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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
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THE
Provincial Councillors
OF
Pennsylvania
WHO HELD OFFICE BETWEEN
1733 AND
1776,
-AND-
Those Earlier Councillors
WHO WERE SOME TIME
CHIEF MAGISTRATES OF THE PROVINCE,
and their Descendants.
-BY-
CHARLES P. KEITH.
PHILADELPHIA, 1883.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by CHARLES P. KEITH, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
PRINTED BY THE W. S. SHARP PRINTING CO., TRENTON, N. J.
1254234 TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Explanation,
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Abbreviations, .
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Corrigenda and Addenda,
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Carly Councillors who were Chief Magistrates of the Province :
WILLIAM MARKHAM, (1)
THOMAS LLOYD, (7)
EDWARD SHIPPEN, . (46)
Councillors from 1733 to 1776 :
JAMES LOGAN, 1
WILLIAM LOGAN,
1
ISAAC NORRIS,
41
SAMUEL PRESTON,
73
ANTHONY PALMER,
114
ANDREW HAMILTON,
120
JAMES HAMILTON,
120 .
ANDREW ALLEN,
120
HENRY BROOKE,
155 .
THOMAS GRÆME,
157
CLEMENT PLUMSTED,
167
THOMAS GRIFFITTS,
184
CHARLES READ,
185 ·
WILLIAM TILL, 194
ROBERT STRETTELL, 196 .
SAMUEL HASELL, 208
ABRAHAM TAYLOR,
219 .
JOSEPH TURNER,
220
LAWRENCE GROWDON,
. 222
RICHARD PETERS, 235
BENJAMIN SHOEMAKER,
242
THOMAS HOPKINSON,
265
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Table of Contents.
RALPH ASSHETON,
281
JOHN PENN,
308
LYNFORD LARDNER,
316
BENJAMIN CHEW,
324
JOHN MIFFLIN,
362
THOMAS CADWALADER,
371
JAMES TILGHMAN, 398
JOHN MOLAND,
417
RICHARD PENN, .
425
THOMAS LAWRENCE,
430
EDWARD SHIPPEN, (see Edward Shippen, Pres. of the Council)
455
WILLIAM HICKS, 456
Index of principal names, 457
Index of principal subjects,
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EXPLANATION.
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Under the first Charter, granted by William Penn, in 1682, as a frame of government for Pennsylvania, and extended to the counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex on the Delaware, the upper house of the legislature was called the Provincial Council, and was com- posed of representatives chosen by the people. One-third retired each year, and, to increase the number of persons familiar with such service, it was provided that, after the first seven years, a retiring member should not be again chosen until a year had elapsed. While this Charter continued in force, about eighty persons served as Coun- cillors, among them William Markham, who was the first Lieutenant- Governor under Penn, and Thomas Lloyd, who was also many years at the head of affairs in the Province. During the short period when Pennsylvania was a Royal, as distinguished from a Proprietary Prov- ince, eleven persons were appointed as the Council for these parts, Markham again being Lieutenant-Governor. At the surrender of the old Charter, during Penn's second visit to his dominions, he invited a number of persons to act as Councillors, who served until his depart- ure. The Charter of 1701 having made no provision for an Upper House or a Cabinet, he then commissioned ten persons as a Provin- cial Council, to advise the Lieutenant-Governor whom he or his heirs, true and absolute Proprietaries and Governors, should appoint, and to administer the laws in the absence of such an officer. The Lieuten- ant-Governors added to this body as occasion required, and it main- tained perpetual succession until the American Revolution. Edward Shippen was its first President, and, as such, was the head of the Colony for some time. Of the other Councillors who qualified before the period embraced within this book, those who took the greatest part in public affairs were, with few exceptions, still in office in 1733. From that date until its abolition, the Provincial Council was a dis- tinguished body, its members holding their seats practically for life, and, selected from both the Quakers and the Churchmen, being the wealthiest, the most experienced in public affairs, or for other reasons
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Explanation.
the most influential persons, speaking generally, from Cape Henlopen to the Blue Mountains. The Proprietaries' political opponents, to be sure, were not invited to a seat in the Council, but several of them, as well as of the chief officers of government, were sons or sons-in-law of Councillors ; so that, if the list of the Councillors is defective as a roll of the great men of Provincial times, yet the genealogical tables of their families will be found to embrace, with few exceptions, the lead- ers of all factions and the chief administrators of all public trusts. Their biographies make up a history of Pennsylvania under its old regime, and of Philadelphia when the largest city on the Continent. It has been thought interesting to the descendants, at least, to supple- ment this with a record of the career of the other members of the families down to the present day.
