The History of Warren County, Ohio, Part 98

Author: W. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1882
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Number of Pages: 1081

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ROBERT S. BRADDOCK, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born in Warren County Sept. 4, 1844; is a son of Robert and Grace (Slack) Braddock, he a native of New Jersey and she of Warren County. The grandfather, David Braddock, was probably a native of New Jersey, but emigrated to this county about 1842, where he resided a few years; thence removed to Nauvoo, Ill., where he died. Robert was married in the fall of 1843, and located at Cross- wicks; thence at Ridgeville; thence back to Crosswicks and here at Waynesville he passed most of the balance of his life. Mr. Braddock was a tailor by trade, which business he followed for several years, but, during the last fifteen years of his life, he gave his attention to farming; he died at Crosswicks in Febru- ary, 1880, aged 62 years; his wife is still living at the home place at Cross- wicks. They had six children, four now surviving-Robert S., Rebecca Jane, Sarah Amanda and Charles. Our subject remained with his father until 22 years of age; was married, Nov. 23, 1865, to Eliza, daughter of Stephen C. and Sarah Smith, he a native of New York State and she of Virginia, but who

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became settlers of Warren Co., Ohio, in 1860; thence, about 1867, removed to Preble County, where, Oct. 4, 1871, he died aged 62 years, after which she returned to Warren County and died, Sept: 7, 1879, aged 69 years; they had nine children; four now survive-William, Elizabeth, Eliza and Harvey. Mr. Braddock and wife have three children-Arthur, born Sept. 6, 1867; Lilian, born Nov. 15, 1868, and Frank, born Feb. 21, 1874. Mr. Braddock has always followed farming as an occupation; he bought and located upon his present place in the spring of 1879, where he has since resided. Mr. Smith, the father of Mrs. Braddock, was a devoted member of the Old-School Baptists, and was a minister in that denomination during the most of his married life.

BENJAMIN BROWN (deceased) was born in Gloucester Co., N. J., April 24, 1798; was a son of Asher and Mary (Ward) Brown, natives of New Jersey. The grandparents, Samuel and Ann Brown, whose ancestors were natives of England, emigrated to America at an early period, prior to the Revolu- tionary war, and lived and died in New Jersey. Asher Brown was born, raised and married in New Jersey, where he lived till, in 1804, he, with his family, emigrated to Ohio and located in Warren County, being one of the early pio- neers. He first took up his abode in a log cabin, which had been occupied as a resting-place for hogs during nights; it had no floor and no doors. They, however, soon split out puncheons and laid a floor and made other improve- ments, so as in that day they called it quite a comfortable home. Mr. Brown shortly after his arrival, entered 500 acres of land in Clear Creek Township, up- on which he located and resided the balance of his life. To pay for his land, Mr. Brown bought a large lot of hogs and drove them over the mountains to Phila- delphia and sold them, by which he realized quite a large profit. He experi- enced the real hardships of pioneer life, such as the rising generations know nothing of, only as they hear of them or read of them from the pages of history. They were parents of twelve children; three now survive-John, Asher and Allen. Mr. Brown was an earnest and consistent member of the Society of Friends-distinguished for his love and liberality to the poor and needy and to all mankind. He died March 4, 1832, aged 71 years 5 months and 21 days. Benjamin, our subject, was 6 years of age when brought to Ohio and located in Warren County, where he was raised and grew to manhood, accustomed to log-cabin life, with all the attendant hardships of pioneer life; was married Nov. 7, 1821, to Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Mercy Chapman, whose an- cestral history is fully given in the sketch of Charles F. Chapman. By this union they had five children-Esther married Sidwell Taylor, by whom she has one child-Anna C., born Feb. 20, 1860; Charles F., deceased; Mary; Benjamin and Sarah (twins) and Benjamin, now deceased. Mr. Brown, after his marriage, located upon a part of the large tract of land which his father entered from the Government, and opened out a farm right from the woods, and here he resided until 1836, when he bought and located upon the place where his daughters, Mary and Sarah, still reside, and here he died Sept. 22, 1873, aged 75 years and 5 months; his wife died Jan. 26, 1873, aged 73 years. Mr. Brown was a member of the Society of Friends -- a man whose whole life was characterized by honesty, integrity and kindness; whose religion was prac- tical, endeavoring to practice all and more than he professed; kind and generous, yet firm and unyielding, clinging close to principles, and his acute sense of what was just and right, and as such was a worthy example for the rising gen- erations.

