Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 62

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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Rebecca A., b. Nov. 22, 1822; m. James McCarter;

Richard C., b. March 4, 1825; m. (first) Ann K. Shallcross, (second) Martha T. Lukens.

Issue of Richard M. and Amelia (Bird ) Shoemaker:

BENJAMIN H., b. Dec. 27, 1827; in. Sarah Brinton Trump; of whom presently;

Charles Bird Shoemaker, b. Aug. 13, 1829; d. Aug. 10, 1897; m. Anna Foulke; merchant in Phila .; manager of Apprentices' Library; director of Glasgow Iron Co .; Treasurer of Borough of Lansdowne;

Comly Bird Shoemaker, b. Nov. 22, 1838; m. Martha L. Bailey.

BENJAMIN H. SHOEMAKER, the prominent Philadelphia merchant, eldest son of Richard M. Shoemaker by his second wife, Amelia (Bird) Hallowell, was born at Shoemakertown, December 27, 1827, and on arriving at manhood engaged in mercantile business in Philadelphia, and became identified with many of the institutions of that city. He was for many years a member of the Penn- sylvania Society for the Alleviation of the Condition of Prisoners in Penal Insti- tutions. In 1867 he was elected one of the managers of the Pennsylvania Hos- pital, and has been since regularly re-elected ; was for nineteen years secretary of Board, and since 1891 has been its president. He was for ten years president of the Germantown Horticultural Society ; director of Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company ; many years a director of Consolidated National Bank ; president of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company; director of Montgomery Trust Company of Philadelphia ; of Glasgow Iron Company, at Pottstown, Penn- sylvania ; is one of the managers of Haverford College; trustee of Penn Charter School; member of Academy of Natural Sciences, Franklin Institute, Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. He was

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one of the early members of the Union League, and is identified with a number of charitable institutions. He married under the auspices of the Friends Meeting of Northern District of Philadelphia, March 4, 1856, Susan Brinton, born Janu- ary 22, 1835, at Penningtonville, Chester county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Michael Trump, of Philadelphia, by his wife Maria, daughter of William and Lydia (Feree) Brinton, of Lancaster county.

Issue of Benjamin H. and Susan B. (Trump) Shoemaker:

Robert Shoemaker, merchant of Phila., b. Jan. 18, 1858; director of Glasgow Iron Co., etc .; m. Katharine Hallowell;

Maria Brinton Shoemaker, b. in Phila., Jan. 26, 1860; m. T. William Kimber, of the Phila. bar;

Samuel B. Shoemaker, M. D., b. Sept. 6, 1861 ; d. in Germantown, April 3, 1893; gradu- ated at Haverford College, 1883; graduate Medical Department of Univ. of Pa., 1886; Resident Physician at Pennsylvania Hospital, 1886-7; Physician of Out-Patient De- partment, Pennsylvania Hospital, Oct. 27, 1890, to death; m. Mary Dawson Tyson;

Amelia Bird Shoemaker, b. at Germantown, Nov. 25, 1865; m. Joseph Lovering Whar- ton;

Benjamin H. Shoemaker, Jr., b. Germantown, Dec. 3, 1872; merchant of Phila; m. Edith Hacker.

ISAAC SHOEMAKER, third son of George and Sarah Shoemaker, born in Krieg- sheim, Germany, 1669, accompanied his mother to Pennsylvania at the age of seventeen years. When his mother, brothers and sisters removed to Cheltenham, autumn of 1696, he remained in Germantown, and later became prominently iden- tified with the affairs of that town. He followed the business of tanner, his tan yard being located on Main street east of where Coulter street now intersects that street. He was Sheriff of Germantown in 1695-96, and one of the Burgesses in 1706. He was a patron of Pastorius' School, and contributed to the fund for erecting a Meeting House in 1705. He built a house near the corner of Main street and Shoemaker's lane, now Penn street, which was the family home for several generations. It was used as a hospital after the battle of Germantown. Isaac Shoemaker died there April 12, 1732. He married at Abington Friends Meeting, November 26, 1694, Sarah, born at Kriegsheim, Germany, December 2, 1678, daughter of Gerhard and Mary Hendricks, who came to Pennsylvania in the "Francis and Dorothy," October 16, 1685, and settled in Germantown, Ger- hard purchasing 200 acres on Wingohocking creek, which at his death passed to his daughter, Sarah Shoemaker. He was one of the signers of the famous protest against slavery, with the Opden Graef brothers in 1688, which was presented suc- cessively at the Germantown Meeting, Abington Monthly Meeting and Philadel- phia Quarterly and Yearly Meeting.

