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JOHN SHALLCROSS, JR., son of Leonard and Ann (Ellet) Shallcross, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, but in early life removed to Oxford township, Phila- delphia county, living there with her uncle, John, the "Junior" being added to his name to distinguish him from this uncle, who had doubtless selected him for his heir, which may account for his own father having bequeathed him but one shilling. He died, however, before his uncle. He was one of the six trustees for the real estate of Oxford Meeting, and on January 25; 1730-I, was appointed representative from Abington Monthly Meeting to the Quarterly Meeting. He died intestate and letters of administration were granted on his estate, September 19, 1733, to his widow, Sarah Shallcross, of Philadelphia county.
John Shallcross married, May, 1728, Sarah, daughter of John and Ann ( Paul) Knowles, of Oxford township, and granddaughter of John and Elizabeth (New-
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man) Knowles, mentioned above. After her husband's death, Sarah Knowles Shallcross removed with her two children to Chester county, Pennsylvania, where her brother and several of her sisters were living. There she married later John Buckingham, by whom she had other children.
Issue of John Jr. and Sarah (Knowles) Shallcross:
JOSEPH SHALLCROSS, b. Oct. 17, 1731 ; m. Oct. 23, 1754, Orpha Gilpin; of whom presently; Ann Shallcross, mentioned in the will of her granduncle, John Shallcross in 1754.
JOSEPH SHALLCROSS, son of John and Sarah (Knowles) Shallcross, born Octo- ber 17, 1731, married, October 23, 1754, Orpha, born September 15, 1734, died October 8, 1806, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Caldwell) Gilpin, of Chester county. Joseph and Orpha (Gilpin) Shallcross lived near Wilmington, Delaware, in which city Joseph Shallcross had lived some time previous to his marriage, with his grandfather, John Knowles.
Issue of Joseph and Orpha (Gilpin) Shallcross:
John Shallcross, b. Oct. 12, 1756, d. Oct. 8, 1831 ;
HANNAH SHALLCROSS, b. Aug. 9, 1758; m. Jehu Hollingsworth; of whom presently; JOSEPH SHALLCROSS, b. Dec. 12, 1759; of whom presently;
Thomas Shallcross, b. Aug. 14, 1764; m. Oct. 22, 1789, Deborah Claypool, dau. of Jona- than Potts, had two sons, and a daughter who d. y .;
MARY SHALLCROSS, b. May 3, 1766; m. Samuel Lovering; of whom later;
William Shallcross, b. Sept. 14, 1769; went to Mexico and was never afterward heard of by his family;
Isaac Shallcross, b. Nov. 21, 1771;
Betty Shallcross, b. Aug. 22, 1775; removed from Wilmington to Phila., taking certificate dated Sept. 10, 1800, to Phila. Southern District Monthly Meeting. Her will dated Feb. 15, 1812, proved in Phila., mentions her sister, Mary Lovering; nephews, Samuel and Thomas G. Hollingsworth; niece, Anna Maria Hollingsworth; nephew, Morris C. Shallcross; brothers, John Shallcross, of the state of Del., and Isaac Shallcross, and children of her late brother, Dr. Joseph Shallcross; she was unm.
HANNAH SHALLCROSS, daughter of Joseph and Orpha (Gilpin) Shallcross, born August 9, 1758, died July 5, 1799; married, June 4, 1788, Jehu Hollings- worth, born November 2, 1756, died July 26, 1834; son of Jehu and Ann (Pyle) Hollingsworth, and descended from Valentine Hollingsworth, one of the most prominent of the early settlers of New Castle county, who was the ancestor of a large family whose branches have been especially prominent in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
Issue of Jehu and Hannah (Shallcross) Hollingsworth:
SAMUEL HOLLINGSWORTH, b. April 30, 1789, d. Oct. 26, 1856; m. Oct. 15, 1812, Jane Porter- field Smith; of whom presently;
Thomas Gilfillan Hollingsworth, member of the Board of Education of Phila .; the Hollingsworth School, Locust street, below Fifteenth, was named for him; m. Han- nah Redwood, dau. of Charles and Hannah ( Redwood) Wharton, of Phila .;
Ann Caldwell Hollingsworth, b. June 16, 1793, d. Feb. 16, 1794;
Anna Maria Hollingsworth, b. March 29, 1796, d. Jan. 24, 1865; m. June 15, 1815, Charles Wharton, of Phila., son of Charles and Hannah (Redwood) Wharton, above men- tioned.
