Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 42

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 710

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Nehemiah Blackshaw, b. about 1679, d. Dec. 25, 1731; m. (first) Aug., 1703, Elizabeth Bye; (second) Feb. 20, 1716-17, Mary Linton ;

Martha Blackshaw, b. about 1681; m. Sept., 1697, George Biles.

The record of the births of the children of Ralph and Sarah (Blackshaw) Cowgill's children, appear on Register of births at Middletown Monthly Meeting, Bucks county, and with the exception of that of John, the second son, who died in infancy, also are entered in Ralph Cowgill's Bible. This Bible was published in 1716, and the child being long since deceased no record of him seems to have been made. The date of his birth as copied from the Register for the Historical Soci- ety is incorrectly given as "Iomo. 30, 1692" that being the date of his death.

Issue of Ralph and Sarah (Blackshaw) Cowgill:

Abraham Cowgill, b. May 15, 1690; m. 1725, Dorothy Turner;

John Cowgill, d. inf., Dec. 30, 1692;

Nehemiah Cowgill, b. March 13, 1692-3; m. Nov. 21, 1717, Joyce Smith;

SARAH COWGILL, b. Sept. 3, 1694, d. Aug. 1, 1724; m. in 1715, Thomas Clifford; of whom presently ;

The births of the children of Ralph and Susannah (Pancoast) Cowgill, are given from Ralph Cowgill's Bible above mentioned.

Issue of Ralph and Susannah (Pancoast) Cowgill:

Rebecca Cowgill, b. Oct. 10, 1698, d. March 15, 1768; m. (first) in 1726, Richard Gibbs, son of Isaac; declared intentions second time at Chesterfield Meeting, March 3, 1725-6; married (second) -- Richards;

Mary Cowgill, b. Jan. 7, 1700-1, d. Nov. 3, 1767; m. April 14, 1720, Archibald Silver;

Isaac Cowgill, b. June 4, 1703, d. Dec. 6, 1766; m. Dec. 31, 1730, Rachel Briggs;

Rachel Cowgill, b. Sept. 5, 1705, d. Sept. 8, 1750; m. Sept. 16, 1728, Samuel Woodward; Jane Cowgill, b. Feb. 20, 1707-8, d. Oct. 28, 1791; m. April 19, 1733, Benjamin Linton, of Bucks co .;

Jacob Cowgill, b. May 29, 1710, d. May 18, 1735;

Susanna Cowgill, b. Jan. 16, 1718-19, d. Jan. 19, 1764; m. Sept. 24, 1737, John King, of Monmouth co., N. J.

SARAH COWGILL, youngest child and only daughter of Ralph Cowgill by his first wife, Sarah Blackshaw, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1694, died August 1, 1724. She married, in 1715, Thomas Clifford, a man of some means, and good connection in England, who had settled in Falls township, Bucks county, sometime previous to his marriage, and died there March 20, 1737-8. His descendants living in Philadelphia corresponded with some relatives of the name who were merchants in Bristol, England, and Amsterdam, Holland, and elsewhere, among them one Edward Clifford, a kinsman, living in Warwick- shire in 1750, some of whose letters are preserved in the Clifford Correspondence in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Issue of Thomas and Sarah (Cowgill ) Clifford:

Elizabeth Clifford, b. Jan. 20, 1716-17; m. May 24, 1743, John Nutt, of Falls twp., Bucks co .;

John Clifford, b. April 26, 1720; m. and settled in Burlington, N. J .;

THOMAS CLIFFORD, b. April 8, 1722; m. Ann Guest; of whom presently;

James Clifford, b. July 31, 1724, d. Oct. 31, 1724.

THOMAS CLIFFORD, son of Thomas and Sarah (Cowgill) Clifford, born in Bucks

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county, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1722, removed to the city of Philadelphia, where he became an eminent merchant and was a signer of the non-importation agreement in 1765. He had a country seat on the Delaware river in Falls, of Bristol township, Bucks county, which he inherited from his father. He married, about 1745, Ann Guest, of Burlington, New Jersey, of the family prominent in the early settlement of Philadelphia. Thomas Clifford and his wife and family were all members of the Society of Friends. He died in 1793, and his wife in 1803, and both are buried in Friends' Burying-Ground in Philadelphia. The will of Anna Clifford, the widow, dated January II, 1790, was proved November 29, 1803.

