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(VI) Michael, son of Thomas and Mary (Taylor) Newbold, was born in Bordentown, New Jersey, in 1794, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1875. He was educated in private schools and spent his life as a gentle- man of leisure, his father having bequeathed him a most ample fortune, a part of which con- sisted in the "island situated in Delaware river within the jurisdiction of the state of Pennsylvania, called League Island, and 'the lot of land I purchased on the Pennsylvania shore of Adam Seckle.'" He also inherited the plantation which his grandfather had bequeathed to his father. The League Island property Michael Newbold sold for $40,000. He married, in 1821, Esther Lowndes. Chil- dren : I. Joseph Lowndes. 2. Martha Lowndes. 3. Mary M. 4. Caroline. One of these three daughters married William Whar- ton Hollingsworth, of the distinguished Phila- delphia family of that name. 5. Thomas, mar-
ried Sarah D. Irvine. 6. Alexander E. 7. Josiah L. 8. Helen, referred to below.
(VII) Helen, daughter of Michael and Esther (Lowndes) Newbold, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 23, 1836, and is now living unmarried at 260 South Twenty- first street, Philadelphia.
(V) William (2), son of William (I) and Susanna (Stevenson) Newbold, was born in Chesterfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, April 6, 1770, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August II, 1841. Between 1791 and 1795, shortly after reaching his majority, he removed to Philadelphia, where he engaged in business with his youngest brother John, at 60 North Water street, as a commission merchant. Shortly afterwards the brothers associated with themselves William Mont- gomery, the firm name becoming Montgomery & Newbolds. This partnership was dissolved about 1806, and William Newbold went to Delaware, where he built a cotton mill near Newark, the machinery being imported from England. The mill, after being finished and equipped and in running order, was destroyed by fire two days after the expiration of the insurance policy, whereby great loss was entailed. Mr. Newbold subsequently returned to Philadelphia and resided there, on Eleventh street, until his death. He married, November 15, 1794, Mary, daughter of John and Abigail (Gilbert) Smith, who died April 9, 1816. For this marriage, she not being a Quaker, he was disowned by Friends. Children : I. John Smith, born 1795, died 1815, unmarried. 2. Sarah, born 1797, died 1816, unmarried. 3. Susan, born 1799, died 1859, unmarried. 4. Abby Ann, born 1801 ; married Abraham L. Coxe, M. D., and her daughter Isabel married Edward Patterson, related to the Philadelphia family of that name, and judge of the supreme court of New York. 5. Mary B., born 1804, died 1859; married John Singer, and became grandmother of the distinguished artist. John Singer Sargent. 6. William Henry, referred to below. 7. Richard Smith, born December 27, 1808; died January 18, 1883 ; married Ellen da Costa. of the Island of St. Croix, Danish West Indies, and became father of the present John da Costa Newbold, of Philadelphia; of Mrs. George Dickson, whose husband was chairman of the Government Bank of Bengal, India ; of Mrs. Walter Howard Cooke, of Norristown, Pennsylvania ; and of Mrs. Ferdi- nand LaMotte, of Wilmington, Delaware. 8. Emma, born 1811; married Francis DeHaes
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Janvier, of the well known Delaware family of that name, and became mother of the cele- brated author, Thomas A. Janvier.
(VI) William Henry, son of William and Mary (Smith) Newbold, was born in Newark, Delaware, in 1807, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1862. No member of the Newbold line in that city has been better known or more highly respected. He estab- lished the brokerage firm of William H. New- bold's Son & Company, which was for many years one of the leading and most conservative of the financial houses of Philadelphia. From 1850 to 1855 he was a vestryman of Christ Church, and he was one of the founders of the former parish of St. Philip's, and of the church at Jenkintown. The latter church he built for the most part himself. He married, in 1830, Calebina, daughter of Caleb and Maria (Graeff) Emlen; (see Emlen). Chil- dren: 1. John Smith, referred to below. 2. Maria Emlen, born 1833, died July 16, 1906; unmarried. 3. Arthur Emlen, born 1834, died 1851, unmarried. 4. Emma, referred to below. 5. Katharine, born January 13, 1845; married, April 28, 1864, Alfred, son of Henry John and Anna Margaretta (Pancoast) Boller, formerly of Philadelphia, now of East Orange, New Jersey, his mother being of the distinguished Pancoast family of New Jersey ; children : Mrs. William Birdsall, William Newbold Boller, Alfred Pancoast Boller, Richard Emlen Boller, and Mrs. Joseph M. Stanford. 6. Mary Littell, born February 22, 1847; died November 7, 1870; unmarried. 7. William Henry, born December 31, 1850; married Roberta Grey.
