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nails. In 1817 he and Joseph Gillingham endeavored to make arrangements with the City Council. They offered to furnish the city with three millions of gallons of water every twenty- four hours for twenty years, at twenty-five thousand dollars a year, and then three millions of gallons every twenty-four hours at three thousand dollars a year forever. But it appears they were not successful in making a contract with the City Council at that time.
About the year 1812 they made an experiment of anthracite coal in their rolling mill. They procured a cart load of it which cost them one dollar per bushel. This quantity was entirely wasted without getting up the requisite heat, and another cart load was obtained, and a whole night spent in endeavoring to make a fire in the furnace, when the hands shut the furnace doors and left the mill in despair. Fortunately one of them left his jacket in the mill, and returning for it in about half an hour, noticed that the furnace door was red hot, and upon opening it was surprised to find the whole furnace of a glowing white heat. The others were summoned, and four separate parcels of iron were heated and rolled by the same fire-before it required renewing. The furnace was then replenished, and as letting it alone had succeeded so well, it was concluded to try it again, and the experiment was repeated with the same result. Coal at that time was $40 per ton.
White & Hazard applied to the Legislature in 1813 to grant them the privilege of making the Schuylkill navigable so as to bring the coal to market, and supply their own wants at a cheaper rate, but the idea was ridiculed. The members from Schuylkill county said in the Legislature, that although they had a black stone in their county it would not burn, and they were unsuccessful in obtaining the law for that purpose at that time. [See Hazard Report, page 302]. White & Hazard called a meeting for all those that were interested in the nav- igation of the Schuylkill to meet at the tavern, corner of Fifth and Race streets, Philadelphia, in 1815. Josiah White opened the business of the meeting by proposing the application to the Legislature for a company to improve the Schuylkill for slack water navigation by dams and locks. This was the commence- ment of the present Schuylkill Navigation Company. The Con- pany was incorporated in 1815, showing clearly that he was the originator of that inland navigation which has been millions of dollars benefit to the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsyl- vania.
In 1819, White & Hazard sold their water-power at the 41
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Falls of the Schuylkill to the city of Philadelphia. They then turned attention to the coal regions at Manch Chunk. They left the city on horseback, and the greater part of the way they had to travel through the wilderness, particularly in the monn- tainous regions, and arrived at Summit Hill in safety, a short distance from Mauch Chunk.
In 1792 a company was formed called the Lehigh Coal Mine Company, who took up a large tract of land contiguous to that on which the coal had been found. White, Hazard & Company rented ten thousand acres of land of said company for twenty years, for one ear of corn a year, if demanded, and from and after three years to send to Philadelphia at least forty thousand bushels of coal per annum on their own account. So as to be sure of introducing it in the market, they immediately set to work to improve the navigation of the Lehigh, with a capital of two hundred thousand dollars, and afterward the stock was increased to a million. In the year 1820 the dams and locks being completed, the first anthracite coal was sent to market by artificial navigation. The whole quantity, says Josiah White, was three hundred and sixty-five tons. This, he said, proved more than enough for family supplies in Philadel- phia. In 1823 the navigation of the Lehigh was completed, and was inspected by commissioners who reported it finished, and the Governor issued his licence on the 17th of 1st month, 1823, authorizing them to take toll.
Josiah White removed his family from Philadelphia, in 1821, near Mauch Chunk. Next year a comfortable house was pro- vided for his family upon the hill-side above the beautiful river, with spacious grounds, adorned with roeks and forest trees. An extensive inclosure, called the Park, contained elk and deer, for the amusement of his children, and at that place his mother closed her life in the family of her son, in the eighty-second year of her age. In 1831 the works of the com- pany being so far completed as not to require his constant attention, the family returned to Philadelphia, and resided at the corner of Seventh and Arch streets. Soon after a heavy domestic affliction was experienced by the parents in the loss of their only remaining son, a prominent young man in his nine- teenth year.
From 1820 to 1871 the production of coal from the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company from official reports amounts to 13,705,298 tons.
