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liam and Catharine Tyler, was born in 1801. She is considered by those persons that know her to be above mediocrity in point of intellect. I think she is still living. William Tyler, youngest son of William Tyler, when a young man made a long tour through the Western States. After his return he estab- lished himself in 1832 in the leather business in Philadelphia. There it was that his sister joined him and made one household until he married. He was persevering and diligent in his business, and it is said by untiring application became prosper- ous in his circumstances. He married in 1847 Ann Painter, daughter of Enos Painter, a farmer and extensive landholder in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He and his wife have two sons-William Enos Tyler, born in 1848, and John J. Tyler, born in 1851.
John Tyler, son of Samuel and Ann Tyler, was born in 1755. At the time of his brother William's marriage he bought prop- erty in the town of Salem, on Fourth street where his tan-yard was situated ; he built himself a dwelling house on said property in which he and his sister Mary resided. He followed the tan-
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ning business all his life, and at it he acquired considerable property. He was very unostentatious in his manners. A cotemporary said of him at his death " An honest man is gone." Late in life he became a member of the Society of Friends in whose mode of worship he was educated. He never married and died in 1825 aged more than seventy years. Mary Tyler, his sister, was born in 1756 ; she never married and spent most of her life with her brother John. She died in the meridian of life aged forty-eight years and a few months. Samuel Tyler, the youngest son of Samnel and Ann Tyler, was born in 1758. He married in 1796 Grace Acton, she being a widow. Her maiden name was Ambler. She was the daughter of Peter Ambler, of Mannington. Samuel Tyler about that time pur- chased a small farm adjoining his native home and went to farming, the said farm belongs at this time to Thomas B. Stow, of Salem. Their children were Ann and Elizabeth Tyler. Ann married Mark Smith, and by him had five children. Rebecca the oldest, married William Davidson ; Benlah Smith, the second daughter, married William Dorman ; Samuel Tyler Smith, Sarah Ann Smith and Elizabeth Smith. Samuel Tyler's daugh- ter, Elizabeth, married John Miller, of Gloucester county. They have seven children-Abigail, Lydia, Samuel Tyler, Emily, John Mason, Anna and Edward Miller. John Miller, father of the before mentioned children, lived near Paulsboro'; he was a pop- ular man in his native county, and was several times elected to the State Legislature, lastly was elected a Judge of the Court of the county.
Rebecca, the youngest daughter of Samuel and Ann Mason Tyler, was born in 1764. She lived in great retirement with her brother John Tyler until his death. She never married. At the death of her aunt, Mary Watson, and her sister Mary Tyler, she fell heir to a considerable sum of money. She built herself a house on Broadway, Salem, where she lived several years, but subsequently removed to Gloucester county, and spent the last years of her life with her niece, Elizabeth Miller. She died in 1843, aged seventy-nine years.
Nearly every family has an inclination for some particular occupation. This was the case to a remarkable degree in the ancient and respectable Tyler family. Their ancestor who em- igrated to this country was a tanner, and his descendants for four or five generations, particularly the Samuel Tyler line, have followed and are to the present time following the occupa- tion of manufacturing leather. It is likewise true of Benjamin Tyler's lineage, that many of them became eminent agricultur-
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ists ; particularly Job Tyler, and his son Job Tyler, Jr., late of Mannington or Quaker Neck. They are, as a whole, a family of retiring disposition, avoiding ostentatious show.
