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JOHN SHINN.
John Shinn was among the early English settlers of Burlington, com- ing over about 1678, or within a few years thereafter .- Smith's N. J., 109. His name is appended to a Testimony of the Burlington Monthly Meet- ing, 7th of 12th mo. 1680 (March 7, 1681) .- Friends in Burlington, by Amelia Mott Gummere, 21. He appears to have been a man of considerable substance, and was probably one of the colonists and proprietors of the Yorkshire Tenth, in Burlington. John Shinn was among the signers to a petition to Lord Cornbury praying for the removal of his prohibition of Nov. 14, 1706, against the granting of any warrants for laying out lands. -N. J. Archives, III., 165. He was a wheelwright by trade. The follow- ing conveyances indicate his prominence and the extent of his posses- sions in West Jersey:
1687, May 25: John Shinn, senior, and 23 others, proprietors of several undivided shares of land in West Jersey, to Thomas Budd, for 15,000 acres, to be bought from the Indians; grantee to pay the debts of the Province of West Jersey, according to Act of General Assembly of 1687 .-
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Liber B, ff. 150, 231. 1687, Dec. 14: John Shinn, senior, of Springfield Lodge, Burlington Co., wheelwright, to John Crosby of the same place, millwright, and wife Mary, daughter of said Shinn, for 150 acres, near Bearch Creek .- Liber B, f. 168. 1686, Oct. S: John Skene of Peach- field, West Jersey, gentleman, to John Shinn, senior, of near As- siscunk Creek, for 100 acres in the First or Yorkshire Tenth, :o John Skene of Peachfield, West Jersey, gentleman, to John Shinn, senior, of near Assicunk Creek, for 100 acres in the First or Yorkshire Tenth, to be surveyed .- Liber B, f. 196. 1686, Oct. 10: Same to same, for a wharf, and a town lot in Burlington .- Liber B, f. 197. 1688-9, Feb. 12: John Shinn and other Proprietors consent to the agreement, made by Dr. Daniel Coxe with East Jersey concerning the partition line .- Liber B, f. 233. 1686, Sept. 6: Eleazer Fenton to John Shinn, senior, both of Birch Creek, yeomen, for his share (1-16) in the First Tenth .- Liber B, f. 247. 1690-1, Feb. 2: John Shinn of Springfield, Burlington Co., wheelwright, to Will- iam Bustill, of said county, carpenter, for 50 acres at Oneanickon, for- merly laid out to Peter Harvey .- Liber B, f. 267. 1690-1, Jan. 11: John Shinn, senior, of Burlington County, carpenter, to Edward Bolton of said county, husbandman, for 100 acres near Mount Pisgah .- Libur B, f. --. 1695, June 11: John Shinn, of Springfield Lodge, wheelwright, to John Crosby and wife Mary, daughter of grantor, for 150 acres on Birch Creek [apparently the same as above, p. 163] .- Liber B, f. 443. 1693, April 10: Same to his son-in-law, Thomas Atkinson, and wife Sarah, for 195 acres in Burlington County .- Liber B, f. 582. 1697, July 17: John Shinn, of Springfield, Burlington County, wheelwright, to his son, James Shinn, for 120 acres on Birch Creek .- Liber B, f. 619. 1711, July 15: John Shinn, of Springfield Township, wheelwright, to John Shinn. junior, of the same place, for 1-15 of one of the 100 shares of West Jersey bought of William Einley of Nottingham, West Jersey, Sept. 18, 1680 .- Liber AAA, f. 36S. The will of John Shinn, senior, of Springfield, names son (sic) Thomas Atkeson and wife Sarah, son-in-law Richard Fenimore and wife Mary, grandchild Mary Crosby, an idiot, sons John, James, son-in-law Joshua Owein and wife Martha, grandson Thomas Shinn; wife mentioned, but not by name. Dated Jan. 11, 1711-12. Proved Feb. 20, 1711-12 .- W. J. Wills, Liber 1, f. 337.
Second Generation.
