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Mark Bradway, the son of Ezra, married Emeline-(last name forgotten) and had three children,-George, Vincent and Emily, now living in Iowa.
As a rule the occupation of the Bradway family has been that of farming, and their religion that of the Friends, for two hundred years.
Jonathan Bradway's son Jonathan married Elizabeth Stewart, a daughter of John and Mary Wade Stewart, the emigrant. Their children were John, Mark and Thomas. John Bradway married Abigail Groff, second month, 27th, 1783, and went west. Mark Bradway married the daughter of Thomas Hartley and had one son, Thomas H. His second wife was Martha Denn, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Bacon Denn, and had one son, Mark Brad- way, who was a merchant at Hancock's Bridge for several years. He mar- ried, first, Sarah Roberts, a daughter of Thomas and Prudence Hancock Roberts. Their children were Rachel and Martha. His second wife was
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Beulah Stewart, a daughter of James Stewart and Mary, his wife. Rachel married Charles Bradway. Their children were Edwin, Beulah, Charles, Jr., Caroline and Albert Bradway. Edwin, Charles and Beulah are married and live in Iowa. Albert is married and lives in Oregon. Thomas H. Bradway was by occupation a tailor and did a very extensive business in that line for many years. His house and shop were located on Fenwick street, where Holtz's building now stands. Thomas's wife was Rachel Worthington, a daughter of David and Jael Worthington. Thomas subsequently purchased a large farm in East Nottingham township, Chester county, Pennsylvania. The farm was much reduced when he bought it, but by his industry and good management it proved to be a profitable investment. He lived to a great age. Most of his descendants live there at the present time. Rachel Bradway, a daughter of Jonathan, married Samuel Hancock, and they had three chil- dren,-Rebecca, Prudence and Samuel. Rebecca's first husband was Ephraim Pagett: her second husband was Barzilla Jeffres. Prudence Hancock's hus- band was Thomas Roberts. He was a merchant and a practical surveyor at Hancock's Bridge during the greater part of his life. Few men had more friends and fewer enemies at the time of their death than he. Those living at that time testify that they never witnessed such a large concourse of people of all denominations as attended his funeral, showing that his friends and neighbors duly appreciated his goodness of character and were desirous to pay their last respects to him on earth. He left two children,-Samuel and Sarah Roberts.
Edward Bradway, a son of Jonathan and Susanna Oakford Bradway, was born May 31, 174I. Elizabeth W. Bradway, a daughter of Jonathan and Mary Ann Waddington, his wife, was born February II, 1740, and had the following children: David, born November 27, 1761; Hannah, March 3, 1764; Edward, May 1, 1767; Waddington, June 15, 1770; Elizabeth, January 22, 1774; and Adna, born February 16, 1777. David, a son of Edward and Elizabeth W. Bradway, married Hannah Rolph Bradway, a daughter of Aaron Bradway, of Elsinboro. Their children were Tacy and Sarah. Tacy married Elisha Fogg and went west. Tacy's brother Edward Bradway went with them. Sarah married Mark Townsend. Hannah Bradway married Job Stretch. Waddington Bradway first married Mary Bates and had three children,-Edward, Elizabeth and Phebe Bradway. His second wife was Hannah, a daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Stretch; they had two chil- dren,-Jonathan and Mercy Bradway. Edward Bradway married Mary Har- ris nee Warner, the mother of Silas and Sheppard Harris. Their children were William, Ann, Elizabeth, Mercy. William married Lydia Dare, and their children were Elexander, Stewart and Joseph Bradway. Elexander
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married Rebecca Sims. Stewart Bradway was born February 14, 1843. Addie F. Stitt, his wife, was born March 6, 1846. They were married Decem- ber 31, 1867. She was the daughter of Dr. William F. Stitt and Sarah E., a daughter of Ebenezer Hawks, and a granddaughter of Samuel and Sarah Hawks, a direct descendant from the Pilgrim of that name. Samuel Hawks' parents, hearing the Indian war-whoop, rushed to the fort in Franklin county, Massachusetts. Said Samuel was born in the fort before peace was declared with the Indians. Sarah E. Hawks married Dr. W. F. Stitt, June 6, 1844, and died September 27, 1898. She lived to see seven generation's of her family! There never has been a death among her descendants for fifty-three years! The names of Stewart and Addie Bradway's children are Ella M., born April 6, 1870; William F., December 15, 1871; Charles S., July 9, 1881 ; and Mary E., born January 17, 1885. Ella