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(III) James Alexander, son of James and Cornelia ( Woolley) Stewart, was born in Long Branch. Monmouth county, New Jersey, Janu- ary 6, 1888, and is now living in that town. For his early education he was sent to the pub- lic schools of Long Branch, after which he attended Eastman's Business College at Pough- keepsie, New York, graduating May 29, 1906. On June II, following, he was offered a posi- tion with the Tintern Manor Water Company, with whom he has been ever since. Mr. Stew- art is a Republican, and a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal church. He married in Long Branch, November 2, 1909, Mabel Dorothy, daughter of William Eugene and Susan H. ( Fling) Lawrence, who was born October 3. 1889. Her father was born in June, 1856, and her mother May 3, 1861. Her brother Edward F. Lawrence was born January 22, 1885.
HENDRY Indubitable family tradition which handed down the fact that the first member of this family to seek the shores of the new world came to Virginia in the early part of the seventeenth century, is confirmed by Hotton, in his "Lists of Persons of Quality who went from England to the American Plantations 1600-1700," wherein is given as a passenger in the "Safety," John Grannt, master, from ye port of London, Au- gust 1635," one "Jo: Hendry, 24 years." So far as can be ascertained the records of the "Old Dominion" are silent as to the career of this emigrant- a fact which confirms the fur- ther family tradition that he remained but a short time in Virginia. The next of his de- scendants heard of is Thomas Hendry, mer- chant in Burlington, New Jersey, in 1730, who held the agency for the ship "Prince William," plying between that port and Liverpool and
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Dublin in 1731 (I); buried "James, son of Thomas and Anne Hendry, who departed this Life, Sept. 12, 1731, aged I year 8 days," in the graveyard attached to the venerable St. Mary's Church (2) ; and during the following year, administered upon the estate of one Thomas Pettigrew (3).
(II) John Hendry, who appears to be his only surviving child, was also a resident of Burlington. He held the office of collector in 1770, and was among the aldermen and com- monalty, 1785-89 (4). He was a pewholder in St. Mary's Church nearly all his life. It is a matter of regret that the maiden name of his first wife, the mother of his two distinguished sons, is unknown. He married (second), in 1764, Sarah Lovett, a descendant of Samuel Lovett, one of the original settlers of Burling- ton, who in 1676 signed "The Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the Province of West Jer- sey in America." To this "dearly beloved wife" and his sons Thomas and Samuel, he bequeath- ed his estate by a will proved November 9, 1807 (5). In the records of St. Mary's Church, during the rectorship of Rev. C. H. Wharton, D. D., occurs this entry : Oct. 23, 1807 "Buried John Hendry, aged 86 years.'
(III) Thomas Hendry, the elder of his sons, born in Burlington, 1747, studied medicine, took his degree as a physician, and settled in Woodbury, Gloucester county, New Jersey, just previous to the revolution. In this strug- gle he engaged with all the ardor of a disinter- ested patriot. His military record reads thus : "Thomas Hendry, surgeon, brigade, militia ; superintendent hospital, April 3d, 1777; sur- geon, Third Battalion, Gloucester" (6). He was taken prisoner at the battle of Hancock's Bridge, May 10, 1778. After the war he re- sumed the duties of his profession and became a successful and highly popular practitioner.
Eulogistic biographical notices of him are to be found in Prowell's "History of Camden County, New Jersey," p. 239, and in "History of Medicine in New Jersey and its Medical Men," by Stephen Wickes, A. M., M. D., pp. 283-84. Dr. Hendry married Elizabeth Bow- man, residing at the time of her marriage in New Hanover township, Burlington county,
(1) "American Weekly Mercury," March 26 to April 1, 1731.
(2) Stillwell's "Historical and General Miscel- lany."
(3) New Jersey Wills, liber 3, page 218.
(4) Hist. Burlington and Mercer cos., Woodward and Hageman, pp. 127-8.
(5) New Jersey Wills, liber A, page 201.
(6) Adj. Gen. Stryker's Work, page 377.
New Jersey. Descendants of Dr. Thomas Hendry.
