Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties and her Bowyer, Lynn and Elfreth Children

Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties and her Bowyer, Lynn and Elfreth Children DOROTHEE HUGHES CAROUSSO E STHER KING is of more than average interest in genealogical research because of her multiple marriages. In an era when a man often outlived two or three or more wives, it is unusual to find a woman who outlived four husbands. Born in England about 1650, she came to Philadelphia at about the same time as William Penn, with her first husband, John Bowyer, by whom she had four surviving children. Her second marriage was to a man surnamed Lynn, by whom she had one son, Joseph Lynn. By her third husband, Josiah Elfreth, she had one son, Jeremiah Elf reth. Her fourth marriage was to Richard Willson of Bucks County. There appear to have been no children of this last marriage. There is some evidence to support the speculation that Esther may have been related to Walter King, an original purchaser from William Penn, and a member of the Free Society of Traders. Letters of administration granted in Philadelphia on the estate of Benjamin King 3 2m 1689, to Esther Bowyer, "his sister and next of kin," establish her maiden name as King.' The evidence suggesting that she bore some relationship to Walter King is that most of the property in Pennsylvania acquired by her first husband, John Bowyer, was "taken up in the right of Walter King." In his original grant from William Penn 26 July 1681, Walter King was described as being "of Haveyard in the Parish of Reinton," County Somerset, England.' A search of English records translates this location as being in Havyatt, Parish of Rayton, County Somerset. His original Philadelphia Administration Book A, 62, #1211688, estate of Benjamin King. Unless otherwise stated, all wills, administrations and I.d records hereinafter cited are Philadelphia County records. 2 Exemplificatical Book 8, 573 1 26 July 1681, William Penn to Walter King. 245 246 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine purchase of land to be taken up in Pennsylvania was for a thousand acres, but these were laid out in several parcels in different locations. Unlike many original purchasers, Walter King did come to live in Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends.' He was also a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1682/3.' In December 1687, he was a resident of Philadelphia County, but it seems that he returned to England shortly thereafter.' If he was, as supposed, related to Benjamin and Esther, he appears to have returned prior to Benjamin's death, since the administration of Benjamin's estate was to his sister as "next of kin." In a letter of attorney dated 24 October 1694, and signed with his mark, King appointed Israel Hobbs, a Bristol carpenter, his attorney to collect several debts in Pennsylvania; King was then described as being "of flayland in the County of Somerset."' Among English Friends' records for Bristol and Somerset appears the death record of one Walter King on 11 5m 1703, a resident of Fayland, Parish of Wraxall, and a member of the North Division Monthly Meeting.' Judging from the date of birth of Esther's eldest child, John Bowyer, Jr., in 1671, her first marriage to JOHN BOWYER must have occurred about 1668 or 1669, presumably in England where her four surviving Bowyer children were probably born. There is no indication that the Bowyers came to Philadelphia through any association with the Society of Friends, although succeeding genOn 1 fin 1684, Walter King and Dennis Rochford laid before the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting "a matter of difference depending between them touching payment for a servant" whom King had sold to Ruhford. Original Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Minutes, examined at Friends' Record Department, 306 Arch St., Philadelphia. "Votes and Procudings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Archives, ath Series, I, 13. King was a representative for Philadelphia County at the first session which opened 12 1m 1682/3. The reader should bear in mind that until Smtember 1752, the legal year in NMIsylvania began 25 March, called first month (1m) by Friends, although the historical year began 1 January, eleventh month (11m), ucording 00 Friends' reckoning. Dates between 1 January and 24 March were therefore double-dated, via: 1 January (urn) 1682/3 to 24 March (24 1m) 1682/3, but 25 March veas 25 1m 1683. In August 1688, Walter King gave a letter of attorney to John Parsons and others, and by July 1689, was "late" of Philadelphia Co. By 25 Ins 1690, he was of "Portburile in the County of Somerset," England. SEC recitals in Deed Books E-1-5, 613: 13 10m 1687, Walter King to Francis Gamble; H-8, 357: 6 5m 1689, Benjamin Chambers to Rebecca Stanley; E-2-5, 258: 25 101 1690, John Claypoole to John Parsons OS al. Deed Book 54-5, 348: 24 Oct. 1694, Walter King to Israel Hobbs. ', Digested Copy of the Registers of the Quarterly Meeting of Bristol and Somersetshire, Collect -ions of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GSP), show the marriage at Bristol Meeting 6 7m 1663, of a Walter King and Margaret Prince, who, as the Widow Margaret King, resident of Bristol, was bur. at Portishead 9 2rn 1704. A daughter Florence King, b. 18 Nov. 1667, appears in the registers of Bruton, Somersetshire Father Bowyer, b. ca. 1650, could not have boo,, daughter of Margaret (Prince) King, though Esther and her brother Benjamin nught have been children of Walter King by a previous marriage. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 247 erations of the family did become Friends. Other contemporary Bowyens came to Philadelphia at about the same time, but no conclusive evidence of any relationship has been found.' John Bowyer, although an early settler in Philadelphia County, was not one of William Penn's original purchasers. As previously stated, all of his earliest land holdings were "in the right of Walter King" who was an original purchaser. The earliest record of John Bowyer in Philadelphia is a warrant for a "city lott" to be located "between the front and second streets att Skullkill," granted in the right of Walter King by a warrant dated 11 8m 1683. The lot was surveyed a week later, south of Walnut Street between the present Twenty-second Street (then Schuylkill Front) and the present Twenty-first Street.° He obtained a patent for the lot from the Commissioners of Property 30 5m 1687, and two months later assigned it to Peter Sharbanow for £6." Another patent to John "boyer," dated 13 July 1687, was for a tract of 200 acres "in the Manor of Springetsberry" and County of Philadelphia, adjoining land laid out for Edward Lane and the land "belonging to the German Town." As shown on the Map of the Province of Pennsylvania charted by Thomas Holme, the location of this property was in old Bristol Township, and extended from the east line of Germantown, now Stenton Avenue, to the present Cheltenham Avenue, in the vicinity of Washington Lane. The land was granted by a warrant from the Proprietor on 26 4m 1684; it was laid out by the Surveyor General's order on 11 9m 1684, also "to John Boyer in right of Walter King." 00 On 5 June 1688, John Bowyer sold fifty acres of this land to Edward Lane.' After John's death, his widow (then Esther Elfreth), with his son John Bowyer, Jr., sold the remaining 150 acres to William Wilkins of Philadelphia, for D1." 8 Among these were Hannah "Boyer" who appears as an adult in the Philadelphia Meeting minutes 08m 1685; Thomas Bowyer, on whose estate letters of adtmnistration were granted in Philadelphia 20 April 1708, to Edward Lane, the widow Martha Bowyer having renounced. Thi.s Thomas Bowyer may have been a brother of John Bowyer. , See Warranta and Surveys of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1682-1719, 111, 248, Municipal Archives, Department of Records, Cry Hall, Philadelphia. ' , Exemplification Books, 154: 30 5rn 1687, Patent to John Boyer; Deed Book E-1-5, 594: 1 7m 1687, John Boyer to Peter Sharbanow. He is not to be confused with the John Powyer, tanner of Wales, who, although an original purchaser from Penn, did not come to Pennsylvania. Nor is John Bowyer to be confused with the Jill Boyear who was an early resident of Newcastle County. 11 Exemplification Book I, 170: 13 July 1687, Patent to John Boyer. 1. Deed Book E-1-5, 594: 5 June 1688, John Bowyer to Edward Lane. Lane had corne originally from Bristol, and in 1708 administered Thomas Bowyer', estate. What, if any, was dm relationship of thew three men? ' , Deed Book E-4-7, 150: 56 Sept. 1695 , Esther Plinth and John Bowyer to William Wilkins. 248 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine On 15 9m 1684, John Bowyer, Sr., bought sixty acres of land in Shackamaxon from Gunner Rambo, which had been surveyed for Bowyer the month before out of land Peter Cock had granted Rambo, his son-in-law." It fronted on Gunner's Creek or Run, earlier known as Tumanaromaning's Creek, which, having at that time a considerable flow, gave Bowyer easy access to the Delaware River less than a mile away. Its location, while northeast of the city proper, was advantageous since Bowyer was a shipwright by occupation. It has been said that ship-carpenters earned five and six shillings a day in wages, and on that pay could soon save money. "The ship carpenter, who laid by one day's wages a week could, in a month or two, be trading to the [West] Indies so as to give him £50 or £60 clear money at the end of a year, and that would buy him a farm, build him a house, or give him a share in some vessel on the stocks. In ten years he could become a capitalist, as many of his trade did so become."" Here on Gunner's Creek, John and Esther Bowyer probably lived until his death four years later. Letters of administration on his estate were granted to his widow Esther on 29 6m 1688. The bond required, in the amount of £500, would indicate that his estate amounted to £250. It was underwritten by William Powell, a Philadelphia cooper, and William Royden of West New Jersey." Three years later the estate still was not settled. In 1691 Esther presented a bill to the Commissioners "for work done by her Husband to the Proprietor's barge and boat, the sum of ES 7s. 6d., which was allowed." " The final payment was not made until 1693." Probably John Bowyer was a relatively young man at the time of his death since his wife survived him by twenty-two years and was married again three times before her own death in 1710. Issue of Esther King by her 1st husband John Bowyer: JOHN BOWYER, JR., b. 1671, probably in England; bur. 10 January 1732/3, 'm Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, of whom further. 2. ii. ESTHER BOWYER, b. ca. 1672, probably in England; d. between 27 November and 17 December 1749, in Bucks County, Pa., when her will was proved, of whom further. 1. Deed Book C-2-3, 194: 17 5m 1699, Gunner Rambo to John Bowyer. 1.3. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Watcott, History of PhiladelPhia, 1609-1814 (Philadelphia, 1884), 1. 152, hereinafter cited as Scharf and Westcott. 10 Adm,n,stration Book A, 46, #71:1688, estate of John Bowyer. 1, 'Mantes of the Board of Property," Pennsylvania Archiver, 2nd Series, XIX, 79. 1. 0 . William Penn's Account with Samuel Jennings, Receiver General, 1690-1693 , The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (PMHB), XX:XV (1911), 210- Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 249 03. WILLIAM BOW'YER, b. ca. 1674, probably in England; d. before 1750. Little is known of this son. The phrase in his mother's will in 1710, in which she left him a token five shillings "if he comes over here," indicates that he had probably returned to England. Her wording suggests that she did not seriously expect him to "come over here." i° Another implication is contained in a Bucks County deed relating to the \Willson-Clay property which named Jeremiah Elfreth in 1750 as "the only surviving child of Esther Willson."" From these sources, it would appear that William returned to England prior to 1710, and died before 1750. 3. iv. SARAH BOWYER, b. ca. 1680, probably in England; d. between 1711 and 1714, of whom further. Esther's brief second marriage was to a husband surnamed Lynn, referred to only once as JOSEPH LYNN. " Since her only child of this second marriage bore the same name, it is not unlikely that the son was named after his father. Her marriage to Joseph Lynn must have taken place after 3 2m 1689, when the administration of the estate of her brother Benjamin was given to "Esther Bowyer." By 25 March 1691, she was again a widow, when, as "Hester Lynn, Widdow," she leased from Thomas Tresse, a Philadelphia merchant, a piece of his bank lot between High (Market) and Mulberry (Arch) on Front Street, containing 17/2 feet in width and extending 250 feet eastward into the river. The lease was for a term of fifty years, she paying yearly to Thomas Tresse "the sum of El 12s, i d. in good Merchantable winter wheat delivered at the dwelling house of said Thomas Tress att Philadelphia or in current silver money to bee paid att every half year." In addition, Esther was to build "a cartway under said Banck for the use of all people in the day tyme and likewise to make a Wharfe and staires in all respects according as the said Thomas Tress is obliged by virtue of his patent." Also, "what houses buildings wharfes and staires shall be erected upon the premises . . . said Hester Lynn doth promise will keep in repairs at her own charge." Among the witnesses to this lease was Josiah Elfreth who became Esther's third husband.' Her eldest son, John Bowyer, Jr., also a shipwright, was about twenty when Esther leased this waterfront property in 1691. Possibly she ex12 Will Book C, 199, #1591710, will of Esther 20 Recited in Bucks Co. Deed Book 9, 102: 24 March 1749/SO, Rowland Posvell Stanaland. et al. to Thomas 21 See A Genealogy of the Evans Family Collected in the Years 1819, 1820 and 1821, by Samuel Morris Lynn of Philadelphia. Recopied by his daughter Lizzie T. Bonbright in 1888, GSP. Samuel Morris Lynn was a great-grandmn of Esther King's son 4. Joseph Lynn. When he was collecting this family history. Ise may have had access to family Bible records, family lawn, or had word-of-mouth knowledge of the family which is no longer availabld Because of several discrepancies which occur in this work, possibly because of the venous transcriptions, this source should be used with caution. 22 Deed Book E-2-5, 208: 25 lm (March) 1691, Thorne, Tease to Esther Lynn. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 250 LYNN, BOWYER Ano ELFRETH PROPERTIES * NORTH END OF PHILADELPHIA 1691-1763 0 2510 Gel THOMAS TRES. TO ESTHER LYNN 012 301704 BENJAMIN CHAMBERS To JOHN BOWYER 0 16 JuLY 1703 GEORGE FITZWATER To JOHN BOWYER I JULY 1716 BENJAMIN YINING To JEREMIAH ELFRETH ® 6 JUNE 1717 DANIEL HOWELL To JOSEPH LYNN 2 Deo. 1724 WM. CHANCELLOR To JOSEPH LYNN 0 0BPS.. 1727/S JAMES PARROCK To JOSEPH LYNN 0 SONAR. 1 -704 JOHN WHITE To JOSEPH LYNN 22 NOV. I73S JOSEPH LYNN to JEREMIAH ELPRETH ® 76 FM 1735/6 THOMAS PENROSE To JOSEPH LYNN ® 70 JULY 1737 JOS MEREWETHEP. To JOSEPH LYNN gl 13 7,A 1737 PROPRIETORS TO JOSEPH LYNN 0 16 MAY 1738 JEREMIAH ELFRETH TO ISAAC ZANE 0 25 DEC 1739 PHILIP SWIG To JEREWAH EL.FRETH 6 mAR. 1746/6 SARAH BOWYER. To JOSEPH WARNER 6300 HUH 1750 SARAH READ To JOHN LYNN 5 JAN. 1763 JOHN SMITH TO JEREMIAH ELFRETN C21 (g) I SASSAFRAS MAC. STREET 636363 6363N N o OIDAHves lOArAF I ERs, RALE,. - 1 1AP=A1 A a-s)P 0 THE OLD PRISON LOT CHRIST CHURCH LOT BANK MEETING HOUSE LOT JOSEPH OLOMAN S LOT JAMES CHANNEL'S LOT THE OLD ROPEWALK MULEERRY CA CIO STR LONDON COMPANY LOT GARD N Al-LEY WHARF LINE FROM CLARKSON 000 BIDDLE MAP 17E1 PE ■050 PLATTER ALLAH bee Sae we SCALE IN Fail. NIGH MARKED STREET DELAW ARE SARAH WILSON'S LOT Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 251 pected him to fulfill the terms of building the cartway (now Water Street) , the required stone stairs from Front Street down to the river, as well as the wharf. Certainly less than three months after she leased the lot, Esther Lynn gave birth to her fifth known child, a posthumous son, Joseph Lynn. The trade of ship-building played a significant part in the life of Esther King. Her first husband was a shipwright and, probably, her second. Two of her four sons, John Bowyer and Joseph Lynn, were shipwrights, as was her stepson, Henry Elf reth. Three of her grandsons, Joseph, John and Jeremiah Lynn, and the husbands of eight of her granddaughters, all were shipwrights: Jacob Williamson, Roger Brooke, Henry Dennis, Edward Austin, Philip Boyte, Joseph Warner, Samuel Bonham and Peter Bankson." Issue of Esther King by her 2nd husband Joseph Lynn: 4. v. JOSEPH LYNN, b. 14 June 1691; d. 12 8m 1742, in Philadelphia, of whom further. Esther King's third marriage, this time to Jost/kir ELFRETH, was as brief as her second marriage, since by September 1693, when she was assessed as "Widow Elfrith," it is apparent that she had been widowed twice in little more than two years." Josiah Elf reth had had an earlier marriage and a surviving son of that marriage, Henry Elfreth, the Philadelphia shipwright mentioned above. He was still under age in 1694 when his uncle Jeremiah Elf reth, Josiah's brother, died. Henry's mother, Josiah's first wife, is said, without supporting evidence, to have died in England before 1683.2' On 3 llm 1683/4, Josiah Elfreth obtained a warrant for six acres to be laid out in Philadelphia County." On 2 8m 1684, he was issued a secShipbading on the Delaware River in the early years of the province Nvas a for more vital enterprise than is generally undersmod. Choke timber grew nearly to the river banks and in every shape and size necessary for keel and hull and masts. In 1690, Governor Dankl Cone, then living in London, was having a "great ship" built at Burlington across die Delaware from Philadelphia, and was selling shares in it. It was described as being "of the burthen of One hundred and twentie tons or thereabouts," and was to be named the Dehnuare Merchant, for which or recital in Deed Book E-2-5, 168: 22 Dec. 1690, Charter, patty, Dmiel Coxe et al. to Richard Morris. The weight of this intended vessel was three-fourths the sire of the Mayflower of 180 tons. Considering the I.bot resources of the builders of the two differmt ships, the Delaware Merchant, though built seventy years or mom later, was an ambitious project for Burluagton in 1690. 