(VII) John Smith, son of William Henry and Calebina (Emlen) Newbold, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1831, and died there in 1887. He was educated in the public schools, became one of the wealth- iest bankers in the city, and was noted for the amounts which he bestowed in charity. He married Anna Buckley. Children: 1. Clement Buckley, born July 25, 1857. 2. Arthur Emlen, born August 5, 1859; married Rita, daughter of Fitz Eugene and Catharine (Dallas) Dixon. 3. Ellen G., died in infancy. 4. Emily B., referred to below. 5. Penrose B., born November 1, 1868; died 1869. 6. Anna B., born January 3, 1871. 7. John Smith, born October 2, 1874.
(VIII) Emily Buckley, daughter of John Smith and Anna (Buckley) Newbold, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1865. She married, April 29, 1891, William
J. Taylor, M. D., of Philadelphia, a member of the distinguished southern family of that name. Children: I. Phoebe E. Taylor, born March 3, 1892; died March 19, 1894. 2. Clement Newbold Taylor, born September 13, 1893. 3. Marian Taylor, born March 9, 1895. 4. William J. Taylor Jr., born July 3, 1896. 5. Francis, born April 23, 1903.
(VII) Emma, daughter of William Henry and Calebina (Emlen) Newbold, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1839. She mar- ried Richard S. Brock, of Philadelphia, and is now living at 2032 Spruce street, Philadelphia.
(III) Michael (3), son of Michael (2) and Rachel (Cleayton) Newbold, was born in Springfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, October 8, 1706, and died in Chester- field township, Burlington county, in 1763. When his father's estate was divided he received the tract which his father had pur- chased of Nicholas Brown in 1704, and here in 1736 he erected a large brick house, still standing (1910), about a mile from the resi- dence of his brother Thomas. During his life he made considerable real estate purchases, including a tract in Kensington, Philadelphia county, and at his death, left much property, real and personal, the latter alone amounting to the almost unprecedented sum for that period of £6353. He held numerous local offices, including chosen freeholder, collector and sur- veyor of highways. He was not a birthright Friend, but was identified with the Quakers, being at one time trustee of the Springfield Monthly Meeting, and a representative to the Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia. He married (first) Susanna, daughter of John and Frances (Taylor) Scholey, (see Scholey and Taylor) ; married (second) Esther, daughter of Samuel and Esther (Overton) Wilson, and widow of Henry Coates. Children, all by first marriage : I. John, referred to below. 2. Ann, referred to below. 3. Cleayton, referred to below. 4. Rebecca. 5. Mary. 6. Michael. 7. Joseph, born November 18, 1745; died April 7, 1790; he was a man of unusual prominence and abil- ity ; besides holding numerous local offices, such as overseer of roads, township collector, commissioner of appeals and chosen free- holder, he was a member of the General Assembly of New Jersey which met October 3, 1775, and was appointed a member of the committee "to prepare an estimate of the expense necessary to put this colony in a posture of defense at this present time." He was also a member of the Provincial Congress which met at New Brunswick, January 31,
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1776, and of the General Assembly which met at Princeton, August 27, 1776. With his cousin, William Newbold, he was disowned by Friends as mentioned above, for his advo- cacy of armed resistance. He was unmarried, but left the bulk of his property to his two adopted sons, Charles and John Newbold. 8. Samuel, died in 1795; married Mary 9 Susanna, referred to below.
