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MISCELLANEOUS-WILLIAM, of Kingwood, whose will probated 12 July, 1802, names dau. Prudence and sons, William and John.
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MELLICK.
MELLICK-The genealogy of this family may be found in the recent work called "The Story of an Old Farm." That work is so well known and so extensively circulated that it will be only necessary to give a brief synopsis in this book of the very interesting and complete family his- tory found in that most valnable production. Mr. Andrew J. Melick, Jr., the author of the work referred to above, has traced his ancestry back to the year 1500. PETER MOELICH wss living at that time in Winningen, Germany. Peter was the father of THEISS, b. 1530, and the latter was the father of MICHEL, b. 1598, and he of FRIEDERICH, b. 1611. The latter had a son JONAS, b. 1650, who migrated from Winningen to Bendorf in 1688. With Jonas came JOHAN WILHELM the son or nephew of Jonas, whose three sons emigrated to America. HANS PETER, the second son of Jonas had born to him in Bendorf eleven children ; his four sons emigrated to America, viz .: JOHAN JONAS, b. 27 July, 1710, who d. unmarried in Hunterdon Co., N. J .; JOHAN DAVID, b. 12 Nov . 1715, who was a trustee of the Lutheran Church at New Germantown, N. J., in 1749; JOHAN PETER, b. 29 Aug., 1719, who settled in what is now Columbic Co., Pa. ; JOHANNES, b. 22 Sept., 1723, who prob. appears on the register of the New Ger- mantown Church. With Jonas came to Bendorf from Winningen also JOHAN WILHELM, his son or nephew, whose three sons, JOHANNES, JOHAN PETER and JOHANN GOTTFRIED, emigrated to America. Two brothers DAVID and PETER Moelich, probably nephews of Johan Wilhelm, of Bendorf, also came to America and founded fami- lies. David settled in New Jersey und Peter settled in Columbia Co. JOHANNES MOELICH, of "The Old Farm," son of Johan Wilhelm, of Bendorf, b. 26 Feb., 1702 ; emigrated to America in 1735, where he arrived at Phil- adelphia May 29 in ship Mercury, with Conrad Wurtz (afterward Reverend); m. 1 Nov., 1723, Maria Cathrine Kirberger (dau. of Gott- fried) ; bought 1747 of John Garrets 400 acris in Greenwich township, now Warren Co .; in 1750, 400 acres nenr Whitehouse, and, in 1751, 367 acres near Pluckamin, N. J .; had ch .:
I. GEORGE WILHELM, b. 12 Aug., d. 20 Aug., 1724.
II. AARON, b. 17 Oct., 1725, m. Charlotte Miller, b. 1734, d. 1802 ; had ch .: (I). JOHN, b. 1758 ; (II). CATHERINE, b. 1761 ; (III). DANIEL, b. 1763, m. first, Margaret Gaston (dau. of Rob.) ; second, Cath. Johnston La Rue (dau. of Albert Johnston and wid. Othniel La Rue), and had Aaron, Elisabeth, Charlotte, Rosannah, John, Mary, David, William, Daniel and Catherine ; (IV). ELISABETH, b. 1765 ; (V). MARGARET, b. 1767, m. Joseph Gaston (s. of Robert); (VI). MARIA, b. 1771, m. Solomon Pat- terson.
III. VERONICA GERDRUTTA, b. 1727, m. Jacob Kline.
IV. ANDREW, b. 1729, m. Catherine ; res. at Greenwich, now Warren Co .; had ch .: (I). MARY, m. Will. Tinsman ; (II). REBECCA, b. 1776 ; (III). JOHANNES, b. 1778, m. first, Anna Sharps ; second, Anna Malick ; third Esther Cyphers (dau. of George); rem. from Bloomsburg to Belvidere and had Catharine, Elisabeth, Hannah, Mary Anna, Andrew, George, Anna Mary, Peter S., Sarah, Matilda, John, Charlotte, Mary ; (IV).
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JACOB, b, 1783, d. 1819 ; (V). HANNAH, b. 1785, m. Matthias Melick. V. GEORGE ANTHON, d. in Bendorf.