29 "The First Tax List for Philadelphia County," PMHB, VIII (1884), 81, 89, 101. This tax was assessed by virtue of an Act passed 15 May 1693; the list wes not completed until 26 September 1691. The Widow "Elfrith's" property was rated at 00. " Admiclittration Book A, 182, #21:1694, estate of Jeremiah Elfreth. Henry Elfreth woo, minor when I,,,,., were grained on this estate of his uncle Jeremiah Elfreth 1 April 1694, to Henry Flower. See the Elf rah Family Chart, Zoo, 109, GSP, for the statement that Henry's mother, Josiah's first wife, died in Englmd before 1681. 26..Old Rights," Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, II, 699. No record has been found that Josiah ever took up this land. 252 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine ond warrant, this time for a city lot. It was surveyed the following week at the Center Square, 50 feet by 100 feet. Bounded north by William Dillwyn's lot, east by Market Square, south by a vacant lot and west by the Eighth Street from Schuylkill (now Fifteenth Street), it was patented to Elfreth on 2 6m 1687. 2' On 6 2m 1687, he had appointed David Lloyd his attorney to sell the lot to Christopher Sibthorpe, a Philadelphia brazier, for fifty shillings; the sale was not completed, however, until almost a year later." Josiah Elfreth already had interests in Salem County, West New Jersey, before he disposed of the Philadelphia property. On 21 August 1685, Edward Champnes signed an agreement of lease to "Josiah Elf reth of Allowayes, of 484 acres there near the grist mill, which said Josiah now inhabits." " Whether Josiah inhabited the 484 acres or the grist mill or both is not clear. A few months later, on 26 11rn (January) 1685/6, he leased a second property in Salem County from Edward Bradway: "a plantation at Stow alias Unknown Creek."' In 1691, Elf reth was in Philadelphia when he witnessed the lease between Thomas Tresse and Esther Lynn. Whether he was still a resident of Salem County at that time, or had moved back into Philadelphia remains undetermined. In either case, he did not buy any additional property in Philadelphia. He does not appear to have been a member of any monthly meeting. No record has been found either in Philadelphia or in New Jersey of his death, nor of any settlement of his estate. He died before 15 September 1693, when Esther was first designated "Widdow Elfrith." " Issue of Esther King by her 3rd husband Josiah Elfreth: 5. vi. JEREMIAH ELFRETH, b. ca. 1692; bur. 20 10m 1772, ae. 80 years, in Philadelphia, of whom further. Esther King married her fourth husband, RICHARD WILLSON, some time between September 1695, and 7 5m 1699, when she was "now called 5, Exemplification Book 1, 168: 2 6na 1687, Patent to Josiah Elfreth. 28 Deed Book E-2-5, 75 31 lm 1688, David Lloyd to Christopher Sypthorpe. Josiah Elfreth was listed as a renter of this property in 1689, for which see "The Blackwell Rent Roll, 1689," transcribed in Ti,, Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (PGM), XXIII, 89. The sale to Sibthorpe was not recorded until January 1689, shortly before Blackwell began compiling his rent roll, and apparently he was not avrare of the transaction. 28 "Calendar of Records . • ," New I evey Arebivea, 12t Series, XXI, 551. 80 Ibid., 552. Stow Creek runs almost due south through Selena County to the Delaware River, nearly closing osmosis with the river and Alloways Creek to the north. 51 PMHB, VIII, 85, cited in Note 24 above. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 253 Hester Willson." " Scattered references to Richard Willson appear in Bucks County and Philadelphia County records; in the earliest of these he was a witness to the will of the governor's gardener, Ralph Smith of Bucks County, on 9 10m 1685.n Willson's earliest business transaction in Bucks County was a purchase of land for which he gave a bond to Joseph English on 27 lm 1688, for the payment of £20. The condition of the obligation provided that Willson was to pay it off in "Wheat Indian Corn Beef and Pork delivered at ye house of William Biles of the said County of Bucks at or before the twenty fifth day of the first month next [then] ensuing . . . at the current price such goods pass at in the Market at Philadelphia at the time and day of payment . . . ." In the bond, Richard Willson described himself as a "Laborer," and signed it with his mark." The day before, he had agreed to buy from Joseph English for £20 fifty acres of land, so the bond, in effect, was a mortgage. In this initial purchase, the land was described only as lying "in the County of Bucks," adjoining lands of Edmond Lovett and John Rowland. The deed was not acknowledged until 13 4m 1688, when it was "delivered unto Arthur Cook for use of Richard Willson." " Later that same year he acquired an additional two acres from James Swafor (Swatter) for 26 shillings. This may have been a watering area for stock, since in this deed Willson was called "husbandman," and the land was described as "being 8 rods front upon the Creek that runs between ye Island called Overton and the Main and 40 rods in length bounded by land of Lyonel Brittan and Daniel Gardin . er." It was acknowledged 12 10m 1688, "by William Croasdale attorney to James Swafer delivered unto Richard Wilson [by] his attorney James Crosby [or Crosley]." " 08 She is so-called in the memorandum appended to the deed recorded in Deed Book C-2-3, 194, cited in Note 14 above. a( Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania 88 ''Abstracts of Early Bucks County Wills," Publication, of (PGSP), I, 209. A contemporary Richard Wilson was a resident of Kent County (now in Delaware). but no relationship has been established between the two men. The Delaware Richard Wilson was a member of the Assembly from Kent County in 1686. Pennsylvania Archive,, 8th Series, I, 78, cited in Note 4 above. Later, this Richard Wilson was a justice in that county. Governor's Register. State of Delaware (Wilmington, Del., 1926), I, 6, 7. 84 Bucks Co. Deed Book 1, 159: 27 lin 1688, Bond, Richard Willson to Joseph English. 00 Bucks Co. Deed Book 1, 170: 26 lin 1688, Joseph English to Richard Willson. 98 Bucks Co. Deed Book 1, 190: 6 769 1688, James Swefor to Richard 'Willson. The lands of Lionel Bratain and Daniel Gardiner, as shown on Thomas liolme's Map of the Province of Pennsylvania, were just above Penn's Manor of Pennsbury. Possibly Willson', was part of the same lend which in early 1719, 'William Blakey. of the County of Books, haying formerly agreed with Sam') Carpenter, by order of the other Commters, for the Plantation on the Malvin of Pensbury, where Richard Wilson in his life time Dwelt, to hold the same on Lease for the Term of 12 years from the 2" meth last, at the yearly Rent of 812 p. ann., and that the said William Shou'd be allowed the first years Rent to build on the said Plantation a good Logo House 24 foot long and 16 foot wide . . Penntylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 092. 254 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine In Esther's life this year of 1688 was the one in which her first husband, John Bowyer, died, leaving her a widow in her late thirties with four children all still under age. It is possible that Richard Willson may also have had a prior marriage and children of that marriage. However, if this is so, the children do not seem to have survived." References to Richard Willson's additional land transactions are found 'in Bucks County Court Records but not among recorded deeds. In open court he acknowledged the sale on 1 7m 1689, of his fifty acres to John Gibbs. Three months later, Gibbs acknowledged in court the sale to Willson of fifty acres on 10 10m 1689. The short interval between these two transactions suggests a short term mortgage rather than a sale, but it was not so noted in the acknowledgments, the last of which was not even made until "2 Wednesday of December 1693." " By 10 9m 1690, Willson was considered a responsible member of the community when he was appointed an overseer of the highway "for ye lower pte of the river." The following year he was appointed overseer "from thence [the Goverhor's] below to Neshaminah." He was appointed constable of the same area on 14 7m 1692, was a member of the Grand Jury for Bucks County in 1696, and again in 1699.' In 1695, Francis "Rossell" of Bucks County, in his will had left to Willson "the rest of his personall estate and all lands not before disposed of to Samuel Carpenter." " Willson acquired no additional property until 1706, when Sarah Dymock, widow of Tobias, sold two tracts of land totalling one hundred and fifty acres to him. These were contiguous, lying along the Delaware River in Bristol Township, just south of Pennsbury Manor. In depth from the river, the land extended northwest 320 perches, and had a frontage on the river of 75 perches. Sarah Dymock sold the property "with all ye houses, edifices, barns, stables, outhouses, gardens, meadhws • • ." for £120 silver money.' Richard Willson enjoyed his new plantation less than a year; letters of administration on his estate were granted in Philadelphia 12 November 1707, to Esther Willson of Bucks County, his widow." Esther's 01 See recital in Books Co Deed Book 4, 125: 18 March 1709, Isaac Atkinson to Willoughby Warder, Jr., wherein reference is made to Willson', only sismr Ann Lenix, wife of William Unix. 08 Records of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas of Bucks County, 1684-1700 ville, Pa., 1943), 108, 281is Ibid., 149, 158, 169, 266, 295, 306, 403. PGSP, II, 21, will of Francis Rossell. 61 Bucks Co. Deed Books, 303. 17 Nov. 1706, Sarah Dunock to Richard Willson. 4. Philadelphia Administration Book B, 59, #21:17073 estate of Richard Willson. (Mead- Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 255 fourth husband evidently was not a Friend; no mention of him appears in Friends Meeting records either in Philadelphia or Bucks County. On 25 April 1708, Esther Willson purchased from John Large, tailor, for £45 a smaller plantation of one hundred acres lying a short way down river from her husband's plantation." Apparently she lived on the smaller place with her daughter and son-in-law, Esther and John Clay, until her own death in 1710. Richard Willson's plantation of one hundred and fifty acres appears to have been divided. one-half to Esther, his widow (if he had left children, Esther's share would have been onethird) ; the other half to "William Lenix intermarried with Ann, ye only sister of said Richard Willson, being then living." William Lenix and Ann his wife, and their children, Richard Lenix and William Lenix, Jr., sold their rights in this property 13 May 1708, to Isaac Atkinson, a Bristol cordwainer• Esther made over her rights to Atkinson for £30 a month later." Esther witnessed the marriage of her youngest daughter, Sarah Bowyer, to Willoughby Warder, Jr. on 13 2m 1710, at the Philadelphia Meeting House." Only four days later on 17 April, Esther had her will drawn up, being then "sick and weak in body."" She died in Philadelphia on 20 2m 1710, just one week after the wedding, and was probably buried in Friends' ground at the instance of her Quaker children." In her will Esther made provisions for all of her children. To her daughter Esther Clay she left her wearing apparel "with one chest of Drawers and one Iron Pott," and the interest of approximately £22. To her daughter Sarah Warder she left "my negro girl named Sarah and all my household goods not before given away." To her son John Bowyer, now well established in his own right, she left a token thirty shillings, "Bucks Co. Deed Book 3, 4113' 25 Apr. 1708, John Large to Esther Willson. .5 The deed from Isaac Atkinson to Willoughby Warder, cimd in Note 37 above, probably was actually made on 18 March 1709/1D, and very likely was in the nature of a prenuptial arrangement, since it would then have been executed between the first declaration of marriage intentions by Sarah Bowyer and Willoughby Warder and their marriage on 13 April 1710. Esther Willson', sale of her righm in the plantation predated it, however, for which me Bucks Co. Deed Book 4, 9: 10 June 1708, Esther Willson to Isaac Atkinson. In this record it was recited that whereas "Richard Willson made no will but dyed intestate, ye said Esther became tenant in common during her life of one tnoyety" of the 150 acres. .55 Marriage Records, Friends' Record Deputment, 306 Arch St., Philadelphia. Others of the family who were present at the marriage were Joseph Lynn and Jeremiah Elfreth, half-brothers of the bride, and her sister Esther Clay. 40 The will of Esther Willson, cited in Note 19 above, was ',lammed by John Hart and Lydia Warder, and proved 25 April 1710. John Smeller of Bucks County and Henry Mallows of Philadelphia womb,, executors. ' 7 The only mentMri in Friends records of Esther King herself (other than as witness to a marriage, etc.) is the mtry of her death in the Philadelphia Meeting records under "A Record of Deceased ffriends for ye year 1709/10." Her connection WU solely through her children and grandchildren, 256 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine but his son Benjamin Bowyer was to have £3 15s., and a like sum was to be divided equally among John's other children. Her son William Bowyer was to have five shillings "if he comes over here." Her younger sons, Joseph Lynn and Jeremiah Elfreth, were each to have £37 10s. put out at interest until they were twenty-one years of age or married. To her stepson, Henry Elf reth, she bequeathed the money he owed her, plus £3 15s. which was to be divided amongst his children. As soon as her son-in-law John Clay had paid £30 of the £37 10s. he owed her "for ye Plantation I sould him," her executors were to convey it to him. She requested that the residue of her estate be laid out in the purchase of land lately belonging to Jacob Janney "lying between Edward Ratcliff's land and Solomon Warder's land" with "assurance of the land to be made to Willoughby Warder and his wife Sarah." If the residue of her estate was not enough to purchase the land, such residue was to go to Sarah. The following March, John Fisher of Bristol, weaver, and Mary his wife (late widow of Jacob Janney) sold 72/2 acres lying between Edward Ratcliff's and Solomon Warder's lands to Willoughby Warder, Jr., for £33." 1. JOHN BOWYER, JR., eldest child of Esther King and John Bowyer, was the only Bowyer son to remain in Philadelphia, and to follow in his father's footsteps as a shipwright. Born in 1671, presumably in England, he was only about eleven years old when the family migrated to Pennsylvania. The first record of him in Philadelphia does not appear until nearly seven years after his father's death, when he was about twenty-four years of age. At that time, in September 1695, John and his mother, now Esther Elfreth, conveyed 150 acres of his father's Bristol Township property to William Wilkins." Two years later on 9 February 1697, he witnessed the will of Giles Mora, widow of James Mora, and on 21 December 1701, the will of Henry Furnis, the sadler of Philadelphia." Married probably before 1705, John and his first wife, REBECCA, (surname unknown), were evidently members of Christ Church in Philadelphia, at that time Anglican, but now Protestant Episcopal. Although the congregation was founded in 1695, the church registers were not begun until 1709, hence no record is found of their marriage, nor of the baptisms of their children prior to 1710. "Bock, Co. Deed Book 4, 162: 11 March 1711, John Fisher to Willoughby Warder, 7. 1 . Deed Book E-4-7. 150, cited in Note 11 above. 50 p5555', III, 15, 249. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 257 The land holdings of John Bowyer, Jr., were located both in and near the city. In 1699, Gunner Rambo and his wife Annita had confirmed to him the sixty acres his father had purchased from Rambo in 1684, as well as forty additional acres his mother, "now called Hester Wilson," had bought from Rambo, "all which the said Hester is willing should be made to her son John Bowyer." " Robert Turner, one of the most prominent Quaker merchants in town, held the land bordering the tract's east line. When John Bowyer's father was still alive, Turner, according to a deposition made by John Bowyer, Jr. in 1732, when he was "aged about sixty-one," did . . . Ask and obtain leave as a Neighbourly kindness and upon Sufferance only of his Sd father, to set his fence upon the Lands then of the Sd John Bowyer the Elder in order to take in a Small Run of water for the benefit of the Sd Turners Cattle in the adjoining pasture on the Eastwardly Side of the Said Land which did not reach their dividing Line, but lay wholly within the Land of the Sd Bowyer. And that After ye decease of ye father of this Dept he the Sd Robert Turner finding the Conveniency of that possession did treat with ye Mother of this Dept and Endeavoured to persuade her to Sell a peice of the Sd Land as he remembers about six or Eight Acres, but that he this deponent being the proper and right heir and knowing that his sd Mother had no right to dispose Thereof always refusd and rejected the proposall; Yet notwithstanding the sd Robert Turner as he has Since heard and believes Did (on presumption As this Dep' supposes that he Might obtain the sd piece of Land which he so Earnestly desired) On or about the year 1691 take out a patent for his Adjoining Land and Caused to be included in ye sd patent about Eight Acres of the first mentioned Sixty acres of Land then of Right belonging to this Deponent on presumption as this Dept supposes that he might also obtain a right wch he so Earnestly desired. And this Deponent further Sayeth that he well know'g that he had never Alienated any part of the Aforementioned hundred Acres, And that the Sd Robert Turner had no legal or Equitable right to any part Thereof he this Deponent did afterwards About the Year One thousand seven hundred & nine sell and convey unto Samuel Carpenter °' the whole hundred Acres of Land by the same Lines and bounds as the same Land was held by his father John Bowyer and his predecessor Gunner Rambo afsd paying no regard to the Unjust Intrusion made by said Robert Turner by incerting in his patent ye sd Eight Acres for which he never paid any consideration." In 1704, five years before he disposed of the Shackarnaxon tract to Samuel Carpenter, John Bowyer, Jr. had bought a bank lot "and premises" in the city for £78 from Benjamin Chambers. The lot, 76%2 feet . 