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We now come to his services in the Revolution. While carrying on the milling business in Ridley, the troubles in the mother country coming on, Hugh Lloyd enlisted his sympathies with the Colonists and entered actively into their pro- ceedings. By the passage of the Boston Port Bill, the people became aroused to the necessity of adopting active means of defence of their liberties. From meet- ings held in Philadelphia, circulars were sent to the people of the various counties of the Province. As a result of this a meeting of citizens of Chester county was held at Chester, July 13, 1774, at which Hugh Lloyd was one of a committee of thirteen appointed for this county to consider the matter, and, July 15, he, with his associates met similar committees from the other counties of Philadelphia, in whose action the Continental Congress, which met in the same city, September 5 following, had its origin.
He was one of the committee of which Anthony Wayne was chairman, appoint- ed at the County Convention, December 20, 1774, "to carry into execution the asso- ciation of the late Continental Congress," also one of the twelve members selected from this committee to attend the Provincial Convention which assembled at Phil-
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adelphia January 23, 1775, and one of the number present. At a meeting of the county committee, March 20, 1775, he was one of the seven members ordered "to assay a draught of a petition to present to the General Assembly of this Province with regard to the manumission of slaves, etc." At their meeting held October 23, 1775, he was one of seven members appointed as a committee to correspond for this county. In this year he was appointed Colonel of the Third Battalion of Chester County Associators, his command being frequently called into service in that and following years.
Just previous to the Independence, he was one of the thirteen delegates from this county to the Provincial Conference held in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, June 18, 1776, which meeting resolved: "that a Convention should be called for the purpose of forming a new Government for this Province on the authority of the people above."
Strange as it now seems, he was one of the Judges of election in the Borough of Chester, July 8, when delegates to that Convention, he being a candidate, were voted for. On June 25, the meeting adjourned after each delegate had signed a declaration which stated their willingness to concur in a vote of the Congress de- claring the United Colonies free and independent states.
About this time we find him living in Darby township on the Great Road, near the Blue Bell Inn. Of this house in which Hugh Lloyd lived until 1816, Town- send Ward in the Pennsylvania Magazine, for 1879, speaks as follows: "On the south side of the Kakarikonk or Cobb's Creek we are now in Delaware County, and to the East of the Darby Road ( formerly called the Great Road) is the picturesque manion house of the Smiths of Tinicum, bought by them of the Lloyds in 1816. An ancient house, a part of it dating from 1785, embowered among aged trees, no destroying hand has yet touched the antique double doors, now so rarely seen, and which in this place yet retains, what perhaps can nowhere else be seen, veriable 'bulls eyes.' There are round pieces of glass, very thick in the middle, and inserted two of them in the upper part of the door to afford some light in the hall. The northern door, the eastern door and the inside door opening into the dining room each contains two of these now almost unknown adornments. A wooden lock yet in good serviceable condition is in use on one of the doors of this house. While living here his family having a large circle of acquaintances, were accus- tomed to entertain very hospitably." This old house, most unfortunately, was burned down within a few years.
After peace was declared, Hugh Lloyd pursued the even tenor of his ways, but when Delaware county was erected, 1789, he was a representative in General As- sembly, and was re-elected to the same office, 1791. On April 24, 1792, Gov. Miflin commissioned him one of the Associate Judges of the Courts of Delaware county, and he continued on the bench a third of a century, serving faithfully, until, find- ing the weight of years pressing upon him, he tendered his resignation to Gov. Schultz.
In the spring of 1816 he moved to Darby with his family. His wife dying 1825, the following year he went to live with his daughter Hannah Browne, of Kensing- ton. Here he lived until his death caused by paralysis, March 20, 1832, at the ad- vanced age of ninety-one years. He was buried from the house of his son, Charles Lloyd, opposite the Blue Bell Inn, Kingsessing or Paschallville.