Josiah White was much interested in the subject of education, particularly desiring its diffusion among the lower classes of the
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people, in a way to make them self-reliant and self-supporting, often contributing liberally of his means for such purpose. He bequeathed funds for the establishment of two manual labor schools in the West-one in Indiana and the other in Iowa- especially having reference to the religious training of the pupils.
A short time before his death he visited Salem, and in company with Robert G. Johnson, visited the native place of his ancestors at Alloways Creek. He died in Philadelphia the 14th of 11th month, 1850, in the seventieth year of his age.
Notwithstanding his life was a busy one and vast his under- taking in improving the inland navigation of his adopted State, which, by his perseverance and good management he completed, and his mind appeared to be centred to the great first cause. He wrote the following touching expressions, among others of a similar nature, in his religious reflections not long before his death : "When I consider the relationship of man to his Maker, "how depending he is before him, yea, nothing but a cloud of " dust, and the life he lives is only by the will and power of the " Holy One; it is even He that created this dust, and gave it " life and being and capacity to serve him, and to do his will " and life forever." He left three daughters, two of whom are still living. Hannah married Richard Richardson and Rebecca remains single.
I close the short account that I have written of this truly great man by copying the remarks made by Charles V. Hagner, from a work he wrote of some of the leading men that lived near the Falls of Schuylkill. After mentioning the various and great undertakings Josiah White had accomplished for the benefit of the city and State, he says: "Have I not shown good " reasons for saying that I know of no man to whom the citizens " of Philadelphia are so much indebted for substantial benefits " they have so long enjoyed as they are to Josiah White. First " we see him in company with Mr. Hazard, making experiments " with the anthracite coal, and succeeding in bringing it into " practicable use in the rolling mill. Next in successfully con- " triving gates to make it applicable for domestic use. Then " starting the Schuylkill Navigation Company to bring down a " supply of coal. Originating the idea of the Fairmount Dam, " resulting in giving to the citizens of Philadelphia such a plen- " tiful supply of water as they never dreamed of before, and " finally originating the Lehigh works. The warrior who slays " thousands of his fellow creatures is lauded and glorified, high " monuments are erected to his memory, on which are embla-
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" zoned his deeds of blood, but the modest, plain, unassuming " citizen who does so much good for his fellow men, and who "neither seeks or courts notoriety, sleeps his last sleep, compar- "atively unnoticed or forgotten."
JOSEPH WHITE FAMILY.
Joseph White descended from an ancient family of North- amptershire, England. He was the son of Samuel and Elenor White, and was born the 20th of 1st month, 1651. He left his native place in England and removed to Ireland, in 1672; soon after that event, he married Elizabeth, daughter of An- thony and Elizabeth Church, who had removed from Stafford- shire, England, to Ireland, a few years before, and they became members of New Garden Monthly Meeting, near Dublin. In said meeting, about the year 1679, Joseph White and Elizabeth Church were married. They, in company with a number of friends, among whom were Hugh Middleton, from Gloucester- shire, England, Allen Matthias and Hannah Ashbury, all originally natives of England, set sail from Dublin harbor, and after a passage of eight weeks and two days, they landed at Elsinborough Point in West Jersey, on the 17th day of 9th month, 1681. The same day they landed, they had a daughter born, which they named Rema White. Joseph White located on land in Elsinborough and resided thereon. He was an active man in the civil affairs of the Colony ; and likewise an influen- tial member of Salem Monthly Meeting. Joseph White, Jr., son of Joseph and Elizabeth White, was born in Elsinborough, 29th of 11th month, 1692. I think that Joseph White, Sr., died about the year 1703. I find no mention of him after that date in public records, or in the meeting books. The family soon after his death left Elsinborough and settled in the upper part of the county.
