Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants: Further Philadelphia Roots of The Princess of Wales

Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants: Further Philadelphia Roots of The Princess of Wales Francis James Dallett, F.A.S.G., F.G.S.P. G ENEALOGISTS around the world are becoming increasingly interested in the ancestry of the Princess of Wales. The former Lady Diana Spencer is, as all readers of Time and Newsweek magazines—to name only the most popular journals in the United States to discuss the subject—are aware, a great-granddaughter of New York heiress Frances Eleanor Work, who, in 1880, became the bride of the future third Baron Fermoy.1 The American ancestors of the Princess are thus a much closer part of her heritage than are, to H.R.H. Prince Charles, the colonial Virginians from whom he descends through his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The forebears in the Work line, in combination with the "upper middle class rather than aristocratic" Scottish and English families who also form part of the maternal background of the Princess, have created, as Gary Boyd Roberts, a Boston genealogist has pointed out, a total change in the composition of the immediate English Royal family. To provide but one facetious footnote, there is every likelihood that on the throne of Great Britain will eventually sit the Royal child, Prince William of Wales, who is a direct descendant of the master bricklayer responsible for much of the construction of Independence Hail. The probable future monarch literally personifies the AngloAmerican alliance. David Williamson, an editor of Burke's Peerage, Ltd., published in Genealogists' Magazine, June, 1981, an ancestor table of the then Lady Diana Spencer which included the names of four of the Royal fiancée's six American great-great-great-great-grandparents. 3 The names of the remaining two appeared in the pedigree wheel contributed by the same genealogist to the illustrated feature, "Lady Diana's Family Circle," by Stephen Wood, in the London Sunday Times Magazine of 26 July 1981.4 The Sunday Times pedigree wheel added the eighth generation to the unfolding lineage, thus including Thomas 180 Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants 181 Boucle, the Philadelphia bricklayer for Independence Hall, and Christ Church vestryman, and his wife Sarah Newbold, a native of Burlington County, New jersey,5 as well as a Philadelphia shipmaster, Captain Peter Young, and his wife, Eleanor The present author, who had long studied the Boudes, from whom his wife descends, published in The Genealogist, Volume 2, Number I (Spring, 1981), a detailed study of this family which proved the links of the then Lady Diana Spencer to many interesting Americans and revealed the Boudes' unsuspected origins in seventeenth century Massachasutts. This article will examine the family of Captain Peter Young of Philadelphia, and his wife whose maiden name has been heretofore unknown. I t will add biographical substance to the career of the eighteenth century mariner, give his and his wife's precise dates and places of death, previously not found, and will present a member of President Madison's cabinet as an ancestral uncle by marriage of the Princess of Wales, one of her most notable American family connections.6 It will identify the probable parents of Mrs. Eleanor Young, thus fleshing out two more of the thousands of quartiers of the Princess now so keenly pursued on both sides of the Atlantic, and it will touch briefly on the two succeeding generations in the Young-Strong line, adding to and correcting recently published portions of this genealogy. I. Captain Peter Young Peter Young, believed by his twendeth century descendants to have been a native of Scotland7—although English or even Colonial origins appear as likely for reasons which will be explained—first appears in Philadelphia on 20 May 1762 when, as master of the brigantine Pocock, of 35 tons, which bore the name of the English naval hero, Admiral George Pocock, he was granted a "Mediterranean pass" by the provincial government but actually proceeded on a voyage to Antigua in the West Indies.8 On 4 August of the same year, David Young, born on 25 July, the son of Peter Young and his wife Eleanor, was baptised at Christ Church, Philadelphia, the first of nine children who would be carried to its font for Anglican baptism.9 Captain Young, who was described in 1781 as aged 42 years, "Stature 5 feet 7 inches, black hair and of a fresh complexion,"1° was, thus, born about 1739 and was aged twenty three when he appeared on the American maritime scene already holding master's papers and probably a veteran of transatlantic passages in a succession of lower ratings as he moved up the maritime ladder. 182 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine The shipmaster's activities during the next six years are obscure; he may have lived away from Philadelphia, perhaps opposite the city on the Jersey shore, since Eleanor, his second child, born in December, 1764, was not baptised until she was three years old,11 five days before the registration on 30 February 1768 of Peter Young's new vessel, the 100 ton ship Chalkig, owned by merchants Launcelot Cowper, Abel James and Henry Drinker (the last two, Philadelphians), for whom Young shortly after cleared the craft for a voyage to Bristol, England. i2 On 3 October that year Captain Young was received "at the Table" of the Society for the Relief of Poor and Distressed Masters of Ships, Their Widows and Children (commonly called the Shipmasters' Society, or Captains' Society), of Philadelphia, and paid a subscription of £2.1.6 for his membership.13 Peter Young held a number of successive commands: in 1770 the ship Hope, 120 tons, which he registered and cleared for London;14 in 1771, Catharine, 120 tons, "a new Cedar built Ship, compleatly fitted," with "extraordinary Accomodations for Passengers," he also engaged in the London trade,ls and in November, 1772 he cleared the brigantine Hartiot, 90 tons, for the island of St. Croix.16 A typical out-cargo was wheat and it was from Annapolis that Peter Young sailed on 20 December 1774 in the ship Friendthip, 150 tons, bound for Bristol with 15,041 bushels of wheat and 27 barrels of flour sent by the vessel's owners, Willing, Morris & Co., of Philadelphia.17 When the Revolution came, the mariner was among the American patriots, thus making his Royal descendant a birthright "daughter" of that conflict. On 30 October 1776, "Peter Young of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania Mariner intending to go to Sea on a Trading Voyage," took the precaution of naming his wife in a printed document which served both as power of attorney and will,18 but he survived that excursion and made at least three expeditions under Letters of Marque issued by the Continental Congress. The first gave him command of the brig Neptune, the property of Matthew and Thomas Irwin, of Philadelphia, equipped with eight guns and a crew of 30, which was despatched 5 August 1779;19 the second, dated 3 July 1780, was for the voyage of the schooner Havannah, 6 guns and a crew of 17, which belonged to Young's former employer, Robert Morris, "financier of the Revolution," in partnership with Moses Levy & Co., also of Philadelphia." A final wartime command was aboard the brigantine Nancy, 70 tons, given her Letters on 11 December 1781 for coastal service aided by eight guns and 29 men in crew. It was for the voyage of Nancy, which belonged to Thomas Truxton and partners, that the physical description of Peter Young, given above, was set °wail Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants 183 When not at sea, Young attended meetings of the Shipmaster& Society at various dates in 1776, 1777, 1779, 1781, 1782, 1783 and 1784; his last appearance there was on 5 April 1784.22 A new voyage must have been offered him not many months after, to the West Indies, where, at a location not more specifically noted, Peter Young died