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(V) Obadiah, son of Joseph and Mary (Borton) Engle, was born in Evesham town- ship, Burlington county, the 16th day of 3d month, 1763, died the 12th day of 9th month, 1843. He married Patience Coles, born 19th day of 12th month, 1771, and died 24th day of 4th month, 1844. They had ten children : I. Ann, born 17 4mo. 1795, died 21 8mo. 1797. 2. Job, born 13 12mo. 1796, died 9 10mo. 1862. 3. Arthur, see post. 4. Aaron, born 6 4mo. 1801, died 31 3mo. 1864. 5. Elizabeth, born 5 2mo. 1803, died 13 6mo. 1890; mar- ried Abel Moore, of Lumberton. 6. Mary, born 12 4mo. 1805, died 27 6mo. 1893. 7. Rachel, born 24 6mo. 1807, died 25 12mo. 1888. 8. Samuel, born II Imo. 1810, died 27 4mo. 1858. 9. Sarah Ann, born 25 5mo. 1812, died 24 4mo. 1879. 10. Nathan, born I Iomo. 1817, died at Washington in 1875.
(VI) Arthur, son of Obadiah and Pa- tience (Coles) Engle was born in Eve- sham township, March 9, 1799, and died there September 29, 1876. He married Elizabeth Engle, born April 25, 1802, died October 24, 1863, daughter of Robert and Mary ( Woolman) Engle. Their children were : I. Ezra, married Sarah Prickitt. 2. Emeline, married Josiah Prickitt. 3. Ann, born 1834, died 1899; married Thomas Prickitt, born 1816, died 1870 (see Prickitt). 4. Mary, mar-
1136380 5. Robert, married Jane Darnell.
(For preceding generations see Zachariah Prickitt 1).
(V) Lemuel J. Prickitt, son
PRICKITT of Josiah and Hannah (Ann) (Sharp) Prickitt, was born in Medford, New Jersey, June 16, 1826, and was a birthright Friend. He received his edu- cation in a Friends' school and was known as a man of upright character and good under- standing. In business life he was a farmer and lived on his farm until the time of his death, about 1875. In political preference he was a Republican. He married Elizabeth Haines, born in Salem county, New Jersey, and died in 1897. Children : Cooper Hancock, see post, Eva married Charles P. Darling, of Detroit, Michigan.
(VI) Cooper Hancock, son of Lemuel J. and Elizabeth ( Haines) Prickitt, was born in Medford, New Jersey, January 23, 1863, and received his education in public schools, the Friends' School at Easton, New Jersey, and at Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Philadelphia, graduating from the latter insti- tution in 1883. After leaving school he began his business career in a clerical capacity for the firm of William Mann & Company, manu- facturers of and wholesale dealers in blank books and stationery, and he is still connected with that firm, although for a number of years his duties have been those of assistant treas- urer of the company. Mr. Prickitt is not only a successful business man in connection with personal concerns and the management of the company of which he is assistant treasurer, but also is something of a public man in that for many years he has been prominently identified with several of the leading institutions of Burlington. For the past eleven years he has been a member of the board of education of the city and for nine years has been president of the board, serving in that capacity in 1909. In this connection it may be said that he was largely instrumental in securing the erection of the Lawrence school building in the city. He is a Republican in politics, a communicant in the Episcopal church, and secretary of the Church Club of the Diocese of New Jersey. He also stands high in Masonic and other fra- ternal organizations, and is past master of Burlington Lodge, No. 32, F. and A. M. ; past high priest of Boudinot Chapter, No. 3. R. A. M. ; past eminent commander of Helena Com- mandery, K. T., of Burlington, and has fol- lowed up in the craft to the thirty-second de-
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gree, holding membership in Scottish Rite bodies, and also in Lu Lu Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Philadelphia. He has also served as district deputy grand master of the M. W. Grand Lodge, F. and A. M., of New Jersey. He has also served as member of the New Jersey Masonic Home committee having charge of the Ma- sonic Home at Burlington. Mr. Prickitt also is an Elk and a member of Oneida Boat Club.
