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Ebenezer Waterbury, son of Lieutenant David and Jemima (Knapp) Water- bury, was born July 27 1760, died at Stamford, in 1795. He married Sarah, and they were the parents of Charity Waterbury, above mentioned, who mar- ried John Truesdell, at Darien, Fairfield county, Connecticut, February 28, 1804. The latter couple had seven children, all born in Troy, New York, viz: Julia Frances Truesdell, born July II, 1805, married Elias Dorlan; George Trues- dell, born March 3, 1807; Mary Ann Truesdell, born May 8, 1812, married Hi- ram Husted; Malvina Truesdell, born September 27, 1815, married Walter Field, in 1832; Harriet Louisa Truesdell, born October 1, 1818, became second wife of Elias Dorlan, in 1840; Joanna Davis Truesdell, born 1821; and Phebe Warren Truesdell, born December 25, 1824, died 1894, married, in 1853, Caspar Groening.
Hiram and Mary Ann (Truesdell) Husted had three children, viz: George Husted, born September 17, 1834; Charles Husted, born October, 1840, died September, 1877, married Margaret Sill, in 1871, and had two children, May and Benjamin ; and Julia Frances Husted, above mentioned, born September 17, 1844.
Edward Butler and Julia Frances (Husted) Peet had two sons : Walter Field Peet, born in the city of New York, September 23, 1865, and Edward Butler Peet, born in the city of New York, October 20, 1867. Both came to Philadel- phia with their parents in childhood and were educated in the public schools of that city.
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WALTER FIELD PEET, the elder of the brothers, engaged in the insurance bus- iness at the close of his school days, and was thus employed for seventeen years. In 1895-96, he patented an Invisible Eye for Hooks and Eyes, and in connection with his brother, Edward Butler Peet, began the manufacture of "Peet's Invisible Eyes and Spring Hooks", which has been continued to the present time, under the firm name of Peet Brothers, at 44 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Walter Field Peet is a member of the Pennsyl- vania Society, Sons of the Revolution, of the Society of Founders and Patriots and the New England Society of Pennsylvania. He and his family are mem- bers of the Episcopal Church. He married, at Philadelphia, June 15, 1904, Norma Rebecca, daughter of Norman Henry and Rebecca (Kohn) Stevens, and great-great-granddaughter of General Nicholas Pariset, who came over with Lafayette, and served in the War of the Revolution, and at the suggestion of General Washington, in 1793, prepared a treatise entitled "The Discipline of the Cavalry of the United States", which he dedicated and presented to Gen- eral Washington, as appears on the records of the War Department, and now found among the books in the Harvard College library.
EDWARD BUTLER PEET commenced business with Wilson & Bradbury, com- mission merchants, of Philadelphia, where he was employed until he joined his brother in the manufacturing business and became a member of the present firm of Peet Brothers. He is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, the Founders and Patriots of America, the Huntingdon Valley Country Club, and is one of the directors of the Belfield Country Club. He is unmarried.
HON. REUBEN O. MOON
The Moon family, long resident in and about Bristol, England, were among the early converts to the principles of the Society of Friends. John Moone, as the name is universally spelled on the early English and American records, was married at a Friends' meeting in Bristol, June 17, 1666, to Sarah Snead, and on the records of that meeting are entered the births of four of their chil- dren : Joseph, Sarah, John and Elizabeth, the last on April 22, 1676. The names of others of the family also appear on the records of Bristol Meeting at these and succeeding dates. John Moone came to Philadelphia with his wite and children about 1682, and was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, a justice of the peace, Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions, and a member of the Provincial Assembly. He moved later to Dedford township, Gloucester county, New Jersey, where he died, leaving a will dated October 8, 1715, which mentions his home farm on Mantoes creek; children: Joseph, absent out of the province; John; Elizabeth Gibson; Thomas; Edward; and Charles.
JAMES MOONE, the first American ancestor of the subject of this sketch, came to Pennsylvania from Bristol, England, at about the same date that John Moone, first above mentioned, appears in Philadelphia, and located near the falls of the Delaware, in Bucks county. He had married at Bristol, England, about 1663, Joan Burgess, and was accompanied to America by several children of nearly adult age. When he purchased a tract of land in Falls township, in 1695, his son, James Moone Jr., was named as one of the grantees, the title to vest in him when he arrived at the age of twenty-one years.