in August of 1784.23 Not a great deal more is known of the shipmaster's career. Although he had appeared on the tax list of Mulberry Ward in the northern part of the city in 1769,24 he was resident in the southerriehaif of Dock Ward at the time of the Effective Supply Tax of 1779 and 1780.25 With the move, Peter and Eleanor Young became affiliated with Christ Church's southerly sub-parish of St. Peter's. There four of their infant children were buried between 1771 and 1776 and there their daughter Eleanor and son William would eventually lie together with Mrs. Young and at least two grandchildren, some in marked and some in unmarked graves. Peter Young paid rent for pew number 8 in St. Peter's in 1779.26 Young acquired two pieces of real estate in Philadelphia: a house and lot, No. 27 Pine Street between Front and Second Streets, which he bought on 28 April 1781 for £575, and an unimproved lot in the same street between Sixth and Seventh Streets, acquired by patent from the Commonwealth on 3 September of the same year.27 The house, Captain Young's last home in Philadelphia, was part of his undivided estate of which his widow Eleanor requested partition by the Orphans' Court on 3 February 1798.28 An order to divide followed on 5 June 1798, after which the Pine Street house was purchased through a straw man by Young's son-in-law, William jones. 29 In the interim it was probably rented from time to time for the 1790 census locates the widow Eleanor Young keeping a shop on the West side of Front Street in Southwark, with 2 males under 16 (her son James was actually 17, and William, 8) and 2 females (self and daughter Rebecca).3° In 1798, the year No. 27 Pine Street passed to William and Eleanor (Young) Jones, it was also the residence of Dr. Joseph Strong and his wife Rebecca Young, the great-great-great-great grandparents of the Princess of Wales.31 It remained the home shared by the joneses with William Young, who, after William Jones' death in 1831, continued in it alone. The dwelling stayed in collateral Jones (but not Young) family hands until 1866.32 It is nice to add that the house, now No. 125 Pine Street, remains today, beautifully restored, and as a leading candidate in Philadelphia as the local berceau of future generations of the House of Windsor. 184 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine IL The Problem of Peter Young's Origins Genealogists now interested in the Philadelphia families of Young and Strong, ancestral to the Princess of Wales, owe some debt to the research done nearly half a century ago by Lockwood Anderson Barr, then of Pelham Manor, N.Y., a great-great-great grandson of Rebecca (Young) Strong Gardiner, the daughter of Peter and Eleanor Young. An amateur genealogist, Barr prepared several successive studies of his ancestry. The two efforts most pertinent here are "Captain Peter Young (1738-1784) Mariner, of Philadelphia, Pa.," previously mentioned, and "Biography of Dr. Joseph Strong 1770-1812 Philadelphia Physician."33 The Young genealogy of 1945 begins with the premise, a so-called "family tradition," that Peter Young was a native of Scotland. Scotland may, indeed, have been the country of his birth but there is some reason to think it was not. Young, a prosperous member of the shipping fraternity in Philadelphia, never joined the St. Andrew's Society, the Scottish-American benevolent organization founded in the city in 1749, on whose rolls are found nearly all the Scots ship captains of the period. Peter Young was engaged in trade with the English ports of London and Bristol, and with the West Indies, at variance with the common Philadelphia pattern of Scottish shipmasters trading with Scottish ports. His known employers were either of English or Colonial birth (Matthew Irwin, owner of Neptune, was a Scot but his vessel was commandeered by Congress before Young went aboard) instead of such Scottish shipowners as John Inglis, Archibald, George and Samuel McCall, the Elliotts, Stedmans and others for whom so many of their fellow countrymen commanded transatlantic vessels. Nonetheless, the work of Lockwood A. Barr incorporated the contents of a seven page report cumbersomely titled "The Descent of Captain Peter Young 'Mariner' of America From Sir Peter Young of Scotland A.D. 1541 to 1776-1784," which was prepared in 1943 by a Miss Frances Houston Irwin, a Philadelphia "genealogist" Referring to the sketch of the baronets Young of Bailieborough in the 1861 edition of Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, Miss Irwin traced a descent from John Young (1497-1583), burgess of Edinburgh, through the knightly house of Young of Auldbar in Perthshire and of Easter Seaton in Forfarshire, to David Young, nephew of Viscount Dundee, who was succeeded at Auldbar in 1743 by "his eldest son Robert" while "a was living in Aberdeen in I 758."34 Noting that younger son "nothing more is known of this branch" (not even, we might add, the name of the "younger son"!), Miss Irwin, however, identified the Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants 185 Mr. [blank] Young of Aberdeen as Peter Young, the Philadelphia ship captain! Although the whole exercise was worse than nonsense, Lockwood Barr accepted this Scottish pedigree as his with only slight qualification, and included it in his own work on the family of Peter Young in America. Readers, even if they realized the inherent absurdities of Irwin's work, would, of course, be left with the underlying impression that Peter Young was, indeed, a Scot; that fact, is, of course, only one of several possibilities. Barr noted the presence in Philadelphia of two other contemporary Peter Youngs and of a Nicholas Young whom he surmised could have been related to his ancestor. Recent examination of the probate and church records of these men reveals no helpful information or any reason to suppose a relationship existed. One of the Peter Youngs spelled his name Yung and was of Germanic origin;35 the second Peter (died 1787), "Joiner, and Musical-Instrumentmaker," had as executor a cousin of the same occupation, Alexander Weaver, and seems to have had no other kin in the city.36 Nicholas Young (died 1798 testate), a ship joiner of the Northern Liberties did follow a maritime occupation. He married a widow, Elinor (Rogers) Trimble (died 1803, also testate).37 The fact that this woman had a son of her first marriage, James Trimble,38 and that it is probably he, who, as Barr pointed out, witnessed the Letters of Marque given Peter Young in 1780 for the brig Neptune, means nothing; James Trimble was a regular witness employed by Congress to attest to hundreds of its contracts. Barr also noted the presence in the congregation of St. Peter's of a William Young who served as parish clerk in 1765-1778. This man may, in fact, be the William Young who married Margery Rogers, sister of Mrs. Nicholas Young,39 and he or his son William, Jr. could be the merchant William Young elected to the St. Andrew's Society in 1786 who died in 1829,4° but there is no evidence to connect him with his fellow parishioner of the same common surname, Peter Young. There were other Scottish—and seafaring—Youngs in the city: James Young, who joined the St. Andrew's Society in 1752,41 and, as a mariner, became a member of the Shipmasters' Society in 1765;42 Captain Samu@l Young, who was enrolled in the same two organizations (about 1786; 1766)43 and Captain John Young who entered the Scottish benevolent society in 1767.44 We have no reason at all to connect them to Peter Young whose origins are yet to be discovered. It remains, however, to introduce the reasonable possibility that Captain Peter Young had a sister Margaret in Philadelphia. When 186 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Rebecca, daughter of Peter and Eleanor Young was baptised at Christ Church on 23 May 1779, seven other children were christened the same day. The infant immediately preceding Rebecca Young in the register is "Peter, son of Thomas & Margaret Thomson, Born Novr: 19, 1778."" These parents, not married at Christ Church, appear certainly to be Thomas Thompson and Margaret Young who were married 15 August 1776 at the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia," Although no children of this couple were there baptised, we find after 1779 in the Christ Church registers: 1781, 3 December. Burial at St. Peter's, the Youngs' church, of "Margaret wife of Thomas Thompson."" 