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ATKINSON The various Quaker Atkin- sons of West Jersey have sprung from two emigrants, both of them men of prominence and im- portance in their day and in the foundation laying of the prosperous colonies with which they became identified.
(I) John Atkinson, founder of the line at present under consideration, was a Yorkshire- man who lived for many years at Newby, but about 1659 removed to Thruscross in the same county. He was among the earliest of the converts to the tenets of George Fox in York- shire, and he had at least two sons, both of whom came to Pennsylvania: I. John, died May 2, 1688, without issue. 2. Thomas, re- ferred to below.
(II) Thomas, son of John Atkinson, of Thruscross, was born in Newby, Yorkshire, before 1660, died in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1687. He
was a noted man in the colony, a minister among Friends, one of the largest land owners in Bucks county, and for many years a mem- ber of the assembly and a justice of the Bucks county court. His parents took him with them from Newby to Thruscross, and by 1678 he had removed again to Sandwich, in the parish of Addingham, county York, where he found his wife, but no more is heard of him until 1681 when he removed to West Jersey with a certificate from the Beamsley Meeting. In 1682 he removed to Bristol township, Bucks county, and became a member of the Nesh- aminy Meeting, subsequently joining the Meeting at Falls. June 1, 1685, he was a member of the first grand jury of the col- ony. After his death the Philadelphia Meet- ing published a long "Testimonial" of him by his wife, an action so rarely done by the Quakers as to stamp him at once as a most exceptionally prominent character.
June 4, 1678, Thomas Atkinson married Jane Bond, who survived him, and October II, 1688, married (second) William Biles, of Falls township, Bucks county, to whom she bore no children. The children of Thomas and Jane (Bond) Atkinson were: I. Isaac, born March 2, 1679, at Sandwich, in the west riding of Yorkshire, England, died in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; was a cord- wainer, yeoman and landholder ; married, June 23, 1708, Sarah, daughter of Richard and Margery (Clows) Hough. 2. William, born 1681, probably in Burlington county, West Jersey, died in Bristol, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1749; was an active politician and held a number of important offices, coroner of Bucks county for nine terms between 1721 and 1740, was a member of the county committee for twelve years and was collector of excise, be- sides serving two terms as common councillor of Bristol; married (first) at Falls Meeting, Mary, daughter of Richard and Margery (Clows) Hough, and (second) at Bristol Meeting, Margaret, daughter of Henry and Mary Baker. 3. Samuel, referred to below.
(III) Samuel, youngest son of Thomas and Jane (Bond) Atkinson, was born in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1685, died in Chester township, Burlington county, or in Newton township, Gloucester county, West Jersey, February 21, 1775. He removed from Bucks county to West Jersey in 1714, taking a certificate from Falls to Ches- terfield Meeting. November 5, 1719, he car- ried a certificate from Chesterfield to Newton Meeting where he probably spent the remain-
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der of his active life and may have died although it has been said that his last years were spent in the home of his son Samuel in Chester township. He was a contractor.
September 12, 1714, he was married in the home of his bride's father, under the care of the Chesterfield Meeting, to Ruth (Stacy) Beakes, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy and the widow of William Beakes, both of Nottingham township, Burl- ington county, West Jersey. The children of Samuel and Ruth (Stacy) ( Beakes) Atkinson were: I. Thomas, married Susanna, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Earl) Shinn, grand- daughter of Thomas Shinn and Mary, daugh- ter of Richard and Abigail Stockton, the emi- grants, and great-granddaughter of John and Jane Shinn, the emigrants. 2. Samuel, re- ferred to below. 3. Rebecca, married (first) Thomas, son of Thomas and Deborah ( Lang- staff) Budd, and grandson of William and Ann (Clapgut) Budd, and (second) Thomas Say, M. D. 4. Ruth, married as the second wife of Joshua, son of Joseph and Hannah (Hubberstie) Bispham, and grandson of John and Mary ( Bastwell) Bispham, of Bicker- staffe, West Derby, Lancashire.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Ruth (Stacy) (Beakes) Atkinson, was born probably in Chester township, Burlington county, West Jersey, died there in October, 1781. He was a yeoman and a comparatively wealthy and well-to-do man. His will was written May 3, 1780, and proved by affirma- tion, October 29, 1781, his executors being his son, Stacy Atkinson, and his sons-in-law, Moses Kempton and Joshua Newbold, and his friend, Jacob Hollingshead. By his wife, Ann (Coate) Atkinson, he had eight children : I. William. 2. Elizabeth, married Moses Kempton. 3. Stacy. 4. Rebecca, married Joshua Newbold. 5. Samuel, referred to below. 6. Sarah. 7. Mahlon. 8. Beulah.
