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Thomas Atkinson married. June 4, 1678, Jane Bond, who survived him and married (second) October 11, 1688, William Bliss, of Falls township, Bucks county : children: 1. Isaac, born March 2, 1679, at Sandwich in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, died in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. a cordwainer. ycoman, and landholder, married June 23. 1708. Sarah, daughter of Richard and Margery ( Clows) Hough. 2. William, born in Burlington county, West Jersey, died in Bristol, Pennsylvania, October 29. 1749. He was an active politician and held a number of important offices. coroner of Bucks county for nine term- between 1721 and 1740, a member of the county committee for twelve years, collector of excise. and served two terms as common councillor of Bristol. He married, (first) at Falls Meet- ing, Mary, daughter of Richard and Margery (Clows) Hough, a sister of the wife of his brother Isaac. (second) at Bristol Meeting. Margaret. daugh- ter of Henry and Mary Baker. 3. Samuel, of whom further.
(III) Samuel, youngest of the three sons of Thomas and Jane ( Bond ) Atkinson, was born in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, July 17. 1685, died in Chester township, Burlington county (or Newton township Gloucester county ), West Jersey, February 21, 1775. He was a contractor all of his active life and in 1714 moved from Bucks county to West Jersey, tak- ing a certificate from Falls to Chesterfield Meeting. On November 5. 1719. he presented a certificate from Chesterfield to Newton Meeting, where prob- ably the rest of his life was spent, although tradition states that his latter years were spent at the home of his son, Samuel, in Chester township. He married, September 12, 1714, at the home of his bride (although the wedding was conducted by the Chesterfield Meeting), Ruth (Stacy) Reakes, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca ( Ely) Stacy and widow of William Beakes, both of Nottingham township, Burlington county, West Jersey. Children of Sam- tiel and Ruth Atkinson: 1. Thomas, married Susanna, daughter of Thomas
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and Martha (Earl) Shinn. She descended from John and Jane Shinn, the emigrants, through Thomas and Mary ( Stockton) Shinn. 2. Samuel, of whom further. 3. Rebecca, married ( first) Thomas, son of Thomas and Deborah (Langstaff) Budd and grandson of William and Ann ( Clapgut) Budd; (second) Thomas Say, M. D. 4. Ruth, married as the second wife, Joshua, son of Joseph and Hannah (Hubberstie) Bispham, and grandson of John and Mary (Bastwell) Bispham, of Bickerstaffe, West Derby, Lancashire, England.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and Ruth (Stacy-Beakes) Atkin- son, was probably born in Chester township, Burlington county, West Jersey, died there in October, 1781. He was a farmer all his life and amassed what was for those days a comparatively large fortune. His will was dated May 3, 1780, and proved by affirmation October 29, 1781, his executors being his son, Stacy, his sons-in-law, Moses Kempton and Joshua Newbold, and his friend, Jacob Hollingshead. He married Ann Coate; children : 1. William. 2. Elizabeth, married Moses Kempton. 3. Stacy. 4. Rebecca, married Josh- ua Newbold. 5. Samuel, of whom further. 6. Sarah. 7. Mahlon. 8. Beu- lah.
(V) Samuel (3) third son of Samuel (2) and Ann (Coate) Atkinson, was born in Chester township, Burlington county, New Jersey, died in Spring- field township, same county in 1804. His will, dated January 4, 1802, was proved at Mount Holly, March 9, 1804. He married Elizabeth Chil- dren of Samuel and Elizabeth Atkinson: John: Isaiah, of whom further ; Caleb ; Josiah : Samuel : Esther, married Joseph Rogers ; Keziah, married Ben- jamin Atkinson ; Mary, married John Atkinson: Hope, married Clement Rockhill ; Elizabeth ; Ann.
(VI) Isaiah, second son of Samuel (3) and Elizabeth Atkinson, was born in Springfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, and died there in 1845. In his will, written February 17, and affirmed at Mount Holly, Oc- tober 25, 1845, he named his wife, Sarah (Eldridge) Atkinson, and his chil- dren, William E .; George Washington, of whom further: Elizabeth: James E., died in Jacksonville, New Jersey ; Evan, died in the West; and Rachel, married Enoch Hollingshead, and died in New Jersey.
