Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 54

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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James Watts Mercur, Jr., b. July 8, 1891, at Wallingford;

Denise Honore Mercur, b. June 1, 1897, at Wallingford.

BENJAMIN CRISPIN, son of Silas and Mary (Stockton-Shinn) Crispin, born September 1, 1699, died December 6, 1753; he was born in Lower Dublin, Phila- delphia county, but was taken to Burlington county, New Jersey, by his mother, after his father's death, and resided the greater part of his life in Northampton township, Burlington county, where he died. He married, August 21, 1722, at Springfield Meeting, Burlington county, New Jersey, Margaret, who died May 4, 1753, daughter of Joshua and Martha (Shinn) Owen, of Burlington county. Her father, Joshua Owen, was born in Wales, and removed to the Welsh Tract in Pennsylvania in 1683, bringing with him a certificate of removal from a Friends Meeting held at Tyddyn y Garreg, describing him as "late of Llwyn-du." He later removed to Burlington county, New Jersey, and married there, Martha Shinn.

Lieut .- Col. Thomas Allen Glenn in his Merion in the Welsh Tract, gives a long line of descent of Joshua Owen, from Welsh princes, which may be condensed as follows .

Einion, born probably about 1450, descended in the male line from Callwyn ap Tagno, Lord of Llyn, who bore arms, a chevron inter three fleur-de-lys, had :

Gronwy ap Einion, born about 1480, who had :

Howell ap Gronwy, who had:

David ap Howell, of the township of Llwyngwrill, Comot of Talybont, Merionethshire, Wales, whose "ancient capital messuage" in that township, called Llwyn-du, was derived through a female line from Ednowen ap Bradwen, who flourished about 1137, and bore arms, gules, three snakes, nowed; and who was lord of nearly all the Comot of Talybont. Though the extant pedigrees do not show just where the marriage in the line of Callwyn ap Tagno, Lord of Llyn, with the heiress of the line of Ednowen ap Bradwen, came in, yet Llwyn-du was "an indefeasible estate of inheritance" therefore David ap Howell could only have ob- tained it as a descendant of Ednowen ap Bradwen. David was born about 1540, and mar- ried Mary, daughter of Hugh ap John, of Taly Llyn, a parish (now) in the union of Dol- gelly, in the Comot of Estimaner, Merionethshire, eight miles southwest of Dolgelly town. Hugh ap John was the son of John ap Merdith ap David, ap Ievan ap Llewelyn ap Einion (of Llwdiarth in Montgomeryshire, mentioned in grant of 7 Henry V) ap Celynin ap Ririd ap Cynddelw ap Ierworth ap Gwrgeney ap Uchdryd ap Aleth, Prince of Dyfed. Mary, the wife of David ap Howell, was also descended through various alliances of the above line, from Meuric ap Ynyr Vychan, Lord of Nannau, living 21 Edward III. (A. D. 1347-8), who in turn was descended from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, Prince of Powys (murdered in 1072), by his second wife, Isabel, daughter of Picot de Say, a Norman Baron; as well as from other noble fam- ilies of Wales.

Hugh ap David, of Llwyngwrill, son of David ap Howell and Mary his wife, married Catharine, daughter of John ap Rhydderch, of Abergynolwyn, whose family appears to be traceable to 1400 or earlier. Hugh and Catharine had issue,

Humphrey ap Hugh (their eldest son), of Llwngwrill, who signed the marriage settle- ment of his daughter Anne, January 1, 1649, she marrying Ellis Price, and they were the parents of Rowland Ellis, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, born 1650, a noted settler in the Welsh Tract, some account of whom and his descendants is given elsewhere in these volumes.

Humphrey ap Hugh was living at Llwyndu in 1662, and died there about 1664, having married, about 1625, Elizabeth, daughter of John ap Howell Goch, of Gadfa, in Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire, who was buried in Llanwddyn Church, July 24, 1636. Elizabeth's mother was Sybill, daughter of Hugh Gwynn, of Penarth, High Sheriff of Caernorvonshire, descend- ed from Sir William Griffith, of Penrhyn; the Herberts of Raglan, and from King Edward I, of England. The wife of Hugh Gwynn was Jane, daughter of Owen ap Hugh of Bodeon in Anglesey, High Sheriff of Anglesey, 1579-80, who died in 1613; descended from Meuric ap Llewelyn ap Halkin of Bodeon, 8th in descent from Hava, son of Kundhelw, Lord of Cwmwd Lhivon, living 1150. Humphrey ap Hugh and his wife Elizabeth had among other issue :

