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in St. Andrew's churchyard there. Leaving the Society of Friends, probably as the result of George Keiths's defection, he became one of the charter communicants of St. Andrew's, Mount Holly, and had all of his children bap- tized there May 30, 1746, by the Rev. Colin Campbell. He was a large land owner in New Hanover township, Burlington county, and in Upper Freehold township, Monmouth county. In 1726 he married Mary, daughter of William and Elizabeth Budd, the latter a daughter of Richard and Abigail Stockton, the emigrants, and granddaughter of William and Ann (Clapgut) Budd, the emigrants. Their children were: I. Patience. 2. Rebecca, mar- ried George Clapp. 3. William, who is re- ferred to below. 4. Vestai. 5. Joseph Jr. 6. Benjamin. 7. John, married Mary Allen. 8. Francis, married Martha, daughter of George and Sarah ( Branson) Owen Shinn, and grand- daughter of George and Elizabeth (Lippin- cott) Shinn. 9. Abigail, married Joseph Budd.
(VII) William, third child and eldest son of Joseph and Mary (Budd) Shinn, was born in New Hanover township or in Mount Holly, was baptized as an adult in St. Andrew's, Mount Holly, May 30, 1746, died in Burling- ton, May, 1767, and was buried in St. Mary's churchyard there. June 24, 1756, he obtained a marriage license to marry Sarah French, of Burlington, and their children were: I. Mary, born May 22, 1757. 2. Lydia, 1759, who be- came the third wife of Caleb Arney Lippin- cott. 3. Eli, 1761, died November 9, 1776, and buried in St. Andrew's churchyard, Mount Holly. 4. Aaron, who is referred to below. 5. Joseph, 1765, married, 1783, Mary Lippin- cott.
(VIII) Aaron, fourth child and second son of William and Sarah (French) Shinn, was born in Burlington, New Jersey. In his fa- ther's will, written May 27, 1767, he with his brothers and sisters are mentioned as minors. Nothing more is known about him except that he married and had at least one child Eli, who is referred to below.
(IX) Eli, son of Aaron Shinn, was born in Mount Holly, November 13, 1788, died there June 26, 1869, being buried in St. Andrew's churchyard. He married, April 27, 1791, Sarah Haines, by whom he had one son, Charles Corey, referred to below.
(X) Charles Corey, son of Eli and Sarah (Haines) Shinn, was born February 13, 1814, married Dorothy Southwick, who bore him five children : I. Garrett W. 2. Anna I., mar-
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ried a Mr. Butz. 3. Beulah, married a Mr. Budd. 4. Sarah, married a Mr. Gaskell. 5. Charles Henry, who is referred to below.
(XI) Charles Henry, youngest child of Charles Corey and Dorothy (Southwick) Shinn, was born in Burlington county, Sep- tember 18, 1843. He was at one time sheriff of Burlington county and prominent in poli- tics. He married, March 17, 1868, Anna Eliz- abeth, daughter of Carlton Ridgway and Mary Harde ( McClure) Moore. Her mother was the daughter of David and Janet Mc- Clure, of Philadelphia. Benjamin Moore, the founder of the family, came from Birming- ham, Lincolnshire, England, to Burlington, New Jersey, and married Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary ( Bernard) Stokes. His son, Benjamin, married, in 1730, Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Fennimore, and their fifth child and second son, Bethuel, born March 14, 1741, married Martha, daughter of John Allen. Their third child and second son Amasa, born March 15, 1770, married Agnes, daughter of Samuel French, and their eldest child, Sam- uel French, born October 7, 1793, married Rachel, daughter of Nehemiah Haines and Abigail, daughter of Noah Haines and Han- nah (Thorn) Turner, the widow of George Turner and the daughter of Thomas and Le- titia (Hinchman) Thorn, and granddaughter of Joseph and Mary (Bowne) Thorne. Nehemiah was the son of Jonathan Haines and Hannah, daughter of William and Mary (Austin) Sharp. Samuel French and Rachel (Haines) Moore had two children: Bloom- field Haines, who married Clara Jessup, and Carlton Ridgway. Carlton Ridgway Moore was born in Philadelphia, April 22, 1809, died September, 1905. He was a cotton merchant. a member of the Odd Fellows and a Friend. After the civil war he went to Northampton county, Virginia, where he died. By his wife, Mary Harde (McClure) Moore, he had : Mary B., who married George Wolfe; Jacob Ridgway, died unmarried; Carlton Ridgway Jr., married Elizabeth Van Ness ; Helen Clara, married John B. Irick, of Vincentown; Anna Elizabeth, referred to above. Mary Harde (McClure) Moore died March II, 1861. Charles Henry and Anna Elizabeth ( Moore) Shinn have one child, Samuel Woolston, who is referred to below.