(VII) George Washington, second son of Isaiah and Sarah (Eldridge) Atkinson, was born in Springfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1804. died intestate in the same county, in 1865. He was a Democrat in politics, a follower of the faith of the Society of Friends, and lived as a farmer on the old homestead. He married, Anna, daughter of Miles and Sarah (Simmons) King, who died in 1903, aged eighty-seven years, having survived her husband thirty-eight years. Miles King was a descendant of German ancestors, a wheelwright and wagon-maker of Jacksonville. Sarah (Simmons) King was of English family and was a women of exceptional strength of mind and purity of character. She was a preacher of the Orthodox Quaker faith, inspired and earnest in her teachings. The death of both oc- curred in Jacksonville, New Jersey. Children of Miles and Sarah King: I. Charles, a farmer, spent his entire life in New Jersey. 2. Anna, of previous mention, married George Washington Atkinson. 3. Samuel, a partner of his father until his death. 4. Mary Ann, married Nathan Aaronson, and died in Columbus, New Jersey. 5. Elizabeth, died unmarried in Jacksonville. Chil- dren of George Washington and Anna (King) Atkinson: I. Miles King, a farmer, died at Jacksonville, New Jersey, in 1893, aged sixty-four years. 2. Edith, married Samuel E. Rogers and lives in Mount Holly, New Jersey. 4. Budd, a builder, married Mary Garwood and lives in Berwyn, Pennsylvania ; children : Margaret Garwood and Anna. 5. Isaiah E., died in 1910, on the
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old homestead. married Ellen Rogers, and had two chiklren, Wallace L. and Howard. 6. John, of whom further.
(\'ll ) John (2), youngest child of George Washington and Anna ( King ) Atkinson, was born on the home farm in Springfield township, Burl- ington county, New Jersey, March 12, 1850. He attended the public schools of Springfield township, the well known Charles Aaron school at Mount Holly, and for one year a school conducted under the auspices of the Presby- terian denomination at Ilightstown. After completing his education he learned the mason's trade in Philadelphia and in 1872 established in indepen- dent building operations, confining himself strictly to mason work, in which he has since continued. He is now one of the oldest established mason con- tractors in the city and has performed work on such structures as the Broad street station of the Pennsylvania railroad in Philadelphia, the Bourse build- ing. Drexel Hall at the German Hospital, and many other edifices housing Phil- adelphia's banks, mercantile establishments, and industrial plants. He is a member of the Masons and Builders Association of Philadelphia, the Brick- layers Company of Philadelphia, which he served as president, and is a char- ter member of the West Jersey Society of Pennsylvania, also of the Builders Exchange of Philadelphia, of which he was an organizer. A Democrat in national politics, Mr. Atkinson acts independently in all local matters and in 1911 was elected a commissioner of Haverford township on the Republican ticket, an office for which he has refused to be a candidate for re-election. He is a member of the Llanerch Citizens' Association and was one of the organiz- ers and its first president. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is the only fraternity in which he hokls membership, belonging to Lodge No. 223. Like his family for the past seven generations, Mr. Atkinson has been an adherent of the tenets of the Society of Friends and belongs to the Philadelphia Month- ly Meeting of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends at Fifteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia.
He married. October 5. 1881, Anne H., daughter of Watson Welding, of Brooklyn, New York: children, all born in Philadelphia: 1. William, born July, 1882, died February, 1910. 2. Roger, born May 12, 1884, a builder of Philadelphia. 3. Edith, born March 11, 1889. married Robert R. Blank, of Philadelphia, and resides in Llanerch. They have one son, Robert R. Jr. 4. Dorothy, born November 11, 1803. 5. Richard, born February 5, 1897.
Since 1804. Mr. Atkinson has resided in Llanerch, the demands of busi- ness previously necessitating his residence in Philadelphia. The founder of a flourishing and lucrative business who has prospered in his chosen calling, he holds high rank among his fellow townsmen, holding besides their respect for his achievements, their liking and regard.
CONARD In June. 1683. thirteen families from Crefield, on the Rhine, bade farewell to the fatherland and started on their long jour- ney to America, via London. They had been preceded by Francis Daniel Pastorions, who had been charged with the duty of finding home lands within the Province, then lately granted by the English King to William Penn. On July 24. these colonists embarked at London in the ship "Concord" 500 tons, William Jeffries, master, and after a voyage of seventy- two days, landed at Philadelphia, October 6. 1683.
This historic party known in Pennsylvania history as the "Germantown Colonists," procured through their agent. Pastorious, a large tract of land not far from Penn's seat of government, to which they gave the name German-
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town, which name is yet retained, although the tract has long been included within the corporate limits of the city of Philadelphia.
Among these thirteen German colonists was one whose name is variously written in public and private records and by himself both "Kunders" and "Kunrad." In Penn's charter of Germantown, signed and granted August 12, 1689, he is named as Dennis Conrad and was one of the founders and first burgesses of Germantown, later one of its most worthy citizens and the found- er of a numerous and influential family.
