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Frederick Jordan married, 1769, Catherine, daughter of Henry and Susanna Eckel. She was born in Bedminster township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1750, died in Alexandria township, Hunterdon county, New Jer- sey, July 1, 1786. He died August 20, 1784, and both are buried in the church- yard of St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church. They had issue: John, born September 1, 1770; Frederick ; Mary ; Catherine ; Henry.
JOHN JORDAN, son of Frederick and Catherine (Eckel) Jordan, born in Alex- andria township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. September 1, 1770. was but fourteen years of age when his father died, and his mother dying two years later, he came to Philadelphia and entered the counting house of his uncle, Godfrey Haga, the eminent merchant and philanthropist, and in 1793 succeeded him in the business there. He died in Philadelphia, February 17, 1845, and his wife December 15, 1844.
Issue of John and Elisabeth ( Henry) Jordan :-
William Henry Jordan, b. Oct. 5, 1806, d. unm. Dec. 26, 1835;
John Jordan Jr., b. May 11, 1808, d. March 23, 1890; m. Jane Bell: no issue; entered Univ. of Pa., 1823; Bank president 1843-75, Director N. P. R. R., 1852-90; Antiquarian ; Vice-President Historical Society of Pennsylvania ;
Edward Jordan, b. Sept. 10, 1810, d. Oct. 3, 1842, unm .;
Antoinette Jordan, b. Jan. 10, 1813; m. John T. Bell. Issue: Helen, Emily, Laura and Edward J. Bell.
Francis Jordan, b. June 26, 1815, d. August 13, 1885; m. Emily Woolf ; of whom presently.
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FRANCIS JORDAN, youngest child of John and Elizabeth ( Henry) Jordan, born in Philadelphia, June 26, 1815, was a prominent merchant of Philadelphia and connected with a number of the city's financial institutions. He died at Ocean Beach, New Jersey, August 13, 1885. He married, December 10, 1839, Emily, born in Philadelphia, November 12, 1821, died September 4, 1889, daughter of John Lewis and Margaret (Ewing) Woolf, and granddaughter of Lewis Woolf.
Lewis Woolf, granddaughter of Emily (Woolf) Jordan, was born in Han- over, Germany, 1747. He came to Pennsylvania and became a resident of Potts- grove, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county. On July II, 1778, he entered the Continental army as a private in the Troop Marechausse, Capt. Bartholomew Von Heer, (formerly of Proctor's Artillery), organized under resolution of Congress, May 27, 1778, to act as provost guard of the army. The Troop was mounted and accoutred as light dragoons.
John Lewis Woolf was born in Philadelphia, 1787, died February 12, 1850. During the second war with England, he was commissioned Lieut .- Col. of the Seventy-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Militia, August 14, 1814. For many years he took an active interest in the affairs of the city, was an Inspector of the Eastern Penitentiary ; president of the Guardians of the Poor; School Director ; Director Northern Liberties and Penn Township Railway Company ; vestryman of Zion, and St. John's Protestant Episcopal Churches, and a prominent Mason. He married, June 19, 1817, Margaret, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Keen) Ewing, born in Lancaster, 1786, died in Philadelphia, January 7, 1868. She was a descendant of Joran Kyn and Jasper Yeates of the Governor's Council, 1696- 1720. They had three sons and two daughters, one of the latter, Emily, becom- ing the wife of Francis Jordan.
John Ewing, son of John and Sarah (Yeates) Ewing, was born in Lancaster, June 22, 1755. He married, 1795, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Keen, and had one daughter, Margaret. He died February 14, 1799. His wife survived him, and later married Jonathan Hillborn, of Limerick township, Mont- gomery county. John Ewing was commissioned Captain of the Second Com- pany, Eighth Battalion, Lancaster County Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel James Ross, in 1780, and served to the close of the Revolution, performing a number of "tours of duty."
