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William Lippincott, the son of Caleb and Hannah Wills Lippincott, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Folwell ; they had eight children-Thomas, Samuel, Anna, Elizabeth, Mary, Deborah, Hannah and William. Thomas married Anna Stanger; their children were Joseph, Isaac, Anne, Daniel,
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Abigail Scull, Rebecca and Elizabeth. Samuel, the son of William, was twice married ; by his first wife he had four chil . dren -- Ann F., Nathan T., Samuel M., and George Lippincott ; the latter is deceased. Nathan T. Lippincott was twice married; his first wife was Mary, the daughter of Caleb Borton; she died, leaving five children ; his second wife was Priscilla, the daughter of Ebenezer Wright. Samuel married the daughter of Jonathan Cawley by his second wife. Nathan married Priscilla, daughter of the late Ebenezer Wright, of Manning- ton. Samuel's second wife was Abbie, the daughter of Thomas Laurie, of Woodstown ; they had issue. Anne, daughter of William and Elizabeth Lippincott, married a Buzby; she joined the Shakers. Elizabeth, the second daughter of William Lip- pineott, married Thomas Borton, of Woodstown; they removed many years ago to Springfield, Ohio. Mary, the third daughter, died single. Deborah, the fourth daughter, is deceased. Han- nah Lippincott resided in 1848 with Thomas Borton, in Ohio. William, the youngest son of William and Elizabeth Lippincott, followed the butchering business in Salem for many years ; he married Hannah Wright, of Quaker Neck, the grand-daughter of Ebenezer Miller, Jr. William and his wife Hannah had two children-William and Priscilla Lippincott. William married Elizabeth, daughter of David and Mary Engle Davis ; they had issue; their daughter, Letitia, married Robert, the son of Aaron and Mary Fogg, of Salem.
Benjamin, son of Jacob and Mary B. Lippincott, married Hope Willis, a sister of his brother Caleb's wife, in 1741. He resided on and owned a large tract of land adjoining Caleb Lippincott, in the lower part of Gloucester, near the Salem county line. Benjamin and his wife Hope Lippincott had three sons-Aaron, Benjamin, and Jethro. Aaron, the eldest son, married, and had two sons-John and Benjamin, both of whom married, and owned and resided on the property that their grandfather purchased. Benjamin H., the second son of Aaron Lippincott, married and had one son-Benjamin P., who subse- quently married Ann Dewell, a lineal descendant of Samuel Lippincott, an eminent minister, and a member of the Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends. Samuel was the son of Freedom Lippincott, who was the son of Richard Lippincott, the emigrant. Ann Dewell's mother by her first husband had two sons, Samuel P. and James Lippincott. The latter lived most of his time at Mullica Hill, Gloucester county. Benjamin P. Lippincott's second wife was Rebecca Howe; they had issue-Isaac, Barclay, and Lydia. Barclay was a tailor, and carried on his business on
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Market street, Philadelphia. Joshua, the son of Jacob and Mary Burr, married Rebecca Wood, and had three children. James, the eldest, was born 20th of 3d month, 1768; died 17th of 8th month, 1822. Jane, their daughter, born 28th of 3d month, 1770, married Morgan Hollingshead, of Moorestown, N. J. Joshua, the youngest son of Joshua and Rebecca Lippincott, was born 23d of 10th month, 1774, and died 16th of 12th month, 1805. He married Esther, the daughter of Jacob Davis, of Woodstown, the 27th of 11th month, 1800. They had one daughter, Lydia Lippincott, who was born 16th of 9th month, 1801, and married David, the youngest son of Gideon and Sarah Scull, in 1823. The Lippincott family is one of the most numerous in the State of New Jersey. I will not attempt to follow the different branches further. James S. Lippincott, of Haddonfield, I have been informed, intends writing a full history of the large and interesting Lippincott family.
