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JOSHUA GILPIN, eldest son of Thomas and Lydia ( Fisher ) Gilpin, born in Phila- delphia, November 8, 1765, received the best education the city could afford. He
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was particularly fond of Latin classics, and wrote a number of poems and essays before the age of eighteen years. The death of his father placed the care of his mother and infant brother, together with the administration of a large estate, upon his shoulders at an early age. From 1784 to 1795 he was busily engaged in the care of the commercial business establishment in Philadelphia by his father and the Brandywine mills, now a very valuable property. He associated his younger brother with him at a very early age, and leaving the large business interests in his charge in 1795, made an extended trip to Europe, travelling extensively in England, Scotland and Ireland, and spending one year upon the Continent. He examined into the manufacture, trade and industries of Europe, and collected a valuable cabinet of specimens of mineralogy. Much of his time was, however, spent in the society of his relatives, and friends of congenial tastes, Benjamin West, Rev. William Gilpin, Bishop Wilberforce, Lord Stanhope, and many others of high social and literary standing. He married, August 5, 1800, Mary, daughter of John Dilworth, a banker of Lancaster, England, and Sarah his wife, born in Lancashire, April 22, 1777, and with her returned to Philadelphia, early in 1801. He took an active part in all that pertained to the best interest of the city of his birth and was connected with all the more important scientific, literary and social institutions of Philadelphia. Almost immediately after his return from Europe, he took up the canal scheme originated by his father, for connecting the Delaware and Chesapeake bays, but the commercial interests of Philadelphia being somewhat depressed for a number of years, its construction was delayed; renewing the agitation in 1817, after many delays, the canal was finally opened, mainly through his exertions and influence. Joshua Gilpin died August 22, 1841, in his seventy-fifth year, survived by his wife and seven children. His wife died April 21, 1864.
Issue of Joshua and Mary (Dilworth ) Gilpin:
Henry Dilworth, b. April 14, 1801, graduated at Univ. of Pa., 1819; studied law and was admitted to the Phila. bar; was appointed U. S. Attorney for Pa., 1832; solicitor of U. S. Treasury, 1837; Attorney General of U. S., 1840-41; Government Director of U. S. Bank, 1833-4; President of Academy of Fine Arts; Vice-President of Historical Soci- ety of Pennsylvania; edited and wrote many papers for the "Atlantic Souvenir," 1826- 32; the first literary annual published in America; author of many articles on politics, and general literature in "Democratic Review" and "North American Review," as well as of numerous biographies of prominent public men; delivered many addresses before scientific literary and æsthetic associations, collected a large and valuable library of books and manuscripts which he devised to the Historical Society of Penn- sylvania, known as the Gilpin Library; published in 1841 a volume of "Decisions of United States Court for Eastern Pennsylvania," and two volumes octavo of "Opin- ions of the Attorney General of the United States ;" he d. Jan. 29, 1860.
Hon. Henry Dilworth Gilpin m. Eliza Johnston, widow of Judge Josiah S. Johnston, of La., and dau. of the eminent surgeon, Dr. John Sibley, also of La. After his mar- riage he and his wife travelled extensively in foreign parts and were the recipients of hospitality from crowned heads and princes. During President Van Buren's adminis- tration, Mrs. Gilpin was a great favorite in Washington society; they left no issue : Sarah Lydia, b. Aug. 21, 1802;
Elizabeth, b. March 27, 1804. d. Jan. 13, 1892, m. June 7, 1841, Mathew Maury, son of James Maury, first Consul of the United States, at Liverpool;
Jane, b. Jan. 2, 1806, d. Feb. 18, 1806;
Thomas William, b. Dec. 30, 1806, d. Feb. 18, 1848, unm .; was many years United States Consul at Belfast, Ireland;
Mary Sophia, b. Aug. 23, 1810, d. May 20, 1889, unm .;
Richard Arthington, b. Nov. 21, 1812, d. May 15, 1887, m. Aug. 5, 1854, Mary C. Wat- mough, of Chester, co., Pa., and their daughter, Brinka, m. Thomas Lynch Mont- gomery, State Librarian of Pa .;
William, b. Oct. 4, 1814, d. Jan., 1893, in Col .; Cadet U. S. Military Academy, July I, 1834; Second Lieutenant U. S. Dragoons, June 8, 1836; First Lieutenant, Oct. 19,
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1836; served in Florida and Mexican Wars; was appointed Governor of the Territory of Col. by Lincoln, and was largely instrumental in keeping that territory loyal to the Union; m. 1876, Mrs. Julia (Oratt) Dickerson, a widow, dau. of Gen. Bernard Pratt, of St. Louis, Mo., and had children, Marie, William and Louis Vidal Gilpin.
