esq., M. A ,
London, a native of that part of Wales here described.

38 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

struck off by his antagonist. The bystanders, with the one who
had inflicted the injury, showed no regret at the occurrence, but
rather exulted over it, while Edward, distressed at the suffering
of his kinsman, was shocked to consider that the barbarous
occurrence was a natural outgrowth of the system under which
they lived. His mind turned to Pennsylvania as a place of
escape, but he felt extreme reluctance to undertake the diffi-
culties and perils of the long voyage with his large family. He
" opened " the matter, however, to his wife, and she, as the tra-
dition says, regarded the impression that had been made upon
his mind as having a Divine origin, and while he hesitated and
argued the pecuniaiy disadvantage a removal might be, she
earnestly declared to him that " He that revealed this to thee
can bless a very little in America to us, and can blast a great
deal in our native land."

Being accounted an excellent singer,^ large companies were
in the habit of collecting at their house on First-days to hear
Edward sing. "But with this he became uneasy, as he found
that his company was of no advantage to him, nor he to them,
as their time was spent in vain and trifling amusements. On
one occasion, expressing his uneasiness to his wife, he found that
she shared the feeling, and was dissatisfied both with the singing
and some of the singers. She urged that the way to spend
First-day with profit would be to read the Scriptures, and said
that then the undesirable part of the company would soon
become weary and leave them, while their truest and most valu-
able friends would adhere to them more closely. The plan
being adopted, it was found as his wife anticipated ; when com-
panies had collected, and Edward was tempted to undue levity,
she would say, 'Put away, and get the Bible.' The light and

1 This statement of facts is taken in substance from the MS. journal of Joseph
Foulke, of Gwynedd.

EDWARD FOULKKS NARRATIVE OF HIS REMOVAL. 39

unprofitable portion of their visitors soon fell away, while others
more weighty and solid continued with them. Their meeting
and Scripture reading continued for some time, and the gather-
ing at their house increased. At length Eleanor reminded her
husband of his exercise of mind on the subject of emigration,
and said that as they had so evidently benefited by their follow-
ing the path of duty in regard to the observance of First-day, it
remained for them to proceed in the removal to Pennsylvania,
which had also been indicated to them. And when they re-
solved upon the step, some who had attended their meeting
came with them."

The insight we get by this narrative helps us to estimate
very precisely the character of Edward Foulke and his family.
But it must be distinctly observed that at the time of their com-
ing they were not Friends. Like the Evanses, and all the other
settlers except John Hugh and John Humphrey, they had been
incHned to the Friends, but had not actually joined them.

VI.

The Origin of the Township s Name.

IT is curious enough that there should have been, ever, any
speculation or doubt concerning the origin of the township's
name. For Gwynedd was a geographical designation among
the Welsh people, more than a thousand years old, when the
arriving settlers applied it freshly to their little block of Pennsyl-
vania land. The name was that which had long been applied to
the northern part of Wales. By the English that region was
called North Wales ; but the people themselves for hundreds of
years had named it Gwynedd. Many of the most prominent
and able of the Welsh leaders, from the sixth century to the
thirteenth, are known as princes or so-called kings of Gwynedd,
and for a time after the reign of Rhodry Mawr, or Roderick the
Great, in the middle of the ninth century, Gwynedd claimed and
to some extent possessed a political supremacy over the whole
of Wales.

Gwynedd was in fact the stronghold of the Welsh. In it
were the homes of a large part of the Kymric people, descend-
ants of those Britons who faced Caesar on the shores by Deal,
when, half a century before Christ, he crossed from Gaul to in-
vade their island. It is the wildest portion of "Wild Wales."
Enclosed within the bent arm of the Dee, the fastnesses around
the base of Snowdon were naturally, as they became historically,
the last refuge of the Britons against the relentless pressure of
invasion, first Angle, then Norman, which came upon them from
their eastern border, and, fastening upon southern and central

THE ORIGIN OF THE TOWNSHIP'S NAME. 4'

Wales, left them, at last, nothing but these rocky recesses in the
north. ^ There, it may be said, was the seat of the most per-
sistent British spirit. Not more inten.se, perhaps, than that
which marked portions of southern Wales, it was better situated
for resistance. In the halls of Aberffraw (in Anglesey), Gwy-
nedd's last capital, the bards sang to the end praises of their
heroes, and fanned with their tales of old prophecy the spark of
national feeling which kindled into a flame — though but for an
instant — so late as the days of Glendower.^

But, though the name of Gwynedd belongs so distinctly, for
so long a time, to the northern part of Wales, there was, appar-
ently, a greater Gwynedd than this before 6oo. In the vague
chronicles of that time, for a half century or more, we hear of
British chiefs — sometimes called kings, sometimes named by
other titles — who, as they fought against Anglo-Saxon en-
croachment in the north of England, ruled over a Gwynedd that
extended northward from the Dee's mouth across the Mersey
and up into the lake and mountain region which is now Lanca-
shire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland. For such a union of
British power, including part or all of the present Wales, and
that northwestern part of England just described, the city which
we now call Chester, the " Caerlleon on Dee" of the Britons,
was the natural capital.

1" It hath been," says Sir John Price, as edited by Humphrey Lloyd, speaking of
Gwynedd, "a great while the chiefest seat of the last kings of Britain, because it was
and is the strongest country within this isle, full of high mountains, craggy rocks, great
woods, and deep valleys, strait and dangerous places, deep and swift rivers." Wood-
ward, in his History of Wales (London, 1850-52), remarks that " the pride and the
glory of the Kymry has been that last retreat of British independence, the principality of
Gwynedd."

2 In Gwynedd, in the fastnesses about Snovvdon, Llewelyn (second of the name con-
spicuous in Welsh history, Llewelyn ap Griffith) made his last struggle with the over-
whelming force of Edward I. Failing there, his death shordy after ended finally —
except the episode of Glendower — the effort to maintain Welsh independence. The
eldest son of the English king became then, in fact as in name. Prince of Wales.

42 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

To this larger district the king or prince known as Maelgwn
Gwynedd, whose name stands out in the chronicles about the
middle of the sixth century, appears attached. The theatre of
his actions seems to have been more in north-western Eng-
land than in Wales. He was resisting that advance of the
Angles which came across Yorkshire, from the place of their
descent upon the coast, about the mouth of the Humber.
The Britons in his time had been forced by the pressure of
invasion into the three natural strongholds in the western side of
their island. In the extreme south they had been driven into
the long point of land — the counties now of Somerset, Devon,
and Cornwall — which form the Cornwall peninsula, and, when,
A.D. 577, the West Saxons under Ceawlin defeated them at the
great and decisive battle of Deorham,^ these Britons were cut off,
by their enemies' hold upon the Severn, from connection with
those who held the middle region north of that river.
This region above the Severn — the Wales of our day — was
then called by the Saxons North Wales, and so appears on the
maps which represent that time, for the Cornwall region was
known as West Wales. The third stronghold was that of north-
western England, the "Lake Country" of our later time, and
from it the Britons joined hands with allies still farther in the
north, along and beyond the Clyde.

Confining ourselves to a view of the greater Gwynedd that
included, as has been said, part or all of modern Wales, and
most of the modern " Lake Country," it will easily be seen how
this hinged upon Chester, and how, when the Saxons cut through
to the sea's edge upon the west by the capture of that city
(probably about A.D. 613, under ^thelfrith), they severed the
Britons of the great central stronghold from those in the northern
one, and so divided Gwynedd. Precisely who had made the

y Deorham was a village northward of Bath, on hills overlooking the Severn.

THE ORIGIN OF THE TOWNSHIP'S NAME. 43

fight against the Saxons after Maelgwn's time is uncertain. But
before the victory of yEthelfrith, Gwynedd had been boldly and
fiercely defended. Its territory, says Green/ besides embracing
the bulk of the present North Wales, pushed forward, by its
outlying fastness of Elmet,^ into the heart of southern Deira.'
In Elmet the Britons long held their rude homes. By the Welsh
chronicle, which, though it must be quoted with great caution,
may be, after all, as trustworthy as that of Saxon or Angle, there
followed Maelgwn Gwynedd, in direct succession, father and son,
Run, Beli, Cadvan, Cadwallon, and Cadwallader. These were
"Kings of Gwynedd," or, as Welsh authority says of the last
three, " Kings of Britain ; " they were at any rate chiefs who
headed the British struggle. In A.D. 589, when the kingdom
of Deira had been overrun by its Bernician neighbors, it was to
the protection of a king of Gwynedd that the sons of yElla, the
Deiran king, then just dead, fled for protection.*

That the Britons did lose their hold at Chester in A.D. 613,
by a victory of ^Ethelfrith, we accept on the authority of Green.
The chronicle of the Welsh, known as that of Caradawg of
Llangarvan, avers that this (Chester) " chief city of Venedotia"
was taken by Egbert the Saxon about A. D. 883, having
"hitherto remained in the hands of the Welsh." It maybe that
the possession of yEthelfrith was not made permanent, and that,
again falling for a while into British hands, the city was a second
time taken in Egbert's day. But it does not seem that after the

1 The Making of England, p. 232 (New York, 1882).

* The wooded region north of " The Peak " of Derbyshire.

' The Saxon Deira was a large part of the present Yorkshire.

* History can never forget the kingdom of ^lla, for thence it was that there came
to Rome as slaves those blue-eyed, fair-haired youths whom Gregory saw and stopped
to inquire about, as he passed through the market-place of Rome. "Angels, not
Angles," he exclaimed as he viewed them, and departed to organize his work of
Christianity in Britain.

44 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

close of the sixth century there was anything of the kingdom or
principality of Gwynedd northward from the mouth of the Dee,
and this is what chiefly concerns the present inquiry. We may
remark only how natural it was, so long as their passage from
the one region to the other was kept open by the possession of
Chester, that the Britons of Wales and those of northwestern
England should have been bound together in some rude form of
national unity. For the two regions are very similar natural
fastnesses ; the crags and glens southwest of the Dee find their
counterpart in the wild scenery northward of the Mersey.
While Cader-Idris and Snowdon rise in the one region, and
through the deep clear waters of Bala the current of the Dee
flows unchanged and unmingling,^ in the other the Scawfells,
Helvellyn, and Skiddaw lift their heads above the charming lakes
of Cumberland. Two such regions, easily defensible, nearly
adjoining, and inhabited by a kindred people, were naturally
allies at the least.

This Gwynedd is easily recognized by the name itself.
For Gwyn-edd means The White Land. In the symbolism of
patriotic association the white meant, doubtless, the pure, the
beautiful, the untaken, the virgin land ; but in the snows that
crowned Snowdon and Helvellyn another reason might be found
for the name. Gwen is a favorite Welsh name for a woman —
corresponding to Blanche, as belonging to a light-haired, fair-
skinned beauty. The white stones that inclosed " the place of
session," in Welsh law, were the " meini gwyjiion." In the
Lake of Bala a famous white fish is known as the Gzvjmiad.^ In

1 Such is the old and familiar tradition.

* Oddly enough, and quoted as part of the proof that some part of the American
Indians are of Welsh descent — probably come from Madoc's voyages in the twelfth
century — there is a salmonoid fish ^Corogonus ferd) in the waters of British Columbia,
with silvery scales, closely resembling that in Bala, and its name, as given by the
natives, is the Quinnai.

THE ORIGIN OF THE TOWNSHIP'S NAME. 45

fact, the word gwyn or gwen will be continually met with in
Welsh, and has always the same significance — to be white, pure,
unsullied. Justice, patriotism, the beauty of fair women, the
snowy heights of the unconquered mountains, the recesses of the
unravaged home of the Kymry, all were represented in the'
adjective.

Taking Gwyn, then, as the root, the termination edd has
simply the significance of a land, a region, a country. The pro-
nunciation of it is not edd, as in English, but eth, the th soft, as
in "with." Gzvcn-eth may therefore be assumed as the name
spoken, and its significance, the white or fair land.^

Returning to that Gwynedd which was but the northern
third of what we now know as Wales, it may be said that be-
tween A.D. 613, when ^thelfrith took Chester, and the time of
Rhodry Mawr, about A. D. 843, little is known concerning it
geographically, and nothing in the chronicle of its feuds and
wars is of importance to this inquiiy. But Rhodry Mawr,
when he died in A. D. 877, divided all Wales amongst his three
sons, and named definite boundaries for their territories. In the
north he gave Gwynedd to his eldest son Anarawd, and he
ordered that Merfyn, the Prince of Powys, the middle division,
and Cadelh, of Deheubarth, the southern, should, with their
heirs and successors, acknowledge the superior sovereignty of
Anarawd. These divisions long continued to have a practical
and actual existence ; for four hundred years they were regarded ;
and they still have, as a basis of historical and descriptive
method, a certain acknowledged importance.^

1 It need hardly be said after this explanation, that while Gwynedd means
the same thing as North Wales, in the sense that both names were long
applied to the same region of country, they have no other relationship what-
ever, and no other similar meaning. What the Kymry called Gwynedd the-
English knew as North Wales, till geographically the designations became inter-
changeable.

2 This division of the kingdom, tending to divide its strength in the face of

46 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

In this division by Rhodry Mawr, " Gwynedd," says Sir
John Price, "had upon the north side the sea, from the river
Dee, at Basingwerke, to Aberdyfi, and upon the west and south-
west the river Dyfi,^ which divided it from south Wales
[Deheubarth, Prince Cadelh's possession] , and in some places
from Powys Land. And on the south and east it is divided
from Powys, sometimes, with mountains, and sometimes with
rivers, till it come to the river Dee again."

The same authority describes Gwynedd as "of old time "
divided into four parts — the island of Mon (Anglesey), Arfon
(Caernarvon), Merioneth, and Y Berfedwlad, which may be
Englished the inland or middle country." Substantially, these
four divisions were Anglesey, the whole of Caernarvon, nearly
all the present Merioneth, the greater part of Denbighshire, and
all of Flintshire, except a small section. It would include rather
less than a third of the area of modern Wales.

It is not germane to the present purpose to trace the history
of the Gwynedd over which Anarawd was left the ruler. It
figures, however, as has already been stated, in all the chronicles
of subsequent Welsh struggle. In the twelfth century, Owain
Gwynedd made himself a name equal to that of Rhodry and
Maelgwn, though inferior, perhaps, to that of the two desperate
and heroic Llewelyns. And it was Madoc, son of Owain
Gwynedd, who, as Welsh authority claims, crossed the Atlantic

the Saxon enemy, the Welsh chroniclers much lament ; but it was according to
the general tenor of the Welsh system, which required, as in the gavel-kind of
the old English law, a distribution of the father's possessions among his
children. [See for an elaborate discussion of the subject, F. Seebohm's " Tribal System
in Wales." — Note, i8q6i\

1 By looking at the map these lines will be easily followed, and the de-
scription is inserted for that purpose, but the points of the compass given are
misleading; the sea lay on the west, as well as on the north, and the Dyfi (Dovey)
could only be fairly described as bounding on the south, and in part on the
south-east.

THE ORIGIN OF THE TOWNSHIP'S NAME. 47

to the American continent, more than three hundred years before
the caravels of Columbus sailed out from Palos. It would be
useless to enter the well-beaten field wherein the claims of
Madoc have been disputed, but it is enough to say that some of
these claims are in modern time accepted as probably true.
That Madoc was a real person, the son of Owain Gwynedd, that
he sailed from Wales in one or two voyages about 1170-72,
and that he bore away into the Atlantic westward " by a route
leaving Ireland on the north," is conceded. But what land he
reached, if any, and whether any descendants of himself and his
company have been found, either in North or South America, are
questions quite beyond settlement ■} in the Welsh Triads them-
selves Madoc's second and final voyage is accounted one of
" The Three Losses by Disappearance " sustained by " The Isle
of Britain."

In the " Triads " we may find abundant allusions to Gwy-
nedd. In those that are historical and geographical, as well as
those that refer to "the social state " of the Welsh, the name
frequently appears. "There are three courts of country and law
— one in Powys, one at Caerleon-on-Usk, which is that of Gla-
morgan and Deheubarth, and one in Gwynedd." "The court of
country and law in Gwynedd is constituted of the lord of the
commot (unless the prince himself be present), the mayor, chan-
cellor," etc. There were " three invading tribes that came into
the Isle of Britain, and departed from it," one of these being
"the hosts of Ganvel the Gwyddel [Irishman], who came to
Gwynedd, and were there twenty-nine years, until they were
driven out by Caswallon, the son of Beli." Of "the Three

1 For an estimate of the importance now assigned to Madoc and his voyages, see
Bryant's History of the United States. The various speculations have assigned his
landing place, settlements, and descendants to nearly the whole east coast of the
American continent from Canada to Patagonia.

48 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Primary Tribes of the Nation of the Cymry," the Gwyndydians,
the men of Gwynedd and Powys, formed one. Rhun, who was
the son of Maelgwn and the first of " Three Fair Princes of the
Isle of Britain," reigned over Gwynedd, it is said, from A. D. 560
to A. D. 586. Cadavael, the son of Cynvedw, in Gwynedd, is
recorded as one of " the Three Plebeian Princes of the Isle of
Britain," and he is handed down in disgrace by another Triad as
having inflicted one of the " Three Heinous Hatchet Blows "
that caused the death of lago ap Beli, the Sovereign of
Gwynedd.

The poetry of the bards, much of it inspired amongst the
hills of northern Wales, and relating to events that had occurred
there, makes Gwynedd and those associated with the name re-
peatedly a theme. Owain Gwynedd is celebrated by numerous
bards. Llywarch, of Powys, singing the bravery of a Powys
prince (about A. D. 1 160) calls him " Gwynedd's foe." Madoc,
the voyager, was a favorite subject : the Prince Llewelyn is re-
ferred to in the verse of Llywarch, a bard, as

" The lion i' the breach, ruler of Gwynedd,"

and as the

" Nephew of Madog, whom we more and more
Lament that he is gone."

Meredydd ap Rhys (about A. D. 1440) says : —
" Madog the brave, of aspect fair,
Owain of Gwynedd's offspring true,
Would have no land — man of my soul ! —
Nor any wealth except the seas."

Elidir Sais, who wrote in the thirteenth century, and was one
of the earliest Welsh composers of religious verse, says : —
" The chieftains of Deheubarth and Gwynedd, 1
Pillars of battle, throned have I seen."

1 The rhythm places the accent on the second syllable, as it should be.

THE ORIGIN OF THE TOWNSHIP'S NAME. 49

And Einion ap Mado<^ ap Rhawaid, in a eulogy upon
Griffith, the unhappy son ' of Llewelyn the Great, says : —

" The eagle of Gwynedd, he is not nij^h,
Though placable, he will no insult bear ;
And though a youth, his daring horsemanship
Fastening on him the strangers' wondering eyes."

And one more stanza, by an author whose name is not pre-
cisely given in the authority here quoted, runs thus : —

" Gwynedd ! for princes gen'rous famed — and songs,
By Gruffydd's son ^ unshamed
Thou art ; he, hawk untamed,
Is praised where'er thy glory is proclaimed."

J His brother Davydd treacherously took him prisoner, and Henn,' III. kept
him in the Tower of London, in attempting to escape from which he was killed.
* The second Llewelyn.

VII.

Number of the First Settlers : Growth of
Population.

FROM the first the Gwynedd settlement had a certain dis-
tinction. It was talked of and written about. Contempo-
rary accounts mention it, and these mentionings are conspicuous
in the meagre annals which have been handed down to us. In
1705, Samuel Carpenter, of Philadelphia, offering for sale, in a
letter to Jonathan Dickinson, a large tract of land in Bucks
county, near the line, describes it as being "about four miles
from North Wales."

The reason for this, obviously, was the fact that the settle-
ment was strong from the beginning. The arrival of the settlers
in a body, their purchase and immediate occupancy of a whole
township, made up a notable proceeding. The adjoining town-
ships filled up slowly ; families came by ones and twos ; their
growth was almost unperceived ; but the Welsh company, com-
posed of a dozen families or more, and moving with a concerted
and harmonious step, commanded attention.

To estimate with confidence the number who arrived in the
first immigration, and who, as the snow fell in November, 1698,
were at home in the township, is impossible. Yet I think it
cannot have been far from one hundred persons, of all ages. In
several families we know very exactly the number of sons and
daughters born before 1698, and who therefore must have come
with their parents in the immigration. Thus —

NUMBER OF TJIE FIRST SFTTLEA'S. 5 1

Edward Foulke expressly speaks of his wife and nine chil-
dren, as being on the Robert and Elisabeth, and arriving safely.

Thomas Evans' family included his wife and at least eight
sons and daughters, who all appear to have been born in Wales.

To Robert Evans are assigned, besides his wife, seven sons
and daughters, all probably born in Wales.

Cadwallader Evans and his wife had one son and one
daughter, both born in Wales.

To Owen Evans and his wife are assigned six children, born
in Wales. (Two others, making up the eight named in our
Genealogy of the family, were born in Gwynedd.)

William John's will (17 12) names his wife and six children,
and all of the six were probably born in Wales.

John Humphrey's will (1736) names one son, and three
daughters, all of them married, and some of them having chil-
dren (to whom he leaves legacies). The comparison of dates,
etc., inclines me to the belief that all his children were born
before 1698, and therefore were among the immigrants.

John Hugh's family was small ; his son Ellis, who was mar-
ried in 171 3, must have been born before 1698, and his
daughter Gainor, married in 1723, may have been, — there is
some reason for thinking that she was.

Hugh Griffith's son Evan was married in 1705 ; his son
Griffith (called Griffith Hugh) was married in 17 18. The
former certainly, the latter probably, may be counted as among
the immigrants.

As to the other families I do not attempt anything. The
Pughs (ap Hughs) included several men, but the time of their
arrival may not have been before 1699. Robert John was mar-
ried in 1706, and probably had no family when he came into the
township. Of Evan Robert's and Ellis David's families I have
no data to present.

52

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Summing up, however, what has been stated above, we have

these figures :

Edward Foulke's family, .
Thomas Evans' family,
Robert Evans' family, . .
Cadwallader Evans' family,
Owen Evans' family,
William John's family, .
John Humphrey's family, .
John Hugh's family (say) .
Hugh Griffith's family (say)

1 1 persons.

lo persons.

9 persons.

4 persons.
8 persons.
8 persons.
6 persons.

5 persons.
5 persons.

Total, 66

To this, if we add thirty -four to cover all the others, includ-
ing servants, — of whom I have no account, — ample allowance
will no doubt be made. The number who came into Gwynedd
the first year was probably under rather than over one hundred.

A petition presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions, in
Philadelphia, in June, 1704 (asking for a road via Whitemarsh),
and headed, " Petition of the Inhabitants of North Wales, in
Philadelphia County," recites that "there are in said township
above thirty families already settled." (I am inclined to think
that those over the line, in what is now Montgomery, were
included. I doubt whether Montgomery was then organized.)

In 1 74 1, Gwynedd contained 93 taxables,^ and Montgomery
township 54. Gwynedd was then one of the largest in taxable
population in Philadelphia county ; it was exceeded only by six
others in what is now Montgomery county, as follows : Salford,
174; Providence, 146; Moreland, 125; Manatawny, iii
Lower Merion, 10 1 ; Upper Hanover, 97. Salford, it must be

1 See Watson's Annals, Vol. II., p. 403.

NUMBER OF THE FIRST SETTLERS.

53

noted, then included both the present townships of that name, —
Upper and Lower; and Providence included Upper and Lower
Providence. In the same year (1741, as above), all the town-
ships adjoining and near to Gwynedd had a less number of taxa-
bles. Their numbers were as follows : Horsham, 80 ; Perkio-
men and Skippack, 73 ; Plymouth, 46; Towamencin, 55 ; Whit-
pain, 56 ; Worcester, 70 ; Upper Dublin, 'j'j ; Whitemarsh, 89.

In the table below I give figures from the censuses since
1800, as far as I have been able conveniently to obtain them.
Of the census of 1830, I am able to give, however, some special
details.^ Under 5 years there were 228 ; between 60 and 70
years, 52; between 70 and 80 years, 30; between 80 and 90
years, 10; between 90 and 100 years, i. Montgomery town-
ship had 911 population, 472 male, 439 female; 4 of the total
colored. In the two townships collectively there were 7 aliens,
not naturalized, none blind, none deaf and dumb.

Population of Gwynedd by several Censuses.

Year.

Total.

Male.

Female.

White.

Colored.

1800

906

470

427

897

9

181O

1078

.

1820

I22I

648

573

1830

I4OI

701

701

1397

5

1840

1850

I57I

807

764

I561

10

i860

1976

IOI8

958

1965

1 1

1870

2501

2477

24

1880

3412

.

.

Native. Foreign.

2349

152

[Notes. — In the figures for 1800, the numbers by sex are of whites
only ; the 9 colored persons must be counted in to make up the total 906.

The figures for 1870 include North Wales borough, 407 (native, 385 ;
foreign, 22).

• See Hazard's Register, Vol. VI., p. 31.

54 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

The figures for 1880 include North Wales Borough, 673 : and 500 of
the population of the borough of Lansdale, — an estimate of that portion
of the borough's total (798), which was on the Gwynedd side of the town-
ship line.

The census for 1790, the first taken by the United States, cannot be
given, as an examination of the original records in the Census Office, at
Washington (kindly made for me by Mr. Chas. H. Ingram, of the Internal
Revenue Bureau), shows that the return of Gwynedd township was not
made separately.

Figures for 18 10 and 1840 are left blank, because the Census Office
has no copy of the printed complete returns for either year ; and it seemed
unnecessary to search out and tabulate the original returns.

Details of the native and foreign born were not ascertained in the
censuses prior to 1850, and were not published until 1870.]

VIII.

The First Settlers' Homes ; Personal Details.

DEEDS were made to the other settlers by William John
and Thomas Evan, within a few months after the settle-
ment, when it had been decided how much land each should
take.' The plots were marked off, however, upon the suppo-

1 Ten of these deeds are dated 4th mo. (June) 5, 1699, and the others, also, appear
to have been then executed ; except Wm. John's conveyance to Thomas Evan, and
the latter's conveyance to the former, which are dated 6th mo. (August) 30, of that
year.

These deeds show that the township was actually divided up among the settlers.
William John and Thomas Evan paid Robert Turner " 508 pounds, current money of
Pennsylvania," for it; and in the distribution each colonist was charged at this rate, —
6 pounds 10 shillings for each one hundred acres. Thus, the conveyances from John
and Evan were as follows :

Acres.

Robert Jones, 500

Cadwallader ap Evan 500

Robert ap Evan, 500

John Hugh 500

Thomas Evan .... 700 45 10

Wm. John 2150

Owen ap Evan 400

Edward Ffoulk, 400

John Humphrey 400

H. & E. Griffith ... 300

Hugh David, 220

Evan Hugh 100

Total . . 6670 433 II

The list is not quite complete ; the other conveyances (which I did not readily
find on the records) will make up the 7,820 acres, and 508 pounds. (John Humphrey,
above, is assigned 400 acres ; the patent gives him, of first right, 450 ; also, Wm. John's
two tracts, above, make 2,150 acres ; but in the two patents he is allowed 1,900 and
150, making 2,050. Perhaps the Evan Robert tract, 100 acres, is included in the
2,150 above.)

f

s.

32

10

32

10

32

10

32

10

45

10

139

IS

26

0

26

0

26

0

19

10

14

6

6

10

$6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

sition that the township contained the area assigned to it in the
purchase from Robert Turner, 7,820 acres, whereas its actual
area was about fifty per cent greater. Thus WilHam John was
presumed to have 1,900 acres in his large tract, but really had
2,866; Evan ap Hugh's title was for 700, whereas his plot con-
tained 1,068; Cadwallader Evan had title for 500, and received
609 ; Edward Foulke for 400, and received 720 ; John
Humphrey for 450, and received 574 ; and so on throughout
the list. (The patent of Thomas Evan, already cited at length,
shows that his purchase was 700 acres, and that his tract con-
tained 1,049 acres.)

These facts were developed by a re-survey, made in pur-
suance of a general law, passed by the Provincial Assembly
about 1 70 1. There had been a re-survey of all recently patented
lands. Penn, in leaving the colony for England, in November,
1 70 1, had particularly urged the matter on the attention of
James Logan. ^ To perform the work in Gwynedd, David
Powell, the Welsh surveyor, who had run the lines in Merion,
when that township was taken up, and who had since been an
assistant to the Surveyor-General of the province, was assigned.
He came over from Merion, and was engaged in Gwynedd at
different times during the year 1702.^ (The patent to Thomas
Evans shows that a general warrant for the re-surveys was
issued by Penn's Commissioners of Property, on September

1 Writing from the ship Dolmahoy, on his way down the Delaware, on November
3d, Penn adds a postscript : " Cause all the provinces and territories to be re-surveyed
in the most frugal manner, with the assistance of my brother-in-law, Edward
Penington, within the two years prescribed by the law, if possible." Logan replies to
this, December 2d : " We intend to set about re-surveys with all expedition," and in a
later letter he remarks that the overplus found by the surveyors is much greater than
had been expected.

' David's plots, showing the several tracts, returned by him to the Land Office, are
still to be seen in the Department of Internal Affairs, at Harrisburg. They are small,
and not elaborate.

THE FIRST SETTLERS' IfOMES. $7

29th, 1 70 1, and the date of the patent is March 8th, 1702.
Between these dates, of course, David ran the Hnes. Other
records show that the order for the survey of WilHam John's
tract was made 7th mo. 29th, 1702, and that he made his
return to the " General Surveyor's Office," loth mo. 2d,
ensuing ; in John Humphrey's tract he made return of re-
survey, loth mo. 25th, 1702.)

The re-surveys being completed, the Commissioners issued
patents to the holders of the several tracts in the township.
These patents confirmed the title acquired through Turner,^ and
they also conveyed the overplus land in excess of the amount
to which he had a right. The plan of doing this was not
illiberal. Each settler was confirmed not only the amount he
had bought, but ten per cent, additional, and for the remaining
acres a moderate price was charged. Thomas Evans' patent
shows that after confirming him 700 acres, he was allowed
70 more, and for the remaining 279 was to pay 61 pounds,
8 shillings, 3 farthings.

1 Robert Turner's deed to John and Evan for the colony should have been
described more particularly at page 28 of this volume. He recites that he had received
from Penn four warrants : one in 1683, for 1000 acres, another, same year, for 5600,
another, in 1684, for 720, and the fourth, same year, for 500, and these were " laid out
by y* Surveyor General's order, in one tract," in Philadelphia county, " Beginning at a
black oak tree marked for a corner, standing in y^ line of Wm. Harman's land, and
on y« east side of a small run of water, thence n. e. by the same and the land of Tryall
Kolme, 780 p. to a post, then n. w. by the lands of Joseph Fisher and Wm. Stanley,
John West and John Day, 1604 p. to a post for a corner; then s. w. by the land of
James Peters, 780 p. to another corner post ; then s. e. by y« township laid out for
Richard Whitpaine, Chas. Marshall, Thomas Cox, John Bassley, and others, 1604 p. to
the place of beginning ; " " the survey thereof completed on y« 2d day of the 12th mo.,
1694, as by return of y* sd warrants in Surveyor General's office, ist mo. loth, 1698-99
will appear," etc., etc.

This shows that the surveys of the land were made especially for the purpose
of the conveyance to John and Evan. The record also shows that Thomas Fairman
made the survey, — though it must have been a very imperfect one, as the township's
lines given above are but 1604 perches on the long sides, while Powell's re-survey
showed them to be really over 2000. (It seems doubtful whether Fairman really went
on the ground, at all.)

58

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

A statement of the amounts in the several tracts, as shown
be the re-surveys, may be made as follows :

First Purchase. Area Patctited.

Thomas Evan, 700 1049

William John, 1900 . . 2866

Evan ap Hugh, 700 1068

Robert John, 500 720

Robert ap Hugh 200 232

Robert Evan, . 500 1034

Cadvvallader Evan, 500 .... 609

Owen Evan, 400 538

Edward Foulke 400 712

Evan ap Hugh (lower tract), .... 100 . . . 1 10

John Humphrey, .... ... 450 574

William John (lower tract), 1 50 ... 322

Robert Evan (lower tract) 200 250

Hugh and Evan Griffith 300 376

Ellis David. 220 231

Evan Robert, 100 no

John Hugh, 500 648

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The location of the several tracts is shown by the skeleton
map of the township given herewith. William John's large tract
occupied the upper end, and extended downward to a point
below Kneedler's tavern. The road leaving the turnpike at the
toll-gate and running south-westward by West Point station,
must have been very nearly his lower line.

The lower line of Thomas Evan's tract was very nearly, or
exactly, the present Swedes' Ford road. The lower line of
Edward Foulke's tract was along the present road from Spring-
House to Penllyn, and the eastern corner of his property was
almost precisely at the former place. John Humphrey's tract
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John's north corner, on the township line (Welsh road), must
have been on the top of the hill, above John Stone's old smith-
shop, just about the point where is the corner-stone of
Gwynedd, Horsham, and Montgomery townships. From this
point extended south-westward across the township the lower
line of Owen Evans, and it must have crossed the turnpike near
the bridge over the Treweryn. Robert Evan's main tract,
bounded on the upper side by the Swedes' Ford road, must
have extended, down the turnpike, to about where the road to
Gwynedd station now crosses, just above Ellen H. Evans's.
Robert's line adjoining his brother Cadwallader's land passed a
short distance north-east of the meeting-house. Going up the
turnpike, from the Swedes' Ford road crossing, Thomas Evan's
tract must have extended nearly to the top of the hill, about
where the old St. Peter's burying-ground now is ; and Robert
John, adjoining above, took in most of the site of North Wales
borough. Above him, and extending to William John's line,
near Kneedler's, was Evan ap Hugh's tract.

Where the settlers lived is in part definitely known, and in
part surmised. The residences of the four Evans brothers fall in
the former category. There is preserved by their descendants
a genealogical sketch of the family, several copies of which have
come to my notice during my searches for the facts contained in
this volume. This genealogical sketch, it is stated on one of
the copies, was compiled from materials furnished in October,
1797, by John Evans, Sen. (son of John ; grandson of Cadwal-
lader), and his sister Elizabeth. John was then 67 years old,
and his sister 71. The data were taken down by Cadwallader
Evans, of Philadelphia (son of Rowland), and a memorandum
on the copy now in the possession of Jonathan Evans, of
Germantown, says that " some additions [have been] made
since by Charles Evans, but no alterations."

6o HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

On this old document, the statement is made of the resi-
dences of the four brothers. It is as follows : —

"Thomas Evans lived where Heist now keeps tavern by the

run, half a mile above the meeting-house.

"Robert Evans lived where George Roberts now lives, half a mile
west of George Maris' s late residence.

" Owen Evans lived where his grandson Thomas Evans now lives, by
the Great Road, one mile below the meeting-house.

' ' Cadwallader lived where his grandson John Evans lately lived and
died, and where his son Cadwallader now lives, near the meeting-house."

The localities here mentioned are all easily identified.
Thomas's house, where Heist kept tavern ninety years ago,
is on the turnpike just above Evans' Run, — the house occupied
within my recollection by George Wagner, John Preston, Silas
H. Land, William Rowland, and others, and now owned by
James D. Cardell. Robert's house was that now owned by
Silas White, lately William J. Linnard's place, and long before
his ownership belonging to George Roberts. (The present house,
though antiquated enough, I do not suppose was Robert
Evan's, or any part of it ; more likely it was built by Amos
Roberts.) Owen Evan's place was that now occupied by Ellen
H. Evans ; his house probably stood between her present house
and the turnpike, where there used to be marks of an old well
and of a building.

(It may be remarked, here, that the Ellen H. Evans farm
has come down to herself and children directly through the
inheritance of her husband, Cadwallader, from his ancestor,
Owen, and has never been out of the family. I know of no
other such instance in the township. No single acre of land
in Gwynedd, I believe, except this, is now owned by any
direct descendant of an original settler, with a family title
directly down.)

THE FIRST SETTLERS' HOMES. 6 1

Cadwallader's house, of course, was that which he and his
descendants held for over a hundred years, which then passed
(after a short ownership by Charles Willing Hare) into the
possession of Evan Jones, and now belongs (1896) to the
Hollingsworth estate. The mansion house — not the other and
smaller dwelling — stands on the site where Cadwallader lived.

It was at Thomas Evan's house, according to the tradition
preserved by his son Hugh, that William Penn stayed over-
night when he visited Gwynedd. The story of this visit was
first printed by Watson,^ in his Annals, and he had it from
Susan Nancarro, the granddaughter of Hugh Evans. His
account is this :

' ' Mrs. Nancarro had often seen and conversed with her grandfather,
Hugh Evans, who hved to be ninety years of age. When he was a boy
of twelve he remembered that William Penn, with his daughter Letitia,
and a servant (in the year 1699 °^ 1700), came out on horseback to
visit his father, Thomas Evans. Their house was then superior in that
it was of barked logs, a refinement surpassing the common rank. The
same place is now E. Jones's, near the Gwynedd meeting-house.* At that
house William Penn ascended steps on the outside to go to his chamber ;
and the boy of twelve, being anxious to see all he could of so distin-
guished a man, went up afterwards to peep through the apertures at him ;
and there he well remembered to have seen him on his knees praying,
and giving thanks to God for such peaceful and excellent shelter in the
wilderness. * * * * I heard Mrs. D. L.^ say that she had also
heard the same fact from Hugh Evans.

' ' There was at this time a great preparation among the Indians near
there for some public festival. Letitia Penn, then a lively young girl,
greatly desired to be present, but her father would not give his consent,

1 See Watson s Annals, Vol. II., p. 79, It has been copied from Watson into Dav's
Historical Collections of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.

* This error we must ascribe to Watson, or possibly to Mrs. Nancarro ; Hugh
Evans, of course, would have known that the Evan Jones place was his uncle
Cadwallader's, and not where his father lived.

3 Deborah Logan, no doubt.

62 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

though she entreated much. The same informant says she ran out cha-
grined, and seeming to wish for something to dissipate her regret, snatched
up a flail near some grain, at which she began to labour playfully, when
she inadvertently brought the unwieldy instrument severely about her head
and shoulders ; and was thus quickly constrained to retreat into the
house, with quite a new concern upon her mind. This fact made a last-
ing impression upon the memory of the lad aforesaid, who then was a
witness."

The time of this visit Watson fixes as above, in 1699 or
1700. That it was in 1699 is possible, but very improbable,
for it was not until the ist of December, the former year, that
Penn reached this country (on his second visit), and came ashore
at Chester. The excursion to Gwynedd doubtless occurred in
1700 or 1 70 1.

The allusion to the material of which Thomas Evans's
house was built, — barked logs, — and the statement that this
was superior to the houses of the other settlers, give us suffi-
cient light on the subject of their general character, fixing them
as log cabins, with the bark unremoved. Such, no doubt, the
first dwellings of the township were.

Besides the four Evans dwellings, we can fix with certainty
the home of Edward Foulke. The house at Penllyn station,
for many years Jesse Spencer's, lately the property of D. C.
Wharton, and now occupied by members of his family, is on
the site of Edward's house. Thomas Foulke, his eldest son,
settled, when he married, in 1706, on a part of his father's
lands, and the house which was long occupied by William
Foulke, his great-great-grandson, afterwards sold to D. C. Whar-
ton, and lately part of his estate, was Thomas's residence.
Joseph Foulke's book says : "A stone milk-house
is yet standing (1846), in good repair, dated '^ q
{i.e. Thomas and Gwen Foulke, 1728). 1728

John Humphrey's house, one of the two places at which the

THE FIRST SETTLERS' HOMES. 63

Friends held their meetings, was near the Spring-House, at the
place known in recent time as Reuben Yocum's, up the
Bethlehem turnpike, north of the hotel, — such, at least, is the
well-preserved tradition. John was a somewhat notable person.
A brief memorial of him, by Gwynedd monthly meeting, is pre-
served in the John Smith manuscript collection, as follows :

"John Humphrey arrived here from Wales in the year 1698, was one
of the first settlers of Gwynedd, and an elder several years. He departed
this life 13th of 9th month, 1738, and was buried at Gwynedd, aged 70
years."

His will is on record in Philadelphia. It is dated 7th mo.
3, 1736, and was proved December (loth mo.) 2d, 1738. He
appoints as " overseers " of the will " my cousin John Jones,
and my friends John Jones, carpenter, and John Evans." The
witnesses are Rowland Roberts, who signs his name with his
mark, " R. R." ; Thomas Evans (Owen's son, no doubt), who
signs with a mark T. E., joined in a monogram ; and Isaac
Cook, who makes his initials only " i. c. " John Humphrey
himself signs with his mark, " I. H. " in rude letters. The con-
tents of the will are of some interest. He leaves 30 pounds to
his sister Elizabeth Thomas, 5 pounds to the children of Evan
Griffith, 5 to his son-in-law Cadwallader Jones, 5 to his son-in-
law Hugh Jones, 5 to his " daughter-in-law " Elizabeth Davies,
5 to his niece Gainor Jones, and 5 to his niece Catharine Lloyd.
To Gwynedd preparative meeting he leaves 50 pounds, the in-
terest to be applied to the relief of its poor and indigent mem-
bers, but he expresses the hope that if any of his relations,
members of the Society, though not of this meeting, should be in
want, their claims will be considered. To his grandson John
Jones he leaves 30 pounds, and his riding horse, — to receive
them when he is 15 years old. To his grandson Humphrey
Jones he leaves 30 pounds, and to his granddaughter Jane

64 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Jones 25 pounds and a case of drawers, which she is to receive
at the age of 18. To his granddaughter Sibill Jones he leaves
27 pounds, with a brass kettle, which she is to have at 15, and
to his granddaughters Elizabeth and Gainor Jones 30 pounds
apiece. But as to these legacies to his grandchildren, he par-
ticularly says that they are to receive nothing unless " by their
good conduct they recommend themselves worthy and deserv-
ing." He gives a legacy to his daughter-in-law Katharine
Jones, and to his son Humphrey Jones all his remaining estate,
real and personal, appointing him executor.

The number of these legacies and their amounts indicate
that John Humphrey was comparatively rich. Upon this point,
however, we get more light from the inventory filed with his
will. This exhibits him as an extensive money lender. He
must have been the banker of the neighboring country. The
total of the inventory (personal estate only) is 1,027 pounds 9
shillings, of which but 80 pounds 18 shillings is for household
or other goods, the remainder being made up by a mortgage of
Robert Hugh, 60 pounds, and by " obligations," — which we
may assume to mean bonds and notes, — numbering no less than
eighty-tivo, altogether. The list of debtors who had given these
obligations is a long one, and includes many of the second gen-
eration of the Gwynedd people, with others in Montgomery and
elsewhere. Five of the notes are by Rowland Roberts, four by
William Mellchor, three by John Clayton, two by William
Williams, two by Hugh Foulke, two by Barnard Young, the
others generally one each by different persons.

That his interest in his money-lending had been regarded as
somewhat absorbing may be inferred by the very guarded
memorial of the monthly meeting ; but Joseph Foulke, in his
Journal, records a statement as coming from his mother, Ann
Foulke (born Roberts), which is still more distinct. She de-

THE FIRST SETTLERS' HOMES. 65

scribes him as having been, at one time, a very exemplary
Friend, meek and humble, enduring suffering and persecution,
etc., and then she adds : " But when he became settled in Gwy-
nedd, and was well rewarded for his industry and economy, he
became rich, his bonds and mortgages increased, and as they
did so the fine gold became dim, and his usefulness in the
church declined apace." A Friend from Richland' attended the
monthly meeting at Gwynedd, and in the afternoon rode to his
home, twenty miles distant, under great exercise of mind con-
cerning John Humphrey. He passed a restless night at home,
and rode back to John Evans' (the son of Cadwallader), in the
morning. Arriving there, he would not eat or drink until he
had delivered his message, so, taking John Evans with him,
they went to John Humphrey and told him " he had better
burn all his bonds and mortgages than preserve them ; that it
would be much better for himself and his posterity, and this was
the word of the Lord to him." The Friend then returned with
John Evans, ate and drank, and rode home to Richland with a
peaceful mind !

It will be observed that John Humphrey's son is called
Humphrey Jones. This was following the ordinary Welsh
usage of the time, keeping no family name, but changing it with
each generation, by adopting as the surname the first name of
the parent.^ This custom existed among the Welsh immi-
grants, at the time of their arrival, and it was followed by them
after coming, in a number of cases, though generally the
English usage of preserving a family name was adopted. The
five brothers Roberts (whose genealogy is elsewhere given in

^ Adds J. F., in his Journal.

* Paxton Hood, in his Life of Cromwell, says Henry VHI., who, as a Tudor,
might claim the right to advise, urged the Welsh strongly to abandon their custom, and
adopt the family surname system of the English. But the Welsh were slow to give up
national customs.

66 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

this volume), were the sons of Robert Cadwallader. John
Griffith, of Merion (who married Edward Foulke's daughter
Jane), and his brother, Evan Griffith, were the sons of Griffith
John. The children of Evan Pugh of Gwynedd appear to have
generally taken the name of Evan, and not Pugh ; at any rate,
the meeting records show the marriages of Jane Evan, daughter
of Evan Pugh, in 1709; Hugh Evan, son of Evan Pugh (to
Mary Robert, daughter of Robert John), in 17 16; Catherine
Evan, daughter of Evan Pugh, in 17 17; and Cadwallader
Evan, son of Evan Pugh, in 1722. The marriage lists show
several other instances : Edward Jones and Evan Jones, who
both married daughters of Thomas Evans, of Gwynedd, were
sons of John Evan, of Radnor; Robert Hugh, son of Hugh
Griffith, is recorded as marrying, in 17 17; Griffith Hugh, son
of Hugh Griffith, in 1718; and John Roger, son of Roger
Roberts (of Merion), in 1 7 1 7.

A curious instance of the effect of this change of surname
is seen in the case of the four brothers Evans, of Gwynedd,
and the Owens, of Merion, — descendants of Robert and Jane.
The father of the Evans brothers, and the father of Robert
Owen, were brothers, — being the sons of Evan Robert Lewis,
of Fron Goch, in Wales. They were named respectively
Owen ap Evan, and Evan ap Evan, and the children of the
former, having come to Pennsylvania, were known thereafter as
Owens, while those of the latter were known as Evanses.

Humphrey Jones, John Humphrey's son, married, in 17 19,
Catharine, the daughter of William John. Her father was then
deceased, having died in 17 12. It seems likely that he was
a man advanced in years, and older than his wife, Jane, for she
survived until about 1740. The place of his residence is
not certain, but Mr. Mathews thinks, and this is likely, that he
lived at the place owned for many years by George W. Dane-

THE FIRST SETTLERS' HOMES. 67

hower, and occupied in recent times by Frank Myers, on the
West Point road, just south-west of the toll-gate by Kneedler's.
The house is old, and there are plain date marks upon it of
the year 171 2. It stands within the southern limit, — though
very close to the line, — of William John's tract, and the prob-
ability is strong that it is William John's house ; and though
it will be noted that the year of its erection was the same year
in which he died, yet as his will is dated in August, and proved
in November, he may have been the man who built this house.'

Dwelling for a moment on William John and his family, —
as they will not come into any of the genealogies hereafter to be
given, — he was the richest man in the township, if we may
judge by the size of his tract, which was nearly three times as
large as any other. I cannot trace what relation he was, if any,
to Robert John, or to Griffith John, of Merion,^ but that they
were related is indicated by the fact that in several instances
they signed marriage certificates in a group, — a slight evi-
dence of relationship, as it was the usage for relatives of the
marrying parties to sign by families, in the order of their near-
ness of connection.

William John had several children, including at least five
daughters and one son, as follows :

I. Gwen, m., 1704, William Lewis, of Newtown, Chester County ; d.
before 1717-1718, when her husband re-married.

1 The date is cut in a stone near the peak of the western gable, and also in a stone
close to the south door-way. The building is a two-story stone house with a wing
kitchen. It has wide deep chimney-places, and one upper window, in which the
ancient sash have been allowed to remain, is filled with little panes of glass, six inches
by two. There is some appearance that the wing kitchen was built earlier than
the main dwelling, and tradition says that a log cabin, still earlier in date, stood a little
distance to the southward, by a spring. A depression in the ground at this place is
supposed to be the site of the cabin, which was, no doubt, the original home ofWilliam
John and his family.

2 John Humphrey's will indicates that he and William John were brothers-in-law.

68 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

2. Margaret, m., ist, 1705, Robert Ellis, of Merion ; and 2d, 1709,
David Llewellyn, of Haverford, widower.

3. Gainor, m., 1714, Abraham Musgrave, "son of Thomas, late of
Halifax, Yorkshire, Great Britain, yeoman, deceased."

4. Catharine, m., 17 19, Humphrey Jones.

5. ElUn.

6. John, m., Margaret .

All these children were living at the time of William John's
death, and they or their husbands are all named in his will.
The son John being appointed executor with the widow, Jane,
may have been older than some of his sisters, — for instance,
Gainor and Catharine, who were single then, and for some years
after. To John was left 1400 acres of land, with the dwelling,
plantation, etc., which the testator had made, life-right of one-
half being reserved to the widow. To Gainor, Ellin, and Catha-
rine was left the detached tract of 322 acres in the lower end
of the township, adjoining Edward Foulke's, at Penllyn.

Next below William John's tract was that of Evan ap Hugh.
His life in Gwynedd was brief In May, 1703, he received the
confirmatory patent for his land from Penn's commissioners,
and on nearly the same date made his will.^ His death
occurred soon after. Of the 1068 acres which his tract proved
to contain he had sold 454 (200 acres of it to Meredith
David, and 1 50 to John Roberts), and by his will he divided
the remaining 614 acres equally between his two sons, Hugh,
the elder and " heir at law," and David, the younger. The will
provided, however, that Hugh should have the end of the
tract containing "the house and settlement" which the father
had made. This house must have been just above North
Wales, and on the eastern side of the turnpike, but the tract
of Hugh, on which it stood, lay chiefly on the other side of the
present road, extending for some distance, while the 307 acres

1 The will is dated May 21, the patent May 22.

THE FIRST SETTLERS' HOMES. 6g

that David got adjoined, and reached over to the hne of Wor-
cester townships. Both the brothers, in a few years, sold their
tracts: Hugh his, in 171 8, to Cadwallader Foulke (Edward's
son), for 180 pounds; and David his to Humphrey Bate, who
had married their mother, Ann, the widow of Evan ap Hugh.

The Bates, Humphrey and his wife, left the township,
probably about 1720, and we find them recorded as of Philadel-
phia county; and in 1723 they, with David and Hugh Pugh,
joined in a deed for David's tract to William Lewis, of Newtown,
Chester county. This William was, no doubt, the one who
married William John's daughter, Grace, as recorded above.
She had, however, died before this purchase of 1723, and he
had married, at Gwynedd meeting, in March, 17 17-18, " Lowry
Jones, widow," whom I take to be Lowry, daughter of Thomas
Evans, who in 1 7 1 1 had married Evan Jones, son of John Evan,
of Radnor.

Of Robert John, who owned the tract next below Evan ap
Hugh, we know considerable, from the records. He was one
of the richest of the first settlers, as is indicated by the char-
acter and extent of the inventoiy of his personal property at
the time of his death, in 1732. My impression is that he had
been in Merion, before 1698, and that he came from there to
Gwynedd.^ He was, it appears by his will, a nephew of Thomas
Evans, and of Cadwallader Evans, for he appoints "my loving
uncle, Cadwallader Evans, [and] my cousins Evan Evans, Owen
Evans [the sons of Thomas], John Jones, carpenter, and John
Evans " [son of Cadwallader], to be overseers of his will. The
relationships disclosed in this lead to the conjecture that Robert

1 A Robert John (but that it was the same I do not pretend to say) brought a cer-
tificate to Haverford meeting, 12th mo. 10, 1696, from Hendre Mawr meeting, in
Merionethshire, Wales. At the same time Hugh Griffith, and children (who may have
been, after all, the same that settled in Gwynedd in 1698), brought their certificate from
the same place.

70 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

John was the son of Evan John, of Merion, who was brother
to Reese John, and that Evan John's wife was the sister of the
four Evans brothers. In this way Robert would be first cousin
to John Jones, carpenter (son of Reese John), and to the sons of
Thomas and Cadwallader Evans.

We know, further, that Robert John, of Gwynedd, married,
in 1 706, Gainor Lloyd, of Merion, widow, and that, at his death,
in 1732, he left two children, John and Ellin. The records of
Gwynedd meeting show :

1. John, b. 5th mo. 8th, 1707.

2. EUin, b. 4th mo. 19th, 1709.

In his will, Robert John (now calling himself Jones) ap-
points his widow and his son John executors. He gives John
" the plantation I now live on," containing 300 acres, and also
" all that part of the tract of land lately bought of Cadwallader
Foulke, which lyeth the east side of the great road, containing
by estimation about 185 acres," with its buildings and
appurtenances.^ To Ellin he leaves the remainder of the Cad-
wallader Foulke tract, "being divided from the other part by the
great road, containing 150 acres." He also gives Ellin "one
case and drawers, and the table belonging to the same, both
standing in the new house ^ chamber."

Robert John, in the deed to him, by Cadwallader Foulke, is
called "gentleman." He was a justice of the peace for many
years, and was a member of the Provincial Assembly, —
altogether a useful and excellent citizen.

Thomas Evan, whose house we have definitely located as on

1 This shows where it was that Evan ap Hugh, the first settler, had built his house,
— i.e., north-east of the line on which the "great road," now the turnpike, was sub-
sequently laid out.

' Robert John's " new house " was no doubt where the borough of North
Wales now is, — probably the Jacob Shearer (now Swartley) place, on the west side of
the turnpike.

THE FIRST SETTLERS' HOMES. 7 1

the site of the old Heist hotel (now Cardell's), had, besides
daughters, who will be fully mentioned in the P_lvans Genealogy,
four sons :

1. Robert, " of Merion," " eldest son and heir," d. 1754.

2. Hugh, "of Merion," d. 1771, a;^'^ed 92.

3. Evan, of Gwynedd, preacher, b. 1684, d. 1747.

4. Owen, of Gwynedd, d. 1757.

Among these four sons, Thomas Evan seems to have divided
up the whole of his tract, during his lifetime, and not many
years after the first settlement. They had something like equal
shares, and their lands lay in this order : Evan on the Whitpain
line, then Robert, then Owen, then Hugh, reaching to the
Montgomery line. (But Robert and Hugh and their father
were concerned at different times in conveyances of the lands
they held, and I have not thoroughly sifted out these trans-
actions.) The sale of 236 acres by the father to Evan took
place in 1713 ; and in December, 171 5, he made a deed for 306
acres to Owen. The latter's plot lay near the middle of the
original great tract, the deed showing that it must have been on
both sides of where the turnpike now is, and have included the
Meredith farm (now Jonathan Lukens' estate), and part or all of
that of the late Algernon S. Jenkins. On the south-western side
was property of Robert Evan, and on the north-eastern that of
Hugh Evan, — corresponding to the statement made above.

Of these four brothers, Evan and Owen lived and died in
Gwynedd. The former, a preacher, will be referred to more
fully in a subsequent chapter. Owen lived on the Meredith
place, and I think the old house there, still standing, was built
by him. It was very old, Margaret Meredith says, when her
father. Dr. Joseph Meredith, bought it in 18 14. Owen Evans
was an active Friend, and has a short memorial in the John
Smith manuscript collection. He was a store-keeper by occu-

72 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

pation, was a justice of the peace, and for many years a member
of the Provincial Assembly ; was twice married, and died in

1757-

The other two sons, Robert and Hugh, appear to have lived

mostly in Merion, where they both died. Both were men of
considerable property. In deeds, 1705 and 1709, Robert is
located " of Merion." Further details will be given concerning
him and his brother Hugh in the chapter on the Evans Gene-
alogy. Concerning their father, however, it may be here stated
that in 1722 he married, for his second wife, Hannah Davies, of
Goshen, Chester county. She was then a widow for the second
time. Her first husband was Reese John, of Merion (the Reese
John William repeatedly mentioned in this volume ; by him she
was the mother of John Jones, carpenter, of Montgomery, and
other children) ; her second husband, whom she married about
1702, and who died about 1720, was Ellis David, of Goshen;
and for her third she took, in 1722, our Gwynedd chief of the
clan Evans. He was then 71 years old, and she 66} After
his marriage he removed to Goshen, and. the Friends' records
show the certificate of Gwynedd meeting, given for his removal,
in which he is called " our antient friend Thomas Evans ;" and
while it speaks of him very highly, it adds that " many of us
were more willing if he could find his way clear to have finished
the remainder of his days where he was more conversant."

Thomas, however, lived out his span of life at Goshen.
They made him an overseer of the meeting there, from 1735 to
1737 ; in 1738, the 12th of loth month, he died, aged 87 years.
His widow survived him until 9th month 29th, 1741, when she
died, aged 85. Her will is on record in Philadelphia, and she
leaves bequests to her several children, and to various other
persons.^

1 His son Hugh had married her daughter Lowry.
' See further details in the Jones Genealogy, post.

IX.

Establishment of the Friends^ Meeting.

IN any narrative of the early life of Gwynedd, the Friends'
meeting occupies a conspicuous place. It and the first
settlement are associated in all the old accounts. The meeting
is substantially as old as the township ; the erection of the meet-
ing-house was almost the first object of the people's common
efforts ; and for three-quarters of a century it was the only place
of public worship within the township. Located at the
geographical centre, for the common convenience, it was the
centre, likewise, of the most important and serious interests of
the community. These fervently religious people held sacred
their house of worship, but, besides, it was dear to them as the
place where they celebrated their simple but solemn ceremonials
of marriage, and where, with repressed but not the less strong
sorrow, they committed the remains of their dead to the final
rest. Closely attached to each other, not only as countr}^men
whose race feeling is proverbial, but by ties of kindred which
made them almost a single family, they formed in the beginning
a singularly compact and united body, and when they gathered
at the meeting-house, it was a re-union of members whose
interests, feelings, and ideas were all in common. The First-
day morning gathering, the exhortation by Robert Evans, or his
brother Cadwallader ; the greetings when meeting broke, the
chat outside, under the white-oaks and buttonwoods, made a
most important feature in the quiet life of the little community ;
while the visit of Friends from Merion or Plymouth, with a

74 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

sermon by Hugh Roberts, Ellis Pugh, or Rowland Ellis, was
an experience awakening its special interest ; and such extraor-
dinary occasions as an appointed meeting by a famous preacher,
— Thomas Chalkley, or John Fothergill, perhaps, — were
events that stirred it to its depths.

The minute-book of Gwynedd monthly meeting begins in
1 7 14, with several minutes, reciting the authority (from Haver-
ford monthly and Philadelphia quarterly meetings) for organiz-
ing the new monthly meeting, and it also gives the following
historical account :

"This place hath been originally settled by the present inhabitants,
most of them yet Uving, and called by the name of Gwynedd township,
in the latter end of the year 1698, and beginning of the year 1699. The
Principal Settlers and Purchasers among others were William Jones,
Thomas Evans, Robert Evans, Owen Evans, Cadwallader Evans, Hugh
Griffith, John Hugh, Edward Foulke, John Humphrey, and Robert Jones.
Amongst all those concern' d in this settlem't, there were but few particu-
lars that publickly appeared for Truth before they came from their Native
Country, though several among them were convinced and had a Secret
Love to Truth and Its followers, and soon after gave Obedience & Gradu-
ally Joined in a new Society. These few mentioned, with the first Con-
veniency often met together to wait upon the Lord, at the houses of John
Hugh and John Humphrey, until more were added to their numbers.

" In the year 1700, two years after our arrival in this land, a Meet-
ing House was Built, and meetings kept therein by the Consent and
approbation of Haverford Monthly Meeting, unto which we at first Joyn'd
ourselves, and under whose care we were for a time.

"And finding our number to Increase, and Truth prevail, it was
thought necessary to Build a new Meeting House, which was erected in
1712, and on the 19th of the Ninth Month in the same year the first meet-
ing of worship was held therein.

"Our numbers still Increasing by many adjacent Settlers Coming in,
and a young Generation arising, and not having the opportunity of a
Monthly Meeting of worship amongst ourselves, for the benefit of the
People in General, more especially the young and rising Generation, yt

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are not so well acquainted with the Discipline of Truth, a Consideration
arose in the minds of Fr'ds to Gwynedd and Plymouth Meetings, and a
religious concern to have the same settled among us, and in order thereto
profess' d their Inclination to Haverford Monthly Meeting for their appro-
bation. The which was obtained. Together with the Concurrence of the
Quarterly Meeting att Philadelphia, and immediately was put In
practice.

This minute contains the substance of the history of the
meeting, from the arrival of the settlers until 17 14, but some
further details may conveniently be added. The following is
from the records of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting : —

loth mo. 4th, 1699. Rowland Ellis, in behalf of Haverford Monthly
Meeting, having acquainted this meeting that several Welsh people,
Friends and others, are lately settled on ye East side of Scuylkill, in
this county, about 20 miles off from this place, who for some time have
had a First day's meeting by ye advice and consent of ye sd meeting of
Haverford, which is also a Third day's weekly meeting, being brought
hither for ye concurrence of the meeting, is approved, and in regard ye
said people understand not ye English tongue, they desired to be joyned
to Haverford Monthly Meeting for ye present, which is also approved of."

Minutes on the Haverford records are as follows :

1699. — There is a General Meeting appointed at Gwynedd, the
second weekly Third-day \i.e. the second Tuesday] of every month, at
the desire of Friends there.

1703. — Gwynedd Friends desire their Preparative Meeting removed
from their General Meeting day to the last Third-day in the month ; which
was approved.

1 7 14. — At the Monthly Meeting held at Radnor meeting-house, the
9th day of the loth month, it is left for further consideration what time
to appoint the monthly meetings of Gwynedd and Plymouth ; which was
left to the appointment of this meeting by the Quarterly Meeting [of
Philadelphia] .

Gwynedd and Plymouth Friends, after consideration what day is
suitable for their Monthly Meeting, propose the last Third-day in ever}-
month ; which this meeting acquiesces with.

76 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

But, returning to the time of the settlers' arrival, it must be
understood that most of them were not then avowed Quakers.
The language of the first minute quoted above is that there
were " but few " who had publicly appeared as such, before
coming over, though "several" had been "convinced," and
had "a secret love" for the Friends, etc. Of those who com-
posed the "few" we are left uncertain, beyond the names of
John Hugh and John Humphrey, but I am inclined to think
that Hugh Griffith was another. The other settlers were still
nominally members of the Established Church of England. It
therefore resulted that at first the Friends met for religious ser-
vice (as is stated in the minute) at the houses of John Hugh
and John Humphrey ; while the others held a meeting on each
Sabbath at the house of Robert Evans. The latter had no
ordained minister, but Cadwallader Evans in part supplied the
place of one by reading to them, as tradition says, from his
Welsh Bible, — but, as very easily may have been, from the
Church service-book itself.^ This meeting must have been
composed, for some time, of a considerable number of persons,
for it included most of the colony. In the winter's cold, next
after their arrival, it is reasonable to presume that they crowded
as best they could inside Robert's dwelling, but as the warmer
days of spring came on, it may be believed that they found
seats without, where upon the meadow bank that descends from
the house to the rivulet below, the Sabbath sun shone down
upon them, and as he read, lighted the pages of Cadwallader' s
book.

Precisely how long this meeting was maintained is not

1 The Welsh Bibles of that day had prefixed a number of pages containing the
Church of England services. The late Dr. J. J. Levick had the Bible of Thomas
Jones, of Marion (son of John ap Thomas), and it is of this sort. It was " Printeedig
y° Llundain gan John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, a Henry Hills,
Printyr," in 1678; and Cadwallader's volume was probably one of the same.

ESTABLISHMENT OF FRIENDS' MEETING. 77

certain, but probably not more than a year. When the first
Friends' meeting-house was built, in i/oo, it would appear
that all joined in the work. The story is well known how,
according to tradition, the two bodies of worshipers were
united, though there have been, at times, somewhat different
versions of it. Jesse Foulke, of Penllyn, the great-grandson of
Edward, the immigrant, seems to be our best authority. He
was born in 1742, and had the society, until he grew to man-
hood, of his grandfather, Thomas Foulke, — who was nearly
grown up, at the time of the settlement, and who lived until
1762, and could have been given Jesse details concerning the
early experiences of the settlers. Jesse's account ^ was this :

" But, as Cadwallader Evans himself related, he was going
as usual to his brother Robert's, when, passing near to the
road to Friends' meeting, held at John Hugh's and John Hum-
phrey's, it seemed as if he was impressed ' to go down and see
how the Quakers do.' This he mentioned to his friends at the
close of their own meeting, and they all agreed to go to the
Friends the next time ; where they were all so well satisfied that
they never again met in their own worship."

The other form of the story is that one of the brothers
Evans was passing near a gathering at which William Penn was
preaching, and that, hearing his voice, he paused to listen,
and, being deeply impressed, brought over his meeting to the
Friends.^

But it would be altogether unreasonable to attach ver}'
great weight to either of these stories. The first is the more
likely, — the second being open to serious criticisms relating to
dates, etc. The fact is that the settlement was made under
the auspices and by the influence of the Welsh Friends, and

1 Watson's Annals, Vol. II., p. 78.
*Ibid., p. 79.

78 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

must have been from the outset thoroughly S}'mpathetic with
them. Its close relationships of all kinds with the Merion
Welsh, who were generally Friends, the leadership of Hugh
Roberts in the immigration, and facts known concerning the
religious inclinations of the settlers, — e.g., Edward Foulke and
his wife, — go to show that it was an easy and natural step
for all to unite in one religious body. As to Robert Evans,
indeed, the memorial of him by Gwynedd monthly meeting
says that " some time before he left his native country he for-
sook the national worship, and went to Friends' meetings, and
soon after his arrival entered into close fellowship with Friends."
And as all accounts agree that it was at his house that the
settlers who were churchmen assembled, it will be seen how
unlikely it was that there was any considerable distance of
religious opinion to be traversed between them and the others
who were Friends. Robert and Cadwallader no doubt led them
over, and the precise manner of the change may easily have
been according to the Jesse Foulke tradition.

The first meeting-house, built in 1700, was of logs. It
must have been small. It stood on the site of the present
house. The ground was part of the tract of Robert Evans.
It is nearly the highest spot in the township, and almost exactly
in the township's geographical centre. The place was then
covered with the original forest, but standing on such an ele-
vation, and looking away to the south and south-east, a beau-
tiful view must then have been enjoyed, as now it is, of the
valley lands of the townships below, and of the distant slopes
of Chestnut Hill. The height, the prospect, the forest-clad
hill-sides, were all elements in the situation agreeable to the
Welshmen, natives of a hill country, and lovers of the
picturesque.

The second meeting-house, completed in 1712, was of

ESTABLISHMENT OF FRIENDS' MEETING. 79

stone, and much larger than the first. It stood, also, upon the
same site as the present one, and was torn down when the
latter was erected, in 1823. The subscription paper for its
erection, long preserved in the family of Edward Foulke's de-
scendants, was in Welsh, with the dates 1710— 1 1, and had sixty-
six signers, headed by William John and Thomas Evans. The
sums given by each ranged from eleven pounds down to one
pound, and aggregated about two hundred. Joseph Foulke, in
his Journal, says :

" Hugh Griffith assisted in building the meeting-house, in the years
1711-12. The subscription paper, the preamble of which is in the Welsh
language, is yet in our possession ; some of the members contributed as
much as the worth of one hundred bushels of wheat in that day. The
house they erected was a permanent commodious stone building, with
two galleries for the youth, and several principal rafters in a hip-roof,
firmly united, so that taking it down in 1823, in order to build a new
house, we found no small difficulty in separating the ancient wood-
work."

At the time of estabUshing the monthly meeting, in 17 14,
Gwynedd must have become a strong meeting. The Friends at
Plymouth were not so numerous. The monthly meeting was
held at Gwynedd entirely, those from Plymouth attending there.
This arrangement continued until 17 19, when it was agreed to
hold the monthly meeting at Plymouth four times a year, — in
the 3d, 6th, 9th and 12th months.

Before 17 14 all the records concerning the GAvynedd
Friends — including marriages, births, deaths, removals, etc. —
were kept in the Haverford books ; after that time the Gwynedd
monthly meeting books preserved such records. The marriage
list in the latter begins with the two weddings of 6th month
(August) 25th, when two of the Evans daughters, first cousins,
— Sarah, the daughter of Thomas, and Ann, daughter of
Robert, — married two bridegrooms from the Welsh Tract,

80 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

beyond Schuylkill, — Edward Jones, son of John Evans, of Rad-
nor, and William Roberts, son of Edward, of Merion. These
marriages took place, as was the usage, in the meeting-house,
in the presence of a large assembly ; and though many others
had already been solemnized there (under authority of Haverford
monthly meeting) we can easily believe that this was regarded
as a remarkable occasion. It needs little imagination to picture
the stir the double wedding would cause in the settlement,
or how lively a topic of conversation it must have made
from the hills of Gwynedd away to the farthest farm-houses
of Radnor and Haverford ; nor is it difficult to see the two
young wives miounting on horseback behind their husbands,
and riding down by the rude road through Plymouth to the ford
over the Schuylkill at Spring Mill, with curious but not unkind
eyes gazing upon the cavalcade from every cabin that stood
along the way.

The following further extracts from the early minutes of
Gwynedd monthly meeting will present some additional facts
of interest :

nth mo. 22, 1 7 14-15. It is agreed that the monthly meeting for
Gwynedd and Plymouth meetings is to be called by the name of Gwynedd
Monthly Meeting, to be held the last Third-day in every month, unless
occation appear for another day.

John Evans is appointed by this meeting to be clerk for ye same.
Edward Foulke and Robert Jones overseers.

2d mo. 26, 171 5. Perquioman [Upper Providence] Friends are
granted liberty until the 9th month next, to hold a meeting on the first
First-day of every other month.

5th mo. 26th, 171 5. Perquioman ffrds proposed for Liberty to Build
a meeting-house and settle a Burying-Ground ; the matter is referred to
further consideration. — [Next month :] the matter being considered,
Liberty as to the burying-place at present is only granted.

2d mo. 25, 1725. Gwynedd First-day morning meeting to begin at

ESTABLISHMENT OF FRIENDS' MEETING. 8 I

lo o'clock, by reason of ye afternoon meeting being held at several
places.

1722. This meeting hath had in Consideration afternoon meetings,
& it is agreed y' our first-day morning's meetting begin at 10 o'clock, and
in the afternoon at 4' clock.

1725. Gwynedd Friends acquainted this meeting [i.e. the monthly
meeting, which included also Plymouth and Richland] " of their necessity
to enlarge their meeting-house," and inquired whether they might
take subscriptions from ' such as are frequenters ' of the meeting. The
latter question, "after some discourse is referred to y" Quarterly Meeting
att Philadelphia ; ' ' [and in the month following the report was made
that the matter was left by the quarterly to the discretion of the monthly
meeting.]

loth mo. 28, 1725. Gwynedd Friends have agreed with John Cad-
walader, John Jones, and John Evans to perform y^ enlargement of their
meeting-house.

4th mo. 29, 1725. The Friends at Swamp [Richland, Bucks county]
are granted leave to hold a Preparative Meeting.

1 72 1. John Rumford, from Haverford, and George Boone, from
Abington, [present themselves] in order to joyn themselves to this meet-
ing. "The said Friends also requested the concurrence of this meeting to
fix a Convenient place for a burial, and liberty to build a Meeting-House
thereon to accommodate the few Friends residing in them parts." [This
refers to the establishment of the meeting at Oley, Berks county. A little
later, on the records, we have mention of "John Rumford, att Oley."]

5th mo. 27, 1725. Friends at Oley granted a Preparative Meeting.

1725. Our Friends at y® Swamp moved att this meetting their neces-
sity to settle a Burying-Ground, that by y® meetting being too rocky ;
desiring assistance [etc.]. A committee is appointed to consult with them
and endeavor to settle a place. [Next month :] The Frds appointed last
meeting to assist Swamp Frds, having visited y'' place proposed by them.
Also concluding in some convenient time y° meetting-house may be re-
moved there, They think it a proper place, and most of y'^ Frds residing
there approve of it, and also this meeting does, too.

7th mo. 27, 1736. A Youths' Meeting is appointed on y® second
Third-day of 2d and 8th months.

The quarterly meeting to which the Friends of Gwynedd

82 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

originally belonged was that of Philadelphia. It was not until
1786 that Abington Quarter, composed of the monthly meet-
ings of Abington, Horsham, Gwynedd, and Richland, was estab-
lished. This is now (1884) held at four several places once a
year : at Abington in the second month, Horsham in the fifth,
Gwynedd in the eighth, and Byberry in the eleventh.

From Gwynedd monthly meeting, after its establishment in
17 14, other monthly meetings were presently set out. The
Friends at Richland, increasing in numbers, and finding it a
long distance to come to Gwynedd, had a monthly meeting
granted them in 1742. In 1737, the settlement of Friends at
Oley, which looked to Gwynedd as its parent, was allowed
a monthly meeting. The Friends' settlement at Providence,
(called commonly Perkiomen in the early records, and with
the name spelled variously) was also an offshoot from Gwynedd,
and Providence meeting, until it was " laid down," some fifteen
years ago, belonged to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting. A minute,
in 1723, of appointments of persons to keep "true accounts of
births and burials," names " Hugh Foulke and John Jones, for
Gwynedd meeting, John Rees for Plymouth, George Boone for
Oley, Andrew Cramer for Perquioman ; none from the Swamp
[Richland] being present."

The present meeting-house, much larger than that of 171 2,
was built in 1823. At the time of its erection, the number of
members and others who habitually attended warranted so large
a house, but the time is long since past when its benches are
filled, except upon very extraordinary occasions. For a num-
ber of years it has been the custom to open only half the house
— the southern end — on First-days, and even this is more than
sufficient for the congregations that usually assemble.

X.

Details Concerning the Early Friends.

THE Friends' meeting was strong in numbers, from the time
when all the settlers joined in it, but it was, besides,
strong in the character of its membership. The attendance,
frequently, of Ellis Pugh and Rowland Ellis, from Plymouth,
and the ministry of those who belonged to Gwynedd particular
meeting, made the gathering here one of religious life and vigor.
" From the first establishment of Gwynedd meeting," says John
Comly in his Frioids' Miscellany,^ "we notice many Friends
remarkable for great integrity and uprightness, and of deep
religious experience."

At first Robert and Cadwallader Evans were the only
preachers. The former perhaps was not so strong a man,
intellectually, as the latter, and from the fact that Cadwallader
was the reader in the early Sabbath gatherings, we infer the
superiority of his education. But both were men of weight, and
both deeply respected in the community. Samuel Smith, in his
History of Pennsylvania, speaks of " Robert and Cadwallader
Evans, two brothers, who stood faithful not only in word and
doctrine, but their exemplary lives and conversations, and their
services among their neighbors, rendered their memories
precious to many, though they could neither read nor write in
any but the Welsh language."

The sermons of both brothers were doubtless delivered in
Welsh ; this is indicated by Rowland Ellis's statement in Phila-

iVol. III., p. 371.

84 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

delphia Monthly Meeting, quoted in the preceding chapter. In
the manuscript collection of memorials, made by John Smith, of
Burlington, there is one of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting concern-
ing Robert Evans. Mentioning his birth in Wales, his emigra-
tion, and settlement in Gwynedd, it says :

" Some time before he left his native country he forsook the
national worship, and went to Friends' meetings, and soon after
his arrival he entered into close fellowship and union with
Friends. He was a very diligent frequenter of our meetings.
* * * * j^g j^^^ ^ gj|i(. jj-^ ^]^g ministry which was well

received, as it was chiefly remarks on his own experience in
religion * * * * "

Robert died in the ist month (March), 1738, and Thomas
Chalkley, in his Journal, says : " I was at the burial of Robert
Evan, of North Wales. He was upward of four score years of
age, and one of the first settlers there ; — a man who lived and
died in the love of God and of his neighbors, of whom I believe
it might be truly said, as our Saviour said of Nathaniel, ' Behold
an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile.' He was a min-
ister of Christ, full of divine and religious matter."

The printed volume of Memorials published in 1787 by the
Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia (frequently referred to in this
volume) contains twelve memorials from Gwynedd Monthly
Meeting, three of them referring to Friends — Ellis Pugh, Row-
land Ellis, and William Trotter — who belonged to Plymouth
particular meeting. The other nine were of Gwynedd, — Cad-
wallader Evans, Evan Evans, Alice Griffith, Ann Roberts, John
Evans, Jane Jones, Ellen Evans, Mary Evans, and William
Foulke. In the John Smith manuscript collections there are
several more memorials, — of Robert Evans, just quoted, Owen
Evans, Rowland Roberts, Margaret Jones, John Humphrey, and
others.

DETAILS CONCERNING THE EARLY FRIENDS. 85

In relation to Cadwallader Evans, the memorial in the
printed volume ^ says : " He was a diligent and seasonable
attender of our religious meetings. On First-days particularly
he was ready an hour before the time appointed, and then read
several chapters in the Bible or some religious book ; as the
time approached he would frequently observe the time of day,
and by means of such watchful care he was seated in meetings
one of the first, and scarcely ever after the time appointed. * *
He received a gift in the ministry, in the exercise whereof he
was generally led to speak of his own experience in religion and
the Christian warfare ; and his testimony, though short, was in-
structive, lively, and manifestly attended with divine sweetness.
Notwithstanding it was always acceptable, he was very cautious
of appearing, lest any, as he often said, should be drawn from a
right concern of mind, to place their dependence on words."
The memorial further speaks of his usefulness "in many ser-
vices of the church, especially that weighty one of visiting
Friends in their families," and says his endeavors "in that skill-
ful and tender office of healing discord in private families were
remarkably successful. In such services he spent much of the
latter part of his life, riding about from one house to another ;
and where no cause of reprehension appeared, he interspersed
his discourse on common affairs with useful hints, solid remarks,
and lessons of instruction ; but where admonition or comfort
was necessary, the propriety of his advice, and the uprightness
of his life, added weight to his labors and seldom failed of good
effects. * * * * j^ ^.^g j^jg practice, in winter evenings
especially, to read the holy scriptures in his family, and was
particularly careful that neither child nor servant should be from
home at unseasonable hours, being highly sensible how slipper}-
the paths of youth are, and how numerous the snares which
attend them."

1 Collection of 1787, p. 130.

S6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

It is evident, however, that both Robert and Cadwallader
were not frequent or extended in their communications. They
were exhorters rather than preachers. The memorial in rela-
tion to Ann Roberts (wife of Rowland), says " her first coming
among us [1705-10] was seasonable, for we having few minis-
ters, the field before her was extensive, in which she labored
fervently."

A little later, other ministers appeared. Prominent among
these were two of the second generation — Evan Evans, son of
Thomas, and John Evans, son of Cadwallader. From the
memorial of the latter, from which I shall presently quote more
at length, it seems he must have appeared as a minister about
171 2— 13, and a passage in the Journal of Jane Hoskens,^ who,
from '17 1 2 to 1 7 16, was a teacher in Friends' families at Ply-
mouth, gives us the impression of a religious awakening during
that period. She says :

"About this time, the Lord was graciously pleased to renew
his merciful invitation unto the Friends and inhabitants of North
Wales and Plymouth. Many of the youth were reached. * *
Several were called to the work of the ministry. * * Among
the many others favored was our dear and well-beloved friend
and brother, John Evans, who was blessed with an excellent gift
in the ministry * * * *

Concerning John Evans, the memorial^ says he was " a man
of good natural understanding, and favored early in life to see
the necessity of a diligent attention to the voice of Divine wis-
dom. In the twenty-third year of his age [he was born in
1689] he appeared in the ministry. * * * He had a clear,

1 See her Journal, at length, in Friends' Miscellany , Vol. III. Jane was an inter-
esting character. She was a young girl, who had come over from London under
trying circumstances, and who, in Philadelphia, to pay her passage money, engaged
herself for four years as teacher. She began to preach when about 21.

^ Collection of 1787, p. 175,

DETAILS CONCERNING THE EARLY ERIENDS. 8/

engaging manner of delivery, was deep in heavenly mysteries,
and plain in declaring them ; being well acquainted with the
holy scriptures, he was made skillful in opening the doctrines
therein contained, and was often led to draw lively and instruct-
ive similitudes from the visible creation. He traveled through
most of the northern colonies in the service of truth, and several
times through this province. He was often drawn to attend
general meetings, funerals, and other public occasions, par-
ticularly the adjacent meetings after their first establishment.
* * * He was a zealous promoter of visiting Friends in their
families. He was many times engaged therein, and his labors
were awakening and useful ; often employ'd in visiting the sick,
the widow, and the fatherless and others in affliction ; on these
occasions he was seldom large in expression, but his silent sym-
pathy and secret breathing for their relief was more consolatory
than many words ; a considerable part of his time was spent in
assisting widows, and the guardianship of orphans, which,
though laborious to him, was of much advantage to them."

John Evans died in September, 1756, his ministry having
covered about fifty-four years. He was undoubtedly one of the
strongest and most influential characters of his time. His cousin
Evan probably began to preach a little later than he, but the
two for many years were closely associated. Amongst the
minutes from the monthly meeting records there are indications
of this, and in the memorial of Evan it is said of the two men
that " their friendship was pure, fervent, and lasting as their
lives, and their separation a wound to the latter [John Evans] ,
the remembrance of which he never wholly survived. They
travelled together through many of these colonies in the ser\'ice
of the ministry."

Some extracts from the monthly meeting records may here
be presented :

88 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

ly 22. A certificate for Evan Evans, John Evans, Hugh Foulk, and
Ellis Hugh, ministers, in order to recommend them to y* Quarterly Meet-
ting of Ministers and Elders at Philadelphia, was read and approved.

1722. Application being made on behalf of Margaret Jones for a
few lines to y® Quarterly Meeting of Ministers, to signifie our unity with
her ministry [a committee was appointed] .

1723. Evan and John Evans laid before this Meetting a concern
they had to visit some meetings in the Jerseys. They both being young
and pretty much unknown they laid it to Consideration whether it be
proper to have a few lines with 'em.

1723. Our friend Ann Roberts having returned from her visit to
North Carolina and Virginia produced two certificates, which was read and
well received.

1724. Hugh Foulke acquainted this meeting a concern lay upon his
mind to visit Frds at Long Island. [Rowland EUis and Cadwallader
Evans were appointed to draw a certificate for him.]

1725. 6th mo. 31st. Sarah Davis laid before this Meeting her Concern
to visit Frds in Maryland and y® adjacent parts of this Province. [This
approved, and in 12th mo. following :] Sarah Davis produced a certificate
of her travels in Maryland which was read and received.

30th of y* 9th mo., 1725. It is agreed y' y^ Meeting of Ministers
signifie on the behalf of our friends Cadwallader Evans, Row. Robert,
Andrew Dean and Mary Foulke, y' y® few words dropped by them is in a
general way well received.

5th mo. 26th, 1726. It is agreed here with y* concurrance of y"
Women's Meeting, that Alice_ Griffith, Ellin David, and Ellin Evans be
constituted and appointed Elders and Assistants in y'= affairs of y* ministry.

At precisely what time it was that the meeting was strongest
in ministers I am not able to say, but probably between 1725
and 1745. Joseph Foulke in his manuscript Journal speaks of
its strength in early times, and says :

" I have heard my parents say that at one time fourteen
approved ministers belonged to the [monthly ?] meeting, and
when the Yearly Meeting was held at Burlington, N. J., the
late George Dillwyn remarked that in his youthful days North
Wales was called 'the school of the prophets.' "

DETAILS CONCERNING THE EARLY FRIENDS. 89

From the Journal of John Fothcrgil!/ of luigland, we get
some ghmpses of the Friends at Gwynedd, about this time.
In 1 72 1, accompanied by Lawrence King, he was visiting meet-
ings in America, and we find the following passages in his
Journal :

"The loth of nth mo. [January] we had a Meeting at Buckingham,
and went the nth to North Wales, where we lodged at John Evan's, and
had a good meeting that Evening with a large Number of Friends who
came to see us. The 12th, being accompanied by several of those and
some other Friends, we went to a new settled Place called Great Swamp,
[Richland, Bucks Co.] and tho' the Snow was deep and the Frost very
vere, yet thro' the Lord's Goodness we got well through, and had a good
little Meeting with some Friends and other People who came in that Even-
ing at Peter Leicester's. The 14th we were [again] at the Meeting at North
Wales, which was very large, several other Professors coming in, and the
Gospel was preached in its own Authority and Wisdom, and was exalted in
many souls, [etc.] We had another Meeting that Evening at the House of
Hugh Foulke, which was much to our Satisfaction. The 15th we had a
meeting at Plymouth * * and the i6th we were at North Wales
meeting again ; a large solidly edifying Meeting it was. * * The

17th we had a meeting at Horsham * * * \Ye lodged that
night at William Stockdale's, where we had some good service in the Love
of the Truth that Evening, among a pretty many Friends."

His Journal continues (after mentioning visits to meetings in
New Jersey and the neighborhood of Philadelphia) :

" The 17th [of 1 2th mo., February] we had a Meeting in the Baptist
Meedng-house near Skippolk [Skippack ?] , at the Request of some of
them, where the Lord * * gave us a comfortable Time to Gen-
eral Satisfaction. We parted lovingly, and came that Night to Evan

1 This John Fothergill (b. 1676; d. 1744), himself an eminent preacher, had
two distinguished sons, — Dr. John Fothergill (1712-1780), the physician, of London ;

and Samuel Fothergill ( 1773), a preacher among Friends. Dr. Fothergill was

one of the most successful physicians of his age : he had an income of £j,<xx>, and he left
an estate Cf ^80,000, with part of which he endowed the well-known Friends' School
at Ackworth, in Yorkshire. Both he and his brother Samuel wrote several treatises and
books.

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Evans's, at North Wales, and were the i8th at Friends' Meeting there,
which was large, and it being First-day we had another in the Evening."

In 1736, John Fothergill made another visit to this country,
and was again at Gwynedd. His Journal says :

" The 27th [of loth mo., December] I set out again into the Country,
and had a Meeting that Day at Plymouth, and a large one the Day follow-
ing at North Wales (it being their Monthly meeting for Business), wherein
we were comforted together." * * * [In the following year,

having in the meantime visited numerous meetings throughout the country,
he was at Goshen, near the end of the 8th month (October), and says : "I
went from there to North Wales, and was at two meetings there, wherein
Divine Goodness was manifested."]

Returning to our notice of Evan Evans, we find him
mentioned by John Churchman as "a grave and soHd Friend."
Gwynedd Monthly Meeting's memorial ^ speaks of him strongly.
One or two passages have already been cited. It says " he
was favored with an excellent gift in the ministry, which he
exercised in solemn dread and reverence. * * * Besides
his travels through many of the colonies, he also frequently
visited the several counties in this province, and more particu-
larly many of the adjacent meetings in their infancy ; wherein
his unwearied labours of love tended much to their comfort,
growth, and establishment in the truth." The memorial alludes
to his usefulness in the administration of the Society's discipline,
and to his consistency of conduct in private life ; it adds that
" he was abroad in the service of truth when attacked with his
last illness ; and as the disorder was slow and tedious, he
attended several meetings in the fore part thereof," etc. He
was about 63 years old when he died, — July 24th, 1747.

Alice Griffith, the wife of Hugh Griffith, is also amongst
those who have a memorial in the 1787 Collection. -It says

1 Collection of 1787, p. 137.

DETAILS CONCERNING THE EARLY FRIENDS. 9 1

that " being a woman of great integrity and uprightness of
heart, she became very serviceable in divers respects ; zealous
for maintaining good order and Christian discipline in the church.
She was well qualified for that weighty service of visiting
families, having at such opportunities to communicate of her
own experience j * * * ^j^^ * * * ^yould often be
drawn forth in opening divine mysteries, as if she had been
in a large assembly, as many witnessess can testffy that have
been sensibly reached, — yea, baptized by her religious visits."
The language of the memorial does not convey the impression
that she was a minister, except in the sense just presented.
It speaks of her concern to stir up Friends " to a close
attendance of meetings both on First and other days, as also to
observe the hour appointed, being herself a good example there-
in, until, by old age and infirmity of body, she was disabled,
which was about three years before her removal." She died
April 1st, 1749, but the memorial does not state her age.

William Trotter, whose memorial from Gwynedd Monthly
Meeting is also in the Collection of 1787, was a minister at
Plymouth. He died on the 19th of 8th month, 1750, aged
about 53 years and 6 months. It may be presumed that he
was, occasionally at least, an attendant and minister at Gwynedd.

Ann Roberts, who died on the 9th of 4th month, 1740, was
a native of Wales, and had been a minister for fifty years.
(She was seventy-three at her death.) She was a widow, Ann
Bennett, of Abington, when she married Rowland Roberts, and
removed to Gwynedd. The memorial of Gwynedd Monthly
Meeting, in the 1787 Collection, says: "Her first coming
to reside among us was seasonable, for we having but
few ministers, the field before her was extensive, in which she
labored fervently," etc. Her usefulness in drawing out younger
ministers is noted, and it is added that " she went pretty much

92 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

abroad, visiting Friends in this and the adjacent provinces, to-
wit, the Jerseys, Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina, accompanied
to the remotest parts by her near and dear friend Susanna
Morris. In her more advanced years she visited Great Britain,
accompanied by our esteemed friend Mary Pennel * * *
After her return she met with great difficulties in respect to her
outward circumstances, which she sustained with Christian
fortitude. * * * After this, she met with a very heavy
affliction in the loss of her husband, which she likewise bore
with becoming resignation," etc. She suffered from the dropsy
near the close of her life.

Other memorials are given in the Collection of 1787 con-
cerning Jane Jones, the wife of John Jones, "carpenter," of
Montgomery ; Ellen Evans, the wife of John Evans, and daugh-
ter of Rowland Ellis ; Mary Evans, the wife of Owen Evans ;
and William Foulke, the son of Thomas. John Comly re-
marks, in Fi'ioids' Miscellany, what is very noticeable to any
careful reader of these and the other memorials referred to, that
they are written with unusual merits of composition. He says
that " the order, the originality, and perspicuity displayed in
these documents furnish a lively evidence of the literary qualifi-
cations of the Friends of Gwynedd and Plymouth," — and the
candid reader who is at all in sympathy with their subject
matter, must admit that this praise is fairly bestowed.

Jane Jones, Ellen Evans, and William Foulke were valued
members, as is clearly apparent from their memorials, but they
were not ministers. Mary, the wife of Owen Evans, was born
in Philadelphia in 1695, and married Owen in 1736. She died
in 1769. Her memorial says ^ "Her public appearances were
not very frequent, but when she spoke her testimony was
fervent, sound, and edifying * * * She was several times

1 Collection of 1787, p. 276.

DETAILS CONCERNING THE EARLY ERIENDS. 93

drawn forth in the love of the Gospel to visit Friends in most of
the provinces on this continent, also the island of Tortola, which
she undertook with the unity of her friends at home, and re-
turned with clear and satisfactory accounts of her labors
amongst those whom she visited."

Of Margaret Jones, there is a brief extract from the monthly
meeting memorial in the John Smith manuscripts. It says " she
received a precious share of Gospel ministiy * * * And
altho' the latter part of her life was attended with many trials
and afflictions, nevertheless we believe she held her integrity to
the end," Margaret was the wife of John Jones, the son of
William John. She died in April, 1743, and was buried at
Germantown.

It is impossible to study the records of this early period of
the colony's experience without being impressed with the
evident strength of character and the sincere religious nature of
those who composed it. The tendencies and convictions of the
people of Gwynedd, at that time, were obviously those of a
simple and sincere body of Christians, closely united in feeling,
and maintaining in an unusual degree the primitive virtues of
life.

XL

Narrative of yohii Htimphrey, of Merion.

THE following document refers entirely to occurrences in
Wales, — chiefly hardships experienced by the Friends, at
certain periods, on account of their religious views. Its relation
to the history of Gwynedd, it must be admitted, is not direct.
But many of the incidents and details which it embodies concern
persons who make a part of this history, and it throws light
upon the character of the Welsh people who settled in Merion
and Gwynedd, and upon their manner of life in the old country.
The document, I believe, has never been printed ; I obtained it
from a copy preserved amongst the papers of the late Lewis
Jones, of Gwynedd.^ (In Besse's Sufferings of Friends some of
the incidents here related at length will be found briefly men-
tioned, but most of the document is unique.)

John Humphrey, who left this account, was not the early
Gwynedd settler of that name, as might reasonably be pre-
sumed, but another person altogether, and perhaps not even a
kinsman. He was John Humphrey, "of Merion." He came
to Pennsylvania in 1683, amongst the first of the Welsh immi-
grants, and had a considerable tract of land in what is now
Lower Merion, directly adjoining the Haverford line. He was
a personal friend of Thomas Lloyd, the associate of Penn, and
Deputy Governor, and upon the occasion of Thomas's death,

1 Lewis, I conclude, was the great-great-grandson of Rees John, repeatedly men-
tioned in John Humphrey's narrative.

JOHN HUMPHREY'S NARRATIVE. 95

in 1694, sent to his brother Charles Lloyd, of iJolobran, Wales,'
a well-expressed and impressive letter of condolence, a copy of
which is also preserved in the Lewis Jones manuscript, but
which I do not think it necessary to reproduce.

John Humphrey^ was evidently a person of considerable
intelligence, and of more than the average education of his time.
His Narrative, though quaint, is always perspicuously, and often
strongly, composed ; and his acquaintance with English was so
unusually good, for a Welshman of his period, that he translated
into English words and rhyme, Thomas Ellis's "Song of
Rejoicing," a Welsh poem of three stanzas.^

John Humphrey left no children. But many persons of the
same family name are descended from the sons of his brother
Samuel.*

A Brief Narrative of the Sufferings of the Christian People called Quakers
at Llwyn Grwill in Merioneth Shire, N'orth Wales, Great Brittain,
by JoJut Humphrey.

In the year 1661 our sufferings in Llwyn Grwill was very Cruel, our
Persecutors driving us out of our Religious Meetings, and putting us in a

1 The Lloyds were persons of education and wealth. Details concerning them,
their family descent, etc., may conveniently be consulted in Keith's Provincial Coun-
cillors of Pennsylvania.

* He came over in 1683, with his wife Joan, and appears to have been, then, of
Llwundu, in Merionethshire Their certificate from the Quarterly meeting of Merion-
ethshire attests that he had been a friend for 23 years {i.e. since about 1660, as indicated
in his Narrative), that he was faithful in times of great suffering, and that his house
"was a free receptacle for Friends." It describes him, also, as " a minister, of few
words, according to his measure." He died in Merion, on the 28th of 7th month, 1699,
aged 66 years. His will was dated in 1699 and probated in 1700. His wife had died in
1698. His will shows his interest in literature by a legacy for reprinting an old Welsh
book or tract, and he proves his kindly disposition by numerous gifts of remembrance
to children of friends and neighbors.

3 It is given by Dr. Smith, in his History of Delaivare County. Thomas Ellis was
an early settler in Haverford, and a prominent citizen, serving for some time as
Register General of the Province. He died in 1688.

*Some details as to this family will be found farther on, in a foot-note to the

Narrative.

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Pennfold by the Highway side, while they were drinking and making
Merry over us, and over the witness of God in themselves, and in a Scoff-
ing way asking if a little Dog that followed us was the Spirit that led us.
After they had filled themselves for their work they drove us two Miles by
the Sea Shore, Abusing us with their Swords, forcing us to trot before their
Horses, it being late & Intending to Oblige the Ferryman to put us on a
little Island or bank of Sand in the Sea, where they thought to secure us
for that Night, that they might find us safe the next Morning, to drive us
24 miles farther where some of our Friends were in Prison ; they having
no Warrant or Officer among them ; but some of our kind Neighbors over-
took us before they had us into the boat, and treated with them between
Jest and Earnest, so that they released us out of their hands that Night ;
but Soon after, the same came in the night time and broke open the House
of John William, the Father of Evan John and Rees John,^ who laid down
their Bodies in Pennsylvania,' they Violently haled the Family out of their
Beds Except their Mother, who was a cripple and could not stir but as she
was helped in Bed, they drove them a Mile before Day, slapping them
with their Swords (leaving none in the House but the Impotent Woman),
and they put them in a Ale-House, while they were Seeking After others.
The chief of them went to the house (where my Wife liv'd with her
Brother before She was Married), and Knocked at the door ; She, suppos-
ing who it was, kept the door shut while she dressed herself, knowing he
had no g-ood Design. When he came in he took her and sent her to the

1 Evan John and Rees John were early settlers in Merion. The former (as I have
already said in Chapter VIII.) may have been the father of Robert John, one of the
first company in Gwynedd. Rees John, — often called Rees John William,?.^. Rees,
the son of John Williams, — came from Wales in 1684, arriving from Philadelphia on
the 17th of 7th month (September), in the ship Vine, from Liverpool, William Preeson,
master- With him were his wife Hannah and their two sons, Richard and Evan, and
daughter Lowry. They had, after their arrival, several other children, one of whom,
John, b. 1688, removed about 1710 to Montgomery, and was there well known as John
Jones, " carpenter." Details concerning him are elsewhere given in this volume, and
he will be found often alluded to. His (John's) brother Richard married for his first
wife, Jane Evans ; their sister Lowry was the second wife of Hugh Evans (son of
Thomas), of Gwynedd; and their mother (widow of Rees John) became the second
wife of Thomas Evans. So that the connection in different ways between the two
Johns named above and the settlers of Gwynedd was very intimate.

2 Rees John died nth mo. 26th, 1697. John Humphrey's Narrative was there-
fore written between that time and his own death, in 1699.

JO HN HUMPIfR E V ' S NA R RA 7 7 VE. 97

rest of the Company, and went up and down taking all Sorts that did not
go to the Steeple-House, even the Milkmaids from Cottages in their Shifts
and Petticoats, barefooted, driving them 20 miles before their Horses, not
Suffering them to go out of the very Channel of the Road. They met an
old Woman coming from the Mill with a small bag of Meal on her Head
(her Son and Daughter used to come to our Meetings some times), they
flung down the bag into the Channel, & made the Old woman trot six
Miles before their Horses, untill She was quite tired, there they left her in
the Road, and sent the rest to Prison, to a town Called Balla,' & there
they remained a Considerable time before they were released. I have
seen some of these persecutors afterwards come to our Doors & gladly
would accept of a Crust of Bread at our hands. Soon after they were Re-
leased they were taken by a Warrant & brought before a Justice who
tendered the Oath unto them & upon their Refusal they were committed to
Prison, & also all sorts of Professors that were under the least Convince-
ment were sent to prison Untill the Prison was filled. There they all Re-
mained till the Assize, where they paid two shillings & sixpence a Week
for their Diet besides Duties & Custom which would Amount to a Great
Sum of Money in a Year, from every one, which was no small gain to the
Gaoler. Then they began to Count the cost & thought what Estate they
had would soon be consumed at that Rate, and that it was better for them
to Yield soon than late, & Such that were not willing to part with all went
away with the flood at the assize.

But I may not Omit to Record for a Memorial to Posterity, the faith-
full Sufferings & sore afflictions in particular of four Friends, to wit, my
Brother Samuel Humphrey (who Ran his race and finished his Course in
the land of his Nativity, but his Wife and seven Children ^ in the Year

^Bala is an important market town in Merionethshire, on the Dee. It is not,
however, the shire-town, Dolgelly liaving that distinction.

'The wife (Elizabeth) came, as here stated, in 1683. But her son Daniel had
preceded her, having come the previous year. Elizabeth's certificate is from the
Quarterly Meeting of Merionethshire, dated 5th mo. 27th, 1683, and signed by thirteen
persons, among whom are Owen Humphrey (brother of her deceased husband, and of
John, the author of the Narrative above), Rowland Ellis, and two Robert Owens. It
refers also to her children, of whom five are named. From a family list furnished me
by Philip P. Sharpies, West Chester, the names of her seven children were Lydia,
Daniel, Benjamin, Joseph, Rebecca, Ann, and Gobitha. Daniel Humphrey took up
land in Haverford, and m. 1695, Hannah, daughter of Dr. Thomas Wynne, of Wynne-
wood, in Lower Merion. Rebecca Humphrey {d. 1733) married Edward Reese, who
d. 1728, and was buried at Merion Friends' m. h. Daniel and Hannah (Wynne)

98 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

1683 Transported themselves to Pennsylvania) ; [and] the two Brothers
Evan John & Reese John aforementioned, & one John William a poor
Husband-man who went through great Conflicts & Suffered the Buffeting of
Saten both within and without. These refused to Swear at all and pro-
duced a Special Command for it, & by good Authority from the only Law
giver who hath Power to kill & to save. This Doctrine indeed was not
Preached at large Amongst us in those Days.^

It may be said, as before was said of Peter & John, the Innocent
Boldness of these Illiterate Men that could not Read nor write save in their
own Language, the Court were astonished & mad with fury because they
could not make them bow to their Wills, when so many had obeyed
their commands & bowed to the Image they had set up and taken the
Oath upon their knees. Their Anger was kindled against these faithful
sufferers and [they] Commanded them to be Chain' d in Irons, which
was Immediately done by the gaoler in Presence of the Court, linking them
two and two, & Binding their hands on their backs, then Conveyed them
from thence to the gaoler's House, where they remained all Night in
that Posture. The County gaol was long 1 2 Miles distant from that town
& [there] happen' d to be exceeding Stormy weather & great floods in
their way. When the gaol was Removed they were forced to travel all
Coupled in Chains, only their hands were loosed & when they were
brought to the Gaol the Gaoler provided Meat & Drink & Beds at the
same rate as he Charg'd them and others before Sessions. He put his
Victuals on a table, and Called some of his Associates to see him tender-
ing his meat to them, Asking them if that was not sufficient for such
Men to Eat, & and some said it was Sufficient Enough. Then he Vowed

Humphrey had ten children, of whom six were sons, and from this couple descended
(son) Charles, who was a member of the Continental Congress, 1774-76; (grandson)
Joshua, a great ship-builder of Philadelphia, and designer of several ships of the early
American navy; (great-grandson) Samuel, who was the Chief Constructor in the
American navy, from 1815 to 1846; and General A. A. Humphrey, of the U. S. Army,
who served with distinction in the War against the Rebellion. Elizabeth Humphrey's
son Benjamin, named in the certificate, setded in Haverford, but removed to Merion,
where his uncle John, (the Narrative author), dying childless, had left him his own
farm. He w., 1694, Mary Llewellyn, of Haverford, and died in 1738, aged 76. The
daughters named in the certificate, Lydia and Ann, m. respectively Ellis Ellis and
Edward Robert ; Gobitha d. 1697, unmarried.

1 1 take this to imply that up to this time it had not been urged by Quaker
preachers, in that part of Wales, that it was wrong to take a judicial oath.

