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Issue of Samuel and Mary (Shippen) Swift :-
Margaret McCall Swift, b. Philadelphia, June 2, 1796; d. Apr. 6, 1873; m., May 19, 1831, her cousin John, son of her mother's brother Robert Shippen, of "Tivoli", Lancaster county, by his wife Priscilla Thompson;
William Swift, b. at "The Grove" Aug. 3, 1797; d. unm., Nov. 2, 1838; was an exten- sive writer on political questions, and an ardent advocate of "Free Trade";
Mary Shippen Swift, b. at "The Grove", Nov. 22, 1798, d. Feb. 15, 1877; m., Sept. 9, #824, Mathew Brooke Buckley, b. Oct. 31, 1794, d. March 8, 1856, President of Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, and was mother of Edward Swift Buckley, who is prominently identified with some of Philadelphia's financial and business institutions:
Joseph Swift, b. at "The Grove", Dec. 26, 1799, d. at Long Branch, N. J., July I, 1882; was educated at a classical school in New Jersey, and settling in Philadelphia in 1818, became a member of brokerage firm of Thomas A. Biddle & Co., with whom he remained until 1842, when he retired from active business, and resided at his country seat, "Woodfield", when not engaged in foreign travel. He was one of the original members of Philadelphia Club (1834). On Oct. 5, 1835, he was elected for the first time a Director of the Club, and in subsequent years he was chosen again and again to fill that position. On April 7, 1854, Mr. Swift was elected President of Philadelphia Club, in which position he continued to serve until Sept. 16, 1859. He was elected Director of The Philadelphia Contribution- ship (the Hand and Hand) from Sept. 4, 1844, to Aug. 16, 1871; The Philadel- phia Bank from 1851 to 1859; The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society from 1855 until his death in 1882; and The Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, from Sept. 13, 1852, to Dec. 10, 1867. In 1831, Mr. Swift m. Eliza Moore, dau. of George Willing. Their eldest dau. m., Oct. 5, 1852, Thomas Balch of the Philadelphia Bar, a member of a family established in Mary- land since 1658.
George Swift, b. at "The Grove", March 9, 1801, d. July 16, 1801;
SAMUEL SWIFT, b. March 10, 1802, d. Feb. 29, 1888; m. Mary A. Royer, of whom presently ;
Elizabeth Swift, b. May 9, 1804, d. March 31, 1886, unm .;
John Swift, d. young;
Sarah Bordley Swift;
Edwin Swift, b. Nov. 6, 1806, d. in Philadelphia, March 22, 1891; member of Phila- delphia Club; President of Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Com- pany, from Dec. 7, 1836, to May 20, 1844; Director of Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company from June 1, 1868, to his death; connected with a number of other industrial and financial institutions:
Jane Galloway Swift, b. March 15, 1808, d. Easton, Pa., March 16, 1872; m. John Smith, of another branch of the family, a descendant of John Swift who settled in Bucks county about 1685, and d. there in 1733, at a very advanced age. He was many years a member of Colonial Assembly from Bucks county, and Justice of the courts there ; later removing to Philadelphia, where he was a Justice of the several courts, and also a member of Colonial Assembly, succeeding John White, before-mentioned, in
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that body, in 1721, and serving until 1730, when he returned to Bucks county. Orig- inally a member of Society of Friends at Oxford Meeting, he was carried out of the Society by the Keith Schism of 1692, and became a Baptist preacher, the congrega- tion later composing Southampton Baptist Church, meeting for some time at his house in Southampton township. Was later pastor of First Baptist Church of Phila- delphia.
SAMUEL SWIFT, third surviving son of Samuel and Mary (Shippen) Swift, born at "The Grove", the country seat of his parents near Bustleton, Philadel- phia county, March 10, 1802, married, May 1, 1831, Mary Ann Royer, and resided the greater part of his life at "The Grove". He died February 20, 1888.