JOSEPH GILPIN, eighth child of Joseph and Hannah (Glover) Gilpin, born in Birmingham township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, March 21, 1703-4, married, December 17, 1729, Mary, daughter of Vincent and Betty ( Peirce) Caldwell, and settled on a farm in Birmingham township. There they resided until 1761, when they removed to Christiana Hundred, near Wilmington, Delaware, where he died December 31, 1792, and was buried at Wilmington. He and his family were mem- bers of the Society of Friends; his wife, Mary, being appointed an elder of Con- cord Meeting, 8mo. 2, 1756, Vincent Caldwell, father of Mrs. Gilpin, came from Derbyshire and settled in East Marlborough township, Chester county. His wife, Betty Peirce, was a daughter of George and Ann (Gainer) Peirce, who came from Winston, Somersetshire, 1684, and settled at Thornbury, Chester county. George Peirce, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Gilpin, was a member of Colonial Assembly in 1706.
Issue of Joseph and Mary (Caldwell) Gilpin:
Ruth, b. Dec. 23, 1730, m. March 20, 1751, Daniel Stubbs, and had twelve children; VINCENT, b. Dec. 8, 1732, d. Aug. 5, 1810, m. Abigail Woodward; of whom presently ;
Orpha, b. Sept. 15, 1734, m. Oct. 23, 1754, Joseph Shallcross and settled in Wilmington, Del .; had ten children;
Nun, b. Nov. 10, 1736, d. childhood;
Gideon, b. Dec. 4, 1738, d. Aug. 20, 1825. m. Dec. 1, 1762, Sarah Gregg, (second) Nov. 1I, 1810, Mrs. Susanna Hoopes; was an innkeeper in Birmingham, Chester co., near Chadds Ford, his house being headquarters of Lafayette, just before the battle of Brandywine; the Marquis, when visiting the scene in 1825, found Gideon on his death bed and greeted him affectionately; Gideon and Sarah (Gregg) Gilpin had children, Bernard, Samuel, Alban, Hannah, Lydia, Joscph and Ann;
Israel, b. Oct. I, 1740, d. July 4, 1834, m. Jan. 12, 1765, - ; lived at the old homestead in Birmingham until after the Revolution, and then removed to Boone co., Ky .; had two children;
Betty, b. Oct. 3, 1742, m. Oct. 25, 1764, at Swedes' Church, Wilmington, William Cleaney ; had ten children ;
William, b. Nov. 1, 1744;
Hannah, b. April 14, 1746, d. Dec. 4, 1823, m. Nov. 23, 1769, at Centre Meeting, New Castle co., John Grubb; had seven children ;
Joseph, b. March 23, 1748, d. 1826; m. a widow, dau. of Capt. Giles, and removed to Boone co., Ky .;
Thomas, b. March II, 1749-50, d. 1802, m. (first) at Swedes' Church, Sept. 12, 1772, Lydia Rice, (second) Aug. 29, 1777, Sarah Gray, (third) 1802, Sarah Council; had thirteen children ;
Mary, b. April 12, 1752, d. Dec. 2, 1821, m. Dec. 19, 1774, at Centre Meeting, Adam Williamson, of Brandywine Hundred, New Castle co., Del., and had eight children.