Issue of Isaac and Sarah (Hendricks) Shoemaker:

BENJAMIN, b. Aug. 3, 1704; of whom presently;

Henry, removed to N. J .; m. at Egg Harbor, 1732, Mary Ong.

BENJAMIN SHOEMAKER, eldest son of Isaac and Sarah (Hendricks) Shoe- maker, born in Germantown, August 3, 1704, removed to Philadelphia in 1724, taking a certificate from Abington Monthly to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and is mentioned as a merchant on High street in 1729. He was elected to Common Council, October 3, 1732, advanced to the Board of Alderman, October 6, 1741, and .was elected Mayor, October 4, 1743.

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He succeeded Samuel Hassel as City Treasurer, September 15, 1751, and October I, 1752, was again elected Mayor, and a third time October 7, 1760. He was called to the Provincial Council in 1745 and qualified as a member of that body, April 4, 1745, and served until his death in 1767. He was frequently appointed by Council and the Proprietors to negotiate treaties with the Indians, one of these treaties, entered into at Lancaster, July 23, 1748, was signed by him, Joseph Turner, Thomas Hopkinson and William Logan. On December 8, 1755, he was requested to write to the Susquehannah Indians to meet the Governor at John Harris' on the first of January succeeding, and December 14, 1756, with Andrew Hamilton and William Logan, was appointed to meet Teedyuscung and satisfy him as to his claim for land. He died in Philadelphia, June 25, 1767. He married at Philadelphia Friends Meeting, May 29, 1724, Sarah, born in Philadelphia, September 4, 1705, daughter of Thomas and Beulah (Jacques) Coates, the former a native of Sproxton, Leicestershire, and the latter a daughter of Thomas and Beulah Jacques, French Huguenots, who came from London to Philadelphia, about 1684. Mrs. Shoemaker died June 8, 1738, and Benjamin married (second) at Friends Meeting, September 6, 1739, Elizabeth, born in Philadelphia, October 21, 1716, daughter of Anthony and Phoebe (Guest) Morris.

Issue of Benjamin and Sarah (Coates) Shoemaker:

SAMUEL, b. 1725; m. (first) Hannah Carpenter, (second) Rebecca Rawle; of whom presently ;

Sarah, b. June 23, 1729; m. Edward Penington ;

Hannah, d. unm .;

Beulah, m. April 8, 1758, Samuel Burge, and their dau., Sarah, "Sally Burge," of "Sally Wistar's Journal," b. Nov. 13, 1762, m. Nov. 13, 1783, William Rawle, Esq., only son of Francis and Rebecca (Warner) Rawle, the latter of whom became the second wife of Samuel Shoemaker; Mrs. Beulah Burge d. Jan. 29, 1802.

Issue of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Morris) Shoemaker:

Anthony, removed to Flushing, L. I .; m. Penelope Rodman;

Charles, buried Sept. 29, 1752;

Joseph, a merchant of Phila. until 1772; removed to N. Y .; said to have commanded a British privateer during the Revolution;

William, m. Martha, dau. of Alexander Brown, of Bucks co., and resided for a time in Moreland; later a hatter in Nockamixon twp., Bucks co .; d. there;

Charles, m. Margaret Minnich, of Bristol, Bucks co .; merchant in Phila. and later in Bristol;

James, of Reading, Berks co .; d. s. p., 1831;

Mary, m. at Christ Church, Nov. 29, 1770, John Scull, (second) Daniel Levan; d. s. p., 1816;

Phœbe, d. unm .;

Elizabeth, m. Dec. 30, 1772, Benjamin Lightfoot, of Reading.

SAMUEL SHOEMAKER, eldest son of Benjamin and Sarah (Coates) Shoemaker, born in Philadelphia, 1725, was an active and successful merchant in Philadel- phia. He was for some time attorney for the Pennsylvania Land Company in London, generally known as the "London Company," who owned vast tracts of land in Philadelphia, Chester and Bucks counties, prior to their dissolution in 1760. He was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Hospital, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and an intimate friend of Benjamin West. He was elected to the Common Council, October 7, 1755; became an Alderman,