1. Deed Book C-2-3, 194, used in Note 14 above. 82 Deed Book E..6-7, 106: 26 Nov. 1708, John Bowyer to Samuel Carpenter. Here Bowyer's memory appears to have been faulty as to the year in which he said the property to Carpenter. 00 The deposition is in Norris Estate 1700-1719, Logan Papers, XIII, 9, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HIP). Samuel Carpenter sold the land to Isaac Norris and it was incorporated in Norris's Sepviva plantation, east of and adjacent to his Pairhill land. Draughts of the Bowyer tram u surveyed by Robert Longshore in 1684, and by Jacob Taylor when it was resurveyed in 1709 for Samuel Carpenter are also in the same volume of the Logan Papers, 7, 9-1/2. In Volume XIV, 38 - 1/2, of the Logan Papers, is a draught of the Sepviva land bordering the creek which shows the location of "sawyer's ruins.' 258 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine in breadth on the east side of Front Street between Mulberry and Sassafras (Race), lay between land formerly belonging to John Songhurst on the north, and the balance of land formerly belonging to the George Palmer heirs from whom Chambers had acquired 102 feet in all." Three years later in 1708, Bowyer bought for £55 from George Fitzwater the adjacent 251/4 foot bank lot to the south which was the remaining portion of the original Palmer 102-foot lot." Both properties extended 250 feet into the Delaware, and were subject to the same general conditions under which his mother had leased the Thomas Tresse lot back in 1691: a thirty-foot cartway was to be left open, a pair of stone steps was to be built down to a wharf. Having acquired these properties in the city, Bowyer then disposed of his Shackamaxon land in 1709 to Carpenter, and apparently removed to the city where his first wife Rebecca died. She was buried from Christ Church 7 October 1711." Issue of 1. John Bowyer by his 1st wife Rebecca: I. BENJAMIN BOWYER, la. before 1710, when he was mentioned in Esther Wilson's will; bur. 24 November 1721, from Christ Church. ii. THOMAS BOWYER, b. ca. 1705; d. after 1727, when he was named that year in his father's will. If he was the same Thomas "Boyer" who was buried from Christ Church 26 October 1738, then he lived to be at least thirty-three years old, and may have left survivors of whom no certain record has been found. If so, his would have been the only male line of descent from the first John Bowyer. MARY BOWYER, d. after 14 August 1727, when her father wrote his will; possibly the Mary Phillips bur. at Christ Church 29 May 1732; probably m. at Christ Church 9 August 1722, DAVID PHILLIPS. He may have been the David "Philip," labourer of Hilltown, Bucks County, whose will was written "about August 2, 1747," and proved in Philadelphia 10 November 1747. In it he devised to his "only son" William all his wearing apparel, a young gray more and colt, his ax and grubbing hoe, and named his then wife Susanna executrix. This David Phillips was baptized as an adult 15 February 1729/30, at the Montgomery Baptist Church; his son William was baptized there the following 19 April 1730' Known issue: 1. Wrr-unm PHILLIPS ( ?), who, named only as "William, son of my daughter Mary," was devised £12 by his grandfather John Bowyer in 1727. to Deed Book F-6, 292: 12 May 1704, Benjamin Chambers to John Bowyer; ibid., 295: 31 Dec. 1727. George Palmer et at to John Bovryer, is, in effect, Palmer's release of rights in the land to Bowyer, by Richard Hill, Palmer's attorney. 33 Deed Book E-5-7, 41: 16 July 1703, George Fitzwamr to John Bowyer. Fitzwater, son of Thomas Fitzwater and his 1st wife, was a step-brother of George Palmer, the father Thomas Fitzwater having married the widow Elizabeth Palmer, mother of George. 30 Christ Church Burial Register, 17, Christ Church Archives, Philadelphia. Her name was entered as Rebecca `Iloyear." 3, will Book 51, 423, #207:1747, will of Dad Philip; Edward Mathews, History of Montgomery Baptist Church be Montgomery Township, Montgomery County, Pa. (Ambler, Pa., 1395), 10, 14. In this work David Phillips' death is mused as in December 1747, obviously in error Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 259 iv. HANNAH BOWYER, bapt. 1 5 January 1710, at Christ Church; living in 1727, when her father left her £25 in his will. She was probably the Hannah Bowyer who attended the marriage of her half-sister, Sarah Bowyer, to Roger Brooke on 1 4m 1735, at the Philadelphia Meeting House. No further id ormation. After Rebecca's death in 1711, 1. John Bowyer married, about 1712, his second wife, SARAH HASTINGS, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Hastings." By her, he had eight more children before his own death in 1732. When he drew up his will 14 August 1727, nearly six years before his death, he was "indisposed." He was then about fifty-six. He bequeathed to his son Thomas £5; to his daughter Mary £4, and to her son William (presumably Phillips) £12; to his daughter Hannah £35. The difference in the amounts left to the two daughters suggests that Hannah may not have been married. These three were the surviving children of his first marriage to Rebecca. He then proceeded to divide in half the remainder of his estate, both real and personal: one half to his second wife, Sarah "in lieu of all her other rights;" the other half among his six surviving younger children plus the seventh child with which Sarah was then "enciente," naming them as John, Martha, Sarah, Elizabeth, Esther and Rebecca. The seventh, when she arrived, was Ruth. His wife Sarah was appointed executrix of the will, with "my worthy friends and relations, James Parrock and Joseph Lynn, both of Philadelphia, shipwrights, and Jeremiah Elfreth of Philadelphia, smith," as trustees and advisers. Joseph Lynn and Jeremiah Elfreth were halfbrothers of John Bowyer and of each other, and James Parrock was another relative and fellow shipwright. Witnesses to the will were his wife's brothers-in-law, Thomas Ashton and Robert Abbott, and the scriviner John Cadwalader; it was proved 3 March 1732/3." John Bowyer was buried in Christ Church Burial Ground at Fifth and Arch Streets in Philadelphia on 10 January 1732/3. His grave, in Section H, Plot Lxiv, is to the right of the Fifth Street gate and directly adjoining the Fifth Street wall. His tombstone was simply inscribed: 00Th, recital in Deed Book G-10, 165: 12 Avg. 1727, John Bowyer et al. to James Serrel lists As other children of Joshua Hastings and wife Elizabeth as John Hastings (wife Hannah); Samuel Hastings (wife Mary); Mary, wife of Thomas &Mum, a Philadelphia shipwright; Elizabeth, wife of Robert Abbott. See also William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of Americo, Quaker Genealogy (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1938)• 11,441, cited hereinafter u lEnshaw. 00 Will Book E, 220, #297:1732, will of John Bowyer, James Parrock had married at the hOuse of Joshua Hastings on 27 9m 1698, his Ist wife Martha Hastings, probably a sister of Joshua. He was probably therefore an uncle-in-law of John Bowyer's wife, Sarah Hastings. Martha (Hutings) Parrock d. 27 2m 1702, and James Parrock married two more wives before his own death in 1733. His son James, who predeceased him in 9rn L711, was the husband of Priscilla Coats; their marriage in 1731 lasted only two months. 260 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine "In Memory of / JOHN BOWYER / who departed this life / January 1732 [sic] / Aged 62 Years." " In 1733, Bowyer's executors sold the easternmost part of the south fifty feet of his bank lot — that part fronting the 30-foot cartway — to Samuel Hassel, a Philadelphia merchant, for 040. In 1746, thirteen years later, they sold to his son-in-law, Joseph Warner, for £300 thirty feet adjoining and north of Hassel's lot, which also fronted the cartway." The land facing Front Street was retained until after Sarah Bowyer's death. Unlike her mother-in-law, Sarah Bowyer did not remarry after her husband's death, but remained a widow for twenty-five years until her own death in 1757. In May of that year, she drew up her will. To her granddaughter Sarah "Williams," daughter of her late deceased daughter Martha, and to her own daughters Elizabeth Austin, Hester Boyte and Ruth Bonham, she devised each a one-sixth part of her estate. Another one-sixth she left to her "grandson Boyer," and to her "granddaughters Elizabeth Brooke and Sarah sisters of said Boyer," the children of her late deceased daughter Sarah Brooke, as tenants in common. The remaining one-sixth part was left to her granddaughter Sarah Warner, daughter of her late deceased daughter Rebecca, when she became eighteen or was married. Until then Sarah's father Joseph Warner was to receive the "benefit" of the sixth part and to maintain his daughter. If Sarah died under age or unmarried, he was to receive her share. She appointed as executrix her daughter Hester Boyte, and as executor her "esteemed friend Thomas Say of Philadelphia, Practitioner in Physick." The will, signed 4 May and probated the following 5 July 1757, was witnessed by Jeremiah Elfreth and John Parrock. She had died 25 6m (June) 1757." The following August her household goods were advertised to be sold, and in July 1758, it was announced that her real estate would be put up for sale. Her executors disposed of the land between Front Street and the cartway to various purchasers, among them Robert Waln, John Doyle, Ruth Webb and Mary Taggart." Chnsc Church Burial Register, 17. See also, Edward L. Clark, Records of InscriPtions on Tablets and Gravestones in Burial Grounds of Christ Church, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1864), 307. 01 Deed Book F-6, 289: 25 Aug. 1733, Sarah Bowyer et al. to Samuel Hassel; ibid., D-56, 379: 6 March 1741/6, Sarah Bowyer of al. to Joseph Warner. 02 Will Book R, 510, #340:1757, will of Sarah Bowyer; Death Records, Friends' Record Department, 306 Arch St., Philadelphia. .38 For notices of the sale of her household goods and real estate see Pennsylvania Gazette, 4 Aug. 1757, 20 July 1758. The sale of some of the Front Street lots is recited in Deed Book D-12, 107: 1 Sept. 1758, Thomas Say of al. to Ruth Webb. Other sales have 55 been searched for this study- Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 261 Issue of I. John Bowyer by his 2nd wife Sarah Hastings:" v. WILLIAM BOWYER, b. ca. 1712; d. 31 5m 1713; bur. by Philadelphia Friends. vi. JOHN BOWYER, b. ca. 1714; d. 23 10m 1728; bur. by Philadelphia Friends. vii. MARTHA BOWYER, b. ca. 1716; d. 9 3m 1757, according to Philadelphia Friends' records; m. at Christ Church 28 December 1737, JACOB WILLIAMSON, who probably d. after 1770. Martha was disowned by Philadelphia Friends 29 lm 1742, for marrying out of unity, but when she died her death was recorded by Friends, perhaps through her mother's connection with the Society. Jacob Williamson was probably of Swedish parentage and the son of William Williamson who died in Bucks County in 1721, leaving a will in which he mentioned a son Jacob, among other children... If Martha's husband was this son, he was the Jacob Williamson, shipwright of Northern Liberties, who, after his wife's death, sold for £600 to Edward 8-Sill of Bensalem Township, Bucks County, the tract known as Dunk's Ferry in Bensalem which had belonged to his grandfather, Dunk Williams. In 1770, seven years later, he sold to Jeremiah Baker, 2nd husband of Jacob's deceased wife's sister Ruth, a lot on Queen (now Richmond) Street in Kensington. It was part of a lot he had purchased from Charles West in 1763, four months before he had sold the Dunk's Ferry land... Known issue: I. SARAH Wn..LualsoN, named in her grandmother Sarah's will as "Sarah Williams;" perhaps was bur. at St. Peter's 13 September 1808; probably M. at Christ Church 25 March 1758, JONATHAN WELSH. viii. SARAH BOWYER, b. ca. 1718; d. before 1757, as indicated in her mother's will; m. 10 4m 1735, at Philadelphia Meeting, ROGER BROOKE, a Philadelphia shipwright. After Sarah's death, a Roger Brooke, disowned by Friends 28 3m 1760, for joining another society, "left this City & went to Maryland." No further definitive information about him.. 7 Issue: 1. ELIZABETH BROOKE, b. ca. 1736; living in 1757, when she was named in her grandmother Sarah Bowyer's will. 2. SARAH BROOKE, b. ca. 1737; living in 1757, when she was named in her grandmother Sarah Bowyer's will. 3. BOWYER BROOKE, b. ca. 1738; d. 18 3m 1815, ae. 77; m. 1st by New Jersey license dated 4 April 1761,.. MARY BROWNE, "Although Sarah (Haxings) Bowyer was of Quaker parentage and she remained a Prima, her husband John Bowyer belonged to the Anglican Christ Church in Philadelphia. Consequently records of their children are found in the records of both denominations. Hereinafter, unless otherwise noted, references to Friends' Meetings will indicate they are from the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting records and the dates given will be from those records. References to and dates from Christ Church will be found in the transcripts of that church's registers in GOP. "See Abstracts of Bucks County Wills, 168f-1795, 1, 26, GSP, for will of William Williamson, recorded in Bucks Co. Will Book I, 62. "Bucks Co. Deed Book 11, 315, I June 1763, Jacob Williamson to Edvrard Hill; Philadelphia Deed Book 1-8, 100: IS Peb. 1770, Jacob Williamson to Jeremiah Baker. The Roger Brooke who ...vent to Maryland" in 1760 could have been either the husband or son of Sarah (Bowyer) Brooke. One Roger Brooke of Calvert Co., Md., left a will dated 6 January and proved 16 August 1776, in which he named a wife Mary, daughter Sarah, and brothers Basil and John Brooke. See James M. Magruder, Jr., Maryland Colonial Abstracts, Wills, Accounts and Inventories, 1775-1777 (Annapolis, Md., 1936), I. 11. In 1790, another Roger Brooke in Frederick County, Md., had in ha household 2 males over 16 beside himself, 2 males under 16, 2 females, and 19 slaves. Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States . . • 1790 Maryland (Baltimore, 1952), 62. What connection there was, if any, between these men bearing the same name has not been established. 118 New Jersey Archive. 1st Series, XXII, 8,02 For a corrected transerlpt of some New Jersey marriage Hems., see "Neon Jersey Marriage UCCII., 1727-1704, with Corrections to 1701," by Charles Carroll Gardner in The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. XVII-XXIII, passion. 262 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine daughter of Peter and Priscilla (Coats) Partook Browne. Though both gave their place of residence as Gloucester when applying for their license, it was the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting which condemned Mary the same month for marry. mg contrary to Friends' discipline. She was deceased by 23 August 1767, when Bowyer Brooke M. 2nd at Christ Church, HANNAH REESE, b. ca. 1748; d. 9 12m 1814, ae. 66.. 4. ROGER BROOKE, who was not named in the will of his grandmother Sarah Bowyer in 1757, but was named in the will of his aunt, Ruth (Bowyer) Bonham Baker in 1805. 7° ix. ELIZABETH BOWYER, b. ca. 1720; d. before 10 September 1759, when letters of administration on her estate, as Elizabeth "Ashton," were granted to her sister Esther Boyce; m. by New Jersey license dated 27 September 1737, EDWARD AUSTIN, possibly he who was hope. at Christ Church 28 November 1715, ear. 4 days, son of John and Mary Austin; deceased by 10 September 1759. On 26 1m 1742, Friends of the Philadelphia Meeting were directed to prepare a testimony against Elizabeth "Ashton (late Boyer)," for outgoing in marriage. Nine years later in 1751, the Philadelphia Meeting was informed "that the following persons had been dealt with, without any grounds to Expect their ReformatIon [among them] Edward Austin . . . ," presumably Elizabeth's husband, a shipwright by trade, The following year on 27 3m 1752, "A paper signed by Elizabeth Austm condemning her breach of Discipline in Marriage was read," which evidently reinstated her in the Society of Friends. As this was fifteen years after her marriage, it may be a clue to the approximate time of her husband's death, but no will or administration on his estate has been found in Philadelphia records. Known issue: 1. JOHN Aums, b. ca. 1738; bapt. Christ Church 2 August 1741, or. 3.6-0. 2. SAMUEL AUSTIN, b. ca. 1740; bapt. Christ Church 2 August 1741, ear. 19 months. 3. THOMAS AUSTIN, d. 25 4m 1749, according to Friends' records. 4. WILLIAM ALNTIN, d. 14 3m 1751, according to the same records. x. ESTHER (HESTER) BOWYER, b. ca. 1722; d. after 1769; m. at Christ Church 2 April 1741, PHILIP BOYTE, a shipwright of Kensington; bur. at Christ 55 Administration Book L, 237, #5311815, atm of Bowyer Brooke, e.t.a. His will, damd 15 March ISIS, named only two sons, Bowyer Brooke, Jr., and Reese Brooke, whose wife was Harriet. See elm J. Bennett Hill and Margaret Howe Hill, "William Fisher Early Philadelphia Quaker - . ," PGM, XXI, 264n. Well-named Bowyer, he carried the traditional family trade of ship-building into the fourth American gm. erasion. In 1776 and 1777, before the British occupation of Philadelphla, he built at kiSt two guard boats for the State Navy Board, and furnished numerous galley sweeps and short oars for the Board. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Seim, 1, 93, 102, 119, 150, 158. When the city was reoccupied by the Americans in 1775, he was among those proclaimed a traitor, but as he had taken the oath of allegiance in July of that year, he was discharged from the treason plea. Ibid., 3rd Series, X, 522; 2nd Series, III, 25; 4t0, Series, III, 937. In the Grand Federal Procession of 1788, celebrating the ratification of the Federal Constitution, he and Warwick Hale, mother shipwright, headed the contingent representing their trade, evidence that both were regarded highly by their fellow craftsmen. For a time he was in partnership with John Wilson; the firm of Brooke & Wilson was listed in the 1785 Philadelphia City Directory as located on Water Street between Race and Vine. Their account book in the Manuscript Collections, HOP, conains a variety of interating entaies. Among their best known clients were Clement C. Biddle, for whom they built a boat in 1784; John Penn, who purchased two oars for 9s. in 1785; John Cadwalader, for whom they built a skiff the same year for E21 6s. 8,1., and Stephen Girard, who had thens build two yawls and a long-boat. Brooke's kinsmm, Jeremiah Warder, wa.s a regular customer with repairs to the Brig Nancy. ,0 The will of Ruth Baker names Roger Brooke's daughter Priscilla Wilson. Sc, Will Book I, 481, #439: 1806, will of Ruth Baker, for whom see the text below. Administraeoo Book G, 175, #3:1759, estate of Elizabeth "Ashton." Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 263 Church 4 June 1753. A son of William and Lucy Boyte of Philadelphia, Philip had a reversionary right in a home and lot on the south side of Arch between Front and Second Streets in which his mother Lucy held a life estate. Both she and her second husband, Thomas Bowling, were deceased by 1762, nine years after Philip byte's death. In that year his widow, as Esther "Boyle," appealed to the Orphans Court for permission to sell her husband's reversionary right for the benefit of her two surviving children, Thomas and Esther Boyte, and to enable her to pay off the indebtedness of her husband's estate. Her petition granted, the property was sold to Ephraim Bonham," the tenant in the house, who was a brother of her sister Roth's husband, Samuel Bonham. In 1769, the Widow Boyce was assessed as Esther "Boyd" in the Northern Liberties; by 1780 the property was assessed as "Esther Boyd's estate," and was occupied by Richard Salter, a shipwright." Iuue, all bapt. at Christ Church: 1. SARAH BOYTE, b. 27 January 1742; bur. at Christ Church, 30 Desember 1744. 2. JoHN Boric, b. 26 September 1744; bur. at Christ Church, 23 July 1745. 3. THOMAS BOYTE, b. 15 February 1746; living in 1762 at the time of the Orphans Court proceedings. 4. ANN BYTE, b. 20 July 1747; bur. at Christ Church 27 January 1747. 5, HESTER BOYTE, b. 17 January 1750; bur. at Christ Church 17 January 1773; m. at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Philadelphia, 30 November 1769, BENJAMIN GEORGE EYRE, b. 1 June 1747; d. 11 July 1789, bur. at Christ Church, son of George and Mary (Smith) Eyre of Burlington, N. J. Benjamin Eyre was a shipwright, first in Burlington where he was in business with his brothers Manuel and Jehu Eyre. By the time he m. in New York in 1774 his 2nd wife, MARY CHEESMAN, daughter of a New York shipbuilder, Benjamin had removed to Kensington where he was actively engaged in his trade until his last illness.. xi. REBECCA BOWYER, b. ca. 1725; d. 29 6m 1752, bur. in Philadelphia as a Friend; m, at the Philadelphia Meeting 15 8m 1745, JOSEPH WARNER, b. ca. 1721; d. 4 2m 1796, Sc. ca. 75, according to Northern District Monthly Meeting records." Issue: 1. JOSEPH WARNER, d. 26 12m 1750. 2. REBECCA WARNER, d. 29 Len 1751. 3. SARAH WARNER, d. 10 9m 1757. When Joseph Warner m. 2nd at the Philadelphia Meeting 13 1 1m 1753, PRUDENCE WEST, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Parsons) West, he was identified as the son of George Warner, late of Kent County, Md., dec'd. A shipwright by trade, Warner had his "Boat Shead" and wharf on the "water lot" he purchased in 1746, the year after his first marriage, from John Bowyer's executors. This was only one of the properties he acquired during his life. Until 1780, he appears to have lived on the south side of Sassafras Street, between Front and Second; then he removed to a ". Orphans Court Book 6, 109: 12 June 1762. Joseph Lynn, Henry Dennis and a William Pearson audited Estber's accounts. For the sale of the Arch Street property, see Deed Book 0-4, 134: 30 Oct. 1762, Esther "Boyle" et al. to Ephraim Bonham. The Bonham relationship is recited in New Jersey Deed Book A-L, 412: 6 Sept. 1754, Samuel Bonham to George Eyre, State Home, Trenton, N. J. "Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIV, 120; XV, 469. sane notice of his 2nd marriage to "Miu Chessman" is from the Pennsylvania Packet, 14 Feb. 1774; lus death was noted in the same paper, issue of 15 July 1759, Benjamin Eyre's will, dated 24 Apr. 1788, and proved 1 Aug. 1789, named his wife Mary and children Elizabeth, Ann, Harriett and Thomas, the latter she only known surviving child of his Iss wife Esther (Hester) Boyte. Will Book U, 329, #13211789. T. Will Book X, 398, #11:1796, will of Joseph Warner, dated 23 Dec. 1788, and proved Cl Feb. 1796. letters tatamentary were granted so Joseph and Charles Warner, his sons by his second wife. 264 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine plantation of about 90 acres in Roxborough Township, near the Wissaluckon, which he had bought from William Morgan When Warner died, he also owned three lots in the Northern Liberties, most of which he had acquired through his second marriage." KU. RUTH BOWYER, b. ca. 1727; d. by 3 May 1806, when her will was proved; m. 1st by New Jersey license dated 29 May 1747, SAMUEL BONHAM of Burlington; dec'd by 1758. Ruth was disowned by the Philadelphia Meeting 30 1 Orn 1748, for marrying out of unity a non-Friend. Her husband was a shipwright by trade; they had removed to Kensington in the Northern Liberties by September 1754, when he and his wife Ruth sold to George Eyre of Burlington, property in the "Liberties" of Trenton, adjoining the Presbyterian Burying Ground of Trenton. The lots had been devised to Samuel Bonham and his brother Ephraim by their grandfather Enoch Anderson (otherwise Andrus or Andrews)." Only known issue: I. CATHARINE BONHAM, bur. from Christ Church 2 January 1750/1. Ruth (Bowyer) Bonham m. 2nd at Christ Church 9 August 1758, JEREMIAH BARER, a mariner in 1768, when he bought from Jacob Williamson a small lot on Queen Street in Kensington and when, two years later, also from Williamson, he bought a larger adjacent lot. By 1776, he had removed to the Sign of the Noah's Ark, "upper end of Front Street," and in 1780, with his wife Ruth, sold additional property on Queen Street which he had acquired. Probably the son of Jeremiah Baker of Salem County, New Jersey, when Ruth's husband died testate in November 1784, he described himself as an innholder and named Ruth executrix of his will." In 1790, Ruth was living in the Northern Liberties with one slave, probably the same one to whom she devised $40 in her will. In 1805, "advanced in years," she drew up her testament, leaving bequests not only to her own relatives but to those of her late husband. To Bowyer Brooke, Jr., she left her silver tankard; to his brother Reese Brooke her silver watch and spice ball; to their father Bowyer Brooke, Sr., her sleeve buttons. To Priscilla Wilson, daughter of the latter's brother Roger Brooke, she left $100. After bequests to her husband's relatives, her residuary estate was to be divided equally among her own relatives: Bowyer Brooke, Jr. and his brother Reese, Thomas Eyre, son of Benjamin, and the unnamed two grandchildren of her niece Sarah Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Seri., XIV, 199, 277; XV, 140; XVI, 29, 178, 610. According to Joseph Startle Miles and Rev. William H. Cooper, comps., A Historical Sketch of Roxborough, Manaynnk, Wissahickon (Philadelphia, 1940), 41, Joseph Warner's Roxborough home was on the south side of School House Lane, between Vans Avenue and Warden Drive; it was torn down about 1910. Warner devised the plantation to his son Charles by his 2nd wife Prudence, plus two lo. in the Northern E400 and his silver tankard. To his son Joseph, also by his Sod wife Prudence, Joseph Warner left the house and lot where he had "formerly lived" on Sassafras, the "fraim" stable across on the north side of S.safras, his water lot, wharf and boat shed, a lot in the Liberties, his eight-day clock and six silver table spoons. His wife Prudence was to have t40 yearly to be paid by his son Joseph during her widowhood. ,7 For the sale to George Eyre see New Jersey Deed Book A-L, 412, cited in Note 72 above. For the will of Enoch Andrus, of Hunterdon Co., N. J., not included in the abstracts of wills published in New jersey Archives, see New Jersey Will Book 4, 323, dated 2 Oct. 1741, and proved 8 Oct. 1741, State House, Trenton, N. J. 78 See Deed Book I-8, 100, cited in Note 66 above; raital in Deed Book 1-7, 5525 30 Oct. 1770, Jeremiah Baker to Samuel Baker, and Deed Book D-7, 276: 27 May 1780, Jeremiah Baker to Daniel Ernst. For his location at the Noah's Ark, see Evening Post, 23 Jan. 1776. He was assessed from 1769 through 1783 in the Northern Liberties, for which in Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIV, 120, 196, 659; XV, 356, 677; XVI, 559 For his will, written in 1776, kee Will Book S. 3013 #357:1784. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 265 Welsh. Martha Douglas, and Hannah and Sarah Austin, the two daughters of William Austin, deceased, included among the residuary heirs, were possibly also her relatives. Executors of the will, proved 3 May 1806, were Bowyer Brooke, Sr. and Anthony James Morris?. She appears to have had no issue by her 2nd husband. 2. ESTHER BOWYER appears to have been the elder of the two daughters of John and Esther (King) Bowyer. Born about 1672, presumably in England, she married JOHN CLAY, a blacksmith of Falls Township, Bucks County, probably between 1695 and 1699, after her mother's removal to Bucks County. John and Esther Clay lived with her mother on the 100-acre plantation in Bristol which Esther King had purchased in 1708, after the death of her fourth husband, Richard Willson. In her 1710 will, Esther King stated she had sold this plantation to John Clay, but this was probably a verbal agreement, and no conveyance had been made since he had not paid for it. Certainly no record of the transfer was entered in Bucks County deeds. In her will, Esther King further stipulated that, as soon as Clay had paid to her executors the balance of £30 which he still owed on the transaction, the executors were to convey the plantation to him. For whatever reason, that conveyance was never made. John Clay and his wife simply continued to live there on the plantation for the remainder of their lives without anyone contesting their right to do so. Presumably, their three daughters were born and reared there. John Clay was not assessed in 1742 for the Bristol Township Poor Tax levied that year, although his three sons-in-law were. He died intestate six years later. In the letters of administration granted to his widow 27 December 1748, his occupation was given as "innkeeper." " From blacksmith in 1710, when Esther King died, to innkeeper in 1748, would indicate a decline in vigor due to old age. Probably he was in his late seventies since his wife was then aged about seventy-five. She died less than a year later, between 27 November, when her will was signed, and 17 December 1749, when it was probated.' '10 For will of Ruth Baker, see Will Book 1, 483, cited in Note 70 above. The relationship to Ruth Baker of Martha Douglas and the Austin children remains uncertain. Martha Douglas may have been a daughter of Sarah "Williams" and Jonathan Welsh, mentioned in the text above, and the Martha Welsh who had married John Douglas at the Second Presbyterian Church 21 Aug. 1784. William Austin, whose two daughters, Hannah and Sarah, were remembered by Ruth Baker, possibly xi,, son of Edward Austin and Elizabeth Bowyer, Ruth's sister. Whether he was the William Austin, an attamted traitor, whose brother was Isau Austin, elm remains undetermined. 80 The 1742 Bristol Township Poor Tax return is filed with Bucks Co. Quarter Sessions Court Records, GSP. The originals are in the Bucks Co. Court House, Doylmtown, Pa. Bucks Co. Administration Book A, 22, estate of John Clay, cited in Index to Bucks County Administrations, 051 , A £50 bond was furnished by his son-in-law, Rowland Powell, and Edward Boulton. fii Bucks Co. Will Book 2, 171, will of Esther Clay, cited in Abstracts of Bucks County Wills, 16831790, I, 133, GSB 266 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine She left twenty shillings to her daughter Mary Aspril and mentioned Mary's daughters, Sarah and Lydia. She left to her own two other daughters, Sarah Powell and CatIrn-irie Mountain, "and their children • • . all my right and claim to the Plantation whereon I now dwell." In 1750, when they decided to sell the plantation, it was discovered that neither Esther Clay nor her children actually had any "right and claim" to it. Thus, forty years after Esther King's death, it was necessary to round up all of her heirs and secure their releases in order to vest the property legally in the Clay daughters. On 17 March 1750, twelve of Esther King's heirs joined with their spouses in releasing their rights in the plantation to the three Clay daughters and their surviving husbands. A week later they in turn sold it to Thomas Stanaland, Jr., of Bristol." Issue of 2. Esther Bowyer by her husband John Clay: i. SARAH CLAY, d. after 1750, when she joined with her sisters in conveying the Bristol plantation to Thomas Stanaland, Jr.; tn. ROWLAND POWELL presumably before 1742, when he was assessed for the Bristol Township Poor Tax that year. By 1750 he was a husbandman of the Northern Liberties, and perhaps the Rowland Powell of Philadelphia County who died before 21 April 1757, when his estate was administered by his son-in-law Michael Grover. However, Grover, who was of Lower Dublin Township, may have been a son-in-law through a prior marriage of Rowland Powell." Powell and Sarah Clay had issue, according to the will of Esther (Bowyer) Clay: she named her daughters Sarah and Catharine, and mentioned "their children," but did not name them. ii. MARY CLAY, d. after 1750, when she joined with her sisters in conveying the Bristol plantation as above stated, m. probably before 1742, the FRANCIS ASPRILL " who was assessed that year for the Bristol Township Poor Tax. Since he did not join in the 1750 deed, while both of Mary's brothers-in-law did, he was probably deceased by that year. Known issue: 1. SARAH ASPRILL, named in the will of her grandmother, Esther Clay. 2. MARY Asmuu., named in the will of her grandmother, Esther Clay. CATHERINE CLAY, d. after 1750, when she also joined with her sisters in conveying the Bristol plantation; m. probably before 1742, JOSEPH MOUNTAIN who was assessed that year for the Bristol Poor Tax. A cooper by trade in Bristol, on 26 July 1749, as the "only son and heir at law of Richard Mountain, Into 82 Bucks Co. Deed Book 9, 102, cited in Note 20 above. 88 See AdministratIon Book G, 156, #71:1757, estate of Rowland Powell. One Rowland Powell vas in Haverford Township as early as 1695. Whether he was the man who married Esther Clay has not ban established. Michael Grover. in Lower Dublin by 1757. and still there in 1760 with vrife Elizabeth, died [atm there in 1802. In his will he named his mn Powell Grover, his then vide Mary, daughters Martha Grover and Mary Roberts, grandson Grover Roberts, and Mary. Powell, Susannah, Elizabeth and Michael Grover, children of his son Michael Graver, the son of his prior wife Elizabeth Sheeran. See Will Book 1, 1, #87:1802. 84 The name Asprill is not a naive Pennsylvania name. One Joseph Asprill (1742-1802) appears in New Castle Co., Delaware records; he allegedly was born and died a that place. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 267 of the same place brewer, deceased," Joseph and his wife "Katherine" for £550 made over to Jonathan Thomas, an innholder of Burlington, all of Joseph's rights as heir at law of his grandfather, also named Richard Mountain, or as heir of his great-grandfather John Dallamane, to any property in the Parish of Andover in Hampshire or elsewhere in Great Britain." In 1779, one Joseph Mountain was assessed in Turkeyfoot Township, Bedford (now Somerset) County on 200 acres, and in 1783 on 27 acres only; he was not included in the 1790 Census." Probable issue: 1. JOSEPH MOUNTAIN, JR., M. 14 April 1772, ELIZABETH DRAKE, presumed living in Somerset County in 1828. 2. JoHN MOUNT/um 3. RICHARD MOUNTAIN. 4. MARTHA MOUNTAIN, M. ca. 1782, in Western Maryland, JAMES MCPIKE.. 3. SARAH BOWYER, the younger of the two surviving daughters of Esther King and John Bowyer, was born about 1680, probably in England. She was only a small child at the time of her father's death and apparently was reared by the succession of Lynn, Elf reth and Willson stepf others, her mother's later husbands. She did not marry until 13 2m 1710, having announced first intentions at the Philadelphia Meeting 24 12m 1709/10, to `37n.touGHBy WARDER, JR., son of Willoughby Warder, Sr. of Bucks County. Four days after their marriage, Sarah's mother signed her will, and died on 20 April, only one week after the wedding. The marriage was of brief duration. Sarah died prior to 1714, when her husband was condemned by the Falls Monthly Meeting on 3 10m 1714, for marrying contrary to discipline. The name of his second wife is unknown. Two years later the Falls Meeting noted in its minutes for 7 9m 1716, that Willoughby Warder, Jr. acknowledged having been overtaken with drink. Then, on 25 August 1720, at Christ Church in Philadelphia, he married his third wife, Mary Ellis, who survived him. He died in Makefield Township, Bucks County, between 5 March, when his will was written, and 31 March 1728, when it was proved. He devised ES to his only son Jeremiah; it was the exact amount which had been bequeathed to Willoughby by his own father." 8, Original deed, Joseph Mountain to Jonathan Thomas, Society Miscellaneous Collection, HSP. 86 Pennsylvania Archives, led Series, XXII, IAD 251. The account of this Mountain family by Eugene Fairfield MacPike, in POOP, X, 185491, is in error in stating this Joseph Mountain was assessed in Cumberland County. Turkeyfoot Township is novr in Somerset County, but in 1779 was in Bedford County. Somerset was not erected out of Ndford until 1795. Mr. MacPike felt that the Joseph Mountain of 1779 was a son of Joseph of Bucks County. . PGSP, X, 188, cited above. Thu ucount stam that these Mountain children had a half-brother, George .Grinup.” If so, it would indicate Catherine Clay married a second time. One George Gusinstp was living in the Northern Liberties in 1790, haying 1 male in his household and 4 females. Was this the same persons See Heads of Families at the First Census • • 1790 Pennsylvania (Washington, D. C., 1908), 201, hereinafter cited as 1790 Pennsylvania C(71017. 