1782, 2 January. Baptism of "Robert, Son of Thomas & Sarah Thomson,'" with no date of birth, an unusual omission. 1782, 8 February. Burial, again at St. Peter's, of "Robert Son of Thomas Thompson,"49 The entries suggest that the couple became Episcopalians, that Margaret (Young) Thomson/Thompson died in ehildbed of Robert in November/December 1781, that the child was baptised when a month old, and, with the mother lately deceased, the rector erred in giving her name as "Sarah" rather than Margaret and omitted the date of birth of the newborn and probably sickly infant. The child died, indeed, a month after baptism. His elder brother, Peter, may have lived to maturity. The possibility that Margaret (Young) Thomson/Thompson was a sister of Captain Peter Young is mentioned here simply for any possible value there may be in searching in the Colonies, in England or Scotland for the baptism of Young siblings, Peter and Margaret. HI. Eleanor Best, wife of Captain Peter Young Peter and Eleanor Young, as has been shown, baptised their first child at Christ Church, Philadelphia on 4 August 1762. Born ten days earlier, on 25 July, David Young was conceived in about October, 1761 and his parents' marriage undoubtedly occurred not long before that date. The ceremony is not recorded in any of the church registers of Philadelphia, and for a very good reason; it probably took place across the river from the city, in Gloucester County, New Jersey. On 30 September 1761, Peter Young, of that county, supported by John Matlack as bondsman, obtained license to wed Eleanor Best "of the Same place Spinster" and signed in the presence of Gabriel Bland Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants 187 and Samuel Allinson.5° There can be no doubt that we have in the couple of 1761, marrying along the Delaware opposite the port of Philadelphia, Peter Young, mariner, and his wife Eleanor, whose first child was born nine months later. The name of Peter Young is not found previously or later in Gloucester County; no family of Best can be traced there at this period.51.The marriage license would appear to have been issued, to an eloping couple, domiciled in Gloucester only for the purpose of marriage, although a later period of presumed absence from Philadelphia of the Youngs may mean that during the earliest years of their marriage they actually lived on the New Jersey side of the river, perhaps in Philadelphia's little maritime dependency, Gloucester Point. In the records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, of which Peter and Eleanor Young were parishioners from the start of their marriage, occurs the baptism on 21 December 1757 of "Elenor Best, Adult." 52 The registers further indicate the presence in the congregation of but one family of this surname, that of Samuel and Margaret Best, with children born in 1738, 1744, 1747 and 1749, the last three baptised together in 1756. This is a pattern of late christening which fits the reception of that sacrament by Eleanor Best, undoubtedly also a child of the same couple, in 1757. Eleanor, widow of Peter Young, was aged 76 at her death in 1816, hence born about 1740. If baptised in 1757, she would have been then about seventeen years of age, and of adult, marrying age. it will now help to place the Best family within a genealogical framework. Samuel Best, the only Best of his given name found in mid 18th century Philadelphia, was married on 19 of 9 month (November) 1737 at the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, to Margaret Albert.53 Taxed in 175454 and then listed as a shoemaker among the ratables in Walnut Ward in 175655—the only non-ecclesiastical records as yet found of him—Samuel Best was perhaps of Scotch-Irish background although there were several Pennsylvania families of German origin whose name was anglicized as Best." Margaret Albert cannot yet be placed in any family context; her surname was rare in the city of Philadelphia itself although many German families of Albert, Albertus and Albrecht were settled in surrounding counties and, possibly, she belonged to one of them.57 No deeds or probate records of Samuel and Margaret (Albert) Best exist and they were not interred in the burying ground of either Christ Church or St. Peter's (where their son Joseph and almost certain daughter Eleanor were both buried), or in the cemetery of the 188 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine First Presbyterian Church. The Bests belonged to a less affluent stratum of Philadelphia society than that achieved by Eleanor (Best) Young and her husband whose risks at sea were rewarded by comforts ashore. Issue of Samuel Best and Margaret Albert his wife: 1. Joseph Best, b. in Sept. 1738; bapt. 20 Oct 1738, Christ Church;" bur. 12 Sept. 1784, St. Peter's Graveyard.59 He is undoubtedly the Joseph Best who served as "landsman" (marine) aboard the Province ship Pennsylvania in 1757,6° and who, for paucity of property, escaped levy in the Proprietary Tax of 1769 in which he appears in Dock Ward." By 1780 Joseph Best was employed as a waterman and lived nearby in Southwark, being rated in the Effective Supply Tax in 1780 and 1782.62 In 1783, in the same location, his property was insufficient for tax.63 He seems to have remained unmarried. 2. Eleanor Best, evident daughter, b. ca. I 74-0; bapt. as "adult," 21 Dec. 1757, Christ Church;" d. Philadelphia, 12 July 1816, aged 76 years,65 and was bur, the following day in St. Peter's Churchyard.66 There is no probate of her estate. She m, with license dated 30 Sept. 1761, Gloucester Co., N. J.,67 Peter Young, master mariner, b. possibly in England or Scotland, ca 1739; d. in the West Indies, Aug. 1784, whose career has been described above. Their issue appears in Part IV, below. 3. Samuel Best, b. 25 Dec. 1744 and bapt. (at age 12) 16 Sept. 1756, Christ Church, together with a brother and sister." Na further references to a person of this name have been found in Phila. but it should be noted that a Samuel Best was taxed with I cow in Fermanagh Twp., Cumberland County, Pa. in 1779" and served as a military ranger on the frontier in that place from 1778 to 1783.'1 He is found also as a private soldier in the Cumberland Militia and in the Continental Line in 1778 to 1780 (unless two men of the same name in the same County are involved).72 4. James Best, b. I May 1747 and bapt. (at age 9) 16 Sept. 1756, Christ Church." Nothing further is sure about his life but he may be the James Best taxed for 2 horses and I cow and listed with Samuel Best in the 1779 Supply Rate assessment of Fermanagh Twp., Cumberland County, Pa.74 One James Best, of Donegal Twp., Westmoreland County, Pa. fathered a Peter Best in about 1790.75 Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants 189 5. Margaret Best, b. 19 Apr. 1749 and bapt. (at age 7) 16 Sept. 1756, Christ Church.'6 Either she, or, possibly, her mother, as a widow, is the Margaret Best who m. 9 Aug. 1773, at Christ Church, John Bulgin otherwise Bulgeon," who was bur. 18 July 1780 in St. Peter's Churchyard." Bulgin, a cordwainer (shoemaker) like Samuel Best senior, was taxed in 1774 in High Street Ward,79 and in 1779 in the southern part of Dock Ward, near Captain Peter Young." As a final note to both the theory that Peter Young was of English rather than of Scottish origin and to the predication that Samuel and Margaret (Albert) Best were the parents of Eleanor (Best) Young, it should be added that a Young descendant five long generations later, recorded in 1939 a "family tradition" in two slightly different versions: (1) The family of Mrs. Eleanor Young "was