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Issue of Andrew and Hedwig Regina Shober :-
John Andrew, settled at Lititz, Lancaster county ;
Gottleib, removed to Salem, N. C .; died 1838; Joseph, remained at Bethlehem ;
SAMUEL L., M. D., b. at Bethlehem, student at College of Philadelphia; m. Oct. 14, 1784, Susannah Budd Jones. Samuel L. Shober received his degree of M. D. at College of Philadelphia, later University of Pennsylvania, and located at Philadelphia, where he became an eminent physician.
Issue of Dr. Samuel L. and Susannah Budd (Jones) Shober :-
Blathwaite, b. 1785, counselor at law in Philadelphia; m. Catharine Ann Snyder; Hedwig Regina, b. October 24, 1786, d. May 7, 1865, unm .;
SAMUEL LIEBERKUHN, b. Sept. 6, 1789, d. Aug. 25, 1847 ; m. (first) Dec. 7, 1813, Mary Ann Bedford; (second) Oct. 27, 1830, Lucy Hall Bradley ;
Joanna Sophia, b. Nov. 10, 1794, d. Nov. 20, 1845; m. Dec. 1, 1819, Thomas Kimber.
SAMUEL LIEBERKUHN SHOBER, youngest son of Samuel L. and Susannah Budd (Jones) Shober, born in Philadelphia, September 6, 1789, was a
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prominent business man of Philadelphia. He was a sergeant of the Third Company of the Washington Guards at Camp Dupont in the War of 1812-14; was offered a commission as captain in the regular army but declined. He was a founder of the Apprentices' Library and was prominent in philanthropic and charitable institutions of Philadelphia. He was largely instrumental in inter esting the United States Congress in doing justice to the remnant of the Dela- ware Indians remaining in New Jersey. He died in Philadelphia, August 25, 1847. He married (first) December 7, 1813, Mary Ann, daughter of John and Mary Ann (Phelps) Bedford, who died November 2, 1828, at the age of thirty- three years. Mr. Shober married (second) October 27, 1830, Lucy Hall, born February 24, 1805, daughter of Josiah and Lucy (Hall) Bradley, and a descend- ant of Gov. Dudley, of Massachusetts.
Issue of Samuel L. and Mary Ann (Bedford) Shober :-
John Bedford, b. Nov. 13, 1814, d. unm. Nov. 27, 1864;
Mary Morris, b. May 6, 1816, d. May 27, 1873;
Hedwig Regina, b. Dec. 24, 1818, d. Jan. 18, 1885; m. July 10, 1844, Francis H. Gray. M. D .;
Elizabeth Kearney, b. Sept. 28, 1821, d. unm. Dec. 1, 1865;
Susanna Budd, b. Feb. 24, 1823; m. June 21, 1867, John Davies Esq., Surgeon General of Island of Fayal;
Sarah Morris, b. July 24, 1825; m. June 17, 1868, Rev. William P. Lewis, Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Pottsville, Pa., later of Christ's Chapel, Philadelphia ;
SAMUEL LIEBERKUHN SHOBER JR., b. March 13, 1828; m. Nov. 16, 1858, Ann Bond Coch- ran, of whom presently.
SAMUEL LIEBERKUHN SHOBER, son of Samuel L. and Mary Ann ( Bedford) Shober, born in Philadelphia, March 13, 1828, entered University of Pennsyl- vania in 1842, but left during the sophomore year to take up mercantile business which he afterwards followed. He married, November 16, 1858, Ann Bond, daughter of William Greene and Elizabeth (Travis) Cochran.
SAMUEL LIEBERKUHN SHOBER JR., a son of Samuel L. and Anna Bond (Coch- ran) Shober, was born in Philadelphia, October 26, 1862. He was educated at University of Pennsylvania, which he entered in 1882. He later took a special course in civil engineering, which occupation he has since pursued. He married Agnes Wharton, daughter of Pemberton Sydney and Agnes (Wharton) Hut- chinson.