I have recently received information from Gideon Delaphine Scull, now a resident of England, in regard to the ancestors of his family in England. After much investigation he has ascer- tained that there was a clergyman in London by the name of JohnScull in the reign of Charles I, and in the year 1630 was repelled from his living by Archbishop Laud, because he would not conform to the new church rituals. Soon after that event he left England and went to Holland ; he likewise writes that he recently found a will of Alice Skull, a widow, of Brink- worth, county of Wiltshire, written in 1649, in which she says that it is reported to her that her son, John Scull, has gone into another country, and she does not know if he will ever return to claim what she leaves him. According to that infor. mation, John Scull must have emigrated from Holland about 1660, and located himself on Long Island, in America. By the records, his son Jolin Scull located on a large tract of land at Great Egg Harbor as early as 1690; the said lands lay adjoining John Somers'. Jolin Scull's wife was Saralı Somers, and it is probable she was the sister of John Somers. John and Sarah Scull had several children. Their son, Gideon, mar- ried Judith, the daughter of James and Margery Belange; they had several children. At the first settlement of the prov- ince of Pennsylvania there was one Nicholas Scull, an eminent surveyor, who resided in Philadelphia, and who left a family of children; it does not appear that they are near connections of the family that lived at Long Island, and afterwards at Egg Har- bor; although they might have originated from the same parents in England. Respecting the descendants of Nicholas
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Scull my knowledge is limited. There is a record of a family that was buried in Friends' graveyard in Philadelphia, which . says that James Scull, son of Edward and Sarah, was buried 29th of 4th month, 1717. Sarah, the wife of Nicholas Scull; was buried Sth month, 1717. Elizabeth Scull, daughter of James, was buried 29th of 6th month, 1740. Sarah, the daughter of Joseph Scull, buried 5th month, 1748. Abigail Scull, daughter of the same parents, buried 9th month, 1749. William Scull, son of William, buried 3d of 10th month, 1768. Comfort Scull, wife of William, buried 14th of 9th month, 1775. Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Scull, was buried 17th of 4th month, 1792.
LAWSON FAMILY.
John Lawson, from whom the family of that name in Salem descended, was born in Liverpool, England, of Quaker parent- age, in the year 1756. In early life he learned the coopering business ; it appears soon after he learned his trade, he emigrated to America, and located himself at Salem, and followed his trade together with William Perry as a partner. He also was a member of the Society of Friends. They both continued at that business until the Revolutionary war broke out. John left the religious society, of which he was born a member, and joined the first Battalion of New Jersey, of Captain William Helm's company. Soon after peace was declared, he married Jane White, of Salem, in 1788; they had three sons and one daughter. . Edward, their son, born in 1790; was a seaman, and was one of the six Jerseymen that was lost during a heavy gale, on the night of 20th of 12th month, 1819, on the shoals off Barnegat, while taking the Spanish brig, Le Tigre, which had been taken on a voyage from Laguira to Cadiz, by the South American Privateer, Constitution, Captain Brown, who put a prize crew on board, who mutinied and brought her into the Delaware bay and up the Cohansey creek, where she was seized by James D. Westcott, Collector of the Port. The Spanish Consul at New York put in a claim in the United States Court, in behalf of the Spanish Government, for the vessel and cargo, which was decided in their favor. A new crew was put on board to take her from Bridgeton to New York; the company was composed of the following persons : Edward Lawson, from Salem; Howell Mulford, Charles Dare, Thomas Whitney, Talınan Mulford and Oliver Russell, from Bridgeton; and two Span- iards, Nicholas Carrega and Gregario Montot. During the storin the vessel went on the shoals and all on board perished. Samuel Lawson, the second son of John and Jane Lawson, born in 1791, was a hatter by trade, and died in 1836; he worked for many years as journeyman hatter for the late Delzin Keasbey. John Lawson, the third son of John and Jane Lawson, was born in 1793; he learned the trade of a blacksmith
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with James Dennis, of Salem. IIe showed in early life that uncommon industry which was characteristic of him during his long pilgrimage in this world of care. When he was an apprentice, instead of going about the streets in the evenings as most other apprentice boys did, he sawed wood whenever he could get an opportunity so to do ; he husbanded his earnings so much so, when he became of age he had nearly enough means within himself to start the business of blacksmithing ; and by close application to his trade he acquired a competency for himself and family, also to educate his children to fit them for business. Mary Lawson, daughter of John and Jane Lawson, was born in 1795, married Thomas James ; they had three sons-Edward, James and Samuel James.