Issue of Thomas and Ann (Guest ) Clifford:

Sarah Clifford, b. March 10, 1745-6;

Elizabeth Clifford, b. May 25, 1747; m. Sept. 22, 1772, Thomas Smith, of Phila., son of William and Elizabeth Smith, of Bermuda;

Thomas Clifford, b. Dec. 10, 1748; m. a Miss Dowell, of Bristol, England;

JOHN CLIFFORD, b. March 8, 1750-1; of whom presently;

George Clifford, b. June 6, 1753;

Ann Clifford, b. Jan. 16, 1755; m. Oct. 7, 1773, Jacob Giles, of Phila., son of Jacob and Joanna Giles, of Baltimore co., Md .;

Edward Clifford, b. June 28, 1756;

Deborah Clifford, b. March 29, 1759;

Thomazine Clifford, b. Oct. 7, 1760.

JOHN CLIFFORD, third child and eldest son of Thomas Clifford, by his wife, Ann Guest, born March 8, 1750, married Anna, daughter of Francis Rawle, of Phila- delphia, by his wife, Rebecca, daughter of Edward and Anna (Coleman) Warner. Her father, Francis Rawle, born in 1729, was accidentally killed in 1761, when Anna was a mere infant, and her mother married (second) Samuel Shoemaker "the loyalist," City Treasurer, Justice of City Courts, and Mayor of Philadelphia during the British occupancy of Philadelphia.

Thomas and Anna (Rawle) Clifford, had one child, Rebecca Clifford, born Jan- uary I, 1792, married, July 15, 1812, John Pemberton, grandfather of Henry Pemberton, Jr., whose wife Susan Lovering's descent from the Cowgill family is as follows :

JOHN COWGILL, brother of Ralph Cowgill, ancestor of Rebecca (Clifford) Pem- berton, as heretofore shown, both being sons of Ellen Cowgill, who came to Penn- sylvania in the ship, "Welcome," in 1682, was born in England and came to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, with his mother, when a child. After living for some years in Bucks county with his mother, John Cowgill married, in 1693, Bridget Croas- dale, who had come to Pennsylvania in the same ship with him. He probably went to live on a part of the Croasdale tract on his marriage, as February 20, 1698-9, he purchased of his brothers-in-law 197 acres, part of a larger tract laid out to Thomas Croasdale, and after his decease, patented by the Commissioners of Prop- erty, June 28, 1692, to his heirs. This tract was located in Middletown township, Bucks county, fronting on Neshaminy creek, and appears on Holme's map in the name of "Widow Croasdal." John Cowgill's purchase included the creek from the whole width of the tract. It was afterwards resurveyed and found to contain 232 acres, and as such was patented by the Commissioners of Property, June 14, 1712. Two days after the date of this patent, John Cowgill, who had already removed to New Castle county, conveyed this tract to Nicholas Bernardson, of Bergen

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county, New Jersey. He had, however, probably on his second marriage in 1704, removed from his Middletown farm, and in 1707 was living at Trevose, in Ben- salem township, as shown by the deed dated December 18, 1707, by which he and his wife Rachel, widow and executrix of Job Bunting, conveyed 200 acres of land in Bristol township, to Edward Radcliffe. Trevose, part of the old Growdon estate, was probably his residence from his second marriage until his removal to New Castle in 1712.

From his arrival in Bucks county until his removal in 1712, John Cowgill was a member of Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends, and served on numerous committees of that meeting. On May, 1, 1707, he was appointed an Overseer. At a meeting held November 6, 1712, John Cowgill requested a certificate, he having previously removed to New Castle county, in the "Territories of Pennsylvania" now the state of Delaware. On January 1, 1712-13, a certificate for him was ordered to be signed and sent to him which was produced at Duck Creek Monthly Meeting, on the 19th of the same month. When Little Creek was set off from Duck Creek as a separate meeting, he belonged to that particular meeting, which remained a constituent of Duck Creek Monthly Meeting, and he served on numer- ous committees for the Monthly Meeting and was very active in its business. From John Cowgill descend the present Delaware branch of the Cowgill family.