Dennis Conrad was also known in the Westphalia tongue as Thones Kun- ders, this becoming in the Saxon, Dennis Kunrade or Conrad. A more recent genealogist of the family says that : "Thones Kunders was frequently known as Dennis Conrad or Conrades" and further states that: "After this time the name Kunders fell altogether into disuse, his descendants calling themselves according to fancy-Conrad. Cunrad, Conrads, Cunnard, Cunard, Conrod, Conard and Conrad. Many latter day branches have. used the surname Con- ard. The children of Thones Kunders were seven in number, the first three born in Crefield, Germany, the others in Germantown, Pennsylvania : Cunrad, born May 17, 1678, died 1747, married Anna Klicken : Matthias, born Novem- ber 25, 1679 or 1680. married Barbara Tyson and died 1726. leaving seven children, all of whom adopted the name Conard-four of the children were sons who married and left issue: John, born June 3. 1681. died 1765: Ann, born May 4, 1684 ( said to have been the first child born in Germantown ) mar- ried Leonard Streepers: Agnes, born September 28, 1686, married Samuel Powell; Henry, born December 16, 1688 or 1689, married Catherine Streepers ; Elizabeth, born February 30, 1691. married Griffith Jones.
From Thones Kunders springs Charles Wilfred Conard, of Lansdowne and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His ancestry touches many of the prominent families of Philadelphia through intermarriages, including the Shoemaker and Baldwin familie -.
Charles Wilfred Conard, son of Thomas P. and Rebecca S. Conard, was born at No. 316 North Thirty-third street, Philadelphia, January 15. 1872. His father born January 20, 1840: his mother in March, 1843. He was edu- cated in the Friends' Select School, Philadelphia, chose the profession of law. entered the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, from whence he was graduated LL.B., class of 1803. He was admitted to the bar in the same year and has since continually been in practice with offices at No. 1118 Chest- nut street. He is a member of the Society of Friends, Pennsylvania Bar As- sociation, Delaware County Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Association. In politics he is an Independent and has warmly supported the reform move- ment in Delaware county.
Mr. Conard married in 1902, Mary E., daughter of Charles Gleave and Anna Margaret (Taylor ) Ogden, granddaughter of John (2) and Hannah (Worrall) Ogden, great-granddaughter of John (1) and Sarah ( Crozier) Ogden. great-great-granddaughter of Stephen and Hannah (Surman) Ogden -"married by a priest"-and great-great-great-granddaughter of David Og- den, who came from England, an unmarried man in company with William Penn in the "Welcome," 1682. He brought a certificate from Friends in Lon- don 11 mo. 21 day, 1681-82. of which a memorandum was kept by Friends in Philadelphia. He settled first in Philadelphia, later in Chester county, where he found a young woman, Martha Houlston, daughter of John and Ann Houl- ston, of Edgemont, also Friends. The following is a record of the proceedings taken before they could unite their fortunes: "At a mo'ths meeting Chester ye 4th of with moth, 1685. David Ogden of ye aforesd. county & Martha Holston of ye same proposed their intencons of marriage before ye mens and womens
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meetings it being ye first time, John Boiter and Robert Burrow are desired by ye meeting to inquire conc : his clearness & Elizabeth Malin and ffrances Bar- net to inquire conc : her clearness & so to report to ye next meeting." Later they were given permission to marry, after which they settled on two hundred acres in Middletown, where David Ogden died 8 mo. 22, 1705, leaving nine children of whom Stephen was the ninth born II mo. 12, 1705, three months after his father's death. The widow, Martha, married ( second) in 1710, James Thomas. Child of Charles W. and Mary E. (Ogden) Conard : Mary B., born 1907. The family home of the Conards since 1880 has been at Lans- downe where C. Wilfred Conard and family now reside.
DARLINGTON The Darlington family of Chester and Delaware coun- ties. Pennsylvania, is among the pioneer families of that section of the state.
(I) Thomas Darlington, of East Bradford, Chester county, Pennsylvania, married Hannah
(II) Jesse, son of Thomas and Hannah Darlington, married, 1789, Amy Sharpless. They had children: Martha, married Eli D. Pierce: Rhoda, mar- ried Isaac Hewes: Mark; Samuel: Edward. twin of Samuel, see forward; Benjamin ; Joshua : Thomas : Jared ; Amy, married Samuel Palmer.