The following work gives, with biographical sketches, more or less extended, a complete list of the descendants, as far as has been ascer- tained from public records and correspondence with representatives of the families, Burke's Peerage, however, being depended upon as to the foreign branches set forth therein, and Lanman's Biograph. Annals or Benton's Thirty Years' View furnishing the material for notices of American public men since the Revolution. The earliest laws of Pennsylvania having ordered a division among all the children, the descent of land is the chief source of genealogy. Where property has passed by will, however, the compiler assumes, in the absence of other evidence, that if the will speaks of no lineal descendants, the testator died without issue, and on the other hand, that the children or deceased children's children for whom the will provides, were the only ones who survived him; if others are known to have been born previous to its date, the omission of them is evidence that they had died without issue. In a conflict of authorities for biographical facts, the compiler has followed those official records or the copies of them within his reach which will suggest themselves to the reader as the best evidence in the nature of the thing to be proved. Thus, where family records and church records differ, the latter are deemed conclu- sive as to the baptism, marriage, or burial therein stated, and bap- tismal registers, as to the Christian name. Dates have been copied exactly as they stood, and therefore nearly always are old style prior to September 3, 1752. The dates of birth of living people have been inserted only when furnished by some relative.
These genealogies are arranged according to branches instead of generations, all the posterity of any man being given before the chil-
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Explanation.
dren of his younger brother. Where a section, or paragraph, gives a list of children only, the next section takes up the eldest of these who left descendants, and gives a list of his or her children, the next takes up the eldest parent among these, and so on. When the person whose sketch begins the section is a member of the last generation of the past century, all of his or her descendants are embraced in the same section, ranged under their respective parents, each generation set at a certain distance from the margin. Reference to the place where a name which begins a section has previously appeared in a list of chil- dren, is made by the words "last named," "as above," "p. -; " and to the place where a name appearing in a list of children is to appear again as the head of a new section, by the words " see below " or " see p. -. " The running title shows to what female branch the persons mentioned at the top of the page belong. In a list of children, the surname is given only after the word "Issue." If it does not there appear, it is the same as that of the Councillor. The names of mem- bers of past generations or of the oldest generation now living, are printed in small caps .; the generation next to them, in ordinary type ; the younger generations, in small type. If nothing is said as to mar- riage or offspring of a person now deceased, the compiler has been unable to obtain information ; but as to living persons, he understands that those persons are unmarried of whom he mentions no marriage, and those married couples have had no children of whom he mentions no issue.
The undersigned would call attention to certain of the histories or parts thereof having been kindly prepared by members of the respect- ive families, who have allowed their names to be given at the head of the histories, and thereby assumed the responsibility for their work. In the preparation of the rest of the book, he must acknowledge very considerable assistance from Mr. Charles R. Hildeburn, who gathered much of the earlier genealogical data, and from Messrs. Thomas U. Walter, Louis A. Ridge, Samuel Chew, J. Claytor Montgomery, William Brooke Rawle, James L. Lardner, George Fisher of York, Pa., and George Tilghman Hollyday of Baltimore, Mrs. Mary S. R. Sheets of Indianapolis, Miss Martha M. Lawrence of Hamburgh, N. J., and others who have prepared or revised biographical sketches and genealogical lists.
CHARLES P. KEITH.
ABBREVIATIONS.
