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army" appear the names of William Blinn and Billy Blinn, both of whom en- listed February 7, 1776. They were doubtless the father and brother of Hosea Blinn. There were a number of the name of Blinn in the service. Hosea Blynn married, November 8, 1773, Ruth Smith, who died July 28, 1826, at the age of eighty-seven years. He had eight children :- Sarah, born 1774; Hannah, born 1775; Captain Hosea Blynn, baptised July 7, 1776, a captain of Connecticut militia, married Mehitable Wolcott, April 15, 1798; William, born 1779; Rog- er, born 1782; James, born 1785; John, baptised May 30, 1790; and Henry, born April 17, 1795.
HENRY BLYNN, son of Hosea and Ruth (Smith) Blynn, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, was born April 17, 1795. He was married at Litchfield, Connecti- cut, by the Rev. Lyman Beecher, August 7, 1816, to Lydia Julia Goodwin, daughter of Micah and Sally (Clark) Goodwin of Litchfield. Henry Blynn, was a hatter by trade, and followed that business for a year at Litchfield, Con- necticut, after his marriage, and then removed to Catherine, Schuyler county, New York, where he resided until 1820, and then removed back to Litchfield and followed his vocation there until 1831, when he removed to Newark, New Jersey, and in 1837, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he resided until his death in February, 1885. His wife, Lydia Julia (Goodwin) Blynn, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, June 4, 1799, died in Philadelphia, in September 1872. Her paternal ancestry is as follows :-
Ozias Goodwin, born in or near London, England, in the year, 1596, mar- ried Mary Woodward, daughter of Robert Woodward, of Braintree, County Essex, England, and is mentioned in the will of the latter, dated May 17, 1640, as "living in New England, in America." Ozias Blynn, accompanied by his brother William Blynn, and their respective families, sailed from London, Eng- land, June 22, 1632, and arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, in September fol- lowing. They settled first at "New Town" (now Cambridge) William residing in a house facing the college green of Harvard University. Both brothers joined a colony in the settlement of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1635, where they resided until 1659. In the latter year they were among the company of resi- dents of Hartford who signed the agreement to form a settlement at Hadley, on the Connecticut river in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, where they were among the prominent organizers of the town. William Goodwin died at Farmington, Connecticut, March II, 1673, and his wife Susanna, died there May 17, 1676. His only known child was Elizabeth, wife of John Crow. In an affidavit made at Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1674, Ozias Goodwin, states that he was then seventy-eight years of age. This affidavit was in reference to the settlement of his brother William's estate, and indicates that they were closely associated in business matters. Ozias died in Hadley in 1683. The only children of Ozias and Mary (Woodward) Goodwin, of whom we have any rec- ord, were William, Nathaniel, and Hannah.
William Goodwin, son of Ozias and Mary (Woodward) Goodwin, and his son William, both made affidavits in 1674, in reference to the joint interests in the estate of William Goodwin, the elder, uncle of William, above mentioned in which it is stated that they were respectively aged forty-five years, and six- teen years. This would place the date of birth of William Goodwin in 1629, and the place of his birth consequently in Essex county, England. He was made a
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freeman of the Connecticut colony by the General Court at Hartford, May 21, 1657, purchased land at Hartford in 1663, and is referred to as holding minor municipal offices in 1662, and in 1676. He does not appear to have accompan- ied his father to Hadley, remaining a resident of Hartford until his death on Oc- tober 15, 1689. His widow Susanna married second in August, 1691, John Shepard, of Hartford. The children of William and Susanna Goodwin were :- Susanna who married John Pratt; William, who married Elizabeth Shepard, and Nathaniel.
Nathaniel Goodwin, son of William and Susanna, born about 1665, was a life-long resident of Hartford, Connecticut, and died there in November, 1747. He was elected deacon of the First Church of Hartford in March, 1734, and filled that position until his death. In his will which was probated December I, 1747, he is styled, "Nathaniel Goodwin of the County of Hartford, and Colony of Connecticut in New England." He married Mehitable Porter, who was born September 15, 1673, and died February 6, 1726, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Stanley) Porter of Hadley, Massachusetts. They had ten children, five sons, Hezekiah, Isaac, Abraham, Stephen, and Eleazer ; and five daughters.
