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a man of great acquirements in the way of learning, and possessed considerable oratorical powers. He bore an enviable reputation as a Christian minister. Ilis physicians recom- mended a sea voyage, thinking it would be the means of arresting the fatal disease lurking within him. He repaired to his native city to bid his aged father and family adien. I have been told that within a few days after the vessel sailed he died and was buried at sea. I think he and his wife had no children. Margaret, his widow, was killed near the city of Burlington, together with several other passengers, at the terrible railroad disaster in 1856. Mary Sinnickson Smith, the widow of John Smith, is still living, being more than ninety years of age. I think she is the oldest person living at this time in the city of Salem.
David Ware, the second son of John and Elizabeth Ware, was born 5th of 4th month, 1755. He commenced life on a farm that was left him by his father, of which James Baker is the present owner. His first wife was Sarah Oakford; they had one daughter-Sarah Ware. Her mother died when she was young. David Ware's second wife was Letitia, widow of William Craig. He owned and lived about two miles above Allowaystown, which is now known as Remster's Mill-it for- merly belonged to Richard Wistar. Letitia's maiden name was Morrison. She was an approved minister among Friends. David sold his farm at Alloways Creek soon after his second marriage, to his brother Job Ware, and purchased a farm near Grey's Ferry, Philadelphia county, where he went with his family to reside. His daughter Sarah Ware married Aaron Ashbridge ; they had three children-Anna, David and Samuel Howell Ash- bridge. Anna Ashbridge married John Firth, of Salem, son of John and Ann Firth. Jacob Ware, son of John and Elizabeth Ware, was born 28th of 11th month, 1759; he married Mary Carpenter in 1780, the danghter of William and Mary Carpenter.
I think it would be right to digress to give the history of the Powell family, as they are closely connected with the Ware and Carpenter families by marriage. William and Jeremiah Powell, brothers, emigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia in 1684. William, the eldest, purchased of the proprietor a large tract of land on the west side of the Schuylkill river. West Philadelphia occupies part of the land that he purchased. He established a ferry where the present Market street bridge stands. [See Watson's Annals.] William's family after several generations was narrowed down to one individual, a widow. Her possessions were great and valuable. Tradition says that
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a young man by the name of John Hare, a distant relative of her husband, lived with her. She gave him to understand that if he would make application and have the name of Powell added to his name, he should be her heir. This being accordingly done, he become the owner of that large estate called Powell- ton. Jeremiah Powell, the younger brother of William, settled in this county. Whether he was a married man when he came to Jersey I am not certain ; most probably he was. He was one of the contributors towards building the Friends' Meeting House which was erected in 1700 where the grave yard is now in the town of Salem. In that year he purchased a tract of land near Hancock's Bridge of John Maddox, formerly part of William Hancock's allotment, and leaving the town of Salem settled thereon. His son, Jeremiah Powell, was born at Alloways Creek, 18th of 3d month, 1701, and Samuel Powell, his second son, was born in 1704. I presume they were the only children he had, no others being mentioned in the records.
Robert G. Johnson, in his history states that the Friends' meeting at Alloways Creek was established by the Powells and others-it was a mistake. The meeting was organized in 1684, several years before Jeremiah Powell was an inhabitant of the county of Salem. Jeremiah Powell, Jr., in 1735 married Jane Blanchard, the daughter of Philip and Mary Blanchard, who resided in the township of Alloways Creek. They had three children-Elizabeth, Mary and Jolin Powell. Samuel Powell, the brother of Jeremiah, married before his brother and settled on the homstead farm in 1730. George Trenchard, Sr., was chosen an Assessor for the whole township of Alloways Creek, and William Tyler was the Collector. Samuel Powell was assessed for the Powell property. Samuel died a young man leaving no children. Elizabeth Powell, the eldest daughter of Jeremiah and Jane Powell, was born in 1736, and married Benjamin Smith, the grand-son of Daniel Smith. Benjamin and his wife resided in the township of Mannington. They had three children-Joshua, Powell and Elizabeth. The last married John Smith, the son of Christopher Smith. They left one son-Samuel. Joshua Smith married a young women a native of Gloucester ; they left two or three children. Powell Smith married Sarah Ambler, daughter of Peter Ambler ; they had two children-Sarah and Isaac Smith. Mary Powell, daughter of Jeremiah and Jane Powell, was born 13th of 11th month, 1738 ; she married William Carpenter, a native of the State of Delaware, and grandson of Joshua Carpenter, of Philadelphia. His age is not definitely known, but I think he