JOHN HUMPHREY'S NARRATIVE. 99

with Curses & Oaths, that if they would not take that, he would famish
them to Death, & their Blood should be upon their own Heads, & some
affirmed that he Might do so, and so he did Endeavour to do for
a long while, but some means was found in his Absence to Convey a
little Victuals through a little hole in the wall on the I'oint of a pike
to keep them alive. They were kept Close Prisoners until the next Assize,
then the Judge came that Circuit & they were Released, but the Gaoler
being sorely Vexed by the Disappointment he had from the Quakers, after
he had Promised himself all they had, he Could get nothing from them,
then he devised some Mischief against Samuel Humphrey, Supposing him
to be the Author of his Overthrow. He advanc'd some Action Against
him in the County Court & got a Writ to the Sheriff, and attacked him on
a fair Day when he was about his Business, So that he was Clapt in Prison
in depth of winter, having neither fire nor Cloaths for nine Days &; Nights,
save what he had on when he was taken and those very wet. Neither
would he let him have any Repast but what was Conveyed to him in the
Gaoler's Absence, and so Kept him close confined for several Months,
until a Friend took the cause in Hand, & the Gaoler was cast in the Suit,
still wanting advantage.

I Being all this time sick in Bed, several times threatened to be taken
out of Bed to Prison, having a Distemper in my Limbs whereby I lost the
use of my Right leg and thigh for a time, [when] I Recovered a little &
strove to the Bath. In about a Week after I went there, one Day I was
Bathing myself and After went to (as their Manner was) Procure Sweat, I
Slumbered a little, & Dreamed that the same Gaoler Invited the said four
Friends to his House and laid Meat on the Table before them, telling them
whether they would Eat or not he would Make them pay. Supposing there
was Something in it I took my Pen and Pocjcet-Book and Entered the Day
& hour I saw it. In a little while after I received an account that Upon the
very same Day & Hour they were taken by the same Gaoler with a writ of
Quo-Minus from London Upon the Old Action. (I Perceived this was the
Lord's doings ; therefore I Record It amongst my Memorials.) And so
they were kept a long while in prison Untill the Gaoler was weary of them
but got nothing. After they were come home from Prison and I from the
Bath, Our Meetings were pretty fresh and we did Count the cost & Resolved
to keep them up, come what would ; so on the first Day of the week those
that first Molested us came with Swords and Staves into our Meeting, and
took Old & Young, Male and Female, as many as was able to go and haled

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us before a Justice of the Peace who was a Tender Man and loth to Meddle
if he could have his choice. But such was the time that if the least ten-
derness appeared in any of the Magistrates, the Priests and others would
soon charge them with not being faithful to Ceasar ; and that would cause
them to pass Sentence against their Judgment. The act of Banishment was
then in force.' The first & Second Offence was fines which was to be Di-
vided between the King and the Informers ; and in Case the Parties would
not pay the fine they [were] Committed to Prison, & there Remain untill
Payment. The third offence was Banishment. So when we came before the
Justice he shewed us the Danger we were like to run Ourselves into ; but
if we would pay the fine and Promise to keep no more Meetings we Should
be released ; other wise he could do no less than Commit us to Prison.
We then in short put them all out of Doubt that we would neither pay
nor Promise any such thing on that Account. Then our names were
taken, and a Commitment in one Altogether, to send us all to Prison ; I
perceived it then, & do remember that the Justice might be Called a
Quaker, [for] his hand did shake till he was Ashamed. When the Com-
mitment was Ready, Old John Williams (the Father of Reese & Evan
John) Spoke unto Them on this Wise : "Oh Justice, as thou art to expect
Mercy when thou Appearest before the Tribunal Seat of God, for his Sake
shew Mercy now, & let this Girl go home to her Mother, who is a
Cripple in Bed, and now alone. If the House was on fire she could not
move herself."

One that was Present did Chide the old Man for Speaking after that
Manner. The [justice, however,] was then walking up & Down in the
Hall, and could not Refrain sheding tears. He said, "Let him alone.
He speaks in the Anguish of his Soul," and left the Room, being he

1 This was the Act of Parhament of 1661, strongly pleaded against by the Friends,
Edward Burrough and Richard Hubberthorn appearing at the bar of the House of
Commons, and there presenting their arguments. It passed, however, and the King
(Charles II.) signed it in May, 1662. It is notable that among the few in the House of
Commons who opposed it, and argued for liberty of conscience, was Edmund Waller,
the poet. Two other members, Michael Mallett and Sir John Vaughan, took the same
side, and were subsequently " convinced " of the Friends' doctrines, the latter being
imprisoned with them, and continued Friendly even when he became Earl of Carberry.
The act of 1661 forbade the assembling of five or more Quakers, over 16 years old,
under pretence of religious worship, and inflicted fines or imprisonment for the first and
second offences, and transportation for the third. A still more severe law was j>assed in
1664, and while great numbers were imprisoned under them, some were actually
banished.

JOHN HUMPHREY'S NARRATIVE. lOl

Could no longer forbear Weeping. We saw him no more that Night.
It was late by that time, & we had long Eight miles to the County gaol.
The Constable was loth to send us there, without leaving us go first to our
Houses, so he Dismissed [us] upon conditions that he Could find us the
next Day at our Houses. Against Saml. Humphreys went to his Home
his Wife was in Labour & was Delivered of two Sons before Morning. He
called them Joseph & Benjamin.^ The Justice had tidings thereof; he sent
for the Constable, and took up the Commitment, and wished some of us
would Appear before him. The Constable came to stop his Man who was
going with some of us to the County gaol, & when he came in Sight he
Cn''d with a loud Voice, Saying : " Trowch yn ol ! Trowch yn ol I Fe
roes Duy ei law argalon y gwr," — that is to say, "Turn back; turn
back; God has laid his hand upon the Man's Heart." So my Brothe^
Owen & Samuel Humphreys went to him the Day following, and as they
were going to Hall, they met his [the Justice's] Mother in the Court. She
gave them an Account that her Son had been in a sad Condition since
they had been there. When they went to him he raised his Spirits & told
that his Hand should not be upon them, but he would Bind them over
to the Next Quarter sessions, and would venture to Release our Brother
Saml., tho' he did know what Danger he Should incur. If he Should be
put to it, he knew the Law would not bear him out.

When the Quarter-Sessions came the Constable Brought [them] there,
according to his orders. There was six Justices on the Bench, & the
Sheriff. Some of them were Men of a Thousand Pounds a Year, & the
least two Hundred, — most of them in the Prime of their time. \Vhen we
came before them, they began to deride, mock & Scoff, and in a Scoffing
Manner asking if we did know the Ffyold Gatholig &c., — that is. Catholic
faith, &c. Others in a Rage said if we were not Quakers they would make
us Quake, — make us their Laughing Stocks, — flinging our hats about.
Our friend Evan Ellis said to them that they took more Delight to sit on
the Seat of Scorners than on the seat of Justice and Judgment. Then
they tendered the Oath to us, which we Refused, then they fined us and
upon Default of Payment they Committed us to the gaol. It being late
and a long way to the County Prison, we were shut up that Night in a
Close Room. When it was Night, by the Light of the Moon the whole
Bench, with one Accord, Both Sheriff" and Justices, save one, came before

1 This was the nephew to whom John Humphrey left his own estate in Merion.
He d. 1738, aged 76 years.

I02 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

the door, where we were put in, to make Merry over us & over the witness
of God in themselves. Drinking the King's Health, they Commanded
the Gaoler to open upon us, & sent in their Parasite to force us to drink
the King's health. We, lying upon the Ground like Dead bodies, did not
mind what they said. They had Liquor which they called Aqua Vita.
They offered us some of it, & in Mocking Manner called it the water of
Life ; [saying] it would flow out of our Bellies if we would drink of it.
We Still lay Quiet, answering not a Word. Then they sent the fiddler to
Play and sing over us and so Continued Tormenting us almost all night,
pouring drink in our faces and committed an Indecency hardly fit to be
mentioned. We never moved all this while, for all they could do. When
it was Day light all was Quiet in Town. I took my Pen & half a Sheet of
Paper & wrote what the Lord put in my mind, who 1 am Satisfied directed
my pen to give them a Citation to appear before the Tribunal Seat of God
Almighty to Answer not only for their Injury done to us but for Crucifying
to themselves the Son of God afresh, and putting of him to open shame.
[I] further said that I wished that which they sent to us in a Scoffing
Manner calling it aqua Vita might not Prove to be Aqua Mortis to them,
&c. This Paper was sent among them that Day & we were sent to the
County Gaol.

It may be observed that some of them were never seen on the Bench
again, & it was not two Years & a half before the six were in their graves,
to Wit, five Justices and the high-Sheriff.

When we came to the Gaol the gaoler after his usual manner Pro-
vided Meat & Drink, & laid it upon the Table And told us he would use
us as Gentlemen if we would pay, and if not he would use us Otherwise.
We Answered we could not Live at that Rate long & would make no
bargain with him, he swearing as he used to do that he would Famish us
then, and [he] Endeavored to do so as much as he could. However we
strove with [it] and lay on the floor until the Assize. Then the Gaol was
to be removed to Bala. I, being lame, was Obliged to Travel a-foot for
12 Miles. (If I had brought a Horse he would have Arrested him for the
fees.) When the Assize came, we Presented our Petition to the Judge,
and the Second day of the Assize, at Night, as we were going to bed we
had it deliver' d to him & he read it and Delivered it again to the
Messenger and Directed that it should be presented to him the Next day,
as soon as he sat on the Bench, which he did Accordingly, at his first
Entrance. Then he Read it very serious and Solidly to himself, and

JOHN HUMPHREY'S NARRATIVE. 1 03

handed it to the Pathonater to be Read Publicly ; so he began to read,
until [when] he came to our Terms of Thee & Thou, he Smiled and
Stuttered. The Judge bade him Read on, as he did, after which we were
Commanded to be brought to Court. Twelve of the Sheriff's Men came
with their holberts to Guard us to the Court. Way was made for us to
Stand at the Barr. The Judge asked us why we did not go to Church to
worship God and Divine Service. We Replyed that the time was come
that they that worshiped God according to His will must worship Him in
Spirit & in Truth, and wheresoever two or three are met together in His
Name, He Promiseth to be in the midst of them. Several Questions were
asked by several in Court, some in Earnest & some in Jest, but we
answered them not. Then the Sheriff's Men guard' d us to the gaol
again, after they tendered us the Oath, and we Refused. There was a
little Paper of George Fox's — sent by Shropshire Friends to us, [upon]
hearing that we suffered on the Account* of Swearing. The contents
thereof was this : " The Cry of the World is 'Swear and kiss the book,'
and the Book saith, ' Kiss the Son,' & the Son saith ' Swear not at all.' "
We did not know how to get it Published, it being so pertinent to the time
& purpose, [but] we offered one six-pence to nail it on the Court-House
door. He concluded he would do it, But his Heart failed him, and he
returned it again saying he did not know but they would count it Treason
to Publish anything that was against the law. I put it in my Pocket to
wait another Opportunity. The Day following the Sheriff and his Train
Came to the Gaol and took from amongst us Old John Williams, the
Father of Reese John, a short Man with grey hairs and long Beard about
Seventy Years of Age. He alone was taken to the Court. The Judge
asked if he would Pay the fines. He Answer' d in his own Language that
he wronged no Man, he was a poor husbandman. Endeavoring to keep
his conscience void of offence towards God & Man, earning his Bread
with the sweat of his brow, paying Duties and Customs to whom it was
due. Then he was Commanded to be put in a loft at the other End of the
Hall, where he was a straight object before the Judge's face, which, as
many supposed. Affected his Heart with Pitty to the poor, Innocent, Old
Man, for the Judge could not turn his Eyes from him all the while. Then
his son, Reese John, was fetched from us to Court ; and as they were
leading him along they told him that his father had taken the Oath, and
promis'd to pay the fine. Howbeit he was so steadfast in his Mind that
they Could not move him, altho' he knew not what was become of his

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Father. The Court Demanded the fine from him, & tendered the oath &
he Refused ; then he was turned to his Father. The Next was Hugh
Price, whom they endeavored to persuade to do as they said the others had
done, but to no effect. And when they saw that nothing would prevail,
they came in great Rage and fury for us all & brought us to the Barr.
The deputy Sheriff's son had [had] some Quarrel, & my brother [had]
taken [part in it] some former time. He was Pricking us with Pins in
the Court. We made our Complaint thereof to the Bench ; then one of
the Lawyers said whosoever abuseth a prisoner at the Barr, the Law was
to cut off his Right arm. When to Excuse himself he said he was
searching for Treacherous Papers ; with that he thrust his hand in my
pocket, and found that little paper which we could not get any way to
Divulge. When he had got it he Proclaimed it to the Court thinking he
had got something that would take me by the throat. One of the Lawyers
read it and gave it to his Companion, saying " Let it go, my Lord ; it will
harm no body." So it went to the Judge's hand, & he read it & said
nothing to it.

I perceived this to be the Lord's doings, to Cause this Angry fellow to
do that service for us. Which we could not have any to do for money, and
we were then released from our fines and Imprisonments.

The Gaoler cry'd out Could he keep men in his custody and have
nothing for our meat & drink & lodging. The cryer cried out, ' ' Free
Men." One of the Justices that Committed us said he would have us here
again, ere long, but the Judge said, " Let them go now." The Judge sent
to us to know [how] it was between us and the Gaoler. We made it
appear that we did not partake of anything that might Be called his, but
his cruelty, and that we did pay, to the utmost — only to the floor which
we lay and Trod upon.

John Humphrey.

\A Short Relation Omitted in its proper place is here inserted. ]
About the year 1663 the Magistrates of Montgomeiy Recommended
to the Magistrates of Merioneth some vain Sorry fellow that had spent his
Estate, urging them to Employ him to suppress the Fanaticks, as they
Called them, and Issued forth warrants to bring in all that did not go to
the Steeple House ; & many was taken in this Net, which they spread,
but other Dissenting Professors that had but little Possession in the Truth,
[and] Could not stand the Stock — Agreed with the Man to give him some

JOHN HUMPHREY'S NARRATIVE. 105

Money, & were Dismissed. None remained Faithful to their Testimony
but Friends, and on us he was Resolved to vent his Rage and Cruelty, and
locked us up in a Room a Top of the shire hall, and would not as much as
allow us a little straw to lay upon. There was a Bundle of Straw in a
Window, to stop the wind & rain coming in, which he took away. A
Friend said to him, "Thou Canst take out, but thou canst not cause the
wind to blow in there." Then we Resolved to suffer, and lie upon the
Boards, and the whole Company agreed that one should lay for a Boulster
and three lay with their heads upon him, and so all take their turns.
Thus we spent several weeks, and He like a severe Master over us, coming
to see us Every Day, but after he had spent all he had got from the
Dissenting Professors, and could not get any thing from us, he was weary
of Friends, and said he would not Trouble himself any farther with us,
and so we were Released.

John Humphrey.

Soine Account of the Sufferings of our Ancient friend Jo /in Humphreys
in Wales in Old England, taken from an old Manuscript.

After I was Married I went to Lanwyddun in Montgomery-shire.
There was no Friends' Meetings there before I came ; only two Cousins of
mine frequented Meetings abroad ; but we set up a Meeting, & in a little
time a great Concourse of People from the parish about began to come, &
our Meetings came to be pretty large. I was several times Apprehended
by Warrant and brought to the Assizes in Montgomery but never put to
prison but during the Sessions.

There was a Man that lived very near to the place where we kept our
Meetings. He was building a house & had many hands from many Parts.
Upon our Meeting Day they agreed to come to Disturb our Meetings. So
they came to the House after the Meeting was over, & rushed in amongst
us, & asked upon what Account so many of us came together. Some of
us Asked upon what Account they came amongst us in such a Posture.
Upon that one of them steped [up] and took me by the Hair of my Head
with the Broad ax in the other hand and Lug'd me towards the door.
Some Women throng' d about me and said: " Thou Villain, what dost
thou mean ! " By that he Answered : "I mean to take off his head."

The Women wrestled and took the Ax from him. He still held me

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by the hair. They strove with him until they got his Hands from my
head and then cast him out of the door.

As I was going home by the place where they were working, I turned
in, thinking to speak with their Master to know whether was it by his
Permission they Came, but he not being there the Men came down from
the Scaffold and one with a Clift of Wood struck me upon my head untill
I was quite dead, Rowling in my Blood. The Woman of the House was
an English Woman from London. She cried out with a loud voice and put
my head in her apron, & called out for her husband to send away the
Wicked Bloody rogue from her House. They abused the friend that was
with me also. When my Blood was washed and my wound Dressed I got
home. The rumor was spread abroad ; they fled and left the work. The
fellow that abused me was never seen again in the country.

In the year 1679 the new Act^ was in force, and many turned to be
Informers. Justice Morris came to be an Informer, himself, and Issued
out writ, & gave them to the Sheriff, who Distrained upon Charles Loyd,
Thos. Loyd, Thos. March, and others, & took what they could find of their
Cattle. The sale Friends sought a Replevin, intending to traverse the case
to get home the Cattle till the Assize. Charles and Thos. Lloyd sent two
Men upon two good Horses to Replevin the Cattle. They went to this
Morris & shewed their power. He took them to the cattle which was on
the other side of the River by his house in a Meadow. When he had
them there he took both Horses from them & sent them away, he being
Justice of the peace in both Counties, the other side of the River was in
Denbighshire. The two Horses were well worth £20 Sterling.

In a few Days after, as the said Justice was going from one place to
another on one of these Horses he Stumbled in the river. He fell off &
was Drowned before his own door. His warrant was [then] with the
Deputy Sheriff to distrain upon us in Lanwyddun. We expected their
coming Every Day, and some [that] were faithless and fearfull did con-
trive some shift to sell some, & put the rest under the mark of the Land-
lord. The Sheriff's Wife was very Earnest with her husband to make hay
while the Sun shined, for it was thought that if more Writs were Issued
forth, [these] if not soon serv'd, would be Void, — the term would Expire.
Which made her so Eager, together with the Profit She made of so many

^ This was the revival of the old acts, whose operation had for some time been sus-
pended by the King.

JOHN HUMPHREY'S NARRATIVE. 107

Cows that her Husband brought her. But on the Day he intended to
come to distrain our Goods he was Taken with a sore fitt in the Morning,
& his Man with all speed sent to Thomas Loyd which was about three
miles off, to get something for him, but Doctor Loyd was not at home to go
with the Man, nor to give him anything. In a little while after the Man
returned, the Sheriff Died in his Chair. Had Thos. Loyd been at home &
had given him something. Perhaps Some might have Conjectured some ill
thoughts of him. However he had the Warrant in his pocket When he
Died Intending that morning before the fitt took him to Execute it upon us.
The Night before my Wife was Milking the Cows, Saying to us : "I do
not know whether I may ever have them to milk again, or no." The first
news that I heard was of his Burial. I did Suppose the hand of God was
in it working our Deliverance, Therefore I set it down amongst my
Memorials.

There was a young man in the Neighborhood about Twenty years of
Age living with his Father & Mother. As I was agoing before him in the
lane, & he a-coming after me with somebody with him, as he came he did
go hobbling on one side Crying repeatedly after me : " Quaker ! Quaker !
Quaker ! " I took little notice of him then. But a Few Days after he
was Grievously taken with a sore Distemper in his Limbs, so that he Cry'd
out with pain and grief. I had never spoken a word to him nor any Body
Else, to the best of my Remembrance, of his mocking me, Until his
Mother came to my house, with tears, desiring me to forgive him & to
pray to God on his behalf. I was seriously Concerned on his Account,
and made many a Journey to Visit him in his Sickness. His lower parts
was quite benumbed a long time before his Death. He died Sensible, &
I believe in peace with God.

XII.

Early Monthly Meeting Records of Marriages :
Other' Lists of Marriages and Deaths.

ABSTRACTS of the marriage records of Haverford ^ Month-
ly Meeting (to which the Gwynedd Friends, until 17 14,
belonged), and of those of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, are
amongst the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsyl-
vania, in Philadelphia. From these I have copied a list, relat-
ing to Gwynedd and Montgomery, which follows below. In
presenting it, however, I desire to say that while it has been
copied with care, and is probably accurate, it is at best but the
copy of a copy of the original records, and that these have
themselves become, by the passage of time, difficult to decipher,
in many instances. Those who may wish to be absolutely cer-
tain as to dates, etc., should of course consult the original ;
otherwise, for ordinary purposes, the list here given will doubt-
less serve.

List from Haverford Records.

Thomas Siddon, of Dublin township, Philadelphia co., batchelor, to
Lowry Evans, of North Wales, spinster, at North Wales meeting
place, 5th mo. 28, 1701. [Witnesses : Samuel Siddon, Robert,
Thomas, Cadwallader, Elizabeth, Jane, Ann, and Mary Evans,
and 28 others.]

Hugh Roberts, of Gwynedd, batchelor, and Ann Thomas, of Upper
Merion, spinster, at Merion m. h., 7th mo. 30, 1703.

1 This is also called Radnor Monthly Meeting. The name at the period of these
records was Haverford.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. IO9

Alexander Edwards, Jun., of Gwynedd, and Gwen Foulke, of the same
township, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo. 6, 1703.

William Lewis, of Newtown, Chester co., and Gwen Jones, of Gwynedd,
at Gwynedd m. h., 8th mo. 27, 1704. [Witnesses: Lewis, Evan,
Samuel, Seaborn, and Evan Lewis, William, John, Jane, Margaret,
and Gainor Jones, and 43 others.]

Francis Dawes, of Gwynedd, and Margaret Griffith, of Philadelphia, at
Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo. 27, 1704.

David Jones, of Gwynedd, and Lowry Robert, of the same place,
at Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo. 24, 1704. [Witnesses: Griffith,
Robert, Margaret and Jane Jones ; John, Ellis, William, Evan
Cadwallader, Morris, Nicholas, Rowland, and Jane Roberts, and
20 others.]

Evan Griffith, of Gwynedd, and Bridget Jones, of Radnor, in the Welsh
Tract, at Radnor m. h., 3d mo. 3, 1705. [Witnesses : Hugh (his
father), David, Edward, Catharine, and Ellin Griffith, Griffith and
William John, and 48 others.]

Robert Evan, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Sarah Evans, of Merion, at
Merion m. h., 4th mo. 4, 1705. [Witnesses : Thomas, Cadwal-
lader, Robert, Owen, Hugh, Evan, John, Jane, Ellin, Mary, Jane,
Sarah, Gwen, and Margaret Evans ; Cadwallader and Jane
Morgan, and 71 others.]

Richard Jones, of Meirion, and Jane Evan, of Gwynedd, in the Welsh
Tract, at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 6, 1705. [Witnesses: Evan,
John, Gainor, and Sarah Jones ; Thomas, Anne, Lowry, Robert,
Hugh, Evan, and Owen Evans, and 72 others.]

John Davies, of Gwynedd, and Mary James, of Radnor, at Radnor meet-
ing place, 5th mo. 4, 1705.

Robert Humphrey, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Margaret Evans, of
Radnor, spinster, at Radnor m. h., 9th mo. i, 1705.

Robert Ellis, of Meirion, and Margaret Jones, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd
m. h., 9th mo. 3, 1705. [Witnesses : Rowland, Rowland, Jr.,
Catharine, and Elizabeth Ellis ; William, John, Thomas, Jane, and
Richard Jones, and 67 others.]

Hugh Evan, of Gwynedd, and Catharine Morgan, dau. of Cadwallader, of
Meirion, at Merion meeting place, 8th mo. 4, 1706. [\Vitnesses :
Thomas, Robert, Evan, Owen, Robert, Owen, Cadwallader, and
John Evans ; Cadwallader and Jane Morgan, and 68 others.]

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Evan Griffith, second son of Griffith John, of Merion, and Jane Jones,
step-daughter of John Humphrey, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd meet-
ing place, 3d mo. 29, 1707. [Witnesses : Griffith and William
John, Hugh Griffith, and 51 others.]

Robert John, of Gwynedd, and Gaynor Lloyd, of Merion, widow, at Merion
m. h., 4th mo. 3, 1706. [Witnesses : William and Griffith John ;
Thomas, Robert, Eliza, and Hannah Lloyd, and 59 others.]

Ellis Pugh, Jr., of Plymouth, eldest son of Ellis Pugh, of Merion, and
Mary Evan, eldest daughter of Owen Evan, of Gwynedd, at a pub-
lic meeting, 3d mo. 3, 1708.

Rowland Hugh, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Catharine Humphrey, of
Merion, at Merion m. h., 8th mo. 8, 1708. [Witnesses : ElHn and
Jane Hugh ; John, Robert, and Gainor Humphrey, and 62 others.]

George Lewis, of Gwynedd, batchelor, and Jane Roberts, of the same tp.,
at Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo. 3, 1708. [Witnesses : Thos. and
Richard Lewis; John, Ellis, Wm., and Evan Roberts, and 43
others.]

William Roberts, of Gwynedd, batchelor, and Anne Jones, of the same tp.,
at Gwynedd m., 12th mo. 4, 1708-9. [Witnesses: Ellis Roberts,
and 57 others].

David Llewellyn, of Haverford, widower, and Margaret Ellis, of Gwyn-
edd, widow, at Gwynedd m., 8th mo. 10, 1709. [Witnesses :
Morris and Mary Llewellyn, Rowland Ellis, William and Jane John,
and 55 others.]

Edward Parry, eldest son of Thomas, of Huntinton township,^ Philadelphia
CO., yeoman, and Jane Evan, second daughter of Robert, of the
same place, spinster, at Gwynedd m., 8th mo. 6, 17 10. [Wit-
nesses, Thomas, and Thomas Parry, Jr. ; Robert, Thomas, and
Hugh Evans, and 52 others.]

John Griffith, eldest son of Griffith John, of Meirion, and Grace Foulke,
second daughter of Edward, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d
mo. 6, 1707. [Witnesses : Griffith and William John ; Evan
Griffith ; Edward, Thomas, and Hugh Foulke, and 51 others.]

Hugh Evans, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Alice Lewis, daughter of James,
of Pembrokeshire, Wales, spinster, at Merion m. place, 6th mo. 25,
1710. [Witnesses: Thomas, Robert, Evan, Owen, Jr., and John
Evans ; David Jones, Cadwallader Morgan, and 67 others.]

1 Thus on the record. Where was this township ?

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Ill

Evan Jones, son of John [Evans] of Radnor, dec'd, and Lowry Evans,

daughter of Thomas, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 8,

171 1.
Thomas Ellis, of Gwynedd, and Jane Hugh, dau. of John, of the same

place, at Gwynedd m., 8th mo. 31, 1712.
Rowland Hugh, of Gwynedd, widower, and Ellin Evan, dau. of Thomas,

of the same place, spinster, at Gwynedd m., 5th mo. 31, 171 2.
Thomas Foulke, eldest son of Edward, of Gwynedd, and Gwen Evans,

eldest dau. of David, of Radnor, at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 27,

1706.
Humphrey EUis, of Gwynedd, and Mary Hugh, dau. of John, of Merion,

at Radnor m. h., loth mo. i, 1708.
Evan Roberts, of Gwynedd, and Jane Evan, dau. of Evan Pugh, of

Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d mo. 3, 1709.
Cadwallader Morris, of Gwynedd, and Elizabeth Morgan, of the same

place, at Gwynedd m., 3d mo. 24, 17 10.
Thomas David, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Elizabeth Jones, at Gwynedd

m.. 8th mo. 10, 1711. [Witnesses: John and Robert David, and

others.]
John Hanke, of Whitemarsh, yeoman, and Sarah Evans, dau. of Cad-
wallader Evans, of Gwynedd, spinster, at Gwynedd m., loth mo.

nth, 171 1.
John William, of Montgomery, widower, and Catharine Edwards, of the

same place, widow, at Gwynedd m., 3d mo. 12, 17 14.
Richard Kenderdine, son of Thomas, late of Abington, dec'd, and Sarah

Evans, dau. of Robert, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo.

2, 1714.
Rowland Roberts, of Montgomery, and Mary Pugh, eldest dau. of Robert

Pugh, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m., 3d mo. i, 171 3.
Samuel Thomas, of Montgomery, and Margaret Morgan, dau. of Edward,

of the same tp., at Gwynedd m., 3d mo. 3, 1713.
Theophilus Williams, son of John, of Montgomery, and Catharine Foulke,

dau. of Edward, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m., 4th mo. 5, 171 3.
Hugh Foulke, son of Edward, of Gwynedd, batchelor, and Anne Williams,

dau. of John, of Montgomery, spinster, at Gwynedd m., 4th mo.

4, 171 3. [Witnesses: Edward, Thomas, Cadwallader, Evan, Ellin,

Jane, and Catharine Foulke ; John, William, Thomas and Lewis

WiUiams, and 58 others.

112 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Ellis Hughs, son of John, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Jane Foulke, dau.

of Edward, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m., 4th mo. 5th, 1713.

[Witnesses : John and Rowland Hugh, and others.]
John Jones, son of Rees, late of Merion, dec'd, and Jane Edward, dau. of

Edward Griffith, late of Llan y Chill, co. of Merioneth, yeoman,

dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 9, 1713. [Witnesses: Richard

and Thomas Jones ; Hugh, Evan, and John Griffith, and others.]
Evan Evans, son of Thomas, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Elizabeth Mus-

grave, dau. of Thomas, late of or near Halifax, in Yorkshire, Gt.

Britain, yeoman, dec'd, at Haverford m. h., 7th mo. 3, 171 3.
William Morgan, son of Edward, of or near Gwynedd, and Elizabeth

Roberts, of Montgomery, at Gwynedd m. h., 8th mo. 27, 1713.
Cadwallader Roberts, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Ellen Humphrey, of

Merion, at the dwelling place of Rowland Ellis, 4th mo. 9, 17 14.

[Witnesses : Morris, Nicholas, John, Rowland, Evan, EUis, and

Eliza Roberts ; John Humphrey, and 53 others.]
Thomas Williams, of Montgomery, and Catharine Thomas, of Merion, at

Gwynedd meeting place, 6th mo. 10, 17 14.
Abraham Musgrave, son of Thomas, late of Halifax, Yorkshire, Gt.

Britain, yeoman, dec'd, and Gainor Jones, dau. of William, late of

Gwynedd, yeoman, dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo. 4, 17 14.
Ellis Roberts, of Gwynedd, tailor, and Eliza Thomas, dau. of David, of

Radnor, spinster, at Radnor mtg. place, ist mo. 30, 171 5.
Evan Evans, son of Owen, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Phebe Miles, dau.

of Samuel, late of Radnor, dec'd, at Radnor m. h., 2d mo. 13,

1715.
John Evans, son of Cadwallader, of Gwynedd, and Ellin Ellis, dau. of

Rowland, of Merion, at Merion m. h., 4th mo. 8, 1715.
Owen Evans, son of Thomas, of Gwynedd, and Ruth Miles, dau. of

Samuel and Margaret, of Radnor, at Radnor m. h., nth mo. 3,

1715-16.
John Hugh, of Gwynedd, widower, and Ellin Williams, of Upper Merion,

at Radnor m. h., 12th mo. 12, 17 16-17.
Hugh Evans, of Gwynedd, widower, and Lowry Lloyd, of Merion, widow

[born Lowry John, dau. of Rees John ; wid. of Robert Lloyd] , at

Merion m. h., 12th mo. 13, 17 16-17.
Robert Evan, son of Owen, of Gwynedd, and EUin Griffith, dau. of

Edward, of Upper Merion, at Radnor mtg. place, 3d mo. 30, 17 17.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. II3

Griffith Hugh, son of Hugh Griffith, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Jane

Roberts, dau. of Robert: ElHs, late of Radnor, dec'd, at Gwynedd

m. h., loth mo. 2, 17 18.
Thomas Evans, son of Owen, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and EHzabeth

Griffith, dau. of Edward, of Merion, dec'd, at Radnor, 4th mo. 30,

1720.
Joseph Ambler, of Montgomery, wheelwright, and Ann Williams, dau. of

John, of Meirion, spinster, at Meirion mtg. place, 8th mo. 6, 1720.
John Morgan, son of Edward, of Gwynedd, and Sarah Lloyd, dau. of

Thomas, of Merion, at Merion m. h., 9th mo. 8, 1721.
Cadwallader Evans, son of Evan Pugh, of Gwynedd, and Sarah Richard,

dau. of Rowland, late of Tredyffrin, Chester co., dec'd, at the

house of Katharine Richard, 8th mo. 10, 1722. [Witnesses:

"Evan Pugh, his father," Hugh and EUin Evan, and 41

others.]
Robert Roberts, son of Edward, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Jane Evans,

dau. of Robert, of Merion, at Merion m. h., 8th mo. 31, 1723.

[Witnesses : Robert, Sarah, Thomas, Robert, Owen, Cadwallader,

Evan, and Owen Evan, and others.]
Samuel Evans, of Gwynedd, cooper, and Hannah Walker, dau. of Lewis,

of Tredyffrin, spinster, at the house of Lewis Walker, 4th mo. 10,

1724.
Lewis Williams, of Gwynedd, and Jane Lloyd, dau. of Thomas, of

Merion, at Merion m. h., 8th mo. 8, 1725.
Rees Harry, son of David, of Plymouth, and Mary Price, dau. of Rees, of

Haverford, yeoman, at Haverford mtg., loth mo, 12, 1727.
Joseph Morgan, son of Edward, of Gwynedd, and Elizabeth Lloyd, dau.

of Thomas, of Merion, at Merion m. h., 9th mo. 8, 1728.
Robert Evans, son of Owen, late of Gwynedd, dec'd, and Ruth Richard,

dau. of Rowland, late of Tredyffrin, Chester co., at Gwynedd

m. h., 3d mo. 2, 1729.
Marmaduke Pardo, of Gwynedd, schoolmaster, and Gainor Jones, of

Meirion, at Merion m. h., 4th mo. 27, 1729.
William Williams, son of John, of Montgomery, Phila. co., yeoman, and

Margaret Longworthy, of or near Radnor, widow, at Radnor meet-
ing place, 6th mo. 10, 171 5. [Witnesses: John, Thomas, David,

Catharine, and Hugh Williams, and others.]

114 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Abraham Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Evan, dec'd, and Lydia Thomas,
dau. of WilUam, of Lower Merion, at Radnor m. h., 8th mo. 8,
1747. [Witnesses : Elizabeth, Jonathan, Musgrave, David,
Robert, Owen, Jesse, and Anne Evans, and others.]

Musgrave Evans, of Philadelphia, cooper, son of Evan, of Gwynedd,
dec'd, and Lydia Harry, dau. of Samuel, of Radnor, at Radnor
m. h., I2th mo. 12, 1753.

Amos Griffith, son of Evan, of Gwynedd, and Sarah Lawrence, dau. of
Thomas, late of Haverford, dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., 5th mo. 8,

1755-
John Jones, of Montgomery twp., and Catharine Davis, of Merion, at

Merion m. h., 12th mo. 2, 1757.
Evan Jones, son of John, of Montgomery twp., Philadelphia co., and

Hannah Lawrence, dau. of Henry, of Haverford, dec'd, at Gwy-
nedd m. h., 6th mo. 10, 1766.
Peter Evans, of Merion, son of Robert and Eleanor, of Gwynedd, dec'd,

and Mary Thomas, dau. of William and EUzabeth, of Merion, at

Radnor m. h., ist mo. 6, 1774.
John Hall, son of Mahlon, of Blockley, and Anne Morris, of the same

tp., dau. of Edward, of Montgomery, at Merion m. h., nth mo.

21, 1783.
Morris Humphreys, of Montgomery tp., farmer, son of Richard, dec'd,

and Hannah, dec'd, and Sarah S. Evans, dau. of David and Mary,

of Merion, at Merion m. h'. , nth mo. 19, 181 2.

List from Gzvynedd Records.

Edward Jones, son of John Evan, late of Radnor, Chester county, dec'd,

and Sarah, dau. of Thomas Evans, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h.,

6th mo. 25, 171 5.
WiUiam Robert, son of Edward, of Merion, dec'd, and Anne, dau, of

Robert Evans, of Gwynedd, yeoman, at Gwynedd m. h., 6th mo.

25, 1715.
Thomas Edward, son of Alexander, of Montgomery, dec'd, and Mary

Price, of Gwynedd, spinster, at Gwynedd m. h., 7th mo. 23, 171 5.
Hugh Evan, eldest son of Evan Pugh, of Gwynedd, batchelor, and Mary

Robert, dau. of Robert John, dec'd, of Merion, at a pubhc meeting

in Gwynedd, 3d mo. 25, 17 16.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. I15

Benj. Mendinhall, son of Bcnj., of Chester Co., yeoman, and Lidia
Robert, dau. of Owen, of Gwynedd, yeoman, at Ciwyn. m. h., 3d
mo. 9, 1717.

Nicholas Roberts, son of Robert Cadwalader, of Gwynedd, dec'd, and
Margaret Foulke, dau. of Edward, yeoman, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d
mo. 23, 1717.

John Roger, son of Roger Roberts, of Merion, and Ellin Pugh, dau. of
Robert, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 21, 1717.

Richard William, of Gwynedd, batchelor, and Margaret Eaton, of the same
place, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, loth mo. 7, 1717.

Robert Jones, of Gwynedd, and Anne, dau. of William Coulstone, of Ply-
mouth, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 8th mo. 22, 17 17.

Robert Hugh, son of Hugh Griffith, of Gwynedd, and Catharine Evans,
dau. of Evan Pugh, of the same place, yeoman, at Gwynedd m. h.,
1 2th mo. 26, 17 1 7.

William Lewis, of Newton, Chester Co., and Lowry Jones, of Gwynedd,
widow, a Gwynedd m. h., ist mo. 7, 1717-18.

Jenkin Evans, of Montgomery, batchelor, and Alice 1 Morgan, dau. of Ed-
ward, of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h., 8th mo. 17, 17 18.

Daniel Morgan, son of Edward, "adjacent Gwynedd," yeoman, and
Elizabeth Roberts, dau. of Robert [Cadwallader] dec'd, of Gwynedd,
at Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo. 21, 17 18.

Humphrey Jones, son of John [Humphrey] of Gwynedd, and Catherine
Jones, dau. of WiUiam, dec'd, of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h.,
2d mo. 23, 1719.

Rees David, of Upper Dublin, widower, and Margaret Morgan, of Mont-
gomery, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d mo. 9, 17 19.

Cadwalader Jones, son of John, of the parish of Llanfawr, Merionethshire,
North Wales, Great Britain, dec'd, and Martha Thomas, dau. of
David, of Radnor, Chester Co., yeoman, at a public meeting in
Gwynedd, 4th mo. 12, 1719.

Cadwalader Foulke, son of Edward, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Mar)-
Evans, dau. of Robert, of the same place, yeoman, at Gwynedd
m. h., 4th mo. 13, 1 7 19.
Hugh Evans, son of Robert, of Gwynedd, and Margaret Robert, dau. of
Edward, of the same place, yeoman, at Gwynedd m. h., 8th mo. 23,
1719.
1 In the Monthly Meeting minutes, the Clerk writes her name Alee, — i.e. the
colloquial Ailsie, or Elsie.

Il6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

William Morris, son of Morris Richard, of Merionethshire, North Wales,
Great Britain, dec'd, and Catharine Pugh, dau. of Richard, of Mont-
gomery, dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., 8th mo. 26, 17 19.

John Webb, of Philadelphia county, and Mary Boone, dau. of George, of
the same county, at a public meeting, 7th mo. 13, 1720. [Among
the witnesses are George Boon, George Boon, jr., and Benjamin
Boone.]

li^ereas Squire Boone,^ son of George Boone, of the county of Phila-
delphia and Province of Pennsylvania, yeoman, and Sarah Morgan,
dau. of Edward Morgan, of the said county and province, hav-
ing declared their intentions of marriage with each other before
two monthly meetings of y® people called Quakers, held at Gwyn-
edd, in y* said county, according to y^ good order used among
them, whose proceedings therein, after deliberate consideration, and
having consent of parents and relations concerned therein, their
said proceedings are allowed of by said meeting : Now these are
TO CERTIFY whom it may concern that for the full accomplishment of
their said intentions this 23d day of y'' 7th month, in the year of our
Lord 1720, the said Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan appeared at a
solemn assembly of the said people for that purpose appointed at
their public meeting place in Gwynedd aforesaid, and the said Squire
Boone took the said Sarah Morgan by the hand [and] did in a sol-
emn manner declare that he took her to be his wife, promising to be
unto her a faithful and loving husband, until death should separate
them, and then and there in the said assembly the said Sarah
Morgan did likewise declare [etc., etc., etc.].

Morgan Hugh.
John Edwards.
Thomas Evans.
Cadw'r Evans.
Robert Evans.
Jno. Cadwalader.

(Signed)

[witnesses.]
Cad' r Evans.
Mary Webb.
Eliz. Morris.
Dorothy Morgan.
Eliz. Hughes.
Mary Hammer.

Squire Boone,
Sarah Boone.

(icorge Boon.
Edward Morgan.
Elizabeth Morgan.
George Boone [Junior].
Ja : Boon.
Wm. Mortran.

^ This being a somewhat famous couple, I give the certificate in full.

LISl OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. WJ

Jno. Williams. Eliz. Morgan. Jno. Morgan.

Jno. Humphrey.. Jane Griffith. Daniel Morgan.

Jno. Jones. Mary Jones. Morgan Morgan.

Jno. Jones. Ellin Evans. Jos. Morgan.

Owen Griffith. Gainor Janes. Jno. Webb.

Rowland Roberts. Samuel Thomas.
Amos Griffith. John Evans.

Robert Jones.

Thomas Williams, of Montgomery, widower, and Jane, dau. of Morris

Richard, of Merionethshire, North Wales, Great Britain, dec'd, at

Gwynedd m. h., 8th mo. 14, 1720.
John Roberts, son of John, of Abington, and Mary Dawes, dau. of Francis.

of Montgomery, yeoman, at Gwynedd m. h., 6th mo. 15, 1723.
John Harris, of Gwynedd, yeoman, and Gainor Hugh, dau. of John, of

Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo. 5, 1723.
Samuel Richards, son of Rowland, of Tredyffrin, Phila. [Chester] Co.,

dec'd, and Elizabeth Evans, dau. of Owen, of Gwynedd, dec'd, at

Gwynedd m. h., 2d mo. 21, 1726.
Abel Walker, of Tredyffrin, Chester Co., and Sina Pugh, of Gwynedd, at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 13, 1727.
Jonathan Worral, of Marple, Chester Co., and Mary Taylor, of Montgom-
ery, Philada., at Gwynedd m. h., 7th mo. 21, 1727.
Lewis Lewis, son of ElHs Lewis, of Upper Dublin, Phila. Co., yeoman, and

Anne Lord, dau. of Henry, of the same county, at Gwynedd m. h.,

2d mo. 19, 1728.
John Davies, son of Meredith, of Gwynedd, dec'd, and Mary Bennett, dau.

of Henry, of Abington, dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., 8th mo. 20, 1728.
Peter Jones, son of Peter, of Merion, Phila. Co., and Catharine Evans,

dau. of Robert, of North Wales, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d mo. 15, 1740.
Enoch Morgan, son of Edward, of Phila. Co., and Sarah Kenderdine,

dau. of Richard, of the same county, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d mo.

14, 1741.
Edmund PhiUips, of Richland, Bucks Co., and Ehzabeth Davies, of

Montgomery, Phila. Co., at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 2d mo.

25, 1729.

Il8 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

William Morgan, of Montgomery, Phila. Co., widower, and Catharine
Robeson, of Merion, in said county, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo.

7. 1731-
Joseph Davis, of the city of Philadelphia, and Mary Evans of Phila. Co.,

at Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo. 28, 1732.
William Spencer, son of Samuel, of Horsham, dec'd, and Elizabeth

Lewis, dau. of Ellis, of Upper Dublin, at a public meeting in

Gwynedd, 3d mo. 24, 1733. .

John Jones, son of Robert, of Gwynedd, Phila. Co., and Gainor

Humphrey, dau. of Robert, of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h.,

4th mo. 7, 1733.
Thomas WiUiams, of Montgomery Twp., Phila. Co., widower, and Sarah

Hank, of Gwynedd, widow, at Gwynedd m. h., ist mo. 6, 1732-33.

[Among the witnesses are John Hank, William Hank, Samuel

Hank, John Hank, Jane [or James ?] Hank, Elizabeth Hank.]
Moses Peters, son of Garrett, of Montgomery, and Martha Thomas, dau. of

Robert, of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d mo. 17, 1733.
Thomas Lewis, son of Richard, of Montgomery, and Hannah Morgan,

dau. of Edward, jr., of the same co., at a public meeting, 3d mo. 7,

1734-
William Foulke, son of Thomas, of Gwynedd, and Hannah Jones, dau. of

John, of Montgomery, at Gwynedd m. h.,, 8th mo. 15, 1734.
Robert Ellis, son of Theodore, of Gwynedd, and Sarah Davis, dau. of

Meredith Davis [David] of the same co., dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h.,

, 1734-35-

Edward Evans, of Phila. Co., yeoman, and Ehzabeth Griffith, dau. of

Evan, of the same co., at Gwynedd m. h., 3d mo. 20, 1735.
Robert Lloyd, of Gwynedd, and Catharine Humphrey, dau. of Robert, of

the same place, at Gwydedd m. h., 6th mo. 21, 1735.
Griffith Ellis, son of Theodore, of Gwynedd, and Jane Lewis, widow, of

the same place, at Gwynedd m. h., 7th mo. 9, 1735.
John Forman, son of Alexander, of New Britain, and Elizabeth Nailor

dau. of Joseph, of Montgomery, at Gwynedd m. h., iSth mo. 20, 1735.
William Erwin, of Gwynedd, and Rebecca • Roberts, dau. of Cadwalader

Robert, of the same place, deceased, at Gwynedd m. h., nth mo.

13. 1735-6-
William Robert, of Phila. Co., and Mary Pugh, of Gwynedd, widow, at
Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo. 16, 1736.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATI/S. II9

John Robert, son of John, of Montgomery, and Jane Hank, dau. of John,

of Whitemarsh, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d mo. 13, 1736.
Evan Griffith, of Gwynedd, widower, and Margaret Owen, widow, of the

same place, at Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo. 23, 1736,
Owen Roberts, son of William, of Fhila. co., and Jane Williams, dau. of

John, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo. 15, t737.
William Martin, of Gwynedd, Phila. co., and Miriam Morgan, dau. of

Edward, jr., late of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d mo. 25,

1738.
Owen Williams, son of John, of Gwynedd, dec'd, and Mary Meredith,

dau. of Meredith David, of Plymouth, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo.

22, 1738.
William Edwards, son of John, of Milford, Bucks co., and Martha Foulke,

dau. of Hugh, of Richland, at Richland m. h., 8th mo 24, 1738.
John WiUiams, son of William Williams, of Philadelphia, and Jane

Naylor, dau. of Joseph, of the same county, at Gwynedd m. h., ist

mo. 21, 1740.
Edward Edwards, son of John, of Phila. co., and EHzabeth Robeson, dau.

of James, of the same co., at Gwynedd m. h., 5th mo. 7, 1741.
Evan Jones, of Merion, and Priscilla Jones, dau. of John Jones, of Mont-
gomery, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d mo. 20, 1740. [Witnesses: John,

Jane, Evan, and Jesse Jones, Jephtha and Ann Lewis, and others.]
David Morris, son of Cadwalader Morris, of Phila. Co., and Jane Roberts,

of the same county, at Gwynedd m. h., — mo. 20, 1741.
John Roberts, son of William, of Worcester, Phila. Co., and Ann Hughs,

dau. of Rowland, of said county, at North Wales m. h., 3d mo. 20,

1742.
WiUiam Story, of Phila. Co., and Catharine Morgan, of the same place, at

Gwynedd m. h., 6th mo. 17, 1742. [Witnesses : Sarah, Catharine,

and Daniel Morgan, and others.]
Joseph Hallowell, of Phila. Co., and Sarah Nanney, dau. of Rees, of the

same county, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d mo. 18, 1742.
Robert Roberts, son of Cadwalader, of Gwynedd, Phila. Co., and Sarah

Ambler, dau. of Joseph, of the same county, at Gwynedd m. h.,

nth mo. 1 1, 1742-3.
David Humphrey, son of Robert, of Gwynedd, and Elizabeth Roberts, of

the same place, at North Wales m. h., 2d mo. 12, 1743.

I20 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

William Robert, son of William, of Gwynedd, Phila. Co., and Ann
Roberts, dau. of William-, of Worcester, at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo.
17, 1746.

Edward Evans, of Dublin, Phila. Co., and Elizabeth Jones, dau. of Hum-
phrey, of the same county, at Gwynedd m.h., 3d mo. 22, 1746.

Nathan Evans, son of Evan, of Gwynedd, dec'd, and Ruth Morgan, dau.
of Daniel Morgan, of the same co., at the house of Benjamin Mor-
gan, , 1746.

Rowland Edwards, son of John, of Towamencin, Phila. Co., and Mary
Robeson, dau. of James, of the same co., at Towamencin meeting
place, loth mo. 11, 1746. [Witnesses: John, Mary, Edward,
Elizabeth, Robert, and Evan Edwards ; James Robeson, Daniel
Morgan, Daniel Williams, John and Rowland Evans.]

Robert Jones, of Lower Marion, Phila. Co., and Margaret Evans, widow,
of Gwynedd, at Radnor m. h., iith mo. 5, 1747. [Witnesses:
Benjamin and Ann Davids, Robert, Edward, Elizabeth, Jesse and
Thomas Evans, and others.]

John Cunrad, of Springfield, Phila. Co., and Elizabeth Shoemaker, dau. of
George, of Bucks Co., at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 17, 1748.

Jacob Jones, of Gwynedd, Phila. Co., and Hannah Bennett, of said
county, at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 17, 1748.

Rowland Evans, son of John, of Gwynedd, Phila. Co., and Susanna Foulke,
dau. of Thomas, of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo.
15, 1748.

Joseph Ambler, son of Joseph, of Montgomery, Phila. Co., and Mary Nay-
lor, dau. of Joseph, of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h., 8th mo.
17, 1749.

Jesse Evans, son of Hugh, of Gwynedd, dec'd, and Catherine Jones, dau.
of John, of Horsham, said county, at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 19,
1750.

Edward Foulke, of Gwynedd, Phila. Co., and Margaret Griffith, of the
same place, at Gwynedd m. h., 8th mo. 25, 1750.

Thomas Holt, son of Benjamin, of Horsham, Phila. Co., and Sarah Mor-
gan, dau. of Enoch, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., 2d mo. 13, 1781.

Thomas Evans, son of Thomas, of Gwynedd, Phila. Co., and Mary
Roberts, dau. of John, of Whitpain, at Gwynedd m. h., nth mo.
19, 1765.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 121

Thomas Shoemaker, son of George, of Warrington, Hucks Co., and Mary

Ambler, dau. of Joseph, of Montgomery, Phila. Co., at Cwynedd

m. h., loth mo. li, 1757.
Joshua Foulke, son of Edward, of Gwynedd, Phila. Co., and Catharine

Evans, dau. of Thomas, of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h., 12th

mo. 20, 1763.
Jarret Spencer, son of Jacob, of Moreland, Phila. Co., and Hannah Evans,

dau. of Thomas, of Gwynedd, at a public meeting in Gwynedd,

nth mo. 22, 1774.
Daniel Evans, of the city of Philadelphia, blacksmith, son of Evan, of

Gwynedd, and Eleanor Rittenhouse, dau. of Matthias, of Worcester

twp., at a public meeting in Plymouth, 4th mo. 14, 1763. [Wit-
nesses : Matthias, David, and Benjamin Rittenhouse ; Jonathan,

David, Letitia, Mary, and Thomas Evans, and 27 others.]
Cephas Child, son of Cephas, of Plumstead, Bucks County, and Priscilla,

dau. of Joseph Naylor, of Montgomery, at Gwynedd m. h., 2d mo.

16, 1 75 1.
Benjamin Dickinson, son of Joshua, of Whitpain, and Isabel, dau. of John

Wright, of Hatfield, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo. 23, 1755.
George Maris, of Gwynedd, son of George, of Springfield, Chester [now

Delaware] Co., and Jane Foulke, dau. of William, of Gwynedd, at

Gwynedd m. h., 12th mo. 6, 1757.
Daniel Jones, son of Isaac, of Montgomery, Phila. Co., and Margaret

Moore, dau. of Mordecai, of Norrington, Phila. Co., at Plymouth

m. h., 1st mo. 10, 1765.
Edward Ambler, son of Joseph, of Montgomer}', Phila. Co., and Ellin

Foulke, dau. of Edward, of Gwynedd, said county, at Gwynedd

m. h., 5th mo. 14, 1767.
Edward Roberts, son of Robert, of Gwynedd, Phila. Co., and Ellin Lewis,

dau. of Enos, of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo. 4,

1764.
Daniel Williams, of North Wales, Phila. Co., and Sarah Meredith, dau. of

Meredith Davies, of Plymouth, at North Wales m.h., [date want-
ing ; earlier, probably, than 1764.]
John Roberts, son of John, of Whitpain, and Ellin Williams, dau. of

Thomas, of Montgomery, dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo. 11,

1764.

122 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Aquila Jones, son of Griffith, of Phila., dec'd, and Margaret Evans, dau.
of Owen, of Gwynedd, dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo. 25,

1759-

Matthias Rhodes, of Gwynedd, Phila. Co., and Hannah Hardy, of Hors-
ham, at Gwynedd m.h., 7th mo. 3, 1759. [Witnesses : Mary Hardy,
Jane Wilhams, Elizabeth Humphreys, Mary Jones, Christopher
Rhodes, Gwen Foulke, Ann Ambler, and 10 others.]

Thomas Evans, of Gwynedd, and Mary Brooke, of Limerick, at Gwynedd
m. h., loth mo. 9th, 1764. [Witnesses : Hugh and Susanna Evans,
Sarah Geary, Anne Evans, Hugh Evans, Robert Jones, Jane
Roberts, and 38 others.]

Ezekiel Shoemaker, son of Richard, of Horsham, and Ann Williams, dau.
of John, of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h., nth mo. 10, 1761.

ElHs Lewis, of Upper Dublin, Phila. Co., and Ellin Evans, dau. of John,
of Gwynedd, dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., 12th mo. 18, 1764. [Wit-
nesses : Lewis, Jane, and Ann Lewis, Cadwalader, Jane, Rowland,
and Susanna Evans, and 52 others.]

John Robeson, son of James, of Franconia, Phila. Co., dec'd, and Mary
Edwards, d. of John, of Towamencin, said county, at Gwynedd
m. h., nth mo. 17, 1761.

William Lewis, son of William, of Newtown, Chester Co., dec'd, and Ruth
Jones, dau. of Evan Jones, of Merion, Phila. Co., dec'd, at Gwynedd
m. h., iith mo. 20, 1764.

Robert Rogers, of Norriton, and Jane Roberts, of Gwynedd, at a public
meeting at EUzabeth Meredith's, in Plymouth, nth mo. 4, 1763.

Eldad Roberts, son of Rowland, of Montgomery, and Jane, dau. of Isaac
Jones, of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo. 18, 1763.

William Luken, son of Abraham, of Towamencin, and Catharine Evans,
dau. of Edward, of the same place, dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., loth
mo. 20, 1762.

Evan Evans, son of Cadwalader, of Whitpain, and Catharine, dau. of
Edward Morris, of Phila., at Gwynedd m. h., nth mo. 23, 1762.

Nathan Cleaver, son of Peter, of Upper Dublin, and Ruth Roberts, dau.
of John, of Whitpain, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 5th mo.
24, 1768.

Isaac Jones, jr., of Warrington, Bucks Co., yeoman, son of John, and Ann
Ambler, dau. of Joseph, of Montgomery, Phila. Co., at a pubhc
meeting in Gwynedd, loth mo. 14, 1766.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 1 23

Joseph Ambler, son of John, of Montgomery twp., Phila. Co., and Elizabeth
Forman, dau. of John, of New Britain, Bucks Co., at Gwynedd
m. h., loth mo, 8. 1776.

Morgan Morgan, son of Edward, of Whitpain, Phila. Co., and Ann Rob-
erts, dau. of John, of the same place, at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo.
21, 1774.

John Evans, son of John, of Gwynedd, and Margaret Foulke, dau. of
Evan, of the same place, dec' d, at Gwynedd m. h., i ith mo. 19, 1754.

Jesse Holt, son of Benjamin, of Horsham, Phila. Co., and Sarah Thomas,
dau. of John, of Montgomery, said county, at Gwynedd m. h., nth
mo. 21, 1780.

Levi Heston, of Phila., son of John, of Montgomery twp., and Susanna,
dau. of George Maris, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 21,

1795-
John Wilson, son of John, of Whitemarsh, Montgomery Co., and Hannah

Maris, dau. of Geo., of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., 3d mo. 8, 1796.
Jarret Heston, son of John, of Montgomery twp., and Rebecca Maris, dau.

of George, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., 5th mo. 17, 1796.
James Wood, jr., son of John, of Plymouth, and Tacy Thomas, dau. of

John, of Montgomery, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 12,

1796.
Joseph Lukens, of Whitemarsh, widower, and Mary Roberts, dau. of Amos,

of Gwynedd, dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo. 7, 1794.
William Roberts, son of John, of Lower Milford, Bucks Co., and Rebecca

Pennington, dau. of Paul, of Baltimore, at a public meeting in

Gwynedd, nth mo. 11, 1785.
John Evans, son of Edward, of Towamencin, Phila. Co., and Mary Law-
Lawrence, dau. of Daniel, of Haverford, Chester Co., at Gwynedd

m. h., I Ith mo. 19, 1776.
William Hallowell, son of Joseph, of Whitemarsh, Phila. Co., and Mar}-

Roberts, dau. of John, of Whitpain twp., said county, 6th mo. 17,

1777.
Samuel Thomas, of Plymouth, son of John, and Hannah Roberts, dau. of

Robert, of Gwynedd, at a public meeting in Plymouth, 7th mo. 7,

1796.
John Lukens, son of John and Rachel, of Towamencin, and Jane Adam-
son, dau. of John and Ann, of Horsham, at a public meeting in

Gwynedd, irthmo. 14, 1797.

124 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Paul Conard, son of Joseph, of Tredyffrin, Chester Co., and Sarah Roberts,

dau. of Joseph, of Montgomery twp. and co., at Gwynedd m. h., 5th

mo. 28, 1793.
John Heston, of Upper Dublin, son of Zebulon, of Upper Makefie'd»

[Bucks Co.], dec' d. and Elizabeth, and Mary Dickinson, widow, dau.

of Mordecai Moore, of Montgomery twp., at Gwynedd m. h., 1st

mo. 12, 1780.
Cadwalader Child, of Horsham, son of Cephas and Mary, of Plumstead

[Bucks Co.], and Elizabeth Rea, of Montgomery twp., dau. of John

and Jane, dec'd, of Philadelphia, at a public meeting in Gwynedd,

5th mo. 6, 1800.
Isaac Roberts, of Montgomery twp., son of Joseph, dec'd, and Mercy, and

Alice Comfort, dau. of Ezra and Alice, of Whitemarsh, at a public

meeting in Plymouth, 3d mo. 13, 1800.
Peter Roberts, son of John, jr., and Elizabeth, of the twp. and co. of

Montgomery, and Elizabeth Comfort, dau. of Ezra and Alice, of

Whitemarsh, at a public meeting in Plymouth, nth mo. 20, 1800.
John Thomas, son of John and Mary, of Montgomery twp., and Gainor

Forman, dau. of Alexander and Jane, of New Britain, Bucks Co.,

at Gwynedd m. h., nth mo. 11, 1800.
James Walton, of Abington, son of Jeremiah and Margaret, and Martha

Hughes, dau. of Atkinson and Jane, of Horsham, at a public meet-
ing in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 14, 1801.
Benjamin Morgan, son of Morgan and Ann, of Whitpain twp., and Tacy

Stroud, of Montgomery twp., dau. of Edward and Hannah, dec'd,

of Motherkill, Del., at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 5th mo. 13,

1800.
Samuel Lovett, of Bristol twp., Bucks Co., son of Joseph, dec'd, and Ann,

and Sarah Roberts, dau. of Amos and Sarah, dec'd, of Gwynedd,

at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 13, 1802.
Dennis Shoemaker, son of Isaac and Rachel, of Norrington, Montgomery

Co., and Sarah Coulston, dau. of James and Rebecca Wood, of

Whitpain, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, nth mo. 16, 1802.
Cadwalader Roberts, of Montgomery twp. and co., son of Cadwalader

and Mary, dec'd, and Elizabeth Evans, of Gwynedd, dau. of Thos.

and EHzabeth, dec'd, at a pubHc meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 14,

1802.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 1 25

Isaac Lowry, son of William, of Worcester, Montgomery Co., and Mar-
garet Stroud, dau. of Edward Stroud, of State of Delaware, dec'd,
at Gwynedd m. h., 5th mo. 24, 1803.

Amos Griffith, son of Amos and Sarah, dec'd, of Gwynedd, and Phebe
Cleaver, dau. of Nathan and Ruth, of Montgomery twp., at a pub-
lic meeting in Gwynedd, nth mo. 11, 1794.

Jonathan Cleaver, of Montgomery twp., son of Nathan and Ruth, and
Ann Jones, dau. of Isaac and Gainor, of the same place, at a public
meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 10, 1804.

Isachar Kenderdine, son of John, dec'd, and Hannah, of Horsham, and
Sarah Morgan, dau. of Morgan and Ann, of Whitpain, at a public
meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 11, 1804.

Richard Roberts, of Montgomery twp., son of Cadwalader and Mary,
dec'd, and Mary Scott, of Worcester, dau. of Alexander and Jane,
at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 5th mo. 14, 1805.

Amos Roberts, son of Edward, of Whitpain, and Rachel Morgan, dau. of
Daniel, of Gwynedd, at Gwynedd m. h., 2d mo. 8, 1803.

Henry Jones, of Montgomery, son of Evan, dec'd, and Hannah, and Jane
Lewis, dau. of Amos and Eleanor, dec'd, of Upper Dublin, at a pub-
lic meeting in Gwynedd, nth mo. 12, 1805.

Joseph Shoemaker, son of Thomas, of Gwynedd, and Martha Lukens, dau.
of Peter, of Towamencin, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo.
15, 1788.

Thomas Shoemaker, of Gwynedd, son of Thomas and Mary, dec'd, and
Hannah Iredell, of Montgomery, dau. of Robert and Susanna, at a
public meeting in Gwynedd, nth mo. n, 1806.

George Roberts, of Montgomery twp., son of Joseph, dec'd, and Mercy,
and Phebe Scott, dau. of Alexander and Jane, of Worcester twp.,
at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 16, 1806.

Charles Mather, of Cheltenham, son of Isaac and Mary, dec'd, and Jane
Roberts, dau. of Job and Mary, of Whitpain, at a public meeting in
Gwynedd, 5th mo. 12, 1807.

Samuel Conrad, of Horsham, son of Samuel 'and Hannah, dec'd, and
Sarah Hallowell, of Montgomery twp., dau. of William and Mar}',
dec'd, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, nth mo. 17, 1807.

John Ambler, jr., of Montgomery twp., son of Joseph and Sarah, and Ann
Morgan, dau. of Morgan and Ann, of Whitpain, at a public meeting
in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 8, 1807.

126 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Edward Spencer, of Horsham, son of Job and Hannah, and Mary Roberts,

dau. of Cadwalader and Mary, dec'd, of Montgomery twp. , at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 12, 1808.
Charles Jones, of Montgomery twp,, son of Isaac and Gainor, and Ann

Jones, dau. of Jonathan and Susanna, dec'd, of Whitemarsh, at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 5, 1809.
Isaac Jeanes, of Whitemarsh, son of Joseph and Mary, and Lydia Shoe-
maker, dau. of Joseph and Martha, of Gwynedd, at a public meet-
in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 12, 1809.
Cadwalader Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Hugh and Ann, and Ann

Shoemaker, dau. of David, dec'd, and Jane, of Whitemarsh, at a

public meeting in Plymouth, nth mo. 27, 1810.
Nathan Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, dec'd, and

Ann Shoemaker, dau. of Joseph and Tacy, of the same place, at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 4, 18 10.
Edward Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Amos, dec'd, and Hannah, and

Tacy Jones, dau. of Isaac and Gainor, of Montgomery twp., at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 11, 1810.
Evan Jones, of Montgomery twp., son of Evan, dec'd, and Hannah, and

Lowry Miles, dau. of Caleb, dec'd, and Jane Foulke, of Gwynedd,

at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo, 9, 181 1.
"William Robinson, of Providence twp., Montgomery Co., son of Nicholas

and Elizabeth, and Jane Evans, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth,

dec'd, of Gwynedd, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, nth mo. 12,

i8n.
Jacob Styer, of Whitpain, son of John and Tacy, and Ann Lukens, dau of

Jesse and Susanna, of Gwynedd, at a public meeting in Gwynedd,

1 2th mo. 3, 181 1.
Isaac Warner, jr., son of Isaac, of Moreland, Montgomery Co., and Martha,

and Ehzabeth Hughes, dau. of Atkinson and Jane, of Horsham, at

Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 14, 181 2.
Alexander Forman, jr., of New Britain, Bucks Co., son of Alexander and

Jane, and Sarah Foulke, dau, of Hugh and Ann, of Gwynedd, at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, loth mo. 6, 1812.
Samuel Lukens, of Gwynedd, son of Jesse and Susanna, and Mary Farra,

dau. of Atkinson and Elizabeth, of Norriton, at a public meeting in

Plymouth, nth mo. 19, 1812.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 12/

Thomas Jacobs, of Providence twp., son of Thomas and Lydia, dec'd, and
Sarah Fussell, dau. of IJartholomew and Rebecca, of Whitpain, at
a public meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 8, 18 12.

Thomas Foulke, of Richland, Bucks Co., son of Israel and Elizabeth, and
Sarah Lancaster, dau. of Thomas, dec'd, and Ann, of Whitemarsh,
at a public meeting in Plymouth, 3d mo. 10, 18 14.

Joseph JFussell, of East Fallowfield, Chester Co., son of Bartholomew and
Rebecca, and Rebecca Moore, dau. of Henry and Priscilla, of
Montgomery twp., at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 6th mo. 14,
1814.

Israel Scott, of Worcester twp., son of Alexander and Jane, and Edith
Lukens, dau. of Jesse and Susanna, of Gwynedd, at a public meet-
ing in Gwynedd, nth mo. 15, 1814.

William Ellis, Jr., of Whitpain twp., son of William and Sarah, and Sarah
Jones, dau. of David and Esther, of Montgomery twp., at a public
meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 13, 1814.

Ashton Roberts, of Gwynedd, son of Nathan and Margaret, and Sarah
Wilson, dau. of Joseph and Ann, dec'd, of Bristol twp., Bucks Co ,
at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 2d mo. 14, 181 5.

Amos Wilson, of Whitemarsh, son of John and Elizabeth, dec'd, and
Catharine Lukens, dau. of Abraham and Martha, of the same place,
at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 5th mo. 9, 18 15.

John Forman, of New Britain, Bucks Co., son of Alexander and Jane, and
Eleanor Shoemaker, of Gwynedd, dau. of Joseph and Tacy, at a
public meeting in Gwynedd, loth mo. 3, 181 5.

David Ambler, of Montgomery twp., son of Joseph, dec'd, and Sarah,
and Margaret Hallowell, dau. of William and Susanna, of Abing-
ton, at a public meeting in Plymouth, nth mo. 16, 1815.

Solomon Fussell, of Providence twp., son of Bartholomew and Rebecca,
and Milcah Martha Moore, dau. of Henry and Priscilla, of
Montgomery twp., at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 2d mo. 6,
1816.

Richard M. Shoemaker, of Cheltenham, son of Robert, dec'd, and
Martha, and Sarah Cleaver, dau. of Ellis and Elizabeth, dec'd, of
Gwynedd, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 2d mo 13, 1816.

Ezekiel Shoemaker, of Gwynedd, son of Joseph and Tacy, and Margaret
Weber, of Whitpain, dau. of Jacob and Tacy, at a public meeting
in Plymouth, 2d mo. 15, 18 16.

128 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Amos Bailey, son of John, dec'd, and Edith, of Falls twp., Bucks Co.,

and Esther Adamson, dau. of Robert and Tabitha, of Horsham, at

Gvvynedd m. h., 12th mo. 9, 18 17.
Jonathan Ellis, of Whitpain, son of William and Sarah, and EHzabeth

Jones, dau. of David and Esther, of Montgomery twp., at a public

meeting in Gwynedd, nth mo. 18, 18 18.
Emmor Kimber, jr., of Richland, Bucks Co., son of Richard and Susanna,

dec'd, of Radnor, Delaware Co., and Lydia Shoemaker, dau. of

Jacob, dec'd, and Sarah, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, nth mo.

17, 1818.
Ellis Cleaver, of Gwynedd, son of Ezekiel and Mary, dec'd, and Tacy

Evans, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth, dec'd, of the same place, at

a public meeting in Gwynedd, 7th mo. 6, 18 19.
John H. Cavender, of Abington, son of VViUiam and EHzabeth, dec'd, and

Hannah Shoemaker, dau. of Joseph and Tacy, of Gwynedd, at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, loth mo. 12, 18 19.
Jesse Tyson, of Upper Providence twp., son of Robert, dec'd, and Mary,

and Maria Heston, dau. of Levi and Susanna, dec'd, of Gwynedd,

at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 18, 1820.
William Zorns, of Gwynedd, son of Jacob and Hannah, and Mary Righter,

dau. of John, dec'd, and Elizabeth, of Roxborough, Phila. Co., at a

public meeting in Plymouth, 5th mo. 11, 1820.
Caleb Evans, of Whitpain, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, both dec'd, and

Agnes Roberts, dau. of Cadwallader and Mary, both dec'd, of

Montgomery twp. , at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 6th mo. 1 3, 1 820.
Joseph Shoemaker, of Gwynedd, son of Joseph and Tacy, and Phebe

Hallowell, dau. of William and Susanna, of the same place, at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 10, 1821.
Jesse Spencer, of Gwynedd, son of John, dec'd, and Lydia, and Mary

Custard, of Gwynedd, dau. of Joseph and Amelia, both dec'd, of

Richland, Bucks Co., at a public meeting in Gvvynedd, 4th mo. 24,

1821.
Jesse Shoemaker, of Gwynedd, son of Joseph and Martha, and Sarah

Ambler, dau. of Edward and Ann, of Montgomery twp., at a pubhc

meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 11, 182 1.
John Ambler, of Montgomery twp., son of John and Ann, dec'd, and Mary

Thomas, dau. of John and Mary, of Plymouth, at a pubhc meeting

in Gwynedd, nth mo. 12, 1822.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 12<)

John Lloyd, of Moreland, Montgomery Co., son of Benjamin and Sarah,
both dec'd, and Lydia Spencer, dau. of John, dec'd, and Lydia, of
the same place, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo, 8, 1823.

Aaron Lukens, of Plymouth, son of Uavid and Mary, dec'd, and Anna M.
Foulke, dau. of William and Margaret, dec'd, of Gwynedd, at
Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 13, 1824.

Alexander Forman, of New Britain, Bucks Co., yeoman, son of Alexander
and Jane, both dec'd, and Mary Ambler, dau. of Joseph, dec'd,
and Sarah, of Montgomery, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 2d
mo. 15, 1825.

Edward Ambler, jr., of Montgomery twp., son of Edward and Ann, and
Mary Roberts, dau. of George and Rachel, of Gwynedd, at a public
meeting in Gwynedd, loth mo. 18, 1825.

Silas Walton, of Upper Dublin, son of Jeremiah and Rachel, of Horsham,,
and Priscilla Ambler, dau. of John and Priscilla, dec'd, of Mont-
gomery twp., at a public meeting in Gwynedd, loth mo. 7, 1826.

Israel L. Tennis, of Towamencin, son of Samuel and Mary, and Elizabeth
Lukens, dau. of Enos and Ann, of the same place, at a public meet-
ing in Gwynedd, 1 2th mo. 12, 1826.

Jonathan Maulsby, of Plymouth, Montgomery Co., son of Samuel and
Susanna, and Jane Jones, dau. of Evan and Sarah, of the same
county, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 8, 1828.

Jesse Shoemaker, of Gwynedd, son of Joseph, dec'd, and Martha, and
Sarah Lukens, dau. of Enos and Ann, of Towamencin twp., at a
public meeting in Gwynedd, 6th mo. 10, 1828.

Justinian Kenderdine, son of Joseph, dec'd, and Hannah, of Horsham,
and Tacy Thomas, dau. of John, dec'd, and Sarah, of Whitpain, at
a public meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 9, 1828.

Jonathan Lukens, of Gwynedd, son of Jesse and Susanna, dec'd, and
Elizabeth Righter, jr., dau. of John, dec'd, and Elizabeth, of Rox-
borough, Philadelphia Co., at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo.
15, 1825.

Isaac Ellis, of Whitpain, Montgomery Co., son of William and Sarah, and
Margaret Thomas, dau. of John and Mary, of the same county, at
a public meeting in Gwynedd, 6th mo. 9, 1829.

John Rutter, of Upper Dublin, son of James and Mary, and Elizabeth
Ambler, dau. of Edward and Ann, dec'd, of Montgomery' twp., at
a public meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 8, 1829.

130 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Thomas Bancroft, of Delaware Co. , son of John and Elizabeth, and Lydia

Ambler, dau. of John and Priscilla, dec'd, of Montgomery Co., at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 12, 1831.
David Jones, son of David and Esther, of Montgomery twp., and Hannah

Conrad, dau. of Thomas, dec'd, and Mary, of the same place, at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 19, 1831.
Evan G. Lester, of Richland, Bucks Co., son of Thomas and Hannah,

both dec'd, and Cynthia E. Jones, dau. of Evan and Sarah, dec'd,

at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 2d mo. 14, 1832.
Lewis Jones, of Upper Dublin, son of Henry, dec'd [of Montgomery twp.],

and Jane, and Mary Livezey, dau. of Samuel and Mary, of the

same county, at a public meeting in Plymouth, 3d mo. 15,

1832.
Joseph Zoms, of Upper Dubhn, son of Jacob and Hannah, and Ann Hal-

lowell, dau. of William, dec'd, and Susanna, of Horsham twp., at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 3, 1832.
Joseph W. Conrad, of Montgomery twp., son of Thomas, dec'd, and Mary,

and Hannah S. Meredith, dau. of David and Rachel, of said county,

at a pubUc meeting in Plymouth, 5th mo. 16, 1832.
David Thomas, of Whitpain, son of Evan and Christiana, both dec'd, and

Sarah Gibson, dau. of John, dec'd, and Elizabeth, of Roxborough,

at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 4, 1832.
Charles Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Nathan, dec'd, and Ann, and Mary

Morgan, dau. of Benjamin and Tacy, of Whitpain, at Gwynedd

m. h., 3d mo. 12, 1833.
Edwin Moore, of Upper Merion, son of Richard, dec'd, and Abigail, and

Phebe Foulke, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth, of Gwynedd, at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, 5th mo. 13, 1834.
WilUam Lukens, of Philadelphia, son of Amos and Sarah, and Edith

Lukens, dau. of George and Esther, of Montgomery Co. , at a public

meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 9, 1834.
John Rich, of Byberry, son of Joseph and Ehzabeth, dec'd, and Ann B.

Cooper, of Gwynedd, dau. of Mahlon, and Jane, of Horsham, at a

public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 7, 1835.
John Clifton Lester, of Richland, Bucks Co., son of John and Abigail, both

dec'd, and Hannah B. Mather, of Whitpain, dau. of Charles, dec'd,

and Jane, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 9th mo. 15, 1835.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 131

Thomas Shoemaker, of Gwynedd, son of Thomas and Mary, both dec'd,
and Margaretta Farra, dau. of Atkinson and Elizabeth, dec'd, of
Montgomery Co., at a public meeting, loth mo. 13, 1835.

Robert Shoemaker, of Montgomery twp., son of Thomas and Hannah,
dec'd, and Sarah Roberts, dau. of George, dec'd, and Rachel, of
Gwynedd, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 12, 1836.

Watson Comly, of Byberry, Phila. Co., son of Joseph and Rachel, and
Mary G. Lester, dau. of Thomas and Hannah, both dec'd, at a
public meeting in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 18, 1837.

John W. Hampton, of Plymouth, son of James and Harriet, both deceased,
and Tacy S. Morgan, dau. of Benjamin and Tacy, of Whitpain, at
a public meeting in Gwynedd, 3d mo. 13, 1838.

Benjamin G. Foulke, of Richland, Bucks Co., son of Caleb and Jane,
dec'd, and Jane Mather, dau. of Charles, dec'd, and Jane, of Whit-
pain, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 3d mo. 6, 1838.

John Walton, of Moreland, Montgomery Co., son of Jeremiah and Hannah,
dec'd, and Mary Thomson, dau. of John and Mary, dec'd, of
Gwynedd, at a pubHc meeting in Gwynedd, i ith mo. 13, 1838.

James Hall, of Blockley, Phila Co., son of John and Ann, and Sarah J.
Ellis, widow, of Whitpain, dau. of David, dec'd, and Esther Jones,
at a pubhc meeting in Gwynedd, 12th mo. 3, 1839.

John T. Michener, of Plumstead, Bucks Co., son of Abraham and Jane,
and Elizabeth Forman, dau. of John and Eleanor, of said county,
at Gwynedd m. h., 5th mo. 4, 1842.

Charles Hall, of Blockley, Phila. Co., son of James and Hepzibah, dec'd,
and Sarah Lukens, dau. of Nathan and Matilda, both dec'd, at the
house of Ezekiel Cleaver, in Gwynedd, 2d month 16, 1843.

Hugh Forman, of New Britain, Bucks Co., son of Alexander and Sarah,
dec'd, and Jane Hallowell, dau. of William and Catharine, dec'd,
of Plymouth, at a public meeting in Plymouth, 3d mo. 16,

1843-

Josiah Cleaver, of Montgomery twp., son of Salathiel and Mary, and Mar-
tha P. Lukens, dau. of Peter, dec'd, and Mary, at the house of Evan
Jones, in Gwynedd, 4th mo. 11, 1844.

Nathaniel F. Kinsey, of Milford twp., Bucks Co., son of John and Eliza-
beth, dec'd, and Elizabeth Morgan, dau. of Morgan and Ann, of
Montgomery twp., at the house of Morgan Morgan, 4th mo. 16,
1844.

132 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Samuel J. Levick, of Richland, Bucks Co., son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth
W., of Philadelphia, and Susanna M. Mather, dau. of Charles,
dec'd, and Jane, of Whitpain, at the house of Job R. Mather, nth
mo. 17, 1844.

Ellis Cleaver, of Gwynedd, son of Ellis and Elizabeth, both dec'd, and
Hannah Pugh, dau. of Jonathan, dec'd, and Esther, of the same
CO., at the house of Ellis Cleaver, 4th mo. 9, 1846.

Penrose Mather, of Cheltenham, son of Bartholomew and Ann, dec'd, and
Lydia Shoemaker, dau. of Thomas and Hannah, dec'd, of Gwyn-
edd, at the house of Thomas Shoemaker, nth mo. 12, 1846.

Daniel Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Joseph and Elizabeth, and Elizabeth
C. Foulke, dau. of William and Susanna, of the same place, at the
house of William Foulke, 4th mo. 8, 1847.

WiUiam Walmsley, of Philadelphia, son of Joseph and Ann, and Letitia
Mather, dau. of Charles and Jane, both dec'd, at the house of Job
R. Mather, 6th mo. 10, 1847.

Anthony C. Michener, of Abington, son of John and Martha, and Hannah
W. Jones, dau. of Charles and Ann, of Montgomery twp., at the
house of Charles Jones, ist mo. 6, 1848.

Eli Simmers, of Upper Dublin, parents deceased, and Mary L. Walton,
dau. of Jeremiah and Rachel, both dec'd, at the house of Silas
Walton, 1 2th mo. 6, 1849.

Charles Conard, of Whitpain, son of John and Sarah, and Lydia Ann
Walton, dau. of Silas and Priscilla, of Montgomery twp., at the
house of Silas Walton, 2d mo. 14, 1850.

George A. Newbold, of Byberry, Phila. Co., son of Samuel and Abigail,
dec'd, and Hannah C. Foulke, dau. of William and Susanna C, of
Gwynedd, at the house of William Foulke, loth mo. 10, 1850.

Cadwallader R. Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Caleb and Agnes, and Ellen
H. Shoemaker, dau. of Joseph and Phebe, of the samo place, at the
house of Joseph Shoemaker, 2d mo. 13, 185 1.

David Cleaver, of Montgomery twp., son of Nathan and Martha, and
Hannah Holt, dau. of John and Rachel, of the same co., at the
house of John Holt, in Whitemarsh, 4th mo. loth, 1851.

Ellwood Cleaver, of Gwynedd, son of ElUs and Sarah L., dec'd, and
Martha Ann Lukens, dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth, of the same
place, at the house of Jonathan Lukens, loth mo. 9, 185 1.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 1 33

Comly Lukens, of Towamencin, son of George, dec'd, and Esther, and
Lydia Acuff [wid. of William] , dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth
Ellis, of Norriton twp., at the house of Jonathan Ellis, 2d mo. 16,

1853-

Ezekiel Shoemaker, of Gwynedd, son of Joseph and Phoebe, and Hannah
H. Meredith, dau. of John and Rachel, both dec'd, of Plymouth
twp., at the house of William P. Ellis, ist mo. 11, 1854.

Joseph M. E. Ambler, of Upper Dublin, Montgomery Co., son of Andrew,
dec'd, and Mary I., and Hannah Cleaver, dau. of Solomon and
Lydia, of [Gwynedd] the same co., at the house of Solomon
Cleaver, 2d mo. 16, 1854.

Isaac Conard, of Whitemarsh, son of John, dec'd, and Sarah, and Mary
Walton, dau. of Silas and Priscilla, of Montgomery twp., at the
house of Silas Walton, 4th mo. 6, 1854.

Jacob Beans, of Baltimore, Md., son of Jonathan and Elizabeth, and Sarah
C. Smith, dau. of John and Betsy Rich, of Gwynedd, at the house
of Benjamin C. Rich, in Horsham, ist mo. 8, 1857.

Milton Darlington, of West Marlboro, Chester Co., son of Richard and
Edith, and Sarah Forman, dau. of Alexander, dec'd, and Mary, of
New Britain, Bucks Co., at the house of Hugh Forman, 6th mo.

10, 1858.

Jonathan Thomas, of [Upper Dublin], Montg. Co., son of Spencer
[dec'd], and Hephziba, and Margaretta N. Phipps, dau. of Peter
and Lydia [of Whitemarsh], at the house of Peter Phipps, loth mo.

11, i860.

Lewis J. Ambler, of Upper Dublin, son of Andrew, dec'd, and Mary, and

Rachel Walton, dau. of Silas and Priscilla, of Montgomery twp., at

the house of Silas Walton, 9th mo. 25, 1862.
John Stackhouse, of Falls twp., Bucks Co., son of Thomas and Phoebe

K., dec'd, and Anna Shaw, dau. of Lewis B. and Esther, of G%\"^-n-

edd, at the house of Lewis B. Shaw, ist mo. 8, 1863.
Charles E. Ambler, of Plymouth, son of Edward and Mary R., and

Pamela F. Shaw, dau. of Lewis B. and Esther, of Gwynedd, at the

house of Lewis B. Shaw, 2d mo. 12, 1863.
Edwin MuUin, of Gwynedd, son of Robert and Phoebe [of Horsham] , and

Anna R. Conrad, dau. of Peter and Sarah, of Horsham, at the

house of Peter Conrad, 2d mo. 19th, 1863.

134 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Chalkley Ambler, of Philadelphia, son of John and Ann, both dec'd, and
Catharine C. Evans, dau. of Peter C. and Margaret [of Whitpain] ,
at the house of Chalkley Ambler, 6th mo. 4, 1863.

Edward Pickering, of Bensalem, Bucks Co., son of Samuel W. and Eliza-
beth L., both dec'd, and Rebecca Rowlett, dau. of John and Dru-
cilla P., of Gwynedd, at the house of John Rowlett, 4th mo. 6,
1864.

James Ouinby Atkinson, of Upper Dublin, son of Thomas and Hannah,
and Margaretta Foulke, dau. of William and Susanna C, of Gwyn-
edd, at the house of William Foulke, nth mo. 17, 1864.

Jesse James, jun., of Byberry, son of Jesse and Martha, and Sarah J.
Cleaver, dau. of Nathan, jr., and Deborah, of Gwynedd, at the
house of Nathan Cleaver, jr., loth mo. 26, 1865.

Aaron Ambler, of Whitemarsh, son of David and Margaret, and Mary M.
Conard, dau. of Meredith and Rachel, dec'd, of Whitpain, at the
house of Meredith Conard, ist mo. 17, 1867.

James Q. Atkinson, of Upper Dublin, son of Thomas and Hannah, and
Mary Cleaver, dau. of Nathan, jr., and Deborah [formerly of Gwyn-
edd], at the house of Jesse James, Bensalem, Bucks co., 5th mo.
20, 1868.

[The following are from the records of the Orthodox monthly-
meeting of Gwynedd :]

Jacob T. Lukens, of Horsham, Montg. Co., son of William and Martha,
and Jane Roberts, dau. of George and Phoebe, of Worcester twp.,at
a public meeting in Gwynedd, 2d mo. 18, 1832.

James C. Jackson, of Hockessin, New Castle Co., Del., son of Thomas
and Jane, and Amelia Spencer, dau. of Jesse, dec'd, and Mary C,
of Gwynedd, at a public meeting in Gwynedd, 5th mo. 16, 1844.

Thomas Wistar, of Montgomery Co., son of Thomas, jr., and Elizabeth
B,, and Priscilla Foulke, dau. of Edward and Tacy, of the same
CO., at Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 26, 1849.

Samuel Morris, of Philadelphia, son of Samuel B. and Hannah P., dec'd,
and Lydia Spencer, dau. of Jesse, dec'd, and Mary C, of Mont-
gomery Co., at Gwynedd m. h., 2d mo. 17, 1853.

LIST OF MARRIAOES AND DEATHS. 135

Lists of Marriages and Deaths, fro7n Samuel aitd Cadwallader
Foulke's Memorafidum Books.

The following lists are made up from memoranda found in
two almanac memorandum books that were amongst the papers
of Cadwallader Foulke (surveyor), of Gwynedd. The larger of
the two is Aitkeris General American Register and Calendar, for
the Year 1774, printed at Philadelphia by R. Aitken ; the other
is The Lancaster Pocket Almanack, for the Year lyyS, " by An-
thony Sharp, Philom.," printed at Lancaster by Francis Bailey.
The two contain blank leaves on which the memoranda appear.
Both of them no doubt were originally the property of Samuel
Foulke, of Richland (son of Hugh and Ann), and the memo-
randa, begun by him, were added to by his son Cadwalader.
Most of the marriages and a large part of the deaths are those
of persons living at Richland, but as it would be difficult to
select strictly those belonging to Gwynedd, and as there were so
many ties of kindred and acquaintance with the Richland
people, I have thought it altogether proper to give all that are
found in both books. The marriage list is as follows. (For
convenience of reference I have prefixed to the entries a series of
numbers.)

1. Samuel Foulke and Ann Greasley, married 9th mo. 24, 1743.

2. Abel Roberts and Gainor Morris, 2d mo. 17, 1744.

3. Joseph Green and Catharine Thomas, 3d mo. mo. 10, 1744.

4. Edward Thomas and Alice Roberts, 10th mo. 21, 1749.

5. Samuel Thomas and Phebe Lancaster, loth mo. 19, 1752.

6. John Roberts and Margaret Gaskill, 5th mo. — , 1753.

7. John Lancaster and Elizabeth Barlow, 12th mo. — , 1753.

8. Jonathan Heacock and Susanna Morgan, 3d mo. 9, 1745.

9. Isaac Lester and Eleanor Thomas, 8th mo. — , 1746.

10. Charles Dennis and Sarah Morgan, 4th mo. 11, 1747.

11. John Thomas and Elizabeth Lewis, 4th mo. 23, 1748.

12. Thomas Roberts and Lett' a Rhea, 9th mo. 14, 1750.

136 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

13. Joseph Dennis and Hannah Lewis, 5th mo. 20, 1752.

14. Thomas Christie and Martha Ashton, 5th mo. — , 1753.

15. George Hoge and Elizabeth Blackledge, 12th mo. 9, 1756.

16. Joseph Rakestraw and Rachel Ogilby, nth mo. 7, 1757.

17. John Morgan and Mary Gaskill, nth mo. 2, 1758.

18. Thomas Casner and Ann Thomas, 7th mo. 2, 1761.

19. Thomas Ashton and Mary Chapman, ist mo. 13, 1763.

20. Thomas Stalford and Eliz. Wright, 5th mo. 12, 1763.

21. Abra'm Ball and Ann Adamson, nth mo. 10, 1763.

22. David Roberts and Phebe Lancaster, 5th mo. 2, 1754.

23. Thomas Foulke and Jane Roberts, loth mo. 10, 1754.

24. John Foulk and Mary Roberts, loth mo. 14, 1755.

25. JohnGreasley and Jane Foulke, nth mo. 17, 1756.

26. Abra'm Roberts and Cathar'ne Lester, 12th mo. 9, 1756.

27. Wm. Foulke and Priscilla Lester, 5th mo. 12, 1757.

28. Wm. Blackledge and Ann Lewis, 6th mo. 15, 1757.

29. Theophilus Foulke and Margaret Thomas, nth mo. 10, 1757.
30.' Thos. Blackledge and Margaret Wright, 5th mo. n, 1758.

31. Jonathan Penrose and Martha James, 5th mo. loth, 1759.

32. Joseph Rawlings and Ann Hilles, 6th mo. 20, 1759.

33. Robert Ashton and Sarah Thomas, i ith mo. 8, 1759.

34. Wm. Thomas and Ann Foulke, loth mo. 9, 1760.

35. Benj'n Fell and Sarah RawHngs, nth mo. 3, 1757.

36. Wm. Hicks and Hannah Shaw, nth mo. 13, 1760.

37. Everard Robert and Ann [Hole?] 6th mo. n, 1761.

38. John Lester and Jane Antram, loth mo. 7, 1762.

39. Wm. Burr and Ann Edwards, 8th mo. 3, 1763.

40 Isaac Samuel and Eleanor Lester, nth mo. 23, 1763.

41. James Walton and Margaret Lewis, 12th mo. 8, 1763.

42. Everard Foulke and Ann Dehaven, Sept. 29, 1778.

43. James Green and Martha Foulke, 5th mo. 6, 1779.

44. John Penrose and Ann Roberts, nth mo. 8, 1764.

45. Will'm Edwards and Meribah Gaskil, 4th mo. 24, 1766.

46. Will'm Clark and Hannah Loyd, 5th mo. i, 1766.

47. Joseph Shaw and Rachel GrifBth, 6th mo. 4, 1767.

48. Sam'l Nixon and Susanna Roberts, 5th mo. n, 1769.

49. Robert Fisher and Martha Edwards, 5th mo. 18, 1769.

50. Thomas Strawhen and Mary Heacock, 6th mo. 8, 1769.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 137

51. Lewis Lewis and Mary liurson, loth mo. 12, 1769.

52. Abra'm Walton and Rachel Heacock, loth mo. 12, 1769.

53. George Michener and Hannah Carr, loth mo. 19, 1769.

54. John Chapman and Hannah Antram, iith mo. 30, 1769.

55. John Roberts, sen., and Martha Edwards, sen., i ith mo. i, 1770.

56. Will'm Penrose and Mary Roberts, nth mo. 8, 1770.

57. Randal Iden and Eleanor Foulke, ist mo. 9, 1772.

58. John Thompson and Abigail Roberts, 3d mo. 25, 1773.

59. John Hallowell and Martha Roberts, iith mo. 3, 1774.

60. Edward Fell and Mary Penrose, 12th mo. 8, 1774.

61. Benjamin Green and Jane Roberts, nth mo. 9, 1775.

62. Amos Roberts and Margaret Thomas, nth mo. 30, 1775.

63. Isaac Burson and Elizabeth Blackledge, 2d mo. 29, 1776.

64. Joseph Speakman and Catharine Dennis, nth mo. 14, 1776.

65. Will'm Shaw and Sarah Carr, 4th mo. 17, 1777.

66. Sam'l Penrose and Sarah Roberts, loth mo. 9, 1777.

67. Jeremiah Williams and Mary Blackledge, 4th mo. 22, 1779.

68. Abrah'm Roberts and Penninnah Thomas, loth mo. 7, 1779.

69. Edward Roberts and Marah Lewis, 9th mo. 30, 1779.

70. Asher Foulke and Alice Roberts, nth mo. n, 1779.

71. Samuel Shaw and Susanna Wray, nth mo. 25, 1779.

72. Moses Shaw and Mary Carr, 6th mo. i, 1780.

73. George Williams and Abigail Lancaster, loth mo. 17, 1780.

74. Edw'd Foulke and Elizabeth Roberts, nth mo. i, 1781.

75. George Iden and Hannah Foulke, ist mo. 24, 1782.

76. Israel Roberts and Ann Foulke, jr., 6th mo. 6, 1782.

77. Israel Foulke and EHzabeth Roberts, nth mo. 14, 1782.

78. John Griffith and Rachel Greasley, ist mo. 2, 1783.

79. David Stokes and Anne Lancaster, 4th mo. 15, 1784.
So. Joseph Rawlings and Anne Heacock, nth mo. 25, 1784.

81. John Greasley and Margaret Roberts, 5th mo. 5, 1785.

82. Hugh Foulke and Sarah Roberts, 4th mo. 8, I785-

83. Jesse Hicks and Mary Ball, 5th mo. 26, 1785.

84. Eli Kennard and Eliz'th Blackledge, 6th mo. 8, 1786.

85. Joseph Custer and Amelia Foulke, loth mo. 20, 1786.

86. Judah Foulke and Sarah McCarty, loth mo. 20, 1786.

87. Jona'n Griffith and Sarah Burson, nth mo. 2, 1786.

88. Daniel Walton and Martha Green, loth mo. 2, 178S.

138 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

89. Benj'n Foulke and Martha Roberts, 3d mo. 26, 1789.

90. Joseph Heston and Anne Thomas, loth mo. 15, 1789.

91. John Foulke and Letitia Roberts, loth mo. 29, 1789.

92. Israel Penrose and Susanna Foulke, loth mo. 21, 1790.

93. Nathan Roberts and Margaret Ashton, 5th mo. 5, 1791.

94. Shipley Lester and Marg't Nixon, nth mo. 24, 1791.

95. Samuel Shaw and Elizabeth Ball, 12th mo. 6, 1792.

96. Will'm Samuel and Mary Foulke, 5th mo. 25, 1793.

97. Josiah Dennis and Alice Wilson, iith mo. 28, 1793.

98. Lewis Lewis and Abigail Roberts, 3d mo. 26, 1795.

99. Amos Richardson and Martha Penrose, 4th mo. 23, 1795.

00. Levi Roberts and Phebe McCarty, 6th mo. 4, 1795.

01. Thos. Penrose and Rachel Hillman, 3d mo. 31, 1796.

02. George Shaw and Rachel Penrose, nth mo. — , 1795.

03. Thos. Lester and Mary Stokes, 12th mo. 22, 1796.

04. Jacob Beans and Hannah Iden, 8th mo. 31, 1797.

05. Moses Wilson and Jane Lester, nth mo. 2, 1797.

06. Israel Lancaster and Hannah Nixon, 2d mo. 22, 1798.

07. Hugh Foulke and Sarah Lester, 12th mo. 27, 1798.

08. Isaiah Jemison and Margaret Ball, 4th mo. — , 1798.

09. George Hicks and Ann Penrose, 4th mo. 4, 1799.

10. William Edwards and Susanna Nixon, May 2, 1799.
ir. Thos. Gibson and Margaret Foulke, April 25, 1792.

12. Edw'd Jenkins and Sarah Foulke, April 26, 1792.

13. Theo's Foulke and Hannah Lester, May 31, 1792.

14. Cadwallader Foulke and Margaret Foulke, jr., Nov. 14, 1792,

15. Evan Foulke and Sarah Nixon, 4th mo. 7, 1794.

16. Nathan Edwards and Lydia Foulke, April 3, 1800.

17. Evan Roberts and Abigail Penrose, October — , 1799.

18. Joseph Penrose and Margaret Jameson, May 20, 1802.

19. Joseph Meredith and Rachel Foulke, Nov. 5, 1803.

20. Hugh Foulke and Catharine Johnson, Jan. 17, 1804.

21. Abiah Thomas and Sarah Ashton, April 10, 1804.

22. William Green and Mary Roberts, April — , 1804.

23. Job Watson and Gulielma Shaw, Jan. 6, 1794.

24. David McCord and Ann Shaw, Jan. — , 1795.

25. Wm. Manning and Hannah Shaw, April — , 1795.

26. Will'm Nixon and Martha Roberts, ist mo. — , 1800.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. I 39

27. Enoch Penrose and Martha Edwards, iith mo. 26, 1801.

[28. Timothy Smith and Rachel Stokes, 12th mo. 3, 1801.

[29. Abel Penrose and Kezia Speakman, 4th mo. i, 1802.

[30. Joel Edwards and Ann Green, 3d mo. 31, 1803.

[31. George Child and Ann Iden, ist mo. 5, 1804.

[32. David Roberts, jun., and Elizabeth Stokes, 3d mo. 22, 1804.

[33. John Shaw, jun'r, and Elizabeth Ball, nth mo. 22, 1804.

[34. Abel Penrose and Abigail Foulke, 5th mo. 2, 1805.

[35. Thomas Lester and Hannah Green, nth mo. — , 1805.

[36. John Lester and Abigail Wilson, 2d mo. 27, 1806.

[37. Jonathan Evans and Elizabeth Iden, loth mo. 5, 1809.

[38. Thomas Thorp and Mary Foulke, iith mo. 2, 1809.

[39. Morgan Morgan and Ann Custer, nth mo. 15, 1810.

[40. Sam'l Iden and Elizabeth Chapman, nth mo. — , 1810.

[41. David Foulke and Mariann Shaw, — mo. — , i8n.

[42. John Kinzey and Elizabeth Foulke, Nov'r — , 1816.

[43. Thomas Iden and Rachel Parry, Dec'r 10, 18 16.

[44. Jesse Iden and Ann Wright, Oct'r 9, 1817.

[45. Samuel Foulke and Ann Heacock, Dec'r — , 1818.

[46. Greenfield Iden and Ann Hartley, April 14, 18 19.

[47. Jesse Tyson and Maria Heston, April 24, 181 8.

[48. Samuel Shaw and Sidney Foulke, Dec'r 14, 1822.

[49. Dr. James Green and Ann Foulke, Dec'r 14, 1822.

150. Jesse Spencer and Mary Custer, April 24, 1821.

151. Franklin Foulke and Maria H. Tyson, Nov'r 20, 1827.
:52. Jesse Jenkins and Mary Ambler, Oct'r 20, 1828.

:53. Meredith Conrad and Rachel Jenkins, April 9, 1829.

:54. Thomas Strawn and Jane Foulke, April 30, 1829.

:55. Peter C. Evans and Margaret Jenkins, October 20, 1831.

56. Dan'l L. Downing and Sarah Iden, 5th mo. 18, 1820.

57. James Boon and Mary Foulke, married 15th May, 1735.
Their daughter Ann, born 3d April, 1737.

Mary,

" 17th Jan., 1739.

Martha,

" 30th June, 1742.

James,

" 26th Jan., 1744.

Judah,

" 8th Dec'r, 1746.

Joshua,

" 24th March, 1749

Rachel,

loth April, 1750.

Moses,

" 23d July, 1751.

140 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

The mother's [Mary's] decease, 20th Feb., 1756.

The father's [James'] second marriage, 20th Oct., 1757.

Moses Boon and Sarah Griffith married loth Jan., 1779.

The father's [Jamas'] decease, Sept., 1785.

The second wife's [of James] decease, July, 1790.

List of Deaths.

The following is the list of deaths from the two memorandum
books. As they had been inserted irregularly, on the various
pages, and have been copied nearly in order from the beginning
forward, the dates are to some extent intermingled :

Lewis Lewis Died Feb. 16, 1778, aged 72 yrs.

Edward Thomas Died April 4, 1782, aged 62.

1 2th Oct., 1780, Dyed Thos. Thomas.

2ist Feb., 1781, Dyed Sam'l Shaw.

7th Dec, 1790, Dyed Thomas Blackledge, aged 83 yrs.

26th Feb., 1 79 1, Dyed John Lancaster.

1 2th Feb., 1792, Dyed James Burson, aged 73 yrs.

31st Oct., 1792, Dyed Joseph Ball, aged 74.

1 2th mo. 23, 1794, Dyed Mary Shaw, aged about 82 yrs.

3d mo. 20, 1796, Dyed Sara Ball, aged 72 yrs.

2nd mo. 2d, 1797, Dyed John Roberts, aged 80.

8th mo. 23d [1797], Dyed Phebe Roberts, aged 62.

8th mo. 25th [1797], Dyed John Dennis, aged 18.

1803, Jan. 15, Died Kezia Dennis, aged 87.

Rebekah Bryan, July 23d, 1796, aged 80.

Deb'h Carr, 17th July, 1796, aged — .

Joseph Rawlings, 22d Dec, 1796.

Mary Shaw, Dec'r 23, 1794, aged 82.

Ann Lewis, Nov'r 8, 1785, aged 78.

Thos. Roberts, May 30th, 1786, aged 66.

1797, July 28th, Died Theophilus Foulke, in his 37th year. [This was the

son of Theophilus, and father of Dr. Antrim. He was accidentally

killed] .

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 14 1

April 1 2th, 1800, Died Wm. Heacock, aged 83.

June 6th [1800], Died Ellin Samuels, aged 76 yrs. 4 mos. and 7 days.

December 20th [1800], Died Jacob Strawhan, of Haycock, aged 8

years.
Feb. 1 2th, 1795, Dyed the Widow Snodgrass, aged 96 years.
Dec'r ist, 1798, Dyed Hannah Foulke, of North Wales, in her 85th year

[widow of William, the son of Thomas] .
October ist, 1798, Died Robert Kirkbride, of New Britain, with the yellow

fever.
John Iden, son of Randal & Eleanor Iden, died 4th April, 1779.
Jan. 2 1 St, 1797, Dyed Samuel Foulke, aged 78 years, 10 months, 17 days.

[Member of the Provincial Assembly, father of Cadwalader].
May 1 2th, 1797, Dyed Ann Foulke, aged 70 years and 9 months. [Wife

of Samuel, just mentioned.]
1 801, Aug. 29, Died Everard Roberts, aged — .
August 31st [1801], Died Evan Jones, of Northwales, aged 80 yrs.
Oct. 4th [1801], Died John Roberts Cadw'r, of Northwales, in the 89 year

of his age.
Oct'r 7th [1801], Died Ehzabeth Thomas, wife of John Thomas, aged 74

yrs.
March 29th, 1802, Died Margaret Foulke, aged near 68 years.
June 23d, 1802, Died Margaret Greasley, aged — .
Oct. 22, 1802, Died John Edwards, aged 78.
1803, Aug't 20, died George Maris, of Northwales, aged — .
June 14th, 1 801, Died John Lester, aged 64.
Nov. 6th, 1816, died Gouverneur Morris, of the city of New York.

181 1, Aug. — , died Amelia Custer.

18 1 2, May 1 6th, died Randal Iden, aged 76 yrs.

1815, April 12, at his residence, Richland township, county, Ohio,

WilHam Thomas, formerly of Bucks co., Pa., aged 81.