Abraham Goodwin, the fifth child of Nathaniel and Mehitable (Porter) Goodwin, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, July 30, 1699. His father Na- thaniel Goodwin was one of the first purchasers of land in "Bantam," incor- porated as Litchfield, Connecticut, at the May sessions of the General Court at Hartford, 1719, and Abraham settled thereon, being one of the first settlers in the new town. By deed dated March 17, 1723-4, Nathaniel Goodwin, of Hart- ford, "for the naturall Love and parentall Affection I have and bear towards my son Abraham Goodwin, of the Town of Litchfield" conveys to him, "My
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halfe of the use and enjoyment thereof to myself and Mehitable my wife during our Naturall lives." Abraham Goodwin was one of the most prominent men of Litchfield from the time of its incorporation. He was "Lister" (assessor), 1727-9; was a grand-juror in 1731; was selected as ensign of the train-band in 1736; constable, 1742-4; selectman from 1747, for many years; and his name appears almost constantly on the town records, as serving in some capacity in the interest of the common good. He acquired considerable real estate in Litch- field, and in 1754 conveyed to each of his sons, Nathaniel, Thomas and Charles, a farm of fifty acres, and was seized of a considerable real and personal estate at his death. He died January 6, 1771, and was buried in the old church-yard on West State Street, Litchfield, where his tombstone may be seen.
Abraham Goodwin married, April 13, 1726, Mary Bird, of Farmington, Con- necticut, who died June 7, 1788, at the age of seventy-seven years. They had eight children. The six sons were all soldiers in the service of their country. Nathaniel, the eldest, born in 1727, was lieutenant of the Third company of Litchfield in 1767 and in January, 1776 was commissioned captain of a com- pany which was stationed at New York during 1776. He was inoculated with small pox, with a view of re-entering the service but died from that dread dis- ease at Litchfield, May 18, 1777. Thomas Goodwin, the second son of Abra- ham, born June 30, 1729, was ensign of the Fifteenth company, Sixth Connect -. icut regiment, and served throughout the Revolution. He died November 6, 1807. Charles Goodwin, the third son, was appointed ensign of Captain Epa-
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phras Lommis' company, in the battalion Colonel Fisher Gay raised in June, 1776, to reinforce General Washington at New York, and participated in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, and in the various engagements on the Hudson, later reaching the rank of lieutenant. Phineas Goodwin, the fourth son of Abraham, was also a soldier in the service of his country and was killed in the service, at Fort William Henry, during the French and Indian War. Jesse, the sixth and youngest son of Abraham, born in 1737, was a corporal of the company commanded by Lieutenant Thomas Bidwell, in the Eighteenth Con- necticut regiment, August 19, to September 8, 1776, and in 1778, was corporal of Captain Amasa Mills' company in the regiment commanded by Colonel Roger Enos.
Ozias Goodwin, the fifth of the six soldier sons of Abraham and Mary (Bird) Goodwin, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, November 27, 1735. He married October 26, 1761, Hannah Vail, of Litchfield, and resided on his father's home- stead, on the east side of South Street, Litchfield. On January I, 1777, he was appointed ensign of a company of Litchfield volunteers of which his brother Nathaniel was captain. He was one of the detachment that rallied to repel the attack of the British troops on Danbury, Connecticut, in April, 1777, and he rendered active service elsewhere during the war. He died at Litchfield, March I, 1788. His wife, Hannah (Vail) Goodwin, died November 4, 1822, at the age of eighty-two years. They had fifteen children, several of whom died young.
Micah Goodwin, the sixth of the fifteen children of Ensign Ozias and Hannah (Vail) Goodwin, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, April 6, 1770. He married May 22, 1798, Sally Clark, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, where she was born September 1, 1777. They resided in Litchfield, Connecticut, where Micah Goodwin died April 4, 1815. His widow married (second) December, 1821, Elihu Barber, of Torrington, Litchfield county, Connecticut, and survived her first husband many years. Micah and Sally (Clark) Goodwin had six children, of whom Lydia Julia, who became the wife of Henry Blynn in 1816, was the eldest, and was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, June 4, 1799.