11 . Bucks Co. Will Book 1, 119, will of Willoughby Warder, Jr., cited in Abstracts of Bucks County With, 16854791. I, 41. 268 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Issue of 3. Sarah Bowyer by her husband Willoughby Warder, Jr.: i. JEREMIAH WARDER, b. 1 January 1711; " bur. as a Friend 5 1m 1783, sot. 72; m, at the Philadelphia Meeting 13 2m 1736, MARY HEAD, b. ca. 1714; bur. 9 3m 1803, at. 89, daughter of John Head, a joiner of Philadelphia. Possibly apprenticed to his grandfather Cailloughby's cousin, "John Warder of Philadelphia, hatter," Jeremiah, also a hatter, was well established in Philadelphia by 1756. He lived in Third Street, opposite Church Alley, in the North Ward of the city. Between 1750 and 1771, he was part owner of at least four ships, and by the latter year had taken his sons into partnership and had expanded his business to include "East India and European Goods." " During the Revolution Jeremiah, like many of the Friends, was under suspicion of being sympathetic to the British. This suspicion may have been aggravated by the fact that his son John was an avowed Tory. However, John was in England, and "Jeremiah Warder and Sons" were permitted to carry on their business without serious consequences. Jeremiah's will, written 8 9m 1780, and proved 10 April 1783, named the seven surviving of his fourteen children." Issue: 1, JOHN WARDER, b. 6 1 1m 1736/7; d. before 19 5rn 1739. 2. LYDIA 'WARDER, b. 13 1 lm 1737/8; d. after 1780 and before 1788; m. at Philadelphia Meeting, 27 8m 1757, RICHARD PARKER, son of Richard Parker of Darby, Chester County: d. between 24 December 1771, when his will was written, and 10 February 1772 when it was proved." 3. JOHN WARDER (2nd), b. 19 5m 1739; d. 15 fm 1740. 4. SARAH WARDER, b. 1 9m 1740; bur. 5 6m 1745, 5. MARY WARDER, b. probably 1741; d. 5 10m 1744. 6, JOSEPH WARDER, b. 25 3m 1742; d. before 1780; he was not mentioned in his father's will. 7. REBECCA WARDER, b. 11 2m 1743; d. intestate by 28 February 1805, when letters of administration on her estate were granted to her son Thomas Maybury; m. 8 12m 1766, THOMAS MAYBURT (Mayberry), son of Thomas and Sophia Maybury, b. ca. 1740; d. intestate in Pottstown, Pa., by 13 May 1797, when letters of administration on his estate were granted to his widow." 8. JEREMIAH WARDER, jr.. b. 13 fm 1744; d. 16 12m 1822, or. 79; m. 1st at the Philadelphia Meeting 19 1 1m 1772, DEBORAH ROBERTS, dec'd. by 80 See Robert C. Moon, The Morris Family of PbiladelPhia (Philadelphia, 1898), II, 398, for Jeremiah's birthdate. .. The relatiomldp of John Warder, hatter, to Willoughby Warder, Sr., is established in the latter', will, for which see Will Book D, 424, #540:1725. For Jeremiah's location in Philadelphia, 2nd notice of his importing business, see "Tumbles in the City of Philadelphia, 1756," PGM, XXII, 37, and Pennsylvania Gazette, 11 July 1771. The ships of which he was part owner included the Snow White Oak, the Philadelphia Parket, the London Packet and the Ship Lydia. See "Ship Registers for the Port of Philadelphia, 1726-1775," PMHB, XXV (1901), 123; XXVI (1902), 394; XXVIII (1904), 223, 361. St Will Book S,247, #222:1783, will of Jeremiah Warder. .. Will Book P. 206. #131:1772, will of Richard Parker. His widow Lydia was dmeased by B 5m 1788, when their daughter Eleanor married John Foulke at the Philadelphia Meeting. .. Administration Book K, 198, #33:1805, estate of Rebecca Maybury. Her no Wham Maybury, ironmaster of Montgomery Co., was one of the sureties. Letters of administration on the estate of her husband Thomas Maybury were granted in Montgomery Co. to her and his brothers-in-law, John Warder and James Van', Another brother-in-law. Jeremiah Warder, Jr., and one of his own sons-in-law, Chades Jolly, furnished the bond of £2000. Montgomery Co. Administration Docket #14,351. Thornas Maybury "late of Pottstown," died aimed of some 895 acres, appraised at £4367. in Marlborough and Frederick Townships where his forges were, as well as land in Bucks County and elsewhere. See Montgomery Co. Orphans Court Book I, 348. 350, 366, 39I. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 269 1780, daughter of Hugh and Mary Roberts; m. 2nd at Mt. Holly, New Jersey, 5 4m 1780, HANNAH MOORE. Jeremiah was disowned by the Philadelphia Meet mg 31 10m 1799, for owning an armed vessel. 9. SARAH WARDER (2nd), b. 5 6m 1745; d. before 28 Im 1753. 10. MARY WARDER (2nd), b. 23 I 1m 1746; d. 30 5m 1746. 11. SUSANNA WARDER, b. 17 5m 1749; d. 20 10m 1812, ae. 65; m. at Philadelphia Meeting 9 lm 1777, JAMES VAUX, b. 1749; d. 6 10m 1842, ae. 93, son of George and Frances Vaux. 12. JOHN WARDER (3rd), b. 24 2m 1751; d. 7 5m 1828, ae. 77; on. in England ANN HEAD, b. 1758; d. 19 lm 1829, ae. 71, according to Northern District Monthly Meeting records. Attainted a Tory on 27 July 1780, he was in London as his father's agent at the time, and did not return to Philadelphia until 1786. He and his wife returned to England the following year, but came back to the city in 1788.. 4 15. SARAH WARDER (3rd), b. 28 lm 1753; m. 5 9m 1776, Wn.mAbs HUDSON MORRIS, b. 10 3m 1753; d. 14 9m 1807, son of Anthony Morris and his wife Elizabeth Hudson. 14. MARY WARDER (3rd), b. ca. 1754; d. after 1797; m. 25 2m 1773, CALEB EMLEN, b. 1 5 December 1744; d. between 26 February 1796, when his will was written, and 10 August 1797, when it was proved." 4. JOSEPH LYNN, posthumous son of Esther King and her second husband, Joseph Lynn, was born in Philadelphia 14 June 1691. He was not quite nineteen when his mother died in 1710, and he may have been apprenticed to his half-brother, the shipwright John Bowyer, Jr., who was twenty years his senior. When he married MARTHA HMI. " on 25 December 1712, he was six months past his twenty-first birthday. Five years later on 27 May 1717, when he was almost twenty-six, the father of one son, and a full-fledged shipwright, he and his Elf reth halfbrothers were admitted freemen of the city. Nine days later, he acquired title to his first property. This was a 25 - foot bank and water lot at the "North end" of the city between Vine Street, the town's northern limit, and "the next public street north," later called Callowhill Street. Situated "beyond the Penny port house" at Vine and on the east side of "the ' 5 T5, minutes of Philadelphia Southern District Monthly Meeting noted that on 29 10m 1788, Ann Warder, wife of John, and two children, were received on a certificate from Devonshire House, London. For Ann's journal of her sojourn m Philadelphia, 1786-1788, see PMHB, XVII (1891), XVIII (1894)4 passim. Foe the proclamation against John Warder in 1780, see Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, X, 337-339. 95 The Philadelphia and, after 1772, the Northern and Southern District Monthly Meeting records, ex amined at Ftiende Historical Library, Swarthmore, contain most of the vital records of the above-named children of Jeremiah and Mary Warder. Abstracts of these records are also in GSP. Moon's Morris Family cited in Note 89 above, lists the issue of James Vaux and his wife Susannah Warder, 29 well as of William H. Morris and his wife Sarah Warder. Caleb Enilen's will, recorded in Will Book X, 613, #414:1797, names his wife and children. Joseph Lynn's birch date and those for his children are from `Notes and Queries,. PMHB. XVII, 376. The wording of this record indicates it was taken from the family Bible record of 4. Joseph Lynn, since the exact hour of each birth is noted. Of special interest is the fact that the dates chme records are not in Old Style or Quaker dating; the months are named and the years single-dated. The surnarnm of Joseph's nvo wives are not given in the record. Their identity is from the Samuel Mortis Lynn genealogy of the family. sited in Note 2 1 above. 270 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Great Road or the front street of sd City" extended northwards, the lot may have been leased by Lynn prior to the time he bought it from Daniel Howell, a Whitemarsh yeoman." Agreeing to pay the arrears of quit rent due on it, Lynn obtained a patent for the lot the following year under the usual conditions. He was to "wharf out" into the river, and as it had been with his mother, build and maintain "one public pair of stone stairs ten feet wide" from Front Street down to the cartway to be opened between the street and the river, and from thence down to the Delaware. The wharf was to be known as Langston's Wharf, for Thomas Langston, the original owner of the lot." From below Vine up to Pegg's Run (now Willow Street) the bank was shallow, shelving down gradually to low water mark. At Vine Street, there was considerable erosion. In 1713, the grand jury had presented as a nuisance "the east end of Vine street, where Front street crosses it." In 1718 a gully, running down Vine (originally called Valley Street) and crossing Front Street, was presented as "not passable by coaches, wagons or carts, to the endangering of lives." Six years later, the bank at the end of Vine was again presented as "worn away to the middle of Front Street and very dangerous." " Possibly it was the uncertain conditions at Vine at this time which decided Lynn to invest in land near home, rather than within the city proper and closer to the center of business. At any rate, that year of 1724 he bought for £100 two lots south of his bank lot, but on the west side of Front Street south of the old Willcox rope walk.'" Cable Lane had been cut through midway betwetin Front and Sticond Streets between Vine and Callowhill, and Joseph's 34-foot lots ran from Front to the lane, and from thence to Second Street. Since by now his family included five living children, he felt impelled to continue adding to his estate for their future benefit. In 1728, he bought from James Parrock for £175 a house and lot on the south 97 Minutes of the Common Comsat of Philadelphia, 1704 to 1776 (Philadelphia, 1847), 129, 131, 135. For his purchase see recital in Exemplification Book 1, 205: 20 June 1718, Patent to Joseph Lynn. "The arrears of quit rent were settled for f3 Ito. Lynn was henceforth to pay yearly two English silver shillings and sucpence "or value in coin current." See also Pennsylvania Archives, sod Series, XTX, 639-640. 66 5,.h,cf and Wencott, III, 2153, cited in Note Is above. This area all has been filled 'in to ucoromodate Delaware Avenue and the docks, but vestiges of an old stone breakwater can nill be seen on the bank west of Delaware Avenue north of Vine Street. 100 Deed Book H-IS, 433: 2 Dec. 1714, William Chancellor to Joseph Lynn. Chancellor, a sailmaker, was a son-in-law of Joseph Willcox, for not. of whose ropewalk see Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Seri, XEC, 210, 226. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 271 side of Sassafras near Front Street, 137 feet of unimproved ground farther up Sassafras toward Second Street and another lot around the corner on the east side of Second.'° 5 Obviously his business was prosperous; three years later it was still good enough to enable him to invest, with four others, in the Philadelphia-built 50-ton Ship Dragon," a vessel he may very well have built. During the thirties as he continued to prosper he acquired other city property. In 1734, he bought for £560 a long, narrow 27-foot lot extending all the way from Front to Second about mid-way between Sassafras and Vine Streets. Two years later, he bought a 23-foot bank lot from Thomas Penrose, another shipwright, for £180. It was on the opposite side of Front Street between Mulberry and Sassafras. In May of the same year, he invested £100 in a copper mine tract of 50 acres up in the back country in McCall's Manor (now Douglas Township, Montgomery County) ."" These last acquisitions meant little, however, to Joseph Lynn's wife. Just three months after his investment in the copper mine venture, Martha Lynn died on 16 August 1736. She was buried from the Philadelphia Meeting the following day. Issue of 4. Joseph Lynn by his 1st wife Martha Hill: i. JOSEPH LYNN, b. 22 April 1716; d. testate in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, about November 1803, on. 87; m. 1st at the Philadelphia Meeting 27 8m 1747, SARAH FAIRMAN, d. 15 12m 1756, daughter of Benjamin Fairman and his wife Susanna Field; m. 2nd SARAH HILL, probably the "Mrs. Linn" bur. at Christ Church 17 September 1827. At Joseph's death the newspapers noted that he had been for "many years a respectable shipbuilder of Kensington." The shipyard seems to have been moved to that location after 1 7 5 0, when Joseph Lynn bought from the heirs of the Anthony Palmer estate for £725 the latter's "Capitol Messuage" and a large tract of land on the northeast side of Hanover Street (now Columbia Avenue), extending to the Delaware Rives, as ...Deed Book P.10, 122: 28 Feb. 1727, James Parrock to Joseph Lynn. In 1733, Lynn sold the Second Street lot to his half-brother, Jeraniah Elfreth, as well as the westernmost 51 feet of the Sassafras Street property. See Deed Book 0-2, 88. 22 Nov. 1733, Joseph Lynn to Jeremiah Elfreth. ....Ship Registers . . ," cited in Note 90 above, PMHB XXIII, 264. TI,, other partners were Thomas Leech, Jonathan Hood, William Chancellor and the master of the vessel, Charles Hargrave. 300 Deed Book H-11, 62:26 March 1734, John White et at. to Joseph Lynn. The 27-100t lot, on which was a brick menuage on Front Street and two wooden dwellings on Second, was originally John Day's lot; the brick house may have been built by Day as early as 1683. For the bank lot, see Deed Book G-7, 273: 26 Feb. 1735/6, Thomas Penrose to Joseph Lynn. This property Lynn sold on ground min to Stephen and Simon Bareley, for which see 1-17, 299: 1 June 1737, Joseph Lynn to Stephen Berate, and recital in 0-7, 279: 26 Feb. 1742, Simon Baaelee to Benjamin Shoemaker. For the copper mine investment, see Deed Book F-9, 130: 6 May 1736, Besnhard Vanleer TO Joseph Lynn. Vanleer, Jonathan Robinson and John Campbell had leased the property for 99 years from George McCall 16 March 1735/6. This mining property is not 55 be confused with the better known, but later copper miser,,, Audobon on the Perkiomen Crmk. 272 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine well as meadow land at the causeway leading over Gunner's Run... In 1770, Joseph bought a farm in Cheltenham Township where he was regularly assessed after that on 83 acres and assorted livestock. In 1790 in that township, he had 4 males over 16 in his household, including himself, 3 males under 16, and 5 females?" Issue: I. JoHN LYNN, d. 3 3m 1750. 2. SARAH LYNN, b. ca. 1754; d. 15 1 lm 1803, ae. 49, according to Northern District Monthly Meeting records; m. by the Mayor of Philadelphia 7 May 1801, GEORGE WILSON, d. 7 June 1820. 1" 3. FRANKLIN LYNN, M. by 1797, to one REBECCA, surname not known..' 4. JOSEPH LYNN. I. JEREMIAH LYNN, probably d. by 22 May 1823, when letters of administration on his estate were granted Mary Lynn, possibly his wife.'" 6. JOHN LYNN, living in 1802, when his father wrote his will. 7. ESTHER LYNN, said to have M. MICHAEL MYERS of Whitemarsh.." 8. BENJAMIN LYNN. 9. WILLIAM LYNN. 10. MARY LYNN, M. SAMUEL FELTY, probably b. 20 November 1774; d. 23 April 1854, ae. 79-5-30, son of Jacob and Ann relty...° 3.08 Joseph Lynn's death, as nosed in the 19 Nov. 1803, bsue of Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, had occurred "lately." His will, written 6 Oct. 1802, was not proved until 28 Apr. 1810. In it, he left to his wife Sarah household goods and the income from his estate for life. After her death, his daughter Sarah Wilson and son Franklin Lynn were each to have only 5 shillings since he already had provided for them. The rest of his estate was to be divided equally between his other children , Joseph, Jeremiah, John, Esther, Benjamin, Willi.= and Mary Lynn. Executors were his wife and sons Joseph and John Lynn. Witnesses were Benjamin Rowland and Jacob Mien. See Montgomery Co. Will Book 3, 221, #3932:1810. The Samuel Morris Lynn account of this family, cited in Note 21 above, states the widow Sarah Lynn died in 1827, "near a =away old." For the purchase of the Palmer property, see Deed Book G-12, 512: 1 Nov. 1750, Alexander Allaire to Joseph Lynn. The property extended to the Delaware along the northewt side of the present Columbia Avenue (formerly Hanover) and encompasses the present Penn Treaty Park. The "capitol" rnessuage probably was either the original Thomas Fairman mansion, or an alteration to n. 100 For the Cheltenham property, sm recital in Montgomery Co. Deed Book 16, 344 , 4 Apt. 1797, Joseph Lynn to Franklin Lynn; for his assessmenw, Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIV, 319; XV, 58, 387; XVI, 116, 539 , 1790 Pennsylvania Census, 156. The Samuel Morris Lynn account, cited above, does not distinguish between the children of Joseph's first and second marriages, nor are many data given. Om son, Benjamin, was also omitted. In the account of Joseph's issue, given in the text, it seems probable that Sarah end Franklin were of the first marriage, the last seven named in his will being of the second marnage. 100 The notioe of Sarah's marriage in "A Register of Marriages and Deaths, 1800-1801," PMP413, XXIII (1299), 241, states she was the "daughter of Joseph Lynn of the Northern Liberties." The Samuel Morris Lynn account states she was George Wilson's 2nd wife. When he died in 1820, he left for children: Mary, George, Susanna, Francis and Abigail Wilson, as recited in Philadelphia Deed Beek JAH-14, 365: 28 Jan. 187D, Joseph E. Mitchell et al to Dennis Kennedy. This transaction concerned a house and lot, now 112 Elfreth's Alley, formerly Gilbert's Alley, which Sarah had purchased as a single woman in 1784. 1-0, The Samuel Morris Lynn account stated Franklin Lynn died in 1793. But his father Joseph Lynn made over the Cheltenham farm to him in 1797, and two months later Franklin and his wife Rebecca, and Joseph and his wife Sarah, entered into a tripartite agreement with Benjamin Rowland, for which see Montgomery Co. Deed Books 10, 344'. 4 Apr. 1797, and 10, 5430 15 June 1797. 105 For his probable death, we Ackturintration Book M, 395, #116:1823. The Samuel Morns Lynn account gives his death as occurring in 1826, however. 100 In 1790, one Jacob Miers, possibly the father of Michael, and living in Cheltenham Township, had 3 males over 16 in his family, including himself, and 4 females. 