JOHN MORRIS, third son of Anthony and Phoebe (Guest) Morris, was born in the old Morris Mansion in Philadelphia, June 23, 1709. Married, April 18, 1734, Mary, born in Philadelphia, 1706, daughter of Richard Sutton, of Phila- delphia, by his wife, Mary Howell, of Cecil county, Maryland, whom he mar- ried September 12, 1698. Richard Sutton died leaving two children, Howell and Mary, and his widow married, August 26, 1721, William Carter, a native of Wapping, county of Middlesex, England, who was an early landholder in Phila- delphia, owning several lots in the neighborhood of Second and Chestnut streets. He was named in the Charter of 1701, as one of first Board of Aldermen of the city and was elected Mayor in October, 1710. He died February 19, 1738-9, aged eighty-eight years, and his widow in 1749. From their house, where she had spent her girlhood days, Mary (Sutton) Morris went to the house of her husband, May 5, 1734.
John Morris was settled by his father on "Spring Mill" property, on the Schuyl-
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kill, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, twelve miles from Philadelphia, where lie erected for him a fine mansion, which he named "Mount Joy", and in 1739 conveyed to him the mill and three tracts of land, comprising four hun- dred and twenty acres. Here John Morris and his family resided until 1769, when he conveyed "Mount Joy" and the surrounding property to his son-in-law, Joseph Potts, and took up his residence in Southwark. This fine property was later acquired by Peter Legaux, the French nobleman, who established there a vineyard, and sought the assistance of the State Legislature in an effort to establish the wine industry in Pennsylvania. It is still owned and occupied by
John Morris was associated with his brothers, Samuel and Joseph Morris, in the Righter family, lineal descendants of Peter Legaux.
the establishment of Boiling Spring Furnace and Forge. He also owned at the time of his death a mill property and tract of land on Ridley Creek in Chester county, which he devised to his grandson, Richard Hill Morris. He died Febru- ary 3, 1782.
Issue of John and Mary (Sutton) Morris :-
WILLIAM MORRIS, b. June 27, 1735, d. April 14, 1766; m. Margaret Hill, of whom presently ;
Mary, b. Jan. 3, 1738, d. Dec. 19, 1865; m. Aug. 16, 1764, Joseph Potts, and had one son, John Morris Potts, a legatee under the will of his grandfather, John Morris;
Anthony, b. "Mount Joy", Oct. 10, 1740, d. Nov. 2, 1740; buried at Plymouth Meeting; John, b. Nov. 4, 1745, d. Aug. 9, 1746;
John, b. Dec. 3, 1748, d. May 29, 1749.
WILLIAM MORRIS, eldest child of John and Mary (Sutton) Morris, born in Philadelphia, June 27, 1735, was a merchant. He was a man of fine intellectual ability and attainments, and took an active interest in the various institutions of his native city. He was appointed a signer of Provincial paper money in 1757, and was a contributor to Pennsylvania Hospital in 1758. A member of the So- ciety of Friends, he moved in the most exclusive social circles of the Quaker City. He was elected a member of the "Colony in Schuylkill", October 7, 1761. He died in his early prime, April 14, 1766.
William Morris married, September 21, 1758, Margaret, daughter of Dr. Richard Hill, of Island of Madeira, later of Philadelphia, a native of South River, Maryland, and a nephew of Richard Hill, the Provincial Councillor, so long identified with the Colonial affairs of Philadelphia and the Province of Pennsylvania. The mother of Margaret Hill was Deborah Moore, born in Maryland, June 2, 1705, died in Madeira, December 19, 1751, daughter of Dr. Mordecai Moore, the family physician of Lord Baltimore, who accompanied him to Maryland, by his second wife, Deborah, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, President of William Penn's Council and Deputy Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1690-93, and a descendant through the Lloyds of Dolobran, Wales, from Alfred, the Great. Margaret Hill Morris represented the noblest type of womanhood, a true "Mother in Israel" to the poor and afflicted, she bore with Christian resignation the heavy trials of sorrows that fell to her lot, and was a model to Christian womanhood and motherhood. Left a widow with four small children (one unborn at her husband's death), she reared them to man- hood and womanhood and the memory of her wise counsels and Christian teach- ings has been reverently transmitted to her posterity to the present day. She
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survived her husband over half a century, removing in 1770 to Burlington, New Jersey, where she thereafter lived. At the death of her son, Dr. John Morris, in 1793, she adopted his youngest daughter Margaret, then an infant and she was her constant companion until her marriage in 1810, after which she received into her household another granddaughter.