Henry and Lydia Julia (Goodwin) Blynn, had three sons, and two daughters, the record of whose births and marriages are recorded in old family bible now in the possession of the family of Harry Blynn, the subject of this sketch. Henry Goodwin Blynn, the eldest son, was born in Catharine, Schuyler county New York, August 20, 1818. He came to Philadelphia with his parents in 1837, and soon after removed to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he married (first) February 19, 1845, Maria Le Page Pierce, who was born in New Orleans, May 27, 1829. He married (second) November 5, 1850, Frances Gray Jamie- son. William Blynn, the third son was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, after the return of his parents to that town, August 17, 1822. Sarah Blynn, the fourth child, was born at Litchfield, April 9, 1824, and died in Philadelphia, unmarried, July 17, 1849. Mary Blynn, the youngest child, was born at Newark, New Jer- sey, December 12, 1833, and died in Philadelphia, February 5, 1840.
MICHAEL BLYNN, second son of Henry and Lydia Julia (Goodwin) Blynn, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, September 6, 1820, after the return of his parents to that town, and his early boyhood days were spent in that town where his maternal ancestor had long been prominent in public affairs. He was taken by his parents to Newark, New Jer-
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sey at the age of eleven years and to Philadelphia at the age of seventeen. He was a prominent and successful business man of Philadelphia, and died in that city. He married, at Roxborough, Philadelphia, September 12, 1844, Eliza Rich- ardson, of an old Philadelphia family and they had five children, viz: Harry Blynn, the subject of this sketch; Margaret Blynn, born September 13, 1847; Ross Blynn, born November 15, 1849, died February 1890; Sarah, who died in infancy. Marion, born 1856; Thomas born 1857; and Lydia born October 8, 1859.
HARRY BLYNN, eldest child of Michael and Elizabeth (Richardson) Blynn, was born in Philadelphia, June 7, 1845. He received a good preliminary educa- tion and prepared to enter Harvard University, but soon after entering that institution decided to take up a business life, and learned the hat business with Lewis Blaylock, with whom he entered into partnership in 1873, under the firm name of Blaylock & Blynn. They carried on a large business and after the death of Mr. Blaylock in 1898, Mr. Blynn continued the business under the firm name as surviving partner. He was one of the best known hat dealers in this section of the country and few merchants were better or more favorably known in Philadelphia. His personal acquaintance extended all over the coun- try and embraced many well known people, prominent in public and social life. His nature was genial, social and hopeful. He had pleasure in communicating with kindred spirits and delighted in confidential and frank interchange of ele- vated thought. He had a cultivated literary taste and possessed a library of good and valuable books. A good judge of art, he indulged in the possession of a number of pictures of high merit. Harry Blynn was for thirty years a mem- ber of the Union League of Philadelphia. He was a member, and for eight years prior to his death had been president of the Philadelphia chapter, of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He was also a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, of the New England So- ciety ; the Orpheus Club, of Philadelphia ; the Valley Forge National Park As- sociation ; and of the Old Guard, First Regiment National Guard of Pennsyl- vania, and of the Veteran Corps of that regiment. He was prominent in Ma- sonic circles, being a member of Ionic Lodge of Philadelphia. He was also a member of the Photographic Society. Mr. Blynn died at his home, 2026 Locust Street, November 5, 1908, after a week's illness, though he had been in poor health for some months, having but recently returned from a trip abroad, taken with the hope of improving his health. The Philadelphia chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, of which he had been for several years one of the most active and popular members, and for the past eight years president, at a meeting held November 9, 1908, adopted a memorial of him, showing their high appreciation of his many good qualities.