Am. Philos. Soc .= American Philosophical Society held at Phila- delphia ; b .= born ; bapt .= baptized ; bu .= buried ; Cantab .= Uni- versity of Cambridge, England ; d .= died ; dat .= dated ; dau .= daugh- ter ; d. inf .= died in infancy ; d. s. p .= died without having had issue ; d. unm .= died unmarried ; d. y .= died too young to have been mar- ried ; F. M .= Friends' Meeting records ; Gent. Mag .= Gentleman's Magazine, published in London ; Gött .= University of Göttingen ; grad .= graduated ; gr .- grddau .= great-granddaughter ; gr .- gr'dson .= great-grandson ; Harv .= Harvard University ; Hist. Soc .= Historical Society ; l .= pound, current money, a pound sterling being denoted by £; l. a .= letters of administration ; m .= married ; M. C .= mem- ber of U. S. House of Representatives ; M. P .= member of British Parliament ; N. I .= Native Infantry ; Oxon .= University of Oxford ; p .= page; P. & L. Corr .= Penn and Logan Correspondence, pub- lished by the Historical Society of Penna .; Pa. Mag. or Pa. Mag. Hist .= Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, published by the Historical Society of Penna .; Presbyt .= Presbyterian Church records ; Princ .= College of New Jersey, Princeton ; probat .= pro- bated ; R. N .= Royal Navy of England; U. of P .= University of Pennsylvania ; U. of Va .= University of Virginia ; Univ., Oxon .= University College, Oxford ; unm .= unmarried ; Xt. Ch .= records of Christ Church or the United Churches of Christ and St. Peter's, Phila.
Brackets around a name indicate that it was dropped-or, rarely, added-later in life. "Jany., 1703-4," "Feb., 1708-9," " Mch., 1715-6," mean respectively January, February, and March at the close of the years 1703, 1708, and 1715, which legally began on the 25th of March.
CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA.
(6)-37th line, "1767 " should be "1764;" on 38th line, "1774" should be "1772;" on last line, "alive" should be "living ;" and it might be added that the letter speaks also of the pension to a Mr. Aiskell, which, like hers, was paid as the recipient needed it, and that after the death of Thomas Penn, his executors, in April, 1775, ordered that the annuities to Mr. Aiskell and "Mrs. Bar- ker" should be continued ; whence we infer that Joanna Brown had married Barker.
(7)-18th line, strike out after " 2ndly " all before "Edward."
(16)-22nd line, strike out quotation-mark after "New England."
(21)-In 1721, the Lieut .- Governor was absent over two months.
(22)-29th line, " Kearney " should be " Kearny."
(29)-27th line, the property referred to was a pasture-ground. The name " Treveskan " is an error.
(30)-17th line, read " practitioner " instead of "pratitioner."
(34)-23rd line, read " Lowrey " instead of " Lowry."
(36)-32nd line, read " Lydia H." instead of " Lydia."
(40)-7th line, Elizabeth D. Wells d. April 8, 1883.
(42)-Henry Collins Bispham was an eminent artist, and d. Rome, Italy, Dec. 22, 1882.
(43)-10th line, Daniel B. Smith d. Mch. 29, 1883.
(86)-5th line, read " (77)" for " (79)."
(88)-20th line, read " Kearny" instead of " Kearney." (102)-1st line, Mrs. Ralston d. s. p. Nov. 18, 1882.
(105)-Next to last line, read " Peirce " for " Pierce."
(106)-16th line, strike out comma between "ELIZABETH" and " POWEL."
(107)-27th line, read " Neave " for " Neare."
(138)-15th line, read "July 1, 1864," for "July 1, 1804."
6-Middle of page, this anecdote perhaps is not given accurately, when it is stated that the pirates were beaten off. Franklin's ver- sion, in his Autobiography, says that the vessel in sight proved to be a friend.
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Corrigenda and Addenda.
16-16th line, read " Plaistow " for " Plalstow."
19-A dau. of SARAH L., w. of Wm. Wister, d. unm. 29-3rd line from foot, Mary E. Hollingsworth d. Mch. 17, 1883.
31-3rd line from foot, Mrs. Coles d. Phila. Apr. 4, 1883.
35-15th line, " m." should be "in"; 18th line and 37th line, " p. 28 " should be " p. 29."
46-3rd line from foot, Miss Diehl d. 1882.
66-13th line, strike out comma between "Helen " and " Rotch Wharton ;" 22nd line, J. Norris Emlen, Trustee of the Sepviva estate, d. s. p. Aug. 26, 1882.