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October 7, 1766; was elected Mayor, October 3, 1769, and succeeded himself October 2, 1770. He also succeeded his father as City Treasurer in 1767. He was commissioned a Justice, February 27, 1761, and again, November 19, 1764, and was a member of Provincial Assembly, 1771-72. He was a Royalist during the Revolution and was one of those arrested and confined in the Free Masons Lodge Room in 1777, but giving the required promise to remain at his house and hold no communication with the enemy, escaped deportation to Virginia, with the other Philadelphia merchants then arrested. He remained in Philadelphia during its occupation by the British, and held the office of Justice under their authority in December, 1777. When the British left Philadelphia, he accompanied them to New York, taking his son Edward with him, and they later sailed for England, where he spent some time in company of Benjamin West, and was by him intro- duced to the King and Queen. His wife remained in America, where he returned with his son in 1786, and lived for a time in Burlington, New Jersey, and later in Philadelphia, where he died October 10, 1800. A portion of his large estate was confiscated in 1783, the remainder of it being saved by the consummation of the treaty of peace. He married, April 28, 1746, Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Preston) Carpenter, who died twenty years later; was buried May I, 1766. He married (second) November 10, 1767, Rebecca (Warner ) Rawle, widow of Francis Rawle and daughter of Edward and Anna (Coleman) Warner. Mrs. Rebecca Shoemaker died December 21, 1819.

Issue of Samucl and Hannah (Carpenter ) Shoemaker:

BENJAMIN, b. March 9, 1746-7; d. Sept. 4, 1808; m. Elizabeth Warner; of whom pres- ently;

Samuel, b. Dec. 6, 1748; d. March 8, 1749;

Samuel, b. Nov. 28, 1749; d. March 13, 1750;

Sarah, b. July 27, 1751 ; d. July 11, 1776; unm .;

Isaac, b. April 14, 1752; d. April 25, 1752;

Hannah, b. March 21, 1754; d. Jan. 13, 1779; unm .; Rachel, b. Jan. 6, 1756; d. Nov. 25, 1756;

Mary, b. July 15, 1757; d. March 27, 1780; unm .;

Samuel, b. March 4, 1759; d. y .;

Isaac, b. 1761 ; d. Jan. 31, 1763;

Rachel, b. 1763; d. 1767.

Issue of Samucl and Rebecca (Warner-Rawle) Shoemaker:

Edward, who accompanied his father to England in 1778; m. Ann Caroline Giles, of Hagerstown, Md.

BENJAMIN SHOEMAKER, eldest son of Samuel and Hannah (Carpenter) Shoe- maker, and only child of that marriage who left issue, was born in Philadelphia, March 8, 1746-7. He was a distiller in Philadelphia, and later retired to his country seat at Germantown, where he died September 4, 1808. He married at Friends Meeting, May 18, 1773, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Anna (Cole- man) Warner, and sister to his father's second wife. She died December 8, 1823. Issue of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Warner) Shoemaker:

Edward Warner, b. July 22, 1775; d. s. p .;

Anna, b. March 27, 1777; m. (first) Robert Morris, Jr., (second) Francis Bloodgood;

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Samuel, b. June 14, 1778; graduated at Univ. of Pa., A. B .; studied law, and admitted to Phila. bar ; d. s. p., Nov. 28, 1822;

Benjamin, b. Sept. 27, 1780; d. s. p.

ISAAC SHOEMAKER, son of George and Sarah (Wall) Shoemaker, born at Shoe- makertown, Cheltenham township, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, October 23, 1700, inherited from his father that part of the old homestead at Shoemakertown, containing the old house erected by his grandfather, Richard Wall, in which the first Friends Meetings were held, located on the west side of York road, at north- ern end of the present town. A part of the old house occupied by him, if not by Richard Wall, is still standing and forms the rear portion of the house now occu- pied by Joseph Bosler, present owner of the lands and mills so long known as Shoemaker's Mills. Isaac Shoemaker married Dorothy, daughter of Bartholomew Penrose, of Philadelphia, shipwright, by his wife, Esther, daughter of Toby and Esther (Ashmead) Leech, before mentioned. Isaac Shoemaker died October 23, 1741, leaving his widow Dorothy, the sole custodian of his estate for the benefit of their seven children, all of whom were minors, the youngest but six years of age.

Dorothy Shoemaker, widow, January 6, 1746, entered into an agreement with Richard Mather, who had married her sister, Sarah Penrose, and John Tyson, of Abington, son of Rynier, "to build on the land now in the tenure or possession of the said Dorothy Shoemaker, in the said township of Cheltenham, a corn-grist Water-mill, to be built and owned jointly and in partnership, between the said parties," Dorothy to retain a one-half interest and Mather and Tyson each a one- fourth interest therein. It was to be built "opposite ye said Dorothy's garden at ye place of ye crick, commonly called and known by ye name of ye Sheep Washing Place."