John Shinn, senior, had issue, doubtless all born in England: 2. i. John, m. Ellen Stacy, 1686. The following conveyances to and from him are recorded: 1685, May 13: John Renshawe of Burlington, butcher, to John Shinn, Junior, of Birch Creek, West Jersey, husbandman, for 200 acres, to be surveyed in the First Tenth as part of 1-16 of a share, bought by Renshawe of John Haslehurst, Dec. 19-20, 1683 .- Liber BB, f. 87. 1706-7, Jan. 6: John and Mary Crosby to John Shinn, junior, all of Spring- field Township, for the land, given them by John Shinn, senior .- Liber BBB f. 215. 1716, May 17: Joseph Ambler, of Philadelphia, to John Shinn, of Springfield, for 100 acres adjoining Peter Harvey, et al .- Ib., f. 298. 1718, Aug. 27: John Shinn, of Springfield, to John Ogborne, junior, of the same place, for 30 acres there .- Ib., f. 348. 1713-14, Jan. 11: Same to Abra- ham Bickely, of Philadelphia, for 100 acres in Springfield Township .- Ib., f. 421. 1722, June 30: John Shinn, of Springfield, yeoman, to Thomas Budd, of Northhampton, for a meadow in Springfield .- Liber BB, f. 379. 1726, June 1: John Shinn, of Springfield, to Widow Sarah Dimsdale, of Hattonfield, Gloucester County, for 618 acres on a branch of Raritan River, in Hunterdon County .- Liber D, f. 189. 1736, Oct. 21: John Shinn, of Springfield, to David Lues of Lebanon, Hunterdon County, for 210 acres in Lebanon .- Liber E, f. 203. 1736, Oct. 21: Same to his son, William Shinn, for 426 acres in Lebanon .- Liber E, f. 205. John Shinn, junior, died
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between the date of the deed just cited, and Dec. 12, 1739.
3. ii. Thomas, m. 1st, Sarah Shawthorne, in Burlington Monthly Meet- Ing, 16SS; 2d, in 1693, Mary Stockton, daughter of Richard Stockton, whose son, Richard, was the founder of that family in New Jersey. Thomas Shinn and the Stocktons lived in Springfield township, Burling- ton county. He died in December, 1694. The will of Thomas Shinn, of Springfield, Burlington county (not recorded), dated Nov. 4, 1694, leaves to son Thomas S0 acres; to an unborn child another share of the planta- tion; "unto my now wife Mary Shinn" the other half of the plantation, to go to the two children, if she should marry again. Witnesses-John Shinn, senior, Isaac Horner, Matthew Champion. Executors-Francis Davenport and John Wilston. Proved Dec. 15, 1694. Widow Mary made administratrix same day. Inventory, taken same day, amounts to &£273, 9s., 6d. By deed dated Dec. 14, 1687, Benjamin Wheate, of Burlington county, shoemaker, conveys to Thomas Shinn, of same county, 200 acres of the 500 bought of Benjamin Antrobus, July 23, 1683 .- Liber B, f. 186. Dec. 28, 1697, Mary, widow of Thomas Shinn, of Burlington county, yeo- man, conveys to Richard Stockton, junior, her brother, and John Shinn, junior, her brother-in-law, feoffees in trust to and for her children, Thomas and Samuel Shinn, she intending to become the wife of Silas Crispin, of Pennsylvania, for the plantation in Burlington, bequeathed to her by the last will of her late husband, dated Nov. 4, 1694 .- Liber B, f. 612. Crispin was of Dublin township, northeast of Pennepach creek, Penn .; he d. May 31, 1711 .- Friends in Burlington, 83, 84; Penn. Mag., XX., 253.
iii. Mary, m. John Crosby, 1686; 2d, Richard Fenimore, in 1711.
iv. George, m. Mary Thomson, 1691. The will of George Shinn (not recorded), dated Jan. 27, 1694-5, makes his wife Mary sole heiress and executrix, mentioning children, but not by name. Proved March 2, 1694-5. As none of the children are mentioned in the will of their grandfather, John Shinn, Jan. 11, 1711-12, it is probable that they were then deceased.
V. Martha, m. Joshua Owen, 1697.
vi. James, m. Abigail Lippincott, 1697.
vii. Sarah, m. Thomas Atkinson.
Third Generation.
2. John Shinn, junior. had issue:
i. William, who received by deed from his father, in 1736, a tract of 426 acres in Lebanon, as above mentioned.
ii. Clement; he seems to have died without issue. William Shinn. his "brother and heir-at-law," conveyed to their father, John Shinn, all of Springfield, by deed dated Oct. 20, 1736, a tract of 300 acres in Hunter- don county .- Liber E, f. 202. This tract was probably given to Clement by his father.
iii. Caleb. By deed dated Dec. 12, 1739. Caleb Shinn, of Springfield, son of John, conveyed to his brother Jacob 100 acres, inherited from their father .- Liber EF, f. 147.