Issue of Samuel and Mary Ann (Royer) Swift :-
Emma Louisa Swift, b. May 19, 1834, d. Dec. 23, 1869, unm .;
WILLIAM HENRY SWIFT, b. Oct. 14, 1836; m. Eliza Clewlow Lewis Grubb, of whom presently ;
Elizabeth Swift, b. April 26, 1839; unm .; residing in Norristown, Montgomery county, Pa .;
Sarah Swift, b. Nov. 21, 1841; m. Thomas Cummings Zulich, son of Anthony and Jane Morton (Cummings) Zulich, of Easton, Pa .;
JOSEPH SWIFT, b. Dec. 16, 1843, m. Gertrude Horton Dorr, of whom presently ;
Edwin Swift, b. Feb. 26, 1846, d. March 18, 1852;
Samuel Swift, b. 1850, d. Feb. 10, 1852;
May Swift, b. Feb. 26, 1853, d. April 18, 1896, unm.
WILLIAM HENRY SWIFT, eldest son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Royer) Swift, born in Philadelphia county, October 14, 1836, removed to Wilmington, Dela- ware, when a young man, and engaged in the manufacture of matches. He has been President of the Diamond Match Company from its organization in 1887 to 1898, when he retired from active business. He married, September 10, 1863, Eliza Clewlow Lewis, daughter of Charles T. Grubb, of Wilmington Bar, and granddaughter of William Ford Grubb, by his wife Lydia Wilkinson, daughter of Adam Wilkinson, by his wife Mary Gilpin.
Issue of William Henry and Eliza C. L. (Grubb ) Swift :-
Charles Grubb Swift, b. Sept. I, 1865, d. April 2, 1866;
William Henry Swift Jr., b. May 3, 1867, d. April 9, 1875;
Anna Vaughan Swift, b. Jan. 13, 1870; m. Nov. 14, 1894, Charles G. Rupert, had issue :- Mary Swift Rupert, b. April 21, 1897;
Anna Swift Rupert, b. June 1, 1900;
William Swift Rupert, b. April 17, 1902;
Amy Lewis Rupert, b. Oct. 14, 1905.
Emma Louisa Swift, b. Oct. 3, 1876; m. Nov. 14, 1901, Charles Bolling Holladay, and had issue :-
Elizabeth Swift Holladay, b. Aug. 12, 1902;
Alexander Randolph Holladay, b. June 2, 1904.
JOSEPH SWIFT, son of Samuel and Mary Ann (Royer) Swift, born in Mont- gomery county, December 16, 1843, became a business man of New York City when a young man; retired from business and removed to Wilmington, Delaware, in 1889, and has since been a resident of that city ; now living retired, is a member of various social organizations of the city. He married, June 18, 1868, Gertrude Horton, born May 19, 1844, daughter of Horatio and Adeline Levina (Van Norstrand) Dorr.
Issue of Joseph and Gertrude Horton (Dorr) Swift :-
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Gertrude Horton Swift, b. March 29, 1869, d. inf .;
Joseph Swift, b. Aug. 13, 1870, d. inf .;
Horatio Dorr Swift, b. July 19, 1871, d. inf .;
Samuel Swift, b. Jan. 19, 1875; m. June 8, 1896, Ellen Mary Faulkner, dau. of Edwin and Lucy (Schofield) Faulkner, and had issue :-
Katharine Faulkner Swift, b. April 19, 1897;
Samuel Swift Jr., b. Jan. 14, 1903.
Frances Dorr Swift, b. Oct. 18, 1874; m. Oct. 27, 1897, Henry Lea Jr., son of Henry Lea and Caroline (Gibbons) Tatnall; had issue :-
Joseph Swift Tatnall, b. Sept. 30, 1898;
Caroline Gibbons Tatnall, b. Mar. 26, 1901;
Henry Lea Tatnall 3d, b. Feb. 13, 1903;
Mary Swift Tatnall, b. Oct. 1, 1904;
Louise Westervelt Tatnall, b. July 1, 1906.
Mary Swift, b. June 2, 1876; m., Jan. 12, 1903, William Raymond Driver Jr., son of William Raymond Driver, and they had issue :-
Gertrude Horton Driver, b. Oct. 7, 1903, d. inf .;
Ruth Driver, b. Sept. 17, 1905.
Elizabeth Shippen Swift, b. June 28, 1878; m., Jan. 9, 1904, William Arthur, son of Edward and Lucy (Schofield) Faulkner; they had issue :-
Lucy Faulkner, b. March 13, 1905;
Edwin Faulkner, b. Nov. 12, 1906;
Joseph Swift, b. April 20, 1880, d. inf .;
John Dorr Swift, b. June 18, 1881, d. y .;
Gertrude Dorr Swift, b. Oct. 6, 1883; m., April 16, 1906, Edward Saville Ogden, son of E. Huson and Martha Louise (Goodrich) Ogden;
Eleanor McCall Swift, b. June 15, 1886, residing with her parents, in Wilmington, Del.