VINCENT GILPIN, eldest son of Joseph and Mary (Caldwell) Gilpin, born in East Marlborough township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1732, married, December 6, 1758, Abigail, born August 20, 1738, daughter of Edward and Sarah (Sharpless) Woodward, of Middletown, Chester county, and settled soon after on the Brandywine, above Wilmington, Delaware, on land now a part of the Dupont estate, where he built a large flour mill, and operated it for many years, shipping large quantities of flour to the West Indies. He was at different times part owner of several vessels plying between the Delaware ports and the West Indies, one of them the brig "Nancy," named for his daughter Ann, is said to have been the first vessel to noist the American flag in the West Indies. She
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was eventually chased ashore by British cruisers and blown up. Vincent Gilpin was in the habit of exchanging a portion of his flour in the West Indies for pro- ducts of those islands, which he disposed of in this country. When the British forces were on their march from the Chesapeake to Philadelphia, 1778, he had a large amount of molasses and rum stored at Wilmington, and fearing it would be seized or destroyed by the British, he sent it up to the old Gilpin homestead in Birmingham, then occupied by his brother Israel, and thereby, to use the old and homely phrase, transferred it "from the frying pan into the fire," as the old home- stead became the headquarters of Gen. Howe, after the battle of Brandywine. He died at Wilmington, August 5, 1810, and his wife Abigail, five years later, Novem- ber 10, 1815. Abigail Woodward, wife of Vincent Gilpin, was the granddaughter of James Sharpless, born at Hatherton, Cheshire, England, March 5, 1670-I, who came to Pennsylvania with his parents, John and Jane ( Moor) Sharpless, landing at Chester, August 14, 1682. Her mother, Sarah Sharpless, born March 27, 1710, married (first) Edward Woodward, Jr., father of Mrs. Gilpin, and (second) George Gilpin, uncle to Vincent, of Birmingham township. The mother of Sarah (Sharpless) Woodward was the second wife of James Sharpless, Mary, born in Glamorganshire, Wales, July 10, 1674, daughter of Ralph and Mary Lewis, who came to Pennsylvania with John Bevan, 1683, and located first in Haverford, re- moving soon after to Upper Darby. Edward Woodward, Jr., father of Abigail (Woodward) Gilpin, born December 27, 1707, died 1746, was a son of Edward and Abigail (Edge) Woodward, and grandson of Richard and Jane Woodward, who settled in Thornbury, Chester county, 1687.
Issue of Vincent and Abigail (Woodward) Gilpin:
EDWARD, b. April 27, 1760, d. April 15, 1844, m. Lydia Grubb; of whom presently; Ann, b. Aug. 13, 1762, d. June 18, 1822, m. John Ferris, of Wilmington, Del., d. s. p .; Hannah, b. Dec. 27, 1764, d. unm .;
William, b. April 3, 1767, d. Aug. 23, 1773;
James, b. Jan. II, 1769, d. Oct. 1, 1798, m. April 26, 1792, Sarah Littler; was a miller near Wilmington ; d. of yellow fever ;
Aratus, b. Feb. 29, 1772, d. Sept. 25, 1773;
William, b. Aug. 18, 1775, d. Dec. 2, 1843, at Byberry, Philadelphia co., m. Nov. 21, 1796, Ann Dunwoody, of Wilmington, who d. at Wilmington, Feb. 1, 1840; both buried in Friends' Burial-Ground at Wilmington; they had issue:
Josiah H., b. Nov. 22, 1797, d. April 19, 1845, near Galena, Kent co., Md .; m. April 5, 1825, Martha Turner Moffett, of Kent co., Md., m. (second) 1841, Sarah Forman; four children by first marriage ;
Mary Caldwell, b. Sept. 5, 1799, d. at Wilmington, Del., Nov. 13, 1884, m. Feb. 22, 1838, Lewis Rumford, whose first wife was Henrietta M. Grubb;
James, b. Aug. 16, 1801, lost at sea in 1832;
Edward Woodward, b. July 13, 1803, d. April 29, 1876, admitted to Delaware bar, 1828; appointed Attorney General of Del., Feb. 12, 1840, and held that position ten years; appointed Chief Justice of Del., May 6, 1857, and filled that position until his death at Dover in 1876, while holding Court; m. March 15, 1842, Elea- nora Adelaide, b. in Phila., May 2, 1813, d. at Wilmington, Nov. 16, 1874, dau. of Daniel and Susan ( Beck) Lammot;
William Aratus, b. July 13, 1805, m. Elizabeth Brown;
Henry Latimer, b. July 15, 1807, d. Sept. 15, 1851, m. Elizabeth Briscoe ;
Vincent Caldwell, b. Aug. 29, 1810, d. Oct. 17, 1863, m. Ann Kenney, of Phila .; was sometime Mayor of Wilmington, Del .;
Elizabeth Ferris, b. Nov. 25, 1812, d. unm .;
Lewis, b. July 19, 1815, d. Jan. 17, 1840, unm.