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Richard Tindall was one of Fenwick's executors and surveyor- general, chosen to that office in the year 1680 by John Fen- wick, after the disagreement between him and Richard Han- cock. He was also chosen by James Nevell to survey the lands belonging to Governor William Penn, within the bounds of Fenwick's tenth. Richard Tindall emigrated to this country in 1678, and soon afterwards purchased 500 acres of land being part of the allotment of land that was deeded to them in Penn's Neck in 1676 by their father John Fenwick. Part of the said land is now owned by Firman Lloyd, and was known formerly as Tindall Grove. His immediate family I have no knowledge of. His grandson, Benjamin Tindall, was born about the year 1720. Joseph Tindall, son of Benjamin and Hester Tindall, was born 16th of 6th month, 1749 ; and Mary Tindall, their daughter, was born in 1751. She married Elijah Ware, of Alloways Creek, he being a minister of the Society of Friends, and remarkable for his meek and quiet disposition. He and his wife left no children. By his will he devised that, after his widow's death, a small farm located in Penn's Neck should go to the Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends. Joseph Tindall, the brother of Mary, married and left two sons-Benjamin and Elijah W. Tindall. Benjamin married Rachel Thompson, the daughter of Andrew Thompson, of Elsinborough. She inherited a small farm in Penn's Neck from her grandfather, Samuel Nicholson, and on that farm Benjamin and his wife lived most of their time. A few years before his death Benjamin and his wife removed to Elsinborough on a farm formerly belonging to his wife's grandfather, Samuel Nicholson. Benjamin in a few years afterwards died there, leaving four or five children. Jo- seph Tindall, their eldest son, married Eliza Hancock, daughter of Thomas Hancock, Jr., and they had one daughter named Lydia Ann, who married Ebenezer Dunn, of Salem.
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John Thompson, the son of Thomas Thompson and Eliz- abeth his wife, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1635. An- drew Thompson, son of the same parents, was born in 1637. In 1658 Thomas and his wife Elizabeth, with their two minor sons, John and Andrew, removed from England to Ireland and located near Dublin. In the year 1665, John, the eldest son, married Jane Humbly, daughter of Thomas Humbly. John and his wife, Jane Thompson, had three children born in Ire- land. James, the son of John and Jane Thompson, was born in 1666. Ann, the daughter of John and Jane Thompson, 1st of 9th month, 1672. Mary, the daughter of John and Jane Thompson, was born 25th of 10th month, 1675 ; Thomas Hum- bly, the father of Jane H. Thompson, was a native of the county of Durham, England; but at the time of his daughter's mar- riage, resided in Ireland.
Andrew, the son of Thomas Thompson, married Isabella Mar- shill, daughter of Humphry Marshill. Andrew and his wife, Isabella Thompson, had three children born in Ireland. Eliz- abeth, the daughter of Andrew and Isabella Thompson, was born 15th of 8th month, 1666. William, the son of Andrew and Isabella Thompson, was born 9th of Sth month, 1669. An- drew, the son of Andrew and Isabella Thompson, was born 13th of 11th month, 1676.
In the year 1677, John and Andrew Thompson, with their wives and children, (John had one man servant, William Hall, who subsequently became one of the most eminent characters in Fenwick's Colony), set sail on the 16th of 9th month, in the ship called the Mary, of Dublin, John Hall, Captain, and landed at Elsinborough Point, in West Jersey, 22d of 12th month, the same year. About the year 1680, the brothers, John and An- drew Thompson, purchased of Richard Guy one-half of his allotment of land that he had purchased of John Fenwick, some few years previous. Andrew's location was near the mouth of Salem creek; he built himself quite a commodious house there. The said house was standing since the memory of the writer,
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and was known as the " emigrant house." John built and set- tled on the property that is known at the present time as the Morris Hall farm. John Thompson was a farmer, likewise a brewer, which he carried on extensively for home use, and also sent considerable quantity to Philadelphia and New Amsterdam. The old brew house was standing until about 1850. On his farm was the family burying ground of the Thompson family ; and after the property was sold in 1725 to John Hancock, of Hancock's Bridge, the family of Hancocks buried there for a number of years, and kept it in good repair ; but it, like other family burying grounds in Salem county, has been neglected of late years. The fence has gone down, and the plow has passed over the remains of some of the most useful emigrants that ever settled in the Salem tenth.