3. Thomas Shinn, 1st, had children:
i. Thomas, 2d; he m. Martha Earl, 1718. By deed dated Sept. 7, 1720, he bought from Jennet, the widow, and John, the son, of Alexander Steward (all the parties being of Springfield township, Burlington county), a plantation of 350 acres in that township, on the south side of Barker's creek, between John Ogborn and John Shinn (his brother) .- W. J. Decds, Liber DD, f. 79. In 1739 he was living on "the back street" in Bridge-Town (Mt. Holly) .- N. J. Archives, XI., 582. He was appointed one of the Justices of the Quorum and Assistant Judge of the Burlington common pleas, Aug. 19, 1732; Dec. 1, 1739, and again April 3, 1741; also Judge of that court, July 10, 1746, and on March 28, 1749 .- Ib., XV., 98, 197;
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XVI., 89; Liber AAA of Commissions, 211, 212, 262. He was elected to the Assembly from Burlington county, in 1743, and again in 1744, being classed as "a professed Quaker" in that body, a reputation which he main- tained by voting against a militia act .- Ib., VI., 202. At a meeting of the Justices and Freeholders of Burlington county, August 1, 1749, a resolu- tion was adopted ordering the payment of a bill of £10 15s .; there were present fourteen Freeholders and five Justices, Shinn being among the latter. Five Freeholders and all the Justices voted for the bill; five Freeholders voted in the negative, and two did not vote. Complaint was made to the Assembly in the following February, that the bill had been illegally ordered paid, on the ground that a majority vote of all the Freeholders was requisite. The Justices were summoned to appear and answer for their illegal conduct. Two of them promised not to do so again; two refused to make any promises. Shinn was too ill to appear. -Ib., XVI., 222-239. His will, dated 10th of Sth mo., 1751, devises to his children property on Elbo Alley, Burlington, and "plantations, parcels of land, lots and houses not before mentioned." Executors-son-in-law, Henry Paxson, and John Woolman. Witnesses-Benjamin Bispham, Jos ' Humphries, John Clark. This will was proved March 10, 1753 .- 1b., XIX., 267; W. J. Wills, Liber 7, f. 318.
ii. Samuel; probably died young. as he is not mentioned in the will of his grandfather, John Shinn, in 1712.
Fourth Generation
Thomas Shinn, 2d, and Martha Earl had children:
i. Susannah Atkinson, b. 3 mo. 10. 1721.
ii. Martha. b. 1 mo. 22, 1722-3; m. Henry Paxson.
iii. Thomas 3d. b. 6 mo. 7, 1725; he was Sheriff of Burlington county in 1761. He was appointed guardian of the person and estate of John Hollinshead, Feb. 17, 1776 .- W. J. Wills, Liber 16. f. 496. Letters of ad- ministration were granted on his estate, on March S. 1777, to Buddell [Biddle ?] Shinn .- Ib., Liber 1S. f. 141.
iv. Mary. b. 10 mo. 22 or 23, 1727; m. 4 mo. 3. 1745. Thomas Allin son; he d. 1754, and she m. 2d. James Clothier.
V. Elizabeth. b. 7 mo. 20. 1733; m. Earll.
vi. Earl. b. 10 mo. 27. 1736: m. Rebecca Monrow.
vii. Gamaliel. b. 5 mo. 10. 1738.
viii. Aquila, b. 1 mo. S, 1739-40.
ix. Postreme, b. 1 mo. 6. 1744; m. John Ridgway, of Mount Holly; she d. 9 mo. 23, 1813 (the record says 1931). Children: 1. Thomas. b. S mo. 17. 1761; d. 9 mo. 14. 1761; 2. John. b. 12 mo. 20. 1762; d. 3 mo. 4. 1809; 3. William, b. 11 mo. 6. 1765; 4. Aquilla. b. 10 mo. 16. 1767; d. 9 mo. 1799; 5. Anna, b. 9 mo. 24. 1769: 6. De la plaine. b. 10 mo. 9, 1772; 7. Mary, b. 11 mo. 24. 1774; S. Martha. b. S mo. 5. 1777; 9. Thomas Shinn, b. 11 mo. 4. 1779; m. Mary, dau. of Captain Daniel Joy; d. 4 mo. 1. 1857; 10. Elizabeth. b. 7 mo. 21, 1782; 11. Edmund. b. 2 mo. 13, 1785; d. 9 mo. 15, 1805 (the Meeting records give the name as Ed- ward).