Issue of William and Margaret (Hill) Morris :-
Richard Hill Morris, b. Sept. 28, 1759, d. Aug. 29, 1760;
JOHN MORRIS, M. D. (twin to Richard), b. Sept. 28, 1759, d. Sept. 8, 1793, of whom presently ;
Deborah Moore Morris, b. Nov. 29, 1750, d. March 17, 1822; m. (first) Nov. II, 1789, Benjamin Smith; (second) Nov. 9, 1809, Isaac Collins Sr., printer of Trenton;
Richard Hill Morris, b. Sept. 5, 1762, d. Dec. 6, 1841; m. (first) March 17, 1786, Mary Mifflin; (second) Oct. 25, 1798, Mary Smith ;
Mary Morris, b. June 19, 1764, d. Feb. 14, 1765;
Gulielma Maria Morris, b. Aug. 18, 1766, four months after the death of her father; d. Sept. 9, 1826; m. April 8, 1784, John Smith Jr.
DR. JOHN MORRIS, eldest son of William and Margaret Morris, born in Phil- adelphia, September 28, 1759, was but seven and a half years of age at the death of his father. In his eleventh year his mother removed with her little fam- ily to Burlington, New Jersey, residing for a time in the house of George Dillwyn, who had married her sister, Sarah Hill, but a few years later purchas- ing the house of Gov. William Franklin on the river bank, where she lived to serene old age.
Having chosen the medical profession, followed so successfully by his ma- ternal ancestors, John Morris began study in office of his uncle and cousin, Dr. Charles Moore, of Montgomery county, who had married his mother's sister, Milcah Martha Hill. On obtaining his degree he located at Burlington, New Jersey, where he practiced with success for a few years and then removed to Philadelphia, and located first at No. 27 Chestnut street, where he was from 1785 to 1791, removing in the latter year to No. 11 Pear street, where he died. He became the fashionable physician of Philadelphia and enjoyed a large prac- tice. He was a founder of the College of Physicians in 1787, and his name with that of Dr. Benjamin Rush, and other illustrious physicians of Philadelphia, appears on the tablet erected there commemorating the fact. At the outbreak of the yellow fever pestilence in Philadelphia, he devoted himself earnestly to the relief of the sufferers, but soon fell a victim to the dread disease and died in the arms of his devoted mother, who had come from her home at Burlington to nurse him, September 8, 1793. His wife also contracted the disease and died eight days later, leaving to the care of their paternal grandmother four small children, one of whom died less than a year later.
Dr. John Morris married at Friends' Meeting, Philadelphia, October 8, 1783, Abigail, daughter of Benedict and Sarah Dorsey, of Philadelphia, who was born in 1765, died September 16, 1793.
Issue of Dr. John and Abigail (Dorsey) Morris :-
Sarah, b. 1784, d. 1794;
William Stanton, b. Nov. 24, 1785, d. unm. 1819;
Benedict, b. March 27. 1787, d. Nov. 13, 1790;
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Martha Milcah, b. Aug. 24, 1788, d. Jan. 26, 1826; m. (first) Thomas Lawrie; (second) Jacob B. Clarke ;
Mary, b. 1790, d. inf .;
MARGARET, b. Aug. 18, 1792, d. April 22, 1832.
MARGARET MORRIS, youngest child of Dr. John Morris, was as before stated reared in the home of her grandmother, Margaret (Hill) Morris, at Burlington, New Jersey. She married there, October 4, 1810, Isaac Collins Jr., eleventh child of Isaac and Rachel (Budd) Collins, of Trenton, New Jersey, where he was born October 31, 1787. He had served eight years' apprenticeship in a mercantile house and was then engaged in the mercantile trade in New York City as a member of the firm of Mott & Collins, and later a member of the firm of Isaac Collins & Company, publishers and printers. The family resided in New York until 1828, when they removed to Philadelphia. Mr. Collins had ere this acquired a comfortable fortune and retired from active business. After the removal to Philadelphia he became identified with the leading charitable enter- prises and institutions of that city, and was deeply interested in the cause of education as well as in the temperance and anti-slavery cause. He was a founder of Haverford College; member of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge ; director of the Public School System and an official in a number of philanthropic and charitable institutions. The founding of the Institute for Feeble Minded Children was largely due to his efforts. Mrs. Margaret Col- lins' health was very much debilitated before the removal from New York, that being the main cause of the removal, which doubtless prolonged her life; but she died four years later, April 22, 1832. Isaac Collins married (second) Jan- uary 28, 1835, Rebecca, daughter of John Singer, a prominent merchant of Philadelphia. She was an eminent minister of the Society of Friends, and sur- vived her husband many years, dying April, 1892, at the age of eighty-seven years. Mr. Collins died January 15, 1863.