SAMUEL HOLLINGSWORTH, son of Jehu and Hannah (Shallcross) Hollings- worth, born April 30, 1789, died October 26, 1856; married, October 15, 1812,
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Jane Porterfield, who died November 4, 1826, aged thirty-five years, daughter of John Somers Smith, of an old Philadelphia family, which had early connection with Cape May county, New Jersey.
Issue of Samuel and Jane Porterfield (Smith) Hollingsworth:
Jehu Hollingsworth, b. June 18, 1814, d. Aug. 30, 1907; m. Feb. 25, 1841, Frances Eloise, dau. of Samuel Shorey; their son, Samuel Shorey Hollingsworth, was a distinguished Phila. lawyer;
Samuel Lovering Hollingsworth, M. D., b. May 22, 1816, d. Dec. 14, 1872; m. Oct. 12, 1848, Anna Clifford, dau. of John and Rebecca (Clifford) Pemberton, before men- tioned;
John Smith Hollingsworth, b. March 18, 1818;
Elizabeth Hollingsworth, b. Oct. 30, 1819, d. May 24, 1853, unm .;
Anna Maria Hollingsworth, b. Aug. 14, 1821, d. Sept. 30, 1895; m. Sept. 24, 1844, Dr. John Neill, of Phila .;
Caroline Towne Hollingsworth, b. May 9, 1823, d. Nov. 24, 1862; m. June 3, 1851, Henry Pemberton, and was the mother of Henry Pemberton, Jr., whose wife, Susan Lover- ing, was a descendant of the Shallcross family, as shown hereafter.
MARY SHALLCROSS, daughter of Joseph and Orpha (Gilpin) Shallcross, born May 3, 1766, died March 24, 1849; married Samuel Lovering, born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 7, 1762, died in Wilmington, Delaware, July 12, 1799. He was a descendant of Robert Lovering, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, afterwards of Boston, who married at Roxbury, January 3, 1704-5, Alice Craft, born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, February 19, 1681-2, died in Holliston, Massachusetts, 1783, aged over one hundred years; daughter of Lieutenant Samuel and Elizabeth (Seaver) Craft, of Roxbury, and granddaughter of Lieutenant Griffin and Alice Craft, who settled in Roxbury, in 1630, sailing from England with Winthrop's Colo- nists. Lieut. Griffin Craft was made Freeman of Roxbury, May 18, 1631, was several times Deputy to the General Court, of Massachusetts, and founder of a prominent New England family.
After the death of Robert Lovering, his widow, Alice (Craft) Lovering, had four other husbands, all men of high standing in the community. By Lovering she had five children; Elizabeth, married John Eaton, of Stoughton, Massachu- setts, and four sons, Robert, William, Samuel and Joseph Lovering.
ROBERT LOVERING, eldest son and second child of Robert and Alice (Craft) Lovering, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, September 26, 1710; married, March 12, 1735, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Mayo) Gardner, of Rox- bury, Massachusetts, and had six children: Joseph, Mayo, John, Thomas, Will- iam and Samuel Lovering.
JOHN LOVERING, of Boston, Massachusetts, second son of Robert and Rebecca (Gardner) Lovering, born August, 1739, died prior to 1780; married, July 30, 1761, Rebecca Ellis, of Boston, who died October 4, 1792, and had four children : Samuel who removed to Wilmington, Delaware, and married Mary Shallcross, being the eldest.
