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Nathaniel Newlin, his son, born in Ireland about 1660, married, April 17, 1685, Mary Mendenhall, sister to Benjamin Mendenhall, before mentioned. Nathaniel Newlin was like his father a man of eminent ability, and he was called upon to take a like prominent part in local and provincial affairs. He was elected to the Provincial assembly in 1701, 1705, 1710, 1713, 1714, 1717, 1718, 1719, 1721 and 1722, and was first commissioned as a justice of the peace and of the courts of Chester county, in 1703, and several times re-commissioned, the last commission of record being August 26, 1726, although he probably served until his death in 1729. He resided all his life in Concord township where his house, erected in 1699, was recently torn down. He purchased in 1724, 7700 acres of the trustees of the Free Society of traders, which was later laid out as Newlin township. He was also one of the trustees of the General Loan Office and filled numerous other positions of trust, being one of the commissioners se-
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lected in 1700 to draw up a plan for a new form of government for the Province of Pennsylvania. Nicholas Newlin, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Mendenhall) Newlin, born in Concord township, Chester county, May 19, 1689, married in 1715, Edith Pyle, born March 20, 1695.
Edith (Newlin) Marshall, the widow of Thomas Marshall, married (second) October 8, 1762, Samuel Schofield, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and took with her to that county her four children by her former husband, Esther, Han- nah, Thomas and Phebe Marshall.
THOMAS MARSHALL, only son of Thomas and Edith (Newlin) Marshall, born in Concord township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1756, removed with his mother to Bucks county on her re-marriage in 1762, and resided in that county until 1773 when he returned to Chester county, as an apprentice to the tanning business. When he arrived of legal age he settled on the paternal estate in Concord, where he established a tanyard. He died there, August 13, 1844. He married (first) April 21, 1779, at Concord Friends Meeting, Mary Grubb (b. Mar. 25, 1756, d. Nov. 24, 1791) daughter of Samuel and Rebecca (Hewes) Grubb, of Pennsbury, Chester (now Delaware) county. He married (second) August 12, 1795, Margaret Swayne. Of his five children, all by his first wife four lived to mature years, married and reared families, these were two sons, Thomas and Samuel, and two daughters.
SAMUEL MARSHALL, youngest child of Thomas and Mary (Grubb) Marshall, was born in Concord township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1789. He acquired a part of the Concord homestead and the tannery erected by his father, which he operated until his death on August 27, 1832. He married, No- vember 25, 1812, at Londongrove Friends Meeting, Philena Pusey (b. May 24, 1794, d. Dec. 30, 1842) daughter of Ellis and Abigail (Brinton) Pusey of Londongrove, Chester county. She married (second) April 5, 1837, Samuel Wollaston of Wilmington, Delaware. Samuel and Philena (Pusey) Marshall had nine children, three of whom died young or unmarried. Ellis Pusey Mar- shall, the eldest son (1815-1892) resided on the old Marshall homestead in Con- cord and was a prominent and influential citizen ; active in the affairs of the So- ciety of Friends, and in local reform and charitable enterprises. Samuel Mar- shall, the third son, went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1847, became a prominent banker there, was many years president of the oldest bank in continuous exis- tence in the state, and resigned on account of the infirmities of age, in 1901. He was also the organizer and mnay years president of the State Bank, at Madi- son, Wisconsin, where he resided for some years.