67-8th line, Mrs. Dick d. Apr. 30, 1882, leaving one child ; 13th line from foot, read "June 6" for " June 10."
71-J. Roberts Rambo is Reg. of Wills of Montgomery Co.
79-15th line, Hannah P. is sister of Letitia G., of 6th line.
90-Last line, after "Priscilla," insert " H."
91-Middle of page, after "Priscilla," insert " H." 98-Hon. Charles Perrin Smith d. Jany. 27, 1883.
102-4th line, after " PRESTON," insert " CARPENTER."
104-Top of page, read "TONKIN" for "F.," and after "m.," read, " 1st, Sarah M. Thomas, and, 2nd, Martha M. Thomas ;" and the account of Samuel Tonkin Jones's descendants should be :
Issue by 1st wife (surname Jones) :
Frances Mary, m. Richard Montgomery Pell of New York, who d. s. p.,
Issue by 2nd wife (surname Jones) : Sarah M., m. Henry Beadel, Issue (surname Beadel) : Henry Ludlow, Gerald Woodward, Samuel T., dec'd, Shipley, Elizabeth Ludlow, m. John D. van Buren.
105-10th line, read " ISAAC C." for "ISAAC."
115-14th line, read "Growdon " for "Growden."
119-31st line, Joseph S. Chevalier d. y. Aug. 7, 1882.
145-28th line, read "p. 154" for "p. 153."
171-Read "Kearny " for " Kearney," and " Elliot " for " Elliott." 174-15th line, " PLUMSTEAD" should be "PLUMSTED;" 19th line, insert " bu. Prot. Cem. in Rome;" Frederick Klapp has also issue : Anne Louisa, b. 1883.
177-Read "Elliot " for " Elliott."
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Corrigenda and Addenda.
180-8th and 9th lines, read "Elliot" for "Elliott ;" 24th line, read " Wauchope " for " Wanchope." 182-19th line, read " June 21 " for "June 11."
184-Last line, read " Powel " for " Powell."
203-7th line, read "p. 200" for "p. 199."
207-Middle of page, strike out " m." after " MARY."
216-17th line, read " Hiester " for " Heister."
247-Caroline Nixon Morris m. Augustus F. Kempton, M. D.
255-Thomas Pennant Barton d. s. p. 257-9th line from foot, read "S." for " L."
261-Russell Davenport Rawle d. Aug. 6, 1882.
272-23rd line, J. W. Condy d. Bethlehem, Ohio, Sep. 16, 1828, aged 59; 32nd line, read " Isaac " for " Issac."
279-8th line, read " JOHNSON " for " JOHNSTON."
298-6th line, Rev. J. W. Claxton, D. D., d. s. p. Lancaster, Pa., Jany. 25, 1883, m. Oct. 24, 1878 Maria Bailie ; 7th line, "1843" should be " 1743 ;" 10th line, " descend " should be " descent."
318-3rd line, read "matriculates " for "graduates ;" 4th line, Phineas Bond was also a physician.
322-28th line, Frances Lardner d. unm. Feb. 18, 1883.
324-4th line, Lynford Lardner d. Auburn, Cal., Oct. 12, 1882. 333-36th line, Charles Ingersoll d. at sea, Aug. 13, 1882.
334-Stephen Warren Ingersoll m. Nov. 8, 1882, Adelaida Joseph- ine Bond.
335-9th line, Dr. J. F. Meigs d. Dec. 16, 1882.
337-31st line, Elizabeth [W.] Tilghman d. unm. Jany. 25, 1883. 338-12th line, strike out " only."
349-18th line, read "Sep. 7" for " Aug."
362-23rd line, read " afterwards wife" for " widow."
364-6th line, read "1772 " for "1771."
370-Dr. Richard M. Wistar d. s. p. Mch. 27, 1883.
377-16th line, insert "Gertrude, dau. of Samuel Bayard by his w." before " Margaret."
419-Top of page, Joseph Moland d. after June 9, 1789; the date of marriage is wrong; 22nd line, Sophia had issue: Abraham and Amelia, and the former had a son : John Francis, now of Brooklyn, who has issue: Abraham and Stella.