Issue of Francis and Emily (Woolf) Jordan :-
John Woolf Jordan, LL.D., b. Sept. 14, 1840, of whom presently ;
William Henry Jordan, b. Jan. 27, 1842; m. Clara W. Sparks; no issue ;
Francis Jordan Jr., b. Aug. 28, 1843; member of American Philosophical Society, the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society and author of "Life of William Henry"; m. Mary A. Harding, and has issue ;
Emily Jordan, b. March 18, 1845, d. June 17, 1847;
Ewing Jordan, M. D., b. March 18, 1847; entered College Department, Univ. of Pa., 1864, awarded Senior English prize; graduated from Medical Department ; Resident Physician Pennsylvania Hospital; Visiting Physician to Philadelphia Dispensary. Lin- coln Institute, Catharine Street Dispensary, Southern Home for Destitute Children; First Assistant Physician State Hospital for Insane, Norristown, 1880-85; member of Philadelphia County Medical Society, etc. ;
Gilbert Jordan, b. Aug. 5, 1848, m. Ellen Poinier Canfield, of Morristown, N. J., b. May 29, 1852; they have issue ;
Antoinette Jordan, b. Oct. 17, 18440; wife of Rev. William H. Cavanagh;
Reverend Walter Jordan, b. Oct. 23, 1851; m. Nellie Beaumont Gloninger ; has issue;
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Ella Jordan, b. May 25, 1853, d. Dec. 10, 1893, unm .; Augustus W. Jordan, b. Dec. 4, 1854; m. Julia Gillet ; has issue ; Lawrence Thomsen Jordan, b. May 28, 1856, d. Dec. 5, 1856; Maria Louisa Jordan, b. Dec. 28, 1857, d. Jan. 20, 1861 ; Rodman Jordan, b. March 28, 1860, d. Dec. 12, 1861.
JOHN WOOLF JORDAN, LL. D., eldest son of Francis and Emily (Woolf) Jordan, was born in Philadelphia, September 14, 1840. He received his educa- tion in private schools of the city, and graduated from Nazareth Hall, in 1856. Lafayette College conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1902. He is librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; editor of the "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography;" president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies ; vice-president of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania ; registrar of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution; vice-president of the Swedish Colonial Society ; honorary member of Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnatti ; and connected with many learned societies. He is also a Commis- sioner of Valley Forge Park; a commissioner for the Preservation of the Pub- lic Records of Pennsylvania, etc. During the "Emergency" of 1863, he served in Starrs' Battery, attached to the 32d Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. Dr. Jordan's contributions to local and general history are numerous. He edited "Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer of Philadelphia, 1765-98," and among his other contributions are, "A Red Rose from the Olden Time, 1752-72," "Friedensthal and its Stockaded Mill", "Narrative of John Heckwelder's Journey to the Wabash in 1792," "John Heckwelder's Notes of Travel to Ohio, 1797," "Bishop A. G. Spangenberg's Journey to Onondaga in 1747," "Military Hos- pitals at Bethlehem and Lititz during the Revolution," "Revolutionary History of Bethlehem, 1775-83," Franklin as a Genealogist," etc.
Dr. Jordan was twice married, and has three sons and one daughter.
RAWLE FAMILY
The Rawle family that has for over two centuries been prominently identified with the professional, business and social life of Philadelphia, came of ancient lineage in Great Britain, and was probably of Norman origin. The surname Rawle is doubtless derived from the Norman Radulphus, or Ralph, and its French diminutive Raoul, which in its turn came from the Norse Rollo. In 1267 Rogerus de Raule is mentioned in an Inquisition post mortem; and in 1273 appears Henricus de Raule. Families of the name were at one time, and at the present day a few are still to be found, scattered along the coast of the British Channel from Tintagel and Boscastle in Cornwall, through Clovelly, Ilfracombe and Lynton in Devonshire, and Oare, Porlock and Minehead in Somersetshire. In 1412, John Raule and Simon Rale appear in the records of Somersetshire, and John Rawle and John de Releg in 1428, and there are indications that this last was nearest the original spelling of the name. In 1523 John Rawell was assessed in the last mentioned county and his widow as Cecilia Rawle in 1546, but in both their wills their surname was spelled Rawlie. In certain localities in later years, persons of the name of Rawle were and still are living, indeed some- times on the identical estates on which centuries ago a family named Ralegh resided. The original seat in Devonshire of that family was named Ralegh, and it possessed as early as 1398 an estate in the neighboring county of Hereford upon which, in 1607, one Henry Rawle resided. At Ralegh, or, as it is now spelled, Rawleigh, Ralegh, Bishop of Winchester, was born in 1244. As early as the reign of Henry II. (1154-1189), the name appears also in Somersetshire in the grant of the manor of Nettlecomb to Hugh de Ralegh.