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was several years older than his wife. They had four children -Mary, Powell, William and Abigail. John, the son of Jeremiah and Jane Powell, was born in 1740, and became a farmer and weaver. When he was about twenty-three years of age he married Ann Dickinson, whose parents lived in Upper Alloways Creek township. John and his wife had one son, Jeremiah Powell, 3d, born in 1764. John Powell possessed a weak constitution, and died while young, leaving a young widow and an infant son. He was pious, of strict integrity, and pos- sessed more than ordinary abilities. Though young he fre- quently was called upon to settle difference among his neighbors. Like many persons in this country who have clear intellectual minds,he fell a victim to that scourge of mankind, the pulmonary consumption
Jacob Ware and his wife Mary, had two children-Elizabeth and Millicent. The latter died young, and unmarried. Eliza- beth Ware married Samuel, the son of Benjamin and Mary Shourds. They had three children. William, the eldest, who died young; Mary and Thomas Shourds. Mary Shourds was born in the 1st month, 1804, and married William Bradway, the son of Ezra Bradway; they had six children-Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, Anna, Rachel and Ellen Bradway. Jacob Ware's second wife was Sarah Thompson, daughter of Andrew and Grace Thompson, and grand-daughter of Samuel Nicholson. A short time after they were married they went and lived on her grandfather's property, in Lower Penn's Neck. Samuel Nichol- son in his will left his large and valuable estate in said township to Sarah Ware and Rachel Tindell, the wife of Benjamin Tin- dell, they being his grandchildren ; Sarah was to have her share during her life, and it then went to her oldest son, David Ware. She died several years before her husband, leaving three chil- dren-Sarah, David, and Samuel Ware. Jacob's third wife was Sarah Reed, the daughter of Robert Reed, who formerly was a resident of Pittsgrove township, and by her he had two children-Ann and Jacob Ware. After the death of her huis- band, Sarah Ware with her two children, removed to the State of Ohio, in company with her father, Robert Reed. Jacob Ware, her son, I believe, is still living near Columbus, Ohio. Sarah Ware, the daughter of Jacob Ware, married Samuel Hall, the son of Joseph Hall; by him she had one son-Joseph Hall, who resides near Lockport, New York. Her second hus- band was John Vanculan, who owned and lived where William Cooper now resides ; they had four children-Eliza, Sarah, John and Samuel Vanculan. Her third husband was Sirge Ayres, a na-
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tive of Cumberland county. They had one daughter-Emeline Ayres. David Ware's wife was Rebecca Hall, daughter of Joseph and Ann Hall; they had ten children-Sarah, Ann, Samuel, Joseph, Mary, Charles, Emeline, John, David and Re- becca. Samuel Ware, son of Jacob and Sarah Ware, married Ann Fox, daughter of Jacob Fox. They had one son who re- moved West, and two daughters-Mary Jane and Annie. . Both of them are deceased.
Mary, the second daughter of John and Elizabeth Ware, was born in 1757, and married William Bradway, Jr .; they had five children-Sarah, Anna, Ezra, John and Rachel Bradway. Sarah, the eldest, married Elisha, the son of Joshua Stretch, and their children were Mary, Joshua, William, Ann and Job Stretch. Anna, daughter of William and Mary Bradway, married James Stewart ; they had two children-Hannah and Mary. Hannah died a young woman, nnmarried. Mary mar- ried William, the son of William Griscom, Jr., and Ann Griscom. Their children were Hannah, who married Charles Marott, of Philadelphia; William Wade Griscom, whose wife was Sarah Cooper, the daughter of James Cooper, who resided near Woodbury ; and James Griscom, who married Hannah Borton, daughter of William Borton, of Woodstown. Samuel Fogg married Anna, the widow of James Stewart. By him she had one son, William Fogg, who married Mary Hall, the eldest daughter of Clement and Sarah Hall, of Elsinborough. William and his wife have resided in Salem for several years.
Hannah, the third daughter of John and Elizabeth Ware, was born 17th of 1st month, 1761. She subsequently married her cousin, Edward Fogg. They had five children-Sammel, Elizabeth, Ebenezer, Edward and David. Samuel's first wife was Anna, the widow of James Stewart; his second wife was Rebecca, the daughter of Joseph and Letitia Harmer, of Green- wich. Samuel and Rebecca Fogg had four children, named respectively-Ann, Joseph, Rebecca and Caroline. Ann mar- ried Joseph Miller, Jr., of Greenwich, and had two children- Joseph and Franklin. Joseph, the son of Samuel and Rebecca Fogg, married a young woman at Shiloh. She was a member of the Seventh-day Baptist Society. Rebecca, the daughter of Samnel and Rebecca Fogg, married a young man by the name of Tomlinson, of Stoe Creek township, Cumberland county. She has been deceased many years. Caroline, daughter of Sam- uel and Rebecca Fogg, married Franklin Dare, son of James Dare, of Greenwich. Franklin has lived in Bridgeton for a number of years, where he has followed the drug business.