from England and . . she was heir to a considerable fortune which she never received since the estate was entailed in England ...her daughter Rebecca . ..did inherit quite a larege sum of money late in life, which was her share of her mother's estate, and . . this money came from England."' (2) Mrs. Eleanor Young's granddaughter, Rebecca (Strong) Anderson (the grandmother in turn of Mary Anderson Barr who made these two statements), "fell heir to some money that came down to her from England—entailed from her Young ancestors [Note: hence, perhaps through Peter Young? FJD] ...that was the time [she] travelled so much all over the United States—looking for her son Uncle 011ie—who was killed in battle during the Civil War . . I think it (the money) was the reason she acquired that last husband in Arkansas, etc. I know she had that money of her own from England—perhaps it came to her when her mother Rebecca Young [i.e. Rebecca (Young) Strong Gardiner] died in 1862.' If there is any truth in this tale—and every seasoned genealogist has heard the "entailed estate" or "estate in chancery" story many times over—and if the first version, that the inheritance came through Eleanor and not Peter Young is the correct one, then Eleanor Best was not the daughter of the Philadelphia shoemaker Samuel Best and his wife Margaret Albert despite the circumstantial evidence that such parentage was hers. If, on the other hand, there was an "English" inheritance which derived through Peter Young rather than his wife, then our mariner may well have been of English birth. 190 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine It is the belief of the present author, who has seen all the "entail" stories in his professional experience discounted along with those of the elopement of the titled lady with the coachman, that the financial benefit thought to have come to Rebecca (Strong) Anderson as daughter of Rebecca (Young) Strong Gardiner and granddaughter of Eleanor (Best) Young, was probably either property left by William Young (1782-1851) of Philadelphia, whose sole heir-at-law his sister, Mrs. Gardiner (and, after her, her issue) would have been, or simply Mrs. Anderson's inheritance from her own mother, Mrs. Gardiner, as the second version suggests. IV. The Descendants of Captain Peter Young and Eleanor Best his Wife Issue of Captain Peter and Eleanor (Best) Young: I. David Young, b. 25 July 1762 and bapt. 4 Aug. 1762, Christ Church;" he is surely "Peter Young's Son" bur. 27 May 1763, Christ Churchyard. 2. Eleanor Young, b. 5 Dec. 1764 and bapt. 20 Feb. 1768, Christ Church;85 d. 27 Feb. 1828, in Phila. and evidently at her residence, No. 27 Pine Street, from which her funeral was held on 1 March,86 and was bur. in St. Peter's Churchyard with M.I. "aged 63 years.”87 She m. 29 Apr. 1783 at Christ Church,88 William Jones, b. 29 March 1761,89 surely at Philadelphia; d. 6 Sept. 1831, Bethlehem, Pa.,9° and was bur. eventually in St. Peter's Churchyard, Phila.," where his tomb may yet be seen; son of Captain Henry Jones, mariner, and his wife Rebecca Forrester.92 Details of the career of William Jones, particularly of his public service, may be found in the biographical sketches by John H. Frederick in Dictionary of American Biography and by Edward K. Eckert in The Pennsylvania Magazine of 'Estop' and Biography. Following these sources, it may be said, in brief that Jones was apprenticed as a boat builder, served during the American Revolution first in a company of artillery volunteers which fought at the battles of Trenton and Princeton and then, under Captain Thomas Truxton, in the Continental Navy (promoted First Lieutenant in 1781). He thereafter went to sea and then lived from 1790-1793 as a merchant in Charleston, S.C. Returning home, his new Philadelphia firm of Jones & Clark built and operated numerous vessels in the China and East India trade.93 Jones was elected to the Seventh U.S. Congress (1801-1803) and in 1805 became a Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants WILLIAM JONES (1761-1831) Secretary of the Navy 1813-1814 husband of Eleanor Young portrait by Gilbert Stuart Courtesy Department of the Navy, U.S. Naval Academy Museum 191 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine The Ancestral House of the Princess of Wales No. 125 Pine Street, Philadelphia This property, owned by Captain Peter Young, his family and successors, 1781-1866, was "modernized" early in the 19th century. Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants 193 member of the American Philosophical Society, In 1813-1814 he held the post of Secretary of the Navy in the Madison cabinet and, simultaneously, during nine months served as Acting Secretary of the Treasury. "The successful naval actions of 1813 and 1814 were the direct result of his planning and administrative skill . . During his term of office American men of war appeared on all the seas from the Channel to the Java Sea and effectively hamstrung British commerce. "9`' Unsuccessful in his next appointment, as first president of the Second United States Bank (1816-1819), an office which he was forced to relinquish, and in the management of his own financial affairs, William Jones turned to the building of steamships, regained the fortune he had lost, and from 18271829 held the Collectorship of Customs for the port of Philadelphia. Jones' will and probate papers show him to have been a pewholder at St. Peter's, a member of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and shareholder in the United States Bank and the Bank of Chillicothe, Ohio where his wife's sister had gone to live. While his principal heirs were the children of his brother, Commander Lloyd Jones, U.S.N., he gave to his brother-in-law and executor, William Young, his papers, books, maps, charts and drawings, the chair he used as president of the Bank of the United States, his swords, canes and wines. A generous bequest went to his wife's niece, Lucy (Strong) Bond "wife of my friend, William Key Bond, of C hillico the. "95 This niece seems to have been among the Strongs the one closest to Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Pennsylvania Senator Jonathan Roberts records that after the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812, he met at Wrightsville, Pa., "Lucy Strong, now Mr Col. Bond of Ohio, Secretary Jones' Niece. Her Aunt Jones and her, were flying from Baltimore .. .Thy Ladies seem'd much alarm'd, & well they might be; after the disaster at Washington."96 William and Eleanor (Young) Jones had no issue. 3. Sarah Young, b. 9 July 1768 and bapt. 21 Nov. 1768, Christ Church;97 bur. 18 Sept. 1771, St. Peter's.98 4. Peter Young, b. 22 June 1771 and bapt. 12 July 1771, Christ Church; bur. 4 May 1772, St. Peter's.1°° 5. Margaret Young, twin with Peter, b. 22 June 1771 and 194 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine bapt. 12 July 1771, Christ Church;1" bur. 31 Oct. 1771, St. Peter's.102 6. James Young, b. 8 Jan. 1773 and bapt. 4 Feb. 1773, Christ Church;1°3 probably the person of name bur. 31 Jan. 1779, Christ Church, 1°4 although the style of the entry does not suggest reference to a child and his four siblings had already been buried in St Peter's yard rather than at Christ Church. 