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He married, June 8, 1886, Susan Hulme Grundy, born October 25, 1848, daughter of Edward N. and Emma (Shoemaker) Grundy, of Philadelphia.
(The Eves Line).
This is an early New Jersey family which came with the early Quakers and settled upon
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the Delaware river. Its descendants are still numerous in Burlington county in the vicinity of the first settlement and are settled through other regions.
(I) Thomas Eves came from London to Burlington, New Jersey, among the first ar- rivals of that Quaker settlement upon the Delaware. That he came for religious free- dom cannot be doubted, but that he was a native of London is certain, although people of that name were living there at the time. It is probable that for a few years he lived in the town of Burlington where he had taken up a town lot as part of his one thirty-second of a proprietary share of (one one-hundredth part) West Jersey. On September 29, 1680, he located by survey a tract of thirty acres and January 12, 1682, a tract of one hun- dred acres, the former at Assiscumct, now called Mill Creek, and the latter at Rancocas Creek in what is now Willingboro township of Burlington county. He removed to this before February 6, 1683, and there in the year 1708 his wife and two sons, Daniel and Ben- jamin, died and were buried in the Friends' burial ground at Rancocas. The winter of this year was very severe, the frost at times penetrating to the depth of four feet, and it is quite probable that these three deaths oc- curred from some contagious disease, pos- sibly small pox, to which disease many of the whites and Indians fell victims. Thomas Eves took other lands in Burlington county which completed his one-thirty-second of a proprietary share, some of which lay in what was always called Evesham township, being named after his family. After the marriage and settlement of all his sons he removed to this township and there died in the fall of 1728. Children : I. Thomas, died April, 1757. 2. John, died March, 1740. 3. Daniel, born in Willingboro, 1681, died 1708. 4. Samuel, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin, born 1686, died 1708. 6. Ann, born 1689; married, November 10, 1709, James Lippincott. 7. Dorothy, married Jacob Hewlings.
(II) Samuel, fourth son of Thomas and Anna Eves, was born July 20, 1684, in Will- ington township, died in Evesham, February, 1759. He was a farmer and resided in Eve- sham, being a member of the meeting of Friends of that name. He married (first) December 2, 1713, Jane Wills, born 1692, died 1716, daughter of John and Hope (Delefast) Wills. He married (second) in November, 1721, Mary Shinn, born 1694, daughter of George and Mary (Thompson) Shinn, who
survived him. Children of second marriage: I. Anne, married her cousin, Jonathan Lippin- cott, son of James and Ann (Eves) Lippin- cott. 2. John, died 1772. 3. Joseph, married Rebecca Haines. 4. Mary, married, May 12, 1752, John Campion, of Evesham (see Cam- pion, I).
THORNE-THORN
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, was es- tablished August 23,
1630, and was looked upon as the permanent seaport of Massachusetts Bay. This fact at- tracted the attention of English capitalists and men of family desiring to leave England either for political or religious betterment ; so, as no bounds had been set, the land-seekers, not in- terested in the merchant marine, settled both north and south of Salem harbor and the town of Saugus was established July 5, 1631, and in 1635, the bounds between Saugus and Salem were defined. On November 20, 1637, Sau- gus took the name of Lynn and among the adventurous spirits of this time among its set- tlers was William Thorne (q. v.). The name has the usual number of spellings and the dif- ferent branches of the same family could not agree as to using or dropping the final e and the same is true to this day. The immigrant and the next three generations spelled the name T-h-o-r-n-e, and those who went to West Jersey dropped the final e, making it T-h-o-r-n and we shall observe this distinction in the following sketch of William Thorne and his descendants.