Issue of Samuel and Mary (Shallcross) Lovering:
Sarah Lovering, b. about 1793, d. unm .;
JOSEPH SAMUEL LOVERING, b. Dec. 12, 1796, d. May 8, 1881; m. Ann Corbit; of whom presently ;
Mary Lovering, b. about 1797, m. John F. Gilpin.
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JOSEPH SAMUEL LOVERING, son of Samuel and Mary (Shallcross) Lovering, was a prominent sugar refiner in Philadelphia and a man of large fortune. He married, March 7, 1827, Ann, who died October 4, 1875, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Cowgill) Corbit, before mentioned, and they had issue:
Elizabeth Lovering, d. inf .;
Mary Lovering, b. May 27, 1829, d. July 1, 1897; m. May 3, 1849, Charles W., son of William and Deborah (Fisher) Wharton;
Ann Corbit Lovering, b. Dec. 19, 1830; m. June 15, 1854, Joseph, son of William and Deborah Wharton, above mentioned;
JOSEPH SHALLCROSS LOVERING, b. April 27, 1832, d. Dec. 10, 1882; of whom presently.
JOSEPH SHALLCROSS LOVERING, of Philadelphia, married, October 10, 1867, his cousin, Mary Barratt, born October 12, 1847, daughter of Daniel Clayton and Susan Smithers (Green) Cowgill, of Dover, Delaware, whose ancestry has been already given. Joseph Shallcross and Mary B. (Cowgill) Lovering lived in a fine old family mansion on York road near the present Logan station, until Mr. Lovering's death in 1882, after which his widow removed to Germantown. They had issue :
Susan Lovering, b. Aug. 14, 1868; m. March 28, 1894, Henry Pemberton, Jr .;
Joseph Samuel Lovering, b. March 17, 1871; m. Oct. 2, 1894, Mary Hutchinson, dau. of John Story and Sydney Howell (Brown) Jenks, of Phila .;
Edgar Lea Lovering, b. Aug. 8, 1874, d. March 2, 1889;
Corbit Lovering, b. Aug. 6, 1876; m. Oct. 18, 1902, Ida, b. March 5, 1876, dau. of James Day and Virginia Letitia (Thomas) Rowland, of Ogontz, Pa .;
Gilpin Lovering, b. Oct. 30, 1880; m. Oct. 10, 1903, Virginia Day Rowland, b. Dec. 9, 1882, sister to his brother Corbit's wife.
JOSEPH SHALLCROSS, M. D., son of Joseph and Orpha (Gilpin) Shallcross, born near Wilmington, Delaware, December 12, 1759, died in Darby township, Dela- ware county, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1811. He studied medicine under Dr. Nicholas Way, an eminent Philadelphia physician, and took his final degree in Paris, France. He married (first) his cousin, Hannah, daughter of John Knowles, of Knowlesborough, Delaware county, by whom he had no issue. He married (second) December 8, 1788, Catharine, daughter of Jonathan Morris, M. D., by his wife Ailsa, daughter of Cadwalader and Ann Garret (Pennell) Evans, descended from Merwyn Wrych, King of Man, killed in battle A. D., 843, and his wife Essylt, daughter of Conan, King of Wales, who died A. D. 818.
Dr. Shallcross and his wife lived for a time in Wilmington, and later in Stanton, White Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware, where some or all of their children were born. About 1800 they moved to the borough of Darby, Dela- ware county, Pennsylvania, and about 1802 to an estate called "Polar Hall," in Darby township, which had belonged to Dr. Shallcross's first wife, Hannah Knowles. Dr. Shallcross died there May 22, 1811, and his widow Catharine died April 3, 1848, aged eighty-one years.