WILLIAM PUSEY MARSHALL, the seventh child and fourth surviving son of Samuel and Philena (Pusey) Marshall, was born in Concord township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1826. He was less than six years of age at the death of his father, and but sixteen years of age at the death of his mother. He entered the well-known Friends educational institution, the West- town Boarding School in 1839, and spent three years there as a student. He be- gan teaching school at the old octagon school house at Birmingham Meeting house at the age of seventeen years and from 1843 to 1849 was teacher of the Friends School at Darby, and for the next two years taught in Benjamin Swayne's school in Londongrove township. On his marriage, April 3, 1851, to Frances Lloyd Andrews, he settled on a farm in West Goshen township, near
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West Chester, but continued to teach school for several winters after taking up the vocation of a farmer, having charge of a public school nearby for one winter, and of the Friends school on North High street, West Chester, for two or more winters. He was for twenty years, an industrious, enterprising and successful farmer, maintaining a large dairy. In 1871, he sold his dairy and associated himself with Walter Hibberd, of West Chester in the business of conveyancing, money loaning, and general agent. On the death of his partner in 1879, he took entire charge of the office on North High street, West Chester, and continued the business until his death in 1901, though for several years the business was principally in the charge of his son Samuel Marshall, the subject of this sketch. November II, 1884, William Pusey Marshall was made one of the directors of the National Bank of Chester county, and he was annually elected to that posi- tion thereafter until his death. January 13, 1893, he was elected vice-president and March 27, 1894, president of this bank. From this time, till his death, Mr. Marshall gave his almost undivided attention to the affairs of the bank. In 1890, he was elected vice-president of the newly organized Dime Savings Bank of Chester county, and continued to fill that position until his death. He was one of the trustees of the West Chester State Normal School, from 1872 to 1885, and secretary of the board of trustees from 1876 to 1882. He was for twenty- four years and up to the time of his death one of board of prison inspectors. He was a constant attendant at the Friends Meeting on High street, West Chester, and one of the trustees of their real estate. He died October 17, 1901, univer- sally mourned by the people among whom he had lived a long life of marked in- dustry, purity and usefulness to his fellow man. A man of inflexible honesty and sound business judgment, he deservedly held the confidence and esteem of the community in which he labored; the widows and orphans intrusted him with their investments and the aged sought his advice and assistance in the dis- posal of their property. Pure, temperate, industrious, sincere and earnest, he honored sincere men, even when he could not share their views and had a su- preme contempt for all sham, hypocrisy and insincerity, in business, religion or daily life. Possessed of a tender heart, the trials and sorrows of the unfortunate and afflicted called forth from him words and acts of sympathy.
William Pusey Marshall married, April 3, 1851, Frances Lloyd (b. Jan. 8, 1826, died March 21, 1904), daughter of James and Hannah (Lloyd) Andrews of Darby, Delaware county, Pennsylvania.
James Andrews was an associate justice of the Delaware county courts, and his wife Hannah Lloyd, (b. Jan. 25, 1802, d. June 20, 1868) was a daughter of Charles and Frances (Paschall) Lloyd and granddaughter of Hugh Lloyd one of the most active and prominent patriots of Chester county, during the trying period of the Revolution, and many years thereafter prominently associated with the affairs of Delaware county.
Robert Lloyd, the pioneer ancestor of this branch of the Lloyd family, was born in Merionethshire, Wales, in 1669, came to Pennsylvania in the ship "Lion" of Liverpool in 1683, with his cousins Robert and Rebecca (Humphrey) Lloyd, with whom he lived in Merion township, Philadelphia county, until after he had arrived at his majority, when he married, October 11, 1698, Lowry Jones, also a native of Wales, a daughter of Rees John Williams, one of the prominent set- tlers in the "Welsh Tract," and in the same year purchased a large plantation
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near Bryn Mawr, on which he settled. The Welsh ancestry of Robert and Low- ry (Jones) Lloyd extending back through a long line of princes of Wales, and the noble family of Percy of Northumberland, is given briefly elsewhere in these volumes, and may be found in detail in Glenn's "Merion in the Welsh Tract." Robert Lloyd died, May 29, 1714. He and his wife Lowry Jones had six children, three sons and three daughters. Of his sons, David Lloyd removed to North Carolina, Rees Lloyd settled in Gwynedd township, now Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and Richard in Darby, Chester county, Pennsylvania.
Richard Lloyd, the father of Hugh, the Revolutionary patriot before referred to, was the youngest son of Robert and Lowry (Jones) Lloyd, and was born near Bryn Mawr, Chester county, Pennsylvania, March 18, 1713. He married at Darby Meeting, November 24, 1736, Hannah (born Feb. 10, 1717) daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Smith) Sellers of the prominent Sellers family of Darby Mills and "Sellers Hall," and a few years later purchased the Darby water, corn and grist mills, which he operated until his death August 9, 1735. Isaac and Hugh Lloyd the two surviving sons of Richard and Hannah (Sellers) Lloyd, were both prominent in the affairs of Chester county during the Revolu- tion. The former, born in 1739, operated the Darby mills during that period and later removed to Philadelphia, where he died, August 10, 1793. He married Ann Gibbons, of the prominent Chester county family of that name and has left numerous descendants.
