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1462249
3ENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC
3 1833 01411 5940
SOME ACCOUNT
OF
NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA
BY
JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH, LL.B.
LANCASTER :
WlCKERSHAM PRESS
1918
Reprinted with additions from the Publications of The Genealogical
Society of Pennsylvania, March, 1918
1462249
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PAWLING FAMILY OF NEW
YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA.
Henry Pawling,* a gallant young Englishman of means,
education, and enterprise, came to America in 1664, in the
military expedition sent out by the Duke of York and Albany
to secure the patent accorded to him in that year, by his royal
brother, King Charles II. The patent covered all the terri-
tory from Maine to the Delaware River, and measures were at
once taken for the reduction df the Dutch. The expedition,
under Sir Richard Nicolls, a colonel in the English army,
sailed from Portsmouth, England, 18 May, 1664, and arrived
at New Netherlands in August. By September,! New Am-
sterdam and Fort Orange had surrendered, and the whole
territory came under the control of the Duke of York and his
agent and governor, Colonel Nicolls,t and its name changed
to that of New York. One of the earliest acts of the new gov-
ernment was the establishment of a garrison for protection
* In England, his surname appears under various spellings, and, as Pawlin,
is found, 22 Edward III, at Odcombe, Co. Stafford, where the family bore for
arms : On a chevron between three cinquefoils, as many darts' heads broken
at the shaft. It will be noted that in this ancient arms no tinctures are
given in the blazon. In Yorkshire, another branch of the same stock bore
the following : Azure on a bend or, between six lozenges of the second, each
charged with an escallop sable, five escallops of the last.
t New Netherland surrendered to the English, 29 Aug., 1664. — New York
Calendar of Council Minutes.
X See " Biograpny of Richard Nicolls," in the Neic York Genealogical on*
Biographical Record, vol. xv, p. 103.
2 The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
against the Indians at Esopus,* later Kingston, Ulster County,
and the promotion of settlements in this district. Lands were
promised to the ' ' soldiers and all other persons who had come
over into these parts with Colonel Nicolls," and Mr Pawling
was appointed, 9 November, 1668, to lay out lands at Esopus
Creek to induce the former to become settlers.t The garrison,
of which Henry Pawling was a member and probably an
officer, was maintained until the autumn of 1669, when, all fear
of Indian depredations having ceased, the troops were with-
drawn from service.! On 9 September of this year Sir Fran-
cis Lovelace, having succeeded Colonel Nicolls as governor,!!
appointed seven leading men of the Province a commission to
"regulate affairs at Esopus and the New Dorpes," with Mr.
Pawling as one of the commissioners. This body sat as a Special
Court, at Esopus, from September 17th. to 29th., inclusive,
during which time it located sites for the villages of Hurley
and Marbletown, heard grievances, made redress, passed ordi-
nances for the general betterment and government of the
locality and appointed officers to carry out the same.§ Among
the latter, "Mr Pawling was Voted to be ye Officer to whom ye
Indyans should repaire for Redress of Injuryes in Kingston,**
Hurley tt and Marbletown." This appointment was due,
doubtless, to the fact that, while at the garrison, he had be-
* Esopus, or " Sopus," as known to the early Dutch, included Kingston and
the country south of the Rondout. The Esopus Indians who inhabited the
region were of Algonquin stock, allied to the Mohegan and other river tribes.
t Brodhead's History of the State of New York, vol. ii, p. 656.
t New York State Library Bulletin 58, Calendar of Council Minutes, 1668—
1783, p. 10.
II Governor Nicolls was in service in an official capacity as late as 21 August,
1668. The earliest record of Sir Francis Lovelace as governor bears date 23
May, 1668 ; while " Instructions for the well regulating of ye Militia and
other officers at Albany," were signed by both governors in August, 1668.
§ Report of State Historian of New York, Colonial Series, vol. i, pp. 264-
269 ; Minutes of the Executive Council of the Province of New York, vol. i,
pp. 256-282.
** Kingston, so named in compliment to Governor Lovelace's maternal seat
at Kingston Lisle, near Wantage in Berkshire.
tt So called from Hurley House, originally a monastery known as Lady
Place, in a wooded valley near Maidenhead, on the Thames, in Berkshire. The
manor came into possession of the Lovelace family in the sixteenth century
and the house was built by Sir Richard Lovelace, whose son became Baron
Lovelace of Hurley. In the vault beneath the house frequent meetings were
held during the reign of James II., and, according to an inscription on its
walls, several consultations for calling in the Prince of Orange were there held.
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 3
come acquainted with the Indian tongue and displayed marked
ability to deal with this people. So acceptably did he meet the
demands of the complex position that the Governor and
Council, on 27 January, 1673, voted that, he "be thanked for
his vigilance concerning the Esopus Indians. ' ' *
By another appointment of Governor Lovelace, he was again
commissioner of a Special Court, held at the Town Hall in
Kingston, from 30 March to 11 April, 1670, "for setting out
the Boundaries of Kingston, Hurley, and Marbleton, and for
Regulating the affairs of these places and ye parts adjacent,"
Captain Dudley Lovelace, brother of the Governor, being
President of the Court.! The Court Minutes of April 11th
bear the signatures of the gentlemen justices, of which none
is in a more elegant hand than that of Henry Pawling.t
On Easter Monday, 4 April of this year, he was made Cap-
tain, with instructions "to raise and exercise the inhabitants
of Hurley and Marbleton according to the discipline of war,
proclamation of this fact being forthwith made by beat of
drum publiquely in the Towne of Kingston." He was, fur-
ther, "appointed to be present at the Rendezvous at Marble-
ton Tomorrow ye 5th of April." That he kept the appoint-
ment the following testifies :
"Tuesday April 5th, 1670. — This day Capt Pawlings ffoot Company
appeared at Bendevouse -where they were musterd & exercised in their
arms. The President also caused all the Laws relating to the Military
Affaires to be read before them, and then marched them with faying
colours to the Towne of Hurley and there dismissed them. The Colours
were Lodg with a Guard at the Town Hall in Kingston, where the Soul-
diers were commanded to appeare next day in Court to draw their lots. " ||
One day later, 6 April, he and his lieutenant, Christopher
Beresford, received grants of land in Marbletown,|| and on the
7th, "Captain Pawling" was made "Viewer for measuring
and laying out of the Home Lots and Streets of Hurley and
Marbleton," and for the determining of the fencing of these
* New York State Library Bulletin 68, Calendar of Council Minutes, p. IS.
t Minutes of the Executive Council of the Province of New York, vol. i,
pp. 256-282.
X Ibid., Fac-simile of last page Court proceedings, with signatures facing
p. 286.
|| Report of State Historian of New York, Colonial Series, vol. i, pp. 290,
291, 295, 379.
4 The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
lots and lands. He was also chosen to supervise the building
of a bridge * at Marbletown, in which latter service he was to
be assisted by "Captain Thomas Chambers,! Surveyor Gen-
eral of his Ma 'ties High- ways."
Twelve days thereafter his commission as Captain was
signed by Governor Lovelace, a draft of which is of record in
the Colonial Archives and reads :
"To Henry Pawling Capt 'a By Vertue of ye Commission &
authority unto mee given (by H's Royall Highness I do constitute & ap-
point) you Henry Pawling & you are hereby constituted & appointed to
bee Capt of the foot comp 'y listed & to be listed in the Townes of
Marbleton & Hurley & Wyltwyck at Esopus. You are to take into y'r
charge & care the s 'd comp 'a as Capt 'a thereof & duly to exercise both
yer inferior offie'ers & souldy'ers in Armes & to use y'er best care skill
& endeavor to keepe them in good orders & discipline, hereby requiring all
inferior officers & souldy'ers under yer charge to — likewise to observe &
follow such orders & directions as you shall from time to time receive
from mee & other your superior officers according to the discipline of
warre.
' ' Given under my hand & seale this 18th day of Apr in ye 22th year©
of his Ma 'ties Eeigne Annoq Domini 1670. ' '
On the back of the draft is an endorsement by Governor
Lovelace, which reads in part as follows: "Whereas, Mr.