Since the removal of Richard Lloyd and his wife from Merion, 1742, the Lloyd
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family have always taken an active interest in all movements in Darby. In 1743, the Darby Library was organized, the same year in which was founded the Amer- ican Philosophical Society. Richard Lloyd Hugh's father, and Thomas Pearson, whose daughter Susannah afterwards became Hugh's wife, were two of the twen- ty-nine founders. This Library claims distinction on account of its foundation at such an early date, amidst great difficulties, when the population was small, money scarce and nearly everyone poor. When we remember that it was thirty-three years before we were a nation and that Washington, "the Father of his Country," was but eleven years old, it is remarkable that so many were found willing to pay down their twenty shillings and devote some of their time to the formation of a library. The first purchase of books was made through the kind offices of John Bartram, whom Linnaeus called the "greatest natural botanist of the world," and his friend Peter Collinson, of London, another eminent botanist, and consisted of forty-three volumes, thirty-nine of which are still on the shelves of the library. This library has been perpetuated until this time without the omission on the part of its managers of a single stated meeting, and the interest of the Lloyd family has continued to the present time; the original share allotted to Richard Lloyd being now in possession of a lineal descendant, Charles Lloyd Serrill, of Darby, great-great-grandson of Hugh Lloyd.
Hugh Lloyd himself always took an active part in the Library Company, being at one time its secretary, and, 1795, one of a committee to ascertain and report upon the feasibility of procuring a lot and erecting a suitable building, but the project was then abandoned on account of the insufficiency of funds. But in 1872, a lot was bought and a building erected at a cost of over $10,000. Of the building committee of seven members, two were Paschall and Charles Lloyd, grandsons of Hugh Lloyd, and one a great-grandson, J. Charles Andrews, the latter being untiring in his efforts in behalf of its welfare.
One of the founders of the Philadelphia Library, of which Benjamin Franklin was a member, was Rees Lloyd, an educated and literary man, a brother of Rich- ard Lloyd, father of Hugh.
Hugh Lloyd was also a member of the Library Company of Chester founded 1769. In 1770, we find him one of a committee instructed to buy books "with what money is in bank." Hugh Lloyd was also a member of the Darby Fire Company, founded 1775, being twice its secretary, once in 1793, again in 1816, and in 1817 was elected its permanent President.
Issue of Judge Hugh and Susannah (Pearson) Lloyd:
Thomas, b. June 24, 1768; d. Dec. 1I, 1814; m. Mary Wood; had issue;
David and Samuel, said to have d. inf .;
Richard Pearson, b. Jan. 18, 1773; d. Aug. 21, 1814; m. Edith Lane ;
CHARLES, b. June 20, 1776; d. Jan. 26, 1860; of whom presently;
Hannah, b. Feb. 15, 1779; d. Aug. 7, 1868; m. John Coates Browne, of Kensington, Phila., at whose house her father Hugh Lloyd d .;
Samuel, b. Sept. 22, 1781; d. Sept. 3, 1806; unm .;
Robert, b. Sept. 30, 1784; d. Feb. 4, 1875; m. Anne Browne;
Hugh Pearson, b. May 29, 1788, d. 1876; m. (first) Mary Warner, (second) Sidney Steel ; had issue by second wife.
CHARLES LLOYD, fifth son of Hugh and Susannah ( Pearson) Lloyd, was born in Chester, now Delaware county, June 29, 1776, while the bells were calling
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together the delegates to the Provincial conference at Philadelphia at which his father, Col. Hugh Lloyd, was a delegate from Chester county. As this convention, before its final adjournment, decided to declare the independence of the Colonies, it was likewise the natal day of the Republic. Charles Lloyd was reared in Ridley township, Delaware county, and resided there until after his marriage at Darby Meeting, March 8, 1798, to Frances Paschall, when they took up their residence at Paschallville, Philadelphia county, and spent the remainder of their lives there.
Frances Paschall, wife of Charles Lloyd, was born February 24, 1771, a daugh- ter of Dr. Henry Paschall, of Paschallville, by his wife Ann Garret, born Novem- ber 24, 1752, died December 1, 1820, daughter of Nathan and Ann (Knowles) Garret, of Darby, granddaughter of Samuel and Jane (Pennell) Garrett, and great-granddaughter of William and Ann (Kirke) Garratt, of Harby, county Lei- cester, England, who came to Pennsylvania and settled in Upper Darby, Chester county, bringing certificate from Friends at Harby dated July 20, 1684. William was a son of John and Mary Garrat, and was born in Leicestershire, August 21, 1643.
