Biographical and genealogical history of the state of Delaware, Vol. I, Part 26

Author: Runk, J.M. & Co
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Chambersburg, Pa.
Number of Pages: 1482

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Dr. Elijah Barratt married Margaret Fisher, a descendant of John Fisher, who came with Penn on the "Welcome." Their children were: i. Lydia Barratt, married John Smithers, February 6, 1821; ii. Susan Fisher Barratt, born 1782, died March 2, 1824, mar- ried Nathaniel Smithers; iii. Mary Barratt, died August 7, 1851, married first, Thomas Green, second, Robert B. Jump; iv. Eliza Barratt, born in July, 1792, died in February, 1861, married Rev. William Prettyman; v. Margaret Barratt, married William Knatts; vi. Edward Barratt, died young. Dr. Bar- ratt's descendants are numbered among the following families, well known in Kent coun- ty: Smithers, Green, Jump, Knatt, Pretty- man, Burchenal, Cowgill, Cannon, Freeman, Lovering, Warner, Lang, Grahame, Sorden, Lowe, Longfellow, Dill, Burton, McKim, Fescenden, Canwell, Welton, Bowie, Stone- street, Ahmoney, Lathrop and Pemberton; but as he had no sons, the name of Barratt has died out in this branch of the family.

III. Caleb Barratt,' son of Philip and Miriam Barratt, born May 17, 1792, died No- vember 15, 1825, aged fifty-three years, and leaving three children : i. Elijah, born in 1795, emigrated to Indiana in 1830; ii. James, born in 1797, removed in 1832 to Philadelphia, where he died February 12, 1862. Ile mar- ried Mary Neall, daughter of Jonathan Neall, of Milford. Caleb Barratt cultivated the farm in Murderkill hundred bequeathed to him by his father; and while he was well-known and respected as a substantial farmer, he never took any part in public affairs, except that he was appointed by the governor as counis- into bags, and sold on the wharf or stored in

sioner and assessor of real and personal prop- erty for Kent county for the years 1819, '20, '21.

IV. Nathaniel Barratt, son of Philip and Miriam Barratt, born in 1773, died in 1797, contented himself with carrying on farming. Hon. Nathaniel Barratt Smithers, his grand- nephew, is his namesake.

V. Mary Barratt, daughter of Philip and Miriam Barratt, married George Willson.

VII. Miriam Barratt, daughter of Philip and Miriam Barratt, married Thomas Martin- dale, and had children, as follows: i. Thomas Martindale, married - Sudler, and after her death, Jarrett, and by these two marriages has six children: 1. Josephine, wife of Dr. Meily, 2. Miriam (Mrs. N. B. Buck- master), 3. Elizabeth (Mrs. J. Frank Cam- eron), 4. Rev. Thomas E., married HI. Haz- zard, 5. Stephen, and 6. William Martindale; and ii. Sarah.

VIII. Lydia Barratt, daughter of Philip and Miriam Barratt, married William Patton, and had children: i. Matthew; ii. Barratt Pat- ton.

James Barratt, Sr., son of Caleb Barratt, was born in 1797 on his father's farm near Frederica, Kent county, Delaware, and re- moved to Milton in 1823, where he built and occupied the first brick house. He and Gov- ernor David Hazzard engaged in the grain business, and also operated a bark mill, in which the Hon. Joseph Maull was interested with them. James Barratt was one of the representatives for Sussexcounty in the House of Representatives during the session com- meneing October, 1831, and was a director in 1831 and 1832 of the Georgetown Branch of the Farmer's State Bank of Delaware. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and connected with Union Lodge, No. 7, of Dover. In 1832 he removed to Philadelphia and en- gaged in the grain business with Samuel Neall, who was a native of Milford, Delaware, under the firm name of Neall & Barratt, and later as James Barratt & Son. Much of their business consisted of consignments of grain from Delaware, which arrived in Philadelphia in small sloops and schooners of light draught, which were in early times called shallops. They carried 1,000 to 2,500 bushels of wheat, corn and oats, and on arrival were unloaded by colored men from half bushel measures

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their warehouse, 402 South Delaware avenue. In 1854 he helped organize the Corn Ex- change of Philadelphia, and was its fifth president in 1859.