1790 Pennsylvania COMM, 156. He was probably the same person who wanessed the will of Esther', father, Joseph Lynn. 110 Jacob Fehy, living in Cheltenham in 1790, had 3 males under 16, and 2 females in his household beside himself. Ibid., 155. Samuel Felty's dates and parentage are given in the death record included in his original estate papers. His wife Mary was thm deceased, according to the same record. See Montgomery Co. Will #20501854. On 17 Jan. 1813, he was granted letters of administration on the estate of one Joseph "Linn" of Cheltenham. Possibly this was his brother-m-law. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 273 ii. JOHN LYNN, b. 17 September 1718; bur. in Philadelphia 17 2m 1802, ae. 83-3• 17; m. 25 3m 1749, MARY COOPER, b. ca. 1730; bur. 25 4m 1792, ae. 62, daughter of William Cooper of Philadelphia. John Lynn started out as a shipwright like his father and brothers, but in 1750 purchased a house and lot on the south side of High Street between Front and Second for £1098, and some time thereafter became a shopkeeper. By 1780, he was assessed there, next door to the printer William Hall, as a "gentleman." He apparently retained a large portion of his share of IM father's estate and, by leasing out the several tracts to tenants, received a substantial income in rents." Issue: I. MARTHA LYNN, b. 1750; d. testate 10 6m 1808, ae. 58; m. lit at St. Michael and Zion Lutheran Church 0 April 1779, JOHN KEPPELE, b. ca. 1754; bur. 31 10m 1779, ac. 25, widower of her sister Deborah. When he died, he was lieutenant colonel of the First Battalion, Philadelphia city militia. She m. 2nd JOSEPH PARKER, who d. after 1808.n 2 At the time of her first marriage, she was disowned by Friends 30 4m 1779, for marrying "her brother-in-law" contrary to discipline, but appears to have been reinstated before her death. 2. DEBORAH LYNN, b. 17 March 1752; bur. 24 I Im 1776; m. lit by New Jersey license dated 25 July 1772, JAMES LUKENS, b. ca. 1751; d. 6 3m 1776, ae. 23; m. 2nd 2 October 1776, JOHN KEPPELE, as above. She also was disowned for marrying contrary to discipline one not a Friend.n. 3. JOSEPH LYNN, b. between 1714 and 1758; d. intestate 10 October 1800; m. at Providence, under auspices of the Chester Monthly Meeting, 17 6m 1784, ANN MORRIS, b. 1 8m 1760; d. testate 20 Irn 1825, daughter of Jonathan and Alice Morris of Chester County.rn iii. ELIZABETH LYNN, b. 13 _lime 1720; d. after 1755; m. at the Philadelphia Meeting 24 7m 1742, ABRAHAM GRIFFITH, b. in Richland Township, Bucks County, 12 2m 1713; d. 25 October 1798, near Mt. Holly, New Jersey, son of Abraham Griffith and his wife Hannah Lester. Though Elizabeth had been left a plantation in Neshaminy of 130 acres by her father, the Griffiths lived first in Burlington, N. J. A miller by trade, Abraham was also a travelling Friend and appears to have moved around from place to place. From Burlington he moved back to Bucks County about 1748, then became a member of Abington Monthly Meeting where the births of their children were recorded. He was living in Norriton Township in 1774, and was in Upper Merion Township through 1790, when he had 1 male under 16 and 5 females in his family." Issue: I. JOSEPH 111 Pennsylvenie Archives, 3rd Series, IX, 556: 30 Aug. 1750, Sarah Read to John Lynn; ibid., XIV, 186, 260, 522; XV, 309, 595. For some of his tenants, we ibid., XV, 331, 347, 582, 592. In 1772, John Lynn and his wife and her sister Deborah (Cooper) Lippincott petitioned the Orphans Court about legacies left by William Cooper in the custody of their brother Jacob Cooper Mary was dealt with by the Philadelphia Meeting the same year for having "gone to law" against her brother Jacob over the sarne matter. Orphans Court Bonk 9, 312, entry under 8 June 1772; POOP, XIV, 49. ...At Martha's rod marriage, her father vmted property for her use in the hands of Isaac Norris which she devised to her brother Joseph's children in her will, for which see Will Book 2, 308. #62:1808. 222 Christopher Marshall, the diarist, reported Deborah's 2nd marriage (to John Keppele) as having taken place "in the night at her father's house but unknown to his though he was in the house at the same time." See Diary of Christopher Marshall, Case 18, Marshall Papers, HSP, entry for 4 Oct. 1776. 21 . Joseph and Ann Lynn were the parents of the family genealogist, Samuel Morris Lynn. For Ann's will see Will Book 8, 380, #19:1825. Letters of administration on her husband's estate had been granted to her 20 Oct. 1800, for which see Administration Book K. 56, #19551,800. ' Clarence V. Roberts, Early Friends Families of Upper Ducks (Philadelphia, 1921), 213-214, 216; Rosalie Fellows Bailey, "The Foos Family of Pennsylvania and Ohio," PGM, XVIII, Ill. Pentnylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIV, 383; XV, 163, 554; XVI, 47, 219, 7065 1790 Pennsylvania Census, 138. 274 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine thuFrrrii, b. 31 10m 1745; living in 1790; m. by license dated 3 January 1774, MARY THORNTON. 2. HANNAH GRIFFITH, b. 13 Stn 1748; d. 1815 in Haverford; m. at St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Germantown, 30 April 1769, THOMAS BARTON, presumably living in Radnor Township, Delaware County, in 1790.n° 3. MARTHA GRIFFITH, b. 23 1 lm 1750; d. 1750. 4. ARIUHAM GRIFFITH, b. 14 8m 1752. T. SAMUEL GRIFFITH, b. 16 9m 1755. iv. MARTHA LYNN, b. 29 May 1722; d. in Bucks County 7 12m 1774; m, at Philadelphia Meeting 14 3m 1751, HENRY DENNIS, son of John Dennis of Salem, New Jersey; d. probably in New York State after 1791. Henry Dennis was a widower when he married Martha Lynn. His first wife, Grace Bacon, whom he had married at Salem Monthly Meeting in 1741, had died in Philadelphia 27 lm 1749/50, leaving an infant daughter Rebecca who died unmarried 19 3m 1798, or. 48. A ship-carpenter by trade, Dennis appears to have been a somewhat contentious man, at least in his dealings with his wife's relations. In 1759, before Joseph Lynn's city property was partitioned, Dennis and his brother-in-law Joseph Lynn, Jr. appeared before the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting "with a paper condemning their rash imprudent conduct . . . in quarreling." Again, early in 1761, he complained to the Meeting "against Jeremiah Lynn that a matter of Variance" subsisted between them. If these matters of variance had to do with his father-in-law's estate, Dennis's complaints appear to have borne fruit. In the following June, partition finally was made of the city lots and ground rents left by Joseph Lynn to his daughters. Martha and Henry received their lots: two on Second Street and one on Front Street; also, the ground rent issuing out of the bank lot which Lynn had purchased in 1736 and subsequently sold. Henry Dennis promptly converted the legacy into cash and, in 1760, purchased a half-interest in the old Dowers' mill property on Wissahickon Creek at the upper end of Germantown Township. He held this only two years, then disposed of it.'" In 1769, he was assessed in Mulberry Ward. In 1774, Martha, wife of Henry Dennis, obtained a certificate from the Philadelphia Meeting for herself and three children, Martha, John and Hannah, to Buckingham Monthly Meeting in Bucks County, where she died early in December of the same year. Henry appears to have returned to Philadelphia: in 1779, one Henry Dennis was assessed in Bristol Township, Philadelphia County. By 1791, he was referred to as being "of New York." n 8 Issue: 1. JOHN DENNIS, d. in Philadelphia 13 12m 1756. 2. HENRY DENNIS, d. 20 Sm 1757. 3. MARTHA DENNIS, b. ca. 1752; d. Solebury Township, Bucks County, 27 June 1824, or. 72; m. at Buckingham Monthly Meeting 11 lOria 1775, JAMES ARmrrAGE, b. 27 lm 1749; d. For Joseph Grafith, see PGM, XVIII. Barton, ibid., 102. 115, cited above; 1790 Pennsylvania Census, 70. For Thanes See Deed Books H-I5, 103: 50 June 1761, Peter Bankson et W. to Henry Dennis, for the Lynn properties, and H-15, 128: 6 Nov. 1761, Henry Dennis to Mam Hoops, for the sale. For the mill transactions, see Deed Books I-4, 1: 10 Jan. 1765, Silas Parvin Henry Deruns, 1-4, 27: 9 Apr. 1767, Henry Dennis to Nathan Shepherd. ...a ,7-8 Pennsylvania Archiver, 3rd Series, XIV, 201; XV, 12. See Extracts from Records of Buckingham Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1720-1803, 8u61; 168, 225, 225, 253, GSP, for notices of this family. See alm Births, Marriages and Deaths, Friends Monthly Meeting Records, Bucks Coumy, Bull, 21, 37, 276-1/2, GSP, for additional notices, including Martha's death, and Henry's residence in New York in 1791. The 1790 New York Cennss, Si, lis. a Henry Dennis resident in Poughkeepsie, having 9 maks over 16, 3 males under 16, and 2 females in his household, including lusnsrlf. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 275 6 7m 1816, in Solebury, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Armitage. 4. Jmot DENNIS (2nd), in 1782 living in New York, having "married with a Woman not of our Society by Assistance of an Hireling Minister," which he acknowledged in 1786 to the Buckingham Meeting. 5. HANNAH DENNIS, d. between 1792, when a son Charles was born, and 1796, by which time her husband had in. a 2nd wife; m. at Buckingham Meeting 11 5m 1791, OLrven HAMPTON, b. ca. 1761; d. in Solebury 13 October 1826, ae. 65, son of Benjamin Hampton?. v. ESTHER LYNN, b. 19 February 1724; d. testate between 25 7m and 7 October 1795; m. 1st at Christ Church 11 October 1745, PETER BANKSON, b. 1710; d. 10 9m 1766, or. 56. Esther was condemned by the Philadelphia Meeting for marrying out of unity, but may have made satisfactory acknowledgement; her children's deaths were entered in Friends' records. Her husband, a non-communicant member of the Swedish Lutheran Church at Wicacoa (Gloria Dei, Old Swedes'), was a grandson of Andrew Bengston and his wife Gertrude Rambo. In 1754 he was reported in the Church Census made that year as understanding, speaking, reading and writing English, which not all of the Swedish members of the church could do... He was also a ship-carpenter and, having inherited property in Passayunk, relinquished most of the rights he and his wife had in the property devised to her by her father Joseph Lynn. When Peter Bankson died in 1766, he and his family were living in the house on the west side of Front Street near the old ropewalk above Vine, which was all they had kept of his wife's inheritance. He left this to his wife, as well as the principal sum of 1400 he had lent to his brother-in-law, Henry Dennis, his silver tankard, bowl, four silver table spoons, six silver tea spoons, sugar tongs, tea strainer, cream pot and salts, and other household furnishings. His wife was to have, in addition, two acres of woodland, part of his Passayunk plantation, the balance of which he devised to his daughter "Elionar." Eleanor was to have additional pieces of silver: his pint can, silver buttons, a pair of sugar tongs, two tablespoons, and a pair of gold sleeve buttons..' Issue (order uncertain): 1. MARTBA BANESON, d. 3 8m 1745, 2. JOHN BANKSON, d. young 3 8m 1751. 3. JOSEPH BANKSON, d. young 13 8m 1751. 4. jAEOB BANKSON, b. before 1754; d. 11 3m 1755- 5. ANDREW BANKSON, d. young 6 7m 1759. 6. ELEANOR BANKSON, d. before 3 January 1790; m. at Christ Church 16 April 1777, JOHN RIGHTER, b. 26 January 1753; d. testate in Roxborough Township 6 February 1790, or. 37-0-10, bur. old Ronborough Burial Ground, son of Peter Righter?. II0 See transcripts of Buckingham and Falls Monthly Meeting Births and Deaths, Bu5F, 1, GSP, for James Arnaltege's birth, and Births, Marriages end Deaths in Bucks County, VoL II, Middletown, Richland, Solebury and Wrightstown Monthly Muting, 16S0-1870, Bu4F, 412, for his death. Martha Armitage's death, and that of Oliver Hampton, are given in Deaths from Bucks County Intelligence, B09A, GSP. In should be noted that Samuel Morris Lynn's account 510 error in stating that Martha Dennis married Thomas Armitage, and Hannah Dennis married Joseph Hampton. I. Transcript of Archivum Americanum: Upsal Documents Relating to the Swedish Churches on the Delaware (1891), I, 493, HSP- Peter, his wife who was "English," and their son Jacob are listed in the unsus. .1 For Esther (Lynn) Bankson's share of the Lynn properties, on Deed Book I-7, 460: 30 June 1761, Henry Dennis et al. to Peter Bankson. For Bankson's will, see Will Bonk 0, 26, #I9:1766. 122 For the will of John Righter, ferryman, me Will Book U. 435, #175:1790. For an extended agcount of him see Mildred Goshow, Study of the Righter-Reiter Families of Philadelphia County in the EIghteenth Century," PGM, X XI, 29-10, 19. 276 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Esther (Lynn) Bankson en. 2nd at Christ Church 29 December 1767, JAMES CHANNEL, a widower. His first wife, Rebecca Keys, had died only the previous March, leaving him with a son Thomas and a daughter Rebecca. He was another shipwright and, after his marriage to Esther, they appear to have lived above Sassafras on the north side of Keys Alley, laid out from Front to Second along the south line of the lot Joseph Lynn purchased in 1737. Esther was disowned by Friends as a result of her second marriage to a non-Friend. By 1780, James Channel appears to have retired from active work since in that year, he was assessed, like John Lynn, as a "gentleman." But four years later, when he wrote his will, he still described himself as a shipwright, being then "advanced in years." It would appear he had been quite prosperous during his active years; he bequeathed to his wife Esther not only his silver watch and "all the Plate and Household Goods which she brought to me at our Marriage," but the principal sum of three bonds totalling £200 and a life tenure in the house in Keys Alley. To his daughter Rebecca, now married to George Pickering, he left a lot In Camden, New Jersey, and the principal sum of a £300 bond. If his son Thomas, "who went to sea and is supposed lost should be alive and return to Philadelphia," he was to have one half of the estate. The will was not proved until eleven years later on 1 February 1795. Esther, his widow, drew up her own will the following July, being then "sick and weak in Body." To her step-daughter Rebecca Pickering she left £10. To her brother Joseph Lynn she left a life estate in the lot between the east side of Cable Lane and Front Street which had been her share of her father's estate. To her niece Esther Lynn, Joseph's daughter, she left her silver pint bowl. The rest of her estate she devised to her only grandchild Esther Righter; if she died without heirs, the estate was to go to Esther Channel's "right heirs." The will was proved 7 October 1795, by her executors, her neighbor William Brooks, a sawsetter, and Thomas Norton, a merchant of the Northern Liberties... vi. SUSANNA LYNN, b. 20 September 1725; d. in infancy. vii. SUSANNA LYNN (2nd), b. 18 December 1726; d. in infancy. viii. SETH LYNN, b. 29 September 1727; d. 27 November 1727. Less than a year after the death of his first wife Martha Hal, 4. Joseph Lynn married a widow as his second wife, by New Jersey license dated 26 May 1737. Born in 1707, SARAH (HUTCHINSON) NORWOOD '2' promptly presented Joseph with another son within a year of their marriage, and two more daughters within the next two years. In 1740, the year in which the last daughter was born, Joseph took a one-quarter share in the 40 ton Sloop Joseph and Mary,'" and with Joseph Oldman, James Parrock and Jeremiah Elfreth, his half-brother, bought a large - See Pennsylvania Packet, 29 Oct. 1778, for the Channels' residence in Keys Alley. See also Pensslyvania Archives, 3rd Series, XV, 332, 628; XVI, 478, for his assessments in 1780-1782. For his will, see will Book X, 182, #8:1790; for Esther', will, Will Book X, 345, #984795. The marriage license, noted in The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, XVII, 47, used in Note 68 above, states she was a widow. Her maiden name is given in Samuel Morris Lynn's account. Ut "Ship Registers . ," PMHB, XXIV (1899), 108, cited in Note 90 above. The other owners of the ship were Joseph Rivers, Thomas Leah, Joseph Morris: the master of the ship was Andrew Hodge. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 277 _assdro, .70a . t agatie sye2ZIOlgred Yatdr aortm.j‘ o ara a ..... 2 4 3•o •o s • 41-6 6.0 .7.444.74,,,, _ 5.. - ° 0`• 0 7rat.neis IN artia /. 0 a„. /1 2' .440 ka 9 . 4. One Aile- '. II -9-ex, 4ore i....et 7' 6' 8- s Ox aogok 2- 6 Lkorria 3^2 giu:1 eX ateay - it .53wd Ria:fdiot• z -I tr, -...1com ■ an, I 41 n'y _tea° M 444 eI ..erbay, 4. o ,5 • 3 An.mantouna 6- s4 clr 8.6 At ..se.. GLOMEsTER A PORTION OF A MAP OF PHILADELPHIA AND PARTS ADJACENT, N. SCULL AND G. Hem., post 1712. 278 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine tract of land at the mouth of the Frankford Creek in Shackamaxon, now called Point-no-Point.'" Mariners and river-men had given this name to the land because of the changes in the appearance of the land at the mouth of the creek as it was approached from down-river. When first seen, it appeared to be a point jutting out into the river but, coming nearer, the point seemed to disappear. Then, on a closer approach, it seemed to jut out again, and so gave rise to the popular jingle, Point Look Out Point Look in Point no Point Point Agin. Joseph Lynn had also added to his city holdings. Two months after his marriage he bought another Front Street lot, this one between Sassafras and Vine, at the northwest corner of Front Street and Keys Alley, laid out through to Second Street. The following September he had applied for and been granted "Liberty to Make up so much Ground beyond the North End of the City as may accomodate him to lay Timber & plank." In December, on his further application, the Proprietor, Thomas Penn, "was pleased to allow him the Priviledge of laying his Timber and Planks on the Ground opposite to his dwelling House and to extend Southward so far as the North line of the Lot called the London Cz)mpanys untill the Propr'y should be pleased to give further Orders therein." "7 In October 1742, some three months past his fifty-first birthday, Joseph Lynn, being sick and weak in body, drew up his will, having already decided on a division of his real estate among his children. To his three sons, Joseph, John and Jeremiah, he left 170 acres of the property at Point-no-Point. He had agreed with Samuel Parr to sell a portion of it to him, but as he had not yet conveyed it, his executors were to complete the bargain. To his recently married daughter Elizabeth Griffith, wife of Abraham, he left a plantation of 130 acres at Neshaminy, as well as a feather bed and furnishing, a chest of drawers, a table, looking glass and "other necessaries for housekeeping." His other two daughters by his first wife, Martha and Esther, were to have £18 a year paid to them by his wife until the youngest came of age. His eld120 Deed Book G-2, 274,30 Apr. 1740, Samuel Holm, to Joseph Lynn ri ot. Lynn and Joseph Oldrnm, brother of Jeremiah Elfreth's fint wife, cad, were entitled to three-tenths of the whole tract, Parrock and Elf,,,!, eada two-tenths. Pennsylvania Archives, 1.7 Deed Book H-I3, 153: 20 July 1737, Joseph Merewether to Joseph Lynn. 2nd Series, XIX, 93, 93-96. The family retained the original bank lot and the additional ground (in all, 65 fent) until 1775 when it was sold to Edward SI4ppen, Jr. for £1500 See Deed Book 1-15, 83: 1 Jun< 1775. Joseph, John and Jeremiah Lynn to Edward Shippen, Jr. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 279 est son Joseph was to have his wearing apparel!, his riding horse and a small silver tankard. John, the second son, was to have his silver bowl. Both were to have a feather bed and furnishings. Jeremiah, his son by his second wife, was to have his gold and silver buttons and buckles. The four children of his first wife were to have his four new silver spoons. To his second wife Sarah, he devised his large silver tankard, seven old silver spoons, tongs, strainer and the rest of his silver; a mare and cow, his riding chair, and his Negro girl. Sarah was also to enjoy for her life the income of the two houses on Second Street on the lot he had purchased in 1734, now occupied by tenants; the income arising out of the bank lot between Mulberry and Sassafras Streets, which he had sold on ground rent in 1737 to Simon and Stephen Beezeley, and that issuing out of the one lot on the south side of Sassafras which he had sold on ground rent to John Price. After her death, these rents were to be divided among his daughters. Having disposed of his personal estate, he next took thought for his business. The two sloops then on the stocks, the "large new Flat," and his three servants were to be sold, and the money arising from their sale applied to his debts. If this was not sufficient, then a lot in Bristol in Bucks County and one at Whitehill near Bordentown in West Jersey, were also to be sold. Out of the proceeds of these sales, his two sons Joseph and John were to take what was due them "for work and money I borrowed of them." Half of the amount was to be in cash, the other half in material. He appointed his wife and two eldest sons executors, and named his friend Thomas Leech to assist them. Seemingly as an afterthought, he devised £5 to his half-sister 2. Esther Clay."' Two days later, on 12 October 1742, Joseph Lynn died at the age of fifty-one years, three months and twenty-eight days. His will was not proved until the following 4 November by the witnesses, his half-brother Jeremiah Elf reth, Samuel Hastings, and Christopher Marshall; Thomas Leech was the only one of the four who was a "juror," the others all affirmed, being Friends. The executors' first act was to have the heretofore undivided Pointno-Point tract split up into appropriate shares. Then in July 1743, they sold 159 acres at the mouth of Frankford Creek to William Logan for £393 14s. and, a month later, 79 additional acres to Samuel Parr, as directed by Lynn in his will."' ,28 Will Book G, 6, #3:1742, will of Joseph Lynn. m For the pArti[1011, see Deed Book G-2, 367: 12 Jam 1742/3, Quadripartite partition: for the sale to Logan, D-59, 286: 8 July 1743, and to Samuel Parr, recital in 0-2, 351: 21 Feb. 1779, William Parr to Rlchard Mason. 1, should be noted that not all of Joseph Lynn's real .tate dealings have been included in this study, only those pertaining to his heirs remain-tog n, his hands at his death. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 280 No division of the city property could be made until after the widow Sarah Lynn's death, since she was entitled to the income during her life. She survived Joseph seventeen years, dying 4 June 1759, aged fifty-two years, eleven months and twenty-eight days. Her younger daughter Hannah died in January of the following year,"° but it was not until 1761 that the ground rents and lots were parcelled out among Joseph's three surviving daughters, Martha Dennis, Hester Bankson, and their half-sister Sarah Lynn. Issue of 4. Joseph Lynn by his 2nd wife Sarah (Hutchinson) Norwood: ix. JEREMIAH LYNN, b. 22 February 1738: bur. 5 2m 1804, or. 66, unmarried and without issue. After his mother's death, Jeremiah in 1760 disposed of his share of the Point-no-Point land to Abel James. His sister Hannah's share in the city property became vested in him and in his sister Sarah; after the initial partition, they made a separate division between them of their joint holdings. A shipwright by trade, he appears to have lived most of his adult life with his only surviving sister of the whole blood, Sarah, and her husband Benjamin Marshal.' x. SARAH LYNN, b. 8 October 1739; d. 7 May 1797; m. at Philadelphia Meeting 22 10m 1761, BENJAMIN MARSHALL, b. 14 8m 1737; d. 29 January 1778, bur. at Plymouth Meeting Burial Ground, son of Christopher Marshall, the diarist, and his 1st wife, Sarah Thompson. Though he was a "tints-plate worker" by trade, Benjamin Marshall appears to have participated with his brothers in the family business, a drug and colour shop: the Sign of the Golden Ball in Chestnut Street. When the British approached Philadelphia in 1777, Benjamin and his brothers and their families moved out of the city up into the country. During the winter, while nursing soldiers at Valley Forge and at his own home, he contracted a fever from which he died... When his widow finally moved back to Philadelphia, her brother Jeremiah Lynn apparently took up residence with her. Issue: 1. ANN MARSHALL, b. 10 August 1762; d. young. 2. SARAH MARSHALL, b. 10 December 1763; d. 23 2m 1765, or. 13 months. 3. HANNAH MARSHALL, b. 5 December 1765; m. at the Philadelphia Meeting 14 4m 1785, CASPAR WISTAR HAINES, b. 1762; d. 1801, SOO Of Reuben Haines and his wife Margaret Wistar. 4. SARAH MARSHALL (2nd), b. 1767; bur. 2 1 1m 1775, ae. 8. 3. MARY MARSHALL, b. 22 July 1769; d. 17 3m 1770, or. 8 months. 6. SUSANNA MARSHALL, b. 12 July 1771; bur. 27 7m 1772, so. I. 7. CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, b. 10 May 1773; m. 1st at Philadelphia Meeting 9 10m 1800, MARY DORSEY, 13. 12 8m 1772, daughter of Benedict and Sarah Dorsey; m. 2nd, PHOEBE Both death dates and an. for Joseph and Sarah Lynn are given in the Samuel Motto Lynn account, cited in Note 21 above, as are those for Hannah, for which see text below. See Deed Book 1 - 6, 439: 7 May 1760, Jeremiah Lynn to Abel James, for the sale of the Point-no. See Deed Book H-15, 138, 14 Oct. 1761. Jeremiah Lynn to Sarah Lynn, for their mutual division. For his presumed residence with his sister, see the assessment lists, Peishrylvinsio Archives, 3rd Seri., Point property. XIV, 183, 246; XV, 250, 744; XVI, 285, 787. 180 S. .Correspondence of the Children of Christopher Marshall," PM9IE, XVII, 366, 340-345. 346, for references . Benjamin's last illness and death. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 281 8. ESTHER MARSHALL, b. 22 November 1774; m. at High Street Meeting House 3 12m 1795, ABRAHAM GAMES/ES, b. 7 8m 1773, son of William and Mary Garrigues. 9. MARY MARSHALL (2nd), b. 17 July 1776; d. young. 10. ANN MARSHALL (2nd, twin of Mary?), b. July 1776; bur. 7 9m 1776, or. 3 months. 11. BENJAMIN MARSHALL, b. 29 September 1777; m. at Philadelphia Meeting House 11 10m 1804, MARY CRUKSHANE, daughter of John and Mary Crukshank. 12. ANN MARSHALL (3rd), la. 18 June 1778; d. young.r" xi. HANNAH LYNN, b. 8 August 1741; d. testate unmarried and without issue in Philadelphia 11 January 1760, ae. 18-4-22. In her will, wntten ten days before her death when she was "very sick and weak," she bequeathed all her plate, lands and hereditament, to her brother Jeremiah and sister Sarah Lynn, to be shared by them equally. Sarah was also to have her Negro girl called "Bete." SHOTIVELL. 5. JEREMIAH ELFRETH, born about 1692, son of Esther King and her third husband, Josiah Elfreth, was only about a year old when his father died in 1693, at which time his half-brother Henry Elfreth, son of his father's first marriage, was at least thirteen years of age. Their uncle Jeremiah Elfreth died a year later, leaving to his "kinsman Jeremiah Elfreth, my brother Josiah Elfreth's son," twenty shillings, and the residue of his estate to his nephew Henry Elfreth."' When Esther King moved to Bucks County after 1695, both Jeremiah and Henry Elfreth may have remained in Philadelphia, perhaps with their half-brother John Bowyer, Jr., by then of full age, and to whom Henry may have been apprenticed. Certainly when Henry married Sarah Gilbert, daughter of John Gilbert, at the Philadelphia Meeting 27 12m 1701/2, Jeremiah, though not more than ten years old, appears to have been Henry's only near relation present. John Gilbert, Henry's father-in-law, had recently acquired three Front Street lots between Mulberry and Sassafras which extended all the way west to Second Street. He and Arthur Wells, his neighbor on the 105 For the erroneous birth date, given as IS June 1779, of this posthumous child, see "The Record of Some Residents in the Vicinity of the Middle Ferry . . ," PGSF, IX, 44. She is presumed to be the child mentioned by Charles Marshall in his letter of 29 Jan. 1771, to his father, for whIch see Note 132 above. Dams for the other children are from John W. Jordan, Colonial Fanfilka of Philadelphia (New York, 1911), II, 1025-2025, mpplemented by records from Hinshaw, II, S13, 365, 432, 591, cited in Note 55 above. Ti,, Lynn family record, however, gives the birth of the 2nd child, Sarah Marshall, as II December 1762. 104 The will of Hannah Lynn was proved 4 Feb. 1760, by her executors, Jeremiah and Sarah Lynn, and her "cousin" Christopher Marshall. Her sister Sarah did not marry Benjamin Marshall until 1761; whether Hannah was referring to Benjunin's brother, Christopher, or to his father, the diarist, has not been established. See Will Book L, 401, #295:1760, will of Hannah Lynn. I. 00 Administration Book A, 112-182, #75:16931/4], rd.a. will of Jeremiah Elfreth, for abstract of which see PGM, XIX, 261. ne account in this study of his nephew Jeremiah Elf reth and the latter's family is based on the reseuches of Hannah Benner Roach, historian of the Elfreth's Alley Association. The writer also wishes to acknowledge with sincere gratitude her generous counsel and practical assistance in the preparation of the entire study of Esther King and her children. 282 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine south, by 1702, had opened an alley from Front to Second Street between their respective properties for the accommodation of Wells's blacksmith shop and the boulting house Gilbert intended to build on the alley. At the northeast corner of the alley and Second Street, John Gilbert also erected a dwelling which he rented for a time to Henry and Sarah Elfreth. When Gilbert died in 1711, he left this corner property to their children, Caleb, John, Joshua, Elizabeth and Sarah Elfreth.' 3° Unlike his three half-brothers, John Bowyer, Joseph Lynn, and Henry Elfreth, who were shipwrights, Jeremiah Elfreth became a blacksmith, but to whom he was apprenticed remains unknown. Emulating his much-married mother Esther King, however, he was married five times in the course of his eighty years. He was twenty-four when he married his first wife, SARAH OLD— MAN, daughter of Thomas Oldman and his wife Elizabeth Sykes. When Jeremiah and Sarah were married at the Philadelphia Meeting 12 4m 1716, none of Jeremiah's relations appear to have been present, but his bride's brothers and sisters, Thomas, Joseph, Ann and Mary Oldman, were all witnesses. A month later on 31 July 1716, Jeremiah acquired his first city property for £120 from Benjamin Vining.°" This was a house and L-shaped piece of ground on the east side of Second Street and north side of the alley, then "commonly" called Gilbert's Alley, adjoining on the north and east the prop8rty at the corner of the alley which John Gilbert had devised to Henry Elfreth's children. Here, Jeremiah and his wife Sarah set up housekeeping; it remained Jeremiah's town dwelling all his life. In 1720, four years after his marriage, Jeremiah leased from William Coats on a ground rent of £3 12s. four acres fronting a lane to be laid out in the Northern Liberties. The first payment of rent was not due until March 1722; Jeremiah was to "erect a good and sufficient inclosure or fence of Post and Rails of four Rails high" around the property within a year; if he failed to pay the rent, Coats could enter upon the messuage, barns, stables or other buildings "to be erected thereon," and distrain sufficient goods to satisfy the rent. That same year Jeremiah and his wife joined with her brothers and sisters in releasing their rights in her father's property to her brother Thomas Oldman, jr.'" 1.00 See the will of John Gilbert, Will Book C, 256, #2255711. Deed Book G-2, 89: 11 July 1716, Benjamin Vining to Jeremiah Elfreth. 108 Deed Book 0-2, 92 , 20 Aug. 1720, William Coats to Jeremiah Elfreth. The lane to be laid out through Coate land was first called Hickory Lane. then Coats Street, and is now Fairmount Avenue. Elf reth's lot was at what would now be the northeast corner of Thirteenth Street. For the Old,,,,, release, see Deed Book 1°-11, 271: 19 July 1720, Jeremiah Elfreth so Thomas Oldmen of 4. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 283 Jeremiah's blacksmithing trade warranted his taking on apprentices of his own, but not all of them stayed for the full term of their indentures. In the spring of 1726, Thomas Davis, aged nineteen, ran away from Elf reth."' Two years later Jeremiah's first marriage was abruptly terminated. Late in November 1728, his wife Sarah died, "having been the day before walking in her garden." As Thomas Chalkley, the noted "travelling Friend," set down in his journal, "She was a sober, young Woman, and her Death much lamented." "° Issue of 5. Jeremiah Elfreth by his 1st wife Sarah Oldman: i. JOSIAH ELFRETH, d. 1 7m 1719. ii. ELIZABETH ELFRETH, b. ca. 1719; d. in New Jersey 9 5m 1778, ae. 59-3-0; m. at Philadelphia Meeting 21 9m 1738, ISAAC ANDREWS, b. in New Jersey between 1712 and 1717, when his father died; d. in Deptford Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, between 25 July 1775, when he wrote his will, and 14 February 1776, when the inventory of his estate was taken.'" Son of Edward and Sarah Andrews of Little Egg Harbor, Isaac Andrews was a tanner by trade. His tannery and adjacent dwelling were in Haddonfield, but he also owned the plantation on Mantua Creek where he died, and which he left to his wife for her life, and then to his son Jeremiah Andrews. In addition, his own mother had left him a 50-acre tract near Little Egg Harbor, and his father-in-law Jeremiah Elf reth had left to his daughter, Elizabeth Andrews, three houses and lots on the south side of Sassafras between Front and Second Streets in Philadelphia. A year after Isaac's death, Elizabeth Andrews and her daughter Esther left Haddonfield and removed within the verge of Salem Monthly Meeting where she died the following year. Issue, as noted in Haddonfield Monthly Meeting records: ,as ANDREWS, b. 25 6m 1739; m. at Haddonfield Meeting 23 Ilrn 1758, JOHN MILLER, son of Ebenezer Miller of Greenwich, Cumberland County, New Jersey. 2. MARY ANDREWS, b. 25 4m 1741; d. 26 5m 1745, a, 4. 3. JEREMIAH ANDREWS, b. 22 Ilm 1743/4; living in 1775 when his father wrote his will. 4. ELIZABETH ANDREWS, b. 23 fm 1747; d. 31 3m 1760, no. ca. 13. 5. ISAAC ANDREWS, b. 21 9m 1749; probably d. in Evesham, New Jersey, lm 6. EDWARD ANDREWS, b. 8 10m 1751; d. 11 8m 1752. 7. LETITIA ANDREWS, .35 American Weekly Meersay. 8 March 1725/6. Elfreth was not the only one of Esther King , sons to have problems with servmts. Joseph Lynn's Irish servant, Arthur Fleming, ran may in 1730, and one of his sawyers, James Bond, absconded in 1738. See ibid., 7 May 1730; Pennsylvania Gazette, Is June 1738. A Collections of the Works of Thomas Chalklry in Two Parts (Philadelphia, MDCCXLIX), 219. °5 141 '`Abstract of Wills. Vs 1771-1780," Neu, Jersey Archly's, 1st Series, XXXIV, 18, abstract of will of Isaac Andrews. The abstract of his mother's will is on the same page. For hs father Edward's will, see ;bid., XXIII, 13. I. Abstract of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Record, 1681-1828, 26, 88, 188. GSP. Set Hinshaw, II, 20, 51, far Elizabeth Andrews' movements md death. 148 "The Elfreth Necrology," PGSP, II, 172-174, gives an account of the Elfreth family. The death of one Isaac Andrews on page 174 of that account, presumably is that of Isaac, son of Isaac and Elizabeth Andrews. 284 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine b. 7 4m 1754; d. 8 4m 1760, or. ca . 6• 8. HANNAH ANDREWS, b. 27 4m 1757; d. 10 7m 1758. 9. EBENEZER ANDREWS, b. 13 fm 1761; dec'd by 1775 when his father wrote his will. 10. ESTHER ANDREWS, b. 26 1Im 1763; living in 1777 when she left Haddonfield with her mother. JEREMIAH ELFRETH, Jo., b. 1723; d. 11 2m 1765, or. 42; m. at Philadelphia Meeting 27 8m 1752, HANNAH TROTTER, b. 1728; bur. 29 Tm 1791, or. 62, daughter of Joseph Trotter and his wife Dinah Shelton. Jeremiah was a gold- and silversmith by trade. In 1760 Charles Stow, Jr. sold to him and his wife Hannah a house and lot on the east side of Second Street south of Mulberry. They lived there until Jeremiah's death when his widow Hannah went to live with her father Joseph Trotter on Second Street south of High until his death in 1770."4 When her father-in-law Jeremiah Elfreth died in 1772, he left to her two sons his Second Street homestead and part of the property fronting Gilbert's Alley, permitting her to have the rents and profits therefrom after the death of his own wife until his grandsons came of age. Hannah's sons, both cabinetmakers, partitioned the Second Street and Alley property in 1791. 