Hugh Lloyd, youngest son of Richard and Hannah (Sellers) Lloyd, born near Bryn Mawr, Lower Merion township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, Jan- uary 22, 1741-2, was brought to Darby township by his parents when less than a year old, and was reared in that township, at the Darby mills which he inherited jointly with his brother Isaac and assisted in operating until 1766. In the lat- ter year he purchased a mill property on Crum Creek in Ridley township, now Delaware county, where he carried on the milling business during the Revolu- tionary war, with the exception of the period when Philadelphia was occupied by the British army, when, by orders of General Washington the millstones of that and other mills within reach of the British lines, were removed and se- creted to prevent them from being pressed into use to supply flour for the enemy. Hugh Lloyd was one of the committee of thirteen selected at a public meeting of the inhabitants of Chester county, held at Chester July 13, 1774, to confer with representatives of the other counties of the state and arrange for concerted action in an effort to obtain redress for the grievances of the Amer- ican Colonies, and was one of the deputies to the Provincial conference held at . Philadelphia, July 15, 1774, when it was decided to establish a continental con- gress of deputies from all the colonies. The first Continental congress held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774, as a result of the above mentioned conference, having recommended the appointment of a Committee of Safety and Observa- tion, in each county of the state, the inhabitants of Chester county again assem- bled at Chester, December 20, 1774, and Hugh Lloyd was one of the Committee of Safety and Observation then selected, and continued a member of that body during the whole Revolutionary struggle, when these county committees and their representative in the state committee constituted the governing body of the state. He was a delegate to the Provincial convention of January 23, 1775, when it was decided to "meet force with force" and "at every hazard to
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defend the rights and liberties of America." Hugh Lloyd was selected by the officers of the several companies composing the Third battalion of Chester coun- ty Associators, organized in accordance with the resolves of the Continental congress, as colonel of that battalion, at a meeting of these officers held July 21, 1775. He was also selected by the Committee of Safety as a member of its Committee of Correspondence, October 23, 1775. He was again a delegate to the Provincial convention at Carpenter's Hall, June 18 to 25, when it was decided to "sever all allegiance to the English Crown." He was selected at this convention, as one of the judges to hold elections for delegates, to the constitutional convention of July 15, 1776. He continued active in measures for carrying on the war for independence, and on the organization of the new county of Delaware, in 1789, was elected one of its first representatives in the General Assembly and re-elected in 1791. April 24, 1792, he was commissioned one of the associate justices of Delaware county, and he continued to fill that position for 33 years, tendering his resignation when the infirmities of age de- manded that he relinquish the active duties of the position. At about the time of the close of the Revolution, Hugh Lloyd erected a house on his planta- tion, on the east side of Darby road, near the Blue Bell Inn, in which he resided until the death of his wife in 1825. It was one of the notable early mansions of the neighborhood of Philadelphia and is described in detail by Townsend Ward, in a paper published in the Pennsylvania Magazine in 1879. He died at the residence of his daughter, Hannah Browne, in Kensington, March 20, 1832, at the age of ninety-one years. Hugh Lloyd was active in his support of a num- ber of local institutions. He was a life-long share-holder in the Darby Library of which his father Richard Lloyd was one of the founders, and was secretary of the Library Company for two considerable periods and active in the effort to secure the erection of a new building in 1795. He was also one of the ac- tive members and supporters of the Library Company of Chester, founded in 1769. Hugh Lloyd married, at Darby Friends Meeting House, June 4, 1767, Susanna (b. Darby, Sept. 22, 1746, d. there, April 17, 1825) daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Blunston) Pearson and granddaughter of Thomas and Susannah (Burbeck) Pearson, who came from Darby, England and were among the first settlers of Darby township, Chester county. Her maternal great-grand- father, John Blunston, was a purchaser of 1,500 acres of land of William Penn, before coming to Pennsylvania, where he arrived in 1682, and settled in Darby township, being one of its first settlers. He was a member of the Provincial As- sembly, 1682-1702, a member of the Provincial Council 1690-1709, and speaker of the Assembly, 1696-1700. Hugh and Susannah (Pearson) Lloyd, had seven sons and one daughter, the latter, Hannah, the wife of John Coates Browne, at whose house in Kensington he died. The sons were Thomas, David, (d. young), Richard P., Charles, Samuel, Robert and Hugh Pearson Lloyd.