The mill erected under this agreement is still in successful operation and was owned and operated by the descendants of Dorothy Shoemaker for just a century, being sold in 1846 to Charles Bosler, father of the present proprietor.

Dorothy Shoemaker died August 11, 1764, and by will dated three days before her death, devised her estate equally between her six surviving children; her son George having died six months before her, unmarried. Her two eldest sons, John and Isaac, were named as executors, and a small legacy was given to her son-in- law, Nathan Sheppard.

Issue of Isaac and Dorothy (Penrose ) Shoemaker:

JOHN, b. April 1, 1726; of whom presently;

Isaac, m. (first) March 24, 1754, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Elizabeth (McVeagh) Potts, of Upper Dublin; she d. Sept. 24, 1758; m. (second) Aug. 31, 1761, Anne, dau. of Thomas Roberts, of Bristol twp., Philadelphia co., and left one son, Thomas; Thomas, d. unm .;

Joseph, was in early life a tanner at Shoemakertown, and later a merchant in Phila .; m. at Gwynedd Friends' Meeting, Nov., 1765, Abigail, dau. of John Jones, of Plymouth ; Esther, b. April 2, 1732; d. in Baltimore co., Md., Sept. 8, 1794; m. May 26, 1748-9, Isaac Tyson; moved to Baltimore co., Md., 1783, taking a certificate to Gunpowder Meeting; Sarah, b. Oct. 2, 1733; m. March 31, 1755, Nathan Sheppard, son of Moses Sheppard, of Cumberland co., N. J., and lived in Upper Dublin twp. until 1792, when with her three children, Thomas, Moses and Ann Sheppard, she removed to Jericho, Baltimore co., and later to Baltimore; the son, Moses, was the founder of the Sheppard Asylum for Insane at Baltimore; Sarah d. at Baltimore, Dec. 24, 1799;

George, d. Phila., where he was a successful merchant, Jan. 23, 1764; his will, dated Jan. 18, 1764, leaves a fund in the hands of his brother, John, and uncle, Richard Mather,

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for repairing the wall around the Shoemaker Burying-Ground at Shoemakertown; and the income of a larger fund for the education of children of poor Friends of Abington Meeting.

JOHN SHOEMAKER, eldest son of Isaac and Dorothy (Penrose) Shoemaker, born at the old homestead in Shoemakertown, April 1, 1726, purchased of John Tyson, June 14, 1752, his one-fourth interest in the mill erected in conjunction with his mother and uncle, and later acquired the entire interest therein, and continued to operate the mill for over half a century, residing all his life in the old homestead. He was a member of Abington Friends Meeting, and a prominent business man in that section. A diary kept by John Morton, during the Revolu- tion, states that John Shoemaker was "very much abused" by a marauding party of Hessians in the winter of 1777, when the British occupied Philadelphia.

John Shoemaker married (first) at Abington Meeting, May 25, 1752, Elizabeth, born June 5, 1725, died May 29, 1795, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Heath) Livezey, of Lower Dublin ; (second) May 2, 1800, Martha Parry, widow of David Parry and daughter of Robert and Jane (Cadwalader) Comly, of Byberry. His children were all by his first wife. He and his first wife Elizabeth are buried side by side in the old Shoemaker Burying-Ground.

Thomas Livezey, great-grandfather of Elizabeth (Livezey) Shoemaker, a native of Norton, Cheshire, England, by lease and release from William Penn dated March 2 and 3, 1681, acquired five hundred acres of land, "to be laid out in the Province of Peennsylvania," and the following year came to Pennsylvania and located in Philadelphia county. He was a member of Grand Jury, January II, 1682-3, and his will is dated June 12, 1692.

Jonathan Livezey, son of Thomas Livezey, accompanied his father to Pennsyl- vania, and by his wife Rachel had six children, Mary, Thomas, Jonathan, Martha, married Robert Thomas ; Rachel, married Evan Thomas; and David. Of these Jonathan, born Philadelphia county, June 15, 1692, died June 24, 1764; married, March 24, 1717-18, Esther, daughter of Robert Eastburn, of Abington, was the ancestor of the Livezey family of Bucks county.