181 5, Died Levi Foulke, of Gwynedd.

April, 1833, at his residence, Hilltown, Bucks co., Benjamin Morris, in his
86th year.

1805, Aug. 14, died David Roberts, aged 83.

1806, December, died Nathan Roberts, aged 7-.

1807, January 8th, died Jane Maris, widow of George Maris, aged 7- years.
1807, Jan. 13th, died Joseph Custer.

142 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

1807, February i6th, died Ann Heacock.

Aug. 23d, 1 8 16, died Elizabeth Stalford, aged 91 years.

Sept'r 6th, 18 16, died Caleb Jenkins, aged about 11 years.

Sep. nth, 1816, died Mary Roberts, wife of John Roberts, Esq., aged about

57 yrs.
18 19, Jan'y 10, died Evan Lloyd, aged about 73 years.
1 82 1, Jan'y — , died Priscilla Foulke, aged — years.
1821, Feb'y 28, died at Harrisburg, Benjamin Foulke, Esq., aged 54

years.

1 82 1, March, died Jesse Foulke, of Northwales.

1822, July 25, died Jane Foulke, widow of Thomas Foulke, of Richland.
Octo'r 25th, 1820, died Nicholas Gerhart, of Whitpain, aged 105 years, 5

mos., and 29 days, the oldest person, perhaps, in the county, at the
time of his decease. He was born in Germany.

July 29th, 1822, died Robert I. Evans, of Philadelphia, son of John Evans,
of Northwales, aged about 36 yrs., esteemed for his amiable man-
ners, bright talents, and excellent principles.

July 31, 1822, died Walter Evans, of Mont'y township.

Nov'r 24th, 1822, died Sarah Foreman, dau. of Hugh and Ann Foulke,
Gwynedd.

1823, Jan'y 20, died Joseph Lester, aged — yrSi

1823, Jan'y 21st, died Tabitha Thomas, aged 83 years, the last 40 yrs. of
which time she labour' d under a partial Derangement, living en-
tirely alone, a monument of human patience under suffering.

1823, Feb'y 15, died Michael Baum.

1823, Feb'y 26th, died Susanna Lukens, wife of Jesse Lukens.

1823, May 7th, died Edward Morgan, of Montgomery, aged — yrs.

1823, June 17th, Died John Roberts, Esq., of Montgomery, aged near 73.

1823, July 8th, died Daniel Sutch, of Gwynedd, aged about 58.

1823, Sept'r — , died Joseph Shoemaker, of Gwynedd.

1823, Nov'r — , died Robert Iredell, of Montgomery.

1823, Dec'r 6th, died Ann Foulke, wife of Hugh, of Gwynedd.

1823, Dec'r 14th, died Jesse Tyson, of Providence.

1824, Jan'y 19th, died Hugh Lloyd, of Horsham, in the 80th year of his

age.
1824, Jan'y 20th, died Elizabeth Evans (late Iden),aged 39 yrs. and 11 mos.
1823, July , died Moses Boon, of Exeter [Berks Co.], aged 72.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 143

fi823], August, died Mary Lee, late I>oon, wife of Thomas Lee, of Oley,

age<i 84.
[1823], Nov'r, died Joshua Boon, of Exeter.

1824, Feb'y 6th, died Daniel Morgan, of North Wales, aged yrs.
1824, Aug't 24, died Martha Walton (late Foulke), aged 68.
[1824], Sept'r , died Israel Roberts, formerly of Richland.
[1824], Sept'r 27th, died Israel Foulke, of Richland, aged 64 yrs. and 7 mos.
[1824], Dec'r 7th, died Abel Penrose, of ditto, aged 46 yrs.

1824, Dec'r 25th, died John Jones, Esq., of Lower Merion township, for

many years Associate Judge of Montgomery county.

1825, Jan'y 4th, died Alexander Foreman.

1825, Oct'r 1 8th, died Hannah Jones, of Northwales, aged 96 yrs.
'Nov'r 8th, 1825, died Nicholas Rile, aged 81 years. (9th of Nov'r, 1819,

his wife, Margaret, died.)
July 16, 1826, died Hannah Kirkbride, aged 79.

1826, Sept'r 24, died John Shaw, aged 84.

1826, about the beginning of October, died Hannah Harlan, wife of Caleb
Harlan, of Newlin township, Chester county, late Edwards, grand-
daughter of Hugh Foulke, of Richland, by his daughter Martha.

1826, Dec'r 15th, died Hannah Beans, late Iden, aged 89 years nearly.

Same day, died John Elliott, Esq., of Lower Merion, aged about 50.

1826, Nov'r , died Asher Foulke, aged 69 yrs.

1827, March , died Ann Foulke, wife of Everard, in her 69th year.

1827, August 3, died Frederick Conrad, Esq., of Norristown, aged 69
yrs.

September 5th, 1827, died Everard Foulke, Esq., of Richland, aged 72

yrs.
February 7th, 1828, died David Roberts, of Milford, Bucks county.
April 16, 1828, died David Lukens, of Plymouth, aged about 63.

1828, , died Tho's Lester, of a pulmonary consumption, aged 58.
May 23, 1828, died Benjamin Green, of Richland, aged 78 yrs.
1828, Jan. 12, died Tacy Shoemaker, late Ambler, aged

Feb. 7th, 1829, died Hannah Shoemaker, wife of Thomas Shoemaker.
Feb. I2th, [1829], died Maria H. Foulke, wife of Franklin Foulke.
Feb. 14th [1829], died Massey Roberts, aged about 83 yrs.
1828, Feb'y i6th, died William Lowry, of Worcester, aged 84 yrs., and his
brother John a few days before, aged 81.

144 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Feb. 19th [1828], died Joseph Lewis, Esq. [of Gwynedd], aged 83 yrs.
Feb. 19th [1828], died Isaac Jeans, of Whitemarsh, in the prime of Hfe, of

a deep consumption.
1829, August [24th], died Milcah Martha Moore, ^ at BurHngton, N. J.,

widow of Dr. Charles Moore, of Montgomery Square, aged upwards

of 90 years.
August 31st [1829], died Edward Jenkins, of Gwynedd, aged 71.
October 14th [1829], died Elhs Cleaver, of Gwynedd, aged 70 years.
Same date [Oct. 14th, 1829], died Jacob Kirk, of Upper Dubhn, aged

about 100 years.
1829, Oct. 31st, died Ellen Foulke, daughter of Franklin Foulke, aged 10

mos., of consumption.
Dec'r 4th [1829], died Hannah Foulke, of Gwynedd, widow of Amos

Foulke, aged 81.
February 22, 1830, died Everard Bolton, of Gwynedd, aged 9- years.
February 24th [1830], died Ruth Jones, of Montgomery.
Nov'r 24th, 1805, died Jane Lester, aged
March 4th, 1805, died Elizabeth Evans, of North Wales, aged 79 years, a

Remarkable Instance of Longevity that may be attained in female.

Celibacy.
Nov'r 30th, 1805, died John Thomas, aged 86.
January i6th, 1806, died Jonathan Carr.

1 This lady was the daughter of Dr. Richard Hill, a famous physician, first of
Maryland, afterward of Funchal, Madeira, and finally of Philadelphia, where he d,
1762. She was born in Madeira, the youngest of twelve children, Sept. 29, 1740.
and m. 1767, Dr. Charles Moore, the son of Richard Moore (and uncle of Henry
Moore, farmer and blacksmith, in Montgomery, where C. S. Knapp lives, 1884).
Dr. Charles was a distinguished physician. He had graduated at the University
of Edinburgh (Scotland), in 1752, and located to practice in his profession at
Montgomery Square, where he d. Aug. 19, 1801, in his 78th year. He was buried
at Gwynedd. After his death his widow removed to Burlington, N. J., and died
there, without issue, as stated above, Aug. 24, 1829, her age being a little under
89, and not " upwards of 90." She left a bequest for educational purposes to
Gwynedd meeting, and was a woman long remembered in the neighborhood. A
grand-niece, the daughter of her husband's nephew, Henry (mentioned above),
was named after her, Milcah Martha, and married Solomon Fussell, of Chester
county.

LIST OF MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 1 45

List of Deaths from Lewis Jones' s Mcnwyandiuu Book.

Lewis Jones, of Gvvynedd (b. in Montgomery, d. in Gwyn-
edd, son of Henry), left in a memorandum book a list of deaths,
which I present below. In some cases he had added obituary
notices, the most of which I have not thought it necessary to
present :

Lewis, Amos, d. Oct. 15, 1821, bd. at Gwyn. i6th.
Lukens, Jesse, d. 6, 2, 1822, 38th yr., bd. at U. Dub.

Cleaver, Ellis, sen., d. 10, 14, 1^29. (He would have been 71, on the
day of his funeral. Bd. at Gwynedd, "surrounded by a great
assemblage of friends and acquaintances.")
Zorns, Phebe, dau. Jacob, d. 8, 4, 18 19, aged abt. 20 yrs.
Griffiths, Howel, d. 8, 25, 18 19.
Lukens, Harriet, 11, 22, 18 19.

Mann, John, sen., of Up. Dub., d. 11, 7, 1819, aged 78.
Shay, John, sen., of Up. Dub., d. 11, 16, 1819.
Conrad, Saml, sen., of Horsham, d. 11, 21, 1819.
Detwiler, Martin, of U. D. (likewise his grand-child), d. 11, 24, 1819.
Ambler, Hannah, dau. Edward & Ann, d, 2d mo. , 1820.
Evans, Mary, sen., wid. Amos, d. 4, 21, 1820.
Meredith, Dr. Joseph, d. August 7, 1820.

Cleaver, Sarah, d. 9, 15, 1820, at her nephew's in Shoemakertown.
Paul, Hannah, sen., d. 9, 14, 1820; bd. Horsham, i6th.
Dull, Christian, sen., d. 9, 27, 1820.
Foulke, Priscilla, d. i, 25, 1821 (in her 77th year), bd. at Gwynedd 28th.

"Remains were followed by a numerous circle of relations and

friends."
Foulke, Jesse, d. 3, 15, 1821, bd. Gwynedd i8th.
Rausberry, John, of Montgomery tp., d. June , 1821, "from injuries

occasioned by a bull, a few days previous."
Harrar, Rebecca, wife Nathan, d. 8, 25, 1821, of consumption.
Bates, Thomas, jr., d. 8, 24, 1S21. Bd. at Baptist burying-ground at

Montgomery, 25th. Sermon by [Rev.] Joseph Mathias.
Weber, Jacob, jr., d. 9, 11, 1821 (about 5 yrs. old), of dysentery.
Burney, Hannah, jr., dau. of Wm. Burney, d. 9, 12, 1821, of dysenter)-.
Kneedler, Catharine, dau. of Jacob Kneedler, sen., d. 9, 16, 1821, of

dysentery, — " on which evening she was to have been married."

146 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Hallowell, Thos., sen., d. Oct. 10, 1821. Bd. at Horsham, 12th.

Moore, Priscilla, wife of Henry, d. loth mo. , 1821.

Foulke, Anna, wife of Levi, d. 11, 21, 1821. Bd. Gwynedd, 23d.

Shoemaker, Thomas, of Upper Dublin, d. (suddenly) 7, 21, 1822. Bd. at
U. D. 22d.

Ramsey, Elizabeth, i, 18, 1825, aged about 59. Bd. at Montgomery
Bapdst Church, 20th.

Shoemaker, Phebe, jr., d. 8, 19, 1827, in 68th yr. Bd. at Upper DubUn,
20th.

Shoemaker, Margaret, wife of Jonathan, d. 8, 21, 1827.

Morgan, Edward Stroud, d. 8, 10, 1827. Bd. Gwynedd, nth.

Shoemaker, Jonathan (son of Phebe just above, and husband of Margaret,
just above), d. 9th mo. , 1827. Bd. Upper Dublin.

Moore, Henry, formerly of Montg. twp. [husband of Priscilla, mentioned
above], d. 10 mo. , 1829. Bd. in Chester co., where he had
lived for some years. [L. J. adds an obituary notice at length,
speaking of him as one advanced in years, of much benevolence,
sweetness of disposition, excellent memory, interesting conversa-
tion, etc.]

Acuff, Jacob, d. 4, 2, 1829. Bd. at Whitemarsh, 7th.

Shoemaker, Hannah, wife of Thos. of Gwynedd, d. 2, 7, 1820, bd. at
Gwynedd 9th.

Lewis, Joseph, Esq., d. 2, 19, 1829.

Hugh, John S., d. 9, 14, 1829.

^,. , -,,7 T J .0^ 1 Bd. at Gwynedd, on same day ; one

Kirk, Wm. J., d. 10, 14, 1829. f , -^ ' , ,, t ^i,

' ^ ^ r 3-t 9. and one at 10 o elk. Jacob the

Kirk, Jacob, sen., d. 10, 14, 1829. j grandfather of W. J.

Foulke, Cadwallader, d. 3, 22, 1830. Bd. at Gwynedd, 24th.

[L. J., speaking of " very large assemblage at funeral," expresses

the general feeling of loss of one so highly useful.]
Mather, Charles, d. 11, 12, 1830. Bd. at Gwynedd, 14th.
Maulsby, Jane, wife of Jonathan Maulsby, of Plym., aged 28 yrs, i mo.

28 d. Died at residence of her father in Gwynedd. [Evan

Jones's dau.]

XIII.
Evans Family Genealogy!

IT is intended to present, here, systematically, all the ascer-
tained facts concerning Thomas, Robert, Owen, and Cad-
wallader Evans, of Gwynedd, and their descendants. The
details given are by no means complete : some of the branches
of the family could not be traced beyond the early generations ;
and in some cases information asked for was not furnished ; yet
the mass of facts given is extensive, and may serve as the basis
for fuller work by any one who is particularly interested in
the family.

The origin of the Evans family, in Wales, is indicated by
notes given on a following page by the late Mrs. William.
Parker Foulke, the ancestress ^ of her husband having been the
daughter of Robert Evans. Her facts are drawn from a very
elaborate family document prepared by the late Rowland E.
Evans, son of Cadwalader of Philadelphia. It traces the
descent of the four brothers of Gwynedd back to Mer\yn
Vrych, King of Man, who was killed in battle with the King of
Mercia, A. D. 843. Mervyn married Essylt, daughter and sole

1 This and the Genealogies immediately following are inserted at this place in the
volume because they begin with the first settlers, and present a large part of the availa-
ble details in relation to them and to the early history of the township. The fact that
they continue to the present time is unavoidable, and probably not seriously objection-
able,— even if a more strenuous attempt had been made to give a strictlv consecutive
arrangement to all the contents of the book.

2 Mary Foulke, wife of Cadwallader.

148 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

heiress of Conan Tyndaethwy, King of Wales (who d. 818 or
820). Both Mervyn and Essylt traced their descent from
Lludd, King of Britain, brother of Caswallon, the chief who
resisted the invasion of Csesar, before the Christian era.

Passing over, however, a number of intermediate genera-
tions,^ from Mervyn Vrych, the following may be noted :

I. David Goch, of Penllech, appears to have been a lessee of crown
lands in Caernarvonshire, in the i8th year of Edward II., and to
have been living on November 9, 13 14. He m. Maud, dau. of
David Lloyd (who traced descent from Owen Gvvynedd, Prince of
Gwynedd), and had three sons, one being
II. levan Goch, of Graianoc and Penllech, who appears as one of the
jury to take the extent of the hundred of Cymytmaen, in 1352.-
His ownership of certain lands is shown in titles of that period.
He m. Eva, dau. of Einion ap Cynvelyn (who traced descent
from Bleddyn, Prince of Wales) ; and had two sons, the eldest
being

III. Madoc, who appears in the Cwn Amwlch pedigree as "ancestor of

the gentlemen of Ysbitty Evan," in Denbighshire. His son was

IV. Deikws ddu, who m. Gwen, dau. of levan ddu (who traced his

descent to Maelor Crwm, head of the 7th of the noble tribes of
Wales), and had a son,
V. Einion, who m. Morvydd, dau. of Matw ap Llowarch, and had a

son,
VI. Howel, who m. Mali, dau. of Llewellyn ap levan, and had a son,
VII. Griffith, who m. Gwenllian, dau. of Einion ap levan Lloyd, and

had four children, the third being
VIII. Lewis, who m. Ethli, dau. of Edward ap levan, and had six chil-
dren, the fourth being
IX. Robert, who m. Gwrvyl, dau. of Llewellyn ap David, of Llan Rwst,
Denbighshire, and had by her six sons and six daughters, the
fourth being

[1 Mr. Thomas A. Glenn, in his volume " Merion in the Welsh Tract," 1896, gives
all these at length, and also very fully the generations which are here summarised,
David Goch to Evan Robert Lewis. — Note, i8qSi\

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 149

X. levan, known as Evan Robert Lewis. lie was living, probably a
young man, in 1601. He removed from Rhiwlas (or its neighbor-
hood), in Merionethshire, to Fron Goch (probably in Denbigh-
shire), and there passed the remainder of his life.' He had five
sons, all taking for themselves, in the Welsh manner, the sur-
name ap Evan :

1. John ap Evan.

2. Cadwalader ap Evan.

3. Griffith ap Evan.

4. Owen ap Evan.

5. Evan ap Evan.

XI. Evan ap Evan was the father of the four brothers who came to
Gwynedd in 1698 (and of Sarah, their sister, who came with
them, and m. Robert Pugh). He was twice married ; by his first
wife he had two daughters, by his second four sons, — the Gwyn-
edd settlers.

From the other sons of Evan Robert Lewis, others of the
Welsh settlers in Pennsylvania were descended. John ap Evan,
it is stated, had several children, and one account^ says that
two of them were William John, of Gwynedd (the purchaser,
with Thomas Evans, of the township), and Griffith John,^ of
Merion, (who d. 1707). This would make William John and
Thomas Evans first cousins, and such a relationship is very
probable.

Cadwalader ap Evan, the second son of Evan Robert Lewis,
it is stated, left no children. " Of Griffith ap Evan nothing is
known." The descendants of Owen ap Evan are very numer-
ous ; they form the Owen Family, the posterity of Robert (and

1 In the Genealogy of the Owen Family, descended from his son Owen, it is said he
was "an honest sober man," and was born "near the end of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth."

* A MS. in the possession of Hannah Evans, Moorestown, N. J.

3 Griffith John was the father of John Griffith, who m. Grace Foulke, dau. of
Edward, and of Evan Griffith, who married John Humphrey's step-daughter, Jane
Jones.

I50 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GIVYNEDD.

Jane) Owen, of Merion/ who came from Wales in 1690, and d.
1697 ; and the Cadwalader family are his descendants also, in
the female line.

Beginning, then, the account of the Evans family in this
country,^ and making the immigrants the First Generation, we
have the following

Genealogical Sketch.

[Note — The surname, in this Genealogy, of all whose names are given with Arabic
figures on the left, is EVANS, except where otherwise explicitly stated. Female lines
are not followed out. The character f,, at the end of a paragraph, means that the son
mentioned is again taken up as the head of a family, and fuller details given concern-
ing him. The Roman numerals at the beginning of paragraphs, and at the head of
lists of children, show Xha generation ; the Arabic numbers, running through the Gene-
alogy, are distinctive, each person having his own, by which he may be identified
wherever named subsequently ]

Children of Evan ap Evan, of Wales :

1. Thomas ap Evan. ^

2. Robert ap Evan. ^

3. Owen ap Evan. ^

4. Cadwalader ap Evan. . ^

5. Sarah ap Evan. ^

1 1 have consulted freely a MS. Genealogy of the Owen Family, belonging to
George S. Conarroe, Esq., of Philadelphia. (It is a copy of one originally made by
Rowland Evans.) Owen ap Evan had three sons, Robert, Owen, and Evan, and two
daughters, Jane, who m. Hugh Roberts, the Merion settler and preacher, and Ellen,
who m. Cadwalader Thomas. Their son, John Cadwalader, "schoolmaster," came to
Merion, from Pembroke, Wales, and m., 1699, Martha Jones, dau. of Dr. Edward
Jones, of Merion. His son was Dr. Thomas Cadwalader, of Philadelphia, father of
General John, and Lambert, of the Revolution. [See Genealogy of Owen Family, in
T. A. Glenn's Merion in the Welsh Tract. — Note, i8g6P[

* Several copies of the Evans Family Record (mentioned on p. 58), begun in 1797,
by Cadwalader Evans, son of Rowland, are extant. They vary in the extent of the
information they present (having been added to, probably, each by its own copyist),
but they differ very little, if any, on points of importance. One of these is in the
possession of Charles J. Wister, Jr., of Germantown ; another, of Jonathan Evans, of
Germantown; a third, somewhat different, of Mr. Allen Childs, of West Philadelphia;
a fourth was furnished the writer by Susan Y. Foulke, of Norristown ; and still others
would no doubt be brought to light by more extended search. Some of the facts given
in them refer to a later date than 1797, and have evidendy been added subsequently.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 151

I. (i.) Thomas Evans, eldest of the four brothers, son of Evan
ap Evan, immigrated from Wales, 1698. His first wife was
Ann, who d. in Gwynedd, ist mo. 26, 17 16. He m., 2d,
at Goshen meeting, Chester county, loth mo. 14, 1722,
Hannah Davies, widow, of Goshen. Hannah was then the
widow of Ellis David, or Davies, of Goshen, who died ist
mo. 17, 1720. But before marrying him she was the widow
of Reese John William, of Merion, who d. i ith mo. 26, 1697.
(See Jones Genealogy, in this volume.) In 1723, Thomas
Evans removed from Gwynedd to Goshen, and died loth
mo. 12, 1738, "aged "ij years," — which would make his
birth in 1651. His wife survived until 9th mo. 29, 1741,
when she d., "aged 85 years." All the children of Thom.a.s
Evans were by his first wife, as follows :

//. Children of Thomas and Ann :

6. Robert, d. 1754, m. Jane , and Sarah Evans. ^

7. Hugh, d. 1772, m. Catharine Morgan, AHce Lewis, Lowr)'
Lloyd. ^

8. Owen, d. 1757, m. Ruth Miles, Mary Nicholas. P

9. Evan, d. 1747, m. Elizabeth Musgrave. ^

10. Ann.

11. Lowry, m. Evan Jones, son of John, of Radnor, dec'd, at Gwyn-
edd m. h., 4th mo. 8, 1711.

12. Ellin, m. Rowland Hugh, yeoman, of Gwynedd, widower, at
Gwynedd m. h., 5th mo. 31, 1712. (Rowland's first wife was
Catharine Humphrey, of Merion, whom he m. 8th mo. 8, 1708).

13. Sarah, m. Edward Jones, son of John, of Radnor, dec'd, at
Gwynedd m. h., 6th mo. 25, 171 5.

I. (2.) Robert Evans, of Gwynedd, brother to Thomas, son of
Evan ap Evan, immigrant from Wales, 1698. He was a
preacher among Friends. His wife's name was Ellen. ^

1 1 should feel uncertain as to this, but I hare for it the authority of so careful an
investigator as the late Mrs. William Parker Foulke.

152 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

He died in the first month (March), 1738, " aged about 80
years," which would have made his birth about 1658, and
was bd. at Gwynedd. There is a brief memorial of him in
the John Smith MS. collection of Philadelphia (Orthodox)
Yearly Meeting, and numerous details concerning him are
given elsewhere in this volume.

//. Children of Robert and EHeti :

14. Hugh, d. 1734, m. Margaret Roberts. ^

15. Evan, " father of Edward Evans, late of South st. [Phila.], and
of Jane Much." (Family Record, 1797-1815.) ^

16. Lowry, m. at Gwynedd m. h., 5th mo. 28, 1701, Thomas Siddon,
son of Anthony Siddon, of Upper Dublin. " She left a daughter,
Susanna Swett, lately deceased in Phila., and Anthony Siddons,
lately deceased, was a grandson of said Thomas." (Family
Record.)

17. Mary, m. Cadwallader Foulke, Thomas Marriott. (For details of
her line, see Foulke Genealogy.)

18. Ann, m. William Roberts, blacksmith, son of Edward, of Merion,

dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., 6th mo. 25, 1715. "She was the
- mother of Robert Roberts and Evan Roberts, both dec'd about
1789 or 1790 in North Wales" [Gwynedd].

19. Sarah, m. loth mo. 2, 17 14, at Gwynedd m. h., Richard Kinder-
dine, " son of Thomas, late of Abington, dec'd." " She was the
mother of Sarah Morgan, widow of Enoch Morgan, dec'd. Some
of her children are now [1797] living in or near North Wales."

20. Jane, m. at Gwynedd m. h., 8th mo. 6, 1710, Edward Parry.

I. (3.) Owen Evans, of Gwynedd, third of the brothers, son of
Evan ap Evan, immigrant from Wales, 1698, d. loth mo. 7,
1723, in his 64th year, which would make his birth 1659.
His wife's name was Elizabeth. His will is dated loth
mo. (December) 4, 1723, and was proved December 20 ;
he gives his son John a tract of 160 acres, "being on the
south-west end of my land, with the house and plantation
thereunto belonging." He makes bequests to his children,

EVAXS FAMILY GENEALOGY. I 53

Cadwallader, Elizabeth, Evan, Robert, Thomas, and Mary,
and mentions Jane as dec'd. He names two grandsons,
Owen, the son of Robert, and Owen, the son of Thomas.
He appoints his wife Elizabeth executrix, and for overseers
" my two brothers Robert and Cadwalader, my two sons,
Evan and Robert, and my two cousins [nephews] Evan, son
of Thomas, and his brother Owen."

//. Childt'en of Ozvcn and Elizabeth :

21. Thomas, d. 1760, m. Elizabeth Griffith. i9

22. John, d. unmarried, 1762. His will was probated Sept. 26. He
leaves legacies to his sister Elizabeth Richards, his nephews Row-
land and Samuel Richards, his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Evans,
and her daughter Mary, his nephews Edward, Thomas, and
Griffith Evans. He appoints his nephew, John Evans, executor
and residuary legatee.

23. Robert, d. September, 1746, m. Ellen Griffith, Ruth Richards. ^

24. Cadwallader, d. unmarried. (The Family Record calls him

' ' Cadwallader O wen " . )

25. Evan, d. 1728, aged 44, m. Phoebe Miles. ^

26. Mary, m. ist, 3d mo. 3, 1708, Ellis Pugh, jr., of Plymouth, eldest
son of Ellis Pugh, of Merion ; 2d, 9th mo. 16, 1736, WiUiam
Roberts. She survived her second husband, and her will was
made 3d mo. (May) 1748, and proved in August. She mentions
her grandsons Ellis and Elijah Pugh, her granddaughter ]\Iary
Pugh, her "only daughter" Sina Walker (Abel Walker, of
Tredyffi-in, m. Sina Pugh, of Gwynedd, 4th mo. 13, 1727); her
grandson, Isaac Walker, the daughters of her son, Ellis Roberts,
her brothers John, Cadwallader and Thomas.

27. Elizabeth, b. 8th mo. 20, 1700, at Gwynedd, m., 2d mo. 21, 1726,
Samuel Richards, son of Rowland, of Tredyffrin.

28. Samuel, m. 4th mo. 20, 1724, Hannah Walker, dau. of Lewis, of

Merion.

29. Jane, d. before 1723. (As appears by her father's will).

I. (4.) Cadwalader Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Evan ap Evan,
youngest of the four brothers, immigrant 1698, b. in Merion-

154 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

ethshire, Wales, in 1664, d. at Gvvynedd, 3d mo. 30, 1745.
He m. in Wales, Ellen, dau. of John Morris, of Bryn
Gwyn (White Hill), Denbighshire. He was a preacher, after
joining the Friends. A memorial concerning him, by
Gwynedd monthly meeting, has already been cited (p. 85).

//. CJdldren'^ of Cadwallader and Ellen:

30. John, b. 1689, d. 1756, m. Ellen Ellis. ^

31. Sarah, m. at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo. 11, 171 1, Jolui Ha7ike, of
Whitemarsh, yeoman ; and had issue several children : John, b.
1712 ; William, b. 1720; Samuel, b. 1723; Joseph, b. 1725;
Jane, b. 17 14, m. John Roberts (see Roberts Genealogy) ; Eliza-
beth, b. 1716 ; Sarah, b. 1728. John Ha7ike made his will Dec.
12, 1730, and it was proved in May, 1731 ; he leaves his wife,
Sarah, executrix, and mentions his " seven children," all named
above ; also his cousin John Hank, to whom he leaves 8 pounds.
He appoints his brother [in-law] John Evans, and his friends,
Thomas Evans, son of Owen, of Gwynedd, and Jonathan Robe-
son, trustees. His will indicates that he had real estate in White-
marsh.''^

I. (5.) Sarah Evans, sister of the four brothers, dau. of Evan
ap Evan, m. Robert Pugh (the marriage, doubtless, in
Wales). She appears to have come over with her brothers.

//. CJiiIdre7i of Robert and Sarah (surname Pngh):

32. Sarah, m. Samuel Bell. "They left one daughter, Hannah, who
m. Evan Rees, of Providence township, near Perkiomen ; and
had several children, one of whom, Samuel, m. a daughter of
Colonel Jacob Stroud, of Northampton county ; he [Samuel]
lived lately in Providence, and was a few years ago a member of

1 Two children, a son and daughter, died on the voyage from Liverpool to Phila-
delphia, in 1698.

2 This John Hanke, or Hank, I think may have been of the same family as the
mother of Abraham Lincoln. See some data relating to this, post.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 155

Assembly for Montgomery county', he now lives beyond the
Blue Mountains, in Northampton county, where his father-in-law,
Stroud, lived. His brothers, Evan and Daniel, and sister, Sarah,
still live in Providence, and are of the Baptist church. "(I^oc.

I797-)

33. Evan. " He went to Virginia to live. One of his sons became a

Baptist minister, and one a justice of the peace, in good circum-
stances." (Doc. 1 797-)

34. Ellen. "She m. first, John Rogers, and was the mother of Sid-
ney Pickering, a Pubhc Friend." (Doc. 1797.) Gwynedd
records show marriage of "John Roger, son of Roger Roberts, of
Merion," and Ellen Pugh, dau. of Robert, of Gwynedd, at
Gwynedd m. h., 4th mo. 21, 17 17. The will of Roger Roberts,
1720, mentions his son John Rogers (above) as then living.

35. Mary, m. Rowland Roberts. "They had a son Eldad, who was
the father of John Roberts, Esq., now a justice of the peace, in
Montgomery township." (Doc. 1797.) (See Roberts Genealogy.)

II. (6.) Robert Evans, " of Merion," son of Thomas, b. in
Wales, lived for some time in Gwynedd, moved to Merion,
and d. there late in 1753 or early in 1754, " aged about 80."
In June, 1705, his father conveyed him 298 acres in Gwyn-
edd (part of his tract, and apparently the part adjoining
Montgomery), which subsequently he sold to his brother
Hugh. In these and other conveyances he is called " eldest
son and heir," and " son and heir apparent " of Thomas, and
in the later deed (conveying to Hugh) the recital, after stat-
ing his purchase from his father in 1705, says he "built a
messuage and other edifices, and made a plantation and
other improvements " on the tract. In 1705 he is recorded
as "of Gwynedd, yeom.an." In 1709, however, in a con-
veyance from his father, he is described as " of Merion," so
that apparently he moved there between 1705 and 1709.

1 He was a member in 1805. (This illustrates the information later than 1797 con-
tained in this document.)

156 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

He appears to have been twice married : first, to Jane

; and, second, to Sarah Evans, of Merion, 4th mo.

4, 1705. (Haverford Records). His will, dated May i,
1753, was proved Jan. 22, 1754; he mentions his daughter
Catharine Evans, his daughters Anne Tillbury and Jane
Roberts, his son Cadwalader, his grandsons Robert Evans
and Amos Roberts, and his granddaughters Sarah and
Catharine Evans, daughters of Thomas. He appoints his
oldest son, Thomas Evans, executor, and leaves him the
farm he now lives on, in Merion, 3 1 5 acres. He appoints his
brother Hugh and his friend Robert Roberts, " both of
Merion," and his brother Owen, of Gwynedd, overseers.

///. CJiildreii of Robert and {ist luife) Jane :

36. Elizabeth, b. 9th mo. 3, 1703. (Gwynedd Records.)

C]iUdrc7i of Robert and {pd wife') Sarah :

37. Jane, b. ist mo. 20, 1706, m. 8th mo. 31, 1723, Robert Roberts,
son of Edward, of Gwynedd ; and had issue a son, Amos, whose
son, George, occupying the old Robert Evans place, d. about
1831.

38. Thomas, b. 1707, m. Katherine Jones. ^

39. Cadwalader, b. 4th mo. 7, 1709, d. about 1770, m. Ann, dau. of
Joseph and Alice Pennell.

40. Catharine, b. nth mo. 28, 17 10, d. unm., in Philadelphia. Her
will is dated in 1749, and was probated Feb. 2, 1758. She
appears to have been housekeeper for her father, who lived in
Philadelphia at the time of his death. Her will makes bequests
to her sister Anne Tillbury, her nephew Robert Evans, son of
Cadwallader ; her niece Catharine, dau. of Thomas ; and resi-
due to her brothers Thomas and Cadwalader. She appoints
Owen Jones executor, and Anthony Benezet and Isaac Zane
trustees.

41. Hugh, b. 3d mo. 6, 1715.

42. Ann, b. ist mo. 23, 1717, m. Thomas Tillbury, of Philadelphia,
baker.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. \ S7

II. (7). Hugh Evans, of Merion, son of Thomas, b. in Wales,
lived for many years in Gvvynedd, d. in Philadelphia, 4th mo.
6, 1772, aged 90 yrs. 2 mos. In 17 16 he is recorded as
" of Gwynedd, yeoman," and his removal to Merion must
have been later. A minute of Gwynedd monthly meeting,
loth mo. 27, 1715, says: "Our friend Hugh Evans, who
Lately took a Trading Voyage to Great Britain, being re-
turned, brought a Certificate from Haverford-West, which
was read and gave a good acc't of his life and Conversation
whiles in them parts." It was Hugh who related the inci-
dent of seeing William Penn on his knees at prayer, as men-
tioned elsewhere. He was a member of the Provincial
Assembly, in 1722, and from 1746 to 1754 continuously.
His will, dated loth mo. 18, 1771, describes him as " of the
city of Philadelphia," and "far advanced in years." He
mentions his daughters Ann Howell and Susanna Jones, his
grandson Hugh Howell, and granddaughter Abigail Howell,
and appoints Samuel Howell and Ann executors. (June
25, 1772, his two sons-in-law took out letters of administra-
tion, also). He m., ist, 8th mo. 4, 1706, Catherine Mor-
gan (d. 6th mo. II, 1708), dau. of Cadwallader, of Merion ;
2d, 6th mo. 25, 1 7 10, at Merion, Alice Lewis, dau. of
James, of Pembrokeshire, Wales ; and, 3d, 12th mo. 13,
1 7 16, LowRY Lloyd, of Merion, widow of Robert Lloyd,
and dau. of Reese John William. Of his children by his
first wife, if any, we have no account.

///. Children of Hugh and Alice :

43. James, b. 6th mo. 29, 171 1.

Children of Hugh and Lozcry :

44. Ann, b. ist mo. 23, 1718, m. ist mo. 8, 1744-5, Samuel Howell,
son of Jacob, of the Boro' of Chester, and had issue : Hugh,
Samuel (or Jacob ?), Ann, m. Aaron Ashbridge ; Deborah, m.
Daniel Mifflin.

158 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

45. Susanna, b. nth mo. 25, 1719-20, d. May 4, 1801, m. May 30,
1740, Owen Jones, Sen. (b. Nov. 13, 171 1, d. Oct. 9, 1793), son
of Jonathan ^ and Gainor (born Owen), of Merion. The children
of Susanna and Owen were as follows, surname Jones :

1. Jane, b. 1741, rn. Caleb Foulke. (See Foulke Genealogy.)

2. Lowry, b. nth mo. 30, 1742, m. May 5, 1760, Daniel Wister,^ merchant, of

Philadelphia, (b. Feb. 4, 1738-9, d. Oct. 27, 1805), son of John and Anna
Catharina ; and had issue nine children, including Sally,^ Elizabeth
("Betsy"); John, m. Elizabeth Harvey; Susan, m. John Morgan
Price ; Charles J., m. Rebecca Bullock.

3. Owen,* b. ist mo. 15, 1745, m. ist, Mary Wharton, and had issue six chil-

dren, all d. in infancy ; 2d, Hannah Smith, widow, who had by her
former marriage four children.

4. Susanna,^ b. Sept. 4, 1747, d. Feb. 5, 1828, at Burlington, N. J., m. Sept.

2, 1779, ]ohn Nancarro ; and had issue John, jr., who m. Miss Quarles,
of Baltimore.

5. Hannah, b, 1749, ™- Amos Foulke. (See Foulke Genealogy.)

6. Rebecca, m. John Jones, of Lower Merion ; no issue. (J. J. had chil-

dren by a former wife.)

7. Sarah, m. Samuel Rutter, and had issue : Thomas, Martha, m. Howell

Hopkins ; and Rebecca.

8. Martha, d. unm.

9. Ann, d. unm.

10. Jonathan, m., ist, Mary Potts, of Plymouth, who died about a year after
her marriage ; 2d, Mary McClenaghan, widow (dau. of William Thomas,
of Lower Merion), and had issue: Owen Jones, who was member of

1 Jonathan Jones was born in Wales, in 1680, the son of Edward Jones, " chirur-
geon," and Mary Wynne, dau. of Dr. Thomas Wynne, one of the first settlers in
Merion. Edward d. 1737, aged about 92 ; Jonathan lived to be over 90. — See Dr. Levick's
paper on old Merion families, Penna. Mag., Vol. IV. His son, Owen Jones (Senior),
was a distinguished citizen. Provincial Treasurer from 1769 to 1776 ; his name was
placed with those of Samuel Miles and William Wister, on much of the Provincial
paper money. He died of yellow fever in Philadelphia in the terrible visitation of
1793. " General Washington pronounced him the handsomest and most venerable
gentleman he had ever seen." — See portrait and sketch in C. J. Wister, Jr.'s, Memoir
of Charles J. Wister.

' See details Daniel Wister and his progenitors, Penna. Mag., Vol. V., p. 385.

' It is her Revolutionary Diary, kept at Gwynedd, that is given elsewhere in this
volume.

* In September, 1777, he was one of the Friends arbitrarily arrested in Philadel-
phia, and sent to Winchester, Va. — See Gilpin's Exiles.

5 She is repeatedly quoted by Watson in his Annals.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. I 59

Congress 1857-59, and Col. of the ist I'enna. Cavalry, 1861-63. Owen's
son, J. Aubrey Jones, Esq., now occupies the old Jones homestead,
Wynnewood, Lower Merlon.) — [Note, 1896 ; he is since deceased.]

46. Abigail, prob. d. unm. (In 1745, she signs the certificate of the
marriage of her sister Ann.) As she is not named in her father's
will, she was prob. d. before 1771.

II. (8). Owen Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Thomas, b. in Wales,
d. at Gwynedd, 3d mo. r, 1757, "aged 70," which would
fix his birth in 1687.^ A brief memorial of him in John
Smith's manuscript collection says : " His education was
amongst Friends. He was of an honest and sincere disposi-
tion, a lover of truth . . . zealous, active, and serviceable in
our meetings of discipline. He was an elder about 14
years." In a deed to his son Samuel he describes himself
as "storekeeper." His will, dated 2d mo. 18, 1754, was
proved May 2, 1757. He leaves his son Samuel a lot of
land, "adjoining a tract that I have already conveyed to
him, containing 82 acres." To his "eldest son" Amos, he
leaves a small legacy, " having provided well for him before."
He mentions his daughter Margaret (a minor), and his
granddaughters the children of Amos. He appoints his
wife Mary executrix, with his " loving cousins " Thomas Evans,
jun., Rowland Evans, and Evan Jones, overseers. Owen
. was for many years a justice of the peace, by appointment of
the Governor : his first commission appears to be that of
August 25, 1726, and he probably served (by numerous
re-appointments) to 1752, though it is not easy to distinguish
him (in the record in the Penna. Ardiivcs) from Owen
Evans, of Limerick, who was contemporary and also a J. P.
Owen was also a member of the Provincial Assembly, from

1 " He died," says one of the Evans MS. genealogies, " where Caleb Foulke, sen.,
now lives " (1797), — i.e. the old Meredith house; now (1884) the estate of Jonathan
Lukens.

l6o HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

1739 to 1750 inclusive. He m., ist, at Radnor m. h., nth
mo. 3, 17 1 5-16, Ruth Miles, dau. of Samuel and Margaret
of Radnor; and, 2d, at Philadelphia m., 2d mo. 29, 1736,
Mary Nicholas, dau. of Samuel, yeoman, deceased. Mary
survived him ; she d. 5th mo. 20, 1769, and was bu. at
Gwynedd. She was a preacher, and the memorial of Gwyn-
edd m. m. concerning her is in the Collection of 1787.
" She was born in Philadelphia, in or about the year 1695,
her father dying when she was young." After her hus-
band's death, " she lived some years with her daughter, who
was married and settled in Philadelphia, but returned back

again within the compass of this meeting Her last

illness was lingering."

///. Children of Owen and RutJi :

47. Ann, b. 4th mo. 9, 171 7, d. (before 1754).

48. Owen, b. 5th mo. 18, 17 19, d. (before 1754).

49. Amos, born 4th mo. 25, 1721, m. Elizabeth Lewis. ^

50. Samuel, b. 3d mo. 29, 1729; "he kept school at North Wales
some time ago," the Family Record of 1797 says. He owned,
for some time, the place (now Cardell's) where his grandfather,
Thomas, had lived.

Children of Oiven and Mary :

51. Margaret, (a minor in 1754), m. Aquilla Jones, son of Griffith, of

Phila., dec'd, at Gwynedd m. h., loth mo. 25, 1759. " She left
one daughter [Mary, b. loth mo. 29, 1760], who married Marma-
duke Cooper, of New Jersey, and she left one dau., now the wife
of [Israel] Cope, in Arch St. near 8th." (Evans Rec, 1797.)
Margaret and Aquilla Jones also had a son, Aquilla, b. 3d mo.
9. 1763-

n. (9.) l^VAN Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Thomas, b. in Wales,
1684, d. 5th mo. 26, 1747, m. at Haverford m. h., 7th mo.
13, 17 13, Elizabeth Musgrave, dau. of Thomas, dec'd,
yeoman, of Halifax, England. He was a preacher among

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. l6l

the Friends, and a memorial of him by Gwynedd monthly
meeting, in the collection of 1787, has already been cited
(p. 89). He lived by the present mill on the Wissahickon,
now (1884) belonging to Henry Mumbower, His will,
dated 5th mo. 3, 1747, was proved Aug. 3 of that year.
He leaves bequests to his sons Abraham, Jonathan, Mus-
grave, David, and Daniel, and his dau. Barbara. He men-
tions his wife's uncle, Jonathan Cockshaw. He appoints his
wife Elizabeth and son Jonathan his executors, with author-
ity to sell the farm he lives on, about 200 acres. He
appoints his brother, Owen Evans, his consin, Thomas
Evans, jr. (son of Owen), and William Foulke, trustees for
his children,

///. Children of Evan and Elizabeth :

52. Jonathan, d. 1765, m. 1740, Hannah Walton. ^

53. Abraham, m. 1747, Lydia Thomas. ^

54. Daniel, m. 1763, Eleanor Rittenhouse, (sister of David). ^

55. Barbara, m. Isaiah Bell.

56. Musgrave, d. 1769, m. 1753, Lydia Harry. ^

57. David, d. 1817, aged 84, m. 1755, Letitia Thomas. '^

(Three other children are mentioned in the Gwynedd Records : Han-
nah, d. 1720 ; William, d. 1745 ; Hannah, d. 1745).

II. (14). Hugh Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Robert, d. 1734, m.
8th mo. 23, 1 7 19, Margaret Roberts, dau. of Edward. He
received, 17 19, from his father, a deed for 275 acres of land,
in the north-eastern part of Robert's original great tract —
the part next the meeting-house. He lived probably at his
father's house, now (1884) belonging to Silas White, and in
his will (dated May 2, 1734, probated Oct. i, same year)
makes provision for his parents living there. He leaves to
his son Robert, the west side of his farm, "with the build-
ings and improvements ; extending eastward to a fence about

1 62 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

20 perches westward of the Great Road," and to his son
Jesse the remainder of the farm, eastward of this fence. He
names his sons Hugh, jr., and Edward, and daughters Anne,
Sarah, and Mary. He appoints his wife executrix, and names
as trustees for his minor children, his brother-in-law, Robert
Roberts, his cousins, Evan Evans, Owen Evans, John Evans,
and Thomas Evans ; and John Jones. Margaret, his widow,
m. 1747, Robert Jones, of Merion.

///. Children of Hugh arid Margaret :

58. Robert, b. 5th mo. 26, 1720. (Was living 1748.)

59. Ann, b. 5th mo. 26, 1720 (twin with Robert). She m. Benjamin
Davids, "the father of Hugh Davids, late dec'd, of Rahway,
N. J., also of Hannah Jenks, Tacy Ogden, and others." — Eiians
Record, i^gj.

60. Edward, b. 3d mo. 5, 1723. (Was living 1748.)

61. Jesse, m. Catharine Jones. ^

62. Hugh. (Was living, a minor, 1748.)

63. Sarah, d. 5th mo. 31, 1745.

64. Mary, d. 5th mo. 31, 1745.

II. (15). EvAN Evans, son of Robert, the immigrant. He m.
and had ten children, of whom the fullest account I have
found is in the copy of the Evans Genealogy in the posses-
sion of Mr. Allen Childs. It (with some aid from Mr.
Charles J. Wister's copy), refers to five of them as follows :

///. Children of Evan and .•

65. Jane, m. Much.

66. Robert.

(y"] . Edward, "late of South street" (1797), who had six chil.'ren as
follows :

1. Francis, d. infancy.

2. Mary, d. infancy.

3. Samuel, of N. Y., Captain U. S. N.

4. George, of N. C, Captain U. S. N.

5. John, Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., midshipman U. S. N.

6. 'I'homas, a sailor on brig Rattlesnake, Captain Moffatt.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 163

68. Thomas.

69. Katherine, m. Jones, son of G. Jones, and they had a son

Samuel, who m. Rebecca Morgan ; whose dau. Sarah m. John
Childs, of North CaroHna. A son of this last couple, also named
John Childs, m. Mary Treby, dau. of Rev. Thomas and Margaret
Allen ; and had issue nine children, of whom the second is Allen
Childs, b. in North Carolina, 1844, now (1884) of Philadelphia.
He m. 1878, Katherine, dau. of Col. John D. Kurtz, U. S. Engi-
neer Corps, and has issue.

II. (21). Thomas Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Owen and Eliza-
beth, d. 5th mo. 22, 1760, m. at Radnor m. h., 4th mo. 30,
1720, Elizabeth Griffith, dau. of Edward, of Merion,
dec'd. In his will, dated March 13, 1760, and proved May
26, same year, he describes himself ' as " innkeeper." He
leaves his eldest son Owen 10 pounds, "he having received
his portion heretofore," provides for his wife, Elizabeth,
and makes bequests of 20 to 50 pounds each to his daugh-
ter Mary, and sons Edward, Griffith, and John. He men-
tions his grandson William, son of his eldest son Owen,
appoints his son Thomas executor, and says : " I direct him
to sell all my land the east side the Philadelphia road, situate
between y^ lands of Rowland Evans, on the one side, and
Peter Lukens, Cadwallader Jones, and Ballas Wick on the
other." He also names his cousins John Jones, Rowland
Evans, and Samuel Evans, overseers.

///. Children of Thomas and Elisabeth :
691^. Jane, b. nth mo. 15, 1723.

70. Owen, "the father of Isaiah Evans, who d. in 1808, in Phila-
delphia ; of Jane, who m. Alexander Scott, of Elizabeth, who d.
unm.," (making her home, at her decease, " at the house of John
Evans, sen., at North Wales,") and of William, named in his
grandfather's will.

' The Evans document of 1797 says he " was a farmer and kept a tavern in the
same place " where his father, Owen, had lived, — i.e. either the Ellen H. Evans place,
or that of Samuel Beaver, east of the turnpike.

164 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

71. Griffith, b. 5th mo. 29, 1735.

72. John, b. loth mo. i, 1737.

73. Thomas, b. istmo. 24, 1733, m. Elizabeth Roberts. ^

74. Edward, b. 9th mo. 4, 1730.

75. Mary, b. 1728, d. unm.

(The Gwynedd records shows the deaths of children of Thomas and Elizabeth, as
follows : Edward, 1728 ; Elizabeth, 5th mo. 5, 1745.)

II. (23.) Robert Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Owen, d. Septem-
ber, 1746, m. 1st, at Radnor mtg., 3d mo. 30, 17 17, Ellen
Griefith, dau. of Edward, of Upper Merion ; 2d, at Gwyn-
edd m. h., 3d mo. 2, 1729, Ruth Richard, dau. of Rowland,
late of Tredyffrin, Chester county. Robert's will was dated
7th mo. (September) 8, 1746, and probated October i, indi-
cating very closely the time of his death. He leaves to his
two sons, Evan and Robert, " the messuage and tract of land
situate the west side [of] and divided from my other land by
the road leading from North Wales meeting-house to Ply-
mouth meeting-house," containing about ten acres, his wife,
Ruth, to have a right to live on it, however, till his said sons
were of age. He makes bequests to his " eldest son " Owen,
to his son Peter, and to his daughter Catharine, wife of Peter
Jones, and names as his " minor children " Evan, Robert
(both named above), Ellin, Sarah, Elizabeth, Ruth, and one
yet unborn, but expected. He appoints his wife Ruth ex-
ecutrix, with power to sell the farm he lives on, about 1 50
acres. He appoints his brothers John and Thomas P^vans,
his brother-in-law Samuel Richards, and his uncle, Joseph
Jones, and his cousin John Evans, overseers and trustees.
He describes himself in his will as "of Gwynedd, yeoman."

///. Childrefi of Robert and Ellen :

76. Catharine, b. ist mo. 9, 1718, m. 3d mo. 15, 1740, at Gwynedd
m. h., Peter Jones, son of Peter, of Merion.

"J"]. Owen, b. ist mo 9, 1719-20. (Living in 1746.)

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 165

78. Peter, b. 1722, m, Mary Thomas. 19

79. James, b. ist mo 14, 1724 : d. prob. before 1746.

[The above children were hving when their mother d. ; in 1727, their father, in a
deed as administrator of her estate, names them as her heirs. James, not being named
in his father's will, 1746, was probably then d.]

Children of Robert and Ruth :

80. Evan.

81. Robert, "a house-carpenter, living in 5th St., Philadelphia, d.

prior to 1820. He had a son John, who lived in 6th St. above
Race, and had two sons, Robert and William." (Family
Record.) '

82. ElUn, m. Jeremiah McVeagh, "and has left several daughters in
Pikeland, and one son."

83. Sarah, d. 8th mo, 6, 1759, 2inm.

84. Elizabeth.

85. Ruth, m. • Scotten. " She is the mother of Priscilla and

Scotten, now bonnet-makers in Strawberry alley." (Earn. Rec,
1797-1815).

86. (Posthumous). This was probably Jane, b. ist mo. 22, 1747. d.
3d mo. 23, 1832, m. Atkinson Hughs, father of Atkinson
Hughes, of Horsham.

[1 In a letter to the Author, 4th mo. 4, 1896, Arthur Peterson, of Philadelphia,
says: "This Robert Evans, I have very little doubt, is my great-great-grandfather,
who, I have always understood, originally came from Gwynedd. He bought two
houses from Caleb Cresson, on the west side of 5th street above Arch, one in 1768, and
one in 1772, and lived in one of them until his death. He had one son, John Evans,
who m., June 5, 1792, Rachel Ridgway. Among the children of John and Rachel
Evans was Jane, who m., Jan. 9, 1812, George Peterson, a Quaker of Swedish descent.
Their children were :

" I. Dr. Robert Evans Peterson (,d.), publisher, father of Mrs. George W. Childs.

" 2. Rachel Evans Peterson (d.), m Edmund Deacon.

" 3. Henry Peterson (d.), author and publisher.

"4. Richard Peterson (d.), iron manufacturer.

" 5. Anna Peterson, m. Amos R. Little.

" 6. Pearson Peterson (d.), banker.

" 7. Helen Longstreth Peterson, m. Charles Deacon.

" 8. Philena Marshall Peterson, m. William E. Newhall.

" The two houses on sth street Robert Evans bequeathed to his grand-daughters,
Jane Peterson and Rachel Love, daughters of John Evans." — Note, iSgdl

1 66 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

II. (25.) Evan Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Owen, d. 8th mo. 7,
1728, "aged 44," which would make his birth in 1684.
He m., 2d mo. 13, 171 5, Phcebe Miles, (b. 4th mo. 20,
1690), son of Samuel (dec'd), and Margaret of Radnor.
His will is dated 8th mo. 4, 1728, and was proved Oct. 22,
same year. He gives to his two sons Samuel and Nathan
"the plantation and tract of land" he lives on, his wife
Phcebe to have " her lawful thirds." He names also his
sons Joseph and Miles, and dau. Elizabeth. He appoints as
trustees his three brothers, John, Robert, and Thomas, his
two brothers-in-law, Thomas Thomas, and Owen Evans, ^
and his cousin John Evans. Phcebe, with her children, re-
moved after her husband's death within the limits of Haver-
ford monthly meeting, as is shown by their certificate from
Gwynedd, presented at Haverford, 2d mo. 29, 1729.

///. Children of Evan and Phcebe :

87. Elizabeth, b. nth mo. 26, 1715, m. Meredith. " She had

one daughter, Phebe, who m. Isaac Williams, of Whitemarsh,
and is now dec'd. She [Phebe Wilhams] now dec'd, left two
daughters, one of whom m. a son of Isaac Potts." — Doc't of

88. Samuel, b. 6th mo. 17, 1718, d. 8th mo. 14, 1728.

89. Nathan, b. 1720, d. 1758, or '59, m. Ruth Morgan. ^

90. Joseph, b. 9th mo. 18, 1723, "the father of William Ashby's
wife. ' '

91. Miles (named in his father's will).

1 This was Owen Evans (8), the |. P , son of Thomas ; he m. Ruth Miles, sister to
Phcebe, here mentioned.

* It seems best again to caution the reader that this Record of 1797 was added to
somewhat later, as appears by the memorandum made upon it by Charles Evans, (and
referred to in this volume at p. 58), and that when it mentions things as " now '
existing, or as having occurred, it cannot be strictly depended upon to mean the year
1797, but may mean a date later, — say as late as 1815.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 1 67

II. (30.) John Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Cadwalader, b. in
Denbighshire, Wales, 1689, d. at Gwynedd, 9th mo. 23,
1756, m. Eleanor Ellis, dau. of Rowland,^ of Marion, at
Merion m. h., 4th mo. 8, 171 5. Eleanor, b. near Dol-
gellau, Merionethshire, Wales, 1685, d. 4th mo. 29, 1765.
John was a preacher of eminence among the Friends :
details concerning him in that capacity have been elsewhere
given in this volume (p. 85.) His will, dated 9th mo. 16,
1756, was proved June 22, 1757. He leaves to his dau.
Jane Hubbs the life right, with remainder to her children, of
a lot of 21^ acres, "part of the tract of 100 acres which I
hold, to be laid out for her the west side of Montgomery
road, adjoining George Maris' s field." He gives his
daughters, Margaret, Ellen, and Elizabeth, 50 acres, " to be
divided off the upper end, next Owen Evans's land." He
mentions his sons Rowland and John, and appoints them
and his son Cadwalader executors.

///. Children of John and Eleanor :

92. Cadwalader, b. 17 16, d. 1773, m. Jane Owen, 'p

93. Rowland, b. 171 7-18, d. 1789, m. Susanna Foulke. ^

94. Margaret, b. 5th mo. 26, 17 19, m. Anthony Williams ; but left
no issue.

95. Jane,' b. ist mo. 30, 1721, m. John Hubbs. " She left two sons,

1 Rowland Ellis traced his descent through a long line, including the Nannau
family, of Wales. — See T. A. Glenn's Merion in the Welsh. Tract.

2 A letter from Eleanor Evans, of Gwynedd, to Mary Pemberton, of Philadelphia,
dated 20th of 7th mo., 1762, preserved among the Pemberton papers, says : " I should
take it kind [if] any of my good friends, of Philadelphia, particularly thyself, would call
to see my Daughter, Jenny Hubbs. I know thou, dear friend, Loves y^ afflicted, such
an one indeed is she. [She] lives now at Kinsington. It's but a short step from y*
great road to her house, when thou art goeing up to thy countrey seat at Germantown.
She had her certificate read and signed here. I suppose she will produce It at your
next monthly meeting."

1 68 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

John and Charles, and three ^ daughters, Rachel, Ellen, and
Mary. Ellen m., 1781, Amos Lewis, of Upper Dublin [son of
Ellis Lewis, 2d, and his first wife Mary], and Rachel also m.,
1785, Amos Lewis. — (See Lewis Genealogy).

96. Ellen, b. nth mo. 21, 1722, m., at Gwynedd m. h., 12th mo.
18, 1764, Ellis Lewis, 2d [widower], of Upper Dublin. Ellis d.
1783 ; Ellen survived him. — (See Lewis Genealogy.)

97. John, b. 1724, d. 1727.

98. Elizabeth, b. 6th mo. 26, 1726, d. 3d mo. 6, 1805, unmarried.
She is mentioned as living with her bro. John, and giving the
information embodied by her nephew in the Evans Record. Her
will, dated 5th mo. 13, 1804, was proved March, 1805. She
mentions her niece, Margaret Hubbs, to whom she leaves her
" chest of drawers " and wearing apparel. She devises to Jesse
Foulke and William Foulke, of Gwynedd, and John Jones, of
Montgomery, in trust, a lot of land, in Gwynedd, purchased of
Jesse Evans, for the use of Gwynedd Preparative Meeting. To
her brother John Evans she leaves the residue of her estate, real
and personal, appointing him executor.

99. John, b. 1730, d. 1807, m. Margaret Foulke. ^

III. (38.) Thomas Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Robert, "of
Marion," and Sarah, b. 4th mo. 22, 1707, m. ist, 1730,
Katherine Jones (who d. nth mo. 21, 1732), dau. of
Robert, of Merion ; 2d, Hannah Morris (who d. 6th mo.
22, 1760); 3d, loth mo. 9, 1764, Mary Brooke, of Lim-
erick (who d. 7th mo 14, 1805, aged 84). Thomas appears
to have received from his father the latter's land in Gwyn-
edd, 230 acres, lying along the Swedes' Ford road (now the
property, chiefly, of Jacob B. Rhoads), it being that which
Thomas, the original purchaser, had sold to Robert, when
he was dividing up his great tract. Thomas d. in 1784;

1 See Elizabeth Evans' mention of her niece Margaret Hubbs. This appears at
first sight to indicate a fourth daughter of Jane, but probably she was Elizabeth's
grand-niece.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 1 69

his will is dated ist mo. 6, and was proved May 3, in that
year. He leaves his wife Mary ^^2 50 in "good money,"
exclusive of an annuity of ;^I2 derived from lands in Lim-
erick township ; and numerous other bequests and privileges
of residence, etc. To his son Hugh, " my messuage and
plantation in Gwynedd, where I now dwell, about 230
acres." He leaves legacy to his daughter Sarah, widow of
George Geary ; mentions her three children ; also the two
sons of his daughter Catherine Foulke, Thomas and
Samuel (they both minors); his daughter Mary, his
daughter Susanna, and her children. He makes his son
Hugh and his daughters Susanna, Ann, Mary, and Hannah
residuary legatees. Mary Evans, his widow, survived him
over twenty years; her will, dated May 25, 1802, was
proved in August, 1 805, at Norristown. In it she describes
herself as "of Gwynedd, widow," and "advanced in years."
She leaves numerous bequests : to the children of her sister
Ann Hilles, ;^20 each ; to the children of her sister Mar-
garet i;20 each ; her " ten plate stove for the use and bene-
fit of the school under the direction of Friends' Preparative
Meeting of Gwynedd " ; to Hannah Spencer £\0\ to niece
Phebe Wood, £\o\ to Sarah Geary, £\o\ to Samuel
Evans, £\o\ to Sarah Evans, reHct of Hugh Evans, £\o\
to her [Sarah's] son, Hugh Evans, £^ and " my Franklin
stove in the front parlor"; to Thomas Evans, ^"8 ; to
Thomas Foulke, son of Joshua, £^ ; to Abraham Upde-
grave, ;^io; to John Barlow, of Limerick township, "one
moiety of all the annuities that may be due and unpaid, aris-
ing from the premises on which he resides." She appomts
Levi Foulke and Joseph Shoemaker executors.

I/O HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

IV. Childrc7i of Thomas and Katherine :

loo. Sarah, b. 6th mo. 8, I73i,d. 9th mo. 25, 1808, m. George Geary,

who d. before 1784, and had issue 3 children,
loi. Katherine, b. nth mo. 14, 1732, m. 12th mo. 20, 1763, Joshua

Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Edward, and had issue. (SeeFoulke

Genealogy.)

Children of Thomas and Hannah :

102. Susanna, b. ist mo. 3, 1737, m. and had issue, and was living in
1784 (as appears by her father's will).

103. Ann, b. 7th mo. 21, 1740, m. Levi Foulke. (See Foulke Gen' gy).

104. Mary, b, loth mo. 31, I74i,m. 6th mo. 10, 1784, "Richard Hum-
phreys, the elder, son of John and Mary, late of Oxford twp.,
dec'd," and, subsequently (according to the Record of 1797),
William Wilson.

105. Hannah, b. 5th mo. 26, 1745, d. 6th mo. 22, 1832, m. nth mo.
22, 1774, Jarret Spencer, son of Jacob, of Moreland.

106. Hugh, b. 8th mo. 9, 1747. He m. Sarah , and d. in 1792.

His estate was settled by his widow, and George Maris and Levi
Foulke, adm'rs. The farm which he had inherited from his father
was divided between Joseph Evans and Thomas Evans, by a sur-
vey made in October, 1812, by Cadwallader Foulke. They were
sons oi Hughzxidi Sarah: Joseph, b. 12th mo. n, 1785 ; Thomas,
b. 8th mo. 8, 1787.

III. (49). Amos Evans, of Merion, son of Owen and Ruth, of
Gwynedd, b. 4th mo. 25, I72i,m. Elizabeth Lewis. They
removed within the Hmits of Haverford m. m., presenting a
certificate from Gwynedd m. m., dated 9th mo., 1742.

IV. Children of Amos and Elizabeth :

102a. Owen, b. 4th mo. 18, 1746.

103a. Ruth, b. loth mo. 28, 1749.

104a. Ann, b. 2d mo. 2, 1752, m. Dr. John Davis.

105^!. Lydia, b. loth mo. 23, 1754.

106a. Rebekah, b. 6th mo. 4, 1757.

107. Hannah.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. I/I

io8. Rose, d. before 1794, m. Charles Willing,' son of Thomas, and
had issue : Elizabeth, m. Marshall }}. Spring, of JJoston, Mass. ;
Thomas, d. 1834; Richard, d. 1833.

III. (52.) Jonathan Evans, of Philadelphia, son of Evan and
Elizabeth, of Gwynedd, m., 4th mo. 19, 1740, Hannah Wal-
ton, dau. of Michael, of Philadelphia, Jonathan d. 2d mo.
3, 1795, aged 81. Hannah d. 4th mo. 23, 1800, aged 85.

IV. Children of Jonathan and Hannah :

109. EUzabeth, b. 1741, d. 1746.
no. Samuel, b. 1742, d. 1744.

111. Joel b. 1 2th mo. 24, 1743, d. in Jamaica, date not known. He is
probably the Joel, "merchant," of Philadelphia, mentioned Vol.
II., Sabine's Loyalists.^

112. Mary, b. loth mo. 7, 1746, d. 6th mo. 14, 1794, m. Adam Hubley.

113. William, b. 3d mo. 4, 1749. He went with the Loyalists, in the
Revolution, and his property was confiscated. See Sabine, Vol. II.

114. Benjamin, b. 9th mo. 16, 1751, d. 1793.

115. John, b. 3d mo. 30, 1753, d. 1798, in New York. He is probably
the John mentioned with Joel and William above, in Sabine, Vol. 1 1 .

116. Jonathan, b. 1759, d. 1839, m. Hannah Bacon. ^

ni. (53.) Abraham Evans, of Merion, son of Evan, m., at Rad-
nor m. h., 8th mo. 8, 1747, Lydia Thomas, dau. of William,
of Lower Merion.

IV. Children of Abraham and Lydia :

117. Evan, m., 1771, Mary Harmon.^

^ See Keith's Prov. Councillors of Petma. (p. 97).

^ Joel's property, an undivided half of an estate in Blockley, Philadelphia county,
was confiscated by the Executive Council of Penna., and sold for ^^15,000 Continental
money. {Colonial Records, Vol. XII., p. 617). His brother William's property, a two-
story carpenter shop, and lot of ground, on the north side of Pine St., between 3d and
4th, Philadelphia, was confiscated and sold to Benjamin Evans. {Colonial Records,
XII., p. 97.) In these sales one-fourth of the money was retained to become the prin-
cipal of a ground rent, the annual income of which was payable to the University of
Pennsylvania. On Joel's land the rent was to be 7^ bushels, and on William's
property, 4^^ bushels, per annum, of " good merchantable wheat."

172 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

1 1 8. Elisha/ " who keeps a tavern at Norristown " [1797].
[And other children; names not obtained] .

III. (54.) Daniel Evans, of Philadelphia, blacksmith, son of
Evan, Gwynedd, m. " at a public meeting in Plymouth," 4th
mo. 14, 1763, Eleanor Rittenhouse, dau. of Matthias, of
Worcester township. (She was a sister of David Ritten-
house, the mathematician, who signs as one of the witnesses
of the marriage). I have no data concerning their children,
if they had any.

III. (56.) MusGRAVE Evans, of Philadelphia, cooper, son of Evan,
of Gwynedd, m. at Radnor m. h., 12th mo, 12, 1753, Lydia
Harry, dau. of Samuel, of Radnor.

IV. Children of Musgrave and Lydia :

119. Sarah.

120. Martha.

121. Ann.

122. Thomas.

III. (57.) David Evans, " of Spruce St.," Philadelphia, house
carpenter, son of Evan, of Gwynedd, m. Aug. 10, 1755, Le-
TiTiA Thomas, of Radnor. David d. 18 17, aged 84, and was
bu. at Friends' ground, 4th and Arch Sts.^ This couple had
a large family of children, but only part of their names, as
follows, have been obtained.

IV. Childre7i of David and Letitia :

123. Letitia, b. loth mo. 15, 1759, d. 1780, m. Richard Moore, son of
Mordecai and Ehzabeth, and had issue one child, Letitia, who m.

1 Cadwalader Evans, now [1884] of Bridgeport, Montg. Co., is a son of Elisha.
See Auge's Men of Mo/itgofnery County, p. 460. ( Jared B. Evans, d. Jefferson Co., Pa.,
March 28, 1891, was another son).

'Was it this David Evans who went with Dr. Parrish to New England, in the
winter of 1775-6, to distribute supplies to the people around Boston, destitute by reason
of the siege ? — See Penna. Mag., Vol. I., p 168.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 1/3

her first cousin, Levin H. Jackson, (Richard Moore, b. 1745, d
1829).

124. GuHelma, b. 12th mo. 14, 1762.

125. Charles, b. March 30, 1768, d.Sept. 5, 1847. (He was the seventh
child of his parents.) Settling in Reading, Penna., he became
a prominent lawyer, acquired wealth, and founded the beautiful
cemetery of that city now known by his name. He d. unmarried

126. David, b 6th mo. 26, 1770.

III. (61.) Jesse Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Hugh, m. 4th mo.
19, 1750, Catherine Jones, dau. of John, of Horsham. The
Family Record of 1 797 refers to him as having "formerly
lived where George Maris lives." He was a tailor by trade,
as well as a farmer, and, in 1755, sold the 55 ^^^ acres left him
by his father (which included the present dwelling of Dr.
M. R. Knapp, the dwelling and store of Wm. H. Jenkins,
and the Acuff hotel property), to George Maris, for 270
pounds. He then bought of Hugh Evans, of Merion,
Thomas's son, the property now owned [1884] by Jacob
B. Bowman. Of his children no list has been obtained.

III. (73.) Thomas Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Thomas, b. ist
mo. 24, 1733, d. 9th mo. 3, 1818, m. 1765, Elizabeth
Roberts (b. nth mo. 19, 1740, d. 1794), dau. of John and
Jane Roberts, of Whitpain. (See Roberts Genealogy.) The
Family Record of 1797 speaks of him as living where his
father did (the farm now occupied by Ellen H. Evans), and
calls him familiarly, "Tommy Evans."

IV. Children of Thomas and Elizabeth :

127. Jane, b. nth mo. 13th, 1766, d. 5th mo. 18, 1781, itnm.

128. Caleb, b. 1768, d. 1855, m. Catharine Conrad, Agnes Roberts.^

129. Tacy, b. ist mo. 10, 1770, d. 5th mo. 4, 1840, m. 1819, Ellis
Cleaver (d. 1829), son of Ezekiel and Mary.

130. Nathan, b. 1772, d. 1826, m. Ann Shoemaker.'^

174 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

131. Thomas b. 1774, d. same year.

132. John b. 1775, d. 1777.

133. Jonathan, b. 1778, d. 1844, m. Elizabeth Iden. ^

134. Ehzabeth, b. ist mo. 31, 1781, m. 1802, Cadwalader Roberts, of
Gwynedd. (See Roberts Genealogy.)

135. Jane, b. 12th mo. 24, 1784, d. 7th mo. 3, 1876, m, 181 1,
WiUiam Robinson, of Providence (b. 1777, d. 1859), son of
Nicholas and Elizabeth. William and Jane removed to Ohio, in
18 16 or 18 1 7. Their children were : Elizabeth, b. 18 14, d. 1847 ;
Tacy, b. 1818 ; Samaria, b. 18 18, m. George P. Clark.

III. (78.) Peter Evans, of Merion, son of Robert, of Gwynedd,
b. 1st mo. 20, 1722, m. Mary Thomas, dau. of William and
Elizabeth, of Merion.^ Peter appears to have removed to
Merion ; the births of his children, as here given, are from
the Haverford records.

IV. Children of Peter and Mary :

136. Jonathan, b. 7th mo. 2, 1745.

137. Ezekiel, b. 5th mo. 27, 1747.

138. Hannah, b. loth mo. 7, 1748.

139. Rachel, b. ist mo. 21, 1751.

140. Levi, b. 7th mo. 18, 1753.

141. Priscilla, b. 9th mo. 30, 1755.

142. Zachariah, b. 3d mo. 8, 1758.

143. Margaret, b. 3d mo. 2, 1760.

144. Mary, b. 12th mo. 17, 1761.

III. (89.) Nathan Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Evan and Phebe,
b. iith mo. 17, 1720, d. 1758 or '59, m. "at the house of
Benjamin Morgan," 1746, Ruth Morgan, dau. of Daniel.
In 1758, he obtained a certificate for his removal to Wil-
mington, Del., and the records of the monthly meeting there

^ There is some confusion of dates, (possibly of identity), concerning Peter.
.'\ccording to the Historical Society's abstract of Haverford records, his marriage
occurred in 1774. (See p. 112 this volume.) But the dates of his children's births
indicate 1744 as the correct date.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. I 75

show the presentation of it, 6th mo. 8, in that year, for him-
self, wife, and the four children named below. But in 1759
(lOth mo. 11), his widow requested a certificate for her
return to Gwynedd. She subsequently married Moses
Peters, and they removed to Oxford, Philadelphia, where
Moses died 1784. In his will he names his step-sons,
Daniel, Lemuel, and Elijah Evans.

IV. Children of Nathaji and Ruth :

145. Daniel.

146. Lemuel.

147. Elijah.

148. Samuel.

III. (92.) Dr. Cadwalader Evans, of Philadelphia, son of John
and Eleanor, b. at Gwynedd, 17 16, d. 6th mo. 30, 1773, r"-
I St mo. 22, 1760, Jane Owen, dau. of Owen Owen, of
Philadelphia, dec'd. Cadwalader was bu. at Gwynedd ;
he left no children, A more particular sketch of him will
be elsewhere given.

III. (93.) Rowland Evans, of Gwynedd, son of John and Elea-
nor, b. 1718, d. 8th mo. 8, 1789, in Philadelphia. He m.
at Gwynedd m. h., 9th mo. 15, 1748, Susanna Foulke (b.
1st mo. 17, 1720, d. 3d mo. i, 1787), dau. of Thomas and
Gwen. (See Foulke Genealogy.) A sketch of him will be
separately given.

IV. Childreii of Rowland and Sitsanna :

149. Cadwalader, b. Dec. 7, 1749, merchant in Philadelphia, d. Feb.
21, 1821, unmarried.

150. John, d. loth mo. i, 1772, in his 20th year, unmarried.

151. Sarah, b. April 1751, d. Jan. 27, 1831, unmarried.

152. Ellin, d. unmarried, 182-.

153. Charles, married, but left no issue.

154. David, d. unmarried.

1/6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

III. (99.) John Evans, of Gwynedd, son of John and Eleanor,
b. 1 2th mo. (February), 1730, d. 9th mo. (September),
1807, m. Nov. 19, 1734, Margaret Foulke, dau. of Evan
and Ellen, of Gwynedd. (Margaret, b. 4th mo. 19, 1726,
d. 3d mo. 6. 1798. — See Foulke Genealogy.) It was this
John who furnished Cadwalader, his nephew (son of
Rowland), with the family data which form the basis of
the Family Record, of 1797 and later. He was known in
Gwynedd as "John Evans, the elder" (though his own
father's name was John), in order to distinguish him from
his son John. He was a prominent and active member of
Gwynedd meeting. Joseph Foulke (elsewhere in this
volume) gives some interesting reminiscences of him. He
lived all his life at the old home of his father and grand-
father, in Gwynedd (now [1896] the Hollingsworth estate
place). " From letters in my possession, written to his
son," says Rowland Evans, Esq., " he seems to have been
an earnestly religious man." His will, which presents him
as quite a rich man, was probated November 6, 1 807. He
gives his son John the "plantation, consisting of three tracts,
where he now dwells," in Gwynedd, about 192 acres;
directs his son Cadwalader to release any supposed claim he
may have on the fee or title, in consideration of bequests
now made him ; leaves two tracts (homestead) to his son
Cadwalader, one 245 acres, the other 36, he to pay iJ^500 to
his [the testator's] grandsons John and Robert ; bequeaths
to his friends Levi Foulke, Jesse Foulke, and John Jones,
jr., son of Evan, or their survivors, ;^20 in trust to keep up
the burial ground enclosure at Gwynedd meeting, the fund
to be used in the discretion of Gwynedd preparative meet-
ing ; gives his son Cadwalader two undivided thirds in 50
acres of land adjoining the homestead, "late estate of

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. I 77

brother Cadwalader," gives son Cadwalader the half residue
of estate, the other half to grandson Robert ; gives ;{^200 to
son John ; gives ;^200 to grandsons Rowland and Evan in
equal shares ; appoints son Cadwalader and grandson
Robert executors.

IV. Children of John and Margaret :

155. Evan, d. 1757, aged 9 mos.

156. John, b. Sept. 7, 1759, d. 1814, m. Gaynor Iredell, Eleanor
Yaxley. ^

157. Cadwalader, b. 1762, d. 1841, m. Harriet V. Musser. ^

158. Rowland, b. 1762 (twin brother to Cadwalader), "a merchant in
Philadelphia," d. loth mo. 10, 1793, of yellow fever, unmarried.

IV. (116.) Jonathan Evans, of Philadelphia, carpenter, son of
Jonathan and Hannah, b. ist mo. 25, 1759, m. 4th mo. 13,
1786, Hannah Bacon, dau. of David and Mary. A memo-
rial of him, by the Southern District m. m. of Philadelphia,
will be found reprinted in the Collection of 1879. "His
parents gave him a liberal education at the schools under
the care of Friends in this city, and possessing strong mental
powers and quick perceptions, he made considerable profi-
ciency in most of the branches of useful learning. He was
placed apprentice to the carpenter's trade, and afterwards
followed that business many years." At the period of his
religious convincement " it was a time of great civil commo-
tion, .... and about this period he was drafted as a
soldier for the war of the Revolution. While many of the
younger members of the Society were caught with the mar-
tial spirit of the day, he was constrained to maintain his
testimony, in support of which he suffered an imprisonment
of sixteen weeks." " Having scruples respecting the pro-
priety of doing the ornamental work that was put on build-

178 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

ings, and persons generally declining to meet his scruples
by giving him such parts as he was easy to do, he was
many times under great difficulty in relation to the means of
living, particularly when there was little building of any kind
to be done." (The memorial says, however, in a later
passage, that he retired from business many years before his
death, having acquired a competence.) He was an overseer
(in the Society of Friends) at the age of 24, and an elder at
36. In the 1 2th mo. 1826, after a sermon by Elias Hicks,
to a very large congregation at 1 2th st. meeting in Philadel-
phia, Jonathan Evans arose and declared at some length
that the doctrines preached by Elias were not those held by
the Society of Friends.^ He subsequently took a prominent
part in the movements of the "Separation." In 1837, in
correspondence with John Wilbur, he reviewed sharply the
positions taken by Joseph John Gurney.^ He d. in Phila-
delphia, 2d mo, 8, 1839. Hannah, b. 3d mo., 1765, d. 2d
mo. 27, 1829. She was a minister among Friends, and
there is a memorial of her in the Collection of 1879.

V. Children of Jonathati and Hmmah :

159. William, b. 1787, d. 1867, n^- Deborah Musgrave, Elizabeth
Barton. ^

160. Joseph, b. 1789, d. 1871, m. Grace Trimble. ^

161. Mary, b. 9th mo. 25, 1791, d. ist mo. 28, 1859.

162. Hannah, b. 9th mo. 7, 1793, d. 8th mo. 21, 1865, m. at Pine St.
m. h., Philadelphia, nth mo. 4, 1818, Joseph Rhoads " of Marple
twp., Delaware county, tanner," son of Joseph, dec'd, and Mary.
Joseph, d. 1st mo. 16, 1861, in his 75th year. Issue of Joseph
and Hannah (surname Rhoads) : Mary, m. Dr. Wm. E. Haines,

1 His remarks are given at length in the memorial. For a statement friendly to E.
H., see Janney's History of Friends, Vol. IV., p. 155, et. seq.
* See John Wilbur's Journal, p, 228.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 179

and has issue ; Deborah ; Joseph, m. Elizabeth Snowden, and
has issue ; Hannah, d. young ; Elizabeth ; Dr. James E. (editor
of Friends'' Review, and now (1884) president of Bryn Mawr
Female College under care of Friends), m. Margaret W, Ely, and
has issue ; Charles, of Haddonfield, N. J., conveyancer, m. Anna
Nicholas, and Beulah S. Morris, and has surviving issue by first
wife; Jonathan E., of Wilmington, Del., m. Rebecca C. Garrett,
and has issue.

163. Joel, b. 1796, d. 1865, m. Hannah Rhoads. ^

164. Thomas, b. 1798, d. 1868, m. Catharine Wistar. ^

165. Charles, b. 1802, d. 1879, m. Mary Lownes Smith. ^

IV. (117.) Evan Evans, of Philadelphia, house-carpenter, son
of Abraham and Lydia, m. 4th mo. i, 1771, Mary Harmon,
dau. of Tubal, of Philadelphia.

V. Children of Evan and Mary :

166. Jacob H., b. 2d mo. 8, 1772, m. Margaret Helm. P

167. Sarah, b. 12th mo. 27, 1773.

168. Francis, b. loth mo. 12, 1780.

IV. (128.) Caleb Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Thomas and
Elizabeth, b. 2d mo. 16, 1768, d. 7th mo. 3, 1855, m. ist,
1798, Catharine Conrad, dau. of Peter, of Whitpain ; 2d,
1820, Agnes Roberts (b. 1783, d. 1872), dau. of Cadwala-
der and Mary, (See Roberts Genealogy.) Caleb lived for
many years, and died, at the home of his father (now the
Ellen H. Evans place). He had but two children who grew
up, — one by each wife.

V. Children of Caleb and Catharine :

169. Peter C, b. 1799, d. 1880, m. Margaret Jenkins. ^

Children of Caleb and Agnes :

170. Cadwalader R., b. 1821, d. 1861, m. Ellen H. Shoemaker, sp

171. EUzabeth, b. 1824, d. 1825.

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IV. (130.) Nathan Evans, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, b.
1st mo. 25, 1772, d. 1st mo. 19, 1826, m. 12th mo. 14,
18 10, Ann Shoemaker (b. 1786, d. 1863), dau. of Thomas
and Tacy.

V. Children of Nathaft and Ann :

172. Charles, b. 181 1, m. Mary M. Morgan, Sarah M. Harris. ^

173. Edmund, b. 1816, d. 1847, m. Jane R. Smith ; no issue.

IV. (133.) Jonathan Evans, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, b.
at Gwynedd, 6th mo. 26, 1778, d. 4th mo. 7, 1844, m. at
Richland, Bucks co., loth mo. 5, 1809, Elizabeth Iden (d.
1st mo. 23, 1824), dau. of George and Hannah.^ Jonathan
taught school "near Everard Foulke's," at Richland (half
a mile from Bunker Hill), for two years after his marriage,
and then removed to Gwynedd, where he taught for several
years. In 18 16 or '17 he removed to Sandy Hill (Whit-
pain), where he remained teaching until after the death of
his wife, in 1824, and then discontinued housekeeping. In
1832 and '33 he was in Ohio, near Mt. Pleasant, with his
son, and then returned to Gwynedd, where he made his
home ^ with his brother Caleb.

V. Children of Jonathati and Elizabeth :

174. Thomas I., b. 18 10, d. 1883, m. Ann Worthington. ^

175. George I., b. 1812, m. Sarah Griffith, Mary P. Richards. ^

176. Caleb, b. 181 5, m. Sarah Black. ^

177. William R., b. 1817, m. Mary W. Allen, Martha S. Carr. ^

178. Job, b. 1820, d. same year.

179. Hannah I., b. 1821, m. Thomas D. Tomlinson, of Marietta, Iowa,
and has issue 9 children.

1 Hannah was the dau. of Samuel and Ann Foulke ; see Foulke Genealogy.
' Some further details will be given hereafter concerning Jonathan's work as a
teacher, at Gwynedd and Montgomery.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. l8l

IV. (156.) John Evans, of Gwynedd, son of John and Margaret,
b. September 7, 1759, d. 1814, m., ist, Gaynor Iredell (d.
I2th mo. 12, 1785), dau. of Robert, of Montgomery; 2d,

Eleanor Yaxley,^ dau. of and Esther. Esther was

the dau. of Evan Foulke by his second wife ; Margaret
Evans, mother of this John, was Evan's daughter by his first
wife ; this couple were therefore nearly first cousins, their
mothers being half sisters. (See Foulke Genealogy.) John
received by the will of his father, part of the Evan Foulke
tract on the Penllyn road, adjoining Spring-House. (See No.
99, this Genealogy.) Eleanor survived him.

V. Children of John and Gaynor :

180. John F., b. 9th mo. 3, 1784. He was living as late as 1814, and
had been a clerk or assistant in business to his uncle Cadwalader
(No. 157).

181. Robert I., b. nth mo. 14, 1785, d. July 29, 1822. It will be seen
by the date above that his mother d. when he was but a few weeks
old. He engaged successfully in business in Philadelphia, and d,
unm., July 29, 1822. There is a letter from him among the Cad-
wallader Foulke papers, dated July 21, 18 18, in which he regrets
his present inability to visit Gwynedd, as he is about leaving for
Montreal and Quebec, by way of Ballston and Saratoga, intending
to be absent a month. His estate was settled by Roberts Vaux,
Esq., of Philad'a, administrator. An obituary article in MS.,
among the Cadw. Foulke papers (taken apparently from a Phila-
delphia newspaper) says he was brought up by his grandfather
(John Evans, No. 99, who left him valuable bequests), and lived
with him till 1805, when he engaged as an apprentice to a mer-
cantile house in Philadelphia. The article describes him in terms

1 Eleanor's mother, Esther Foulke, m. an Ely, according to one authority ; and
some accounts call her husband Yearsley ; but in a bond dated March 26, 1800,
Eleanor herself is called Yaxley, and signs her name to a receipt for interest on the
back of it " Nellie Yaxley," — which seems to be conclusive that her own name was
neither Ely nor Yearsley, when she m. John Evans. See reference to her in Foulke
Genealogy, post.

1 82 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

of warm praise as a very exemplary and much beloved man, de-
voted in his leisure to literature and scientific studies, and with
"talents and acquirements remarkably devoted to the good of his
fellow creatures." He was one of the Directors of the Public
Schools ; of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb ;
a Manager of the Apprentices' Library, and actively interested in
other public institutions. (See Cadwallader Foulke's allusion to
his death, p. 142.)

Children of John and Eleanor :

182. Rowland, b, nth mo. 18, 1802. He was living in 1809.

183. Evan C, b. 8th mo. 29, 1805. He was living at the time of his
father's death, 1814, and later, but d., probably unm., before 1828.
Cadwalader Roberts was his guardian, and Cadwallader Foulke
adm'r of his estate.

184. Randolph W.

185. Esther.

[Both the last named probably d. young.]

IV. (157.) Cadwalader Evans, junior, son of John and Mar-
garet, of Gwynedd, b. at Gwynedd, Dec. 25, 1762, d. Oct. 26,
1 84 1, m. Harriet Verena Musser, dau. of John, of Lancas-
ter, Pa. A sketch of Cadwalader will be given elsewhere.

V. Children of Cadwalader and Harriet :

186. Juliana Doddridge, d. 1866, unm.

187. Margaret Eleanor, unm.

188. John Glendour, d. 1827, unm.

189. Rowland Edanis, d. 1866, unm.

190. Edmund Cadwalader, b. 1812, d. 1881, m. Mary Louisa Allen. ^

191. William Elbert, b. 1816, d. 1869, m. Anna Smith, Emma Fot-
terall. ^

192. Cadwalader, d. 186 1, unm.

193. Manlius Glendower, b. 1821, d. 1879, m. Ellen Kuhn. ^

194. Harriet Verena, m. Gouverneur Morris Ogden, Esq,, of New
York (d. July, 1884), and had issue: Cadwalader E., David B.,
Gouverneur Morris, all living in New York (1884).

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. I 83

V. (159.) William Evans, of Philadelphia, son of Jonathan and
Hannah, b. loth mo. 5, 1787, d. 5th mo. 12, 1867, m., ist,
18 II, Deborah Musgrave (d. 6th mo. 27, 181 5, in her 28th
year), dau. of Aaron and Abigail ; and 2d, 12th mo. 23, 1824,
Elizabeth Barton (b. in Newton, Camden Co., N. J., ist
mo. 2, 1794, d. nth mo. 14, 1 861), dau. of John and Rebecca.
Of William and both his wives there are memorials, pub-
lished in the volume issued in 1879 by Philadelphia Yearly
Meeting (O.) William, " during his whole life was a mem-
ber of this [Southern District] monthly meeting." He
appeared as a minister in 1817 ; was recommended in 1822.
He traveled considerably in religious work, and was much
interested in education amongst Friends. In connection with
his brother, Thomas Evans, he edited a series of fourteen
volumes of the " Friends' Library," made up of "journals,
doctrinal treatises, and other writings of Friends," the series
being begun in 1837, and one volume issued each year.
William and Thomas also edited, 1854, a new edition of
" Piety Promoted," a " Collection of Dying Sayings of Many
of the People called Quakers." (Part of this was originally
edited by John Tomkins, London, 1701, and successive parts
were added by John Field, John Bell, Josiah Wagstaffe,
Josiah Forster, and others.) For many years he was a clerk
of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (O.) His journal was pub-
lished in 1870, edited by his brother. Dr. Charles Evans,
Deborah died at the early age of 28, Elizabeth was a
minister ; she first spoke as such in the meeting at Newton,
N. J., in 181 5 ; in 18 18, Haddonfield monthly and quarterly
meetings acknowledged her ministry. She d. somewhat
suddenly while on a visit to Salem, N. J.

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VI. Children of William and Deborah :

195. Abigail, b. loth mo. i, 1812, m. Horatio C. Wood, and had issue:
William E., b. 1854.

196. Jonathan, b. 4th mo. 29, 18 14, d. 7th mo. 5, 184 1. (He was a
druggist, at 3d and Spruce Sts., Philad'a, the stand previously
occupied by his uncle Thomas Evans.)

Children of William and Elizabeth :

197. Rebecca, b. loth mo. 5, 1825, d. nth mo. 13, 1836.

198. Hannah, b. 6th mo. 7, 1827.

199. Elizabeth R., b. 7th mo. 4, 1830.

200. William, b. 8th mo. 1835, m. Rebecca Carter; and has issue:
John C, b. 1868 ; Charles b. 1870 ; Alice C, b. 1872 ; Grace B.,
1874; William B., b. 1875 ; Ruth, b. 1877. {William is (1884)
of the firm of Evans & Yarnall, Philadelphia, and resides at
Moorestown, N. J.)

V. (160.) Joseph Evans, of Delaware county, son of Jonathan
and Hannah, b. 9th mo. 28, 1789, d. 2d mo. 10, 1871, m. 5th
mo. 26, 1 8 14, at Uwchlan m. h., Grace Trimble (b. 12th
mo. 24, 1789, d. 8th mo. 17, 1867), dau. of WilHam and Ann.
They resided in Springfield township, Del. Co. " They were
much esteemed and exemplary members of the Society of
Friends, in which she [as well as her husband] was for many
years an elder."

VI. Children of Joseph and Grace :

201. Ann C, b. 3d mo. 21, 1815, m. 5th mo. 6, 1847, Isaac C. Evans,
(b. 3d mo. 23, 1 818), son of Isaac and Mary, and has issue:
Mary, Joseph, Isaac, Anne, Lydia, Rowland, William.

202. Hannah, b. 18 17, d. 1826.

203. William, b. 1819, d. 1821.

204. Mary b. 5th mo. 23, 1823, m. nth mo. 7, 1844, William Mickle,
of New Jersey (b. 7th mo. 24, 1813, d. 6th mo. 16, 1856), son of
George and Mary, and has issue : Anne, Mary, Sarah, Joseph,
William.

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205. Joseph, b. 1825, d. 1826.

206. Thomas, b. 8th mo. 24, 1830, m. and has issue : Charles, Mary,
Grace. (Howard Co., Maryland.)

207. John, b. 1833, d. 1851.

V. (163.) Joel Evans, son of Jonathan and Hannah, b. 3d mo.
7, 1796, d. 5th mo. 13, 1865, m. Hannah Rhoads. He was
an elder in the Society of Friends, and for some time (after
the service of his brother William in that capacity) clerk of
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (O.)

VI. Children of Joel and Hannah :

208. Mary, d. 8th mo. 27, 1850, in her 29th year, m. William
Rhoads, jr., and had issue : Mary.

209. William, d. ist mo. 24, 1843, in his 20th year.

210. Owen, m. Lydia Thompson, and has issue : Mary, Beulah T.,
Edwin, and William.

211. Hannah, b. 1830, d. 1893.

212. Charles, m. Anna Belle Kirby, and has issue: C. Wistar, and
four who d. young.

213. Samuel, m. Anne Taylor, and has issue : Mary, Eleanor, Caro-
line, Albert and Bertha.

214. Joel, m. Emma Stokley, and has issue: Mary, William and
Laura. (Three children of Joel and Hannah, named Joel,
Elizabeth, and Elizabeth, d. young.)

V. (164.) Thomas Evans, of Philadelphia, son of Jonathan and
Hannah, b. 2d mo. 23, 1798, d. 5th mo. 25, 1868, m. Catha-
rine Wistar, dau. of John and Charlotte, of Salem, N. J.
She d. 1 2th mo. 5, 1871, in her 70th year. Thomas Evans
was an eminent minister among Friends, whose preaching
was characterized by " winning eloquence." An extended
memorial of him is in the collection published by Phila.
Y. M. (O). in 1879. He received a strong rehgious im-
pression in his youth ; at 21 he began business ; at 2 3 he

1 86 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

went, as companion to George Withy, an English minister,
and traveled four months in the Southern and Western
States. At the time of the Separation in the Society of
Friends, 1827-8, he took an active and very prominent
part (on the side of the body distinguished as Orthodox.)
He first spoke in the ministry in 1832, while on a religious
visit to Virginia, but did not again speak for some years, —
about 1838. In 1844 his ministry was approved. About
this time his health became much impaired, and he fixed his
residence for four years in the country, after which he
returned to the city. In 1837 he joined his brother William
in editing " Friends' Library," a series of fourteen volumes,
and later, "Piety Promoted," in four vols. (Philadelphia:
1854.) He wrote, besides, "A Concise Account of the
Religious Society of Friends," " An Exposition of the Faith
of the Religious Society of Friends," "Youthful Piety," etc.
His feeble health was occasioned in part, if not entirely, by
an injury to his spine caused by extreme exertions on board
a ship, during a storm, on a voyage to Charleston, S. C, —
his errand being to look after the Friends' meeting property
in that city.^

1 An elaborate obituary notice of THOMAS Evans, published in the Philadelphia
North America}!, June 22, 1868, and ascribed to Edward Hopper, contains these
passages: "This [the So. of Friends] was to him a most precious communion.
His affections, his time, his talents, were all given without stint to the support of
this body of Christians, whose principles, testimonies, and we might say minute
peculiarities, were subjects of his entire approval, and whose tenets found an un-
qualified response in his religious convictions." [Having referred to his clearness of
view, and acumen in expression, with reference to the history, doctrine, and discipline
of Friends; and to the fact that, although quite a young man, he was a leading
witness in the great New Jersey chancery suit, in 1829-33, the article says :] " His
testimony as presented to the Court, and which has been preserved in printed records,
exhibits a knowledge of the points involved, and a power of ready expression, with a
thorough understanding of everything that had a bearing upon the subject connected
with the issue, unsurpassed by anything which is to be found in the annals of religious

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 187

VI. Children of Thomas and Catharine :

215. John Wistar, b. 4th mo. 7, 1836, d. 12th mo. 29, 1873, ^^
Eleanor Stokes, and had issue : Elizabeth W., Thomas, J. Wistar,
Eleanor.

216. Thomas Wistar, b. 12th mo. 15, 1837, d. 2d mo. 16, 1857.

217. Hannah Bacon, b. 9th mo. 19, 1839.

218. Katharine, b. 7th mo. 14, 1841, m. Francis Stokes, and has
issue : Katharine E., Henry W., Esther, Edith, Francis Joseph.

219. Jonathan, b. 8th mo. 16, 1843, "^- Rachel R. Cope, and has
issue: Anna C, F. Algernon, Edward W. Jonathan resides at
Germantown : was some time of the firm of Cooper, Jones &
Cadbury, Philadelphia.

V. (165.) Charles Evans, M.D., of Philadelphia, son of Jona-
than and Hannah, b. 12th mo. 25, 1802, d. 4th mo. 20, 1879,
m. Mary Lownes Smith, who survived him. Charles was
an elder in the Society of Friends, conspicuous for his exer-
tions in the interests of that religious society, and much
engaged in benevolent and philanthropic labors. He was
for many years attending physician at the Frankford Asylum
for the Insane, and strongly interested in the treatment of
mental diseases, on the care of which he was much con-
sulted. He was some time editor of The Friend. He edited,
in 1870, the Journal of his brother William, and wrote
" Friends in the Seventeenth Century." [New ed., Philad'a,
1876.) He left no issue.

V. (166.) Jacob Harmon Evans, son of Evan and Mary, b. 2d
mo. 8, 1772, m. Margaret Helm.

litigation." [Of his character as a preacher the notice says :] " His manner, though
often much subdued by a sense of personal unworthiness, was animated, and the
messages which he bore were often beautifully illustrated by apt and facile expression
and striking analogies ; and, while retaining all the simplicity and earnestness of
an apostle, he was eloquent in a high degree, and withal there was a baptizing unction
attending his ministry, which reached the hearts and minds of many "

1 88 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

VI. Children of Jacob H. and Margaret :

22oa. Peter, b. 4th mo. 26, 1793.

22ia. Jacob, b. loth mo. 11, 1795, m. Ann Hall.^

V. (169.) Peter C. Evans, of Whitpain, son of Caleb and Cath-
erine, b. 1st mo. 24, 1799, d. 2d mo. 24, 1880, m. October
20, 1 83 1, at Doylestown, Pa., by Josiah Y. Shaw, Esq.,
Margaret Jenkins (b. 3d mo. 6, 1800, d. loth mo. 8, 1872),
dau. of Edward and Sarah, of Gwynedd. (See Jenkins
Genealogy.)

VI. Children of Peter and Margaret :

220. Catharine, b. loth mo. 21, 1834, m. 1863, Chalkley Ambler,
now (1884) of Philadelphia, and has issue.

221. Sarah, b. 9th mo. 7, 1836, d.

222. Charles Edward, b. 8th mo. 9, 1838, m. Arabella G. Green, dau.
of Carlo and Hannah R., and has issue : Edward J., b. 1877;
William S., b. 1879 ; Harry S., b. 1882.

V. (170.) Cadwalader R. Evans, of Gwynedd, son of Caleb
and Agnes, b. 5th mo. 17, 1821, d. 5th mo. 23, 1861, m. 2d
mo. 13, 185 1, Ellen H. Shoemaker (b. loth mo. 24, 1823),
dau. of Joseph and Phebe, of Gwynedd. Cadwalader
lived at the original home of his ancestor, Owen Evans.^

VI. Children of Cadwalader and Ellen :

223. Joseph S., b. nth mo. 17, 185 1, m. Emma K. Mauger, dau. of
Henry B. and Harriet I., and has issue : Horace Cadwalader, b.
1886, Gwendolen, b. 1888.

224. Elizabeth, b. loth mo. 31, 1853.

225. Anna, b. ist m. 29, 1856.

226. Mary E., b. nth mo. 5, 1858.

227. Caleb, d. in infancy.

^ See statement concerning this property at p. 60 of this volume.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. I 89

V. (172.) Charles Evans, of Philadelphia, son of Nathan and
Ann, b. 9th mo. 30, i8ii,d. 12th mo. 17, 1887; m. ist,
1833, Mary M. Morgan, (b. 1807, ^- 1862), dau. of Benja-
min andTacy; 2d, 1876, Sarah M. Harris, dau. of Jonas.

VI. Children of Charles and Mary :

228. Tacy A., b. 1833, d. ist mo. 25, 1884, m. 1865, Benjamin O.
Loxley, son of Benjamin R., of Philadelphia ; and had issue,
surname Loxley, Charles Evans, Morris James.

229. Morris J., b. 1837, d. 1870, m. 1861, Elizabeth T. Hayhurst, dau.
of Thomas, and had issue: (i) Mary G., b. 1863, d. 1895, m.
Charles C. Price, and had issue, surname Price, Thornton \V., b.
1887, Elizabeth E., b. 1889, John M., b. 1891, Charles C, Jr., b.
1894; (2) Charles W., b. 1865, m. Sarah, dau. of William and
Rebecca K. West, and has issue, surname Evans, William W., b.
1 89 1, Athalia W., b. 1893, Charles M., b. 1895.

230. Charles W., b. 5th mo. 24, 1842, d. 8th m. 31, 1864, unm.

V. (174.) Thomas I. Evans, carriage and wagon maker, of Mt.
Pleasant, Ohio, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth, b. 7th mo.
22, 1810, d. 2d mo. 23, 1883, m. Ann Worthington, (b. 9th
mo. 3, 181 1),

VI. Children of Thomas I. arid Ann :

231. Mary E., b. 9th mo. 8, 1838, d. 9th mo. 21, 1864, m. 6th mo. 3,
1856, Dr. Jonathan Taylor Updegraff(b. 5th mo. 13, 1822, d. nth
mo, 30, 1882, elected Representative from the i8th district of Ohio,
in the U. S. Congress, 1878, and re-elected 1880 and 1882); and
had issue.

232. Rebecca J., b. 9th mo. 28, 1840.

233. George W., b. 2d mo. 3, 1843, n^- 1874, Pocahontas R. Lunsford,
and has issue : Blanche L., b. 1875 ; Murkland G., b. 1876 ;
Claude I., b. 1879 ; Minnie M., b. 1881. (Stafford Co., Va.)

V, (175.) George I. Evans, of Emerson, Ohio, son of Jonathan
and Elizabeth, b. at Gwynedd, 8th mo. 31, 1812, m. ist,

igo HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

1834, Sarah Griffith (b. 18 14, d. 1846), dau. of Evan and
Elizabeth, of Mt. Pleasant, O. ; 2d, 1848, Mary P. Rich-
ards (b, 1 8 10, d. 1876), dau. of Samuel and Ann, of Mt.
Pleasant. George removed from Gwynedd to Ohio in 1830.
He d. at Emerson, O., 4th mo. 2, 1886, "after a short ill-
ness."

VI. Children of George I. and Sarah :

234. Elizabeth E., b. 1835, n^- 1853, John Scott ; and has issue.

235. Julia A., b. 1837, m. 1859, Thos. McMillan.

236. Evan G., b. 1840, m. 1862, Rebecca Craft, dau. William and
Rachel, and has issue : Arthur W., George M., Sarah E., Ellery
Channing.

237. Sarah E., b. 1842, d. 1863.

238. Mary A., b. 1844, m. 1870, Geo. W. Michener.

Children of George I and Mary :

239. Hannah J., b. 1849.

V. (176.) Caleb Evans, of Bucks Co., Pa., son of Jonathan
and Elizabeth, b. 4th mo. 8, 181 5, m. 4th mo. 26, 1837,
Sarah C. Black (b. 3d. mo. 15, 18 18).

VI Children of Caleb and Sarah :

240. Wilson C, b. ist mo. 23, 1838, m. 9th mo. i, 1870, Mary Jane
Lande (b. 4th mo. 6, 1848), and has issue: Adah S., b. 1871,
Stanley C, b. 1873, Emma D. b. 1877.

241. Mary Emma, b. nth mo. 19, 1848, m. 9th mo. 19, 1872,
Edward R. Doan, of Carversville, Bucks Co., and has issue.

V. (177.) William R. Evans, of Carversville, Bucks Co., son
of Jonathan and Elizabeth, b. 9th mo. 19, 18 17, m., ist,
loth mo. 16, 1839, Mary W. Allen (d. 7th mo. 17, 1842) ;
2d, loth mo. 15, 1846, Martha S. Carr (b. 4th mo. 25,
1822). By his first wife he had no children.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 19I

VL Children of Williajn R. and Martha :

242. Mary W., b. 8th mo. i, 1847, m. Joseph Roberts; son of Charles
and Sarah, of Upper Dublin. (See Roberts Genealogy).

243. Macre J., b. nth mo. 5, 1850, m. 9th mo. 19, 1872, William H.
Robinson ; and has issue.

244. Anna H., b. 1853, d. 1857.

245. Willett D., b. nth mo. 28, 1855.

246. Howard P., b. 4th mo. 28, i860.

V. (190.) Edmund Cadwalader Evans, M. D., son of Cadvval-
ader and Harriet V., b. at Gwynedd, August 12, 18 12. He
graduated at the Univ. of Penna., studied medicine, took
his degree of M. D., and practiced his profession near Paoli,
in Tredyffrin, Chester Co., for several years. Later, he re-
sided near West Chester, but in 1865 removed to Lower
Merion, in his native county, near the original home of his
ancestor Rowland Ellis. He d. May 10, 1881. He m.
April 17, 1844, Mary Louisa Allen, dau. of Rev. Benja-
min Allen, of Hyde Park, N. Y. She d. 1861. Four
children d. in infancy ; their survivors are here given.