Issue of Isaac and Margaret (Morris) Collins :-
William Morris. Collins, b. July 19, 1811, d. Oct. 30, 1864; m. Nov. 7, 1839, Eliza C. Cope ;
Martha Lawrie Collins, b. July 21, 1813, d. May 6, 1887; m. Oct. 3, 1833, John B. Bispham;
Gulielma Maria Collins, b. Aug. 28, 1815, d. Feb. 4, 1867; m. June 5, 1839, Philip B. Chase ;
Henry Hill Collins, b. Feb. 3, 1818, d. s. p. July 20, 1840;
Alfred Morris Collins, b. Jan. 11, 1820, d. May 26, 1895; m. Nov. 22, 1843, Hannah Evans ; FREDERIC COLLINS, b. Jan. 21, 1822, d. Nov. 27, 1892; m. Letitia Dawson, of whom presently ;
Isaac Collins Jr., b. May 2, 1824, d. Dec. 28, 1902; m. Dec. 9, 1847, Elizabeth B. K. Earle ; Theodore Collins, b. July 27, 1826, d. Sept. 4, 1826;
Margaret Morris Collins, b. Aug. 18, 1829, d. April 6, 1863; m. June 1, 1853, Oliver K. Earle ;
Percival Collins, b. Dec. 19, 1831, d. May 7, 1872; m. Oct. 5, 1856, Sarah Levick.
FREDERIC COLLINS, sixth child of Isaac and Margaret (Morris) Collins, born in New York City, January 21, 1822, became a prominent business man of Philadelphia. After his graduation at Haverford, he entered the establish- tnent of M. L. Dawson & Company, and on arriving of age and his marriage in 1844 to Letitia, daughter of Mordecai Lewis Dawson, the senior member of the firm, became a partner in the business and was identified with it for many
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years, first under the title above given, later as Poultney, Collins & Company and subsequently as Massey, Collins & Company. He was also engaged for a time in the brokerage business, and later was a member of the banking firm of Elliott, Collins & Company, and was president of the Mckean and Elk Land and Improvement Company. He became a manager of the House of Refuge in 1869.
Frederic Collins died November 27, 1892; by his wife, Letitia P. Dawson, of an old Colonial family of Philadelphia, he had issue :-
Elizabeth Dawson Collins, m. Charles F. Hulse, who d. Aug. 28, 1876, leaving issue : Letitia Collins Hulse, b. June 1, 1870; m. April 28, 1892, Samuel Bowman Wheeler ;
Margaret Morris Hulse, b. April 22, 1873;
Anne Morrison Collins, m. April 10, 1890, Morris Earle ;
Frederic Collins Jr., b. Feb. 4, 1868; m. June 19, 1895, Lillie Moffit Brown.
NORRIS FAMILY
The patronymic of the Norris family was Norrey and Norreys. It was an ancient family in England and flourished in Sutton and Lancashire many cen- turies. William Norreys, of Sutton, descended from Alain Norreys, who in remote times dwelt in Sutton, was ancestor of the celebrated family of Norris, of Speke, Lancashire, and that of Ryecote, Berkshire. In A. D., 1311, Sir Henry Norreys, of this branch, by marriage with Joan Molyneaux, acquired the manor of Speke, and was founder of the family there.
Thomas Norreys, of Speke, was father of Nicholas Norreys, of Tarleton, who was succeeded by a son, Nicholas Norreys, of Tarleton, whose son, Nicholas Norreys, also of Tarleton, had a son, Nicholas Norreys, of Middleworth, Lancashire, born 1633, who was succeeded by a son, Henry Norris. Sev- eral branches of the family came to America at different periods, some settling in New England, and at least one in Maryland.