Bradway married James Massey. William F. married Lida Griscom. Joseph Bradway married Mary Smith, a daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth Smith, and has two children,-Emma and Ray- mond. Emma married Calvin Cain, who died leaving one child. Annie E., a daughter of William Bradway, died young and unmarried. Lydia M. married Clark Roorke. Ann Bradway, a daughter of Edward, married Will- iam Fennimore, and their children are Charles, Edward and Preston Fenni- more. Charles married Mary H. Clark and had one child, William Fenni- more. Elizabeth Bradway married James Bradway and went west. Mercy Bradway married Josiah Thompson. Elizabeth Bradway married Abraham Silvers and had three children,-Adna, Elizabeth and Mary Silvers. Jon- athan Bradway married Dorcas, a daughter of Andrew and Sarah Griscom, and their children were Hannah, George and Sarah Jane, who married Will- iam Elkinton and has one son. Mercy married Jacob Ridgway and had two children. Keziah died a young woman and unmarried. Waddington B. Ridgway married Anne Powell, a daughter of John and Rebecca Powell, and had one daughter, Lydia, and four sons,-John, Harry, William and Ed- ward. Waddington Bradway's third wife was Hannah Baner, a daughter of Elisha and Lydia Baner, of Cape May. Their children were Waddington, Jr., Hannah, Isaac, Lydia, Susan and Josiah Bradway. Waddington, Jr., married Rebecca Chatten, June 5, 1834, and had three children: James C. Bradway, born in 1836; Waddington Bradway, Jr., August 31, 1841; and Franklin, November 8, 1846. James married Mary Jane Fogg and had two children,-William F. and James C. Bradway. Waddington, Jr., married Lizzie B. Fowler in February, 1869, and had three children: Rebecca C., born December 11, 1869; Hannah B., born April 1, 1872, married Robert C. Appleby in 1893. Elizabeth, born February 12, 1876, married John D. Aspen in 1895. Franklin Bradway and Lida F. Jones were married Novem-
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ber 29, 1892. William H. Jones and Francis N. Waddington, parents of Lida Bradway, were married on November 8, 1859. Hannah Bradway married first Ebenezar Harmer; and secondly she married James Dare, of Cumber- land county, and by neither union had issue. Isaac Bradway married Rachel Ann Chatten, of Atlantic county, New Jersey. Their children were Mary Elma, Rachel, Isaac and Judson. Lydia and Susan remained single. Josiah Bradway's first wife and mother of his children was Elizabeth O. Ballinger. Their children were Mary Elma, Ella, Edward and Stratton. Sarah Bradway, a daughter of Jonathan and Susanna Oakford Bradway, and William Adams, Jr., of Penn's Neck, were married August 18, 1764. They had two children,- Susanna and John Adams. Susanna was the wife of the late Benjamin Gris- com, of Salem. Adna married, first, Sarah, a daughter of John and Esther Baker, who owned the property that Quinton Harris now owns. John, son of Adna and Sarah Bradway, was born August 13, 1802, and died October 5, 1802. Sarah Baker, the first wife of Adna Bradway, died November 30, 1803, aged twenty-four years eight days. Adna Bradway's second wife was Lydia Baner, born November 10, 1782, died December 6, 1866, aged eighty-four years. Adna Bradway died April 24, 1860, aged eighty-three years two months and eight days. Sarah, daughter of Adna and Lydia Brad- way, born November 29, 1809, died January 26, 1895. Elisha B. B., born eleventh month, Ist, 1811, died October 12, 1863. Adna, born eighth month, 3d, 1814, died seventh month, 4th, 1886, aged seventy-one years. Jacob. born eleventh month, 30th, 1816, died twelfth month, 9th, 1898, aged eighty- two. Edward, born sixth month, 19th, 1819, and married Amelia Baner, 12th mo., 26th, 1899. Lydia, born tenth month, 31st, 1821, died September 10, 1857, aged thirty-five years ten months and ten days. Jonathan was born third month, 14th, 1824. Elizabeth, born eleventh month. 21st, 1827, died first month, 24th, 1895. Adna, a son of Adna and Lydia Bradway, married Mary Grey, February 24, 1844, and their children were: Andrew Grey, born third month, 15, 1845; Frank Edgar, born May 25, 1848; Adna, born tenth month, 23, 18 -; Mary Grey, born sixth month, 3d, 1853; and Nathan Adna, born sixth month, 10th, 1856. Mary Gray, their mother, died August 8, 1897. Adna Bradway, the father, died seventh month. 4th, 1886. Edward Bradway died tenth month, 25th, 1813. Eliza- beth, his wife, died first month, 20th, 1796, aged fifty-six years. Susanna, his second wife, died first month, 2d, 1832. Jonathan Bradway, born third month, 14th, 1824, married Lydia Ann, a daughter of Edward and Prudence Keasbey Waddington, and has one daughter. Lydia P. Bradway, born August 20, 1864, married February 17, 1896, to Elmer Griscom, a son of Morris and Margaret Griscom.