John Moone, of Philadelphia, was a brother of James Moone, of Bucks coun- ty. They were both witnesses to the will of Joseph Siddall, of Bucks county, which was probated in Philadelphia, May 5, 1704.
James Moone was actively associated with the affairs of Bucks county, his name frequently appearing on the early records of the courts of that county after 1685 as a member of grand and petit juries, and as serving in various ca- pacities by appointment of the court up to the time of his decease, in September, 1713. Joan (Burgess) Moone, wife of James Moone, received a legacy from her parents or other relatives in England, in 1695, and obtained a certificate from the Bucks County Court on December II, 1695, to enable her to receive it, the court entry of which is as follows: "A Certificate of Joan, the wife of James Moone being alive Signed in Court shee being then there present." She survived her husband over a quarter of a century, dying December, 1739, in her ninetieth year, at the home of her son, Roger, the old home plantation in Falls township, the title of which had been transferred from James Jr. to his father and by the latter to Roger in 1706. Children of James and Joan (Burgess) Moone: Sarah, Jasper, James, Roger, Jonas and Mary. Jasper, the eldest, lo- cated in New Jersey, and died in Burlington county, letters of administration be- ing granted to his widow Susannah, April 29, 1726; the records of that county show that he was resident there as early as 1704. James, Roger and Jonas Moon
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remained in Bucks county, and have left descendants. James was deputy sheriff of the county in 1714.
ROGER MOON, son of James and Joan (Burgess) Moone, was born in England, in or about the year 1679. He received, as above stated, a deed from his parents in 1706 for the plantation of one hundred and twenty-five acres in Falls town- ship, about one and one-half miles from the present borough of Morrisville, where he spent his whole adult life, dying there, February 16, 1759. He was a consistent member of Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends, and took little part in public affairs. His descendants take pride in the fact that he lived for sev- enty years in one place, and "had never discharged a gun or quarrelled with any man".
Roger Moon married (first), October 23, 1708, Ann Nutt, like himself a na- tive of England, and had by her seven children: James, John, Elizabeth, Rog- er, Isaac, William and Ann. John died in 1732, at the age of fifteen, and Isaac in 1748, at the age of twenty-four. James, the eldest son, located in Middle- town, and was the pioneer of the family in the nursery business still extensive- ly carried on by his descendants in Falls, Lower Makefield and Middletown townships. Roger Moon married (second), in April, 1734, Elizabeth, daughter of Reese and Mary Price, of Welsh ancestry. They had seven children: John Mary, Sarah, Timothy, Samuel, Jasper and Hannah. Samuel was a chair maker, and resided in Fallsington until his death, July 5, 1813, at the age of seventy-seven years. Jasper was a soldier in the Bucks County Battalion, com- manded by Colonel John Keller, in the company of Captain Robert Patterson, and saw considerable active service in the Revolutionary War.
JOHN MOON, eldest son of Roger Moon, by his second wife, Elizabeth Price, was born on the old homestead, in Falls township, February 28, 1735, and died in the same township, January 6, 1788. No record appearing of his purchase of real estate, it is presumed that he continued to reside on the homestead in Falls township until his death. Letters of administration were granted on his estate to his widow Margaret, his brother Samuel being one of her sureties. His wife Margaret was not a member of the Society of Friends, and at a monthly meeting held at Falls Township, May 6, 1761, "John Moon having some time since went out in his marriage with a woman that was not of our society not- withstanding he was precautioned", a committee was appointed to prepare a testimony against him. This committee produced their testimony July 1, 1761, when it was read, approved and signed, and John Nutt was appointed to de- liver a copy thereof to the said John Moon and acquaint him with his right to appeal. He appears to have made no effort to retain his membership and at the meeting on August 5, 1761, it appearing that he had not yet been served with a copy of the testimony, Friend Nutt is desired to deliver it to him be- fore the next meeting. Nothing more appears on the record with reference to him, and he was probably disowned from membership without any protest on his part. The maiden name of his wife Margaret has not been ascertained. He was probably a soldier in the Revolution, as well as his brother Jasper, but the incomplete rolls make no mention thereof. Neither is there record of dis- tribution of his estate or other means of ascertaining who his children were, other than his son William, whose date of birth appears in his own family Bi-
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ble. It is thought that Elizabeth, the wife of Joachim Richards, of Falls town- ship, who died in 1845, at the age of seventy-seven years, was his daughter.