(XII) Samuel Woolston, only child of Charles Henry and Anna Elizabeth ( Moore ) Shinn, was born on a farm near Mount Holly, October 14, 1870, died February 25, 1908. He was educated in private schools and in a busi-
ness college in Philadelphia. He then studied law with E. P. Budd, of Mount Holly, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in June, 1895, beginning at once to practise his pro- fession in Mount Holly, where he became one of the leading and most successful lawyers of the town. He was a director in the Mount Holly National Bank, a director of the Union National Bank of the same place and a director of the Mount Holly Safe Deposit and Trust Company. He was the secretary of the Burl- ington County Fair Association and was one of its original promoters, and the one most in- strumental in making it the most successful fair in the state. He served as deputy sheriff. He was a member of the Elks of Mount Holly and of the Modern Woodmen of America.
He married, February 15, 1904, Anna, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Austin) Powell, and their children are: I. Norman Ridgway, born February 22, 1906, died July 16, 1906. 2. Mary Elizabeth, August 18, 1907. Benjamin Powell was the son of Ben- jamin and Eliza Powell, of Pemberton. Mary (Austin) Powell was a daughter of Charles and Hannah (Lamb) Austin.
The Loder family has for gen- LODER erations been connected with the history of South Jersey, where it has won for itself an enviable name and rep- utation for integrity and ability. By its inter- marriages with the old New Jersey families it has also connected itself with pretty nearly everything that is worth while in the history and the civilization of the country.
(I) David Pettitt Loder, founder of the branch of the family at present under consid- eration, was for many years one of the most prominent contractors and builders of Bridge- ton, New Jersey. His children were: I. Ben- jamin Pettitt, married Elizabeth Nicholson. 2. William Pettitt, married Aner Daniel. 3. Ella M., unmarried. 4. Martha, died in infancy. 5. Charles Henry, referred to below. Martin and Lemuel, brothers of David P. Loder, served in the civil war among the New Jersey volunteers.
(II) Charles Henry, son of David Pettitt Loder, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, was born at that place, November 29, 1859. He was a bookkeeper. He married Laura Della, daugh- ter of Gilbert S. and Emily R. (Carman) Swing, of Cumberland county, New Jersey. Her grandfather served with distinction in the war of 1812. The children of Charles Henry and Laura Della (Swing) Loder wcre: I.
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LeRoy Ward, referred to below. 2. Emily Richer, born August 25, 1886. 3. Martha Ann, March 21, 1889. 4. May Vannaman, October 10, 1895. 5. Frances Stanley, May 28, 1904.
(III) LeRoy Ward, eldest child of Charles Henry and Laura Della (Swing) Loder, was born at Bridgeton, New Jersey, December 5, 1883, and is now located at 91 East Commerce street, in that city. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Bridge- ton, and after graduating from the Bridgeton high school he entered the West Jersey Acad- emy, from which he graduated in 1902. He then took up the study of law in the office of John S. Mitchell, Esquire, of Bridgeton, and was admitted by the supreme court to the New Jersey bar as an attorney, in November, 1905, and June 23, 1909, was admitted a counsellor. Since his admission as an attorney he has been engaged in the general practice of his profes- sion at Bridgeton, making a specialty of crim- inal cases. In politics Mr. Loder is a Demo- crat and is quite popular and prominent in the affairs of that party in his county. In 1906 he was the candidate of the Democratic party as the New Jersey assemblyman from Bridge- ton, and he is a member of the New Jersey state Democratic auxiliary committee. Mr. Loder is a member of the board of trustees at the West Jersey Academy, Bridgeton Athletic Association, New Jersey State Bar Associa- tion, and of the Cumberland County Bar As- sociation. In religion he is a member of the Presbyterian church of Bridgeton. He is an enthusiastic secret society man, and a member of the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America. Among his secret society affiliations should be mentioned the Cumberland Lodge, No. 35, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand, and secretary of Bridgeton Commercial League.
SLOAN Adam Reber Sloan, of Camden, New Jersey, is the son of James Clement and Lucy (Reber ) Sloan. The father was born near Tuckerton, New Jersey, and the mother was a daughter of Adam Reber, of Berks county, Pennsylva- nia. Their children were: I. Theodore Reber, an artist in oil-cloth design; married Miriam, daughter of John Hickman, and had four children : Daisy H., died a spinster ; Esther B., died in 1908; the Rev. Harold Paul, a Metho- dist Episcopal minister ; Eva T. H., married a Mr. Earl. 2. Adam Reber, referred to below.