Henry Pawling came over a soldier with my predecessor
Colonel Richard Nicolls" . . . . t
Without doubt, Captain Pawling continued to exercise his
military office, in connection with his civil one, as a court of
appeals in Indian affairs, until that unexpected event, the re-
occupation of New York by the Dutch in 1673. The occupa-
tion lasted only until July, 1674, when a treaty of peace re-
stored it to English rule, and Sir Edmund Andross was sent
over as governor, in whose first administration, or that of the
previous Dutch interim, Captain Pawling would seem to have
had no place. There was a quick succession of gubernatorial
incumbents in New York, which at that time numbered about
* Report of State Historian of New York, Colonial Series, vol. 1, pp. 290.
291, 295, 379.
t Captain Thomas Chambers, the hero of Fort Wiltwyck in the Indian raid
of 1663, and the original patentee of the manorial grant of Pox Hall, which
was invested, by Governor Dongan in 1686, with power to hold Court Leet
and Court Baron.
X Report of State Historian of New York, Colonial Series, vol. i, p. 379.
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 5
40,000 inhabitants, and polities and religious bias, as in Eng-
land, went hand in hand. The "Anglican Andross" was re-
placed by the "Papist Governor" Thomas Dongan, who, in
turn, gave way for a second Andross regime in the person of
his agent, Lieutenant-Governor Francis Nicholson.
The division of the colony into counties was one of the
earliest of Governor Dongan 's administrative acts, and Ulster
County, so called from the Duke of York's Irish title, was
established under that of 1 November, 1683. Two years later
Captain Pawling was appointed by the governor its High
Sheriff,* a position of dignity and responsibility which
marked the measure of the man, and in which, for four years,
he gave unqualified satisfaction. In February, 1689, he re-
sponded to a call for assistance in the war then pending
against the French and Indians, and marched with a detach-
ment of volunteers to Albany, where he arrived on the 13th
of that month.t At Albany, he was a member of the Con-
vention, composed of prominent military and civil officers,
which assembled on the 15th for the consideration of meas-
ures defensive and offensive, Peter Schuyler, Mayor of Al-
bany, being president. Schenectady had been burned by the
savages; diverse of its inhabitants were in captivity; imme-
diate action was necessary, and, on the 21st, among other
resolutions,
"Itt was Proposed to yt gentn of Sopus to levy 50 men out of there
County for our assistance to lye in Garrison here, who Eeplyed that they
would use all Endevors to Perswade there People for a Supply, but by
there unhappy Eevolutions and Distractions Some adhering to ye first
majestracy oyres to there new leaders They cannot Execute yt Power &
Command as is Eequisite on such occasions People being under no Regu-
lation. Eesolved to write to ye Civill & Military officers of Sopus for ye
assistance of 50 men to lye in Garrison here to Defend there Majes King
William & queen Mary 's Interest in these Parts. ' ' %
The ' ' unhappy Revolutions and Distractions, ' ' alluded to by
the gentlemen from Esopus, were, largely, those engendered by
the supporters of the quondam Lieutenant-Governor Leisler,
* New York Civil List, p. 45.
t " Capt. Garten, Capt. Paling, Capt. Buckman, Capt. Matthys, with thirty
men came from Sopus." — O'Callaghan's Documentary History of the State of
New York, vol. ii, p. 88.
t Ibid., pp. 41-2.
6 The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
and it would appear that, Captain Pawling and his associates
did not desire to commit themselves or their constituency to
the Leislerian policy of the hour. No record evidence is at
hand to show him, at any time, a supporter of the first real
republican ruler to attain to power in the new world, or, to
have been an accessory to the death of the only political
martyr to stain with his blood the soil of New York.
An interesting sidelight on the character of the subject of
this sketch, and his vision of men and means, is to be found in
the circumstance of his being, in 1666, while still in garrison
service, so large a purchaser at the sale of Dr. Gysbert van
Imbrock's library at Esopus. This was a remarkable sale of
books for the time and place, and, it is perhaps equally re-
markable that the titles thereof, together with the names of
the purchasers and the prices paid, have been so largely pre-
served. Three hundred and sixty-eight books, at a cost of 130
gulden, were bought by Mr. Pawling, many of a religious
nature, others school books. Exquisite Proofs of Human
Misery, Megapolensis ' Short Way, Borstius' Succinct Ideas,
a French Catechism, Stories of David, and a Gardiner's Book
are a few of the suggestive titles of his acquisition.*
Eleven years thereafter, 1676, as a signatory to the petition
''for a minister to preach both Inglish and Dutche, wch. will
bee most fitting for this place, it being in its Minority," the
man again stands out in the open, large, liberal, kindly.
His worldly goods and acres increased with his years. In
addition to his first grants in the uplands of Marbletown,
where he continued to reside, he secured by petition, in or
about 1677, some twenty acres at Hurley, adjoining the Wash-
maker's lands, and also another tract at "Cuxing,"t on the
west of Redoubt Kills t with a piece of woodland, together
with forty additional acres at Marbletown. Shortly before
his decease he purchased ten thousand acres known as Paw-
ling's Purchase, on the east side of the Hudson River in
Dutchess County, near Crum Elbow, a portion of which is
now the pleasant village of Staatsburgh. The description of
* American Record Series A., Ulster County Wills, vol. i, pp. U4-5.
•f- Koxing Creek, a tributary of Rondout Creek.
% Redoubt Kills, i. e. Rondout Creek.
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 7
its survey,* for Jacob Regniers by Angus Graham, Surveyor
General, 5 April, 1704, includes the patent of four thousand
acres granted to the widow Pawling and her children,! 11
May, 1696. The present town of Pawling t in Dutchess
County, through which runs the Harlem division of the New
York Central Railroad, links the memory of this pioneer,
together with that of his son, Ensign Albert Pawling, for
whom it was so named, to the intimate association of to-day 's
activities. In 1778 a considerable detachment of American
troops were stationed at Pawling, and for a time General
Washington had his headquarters there.
The connection, if any, between Captain Henry Pawling of
Ulster County and the Henry Pawling, said to have been of
Padbury in Buckinghamshire, one of William Perm's sup-
porters in his proposed Holy Experiment, the founding and
settling of Pennsylvania, and a purchaser in 1681 of one thou-
sand acres of Penn 's fair lands along the Neshaminy, with two
lots in his ' ' dream city of Philadelphia, ' ' has not been ascer-
tained. That they were not identical, as was suggested in Mrs.
J. Frank Kitts' valuable article, the "Lineage of the Pawling
Family," II or, in the "Annals of Phoenixville, " by the late
Honble Samuel W. Pennypacker, is conclusive from the fact
that, on the 10th 1st month, 1696/7, ' ' Henry Pawling acknowl-
edged in open Court of Bucks County, Pennsylvania," one year
after the death of Captain Pawling, "a deed of 480 acres of
land in fee, dated 4 December, 1689, acknowledged and de-
clared by said Henry Pawlin grantor to Richard Burgess
grantee, and the seal of the said deed being imperfect and
broken, the said Pawlin did and new make the said seal."
The lands of this "first purchaser" of Penn adjoined those
of William Paxson, also of Buckinghamshire, in England, and
* New York Calendar of Land Papers, i, p. 146.
t Tjerck DeWitt and Anne his wife, by deed of 1 Nov., 1736, conveyed to
son, Henry DeWitt, their estate right in and to a certain patent of 11 May,
1696, by which 4000 acres were granted to the children of Neeltje Pawling,
widow of Henry Pawling, to wit : Jane, Wyntje, John, Albert, Anne, Henry
and Mary, of which, said Anne is Anne DeWitt, party to these presents. —
Dutchess county Deeds, Liber i, ff. 285-87.
X Pawling Precinct was formed from Beekman Precinct, 31 Dec, 1768. The
latter embraced the land granted to Col. Henry Beekman. whose daughter,
Catharine, became the wife of Ensign Albert Pawling.
|| Published in Old Ulster, vol. i, pp. 339 et seq.