WILLIAM MOON, son of John and Margaret Moon, was born in Falls town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1776. This date together with that of the births of his nine children, was entered by himself in a family Bi- ble still in possession of his grandchildren. From the same source we learn that his wife's name was Margaret, but her maiden name is unknown to her descendants. By deed dated September 26, 1825, William Moon purchased of William Wharton and Ann his wife, Henry Richards and Jane his wife, Wil- liam Richards of Philadelphia and Ann his wife, and John Richards, of North- ern Liberties, a small lot in Falls township, of which Joachim Richards had died seized in 1812, leaving the above-named Ann, Henry, William and John as his only children and heirs. The property had been purchased by Joachim Richards of the estate of Robert Kirkbride in 1806. Here William Moon re- sided until his death, February 22, 1845, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. He died intestate, and letters of administration were granted on his estate to his sons Mahlon and Joachim R. Moon. By deed dated March 31, 1846, Mahlon Moon and Eliza Ann his wife; John Jones and Catharine his wife; Aaron L. Moon and Maria B. his wife; Paul Troth and Elizabeth his wife; Joachim R. Moon and Sarah Ann his wife; Benjamin C. Tatum, and Mary his wife; James K. Moon and Elizabeth his wife; and John Moon, heirs and representatives of William Moon, deceased, conveyed the above-mentioned lot to William Bowers.
Children of William and Margaret Moon, as shown by the above-mentioned Bible record : Mahlon, born March 25, 1802; Catharine, February 27, 1804; William, June 15, 1806; Aaron L., mentioned below; Elizabeth, August 30, 18II ; Joachim R., October 17, 1813; Mary, March 12, 1816; James Kimmons, July 30, 1818; and John, July 4, 1821. All of these except William lived to mature age, as shown by the above deed.
AARON LIPPINCOTT MOON, son of William and Margaret Moon, was born in Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1809. He received a good education and adopting the profession of teacher in early life, he be- came an eminent instructor of youth. The greater part of his life was spent in Burlington county, New Jersey. He married, in 1842, Maria Braddock, daughter of Abraham and Catharine (Snyder) Osborne, of Burlington county, New Jersey, and had six children, three of whom died in infancy, those who survived being: William, died in 1879; Katherine, and Reuben O.
HON. REUBEN O. MOON, son of Aaron Lippincott and Maria B. (Osborne) Moon, was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, July 22, 1847. He was edu- cated under supervision of his father, one of the leading teachers in the state of New Jersey, and afterwards graduated at a well-known Philadelphia college in the year 1875. After his graduation he filled the chair of literature and ex- pression in his alma mater for a few years, during which time he was widely known in the literary and educational world as a lecturer and instructor on educational topics. At the death of the president of the college, in 1880, he succeeded to the chair previously filled by him, which he held until he was ad- mitted to the bar, in 1884, when he began the practice of the law in the city of Philadelphia. His rise in this profession was rapid. His previous scholastic training, his untiring industry and his recognized oratorical abilities contributed
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materially to his speedy advancement at the bar. He was associated with many notable cases both in the civil and criminal courts. He became counsel for many large interests and soon took his place as one of the leaders of the Phil- adelphia Bar. He was admitted to the Supreme Court in 1886, and to the United States courts in 1889.
In 1903 he was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress from the Fourth District of Pennsylvania, comprising an important section of Philadelphia, and was subsequently elected to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congress and is at present a member of the Sixty-second Congress. Soon after Mr. Moon's entrance into Congress his legal and forensic abilities were recognized by con- spicuous committee appointments. One of the acute subjects of legislation, which had been before Congress for a number of years, was the codification and revision of the laws of the United States. No revision had been made for nearly forty years and the condition of the Federal statutes was deplorable. Much legislation had been enacted to meet the rapidly increasing expansion of the Federal jurisdiction, most of which had been experimental. Many im- portant statutes thus enacted had been declared unconstitutional, and the over- lapping and confusion of multifarious laws which were contained in ponderous volumes of Congressional enactments, commingled with general and temporary laws, had resulted in such complexity and confusion as to make it almost im- possible for the Federal judges and practitioners at the bar to know definitely what the exact condition of the law was.