WILLING FAMILY
CHARLES WILLING, American progenitor of the Willing family of Philadelphia, was born in Bristol, England, May 18, 1710, son of Thomas and Anne ( Har- rison) Willing and grandson of Joseph and Ava (Lowle) Willing. The family is probably of Saxon origin and had been more or less prominent in the coun- ties bordering on the English Channel, for many generations. Michel Willing, brother of Sir John Willing, a prominent royalist, born about 1542, was a grand- son of Simon Willing, living at Medbury, Devonshire, in 1546, had wife Mary, who bore him three sons, William of Medbury, who died in 1635; Michel, and John. Joseph Willing, son of John and grandson of Michel, baptized December 17, 1620, died 1678, lived at Hupperton, county of Somerset. By his wife Mary he had issue :-
JOSEPH WILLING, of whom presently;
John; Mary; Anne;
Thomas, bap. at Bristol, Sept. 10, 1654.
JOSEPH WILLING, son of Joseph and Mary, buried February 2, 1693, mar- ried (first), July I, 1672, Elizabeth Plaver, who died October 4, 1675, and he married (second), May 24, 1676, Ava Lowle, a Saxon heiress, who died Decem- ber 31, 1707. She was a daughter of Thomas Lowle, and granddaughter of John Lowle of Woodhouse, Gloucestershire, by his wife Martha, daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Smith, Esq., Taunton, Somersetshire. She had a com- mon ancestry with the distinguished family of Lowell, of Massachusetts, in John Lowle of Clevedon, Somersetshire. William Lowle of Yardley, Worcestershire, married a Lyttleton and had sons, James, Andrew and Samuel, the first named of whom married a Baskerville, and had sons, Raffe, George, Edward, and An- drew ; the first named of whom married a Hasdrigg, and had Walter, Thomas, Anthony and Sabity. Walter Lowle married Joan Russell, and had issue :- Richard, married a Turner and lived and died at Yardley, and Thomas married a Mayhouse. The latter had issue :-
John Lowle, of Clevedon, Somersetshire, before mentioned; William Lowle; Thomas Lowle; Roger Lowle.
JOHN LOWLE, of Clevedon, Somersetshire, married a Wake and had issue :- John Lowle, married Apolys, daughter of Robert Liversage, and Richard, married a Percival, and had Percival Lowle, the ancestor of the Lowell of Massachusetts, born about 1591.
Roger Lowle, married Joane Gage, daughter of John Gage of Walton.
ROGER LOWLE and Joane Gage had issue :-
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JOHN LOWLE of Walton, m. Prudence Whyke, of whom presently ; William Lowle;
James Lowle.
JOHN LOWLE and Prudence Whyke had issue :-
THOMAS LOWLE married Margaret Dyer and had issue :-
John Lowle, m. Martha Smith;
William Lowle; Raffe Lowle; Francis Lowle; Thomas Lowle;
Mary Lowle, m. John Hubbell, of London.
JOHN LOWLE, of Woodhouse, Gloucestershire, 1699, son of Thomas and Margaret (Dyer) Lowle, married Martha, daughter of Thomas Smith, of Taunton, Somersetshire, and had issue :-
Thomas Lowle, father of Ava, m. Joseph Willing ; Raffe Lowle; John Lowle; Martha Lowle; Mary Lowle.