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Adna Bradway's sons were quiet, industrious men, pursuing the even tenor of their way without show or pretense, and consequently amassed wealth.
Sarah Bradway Harris.
HARRIS FAMILY.
The Harris family is a numerous and influential one both in Cumberland and Salem counties. Two brothers, by the name of Samuel and Thomas, emigrated from Wales about the beginning of the eighteenth century, land- ing at Long Island, where their stay was of short duration. Hearing there was a large emigration from the states of New York and Connecticut, they concluded they would emigrate to South Jersey, and came to Cohansey pre- cinct, where they purchased land and settled. Many of their descendants are residents of Cumberland county at the present time.
Abraham Harris, a son of Samuel, purchased one hundred and fifty acres of land in Alloway's Creek township, being part of John Chandler's allot- ment. The said land was bounded on the west by Annie Salter's ten-thousand- acre tract of land. The point where Abraham Harris built and lived was on the place known at the present time as the Johnson-Harris farm. The land extended up to the road that leads from Quinton's Bridge to Wood's Upper Mill. Abraham Harris, after he had purchased the aforesaid land, built him- self a log house and married Esther Langly. They had six sons and one daughter, whose names were: Abraham, born 1746; Isaac, 1748; Jacob, 1751; John, 1753; Permanus, 1755; Nicholas, 1757; and Sophia Harris, about 1760. Abraham Harris, the father of the above children, died in 1777, aged about fifty-three: his widow survived him a few years. After the death of Abraham Harris, Sr .. the land was divided among his children.
Abraham, the eldest son of Abraham and Esther Harris, married Keren- happuch Blackwood in 1776. (The Blackwoods came from Scotland.) He built himself a dwelling-house near the Mill road on his share of his father's land and at that place he ended his days, after reaching the great age of ninety-three years and ten months. He was long a member of the Baptist church of Salem and a consistent Christian, having been baptized before he was twenty years of age, and was one of the deacons of said church for many years. He frequently walked to Salem meeting, a distance of seven miles, after he was over ninety years of age. He was an ardent Whig at the time of the Revolution and volunteered as a militiaman under Colonels Hand and Holme. Abraham and his wife Kerenhappuch Harris had four children,- Dalymore, Elizabeth, Samuel and Margaret Harris. Dalymore. the eldest
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son, married Letitia Acton, a daughter of Joseph Acton. The latter was a grandson of Benjamin Acton, the eminent surveyor of Salem. Dalymore and his wife Letitia Harris had seven children who lived to grow up, married and had families. Their names were Josiah, Ephraim, Mary Ann, Samuel, Dalymore, Elizabeth and Parmenus Harris. Josiah, the eldest, resided the most of his life after he arrived at manhood in Upper Penn's Neck. He mar- ried Sarah Johnson, of Penn's Grove, and had six children, whose names are Mary, James, William, Edward, Kate and Annie. Josiah, their father, has been deceased for a number of years. Ephraim, the second son of Dalymore and Letitia Harris was a blacksmith by trade. He married Catherine Bal- lenger. Her father resided near Quinton's Bridge. Some time after mar- riage he abandoned his trade and purchased a farm near the village and went to farming and continued in that calling until his death. They had one son, Josiah Harris, who resides where his parents lived. He married the daughter of William Robinson.
Mary Ann. the daughter of Dalymore and Letitia Harris, married William Morrison and had six children,-Letitia, George R., Anna, Susan, Charles and Mary Ann. Mary Ann, the mother, died when her children were minors: consequently the care and responsibility of their education and moral training devolved principally upon her daughter Letitia. Anna, the second daughter, died a few years after her mother. George R. Morrison married Sarah Jane, a daughter of William and Rebecca Plummer, and they have five children, -- Thomas, Harry, Anna, Mary and George Morrison, Jr. George R. Morrison, now deceased, was the surrogate of Salem county for many years. Mary Ann died of consumption. Letitia and Susan are also deceased. William Morrison, the father of the above-mentioned children, abandoned the mer- cantile business at Hancock's Bridge and purchased property in Elsinboro near Salem. He has been deceased for many years. Samuel, a son of Daly- more and Letitia Harris, was a house carpenter by trade. After he became of age he resided at Cape May Court House and married Mary Foster. They had three children,-all daughters. Samuel is deceased. Elizabeth, a daugh- ter of Dalymore and Letitia Harris, married George Clark, and they have two children,-William and Mary Clark. William married Emma Cobb and had one son, Charles. Mary married Charles Fennimore and has one son, William, who married Amanda Ayres and has two children,-daughter and SON.