James Barratt married Ellen Leighton, daughter of Dr. Robert and Ann (Barratt) Dill, who died December 25, 1868. They had issue: 1. Alfred Barratt, born February 14, 1823, married Martha Cummins; II. James Barratt, Jr., born December 27, 1826, mar- ried Mary Irvine Cumming; III. Mary Bar- ratt, born September 27, 1828, died July 27, 1890; IV. Robert Dill Barratt, born Deeem- ber 8, 1829; V. Caleb Barratt, born February 15, 1832, died April, 1833; VI. Anna Bar- ratt, born August 16, 1838; VII. Ellen Bar- ratt, born January 9, 1845, died January 9, 1845.

The Corn Exchange of Philadelphia, now better known by the more significant name of the Commercial Exchange, was composed of a membership conspicuous for loyalty to the Union, and for zeal and liberality in sustaining the Government in all its efforts to put down the rebellion. None of its members were more active in this work, and in sending into the war a fully equipped regiment known as the "Corn Exchange," or 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, than James Barratt, Jr., who was born in Milton, Delaware, and who was brought to Philadelphia by his father when a boy. He was admitted to the firm of James Barratt & Son in 1856. James Barratt, Jr., represented the Seventh ward in Common Councils in 1862, '63, '64, '65, and on Janu- ary 12, 1865, he was appointed one of the commissioners under the authority of Coun- cils, to pay bounties to volunteers. This com- mission distributed over twelve millions of dollars. On May 25, 1865, he was elected a port warden, and in 1867 was elected vice- president of the Corn Exchange. He was first lieutenant of the Corn Exchange Guard, and a member of Company D, First Regiment, Lodge 51, F. and A. M., as well as of the Union League. He died February 2, 1872.

James Barratt, Jr., married Mary Irvine Cummings, May 16, 1855, and had four chil- dren: I. William Cummings Barratt, born August 9, 1856, married Effe Watson; IT. Ellen Dill Barratt, born in April, 1858; TH. Morris S. Barratt, born August 23, 1562, married Ellen Levering; IV. James Barratt, born September 28, 1864. Win. Cummings

Barratt, eldest child of James and Mary I. (Cummings) Barratt, was born August 9, 1856, and married, November 7, 1888, Ettie, daughter of Richard II. Watson, Esq. Their children are: I. Richard Watson Barratt, born November 10, 1889; IL. Mary Irvine Barratt; III. William Cummings Barratt. William ( !. Barratt is the secretary of the Powelton Club, of West Philadelphia, and is connected with the Earn Line S. S. Co.

Norris S. Barratt, second son of the late Mary Irvine Cummings and James Barratt, Jr., was born in the city of Philadelphia Au- gust 23, 1862; educated at private and public schools, studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar December 1, 1883, and is now engaged in the practice of his profession. IIe has been Assistant City Solicitor of Phila- delphia since 1890, also solicitor for the Bu- rean of Building Inspectors, member of the West Philadelphia Republican Club and Young Republicans, and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He is a Past Mas- ter of Lodge No. 2, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, and Oriental Chapter, No. 183, R. A. C., as well as the Sons of Delaware of Philadel- phia, of which he was a charter member. Mr. Barratt has been historian of that society since 1896, and takes a deep interest in his- torical matters, especially relating to Dela- ware.

Norris S. Barratt was married October 17, 1894, to Ellen, daughter of Thomas HI. Lever- ing, of Baltimore, Md. Their children are: I. Norris Stanley Barratt, Jr., born August 27, 1895; IF. Thomas Levering Barratt, born September 20, 1896.

THE BARKER FAMILY.

This is an old English family. Those of its members in the United States who are of colonial ancestry may trace their lineage from four ancestors, all of whom left their English homes in the seventeenth century to try their fortunes in the splendid heritage then opening to the English race. They were: Samuel Barker, horn in 1648, settled in New Castle county, Del., in 1685; Robert Barker and his brother, John Barker (the latter sometimes erroneously called Francis), settled in Ply- month, Mass., in 1626, having doubtless came over with the Pilgrims in 1620; and James Barker, of Shropshire, England, born in 1617,

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settled in Rhode Island in or about 1634, hav- ing come over on the ship Mary and John. Samuel Barker was a lineal descendant of John Barker, of Shropshire, England, who married, in 1549, Elizabeth Hill, a sister of Sir Rowland Hill, the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London. The two Massachusetts Barkers, Robert and John, were doubtless de- šcendants of the same ancient and honorable Barker family of Shropshire, from which it has been found that Samuel Barker, of Dela- ware, and James Barker, of Rhode Island, are descended. The Barkers were for many cen- turies almost exclusively connected with Shropshire, a county equalled by few others in England as to the number of its old historic families.