(I) William Thorne came probably from Essex, England, and was made a freeman of Lynn, Massachusetts, May 2, 1638, and the same year had "thirty and ten" acres of land apportioned him in that town. We next find him in Flushing, Long Island, in 1645, as one of the eighteen original patentees of the town, the patent having been granted by Governor- General Keift, October 19, 1645. The list of grantees were: Thomas Applegate, Thomas Field Beddord, Laurina Dutch, Robert Thomas Farrington, Robert Firman, Edward Hart, John Hicks, John Lawrence, William Lawrence, John Marston, Michael Millord, William Pidgeon, Thomas Saul, Henry Sau- telle, Thomas Stiles, John Townsend and Will- iam Thorne, and according to Onderdonk the date was October 10, 1645. In 1646 William Thorne was granted a plantation lot in the town of Gravesend, Long Island, of which lot, Lady Deborah Moody, her son, Sir Henry Moody, Ensign George Baxter and Sergeant
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Hubbard had received a general patent Decem- ber 16, 1645. In 1647 William Thorne was one of the proprietors of the town of Jamaica, Long Island, which had been conveyed to the white settlers in 1646. He probably resided in Jamaica for a long time, as his daughter Sus- annah Thorne "of Jamaica" married John Lockerson (or Ockerson), of Flushing. Will- iam Thorne Senior and William Thorne Junior (probably at the time a boy in years, as he only made his mark) were among the thirty-one signers of a remonstrance to Gov- ernor-General Stuyvesant against severe treat- ment of the Quakers. This remonstrance was drawn up in a Meeting of the Society of Friends, under the large oak tree where George Fox preached in 1671, in Flushing, De- cember 27, 1657. The four sons of William Thorne and his wife, whose name is not on record, were probably named in the order of their birth: William, John (q. v.), Joseph, Samuel, and their only daughter was Susan- nah, who married at Jamaica, July 10, 1667, John Lockerson (or Ockerson). It is gener- ally believed that both William Thorne and his wife were buried in the burial grounds of the Friends' Meeting House at Flushing, Long Island, built in 1695 and still standing in ex- cellent condition as originally erected, the re- pairs being made in conformity with the ma- terial used in building. On the separation of the Hicksites in 1827, the Meeting House passed into the hands of the Hicksites Friends.
(II) John, second son of William Thorne, the immigrant, was made a "freeman of Con- necticut if he will have it" May 12, 1664, at which date he had probably just arrived at legal age, which if true would make the year of his birth 1643. He was, therefore, prob- ably born in Lynn, Massachusetts. On Au- gust 12, 1667, he with his brother Joseph and twelve others, men subject to bear arms "rep- resent themselves to governor-general Keift and give their names, men of Flushing ready to serve His Majesty under his honorable com- mand on all occasions." He died in Flushing, Long Island, in 1709. His will was made July 23, 1709, and recorded the same year, in which he leaves "housing, lands and mead- ows, goods and chattels" to his wife and chil- dren, which he mentions by name, restricting his wife's share in case she should be married again. We find among the early transfers of land in Flushing a record of a deed recorded July 21, 1696, which reads: "John Thorne of Flushing, in ye North Riding of Yorkshire"
to Anthony Floyd of ye aforesaid place, of fifty acres, more or less.
John Thorne married Mary, daughter of Nicholas and Sarah Parsell or Pearsall or Purcell. The children of John and Mary Thorne, named in the order of their birth, were : I. William, who was sole executor of his father's will. He subsequently removed to Nottingham township, Burlington county, West Jersey, where he had a farm, and when his building burned in 1725 the Chesterfield Friends Meeting raised money to help him re- build. He was married at Shrewsbury Meet- ing, eleventh month, second day, 1708, by Friends' ceremony, to Meribah Alling, daugh- ter of Jediah and Elizabeth Allen, and Susan- nah and Joseph Thorne were among the wit- nesses. According to the Friends record they had eight children. He died near Crosswicks, New Jersey, in 1742. 2. John (q. v.). 3. Joseph, of Flushing, who married Martha Jo- hanna, daughter of John Bowne, and had seven children all born in Flushing, where he died in July, 1753, and his widow, July 6, 1750. 4. Mary, who married William Fowler and had a daughter Mary and both mother and daughter were baptized in Grace Protestant Episcopal Church in Jamaica in 17II. 5. Elizabeth, who married a Schurman. 6. Han- nah, who married in 1701 Richard, son of John and Mary (Russell) Cornwell, and had ten children between 1703 and 1723. 7. Sarah, who married Joshua, son of John and Mary (Russell) Cornwell, and had four chil- dren between 1696 and 1701.