8 The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
there were sundry land transactions between the two of record
in Bucks County, to which Henry Pawlin came with the early
settlers. Certain it is that he was there as early as September,
1687, and there remained until as late as 12 September, 1705,
at which time he was serving on the Grand Jury.*
Captain Pawling closed his active, eventful and honorable
life, at his seat in Marbletown, prior to 25 March, 1695, the
date of probate of his will,f which had been executed 21 Jan-
uary, 1691. His entire estate was left to his wife, subject to
the payment of his debts, with remainder at her decease to his
children.
He married, on or about, 3 November, 1676,$ Neeltje Roosa,
daughter of Captain Albert Heymans Roosa|| by his wife
Wyntje Ariens of Marbletown. She survived her husband
and was living as late as 27 October, 1745, when she was a
legatee under the will of her son, Ensign Albert Pawling.
Children, born, doubtless, at Marbletown :
1. i. Jane, m. John Cock of Marbletown, banns, 27 Oct., 1706.
ii. Wyntie, bapt. 20 July, 1679; m. as second wife, in 1698, Cap-
tain Kichard Brodhead, son of Captain Daniel Broadhead by
his wife Ann Tye.
2. iii. John, m. (1) Aagje De Witt; (2) Ephia.
iv. James, bapt. 25 November, 1683; died young.
v. Albert, bapt. 29 March, 1685; d. in 1745; m. 26 November,
1726, Catharine, daughter of Colonel Henry Beekman, and
widow of Captain John Kutsen. He was an ensign in Mar-
bletown, Ulster County, militia, 7 October, 1717, and repre-
sented Ulster County in the New York Assembly, 1726-1737.
He had no issue.
vi. Anne, bapt. 19 June, 1687; d. before 1739; m. 18 January,
1708, Captain Tjerck De Witt, son of Captain Andries De
Witt, bapt. 12 January, 1683; d. at Kingston, 30 August,
1762.
3. vii. Henry, m. Jacomyntje Kunst.
viii. Mary, bapt. 30 October, 1692 ; § m. Thomas Van Keuren.
* Minute Book Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions Courts, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, 1684-1730.
t See full copy of will, in Albert Schock Pawling's Pawling Genealogy, pp.
13-14.
X It is uncertain whether this is the date of the marriage, or that of the
first publication of banns, probably the latter.
|| Albert Heymans Roosa came to New Netherland from Herwynen in Gelder-
land in the Spotted Cow, 15 April, 1660, with wife Wyntje Allard, or Arians,
and eight children aged respectively 17, 15, 14, 9, 8, 7, 4 and 2 years. He
settled in the Esopus district at Wyltwyck, now Kingston, where he was one
of the first magistrates, and, in 1673, captain of the militia of Marbletown and
Hurley. He died at Hurley, 27 Feby., 1679.
§ " After her father's death." — Kingston Registers.
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 9
2. John2 Pawling (Captain Henry1), born, probably, at
Marbletown, Ulster County, New York ; was baptized at Hur-
ley, 2 October, 1681, and died in Perkiomen Township, Phila-
delphia, later Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in June,
1733.
The larger part of his life was spent in the community of
his birth, in the cultivation and improvement of his lands and
the enlargement of his flocks and herds. Rugged and typical,
industrious and sincere, he and several succeeding generations
of his family clung to the soil, which rewarded his and their
intelligence and discrimination with much more than a com-
petence. Imperfect and meager are the memoranda of those
early Marbletown days, but sufficient to show that, to such in-
stitutions as the emergencies of the time demanded and estab-
lished, John Pawling gave his aid, with a predilection to
military rather than civil affairs. As one of ' ' the freeholders
and inhabitants of Ulster County, ' ' he was a signer * to the
petition and address of the Protestants of New York to King
William III, dated 30 December, 1701, setting forth their
loyalty to his majesty during the Leisler troubles.! In June,
1709, he was recommended for lieutenant in the Ulster County
militia, under Captain Wessels Ten Broeck, raised for the
proposed expedition against Canada, and in such capacity
took part in the ill-fated campaign against that place, June
to September, 1711.*
It was about this time that his attention, together with that
of his friend and neighbor Isaac Du Bois, was attracted to the
fertile lands of Pennsylvania, where, on 26 March, 1709, a
return of survey of 625 acres, for John Pawlin, was made to
the office of the Proprietary. This tract along the Perkiomen
in Van Bebber, later Perkiomen Township, then in Philadel-
phia County, purchased jointly and held in common by the
two friends, was not divided until some years after both had
left it forever. On 10 September, 1713, he, then described as
' ' John Pawling of Marbletown in Ulster County in the Prov-
ince of New York," purchased of James Shattick, of Phila-
* Of the 687 individual signers to this State paper only 61 made their mark.
t New York Colonial Documents, vol. iv, pp. 933-941.
| Report of the State Historian of New York, Colonial Series, vol. i, pp.
10 The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
delphia County, five hundred acres "beginning at a black oak
at a corner of T. Padget's land and in the line of land be-
longing to the Free Society of Traders." That he somewhat
promptly removed thereto is evidenced from a deed of 22 Sep-
tember, 5th George, [1719], by which he, at that time of Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, conveyed certain lands in Kingston to
Gerrard Van Wagenen of the latter place. Aagje his wife
was a party to the deed which was witnessed by Edward Far-
mer, Henry Pawling and Daniel Brodhead.* To these pur-
chases in this picturesque region he made additions, notably a
four hundred and fifty acre tract, also on the Perkiomen,
with the edifices, tenements and mills, which, about 1730, he
bought of Hans Jost Heijt.t On these broad acres, in addi-
tion to agricultural pursuits, he operated grist mills, and
attained much material wealth and standing in his new en-
vironment, and Pawling 's Mills became, says a local anti-
quarian, a well-known landmark in the surrounding country,
as did Pawling 's Ford, near where the Perkiomen empties its
waters into the Schuylkill. In 1747, the mansion house and
mills, situated directly within the two branches of the Per-
kiomen, devised by John Pawling to his eldest son, Henry
Pawling, were sold by him to Peter Pennypacker, who added
fulling mills to the grist mills already in operation some
twenty or more years, and the place thereafter was known as
Pennypacker 's Mills. Under its new name it was made his-
toric from being the camping ground of Washington's army
before and after the Battle of Germantown, the old house
being the headquarters of the commander-in-chief after the
Battle of Brandywine.t
During the Indian troubles of 1728 the settlers along the
Schuylkill became alarmed at the news that the Flathead In-
dians, the Catawbas, had entered the Province with the inten-
* Ulster County Deeds, Liber Cle., f. 5.
t See also " The Pawlings on the Perkiomen," in The Perkiomen Region,
edited by the late Henry S. Dotterer, vol. ii, p. 57 et seq.
X It was then that Washington moved his army of eight thousand Conti-
nentals and two thousand militia to the head of the Skippack road at Penny-
packer's Mills and fixed his headquarters in the house then owned by Samuel
Pennypacker, 1746-1826. In the year 1900, forty acres of the original tract
and the mansion house were acquired by the late Hon>><« Samuel W. Penny-
packer, who restored the house and in it spent his last yeara and days.
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 11
tion of striking at the local Indians and settlers.* There were
various petitions for means and measures of defence, and on
10 May in this year, Mr. Pawling was among those who peti-
tioned for protection to the inhabitants of Falkner Swamp
and Goshenhoppen against the common foe. Some disturb-
ance was occasioned by the mistakes and misunderstandings
of the white inhabitants, and the government, foreseeing
trouble, commissioned John Pawling, Marcus Huling and
Mordecai Lincoln t to assemble the colonists and put them in
a position of defence. The work for which the Commission
was appointed t was undoubtedly well accomplished, since
both John Pawling and Mordecai Lincoln were made justices
of the peace and of the Courts of Philadelphia County, 5
March, 1732, and re-commissioned 3 December of the follow-
ing year. The former was holding this position at the time of
his decease.