The Herald's Visitations of Salap com- mence the pedigree of this family, whose name appears to have been originally Coverall or Calverhall, with Richard de Coverall, who married Margaret Pigot, and then pass over the intermediate generations to William Bar- ker, also called Coverall, who married the heiress of the Goulstons of Goulston. The connecting links have been supplied from the Court Rolls of the Manors of Warfield and Claverley, and after about 1560 one begins to find parish church registers. In Domesday Book, Nigellus, a clerk, was lord of the manor of Calverhall or Coverhall, after which it passed into the king's hands, and he gave it to William de Dunstanville, who sublet it under the feudal system to these de Calverhalls.

In the reign of Edward II, the overlord of the manor was Bartholomew de Bedlesmere. In the civil wars then continually waged, he was attainted and hanged. The undertenants of his manor probably shared in his disgrace and fall, and two of them appear to have fled southward, for in 1327 two men calling · themselves le Bercer and le Smythe are found at ITallon and ITilton in the parish of War- field, where they probably followed the call- ings of shepherd and armorer respectively, and founded the two Warfield families of Barker and Smythe. Tradition averred that this Ber- cer was William de Calverhall; and his de- scendants, when after two hundred years they settled again the northern part of the county, at Claverley, Wolverton and Coleshurst, seem to have reassumed the name of Cover Il as an alias, so that they were known by both names. The name Barker is derived from the old Nor-

man "bercer," which signified the elected herdsman of the village or manor.

Following is the genealogical record of the Barker family of Shropshire, England, from the year 1200 A. D. to the birth in February, 1648, of Samuel Barker, who in March, 1685, settled in New Castle county, Del. This was compiled from data collected through years of careful research by the Rev. William Gibbs Barker, of the Aston Manor branch of the family, who was born in 1811, and died in Philadelphia, 1897. He was evidently a man of high attainments and great intellectual ability.

RECORD.

1. Randulph de Calverhall, tenant of the manor of Calverhall, County Salap, England, A. D. 1200.

2. William Fitz-Ralph de Calverhall, of Blaneminster, tenant in fee of William de Dunstanville, A. D. 1219.

3. William de Calverhall, tenant, 1240- 1250. Married - - Wenkiana.

4. William de Calverhall, tenant, 1284. Married Alina.

5. Richard de Calverhall, tenant, 1319. Married Margaret, daughter of Peter Pigot, of Willaston, County Salap.

Then follow several generations of the de Calverhalls, among them Roger de Calver- hall, until the male line as tenants of the manor of Calverhall became extinct, and the estate descended to Agnes de Calverhall, daughter and heiress, who married Hugh Dod, of Edge, whose family possessed Calverhall Manor until 1850.

But we find in 1327 William le Bercer, at IIallan, in Warfield, County Salap. His son Roger le Barker, of Hallon, married Alice -, who survived him. He died in 1368, possessed of large estates in Hallon. Roger le Barker left two sons: I. William, of HIal- lon, married Margery, daughter of William Whorwood, died in 1411; Il. Robert, of Hal- lon, whose descendants long lived there. Wil- liam Barker's son, Henry Barker, of Hallon, married Margery, daughter and heiress of Stephen Lovestick, of Hallan, who survived her husband. Henry Barker obtained land at Hallon from William Whorwood, and died in 1438. ITe left a son, William Barker, of Hal- lon, gentleman, who enjoyed great estates there, married Ann, daughter of John Colvn-

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son Roulowe, of Rowley, in Warfield, and died in 1480. This William Barker left two sons:

I. George Barker, of Hallon, who married Ellen Cumber, of Kinver, County Staff, and had a daughter, Ann Barker, who was the heiress of the Hallon estate; which estate passed by several heiresses to the Davenport family, which still holds it; II. John, who married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of William Grene, of Aston Manor, in Claver- ley, Salap, and died at Aston in 1507, leaving a son, John Barker, of Aston, who married Margaret , and died in 1531; she out- lived him, and died in 1538.