John Thompson, it appears, never took very active part in the civil affairs of the Colony; but was an active, useful member of Salem Monthly Meeting, and was an elder of the church many years previous to his death. He took an active part in erecting the first briek meeting house in West Jersey that there is any record of, on the Nicholson lot, in Salem. He had in a great measure, the care and oversight in building it, and gave £30 towards it, being the largest sum contributed by any one. He died about 1710, aged about seventy-nine years, leaving a son-James Thompson, who married a young woman resident of New Castle, State of Delaware. By that connection there were several children ; all died young, excepting one son.
James Thompson, son of James and Ann Thompson, was born in Elsinborough, the 26th of Sth month, 1712; when he became of age he sold the homestead of his grandfather, John Thompson, to John Hancock, of Alloways Creek, and went to the State of Delaware to reside, and married Sarah Wood. She possessed a large tract of land in her own right, it being near the state line, between Delaware and Pennsylvania. The prop- erty is still owned by some of the Thompson family. They are quite numerous at the present day.
Andrew, the brother of John Thompson, was more of a public man than his brother. He was appointed by Fenwick as one of his Justices of the Peace of the Colony ; from him the nu- merous family of the Thompsons in this county originated. Andrew and his wife Isabella Thompson had one son born in America-John Thompson. Their son was born in Elsinborough 23d of 4th month, 1684. Andrew died about 1696 aged nearly sixty years. Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Andrew and Isabella Thompson, was born in Ireland in 1666. She married
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Isaac Smart, who was the son of Roger Smart. Isaac was born in the county of Wiltshire, England, in 1658. He came to America in the ship Griffith, in company with the proprietor, in 1675. He and Elizabeth Thompson were married 25th of 2d month, 1683. Isaac and his wife owned and lived on Middle Neck, in Elsinborough, adjoining the Thompson property. They had five daughters and one son-Mary Smart, their eldest, was born 20th of 10th month, 1685; Sarah, the daugh- ter of Isaac and Elizabeth Smart, born 29th of 1st month, 1687; Nathan Smart, son of Isaac and Elizabeth Smart, born 20th of 6th month, 1690 ; Hannah, the daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Smart, born 8th of 6th month, 1692; Rebecca Smart, daughter of the same parents, born 23d of 12th month, 1695; Ann, the daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Smart, born 20th of 6th month, 1697. Isaac Smart died in 1700, and his widow, Elizabeth Thompson Smart, married Edward Keasbey in 1701 ; by him she had two sons and one daughter. [See Keasbey Family.]
William Thompson, the eldest son of Andrew and Isabella Thompson, purchased a large tract of land in Monmouth pre- cinct, where Allowaystown now is, and settled there. He was three times married. Joseph Thompson, the son of William and Sarah Thompson, was born 22d of 1st month, 1693; Wil- liam, the son of William and Jane Thompson, was born 16th of 3d month, 1795. Jane, the daughter of William by his third wife, Hannah Thompson, was born 29th of 7th month, 1700. Susanna, the daughter of William and Hannah Thompson, was born 26th of 8th month, 1704. Samuel Thompson, son of William and Hannah Thompson, was born 6th of 9th month, 1707. Mary, the daughter of William and Hannah Thompson, was born 21st of 11th month, 1710. Rebecca, the daughter of William and Hannah Thompson, was born 19th of 12th month, 1714. Benjamin, the son of William and Hannah Thompson, was born 11th of 8th month, 1719.
Andrew Thompson, 2d, son of Andrew and Isabella Thomp- son, married and settled on his father's property in Elsinborough. Jonathan, the son of Andrew, 2d and Rebecca Thompson, was born 16th of 9th month, 1697. Hannah, the daughter of Andrew and Rebecca Thompson, was born 12th of 1st month, 1699. Isabella, daughter of Andrew and Rebecca Thompson, was born 22d of 10th month, 1700. Andrew, the son of Andrew and Rebecca Thompson, was born 2d of 2d month, 1704. Thomas, son of Andrew and Rebecca Thompson, was born 28th of 11th month, 1707. Sarah, the daughter of An- drew and Rebecca Thompson, was born 8th of 2d month, 1709,
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Abraham, son of Andrew and Rebecca Thompson, was born 26th of 10th month, 1710. Joshua Thompson, son of Andrew by his second wife, Grace Thompson, was born 2d of 2d month, 1713. Thomas, son of Andrew and Grace Thompson, was born 21st of 7th month, 1719. Abraham, son of Andrew and Grace Thompson, was born 27th of 5th month, 1721. Jona- than, Isabella, Andrew and Thomas Thompson, children of Andrew by his first wife, Rebecca Thompson, died young.