Thomas Livezey, eldest son and second child of Jonathan and Rachel, born in Philadelphia county, January 17, 1689-90, died there June 5, 1759, married Eliza- beth, daughter of Robert Heath, who in 1707 erected the first mill at Wells Ferry, now New Hope, Bucks county. Thomas and Elizabeth (Heath) Livezey located in Lower Dublin township, Philadelphia county, where their daughter Elizabeth, who in 1752 became the wife of John Shoemaker, was born June 5, 1725.

Issue of John and Elizabeth (Livesey) Shoemaker:

Isaac, b. Jan. 19, 1755; d. July 31, 1779; m. May 5, 1779, Sarah, dau. of Joseph Mather, of Germantown, who after his death m. (second) Dec. 15, 1783, Hugh Evans;

CHARLES, b. March 19, 1762; d. May 31, 1837; m. (first) Elizabeth Paul; (second) Mar- garet Wood; of whom presently;

John, b. July II, 1764; d. March 15, 1817; m. at Abington Meeting, 10mo. 16, 1788, Jane, dau. of David Ashbridge, of Bensalem, Bucks co .; both buried in Shoemaker Bury- ing-Ground at Shoemakertown;

Elizabeth, b. July 24, 1766; m. June 7, 1798, Peter Robeson.

CHARLES SHOEMAKER, second son of John and Elizabeth (Livezey) Shoemaker, born at the old homestead in Shoemakertown, March 19, 1762, inherited the mill property, erected by his grandmother, Dorothy ( Penrose) Shoemaker, and lived

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there until his death, May 31, 1837. He was a member of Abington Friends Meeting, and is buried in the graveyard adjoining the Meeting House. He mar- ried (first) at Germantown Meeting, March 15, 1785, Elizabeth, daughter of John Paul, of Germantown. She died August 21, 1785, and he married (second) April 28, 1803, Margaret, daughter of William and Hannah ( Newbold) Wood, of Newton, Gloucester county, New Jersey. She was born September 5. 1775, died March 17, 1842.

Issue of Charles and Margaret (Wood) Shoemaker:

Elizabeth, b. Feb. 5, 1804; d. July 20, 1807 ;

Mary, b. June 15, 1805; d. Nov. 4, 1806;

Isaac, b. Aug. 2, 1807; d. at Burlington, N. J., Sept. 21, 1873; unm .; buried in Friends' Meeting House Grounds, on High street, Burlington, N. J .;

Elizabeth, b. March 5, 1809; m. Aug. 20, 1848, Abraham M. Taylor;

John Wood, b. Nov. 11, 1810; d. May 20, 1878, in Ariz .; unm .;

Charles Heath, b. July 29, 1812; m. April 16, 1835, Mary Spencer Boon;

Anna Stewardson, b. July 7, 1814; m. March 9, 1831, Samuel S. Ritchie; MARGARETTA, b. Sept. 15, 1817; of whom presently.

MARGARETTA SHOEMAKER, youngest child of Charles and Margaret (Wood) Shoemaker, born at Shoemakertown, September 15, 1817, married at Abington Meeting, September 12, 1839, Morgan Hinchman, of Philadelphia, Conveyancer, son of John and Eliza (Webb) Hinchman, of New Jersey, grandson of James and Sarah (Morgan) Hinchman, great-grandson of Joseph and Mary (Stokes) Morgan, great-great-grandson of Joseph and Judith (Lippincott) Stokes, who were married August 8, 1710; the latter being a daughter of Freedom and Mary (Curtis) Lippincott, and a granddaughter of Richard and Abigail Lippincott, an account of whose English ancestry and Philadelphia descendants is given in these volumes. Morgan Hinchman was also a descendant in the seventh generation from William Cooper, of Cooper's Point, near Camden, New Jersey, who was born in the parish of Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, and came to West Jersey in 1679; was one of the Proprietors' Commissioners in 1682; a member of the first Assembly of the province and again returned in 1685 ; was appointed to the Council of the Proprietors, 1688, and Judge of Gloucester county, 1696. His son Joseph, who married Lydia Rigg, August 11, 1688, was a Representative to the first Council of the United Province in 1703. Hannah Cooper, daughter of Joseph and Lydia Cooper, married, 1717, Alexander Morgan; their son, Joseph Morgan, who married Mary Stokes in 1758, was father of Sarah (Morgan) Hinchman, above mentioned.

Issue of Morgan and Margaretta (Shoemaker) Hinchman:

Charles Shoemaker Hinchman, b. Jan. 3, 1842; in. Lydia S. Mitchell, of Nantucket, Mass .;

John Webb Hinchman, b. Aug. 8, 1843; d. 1847;

Walter Hinchman, b. July 25, 1845; unm.