(III) John (2), son of John ( I) and Mary ( Parsell) Thorne, was born in Flushing, Long Island, where he married Catherine ", also of Flushing, both names appearing as man and wife in 1698 and we find them in Chesterfield, Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1700, where he bought one hundred and eighty-one acres of land, August 26, 1717. which he sold Anthony Woodward Junior, for one hundred pounds, August 7, 1725, and on August 26, 1717, purchased a plantation fur- ther down the creek below where the village of Crosswicks stands. He was constable in 1710 and held the office up to 1749. He was also town collector. He was a carpenter and a farmer, and his will dated February 16, 1735, was proved June 14, 1737, in which he names his children. He made his mark in- stead of signing the will himself, but this was probably owing to his infirmity, as he no doubt received a good education for the time and at
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least could read and write. His widow, Cath- erine, also made a will, dated November 19, 1766, and proved November 29, 1766, and she also made her mark but as the will was written but ten days before her death, that easily ac- counted for it on account of her physical weak- ness. Her will also mentions the children, omitting those who had died between 1735 and 1766.
The twelve children of John and Catherine Thorne were all, except possibly the first, born in Burlington county, New Jersey, and are named in the will in the following order: I. John, who died intestate at Bordentown, New Jersey, May 8, 1759. 2. Mary. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Deborah, who married a Simmons and died before the time of her father's death and left one child. 5. Joseph (q. v.). 6. Samuel, who married in October, 1730, Hannah Clay, and died in April, 1777, at Crosswicks, New Jer- sey, leaving six children. 7. Benjamin, who married in April, 1740, Sarah Bunting, and died in 1789, leaving no children. 8. Cather- ine, who married in March, 1728, Francis King. 9. Sarah, who married David Wright in March, 1743. 10. Thomas, who died in- testate at Bordentown in 1765. II. Rebecca, who married a Simmons. 12. Hannah, who was married in January, 1737-38, to Caleb (2), son of Joshua and grandson of Caleb Shreve. Of this large family, only two of the sons, Joseph and Samuel, left descendants to per- petuate the name of Thorne.
(IV) Joseph, second son and fifth child of John (2) and Catherine Thorne, was born in Crosswicks, New Jersey, and married in Ches- terfield Meeting, after both parties to the mar- riage had twice declared their intention in open meeting to marry each other, the cere- mony being performed and the marriage cer- tificate duly signed by the witnesses present at public meeting held in March, 1723, the other contracting party being Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary Foulke, natives of England, who settled in Burlington county, New Jer- sey. The children of Joseph and Sarah ( Foulke ) Thorn were : I. Elizabeth, born fifth month, third day, 1724, married, tenth month, 1748, Abraham Tilton, son of Samuel Tilton, of Middletown, New Jersey, and they had three children. Hannah, Sarah and Lucy. 2. Joseph (2), born fourth month, nineteenth day, 1727. 3. John (2), third month, fourth day, 1730, died eighth month, twenty-second day, 1807 ; married, fourth month, 1750, Dia- damia, daughter of Isaac and Lydia (Brown) Joins. 4. Michael, tenth month, second day,
1731; died unmarried. 5. Thomas (q. v.). 6. Mary, married, in 1767, Cornelius Hendrick- son of Monmouth county, New Jersey.