PETER SIMMONS.
Peter Simmons was b. May 29, 1728, and is understood to have been a native of England. About the middle of the eighteenth century lie settled at Flushing, Long Island, opposite to Kip's Bay, and there he married Rachel Kip (b. Jan. 12, 1737-8), July 30, 1756; she died Sept. 17, 1804, aged 67 years, 8 months and five days; one of her sisters, Sally, married Abraham Cadmus, and lived at Belleville; another, Leah, married Richard Leaycraft. Peter Simmons was a seafaring man, captain of the ship Henri IV. Being away most of the time
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he established his wife with her uncle, Stephen Bassett, who had a tannery on a small run of spring water flowing into the Passaic river, a short distance above the site of the present Dundee dam. Bassett was of French Huguenot descent; he formerly had a tannery and a tap-roon in New York. On his farm, at Wesel, were born the chil- dren of Peter Simmons. In a storm in the English channel, Peter was washed overboard and drowned, July 5, 1787. He left fourteen children, one of whom, Peter, Ir., married Margaret Westervelt; he was the father of Henry P. Simmons, born July 8, 1815, who was a very prominent character of' Passaic for many years, and d. 1896 .- Hisotry of Paterson, by William Nelson, p. 177.
REV. JOHN SIMPSON.
John Simpson, a native of New Jersey, was licensed by the Presby- tery of New Brunswick, in 1770, and for the two following years he preached at Easton, Pa. In 1772 he was appointed by the Synod of New York and Philadelphia to visit Virginia and North Carolina. He spent seven months in this missionary work, and in 1774 was ordained and settled as pastor of Fishing Creek Church, South Carolina. He was a bold and ardent advocate of Independence, and was in many conflicts and skirmishes, in some of which he was regarded as the leader and adviser. He had many narrow escapes, and in the course of the war his house, his library, his sermons, and indeed all that he possessed, were destroyed by the enemy. After the war he gathered his scattered flock, and for ten years prached to them. In 1790 Mr. Simpson became pastor of Roberts and Good Hope Congregations, in Pendleton County, South Carolina, where he continued his labors until his death, February 15, 1808.
COL. SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, Bart.
M. at Elizabethtown, March -- , 1769, Col. Templer, of the 26th Regt., to Lady Sinclair, Relict of Sir John Sinclair, Bart .- N. J. Archives, XXVI., 401.
REV. ISAAC SKILLMAN.
Isaac Skillman was a native of New Jersey, and was probably a near relative of Thomas Skillman, senior, of Somerset county, whose son Thomas died in 1796. Isaac was born in 1740, and studied in the Rev. Isaac Eaton's school at Hopewell, the first Baptist school in America for the education of young men for the ministry. Having graduated at Princeton in 1766 he pursued his theological studies for some time, and in 1773 was chosen pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Boston, succeeding the Rev. John Davis. Here he remained until 1787, when he returned to New Jersey. In that year the Salem Bap- tists erected a new church edifice, and it is probable that Mr. Skillman preached for that congregation from that time, but he was not for- mally installed as pastor until September 18, 1790, succeeding the Rev. Peter P. Vanhorn. He continued in that charge until his death, June 7, 1799. Rhode Island College conferred upon him the degree of A. M. in 1774, and of D. D. in 179S. He died intestate, and administration on his estate was granted, September 1S, 1799, to Abraham and Cornelius Skillman .- Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit (Baptist), 453; Bene- diet's Hist. of the Baptists in America, ed. 1848, p. 587; Johnson's Hist. of Salem, p. 88; West Jersey Wills, Liber No. 35, p. 526; Ibid., Liber No. 38. p. 412; Edward's Hist. N. J. Baptists, 82.
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MAJOR JOHN SKINNER.
