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CLEMENT WEAVER, youngest son of Joseph Briggs and Abby Dyer (Marsh) Weaver, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, March 26, 1848, and was educated in his native city. Choosing a mercantile career he entered the employ of H. B. Claflin & Company at an early age, and remained with them until 1868, when he came to Philadelphia and entered the store of Bailey & Company, of which his brother-in-law, Joseph T. Bailey was one of the proprietors. He later acquired an interest in the firm, now the well-known firm of Bailey, Banks & Biddle company of which he is now second vice-president. He was a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Darby; a member of the Pennsylva- nia Society, Sons of the Revolution; of the Founders and Patriots Society.
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The Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, and of the Union League, Corinthian Yacht, and Bachelors Barge clubs.
He married, November 5, 1874, Caroline Sloan, born January 21, 1851, daugh- ter of Henry and Caroline (Worrell) Sloan, and of an old Philadelphia family. They have two children: Elizabeth Sloan Weaver, born December 30, 1876, married December 28, 1907, John Dickey Jr., son of John Dickey; Joseph Briggs Weaver, born June 19, 1880, graduated at Cornell University in 1902, where he made a specialty of marine architecture and is practicing his profes- sion.
HOWARD WINTERS PERRIN
The Perrin family, to which Howard Winters Perrin belongs, was founded in America by an early Puritan emigrant to Massachusetts.
JOHN PERRYN and Ann, his wife, were passengers on the ship "Safety", John Grant, master, which arrived at Braintree, Massachusetts, in August, 1635, though they are said to have been simply fellow passengers, and were married some years after their arrival at Braintree, about 1639, and removed, about 1643, to Rehoboth, Massachusetts, of which John Perryn was one of the found- ers, with Rev. Samuel Newman, and other members of the church of which Newman was pastor. This John Perryn (as the name seems to have been gen- erally spelled at that date, though it appears in various forms on the town rec- ords of Rehoboth), came from London, England, and was born in the year 1614, as shown by the record of his death at Rehoboth, September 13, 1674, "aged sixty years". He was buried at Rehoboth church, where his widow, Ann, was also buried, March II, 1688. He seems to have been a man of some prominence in the affairs of Rehoboth, and his name appears frequently on the early records of the town.
John and Ann Perryn had five children, viz : Mary Perryn, born at Braintree, December 22, 1640; John, of whom presently; Hannah, born at Rehoboth, July, 1645, died March 23, 1710, married, June 16, 1675, Thomas Read; Abra- ham, born at Rehoboth, March 1, 1647, died May 15, 1694; Mary, born Febru- ary, 1649, married, December 12, 1676, Jacob Ormsby, of Rehoboth.
JOHN PERRYN, eldest son and second child of John and Ann Perryn, was born about the year 1642, supposedly at Braintree, Massachusetts, though prob- ably by reason of the removal of his parents from Braintree to Rehoboth, the exact date and place of birth does not appear of record, while the record of the time and place of birth of his elder sister and younger brothers and sisters is fully given. His parents were certainly resident in Rehoboth in 1645, when their third child was born, and they probably brought their two eldest children there when infants. John Perryn (2) spent practically his whole life in the town of Rehoboth, but died at Roxbury, Massachusetts, May 28, 1694, while temporarily residing there. By his wife, Mary, maiden name unknown, he had ten children, viz: John, of whom presently; Samuel, born March 10, 1671; Mary, born April 16, 1673; Nathaniel, born April 17, 1675, died September, 1678; Mehitable, born April 19, 1677; Noah, born December 24, 1679, of Rox- bury, Massachusetts; Daniel, born March 18, 1682; Nathaniel, born February 9, 1683; David, born February 7, 1684, removed to Putnam, Connecticut, and purchased land there that was the Perrin homestead for several generations; Susanna, born August 20, 1687, married Captain Joseph Chandler, of Pom- fret, Windham county, Connecticut, and was the ancestress of the numerous and prominent Chandler family of that section.
JOHN PERRIN (as he spelled the name), eldest son of John and Mary Perryn, was born October 12, 1668, in Rehoboth township, Bristol county, Massachu-
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setts, where the town of Perrins, near the Rhode Island line, perpetuates the name and fame of his family, and died there, May 6, 1694, and was buried in the ancient churchyard at East Providence, Rhode Island, a few miles from the Perrin homestead. He married Sarah -, by whom he had one child only, he having survived his marriage but a few years.
JOHN PERRIN, only child of John and Sarah Perrin, was born at Perrins, Rehoboth township, Bristol county, Massachusetts, March 8, 1692, died there, February 28, 1731, and was buried at East Providence, Rhode Island. He married, in 1716, Rachel Ide, who was born December 4, 1695, and who after his death married Deacon Edward Glover. She is, however, buried beside her first husband, John Perrin, at East Providence, though she had survived him nearly half a century, dying December 4, 1780.