1" Josiah took the Second Street homestead and the easternmost part of the Alley land still owned by their grandfather at his death; Josiah took the store, which Jeremiah, Sr. had built south of and next to the Second Street home, and the western part of the Alley tract. Issue: 1. JEREMIAH ELFRETH, b. in Philadelphia 2 9m 1754; d. in Haddonfield, N. J., 12 3m 1825, ae. 71; m. in New Jersey in 1775, MARY (RonEATS) TAYLOR, b. 1751; d. 30 4m 1813, or. 62, daughter of Jacob and Hannah Roberts and widow of William Taylor. 2. JOSEPH ELFRETH, d. in infancy 11 7m 1758. 3. JOSIAH ELFRETH, b. 2 fm 1759; d. testate in Philadelphia, probably of yellow fever, 8 9m 1793, ae. 35; m. at the Northern District Meeting in Philadelphia 12 4m 1785, RACHEL CATHRALL, b. 1759; d. 26 Ilm 1802, ae. 43, daughter of Isaac and Hannah Cathrall. iv. SARAH ELFRETH, d. unmarried in Philadelphia 12 2m 1751.'. 5. Jeremiah Elfreth's second wife, whom he married at the Philadelphia Meeting 8 Sm 1731, was LETMA (SWIFT) RICHARDSON* She was an English woman who had arrived in Philadelphia about 1726, bringing a certificate from Endfield Meeting in Middlesex County, England, and the same year had married, as his second wife, the silversmith, Francis Richardson. He died 17 6m 1729, leaving her with a small son John Richardson, and two nearly grown stepsons, Francis and Joseph Richardson."' Present at Jeremiah's second marriage were a number of his relations H4 Deed Book H-10, 543: 9 Apr. 1760, Charles Stow, Jr. to Jeremiah Elfreth and wife Hannah. Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIV, 154. 1 55 Deed Book EF-22, SO: 27 1m 1791, Josiah Elfreth to Jeremiah Elfreth. 1 45 Her death record identifies her as a daughter of Jeremiah, but does not name her mother. I47 The "Elf reth Necrology," cited above, m error calk Letitia a daughter of John Swift. See "Early Minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends," PGSP. VIII, 78, for notice of "Lettice" Swift's certificate, and Harold E. Gillingham, "The Cost of Old Silver" PMHB, LIV (1930), 42-43, for an account of Franck Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 285 of the half blood: his eldest half-brother, 1. John Bowyer, who died two years later, and his wife Sarah; his next eldest half-brother, 4. Joseph Lynn; and John and Sarah Elfreth, two of the children of his deceased half-brother Henry Elfreth. None of the Richardson sons appear to have witnessed the marriage, but there was a cordial connection between the two families. Certainly Jeremiah Elfreth patronized young Joseph Richardson, a silversmith like his father Francis, ordering from him between 1731 and 1737 such items as silver buttons and tankards. Quite likely, he apprenticed his own son Jeremiah, Jr. to Joseph Richardson. Letitia Elfreth died, without issue by Jeremiah, little more than two years later on 16 9m 1733. Barely a year later, on 12 10m 1734, 5. Jeremiah Elfreth married his third Wife, ELIZABETH MASSEY, daughter of Samuel Massey and his wife Sarah Wight. Presumably they were Irish: the family had arrived from Cork in 1710. 1" At this wedding, Jeremiah's immediate family was represented by his son Jeremiah, Jr., his daughter Elizabeth Elf reth, his half-brother 4. Joseph Lynn, and Sarah Bowyer, widow of his half-brother 1. John Bowyer. This marriage was even briefer than his second, for Elizabeth (Massey) Elfreth died without issue 23 8m 1735. A month after her death, 4. Joseph Lynn and his wife Martha sold to Jeremiah for £150 part of the property Joseph had bought in 1728. The sale included the westernmost 51 feet of land on the south side of Sassafras Street, and the lot around the corner on the east side of Second, south of Sassafras. Elfreth subdivided the Sassafras Street property into three lots, erected houses on them and, in 1738 sold the westernmost to Isaac Zane who had married Jeremiah's niece Sarah Elf reth, daughter of Henry."' His interest in acquiring additional real estate may have been sparked by his role as one of the tax assessors that year, a position to which he was elected annually from 1739 through 1745." 5 In February 1737/8, following his first election as a tax assessor, Jeremiah applied to the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for a certificate to Westbury Monthly Meeting on Long Island "on account of marriage." H 8 Hinshaw, II, 592. For the will of Elizala.h's father. Samuel Massey , a tallow-chandler, see Will Book D, 167, #196:1720. F.9 For the Lynn sale, ne Deed Book G-2, 88, cited in Note 101 above. For the sale to Isaac Zane, or recital in Deed Book D-42, 164: 27 May 1760, Jererruah Elfreth to Jam. Hunter. For Jeremrah's sale for f90 of the S.ond Street lot in 1740, see Deed Book 0-6, 305: 23 March 1740, Jeremiah Elfreth to Charles Williams 15 . The Pennsylvaraa Gazette regularly noted election results .rly .111 each October. Jeremiah was an assessor for the city in 1737, then for the county from 1759 00 1743' 286 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine At that place, 011 30 lm 1738, he married his fourth wife, RACHEL SEAMAN, daughter of Nathaniel and Rachel Seaman of Rhode Island. The following June, Rachel Elfreth presented to the Philadelphia Meeting her own certificate from Newberry Monthly Meeting in Rhode Island. A year and ten months later, on 9 12m 1738/9, she died, apparently in childbirth. Issue of 5. Jeremiah Elfreth by his 4th wife Rachel Seaman: v. RACHEL ELFRETF1, d. in infancy 20 12m 1738/9, just eleven days of ter her mother's death. Undeterred by the death of four wives, 5. Jeremiah Elfreth was soon casting about for a fifth. Having gone far afield for his last wife, he now looked around Philadelphia again for a suitable mate. The land on the south side of Gilbert's Alley toward Second Street now belonged to Mary Wells, widow of Arthur Wells, the youngest son of the man who, with John Gilbert, originally had opened the alley. Arthur Wells, Jr., Mary's husband, had died in 1732, leaving her with two small daughters, Rebecca and Katharine, and possessed not only of 100 feet of unimproved land on the alley but two houses around on Second Street south of the alley, one of brick and the other of wood. She also owned two more houses on the east side of Front between High and Chestnut Streets."' Still interested in real estate, Jeremiah bought the easternmost 32 feet of the Wells's alley ground in December 1739!" Six months later, on 5 4m 1740, he married the widow MARY WELLS at the Philadelphia Meeting. Born in 1700, she appears to have been of Dutch ancestry, and was the daughter of Klass (Claes) Berends by his wife Catharine Claesson. Her parents, who were Mennonites, had arrived in Philadelphia the year of her birth from Hamburg, with a group of members of the Mennonite Church at Altona on the right bank of the Elbe, immediately west of Hamburg."' Less than two months before his fifth marriage, Elf reth, his half11s,, Will Book E, 211, #287:1732, will of Arthur Wells, for descript;on of these properties. 112Th, sale to Elfreth of the ground on which the present 124 and 126 Elfretlis Alley houses stand, is recited in Deed Book I-1, 233: 14 550 1762, Jeremiah Elfreth lo 'sax Cassel. 1O85 recital in Deed Book G-I, 306: 23 Oct. 1718, Lodowick Christian Sprogell to Philip Christian Zimmerman, for Mary Wells' parentage. lier mother, Catherine Claason, had married Sprogell after the death of her husband Cl,,, Berendts. See aLso Samuel W. Pennypacker, The Settlement of Germantown . . . (Philadelphia, 1899), 139, for the', arrival; also John C Wenger, History of the Momonites of tbe Franconia Conference (Telford, l's., 1937), 88-89. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 287 brother 4. Joseph Lynn, his first wife's brother Joseph Oldman, who lived around on Front Street, and James Parrock bought on shares the Point-no-Point land south of the mouth of Frankford Creek. In 1741, the following year, Elfreth bought additional acreage at the Point at sheriff's sale as agent for the others and on the same share-basis."' In 1745, Elfreth acquired title to the bank lot Arthur Wells had owned and, in 1746, bought a 100-foot lot on the northeast side of Hanover Street in Kensington for £93. Anthony Palmer, who had acquired 191 acres here in 1731, between the road to Frankford and Gunner's Run, had laid out streets and was selling off large lots." 5 As shipwrights began moving farther away from the city in order to enlarge their yards, men associated with ship-building followed suit. Four years after Elfreth became a landowner here in Kensington, his Lynn nephews followed his example. By 1762, Jeremiah Elfreth had erected houses on the lots on the south side of Gilbert's Alley and on his remaining lots on the south side of Sassafras Street between Front and Second, and was advertising them for sale. He found buyers for the alley properties, but none for the others, and so continued to rent them to tenants. He also sold, for £1500, a tract of 75 acres at Point-no-Point, by now called Richmond, which was part of his allotment of the entire tract. The next year he bought one more house and lot on Sassafras east of his other lots, paying £600 "proclamation money of New Jersey" for it. Later that year, being then about seventy years old, he apparently decided to retire from business, for he advertised "a parcel of smith's tools for sale: Anvils, Bellows, vizes, Beak-irons, sledges and sundry other items.""° Seven years later, on 23 2m 1770, when he was "weak in body and advanced in years," he drew up his will. To his fifth wife Mary, he left his best feather beds and furniture, best chest of drawers and seven leather bottom chairs. Also, "in lieu of Dower," she was to have that part, fronting Water Street, of the bank lot which had belonged to her first husband, the rents and profits of the two westernmost houses on w 9 5ee Deed Books 0-2, 274, cited in Note 126 above, for the first Point-no-Point purchase, and recital in G-3, 381: 11 J.. 1742/3, James Parrock to Robert Hopkins, for the sheriff's ea. to Elfreth. 200 For the bank lot, see Deed Book H-20, 129: 17 Dec. 1745, George Wilson to Jeremiah Muth; for the Kensington lot, Deed Book H-16, 118: 2 Apr. 1746, Anthony Palmer et 4. to Jeremiah Plinth. See Logan MSS, Large Miscellaneous, 71, 77, HSP, for maps of the Polmer tract and the lots kid out within it . , Pemssylvania Gazette, 29 Apr. 1762, 14 Apr. 1763. For the sale of the alley properties, see Deed Books 1-1, 233, cited in Note 112 above, and 1-1, 929: 17 im 1762, Jeremiah Elfreth to Mary Smith. For the sale of the Point-no-Point 1.el, see Deed Book 1-3, 523: 17 July 1762, Jeremiah Elfreth to Thomas Bowlby; for Elfreth's last acquit' ition, Deed Book 14-20, 127: 1 Jan. 1763. John Smith to Jeremiah Elfreth. 288 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Sassafras, one of which he had been renting to his son-in-law Robert Dawson, and £200 Pennsylvania money to be paid her within six months of his own death. To his daughter Elizabeth Andrews, he left the third house and lot on Sassafras which he had bought in 1763, and after his wife's death, the other two Sassafras Street properties. In addition, Elizabeth was to have a portion of the property on the alley "now commonly called Elfreth's alley," which was part of the original homestead ground, and half of the lot in the Northern Liberties on Hickory Lane which he had bought from William Coats. He left to his two grandsons, Jeremiah and Josiah Elfreth, the other half of the Hickory Lane lot, the homestead and the remaining adjoining lots on Elf reth's Alley, as well as the store next to the homestead on Second Street. To his youngest child Esther Dawson, he left the other part of the bank lot formerly Arthur Wells' fronting Front Street, and also the Kensington property. Esther was to have £300 paid her within six months of his death, and after his wife's death, the rest of the bank lot. To his son-in-law Isaac Andrews and his Elf reth grandsons, he left his wearing apparel, and released both Isaac and the estate of his own son Jeremiah, Jr. from all debts. He appointed his sons-in-law and his brother-in-law, Barnaby Barnes, Mary's brother, executors. A year later he appears to have had second thoughts, and by a codicil dated 22 6m 1771, gave to his wife for her life the rents and profits of their home and the store and the rest of the lot "thereto belonging," which he had devised to his grandsons." He lived for another year, and was buried 20 10m 1772, aged eighty years. His widow Mary survived him only a few months; she died 22 3m 1773, aged seventy-three. Issue of 5. Jeremiah Elf reth by his 5th wife Mary (Barnes) Wells: vi. ESTHER ELFRETH, b. ca. 1742; d. 17 12rn 1819, ac. 77; m. at Philadelphia Meeting 25 6m 1765, ROBERT DAWSON, 13. ca. 1744; d. testate 8 4m 1819, sac. 75, according to Northern District Monthly Meeting records. Son of Robert Dawson who had arrived from London prior to 1738, the year he married Mary Warner at Christ Church, Robert Davison, Jr. was a staymaker by trade. He and his wife Esther lived in one of his father-in-law's houses on Sassafras Street until after the death of Mary (Barnes) Elfreth. In 1773, Robert announced he had moved his shop "from next door to the Friends Meeting House in Second street to the house in Third a little above Arch and the fourth door from the Golden Swan." They probably lived over the shop. By 1785, his store was in Water Street, second door above the corner of Chestnut, in the Will Book 1', 340, #23I:1772, will of Jeremiah Elfreth. The will was proved the day after hb burial. Both he death and that of his wife are entered Northern District Monthly Meeting records. Esther King of Philadelphia and Bucks Counties 289 former premises of Arthur Wells, and he was selling dry goods. In 1790, he was back in the old neighborhood on the east side of Second Street, in the brick house Arthur Wells had built south of Elfreth's Alley. In his household were 2 males over 16, including himself, 5 females and one other free person, probably a servant or lodger... When he died, he seems to have been quite prosperous, leaving to his wife a legacy of $3000, as well as plate, books, horse carriage and chair; and to his son Josiah $2000 and shares in the Schuylkill Navigation Company. To his daughter Rebecca, he left shares in the Water Loan of the city, and in the Insurance Company of North America, in addition to $800 in cash. His real estate was to be shared by his two surviving children after his wife's death... Issue: 1. REBECCA DAWSON, b. 1770; d. 25 lm 1855, unmarried. 2. Josuaz DAwsozt, b. 1 9m 1772; d. 29 8m 1858, se. nearly 86, unmarried. 3. ELIZABETH DzwsoN, b. ca. 1776; d. 21 I lrn 1809, or. 33, unmarried. 158 Charles C. Dawson, Collection of Family Records . . . and Other Memorials of Various Families and Individuals Bearing lb. None Newton . . (Albany, N. Y., 1874), 189. Pennsylvania Archives, Sri Series, XIV, 200; Pessmylvania Goette, 15 Sept. 1773; Pennsylvania Packet, 8 June 1780; 1790 Pennsylvania Cenrus, 220. 005J( Book ?, 10, #49:1819, will of Robert Dawson. He and his wife were members of Northern District Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia. Lynn Family Record* Joseph Lynn Senyore was born the 14. of June in the year of our Lord 1691. Joseph Lynn Senyore was married the 25. of December in the year of our Lord 1712. Joseph Lyn Juner was born the 22'ld day of Aprell in the morning betwixt 8 or 9 of the clock in ye year of our Lord 1716. John Lyn was born the 17. of September at half an hour after 11 at night in the year of our Lord 1718. Elizabeth Lyn was born ye 13th of June at 26 minutes after 9 in the Moming in the year of our Lord 1720, and the Second day of the week. Martha Lynn was born the 29" of May at 50 minutes after Eleven in the morning and in the year of our Lord 1722. Esther Lyn was born the 19. of February at 35 minutes after one in the morning and in the year of our Lord 1724. Susanah Lyn was born ye 20 0 of September between two and three in the morning and in the year of our Lord 1725. The Second Susanah Lyn was born the 18. of December between two and three in the morning and in the year of our Lord 1726. Seth Lyn was bom the 29 50 of September 3/4 after eleven at night and dyed the 27" of November following. Martha Lyn wife of departed this Life 16. of August 1736 at 8 Oclock in the evening. Joseph Lyn Seri' was married to his Wife Sarah the 25" of May 1737. • As uanscribed in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biografhy, XVII 118931, 376-377. 290 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Jeremiah Lyn was born the 22. of February about 4 of the Clock in the morning in the year 1738. Sarah Lyn was born the 80 of October about half an hour after 6 in the Evening in the year 1739. Hannah Lynn was born the 8. of August about 4 of the Clock in the morning in the year 174—. Joseph Lynn Sen' departed this life October y° 12. 1742 aged 51 years and 3 month 28 days. Sarah Lynn wife of Joseph Lynn departed this life y. 4. of June 1759 at 6 in the morning aged 52 years 11 months and 28 days. Hannah Lynn departed this life y. 11. of January 1760 aged 18 years 4 months and 22 days at half an hour after 3 afternoon and Sixth day of the week. Sarah Marshall was born December 11. 1762. To be Sold, by PUBLIC VENDUE, at the house of Charles Lawrence, at the Sign of the Royal Oak, in the Northern Liberties, near the Premises on the 5° of the Sixth Month (June) if not sold before at private sale, A CERTAIN two story tenement, and lot of ground thereunto belonging, situate in the Northern Liberties of the city of Philadelphia, between Vine and New-market street, otherwise called Callow-hill street, containing in breadth, on Front-street, 65 feet, and extending into the river Delaware the usual distance of about 300 feet; the situation of this lot may be said to be equal to any in that part, being in a very thriving part of the town, where many very valuable improvements are already made, and having the advantage of a large bank of earth, which will render the improving of the water lot very easy to the purchaser; the tenement is 30 feet on Front-street, and about 30 feet deep, and has rented for Thirty-three Pounds per arm. A reasonable, time will be given for the payment of the purchase money, with interest thereon, by giving security, if required. Any person desirous of treating for the above premises, before the day of sale, by applying to JosETH LYNN, JOHN LYNN Or JEREMIAH LYNN, in Philadelphia, may learn the particulars. 19 May 1773 Gaaritr