CHARLES WILLING, born at Bristol, England, May 18, 1710, was reared to mercantile business, and came to Philadelphia in 1728, at the age of eighteen, to take charge of a mercantile house, said to have been established there by his family in 1726. A cousin, Thomas Willing, also came to America, and laid out a town of Willing-town, now Wilmington, Delaware. Thomas Willing, brother of Charles, also came to Philadelphia, but after a brief residence there returned to England, where he died. Charles Willing was a successful business man of much more than ordinary ability, and became a much esteemed and respected merchant, councilman and magistrate. He carried on a large foreign trade, and his many successful operations materially aided in establishing in foreign countries the reputation of his adopted city for public honor and pri- vate wealth, which it enjoyed to a marked degree in the quarter century pre- ceding the war of the Revolution, and to his family and those of Shippen, Mor- ris, Wharton, Biddle and others with whom it was more or less intimately asso- ciated in business and by marriage, Philadelphia is largely indebted for her commercial, political, social and intellectual prominence, in Colonial days. Charles Willing soon became indentified with the affairs of his adopted city and province. He was active in organizing the Philadelphia Associators for the defense of the frontier in 1747, and was commissioned captain of a company in the Associated Regiment of Foot, commanded by. Col. Abraham Taylor. He was elected to the Common Council in 1743, commissioned a Justice, 1745, made one of the Justices of the City Court in 1747, and the following year was elected Mayor of the City. He was re-commissioned Justice, 1749-52-54, was again elected Mayor, and died from ship fever contracted in the discharge of his offi- cial duties, November 30, 1754. He was one of the founders and first trustees of the Philadelphia College, later University of Pennsylvania, serving as trus- tee from 1749 to his death, 1754. He was a member of the vestry of Christ
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Church from 1735, to his death. Some estimate may be formed of the place he filled in the community from the obituary notice of him published in the Pennsyl- vania Gazette of December 5, 1754, which is as follows :-
"Last Saturday, after a short illness, departed this life in the forty-fifth year of his age, Charles Willing, Esquire, Mayor of this city. As it may be truly said that this community had not a more useful member, his death is justly lamented as a public loss to his country as well as most irretrievable to his family and friends. In the character of a magistrate he was patient, inde- fatigable, and actuated by a steady zeal for justice ; as a merchant it was thought no person amongst us understood commerce in general, and the trading inter- ests of the Province in particular, better than he, and his success in business was proportionately great; as a friend he was faithful, candid and sincere; as a husband and parent few ever exceeded him in tenderness and affection, being himself a sincere Christian he was strictly attentive to the education of his children in every virtuous qualification, and in a particular manner he was remark- able in that essential part of a parent's duty, so little considered, a regular attend- ance, together with his numerous family on the public worship of God, and for this accordingly they will now have reason to bless his memory, since the impres- sions thereby received will go further to teach them how to bear their present heavy affliction, and recommend them to the favor of the world, (degenerate as it is) than all the external advantages,-all the fortune, grace and good opinion he has left them possessed of."
Mr. Willing lived and died on Third street, in the house devised by him to his son Thomas, who succeeded him in the business. He married, January 21, 1730, Anne, born in Philadelphia, August 5, 1710, daughter of Joseph and Abi- gail (Grosse) Shippen. Mrs. Willing survived her husband many years, dying June 23, 1791.
Issue of Charles and Anne (Shippen) Willing :-
THOMAS, b. Dec. 19, 1731, d. Jan. 19, 1821; m. June 19, 1763, Anne McCall, of whom presently ;
Anne, b. July 16, 1733, d. Jan. 2, 1812; m. Feb. 6, 1762, Tench Francis Jr., of Philadel- phia ;
Dorothy, b. Aug. 3, 1735, d. in Scotland, 1782; m. Captain, afterwards, Sir Walter Stirl- ing, of Taskine, Scotland, Commodore in the Royal Navy ;
CHARLES, b. May 20, 1738, d. March 22, 1788; m. May 24, 1760, Elizabeth Hannah Car- rington, of Barbadoes; of whom later ;
Mary, b. Sept. 24, 1740, d. March 28, 1814; m. Jan. 29, 1761, Col. William Byrd, of Westover, Va .;
Elizabeth, b. Feb. 10, 1742, d. Jan. 17, 1830; m. Aug. 7, 1769, Samuel Powell, Mayor of Philadelphia, Speaker of Pennsylvania Assembly, etc .;
Richard, b. Jan. 2, 1744-5, d. Jan. 30, 1798; m. Jan. 30, 1766, Margaret Kortwright, of New York;
Abigail, b. June 15, 1747, d. Aug. 10, 1791, unm .;
Joseph, b. Oct. 15, 1749, d. July 4, 1750;
James, b. Feb. 9, 1750-1, d. Oct. 13, 1801, unm. Captain in Continental Army, during Rev- olution, taken prisoner and confined in the loathsome prison ships in New York har- bor ;
MARGARET, b. Jan. 15, 1753, d. Sept. 21, 1816; m. Nov. 16, 1775, Robert Hare, of whom later.