VI. MARIA CATHERINE, b. 1733, m. Simon Ludewig Himroth, who emi- grated to America in 1752.
VII. PHILIP, b. 1736 ; res. near Pluckamin ; had ch .: (I). CATHERINE, m. James Todd ; (II). ELISABETH, b. 1796, m. Jacob Van Dyke ; (III). DAVID, rem. to Virginia ; (IV). JOHN, m. Mary Todd and rem. to Ohio ; (V). FANNY, m. a Heriot ; (VI). CHARLOTTE and (VII). MARGARET, rem. to Virginia ; (VIII). MAGDALENA, m. 1792, Jeremy Vosseler.
VIII. PETER, b. 1739 ; res. near Pluckamin, m. Magdalena King ; had ch .: DAVID, CATHERINE and JOHN.
JOHAN PETER MOELICH, second son of J. Wilhelm, of Bendorf, b. 1708, prob. d. in Germantown, Pa .; arrived in Philadelphia, 24 Aug., 1728, in ship Mortonhouse : had ch .:
I. TUNIS, b. 1720, m. Eleanor Van Horn (dau. of Abraham) ; rem. from Whitehouse, to New Germantown where he bought 200 acres of Ralph Smith and rebuilt the old mill ; had ch .: (1). PETER, b. 1758, m. Susanna Egbert ; (II). ANNA, m. Isaac Farley ; (III). MARY CATH- ERINE, m. Mindurt Farley ; (IV). ELISABETH, m. 1789, Martin Meble ; (V). MAHOARET, b. 1769, m. 1792, Dennis Wyckoff ; (VI). ELEANOR, b. 1772, m. first, Cornelius Vliet : second, her brother-in-law, Martin Mehle ; (VII). ABRAHAM, b. 1776, d. 1793 ; (VIII). MARIA DOROTHEA, b. 1778, m. John Vliet.
II. MARIA CATHERINE, b. 1732, m. 1755, J. Henry Mueller.
III. JOHN, lived and died in New York city.
JOHANN GOTTFRIED MOELICH, son of J. Wilhelm, of Bendorf, b. 1724, d. 1776 ; arrived at Phila. 29 May, 1735 ; res. Greenwich, Warren Co., m. Margaret Falkenberg (dau. of Christian) ; had ten children :
I. GODFREY, b. 1749.
II. CHRISTOPHER, b. 1750, m. Mary Shipman (dau. of Matthias), resided Lopatcong township, Warren Co .; had twelve children.
III WILLIAM, b. 1753 ; rem. to New Brunswick, Canada.
IV. JACOB, b. 1755 ; rem. to Columbia Co., Pa.
V. MARIA MARGARET, b. 1757, m. J. Martin Hulshizer (s. of Martin).
VI. HENRY, b. 1759, m. Rebecca Stewart (dau. of James).
VII. ANDREW, b. 1759 : rem. to Columbia Co., Pa.
VIII. JOHN, b. 1762 ; rem. to New Brunswick, Canada.
IX. CATHERINE, b. 1765, m. Philip Fine.
JOHAN DAVID MOELICH, son of Hans Peter, of Bendorf, b. 17 October, 1715 ; trustee of Lutheran Church in New Germantown, N. J .; had at least four children :
I. CHRISTIAN (after called Christopher), b. 1744, d. 1788, m. Anna Pickel (dau. of Balthazar 2d), b. 9 April, 1749. d. in New York, 1823, as the widow of Rev. William Graaf, of New Germantown, N. J .; rem. to Woodbridge, N. J .; had six children.
II. PETER, h. 1754, m. Hannah Gillespie ; had ch .: David, Peter, Joel, Parmelia, Harriet, Mary.
III. LEONARD, b. 1760, m. Mary Glaspy : had seven children.
IV. A DAUGHTER, m. Peter Hendershot.
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THE MUEHLENBERG FAMILY.
