Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 73

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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ANDREW HAMILTON, d. Phila., Sept., 1747; of whom presently;

Margaret Hamilton, only dau., d. May 13, 1760; m. Feb. 16, 1733-4, William Allen, Chief Justice of Pa. Supreme Court, 1750-74; he was a son of William and Mary (Budd) Allen, b. Aug. 5, 1704; d. Sept. 6, 1780; was among most prominent men of the Province and probably its largest landowner; elected to Common Council of Phila., 1727; Alder- man, 1730; Mayor, 1735; Recorder, 1741-50; Judge of several courts; member Colonial Assembly, 1730-38; issue :

John Allen, d. Feb., 1778; m. April 6, 1775, Mary Johnston, dau. of David Johnston, of N. Y .;

Andrew Allen, b. June, 1740; d. March 7, 1825; member Provincial Council, 1770- 76; m. April 24, 1768, Sarah, dau of William and Mary (Francis) Coxe;

James Allen, b. 1742; d. Sept. 19, 1778; m. March 10, 1768, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Elizabeth ( Francis) Lawrence;

William Allen, b. 1751; d. 1838; unm .;

Anne Allen, m. May 31, 1766, John Penn, last Proprietary Governor of Pa .;

Margaret Allen, d. Oct. 18, 1827; m. Aug. 19, 1771, James DeLancey, b. 1732; d. April 8, 1800, son of James DeLancey, Chief Justice and Governor of New York.

ANDREW HAMILTON, second son of Andrew and Anne ( Brown) Hamilton, born in Philadelphia ; died there in September, 1747; took up a much less prominent part in public affairs then his father and brother. He was a member of Common Council of the city from October 6, 1741, to his death, and filled the position of Clerk of the City Court of Quarter Sessions, and Town Clerk, and was a charter

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member of Library Company of Philadelphia. Turning his attention to mercantile pursuits, his father erected for him a wharf and storehouses, and he carried on an extensive shipping and commission business, in partnership with William Coleman, up to the time of his death. He lived at Third and Walnut streets, where he owned considerable property part of which he devised to his son, William; the mansion house being devised to his wife. He had received by bequest from his father, a plantation on the west side of the Schuylkill, which became a part of "The Wood- lands," later the elegant home of his son, William, and also had received five hun- dred acres of land in Hilltown township, Bucks county, by the will of Justice Jere- miah Langhorne, which, with his wharves and storehouses on Front street, he de- vised to his son, Andrew.

Andrew Hamilton married, December 24, 1741, Mary Till, born in Sussex county, on Delaware, 1722; died October 18, 1803, at "The Woodlands." She was the daughter of William Till, who removed from Sussex county to Philadelphia prior to 1736, by his wife Mary Lillingston, daughter of George Lillingston, of Sussex county, by his wife Elizabeth Watson, daughter of Luke Watson, of Sussex county, and stepdaughter of Berkly Codd, Esq., before referred to. John Till, the father of William, was a druggist of Watling street, London, who married, 1693, Cassandra, daughter of Thomas and Cassandra Newton, of the city of Norwich.

William Till, son of John and Cassandra, born in England about 1697, came to America when a young man, and married at Christ Church, January 7, 1720, Mary Lillingston, of Sussex county, to whom Berkly Codd, Esq. (who had married her grandmother, the widow of Luke Watson, Jr. ), conveyed a tract of land in Sussex county, February 3, 1718. It is presumed that William Till and his wife settled on this land after their marriage. They later acquired other large tracts of land there. William Till engaged extensively in shipping business in Sussex county and later at Philadelphia. He was commissioned a Justice of Sussex county, July 25, 1726; was trustee of Loan Office there, 1723-32; commissioned Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the counties of New Castle, Kent and Sussex, on the Delaware, October 23, 1736, having been an Associate Justice of that court some- time previous to that date. Made a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1743, and was still filling that position in 1756, when, with others, he was given a Dedimus Potestatum to administer oaths to officials, April 10, 1756. He was called to Provincial Council of Pennsylvania in 1741, and sat in that body until his death, 1766. Entered Common Council of Philadelphia, October 2, 1739; elected by that body an Alderman, October 6, 1741, and in 1742 became Mayor of the city. On May 9, 1747, he was appointed Collector of the Port of New Castle, and doubtless at that date took up his residence there, as December 8, 1748, he was appointed Prothonotary of the Courts of New Castle county, holding the former position and probably the latter until his death. His will, as William Till, of the town and county of New Castle, is dated July 16, 1761, and was proved May 8, 1766; it devised his house, stores, lot of ground and wharf on Water street, Phila- delphia, then in the tenure of Samuel Smith, to his wife, and after her decease to his daughter, Mary Hamilton, until his grandson, William Hamilton, should attain his majority, when the title was to vest in him. It confirmed to his daughter, the houses and buildings erected by him on the lot in Philadelphia, where Mrs. Hamil- ton was then residing, devised to her by her husband. He left various legacies to other grandchildren, making his wife, Mary Till, his daughter, Mary Hamilton,