I. Bowman Hendry, M. D., located in Had- donfield, New Jersey. In volume II, of "Hes- ton's Annals" we are told that "A hundred years ago (1804) Dr. Bowman Hendry of Haddonfield made professional visits through- out that county (Gloucester ), riding as far as Egg Harbor." In the "Biographical Encyclo- paedia of New Jersey," p. 393, and in the "History of Camden County," before quoted, are to be found highly eulogistic sketches of this greatly admired and beloved gentleman. Two pamphlets treating of his life of merits as a man and physician have been written : one by Isaiah Bryant, M. D., of Camden, New Jersey ; the other by Reynell Coates, M. D., of the same city. Dr. Hendry married Elizabeth Duffield, daughter of Charles Duffield, M. D., of Philadelphia, of the same ancestry with the Rev. George Duffield, of revolutionary fame. Issue :
(A) Charles Duffield Hendry, M. D., 1809- 69. Graduate of University of Pennsylvania, 1832. Married Maria M. Mickle. For account of Mickle family see "Clement's Sketches," pp. 139-48. He was a distinguished physician, having been one of the organizers of the Cam- den Medical Society in 1846, and president, 1852-53. For a biographical sketch illustrated by an engraved portrait see "History of Cam- den County" before referred to p. 267. Issue : (a) Bowman Hendry, M. D., died unmarried, November 1, 1904; (b) Joseph, married Clara Rogers ; (c) Spencer, married --- , deceased.
(B) Bowman Hendry, M. D., born in Had- donfield, 1820-68. Graduate of Jefferson Med- ical College, Philadelphia. Member of Cam- den County Medical Society, 1847, president, 1860. Served throughout the civil war as sur- geon of Sixth New Jersey Regiment. See Prowell's "History Camden County," p. 275. Married, in 1850, Helen Amanda Sarchet, of Gloucester City, who died 1905. One daugh- ter survives : (d) Mary McCalla HIendry, re- siding in Camden, New Jersey.
(C) Elizabeth Hendry, married Ephraim Buck, M. D., of Philadelphia. See "Origin, History and Genealogy of the Buck Family," by Cornelius B. Harvey. pp. 37-38, and "His- tory of Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland Counties, New Jersey" by Thomas Cushing, M. D., and Charles E. Shepperd, p. 564. Issue : (e) Maria M., married Thomas B. Black ; ( f) Sarah H., married Robert H. Reeves ; (g) Mary H. ; (h) Bowman Hendry, married Car- oline Ayres; (i) Hannah, married Horace
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Saunders (see "Sharpless Genealogy" p. 1088) ; (j) Elizabeth; (k) Joseph; (1) Ephraim, mar- ried Mary J. Westcott; (m) Emily H., married Robert J. Brown; (n) Charles H. (D) Henrietta Hendry, born in Haddon- field, New Jersey. Married, 1807, Joseph Levis Shivers. For sketch of Shivers family see Prowell's "History Camden County," p. 275. and "Clement's Sketches," p. 251. Issue : (0) Isaac, died unmarried; (p) Elizabeth, died un- married ; (q) William M., married Lucy Car- man, issue-(aaa) William Duffield, (bbb) Tacey Hendry; (r) Bowman, married Clara Moore ; (s) Clara Moore; (t) Henrietta Hen- dry.
(E) Anna Hendry. (F) Sarah Hendry. (G) Charlotte Hendry. (H) Emily Hendry, all died unmarried.
I. Mary Duffield Hendry, married An- lay McCalla, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, a lescendant of John McCalla, of the Isle of Isla, Scotland, who having received a grant of land from the crown in Northumberland coun- ty, Pennsylvania, settled there in 1750. Issue : (u) Elizabeth Hendry ; (v) William Hollings- head ; (w) Sarah Hendry ; (x) Jane Harrison ; (y) Bowman Hendry, rear-admiral, U. S. N., retired ; now residing at Santa Barbara, Cali- fornia. See "Records of Living Officers of United States Navy and Marine Corps," by Lewis Randolph Hammersley, p. 133.
Rear-Admiral McCalla on his father's side descends from the Dennis, Fithian, Seeley and Gibbon families, all old settlers of New Jersey, and most honorably identified with the cause of the colonies in that state, both before and during the revolution. Among his ancestors were Colonel Ephraim Seeley, who was judge, justice, member of the assembly, colonel of militia, and extensive landholder ; Major Anlay McCalla, afterward spoken of as colonel, of the Second Battalion, Cumberland county mili- tia, when said battalion was discharged in 1783 ; and that devoted patriot, John Gibbon, whose death resulted from the cruel treatment he received when confined on the prison ship in New York during the revolution. Rev. Daniel McCalla, the learned, eloquent and fear- less chaplain of the Second Pennsylvania Bat- talion during the revolution, and Colonel An- lay McCalla, who held that rank in the army, sent to quell the Western Insurrection of 1794, were also of this family. Rear-Admiral Mc- Calla married Elizabeth Hazard Sargent, daughter of General Horace Binney Sargent and his wife, Elizabeth Little Sweet, both of Boston, Massachusetts. Issue : (a. a.) Elizabeth
Sargent, married Lieut. Commander William Gardiner Miller, U. S. N., of Richmond, Vir- ginia ; (b.b.) Mary Hendry, married Lieutenant Arthur McArthur Jr., U. S. N., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has issue : (c. c. c.) Arthur Mc- Arthur (3d), (d. d. d.) Bowman Hendry McArthur ; (c. c.) Lily Hazard, married Lieu- tenant Dudley Wright, U. S. N .; (d. d.) Stella Apthorp.