Owen Humphrey, eldest son and heir, born about 1625, died prior to 1699. He is said to have been an officer under Cromwell and he certainly served as a Justice for Merioneth- shire under the Protectorate. He was among the first in Wales to join the Society of Friends, and his name frequently occurs in Besse's Sufferings of Friends. In 1662, having with his brother Samuel, "refused to pay a demand for tithes" he was prosecuted in the

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Sheriff's Court and execution was awarded against him by which his cattle were seized. After his father's decease in 1664 or 1665, he became seized of the "ancient demesne lands of Llwyn-du" and deeded therefrom a lot of ground for a burial place for Friends. Owen Humphrey, having been heavily fined, it is believed that he left little personal estate, in fact what little money he had remaining he lent freely to Friends going to Pennsylvania. He is believed to have been twice married but all of his seven children were by his first wife, name unknown, among whom were, Rebecca, wife of Robert Owen, of Merion, Philadelphia coun- ty, Pennsylvania, the progenitor of the Owen family of Philadelphia, an account of which is given elsewhere in these pages; and Joshua Owen, before mentioned, of Burlington county, New Jersey, who married Martha Shinn.

As before stated Benjamin Crispin and Margaret Owen were married at Springfield Meeting; in this connection attention is called here to a rather ridiculous mistake that occurs in a book on The Crispin Family, published at Akron, Ohio, in 1901, by Rev. W. F. Crispin, so that Benjamin Crispin's descendants may not remain in error. The author of the book referred to states that Benjamin Crispin and Margaret Owen were married "in the old Quaker Meeting-House in Burlington, N. J.," of which he then gives a description at length, following with a full page picture of Burlington Meeting House; but exactly opposite this illustration he gives a fac-simile of their marriage certificate whereon is plainly to be seen the statement that the marriage took place in Springfield Meeting House.

Benjamin Crispin died intestate and letters of administration on his estate were granted to his eldest son, Silas Crispin, January 1, 1754, by Jonathan Belcher, Esq., Governor of the Province of New Jersey, Charles Read being Register. The births of the children of Benjamin and Margaret (Owen) Crispin are from a private family record in possession of their granddaughter, Ann Crispin Lippin- cott.

Issue of Benjamin and Margaret (Owen) Crispin:

Silas Crispin, b. May 5, 1723; m. March 3, 1745, Patience, dau. of Caleb Haines; nine children ;

Rebecca Crispin, b. May 25, 1725;

Martha Crispin, b. Sept. 29, 1727; m. Jan. 25, 1750, David Wills, a descendant of Daniel Wills, "Practitioner in Chemistry, of the Town of Northampton" who was joint pur- chaser on Jan. 23, 1676-7, of one share of West Jersey with Thomas Olive and William Biddle, from William Penn; later settling in Burlington county, where he was known as "Practitioner in Physick:" died there in 1700 at age of 67 years; was one of the proprietaries and prominent officials of West Jersey;

Joshua Crispin, b. Sept. 12, 1729; m. , and had issuc;

Margaret Crispin, b. Oct. 4, 1734; m. by license dated April 9, 1756, Richard Prickitt, of Burlington co., N. J .;

Joseph Crispin, b. July 17, 1737; m. 1762, his first cousin, Elizabeth Owen, for which both were dealt with by Evesham Monthly Meeting, 2mo. 10, 1763; they had eight children. After their marriage they removed to Salem co., where he purchased 1000 acres of land near Sharptown;

Benjamin Crispin, b. Nov. 27, 1739, d. 1785; lived and died near Mt. Holly; m. Rachel, dau. of Simeon Braddock, and they had one son, Silas, and five daughters; letters of administration were granted on his estate to his widow Rachel and son Silas, Dec. 9, 1785; and letters on Rachel's estate were granted to Jonathan Crispin, no doubt her husband's brother, March 15, 1793.