(V) Samuel (3), third son of Samuel (2) and Ann (Coate) Atkinson, was born in Chester township, Burlington county, New Jersey, died in Springfield township in the same county, in 1804. He married Elizabeth His will, written January 4, 1802, was affirmed at Mount Holly, March 9, 1804. Children of Samuel and Elizabeth Atkinson were: I. John. 2. Isaiah, referred to below. 3. Caleb. 4. Josiah. 5. Samuel. 6. Esther or Hester, married Joseph Rogers. 7. Keziah, married Benjamin Atkinson. 8. Mary, mar- ried John Atkinson. 9. Hope, married Clem- ent Rockhill. 10. Elizabeth. 11. Ann.
(VI) Isaiah, second son of Samuel (3) and Elizabeth Atkinson, was born in Springfield township, Burlington county, and died there in 1845. In his will, written February 17, and affirmed at Mount Holly, October 25, 1845, he names his wife, Sarah (Eldridge ) Atkinson, and the following six children : Will- iam E., George Washington, referred to below, Elizabeth, James E., Evans, Isaiah Jr.
(VII) George Washington, second son of Isaiah and Sarah (Eldridge) Atkinson, was born in 1804, in Springfield township, Burling- ton county, and died in the same place intes- tate, in 1866. By his wife, Anna, the daughter of Miles King, of Jacksonville, Springfield township, he had six children: 1. Miles King, died aged sixty-four years. 2. A baby who died in infancy. 3. Edith R., married Sam- uel Rogers but has no children. 4. Budd, mar- ried Mary Garwood and has two children : Margaret Garwood and Anna. 5. Isaiah E., married Ellen Rogers and has two children: Wallace L. and Howard. 6. John, referred to below.
(VIII) John (2), youngest child of George Washington and Anna (King) Atkinson, was born on the farm in Springfield township, Burlington county, and is now living in Phila- delphia and in Llanech, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of Springfield township and the well known Charles Aaron school at Mount Holly, a Pres- byterian denominational school. After leav- ing school he learned the trade of bricklaying and then went into business for himself in 1872 in partnership with George W. Royd- house. After a number of years successful operation the firm was dissolved and Mr. At- kinson continued in the business alone, under the name of John Atkinson, building mason, Builders' Exchange, South Seventh street, Philadelphia. Mr. Atkinson is a member of the Masons and Builders Association of Phil- adelphia, the Bricklayers Company of Phila- delphia, which he served as president, the Builders' Exchange of Philadelphia, also a charter member of the West Jersey Society of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of Lodge No. 223, Odd Fellows, and belongs to the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of the Hick- site Quakers at Fifteenth and Race streets. Mr. Atkinson is a Democrat.
October 5, 1881, John Atkinson married Anna, daughter of Watson Welding, of Brook- lyn, Long Island, and has borne him five chil- dren, all born at Philadelphia : 1. John Will- iam, July 22, 1882. 2. Roger, May 12, 1884.
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3. Edith, March 11, 1889, married Robert R. Blank, of Philadelphia, has one child, Robert R. Blank, Jr. 4. Dorothy, November II, 1893. 5. Richard, February 5, 1897.
PAYNE There are at least two and pos- sibly three or more Payne fami- lies in New Jersey who are ap- parently in no way related to each other or the families of the same name in New Eng- land. They are certainly not so related unless such connection can be traced out on the other side of the Atlantic. The family at present under consideration comes from the old Eng- lish seafaring stock, and while it cannot boast of as many generations in this country as can some of the other families of the same name, it has nevertheless made its permanent im- press upon the community in which it has lived and won for itself a well deserved honored reputation and esteem.
(I) The founder of the family was Macey Payne, a sea captain, who came over to Amer- ica from England about the end of the eight- eenth century, bringing with him his wife and children, settling in the southern part of the state of New Jersey, where he still followed his calling and brought up his sons to succeed him. By his wife, Deborah, he had five chil- dren: I. Levi, who became quite a noted Jer- sey mariner and sea captain. 2. Sarah, mar- ried George Woolford. 3. Samuel, married a Miss Shaw. 4. Macey Jr., who was drowned ; unmarried. 5. Charles Garrison, referred to below.