THOMAS WILLING, eldest son of Charles and Anne (Shippen) Willing, born in Philadelphia, December 19, 1731, was sent by his father to England at the
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age of eight years, and was educated there under the supervision of his grand- father Thomas Willing, of Bristol. He was placed at a school at Wells, Som- ersetshire, and later spent some time in London. He returned to Philadelphia, May 19, 1749, and at once entered his father's counting house. Two years later his father made a business and fraternal visit to England, leaving Thomas in charge of his extensive business in Philadelphia, and on his return, October, 1751, was so much pleased with the manner in which the business had been handled that he made his son a partner. At the death of his father, 1754, Thomas Willing took entire charge of the business and of the family, all his nine brothers and sisters with the exception of one being minors, the youngest less than two years old. He inherited his father's business abilities and sterling qualities and successfully managed the large concerns established by his father. He took as a partner Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution, under the firm name of Willing & Morris, of whom Mr. Griswold truly says, "to the great credit and well known patriotism of the house of Willing & Morris the country owed its extrication from those trying pencuniary embarrassments so familiar to the readers of Revolutionary history." What was true of it then was equally true during the twenty years preceding the Revolutionary struggle. Possessed of the finest business qualifications and a thorough knowledge of the needs of the country, and practicing the strictest business integrity in all their transactions, they carried on an immense trade and became one of the best and most favorably known commercial houses in America. Thomas Willing's name heads the list of the merchants of Philadelphia to sign the Non-importation Res- olutions of 1765. He was President of the Provincial Conference of Representa- tives of the different Colonies, held at Philadelphia, July 15, 1774, and repre- sented his State in the Continental Congress of 1775 and 1776. In the latter he voted against the Declaration of Independence, for the reasons that he did not believe his country was at that time equal to the conflict that must ensue,-and because as a delegate from Pennsylvania, he felt that he had not been author- ized either by the State Assembly or by the voice of the people at large to join in such action. He, however, gave his best energies and his money to its support when adopted. He was also a member of Committee of Safety of the Province June 30 to October 19, 1775. Prior to the Revolution he had filled the position of Justice of the Supreme Court, 1767-76, being with John Lawrence and John Morton, the last to act under the old constitution. When Congress chartered the Bank of North America, to assist the Government in raising funds to pay the expenses of the war, it was made part of the enactment that Thomas Willing should be its president, and the Pennsylvania Legislature confirmed that enact- ment, March 26, 1782. This bank was the agent that enabled Robert Morris to reclaim the finances of the country, and Willing, as its official head in all matters, was unanimously re-elected at each annual election, when the Bank of the United States was organized he was induced to sur- render the presidency of the Bank of North America to accept that of the new financial institution, and managed its affairs with the same eminent ability that had characterized his administration of the former. In municipal affairs he held the same prominent place as in Provincial and State. He was elected to Com- mon Council of the City, October 5, 1755, became a member of Board of Aldermen, October 2, 1758, and Mayor, October 4, 1763, and represented the
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city in the Provincial Assembly for the years 1764-5-6. He died in Philadel- phia, January 18, 1821, in his ninetieth year. To few men in any age has been vouchsafed so long a successful and honorable career, whose lives ran through such trying and epoch-making times as did that of Thomas Willing. He was possessed in a high degree of those sterling qualities of probity, fidelity, and stability, that go to the making up of a model official and business man, and he had and held the public esteem throughout his long career. He was an active, enterprising and successful business man for sixty years, and held pub- lic position for nearly as long a period.
Thomas Willing married, June 9, 1763, Anne, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Searle) McCall, born March 30, 1745, and died in Philadelphia, February 5, 1781.