WILLIAM G. BURNET, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born in Warren County June 25, 1819; is a son of Daniel and Ann (Gause) Burnet, he a native of New Jersey and she of Pennsylvania; the grandfather was Stephen Burnet. Daniel, with his family, emigrated to Ohio, and located at Waynesville about

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1801, being one of the early settlers of this township. He was a shoemaker by trade, but, after arriving in this county, he gave his attention to farming. They had a family of three sons and two daughters; two sons now survive- Stephen and William G. Mr. Burnet was a man of good education, and, in his early life while in his native State, taught school; was a devoted member of the Society of Friends-a man who never held or sought office; a very industrious man, prompt and exact in all his dealings; a good neighbor and a worthy citi-

- zen. Our subject grew to manhood, was married, Aug. 8, 1840, to Elizabeth S., daughter of John and Rachel (Proctor) Sinclair, natives of Pennsylvania, who first emigrated to Maryland; thence, in 1834, came to Warren County and lived and died on the place where their son Jacob now lives, at Waynesville. They had four sons and four daughters; three now survive-Rebecca P., Jacob and Elizabeth, who was born in Maryland June 25, 1818. Mr. Burnet and wife have had seven children; six now survive -- Rachel, born May 4, 1843: Matilda, June 12, 1845, now Mrs. Elias Slack, living in Indiana; Eli D., Jan. 12, 1847; Martha R., Dec. 13, 1850; Mary J., Sept. 14, 1852, and Sarah E .. born Sept. 12, 1855; Charles S. (deceased) was born Nov. 27, 1841, grew to manhood, and, on the breaking-out of the war of the rebellion, enlisted, in November, 1861, in Company F, 34th O. V. I., and served nearly three years. when he was killed in the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864. Mr. Burnet first located on the place where his son Eli D. now lives, and resided there five years; thence bought and located upon the place where he now lives and has since resided. This place he purchased of the heirs of Noah Haines: it consists of 94 acres, which he took right in the woods; has cleared and brought most of it into cultivation; has erected good substantial buildings and made improvements until now he has a fine farm and a pleasant home and farm- er's residence; and this he has accomplished mainly by his own labor and that of his family. Mr. Burnet and wife, like their ancestors were, are devoted members of the Society of Friends, and are among the best citizens of Wayne Township.

EDWARD B. BUTTERWORTH, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born in Clermont Co., Ohio, July 14, 1827; is a son of Samuel and Hannah L. (Tay- lor) Butterworth, he a native of Campbell Co., Va., and she of Chester Co., Penn. The paternal grandparents were Benjamin and Rachel Butterworth, natives of Virginia, who emigrated to this county in 1812 and purchased land in the southern part of the county, near Clermont County, where he was among the early settlers, and resided and died on the same place where he first lo- cated, aged about 65 years. Samuel was 14 years of age when they located in Warren County; here he grew to manhood and was married and became the father of six children-three sons and three daughters, two now living- Jessie T. and Edward B. Mr. Butterworth bought a farm in Clermont County, where he resided until 1848; thence removed into Warren County, where he purchased the farm known as the Benjamin Evans farm, and here resided till his death. Feb. 21, 1872, aged 74 years; his wife died Sept. 5, 1850, aged 47 years. Mr. B., as were his ancestors, was a devoted member of the Society of Friends. He was a man of great energy and industry, and, as an early pioneer, did a vast amount of hard labor, having cleared with his own hands and labor, 100 acres right from the woods, which was seldom, if ever, equalled by the labor of one man; the town of Loveland is now built upon a portion of the land he cleared. He was a man of undoubted integrity, of firm principles and correct and just in all his dealings, and, in his death, the community lost a worthy citizen and his family a kind father and husband. Our subject was brought up to farm labor; was married, March 28, 1849, to Hannah, daughter of Josiah and Abi- gail Rogers, whose ancestors are given in the sketch of Samuel W. Rogers; by

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this union, they had six children; four now survive-Samuel, born Dec. 12, 1851; Ellen B., March 6, 1856; Mary, Sept. 11, 1858, and Josiah, born Oct. 3, 1861; his wife died May 1, 1873, aged 48 years. On July 7, 1875, he was again married, to Percilla, daughter of John W. and Sophia Wroten, natives of Baltimore, Md., who became residents of Warren County in 1846, where they have since resided; they have had ten children; five now survive-Percilla, Mary F., Martha L., Henry H. and James H. Mr. Butterworth first located upon the old home place of his father, having erected new buildings, and there and at the old homestead place he remained until 1874, when he accepted the position of Superintendent of the Agricultural Department of the Miami Val- ley Institute, which position he filled for one and a half years; in the spring o. 1876, he bought and located where he now lives. This place he purchased of Stephen Burnett, being the property formerly owned by Samuel Gause; it consists of 44 acres of good land, with good buildings and improvements, con- stituting a pleasant home and residence. Mr. Butterworth has entered quite extensively upon the culture of small fruits, which he intends to make his leading business.