2. Henrietta Hendry, only daughter of Dr. Thomas Hendry, married James S. Ritchie, of Philadelphia. Issue: (A) Robert, commo- dore U. S. N .; see work of Lewis Randolph Hammersley before quoted, p. 464. (B) Thomas, a physician. (C) William. (D) Thompson. (E) Bowman. (F) John. (G)
Mary. (H) Anna.
3. John Hendry, younger son of Dr. Thomas Hendry, married Louisa -, and removed to Posey county, Indiana. No further infor- mation.
One Thomas Hendry Jr., of Woodbury, New Jersey, who, there is every reason to sup- pose, was a son either of Dr. Thomas Hendry or of his son John, served in the United States navy, 1811-17, rising from the position of mid- shipman to the rank of lieutenant. No further information.
Captain Samuel Hendry, second son of John Hendry, of Burlington, was born in that city in 1754. He was among the first to enter the revolutionary army, as his military record here given indicates : "Ensign, Captain Lawrie's company, Second Battalion, First Establish- ment, November 27, 1775; second lieutenant, ditto, September 5, 1776; second lieutenant, Captain Stout's company, Second Battalion, Second Establishment, November 29, 1776; first lieutenant, Captain Anderson's company, ditto, February 5, 1777; captain-lieutenant, Second Regiment ; captain, ditto, to date July 5, 1779 ; discharged at close of the war." The foregoing record is from Adjutant-General Stryker's admirable work, "Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War," p. 81. In Heitman's "Historical Register," it says : "Captain Hendry retained in New Jersey Bat- talion, April, 1783, and served to 3rd Novem- ber, 1783." Captain Hendry also participated in the Indian campaign of 1779. He was a member of the New Jersey State Society of the Cincinnati. As he retired from service perma- nently invalided, the remainder of Captain Hendry's life was passed very quietly in his home at Burlington. Like his father, he was a pewholder in St. Mary's Church, and accord- ing to the records was interred in the grave-
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yard that surrounds it, October 17, 1823, he having died two days before that date.
Captain Hendry was married three times. His first wife was Phebe Chandler, of the cele- brated Elizabeth (New Jersey) family of that name. She died June 22, 1781. The only child of this marriage, an infant daughter, is interred with her in the graveyard of the First Presby- terian Church, of Elizabeth, where her tomb- stone with its pathetic epitaph is still to be seen, in a fine state of preservation. His sec- ond wife, whom he married, as entered in the New Jersey archives, first series, vol. xxii, marriage records, p. 178, by license, March 2, 1785, was Elizabeth Anderson, an heiress. She was sixth in line of descent from Louris Jensen Op Dyke, a native of Holland, who came to New Amsterdam before 1653. Her great-grandfather was Enoch Anderson, who married Tryntie Op Dyke, and gave the land for the church now known as the First Presbyterian Church in Tren- ton, New Jersey. Her grandfather was Captain John Anderson, a wealthy resident of Maiden- head, now called Lawrenceville, New Jersey, who was successively assessor, freeholder, con- stable and town clerk; (Op Dyke Genealogy, pp. 136-82). Her father was the brave Ezekiel, who was chosen by Washington to act as one of his guides to the camp of the British on the night of the "Princeton Surprise," and who served in the Second Regiment New Jersey Line, which participated in the siege of York- town. On her mother's side this favored lady descended from the Combs family of Middle- sex, New Jersey, which counted among its members Captain Jonathan Combs of the rev- olutionary army, afterwards judge. John Combs was many times a member of the as- sembly. Captain Hendry's third wife, to whom he was married in St. Mary's Church, Burling- ton, by Rev. C. H. Wharton, D. D., March 13, 1806, was Mary daughter of Llewellen, and widow of Hughes. She was a most estimable, devout woman.