Dr. Henry Paschall, father of Frances ( Paschall) Lloyd, was a great-grandson of Thomas Paschall, of Bristol, England, who purchased land of William Penn by lease and release bearing date respectively, September 26 and 27, 1681, and with wife Joane (Sloper) Paschall and their three children, Thomas, William and Mary, arrived in Philadelphia in February following, and settled in Philadelphia county, where Thomas died September 15, 1718, aged eighty-three years and four months, his wife having died September 2, 1707, aged seventy-two years and nine months.
Thomas Paschall, Jr., of Philadelphia county, born in England, married at Haverford Meeting of Friends, Margaret, eldest child of William and Elizabeth (Griffith) Jenkins, who had come from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales (where Margaret was born May 23, 1674), about 1682, and settled first at Haverford, and later at Abington, Philadelphia county. Thomas Paschall, Jr., died about 1743, and his wife Margaret in 1736. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom the seventh, Dr. John Paschall, father of Dr. Henry Paschall before men- tioned, was born November 5, 1706, and died 1779. He married, April 25, 1728, Frances, born June 15, 1710, died January 29, 1781, daughter of Henry and Han- nah (Knight) Hodge, and granddaughter of Christopher Knight who came from the Island of Antigua. Dr. Paschall settled in Darby township, where he owned considerable real estate and was a successful practicing physician, as was also his son Dr. Henry Paschall, the youngest child, born in Darby, October 28, 1746; he died at Paschallville, May 13, 1835. He practiced medicine in Wilmington, Dela- ware, from his marriage, 1770, until 1790, when he returned to Philadelphia coun- ty. He married (second) Catharine Lincoln, and was father of thirteen children, eleven by his first wife, Ann Garrett before mentioned, and two by the second mar- riage; Frances (Paschall) Lloyd being the eldest child of Ann Garrett. Charles Lloyd died at Paschallville, Philadelphia, January 26, 1860. His wife Frances (Paschall) Lloyd had died there August 27, 1837.
Issue of Charles and Frances (Paschall ) Lloyd:
PASCHALL, b. Jan. 15, 1799; d. Aug. 17, 1884; m. (first) Henrietta J. Fitch, (second) Massey Serrill, neé Steele; of whom presently ;
Charles Washington;
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Hannah, b. Jan. 25, 1802; d. June 20, 1868; m. James Andrew;
Frances, b. Feb. 5, 1803; d. Jan. 24, 1871; m. William Davis Jones; left issue ;
Henry Paschall Lloyd, b. Feb. 12, 1803; d. June 3, 1886; m. Annabelle Williams; had one son, viz. :
Howard Williams Lloyd, of Phila.
Charles Lloyd, b. Oct. 2, 1811; d. Nov. 30, 1888; m. Mary Humphrey Oakford; Franklin Lloyd, b. May 27, 1814; d. Aug. II, 1884; m. Hannah Hancock.
PASCHALL LLOYD, eldest son of Charles and Frances ( Paschall) Lloyd, born at Paschallville, Philadelphia, January 15, 1790, died there August 17, 1884. He was twice married. By his wife, Henrietta Fitch, he had one son, Charles Lloyd. He married (second) May 19, 1831, Massie (Steele) Serrill.
Issue of Paschall and Massie (Steele-Serrill) Lloyd:
William Jones Lloyd, of whom presently; Henry Paschall Lloyd, b. Feb. 12, 1832; Washington Lloyd, b. Jan. 15, 1834;
Paschall Lloyd, Jr., b. July 16, 1838;
Francis Henry Lloyd, b. Aug. 23, 1839.
WILLIAM JONES LLOYD, eldest son of Paschall and Massie (Steele-Serrill) Lloyd, born in Philadelphia August 1, 1835, married, March 22, 1859, Ann E. Custer, and was for a time engaged in business in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He died December 29, 1895.