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They have one son-Charles Dare, a physician practicing in the village of Shiloh.
Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Hannah Fogg, died at middle age, unmarried. Ebenezer Fogg's wife was Abigail Hancock, the grand-daughter of William and Mary Powell Car- penter. By her he had one daughter-Eliza Fogg, whose first husband was Zacchens Brown, Jr. Eliza, Ebenezer and Zacchens were the names of their three children. Her second husband was Abner Penton, by whom she had three children- Abner, Albert and Rachel Penton. Eliza's third husband was Firman Blew, who followed the sea in his younger days, but towards the latter part of his life he purchased a farm near Bridgeton, and at that place he and his wife in their declining years lived together happily. They are both deceased at the present time. Eliza, the eldest daughter of Zacchens and Eliza Brown, married Job Dixon. They live together at Hancock's Bridge, and have several children. Ebenezer Brown married Milieent, the daughter of James Holliday, and they had two or three children. Edward Fogg, the third son of Edward and Hannah Fogg, married Catharine Hartley, by whom he had seven children-Mary, Casper, Thomas, Richard, Edward, Charles and David Fogg. Mary Fogg, their daughter, married Joseph, the son of Joseph Brown. They have two children- Anna and Edward Brown. Anna married Thomas M. Shourds, and Edward's wife was Hannah, the daughter of James Butcher, Jr. Casper Fogg resides in New Orleans. He is married and has a family of children. Thomas Fogg died several years ago unmarried. Richard Fogg's wife was Mary Woolman, of Piles- grove; they have several children. Edward Fogg married widow Hunt's daughter, who resided in the town of Salem ; she left one daughter. Edward's second wife is Mary Sayres, the daughter of Ephraim Sayres, of Cumberland county. Charles married Barbara Butcher, widow of James Butcher, Jr. David, the youngest son of Edward Fogg, married Sarah Green. Ed- ward Fogg, Sr.'s second wife was Sarah, daughter of Mark Stewart; there was no issue. They are both deceased at the present time. David, the youngest son of Edward and Hannah Fogg, married Henrietta Davis. They are both deceased at the present time, leaving no children.
Eliza, the eldest daughter of Zaccheus and Eliza Brown, mar- ried Job Dixon. They live near Hancock's Bridge, and have several children. Ebenezer Brown married Milicent, the daughter of James Holliday, and they had two or three chil- dren. Elizabeth, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Ware,
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was born 2d of 3d month, 1763, and married William Carpen- ter, the son of William and Mary P. Carpenter. She was an uncommonly energetic woman, very zealous in attending reli- gions meetings, and was desirons that her children might be so trained as to become useful and moral citizens in their day and generation. Her husband, a few years after they were married, upon an improving lease, rented a large farm of Samuel Nichol- son, Sr., in the township of Elsinborough, for a number of years. He was to bank and improve a large number of acres of meadow, now known as the Mason Point Meadow Company, that lay adjoining the upland. Upon that farm he and his wife ended their days. William and his wife had seven children- Samuel, Mary, Abigail, William, Elizabeth, Powell and Sarah Carpenter. Samuel Carpenter, their eldest son, married Mary, the daughter of James and Rebecca Mason, of Mannington. They had three or four children, three of whom were named William, Elizabeth and Rebecca Carpenter. Samuel and his wife removed West a short time after they were married. He is living at the present time, and is abont ninety-two years of age. Mary Carpenter, the eldest daughter of William and Elizabeth Carpenter, married Thomas Hancock, of Elsinbor- ough. They had four children, three daughters and one son -Eliza, Lydia, Susan and Morris Hancock. The latter was accidentally killed, when a lad. Eliza married Joseph Tindall; Lydia's husband was George Bowen, of Salem. They did not live together many years. I believe she died with pulmonary consumption. Subsequently George married Susan Hancock, sister of his first wife. Mary's second husband was Samuel Cooper. They are both deceased at the present time, and leave no children. Abigail Carpenter, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Carpenter, married John Goodwin, of Elsinborough. Soon after their marriage they settled in the State of Ohio. She died comparatively young, leaving three sons-Lewis, William and Thomas Goodwin. Lewis, I think, is still living in one of the Western States; William Goodwin is a wealthy citizen of Philadelphia ; Thomas Goodwin, the youngest son, died several years ago. William Carpenter was the second son of William and Elizabeth Carpenter. He married Mary Bees- ley, daughter of Abner and Mary Beesley, and had by her six children-Elizabeth, Powell, Anne, William B., Morris and John M. Carpenter. Elizabeth Carpenter married Joseph Thompson, the son of John and Esther Thompson; they have two children-Mary and John Thompson. Powell Carpenter's wife was Mary Lawson, the daughter of John Lawson, of
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Salem. Powell fell to the pavement from near the eaves of a Baptist Church, which he was building, and died of congestion of the brain. He left no children. He was a kind and affee- tionate husband, a dutiful son, and his loss to his family and relatives was great. He had uncommon business capacities, and his death was considered a public calamity to the town of Salem.