John and Rachel (Ide) Perrin, had seven children, viz: John, born March 19, 1717, was three times married, and left several children; Ezra, born Aug- ust 6, 1720; Rachel, born October 12, 1722, married, March 15, 1743, Joseph Whittaker ; Timothy, of whom presently; Jesse, born January 24, 1726, married, May II, 1749, and had twelve children; Elizabeth, born November 17, 1728, married, June 10, 1750, Caleb Walker, and two sons, Judge William Walker and Caleb Walker Jr .; Huldah Perrin, born February 2, 1730, died January 1, 1738.
TIMOTHY PERRIN, fourth child and third son of John and Rachel (Ide) Per- rin, born at Perrins, Bristol county, Massachusetts, October 1, 1724, removed in early life to Canterbury, Windham county, Connecticut, where he died in 1816, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. He married and had a number of children, among whom were Dr. Daniel Perrin; Rachel, the wife of Rufus Bugbee; another daughter who married Ebenezer Summers; and Timothy Per- rin Jr., of whom presently. The name of his wife and the dates of his mar- riage and the birth of their children are unknown to the writer of this sketch.
TIMOTHY PERRIN, son of Timothy Perrin, was born in Connecticut, about the year 1765, and died there, in 1814. He married (first), January 5, 1791, Lydia Raymond, by whom he had seven children, and (second) Dorcas Engells, by whom he had five children, all of whom, it is said, died in infancy. He resided at different periods in Canterbury, Thompson and Ashford, all in Windham county, Connecticut, dying in the latter place in 1814.
The seven children of Timothy and Lydia (Raymond) Perrin were: Lydia, married Willis Covill, and lived and died in Thompson, Windham county, Con- necticut; Calvin, of whom presently; John, born 1795, died September, 1853, married Abbie Kimball in 1816, and had three children; Lucy, born 1797, mar- ried in Ashford, Connecticut, David Chaffee, and in 1821, removed to Luzerne county, Pennsylvania; Raymond, born February 28, 1799, married in 1820, Mariana Fish, and had two sons and two daughters; Gurdin, born August 13, 1801, married, 1825, Polly Church, and had twelve children.
CALVIN PERRIN, second child and eldest son of Timothy and Lydia (Ray- mond) Perrin, born in Windham county, Connecticut, September 17, 1793, was educated in the common schools of that county. He had barely reached his majority at the breaking out of the War of 1812-14, and he took an active part in that struggle. He married, May 22, 1816, Polly Lawton, and lived for three years in Thompson, Windham county, Connecticut. In 1819 he removed to
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Kingston township, on the west branch of the Susquehanna, in Luzerne coun- ty, then in the heart of the wilderness, later one of the richest coal fields of the Wyoming Valley. He remained there but one year, removing to North More- land township, now Wyoming county, where he purchased a farm, on which he resided until his death. Polly (Lawton) Perrin died in the homestead in North Moreland township, Wyoming county, October 5, 1842, and Calvin Per- rin married (second) Lucretia Shippy, who survived until July 24, 1896, at the age of one hundred and two years. Calvin and Polly (Lawton) Perrin had five children, viz: George, of whom presently; Pamelia, born February 9, 1821, died April 12, 1860, married William White; Daniel, born December 23, 1822; Betsy, born July 29, 1826, married, July, 1847, John Long; Gurdin Per- rin, born August 18, 1828, died at Pittston, Luzerne county, where he was many years a prominent merchant, December 24, 1866, married Fannie Jane Lewis, and had four children.
GEORGE PERRIN, eldest son of Calvin and Polly (Lawton) Perrin, born in Thompson, Windham county, Connecticut, September 23, 1817, was removed with his parents to the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, at the age of two years, and was reared in the wilderness of what is now Wyoming county, or- ganized out of Luzerne county in 1842. He was reared to the life of a farmer, and inheriting a farm in North Moreland township, lived thereon during the active years of his life; continued ill-health, however, which covered the last nineteen years of his life, compelled him to abandon that vocation. He died at West Pittston, Luzerne county, April 15, 1875. He married, November 5, 1840, Charlotte Ferguson, or Forgerson, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Terry) Ferguson, and granddaughter of Captain John Ferguson, of North Moreland, and Amy Manning, his wife.
Captain John Ferguson, of Orange county, New York, was born in New York, in 1755. He was a private in Captain Abraham Westfield's company, in the Orange County Regiment of Militia, under the command of Colonel A. H. Hay, and saw considerable active service during the Revolutionary War. He was later a private in a company in the regiment of "New Levies" from Orange county, under command of Colonel Albert Pawling. After the close of the Revolution he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Orange County Regiment of Militia, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Reuben Hopkins, and in 1804 was promoted to the rank of captain of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. He removed with his family to North Moreland, now Wyoming coun- ty, in 1818, and died there, January 24, 1843.