He married, November 21, 1888, Sarah Howells, daughter of Dr. Jacob and Hannah (Toy) Phillips, and granddaughter of An- thony Phillips, of Vincentown, blacksmith, who married Clarissa Edmunds and had seven children: John, Theodore, Anthony, Eliza, Deborah, Clarissa and Jacob Phillips. Dr. Phillips was born in Vincentown, educated there, and for a time worked with his father as a blacksmith. Later on he studied for and became a practical dentist and settled for prac- tice in Burlington, where for many years he was a prominent figure in professional and business circles. He was an Odd Fellow, a Republican in politics and attended services at the Methodist Episcopal church. He married (first) Emeline Clark, and by her had two children : Thomas and Jacob Phillips ; married (second) Hannah Toy, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Toy, of Mt. Holly, and had four children : William, died young ; Harry, a ma- chinist of Burlington ; Sarah Howells, married Cooper Hancock Prickitt; Elizabeth, married William Hall, of Bristol, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, who died in 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Prickitt have one child, Joseph Mann Prickitt.
SHREVE The rise of the people called Quakers is among the most memorable events in the history of intellectual freedom. They proclaimed in- tellectual freedom to be an invaluable birth- right, due to man and not to be circumscribed by theological form or governmental policy. The Quaker doctrine was philosophy as here- tofore taught only in the cloister, the college and the saloon, given freely to all seekers, even to the most despised people. "The Inner Light" was to be the rule and guide of life and that light was the voice of God in the soul, able to join the whole human race in unity of equal rights. The triumvirate of Quakerism, as far as it belongs to civil history, was intellectual freedom, the supremacy of the mind, universal enfranchisement.
In England the Quaker was persecuted by the Established Church as well as by the Puri-
tan ; by the peers and by the king as well as by the commoner, and even in New England and in the Dutch Colonies of the New Nether- lands, they were exposed to perpetual trials and dangers. In England they were whipped, kept in jails with felons and in dungeons out of reach of mankind or of God's sunshine; they were fined, exiled and sold into bondage. When their meeting houses were burned or torn down, they gathered on the ashes and de- bris and continued worship. Armed men were unable to dissolve them and when threat- ened with being smothered by earth, they stood close together "willing to have been buried alive witnessing for the Lord." On the re- turn of George Fox in 1674 from the pilgrim- age through the English colonies in America from Carolina to Rhode Island, Lord Berkley sold for a thousand pounds the moiety of New Jersey to John Fenwick in trust for Edward Bellinge and his assigns, to be a place of refuge and haven of rest for the despised Quakers.
In 1675 Fenwick with a large company in- cluding several families set sail in the "Griffin" for this "Asylum of Friends." The voyage was made across the Atlantic to the Chesa- peake bay and up the Delaware river and land- ing was affected in a fertile spot and they called it Salem, for it seemed to them the dwelling place of peace. Desiring to preserve sufficient territory when they could institute a government, they effected an exchange with Carteret, who owned the other moiety of New Jersey, in August, 1676, by which they had contiguous lands on which they could be free from outside encroachment. The message sent them from the Quaker proprietors in England was as follows: "We lay a founda- tion for after ages to understand their liberty as christians and as men, that they may not be brought into bondage by their own consent ; for we put the power in the people."
In March, 1677, the charter or fundamental laws of West New Jersey were perfected and published and in that year Burlington was laid out and rude huts were built, being copied in construction from the Indian wigwams. Im- mediately after other English families flocked to West New Jersey, carrying with them the good wishes of Charles II, and commissioners holding temporary power accompanied them to administer affairs until a popular governi- ment could be instituted. The land was pur- chased from the Indians claiming ownership and the body of Quaker immigrants, aggre- gating four hundred souls, began to build
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homes and plant their farms. A huge sailcloth tent was their first meeting house and in 1678 they were formally welcomed by Indian sa- chems gathered in council in the forest ad- jacent to the settlement and their message to the new settlers was: "You are our brothers and we will live like brothers with you. We will have a broad path for you and us to walk in. If an Englishman falls asleep in this path, the Indian shall pass him by and say: 'He is an Englishman; he is asleep let him alone.' The path shall be plain. There shall not be a stump in it to hurt the feet." Thus the light of peace dawned on West New Jersey. In May, 1682, Burlington was made the cap- ital of the province, and in 1684 the assembly divided the province into four counties : Bergen, Essex, Middlesex and Monmouth. Amid these surroundings the Shreve family is first found. Its religion and political creed was that of the Quakers.