To digress, somewhat, there was a young man by the name of William Perry, who learned the trade of a blacksmith about the same time that John Lawson did, and I think with the same man. Perry's father was a partner of John Lawson, Sr., in the coopering business ; the two young men were quite intimate. William Perry, sixty years ago or more, went to Cincinnati and followed his trade at that place, and was very successful, and accumulated a large fortune. It appears by the account I have of him that he was greatly respected in his adopted city, so much so that one of the principal streets in Cincinnati was named Perry street to perpetuate his name. He was many years one of the most prominent members of Friends' Meeting in that city. A few years before the death of John Lawson, William Perry and his wife came East, and spent several days at Cape Island; before they returned home he was desirous of visiting his native town, and also to see the friend of his youth, John Lawson, which he and his wife did. He soon found his friend, but they did not know each other at first; but when they did recognize each other, after an absence of more than forty years, their feelings can better be imagined than described. John Lawson served in the war of 1812, for which he received a pension ; he married Elizabeth Lummis, of Salem, in 1819, and died 24th of 3d month, 1866, aged about seventy-three years. His father, John Lawson, brought over with him from England one of the first editions of Thomas Chalkly's journal, published in that Kingdom-a work which he much admired and read, and had his children's ages recorded in it. The book is still in possession of the family, which is highly prized as a family relie. John and Elizabeth Lawson had five children- Jane E., Mary, James D., John and Charles S. Lawson. Mary the second daughter, married Powell, the eldest son of William
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and Mary Carpenter, of Elsinboro. Powell and his wife, Mary Carpenter, had issue, one child, who died young before its father, which event took place in 1850. Mary's second husband is Evan C. Stotsenberg; they were married in 1872; he is a resident of Wilmington, Delaware, and a manufacturer in that city. James D. Lawson is a merchant in Woodstown ; his wife is Mary D., the eldest daughter of David and Annie Pancoast, of that town. James and his wife, Mary D. Lawson, have issue, two daughters-Annie P. and Emma S. Lawson. Charles S. Lawson, the youngest son of John and Elizabeth Lawson, married Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Eli S. Mulford ; they have four children-Elizabeth, John, Graham C. and Gertrude Lawson. Charles has been Mayor of the city of Salem several years, and makes an energetic and efficient officer. Jane E. and her brother, John Lawson, are single, and ocenpy the house in Salem where their parents lived.
GRISCOM, MADDOX AND DENN FAMILIES.
Andrew Griscom was a native of England, and emigrated to America in 1680. He purchased a large tract of land where South Camden is at the present day, and married Sarah Dole; they settled upon it and had two children-Tobias and Sarah Griscom. Tobias, his son, married Deborah Gabitas, and they settled on the lands he inherited from his father in Gloucester, now Camden ; they had the following children-Andrew, Samuel, William, Tobias and Mary Griscom. Andrew, the eldest, was a blacksmith by trade, and settled near Tuckahoe on lands that his grand-father had purchased several years previous; he married Susanna Hancock, daughter of John and Mary Chambless Hancock, of Alloways Creek, and had three chil- dren-Sarah, Everett and William Griscom. Sarah, the eldest, died in 1762, aged twenty years. Andrew, by his second wife, Mary, had three children-Mary, Andrew, born 1755, and Deborah Griscom. Andrew married Letitia Tyler, of Green- wich, and had two sons-Benjamin, who married Susan Adams, of Penn's Neck ; his second wife was Rebecca, the widow of Joshua Thompson, of Elsinboro ; and Andrew Griscom, who was twice married, his first wife the daughter of Esther Baker ; by his last wife, Sarah Griscom, he had four children-Dorcas, Job, Martha and Ruth Ann Griscom. Samuel, the second son of Tobias and Sarah Griseom, was a house carpenter and ship builder ; he married, and carried on his trade in the city of Philadelphia, and resided for some time on Arch street, between Third and Fourth streets. It has been said he became in pos- session of a large landed estate in the city of Philadelphia. He assisted in the erection of Independence Hall. As to his chil- dren, and the other branches of the Griscom family I have not much knowledge of, but think his children were daughters. William Donaldson married Sarah Griseom, daughter of Samuel Griscom, about the year 1774 or '75 ; their daughter, Margaret Donaldson, was born in Philadelphia, 10th of 1st month, 1776, and is still living. In 1793 she married Joseph Boggs; in 1795 her husband died leaving one son, who is now dead.
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Margaret Boggs resides with her niece's husband, Dr. Stephen T. Beale, at Germantown. William Griscom, son of Tobias, married Sarah Davis, of Pilesgrove; they settled at Haddon- field, and had two daughters-Hannah and Deborah Griscom. Mary, the daughter of Tobias and Deborah Griscom, married Thomas Holloway.