John Cowgill married (first) October 19, 1693, at "Neshamina" (now Middle- town) Meeting, Bridget, born in England, October 7, 1671, daughter of Thomas and Agnes (Hathornthwaite) Croasdale, "of Neshamina, in Middletown town- ship," who were named in the same certificate from Settle Monthly Meeting, and came over in the "Welcome" with Ellen Cowgill and her children. Thomas Croas- dale and Agnes Hathornthwaite were married May 1, 1664. They settled, on their arrival, on the plantation in Middletown before referred to, where he died November 2, 1684, and his wife, October 23, 1684.

Bridget (Croasdale) Cowgill died April 26, 1701, and John Cowgill married (second) in 1703-4, Rachel (Baker) Bunting, widow of Job Bunting, and daugh- ter of Henry Baker, one of the most prominent men of Bucks county. She was born in West Darby, Lancashire, April 23, 1669, and came to Pennsylvania with her parents in 1684.

Issue of John and Bridget (Croasdale) Cowgill:

Elizabeth Cowgill, b. Aug. 24, 1694; m. in 1715, William Brown;

Thomas Cowgill, b. June 21, 1696; m. 1727, Sarah Clayton, of New Castle co., and was the father of Ezekiel and Thomas Cowgill, before referred to, the latter supposed to be the ancestor of the Cowgills of Ohio;

JOHN COWGILL, b. July 8, 1698; m. 1720, Lydia Clayton; of whom presently ;

Ellen Cowgill, b. Dec. 14, 1700, d. Jan. 15, 1772; m. (first) 1719, Thomas Brown; (sec- ond) Lewis Clothier.

Issue of John and Rachel (Baker ) Cowgill:

Henry Cowgill, b. about 1704; m. (first) June 4, 1724, Mary Boulton; (second) June I, 1741, Alice Pain;

Rachel Cowgill, b. May 3, 1706, d. Dec. 19, 1729; m. Thomas Sharp;

Mary Cowgill, b. Jan. 23, 1707-8; m. 1724, Alexander Adams, Jr .;

Ebenezer Cowgill, b. Dec. 19, 1709, d. 1743, m. 1742;

Eleazer Cowgill, b. March 21, 1711; m. Aug. 29, 1739, Martha Pain.

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JOHN COWGILL, son of John and Bridget (Croasdale) Cowgill, born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1698, removed with his father to New Castle county in 1712, and spent the remainder of his life there. He was an active member of Duck Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends. He married, December 16, 1720, Lydia, daughter of Joshua Clayton, of Little Creek Hundred, Kent county, on the Delaware, and a descendant of Thomas Clayton, of Clayton Hall, parish of High- hoyland, county York, England. Lydia was a sister to Sarah Clayton, who mar- ried Thomas Cowgill, brother of John. The will of Joshua Clayton dated Septem- ber 2, 1760, probated at Dover, January 6, 1761, devises to his granddaughter, Eunice Osbourne, wife of Jonathan Osbourne, his dwelling plantation, being part of tract called "Higham's Ferry" and part of tract called "Wilton Creek" and de- vised lands and slaves, etc., to grandchildren, John Cowgill, Clayton Cowgill, Ezekiel Cowgill, Thomas Cowgill, Sarah, wife of John Register, of Talbot county, Maryland, Elizabeth Neal, Jean Smith, Lydia Durborrow, and the said Eunice Os- bourne. Joshua Clayton, the testator, was a minister among Friends ; his only other child, beside Sarah and Lydia Cowgill, was Elizabeth, who married Mark Manlove, Jr., August 19, 1730.

Issue of John and Lydia (Clayton) Cowgill:

John Cowgill, m. Mary Worrall; HENRY COWGILL, of whom presently; Clayton Cowgill;

Eunice Cowgill, m. Jonathan Osbourne; probably others.

HENRY COWGILL, son of John and Lydia (Clayton) Cowgill, married Elizabeth Osbourne, and resided in Kent county, Delaware. Their children as given in an incomplete family record were :

Lydia Cowgill, m. David West; Jonathan Cowgill; Eunice Cowgill, d. y .; Elizabeth Cowgill, m. Joseph Corbit ;

Clayton Cowgill, d. y .;

JOHN COWGILL, m. Mary Ann Corbit; of whom presently;

Joshua C. Cowgill, m. Martha Newlin.