Adam Reber Sloan was born in Camden,
New Jersey, May II, 1854, and is now living in Atco, New Jersey. For his early education he attended the public schools of Camden, and then became a newspaper man, a profession which he followed with great success for many years. He has filled every position in jour- nalism, from reporter to editor. For eighteen years he worked on the staff of the Newark Evening News, and then, for about twenty years, was the editor of the Camden Democrat. For a time also he was the editor of the Cam- den Telegram. He took up the study of law in the office of Judge Richard P. Miller, Es- quire, of Camden, New Jersey, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar, November 7, 1898. Since this time he has been engaged in the general practice of his profession in Cam- den, New Jersey. Mr. Sloan is a Republican and a member of the Presbyterian church of Atco, New Jersey, where he resides with his family. He is an ardent and enthusiastic Mason. He is a member of the Haddonfield, New Jersey, Lodge, No. 130, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of which he is a past master. He is also a past high priest of Salome Chap- ter, No. 19, Royal Arch Masons. In addition he is a member of Cyrene Commandery, No. 7, Knights Templar, of Camden; Van Hook Council, No. 8, Royal and Select Masters, of Camden Consistory of Camden, New Jersey, thirty-second degree Masons. Besides this he enjoys the distinction of being one of the com- paratively few members of the Supreme Coun- cil, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, of `the Scottish Rite Masons, which thus makes him a thirty-third degree Mason. He is also an Odd Fellow.
Adam Reber Sloan married (first) Novem- ber 7, 1889, Minnie L., daughter of John H. and Mary (Sutton) Wyle, of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Their children are: I. Dorothy Wyle, now a student at the New Jersey State Normal School. 2. Lucy Emily, now attend- ing the public school in Atco, Camden county, New Jersey. Minnie L. (Wyle) Sloan died September 2, 1893, and Mr. Sloan married (second) December 18, 1900, Elizabeth M. Kase. On her wedding day she was commis- sioned by the governor of New Jersey as a commissioner of deeds and a notary public.
Benjamin Githens, of Philadel- GITHENS phia, is one of the most suc- cessful merchants and finan- ciers of that city, and his family has been identified with New Jersey for many genera- tions. It is unfortunate, however, that there
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are but few records except those of intermar- riages with prominent and influential branches of the old historic families of the colonies on the Delaware, and the absence of birth and death records and of wills and deeds make the task of tracing the genealogy of any given line an extremely difficult one.
(I) Clayton Githens, father of Benjamin Githens, was born in the southern part of New Jersey, where he married Sarah Wear Mun- roe, whose father came to this country from Scotland. He lived at Juliustown, Burlington county, where their children were born.
(II) Benjamin, son of Clayton and Sarah W. (Munroe) Githens, was born in Julius- town, and there received his early edu- cation and the training which enabled him to become in later life, after he had come to Philadelphia, the successful business man which he now is, in Burlington county. For many years he has been the senior partner in the firm of wholesale grocers and importers, Githens, Rexsamer & Company, of Front street, Philadelphia, and the great prosperity of this firm is in a great measure due to his industry, integrity and efforts. Mr. Githens is also intimately identified with very many of Philadelphia's other mercantile and financial in- stitutions. He is a director and vice-president of the Philadelphia Warehouse and Cold Stor- age Company, and for twenty-five years has been a director in the Corn Exchange National Bank, of Philadelphia, and since 1900 has been president of that institution, which is one of the strongest of the financial organizations in the city, having a surplus and net profits of $1,374,673.74, and deposits amounting to $20,002,027.89. In addition to all of these re- sponsibilities, Mr. Githens takes a great in- terest in everything that pertains to the ar- tistic, social and historical prestige of Phila- delphia and New Jersey. He is a member of the Philadelphia Art Club, City Club of Phila- delphia, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, American Academy of Political and Social Science of Philadelphia, and of the New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Githens married Mary, daughter of William Prettyman, of Philadelphia, and their children are: I. Augustus Decan, born in Philadelphia, 1861, a member of the grocery and importing house of Githens, Rexsamer & Company ; married Mary McDermot, of New Jersey. 2. Mary D., born in Philadelphia, married Alan Calvert, of Philadelphia, who is in the tin plate and metal business. They have two children, Benjamin Githens Calvert and
Jean Githens Calvert. Mr. Githens and fam- ily are members of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia. He is now one of the trustees and a deacon.
GREY According to the opinions of anti- quarians who have studied the origin of surnames in Great Britain the names Grey and Gray are patronymics said to have been derived from a color; and it is to be presumed that whatever is true in this respect of the English family of Grey is also true of the branch of the general family which lived in Ireland.