SEPTIMUS L. CARTWRIGHT, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born in the District of Columbia Jan. 9, 1808; is a son of Seth and Mary (Levering) Cartwright, he a native of Nantucket Island and she of Philadelphia, the ancestors of the Cartwright family being from England. The maternal ances- tors we are able to trace to their progenitor, Rosier Levering, who, it is said. was a native of France, born about the year 1600, and who, during the early persecutions for religion, fled from France and took refuge in Germany, and there married Elizabeth Van de Walle, of Wesel, in Westphalia. They had two children-Wickard and Gerhard; the former was born about 1648, in Ga- men, Westphalia, Germany; in 1671, married Magdalena Boker, and, in the summer of 1685, emigrated to America with his family and first settled at Ger- mantown, Penn; in 1692, removed to Roxboro, and bought a plantation of 500 acres of land; his wife died in 1717, aged 68 years; he died in February, 1744 or 1745, aged 97 years; they had twelve children; seven grew to maturity and married and settled in life, of whom Jacob Levering, the great- grandfather of our subject, was born at Roxboro, Penn., Jan. 21, 1693; mar- ried Alice Tunes, when about 24 years of age; in 1717, his father granted him 85 acres of land on the Schuylkill River; here he had a distillery and a saw- mill, and, it appears, was a very active and prominent business man and accu- mulated a large amount of property. The inventory of his personal estate, in 1753, was nearly $3,000, which, in that early day, was a very large amount, and owned a great quantity of real estate; he died in October, 1753, aged 61 years. Mrs. Levering died between 1750 and 1753. They had eight children, who married and had families, of whom Septimus, the youngest and the seventh son, was the grandfather of our subject, and was born at Roxboro about 1731; he inherited the old homestead on Green Lane, Roxboro; removed to Philadel- phia some time prior to 1761, and carried on a brewery; was married to Mary Thomas; both were members of the Great Valley Baptist Church, Chester County, and were dismissed to the Philadelphia Church Sept. 7, 1761; on Feb. 6, 1775 received from the church, by request, a letter of recommendation, and re- moved to Loudoun Co., Va., where he carried on a distillery; but it seems, after a time, returned to Pennsylvania, where, prior to 1794, he died; his wife died June 16, 1794, aged 64 years. They had five children, three sons and two daughters, of whom Mary, the mother of our subject, was born in Philadelphia in 1771, and married Seth Cartwright as mentioned above. Mr. Cartwright was for many years a Captain on the seas, but later in life engaged in mercantile trade in Alexandria, where he lived till his death, aged 52 years. In the fall of 1839,

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Mrs. Cartwright, with her son Seth and his family, emigrated to Ohio and lo- cated near Waynesville, where she died Oct. 24, 1862, aged 93 years. They had nine children; three now survive-Thomas, Seth and Septimus; the latter, our subject, was two years of age when his father died and was raised by his mother; was apprenticed to an older brother, Jonathan, in the sail-making business. After the expiration of his apprenticeship, he entered into a part- nership with his brother Seth in the mercantile business in Washington City, in which he continued about nine years. In the fall of 1839, he emigrated to Warren Co., Ohio, and here he and his brother Seth bought a tract of land, which they farmed till 1851, when they made a division of property, and to the part which Mr. Cartwright had after the division, he has added more land, by purchase, till now he has 175 acres of land, upon which he has erected good substantial buildings and made other improvements, having now a fine home and farmer's residence. Mr. Cartwright was united in marriage, April 28, 1857, with Mrs. Elizabeth Bone, a daughter of Aquilla and Nancy (Ogles- bee) Hardacre, natives of Virginia. The paternal grandparents were John and Barbara Hardacre, natives of Virginia; the maternal grandparents were Aaron and Susanna Oglesbee, natives of Virginia. Aquilla and Nancy Hardacre emi- grated to Ohio and located in Greene County, where they lived and died; he died Nov. 24, 1854, aged 66 years; she died Jan. 23, 1864, aged 75 years. They had two sons and five daughters, two now living-Elizabeth and Susan. Mrs. Cartwright, by her first husband, Mr. Jacob Bone, had one child -- Sarah Samantha, now Mrs. Watson. Mr. Cartwright and wife by their union have one child-Emeline Ellis.