Charlotte (Ferguson) Perrin, wife of George Perrin and grandmother of the subject of this sketch, born March 23, 1823, in North Moreland township, Luzerne, now Wyoming county, died at West Pittston, Luzerne county, April I, 1898. They had seven children, viz: Mary Elizabeth, born April 25, 1842, married, December 6, 1862, J. W. Holcomb, of West Pittston; Calvin, of whom presently ; Harriet, born February 22, 1846, married, March 15, 1877, W. H. Kerr, of West Pittston ; Charles J., born March 6, 1848, for many years one of the prominent business men of West Pittston, where he still resides, married, May 10, 1877, Effie Symington, and has two children ; Catharine, born November 14, 1849, married. September 3, 1867, C. D. Simpson ; Cynthia, born July 15, 1851, married, May 15,
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1871, F. C. Rommell, of Pittston; G. Coray, born March 28, 1861, married, Ju- lia Rommell, and has four children.
CALVIN PERRIN, the father of the subject of this sketch, second child and eld- est son of George and Charlotte (Ferguson) Perrin, was born at North More- land, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1843. He was reared on his father's farm in North Moreland township and educated at the common schools of the district, which he attended during the winter sessions, assisting his father in the farm work during the summer months. At the age of eighteen he began teaching the public school at Keelersburg, Wyoming county, which he continued for one and a half years. For about the same period he was a clerk in the general store of Benjamin Saylor at Orange, Luzerne county.
Calvin Perrin enlisted September 6, 1864, as a private in Company G, Cap- tain Wilson P. Palmer, in the Two Hundred and Tenth Regiment, Pennsylva- nia Volunteers, Colonel William Sargent, being one of nineteen men who en- listed in that regiment from the same neighborhood, five of whom were killed in battle, two died in the military hospitals, and all the remainder, except Cal- vin Perrin were excused from duty on account of illness at different periods. Mr. Perrin, however, continued to serve the whole period of his enlistment, to the close of the war, except for a furlough of fifteen days, when he came home and was married in December, 1864. He was promoted to corporal of his company, October 1, 1864, and participated in the battles of Thatcher's Run, October 28, 1864; Belleville Raid, North Carolina, December 7 to 11, 1864; Dabney's Mills, February 5-7, 1865; Gravelly Run, March 27, 1865; White Oak Roads, March 31, 1865; Five Forks, April 1, 1865, and at Appomatox Court House, when Lee surrendered to General Grant, April 9, 1865. In one engagement he had the stock of his musket shattered by a ball, another time had the lock shot off his musket, and had several bullet holes shot through his clothing, but escaped without receiving the slightest wound. He was mustered out with his regiment, May 30, 1865, at Abington Heights, Virginia, was sent to Harrisburg to receive his pay, and returned to his home in Wyoming county, and again took up his vocation of teaching school, having charge of a school in Durland township for about one year.
In 1866 Mr. Perrin accepted a position as clerk in the general store of Levi Winters, in the village of Centre Moreland, Wyoming county, where he was employed for five years. In 1871 he went to West Pittston, Luzerne county, and for two years had charge of a store there for S. L. Brown. In 1873 he formed a copartnership with Edward F. Payne, of Wilkes-Barre, under the firm name of Payne & Perrin, and established a general store at Luzerne, Lu- zerne county, which they have conducted with success to the present time. He is president of the Luzerne National Bank. Mr. Perrin has taken an active in- terest in the local affairs of his town and neighborhood. He served for over twenty years as a member of the school board, as a member of town council for three years and has been for twelve years one of the trustees of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, of Luzerne. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Grand Army of the Re- public.
Calvin Perrin married, December 30, 1864, Caroline, daughter of Levi and Melinda J. (Halleck) Winters, of Centre Moreland, Wyoming county, Pennsyl-
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vania. They have three children: Howard W., the subject of this sketch; George Herbert, an invalid; and Fred, born September 22, 1868, manager of the Payne & Perrin mercantile establishment, and a well-known business man of Luzerne. He married (first) Barbara Wallace, in 1891, by whom he had three children. She died in 1899, and he married (second), July 4, 1902, Gertrude Mathers, of Luzerne.