VL Children of Edmund C. and Mary Louisa :

247. Rowland, b. July 12, 1847, in Tredyffrin ; now a member of the
Philadelphia bar, residing in Lower Merion ; he m., 1878, Mary
Binney Montgomery, dau. of Richard R. Montgomery, Esq., of
Philadelphia, and has issue : Edmund C, Elizabeth Binney,
AHce, Mary, Essyllt.

248. Allen, b. Dec. 8, 1849, in Tredyffrin ; an architect in Philadel-
phia ; resides in Lower Merion. He m. 1876, Rebecca Lewis,
dau. of John T. Lewis, Esq., of Philadelphia, and has issue :
Mary Allen, John Lewis, Margaret Eleanor.

V. (191.) William Elbert Evans, son of Cadwalader and
Harriet V., b. in Philadelphia, 18 16, where he resided all his
life. He m. ist, Anna Smith, dau, of Jacob Smith, Esq., of

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Philadelphia, and 2d, Emma Fotterall, dau. of William
Fotterall, Esq., who survives, without issue. William E.
d. 1869. His children, besides others who d. in infancy,
were two in number.

VI. Children of William E. and Anna :

249. Emily, m. John Henry Livingston, of Dutchess co., N. Y.

250. Glendower, graduated with distinction at Harvard University, d.
at Boston, 1886, member of the bar in Boston, Mass. ; m. Bessy,
dau. of Edward Gardiner, Esq., of Boston.

V. (193.) Manlius Glendower Evans, son of Cadwalader and
Harriet V., b. in Philadelphia, 1821, and resided there most
of his life ; m. Ellen Kuhn, dau. of Hartman Kuhn, Esq.,
of Philadelphia. In 1870 he removed to New York, and in
1875 went to Europe for his health, where he continued to
reside until his death, in 1879. He left four children,
besides others who d. young. His wife survives.

VI. Children of Manlius G. and Ellen :

251. Cadwalader, b. 1847, in Philadelphia, d. in New York, 1880, m.
AngeUna B., dau. of Israel Corse, Esq., of New York, and has
issue : Lena and Edith Wharton.

252. Ellen Lyle, m. Alfred T. Mahan, Commander U. S. N., and had
issue : Helen Evans, Ellen Kuhn, Lyle Evans.

253. Rosalie, unm., resides with her mother in N. Y.

254. Hartman Kuhn, b. in Philada. in i860, unm. Returning to the
United States, after the death of his father, he engaged in sheep
ranching in Wyoming Territory [now State].

VI. (221^.) Jacob Evans, son of Jacob H. and Margaret, b.
Oct. II, 1795, m. 1816, Ann Hall, and had three children.

VII. Children of Jacob and Ann :

255. Elizabeth, b. 1818. d. 1820.

EVANS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 193

256. George Oliver, born April 3, 1821, d. June 3, 1875, m. Jan. 17,
1849, Martha J. McMullen, and had issue :

1. Agnes, b. Oct. 26, 1849, m. Oct. 12, 1875, Clarkson Clothier and has issue,

surname Clothier: one, d. in infancy, 1878; Marion, b May 12, 1879;
Edith, b. June 7, 1881 ; Florence, b. March 22, 1883, d. Oct. 2, 1888 ;
Robert Clarkson, b. Jan. 8, 1885.

2. Edith, b. May 3, 1851.

3. Howard Malcolm, b. Feb. 16, 1854, d. Sept. 11, 1884.

4. Elliot, b. Nov. 19, 1857, m. Feb. 20, 1884, Sarah Muntzer.

5. Marion, b. Aug. 9, 1863, d. Nov. 31, 1894.

257. Mary, b. April 5, 1824, d. Dec, 1891.

The records of Gwynedd, Haverford, and Philadelphia meet-
ings, the will lists in the Registers' ofifices at Philadelphia and
Norristown, and other documents, supply mai;iy names of per-
sons surnamed Evans, who, it is probable, should have been in-
cluded in this chapter, at one place or another. I have preferred,
however, not to build up with materials which I could not regard
as fairly certain. I therefore present, below, a list of some
who should probably have been included, leaving it to some
one interested in completer work to search out the proper con-
nection :

1. Joseph M. Evans, d. about 1830, in Gwynedd. Andrew Ambler

was executor of his estate. In a bond given him in 1829, by
Cadwallader Foulke, he is described as "of Gwynedd, gentle-
man." (Was he the son of Hugh? and heir, with his brother
Thomas, of what is now the Rhoads farm, on Swedes Ford road .'')

2. Edward Evans, of Philadelphia, a prominent man there, who d.

lothmo. 13, 1771, (Friends' m. records), may have been Edward,
"of South street" (No. 67 in Genealogy), son of Evan. The
meeting records also show the marriage of Edward Evans, of
Philadelphia, and Rebecca Clark, dau. of William, dec'd, at
Philad'a mtg., 3d mo. 5, 1757 ; and that Rebecca, "widow of
Edward," d. 1st mo. i, 1785, aged " about 80 years."

3. The MS. family record preserved by Hannah Evans, Moorestown,

N. J., says that Edward Evans, who lived about 1800 or 1808 at

194 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

s. e. corner of 4th and Vine Sts., Philad'a, was grandson or great-
grandson of Robert, of Gwynedd, the first settler.

4. The Gwynedd Records show the following births :

Children of Hugh and Mary Evans :

Evan, b. ist mo. 16, 1717.
Robert, b. 7th mo. i, 1719.
John, b. 2d mo. 2, 1721.

Children of George and Susanna Evans :
Daniel, b. 2d mo. 3, 1752.

Amos, b. loth mo. 17, 1754, d. loth mo. 12, 1759.
Anne,b. 2d mo. 12, 1757, d. 9th mo. 30, 1759.
William, b. 9th mo. 4, 1759.

Children of Samuel a7td Lydia Evans :
Mary, b. 2d mo. 8, 17S4, d. loth mo. i, 1827.
Owen, b. 7th mo. 15, 1756, d. 8th mo. 24, 1820. (Whitpain.)
Rees, b. 12th mo. 4, 1758.
Ruth, b. sth mo. 7, 1762.

Children of Jehu and Mary Evans :
Ehzabeth, b. Sth mo. 28, 1762.
Sarah, b. 8th mo. 6th, 1777, d. 3d mo. 8, 1786.
Phebe, b. 3d mo. 3, 1782.
Jehu, b. 3d mo. 2, 1787.

5. Gwynedd records also give these deaths :

Mary, d. 5th mo. 16, 174S, wife of Robert.

Mary (Worcester), d. 3d mo. 28, 1802, dau. Thos. and Elizabeth. (This was

probably No, 75 in the Genealogy.)

Elizabeth (Worcester), d. 9th mo. 13, 1841, aged 82 yrs., 6 mos.

6. Haverford records show the births and deaths of numerous Evanses,

among them six children (i 747-1 759) of John and Sarah ; one
(1761) of Griffith and Hannah ; one (1785) of David and Elinor.
Other Evans parents mentioned are John and Mary, and David
and Adah. The records of Haverford show that in 1749, Nathan
Evans removed there from Gwynedd; in 1756, Nathan Evans
and wife removed to Gwynedd ; in 1752, Hugh Evans came from
Gwynedd.

7. The Philadelphia records show births (i 772-1 780) of three children

of Evan and Mary Evans ; also, among others, the following
deaths :

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Joseph, d. loth mo. 5, 1779, aged 34.

David, d. nth mo. 20th, 1783, aged 40.

Elizabeth, 'd. 4th mo. 28, 1788, wife of Benjamin.

Evan, d. 6th mo. 23, 1793, aged 45.

Benjamin, d. ist mo. 5, 1793, aged 41.

Ann, d. 9th mo. 17, 1793, aged 25.

Mary, d. loth mo. 13, 1793, aged 40.

Susanna, d. 9th mo. 22, 1799, aged 15, dau. of Edward.

Lydia, d. 4th mo. 11, 1800, aged 85, of Radnor.

Ann, d. 12th mo. 20, 1802, aged 17, dau. of Benj'n dec'd.

Francis, d. gth mo. 20, 1807, aged 27 [son Evan and Mary].

Jacob, d. 2d mo. 5, 1807, aged 35 [son Evan and Mary].

Joshua, d 2d mo. 11, 1771, aged 25.

Thomas, d. Sth mo. 26, 1771, aged 56.

Thomas, d. 4th mo. 16, 1778, aged 30.

John Evans, yeoman, who was in Davidson Co., North Carolina, in
1790. gave a power of attorney to John Roberts and Christian
Dull, of Gwynedd, to collect rents from sixty acres of land in Upper
Dublin, which had descended to him "as eldest brother and heir
at -law " of David Evans.

David Evans, of Philadelphia, gentleman, "being aged and infirm
of Body," made his will Sept. 27, 1745. He mentions his wife
Elizabeth, his brother-in-law, John Owen, of Chester county, the
six children of his daughters Susanna and Margaret, "whom I
had by a former wife," and his four children by his present wife,
Evan, Rebecca, Sidney, and Sarah. He appoints Evan Jones, of
Merion, son of Thomas, dec'd ; Owen Jones, of Philadelphia, and
John Owen, guardians and overseers. Elizabeth was the dau. of
Robert and Jane Owen, of Merion. Her (and David's) son Evan
" was the father of David Evans, joiner, who lived in Arch street,
between 6th and 7th." Their daughter Sarah, " spinister," made
her will July 14, 1762, and it was proved December 21 of that
year. She makes bequests to her sister Sydney Howell, wife of
Joseph Howell, and to the children of her brother Evan, dec'd,
Sidney, David, and Rebecca, the last two minors. (Philad'a
meeting records show the marriage of Joseph Howell, of Phila-
delphia, tanner, son of Jacob (and Sarah, dec'd), of New Garden,
Chester Co., and Sydna [Sydney] Evans, dau. of David, of said
city of Philadelphia, m. 4th mo. 26, 1759.)

XIV.

Roberts Family Genealogy.

TT is designed in this chapter to give systematically what is
^ known concerning the descendants of Robert Cadwalader,
of Wales, whose children, in the Welsh manner, took the sur-
name Robert, subsequently changed to Roberts. His sons were
Cadwalader, Morris, Nicholas, John, and Rowland, and he had
one daughter, Elizabeth. All these, as well as their father, were
in Gwynedd or Montgomery, within a few years after the earliest
company of settlers. They came, there is good evidence to
prove, from Bala, in Merionethshire ; the journal of an English
Friend, mentioning Rowland Roberts's religious visit, speaks of
Bala as his birthplace.

Cadwalader is said to have come with the first settlers in
1698, and there is reason to believe that he was accompanied by
Morris. That they were among the company on the Robert and
Elizabeth is not certain, but the family tradition is that upon the
ship which brought them there was much sickness, and that
Cadwalader, who was noted for his kind and benevolent
character, was active in assisting those who were ill.^ Sub-
sequently, the father, Robert Cadwalader, came over with his
wife, and their other children : Nicholas, John, Rowland, and
Elizabeth. Some of them, certainly John, settled first near
Philadelphia, in Oxford township, but all of them had located

1 The definite statement is ascribed to George Roberts, of Gwynedd (No. 58 in
this Genealogy), that Cadwalader "came over in company with Edward Foulke and
Cadwalader Evans " — i.e. on the Robert and Elizabeth, with the original company.

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ROBERTS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 1 97

in Gwynedd or Montgomery, within a few years after the first
settlement. An old account book of Ellis Roberts, of Gwynedd,
tailor (not of this family), shows that Morris Roberts bought
buttons (Ellis spells it " butnes ") of him, in the 9th mo., 1 704,
and that he had other dealings with Nicholas Roberts, as early
as the 5th mo., 1705. Cadwalader's name appears as witness,
on a marriage certificate, 3d month 22, 1699. He bought land
of Robert John in 17 10, and his name is on the subscription
paper for building the new meeting-house of 17 12, — the
subscriptions for the purpose being raised in 1710— 1 1.

The parents, Robert Cadwalader and his wife, were old peo-
ple when they came, and did not long survive. In the marriage
certificate of their daughter Elizabeth, and Daniel Morgan, in
9th rno., 1718, Robert is spoken of as " late of Gwynedd," show-
ing his death to have occurred previous to that time.

It is the tradition that none of the family were Friends at the
time of their immigration, but if not, they soon joined the Society.
John was married according to the order of Friends in 1 706 ;
Rowland in like manner, in 1713 ; Cadwalader, in 17 14;
Nicholas, in 1717 ; and Morris and EUzabeth, in 171 8. Rowland
was a minister among the Friends, and so also was Elizabeth, as
well as her husband, Daniel Morgan.

Genealogical Sketch.

[The general plan of this Genealogy is precisely the same as that preceding,
in Chap. XIII. See details in Note, on p. 150 ]

I. (i.) Robert Cadwalader, a man advanced in years, from one
of the northern counties in Wales, immigrated wath his wife
(whose name is not definitely ascertained) and three sons
and a daughter (two sons having previously come), and
settled about 1700, at Gwynedd. Both he and his wife sur-
vived their removal but a few years.

198 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

II. Children of Robert Cadwalader — {surtiame Roberts) :

2. Cadwalader, b. 1673, d. 1731, m. Eleanor Ellis. ^

3. Morris, m. Elizabeth Robeson. ^

4. Nicholas, d. 1733, m. Margaret Foulke. ^

5. John, d. 1772, m. Elizabeth Edward. ^

6. Rowland, b. 1685, d. 1749, m. Mary Pugh, Ann Bennett. ^

7. Elizabeth, m. 9th mo. 21, I7if5, Daniel Morgan, son of Edward.

Both she and her husband were ministers in the Society of Friends.
There is a manuscript memorial of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting
concerning Elizabeth, which says she visited most of the meetings
of Friends in Pennsylvania, and some of the adjacent colonies.
In 1744-46, in company with Susanna Morris, she visited most of
the meetings in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. In 1754
she was granted a certificate to visit Barbadoes and Tortola.
' ' Her gift was savoury and edifying, until prevented from attending
meetings by a fall from a horse and the infirmity of age. The day
before her death she prayed that the Lord would put an end to sin
and finish transgression in our land, and in the room thereof would
bring in everlasting righteousness and peace." She died nth
mo. 14, 1777, in her 88th year. Daniel d. at an advanced age,
^773- Their children were Benjamin, b. 1719, m. 1744, Sarah
Davis ; Ruth, b. 3d mo. 15, 172 1, m., 1746, Nathan Evans,
Moses Peters. (See Evans Genealogy.)

II. (2.) Cadwalader Roberts, eldest son of Robert Cadwala-
der, b. in Wales, in 1673, immigrated, probably, in 1698, and
settled in Gwynedd. In 17 10, he bought land, 140 acres, of
Robert John, on or closely adjoining the site of the borough
of North Wales. ^ All the accounts and traditions describe
him as a man highly esteemed for his benevolence. He m.,
4th mo. 9, 1 7 14, Eleanor Ellis (b. 8th mo. 17, 1693), dau.
of Humphrey and Jane Ellis, of Merion (she is called in the

1 A memorandum upon a copy of the poem given below says : " His residence was
on the North Wales road, about two miles above Gwynedd meeting-house, east side,
since occupied by Everard Bolton, H. Beaver, Dr. Meredith, and others."

ROBERTS FAMILY GENEALOGY. IQQ

marriage certificate Ellin Humphrey),' and he (Cadwalader)
d. 3d mo. 7, 1 73 1, of small-pox at Gwynedd.^ His estate
was settled by his widow, as administratrix, letters being
issued to her, dated May 31, 1731. Eleanor m. a second
time, Rowland Hugh, of Gwynedd, and d. 1755.

1 The wedding took place at Rowland Ellis's house, in Merion, afterward the resi-
dence of Charles Thomson, Sec. of the Continental Congress.

' The following poem on the death of C. R. is doubtless the earliest specimen of
verse relating to Gwynedd. Its internal evidence shows that it must have been written
soon alter the death of C. R., in 1731. The poet is otherwise unknown.

Verses written on Cadwalader Roberts, who died in Gwynedd, in
1731. By Robert Simmons, Poet.

{Drawn out of the Old, by Cadwalader Roberts, Jr.,jd mo. jo, 1767. )

You Christians all of North Wales hark with speed,
I have a line or two for you to read,
Ponder them o'er, consider well your state
Before you come unto your God so great.

These lines I send you as a pattern given.

That you may know the way that leads to Heaven.

Follow the steps of him that's gone before :

Do you but this, you need not do no more.

Cadwalader Roberts, who was a man of fame,
Well known in town and country by his name,
Who lived to the age of sixty, lacking two, —
But now his death severely we shall [rue ?]

On May the seventh he resign'd his breath.
And on the ninth he was laid under the earth.
It was in the year of our Lord alone.
One thousand seven hundred and thirty one.

A loving husband and a father dear.

Thou wast unto thy wife and children fair,

O, thou art gone who would have been their stay.

Which did prove to them a mournful day.

Thy brothers all which are in number four.
Each day thy death they sorely do deplore.
A.1so, thy only sister, whom thou so dearly loved.

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Ill Children of Cadivalader and Eleanor :

8. Rebecca, b. 3d mo. 14, 1715. m. nth mo. 13, 1735-36, d. 12th mo.,

1795 ; m. William Erwin, and had issue, surname Erwin : Cadwal-
ader ; William, Ellen, m. Conrad Hoover, and had issue ; Sarah,
Francis, William, Elizabeth, Robert, Jane, and John, m. Hannah
Magargey.

9. Robert, b. 1719, d. 1760, m. Sarah Ambler. ^

II. (3.) Morris Roberts, son of Robert Cadwalader, b. in
Wales, immigrated, probably with his brother Cadwalader,
about 1698, settled in Gwynedd (where he was, from the
entries in Ellis Roberts's mem. book, as early as 1704), m. 2d
mo. 18, 1718, Elizabeth Robeson, of Abington, In 1734,
he applied to Gwynedd monthly meeting for a certificate to
remove to North Carolina, and probably went there.

///. Children of Morris and Elizabeth :

10. Susanna, m. Jacob Zimmerman, 3d mo. 22, 1754, and had issue.

With grief of heart each day for thee she's moved.
Thy friends and neighbors all are grieved in heart,
Since cruel death did thee and them impart.

Thou charitable was unto the poor,
Nor didst thou let any pass by thy door,
But some relief unto them did give,
In money or in meat, while thou did live.

It is enough to pierce the ardent skies,

To hear the lamentable moans and cries,

Of the poor for their great loss so sore,

Say : " Blest Cadwalader we shall see no more."

All people of North Wales weep and lament,

Since the days of our great friend are spent.

For few like him is there now left behind,

So low, so meek, so courteous, and so kind,

In entertaining friends, and strangers too,

But now they are crying : " Lord, what shall we do ? "

ROBERTS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 20I

11. Hannah, m., about 1746, William Howe, "and moved to back
country."

12. Sophia, m.. nth mo., 1753, John Cadwalader, and had issue:
John, b. 1755; Elizabeth, b. 1760. The parents removed to
Oley, and from there John, jr., rem. to Virginia, about 1786.

13. Lydia, m. Joseph Jones, "and moved back," probably to Pike-
land, Chester Co., Pa.

14. Morris, d. young.

15. Nehemiah, d. at "Squire" Job Roberts's, 7th mo., 1802. (He is
said to have been mentally impaired.)

II. (4.) Nicholas Roberts, son of Robert Cadwalader, d. 1733,
immigrated from Wales with his parents, m. Margaret
FouLKE, dau. of Edward, of Gwynedd. (See Foulke Gene-
alogy.) His estate was settled by Evan Foulke and John
Roberts, administrators, to whom letters of administration
were issued, April 14, 1733.

///. Children of Nicholas and Margaret :

16. Jane, b. 1718, d. 1790, m. 8th mo. 20, 1741, David Morris, son of
Cadwalader, of Philadelphia ; and had issue 5 children : Eliza-
beth, Nicholas, Eleanor, Edward, Jane. (Elizabeth m. David
Jackson. Jane m. Abiah Cope, of Chester county, from whom are
numerous members of the Cope family.)

17. Ellen, b. 1720, m. 6th mo. 27, 1757, John Siddons, and had issue.

18. Ehzabeth, b. 6th mo. 11, 1723, d. 5th mo. 29, 1790, m. 4th mo.

12, 1743, David Humphrey, of Gwynedd, son of Robert and
Margaret, and had issue eight children. They removed south, to
Maryland, and had many descendants in Baltimore, and else-
where, surname Dukehart, Riley, Pope, Fowler, Jones, Daven-
port, Roberts, Ball, Balderson, Matthews, etc.

II. (5.) John Roberts, of Montgomery, son of Robert Cadwal-
ader, b. abt. 1677, d. 1773, immigrated, from Wales, with his
parents. He settled, first, in Oxford twp. , near Philadelphia,
and while there m. 6th mo. 7, 1 706, Elizabeth Edward, of

202 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Merion. He subsequently removed to Montgomery, and his
name is attached in 1 7 1 1 to a petition of Gwynedd and Mont-
gomery residents for the legal settling of the route of a road
to the mills on Pennypack. (See chapter, post, on Early
Roads.) His will, dated 5th mo. 15, 1763, was proved Sept.
30, 1773. He leaves his grandson, John Jones, a tract, 100
acres, "where he now liveth," in Montgomery, subject to a
payment to his (John's) brother, Evan ; his son John Rob-
erts, a tract, 162 acres, adjoining the above and lands of
Isaac Jones ; he mentions his grandson John Roberts ; he
leaves his dau. Elizabeth Blair, bed. furniture, etc., and re-
mission of " all bonds, bills, notes, and book debts contracted
or entered into by her former husband, John Jones, or by
herself within the time of her widowhood." To his grand-
daughter, Jane McKinley, he leaves an obligation given him
by John McKinley. He leaves £^ " to the Hospital in Phil-
adelphia," and to his dau. Elizabeth Blair an annuity of £2
los., but this to cease, " if the place she formerly lived on
comes to her possession again." He mentions his grand-
children (some of them minors), Elizabeth, Ruth, Sarah Ann,
Jane, Margaret, and Job Roberts ; Margaret, Ellinor, and
Ann Jones ; and Jonathan Blair. As will be nodced from
the dates of his birth and death, John lived to be over ninety
years of age.^

///. Children of John and Elizabeth :

19. Elizabeth, b. 6th mo. 15, 1707, m. ist, John Jones, ^ by whom she
had issue : Jane, m. John McKinley ; John, Mordecai, Evan,

1 His son John (No. 22) d. at 86 years ; and his grandsons, John (33) and Job (40)
d at 84 and 94 respectively.

2 From this marriage descended a considerable family, of whom Mordecai Jones,
now [1884] and for many years living on the turnpike near the Treweryn bridge, is
presumed to be one.

ROBERTS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 203

Margaret, Ellen. Ann ; and 2d (earlier than 1763), John Blair, by
whom she had issue : Jonathan.

20. Mordecai.b. 1709, d. 1745.

21. James. [Jane ?]

22. John, b. 1714, d. 1801, m. Jane Hank, Eleanor Williams. ^

II. (6) Rowland Roberts, of Montgomery, fifth son of Robert
Cadwalader, b. 1685, at Bala, Wales, d. 7th m. 22, 1749 ; im-
migrated with his father, m. ist, 3d mo. i, 1713, Mary Pugh,
eldest dau. of Robert and Sarah, of Gwynedd (see Evans
Genealogy); and 2d, Ann Bennett, widow, of Abington.
Rowland was a preacher amongst the Friends. A short
memorial of him, by Gwynedd monthly meeting, in the John
Smith MS. collection, says : " He received a gift in the minis-
try, and visited his native country in the service of truth,
and returned with certificates giving a good account of his
services there. Altho' he was not of ready utterance, yet
his matter was often weighty and instructive, savoring of
love and good-will to mankind." Ann, his wife, was also a
preacher, and is referred to in this volume (p. 91). Row-
land seems to have been an energetic and substantial busi-
ness man. His will shows that, prior to 1749, he had es-
tablished a tavern in Montgomery. It is dated 7th mo. 12,
of that year, and was probated Oct. 10. He leaves to his
" daughter-in-law " Hannah Jones, two small lots of land,
" part of the tract I now live on ; one on the west side of the
great road, over against the tavern erected on my said prem-
ises, taking all the land appertaining to me on the said side
of the great road ; " and the other situated between another
road and Joseph Ambler's house ; " provided always, and I
do hereby direct that neither the said Hannah nor any other
person claiming under her shall at any time hereafter erect
and set up a tavern in opposition to the one that is already

204 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

on my premises, while it continues in my family unsold."
He mentions also Mary Davis, another " daughter-in-law,"
his son-in-law James Williams, to whom he leaves " one dun
filly, according to my promise by word of mouth ; " and
makes provision for his dear wife, Anne Roberts, who is to
have the right to occupy during her life -time "the old house
where we now live." His son Eldad is appointed executor,
and is left, besides other property, " all the plantation and
tract of land where I now live."

///. Children of Rowland and Mary :

23. Eldad, b. 1713, d. 1789, m. Elizabeth Mitchell, Jane Jones. ^

24. Sarah, b. nth mo. 13, 1715.

III. (9.) Robert Roberts, carpenter, of Gwynedd, son of Cad-
walader, b. loth mo. 18, 17 19, d. 1760, bu. at Gwynedd, m.
nth mo. II, 1742, Sarah Ambler (b. 5th mo. 25, 1721),
dau. of Joseph and Ann. (Joseph was a wheelwright ; his
wife, Ann, was a Williams, before marriage ; they were
married in 1720.) Robert's will is dated 8th mo. 14, and
was proved loth mo. 29, 1760. He leaves to his dau. Ellen,
a lot of 15 acres, in Gwynedd, part of a lot of 25 acres, "to
be divided off the west end thereof, next to Wissahickon
creek," and orders his executor, his brother-in-law, Edward
Ambler, to sell the remainder of his property, about 50
acres. He names his children, Cadwalader, Joseph, Ann,
Mary and Hannah. His widow, Sarah, survived until 4th
mo. 22, 1796, and d. of palsy.

IV. Children of Robert and Sarah :

25. Cadwalader, b. 1743, d. 1816, m. Mary Shoemaker. ^

26. Ann, b. 1745, d. 1823, m. Hugh Foulke, and had issue. (See

Foulke Genealogy.)

27. Joseph, b. 1747, d, 1799, m. Sarah Shoemaker, Mercy Pickering. ^

ROBERTS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 205

28. Ellen, b. ist mo. 15, 1749, d. 2d mo. 25, 1827, unm.

29. Rebecca, b. 1752, d. same year.

30. Mary, b. 1753, d. 1825, m. Jacob Albertson, of Cheltenham, and
had issue : Hannah, m. Jesse Williams ; Rebecca ; Josiah, m.
Alice T. Maulsby ; Jacob, m. Martha Livezey ^ ; Benjamin, m.
Amy Haines' ; Rebecca, m. George Shoemaker.

31. Hannah, b. 4th mo. 5, 1756, d. 9th mo. 27, 1825, m. Samuel
Thomas, son of John ; d. without issue.

III. (22.) John Roberts, of Whitpain, son of John and Eliza-
beth, b. 5th mo. 28, 1714, d. loth mo. 4, 1801,^ m. ist, 3d
mo. 13, 1736, Jane Hank, dau. of John and Sarah ; 2d, loth
mo. II, 1764, Eleanor Williams, dau. of Thomas. (Jane
b. 1 7 14, d. 1762; Eleanor d. 1796.)

IV. Children of John and Jane :

32. Cadwalader, b. ist mo. 6, 1737, d. ist mo, 16, 1748.

33. John, b. 1738, d. 1824, m. Elizabeth Cleaver. ^

34. Elizabeth, b. 1740, d. 1794, m. Thomas Evans. (See Evans
Genealogy).

35. Ruth, b. 3d mo. 28, 1743, d. 12th mo. 26, 1820, m. 5th mo. 24,
1768, Nathan Cleaver, son of Peter and EHzabeth, of Upper
Dublin ; and had issue 5 children : Phebe, m. Amos Griffith ;
David ; Jonathan, m. Nancy Jones ; Nathan, m. Martha Shoe-
maker ; Salathiel, m. Mary Shoemaker.

36. Sarah, b. 7th mo. 17, 1745, d. 9th mo. 1837, unm.

37. Ann, b. 2d mo. 14, 1748, d. loth mo. 15, 1808, m. 4th mo. 21,

1774, Morgan Morgan ; and had issue 7 children : Benjamin, m.
Tacy Stroud ; Elizabeth ; Sarah, m. Issachar Kenderdine ; Mor-
gan, m. Ann Custer; Ann, m. John Ambler ; David, m. Sarah
Kenderdine ; Mary.

ij. Morton Albertson, Norristown, b. 1826, m. Sarah P. Lee, was son of Jacob
and Martha.

2 Charles Albertson, Philadelphia, b. 1833, m. Mercie Eastburn, was son of Benjamin
and Amy.

2 Cadwalader Foulke, recording his death (see p. 141 1, calls him "John Roberts
Cadwalader," showing the persistency with which the Welsh names were maintained,
in some cases.

2o6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

38. Jane, b. 3d mo. i, 1751, d. loth mo. 31, 1821, m. loth mo. 22,
1778, David Shoemaker, and had issue 5 children: Ellen, m.
Jonathan Taylor ; Margaret, m. Ezra Comfort, of Plymouth,
preacher (b. 1777, d. 1847) ; John, d. in childhood ; Ann, m.
Cadwalader Foulke (see Foulke Genealogy) ; Mary, m. John
Jones.
39. Mary, b. nth mo. 5, 1753, d. 9th mo. 23, 1786, m. 6th mo. 17,
1777, Wilham Hallowell, son of Joseph, of Whitemarsh ; and
had issue 5 children : John, m. Alice Potts ; Job, m. Hannah
Thomas ; Sarah, m. Samuel Conrad ; William, m. Catharine
Shoemaker and Jane Richards (born Walker) ; and one child, d,
in infancy.

40. Job, b. 1757, d. 1851, m. Mary Naylor. Sarah Thomas. ^

41. Jonah, b. 1760, d. 1761.

IV. Child of John by 2d wife, Eleanor :

42. Eleanor, b. 2d mo. 25, 1768, d. loth mo. i, 1812, m. loth mo. 15,

1793, Richard Shoemaker, son of Ezekiel and Hannah, and had
issue 5 children : John R. ; Hannah, m. Isaac W. Moore ; Job R. ;
Ann, m. John Shay ; Charles.

III. (23.) Eldad Roberts, of Montgomery, son of Rowland
and Mary, b. 12th mo. 19, 171 3, d. 1789, m. ist, 1747,
Elizabeth Mitchell, dau. of Richard, of Wrightstown,
Bucks Co. (the marriage " very disagreeable to our disci-
pline," says a minute of Gwynedd monthly meeting, —
though all parties appear to have been Friends). Elizabeth
d. 5th mo. 1760, and Eldad m. 2d. loth mo. 18, 1763,
Jane Jones, dau. of Isaac, of Montgomery. By each wife
Eldad had two children. His will, dated ist mo. 29, 1789,
was probated March 26 of the same year, at Norristown.
He gives his wife Jane all household goods, furniture, etc.,
"that she brought to me," and ;i^20 a year "in gold or
silver." To his son Mordecai he leaves ^^"250 "in current
gold," also his desk and silver watch ; to his dau. Elizabeth

ROBERTS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 207

Mullen ;^I20, and his dau. Mary Roberts ^^150. To his
son John (afterwards "Squire" John), "the plantation
where I live," in Montgomery, 200 acres, also the residuary
personal estate, and he to be executor of the will.

IV. Children of Eldad and Elizabetli :

43. John, b. 1750, d. 1823, unm. — See biographical sketch, and
other details, elsewhere in this volume.

44. Mordecai, b. 1753, m. Ellen Decker. P

Children of Eldad and Jane :

45. Elizabeth, b. 7th mo. 30, 1764, d. about 1818, m. about 1787,
Isaiah Mullen, and moved to New Garden, Chester Co. ; had issue :
Jane, m. Jacob Whiteman, of White Clay Creek, Del. ; Charles,
m. Isabella Woodhouse ; Mary, m. Alexander Torbert ; Amy ;
John ; Isaiah, m. Mary Ann C. Boyd, and went to Michigan.

46. Mary, b. 3d mo. 23, 1766, d. ist mo. 1859 (bu. at Gwynedd, ist
mo. 18). She lived with her uncle, Isaac Jones (usually called
Isaac, Senior, though he was himself the son of Isaac), of Mont-
gomery, and is elsewhere mentioned.

IV. (25.) Cadwalader Roberts, of Montgomery, farmer, son
of Robert and Sarah, b. loth mo. 18, 1743, d. 2d mo. 7,
1 8 16, m. 5th mo. 24, 1768, Mary Shoemaker, dau. of
Richard and Ann. (Mary b. 3d mo. 14, 1744, d. 12th mo.
23, I795-)

V. Children of Cadwalader attd Mary :

47. Edward, b. 1771, d. 1850, m. Rebecca PhilUps. ^

48. Ezekiel, b. 1775, d. 1856, m. Ann Doyle. ^

49. Cadwalader, b. 1777, d. 1871, m. Ehzabeth Evans. ^

50. Joseph, b. 1779, d. 1859, m. Elizabeth Rubencamp. ^

51. Richard, b. 1782, d. i860, m. Mary Scott. ^

52. Agnes, b. 9th mo. 28, 1783, d. 3d mo. 29, 1872, m. Caleb Evans.
(See Evans Genealogy.)

2o8 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

53. Mary, b. 12th mo. 23, 1786, d. 8th mo. 2, 1830, m. 4th mo. 12,
1808, Edward Spencer, son of Job and Hannah, of Horsham ;
and had issue 2 children : Cadvvalader R. ; and Agnes S., m.
Josiah E. Willis.

IV. (27.) Joseph Roberts, of Montgomery, son of Robert and
Sarah, b. 6th mo. 27, 1747, d. ist mo. 12, 1799. He is
called " cordwainer " in a deed, 1769, when he bought of
Henry McQuoin a farm on the Horsham road (known in
later years as " White Cottage Farm "), in Montgomery.
He was known as a man of unusual physical strength, but d.
comparatively young, the tradition being that he injured
himself by excessive effort, such as lifting a wagon, and
removing a fallen tree from the road. He was twice
married: ist, 5th mo. 22, 1770, to Sarah Shoemaker (b.
6th mo. 30, 1748, d. 9th mo. 4th, 1771), dau. of Richard
and Agnes; and 2d, 5th mo. 11, 1774, to Mercy Picker-
ing, dau. of Isaac and Sarah, ^ of Solebury, Bucks Co.
Mercy, b. 8th mo. 27, 1745, survived her husband thirty
years, continuing the charge of her farm in her advanced
age. (A note in the memorandum book of her son Joseph
(No. ^^^ says: "8th mo. 27, 1825. — This day my mother
is 80 years old. She attends entirely to the affairs of the
family, such as getting meals, making bread, etc. She got
dinner for Israel Lancaster and Isaiah Jones [visitors] , and
for Hugh and myself." Again "8th mo. 27, 1826. — At

1 Sarah Pickering was the dau. of Joseph Lupton, the elder, a weaver by occupa-
tion, and a man of good education, who came from Yorkshire, England, and settled in
Bucks county. He m., ist, Mercy Twining, from near Newtown, and 2d, Mary Picker-
ing (b. Scarborough, widow Samuel, who came from England), and after this second
marriage removed to Virginia. William, Samuel, and Grace Pickering, Mary's child-
ren, also removed there. Grace Pickering m. in Virginia William Lupton, and lived
in Frederick Co., in 1787, and their son Asa [or Asahel?], b. 1757, m. 1787, Hannah
Hank, dau. of John, of Rockingham Co., Va., of the same family, probably, as Presi-
dent Lincoln's mother and the Hanks mentioned in the Evans Genealogy, in this
volume.

ROBERTS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 20g

mother's. This day she was 8i years old. She attended to
the affairs of the family, as usual ; health good, recollection
sound.") Mercy d. of palsy, 2d mo. 14, 1829.^

1 In the volumes of Penna. Archives and Colo?iial Records, will be found details of
a trying experience in Joseph's life. Petitions were presented to the Supreme Execu-
tive Council of the State in January and March, 1783, asking the remission of a fine of
^150 imposed upon Joseph Roberts, of Montgomery township, cordwainer. He had
been convicted of a " misdemeanor," at a preceding Court of Oyer and Terminer, his
offence being, as charged, " aiding British prisoners to escape." The first petition,
dated " Montgomery, Jan. 27, 1783," recites that he has been adjudged to the payment
of the fine —

" for giving some Directions concerning their Road to a few travelers asking

for them at his Door. That the said Travelers were absolute Strangers to your Peti-
tioner, and neither from their Habit nor their discourse gave him any reason to suspect
they were British soldiers. That your petitioner was wholly ignorant at this Time of
any act of Assembly against giving Food or information of their Road to strangers
requesting them, and so far from knowing that he thereby incurred a fine, that he
believed he was only performing a common act of hospitality. That your petitioner is
but a young Man and except his Trade and Industry has little in the world to support a
wife and five children, who must with himself be reduced to great Distress, if not
Ruin " [unless the fine be remitted] .

Accompanying this petition was another from " Neighbors and Acquaintances of
Joseph Roberts." The signers (whose names follow) " certify that he is a sober indus-
trious young Man, of good Character among us ; and that we have no doubt of the
truth of the several allegations " in his petition.

Hezekiah Williams. Archibald McClean, Sur- David Evans.

Ed. Bartholomew. geon, 1st Batt'n P. C. M. Caleb Foulke.

Chas. Moore, M.D. William Mullen. Samuel Wheeler.

Evan Jones. Charles Stedman. Zebulon Potts, Esq.

Mordecai Moore. Eliz: Ferguson. Thos. Franklin.

Wm. McClean. Robert Loller, Surveyor.

Seth Quee, Esq.
William Roberts.

These petitions were read in the Council, Feb. 20, 1873, ^^d their prayer rejected.
On March 18, other petitions were presented of hke character, one of them from prom-
inent citizens of Philadelphia, supported by letters from Colonel William Bradford, jr.
and from Chief Justice Thomas McKean. Colonel Bradford says he is informed from
credible authority that Joseph had " sustained the character of a sober, industrious, and
peaceable citizen, no ways inimical to the Liberties of America." The Chief Justice
says that " he has heretofore supported the character of a quiet and inoffensive man,
and that he has but little knowledge of public affairs, and is but a weak Politician."

Upon this re-hearing of the case by the Council, the petition was granted, and the
fine remitted. The costs of the trial, it appeared, were ^^32 13s. 6d. There were
three indictments, and the witnesses were : Noah Lee, 7 days [attendance] ; James
Burt, 7 days ; Ebenezer Archibald, 7 days.

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V. Children of Joseph and Sarah :

54. Sarah, b. 8th mo. 27, 1771, d. loth mo. 31, 1854, m. 1st, at
Gwynedd meeting, 5th mo. 28, 1793, Paul Conard, of Tredyffrin,
by whom she had 4 children : Jesse, Mary, Sarah, and Rebecca ;
and 2d, at Valley meeting, loth mo. 25, 181 5, Isaac Walker,
son of Joseph and Sarah, by whom she had one son, Isaac R.
Walker.

Childreti of Joseph aiid Mercy :

55. Isaac, b. 1775, d. 1851, m. AHce Comfort. ^

56. Jonathan, b. 4th mo. 19, 1777, d. 8th mo. 25, 1832, unm., of con-

sumption, in Bucks co., " eight miles beyond Buckingham," and
was bu. at Buckingham. A shoemaker by trade.

57. Hugh, also a shoemaker, b. 3d mo. 28, 1779, d. 3d mo. 18, 1848,
unm., and bu. at Gwynedd.

58. George, b. 1781, d. 185 1, m. Phebe Scott. ^

59. John, b. 3d mo. 1783, d. same month.

60. Charles, b. 1784, d. 1845, m. Hannah White, Anna Maria
Hoskins. ^

61. Septimus, b. 9th mo. 30, 1786, d. ist mo. 6, 1826, unm. He was
one of the earliest students at Westtown, his name being on the
roll in 6th mo., 1803. Subsequently, from 5th mo , 1809, to 9th
mo., 18 1 2, he was a teacher there. He also taught in Philadel-
phia (previous to 1809), having charge of the Friends' school for
colored children, and a portrait of him, by one of his pupils, is
extant.^ He had gone to Mauch Chunk, as a clerk in the offices
of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., and was living there
when he d. of a hemorrhage.

62. Mercy, b. 9th mo. 14, 1789, d. ist mo. 26, 1870, unm.

63. Joseph, b. 3d mo. 22, 1793, d. 8th mo. 25, 1835, unm.

IV, (33.) John Roberts, son of John and Jane, b. iith mo.
28, 1738, d. nth mo. 8, 1824, m. 6th mo. 9, 1772, Eliza-
beth Cleaver, dau. of Peter and Elizabeth, of Upper Dublin.
(Elizabeth d. 5th mo. 24, 1808.)

1 The original is in possession of Charles Roberts, of Philadelphia. It is a spirited
picture, showing the costume of a plain young Friend of 1805, and interesting also as
exhibiting the artistic talent of the colored lad who produced it.

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V. Children of John and Elizabeth :

64. Peter, b. 4th mo. 7, 1773, d. 2d mo. 2, 1801, m. nth mo. 20,

1800, Elizabeth Comfort, dau. of Ezra and Ahce ; no issue. (She
subsequently m. Benjamin White.)

65. Ruth, b. 8th mo. 28, 1775, d. 9th mo. 10, 1857, m. 5th mo. 17,
1803, Jesse Ambler, son of John and Ann ; no issue. (Jesse, b.
1777, d. 1851.)

IV. (40.) Job Roberts, of Whitpain, son of John and Jane, b.
3d mo. 23, 1757, d. 8th mo. 20, 185 1, m. ist, 5th mo. 22,
1781, Mary Naylor (b. 1758, d. 1816); 2d, 10th mo. 12,
1820, Sarah Thomas, widow (born Williams, dau. of
Joseph). A biographical sketch of "Squire" Job will be
found elsewhere in this volume. He had no children by
his second wife.

V. Children of Job and Mary :

66. Hannah, b. 6th mo. 6, 1783, d. Sth mo. 23, 1785.

67. Jane, b. 3d mo. i, 1785, d. 2d mo. i, 1847, m. 5th mo. 12, 1807,
Charles Mather, son of Isaac and Mary ; and had issue : Job R.,
Mary Morris, Hannah B., m. John C. Lester, of Richland ; Jane,
m. Benjamin G. Foulke, of Richland (see Foulke Genealogy) ;
Susanna M., m. Samuel J. Levick ; Letitia, m. Wm. Walmsley ;
Charles, Lydia T.

IV. (44.) MoRDECAi Roberts, son of Eldad and Elizabeth, b.
7th mo. II, 1753, m. Ellen Decker. The tradition is that
MoRDECAi served in the Revolutionary army, probably as a
private soldier, and that during the Battle of Germantown,
in which he was engaged, his father, then an old man, lay
on his bed at Montgomery, listening to the cannonade
(which could be heard at that distance), in great distress of
mind about " Mord." The monthly-meeting records have
an entry in the nth mo., 1776, that Mordecai Roberts

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" has joined the mihtary men in their exercise, and wholly
neglects the attendance of meetings." After carrying the
case for some months, in the 6th mo., 1777 (four months
before Germantown), the meeting disowned him.

V. Children of Mordecai and Ellen :

68. Eleanor.

69. John, d. abt. 1833, unm.

70. Eldad, d. 1843, m. Elizabeth Waters. ^

71. Medad, d. young.

72. Mordecai, b. 1795, d. 1848, m. Rebecca Srope. ^

73. Charles, b. 1798, d. 1868, m. Mary E. Harrison.^

74. Martha, b. ist mo. 14, 1798, d. ist mo. 15, 1852, (buried at
Hephzibah Church, Chester Co., Pa.) ; m., by Squire John
Roberts, 2d mo. 8, 18 16, Benjamin Barnes, son of Jesse and
Esther; 12 children.

75. James.

76. Mary, m. Frederick Wonerly.
"J"]. Ann, m. James Bumbaugh.

"Jiyi. Jane, b. 5th mo. 9, 1809, m. Davis Penegar, son of Amos and
Hannah ; 10 children.

V. (47.) Edward Roberts, son of Cadwalader and Mary, b. 3d
mo. 9, 1 77 1, d. loth mo. 25, 1850, m. 1796, Rebecca
Phillips, (b. 4th mo. 28, 1776, d. 12th mo. 10, 1859),
dau. of David. He was a farmer, and settled, about 1795,
at Catawissa, on the North Branch of the Susquehanna, in
which locality many of his descendants now live.

VI. Children of Edward and Rebecca :

78. Cadwalader, b. 1800, d. 1876, m. Ann PhilHps. ^

79. Hannah, b. 1802, d. 1803.

80. William, b. 7th mo. 15, 1804.

81. Hannah, b. loth mo. 11, 1806, m. 2d mo. 16, 1832, Edward
Shay, of Horsham; and had issue : John, b. 1835, d. 1894, m.
Hannah Haupt.

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82. Edward J., b. 1808, m. Annie Bartholomew. ^

83. David, b. 181 1, d. 1877, m. Frances Sanders. ^

84. Stephen F., b. 18 14, m. Margaret M. George. ^

85. Josiah A., b. 1820, m. Anna M. Clewell. ^
85 X. Mary, b. and d. 1798.

V. (48.) EzEKiEL Roberts, son of Cadwalader and Mary, b.
I2th mo. 19, 1775, d. 2d mo. 13, 1856. He was a farmer,
and removed first to near Toronto, Canada, where part of
his family were born, then later to Ohio. He is buried at
Belmont, O. He m. Ann Doyle (b. 8th mo. 28, 1777, d.
2d mo. 2, 1827.)

VI. Children of Ezekiel and Ann :

86. Joseph, b. 1799, d. 1830, m. Esther Scott. ^

87. Mary, b. 2d mo. 27, 1801, d. 6th mo. 22, 1856, m. Abraham

Griffith ; and had issue : Elma, m. John Cooper (Illinois) ; Anna
R., m. Wm. Giffen, (Jackson Co., W. Va.) ; Rees L., m. Catha-
rine Seal (Morning View, O.) ; Charles, m. Sarah J. Peck (New
Jersey) ; Ruth, m. Reuben Creighton (Mt. Horeb, Ohio).

88. Agnes, b. 3d mo. 4, 1803, d. ist mo. 23, 1888, (buried at Janes-

ville, Iowa), m. Rees Larkin, and had issue 9 children, mostly
settled in Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Illinois, with numerous
descendants.

89. George, b. 1805, d. 1827. (Bu. at Harrisville, O.)

90. Charles, b. 1808, d. 1875, m. Sarah Harris. ^

91. John, b. 1810, d. 1887, m. Susanna Metz, EHzabeth B. Wilson. ^

92. Nancy, b. 6th mo. 14, 1812, d. 6th mo. 16, 1893, m. John Taggart
(St. Clairsville, O.) ; and had issue 8 children, residents of Illinois,
Ohio, and Minnesota. (Agnes D., m. Wm. P. Roberts, 193 this
Genealogy.)

93. Esther, b. 181 5, d. 1878, m. David Smith, farmer, Belmont, Ohio,

and had issue 7 children, residents of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, and Missouri.

V. (49.) Cadwalader Roberts, of Gvvynedd, son of Cadwala-
der and Mary, b, nth mo. 3, 1777, d. 2d mo. 19, 1871, m.

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1 2th mo. 14, 1802, Elizabeth Evans (b. 1781, d. 1842),
dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth. Cadwalader was a tailor
and farmer ; he is elsewhere mentioned in this volume. For
many years he had charge of the meeting property at Gwyn-
edd, and was sexton of the burial-ground. He lived on the
turnpike below Acuff's, on a small farm which after his
death was added by sale to the John Gilbert estate.

VI. Children of Cadwalader and Elizabeth :

94. Job, b. 1814, d. 1858, m. Hannah Pickering. ^
(Two children older than Job d. in infancy.)

V. (50.) Joseph Roberts, son of Cadwalader and Mary, b.
iith mo. 2, 1779, d. 4th mo. 11, 1859, n^- '^th mo. 24,
1 80 1, Elizabeth Rubencamp (d. 1841). He was a farmer ;
was buried at Horsham, Pa.

VI Children of Joseph and Elizabeth :

95. Agnes, b. 1S04, d. 1882, m. 1831, Jonathan Jarrett ; and had
issue : J. Roberts, Elizabeth, Mary, Tacy A., m. Jesse Ambler.

96. Charles, b. 1807, d. 1866, m. Sarah Ann Kenderdine. "^

97. Mary Ann, b. 1810, d. 1886, m. 1835, Henry Magee ; and had
issue: Martha W., m. William Johnson; Charles R., Jane
Elizabeth, Agnes J., m. Charles H. Kehr ; Jos. Roberts, m. Sarah
McCarter ; Henry, m. Anna Sutton.

98. Jesse, b. 1812, d. 1819.

V. (51.) Richard Roberts, son of Cadwalader and Mary, b.
ist mo. I, 1782, d. 9th mo. 17, i860, m. 5th mo. 14, 1805,
Mary Scott, dau. of Alexander and Jane. (Mary b. 178 1,
d. 1828, and bu. at Gwynedd.) Richard was a farmer;
lived in Ohio ; was buried at Emerson, in that State.
VI. Children of Richard and Mary :

99. Israel, b. 1806, d. 1849, m. Sarah T. Ward. ^

100. Alexander Scott, b. 1809, d. about 1840, m. Mary Fort. ^

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loi. Mary, b. 1811.

102. Ezekiel, b. 1813, m. Eliza Ann Griffith, Eliz. P. Harrison. '^

103. John C, b. 181 5.

104. Rowland, b. 1817, d. 1890, m. Mary Ann Humphreys. ^

105. Phebe, b. 1820, d. 1879, n^- William Waterman, Emerson, O. ;
and had issue : George W. (Ohio) ; Israel R. (Penna.) ; Charles
R. (Ohio).

V. (55.) Isaac Roberts, of Whitemarsh, son of Joseph and
Mercy, b. at Montgomery, 4th mo. 27, 1775, d. 8th mo. 13,
185 1, m. 3d mo. 13, 1800, Alice Comfort, dau. of Ezra.
(Alice b. 4th mo. 23, 1779, d. 2d mo. 22, 1841.) Isaac
was a farmer ; both he and his wife were buried at Plymouth,

VL Children of Isaac and Alice :

106. Mercy, b. 6th mo. 3, 1801, d. 4th mo. 26, 1873.

107. EHzabeth, b. 7th mo. 10, 1803, d. 12th mo. 23, 1825.

108. Ezra, b. 1805, d. 1854, m. Lydia Passmore. P

109. Charles W., b. 1807, d. 1893, m. Martha W. Walker. P
no. f Joseph v., b. 6th mo. 16, 1810, d. 3d mo. 12, 1834.

111. I Jacob, b. 1 8 10, d. 1893, m. Phebe Williams. ^

112. Isaac, b. 2d mo. i, 1814, m. 1850, Mary H. Bacon (b. 1818),
dau. of John, of Greenwich, N. J. No issue.

113. Hiram, b. 8th mo. 28, 1816 ; unm.

114. Hannah, b. 4th mo. 30, 1819 ; d. 6th mo. 16, 1882.

V. (58.) George Roberts, of Gwynedd, farmer, son of Joseph
and Mercy, b. at Montgomery, 3d mo. 10, 1781, d. 6th mo.
16, 185 1, m. 1 2th mo. 16, 1806, Phebe Scott, dau. of
Alexander and Jane. (Phebe b. 1st mo. T2, 1783, d. 8th
mo. 16, i860.) Both were buried in the ground near
Penllyn, belonging to (O.) Friends.

VI. Childre7t of George and Phebe :

115. Jane, b. 6th mo. 22, 1809, d. 12th mo. 10, 1886, m. 12th mo. 18,
1832, Jacob T. Lukens, son of William and Martha; and had
issue ; Phebe, Willett, Martha T., m. Richard C. Shoemaker, and

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has issue; George R., Jonathan R., Elizabeth L., m. Jonathan P.
Iredell, and has issue; Joseph R., Hannah W., Mary Anna.

1 1 6. Jonathan b. 4th mo. 9, 181 1, d. 2d mo. 20, 1888, (bu. at Pen-
llyn), unm.

117. Elizabeth, b. 12th mo. 21, 181 7, d. 2d mo. 13, 1895.

118. Joseph, b. 5th mo. 12, 1820, d. 4th mo. 8, 1889, (bu. Plymouth),
m. 3d mo. 10, 1859, Alice P. Hallowell ; no issue.

119. Septimus, b. 1826, d. 1895, m. Ellen H. Ambler. ^

V. (60.) Charles Roberts, of Philadelphia, son of Joseph and
Mercy, b. at Montgomery, 7th mo. 26, 1784, d. 7th mo. 9,
1845; rn-' ^st, nth mo i, 1810, Hannah White (b. 8th
mo. 16, 1789, d. 1 2th mo. 4, 1830), dau. of Solomon, of
Philadelphia; and 2d, loth mo. 16, 1834, Anna Maria
HosKiNS (b. 7th mo. II, 1794, d. 12th mo. 5, 1869), dau.
of Joseph, of Radnor. A sketch of Charles will be sepa-
rately given in this volume.

VI. Children of Charles and Hannah :

120. Solomon W., b. 181 1, d. 1882, m. Anna S. Rickey, Jane E.
Shannon. ^

121. Elihu, b. 18 13, d. 1885, m. Anne Pettit. ^

122. Samuel A., b. 1816, d. 1817.

123. Caleb C, b. 182 1, m. Helen S. Bingham. ^

124. Henrietta, b. ist mo. 26, 1824, d. ist mo. 17, 1877 ; m. ist mo.
9, 1854, Dr. Richard J. Levis, (b. 1827, d. 1890), a distinguished
surgeon, of Philadelphia; and had issue : Anna R. (d) ; Louise,
m. John Thompson, and has issue ; Mary H. (d ), Henrietta R.
(d.), Minford, m. Marian Taylor, and has issue ; Alice (d.)

V. (70.) Eldad Roberts, son of Mordecai and Ellen, d. about
1843, m. Elizabeth Waters, who died 6th mo 25, 1847.

VI. Children of Eldad and Elisabeth :

125. Ellen, m. ist, Geo. Brookman, 2d, Thos. Waters.

126. Mary, d. 4th mo. 14, 1851, m. Henry Townsley. and had issue.

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127. Rebecca, m. Levi Townsley.

128. Joanna, m. Mason.

129. Enos, m.

V. (72.) MoRDECAi Roberts, tanner and currier, son of Mor-
decai and Ellen, b. 5th mo. 27, 1795, d. 4th mo. 6, 1848,
(buried at Baptistown, Hunterdon Co., N. J.), m. 8th mo.
7, 18 19, before Squire John Roberts, Rebecca Srope, dau.
Christopher and Thankful. (She b. 12th mo. 22, 1895, d. 3d
mo. 7, 1857.)

VL Children of Mordecai and Rebecca :

130. Charles, b. 1820, m. Elizabeth AUer. ^

131. Sarah S., b. 1st mo. 29. 1822, d. 2d mo. 6, 1853, buried at
Baptistown, N. J.

132. John H., b. 1825, m. Caroline E. Wagner. ^

133. David S., b. 5th mo. 2, 1827, d. ist mo. 26, 1833.

134. Mary Catharine, b. 9th mo. 18, 1829, d. 9th mo. 9, 1832.

135. Samuel S., b. 9th mo. 14, 1832, d. loth mo. 3, 1865, (bu. at
Baptistown, N. J.), unm.

136. Rebecca EUzabeth, b. 8th mo. 25, 1837, m. ist mo. 25, i860,
Harrison Carver, son of Jesse S. and Elizabeth, of Pineville, Pa.,
and has issue Hannah, m. George W. Massey.

V- (73-) Charles Roberts, son of Mordecai and Ellen, b. ist
mo, 14, 1798, d. 3d mo. 26, 1868, (bu. at Mount Union
Cemetery, Allegheny City, Pa.), m. 3d mo. 31, 1822, Mary
E. Harrison, b. 7th mo. 17, 1804, d. 7th mo. 21, 1889.

VI. Children of Charles and Mary :

137. John W., b. 1823, d. 1891, m. ist, Margaret Dysart, 2d, Harriet
T. Mitchell. ^

138. Joseph L., b. 1825, m. Jane G. Ewing. ^

139. CaroHne H., b. loth mo. 12, 1832, d. 4th mo. 22, 1835.

VI. (78.) Cadwalader Roberts, tailor, son of Edward and
Rebecca, b. ist mo. 12, 1800, d. 5th mo. 20, 1876, m. loth

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mo. 25, 1842, Ann Phillips (b, 3d mo. 14, 18 19; d. 8th
mo. 22, 1864). Cadwalader was buried at Catawissa, Pa.

VII. Childreji of Cachualader and Ann :

140. Rebecca A., b. loth mo. 16, 1845, d. 6th mo. 9, 1859.

141. Edward C, b. 5th mo. 19, 1848, d. 2d mo. 4, 1866.

142. David B., b. ist mo. 26, 1850, d. 2d mo. 22, 1877, m. Amanda
Reedy, and had issue : Harry b. 1868.

143. Ruth H., b. 9th mo. 24, 1853, d. 7th mo. 5, 1879, m. 4th mo. 7,
1875, WiUiam U. John, farmer, of Bear Gap ; and had issue :
Mary A., Rebecca A., Rachel E., Ruth H.

144. Sarah E., b. 1858, m. 1880, James E. U. Crawford, and has issue.

145. Rachel A., b. 1S60.

VI. (82.) Edward J. Roberts, of Bloomfield, Ind., physician,
son of Edward and Rebecca, b. 12th mo. 29, 1808, m.
Annie Bartholomew.

VII. Childreti of Edward and Amtie :

146. Josiah, b. 1834, m. Lucinda Wonders. ^

147. Petrican, b. 2d mo. 27, 1837, d. 1864, (bu. Memphis, Tenn.) m.
1862, Leah Miller, and had issu«.

148. Charles H., b. 8th mo. 5, 1839, i^i- 1^66, Katie Shehen ; far-
mer, Bloomfield, Ind.

149. Caroline, b. 2d mo. 27, 1841, d. , m. 1871, James Doyle,

and had issue.

150. Cordelia, b. 6th mo. 8, 1843.

151. Agnes B., b. 4th mo. 4, 1846, m. 5th mo. 22, 1871, Wm. Mc-
Kendree, farmer, of Bloomington. Ind., and has issue : Wm. B.,
Edward D., Ashton W., and Annie L.

152. Edward C, b. 5th mo. 24, 1849, m. 1879, Laura Nation. He is a
physician at Bloomfield, Ind., and has issue.

153. Josephine, b. ist mo. 8, 1851, m, 1869, W. M. Figg, farmer, and
has issue.

153^. Letitia (twin with above), b. ist mo. 8, 1851, d. 1880, m. 1867,
David Hunter, farmer, and had issue.

154. Hannah, b. 9th mo. 15, 1854, m. 1873, G. T. Clark, farmer, and
has issue.

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155. Villary, b, 4th mo. 8, 1859,111. 6th mo. 27, 1885, Henry Clay
Kindred, son of Thos. and has issue. He is a stock dealer of
Worthington, Ind.

VI. (83.) David Roberts, mason, son of Edward and Rebecca,
b. 8th mo. 19, 181 1, m. 1835, Frances Sanders (b. 18 17).
VII. Children of David and Frances :

156. Alfred, b. 1837, m. Eliz. R. Rishel, and has issue. V>

157. Rebecca R., b. 1839, m. 1865, Aaron Sechler ; and has issue.

158. Hannah, b. 1842, m. Geo. W. Mowrer ; and has issue.

159. Josiah R., b. 1844, m. Eliz. J. Clawson ; and has issue, Fannie M.

160. John E., b. 1847, m. Lavina Derling ; and has issue. ^
160^, Clarence, b. 1849, d. 1851.

161. Margaret S., b. 185 1, m. Peter A. Rishel ; and has issue.

162. Fannie Agnes, b. 1854, m. Theodore C. Reese, (Alexandria, Pa.) ;
and has issue.

163. Sarah E., b. 1857.

164. Martha Jane, b. i860.

165. William A., b. 1863.

VI. (84.) Stephen F. Roberts, farmer, son of Edward and
Rebecca, b. 7th mo. 10, 18 14, m. 1847, Margaret M.
George, dau. Stephen ; residence, Danville, Pa.

VII. Children of Stephen F. aftd Margaret :

166. Eli W., m. Kate Machimer.

167. George E., m. Ella M. Jacobs.

VI. (85.) Josiah A. Roberts, of Rupert, Columbia Co., Pa.,
son of Edward and Rebecca, b. Feb. 2. 1820, m. 1845,
Anna M. Clewell.

VII. Children of Josiah A. and Anna M. :

168. WiUiam H., b. 1846, m. Ellen Barndt, and has issue. ^

169. Harvey, b. 1848, m. Maria L. Fenstermacher.

170. Arthur, b. 1850, m. Mary E. Rauch, and has issue, Lillie V.

171. Sarah A., b. 1852, m. Charles Decker, and has issue.

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172
173

174

'75
176
177
178

Edward, b. 1854, m. Rettie Lewis, and has issue.
Anna M., b. 1857.
David, b. 1857.
r Clarence, b. i860. ->
\ Clay, b. i860. V Died in infancy.

^ Clara, b. i860. J Died in infancy.
Joseph E., b. 1862.

VI. (86.) Joseph Roberts, of Ohio, son of Ezekiel and Anne,
b. nth mo. 5, 1799, d- 7th mo. 1830, m. Esther Scott,
(b. 1809, d. 1883).

VII. Child of Joseph and Esther :

179. Amanda, b. 1830, m. Jephtha Kinsey, and has issue.

VI. (90.) Charles Roberts, of Iowa, farmer, son of Ezekiel
and Ann, b. ist mo. 19, 1808, d. ist mo. 23, 1875, m. Sarah
Harris, dau. John and Frances. He is buried at Chariton,
Iowa. They had issue 13 children, of whom two d. in
childhood.

VII. Chz/dren of Charles and Sarah :

180. John, m. Mary Barrett, Sarah A. McKee ; and has issue. ^ ===
181. Martha A., m. Jas. H. Lounsberry ; and has issue. == 182.
Levi m. Mary J. Rogers ; and has issue. ^===: 183. Ezekiel, m.
Samantha Jackson ; and has issue. ^== 184. Theudas H., m.
Mary A. Noe.=^ 185. Wright, m. Samantha Severe ; and has
issue. ^ == 186. Frances M., d.== 187. Esther A., d. ==
188. Emanuel N., m. Eleanor Frazier ; and has issue, Nellie F.
== 189. Charles H., m. Mary Catharine Hogan ; and has
issue. ^=1= 190. Edwin, d. === 191. Amanda, m. John D.
Oden ; and has issue. == 192. Sarah J., m. Anthony M. James ;
and has issue.

[These families lived, 1883, in Iowa and Missouri.]

VI. (91.) John Roberts, manufacturer, Henry, III, son of Eze-
kiel and Ann, b. 18 10, d. 1887, m. 1837, Susanna Metz ;

R OBER TS FA MIL V GENE A LOG V. 221

and, 1857, Elizabeth B. Wilson. By his first wife he had
issue six children, who all d. in childhood.

VI. (94.) Job Roberts, farmer, son of Cadwalader and Eliza-
beth, b. at Gwynedd, 4th mo. i, 1814, d. 8th mo. 31, 1858, in
Harford Co., Md. (bu. at Fallston Friends' ground). He m.,
9th mo. 19, 1844, Hannah Pickering (b. 7th mo. 23, 1811 ;
d. 1 2th mo. 22, 1884), dau. of Yeomans, of Bucks Co.

P77. Children of Job and Hannah :

193. William P., b. 6th mo. 16, 1845, "i- 1869, Anna M. Pugh, (b.
1846, d. 1870), dau. of Abner, of Oxford, Pa. ; 2d, 1876, m.
Agnes D. Taggart, (b. 1854, d. 1895), dau. of John, of St.
Clairsville, Ohio, (see No. 92, this Genealogy), by whom he has
issue: Horace W., b. 1877, Roy G., b. 1880. William gradu-
ated, 1869, from the Law Dep't, Univ. of Michigan ; served in
Union Army, in 47th Regt. P. V. M., and as officer 45th Regt.
U. S. Colored Troops. He is a member of the bar, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.

194. EUwood P., b. 9th mo. 30, 1847, d. nth mo. 23, 1864, in U. S.
Military Hospital, Philadelphia, member 195th Regt. P. V. (Bu.
at Gwynedd.)

195. Horace W., b. 12th mo. 5, 1850, d. 4th mo. 15, 1885, bu.
Phoenix, Arizona, m. loth mo. 17, 1877, Edith R. Hooper.

196. Richard J., b. 1854, m. 1880, Martha C. Shoemaker.

VI. (96.) Charles Roberts, of Upper Dublin, farmer, son of
Joseph and Elizabeth, b. 1807, d. 1866, m. Sarah Ann Ken-
DERDiNE (b. 1807, d. 1 871).

VI L Children of Charles attd Sarah A. :

197. Elizabeth, b. 1832, d. 1862, unm.

198. Guhelma, b. 1834, d. 1865, without issue, m. Edwin Thomas.

199. Jesse, b. 1837, d. 1892, m. Sarah E. Skirving, and has issue. ^

200. George K., b. 1840, m. Elizabeth E. Shaw, and has issue. ^

201. Richard K., b. 1843, m. Ruth A. Michener, and has issue,
David P., b. 1880, d. 1884; Wilham E., b. 1881.

222 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

202. Anna J., b. 1845, d, 1866, unm.

203. Joseph, b. 1848, m. Mary W. Evans (see No. 242 Evans, Geneal-
ogy), and has issue. ^

VI. (99.) Israel Roberts, of Ohio, merchant, son of Richard
and Mary, b. 1806, d. 1849, m. 1832, Sarah T. Ward (b,
1809, d. 1880). Israel bu. Emerson, Ohio.

VII. Children of Israel and Sarah T. :

204. Frances L., Chicago, 111., b. 1834.=:= 205. Josephine, b. 1838,
m. Eber B. Ward, (Capt. 34th 111. Vols., d. 1863) ; and has
issue. ==206. Allen W., d. in infancy. == 207. Mary A., b.
1842, d. 1855.

VI. (100.) Alexander Scott Roberts, son of Richard and
Mary, b. 1809, d. about 1840, Captain III. troops in Black
Hawk War, d. in Texas, m. Mary Fort ; and had issue : (208)

Amanda, (Liberty, Texas), dec'd about i860, m. Young,

and had issue.

VI. (102.) Ezekiel Roberts, of Ohio, son of Richard and
Mary, b. 18 13, a minister in the Society of Friends, m. 1841,
Eliza Ann Griffith (b. 18 17, d. 1867), and, 2d, 1876,
Elizabeth P. Harrison (b. 1820, d. 1895). Issue by his
first wife : (209) Richard E., b. 1843, m. 1870, Mira G. Smithy
and had issue, Charles T., b. 1871, d. 1876.

VI. (104.) Rowland Roberts, of Short Creek, O., miller, son
of Richard and Mary, b. 1817, d. 1890, m. 1843, Mary Ann
Humphreys (b. 1819, d. 1893). Rowland bu. New Sharon,
Iowa.

VII. Children of Rowland and Mary Ann :

210. Charles H., b. loth mo. 11, 1847. Lawyer, Chicago.

211. Sarah Irene, b. 7th mo. 4, 1849, m. John Nelson Landis, and
has issue.

ROBER TS FAMIL V GENEALOG V. 223

212. Richard A., b. ist mo. 25, 1852, d. 7th mo. i, 1888, m. loth
mo. 22, 1874, Katherine Pleasant Barnes.

213. Mary Eliza, b. loth mo. 29, 1857.

214. Agnes Evans, b. 4th mo. 16, i860, d. 8th mo. 22, 1886.
Teacher.

VI. (108.) Ezra Roberts, son of Isaac and Mercy, b. 9th mo.
5, 1805, d. loth mo. 27, 1854, m. ist mo. 12, 1835, Lydia
Passmore, dau. of Thomas and Esther, and had issue :

V//. Child of Ezra and Lydia :
21 $a. Charles, b. 3d mo. 17, 1836.

VI. (109.) Charles W. Roberts, of West Chester, Pa., son of
Isaac and AUce, b. 1807, d. 1893, m. 1845 Martha W.
Walker (b. 1808, d. 1877), widow, dau. of James Cresson.

V//. Children of Charles IV. and Martha IV. :

215. Martha C, b. 1847.== 216. James C, b. 1848, d. 1895, m.
Elizabeth L. Garrett, and had issue, Charles C, b. 1873 ; Isaac
G., b. 1875. ==: 217. Mercy Anna, b. 1851.

VI. (ill.) Jacob Roberts, of Chester Co., Pa., son of Isaac and
AUce, b. 1 8 10, d. 1893, m. 1837, Phebe Willla.ms (b. 18 10,
d. 1893, an esteemed minister among Friends).

V//. Children of facob and Phebe :
218. Josiah A., b. 1837.=^ 219. Joseph, b. 1840.== 220. Hannah
W., b. 1842, d. 1894.==: 221. Ahce, b. 1844, d. 1876.==
222. Sarah W., b. 1847.

VI. (119.) Septimus Roberts, of Worcester, son of George and
Phebe, b. 7th mo. 15, 1826, d. nth mo. 16, 1895, m. 3d
mo. 12, 1857, Ellen H. Ambler, dau. of David and
Margaret.

VII. Children of Septimus and Ellen H. :
223. Phebe A., b. 1858, m. 1885, Thomas J. Meyers, and has issue.
=:=224. Margaret A., b. i860, d. 1862.=:= 235. Elizabeth,

224 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

b. 1863, m. William G. Raiford, of Berlin, Va., and has issue.
226. Sue A., b. 1867.== 227. Jane L., b. 1872.

VI. (120.) Solomon W. Roberts, of Philadelphia, civil engi-
neer, son of Charles and Hannah, b. 8th mo. 3, 181 1, d. 3d
mo. 22, 1882, m. 1st, 185 1, Anna S. Rickey (b. 1827, d.
1858), dau. of Randall H. ; 2d, 1865, Jane E. Shannon
(b. 1834, d. 1869), dau. of Ellvvood. After some prepara-
tory education in Philadelphia, Solomon went, at sixteen
years old, to Mauch Chunk, where he was, first, an assistant
to his uncle, Josiah White, then directing the works of the
Lehigh Navigation Co., and later served as assistant engineer
on the canal, which in the autumn of 1829 was opened from
Mauch Chunk to Easton. (In the spring of 1827, when
the railroad at Mauch Chunk, from Summit Hill down to the
river, was opened, he rode on the first train, it being the first
railway train run in Penna.) Entering the State service, he
had charge of the construction of a division of the canal on
the Conemaugh, and then was principal assistant to Sylvester
Welch in locating and constructing the Portage railroad over
the Alleghenies. His division, on the west side, included a
tunnel, 901 feet long, the first railroad tunnel in America;
and the splendid stone viaduct over the Conemaugh near
Johnstown, now used by the Penna. R. R., is his design and
construction. • Remaining in the State service until 1836,^ he
visited Europe^ and upon returning was chief engineer of the

[1 Note, 1896. This splendid bridge was destroyed by the terrible flood in the
Conemaugh, May 31, 1889.]

* See his Reminiscences of this period, Penna. Mag., Vol. IL

* During his stay in Wales, he learned from George Crane, the famous ironmaster
of Yniscedwin, near Swansea, the process of smelting ore by anthracite and hot blast,
and this, communicated by him to Josiah White, led to the establishment of the great
Crane Iron Works, at Catasauqua.

ROBERTS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 225

Catawissa Railroad from 1838 to 1841 ; president of the
Philad'a, Germ'n & Norr'n R. R. in 1842 ; president of the
Schuylkill Navigation Co. from 1843 to 1846 ; member of
Penna. Legislature in 1848 ; and from 1848 to 1856 engaged
in locating, constructing, and operating the railroad (now the
E. division of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago) from
Pittsburg to Crestline. In 1856 he returned to Philadelphia
to live, and being then chosen chief engineer and general
superintendent of the North Penna. railroad, retained the
place twenty -two years, and resigned in January, 1879.1 He
was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and
active in the work of the Franklin Institute ; a great reader,
he wrote verse with facility, and took a deep interest in art.
(In his youth he had painted a portrait in oil, of his mother,
and had a different direction been given his talents, he might
have made a fine artist.)

VII. Children of Solomon W. and Anna :

228. Anna H., b. 12th mo. 12, 1851, d. 9th mo. 28, 1886, m. ist mo.
26, 1886, Dr. John B. Roberts (237).

229. Alfred R., b. 3d mo. 14, 1853, A. B., Haverford College, 1871,
m. 4th mo. 15, 1880, Emily I. Lewis, and has issue, Sidney L.,
b. 1 2th mo. 9, 1 88 1.

230. Elizabeth W. , b. 7th mo. 5, 1854, d. 3d mo. 26, 1855.

231. Edith C, b. i2thmo. 11, 1855, d. 12th mo. 7, 1879.

232. Arthur W., b. 8th mo. 8, 1858, d. 9th mo. 13, 1858.

Children of Solomon IV. and Jane :

233. EUwoodS., b. 8th mo. 11, 1866, d. 7th mo. 16, 1869.:== 234.
Mary E., b. 8th mo. i, 1867.

VI. (121.) Elihu Roberts, of Philadelphia, son of Charles and
Hannah, b. loth mo. 2, 1813, d. 12th mo. 23, 1885, m. loth
mo. 10, 1838, Anne Pettit (b. 3d mo. 11, 18 17), dau. of
Woodnutt, of Salem, N. J.

1 See sketch of his work, Railway World, Philad'a, Feb. 1879.

226 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

VII. Children of Elihu and Anne :

235. Charles, b. 8th mo. 21, 1846, A. B., Haverford College, 1864,
m. I ith mo. 23, 1892, Lucy Branson Longstreth, dau. of Thomas
Branson. Member Common Council, Philadelphia, Prest. Spring
Garden Insurance Company.

236. Hannah White, b. nth mo. 30, 1848, d. 3d mo. 20, 1890, m.
1880, Dr. Chas. E. Hopkins, of Philadelphia ; and had issue :
Chas. R., b. 1884.

[Two children (Charles E., b. 1841, Woodnutt P., b. 1845) d. in
infancy.]

VI. (123.) Caleb C. Roberts, of Philadelphia, son of Charles
and Hannah, b. nth mo. 6, 1821, m. i ith mo. 15, 1849,
Helen S., dau. of Col. John Bingham.

VII. Children of Caleb C. a?id Helen S. :

237. John B., physician, A. M., University of Pennsylvania, b. 2d
mo. 29, 1852, m. ist mo. 26, 1886, Anna H. Roberts (228),
President Philadelphia County Medical Society, and Medical So-
ciety State of Pennsylvania ; Author of Modern Surgery, Pro-
fessor of Surgery Woman's Medical College, and in Philadelphia
PolycUnic and College of Graduates in Medicine, of which he
is President.

238. Mary B., b. 7th mo. 11, 1853, m. 12th mo. 6, 1876, Theodore
Kitchen, Cashier of Central National Bank of Philadelphia, and
has issue.

VI. (130.) Charles Roberts, of Lambertville, N. J., son of
Mordecai and Rebecca, b. 4th mo. 21, 1820, m. 9th mo. 18,
1844, Elizabeth Aller, dau. of Peter. He is agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Lambertville.

VII. Children of Charles and Elizabeth :

239. Judson, of N. Y., b. 6th mo. 30, 1846, m. 3d mo. 28, 1877,
Mary S. Fronefield, and had issue, Edna, dec'd.

240. Isaac S., b. 1849, m. Frances Ameha BuUman. ^

VI. (132.) John H, Roberts, of Lambertville, N. J., son of

ROBERTS FAMILY GENEALOGY. 22/

Mordecai and Rebecca, b. ist mo. 3, 1825, m. 12th mo. 26,
1854, Caroline E. Wagner, dau. of William.

VIL Children of John H. and Caroline :

241. Ellwood, b. 3d mo. 29, 1856.

242. Laura, b, 2d mo. 13, 1858, d. 3d mo. 25, 1859.

VI. (137.) John W. Roberts, of Pittsburg, Pa., son of Charles
and Mary E., b. 9th mo. 18, 1823, d. 2d mo. 14, 1891, m. ist,
5th mo. 13, 1841, Margaret Dysart ; m. 2d, 5th mo. 23,
1869, Harriet T. Mitchell.

VIL Childre7i of John W. and Margaret :

243. Mary, b. 7th mo. 17, 1843, d. ist mo. 8, 1844.

244. Isabella R., b. nth mo. 2, 1844, d. 9th mo. 19, 1869, m. 6th
mo. 23, 1864, Andrew Jackson Lane ; and had issue.

245. Joseph, b. ist mo. 31, 1847, d. 7th mo. 28, 1847.

246. Richard H., b. 9th mo. 15, 1848, d. 6th mo. 12, 1871.

247. Edward, b. 3d mo. 10, 1851, d. 4th mo. 6, 1852.

248. Charles, b. ist mo. 29, 1854, m. 7th mo. 17, 1874, Lizzie A.
Davis, of Zanesville, O.

249. WinfieldS., b. 3d mo. 6, 1857, m. 6th mo. 25, 1878, Sarah
Jane Stevens. ^

VI. (139.) Joseph L. Roberts, of Trout Lake, Colorado, son
of Charles and Mary E., b. 3d mo. 8, 1825, m. 8th mo. 31,
1848, Jane G. Ewing.

VII. Children of Joseph L. and Jatte :

250. Charles, b. nth mo. 20, 1851, d. loth mo. 8, 1872.

251. Mary, d. 3d mo. 2, 1858.

252. Homer, b. ist mo. 17, 1859. Residence, Cleveland, Ohio.

253. Andrew M., b. 7th mo. 20, 1861. Residence, Sharon, Penna.

254. Joseph L., b. 12th mo. 5, 1867.

VII. (146.) JosiAH Roberts, of Nickel Plate, Indiana, farmer,
son of Edward J. and Annie, b. loth mo. 11, 1834, m. 3d
mo. 6, 1855, Lucinda Wonders.

228 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

VIII. Children of Josiah and Lucinda :

255. Charles Enos, b. nth mo. 19, 1859.

256. Mary Ann, b. 2d mo. 2, 1862, m. 2d mo. 23, 1883, Pleasant
Monroe Thompson.

257. EUza Bell, b. 2d mo. 8, 1864.

258. Lurena, b. 6th mo. i, 1868.

VII. (156.) Alfred Roberts, of Danville, Pa., mason, son of
David and Frances, b. 7th mo. 12, 1837, "^- 12th mo. 21,
1 86 1, Elizabeth R. Rishel.

VIII. Children of Alfred and Elizabeth :

259. Stephen A., b. 7th mo. 22, 1862.

260. Horace, b. 7th mo. 9, 1866, d. 9th mo. 11, 1867.

261. Leander R., b. 9th mo. 6, 1867.

262. John S., b. 7th mo. 12, 1871, d. 2d mo. 4, 1872.

263. David, b. 4th mo. 30, 1873, d. 5th mo. i, 1873.

VII. (160.) John E. Roberts, of Danville, Pa., bricklayer, son
of David and Frances, b. 2d mo. 12, 1847, m. Lavina
Derling.

VIII. Children of fohn E. and Larnna :

264. Hannah Gertrude, b. loth mo. 20, 1874.

265. Edwin S., b. ist mo. 22, 1877.

266. Hurley, b. 12th mo. 26, 1880.

VII. (168.) William H. Roberts, of Catawissa, Pa., farmer,
son of Josiah A. and Anna M., b. 4th mo. 28, 1846, m.
9th mo. 21, 1869, Ellen Barndt, dau. Charles.

VIII. Children of William H. and Ellen :

267. Charles A., b. 5th mo. 10, 1869.

268. Josiah E., b. 8th mo. 21, 1871.

269. Frank H., b. 9th mo. 12, 1873.

270. Andrew R., b. nth mo. 28, 1875.

271. Anna M., b. 5th mo. 7, 1878.

ROBER TS FAMIL V GENEALOG Y. 229

272. Elizabeth A., b. 6th mo. 5, 1880.

273. Martha M., b. 8th mo. 17, 1882.

274. Bertha A., b. 9th mo. 7, 1883.

VII. (172.) Edward Roberts, son of Josiah A. and Anna M.,
b. 9th mo. 21, 1854, m. 8th mo. 30, 1879, Rettie Lewis.

VIII. Children of Edward and Rettie :

275. elide, b. 5th mo. i, 1880.

276. William L., b. ist mo. 2, 1883.

VII. (180.) John Roberts, of Nebraska, a pioneer in that State,
son of Charles and Sarah, b. 1831, m. Mary Barrett (d.
1853), and, 2d, Sarah A. McKee.

VIII. Child of John and Mary :

277. Mary, b. 1853, m. Charles Martley.

Children of Johti and Sarah A.:
T.'jZ. Charles H., b. 1855. == 279. S. EHzabeth, m. Charles S.
Wright, and 2d, George O. Hofifman.==: 280. I. Frances, m.
Henry Christie. ==== 281. E. Dell. ==: 282. Eda B. (twin with
preceding), m. Chas. W. Fleming. ^= 283. John, d.=:= 284.
D wight J.

VII. (182.) Levi Roberts, of Windham, Iowa, farmer, son of
Charles and Sarah, b. ist mo. 10, 1834, m. Mary J. Rogers.

VIII. Children of Levi and Mary :

285. George D., b. nth mo. 28, 1859.

286. Charles C, b. 8th mo. 2, 1861.

287. Mary F., b. 4th mo. 27, 1863.

288. Sarah C, b. 5th mo. 17, 1865, m. Henry Keaffering.

289. John D., b. 9th mo. 18, 1867.

290. Theudas H., b. loth mo. 6, 1869, d. 7th mo. 14, 1871.

291. Levi W., b. 5th mo. 27, 1870.

292. M. Myrtle, b. 3d mo. 21, 1874.

230 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

VII. (183.) EzEKiEL Roberts, of Monroe, Iowa, butcher, son
of Charles and Sarah, b. 6th mo. 22, 1835, d. 3d mo. 2,
1883, m. Samantha Jackson.

VIII. Children of Ezekiel and Samantha :

293. Frank E., b. 3d m. 9, 1861, m. H. Ada Huddleston.

294. J. Fred., b. 7th mo. 31, 1869.

295. Charles V., b. 4th mo. 8, 1874.

VII. (185.) Wright Roberts, of Akron, Mo., farmer, son of
Charles and Sarah, b. nth mo. 7, 1838, m. 9th mo. i, 1863,
Samantha Severe ; served in the Union Army.
VIII. Children of Wright and Samantha :

296. Carley L., b. 6th mo. 28, 1865, d. loth mo. 16, 1866.

297. Cora A., b. 8th mo. 18, 1867, m. 9th mo. i, 1886, Wm. McFall.

298. Jennie L., b. nth mo. i, 1870.

299. Dwight B., b. loth mo. 30, 1878, d. 12th mo. 11, 1882.

300. Lloyd Severe, b. 3d mo. 5, 1884.

VII. (189.) Charles H. Roberts, of Akron, Mo., farmer, son of
Charles and Sarah, b. 9th mo. 11, 1845, d. 3d mo. 18, 1883,
m. 1866, Mary Catharine Hogan.

VIII. Children of Charles H. and Mary C. :

301. James M., b. 3d mo. 18, 1868, m. Minerva Booth.

302. Jennie L., b. 12th mo. 7, 1872.

303. Esther, b. 7th mo. 16, 1875, d. 7th mo. 26, 1875.

304. Emma A., b. 3d mo. 14, 1881.

VII. (199.) Jesse Roberts, of Jarrettown, Pa., farmer, son of
Charles and Sarah A., b. 2d mo. 13, 1837, d. ist mo. 24,
1892, m. 3d mo. 7, 1864, Sarah E. Skirving, dau. John ;
served in Union Army.

VIII. Children of Jesse and Sarah E. :

305. Alices., b. 12th mo. 19, 1865.

306. Charles R., b. 3d mo. 11, 1867, m. ist mo. 14, 1892, Ida F.
Shepherd.

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307. John J., b. 5th mo. 6, 1869.

308. Mary E., b. 12th mo. 21, 1871.

309. Sarah E., b. ist mo. 19, 1876.

VII. (200.) George K. Roberts, sometime of Phoenixville, mer-
chant, son of Charles and Sarah A., b. 5th mo. 5, 1840, m.
3d mo. 24, 1868, Elizabeth E. Shay ; served as Sergeant, ist
New Jersey Cavalry during the war for the Union.

VI IL Childre7t of George K. and Elizabeth E. :

310. J. Paul, b. 4th mo. 2, 1869.

311. F. Walter, b. 8th mo. 26, 1871.

312. Amelia S., b. loth mo. 3, 1881.

VII. (203.) Joseph Roberts, sometime of Carversville, Pa.,
farmer, son of Charles and Sarah A., b. 9th mo. 1 1, 1848, m.
3d mo. 3, 1870, Mary W. Evans, dau. of Wm. R. (No. 177,
Evans Genealogy),

VIII. Children of Joseph and Mary W. :

313. William E., b. 3d mo. 20, 1871.

314. Howard W., b. loth mo. 14, 1872.

315. Iden F., b. ist mo. 22, 1875.

316. Irven J., b. ist mo. 22, 1875.

317. Jesse C, b. 4th mo. 24, 1884.

VII. (240.) Isaac S. Roberts, of New York, son of Charles and
Elizabeth A., b. ist mo. 19, 1849, m. loth mo. 25, 1871,
Frances Amelia Bullman, dau. of Daniel.

VIII. Children of Isaac S. and Frances Afuelia :

318. Charles Judson, b. 12th mo. 14, 1872, d. ist mo. 22, 1876.

319. Mary Aller, b. 2d mo. 24, 1877.

320. Helen Maxwell, b. 8th mo. 15, 1884,

232

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

VII. (249.) WiNFiELD S. Roberts, of Bennett, Pa., son of John
W. and Margaret D., b. 3d mo. 6, 1857, m. 6th mo. 25,
1878, Sarah Jane Stevens.

VIII. Children of Winfield S. and Sarah Jane :

321. John S., b. 4th mo. 16, 1879.

322. Allen M., b. 2d mo. 19, 1881.

323. Elsie R., b. 7th mo. 17, 1883.

324. Winfield S., b. 7th mo. 25, 1888.

325. Alida, b. 7th mo. 25, 1889.

XV.

Foulke Family Genealogy.

THE details concerning Edward Foulke's ancestry, his re-
moval, etc., have already been fully given.* It is intended
in this chapter to present what is known to the author concern-
ing his descendants.

Genealogical Sketch.

I. (i.) Edward Foulke, of Gwynedd, immigrant from Wales,
1698, b. 5th mo. 13, 165 1, d. 174.1. (There is also a state-
ment that he was 88 yrs. 5 mos. old at his death, which, the
date of his birth being fixed according to his own narrative,
in 165 1, would place his death in 1739.) He m. Eleanor
Hugh, dau. of Hugh Cadwalader. She d. at Gwynedd in the
1st mo., 1733.

//. Children of Edward and Eleaftor:

2. Thomas, d. 1762, m. Gwen Evans. ^

3. Hugh, b. 1685, d. 1760, m. Ann Williams. ^

4. Cadwallader, b. 1691, d. 1743, m. Mary Evans. ^

5. Evan, d. 1745, m. Ellen Roberts, Anne Coulston. ^

6. Gwen, m. loth mo. 6, 1703, Alexander Edwards, jun., son of
Alexander Edwards, of Montgomery twp. , and had five children,
surnamed Edwards : Edward, Alexander, Thomas, Joseph, and
Jane. She survived her husband, as is shown by mention of
her in her brother Thomas's will.

• ' See anie'p. 32, ei seq.

234 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

7. Grace, m. 3d mo. 6, 1707, John Griffith, eldest son of Griffith
John, of Merion, and had issue, surname Griffith : Griffith, John,
Evan, Susanna.

8. Jane (her birth is given in the Exeter monthly meeting records
as nth mo. 10, 1684, but this clashes with the date assigned as
the birth of her brother Thomas, by other authority, — 6th mo. 7,
1685). She m. 4th mo. 5, 1713, Ellis Hugh (Hughes), son of
John Hugh, of Gwynedd. They removed to Oley, now Berks
county. ' ' From them are descended the numerous families of
that name spread through Oley, Exeter, Maidencreek, and the
settlements on the north branch of the Susquehanna." Jane d.
8th mo. 7, 1766, at the home of her son-in-law, Samuel Lee, in
Oiey. She had been " an Elder of Exeter m. m. for about thirty
years." Her husband, Ellis, b. 1687, d. ist mo. 11, 1764.
Exeter records show the following children of this couple : John,
b. 3d mo. 19, 1714, m. Hannah Boone; William, b. 1716, m.
Amy Willits ; Rowland, b. 1720, d. 1738, unm. ; Samuel, b.
1722, d. 1796, m. Elizabeth Willets, Margaret May ; Edward, b.

1724, d. 1791, m. Elizabeth ; Margaret, b. 1726, d. 1810,

m. Samuel Lee.

9. Catharine, m. 4th mo. 5, 1713, Theophilus Williams, son of
John, of Montgomery, and had issue, surname Williams : John,
Benjamin, Mary, Eleanor.

10. Margaret, m. 3d mo. 23, 1717, Nicholas Roberts, son of Robert
Cadwalader, of Gwynedd, and had issue three daughters : Jane,
Eleanor, Elizabeth. (See Roberts Genealogy.)

II. (2.) Thomas Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Edward and
Eleanor, born in Merionethshire, Wales, immigrant to
Gwynedd, 1698, with his parents, m., at Gwynedd m. h., 4th
mo. 27, 1706, GwEN Evans, (d. 12th mo. 6 [or 3 ?], 1760),
eldest dau. of David, of Radnor. They settled at Gwynedd,
on part of the Edward Foulke tract (see page 61). Thomas
Foulke d. 8th mo. 15 [or loth mo. 10?] 1762; his will,
dated June 11, 1757, was proved October 24, 1762. He
appoints his son William executor, aud leaves him his real

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 235

estate, 213 acres (subject to certain charges of annuities,
legacies, etc.), except that he gives his eldest son Edward 25
acres (or ^100 in cash, instead), "part of the tract I now
own, to be surveyed off the north-east end by a line from
Hannaniah Pugh's land to my son William's, and parallel to
the line now dividing the lands of my son Edward and me."
He reserves certain rights of residence in his house, with
annuities, etc., to his wife, " Gwen," and gives to his sister
Gwen Edwards, " the use of the house she now lives in,"
with firewood, etc., and a small annuity. He also leaves
legacies to his daughters Eleanor, Sarah, wife of William
Jones, and Susanna, wife of Rowland Evans.

///. Children of Thomas and Gwen :

11. Edward, b. 1707, d. 1770, m. Gainor Roberts, Margaret
Griffith. P

12. William, b. 1708, d. 1775, m. Hannah Jones. ^

13. Ellin, b. 6th mo. 18, 1710, d. later than date (1757) of her
father's will, which speaks of her as then living. She m. Wil-
ham WilUams, and had 8 children : Susanna, Hugh, Margaret,
Sarah, Thomas, Hannah (m. John Stoy, and had issue 5 chil-
dren) ; Samuel, Elizabeth (m. Samuel Davis, and had issue 5
children : Cadwallader, WiUiam, Thomas, Evan, Anne).

14. Evan, b. 6th mo. 27, 171 2. (The Gwynedd hst of deaths men-
tions Evan Foulke, 12th mo. 11, 1748, and it probably refers
to him).

15. Margaret, b. 3d mo. 22, 1715, d. 9th mo. 23, 1734, unm.

16. Susanna, b. ist mo. 17, 1720, m. Rowland Evans. (See Evans
Genealogy.)

17. Sarah, b. ist mo. 17, 1720, m. WiUiam Jones, and had issue,
Sarah, who m. David Green.

18. Caleb, b. 6th mo. 13, 1722, d. 7th mo. 7, 1736.

n. (3.) Hugh Foulke, of Richland, Bucks county, the second
son of Edward and Eleanor, m., 171 3, Ann Williams (b.

236 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

nth mo. 8, 1693, d. 9th mo. 10, 1773), dau. of John,
of Montgomery. Hugh removed from Gwynedd to
Richland, probably about the time of his marriage. A me-
morial of Richland m. m. says : "He was a member of our
meeting for about thirty years, the latter part of his life. He
had a good gift in the ministry, which we believe he endeav-
ored faithfully to discharge His last illness,

which was very sharp, he endured with much patience and

resignation He died on the 2ist of 5th mo.,

1760, in the 75th year of his age, and the 40th of his
ministry." From Hugh are descended all the Foulkes
whose origin is traceable to Richland, and no doubt a majority
of the members of this family now living are of his line. A
family memorandum says : "All their [Hugh and Ann's]
children lived to marry and raise families, except Edward.
In seventy years after their marriage, the number of their
posterity was 343, and in 18 10 was estimated at upward of
500, of whom 115 bore the name of Foulke."

///. Children of Hugh and Ami :
19. Mary, b. 7th [or 9th ?] mo. 24, 1714, d. 2d mo. 20, 1756, m.
James Boone, of Exeter, Berks county, son of George, the elder,
and brother to Geo. Boone, and of Squire Boone, father of
Daniel, of Kentucky. James \v2&\i. 5th mo. 7, 1709, and d.
9th mo. I, 1785. He had issue by Mary Foulke, 12 children, of
whom three (Joshua, b. 1748; Hannah, b. 1752; Nathaniel,
b. 1753) are recorded as dying in infancy. The others were as
follows (surname Boone') :

I. Ann, b. 2d mo. 3, 1737, d. 4th mo. 4, 1807, m. Abraham Lincoln (of the
family of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States), a
member of the Penna. Const. Conv. of 1787, and of the Penna.
Legislature, etc. (The marriage was not " according to the order"
of the So. of Friends ; 8th mo. 27, 1761, Ann Lincoln makes
acknowledgment to Exeter monthly meeting for marrying " out." )
Abraham d. ist month 31, 1806, in his 70th year.

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 237

2. Mary, b. nth mo. 17, 1738, m. Thomas Lee, son of Samuel, of Olcy,

5th mo. 14, 1778.

3. Martha, b. 1742.

4. James, Jr., b. 1743 (distinguished in his time as a mathematician).

5. John, b. 1745.

6. Judah, b. loth mo. 10, 1746, m. Hannah Lee, dau. of Samuel and Mar-

garet, of Oley, nth mo. 15, 1770.

7. Dinah, b. 1748.

8. Rachel, b. 1751.

9. Moses, b. 5th mo. 23, 1751, m. 1779, Sarah Griffith.

20. Martha, b. 5th mo. 22, 1716, d. 4th mo. 17, 1781, m. ist, Oct.
4, 1738, William Edwards, of Milford, Bucks co., and, 2d,
John Roberts, son of Thomas.

21. Samuel, b. 171 8, d. 1797, m. Ann Greasly. ^

22. Ellen, b. ist mo. 19, 1720, m. John Lloyd, of Horsham, at
Richland m. h., 8th mo. 21, 1742.

23. John, b. 1722, d. 1787, m. Mary Roberts. ^.

24. Thomas, b. 1724, d. 1786, m. Jane Roberts, 'p

25. Theophilus, b. 1726, d. 1785, m. Margaret Thomas. ^

26. William, b. 1728, d. 1796, m. Priscilla Lester. ^

27. Edward, b. loth mo. 19, 1729, d. March ist, 1747, unm.

28. Ann, b. ist mo. i, 1732, m. WiUiam Thomas.

29. Jane, b. ist mo. 3d, 1734, d. 8th mo., 1771, m. John Greasly.

II. (4.) Cadwallader Foulke,' of Gwynedd, third son of Ed-
ward and Eleanor, b. in Wales 7th mo. 13, 1691. He lived
at Gwynedd until 1731, when he removed to Philadelphia,
and d. there 7th mo. 17, 1743, "after a short illness." The
memorial of Philadelphia m. m. concerning him says : " He
was born in Wales, and came over to this Province with his
parents, when young ; married and settled at Gwynedd,
where he lived most of his time ; and from thence about
twelve years before his decease removed to this city. He

iThe matter immediately following, the genealogy of the line of Cadwallader
FoULKE, was especially prepared for me by the late Mrs. William Parker Foulke, of
Philadelphia, and is here inserted bodily, nearly as she wrote it, the whole being given
together directly to the latest generation (as in 1883).

238 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

was of an open generous disposition, and useful and active in
the support of the discipline and good order of the church,
an Elder well respected and exemplary in his life and conver-
sation." In Gwynedd he was a "yeoman"; he bought,
1718, land, 307 acres, of Hugh Pugh, son of Evan ap Hugh,
and sold it, 1732, to Robert John.' In his deed to the latter
he is described as " late of Gwynedd, but now of Philadel-
phia, shop-keeper." His residence, and probably place of
business, are shown by a deed from Edward Cotteral to him,
in 1740, for a " lot adjoining the house where he [C. F.]
lives, on the north side of High street, near the Court
House." He was appointed a justice of the peace for Phila-
delphia Co., Nov. 22, 1738. The Philadelphia Co. records
show acknowledgments of deeds, etc., before him, in 1739, '40,
and '41 (and probably later). Cadwallader m. at Gwynedd
m. h., 4th mo. 13, 1 7 19, Mary Evans, dau. of Robert."
(See Evans Genealogy.) Mary was a minister among
Friends, and made a number of journeys of religious duty,
among others to Barbadoes, Nantucket, and Rhode Island.
She m., 2d, at Philadelphia meeting, iith mo. 31, 1744,
Thomas Marriott, of Bristol, Bucks co., and d. 1747. A
memorial in the John Smith MS. collection says : " Her
corpse was taken to Phila., and, after a solemn meeting held
on that occasion at the Bank Meeting House, she was buried

^ See details about this property at p. 69.

- Robert Evans [says Mrs. W. P. F.'s MS.] was the third son of Evan, ap Evan,
ap Robert, ap Lewis, ap Griffith, ap Howel Goch, ap Einion, ap Deikws ddu, ap
Madoc, ap levan Goch, ap David Goch, ap Trahnarn Goch, ap Madoc, ap Rhys Gloff,
ap Rhys Vaughan, ap Rhys Mechyllt, ap Rhys Grilg, ap Rhys, ap Griffith, ap Rhys ap
Tevvddur Mawr, ap Einion, ap Owen, ap Howel ddu, ap Cadelh, ap Rodri Mawr, ap
Mervyn Vrych. (The mother of Mervyn Vrych, King of Man, was Nest, grand-dau.
of Brockwell Yscithiog, Prince of Powis, who defeated Ethelred K. of Northumber-
land on the Dee near Bangor, about the year 607. One of Brockwell's sons was Bishop
Tysillis, the opponent of St. Augustine.)

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 239

in Friends' burying ground there." Cadwallader and
Mary had ten children, but one only, Judah, second born,
lived to adult age.

///. Child of Cadwallader and Mary :

30. Judah, b. 1722, d. 1776, m. Mary Bringhurst. See following :

III. (30.) Judah Foulke, of Philadelphia, b. at Gwynedd, 7th
mo. 30, 1722, d. January 24, 1776, m. 12th mo. 16, 1743,
Mary Bringhurst, of Philadelphia, dau. of John.^ Judah
was a prominent and active citizen ; that he loved letters, the
well-cherished and well-used volumes of classics which were
owned by him attest. From 1745 to 1750 he was Collector
of Excise for Philadelphia. In 1770, he was sheriff of the
city and county of Philadelphia, and again in 1771 and
1772. A quaint document, dated December 1 1, 1773, recites
that His Excellency John Penn, " with the advice of the
Council, constitutes and appoints Judah Foulke, gentleman,
Keeper of the Standards of Brass for weights and measures
for the county of Philadelphia." His will, written 1774,
makes his wife sole legatee, " in full confidence of her mater-
nal affection for our children," and appoints his brother-in-law
Joseph Bringhurst, and his friends Abel James and Joseph
Fox, executors. His dweUing was No. 34 Front St., North,
where d. his widow, Jan. 22, 1798, aged nearly jy yrs.

IV. Children of fudah and Mary :

31. John, b. 1757, d. 1796, m. Eleanor Parker. ^

32. Ehzabeth, d. unm. ^

33. Mary, d. April 5, 1807, unm. ("Aged 54 years.")

34. Deborah, b. 9th mo. 28, 1764, m., ist, Oct. 16, 1788, WilHam

'John was the son of John and Rosina Bringhurst, and was b. in Amsterdam,
Holland. His wife, Mary, was the daughter of James Claypoole, merchant, of
London, and Mary his wife.

240 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Pearson, son of William and Ann, dec'd, of Northern Liberties ;
and, 2d, nth mo. 2, 1809, Isaac Tyson, of Philad'a, son of
James and Sarah, of Springfield, Del. Co. By her first husband
she had issue, 's,\xxvi2,ra.& Pearson : Mary, b. Feb. 10, 1791, d.
Feb. 2, 181 3, unm.

IV. (31.) John Foulke, of Philadelphia, son of Judahand Mary,
was a physician, a man of learning, and of high repute in his
profession, while of his generous practical humanity and
thorough accomplishments, much interesting testimony ex-
ists. A memorandum of April 6, 1767, has : "John Foulke
entered at Robert Proud's school, to learn Latin ; " and this
is the earliest noteworthy record we have of him. The late
Joseph Carson, M. D., writes : "Dr. Foulke presented him-
self for graduation in 1779, and was prevented from receiving
his degree, in consequence of the abrogation of the charter of
the college, from the political excitement of the Revolution.'
Dr. Foulke was an honored member of the profession, and
one of the first elected members of the College of Physi-
cians." His diploma of Fellowship bears date January 2,
1787.^ By means of his private school for medical instruc-

1 He received his diploma as Baclielor of Medicine in 1780. This degree of B.M.
was discontinued after the union, Sept. 30, 1791, of the Phila. College of Medicine and
the University of Penna.

"^ In 1789 appeared the " Oration which might have been delivered to the Students
in Anatomy, on the late Rupture between the Two Schools in this City." It begins
with a mock-solemn adjuration to the adherents of the leaders of the adverse factions,
Drs. Shippen and Foulke :

" Friends and associates ! lend a patient ear,
Suspend intestine broils, and reason hear.