Issue of Dr. Joseph and Catharine (Morris) Shallcross:
Eliza Shallcross, m. Thomas Wickersham, of Chester co., Pa .;
MORRIS CADWALADER SHALLCROSS, M. D., of whom presently; Hannah Maria Shallcross, m. Robert McCalla, of N. J .;
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Joseph Shallcross, M. D., b. March 21, 1797; graduate Medical Department of Univ. of Pa,. 1826; moved to Ohio, where he m. April 4, 1843, at Gallipolis, Emily Haly, dau. of Col. John Henderson, a descendant of Sir John Henderson, of Fordyce, Fifeshire, Scotland, who was killed with King James IV., of Scotland at Flodden Field.
MORRIS CADWALADER SHALLCROSS, M. D., born August 8, 1791, died November 30, 1871 ; graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, 1813, thesis, "Effects of Ardent Spirits on the Body and Mind." He was a prominent physician of the city of Philadelphia. He married, in 1816, Eliza (Fair) Sparks, a widow, and had issue:
JOSEPH SHALLCROSS, of whom presently; Sarah Shallcross; Harriet Shallcross; Catharine Shallcross.
JOSEPH SHALLCROSS, son of Dr. Morris C. and Eliza Shallcross, born December 16, 1816, spent most of his life in Darby township, Delaware county, Pennsylva- nia, as a country gentleman. He purchased and lived many years in a fine old mansion on what is now Ashland avenue, built in 1788, but in his old age went to live with his daughter, Mrs. Webb, on the Chester pike in the borough of Sharon Hill, about one mile from his former residence, where he now resides ( 1908). He married, May 22, 1856, Mary Caldwell, of the same family as Mary Caldwell, mother of Orpha (Gilpin) Shallcross.
Issue of Joseph and Mary (Caldwell) Shallcross:
Eliza Shallcross, of whom presently; Ann Shallcross, unm. (1908) ; Harriet Shallcross, m. Walter Webb, M. D.
ELIZA SHALLCROSS, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Caldwell) Shallcross, mar- ried, November 8, 1883, John Bakewell Phillips, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and had issue :
Morris Shallcross Phillips, b. Aug. 20, 1884; m. Jan. 3, 1905, Linda Lewis, dau. of Ed- ward S. Sayres, Esq., of Phila .;
Henry Ormsby Phillips, b. Oct. 22, 1885;
Patty Phillips, b. July 4, 1889.
WILLIAM SHALLCROSS, son of Leonard and Ann (Ellet) Shallcross, born in Bucks county, about 1706, always lived in that county, perhaps on his father's plantation in Makefield township, which was devised to his brother Leonard, but which Leonard did not occupy. At the time of his death, however, he was living in Falls township. Letters of administration were granted on his estate, May 16, 1749, to his widow, Ruth Shallcross.
He married, in 1733, Ruth (Palmer) Hulme, born September 18, 1693, widow of George Hulme, of Middletown township, Bucks county, and daughter of John and Christian Palmer, of Falls, who came to Bucks county from Yorkshire, England. Her certificate from Middletown Monthly Meeting to Falls was received at the latter meeting, February 4, 1735-6, and she served on committees
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ten times between 1746 and 1753. On May 2, 1759, Jonathan Palmer requested leave of Falls Monthly Meeting for his sister, Ruth Shallcross, to build a house on the Meeting's land, but it was refused at the following meeting, June 6, 1759. After this date she appears to have removed with her children from Falls, prob- ably into Upper Makefield or Buckingham township.
Issue of William and Ruth (Palmer) Shallcross:
William Shallcross, for whom a certificate from Buckingham Monthly Meeting was re- ceived at Falls, Feb. 3, 1762; he was disowned by Falls Monthly Meeting, Nov. 3, 1762, for non-compliance with Quaker plainness of dress and manner ;
Ann Shallcross ;
Ruth Shallcross, m. Dec. 24, 1775, by Isaac Hicks, Esq., Samuel Danford, of Falls twp.