REV. HEINRICH MELCHIOR MUEHLENBERG was born in the city of Einbeck, in the Electoral Principality of Hanover, Sept. 6, 1711. His parents were Nicholaus Melchior Muhlenberg, a member of the Council of Einbeck, and Anna Maria Kleinshmid. daughter of a retired military officer. He had eleven children, of whom four died young. Seven reached maturity : the Reverend JOHN PETER G., Member of Congress and Major General ; REV. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, Member of Congress, and grandfather of the hymn writer ; REV. DR. G. HENRY ERNST ; EVA E., the wife of Rev. C. E. Schultz ; MARGARET H., the wife of Rev. J. C. Kunze ; MARY CATHERINE. the wife of Major Francis Swayne ; MARY SALOME, the wife of the Hon. Matthias Richards, Member of Congress. Dr. Muehlenberg served the three congrega- tions to which he hat been first called, viz. New Hanover, New Providence or Trappe, and Philadelphia, until his death, with many visitations or temporary residences, for the benefit of the congregations, to New York, New Jersey, Maryland and South Carolina ; in 1748 organized the ministerium of Pennsyl- vania and adjacent States, which now numbers 291 ministers and 471 congre- gations : in 1762 introduced a new constitution into the congregation at Phil- adelphia, which restored peace and order to it, and became the basis of most of the congregational constitutions in Pennsylvania ; built during his ministry in Philadelphia, St. Michael's and Zion's church, the latter in its day the larg- est church edifice of the Lutheran denomination in the U. S. This building was sold and the money arising from its sale, given to found three or four other Lutheran churches of a large size in Philadelphia ; suffered mnuch during the war of the Revolution, in consequence of the presence of the American or British armies near or in his parish, while the British had possession of Phila- delphia, and the battles of the Brandywine and Germantown were in progress, and the Americans were encamped at Valley Forge ; during all, but especially the last year of his life, kept up a correspondence with the fathers in Halle, who had sent out him and other ministers for Pennsylvania, and the adjacent States of New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Virginia, &c. These reports have been almost the only accurate account of the state of the Lutheran church in this country during the last century. He had the degree of D. D. conferred upon him by the University of Pennsylvania, and enjoyed all his life in a marked degree the respect and confidence of some of the most eminent minis- ters of the Episcopal, Presbyterian and German Reformed churches in Penn- sylvania and elsewhere and received the honorable title of Patriarch of Lutheranism. Dr. Mann in his edition of the Hallesche Nachrichten says of him, "The monument to his honor is the Lutheran church of this land."
I. JOHN PETER GABRIEL, b. at the Truppe (now Providence), Slout- gomery Co., Pa., 1 Oct., 1746, d. 1 Oct., 1807 ; m. 6 Nov., 1770, Anna Bar- bara Meyer ; was sent, 1763, with his two brothers to Germany for their education ; served for two years in a drug store at Luebeck ; became tired of the drudgery, as his employer imposed upon him and neglected to give him instruction in his profession ; took advantage of the presence in the country of a British recruiting officer to enter the military service without the consent of his father, who much regretted his loss ; returned to America iu 1766 and studied for the ministry under the Swedish Provost
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Wrangel : began preaching in 1768 in vacant congregations ; acted as assistant to his father in the Raritan congregations 1768-1772, preaching in German and English ; was licensed at the Synodical Convention, 20 June, 1769 ; became pastor in 1772 of a Lutheran Episcopal church at Woodstock, Va., after he had received Episcopal ordinat on in London in April, 1772 ; at the breaking out of the Revolutionary fever, acted as a member of a Committee of Safety ; was sent to the House of Burgesses; Colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment ; served with distinction through- ut the entire war from the battle of Charlestown to the surrender of Cornwallis, at which he was present and was honored with the ranks of Colonel, Brigadier and Major General ; was a member of the First and Third Congresses ; U. S. Senator and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of the most eminent men of the Republic, as Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, General Green and others. General Muehlenberg had seven children : 1. MARY ESTHER, who died young ; 2. HENRY MEYERS, Captain in the U. S. Army : 3. CHARLES FREDERICK ; 4. HESTHER, who married Dr. Isaac, of Reading, Pa .: 5. PETER, who served in the Navy and was in the battles on Lake Erie and in the Chesapeake, as midship- man. He then served in the army as Lieutenant and Captain ; was an aid to Gen. Pike in Canada and to Gen. Jackson in the battle of New Orleans and in the Creek and Seminole war : died 1844, a Major and Lieut. Colonel by brevet, while acting as paymaster in the U. S. army at Natches, Louisiana. He married Miss Coleman and had seven children ; 6. FRANCIS, a lawyer and Congressman from Ohio ; married Mary Downing and died in 1831 ; 7. MARY ANN, who died at the age of eleven years.