Anne, the daughter of William and Mary Carpenter, has been deceased several years ; she never married. She was afflicted many years previous to her death, but she bore all her suffer- ings with Christian fortitude, and when the time of her depart- ure from this life came she could say with sincerity, " Lord, thy servant is ready." William Beesley Carpenter, the second son of William and Mary Carpenter, married Martha Gaskill, the daughter of Josiah and Eliza Gaskill, formerly of Burlington county. William and his wife had seven children-Howard, Mary, Elizabeth, William, Louisa, Anna, Martha and Rebecca Carpenter. Three of the before mentioned children, Howard, William and Rebecca, are deceased. The wife of William B. Carpenter died in 1868 of pulmonary consumption. She was a dutiful wife, an affectionate parent, and a great loss to her family. Her death was much regretted by a large circle of rel- atives and acquaintances. William's second wife is Nancy Pease, a native of Connecticut. They have two children-William and Julia Carpenter. Morris H. Carpenter is a resident of the city of Philadelphia, and is unmarried. John Mason Carpenter, the youngest son of William and Mary Carpenter, married Ann Harvey, daughter of Minor and Lydia Harvey. John and his wife live in Salem. They had two children-Powell who died young, and George Carpenter.
Elizabeth Carpenter married William Thompson, son of Joshua Thompson. Their children I noticed in the Thompson family's genealogy. Powell, the son of William and Elizabeth Carpenter, resided the greater part of his life in Philadelphia. His first wife was Eliza Slaughter; she died leaving one son, Charles Carpenter. His second wife was Ann Slaughter, sister of his first wife. Their children were Ann, William and Caroline. Sarah, the youngest child of William and Elizabeth Carpenter, married Joseph Hancock, of Mannington. They had four chil- dren-Chambless, Elizabeth, Caroline and Hannah.
Job Ware, the youngest son of John and Elizabeth Ware, was born 16th of 1st month, 1766. His first wife was Grace, the daughter of Andrew Thompson, of Elsinborough She died young, and left one son-John Ware. John married
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Hannah, the daughter of Clement Acton, of Salem. He died young, leaving one son-Clement Ware. Job Ware's second wife was the daughter of Christopher and Rebecca Hancock Smith, of Mannington, who lived but a short time, and left no children. His third wife was Mary, the widow of Abner Beesley, by whom he had two children-Job and Eliza Ware. Job Ware, Jr., married Elizabeth Waddington; they are both leceased, leaving one daughter-Sarah Ellen Ware. Elijah Ware married Beulah Powell; they have five children-Sarah, William, Mary, Anna and Charles.
Sarah, the youngest daughter of John and Elizabeth Ware, was born 11th of 4th month, 1769. She was four years old at the time of her father's death, which occurred 21st of 2d month, 1773, when he was fifty years old. He was buried with his ancestors in the grave yard situated on the north side of Alloways Creek. Sarah Ware married Jeremiah Powell, 3d, in 1785. He was the son of John and Ann Powell .- Jeremiah and his wife lived on the property that he inherited from his father ; the said property lay adjoining the village of Hancock's Bridge, where their grandson, Jeremiah Powell, now owns and occupies. Jeremiah and his wife lived together more than fifty-seven years in great unity. He was above ordinary men in intellect, and had great argumentative powers. His wife was an agreeable companion to him, industrious, frugal, and possessing a sympathetic nature. They had four children who lived to maturity-Elizabeth, Ann, John and William. Elizabeth was the second wife of Joseph Thompson. Ann married Samnel Griscom; they had twelve children, whose names are given in the account of the Griscom family.