(I) Philip Grey, who appears to have been the immigrant ancestor of the family under consideration in this place, lived in Ireland and came thence to America in 1800. He married and had a family.
(II) Philip James, son of Philip Grey, the immigrant, lived in Camden, New Jersey, but we have no account of his family life, except that he married and had a family.
(III) Martin Philip, son of Philip James Grey, was born in Camden, New Jersey, De- cember 7, 1841. He married Jane Dunham, who was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in February, 1844, daughter of James Dunham, of Clinton, Hunterdon county.
(IV) Norman, son of Martin Philip and Jane (Dunham) Grey, was born at Salem, New Jersey, April 3, 1868. He received his earlier literary education in public schools in Salem, the Reading Military School, where he was a student during the years 1882-83, and at Mr. Turner's school at Maplewood ( Pittsfield), Massachusetts, where he prepared for college. He then entered Princeton College and was graduated A. B. in 1889. He was educated for the law in the law department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar in New Jersey, as attorney, in 1892 and as counsellor in 1895. Since he came to the bar Mr. Grey has engaged in practice in Cam- den, devoting his attention chiefly to cases in- volving questions of corporation law and also to practice in the equity courts. In April, 1906, he was elected president of the West Jersey Trust Company of Camden, one of the strongest financial institutions of that city, and still serves in that capacity. He is a Repub- lican in politics, a communicant of the Epis- copal church, member of the Union League Club of Philadelphia and of the Princeton Club.
Mr. Grey married Louise Booth Sinnickson, daughter of Andrew Sinnickson, of Salem.
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New Jersey, and has had four children: I. Louise Sinnickson, born Woodbury, New Jer- sey, January 12, 1896. 2. Martin Philip Jr., born Woodbury, April 17, 1897, died February 19, 1902. 3. Lucy Brady, born August 20, 1900. 4. Norma, born October 8, 1903.
EVANS The Evans family trace their line of descent from Wales back to Mervyn Vrych, King of the Isle of Man, who was killed in battle with the King of Mercia, A. D. 843. Some branches of the family spell their name with an "e" instead of an "a," which has arisen from a clerical error of early days, as the name originated from the five sons of Ievan, known as Evan Robert Lewis, who in 1601 was living in Wales, Eng- land, the sons according to the Welsh custom taking for themselves the surname of ap Evan. These sons were John ap Evan, Cadwalader ap Evan, Griffith ap Evan, Owen ap Evan and Evan ap Evan. It is from one of these five men that the founder of the Evans family of New Jersey sprang.
(I) Unfortunately the christian name of the founder of the family has been lost, and while it is probable it is not absolutely certain that he emigrated to this country. The first mention in the records is the will of his widow, Jane, dated February 16, 1696, in which she styles herself as of Evesham, Burlington county. This will was proved November 2, 1697, by her son and executor William Evans, who is referred to below. The will also mentions a son Thomas
who is dead and his wife Sarah, and in the left a son Isaac, who is referred to below. will of this Thomas, dated May 2, 1692, and proved September 23, 1693, there is mention of a daughter Agnes, sister to Thomas and William.
(II) William Evens, the son of and Jane Evans (such are the spellings of the sur- names in the wills) died between February 21, 1728, and March 24, 1728, the dates of the writing and proving of his will. In this docu- ment he describes himself as a yeoman of Eve- sham, Burlington county, and mentions his wife Elizabeth, his children, Thomas, Jane and John, the last of whom is under age. His wife Elizabeth was a minister among Friends, his daughter Jane married William Hudson, and his son Thomas is referred to below.
(III) Thomas, son of William and Eliza- beth Evens, married (first) in 1715, Esther, daughter of John and Esther ( Borton) Haines, who died in 1728, and bore him six children : I. William, born September 6, 1716, married Sarah Roberts. 2. Elizabeth, January 8. 1718,
married Joseph Lippincott. 3. Isaac, referred to below. 4. Esther, December 6, 1722, mar- ried Samuel Atkinson. 5. Jacob, January 14, 1725, married (first) Rachel Eldridge, and (second) Mary Cherrington. 6. Nathan, 1727, married Susanna Gaskill. Thomas Evans married (second) June 4, 1730, Re- becca, daughter of Joshua Owen and Martha, daughter of John and Jane Shinn. Their children were: 1. Joshua, born September 23. 1731, married Priscilla Collins. 2. Caleb, Au- gust 26, 1733, died young. 3. Caleb, February 2, 1737, married Abigail Hunt. 4. Jemima, June 1, 1738, married and had had issue. 5. Martha, November 16, 1742, married Thomas Dudley.