JOHN COWGILL, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Osbourne) Cowgill, of Kent county, Delaware, married Mary Ann, daughter of Daniel and Ann (Lea) Corbit, of Kent county, and resided in that county. They had issue :

Lydia Cowgill, m. Robert B. Wilson;

Ann Lea Cowgill, m. her second cousin, Charles, son of John and Martha (Stout) Cow- gill;

Henry Cowgill, m. his second cousin, Angelina, dau. of John and Martha (Stout) Cow- gill; Sarah Cowgill;

DANIEL CLAYTON COWGILL, of whom presently.

DANIEL CLAYTON COWGILL, son of John and Mary Ann (Corbit) Cowgill, lived in Dover, Delaware. He married Susan Smithers Green, who died at Dover, De- cember 14, 1907, in her eighty-fifth year, and they had issue:

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Thomas Cowgill; Joseph C. Cowgill; MARY BARRATT COWGILL, b. Oct. 12, 1847; of whom presently; Eliza Cowgill; Edgar Lea Cowgill; Alice Clark Cowgill, unm., living at Dover; Robert P. Cowgill; Susan Cowgill.

MARY BARRATT COWGILL, daughter of Daniel C. and Susan S. (Green ) Cowgill, born in Dover, Delaware, October 12, 1847, married, October 10, 1867, Joseph Shallcross Lovering, of Philadelphia, born April 27, 1832, died December 10, 1882, son of Joseph Samuel and Ann (Corbit) Lovering, and grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth (Cowgill) Corbit, above mentioned; they being second cousins through two lines, both being descended from the Cowgill and Corbit families : Mrs. Lovering's mother's father and Mr. Lovering's mother having been double first cousins. The full list of their children will be given later in the Shallcross line, one of them was,

Susan Lovering, m. Henry Pemberton, Jr.

About the year 1700, perhaps as early as 1698, two brothers, Leonard and John Shallcross, arrived in the Province of Pennsylvania. They undoubtedly came from England, but in what part of that kingdom they had lived before their de- parture we have no present knowledge, for no contemporary account of their arrival has been handed down. They were members of the Society of Friends, and as such, no doubt, brought the customary certificate from some meeting of that Society in England, but the earliest archives of Oxford Meeting in Philadelphia county (to which John certainly belonged and most likely Leonard also, before he moved on further), among which these certificates would most likely have been filed, are now missing; it is said that they were forwarded to the London Yearly Meeting early in the eighteenth century. It is presumed that they were of a younger branch of the family of Shallcross, of Shallcross, in the High Peak of Derbyshire, in which the name Leonard was a favorite ; but none of the records of Friends' meet- ings in Derbyshire have any mention of them, so it seems that their branch must have lived in some place remote from the ancestral home.

A tradition has long been prevalent in the comparatively modern generation of the family ( for of course the first four or five generations knew better) that three brothers came over, the youngest, Joseph, settling in Chester county, Pennsylvania. But we know now, as the earlier members of the family knew, that Joseph was not a brother, but the grandson of Leonard, born over thirty years after the arrival of his grandfather and granduncle. This tradition also makes John the older brother, but our present knowledge gives this claim to Leonard.

LEONARD SHALLCROSS, born in England, about 1675, died in Pennsylvania, 1730. He came to the latter province about 1700, and probably lived a short time in Ox- ford township, Philadelphia county, where his brother John located permanently, but by 1702 he had removed to Bucks county. For the plantation he became pos- sessed of there, no deed has been found on record to show the date of its purchase, its location or how many acres there were, but a mortgage from John Fisher to Samuel Baker, November 8, 1713, secured upon land in Makefield township, men-

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tions Leonard Shallcross's land adjoining, and a deed for the Fisher tract in 1722 shows that Shallcross still owned the same place at that date.

Leonard Shallcross was a member of Falls Monthly Meeting of Society of Friends, and was appointed on a committee of that meeting on December 5, 1722. By his will dated February 28, 1729-30, proved November 16, 1730, he left his house and plantation to his son Leonard; fio. each to his sons William and Joseph; £20. each to his daughters Rebecca and Rachel; one shilling to his son John ; and made his wife Sarah sole executrix.