Issue of Thomas and Anne (McCall) Willing :-
Anne, b. Aug. I, 1764, d. in Bermuda, May II, 1801, a noted beauty of her time; m. May 16, 1781, William Bingham, Member Continental Congress, 1787-8; Pennsylvania Assembly 1790, Speaker 1791; Speaker State Senate, 1794; U. S. Senator, 1795, and President pro tem;
Charles, b. May 5, 1765, d. July 12, 1765;
Charles, b. April 7, 1766, d. July 20, 1799, m. (first) Rosalind Evans; (second) Anne Hemphill ;
Thomas Mayme, b. April 15, 1767, d. in Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 1822; m. Jane Nixon ; Elizabeth, b. March 27, 1768, m. Major William Jackson;
George, b. April 4, 1769, d. Aug. 10, 1769;
Mary, b. Sept. 15, 1770, m. Henry, son of George Clymer, signer of Declaration of Inde- pendence ;
Dorothy, b. July 16, 1772, m. her cousin, Thomas Willing Francis;
GEORGE, b. April 14, 1774, m. (first) Maria Benezet (second) Rebecca Harrison Black- well, of whom presently ;
RICHARD, b. Dec. 25, 1775, m. Eliza Moore, of whom presently ;
Abigail, b. May 16, 1777, m. Richard Peters ;
William Shippen, b. Feb. 6, 1779; m. Maria Wilhelmina Peters;
Henry, b. Dec. 15, 1780, d. June 20, 1781.
GEORGE WILLING, son of Thomas and Anne (McCall) Willing, born in Phil- adelphia, April 14, 1774, graduated at Princeton in 1792, and entered his father's counting house. He later went to India in the interest of the firm of Willing & Francis, who did a large importing business in India goods. He retired from business in early life, and died in Philadelphia, December 22, 1827. He married (first), at Philadelphia, October 1, 1795, Maria, only child of John and Maria (Bingham) Benezet of Philadelphia, who died without issue. He married (second), November 26, 1800, Rebecca Harrison, only child of Rev. Robert Blackwell, D. D., of Philadelphia, by his wife Rebecca Harrison, born in Philadelphia, February 25, 1782, died there, May 12, 1852.
Issue of George and Rebecca Harrison ( Blackwell) Willing :-
Maria, b. Aug. 9, 1801, m. (first) her cousin, Willing Francis, and (second) Sylvanus S. Hammersly, M. D .;
Robert Blackwell, b. July 16, 1801, d. June 7, 1831, unm ; Anne, d. Oct. 12, 1816;
Hannah, d. s. p. Nov. 18, 1882, m. Henry Ralston;
Rebecca Harrison, d. s. p. Aug. 21, 1878, m. May 29, 1834, George Henry Thompson, Esq .; ELIZA MOORE, d. Sept. 9, 1840, m. Joseph Swift, of whom presently ;
Dorothy, m. June 15, 1853, John William Wallace, A. B., LL.D .;
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Anne, or Nancy, d. Sept. 27, 1818;
Charles, d. July 25, 1868; m. Selena Watson.
ELIZA MOORE WILLING, daughter of George and Rebecca Harrison (Black- well) Willing, born in Philadelphia, married, November 24, 1831, Joseph, son of Samuel and Mary (Shippen) Swift, who was born at his father's country seat called "The Grove", Philadelphia, December 26, 1799. He was educated at a classical school in New Jersey, and in 1818, became associated with broker- age firm of Thomas A. Biddle & Company, and remained with them until 1842, when he retired from business and went abroad, travelling extensively some years. He was an excellent business man and financier, and was connected with a number of financial institutions of Philadelphia, being repeatedly elected as a director of various corporations, among them the Philadelphia Bank, and the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, serving as a director of the latter institution from its organization until his death, a period of twenty-six years. He main- tained a city house, and a country seat called "Woodfield." Mrs. Eliza Moore (Willing) Swift died September 9, 1840.
Issue of Joseph and Eliza M. (Willing) Swift :-
EMILY SWIFT, m. Thomas, son of Lewis P. W. and Elizabeth Balch, b. Leesburg, Va., July 23, 1821;
Mary Swift, m. Horace G. Browne.
Thomas Balch was a graduate of Columbia University, and a prominent member of the Philadelphia Bar. He was much devoted to literary pursuits and wrote a number of articles on finance, social science and miscellaneous subjects. He was first to propose a Court of International Arbitration. Among his literary produc- tions are, "Les Francais de l' Independance des Etats-Unis, 1777-83," "Letters and Papers relating chiefly to the Provincial History of Pennsylvania" and "The Mary- land Papers". He died in Philadelphia, March 29, 1877.
Issue of Thomas and Emily (Swift) Balch :-
Elsie Willing Balch; Edwin Swift Balch, of Philadelphia Bar; Joseph Balch, died, Paris, July 3, 1864; Thomas Willing Balch.
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