(I) Thomas "Sheriff," as the name first ap- pears, is found in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in an action of trespass, December 7, 1641, and on December 10, 1666, he was a granter in a conveyance at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where an inventory of his estate is filed, June II, 1675. He was probably born before 1620, and his wife Martha not later than 1635. His death occurred in Portsmouth, province of Rhode Island, May 29, 1675, and his widow married (second) Thomas Hazard and (third) Lewis Hues, who was found to have absconded with much of his wife's property and this caused her to transfer her remaining property to her son John by her first husband, Thomas Sheriff. Savage says that John Shreve, of Portsmouth, was the son of Thomas of Ply- mouth, but other authorities do not agree with him and we are led by these other authorities, who are personally connected with the Shreve family, to try find the American progenitor elsewhere. To do this we have to depend on the family tradition for the existence of one Sir William Sheriff, who is said to have come from Greece or Turkey where the name of Sheriff is not uncommon and to have married Elizabeth Fairfax in England, and they had a son, William, who married a young lady in Amsterdam, Holland, by the name of Ora Ora, or Oara Oara, the daughter of a wealthy nobleman. After this marriage they came to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where it is posi- tive they had John and Caleb and probably a third son, William, who left no issue. From an old deed still in the family, given by John Cooke, of Portsmouth in the Colony of Rhode
Island, to John Shreve of the same town, Cooke conveys three-fourths of all his right and property in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, to John Shreve. This deed is dated January 9, 1676-77, and on the back is a transfer from the said John Shreve to his beloved brother, Caleb Shreve. Caleb Shreve also received warrants for land from the East New Jersey Proprietors as early as 1676, and as he must have been of age at that time we fix the approx- imate date of his birth as 1650-55. This would make the birth of Sir William, 1590, which tradition places at near the close of the sixteenth century, but this does not prove the parentage of John and Caleb Shreve. The chil- dren of Thomas and Martha Sheriff or Shreve, born in Portsmouth and little Compton, Rhode Island, were as follows : I. Thomas, September 2, 1649. 2. John, married Jane Havers, Au- gust, 1686; died October 14, 1739. 3. Caleb (q. v.). 4. Mary, married Joseph Sheffield, February 12, 1685; died after 1706. 5. Su- sannah, married a Thomas; died after 1714. 6. Daniel, born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, married Jane -, 1688; died 1737. 7. Elizabeth, married Edmund Carter and died childless, June 5, 1719. 8. Sarah, married John Moon; died June 24, 1732. In the second generation the name appears as Shreve.