Ann Crispin, dau. of Benjamin and Rachel (Braddock) Crispin, m. Joshua Lippin- cott, and among her descendants may be mentioned, Rev. Benjamin Crispin Lippin- cott, D. D., of Penn's Grove, N. J .; and Rev. Joshua Allan Lippincott, D. D., LL. D., of Phila .;

Hannah Crispin, b. Aug. 12, 1741; m. April 28, 1768, her second cousin, Richard Stockton; seven children; among their descendants is Miss Harriet Stockton Antrim, of Burling- ton, N. J., the well-known compiler of "The Antrim Family," genealogy published in 1899; also Thomas Logan Gaskill, Esq., a prominent attorney at law of Newark, N. J., a graduate of Princeton University, class of '96, and of the Law Department of the Univ. Pa .;

PAUL CRISPIN, b. July 18, 1743; of whom presently ;

Jonathan Crispin, b. April 15, 1746; m. by license dated May 14, 1770, Mary Hewlings.

PAUL CRISPIN, son of Benjamin and Margaret (Owen) Crispin, born in Bur- lington county, New Jersey, July 18, 1743, died in 1816. He married, September

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27, 1764, Rebecca Hewlings, of a good old Burlington county family, probably a sister to Mary Hewlings, his brother Jonathan's wife. They took up their resi- dence in Moorestown, in the same county, where Paul Crispin was the proprietor of a ferry; in connection therewith he kept a house of entertainment. He and his wife lived at Moorestown all their lives. Paul died intestate, and letters of admin- istration were granted on his estate to his widow, Rebecca Crispin, in 1816. Though both Paul and Rebecca were of Quaker parentage they do not seem to have held membership in the Society. The dates of birth of their children as hereafter given are from Paul Crispin's Bible now in the possession of his grand- daughter, Frances Hubbs, of Frankford, Philadelphia.

Issue of Paul and Rebecca (Hewlings) Crispin:

Abigail Crispin, b. Oct. 22, 1770; m. by license dated Oct. 31, 1787, Capt. William Leconey, of Burlington co .; had two daughters;

REBECCA CRISPIN, b. Dec. 3, 1772; m. Charles Hubbs; of whom presently ; DOROTHY CRISPIN, b. Dec. 30, 1774; m. Feb. 3, 1796, Wills Burdsall; of whom presently; Hannah Crispin, b. March 19, 1777; m. - Chambers, but had no issue ;

Margaret Crispin, b. April 21, 1779; m. (first) Chambers, (second) -- Battel; no issue by either.

REBECCA CRISPIN, second daughter of Paul and Rebecca (Hewlings) Crispin, born at Moorestown, New Jersey, December 3, 1772, though not a birthright mem- ber of the Society of Friends, joined that sect and became an acknowledged min- ister of the Society. Some time after her death there was published in Philadel- phia, "A Memoir of Rebecca Hubbs, A Minister of the Gospel of the Society of Friends, late of Woodstown, New Jersey," composed largely from her own meino- randa and journals of her religious journeys.

Rebecca Crispin married Charles Hubbs, of Burlington, and they went to live at Pilesgrove township, Salem county, where both she and her husband applied for membership in the Society of Friends and were admitted to the Monthly Meet- ing there. Her first appearance in the ministry was about 1803-04, in the thirty- second year of her age. In 1806 they removed within the limits of Haddonfield Meeting, by which she was acknowledged as a minister in Fourth Month, 1807. She returned with her husband and children to Woodstown in 1811. In 1813 she obtained a certificate to perform a religious visit to some of the meetings within Baltimore and Virginia Yearly Meetings, and in the State of Ohio. After visiting some of the Meetings in Virginia, way was made, through the kindness of Micajah Crew, of Cedar Creek Meeting, in that State, to visit in person James Madison, then President of the United States. It will be remembered that President Madi- son's wife, Dolly Payne, had been brought up a Quaker. The President and his wife received them very kindly and they had a satisfactory opportunity with them, and parted with many tokens of affectionate regard. The President insisted on serving them with some refreshments, and following them to the carriage, placed in it some articles which he thought would be useful to them in their journey, and after a renewed expression of the satisfaction the visit had given him, took leave of them again, desiring a blessing might attend them.