(IV) John, son of Michael and Susanna (Scholey) Newbold, was born in Chesterfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, February 18, 1730-1, and died there in No- vember, 1769. He lived on the farm given to him by his father, on the road leading from Georgetown to Bordentown, New Jersey. He was surveyor of highways for several years, and also township collector. He married, June 3, 1756, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Lippincott) Cole; (see Cole). Chil- dren: I. Rachel, referred to below. 2. Martha, married Reeve. 3. Ann, mar- ried Offley. 4. Samuel, married Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Raper) Hos- kins, and sister to Abigail Hoskins, who mar- ried Prof. John Griscom, of Burlington, reputed to be the finest American scholar of his day. (See Griscom in index).
.(V) Rachel, daughter of John and Mary (Cole) Newbold, was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, February 26, 1759, and died near Mount Holly, New Jersey, March 9, 1824. She married her second cousin, Dan- iel, son of Caleb and Sarah (Haines) Newbold, referred to above.
(IV) Ann, daughter of Michael (3) and Susanna (Scholey) Newbold, was born in Chesterfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, July 2, 1733, and died January 26, 18II. She married, after her father's death in 1763, Anthony Taylor, (see Taylor).
(IV) Cleayton, son of Michael (3) and Susanna (Scholey) Newbold, was born in Chesterfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, August 7, 1737, and died at "Clover- dale," Burlington county, September 7, 1712. He inherited from his father the tract of land now known as "Cloverdale," and upon it he erected in 1764 a brick house very much like those built by his father and uncles, and there spent his life. Besides holding local offices in his county he served a term in the New Jersey legislature in 1784. He married, October 25, 1759, Mary, born February 12, 1740-41, died March 31, 1809, daughter of William and Hannah (Core) Foster. Children : 1. Charlotte, married John, brother to the eminent Philadel-
phia physician, Dr. Casper Wistar, previously imentioned. Of her ten children, John mar- ried Margaret, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Lawrie) Newbold, referred to above; Mary, married Isaac Davis, and became grandmother of Mrs. Charles Wheeler, the mother of Mrs. Richard McCall Elliott and of the Countess Pappenheim; while other children are repre- sented to-day by Caleb Cresson Wistar, and Dillwyn Wistar, both of Germantown. 2. Will- iam, married Hannah Watson; and of his eight children, i. Cleayton, married Susan Hough, daughter of Joseph and Ann (Hough) Trotter, and granddaughter of Samuel and Susanna (Newbold) Hough, her great-grand- mother being Susanna, daughter of Michael (3) and Susanna (Scholey) Newbold, referred to below ; and ii. William Foster, married Eliz- abeth, sister to the celebrated Philadelphia physician, Dr. Joseph Pancoast, and a descend- ant of the Stockton family of New Jersey. 3. George, married (first) Mary Emlen, (sec- ond) Anne Mickle Fox ; removed about 1797 to New York City, where he obtained promi- nence in the business world and became presi- dent of the Bank of America, and an official in many other financial and charitable institu- tions. 4. Cleayton, married, 1813, Beulah, daughter of Joseph M. and Edith ( Newbold) Lawrie, referred to above; his daughter Edith married Joseph Hough, son of Joseph and Ann (Hough) Trotter, and granddaughter of Sus- anna, daughter of Michael (3) and Susanna (Scholey) Newbold, referred to below. 5. Elizabeth. 6. Susan. 7. Rebecca. 8-12. Names unknown.
(IV) Susanna, daughter of Michael (3) and Susanna (Scholey) Newbold, was born in Chesterfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, February 3, 1749-50, and died August 22, 1815. She married Samuel Hough. Chil- dren : I. Mary Hough, married Samuel, son of Caleb and Sarah (Haines) Newbold, referred to above. 2. Susan Hough, married Nathan Trotter. 3. Ann Hough, married Joseph, brother to Nathan Trotter ; and two of her children, Susan Hough Trotter, who mar- ried Cleayton Newbold, and Joseph Hough Trotter, who married Edith Newbold, are referred to above. 4. Joseph Hough. 5. Charlotte Hough.
(The Haines Line).