John Maddox, the son of Ralph Maddox, was born in 1638, and in 1668 he removed to London, and resided in the parish of St. Sepulchre, where he followed the trade of a chandler. In 1669 he married Elizabeth Durham, the widow of Joseph Durham. They had one daughter born in London in 1671, named Eliza- beth. In 1678 he and his wife, and their daughter and son-in-law, Richard Durham, and his three servants-Thomas Oder, Thomas Hoatan, and Mary Stafford, sailed from London in the ship Surry, Captain Steven Nichols. They arrived at New Salem in the 9th month following. In 1682, James Maddox purchased one-half of William Hancock's allotment of 1,000 acres, located on the south side of Alloways creek, of Isabella Hancock, widow of William Hancock, who died in 1779. In 1700, James Maddox sold his property to Jeremiah Powell and Edward Hancock, and in the year 1688 Elizabeth Maddox, daughter of James Maddox, married James Denn. They had two children -Margaret and John; Margaret was born 29th of. 4th month, 1689, and John in 11th of 6th month, 1693. John married Elizabeth Oakford, daughter of Charles and Mary Oakford, in 1717. She was born at Alloways Creek, 17th of 3d month, 1698. Their children were Naomi, born in 1718, and John Maddox Denn, Jr., born 25th of 7th month, 1721. His wife Elizabeth Denn died about the year 1724. In 1725 he built his brick house which is still standing within a few rods of Alloways creek, now owned by one of his lineal descendants, William Bradway. John married his second wife in 1728,whose name was Leah Paul. There were two children by his last wife -Paul Denn, born in 1728, and their daughter, Leah Denn, born 18th of Sth month, 1731. John Maddox Denn departed this life in 1733. His son, John Denn, married Elizabeth Bacon, of Cohansey, daughter of John and Elizabeth Smith Bacon, in 1744. They had five children-Rachel, born 30th of 2d month, 1745; James, born 19th of 11th month, 1746; John, in 1751; David, born in 1756; Martha, in 1758. Rachel, their oldest daughter, married William Griscom, the son of Andrew Griscom, in 1773. They had six children-John, William, Everett, Samuel, Rachel, and David Griscom. William Griscom, when married, followed the saddle and harness making
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business in the village of Hancock's Bridge, and after a few years he purchased a farm in the township of Mannington, located near to a place called Guineatown, and at that place he and his wife resided until her death. Their oldest son, John Griscom, commenced teaching school in early life, and subse- quently married a young woman by the name of Haskins, and had several children. After her death, and in his old age, he married Rachel Denn, of Salem, daughter of John and Rhoda Denn. Many years of his life he taught school in the city of New York, and was considered one of the best scholars in that city. He was elected a professor in chemistry. When he was past middle age he went to Europe, where his name as a scholar preceded him. On his arrival in England he was at once intro- duced among the literary people of that Kingdom; also on the Continent-France, Belgium, Germany, and Netherlands. When he returned home he published an account of his travels, called his "Tour in Europe," which was much read at the time, and greatly admired for its easy and beautiful language. I think it is deficient in originality of thought, but upon the whole it is a credit to the author, and will perpetuate his name to posterity as one of the best American scholars in his time. Soon after- wards he traveled through most of the cities and towns of the Eastern and Middle states lecturing on Joseph Lancaster's system of education in common schools. The plan was generally adopted. He might be considered the father of that system in this country, as Joseph Lancaster was in England. His letters addressed to his mother during her last illness, whilst she was suffering with that loathsome disease, the cancer, will always reflect great credit to his memory for that kind and sympathetic feeling they expressed to a kind and affectionate parent in her great affliction.
William, their second son, was a blacksmith by occupation in his younger days ; his wife was Ann Stewart, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Stewart, of Salem; they had six children. Their names were Samuel, William, George, John, Mary and Charles Griscom. Samuel, their oldest son, when quite young opened a boarding school at Clermont, near Frankford, in Philadelphia county, at the same place where his uncle, David Griscom, had taught several years before. Greatly to his char- acter he made a home for his aged parents until he married ; his wife was Sidney Gillingham, the daughter of Yearness Gil- lingham ; they had four children. Samuel now resides at Galveston, Texas, with two of his sons. William Griscom, the second son, married Mary Stewart, the daughter of James and
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Anne Stewart, of Cumberland county; his wife died young leaving three children-Hannah, Wade and James Stewart; his second wife was Sarah Whitelock, of Frankford, the daughter of Isaac Whitelock ; he has three children by his last wife-Isaac, Anne and Sarah. George Griscom is a lawyer, and resides in Philadelphia; he married Mercy Brown; they have two or three children ; their names I am not acquainted with. John Griscom is a physician, and had a very large practice in the city of Philadelphia at one time, but his health failing him, of late years he has spent a considerable time in Europe for the purpose of reenperating his failing constitution ; he married Margaret Acton, of Salem, the daughter of Clement Acton, Sr. I believe they have three children-Clement, Hannah, the youngest, I believe, is a son, but his name I do not know. Mary Griscom married Samuel Stewart, of Indiana, who was a native of the county of Salem, and son of James Stewart, of Alloways Creek; there were no children by that connection ; he died a short time ago, and his widow is now a resident of Woodbury. Charles Griscom's wife was Elizabeth Powell, widow of Joseph Powell, and daughter of William Denn. Charles died within two years ago of the pulmonary consump- tion, leaving a widow and six children ; their names are Carrie, Lillie, Charles, Everett, Mary and William Griscom.