Ye followers of F your wrath forbear —

Ye sons of S your invectives spare."

This grotesque satire was written by Francis Hopkinson, " with a view to appease
the dissension that arose from abrogating the charter of the college, then renewing it,
and leaving the University in existence. It may have contributed to the coalition in
1791." [Dr. Jo^ Carson.]

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 24 1

tion, conducted at 107 North Front Street [his residence] he
educated many members of the profession most distinguished
both here and elsewhere. In one especial line, Dr. Foulke
preceded both Dr. James and Dr. Dewees, for he it was who
gave in Philadelphia the first systematic instruction in ob-
stetrics."

During the prev^alence of the yellow fever epidemic in
Phila., he fearlessly devoted himself to the aid of the sufferers,
and was frequently absent for days in the infected districts.

He set sail from Phila. May 4, 1780, for Port I'Orient, in
the brig Duke of Leinster ; Mr. George Fox accompanied
him. They were the bearers to Benj. Franklin, then Ameri-
can Minister to France, of letters introductory from Thomas
Bond and Joseph Wharton. Mr. Bond describes the travelers
as " the sons of our worthy deceased Friends Judah Foulke
and Joseph Fox. They have both had a liberal education,
and are now in the laudable pursuit of further useful knowl-
edge in Europe. Mr. Foulke has deservedly obtained in the
Philadelphia University, a Diploma of Bachelor of Medi-
cine." Mr. Wharton's letter of the same date, April 27,
1780, says :

The bearer, my friend Dr. John Foulke, is a Whig in his princi-
ples, has subscribed the Test to this State, and though, from the singu-
larity of the tenets of the Quakers, he has not been active in the
field, yet in the line of his physical profession, has been useful in the
hospitals. 1 His intention in visiting France is to improve himself in
Surgery and Physic ; but being a perfect stranger in Paris, will stand
in need of recommendations to the most eminent in the medical
branches, as well as for favorable introductions into the hospitals.

1 In the " Diary of Robert Morton," Penna. Magazine, Vol. I., he says : " Oct.
8th [1777] ... I went to see Dr. Foulke amputate an American soldier's leg,
which he completed in twenty minutes, while the physician at the military hospital was
forty minutes performing an operation of the same nature." *

242 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Will you therefore, my good Sir, as my friend is of unimpeached
morals, and his relatives long known for good citizens, take him by
the hand, and recommend him to those gentlemen who can be most
useful to him ? I know you will, and in this happy thought, I sub-
scribe myself.

Respectfully, etc.,

Joseph Wharton.
His Excellency Dr. Franklin.

Before his return to America, Dr. Foulke visited Ger-
many and Holland, and the stay abroad was rich in experi-
ences, in added friendships, and in knowledge gained. At a
lecture on Pneumatics, which he delivered at the old Hall of
the College, Fourth St. below Arch, in May, 1784, he exhib-
ited to his friends the first balloon seen in this country. He
had been greatly interested by the subject of aerostation, while
in France, where the invention of the balloon had been lately
made public. An autograph note to Dr. Foulke from General
Washington states that " he would with great pleasure attend
the lecture on Pneumatics, but the business which brought
him to the City does not leave him at liberty, as the Members
of the Cincinnati are anxious to bring it to a close."

Dr. Foulke was elected to membership of the American
Philosophical Society in 1784, and in 1786 became one of its
Secretaries, Benjamin Franklin being President.

He m. May 8, 1788, Eleanor, dau. of Richard' and
Lydia Parker, dec'd, of Phila. She survived until the sum-
mer of i860.* The following were the

1 Richard Parker was the son of Richard, the son of Richard, of Rolgley, Lincoln-
shire, Eng., who emigrated in 1684 : see Proud's History of Pennsylvania, Vol. IL, p.
218, notes.

- Her married life was a little more than 8 years, her widowhood 64 years, — a very
remarkable instance.

I

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 243

V. Childre7i of John and Eleanor Foulke :

35. Richard Parker, b. 1789, d. i860, m. Anna Catharine Strohn. if*

36. Mary, b. Aug. i, 1790; d. unm.

37. Eleanor Parker, b. April 6, 1792 ; d. 1882 ; m. Burgess B. Long ;
no children.

IV. (32.) Elizabeth Foulke, dau. of Judah and Mary, b. 28
9th mo., 1758. A notice, written in 1820, says of her : " She
was possessed of a strong and active mind, which was im-
proved by cultivation, and of manners cheerful and engaging ;
and although deprived by death of most of her near rela-
tions, she had collected around her a large circle endeared to
her by the most tender ties of friendship. Her house was
the loved resort of persons of both sexes and all ages, to
whom she adapted her conversation with remarkable facility.
By the Society of Friends in this city, her loss will
long be felt ; she was an active member, and for nearly thirty
years a minister of the Gospel. . . . The Prison, the
Public Alms House, and the Asylum for Widows, all en-
gaged her attention, and in each of them her voice was raised
in endeavors to reclaim the wanderer and comfort the
afflicted." There is a letter from her to Sarah Harrison, in
Friciids' Miscellany (Vol. XL, p. 185), dated at Philadelphia,
I ith mo. 29, 1793, in which she speaks of the recent terrible
visitation of yellow fever. She had been absent from the city
ten weeks, but seems to have been well informed of the con-
dition of affairs within it : " Outward circumstances," she
says, " concurred to heighten the virulence of the disease and
increase its progress. The coming of rain and cold weather,
towards which the minds of many were too much turned as
a source of relief, was withheld, and the parched earth seemed
to mourn with its inhabitants. . . . It is impossible for
tongue or pen to give a just idea of the awfulness of t

244 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

scene, or of our feelings through the course of it. It seemed
at times as tho' the Almighty would utterly desolate the
city." She d. unmarried, at Burlington, N. J., October 19,
1820, and was there interred.

V. (35.) Richard Parker Foulke, b. April 5, 1789, m. August
6, 18 1 2, Anna Catharine Strohn, dau. of Philip and Anna
Catharine Strohn, b. May 17, 1792, d. January 30, 1856. He
had no bent towards a profession, and his early establishment
in business was due to the affectionate interest in him of his
uncle, Mr. William Parker. He d. at the summer residence
of his son, William Parker Foulke, near West Chester, Pa.,
August 22, i860.

VI. Children of Richard P. and Anna C. :
(The children of Richard Parker and Anna Catharine Foulke were
eleven in number : all of them d. young, except) :

38. EHzabeth, 2d dau., b. March 25, 1814, d. May 4, 1864. She
m. May 12, 1855, Patrick Beirne, of Levvisburg, W. Va., b. in
County Roscommon, Ireland, and had, surname Beirne: (i)
Richard Foulke, b. 1856, m. in 1877, Clara Haxall, dau. of
Thomas Billopp Grundy, of Baltimore, Md. (and has issue :
Clara, b. Nov. 4, 1878 ; EHzabeth Foulke, b. Nov., 1879 ; Rich-
ard Foulke, b. August 25, 1882) ; and (2) William McDermott,
b. 1858, d. 1859.

39. William Parker, b. 1816, d. 1865. See below.

40. Francis Edward, youngest child, b. May 17, 1834.

VI. (39.) William Parker Foulke, b. May 31, 1816, m. April
26, 1855, Julia de Veaux Powel, dau. of Col. John Hare
Powel,' of Philadelphia. She d. April 30, 1884. William

> His name was originally John Powel Hare, but, as the adopted son of his
mother's sister, Mrs. Powel, he caused it to be changed by Act of Assembly to John
Hare Powel. His father, Robert, who was the son of Richard Hare (of Limehouse,
near London, Eng. ), came to Pennsylvania, June 4, 1773. — See Keith's Provincial
Councillors of Pennsylvania, pp. 129, 133-134.

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 245

Parker Foulke early showed the philanthropic spirit by
which he was distinguished. Well read in the law, he prac-
ticed for a time at the Philadelphia Bar. In 1845 he appears
as a member of the Phila. Society for Alleviating the Miseries
of Public Prisons ; and in 1846 as one of the Visiting Com-
mittee for the Eastern Penitentiary. In his endeavor " to
reconcile the highest interests of the Commonwealth with the
utmost exhibition of humanity towards offenders," he strug-
gled long with popular prejudice and indifference. His writ-
ings on the various branches of penal administration and
reform and his efforts during nearly half of his life, identify
his name with the Pennsylvania system of separate imprison-
ment. The late Frederick A. Packard, his fellow-laborer,
writes of "the weeks and months and years devoted by Mr.
Foulke to journeys and examinations, consultations, discus-
sions, conferences with strangers from other States and from
foreign countries, correspondence, reports, addresses, memo-
rials, besides the constant active duties of personal inspection
in Philadelphia, and attendance upon legislation at Harris-
burg." In 1858 Mr. Foulke first proposed the appointment
of a Commission to revise the penal Code of Pennsylvania.
His memorial, which was adopted by the Society, led in due
time to the necessary legislation, and he was made one of a
committee to confer with the Commissioners, and to suggest
such changes as the experience of the Society approved. The
Commissioners were appointed in 1859, and in i860 a report
of the Conferences appeared, the Code itself being enacted
the same year. — In 1845, Mr, Foulke became a Manager of
the Penna. Colonization Society; in 1853, 54. '55. he was
sent a delegate to the meetings of the parent Society at
Washington. The Society's influence, through his urgency,
was exerted to procure a Government survey of the country

246 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF G WYNEDD.

interior of Liberia, with the view of directing settlement to
the more healthy region.' — Three years of serious effort were
given by Mr. Foulke to the promotion of the Arctic Expe-
dition of i860, under Dr. I. I. Hayes, and his labors in this
behalf are perpetuated in the name — Port Foulke — given to
the winter harbor of the explorers in North Greenland. —
He was an ardent and serviceable member of the Academy of
Natural Sciences. His discovery, in the summer 1858, in
the green-sand formation at Haddonfield, N. J., of a gigantic
fossil extinct reptile, marked his labors in that field.2 Asso-
ciated with the Pennsylvania Historical Society, in 1842, he
took an active interest in its work ; he was in 1850, with Hon.
Jos. R. Ingersoll, Rev. Albert Barnes, Bishop Potter, and
others, charged with the preparation of a series of historical
papers, and his essay " On the Right Use of History," was
pubUshed 1856. — Prof J. P. Lesley, chief of the present
(Second) Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, speaks in high
terms of his services in procuring the publication of the
Report of the First Survey. He says : "Among the few men
in the Commonwealth who knew either the character of the
Report, or the actual value of the Survey, Mr. Foulke occu-
pied the most prominent position, and it was he who finally
succeeded in dragging the buried manuscript into notice and
in so stimulating public opinion in its favor as to get an act
passed for its publication, in 1851."'^ He was one of the
three earliest projectors of the Philadelphia Academy of

'Commander Lynch, U. S. N., made his report of the partial completion of this
survey, Sept. 5, 1853. See H. R. Doc. i, 54 pp.

2 In Nov., 1868, a restoration of the skeleton was made by Prof. Waterhouse
Hawkins, the English scientist, and presented to the Academy.

' Prof. Lesley's memorial address of W. P. F. (Owing to delays the Report did
not finally appear until 1859.)

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 247

Music, and the fine proportions of that building are largely
due to him. He desired, indeed, that it should be of yet
greater size, " that the many might be attracted at reasonable
rates." His hope was, by elevating the standard of popular
amusements, dramatic, operatic, and musical, to aid in the
purification of tastes and manners among the people at large.
He thought also that to lay the foundation of such a school
for complete education in music, as should be included by the
ultimate scheme, " would enable us hereafter to command the
best musical talent of the world, and also to provide for the
cultivation of such talent among ourselves." Prof. J. P.
Lesley read before the American Philosophical Society, Nov.
6, 1868, a Memoir of Mr. Foulke, which is found in Volume
X. of its proceedings, and which was prepared at its instance.
William Parker Foulke's connection with this body was of
long duration, and he was a member of its Council at the
time of his death, which took place on June 18, 1865.

VII. Childreti of William Parker aiid Jtilia de Veaiix :

41. Julia Catharine, b. Jan. 22, 1856, m. May 3, 1882, Henry
Carvill Lewis, 1 M. A., Univ. of Penna., Prof, of Mineralog)' A.
N. S., of Phila., and has, surname Z^wzj, Gwendolen deVeau.x,
b. Mar. 21, 1883.

42. Wilham de Veaux, b. June 9, 1857.

43. Richard Parker, b. Aug. 30, 1858, d. Jan. 7, 1865.

44. Lisa de Veaux, b. March 8, i860.

45. John Francis, b. Nov. 26, 1861, B. A. and B. L., Univ. of Penna.,
Member of Phila. Bar.

46. Sara Gwendolen, b. June 26, 1863.

47. George Rhyfedd, b. Aug. 16, 1865.

[Thus the living representatives of Cadwallader Foulke's Hne to-day,

1 Henry Carvill is the son of F. Mortimer, son of John F., and Johann A. P. Lud-
wig (of Crailsheim, Wurtemburg), who came to Philadelphia June 3, 1777, and Angli-
cised his name to Lewis. [1896. Prof. Lewis is since deceased.]

248 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Sept. 28, 1883, are twelve in number, as follows : Francis Ed-
ward Foulke, youngest son of Richard Parker Foulke ; Richard
Foulke Beirne and his three children ; three sons and three
daughters as above named of William Parker Foulke ; and
Gwendolen de Veaux Lewis, child of the eldest of these. —
J. de V. F.]

II. (5.) Evan Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Edward, b. in Wales,
immigrant, 1698, with his parents, d. 1745. He received
from his father, in 1725, 250 acres of the eastern side of the
latter's original tract, the east corner of which was almost
precisely at the present village of Spring-House, and he lived
near that place. He m., ist, Ellen Roberts, dau. of Ed-
ward, of Gwynedd, and, 2d, Anne Coulston, widow. Sept.
20, 1745, letters of administration were granted upon his
estate to his widow, Anne Foulke.

///. Children of Evan Foulke by his two wives :

48. Margaret (dau. of Ellen), b. 4th mo. 19, 1726, d. 3d mo. 6,
1798, m. John Evans, of Gwynedd, son of John and Eleanor.
(See Evans Genealogy.)

49. Esther (dau. of Anne), b. ist mo. 16, 1744, m., ist, Yax-
ley,' and had issue (surname Yaxley) : Eleanor and Ann ; m.,
2d, Johnson, and had issue two children, surname John-
son, Samuel and Mary. (Eleanor Yaxley, m. John F. Evans,
son of John and Margaret ; Mary Johnson m. Thomas Scarlett,
and had issue two children, Robert and Mary.)

[The Gwynedd Monthly Meeting records show the death of the fol-
lowing children of Evan Foulke : Edward, son of Evan and
Ellen, 5th mo. 29, 1745 ; Anne, dau. Evan and Ellen, 6th mo.
4, 1745 ; Ellen, dau. Evan and Anne, 6th mo. 15, 1745.]

III. (11.) Edward Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Thomas and
Gwen, b. 1707, d. loth mo. 10, 1770, m., ist, Gainor Rob-
erts, dau. of Edward, of Gwynedd. Gainor d. 7th mo. 14,

'See ante, Foulke Genealogy, p. i8i.

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 249

1 74 1 ; he m., 2d, Margaret Griffith, dau. of Hugh, of
Gwynedd, 8th mo. 25, 1750. Margaret survived him: her
will was probated Sept. 26, 178 1 ; she names her dau. Han-
nah and her son Cadwalader, leaving them legacies in money,
and leaves to her son Hugh, whom she appoints executor,
"all my plantation where he now dwells," 180 acres, mostly
in Gwynedd, partly in Horsham, but lying contiguous. (This
is the present property [1884] of Daniel Foulke, and estate
of Thomas S. Foulke.) Edward had part of the land of
his father, Thomas Foulke ; it lay to the eastward of the
latter's (given by will to William), towards the Spring-House,
and Thos. S. Foulke regarded it as the same which has been
in recent time the place of Albert Hoover, and John Murphy.
Edward was a man of education and business capacity. He
was some time engaged in Philadelphia, as clerk to the
Pennsylvania Commissioners of Loans (his brother-in-law,
Rowland Evans, being one of the Board).

IV. Children of Edward and Gainor :

50. Joshua, b. 1 731, m. Catharine Evans, Hannah Jones. ^

51. Ann, b. 6th mo. 22, 1732, m. John Ambler, and had issue seven
children, surname Ambler :

1. Joseph, m. Elizabeth Forman : no issue.

2. Edward, m. Ann Mather, and had issue : Edward, Hannah, Sarah,

Ehzabeth, Ann, and others.

3. John, jun., m., ist, Priscilla Naylor, and had issue: Naylor, Charles,

Priscilla, Mary, Lydia, and others; (Priscilla m. Silas Walton,
Mary m. Jesse Jenkins ; see Jenkins Genealogy ; Lydia m. Thomas
Bancroft) ; 2d, m. Mary Thomas, who left no issue.

4. Jesse, m. Ruth Roberts; no issue. (See Roberts Genealogy.)

5. Gainor, m. Isaac Jones, of Montgomery, and had seven children : John,

Ann, who m. Jonathan Cleaver ; Charles, George, Tacy, who m.
Edward Foulke ; Jesse, Isaac.

6. Tacy, m. Joseph Shoemaker, and had issue six children : Ezekiel, who

m. Margaret Weaver ; Joseph, who m. Phebe Hallowell ; Jesse, d.
unm. ; Ann, who m. Nathan Evans ; Hannah, who m. John Caven-
der, of Philadelphia ; Ellen, m. John Forman, of New Britain.

250 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

7. Susanna, m. Jesse Lukens, of Towamencin, and had nine children :
(i) Samuel, m. Mary 'Farra, no issue; (2) Charles, d. unm. ; (3)
Ann, m. Jacob Styer, and had issue John F., Samuel L., Albanus ;
(4) Martha, m. Isaac Jones, of Plymouth; (5) Edith, m. Israel
Scott, of Towamencin, and had issue : Jesse, Jane, Job; (6) Cad-
wallader, d. unm. ; (7) Peter, m. Elizabeth Wilson, and had issue :
Algernon, Susan, Elizabeth, Martha; (8) Jonathan, m. Elizabeth
Righter, and had issue: Jesse, Martha Ann, Mary F. ; (9) Hugh,
m. and had issue.

52. Eleanor, b. 7th mo. 15, 1735, n^- S^h mo. 14, 1767, Edward
Ambler, son of Joseph, of Montgomery.

IV. Children of Edward and Margaret :

53. Hugh, b. 1751, d. 1831, m. Ann Roberts. ^

54. Alice, b. 7th mo. 15, 1754, d. in infancy.

55. Hannah, b. 9th mo. 20, 1755, d. 6th mo. 24, 1781, m. Edward
Stroud, and had issue : Edward, Margaret, Tacy.

56. Cadwallader, b. 1758, d. 1808, m. Phebe Elhs, Ann Chirington.^

III. (12.) William Foulke, of G\vynedd, son of Thomas and
Gwen, b. 1708, d. 1775 ; m. Hannah Jones, dau. of John
("carpenter"), of Montgomery, at Gwynedd m. h., 8th mo.
15, 1734. The memorial of Gwynedd m. m. says: "He
was born of religious parents, early settlers of Gwynedd,"
and " in the station of elder and overseer, which he filled for
a number of years, he was exemplary and serviceable."
Hannah d. 12th mo. i, 1798. The will of William, pro-
bated Nov. 6, 1775, names his wife, Hannah, and appoints
his sons Caleb and Jesse executors. To his son Jesse he
gives " the plantation where I now dwell ; " to his son Levi
"the plantation where he now dwells," containing about lOO
acres ; to his son Levi and daughter Jane a lot of 25 acres,
near Levi's farm, to be equally divided between them, Levi's
share to be the end next Joshua Foulke's, and Jane's the end
next William Williams's ; to his son Jesse he gives " a narrow
strip of land which I hold, between the tract I sold George

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 25 I

Maris, and lands of one Roil ; " to his sons Levi and Jesse his
right to a share in a lime-kiln, in Plymouth ; to his sons Caleb
and Amos, and daughters Jane, Priscilla, and Lydia, bequests
of money.

IV. Children of William and Hannah :

57. Jane, b. 6th mo. 22, 1735, "^- ^757' George Maris, of Gwynedd,
son of George, of Springfield, Chester [now Delaware] county.
This couple lived where now Jacob Acufif's hotel is. George
Maris d. Aug. 20, 1803, leaving a large estate, mostly in land.
His children were ten in number, including Amos, Jesse, Ann,
Jane, and George, who all d. unmarried ; the others were (sur-
name Maris) :

1. William, who received the homestead by his father's will, but d. the

next year, 1804, unm., leaving it to his nephew, Jesse J.

2. Jonathan, who m. 1792, Judith Mcllvaine, dau. of John and Susanna,

and had issue one son, Jesse J., b. 1793, who m. Mary West, dau.
of Saml. and Mary, and had issue : Hannah, who m. John Stokes ;
John M., Samuel W., William, Jesse Emlen, Edward, Sarah Ann,
and Mary W.

3. Susanna, m. 1795, Levi Heston, of Philada., son of John, of Montgom-

ery twp., and had issue : Maria, m. Jesse Tyson, of Upper Provi-
dence, and Franklin Foulke, of Gwynedd, — No. 125, this Genealo-
gy ; (2) Jane, m. Robert Tyson.

4. Hannah, m. 1796, John Wilson, son of John, of Whitemarsh, and had

issue : George, Ann, m. Benjamin Jones ; Susan (the poet), m. Solo-
mon Lukens ; Rebecca.

5. Rebecca, m. 1796, Jarrett Heston, son of John, of Montgomery.

58. Caleb, b. 1736, d. 1811, m. Jane Jones. ^

59. Levi, b. 1739, d- i8i5> rn- Ann Evans. P

60. Amos, b. 1740, d. 1793, m. Hannah Jones. ^

61. Jesse, b. nth mo. 9, 1742, d. 3d mo. 16, 1821, unm. He and
Priscilla occupied the old homestead, at Penllyn, and lived,
greatly esteemed, to advanced years. (See mention of their
deaths, in Cadw. Foulke' s and Lewis Jones's lists ; also, re-
peated allusions to them in the Sally Wister diary.)

62. Priscilla, b. loth mo. 3, 1744, d. ist mo. 25, 1821, unm.

63. 64, 65. Margaret, b. 1746; Sarah, b. 1748; Judah, b. 1751 ;
all d. in infancy.

2 52 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

66. Lydia, b. 4th mo. 9, 1756, m. John Spencer^ (b. 1756, d. 1799).
son of Jacob and Hannah, of Moreland, and had issue, sur-
name Spencer :

1. Susan, b. 4th mo. 10, 1784, d. , untn.

2. Edith, b. I2th mo. 16, 1785, d. 1865, unm.

3. George, b. 4th mo. 29, 1787, m. Mary Thomas, of Cayuga Co., New

York, and d. without issue. His widow survives. [1884.] He
was a well-known and much esteemed resident of Horsham.

4. Priscilla, b. 8th mo. 27, 1788, d. 6th mo. 8, 1865, unm.

5. Jesse, 2 b. 12th mo. 22, 1790, d. 9th mo. 30, 1841, m. Mary Custard, and

had issue : (i) Amelia, m. James C- Jackson, of Hockessin, Del.,
and has issue ; (2) John, m. Mary J. Rhodes, and has issue; (3)
George, m. Ella L. Shoemaker, and has issue ; (4) Lydia, m. Sam-
uel Morris, of Olney, Philadelphia, and has issue ; (5) Anna; (6)
William F., m. Christiana Bradley, and has issue.

6. Jonathan, b. 8th mo. 18, 1792, d. 4th mo. 6, 1867, m. Sarah Harris and

Sarah Lang. By his second wife he had issue : Florence, m. Sam-
uel E. Stokes ; John E. and George E. d. young.

7. Rebecca, b. 7th mo. 19, 1794, d. , unm.

8. Rachel, b. nth mo. 12, 1796, d. 4th mo. 8, 1851, unm.

9. Lydia, b. 8th mo. 10, 1799, ^- ^^^th mo. 30, 1823, m. John Lloyd ; left

no issue.

III. (21.) Samuel Foulke, of Richland, son of Hugh and Ann,
b. I2th mo. 4, 1718, d. 1st mo. 21, 1797; m. 1743, Ann
Greasley (d. 5th mo., 1797). He was a prominent member
of the Society of Friends, was appointed clerk of Richland
Monthly Meeting at its first establishment, in 1 742, and con-
tinued in that capacity " about thirty-seven years, and nearly
thirty years served as clerk to the meeting of ministers and
elders." From 1761 to 176S inclusive he was a member of
the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania, and fragments of

1 John Spencer was the son of Jacob and Hannah (Jarrett), and the brother of
Jarrett Spencer, who m. Hannah Evans [see p. 170]. Jacob was the son of Sam-
uel, of Upper Dublin, who m. Mary Dawes, dau. Abraham and Edith of Whitemarsh.
Samuel was the son of Samuel (and Elizabeth), who came to Pennsylvania from Bar-
badoes, about 1700. — See details Spencer Family, Post.

' Jesse Spencer lived at Penllyn in the old Foulke mansion, a much esteemed man.

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 253

his journal kept during that time have been printed. > In
1 78 1, notwithstanding his prominence in the meeting, he was
disowned, with other members of Richland Meeting,^ for
having taken the oath of allegiance to the Colonies. He
made the translation from Welsh into English of Edward
Foulke's narrative. Several obituaiy notices, and a letter to
a minister, by him, will be found in Friends' Miscellany , Vols.
III., IV.

IV. Children of Samuel and Ann :

67. Eleanor, b. 1744, d. 7th mo. 6, 1833, m. Randall Iden.

68. Thomas, b. 4th mo. 11, 1746, d. loth mo. 7, 1784, unm.

69. Amelia, b. 1753, d. 8th mo. 7, 181 1, m. Joseph Custer.

70. Hannah, b. 9th mo. 15, 1756, d. 3d mo., 1840, m. George Iden.

71. Israel, b. 1760, d. 1824, m. EHzabeth Roberts. ^

72. Judah, b. 1st mo. 18, 1763, m. Sarah McCarty. They had a
large family, 13 children being recorded on Richland m. m.
records. In 18 18 they removed to Miami, O., and they have
numerous descendants in the West.

73. John, b. 1767, m. Letitia Roberts. ^

74. Cadwallader, b. 1768, d. 1830, m. Margaret Foulke. 'p
[Israel, b. 1749, and Judah, b. 1752, d. young.]

III. (23.) John Foulke, of Richland, son of Hugh and Ann, b.
1 2th mo. 21, 1722, d. 5th mo. 25, 1787, m. Mary Roberts,
(b. 4th mo. 26, 1730, d. loth mo. 2, 1787), dau. of Edward,
of Richland. John was a member of the Provincial Assem-
bly from Bucks County from 1769 to 1775.

IV. Children of fohn and Mary :

75. Edward, b. 7th mo. 16, 1758, m. Ehzabeth Roberts, Ann
Roberts. ^

1 Penna. Mag., Vol. IV. .

* Including his brothers, John, Thomas, and Theophilus, and his nephew, Ever-
ard. It is said that this disciplinary procedure could only be accomplished with help
from other meetings, directed from Philadelphia, and that Samuel Foulke, who had for
many years sat " at the head of the meeting," continued to do so to his death.

2 54 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

76. Anne, b. loth mo. 27, 1760.

']^. Jane, b. 8th mo. 2, 1763, d. 3d mo. 18, 1780.

78. Aquila, b. 3d mo. 2, 1766. He m. his first cousin, Amelia
Roberts, and for this breach Richland m. m. disowned them,
1789.

79. Margaret, b. loth mo. 17, 1768, m. Gibson.

80. Evan, b. 5th mo. 6, 1771, m. Sarah Nixon, and had issue:
Olivia, Charles, Asenath (m. Samuel Foulke, son of Judah, No.
99) ; Susanna, Samuel, Edward, and others. This family re-
moved to Ohio, except Charles, who m. Catherine P. Edkins,
and lived near Stroudsburg, where he d. 1883, leaving issue.

81. Lydia, b. loth mo. 2, 1775, m. Nathan Edwards.

III. (24.) Thomas Foulke, of Richland, son of Hugh and Ann,
b. 1st mo. 14, 1724, d. 3d mo. 31, 1786, m. Jane Roberts,
(b. nth mo. 3, 1732, d. 7th mo. 25, 1822), dau. of Edward,
of Richland.

IV. Children of Thomas and Jane :

82. Everard, b. 1755, d. 1827, m. Ann Dehaven. ^

83. Abigail, b. loth mo. 4, 1763.

84. Susanna, b. nth mo. 5, 1766.

85. Samuel, b. i ith mo. 19, 1767.

[Edward, b. 1756, Samuel, b. 1761, d. in infancy.]

III. (25.) Theophilus Foulke, of Richland, son of Hugh and
Ann, b. 12th mo. 21, 1726, d. nth mo. 4, 1785, m. Marga-
ret Thomas, dau. of Samuel and Margaret. They had
twelve children, of whom four (Benjamin, b. 1763, Rachel
and Charles, twins, b. 1773, and Charles, b. 1777), d. in in-
fancy ; and one, Benjamin, b. 1768, d. 1784, unmarried.
The survivors are given below. Theophilus, like his brothers,
fell under the censure of the meeting, for departure from
strict peace principles.

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 255

IV. Children of Theophilns and Margaret:

86. Hugh, b. 8th mo. 29, 1758, d. 9th mo., 1846, m. Sarah Roberts,
Sarah Lester, Catharine Johnson. By his second wife he had no
children ; by his first wife : Joseph, Martha, Joseph ; by his third
wife : Deborah, Sarah, Hugh, Theophilus, Caspar, Benjamin.

87. Jane, b. 8th mo. 22, 1759, ^- lA "lo- 16, 1816.

88. Theophilus, b. 1761, d. 1798, m. Hannah Lester. ^

89. Sarah, b. 1764, d. 1828, m. Edward Jenkins (See Jenkins Gen'y.)

90. Benjamin, b. nth mo. 19, 1766, d. 2d mo. 28, 1821, m. Martha
Roberts (b. 1764, d. 1831), dau. of John and Margaret, and had
issue : Hannah, m. George Custard ; Jane, m. Thomas Strawn ;
Charles (d. 1857, unm.) ; Rachel, Rachel, 2d. Be?ijainin was
a member from Bucks Co. of the House of Representatives of
Pennsylvania, for several years, being elected in 1816, 1817,
18 1 9 (?), and 1820. He d. at Harrisburg, while in attendance
upon the session.^

91. Margaret, b. 1771, d. 1845, "^- Cadw. Foulke. (See No. 73, this
Genealogy.)

92. Rachel, b. 3d mo. 17, 1775, d. 3d mo. 3, 1850, m. Dr. Joseph
Meredith, of Gwynedd. They lived after their marriage in the
house afterward Fredk. Beaver's, where North Wales now is, and
in 1 8 14, bought of Jane Foulke, Caleb's widow, the property,
now Jonathan Lukens' estate, where both d. (Dr. M. d. August
7, 1820.) Their children were : (i) Hannah Hough, d. March
6, 1870, unm. ; (2) Charles F. , of Ouakertown, physician, b.
June I, 1808, m. Olivia Weisel, and has issue ; (3) Margaret, d. ;
(4) Edward J., b. Dec. 20, 181 1, d. April 5, 1865, at Gwynedd.

III. (26.) William Foulke, b. 12th mo. 10, 1728, d. 4th mo.
nth, 1796, son of Hugh and Ann, m. Priscilla Lester (b.
1st mo. 18, 1736, d. 3d mo. 17, 1795), dau. of John.

1 The Journal of the House shows the action of that body in reference to his de-
cease, including a resolution to wear crape during the remainder of the session, with an
official funeral procession, including members of both Houses, the Governor, heads of
departments, etc.

256 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

IV. Children of William and Priscilla :

93. Asher, b. 1758, m. 1779, Alice Roberts, and had issue : Phebe,
Anthony, William, Anne, Elizabeth.

94. Issachar, b. 1760, m. Jane , and had issue: Priscilla,

Bathsheba, Mary, Sarah, Rebecca, Jane, Aaron, Mercy, Barton.
They removed to the West, and have numerous descendants
there.

95. Jesse, b. 1762, m. Sarah (d. 9th mo. 21, 1791), and had

issue : Ellen, Hannah, Rachel. William.

96. John, b. 1764, d. in infancy.

97. Mary, b. 1766.

98. Phebe, b. 1769, d. in infancy.

IV. (50.) Joshua Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Edward and
Gainor, b. 2d mo. 15, 173 1, m., ist, 1763, Catharine Evans
(see No. loi, Evans Genealogy), dau. of Thomas and Katha-
rine. Catharine d. 5th mo. 11, 1769, after a lingering ill-
ness of six months, and left issue two children, Thomas and
Samuel, both of whom d. unmarried. Joshua m., 2d, Han-
nah Jones, dau. of John, of Gwynedd.

V. Children of Joshua and Hannah :

99. Judah, m. Sarah Richards, dau. of , Rowland and Lydia, of
Waynesville, O., and had issue several children, five of whom
reached married life : (i) Samuel, eldest son, m. Asenath Foulke,
dau. Evan, from Richland, Bucks Co., and had issue ; (2)
Margaret, m. Ezra Smith, son of Jacob, from Loudoun Co., Va. ,
and had issue ; (3) Thomas, m. Hannah Moore, dau. Benjamin
B. and Lydia, and had issue ; (4) Lydia, m. Isaac A. Ogborn,
son of Joseph and Elizabeth, and d. leaving one dau. ; (5)
Sarah, m. Joseph Ogborn, son of John and Mary, from Maryland
(distantly related to Lydia' s husband), and had issue.

100. John E., m. Hannah Conard, in Belmont Co., O., but left no
issue.

FO ULKE FAMIL V GENE A L OGY. 257

loi. Margaret, m. 1815, George Hatton,> of Indiana, and had one
son, Robert, who m. Susanna Evens, dau. of Edmund and
EHzabeth (who were originally from the north of England, but
had lived near Baltimore, and moved to Indiana in 1832). The
children of Robert and Susanna E. are, surname Hatton :
Joseph, Elizabeth E., Sarah, Margaret, Eliza, Robert, Willets,
Lorenzo, and Edmund. Robert is a minister amongst Friends ;
resided some time at Easton, Md., now (1884) in Chester Co., Pa.

I^- (53-) Hugh Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Edward and Mar-
garet, b. 2d mo. 21, 1752, d. 2d mo. 23, i83i,m. Ann
Roberts (b. 1745, d. 12th mo. 7, 1823), dau. of Robert and
Sarah (see No. 26, Roberts Genealogy). The memorial of
Gwynedd m. m. concerning him says he suffered much dur-
ing the Revolution " on account of his faithfulness in the
support of our peaceable testimony against war.
For above forty years he bore a faithful testimony, both by
precept and example, against the use of spirituous liquors.
He was one of the first in his neighborhood who abandoned
the use of them in hay-time and harvest. He labored much
on the subject both pubUcly and privately." For many years
he was an elder, and member of the Yearly Meeting Repre-
sentative Committee. In 18 16, in consequence of a fall, he
became lame, so as to be confined to the house for months.^

1 George Hatton was b. at Uwchlan, Chester Co., Pa., loth mo. 28, 1790, the son
of Robert Hatton (b. in Ireland, 7th mo. 14, 1746), who was the son of Joseph and
Susanna Hatton. (Joseph d. at Waterford, Ireland, in 1759 ; Susanna came to this

country, and m. Lightfoot, and d. 1781, aged 6i years. Her maiden name was

Hudson.)

* Hugh lived on the property occupied later by his two sons, Joseph and Hugh,
Jr. (it had been left him by his mother, Margaret Griffith, — see ante), now [1884] Daniel
Foulke's and the estate of Thos. S. Foulke. Joseph Foulke says in his Journal that of his
father's children five sisters and two brothers " all remained until the youngest was 22
years old, without a death or marriage in the family. One sister, however, was several
years a teacher at Westtown." Joseph also says, concerning his father (Hugh, 53) :
" I think I never saw him fail, when he undertook : his wisdom and discernment pre-

258 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

V. Children of Hugh and Ann :

102. Ellen, b. 4th mo. 16, 1775, d. nth mo. 18, 1846, unm.

103. Mary, b. ist mo. i, 1777, d. 7th mo. 12, 1855, unm.

104. Cadwallader, b. 1778, d. 1858, m. Ann Shoemaker. ^

105. Hannah, b. 8th mo. 14, 1780, d. 12th mo. 12, 1837, unm.
She was a teacher at Westtown School from 1807 to 181 5.

106. Sarah, b. 6th mo. 13, 1783, d. 4th mo. 25, 1822, m., 1812,
Alexander Forman, of New Britain, son of Alexander and Jane,
and had issue : Gainor, b. 1813, d. 1833; Joseph, b. 1815, d.
1 88 1 ; Hugh, b. 181 8, m. Jane Hallowell ; Mary, b. 1823, d.
in inf.

107. Joseph, b. 1786, d. 1863, m. Elizabeth Shoemaker. ^

108. Hugh, b. 1788, d. 1864, m. Martha Shoemaker. ^

IV. (56.) Cadwallader Foulke, son of Edward and Margaret,
b. at Gwynedd, 1758, d. 2d mo. 27, 1808, m., ist, Phcebe
Ellis, dau. of John and Lucy. Phcebe was b. 1765, and d.
9th mo., 1802 ("having been married 16 years"), of yellow
fever, in Philadelphia. Her husband, leaving the city, took
their daughter Sarah (see below) to his brother Hugh's, at
Gwynedd ; and went, himself, in 1 806, to Wheeling, Ohio,
where he m. Ann Chirington. Subsequently, he went on a
trading voyage, down the Ohio river, and it was believed was
robbed and thrown overboard by river pirates. (His death,
as above, was fixed as occurring F'eb. 27, 1808.)

V. Child of Cadwallader and Pha'bf :

109. Sarah, b. 4th mo. 27, 1787, d. 7th mo. 27, 1849. She was
placed, after her mother's death, at Joshua Woolston's boarding-
school, Fallsington, Bucks Co., and, later (1805), took charge
of a school at Mansfield, N. J. Having gone West with her
father, she m. 12th mo., 1809, Wm. Farquhar, who d. iith mo.

served him from entering upon a fruitless undertaking. But wherever he saw his way,
he persevered, and would not — using his own words — let ' either the love of ease or the
dread of conflict ' hinder him from a faithful discharge of duty."

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 259

8, 1810, and her child d. near the same lime. She was a
teacher at Westtown from 181 1 to 1816, and m. ist mo. 11,
1816, James Emlen, of Philadelphia, by whom she had issue,
surname Emlen :

1. yames, b. loth mo. 16, 1816, d. young.

2. Mary, b. 3d mo. 2, 1818, m. Chalkley Bell.

3. Phoebe, b. 4th mo. 12, 1820, m. John Rowland Howell.

4. Sarah Cresson, b. 4th mo. 19, 1822, m. Wm. P. Bangs.

5. Anne, b. ist mo. 7, 1824, m. Joseph Howell.

6. Susan, b. 9th mo. 20, 1826, unm.

7. Samuel, b. 3d mo. 23, 1829, m. Sarah Williams.

IV. (58.) Caleb Foulke, son of William and Hannah, b. at
Gwynedd, 12th mo. 5, 1736, d. ist mo. 25, 181 1, m. in Phila-
delphia, ist mo. 21, 1762, Jane Jones, eldest dau. of Owen
and Susanna. (See Evans Genealogy.) Caleb was a mer-
chant in Philadelphia ; he doubtless went there early in life,
and engaged in business. His name is among the signers to
the non-importation agreement of October, 1765. For many
years his firm consisted of himself and his younger brother
Amos, the name being " Caleb and Amos Foulke." (Papers
thus signed I have, of 1774.) Later, however, Amos seems
to have retired, as the firm in 1790 (and perhaps earlier), was
" Caleb and Owen Foulke," the junior partner being Caleb's
eldest son. The latter firm did a large foreign trade ; among
other things they exported flaxseed and imported linens from
Newry, Belfast, and Cork. These operations were, however,
finally disastrous ; at Caleb's death his estate was heavily in-
volved, a debt to a London firm being large. In 1776 he
had bought the Owen Evans farm, on the Swedes Ford road
(now the estate of J. Lukens), and this he made his home
during the British occupation of Philadelphia, and at other
times, and perhaps permanently resided there toward the
close of his hfe. In 18 13, the Sheriff of Montgomery county,
Isaiah Wells, sold it in the hands of his executors, his sons

26o HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Caleb and Charles, and it was bought by his widow, Jane,
who sold it to Dr. Joseph Meredith in 1814. Jane d. in
Germantown in 18 15 ; her will was proved December 14th.
She appoints her sons Caleb and Charles executors, and
names her daughters Lowry Jones, (wife of Evan, of
Gwynedd), and Hannah and Jane Foulke.

V. Children of Caleb ajtd Jane :

110. Owen. He was a partner with his father in business in Phila-
delphia, and in 1798 a member of the First City Troop. In
later years of his life he practiced law at Sunbury, Pa. He was
b. in Philadelphia 6th mo. 27, 1763, and d. (and was buried) at
Gwynedd, 8th mo. 30, 1808. He was (probably) unm.

111. Caleb, m. Margaret Cullen, Sarah Hodgkiss. W>

112. Charles, m. Eliza Lowery. No issue.

113. Hannah, d. unm.

1 14. Jane, d. unm.

115. Lowry, m. Samuel Miles, 1 Evan Jones. (See Jones Family.)

IV. (59.) Levi Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of William and Han-
nah, b. 3d mo. 20, 1739, d. 6th mo. 27, 181 5, m. Ann Evans
(No. 103, Evans Genealogy), dau. of Thomas and Hannah.
Levi received from his father that part of William's estate
which was occupied in recent years by William Foulke,
Levi's grandson, and has lately belonged to D. C. Wharton.
He built the eastern — stone — end of the house, there, and
the date-stone is marked " L. & A. F." They had but one
child who lived beyond infancy.

V. Child of Levi and Ann :

116. William, b. 1767, d. 1833, m. Margaret Mcllvaine. ^

1 Jacob Hiltzheimer's Diary, {Penna. Mag., XVl., 419), December 11, 1795: "At
12 o'clock Mr. Barge called for me and we went to the house adjoining the Free Quaker
Meeting, on Arch St. [now the Apprentices' Library], and there drank punch with
Samuel Miles, Jr., who was married to Caleb Foulke's daughter on the 8th inst."

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 261

IV. (60.) Amos Foulke, of Philadelphia, merchant, son of Wil-
liam and Hannah, of Gwynedd, b. nth mo. 5, 1740, d. 1791,
m. 5th mo. 20, 1779, Hannah Jones, dau. of Owen and
Susanna, of Philadelphia. He was associated in business
with his eldest brother, Caleb, by the firm name of " Caleb
and Amos Foulke," and a family tradition said died in the
yellow fever visitation of 1793. But the Diary of Jacob
Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia, {Penna. Mag., XVI., '41 5), says :
"Aug. 7, 1791. Went to burial of Amos Foulke." This
seems conclusive as to the year.

V. Children of Amos aud Hannah :

117. Susan, b. loth mo. 11, 1781, d. 2d mo. i, 1842, unm.

118. Edward, b. 1784, d. 1851, m. Tacy Jones. ^

119. George, b. 7th mo, 23, 1786, d. 7th mo., 1848, unm.

IV. (71.) Israel Foulke, son of Samuel and Ann, b. 2d mo. 4,
1760, d. 9th mo. 27, 1824, m. Elizabeth Roberts, dau. of
David. (Elizabeth d. 12th mo. 17, 1831, aged 71.) Their
children are named on the Richland m. m. records ; four
dying in childhood, the others are given below.
V. Children of Israel and Elizabeth :

120. Thomas, b. 12th mo. 31, 1784, d. 6th mo. 4, 1832, m. 1814,
Sarah Lancaster, (d. 1869, aged 71 years), dau. of Thomas and
Ann, of Whitemarsh, and had issue : (i) Anne, m. Edward
Thomas, (d.) of Richland, and has issue : Lancaster, of Philadel-
phia, druggist ; Hannah ; Edwin, d. ; Irvine, d. ; EUwood, Sallie ;
and (2) Letitia, (d. 4th mo. 6, 1S96), m. Jehu J. Roberts, (d.) of
Cheltenham, and had issue : Thomas P., d. ; Annie L., m.
Robert Croasdale, (d.) ; Carohne ; Sarah, (d.) m. John Walton,
and had issue : Tacy, m. Charles R. Knight, and has issue.

121. David, b. 12th mo. 21, 1786, m. Miriam Shaw, dau. of John and
Phebe, and had issue: Israel, b. 1814, John R., b. 1818.

David m., 2d, Roberts, of Byberry, and had issue, with

others : Jane, m. Israel J. Grahame, druggist, Philadelphia.

262 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

122. Hugh, b. 9th mo. 8, 1793, d. 4th mo. 3, 1853, m. Elizabeth
Roberts, dau. of Levi and Phebe, and had issue 12 children :
Amos, Barton L., Phebe R., Jordan, Elizabeth, m. Penrose
Hicks ; Thomas M., Sarah E., Franklin, Abigail Jane, Franklin
2d, Jane R. and Susan J.

123. Phebe, b. 12th mo. 7, 1795, d. unm.

124. Amos, b. 8th mo. 10, 1798.

IV. {yZ-) Cadwallader Foulke, of Gwynedd, surveyor, son of
Samuel and Ann, b. at Richland, 7th mo. 14, 1765, d. 3d
mo. 22, 1830, m. his first cousin, Margaret Foulke (b.
1 77 1, d. 1845), dau. of Theophilus and Margaret. Cadwal-
lader removed to Gwynedd about 1805, and bought the
farm where Gwynedd station now is, belonging in recent
time to Rodolphus Kent. He was an active and useful man,
well known as a surveyor ; a sketch of him will be separately
given. He and his wife had but one son.

]/. Child of Cadwallader and Margaret :

125. Benjamin Franklin, b. May 25, 1796, d. Sept. 30, 1845, m.
Maria Heston Tyson (widow of Jesse), dau. of Levi and Susanna
Heston. (Maria, b. Dec. 29, 1799, d. Feb. 12, 1829. By her
first husband she had one son, Jesse Maris Tyson.) Benjamin
Franklin a-nd. Maria had issue one child, Eleanor, b. 1828, d. in
infancy.

IV. (74.) John Foulke, of Richland, son of Samuel and Ann,
b. 1 2th mo. 6, 1767, d. 4th mo. 5, 1840, m. 1789, Letitl\
Roberts (b. 9th mo. 10. 1767, d. loth mo. 18, 1854), dau.
of Thomas, Jr., and Letitia. A memorial of Richland m. m.
concerning John says he was a minister, who frequently at-
tended adjacent meetings, visiting most of those in Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Ohio, and Indiana Yearly Meetings. He
was particularly zealous for the testimonies of Friends against
slavery and intemperance. " Being a faithful advocate for

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 263

those held in slavery, he pleaded their cause where and when-
ever opportunity offered ; and, at different times, with the
approbation of his own meeting, he visited the city of Wash-
ington, while Congress was in session .... [having
there] many interesting interviews with those high in office,"
to urge the injustice of slavery, and to ameliorate the condi-
tion of the slaves.

V. Children of John and Letitia :

126. James, b. 1790, d. 4th mo. 8, 1866, m. 181 5, Hannah Shaw,
and had issue : (i) Abby Ann, b. 1816, d. 1859 ; (2) Stephen,
b. 1819, m. Matilda Penrose, and has issue ; (3) Sarah, b.
1822; ^4) John, b. 1830.

127. Sidney, b. 1791, d. 12th mo., 1862, m. 1822, Samuel Shaw.

128. Abigail, b. 1794, m. 1833, Thomas Wright.

129. EHzabeth, b. 1795, m. 1816, John Kinsey, Jr.

130. Ann, b. 1797, m. 1822, James R. Green.

131. Hannah, b. 1799, m. 1848, Bartholomew Mather.

132. Kezia, b. 1804.

133. Mary, b. 1806, m. 1847, Joseph Paul.

IV. (75.) Edward Foulke, of Richland, son of John and Mar}\
b. 7th mo. 16, 1758, m., ist, Elizabeth Roberts, dau. of
Thomas, Jr., and Letit a (Elizabeth d. 7th mo. 25, 1793) ;
and, 2d, m. Ann Roberts, dau. of same parents.

V. Childrett of Edward and Elizabeth :

134. Jane, b. 1782, m. William Fussell.

135. Rowland, b. 1 2th mo. 29, 1783, m. Eliza Maus, and removed to
Philadelphia. He had issue : including Charles M., Richard,
and Edward. (Henry B. Foulke, real estate agent, Philad'a, is
the son of Richard.)

136. Agnes, b. 1785, d. unm.

137. Mary R., b. 1787, d. 1847.

138. John, b. 1789, d. unm.

139. Edward, b. 1792, d. 1859, m. Matilda Green. ^

264 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Children of Edward and Ann :

140. Joshua, b. 1797, m. Caroline Green (b. 1805), dau. of William
and Mary, and had issue: Missouri G., m. Milton Roberts;
Corneha, m. David R. Jamison ; Matilda G., m. same ; Jane,
m. Lewis Roberts ; Edward, d. in childhood ; Alice, d. in infancy.

141. Elizabeth, m. Anthony Johnson.

142. Penninah, m.

IV. (82.) EvERARD FouLKE, of Richland, .son of Thomas and
Jane, b. 9th mo. 8, 1755, d. 9th mo. 5, 1827, m. 1778, Ann
Dehaven. By appointment of the Governor, he was many-
years a justice of the peace, and he was one of the assessors
of the United States taxes in 1798, when John Fries raised
his " Rebellion " in the upper end of Bucks, and in Northamp-
ton COS., against the collection of the tax, and attacked, in
Lower Milford and at Quakertown, 'Squire Everard and
other assessors, forcing them to desist from the performance
of their duty.'

V. Children of Ei^erard and Ann :

143. Abigail, b. 5th mo. 18, 1779, m. Abel Penrose.

144. Eleanor, b. 7th mo. 18, 1781, d. 4th mo. 28, 1815.

145. Caleb, b. 1783, d. 1852, m. Jane Green. ^

146. Samuel, b. 3d mo. 28, 1786, m. Elizabeth Johnson, and had
issue : Joseph J., Abigail, Jesse D.

147. Thomas, b. 4th mo. 13, 1789, d. in Kentucky ; issue two dau's.

148. Susanna, b. 9th mo. 18, 1791, d. 1883, m. David Johnson.

149. Anna, b. 5th mo. 3d, 1794, d. 9th mo. 16, 1820.

150. Margaret, b. 12th mo. 24, 1796, m. Peter Lester, and had issue :
Anna, m. Aaron B. Ivins ; Mary, d. unm.

151. Everard, b. 1800, d. 1891, m. Frances Watson. ^

IV. (88.) Theophilus Foulke, of Richland, son of Theophilus
and Margaret, b. 8th mo. 26, 1761, d. 7th mo. 28, 1798, m.

' The details of this episode will be found in the Report of the Trial, 1799, when
Fries was convicted of treason ; printed in Philadelphia, 1800.

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 265

Hannah Lester, dau. of John and Jane, of Richland. (Han-
nah, b. Feb. 2, 1767, d. July 4, 1850.) Theophilus was
accidentally killed by falling from a tree, which he had climbed
to release an entangled fishing-line. He was a justice of the
peace, by appointment of the Governor, and also a member of
the House of Representatives of Penna., elected in 1794, '95,
'96, and '97.

V. Children of Theophilus and Hannah :

152. Antrim, b. 1793, d. 1861, m. Letitia Lancaster. ^

153. Sarah, b. ist mo. 10, 1796, d. loth mo. 25, 1852, m. 1819,
Richard Moore (b. 4th mo. 20, 1794, d. 4th mo. 30, 1875), son
of Henry and Priscilla, of Montgomery, and had issue ; sur-
name Moore :

1. John Jackson, of Richland, b. nth mo. 17, 1819, d. loth mo. 6, 1895,

m. Jane, dau. of Isaac and Elizabeth Warner, and had issue : Alfred,
of Philadelphia, member of the bar ; Ellen ; .Arthur, member of
the Philadelphia bar.

2. Hannah, b. 7th mo. 27, 1821, m. loth mo. 5, 1843, William M. Levick,

of Philadelphia, member of the bar, son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth
W., and has issue : Anna P., Elizabeth J.

V. (104.) Cadwallader Foulke, of Whitemarsh, son of Hugh
and Ann, b. loth mo. 28, 1778, d. 6th mo. 7, 1858, m. Ann
Shoemaker (d. loth mo. 13, 1821, aged 36), dau. of David
and Jane, of Whitemarsh.

VI. Children of Cadwallader and Anft :

154. David, b. nth mo. 24, 1811, d. nth mo. 17, 1896, m. 1867,
Susan Y. Michener (widow of Lea), dau. of Silas and Hannah
Shoemaker, of Upper DubHn.

155. Hannah, b. 2d mo. 16, 1814, d. 9th mo. 8, 1887, m. 1863,
Mordecai Price, of Little Falls, Md., son of Mordecai and
Mary D.

156. Samuel, b. 2d mo. 25, 1816, m. 1849, Anne Jones, dau. of
Jonathan and EUza, of Plymouth. Samuel d. 4th mo. 23, 1857.

157. Josiah, b. ist mo. 19, 1819, d. 8th mo. 10, 1848, unm.

266 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

V. (107.) Joseph Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Hugh and Ann,
b. 5th mo. 22, 1786, d. 2d mo. 15, 1863, m. 18 10, Elizabeth
Shoemaker, dau. of Daniel and Phebe, of Upper Dublin.
(Elizabeth, b. 8th mo. 29, 1791, d. 8th mo. i, 1873.) Jo-
seph was a prominent Friend, a minister of the Society, and
for many years conducted in Gwynedd a private school for
boys. A sketch of him will be separately given.

VI. Children of Joseph and Elizabeth :

158. Phebe, b. nth mo. 28, 1811, d. 7th mo. 5, 1876, m. 1834,
Edwin Moore, of Upper Merion (b. 181 1, d. 1894) ; and had is-
sue : Eliza, m. Issac E. Ambler, of Gwynedd ; Joseph F. (of New
York) ; Richard F., d. ; Daniel F., m. MeHssa Conrad, Emily
Ashenfelter ; Edwin, Jr. , m. M. Clarissa Buckwalter, Emma
Lukens.

159. Daniel, b. 1814, m. Elizabeth Foulke, Lydia Walton. ^

160. Thomas, b. 1817, m. Hannah Shoemaker. ^

161. Ann, b. 4th mo. 6, 1820, d. 7th mo. 5, 1847, m. 1840, Samuel
Moore, of Upper Merion, and had issue : Richard, m. Elizabeth
Carver ; EUzabeth F., m. Benj. L. Hilles ; Henry C, m. Han-
nah Jones ; Hannah, m. Edwin P. HolUngsworth ; Thomas F.,
d. in infancy.

162. Sarah, b. 1823, d. 1840, unm.

163. Joseph, jr., M. D., of Buckingham, Bucks Co., b. 1827, m.
Carohne Chambers, and has issue : EUzabeth C, Phebe F.,
CaroUne, Hannah, WiUiam D., of Aurora, 111., m., 1895, Flor-
ence M. Officer; Melissa E., m., 1896, Wm. Sherman Pierce,
Dixon, 111.

V. (108.) Hugh Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Hugh and Ann,
b. 6th mo. 18, 1788, d. 5th mo. i, 1864, m. Martha Shoe-
maker (b. 3d mo. 6, 1790, d. 4th mo. II, 1868), dau. of
Thomas and Mary, of Abington.

VI. Children of Hugh and Martha :

164. Thomas S., b. 2d mo. i, 1829, d. 4th mo. 10, 1884, m. 1855,
Phebe W. Shoemaker, dau. of Silas and Hannah, of Upper

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 267

Dublin. Thomas was b. at Abington, but in his childhood his
parents removed to the family homestead, at Gwynedd. He
took an active part in township affairs ; was many years clerk of
Gwynedd monthly meeting ; for some years was clerk in Bank
of Northern Liberties, Philadelphia; in 1870 became Superin-
tendent of Swarthmore College, which place he held at his
decease.

165. Hugh, jr., b. 1st mo. 13, 1831. He was for a number of years
principal of the boarding-school for boys at Gwynedd (established
originally by his uncle Joseph), and went in 1861 to New York,
where he was, first, an assistant, but afterwards for several years
principal teacher of the large school for both sexes, in charge of
Friends. Impaired health compelled him to give up this en-
gagement in 1879.

V. (ill.) Caleb Foulke, Jr., merchant, son of Caleb and Jane,
b. in Philadelphia 8th mo. 7, 1770, d. there loth mo. 15,
1823. He was twice married. His first wife whom he m.
I ith mo. 26, 1795, was Margaret, dau. of Thomas and Sibina
Cullen, who died 7th mo. 23, 1809, buried at Gwynedd. His
second wife was Sarah Hodgkiss, widow, of Germantown,
whom he m. in 18 14. By Margaret he had ten children, five
of whom survived infancy, and are named below. By Sarah
he had one daughter, named Sarah, who died unm. 6th mo.
3, 1834.

VL Children of Caleb and Margaret :

166. Louisa, b. in Philadelphia, 12th mo. 21, 1797 ; d. unm. in Jersey
City, N. J., Oct. 24, 1886 ; buried at Gwynedd.

167. Jane, b. at Gwynedd, 8th mo. 30, 1799 ! '^- '^ Philadelphia,
June 20, 1845 I ^- Alexander Hall, and had one son, who d. unm.

168. Ellen, b. in Philadelphia, 3d mo. 30, 1801 ; m. Samuel Hatfield
(uncle to Dr. Nathan Hatfield, Sr.) ; d. in Jersey City, July 12,
1880 ; buried at Gwynedd.

169. William, b. at West Cain, Chester Co., Pa., 2d mo. 2, 1804, d.
in Philadelphia, 12th mo. 2, 1847, m. at Hadley, Mass., Oct.
26, 1830, Lucy Dickinson, and had three children : (i) Char-

268 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

lotte, d. in infancy ; (2) Margaret, b. in Philadelphia, Jan. 13,
1833 ; m. in Philadelphia, Oct. 25, 1866, Arthur Johnes, of
New York city (who d. March 27, 1880), and has two living
children, William F., b. Jan. 15, 1868, and Lucy, b. June 8,
1870; (3) Edward D., b. February 14, 1837, in Philadelphia;
d. unm. May 15, 1887. — Both WiUiam and his wife were buried
at Gwynedd. He was sometime ticket agent of the Phil., Germ,
and Norristown R. R., at 9th and Green streets, Philadelphia.
169^ Henry, b. at Berwick, Pa., 2d mo. 9, 1808 ; d. in New York,
April 20, 1866. He m. Sept. 25, 1832, at the house of her
brother, Jonathan Trotter, of Brooklyn (then mayor of that city,
the second in service), Hannah Trotter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne,
England. The children of Henry and Hannah Trotter Foulke
were : (i) William Henry, b. in New York, July i, 1833; m.
Clara Hoyle of that city. (2) Charles Trotter, b. in New York,
March 6, 1837 ; m. Emma Gildersleeve, of that city, and has
issue: Henry, b. Sept. i, 1858; Jane, b. Nov. 19, i860; Jo-
seph S. , b. Sept. 1 1 , 1 862 ; Frank, b. July 31,1 864. (3) Jane, b. in
New York, May 18, 1844; m. in Philadelphia, May 7, 1863,
John Potts Rutter, of Pottstown, Pa. He went to New York,
1864, became a m.ember of the New York Stock Exchange in
1870 ; d. s. p., Nov. 6, 1887. (4) Frank, b. in New York, Feb.
9, 1849 ; m. Mrs. Marguerite Staples Wood, 7iee De Puy, of
Delaware Water Gap, Pa.

V. (116.) William Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Levi and Ann,
b. loth mo. 7, 1767, d. 4th mo. 6, 1833, m. 1793, Mar-
garet McIlvaine, dau. of John and Lydia. Margaret b.
2d mo. 14, 1 77 1, d. 2d mo. 4, 1809.)

VI. Children of William and Margaret :
170. John M., born ist mo. 18, 1795, d. 3d mo. 13, 1874, m. Ann
Sinclair. He went to Baltimore, and thence to Cincinnati, en-
gaging extensively in business, though not ultimately with suc-
cess. His children were (i) Edward, of Emory, 111., who m.
Adelaide CoUaday, dau. of Jacob and Julia, and has issue :
Anna, m. Arthur Pinkham, John, Edward, m., 1895, Gynietha,
dau. of Stephen and Julia A. Cox ; William Llewelyn, Caroline

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 269

Edith ; and (2) Lydia A., who m. David Wilson, of Evans, 111.
(She was sometime a teacher of the Friends' school at Gwyn-
edd, and three years in the United States General Hospital, in
the Civil War.)

171. Levi, b. 4th mo. 6, 1796, d. ist mo. 4, 1878, m. Eliza White, of
Washington, D. C, and had issue : William L., EHza, m. Wil-
liam Augustus ; Virginia, m. Robert Kirby ; Ella, m. Joseph Dill.

172. Anna, b. 4th mo. 9, 1798, d. nth mo. 19, 1873, m. Aaron
Lukens, and had issue : William, d. unm.; Elizabeth, d. unm.;
David, Margaret A., m. Albin Smedley ; Mary ; Edward, m.
Sarah ; Ellen, Henry, d. unm.

173. William, b. 1802, d. 1882, m. Susanna Conrad. "^

V. (118.) Edward Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Amos and
Hannah, b. in Philadelphia, nth mo. 17, 1784, d. at Gwyn-
edd, 7th mo. 17, 185 1, m. 1 2th mo. 11, 18 10, Tacy Jones,
dau. of Isaac and Gainor, of Montgomery. His father dying
when he was but a child, he was brought up by his uncle
and aunt, Jesse and Priscilla Foulke, at Penllyn, in Gwynedd.
" He was of a cheerful disposition, and greatly beloved by all
who knew him, — kind to the poor, to whom he never turned
a deaf ear."

VI. Children of Edward and Tacy :

174. Ann J., b. 9th mo. 15, 1811, d. 6th mo. 25, 1888, m. December
26, 1832, Dr. Hiram Corson (b. Oct. 8, 1804, d.), son of Joseph
and Hannah, of Plymouth ; graduate, 1828, of the medical depart-
ment University of Pennsylvania ; and had issue, surname
Corson, as follows :

1. Edward F., b- Oct. 14, 1834, d. June 22, 1864, graduate, M. D., Univ.

of Penna., assistant surgeon U. S. N., previous to and during War
of Rebellion.

2. Joseph K., b. Nov. 22, 1836, graduate in pharmacy and of medicine.

assistant surgeon U. S. Vols., and U. S. A.; m. Ada, dau. of Judge
Wm. A. Carter, of Wyoming Territory.

3. Carolme, b. .April 2, 1839, d. July 20, 1865, unm.

4. Tacy F. , b. Jan. 26, 1841, m. William L. Cresson, son of James ; and

has issue.

2/0 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

5. Charles Follen, grad. Univ. of Penna., member of the bar of Philada. ,

b. Nov. 22, 1842, d. May 30, 1889, m. 1876, Mary, dau. of Lewis A.
Lukens, of Conshohocken, and 2d, Margaret Slemmer, of Norris-
town, Pa.

6. Susan F. , b. Nov. 26, 1868, m. Jawood Lukens, of Conshohocken.

7. Bertha, b. Dec. 17, 1847, m. James Yocom, of Philadelphia ; issue

seven children.

8. Frances S., b. Oct. 25, 1849, m. Richard Day, of Philadelphia; issue

three children.

9. Mary, b. Nov. 26, 1852 : unm.

175. Jesse, b. 6th mo. 23, 1813, d. 2d mo. 15, 1892, unm.

176. Charles, b. 181 5, d. 1871, m. Harriet M. Corson. ^

177. Susan, b. 7th mo. 18, 1818, d. i ith mo. 2, 1886, unm.

178. Owen, b. 1820, d. in infancy.

179. Priscilla, b. loth mo. 10, 1821, d. 12th mo. 28, 1882, m.
Thomas Wistar, son of Thomas , and had issue, four children.

180. Jonathan, b. 1825, d. in infancy.

181. Lydia S., b. 2d mo. 18, 1827, d. 8th mo. 27, 1861, m. Charles
W. Bacon, son of John ; issue, Anna, b. 1853, m. Robert K.
Neff, Jr.

182. Rebecca J., b. 5th mo. 18, 1829, m. 1857, Robert R. Corson,
son of Dr. Richard D. Corson, of New Hope.

183. Hannah J., b. 9th mo. 18, 1831, m. 1862, Francis Bacon, son
of John ; issue three children.

184. Emily, b. 12th mo. 2, 1834, d. 8th mo. 23, 1892, m. Chas. L.
Bacon, son of Chas. W.

185. Owen, b. 1838, d. in infancy.

V. (139.) Edward Foulke, of Richland, son of Edward and
Elizabeth, b. 5th mo. 26, 1792, d. 2d mo. 16, 1859, "^•
Matilda Green, dau. of William and Mary. (Matilda, b,
1st mo. 20, 1809.)

VI. Children of Edward and Matilda :

186. Elizabeth, b. ist mo. 31, 1833, m. Jacob B. Edmunds.

187. Joseph W., b. loth mo. 31, 1834, d., m. Mary Ann Strawn.

188. William G., of Philadelphia, member of the bar, b. ist mo. 5,
1837, m. Anna C. Jeanes, dau. of Isaac and Caroline, and has
issue : Edward, b. 1874, Anna L., b. 1880, Walter L., b. 1882.

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190
191
192
193

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Martha R., b. 7th mo. 4, 1839, d. unm.

Evan, b. 6th mo. 18, 1842, d. unm.

Mary G., b. 9th mo. 6, 1844, d. unm.

James, b. 9th mo. 3, 1847 (druj^gist, Jersey City).

Agnes, b. 3d mo. 29, 1855, d. unm.

V. (146.) Caleb Foulke, of Richland, son of Everard and Ann,
b. 8th mo. 29, 1783, d. 2d mo. 22, 1852, m. Jane Green (b.
2d mo. 8, 1785, d. 3d mo. 3, 1835), dau. of Benjamin and
Jane.

VL Children of Caleb and Jane :

194. Caroline, b. 1808, d. in infancy.

195. Caroline, b. 2d mo. 25, 1810, d. 12th mo. 17, 1838.

196. Maryetta, b. 7th mo. 30, 181 1, d. 4th mo. 26, 1851, m. Aaron
Penrose, and had issue : Benj. F., m. Alice Thompson ; Caro-
line, m. David J. Ambler ; Rebecca, m. Lewis J. Ambler.

197. Benjamin G., b. 181 3, m. Jane Mather. ^

198. Eleanor, b. 3d mo. 12, 1816, d. 8th mo. 13, 1842, m. Samuel
J. Levick, and had issue : Jane, m. Edwin A. Jackson, (d. 2nd
mo. 24, 1896.)

V. (151.) Everard Foulke, Jr., of Arthur Springs, Illinois, son
of Everard and Ann, b. 7th mo. 21, 1800, d. 9th mo. 27,
1891, married 5th mo. 11, 1825, Frances W. Watson, dau.
of John and Euphemia, of Buckingham, Bucks Co., Pa.
They removed from Pennsylvania to Clark county, Ohio, in
1845, and in 1857 to Arthur Springs, four miles south of
Sidney, Champaign county. 111. He was living there at the
time of his death. Frances d. 2d mo. 11, 1868, aged 71
yrs., 8 mos., 17 days.

VL Children of Everard and Frances :

199. Watson, b. 1826, m. OlUve Sayles. ^

200. William D., b. 1828, m. Alice Thomas. ^

201. Jonathan I., b. 3d mo. 20, 1830, d. loth mo. 9, 1858, unm.

202. Thomas D., b. 1832, m. Maria E. Whiteman. ^

272 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

203. Euphemia Anna, b. nth mo. 9, 1834, d. infancy.

204. Lester E., b. 1837, m. Lenora M. Duncan. ^

V. (153.) Antrim Foulke, physician, of Gwynedd, son of The-
ophilus and Hannah, b. at Richland, 3d mo. 21, 1793, d. in
Philadelphia, 9th mo. 6, 1861, m. Letitia Lancaster, dau.
of Thomas and Ann, of Whitemarsh. A sketch of him will
be separately given. (Letitia b. 12th mo. 8, 1799, d. ist
mo. 6, 1877.)

VI. Children of Antrim and Letitia :

205. John L. , b. 2d mo. 14, 1822, d. in Philadelphia, loth mo. 30,
1870. He was educated at Joseph Foulke' s, and at Benj. Hal-
lowell's, Alexandria, studied medicine with his father, and gradu-
ated with distinction from the Univ. of Penna. , in the Class of
1841. He pursued his profession at Gwynedd with great success,
his pleasing manners and professional skill securing him a large
practice. In 1859 he removed to Philadelphia, and practiced
there. In 1863, he made a voyage to Havana, and in 1864 to
Liverpool, as surgeon of the packet Saranak ; returning, he
entered the U. S. service, and continued as a hospital surgeon to
the end of the war. He m. Jan. i, 1857, Anzonette Poulson (d.
1863), dau. of Charles A. and Sarah (Wood) Poulson, of Phila-
delphia, and had one child, Charles Antrim, b. ist mo. i, 1863,
d. 1 2th mo. 29, 1865.

206. Ann L., b. 4th mo. 26, 1824, d. 2d mo. 17, 1845, unm.

207. Henry, b. loth mo. 23, 1825, d. 2d mo. 13, 1864, m. 1852,
Maria L. Banks, and had issue : (i) William W. , b. 1853, m.
1884, EHzabeth C. Kent, dau. of Rodolphus (dec'd) and Sarah
(Clark) Kent ; (2) Letitia L., b. 12th mo., 1854, m. 1880, Ellis
Clark Kent, son of Rodolphus and Sarah, and has issue, surname
Kent : Ellis C, jr., b. 1881, Henry Antrim Foulke, b. 1884,
Edward Lyon, b. 1886, and Lester F., b. 1894 ; (3) May, b. 6th

mo. 16, 1856, m. Charles O. Beaumont, and has issue surname
Beaumont, Mason F., b. 1887, Gwen Elizabeth, b. 1890; (4)
Hannah, b. 8th mo. 12, i860, d. 3d mo. 29, 1876.

208. Jane, b. 8th mo. 16. 1827, d. 2d mo. 13, 1833.

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 273

209. Hannah, b. 6th mo. 11, 1829, d. 12th mo. 25, 1884, m. 9th mo.
17, 185 1, Thomas W. Baily, (d. 12th mo. 29, 1893, aged 70
yrs.), of Philadelphia, son of William and Catharine.

210. William, b. 6th mo. 9, 1831, d. loth mo. 28, 1855. ^^ studied
medicine, and had graduated at the University of Pennsylvania,
in the Class of 1854.

VI. (160.) Daniel Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of Jo.seph and
Elizabeth, b. 2d mo. 21, 1814, d. 2nd mo. 18, 1888, m., ist,
1847, Elizabeth C. Foulke (b. 1827, d. 1849), dau. of Wil-
liam^ and Susanna, of Gwynedd ; and, 2d, Lydia Walton (d.
3d mo. 23, 1884), dau. of Joseph, of Chester County.

VIL Children of Daniel and Elizabeth :

211. Anna, b. nth mo. 5, 1848, m. Henry S. Colladay ; and has
issue : Elizabeth F., b. 1871, William F., b. 1873, Henry D. J.,
b. 1878.

Children of Daniel and Lydia W. :

212. Edwin M., b. loth mo. 10, 1854, m. Elva Jones, dau. of Mark,
of Plymouth, and has issue : Esther B., b. 1878, Helen E., b.
1880, Lydia W., b. 1884, Eliza J., b. 1889.

213. Abigail W., b. 4th mo. 21, 1856.

214. Joseph T., b. 4th mo. 24, 1863, member of the bar, Philadelphia
and Montgomery co., m. loth mo. 5, 1892, Laura L. Lippin-
cott, dau. of Samuel R. and Hannah B., of Moorestown, N. J.,
and has issue : Thomas A., b. 9th mo. 25, 1893.

VI. (161.) Thomas Foulke, of New York, son of Joseph and
Elizabeth, of Gwynedd, b. 5th mo. 28, 18 17, d. ist mo. 24,
1890, m. 1840, Hannah Shoemaker (b. 2d mo. 25, 1804; d.
lOth mo. 6, 1 876), dau. of Abraham and Margaret. (Abraham
Shoemaker was originally of Montgomery county, the elder
brother of Thomas, of Gwynedd. He became a successful and
wealthy merchant of New York city.) Soon after his marriage,

» See No. 17^, this Genealogy.

2/4 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Thomas removed to New York, and was there engaged, for
nearly twenty years, in the public schools, having charge, as
superintendent, during much of the time, of two of the
largest grammar schools. (One of these contained 40 teach-
ers and 2,000 pupils.) In 1861 he resigned to take charge
of the Friends' Institute, in Rutherford Place, and having
organized it, conducted this for three years, leaving it then
to the charge of his nephew, Hugh Foulke, jr. About 1857
he appeared in the ministry of the Friends, and was subse-
quently acknowledged as a minister. He traveled exten-
sively in the exercise of his gift.

VII. Children of Thomas and Hannah :

215. William Dudley, b. 1848, m. Mary T. Reeves. ^

216. Edwin M., d. in childhood.
[A dau. d. in infancy.]

VI. (173.) William Foulke, of Gwynedd, son of William and
Margaret, b. 2d mo. 24, 1802, d. 7th mo. 12, 1882, m. Su-
sanna CoNARD (b. 7th mo. 7, 1803, d. 6th mo. 19, 1871),
dau. of Jonathan and Hannah.

VII Children of William and Susanna :

217. Hannah C, b. 3d mo. 12, 1826, d. 7th mo. 16, 1876, m. 1850,
George A. Newbold, son of Samuel and Abigail, and had issue :
Clara, WiUiam F.

218. EUzabeth C, b. 6th mo. 10, 1827, d. 6th mo. 17, 1849, "''•
Daniel Foulke (No. 160).

219. Margaretta, b. 9th mo. 11, 1830, d. 12th mo. 18, 1865, m. 1864,
James Q. Atkinson, of Upper Dublin.

220. Lewis Morris, of San Francisco, Cal., b. 8th mo. 6, 1832, m.
Elizabeth Edson, whose family were from Massachusetts. He
went to California, 1853, and was several years U. S. Supervisor
of Internal Revenue. His children are : Elizabeth, Edson, Su-
sanna Marguerite.

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 275

221. Anna M., b. 6th mo. 5, 1834, m. 1855, Charles B. Shoemaker,
of Cheltenham, son of Richard M. and Amelia B.; and has
issue : Charles Francis, b. 1856, d. 1876 ; William Y ., b. 1859 ;
Amelia B., b. 1862, d. 1863 ; Benjamin H., b. 1864; Lewis P'.,
b. 1867 ; Ella F., b. 1873.

222. Ellen, b. 7th mo. 7, 1838, d. 12th mo. 29, 1863, m. Joseph K.
Matlack, and had issue : Marian, who m. Sumner G. Brosius,
and has issue : Charles S.

223. William Henry, b. 4th mo. 26, 1840, m. Priscilla Frick.
[Jonathan C, b. 1828, Lydia C, b. 1836, d. in infancy.]

VI. (176.) Dr. Charles Foulke, of New Hope, Bucks Co., son
of Edward and Tacy, b. at Gwynedd, Dec, 14, 181 5, d. Dec.
30, 1 87 1, m. Harriet M. Corson, dau. of Dr. Richard Cor-
son, of New Hope. Dr. Charles practiced his profess on
some time at Gwynedd, and then removed to New Hope,
where he remained.

Vn. Children of Charles and Harriet M. :

224. Richard, of New Hope, physician, grad. Univ. of Pennsylvania,
m. Louisa Vansant, and has issue : Charles, Clarabel, Rebecca,
d. in childhood.

225. Edward, of Washington, D. C, m. Eliza Vanhorn, dau. of

Vanhorn, of Yardleyville, Bucks Co.

226. Thomas, of Yonkers, N. Y., d. 1883, at New Hope, unm.

VI. (197.) Benjamin G. Foulke, of Richland, son of Caleb and
Jane, b. 7th mo. 28, 1813, d. 8th mo. 14, 1888, m. 1837,
Jane Mather (b. 3d mo. 24, 18 17), dau. of Charles and Jane,
of Whitpain. Benjamin was Clerk of the men's branch of
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting from 1873 to 1886, and was a
business man, conveyancer, and surveyor, highly respected.

V/L Children of Benjaniin and Ja)ie :

227. Caleb, b. 12th mo. 3, 1839, d- i°th mo. 20, 1865.

228. Charles M., b. 7th mo. 25, 1841, was educated at Foulke's
school, at Gwynedd, and the Friends' Central School, Philad'a,

2/6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

entered upon mercantile business in Philad'a, 1861, and retired,
1872. He m. Dec. 10, 1872, at Paris, France, in the presence
of the American minister, Hon. E. B. Washburne, Sarah A.
Gushing, dau. of Horace C. and Harriet C, of New York City ;
and has issue : Horace C, b. July 6, 1876 ; Helen S., b. July
12, 1878 ; Gladys, b. April 29, 1881 ; Gwendolyn, b. Dec. 31,
1883.

229. Job Roberts, b. 2d mo. 23, 1843, trust officer of Provident Life
and Trust Co., of Philadelphia, m. 5th mo. 25, 1869, Emma
Bullock, dau. of Samuel and Jemima R., of Mt. Holly, N. J.,
and has issue: Rowland R., b. 5th mo. 10, 1874; Rebecca
Mulford, b. 7th mo. 18, 1875.

230. Anna, b. 1846.

231. Jane, b. 1848, d. 1853.

232. Eleanor, b. 1850.

VI. (199.) Watson Foulke, son of Everard, Jr., and Frances,
b. 9th mo. 10, 1826, m. nth mo. 29, i860, Ollive Sayles,
dau. of Asa and Amy. He served in the war for the Union,
removed from Illinois to Pretty Prairie, Reno Co., Kansas,
in 1866, and (1896) is a farmer and stockman.

VII. Children of WafsoJt and Ollive :

233. Fannie M., b. nth mo. i, 1861, m. loth mo. 4, 1880, Charles
B. Haskins ; issue three children.

234. Asa M., b. 8th mo. 13, 1863, d. in infancy.

235. Everard L., b. loth mo. 25, 1868. Of Hutchinson, Kansas,
studied law under Frederick W. Casner, Esq., and was admitted
to the bar 1895.

236. Myron S., b. 2d mo. 21, 1872, m. loth mo. 16, 1894, Nora
Combs. Farmer (1896) Helena, Oklahoma.

237. Amy Bell, b. 4th mo. 15, 1876.

238. Grace P., b. 9th mo. 19, 1881.

VI. (200.) William D. Foulke, son of Everard, Jr., and
Frances, b. 6th mo. 5, 1828, m. Alice Thomas. He was a

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lawyer in Revesville, Illinois, and removed to Ormond, Flor-
ida, about 1885 or 1886.

VIL Children of William D. and Alice :

239. Susan, d.

240. Ella.

241. Jane, d., m. James Cunningham.

242. Lulu.

VI. (202.) Thomas DeHaven Foulke, son of Everard, Jr., and
Frances, b. 7th mo. 27, 1832, d. 9th mo. 11, 1892, m. 12th
mo. 24, 1868, Maria Eunice Whiteman, dau. of Charles and
Susanna, of Collingswood, N. J. Thomas was associated
with his brother Lester as T. D. Foulke & Brother, in con-
ducting the Arthur Springs Stock Farm at Sidney, 111. In
1882 he purchased his brother's interest, but later, his health
failing, he retired from business about five years before his
death.

VIL Children of Thomas and Maria :

243. Fannie W., b. nth mo. 5, 1869, m. 1891, Frank M. Ross,
Longview, Champaign Co., 111.

244. Charles Whiteman, b. 12th mo. 19, 1871. After being engaged
in business in Illinois, he came east 1893, and 1896 resided at
Medford, N. J.

245. Edith Penrose, b. 3d mo. 22, 1875. Student at Rollins College,
Winter Park, Fla. ; 1894-6, teacher at Sea Breeze and Enter-
prise, Fla.

246. Thomas Everard, b. 3d mo. 2, 1878. Longview, Champaign
Co., 111. [1896.]

VI. (204.) Lester E. Foulke, son of Everard, Jr., and Frances,
b. loth mo. 16, 1837, m. 6th mo. i, 1882, Lenora M. Dun-
can, dau. of Dr. William and Charlotte. Lester was part-
ner with his bro. Thos. D. in the stock-farm at Arthur
Springs, III, removed to Kansas, 1882, and then back to

2/8 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Illinois, returned to Kansas, 1892; resides [1896] at Pretty
Prairie, Kansas.

VII. Children of Lester E. and Frances :

247. William E., b. 4th mo. 19, 1883.

248. Ollie B., b. nth mo. 3, 1884, d. 6th mo. 10, 1886.

249. Lenora Grace, b. 3d mo. 25, 1886, d. nth mo. 27, 1889.

250. Ingham T., b. nth mo. n, 1887, d. nth mo. 4, 1889.

251. Lillian E., b. 3d mo. 25, 1889.

252. Lester D., b. 9th mo. 7, 1891.

253. Edward, b. 9th mo. 10, 1893.

VII. (209.) William Dudley Foulke, of Richmond, Ind., son
of Thomas and Hannah S., b. New York, i ith mo. 20, 1848,
m. October, 1872. Mary T. Reeves, dau. of Mark E, and
Caroline M., of Richmond, Ind. (previously Cincinnati, O.).
William graduated A. B., 1869, at Columbia College, New
York city, with the honors of his class for general average
and Greek; received degree of A. M., in 1872; in 1871,
after study of law, LL. B. ; was admitted to the bar in New
York city in May, 1870, and in Indiana in 1876. In Novem-
ber, 1882, he was elected to the Senate of Indiana for a term
of four years, and took a prominent position in that body.
In pubHc affairs, including the movement to reform the Civil
Service and that to extend suffrage to women, he has taken
an active and influential part.

VIII. Children of William D. afid Mary T. :

254. Caroline R., b. July 28, 1873.

255. Lydia H., b. September 8, 1875.

256. Mary T. R., b. November 14, 1879.

257. Arthur Dudley, b. May 17, 1882, d. Jan. 3, 1887.

258. Lucy Dudley, b. Jan. 25, 1884, d. Jan. 5, 1887.

259. Gwendolen Middleton, b. June 23, 1890.

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 279

Additions to Foulke Genealogy.

V. ( — .) Charles Foulke, of Stroudsburg, Pa., son of Evan
(No. 80, Foulke Genealogy, see p. 254), and Sarah, b. 2d
mo. 26, 1801, d. 3d mo. i, 1883, m. 6th mo. 6, 1831,
Catharine P. Edkin, dau. of Francis and Joanna. Catha-
rine b. 3d mo. 9, 1809, d. 1 2th mo. 17, 1890. She was an
esteemed minister of the Society of Friends, her ministry
approved 1847, ^'^^ ^ woman of remarkable strength of char-
acter and energy. A memorial of her was prepared by Rich-
land Monthly Meeting, 1892. It mentions that she had
" upwards of thirty times " received liberty from her meet-
ing to travel in the service of the Truth.

VI. Children of Charles M. and Catharine :

260. Frances A., b. 4th mo. 22, 1832, d. 7th mo. 13, 1889.

261. Sarah Jane, b. 6th mo. 11, 1834, d. in her 15th year.

262. Susan L., b. loth mo. 6, 1836.

263. Joseph F., b. loth mo. 24, 1838, m. CaroUne McCully, and has
issue : Maria, Charles M., Helen.

264. Hannah M., b. loth mo. 11, 1840, m. Sydenham Rhodes, and
has issue, surname Rhodes, four children : (i) Joseph F., m.
Matilda Snyder ; (2) Anna, m. WiUiam Hager ; (3) Arthur, m.
Estelle Hager ; (4) Edna, m. William Latham.

265. Samuel L., b. 9th mo. 4, 1842, m. Mary Wolf, a granddaughter
of Governor (of Pennsylvania) George Wolf, and has issue :
Benjamin T., Elizabeth, Marguerite.

266. Tacy, b. 5th mo. 6, 1844. -\

267. Kesiah, b. 5th mo. 6, 1844. I ^- ''' ^"^^'''^^-

268. Martha E., b. 5th mo. 6, 1845, "^- J- P- B. Primrose, and has
issue, surname Primrose, five children : Theodore, Elizabeth
W., Walter, Joseph, WiUiam.

269. Mary, b. 3d mo. 9, 1848, ■» d. in infancy.

270. EHzabeth, b. 3d mo. 9, 1848, ] m. Theodore G. Wolf, and has
issue, surname Wolf, one son, Wm. Scranton.

28o HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

VI. ( — .) Dr. Hiram Corson, who married Ann Jones Foulke
(No. 174, Foulke Genealogy, see page 269), died at his home
at Plymouth Meeting, Pa., Third mo. 4, 1896. He was the
son of Joseph and Hannah (Dickinson) Corson. As he was
born Tenth mo. 8, 1804, he was in his 92d year at his de-
cease. He began the study of medicine with his cousin,
Dr. Richard D. Corson, of New Hope, Penna., and in
1828 graduated from the medical department of the Univ. of
Penna., after which he practiced his profession at Plymouth
for 67 years, retiring entirely only about a year before his
death.

He was conspicuous in the profession for his progressive
views, for his advocacy of the claims of women to medical
education and position, and for his efforts to have the female
insane under care of women physicians. He was also an
earnest abolitionist, and advocate of temperance. A notice
in Friends' hitelligencer says :

" Dr. Corson's prominence in his profession was largely
due to his independence and earnestness in the advocacy of
progressive methods. He was among the first to insist upon
the admission of women into the profession, and his niece.
Dr. Adamson (Dr. Dolley), was one of the first of the wo-
men who entered it. His efforts to secure women physicians
a standing in the medical societies, and to have them ap-
pointed to the charge of female patients in the insane hospi-
tals occupied him during many years, and have been, in Penn-
sylvania and other States, largely successful. He early op-
posed the use of alcoholic liquors in the treatment of patients
and almost banished them from his materia viedica. He was
not only the champion of temperance at home, but fre-
quently introduced the subject at the State and national medi-

FOULKE FAMILY GENEALOGY. 281

cal societies. He was the author of numerous papers on
the treatment of scarlet fever and diphtheria, and very early
permitted the use of cold water and ice by his patients, in
eruptive diseases, — at a time when generally such treatment
was regarded as impossible. Remarkable physical energy
and mental activity characterized him throughout life. He
wrote many papers on medical subjects, and on social ques-
tions. For seven years, 1877-84, he was one of the Trus-
tees of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Harrisburg. He
was founder of the Montgomery County Medical Society in
1847, and president of it in 1849. He was elected member
of the Pennsylvania Medical Society in 1849, ^-nd president
of the State Medical Society in 1852 ; member of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, 1 862 ; associate member of the
Philadelphia Obstetric Society, 1 874 ; associate fellow of the
Philadelphia College of Physicians, 1876 ; honorary member
of the Harrisburg Pathological Society, 1881 ; honorary
member of the American Association of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists, 1892.

" Dr. Corson's last appearance in public as a representa-
tive of his profession was on June 5, 1895, at a meeting of
the Montgomery County Medical Society. On that occasion,
referring to his long career as a practitioner, he said one of
his present patients was a child whose mother, grandmother,
and great-grandmother he attended professionally, being
present at the birth of three of the representatives of four
generations."

XVI.

The Early Roads.

NATURALLY, roads to meeting, to mill, and to market,
required immediate attention. For thirty years after the
first arrival they formed one of the most important objects of the
settlers' concern. Their desire for a road to Philadelphia was
among the first shown. To the Court of Quarter Sessions of
Philadelphia county, June, 1704, there was presented " the peti-
tion of the inhabitants of North Wales," who recite " that there
are in the said Township above thirty families already settled,
and probably many more to settle in and about the same, espe-
cially to the northward thereof, and as yet there is no road laid
out to accommodate your petitioners, but what Roads or Paths
have formerly been marked are removed by some and stopped by
others : " they therefore ask an order from the court for " a
Road or Cartway from Philadelphia through Germantown to the
utmost of their above-mentioned Township of North Wales."

Upon this, the court " ordered that the said road [be laid
out] from Philadelphia through Germantown, and so to the house
of Edward Morgan, in North Wales, and that Edmund Orpwood,
Robert Adams, William Howell, John Humphrey, Toby Leech,
John Cook, Robert Jones, Owen Roberts, or any six of them,
do lay out said road, and make return at the next sessions."

This road appears to have been laid out at this date — say
1704-5. It began at Whitemarsh,' went past where Spring-

1 From Whitemarsh up, this was called "the North Wales road." In 1713, the
" inhabitants of Bebber Township," — now Perkiomen, — asking for a road from Skip-
pack downward, desired it should go " unto the North Wales, or Gwynedd road, at
Edward Farmer's mill."

THE EARLY ROADS.

283

House now is, and then up through the township, substantially
on the bed of the present turnpike. That it extended as far as
what is now Towamencin, is fairly certain, because Edward
Morgan had his lands there, above the Gwynedd line. " The
house of Edward Morgan," mentioned in the order of court, was
most probably not "in North Wales," but over the line, in
Towamencin.

Even earlier than this, however, the " Welsh road " originated.
The mills on Pennypack creek, above Huntingdon Valley and
below, were the first to which the settlers turned their attention,
and their road from Gwynedd down was begun as early as 1702.
At the March sessions of court, 171 1, a petition was presented,
reciting as follows :

That whereas for about nine years past a road was laid out from a
bridge in the Hne between the lands of John Humphrey and Edward Foulk
in Gwynedd to the mills on Pemapeck, which said road having been and is
likely to be of a general service to several of the adjacent townships as well
as the undersigned, and not being yet confirmed by authority and re-
corded, [they ask it may be laid out, etc. The signers are as follows :]

William Jones,
Thomas Evan,
Jno. Hugh,
Robert Jones,
Edward Ffoulk,
Robert Evan,
Owen Evan,
Jno. Humphrey,
Cadwalader Evan,
Thomas Foulke,
Cadwalader Jones,
Nichlas Robert,
Elhs Hugh,
Edward Morgan,
Richard Lewis,
Morris Edward,
Richard Whitton,

Edman Maguah,
Hugh Evan,
Evan Griffith,
Hugh Griffith,
Evan Jones,
Evan Griffith,
Hugh Robert,
Ellis Lewis,
Evan Pugh,
Robert Humphrey,
John Robert,
Ellis Roberts,
John Roberts,
Robert Thomas,
Samuel Thomas,
Alexander Edward,
Hugh Griffith,

Ellis Davis,
Rowland Hughs,
George Lewis,
Edward Roberts,
Rowland Robert,
Evan Evans,
Jno. Evans,
Hugh Foulke,
Evan Evans,
Morris Robert,
John William,
David Jones,
Richard Pugh,
Humphre)' Ellis,
John Barnes,
Jo. Iredell,
Peter Davis,

284 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

John Morgan, Robert Ffletcher, Uimas Luckens,

Wm. Roberts, Thomas Canby, Thomas Palmer,

John Cadwalader, Thomas Roberts, Robert Whitton.

The court appointed as viewers John Cadwalader, Thomas
Kinderdine, Robert Jones, Rowland Hugh, Owen Evan, and
Thomas Canby, who at the June session (17 12), reported the
road, which they had laid out on March 28th. Their report,
however, is endorsed : " There being a question against this re-
turn, the court ordered a review, and appointed Toby Leech,
Thomas Rutter, Benjamin Duffield, Peter Taylor, and Robert
Jones, of Merion," to make it. The remonstrance, as found in
the file of court records, was as follows :

The Petition of Robert Evans,' of the Township of Gwynedd, in the
said county, Thomas Siddon and Ephraim Heaton, both of the said county,
humbly sheweth : [That the road as laid out from Gwynedd to Pemapeck
Mills will incommode and injure the signers. They assign the following
specifications] :

1. For that it cuts the sd Robert' Evan's land, being but 150 acres, so
that 40 acres of it is separated from the water.

2. For that this road very much incommodes your petitioner Thomas
Siddon' s lands, and cuts your petitioner Ephraim Heaton' s land cross from
one corner to another, and is laid out through his corn-field.

3. For that the greater part, if not all those that laid out this Road
were either Petitioners or Contenders for it.

'This Robert Evans was not the same person as Robert Evans (of the four
brothers), who owned the tract in the central part of the township. (The expression
" lower tract," added to the name of Robert Evans, in the list of property holders on
page 58, may be misleading.) This lower Robert Evans, whose tract of 250 acres
must have covered part at least of the site of the present village of Spring-House, and
extended to the Horsham line, is distinguished as Robert Evans Prythra, in the sub-
scription paper of 1712 for building the meeting-house of the Friends ; (he was one of
the committee of eight in charge of the erection); and in the list of taxables, 1734, (see
list later, in this volume), he is called, probably more correctly, Robert Evans ap Rhi-
derth. In 1745 he was living in Hilltown, and he then sold 200 acres of his Gwynedd
land to his son Evan Evans. He died about 1747 ; his will was proved February 12,
that year. He names his son Evan Evans, his grandsons Robert and Jonathan Evans,
and daughter Elizabeth Jarvis, and leaves ^^3 to Gwynedd Preparative Meeting.

THE EARLY ROADS.

285

4. For that when Joseph Fisher's land comes to be settled the lands of
several inhabitants of Gwynedd and others must be cut in pieces to branch
into the road as now laid out, whereas if it had gone up that division line
between the sd Fisher and Gwynedd, it would be a more general accommo-
dation and bring the Road along your petitioners Heaton's and Siddon's
lines upon a more direct course and better answers the Inhabitants on both
sides the last mentioned line, there being two townships already settled
with many families, joyning upon Gwynedd township above the said
Fisher's tract.

[They therefore ask a hearing, with the opportunity to prove their case.
The signers are as follows] :

Joseph Ffishore,
David Marple,
Peter Lester,
Thomas How,
James Haines,
Nath. Page,
Patrick Holly,
Samuel Hallowell,
David James,
Methusaleh Griffith,
Bartholomew Longstreth,
John Hurford,
Mathis Tyssen,
Willem Hendricks,
John Cunnard,
John Huntsman,
Joseph Charlesworth,

benjamin Charlesworth,
Evan Morgan,
John Nash,
William Rundols,
Thomas Fitzwater,
John Bradfield,
Joseph Hall,
Thomas Hallowell,
Joshua Holt,
James McVeagh,
Abra'm Griffith,
George Phillips,
Allen Foster,
Nicholas Scull,
John ffisher,
Richard Rogan,
Alexander Guah,

Fd. Barch,
Mikel trump,
Nicholas Hicket,
Richard Carver,
George Burson,
John Trout,
Thomas Siddon,
Rouberd Evan,
Ephraim Heatton,
William Story,
Abraham hill,
John Evans,
Morris Davies,
Henry Jones,
William Roberts,
Thomas David.

The second jury made their report to the court at the March
sessions, 1712. They located the road' somewhat differently
from the previous jury, though not with any important variation.
Their last course and distance was precisely the same : " north
59 degrees west, 166 perches to the above said bridge " [at John
Humphrey's] .

^ This road was the present " Welsh road," up as far as the point on the Horsham
and Upper Dublin line, near Pennville, and above that point the road by Three Tuns up
to the Spring-House. The Welsh road, up the township line above Pennville, was
opened several years later.

286 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

At the June sessions, 17 14, the following petition was
presented :

The humble petition of several of the inhabitants of Montgomery,
Gvvinedth, and Richlands, within the said county, showeth :

That your petitioners many of them being newly settled in these parts,
having want of roads to meetings, mills, and market, do therefore pray
this Worshipful Court that you will be pleased to order a Convenient road
to be laid out from Joseph Growden's plantation in Richlands aforesaid to
John Humphrey's at North Wales.

The court thereupon appointed Edward Farmer, Thomas
Rutter, Thomas Siddon, Robert Jones, of Merion, Thomas Jones,
and Robert Evan, or any four of them, a jury of view.

At the March sessions, 171 5, the following petition was
presented :

The petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of Gwynedd, Montgomery,
Skippack, and other of the adjacent townships, humbly sheweth :

That inasmuch as the mill late of David Wilhams in plymouthi is built
on a spring which neither the Drought of Sumer nor winter's ffrost hinders
from supplying the neighbourhood with grinding when all or most of the
other mills are dormant our and others being so sup-
ply'd in times of such necessity lays [us] under great obhgations to fre-
quent the said mill [they therefore ask convenient roads to it] several of
which said roads have been made use for these tenn or twelve years past,
but obstructed at the pleasure of ill minded and contentious persons.
[They then suggest the roads as named in the record of the court, adding]
and your petitioners bringing their corn to mill in order to bring the meal
to markett another road wants a confirmation leading from the said mill to
the Great Road from Parkysomeny to Philadelphia, without which your
petitioners must labor under great hardships and difficulties, for what is
more necessary than a Convenient road to places of worship and to mills
and marketts " [etc. The petition is signed by thirty persons, most of them
Gwynedd people].

1 This was a geographical error. The mill was situated at Spring Mill (as now
known) in Whitemarsh.

THE EARLY ROADS. 287

The jury on this were William Harman, Matthew Holgate,
Rowland Ellis, jr., Richard Jones, John Rhodes, and Thomas
Stroud, who laid out the road from the meeting-house, at Gwyn-
edd, to the mill on the Schuylkill — now Spring mill — owned
then by Anthony Morris and Robert Jones ; and from the mill
eastward to the Perkiomen road, at a point just below where the
village of Barren Hill now is. They made their return to June
sessions, 17 16, giving the courses and distances, " beginning at
a corner tree of Robert Evans's land, about 1 5 perches north-east
from the said Gwynedd meeting-house." The first half-dozen of
courses and distances are as follows : " South 12° w., 440 p. ; s.
45° w., 30 p.; s. 12° w., 500 p.; s. 28° w., 130 p.; s. 45° w., 138
p.; s. 13° e., 80 p.; s. 4° e., 52 p.;" etc., etc.

The location of this road did not, it appears, give universal
satisfaction. At the same sessions, — June, 17 16, — a remon-
strance was presented from a resident of Gwynedd, as follows :

The petition of David Jones, of Gwynedd,' in the county of Philadel-
phia, humbly sheweth : That inasmuch as by force and virtue of a late
order of court for a road to be laid out for the use and service of Robert
Jones and Anthony Morris in Whitemarsh, your petitioner, upon the laying
out of the same is much damnified and discommoded by so dividing and
parceling one hundred acres of land, the tract of your petitioner, that he,
your said qetitioner must unavoidably leave his settlement except relieved
by this honorable court, which it's presumed may be easily done by carry-
ing the said road to the line a few perches off, which when done the same
may be as commodious without either damnifying your petitioner or any
other to his knowledge. There is another road laid out by Thomas Fair-
man about 10 or 12 years ago, that goes through part of my land without
so much damnifying me, which said road is now turned, to my consider-
able damage, to save discommoding the large tracts of others, but I am

1 David Jones owned the farm, now [1884] Eliza S. Davis's, on the Plymouth
road, by the Wissahickon. A draft of the road, among the files of the Court, shows
his house located on the east or lower side of the road, and it is probable that this
crossed the Wissahickon above the present bridge, and nearer to the State road.

288 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD. .

ready and willing the old road should be continued, and to allow more
land to enlarge it, if required.

At the same time a remonstrance was presented from White-
marsh township concerning the location of roads " to and from
Robert Jones's mill to divers points in this county," and espe-
cially representing that one " from his mill up to the great road
that goes to Whitemarsh mill and so thence to town " was solely
for Robert Jones's private benefit, and would be very expensive
to the township. Upon this Abraham Dawes, Isaac Dilbeck,
John Ball, Thomas Strod, John Hank, and John Nicholls were
appointed. The court, however, received at the same sessions
the report of the original jury, and approved it, as appears by
the following record :

Pursuant to an order of Court held for this City and County last March,
wherein it was ordered that we should view and lay out certain roads lead-
ing from North Wales and adjacent settlements to Plymouth, thence to
Robert Jones's mill, and so to the road leading from Perkioming to Phila-
delphia ; which said roads, after view and Consideration thereof [we]
think convenient to make return of the same according to the several
courses and distances and a draft of the whole hereunto annexed. (Signed
by Wilham Harman, Matthew Holgate, Rowland Ellis, jun., Richard
Jones, John Rhodes, Thomas Stroud.)

Which is confirmed by the court. The mill is to be at the charge of
cutting the Road from the mill to the great road, and after cut to be main-
tained as other roads are.

But it seems that general acquiescence was not given to the
location of the road, even after it had been formally located by
the court, and the following report was filed at the December
sessions, 1716 :

Thomas Ellis, Constable of Whitpain Township, presents John Hunts-
man and Edward Endehaven for stopping up the great road laid out from
Gwynedd meeting-house to Plymouth meeting-house, and to Anthoney Mor-
ris and Robert Jones his mill, which said road was laid out and allowed by

THE EARLY ROADS. 289

all the Inhabitants of the Township the same runns thro' ye said Hunts-
man and Endehaven [and they] have this fall plowed and sowed their land'
and fenced in the said road and still refuse to open the same tho' often
thereunto required.

At the December sessions, 17 17, the following petition was
presented :

To the Honorable the Justices at the County Court of Quarterly Ses-
sions, held at Philadelphia the 2d day of December, 171 7. The petition
of the subscribers. Inhabitants of the Township of Montgomery and the
parts adjacent humbly sheweth : That your petitioners and others the
neighboring inhabitants are very much incommoded for want of a road
from Montgomery aforesaid to the great road from the Township of Gwyn-
edd to Philadelphia, wherefore [they suggest that a convenient one to meet-
ing and market would be] beginning at the plantation of Theophilus Wil-
liams and now thence as near as may be on a direct course to John Hum-
phrey's Bridge on the great road aforesaid. [The signers of this petition
are as follows :]

John Williams, John Roberts, Joseph Bate,

Evan Griffith, George Lewis, Theophilus Williams,

Griffith Hugh, William Williams, Morris Davis,

Rowland Roberts, William Story, Jenkin Evans,

John David, Richard Lewis, Cadwallader Morris.

David Hugh, Francis Dawes, William Morgan,

John Johnson, Garatt Petterson, John Bartholomew.

The court thereupon appointed as a jury of view : David
Potts, William Harmer, Isaac Knight, Morris Morris, Toby
Leech, jun., and Humphrey Bates, who at. the March sessions,
1 7 17, made the following return :

And now here at this day, viz., at the Sessions of the Peace of our
Lord the King held at Philadelphia, came the aforesaid [jury just named]
and return that pursuant to an order of Court bearing date the second day
of December, anno 17 17, for the laying out a road from Theophilus Wil-
liams's plantation thro' the township of Montgomery to the great road from
Gwynedth to Philadelphia, they had laid out the said road : Beginning at
a hickory tree standing on the bank of Neshaminy Creek, in Theophilus
Williams's land, thence s. 19° e., 20 p. ; s. 30° e., 120 p.; s. 12° e., 70 p.;

290 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

s. 5° w., 46 p.; s. 3° w., 124 p.; s. 40° e., 72 p.; s. 190 p.; s. 24° e.,
100 p.; s. 11° e., no p.; s. 24° e., 360 p.; s. 4° w., 486 p.; s. 16° w.,
90 p.; s. 56° w., 48 p., to the Gwynedth road about 8 perches to the south-
ward of a bridge on the Gwynedth road commonly called John Humphrey's
bridge. Which said road is by this Court confirmed.