(II) Charles Garrison, the youngest son of Captain Macey and Deborah Payne, was born near Millville, Cumberland county, New Jer- sey, February 18, 1820, died in Millville, 1891. He was left an orphan when about seven years of age, and grew up under the care of his brother, Captain Levi Payne, whom he accompanied on many of his voyages, and thus spent most of his life until he reached man- hood on the sea. Tiring of this kind of a life, he set himself to work to learn the glass- blowing trade, in which he spent the next forty years of his life, establishing his home in the town of Millville. His wife was Thank- ful, daughter of William, and granddaughter of Dr. Lawrence Van Hook. She was born at what was then called "Schooner's Landing" about four miles from Millville, and was of old colonial German descent. She died in April, 1893. Her father was for many years a farmer, but later on he entered the employ of Whital, Tatum & Company and worked
in their Millville factory. Two of his broth- ers, Benjamin and Lawrence Jr., who followed their father in becoming physicians, were prominent in the early part of the nineteenth century and were particularly active during the war of 1812. Children of Charles Garri- son and Thankful (Van Hook) Payne are : Deborah; George Washington, referred to below; Katharine, married Henry Vote, of Philadelphia; Charles Howard, resides in Philadelphia ; James; Sarah, deceased wife of L. C. Leake; Fannie, married Frank Board- man, of Millville; Mary, married Jeremialı Corson, of Millville; Jesse; Jenny, married Ralph Kilvington, of Wilmington, Delaware ; Nora, married Michael Durkin, of Millville ; Rena, married George Howard Doughty, of Millville; Harvey.
(III) George Washington, the second child and first son of Charles Garrison and Thank- ful (Van Hook) Payne, was born in Mill- ville, Cumberland county, New Jersey, Sep- tember 7, 1843, and is now living in that town. For his early education he attended the public schools until he was about eleven years of age. When he was thirteen he became an apprentice in one of the glass-blowing factories in Mill- ville, and served as such for the following four years. The civil war then breaking out and the glass-blowing industry in the town being suspended, young Payne took the opportunity to go to school again, which he did for one year, having previously studied for six months under the tuition of Dr. Parker, and later on under that of the Rev. Mr. Northrup, working during the day and studying at night, and in this way gaining considerable practical edu- cation. Having once learned the glass-blow- ing trade he kept following it at intervals all his life, although most of his time has been given to his political career. This began in 1874, when he was elected on the Republican ticket by the people of the second district of Cumberland county to the state legislature. In 1875 and again in 1876 he was re-elected to the same office, and during his second term was the chairman of the committee on cor- porations. In 1876 he was one of the in- spectors of customs at Philadelphia. In 1877 he was most active in the passing of a bill en- titled "An act for the better securing of wages to workmen and laborers in the state of New Jersey," and for this bill he worked hard for two years, finally getting it passed in the year above named. This law made it illegal for employees to be paid in punch orders, due bills, and the like which were redeemable only at
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the company stores, and was the first general act of the kind ever passed in New Jersey. It has since been amended for the better pro- tection of the workingman, and it has been an especial boon to the glass-blowers in estab- lishing a cash basis for their labor. As a re- sult of these labors, Mr. Payne incurred the enmity of many of the manufacturers in the state, was blacklisted and for some time found it impossible to obtain employment. When his third term as representative was completed, Mr. Payne was made the assessor of the sec- ond ward of Millville, which office he held for eight years, and in 1889 was elected to the common council of the town. This latter po- sition he resigned in order to become the superintendent of the glass works of Rankins and Lamar at Atlanta, Georgia, where he re- mained for one year, returning in 1891 to Millville, and being again elected on the com- mon council where he served for three years longer. In 1895 he was chosen as the mayor of the town, and in 1908 was elected high sheriff of Cumberland county for the term of three years. Mr. Payne was the first national secretary of the National Flint-Glass Workers Union, which embraces membership in both the United States and Canada. This office he held for three years, while for twelve years he was one of the representatives of the national body. As a token of appreciation for his services the union presented him with a hand- some gold watch, and the employees of the works at Atlanta, Georgia, gave him a gold chain to go with it. Mr. Payne is a member of the Order of the Golden Eagles, and is a past chief of the Select Councils. He is a member of Shekinah Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, Richmond Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, a past commander of the Mys- tic Chain, and an honorary member of the Order of American Mechanics. He is a mem- ber of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Millville.