David Griscom, the fifth son of William and Ann Griscom, was above ordinary men in mental abilities, and a teacher the greater part of his life ; his first wife was Anne Whiteloek; she died young, leaving no children. After that event he resided in the city of New York, as a private teacher for one Joseph Walker, an English friend, to educate his two sons. About the time they were through with their education Joseph made an extensive tour in Europe with his two sons, and David accompanied them, and after their return to this country David married his second wife, she being a sister to the first one ; her name was Jane Whitelock. He purchased a farm near Wood- bury about that time, and started a nursery ; his physical health was never very strong ; he died a few years ago with that great scourge of the human family, pulmonary consumption, leaving a widow and six children to mourn their loss ; he was very cir- cuinspect in his life and conversation, and at his death there was a vacuum in general society in the neighborhood in which he dwelt that is not easily filled.
Everett Griseom, the third son of William and Rachel Griscom, was drowned, while bathing, about the sixteenth year of his age. The whole of that branch of the Griscom family
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were remarkable for acquiring education above most other children, and he was uncommonly precocious in his studies. The late Dalymore Harris, Esq., told me he went to the same school for some time with John, William, and Everett Griscom, and it was astonishing to him, and he had often reflected upon it during his life, how readily Everett Griseom comprehended any branch of learning he undertook to study. He left all the scholars behind; even his brother John, who was considered an adept in acquiring knowledge, could not compete with his brother Everett. Mathamaties he comprehended without any great effort; his reading he never heard equalled during his long life. This is the testimony of one respecting Everett Griscom, who was an excellent judge, and was himself a good seholar, and a practical surveyor. Persons of inquiring minds would inquire why a whole family of children should be so precocious in acquiring knowledge. I believe their intellect was transmitted from their mother. She was the grand-daughter of John and Elizabeth S. Bacon, both of whom, by all accounts, had more than common intellectual abilities. John was one of the Judges of Salem county for many years before Cumberland was set off from Salem. In those days men were elected to offiee according to their qualifications, not by political rings, which I fear is too often done at the present day without regard to their abilities, to fill such offiees to which they are elected, creditably to them- selves and beneficially to the public.
Samuel Griscom, fourth son, was a bricklayer, and followed his trade for many years in Philadelphia. He was subsequently chosen Superintendent of the Schuylkill Canal and Navigation Company. I believe he held that situation at the time of his death. His wife was Ann Powell, the daughter of Jeremiah Powell, of Alloways Creek. They are both deceased at the present time, leaving twelve children-Rachel, David, Sarah, Powell, Elizabeth, Samuel, Edwin, William, Horaee, Anne, Chalkley, and Emmeline.
David Griscom, their fifth son, married Rachel Stewart, widow of Joseph Stewart, of Salem. Her maiden name was Bradway, the daughter of William Bradway. David kept the Clermont boarding school, near Frankford, for several years. He after- wards purchased a farm in Chester county, Pennsylvania, gave up his school and removed to it, and there ended his days, leav- ing a widow and one daughter named Rachel. She afterwards married Artheneal Alsop's son, who, I believe, was a school teacher. Rachel Griscom, William and Rachel's daughter, married, when she was past middle age, Jolin Bullock, of
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Wilmington, Delaware, who kept a boarding school in that city.
James Denn, the oldest son of John and Elizabeth Denn, after the death of his father, became the owner of the patri- monial estate; his wife's maiden name, I believe, was Kirby, native of Upper Penn's Neck; they had seven children-Eliza- beth, Mary, James, John, Martha, Rachel and William. Their oldest daughter Elizabeth, married Mark Stewart. Mary Denn married Ezra Bradway. James Denn, Jr.'s wife was a Bacon ; she left two sons, and one daughter who married William Hunt. His oldest son, Theophilus Denn, died when he was about twenty-one years of age. Job Denn, his other son by his first wife, is still living, and resides in Salem at the present time. James' second wife was Mary Haines; there were five children by his last wife-Franklin, John, who is a carpenter, living in Salem, and three daughters. Martha Denn married Aaron Evans, she left two children-Mary and Charles Evans. Rachel Denn's husband was William Abbott, the oldest son of Samuel Abbott. Rachel left two children-John and Hannah Abbott. William Denn's wife was Mary Stewart, the daughter of James and Mary Stewart; they had seven children-Han- nah Ann, Beulah, Clayton, Samuel, Charles, Elizabeth and Mary.
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