Notes, Queries and Corrections

NOTES, QUERIES AND CORRECTIONS. COFFIN. In answer to Coffin query in PUBLICATIONS, Yol. VII, p. 284, the following has been received: ELIJAH COFFIN was a son of William. Coffin, the elder, who, 25 March, 1767, purchased land in Philadelphia, and died before 14 Sept. 1772. The latter was the father of Sarah, wife of Abel Griffith; Mary, wife of Joseph Griffith; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Powell, and sons William and Elijah. By deed dated 14 Sept. 1772, William Coffin, merchant and eldest son of William Coffin, deceased, conveyed his interest in land before mentioned, unto Samuel Powell,* and, by deed of 3 March, 1792, Elijah Coffin, “ cabinet-maker ”, of Palls Township, Bucks Co., con¬ veyed his interest in said land unto William Powell of Philadelphia. Samuel Powell was licensed to marry Elizabeth Coffin, 13 June, 1771. On 8 Nov., 1760, William Coffin, Sr., and Martha his wife, were dis¬ missed from the Montgomery Baptist Church to the Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and presumably removed to Philadelphia about that time. WILLIAM COFFIN, Sr., was a son of Jacob Coffin, of Northampton, Bucks Co., Pa., whose will of 26 August, 1732, proved 9 August, 1742,f names sons Jacob,J William, and Abraham. There seems to be little doubt but that the testator was identical with the Jacob Coding who* witnessed the will of .John Bolt of Philadelphia, 11 Oct. 1700.J J. Gran¬ ville Leach. BRADFORD. Who was the wife of Thomas Bradford (Major William, __ — Governor William) f THOMAS BRADFORD, bom at Plymouth, Mass., circa 1657; died at Canterbury, Conn., 1 October, 1731, “ aged seventy-four years. ’ He married, circa 1681, Ann -, who deceased before 8 May, 1705. His children so far as known were: ’ JOSHUA BRADFORD, b. 23 Nov., 1682; published to many, 17 Feby., 1711/12, Mary Brooks New London First Church Records. ii. JAMES BRADFORD, called one of “ the children of my loving cousin Ann Bradford deceased in the will of Mrs. Mary (Smith) Raymond, under date of 8 May, 1705. He died 26 March, 1762; m. (1) Edith ; (2) Susanna Adams. iii. JERUSHA BRADFORD, bpt. at Norwich, Conn., 28 May, 1693; m. Hezekiah Newcomb Newcomb Family (1874), pp. 41, 42. iv. WILLIAM BRADFORD, bpt. 7 April, 1695. New London First i. ” — Church Record. ANN BRADFORD, wife of Thomas Bradford has been variously discribed:1 1st., as Anna Fitch, supposedly daughter of Rev. James Pitch. This * Philadelphia Deeds, Liber I, No. 11, f. 256. j* Bucks County Wills, Liber I, f. 175. j; Publications, vol. Hi, p. 148 ; vol. viii, p. 80. (102) j Notes, Queries and Corrections. 103 . was however afterward discountenanced 2nd., as Anne Smith, daughter of Nehemiah Smith of New London and Norwich, Conn. 3rd., as Ann Kaymond, daughter of Joshua Raymond by his wife Elizabeth, eldest! •daughter of the before named Nehemiah Smith, thus making Ann Brad¬ ford the grand-daughter instead of daughter of Nehemiah Smith. In proof that this latter statement, made through a research, covering a considerable term of years, by Henry B. Bradford, Esq., of Ellerslie, Edge Moor, Delaware, eighth in descent from the first Governor William Brad¬ ford, gives the parentage of Ann, wife of Thomas Bradford, the following abstract from the will of Mary (Smith) Raymond is submitted: MARY SMITH, daughter of Nehemiah Smith of New London anct Norwich, married Samuel Raymond of New London, bpt. at Salem, Mass., 13 July, 1645; died at New London, before April, 1704, without issue. Her eldest sister, Elizabeth Smith,* born 1641; died at New London, May, 1712, aged 71 years; married (1), 10 Dee., 1659, Joshua Raymond, bpt. at Salem, 3 March, 1639; died at New London, 24 April, 1676, the elder brother of Samuel Raymond. Elizabeth (Smith) Ray¬ mond married (2) George Dennis, q. v. MARY (SMITH) RAYMOND executed her will 8 May, 1705; proved 7 June 1705. It is of record in New London Wills, Liber 3, folio 58. The legatees thereunder were : ‘* Loving brother Nehemiah Smith, five pounds ten shillings out of my deceased husband's Estate, not of that part thereof that belongs to me by law (by Reason my said husband disposed of so much land at Norwich my deceased father willed to me and my heirs to be at my dispose, the Intailments of which my land my -said husband knew not of) to him and his heirs forever." 