John Skinner, fourth son of the Rev. William Skinner, of Perth Amboy, was a Lieutenant in the Company of his older brother, Captain William Skinner, in Col. Peter Schuyler's New Jersey Regiment, in the French and Indian war of 1755 and 1756, and was taken prisoner at Oswego in the latter year. He served in Lord Loudon's Regiment in a secret expedition in the Mediterranean, and in the latter part of 1757 received a commission as Ensign in that Regiment. In 1759 he was a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Colonel Grey, and on June 10, 1768, was commissioned Captain. He was afterwards Major of the 70th Regi- ment, which during the Revolution was stationed in England. Later he sold his commission and returned to America, and engaged in mer- cantile business at Perth Amboy, where he died in December, 1797 .- Whitehead's Perth Amboy, 119.
JOHN SMITH.
John Smith was the second son of Richard Smith, of Green Hill, Bur- lington, and was a brother of Samuel Smith, the historian, and of Will- iam Lovett Smith and Richard Smith. He was born "1st mo. 20th, 1722"-March 20, 1722. In 1741 he sailed in one of his father's ships to the West Indies, returning the next year, and in 1743 engaged in the West India trade, in Philadelphia, where he resided for the next twelve or fifteen years, carrying on a flourishing business, and enjoying the company of a delightful society. He occupied a handsome house on Second street, and in 1746 bought a fine country estate at Point-no- Point, on the Delaware, above the town. At these houses he entertained handsomely a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, including the leading men and women of his day. He and some of his young Quaker friends organized a sort of club, devoted to social converse and mutual improvement; and the cares of business, and even the occasional loss. of a ship, captured by Spanish cruisers, did not interrupt his quiet pleasures, nor divert his attention from the best authors of the day Fielding's "Joseph Andrews" and Thomas Story's "Journal" being read with apparently equal interest as they came from over the water. In 1747 he wrote for gratuitous distribution a pamphlet, "The doctrines of Christianity, as held by the people called Quakers, vindicated, in answer to G. Tennent's Sermon on the Lawfulness of War." Withal, he found time to promote the organization of the Philadelphia Contributionship, one of the first fire insurance companies in the country, and helped found the Pennsylvania Hospital (1751). He was also prominent in Friends' councils, being chosen a representative to the Quarterly and Yearly Meeting, and held some minor offices not inconsistent with his professions. In 1750, and again in 1751, he was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly. Meantime (1746-7) he had become smit- ten with the charms of a fair young Friend, Hannah, daughter of ex- Chief Justice James Logan and Sarah Read (daughter of the Hon. Charles Read, of Pennsylvania). She was thus described, in 1744, by an impressionable young gentleman from Virginia: "She was tall and slender, but Exactly well Shap'd; her Eyes Express'd a very great Softness, denoting a Compos'd Temper and Serenity of Mind, Her Man- ner was Grave and Reserv'd, and, to be Short, She had a sort of Maj- esty in her person, and Agreeableness in her Behaviour, which at once Suprized and Charmed the Beholder." After this glowing description of the fair Hannah's charms, Mr. Smith's predilection is not to be wondered at. She was a delicate creature, and having accepted his invitation to accompany him and his sister to Evesham Meeting, he
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with a lover's solicitude for her comfort borrowed Governor Belcher's tour-wheeled chaise, said to be the only vehicle of the kind in New Jersey, to carry the party. He returned the compliment in October, 1748, when he brought over by one of his own ships the Governor's in- tended bride, and on her arrival at Philadelphia procured a four-oared barge and transported her up the river to Burlington. James Logan favored his daughter's suitor, and told him the girl owned 500 acres of land, that he would give her husband £750, that she should have £2.000 on her father's death, and £1,000 more on the death of her mother. Having duly "passed meeting," they were married "10th mo. 7th, 1748" -December 7, 1748-and after spending a day or two at her father's place, Stenton, he took her to his own home in his chaise. She bore him several children, but six weeks after the birth of her last she died -December 18, 1761. He appears to have taken up a residence in Bur- lington some years before this, occupying the house built by his father in 1720 .- The Burlington Smiths, passim. In 1757 he was a subscriber to "The New Jersey Association for Helping the Indians."-N. J. Hist. Soc. Proc., January, 1875. He was appointed, December 12, 1758, a member of the Council, on recommendation of Governor Belcher .