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and his grandson, Andrew Hamilton, executors. His only other child was Thomas Till, who married Gertrude Ross, of New Castle county, 1752; resided at Prime Hook, Sussex county, and was a Justice, and a Captain in the Provincial service ; left issue.

Issue of Andrew and Mary (Till) Hamilton:

ANDREW HAMILTON, b. Jan. 12, 1742-3; d. Nov. 22, 1784; m. Jan. 6, 1768, Abigail Franks; of whom presently;

William Hamilton, b. April 29, 1745; d. June 5, 1813; unm .; inherited from his father a large plantation on west side the Schuylkill, where he built his home, "The Wood- lands." among finest and most noted seats in the Province; the grounds and gardens, planted with foreign and rare trees collected from all parts of the globe, were entered by a gateway flanked by imposing lodges; the luscious fruits and exquisite flowers, selected with the greatest care and taste, attracted the attention of the cultivated people of the whole country, many of whom were entertained there; he was a noted collector of pictures, in which he was assisted by Benjamin West, and many rare, valuable and tasteful works of art found a place on the walls of "The Woodlands;" here William Hamilton many years led the life of a country gentleman; at the close of the Revolu- tionary War he made a tour of Europe, and in England his full length portrait and that of his niece Anne Hamilton (later Mrs. James Lyle ), was painted by Benjamin West, and is one of the best productions of that artist; in 1797 he was elected member of American Philosophical Society; in 1805 he laid out the northern portion of his land in streets and building lots, giving to the streets many of the old family names, none of which they now bear; Till street is now Fortieth; James, now Chestnut; Andrew, now Wal- nut; Moore, now Thirty-fourth; Margaret, now Thirty-sixth, and Mary, now Thirty- eighth; he gave the land on which St. Mary's Church was built; by his will "The Woodlands" was devised to his nephew, James Hamilton, who did not long survive him; it was many years the home of the sisters of the latter, Margaret and Mary Hamilton, and their nieces; it is now Woodland Cemetery, and says Joshua Francis Fisher, in his sketch of Andrew Hamilton, Sr., (published in the Pennsylvania Maga- zine, written in 1868) "the present gloomy appearance makes a sad contrast to the hospitalities and gaieties of which it was the scene, within the recollection of the writer."

ANDREW HAMILTON, eldest son of Andrew and Mary (Till) Hamilton, born January 12, 1742-3, died November 22, 1784. He married, January 6, 1768, Abi- gail Franks, born January 6, 1744-5, died September II, 1798; daughter of David and Margaret (Evans) Franks, and granddaughter of Jacob Franks, a merchant of New York, born in Germany in 1688, came to New York from London about 1705, in company with Moses Levy, whose daughter, Bilhah Abigail Levy, he married in 1719. Jacob Franks had the degree of Doctor of Divinity and was a Rabbi of the Jewish Congregation in New York. His son David Franks, born in New York, September 23, 1720, married, December 17. 1743, Margaret Evans, born August 2, 1720, died September 28, 1780, daughter of Peter Evans, "of the Inner Temple, London, Gentleman," Sheriff of Philadelphia, 1707-09; Register- General of Pennsylvania, etc., by his wife Mary, daughter of John and Rebecca (Axtell) Moore, and sister of William Moore of "Moore Hall," of whom an account is given in these volumes.