The Rawle family of America is descended from the Rawle family, lords of Tresparret and other manors, seated at Hennett, in the parish of St. Juliot, in the Hundred of Lesnewth on the north coast of Cornwall, near the ancient harbor of Boscastle, formerly Bottreux Castle. The estate and barton house of Hennett, adjacent to the Parish church of St. Juliot, was the home of the Rawle family in the middle of the fifteenth century. They also became lessees of crown lands there and of the rectory of St. Juliot, which, as shown by a suit in chancery in 1601 was granted in 1576 by Nicholas Rawle, of the Inner Temple, London, to his father, William Rawle, from whom it descended to his son William Rawle, the plaintiff in the suit of 1601. The coat-of-arms of the Rawle family of St. Juliot, county Cornwall, were, "Sable, three swords, two with their points in base, the middle one in chief." Crest, An arm embowed in armour proper, holding in gauntlet a sword, argent, hilt or.
William Rawle, father of Nicholas before mentioned, was living at St. Juliot prior to 1550. As was not uncommon in those days he had two sons by the name of William, the elder of whom, the plaintiff of 1601, continued at St. Juliot, where he died in 1605. His will, bearing date March 6, 1604-5, directs that he be buried at the church of St. Juliot, and devises to his wife the tenement of "Hennett," during her widowhood; to his son Edward lands in parish of David- stowe; makes eldest son Francis and wife Jane the executors, and his "brother
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William Rawle" and Richard Westlaike, overseers. The widow died in 1636. William the testator, above-mentioned, rebuilt "Hennett" during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and caused the coat-of-arms of the Tudor family to be moulded in plaster on the gable wall of the room over the hall where they may still be seen.
Much of the land in the Parish of St. Juliot still remains in the female line of the Rawle family. Right Rev. Richard Rawle D. D., President of Codington College, Barbadoes, and Bishop of Trinidad, the last male of that branch of the family, being also Lord of the Manor of Tretarret, having died childless in 1689, devised his estates to Edmund Valleck, the son of his sister.
WILLIAM RAWLE the younger, mentioned as overseer in will of his brother William, had two sons-Francis, who removed to Rochester, county Kent, and died there in 1628, a young man, and,
WILLIAM RAWLE, second son, who remained at St. Juliot, and died there in 1646, leaving three sons :-
William Rawle, of St. Juliot, d. 1727; by wife Dorothy had children Elizabeth, Grace, Edward, and Katharine;
Edward Rawle, also of St. Juliot, m. Grace Shepherd; had children, William, Thomasine, Mary, Edward, and Richard and three others d. inf .;
FRANCIS RAWLE, became member of Society of Friends and emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1686 with son Francis; of whom presently.
FRANCIS RAWLE (2), was born at St. Juliot, county Cornwall, but was a resi- dent of Plymouth, county Devon, in 1660, prior to which he had embraced the tenets of "the people called Quakers", as Besse gives his name as one of the twenty persons taken from a Meeting of Friends and imprisoned in the Castle of Exon, 3mo. 20, 1660. On October 4, 1663, Francis Rawle is again taken from a meeting at Plymouth by a constable; and again with eighteen others, on April 23, 1665, is carried from a meeting at Plymouth and committed to Bridewell. On August 26, 1665, taken by a sergeant and soldiers and again committed to Bride- well.