II. EVE ELISABETH, the second child of Dr. Henry Melchior, was born the 19th of January, 1748, and died the 21st of July, 1808. She was married by the Reverend Provost Wrangel, on the 23d of September, 1766, to the Rev. Christopher Emanuel Schulze, who died on the 11th of March, 1809. One of his sons, Rev. John Andrew Melchior, was twice (1823-29) elected Governor of Pennsylvania.
III. REV. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS CONRAD, the third child of Dr. Henry Melchior, was born at the Trappe (now Providence), Pa., on the 2d of January, 1750 ; was baptised January 15th and died on the 4th of June, 1801. He was educated with his two brothers at Halle (1763-1770) ; ordained to the ministry by the ministerium of Pennsylvania, 25 Oct., 1770, then not quite 21 years of age ; became pastor of Christ's Lutheran Church of New York (1773-1776) ; obliged to leave the city when it was taken by the British, he returned to Pennsylvania ; e'ected to the Penn- sylvania Legislature and made Speaker of that body ; was President of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention for the ratification of the Constitution of the United States ; elected to Congress 2 March, 1779 ; Speaker of the First and Third Congresses : member of the Board of in Pennsylvania ; President of the Gerinan Society in Philadelphia ; had seven children among whom was HENRY, the father of Dr. William Augustus Muehlenberg, who was pastor of Grace Episcopal Church, founder of St. Luke's Hospital and author of the hymn, "I would not live alway," with others used by all denominations.
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IV. MARGARET HENRIETTA, the fourth child of Dr. Henry Melchior, was born 17 Sept., 1751, and died - ; she married Rev. John Christopher Kunze, D. D., pastor of a church in Philadelphia ; subsequently professor of Oriental Literature in the University of the City of New York and also served a Lutheran congregation in the same place. One of Doctor Kunze's daughters married Caspar Meyer, founder of the mercantile house of Aelrichs & Co., of New York, and Gustav Schwab, Esq., a son of the German poet of that name, married a granddaughter of Mr. Meyer. A second daughter married a Mr. Oakley, and a third daughter married Jacob Lorillard, founder of the well known family of that name.
V GOTTHILF HEINRICH ERNST, the fifth child of Dr. Henry Melchior was born at the Trappe, 17 Nov., 1753, and died 23d of May, 1815. He married in July, 1774, Catherine Hall, daughter of Philip Hall, of Phil- adelphia. He was sent in 1763, when ten years of age with two of his brothers to complete his education in Germany ; returned to America 1770 ; ordained 25 Oct., 1770 ; became his father's assistant in Philadel- phia ; compelled to flee from the city by the approach of the British in 1776 ; he retired to the country, where he took up the study of Botany, in which he became very proficient. He returned to the city after the departure of the British and continued his labors there until 1779, when he resigned and removed to Montgomerp Co., where he took charge of several congregations. The next spring he accepted a call to Lancaster, Pa., where he continued until his death from apoplexy on the 23d of May, 1815. Granted the title of D. D. by the University of Pennsylvania, he was made a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1786 : of the Naturforschende Freunde in Berlin in 1798 ; of the Philosophical and Physical societies of Goettingen in 1802 ; and of various other associations in Sweden, Germany and elsewhere. His Herbarium was purchased and presented to the America .. Philosophical Society. He published " Rede bei der Einweihung des Franklin Collegium," 1788 ; Catalogus Plantarum Amer. Septent. 1813 ; an English and German Lexicon and Grammer ; Descriptio Uberior Graminum ; and other works. He had eight children. One of these was REV. HENRY AUGUSTUS, born at Lancaster, 13 May, 1782 ; ordained 1802; took charge of Trinity Church, Reading, Pa .; received D. D. 1824 from University of Pennsylvania ; resigned from ill health 1823 ; soon after elected to the 22d Congress, to which re-elected until 1838 ; nominated for Governor of Pennsylvania 1835 ; offered a position in the Cabinet, the mission to Russia and also the mission to Austria, by President Van Buren, the last of which he accepted and from which he returned in 1840. Again nominated for Governor in 1844, he died before the election, on the 12th of August, 1844. He had a son Henry A. who was a member of Congress from the same district as his father. Another son of Rev. G. Henry Ernst was Dr. F. A. Muehlenberg, who became a distinguished physician in Lancaster, Pa., and had fourteen children, of whom Rev. F. A. Muehlenberg, D. D., formerly President of Muehlenberg College, at Allentown, Pa., and professor of Greek Litera- ture in the University of Pennsylvania, now of Reading, is the second. Rev. G. Henry E. Muehlenberg was his father's assisstant in the Rari- tan congregations from 1772 until 1774.