431-5th line from foot, after "Catherine " read " Longfield."
432-John Lawrence's memorandum says that his father died April 21, 1754.
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WILLIAM MARKHAM.
WILLIAM MARKHAM was the first cousin of William Penn, being son of Admiral Penn's sister, as would appear from Admiral Penn's will leaving to " nephews James Bradshaw and William Markham " and "nephews John Bradshaw and George Markham." The last named was doubtless the Charles George Markham who was in Penn- sylvania in the year 1697, witnessing a deed of that date recorded in the Deeds office at Phila. The name of Markham is found at an early period among the gentry of old England, or that class which in Continental Europe would be called the lesser nobility. There was a Sir Alexander de Markham, Constable of the Castle of Nottingham, in the time of Henry III, and a Sir John Markham, Judge of the Common Pleas from 1396 to 1407. Two families, both descended from the latter, one of them from a son who was Chief Justice of King's Bench, were seated in Nottinghamshire, bearing the same arms, which also the William Markham who came to Pennsylvania used as a seal impaled with the arms of Thomas of Dublin. He is described as " Captain Markham " at the time when Penn intrusted him with the inauguration of a government over his newly acquired territories, and it is just possible that the statement of Deborah Logan that David Lloyd had been Captain in Cromwell's army, whereas that Quaker agitator was not born before 1655, may have been true of William Markham, who was a man grown before the death of the Lord Protec- tor. Receiving the Charter for Pennsylvania from King Charles II on Mch. 4, 1681, Penn executed a commission, dated at Westminster the 10th of the following month, appointing his "cousin William Mark- ham " his deputy to call a Council of nine, he presiding, to take the in- habitants' acknowledgments of his authority, to settle boundaries with his neighbors, to survey, rent, and sell lands, to erect courts, and appoint justices, sheriffs, and inferior officers, and to do anything for the peace and safety of the Province within the power granted to Penn from the King except calling Assemblies to make laws. William Markham sailed for America probably by the first opportunity after the date of the commission, a voyage across the Atlantic in the sailing vessels of that
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period taking a number of weeks. He landed probably at Boston, where his commission was put on record, and made his way to New York, where he exhibited his credentials, and received, June 21, 1681, from the Lieutenant-Governor and Council a letter to the officers within the bounds of Pennsylvania.
At Markham's arrival, the only town in Pennsylvania was Upland (now Chester), where he fixed his residence, being described by Penn a year later as of that place. From the elements which made up the population, he gathered his councillors, who qualified on August 3rd. They were Otto Ernest Koch and Capt. Lasse Cock, both Swedes, William Warner, Morgan Drewett, William Woodmanse, Robert Wade, William Clayton, and Thomas Fairman, Quakers,-the last a surveyor,-and James Sandelands, a Scotchman who had married a Swede (see Pa. Mag. Hist. &ct, Vol. II, p. 443). At the end of the year 1681, Markham was joined by John Bezar and Nathaniel Allen, their colleague William Crispin, having died on the voyage. These three had been commissioned September 30th to lay out a " great town " of 10,000 acres. Markham assisted them in locating it, the site being chosen soon after their arrival. There is on record in the Deeds office at Phila. a release by Thomas Fairman appended to an account for services, which can not fail to be of historical interest, as follows :
1682
£. s. d.
To taking the courses and soundings of the Channel of Delaware seven weeks with Captn Markham
10
To Victuals & Drink put on Board the Shallop at sundry Times 3
To my attendance as first commission conjunct with Wm Hague, Nat. Allen, & John Beazor
00 0 0
To my Taking the Courses of Schuylkill &ct. for sounding & Placing Philadelphia upon Delaware River &ct.
6
To for my own Hands with Provisions & Drams
1 8
To my attendance as one of the Governor's Counsel
00 0 0
To Lodging Captn Markham & Wm Hague in my House with Diet & Liquors for Treates
7
0 0
To finding them Horses & accompaning them in the Woods often
5
0 0
To my service as first Assembly man
00
0 0
To my Time and Expense intreating with the Swansons for the 300 acres land
0 0
To a survey thereof and the Rest of the Land unto Schuylkill
To my many weary journeys to Upland to attend Capt Markham on the Proprietaries Service and the Countries business
20
To Lodging Capt. Holme his two sons & two Daughters with their and his other Friends accommodations in the Proprietaries service To furnishing Capt Markham & Capt Holme with horses & Riding with them to plake Wickon &ct.