In 1814 she made a religious visit to some of the Meetings in the State of Ohio, particularly within Miami and Salem Quarters. When the Separation of the Society of Friends occurred in 1827, Rebecca (Crispin) Hubbs remained with the

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older or Orthodox branch. From this time on she made many journeys and visits in the cause of the Gospel. After the last (1844), advancing age and bodily infirmity prevented such active service, and about two years before her death she had an attack of paralysis, but meanwhile performed much acceptable service within her own Quarterly Meeting. She died at Woodstown, New Jersey, Octo- ber 29, 1852.

Issue of Charles and Rebecca (Crispin) Hubbs:

Simeon Hubbs, eldest child, went to Indiana, and no more is known of him by his Eastern relatives ;

PAUL KRISPIN HUBB, insisted that Crispin should be spelled with a "K" and always affected that style. He was said to have been at one time connected with the United States Embassy to France, after which he settled down as a manufacturer of prints at Holmesburg, Phila., a staple industry in that locality. While in Lower Dublin township, in which Holmesburg is located, the whole of this region being filled with associations of his Crispin ancestry, and largely peopled with the descendants of Silas Crispin, by his first wife, Paul K. Hubbs applied for membership in the Crispin Burial Ground Community, which had charge of the old graveyard laid out by their ancestor, Capt. Thomas Holme, nearby, on the ground that he was a descendant of Silas Crispin, although his branch of the family had long been strangers to the locality. Although not a descendant of Capt. Thomas Holme, being descended from Silas Crispin's second wife, his claim as a Crispin was allowed and he was admitted a member. He after- wards removed to San Francisco, Cal., of which city it is said he was some time Mayor. He died there, leaving one son, Paul K. Hubbs, an attorney at law in that city, and one daughter;

Charles Ellis Hubbs, m. Sarah Le Campion, and they had issue :

Amanda Hubbs, m. her cousin, Isaac Newton, Jr., son of Isaac and Dorothy (Burdsall) Newton; see forward;

Anna Louisa Hubbs, m. Middleton Miller, of Va .;

Frances Hubbs, unm., now living in Frankford, Phila., before referred to as the custodian of the Paul Crispin Bible, beside which she possesses many other family relics.

Samuel Hubbs, while a young man and unm., went to the West Indies in charge of a valuable consignment of goods, and was robbed and killed by revolutionists;

John Hubbs, went to Cal., and nothing is known of him by his Eastern relatives; Beulah Hubbs, d. unm .;

Rebecca Hubbs, m. - Miller ; d. s. p .;

Margaret Hubbs, d. unm.

DOROTHY CRISPIN, third daughter of Paul and Rebecca (Hewlings) Crispin, born at Moorestown, New Jersey, December 30, 1774, married, February 3, 1796, Wills Burdsall, of an old and prominent Burlington county Quaker Family, who have a royal descent from King Edward IV of England, through Anne Maulev- erer, (daughter of Edward and Anne ( Pearson) Mauleverer) who married John Abbott and settled in Burlington, New Jersey. Wills Burdsall was also descended from Dr. Daniel Wills, of Northamptonshire, before referred to, as one of the Proprietaries and high officials of West Jersey.

Issue of Wills and Dorothy (Crispin) Burdsall:

Abel Burdsall, b. Nov. 13, 1796; m. and had issue;

Levi Burdsall, b. Dec. 31, 1797; m. Fanny Riley; children : John Burdsall; Sarah Burdsall; Jennie Burdsall; Theodore Burdsall; Elizabeth Burdsall.

DOROTHY BURDSALL, b. Feb. 26, 1799; m. Hon. Isaac Newton; of whom presently;

Jacob H. Burdsall, b. June 20, 1800; killed by a pony, June 22, 1819, unm .;

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Samuel Burdsall, b. Jan. 10, 1802; m. Abigail Wilson, and had issue;

Wills Burdsall, Jr., b. March 28, 1803, d. unm .;

IRA BURDSALL, b. Nov. 14, 1804; of whom later;

Elinor Burdsall, b. Sept. 8, 1807; m. Richard Kelly, and had issue :

Margaret Kelly; Dorothy Kelly ; Thomas Kelly; Philip Kelly.

Mahlon Burdsall, b. Jan. 13, 1809; m. and had issue;

Sarah Burdsall, b. Sept. 23, 1811; m. Owen Rhoades and had eight children;

James Burdsall, b. May 3, 1813, d. unm .;

Paul Burdsall, b. Nov. 27, 1816; m. and had issue.