(III) Samuel, son of William and Sarah (Paine) Haines (see Haines in index), was born in 1705. He married, in 1734, Lydia, daughter of Thomas and Deliverance ( Hor-
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ner ) Stokes; (see Stokes). Children: Jacob, married, 1765, Bathsheba Burrough; Sarah referred to below; Samuel, married (first) Elizabeth Buzby, (second) Mary Stevenson ; Thomas, married Elizabeth Mullen.
(IV) Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Stokes) Haines, married, in 1754 or 1755, Caleb, son of Thomas and Edith (Coate) Haines, referred to above.
"The Welsh Line).
William Welsh, of Philadelphia, married Mary Ross, daughter of Caleb, son of Daniel and Rachel (Newbold) Newbold. Children : John; Elizabeth Ross; and Edith Newbold, referred to below; William; 5-7. Names unknown.
(II) Elizabeth Ross, daughter of William and Mary Ross (Newbold) Welsh, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1836. She married, in Philadelphia, June 4, 1861, Charles William Cushman, son of Bezaleel and Emma Motley (de Longueville) Cushman, of Portland, Maine, who was born July 25, 1831, came to Philadelphia when he was nineteen years old and for the past half century has been a prominent merchant and expert accountant in that city. His home is at Rosemont, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania. Children : Emma de Longueville Cush- man ; William Ross Cushman; Edith Newbold Cushman.
(II) Edith Newbold, daughter of William and Mary Ross (Newbold) Welsh, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in January, 1855. She married, April 15, 1880, William Drayton, of Philadelphia. Children: William, M. D., born January 27, 1881 ; Newbold, De- cember 14, 1883; Harry C., April 5, 1887; John Welsh, April 29, 1894.
(The Stevenson Line).
Thomas Stevenson, the founder of this fam- ily, was born in London, England, in 1615, and died in Newtown, Long Island, shortly before July 7, 1668. He was the descendant of a family whose ancestor, for services rendered to William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings, was rewarded by a grant of land in Scotland, south of Glasgow, where the present town of Steventon now is. Thomas Steven- son landed in Virginia about 1643, and removed shortly afterwards to Long Island, where he served under Captain John Under- hill against the Indians. He then settled in Southold, Long Island, with the colony from Connecticut, brought thither by Captain
Underhill and later removed to Newtown. He married, August 15, 1645, Maria ( Bullock ) Bernard, widow of William Bernard, of West- chester county, New York. Children: John, died about 1670, unmarried ; Thomas, referred to below ; Edward, born about 1650, died Sep- tember 12, 1700, married Charity Field ; Sarah, married Patrick Hires, or Harris.
(II) Thomas, son of Thomas and Maria (Bullock-Bernard) Stevenson, was born prob- ably about 1648, and died in 1734. He inher- ited a part of his father's plantation in New- town, where he lived and died. He held in succession the various offices that are within the province of a small town. From 1676 to 1678 he was overseer, the equivalent of mayor, of Newtown, and the last year also served as constable. March 3, 1684, he and his brother Edward were among the commissioners "to look out for a place of settlement next to the Dutch." October 20, 1685, he was commis- sioned justice of the peace of Queens county, and in the succeeding year was one of the granters to whom the new charter of New- town was given. May 16, 1706, he was a member of the boundary dispute commission, and in 1713 he was a member of the committee to defend Newtown in its land suits. In relig- ion Thomas Stevenson was first a Congrega- tionalist, but after his second marriage became affiliated with the Society of Friends, and about this period began to buy land partly in Monmouth county, East Jersey, but mostly in Burlington county, West Jersey. To this land four of his sons removed. His other children remained on Long Island. He married (first), February, 1672, Elizabeth, only daughter of Captain William Lawrence, by his first wife, whose name is unknown. Her stepmother. Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith, of Mishaguakt, Long Island, married (second) after Captain Lawrence's death, Sir Philip Carteret, first governor of East Jersey, and Elizabethtown, New Jersey was named in her honor. After her second husband's death her stepmother married Colonel Richard Townley, of Elizabethtown. Thomas Stevenson married (second) Ann, who is believed to have been a Field. Children, four by first marriage: I. Thomas, born about 1674; died about 1719; married Sarah (Jenings) Pennington, eldest daughter of Governor Samuel Jenings, of West Jersey. 2. William, born in 1676, died in 1724; married Ann Jening, sister to wife of his brother Thomas. 3. John, referred to below. 4. Elizabeth, died unmarried, Novem- ber 27, 1703. 5. Nathaniel, born about 1685.