In May, 1670, Francis Rawle of Plymouth suffered a distraint of goods in lieu of a fine for refusing to take an oath. The last record we have of his impris- onment for conscience sake was on August 26, 1683, when Francis Rawle Sr. and Francis Rawle Jr. are both confined in the "High Gaol at Exeter."
To escape the endless and severe persecutions to which members of his sect were subjected in their native country of England, Francis Rawle and his son decided to emigrate to Pennsylvania, and March 13, 1685-6, by deeds of lease and release, William Penn assured to Francis Rawle Jr. 2,500 acres of land to be laid out in the Province of Pennsylvania; and father and son took passage at Plymouth in the ship "Desire," which arrived in Philadelphia June 23, 1686. The "Register of Arrivals in Philadelphia, 1682-1686," gives the names of Francis Rawle Sr. and Francis Rawle Jr. and six servants of the latter among the list of passengers on the "Desire." Jane Rawle, wife of Francis Sr., did not accom- pany her husband and son on the "Desire", probably remaining at Plymouth to care for a sick daughter, as it appears that Rebecca Rawle, daughter of Francis and Jane, was buried there June 7, 1686. She was in Philadelphia prior to the marriage of her son Francis, October 18, 1689, when her name appears as a witness on his marriage certificate at the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Of the 2,500 acres of land purchased of William Penn by deed of March 13, 1685-6,
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Francis Rawle, of Plymouth, county of Devon, by lease and release dated March 25-26, 1696, conveyed 500 acres to Richard Gove, who accompanied the Rawles to Philadelphia in the "Desire." The 2,500 acres were located in Plymouth town- ship, Philadelphia, now Montgomery, county, on the banks of Schuylkill, below the present site of Norristown, the tract being known as that of the "Plymouth Friends." Both Francis Sr. and his son seem to have remained in Philadelphia from the time of their arrival, where lots were surveyed to Francis Jr. as well, as "Liberty Land" in right of his purchase of 2,500 acres. Francis Rawle Sr. died in Philadelphia and was buried February 25, 1696-7. His wife Jane died almost a year earlier ; she was buried February 9, 1695-6.
FRANCIS RAWLE, son of Francis and Jane Rawle, was born in Plymouth, Devon- shire, England, about the year 1663. On his arrival in Philadelphia he engaged in the mercantile business, which he followed for a number of years, in connec- tion with the administration of various official positions under the City and Pro- vincial government, and late in life was admitted to the practice of law at the Philadelphia Bar. He was a man of good education and a high order of intel- ligence, and was early called upon to take a prominent part in the affairs of his adopted city and Province. He was commissioned Justice of the Peace and of the City Courts, January 2, 1689, and was named by William Penn in his first charter of the city, May 20, 1691, as one of the six members of Board of Alder- men, and in 1694 was made one of the Commissioners of Property. He was elected to Provincial Assembly in 1704 and regularly re-elected until 1709; was again returned in 1719, and continued to serve until his death in 1727, taking an active part in the law-making body of the Province and serving on many impor- tant committees. He belonged to the "Anti-Proprietary party," under the leader- ship of David Lloyd. He was called to the Provincial Council in 1724, but de- clined to serve. He also filled the position of Deputy Register General for Phil- adelphia for some years.