Charles Lloyd, fifth son of Hugh and Susannah (Pearson) Lloyd, was born in Ridley township, Chester (now Delaware) county, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1776. On his marriage to Frances Paschall, March 8, 1798, they took up their residence at Paschallville, Philadelphia county, where they spent the remainder of their lives. He died January 26, 1860. Frances (Paschall) Lloyd, born February 24, 1771, died August 27, 1857, was a daughter of Dr. Henry Pasch- all, of Paschallville and his wife Ann Garrett, granddaughter of Dr. John Pas-
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chall and his wife Frances Hodge, great-granddaughter of Thomas Paschall, Jr. and his wife Margaret Jenkins; and great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Paschall, of Bristol, England, who purchased land of William Penn, by lease and release bearing date September 25 and 27, 1681, and with his wife Joane (Slo- per) and three children, Thomas, William and Mary, arrived in Philadelphia in February 1681-2 and settled in Philadelphia county, where Thomas Sr. died September 15, 1718, at the age of eighty-three years and four months. His wife Joane died September 2, 1707, at the age of seventy-two years and nine months. Margaret (Jenkins) Paschall, wife of Thomas Paschall, Jr., was a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Griffith) Jenkins, who came from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1682 and settled first in Haverford township, remov- ing later to the site of Jenkintown, Montgomery County, which was so named in their honor. Thomas Paschall, Jr., died in 1748, and his wife Margaret in 1736, at the age of sixty-two years. Dr. John Paschall, the seventh of their eleven children, was born November 5, 1706, and died February II, 1779; he married, February 25, 1728, Frances (b. June 15, 1710, d. Jan. 29, 1781) daugh- ter of Henry and Frances (Knight) Hodge and granddaughter of Dr. Christo- pher Knight who came to Philadelphia from the Island of Antigua. Dr. John Paschall was a practicing physician in Darby township, and owned considerable land there. Dr. Henry Paschall was his youngest child and was born in Darby, October 28, 1746. He married Ann Garrett, May 24, 1770, and from that date until 1790 practiced medicine in Wilmington, Delaware. He then removed to Paschallville, Philadelphia county, where he died, May 13, 1835. He married (first) Ann (b. Nov. 24, 1752, d. Dec. 1, 1820) daughter of Nathan and Ann (Knowles) Garrett, of Darby, granddaughter of Samuel and Jane (Pennell) Garrett and great-granddaughter of William and Ann (Kirk) Garrett, who em- igrated from Harby, County Leicester, England in 1684, and settled in Upper Darby, Chester County. Charles and Frances (Paschall) Lloyd had seven chil- dren, of whom Hannah, the wife of Judge James Andrews and grandmother of the subject of this sketch was the third.
William Pusey, and Frances Lloyd (Andrews) Marshall had seven children : Elizabeth Pusey and Hannah Andrews Marshall, who are unmarried; Sarah Hoopes Marshall, wife of John H. Darlington of East Bradford, Chester county ; Margaret Palmer Marshall, the wife of Dr. George G. Groff of Lew- isburg, Pennsylvania, for thirty-one years professor in Bucknell University, thirteen years a member of the Pennsylvania State Board of Health, ten years a member of the State Board of Agriculture, surgeon-major of Pennsylvania troops in the Spanish-American war, sometime superintendent of public instruc- tion and medical director in Puerto Rico and widely known as a lecturer and author. He died February 18, 1910; Frances Andrews Marshall, wife of Franklin R. Strayer, of Reading, Pennsylvania, professor of physics in the New York City high schools ; Philena Marshall, died August 6, 1901, unmarried ; Samuel Marshall, the subject of this sketch.
SAMUEL MARSHALL, youngest of the seven children of William Pusey and Frances Lloyd (Andrews) Marshall, was born in West Goshen township, near West Chester, Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1863. He was ed- ucated at the Friends School, the West Chester State Normal School, and at the academy of Professor J. Hunter Worrall. He is unmarried, and resides
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with his two unmarried sisters at the old homestead in West Goshen township and retains his father's office in West Chester. He succeeded his father as a director of the National Bank of Chester county, and is now secretary of the board and a trustee of the Dime Savings Bank of Chester County and March 29, 1904, was elected secretary and cashier. He has been a member of the board of trustees of the West Chester State Normal School for 15 years; one of the managers of the Chester County Hospital; a director of the Edison Elec- tric Illuminating Company ; and a member of the council of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. He is a life member of the Historical Society of Penn- sylvania, a life member and Vice President of the Chester County Historical Society; the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania So- ciety of the Sons of the Revolution, the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania and is affiliated with a number of social organizations. He is a member of the Society of Friends of the High Street Meeting, West Chester. His participation in politics has been confined to local affairs, having been for a number of years judge of election and auditor in his township. Though always a member of the Republican Party he has never been bound by party lines, believing the qualifications of the candidates for local and State officers more important than membership in any political party.