7. Peter Young, b. 8 Nov. 1774 and bapt. 3 Dec. 1774, Christ Church;1°5 bur. 1 Sept. 1776, St. Peter's.1136 8. Rebecca Young, b. 5 May 1779 and bapt. 23 May 1779, Christ Church;1°7 d. 2 or 8 June 1862, Chillicothe, Ohio, and was bur. in Grandview Cemetery there.' She m. (1) 8 Sept. 1796 at First Baptist Church, Phila.," Joseph Strong, b. 10 Mar. 1770, South Coventry, Conn.;110 d. ca. 24 Apr. 1812, the date of his burial in St. Peter's Churchyard, Phila."' Strong, a physician and a first cousin of Revolutionary "martyr" Nathan Hale, was the son of Benajah Strong and his wife Lucy Bishop.112 A graduate of Yale College, A.B. 1788, he studied under Dr. Benjamin Rush in the department (later School) of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1791-1792.113 Joseph Strong's medical career, professional memberships, service as a surgeon's mate, 17921796, in Wayne's legion in the Ohio Indian campaign, and his mechanical inventions and literary efforts during his early residence in New Haven, and, after 1796, in Philadelphia, are listed in the Barr biography and nicely summarized, with full citations, by Roberts.' The Strongs moved to the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia and when Dr. Strong's inventory was taken on 1 July 1813 only $68 worth of clothing was listed."5 Rebecca (Young) Strong m. (2), between July 1816 and, presumably, May 1817, probably in or near Phila., Peter Gardiner, druggist, who had taken her first husband's inventory in 1813 and had stood legal guardian to her son, Joseph Strong, jr., when the latter entered the U.S. Military Academy 1815.116 The couple moved to Chillicothe, Ohio between 1819 and 1823.'17 The issue of Rebecca (Young) Strong Gardiner follows as V. 9. William Young, b. 21 Jan. 1782 and bapt. 3 Feb. 1782, Christ Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants 195 Church;118 d. unm. 19 Nov. 1831, Phila., "aged 70,"119 attended by Dr. William Keith who practised medicine on Spruce Street not far from St. Peter's Churchyard where William Young was bur.12° There is no record of probate of his estate in Phila. although he appears to have been a-man of property. William Young is listed in the 1829 and 1833 City Directories as a gentleman, at the long-time family house, 27 Pine Street. He seems to be the man of the name who held the Presidency of the United States Insurance Company, at 5 Merchants' Exchange Building in 1840. None of his immediate relations were still in Phila, in the last years of his life about which a certain obscurity is suggested. V. Issue of Rebecca Young and her two husbands, Dr. Joseph Strong and Peter Gardiner: i. Lucy Strong, b. 17 Sept. 1797 and bapt. 3 Nov. 1797, Christ Church, Phila.;121 d. 27 Aug. 1860, Cincinnati, Ohio. 122 She m. 24 July 1817, Christ Church,123 William Key Bond, b. 2 Oct. 1792, St. Marys County, Md.; d. 17 Feb. 1864, Cincinnati, and was bur. in Spring Grove Cemetery there. "Colonel" Bond, a graduate of the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School, practised his profession in Chillicothe and Cincinnati, serving as surveyor of the latter port 1849-1853 and was a U.S. Congressman 1835-1841.124 ii. Joseph Strong, b. 26 June 1799 and bapt. 6 Nov. 1801, Christ Church, Phila.;125 d. unm. in 1857, Baltimdre, Md.126 Appointed to the U.S. Military Academy (doubtless through the influence of his uncle William Jones, recently Secretary of the Navy), Strong was admitted 6 April 1815 and graduated 24 July 1818. Promoted in the Army to Second Lieutenant, Corps of Artillery, he did topographical work, and, at his resignation, 31 May 1826, was First Lieutenant, Second Artillery. Writing on 27 Jan. 1850, from the Maryland Military Academy, Oxford, Md., to Captain George W. Cullum, at West Point, Strong descried his career: teacher 1826-1837, Assistant Topographical Engineer in Florida 1837-1840, Instructor in Mathematics, U.S. Navy 1840-1846, Principal of an Academy in Boston 1846-1848, Professor of Natural Science in an Academy in Baltimore 1848-1849, and, currently Professor of Ancient and Modern Languages at the school from which he wrote.127 196 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Peter Young Strong, b. 28 Apr. 1801 and baps. 6 Nov. 1801, Christ Church, Phila.;128 d. after 1817, evidently unm. He was appointed a Midshipman in the U.S. Navy, Nov. 1814, certainly through the influence of his uncle William Jones. On 27 Mar. 1815 he went aboard the U.S. Frigate Constellation under Commodore Stephen Decatur, a fellow Philadelphian, serving on its expedition against the Barbary Pirates. He sailed on two other ships of the line, USS Washington and USS Hornet and resigned 30 Apr. 1817, after which date no further mention of him is found.129 iv. Eleanor (usually called Ellen) Strong, b. in Phila. ca 1802-03 as estimated from her age, 60 or 61 years, at death; d. 9 July 1863, New York City.1" It is correctly stated by Roberts that no baptism for Eleanor "is listed in the records of Old (sic) Christ Church, Philadelphia" (indeed, the church registers record the baptism of but six of the eight Strong children,131 that of the first of two sons named William being also omitted). It is interesting to note that the two multiple baptisms of these siblings (Joseph and Peter Y. in 1801; William, Rebecca and Lavinia in 1812) appear not only in the parish register but also in Bishop William White's register of private baptisms.132 It can now be stated that both Eleanor and the first of the two Williams were baptised by the Bishop, whose "private" register is thus shown to be incomplete. Dr. Joseph Strong, writing on 27 Aug. 1805 from Phila. to his wife's brother-in-law, William Jones, reports that his wife Rebecca had returned from New Jersey, where she had taken their ailing son William, and that On Sun. morning [25 Aug.] Bishop White visited us & baptised William & Eleanor & prayed for the former in St. Peter's Church.133 Here we have, for the first time, documentary proof that Eleanor Strong, sometimes confused with her younger sister Lavinia, was a daughter of Dr. Joseph Strong and Rebecca Young his wife. Eleanor Strong m. 13 March 1823, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chillicothe, Ohio, John Wood, b. 29 July 1785, in Va., prob. in Berkeley Co. (now Jefferson Co., W. Va.); d. 29 Jan. 1848, Chillicothe. These statistics, and a biographical notice of porkpacker John Wood, are documented by Roberts.134 John and Eleanor (Strong) Wood were the parents of Ellen Wood (Mrs. Frank Work), the mother of Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants 197 Frances Eleanor Work who m. (1) the Hon. James Boothby Burke Roche, later 3rd Baron Fermoy. They were the greatgrandparents of the Princess of Wales. v. William Strong, recorded as b. 12 but this seems to be an error for 19 Dec. 1804, and bapt. privately, at home in Phila. by the Right Rev. William White, 25 Aug. 1805;135 d. 8 and bur. 9 Sept. 1815, St. Peter's Churchyard, Phila. with M.I. there.136 vi. William [Young] Strong, b. 26 June 1806 and bapt. privately 11 Mar. 1812 at Christ Church, Phila., by Bishop White;137 d. 23 Mar. 1866, Terre Haute, Ind.138 He m. in Feb. 1835,139 Annie Massie, b. 10 Aug. 1809; d. 17 Aug. 1860, Piqua, Ohio; dau. of General Nathaniel Massie and Susan Meade his wife, of Chillicothe.'" They had issue. vii. Rebecca Strong, b. 25 Sept. 1808 and bapt. privately 11 Mar. 1812 at Christ Church, Phila., by Bishop White;141 d. 2 June 1889(?), Eureka Springs, Ark.142 She m. (1) 30 Oct. 1834, Chillicothe, Ohio,143 Oliver Hazard Perry Anderson, b. 10 Oct. 1813, Frankfort, Ky.; d. 17 May 1845, Frankfort, Ky.; son of Reuben Anderson and Susan Runyon his wife.144 Oliver H. P. Anderson "was in the general merchandise and fire insurance business." Rebecca (Strong) Anderson, who had issue by Anderson, is stated to have made one or two further marriages but the names of the subsequent hus• band(s) are unknown to the present contributor. viii. Lavinia Strong, b. 19 Aug. 1810 and bapt. privately 11 Mar. 1812 at Christ Church, Phila., by Bishop White;145 is surely the "child of Joseph Strong" bur, the day following in St. Peter's (and not Christ) Churchyard.146 (Barr, who does not realize this burial refers to Lavinia, gives the date as 9 rather than 12 Mar.)147 ix. Richard J. Gardiner, b. 15 Feb. 1818, Phila.; d. 22 June 1892, Chillicothe, Ohio. He m. and had issue; a daughter owned a portrait of her grandmother, Rebecca (Young) Strong Gardiner.148 198 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine NOTES 1 Time Magazine, issue of 20 April 1981. Newsweek Magazine, issue of 9 March 1981. Thomas Boude was one of five menthes of his trade who erected the central block of the State House in 1731 and was supervising bricklayer for its two wings in 1733-1736. The descent of the Princess of Wales from the colonial Philadelphia (and, earlier, New Jersey and Massachusetts) family to which Thomas belonged is the subject of Francis James Dailett, F.A.S.G., "The Inter-Colonial Grimstone Boucle and His Family," The Genealogist (New York), 2, No. I (Spring 1981): 74-114. New information continues to be found on Thomas Boude. He was, in 1757, a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital and, in 1765, petitioned for an independent municipal government for the Northern Liberties. Thomas . Morton and Frank Woodbury, The Histog of Me Pennsylvania Hospital 1751-1895 (Philadelphia, 1895): 371. J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott, Ifivog of Philadelphia. 