Leonard Shallcross married (first) January, 1702-3, Ann, daughter of William Ellet, of Bucks county. They declared their intentions of marriage before Falls Monthly Meeting, December 2, 1702, "passed second meeting" January 6, 1702-3, and were married within the month. Her father, William Ellet, was a brother of Andrew Ellet, a prominent early settler in Bucks county, from whom he obtained 100 acres of land there. They were from Somersetshire, England. William Ellet, by will dated December 13, 1714, proved September 15, 1721, left his estate to his son-in-law, James Downey, subject to the life interest of his widow, and legacies to his daughters, Elizabeth Downey, Ann Shallcross, Mary Hawkins and Sarah Bidgood. (The son-in-law, James Downey, was not the husband of the daughter Elizabeth, but of a deceased daughter Hannah; Elizabeth was the wife of William Downey, relationship to James unknown).

Issue of Leonard and Ann (Ellet ) Shallcross:

John Shallcross, Jr., m. May, 1728, Sarah Knowles;

WILLIAM SHALLCROSS, m. 1733, Ruth ( Palmer) Hulme; of whom later ; JOSEPH SHALLCROSS, d. Oct. 11, 1787; m. April, 1737, Sarah Worth; of whom later; LEONARD SHALLCROSS, d. Feb. 14, 1813; m. Nov. 14, 1752, Judith Wood; of whom later; Rebecca Shallcross, living unm. 1754;

Rachel Shallcross, living unm. 1754.

Leonard Shallcross married (second) in 1724, Sarah (Hough) Atkinson, widow of Isaac Atkinson, of Bristol township, daughter of Richard and Margery (Clows) Hough, of Makefield township, Bucks county; they had no issue. Her father, Richard Hough, was a Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania, Member of Assem- bly, and a Justice of the Bucks County Court.

JOHN SHALLCROSS, born in England, 1677, died in Pennsylvania, September 4, 1758, and was buried in the graveyard of Oxford Meeting House. He came to Pennsylvania with his brother Leonard about 1700, and settled in Oxford town- ship, Philadelphia county. Being a member of the Society of Friends he joined Oxford Meeting, one of the constituents of Abington Monthly Meeting.

By deed dated December 4, 1708, John Shallcross bought of the widow, Mary Fletcher, two tracts in Oxford township, one of 265 acres, extending from the Bristol pike to and beyond the present Bustleton pike, which was then only a private lane; and the other 1121/2 acres adjoining this and lying on both sides of the Bustleton pike. The first mentioned of these was left to John Fletcher, hus- band of Mary, by his kinsman, Capt. Thomas Holme, late of the Parliamentary Army of England, Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania, and sometime President of the Provincial Council. The deed mentions a house already standing on this tract, but it was no doubt a log house, and it was almost certainly John Shallcross who built the stone mansion still standing and still owned by a Shallcross. It is

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on the southeast side of the Bustleton pike about two miles from the old village of Frankford, and is now occupied (1907) by George M. Shallcross, a descendant of John's brother Leonard.

On August 12, 1718, John Shallcross bought from his wife's cousin, Paul Wil- merton, twelve and three-quarters acres, adjoining his 265 acres tract on the northeast ; and at another time from Sarah Busby, he bought seventy-five acres on the northwest side of the present Bustleton pike, opposite his 265 acre tract and adjoining that part of the 1121/2 acre tract which lay on that side of the said wood. Besides these, John Shallcross, from time to time, made other purchases of land in Oxford township, mostly adjoining the above tracts, and one of about 200 acres in the adjacent township of Lower Dublin. He also held mortgages on many lands mostly in Bucks county, though he does not appear to have obtained full possession of any of them by default in payment. From all of this we infer that he was quite a wealthy man for his time and locality. These lands have gone through a number of divisions among the different branches of the Shallcross fam- ily, descendants of John's brother Leonard, many of whose representatives are still living on some of the subdivisions. John Shallcross had also three lots in Philadelphia.

John Shallcross was very active in the affairs of Abington Monthly Meeting, of which Oxford, his particular meeting, was a part. He was appointed to represent it at Abington Quarterly Meeting, first on 2nd month 29, 1717, and twenty-seven times thereafter, the last being on 5th month 27, 1747, after which advancing age compelled him to inactivity, although he continued to attend the monthly meeting several years longer. On Imo. 25, 1723, he was appointed one of three trustees for the real estate belonging to Oxford Meeting, and was reappointed 8mo. 31, 1726, when a new board of six trustees was named. He was appointed a member of the committee to visit families of members of Oxford Meeting, 12mo. 24, 1717, and reappointed eight times, the last being IImo. 30, 1748. He also served on numerous minor committees, and became an Elder of Oxford Meeting by appoint- ment of Monthly Meeting, 8mo. 28, 1723. At the Monthly Meeting held 12mo. 22, 1724, it was reported that he had been chosen an Overseer of Oxford Meeting, and again Iomo. 1741 ; he served until his nephew, Joseph Shallcross, was chosen his successor, as reported at the Monthly Meeting, of Imo. 30, 1747.