A draft of the road thus laid out is among the court files. It
shows the beginning squarely from the bank of the creek, the
course generally southward, until in the last course it bears
sharply westward and comes into the Gwynedd road nearly at
a right angle. It is, obviously, the old road, which the present
Spring-House and Hilltown turnpike substantially follows. ^

At the December sessions, 172 1, there is the following
record :

Upon the petition of Rowland Hughes and Robert Humphreys of the
township of Gwynedth, setting forth the necessity of a road to be laid out
from their plantations to the great road leading to Philadelphia by a school-
house lately erected' by their neighborhood, which said road might be laid
out thro' the partition lines without detriment to any person. [The court
appointed as a jury :] Edward Farmer, Rowland Ellis, Everard Bolton,
Toby Leech, jr., Humphrey Ball [Bate?], and John Jones, carpenter, or
some four of them. [The petition of Hugh and Humphrey, on the files
of the court, recites that they " being of late debarr'd of a direct road from
their habitations to the great road from Philadelphia to and through Gwyn-
edd aforesaid " — " inasmuch as several of the neighbourhood in conjunc-
tion with your petitioners have erected a school-house upon the great road
aforesaid," — they desire a road from Robert Humphrey's "by the said
school-house."]

At the September sessions, 1723, " divers of the inhabitants
of the Townships of North Wales and Horsham" asked a road
"from the corner of Ephraim Heaton's field to Horsham meet-
ing-house," whereupon the court appointed John Cadwalader,
John Evans, John Humphrey, Rowland Hugh, Thomas Iredell,

1 This is the first evidence I have of a school in the township.

THE EARLY ROADS. 29 1

Sampson Davis, or any four of them, a jury. December, 1723,
they reported that on November 27th, " with the assistance of a
surveyor " (Peter Taylor) they laid it out, " Beginning at or in
the North Wales road, near the corner of the said Ephraim
Heaton's field, thence e. 14)^° n., 440 p.; e. 14° n., 144 p.; thence
s. e. along Fisher's line, 208 p.; thence e. 5° s., 92 p., to Hor-
sham meeting-house." Which report the court confirmed, nisi.
At the March sessions, 1727 :

Upon the petition of several of the inhabitants of the county of Phila-
delphia [representing their want of roads] to places of Worship, Mills, and
Market, [and asking] a road to be laid out, beginning at or near a creek
by John Jones' house, in the upper part of Gwynedth township and turn
off at the Great Road through some part of the said John Jones' land to
the Susquehannah Road or Line, six or seven miles along the same and
running partly by the meeting-house and Garret Clement's mill to a branch
of Perkyoming Creek ; [the Court ordered that] Henry Penebecker, John
Jones, of North Wales, John Newberry, WiUiam Harmar, Peter Wence,
and William Roberts, or any four of them, do view and judge if there be
occasion for the road petitioned for, and if one road can be laid out to ac-
commodate the said petitioners and those of Skippack who now petition
for a road from a branch of the Perkyoming to the said Skippack Road,
and if they judge that there is necessity for a road ' ' [then to lay it out, etc.] .

The original petition referred to in this record remains on file.
It is signed mainly by residents in Towamencin, thirty names
altogether. Nearly half sign in German, and some of these are
undecipherable. As far as can be made out they are as follows :

Jacob Gaedtschalck, Joseph Lucken, Christian Kuntzig,

Gaetschalck Gaetschalck, John Edwards, Carl Ludwig Raeber,

hendry hendricks, Jacob Hill, Andreas Schwartz,

William Nash, Christopher Buhler, Nicholas Enser,

Herman Gaedschalck, Hans Lebo, Chr. Meyer,

Abraham Lucken, Gabriel Beyer, Christian Breneman.

Hugh Evan, John Lucken,

The jury made their return to the June court [1728], that
they had laid out a road, " Beginning at the Beech Tree near the

292 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

North Branch of Parkyoming ; thence n. 76° e. 48 perches,
thence s. e. 262 p., thence s. 22° e. 52 p., thence s. 25° e. 90 p.,
thence [by eleven courses] to Skippack creek, thence s. 67° e.
26 p., thence s. e. 424 p., to Hugh Evan's fence ; thence e. 16 p.,
thence s. 12° e. 18 p., thence s. e. 219 p., thence s. 40° e. 146 p.,
thence s. 62° e. 150 p. to the great road going along by John
John's at North Wales to Philadelphia." Which report the
court confirmed, nisi.

At the June Sessions, 1728, there was presented the fol-
lowing :

The petition of the subscribers Inhabitants of Montgomery and the
adjacent parts, on behalf of themselves and others, humbly sheweth :
That your petitioners and others having long labored under divers difficul-
ties and inconveniences occasioned by the want of a legally established
road leading to public places of Worship, Markett & Mill are by necessity
constrained to make application [for a road] leading fromiand beginning at
the Bucks County hne in the Line dividing the Lands now or late of An-
drew Hamilton and Thomas Shute and running along the said Division
Line and then taking and running along the 'line dividing the lands of John
Roberts [black] -smith, and Garrett Peters, to Gwynedd meeting-house and
answering (in a straight line) the road leading thence directly to Robert
Jones and Anthony Morris his mill. [Signed by :]

Joseph Naylor, Samuel Thomas, Jno. Bartholomew,

Thomas Reess, Theophilus Williams, Griffe Hugh,

Griffith Evans, John David, James Davies,

George Shoumaker, John Williams, David Evans,

daniel Kirk [?] William Morgan, David Johns,

John Richard, Evan Steven, Joseph Eaton,

Thomas Edward, Garet Peters, Rowland Roberts,

Daniel Williams, John Jones, Th. Bartholomew,

Richard Williams, John Robert, Joseph Ambler.

Upon this petition the Court appointed Rowland Hugh,
Robert Humphrey, Humphrey Jones, George Lewis, Evan
Griffith, and Rees Harry a jury. They made their report (signed
by all but Harry) to the September Court, stating that they had

THE EARLY ROADS. 293

surveyed a road on the 19th of 6th month (August), and located
it as follows :

From Bucks County line, beginning at a black oak in the said line,
thence s. 44° w. along a straight line 316 p., dividing the lands of Andrew-
Hamilton and Thomas Shute, thence s. 63° w. 18 p. to a black oak ; thence
upon a straight line s. 44° w. 140 p., thence s. 67° w. 72 p.; thence s. 44° w.
along a straight line 360 p., dividing the lands of John Bartholomew and
Rowland Roberts, John Roberts [black] -smith, and Garrett Peterson ; thence
s. 3° e. 196 p.; thence s. 44° w. 174 p. ; thence s. 15° w. 55 p.; thence s.
45° w. lo p. ; thence s. 3° w. 80 p.; thence s. 25° w. 30 p., falling into the
great road by Gwynedd meeting-house, answering the end of the road that
leads to Robert Jones's and Anthony Morris's mill.

This return the Court confirmed, nisi. A draft submitted
with the report shows that Andrew Hamilton's land in Mont-
gomery (he owned also on the Bucks side of the county line),
lay along the lower side of the new road, with Shute's land on
the upper side. The end of the road at Gwynedd meeting-house
met directly the road to Plymouth, and so formed a cross-roads
with the "great road" running upward through Gwynedd.

At the September Court, 1731, was presented the following :

We ye inhabitants of the Township of Montgomery and others near
joyning,' Humbly petition : Whereas there is a road Lately laid out and
confirmed at the last court of Quarter Sessions held at Newtown for ve
County of Bucks, beginning at James David's corner on ye county Line
and thence Leading to pine Run mills'* and to Buckingham meeting-house,
which road will be very usefull to us and those near us in the Countv of
Bucks in order to pass & Repass to ye said pine run mills and also to mar-
kett and to have intercourse between several places of worship. [They
therefore ask] an order to extend ye said road into this township from ye

1 The majority of the signers, Edward Mathews says (private letter to the author),
were residents of New Britain township. One of them, Simon Mathews, was the first
of the family here. He came in 1712, and bought land of James Steel, between Chal-
font and New Britain station, in 1720.

^ Pine Run mills stood where the village of Chalfont now is.

294 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

county line as far as ye great road and to fall into the same by or near
Isaac James's corner, and to branch out somewhere near Isaac James, as
may be thought most convenient to lead to ye Baptist meeting-house in
this township. [Signed by]

Thomas James, Jno. Davis, Thomas Rees,

Evan Steven, Thomas Levifis, Thomas John,

David Stevens, David James, Joseph Naylor,

William George, Griffith Hugh, John Roberts,

Simon Mathews, Joseph Eaton, George Lewis,

William Morgan, Thos. Bartholomew, Richard Lewis,

Benj. Griflfith, James David, William Williams,

Griffith Owen, Simon Butler, Samuel Thomas,

Isaac Evan, William Thomas, Joseph Ambler.

Upon this petition the Court appointed John Jones, carpen-
ter, John David, of Plymouth, Theophilus Williams, Joseph Bates,
David Evans, and Jenkin Evans a jury, who reported at Decem-
ber Court, and presented a good draft of their road, showing not
only its courses and distances, but the land-holders on each side,
and even the topographical features. The road ended by " com-
ing into the great road at Isaac James's corner," but a branch
from a point east of this ran up to the Baptist meeting-house.

Up to 1734, the road to Plymouth supplied the only public
way to the Schuylkill. In June, 1734, a petition was presented
to the Court for a road from the Swedes' Ford to North Wales
meeting-house, and a jury, consisting of Reese WiUiams, Row-
land Hugh, Robert Rogers, Richard Thomas, Hugh Jones, and
Job Pugh, reported a road at the September session ; but Isaac
Norris, who owned a large part of the present township of Nor-
riton, and borough of Norristown, strenuously objected that it
would damage his property, " cutting asunder the best part of
his tract," and a review was ordered, which seems to have had
the effect of postponing any definite action. In September, 1737,
however, a new petition was presented, which said that several
roads from Bucks county now led to North Wales meeting-house.

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but that to get from there to the Swedes' Ford, the way was very
roundabout, making it inconvenient for travelers, as well as resi-
dents. John Bartholomew, George Lewis, David Evans, Jona-
than Potts, Jonathan Robeson, and Abraham Dawes were
appointed a jury, and reported at the March term, 1738, their
road being thus described :

Beginning at a hickory tree standing near the landing of the Swedes
Ford, on the south west side of the river Schuylkill, thence n. 31° e. 33 p.
to a stump, standing at the landing on the n. e. side of Schuylkill, thence
the same course, n. 31° e., on Norris's land, 59 p. to a road leading to
Norris's Mills, thence n. 59° w., along the aforesaid road 160 p. to a stake,
thence n. 19° e., along Norris's land, 280 p. to a line of Samuel Evan's
land, thence n. e. along a line between the said Evans, Edward Farmer,
and Aaron Roberts, 136 p. to a corner of said Evans's land, thence n. 24°
e., 71 p. to a corner of Roger Pugh's land, thence n. e. along the line di-
viding the lands of Roger Pugh, Norris, and Robert Rogers, 196 p. to a
stake, thence n. 61° e. along Robert Rogers's and Norris's land, 138 p. to
Manatawny road, thence n. e. by a line of Cadwallader Evan's land, 44 p.
to said Evan's corner, thence n. 65° e. along land leased of Ellis Ellis,
and part of Whitpaine's tract, 222 p. to a small sapling in a line of George
Fitzwater's land, thence n. e. along line dividing the said George Fitz-
water's, Thomas Fitzwater's, and Whitpaine's tract, 406 p. to a white oak
standing near Skippack road, thence the same course along the line of
Peter Indehaven, Henry Levering, Daniel Levering, Samuel Linderman,
and Jacob Levering, 404 p. to a stake ; thence n. 14° w. through Jacob
Levering's and Ellis Pugh's lands 106 p. to a stake in the line dividing
Evan Evans' and the aforesaid Pugh's land, thence n. e. along the line of
the said Evan Evans, Ellis Pugh, Thomas Evans, William Roberts, Owen
Evans, and Margaret Evans, 464 p. to North Wales road, thence s. 52° e.
along the said road 84 p. to North Wales meeting-house, being in all 8
miles, 243 p.

Which said road is by this court confirmed, and the Overseers of the
High Ways are Ordered by this Court to open the same, according to law,
for a public use.

In 1737 the Court granted a private road, to be laid out 20
feet wide, to enable the settlers about Penllyn to reach '* the

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great road," on their way to Philadelphia. It was laid out, "be-
ginning at a stone in the line of Edward Foulke, jun., thence n.
e. between his lands and Lewis Williams's, 74 perches, then on
L. W.'s land s. e., joining the land of Thomas David, 96 perches
to a black oak near the line, then same course on Thomas
David's land, to the far corner of the grave -yard, then on the line
between Thomas David and Lewis Williams, and between
Thomas David and Evans Roberts, s. e. 1 26 perches to the great
road near the school-house."

What " the grave-yard " was I do not know, — probably a
family burial-place. The school-house is no doubt the same
referred to previously in the petition of Rowland Hugh, and it
must have stood on "the great road," — the present turnpike, —
well down toward the Upper Dublin line.'

The Plymouth road was reviewed, in 1751, by a jury consist-
ing of William Dewees, Archibald McClean, Peter Robison,
Joseph Wain, Rees Harry, and Wickard Miller, the line varying
considerably in the upper courses from the road laid out in 17 16.
Their road began " at Spring Mill door," and ran by 30 courses
and distances, by Plymouth meeting-house, the Dutch church
land (Boehm's), to Wissahickon creek, and " North Wales road
near the meeting-house." The whole length of the road was 9
miles, 7 perches ; from Plymouth m. h. to North Wales m. h., 7
miles, 24 perches.

The road from Spring-House to Boehm's Church (intersect-
ing the Plymouth road at the latter point) was laid out in the
spring of 1760 by John Trump, Benjamin Davids, John Potts,
Peter Cleaver, and Charles Jolly, and the same jury at the same
time laid out the township-line road between Gwynedd and

• Probably near where the present public school stands, — the " Dagers'," or the
old " lower eight-square."

THE EARLY ROADS. 297

Whitpain, from the present State road down to the Upper Dublin
line. The road from Boehm's is thus described :

Beginning near a stone spring-house' in Gwynedd road ; thence ex-
tending south-west 331 perches on a Hne between Evan Evans, EHzabeth
Davis, and Hannah [Hannaniah ?] Pugh on the one side, [and] John Evans
and Edward Foulke on the other side ; thence, South 75° West, 60 perches
to the end of WilUam Foulke' s lane ; thence, South 69° West, 32 perches
along said Foulke' s lane ; thence. South 58° West, 25 perches to William
Foulke' s house ; thence, South 48° West, 50 perches to said Foulke' s Mill ;
thence, South 84° West, 68 perches through the land of William Foulke,
and the land of John Roberts, to a stake ; thence. South-west, 148 perches
on a line between John Roberts' and Richard Thomas's land ; thence,
South 15° West, 55 perches through the lands of John Roberts and John
Lewis ; thence, South-west, 140 perches on a line between John Lewis,
James Brown, Charles Cress, and Philip Duder, into a road leading from
Gwynedd to Plymouth, near a Dutch meeting-house.

[So much of interest as to ownership of land, location of
places, etc., etc., is disclosed by a study of the road records, that
I regret that I am unable to devote more space to this chapter.
The most important roads in the township have now mostly been
accounted for.]

1 Here we have the origin of the name of the present village, " the Spring-House."
There was no tavern at this place until 1763, or thereabout. But the spring was well
known from the time of the first settlement. In 1709 John Humphrey, whose tract
adjoined, secured of Robert Evans the right to use " a certain fountain or flowing
spring of water, together with the free and undisturbed benefit of said spring, with a
foot-path to and from it over the said Robert Evan's land." A stone house over it had
been built, as shown above, between 1709 and 1760. It is on the property now (1896)
owned by Isaac Hallowell, in the rear of his store, at Spring-House.

XVII.

Early Settlers in Montgomery.

THE first settlers in Montgomery were, like those in
Gwynedd, immigrants from Wales, and their arrival fol-
lowed hard upon that of the company who bought Turner's
tract. The Montgomery lands had been held by a number of
speculative purchasers, none of whom had made a settlement.
Among these were William Stanley, an Englishman, who had a
warrant from Penn, so early as 1683, for 5,000 acres ; Richard
Pierce, whose warrant was for 500 acres ; and Thomas Fairman,
the Philadelphia surveyor, who had title for a large tract. In
March, 1699, Alexander Edwards purchased of Fairman 1,100
acres,' and probably moved to it soon after. He was a Welsh-
man, and had lived in Radnor, Chester (now Delaware) county,
where in 1692 his daughters Bridget and Jane had respectively
married, under the oversight of Haverford monthly meeting,
Griffith Miles and James James, both " of Radnor."

Alexander Edwards was certainly one of the first settlers,
and probably the very earliest, in Montgomery. He died in
1712, and described himself in his will as "of Montgomery,"
showing that the township had been created before that time. It
was his son Alexander Pldwards, jun., who married Gwen
Foulke, dau. of E^dward. He (A. E. jr.), in 1707, bought 200
acres of his father, and at once sold half of this to David Hugh

' When the tract was re-surveyed, in 1702, it was found to contain, — differing from
the usual result, — only 996 acres, and for this quantity the Commissioners gave him a
patent.

EARLY SETTLERS IN MONTGOMERY. 299

Griffith. This tract included the Gordon or Rynear property,
on the Horsham road.

Theophilus Williams, who married Grace Foulke, Edward's
daughter, was also an early settler, and the place where he lived,
at the upper end of the township, adjoining the Hatfield line, is
shown' by the description of the road laid out from there, down-
ward, through the township.

James Shattuck, who may or may not have been an actual
resident, received in 1708 a patent for 250 acres, it being sur-
veyed to him in right of Richard Pierce. This he sold in 171 1
to William Morgan, who in 1723 sold part of it to Joseph
Ambler. The latter was the first of the name in Montgomery,
and the ancestor of a large family. His tract included the farm,
recently the estate of Edward Ambler, fronting on the Horsham
road, above the State road.

John Bartholomew, whose name frequently appears in the
road records (chap. XVI.), bought, in 17 16, 150 acres of Mar-
garet Pugh, situated where the hamlet of Montgomery Square now
is. John is said to have been a weaver, as well as a farmer, and
he established, it is believed, the first hotel at that place, — proba-
bly near the close of his life. He was the son of George Bar-
tholomew, who at one time owned the famous Blue Anchor
tavern in Philadelphia, and who is said to have been a descendant
of the Barthelemi family, of France. From a deed recorded in
Philadelphia, it appears that John moved to Montgomery from
Bucks county. He owned two farms, a house and lot in the city,
and a number of slaves. Among his grandchildren were Col.
Edward Bartholomew, of Philadelphia county, and Capt. Benja-
min Bartholomew, of Chester county, both of whom were mem-
bers of the Constitutional Convention of 1776, and bore a dis-

^ See preceding chapter, p. 289.

300 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

tinguished part in the Revolutionary War. He died October 30,
1756, at an advanced age (71), leaving a widow, Mary, and
eleven children. Seward, in his Journal, mentions that the cele-
brated preacher George Whitefield spent one night at the house
of John Bartholomew, of Montgomery, after preaching in the
neighborhood, and was kindly entertained by his family.

Jenkin Evans, an early settler in Montgomery, who came
from Wales, purchased 108 acres of Thomas Shute, in December,
1 7 17. This tract lay in the north corner of the township, adjoin-
ing the Hatfield line, and between the road to Perkasie (now the
Bethlehem turnpike) and the county line. He may have been
a brother to David Evans, who bought a large tract of land in
Hatfield about the same time, and who was (through his daughter
Rachel, his only child, who married Peter Evans), the ancestor of
a numerous family in Hatfield and Montgomery. Jenkin Evans
conveyed to the Baptist congregation, in 1731, an acre off the
corner of his farm for their church and burying ground. His son,
or grandson, Jenkin Evans, jun., removed into New Britain,
bought the Butler grist mill on Neshaminy (where the village of
Chalfont now is), and was some time a member of the Legislature
from Bucks county.

Among the very earliest settlers in Montgomery was Thomas
Lewis, a native of Wales, who in 1701 bought 484 acres in the
south corner of the township from Thomas Fairman. He was,
no doubt, a Friend. He died in the summer of 1723, leaving
280 acres of his farm to his son George, i 50 acres to his son
Richard, and 50 to a grandson, Thomas. George Lewis married,
in 1708, Jane Roberts, and was a prominent member of Gwynedd
meeting. The memorial of him by the monthly meeting says
" he was a native of Wales, of a peaceable and inoffensive life and
conversation. He was an elder thirty years, even to his death.

EARLY SETTLERS IN MONTGOMERY. 3°'

which was on the 9th of 12th month, 1752, in the 72d year of
his age." He left but one child, Elizabeth, who married, in 1728,
Isaac Jones, of whom some details will be given below.

Richard Lewis appears to have had, besides his son Thomas
who got the 50 acres of land, other children, including Edward
and Mary. Thomas married, in 1734, Hannah Morgan, daughter
of Edward, jun.

Isaac Jones came to Montgomery while quite a young man.
He was the son of David and Katherine Jones, who came from
Wales in 1699, and settled at Merion. Isaac was born 7th mo. 5,
1708, and married, 1728, Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of George,
she being eighteen and he twenty. Notwithstanding this early
marriage, they " lived happily together " for seventy years. Old
George Lewis, it is said, made an agreement with them a few
years before his death, by which he gave them a life right in his
real estate, in return for food and clothes, a room in his house,
the use of a riding-horse, and two barrels of cider a year. He
reserved the right to cook for himself, if he preferred, in which
case they were to pay him ^12 a year, in lieu of the " diet."

Isaac Jones had purchased, in 1746, some land of Thomas
Lewis, jr. On this he built, in 1765, a large brick house, which
stood for more than a century. In it, in 1798, he died, past the
age of ninety, and his wife, surviving two years, attained an
equal age. Their son Isaac married Gainor Ambler,' and this
couple also died in the old house, after a married life of nearly
seventy years, — Isaac, in 1840, aged 93, and Gainor, June 20,
1847, in her 92d year. Isaac's sister, Ruth, who had lived there
all her life, died in the same house, at the age of 88 ; and Mary
Roberts, daughter of Eldad, who made her home with the
Joneses, died there also, in 1859, aged nearly 93. This house,

' Gainor was the daughter of John and Ann (Foulke) Ambler. See P'oulke
Genealogy.

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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

which was pulled down some years ago, stood in the extreme
south corner of the township, on a cross road from the turnpike
to the Horsham road.

Of John Jones, carpenter, who settled in Montgomery about
17 lO, taking up about 300 acres, part of which must have been
Alexander Edwards's purchase, adjoining Gwynedd, some special
genealogical details will be given later. He was an active and
useful citizen, prominent for many years in the business affairs
of the township.

A return was made, in 1734, to Governor Thomas Penn, of
the names of the freeholders in the several townships of Phila-
delphia, " with the quantity of land they respectively hold there-
in, according to the uncertain returns of the constables." This
list for Montgomery township shows twenty-nine names, as
follows :

Acres.

Acres

Joseph Naylor, . .

. 189

Garret Peters,

150

Robert Thomas,

. 200

Moses Peters, . .

150

John Starky, . .

. 200

Rowland Roberts, .

100

Joseph Ambler . .

. 90

Francis Dawes, .

100

John Bartholomew,

• 300

Thomas Williams, .

100

Joseph Eaton, . .

. 150

William Story, . .

100

William Williams, .

. 200

Richard Lewis,

150

William Morgan, .

. 100

Isaac Jones, . .

100

Samuel Thomas, .

. 100

John Robert,

200

John WiUiams,

. 100

James David, . .

100

Joseph Bate,

. 200

David Evans,

100

Thos. Bartholomew,

• 30

Isaac James, . .

200

Griffith Hugh, . .

. 100

Jenkin Evans, .

50

John Jones, carp'r,

■ 300

Jenkin Jones,

—

John Roberts, .

• 90

Isaac James, who is named as holding 200 acres of land, was
one of an important and numerous family, who settled early in
Montgomery and New Britain. John James, his father, came

EARLY SETTLERS IN MONTGOMERY. 303

from Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1 7 1 i , and bought land in Mont-
gomery. When the Baptist congregation was organized, in
1 7 19, he, his wife, Sarah, and their three sons, William, Thomas,
and Josiah, were five of the ten constituent members. John and
his two elder sons bought 1,000 acres of "the Hudson tract,"
in New Britain, in 1720, and probably removed there at that
time.

XVIII.
Affairs Before the Revolution.

FEW other than Welsh settlers made their appearance in
either Gwynedd or Montgomery, before 1734; a small
number from England were the only exceptions. The greater
part of them were, or soon beca,me, Friends ; a minority, chiefly
settlers in Montgomery, were Baptists. But as they were all
originally members of the Established Church of England, they
were the objects of concern from Rev. Evan Evans, the Welsh
missionary preacher sent out by the Bishop of London, in 1700.
He wrote to the bishop, in 1707, describing the Welsh settlers at
Radnor and Merion, and added :

There is another Welsh settlement called Montgomery, in the county
of Philadelphia, twenty miles distant from the city, where there are con-
siderable numbers of Welsh people, formerly in their native country of the
communion of the Church of England ; but about the year 1698, two years
before my arrival in that country, most of them joined with the Quakers,
but by God's blessing some of them were induced to return, and I have
baptized their children and preached often to them. I visited them since,
and prevailed upon them to meet every Lord's-day, about forty in number,
where one that can understand the language well, and is a sober, discreet
man, reads the prayers of the church, the proper psalms and lessons, omit-
ting the absolution, etc., what properly belongs to the priest's office, and
then reads some portion in a book of devotion to the people.

By " Montgomery " he evidently means the whole settlement,
including Gwynedd. But it is difficult to see where a congrega-
tion of forty could have been collected from among the settlers,

AFFAIRS nil FORE T/fE REVOLUTION. 305

between 1700 and 1707, for the Established Church. Such a
gathering certainly was not long maintained. Some members of
St. Thomas's church, at Whitemarsh, may, at so early a day,
have belonged in Gwynedd or Montgomery, but they must have
been very few, and there was no other Episcopal church within
their reach for many years.

The Baptist meeting in Montgomery, the oldest of the de-
nomination in Montgomery county, and the fourth oldest in
Pennsylvania,* owed its humble beginning to the zeal of a hand-
ful of the Welsh settlers. June 20, 17 19, ten persons formed
the society, — John Evans, and Sarah, his wife ; John James,
Elizabeth, his wife, and their three sons, William, Thomas, and
Josiah ; James Lewis, David Williams, and James Davis. John
Evans, who heads this list of the organizers, came into the town-
ship, it is said, in 17 10, and was from Carmarthenshire, Wales.
He and his wife " had been members of a Baptist church there,
of which James James was pastor." In 171 1 John and Elizabeth
James arrived. They had been " members of the Rhyd willy m
church in Pembrokeshire, of which John Jenkins was pastor."
A log church was built in 1720, on an acre of ground conveyed
later (173 i) by Jenkin Evans. This lot has since been, at differ-
ent times, much enlarged. In 173 i a stone church was built, 42
by 24 feet, with a gallery. It had in 1770, "a stove and two
fire-places " ; a school-house also stood on the lot. In 18 16 this
building was taken down and a new one erected, 55 by 50 feet,
" with a gallery all around." In 1883 this was enlarged, " the
walls being raised, the length increased 1 5 feet, and a basement
story provided."

Since 1720 thirteen pastors have served the church : (i) Ben-
jamin Griffith, the zealous though uneducated pastor of the first

1 Its predecessors were Cold Spring (Bucks Co.), 1684 ; Pennepack, 1687 ; Phila-
delphia, 1695.

3o6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Hock, who served from 1720 to 1767, when he died, aged 84 ;
(2) John Thomas, who had been assistant minister for many
years, and who had sole charge from 1768 until 1781 ; (3) David
Loofborough, under whose pastorate, in 1783, the church was
regularly chartered by the Legislature, and who remained from
1782 to 1787 ; ' (4) Joshua Jones, who was pastor from 1795 to
1802, when he died on the day after Christmas, aged 82 ; (5)
Silas Hough, M. D., an earnest and able man, who acted as pas-
tor from 1804 until 1822, and at the same time practiced as a
physician through the country 'round. He died May 14, 1823 ;

(6) Samuel Smith, who was pastor four years, from 1822 to 1826 ;

(7) James B. Bowen, who was pastor from 1830 to 1831 ; (8)
Thomas T. Robinson, who closed his service of seven years by
his death, May 27, 1838 ; (9) William A. Matthews, who con-
tinued ten years from 1840 to 1850 ; (10) George Higgins, who
took charge May i, 1850, and continued until his death, March
9, 1869; (11) Norman B. Baldwin, from November, 1869, to
July, 1887; (12) Joseph L. Plush, from April, 1888, to July,
1893 ; (13) Charles Henry Pinchbeck, who assumed charge
January i, 1894.

The Montgomery Baptist Church was the parent of the
church at New Britain, 1744, and of that at Hilltown, about
178 1. All three were formed largely of families of Welsh
descent. Theophilus Cornell, some of whose progenitors are
buried in the graveyard at Montgomery, has recently left to the
trustees of the church about 1 12,000, the income of which (ex-
cepting $2^^ is applicable to the maintenance of the church. A

'"This was the period of the greatest religious declension the Church had
seen. . . . The Church had but a handful of members, being reduced to twenty-
eight." (Edward Mathews.)

AFFAIRS BEFORE T//E REVOLUTION. 307

new parsonage has been built out of the accumulations of this
fund.'

Towamencin- township, which had been unorganized, and re-
garded as a part "adjacent Gwynedd," was created in 172S. At
the March session of the Court, in Philadelphia, a petition was
presented, which is thus minuted on the record :

Upon the petition of divers Inhabitants between the townships of
Gwyneth and Skippack Creek, on the north-easterly side of Providence,
setting forth that a great many famihes are settled upon a large tract of
land containing about 5,500 acres, whereof a Draught is to the said peti-
tion annexed, praying this Court would erect the same into a Township, the
Court taking the said Petition into consideration do erect the said Portion of
land into a township as the same is laid out and described in the Draught
and that the same be called by the name of Towamensing.

The petition above mentioned bears this memorandum : " The
desire of the subscribers is that the township may be called Towa-
mensen [that] being the Indian name of the creek yt springs
and runs through the same." The signers to the petition are
twenty-eight in uumber. Several of their signatures are unde-
cipherable, the remainder being as follows :

Jacob Hill, Joseph Lucken, Gaetschalck Gaetschalck,

Cadwalader Evans, AVjraham Lucken, William Evan,

Daniel Morgan, Lorenz Hendrich, John Edwards,

Daniel Williams, John Morgan, Lennert Hendrich,

P. Wench, Edward Morgan, Hugh Evan,

henry Prey, Jan Gaetschalcks, Peter Tagen,

henry hendrich, herman Gaetschalck, Christian Wever.

1 A good historical sketch of Montgomery Baptist Church, by Rev. N. B. Baldwin,
then pastor, was embodied in the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Baptist Association,
1884, and since then Edward Mathews has written and A. K. Thomas has published
(Ambler, Pa., 1895) ^ substantial pamphlet, giving the church records, lists of members,
and historical notes of much value. My own references to this church in the first edi-
tion of " Gwynedd " I have now [1896] considerably enlarged, and have corrected in
several particulars.

2 The name of the township is here given as usually printed. I am of opinion that
Towamensing is a better spelling. The name, as the settlers say in their petition, is
Indian.

3o8 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

The Schwenckfelders, forming a compact body of German
settlers, came into Pennsylvania, in 1734, and while most of them
secured lands in the adjoining townships on the north-west, espe-
cially Towamencin, some came into Gwynedd, either in 1734, or
within a few years afterward. Their settlement in the western
corner of the township, adjoining their meeting-house in Towa-
mencin, has since grown to cover a dozen or more farms, and to
include about that number of families. Their religious views,
especially their opposition to war, made them, like the Menno-
nites and Dunkers, congenial settlers in Penn's province, and
friendly neighbors with the Quakers in Gwynedd. The Schwenk-
felders, one of the most interesting of the German Protestant
bodies, were early dissenters from the Roman church, followers
of Caspar von Schwenkfeld of Silesia, born in 1490, died in
1 56 1. They had been bitterly persecuted for almost two cen-
turies. They were sheltered, 1726, on his estate at Berthelsdorf,
in Saxony, by Count Zinzendorf, the Moravian father, and in
April, 1733, a party of nineteen set off from there for Pennsyl-
vania, arriving in Philadelphia September 18' of that year. The
next year a larger party, the main body, came in the ship Saint
Andrciv, John Stedman master, reaching Philadelphia Septem-
ber 12, O. S. There were in this party eighty-nine males above
sixteen years old, and forty-one under, with 133 women and
female children, making 261 altogether. Among them were sev-
eral of those whose family names have since been common in
Gwynedd, including George and Melchior Hiibner, George and
Melchior Kribel, George Anders, Balthazar and George Hoff-

' This date Old Style. One of the nineteen died on the way, and six were added
to the party. The diary of the long and arduous journey, kept, it is supposed, by David
Scholtze, is printed (in English) in Peiina. Magazine, Vol. lo, p. 167. They went to
Altona, (until 1867, part of Denmark), and sailed from Rotterdam for Philadelphia, on
the Poinsylvania Merchant, John Stedman master.

AFFAIRS BFFORF THE REVOLUTION. 309

man, Christopher and Melchior Scholtze (Schultz), and others.'
Their arrival is still piously celebrated, each year, by their
descendants, at the meeting-house in Towamencin, as " Gedacht-
niss Tag."

I have not made careful studies as to the precise time when
the Schwenkfelder families came into the township, but the
Heebners, Kriebles, and others doubtless came early. Melchior
Krieble is said to have come 1735. Christopher Ncuman, or
Neiman, a Schwenckfelder, who came to Philadelphia in the
immigration of 1734, was in Gwynedd before 175 i, for in that
year he bought 225 acres in the western corner of the township
(afterward, in 1768, purchased by Philip Hoot, ancestor of the
family of that name), from the executors of Edward Williams,
and he is described in the deed as " of Gwynedth." Neuman's
wife was Susanna Muehmer ; their daughter Rosina married
Heinrich Schneider, — changed, later, to Henry Snyder, — and
had a large family : Rosina, George, Christopher, Henry, Chris-
tian, Abraham, Isaac, Susanna, John, and Regina. The father
was a Lutheran, when he courted Rosina (and ran away with
her, at night, after she descended from her window upon a ladder,
Mr. Mathews says), but he and his family became Schwenck-
felders subsequently.

Previous to 1734 there were substantially no German settlers
in Gwynedd. The list of freeholders furnished in that year to
Governor Thomas Penn, " according to the uncertain returns of
the constables," shows forty-nine names of Gwynedd landholders,
and of these only one, Leonard Hartling, is apparently a Ger-

1 Tobias Hartranft was one of this part)'- of emigrants, and the :^ncestor (great-
great-great-grandfather) of Gen. John F. Hartranft, Governor of Pennsylvania,
1873-79. A careful historical study of the Schwenkfelders has been undertaken by
Prof. Chester D. Hartranft, of Hartford, Conn., another of the descendants of Tobias.
A Historical Sketch, by Judge Christopher Heydrick, Franklin, Pa., is included in a
volume of Genealogical Records of the Schwenkfelders, published 1879.

3IO

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

man. Five, John Wood, Peter Wells, John Chilcott, John
Parker, and Thomas Wyat, were probably English. The other
names are unmistakably Welsh. The whole list is as follows :

Evan Griffith,

John Griffith,

Hugh Griffith,

Johh Jones, penman,

John Jones, weaver,

John Jones, son of Robert,

Cadwallader Jones,

Hugh Jones, tanner,

Robert Hugh,

Rowland Hugh,

Owen Evans,

Evan Evans,

Thomas Evans,

Hugh Evans,

Robert Evans,

Morris Roberts,

William Roberts,
Evan Roberts,
Edward Roberts,
Robert Roberts,
Edward Foulke,
Evan Foulke,
Thomas Foulke,
John David,
Thomas David,
Lewis Williams,
William Williams,
Robert Humphrey,
John Humphrey,
John Wood,
Theodore Ellis,
Rees Harry,

Robert Parry,
Jenkin Morris,
John Chilcott,
Leonard Hartling,
Peter Wells,
John Harris,
Elizabeth Roberts,
John Parker,
Catherine Williams,
Thomas Evans, jun.,
Cadwallader Evans,
Robert Evan, ap Rhidcrth,
Gaynor Jones,
Rees Nanny,
Hugh Jones,
Thomas Wyat.

Appended to this list, in the original document, is the fol-
lowing memorandum, explaining why the numbers of their
respective acres did not accompany their names :

The Townsp : of Gwinedeth have hitherto refused to give the Con-
stables an Account of their land, for w^hich reason it is not known vv^hat
they hold.

Others of the early German settlers will be here named.
John Frey, son of Henry Frey, of Towamencin, whose name is
on the petition for the erection of that township, bought a hun-
dred acres from Jane Jones, William John's widow, in 1735, its
location being about a mile southeast of Lansdale. (Most of
the tract, in recent time, in the ownership of Abraham Kricble.)
Frey sold the place in 1742 to Paul Brunner, another German,
from Salford, whose widow subsequently married (about 1757)
George Gossinger, a German " redemptioner," who had learned
the trade of a tanner, and so passed the place into his control.

AFFAIRS BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. 31I

Philip Hoot, who had been living in New Hanover, came
into Gwynedd in 1768, and bought the Neuman farm, 225 acres,
alluded to above, of David Neuman. (Philip died 1798, aged
68 years and 4 months, and was buried at Wentz's church, in
Worcester. He left his homestead to his son Peter, who mar-
ried, 1792, Barbara Kriger.)

Abraham Danehower, ancestor of the family of that name,
bought 136 acres, in 1762, of David and Sarah Gumming. This
was the present [1884] homestead of George W. Danehower, oc-
cupied by Frank Myers, and the original residence of William John.>
Abraham was born in Germany, September 27, 1772, came to
Pennsylvania between 1740 and 1755, and died May 9, 1789, and
was buried at St. John's, Whitpain. Beside him rests his wife,
named Catherine (b. 1724, d. 1798). Their children included
George, who died in 1793, in his 45th year; Abraham, jr., who
bought a farm on the Bethlehem road, just above the Spring-
House, of Samuel Evans ; Henry, John, Catherine, who married
Jacob Snyder ; Elizabeth, who married Philip Hurst ; and Sarah,
who married Philip Fetterman.

In the summer of 1745 a fatal disease, the exact nature of
which we can now only conjecture, visited Gwynedd. The meet-
ing records show that from the 4th to the 31st of July, 24 mem-
bers died, and from the 4th to the 24th of August, 1 5 died. On
one day, the 4th of August, three deaths are recorded. This, in
a population of at most but a few hundreds, was a heavy death-
rate. Most of the victims were children, but a number were
from among the elders of the community, and few families es-
caped. Among those who died at this time were Evan Foulke,
the immigrant (son of Edward), and three of his children ; the
father, first, on July 25th, one child on the 29th, and two others
on August 4th and 5th.

1 See p. 65, including the foot-note.

XIX.

Gwynedd in the Midst of the Revolution :
Sally JVisters journal

DANIEL WISTER, who married Lowry Jones, daughter of
Owen Jones, sen., of Wynnewood, Lower Merion, and
who was therefore connected with Caleb and Amos Foulke
(whose wives, Jane and Hannah, were also daughters of Owen
Jones), was a merchant in Philadelphia, and, a fortnight after the
battle of Brandywine, removed his family to Gwynedd, in antici-
pation of the British occupancy of the city. On the 25th of
September, 1777, the day on which Howe and Cornwallis reached
Germantown, Miss Sally Wister, the eldest daughter of Daniel,
a bright girl of fifteen years, began to keep a journal of her ob-
servations and experiences in the retreat at Gwynedd, which she
continued, with some interruptions, until, in the following June,
the British army left Philadelphia, and her family returned to
their city home.

This journal was addressed by its author to her friend Deb-
orah Norris, but it is remarkable that the apprehension intimated
in its opening lest it should never reach the eye for which it was
intended, came near to being realized : it was not until years after
Miss Wister's death that it was given by Mr. Charles J. Wister,
her brother, to her old friend, who had then become Mrs. Logan,
of Stenton.'

' Deborah Norris was the dau. of Charles and Mary Norris, born in 1761, and died
1839. Her father lived on Chestnut street, Philadelphia, where the Drexel Building
now is, in 1776, and she heard the public reading of the Declaration of Independence,

SALL y WISTER S JO URNAL. 3 I 3

Some extracts from the journal, but a small part only of its
piquant and graphic details, are given by Watson in his Annals ;
it has been once published in full, in the rare edition of American
Historical and Literary Curiosities, compiled by the late venerable
John Jay Smith.' Its descriptions, however, of persons and events,
and especially the view it gives us of social conditions in the very
midst of some of the most important military operations of the
revolutionary struggle, make it an extremely interesting historical
document, aside from its charm as a naive and perfectly frank
narrative of personal experiences.

In the nine months which the journal covers occurred the
battle of Germantown, the siege and reduction of the forts below
Philadelphia, the surrender of Burgoyne, the manoeuvres at
Whitemarsh, the march to Valley Forge, the winter encamp-
ment there, the operation of the " Cabal" against Washington,
the conclusion of the treaty with France, the gaieties of the
British occupation of Philadelphia, and Lafayette's "affair" at
Barren Hill. But a little distance away from the hills of Gwyn-
edd, the greatest of the actors in the Revolutionary drama were
playing their parts, — Washington, Greene, Lafayette, Wayne,
Steuben, Kalb, and all the distinguished list.

The Wisters were quartered in the old house at Penllyn, —
the Foulke mansion, where William Foulke had died two years
before, and which was at this time the home of his widow, Han-
nah, and her unmarried children. The different members of the
family are alluded to in various places in the journal, and the
allusions explained by foot-notes.

in the grounds of the State-House (now Independence Square) , on July 8th of that year.
She married Dr. George Logan, of Stenton, and is buried in the fomily burying-ground,
a httle enclosure, at that historic place.

[' [1896] It has been published in the Pennsylvania Magazine, since the text of
this volume was first printed.]

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yoMvnal.

To Deborah Norris : —

Though I have not the least shadow of an opportunity to send a letter,
if I do write, I will keep a sort of journal of the time that may expire
before I see thee : the perusal of it may some time hence give pleasure in
a solitary hour to thee and our S. J.

Yesterday, which was the 24th of September, two Virginia officers
called at our house, and informed us that the British army had crossed the
Schuylkill. Presently after, another person stopped, and confirmed what
they had said, and that General Washington and army were near Potts-
grove.^ Well, thee may be sure we were sufficiently scared ; however, the
road was very still till evening. About seven o'clock we heard a great
noise. To the door we all went. A large number of waggons, with about
three hundred of the Philadelphia militia. They begged for drink, and
several pushed into the house. One of those that entered was a little
tipsy, and had a mind to be saucy. I then thought it time for me to re-
treat ; so figure me (mightily scared, as not having presence of mind
enough to face so many of the military), running in at one door, and out
at another, all in a shake with fear ; but after a little, seeing the officers
appear gentlemanly, and the soldiers civil, I called reason to my aid. My
fears were in some measure dispelled, tho' my teeth rattled, and my hand
shook like an aspen leaf. They did not offer to take their quarters with
us ; so, with many blessings, and as many adieus, they marched off.

I have given the most material occurrences of yesterday faithfully.

Fourth Day, September 25th.*
This day, till twelve o'clock, the road was mighty quiet, when Hobson
Jones came riding along. About that time he made a stop at our door,
and said the British were at Skippack road ; that we should soon see their

1 The battle of Brandywine had occurred September nth, and the surprise and
massacre at PaoH on the night of the 20th. Howe crossed at Gordon's Ford (now
Phcenixville), and Fatland Ford, on the 23d, to the east side of Schuylkill, and moved
down to Philadelphia. Washington was at Pottsgrove for several days, and then
moved over to the Perkiomen.

' This date, presuming the day of the week to be accurately given, should be the
24th, and it may be here observed that the dates of the month are not for some time
correctly given in the journal, being a while one day ahead, and then two days, until
December 5th, when they become correct.

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light horse, and [that] a party of Hessians had actually turned into our
lane. My dadda and mamma gave it the credit it deserved, for he does
not keep strictly to the truth in all respects ; but the delicate, chicken-
hearted Liddy' and I were wretchedly scared. We could say nothing but
"Oh ! what shall we do? What will become of us?" These questions
only augmented the terror we were in. Well, the fright went off. We saw
no light horse or Hessians. O. Foulke'^ came here in the evening, and
told us that General Washington had come down as far as the Trap, and
that General McDougle's brigade was stationed at Montgomery, consisting
of about 16 hundred men. This he had from Dr. Edwards, Lord Stirling's
aid-de-camp ; so we expected to be in the midst of one army or t'other.

Fifth Day, September 26th.
We were unusually silent all the morning ; no passengers came by the
house, except to the mill, and we don't place much dependence on mill
news. About twelve o'clock, cousin Jesse^ heard that General Howe's army
had moved down towards Philadelphia. Then my dear, our hopes and
fears were engaged for you. However, my advice is, summon up all your
resolution, call Fortitude to your aid, don't suffer your spirits to sink, my
dear ; there's nothing like courage ; 'tis what I stand in need of myself,
but unfortunately have but little of it in my composition. I was standing
in the kitchen about 12, when somebody came to me in a hurry, screaming,
" Sally, Sally, here are the light horse ! ' ' This was by far the greatest fright
I had endured ; fear tack'd wings to my feet ; I was at the house in a mo-
ment ; at the porch I stopt, and it really was the light horse. I ran imme-
diately to the western door, where the family were assembled, anxiously
waiting for the event. They rode up to the door and halted, and enquired
if we had horses to sell ; he answered negatively. " Have you not, sir,"
to my father, "two black horses ?" — " Yes, but have no mind to dispose of
them." My terror had by this time nearly subsided. The officer and men
behaved perfectly civil ; the first drank two glasses of wine, rode away, bid-
ding his men to follow, which after adieus in number, they did. The offi-

1 Lydia Foulke, who afterward married John Spencer. She was some six years the
elder of Miss Sally.

* Owen Foulke, son of Caleb. He was Miss Sally's first cousin, their mothers
being sisters.

^ Jesse Foulke, brother to Caleb and Amos, and therefore a " connection by mar-
riage," but not of kin, at all ; the term " cousin " is purely complimentary.

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cer was Lieutenant Lindsay, of Bland's regiment, Lee's troop. The men,
to our great joy, were Americans, and but 4 in all. What made us im-
agine them British, they wore blue and red, which with us is not common.
It has rained all this afternoon, and to present appearances, will all night.
In all probability the English will take possession of the city to-morrow or
next day. What a change it will be ! May the Almighty take you under
His protection, for without His divine aid all human assistance is vain.

" May heaven's guardian arm protect my absent friends,
From danger guard them, and from want defend."

Forgive, my dear, the repetition of those lines, but they just darted into my
mind.

Nothing worth relating has occurred this afternoon. Now for trifles.
I have set a stocking on the needles, and intend to be mighty industrious.
This evening our folks heard a very heavy cannon. We supposed it to be
fired by the English. The report seem'd to come from Philadelphia. We
hear the American army will be within five miles of us to-night. The
uncertainty of our position engrosses me quite. Perhaps to be in the
midst of war, and ruin, and the clang of arms. But we must hope the
best.

Here, my dear, passes an interval of several weeks, in which nothing
happen' d worth the time and paper it would take to write it.^ The English,
however, in the interim, had taken possession of the city."

Second Day, October 19th.
Now for new and uncommon scenes. As I was lying in bed, and
ruminating on past and present events, and thinking how happy I should
be if I could see you, Liddy came running into the room, and said there
was the greatest drumming, fifing, and rattling of waggons that ever she
had heard. What to make of this we were at a loss. We dress' d and
down stairs in a hurry. Our wonder ceased. The British had left Ger-
mantown, and our army was marching to take possession. It was the

'We are unfortunately given nothing in relation to the battle of Germantown,
which occurred October 4th, in this interval. The omission is difficult to under-
stand, because she alludes, later, to " the battle of Germantown, and the horrors of
that day."

'They had occupied the city September 26th, two days after the first date in the
journal.

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general opinion that they would evacuate the capital.' Sister B.'^ and myself,
and G. E.* went about half a mile from home, where we cou' d see the army
pass. Thee will stare at my going, but no impropriety in my opine, or I
should not have gone. We made no great stay, but return' d with excel-
lent appetites for our breakfast. Several officers call'd to get some refresh-
ments, but none of consequence till the afternoon. Cousin P.* and myself
were sitting at the door ; I in a green skirt, dark short gown, etc. Two
genteel men of the military order rode up to the door: "Your servant,
ladies," etc. ; ask'd if they could have quarters for General Smallwood.
Aunt F.^ thought she could accommodate them as well as most of her
neighbors, — said they could. One of the officers dismounted, and wrote
" Smallwood's Quarters" over the door, which secured us from straggling
soldiers. After this he mounted his steed and rode away. When we were
alone, our dress and hps were put in order for conquest, and the hopes of
adventures gave brightness to each before passive countenance. Thee
must be told of a Dr. Gould, who, by accident, had made acquaintance
with my father, — a sensible conversible man, a Carohnian, — and had
come to bid us adieu. Daddy had prevailed on him to stay a day or two
with us. In the evening his Generalship came with six attendants, which
compos' d his family. A large guard of soldiers, a number of horses and
baggage-waggons, the yard and house in confusion, and glitter' d with mili-
tary equipments. Gould was intimate with Smallwood, and had gone into
Jesse's to see him. While he was there, there was great running up and
down stairs, so I had an opportunity of seeing and being seen, the former
the most agreeable, to be sure. One person, in particular, attracted my
notice. He appear' d cross and reserv'd ; but thee shall see how agreeably
disappointed I was. Dr. Gould usher' d the gentlemen into our parlour,

1 On this date the British withdrew from Germantown into Philadelphia, and the
Americans moved down the Skippack road, and the roads adjacent, to take a nearer
position. Washington's headquarters, for some days, were at "James Morris's, on the
Skippack road," and on the 2d of November, at Whitemarsh, at the residence of Georo-e
Emlen, here mentioned. It was the movement of troops down the Morris road, no
doubt, — " half a mile away," — that Miss Sally and her friends went to see.

* Miss " Betsy," — Elizabeth — the writer's sister.
' George Emlen.

* Priscilla Foulke, sister of Caleb, Amos, and Jesse ; " Cousin " simply by courtesy,
as she was not of kin to Miss Sally.

^Aunt F., wife of Amos Foulke, and sister to Miss Sally's mother.

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and introduc'd them, — "General Smallwood, Captain Furnival, Major
Stodard,* Mr. Prig, Captain Finley, and Mr. Clagan, Colonel Wood, and
Colonel Line." These last two did not come with the General. They are
Virginians, and both indispos'd. The General and suite are Marylanders.
Be assur'd I did not stay long with so many men, but secur'd a good
retreat, heart-safe, so far. Some sup'd with us, others at Jesse's. They
retir'd about ten, in good order. How new is our situation ! I feel in good
spirits, though surrounded by an army, the house full of officers, the yard
alive with soldiers, — very peaceable sort of people, tho'. They eat like
other folks, talk like them, and behave themselves with elegance ; so I
will not be afraid of them, that I won't. Adieu. I am going to my
chamber to dream, I suppose, of bayonets and swords, sashes, guns, and
epaulets.

Third Day, Morn., October 20th.
I dare say thee is impatient to know my sentiments of the officers ; so,
while Somnus embraces them, and the house is still, take their characters
according to their rank. The Gen'l is tall, portly, well made : a truly mar-
tial air, the behaviour and manners of a gentleman, a good understanding,
and great humanity of disposition, constitute the character of Smallwood.^
Col. Wood, from what we hear of him, and what we see, is one of the most
amiable of men ; tall and genteel, an agreeable countenance and deport-
ment. The following lines will more fully characterize him : —

" How skill'd he is in each obliging art,
The mildest manners and the bravest heart."

The cause he is fighting for alone tears him from the society of an amiable
wife and engaging daughter ; with tears in his eyes he often mentions the
sweets of domestic Hfe. Col. Line is not married : so let me not be too
warm in his praise, lest you suspect. He is monstrous tall and brown, but
has a certain something in his face and conversation very agreeable ; he
entertains the highest notions of honour, is sensible and humane, and a
brave officer ; he is only seven and twenty years old, but, by a long indis-
position and constant fatigue, looks vastly older, and almost worn to a

I This gentleman, frequently and fully spoken of in the journal, is presumed to be
Major Benjamin Stoddert, of Maryland, who was Secretary of the Navy from 1798 to
1801, under Adams and Jefferson.

' He commanded Maryland troops in the Revolutionary army, from 1776 to 1780,
and served with credit. He was Governor of Maryland from 1785 to 1788.

SALLY WISTER'S JOURNAL. 3 "J

skeleton, but very lively and talkative. Capt. Furnival, — I need not say
more of him than that he has, excepting one or two, the handsomest face I
ever saw, a very fine person ; fine light hair, and a great deal of it, adds to
the beauty of his face. Well, here comes the glory, the Major, so bashful,
so famous, etc., he should come before the Captain, but never mind. I at
first thought the Major cross and proud, but I was mistaken ; he is about
nineteen, nephew to the Gen'l, and acts as Major of brigade to him ; he
cannot be extoU'd for the graces of person, but for those of the mind he
may justly be celebrated ; he is large in his person, manly, and an en-
gaging countenance and address. Finley is wretched ugly, but he went
away last night, so I shall not particularize him. Nothing of any moment
to-day ; no acquaintance with the officers. Cols. Wood and Line, and
Gould, dined with. us. I was dress' d in my chintz, and looked smarter
than night before.

Fourth Day, Oct. 21st.

1 just now met the Major, very reserv'd : nothing but " Good morn-
ing," or " Your servant, madam ; " but Furnival is most agreeable ; he
chats every opportunity ; but luckily has a wife ! I have heard strange
things of the Major. With a fortune of thirty thousand pounds, indepen-
dent of any body, the Major is vastly bashful ; so much so he can hardly
look at the ladies. (Excuse me, good sir ; I really thought you were not
clever ; if 'tis bashfulness only, will drive that away.)

Fifth day, Sixth day, and Seventh day pass' d. The General still here ;
the Major still bashful.

First Day Evening.

Prepare to hear amazing things. The General was invited to dine,
was engag'd ; but Colonel Wood, Major Stodard, and Dr. Edwards* din'd
with us. In the afternoon, Stodard, addressing himself to mamma, " Pray
ma'am, do you know Miss Nancy Bond ? " I told him of the amiable girl's
death. This major had been at Philadelphia College. In the evening, 1
was diverting Johnny at the table, when he drew his chair to it, and began
to play with the child. I ask'd him if he knew N. Bond. " No, ma'am,
but I have seen her very often." One word brought on another one. We

1 Dr. Enoch Edwards, brother of Major Evan Edwards, and after the Revolution
a prominent citizen and judge of the Philadelphia courts. He lived in Byberry, on a
farm left him by his father, and died there in April, 1802. He served on the staff of
Lord Stirling.

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chatted a great part of the evening. He said he knew me directly as he
seen me. Told me exactly where we liv'd. It rains, so adieu.

Second Day, 26th October.

A rainy morning, so like to prove. The officers in the house all day.

Second Day Afternoon.

The General and officers drank tea with us, and stay'd part of the
evening. After supper I went with aunt, where sat the General, Colonel
Line, and Major Stodard. So Liddy and I seated ourselves at the table in
order to read a verse-book. The Major was holding a candle for the Gen-
eral, who was reading a newspaper.' He look'd at us, turn'd away his
eyes, look'd again, put the candlestick down, up he jumps, out of the door
he went. "Well," said I to Liddy, " he will join us when he comes in."
Presently he return'd, and seated himself on the table. " Pray, ladies, is
there any songs in that book ? " " Yes, many." " Can't you favor me
with a sight of it ? " " No, Major, 'tis a borrow' d book." " Miss Sally,
can't you sing ? " " No." Thee may be sure I told the truth there. Liddy,
saucy girl, told him I could. He beg'd, and I deny'd ; for my voice is not
much better than the voice of a raven. We talk'd and laugh' d for an
hour. He is clever, amiable, and polite. He has the softest voice, never
pronounces the r at all.

I must tell thee, to-day arriv'd Colonel Guest* and Major Leatherberry ;
the former a smart widower, the latter a lawyer, a sensible young fellow,
and will never swing for want of tongue. Dr. Diggs came Second-day ; a
mighty disagreeable man. We were oblig'd to ask him to tea. He must
needs pop himself between the Major and me, for which I did not thank
him. After I had drank tea, I jump'd from the table, and seated myself
at the fire. The Major follow' d my example, drew his chair close to mine,
and entertain' d me very agreeably. Oh, Debby ; 1 have a thousand things
to tell thee. I shall give thee so droll an account of my adventures, that
thee will smile. " No occasion of that, Sally," methinks I hear thee say,
" for thee tells me every trifle." But, child, thee is mistaken, for I have
not told thee half the civil things that are said of us sweet creatures at

' Such was " the light of other days ! "

^ This is doubtless Colonel Mordecai Gist, of Maryland, who was first a captain,
under Smallwood, and then rose to the command of a regiment. He was in the fight
near Mooretown, in December, when Howe made the demonstration on Washington's
lines at Whitemarsh.

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"General Smallwood' s Quarters." I think I might have sent the gentle-
men to their chambers. I made my adieus, and home I went.

Third Day, Morn.
A pohte " good morning " from the Major, more sociable than ever.
No wonder ; a stoic cou'd not resist such affable damsels as we are.

Third Day, Eve., October 27th.

We had again the pleasure of the General and suite at afternoon tea.
He (the General, I mean) is most agreeable ; so lively, so free, and chats so
gaily, that I had quite an esteem for him. 1 must steel my heart ! Captain
Furnival is gone to Baltimore, the residence of his belov'd wife. The Major
and I had a little chat to ourselves this eve. No harm, I assure thee : he
and I are friends.

This eve came a parson belonging to the army. He is (how shall I de-
scribe him ?) near seven foot high, thin, and meagre, not a single personal
charm, and very few mental ones. He fell violently in love with Liddy at
first sight ; the first discover' d conquest that has been made since the ar-
rival of the General. Come, shall we chat about Col. Guest? He's very
pretty ; a charming person ; his eyes are exceptional ; very stern ; and he
so rolls them about that mine always fall under them. He bears the char-
acter of a brave officer : another admirer of Liddy' s, and she of him.
When will Sally's admirers appear? Ah ! that indeed. Why, Sally has
not charms sufficient to pierce the heart of a soldier. But still I won't de-
spair. Who knows what mischief I yet may do ?

Well, Debby, here's Doctor Edwards come again. Now we shall not
want clack ; for he has a perpetual motion in his head, and if he were not
so clever as he is, we should get tired.

Fourth Day, October 28th.
Nothing material engaged us to-day.

Fifth Day, October 29th.

I walked into aunt's this evening. I met the Major. Well, thee will
think I am writing his history ; but not so. Pleased with the rencounter.
Betsy, Stodard, and myself, seated by the fire, chatted away an hour in
lively and agreeable conversation. I can't pretend to write all he said ; but
he shone in every subject that was talk'd of.

Nothing of consequence on the 30th.

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Seventh Day, October 31st.

A most charming day. I walked to the door and received the saluta-
tion of the morn from Stodard and other officers. As often as I go to the
door, so often have I seen the Major. We chat passingly, as, "A fine day,
Miss Sally." "Yes, very fine. Major."

Seventh Day, Night.

Another very charming conversation with the young Marylander. He
seems possessed of very amiable manners ; sensible and agreeable. He
has by his unexceptional deportment engaged my esteem.

First Day, Morn.

Liddy, Betsy, and a T — y prisoner of state went to the mill. We made
very free with some Continental flour. We powder' d mighty white, to be
sure. Home we came. Col. Wood was standing at a window with a young
officer. He gave him a push forward, as much as to say, " Observe what
fine girls we have here." For all I do not mention Wood as often as he
deserves, it is not because we are not sociable : we are very much so, and
he is often at our house. Liddy and I had a kind of adventure with him
this morn. We were in his chamber, chatting about our little affairs, and
no idea of being interrupted : we were standing up, each an arm on a
chest of drawers ; the door bang'd open ! — Col. Wood was in the room ; we
started, the colour flew into our faces and crimson' d us over ; the tears flew
into my eyes. It was very silly ; but his coming was so abrupt. He was
between us and the door. " Ladies, do not be scar'd, I only want some-
thing from my portmanteau ; I beg you not to be disturbed." We ran by
him, like two partridges, into mamma's room, threw ourselves into chairs,
and reproach' d each other for being so foolish as to blush and look so
silly. I was very much vex'd at myself, so was Liddy. The Colonel laugh' d
at us, and it blew over.

The army had orders to march to-day ; the regulars accordingly did.'
General Smallwood had the command of militia at that time, and they
being in the rear, were not to leave their encampment until Second day.
Observe how mihtaryish I talk. No wonder, when I am surrounded by
people of that order. The General, Colonels Wood, Guest, Crawford, and
Line, Majors Stodard and Leatherberry, din'd with us to-day. After dinner,
Liddy, Betsy, and thy smart journalizer, put on their bonnets to take a
walk. We left the house. I naturally look'd back ; when, behold, the

' This was the movement to Whitemarsh.

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two majors seem'd debating whether to follow us or not. Liddy said, ' ' We
shall have their attendance ; " but I did not think so. They open'd the
gate, and came fast after us. They overtook us about ten poles from home,
and beg'd leave to attend us. No fear of a refusal. They inquir'd when
we were going to neighbor Roberts's.' "We will introduce you to his
daughters; you us to General Stevens." The affair was concluded, and
we shortened the way with lively conversation. Our intention of going to
Roberts's was frustrated ; the rain that had fallen lately had raised the
Wissahickon too high to attempt crossing it on foot. We alter' d the plan
of our ramble, left the road, and walk'd near two miles thro' the woods.
Mr. Leatherberry, observing my locket, repeated the lines :

" On her white breast a sparkhng cross she wore,
That Jews might kiss, and infidels adore."

1 repli'd my trinket bore no resemblance to a cross. " 'Tis something
better, madam." 'Tis nonsense to repeat all that was said ; my memory is
not so obliging ; but it is sufficient that nothing happen' d during our little
excursion but what was very agreeable and entirely consistent with the
strictest rules of politeness and decorum. I was vex'd a little at tearing my
muslin petticoat. I had on my white dress, quite as nice as a First-day in
town. We returned home safe. Smallwood, Wood, and Stodard drank
tea with us, and spent the greater part of the evening. I declare this gentle-
man is very, very entertaining, so good natur'd, so good humor'd, — yes, so
sensible ; I wonder he is not married. Are there no ladies form'd to his
taste? Some people, my dear, think that there's no difference between
good nature and good humour ; but, according to my opinion, they differ
widely. Good nature consists in a naturally amiable and even disposition,
free from all peevishness and fretting. It is accompanied by a natural grace-
fulness,— a manner of saying every thing agreeably ; in short, it steals the
senses, and captivates the heart. Good humour is a very agreeable com-
panion for an afternoon ; but give me good nature for life. Adieu.

Second Day, Morn., November ist.^
To-day the militia marches, and the General and officers leave us.
Heigh ho I I am very sorry ; for when you have been with agreeable peo-

' John Roberts's, in Whitpain, a short distance away.

2 Second day, — Monday, — was November 3d. The dates here are two days wrong,
and as the reader may perceive for himself, are inconsistent with those heretofore given,
which were one day wrong.

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pie, 'tis impossible not to feel regret when they bid you adieu, perhaps for
ever. When they leave us we shall be immur'd in solitude. The Major
looks dull.

Second Day, Noon.

About two o'clock the General and Major came to bid us adieu. With
daddy and mammy they shook hands very friendly ; to us they bow'd
politely. Our hearts were full. I thought the Major was affected. "Good-
bye, Miss Sally," spoken very low. We stood at the door to take a last
look, all of us very sober. The Major turn'd his horse's head, and rode
back, dismounted. " I have forgot my pistols," pass'd us, and ran up-
stairs. He came swiftly back to us, as if wishing, through inclination, to
stay; by duty compell'd to go. He remounted his horse. "Farewell,
ladies, till I see you again," and canter'd away. We look'd at him till the
turn in the road hid him from our sight. "Amiable major," "Clever
fellow," " Good young man," was echoed from one to the other. I wonder
if we shall ever see him again. He has our wishes for his safety.

Well, here's Uncle Miles. ^ Heartily glad of that am I. His family
are well, and at Reading.

Second Day, Even.

Jesse, who went with the General, return' d. We had a compliment
from the General and Major. They are very well disposed of at Evan
Meredith's, six miles from here. I wrote to P. F.,'^ by Uncle Miles, who
waited on General Washington next morn.

Third Day, Morn-

It seems strange not to see our house as it used to be. We are very
still. No rattling of waggons, glittering of musquets. The beating of the
distant drum is all we hear. Colonels Wood, Line, Guest, and Major
Leatherberry are still here ; the two last leave to-day. Wood and Line
will soon bid us adieu. Amiable Wood ; he is esteem' d by all that know
him ! Everybody has a good word for him.

Here 1 skip a week or two, nothing of consequence occurring. (Wood
and Line are gone.) Some time since arriv'dtwo officers, Lieutenants Lee
and Warring, Virginians. I had only the salutations of the morn from

' Colonel Samuel Miles, of the Pennsylvania troops in the Revolutionary army.
His wife was Catharine Wister, sister of Miss Sally's father.

2 Polly Fishbourn, a young lady representative of a well-known Philadelphia family,
and an intimate friend of Miss Sally. She was at Whitemarsh.

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them. Lee is not remarkable one way or the other ; Warring an insignifi-
cant piece enough. Lee sings prettily, and talks a great deal ; how good
turkey hash and fried hominy is (a pretty discourse to entertain the ladies),
extols Virginia, and execrates Maryland, which, by-the-by, I provok'd them
to ; for though I admire both Virginia and Maryland, I laugh' d at the
former, and prais'd the latter. Ridiculed their manner of speaking. I
took a great dehght in teasing them. I beUeve I did it sometimes ill-
natur'dly ; but I don't care. They were not, I am certain almost, first-rate
gentlemen. (How different from our other officers.) But they are gone to
Virginia, where they may sing, dance, and eat fry'd hominy and turkey
hash all day long, if they choose. Nothing scarcely lowers a man, in my
opinion, more than talking of eating, what they love, and what they hate.
Lee and Warring were proficients in this science. Enough of them I

December 5th, Sixth Day.^

Oh, gracious ! Debby, I am all alive with fear. The English have
come out to attack (as we imagine) our army, three miles this side.' What
will become of us, only six miles distant ? We are in hourly expectation of
an engagement. I fear we shall be in the midst of it. Heaven defend us
from so dreadful a sight. The battle of Germantown, and the horrors of
that day, are recent in my mind. It will be sufficiently dreadful, if we are
only in hearing of the firing, to think how many of pur fellow creatures are
plung'd into the boundless ocean of eternity, few of them prepar'dto meet
their fate. But they are summon' d before an all-merciful judge, from
whom they have a great deal to hope.

Seventh Day, December 6th.

No firing this morn. I hope for one more quiet day.

Seventh Day, Noon, 4 o'clock.

I was much alarm'd just now, sitting in the parlour, indulging melan-
choly reflections, when somebody burst open the door. "Sally, here's
Major Stodard ! " I jumped. Our conjectures were various concerning his
coming, The poor fellow, from great fatigue and want of rest, together
with being expos' d to the night air, had caught cold, which brought on a
fever. He cou'd scarcely walk, and I went into aunt's to see him. I was

1 The dates are now accurate ; December 5th fell on Sixth-day, — Friday.

« This was Howe's famous demonstration against Washington's position at 'WTiite-
marsh, which was fully expected to be a general battle. The British left the city on the
afternoon of December 4th.

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surpris'd. Instead of the lively, alert, blooming Stodard, who was on his
feet the instant we enter' d, he look'd pale, thin, and dejected, too weak to
rise, and " How are you. Miss Sally ?" How does thee do. Major ? " I
seated myself near him, inquir'd the cause of his indisposition, ask'd for
the General, receiv'd his compliments. Not willing to fatigue him with too
much chat, I bid him adieu. To-night Aunt H F , Sen'r,' admin-
ister'd something. Jesse assisted him to his chamber. He had not lain
down five minutes before he was fast asleep. Adieu. I hope we shall
enjoy a good night's rest.

First Day, Morn., December 7th.

I trip'd into aunt's. There sat the Major, rather more like himself.
How natural it was to see him. " Good morning. Miss Sally." " Good
morrow. Major, how does thee do to-day ? " "I feel quite recover' d, Sally. ' '
" Well, I fancy this indisposition has sav'd thy head this time." Major :
" No, ma'am ; for if I hear a firing,^ I shall soon be with them." That was
heroic. About eleven I dress' d myself, silk and cotton gown. It is made
without an apron. I feel quite awkwardish, and prefer the girlish dress.

First Day, Afternoon.

A Mr. Seaton and Stodard drank tea with us. He and I had a little
private chat after tea. In the even, Seaton went into aunt's ; mamma went
to see Prissa, who is poorly ; papa withdrew to talk with some strangers.
Liddy just then came in, so we engag'd in an agreeable conversation. I
beg'd him to come and give us a circumstantial account of the battle, if
there should be one. " I certainly will, ma'am, if I am favor' d with my
life." Liddy, unluckily, took it into her head to blunder out something
about a person being in the kitchen who had come from the army. Stod-
ard, ever anxious to hear, jump'd up. " Good night to you, ladies," was
the word, and he disappeared, but not forever. " Liddy, thee hussy ; what
business had thee to mention a word of the army ? Thee sees it sent him
off. Thy evil genius prevail' d, and we all feel the effects of it." " Lord
bless me," said Liddy, " I had not a thought of his going, or for ten thou-
sand worlds I would not have spoke." But we cannot recall the past.

' Hannah Fouike, widow of William.

2 Though no firing seems to have been heard, it was on this day that two severe
skirmishes occurred between the armies, — one on Edge Hill, near Mooretown, and the
other in Cheltenham, probably near Shoemakertown. There were a number killed,
and many wounded.

SALLY WISTER'S JOURNAL. 327

Well, we laugh'd and chatted at a noisy rate, till a summons for Liddy
parted us. I sat negligently on my chair, and thought brought thought,
and I got so low spirited that I cou'd hardly speak. The dread of an
engagement, the dreadful situation (if a battle should ensue) we should be
in, join'd to my anxiety for P. F.' and family, who would be in the midst
of the scene, was the occasion. And yet I did not feel half so frighten' d
as I expected to be. 'Tis amazing how we get reconciled to such things.
Six months ago the bare idea of being within ten, ayes twenty miles, of a
battle, wou'd almost have distracted me. And now, tho' two such large
armies are within six miles of us, we can converse calmly of it. It verifies
the old proverb, " Use is second nature."

I forgot one httle piece of inteUigence, in which the girls say I discov-
er'd a particular partiality for our Marylanders, but I disclaim anything of
the kind. These saucy creatures are forever finding out wonders, and for-
ever metamorphosing mole-hills into mountains.

" Friendship I offer, pure and free ;
And who, with such a friend as me,
Could ask or wish for more? "

" If they charg'd thee with vanity, Sally, it wou'd not be very un-
just." Debby Norris ! be quiet ; no reflections, or I have done. "But
the piece of inteUigence, Sally ! " [It] is just coming, Debby.

In the afternoon we heard platoon firing. Everybody was at the door ;
I in the horrors. The armies, as we judg'd, were engag'd. Very compos' dly
says the Major to our servant, "Will you be kind enough to saddle my
horse ? I shall go I " Accordingly the horse was taken from the quiet, hos-
pitable barn to plunge into the thickest ranks of war. Cruel change ! Sea-
ton insisted to the Major that the armies were still ; " nothing but skirmish-
ing with the flanking parties ; do not go." We happen' d (we girls I mean)
to be standing in the kitchen, the Major passing thro' in a hurry, and I,
forsooth, discover'd a strong partiality by saying, " Oh ! Major, thee is not
going ! " He turn' d round, "Yes, I am. Miss Sally," bow'd, and went into
the road ; we all pitied him ; the firing rather decreas'd ; and after persua-
sions innumerable from my father and Seaton, and the firing over, he re-
luctantly agreed to stay. Ill as he was, he would have gone. It show'd
his bravery, of which we all believe him possess' d of a large share.

1 Polly Fishbourn.

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Second Day, December 8th.

Rejoice with us, my dear. The British have return' d to the city.^
Charming this. May we ever be thankful to the Almighty Disposer of
events for his care and protection of us while surrounded with dangers.
Major went to the army. Nothing for him to do ; so returned.

Third or Fourth day, I forget which, he was very ill ; kept his chamber
most of the day. In the evening I saw him. I pity him mightily, but pity
is a poor remedy.

Fifth Day, December nth.

Our army mov'd, as we thought, to go into winter quarters,' but we
hear there is a party of the enemy gone over Schuylkill ; so our army went
to look at them.^ I observ'd to Stodard, " So you are going to leave us to
the English." " Yes, ha ! ha ! ha ! leave you for the Enghsh." He has
a certain indifference about him, that, to strangers, is not very pleasing. He
sometimes is silent for minutes. One of these silent fits was interrupted
the other day by his clasping his hands and exclaiming aloud, " Oh, my
God, I wish this war was at an end ! "

Noon.

The Major gone to camp. I don't think we shall see him again. Well,
strange creature that I am ; here have I been going on without giving thee
an account of two officers, — one who will be a principal character ; their
names are Capt. Lipscomb and a Mr. Tilly ; the former a tall, genteel man,
very dehcate from indisposition, and has a softness in his countenance that
is very pleasing, and has the finest head of hair that I ever saw ; 'tis a light
shining auburn. The fashion of his hair was this — negligently ty'd and
waving down his back. Well may it be said, —

' They reached Philadelphia on the evening of this day, plundering the farm.s
between Edge Hill and the city, as they marched in.

2 Early in the morning of this day, nth December, the camp at Whitemarsh was
broken up, and the Americans marched (doubtless up the Skippack road to Broadaxe,
and thence westward) to the ferry at Matson's Ford — now Conshohocken. The
weather was cold, no snow had fallen, the roads were frozen, and those of the men who
were barefoot left such crimson marks on the ground, that afterward Washington made
the statement which has passed into history : " You might have tracked the army from
Whitemarsh to Valley Forge by the blood of their feet."

3 This was a force under Cornwallis, 3,000 strong, that had gone out to collect food
and forage injhe Merions, and which, as unexpectedly to themselves as to the Ameri-
cans, encountered Sullivan, at the head of the latter column, at the ford. There was
no battle, however.

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" Loose flow'd the soft redundance of his hair."
He has not hitherto shown himself a lady's man, tho' he is perfectly-
polite.

Now let me attempt a character of Tilly. He seems a wild, noisy
mortal, tho' I am not much acquainted with him. He appears bashful
when with girls. We dissipated the Major's bashfulness ; but I doubt we
have not so good a subject now. He is above the common size, rather
genteel, an extreme pretty, ruddy face, hair brown, and a sufficiency of it,
a very great laugher, and talks so excessively fast that he oftens begins a
sentence without finishing the last, which confuses him very much, and then
he blushes and laughs ; and in short, he keeps me in perpetual good
humour ; but the creature has not address' d one civil thing to me since he
came. But I have not done with his accomplishments yet, for he is a mu-
sician,— that is, he plays on the German flute, and has it here.

Fifth Day, Night.
The family retir'd ; take the adventures of the afternoon as they oc-
cur'd. Seaton and Captain Lipscomb drank tea with us. While we sat at
tea, the parlour door was open'd ; in came Tilly ; his appearance was ele-
gant ; he had been riding ; the wind had given the most beautiful glow to
his cheeks, and blow'd his hair carelessly round his cheeks. Oh, my heart,
thought I, be secure ! The caution was needless, I found it without a wish
to stray.

When the tea equipage was remov'd, the conversation turned on poli-
ticks, a subject I avoid. I gave Betsy a hint. I rose, she followed, and
we went to seek Lyddy. We chatted a few moments at the door. The
moon shone with uncommon splendour. Our spirits were high. I pro-
posed a walk; the girls agreed. When we reach'd the poplar tree, we
stopp'd. Our ears were assail' d by a number of voices. "A party of light
horse," said one. " The English, perhaps ; let's run home." " No, no,"
said I, " be heroines." At last two or three men on horseback came in
sight. W^e walked on. The well-known voice of the Major saluted our
hearing with, " How do you do, ladies." We turn' d ourselves about with
one accord. He, not relishing the idea of sleeping on the banks of the
Schuylkill, had return' d to the mill. We chatted along the road till we
reach'd our hospitable miansion. Stodard dismounted, and went into
Jesse's parlour. I sat there a half hour. He is very amiable. Lipscomb,

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Seaton, Tilly, and my father, hearing of his return, and impatient for the
news, came in at one door, while I made my exit at the other.

I am vex'd at Tilly, who has his flute, and does nothing but play the
fool. He begins a tune, plays a note or so, then stops. Well, after a
while, he begins again ; stops again. " Will that do, Seaton ? Hah ! hah !
hah ! " He has given us but two regular tunes since he arriv'd. 1 am
passionately fond of music. How boyish he behaves.

Sixth Day, December 12th, 1777.

I ran into aunt's this morning to chat with the girls. Major Stodard
join'd us in a few minutes. I verily believe the man is fond of the ladies,
and, what to me is astonishing, he has not display' d the smallest degree of
pride. Whether he is artful enough to conceal it under the veil of hu-
mility, or whether he has none, is a question ; but I am inclined to think
it the latter. I really am of opinion that there are few of the young fellows
of the modern age exempt from vanity, more especially those who are
bless' d with exterior graces. If they have a fine pair of eyes, they are
forever rolling them about ; a fine set of teeth, mind, they are great laugh-
ers ; a genteel person, forever changing their attitudes to show them to
advantage. Oh, vanity, vanity ; how boundless is thy sway !

But to resume this interview with Major Stodard. We were very
witty and sprightly. I was darning an apron, upon which he was pleas' d
to compliment me. " Well, Miss Sally, what would you do if the British
were to come here?" " Do," exclaimed I ; " be frighten' d just to death."
He laugh' d, and said he would escape their rage by getting behind the
representation of a British grenadier that you have upstairs. ' ' Of all things,
I should like to frighten Tilly with it. Pray, ladies, let's fix it in his cham-
ber to-night. " "If thee will take all the blame, we will assist thee. " " That
I will," he replied, and this was the plan. We had brought some weeks
ago a British grenadier from Uncle Miles' s on purpose to divert us. It is
remarkably well executed, six feet high, and makes a martial appearance.^
This we agreed to stand at the door that opens into the road (the house has
four rooms on a floor, with a wide entry running through), with another
figure, that would add to the deceit. One of our servants was to stand
behind them , others were to serve as occasion offer' d. After half an

* This figure is still preserved, and stands (1884) in the hall of Mr. Charles J.
Wister's residence at Germantown.

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hour's converse, in which we raised our expectations to the highest pitch,
we parted. If our scheme answers, I shall communicate it in the eve.
Till then, adieu.

Sixth Day, Night.

Never did I more sincerely wish to possess a descriptive genius than I
do now. All that I can write will fall infinitely short of the truly diverting
scene that I have been witness of to-night. But, as I mean to attempt an
account, I had as well shorten the preface, and begin the story.

In the beginning of the evening I went to Liddy and beg'd her to se-
cure the swords and pistols which were in their parlour. The Marylander,
hearing our voices, joined us. I told him of our proposal. Whether he
thought it a good one or not I can't say, but he approv'd of it, and Liddy
went in and brought her apron full of swords and pistols. When this was
done, Stodard join'd the officers. We girls went and stood at the first land-
ing of the stairs. The gentlemen were very merry, and chatting on public
affairs, when Seaton's negro (observe that Seaton, being indisposed, was
appriz'dof the scheme) open'd the door, candle in hand, and said, " There's
somebody at the door that wishes to see you." " Who ? All of us ? " said
Tilly. "Yes, sir," said the boy. They all rose (the Major, as he said
afterwards, almost dying with laughter), and walked into the entry, Tilly
first, in full expection of news. The first object that struck his view was
a British soldier. In a moment his ears were saluted, " Is there any rebel
officers here ? " in a thundering voice. Not waiting for a second word, he
darted like lightning out of the front door, through the yard, bolted o'er
the fence. Swamps, fences, thorn-hedges,^ and plough'd fields no way im-
peded his retreat. He was soon out of hearing. The woods echoed with,
" Which way did he go .'' Stop him ! Surround the house ! " The amiable
Lipscomb had his hand on the latch of the door, intending to make his es-
cape ; Stodard, considering his indisposition, acquainted him with the deceit.
We females ran down stairs to join in the general laugh. I walked into
Jesse's parlour. There sat poor Stodard (whose sore hps must have re-
ceiv'd no advantage from this), almost convuls'd with laughing, rolling in
an arm-chair. He said nothing ; I believe he could not have spoke.
" Major Stodard," said I, " go to call Tilly back. He will lose himself, —
indeed he will ; " every word interrupted with a " Ha ! ha ! " At last he

1 This fixes the fact that the thorn-hedges which for many years divided a number
of field and farms, about Penllyn, had been planted before the Revolution.

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rose, and went to the door ; and what a loud voice could avail in bringing
him back, he tried. Figure to thyself this Tilly, of a snowy evening, no
hat, shoes down at the heel, hair unty'd, flying across meadows, creeks, and
mud-holes. Flying from what ? Why, a bit of painted wood. But he was
ignorant of what it was. The idea of being made a prisoner wholly en-
grossed his mind, and his last resource was to run.

After a while, we being in more composure, and our bursts of laughter
less frequent, yet by no means subsided, — in full assembly of girls and
officers, — Tilly enter' d. The greatest part of my risibility turn'd to pity.
Inexpressible confusion had taken entire possession of his countenance,
his fine hair hanging dishevell'd down his shoulders, all splashed with mud ;
yet his bright confusion and race had not divested him of his beauty. He
smil'd as he trip'd up the steps ; but 'twas vexation plac'd it on his features.
Joy at that moment was banished from his heart. He briskly walked five
or six steps, then stop'd, and took a general survey of us all. " Where
have you been, Mr. Tilly ?" ask'd one officer. (We girls were silent.) " I
really i magi n'd," said Major Stodard, " that you were gone for your pis-
tols. I follow' d you to prevent danger," — an excessive laugh at each ques-
tion, which it was impossible to restrain. " Pray, where were your pistols,
Tilly ?" He broke his silence by the following expression : " You may all
go to the D 1." I never heard him utter an indecent expression before.

At last his good nature gain'd a complete ascendance over his anger,
and he join'd heartily in the laugh. I will do him the justice to say that
he bore it charmingly. No cowardly threats, no vengeance denounced.
Stodard caught hold of his coat. "Come, look at what you ran away
from," and drag'd him to the door. He gave it a look, said it was very
natural, and, by the singularity of his expressions, gave fresh cause for
diversion. We all retir'd to our different parlours, for the rest of our faces,
if I may say so.

Well, certainly, these military folks will laugh all night. Such scream-
ing I never did hear. Adieu to-night.

December 13th.

I am fearful they will yet carry the joke too far. Tilly certainly pos-
sesses an uncommon share of good nature, or he could not tolerate these
frequent teazings. Ah, Deborah, the Major is going to leave us entirely —
just going. I will see him first.

SALLY WISTERS JOURNAL. 333

Seventh Day, Noon.
He has gone. I saw him pass the bridge. The woods which you
enter immediately after crossing it, hinder' d us from following him further.
I seem to fancy he will return in the evening.

Seventh Day, Night.
Stodard not come back. We shall not, I fancy, see him again for
months, perhaps for years, unless he should visit Philadelphia. We shall
miss his agreeable company. But what shall we make of Tilly ? No ci\ il
things yet from him. Adieu to-night, my dear.

December 14th.
The officers yet here. No talk of their departure. They are ver\-
lively. Tilly's retreat the occasion ; the principal one, at least.

First Day, Night.

Captain Lipscomb, Seaton, and Tilly, with cousin H. M., Mined with
us to-day. Such an everlasting bore as Tilly I never knew. He caused us
a good deal of diversion while we sat at table. He said not a syllable to
one of us young ladies since Sixth-day eve. He tells Lipscomb that the
Major had the assistance of the ladies in the execution of the scheme. He
tells a truth.

About four o'clock I was standing at the door, leaning my head on my
hand, when a genteel officer rode up to the gate and dismounted. "Your
servant, ma'am," and gave me the compliment of his hat. Went into
aunt's. I went into our parlour. Soon Seaton was call'd. Many minutes
had not elapsed before he enter' d with the young fellow whom I had just
seen. He introduced him by the name of Captain Smallwood. We seated
ourselves. I then had an opportunity of seeing him. He is a brother to
General Smallwood. A very genteel, pretty little fellow, very modest, and
seems agreeable, but no personal resemblance between him and the Major.
After tea, turning to Tilly, he said, " So, sir, 1 have heard you had like to
have been taken prisoner last Friday night." " Pray, sir, who informed
you ? " " Major Stodard was my author." " I fancy he made a fine tale
of it. How far did he say I ran ? " " Two miles ; and that you fell into
the mill-pond ! " He rais'd his eyes and hands, and exclaimed, " What a
confounded falsehood." The whole affair was again reviv'd. Our Tillian
here gave a mighty droll account of his "retreat," as they call it. He

1 Cousin Hannah Miles, daughter of Colonel Miles.

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told us that, after he had got behind our kitchen, he stop'd for company,
as he expected the others would immediately follow. ' • But I heard them
scream, 'Which way did he go ? Where is he?' 'Aye,' said I, to myself,
' he is gone where you shan't catch him,' and off I set again." " Pray,"
ask'd mamma, " did thee keep that lane between the meadows ? " " Oh,
no, ma'am ; that was a large road, and I might happen to meet some of
them. When I got to your thorn hedge, I again stop'd. As it was a cold
night, I thought 1 would pull up my shoe-heels, and tie my handkerchief
round my head. I began to have a suspicion of a trick, and, hearing the
Major hollow, I came back."

I think I did not laugh more at the very time than to-night at the
rehearsal of it. He is so good-natured, and takes all their jokes with so
good a grace, that I am quite charm'd with him. He laughingly denounces
vengeance against Stodard. He will be even with him. He is in the
Major's debt, but he will pay him, etc.

December 15th.

Smallwood has taken up his quarters with us. Nothing worth relating
occur' d to-day.

3d, 4th, and 5th day.

We chatted a little with the officers. Smallwood not so chatty as his
brother or nephew. Lipscomb is very agreeable ; a delightful musical
voice.

Sixth Day, Noon, December 19th.

The officers, after the politest adieus, have left us. Smallwood and
Tilly are going to Maryland,* where they live ; Seaton to Virginia ; and
Lipscomb to camp, to join his regiment. I feel sorry at this departure, yet
'tis a different kind from what I felt some time since. We had not con-
tracted so great an intimacy with those last.

Seventh Day, December 20th.

General Washington's army have gone into winter quarters at the
Valley Forge. ^ We shall not see many of the military now. We shall be
very intimate with solitude. I am afraid stupidity will be a frequent guest.
After so much company, I can't relish the idea of sequestration.

* General Smallwood's brigade went to Wilmington, where they passed the winter.

* The army had been at Gulf Creek (near Conshohocken, but west of the Schuyl-
kill), for a few days, but left there on the 19th, and marched to Valley Creek, to begin
the winter encampment.

SALLY WISTER'S JOURNAL. 335

First Day, Night.

A dull round of the same thing over again. 1 shall hang up my pen
until something offers worth relating.

February 3d and 4th.

I thought 1 never should have anything to say again. Nothing hap-
pen'd all January that was uncommon. Capt. Lipscomb and Mas' stay' d
one night at Jesse's, and sup' d with us. How elegant the former was dres'd.
And indeed 1 have forgot to keep an exact account of the day of the month
in which I went down to G. E.'s, with P. F.; * but it was the 23d or 24th of
January. After enjoying a week of her agreeable company at the mill, I
returnecP with her to Whitemarsh. We went on horseback, — the roads
bad. We however surmounted this difficulty, and arrived there safe.

Second Day, Eve.

G. E. brought us a charming collection of books, — " Joe Andrews,"
" Juliet Grenville," and some Lady s Magazines. P. F. sent us " Caroline
Melmoth."*

Fourth Day, 26th.

I thought our scheme of going to Fr'd F.'s was entirely frustrated, as
S. E. was much indispos'd. About twelve she got better. We made some
alteration in our dress, step'd into the carriage, and rode off". Spent a most
delightful day. As we approach' d the house, on our return, we perceiv'd
several strangers in the parlour. Polly's face and mine brighten' d up at
the discovery. We alighted. Polly swung open the door, and introduc'd
us to Major Jameson and Captain Howard, both of the dragoons, the former
from Virginia, the latter a Marylander. We all seem'd in penseroso
style till after supper. We then began to be rather more sociable. About
ten they bid us adieu. I dare say thee is impatient to know my sentiments
of the swains. Howard has very few external charms ; indeed, I cannot

1 So in copy. Not intelligible.

* To George Emlen's (at Whitemarsh, close by the present station of Sandy Run),
with Polly Fishbourn.

8 The language here, not entirely clear, means that Polly Fishbourn had been " at
the mill," — at Penllyn, — when Miss Sally " went down " with her to Whitemarsh.

* We get some clue, here, as to the attractive literature of the times. "Joseph
Andrews " was Fielding's famous novel, published in 1742. The Lady s Magazine was
a London monthly, whose issue was begun October, 1759, "by John Wilkie, book-
seller. Fleet Street."

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name one. As to his internal ones, I am not a judge. Jameson is tall and
manly, a comely face, dark eyes and hair. Seems to be much of a gentle-
man. No ways deficient in point of sense, or, at least, in the course of the
evening, I discover' d none.

Fifth and Sixth day, and Seventh day, pass'd away very agreeably.
No strangers.

First Day, Eve.

This day my charming friend and myself ascended the barren hills of
Whitemarsh, from the tops of which we had an extensive prospect of the
country round. The traces of the army which encamp' d on these hills are
very visible. Rugged huts, imitations of chimneys, and many other ruin-
ous objects, which plainly show'd they had been there. D. J. S. dined
with us.

Second Day.

Very cold and windy. I wonder I am not sent for. Read and work'd
by turns.

Third Day.

A raw, snowy day. I am sent for, nevertheless. Adieu.

[North Wales, at my habitation at the mill.]

March ist, 1778, Third Day, Eve.

Such a ride as I have had, O dear Debby. About 2 o'clock the
sleigh came for me. Snowing excessively fast, though not sufficiently deep
to make it tolerable sleighing ; but go I must. I bid adieu to my agreeable
friends, and with a heavy heart and flowing eyes, I seated myself in the
unsociable vehicle. There might as well have been no snow on the
ground. I was jolted just to pieces. But, notwithstanding these vexations,
I got safe to my home, when I had the great pleasure of finding my dear
parents, sisters, and brothers well, a blessing which I hope ever to remem-
ber with thankfulness.

Well, will our nunnery be more bearable now than before I left it ?
No beaus since I left here, so I have the advantage of the girls. They are
wild to see Major Jameson.

May nth, 1778.

The scarcity of paper, which is very great in this part of the country,
and the three last months not producing anything material, have prevented
me from keeping a regular account of things ; but to-day the scene begins to

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brighten, and I will continue my nonsense. In the afternoon, we were just
seated at tea, — Dr. Moore^ with us. Nelly (our girl) brought us the won-
derful intelligence that there were light horse in the road. The tea-table
was almost deserted. About fifteen light horse were the vanguard of i6
hundred men under the command of General Maxwell. I imagin'd that
they would pass immediately by, but was agreeably disappointed. My
father came in with the General, Colonel Brodhead, Major Ogden, and
Captain Jones.

The General is a Scotsman, — nothing prepossessing in his appearance ;
the Colonel, very martial and fierce ; Ogden, a genteel young fellow, with
an aquiline nose. Captain Cadwallader Jones — if I was not invincible, I
must have fallen a victim to this man's elegancies (but, thank my good
fortune, I am not made of susceptibilities), — tall, elegant, and handsome, —
white fac'd with blue regimentals, and a mighty airish cap and white crest ;
his behaviour is refin'd, — a Virginian. They sat a few minutes after tea,
then bid us adieu.

This brigade is encamp' d about three miles from us.

First Day, Evening.
This afternoon has been productive of adventures in the true sense of
the word. Jenny R., Betsy, Liddy, and I, very genteelly dress'd, deter-
mined to take a stroll. Neighbor Morgan's was proposed. Away we
rambled, heedless girls. Pass'd two picket guards. Meeting with no
interruptions encouraged us. After paying our visit, we walked towards
home, when, to my utter astonishment, the sentry desir'd us to stop ; that
he had orders not to suffer any persons to pass but those who had leave
from the officer, who was at the guard house, surrounded by a number of
men. To go to him would be inconsistent with propriety ; to stay there,
and night advancing, was not clever. I was much terrified. I tried to
persuade the soldier to let us pass. " No ; he dared not." Betsy attempted
to go. He presented his gun with the bayonet fix'd. This was an addi-
tional fright. Back we turn'd ; and, very fortunately, the officer (Captain
Emeson), seeing our distress, came to us. I ask'd him if he had any
objection to passing the sentry. " None at all, ma'am." He waited upon
us, and reprimanded the man, and we, without any farther difficulty, came
home.

' Dr. Charles Moore, of Montgomery, no doubt.

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Third Day, June 2d.

I was standing at the back window. An officer and private of dra-
goons rode by. I tore to the door to have a better view of them. They
stopped. The officer rode up, and ask'd for Jesse, who was call'd.

Afternoon, 4 o'clock.

Oh, Deborah ; what capital adventures. Jesse came. The idea of
having light horse quarter' d at the farm was disagreeable ; the meadows
just fit to mow, and we had heard what destruction had awaited their foot-
steps. This was the dialogue between Jesse and the officer : " Pray, sir,
can I have quarters for a few horsemen ? " " How many ?" " Five and
twenty, sir. I do not mean to turn them into your meadows. If you have
any place you can spare, anything will do." And he dismounted, and
walk'd into aunt's parlor. I, determined to find out his character, foUow'd.
' ' I have, ' ' replied Jesse, ' ' a tolerable field, that may perhaps suit. " " That
will do, sir. But if you have any objection to putting them in a field, my
men shall cut the grass, and bring it in the road. 1 am under the necessity
of quartering them here, but I was order' d. I am only an inferior officer."
Some elegant corporal, thought I, and went to the door. He soon join'd
me, speaking to his man, " Ride off, and tell Mr. Watts we rendezxous
here."

He inquir'd the name of the farmer, andwent into aunt's ; 1 into the
back room. The troop rode up. " New scenes," said I, and moved up-
stairs, where I saw them perform their different manoeuvres. This Mr.
Watts is remarkably tall, and a good countenance. I adjourn' d to the
parlour. The first officer march' d up and down the entry. Prissacamein.
" Good, now, Prissa. What's the name of this man .? " " Dyer, I believe."
Captain Dyer. Oh, the name ! " What does he say ? " " Why, that he will
kiss me when he has din'd." " Singular," I observ'd, " on so short an ac-
quaintance." " But," resum'd Prissa, " he came and fix'd his arm on the
chair I sat in : ' Pray, ma'am, is there not a family from town with you ?'
' Yes.' ' What's their name ?' ' Wister.' ' There's two fine girls there. I
will go chat with them. Pray, did they leave their effects in Philadelphia ? '
' Yes, everything, almost.' ' They shall have them again, that they shall.' "
There ended the conversation. But this ugly name teas'd me. "Oh, Sally,
he is a Virginian ; that's in his favour greatly." "I'm not sure that's his
name, but I understood so." Prissa left us. I step'd into aunt's for Johnny
and desir'd him to come home. Up started the Captain : " Pray, let me

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introduce yoit, ma'am." " I am perfectly accjiiainted with him," said I,
and turned to the door. "Tell your sister I beUeve she is not fond of
strangers." I smil'd, and returned to our parlour.

Third Day Night, nine o'clock, aye, ten, I fancy.

Take a circumstantial account of this afternoon, and the person of this
extraordinary man. His exterior first. His name is not Dyer, but Alex-
ander Spotswood Dandridge, which certainly gives a genteel idea of the
man. I will be particular. His person is more elegantly form'd than any
I ever saw ; tall and commanding. His forehead is very white, though the
lower part of his face is much sunburn' d ; his features are extremely pleas-
ing ; an even, white set of teeth, dark hair and eyes. I can't better describe
him than by saying he is the handsomest man I ever beheld. Betsy and
Liddy coincide in this opinion.

After I had sat a while at home, in came Dandridge. He enter' d into
chat immediately. Ask'd if we knew Tacy Vanderen. Said he courted
her, and that they were to be married soon. Observ'd my sampler, which
was in full view. Wish'd I would teach the Virginians some of my needle
wisdom ; they were the laziest girls in the world. Told his name. Laugh' d
and talk'd incessantly. At last, " May I " (to mamma) " introduce my
brother officer?" We assented; so he call'd him. "Mr. Watts, Mrs.
Wister, young Miss Wister. Mr. Watts, ladies, is one of our Virginia chil-
dren." He sat down. Tea was order'd. Dandridge never drank tea ;
Watts had done ; so we sat to the table alone. " Let's walk in the gar-
den," said the Captain ; so we call'd Liddy, and went (not Watts). We
sat down in a sort of a summer-house. ' ' Miss Sally, are you a Quaker ? ' '
" Yes." " Now, arc you a Quaker ? " " Yes, I am." " Then you are a
Tory." " I am not, indeed," "Oh, dear," replied he, " I am a poor
creature. I can hardly live." Then, flying away from that subject, "Will
you marry me. Miss Sally ? " " No, really ; a gentleman after he has said
he has not sufficient to maintain himself, to ask me to marry him. " " Never
mind what I say, I have enough to make the pot boil."

Had we been acquainted seven years, we could not have been more
sociable. The moon ga,ve a sadly pleasing light. We sat at the door till
nine. Dandridge is sensible, and (divested of some freedoms, which might
be call'd gallant in the fashionable world) he is polite and agreeable. His
greatest fault is a propensity to swearing, which throws a shade over his

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accomplishments. I ask'd him why he did so. " It is a favorite vice, Miss
Sally." At nine he went to his chamber. Sets off at sunrise.

Fourth Day, Morn, 12 o'clock.

I was awaken' d this morn with a great racket of the Captain's servant
calling him ; but the lazy fellow never rose till about half an hour past
eight. This his daylight ride. I imagin'd they would be gone before now,
so I dressed in a green skirt and dark short gown. Provoking. So down
I came, this Captain (wild wretch) standing at the back door. He bow'd
and call'd me. I only look'd, and went to breakfast. About nine I took
my work and seated myself in the parlour. Not long had I sat, when in
came Dandridge, — the handsomest man in existence, at least that I had
ever seen. But stop here, while I just say, the night before, chatting
upon dress, he said he had no patience with those officers who, every morn,
before they went on detachments, would wait to be dress' d and powder' d.
" I am," said I, " excessively fond of powder, and think it very becoming."
"Are you ? " he reply' d. " I am very careless, as often wearing my cap
thus " (turning the back part before) " as any way." I left off where he
came in. He was powder' d very white, a (pretty colored) brown coat,
lapell'd with green, and white waistcoat, etc., and his —

" Sword beside him negligently hung."
He made a truly elegant figure. " Good morning, Miss Sally. You are
very well, I hope." "Very well. Pray sit down," which he did, close by
me. " Oh, dear," said I, " 1 see thee is powder'd." "Yes, ma'am. 1
have dress'd myself off for you." Will I be excused, Debby, if I look upon
his being powder'd in the light of a compliment to me ? "Yes, Sally, as
thee is a country maid, and don't often meet with compliments." Saucy
Debby Norris !

'Tis impossible to write a regular account of our conversation. Be it
sufficient to say that we had a multiplicity of chat.

About an hour since, sister H. came to me and said Captain Dandridge
was in the parlour, and had ask'd for me. I went in. He met me, caught
my hands. "Oh, Miss Sally, I have a beautiful sweetheart for you."
" Poh ! ridiculous! Loose my hands." "Well, but don't be so cross."
"Who is he?" " Major Clough. I have seen him. Ain't he pretty, to be
sure? I am going to headquarters. Have you any commands there?"
" None at all ; but " (recollecting), " yes, I have. Pray, who is your com-

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mandiug officer ? " " Colonel Bland, ma'am." " Please give my compli-
ments to him, and I shou'd be glad if he would send thee back with a little
more manners." Hereply'd wickedly, and told me 1 had a little spiteful
heart. But he was intolerably saucy ; said he never met with such ladies.
" Not to let me kiss you. You're very ill-natur'd, Sally." And, putting
on the sauciest face, " Sally, if Tacy V*nd*r*n won't have me, will you ?"
" No, really ; none of her discarded lovers." "But, provided I prefer
you to her, will you consent ? " "No, I won't." " Very well, madam."
And after saying he would return to-morrow, among a hundred other
things, he elegantly walk'd out of the room. Soon he came back, took
up a volume of Homer's Iliad, and read to us. He reads very well, and
with judgment. One remark he made, that I will relate, on these lines, —

" While Greece a heavy, thick retreat maintains,
Wedg'd in one body, like a flight of cranes."

" G — d knows our army don't do so. I wish they did." He laugh' d, and
went away.

Four o'clock, Afternoon.
Major Clough, Captain Swan, and Mr. Moore, a lieutenant of horse,
din'd with Dandridge. The latter, after dinner, came in to bid us adieu.
He sat down, and was rather saucy. I look'd very grave. " Miss Betsy,
you have a very ill-natured sister. Observe how cross she looks." He
prayed we might part friends, and offer' d his hand. I gave him mine, which
he kiss'd in a very gallant manner ; and so, with truly affectionate leave,
he walked to the parlour door, " God Almighty bless you, ladies ; " bow'd,
went into the road, mounted a very fine horse, and rode away ; leaving
Watts and the troop here, to take care of us, as he said. " Mr. Watts,
Miss Sally, is a very worthy man ; but, poor soul, he is so captivated with
you, — the pain in his breast all owing to you, — he was caught by this
beauty-spot," tapping my cheek. He could not ha\e thought it was
meant for an addition, as the size of it shew'd the contrary. But he is
gone ; and I think, as I have escaped thus far safe, I am quite a heroine,
and need not be fearful of any of the lords of the creation for the future.