Descendants of Captain Samuel and Eliza- beth (Anderson) Hendry.
(I) John Anderson Hendry, M. D., 1786- 1834. A man of distinguished appearance, noted for the elegance of his manners, and his scholarly attainments. He rose to eminence in his profession. For a sketch of his career see "Extracts from Transactions of the Medical Society of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, for 1872," by John Blaine, A. M., M. D. Of this society Dr. Hendry was one of the found- ers. He afterwards became a member of the Medical Society of the City and County of
New York. He succeeded his father as a member of the New Jersey State Society of the Cincinnati in 1824. He married, in 1810, Abigail, daughter of Robert Chambers, of Trenton, New Jersey, a revolutionary soldier, and Francinah, née Reeder, his wife. The branch of the Chambers family from which Mrs. Abigail Hendry came descends from John Chambers, who emigrated to New Jersey from Edinburgh, Scotland, in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Robert Chambers, her father, entered the revolutionary army when in his eighteenth year, and was with Washing- ton in the "march through the Jerseys." Fran- cinah Reeder could number among her for- bears such Newtown (Long Island) worthies as John Lauronson, Ralph Hunt, Thomas Haz- ard, Captain Richard Betts, James Way, John Burroughs and John Reeder (7). The founder of the family in New Jersey was John Reeder (2d), who came to Erring township, then in Hunterdon county, early in the eighteenth cen- tury. His grandson, John Reeder, married Hannah Mershon, and had thirteen children, of whom ten married, mostly into the first families of the county. Issue :
(A) Charles Fox, born in Trenton, New Jersey ; married, 1845. Ann Frances, daughter of John and Elizabeth Kelly, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. a descendant through her mother's mother, Bessie Carr, of one of the cadet branches of the ancient Scottish house of Lothian. Both deceased. Children: (a) Mary Ellen, deceased; (b) Elizabeth Carmel, member of Quaker City Chapter, Daughters American Revolution ; (c) Julia Cody, mar- ried Bernardo H. Knight, a descendant of the following personages conspicuous for their help- fulness in Philadelphia and its vicinity during colonial times : Giles Knight ( Ist), 1653-1726; (I); John Kaighn, 16 -- 1724 (2); Tobias Leech, 1652-1726 (3); George Shoemaker, 1682-17- (4) : Rynear Tyson, 1659-1745 (5) ; Giles Knight 2nd, 1719-1799 (6); Bartho- lomew Penrose (7) : Arthur Donaldson, 1734- 1797 (8). He was also descended from the
(7) Riker's "Annals of Newtown, Long Island." pp. 56-85-332-373-378-383. "Genealogy of the Early Settlers of Ewing township, Old Hunterdon County, New Jersey," by Miss Hannah L. Cooley, pp. 28-206. (1) "A History of the Townships of Byberry and Moreland in Pennsylvania," by Joseph C. Martin- dale, M. D .; revised edition by Albert W. Dudley, B. S., pp. 317 to 336.
(2) "Sketches of the First Emigrant Settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey," by John Clement, pp. 149 to 157.
(3-4-5-7) "Genealogy of the Shoemaker Family of Cheltenham, Pennsylvania," by Benjamin Shoe- maker; pp. 8-11-12-13-261-405-06.
(8) "Pennsylvania Archives," 2d Series, vol. iii, p. 55.
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same woman as Betty Ross, Sarah Griscom Kaighn, and is trebly connected otherwise with her ; and from James Estangh (2), brother-in- law to Elizabeth Haddon. His mother, whose maiden name was Ann Catherine Hoff, de- scends from a Swedish baron, who was at one time governor of a province. His father was Dr. Isaac Donaldson Knight, U. S. A., whose career both as a civilian and surgeon in the army during the civil war is worthy of the highest praise. Issue: (a. a.) Anna F. Hen- dry, member of Quaker City Chapter, Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, and Dames of the Loyal Legion ; (b. b.) Paul Hendry, de- ceased ; (c. c.) Maria Immaculata, member of General Muhlenberg Chapter, Children of the American Revolution, and Order Dames of the Loyal Legion ; (d. d.) Bernardo Hoff, mem- ber of General Muhlenberg Chapter, Children of the American Revolution; (e. e.) Isaac Donaldson, deceased; (f. f.) Julia Catherine, deceased (g. g.) John Ezekiel Anderson, mem- ber of General Muhlenberg Chapter, Children of the American Revolution. (d) Edwin Chambers, deceased. (e) Paul Augustine, member of New Jersey State Society of the Cincinnati; of Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution ; of Veteran Corps, First Regi- ment, National Guard, Pennsylvania.