By his will dated June 13, 1754, proved September 21, 1758, John Shallcross named his wife Hannah, and his nephew, Leonard Shallcross (son of his brother Leonard Shallcross, deceased) as his executors. He devised to his wife Hannah a lot in Philadelphia, between Second and Third streets, adjoining lots formerly belonging to Israel Pemberton, which he had purchased of James Steel; and also £500, household goods, and one-half of the income of his plantation ; the other half being devised to his nephew, Leonard Shallcross; on the death of the wife, the whole of his plantation of 400 acres in Oxford township to go to his said nephew ; the income from two lots in Philadelphia, one on High street, the other between Sec- ond street and Letitia court, to be divided between his wife Hannah, and nephew, Leonard Shallcross, and on the wife's death both lots to go to Leonard. To his nephew, Joseph Shallcross (son of his brother Leonard Shallcross, deceased), was devised a plantation of 200 acres in Lower Dublin township, whereon the said Jo- seph then resided for life, then to said Joseph's son John; also fioo to be divided between all children of said Joseph Shallcross, and £50 to each of the children of

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his nephew, William Shallcross, deceased, to wit, William, Ann, and Ruth; £200 to Joseph, son of his nephew, John Shallcross, deceased; £100 to Ann, daughter of said John, and £100 each to Rebecca and Rachel, daughters of his brother, Leonard Shallcross, deceased. Legacies were also given to his brother-in-law, Edward Brooks, his sister-in-law, Catharine Wilmerton, widow of Paul, his kinswoman, Hannah Robinson (daughter of the above named Edward Brooks) and to his friends, Thomas Wood, Samuel Spencer, and Hannah, wife of Thomas Dews. The residuary legatees were his wife Hannah, and nephew Leonard.

John Shallcross married in May, 1710, Hannah, daughter of William and Han- nah (Newman) Fletcher, of Philadelphia county. They had no issue. Her par- ents, William Fletcher, of Middle Barton, Oxfordshire, and Hannah, daughter of Paul Newman, of Eaton, Berkshire, England, were married 4mo. 30, 1680, at P. Whitwicks's house in Appleton, Berkshire. They came to America at about the same time as the Shallcrosses. William Fletcher died 5mo. 5, 1688, and was bur- ied "in the burying place in Oxford, neare Tacony bridge ;" on 6mo. 13, 1689, at Oxford Meeting, his widow married Attwell Wilmerton, the Paul Wilmerton mentioned in John Shallcross's will being her son. William Fletcher was a brother to John Fletcher whose widow, Mary, sold the land above mentioned to John Shallcross. They had another brother, Robert Fletcher, who also came to Penn- sylvania and was a miller in Abington township, and whose descendants are still a family of prominence in Philadelphia county. Another brother, Thomas Fletcher, remained in Middle Barton, England. Hannah Newman had two sisters who also came to Oxford township, Philadelphia county ; Elizabeth, who married at Appleton, Berks, 10mo. 21, 1681, John Knowles, of West Chalow, Berks (one of their granddaughter marrying a Shallcross as shown below) ; and Jane New- man, who married at Appleton, Berks, 8mo. 17, 1686, Edward Orpwood, of Cum- ner, Berks; the will of the latter, of Oxford, county of Philadelphia, in 1728-9, mentions his cousin, Hannah Shallcross, and a number of relatives by name of Knowles, Wilmerton, &c.

Hannah Shallcross, of Oxford township, Philadelphia county, widow of John, by her will dated October 25, 1758, proved September 5, 1759, made her cousin, Hannah Robeson (daughter of Edward Brooks) executrix, and made bequests to the six children of her kinsman, John Wilmerton, John, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, Paul and John; to the three children of Hannah Robeson by her first husband, Stephen Simmons, Elizabeth, Mary and Edward; and to the said Hannah the lot in Philadelphia left by her husband.

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Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 42

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 710

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 710