ELBERT AUGUSTUS CORBIN, JR.
ELBERT AUGUSTUS CORBIN, JR., of Philadelphia, is descended, on the pa- ternal side, from early New England ancestry, his father Elbert Augustus Cor- bin, Sr. being the first of the family to settle in Philadelphia.
CLEMENT CORBIN, the first of the American branch of the family of whom we have any definite record, was a resident of Muddy River, now Brookline, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, as early as March 7, 1655, on which date he married Dorcas, daughter of Thomas Buckmaster of the same town. He was one of the original proprietors of Muddy River and in the division of the lands in 1655 was granted a tract of land there. In 1664 he removed to Rox- bury, Massachusetts, and was one of the party of residents of that town who on October 6, 1683, formulated a plan and projected the founding of the town of New Roxbury, now Woodstock, Windham county, Connecticut. He died at the latter place late in the year 1696, his will being probated, November 23, 1696.
JAMES CORBIN, only son of Clement and Dorcas (Buckmaster) Corbin, was born at Muddy River, Massachusetts in 1656. He was a resident of Roxbury and was present at the meeting held to consider the selection of the site of the town of New Roxbury, now Woodstock, Windham county, Connecticut, October 6, 1683. When the town was incorporated under the provisions of an act of the General Court, he located in Woodstock and received considerable grants of land there, and later inherited land originally granted to his father. He was one of the council of the proprietors and a selectman of that town, where he resided for many years. He later removed to Dudley, Massachusetts, near the Connecticut line in the county of Worcester, of which town he was a selectman almost if not quite continuously from 1732 to 1740, surveyor in 1734 and con- stable in 1735. He died intestate in 1757. He married, April 7, 1679, Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel Eastman, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Jared and Hannah Haddon, of the same place.
PHILIP CORBIN, son of James and Hannah (Eastman) Corbin, was born at Woodstock, Windham county, Connecticut, and removed with his father to Dud- ley, Massachusetts, where he was surveyor of highways, 1735-1739, 1749-1750 and 1762-1774; tything man 1740-1765 and constable 1745-6. He married at Dudley, January 13, 1734, Dorothy Barstow, (b. Marlboro, Mass. April 25, 1714, d. Dudley, Mass.) daughter of Jeremiah Barstow, of Marlboro, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Joseph Howe.
CAPTAIN LEMUEL CORBIN, son of Philip and Dorothy (Barstow) Corbin, was born at Dudley, Worcester county, Massachusetts, February 19, 1739. He was active in the patriot cause from the inception of the Revolutionary struggle, serving as a member of the Worcester county Committee of Safety, and its sub-committee of Correspondence and Inspection, during the years 1776, 1777, 1778 and 1779, and was enrolled as a member of the first Worcester county company of minute men from Dudley, under Captain Ebenezer Craft, and
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marched with that company on the Lexington Alarm of April 19, 1775, in the battalion commanded by Col. Larned, being dismissed from this tour of duty, May I, 1775. In December 1776, he was sergeant of Captain Nathaniel Healy's company, Colonel Jonathan Holman's regiment, Connecticut line, with which he marched to Rhode Island and was stationed at Providence from January 3, to January 21, 1777. September 25, 1778, he was commissioned First Lieuten- ant of the Fifth Worcester county regiment, Captain Elias Pratt, in Colonel Holman's regiment. October 18, 1779 we find him holding the same rank in Captain Samuel Hamant's Second Worcester Company in the Second Wor- cester Regiment, Colonel Samuel Denny, and in active service under General Schuyler in the campaign on lakes George and Champlain and at Ticonderoga. He was honorably discharged from this service Nov. 23, 1779. February 17, 1780 he was commissioned captain of a company in the Worcester county mi- litia, under Colonel Davis, and served with that regiment in Rhode Island from July 30, to August 12, 1780. Captain Corbin was prominent in the affairs of his native town of Dudley before and after the Revolutionary War; he was Constable, 1767-8, surveyor of highways 1772-1785, and a selectman in 1787. Soon after the latter date he removed with his family to Union, Tolland county, Connecticut, where he resided until his death, May 7, 1825 at the age of eighty- six years. He married, at Dudley, Massachusetts, December 8, 1763, Rebecca Davis, (b. Jan. 10, 1737, at Oxford, Mass.) daughter of Samuel Davis of that town and his wife Mary, daughter of Joseph Weld, of Braintree, Massachusetts.
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