Mr. Blynn married (first) Ida, daughter of George Ross, of Philadelphia, who died four years after her marriage, leaving one son Lloyd Ross Blynn of Phil- adelphia ; born September 7, 1875; selling agent for a mercantile firm of Lon- don, England; a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Sons of American Revolution, of the Germantown Cricket, and Philadelphia Kennel Clubs, etc. Harry Blynn married (second) February II, 1886, Margaret Brice Matthews, daughter of John N. and Margaret Brice (Turner) Matthews, by whom he had two sons, John Matthews Blynn, born October 21, 1893, and Bryce Blynn, born April 19, 1897.
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JOSEPH SILL, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born at Car- lisle, Cumberland County, England, March 14, 1801, and was a son of Sylvester Sill, born June 8, 1773, died May 13, 1814; grandson of Joseph Sill, of Brown- field, Cumberland, born December 25, 1725; and great-grandson of Richard Sill, who was born November 17, 1691, and died May 22, 1729.
Joseph Sill came to Philadelphia from England, in 1825, and resided in that city until his death which occurred November 2, 1854. He married in Philadel- phia, October 20, 1825, Jane Todhunter (b. July 30, 1801, London, d. Jan. 27, 1877, Phila.), daughter of Joseph Todhunter (b. Nov. 10, 1767, at High Hol- lows, Cumberland, England, m. August 17, 1794, in London, d. October 12, 1833, in Philadelphia ) and his wife Mary Wright (b. July 28, 1768, at Messlem, Co. Derby, Eng., d. Dec. 16, 1824).
JOHN TODHUNTER SILL, son of Joseph and Jane (Todhunter) Sill, was born in Philadelphia, August 1, 1828, and died on board the steamship "Atlantis," off Holyhead, Wales, November 11, 1855. He married, in Philadelphia, Octo- ber 28, 1851, Sarah Cauffman Dunlap (b. Phila. Dec. 13, 1825), youngest child of Sallows Dunlap, of Philadelphia, and his wife Susanna Bispham, grand- daughter of James Dunlap, of Bucks county and his wife Susanna Shewell, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Sallows) Shewell, of Bucks county.
The Shewell family was founded in America by three brothers, Walter, Rob- ert and Thomas Shewell, natives of the little rural village of Painswick, County Gloucester, England. They came to Philadelphia together, arriving June 7, 1722. Robert Shewell, remained in Philadelphia and was a prominent and suc- cessful shipping merchant. He was, however, associated with his brother Wal- ter in the purchase of land in Bucks county, which he owned until his decease.
Walter Shewell, born at Painswick, County Cumberland, England, in 1702, came to Philadelphia with his brothers in 1722, and in 1729, purchased a large tract of land in New Britain township, Bucks county, lying along the line of Warwick township, about two miles east of the present county seat, Doylestown, in what is now Doylestown township, on the north branch of Neshaminy creek. His brother Robert purchased an adjoining tract and the whole, aggregating 500 acres, came into the ownership of Walter at the death of Robert, and is the site of "Painswick Hall," the historic home of the Shewell family for several gen- erations, which is still standing, on the banks of the Neshaminy. Walter Shew- ell married, in 1731, Mary Kimber of Cecil county, Maryland, and took up his residence on his plantation in Bucks county, where he lived until his death, Oc- tober 23, 1795, at the age of ninety-three years. His wife, Mary Kimber, who was born February 10, 1702, died December 29, 1790. Walter Shewell and his descendants for several generations were prominent in the affairs of Bucks county.
ROBERT SHEWELL, son of Walter and Mary (Kimber) Shewell, born in New Britain township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1740, went to Phil-
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adelphia when a young man and was for several years engaged in the West India trade, as a member of the firm of Oldman & Shewell, but returned to Bucks county in 1769, and erected in that year, "Painswick Hall," on a part of his father's plantation, and spent the remainder of his days there, dying in Painswick Hall, December 28, 1825.