CHARLES F. CHAPMAN, Waynesville. Few, if any, of the heads of families of Wayne Township, whose histories are embalmed in these pages, can boast as clear a descent through eight generations to as honorable source as can Mr. Charles French Chapman. The writer expresses the emphatic opinion that in the whole of Warren County there are not a half dozen others who can trace their genealogy in an unbroken line back to the early part of the seven- teenth century, and produce documents in attestation of their claim. This fact must be the apology-if, in the seeming interests of modesty, apology were necessary-for this biography appearing here in its somewhat expansive form; this, and the additional fact that Mr. Chapman is the only surviving member of his father's family now living in Warren County. In order to present in a systematic manner the history of the Chapman family, it is extremely gratifying to be able to refer to a quaint, curious and ancient manuscript, yellow and stained with age, and the very penmanship of which, even were there no dates, proving it to be a product of

"The olden time, long ago."

From this venerable manuscript, written in beautiful legibility by John Chap- man, son of the first settler of Wrightstown, Penn., we quote as follows: " John Chapman, who was the first settler in Wrightstown, was born in Stan- haw, in the county of York, in Old England, of honest and godly parents. His father's name was likewise John Chapman, but there is no account readily to be had of his mother, and he himself is said to have been, even from his youth, of a very laudable deportment, and, when grown up to maturity, to have been always taken for a very honest, creditable man, and one of repute amongst men for his honest, chaste, sober and godly life, and not in the least found any- thing inclinable to or conversant with any but honest and godly people, living with them in great unity. The above written account of John Chapman was transcribed from his certificate, which he brought with him from Old England, given and signed there by divers friends at their monthly meeting at Stanhaw. Moreover, by an account given of him in other manuscripts, he suffered con-

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siderably for his profession (being one of the people called Quakers), as Anno Domini 1656, when he was at Sunderland, and went to see some friends who were put in the stocks, he, likewise, was commanded to be put there, and there remained all night, but, not opening his mouth to speak a word to his oppo- nents, he was sent the next day to Durham Gaol, and there kept prisoner nine weeks, and then he was released by the Judge and grand jury, there being nothing that could be said against him. Anno Domini 1660, he was carried to York Castle, and there kept prisoner about eight weeks, together with some other friends, because they would not swear. Anno Domini 1666, he had goods taken from him by a Bailiff for a clerk's wages, being but threepence, to the value of 3 shillings and fourpence. Anno Domini 1670, upon the 15th day of the 7th month, the Constable went with a warrant from a certain Justice, upon an in- formation given by one Lover Wood and Ralph Smoithwait, that Philip Scarth did teach or preach at a seditious meeting, who spoke only to one of the in- formers. The Constable went, I say, and laid £4 of the above-said Scarth's fine upon said John Chapman, besides 5 shillings for his own fine, as they called it, and for the said fines the Constable took from him five kine which cost him, about three months before, £10, and appraised them at £4 10 shillings, and sold them at that rate. Likewise, in the same year, the Constable went with a warrant, upon an information given by the aforementioned informers, that he was at a seditious meeting, as it was called, for which they fined him 10 shil- lings and took from him for that 10 shillings, goods to ye value of £1 8 shil- lings. On the longest day in the year, 1684, John Chapman (being a mariner by occupation), with all his family, set out from Stanhaw, in Yorkshire, in order to come to America. They took ship at Newcastle, upon the River Tyne, and came by the way of Scotland, and, on the 12th day of September, in the aforesaid year, they had a mighty storm, which blew so tempestuously that, in short, it first carried away their boltsprit (sic) and afterward, their three masts, flagstaff and all, by the board, before the sailors were able to get them cut. It likewise took the awning above their quarter-deck, and left not so much as a yard of rope above their heads; all which was done in the space of half an hour, and they lay thus distressed like a pitiful wreck all that night (they having lost their masts about 12 o'clock in the day), and two days after, at the mercy of the seas, the waves being mountain high, occasioned by the great storm of wind. Thus they lay, I say, without hopes of recovery, being then about 200 leagues from the land of America, but, through God's mercy, they got in sight of the capes of Virginia within fifteen days after or thereabouts, by reason of a fair wind, having had a passage of about nine weeks from Aberdeen to the capes of Virginia. They thus being arrived in America, came and settled at Wrights- town, in the county of Bucks and Province of Pennsylvania, about the 10th month, Anno Domini 1684, where they lived until the 5th month, A. D. 1694, about which time John Chapman died and was buried. Likewise, Jane Chap- man, his wife, died and was buried by him, about the 9th month, A. D. 1699. The following epitaph on John Chapman is in the handwriting of his son Jo- seph :