His will, executed 5 May, 1733, proved 5 June following,!!
described him as of "Bebber's township, gentleman," pro-
vided for the extension of the family burial ground § on the
east side of the Perkiomen, ' ' where divers of my family ' ' are
buried, and made extensive bequests to his children, with pro-
vision for wife Ephia. The eldest son, Henry, was given the
Jost Heijt tract of four hundred and fifty acres, and the
younger sons, John and Joseph, the home plantation and an
equal division of the undivided Pawling-Dubois tract, all of
which was to be occupied by the eldest son until the younger
ones had severally attained the age of twenty-one years.
He married 1st., at Kingston, Ulster County, New York, 23
August, 1712, Aagje, daughter of Tjerck Classen De Witt,**
* Keith's " Chronicles of Pennsylvania from the EDglish Revolution to the
Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1688-1748."
t Great-great-grand father of him who was, perhaps. America's greatest
American, Abraham Lincoln.
I Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, vol. ix, pp. 705-6.
|| Recorded Philadelphia Will Book B, p. ->43.
§ " Whereas, there is a burying place upon the Land that I have bequeathed
to my son Joseph, where divers of my family and others are buried. It Is my
will that there shall be a quarter of an acre of Land laid out commodious
thereto, the wi I do hereby give and bequeath for a burying ground from the
day of my Decease thenceforward and forever."
** The surname De Witt is of unusual antiquity and eminence in the Low
Countries, few more so. The first of this name in New Netherlands, Tjerck
12 The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
one of the early magistrates of that county ; baptized at King-
ston, 14 January, 1684 ; died after 1725, and is, doubtless, one
of those alluded to in her husband's will as interred in the
family burying ground. The date of his second marriage, or
the surname of "wife Ephia," who survived him, has not
been ascertained.
Children,* the four eldest born, probably, at Marbletown:
4. i. Henry,3 bapt. 1 Nov., 1713; d. 1763.
ii. Eleanor, b. 22 Feby., 1715; m. her cousin, Henry Pawling,
iii. Hannah, living 5 May, 1733 ; died before 9 Sept., 1746.
iv. Deborah, m. Christopher Ziegler.
v. Eebecca, m. Captain Abraham De Haven.
5. vi. John, b. 28 Aug., 1722; d. 23 Oct., 1789.
6. vii. Joseph, b. 1724; d. in May, 1797.
3. Henry2 Pawling (Captain Henry1), born, doubtless,
at Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, in 1689; died in
Lower Providence Township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery
County, in 1739.
Little or nothing is known of his life in Ulster County save
Claessen De Witt," " van Grootholdt en Zunderlandt," probably Saterland, a
district in Westphalia on the southern border of East Friesland, was married
in the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, 24 Apr., 1656, to
" Barbara Andriessen van Amsterdam." After a time he settled at Wiltwyck
(Kingston), where he died 17 Feby., 1700. Many of his descendants in both
male and female lines have been distinguished as scientists, statesmen, in the
learned professions and military life. Through his eldest son, Gapt. Andries
De Witt, he was great-grandfather of Col. Charles De Witt, 1727-1788, prom-
inent in Ulster Co. throughout the political events which preceded and
accompanied the Revolution ; of Mary De Witt 1737-1795, who married Gen.
James Clinton and was the mother of De Witt Clinton, 1769-1828, leading
Federalist, liberal patron of the sciences, literature and art, and a really
great governor of New York, 1817-1828 ; of Thomas De Witt, 1741-1809,
Major in Third New York Regiment in the Revolution, whose eldest son, Jacob
M. De Witt, was Adjutant in the War of 1812, later Colonel and Member
of Congress 1819-1821 ; and great-great-great-grandfather of Peter De Witt.
widely known lawyer of New York City, during the earlier part of the last
century. Simeon De Witt, a member of Washington's military staff and, for
more than fifty years, Surveyor-General of New York, also descended
through the eldest son of the worthy pioneer. — See De Witt Family of Ulster
County, New York, by Thomas Gried Evans, in the Neic York Genealogical and
Biographical Record, vols. 17, 18, 22.
•By deed of 9 September, 1746, such of his children as were then living:
Henry Pawling, John Pawling and Elizabeth his wife, Joseph Pawling and
Elizabeth his wife, Henry Pawling of or near Schuyklll and Eleanor his wife,
Abraham De Haven and Rebecca his wife and Christopher Zeigler and Deborah
his wife, conveyed to the heirs of Isaac Dubois deceased, their interest in
certain lands purchased in common by their deceased father and the said
Isaac Dubois. In the body of the instrument the elder John Pawling is
styled " Captain John Pawling." — Philadelphia County Deed Book O No. 12,
P. 181.
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 13
that, in 1715, he served in Captain William Nottingham's
Marbletown Company of Foot, Colonel Jacob Rutsen's Ulster
County Regiment of militia.* By 22 September, 1719, his re-
moval to Pennsylvania had been accomplished. This, without
doubt, was simultaneous with that of his elder brother. He
settled in Lower Providence Township, on a plantation of five
hundred acres at the confluence of the Schuylkill and Per-
kiomen, opposite what later became the almost sacred hills of
Valley Forge. To the early settlers this region was known as
the fat land of the Egypt District, and the analogy is close
between these fair lands, so regularly inundated by the spring
freshets and encrusted with the rich alluvial soil brought
down by the upper river, and those in the East enriched by
the annual life-bearing overflow of the Nile. His choice for a
home and farm-stead could scarcely have been excelled. Rob-
ert Sutcliff, the English diarist, said of it in 1804 :t "I am
convinced that it is one of the most beautiful and healthful
situations I have known either in England or America. ' ' Just
prior to the Revolution, a portion of this estate was purchased
by James Vaux of Croyden, near London, England, the an-
cestor of the present Philadelphia family of his surname, and
for many years was known as ' ' Vaux Hall. ' ' t Here Henry
Pawling devoted himself to agriculture and reaped a com-
petence. The inventory of his real and personal estate in-
cludes : eight slaves, eight horses, twenty -five cattle, thirty-one
sheep and fourteen pigs.
From an early date the Pawlings were prominently iden-
tified II with the Episcopal church of St. James, Perkiomen.
At the first recorded meeting of its vestry, 2 October, 1737,
* Report of New York State Historian, Colonial Series, vol. i, p. 561.
t " Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and its Neighborhood," by Harold Don-
aldson Eberlein and Horace Mather Lippincott, pp. 189-198.
% In 1804, Vaux Hall went into the prossession of William Bakewell, who
re-named it " Fatlands." Subsequently it passed by purchase into the hands
of descendants of Samuel Wetherill, the able leader of the Fighting Quakers.
One of these, as an act of pious patriotism, gave the use of the private burial
ground at " Fatlands " for the re-interment of those who had been buried in
the Free Quakers' Graveyard on the west side of Fifth Street below Locust
Street, Philadelphia, and whose remains it became necessary, in Nov. 1905, to
remove. The tombstone inscriptions of this ground will be found in the
Publications of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. iii, pp. 135-38.
II Pennsylvania Magazine of History, vol. xlx, pp. 87-95.
14 The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
Henry Pawling is present as a vestryman, and at that of
June, 1738, as church warden.* In its grounds he was buried,
and there a granite stone still plainly records: "In Memory
of / Henry Pawling / who Died August the / 30th 1739.
Aged 50 Years."
He married, 26 June, 1713, Jacomyntje,t daughter of Cor-
nells Borents Kunst by his wife Jacomyntje Slecht of Hur-
ley, who survived him, and, with son Henry, administered on
his estate, 10 October, 1739.
Children,^ the first three baptized at Kingston :
7. i. Henry,s bapt. 27 June, 1714.
ii. Sarah, bapt. 8 July, 1716 ; survived her father.
iii. Elizabeth, bapt. 22 March, 1719; survived her father.
iv. Barney, was living in 1791 ; m. before 12 Dec, 1754, Elizabeth,
only surviving child of Josiah James of Phila. Co. In 1766
he was a warrantee of lands in Berks Co., Penna. He was
probably the father of Josiah,* Isaac and John, enrolled in
Philadelphia Co. for service during the Revolution; of Be-
becca, who m. David Schryver of New York, and Elizabeth,
who m. Owen Glancy.||
8. v. Levi, m. Helena Burhans.
vi. Eleanor, m. before 22 Apr., 1746, James Morgan.