JOSEPH SHALLCROSS, son of Leonard and Ann (Ellet) Shallcross, born in Bucks county, lived there with his father until early manhood. In 1733 he removed to a plantation of 200 acres in Lower Dublin township, Philadelphia county, belonging to his uncle, John Shallcross, who afterwards devised it to him for life, then to his son John. On September 5, 1733, Falls Monthly Meeting granted him a certificate which he presented at Abington Monthly Meeting, Octo- ber 29, 1733. His particular Meeting was thereafter Oxford, by which he was chosen as Overseer in place of his uncle, John, as reported to Abington Monthly Meeting, March 30, 1747, and on April 28, 1755, he was appointed an Elder, also as his uncle's successor. He died October II, 1787, and was buried on the 13th, at Frankford, Oxford township.
Joseph Shallcross married, April, 1737, Sarah Worth, of a prominent Chester county family, and they had issue :
Hannah Shallcross, b. Dec. 21, 1733; was unm. in 1787;
Mary Shallcross, b. Oct. 21, 1740; m. Dec. 24, 1776, David Jones; n
John Shallcross, b. July 3, 1743; inherited the plantation in Lower Dublin, under his great-uncle's will; m. May 16, 1782, Mary Livezey;
Sarah Shallcross, b. Oct. 29, 1746; m. May 14, 1789, Nathan Thomas ; Joseph Shallcross, b. Oct. 4, 1750; unm.
LEONARD SHALLCROSS, son of Leonard and Ann (Ellet) Shallcross, was born in Bucks county and lived there on his father's plantation in Makefield, which he inherited in 1730, until after the death of his brother John in 1733, when his Uncle John having chosen him for his principal heir, he went to live with his uncle on a plantation of about 400 acres in Oxford township, Philadelphia county, which he inherited at his uncle's death in 1758. Like his uncle and two of his brothers, he was active in the affairs of Abington Monthly Meeting, and Oxford Particular Meeting, succeeding his brother Joseph as Overseer of Oxford Meet- ing in 1771, and later was made an Elder. He died on his plantation near Frank- ford, February 14, 1813, and was buried at Frankford, in the graveyard of Oxford Meeting. By his will he devised his plantation to his son John, and to his sons, Leonard, William, Thomas and Benjamin, the houses and land they respec- tively occupied; directing his houses in Letitia Court, and a Water Lot in Phila- delphia to be sold and the proceeds to be divided among his daughters, Hannah Paul, Mary Kirkner, Martha Knight and Rachel Johnson.
Leonard Shallcross married, November 14, 1752, at Oxford Meeting, Judith,
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daughter of John Wood of Northern Liberties, afterward Oxford township. She was buried December 6, 1786. They had issue :
Hannah Shallcross, b. Sept. 8, 1753; m. June 16, 1772, Thomas Paul; no issue;
John Shallcross, b. Sept. 26, 1755; m. June 7, 1780, Mary Paul;
Leonard Shallcross, Jr., b. Oct. 7, 1757; m. (first) April 3, 1787, Mary Livezey; (second) Sarah Wilson;
Mary Shallcross, b. April 9, 1762; m. Joseph Kirkner;
Thomas Shallcross, b. Oct. 26, 1764, d. Jan. 21, 1856; m. (first) Mary (Colladay) Al- burger; (second) Ann (Wood) Kester;
William Shallcross, b. April 4, 1767; m. Mary Knight; and perhaps (second) Elizabeth Walton;
Martha Shallcross, b. Aug. 27, 1770; m. English Knight;
Benjamin Shallcross, b. Jan. 4, 1773, d. March 27, 1845; m. May 10, 1797, Sarah Chap- man;
Rachel Shallcross, b. March 10, 1776; m. Benjamin Johnson.
FOX FAMILY.