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died in 1736; married Mary Rockhill. 6. Dan- iel, born 1692, died 1754; married Elizabeth Willett. 7. Stephen, died about 1731 ; married Jane Clement. 8. Susanna, born July 12, 1694, died March 23, 1723; married Thomas Betts. 9 Ann, died May 19, 1724; married, Novem- ber 10, 1715, Samuel Thorne.
(III) John, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Lawrence) Stevenson was born in Newtown, Long Island, about 1678, and died in Hunter- don county, New Jersey, in 1744. About 1699 he removed to Nottingham township, Burling- ton county, New Jersey, where he remained till the death of his first wife. He then removed to a plantation in Hunterdon county, on the west side of the road from Quakertown to Ringoes, two miles south of the former vil- lage. He became one of the founders of the first Friends' Meeting in New Jersey, north of the Falls of the Delaware, known as the Bethlehem, Kingwood, or Quakertown, Monthly Meeting. In December, 1739, he was appointed justice of the quorum for Hunter- don county. He married (first) in May, 1706, Mercy, daughter of Governor Samuel Jenings, and sister to the wives of his brothers William and Thomas. He married (second) in No- vember, 1724, Margaret, daughter of William and Mary Wood, of Leiscestershire, England, who emigrated to Burlington in 1677 in the "flie-boat" Martha. She was born in Burling- ton county, December 26, 1693. Children by first marriage six : I. Thomas, born about 1707 ; married Sarah Whitehead. 2. John, married, April, 1739, Martha Walton. 3 Samuel, died about 1792; married Elizabeth 4. Ann, born about 1711, died Sep- tember 24, 1742 ; married Daniel, son of Jacob and Amy (Whitehead ) Doughty; (see Doughty in index). 5. Abigail, married, June or July, 1742, Peter Smoak. 6. Mercy, born about 1719 or 1720; married, 1744, Benjamin Williams. 7. William, born February I, 1730; died August 30, 1807; married Mary Bunting. 8. Susanna, referred to below. 9. Mary, died unmarried, July II, 1818.
(IV) Susanna, daughter of John and Mar- garet (Wood) Stevenson, was born in Hun- terdon county, New Jersey, in 1736. She mar- ried, in April, 1757, William, son of Thomas and Edith (Coate) Newbold, referred to above.
(The Taylor Line).
Samuel Taylor, the founder of this family, was born in the parish of Dore, county Derby, England, and died in Chesterfield township, Burlington county, in 1723. He emigrated to
this country as a young man in the "flie boat" Martha, which arrived at Burlington, New Jersey, in 1677. He was one of the proprietors of West Jersey, owning one thirty-second of a share in the province which had been conveyed to him by his brother William Taylor, of Dore, county Derby, England, who had pur- chased the property from George Hutcheson. Samuel Taylor having lost his deed to this property, Hutcheson reconveyed it to him in 1681, and Samuel had a part of it surveyed for him in Chesterfield township, where he settled, married and died. He married, in the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, at the house of William Black, whose wife Alice (née) Tay- lor, was probably his sister, 2 mo. 14, 1686, Susanna, daughter of Marmaduke Horsman, of White Hill and Chesterfield. Children: I. Samuel, married 9 mo. 29, 1716, Ann Folkes. 2. Mary, married 2 mo. 12, 1722, Robert Field ; her grandson, Robert Field, married Abigail, daughter of Richard and Annis (Boudinot ) Stockton, whose father was a Signer of the Declaration of Independence ; her grand- daughter Maria married Richard Stockton, son of the Signer, and father of Hon. Com- modore Robert Field Stockton, of the United States navy and senate. 3. John. 4. Sus- anna. 5. Sarah, married, May or June, 1728, Joseph Rockhill. 6. Frances, referred to below. 7. George. 8. William. 9. Robert, referred to below.