9. vii. John, b. 27 Dec, 1732.
4. Henry 3 Pawling (Lieutenant John,2 Captain Henry 1)i
baptized at Kingston, New York, 1 November, 1713; died in
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in or about April, 1763.
He had not reached his majority when his father's death
brought upon him, not only the responsibility of the education
of his younger brothers, but the administration of their con-
siderable landed estate as well as that of his own, a total
aggregation of twelve hundred acres. In "A List of the
Names of the Inhabitants of the County of Philadelphia, with
* The church was, in 1738, broken into and robbed of a pulpit cloth and
cushion of plush purple fringed with black silk, also a pewter communion
service and baptismal basin. A reward of five pounds was offered by the
wardens, William Moore and Henry Pawling. — Pennsylvania Gazette.
t 2 April, 1729, Henry Pawling and wife Jacomyntje " of Philadelphia in
Pennsylvania " were signatories to quit-claim deed to land in Dutchess Co.,
N. Y., Dutchess Co. Deeds.
J An un-recorded deed of 22 Apr., 1746, from Devi Pawling of Marbletown,
N. Y. to James Morgan of Philadelphia Co., Pa., recites that, Henry Pawling
died intestate leaving eldest son Henry, dau. Sarah, dau. Elizabeth, son Bar-
ney, son Levi (the grantee), son John, and dau. Eleanor married to James
Morgan, the said grantee.
H For descendants of Owen Glancy and Elizabeth Pawling, Bee Jones Family,
by Mrs. Ellen M. Beale; also Rodman Family, by the late Charles Henry
Jones Esq.
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 15
the quantity of Land they respectively hold therein, accord-
ing to the uncertaine Returns of the Constables Anno Dom :
1734," his name appears, with the foregoing acreage, as the
largest landholder in "Parkiomen and Skippak Township,"
indeed, the largest in the County.*
His father's will suggests his trustworthiness; his adver-
tisement in the Pennsylvania Gazette his progressiveness. It
rcads: 1462249
' ' December 12, 1735. There has been ever since March last, about the
plantation of Henry Pawlin, junior in Perkiomen, a flea-bitten mare
branded S. T. upon the near Shoulder, with a reddish Spot upon her
Flank and a Bell about her Neck. She is about 13 hands high, and has
now a young Colt with her. Whoever owns her is desired to come and
fetch her and pay the charges. Henry Pawlin jr. ' '
The qualities mentioned, together with the landed estate
which he controlled afforded him a recognized position in the
county, and, in 1748, on or about 4 August, he was appointed
Captain in the Associated Regiment of Philadelphia County,
commanded by Colonel Edward Jones.t
Between 1741 and 1745 he received from the Proprietary
four warrants for lands then in Lancaster, later in Antrim
Township, Cumberland County, one containing seven hundred
and forty-five acres, and another one hundred and twenty-one
acres. This acquisition was, doubtless, the compelling cause
of his disposal of the four hundred and fifty acre tract, re-
ceived under his father's will, known as Pawling 's Mills, to
Peter Pennypacker, and his removal westward to what then
was practically the frontier, where he died.
His will of 31 December, 1762, proved 19 April, 1763,$
named but two children, a son Henry, and daughter Ellinor
still in her minority. His only other legatees were : ' ' the sons
of my brother-in-law, Henry Pawling of Philadelphia."
He was, probably, twice married.ll His wife, at the execu-
tion of his will, was Mary, daughter of Nicholas Hickes of
Cumberland County, whom he had married prior to 6 Sep-
* Publications of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. i, p. 180.
t Pennsylvania Archives, second series, vol. ii, p. 504.
t Cumberland County Wills, Liber A, f. 106.
| See Pennsylvania Gazette, July, 1742.
16 The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
tember, 1749, and whom he made the executrix of his estate,*
The date of her death has not been ascertained.
Children :
i. Henry,* b. cirea 1748; received from John Penn a patent for
his father's Cumberland County lands, dated 31 Oct., 1769;
served in the County militia during the Revolution, and was a
delegate to the Convention of Associated Battalions held at
Lancaster, 4 July, 1776, to choose Brigadier Generals to com-
mand the Provincial forces. In 1783 he was a candidate for
the Legislature. He was living in Kentucky in 1791 with the
rank of Colonel. He died intestate in February, 1794.f His
heir at law was an only sister Eleanor, then the wife of Dr.
Johnston. His widow, Sarah m. Benjamin Price.
ii. Eleanor, m. Dr. Robert Johnston, a distinguished surgeon in
the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolution. It was at his
house, in Franklin County, that Washington stopped to dine
when on his way to quell the Whiskey Insurrection. It was
also at his house, that the death occurred of the eminent Revo-
lutionary surgeon, Dr. Barnabas Binney, ancestor of the Bin-
ney family of Philadelphia.^
5. John3 Pawling (Lieutenant John,2 Captain Henry1),
born on the Perkiomen, Philadelphia, later Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania, 28 August, 1722 ; died there, 23 Octo-
ber, 1789.
Towards the close of the so-called War of the Austrian Suc-
cession he was, in 1748, commissioned ensign in the Provincial
forces, Captain Abraham De Haven's Company of the Phila-
delphia County Associated Regiment of Foot.ll
In the census of 1756 for Skippack and Perkiomen, he is
listed as farmer with three children under twenty-one, four
hundred acres, two negroes, two horses, two mares, fourteen
sheep and twenty horned cattle; in that of 1776, he had four
hundred and seventy acres, four negroes, four horses and
four horned cattle. At the execution of his will, 12 October,
1789,§ he was also the owner of a house and lot in Phila-
delphia.^
* Egle's " Notes and Queries," fourth series, vol. i, p. 216 ; also will of
Nicholas Hickes in Abstracts of Cumberland County Wills, Collections of
The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.
t 4 Yeates, p. 526, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports.
% Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 24, p. 47.
|| Pennsylvania Archives, second series, vol. ii, p. 504.
§ Philadelphia County Wills.
*\ " On the west side of Second Street opposite the New Market, bounded
eastward with Second Street, southward with ground of Edward Shippen,
westward with a four foot alley and leading into Lombard Street." The
income of this was to be applied " to the use of daughter Rebecca Lynch."
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 17
He was chosen a vestryman of St. James', Perkiomen, 26
April, 1749, and continued as such, under yearly re-elections,
until 1760. After this, he was more or less identified with the
Rev. Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg's Congregation at Trapp,
in the adjoining township of Providence, drawn thereto doubt-
less by the eloquence of the "Patriarch of the Lutheran
Church in America." It is to him that Dr. Muhlenberg
refers in his Journal under, "Wednesday, March 12, 1777:
Mr John Pawling sent word that his married daughter had
died and was to be buried in our churchyard tomorrow and
requested my services." Some years previous to this, one of
his younger daughters, and one or more of his negro depend-
ants, had been baptized by the good Doctor, and, something
more than a decade later, he and his wife were buried in the
God's Acre adjoining the Trappe Church, one of the historic
churches of the Commonwealth. The ledger stone over their
graves reads : " In Memory of / John Pawling / who Departed
this Life / October the 23d 1789 / Aged 67 years 1 month /
and 25 Days. / Elizabeth Pawling, / wife of John Pawling /
Born May 16, 1723 / Died Dec. 9, 1791.
His wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Herman DeHaven
by his wife Annica Updengraf.
Children, all born on the Perkiomen :
i. Ann,* buried 13 March, 1777; m. Jacob Pennypacker; had issue.
ii. Deborah, m. William Twaddell; had issue.
iii. Hannah, m. John Hiester, 1745-1821, colonel in the Revolu-
tion and major-general after the war; represented Chester
County in the State Senate 1802-06, and was member of Con-
gress, 1807-09. Ex-Governor Guy of Wisconsin descends from
this line.
iv. Rebecca, m. 13 April, 1786, Michael Lynch.
v. Rachel, b. 13 July, 1765; bapt. 31 March, 1766; m. 7 April,
1784, George Reiff of Lower Salford Township. The late
Major George G. Groff, M. D., Ph. D., of Bucknell University,
is a descendant of this marriage.