Six years after Charles II. had, under the Great Seal of England, given to William Penn by Letters Patent, the "Province of Pennsylvania with diverse great powers and Jurisdiction for the well Government thereof," and four years after the "Welcome" had brought Penn on his first visit to his infant colony, the ship "Desire," from Plymouth, England, on June 23, 1686, cast anchor in the river Delaware, bringing to the rapidly growing town of Philadelphia, which then con- tained about three thousand inhabitants, a company of emigrants known as the Plymouth Friends. Among them were Francis Rawle and his son of the same name, with six servants, Richard Grove and two servants, Nicholas Pearce with two servants, James Fox with his family and eight servants, John Shellson with his wife and four servants. Of those here classed as servants to the other passengers were John, Richard, and Justinian Fox, who, unable to pay for their passage to and outfit in the young colony, according to the custom of the day, had no doubt bound themselves for a certain time, at the end of which they were to receive an agreed-upon number of acres of land. Many of the emigrants them- selves not rich in this world's goods, brought relatives with them in this way.
On March 13, 1685-6, before leaving England, Fox and Rawle, for themselves and their associates, had purchased five thousand acres of land of William Penn.
It was the purpose of these emigrants to make their settlement an industrial one. James Claypoole and Robert Turner, Penn's commissioners, writing to Thomas Holme, Surveyor General, say: "At the request of James Fox, Francis. Rawle, Nicholas Pearce and Richard Grove, in behalf of themselves and other Friends of Plymouth, joynt purchasers with them of five thousand acres of land, that we would grant the said five thousand acres of land together, for a township, in the most convenient place for water for the encouragement of the woolen manu- facture, intended to be set up by them; these we therefore, in the Proprietary's name, do will and require thee forthwith to survey * * * and make return hereof to the Secretary's office at Philadelphia the 5th of 5Mo., 1686."
Pennsylvania Archives, 2d. Series, volume xix, page 35, has the following : At a meeting of the Commissioners, 4Month 7, 1690, "James Fox and Fran. Rawle Request they may have a Patent for the 5,000 acres they Purchased now called the Plymouth Town, and that the Six Hundred Acres which was formerly Intended for a Town be Returned as part of the 5,000 acres. Ordered that a Warr't be made for the Returning the 5,000 acres of land in manner aforesaid.
"Ordered that Fran: Cook have the other half of the vacant lott next to the Plymouth Friends Lott in the High Street."
The five thousand acres were laid out in what is now known as Plymouth town- ship, Montgomery county, but was at that time part of Philadelphia county. With their associates, Fox and Rawle took up their residence upon the land. A Friends' Meeting was at once established at the house of James Fox, which has continued to the present day and is known as Plymouth Meeting. The country was too young for such an industry as this company had planned and the scheme was abandoned. Neither Fox or Rawle remained long in the new settlement. It is said that their wives found it too lonely.
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Francis, father of James Fox, is said to have been born in Wiltshire, England, about 1620. During the civil war he removed to Cornwall and settled in the parish of St. Germans. Having joined the Society of Friends in 1646, he married Dorothy Kekewich of Exeter, Cornwall. Francis Fox died in 1670 and his widow Dorothy in 1693.
Issue of Francis and Dorothy (Kekewich) Fox:
Francis Fox, b. at St. Germans, Cornwall, 1647; d. 1704; m. (first) Joan Smith, had two sons who d. young, and two daus., Rachel and Deborah, and settled in England. His second wife, whom he m. March 30, 1686, was Tabitha Croker, d. 1730. Of their chil- dren, Mary Fox, m. Feb. 10, 1707, Andrew Ellicott, who came with his son Andrew and settled in Bucks county, Pa., becoming founders of the well-known Ellicott family. The others, Francis, Sarah, George, Dorothy and John, m. and settled in England; John Fox, d. young;
JAMES Fox, b. about 1650; d. Sept. 19, 1699; m. Elizabeth Record.