Andrew Hamilton inherited from his father, the wharves, storehouses and business properties, as well as the old family mansion, but having ample wealth, he probably did not engage in trade. In his will, dated November 21, 1784, and proved January 1, 1785, he was styled "Andrew Hamilton of Philadelphia, Gen- tleman." The will devised the house where he lived and the houses, stores, wharf and lots of ground on Front street, to his wife for life, with his plate, household goods and furniture, and mentioned his children, Ann, Mary, Andrew, Franks and Rebecca as legatees. His son James having inherited amply under the will of his uncle William Hamilton, was left but a hundred guineas.

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Abigail Hamilton, the widow, continued to reside in the old mansion at Third and Walnut, but her death, which occurred at "The Woodlands," September II, 1798, is thus noted in the Pennsylvania Gazette of September 12, 1798: "Died in the township of Blockley, yesterday, after a lingering indisposition, Mrs. Ham- ilton, relict of the late Andrew Hamilton, Esq., of Third street."

Issue of Andrew and Abigail (Franks ) Hamilton :-

Margaret, b. Oct. 4, 1768; d. Jan., 1828; unm .;

ANN, b. Dec. 16, 1769; d. Aug. 12, 1798: m. Oct. 17, 1792, James Lyle; of whom presently ; Mary Hamilton, b. Aug. 1, 1771; d. April, 1849; unm .; last of the name to occupy "The Woodlands;"

James, b. July 31, 1774; d. July 20, 1817; unm .;

Andrew, b. Nov. 4, 1776; d. at Bath, Eng., May 16, 1825; m. June II, 1817, Eliza, dau. of Rev. D. H. Urquhart; had issue :

Mary Ann Hamilton, m. Capt. Septimus Palairet, of British Army; their children have in their possession, the gold box in which the seal of the "Freedom of City of N. Y.," was presented to their distinguished ancestor, Andrew Hamilton, in 1735, for "his Learned and generous Defence of the Rights of Mankind, and the Liberty of the Press."

Franks, b. May 22, 1779; d. Aug. 14, 1798; unm .; buried at Christ Church;

Rebecca, b. Nov. 7, 1783; d. Feb. 2, 1842; m. Nov. 28, 1809, Francis Lewis O'Bierne, son of Bishop of Meath; left issue.

ANN HAMILTON, second daughter of Andrew and Abigail ( Franks) Hamilton, born in Philadelphia, December 16, 1769, married there, October 17, 1792, James Lyle, born in Ireland, October 25, 1765, died in Philadelphia August 10, 1826. He was a son of Hugh Lyle of Coleraine, Ireland, by his wife Eleanor, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Aderne) Hyde of Belfast, and grandson of Capt. Hugh Lyle of Coleraine, an officer of Dragoons, and his wife, Eleanor Bankhead. James Lyle came to Philadelphia when a young man, and, in partnership with John Beauclerc Newman, under firm name of Lyle & Newman, carried on a large and successful mercantile business and amassed a fortune. After the death of his wife, Mr. Lyle and his two daughters resided at "The Woodlands" with the Misses Margaret and Mary Hamilton. He was a member of Corporation of Contributors to Pennsylvania Hospital. His will, dated July 24, 1826, proved August 15, 1826, devised his entire estate, in trust, for the use of his daughters and their issue.

Issue of James and Ann (Hamilton) Lyle :-

Mary Lyle, b. Jan. 22, 1796; d. Nov. 21, 1829, in Phila. ; m. Nov. 12, 1818, Henry Beckett, b. April II, 1791 ; d. Sept. 11, 1871; son of Sir John Beckett, by wife, Mary Wilson; had issue :

Marianna Beckett, b. April 27, 1820; d. s. p., May 10, 1849; m. July 10, 1839, Sir Thomas Whichcote, Baronet;

James Beckett, d. y. ;

Hamilton Beckett, b. Oct. 15, 1829; m. Dec. 14, 1854, Hon. Sophia Clarence Copley, dau. of Baron Lyndhurst; issue :

Henry Lyndhurst Beckett, b. 1857; d. 1896;

Constance Mary Beckett, b. Nov. II, 1855; m. Feb. 11, 1880, Hon. Henry Campbell Bruce, now Lord Aberdare.

Ellen Lyle, b. Oct. 21, 1797; d. Feb. 8, 1852; m. Dec. 15, 1818, Hartman Kuhn, of Phila. (see Kuhn).