Gertrude, b. Aug. 13, 1778, m. Oct. 23, 1799, John Smith, of Wilmington, and after a residence of some years in Wilmington, where eleven children were born to them, re- moved to the West.
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EDWARD GILPIN, eldest son of Vincent and Abigail (Woodward) Gilpin, was born near Wilmington, Delaware, April 27, 1760. He was reared to the mercantile branch of his father's business, and as a very young man made voyages to the West Indies, to dispose of flour and other products; on one of these voyages he was captured by a French privateer, carried to Basseterre, Island of Gaudaloupe, French West Indies, and kept a prisoner there for some time. After the death of his wife, Edward Gilpin removed to Philadelphia, where two of his sons had located, and died there April 15, 1844. He married at Wilmington, Delaware, November 22, 1788, Lydia, born July 21, 1766, died May 3, 1831, daughter of Samuel and Lydia ( Baker) Grubb.
Issue of Edward and Lydia (Grubb) Gilpin:
Ann F., b. May 23, 1791, d. March 21, 1871, m. Sept. 1, 1812, John Hirons, Jr .; John F., b. March 23, 1793, d. inf .;
Vincent, b. Jan. 29, 1795, d. Jan. 7, 1866, m. Nov. 14, 1822, Naomi Robinson;
John Ferris, b. Nov. II, 1796, m. (first) Nov. 23, 1820, Mary, dau. of Capt. Samuel and Mary (Shallcross) Levering, of Wilmington, (second) June 12, 1833, Anna Gilling- ham, b. in Phila., Dec. 5, 1807, d. there July 21, 1869; in 1836 John F. Gilpin and his second wife removed to Phila., and resided at 312 So. Broad street .; they had issue :
Rebecca Harrold, b. March 21, 1834, m. Jan. 24, 1856, Fairman Rogers ;
George, b. in Phila., Dec. 21, 1838, m. Dec. 3, 1872, Sarah C. Winston, of New York City, and had issue: Anna Gillingham Gilpin, b. May 27, 1874.
Abigail, b. Oct. 21, 1798, d. Wilmington, Del., May 24, 1859, m. Sept. 3, 1820, Richard Campion Woolworth, a manufacturer of jewelry in Phila., born at Long Meadow, Mass., d. in Phila., Oct. 13, 1838; had issue :
Richard Hobson Woolworth, b. in Phila., Oct. 22, 1824, was with Edward S. Whelen & Co., bankers, until the beginning of the Civil War, when he entered the service of the U. S .; was Colonel of Fourth Penna. Reserves, and made Brevet Brigadier General for gallant and meritorious services; was killed at the battle of Cloyd's Mountain, Va., May 9, 1864; m. Ellen Moffett;
Anna Amelia Woolworth, of 336 So. Thirteenth street, Phila., b. Phila., Dec. 4, 1826.