(IV) Isaac, third child and second son of Thomas and Esther ( Haines) Evans, was born in Evesham township, Burlington county, Jan- uary 21, 1720, died there about June, 1782. At this point there are conflicting traditions and an unfortunate lack of extant records, but the weight of evidence seems to be in favor of the hypothesis that this Isaac, who is known as Isaac, senior, married either Hannah Rob- erts or Bathsheba Stokes, and had at least Samuel, Job and Rebecca and if his wife was Bathsheba, also Ann. This is the conjecture therefore followed here, and Job is referred to below.
(V) Job, the conjectured son of Isaac and Bathsheba (Stokes) or Hannah (Roberts) Evans, is said to have been born, lived and died near Medford, New Jersey, and to have Another theory, which has some plausibility, should however be mentioned here, namely, that this Job instead of being the son of Isaac, as given here, was his brother, the youngest son of Thomas and Rebecca (Owen) Evans.
(VI) Isaac (2), son of Job Evans, was born in Medford, New Jersey, about 1788. He lived in Medford and was a blacksmith and carriage builder, he died between 1825 and 1830. By his wife Margaret (McNinney) Evans he had six children : James M., referred to below, William K., Nehemiah C., Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, who died young.
(VII) James M., son of Isaac (2) and Margaret (McNinney) Evans was born in Medford, Burlington county, in 1821, died in Moorestown, New Jersey, 1897. He received a common school education, and carried on the carriage business left by his father who died when he was yet but a small boy. He lived in Medford most of his life and for eight or ten years engaged in farming near Mount
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Laurel. After this he went into the carriage business in Moorestown and continued in this until a few years previous to his death, when he retired from active business. Mr. Evans was a Democrat and held various town offices in Medford. He was a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church, and in early life an offi- cial in the church. He was also a member of the American Mechanics. James M. Evans mar- ried (first) Susan, daughter of John and Mary Taylor, of Philadelphia, whose Uncle David was at one time treasurer of the Pennsylvania rail- road. Their children were : I. George, deceased, 2. Alfred, deceased. 3. Isaac, deceased. 4. Charles, a landscape gardener in Moorestown, who married Mary - -- and has Isaac and Susan. James M. Evans married ( second) Elizabeth Taylor, the sister of his first wife, and their children were: I. John Taylor, re- ferred to below. 2. James B. 3. David. 4. Walter. The last three are now dead.
(VIII) John Taylor, eldest child and only surviving son of James M. and Elizabeth (Taylor) Evans, was born in Medford, Burl- ington county, September 20, 1852, and is now living at Moorestown. For his education he went to the public schools of Moorestown, and then learned the trade of blacksmith at which he worked until he was twenty-two years old, when he went into the employ of the Penn- sylvania railroad as ticket agent at Hartford station in 1874. Here he remained for eight years, and in 1882 went into the grocery busi- ness in Moorestown, which he followed for six and a half years, and then in 1890 went into the real estate and insurance business in Moorestown, and has continued in that ever since. Mr. Evans is a Republican, and for a number of years was a member of the board of commissioners of appeals for the township. For eighteen years he has been a member of the Moorestown board of education and for nine of them has been the clerk of the board. For fifteen years he has been a justice of the peace. He is also a commissioner of deeds, having been appointed as such by the govern- ors of both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He has also been appointed by the governor of New Jersey notary public. For forty years he has been a member of the Methodist church at Moorestown. He is a local preacher and for twenty-four years has been superintendent of the Sunday school of the Methodist Epis- copal Church of Moorestown, and he has also a mission school of which he has been super- intendent for eight years. He is also a trustee and steward of the Methodist church and has
been treasurer of the society for twenty years. Mr. Evans is a member of Pocohontas Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in Moorestown, No. 107, and also a member of the American Mechanics Lodge, No 115, of Moorestown.
In 1873 John Taylor Evans married Edith H., daughter of Benjamin and Sibilla ( Mar- ter) Wallace, of Palmyra, New Jersey. Their children are: I. Laura Virginia, married D. Walker Boneau, of Moorestown, a stock broker in Philadelphia. 2. George Branin, an attorney with offices in Camden and Moores- town and a residence in the latter place, who graduated from the Moorestown high school and Swarthmore College, then took a business course in Philadelphia, and then took a po- sition with the American Bridge Company which he held for four years as assistant to the treasurer of one of the departments, study- ing law at nights at Temple University, from which he graduated in 1905 with the highest honors, and was then admitted to the bar and is now one of the instructors and professors at Temple University. He married Geraldine Albray, of Newark, New Jersey. 3. Eliza- beth K., a music teacher who lives at home with her father. All three children were born in Moorestown.
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