(III) Edward, son of Jesse and Amy (Sharpless) Darlington, was born in Middletown township. Chester county, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1795. His education was acquired in the common schools of the day, and at the age of seventeen years he himself engaged in teaching in the schools in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and devoted his evenings and every spare moment to reading law under Samuel Edwards, Esq .. until he was admitted to the bar of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1821. Three years later, April, 1824, he was appointed deputy-attorney-general for the county of Delaware, continuing in this office until 1830. He was elected as a member of congress by the Whig party in 1832, and in 1834 was elected to the same office as an Anti-Mason ; in 1835 he was re-elected again as a representative of the Whig party, and thus served in the twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth congresses. In 1851 he was elected district attorney of Delaware county, serv- ing in this office until 1854. While in congress he was serving at the same time as Daniel Webster, Henry Clay. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, Buchanan and Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania, and other noted men of the day. He removed from Chester to Media in 1851, opening an office in the new court house in the new county seat, and took up his residence in a new brick building which had been erected by Dr. George Smith on the east of the court house square. There he resided until 1860, when he removed with his family to the "Orchard property" on the Provi- dence road, Media, their residence being the new house erected by his son-in- law. Joseph R. Morris, who died while it was being built. Later this property was purchased by his son, George Eyre Darlington. Edward Darlington re- sided on this property until his death. The new county seat of Media was incorporated in 1849. and in 1851 when Mr. Darlington first came there it was but sparsely settled. It had very few street improvements at that time, and Mr. Darlington was counsel and adviser of the Board of the County Com- missioners for many years, and was active in all measures tending toward the improvement of the section. Edward Darlington married. April 26. 1827, Ann Preston, born at Chester, Pennsylvania. July 4, 1804. daughter of Pres- ton and Arabella (Ashmead) Eyre. Children of Edward Darlington were :
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William Graham Darlington; Arabella D., married Joseph R. Morris, and had two children : and George Eyre Darlington.
( IV) George Eyre Darlington. son of Edward and Ann Preston (Eyre) Darlington, was born at Chester, Pennsylvania. August 20, 1832. His early years were spent in his native town, and he there attended public and private schools ; later he was sent to the Litiz Academy. in Lancaster county, Penn- sylvania. He studied law in the office of his father in Media. and was ad- mitted to the bar of Delaware county, Pennsylvania. June 16, 1856. He was a very young men when he served a three years' term as district attorney of Delaware county. In January, 1890. he was appointed referee in bankruptcy for Delaware county, and he is still an incumbent of this office at the present time ( 1913). June 16. 1906. his fellow members of the bar in Delaware coun- ty celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of admission at the club house of the Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club : on this occasion Mr. Darlington was presented with a handsome silver loving cup. appropriately inscribed. He had been the first secretary of the Rose Tree Club, being in office from 1857 to 1873: had served as chairman of its board of directors from 1887 to 1902, when he was elected vice-president. and to the presidency in 1907. He had been an active fox hunter for more than thirty years. He and his wife occupied the Orchard house in Media, in which his father lived, until their removal to his present residence on Front street, Media, opposite and south of Court House Square. where he erected his new law offices.
Mr. Darlington married, April 16, 1884, Ella, daughter of Francis and Mary B. Carpenter, of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the L. H. Scott Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, since 1861, and has passed through all its chairs. In 1873 he made an extended tour of the United States, spend- ing considerable time in the states of California. Utah, Iowa and Illinois. In 1903 he went to Europe with his wife, leaving New York on an Atlantic trans- port passenger and freight steamer, which carried a large number of cattle and horses. They were landed in the Thames river, below London, and then made an extended tour of England, Scotland, France and Switzerland. Re- turning by the steamship. "Minnehaha." of the same line, which took a more northerly course, and had a rough passage the entire way.
Upon the outbreak of the civil war in 1861 Mr. Darlington was en- gaged in the practice of law in Media. and in 1862 he joined a Chester com- pany for state defence, under Captain William Thatcher. After the battle of Antietam he visited the scene of this conflict with John G. Dver, to look up the Pennsylvania Reserves in which Captain Samuel A. Dver was serving. There they witnessed a grand review of the troops on the field. by President Lincoln and General Mcclellan. saw them ride along the lines of soldiers and heard the hearty cheering of the men. \ grand review of the great Army of the Po- tomac was witnessed by him at Fairfax Seminary, Virginia, before it took the line of advance. In 1863. upon the invasion of the north by Lee's Confederate army. he joined Company G, of the Grey Reserves Regiment, at Philadel- phia, and went as a private to Harrisburg for the defense of the state. From there, with the brigade, composed of the Grey and Blue Reserve Regiments. and a State Volunteer Regiment, they marched to Carlisle and were present at the shelling of the town by Fitzhugh Lee's troops and the burning of the United States barracks by them on the night of July I. During his service he was promoted to the rank of corporal, sergeant, and then first sergeant. and was honorably discharged in Philadelphia at the expiration of his term of service.