December 9, 1865, George Washington Payne married Mary Ann, daughter of Cap- tain John Stonehill, born in England, of Mill- ville, New Jersey. She was born in Cape May county, June 22, 1846. Their children are: 1. John C., unmarried. In 1876 he met with an accident on the railroad and lost his right arm and left leg. 2. Reginald W., mar- ried Ella Hartman and has one child, Bea- trice. 3. William S., married Sarah Cham- pion and has one child, Esther. 4. Georgi- anna, married Henry Reid but has no chil- dren. 5. Lavina, married Samuel Curlott and ii-12
has two children : William George and George William. 6. Nelly, unmarried. 7. Harold H., unmarried, in the office with his father, serving as deputy sheriff. 8. Anna, married Robert Caterson, of Philadelphia, in Decem- ber, 1908.
The name of Shoemaker
SHOEMAKER belongs to that numerous class of surnames which
are derived from the trades and professions, and as is the case with the families bearing similar cognomens, there are in all countries many persons bearing the same name yet in no way related to each other, so also in the present instance, there are quite a number of families of Shoemaker, whose common origin is either not traceable or is lost in the obscur- ity of the past of long ago.
(I) Henry Shoemaker, founder of the fam- ily at present under consideration, was born in Holland, somewhere about the year 1740 or 1745, and emigrated to this country about the time of the revolution, when he settled in Deerfield township, Cumberland county, New Jersey, where he seems to have become a man of considerable prominence and influence, and left, when he died, a son George.
(II) George, son of Henry Shoemaker, was born about 1775 or 1780, in Deerfield town- ship, Cumberland county, New Jersey. After reaching his majority he removed into Salem county, where he remained for some time, finally settling in Ohio, where he died. Among his children was Hiram.
(III) Hiram, son of George Shoemaker, was born in Salem county, New Jersey, about 1815. When his father removed to Ohio, he accompanied him and remained a short time, when he returned to New Jersey and mar- ried Sarah Ann, daughter of Clement Rem- ington Waters, of Sharpstown, Salem county, born 1821, who bore him eighteen children: I. Amanda L., married John N. Miller, of Salem county. 2. Harriet Emma, died at the age of sixteen years. 3. Gervuda. 4. George Henry, died in infancy. 5. Margaret B., mar- ried (first) Owen S. Proud, of Salem City; (second) William H. Harrison, of Moore, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. 6. Sarah J., married J. Frank Foster, of Salem City. 7. William Hitchner, married Anna, daughter of Jacob Mitchell, of Salem City. 8. Clement Waters, mentioned below. 9. Missouri H. IO. Louisiana C., (twins) who were named for the states. Missouri H. married Thomas H. Bowen, formerly of Salem City, now of
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Bridgeton, New Jersey. Louisiana C. mar- ried Jacob Harris, who lives near Riverton, Burlington county. II. Hiram J., married Eva, daughter of Joseph Burt, of Bridgeton. 12. Rachel Waters, married Elijah J. Snitcher, M. D., of Salem City. 13. Charles H., mar- ried Rebecca Lowe, of Camden, New Jersey. 14. Mary Emma, died at the age of six years. 15. George Henry, died in infancy. 16. Laura, married John Davidson, of Salem, New Jer- sey. 17. Robert Elmer, president of the Cum- berland Glass Manufacturing Company of Bridgeton, New Jersey; married Mary Hew- lings. 18. Joanna H., married Hon. George O. Whitney, of the island of Bermuda, who was at one time a member of the parliament of Great Britain.