Joseph White, 2d, married and had several children. John White, son of Joseph and Mary White was born 19th of 3d month, 1717. Joseph White, 3d, son of Joseph and Mary White, was born 21st of 10th month, 1719. William White, son of the same parents was born in 1722. Here appears a (liscrepeney in the records. I have heard stated there were two or three daughters. William White, son of Joseph, 3d, married, and had several children, six daughters and one son. William was born in 1751; he subsequently became an eminent
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land Surveyor. He died 18th of 11th month, 1836, in his eighty-fifth year. He enjoyed remarkable health, and was never known to be sick during his long life, until a few days before his death. He was married three times. ITis first wife was a Fisher, by whom he had one daughter-Hannah White. She married Benjamin Heritage, of Gloucester county. Benja- min and his wife had ten children, four sons and six daughters. William White's second wife was Anne Paul, daughter of Samuel Paul, of Gloucester ; they had ten children-William, Samuel, Ann, Rebecca, Mary, Joseph, Sarah, Isaac, John and Joel White. William White's third wife was Mary Silvers, widow of Thomas Silvers ; they had no issue.
William, the son of William and Anne White, married Susan Bates, of Gloucester county ; they had five children-William, George, Samuel, Charles and Susan White. They are all married and scattered in the Western States. Samuel, son of William and Anne White, married Jerusha, daughter of Jona- than and Hannah Shourds Smith, of Pilesgrove. Samuel and his wife had eight children-Elizabeth, Jonathan, William, Mary, Samuel, Caroline, David and Wilson White. Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Jernsha White, has been twice married. Her first husband was Clement Hinchman, he however died a short time after marriage, leaving one daughter-Clemence Hinchman. Her second husband was William Carll, son of Samuel Carll, Jr. Jonathan, the eldest son of Samuel and Jernsha White, married Lydia, daughter of Aaron and Sarah Waddington, of Elsinboro. Jonathan died young, leaving one daughter-Gertrude White. William, son of Samuel and Jerusha White, married Emily Buzby ; he died without issue. Mary, daughter of Samuel and Jerusha White, married Brad- way, son of Aaron and Sarah Waddington. Bradway died a young man, leaving two children-Ada and Frank Waddington. Ada married a person in New York. Samnel and Caroline, children of Samuel and Jerusha White, died minors. David, son of Samuel and Jerusha White, married a young woman of (Hloucester county ; they have children. Wilson White, mar- ried a Loveland ; they have issue.
Ann, daughter of William and Anne White, married William HIaines, of Gloucester county; they had five children-Joshna, William, Ann, Sarah and Samuel Haines. Joshua, the son of William and Ann White Haines, married Hannah Albertson, of Burlington county; they had three children-Chalkley, Abi- gail and Rebecca Haines; Chalkley and Abigail are married. William, son of William and Anna Haines died recently ; his
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wife was Rachel Lippincott. William was a recommended min- ister, and a member of Upper Greenwich Meeting; like his grandfather, he was an eminent Surveyor. He and his wife had four children-Job S., William, Emily and Hannah Ann Haines. Job married Ellen Holmes ; they have four children- Jacob, Stacy, Idella and Jesse Haines; William, son of William and Rachel Haines, remains single. Emily married Joseph Livy- ley; they have five children; Samnel, son of William and Anna Haines, married Ann Eliza Holmes, of Upper Penn's Neck ; they had one son-Howard Haines. Ann, the daughter of Wil- liam and Anna Haines, married Champion Atkinson ; she died leaving no issue. Sarah Haines, sister of Ann, married Cham- pion Atkinson, former husband of her sister; they are both deceased, leaving no issue. Rebecca, daughter of William and Anne White, was twice married; her first husband was William Miller, of Greenwich, Cumberland county; they had three daugh- ters-Sarah Ann, Eliza and Mary Miller. Sarah Ann Miller, their eldest daughter, married Amos, son of Joseph Buzby ; they have ten children-Edward, Chambless, Joseph, William, Samuel, Franklin, Emily, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Cornelia Buzby. Eliza, daughter of William and Bebecca Miller, mar- ried Lewis, son of William and Martha Hancock, of Elsinboro; they had two daughters-Mary and Martha Hancock. Mary, the daughter of William and Rebecca Miller, married Caleb Borton ; they had three children-Omar, Mary and Phebe Ann Borton. Omar, son of Caleb and Mary Borton, is a successful Apothecary in Woodstown; his wife is the daughter of John and Sarah Albertson, of Baltimore, Maryland. Omar and his wife, have one daughter-Izetta Borton; she married Dr. La- fayette Allen. Mary, daughter of Caleb and Mary Borton, married Nathan Y. Lippincott ; they had five children-George, Edward W., Ellen, Hannah and Emma Lippincott. George, son of Nathan and Mary Lippincott, married Rachel, the daugh- ter of Allen Wallace ; they have issue. Edward W. Lippincott, married Emma, daughter of the late Henry Ridgway, of Cros- wicks, Burlington county ; they have no issue. Ellen, daugh- ter of Nathan Y. Lippincott, married Daniel Taylor; they have two daughters. Emma, daughter of Nathan Y. and Mary Lip- pincott is not married.