ROBERTS FAMILY.

The Welsh ancestry of John Roberts, of Pencoed, parish of Llyn, Caernarvon- shire, Wales, who came to Pennsylvania in 1683, and settled in Merion township, Philadelphia county, is as follows :

COLWYN AP TANGNO, Lord of Llyn, and founder of the Fifth Noble Tribe of North Wales, whose arms were Sable, A chevron between three fleur-de-lys, Argent : had a son,

Meredith ap Colwyn, who had, among others a son,

Gwrgan ap Meredith, who had, among others a son,

Einion ap Gwrgan, who had, among others a son,

Meredith ap Einion, who had,

Howell ap Meredith, who had,

Griffith ap Howell, who married a daughter of Tegwered ap Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, ap Iorwerth Duvyndum, who had,

Ievan ap Griffith, who married a daughter of Griffith ap David Goch, ap David Griffith, ap Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, and had,

Rhys ap Ievan, who married a daughter of Meredith ap Griffith, ap Madog Geoodaith, and had,

Ievan ap Rhys, who was living at Pen Koed, Caernarvonshire, circa, 1450; mar- ried Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffydd Derwas, Esquire, of the Body of Henry VI. and was a son of Meuric Lloyd, Lord of Nannau, and had,

Griffith ap Ievan, born circa, 1450, married Catrin, daughter of Meredith ap Hwlkin Lloyd, of Llyn Lleon, alias Glyn Llivon, ap Howell, ap Iorwerth Dhu, ap Iorwerth, Lord of Cyn Menai, Anglessey, ap Griffith ap Meredith, ap Methu- selem, ap Hava, ap Kundhelw, living 1150, of Cwmwd Llivon, Caernarvonshire, and had,

Morris ap Griffith, of Pen Koed, who owned large estates in the Parishes of Llangian, Llanengan, Llanbedrog, and Llanarmon, Caernarvonshire. He was born circa 1480-5, and married Margaret, daughter of Griffith ap Howell, ap Madog, of Betws, ap Ievan, ap Einion, ap Griffith ap Howell, ap Meredith, ap Einion, ap Gwrgan, ap Meredith Goch, ap Colwyn, Lord of Llyn, before men- tioned.

The mother of Margaret, and wife of Griffith ap Howell, was Lowry, daughter of David ap Rhys, ap Ievan, ap Llewelyn Ddu, ap David, ap Griffith, ap Iorwerth, ap Owen Brogyntyn, third son of Madoc ap Meredith, Prince of Powys, died 1160, ap Bleddyn, ap Cynfyn, Prince of Powys.

The mother of Lowry was Mali ( Mary), daughter of Ievan ap Einion, of Corsy Gedol, Merionethshire, descended from Osborne Fitz Gerald, of the Norman Geraldines of Ireland. His descent being as follows :

Gerald Fitz Walter, De Windsor, Constable of Pembroke, living 1108, married Nesta, daughter of Rhys ap Tudour, Prince of South Wales, and had a second son Maurice Fitz Gerald, died 1177; buried in Gray Friars, Wexford; went with Strongbow, to Ireland, 1168; married Alice, daughter of Arnulph de Montgomerie. and their second son, Thomas Fitz Maurice, was a grantee from King John, of

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an estate of ten Knights' fees; died 1215, leaving, by wife Eleanor, daughter of Jordan de Morisco Montgomery, a son, John Fitz Thomas, slain at Callon, 1260, who married Honora, daughter of Phelim O'Connor, of Kerry, and had Osborne Fitz Gerald, before mentioned, who went to Wales, in 1237, married the heiress of Cors y Gedol, and was living, 1204; had Kenric, who had Llewelyn, of Cors y Gedol, who married Nesta, daughter of Griffith ap Adda, of Dolg, and had Griffith, living 1385, married Eva, daughter of Madoc ap Ellis, of Crniarth, and sister of Llewelyn ap Madoc, Bishop, of St. Asaph, temp. Edward II, and had a son, Einion ap Griffith of Cors y Gedol, Captain of the forty archers of Richard II, who married Tangwerstl, daughter of Rudderch ap Ievan Lloyd, of Gogerdaam, a celebrated bard, and had son Ievan ap Einion, above referred to.

Morris ap Griffith, and Margaret his wife had issue, as follows:

Griffith Morris, whose descendants inherited the estate of PenCoed; John Morris: William Morris; THOMAS MORRIS, of whom presently ;

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Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 62

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