GEORGE MARTIN KUHN, ancestor of Philadelphia family of that name which was prominent in business and professional life of the city in Colonial days, was a

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son of John Kuhn, magistrate of Berwangen, Würtemberg, Germany, who died before November 30, 1676. George Martin Kuhn was Assistant Jurat of the Court at Fürfeld, a village on the Neckar, in Province of Würtemberg. He married at Fürfeld, November 30, 1676, Barbara, daughter of Frederick Ponmes, a Justice of the Peace, at Fürfeld. A son, John Christopher, was born to them at Fürfeld, December 16, 1684.

JOHN CHRISTOPHER KUHN, born at Fürfeld, Würtemberg, December 16, 1684; married there, January 31, 1713, Margaret, daughter of Marx Reichss, deceased, late "a Citizen of Sernum, in Piertrigan, in Grannbeinden," as recited in the mar- riage record, on the Register at Fürfeld. After 1716 John Christopher Kuhn and his family removed from Fürfeld, and in 1719 he became a citizen of Hütten, under the jurisdiction of Strasburg, where he continued to reside until 1732. He received, April 25, 1732, from the Governor and Council of Strasburg, permission "to leave his place and vassalage and go to Pennsylvania, in America." He with his family, consisting of his wife Margaret, son Adam Simon, aged nine- teen, and daughters, Eva Barbara, aged thirteen, and Anna Maria, aged nine years, embarked from Rotterdam in the ship, "Hope," and arriving in Philadelphia, were qualified August 28, 1733. Among the papers in the possession of the present generation of the family is a receipt for the passage money on the "Hope," paid in Holland before their embarkation. The family seem to have located for a time in Germantown, where the eldest son, Adam Simon, remained until after his marriage, but the father became a resident of Maiden Creek township, Philadel- phia, (now Berks) county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1754. He was natural- ized March 28, 1747, and probably took up land in Maiden Creek at that time, as "Kuhn's Estate" is taxed for land there some years later.

Issue of John Christopher and Margaret ( Reichss) Kuhn:

ADAM SIMON, b. Dec. 26, 1713, at Fürfeld, Germany ; d. at Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 23, 1780; m. Dec. 11, 1740, Anna Maria Sabina Schrack; of whom presently;

Anna Rosina, b. Aug. 2, 1716, at Fürfeld, Germany; Eva Barbara, b. Aug. 8, 1719, at Hütten;

Anna Maria, b. Dec. 13, 1722, at Hütten;

Maria Margaretha, b. Aug. 24, 1725, at Hütten;

Maria Catharina, b. July 16, 1728, at Hütten ;

Maria Magdalena, b. Dec. 29, 1731, at Hütten.

DR. ADAM SIMON KUHN was a resident of Germantown, 1741, when his son Adam was born, and had probably resided there from the time of his arrival in America, 1733. He removed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was naturalized there, April 8, 1744. He was a physician, described as "a man of bright natural parts, improved by the benefits of a liberal education, and was considered a very skillful, attentive and successful practitioner of Medicine." He was evidently connected in some manner with the military operations on the frontier in the Indian war of 1754-6, as he writes to Edward Shippen, Esq., under date of November 26, 1755, in reference to powder and lead, "as our company is in need of it at Adam Reed's." Adam Reed was then Captain of a Lancaster Company of Associators and located "on the Susquehannah." No roll of this company or of the regiment is in existence. Dr. Kuhn was probably Surgeon. He was Chief Burgess of Lancaster, 1749-53 ; was commossioned a Justice of Lancaster County

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Courts, 1752-61-64-70. Named as one of the first Committee of Observation and Correspondence of Lancaster County, December 15, 1774, and a delegate to the Provincial Convention at Philadelphia, January 23, 1775. He was an elder of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, where there is a tablet to his memory. He was interested in the cause of education, and was the principal person, actively con- cerned in the promotion of classical learning in his county at that period. He procured the erection of a school house, in which Greek and Latin were taught by the best qualified masters. He died January 23, 1780.

Dr. Adam Simon Kuhn married, December II, 1740, Anna Maria Sabina Schrack, who was born on the high seas, October 26, 1717, while her parents were on their way to Pennsylvania, and was baptized at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Church, Philadelphia, January 12, 1718.