- V. J. Archives, IX., 127, 151, 153. In June, 1761, he was named as one of the commis- sioners to try pirates .- Ib., 284. On the death of his wife he retired altogether from business, and spent the rest of his days at Burlington. occupying himself in quiet works of benevolence, and in the faithful discharge of his public and private duties. It is related that Governor Franklin having put up for sale his country place at Burlington, with its herd of an hundred deer, the bellman going about the streets of Burlington very early in the morning disturbed Mr. Smith, whose health had been impaired so that sleep was a rare pleasure to him. Putting his head out of the window, he asked what was for sale. "The Gover- nor's Park," was the reply. "Put up your bell and go home, and I will buy the property at the owner's price," exclaimed the Councillor, as he closed his window and tried to resume his disturbed slumbers. Such is the story of his purchase of this fine estate .- The Burlington Smiths. Mr. Smith died March 26, 1771, in his forty-ninth year. Proud says of him: "He was engaging, open, friendly and undesigning, in his address and behavious; of a cheerful and benevolent disposition of mind; well skilled in the laws of his country; and very ready, generous and ser- viceable, in giving his advice and assistance. In his religious character. he exhibited an excellent example of true practical Christianity, free from all affectation and narrowness of mind. He was, in several rela- tions, one of the best of neighbours and of men."-Hist. Penn., II., 233. Samuel Smith sums up a characterization of him thus eloquently and feelingly: "He was, in every conjugal relation, affectionately tender; a fond father, an indulgent master; he was more. But I must stop- he was-my brother, my most intimate friend and companion! I lost all that could be lost in those relations."-The Burlington Smiths, 165; N. J. Archives, X., 231-232.
REV. SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH.
Samuel Stanhope Smith, a son of the Rev. Robert Smith, a distin- guished clergyman of the Presbyterian church, was born in Lancaster county, Pa., March 16, 1750. After graduating from Princeton College, in 1769, he returned to his father's house, assisting him in a school, and giving special attention to belles-lettres and moral and intellectual philosophy. In 1770 he was appointed tutor at Princeton, where he re- mained three years. In 1773 he was licensed by the Presbytery of New Castle. Del., and went as a missionary to Virginia, where he soon be-
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came a universal favorite. In order to keep him in Virginia, funds were collected, and Hampden Sidney College was founded, of which he became President. In 1779 he was invited to the chair of moral phil- osophy at Princeton, which he accepted. On arriving at Princeton, he found the affairs of the College in a deplorable condition, occasioned by the war, and the occupation of Dr. Witherspoon in the higher affairs of the nation. Mainly by the energy, wisdom and self-devotion of Dr. Smith, the College was speedily reorganized. and its usual exercises re- sumed. In 1794 Dr. Witherspoon died, and Dr. Smith succeeded him in the Presidential chair. His reputation as a pulpit orator at this time was very great. Visitors from Philadelphia and New York were ac- customed to go to Princeton to hear his baccalaureate discourses, which were always of the highest order. In 1802, when the institution was at the full-tide of its prosperity, the College edifice was destroyed by fire, with the libraries, furniture, etc. Dr. Smith assumed the labor of col- lecting money to rebuild; and he was successful in raising, during the year, about $100,000 from the Southern States, and much more from other parts of the Union. In 1812, through repeated strokes of palsy, he became too much enfeebled to discharge the duties of his office, and at the Commencement he sent in to the Trustees his resignation. He died August 21, 1819, in the seventieth year of his age. He was a vol- uminous and able writer.
SARAH LOGAN SMITH.
Sarah Logan Smith, dau. of the Hon. John Smith, of Franklin Park, Burlington, and Hannah Logan (dau. of James Logan, of Stenton, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania), was b. Aug. 29, 1749; m. William Dillwyn, of Philadelphia, May 19, 1768; d. April 23, 1769. He removed to Higham Lodge, Middlesex, England. Issue: Susannah Dillwyn, b. March 3, 1769; m. Samuel Emlen, of West Hill, April 16, 1795; d. s. p. Nov. 24, 1819. William Dillwyn was a brother of the famous Quaker preacher and philosopher, George Dillwyn, who was b. in Philadelphia, 26th of 2d mo., 1738, entered the ministry in his 28th year, traveled extensively in his work, spending the years 1784 to 1791 in Europe, and again, 1793 to 1802, in Great Britain, and residing in Burlington, N. J .. from 1802 until his death, 23d of 6th mo .. 1820.
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