John Powell married Rebecca, the daughter of John Mow- ers, of Upper Alloways Creek. They had ten children-Sarah. Jeremiah, William, Joseph, Samuel, John, Elias, Hicks, Eliza- beth and Rebecca. Four of the above mentioned children are dead-William, Joseph, Elizabeth and Rebecca. John Powell died in 1843 or 1844 in Elsinborough, with a cancer in his stomach. His widow, Rebecca Powell, died four or five years ago. Sarah, daughter of John and Rebecca Powell, married Chalkley Griscom, of Pennsylvania. There are several children from this union. Jeremiah Powell's wife was Elizabeth, daugh- ter of William and Mary Bradway. They had four children- Sarah, Ann, Lonisa and John. Joseph Powell married Eliza- beth, daughter of William and Mary Denn. He died young, leaving one son-Joseph Powell. Samuel Powell's wife is Sa- rah Jane, daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth Smith. They have
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three children-one daughter named Anna, and two sons, Sam- nel and Franklin. The wife of John Powell, Jr., was Emma Sutton ; several children were born to them. Elizabeth Powell married Quinton Harris. She died young, and left one daugh- ter-Elizabeth Harris. Ann, the daughter of John Powell, married Waddington, the son of Jacob and Mercy Ridgway. They have five children-Lydia, John P., William, Henry and Edwin.
William, the youngest son of Jeremiah and Sarah Powell, inarried Sarah, the daughter of Aaron and Hannah Fogg. They had one daughter, Beulah Powell, who subsequently married Elijah Ware. William died several years since, but his widow is still living, and resides with her daughter in the city of Salem.
WADE FAMILY.
Robert Wade was a citizen and carpenter of the city of London. He purchased of the proprietor of West New Jersey, before he left England, 500 acres of land, which was sur- veyed for him by Richard Hancock, in 1676, adjoining his brother, Richard Wade's, and William Hancock's allotments of 1,000 acres each. The said lands lay on the south side of Monmouth river, also a lot in the town of Salem, on the north side of Market street. He never built on said lot, it being the same, I believe, that Alexander Grant purchased afterward and built himself a brick house on the premises, and there lived. Samuel Fenwick Hedge's wife was his daughter. Robert Wade sold his landed estate at Monmouth early in the year 1678 to James Denn and Joseph Ware. He then went to Upland, now known as Chester, and bought 500 acres of land on the south side of what is known as Chester creek, of one of the early Swedish settlers who had purchased a large tract of land of one of the Indian chiefs, some thirty years pre- vious to that date, and on that land he erected a large and com- modious house for the purpose of entertainment, and gave it the name of the Essex house. Some historians called it the emigrant's house. About that time there were several families of Friends, emigrants from England, that had bought lands in that neighborhood and settled there. Robert fitted up part of his house for the purpose of holding meetings in, and in that house was the first regular Quaker or Friends meeting held in Pennsylvania.
When William Penn on his first arrival in the Delaware river in 1682, landed at Upland, (at that time it was a village of con- siderable size) Robert met him there at the landing. The pro- prietor turned to his intimate friend Pierson, and asked: " What shall we name this place?" He replied, " Call it Chester, after my native county, Chestershire." William Penn and family were the guests of Robert Wade for a few days. Robert was likewise one of the members of the Provincial Assembly that the Governor convened for the purpose of organizing a provin-
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eial government, and was a member of that body for severa_ years afterwards. Respecting his descendants I have no definite information, but I have been told some of them are living in the neighborhood of Chester at the present day.
Edward Wade was a cloth maker and citizen of London, and with his wife, Prudence, arrived in this country in 1675. He was one of the leading emigrants in Fenwick's colony, and pur- chased of the proprietor a town lot on Bridge street, now known as Market street, on the north side. Fenwick retained the land on the south side of said street for himself and his heirs. Edward Wade erected a brick house on his lot, and it was stand- ing about forty years ago. By tradition it was the first that was ever built on said street. Edward and his wife ended their days at that place, which event took place before the beginning of the eighteenth century. There is no account that they ever had any sons, but they had one daughter-Mary Wade.
In the year 1676, on the first 2d day in the 6th month, a few Friends met together to organize a meeting of business, it being the first of the kind held on Continent of North America .- The following is the minute of their organization " It is unan- "imously considered that the first 2d day of the week, in the " 6th month, that Friends do meet in the town of New Salem, "in Fenwick's Colony ; and all Friends thereunto do monthly " meet together, to consider of outward circumstances and bus- "iness, and if such that has been convinced, and walked " disorderly, that they may in all gravity and uprightness to "God, and in tenderness of spirit and love to their souls, be "admonished, exhorted, and also reproved. And their evil " deeds and practices testified against in the wisdom of God, and " in the authority of truth, that may answer the witness of " God within them." Signed by John Fenwick, Edward Wade, Samuel Wade, Francis Nebo, Samuel Nicholson, Richard Guy, Edward Champney and Isaac Smart.
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