Nathan Smart, the son of Isaac and Elizabeth Thompson Smart, was born 20th of 6th month, 1690 ; was married in 1713. Mary, their oldest daughter, was born 22d of 5th month, 1714; about that time he built an addition to the brick mansion that was built by his father in 1696, which is still standing. Eliza- beth, the daughter of Nathan and Deborah Smart was born 4th of 1st month, 1716. Hannah, the daughter of Nathan and Deborah Smart, born 23d of 12th month, 1718. Isaac, son of Nathan and Deborah Smart, was born 4th of 2d month, 1721. Edward, the son of Nathan and Deborah Smart, was born 14th of 5th month, 1724. Isaac, the eldest son of Nathan and Deborah Smart, mar- ried Ann Wilson in 1756. Isaac inherited the homestead farm in Elsinborough; he and his wife resided there whilst they lived, and raised a large family of children. Mary, the eldest child of Isaac and Ann Smart, was born 1st of 10th month, 1757 ; she lived to an advanced age and died in Salem. Nathan Wilson Smart, son of Isaac and Ann Smart, was born 20th of 12th month, 1759. Nathan remained single, and died in middle age. Isaac, the son of Isaac and Ann Smart, was born 2d of 3d month, 1761, and married Rebecca, the daughter of John and Mary Thompson, of Elsinborough. Isaac and his wife had nine chil- dren-Ann, Nathan, Mary, John, Deboralı, Rebecca, Hannah, Isaac and William Smart. Not one of the large and ancient family of the name of Smarts is a resident of Salem county at this time. Robert, the son of Isaac and Ann Smart, was born 19th of 11th month, 1763. Ann Smart, the daughter of the same parents, was born 25th of 11th month, 1765. She died in 1766. Ann Smart, daughter of Isaac and Ann Smart, was born 25th of 9th month, 1768. She married Samuel, the son of Jo- seph and Rebecca Abbott Brick. [See the Brick Family]. Jane, the daughter of Isaac and Jane Smart, was born 26th of 10th month, 1775. Some of the children of Isaac and Rebecca Thomp- son Smart are married and settled in the Western States.
Joseph, the son of William and Sarah Thompson, was born in 1693. He owned property not far from Remster's Mill, where he built a brick dwelling, which was removed by James Fries, and
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a new frame dwelling was erected near the site of the old one. The property at this time is owned and occupied by Daniel Dial. Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Thompson, was born 1st of 8th month, 1716. Jane, the daughter of Joseplı and Sarah Thompson, was born 7th of 8th month, 1718. Wil- liam, son of Joseph and Sarah Thompson, was born 30th of 8th month, 1720. Joseph, the son of Joseph and Sarah Thompson, was born 30th of 1st month, 1723; he married Mary Conden, of Mannington, in 1747 ; they had children. Samuel, the son of William and Hannah Thompson, was born in 1707, and married Edith Tyler, the daughter of William Tyler, 2d; they had issue. Their son Samuel Thompson, was a tanner and currier, and carried on his trade in the town of Salem ; they were the grand- parents of the late Joshua Thompson. Rebecca, the daughter of Samuel and Edith Thompson, married David Allen, of Man- nington. David and his wife, Rebecca T. Allen, had eight children-Hannah, Mary, Rebecca, Edith, Beulah, Samuel, Jedediah and Chambless Allen. Benjamin Thompson, son of William and Hannah Thompson, was born 11th of Sth month, 1719 ; he married Elizabeth Ware, daughter of Joseph Ware, 2d, and Elizabeth Walker, his wife, in 1745. Benjamin Thomp- son did a large amount of public business ; had also the charge of Richard Wistar's Glass Works near Allowaystown, whilst it was in existence. He and his wife had issue. His son, Benja- min Thompson, married a Willis ; they were the parents of the late James Thompson, of Upper Penn's Neck. William Thomp- son, the son of William and Hannah Thompson, married, and settled near Allowaystown; left children. His son, William, succeeded his father to the old homestead. The property was located near Stephen Reeve's Mill.