James, b. Oct. 5, 1800, d. inf .;
Lydia Zane, b. Feb. 15, 1802, m. (first) Nov. 1I, 1820, John Dickinson Vaughan, Attor- ney at Law, and in 1827 removed with him to Richmond, Ind., m. there (second) Dec. 28, 1854, Henry Hoover;
Richard Baker, b. April 12, 1804, d. at Mckeesport, Pa., Jan. 14, 1871, m. (first) Ann Reily Porter, of Wilmington, Del., (second) Hannah Miller Ellicott, of Ellicot City, Md .;
CHARLES, b. Nov. 17, 1809, of whom presently.
CHARLES GILPIN, youngest child of Edward and Lydia (Grubb) Gilpin, born at Wilmington, Delaware, November 17, 1809, was educated at the Germantown Academy, Philadelphia, and studied law with Joseph Ingersoll, Esq., one of Phila- delphia's most celebrated lawyers; was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1834, and practiced law there for half a century. He was elected to the Common Coun- cil of that city in 1839, and to the Select Council, 1840, where he served for nine years ; was elected Mayor in 1850, and filled that office for three years. He was appointed Solicitor to the Sheriff in 1858, and filled that position, with the excep- tion of two terms, until 1883; was United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1864-68, and Supervisor of Elections for the same district. His office and residence was for many years at 709 Walnut street, and his later resi- dence 336 South Thirteenth street. He married, April 5, 1843, Sarah Hamilton, born at "Bessie Bell Farm," Limerick township, Montgomery county, Pennsyl-
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vania, April 17, 1815, daughter of John McClellan and Elizabeth (Forepaugh) Hood, of Race street, Philadelphia, and "Bessie Bell Farm," their country seat.
Issue of Charles and Sarah H. (Hood) Gilpin:
WASHINGTON HOOD GILPIN, of Phila. bar, b. at 709 Walnut street, Phila., Feb. 2, 1844, m. Nov. 16, 1873, Louisa Baldwin Clayton; of whom presently;
Charles Gilpin, b. Dec. 14, 1845, m. April 25, 1871, Ida Robinson Davis, of Pittsburg, Pa .; they reside in Phila .;
Lydia Gilpin, b. July 17, 1849, m. Oct. 11, 1873, at Cavalry Church, Phila., her cousin, Frederick Morton Gilpin, b. in New York City, Jan. 7, 1846, son of Samuel S. and Elizabeth (Morton) Gilpin, and grandson of James and Sarah ( Littler) Gilpin, above mentioned ; Frederick M. Gilpin was a midshipman of U. S. N., 1862-4, and an officer in the merchant service, 1864-9; later abandoned the sea and resided in Phila .; issue :
Morton, b. Sept. 22, 1874, d. Jan. 30, 1876, m. Ella K. Ruff, Sept. 12, 1888; Alice, b. Sept. 18, 1875.
Henry Dilworth, b. July 17, 1851;
Hood, b. Oct. 19, 1853, member of Phila. bar, Assistant U. S. Attorney for Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1875; m. Oct. 31, 1882, Emily Olivia, dau. of Oliver and Eliza (Swaim) Hopkinson, of Phila .; they have issue :
Francis Hopkinson, b. Aug. 3, 1883;
Gabriella, b. March 4, 1885;
Hood, Jr., b. Aug. 3, 1891.
Bernard, b. Dec. 22, 1856, member of Phila. bar, m. Feb. 26, 1884, Clara K., dau. of Peter C. and Hannah (Naylor) Hollis, (second) Aug. 23, 1899, Florence Fox; had issue by first marriage :
Hannah Hollis Gilpin, b. July 20, 1885, m. Feb. 1, 1907, Ernest L. Brantigan ; Clara Hollis Gilpin, b. Jan. 17, 1889.
By second marriage :
Florence Gilpin, b. April 29, 1903.