Six o'clock, Evening.
Watts drank tea with us. A conversable man. Says that the Dan-
dridges are one of the genteelest families in Virginia, — relations of General
Washington's wife. He appeared very fond of the Captain, who has had a

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liberal education. Very sensible and brave. I sat in the entry all last even-
ing, as did Betsy. But first, let me say, Fifth-day morn we chatted on a
variety of subjects ; and amongst others, he mentioned the cruelty of the
Britons, which, I agreed, was very great. He said he would retaliate when-
ever he had an opportunity. I strenuously opposed such a procedure,
observing that it would be erring in the same way, and tho' they might de-
serve it, yet it would be much nobler to treat them with lenity. Remember
the hnes of Pope, —

" That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me."

"I perfectly remember them. Your sentiments are noble; but we
must retaliate sometimes."

A horseman deliver" d this message : " Let the troop lie on their arms,
and be ready to maixh at a moment's warning." He immediately gave
these orders to the sergeant. Every soldier was in motion. I was a good
deal frighten'd, and ask'd ^^'atts the reason. He fancy'd the British were
in motion, tho' he had not receiv'd such intelligence. "What will thee do
if they come here ? " " Defend the house as long as I can, ma'am." T
was shock' d. " Bless my heart ; what 7C77/ become of us ?" " You may
be very safe. The house is an excellent house to defend ; only do you be
still. If the British vanquish us, down on you knees, and cry, ' Bless the
kin"-.' If we conquer them, why you know you are safe." This added to
my fright. I called my dear mamma, who was much indispos'd. Dadda
was gone to Lancaster. Mamma ask'd him the same questions, and he
ti-ave her the same answers. I was in a fearful taking, and said if I thought
such a thing would happen, I would set off, though nine o'clock, and walk
to Uncle Foulke's. " No, don't go to-night. Miss Sally. 1 will take you
there to-morrow. Don't be uneasy. This is nothing. 1 often go to bed
with my boots on upon some alarms." " But thee will take off thy boots
to-night?" " Yes, I will, indeed." " Is thee really in earnest about de-
fending the house ? " " No, madam ; for believe me, if I hear the enemy
is in motion, I will immediately depart, bag and baggage."

This dispell' d my fears, and after wishing me a good night, he retir'd
to his chamber. Imagine my consternation when our girl came running
in, and said the lane was fill'd with light horse. I flew to the side door. It
was true, My joy was great when I heard Major Clough ask if this was
Captain Dandridge's quarters. I answer' d in the affirmative. He rode

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round to the other door. Watts, though gone to bed, was call'd. He
chatted apart to the Major a while, then went off towards Skippack road,
follow' d by a large party of horse and waggons. My fears were all renew' d ;
and, as if we were to be in perpetual alarms, by came another party, much
larger, in dark clothes. These we all thought were British. They halted.
All as still as death. The officer rode up to the door. " Does Mr. Foulke
live here ? " " Yes," said somebody. " Is there not a family from town
here, — Mr. Wister's ? " I recollected the voice, and said, "Captain Stod-
ard, I presume ?" " Yes, madam. Are you Mr. Wister's wife ? " " No,
his daughter." " Is your papa at home ? " " No," I reply' d, but invited
him in to see mamma. He agreed ; dismounted, as did many other offi-
cers ; but he alone came into our parlour. Watts follow' d to bid us adieu.
They sat a few minutes ; told us that two of their men had deserted, and
when that was the case, they generally moved their quarters. Watts told
him how I was frighten' d. He said I paid but a poor compliment to their
chivalry. I only smiled. The alarm had partly deprived me of the power
of speech.

They sat about fifteen minutes, then rose, and after the politest adieus,
departed. All the horse follow' d — about one hundred and fifty. I never
saw more regularity observ'd, or so undisturb'd a silence kept up when so
large a number of people were together. Not a voice was heard, except
that of the officer who gave the word of command. The moon at intervals
broke thro' the heavy black clouds. No noise was perceiv'd, save that
which the horses made as they trotted o'er the wooden bridge across the
race. Echo a while gave us back the sound. At last nothing was left but
remembrance of them. The family all retir'd to their respective chambers,
and enjoyed a calm repose.

This Captain Stodard is from New England, and belongs to Colonel
Sheldon's regiment of dragoons. He made an acc[uaintance with my
father at Germantown, whilst our army was at that place, and had been
here once before. He is clever and gentlemanly.

Fifth Day, June 4th, 2 o'clock.
Oh, gracious ! how warm is this day. But, warm as it is, I must make
a small alteration in my dress. I do not make an elegant figure, tho'
I do not expect to see a stranger to-day.

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Sixth Day, June 5th, Morn, ii o'clock.

Last night we were a little alarm' d. I was awaken' d about 12, with
somebody's opening the chamber door. I observ'd cousin Prissa talking
to mamma. I asked what was the matter. ' ' Only a party of light horse.
"Are they Americans ? " I quickly said. She answer' d in the affirmative,
(which dispell'd my fears), and told me Major Jameson commanded, and
that Captains Call and Nixon were with him. With that intelligence she
left us. I resolved in my mind whether or not Jameson would renew his
acquaintance ; but Morpheus buried all my ideas, and this morning I rose
by, or near seven, dress' d in my light chintz, which is made gown-fashion,
kenton handkerchief, and linen apron. " Sufficiently smart for a country
girl, Sally." Don't call me a country girl, Debby Norris. Please to observe
that I pride myself on being a Philadelphian, and that a residence of 10
months has not at all diminished the love I have for that place ; and as
soon as one capital alteration takes place (which is very much talk'd of at
present), I expect to return to it with a double pleasure.

Dress' d as above, down I came, and went down to our kitchen, which
is a small distance from the house. As I came back, I saw Jameson at the
window. He met me in the entry, bow' d : — ' ' How do you do. Miss Sally?
After the compliments usual on such occasions had passed, I invited him
into our parlour. He followed me in. We chatted very sociably. I
inquir'd for P. F.' He said he had seen her last First-day ; that she was
well. Her mamma had gone to Lancaster, to visit her daughter Wharton, ^
who, as I suppose you have heard, has lost her husband.

1 ask'd him whether Dandridge was on this side the Delaware. He
said " Yes." I wanted sadly to hear his opinion, but he said not a word.
The conversation turn'd upon the British leaving Philadelphia. He firmly
believ'd they were going. I sincerely wish'd it might be true, but was
afraid to flatter myself. I had heard it so often that I was quite faithless,
and express' d my approbation of Pope's 12th beatitude, " Blessed are they
that expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." He smil'd, and
assur'd me they were going away.

' Polly Fishbourn.

2 The " mamma " was Mrs. William Fishbourn- Her daughter Elizabeth was the
second wife of Thomas Wharton, jr., President of the Supreme Executive Council
(acting Governor). Her/, at Lancaster (the seat of the Pt^nnsylvania government at
this time), on May 22, 1778.

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He was summon' d to breakfast. I ask'd him to stay with us. He
declin'd the invitation with politeness, adding that he was in a hurry, —
obHg'd to go to camp as soon as he could. He bow'd, "Your servant,
ladies," and withdrew immediately. After breakfast they set off for Valley
Forge, where Gen'l Washington's army still are.

I am more pleas' d with Major Jameson than I was at at first. He is sen-
sible and agreeable, — a manly person, and a very good countenance. We
girls differ about him. Prissa and I admire him, whilst Liddy and Betsy
will not allow him a spark of beauty. Aunt's family are charm' d with his
behavior, — so polite, so unassuming. When he disturb' d them last night,
he made a hundred apologies, — was so sorry to call them up, — 'twas real
necessity oblig'd him. I can't help remarking the contrast between him
and Dandridge. The former appears to be rather grave than gay, — no
vain assuming airs. The latter calls for the genius of a Hogarth to char-
acterize him. He is possess' d of a good understanding, a very liberal edu-
cation, gay and volatile to excess. He is an Indian, a gentleman, grave
and sad, in the same hour. But what signifies ? I can't give thee a true
idea of him ; but he assumes at pleasure a behavior the most courtly, the
most elegant of anything I ever saw. He is very entertaining company,
and very vain of his personal beauties ; yet nevertheless his character is
exceptional.

Sixth Day, Noon and Evening.

Nothing material occurr'd.

Seventh Day, Night.

A dull morn. In the afternoon, Liddy, Betsy, R. H., and self went to
one of our neighbors to eat strawberries. Got a few. Return' d home ;
drank tea. No beaus. Adieu.

First Day, Evening.

Heigh-ho ! Debby, there's little meaning in that exclamation, ain't
there ? To me it conveys much. I have been looking what the dictionary
says. It denotes uneasiness of mind. I don't know that my mind is par-
ticularly uneasy just now.

The occurrences of the day come now. I left my chamber between
eight and nine, breakfasted, went up to dress, put on a new purple and
white striped Persian, white petticoat, muslin apron, gauze cap, and hand-
kerchief. Thus array' d, Miss Norris, I ask your opinion. Thy partiaHty
for thy friend will bid thee say I made a tolerable appearance. Not so, my

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dear. I was this identical Sally Wister, with all her whims and follies ;
and they have gain'd so great an ascendancy over my prudence, that I
fear it will be a hard matter to divest myself of them. But I will hope for
a reformation.

Cousin H. M. came about nine, and spent the day with us. After we
had din'd, two dragoons rode up to the door ; one a waiting-man of Dan-
dridge's, the faithful Jonathan. They are quarter' d a few miles from us.
The junior sisters, Liddy and Betsy, join'd by me, ventur'd to send our
compliments to the Captain and Watts. Prissa insists that it is vastly
indelicate, and that she has done with us. Hey day 1 What prudish
notions are those, Priscilla ? I banish prudery. Suppose we had sent our
lo7)e to him, where had been the impropriety ? for really he had a person
that was love-inspiring, tho' I escap'd, and may say, lo triumphe. I an-
swer not for the other girls, but am apt to conclude that Cupid shot his
arrows, and that maybe they had effect. A fine evening this. If wishes
could avail, I would be in your garden with S. J., R. F., and thyself. Thee
has no objection to some of our North Wales swains, — not the beau in-
habitants, but some of the transitory ones. But cruel reverse. Instead
of having my wishes accomplish' d, I must confine myself to the narrow
limit of this farm.

Liddy calls : " Sally, will thee walk ?" " Yes." Perhaps a walk will
give a new turn to my ideas, and present something new to my vacant im-
agination.

Second Day, Third Day, Fourth Day.
No new occurrences to relate. Almost adventureless, except General
Lacy's riding by, and his fierce horse disdaining to go without showing his
airs, in expectation of drawing the attention of the mill girls, in order to
glad his master's eyes. Ha ! ha ! ha ! One would have imagin'd that
vanity had been buried within the shades of N. Wales. Lacy is tolerable ;
but as ill luck would order it, I had been busy, and my auburn ringlets
were much dishevell'd : therefore I did not glad his eyes, and cannot set
down on the list of honours receiv'd that of a bow from Brigadier-General
Lacy.'

' Brigadier-general John Lacey, in command of the militia forces. See details
concerning him, next chapter.

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Fifth Day, Night, June iSth.
Rose at half-past four this morning. Iron'd industriously till one
o'clock, din'd, went up stairs, threw myself on the bed, and fell asleep.
About four, sister H. wak'd me, and said uncle and J. F. were down stairs ;
so I decorated myself, and went down. Felt quite lackadaisical. However,
I jump'd about a little, and the stupid fit went off. We have had strange
reports about the British being about leaving Philadelphia. I can't believe
it. . Adieu.

Sixth Day, Morn, June 19th.

We have heard an astonishing piece of news ! The English have en-
tirely left the city ! It is almost impossible ! Stay, I shall hear further.

Sixth Day, Eve.

A light horseman has just confirm' d the above intelligence ! This is
charniante ! They decamp' d yesterday. He (the horseman) was in Phila-
delphia. It is true. They have gone. Past a doubt. I can't help exclaim-
ing to the girls, —

" Now are you sure the news is true ? Now are you sure they have
gone?" "Yes, yes, yes ! " they all cry, "and may they never, never
return."

Dr. Gould came here to-night. Our army are about six miles off, on
their march to the Jerseys.

Seventh Day, Morn.
O. F.^ arrived just now, and relateth as folloiueth : — The army began
their march at six this morning by their house. Our worthy General Small-
wood breakfasted at Uncle Caleb's.^ He ask'd how Mr. and Mrs. Wister
and the young ladies were, and sent his respects to us. Our brave, our
heroic General Washington was escorted by fifty of the Life Guard, with
drawn swords. Each day he acquires an addition to his goodness. We
have been very anxious to know how the inhabitants of Philadelphia have
far'd. I understand that General Arnold, who bears a good character, has
the command of the city, and that the soldiers conducted with great de-
corum. Smallwood says they had the strictest orders to behave well ; and
I dare say they obey'd the order. I now think of nothmg but returning
to Philadelphia.

' Owen Foulke, son of Caleb.

* The Meredith house, on the Swedes' Ford road.

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So I shall now conclude this journal, with humbly hoping that the
Great Disposer of events, who has graciously vouchsaf'd to protect us to
this day through many dangers, will still be pleas' d to continue his pro-
tection.

Sally Wister.

North Wales, June 20th, 1778.

XX.

Revolutionary Details.

THERE is no record or tradition of serious bloodshed in
Gwynedd during the war of the Revolution, though the
place was so near to many important military operations. But
detachments of the American army moved through it many
times, and from September, 1777, to June, 1778,* the people must
have been almost daily reminded by the visits of soldiers of the
conflict that was raging about them.

When Washington was on the Perkiomen, previous to his
attack at Germantown, General McDougall's brigade, consisting
of about sixteen hundred men, was posted " at Montgomery,"
and from there it marched down to the battle, moving, no doubt,
by the Bethlehem road to the Spring-House, and then down to
Whitemarsh. After the battle, the current of the retreat swept
upward through Gwynedd. General Francis Nash, of North
Carolina, who was mortally wounded early in the action, and
whose remains lie with those of Colonel Boyd, Major White,
and Lieutenant Smith, in the Mennonite graveyard above Kulps-
ville, is said to have died at Heist's tavern,^ having been brought
that far in a wagon. The Friends' meeting-house, according to
tradition, was used as a hospital, and a number of soldiers who
died in it are believed to have been buried in the south corner of
the graveyard, where there is now a considerable space with no
stones or other marks.

' September ii, 1777, the battle of Brandywine, June 18, 1778, evacuation of Phila-
delphia by the British, and breaking up of the Camp at Valley Forge by the Americans.
'This is the tradition ; but the tavern is said to have been established in 1784.

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During the winter of 1777-78, while the Americans were at
Valley Forge, and the British in Philadelphia, scouting and for-
aging parties were continually moving through the township.

On the 9th of January, 1778, Colonel John Lacey, of Bucks
county, was appointed a brigadier-general, in command of the
State militia forces operating between the Schuylkill and the
Delaware rivers. He took command at once, succeeding Gen-
eral Potter, and until the evacuation of Philadelphia by the British,
the operations of his men more directly concerned the neighbor-
hood of Gwynedd than any other forces. He refers in his
reports, several times, to North Wales, where parties of his men
were posted, and an encounter of some interest, to be referred to
in a moment, occurred there. January 24 he reported that he
had about three hundred " at the Spring-House and Plymouth
Meeting, both included." Late in February a drove of cattle on
the way to the camp at Valley Forge was taken by the British,
within his lines, it is said " near Bartholomew's tavern," at Mont-
gomery Square,' his force being, he reported, insufficient to afford
a guard for the drove. In acknowledging his report of this cap-
ture (dated Feb. 27) General Washington wrote from the Camp
at Valley Forge, March 2 :

I desire you to send a party of 150 men, under a good officer, well
armed and completed with ammunition, to Bartholomew's Tavern, on
Wednesday next [March 4] at 11 o'clock in the morning. The officer
will meet a party there at that time from this camp, and will then receive
his orders. As a very particular piece of service is to be executed, I beg
that the party may be punctual to the time, and not fail upon any pretence
whatever.

The nature of this service does not appear from the official
correspondence, later.

' Gen. W. W. H. Davis's Life of Lacey.

REVOLUTIONARY DETAILS. 351

On the 23d of March a conference of officers was held at
Spring-House to consider a scheme " to depopulate the whole
country between the Delaware and Schuylkill for fifteen miles
around the city, compelling the inhabitants by force to remove
back beyond that distance." The subject is thus referred to in
a letter from General Lacey to General Washington, dated
March 29 :

I had the pleasure to be with Gen. Mcintosh on the 23d inst., at the
Spring-House tavern, in Philadelphia county ; where the General, several
field officers, and myself were of the opinion that if the inhabitants who
live near the enemy's Hnes, or between ours and them, on this side the
Schuylkill, were to move back into the country, it would be of the utmost
utility to the pubHc cause. Gen. Mcintosh was on his return to camp to
lay the proposal before your Excellency, and send me word if approved
of. Such a plan would not only stop all communication with the enemy,
but would deprive them of every kind of supply from the country ; which
the most indefatigable exertions of parties cannot prevent.

Lacey adds that " in order to know the people's minds with
respect to moving," he set afloat a report after leaving the con-
ference at Spring-House, " that all the inhabitants within fifteen
miles of Philadelphia were desired to move back into the country
by the ist of April." It caused great excitement among the
people, a meeting was held, and a committee waited on him to
say that it would be impossible to comply with such an order.
There were not, they said, teams and carriages enough in all that
country to remove one-third of the people and their effects.
General Washington wrote from Valley Forge March 3 1 , de-
clining to approve the order. The measure he characterized as
" rather desirable than practicable," and added :

The difficulties attending the removal of so many inhabitants with
their effects may be regarded as insurmountable ; and at the same time, the
horror of depopulating a whole district, however little consideration the
majority of the persons concerned may deserve from us, would forbid the
measure.

352 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

On the 2 1st of April a court-martial was convened at North
Wales to try a captain, of the Northampton county militia, who
had permitted a prisoner to escape. He was found guilty of
negligence of duty, and dismissed the service.

On the 25th of April, the last day of the week, Lacey, who
had been at North Wales, " to discharge the Northampton
Militia," moved to the Billet (Hatboro'). He had had his quar-
ters probably in the tavern which was kept in a building that
now forms the central part of Walter H. Jenkins's store, on the
turnpike above the meeting-house. His baggage-wagons he di-
rected to follow him that day. What occurred is told in records
that have come down to us. Captain John Montresor, an engi-
neer officer in the British service, who was then with that army
in Philadelphia, says in his journal :

Sjtnday, 26th {April). Wind northerly, the air cool, weather very
fine. The two troops of the 17th Dragoons returned and [having] sur-
prised a Post of 50 men of the Rebels at North Wales meeting-house,
killed 12, took 6 prisoners, the rest fled. Brought in 2 waggons loaded
with camp equipage.

General Lacey' s report to General Washington is in the fol-
lowing despatch :

Camp, Billet, April 27th, 1778.

Sir : Inclosed is a return of the mihtia under my command. I hear
that more are on their way to join me. I moved from North Wales
(whither I had retired to discharge the Northampton Militia) last Saturday
about twelve o'clock, on hearing a party of the enemy had filed off from
the Germantown road, towards the York road. I proceeded as far as Edge
hill, hoping to fall in with them ; but found on my arrival at that place,
they had returned to the city. I encamped with my httle handful of men
the following night at the Billet, where I still remain. I sent orders for the
provisions and stores I had left at North Wales to be moved ; and for the
baggage-wagons belonging to the militia to come to the Billet, the same
night. Some of the waggoners belonging to a part of the Northampton

REVOLUTIONARY DETAILS. 353

people (whose times did not expire till last evening), following the common
custom of disobedience among the militia, neglected moving until next
morning, when they were met by a party of the enemy's horse, just after
they had started, who took one waggon and eight horses ; also five or six
prisoners, and wounded several more. Those fellows, the day before,
when the Brigade left the camp, being either too lazy or cowardly to march
with them, chose to stay with the baggage ; and being not fond of fatigue,
had, for their own ease, carefully deposited their arms in the baggage
waggons, and in this situation they were met by the enemy.'

An affair at the Spring-House is described in the New Jersey
Gazette, the patriot sheet published at Burlington, while the
British held Philadelphia, — of the date of February i8, 1778, as
follows :

ON SATURDAY LAST (FEBRUARY 15, 1778), A CON-
siderable body of British Light Infantry, accompanied by
a party of hght horse, made an excursion into the country as
high as a place called the Spring-House Tavern (Gwynedd
Township, Philadelphia County), about sixteen miles from
Philadelphia, where they made prisoners a Major Wright of the
Pennsylvania Militia, and a number of persons in the Civil De-
partment such as Magistrates, Assessors, Constables, etc., who
were pointed out by the Tories inhabiting that neighborhood.
The enemy went in three divisions, part of them through
Germantown, where they broke many windows, seized all the
leather, stockings, etc., and returned to Philadelphia on the
evening of the same day, after having committed many other acts
of licentiousness and cruelty on the persons of those they term
Rebels.

This incursion was certainly one of the boldest and most
serious which the royal troops attempted. The allusion to " the
Tories inhabiting that neighborhood "must be taken with many
grains of allowance : how strong the sympathy even of the non-
fighting Friends was for the American cause, and how much they

' [1896.] This incident is alluded to in the first edition of " Gwynedd " as a tradi-
tion only. It was related to me by my grandfather, Charles F. Jenkins. I had not
then observed Lacey's report of it, nor seen Montresor's Diary.

The surprise of Lacey's men at the Billet occurred five days after that at Gwynedd,
— on May i, 1778.

354 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

dreaded the royal troops, is clearly disclosed in the pages of the
Sally Wister Journal, in the preceding chapter.

As some offset to these raids there is the tradition that John
Fries, of Hatfield, afterwards the famous auctioneer who raised
the " Rebellion" of 1798 against the window tax, " on one oc-
casion, while the British held Philadelphia, headed a party of his
neighbors, gave pursuit to the light-horse that were driving stolen
cattle to the city, and rescued them about the Spring-House
tavern."

The Friends, as a body, took no part in the war, on either side.
Their peace principles were fairly preserved. A few entered the
revolutionary service, but none in Gwynedd, so far as there is evi-
dence, took the king's side. Mordecai Roberts, Eldad's son, is
said to have served in the Continental army and fought at Ger-
mantown. The meeting records show that he was disciplined
for "joining the military men in their exercises," and finally dis-
owned, in June, 1777. In September, 1779, the minutes mention

another case where " consented to the payment of a

Fine in Lieu of Personal Military Service ; which in writing he
acknowledged sorrow for, but afterwards appealed to have the
like fine remitted, and also was present at a muster, from which
it appears that his sorrow was not such as worketh true repent-
ance," etc., etc. In December, 1779, Joseph Ambler, son of John,
makes acknowledgment for paying a fine in lieu of personal
military service, and taking the oath of allegiance.'

Under the militia law of that time, all the men within the
military age were enrolled by companies, and regarded as mem-
bers of these, whether they mustered or not. If they did not

1 These are, however, a very small part of the similar instances. My friend Charles
Roberts, of Philadelphia, who has more carefully inspected the monthly meeting
records of the period, says there were many disownments for taking part in the war, —
as many as a dozen on one meeting day.

RE VOL UriONA R V DE TA ILS.

355

attend muster, or respond when called into service, they in-
curred a fine. In Gwynedd township there were two such com-
panies, and in Montgomery one. The ofificer for the lower
division of Gwynedd, was at first Captain Dull (Christian, the
tavern keeper at Spring-House, no doubt), and subsequently
Captain Troxel ; in the upper division. Captain Bloom ; and in
Montgomery, Captain Hines. The companies belonged to "the
Fourth Battalion of Philadelphia County Militia, commanded by
Colonel William Dean." Printed accounts, showing the fines
collected between 1777 and 1780 from those persons who did
not muster or march when called on, are in existence, and one
list of collections for Gwynedd is as follows :

Captain Diill's Company, iti Gwynedd, Lower Divisioji.

Fines.

Fines.

Name.

£ s. d.

Name.

£

s. d.

Christian Wolfinger,

15 00

Brought forward,

463

15 0

Enoch Morgan, .

20 0 0

Ezekiel Cleaver, jun

. 37

10 0

George Selsor,

.20 00

Daniel Morgan, .

37

10 0

Conrad Gearhart,

22 10 0

William Stemple,

• 37

10 0

Joseph Leblon, .

22 10 0

David Roberts, .

37

10 0

John Smyth, .

22 10 0

John Evans, .

37

10 0

Geo. A. Snyder, .

22 10 0

Garret Clemens, .

37

10 0

WilUam Moore, .

15 00

John Everhart, .

37

10 0

Adam Fleck, . .

22 10 0

WilUam Roberts,

22

10 0

John Getter, .

22 10 0

William Johnstone,

37

10 0

Ezekiel Cleaver, .

37 10 0

Owen Evans, .

37

ID 0

Hugh Foulk, . . .

37 10 0

John Sidons, .

15

0 0

Joshua Foulk,

37 10 0

Nicholas Rial,

37

10 0

Levi Foulk,

37 10 0

Conrad Clime,

6

0 0

Jesse Foulk, .

37 10 0

John Singer, .

11

10 0

Griffith Edwards,

37 10 0

John Selsor, .

20

0 0

Samuel Sidons, .

22 10 0

Jacob Preston, . .

1 1

5 0

David Morris,

II 50

Thomas Evans, .
Total, ....

37

10 0

Carried forward.

463 15 0

nSS

10 0

156

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Captain Bloom's (

Company,

Upper Division of Gwynedd.

Fines-

Fines.

Name.

£

s. d.

Name.

£ s. d.

Jacob Wisner,

20

0 0

Brought forward.

380 4 0

Benjamin Harry,

20

0 0

John Luken, . .

37 10 0

Rees Roberts,

20

0 0

Daniel Hofifman,

37 10 0

Samuel Wheeler,

20

0 0

Thomas Shoemaker

37 10 0

Melchoir Crible, .

20

0 0

William Hoffman,

37 10 0

Caleb Foulk, .

22

10 0

John Thomson, .

30 0 0

Levi Jenkins,

22

10 0

George Roberts, .

37 10 0

John Erwin, .

22

10 0

Jacob Young,

37 10 0

Jacob Smith, . .

22

10 0

Isaac Kulp,

30 0 0

Job Luken, . .

22

10 0

Joseph Long, .

37 10 0

John Dilcart, . .

9

0 0

Jacob Albright, .

22 10 0

Jacob Wiont,

7

10 0

Isaac Lewis, .

.38 2 6

Samuel Casner, .

28

2 0

Amos Roberts, .

20 0 0

William Springer,

28

2 0

Joseph Lewis,

37 10 0

John Evans, . .

20

0 0

David Harry,

20 0 0

William Williams,

37

10 0

George Maris,

37 10 0

Jacob Hisler,

37

10 0

Rees Harry, .

15 00

Carried forward, 380 4 o Total, . . . 935 ly 6

These fines, in the case of strict Friends, must have been ob-
tained by seizure and sale of some of their property, as they
could not, under their Discipline, pay them voluntarily. Another
list of collections, later than that given above, shows much heavier
fines, several running up to ^200, and Garret Clemens,' in the
lower division, paying ^300. These were sums in Continental
currency, however, and therefore not so ruinously large as they
appear.

When the American army moved from Valley Forge to New
Jersey, in June, 1778, the whole of it doubtless marched through
Gwynedd, and at least a part of it encamped there over night,

1 He was not a Friend, but a Mennonite, or a Dunker.

REVOLUTIONARY DETAILS. 357

June 19-20. We may repeat here the hnes from Miss Wister's
journal, which fix these facts ;

June 19. Dr. Gould came here to-night. Our army are about six
miles off on their march to the Jerseys.

June 20. Owen Foulke arrived just now. The army Ijegan their march
at six this morning, by their house. Our worthy General Smallwood break-
fasted at Uncle Caleb's. Our brave, our heroic General Washington was
escorted by fifty of the Life-Guard with drawn swords.

The march from Valley Forge was down the main roads, in-
cluding the Perkiomen and Skippack, to the Swedes' Ford road,
and then across on it by Doylestown to Wells's Ferry (New
Hope), where the army crossed the river into New Jersey. That
Washington himself encamped in Gwynedd on the night of the
19th is quite likely : Owen Foulke's explanations to the family
at Penllyn show that he rode by Caleb's house' next morning,
and it is known that he reached Doylestown that night.

I The old Meredith house, now J. Lukens's, repeatedly mentioned in this volume.
See the illustration.

XXI.

Taxables in Gwynedd in ijj6.

THE following is the assessor's list of taxables in Gwynedd
in the year 1776. It shows the names of all who were
holders of land, those who had horses and cows, and the number
of such animals, and the names of those " single men " who were
liable only to a poll-tax. The records show that John Jenkins
was the assessor, and Henry Bergey the collector.

Name.

Jesse Foulke,
Thomas Evans,
George Snider,
Michael Hawke,
Jephthah Lewis,
Eneas Lewis,
Isaac Lewis,
Rees Harry,
Humphrey Jones
Geo. Gossinger,
Melchior Crible,
Philip Hood, .
Isaac Kolb, . .
Isaac Kolb, jr., .
Philip Heist, .
John Thomson,
Thomas Shoemaker
Margaret Johnson,
Stephen Bloom,

210

230
150
150
200
160

200
180
100
119
300

120
123
I 10
100

35

Name.

Peter Buck, .
George Shelmire,
George Shelmire,
William Ervin, .
Alexander Major,
Joshua Foulk,
John Sparry,
George Fleck,
Ann Week, .
George Week, .
Samuel Castner,
John Everhart,
Nicholas Rile,
Adam Fleck,
John Davis, jun.,
David Davis,
Robert Davis,
Samuel Castner,
Daniel Leblance,

jr.

50 I 2
96 I I

100
150
200
100

100

7

50
150

SO
140

75
75
75
80

75

TAXABLES IN GWYNEDD IN 1776.

359

Daniel Williams,

130

3

4

William Roberts,

100 2

Amos Roberts . . .

189

3

8

Ezekiel Cleaver,

140 4

John Davis, . .

170

3

6

John Evans,

250 3

Enoch Morgan,

100

2

5

Michael Cousler,

40 2

Nicholas Selser,

100

2

4

Peter Young,

50 I

Morris Morris, .

30

1

2

Jacob Smith,

100 1

Henry Rapp,

I

I

Jacob Smith, Jr.,

1

George Miller,

Jacob Wiant,

130 3

Jacob Albrough,

2

2

Peter Hofifman,

I

Samuel Gamble,

29

I

I

Levi Foulke,

100 3

Martin Swink,

160

2

4

Martin Raker,

57 2

Abram Donnenhauer,

135

2

6

Wm. Johnson, .

123 2

Jacob Heistler, .

147

4

4

Hugh Foulke, .

3

Henry Snider, .

175

3

6

Conrad Gerhart,

120 2

Peter Troxall, . . .

170

3

6

John Siddons,

I

John Troxall,

170

3

6

Conrad Smith,

->

Thomas Evans, jr..

140

2

4

William Moore,

2

Baltzer Spitznagel, .

I

Job Lukens,

20 I

William Williams, .

120

3

5

Henry Bergey, .

50 2

George Maris, .

450

4

6

Adam Smith,

I

Conrad Dimond, .

40

I

2

Matthias Booz, .

Walter Howell,

100

n

2

Wendle Fetter.

•5

Thomas Layman, .

I

William Springer, .

->

Michael Hofifman, .

200

2

John Singer,

50 I

Jacob Sigfried

I

2

PhiHp Hurst, . .

80 2

Barnaby Beaver,

50

John Troxall,

25 2

Mathew Lukens,

. 130

2

6

Wm. Hoffman, .

^

Martin Hoftman,

I

Evan Davis,

15

John Jenkins,

252

3

5

Nicholas Shubert, .

7

Sarah Griffith, .

300

^

3

Christian Delacouit,

Joseph Griffith, . .^

100

2

2

Michael Itzell, . .

I

Benjamin Rosenboyer

50

I

2

Jacob Brown,

John Knipe,

150

I

3

Jacob Walton, .

I

William Dixey .

10

I

I

Jacob Preston, .

Garret Clemens,

136

3

6

John Delacourt, .

John Conrad,

60

2

3

Benjamin Williams,

Christian Dull, . .

8

I

I

PhiUp Berkheimer.

John Shelmire, . .

14

I

1

36o

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Hugh Evans,
John Jenkins, jr.,
John Kidney,
John Evans,
Robert Roberts,
David Harry, jr.,
Reese Harry,
Benj. Harry,
Joseph Lewis,
John Johnson,
Enoch Morgan,

Single Men.

Joseph Long,
John Williams,
Evan Roberts,
Eleazar Williams,
Tillman Kolb,
Griffith Edwards
Jacob Booz,
Wm. Smith,
Reese Roberts,
Robert Roberts,
Henry Selser,

John Selser,
Christian Knipe,
George Sparry,
Wm. Oman,
Samuel Singer,
Conrad Booz,
George Ganger,
Joseph Yost,
Benj. Gregory,
Ab'm Donnenhauer.

The list gives some miscellaneous information. It states
that Jesse Foulke had a " grist and saw mill," Thomas Evans
and George Snider had each " i servant," Amos Roberts had
" 9 children," so likewise had Henry Snider; Thomas Evans,
jun., " supports his mother," Barnaby Beaver had a " grist mill,"
and Matthew Lukens a " saw mill ; " William Dixey is marked
"cripple," William Ervin "aged," Christian Dull, " tavern," and
Alexander Major " 8 children."

Besides those in the list who have already been particularly
alluded to in the genealogical or other preceding chapters,
some details may be conveniently added here concerning a few-
others.

Jephthah and Enos Lewis were brothers, the sons of William
Lewis.' Their land was on the Wissahickon, between the pres-
ent stations of Acorn and Lukens, on the Stony Creek railroad.
(It forms, now, [1884] at least four farms : those of George S.
Thomas, the heirs of Zebedee Comly, John Nicom, and Job
Supplee.) Jephthah Lewis died in December, 1786. His wife's
name was Ann, and he left a daughter Mary, and a son Joseph.
The last named lived a bachelor, very saving and rather eccen-
tric, and died in February, 1828, aged 83. He was a justice of

'See details concerning him, p. 69.

TAXABLES IN GWYNEDD IN 1776. 3^'

the peace for many years, well-known in his time, and after his
death long remembered, as " 'Squire Josey " Lewis. His house
was on the Thomas farm, south-west of the creek. Among his
peculiarities was his great care of his timber land, as he was
anxious lest he should not have enough fire-wood to last him his
life -time. Much of his farm was cov^ered with woods, making a
favorite resort for the " gunners " of the country about, though the
'Squire was chary of his permission to come upon his premises,
especially after finding that somebody had " holed " a 'possum,
or perhaps a 'coon, and had cut down the tree to make sure of
the prize.' After his death the woodland was laid off in lots by
a survey made by Cadwallader Fouike, and the timber sold at
public sale. The homestead farm, 108 acres, was bought by
Joseph Williams, who sold it in 1856 to Edward Barber, and the
portion east of the creek, 10 1 acres, was bought by Jacob
Schwenk, who sold it in 1846 to Zebedee Comly.

Enos Lewis (called Eneas, in the assessor's list) owned the
land now [1884] Job Supplee's and John Nicom's. His house
is presumed to have been Job Supplee's present house. His wife,
married 1736, was Jane, daughter of Ellis Lewis, the elder, of
Upper Dublin, and their children included a son Isaac, and a
daughter Ellen. These two children inherited Enos's estate.
Ellen having married Edward Roberts (son of Robert, of Gwy-

1 The author's great uncle, Jesse Jenkins, an enthusiastic hunter and fisher, was
one who enjoyed the shooting in 'Squire Josey's woods, and was rather a favorite in
getting his permission for it. Mr. Mathews says that on the day of the 'Squire's funeral
( Feb., 1828)., " a terrible storm of snow and wind prevailed, rendering the roads almost
impassable. A few Friends and neighbors gathered early in the morning, and with great
(lifticulty conveyed his body to its last resting-place at Gwynedd. When they returned, a
much larger number had collected, and the funeral rites were celebrated in old-fashioned
style." When his personal property was sold, " an immense number of articles and
utensils were found about the premises, and the sale never had a parallel in the town-
ship. Levi Jenkins, of Montgomery, was the auctioneer, and it required five days to
dispose of the goods." His estate was valued at ^60,000, and over $1,000 in money was
found secreted about the premises. His property went to collateral heirs.

362 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

nedd), her son Enos got the present Nicom place,' by his
grandfather's will ; and the homestead was received by Isaac.
Jephthah died August 20, 1778. Isaac married Sarah Jenkins,^
daughter of John, the elder of that name (the one named above
as assessor, 1776), but died a comparatively young man (his will
dated December 30, 1792), leaving three children, Enos, Ann,
and Mary. Of these, Enos married Margaret Dewees, of Trappe,
(who survives, 1884, aged about 84), but left no issue; Ann
married Joseph Reiff, of Upper Dublin, and left five children :
Enos L., Jacob, Isaac, Sarah, and Mary ; and Mary married Israel
Bringhurst, of Trappe, and had a large family."

Rees Harry's land included the present (or recent) farms of
Hunter E. Van Leer, Thomas Layman, and T. Peterson, on the
Wissahickon, between Mumbower's mill and North Wales. Rees
Harry, here named, was the son of the Rees Harry who is named
in the freeholders' list of 1734. The latter was the son of David

' This property Enos held to his death, July 23, 1820, when it passed to his chil-
dren, Nathan, John, Edward, and Ann. Ann d. 1849 ; her brothers were quiet bachel-
ors, but Nathan, late in life, married Barbara Root, and d. i860, leaving three children.

2 Sarah, after her husband's death, kept store at Montgomery Square. Among
the 'Squire John Roberts papers is her bill for sundry supplies furnished him, in
1802-3 — candles, i s. 4>^ d. per ft) .; sugar, iij^ d.; coffee, i s. 105-2 d.; tea, i s. io}4 d.
per quarter tb ; molasses, 2 s. 9^^ d. per half gallon ; brimstone, 8 d. per ft) ; whiskey
(2 items in a pretty long bill), i s. loj^ d. per quart ; and a spelling book, a cyphering
book, an " assistant " (arithmetic), and other articles.

^ Mary Lewis, b. July 4, 1771, m. September 27, 1792, d. August 11, 1846. Their
children were seven: (i) William M., d. 1857, unm.; (2) Enos L., physician, graduate
Univ. of Penna., successful practitioner at Lawrenceville, Chester Co., d. 1863, unm.;
(3) Wright A. Bringhurst, of Trappe, member Legislature of Penna., 1835-36, d.
1876, unm., leaving estate of ^160,000, of which he left al)OUt $110,000 to Upper Provi-
dence township and Norristown and Pottstown boroughs, to be invested in dwelling
houses, and the rents used for the benefit of the poor ; (4) Israel, jr., b. 1804, acciden-
tally killed, 1816 ; (5) Anne, m. Wm. B. Hahn, M. D., d. 1880, without issue; (6)
Lewis B., M. D., graduate Univ. of Penna., d. unm., 1832, at Louisville, Ky., while on
a Southern tour; (7) Mary Matilda, m. Francis Hobson, of Limerick, and had issue
Frank M., Sarah A. ( F. M. Hobson m. Lizzie Gotwalts, and had issue : Mary M.. and
Freeland G. Hobson, Esq., of the Montgomery Co. bar).

TAXABLES IN GWYNEDD IN 1776. 363

Harry, of Plymouth, and married, 1727, Mary Price, of Haver-
ford. He (Rees, the elder) died about 1739 ! ^^^ son Rees died
1788. In the latter's will six children are mentioned : Benjamin,
John, David, Jane, Ann, Lydia. Benjamin Harry d. about 18 10.
unmarried, leaving a large estate, in which his sister Ann had a
life right. After her death, in 1822, 228 acres of it were sold to
Samuel Maulsby, who in 1833 sold to Thomas Smith. (This in-
cluded the present Van Leer farm,' and the Frank Johnson farm,
and was in part the same as Rees Harry's land of 1776.)

Isaac Kolb (now Kulp) was from Germany, and acquired (be-
tween 1759 and 1 769) the land now or recently, Julius Schlemme's
and Simon Kulp's farms, east of North Wales. He was, it is
believed, a Mennonite. His son Isaac, jr., born December,
1750, married, 1778, Rachel Johnson, and died 1828. He had
seven children : Benjamin, Elizabeth, Catharine, Mary, Jacob,
Sophia, and John. Benjamin, born August 20, 1779, died May
16, 1862, married Ellen Hoxworth, daughter of Edward and
Mary, of Hatfield, and had eight children, including Isaac, Enos,
Simon, and Oliver, and Ann, who married Asa Thomas.

Philip Heist's land lay on the hill, below North Wales, and
included the farms of J. S. Zebley and Henry Ray. Heist died
between 1776, in which year he made his will, and 1780, when
his executors conveyed half an acre of land to trustees for the
erection of St. Peter's church.

Thomas Shoemaker was the son of George, of Warrington,
Bucks county, and married Mary Ambler, daughter of Joseph,
of Montgomery. He owned the farm north-east of North
Wales, which remained many years in his family, and is now
[1884] or recently was, the property of McKee.

Wendel Fetter was a German, and bought, in 1773, the fif-

' Now the property of William M. Singerly.

364 HISTORICAL COLLECTIOXS OF GWYNEDD.

teen acre lot back of North Wales (adjoining Thomas Shoe-
maker), which Robert Roberts had left by his will, in 1760, to
his daughter Ellen.' The lot belonged from 1827 to 1852 to
Christian Godfrey Speelman, a devout German Methodist, who
sometimes held meetings in his own house, afterward to Abel
Stockdale, and later to Frank Jones.

Amos Roberts's farm included the Silas White and adjoining
properties (the old home of Robert Evans, the first settler, was
upon it).

Martin Swink's land was on the turnpike, below North Wales,
including the present farm [ 1 896] of James D. Cardell (the
home of Thomas Evans, the first settler). Swink sold it to
George Heist, in 1784.

Abram Danenhower's land was the George W. Danenhower
place near Kneedler's now [1884] occupied by Frank Myers, —
the home of William John, the first settler.^

Jacob Heisler owned the farm on the Allentown road, after-
ward the Kneedlers', including the hotel.

The Troxells owned the property at Mumbower's mill. John
Troxell sold it in 1777 to Samuel Wheeler, of Philadelphia, a
cutler, who is said to have made swords, etc., during the
Revolution.

Barnaby Beaver, who had the grist mill, owned property east
of North Wales, and his mill was that which still exists there
[1884] on the Wissahickon.

John Jenkins's land in Gwynedd was at Lansdale, and below
the township line.

Garret Clemens lived in the east corner of the township. The
old abandoned stone house on the Welsh road (township line)

' See page 204.
' Sec page 67.

TAXABLES TN GWYNEDD fIV 1776. 3<"j5

was his place of residence.' He was a religious man, a Dunker
probably, and was heavily fined, as the preceding chapter shows,
for not bearing arms. His wife was Keturah ; their daughter
Mary married Charles Hubbs, one of the sons of John Hubbs
and Jane Evans."

Christian Dull, described as having a '' tavern," began to keep
the hotel at Spring-House, in 1773, and continued there for many
years. He was reputed a hard, and perhaps a grasping man ;
traditions were long maintained of some of his close dealings.''
Even more severe things were said about him, as appears by some
advertisements in the Philadelphia newspapers. Here is one from
the Philadelphia Gazette of P"ebruary 17, 1783 :

' [This, written in 1884, now needs some correction. The old house has since
been torn down, and the stone in it used for other buildings.]

2 See Evans Genealogy, p. 161. Charles Hubbs was some time a resident at
Germantown ; he studied medicine (in a power of attorney to Amos Lewis, about
1806, he calls himself "apothecary"), afterward lived in Worcester township, re-
moved to Pipe Creek, in Western Maryland (where he was in 1807), and later to Mt.
Pleasant, Ohio. He has numerous descendants in the West. He joined the Dunkers,
and became a preacher ; and was a man of marked character. His son, John Evans
Hubbs, m. Louisa Stitcher, and had one daughter, Virginia, now of Philadelphia.
After his death Louisa m. Samuel Gillingham, of Philadelphia.

■' One story, whose date, I think must have been toward the close of Dulls life, was
to this effect : He had for an occasional customer at his bar, the village blacksmith, and
the latter had indiscreetly allowed some of his drams to be " chalked down." In time,
the landlord produced a bill, with such length of items that the smith was astonished.
It read: " To one glass of whiskey. To ditto. To ditto. To ditto. To ditto. ' on
down the sheet, and the total was of alarming figures. The blacksmith protested, es-
pecially complaining of the " ditto," alleging that he had had but a few drinks, but in
vain ; Dull was inexorable, and the bill had to stand. The blacksmith, however, waited
his chance to get even, and in time found it. The hostler's bucket had to be re-hooped,
and as the work was left to be charged against Dull, the bill was delayed for some time,
and thus brought in: " To hooping the hostler's bucket. To ditto. To ditto. To
ditto," and so on, at much length, equaling the account for drinks. The landlord now
objected, but the smith was inexorable in his turn, and as the story goes, got his ac-
count allowed as an offset to the other.

3^^ HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

North Walf.s, February ii, 1783.

WHEREAS, SOME EVIL PERSON HAS PROPAGATED
a report very injurious and hurtful to my character, I
hereby challenge such to appear in an open, bold manner,
,-md meet me on the ground of Justice, and dare them to im-
peach me with any act unbecoming a gentleman and an honest
man, which character I have ever held dear ; and I further offer
a reward of ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS to any person or per-
sons who will prove the author of a report that I was privy to
robbing a Collector — a circumstance I totally deny, either with
respect to collectors, or any person or persons ; and now charge
the author, or authors, of such scandalous reports to be lymg
calumniators, and am determined to prosecute any person who
may in future endeavor to circulate such report to my disad-
vantage. CHRISTIAN DULL.

Six years later Christian was still under the necessity of
advertising rewards for the discovery of his defamers. The
Gazette of April i, 1789, contains the following :

Montgomery CouKty, March 28, 1789.

ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS REWARD.— WHEREAS,
a false and wicked report has been contrived, and lor
some weeks past'spread through the City of Philadelphia |and
several of the Counties, charging the subscriber and his wife,
who keep the Spring-House Tavern, in Montgomery County,
with the MURDER, etc., of one or more travellers, in order
to get their property, conceiving it to be my duty, which I
owe to the community of which I am a member, to my rela-
tions, and friends, and neighbors, and particularly to a tender
wife and seven children (several of them young and helpless),
whose welfare or misery in life greatly depend upon the char-
acter which I have, and shall leave after mc, to endeavor to
brmg to light such dark and horrible Assassins of Character,
1 do hereby offer a reward of ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS to
any person who shall discover to me any legal evidence of the
contriver of said charge, or of the author or authors, of the
report, and of ONE HALF JOHANNES for any certain in-
formation whereby such discovery may be made.

CHRISTIAN DULL.

Dull lived on into the present century (his death occurred
about I 821), and Esquire John Roberts was one of the executors

TAXABLES IN GWYNEDD IN 1776. 3^V

of his estate. He left a son, Christian Dull, jr., who was a
person of education, at least, and was some time a school teacher.
From papers left by 'Squire John, however, it appears that he
(the son) was in debt, and harassed by his creditors. A letter
from him, in 1822, is written from the jail at Norristown, where
he was confined for debt. It shows good penmanship, and is
clearly expressed, as will appear :

July 28th, 1822.

Friend Roberts : — I was advised to serve my creditor with a bread
notice, but he has not come forward to pay my weekly allowance. I shall
be removed next Thursday before Judge McNeill for a clearance, which
will cost $1 to the Gaoler, one dollar for serving the notices, 35 cents turnkey
fees, and $2 for my board two weeks at 14 cents per day, making the amount
of $4.35, which I hope you will send me, or else I must let him (the Gaoler)
have my coat, which is worth $10. I cannot get away without, and the
longer I stay the more e.xpense on me. Altho' you say it is the most proper
place for me to be at, [yet] if I leave my coat, which is a good one, I will
have to have a new one this winter. I will not be allowed more than $4.35
for the coat. I have sent a receipt, which I hope will answer ; you have
not any money of mine in your hands, but will have, and then can pay
yourself. I should suppose there was no risk on your part. I am your
friend as usual, C. DULL.

P. S. If I do not get money at this time from you I will have to
have new bread notices served and [words illegible] and a dollar a week
board. I have no one to assist me unless you do.'

Martin Raker, who is named as having fifty-seven acres, lived
near where Lansdale now is, and his property is now in the
possession of Charles S. Jenkins. He was a Lutheran, and one
of the four first trustees of St. Peter's church, below North
Wales.

' As a specimen of the experience of the occupant of a debtor's prison, so late
as 1822, this letter seems worth printing in full, aside from any personal interest
it may have. Dull was no doubt enlarged at this time ; there are other papers
relating to him in the John Roberts collection, of dates 1821 and 1823.

368 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF CWYNEDD.

George Snyder (properly George Adam Snyder) was a Ger-
man, who owned the Isaac Ellis farm (now James Gillen's), on
the Upper Dublin line, with other propert^^ He got it in 1762,
of Francis Titus, and died 1792, leaving three sons: Adam,
Jacob, and John.

John Everhart owned the farm now Charles Lower's (for-
merly John Devereux's), in the lower end of the township. He
bought in 1762, of George Klippinger, of Upper Dubhn (he hav-
ing bought of Rowland Hugh, son of John, the first settler), and
sold it in 1793 to David Lukens.

XXIL

The Booiies, Lincolns, and Hanks}

THE Boones, Lincolns, and Hanks all appear on the Gwyn-
edd meeting records, though none of either name proba-
bly resided in the township in early times. George Boone, the
elder, the first of his family known to us, was from Bradwinch,
near Exeter, in Devonshire, and seems to have come over in
17 17. At any rate, the Gwynedd meeting records show this
minute, dated 31st of loth month (December), in that year :

George Boone, senior, produced a certificate of his Good Life and
Conversation from the Monthly [Meeting] att Callumpton, in Great Brit-
ain, \vh was read & well rec'd.

This Geoi-ge, the elder, died in Berks county (the Oley or
Exeter Friends' settlement), February 2, 1740, aged 78 years.
He left, it is said, "eight children, fifty -two grandchildren, ten
great-grandchildren, — in all seventy, the number that Jacob took
down to Egypt." His wife was Mary, who was born in the
same place as her husband, and died aged 72. They were both
buried in the Friends' ground at Oley.

In 1 72 1, John Rumford, who had been a member with
Friends, at Haverford, and George Boone, who had been a mem-
ber at Abington, being now settled at Oley, applied at the same
time to Gwynedd meeting, for membership. This George was
the son of the other ; he had been several years at Abington

1 [1896] I reprint this chapter without important alteration from the first edition.
Though the Lincoln family has received much attention since 1884 the additional facts
discovered do not materially modify my original statements.

370 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

(and I think, therefore, came over before his father), where he
was clerk of the monthly meeting, and a prominent and useful
man. He had married, in 171 3, Deborah Howell (b. 8th mo.
28, 1691, d. 1st mo. 26, 1759, at Oley), daughter of William and
Mary. Deborah was a preacher, and Exeter (Oley) monthly
meeting left a memorial of her. She and George had ten chil-
dren : George, Mary, Hannah, Deborah, Dinah, William, Josiah,
Jeremiah, Abigail, and Hezekiah, their births ranging from 17 14
to 1734. (The first five are recorded at Gwynedd, before the
establishment of the Oley monthly meeting.) William married
Sarah Lincoln, 1748.

Besides this son George, the elder George Boone had, as
stated above, seven other children : including Squire, who m.
Sarah Morgan, Mary, who m. John Webb, James, who m. Mary
Foulke,^ Joseph, Benjamin, and two others. Squire and Sarah
Boone had nine children (perhaps more), recorded at Oley from
1724 to 1740. Of these Daniel, the Kentucky pioneer, was the
fourth son and sixth child, and the meeting records give his
birth, 8th mo. (October) 22, 1734. I have no doubt that Squire
Boone was in Berks county with the other members of his
family, in 1720, or thereabout ; and as he bought 250 acres of
land in what is now Exeter township, in 1730, it is beyond reason-
able question that his son Daniel was born there in 1734. The
various speculations as to the place of his birth, by which it is
assigned to Bristol, Bucks county, and other places, seem to
have no good foundation.

Squire Boone was one of the trustees of the property of
Oley meeting, in 1736, showing both his substantial character
and Quaker affiliations, at that date. But he is said to have

1 For the first two of these marriages, both at Gwynedd meeting, see list, p. 114.
For the last see Foulke Genealogy, p. 213.

THE BOONES, LINCOLNS, AND HANKS. 37 1

been disowned in 1748 for countenancing the "disorderly"
marriage of his son Israel, the previous year. A little later it
was' that he removed with his family to North Carolina, settling
at Holomant ford, on the river Yadkin. From there, after
he grew to manhood, Daniel Boone went over into Kentucky, and
entered upon his famous career as the explorer and pioneer
settler of that State.*

The Lincolns were an Oley family, some of them Friends.
They intermarried repeatedly with the Boones, and were con-
nected also with the Foulkes. But they had only a slight, if
any, connection with Gwynedd, as the monthly meeting at Oley
was established soon after Mordecai Lincoln, the first of the
name in that neighborhood, arrived there. He, it is said, was

1 James Boone's family Bible says : " They left Exeter on the ist day of May,
1750."

2 Among the papers of my grandfather, Chas. F. Jenkins, I find this letter :

Washington Town, Mason County, Ken.

Respected Friend : — I expect thee art ready to conclude that I have forgot
thee being so far off, but thee may rest ashured that I have not. I often think of
the many agreeable hours we have spent in conversation and sociability, which dis-
tance now deprives us of. But no more Introduction — I proceed to give thee a little
sketch of the times. After my being disappointed in getting my land from Col.
Boon, as probably thee may have heard before now, which lay'd me under the
necessity of following my trade. Since I came to this place and after three months
paying for my board and washing, I made an acquaintance with a young woman
which after a while I married, and now I live in as much harmony with her I
flatter myself as ever man and wife did and find the matrimonial life far more
agreeable than I ever Expected to. I have told thee what I have done, I will
inform thee what I am doing. I have taken a five acre Lot to put corn in to the
shares, my share will be two-thirds of the crop, which if the season proves favor-
able I expect an Hundred and Seventy Bushels of Corn. Here is great encourage-
ment for farmers, much more than for mechanicks. I must stop wrighting for I
have no more room and paper is scarce in this town.

May loth, 1790. ABSALOM THOMAS.

A memorandum on the letter says A. T. was the first cousin of Margaret
Foulke (dau. of Theophilus, afterward wife of Cadwallader, the surveyor), to
whom the letter was addressed. " He was one of the pioneers of Kentucky, and
left Richland to seek his future under the celebrated Col. Daniel Boone."

372 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

born in Massachusetts, removed to New Jersey, bought lands
there in 1720, and again removed, before 1735, to the Oley
settlement. (His home was in Amity township.) He was
probably twice married. He died between February 23, 1735,
and June 7, 1736 (these being the dates of making and proving
his will), leaving lands in New Jersey to his son John, and to
his daughters Hannah, Mary, Ann, and Sarah ; and the home-
stead lands in Amity to his sons Mordecai and Thomas. He
also made provision for an expected child, and this, without
doubt, was Abraham Lincoln (who d. 1806, aged 70), who
married Ann Boone.' John, the eldest son, — a half brother
only of Abraham, who was by the second wife, — was the direct
ancestor of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
He, John, sold his Jersey land in 1748, and about 1750 removed
southward, going ultimately to Rockingham county, Virginia,
where he settled. His son Abraham went over into Kentucky
in 1782, but was killed there two years later, by the Indians.
He and Daniel Boone were no doubt well acquainted. Daniel
at least twice (October, 1781, and February, 1788) returned to
visit his relations in Berks county, and he would naturally
enough have passed through Virginia, and tarried with his
neighbors and kinsfolk, the Lincolns of Rockingham county.

Abraham Lincoln, who was killed in 1784, in an Indian fight
(in which his son Mordecai, a boy of 14, killed one of the
Indians), had three sons : Mordecai, Josiah, and Thomas. The
President was the son of the last named.

It will be observed that the removal of Squire Boone and
his family to North Carolina, and of the Lincolns to Virginia,
was at about the same period — 1750. There was, at that time,
an extensive emigration to the Southern States from the settle-

1 Ann was the daughter of Mary Foulke ; see page 139.

THE BOONES, LINCOLNS, AND HANKS. 373

ments in E^astern Pennsylvania. It was a very interesting move-
ment, and the history of it would be well worth following in
detail. With it, besides the Boones and Lincolns, went another
family, the Hanks, and these were more closely connected with
Gwynedd than either of the others.' The precise name of the
head of the Hank family who thus removed, is uncertain, but
Mr. David J. Lincoln, of Birdsboro', Berks county, in a letter to
me, September, 1883, thinks it was John, and says : " He lived
on the Perkiomen turnpike, six miles east of Reading, in Exeter
township, and within half a mile of Mordecai Lincoln, great-
great-grandfather of the President. This John Hank, with John
and Benjamin Lincoln, moved to Fayette county, and from
there Mr. Hank went southward."

As to a removal, first, to Fayette county, I do not know ; but,
as has already been noted (p. 208), John Hank was in Rocking-
ham county, Va., at least as early as 1787, when his daughter
Hannah married Asa Lupton. That this John was the one
'described by Mr. Lincoln is probable, or he may have been a
son of the Berks county man, for the latter was in all probability
the same John Hank who was born 17 12, the son of the White-
marsh yeoman and Sarah Evans, of Gwynedd.^

Thomas Lincoln of Kentucky married, for his first wife,
Nancy Hank. The tradition was that her family were from
Virginia. She was a tall woman, above middle height, with
black hair, little educated, but of marked character, and a mind
naturally intelligent and vigorous. Her experience in the rude
frontier life was hard. The glimpses we get of her in the biog-

' John Hanke, of Whitemarsh, m. Sarah Evans, of Gwynedd, dau. of Cad-
wallader, the immigrant. See pp. 111-154. (She, after his death, m. Thomas
Williams; see p. 118.) It was the daughter of John and Sarah, Jane Hank, who
was the wife of John Roberts, of Whitpain, and the mother of 'Squire Job Roberts.

2 See page 154.

374 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

raphies of her great son are sombre, and probably to her the
President owed that underlying element of sad thoughtfulness in
his nature, always so apparent, and so in contrast with the hum-
orous surface traits that perhaps came from his father. Nancy
Hank, I have little doubt, was a descendant of that John who
was in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1787. Her family
name was English, but her black hair we may believe she
had from the Welsh blood of her ancestress Sarah Evans, of
Gwynedd.

XXIII.

Sf. Peter s Church.

NO other settled place of worship than the Friends' meeting
existed in Gwynedd until the Revolution. Those who
were Baptists had their membership at Montgomery ; any Epis-
copalians there might have been went to St. Thomas's, at White-
marsh ; and the Schwenkfelders had their meeting in Towamen-
cin. But the body of the German residents of the township, by
the time of the Revolution, were of the Palatinate immigration
from the upper Rhine, and were either Lutherans or German
Reformed. They had within their reach the churches in Whit-
pain and Worcester. The German Reformed members went to
Boehm's Church, which was founded at least as early as 1740, or
to Wentz's Church, in Worcester ; while the Lutheran Church
of St. John's, in Whitpain, above Centre Square, dates back of
1770. In all of these the Gwynedd people were interested :
Michael Henkey (Haenge ?), George Gossinger, Adam Fleck, and
Peter Young, of Gwynedd, were of the building committee of
St. John's, in 1773, and Abram Danehower was one of the trus-
tees to whom the committee conveyed the property.

About 1772, however, a movement had begun to build a
church in Gwynedd, for the joint use of the Lutheran and Ger-
man Reformed members. In that year, Philip Heist bought of
Abraham Lukens, sen., 51 acres of land, on the northeast-
erly side of the turnpike, below North Wales, where the old
burying-ground now is. Half an acre of his land he gave for
the site of a church, and although he omitted, for some reason.

376 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

to make a deed, a building was erected on it before 1780. In
that year his executors made a deed, dated June loth, for the
ground, reciting that " the same is intended, and is hereby
granted to remain for religious purposes : that is to say, for a
church of worship already erected thereon for the use of the
High Dutch Lutheran and the High Dutch Reformed, or Pres-
byterian congregations," etc. It is said that this first building
was a small frame edifice. It stood, no doubt, on the same spot
where subsequently the large stone church of 18 17 (torn down
a few years ago, when both congregations had secured new
buildings at North Wales), was erected.

To provide even the small house of frame doubtless taxed
the resources of both congregations. It is the tradition that the
first preachers held services in the open air, on the hillside where
Heist's farm lay. This, however, could have been but tempo-
rary, for the reasons already stated, that Boehm's and Wentz's,
at no great distance, supplied sanctuaries for the Reformed, and
St. John's for the Lutherans.

The records of both congregations at St. Peter's are very
limited. No early minute books are now discoverable, and it is
even impracticable to give the names of the pastors of the Re-
formed congregation. For a list of the Lutheran pastors, notes
concerning them, and other data, I am indebted to Rev. George
Diehl Foust, who is now, 1884,' in charge. The first pastor of
whom we have knowledge (there must have been others earlier)
was Rev. Anthony Hecht. He officiated from 1787 until 1792.
In a record of the holy communion, administered July 13, 1788,
that day is called "the day of consecration," which suggests that
for some reason the church must have been used some time
before it was consecrated. In a marriage record, made October

' [1896] Mr. Foust is since deceased.

ST. PETER'S CHURCH. Z77

15, 1788, the church is spoken of as the " North Wales Congre-
gation."

The next pastor was Rev. Jacob Van Buskirk, who began
about 1793. He was born at Hackensack, N. J., February 11,
1739. It is said that he came to his death suddenly, August 5,
1800. He was about to start for his church, and was in the
act of mounting his horse, when the Master whom he served
called him. He lies buried near where stood the altar of the
church in which he officiated.*

Next was Rev. Henry Geisenhainer. The length of his
pastorate cannot be determined ; but there is a record showing
that while here he was married to Ann Maria Sherer by Rev.
F. W. Geisenhainer, pastor of New Goshenhoppen church.

Next in the list is Rev. S. P. F. Kramer, and following him
is Rev. "Whalebone," which must be Rev. C. F. Wildbahn,,
D. D., who is buried at Centre Square. After him was Rev.
J. H. Rebenach, from 1805 to 181 1. (During his pastorate
occurred the murder of Henry Weaver,^ at whose burial he offi-
ciated, and of which he made a brief record.)

Next appear the names of Revs. David and Solomon Schaef-
fer. They lived at Germantown, and must have held service
here, though it could have been only temporarily.

The next pastor was Rev. John K. Weiand, from 1812 to
1826. He was the last pastor to officiate in the old frame struc-

1 Mr. Van Buskirk owned the farm at Gwynedd station, recently the estate of
Rodolphus Kent now [1896] the property in part of Charles Roth. At his death, he
left a wife and ten children. His widow subsequently married Philip Hahn.

2 This was a famous event in the local annals. As he passed along the road,
H. W. was shot by some person concealed behind a corn shock in a field beside
it. The time was the dusk of evening, October 5, 1805, the place on the State
road, just at the turn near the Gwynedd-Montgomery line. The victim was the
son of George Weaver, the Montgomery Square hotel-keeper. A man who was
believed to have done the deed lived near by and soon after killed himself. Both
Henry Weaver and he were buried in the old St. Peter's churchyard.

378 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

ture. During his time the need of a new church was felt, for
the winds and storms of nearly forty years had seriously affected
the frail temple of worship. Rev. Mr. Foust has [1884] the
original subscription book for the building of the second church.
It is a large volume of sixty pages, and is kept very systemati-
cally. The first page, after expressing the object of the subscrip-
tion states that the managers will build the new church " as soon
as ;^3,oooare subscribed." It is dated November 8, 181 5. The
collectors were George Neavil, who collected $1,967 ; Jacob
Kneedler, who collected ;^745.5o; Conrad Shimmel, who col-
lected ;^298.50; Joseph Knipe, and Philip Lewis. Among the
subscribers were Jacob Schwenk, Philip Hurst, Joseph Knipe,
Johri Martin, Adam Fleck, Abraham Dannehower, Jacob, George,
Joseph, Adam, Samuel, and Daniel Kneedler, Christian Rex,
•Henry Hallman, and many others. When they began to build
is not recorded, but on the last page of the subscription book is
the following receipt: " Rec'd, May 27th, 18 17, of the church
wardens the sum of seventy-three dollars, being collected on the
day the corner stone was laid. John Hurst." Nor is it known
when the work was finished. The church was built of stone,
much larger than the first one. It was plastered over, and it is
said, was painted yellow ; hence it was soon called the " Yellow
Church," and in later day, " the Old Yellow Church." The inte-
rior was high, and had a high "goblet" pulpit, of old-fashioned
style, in which the preacher perched himself far above the heads
of his hearers. It also had galleries on three sides of the
building.

The next pastor was Rev. George Heilig. He began October
22, 1826, and continued until 1843, the longest pastorate in the
history of the church. During his time an organ was introduced
into the church service ; Samuel Kneedler was organist, and

ST. PETER'S CHURCH. 379

Abraham Dannehower was leader of the choir. Hitherto the
service had been all in the German language, but the necessity
of English service was now recognized, and the pastor introduced
it. For a time he officiated alternately in each language. Dur-
ing this pastorate the Sunday-school was organized, of which
some notes are given below. Mr. Heilig went from here to
Hamilton, Monroe County, Pa., and died at Catasauqua, in Sep-
tember, 1869.

The next pastor was Rev. Jacob Medtart, from 1843 to 1855.
He was unable to preach in German, and during his time the
sermon in that language was discontinued. The service has
been entirely in the English language since that time. Follow-
ing Mr. Medtart was Rev. John W. Hassler, who had charge
from 1856 to 1862, when he resigned to become chaplain in the
army. (He was, in 1884, pastor at New Holland, Pa.) From 1863
to 1867, during the trying times of the war, when political feel-
ing ran high. Rev. P. M. Rightmyer officiated. (He now, 1884,
lives in Brooklyn, N. Y.) In 1868, Rev. Ezra L. Reed, now
[1884] at Lancaster, Pa., succeeded. Mr. Reed was the last
preacher in the second church. Half a century had passed since
it had been built, and it needed repairs. The Reformed congre-
gation had decided to leave it, and to build a church of their own
in the town of North Wales, near by. The Lutheran congrega-
tion, after due discussion, resolved upon the same course. March
I, 1867, subscription books were opened, and a site having been
obtained in the borough, the corner stone of the present church
was laid June 6, 1868. The work of erection was completed the
following year, and on January i, 1870, the service of dedica-
tion was performed, Rev. J. W. Hassler preaching from Psalms
cxxvi., 4.

From the beginning, up to this time, St. Peter's Lutheran
congregation had been connected with St. John's, at Centre

38o HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Square, one pastor serving both, but in 1870 this arrangement
was dissolved, and each church has now its own pastor. Since
1870, [down to 1884] the pastors at St. Peter's have been : Rev,
Lewis G. M. Miller, 1874-75 ; Rev. Wm. H. Myers, 1876-78;
Rev. Theophilus Heilig, 1878-80; and Rev. George Diehl
Foust, who entered upon his pastorate July i, 1880.

The records, as already mentioned, are imperfect. They
show, however, lists of nearly 1,000 infant baptisms, over 100
adult baptisms, and nearly 600 confirmations. The Sunday-
school was organized early in the pastorate of Rev. Geo. Heilig,
— probably about 183 1 or '32. The first superintendent was
Noah Snyder ; after him his brother Oliver Snyder. A record
book that has been preserved shows the existence of a library
for the use of the school, in 1837, ^^id also shows that in July
of that year there were 10 teachers and 60 scholars in attend-
ance. In June, 1 840, John B. Johnson became a member of the
church, and shortly after was made superintendent of the Sunday-
school. He served in that capacity nearly thirty years, Charles
Hallman being his assistant during the last six years. The
sessions were held in the afternoon. The first open-air celebra-
tion ever held in this neighborhood was given by the Sunday-
schools of St. Peter's and St. John's. It took place in a woods
which then stood above where the Franklinville school-house
now stands, in July, 1841. Many people attended, and there
were speeches and singing. The celebrations occurred fre-
quently after that. For eight years preceding the preparation
of these pages [1884] Abel K. Shearer has been superintendent
of the school, and its present membership is about i 50.

Only a few details can be furnished concerning the Reformed
congregation that used the two old churches jointly with the
Lutherans. As has been stated, the arrangement subsisted from

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the beginning until the new churches were built, about 1869-70,
in North Wales borough, and during the hundred years it
appears to have been satisfactory to both congregations. Each
occupied the church in turn, and neither disturbed the other.

One of the pastors of the Reformed congregation was Rev.
John George Wack, who is still well remembered by the older
people. He was a picturesque figure, a man of marked char-
acter and a practical Christian. For many years he was pastor
of Boehm's and Wentz's churches, and from 1834 to 1845 he
preached regularly at St. Peter's. He had a farm and mill in
Whitpain, and labored diligently with his own hands for the
support of his family, besides preaching for at least three differ-
ent congregations during most of his life. He was a classical
scholar, wrote easily in Latin, was familiar, of course, with Ger-
man, as well as English, was very found of music, and built an
organ with his own hands. " In personal appearance he was of
medium size, and erect ; in habits orderly, frugal, and laborious.
His character for childlike simplicity and unsuspecting confi-
dence was remarkable." In 1802 he took charge of both
Wentz's and Boehm's ; in 1806 he extended his care also to the
distant church at Hilltown, Bucks county. These charges he
retained until 1828, when he surrendered Hilltown; in 1834 he
gave up Boehm's, and began to minister at St. Peter's, as already
mentioned ; in 1845, after forty -three years' ministry at Wentz's,
he closed his active service, though he preached occasionally to
the Gwynedd congregation, later.'

1 This incident, related to me on the best authority, concerns good Parson Wack,
and another most excellent and courageous man, — Dr. Antrim Foulke. Late in the
summer — about August and September — of 1829, a bad fever prevailed through Gwyn-
edd and adjoining townships. It was perhaps typhoid, was very fatal, worst along the
streams, marked by ague, etc. Near Wack's mill was a family, " very bad off," and
all down with it. The dread of fever was great, and nurses could not be had. Mr.
Wack, however, helped them devotedly, and Dr. Foulke gave them his constant medi-

382 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Mr. Wack was the son of Rev. Casper and Barbara Wack,
of Bucks county. He died in 1856, aged eighty, and is buried
at Boehm's. During his long pastorate he is said to have mar-
ried seven hundred and twenty-four couples, preached five thou-
sand times, baptised a thousand infants, and confirmed an equal
number of catechumens. His son, Rev. Charles P. Wack, is a
distinguished minister of the Reformed church ; his daughter
Abigail married Philip S. Gerhard ; his daughter Amanda mar-
ried Rev. Alfred B. Shenkle.

cal care. One day the two men stood beside the bed of a girl, one of the family, who
was desperately ill. She had no nur^p, and needed instant attention, if her life was
to be saved. " Well, George," said Dr. Foulke, " if thee will help me, we will move
her, and change her bed clothing, and her own clothing. It is simply a question of
life or death." Father Wack did not hesitate ; he was too simple and brave a Christian
for that ; the two men, alone, performed the unpleasant duty, and the sick girl, thus
helped, afterward recovered. But Dr. Foulke went home with "the fever on him,"
and said at once that he was marked for sickness. He lay for six weeks, much of the
time critically ill. His arm began to mortify, but before it had progressed, he noted the
symptom himself, and saw that his case was at a desperate turn. Sending Tom Wolf,
his faithful black man, to the woods for sassafras roots, he had them made into an enor-
mous poultice, and instantly applied. The flesh of the arm sloughed off, but, thanks
to a very strong constitution and the care of his wife, — a skillful nurse, and one of the
most devoted of wives, — he regained his health.

«

XXIV.

Social Conditions Among the Early
Settlers.

OF the social conditions existing amongst the Welsh settlers
some idea will have been formed by the reader from the
chapters already given. Rev. Joseph Mathias, for many years the
Baptist pastor at Hilltown, in a large manuscript volume which he
left behind him, has some details on this subject.' The drink of
the settlers, he sa3^s, was at first principally water. After a while,
New England rum was used, and after the orchards grew to
perfection and bore fruit, cider and whiskey^ became plenty.
Their bread was made of wheat or rye meal, ground and bolted.
Besides bread, the wheat flour was cooked in various ways.
Some made " dumplings " in pots with meat and vegetables, and
often apples were used in this way, — /. c, " in dumplings." Flour
was made into puddings, mixed with eggs and milk, etc., "and
boiled in bags, sometimes in the same pot with meat, and some-
times alone." Beef suet was used to enrich the puddings, and
they were eaten with " plenty of dip." Batter cakes were made of
flour, eggs, and milk, baked in a frying pan with lard, and skill-
fully turned by tossing. Sometimes these were used for dessert,
with sugar sprinkled on them. Usually the settlers had plent}'

1 Rev. Joseph Mathias was himself of Welsh descent, and very familiar with
all the traditions respecting the early settlers. He was born at Hilltown, 1778, and died
1851, at his home near where Chalfont now is. He was called to the ministry' in 1804,
and preached till his death.

2 He means, no doubt, spirits distilled from apple juice, — i.e., apple brand)';
this was very commonly called apple whiskey.

3^4 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

of meat, — beef, pork, and poultry, chiefly, — sometimes mutton.
" But few depended on wild meat or fowls, though occasionally
they took time to hunt and procure some."

In clearing new land, further says Mr. Mathias, the small
trees were grubbed up by a party of neighbors who joined and
made a " frolic." The large trees were girdled, and when they
fell, the logs were divided in convenient lengths by fires kindled
along them at proper distances. They had small horses, who
wore collars of straw. The harness was principally of tow cloth,
ropes, and raw hide. " There were no wagons, carts, or wheeled
carriages." " No people have ever been more united in interest,
the labor on the land being mostly performed by companies, by
way of exchange, many hands making light work of heavy jobs."
Much labor was done by the women : picking, carding, and spin-
ning of wool, swingling, hatcheling, and spinning of flax. There
were " frolics " to pull flax, gather grain, etc. In the harvest
field sometimes the workers were bitten by rattlesnakes. " I
recollect hearing that my grandmother was bitten while in the
field. There being no remedy at hand, one of her companions
sucked out the poison with his mouth, throwing off the saliva ;
and she speedily recovered."

We may study with interest, in this connection, the inven-
tory of the household goods of William John, of Gwynedd, who
died in 17 12, in the early years of the settlement. He was,
judging by the large tract which he bought, — nearly three times
the size of any other, — a rich man according to the circum-
stances of the times. The inventory in the house includes the
following articles :

I Rugg, 4 new blanketts, 7 new blanketts and one old Double coverlid,
2 ditto, I ditto, 2 single ditto, 3 ditto, i double ditto, 3 tow double
coverlids, 7 cushin cases, i side of curtains, 7 pairs sheets, 5 table cloths.

EARLY SOCIAL CONDITIONS.

385

10 napkins, 4 bolster cases and 2 pillow cases, 8 chairs, 2 tables, 2 Dutch
wheels, and 2 other spinning wheels, 6 lbs. of hatcheled flax, 6 of flaxen
yarn, 37 of course tow yarn, 4 of woolen yarn, 28 of wool, 40 yards of
linen, 2 buck-skins (appraised at 7s. 6d) ; 55 lbs. of hemp, chafing dish,
brass pans, wooden ware, pewter, 3 meal sives, earthen ware.

Alexander Edwards, sen., who died in Montgomery in the
same year (17 12), left in his will " one-half of my pewter," to
be equally divided between his daughter Martha and the children
of his daughter Margaret, and in another clause he provided :

I give my biggest Iron pot to my daughter Martha's eldest daughter
and I give my least Iron pot to my daughter Bridget's eldest daughter.

Robert John, who died in Gwynedd, in 1732, from the in-
ventory of his personal estate was probably the wealthiest citizen
of the township. The list shows several articles indicating re-
finement and even some degree of luxury. Included in it are
the follov/ing, valued as stated :

6 Cane chairs, . . .

2 Small walnut tables,
Window curtains, . .

5 doz. glass bottles, 1 .
Chyney ware, and
glasses on mantel piece

3 Brass candlesticks, . o
I Desk on a frame, . . 3

6 Leather Chairs, . . . i

4 Arm chairs i

1 Warming pan and i
looking glass,

Money scales and
weights and little bo

2 Great spinning wheels, 0.12
2 Little wheels, . . . .0.15

s,

o
10

3
15

16

9

o

16

6

d.
. o
. o
. o
. o

md 1

I

14 Flag bottom chairs, . i .
6 Candlesticks, ]

2 flesh forks, 1 • • ■ 0 •

s.

I

IS

d.
. 0

. 0

Smoothmg-box and |
heater, j ' ° '

5

. 0

Pewters, 3 .

16

. 0

4 Brass pans, 4 .

7

. 0

2 pairs scales and weights 0 .

12

. 0

5 Iron potts and pott |
hooks, j 2 •

0

. 0

I Gridiron, brander, ]
and frying pans, J
I Long frame table.

5

. 0

5 Oak chairs, . . . . i .

5

. 0

2 Lignum vits mortars, i .

5

. 0

25 yards of lincy woolcy, 2 ■

■15

. 0

' They seem to have been all empty

386 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

The quantity of furniture shown above was unusually large.
No other Gwynedd inventory of that time, that I have exam-
ined, shows so much.

The inventory of Jenkin Jenkin's personal estate, in Hatfield,
in 1745, shows much the same list as Robert John, but there
were a few different or otherwise notable articles, as follows :

/ s. d, I s. d.

4 Brass pans, . . . . 1 1 . o . o A chest with drawers, . i . 0.0

All the pewters, ...3.0.0 2 Buckskins, i . 16 . o

I Rug, I . 10 . o 5 Coarse sheets, . . . i . 0.0

Earthenware, . . . . o . 10 . o 2 Sheets, i . 0.0

Tin ware, 0.4.0 i Diaper table-cloth.

Iron pots, a kettle, and and 3 napcins, . . .0.10.0

hangers, 2 . 0.0 Brand irons, frying-pan

8 chairs, 0.16.0 and bakeston, . . . 2 . 10 . o

A table and dough Wooling yarn, ... . 6 . 0.0

trough, I . 0.0 Lining yarn, i . 12 . o

A coutch, o . 7.0

The inventory of Robert Evans, of Gwynedd, 1746, included

I feather bed and furniture, 2 chaff beds and furniture, i chaff bed
and 2 pillows, 6 lbs. worsted yarn, 5 lbs. of combed worsted, 4 yards of
lincy, lyi yards of cloth, 26 lbs. of wool, i great and 3 little wheels, a dough
trough.

Evan Evans (the preacher, who lived at Mumbower's mill),
who died in 1747, had a large number of items in his inventory
such as these :

Sundry remnants of linnen (^5 los.) ; table linnen, a piece of new
linnen, flax and tow yarn, 6yi lbs. of worsted, linnen yarn, 20 lbs. of wool>
etc., etc.

The character and number of these items indicate that they
may have been on hand as part of the product of the fulling-
mill which Evan Evans or his son Abraham had established
about 1 744. Other items in the same inventory were these :

EARLY SOCIAL CONDITIONS. 387

21 chairs, a settle, a long table, 3 " ovil " tables, sundry earthenware,
a brass kettle and other brass things, sundry pewters, sundry wooden
vessels, funnel, grater, bellows, tongs and fire shovel, a baking plate, 3
iron potts, 2 pairs of pott hangers, cheese press, dough trough, a looking-
glass.

These inventories show clearly enough the character and
extent of the household belongings in Gwynedd and adjoining
townships down to 1750. There were few dishes of any finer
ware than earthen ; brass and pewter ones were the most es-
teemed. Jenkin Jenkin had some tin-ware. The iron pots were
valued enough to be made heirlooms. The " dough-trough "
was in nearly every house. No clocks are named in any of
these inventories. The best beds were filled with feathers, but
many plain people contented themselves with a tick filled with
chaff. For cooking, the frying-pan, the chafing-dish, the grid-
iron, and the kettle were used. The " smoothing-box and heater "
mentioned in Robert John's inventory were no doubt a smooth-
ing-iron, with a cell in the heel for the insertion of a heated piece
of metal, — such as hatters and others still use. The " settle "
appears in Evan Evans's house, and he, like Robert John, had a
looking-glass. For making the bed comfortable on a cold night,
the warming-pan was already in use. Robert John's " Chyney-
ware " appears to have been unknown in other houses.

Of the simplicity of manners among the Friends we get a
glimpse in this letter, sent by Benjamin and Ann Mendenhall, of
Chester county, to Owen and Mary Roberts, of Gwynedd, solicit-
ing the latter's daughter Mary for their son Benjamin :

Concord, ye 20 of ye 6 Mo., 1716.
Beloved Friends,

Owen Roberts and Mary his wife.

Our Love is unto you, and to your son and daughter. Now this is to

let you understand that our son Benjamin had made us acquainted that he

has a kindness for your daughter Lydia, and desired our consent thereon.

388 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

and we having well considered of it and knowing nothing in our minds
against his proceeding therein, have given our consent that he may proceed
orderly, that is to have your consent, and not to proceed without it. And it
is our desire that you will give your consent, Also now, as touching his place
that we have given him for to settle on, we shall say but little at present.

Ellis Lewis knows as well of our minds and can give you as full
account of it, as we can if we were with you, but if you will be pleased to
come down, we shall be very glad to see you, or either of you, and then
you might satisfy yourselves.

Now we desire you when satisfied,' to return us an answer, in the same,
way as we have given you our minds.

No more, but our kind love to you and shall remain your Loving
friends, Benjamin and Ann Mendenhall.^

That the business thus delicately introduced, and promoted
perhaps by the settlements which Benjamin and Ann had made
for their son (which Ellis Lewis could tell all about), prospered,
we know by the records. Benjamin Mendenhall, jr., married
Lydia Roberts, at Gwynedd meeting-house, 3d mo. 9th, 17 17.

Conduct was not always so circumspect, however, with young
people about marrying. The monthly meeting records, 1723,
show a minute like this :

H J and wife produced a paper condemning their letting loose

their affections to one another before a timely permission from Parents and
Relations, — which was read & ordered to lye by ye clerk for further Tryal.^

Some other extracts from the disciplinary proceedings of the
monthly meeting may be here made :

1 718. This meeting being given to understand that J W at a

certain time hath been too much overtaken with the Excess of Strong
Liquor, he being present att this meeting Confessed the same and Con-

1 This letter, I am cautioned by my friend, Gilbert Cope, is much smoothed from
the original.

^ I do not think this means anything more than is expressed, — that the young
people engaged to marry, without getting permission.

EARLY SOCIAL CONDITIONS. 389

demned himself and the Spirit that led him thereunto, with a firm resolu-
tion to take better care for the future.

17 1 8. Reported by Gwynedd Overseers that D H lately was

too apparently seen in the Excess of Drink. [Not being present, he was
notified to appear, which subsequently he did, " confest his failures," and
promised reform.]

1725. E F brought in a paper condemning his immoderate

use of strong drink.

The following extracts from the minutes, of a much later
date, relate to the same subject :

3d mo. 29, 1763. .^— has contracted considerable debts at Tav-
erns, more than he is able to pay.

nth mo. 26, 1765. retails Hquors without license, etc.,

very contrary to the advice of Friends.

7th mo. 26, 1796. [Answer to query :] Several members dechne the
use of liquor in time of harvest.

7th mo. 25, 1797. Some members retail Hquors.

7th mo. 31, 1798. None retailing or distilling except four women,
whose husbands are not in membership.

8th mo. 26, 1800. In relation to we are of the mind that

part of the charge of assaulting his neighbors had better be expunged, and
say that he threw a glass of wine at a certain person in an angry manner,
& at the same time used unbecoming language.

In relation to marriages and burials, a tendency to what the
meeting regarded as excess was early observed.

8th mo. 26, 1725. This meeting hath had in consideration ye large
provisions in marriage and burials, wch after some discourse was referred
to next meeting.

A memorandum amongst the papers of Ellis Lewis, the
elder, of Upper Dublin, shows the following items of expense,

at the time of his funeral, in 1753 :

i s. d.

To a Windin sheete, 15 9

To Wine, Rum, Sider and other small things in cash, 2 16 11

To Digin the Greave o 10 o

390 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

The drinkables, it seems, were much the heaviest items of
expense !

The records of the Friends' meeting show that " differences "
would sometimes arise among members, but there is pleasing
evidence that the efforts to speedily end them were successful.
Here is a case in point :

171 8. Being informed of some Difference Depending between Richard
Morris and John Rees, viz : the sd John Rees has lost or mislaid his deed
wh he had of Richd Morris, on a tract of land he purchased of the said
Richard ; Now the advice of this meeting is that they, in a friendly man-
ner, Refer the matter Depending to two able judicious men. Both being
present [they] agreed to refer the same to David Lloyd and Robert Jones
of Meirion, & to stand to their Determination and final judgment.

This was a satisfactory procedure, for a few months later

Account was given that ye differences depending between Richard
Morris and John Rees was fully ended.

There was, it seems, some "difference" between Rowland
Ellis and Owen Owen. This is mentioned in the minutes several
times, and the case probably never came to a definite conclusion.
But at one meeting, in the 9th month, 1724, a committee was
appointed to "advise 'em to stand to the judgment of ye
Friends," and the papers relating to the controversy were directed
to be placed in the custody of John Humphrey, who was not to
allow them "to be shown or read to any one, or to be trans-
cribed." Two months later the papers were brought to the
meeting, "folded, sealed, and delivered to John Humphrey, to be
safely kept by him, and not unsealed without this meeting con-
sent." The whole affair then rested. Afterward, Rowland Ellis
died, and in 1741, John Humphrey being dead also, the meet-
ing ordered the papers to be destroyed.

Some further interesting glimpses of the manners of the

EARLY SOCIAL CONDITIONS. 39 1

time may be obtained from other minutes of disciplinary action
by the monthly meeting :

1730. S. E. appeared at this meeting and confess' d he had unadvis-
edly gone into bad Company at a Certain Time, and also had actual en-
gag'd in the wicked practice of playing Cards, with other Indecent things,
all which he frankly Confessed & openly Condemn'dand express'd Sorrow
on the occasion, [etc.]

1730. E. M. appeared at this meeting. Confessing his faults for In-
dulging some of his neighbours to fiddle and keep undue liberty in his
house, [etc., etc.] This meeting being sorrowfully affected with the preva-
lence of undue Liberties, such as shooting matches. Singing & Dancing,
and the like disorders, wch too many of our youths fall into, we can do no
less than recommend it to all parents, masters, mistresses, overseers, and
other faithfull friends, to Discourage and Crush the growth of such Disor-
ders as much as in 'em lies.

1742. The meeting adjudges that a man that does not pay his debts
Deprives himself of being in fellowship with us unless he surrenders his all.

1750. [The minutes state at some length that] joined

the Society by convincement, declaring he had no bye ends. He soon
married a Friend, and declared he never owned our principles.

1756. [This appears to be the first answering of the Queries. To the
1st] Meetings are attended, and the hour observed, and as for sleeping,
chewing tobacco, and taking snuff, we fear some are not so clear as
might be wished for, notwithstanding the repeated advices, [etc.]

1760. , daughter of , says she was married by

a Swede minister in Philad'a, but this meeting being doubtful of the va-
racity do appoint William Foulke and John Evans to use their endeavors
to find the certainty by enquiring of said Minister.

1 76 1. went out in marriage pretty soon after the de-
cease of her former husband, and it appearing to be her third offense of
that kind, the Meeting, [etc.]

1766. R. R., tanner, is disowned for not binding his children out,
when unable to make a living.

XXV.

Agricitlhtre, Slaves, Schools, Hotels,
Stores, etc.

OOME idea of the agricultural methods of the early settlers
*^ may be gathered from the inventories of personal property
attached to their wills. In 1 7 1 2, William John's inventory showed
his grain crops to be wheat, rye, and oats ; he had also hay ;
and these were "in the barn," showing that he, at least, had by
that time built a barn. He had 21 cattle of all sorts, 5 of the
horse kind, in addition to " i old mare with her breed in the
woods." He had " 7 stock of bees," showing attention already
given to them, and Jenkin Jenkin's inventory, 1745, includes 18
hives of bees. Owen Evans, 1723, also had bees, and his inven-
tory includes " 6 acres of new land fallow for barley."

Cider was made quite early. Robert John, 1732, had "an
apple mill and press." Jenkin Jenkin's inventory includes " 7
hogseds and 3 barrels of sider."

As to implements and tools, there were none up to 1750 but
of the simplest sort. Robert John had 3 plows, i harrow, 3
hoes, an iron bar, mauls, wedges, axes, spades, shovels, dung-
forks, pitch-forks, a broadaxe, 2 cross-cut saws, " sithes," sickles,
2 grindstones. The sickle, of course, was the implement for
reaping grain, but Jenkin Jenkin's inventory (1743) mentions " a
cradle," in connection with " a scythe and 4 siccles," showing the
use of the cradle as early as that. He had also " a cuting box."

AGRICULTURE. 393

Sheep were raised by Robert Evans, whose inventory, 1746,
showed 22 head of them, as well as 20 hogs, and Evan Evans,
the preacher, 1747, had 30 head of sheep. Robert Evans's crops
were partly in " ye barn," and he had a lot of " flax unrotted."
Jenkin Jenkin's crop items include flaxseed and buckwheat.

Of vehicles of any sort there is no mention in any of these
early inventories, except a cart. Robert John had one, and
Evan Evans had " a cart and thiller's gears ; " he had also a sled.
Those who travelled went on horseback, and in the inventories
the " riding-horse" is usually mentioned separately, and appraised
at a considerably higher price than the horses used for farm
work. It was common, also, to appraise the saddle with the
horse. That the sale of a horse was attended with some for-
mality at times is shown by a bill of sale among the papers of
Ellis Lewis, of Upper Dublin, given to him, in 1728, by John
Clark, " of Elizabethtown, in East New Jersey," for " a black
horse, branded I F on the near buttock, with a few white hairs in
ye forehead, and a few white on his hind off leg." (The price
was £1 5 s.)

Some memoranda in the little book of Samuel and Cadwal-
lader Foulke give clues to the time of agricultural operations.'
Thus :

On the 5th day of May, 1773, fell a snow of several Inches deep, & was
succeeded by the greatest crops of wheat that was known for more than 30
years.

9th of July, 1 80 1, Began Reaping. 15th do., Finished Reaping and
all our grain in the Barn.

1 2th of July, 1802, began Reaping. 17th, finished reaping, and all our
grain in the barn.

1803, May 8th, a snow of 4 or 5 inches.

' The first of these items refers to Richland ; the others mostly, if not all, to
Gwynedd. It is notable that the time given for the beginning of harvest is later
than now.

394 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

On the last day of March, 1807, was the greatest snow ever known at
that season.

On the first day of Nov'r, 1810, it began snowing, which continued 32
hours, and drifted for two days & was attended with unusual freezing.
After one moderate day it began Raining on the 8th. The loth in the even-
ing was the greatest fresh in Wissahickon that had happened for 16 years.
The sun has not shone from the 8th until the [date omitted] .

March 30, 1823, there was a snow near a foot deep, attended with the
hardest gale for 12 hours, ever known, by which thousands of cords of wood
were blown down.

1834, May 14th, 15th, and i6th, the ground was froze each morning.

Concerning the slaves in Gwynedd, the meeting records
furnish some clues. Here are a few extracts from the monthly-
meeting minutes :

4th mo. 27, 1756. [Answer of Monthly Meeting to loth Query :] We
have but very few negroes amongst us, and they we believe are tolerably
well used.

7th mo. 25, 1758. A Friend among us has sold a negro slave to another
since our last Quarter. Ouerie : is that an offence ?

1st mo. 29, 1760. [Answer to Query :] Some slaves are brought to
meeting at times.

2d mo. 26, 1760. Thomas Jones has purchased a slave, and he
appearing in this meeting in a plyable frame of mind, expressed disposi-
tion of using him well if he should live ; this meeting desires him to
adhere to the Principle of doing unto others as he would be done unto,
which will teach him how to use him in time to come.

3d mo. 30, 1 76 1. Richard Thomas has purchased a slave, and he
being in this meeting. Friends had a good opportunity to lay the inconsist-
ency of the practice before him, [etc.].

loth mo. 27. 1 76 1. Mordecai Moore sold a slave for a term of years,
but says that he has such a regard for the unity of Friends that if it was to
do again he would not do it.

loth mo., 1770. Jonathan Robeson acknowledges selling a negro
woman, who was very troublesome in his family for several years. He
never intends to do the like again.

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istmo., 1780. Miles Evans agrees to manumit his negro man. A
committee of the meeting is appointed to advise the negro with respect to
his conduct when free.

7th mo. 27, 1784. [Women's branch of the Monthly Meeting answer-
ing the query, said :] No slaves amongst us. Those set free are under the
care of the committee.

Jenkin Jenkin's inventory, 1745, shows "a .servant man"
appraised at £Z, and " a negro woman," £a,o. The former was
probably an indentured servant, and the latter a slave. Items of
the " time " of indentured servants occur in many of the inven-
tories. In Evan Evan's inventory, 1728 : "a servant lad, £1^,
and a servant maid, i yr to serve, £A,y In Robert John's, 1732 :
" The time of 5 bound servants, ^50." In Evan Evan's, 1747 :
"A servant man's time, 2 yrs, ,^io."

In 1757, as appears from an old memorandum of account,
the pay of a farm laborer, David Evans, in the employ of Ellis
Lewis, of Upper Dublin, for reaping and mowing, was 2 shillings
6 pence per day — about 53 cents. For threshing less than that
was paid. Some items in the account run thus :

s. d.

1757. 2 days Reepin, 5 o

" 4 " Mowin second grass, 10 o

" 6 " thrashin wheat, 12 o

^759- 5 " mowing grass, 12 6

" 3 " thrashin buckwheat, 40

As to schools and education, the first school-house in the
township undoubtedly was that in the lower end, mentioned by
Rowland Hugh and Robert Humphrey, 1 721, in their petition
for a road. In 1729, it appears that " Marmaduke Pardo, of
Gwynedd, schoolmaster," was married at Merion, so that G^vyn-
nedd had a teacher at least that early, if not — as is reasonable —
in 1 72 1, when the school-house was provided.'

^ Marmaduke came from Pembrokeshire, Wales, with the following quaint certifi-
cate, dated April 19, 1727: "We whose names are hereunto subscrib'd, being the

396 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Of the teachers following Marmaduke Pardo I have no
account. Samuel Evans (son of Owen and Ruth) was a teacher
" at North Wales," toward the close of the last century. A
school was kept under the oversight of the Friends, at the meet-
ing-house, at least as early as 1793. Joseph Foulke, in a manu-
script furnished the writer in 1859, recalled the following facts :

My earliest recollection of schools which I attended was at Gwynedd
meeting. There was no house for the purpose, but what was called "the
httle meeting-house ' ' was used. An old tottering man by the name of
Samuel Evans was teacher. The reading books were the Bible and Testa-
ment ; we had Dilworth's SpeUing-Book, and Dilworth's Assistant (or
Arithmetic). Grammar was a thing hardly thought of ; there was however
a small part of the speUing-book called "A New Guide to the English
Tongue," and a few of the older pupils learned portions of this, by rote,
and would occasionally recite to the master, but the substance appeared to
be equally obscure both to master and scholar.

My next schooHng was in 1795, in the house late the property of
WilHam Buzby, on the Bethlehem road, above the Spring-House. It was a
kind of family school, taught by Hannah Lukehs. (Here Dr. Walton, of
Stroudsburg, laid the foundation of his education.) I next went to Joshua
Foulke, my father's elder brother, and an old man. He taught in a log
school-house, near the 18-mile stone on the Bethlehem road. My father,
with the help of his neighbors, built this house [about 1798], on a lot set
apart for the purpose at the southern extremity of his premises. This log
school-house stood about thirty years, and besides Joshua Foulke, we had
for teachers William Coggins, Hannah Foulke, Benjamin Albertson, Hugh
Foulke (my brother), John Chamberlain, Christian Dull, Daniel Price, and

Curate and others of the inhabitants of the parish of St. David's, do hereby certify
whom it may concern that ye bearer hereof, Marmaduke Pardo, of the Citty of St.
David's, and county of Pembrock, hath to ye utmost of our knowledge & all appear-
ance liv'd a very sober and pious life, demeaninghimself according to ye Strictest Rules
of his profession, viz., wt what we call Quakerism, & yt he hath for these several years
past took upon himself ye keeping of a private school in this citty, in which station he
acquitted himself with ye common applause, and to ye general satisfaction of all of us
who have committed our children to his care and tuition," etc. [Signed by Richard
Roberts, curate, and about 25 others.]

SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION. 397

Samuel Jones. (I have probably not named all, or given them in the
order in which they came).

The Free School of Montgomery, however, was more popular. The
salary paid there, $i6o a year, secured more competent teachers than
other schools in the neighborhood. I can remember when the teacher's
pay was from a dollar to ten shillings per quarter for each scholar, and he
obtained his board by going about from house to house among his em-
ployers, and it was a remark that people would trust a teacher tp instruct
their children to whom they would not lend a horse !

Many interesting data ought to be available concerning this
" Free School at Montgomery." It was maintained for many
years, and the old house yet stands, and is used for school pur-
poses. Here William Collom, an accomplished teacher, taught
about 1820. Benjamin F. Hancock was teacher there, when his
son, the General, was born. Among the scholars at one time,
were Samuel Aaron, Samuel Medary, and Lewds Jones, and a
flourishing debating society was maintained about William Col-
lom's time.

George I. Evans of Emerson, Ohio, says of his father, Jona-
than Evans : " He taught school for two years, perhaps, near
Everard Foulke's, about half a mile east of Bunker's Hill, and
1 1^ miles from Quakertown ; after that he moved to Gwynedd and
taught school there. I think he moved to Sandy Hill [Whit-
pain] in 1 8 16 or '17, and remained there until after 1824. He
also taught in Worcester, and in 1826 and 1827 he taught at the
end of Uncle John Ambler's lane, in an old log house on Cap-
tain Baker's place. I think he got as low as $6 a month for
teaching."

The public schools of Gwynedd township date their histor}'
from the year 1840. In 1834, during the administration of
Governor Wolf, the first common school law passed the Legisla-
ture. It left the school districts the option of acceptance or re-

398 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

jection by a vote of the school directors, who were elected by
the people. This law was objected to as needlessly elaborate,
and in various respects unsuitable for the circumstances of the
people. However fair or otherwise this charge may have been,
comparatively few schools were organized under it, in any part
of the State. In 1835 its repeal was nearly carried through
the Legislature. The Senate passed the repealing act by a de-
cisive vote, but in the House, Thaddeus Stevens led the opposi-
tion, and by his passionate eloquence and persistent earnestness,
secured a majority in the negative.^ The next year, in Governor
Ritner's administration, the law was amended, and with this
change the friends of public schools began their work in earnest.

In 1834, the Gwynedd Board of Directors were Peter Hoot,
Thomas Shoemaker, Solomon Kriebel, Jesse Spencer, William
Buzby, and Charles F. Jenkins. On the vote for accepting or
rejecting the State system, the members were unanimous in the
negative.

In 1835 and 1836 the votes of the directors were to the same
effect. But in 1837, under the provisions of the amended law
of '36, the people voted on the question of adoption, at the
township election, in March. For three years the opposition
was successful, the votes being as follows :

1837, March — , for Adoption, 23 ; for Rejection, 100.

1838, " 16, " " 73 ; " " 128.

1839, " 15, " " 46; " " 125.

The contest of 1838 was a warm one, and while the friends
of the schools showed a great increase of strength, their decisive
defeat evidently discouraged them for the next year. But a very
persuasive element had now entered into the case. The State

* This was the time of Stevens's greatest service in behalf of pubhc education.
See, for some account of the scene in the House, Armor's Lives of the Governors of
Pennsylvania.

SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION. 399

appropriations to the school district were piling up. They had
begun in 1835, under the Act of '34. By special acts and reso-
lutions passed from year to year by the Legislature, it had been
provided that such appropriations should still be open to the ac-
ceptance of the districts, up to a date in the future, — this date
being in each act moved a year ahead. And in 1837 there had
come from the national treasury to that of the State that large
sum (nearly three millions of dollars) which was Pennsylvania's
share of the Surplus distributed under the Act of Congress of
1836. This money was largely applied to the public schools,'
and the effect it had on the Gwynedd appropriation will be seen
by the following statement :

State Appropriations to Gwynedd School District :

For year beginning June, 1835 5 83.37

1836 228.27

" " " " 1837 799-80

" 1838 353-00

1839 326.00

When the vote came to be taken, once more, at the township
election in March, 1840, there was, therefore, nearly eighteen
hundred dollars to the credit of the school district, and open to
its use in the event of a vote for accepting the system, but to be
covered into the general fund of the State, in the event of a fresh
rejection. With this aid, the friends of the schools triumphed.
On March 20th of that year, the vote stood :

For Acceptance, 86 ; for Rejection, 80.
The Directors in 1840 were Charles Greger, John Boileau,
John Jenkins, Samuel Linton, Samuel B. Davis, Charles F.

1 The enormous influence exercised by this large expenditure, under the practical
and effective amendments of 1836, can hardly be overestimated. The school system
of Pennsylvania sprang at once mto vigorous life. Within three years, the permanent
State appropriation rose from ^75,000 to ^00,000 ; and whereas there were but 762
public schools open at the end of 1835, there were, only three years later, no less
than 5,000.

400 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Jenkins. The adoption of the system made necessary the laying
of a tax, and this was fixed at ^228.26. The following statement
shows, the district's share of the State appropriation, and its
amount of tax, from 1 840 to 1 845 inclusive :

1840. State Appropriation, $326 ; Tax, $228.26

1841. " " 326 ; " 225.42

1842. " " 410; " 320.65

1843. " " 410; " 266.83

1844. " " 245 ; " 296.87

1845. " " 192 ; " 301.80

The report of the State Superintendent for 1 844 showed the
progress which Gwynedd had by that time made. There were
4 schools, 4 teachers (all males) ; 255 male and 197 female pu-
pils. The average compensation of teachers per month was ^20.
The schools were open 9 months in the year. 13 pupils were
instructed in the German language. It is interesting to note that
in that year, 19 townships of the county, a majority of the whole
number, still rejected the State system. Gwynedd and Mont-
gomery were the only two in this section accepting ; Hatfield,
Horsham, Towamencin, Worcester, Whitpain, and Upper Dub-
lin were among those which had so far refused.