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VI. MARY CATHERINE, the sixth child of Dr. Henry Melchior, was born the 4th of November, 1755, and died the 15th of October, 1812. She mar- ried Major Francis Swayne, a subordinate officer of the Revolutionary army and Sheriff of Montgomery County, Pa.
VII. SAMUEL, the seventh child of Dr. Henry Melchior, was born the 21st of August, 1758, and died the 16th of February, 1764.
VIII. JOHN CHARLES, the eighth child of Dr. Henry Melchior. was born on the 18th of November, 1760, and died the 25th of November.
IX. CATHERINE SALOME, the ninth child of Dr. Henry Melchior, was born in Philadelphia, on the 18th April, 1764, and died in infancy.
X. MARY SALOME, the tenth child of Dr. Henry Melchior, was born in Philadelphia on the 13th of July, 1766 ; and married the Hon. Matthias Richards, a member of Congress, &c.
XI. EMANUEL SAMUEL, the eleventh child of Dr. Henry Melchior, was born on the 11th of July, 1769, and died in infancy.
MULLER (D. 448) should be MUELLER, the German form of Miller. IV. DAVID b. 28 April, 1769, m. Elisabeth Welsh (dau. of William, Jr.); resided at Middle Valley (see Part I of this work); had ch .:
I. HENRY, b. 24 Feb., 1796, m. Euphemia Shafer.
II. WILLIAM W., b. 13 Aug., 1799, m. Ann Gifford.
III. JACOB W., b. 1800, m. Mary Louisa MacCullock.
IV. ELIZA, m. Rev. John C. Vandervoort.
V. DAVID W., m. Phebe Swan.
VI. DOROTHY, b. 16 July, 1805, m. Thos. G. Talmage.
VII. MARY, b. 16 July, 1805 (twin to Dorothy), m. Tunis Van Pelt.
VIII. CATHERINE, unmarried.
IX. LYDIA ANN, b. 13 Sept., 1813, m. Moses E. Dewitt, of Paterson.
NAUGHRIGHT.
The first of the name was a British soldier, whose first name is not known. Mary the daughter of Christopher Kern (Karn or Carn) who afterwards married a Henry and removed to Canada, was the mother of
WILLIAM NACHRICHT, b. 29 Nov., 1780, d. 3 Feb., 1826, m. first 1803, Catherine Trimmer (dau. of John and A. Catherine Sharp), b. 13 Oct., 1787, d. 1 Jan,, 1819 ; second, Kate Hopler, who afterwards m. a Bird ; rem. to Hackettstown in the spring of 1805 ; returned to the Valley and res. on part of Kern's estate about 1812 ; had children :
I. JOHN, b. 3 Oct., 1804, d. -; m. 15 Mar., 1828, Mary Dufford (dau. of Jacob), b. 5 Jan., 1810, d. 25 July, 1884 ; had ch .:
(I). CATHERINE, m. Andrew Axford.
(II). THEODORE, b. 9 Aug., 1832, d. --; m. 2 July, 1865, Nancy C. Crounce, b. 3 Oct., 1830 ; had ch .: 1. MARY, m. Frank Crater, of Califon ; 2. ANNA LILLIE, m. Jacob R. Voorhees, of Newark ; 3 CARRIE MARGARET, m. Wm. J. Haverly, of Eastburne, N. Y .; 4. HENRIETTA IDA, d. young ; 5. ALEXANDER CROUNCE, m. - Anderson ; 6. THEODORE, m. Jennie Dustin ; 7. JOHN RUDOLPH, unm .; 8. KATE ELOISE, unm .; 9. FANNY ELEANOR, unm .; 10. HENRY EUGENE, d. young ; 11. GRACE MINNIE, unm.