WASHINGTON HOOD GILPIN, eldest son of Charles and Sarah Hamilton (Hood) Gilpin, born at (present number) 709 Walnut street, Philadelphia, February 2, 1844, was educated at private schools of Philadelphia and at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating at the latter institution in 1864. He studied law under his father, Charles Gilpin, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, 1866, and has since practiced his profession in that city. He is a member of the Union League and of the Rittenhouse Club.
Mr. Gilpin married, October 16, 1873, Louisa Baldwin, born at 717 Walnut street, Philadelphia, October 4, 1853, daughter of John Clayton, of Philadelphia, by his wife, Anna Baldwin Colton, a niece and adopted daughter of Matthias W. Baldwin, the well-known locomotive builder of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Gilpin resided for some years at 2026 De Lancey place, Philadelphia, where their children were born; in the fall of 1890 they removed to their present residence at 2004 De Lancey place.
Issue of Washington Hood and Louisa Baldwin (Clayton) Gilpin:
Louisa Clayton Gilpin, b. Nov. 21, 1876, m. Nov. 2, 1905, Israel Wistar Morris, son of Dr. J. Cheston and Mary E. (Johnson) Morris ;
Charles Gilpin, 3d., b. Oct. 7, 1878, m. April 23, 1903, Frederica, youngest dau. of the late Charles F. Beriund, dec., by his wife Anita Hickman; they have issue :
Charles Beriund Gilpin, b. March 3, 1904.
John Clayton Gilpin, b. May 8, 1881;
Washington Hood Gilpin, b. March 25, 1883, d. June 9, 1884;
George Gilpin, Jr., b. March 20, 1885;
Sarah Hood Gilpin, b. July 8, 1887;
Anna Baldwin Gilpin, b. Dec. 30, 1889.
SHOEMAKER FAMILY.
The Pennsylvania family of Shoemaker is of pure German origin, the name being anglicised from Schumacker and Schoonmacker. The earliest record we have of the family begins at about the middle of the seventeenth century, when several of the name were residents of the little rural village of Kriegsheim, Upper Rhine, some thirty miles from Worms in the midst of the fertile valley of the Palatinate. They were among the early disciples of Menno Simon until about 1659, when William Ames and George Rolfe went to Kriegsheim to preach the doctrines of George Fox, after visiting a few small meetings of Friends in Hol- land, established some years previously by a colony of English Friends, whom the chances of misfortune had planted on the soil of the Low Countries. Arrested in their native country for holding non-conformist meetings, they were sentenced to exile in the English Colonies of the West Indies, and placed upon an English vessel to be transported thither, but their ship being captured by a Dutch privateer, they were landed in Holland, where they soon after established meetings, which were visited by George Fox, and new converts added to their flock. Among the converts of Ames and Rolfe at Kriegsheim were Peter and George Schumacker, both of whom suffered persecution for "Truth's sake" as recorded in "Besse's Sufferings of Quakers." Peter Schumacker had two cows distrained in 1663 for the payment of fines imposed for non-support of the established church, and in the same year his brother George also had goods distrained to a considerable amount.
William Penn visited Kriegsheim early in 1682, and induced a number of Pala- tinates, both Mennonists and Friends, to found a colony in his new Province of Pennsylvania. As a result of this visit, three of the family of Schumacker, Jacob, Peter and George, emigrated to Pennsylvania at different periods. The first Jacob, supposed to be a brother to Peter and George, sailed from Gravesend, June 6, 1682, and arrived in Philadelphia, August 16, following. He eventually settled in Germantown, where he was Sheriff in 1690. He had children, George, Thomas, Susanna and Jacob, whose descendants are now widely scattered over the United States and Canada. Peter Schumacker sailed for Pennsylvania in the "Francis and Dorothy," from London, October 16, 1685, with his son Peter and daughters, Mary, Frances and Gertrude, and his niece ("Cousin") Sarah, daugh- ter of his brother George. Both he and his son Peter Jr. were prominent in the affairs of Germantown, and the latter has many descendants in Bucks and Mont- gomery counties and elsewhere.