From the inception of the struggle for national independence, Robert Shew- ell, and his brothers were among the ardent supporters of the rights of the col- onies. Robert was the representative of his township in the Bucks County Com- mittee of Safety, and at a meeting of that committee at Bogart's tavern, Buck- ingham, April 24, 1776, was chosen lieutenant-colonel of the second battalion of Associators of the county, and his selection with that of the other officers of the battalion, (Colonel Joseph Hart having been selected as colonel), was directed by the Committee of Safety to be certified to the speaker of the assembly, "agree- able to a late resolve of that body," and he was duly commissioned, and marched with the battalion to Amboy, New Jersey, where it was stationed until near the close of 1776. Colonel Shewell was however in attendance as a member of the Committee of Safety, at its meeting held at Bogart's, July 1, 1776, and at the sub- sequent meetings of July 29, and August 12, 1776, and took an active part in the work of the committee in fitting out the Bucks county contingent of the Flying Camp, and served on important committees.
He married, at the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, January 15, 1764, Sarah, daughter of Richard Sallows, of Philadelphia, and his wife Sarah Stone, the former born at East Carshold, county Suffolk, England, November 4, 1694, and the latter in London, England, March 16, 1704. Richard Sallows died in Philadelphia, September 30, 1741. Sarah (Sallows) Shewell, born in Philadel- phia, April 2, 1741, was baptized by the Rev. Morgan Edwards, as a member of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, June II, 1762, eighteen months before her marriage at that church to Robert Shewell. She died at Painswick Hall, now Doylestown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1804. Rob- ert and Sarah (Sallows) Shewell, had eight children. Five of their sons be- came merchants in Philadelphia.
JULIANA SHEWELL, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Sallows) Shewell, was born in Philadelphia, April 5, 1769, and the same year was taken by her par- ents to Painswick Hall, Bucks county, where she resided until her marriage at Neshaminy Presbyterian church of Warwick, Bucks county, May 16, 1793, to James Dunlap, of a Scotch-Irish family who had settled in New Britain, Bucks county about the middle of the eighteenth century.
SALLOWS DUNLAP, son of James and Juliana (Shewell) Dunlap, born near Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1794, went to Philadelphia when a youth and was for many years engaged in the mercantile business there. From 1832 to 1858, he was senior member of the dry-goods firm of Dunlap & Bispham, the junior partner being his brother-in-law, Joseph Bispham. He mar- ried, March 14, 1816, Susanna Bispham, who was born in Philadelphia, Decem- ber 2, 1794, and died there September 1, 1880.
JOHN BISPHAM, the great grandfather of Susanna (Bispham) Dunlap, was an early minister of the Society of Friends at Bicursteeth, (Bickerstaffe) meet- ing, Lancashire, England, and married there, April 24, 1677, Mary Bostwell. He
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travelled extensively in the ministry and his name appears frequently on the records of the early Friends in England.
Joseph Bispham, only child of John and Mary (Bostwell) Bispham, born in Lancashire, England, May 17, 1678, married March 6, 1699-1700, Hannah Hub- bersty, of Yelland, Lancashire, and they had two sons, both of whom emigrated to America, Benjamin, born March 31, 1702-3, and Joshua, born April 1I, 1706. Benjamin married Sarah Backham, July 5, 1727, and soon after emigrated to New Jersey, where he has numerous descendants.
Joshua Bispham, second son of Joseph and Hannah (Hubbersty) Bispham, of Bickerstaffe, Lancashire, England, born April 11, 1706, married February 12, 1729, Mary Lawrence, and resided for seven years in Manchester, England. December 13, 1736, with his wife and son, Joshua, he sailed from London in the ship "Mary and Hannah," Captain Henry Savage, and landed in Philadel- phia, April 26, 1737. A daughter was born to them on the voyage, March 22, 1737, whom they named Atlantica.
Joshua Bispham purchased a house on Fifth Street, Philadelphia, where he resided until the death of his wife in 1742. He married (second) February, 1743, Ruth Atkinson, daughter of Samuel and Ruth (Stacy) Atkinson of Burl- ington county, New Jersey, and soon after removed to Moorestown, New Jersey, where his wife's parents had large landed possessions, and near where his elder brother Benjamin had located. He was town clerk of Moorestown and asses- sor, 1744-7, and a chosen freeholder, in 1753.