Francis Rawle was author of an anonymous pamphlet published in Philadel- phia, in 1725, entitled "Ways and Means for the Inhabitants on the Delaware to become Rich", a treatise on political economy, the first book printed by Benja- min Franklin. An attack was made upon it, also anonymously, in a pamphlet supposed to have been written by Secretary James Logan, entitled, "A Dialogue Showing What's therein to be Found." This called forth a reply from Rawle, in a second pamphlet, published in 1726, entitled "A Just Rebuke to 'A Dialogue', and that treatise entitled 'Ways and Means, &c.,' rescued from the Dialoguist's charge of Inconsistencies and Contradictions." Francis Rawle is also supposed to have been author of another anonymous work, published in 1721, which was considered of importance and created a great stir at the time, entitled "Some Remedies Proposed for the Restoring the Sunk Credit of the Province of Penn- sylvania, with Some Remarks on its Trade." Copies of these four pamphlets are in the collection of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Francis Rawle married, at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, October 18, 1689, Martha, born in Dublin, Ireland, September 24, 1668, daughter of Robert Turner, Provincial Councillor, etc., by his second wife, Martha Fisher, who came to Penn- sylvania with her father in the "Lion" of Liverpool, arriving in Philadelphia October 14, 1683. Her father, Robert Turner, was a son of Robert and Mary Turner, of Royston, Hertfordshire, England, and was born at Cambridge Octo-
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ber, 1635. He joined the Society of Friends early in life and was one of its early ministers, travelling extensively in England, Ireland and Wales, "in the service of Truth." Prior to his emigration to America he was a linen draper at Dublin, Ireland, possessed of a considerable fortune. He married (first) at Dublin, March 27, 1662, Elizabeth Ruddock, of Dover, who died during the following year, leaving a daughter Elizabeth, born March 12, 1663, who died in 1678. He married (second), at Rosenallis, Queens county, Ireland, September 10, 1665, Martha Fisher, of Cheshire, England, who died May 1682. They were the parents of four children, viz. :-
Martha Turner, b. Sept. 24, 1668, d. in Philadelphia, July 18, 1745; m. Francis Rawle; Robert Turner, b. Aug. 25, 1672, d. same year ;
Abraham Turner, b. Sept. 28, 1673, d. 1675;
Mary Turner, b. Feb. 7, 1674, m. and remained in Ireland.
Robert Turner was a preacher among Friends as early as 1657, and suffered imprisonment for conscience sake in 1660-61-62, both at Bridewell and New- gate. He was an intimate friend of William Penn, and the purchaser of many large tracts of land in Pennsylvania, and like Samuel Carpenter was one of the wealthiest of the early English immigrants to Pennsylvania, and with Car- penter, one of the most prominent in the affairs of the Province. He bought a certificate from the Friends' Meeting at Dublin, dated 5mo. 3, 1683. He was then a widower, but married (third), after his arrival in Philadelphia, Susanna, daughter William Welch, Provincial Councillor, in 1683. By the third mar- riage he had a son Robert, who was buried December 18, 1692. Both Robert Turner and Francis Rawle were adherents of George Keith in his schism of 1692. Robert Turner died in Philadelphia, and was buried in the Friends' bury- ing ground, August 24, 1700. Letters of administration were granted on his estate to his son-in-law, Francis Rawle, April 28, 1701. Turner had been a member of Provincial Council by election from Philadelphia for three years from March 30, 1686, was appointed to that body (no longer elective), by William Penn, in 1693, and again, on the restoration of the charter in 1700, with Thomas Lloyd, Arthur Cooke, John Simcock, and John Eckley, he was named and em- powered to act as Lieutenant or Deputy Governor of the Province, on February 9, 1687-8, with the above named colleagues, filled that position until the arrival of Gov. Blackwell, December 18, 1688. He was one of the active and promin- ent members of the Council, and when he was too indisposed to attend the Coun- cil, September 3, 1686, the Council adjourned to his house and held its session there. He was commissioned Provincial Justice, August 18, 1684, the follow- ing day Justice of the Peace of Philadelphia county, and re-commissioned May I, 1686. On the death of Christopher Taylor he was commissioned by the Pro- vincial Council, on July 5, 1686, with William Frampton and William South- ersby, to administer the office of Register General, and November 18 following, Frampton having died and Turner declining to accept the office, James Claypoole was appointed for a term of three years. Robert Turner was, however, ap- pointed to the office of Register General of the Province, March 4, 1690, and filled the office for three years. He was also Provincial Treasurer for a number of years, as well as Receiver General for the Proprietaries.
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Francis Rawle died at Philadelphia, March 5, 1726-7 ; his widow, Martha, sur- vived him for eighteen years, and died July 18, 1745.