GEORGE SHOEMAKER, third of the Kriegsheim family to emigrate, was married at Heidelberg, Germany, 1662, and lived at Kriegsheim until 1686, where nine children were born to him. He was a member of the Society of Friends and suf- fered persecution for his religious convictions at various periods between 1663 and 1686 as before recited. With his wife Sarah and children, George, Abraham, Barbara, Isaac, Susanna, Elizabeth and Benjamin, he sailed on the ship "Jeffries" for Philadelphia, but died on the passage, his family arriving in Philadelphia, March 20, 1685-6. His widow Sarah purchased, February 29, 1686-7, two
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hundred acres in Cheltenham township, near the present town of Ogontz, long known as Shoemakertown, Philadelphia, (now Montgomery) county. The time intervening between her arrival and the date of the purchase being probably spent with relatives in or near Germantown, where her third son Isaac remained, on her removal with the remainder of the family to Cheltenham. On September 28, 1708, she conveyed to her eldest son, George Shoemaker, one hundred and sixty acres of the homestead, and a few years later conveyed the balance, forty acres, to her daughter Sarah, who had married Edward Eaton, of Abington. The family were members of the meeting known for a time as Cheltenham Meeting, held some time in the house of Richard Wall, at Shoemakertown, which became the home of the Shoemaker family in 1700 and was occupied by them for many generations. The meeting was later removed to Abington township, and is known as Abington Meeting.
Issue of George and Sarah Shoemaker:
GEORGE, b. in Kriegsheim, Germany, 1663; of whom presently;
Sarah, b. about 1665; accompanied her uncle, Peter Shoemaker, to Pa., 1685; m. Jan. 18, 1688-9, Edward Eaton, and resided on a portion of the Cheltenham homestead;
Barbara, b. at Kriegsheim, 1666; no further record;
Abraham, b. 1667, at Kriegsheim; accompanied his parents to Pa., and is said to have d. unm .;
ISAAC, b. at Kriegsheim, 1669; d. at Germantown, April 12, 1732; m. Sarah Hendricks; of whom later ;
Susanna, b. 1673; m. March 4, 1696-7, Isaac Price, of whom and her descendants an account is given in this volume;
Elizabeth, accompanied her mother to Pa. in 1686, at the age of eleven years; no further record; 1
Benjamin, accompanied his mother to Pa. in 1686, at age of ten years; no further record.
GEORGE SHOEMAKER, eldest son of George and Sarah Shoemaker, born at Kriegsheim, according to the record of the arrival of the family in Philadelphia, March 20, 1686, was then twenty-three years of age. He probably resided with his mother and her other children on the plantation purchased by her in Chelten- ham until after the death of his wife's grandfather, Richard Wall, 1698. He became the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of the home plantation in 1708, and greatly improved it. He had also previously purchased one hundred acres of land of Toby Leech. He married, February 14, 1694-5, Sarah, daughter of Rich- ard Wall Jr., by his wife Rachel, and granddaughter of Richard and Joane (Wheel) Wall, who had come from Gloucestershire, England, 1682, bringing a certificate from the Meeting of Friends held at the house of Edward Edwards, at Stokes Orchard, county Gloucester, dated 4mo. 26, 1682, which was accepted by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 10mo., 1682. Richard Wall purchased six hundred acres of land in Cheltenham township, extending across the township, from Abington township on the east to Bristol township on the west, and including the site of Shoemakertown; the house erected by him is said to form a portion of the present house of Joseph Bosler in Ogontz. The earliest Friends Meeting in that section was held there. His son, Richard Wall, Jr., purchased one hundred acres of the homestead, but died April 8, 1689, leaving an only child Sarah, who became wife of George Shoemaker. Richard Wall Sr. died March 26, 1698, and by will dated March 15, 1697-8, devised his whole estate, except six acres of land devised to Cheltenham Meeting for a burying-ground, to his grand-
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