Mr. Moon was made chairman of the Committee on the Revision of the laws, of the House of Representatives, charged with the responsibility of re- vising and codifying the Federal statutes and of reconciling the contradictions, supplying the omissions and amending the imperfections of the original text and with power to propose and embody in his revision changes in the existing law. This monumental work involved a high degree of legal learning, technical skill and patient effort. A conspicuous portion of this important work had already been accomplished by the enactment of the revision of the criminal laws of the United States known as the new penal code, which was passed at the Sixtieth Congress and went into operation, January 1, 1910. Mr. Moon's masterly achievement in securing the enactment of this law and his lucid and scholarly exposition of the history and development of the Federal criminal law of the country won him great renown, and he at once took his place as one of the leading legal authorities in the American Congress. This work has re- ceived the commendation of the bar of the country, and Mr. Moon was ten- dered a notable reception and banquet by the bench and bar of his own city in recognition of his distinguished services in this work. This committee of which Mr. Moon is house chairman, has reported and has upon the calender in Congress another part of this great task, involving the re-organization of the Federal judiciary, in which many important reforms are recommended. His report upon this second department of the revision has attracted great attention from the jurists and lawyers of the country, and has been received with uni- versal appreciation, and is recognized as a scholarly contribution to the legal literature of the land.
Mr. Moon is also a prominent member of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, and is the author of the Moon Injunction Bill,
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which has been adopted by President Taft as an administration measure and made one of the dominant features of the President's new policy of reform. He has in addition to this introduced a great number of bills seeking to perfect the imperfect Federal legal machinery that is everywhere recognized as neces- sary to meet the rapidly growing requirements of the Federal courts. It has been said of Mr. Moon by eminent authority that he has initiated more con- structive legal legislation than any man in Congress for half a century.
Mr. Moon is a prominent and popular club man, a leading member of the Lawyers' Club; a former president of the prominent up-town Columbia Club; member of the Union League and Penn Clubs; of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; and of a number of other patriotic, social, professional and phil- anthropic organizations.
He married, February 25, 1876, Mary A., daughter of Captain Wright Predmore, of Barnegat, New Jersey, and his wife, Elizabeth (Bodine) Pred- more. Mr. and Mrs. Moon have two children: Harold Predmore Moon and Mabel M. Moon.
HAROLD PREDMORE MOON was born June 14, 1877. He received his elemen- tary education at the Eastburn Academy, Philadelphia, and entering the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, graduated in 1898. He studied law in the office of his father, Hon. R. O. Moon, and attended the law school of the university, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, March 18, 1901. He has since been in active practice of his profession in Philadelphia. He was assistant city solici- tor of Philadelphia from 1902 to 1906. He is a member of the Union League Club and of the Yacht Club and other social and athletic organizations of the city. He married, December 2, 1908, Attaresta Barclay de Silver, daughter of Robert P. and Fannie (King) de Silver, and they have one son, Harold Pred- more Moon, born September 23, 1909.
MABEL M. MOON, daughter of Hon. and Mrs. Reuben O. Moon, was mar- ried in 1903, to Mr. Clarence A. Musselman, of Philadelphia, a prominent and well known publisher, and a business man of eminent standing in the com- munity. They have one daughter, Mary Moon Musselman, born December 18, 1906.
CHARLES CLINTON KINNEY
CHARLES CLINTON KINNEY, of Philadelphia, is a great-grandson, of Ste- phen Kinney, a Revolutionary soldier in the Connecticut troops, who died in Ohio, in 1848, and the great-great-grandfather of the latter was Henry Kene, or Kinne, who in the year 1651 was living in the village of Salem, now Dan- vers, Massachusetts, where his name is mentioned in the early church records in various forms of spelling, Kinne, Kene, Kenny and Kenney. He was a landowner in Salem Village, now Danvers, Essex county, and died there prior to 1712, in which year a quit-claim deed from his youngest son, Henry Kenney, to the eldest son, John Kenney, for land owned by their father shows that he was then deceased. In making a deposition in the year 1684, he states that he is sixty years of age, and was therefore born in 1624, presumably in one of the northern or middle counties of England where the surname of Kinne is found at an early date. He was one of the "Essex Troopers", a body of horsemen who served in the Narragansett War. By his wife Ann, Henry Kinne had eight children, the dates of whose births have been ascertained from the church and town records of Salem Village, viz: John, born January, 1651, Thomas, Hannah, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Lydia and Henry.
THOMAS KENNEY, second son of Henry and Ann Kinne, was born in Salem Village, now Danvers, Essex county, Massachusetts, January 1, 1656, died there in June, 1687. His will is dated May 30, 1687, and the inventory of his estate was made June 14, 1687. He married, May 23, 1677, Elizabeth Knight, who died prior to February 6, 1695, when petitions for the appointment of guardians for the children of Thomas and Elizabeth Kenney state that they were both deceased. These children were Thomas, Joseph, Daniel and Jona- than Kenney. Thomas and Joseph both removed to Preston, now Griswold, New London county, Connecticut ; Joseph in 1706, and Thomas in 1715.