11509-1884 (Philadelphia, 1884), 1: 261, 3 David Williamson, "The Ancestry of Lady thina Spencer," Genealogists' Magazine, 20 (1981): 192-197. 281-282. "Additions and Corrections" by Williamson to this article are given in his letter of 3 Aug, 1981 to the present contributor. That new material, together with names and statistics appearing in the present article, will be summarized in Williamson's forthcoming book on the entire known ancestry of the Princess of Wales. 4 Pages 28-29. The American lineage was contributed to the Wood article by Gary Boyd Roberts, Boston, Mass., and William Addams Reitwiesner, Washington, D.C. The lineage, as presented by Wood, was inserted by the present author in Hiraidique et Ginialogie (Versailles, France), July-Aug. 1982: 361-363 but there printed with French editorial errors.. 5 The Newbolds, prolific and substantial Delaware Valley Quakers, are often recalled by a remarkable ensemble of 18th century family houses in Burlington, Co., N.J. and by the continuance of the name in Phil a. banking and brokerage firms. The one member of the clan in the Dictionary of American Biography, philosopher-educator William Romaine Newbold (1865-1926), was also the premier genealogist of his family; his extensive Newbold Family and Connections: Ancestors and Descendants of Michael and Anne Newbold of Burlington County (typescript, 1928), is, with many volumes of his notes, in the Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Gen/ N I:1-12. That author's own lineage appears in Frederick Adams Virkus, The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, I (Chicago, 1925): 946. The Princess of Wales has a "celebrity" kinsman through the Newbolds, artist John Singer Sanent (1856-1923), a fifth cousin of her American great-grandmother, Frances Eleanor (Work) Burke Roche. The painter was the son of Fitz William Sargent, M.D. and Mary Newbold Singer, she the only child of John Singer and Mary Newbold, she the daughter of William Newbold and Mary Smith, he the son of William Newbold and Susanna Stevenson, he the son of Thomas Newbold and Edith Coate, he the son of Michael Newbold, second generation of the family in America and the common ancestor with the Princess. Charles Sprague Sargent and Emma Worcester Sargent, Epos Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants (Boston, 1923), 84-85. Charles Hatt, Jr., Newbold Genealogy in America (New Hope, Pa., 1964): 1-2, 4, 7, 60-61. Platt, based on the excellent work of W. R. Newbold, is, however, careless and his work must bea used with caution. Michael Newbold (1623-1693), the emigrant ancestor, was baptised at Handsworth, co. York, his earliest traceable Forebears having lived over the border at Hackenthorpe, co. Derby. Michael and his family lived briefly at Eckington which is in co. Derby, not co. York as stated in error by Dallett, Grirnstone Boucle: 90, and by Plan: 34. The best summary of the English background of the Newbolds in print is Helen Van Uxem Cubberley, Newbold Family Notes (Stanford University Press, pert. ptd., 1937). 6 For an overview of a large number of famous American kinsmen of the Princess, deriving from the same seventeenth century Puritan progenitors (only), see Gary Boyd Roberts, "The New England Ancestry of H. .H. The -Princess of Wales," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 136 #2 (April 1982): 85-103. 7 Frances Houston Irwin, "The Descent of Captain Peter Young 'Mariner' of America from Sir Peter Young of Scotland A. D. 1541 to 1776-1784" (typescript, 1943), Collections of the 1, hereinafter Descent of Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (CGSP), 32:35): en Captain Peter Young. Lockwood Anderson Barr, "Captain Peter Young (1738 [sic1-1784) Mariner of Philadelphia, Pa." (typescript, 1945), CGSP: Gen/Yo1:2, hereinafter Captain Peter Young, This last, despite numerous errors, improves upon an earlier account by Barr, "Captain Peter Young (Mariner)" (typescript, n.d. but ca. [940), CGSP: Gen/Yol. 1. 2 Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants 199 Pennsfivania Archives, 5th Ser. 1: 384. Hereinafter PA. Pennsylvania Gazette, 27 May 1762: 3, col. 2. Hereinafter PG. 9 Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, Baptisms 1709-1768 (copy): 523, CGSP: Ph E:1. Hereinafter CC Bapt, 1. 10 PA, 2nd Ser. 1: 647. 11 CC Rapt. I: 645. 12 Pennsylvania Magazine of Histog and Biography: 28 (1904): 90. Hereinafter PM//B. PG, 3 Mar. 1768: 3, col. 1. PA, 5th Ser. 1: 397. 13 Records of the Society for the Relief of Poor and Distressed Masters of Ships, Their Widows and Children, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (hereinafter LISP), Manuscript Collection 1415: 54A-ID, notebook "Remarks of the Society from July 1765 to Oct.'. in the Year 1768." 14 PMHB: 28 (1904): 353. PG, 27 Dec. 1770: 3, col. 2. PA, 5th Ser.. 1: 402. 15 PMHB: 28 (1904): 355. PG, 25 Apr. 1771, display advertisement: 4, col. 3 and 2 May 1771: 3, col. 2. PA, 5th Ser. 1:403. i6 PC B: 28 (1904): 371. PG, 4 Nov. 1772: 3, col. 2. PA, 5th Ser. 1:405. 17 William Bell Clark, ed., Naval Documents of the American Revolution 1 (Washington, 196): 1361. 18 "My beloved Wife, Eleanor Young," was named sole beneficiary and executrix. The witnesses were two Quakers, Samuel Bettie and Peter Thomson, the latter a scrivener who doubtless furnished the printed form which served the dual purpose. Phila. Will #138 of 1784, original file in Register of Wills Archives; also recorded in Phila. Will Book 2: 531, 19 Charles Henry Lincoln, comp., Naval Records of the American Revolution 1775178a (Washington, 1906): 402. PA, 5th Ser. 1: 616. 20 Lincoln: 328. PA, 5th Ser. 1: 619. 21 PA, 5th Ser. 1: 64.6-47. 22 FISP, Manuscript Collection 1415: 54 A-D, notebook "Remarks of the Society from jany. 1st; 1776 To December 1786." 23 Petition of Eleanor Young widow of Peter Young late of the City of Philadelphia Mariner decd, et al., 3 Feb. 1798, Valuation 26 Mar. 1798 and Order of Division 5 June 1798, in Orphans' Court of Phila., June Term 1798, 17: 458. Hereinafter Petition of Eleanor Young. 24 PA, 3rd Ser. 14: 199. 25 Ibid.: 472, 748; 15: 212. 26 Pew Renters of Christ Church, St. Peter's and St. James, 1776-1815 (duplicated), CGS P: Xeh121. 27 Philadelphia Deed Book D-3: 5. The house was acquired from Jane Groves, widow, and was valued at 000 in 1798. The acquisition of the unimproved lot, valued at £350 and let at U4 per annum in 1798, is mentioned in the Orphans' Court Order of Division. 28 Petition of Eleanor Young. 29 Brief of Tide of 125 Pine Street, Commonwealth Land Title Co., Phila. The actual deeds of 12 and 13 June 1798 of the transfer through Samuel Clarke are represented by blank pages in Phila.. Deed Book EF-11: 692, 694. 30 Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States . . no Penmylvania (reprint, Spartanburg, S.C., 1971): 208. 31 Cornelius William Stafford, The Philadelphia irector for 1798 (Phila., 1798): 137. 32 Phila. Deed Book 195: 102. 33 See note 7. The Barr monograph on Strong, "Biography of Dr. Joseph Strong 1770-1812 Philadelphia Physician" (duplicated, 1940), is CGSP: Gen/St20. 34 Descent of Captain Peter Young: n.p. but 4. 35 This Peter Young was a tenant of a John Jennings in the Northern Liberties as early as 1757. Phila. Contributionship Survey #383. 