THOMAS NORRIS, first known ancestor of the distinguished Philadelphia fam- ily of the name, was a merchant in London, England, where at an early age he became a member of the Society of Friends. No direct connection has ever been traced between this Thomas Norris and the Norris family of Speke Hall, Lancashire, but the fact that his son, Isaac Norris, who subsequently settled in Philadelphia, bore the same coat-of-arms as that belonging to the Speke Hall family, makes it reasonable to suppose that his line of descent sprang from this source. It was not uncommon in those days for a member of a family of prom- inence to be disinherited and disowned for embracing the tenets of the Quaker religion. About 1678, Thomas Norris emigrated to the Island of Jamaica. The reason for his departure from the land of his birth was the continued and per- sistent religious persecution of the Quakers, as may be assumed from the fact that in 1659 he was one of those people who petitioned Parliament for the release of a number of their brethren immured in the prisons of London for matters of conscience, offering "to lie in prison, person for person, instead of such as were then in confinement and might be in danger of their lives through extreme duress."
Even after his arrival at Port Royal, he continued to be subjected to persecu- tion, being twice fined for refusal to bear arms, and a third time for the refusal of his son to do the same.
Thomas Norris was killed in the great earthquake that destroyed Port Royal, June 7, 1692. He had been a member of Southwark Monthly Meeting, London, upon whose records his name is spelled "Norrice", which indicates the correct pronunciation rather than the correct spelling of the name, for that was a day of phonetic spelling, as shown by many of the ancient records of the time. He married (first), about 1656, Mary Moore, who died in Jamaica, June 3, 1685 ; (second), Sarah - -, who survived him and died October 19, 1696.
Issue of Thomas and Mary (Moore) Norris :-
Elizabeth Norris, b. London, Eng., 2mo. (April) I, 1657; m. in parish of Magdalen, Bermondsey, Jamaica, Timothy Weymouth, who d. Sept., 1692; they had issue: Prudence Weymouth, m. John Moon, but d. s. p.
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Thomas Norris, b. London, Iomo. (Dec.) 29, 1659, d. Jamaica, 1685; m. Ann -;
Joseph Norris, b. London, 12mo. (Feb.), 1661-2, d. gmo. (Nov.) 14, 1692; m. Martha Phillips; had issue: Thomas Norris, Hannah Norris, d. inf .;
Mary Norris, b. London, 5mo. (July) 24, 1664, d. y .; Prudence Norris, b. 5mo. (July) 31, 1666, d. y. ;
Benjamin Norris, b. Iomo. (Dec.) 25, 1668;
Isaac Norris, b. 4mo. (June) 22, 1669, d. inf .;
Isaac Norris, b. 5mo. (July) 26, 1671, in Olave's Parish, London, d. Philadelphia, 6mo. (Aug.) 4, 1735; m. Mary Lloyd, of whom presently.
ISAAC NORRIS, youngest child of Thomas and Mary (Moore) Norris, was born in London, England, July 26, 1671 ; and removed with his parents to the Island of Jamaica at the age of seven years. In 1690 his father sent him to Philadelphia to investigate the propriety of moving there, and he sailed from Port Royal, March 5, 1690, taking with him a letter of introduction from Mordecai Lloyd, to the latter's father, Gov. Thomas Lloyd, whose daughter Isaac subsequently married. After carefully looking into the advantages of Philadelphia and its vicinity as a trading center, he returned to Jamaica, in 1692, only to learn that his father and other members of the family, with the exception of his stepmother and sister Elizabeth, had perished, either by the earthquake or the pestilence which followed, and that practically all the family property had been destroyed. He returned to Philadelphia the following year with little more than one hundred pounds, and entered into business there, in which he was eminently successful, becoming eventually one of the wealthiest and most influ- ential men in the Province. He was a man of extraordinary business ability and perspicuity, and his services were early enlisted in the affairs of the city and Province. He soon attracted the attention and won the esteem of William Penn, at whose request he went to England, 1707, to assist in extracting the great founder of Pennsylvania from the difficulties in which he was entangled with the Fords. He was elected to the Colonial Assembly in 1699, and con- tinued a member until 1705, was again returned in 1711, and again the following year and elected Speaker. He was called to the Provincial Council, February 8, 1708-9, with his brother-in-law, Samuel Preston, and from that day was one of the prominent men of the Province, and particularly in the affairs of the Coun- cil for the next twenty-five years, during a portion of the time also serving in the Assembly, to which he was again returned in October, 1720, and elected Speaker to succeed William Trent, who that year removed to New Jersey.