Josepli, son of William and Anne White, was twice married ; his first wife was Deborah, daughter of James Hewes ; he was a lineal descendant of William Hewes, who purchased a large tract of land of William Penn in Upper Penn's Neck, in 1689; the said land was surveyed by Richard Tyndall, by an order of
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James Nevill, of Salem. Joseph and Deborah White had three children-James HI., Ann and Edward White. Joseph White's second wife was Lydia Moore, of Woolwich, Gloucester county; they had five children, namely-Reuben, Hannah, Deborah, Thomas and Martha. James, son of Joseph and Deborah White, married Mary Ann Holmes, daughter of Samuel Holmes, of Upper Penn's Neck; they had nine children ; their names are-Esther, Sarah, Samuel, Ann, Joseph, James, Franklin, Martha and William White. Ann, the daughter of Joseph and Deborah White, married Aaron Lippincott, and have five chil- dren, four sons and one daughter. Joseph, married Georgianna, daughter of Robert and Sarah Given, of Salem ; they thave no issue. Deborah, daughter of Aaron and Ann Lippincott, mar- ried Charles Ballenger; they have two children. Edward, Benjamin and David Lippincott are single.
Edward, son of Joseph and Deborah White, is at the present time Surrogate of Cumberland county. He married Ann, daughter of Jonathan and Fanny House, of Upper Alloways Creek ; they have issue, two daughters-Fanny and Mary White. Isaac, son of William and Anne White, left his native State, and went to the city of New York. John and Joel White, sons of William, settled in one of the Southern States. The family have not heard from them for a number of years.
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WILLIAM CARPENTER. Born 1792. Died 1866.
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Joseph Ware came to this country in 1675 as a servant of Edward Wade. Robert Wade, in 1678, sold his allotment of land on the south side of Alloways creek, prior to his purchase in Pennsylvania near the ancient Swedish town of Chester. James Denn and Anthony Page were the purchasers. Soon afterwards Page sold 250 acres to Joseph Ware, who subse- quently bought another 250 acres adjoining his first purchase, of Edward Wade, making in all 500 acres. In 1683 he married Martha Groff, and their children were Joseph, born 1684 ; Sa- rah, born 5th of 7th month, 1686 ; and John, born about the year 1688. The latter settled at Cohansey, and became a mem- ber of the Baptist Society. He had a son named John, born in 1722, who died in 1773, and was buried in the ancient Baptist grave-yard at Cohansey. His son, Job, born in 1761, was also interred in the same grave-yard in which his father was buried. From this family there is a large number of descendants., Mas- kell Ware, of Salem, being one of them. Joseph Ware, Jr., in 1707, married Elizabeth Walker. They had three sons and one daughter, Elizabeth Ware, who married Benjamin Thompson, near Allowaystown. Their sons were Joseph, 3d, Solomon and John Ware. Joseph Ware, 3d, married Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Blanchard, born 20th of 8th month, 1716. Joseph and his wife had six children; the eldest, Mary, born 22d of 8th month, 1735 ; Sarah, Hannah, Rebecca, Joseph, 4th, and Elijah Ware, born 30th of 1st month, 1748. Elijalı's wife was Mary, the daughter of Benjamin Tindall, of Penn's Neck, and great-grand-daughter of Richard Tindall, of Tindall's Grove. Elijah and his wife had no issue. He died several years before his wife, and made a will which, after the death of his widow, devised a small farm to Salem Monthly Meeting. He was con- sidered one of nature's noblemen-an honest man-and was an approved minister of the Society of Friends, meek and humble in his deportment, and wielded great moral influence in the neighborhood in which he lived. Sarah Ware, the sister of Elijah, was born 2d of 8th month, 1737, and married Joseph