JAMES Fox3 (Francis1), born about 1650 in England; died Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, September 19, 1699; married Elizabeth Record, and was settled at Plymouth, Devonshire, England, where he was engaged in manufacture of cloth. He appears to have been leader, (with Rawle as his associate,) of the emigrant company of Plymouth Friends. Of the two, Fox is usually first named in the records. With James Fox there came to this country, his wife Elizabeth and children George, James, Elizabeth and Sarah. After the abandoning of their settlement in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, James Fox removed with his family to Philadelphia, where he became interested in public affairs. He was a member of Pennsylvania Assembly in 1688, and again, 1693-9. In his will he is styled a baker, and from the same source it may be learned that his business included more than the mere making of bread, for he leaves to his heirs, his "dwelling house, granaries, bake-house, boulting mills, bags, weights, seals," etc.
Issue of James and Elizabeth (Record) Fox:
George Fox, b. Plymouth, England, 1675; d. Phila., Sept. 8, 1699; m. at Burlington Meet- ing. N. J., May 20, 1696, Susannah, dau. of Joseph Hackney, "late of Hempstead, Hert- fordshire, Old England," and his wife Elizabeth Jennings, sister of Gov. Samuel Jen- nings of N. J. Justinian Fox was present at the marriage and signed the certificate. In his will, which was witnessed by Justinian Fox and James Fox, Jr., George Fox made a bequest to Phila. Meeting for the use of a "public School lately established or about to be established." George and Susannah Fox had one son, George Fox, d. June 13, 1698;
James Fox, b. Plymouth, England; d. Phila., Jan. 30, 1700-I; m. at Phila. Meeting, March 31, 1699, Anne, dau. of Daniel Wills, of Northampton, Burlington county, N. J. She d. Oct. 27, 1701. Their only child, Mary Fox, d. July 16, 1702;
Elizabeth Fox, b. Plymouth, England, about 1683; m. at Phila. Meeting, March 9, 1683-4, John Jones, merchant, of Phila., of whose will Joseph Fox, son of Justinian, and Israel and James Pemberton were executors;
Sarah Fox, mentioned in wills of her parents. No further record;
Joseph Fox, mentioned in wills of his father, grandfather and grandmother. No further record ;
Dorothy Fox, d. Phila., Oct. 28, 1692;
Francis Fox, b. Phila., May 22, 1691; d. there May 12, 1702.
JUSTINIAN Fox, as has been shown, came from Plymouth, England, 1686, in the ship "Desire." He settled in Philadelphia, about 1700, where he married Elizabeth, only daughter and fifth child of Joseph and Mary Yard. Joseph Yard is said to have emigrated from Devonshire, England, about 1669, to have settled
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among the Swedes on the Delaware, and to have built in 1689, Gloria Dei, better known as the Old Swedes Church in Southwark, Philadelphia. On January 13, 1707, William Carter, Thomas Marten, Joseph Yard and John Rodman were appointed to view the hollow in the head of Chestnut street crossing Fifth street, and take the best method for making good the same and giving the water a passage.
The relationship between Justinian and James Fox, previously mentioned, has never been ascertained. That there was some such tie is presumed from the fact that they emigrated in the same vessel; that Justinian Fox was present at the marriage of James' son George, in 1686, and witnessed the will of the latter in 1699, as well as deeds previously made by members of the family. There is also reason to believe that Justinian succeeded to the business of James Fox, with whom he may have been previously associated. The tradition that Justinian Fox had studied medicine, there is nothing on record to confirm. At this late day but few items can be gathered regarding him. In June, 1707, with Anthony Taylor and Isaiah Appleton, he witnessed the will of Samuel Sheppard. The following January the will of Robert Turnham was witnessed by Joseph and William Yard and Justinian Fox, while in March of the same year Anthony Taylor made his will and signed it in the presence of Joseph Yard and Justinian Fox. The witnesses signing the will of Jeremiah Gray in 1715 were Justinian Fox, George Emlen and Charles Brockden.
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