6. Joseph 3 Pawling (Lieutenant John,2 Captain Henry x),
born on the Perkiomen, Philadelphia, later Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania, in or about 1724; died there in May,
1797.
Under his father's will he had an estate of nearly four
hundred acres along the Perkiomen — one-half of the home
plantation and one-half of his father's portion of the un-
18 The Pawli)ig Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
divided Dubois tract, the middle of the creek being the divi-
sion line between his and his brother John's farmstead. Ac-
cording to the Perkiomen-Skippack census of 1756, he then
had four hundred acres, four children, one slave, &c. In 1776,
he was taxed for three hundred acres, two negroes, four horses,
six cattle. To his patrimonial estate he made some additions,
one, in 1774, of one hundred and fifteen acres which he sub-
sequently conveyed to his son Benjamin,* and for years pre-
ceding his decease was counted as of large means and standing
in his community. He lived in ' ' the times which tried men 's
souls," and he passed the ordeal to the full satisfaction of a
man's most scrutinizing critics, his neighbors.
His early religious affiliations appear to have been, mainly,
with the Evangelical Lutheran Augustus Church of New
Providence, commonly called the Old Trappe Church. There
several of his children were baptized by Dr. Muhlenberg, and
there he was one of the largest contributors to the support of
Dr. Muhlenberg, and there, too, he probably remained until
after the death of this well-beloved pastor of his people.
During the Revolution and immediately following, largely
through the activity of the Pawling family, St. James' Per-
kiomen, so the minutes of the vestry attest,t took strong
measures to meet the new condition of public sentiment, and
Mr. Slator Clay, receiving deaconate orders, was placed in
charge. At the meeting of the congregation and vestry, 22
April, 1788, to provide for Mr. Clay's continuance, Joseph
Pawling was elected vestryman, and continued to serve in this
office, or as trustee or church- warden, until 4 April, 1793,
when he was succeeded by his son Benjamin, who had first
been elected vestryman, 17 May, 1776.+ Mr. Pawling was one
of the largest contributors to the support of the Rev. Mr. Clay,
as he had been to that of Dr. Muhlenberg, and in the allotment
of pews, 20 December, 1788, he was assigned pew No. 2, his
cousin, Judge Henry Pawling, having the first pew.
His will of 12 January, 1797, proved 29 May following,!!
* Montgomery County Deeds, Liber i. f. 266.
t Copy of Vestry Minutes, 2 Act, [1737] to 28 March, 1799, in possession
of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
X " Benjamin Pawling of Perkiomen."
|| Recorded Montgomery County Will Book 2, p. 2.
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 19
provided for wife, Elizabeth, and the children hereinafter
given. The inventory of his personalty included four slaves :
Phillis, Peter, Anthony Mix and Pegg, valued at $205. Two
hundred and forty-nine acres .of his land was appraised at
£2929.
He married, before 9 September, 1746, Elizabeth ,
who, with her husband, is interred in the family burying
ground, to which he, having received it under his father's
will, made by his own a considerable addition,* and which,
under the trust therein established, is still in a good state of
preservation, as are the tombstones of Mrs. Pawling and her
son Benjamin.
Children, all born in Perkiomen Township :
i. Rachel,* d. 11 Oct., 1828; m. 10 Oct., 1771, Lewis Trucken-
miUer f of Skippack, Revolutionary soldier, Pennsylvania
militia, 1778; d. Oct., 1826.$ Issue: 1. John s T. Miller. 2.
Hannah T. Miller, m. Solomon Grimley. 3. William T. Miller.
4. Elizabeth T. Miller, m. Adam Hatfield, Captain in Fifty-
first Regiment, Penna. Militia in War of 1812, who died at
Philadelphia, 8 Jan., 1846, in his sixty-sixth year; buried in
Trappe churchyard. These latter were the parents of Dr.
Nathan L. Hatfield, b. 2 Aug., 1804; d. 29 Aug., 1887, an
eminent physician, and president of the Philadelphia Board
of Health 1846-47, and father of the late Walter Hatfield, a
prominent iron-master of Phila., the late Dr. Nathan Hatfield,
surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital, and of Major Henry
Reed Hatfield, a member of the Board of Managers of The
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania,
ii. Benjamin, b. 25 Dec, 1750; bapt. 25 Aug., 1751; d. 9 Oct.,
1800; m. Rebecca, dau. of Samuel and Rebecca Lane, b. 28
Feb., 1756; d. 19 Sept., 1830; Revolutionary soldier, 2d lieut.,
Oapt. William Bull's Company, First Battalion, Phila.. Co.
militia, in 1778. Issue: 1. Elisabeth^ b. Feb., 1777; m.
20 Feb., 1803, Edward Vanderslice. 2. Joseph, married and
had three sons, Benjamin, Curtis, and Albert, who settled
in Wabash, Indiana. 3. Sarah, m. 8 June, 1806, Evan Rees.
4. Samuel Lane, went to Union Co., Penna. 5. Rebecca, tn.
Millon. 6. Mary, m. Benjamin Davis. 7. Harriet, m.
* " Two acres for a family burying ground to run from the lower end of said
burying ground to a small run of the Northeast bank thence along said bank
up the run so as to take in two acres of land, as I there] is some dead already
buried there, and tolo] for the family or as many of them as choose to bury
their dead there, which said two acres of land I give and devise to my sons
Benjamin and Joseph their heirs etc. in trust for the use of a burying ground."
f According to his signature. His children and grand-children however
divided the surname, using the letter T, as a prefix to Miller.
t By deed of April, 1S29, the heirs of Lewis Truckenmiller joined in con-
veying land bequeathed to his wife Rachel by her father, Joseph Pawling. The
deed recites that, the said Rachel had deceased leaving the following children :
John T. Miller, Hannah T. Grimley, William T. Miller and Elizabeth T. Hat-
field.— Montgomery County Deed Book 45, p. 129.
20 The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
John S. Davis. 8. Eleanor, d. unmarried. 10. Benjamin, was
living in Iowa in 1871.
iii. Joseph, b. 28 Aug., 1753; d. 23 Oct., 1840; m. (1) 29 Sept.,
1783, Susannah Lukens; m. (2) 5 Nov., 1793, Mary Shannon,
b. 20 Mar., 1766 ; d. 8 Mar., 1839. Mr. Pawling served in the
Pennsylvania militia during the Eevolution. About 1794 he
removed to Snyder Co., Penna., and later to Salem, Union Co.,
where he died. Many of his descendants still reside in this
vicinity. Issue by first marriage: 1. John,s settled in Ken-
tucky. Issue by second marriage : 2. Samuel, b. 9 Feb., 1794 ;
d. 23 Nov., 1874; m. 24 Jan., 1815, Elizabeth Woodling, and
had issue.* 3. Joseph, b. 23 Sept., 1797; d. 6 Oct., 1846'; m.
14 Feb., 1826, Margaret Eebecca Kitzman, and had issue. 4.
Nathan, b. 28 Feb., 1808 ; removed to Knox Co., 111., and had
issue. 5. Elizabeth, m. EzeMel Davis. 6. Maria Teresa, m.
Samuel Stetler, resided at Bloomsburg, Penna. 7. Hannah,
m. Jacob Woodling. 8. Susannah, m. Christian Houtz, resided
in Utah.
iv. Maria Elizabeth, b. 5 Oct., 1756; bapt. 5 Jan., 1757; m. Wil-
liam Shannon.
v. Hannah, bapt. 9 Aug., 1761; m. John De Haven.
vi. Anna, b. 6 June; bapt. 9 Aug., 1762; m. 9 Oct., 1788, Jona-
than Jones.
7. Henry3 Pawling (Henry,2 Captain Henry1), baptized
at Kingston, New York, 27 June, 1714; died in Providence
Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in November,
1792.