John Jacob and Eva Rosina Schrack, parents of Mrs. Kuhn, came from Ger- many, 1717, and soon after settled in Providence township, on the Perkiomen, in what is now Montgomery county. Mrs. Kuhn died at Lancaster, 1799.

Issue of Dr. Adam Simon and Anna Maria Sabina (Schrack) Kuhn:

ADAM KUHN, M. D., b. at Germantown, Nov. 17, 1741 ; d. July 5, 1817; m. May 14, 1780, Elizabeth (Hartman) Markoe;

John Kuhn, M. D., b. 1746; d. Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 24, 1810; graduated Univ. of Pa., 1771; also graduate of Univ. of Edinburgh; Surgeon Continental Army; m. Sus- anna -

Johann Frederich Kuhn, b. Aug. 24, 1748; d. April 2, 1816; graduated Univ. of Pa., 1771; Surgeon Third Battalion, Penna. Militia, during Revolution; Sheriff Lancaster co., 1789, and Associate Justice Court of Common Pleas; m. 1782, Sarah Bethel, of Lan- caster;

Daniel Kuhn, b. Nov. 14, 1750; entered Univ. of Pa., 1765, graduated 1769; was student at Upsala Univ., Sewden, 1777, when he was appointed pastor of Swedish Church, at Christianna, near Wilmington, Del., but died at London, Eng., without returning to the United States;

Peter Kuhn, b. 1751; d. Nov. 27, 1826; graduated Univ. of Pa., 1768; member of the State of Schuylkill Fishing Company, 1769-1801; merchant in Phila .; resided corner Tenth and Arch streets; m. Elizabeth, b. 1758, d. 1799, dau. of John Henry Keppele;

Maria Sabina Kuhn, b. Sept. 18, 1755; m. James Ross, Esq., of Lancaster ; John Jacob Kuhn, b. Oct. 30, 1757; merchant ;

Hannah Kuhn, b. Nov. 13, 1761;

Eve Kuhn, m. - Swope.

DR. ADAM KUHN, born at Germantown, November 17, 1741, was reared at Lancaster. He studied medicine under his father until 1761, when he sailed for Europe, to take a course at the famous old University of Upsala, Sweden, where he arrived in January, 1762. He studied medicine and botany, under Linnaeus, and other professors, until July or August, 1764, when he proceeded to Edinburgh, taking his degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, June 12, 1767. He visited France, Holland and Germany, and in January, 1768, returned to Pennsylvania, and took up the practice of medicine in Philadelphia. He was in correspondence with Linnaeus, with whom he appears to have been a favorite pupil, during the remainder of the life of that famous naturalist and botanist, many of whose letters are still in possession of the family.

Dr. Kuhn soon rose to a position of distinction among the medical fraternity, and acquired a large and lucrative practice. He was appointed Professor of Materia Medica and Botany in the College of Philadelphia, January, 1768, and in May, 1775, elected one of the physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital, a position

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he continued to fill for a period of twenty-three years. He was appointed physi- cian at the Philadelphia Dispensary, at its institution in 1786, was one of the active members of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, and succeeding Dr. William Shippen as its president at the latter's death in July, 1808, held the posi- tion until he died. He married on the Island of St. Croix, May 14, 1781, Eliza- beth (Hartman) Markoe, born August 20, 1755, died February 25, 1791, widow of Francis Markoe, and daughter of Isaac and Margaret Carrell (Nanton) Hartman, of that island. Returning to Philadelphia, Dr. Kuhn continued in his profession until 1815, when he retired from active practice, and died July 5, 1817. Dr. Kuhn was appointed Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, November, 1789. He was a member of the American Philo- sophical Society.

Issue of Dr. Adam and Elisabeth (Hartman-Markoe ) Kuhn:

HARTMAN KUHN, b. Feb. 4, 1784; d. Nov. 6, 1860; m. Dec. 15, 1818, Ellen Lyle; of whom presently ;

Charles Kuhn, b. April 12, 1785; d. Sept. 22, 1842; graduated Univ. of Pa., 1799; mer- chant; m. July 28, 1808, Elizabeth Hester Yard;

William Kuhn, b. June 15, 1789; d. June 28, 1789.