THOMAS ATKINSON, the grandfather of Ruth (Atkinson) Bispham, for many years an esteemed minister of the Society of Friends, first in England, and later in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, was a son of John Atkinson of Thrus-cross, parish of Fewston, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. John Atkinson was among the earliest converts to the Society of Friends in Yorkshire, with the Stacys of Ballifield, into which family his grandson married in New Jer- sey. Besse, in his Sufferings of Friends, gives an account of several persecu- tions of John Atkinson, of Fewston, for his religious belief, as early as 1659. It is thought that his wife was Mary Canby, daughter of Thomas Canby, of Thorne, Yorkshire, whose will, dated October 17, 1667, and probated March 16, 1668, gives a legacy to his daughter, "Mary, wife of John Atkinson," and also to her son Thomas Atkinson. This "Thomas Canby, the elder, of Thorne, Yorkshire, Gent," born about the year 1590, was the grandfather of Thomas Canby, another eminent minister of the Society of Friends in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, whither he came with his uncle Henry Baker in 1684.
Thomas Atkinson, son of John, and Mary (Canby) Atkinson, born at Newby, Yorkshire, England, prior to 1660, married under the care of Knaresborough Meeting of the Society of Friends, 13 miles from Thrus-cross in Yorkshire, June 4, 1678, Jane Bond, of a well known family of that name in Yorkshire, sev- eral members of which emigrated to Pennsylvania at different periods. Both husband and wife entered the ministry of the Society of Friends. In 1681 they obtained a certificate from the Friends Meeting at Beamsley, Yorkshire, and came to New Jersey, but soon after located in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where Thomas Atkinson was a considerable landowner. His brother, John Atkinson, followed him to Pennsylvania, but little is known of him. Thomas Atkinson died in Bucks county, October 31, 1687. His widow,
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Jane, married again, December 11, 1688, William Biles, of Bucks county, one of the most noted men of Pennsylvania in his day, a member of Provincial council; many years a member of the Assembly and justice of the Bucks county courts. She died in 1709, after a long and zealous service in the ministry, continuing to her death. With her second husband also a minister she made a religious visit to England and Ireland, covering the greater part of the years 1701 and 1702. Thomas and Jane (Bond) Atkinson, had three sons, Isaac, William, and Sam- uel, the two former born in England.
Samuel Atkinson, the father of Ruth (Atkinson) Bispham, was the youngest son of Thomas and Jane (Bond) Atkinson, and was born in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1685. On the re-marriage of his mother in 1688, he went to live with her and his step-father William Biles in Falls township, and remained in that township until 1714, when he removed to Not- tingham township, Burlington county, New Jersey, taking a certificate from Falls Meeting in Bucks, to Chesterfield Meeting in Burlington county, dated August 4, 1714, and proposing intentions of marriage the following day at Ches- terfield Meeting to Ruth (Stacy) Beakes widow of William Beakes, formerly of Bucks county, and daughter of Mahlon Stacy and his wife Rebecca Ely, who were among the most prominent people of Burlington county. Mahlon Stacy belong to the prominent family of landed gentry of Ballifield, Yorkshire, and married there in 1668, Rebecca Ely, of a like prominent family. He was one of the purchasers of the lands of West Jersey, becoming one of the lords proprietors of the province, of which he owned one-tenth interest. He came over with his family in 1678, and settled on the site of Trenton, New Jersey, of which settlement he was the founder, and named his main plantation Ballifield, after his ancestral home in England. He erected a mill on the site of Trenton, which with a goodly portion of his land thereabout was sold by his son, of the same name to Colonel William Trent and Trent adding a number of other manufacturing industries, the town took its name from him. Mahlon Stacy was one of the principal men of the province and filled many important official posi- tions. Ruth Stacy inherited considerable estate from her father, and after the death of her first husband, William Beakes, purchased 100 acres of land of her stepson, Edmond Beakes, adjoining Ballifield, on which she and her second husband, Samuel Atkinson, took up their residence