Joshua, the eldest son of Andrew Thompson, 2d, by his second wife, Grace Thompson, was born 2d of 2d month, 1713. He was twice married, and by his first wife he had two children. Andrew, the son of Joshua and Sarah Thompson, was born 29th of 5th month, 1739. Sarah, the danghter of Joshua and Saralı Thompson, was born 24th of 12th month, 1742. Joshua's second wife was Elizabeth Gibson, of Woodbury, Gloucester county, where her parents resided. Joshua and Rebecca Thomp- son, children of Joshua and Elizabeth Thompson, were born 8th of 6th month, 1748. John, the son of Joshua and Eliza- beth Thompson, was born 7th of 4th month, 1752. Joseph, the son of Joshua and Elizabeth Thompson, was born 26th of 3d month, 1756. Joshua was left a widower several years before his death, He was an elder and leading member of
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Salem Monthly Meeting for a number of years. It has been said of him, " that he was a true Israelite, without guile." He was more than four-score years old, at the time of his death. Andrew, the eldest son of Joshua Thompson, married Grace Nicholson, of Elsinborough, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Nicholson, of the same township; she was born 11th of 9th month, 1746. Andrew and his wife, Grace Thompson, had five children-Joshua, born 19th of 9th month, 1767; Sarah, born 20th of 1st month, 1769; Grace, was born 12th of 2d month, 1771 ; Rachel, born 7th of 5th month, 1773, and Samuel Nich- olson, born 23d of 5th month, 1777.
Joshua, son of Andrew and Grace Nicholson Thompson, married Rebecca, daughter of David and Rebecca Allen, of Mannington ; they had three children-Andrew, Ann and David Thompson. Andrew, their eldest son, was thrice mar- ried ; his first wife was Rebecca, the daughter of Samuel Abbott, of Mannington ; they had one daughter-Hannah Ann. An- drew's second wife was Ann Elkinton, of Port Elizabeth, daugh- ter of John Elkinton : Andrew and his wife had issue, four sons-Joshua, Clark, John and Andrew Thompson. Andrew's third wife was Mary Horner, widow of Charles Horner, and daughter of Benjamin Tyler, of Greenwich ; they had four children-David, Richard, Anna and Rebecca Thompson. Ann, daughter of Joshua and Rebecca Thompson, was twice married ; her first husband was Caleb, son of Samuel Lippincott, of Gloucester county ; they had three children-Samuel, David and Clark Lippincott. Her second husband was Joseph, son of Joseph and Mary Bassett; they are both deceased, leaving no issue. David, son of Joshua and Rebecca Thompson, when a young man left his native county, went and resided in the western part of the State of New York, where he ended his days ; he never married.
Sarah, the daughter of Andrew and Grace Nicholson Thomp- son, born 20th of 1st month, 1769, married Jacob, the son of John and Elizabeth Ware, of Alloways Creek; she was his second wife ; they had three children that lived to maturity- Sarah, David and Samnel Ware. [See the Ware Family.] Grace, daughter of Andrew and Grace N. Thompson, born 12th of 2d month, 1771, married Job Ware, brother of Jacob Ware. He died young, leaving one son-John Ware. Rachel, daugh- ter of Andrew and Grace Thompson, was born 7th of 5th month, 1773 ; she subsequently married Benjamin, son of Jo- seph Tindell, of Penn's Neck; they had several children- Joseph, Andrew, Sarah and Benjamin Tindell. Samuel Nich-
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olson Thompson, son of Andrew and Grace Thompson, was born 23d of 5th month, 1777. He became the owner, by will, of his grandfather's (Samuel Nicholson) homestead farm in Elsinborough. Samuel married Ann, the daughter of Clement Hall, of Elsinborough ; they had six children-Samuel N., Joshua, Charles, Clement, Ann and Isaac Thompson.