11 two thirds of my above said Loving sister Elizabeth Dennis land at Norwich to her and her heirs forever, in case she doth not dispose thereof, then my will is that Ebenezer Dennis and his heirs the one half of said land and to my cousin Hannahi shall have Avery and her heirs I give and bequeath the other half of said land. It: . .“to the children of my loving sister Mehitable Abell f de- .... .... ... . * Elizabeth (Smith) Raymond married (2) 26 Jan., 1680/1 George Dennia of Long Island. By her first marriage to Joshua Raymond she had : 1 Joshua Raymond, b. 18 Sept., 1660; m. Mercy, daughter of James Sands of Block Island, 29 April, 1683, and removed thereto, 2, Elizabeth Raymond, b. 24 May, 1662, 3 Ann Raymond, b. 12 May, 1664;, New London, North Parish ; m. Thomas Bradford, 4 Hdnnah Raymond, b. 8 August, 1668; m (1) Charles Bulk ley, (2) Captain Thomas Avery,, 5 Richard Raymond, b. 7 August, 1670 ; a. y. 6 Mary Raymond, b. 12 Mar., 1671 ; m. John Chandler,, 7 Experience Raymond, b. 20 Jan., ; d. 1689, 8 Martha Raymond, bpt. 5 Dec.,, 1675 ; m. Jonathan Ransford of Boston, Mass., 9 Mahitable Raymond, d. y. Issue of second marriage: Ebenezer Dennis. -j- Mehitable (Smith) Abell, died at Norwich, 14 March, 1684/5; having married at Norwich, 1 Nov., 1677, Joshua Abell, who died at Norwich, 1 March, 1724. Their children were : 1 Son, born and died unnamed, 2 Nehe¬ miah Abell, d. y., 3 Anne Abell, b. 2 April, 1681 ; d. 1728 ; m. 1701, Capt. Nathaniel Fitch, son of Rev. James Fitch by his second wife, Priscilla Mason, 4 Martha Abell, b. 13 Feby., 1682; m. 7 Feby., 1699/1700, Obadiah Smith. Joshua Abell, the father, m. (2) Bethia Gager, and had issue. 1673/4 v Notes, Queries and Corrections. 104 ceased, viz: To Ann Abell and Martha Abell* to be equally divided be¬ tween them the other one third part of my above said land at Norwich.’ ’ to the children of my loving cousin Ann Bradford de¬ It: ceased, each of them tenn shillings as pay, only to James Bradford I give and bequeath seventy shillings in pay. to my loving cousin Mary Chandler. . . It: to my loving cousin Elizabeth Avery daughter of my cousin It: Martha Hansford deceased, fifty shillings in pay. ” It: To my loving cousin Love Richards, my biggest silver cup. It: To my loving cousin Mary Avery my biggest pewter platter. It : To my loving cousin Sands Raymond my husband ’s best coat. It: To my loving cousin Mercy Manwaring It: To my loving friend Mrs. Martha Mitchell ,...** All the remaining part of my one half of the movable estate my husband dyed possessed of unto my loving brother Nehemiah Smith, my loving sister Elizabeth Dennis and to the two daughters of Ann and Martha Abell. ’’ f my loving sister Abell deceased . ... ... .... .... .... STOCKER. Departed this life, on the twelfth ultimo [October, 1813], in the fifty-third year of his age, John Clement Stocker, equire, whose death is sincerely lamented by his relatives and friends, and will, doubt¬ less, be regretted by the community at large; for, in every relation of social life, he was exemplary, affectionate and attentive; in every public appointment he was eminently faithful and useful. He dis¬ charged with unwearied assiduity the duties attached to an alderman of the city, a director of the Pennsylvania bank, and Pennsylvania in¬ surance company, and of a vestryman of the episcopal churches of Christ Church, St. Peter’s and St. James’s. The high degree of merit resulting from his liberal and extensive patronage of the poor his firm, zealous, and undeviating patriotism i his unimpeached and incorruptible integrity, will long embalm hist memory in the hearts of his surviving associates and fellow citizens. The friend who offers this record of his virtue has long been intimately acquainted with his character and as long experienced his kindness. ‘ When such friends part, tis the survivor dies.’ ” Port-Folio, Third Series, Yol ii, November 1813. — — — * These nieces received under the will of Mary Smith Raymond % pt. of her estate; the other %rds going to her sister Elizabeth (Smith) Raymond Dennis. •(ÿWhatever children Nehemiah Smith may have had by his wife Ann Bourne, the will of his daughter Mary, (Smith) Raymond, shows conclusively that only -three left children : “ brother Nehemiah Smith,” “ sister Elizabeth Dennis,” widow of Joshua Raymond and “ sister Mehitable Abell deceased.” Arm Bradford is called “ my loving cousin Ann Bradford deceased,” showing that she was not her sister, for, elastic as was the term “ cousin ” In old wills It never included sisters and brothers and usually designated nieces and nephews. Mrs. Alice EiugSnie du Pont Artiz, “ Valmy,” Greenville, Delaware. — Notes, Queries and Corrections. 