Humphrey Barker, son of John and Mar- garet (- -) Barker, had two sons: I. Thomas Barker (alias Coverall); II. William Barker (alias Coverall), who married first Margaret, daughter and heiress of John Goul- ston, of Goulston Cheswardine; she was buried at Claverley, November 26, 1576; and second, Frances, reliet of William Whitmore, of Aston; she died in 1538, before her hus- band, who was buried at Claverley, October 30, 1590.

The children . of William and Margaret (Goulston) Barker were as follows: I. John, married first to Joyce, daughter of Edward Burton, and second, in 1549, to Elizabeth Ilill, sister to Sir Rowland Hill, first Protest- ant Lord Mayor of London, from which latter marriage the Barkers of Wolverton are de- seended; II. William, of Colcharat, County Salap, who married Joan, daughter of Wil- liam Horne, and from whom the Barkers of Colcharat, Hopton Castle and Fairfield are de- seended; III. Randulph, who for killing'a man fled out of Shropshire, and from whom the Barkers of Little Over and Vale Royal, Chester, are descended; IV. Richard.

Richard Barker, of Aston Hall, fourth son of William and Margaret (Goulston) Barker, · took the oath of allegiance to James I. He was buried at Claverley, February 12, 1609. Ilis first marriage was with Joyce, daughter of Richard Colclough, and they had children: I. William, died young, in 1569; II. John; III. Frances, died in 1576; IV. Joan, born in 1572, died young. Mistress Joyce (Col- clough) Barker died, and was buried in Claver- ley, June 25, 1572. Richard Barker then married Mary, daughter of Thomas Grainger; she died, it appears, without issue, and was

buried at Claverley, October 9, 1576. The third marriage of Richard Barker was with Agnes Hatton, of Heathton, November 24, 1578. Their children were: I. Richard; IL. Elizabeth, born in 1582, died young; III. Joan, born in 1584; 1V. Philip, born in 1590, died young; V. Jane, born in 1591, died young; VI. Thomas, born in 1595. Mistress Agnes (Hatton) Barker survived her husband eight years, died, and was buried at Claverley, April 30, 1617. Thomas Barker, as the youngest son, inherited Aston Manor. He married in 1621, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Smythe, of Ililton; Thomas Barker died in 1644, and his wife in 1672; they were the ancestors of the Barkers of Aston Manor. Aston Hall remained in the possession of the Barker family for about three hundred years. It came to John Barker, who died in 1509, with his wife, Elizabeth Grene, the heiress of Aston, and it remained with his descend- ants until 1748, when Matthias Barker, the heir, sold it. It afterwards passed into the hands of the Bracebridges, and is the original of Irving's Bracebridge Hall.

John Barker, second son of Richard and Joyce (Colclough) Barker, was baptized Oc- tober 21, 1570. He was church warden at Claverley church in 1620, and was buried there May 11, 1638. He married in 1610 Eleanor, daughter of Nicholas Fregleton; she was baptized at Claverley in 1588, married August 8, 1610, and was buried at Claverley, May 1, 1646. Their son, John Barker, of Aston, was baptized at Claverly, July 11, 1611, married Mary who survived him, and was buried at Claverley, July 28, 1682. They had children: I. Mary, born in 1636; IT. John, of Nether IToo, was born in 1641, married in 1700 to Elizabeth Wool- ryche, and from them are descended the Bar- kers of Congreve: III. Frances, born in 1643, died in 1644; IV. Margery, born in 1644.