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Stretch, 3d, in 1761. They had two daughters, Jael, born in 1762, and Martha, born 11th month, 1763. Solomon, the second son of Joseph Ware, Jr., was born in 1717. His wife was Sarah Stretch, whom he married in 1740. They lived on the homestead farm of his father, the property upon which I now reside. The house was built by Joseph Ware, Jr., in in 1730, more than one hundred and forty years ago. Solomon and his wife had eight children. Peter, the eldest, born 25th of Sth month, 1741; Elizabeth, Job, Hannah, Elisha, Sarah and Solomon; they all died minors excepting Sarah. Solomon Ware died in 1761, at the age of forty-five years, and his widow departed this life in 1765, four years after her husband. Only two of their children, Elisha and Sarah, were living at that time, and Elisha died with the pleurisy the year after his mother, in his eighteenth year.
The whole of the estate of Solomon Ware, consisting of a farm of 250 acres, and a considerable personal estate, came into the possession of the surviving daughter. Sarah was born 12th of 6th month, 1756, and married Joshua Thompson, of Elsin- borough, in 1773. They had three children-Joseph, born 27th of 10th month, 1774; John, born in 1776, and died in 1779, and Elizabeth, born 13th of 11th month, 1778. The latter mar- ried William, son of William and Sarah Nicholson, of Manning- ton, and had eight children-Elisha, Ruth, Rachel, Beulah, Elizabeth, William, Joshua T. and Sarah Ann Nicholson. Elisha went as supercargo on a voyage to the West Indies, and died of yellow fever on the passage home. He never married. Ruth Nicholson's husband was Joseph Edgar Brown, and they did not live together more than two or three years. She died in 1827, and was regretted by a large circle of relatives and friends for her many admirable qualities. She possessed a fine intellect, pleasant and agreeable manners, and warm sympathies for the afflicted. She left no children. Rachel Nicholson mar- ried Thomas Y. Hancock. There were five children. Elizabeth, the eldest's, first husband was David, the son of Andrew Smith, of Elsinborough; her second husband was Samuel Fowser. She lied several years ago. Ellen, the second daughter, married Dr. Henry Childs, of Philadelphia. William N., the third child, married Beulah, daughter of William Fowser. Cornelia, the third daughter, has not yet married. She conducted herself most admirably during the late rebellion, having served with the army of the Potomac the greater part of the war, attending to the sick and wounded, and continued to assist in the hospitals until the rebellion closed. Since the war ended she has been at
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Charleston, South Carolina, teaching a school of colored chil- dren. Thomas Hancock, Jr., the youngest child, was drowned while bathing when he was not more than ten years of age.