50
3
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(The other items are after Penn's arrival)
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10 6
To my officiating as Clerk to the Assembly & Clerk to the Council 6 5 10
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Markham.
On July 15, 1682, Markham made the first purchase under the Proprietary government of land from the Indians, buying the site of Pennsbury manor and the lands adjoining, in all about 45000 acres lying on the West bank of the Delaware and the North bank of the Neshaminy. For this he gave 350 fathoms of wampum, and also 300 guilders ($146.00) and a quantity of articles, i. e. 20 guns, 40 lbs. of shot, 2 barrels of powder, 20 kettles, 40 axes, 40 hoes, 40 pairs of scissors, 40 combs, 10 small saws, 100 awls, 200 knives, 200 small glasses, 20 blankets, 40 shirts, 40 pairs of stockings, besides liquor, tobacco, and dry goods,-enough when we consider the wildness of the land to relieve both the agent and his principal from the imputation of having gotten from ignorant people a valuable estate for a few gew- gaws. This deed was ratified by other Indians on August 1, and 10 more guns were given.
On October 27, 1682, William Penn in the ship Welcome arrived before New Castle. He sent a messenger ashore to notify the Justices ; and John Moll, senior Justice, with some others went to the ship, and viewed the deeds of the Duke of York for New Castle and the twelve miles around it and the land below to Cape Henlopen. Obtaining twenty-four hours delay to consult with Ephraim Herrman, who with John Moll was authorized by the Duke to deliver seisin, Moll the next day in conjunction with Herrman surrendered possession of the fort at New Castle by giving Penn the key to go in alone, lock himself in, and open the door again, and by delivering a turf with a twig upon it and a porringer containing river water and soil. Penn sent Mark- ham as his attorney to receive livery of seisin for the country twelve miles below, and at the house of Captain Edmund Cantwell on Appo- quinimink Creek, Moll and Herrman made the same kind of livery as at New Castle. By the arrival of Penn, the Proprietary and Gov- ernor, in Pennsylvania, the commission to his Deputy, Markham, was superseded.
Markham was one of the members chosen to the first Council under the Frame of Government of 1682, and for a few months attended the meetings, the first of them being held on the 10th of 1 mo., 1682-3. In the following Summer, he went to England to transact Penn's busi- ness at Court. Lord Baltimore had disputed the Duke of York's title, and Penn's as his grantee, to the Lower Counties, and Penn was endeavoring to have the Lords in Council decide in his favor. It was, however, agreed that Lord Baltimore should have time to appear in person before the Lords, which he promised to do in April, 1684. There
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is among the Penna. Archives a petition from Markham to the Duke, setting forth that, instead of appearing, Lord Baltimore had been try- ing to induce the tenants to turn to him, and the Duke's name on the landmarks had been taken down, and praying that the cause might not be delayed by Lord Baltimore, and that meanwhile some stop be put to " his unhansome and foule practices." Returning to America, Markham was made Secretary of the Province and Territories on 3. mo. 28, 1685, and continued such until the beginning of 1691.
Being also Secretary to the Proprietary until succeeded by Logan in 1699, he was appointed on 11 mo. 21, 1686, with Ellis and Goodson or either of them to act as Commissioners for land to grant warrants and pass patents, and on 10 mo. 16, 1689, Markham, Turner, Goodson, and Carpenter or any two of them, he being one, were commissioned with the same powers, as also to act as a Court of Exchequer for the collection of rents, and auditing the Receiver's accounts. He served another term in the Council, by election to fill a vacancy from Kent Co., and for some time kept the records of Phila. Co. In April, 1690, he heads a petition from five persons, three of them Swedes, to the Council, presided over by the Quaker Lloyd, "to settle the country in such a posture that we may be able by force of arms to defend it against any assault of our enemies."
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