He succeeded to his father's estate on the Schuylkill and
rose to prominence in local and Provincial affairs. From 25
May, 1752, he was for some years justice of the peace and of
the Courts of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County, and
served as a member of the Provincial Assembly from that
county in 1751, and from 1764 consecutively until the out-
break of the Eevolution.f In 1761 he was appointed com-
missioner for improving the navigation of the Schuylkill
River, in which position he was, in 1773, succeeded by his son
John Pawling, Jr. He was also appointed in 1761 to take
charge of a building operation and the preparation of a plant-
ing ground for the friendly Indians at Wyoming. In the
assessment list of Perkiomen Township for 1776, he appears
as Henry Pawling, Esqr., with two hundred and ninety acres,
two negroes, four horses and eleven cows.
* From this line descends Albert Schock Pawling of Lewisburg, Penna.,
Compiler of the Pawling Genealogy, 1905.
t Oct. 1. Ii70. Went to the State House to give my vote for Joseph Fox,
Michael Hillegas, Henry Pawling, Thomas Livezey, Thomas Mifflin, George
Gray, Samuel Miles and Edward Pennington for Assemblymen. — Diary of
Jacob Hiltzheimer, p. 22.
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 21
The example of the father in his connection with St. James'
Church, PerMomen, was followed by the son, who, elected
church warden 4 April, 1743, continued to serve as such, or
as a vestryman, until his decease. Measured by the Minutes
of the Vestry, Mr. Pawling was, during all this period, its
most active parishioner. By his will, he left a legacy of ten
pounds towards the enclosure of its churchyard with a stone
wall. His sons Henry, John and Nathan were also vestrymen.
Judge Pawling 's will of 18 November, 1781, proved 3 No-
vember, 1792, provided that, his lands in the Schuylkill River,
called "Catfish Island," should be sold; that his son Henry
should have the remainder of his tract in Providence Town-
ship, with mansion house and between two and three hundred
acres; that daughter, Catharine Stalford, should receive two
hundred and seventy-five acres of land in Lucerne County
and all silver plate; and that his interest in lands on Wya-
lusing Creek in Northumberland County should, after paying
an incumbrance of £250 to daughter Rachel Bartholomew, be
vested in his grandson, Levi Pawling. The instrument further
provided a competence for all his children, either in lands or
money, and legacies to his brother, Barney Pawling and cousin-
nephew, Colonel Henry Pawling of Kentucky. James Vaux,
his neighbor, was constituted one of his executors.
He married, about 1740, his cousin Eleanor, daughter of
Lieutenant John Pawling by his wife Aagje De Witt, born,
probably, at Marbletown, 22 February, 1715, and died before
the execution of her husband's will.
Children, born, probably, in Lower Providence Township :
i. Rachel,* b. 1742; d. 1794; m. Col. Edward Bartholomew, of
Philadelphia.
ii. John, b. 17 May, 1744 ; will proved 24 June, 1815 ; m. 9 Sept.,
1771, Elizabeth, only daughter of Eees Morgan of Lancaster
County, by his wife Margaret Edwards. On Assessment List
of Providence Township, 1776, for two hundred acres, &c.
Issue: 1. Margaret,* m. 25 Mar., 1792, Robert Adolf Farmer.
2. Henry, living at the making of his grandfather's will, but
not at that of "his father's. 3. Eleanor, b. 1 Aug., 1775; d.
16 June, 1855; m. 2 July, 1795, John Cornman, M. D., of
Phila., who d. 23 Apr., 1813. 4. Elisabeth. 5. John Morgan,
b. 1 Dec, 1783; d. 26 Nov., 1838; m. 1 Feb., 1811, Rebecca
Prather. 6. Rachel, d. unmarried at Greencastle, Penna., 20
June, 1861. 7. Fanny.
in. Henry, b. 25 Sept., 1746 ; d. 23 Oct., 1822 ; buried at St. James ',
Perkiomen; m. 11 Dec, 1769, Rebecca, dau. of William Bull.
22 The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
He was Captain in Col. Eobert Lewis ' Battalion of the Flying
Camp in 1776.* In 1784 he was appointed one of the Com-
missioners for the new county of Montgomery and was also
one of its first Associate Judges. Issue: 1. Levi,s b. 1770; d.
1845; m. 17 Oct., 1804, Elizabeth, dau. of Maj. Gen. Joseph
Hiester, Governor of Pennsylvania, who died at Norristown,
27 July, 1826. Distinguished as a lawyer and Federalist, he
filled many positions of trust in his town and county, and was
Member of Congress 1817-19.f He had three sons and four
daughters: Joseph « Hiester Pawling, 1806-1847. Henry
DeWitt Pawling, M. D., 1810-1892, the well-known physician
of King of Prussia, Pa.; m. Anna D., dau. of Levi Bull of
West Chester. James Muhlenberg Pawling, Esq., 1811-
1838; m. Lydia Wood. Elizabeth Pawling, m.$ Hon.
Thomas Ross of Doylestown, Pa., eminent lawyer and Con-
gressman, 1849-53. Ellen Pawling, m. Henry Freedley, Esq.,
of Norristown. Rebecca Pawling, m., as second wife, Henry
Freedley, Esq. Mary Pawling, m. Sylvester N. Rich, Esq.,
of Philadelphia. 2. Henry, named in his father 's will, 5 July,
1817. 3. William, of Pawling 's Bridge, d. 1835, leaving three
sons: Henrys Pawling, Thomas Pawling, Albert Paw-
ling. 4. Eleanor, m. 28 Feb., 1799, James Milnor, Esq., of
Philadelphia, Member of Congress, 1811-1813, who, abandon-
ing the law, entered the ministry of the Episcopal Church;
was Doctor of Divinity and rector of St. George 's, New York,
1816-1844.
iv. Benjamin, m. after 1776, Susanna Ballinger. Revolutionary
soldier in 1778; named in father's will; said to have removed
to Canada.
v. Nathan, b. 1750; d. unmarried 27 March, 1795; Revolutionary
soldier; Cornet of the Montgomery County Troop of Horse, in
1786; Lieutenant of Light Dragoons, commanded by Capt.
James Morris, in 1792; High Sheriff of Montgomery County;
buried at St. James', Perkiomen.
vi. Jesse, named in his father's will; officer in British army; re-
moved to Canada.
vii. William, d. about August, 1845.
viii. Catharine, m. Joseph Stalford; removed to Luzerne Co., Pa.
Their son, John Pawling Stalford, b. Perkiomen, 20 Oct.,
1788; d. Wyalusing, Bradford Co., Pa., 27 Jan., 1863; was
the father of John Bradford Stalford, now, or late, the presi-
dent of the Bank of Wyalusing.
8. Levi3 Pawling (Henry,2 Captain Henry1), born in
Lower Providence Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsyl-
vania, circa 1722; died at Marbletown, Ulster County, New
York, in March, 1782.
Inheriting the considerable estate of his uncle, Albert Paw-
ling, Esq., at Marbletown, his removal thereto had been accom-
* Pennsylvania Associators and Militia, vol. i, p. 558.
t In this connection see also Acge's Men of Montgomery County," pp.
252 et seq.
X Of the issue of this marriage ; Hon. Henry Pawling Ross, was President
Judge of Mont. County Courts, and George Ross, Esq., was a well-known
lawyer at Doylestown and a member of the Contltutional Convention.
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 23
plished before 22 April, 1746. At this time he, described as
of that place, was party to a conveyance of land on the
Schuylkill and Perkiomen to his brother-in-law, James Mor-
gan. After this, his life was identified with Ulster County
and the Provincial affairs of New York, where he achieved a
large measure of distinction in the field of politics and mili-
tary service.
On 17 September, 1761, he was appointed one of a Commis-
sion to hold a meeting with the Delaware Indians relative to
the renewal of a treaty of peace. He was a member of the
Provincial Convention which met at New York, 20 April,
1775, to elect delegates to represent the Province in the Conti-
nental Congress ; a member of the Fourth Provincial Congress
and Representative Convention, 1776-77, and also a member
of the second Council of Safety which continued in session
from 8 October, 1777, to 7 January, 1778, and was succeeded
by the Legislative Convention. An early justice of the peace,
he was appointed by an ordinance of the Provincial Conven-
tion, 8 May, 1777, first Judge of the Ulster County Courts.