Issue of William Jones and Anna E. (Custer) Lloyd:
William Supplee Lloyd, of whom presently;
Emma Lloyd, b. Dec. 8, 1862; d. Sept. 24, 1871 ;
Charles Nathan Lloyd, b. Dec. 8, 1863; m. (first) Amanda Clivia Pierce, and had one child :
Marie C. Lloyd, b. Sept. 14, 1887.
He m. (second) Lilian Esler Friar, neé Schantz, and had issue :
William Jones Lloyd, 2d., b. May 28, 1903;
James B. Lloyd, b. Sept. 27, 1905.
Henry Burroughs Lloyd, m. Dec. 31, 1901, Kate E. Johnston;
Helen Lloyd, b. Dec. 29, -; m. Feb. 16, 1904, William Hastings, of Easton, Pa.
WILLIAM SUPPLEE LLOYD, eldest son of William Jones and Anna E. (Custer) Lloyd, born at La Crosse, Wisconsin, February 12, 1860, is a manufacturer of knit goods in Philadelphia. He married, April 27, 1893, Ida (Croskey), widow of Thomas Jones Mustin, and daughter of Henry Croskey, by his wife Anne, daugh- ter of Matthew and Anne (Robinson) Dunnahew ; and granddaughter of George Duncan Croskey and his wife Eliza Ashmead, of the prominent Philadelphia fam- ily of Ashmead.
JOHN ASHMEAD, founder of the Ashmead family in Pennsylvania, was born in Cheltenham, county of Gloucester, England, October 14, 1648, and married there, October 14, 1677, Mary, daughter of William Conner, of Cheltenham. Having, in connection with his brother-in-law Toby Leech, purchased a large tract of land of William Penn, both he and Leech and their respective families came to Penn- sylvania, 1682. The land was laid out in what became Cheltenham township, Phil- adelphia, now Montgomery county, named for the English home of the Ashmeads, and there John Ashmead took up his residence. He died there December 21, 1688,
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as the result of an accident, and his wife Mary, survived the shock of his death but one day.
JOHN ASHMEAD (2), son of John and Mary (Currier) Ashmead, was born in Cheltenham, England, July 12, 1679, and accompanied his parents to Pennsylvania at the age of three years. He married at Darby Friends' Meeting, October 12, 1703, Sarah, born at Darby, July 13, 1685, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Gibbons) Sellers, from Derbyshire, founders of the well-known and prominent family of Sellers of Darby Mills, an account of which is given elsewhere in these volumes. John Ashmead (2) died at Germantown, Philadelphia, October 7, 1742.
JOHN ASHMEAD (3), son of John and Sarah (Sellers) Ashmead, born in Ger- mantown May 12, 1706, married, August 27, 1734, Ann, born October 25, 1716, daughter of James Rush, great-granddaughter of Capt. John Rush, an officer of Cromwell's army, and sister to the father of the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Rush, the distinguished Revolutionary surgeon and statesman, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. This John Ashmead died at Germantown July 30, 1750, and his widow, Ann (Rush) Ashmead, died July 16, 1760.
CAPT. JOHN ASHMEAD, son of John and Ann (Rush) Ashmead, born in Ger- mantown, Philadelphia, September 29, 1738, became identified with the sea-going trade from the port of his native city at an early age, and before attaining his majority went as super-cargo of a merchant vessel to St. Croix, West Indies, and from that time followed the sea until incapacitated for its hardships by old age. He became a captain before the breaking out of the Revolution, during that strug- gle, was Captain of the brigs "Mars" and "Eagle" of Pennsylvania, and was also appointed naval constructor by the Continental Congress, 1776. He was a skillful and daring mariner and a tactful disciplinarian, and became famous as a naval commander. After the close of the Revolutionary War, he was captain of the "India" and other famous Indian merchantmen, and made many voyages to Euro- pean and Asiatic ports. During the last years of his life he was senior warden of the port of Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia June 6, 1818, having lived and served his country through two Colonial Wars, and through both wars for inde- pendence.