Richard Barker, who died in 1609, had by his wife, Agnes Hatton, a son, Richard Bar- ker, who was baptized October 20, 1579, and buried April 25, 1636. He married Dorothy Whorwood; their children were: T. Frances, born and died in 1611: IT. Ambrose, bap- tized August 20, 1612, has no known descend- ants; TIT. John Barker, baptized April 21, 1616; TV. Richard Barker, born in 1625. John Barker, the third of the above named

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children of Richard and Dorothy (Whor- wood) Barker, had several children, as fol- lows: i. Samuel, baptized at Claverley church, Shropshire, England, February 22, 1645, emigrated, it appears, to "New Eng- land," Delaware, bought two hundred acres of land on Red Clay Creek, New Castle coun- „ty, built himself a residence thereon, married and left numerous descendants, died in 1720, and was buried in Old Swedes' churchyard, Wilmington, Del., July 25, 1720 (see church records); ii. Anne, born in 1651, died in 1713; iii. Sarah, born in 1653; iv. Joseph, born in 1656, from whom the Barkers of Coleshill, Warwickshire, England, are de- scended; v. Jeremiah, born in 1660, has no known descendants.

The Aston branch of the family is now (July, 1898) represented by the following living members: Rev. Joseph Henry Bar- ker, born in 1809, residing at Herford, Eng- land; Delavere Barker, born in 1816, living at Dieppe, France; Captain William Cecil Barker, British Navy, born in 1839; Arthur Rowland Barker, architect, Winchfield, Eng- land, born in 1842, and his sons, Rev. Arthur Leigh Barker, born in 1870, Raymond Turner Barker, architect, born in 1872, Claude Ed- ward Barker, born in 1874, and Cecil Vernon Barker, born in 1876. The last named family are descendants of Rev. William Gibbs Bar- ker, and have full records of the Aston and other branches of the family.

The oldest Barker family document extant is believed to be one of which the following is a copy. It was written by Elizabeth, widow of Matthias Barker, of Ashton Manor, who died in 1727, aged 45.

"The life of Matthias Barker represented to his children.

"Thy father was a strict observer of the Sabbath, a constant Frequenter of the Ordi- nances, a diligent Reader of God's Word; a Reprover of Vice and an Encourager of Vir- tue; a diligent Instructor of his Family; he was much in Praying, Laborious in his Call- ing, Serviceable to his Neighbors and Faith- ful to his Friends. In a Word, he was Tem- perate, Meck, Patient, Peaceable, Humble, Honest, and Heavenly-minded. These and the like Virtues were conspicuons in Thy Father; Go thou and do likewise; Luke 10th, v. 57. Tho' your Father be dead and buried, let his Virtues live in your Practice.

"Altho' your father in the grave be laid, Tread you his steps ; you need not be afraid But you the heaven of heavens shall see,

And reign with Him to all eternity."

The Hallon Manor, in Warfield, County Salap, the original family seat of the Barker family, was in possession of the Barkers for two hundred and fifty years when the heiress married one of the Wannertons. It was called Hallon, after a Saxon chief of that name, who fought a battle in the fields below, and crossed the river at the spot now called HIallon's Ford.

With regard to the wives of these Barker ancestors: The Pigots of Willaston were an old Shropshire family, claiming descent from one Roger Pieot, who came from Nor- mandy, in 1066; the Whorwoods of Comp- ton and Babbington were a Staffordshire family who afterwards intermarried a good deal with the Barkers. William Whorwood left some lands in Hallon to Henry, son of William Barker; of the Lovesticks of Hallon nothing is known, but Margery was a consid- erable heiress; the name is probably a corrup- tion from Lostock, the Rowleys of Rowley are an old and renowned Warfield family, their original name being Roulowe. One of Anne's ancestors, Roger de Roulowe, was slain at Evesham, fighting one of the rebellious barons, but the name was probably Saxon rather than Norman in its origin; the Grenes of Aston; it was by marriage with their heiress that the Barkers obtained most of the Aston estate. The pedigree goes back for several genera- tions, but with no detail; they seem to have been originally Yorkshire folk. The Col- cloughs were an old Staffordshire family of consideration; Richard, the father of Joyce, was mayor of Newcastle-under-Tyne in 1478, and married a daughter of the well known Davenport family.