He was also State Senator from Kingston district, 1777 to
1782. During the Revolution he was Colonel commanding the
Third Regiment, Ulster County Militia, under commission of
28 October, 1775.
His will of February, 1782, was proved 19 March following.
It named wife "Halana" and children Albert, Henry, Levi
and Margaret.
He married at Kingston, 12 October, 1749, Helena, daugh-
ter of William Burhans by his wife Gretje Ten Eyck.
Children, born at Marbletown:
i. Albert,* bpt. 22 Apr., 1754; d. Troy, N. Y., 10 Nov., 1837; m. (1)
28 Apr., 1782, Gretje Ten Eyck, b. 21 Nov., 1756; d. 23 May,
1789; m. (2) Eunice, dau. of Col. Joshua Porter, and widow of
Joshua Stanton. In the Revolution, he became successively
cornet of Light Horse, lieutenant Third Regiment, Continental
Line, brigade-major on staff of Gen. Clinton, lieutenant-colonel
commanding an Ulster Co. regiment, and, he is said to have been
a colonel on Washington 's staff. He was, in 1791, the first
High Sheriff of the newly erected Rensselaer County, and be-
came one of the founders of and the first president of the vil-
lage of Troy, 1802-1816, and its first mayor 1816-1820, after its
incorporation as a city. He served on many important com-
mittees and, in 1824, was chairman of the committee to provide
for the reception of General Lafayette.
ii. Henry, b. 22 April, 1752; d. 29 June, 1S36; m. 12 March, 1782,
Anna, dau. of Rev. John W. Brown, who died at Hagaman's
24 The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania.
Mills, Montgomery Co., N. Y., 29 Dec, 1828; m. (2) Mrs. Sela
Wells. A ^Revolutionary soldier, he became Captain in the
Second Begiment, New York Continental Line. Upon the fall
of Forts Clinton and Montgomery, he was captured and confined
for months in the prison ship Archer, and later on the Myrtle.
His military Journal, now or late in the possession of Suther-
land DeWitt, Esq., vividly describes the hardships on the for-
mer ship. The war ended, he settled in Montgomery Co., where
he was Captain of Light Infantry in 1786, and which he repre-
sented in the State Legislature of 1798-9. He was also town-
clerk of Amsterdam in 1798. His descendants are to be found
in Montgomery and Steuben Counties, to the latter of which he
removed shortly before his death.
iii. William, bpt. 3 July, 1757 ; d. unmarried, before his father.
iv. Levi, b. 12 Oct., 1759; m. 16 Oct., 1787, Jane, dau. of Alexander
and Jane (Armour) Wilson.
v. Margaret, bpt. 1 July, 1764; m. Levi Deyo, son of Peter Deyo,
by his wife Elizabeth Helm.
9. John3 Pawling (Henry,2 Captain Henry1), born in
Lower Providence Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsyl-
vania, 27 December, 1732; died at Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, New York, 30 December, 1819, and is buried in the
graveyard of the old Dutch Reformed Church of that place.
He settled in that part of Rhinebeck Precinct known as
Staatsburgh, which included the land purchased from the
widow Pawling and her children, by Dr. Samuel Staats. Here,
in 1761, he built a stone house on the post road on land orig-
inally part of that patented to his paternal grandmother.*
Occupied with the peaceful pursuits of husbandry, he never-
theless followed the military traditions of his family and at-
tained the rank of major in the Provincial forces. His cap-
taincy in the Crown Point Expedition is thus noted in the
Book of Military Appointments, etc., in 1759-60: "April 28,
1759. John Pawling Capt. For Dutchess County gave Capt
Pawling his Coram 'n & Qualified him, d[elivere]d him his 2
Lt Comm'n and Warr't on the Treasurer, "t He is called
Major Pawling in the Muster Roll of men raised in y* County
of Dutchess and passed for Capt. Peter Harris's Company,
May ye 1 : 1760." The fact of the latter title is further evi-
denced by a bond, bearing date 3 November, 1767, between
* May 19, 1729. Description of the boundaries of a patent granted to Neeltje
Pawling, In Dutchess beginning at a river side and running eastward, by the
side of a fresh meadow called Mansakln and a small creek called Nancapa-
conmak and following said southerly and southeasterly as it runs to Hudson's
River by the Crum Elbow called by the Indian name Eaquorsinck containing
within the said bounds 4000 acres. — New York Calendar of Land Papers, p.
194.
t Report of the State Historian of New York Colonial Series, vol. 11, pp.
515, 520, 557.
The Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania. 25
"Major John Pawling of Staatsburgh, Dutchess County, Levi
Pawling Esq. of Marbletown, Ulster County, and Johannes
Cramer of Oswego, Beekman's Precinct, New York."* In
the struggle between the Colonies and the mother country,
Major Pawling espoused the cause of the former and served
it with fidelity.
He married, first, at Kingston, 23 May, 1754,t his cousin
Neeltje, daughter of Thomas Van Keuren by his wife Mary
Pawling; second, 15 April, 1770, Marietje, daughter of Jacob
Van Deusen by his wife Alida Ostrander.
Children of first marriage :
i. Henry,* b. 30 Nov., 1755; d. Johnstown, N. Y., in 1825; m.
Elizabeth . Revolutionary soldier.
ii. Cornelius, b. 22 Jan., 1758. Revolutionary soldier,
iii. John, b. 24 Oct., 1760. Revolutionary soldier,
iv. Mary, bpt. 11 Nov., 1764; m. Kane.
Children of second marriage :
v. Levi, b. 29 Jan., 1771; d. Staatsburgh, 12 Feb., 1858; m. (1)
Gertrude T., dau. of Harman Jansen Knickerbocker; m. (2)
18 May, 1816, Hannah, dau. of Stephen Griffing by his wife
Elizabeth Uhl. Among the children of the latter marriage :
Gertrude,* b. 25 Apr., 1822 ; m. David Wallace of Hyde Park,
N. Y., and had : 1. John ' Alva Wallace, m. Emeline Coyle ;
these latter were the parents of Katharine, wife of John
Frank Kitts, author of The Lineage of the Pawling Family.
2. Mary Caroline Wallace, m. John B. Roach, the late emi-
nent shipbuilder of Chester, Penna., who was survived by five
children: William Macpherson Eoach and John Roach of
Chester, Penna. ; Mrs. Charles E. Schuyler of New York, since
deceased; Mrs. George Forbes of Baltimore, widow of Fred-
erick Farwell Long, M. D., and Emeline, wife of the Hon.
William Cameron Sproul, State Senator of Penna., and presi-
dent of Union League, Philadelphia.
vi. Eleanor, b. 11 Mar., 1772; d. Ehinebeek, 11 Sept., 1862; m.
Capt. Peter Brown.
vii. Rachel, b. 13 Feb., 1774; d. Staatsburgh, 22 Nov., 1850; m.
Christopher Hughes.
viii. Alida, m. Peter Ostrom.
ix. Catharine, b. 21 May, 1778; d. young.
x. Jesse, b. 2 Mar., 1780; m. 14 Oct., 1804, Leah, dau. of Wil-
liam Radcliff. He was commissioned second lieutenant, Dutch-
ess Co. Artillery Company, 1814.
xi. Jacomyntie, b. 25 May, 1782; m. 18 Dec, 1803, Wait Jaques.
xii. Elizabeth, b. 5 Aug., 1784; d. 27 Sept., 1872; m. 5 June, 1803,
William P. Stoutenburgh.
xiii. Rebecca, b. 4 Apr., 1785; d. 13 June, 1832; m. Frederick Strut
Uhl.
xiv. Jacob, b. 4 Mar., 1787; d. Watertown, N. Y., 23 Mar., 1877;
m. 27 Feb., 1822, Martha, dau. of Capt. Isaac Russell.
xv. Catharine, b. 28 Dec, 1789; m. (1) Jacob Conklin; (2) John
Coyle.
* Dutchess County Deeds, Liber 5, f. 208. j. First publication of banns.
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