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(III). JOHN D., m. has one son.
II. JACOB, b. - , d. -; m. first, Elisabeth Karr ; second, Judas Ann Smith ; had ch .:
(I). JOAN T., m. Elisabeth Weise and has one daughter, Annie.
(II). MARTIN LUTHER, m. Annie B. Deyo (dau. of Rev. Ephraim). (III). ELISABETH, m. Jos. S. Farrow, M. D .; has one son.
III. ANN, m. first, David Larrison (s. of William) ; second, Walter Thorp. IV. CATHERINE, m. John Frone.
V. WILLIAM, b. 1818, d. 1862, m. Ann Wack (dau. of Andrew); had ch .:
(1). SARAH, m. Amos Seals (s. of Daniel), and had daughters Minnie and Annie, both died young ; res. at High Bridge.
(II). WILLIAM, m. Mary Linnell, have children : Lena, Bella, Stanley and Grace. The Hon. William S. Naughright has been a member of the Assembly . has served as Engrossing Clerk and as Reading Clerk ; has been in the milk business, running at one time four creameries ; is now salesman for F. D. Stephens Steam Heating Co .: res. at Middle Valley.
(III). ANDREW, m. -; has a daughter Verna.
(IV). JACOB, m. Addie Fowler (dau. of Joseph) ; had ch .: Joseph (dec.), Bertha, Gussie, Sadie, Willie, Andrew, Charley.
(V). GEORGE EDGAR, died at 25 years of age.
(VI). ELIJAH D., b. 1855 ; m. Nellie Trimmer (dau. of Anthony); Staticn Agent for 12 years at German Valley ; has three sons, Raymond T., Frank F., George Edgar, Lulu H. (dec.).
(VII). MERILDA, and (VIII). MARTHA (dec.), unm.
VI. MORRIS, m. first, Lydia Ann Weise (dau. of Wm. N.); second, Mary Duf- ford (wid. of Matthias and dau. of Jacob Wise 2d); had ch .: MORRIS JR., d. 1854 ; LYDIA ANN, b. 1841, d. 1856 ; ANDREW J., b. 1843, d. 1845 ; NEWMAN W., b. 1852, d. 1853.
(I). AMY, m. Lyman Kice (s. of Isaac) ; has one daughter Laura, unm.
(1I). LACRA, m. John Frone (s. of Jobn).
(III). LOUISE, m. Fred. D. Stephens.
NEIGHBOR (p. 452); MISCELLANEOUS-William Nachbar (probably a brother of Leonard) was born 1699 (and not 1799) and died 16 Nov., 1771, (and not 1871).
RUNKLE,
BY B. VAN D. FISHER, ESQ.
ADAM RUNK: E, the progenitor of the Runkle family in New Jersey, died near the close of 1800, or in January, 1801, on his farm (bought of Kirkbride, 15 Dec. 1761), near Annandale, N. J., and there, in a private burying ground is his resting place. He married Mary Youngblood who survived him about four years. Their children were :
I. JOHN, b. Aug. 29, 1752, d. 1846 or 7 ; m. first, Hannah Groff, b. Oct. 22, 1790 . name of second wife not known ; lived at Ringoes ; had 8 children :
(I). ADAM, of whom we have no information.
(II). ELISHA, lived near Cherryville, N. J. He married a Miss Thatcher
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and had a large family.
(III). JOHN died quite early in life. One of his daughters married William Emery, of Flemington.