Beulah, daughter of William and Elizabeth Nicholson, died a young woman, in 1819 or 1820. Elizabeth, another daughter, died in infancy. William Nicholson, their son, married Susan, the daughter of William Miller, and had four children-Rachel, Susan, William and Elizabeth. Rachel, the eldest, married Thomas Mathers, near Germantown ; Susan married James Gas- kill. William, Jr.'s wife is Florence Earl, and Elizabeth's hus- band is Sylvester Garrett. Joshua Nicholson married Eliza Smith, daughter of Stephen Smith, and moved to Illinois many years ago. When the war broke out he enlisted in the Western army, and from exposure was taken sick, I believe, near Nash- ville, Tennessee, and died in one of the army hospitals, leaving a widow and one son-Alexander Nicholson, Sarah Ann Nich- olson married Dr. Henry Childs. She has been deceased many years, leaving two children-Elizabeth and John. Joseph, the eldest son of Joshua and Sarah Thompson, was born 27th of 10th month, 1774. His first wife was Ann, the daughter of John and Susanna Mason. Joseph and his wife had five chil- dren-Elisha, who died when about two years of age, Susan, Elizabeth, Sarah and Ann. Susan married Joseph Pancoast, son of Samuel and Dorcas Pancoast, and had seven children- Ann, Samuel, Elizabeth, Joseph, Thomas, Hannah and John. Elizabeth Thompson, died in 1820, in her sixteenth year.
Sarah Thompson, their third daughter, born in 1807, married Thomas Shourds, 10th of 1st month, 1828. Ann, the youngest daughter of Joseph and Ann Thompson, born in 1809, married Thomas, son of Aaron and Hannah Fogg, in 1827. They have twelve children-Susan, Joseph, Elisha, Elizabeth, William, Morris, Rebecca, Ann, Mason, Clarkson, Emily and Albert Fogg. Ann Mason Thompson, the wife of Joseph Thompson, departed this life in 1810, and in 1815 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah Powell. They lived together in conjugal felicity for more than thirty years. In the autumn of 1845 he was attacked with inflammation of the bowels, and after great suffering for upwards of two weeks, his strong con- stitution gave way and death ensued. He was in the seventy- first year of his age, and his death cast a gloom over a large circle of relatives, neighbors and acquaintances. He was kind and hospitable to the poor and needy, always ready to contrib- nte to their necessities, and in the latter part of his life he became greatly interested in pleading the cause of bondmen-
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the bleeding slaves of our land. It can truly be said of him,- " Mark the perfect and upright man, for the end of that man " shall be peace, and assurance forever." His last wife was nearly thirteen years younger than himself, and left no issue. She departed this life in 1864, being the possessor of talents of high order, and if her early education had been attended to, few women in the country would have equaled her. She, like her husband, was kind and sympathetic in her feelings. Always ready to plead the cause of the oppressed, she was a co-worker with her two Friends, at Salem, Elizabeth and Abigail Goodwin, against the institution of slavery.
John, the youngest son of Joseph and Elizabeth Ware, was born 3d of 3d month, 1720. He inherited the property from his father where Samnel C. Pancoast resides at the present time. He was a farmer and weaver. In 1750 he married Elizabeth, sister of Joseph Fogg, who was born about 1730. They had eight children, all of whom lived to grow up. They all married and had children. John, the eldest, born 16th of 7th month, 1751, married Ruth, the daughter of James Tyler, and two children, Martha and Eleanor, were born to them. Milicent, the eldest daughter of John and Elizabeth Ware, born 12th of 10th month, 1753, married John Smith, the great-grandson of John Smith, of Amblebury. He owned and lived upon the property in Lower Alloways Creek township, now belonging to Robert Grier, which was part of the Smith allotment of 2,000 acres. John Smith and his wife Milicent had one son, John, who subsequently married Mary, the daughter of Andrew Sin- nickson. They had two sons and two daughters, named respec- tively, Robert, Margaret, Thomas and Mary. Robert died in infancy. Thomas married Mary, the daughter of Morris and Sarah Hancock. Mary married Oliver B. Stoughton, a native of Connectient, who came to Salem in company with his friend, the late Calvin Belden, upwards of fifty years ago, and they commenced the hardware and tinning business together in that city. By industry and careful attention to business they each acquired a competency, and became useful and respected citizens of their adopted town and State. Oliver and his wife had several children. He died several years ago, but his widow is still living. Margaret, the eldest daughter of John and Mary Smith, married Edward G. Prescott, an eminent Episcopal clergyman. He was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and a brother of William H. Prescott, one of America's favorite historians. I have been informed that Edward had symptoms of pulmonary consumption before he came to Salem. He was
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