(II) Caleb, probably the third child and third son of Thomas and Martha Sheriff or Shreve, of Rhode Island Colony, was born about 1652, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He married Sarah Areson, daughter of Diedrich (or Deric) Areson, of Long Island, about 1680, in Burlington county, New Jersey, to which place he had removed from Rhode Island about 1699. His house was about seven miles east of the present site of Mt. Holly. As his children went from the home- stead, he gave each a fine farm in Burlington county, where they continued to reside. He made his will, which was executed February 28, 1740-41, at which time his widow was living with her son Benjamin on the home- stead. The names of the children of Caleb and Sarah ( Areson) Shreve are as follows. The order of their birth cannot be determined with exactness. These children were: I. Martha, 168-, married Benjamin Scatter- good, of Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1704. They were married by the Friends' ceremony at Chesterfield Meeting. 2. Thomas, 168-, married Elizabeth Allison, May 16, 171I, at Burlington Meeting. He died in Burlington county, New Jersey, July, 1747. 3. Joseph, 168-, married Hope Harding by
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Friends ceremony at Burlington Meeting after July 3, 171I. He died before 1757. 4. Joshua (q. v.). 5. Caleb, 169-, married (first) Mary Hunt, May 8, 1713, at Chester- field Meeting, and ( second) Ann - He died 1746. 6. Mary, 169-, married Isaac Gibbs, Jr., January 5, 1722, at Chesterfield Meeting. 7. Sarah, 169-, married John Og- borne, January 19, 1724, at Chesterfield Meet- ing. 8. Jonathan, 169-, married Hannah Hunt, February 4, 1720, at Chesterfield Meet- ing. He died 1756. 9. David, 169-, died after 1735. 10. Benjamin, June 9, 1706, mar- ried Rebecca French, February 23, 1729, at Springfield Meeting.
(III) Joshua, probably the fourth child and third son of Caleb and Sarah (Areson) Shreve, was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, April 5, 1692. He was a minister of the society of Friends and was accustomed to make long journeys on horseback as far south as Virginia and as far north as Massachu- setts, holding and attending meetings on his journeys going and returning. He lived in Springfield township adjoining Richard Stock- ton, and he gave to the Society of Friends four acres of land from his farm on which to erect a meeting house and prepare a graveyard. The meeting house was erected in 1739 and this date over the door in the brick wall is still discernable, the meeting house being still in use. The building is one-half mile from Wrightstown and is known as Upper Spring- field Meeting. Previous to its erection the Friends attended the Crosswicks Meeting. On May 6, 1749, Chesterfield Meeting granted him a certificate "to make a religious visit to the government of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia," April 7, 1750, he procured a certifi- cate from Fairfax, Virginia, which was "to satisfaction." He married Jane -, but place, time or surname is not known. They had eight children, born in Springfield town- ship, as follows: I. Mary, married a Curtis. 2. Sarah, married Thomas Shreve, March I, 1742. 3. Mercy, married Micajal Mathis, March 7, 1747 ; she died 1804. 4. Faith, mar- ried Israel Butler, January 1, 1750. 5. James (q. v.). 6. Caleb, August 16, 1717, married Hannah Thorn, January 16, 1737. He died in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1810. 7. Martha, married William Shinn Burlington, November 5, 1728. 8. Susannah, married John Beck, July 1, 1737.
(IV) James, probably eldest son and fifth child of Joshua and Jane Shreve, was born in Springfield township, Burlington county, New
Jersey. He married Leah Davis, July 1, 1737. Date of birth and date and place of death un- known. The child of James and Leah (Davis) Shreve was Joshua (q. v.).
(V) Joshua (2), probably the only child of James and Leah (Davis) Shreve, married Re- becca, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Budd) Lamb, granddaughter of William and Elizabeth (Stockton) Budd, who were mar- ried in 1703 by Friends ceremony in the home of Richard Stockton, of Springfield, New Jersey ; great-granddaughter of William Budd, who with three brothers came from England to Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1678. He was an extensive land owner. Rebecca Lamb was born March 26, 1742, died Decem- ber 9, 1800, while her husband, Joshua Shreve, ยท died in 1819 at an advanced age. The Spring- field Meeting Society records the names and dates of birth of their eight children as fol- lows: I. Gersom, October 6, 1761, died un- married while quite young. 2. Theodosia, April 28, 1766, married Joseph Earl, of Pem- berton, New Jersey. She died January 12, 1848. 3. Alexander (q. v). 4. Leah, April 8, 1771, married Joseph Burr, and died in Vin- centown, New Jersey, when over eighty years of age. 5. Sarah, December 25, 1775, married George Holmes in 1801 and died April 7, 1847. 6. James, March 1, 1778, married Elizabeth Smith, December 29, 1808, and died at One- aneckon, New Jersey, October 1, 1852. 7. Charles, April 7, 1781, married Rebecca Pit- man Cox in 1805, and died at Mt. Holly, New Jersey, December 11, 1815. 8. Rebecca, De- cember 3, 1785, married Isaac Hulme, of Hulmeville, Bristol, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1806, and died in Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, April 25, 1865.