(IV). HENRY, b. Feb. 28, 1778, d. Oct. 22, 1865, m. Elisabeth Rea, b. Aug. 22, 1785, d. July 1, 1865. They had nine children : 1. REA, married a Miss Bennett from whom he separated and then married again. 2. WILLIAM, b. Nov. 7, 1811, d. Sept. 13, 1885, m. Ann Atkinson, b. Aug. 12, 1817, d. Aug. 7, 1878. They had fourteen children, among whom were Lewis R. Runkle and Ranssellar Runkle. 3. JOSEPH, b. March 16, 1818, d. May 1, 1870 ; was twice married ; his second wife was a Miss Wyckoff ; had one child Wilbur Fiske Runkle. 4. LEWIS, b. July 22, 1821, m. Jeannette V. Park, b. April 1, 1827 ; had seven children : (1). Elisabeth, b. Sept. 5, 1846, d. Sept. 13 1846 ; (2). John Henry, b. Sept. 8, 1847 ; (3). Darius T., b. Sept. 22, 1850 ; (4). Dr. Winfield Scott, b. Jan. 11, 1853 ; (5). Don Piatt b. June 6, 1858 ; (6). Ida, b. Aug. 30, 1860 ; (7). Ada, b. Dec. 25, 1867 ; 5. SARAH ANN, b. 1803, d. in 1839, m. N. G. Mattison and bad Mary, Hannah, Peter and Alexander W .; 6. SUSAN, married Abraham Gulick and had William, Henry and a daughter ; 7. ADELAIDE, m Richard Hope and had Mary and Lewis ; 8. MARY, m. Rev. Sylvanus Decker and had Oscar, Henry, William, Anne, Clara and Elisabeth ; 9. JANE, d. Aug. 7, 1878.
(V). ELLEN, m. Thomas Cherry, and had children, JOHN, WILLIAM, HANNAH and ELLEN.
(VI). CATHARINE, m. Thomas Reading, and had two children, THOMAS and CATHARINE.
(VII). MARY, m. Ell. More, and had four sons, WILLIAM, HART, JOHN and CHARLEY.
(VIII). A DAUGHTER, m. Richard Holcombe.
II. WILLIAM, b. - , 1755, d. Nov. 5, 1839, m. Susanna Dawson, b. - , 1769, d. Aug. 2, 1817. They had four children.
(I). DANIEL, b. - , 1786, d. Feb. 17, 1818.
(II). ADAM D., b. Dec. 20, 1789, d. Feb. 14, 1873; m. Margaret Kennedy, b. Jan. 4, 1800, d. March 25, 1828. Had two children: 1. WILLIAM, b. Aug. 28, 1822, d. Feb. 7, 1844. 2. MARGARET KENNEDY, b. Mar. 24, 1828; m. Edward F. Stewart Oct. 16, 1819. Has two children : (1). Laura, b. May 5, 1848, m. Dr. Henry Lacbenour; (2). Ellen Moffatt, b. Oct. 28, 1850, m. Rev. Henry Mason Baum.
(III). JOSEPH, b. Feb. 15, 1792, d. Feb. 29, 1836, m. Jane Stuart, b. Dec. 25, 1803, d. May 8, 1879. Had one son: 1. DANIEL, b. Feb. 29, 1823, d. Nov. 17, 1890, m. Elizabeth Ritchie, and had two sons: (1). William, b. Aug. 28, 1822; (2). Harry Godley, b. June 10, 1858.
(IV). MARY, m. Jonathan Ingham. They had eight children: 1. WILLIAM, m. first, Abbie Anderson, by whom he had children, Edgar, Howard and Anna; m. second, by whom a boy end Ida. 2. SAMUEL, m. Emma Johnston and had nine children: Charles, Annie, Mag- gie, Mary, James, Jonathan, Delia and two others. 3. JONATHAN, supposed to be lost at sea when a young man on his way to the gold fields of California. 4. SUSAN, m. Rev. Samuel Sawyer. 5. SARAH ANN, m. John R. Alpaugh and had four children, Edwin K., Mary
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Belle, Jennie and Harry. 6. CHARLES, was twice married. 7. MARGARET R., b. April 26, 1828, m. Dr. Smith Cramer. 8. JANE, b. Jan. - , 1830, m. Rev. James Lewers and had one child, Mary. III. ABRAHAM, m. Sarah Stout and had four children:
(I). MARY, m. John W. Wert.
(II). ELIZABETH, m. George Rea and had five children: 1. RUNKLE, m. first, Rachel Manners, by whom he had six children; second, Ellen Sullivan, by whom he bad one son, William. 2. PETER, m. Maria Heyman and had three children. 3. CLARA, m. Gideon Quick. 4. ELIZABETH, m. William Taylor and had a large family. 5. GEORGE A. m. Lucretia Higgins.
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