"Behold John Chapman That good man, Who first began To settle in this Town,

From worldly cares And doubtful fears And Satan's snares, Is here laid down, His soul doth rise Above the skies In Paradise, There to wear a lasting crown."

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Dr. Charles W. Smith, in a sketch of the Early History of Wrightstown, Penn, published in the Bucks County Intelligencer, of April 3. 1855, says: "The first settler was John Chapman who, with his wife and their children -- Mara, Ann and John, removed from Yorkshire, having previously purchased of Daniel Toaes, in England, a tract of over 500 acres of land, on which he set- tled." Up to at least 1855, a great portion of this was still in possession of his descendants, it having never been sold out of his family. "He built a cave," Dr. Smith continues, "for his habitation, in the side of a bank, some remains of which were visible as late as 1768. At this time, Chapman's place was the farthest back in the woods of that of any English family," and the Indians were plentiful, but exceedingly kind to him and his family. Nearly the whole province was then a wilderness, and not an inhabitant in the town- ship. About one year after arriving in the township, his wife, then in the 50th year of her age, gave birth to twins-Abraham and Joseph, whence, it is said, he called the place Twinsboro. These children lived and died there. They received an education which qualified them for much usefulness. Abra- ham married Susannah Olden. He was a Justice of the Peace and, for twenty years, a member of the Legislature. He had eight children, of whom Joseph, the youngest, born in 1733, was the great-grandfather of our subject. He was a man of high standing, great moral worth and integrity of character. He was a Justice of the Peace, and, at the time of his death, in 1790, was Treasurer of the county. He married Ann Fell and had thirteen children, among them Benjamin, the grandfather of our subject. He was born in 1775, and, in 1797, married Mercy G. Gilpin, by whom he had three children-Joseph, Sarah and Benjamin; he died, Oct. 23. 1802, of yellow fever, contracted from nursing one of his apprentices, aged 27 years. His widow afterward married Charles French. Joseph B. Chapman, the eldest son and father of our subject, was born in Philadelphia in 1798. In 1818, he emigrated with his mother and step-father (Charles French) to Warren Co., Ohio, and began the general mer- cantile business in Waynesville, being assisted by Williams & Black, of Phila- delphia, who became partners in his first venture. Such was his business ability that, in the course of a few years, he was enabled to buy out his part- ner's interest, when he continued to conduct the business successfully until his retirement, in 1845. In 1825, he was married to Estheret Walraven, in Wil- mington, Del. She died in 1828, leaving one daughter -Ann W., who died in 1845, at the age of 18. His second wife was Charlotte, second daughter of Noah and Anna Haines, which event took place at Miami Monthly Meeting, in Waynesville, on the 16th of the 6th month, 1832. The earliest ancestor of the Haines family, of whom we find record, emigrated also from England about the same time as did John Chapman, and, like him, to escape religious persecution. Robert Haines, a grandson of the emigrant, was born near Philadelphia about 1750. While yet a lad, his mother emigrated with him to what afterward be- came Frederick Co., Va. Here he grew to be a useful man, both in the re- ligious society and in the business world --- in one owning much property and carrying on many enterprises, and in the other, a zealous minister. Near him lived Lord Fairfax, the eccentric English nobleman, by whom George Wash- ington, when quite a young man, was employed to survey a vast tract of land. Lord Fairfax and his nephew, Col. Martin, extended many courtesies and kindnesses to their Quaker neighbor, who always cherished warm feelings of friendship for both. At the beginning of hostilities in the war for independ- once, Lord Fairfax returned to his native land, while his kinsmen espoused the side of the colonies. Robert Haines married Margaret Smith, who was born in Wales in 1755, and emigrated to Ohio in 1809. She died in Waynes- ville in 1835, aged 81 years. They had six children-Noah, the eldest, married

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The History of Warren County, Ohio, Part 98

Author: W. H. Beers & Co. Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1081

Author: W. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1882
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1081