105 LEWIS. DILL. Information is desired of the antecedents of Lewisj Lewis and Jane Dill, who, having married, had the following children: JACOB LEWIS, b. 1773; removed to Wheeling, West Virginia, married there in 1804, and later lived in Kentucky. ii. DAVID LEWIS, moved to Philadelphia. iii. LEWIS LEWIS, moved to Philadelphia. iv. GUY LEWIS. v. CALEB LEWIS. vi. THOMAS LEWIS, married, had son Lewis Lewis, perhaps i. others. HENRY LEWIS, lived in Louisiana, married, had son Lorenzo) Lewis, perhaps others. viii. SARAH LEWIS, married Mr. Passmore. Old documents, 1784-1795, still in possession of one branch of the family, mention lands in Northumberland, Cumberland, Bedford and, Mifflin Counties. Lewis Lewis was a surveyor as stated in one of the documents. Mrs. Allen R. Hite, Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky. vii. — HARVEY. * ‘ I, SAMUEL HARVEY, was born in Charlestownship, Chester County, Penna., June 16, 1770. My father was called out in the American Revolution in Col. Proctor's Artillery Company in the year 1777 and lay during the winter at White Marsh where he took a severe cold and returned home, after which he was taken sick with an imposthume on the lungs of which he died on the 1st day of May, 1778, leav¬ ing my mother with 7 children. Job born July 24th., 1764. Hannah, born Oct. 19., 1766. Rebecca, born July 24th., [sic] 1768. Samuel (myself), born June 16, 1770. Benjamin, born Oct. 2d., 1772. Nathan, born Nov. 29th., 1774. Elizabeth, born Aug. 17th., 1777. i{ She, my mother, kept me in the summer season at school until the spring of 1785, during which time I learned to read well, write a good hand, cipher through Dilworth’s Assistant, learned something of Geo¬ metry, Trigonometry, Surveying, Mensuration, Guaging, Dialing, Gun¬ nery and Book keeping. In that Spring went to Philadelphia and en¬ tered as an apprentice with Wm. Kay in the Birmingham and Sheffield Warehouse, which I did not like, and returned to my place of nativity and hired myself at making hay and reaping and other work until Pall when I went up to my mother’s on Juniata where I taught school. The next Spring I engaged on the 12th day of May, 1786, with George North as his clerk and store-keeper at Coventry Forge and remained one year then 1 went to Philadelphia and engaged with George Keely to' keep his store for $60. In the Spring of 1790 George North engaged me to be a clerk at Keeptryste Furnace on the Potomac in Berkeley County near Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, for $200 a year. Fall of 1792 engaged with John Evans to keep his store near Yellow Springs, Chester Co., to have part of profits. Jan. 1, 1794, after the yellow fever engaged with Jacob Baker, a wholesale dry-goods merchant in Philadelphia to settle his books for $500 a year. When I opened the books of Baker and Comegys, Mr. Baker paid me at the end of the year $600 per year, and in March I married Ann North. In Fall of 1796 I entered into Notes, Queries and Corrections. 106 partnership with James Worth by the assistance of Baker and Comegys to import dry-goods and hardware, with whom I continued until Spring of 1813 and then retired from business to Germantown on the property I bought and had improved in the year 1810. April the first of this year [1813] my first wife died. In November 28-1811, I married Sarah Roop. On the 14th day of August 1814 I entered into the Bank of Germantown as President. In March 1795 entered into the Methodist Church, 1796 made leader of a class. Received licenses to preach. Ordained a deacon. June 16, 1836 am a member of the Methodist Church. A minister therein and a leader of a class president of the Bank of Germantown, — being 66 years old. 1 Copied from an Autobiographical sketch of the late Rev. Samuel Harvey, the original of which is in the possession of Edward Rowland . Contributed by Mr. George Sayen of Philadelphia. ’ — HENDRICKS. Abram, or Abraham, Hendricks, grandfather of the. late Thomas Andrews Hendricks, Vice-president of the United States, was a Revolutionary soldier, serving as second lieutenant, Captain William Lochry’s Troop of Light Horse, First Battalion, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Militia, under Colonel Alexander Barr, June 1777,* eij seq. He was born 5 November, 1749, died 2 January, 1819, and is buried in the grounds of the old Fairfield Presbyterian Church, Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland County, having served in the State Legislature from that county ; was Colonel of Third Battalion WestmorelandJ Militia, 7 July, 1789,f and otherwise prominent in his locality. His wife, Ann Jamison, daughter of Thomas Jamison J of Westmoreland County, bom 4 November, 1753; died 23 December, 1834, and is buried beside her husband. Their children, all born in Westmoreland County, were: § i. THOMAS, b. 28 June, 1773 ; d. 1834. ii. DANIEL, b. 17 Aug., 1776; d. 1845. iii. RACHEL, b. 28 March, 1779; d. at Greensburg, Penna., 30 Jan., 1807; m. Thomas Pollock. iv. WILLIAM, b. 12 Nov., 1782; d. Madison, Indiana, 16 May, 1850; became Governor of Indiana, members of Congress and United States Senator. v. ABRAM, Jr., b. 1 June, 1785; d. 1852. vi. JAMISON, b. 29 April, 1788; d. 1864; m. Elizabeth Ogden. vii. MARY, b. 12 Nov., 1789; d. 1831; m. John McHary. viii. JOHN, b. 30 April, 1792; d. Shelbyville, Ind., 24 Aug., 1866; m. Jane Thomson, b. Franklin Co., Penna., 17 Oct., 1793; d. Feby., 1874; daughter of Archibald Thomson of Frank¬ lin Co., by his wife Mary Andrews. They were the parents of Hon. Thomas Andrews Hendricks and of the Rev. Abram Thomson Hendricks, the latter of whom, b. * Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, vol ii, pp. 302,, 307. f Ibid, vol. iii, p. 1389. J Publications, vol. v, p. 326. § Bible record of A bram Hendricks. Notes , Queries and Corrections. 107 Westmoreland County, 27 Dee., 1814; d. Petersburg, Ind., 19 Jan., 1866; m. Anna Blythe; b. Lexington, Ky. 20 Jan., 1813; d. Indianapolis, Ind., 30 Jan., 1900; daughter of Rev. James Blythe,* D.D., by his wife Margaret Mc- Elroy.j* ix. ANN, b. 17 Bept., 1800; m. William Henderson. Information is desired that will serve to connect Col. Abram Hendricks, 1749-1819, with the early Hendricks family of Chester, Lan¬ caster, Cumberland, York and Bedford Counties, Pennsylvania. The progenitor of this family, Albertus Hendricks, was a resident of Chester County as early as 1681. His will of 5 Feby., 1714, proved .20 Febry, 1715/6, named sons Tobias Albertus, James and John, and three daughters, J The sons were all pioneer settlers of Lancaster County and later of York County. TOBIAS HENDRICKS, justice of the peace and of the Courts of Chester and Lancaster Counties, 1725-1737, settled in the Cumber¬ land valley along the great road, where he kept a hostelry near Harrisburg. He died in 1739, leaving a wife Catharine and children JLenry, Bebecca, Tobias, David, Peter, Abraham and Isaac. Henry is said to have been the father of the gallant Captain William Hendricks who fell with Montgomery before Quebec. Abraham is thought to have been the great-grandfather of the late Vice-president Hendricks, but the evidence, though strongly problematical, is wanting in actual proof. JAMES HENDRICKS, brother of Tobias, was prominent in the early days of Lancaster County, but later was of York County. He had three sons, perhaps more, John, James and Tobias. A James Hendricks was lieutenant at Fort Augusta, in 1763. JOHN HENDRICKS, possibly youngest son of Albertus Hendricks, was living in Lancaster County in 1725, later removing to York County) when he died 21 January, 1749, leaving sons, John, James, Francis and William. Correspondence is solicited from those interested in the Hendrick# name Mrs. Barah H. Wiggins, Indianapolis, Ind. CORRECTION. PUBLICATIONS, vol vi, p. 313, Collections of the Geneological Society, Reformed Church Records: 1 Great Swamp, Bucks Co., Penna., 77 should read 1736-1822, instead of 1726-1822 Ed. , — ( — * Rev. James Blythe, D. D., son of Jamesi Blythe, Esq., by Ms wife Eliza¬ beth Carr of New Hanover Co., North Carolina, was born, in Mecklenburg Co., in that Colony, 28 Oct, 1765, and died near Hanover, Indiana, 20 May, 1842. Educated at Hampden, Sidney College, Va., he removed to Kentucky in 1791, took an active part in the establishment of the Kentucky Academy, and, when that institution was merged Into Transylvania University, at — Lexington,, he became its president. Subsequently he was president of Hanover College, Indiana. Meanwhile most active in ministerial duties * Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. i, p. 298 ; Allen’s History of Kentucky, p. 193. Margaret (McEilroy) Blythe, daughter of James McElroy and Margaret Irving. f J Vice-President Hendricks is known to have said that he descended from a York County Hendricks ancestor, and Is believed to have located Tobias Hendricks, the first, as his first American ancestor of the name.