DOROTHY BURDSALL, eldest daughter of Wills and Dorothy (Crispin) Burdsall, born February 26, 1799; married Hon. Isaac Newton, United States Commissioner of Agriculture, who it is claimed was a descendant of Sir Isaac Newton, ( 1642- 1727) the celebrated natural philosopher. He was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, March 31, 1800, died at Washington, D. C., June 19, 1867. After his marriage he moved to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where he made a pur- chase of land, and soon became noted for the neatness, order and productiveness of his land, and was recognized as one of the foremost agriculturists in Pennsyl- vania. He early became a member of the State Agricultural Association, and was frequently sent as its representative to the meetings of the United States Agricul- tural Society. He also was active in local organizations of a similar character. To the State Association he presented a resolution urging Congress to establish a National Department of Agriculture, and brought his plan for this purpose to the attention of each recurring presidential administration, from that of Harrison, in 1841, to that of Lincoln in 1861. To the last named, whose personal acquaint- ance he enjoyed, he was indebted for the final adoption of his scheme. After Congress had authorized the formation of the agricultural bureau in 1862, Presi- dent Lincoln appointed Isaac Newton its head as United States Commissioner of Agriculture. He organized the department on such lines that its efficiency even now is largely due to him. It is now a full fledged Department of Government, whose head, as Secretary of Agriculture, has a seat in the president's cabinet.

Issue of Isaac and Dorothy (Burdsall) Newton:

Bolton Newton, m. a Miss Malone; Anna Newton, m. G. Bakewell Earp; Isaac Newton, m. his cousin, Amanda Hubbs, above mentioned; Eleanor Newton, m. a Mr. Hupfeld.

IRA BURDSALL, son of Wills and Dorothy (Crispin) Burdsall, born November 14, 1804, was appointed United States Mail Agent between New York and San Francisco, by President Franklin Pierce, a very important position in those days, when the mail had to go by sea around Cape Horn. He died in this service, at sea, of cholera, which broke out on board a vessel on which he was making the voyage. He helped the captain nurse the stricken ones, contracted the disease himself, died of it, and was buried at sea off Havana, Cuba.

Ira Burdsall married (first) Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Elwell) Sariah, and granddaughter of Stephen Sariah, of Philadelphia, whose name was originally Sayres, but who changed the spelling to Sariah in order to have it dif-

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ferent from that of his relatives with whom he had a disagreement, particularly a brother who lived in Germantown. Her mother was a daughter of Sortel Elwell, a soldier of the Revolution, serving seven years under Gen. Nathaniel Greene. An account of Mrs. Burdsall's ancestry is given in these volumes under the title of the Richards Family.

Issue of Ira and Rebecca (Sariah) Burdsall:

ABBIE A. BURDSALL, m. William B. Richardson; of whom presently;

Emma Burdsall, m. Joseph Henry Craven, for twenty years president of the Girard Fire Insurance Company, and custodian of the Ridgway estate in Phila., and had issue :

Joseph Henry Craven, unm .;

E. Edoth Craven, unm.

Amelia Burdsall, m. J. Frank Shull, of Wenonah, N. J., and had issue :

Laura Shull, m. Henry Peddie, of Woodbury, N. J .;

Rena Shull, m. William J. McCahan, Jr., son of William J. McCahan, organizer and president of the W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining Company, of Phila. They reside at "The Belgrave," Chestnut street. They have no issue.

Rebecca Burdsall, m. Frank Elwell.

Ira Burdsall married (second) Rebecca Bate, and had issue:

Mary Burdsall, m. Jacob Hinchman, of Camden, N. J .;

Frank H. Burdsall, of Camden; member of City Council; Board of Health; associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; Receiver of Taxes; member of the Board of Appeals on Taxation; and has declined the nomination to the offices of Mayor of his city, and State Senator for his district. He m. Hallie Barber, of Camden, and had issue :

Ira Wingate Burdsall, m. Linda W. Brown;

Frank B. Burdsall, unm .;

Emily J. Burdsall, d. unm.