Sarah, daughter of Joshua and Sarah Thompson, married William Hancock, of Hancock's Bridge. He was killed at the massacre in his own house during the Revolutionary war in 1778 ; leaving a widow and one son, John Hancock, the father of Thomas Y. Hancock. Joseph, the son of Joshua and Eliz- abeth Thompson, kept a store with his brother-in-law, William Hancock, at Hancock's Bridge, and was killed at the same time with his partner. Joshua married Sarah, the daughter of Solomon and Sarah Stretch Ware, of Alloways Creek, in 1773; there were three children-Joseph, John and Elizabeth Thomp- son. Joshua's second wife was Susanna Mason, widow of John Mason, and daughter of William and Mary Morris Goodwin. By her there were two sons-William and Joshua Thompson. Joshua's third wife was Mary Shourds, of Salem, widow of Benjamin Shourds ; there was no issue. She died several years before her husband. He died in 1831, aged nearly_eighty-three years.
Joseph, the eldest son of Joshua and Sarah W. Thomp- son, was born 27th of 10the month, 1774. He married Ann, the daughter of John and Susanna Mason ; they had six chil- dren (two sons who died young), Susan, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Ann Thompson. His second wife was Elizabeth Powell; they have no children living. John, the son of Joshua and Sarah Thompson, died when he was three years old. Elizabeth, the daughter of Joshua and Sarah W. Thompson, born 13th of 11th month, 1778; married William, the son of William and Sarah Nicholson, of Mannington ; they had eight children-Elisha, Ruth, Rachel, Beulah, Elizabeth, William, Joshua and Sarah Ann Nicholson.
William Thompson, the eldest son of Joshua, by his second wife, Susanna Thompson, married Elizabeth Carpenter, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Ware Carpenter, of Elsin- borough. William and his wife, Elizabeth Thompson, had nine children-Susan, Eliza, Sarah, Joshua, William, Thomas, Abi- gail, Lewis and Ann Elizabeth Thompson. William, the father of the before named children, has been deceased for a number of years ; their mother is still living at the age of nearly four- score years. Joshua, the son of Joshua and Susanna Thomp-
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son, died in 1820, in Salem, where he taught Friends' School for a number of years ; he never married.
Rebecca, the daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Gibson Thompson, born in 1748, married Isaac Jones, of Philadelphia; they had issue, one son-Isaac Jones, born in 1773, who was a merchant in that city. John, the son of Joshua and Elizabeth G. Thompson, was born 7th of 4th month, 1752. In early life he learned the blacksmithing business, and followed his trade many years in the town of Salem; he and Jacob Hufty were in partnership together. He afterwards purchased a farm in Elsinborough, being part of the Windham estate, but is gene- rally known as Richard Darkin property. He soon after aban- doned his trade, and went and settled on his farm; there he and his wife remained, until old age. Both of them ended their days in the town of Salem. His wife was Mary, the daughter of William and Sarah Hancock Bradway, of Stoe Neck, Allo- way's Creek township. John and his wife had four children- Rebecca, Ruth, John and William B. Thompson. Rebecca, their eldest daughter, married Isaac Smart; the names of their children are mentioned in the Smart family. Ruth, the second daughter of John and Mary Thompson, married Job Bacon, of Greenwich, Cumberland county ; they had four children-Mary, Saralı, Ann and Josiah Bacon. Mary married Clement Acton of Salem, and died young, leaving no issue. Sarah remains single. Ann married Moses Sheppard, of Greenwich ; they had three daughters-Rachel, Ruth and Mary Ann Sheppard. Ra- chel, the eldest, married Job Bacon, the son of John and Ann Bacon, of Bacon's Neek. Rachel is deceased, leaving children. Ruth married George Wood Sheppard. Mary Ann Sheppard remains single.
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