In addition to filling these offices of honor and responsibility, he was a Jus- tice of the Courts of Philadelphia from June 4, 1715, until his death, and at the organization of the High Court of Chancery being one of the oldest Coun- cillors, was appointed Master of that Court to sit with the Lieutenant Governor in hearing cases. He became Alderman of Philadelphia in 1708, and October 6, 1724, was elected from the Board of Aldermen to the position of Mayor of the city, serving one term. At the death of David Lloyd, there being few able lawyers in the Colonies, the Governor and Council, April 7. 1731, unanimously agreed to appoint Isaac Norris to the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province, but he declined to accept preferring to remain a Justice of the County Court. He was for many years the chief representative of the Pro- prietaries, being their attorney for sale of lands under the Gouldney mortgage;
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trustee under William Penn's will; attorney for Hannah Penn after her hus- band's death, etc.
In 1704, with William Trent, Isaac Norris purchased William Penn's Manor of Williamstadt, on Schuylkill, comprising 7,480 acres, and including the site of Norristown (named for him), the present county seat of Montgomery county. In 1712 he purchased Trent's interest in this manor, thereafter called Norriton, and owned it until his death in 1735. He also owned 632 acres in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, prior to February, 1712, when he added 192 acres to the tract at a cost of £453. In 1713 he purchased of Hamilton and Falconer, for £550, the unlocated first purchase of Charles Marshall, of 6,000 acres, and located the forty-two acres Liberty Land appurtenant thereto, alongside his other lots above mentioned. At this date he was residing in the city, where, in addition to other properties, he owned the "Slate-roof House" celebrated as the residence of Penn, during his second visit to Pennsylvania, which Norris had purchased in 1709 for £900, Pennsylvania currency ; the lot fronting fifty-seven and one-half feet on the east side of Second street, below Chest- nut, and extending along Norris alley, 269 feet deep. On his estate in the North- ern Liberties known as "Fair Hill", he erected a mansion, and removed there about 1718, living in a style befitting his rank and wealth. He possessed the luxury of a coach, and, Quaker though he was, emblazoned his coat-of-arms thereon. He was fond of reading, and being familiar with several languages, his leisure hours were spent among his books. He died June 4, 1735, being smitten with apoplexy while attending Friends' Meeting at Germantown, whence he was removed to Stenton, James Logan's residence, where he died.
Isaac Norris married, March 7, 1694, Mary, third daughter of Thomas Lloyd, many years President of the Provincial Council, and twice acting Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania. Isaac Norris was described by one of his contem- poraries as "one whose character will do honor to his latest posterity, a doer of justice, a lover of mercy, a loving husband, an affectionate father, a sincere friend, and a lover of his country." He was a director of the first public school of Philadelphia.
Issue of Isaac and Mary (Lloyd) Norris :---
Mary Norris, b. Dec. 5, 1694, d. Feb. 13, 1750-1; m. 1717, Thomas Griffiths, Provincial Councillor, Keeper of Great Seal, etc .;
Hannah Norris, b. Aug. 1, 1696, d. July 21, 1774; m. June 15, 1717, Richard Harrison, of Maryland, who settled in Lower Merion township, Philadelphia county, and d. there Oct. 5, 1747; they had issue:
Richard Harrison, d. y., 1731;
Mary Harrison, b. 1720, d. s. p., 1766, m. David Crawford;
Samuel Harrison, b. 1724, d. s. p. 1774;
Isaac Harrison, d. 1745;
Hannah Harrison, b. Dec., 1728, d. s. p. Sept. 6, 1807; m., Sept. 1, 1774, Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress throughout the Revolutionary War ;
Thomas Harrison, b. 1729, d. 1759, m. Francis Scull.
Sarah Norris, b. Oct. 2, 1697, d. Dec. 26, 1699;
Joseph Norris, b. Jan. 29, 1698-9, d. Oct., 1733, unm .;
Rachel Norris, b. 1700, d. Nov. 15, 17II ;
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