Capt. John Ashmead married, 1760, Mary, born 1743, died May 18, 1814. daughter of Benjamin Mifflin, and niece of Gen. and Gov. Thomas Mifflin. In the commonplace book of his first cousin Dr. Benjamin Rush, it is stated that in 1800, Capt. Ashmead stated to his cousin that over thirty of the forty years of his mar- ried life had been spent upon the sea, some of his trips consuming seven and eight months. In this book is also found Capt. Ashmead's epitaph, written by himself many years before his death, which, as revised shortly before his death, is as fol- lows :
"In Life's hard bustle on the troubled seas, Thro' many storms and many a prosperous breeze, Thro' winter's blasts and summer's sultry sun, From frigid to the torrid zone I've run, In ninety voyages thro unnumbered toils, I've sailed above five hundred thousand miles. Being taken, foundered, and oft cast away,
Yet weathered all,-in this close port to lay, Where a dead calm my weary bark doth find, Obliged to anchor for the want of wind."
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A later revision cut off the last two lines, and added in their place :
"Where undisturbed my dust it shall remain, Till the last trump calls up all hands again. And what new perils I may then go through No human reason ever yet could show, But the same power which led through earth and sea, Will doubtless lead me through eternity."
Through his son William Ashimead, who married Margaret Mckinley, Capt. John Ashmead was grand father of John W. Ashmead, one of the most distinguished lawyers of the Philadelphia and New York Bars. Through his son John Ash- mead (5) and grandson John Ashmead (6), who married Ann Lehman, he was great-grandfather of Sophie Ashmead, who married Ellis Bartlett, of an old New England family, and after his death took her two sons, Ellis and William Ash- mead-Bartlett, to England, where the elder married the Baroness Nudett-Couts.
ELIZA ASHMEAD, daughter of Capt. and Mary (Mifflin) Ashmead, born in Philadelphia, 1788, married, December 14, George Duncan Croskey, born in Eng- land December 14, 1778, died in Philadelphia, August 18, 1829. She died in Phil- adelphia, April 26, 1852.
HENRY CROSKEY, son of George Duncan and Eliza (Ashmead) Croskey, born in Philadelphia, November 15, 1815, was a prominent merchant of that city, and died there October 1, 1899. He married, August 25, 1837, Anne Dunnahew, daughter of Matthew Dunnahew, of Philadelphia, and his wife Anne Robinson, of the Robinson family of Virginia, prominent in the War of the Revolution in that section. Her brother John Robinson Dunnahew served in Mexican and Civil Wars. Mrs. Croskey was born August 7, 1819, and died January 11, 1892.
IDA CROSKEY, daughter of Henry and Anne (Dunnahew) Croskey, born May 23, 1854, married, January 29, 1873, Thomas Jones Mustin, and had two sons, Henry Croskey Mustin of U. S. N., and John Barton Mustin.
Mrs. Mustin married (second) April 27, 1893, William Supplee Lloyd.
CHEW FAMILY.
JOHN CHEW, whose descendants became prominently identified with the affairs of Philadelphia and the Province of Pennsylvania, was an early settler of James- town, Virginia. He came over in the ship, "Charitie," with three servants, and was followed by his wife Sarah, in the "Sea Flower." He probably settled at James City, when it was made the seat of government in 1621, as he was already there and occupying a house, in 1624, when a deed was granted for "One Rood and Nine Perches of Land lying about said Chew's House."
John Chew subsequently became a member of House of Assembly, but the meagre records of that early date give us no account of his family, though he was certainly the father of at least one son, viz :
SAMUEL CHEW, who removed to the Province of Maryland prior to 1648. There was probably other children, as a son of Larkin Chew, and a near relative of Samuel, married a great-grandaunt of President James Madison, and was ancestor of President Zachary Taylor.