THOMAS KINNE (as he appears to have spelled his name), eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Knight) Kenney, was born in Salem Village, Essex county, Massachusetts, July 27, 1678. He married there, November 10, 1702, Martha Cox. In December 1715, Thomas Kinne and Martha, his wife, convey their land in Salem, and in the same month purchase one hundred and fifty acres adjoining the farm of his brother, Captain Joseph Kinney, on the south side of Pachaug river, in the township of Preston, now Griswold, New London county, Connecticut, near the present postoffice of Glasgo. Thomas Kinne was one of the founders and first deacon of the "Second Church of Christ in Preston", now the First Congregational Church of Griswold, and known as the Pachaug Church. He died on his farm on the banks of the Pachaug, Octo- ber I, 1756, and he and his brother, Captain Joseph Kenney, who died July 12, 1745, and many of their descendants are buried in "The Kinney Burying Ground" located between the two farms, in the southwestern part of the pres- ent town of Griswold, where the tombstones of Thomas and his wife Martha with their quaint inscriptions may still be seen.
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"In Memory of DEACON THOMAS KINNE Consort of Mrs. Martha Kinne, who died October 1, 1756 Aged 79 years."
"Here lies the body
Of Mrs. Martha Kinne, wife of Mr. Thomas Kinne, who died October 25 A. D. 1747 Aged 66 years."
They had sixteen children, ten sons and six daughters, born between the years 1702 and 1727.
GIDEON KINNE, fifteenth child of Thomas and Martha (Cox) Kinne, born at Preston, Connecticut, April 22, 1723, died there February 25, 1802. His will dated May 8, 1793, was probated March 26, 1802, and names his son, Lott Kinne, as executor, and devises to his wife Thankful, "one-third part of the improvement of all my land during her natural life" with privilege of parts of the house, and "one riding beast and saddle and bridle and one cow for her use to be found by my executor during her natural life". To his son Stephen he devises fifty pounds and one-half of his stock and wearing apparel, and one- half of his carpenter tools; to his eight daughters five shillings each, and the residue to Lott. The inventory of his estate shows that he was possessed of "Most 200 acres of Land and buildings standing thereon" and "The land in the Green Cedar Swamp, (so-called) that belonged to the said deceased", the latter valued at eighty pounds. The will further provides for the erection of tombstones at his grave and those of his two deceased sons in the Kinney Bury- ing Ground. Gideon Kinne was appointed surveyor of highways for the town of Preston, December 2, 1755, was reappointed December II, 1759, was a grand juryman, December 5, 1757, and at a town meeting held September II, 1764, was one of the freemen made that day. Gideon Kinne married, October 29, 1746, Thankful Hewitt, of Stonington, Connecticut, daughter of Elkanalı and Temperance (Keeny) Hewitt. She was born February 23, 1726, died De- cember 29, 1798.
STEPHEN KINNEY, tenth child of Gideon and Thankful (Hewitt) Kinne, was born at Preston, now Griswold, New London county, Connecticut, March 6, 1762. On February I, 1778, when less than sixteen years of age, he enlisted in the company of his cousin, Asa Kinney, (son of Captain Joseph Kenney, above mentioned) with which he served four weeks, until March 1, 1778, when he was transferred to the company of Captain William Whitney, in which he served, in his native state, under Colonels George McLalin, and Nathan Gal- lop. In September, 1779, he joined Captain William Latham's company and is credited on the records of the War Department at Washington, with three months service in this company in 1779, and two months service in 1780. He also served for six months in Lieutenant Johnson's company, under Colonel Ichabod Ward, in Rhode Island, in 178I.
Stephen Kinney married, about 1787, Rebecca, daughter of John and Anna (Gray) Coates, of Stonington, Connecticut, and resided in Stonington until about 1793, when he returned to his native town of Preston. In 1815, with his youngest son, John Coates Kinney, and his daughter Phebe, still single, he re- moved to Springboro, Warren county, Ohio, where he died July 19, 1848. His wife, Rebecca Coates Kinney, born in Stonington, Connecticut, May 28, 1759, died October 25, 1822. The will of Stephen Kinney, of Springboro, in the county of Warren, state of Ohio, dated February 19, 1844, was probated April
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