HARTMAN KUHN, eldest son of Dr. Adam and Elizabeth (Hartman) Kuhn, born February 4, 1784, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, class of 1800. He was one of the original members of the company raised by Col. Clement C. Biddle, May 26, 1813, known as the "State Fencibles ;" and became captain of the same in 1814-15 ; was one of the committee appointed in 1813 to prepare a plan of defense for the harbor and ports of the river Delaware. A member of the American Philosophical Society, and a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, from 1836 until his death, November 6, 1860. He married, December 15, 1818, Ellen, whose father, James Lyle, was born in Ireland, October 25, 1765, and settled in Philadelphia, where he married, October 17, 1792, Ann, daughter of Andrew and Abigail (Franks) Hamilton, of Philadel- phia. Mr. Lyle was a merchant and senior member of the firm of Lyle & New- man. He had two daughters, Mary, married Henry, son of Sir John Beckett, and Ellen, married Hartman Kuhn. Mrs. Kuhn was born October 21, 1797, died February 8, 1852.

Issue of Hartman and Ellen (Lyle ) Kuhn:

Mary, b. Oct. 5, 1819; d. Nov. 6, 1886; m. Feb. 3, 1842, her cousin, Hartman Kuhn, son of Charles and Elizabeth Hester (Yard) Kuhn;

Charles, b. Nov. 2, 1821; d. Oct. 28, 1899, in Paris, France; m. April 13, 1854, Louisa Catherine, dau. of Charles Francis Adams ; lawyer; graduate Univ. of Pa., 1839; mem- ber American Philosophical Society ;

Ellen, b. Aug. 13, 1823; d. April 11, 1894; m. April 14, 1846, Manlius Glendour Evans; Elizabeth, b. July 17, 1826; d. April 2, 1830;

Rosalie, b. April 23, 1829; d. Dec. 20, 1841 ;

Hartman, b. Feb. 22, 1831 ; d. in Rome, in consequence of a fall from his horse, Jan. 21, 1870; m. April 6, 1865, Grace Morris Cary;

Elizabeth, b. April 24, 1833; d. Oct. 13, 1890; m. July 15, 1856, George Calvert Morris; Sophia, b. June 5, 1835; d. at Bar Harbor, Me., Oct. 7, 1885;

James Hamilton, b. Dec. 2, 1838; d. June 30, 1862; killed in action at the battle of White Oak Swamp, at New Market Cross Roads, Va.

WHARTON FAMILY.

The Wharton Family is an ancient and honorable one tracing back to the time of Edward I, when one of the family, then known as de Wherton, married a daugh- ter of Philip Hastings, of Croglin in Cumberland. As showing the association of these two ancient families, the arms of the Wharton family of Wharton Hall, Westmoreland, are very similar to those of the Hastings family.

Thomas Wharton held the manor of Wharton in the reign of Henry IV. and the succeeding Lords of Wharton Hall held the manor of Ravenstonedale for one hundred and eighty-seven years. Thomas, second Lord Wharton, died in the fourteenth year of Queen Elizabeth's reign and was succeeded by Philip, third Lord Wharton, who was a partisan of Cromwell. He had a younger son, Henry, who was a favorite pupil of Isaac Newton. Philip, fourth Lord Wharton, who died 1695-6, was made Viscount Winchenden and Earl of Wharton and finally Marquis of Wharton.

The descent of the Pennsylvania Whartons from the Whartons of Wharton Hall has never been traced, but Richard Wharton, whose son Thomas came to Pennsylvania in 1683, was doubtless descended from one of the younger sons of one of the Lords of Wharton.

THOMAS WHARTON, son of Richard Wharton, of Kellorth, Parish of Orton or Overton, Westmoreland, was baptized at All Saints Church, Orton, October 16, 1664, He probably retained his association with the Established Church until coming to America, but united himself with the Society of Friends sometime prior to his marriage at Bank Meeting, Philadelphia, IImo (January) 20, 1688-9, to Rachel Thomas, born in Monmouthshire, England, September 1, 1664. Thomas Wharton engaged in mercantile business in Philadelphia, and became prominently identified with the business interests of the city. As a member of Common Coun- cil, October 6, 1713, he gave an active attendance and interest in the work of that body until his death, July 3, 1718. He was a successful business man and left a considerable estate. He and his wife were regular attendants at the Friends Meeting.

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Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 73

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