(II) Frances, daughter of Samuel and Sus- anna (Horsman) Taylor, married (first) Joseph, son of George and Hannah Nicholson, of Burlington county, and (second) John, son of John and Isabel Scholey, (see Scholey).
(II) Robert, son of Samuel and Susanna (Horsman) Taylor, was born in Chesterfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, and died there between December 30, 1755, and February 27, 1758, the dates of the execution and proving of his will. He was the executor of his father's will and inherited a large por- tion of the homestead tract, which remained in the possession of his descendants until quite recently. This tract of five hundred acres was the historic Brookdale Farm. He married, in May, 1728, Sarah Woodward, who probably died before him, as she is not mentioned nor provided for in his will. Children: Anthony, referred to below ; Isaac ; Robert ; Mary.
(III) Anthony, son of Robert and Sarah ( Woodward) Taylor, was born at Brookdale Farm, Burlington county, New Jersey, and died there in January or February, 1785. He fell heir to Brookdale at his father's death,
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and all of his children were born there. In his own will he bequeathes the property to his son Michael. He was an ardent patriot during the revolution, and rendered material service to the cause of national liberty and independence. He married his first cousin maternal, Anne, daughter of Michael and Sus- anna (Scholey) Newbold; (see Michael New- bold (III), above, and for whose maternal ancestry see Scholey). Children: Robert; Michael; Anthony, referred to below; Mary, referred to below; Sarah; Ann, referred to below.
(IV) Anthony (2), son of Anthony (I) and Ann (Newbold) Taylor, was born at Brookdale Farm, Chesterfield township, Bur- lington county, New Jersey, in 1772, and died at "Sunbury," Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1837. In accordance with the direc- tions given in his father's will, he was kept at school until after he was fifteen years of age, and was then apprenticed to John Thompson, a prominent merchant of Philadelphia, to be trained for a mercantile and business career. Here he remained until he became of age, when he formed a partnership with Thomas Newbold, who later became also his brother- in-law; and under the firm name of Taylor & Newbold they engaged in an extensive trade with the East Indies. In 1810 he retired from active business and settled at Sunbury, his beautiful country seat in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, which had been for several years before this his summer resi- dence. He subsequently purchased several other large tracts of land in the lower part of Bucks county, and at the time of his death was the largest landholder in the county. He married, in 1802, Mary, daughter of Caleb and Sarah (Haines) Newbold; (see Caleb New- bold (IV) above). Children: Robert and Anthony, referred to below; Sarah, married Dr. Allen; William; Edward Lawrence ; Michael ; Caleb Newbold, referred to below; Mary Ann; Thomas; Emma L .; Franklin, referred to below.
(V) Dr. Robert, son of Anthony and Mary (Newbold) Taylor, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 1I, 1803, and died at "Sun- bury," Bristol township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, in August, 1872. On reaching man- hood he settled in Philadelphia, afterwards removing to Burlington county, New Jersey, and late in life returned to Sunbury, where he died at the age of sixty-nine years, and was buried in the churchyard of St. James the Less, Philadelphia, the resting place of many of his
relatives. He married Elizabeth Ash, daugh- ter of Benjamin Jones of Philadelphia, who was born in 1813, and died at "Sunbury," Jan- uary 29, 1893, aged eighty years. She was a great-granddaughter of John, son of Edward Jones, of Merion, Philadelphia county, one of the prominent colonial land owners, who mar- ried, 9 mo. 12, 1717, Mary, daughter of Jacob and Amy (Whitehead) Doughty; (see Doughty in index). Children of Dr. Robert and Elizabeth Ash (Jones) Taylor: Benjamin Jones and Anthony, referred to below ; Rob- ert, born May, 1839, died young ; Alice Jones, referred to below; Fanny, born 1845, died 1846.
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