on their marriage, which took place at the house of her brother Mahlon, September 12, 1714. She was born March 30, 1680, and died June 9, 1755. They however resided here but a short time, removing in 1719, to a large tract of land in Chester town- ship, in the lower part of Burlington county, embracing what is now the east- erly portion of Moorestown, where he lived in lordly style. His wife having inherited a large part of the estate of her brother Mahlon Stacy, Jr., who died without issue, as well as a considerable estate from her father, Samuel and Ruth Atkinson were among the most wealthy people of the province in their day. They were, after their removal to Moorestown, active members of Gloucester, later Haddonfield, Monthly Meeting of Friends, of which Samuel was an overseer, and frequently represented in the Quarterly Meeting at Salem, and the Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia. He died at his home in Chester town- ship, Burlington county, New Jersey, February 21, 1775, aged nearly ninety years. An obituary notice of him in the Pennsylvania Gazette, of March I,
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1775, says of him, "In every period and station of his life, he supported the char- acter of an honest man, which secured him the esteem of those who were ac- quainted with his virtues-With a tender benevolent heart, he possessed ex- tensive knowledge and good abilities, which he always cheerfully exerted for the benefit of his fellow-creatures. He endured all the infirmities of old age with Christian fortitude and resignation, leaving this world with a well-grounded hope of unfading joys, in a kingdom 'not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens.'" Samuel and Ruth (Stacy) Atkinson, had four children, of whom Ruth, the wife of Joshua Bispham, was the youngest.
Joshua Bispham left a considerable landed estate about Moorestown, most of which descended to his eldest son Joshua. By his second wife, Ruth At- kinson, he had four children, Sarah, Samuel, Benjamin and Joseph. Joseph Bispham, the father of Susanna (Bispham) Dunlap, above mentioned, was the youngest son of Joshua and Ruth (Atkinson) Bispham, and was born at Moorestown, New Jersey, October 4, 1759. He came to Philadelphia with his elder brother Samuel Bispham, in 1772, and on arriving at mature age engaged in business there, and continued to reside in the city until the breaking out of the yellow fever in 1798, when he removed with his family to Moorestown, and engaging in farming there, never again took up his residence in Philadel- phia, though he died there in 1832, while on a visit, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Sallows Dunlap. Like his father, he was a member of the So- ciety of Friends. He married, April 1, 1783, in Philadelphia, Susanna, daugh- ter of William and Ann Pearson, of that city. She died at Moorestown, New Jersey, in 1831. They had four daughters and two sons.
Sallows and Susanna (Bispham) Dunlap had seven children, Joseph Dunlap, Robert Shewell Dunlap, James Hendrie Dunlap, Juliana, Susan, (wife of Wil- liam Clayton Newell) Sarah Cauffman Dunlap, and Josephine.
SARAH CAUFFMAN DUNLAP, the youngest child of Sallows and Susanna (Bispham) Dunlap, born in Philadelphia, December 13, 1825, married, October 28, 1851, John Todhunter Sill, before mentioned, who was born in Phila- delphia, August 1, 1828, and was a son of Joseph and Jane (Todhunter) Sill, of Philadelphia. He died at sea on board the steamship "Atlantis" Captain West, off Holyhead, Wales, November 11, 1855, and is buried at Laurel Hill ceme- tery, Philadelphia.
HAROLD MONTGOMERY SILL, son of John Todhunter and Sarah Cauffman (Dunlap) Sill, was born in Philadelphia, April 15, 1854. He was educated at the Protestant Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, and in 1871 engaged in the banking business with E. W. Clark Co., and entered the firm Jan. 1, 1882. In 1888 he withdrew from active business pursuits and has since lived retired on School House Lane, Germantown. He is a member of the Pennsylvania So- ciety of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the Rittenhouse, Philadelphia, Racquet, Radnor Hunt, Germantown Cricket and Philadelphia Country Clubs. He married, (first) October 10, 1877, Pauline, (b. May 26, 1855, d. Feb. 2, 1900) daughter of Heinrich and Eliza (Anderson) Wiener, of Philadelphia. He mar- ried (second) April 17, 1906, Agnes Jessie, daughter of the Reverend C. George Currie, and they have one child, Margaret Sill, born May 23, 1907.
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