The four schools open, in 1844, were the " upper eight-
square," on the AUentown road ; one on the Sumneytown road
opposite Frederick Beaver's ; one at Gwynedd meeting-house,
partly supported by the meeting fund ; one at the " lower eight-
square," on the turnpike below Spring-House. The two " eight-
square " were actually octagonal in shape, a plan then thought
to be a very good one. *

The first hotel in the township was no doubt that of Thomas
Evans, on what is now the turnpike, a mile below Acuff's.
On which side of the road it stood may be somewhat uncertain,
but probably on the south-west side, where there used to be

HOTELS AND STORES. 40'

traces of an old building, a well, etc. Rowland Roberts's hotel,
in Montgomery, must have been on the Bethlehem road, below
Montgomery Square. It exi.sted in 1 749, as we know by his
will. The hotel at Spring-House was established about 1763,
probably by Martin Shoemaker, who came from Lower Salford.
Christian Dull bought this property of Philip Bahl, and contin-
ued to keep it for many years, probably until his death in 1820.
He was the landlord when Alexander Wilson, afterward the
famous ornithologist, stayed over night there in his pedestrian
tour to Niagara Falls, in October, 1804, and "wrote up" the
place in a not particularly complimentary manner.'

Another hotel was established at Spring-House in the house
across the road, owned by the Scarletts ; this was in the build-
ing now occupied as a store by Isaac Hallowell. For many
years there were two, until the railroad cut off the stream of the
market-folks whom Wilson encountered, and one became quite
sufficient for public accommodation.

Before buying the Maris property, by the meeting-house,
and establishing his hotel there, David Acuff kept tavern at
Spring-House (perhaps in the Scarlett building) for a number of
years, I have seen his licenses for years from 181 1 to 18 16.

' Wilson's poem, " The Foresters," describing his trip, says :
Mile after mile passed unperceived away.
Till in the west the day began to close,
And Spring-House tavern furnished us repose.
Here two long rows of market folks were seen,
Ranged front to front, the table placed between.
Where bags of meat, and bones, and crusts of bread.
And hunks of bacon all around were spread ;
One pint of beer from lip to lip went 'round.
And scarce a bone the hungry house-dog found ;
Torrents of Dutch from every quarter came.
Pigs, calves, and sour-kraut the important theme ;
While we, on future plans revolvmg deep,
Discharged our bill, and straight retired to sleep.

402 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

He bought the Maris property of Jesse J. Maris, in 1818, and at
the August Term, 18 19, petitioned the court for a license. This,
however, was not granted him until 1827. The petition of 18 19
recites that his place is " where the great road leading from
Doylestown to Plymouth Meeting crosses the great road leading
from Philadelphia to Kutztown," and that there are no hotels
between Spring-House and George Heist's, on the latter road,
or "between Montgomery Square and Pigeontown " (Blue Bell)
on the other.

The tavern at Kneedler's was long known as Heisler's.
(Reading Howell's map, 1792, shows it by that name, — though
mis-spelled Heister's.) When it was established is not certain.
In 1776, Jacob Heisler had 147 acres of land, according to the
assessor's list, but he is not marked as having a tavern. Henry
Kneedler, who had married his granddaughter, Margaret Heis-
ler (daughter of Jacob, jun.), acquired the property in 1840, and
the hotel was long kept by his son, Jacob Heisler Kneedler.

George Heist's tavern, on the turnpike, below the old St.
Peter's churchyard, was a famous place in its time. The large
buildings, now used for a dwelling (Cardell's), were put up to
accommodate the public, and there used to be large stone sheds
and stabling, which were torn down during the ownership of
Silas H. Land, in the '60s.

As has been already stated, the central part of the present
store-building and residence of Walter H. Jenkins was a hotel
during the Revolution. Jesse Evans, the tailor, when he sold
most of his property to George Maris,' in 1755, retained this,
(now W. H. J.'s), but as he became insolvent, the sheriff sold it
for him, in November, 1 764, to Jacob Wentz, of Worcester. He,

1 See Jesse Evans, p. 173. It is there stated that when he sold to Geo. Maris, the
W. H. Jenkins lot was included, but this is an error. In the garden behind the wagon-
house there is an old well, and beside it, in Jesse Evans's time, stood a log house.

HOTELS AND STORES. 403

in 1769, built the middle part of tlie house, and rented it out for
a tavern. Who was the landlord is not known. (J wen I'"erris,
" of Towamencin, gentleman," bought the j)roperty of Went/,,
in 1778, and in 1782 sold it to John Martin, who in 1794 sold to
Edward Jenkins. The last named built the present store end of
the building, and kept store there until his death in 1829, when
the property descended to his son, Charles F. Jenkins.

Earlier than Edward Jenkins's store at this place was that of
Owen Evans, in the Meredith house. (He calls himself " store-
keeper " in a deed to his son Samuel.) This store Samuel Evans
probably continued ; in his deed for tlie sale of 88 '/^ acres' to
Amos Roberts, in 1765, he calls himself" store-keeper," also.^

'Squire John Roberts was doubtless the most important
merchant in Gwynedd, for many years. His store was at the
Spring-House, a particularly good place for business in the old
times. He began there soon after the close of the Revolution,
some of his accounts that I have seen being of so early a date as
1786. His papers show that he dealt largely in flaxseed and
linen, buying the former of the farmers and exporting it, from
Philadelphia, to the Irish ports, — Belfast, Dublin, Newry, and
Cork. In return he received the linens. His operations were
sometimes directly with the Irish commission houses, but more
frequently he conducted them through Caleb and Owen Foulke.
of Philadelphia. The shipments each way were quite large :
whether they were ultimately at a profit to John ma)' be doubted.
Months were required for returns, each way, and the various
charges for insurance, freight, storage, commissions, etc., were
about 30 per cent, of the prices realized on the flaxseed.^^ John

* The Meredith place ; now Est. of J. Lukens.

* He IS the same mentioned previously in this chapter as a school teacher, in 1793.
'An " account sales " of William and Samuel Hanna, of Xewrv, 30th July, 1787,

shows the sales " in course of the season," of 107 hogsheads of flaxseed, for ^310 7s.
■zVlA. ; on which the various charges, under ten different headings, were ^84 4s. id.

404 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

closed his business at the Spring-House, in 1794, by selling out
to John Hubbs, for whom his brother-in-law, Amos Lewis, of
Upper Dublin, became security. John Hubbs did not prove to
be a successful store-keeper, and did not long continue.

The first grist-mill in the township was doubtless that on the
Wissahickon, at Penllyn, built by William Foulke. Its date of
erection is uncertain, but it was some years before the Revolu-
tion. Pretty nearly contemporary with it, but rather later, was
the mill north of North Wales, formerly John L. Heist's. In the
1776 list it is entered as Barnaby Beaver's.

At Mumbower's, there was a saw and fulling-mill set up
about 1 744. In that year Evan Evans conveyed 29 acres to his
son Abraham Evans, including a strip 2 perches wide and 98
long, " for the purpose of digging a race to lead the water to a
saw and fulling mill."

According to Gordon's Gazetteer, there were in Gwynedd, in
1832, two grist-mills and three saw-mills. (There were returned
to the assessor 307 houses, and 776 cattle.)

The construction of the turnpike from Spring-House upward
by Montgomery Square was set on foot in 18 13, a charter having
been granted by the Legislature, and approved by the Governor,
on January 16 of that year. The name of the corporation, " The
Spring-House, Northampton Town and Bethlehem Turnpike
Company," showed the ambitious design which was entertained,
and which, compared with the actual progress of the work, was
altogether too large for the means at command. The commis-
sioners named in the charter were William Tilghman and Peter
Kneplay, of Philadelphia ; John Roberts, Evan Jones, Silas
Hough, and John Weaver, of Montgomery township ; Samuel
Sellers, Andrew Schlicher, and William Green, of Bucks county ;
James Greenleaf, Abraham Rinker, Jacob Hartzel, and Peter

TURNPIKF: BUrLPfNG. 405

Wint, of Lehigh county ; and George Huber and (Jvven Rice,
of Northampton county.

The road was to begin at Spring-House, and go by Mont-
gomery Square, Trewig's tavern, Sellers' tavern, Swamp Meet-
ing-House [Quakertown], to Fry's tavern, and from there to the
borough of Northampton,' in Lehigh county, " with a conveni-
ent section to the town of Bethlehem." The roadway was not
to be less than 50 nor more than 60 feet wide, of which at least
21 feet was to be made an artificial road, " bedded with wood,
stone, gravel, or any other hard substance, well compacted to-
gether, and of sufficient depth to secure a solid foundation to the
the same ; and the said road shall be faced with gravel or stone
pounded, or other small hard substance, in such manner as to
secure a firm, and as near as the materials will admit, an even
surface," etc., etc.

The stockholders organized by a meeting " at the public-
house of Philip Shellenberger," May 24, 18 13, electing Evan
Jones, President ; George Weaver, Treasurer ; and Owen Rice,
Hugh Foulke, Edward Ambler, John Roberts, Benjamin Rosen-
berger, Thomas Lester, James Wilson, John Gordon, Henry
Leidy, John Todd, Benjamin Foulke, and Isaac Morris, managers.

The managers met first, August 23, 18 13, at John Weaver's
hotel, and elected Cadwallader Foulke and John Houston sur-
veyors. Next day they met at David Acuff's hotel, Spring-
House, and remained for further meetings on the two following
days. There was some controversy over the route. One
proposition, negatived by a vote of 6 to 3, was to run "in a
straight line from Spring-House to George Weaver's ; " another
(yeas 4, nays 8), that it " be carried along the North Wales road
until where the [Treweryn] creek intersects the same, from thence

' The present borough of Allentown.

4o6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

through the lands of Messrs. Foulke, Sheive, and Evans, in an
oblique direction to the Swedes' Ford road, thence along it to
George Weaver's." Some other propositions were made, and
finally, 9 to 3, the road as now located was fixed on.

The subsequent construction of the road was very slow. It
never got to " Northampton Town," or even to Quakertown,
but stopped at Hilltown, and the corporate title was changed
finally to the Spring-House and Hilltown Turnpike Company.
The State granted aid to a considerable amount : by an act in
1 8 16, the Governor was authorized to subscribe to 200 shares of
stock ($10,000) ; by another, in 1821, he was required to sub-
scribe for 300 shares more; in 1824, he was directed to pay
Patrick Logan, a contractor who had been at work on the road,
$1,593, a balance due him, and the balance due under the Act of
1 8 16 (and a supplement, 18 17), stated to be $7,157, when the
road was completed to Trewig's tavern. In 1833, an act of the
Legislature recited that " owing to the embarrassed situation of
their funds," the Company had no prospect of complying with
the conditions of the Act of 1821, and the Governor was ordered
to pay the whole $i 5,000 State aid, as soon as they should com-
plete not less than 2^/^ miles more road.

The turnpike from Spring-House to Sumneytown,' 17 miles,
was made in 1847-48. A general meeting to organize the com-

1 Sumneytown is a village directly " up country " (n. w.) in Marlborough town-
ship. This road was the route of travel for the people of a large section of country to
the markets in Philadelphia, and until the construction of the railroad, hundreds of
wagons, — two, four, and six-horse teams, — passed each week through Gwynedd on
their way to and from the city. Flour from the mills on Perkiomen, farm produce of
all kinds, linseed oil, and blasting powder, formed their main freightage. It was usual
for many of these to go down on Monday and Thursday afternoons, reaching the city in
time for the Tuesday and Friday markets, completing their sales, and returning on
Wednesday and Saturday. It formed an extensive traffic, and the hotels along the
road were busy places on the days when the " hucksters," mill-teams, hay-teams, and
market farmers passed up or down. But after 1856, the railroad having been completed,
this was broken up.

TURNPIKE IWILDING. 407

pany was held at Jonas Boorse's hotel, in Lower Salford, May
20, 1847, aiicl Charles F. Jenkins was elected president, Isaac W.
VVampole treasurer, and ICllis Cleaver, Henry Kneedler, Seth
Lukens, Jonas Boorse, Jonas C. Godshalk, Solomon Artman,
Nathaniel Jacoby, and George Snyder managers. The Presi-
dent and comniittees of the managers, with Jacob Pruner, jr., as
surveyor, located the route (varying very little from the bed of
the old road), starting from the Spring-House on May 27th, and
reaching " the upper end of Sumneytown on the morning of
June 3d." This work fixed the width of the road (50 feet), and
its angles ; subsequently Lawrence E. Corson, of Norri.stown,
fixed the grades. The road was divided into half-mile sections,
for construction. All bridges with a span of over six feet were to
be separately contracted for. The first nine sections, from Spring-
House upward, were contracted for by Robert Scarlett and David
Acuff, at $2,700 each ; two more, above, were taken by John
Boileau, at ;$2,6oo each, — this covering all of the road in Gwynedd.'
The bridge over the run at Spring-House, and that over P2vans
run (between Gwynedd m. h. and North Wales), were built
by Robert Scarlett, and he also raised the walls of the bridge
over Trev/eryn. The work of construction was so far ad\-anced
that the lower nine miles were inspected by the Governor's com-
mittee in June, 1848, and the remainder in September,^ and upon
favorable report, the Governor issued his certificate, September
8, 1848, authorizing the erecting of toll-gates and the collection
of tolls.

Charles Y. Jenkins, to whose energy the rapid construction
of this important work was largely due, continued to be the

1 In consideration of the relief of the township in its road supervision, Gwynedd
subscribed fo.ooc to the capital stock of the company.

2 John E. Gross, John Shearer, and John S. Missimer were the Governor's com-
mittee.

408 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

president of the company until January, 1859, when he resigned,
and Algernon S. Jenkins was elected, continuing to his death,
July 9, 1890.

Besides the details given in Chapter XVI. about the early
roads, some other facts concerning the highways may be noted.
In 1722, the monthly meeting records that several Friends were
" under streight for want of a convenient road to ye meeting-
house." In 1749, the meeting paid Richard Jacobs ;^ I i6s. "for
laying out a road from New Providence meeting-house to Gwyn-
edd meeting-house " — a curious sharing of the functions of the
Court !

There was formerly an old road up by Jacob B. Bowman's
house, leaving the Swedes' Ford road by the corner of the woods
recently cleared off, and entering the Lansdale road up by J.
Schlemme's. This was a " private road," 24 feet wide, laid out
by order of the Court, in 1758. It started from the township
line, about where Lansdale is, and came by lands (among others)
of George Howell, Thomas Shoemaker, Robert Roberts, John
Thompson, Hugh Evans, and Jesse Evans, " into Montgomery
road." Its length was 3^ miles, 33 perches.

" John Humphrey's bridge," mentioned in the Welsh Road
proceedings of 1709, was unquestionably the first bridge in the
township, and it seems to have been a well-known landmark.
The bridge over the Treweryn, on the turnpike, a mile above
Spring-House, is an important one. Before it was built the
stream had to be forded, and Henry Jones says his mother told
him she got through with difficulty when it was swollen by a
freshet. The bridge over Wissahickon, near Kneedler's, was
built in 1 8 19. That on the State Road, over the Wissahickon,
was built by the county, in 1833. William Hamill, S. E. Leach,
and Benjamin B. Yost were the county commissioners. Samuel

THE OLD BRIDGES. 409

Houpt was the contractor for building, and was paid ;g2,557.30.
This probably included the materials, except sand, for which
^189 was paid, as appears by the county account, published in
January, 1834.

The bridge over the Wissahickon, on the Plymouth road, at
the mouth of Treweryn, was built in 1839, by the county, John
Schaffer, Abel Thomas, and Silas Yerkes being in that year the
county commissioners. I have seen among Franklin Foulke's
papers duplicates of three of the contracts made for its erection.
In one, Henry H. Rile contracted " to find the stone for bridge
or quarry leave, for which said quarry leave the commissioners
doth agree to pay to the said Rile the sum of 1 2^4 cents per
perch, to be measured in the wall, after the completion of said
bridge, the rim stone excepted." In another, Rile contracted
" to furnish sufficient boarding and lodging for all the labourers
that is employed to work at said bridge, except those that wish
to board themselves, for the sum of 1 5 cents per meal ; the
commissioners is not to pay the board for any of the labourers
when they are not at work at said bridge." In the third, Col-
lom Clime and Charles Cox contracted " to furnish lime of the
best quality sufficient to build said bridge, for which said lime
said commissioners doth agree to pay 13^ cents per bushel,"
measured at the bridge, if required.

The " State Road " was laid out by commissioners, under an
Act of General Assembly of 1830. It was, however, only a
fragmentary construction, so far as the route through Gwynedd
was concerned. The old road-beds were in part used, and new
pieces were made, of which the most important was that from
the intersection of the Plymouth road, below Acuff's, down to
the Wissahickon and up the hill to the Whitpain township line, at
or near which the bed of the old Swedes' Ford road was reached.

XXVI.

Genealogical Details Concerning Early
Families.

MORGAN.

The first settler in Gwynedd or its vicinity, named Morgan,
was Edward. He seems to have been here as early as 1704, as
the road upward through Gwynedd, made in that year, was to go
as far as his place. He was a tailor by trade, a Welshman by
birth, no doubt, and was probably advanced in years when he
came. He had lived, previously, near Philadelphia. In Feb-
ruary, 1708, he bought 300 acres of land in what is now Towa-
mencin, of Griffith Jones, merchant, Philadelphia. The tract lay
along William John's land, and was therefore on the township
line. In 17 14 he bought 500 acres more, near by, of George
Claypoole, of Philadelphia, who, like Griffith Jones, was a spec-
ulative holder of the Towamencin lands. By 17 13 he had ap-
parently moved to Montgomery ; in the deed from Claypoole he
is described as "yeoman, of Montgomery."

Edward Morgan no doubt had several children. His sons
probably received and held his Towamencin lands. In the list
of 1734, for that township, there appear: Joseph Morgan, 200
acres ; Daniel Morgan, 200 ; John Morgan, 100. In 1727, Mor-
gan Morgan, of Towamencin, died, leaving a will, in which he
mentions his wife Dorothy, his brothers Joseph, John, and Wil-
liam, his two sons Edward and Jesse (both minors), and his
niece Elizabeth, John's daughter.

EARL Y FAMILIES. 4 1 1

In the marriage lists previously given will be found the fol-
lowing marriages of probable sons and daughters of Edward
Morgan :

1 710. Elizabeth Morgan m. Cadwallader Morris.

1 71 3. Margaret Morgan m. Samuel Thomas.

1 7 13. William Morgan m. Elizabeth Roberts.

1 72 1. John Morgan m. Sarah Lloyd.

1 7 18. Daniel Morgan m. Elizabeth Roberts.

1720. Sarah Morgan m. Squire Boone.

1728. Joseph Morgan m. EHzabeth Lloyd.

1 73 1. WilHam Morgan, widower, m. Cath. Robeson.

That all these were children of the first Edward Morgan is
not certain, but probable. (Several of them are designated as
son, or daughter, "of Edward," as will be seen by reference to
the list).

Daniel Morgan, named above, who m. Elizabeth Roberts, was
a minister among the Friends. He d. 7th mo. 6, 1773, having had
a stroke of paralysis some time before. A memorial concerning
him says he was born in the district of Moyamensing (Philadel-
phia) in 1691, but that " while still young his parents removed to
Gwynedd, then just being settled." His wife was also a preacher ;
her memorial says she was born in Wales, came over while
young, appeared in the ministry after her marriage, went to Eng-
land, in 1743, on a religious visit, in company with Susanna
Morris, and remained two years, visiting most of the meetings
in Great Britain. In her old age she was injured by a fall from
her horse. Shed, iith mo. 14th, 1777, in her 88th year. (Her
children, Benjamin and Ruth, are named in the Roberts Gene-
alogy.)

CLEAVER.

The Cleaver Family of Gwynedd and Montgomery are the
descendants of Peter Klever, one of the early German settlers at

412 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Germantown. He was, no doubt, one of the company that in-
cluded the Shoemakers, the Lukenses, the Conrads, and others of
the Quaker immigrants, who came from the lower Rhine, after
the arrival of Pastorius and the earliest of the settlers. He is
on the record as having been naturalized, as of Germantown, in
1 69 1, and he died in Bristol (adjoining Germantown) in 1727,
leaving children : Isaac, John, Peter, jr., Derrick, and Agnes,
besides two married daughters, Christiana Melchior and Eve
Adams. Isaac, the eldest son, had land in Cheltenham, and
probably removed there ; John received his father's place in
Bristol township, and had a family, including Elizabeth, Peter,
William, Sarah, John, and Hannah ; while Peter Cleaver, jr., re-
moved to Upper Dublin, and was there before 1734, as he is
returned in the list of that year as the owner of 100 acres of
land.

This Peter Cleaver, jun., of Upper Dublin, is frequently men-
tioned as a road juror, etc. His wife's name was Elizabeth. He
died in 1776, and mentions in his will his sons John, Isaac,
Ezekiel, Peter, and Nathan, and his daughter Elizabeth. The
last married John Roberts, son of John, of Whitpain ; while her
brother Nathan married Ruth Roberts, a daughter of John, and
removed to Montgomery, where he bought 137 acres which
had been part of the Isaac Jones property, in the extreme lower
end of the township. His children were : Phoebe, who m. Aiiios
Griffith ; David, Jonathan, who m. Ann Jones ; Nathan, jr., who
m. Martha Shoemaker ; Salathiel, who m. Mary Shoemaker.
(Of these sons Jonathan had one son, Elias, who m. Anne Acuff;
Nathan had three children : David, Jesse, Rebecca ; and Sala-
thiel had six children : Lydia, Nathan, Josiah, Daniel, Silas, John).

Ezekiel Cleaver, named above (son of Peter, of Upper Dub-
lin), m. Mary Lewis, dau. of Ellis Lewis, 2d, and his wife Mary.

EARLY FAMILIES. 413

From this couple are descended another branch of the family,
including Ezekiel, Solomon, and Ellis, all formerly well-known
residents of Gwynedd, now deceased.

JONES — LEWIS.

John Jones, carpenter, of Montgomery, came into the town-
ship from Merion, about 17 10. He married at Gwynedd meet-
ing-house, 4th mo. 9, 17 1 3, Jane Edward, daughter of Edward
Griffith. Both were valued members of the Society of fViends,
and there are memorials of them by Gwynedd Monthly Meeting,
— that of Jane Jones in the printed collection of 1787, and that
of her husband unpublished. John Jones was a prominent, ac-
tive, and valuable citizen, in his day. He owned a large property,
including what in modern times has been two farms, lying in
Montgomery, above the State road, along the Gwynedd line.
His home was on the upper farm (formerly belonging to Edwin
Moore), and part of the house is said to have been built by him
with bricks which he made on the premises.

This John Jones was the son of Rees John William, repeat-
edly mentioned in this volume, and particularly described in the
foot-note, p. 96. The record of Rees John's children, from Hav-
erford m. m., shows that his son John was born 4th mo. 6, 1688.
He was therefore 22 when he came to Montgomery, and 25 w^hen
he was married. His children were : Hannah, who m. William
Foulke ; Catharine, d. in infancy ; Margaret, b. 17 17, d. 1745 ;
Priscilla, b. 1719, d. 1742, m. Evan Jones, of Merion ; Evaii (see
below) ; Jesse (see below) ; Katharine, b. 1726, d. 1741 ; Jane,
b. 1728, d. 1806 ; Benjamin, d. in childhood ; Ruth, d. in infancy.
John Jones, carpenter, the father, d. 1 2th mo. 30, 1 774 ; his wife,
Jane, had d. 5th mo. 14, 1757.

Jesse, the son named above, probably removed to Bucking-
ham. His wife's name was Mary. Their son Isaiah m., 1798,

414 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Elizabeth Watson, dau. of Thomas and Sarah, by whom he had
three children : Ezra, Sarah, and Elizabeth ; and he appears to
have married a second time, his wife being Elizabeth, daughter
of Thomas Wilson, by whom he had one son, Wilson. There
are probably no male descendants of Jesse Jones now living.

Evan Jones ^ of Montgomery, inherited his father's estate.
He was b. 12th mo. 26, 1720, and d. 8th mo. 31, 1801. He m.,
1766, Hannah Lawrence, dau. of Henry, of Haverford, dec'd.
Their children included : John, d. unm. ; Henry (see below) ;
Hannah, d. unm. ; Evan (see below). Hannah, widow of Evan,
sr., d. 1825.

Henry Jones, named above, m. Jane Lewis, 1805, dau. of
Amos and Eleanor, of Upper Dublin. He d. comparatively a
young man, — loth mo. 19, 18 13. He left four children : Lewis,
Clement, John L., and Henry. (Henry is the only one of these
now living, and the only male representative of the family of
John Jones, carpenter.) Henry Jones's house was the lower part
the Montgomery estate, — now the Armstrong farm, on the State
road. He died there, having built the buildings that now stand,
— the house, barn, and wagon-house. The place was tenanted,
after his death, by Jacob Zorns and Mathias Young, and in the
spring of 1 82 1 his widow removed to her father's place at Three
Tuns, in Upper Dublin. (Her father died in the autumn fol-
lowing.)

Ei'an Jones, Jr., son of Evan, and brother of Henry just
mentioned, was a conspicuous citizen. (See biographical sketch.)
He was four times married : to Sarah Ely, dau. of William and
Cynthia, of Buckingham ; to Lowry Miles (nee Eoulke), dau. of
Caleb and Jane, of Gwynedd ; to Hannah Paul ; and to Mary
Lukens. By his first wife he had two daughters who grew up :
Jane, who m. Jonathan Maulsby, and Cynthia E., who m., ist.

EARLY FAMILIES. 4^S

Dr. Evan Lester, of Richland, and 2d, Evan Green, of Colum-
bia, Pa. By his second wife Evan Jones, jr., had one son, Owen,
who d. 3 years old ; but of his children there was no issue except
Evan Jones Lester, son of Cynthia, by her first hu.sband.

Of Henry Jones's sons, Lewis m. Mary Livezey, who died
1896, living on their homestead in Gwynedd, near the Upper
Dublin line. They had no children. Clement m. late in life,
but left no children. Henry m. Mary Y. Shoemaker (deceased
1896) ; they had no issue. John L. m. Margaret, dau. of Ben-
jamin and Anne Garrigues, and had several children, of whom
but one now survives: Jane, m. to Dr. Franklin T. Haines, of
Moorestown, N. J.

Henry Jones's wife, as already mentioned, was Jane, daugh-
ter of Amos Lewis. The first of the Lewis Family, in Upper
Dublin, was Ellis, ist, who came from Merion. (He may have
been of the same family as the Lewises of Montgomery town-
ship,— see p. 300.) His wife's name was Anne. He purchased
the property which is now (1896) Wilmer Atkinson's farm
" North view," formerly John L. Jones's, and the adjoining farm,
belonging to Mr. McCallum, formerly David L. Lukens's. He
d. 1753, his wife surviving until 1756. Their children included
£//ts (see below) ; Lewis, m. Anne Lord ; Jane, m. Enos Lewis,
of Gwynedd ; Elizabeth, m. William Spencer.

Ellis Lczvis, 2d, m. loth mo. 18, 1729, atAbington meeting-
house, Mary Tyson, dau. of Matthias and Mary, of Abington.
Mary Lewis, the wife, d. ist mo. 17, 1763, and Ellis m., 2d,
Ellen Evans, dau. of John and Eleanor, of Gwynedd. (See p.
168.) Ellis d. 1783, and his wife survived him. His children,
all by his first wife, were 1 1 in number, of whom six died young.
The others were: Ellis, jr., b. 1730, d. unm. 1759; Mary, m.
Ezekiel Cleaver ; Ann, m. John Saunders ; John ; and Amos (see
below).

4l6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Amos Lewis was twice married. His wives were sisters,
Eleanor and Rachel Hubbs, of Gwynedd, daughters of John and
Jane (and nieces of Ellis Lewis, 2d's, second wife. See p. i68).
Amos had by each wife one daughter : by his first wife he had
Jane, who m. Henry Jones, of Montgomery, named above ; and
by his second, Eleanor, who m. Jesse Lukens. From the latter
marriage there is a large family : the Jones branch has been given
above.

SPENCER.

The first of this Spencer family, in Pennsylvania, was probably
Samuel, who came here from Barbadoes, and was no doubt of
English descent. The tradition has always been that he was a
sea captain, and that after bringing his family here, about 1700,
he returned for one more voyage, and was lost (or died) at sea.
How this tradition grew up it is hard to say, but documentary
evidence shows its incorrectness. Samuel Spencer's will is on
record in Philadelphia. It describes him as " late of Barbadoes,
but now of the county of Philadelphia, merchant, being sick of
body, but of good and perfect memory," [etc.]. This shows
him to have been on land, and ill, at the date of the will, which
was November 20, 1705, and as its probate was made a month
later, December 20, 1705, it is evident that his decease closely
followed its making, and that no voyage and death at sea could
have occurred before probate.

Samuel Spencer, as is known in various ways, left two sons,
Samuel and William. These the will names : "I give and be-
queath unto my eldest son, Samuel Spencer, i^20, to be paid unto
him when he shall come to the age of 21 years, without any in-
terest, [he] to be fitted with a good suit of cloaths fitt for such a
lad, and to be forthwith sent to Barbadoes to his relacions there.
I give and bequeath unto my son William Spencer, ^20," etc., etc.

EARLY FAMILIES. A^7

Of Samuel Spencer's " relacions," in Barbadoes, nothing defi-
nite is known. Samuel Spencer's two sons were, as the will
shows, minors when their father died/ Their mother, in all proba-
bility, was previously deceased. She was the daughter of Robert
Whitton, and her brother Richard is said to have reared the two
boys, — Samuel not having been sent back to Barbadoes, at all. In
1742, Richard Whitton, of Upper Dublin, yeoman, made his
will, and after some bequests left to his "two cousins, \t. t\,
nephews] Samuel Spencer and William Spencer," all his " lands,
houses, tenements, and plantations," etc., — this being property in
Upper Dublin.

Samuel Spencer, 2d, m. 1723, Mary Dawes, dau. of Abraham
and Edith, and their children were 13 in number, including
Jacob, who m. Hannah Jarrett, whose sons John and Jarrett mar-
ried respectively Lydia Foulke, of Gwynedd (see p. 252), and
Hannah Evans, of Gwynedd (see p. 170). Jesse Spencer, of
Penllyn, was John's son.^

Two other sons of Samuel Spencer, 2d, and Mary, were the
following :

1. Joseph, b. 2d mo. 21, 1726, m. Hannah Lukens, dau. of John, of
Bristol [adj. Germantown]. This couple had one son, Samuel, who d.
young. Joseph then m. Abigail Conrad, widow, (her maiden name West),
and had one son, Nathan. This Nathan m. Rachel Pim, dau. of Thomas,
of Chester county, and had children : Thomas P., Joseph, Sarah, Heph-
ziba, Maria.

2. John, b. 9th mo. i, 1731, m. Elizabeth Kirk, dau. of John and
Sarah, and had 8 children. One of these was Sarah, who m. Jonathan
Thomas, of Moreland, son of Mordecai and Elizabeth. Spencer Thomas

1 They were in fact young children. Samuel was b. 8th mo. 22, 1699. William
was b. nth mo. 1, 1701. (William m. Elizabeth Lewis, dau. of Ellis, ist, of Upper
Dublin, and removed to Bucks county, where he has numerous descendants.)

2 See Foulke Genealogy, p. 252, for details concerning Jesse Spencer.

41 8 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

m. Hephziba Spencer, named above, — his second cousin. Their eldest
daughter,' Anna Maria, m. 1841, Algernon S. Jenkins,' of Gwynedd.

JENKINS.

The Jenkins family of Gwynedd and neighboring townships
are descended from Jenkin Jenkin, a Welshman, who came to
this place in or about 1729. The family record in an old Welsh
Bible which was formerly in possession of John Jenkins, of
North Wales, shows the following :

Jenkin Jenkins died September 15, 1745, aged 86 years.
Mary Jenkins died November 27, 1764, aged 74.
John Jenkins born February 15, 17 19.

This, therefore, fixes the birth of Jenkin Jenkin in 1659, and
of his wife in 1690. November 17, 1730, Jenkin Jenkin bought
of Joseph Tucker land in Hatfield, 350 acres, "reaching from
the Gwynedd line nearly or quite to the Cowpath road, and from
the Montgomery line about to the road running from Lansdale
to Colmar." On this he settled, and he was " of Hatfield," when
he made his will in 1745. He had bought, in 1738, of the Pro-
prietaries, the Penns, 357 acres of land on the Conestoga, in Earl
township, Lancaster county, closely adjoining the Welsh settlers
of Carnarvon and Brecknock, and as there were some named
Jenkins among them, it is not unlikely that they may have been
kinsmen, and that he may have come over from Wales with
some of that company, — their arrival being about 1729, also.
Jenkin Jenkin, at his death, left 4 children, as follows :

1 Their other children were Sarah, Mordecai, Caroline, Lemuel, Elizabeth, Lydia,
Jonathan, Mary, Hannah. Spencer Thomas was a prominent and esteemed citizen of
Upper Dublin.

2 Algernon S. Jenkins had issue by his ist wife one son: Howard M. ; by his
2d wife, Alice A. Davis, one son : George Herbert.

EARLY FAMILIES. 419

1. John, who received 150 acres of the Hatfield property, and half
the Conestoga property. He was b. (as above), Feb. 15, 1719, in Wales,
and m. Sarah Hawkesv/orth, dan. of Peter and Mary. (She was b. in
1720, in England, and d. Jan. 16, 1794.) They had eight children. (See
below.)

2. Mary, d. unm.

3. Jenkin, jr., m. Thomas, He received by his father's will,

200 acres in Hatfield, and a share in the Conestoga tract. He had four
children : David, d. unm. ; Elizabeth, m. John Banes ; Hannah, d. unm. ;
Eleanor, m. McPherson.

4. Ehzabeth, m. John Hawkesworth, son of Peter and Mary ; and
had seven children.

JoJin Jenkins, named above, was the progenitor of all of this
family who now bear the name, his brother Jenkin having no mar-
ried son. John was a prominent and useful citizen. (He was the
assessor of Gwynedd township, as mentioned in the 1776 tax-
list.) He bought land in Gwynedd, in 1746, adjoining Lansdale.
He died in 1803 (or 1804). His eight children were as follows :

1. John, 2d, b. 1742, d. 1805, an officer in the Revolutionary army.
He m. Elizabeth Lukens, wid. of Abraham, and had six children : Owen,
m. Mary Tennis ; Sarah, m. Peter Hoxworth ; Jesse, m. Mary Aaron ;
John, m. Ann Todd' ; Edward, m. Margaret Server^ ; Ehzabeth, m.
Issacher Rhoads.

2. Levi, m. Susan Shelve, and had 9 children, including Rev. John S.
Jenkins, a prominent minister of the Baptist denomination ; and Levi, jr.,
who m. Sarah Smith and had 6 children, including Joseph S., Eder, John
S., and Anne.

3. Ann, m. Hugh Kousty.

^ John, who m. Ann Todd, lived to extreme old age, dying at North Wales (at
the house of his son-in-law, Abel Lukens), Oct. 5, 1880, in his 97th year. His children
were Naomi, who m. Abel Lukens ; Charles T., m. Sarah Lukens ; Jane, m. Samuel ].
Rhoads; Ann T., m. Jacob B. Rhoads; Silas T., m. Eliza Morgan; John S., m.
Eliza Stover ; Milton, m. Sarah Ellis.

2 Edward, b. May 9, 1786, d. Jan. 29, 1872 ; and had issue : Philip S., m. Hannah
Zieber ; Mary Ann, m. Chas. D. Matthews ; Charles S., m. Tacy Styer.

.420 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

4. Edward, b. July, 12, 1758, d. 1829, m. Sarah Foulke, dau. of
Theophilus (see Foulke Genealogy), and had 6 children : Charles F., m.
Mary Lancaster' ; Ann, d. unm. ; Jesse,'' m. Mary R. Ambler ; Margaret,
m. Peter C. Evans ; Rachel, ni. Meredith Conard ; Caleb, died a lad.

5. Jesse, born 1760, d. 1794, unm.

6. Elizabeth, m. Owen Hughes, and had 8 children.

7. Mary, m. Peter Wentz, and had 7 children.

8. Sarah, m. Isaac Lewis, and had 3 children. (See details about
Isaac Lewis, p. 362.)

HOXWORTH.

Peter Hawksworths and his wife Mary came from England
about 1730, and settled in Hatfield. Peter died between Febru-
ary 26, 1767, and March 22, 1769, — these being the dates of
making and proving his will. His wife died soon after. They
are said to have been buried at St. Thomas's churchyard, White-
marsh. Their children were 6 in number, including Edward,
Ann, and Rachel, of whom nothing further is known, and the
following :

1. Sarah, m. John Jenkins, the elder. (See preceding section.)

2. John, m. Elizabeth Jenkins (sister of John, just named), dau. of
Jenkin and Mary, and had 7 children : Mary, m. Zachariah Clawson ;
Edward, m. Mary Hoxworth (see below) ; John, d. unm. ; EHzabeth, m.
Henry Newberry ; Ann, m. C. Wells ; Sarah, m. Kenneth Makenzie ; and
"Colonel" Peter, who m. Sarah Jenkins. (See below.) y^^/m bought
land, in 1 76 1 , located in Hatfield, from his father, and d. aged 44, early
in the Revolution. He had been a soldier in the French and Indian War,

1 Chas. F. and Mary had 7 children, of whom 5 d. young. The others were
Algernon S. (d. 1890), who m. Anna Maria Thomas, and Alice A. Davis ; and William
H., (d. 1896), whom. Catharine Hallowell.

2 Jesse removed to Peoria county, 111., in 1840, and died there at a very advanced
age. Of his children, Albanus married and has children.

^ The spelling of the name in England was probably Hawkesworth. It became
changed, here, first to Hawksworth, and then to Hoxworth.

EARLY FAMILIES. 4^1

and served in the Revolutionary army, but was taken sick and died,
while so engaged.

3. Peter, who was twice married. By his first wife he had 7 children.
His second wife was Ann Wentz, dau. of Peter and Mary (Jenkins) Wentz,
by whom he had 4 children.

Edward Hoxworth, above (son of John and Elizabeth),
lived in Hatfield. He was b. Sept. 22, 1760, and d. Jan. 11, 1847.
He entered the Revolutionary army when only i 5 years old, and
served throughout the war. He received a pension to the end
of his life. He was a member of the company of which John
Jenkins, 2d, was a lieutenant. " He was a small-built man, but
exceedingly lithe and active. In his younger days he would leap
over an ordinary-sized horse without touching." His wife,
Mary(b. 1760, d. 1823), was the dau. of Peter (No. 3 above), and
therefore first cousin to her husband. They had 9 children, as
follows :

1. Ann, m. Benjamin Krupp ; 2 children.

2. Ellen, m. Benjamin Kulp ; 8 children.

3. John, m. '— Smith.

4. Israel, m. Mary Slough ; 7 children.

5. Mary, m. Robert Gordon ; 7 children.

6. Margaret, d. unmarried.

7. Edward, m. C. Nonnemacher ; 3 children.

8. Elizabeth, m. B. F. Hancock (see below).

9. Sarah, m. Jesse Godshalk ; 9 children.

" Col." Peter Hoxworth, of Hatfield, b. Jan. 16, 1776, d. Nov.
II, 1850, m. Sarah Jenkins, dau. of John, 2d, and Elizabeth. He
was an officer in the war of 18 12, and subsequently a colonel
of Pennsylvania militia. For many years he was a justice of
the peace, and he was also director of the poor, of Montgomery
county. He had eight children : Elizabeth, m. Henry Lukens ;
Ann, m. John S. Cliffton ; John J., m. D. Swartz ; Owen, d. unm ;

422 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Enos L., m. Ann Mattis ; Matilda, m. B. A. Morris ; Mary, m. J.
Santman ; William J.,^ m. Catharine A. Biery.

Elizabeth Hoxworth (No. 8, above), daughter of Edward and
Mary, b. December 8, i8oi, d. January 25, 1879, m. Benjamin F.
Hancock. Their children were Winfield Scott and Hilary Baker
(twins), b. Feb. 14, 1824, and John, b. March 23, 1830, m. Au-
gusta Camp, and has issue 1 1 children. (Biographical notices of
Gen. Hancock and his father will be found in the next chapter.)

CASTNER.

The Castner Family are descended from Paul Kastner, who
was one of the early German, or Hollandish, settlers at German-
town. He is named with Peter Klever in the naturalization list
of 1 69 1, and was a Friend, as in 1692 he was one of those who
signed the testification of the Yearly Meeting against George
Keith. He d. in 17 17, and his will is on record in Philadelphia,
witnessed by Francis Daniel Pastorius.

Jacob Castner, who may have been a son, or grandson, of
Paul, was a resident of Upper Dublin, in 1754. He d. between
December, 1763, and February 26, 1767, and in his will men-
tions his wife Ann, daughters Sarah and Elizabeth, and sons
Samuel, Andrew, and George. The will shows that he had one
tract of 81 acaes of land, in Gwynedd, which he had bought of
Robert Combs, and another of 2 1 , in Gwynedd, bought of Cath-
arine Jones, while he lived on a tract of 299 acres in Upper
Dublin, adjoining Ellis Lewis, and he had also lOO acres in East
Nottingham, Chester county, purchased of George Churchman.

1 To William J. Hoxworth, late of Macungie, Lehigh county, I am indebted for
all the details concerning this family, and also for many of those relating to the Jenkins
Family. (William J., b. Oct. 6, 1821, m. Catharine A. Biery, and has issue : Mary
Ella, Emilie A., Lewis C. (d.), Charles H., William A. (d.), Sarah G., John S. (d.).

EARLY FAMILIES. 423

The main tract of the Gwynedd land, which he left to Sarah
and Samuel, lay below the Spring-House, on the road to the Three
Tons, including what was recently the Wm. Smith farm. The
Upper Dublin tract he left chiefly to Andrew, and this included
the old Siddons place, now or recently Malachi Stout's. The
Chester county property he left to " Daniel and Susanna, the
children of my son Jacob, deceased."

Samuel Castner lived on the Gwynedd place,' and d. there
Feb. 22, 1806. His estate was settled by David Lukens and
Amos Lewis, executors. He left a legacy of ^8 in Pennsylva-
nia money to Gwynedd meeting. His brother Andrew had died
a few years earlier, — about 1796 or '97. His estate was settled
by Cadwalader Evans, jr., and Amos Lewis, ex'rs.

George Kastner (who may have been the son named in
Jacob's will) was in Whitpain, in 1734, and had 200 acres of
land. His will was made April 27, 1776, and proved Oct. 19 of
the same year. His wife was Ehzabeth ; he mentions his son
Thomas, dec'd, and his (Thomas's) widow, and daughter Marga-
ret. He also mentions his grandchildren named Conrad, and
other grandchildren named Ottinger, his sons-in-law Thomas
Mee, Lewis Jones, Philip Richardson, and William Streeper, —
the last deceased. He leaves his six daughters, Mary, Magda-
lene, Elizabeth, Hannah, Lydia, and Margaret, residuary legatees.

Samuel Castner, of Gwynedd (grandfather of Jesse, recently
deceased), lived on the Swedes' Ford road, where George W.
Castner) his great-grandson) recently lived. He was b. June 4,
1737, and d. November 5, 1833. His dau. Elizabeth m. Nathan
Chapin, who was a teacher in Philadelphia. Their son, William

1 Henry Jones says it was the tradition that he gave his property away (perhaps to
his family), on condition that they should build him " a httle house by the big spring,"
near the main dwelling, and in this little house he ended his hfe. Traces of it, near
the spring, were visible fifty years ago.

424 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Chapin, was for many years principal of the Institution for the
Blind, in Philadelphia.^

Jesse Castner, the elder, a son of Samuel, m. Margaret
Rhodes, dau. of Ezekiel, of Norriton. (The ceremony, January,
I795> before Esq. Frederick Conrad.) The Gwynedd monthly
meeting records show the birth of their children : Melinda, b.
5th mo. 8, 1796 ; Charles, b. loth mo. 25, 1798 ; Mary, b. 12th
mo. 5, 1800 ; Rachel, b. nth mo. 7, 1803 ; Margaret, b. 5th mo.
19, 1805 j Anne, b. loth mo. 19, 1806. The records also show
the death of Margaret, wife of Jesse, in 1809 (two dates given :
8th mo. 30, and loth mo. 31). Jesse m. a second time, and had
one son, Jesse, jr., of Gwynedd, the father of Conrad S., and
George W., both now well-known citizens of Gwynedd.

ROBERTS.

Besides the members of the Roberts Family of whom details
have been given in Chapter XIV., there were several others living
in Gwynedd, named Roberts, but of a different family. Owen Rob-
erts, tailor, whose daughter Lydia m. Benjamin Mendenhall, lived
below Penllyn, having bought in 17 14 the lower William John
tract, of his (W. J.'s) daughters, Gaynor, Ellen, and Catharine.
Besides his daughter Lydia, he had a son, — and possibly other
children.

Ellis Roberts had also two brothers, John and William,
William m. Mary Pugh, widow of Ellis Pugh, jr., and daughter
of Owen Evans. She d. 1748, and he before her. Her will
mentions two daughters of her son Ellis Roberts.

^ His son, Dr. John B. Chapin, for many years physician in charge of the great
Willard Insane Hospital in New York State, is now in charge of the Pennsylvania Hos-
pital for the Insane, in Philadelphia.

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John Roberts, the other brother of Ellis, d. in 1725, leaving
his wife Ellinor and brother Ellis his executors. His will men-
tions no children. His widow, Ellinor, d. the .same year. They
probably had no children, as none are mentioned in cither's will.

There was still another Roberts family in Gwynedd, making
a third. Edward Roberts was the first of this line who appears
here. He d. 1748-49, "being old and far advanced in years."
His son Robert m. Jane Evans, dau. of Robert Evans, of Merion,
and their son was Amos Roberts, who was the father of George
Roberts, who owned the old Robert Evans place (now Silas
White's). Edward Roberts's wife was Ann, and she was living
when he made his will, October 3, 1748. His daughter Margaret
m. Hugh Evans, and afterward Robert Jones, of Merion. His
dausfhter Gainor was the first wife of Edward Foulke.

JONES.

The name Robert John, or Robert Jones, was the possession
of several different persons within the scope of this history. One
of these was "of Merion," and d. 1746. (He was the son of
John ap Thomas, and the father of Robert Jones, 2d, who m.
Catharine Evans, Hugh's widow.)

Robert John, repeatedly alluded to in this volume, owned
the land where North Wales now is, and d. 1732.

Another Robert Jones, of Gwynedd, m., 17 17, Ann Coulston,
dau. of William, of Plymouth. He afterward became of Worces-
ter, and d. there, 6th mo. 24, 1773.' He was born in Denbigh-
shire, Wales, loth mo. 9, 1690, and his wife, Ann, was b. in

' His family Bible came into the possession of Watson Ambler, of East Bradford,
Chester Co., in 1869. This Bible (printed in Dublin, 1714), an entry in it says, R. J.
"bought of Cadwallader Foulke, in Philadelphia, the 4th day of the islh mo., 1732,
and paid two pounds, being the price thereof. Also paid 20 shillings more for binding
and brassing of clasps since I bought it. 1762."

426 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Yorkshire, England, "near Moor Land," 8th mo. i8, 1695. »
Their children were William, Margaret, Ann, m. Jacob Bell ;

Elizabeth, Robert, Josiah, Grace, m. Jones, and Owen

Thomas ; Hannah, m. Prichard ; Enos. Ann, the mother,

d. 4th mo. 21, 1772.

Still another Robert Jones, " of Gwynedd, cordwainer," d.
1745, probably unmarried. He left bequests to his cousin John
Evans, to his cousin Elizabeth Evans, wife of Thomas, his
cousin Owen Evans, son of Thomas ; to Edward, Thomas,
Griffith, and John Evans, sons of Thomas ; to Cousin Peter
Evans, to cousin Thomas Griffith, to his cousins, the children of
Joseph Williams, etc.

» As she was the daughter of William Coulslon, of Plymouth, this fixes the place
whence he came.

XXVII.

Biographical Notices.

Doctor Cadwalader Evans.

HE was born at Gvvynedd, in 17 16, the son of the first John
Evans and his wife, Eleanor. Contemporary accounts
present him as one of the most eminent professional men of his
day. He studied medicine under the direction of the famous Dr.
Thomas Bond, of Philadelphia, and afterward at the University
of Edinburgh, and in London, when, returning to Philadelphia,
he settled there, and soon enjoyed a large practice. He became
a friend and correspondent of Franklin, and was deeply interested
in scientific and philanthropic work. (He was elected a member
of the American Philosophical Society, in 1767. In 1770-71,
he appears among the managers of the " society for the cultiva-
tion of silk.") He married, January 22, 1760, Jane Owen,
daughter of Owen Owen, of Philadelphia, but had no children.
His wife died 1768. A paragraph in the Pennsylvania Gazette,
of March 17th, in that year, says :

Yesterday se'ennight died Mrs. Jane Evans, the wife of Dr. Cadwala-
der Evans, of this city, much respected and lamented by all who knew her.
[The funeral was large ; her remains interred at the Friends' burial ground
in this city.]

And the same journal, July 7, 1773, has the following obitu-
ary paragraph :

On the 30th of last month died, beloved and lamented, in the 57th
year of his age, Dr. Cadwalader Evans, one of the Physicians of the
Philadelphia Hospital, after a lingering Illness, which he sustained with that

428 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Composure and Resignation of Mind which are a certain Evidence
and a happy Consequence of having filled the Sphere of Life allotted to

him with Rectitude and Integrity He was justly esteemed

an eminent, candid, and successful Physician ; his knowledge was deep
and liberal, his Principles rational, improved by an extensive Practice, a

diligent Observation, and a penetrating Judgment In his

Sentiments he was hberal, in Argument solid, acute, and facetious, but
above all in his Friendships he was ardent, steady, and sincere.

His Remains were interred in Friends' Burying Ground at North
Wales, amongst many others of his ancient and worthy Family, attended
by a large Number of respectable People, both from the City and Country.

In his will, dated January 24, 1773, and probated July 17, he
appoints Abel James and Owen Biddle, merchants, of Philadel-
phia, and his brothers Rowland and John Evans, executors ;
who are to sell all his property, real and personal, not specially
devised. " I give all my plate, which belonged to my late dear
wife Jane, unto her beloved niece, Ann Biddle, the wife of John
Biddle. I give the China Jarrs, which was my said dear wife's,
to the daughters of the said John Biddle, and Ann Morris, the

daughter of Tacy Forbes I direct my said

Executors to have made two silver pint canns and a silver
Cream Jugg, one of the said Canns and cream jugg I give to my
sister Margaret Williams, and the other of them I give to my
sister Eleanor Lewis." The residue of his property he divides
into four parts, one for his brother Rowland, one for his brother
John, one for his sister Elizabeth, and the fourth in trust for his
sister, Jane Hubbs, and after her death, for her three daughters,
Rachel, Ellinor, and Mary.

J oil) I Evans (^Second).
The second John Evans, of Gv/ynedd, called John " the
elder," is thus described by the late Joseph Foulke :

"Among the remarkable persons that I recollect in those

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early days [about 1800] was John Evans, the elder. He was a tall,
spare person, with a long visage, and very wrinkled face. He
carried a smooth cane, with a carved head and natural curve.
He wore loops in his hat, with the rim slightly turned up behind
and at the two sides. He and two or three others of Gwynedd
were among the first who took a firm stand against the use of
ardent spirits. They banished it from their houses and harvest
fields, though in the face of great difficulties. One of the last
meetings that John Evans attended, he spoke on this subject,
saying that ' where he had endeavored most he had effected
least,' but urging his hearers to persevere."

Roiulaiid Evans.
Rowland Evans (b. 1718, d. 1789), son of John and Eleanor,
of Gwynedd, and brother to Dr. Cadwalader, was prominent in
public affairs for many years. He was appointed a justice of the
peace in 1749, 1752, 1757, and 1761. He was a member of the
Provincial Assembly for Philadelphia County in 1761, and from
that year on to 1771, inclusive (except 1764). His residence was
first in Gwynedd, and in 1760 he owned part of his father's tract.
At a later date (as early as 1766) he removed to Providence, and
he was in business there for a number of years. The Philadelphia
Gazette, June 30, 1784, contains his card, announcing that he
" has lately removed from his former Residence in Providence
Township, Philadelphia County," and that he is prepared to draw
" Deeds, mortgages, articles of agreement, and other instruments
of writing, at his house on the east side of Fourth street, a few
doors below Race street." September 14, 1785, he was appointed
one of the Commissioners of the General Loan Office of Penn-
sylvania, and he held this place until his death, August 8, 1789.
Like his brother Cadwalader, he took an interest in scientific
study, and he was elected a member of the "American Society

430 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge," which was united with
the American Philosophical Society in 1 769. The Pennsylvania
Gazette of Wednesday, August 19, 1789, contained the following
notice :

On Saturday se'ennight died Rowland Evans, Esquire, of this city, in
the seventy-second year of his age. Previous to the revolution this gentle-
man was for many years a member of the Legislature and a Justice of the
Peace, both of which he filled with great ability, dignity, and applause.
And since the conclusion of the war, he was appointed one of the Trustees
of the general loan office of this commonwealth, which he held to the time
of his death, and on Sunday following a great assemblage of people
attended at the deposit of his remains in the Quakers' burial ground in
this place [Philadelphia] .

Cadzvalader Evans, junior.

Cadwalader Evans, jr., was the son of John and Margaret.
He was born at Gwynedd, December 25, 1762, resided there
until 18 12, when he removed to Philadelphia, and died in the
city, in 1841. He received a good education, and with unusual
energy and mental vigor, made his mark early. He was trained
as a surveyor, and for many years, in his own neighborhood and
elsewhere, followed his profession with success. In the mature
and later years of his life he performed important work in sur-
veying in distant parts of the State, especially the western coun-
ties. In 1790 he was first elected to the Legislature, and he
then entered upon a lengthened career as a member of the
House. He was chosen continuously from Montgomery county
for nine years, — 1790 to 1798 inclusive, — his colleagues includ-
ing James Vaux, Jonathan Roberts, Nathaniel B. Boileau, Fred-
erick Conrad, and other prominent and able men. Among these,
though he was under thirty when first elected, he at once took a
prominent part, being placed on important committees in his

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 43 ^

first year ; his name appears in many places in the House jour-
nal coupled with that of Albert Gallatin, and others of the most
distinguished members in that period. In 1798, the last year
the Legislature met in Philadelphia, he was unanimously chosen
Speaker of the House. Again in 1802, and in 1805, he was
elected from Montgomery county, and in 18 14, after his removal
to Philadelphia, he was elected one of the city members.

In 1 8 16 he sold the old family homestead in Gwynedd to
Charles Willing Hare, Esq., of Philadelphia. He was one of
the local directors of the Bank of the United States, after its re-
charter in 1 8 16. In 18 1 3 he had been among the first to ac-
tively urge the construction of a canal along the Schuylkill, from
Philadelphia to the coal regions, and he was elected the first
president of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, and served in
that capacity for many years. In 1830, when, on account of
advancing age, he resigned the presidency, the stockholders, at
their annual meeting, voted that he should be presented a silver
vase as a testimonial of their high appreciation of his services.
Joseph Foulke, in his manuscript Reminiscences, furnished the
author, says of C. E. :

He began his distinguished career about the i8th or 19th year of his
age. One of his first engagements was surveying for the road jury, and
laying out what is now called the " lower State road," at least the western
section of it terminating in what is now the Bethlehem turnpike. This was
in 1786. He was a man of quick and clear perception, of ready utterance,
and a powerful disputant ; he was eminently gifted in conveyancing, and
in drawing instruments of writing. . . . The last office he

filled, I think, was one of the electors that made Gen. Harrison President,
in 1840. As a surveyor in old time, though a young man, he stood high,
and great confidence was reposed in him. He, Robert Loller, and Archi-
bald Mc Clean did most of the surveying in our parts until about 1807,
when Cadwalader Foulke came to Gwynedd and took a large portion
of the business.

432 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Samuel Medary.

The prominence of Mr. Medary, for many years, in the
political affairs of the State of Ohio, and the several important
pubHc places which he held, entitle him, no doubt, to be regarded
as one of the most distinguished men born in Gwynedd or
Montgomery. He was born near Montgomery Square, in 1801.
His father, Jacob Medary, was a farmer, in very moderate circum-
stances, who lived in Montgomery township for a number of years.'
The son's education, such as it was, was obtained at the free
school at Montgomery Square. About 1819-20, says his old
friend, William Chapin, " when I first made his acquaintance, he
was teaching the school at Gwynedd meeting. He was fond of
reading, and eagerly went through the newspapers at Edward
Jenkins's store. The identity of the different writers awakened
his curiosity, and aroused his desire to write, too. I encouraged
him to try, and he did so, sending his first article to David
Sower, at Norristown, for insertion in the Herald, over the signa-
ture ' Sylvanus.' Much to his gratification, and somewhat to his
surprise, it was promptly printed, and he then wrote frequently,
sometimes contributing poetry over the signature of 'Arion.' "

About 1822, he left Gwynedd for the South, going to Mont-
gomery county, Va. There he married, and later determined to
try his fortunes in the West. On his way down the Ohio river,
by advice of a fellow passenger on the steamboat, he determined
to settle in Ohio. (" He came to Clermont county," says his
daughter, Mrs. Nevins, " in 1826.") He soon became conspicu-
ous by his writing, and speaking at political meetings, strongly

' In April, 1820, as appears by an old document among the Cadwallader Foulke
papers, he was in Gwynedd, a tenant on George Ingels" farm (now Mumbower's mill
and W. M. Smgerly's), and his goods were levied on by Constable George Neavel
upon a landlord's warrant issued by Esq. Giffin, to satisfy Ingels' claim for a year's
rent, ^275, and also another execution for debt. The sale was stayed, upon an arrange-
ment by which an assignment was made to Cadwallader Foulke and others.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 433

maintaining the Democratic cause, as represented by General
Jackson. He presently established a small newspaper called the
Ohio Sun ; in 183 i he was elected to the Legislature, serving for
two terms as Senator. He was now one of the most prominent
among the younger Democratic leaders of the State. " Mr.
[Samuel J.] Tilden said to me not long ago," says Mrs. Nevins,
in a letter, 1883, "that though my father was several years his
senior, they were both very young men during the administration
of President Jackson, and that they met at his table at the White
House, both being enthusiastic admirers, and in a vcva,n\\Q.x proteges^
of that remarkable man."

In 1837 he removed to Columbus, the capital of the State,
and purchased (or established ?) the Statesman, which under his
direction became the leading party newspaper, through which he
exercised for years a commanding influence. As part of his re-
ward, his party made him State Printer, and in 1853 President
Pierce offered him the post of minister to Chili, but this he de-
clined. Later, President Buchanan appointed him Governor of
the Territory of Minnesota, and he served as such a brief term.
When Minnesota became a State, and was admitted to the Union,
1858, the President transferred him to Kansas, as Governor of
that then distracted Territory. He there remained until i860,
and then returned to Columbus, where he established Tlie Crisis,
and conducted it until his death, November 2, 1864. The cause
of his death (says his daughter) was obscure. He had been one
of those who appeared to be poisoned at the National Hotel, in
Washington, at the time of Mr. Buchanan's inauguration, in 1857,
and he never appeared entirely well after that mysterious occur-
rence.

Mr. Medary had twelve children, most of whom survived
him. These were : Virginia (Mrs. Wilson) ; Sara (Mrs. Massey) ;

434 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Kate (Mrs. Blair) ; Louise (Mrs. Smith, who died in 1861) ;
Missouri, who died in infancy ; Samuel Adams ; Flora (Mrs.
Nevins) ; Charles Stewart, William Allen, Frederick Henry, who
died in July, 1883 ; Laura Willey, and Jacob.

" When General Hancock was appointed a cadet at West
Point, in 1840," says Mrs. Nevins, "my father was one of the
Board of Visitors, and the General has told me that when he ar-
rived there with his father, the latter took him to see his old
friend, my father, before presenting him to the officers of the
Academy."

'Squire Jolin Roberts.

'Squire John Roberts, born in 1750, was for many years one
of the most conspicuous figures in Montgomery and Gwynedd.
I have already mentioned his store-keeping at Spring- House.
After selling out there he removed to his Montgomery farm,
where he permanently remained. He had been appointed a
justice of the peace, in 1 791, by Governor Mifflin, his commis-
sion authorizing him to act for the townships of Hatfield, Mont-
gomery, and Gwynedd, and he continued to act in that capacity
until his death, which occurred June 17, 1823. He was a man
of very considerable force and energy, a marked character in
whatever he undertook. Samuel Aaron, afterwards the distin-
guished preacher and teacher, was "brought up" by him, and
so was Benjamin F. Hancock. "Tom Wolf," afterward Dr.
Antrim Foulke's faithful servitor, lived with him. He is remem-
bered by one of the older Friends, now surviving, as coming to
Gwynedd Meeting occasionally, in winter time, in his sleigh, a
tall man, dressed in gray. He transacted a large amount of
business, including the settlement of estates, etc. His executors
were Cadwallader Foulke and William Foulke, and a very serious
part of their duty was the settlement of his ownership of a tract

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 435

of 75 I acres on Bentley's creek, Bradford county, near Towanda.
'Squire John had bought it, in i8o8, of James Chapman, who
held under a Pennsylvania patent, but the lands were occupied
by settlers under the Connecticut claim, and the 'Squire was
obliged in 1815 to establish his rights by suits of ejectment. It
was not until 1830, seven years after his death, that the business
was concluded. He was never married ; his estate, after some
bequests, went to collateral heirs.

'Squire Job Roberts.
Job Roberts, who was seven years younger than 'Squire
John, but who survived to a much greater age, was also a man
of marked character. He was born, lived, and died in Whitpain,
but close to the Gwynedd line, and for many years he was one of
the most conspicuous figures in the business and social circles of
Gwynedd. Born March 23, 1757, he d. August 20, 185 1, hav-
ing passed nearly half of his 95th year. Early in life he showed
both mechanical and agricultural enterprise. He did much to
improve the methods of farming, planted hedges, introduced the
feeding of green fodder to cattle, instead of grazing, built a barn
which was enormously large, according to the usual standard,
but which he soon had full of crops, and introduced, almost if
not quite as early as Judge Peters, the use of gypsum, or land
plaster. In a volume which he published in 1804, called " The
Pennsylvania Farmer," he said he had raised from 10 acres of
land 565 bushels of wheat; and afterward, about 1820, as he
stated to the late Hon. Job R. Tyson, he secured 360 bushels
from a lot of 6 acres. He was one of the first in Pennsylvania
to introduce and breed Merino sheep, and during the movement
to establish the manufacture of silk he was one of its most zeal-
ous promoters, " Various articles of his silk manufacture, such
as cloth, stockings, and other parts of dress," were still in exist-

436 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

ence, in 1856, of a date as far back as the Revolution. In 1780
he drove to Gwynedd Meeting in a carriage of his own manufac-
ture, and this, it is said, was the only carriage then, and for 25
years after, seen at that meeting.

In 1 79 1, Gov. Mifflin appointed him a justice of the peace,
and he continued as such until 1820, when he resigned. He dis-
played in that office a judgment and discretion so remarkable
that he was widely known, much consulted, and generally es-
teemed. Altogether, his learning, his enterprise, his abilities,
and his fine character made him a notable figure of his time.'
Cadzvcdlader Foiilkc.

Though born at Richland, Cadwallader Foulke spent twenty-
five years of his mature life in Gwynedd, and died there. He
was, besides his primary occupation of farmer, a surveyor and
conveyancer, and in the pursuance of these occupations he went
in all directions into the neighboring, and even distant, town-
ships of the county for many years. Few men of business were
better known in this section, and few had so high a reputation
for exactness, intelligence, and good judgment within the line of
his undertakings. His surveys were carefully made ; and his
drafts, many of which are still in existence, are found to be valu-
able whenever consulted.^ He was the son of Samuel and Ann
Foulke, and was born 7th mo. 14, 1765. He died 3d mo. 22,
1830. He was apprenticed in his youth to Edward Ambler, of

'In 1856, Hon Job R. Tyson read before the Montgomery Co. Agricultural So-
ciety an elaborate biography of Job Roberts, which was printed, nearly in full, in the
Germantown Telegraph, of December 17th, in that year. Mr. Tyson's address has
furnished the material for most if not all of the published sketches of 'Squire Job's life.

* Esq. John C. Boorse, of Towamencin, in a communication to the North Wales
Record, April, 1884, said he had followed in his surveys many drafts made by Cadw.
Foulke, and had always found them unusually satisfactory and accurate. "It appears
that he always must have had his chain correct, and his compass in proper adjustment,
and noting all the variations."

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 437

Montgomery, to learn weaving, and in 1792 he married his first
cousin, Margaret Foulke, daughter of Theophilus. As such a
marriage was against the rule of Friends, it was not accom-
plished "according to the order of the Society," but in the pres-
ence of his cousin Theophilus Foulke, a justice of the peace, and
subsequently Richland Meeting had the case up as a matter of
discipline for some time. Cadwallader, however, continued a
Friend, and he was a valuable member at Gwynedd. At his
death he left to his son Franklin Foulke's charge a large collec-
tion of business papers, including his own accumulations, and
many from the estate of 'Squire John Roberts and others, and
these, which ultimately came into the hands of Algernon S.
Jenkins (one of the executors of Franklin Foulke), have been of
much use in compiling the facts stated in this volume.

Charles Roberts.
He was the son of Joseph, of Montgomery, and was born at
the old homestead (" White Cottage Farm ") July 26, 1784. The
death of his father threw him at an early age upon his own
resources, and he turned his attention to the occupation of
teaching. After having charge of schools in Whitemarsh (1799),
at Buckingham (i 800-02), at Springfield, N. J. (i 803), and attend-
ing Westtown school for six months (1802—03), he went to
Philadelphia, where, in 1805, he took charge of the Pine Street
Friends' School. This he conducted with much success until
1 8 18, meantime applying himself with diligence to the improve-
ment of his own education. In 1822 he was elected a member
of the Legislature from Philadelphia, and served one term. He
became identified with many benevolent and business under-
takings. He was one of the original directors of the Franklin
Fire Insurance Co., a director of the Ridge Turnpike Co., a
director of the House of Refuge, a member and treasurer of the

438 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Board of Guardians of the Poor, for many years a manager of
the Pennsylvania Hospital, a manager of the Pennsylvania Co.
for Insurances on Lives, etc., etc. Having married, in 1810,
Hannah, the daughter of Solomon White, a successful merchant,
he was much engaged in the oversight of property, the adjust-
ment of business, etc., in addition to the engagements already
noted. In person he was a tall and robust man, " fully six feet
high, and of very strong bodily frame." He had his stature at
sixteen, and from that age, he said in after life, he supported
himself Among his strong characteristics, says a memoir by a
member of his family, were his particular and methodical habits,
his excellent health, his regular and temperate order of life, his
integrity and uprightness, his rule " not a dollar for extravagance
or dissipation," and his method, " without haste, without rest."
He died in Philadelphia, July 9, 1845.

Joseph Roberts.
Joseph Roberts, brother of Charles above, was born at Mont-
gomery, March 22, 1793, and went some years after his brother,
to Philadelphia, where he engaged in teaching in the Friends'
schools. In 1822-3-4 he had charge of the William Penn Char-
ter School. A reference to the lists of those who sent their sons
to him shows many of the most prominent citizens of that time
— Wm. Rawle, Chas. J. Ingersoll, Francis Gurney Smith, Thomas
P. Cope, Horace Binney, and others, his students including
Horace Binney, Jr., Alfred Cope, Henry Reed, John A. Dahl-
gren, and others who became distinguished men. He was
deeply interested in scientific matters, and corresponded with
Bowditch, and others of kindred tastes. He was a member of
the American Philosophical Society, and he received in 1829 the
honorary degree of A. M. from the University of Pennsylvania.
He died August 25, 1835, unmarried.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 439

Benjamin F. Hancock.

He was bom in Philadelphia, the son of Richard and Anna
Maria, October 19, 1800. Richard Hancock, the father, a sea-
faring man, was one of those seized by the Ikitish upon the pre-
text that he was an English subject, and he was for some time
confined in Dartmoor prison ; later, having returned home, he
went on another voyage, and died of ship fever at sea. Mean-
while, his wife, left in low circumstances, placed her son Benja-
min with 'Squire John Roberts, at Montgomery, and he was
brought up there. He married Elizabeth Hoxworth, daughter
of Edward and Mary, and while he was teaching " the free
school " at Montgomery Square, in 1824, his twin sons, Winfield
S. and Hilary B., were born. He had been occupying his leisure
time with the reading of law, and having completed his studies
under the direction of Hon. John Freedley, and removed to
Norristown, he was admitted to the bar of Montgomery county
in 1828. He there continued to reside until his death, February
I, 1867. He was prominent in his profession, but not aspiring,
and he held no public position of distinction. For twenty or
more years he was one of the directors of the public schools of
Norristown, and from 1866 to his death, he served as U. S. Col-
lector of Internal Revenues. Early in the term of his residence
at Norristown he was for some time district attorney of Mont-
gomery county, by the Governor's appointment. His remains
are interred in the Montgomery Cemetery at Norristown, with
those of his wife.

Joseph Foulkc.

Amongst the community of the Friends, at Gwynedd, the
most conspicuous figure, for many years, was Joseph Foulke.
He was born there. May 22, 1786. In 1817, he appeared as a

440 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

minister, and was admitted a member of the meeting of minis-
ters and elders in 1821, after which he continued in the ministry
to the end of his life, more than forty years. He made numer-
ous visits to distant meetings, including those in New Jersey,
New York, Canada, Maryland, Ohio, and Indiana. He had
learned the trade of a wheelwright (which was also originally
the trade of his father), and had expected to pursue it as an oc-
cupation, but his inclinations turned to teaching, and in 18 11 he
took charge of the Friends' School at Plymouth, where he con-
tinued for six years ; and then, after teaching one year at Upper
Dublin, he established in the autumn of 18 18, a boarding school
for young men and boys, at Gwynedd, on part of his father's
estate. This school he conducted for many years with marked
success, and it was continued later, until about i860, in the
charge of his sons Daniel and Joseph, and his nephew, Hugh
Foulke, Jr. Joseph published (Philadelphia: 1844) a memoir
of Jacob Ritter (a preacher among Friends, who had been a
Revolutionary soldier : see in Watson's Annals details of his
confinement in the British prison in Philadelphia). He also con-
ducted for many years the publication of the " Friends' Alma-
nac," furnishing for it the astronomical calculations. In 1836 he
visited Washington as one of a committee of Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting to influence Congress against the admission of
Arkansas as a slave State. (See Curtis's Life of Jas. Buchanan,
Vol. I., p. 337 : Vol. II., p. 181.) His MS. journal, giving many
interesting details of his life, has been repeatedly drawn upon for
this work.

Evan Jones.

Evan Jones was born in Montgomery on the old homestead
of his grandfather, John Jones, carpenter. He was the son of
Evan and Hannah Jones. He learned the trade of tanning with

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 44'

his cousin Isaiah Jones, of Buckingham, and, returning to Mont-
gomery, established a tannery at Montgomery Square, where he
was in business for several years. In 1815, he, with Thomas
Shoemaker, Cadwallader Foulke, and Cadwalladcr Roberts, pur-
chased the John Evans estate (now, 1 896, partly the estate of S. S.
Hollingsworth), of Chas. Willing Hare, and about two years later
(the purchase meantime proving to be a bad speculation), Evan
took the homestead, himself, with a large part of the land, and
removed to it, making it his home for the the remainder of his
life. He there dispensed a liberal hospitality ; his house was the
place of entertainment for many visiting Friends and others. His
means, measured by the local standard, were ample, and his
social disposition made his fireside attractive and pleasant. He
was an active member of the Friends, was clerk of meetings for
business,' and generally a pillar of the Society, locally. He filled
many important business positions, being amongst other things
the first President of the Bethlehem Turnpike Co. In 1840, he
was the Whig candidate for County Commissioner,- and received
the highest vote of any on the ticket. His four marriages have
already been mentioned, (p. 414).

Dr. Antriui Foulke.
Dr. Antrim Foulke, the son of Theophilus, the younger, was
born at Richland, March 23, 1793. The accidental death of his
father, when he was but three years old, left him to the sole care

1 Geo. I. Evans, of Emerson, O., says : I was at meeting at Gwynedd, the day of
the " Separation," [1827 or '28] and Isaiah Bell and Ezra Comfort demanded the use
of the meeting house " to hold Gwynedd monthly meeting in." Evan Jones said that
the business of Gwynedd monthly meeting had been transacted, and for his part he
was not vvil'nig they should have the house, but if they would go home with him he
would give them their dinners, and they might have a private room to transact any busi-
ness they wanted. [Isaiah and Ezra were " Orthodox " Friends. Gwynedd meeting
adhered, by a large majority, to the other body.]

' His opponent was Mehelm McGlathery, who, 1896, is still living.

442 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

of his mother. At her desire he learned the trade of a coach-
maker, but having completed it, at the age of twenty-one, he
turned his attention to the profession of medicine, and studied
with Dr. Joseph Meredith, at Gwynedd, whom he joined, after
completing his studies, as a partner, and so continued until Dr.
Meredith's death. He then remained in practice at Gwynedd,
with remarkable success, until 1848, when he removed to Phila-
delphia, and there practiced until his death, in 1861. He was
by many elements of character admirably fitted for his profes-
sion, and his wide range of visits to the country around his resi-
dence testified to the confidence reposed in him.

Rev. Samuel Helffenstcui.
Among the notable figures in Gwynedd, for many years, was
Rev. Samuel Helffenstein. He was born in Philadelphia (at
Germantown), April 17, 1775, his father being Rev. John C. A.
Helffenstein, the pastor of the German Reformed Church at
Germantown. The latter died in 1790, and the widow took her
son before the Synod, assembled at Philadelphia, and at her de-
sire they assumed his care and education for the ministry. He
was licensed and ordained in 1796 or 1797, and received about
this time a call to the pastorate of Boehm's and Wentz's churches,
which he accepted, but in 1798 returned to Philadelphia to the
pulpit of the Race Street Church, made vacant by the death of
Rev. Dr. Hendel. Here, for thirty-two years, he labored with zeal
and fidelity, but in 1832, having resigned, he retired to his farm
in Gwynedd, where he remained until his death, October 17, 1866.
In 1846, he published a system of Didactic Theology, embody-
ing the substance of the lectures which during his Philadelphia
work he had delivered to the numerous theological students who
prepared for the ministry under his direction. (The list of these
includes many prominent names in the Reformed Church.) In

BIOGRAPHfCAJ. NO TICKS. 443

1824 the Synod invited him to become Professor of Theology in
a theological seminary intended to be established at Carlisle,
in connection with Dickinson College, but he saw fit to decline
this. His wife was Anna Christina Steitle, daughter of I-'manuel,
of Gwynedd, to whom he was married in 1797, and of their
children, twelve in number, three (Rev. Samuel, Jr.; Rev. Alb.^rt,
and Rev. Jacob), became eminent ministers ; two (Dr. Abra-
ham and Dr. Benjamin) became physicians ; one, Kmanuel, a
lawyer and conveyancer ; one, Jonathan, a farmer ; one, Isaac, a
merchant ; and one daughter, Catharine, married Augustus
Miller. Rev. Samuel Helffenstein was buried in the family vault
in the cemetery grounds of the old St. Peter's church.
Charles F. Joikiiis.
He was the son of Edward, and the great-grandson of Jenkin
Jenkin, the immigrant. He was born at Gwynedd, March 18,
1793, and died there February 5, 1867. He received instruction
at the academy of Enoch Lewis, the eminent teacher and mathe-
matician, at New Garden, Chester county ; but he added to his
opportunities of education a studious and intellectual habit,
reading throughout his life, with intelligence and zest, upon an
extensive range of subjects. Having been brought up in his
father's store in Gwynedd, he engaged in mercantile business
in Philadelphia (some time on Second street, opposite Christ
Church), for fourteen years, with good success ; but in 1830, upon
the decease of his father, he returned to Gwynedd, and took the
store, which he conducted nearly to the close of his life. He
took a very active interest in public affairs, was for many years
a director of the public schools, and was the candidate of his
party (it being, however, in the minority for a long period), for
the Legislature, etc. His promotion of the construction of the
turnpike has already been mentioned. He was, besides, secre-

444 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 01 GWYNEDD.

tary for many years of the Bethlehem turnpike, a director of the
Bank of Montgomery County, and of the Montgomery County
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, etc.

Winfield Scott Hancock.

His distinguished career in the army of the United States,
especially during the great war for the suppression of the Re-
bellion, and his candidacy for President of the United States,
supported by nearly one-half of the American people, must be
taken to designate General Hancock as the most eminent native
of the two townships to which this volume relates. He was
born February 14, 1824, at Montgomery Square. Through his
mother, Elizabeth Hoxworth, he had a strain of Welsh blood,
from Jenkin Jenkin, who was his mother's great-grandfather.

It would be impracticable, here, to present a complete biog-
raphy of General Hancock, or even a fairly full abstract of the
events in his military career. I shall only mention a few local,
family, and personal details. His father having removed to Nor-
ristown, when he was about four years old, he was educated
there, in the " Old Academy," his teachers being Eliphalet
Roberts, Rev. A. G. Harned, Jr., and Stapleton Bonsall. He
was a manly, vigorous boy, full of spirit, and inclined to military
ideas. In 1840, Hon. John B. Sterigere, M. C, appointed him a
cadet at West Point, and he entered the Academy, July ist, of
that year. He graduated June 30, 1844, and being brevetted
second lieutenant, was assigned to the Sixth Regiment of In-
fantry. From that time his service became a part of the public
record of the country. He married, January 24, 1 850, Almira
D. Russell, daughter of Samuel Russell, a merchant of St.
Louis, Mo., by whom he had two children : Russell, sometime
of Mississippi, and Ada Elizabeth, who died of typhoid fever, in
New York, at the age of eighteen. General Hancock died at
Governor's Island, N. Y., February 9, 1886.

XXVIII.
Additional Chapter — i8gj.

THE MEETINQ=HOUSE OF 1712.

THE subscription-paper (referred to on p. 79) for buildinf^ the
Friends' meeting-house in 171 2, the original of which, as
Joseph Foulke says, was preserved in the Foulke family, was in
Welsh. Copies of it appear to have been made, and one of these,
translated, reads as follows :

Givynedd — the sixth day of the first month in the year one thousand
seven hundred and nine-ten.

The names of Friends who have united to build a meeting-house at
Gwynedd — to worship God after the form and system which exists amongst
the people called Quakers — together with the several of the sum which each
one specifically gave — to be paid as it here follows : — As many as have
subscribed below to pay the sum in four quarters : — The first quarter to be
paid the first day of the ninth month 1710 and the second — the first day of
the third month in the year 171 1 and the third — the first day of the ninth
month 171 1 and the last — the first day of the third month [blank, presuma-
bly 1 7 1 2] .

[Signed by]

^ s. ^ s.

William Jones 9 . 10 Robert Pugh 4 . o

Thomas Evan 11. o Rowland Hugh 4 . o

Cadwalader Evan .... 8 . 10 Richard Morris 2 . o

Robert Jones 8 . o William Robert i . 10

John Hugh 6.10 David Pugh i . 00

Robert Evan 6 . o David Jones i . 00

Edward Robert 6 . o Morris Edward

Edward Ffoulke ....5.0 Edward Morgan 5 . 00

446

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

Cadwalader Robert . . . . 3 . oo

Morris Robert 3 • 00

Nicholas Robert 2 . 10

John Robert 2 . 10

Rowland Robert 2 . 10

Evan Griffith 5 . 00

Garret Peterson 5 . 00

Robert Parry 9 . 00

Robert Thomas 3 ■ 00

Thomas Edward 2 . 10

Thomas Davis 2.10

Evan Griffith I . 10

Ffrancis Dawes i . 10

Cadwalader Moris ... . 2 . 00

WilHam Morgan 2 . 10

Edward Morgan [Jr.] . . . 2 . 00

William Story 2 . 00

John Griffith 2 . 00

John Davis i . 5

Evan Jones

Cadwalader Jones . . . .2.10

Richard Pugh i . 10

Jno. WiUiams i . 10

The names of the two who have been appointed Collectors to receive
the money and to keep account and to pay it to the builders of the meet-
ing-house, are Thomas Foulke and Hugh Evans.

The names of the eight who have been appointed to overlook and to
arrange the matters relating towards and for its building — are Thomas
Evan, Robert Evan, John Hugh, Edward Ffoulke, William Jones, Robert
Jones, John Humphrey, Robert Evan Prythra.

Alexander Edward . .

5

10

EUis Robert

5

0

Owen Evan

4

10

John William ....

4

10

George Lewis ....

4

0

Meredith Davis ....

4

0

Hugh Evans

4

0

Robert Humphrey . . .

4

0

Hugh Griffith

4

0

John Robert

3

0

Hugh Robert

3

10

Thomas Ffoulke . . .

3

10

Evan Pugh

3

00

John Humphrey . . .

8

00

Robert Evan Prythra .

3

00

Richard Lewis ....

2

00

David Gilkin

2

10

Evan Owen

10

Robert Hugh

17

Griffith Hugh

2

Samuel Thomas . . .

00

David Davis

00

Evan Robert

2

10

THE HUMPHREYS OF MERION.

A family record of the Humphreys, children of Samuel,
referred to on p. 97 (foot-note), as furnished me by Philip P.
Sharpies, of West Chester, Pa., is as follows :

ADD/l/ONAL CHAPTF.R—i8<)7. 447

A true account of the births of the children of Samuel Humphrey of
the Parish of Llangelynin in the County of Merioneth is as followeth

The first childs name is Lydia she was born the 28th day of ye ist mo.
1659.

The 2nd childs name is Daniel he was born the [blank] of ye 6th
mo. 1660.

Two twins whose names were Benja & Joseph they were born the
[blank] day of ye 5th mo. 1662.

The 5th childs name is Rebecca she was born the 7th day of 2nd
mo. 1664.

The si.xth childs name is Ann she was born — day of 3d mo. 1666.

The 7th childs name is Gobeithia she was born the 7th day of ye 7th
mo. 1668.

Samuel Humphrey afforsaid & Elizabeth Reese were married before
two Justices of peace named Morris Wynn & Robert Owen of Dolessery on
ye 20th day of april 1658.

The foresd Saml. Humphrey parted this life the 17th day of the 9th
Mo. and was buried ye 19th day of ye same att Bryn-tallwyn 1677, aged
-I years and 9 months.

Rebecca Humphrey married Edward Reese and departed this life the
17 of the 2d mo. Anno Dominni 1733 aged 69 years wanting 8 days,
and was buried 20th day following, being ye fifth of ye week.

Edward Reese departed this life the i ith day of the sixth month 1728
aged about 82, was decently burried the loth day of the same instant at ye
burying place which is at Merion Meeting house.

DIVISION OF THE TOWNSHIP.

In 1 89 1, at the general election in November, as the result
of proceedings begun the previous year, a vote was taken upon
the proposal to divide the township, on the line of the Swedes
Ford road, into Upper and Lower Gwynedd, and a majority
voted affirmatively. A petition for division had been presented
to the Court, October 7, 1890, signed by 38 "inhabitants of the
township,". and on the i8th of that month, Judge Weand ap-
pointed William B. Rambo, Morgan R. Wills, and I. P. Brend-

448 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

linger a jury to make inquiry and report. Proceeding to the
duties of their appointment by a visit to the proposed division
line, the jury were met by a number of citizens \vho generally
disapproved the division, as a measure likely to increase the
township expenses, without corresponding public advantage.
Among those who urged this were Hon. George Handy Smith,
Jason Sexton, Jacob Acuff, Dr. M. R. Knapp, Thomas Coulston,
Edwin M. Foulke, and others.'

The jury nevertheless reported in favor of the change, and
the vote, when taken, sustained the proposition. Among those
opposed to the division, and who published reasons for their ob-
jections in the North Wales Record, preceding the election, were
William M. Singerly, (a large landowner in Gwynedd, though a
resident of Philadelphia), Howard M. Jenkins, Charles S.
Jenkins, John Lefferts, Seth Lukens, George L. Bowman, Julius
Schlimme, Samuel Myers, John F. Comly, W. H. Harding,
Frederick Beaver, Henry Mumbower, Stiles Huber, Dr. M. R.
Knapp, Jacob Acuff, David Acuff, James Buzby, Hugh Forman,
Amos Jones, L. L. Shepherd, F. W. McDowell, and Henry G.
Keasbey. It is not probable that a majority of the freeholders
of the Township favored the division. After the experience of
five years (1896) it is found that the expenditure has largely
increased, that on roads having about doubled, and that the muti-
lation of the old township was, as urged by those opposing it,
needless and mischievous.

SUNDRY NOTES.

In Mr. Thomas A. Glenn's recently issued (1896) volume,
" Merion in the Welsh Tract," the descent of some of the Welsh
families settling in Gwynedd is more definitely traced. William

' Report in Norristown Daily Herald.

ADDITIONAL CHAPTER— / 897. 449

John, it appears, ^vas the first cousin of the four Evans brothers,
Thomas, Robert, Owen, and Cadwalader. They were all grand-
children of Evan Robert Lewis of Fron Goch — which place is in
Merionethshire, about three miles from Bala, and not, as sug-
gested (p. 149), in Denbighshire. Our William John was the
son of John ap Evan, the eldest son of Evan Robert Lewis,
and the Evans brothers were sons of Evan ap Evan, the
youngest son.

The old stone flour-mill, at Penllyn, on the Wissahickon, the
Foulke Mill, having been abandoned, was torn down in January,
1 896. In the first edition of this book an etching of it appeared,
by Miss Dillaye, showing it as it was in 1884.

Christian Dull bought the property at Spring- House in
December, 1773, and probably began to keep the hotel the next
year. He purchased of Philip Bohl, and the property was then
described as " a certain messuage, tavern-stand, and lot of 83^
acres."

The North Pennsylvania Railroad was opened as far as
Gwynedd Station, July 2, 1855. Three trains were run daily,
each way. Stages ran from the Station to Doylestown, Bethle-
hem, and Kulpsville. The heavy work between Gwynedd and
North Wales was not completed until next year, when the road
was opened through to Doylestown and Bethlehem.

The diminution of the creeks is one of the most notable
phenomena of our time, November 18, 1883, I was talking with
Henry Mumbower (since deceased), at his house at the mill on
the Wissahickon. He said he came to the mill in 1854. Esti-
mating by the amount of work he could then do in the mill, with
water power, as compared with 1884, he thought that in the
thirty years the Wissahickon had shrunk one-half in volume.
He ascribed it in large part to the clearing of the woods, above,

450 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.

along the sources of the stream. From my own recollection
of the Wissahickon, and the indications along its banks of the
size it once was, I am confident his estimate of its shrinkage is
not too great. The little creek which crosses the turnpike in
front of the house of James D. Cardell, and falls into the Wissa-
hickon near Mumbower's mill, was, in my boyhood (say 1850)
a flowing stream throughout the year, only shrinking into pools
in the droughts of August. It now rarely flows at all, except in
time of heavy rain. There must have been, in the earlier time,
an abundance of fish in the creeks, especially in the Wissahickon.
My father often mentioned his fishing at night with a light, in
company with his uncle, Jesse Jenkins, in the Wissahickon, be-
low Mumbower's. It was probably about 1830 to 1840.

In relation to Alexander Edwards, the pioneer of the Mont-
gomery settlement (refer to p. 298), his wife " Margaret, and her
daughters Margaret and Martha, and sons Alexander and
Thomas," reached Philadelphia in the ship Vine, William Preeson,
master, 7th mo. 17, 1684. (On the same ship came Robert and
Jane Owen, and Reese John and his family.) Alexander Ed-
wards himself appears to have come over before his family. It
also appears that he married a second time, as his wife, mentioned
in his will, was named Katharine.

Finis.

INDEX.

*^* The three principal (ienealogical Chapters (Kvans, Roberts,
Foulke) are not indexed ; names occurring^ only in them will not be found
in the Index.

Abington Quarterly Meeting estab-
lished, 82.

Acuft", David, 401, 407.

Agriculture, early methods and im-
plements of, 392, 393, wages,
395-

Baptist Church in Montgomery, es-
tablishment of, 305, pastors of,

305-
Bartholomew, John, 299.
Bate, Humphrey, 69.
Beaver, Barnaby, 350, 364.
Bees, 392.
Boileau, John, 407.
Book of Memorials of 1787, 84.
Boone family, 4, 369, 371.
Boone, George, 81, 369, 370;

Geo., jr. , 369 ; Squire, 116,370;

Daniel, 370, 371, 372.
Bricks, 14.
Bridges, 408, 409.
Brunner, Paul, 310.

Carpenter, Sam'l, 50,

Castner family, genealogy of, 422-

424.
Chapin, William, 423.
Churches, 304, 305, 363, 364.
Cider, 392.
Cleaver family, genealogy of, 411,

412.

Clemens, Garret, 356, 359, 364.
Coed-y-foel, farm in Wales, 36.
Corson, Lawrence E., 407.

Danenhower, Abraham, 311, 364.

Deaths, lists of, 140, 145.

Dillwyn, George, 88.

Disease, fatal, 1745, 311.

Disputes, settled by monthly meet-
ing. 390. 391-

Dull, Christian, 359, 465, 466, 401.

Dull, Christian, jr., 367.

Dysentery, on the Robn-t and Eliza-
beth, 30.

Early famihes, details concerning,
410, 427.

Edwards, Alexander, jr., 298.

Edwards, Alexander, Sen., 298, 385.

Ellis, Rowland, 24, 75, 83, 390.

Evans, Cadwalader, immigrant, his
family, 51 ; purchase of land,
55 ; place of residence, 60 ;
reads church service for the set-
tlers, ^6 ; preacher, 83, memo-
rial, 85.

Evans, Cadwalader, jr. , biographi-
cal sketch of, 430.

Evans, Dr. Cadwalader, biographi-
cal sketch of, 427, 428.

Evans, Ellen, 17.

452

INDEX.

Evans, Evan, preacher, 84, 347,

386, 393. 395-
Evans Family, descended from
Evan ap Evan, 66 ; gen'gy of,

147-198-

Evans, Hugh, reminiscence of
Penn's visit, 61.

Evans, Jenkin, of Montgomery, 300.

Evans, John, son of Cadw.,
preacher, 86 ; memorial of, 87.

Evans, John, "the elder," bio-
graphical sketch of, 428.

Evans, Jonathan, teacher, 397.

Evans, Mary, wife of Owen, 92.

Evans, Owen, immigrant, 51, 52 ;
purchase of land, 55, 58,

Evans, Rev. Evan, 296.

Evans, Robert, immigrant, 51 ; pur-
chase of land, 55, 58 ; place of
residence, 58 ; preacher, 83,
Thos. Chalkley'sallusion to him,
84.

Evans, Robert (son of Owen),
household articles, 386, 393.

Evans, Rowland, biographical sketch
of, 429.

Evans, Thomas, patent to, 25 ;
original tract of, 55, 58, his place
of residence, 60, 70 ; four sons,
71 ; second mariiage, 72, re-
moval to Goshen, 72.

Everhart, John, 368.

Exeter (Oley) monthly meeting, 82.

Fetter, Wendel, 363,

First settlers, number of, 50 ; fami-
. lies of, 51 ; arrival of, 21 ; homes,
55 ; size and location of their
tracts, 58.

Fothergill, John, visits Gwynedd, 89.

Foulke, Cadwallader, biographical
sketch of, 436.

Foulke, Dr. Antrim, 381 ; biographi-
cal sketch of, 441.

Foulke, Edward, immigrant, 29 ;
narrative of his removal, 33 ;

ancestry of, 33 ; circumstances
of, in Wales, 37 ; his family, 51,
52 ; his original tract, 55, 58 ;
home of, in Gwynedd, 62.

Foulke Family, Gen'gy of, 233,
281.

Foulke, Hugh (3d), Indian garden,
19.

Foulke, Joseph, 396 ; biographical
sketch of, 439.

Foulke, Thomas (son of Edward,
the immigrant), 62.

Foust, Rev. George D., 376, 380.

Freeholders, list of Montgomery,
302 ; Gwynedd, 310.

Frey, John, early German settler,
310.

Friends, early, in township, details
concerning, 83-93 ; meeting, es-
tablishment of, 73-82; preachers,
83-93 ; action in the Revolution,
354 ; militia fines, 355.

Fries, John, of "Rebellion," 310.

Funeral expenses, 389.

Geisenhainer, Rev. Henry, 377.

Genealogical Details concern-
ing Early Families, 410-426.

Geology of Gwynedd, 11-14 ; mezo-
zoic belt, 11-12 ; trap dyke in
tunnel hill, 12 ; plant bed in
tunnel, 13; triassic deposit, 13;
clay, sand, building stone, 15 ;
Prof. Lesley's statement, 12-13 '-
theory of Prof. Lewis, 13.

Gerhart, Nicholas, 105 years old, 142.

Gossinger, George, 310.

German settlers in Gwynedd, early,
309-311.

Griffith, Alice, preacher, 90.

Griffith, Hugh, first settler, 51 ;
tract of land, 55, 58.

Gwynedd. — Topographical fea-
tures, I ; scope of its history, 2 ;
analysis of its history, 3 ; more
extended ditto, 3-9 ; chronolog-

INDEX.

453

ical sketch of ditto, 9 ; geology
of, 11-14; Indian traces in,
1 5-20 ; arrival of Welsh settlers
in, 21-32 ; origin of name, 40-
49 ; population of, 50-54 ; Wil-
liam Penn's visit to, 61 ; arrival
of Schwenckfelders in, 308 ;
freeholders in 1734, 309 ; fatal
disease in, 311 ; revolutionary
operations in, 312-348; revolu-
tionary details concerning, 349-
357 ; taxables in. in 1776, 358-
368 : social conditions among
the early settlers of, 381-391 ;
public school system established
in, 397-400 ; division of, 447.

Hancock, B. F., biographical sketch

of, 439-
Hancock, W. S., biographical

sketch of, 444.
Hank Family, 372, 373.
Hank John, 373 ; Nancy, mother

of President Lincoln, 373.
Hassler, Rev. John W., 379.
Harry, Rees, 362.
Hecht, Rev. Anthony, 376.
Heilig, Rev. George, 378.
Heilig, Rev. Theophilus, 380.
Heisler, Jacob, 364, 402.
Heist, Philip, 363.
Heist's tavern, 349, 364, 402.
Helffenstein, Samuel, biographical

sketch of, 442.
Hoot, Peter, 31 1.
Hoot, PhiUp, 311.
Horses, use of, etc., 393.
Hoskens, Jane, reference to Gwyn-

edd Friends, 86.
Hotels, 400, 402.
Household articles of early settlers,

384, 385. 386, 387.
Howell, Deborah, 370.
Hoxworth family, genealogy of, 420,

422.
Hubbs, Charles, 365.

Hugh, Evan ap, firbt settler, pur-
chase of land, 55, 58 ; residence
of, 68 ; his sons David and
Hugh Pugh, 68.

Hugh, John, original settler, his
family, 51 ; his land, 55, 58.

Humphrey, John, of Gwynedd, 51,
52, 62, 63, 64, 65.

Humphrey, John, of Merion, narra-
tive of his experience in Wales,
94-107 ; his will, 95.

Humphrey, Samuel, mentioned in
John Humphrey's narrative, 97 ;
his descendants, 97, 98, 447.

Indentured servants, 395.

Indians, traces of them in Gwynedd,
1 5-20 ; Ellen Evans, discourse
with, 16 ; traditions of at Mum-
bower's mill, 16 ; supposed bat-
tles of, 16, 17; stone imple-
ments of, 17, 18, 19 ; traditional
"garden" of, 19; Prof. D. B.
Brunner's work on, 19.

I ntemperance, condemned by
monthly meeting, 388, 389.

James, Isaac, 302.

Jenkins, Algernon S., 408.

Jenkins, Charles F., 407, 420 ; bio-
graphical sketch of, 443.

Jenkins, Edward, 403.

Jenkins Family, genealogy of, 418-
420.

Jenkin, Jenkin, household articles,
386, 392 ; agricultural do., 395.

Jenkins, John, 358, 364.

Johnson, John B., 380.

John, Rees(" Rees John William"),
96.

John, Robert, 30 ; his will and chil-
dren, 69 ; other references, 385,

392. 393. 395-
John, William, his family, 51 ; tract
of land, 55, 58 ; place of resi-

454

INDEX.

dence, 66 ; his children, 67 ; in-
ventory, 384, 392.

John, WiUiam, and Thomas ap
Evan, their purchase of the town-
ship, etc., 21-28, 29 ; deeds to
other settlers, 55 ; Robert Turn-
er's deed to, 57.

Jones, Evan, biog. sketch of, 440.

Jones Family (descendants of Rob-
ert John), 425.

Jones Family (descendants of John
Jones, carpenter), genealogy of,
413-416.

Jones, Isaac, 301.

Jones, Margaret, preacher, 93.

Kolb, Isaac, 263.

Kramer, Rev. S. P. F., 377.

Lacey, Gen. John, militia, 350.

Land, David C, Indian relics, 18.

Lesley, Prof. J. P., 12, 13.

Levick, Dr. J. J., 76.

Lewis, Amos, 416.

Lewis, EUis, 389, 393, 395.

Lewis, H. Carvill, 13.

Lewis, Isaac, 362.

Lewis, Jephthah and Enos, 360 ;
" Squire " Joseph, 361.

Lewis, Thomas, 300.

Lewis, WiUiam, 67.

Lincoln Family, 371-374.

Lincoln, Mordecai, 371 ; Mordecai,
2d, 372 ; Thomas, 373 ; Abra-
ham, 373 ; John, 374 ; Abraham,
2d, 372 ; Mordecai, 3d, 372 ;
Thomas, father of the President,
372, 373 ; Abraham, President
U. S., 374-

Liquor, use and sale of, 388, 389 ;
John Evans's efforts against, 429.

Lloyd-Price, Richard J., Esq., 36.

Longevity, instance of, 142 ; in
Jones family of Montgomery, 30 j.

Marriages, lists of, from Haverford
records, 108-1 14 ; from Gwynedd

records, 1 14-134; from Samuel
and Cadw. P'oulke's memoran-
dum books, 135-140.

Marriages, two, in Aug., 17 14, 79.

Marriage, with undue haste, con-
demned by monthlymeeting,388.

Mathias, Rev. Joseph, 383.

Medary, Samuel, biographical sketch
of, 432.

Medtart, Rev, Jacob, 379.

Meeting, Friends', establishment of,
72-82 ; first house, of logs, 78 ;
second house, 78 ; subscription
for, 445 ; monthly meeting es-
tablished, 79 ; house enlarged,
81 ; present house, 82.

Mendenhall, Benjamin, marriage to
Lydia Roberts, quaint letter, 387.

Militia, in Revolution, 355-356;
fines paid, 355-356.

Miller, Rev. Lewis G. M., 380.

Mills, 360, 404, 449.

Montgomery, early settlers in, 298-
303 ; list of freeholders in 1734,
302 ; establishment of Baptist
church, 305 ; allusion to by Rev.
Evan Evans, 304.

Morgan, Edward, 282, 283.

Morgan family, genealogy of, 410,
411.

Murder of Henry Weaver, 377.

Myers, Rev. Wm. H., 380.

Nancarro, Susan, 61.
Neuman, Christopher, 309.
Norris, Deborah (afterwards Mrs.
Logan), 312.

Owen Family, descended from
Owen ap Evan, 66.

Owen, Owen, difference with Row-
land Ellis, 390.

Pardo, Marmaduke, early immi-
grant, first school teacher, 395.
Patents to original settlers, 55.

INDEX.

455

Patent to Thomas Evans, 25.

Penn, Letitia, 61.

Penn, William, visit to Gwynedd,6i.

Population, statistics of, 52.

Powell, David, 21, 56.

Price, Roger, of Rhiwlas, Wales, 36.

Public school system, 397-400.

Railroad opened, 448.

Raker, Martin, 367.

Rebenach, Rev. J. H., 377.

Reid, Rev. Ezra L., 379.

Resurvey of the township, 55, 56,

57. 58.

Revolutionary operations in Gwyn-
edd, 312-348, 349-357; miHtia,
354-356.

Rhirid Flaidd, 33-36.

Richland monthly meeting estab-
lished, 81.

Rightmyer, Rev. P. M., 379.

Roads, early, 282, 297, 408, 409.

Roberts, Amos, 321.

Robert and Elizabeth, T\iQ, 30.

Roberts, Ann, preacher, 91.

Roberts, Charles, biographical sketch

of, 437-
Roberts, EUwood, Indian relics, 17.
Roberts Family, genealogy of,

196-232.
Roberts families (other than descen-
dants of Robert Cadwalader),

424, 425.
Roberts, Hugh, early preacher,

22, 30.
Roberts, 'Squire John, 367, 403 ;

biographical sketch of, 434.
Roberts, Joseph, biographical sketch

of, 438.
Rumford, John, 369.

Scarlett, Robert, 14, 407, Thos., jr.,

17-
Schaeffer, Rev. David, Solomon, 377.
Schools and education, 395-400 ;

first school house, 290, 395.
School system of Pennsylvania, 397.

Schwenckfelders, arrival of, 308 ;

details relating to, 309.
Shearer, Abel K., 380.
Shee[), 392.

Shoemaker, Thomas, 363.
Slaves, 394.
Snyder, Cieorge, 368.
Snyder, Henry, 309.
Snyder, Noah, Oliver, 380.
Social Conditions Amongst

Early Settlers, 383-391.
Spencer Family, genealogy of,

416-418.
Spring-House, origin of name, 297 ;

Revolutionary incident at, 353 ;

hotel established, 447.
Stevens, Thaddeus, 352.
State Road, 409.
St. John's Lutheran Church, 375.
St. Thomas's Episcopal Ch., 305,

375-
Stores, 403.
Storms, unusual weather, etc., 393,

394-

St. Peter's Church, 375, 382 ; move-
ment to establish, 375 ; first
building erected, 376 ; pastors
of, 376, 379 ; second building
erected, 378 ; separation of the
congregations, 379 ; new build-
ings erected by each, 379 ; Sun-
day-school of, 379,380 ; reformed
congregation of, 380.

Surname, changes of, by Welsh, 65.

Swink, Martin, 364.

Taxables, 1741, 52 ; in 1776, 358

368.
Teachers, early, 395-397.
Thomas, Absalom, 371.
Towamencin township, erection of,

307.
Township, division of, 447.
Treweryn, river in Wales, 37.
Trotter, William, preacher, 91.
Troxel [Troxall] , 355, 359, 364.

456

INDEX.

Turner, Robert, 24, 28, 55 ; deed to
Wm. John andThos. Evans, 57.

Turnpike, Bethlehem, construction
of, 404, 405, 406 ; Spring-House
and Sumneytown, construction
of, 406.

Van Buskirk, Rev. Jacob, 377.
Vehicles, of early settlers, 393.

Wack, Rev. John George, 381 ; Rev.

Charles P., 382.
Weaver, Henry, murder of, 377.
Weiand, Rev. John K., 377.
Welsh Bible of 1678, 76.

Welsh history, in connection with
name Gwynedd, 40-49.

Welsh language, used by first set-
tlers, 75 ; sermons in, 83.

Welsh tract, 21.

Wentz's church, 373.

Wildbahn, Rev. C. F., 377.

Williams, Theophilus, 299.

Wilson, Alexander, the ornitholo-
gist, reference to Spring-House,
401.

Wissahickon, shrunk, 449.

Wister, Daniel, 312.

Wister's, Sally, Journal, 312-348.

Wolf, Governor, 397.

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