36 PC, 27 July 1758: 3, col. 2; 23 Aug. 1770: 3, col. 3. Pennsylvania. Parket, 31 Mar. 1787: 3, col. 1. 37 Phila. Will #3 of 1798 and Will Book Y: 2; Will #36 of 1803 and Will Book 1: 99, 38 Trimble is named in the wills of his stepfather and mother and in the Order of Partition of the tatter's real estate. Orphans' Court of Phila. May Term 1805, 21: 24. Elinor was yet Mrs. Trimble when her mother, Mary Eyre, widow, made her will on 16 Oct. 1766 (#8 of 1784; Will Book Q: 416) but was called Mrs. Young in the will of her brother Thomas Rogers,' dated 8 May 1789 (#139 of 1789; Will Book U: 34.0). 200 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 39 This second Young- ers marriage is indicated in the Mary Eyre and Thomas Rogers wills. William Young, r. is named in Thomas Rogers' will as_ was his brother, George Young. Yet third William Young, of the generation of William, Jr. and George, was William Young, b. in Forfar, Scotland in 1769; d. 25 Aug. 1825 and was bur. in St. Peter's Churchyard. William White Bronson, The 'ascriptions in St. Peter's Church Yard, Philadelphia (Camden, N.J., 1879): 277. 1719- 19617, (Phila., 1907): 40 An Historical Catalogue of The St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia 426. 41 /bid. 42 An Act for Incorporating the Sociey formed for the Relief of Poor, Aged and Infirm Masters of Ships, Their Widows and Children . and a List of the Members Names (Phila., 1827): 32. 43 See notes 40 and 42. 44 See note 40. He is perhaps the same as John Young, of Phila., merchant, shown in a title abstract in the Phila. Historical Commission records to have been co-owner with Charles Bedford Young, of Baltimore, merchant, in 1797-1800 of 41 (now 225-227) Spruce Street, where lived, in 1800, Peter Younirs daughter Rebecca (Young) Strong and her husband, Dr. Joseph Strong. This juxtaposition of occupancies was, however, a coincidence. 45 Records of Christ Church, Baptisms 1769-1794 (copy): 935, CGS P: Ph2E:5. Hereinafter CC Bapt. II. This child was not related to Philadelphia scrivener, and strayed Quaker, Peter Thomson, who witnessed the wilt of Captain Peter Young. 46 Records of First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Baptisms 1701-1856; Marriages 17021855 (copy): 436, CGSP PhiP:1. Hereinafter FPC. 47 CC Bur. I: 3323+ 48 CC Rapt. II: 1030. 49 CC Bur. I: 3326. There seems to have been a second Thomas Thompson, also a parishioner of Christ Church, for he and his wife Jane had sons Thomas, b. 19 Sept. 1781 and John, b. 1166. They were also probably 29 Mar. 1783, baps. together 25 Apr. 1785. CC. Bapt. parents of "Jane, Daughter of Thomas Thompson," bur. at St, Peter's 23 Aug. 1793. Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, Burials 1785-1900 (copy): 3478, CGSP: Ph2E:6. Hereinafter CC Bur. II. The Thomas Thompson bur. 21 Jan. 1810 at St. Peter's could be either Thomas. Ibid.: 3652. 50 Original license in Archives & History Bureau, New Jersey State Library, Trenton, is abstracted in New jersey Archives, 1st Ser. 22: 47, 463. 51 One other marrying Best, Elizabeth, may have lived in either Gloucester County, Nj., or in New Castle County, Del. Her license to wed William Cirnetter, 7 May 1768, had as bondsmen a resident of each of those counties although the address of the two contracting parties is not stated. The groom's name is misspelled Cimeter in NJA. Ser. 2: 47 and 68. This strange surname, perhaps a misspelling, is not found elsewhere. 52 CC Bapt. I: 461. 53 FPC: 153. The only earlier Best I can trace in the city is Joseph Best, goldsmith in High Street, who advertised a Negro man and woman for sale in American Weekly Meng, Phila., 22 Aug. 1723. 54 He was then on the South side of Market Street above Third and paid V-. Pennsfivania Genealogical Magazine 21 (1959): 180. Hereinafter M. 55 Best was taxed £16 for his rented house belonging to William Parker's estate valued at E24. By 1767 the premises were occupied by Maly Morton. PGM 22 (1961-62): 4041, 1711 56 One was the family of Wilhelm Bescht (1713-1762), later Best, who landed in Philadelphia with his wife and son on 5 Sept. 1738 and settled in what is now Lehigh Twp., Northampton Co., Pa. C. C. Kribbs, Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the nest's (sic), Scheffer's (sic) Kribbs' (sic) (Los Angeles, 1929), copy at F. A family of Baest in Hunterdon Co., J. anglicized its surname to Best. The only •Phila. 18th century probate document of the surname Best concerns a William Best of 1763; the grant calls him "William Paste late of Lethal [Lehigh] Township Northampton County yeoman deed" and gives letters to his son, "William Paste junr. yeoman of same plaki;"- hut the latter signs in German script as "Wilhelm Bs5st." Phila. Administration #12 of 1763; Administration Book G: 356. 57 The only Phila. probate document of the surname Albert prior to 1750 is the administration 15 May 1742 of estate of John Albert, deceased, with letters to Frederick Funk, of Chester County, yeoman; Dewald Smith of the same, yeoman, and John Brints, of Phila., labourer, sureties. The three signatures, in German script, are Friedrich Fink, Dro(?)balt Smist, Captain Peter Young, His WYi and Descendants 20 1 Johan Briantz. The inventory, taken at Vincent, Chester County, 19 May 1742, by Garret (x) Brownback and Peter Ash, listed, inter alia, "his wearing apparel being very poor," farm implements and animals and "8 Dutch Books" for a value of i.30. Phila. Administration #1 of 1742; Administration Book D: 258. The John Albert taxed in Northern Liliersties, Phila. Co. in 1774 with one cow is marked 'very poor." He may be identical with John Albert, journeyman tailor in Mulberry Ward, Phila., 1780 and with the man of same name in High Street Ward in 1782. PA, 3rd Ser. 14: 400; 15: 287; 16: 414. 58 CC Bapt. 1: 231, 59 CC Bur. 1: 3368. Although included in the Christ Church register, the burial is noted as at St. Peter's. 60 PA, 5th Ser. 1: 87, 61 PA, 3rd Ser. 14: 180. 62 Ibid., 15: 252, 763; 16: 365. 63 Ibid., 16: 661, 64 See note 52. 65 The American Daibo Ad'vertiser, Phila., Sat. 13 July 1816: 3, col. 4 reported "DIED, yesterday morning, aged 76 years, Mrs. ELEANOR YOUNG, Widow of the late Capt. Peter Young of this city. The friends of the family and the Members of the Captains' Society, are particularly invited to attend her funeral from the dwelling of her daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Strong, at 5 o'clock this afternoon. July 13." 66 CC Bur. II: 3727. The register indicates that the burial was at St. Peter's rather than Christ Church. 67 See note 50. 68 See also notes 10 and 23. 69 CC Bapt. 1: 447. 70 PA, 3rd Ser. 20: 154. 71 Ibid., 23: 290. 72 Aid, 672, 677; also 5th Ser. 4: 620, 6: 252, 472, 478, 484, 619. 73 CC Rapt. 1: 447. 74 PA, 3rd Ser. 20: 154. One James Best, actual residence unknown, patented 400 acres in Northumberland County 15 Mar. 1794, Ibid., 25: 87. 75 "Best and Wadsworth Families of Westmoreland County, Pa." CGSP: FC/Be. 76 CC Rapt. I: 447. 77 Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, Marriages 1709-1800 (copy): 4384, CGSP: Ph2E:7. Hereinafter CC Mar. L 78 CC Bur. 1: 3302, indicating interment at St. Peter's. 79 PA, 3rd Ser. 14: 264. 80 Ibid., 472, 748, 81 Captain Peter Young: n.p. but 6. 82 Ibid., n.p. but 1. 83 CC Bapt. I: 523. 84 CC Bur, 1: 3095. 85 CC Bapt. I: 645. Her date of birth is given in error as 13 Nov. 1767 in Barr, Captain Peter Young: 7. 86 Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, 29 Feb. 1828: 3, col. 87 Bronson: 90. There is no record of probate of her estate in Phila. 88 CC Mar. 1: 4445. PA, 2nd Ser. 8: 285. L.A. Barr never found the marriage of Eleanor Young nor discovered the identity of her husband. He believed her to he the Eleanor Young bur. at St. Peter's in 1815 (sic 1816), who was, in fact, her mother. Captain Peter Young: 8. 