(VI) Alexander, second son and third child of Joshua (2) and Rebecca (Lamb) Shreve, was born at the homestead in Wrightstown, New Jersey, March 3, 1769. He first engaged in trade in his native village, but later removed to Northampton township, Burlington county, where he was a farmer for seven years. He married Mary, daughter of Taunton and Mary (Haines) Earl, and granddaughter of Charles Haines. She was born May 25, 1767, and with her husband were members of the Spring- field Meeting of the Society of Friends, whose records furnish authentic dates and names of their children except the youngest. She died in 1843 and her husband December 4, 1854. Their children were seven in number and were born as follows: I. Joshua (q. v.). 2. Mary, April 19, 1795, died November 8, 1796. 3.
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Sarah, July 20, 1797, died unmarried. 4. Mary Ann, June 9, 1799, married Joseph K. Hulme, April 15, 1814, and died in Upper Springfield, New Jersey, January 26, 1884. 5. Taunton E., February 23, 1802, married Sarah T. Merritt. 6. Rebecca, September 5, 1805, married Thomas Newbold. 7. Alexan- der, in Wrightstown, New Jersey, October 2, 1812, married Mary A. Levelers in the spring of 1873.
(VII) Joshua (3), eldest child of Alexan- der and Mary (Earl) Shreve, was born in Springfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, March 25, 1793. He married Sus- anna Ridgeway, of Springfield, November 16, 1814, and he died September 21, 1851. The ten children of Joshua and Susanna (Ridgeway) Shreve were born as follows : 1. Charles Smith, Wrightstown, New Jersey, September 30, 1815, married Mary Louise Josephine Ken- nedy, of Mobile, Alabama, January 1, 1840, and died in Mobile, December 16, 1857. 2. Edwin, October 14, 1817, married Elizabeth Wyckoff, of Monmouth, New Jersey, and died at Werd Millpoint, Virginia, January 21, 1863. 3. Barzillia Ridgeway (q. v.). 4. Joshua Burr, Northampton, New Jersey, April 25, 1823, died August 6, 1826. 5. Alexander, Au- gust 9, 1825, married Edith Ann Ivins, Sep- tember 27, 1848, and died at Point of Rocks, Virginia, September 12, 1864. 6. Joshua Earl, December 17, 1827, never married and died in San Francisco, California, October 9, 1871. 7. Henry, July 8, 1831, never married, died at Red Wood City, California, about 1876. 8. Susan Ridgeway, January 29, 1834, married Richard C. Ridgeway, of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, December 13, 1866, and resided there. 9. Anna M., August 19, 1836, unmar- ried, resides in Philadelphia. 10. Richard Lott Ridgeway, April 4, 1840, married Mar- garet Webb, of Philadelphia, in 1861, died on the battlefield of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 6, 1864.
(VIII) Barzillia Ridgeway, third son and. child of Joshua (3) and Susanna (Ridgeway) Shreve, was born in Northampton, New Jersey, August 20, 1820. He carried on a large stock farm in Pemberton township and made a specialty of breeding fine horses and cattle. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Society of Friends by birth- right. He held important town offices and was a member of the United States Grange. He married Agnes Edith Haines, of Pem- berton, New Jersey. By this marriage he had seven children, as follows: 1. John A. L., who
married Louise Davis and died in 1870. 2. Mary Earl, who lives in Pemberton, New Jersey. 3. Edith Ella, who married Samuel Kirkbride Robbin, October 4, 1882, and lives
in Morristown, New Jersey. 4. Charles Smith, who died unmarried about 1862. 5. Florence Murrell, who died unmarried in 1873. 6. Sarah Coat, who married Edwin Rex Keisel, February 20, 1889, and lived in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania. 7. Thomas Coat (q. v.) Barzillia Ridgeway Shreve died in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1893.