The descendants of Samuel Barker (1685) of New Castle county, Del., as compiled by Jesse J. Barker, of Philadelphia, in 1898, are as follows:

Samuel Barker was baptized in Claverley church, County Salap, England, February 22, 1648. To Samuel Barker a grant was made by William Penn, March 27, 1685, of two hundred acres of land in Christiana hundred, near what is now called Barker's Bridge, Del. This was the old homestead of the Barker

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family, and remained in their hands until the death of William Barker, about 1840. Samuel Barker, 1, died intestate in July, 1720, at an advanced age, and was buried m Old Swedes' churchyard, in Wilmington, Del., July 25, 1720. Ile left four children: I. Joseph, 2, who died about January, 1755; Il. Daniel, 2, who died about 1750; III. Mary, 2, married in St. Paul's church, Ches- ter, Pa., September 25, 1706, to William Richardson; IV. Anna (Mrs. William Ilieks). All of these children left descend- ants.

Joseph Barker, 2, son of Samuel Barker, 1, was married September 27, 1716, in Old Swedes' church, Wilmington, to Johanna Clayton. He died about January 20, 1755, which was the date of probate of his will, leay- ing three children, but no widow; both his wife and their daughter, Maria, born Septem- ber 24, 1718, having apparently died before him. The surviving children were: I. Samuel, 3; II. Rebecca, 3 (Mrs. Few); III. Susanna, 3 (Mrs. Edward Carrill), married in Old Swedes' church, Wilmington, in 1744.

Samuel Barker, 3, son of Joseph, 2, and Johanna (Clayton) Barker, was born, it ap- pears, at the old Barker homestead, near Bar- ker's Bridge, New Castle county, Del., March 20, 1721; the birthplace of all his children seems to have been the same. He was bap- tized in Old Swedes' church, Wihnington, March 21, 1721. IIe died in 1803; his will was probated October 27 of the same year. Samuel Barker, 3, was married to Rachel, daughter of Jeremiah Ball; she was born July 24, 1732, and survived her husband. . On February 7, 1797, Joseph Barker married Ile was a vestryman at St. James' church, Agnes Sipple, who died November 12, of the same year. The third wife of Captain Barker was Margaret, eldest daughter of Hon. John Laws, formerly judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas of Sussex county, Del. She was born in 1777, married February 19, 1799, and died August 2, 1819, in the forty-third year of her age. Her remains were interred in the Old Swedes' churchyard, Wilmington. Stanton, Del., in 1791-92, and in 1801. Ilis children were as follows: I. Mary, 4, born about 1752, married May 9, 1773, at New Castle, Del., to Moses MeKnight; IT. Joseph, 4, born June 10, 1754, married three times, (1) Mary Collins, (2) Agnes Sipple, (3) Margaret Laws; III. Esther, 4, ( Mrs. Theophilus Evans), born in. August, 1757; IV. Abner, 4, born July 31, 1760, removed to Pittsburg, Pa., and in 1800 married Ellen Scandrett; V. Jeremiah, 4, born February 22, 1764, married Sally, daughter of Gov- ernor Ileth, of Virginia; VI. William, 4, born near Barker's Bridge, Del., served dur- ing the war of the Revolution in a Delaware regiment, was in the battle of the Brandywine

and other engagements, never married, died about 1840 on the Barker homestead near Stanton, Del .; VII. Rachel, 4, ( Mrs. Joseph Evans), born October 24, 1769; VIII. Abraham, 4, was a vestryman of St. James' church, Stanton, Del., in 1797, died soon after his father from the kick of a horse; IX. Jesse.

Jesse Barker, 4, youngest son of Samuel and Rachel (Ball) Barker, was born about 1772, and died unmarried in New York City, July 26, 1852. In early life he left the old homestead, and with his brothers, Abner, Joseph and Jeremiah, went to reside in Pitts- burg, Pa. He and Abner were large and suc- cessful merchants there, prospering greatly. Jesse Barker withdrew from the firm about 1807 or 1808, and after traveling for a time, settled in Paris, France, where he became a banker and broker in the Bourse, and made a large fortune. In July, 1842, he returned to America, and settled in New York, where his death occurred July 28, 1852, at the age of about eighty years.

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Biographical and genealogical history of the state of Delaware, Vol. I, Part 26

Author: Runk, J.M. & Co Publication date: 1899 Publisher: Chambersburg, Pa. Number of Pages: 1482

Author: Runk, J.M. & Co
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Chambersburg, Pa.
Number of Pages: 1482