Samuel Chew became Judge of High Court of Chancery, Province of Maryland, and for seven years prior to his death, which occurred May 15, 1676, was member of Upper House of Provincial Legislature, and in May, 1676, is referred to as "Colonel Samuel Chew, Chancellor and Secretary." His will mentions a brother, Joseph, to whom he devises a "Gold Seale Ring." He married Anne, daughter and only child of William Ayres, and was the father of seven sons and two daughters.
BENJAMIN CHEW, fifth son of Samuel and Anne (Ayres) Chew, born April 13, 1671, died in Maryland, March 3, 1699-1700. He married, December 8, 1692, Elizabeth Benson, by whom he had one son Samuel, of whom presently, and three daughters; Elizabeth, Ann and Mary.
SAMUEL CHEW, only son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Benson) Chew, born in Maryland, October 30, 1693, resided at an estate called "Maidstone," near Annap- olis, and was a physician. He removed to Kent county, on the Delaware, now state of Delaware, probably several years prior to 1741, as in that year Gov. Thomas in a letter to John Penn, requesting that Dr. Chew be made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the three Lower Counties, says, "Dr. Chew has been long settled in Kent County, as Prothonotary, and he and a new sett of Magis- trates, have done good service." Although a convert to principles of Friends, and member of the Society until his death, unlike his contemporary Quakers in the Province of Pennsylvania, proper, he had no scruples against "lawful war," and gave the governor all the assistance in his power toward fitting out troops for the defense of the frontier and coast. In his charge to the Grand Jury at New Castle, on assuming the duties of Chief Justice in 1741, he set forth clearly that it was the duty of every citizen to give substance and even life itself, if need be, in support of the government. His charge was printed in the Philadelphia papers and caused considerable excitement amongst the Quakers of that city.
Samuel Chew resided in Dover, Delaware, where his ancient residence is still standing, and owned a plantation three miles distant. He died at Dover, June 16,
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1742, and was succeeded as Chief Justice by John Curtis. He married (first) October 22, 1715, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Anne Galloway, of Maryland, and aunt to Joseph Galloway, later a distinguished attorney of the Philadelphia and Bucks county courts. She died May 26, 1734, and he married (second) Sep- tember 18, 1736, Mary (Paca) Galloway, widow of his first wife's brother, Rich- ard Galloway, Esq., of Cumberstone, Maryland, and daughter of Aquilla Paca. By first marriage he was father of nine children, and by second of five children, all of the latter dying without issue. Samuel Chew, eldest son of second wife, was Attorney-General of Province of Maryland, and was Third Justice of Supreme Court of Lower Counties from October 23, 1773, to the Revolution.
BENJAMIN CHEW, Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania, and ancestor of the Philadelphia family of the name, was one of nine children of first marriage of Dr. Samuel Chew, by his first wife, Mary Galloway, and was born at his father's country seat on West river, Maryland, November 29, 1722, and removed with the family to Kent county, on Delaware, when a boy. He was probably reared as a Quaker, and retained his association with the Society until his second marriage in 1757. His four children by his first marriage were baptized with his eldest child by second marriage, Benjamin Chew, 1758. Of the earlier education of the dis- tinguished Jurist and Councillor, little is known. He was not a college graduate, but at an early age was student in law office of Tench Francis, whom he later succeeded as Attorney-General of Province of Pennsylvania, where he was mes- senger boy, student and clerk ; drawing at the age of fifteen years all the papers in a case of Common Recovery. His legal training was, however, principally entrusted to Andrew Hamilton, distinguished attorney for the Penn family, and member of Governor's Council, 1720-41. At the death of Hamilton in 1741, Ben- jamin Chew, then in his nineteenth year, went abroad and entered the Middle Temple in the same year as Sir William Blackstone, the noted jurist and com- mentarian. The death of his father in 1743 hastened his return to America, with- out having entirely completed his legal studies. He was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Province of Pennsylvania, at September term, 1746, but the dockets of that court do not show that he had charge of any cases until nine years later. He was probably employed in the practice of law at the courts of Dover and New Castle in the interval. In 1751 he was one of the Boundary Commis- sion from Kent county, and in 1752 was appointed Trustee by the Assembly of the Lower Counties to sell certain lands.
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