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The surname Hopkins was Hopkyns in England in the six- HOPKINS teenth century and carlier. It is an ancient family of Oxford- shire, where in 1567 John Hopkyns was a civil officer in Cov- entry. From the armorial bearings of the Wyckhams of Swelcliffe, county of Oxford, and those of the Hopkins family of Oving, it is conjectured by Burke that in earlier times a bond of relationship existed between the families. In confirmation of the belief there is found in Sibford Gower, in Swelcliffe par- ash, a small estate which is charged with a quit rent of one hundred pence. that tradition has assigned to the late owner, as the nineteenth John Hopkins. who had successively and lineally inherited it without intervention of any other christian name than John. As this estate joins immediately to Warwick- shire, it may fairly be assumed that the family of Hopkins in Coventry and in Swelcliffe descend from a common ancestor. AA branch of the family is also found in the north of Ireland.
(1) John Hopkins, immigrant ancestor, is believed to have been a relative of Stephen Hopkins, who came in the "Mayflower." from the fact that he had a son, Stephen, and other names in the family indicate relationship. John Hopkins was a proprietor of Cambridge, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony as early as 1634. He was admitted a freeman, March 4. 1635. and must have been a church member and Puritan to have been admitted. Prior to 1636 he moved to llartford, Connecticut, where he was one of the original proprietors. his home lot being in what is now East Park. He was a townsman in 1640, a juror in 1643, died 1654. He left a widow. Jane, who married ( second) Na- thaniel Ward ; children : Stephen, of whom further: Bethia, born 1635. and perhaps others.
(Il) Stephen, son of John Hopkins, the emigrant, was born in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, in 1634, and lived in Hartford, Connecticut, from child- hood. He was admitted a freeman there in 1657, was a commissioner in 1668 and 1672, died October, 1680. He married Dorcas, daughter of John Bron- son, of Farmington ; children: Stephen, married November 17. 1686, Sarah Judd: John, of whom further ; and others.
(III) John, son of Stephen and Dorcas ( Bronson) Hopkins, was born in 1660, died November 4, 1732. He settled in Waterbury, Connecticut, build- ing a mill on what is now Baldwin street, and becoming known throughout the locality as the "miller of Waterbury." He married ( first ) Hannah Strong. died May 3. 1730, and ( second ) Sarah : children : daughter, born De- cember 22, 1684, died in infancy ; John, born March 29. 1686; Consider, born November 10, 1687: Stephen, born November 19. 1689. died January 4. 1769: Timothy (of further mention ) : Samuel, born December 27. 1693; Mary, born January 27, 1696; Hannah, born April 23. 1699, baptized at Woodbury, May 23. 1703. twin of Hannah, died in infancy : Dorcas, born February 12, 1705. (IV) Timothy, son of John Hopkins, of Waterbury, Connecticut, was born in Waterbury. November 16, 1601, died there February 5. 1749. He be- came a person of great influence, serving at various times as constable, select- man, grand juror, moderator of the town meeting. held the office of justice of the peace eight years, and represented his town many times in the general court. He married, in June. 1719. Mary Judd, and had issue, including sons. Samuel and Mark. His son, Rev. Samuel Flopkins, born in 1726, was the celebrated divine whose theological doctrines created a new epoch in New England religious development.
(V) Mark, son of Timothy Hopkins, was born at Waterbury, Connecti- cut. September 16, 1730, died at White Plains, New York, October 2. 1776. He was a graduate of Yale College, a lawyer. and the first of that profession in Berkshire county, Massachusetts. He was eminent in his profession, an
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ardent patriot, serving as colonel of the First Massachusetts Regiment of infantry, but died ere the struggle for liberty had fairly begun. He mar- ried, in 1765. Electa, daughter of Rev. John and Abigail ( Williams) Sargent. and granddaughter of Colonel Ephraim Williams, the founder of Williams College. Mark Hopkins left issue, including a son, Archibald.
(VI) Archibald, son of Mark and Electa (Sargent ) Hopkins, was born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, March 23. 1766, died at Stockbridge. Massachusetts, 1830. All of his mature years were spent at Stockbridge, en- gaged in farming. In him were all the qualities of sturdy independence de- rived from his ancestors, and he was an American gentleman of rugged worth. He was a captain of cavalry in the state forces. He married, in 1800. Mary. daughter of Isaac and Hannah ( Higley) Curtis, of Stockbridge, Massa- chusetts.
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