(V) Thomas, second son and third child of Joseph and Sarah (Foulke) Thorn, was born at Crosswicks, New Jersey, July 21, 1733. He married, in 1759, Susanna, daughter of Will- iam and Jane Biles, of Bucks county, in ac- cordance with the ceremony of the Society of Friends at Falls Meeting in Bucks county. They settled near Crosswicks, New Jersey. Thomas died at Crosswicks, February 25, 1801, and many of his descendants are still residents of the same vicinity. The children of Thomas and Susanna ( Biles) Thorn were born on the Thorne homestead near Cross- wicks, Burlington county, New Jersey, as fol- lows: I. Benjamin, January 5, 1763. 2. Ann, July 4, 1764. 3. William Biles (q. v.). 4. George Biles, August 29, 1767. 5. Lang- thorn, March 8, 1769. 6. Sarah, October 9, 1772. 7. Enoch, January 6, 1775. 8. Thomas, February 17, 1782.
(VI) William Biles, second son and third child of Thomas and Susanna ( Biles) Thorn, was born at Crosswicks, New Jersey, March, 26, 1766. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh and Ann Hutchins, who was born De- cember 29, 1769, died April 15, 1832. The children of William Biles and Elizabeth (Hutchins) Thorn were born on the home- stead farm near Crosswicks, as follows: I. Ann, December 6, 1791. 2. Sarah B., October 12, 1792, married Robinson Tindale and was the mother of General George Hector Tindale. 3. Thomas B. (q. v.). 4. William B., Decem- ber 23, 1706.
(VII) Thomas B., eldest son and third child of William Biles and Elizabeth (Hutch- ins ) Thorn, was born on the homestead farm at Hardwick, New Jersey, August 15, 1794. He was a school teacher and was an excellent penman. He married Sarah - and they had their home at Chews Landing, where four children were born as follows: 1. John, who went west and settled there. 2. Mary, married Frank Peabody, of Elgin, Illinois, and made her home in that place. 3. Elizabeth, married Mr. Alling, of Naugatuck, Connecticut. 4. William H., (q. v.).
(VIII) William H., third son and youngest child of Thomas B. and Sarah Thorn, was educated in the district school of his native place and there learned the rudiments of knowledge, including what was familiarly known as the three R's., Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmatic, but he continued to study at home.
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while an apprentice to a shoemaker at Had- donfield, Camden county, which useful trade he became master of. He became, through careful reading of well-selected books, a learned man for one in his position in life. He went from the shoeshop in Haddonfield to one in Medford in Burlington county, where he worked for the grandfather of Governor Stokes, who was a noted boot and shoe-maker. He subsequently began the manufacture of shoes on his own account and he continued the business for ten years, when he retired and spent his time in the care of his accumulated estate and investments. He was a strong Abolitionist in the days when considerable odium was attached to men having such views, and on the advent of the Republican party he naturally became associated with the new party. His fraternal affiliation was with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Medford Lodge, No. 100, and he was the first member initiated in that lodge. He was by birthright a member of the Society of Friends of the Hicksite branch. He married Margaret W., daughter of Barzilla Prickitt, born in 1827, in Medford, died at her home in Medford, New Jersey, in 1908. These children were: I. Thomas B., named for his grandfather, learned the trade of his father and engaged in the shoe manufacturing business. On retir- ing he lived with his father in Medford. He married Anne Nutt and had four children : William Garfield, Alice, Mary and Charles. 2. Henry Prickitt (q. v.).