Dalymore, a son of Dalymore and Letitia Harris, married Heneretta Bowen. They have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth Harris, a school teacher. Parmenus, a son of Dalymore Harris, Sr., married Rebecca Jaquette, and they had two children. Dalymore Harris was a weaver by trade and followed
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that business for more than forty years, in the village of Hancock's Bridge. He was likewise 'surveyor, having preceded Thomas Roberts. Being en- dowed with uncommon memory, he was an extensive reader, both of ancient and modern history, particularly English history and that of his own country. He survived his wife a number of years and died in 1863, in his eighty-seventh year, and was buried in the Baptist cemetery at Salem. He was for many years of his life a member of the Baptist society. He resided in the same house at Hancock's Bridge for sixty years and was postmaster forty years.
Elizabeth, a daughter of Abraham and Kerenhappuch Harris, married Ellis Simpkins and died in early life, leaving several children. Samuel, a son of Abraham, never married, and died aged eighty-two years. Margaret, a daughter of Abraham, never married, lived to old age, and after her mother's death took charge of her father's house.
Isaac, the second son of Abraham and Esther Harris, was born in 1748. and lived at the old mansion. He has been represented as an uncommonly industrious man. When young he became a member of the Baptist society. He married Mary Young, by whom he had nine sons, four of whom survived him. The names of those were James, Joseph, Mason and Johnson Harris. Isaac took an active part in the Revolution, belonging to the militia; was at the battle of Quinton's Bridge, when the Americans were pursued by the English soldiers, and to save his life he swam Alloway's creek. Although he was shot at several times he escaped free of wounds! He died the fifth of April, 1814, of typhus fever, which was then raging in this county to a fearful extent. His age was about sixty-five years. James, the son of Isaac, was twice married, and Isaac was by his first wife, and Rachel and Charlotte were by his second wife. Rachel married Malachiah Jarmin and had one daughter, Catherine Jarmin, who subsequently married Jonathan Richmond. Charlotte married Archer, a son of Caleb Stackhouse, and they had three children,- William, James and Mary. Caleb Stackhouse was a descendant of Thomas Stackhouse, the emigrant and provincial counselor of Penn.
Isaac, a son of James Harris, had three wives. His first wife was Sarah, a daughter of Elijah Fogg. She died young, leaving one daughter, who married James Robinson. Isaac's second wife was Martha Abbott, the widow of William Abbott. Her maiden name was Reeves, and she was of Cumber- land county. By that marriage there were three children,-Sarah, William and Martha Harris. Sarah, a daughter of Isaac and Martha Harris, married Job Stretch, Jr. She is deceased, leaving five children,-Rosanna, Harry, Anna, Elizabeth and Sarah Stretch. Her loss to her family was great, as she was an industrious and frugal wife, a kind and affectionate mother, and was generally respected by those who knew her. William, a son of Isaac
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and Martha Harris, resides on the homestead of his father. He married Annie, the daughter of Enos P. English. They have several children. Bertha married John Powell and has two children,-Elizabeth and Jeremiah. Martha, a daughter of Isaac, married Hiles, a son of Siles Baker, and they have children. Isaac's third wife is Sarah, a daughter of John Finley: no issue. James, the father of Isaac, died in the eighty-third year of his age. Joseph, the son of Isaac and Mary Y. Harris, was twice married. His first wife was Hannah Sheppard, by whom he had one daughter, Hannah Harris. She married Mark Stretch and had several children,-Ananias, John, George and William Stretch: there was one daughter. Mark and his wife are de- ceased. Joseph Harris's second wife was the widow of Elijah Fogg: they had one daughter, Kerenhappuch Harris. She subsequently married Rich- ard Moore, and they had one son, named David Moore. Joseph Harris died May 14, 1854, aged seventy-nine years. Mason, a son of Isaac and Mary Y. Harris, married Sarah King. They removed to the state of Ohio many years ago, and it has been said he died wealthy, leaving a large family of children. Johnson, the youngest son of Isaac and Mary Y. Harris, married and resided on the homestead of his father.
Jacob, the third son of Abraham Harris, was born in 1751, and was a weaver by trade and a Baptist by religious profession. He was twice married. He was at the battle of Quinton's Bridge, was severely wounded and was left on the field by the enemy for dead. After great suffering he recovered and lived to old age. He and his family went to the state of Ohio in 1807. His children's names were Elisha, Isaac, Sarah, Hannah, Sophia, Achsah and Rebecca Harris.