(IV) Clement Waters, son of Hiram and Sarah Ann (Waters) Shoemaker, was born on a farm in Elsinboro township, Salem county, New Jersey, April 23, 1848, and is now living at Bridgeton, Cumberland county. During his early years he had but little edu- cational advantages. For a time he attended the public schools in Elsinboro, then attending for a few terms the Friends' School at Salem City. When he was about seventeen years old he entered the store of H. B. Shoemaker, who was a distant relative, where he dealt in gen- eral merchandise and gained his first knowl- edge of business. While here he also attended some of the classes of the West Jersey Acad- emy at Bridgeton. When reaching his ma- jority he found he had saved a sufficient sum to enable him to enter Pennington Seminary, New Jersey, where he remained for six months preparing himself for future useful- ness. He had, however, left his money in other hands to be kept until he should require it, and the man failing, he lost his savings and was obliged to leave the seminary and take up work on a farm in order to make a new start in life. His former employer, H. B. Shoe- maker, offered him a one-third interest in the business. He obtained his employer's con- sent to the cancelling of his agreement, and after his release, borrowing the necessary cap- ital, he entered into partnership with Mr. Shoemaker. This partnership continued for six years and when it was dissolved he found himself with a capital of one thousand dol- lars to his credit. For the next year he worked in the employ of E. M. Ware, at a salary of twelve dollars a week, and then de- cided to go into business for himself. He bought the establishment of his former part- ner, H. B. Shoemaker, and introducing the
cash system of trading into his business and into the city of Bridgeton, he at once began to meet with success. He continued this busi- ness for two years, when he entered into part- nership with Joseph A. Clark, Isaac L. Clark and Samuel M. Bassett, establishing a new plant for glass making, in addition to his mer- cantile enterprise. He later sold out his in- terest in the grocery store to his nephew, J. Warren Miller, and gave his attention exclu- sively to the manufacture of glass. This busi- ness had become a co-partnership business in 1880, and in 1885 it was made into a corpora- tion with his brother Robert Elmer as presi- dent, and himself as treasurer. During the first year of its existence it was located on the wharf near Cox & Sons, Bridgeton, but the factory having burned down, the firm bought a large tract of land on Laurel street, above Laurel Hill, from Charles E. Grosscup and Rachel Whitaker, and built there a large plant for the manufacture of rough plate glass for floors and skylights, and also for the making of bottle and window glass. Some time after- wards the manufacture of the rough glass was discontinued and the Cumberland Glass Com- pany, as the corporation was now known, began the manufacture of fruit and battery jars. The company is now as it has always been doing a flourishing and successful busi- ness. It employs about one thousand men when running to its full capacity, and its pay- roll amounts to upwards of $600,000 a year. Later he organized the Bridgeton Iron Works, of which he is one of the owners, which is engaged in making foundry castings for light and heavy machinery. It employs about thirty-five men and boys. Mr. Shoemaker is recognized as one of the most public-spirited and philanthropic men in Bridgeton. He has established free beds in the Methodist Epis- copal Hospital, of Philadelphia, for his em- ployees, and one for the graduate nurses of the same institution. He has also established a permanent fund, the interest of which is used for prizes in penmanship, for the best English composition and the best record for spelling in the Bridgeton public schools, for contest in oratory between the Bridgeton, Mill- ville and Vineland high schools. He is an ex- president of the Law and Order Society of Bridgeton, which is and has been doing so much to purify the city from the gambling dens and other evils which exist. He is a di- rector in many financial institutions among which should be mentioned the Cumberland National Bank, the Cumberland Trust Com-
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pany of Bridgeton, the H. K. Mulford Com- pany of Philadelphia, the Vineland Grape Juice Company of Vineland, New Jersey, and the Bridgeton City Hospital. He is also a trustee of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Bridgeton, of the Pennington Sem- inary, of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia, and of the New Jersey Children's Home Society of Trenton. He served as president of the Sunday School Teachers' As- sociation of Cumberland county, is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. At one time he was a member of the school board. He served for over thirty years as superintend- ent of the primary department in the Sunday school of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Bridgeton, was also one of the class leaders for several years, and an ex-president of the Young Men's Christian Association. He has also been a member of the state ex- ecutive committee of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association. At one time he was a trus- tee of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylva- nia, and has been a representative of the New Jersey conference to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Clement Waters Shoemaker married, May 28, 1879, Rebecca Ellen, daughter of Joseph A. Clark, of Bridgeton. Their children are : I. Joseph C., graduate of Princeton Univer- sity, class of 1904; manager of the Boston office of the Cumberland Glass Manufacturing Company ; married Nina, daughter of Ernest L. Mulford, of Cedarville, Cumberland county. 2. Isaac Loper, graduate of Princeton Univer- sity, class of 1906; assistant superintendent of the Cumberland Glass Manufacturing Com- pany; married Ruth Anna, daughter of Elam Eisenhower, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has one child, Ruth Anna. 3. Mary Erety, a graduate of Dana Hall, Wellesley, Massachusetts, class of 1909.
STOKES According to Burke's Landed Gentry, the Stokes family is of Norman origin and is a branch of the ancient and illustrious house of Monte- spedon, now believed to be extinct in Nor- mandy. From the old documents and records, its ancestors must have come over into Eng- land shortly after the Conquest, and received honors and possessions. The records, how- ever, are scanty until the reign of Edward II, when the records of the Tower of London tell us that Sir Adam de Stokke was seized of the manor of Stokke, Rustaball and Wilts. Thomas, his eldest son, held the manor of
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