(IX) Henry Prickitt, second son of Will- iam H. and Margaret W. ( Prickitt) Thorn, was born in Medford, Burlington county, New Jersey, January 27, 1853. He was educated at Friends' School in Medford and M. H. Allen's private school in the same town, and he worked as a clerk in his father's shoe manu- factory during vacations. He was graduated at the College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1875, and the same year pur- chased the drug business then being carried on by Mr. Stokes, uncle of Governor Stokes, and he greatly enlarged the business and be- came one of the leading pharmacists in Burl- ington county. He also engaged in the busi- ness of raising cranberries on a bog of fifteen acres from 1888, which under his methods of cultivation has proved to be very profitable. He is a director in the Burlington County Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Moores- town, New Jersey, and president of the Burl- ington County National Bank of Medford, New Jersey, since 1898. He is also a director
in the Gas and Water Company of Medford; secretary of the Burlington County Associa- tion for Insurance, and has served as presi- dent of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation. Mr. Thorn is active in local, state and national political affairs; he served as a delegate to the Republican National convention at Minneapolis in June, 1892, when William McKinley was nominated for president of the United States, and was chairman of the Re- publican county committee of Burlington county. He is a member of the Burlington County Historical Society of Moorestown. He departed from the religious faith which he inherited as a birthright, as it did not seem to meet the demands of the present day religious work as carried on in institutional churches. In doing so, he did not regret the inheritance he had been heir to, or the religious training he had received, as both added to his effective- ness as a worker and trustee in the Methodist church and a member of the county committee in the Young Men's Christian Association, and no man better appreciated the value of the in- fluence of the Society of Friends on the early political and religious history of our country as witnessed in West Jersey, Pennsylvania, Long Island and Rhode Island. He affiliated with various fraternal and benevolent asso- ciations, his Masonic fellowship beginning in Mt. Holly Lodge, No. 14, F. and A. M. and extended to Siloam Royal Arch Chapter, No. 19, Camden, New Jersey; Cyrene Comman- dery, Knights Templar, No. 7, of Camden ; and Lu Lu Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Phila- delphia. He was also initiated in the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows through Lodge No. 100, of Medford, New Jersey, and in the Order of Knights of Pythias through Medford Lodge, No. 108. He is a member of Red Cross Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle, founded in 1873, and which distributed annu- ally upwards of two hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars in benefits, and of the Medford Lodge, No. 42, Ancient Order of United Workmen, founded in 1868, and which had distributed up to 1903 in benefits one hundred an 1 twenty million dollars since its organiza- tion. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, founded in 1868, and which had dis- tributed in benefits up to 1903 one million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, has a lodge No. 848, in Mt. Holly, New Jersey, of which Mr. Thorn is a member.
Mr. Thorn married, June 22, 1880, Clara T., daughter of George and Caroline Wilson Branin, of Medford, New Jersey, and their
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children were born in that place, as follows: I. Henry Norman, July 18, 1881, attended Mt. Holly Military School, was graduated at Haverford College in 1904; in the employ of the firm of Harris, Jones and Cadbury Company, plumbers supplies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2. Helen B., October 12, 1887, graduated at St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, New Jersey, in 1906.
FOSTER The first that is known of the name of Foster was about the year 1065, A. D., when Sir Richard Forrester went from Normandy over to England, accompanied by his brother-in- law, William the Conqueror, and participated in the victorious battle of Hastings. The name was first Forrester, then Forester, then Foster. It signified one who had care of wild lands; one who loved the forest, a char- acteristic trait which had marked the bearers of the name through all the centuries that have followed. The Fosters seem to have located in the northern counties of England, and in the early centuries of English history partici- pated in many a sturdy encounter with their Scottish foes. The name is mentioned in "Marmion" and the "Lay of the Last Min- strel." From one of these families in the seventeenth century appears the name of Reg- inald Foster. Tiring of the tyrannic rule of Charles I, he came to America and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in about the year 1638. He was a prominent figure in the early days, as the colonial records show. During its existence the Foster family has been a hardy, persevering and progressive race, almost uni- versally endowed with an intense nervous energy ; there have been many instances of high attainments; a bearer of the name has been, ex-officio, vice-president of the Repub- lic (Hon. Lafayette G. Foster, president pro- tem, of the senate during Andrew Johnson's administration) ; another, Hon. John W. Fos- ter, of Indiana, was premier of President Har- rison's cabinet ; another, Hon. Charles Foster, of Ohio, was the secretary of the treasury. Many have attained high positions in financial life, and many have gained prominence in mili- tary affairs. The record of Major-General John G. Foster through the Mexican War and the war of the Rebellion stamped him as a soldier without fear and without reproach. Professor Bell is the reputed and accredited inventor of the telephone, but before that dis- tinguished man had ever conceived the plan of electric transmission of the human voice.