Abbie A. Burdsall, daughter of Ira and Rebecca (Sariah) Burdsall, married William B. Richardson, and they had issue :

William I. Richardson, m. (first) Mary, daughter of John T. Bailey, of Phila .; (second) Frances Clough, of Mich .;

Laura Richardson, dec .; m. Henry J. Keely;

Mary Richardson, m. Dr. S. C. Blair;

Henry Richardson, m. Theresa King, of Chicago, Ill .;

John W. Richardson, m. Lillie Shibe ;

Eleanor K. Richardson, m. Stephen G. Weeder, and had issue :

Marie Eleanor Weeder, dec .; Jessie Ione Weeder; Stephen Dana Weeder.

George M. Richardson, dec .; m. Elizabeth Hauk;

Frank B. Richardson, d. unm.

SILAS CRISPIN (II), son of Silas and Mary (Stockton-Shinn) Crispin, born in Lower Dublin township, Philadelphia county, March 19, 1702, was but nine years of age at the death of his father, and was probably taken by his mother to Burling- ton county, New Jersey, soon after the death of his father, and died in the town of Burlington, November, 1749. He was one of the influential men of the town, and was a slave owner, besides having indentured servants, who carried on for him a tailoring business. One of his servants ran away from him in January, 1734-5, and the advertisement of Silas Crispin, of Burlington, for his capture appeared in

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the American Daily Mercury, of Philadelphia, for January 21, and 28, a fac-simile of which advertisement was produced in McMaster's (School) History of the United States. By his will dated August 2, 1749, probated November 17, 1749, Silas Crispin bequeathed his house and lot to his wife, Mary Crispin, for life, and after her decease, the brick part thereof to his son, Thomas Crispin, and the wooden part to his son, William Crispin. His negro girl, Dinah, he gave to his wife until the girl was twenty-four years of age, when she was to go to his daugh- ter Sarah. His wife, Mary Crispin, and Thomas Wetherill were named as execu- tors.

Silas Crispin married, November 9, 1724, Mary, born August 2, 1704, died Au- gust 22, 1789, daughter of Thomas and Anne (Fearon) Wetherill, and grand- daughter of Christopher Wetherill, one of the Lords Proprietary of the Province of West Jersey, and ancestor of the Wetherill family of New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania.

Issue of Silas and Mary (Wetherill) Crispin:

Samuel Crispin, d. 1791; m. Sarah - and had two daughters and a son who died young and a daughter who lived to mature age and married;

WILLIAM CRISPIN, b. 1742; of whom presently;

Mary Crispin, m. Aaron Smith, son of Francis and Rachel (Zelley) Smith;

Sarah Crispin, m. Abraham Jones, no issue;

Anne Crispin, m. a Mr. Smith, no issue;

Elizabeth Crispin, d. unm .;

Thomas Crispin, b. 1744, d. June II, 1784; m. Nov. 9, 1762, in Phila., Susannah, dau. of Solomon Fussell, of that city; had two sons, who d. inf., and possibly others;

Abigail Crispin, m. Samuel Swift, and had issue.

WILLIAM CRISPIN, son of Silas and Mary (Wetherill) Crispin, born, according to his own account, in the year 1742, though the meeting record of his death in 1797, gives his age as sixty years, which would fix his natal year as 1737. The latter record gives the date of his death as April 24, 1797. He was born in Bur- lington, New Jersey, but removed to Philadelphia, as did both of his brothers.

William Crispin was one of those authorized to sign paper currency of the Province of Pennsylvania, issued under an act of the General Assembly, passed October 15, 1773, and he was appointed by Congress, December II, 1775, one of thirty-six signers of $3,600,000, continental currency of The United Colonies, or Bills of Credit, which that body ordered emitted, in six installments during 1775- 76.

During the Revolution William Crispin was Commissary General of the Penn- sylvania Militia and also of the Pennsylvania Navy. A letter from him to Gen. John Lacey, headed, "Newtown, Bucks Co. Oct. 17, 1781" and signed "Wm. Cris- pin, C. G. S. P. M." has been published in "Pennsylvania Archives," vol. ix, p. 437. On November 23, 1780, he was appointed Collector of Excise for the city and county of Philadelphia.

In 1792 he wrote an account of the Crispin Family, which he dated September 20, of that year, stating that he then lived at No. 16 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. In this history he states that he was fifty years old in the 7th month last, which as remarked above does not agree with the record in Race Street Monthly Meeting register which called him sixty years old at his death in 1797, but perhaps the Meeting entry meant only to give his approximate age ; his own account should be

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Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 54

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