Issue of Francis and Martha (Turner) Rawle :-
Robert, eldest son, d. s. p., 1730;
Francis, removed when a young man to Paramaribo, capital of Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, South America, and was a successful merchant there until his death, May 14, 1779. M. Sept. 26, 1733, Margaret Fickes, of Paramaribo, their marriage certificate written in Dutch, being now in possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. They had issue :-
SAMUEL RAWLE, of whom later ;
Francis Rawle, d. s. p. before his father ;
Sarah Rawle, m. Thomas Massey; d. s. p. 1784;
Elizabeth Rawle, m. (first) Simon Kirchner, by whom she had no issue; (second),
1778, at Paramaribo, George William Steinhauer, and had issue; d. Philadel- phia, April 1789;
WILLIAM, d. Philadelphia, Dec. 16, 1741, m. Margaret Hodge, of whom presently ;
Joseph, removed to Somerset county, Maryland, d. there 1762, unm .;
John, d. in 1759, unm .;
Benjamin, m. Hannah Hudson, d. in 1784, leaving dau. Rebecca, who m. Jacob Ridgway, and left issue ;
Mary, m. William Cooper, of Camden, N. J., later of Philadelphia; left dau. Rebecca, who d. unm. before 1761;
Rebecca, d. unm. oct. 2, 1759;
Elizabeth, d. unm. 1758;
Jane, m. Abraham England, of New Castle; no issue.
WILLIAM RAWLE, third son of Francis and Martha (Turner) Rawle, received a good classical education, and being a man of scholarly tastes became an eminent classical Greek and Latin scholar, acquiring an extensive library of choice and valuable works of the best authors. He was an original member of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and a member of its board of Directors, from its incep- tion until his death. He was also the first American to donate books to the Library. He was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, April 4, 1728, but died when comparatively a young man, December 16, 1741. He married, August 29, 1728, Margaret, daughter of Henry Hodge, a prominent merchant of Philadelphia. She died soon after the birth of her only child, Francis Rawle.
FRANCIS RAWLE, only child of William and Margaret (Hodge) Rawle, was born in Philadelphia, July 10, 1729, and was therefore but twelve years old when his father died. He was liberally educated, and of attractive manners and con- versation. In 1755 he made an extensive trip through Europe. Landing at Cork, Ireland, he made a tour of Ireland, and then visited other parts of Europe, writing an interesting account of his journey. Returning to Philadelphia he married, December, 1756, Rebecca, daughter of Edward Warner, by his wife Anna Coleman. Like his father, Francis Rawle was cut off almost at the begin- ning of what bade fair to become a brilliant career, dying June 7, 1761, from the effects of a gunshot wound received by the accidental discharge of a fowling piece while hunting at his country seat. His widow, Rebecca (Warner) Rawle, married (second), November 10, 1767, Samuel Shoemaker, who that year suc- ceeded his father as City Treasurer ; was a member of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia, became Mayor of the City in 1769, and served two terms. He was also Justice of Philadelphia courts and member of Colonial Assembly. Both he and his second wife Rebecca were decided Royalists during
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the Revolution ; he was acting Mayor of the city during its occupation by the British, and retired to New York on its evacuation by the British army. Mrs. Rawle-Shoemaker was a woman of uncommon strength of intellect and cul- ture, "possessed of every virtue that befits and adorns a Christian woman, and whose tenderness and solicitude for her offspring, swelled beyond the ordinary stream of maternal love." Both her husbands belonged to the class of cultured and accomplished gentlemen of ample means, common to Philadelphia in its prosperous days preceding the Revolution, and she had been brought up and lived in luxury and refinement. "Deprived of husband and children,-exiled during the war of the Revolution on account of her persistent loyalty to the Crown, and plundered of prosperity, this excellent woman displayed a fortitude and energy of character which contrasted strongly with her serene and gentle dis- position. She survived to an advanced age, but the progress of years and infir- mities made no impression on her warm and kindly heart." She died Decem- ber 21, 1819.
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