Joseph Foster, of Keene, New Hampshire, a mechanical genius, had constructed and put into actual use a telephone embodying prac- tically the same working plan as the Bell ma- chine. Query: Could it be possible that Jo- seph Foster's telephone afforded the suggestion to Professor Bell? The Foster family has an authentic record covering a period of nearly one thousand years. It has furnished to the world its share of the fruits of toil; it has contributed its share of enterprise and progress. Wherever it appears in the affairs of men it bears its crest ; the iron arm holding the golden javelin poised towards the future.
(I) Reginald Foster came from England at the time so many emigrated to Massachusetts, in 1638, and with his family was on board one of the vessels embargoed by King Charles I. He settled at Ipswich, in the county of Essex, with his wife, five sons and two daughters ; where he lived to extreme old age, with as much peace and happiness as was compatible with his circumstances in the settlement of a new country. The names of his five sons who came with him from England were: Abraham, Reginald, William, Isaac and Jacob. One of the daughters who came with him from Eng- land married (first) a Wood, and after his death she married a Peabody. His other daughter married a Story, ancestor of Dr. Story, formerly of Boston, and of the late Judge Story. It is remarkable of this family that they all lived to extreme old age, all mar- ried, and all had large families from whom are descended a very numerous progeny set- tled in various parts of the United States.
(II) Abraham, eldest son and third child of Reginald Foster, of Boxford, Essex, Dev- onshire, England, by the first of his three wives. who became the mother of seven chil- dren, who came with them to Ipswich, Massa- chusetts Bay Colony, in 1638, was born in Ex- eter, England, 1622. His two sisters were his senior. Mary was born about 1618 and when a widow married Francis Peabody, the immigrant ancestor of the Peabodys of New England. who came from St. Albans, Hert- fordshire, England, in the ship "Planter" in 1635 and settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and she became by this marriage the mother of fourteen children. She died April 9, 1705. Sarah, born in 1620, married, about 1640, William Storey, of Ipswich, and by this mar- riage had seven children and she died subse- quent to 1668. His brothers in the order of their birth were: I. Isaac, born in 1630, mar- ried (first) Mary Jackson, 1658, (second)
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Hannah Downing, 1668, and (third) Martha Hale, 1679. He had fourteen children, eleven by his first wife and three by his second. He died after he was sixty-two years of age. 2. William, born 1633, married, 1661, Mary Jack- son ; lived in Boxford; had nine children ; died May 17, 1713. 3. Deacon Jacob, born 1635, married (first) 1658, Martha Kinsman, and (second) 1667, Abigail Lord ; lived in Ipswich, where fourteen children were born, five by his first wife and nine by his second. He died July 7, 1710. 4. Reginald, born 1636, married Elizabeth Dane, lived in Chebacco, Ipswich, and had by this marriage twelve children. Abraham married Lydia, daughter of Caleb and Martha Burbank, of Rowley, Massachu- setts He was a farmer and he joined the church at Ipswich in full communion, April 12, 1674. He was sixty-seven years of age, September 26, 1698, when he made deposition relative to land of Rev. John Norton. There was no will or administration of his estate, which he distributed among his family by deed December 21, 1698. (See Essex deeds, liber 13, page 206.) The ten children of Abraham and Lydia (Burbank) Foster were born in Ipswich as follows: 1. Ephraim, October 9, 1657, married (first) Hannah Eames and (sec- ond) Mary West. 2. Abraham (q. v.). 3. James, January 12, 1662 ; he is not mentioned in his father's distribution of the estate, so it may be presumed that he died before 1698. 4. A child born December 27, 1668, died un- named, twin of Isaac 5., who died unmarried February 13, 1717. 6. Benjamin, 1670, married Ann - 7. Ebenezer, July 15, 1672, mar- ried Mary Berman. 8. Mehitable, October 12, 1675, married Ebenezer Averill, December 31. 1700. 9. Caleb, November 9, 1677, married Mary Sherwin. IO. Ruth, who married, April 16, 1702, Jeremiah Perley, of Boxford. Abraham Foster, the father of these children, died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, January 25. III.
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