89 Letter of William Jones, Phila., 23 Mar. 1830, to Edward Washington du al, Indian Agent, Teckatoka, Arkansas Territory (husband of writer's niece, Eleanor Jones); also folder marked "Genealogical Section: Jones Family" (which last calls Jones' wife, incorrectly, Eleanor Strong). IISP: Uselma Clarke Smith Collection, No. 1378, Box 4, D-46. This precise date of birth, stated by Jones himself, was not known to John H. Frederick, compiler of his notice in Dictionag of American Biography, (New York, 1928, hereinafter DAB): 10: 205, nor, indeed, to Edward K. Eckert, author of "William Jones: Mr. Madison's Secretary of the Navy," PMHB 96 (1972): 167-182. 202 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 90 91 Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Phila., 8 Sept. 1831 and all biographical sources. 92 Jones was first buried in the Moravian cemetery in Bethlehem where Eckert believes his remains still lie. They may, however, be at St. Peter's, Phila.; the inscription on the joint tomb to Eleanor and William Jones states that he died in Bethlehem but suggests he may have been eventually reinterred under that memorial. Bronson; 90. The principal source of information on William Jones and his family is the liselma Clarke Smith Collection at the MP (No. 1378), described by Kenneth Brown, "The William Jones Papers," PMHB 66 (1942): 479-482. This was utilized by Eckert, who, however, does not mention the Naval Secretary's parents nor realizes that it Young, " Jones' closest friend," was, in fact, his wife's brother, and who states that Mr. Jones' sister "married William Strong [and] , supported her family by operating an apothecary shop." Rebecca Young married, of course, Joseph Strong, physician, and for her second husband, apothecary Peter Gardiner. Two Jones genealogies are in print, Carroll B. Jones, ,jores and Related Families (Milford, N.H., CabinetPress 1951) and Albert Brill Russell, The Jones Family Five Genera- tions from Francis Jones of Pernbokeshire, Wales, to Richard Mott Jones, of Penn Yann, New York (n.p., n.d. but 1924), of which a copy of the second is at the HSP. Neither compiler had access to the Jones papers in the Uselma Clarke Smith Collection so each fails to identify the Secretary of the Navy as a son of Captain Henry Jones. Neither realized that Captain Henry Jones' sister Esther (1724-1783) was the wife of Robert Smith (1722-1777), the Scots-born carpenter-architect of Nassau Hail at Princeton, o1 t. Peter's Church, Walnut Street Prison and Carpenters' Hall and many other key structures of Philadelphia. Francis James Dailett, "The Family of Mrs. Robert Smith: A Preliminary Study of the Genealogy of Esther Jones," unpublished typescript, Mar. 1982. Abraham Ritter, Philadelphia and tier Merchants (Phila., 1860): 195. 93 94 Kenneth Brown, "The William Jones Papers": 480-481. 95 Philadelphia Will #137 of 1831; Will Book 9: 124_ 96 PMHB 62 (1938): 368. 97 CC Bapt. I: 645. 98 CC Bur, I: 3191. 99 CC Bapt. II: 744. WO CC Bur. 1: 3197. 101 CC Bapt. 11: 744. 102 CC Bur. 1: 3193. 103 CC Bapt. II: 788. 104 CC Bur. 1: 3289. 105 CC Bapt. 11: 848. 106 CC Bur, I: 3256. 107 CC Rapt. 11: 935. Barr, Captain Peter Young: 7 gives the date of birth in error as 4 May and this is repeated in Williamson: 197. The latter has corrected the date in his "master" file. 108 Roberts: 93 says 8 June and cites burial. Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of Me Graduates of Yale college, 1, 1778-1792 (New York, 1907): 520 gives the date of death as 2 June as does Williamson in his typescript Additions and Corrections, which, however, have now been corrected. 109 Roberts: 93. 110 Roberts: 92. 111 Both Williamson: 197 and Roberts: 92 give 24 April as date of death but this was the date of burial. CC Bur. 11: 3618. 112 Roberts: 92, 98. 113 Class list of Rush included in "General Register Med, Classes University Penns. From 1762 (sic) To 1815 Inclusive," University of Pennsylvania Archives Ms. 1375. 114 Roberts: 92.-93 115 Letters of administration were granted 3 June 1812 to Rebecca Strong, of the Northern Liberties, widow, and William Young, of Phila., merchant. William Jones and (his partner) Samuel Clarke were bondsmen. The inventory was taken by Anthony Ecky and P. Gardiner. Phila. Administration #110 or 1812. l 16 Eleanor was still Mrs. Strong at her mother's death and presumably married before the conception of her son by Gardiner. Peter Gardiner (or Gardner) is shown in the City Directories as a druggist at S.E. corner of Front and Cedar (later South) Sts., Phila. Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants 203 1817-1819. His guardianship of your Joseph is stated in letter, U.S. Military Academy Archives to Francis James Dalieu, West Point, N.Y., 13 Oct. 1981, 117 The date is based on Gardiner's last appearance in the Phila. Directory and the marriage of Eleanor Strong in Chillicothe. 118 CC Bapt. 11: 1034. 119 Works Progress Administration, Pennsylvania Historical Survey, Index to Registration of Dead City of Philadelphia 1803-1860, W2-Y-Z: 65. 120 Bronson: 90. 121 Records of Christ Church, Baptisms 1794-1819 (copy): 1438, CGSP: Ph2E:3. Hereinafter CC Bapt. 111. 122 Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, The Histog of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton, Mass. (Albany, N,Y., 1871), 1: 413. Barr, Dr. Joseph Strong: 40. 123 Records of Christ Church, Marriages, Confimations, Communicants 1800-1900 (copy): 4751, CGSP: Ph2E:8. Hereinafter CC Mar. IL 121 Biographical Directory of The American Congress 1774-1961 (Washington, 1961): 571. 125 CC Rapt. III: 1737. Bishop William White's Register of Private Baptisms 1801-1833 (copy): 3, CGSP: Ph :1. Herein.after White Register. 126 Dwight, 1: 415. Thayer Memorid Register of Graduates and Former Cadets 1802-1954 of the United States Military Academy (Vest Point, N.Y., 1964): 206, 127 The 1850 letter, now in the U.S. Military Academy Archives, is the basis for the notice in George W_Cullum Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates qf the U.S. Militag Academy, West Point, 'New York (New York, 18613): 200-201. 128 CC Bapt. III: 1737. White Register: 3. 129 Barr, Dr. Joseph Strong: 40, based upon letter, D. W. Knox, Capt. USN (mt.), Navy Dept., Office of Naval Records and Library, Washington, D.C., to Barr,. 16 Mar. 1940. 130 Williamson; 195. Roberts: 93. 131 Roberts: 93. 132 White Register: 3, 23. 133 Useima Clarke Smith Collection, "Jones Family Letters, Lloyd Jones Letters, Misc.," folder for 1805. LISP: Ms. 1378. Little William was expected to die within 24 hours but lived until 8 Sept. Bishop White's private register records one baptism on 20 Aug. with a gap thereafter until 8 Dec. 134 Williamson: 390. Roberts: 93. 135 See note 133. 136 CC Bur. II: 3618. Bronson: 90, "9 months and 20 days." 137 CC Rapt. HI: 1891. White Register: 23. Although listed by Dwight, 1:415 as William Young Strong, the full name used in his later years, he was recorded simply as William in the two baptismal entries. 138 Dwight 1:415. 139 Ibid. 140 Ibid. 141 CC Bapt. III: 1891. White Register: 23. 142 This date and mention of Rebecca's later marriages comes from Mrs. Glenna (Knight) Uhler Lusk, Parish Librarian, Iberville, La., formerly the wife of John Earle Uhler, Jr., nephew of Lockwood Anderson Barr, and was printed in Gary J. Hebert, "Anne Uhler, Camille Uhler-Navarre Fifth Cousins to Lady Diana," The Post-South (newspaper), Plaquemine, La., 29 July 1982. This newspaper article, the result of correspondence between Francis James Dallett and Mrs. Lusk, errs in stating the relationship of the Uhler daughters with the Princess of Wales; they are fifth cousins once removed. It omits several generations in the Anderson-Uhler descent and contains numerous other genealogical errors. Mrs. Lusk owns an Anderson family photograph album containing a likeness of Rebecca (Strong) Anderson. 143 Dwight, 1:415. Barr, Dr. Joseph Strong: 41. 144 Lockwood Anderson Barr, "Anderson-Opdyck Families" (typescript, 1940): nip., but 4, CGSP: Gen/An'. 145 CC Rapt. III: 1891. White Register: 23. 146 CC Bur. II: 3677. 147 Barr, Dr_ Joseph Strong: 39. Barr believed that Lavinia was identical with her sister Eleanor (Ellen). 148 Barr, Captain Peter Young: 3-4.