John, the fourth son of Abraham and Esther Langly Harris, was born October 10, 1753. His life was an eventful one. He was about twenty-two years old when the war of the Revolution commenced. He went first in 1776, in the militia of Flying Camp, as it was then called, for six months; was in the army under Washington, which assembled at New York for the defense of that city, and was also in the battle of Long Island, the 27th of August of that year. That fall or winter he was sick at Somerset, in this state, and came home when his six months were out. The next spring he enlisted in the regular army for seven years or during the war, as a bombadier in the Pennsylvania Artillery, Continental line: also drum major, and joined the main army under Washington and was in the battle of the Brandywine. at Germantown and at Valley Forge while the British army had comfortable quarters at Philadelphia. In the summer of 1778 he went with General Sulli- van on an expedition against the Indians up the Susquehanna. After that he was sent with a part of the army to Pittsburg, then called Fort Pitt, where
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he continued during the remainder of the war. Hugh Blackwood accom- panied him through the flying camp and regular army, and they returned home together.
Following is in substance his account of his experience in army life:
"At the battle of Germantown we planted our cannon at the gate before Chew's house,-by the stone gate-posts, which are there now. Just inside the gate lay six British grenadiers dead. We were ordered to fire grape-shot. After we fired awhile it seemed as if we were not making as much impression as we ought; and as the fog was so thick we could not see very much, one of our officers rode up to the house where the British were, and when he came back he said, 'Boys, use cannon ball: it is a stone house;' but the fog lifted pretty soon, and as there were but a few of us we had to retreat. If we had knownit wasa stone house when we first commenced we would have knocked it to pieces, likely. The old shot shows to this day. The shutters are patched, and one shot went through it to the kitchen.
"I was in a great many skirmishes around Philadelphia while the British had it in possession. As they would send out foraging parties around it the Americans would send out parties to capture them. It was late in the fall and ·we often had the Schuylkill river to wade. The officers would order us to hold up our ammunition to keep it dry. As I belonged to the artillery I generally rode over on my gun. One of those nights I thought my time was about to come. The English heard of our being after them and threw up intrenchments across a road in the wood; and as they had cannon it was expected, of course, that they would plant some to sweep the road; and as my gun came in the road as we marched up in order of battle expecting them to fire, I could see their camp fires blazing high. But the Americans kept marching up, marching up; but they did not open their bat- teries. At last an officer rode up and looked over the breast-works. When he came back he said, 'Damn them! They have given up the bag: have left every- thing there to deceive us,-even their supper cooking!' But the officer would not let us eat it, hungry as we were, for fear of poison.
"On the IIth of September, 1777, the battle of Brandywine was fought. I was in that, and wintered at Valley Forge, 1777-8, with Washington: was starved and frozen. A soldier's life was worse than a dog's. The saying is, 'A dog's life is hunger and ease;' a soldier's was hunger and hardships."
It is thought that Mr. Harris was also in the battle of Monmouth, the 28th day of June, 1778. Soldiers in both armies died from heat and want of water. They fared badly also for clothing, their shirts would be all gone except wristbands and collars. Horse beef, and it was often spoiled, they
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had for meals. Resuming the narrative of Mr. Harris, within quotation points, we proceed :
"In the fall of 1779 I was with General Sullivan up the Susquehanna to destroy the Indians' corn. As they were partly civilized and farmed a good bit, it was thought that they had an extra amount planted to feed Burgoyne's army, that was expected to come from Canada down that way; and also to retaliate for the massacre of Wyoming. But General Gates defeated Bur- goyne at Saratoga, New York. It was splendid corn, about forward enough for roasting or boiling, when we cut it up and set fire to their wigwams. It ruined them and they never recovered from the blow.
"A part of the army, I among them, was sent across the mountains to Fort Pitt, now Pittsburg. What route we went I cannot tell. There was not even a wagon road further than Gettysburg. We got our supplies from there by pack-mules, as we would start a train when the path was reported clear of Indians. They could run almost equal to a deer or lie flat as a rabbit and hide where there was almost nothing. I did not admire the Indians' character. They would lie and steal anything they could lay their hands on. We had a great many skirmishes with them, but not much we could call a battle. Their warfare was to get behind trees and shoot from cover. In one of our skirmishes I was not feeling very good and an Irishman said to me, 'Braize up, Harris: this day a golden chain or a wooden leg.' I told him I thought the prospect for a golden chain was not very bright, fighting Indians, when they could carry all they had on their backs and run with it.
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