(IX) Thomas Coat, third son and seventh and youngest child of Barzillia Ridgeway and Agnes Edith (Haines) Shreve, was born in Pemberton, New Jersey, September 23, 1860. He was educated in the public schools and Mt. Holly Academy, and he worked from very early boyhood on his father's farm. On reaching his majority, his father turned the management of the farm with all its varied interests to him, which was an evidence of his acquired skill as an agriculturist. Like his father he was a Democrat and he served in the board of taxation of the county of Burlington and on the township committee of his native town as well as being director on the school board for twenty-seven years. He was a member of the Grange and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge, No. 848, of Mt. Holly. He married, February 3, 1892, Florence Eugenia, daughter of John B. and Elizabeth Waln (Ridgeway) Deacon, and a descendant in the seventh generation from (I) George, the immigrant through (II) John, (III) George, (IV) John, (V) Thomas Eagad, (VI) John B., of Springfield town- ship, New Jersey. Thomas Coat and Florence Eugenia (Deacon) Shreve have children born as follows: Agnes Elizabeth, June 11, 1893; Anne R., October 13, 1905; Helen Deacon, July 27, 1908.
ROSS This name is of undoubted Scotch origin, whether we find the name as immigrants to Holland, to the North of Ireland, or directly to the colonies or states of North America. When we find a family coming from Holland bearing this name, but have no definite data as to the na- tionality, we look into the business career of the known progenitor and by his trade or pro- fession determine the probability of his na- tionality. In this case the subject is the son of a piano manufacturer, born in Holland, and the question naturally arises: Is he of Dutch origin? The makers of pianos are to be found
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in all nations, but skilled workmen at the trade have come largely from Scotland, as have the inventors of various parts of the pianoforte. It is noticeable that few come from France, or from other parts of the continent of Europe. Scotland has furnished a remarkable list of piano builders and inventors. James Stewart, the first partner of Jonas Chickering, we find to have been a Scotchman. Robert Stodart, to whom we owe the upright piano, and John and James Shudi Broadwood, eminent Lon- don manufacturers, were Scotchmen, who went to London to manufacture the piano- forte. Francis Melville, inventor of metallic tubular bracing for use in the construction of the piano-forte, was also a Scotchman, and Dr. Hopkinson, of Philadelphia, an Edinburgh graduate in medicine, made the first piano, or harpsichord, as it was called, with an iron frame. Then the name Campbell is promi- nently connected with the sale of the piano- forte in New York City in the early days of the use of that instrument.
That a Ross, a native of Scotland, should be found in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1800, who was skilled in the manufacture of the piano- forte, is no cause of wonderment and there is no reason to question his nationality. In America, we find the rule applies universally and in tracing the genealogy of a Ross, we naturally turn to Scotland and not to Holland as the fatherland. The Rosses of Scotland have furnished to America notable men of the past as well as shining examples of the pres- ent. Of the past we have: George Ross (1730-1779), clergyman; lawyer ; delegate to congress ; judge of the court of admiralty and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Jack Ferrill Ross ( 1791-1837), pioneer finan- cier of Alabama ; officer in the United States army, 1813-17; territorial and state treasurer of Alabama, 1818-22 ; sheriff of Mobile county and an Alabama legislator. James Ross ( 1762-1847), United States senator from Pennsylvania, 1794-1803; attorney for George Washington, in charge of his estate in Penn- sylvania ; twice the defeated candidate for gov- ernor of Pennsylvania. John Ross (1770- 1834), husband of Mary (Jenkins) Ross, who made and presented the "Stars and Stripes," which became the national flag, to General Washington in Philadelphia in 1777, and who was himself a lawyer in Easton, Pennsylvania ; representative in the United States congress, 1809-18; presiding judge of the seventh district of Pennsylvania, 1818-30, and judge of the supreme court of the state, 1830-34. Jonathan
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