(B) Mary Frances Pratt, married Ashbel S. Thompson. No issue.
(C) William Wallace, married Sarah Over- man, whom he predeceased. No surviving issue.
(D) Juliet Lucretia, married Isaac B. Munn, of a highly respectable family of Chatham, Morris county, New Jersey (see "History Essex County, New Jersey," page 275. Issue : (f) Mary Hendry, married Charles O. Mc- Cord, who died in Brooklyn, New York, No- vember 1, 1880; child, Annie Jane Dickson, married Lindley Haines Eastburn, deceased ; child, Annie, died in infancy; (g) Sarah Hen- dry. married John M. Hewitt, deceased ; (h) Juliet Lucretia, married Edwin Clark Jr. ; child. Edith, married Arthur van . Buskirk, member of the bar of Hackensack, New Jer- sey ( see "History of Bergen County, New Jer- sey," by J. M. Van Valon, page 337) ; child, Arthur.
(E) Elizabeth, died in early childhood.
(F) John Anderson, deceased; married Sarah West Rulon, daughter of John and Ann (Burr) Rulon. Mrs. Hendry descends from the Rulon, Burr, Thorn, West and Mawleverer families, the latter tracing their ancestry back
to Edward III. of England (see "The Rulon Family and Their Descendants," by John C. Rulon, pp. 13-27; "A History of the Burr Family," by Charles Burr Todd, edition, 1902; "The Thorn Genealogy," vol. i, p. 177; and the Mawleverer Chart). Issue: (i) William, died in childhood; (j) Mary F., died in child- hood; (k) Emma Louisa, deceased, 1908; (1) Annie Rulon, married William W. Cooper, deceased, a descendant of William Cooper, of Cooper's Point, New Jersey (see "William Cooper of Greenfield, Woodbury, New Jer- sey, and his Cooper Ancestry," by Howard M. Cooper, and Prowell's "History Camden Coun- ty," pp. 404-15) ; issue: J. West Rulon and Horace, members of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution ; Edwin Augustus, de- ceased ; married Mary Anna Browning ( see "Genealogy of the Brownings in America from 1621 to 1908," by Edward Franklin Browning, p. 428) ; issue : Clifford Archer, died in child- hood, and Marguerite, died in infancy; (m) Sallie West, died in childhood.
(G) Abbie Almira, deceased; unmarried.
(H) Edwin Augustus, deceased; married (first) Annie Jane Dickson, who died May 6. 1852 ; child, Annie Jane Dickson, died in child- hood ; married (second) Sarah Runkle, daugh- ter of John Jacob and Matilda (Runkle ) Burke, of Easton, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hendry de- scends through her father from Le Sieur Jean Jacques Egerman, Alsace, 1590-1660, a cap- tain lieutenant in the "Thirty Year's War," and through her mother from the Earls of Isen- berg, Runkle and Wied, Germany (see "The Ancestry of Marguerite and John Egeman," by John Egerman, F. Z. S., F. G. S. H., and "The Runkle Family," by Benjamin Van D. Fisher, p. 132). Mrs. Hendry died in 1867; child, John Burke, a lawyer, practicing in Lon- don. England.
(I) Hannah Elizabeth, deceased; married Isaac B. Benners, deceased. Issue: Henry Chambers, deceased ; Abbie, died in childhood ; William, deceased; Edwin Hendry, married Lilian, daughter of Henry Harding Edwards and Mary ( Van Cleve) Edwards. Mr. Ben- ners is president of the Crown Castings Com- pany, New York City. Issue : Ethel Hendry, Royal Whitman, Walter Scott and Edwin Ben- ners.
(2) Peter Ferne Hendry married Rhoda Cook, of Trenton, New Jersey. Both deceased. Issue: (a) Mary Elizabeth, born 1812, died 1886; married William Cornell, both deceased. Issue : Edwin Henry, deceased, married Hen .
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rietta Ridgway ; child, Helen, married Jacob M. Baer, child, Mildred; Angeline, married A. Humboldt Garber, deceased, children, Edwin and Ida; Henrietta, married Arthur Sterling, child, Helen; Mary L., married Joseph H. Parvin, child, May. (b) Angeline, born 1814, died 1878; married Benjamin Holmes van Schaick ; both deceased; no issue. (c) Theo- dore Anderson, born 1820, died 1893 ; married Susanna, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Cox, of Trenton, New Jersey ; issue : Helen, married Thomas C. Stokes, child, Edwin I. Stokes ; Theodore Anderson, deceased, married Mary Lanning: children : Herbert; Evelyn, married Herbert Scholl, child, Herbert; Susie; Helen. (d) Enoch, married Mary Shertz, both de- ceased. Issue : William, deceased, married Elizabeth Wallace; Ida, married Anthony F. Ervin; issue: Edwin Hendry, married Helen Nagle and had children : Frazier, Edwin, Harold, Ruth Elizabeth; Blanche Estelle, mar- ried John Anderson and had children: Eliza- beth, Dorothy, William F .; Harriet Estelle, married Joseph McKiznon; issue: Clayton Hendry and Horace Stanley; Frank Ferne, married Virginia Gilmore ; child, Ida, married J. C. Adair ; children: Warren and Norman. Children of Captain Samuel Hendry and Mary Hughes (Llewellen) Hendry, his wife: I. Mary, born 1807, died 1839 ; married Rev. Levin M. Prettyman, of Georgetown, Dela- ware, a gifted, zealous and faithful minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. Issue : Mary Matilda, married William H. Ridgaway, a prom- inent and highly esteemed citizen of Dover, Delaware, who descends from early settlers of the state, and whose merits are set forth in a highly appreciative manner in the "Biographical and Genealogical History of Delaware," pp. 807-09 ; children: Mary Hendry, married the Rev. Albert P. Lasher, of Pennington, New Jersey, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and had children: Charles Wilbur, married Augusta J. Borden, of Jacobstown, New Jersey, and Frank Hickman; Charles Bascom, a graduate of Dickinson College ; for many years a teacher in California; at present a member of the faculty of Wyoming College ; married Anna Chandler, of Cambridge, Massa- chusetts ; Wilbur J., married Estelle Wood, of Roselle Park, New Jersey ; child, Clara; Anna Clara, married James Hazel, of Dover, Dela- ware, no issue. Caroline, died in infancy. Anna L., died in infancy. Lawrence D., died in infancy.
2. Elizabeth, died unmarried, in middle age
Benjamin Jones, the earliest mem- JONES ber of this family concerning whom there is no controversy, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, No- vember 7, 1767, and died May 10, 1849. Ac- cording to some authorities he was son of Jo- seph and Amy (Cock) Jones, who was born near the Concord monthly meeting, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, 5 mo. 14, 1759, and according to another authority equally good his father was Benjamin Jones, who married Han- nah, daughter of William and Rachel (New- lin) Walter, who was born January 28, 1743, and died April 25, 1791. After her first hus- band's death she married (second) a Mr. Reed, by whom she had five daughters. Children of Benjamin and Hannah (Walter ) Jones : Will- iam, married Mary Leedom; Benjamin, re- ferred to above and below.
(II) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) and Hannah (Walter) Jones, born November 7, 1767, died May 10, 1849, was an iron founder and the owner of a number of furnaces in different parts of the country, one at Wor- cester, Maryland, another in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and still a third, perhaps the most celebrated of them all, at Hanover, New Jersey, where Mr. Jones manufactured cannon for use in the war of 1812, and in connection with which he established the "gun road" from Hanover to Sandy Hook. He was also inter- ested and instrumental in the construction of the railroad from Kinkora to New Lisbon. He married (first), May 18, 1797, Rebecca Moore, born April 16, 1778, died August 27, 1802; (second ), June 6, 1805, Mary, born November 18, 1778, died March 3. 1836, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Stretch) Howell. Chil- dren, three by first wife: I. William, born May 29, 1798; died June 29, 1798. 2. Walter Moore, born June 14, 1799; died August 15. 1823; married Maria Holton. 3. Andrew Moore, born July 13, 1801 ; died January, 1885 ; married Caroline Bonsall; no children. 4. Ann Emlen, born July 21, 1806; died No- vember I, 1883; married Anthony Saunders Morris. 5. William Howell, born April 16, 1808 : died September 2, 1819; unmarried. 6. Margaretta Howell, born December 19, 1809; married John Madison Taylor. 7. Richard, referred to below. 8. Mary Beveridge, born February 18, 1814; died October 26, 1887; married Samuel H. Tobey. 9. Harriet, born March 17, 1816; died January 2, 1855; u11- married. 10. Samuel Howell, born June 30. 1818: died January 27, 1883; married ( first)
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