HOWARD WINTERS PERRIN, eldest son of Calvin and Caroline (Winters) Perrin, was born in North Moreland, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1866. He received his early education at the local schools, prepared for col- lege at the Wyoming Seminary, and entered Princeton University, from which he graduated in the class of 1890. He then matriculated in the Law Depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, but left after two years to enter the wholesale coal business with W. H. Ingham, sales agent of Pensylvania Railroad Company, succeeded him in 1903, and in the following year accepted the position of sales agent at Philadelphia for the Susquehanna Coal Company, a position he still fills, with offices in the Arcade Building. Mr. Perrin is a director of the Federal Trust Company ; one of the board of managers of the William M. Lloyd Lumber Company; treasurer and one of the board of governors of the Maternity Hospitals, and fills other important positions of trust. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, in right of his great-great-grandfather, Captain John Ferguson, and is a member of the Penn- sylvania Society of New York. He is also a member of the Rittenhouse and University clubs, and the Merion Cricket Club, St. David's Golf Club, Univer- sity Cottage Club, Princeton.
Howard W. Perrin married, June 7, 1894, Agnes May, daughter of Emmett L. and Susanna Ellithorp, of West Pittston, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, of New England ancestry, a member of the New England Society, of the Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, in right of descent from Lieutenant Eliphaz Day, who was a private in the Lexington Alarm call, in Captain Jabez Ellis's company, which marched from Attleboro, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775. He was subsequently commissioned second lieutenant of Captain Robinson's company in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment from Bristol county, and on January 1, 1778, was promoted to first lieutenant and served under General Spencer in the Rhode Island campaign. He was among those who served in Captain Robinson's company on the alarm of July 27, 1780.
Lieutenant Eliphaz Day was born in Attleboro, Bristol county, Massachu- setts, March 2, 1744, and was the seventh child of David Day, born in Attleboro, January 29, 1703, and his wife, Ruth (Whiffle) Day, whom he married Novem- ber 9, 1727. David Day was the sixth child of Nathaniel Day, who was born in Gloucester, Essex county, Massachusetts, September 9, 1665, and married there Ruth Row, February 13, 1690, and Nathaniel was the sixth son of An- thony Day, of Gloucester, born 1616, died 1707, and his wife, Susanna (Ring) Day, who died in 1717. Lieutenant Eliphaz Day married (first) Anna Peck, who died October 24, 1802, leaving him three children: Benjamin, Charles and Eliphaz, Jr. He married (second) Eunice who died June 21, 1828.
Eliphaz Day Jr., youngest son of Lieutenant Eliphaz and Anna (Peck) Day, was born in 1776. He married Sophia Rockwell and resided at Day, Saratoga
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county, New York. Ann Day, daughter of Eliphaz and Sophia (Rockwell) Day, born September 24, 1806, married Azariah Ellithorp, died December II, 1872, and had four children: Emmett L., Archibald, Helen and Minnie Elli- thorp.
Emmett L. Ellithorp, the father of Mrs. Perrin, eldest son of Azariah and Ann (Day) Ellithorp, was born December 6, 1841. He married, in 1865, Su- sanna Gilmore, of Cohoes, Albany county, New York, and had three children, of whom the eldest, Agnes May Ellithorp, born May 27, 1867, married, June 7, 1894, Howard Winters Perrin, the subject of this sketch.
JOHN LLOYD
JOHN LLOYD,* fifth child of Isaac and Elizabeth (Gibbons) Lloyd, born October 5, 1805, died September 23, 1888. He married, August 9, 1837, Esther Barton Malcolm, born October 1, 1818, died October, 1901, daughter of Joseph Mal- colm, of Springfield townshhip, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and his wife, Angelica Malcolm, who was a daughter of Dr. Henry Malcolm, of Philadelphia, and his wife, Rebecca Olney, of Hudson, Columbia county, New York, a daugh- ter of Captain Joseph Olney, of Hudson, and his wife, Nancy Paget.
Captain Joseph Olney, born at Providence, Rhode Island, July 14, 1737, died at Hudson, New York, in 1814. He belonged to a family long identified with Providence, Rhode Island, several representatives of which held important com- missions during the Revolutionary War. Captain Olney had been a seafaring man prior to the outbreak of the Revolution, and in 1775 was commissioned by Continental Congress, second lieutenant in the infant navy, and was promoted to captain, October 10, 1776, and commanded the armed boats, "Cabot", and "Queen of France", at different periods. He was one of the committee ap- pointed by Congress to select uniforms for the officers and men of the American navy in March, 1777.
Dr. Henry Malcolm (1756-1831), above mentioned, the maternal great-grand- father of the subject of this sketch, was surgeon on the armed boat "Columbia" and the "Andrea Doria", of the Continental navy, in the early part of the Rev- olution. He sailed on the "Andrea Doria", Captain Nicholas Biddle, from Del- aware Bay, February 17, 1776, on an expedition against the British merchantmen, plying to and from the West Indies. The "Andrea Doria" captured two armed transports filled with soldiers and supplies, and so many prizes that she returned to Philadelphia with a crew of only five men, the remainder being in charge of British merchant ships captured. Dr. Henry Malcolm was later an assistant in the Medical Department of the Continental army.
John and Esther Barton (Malcolm) Lloyd had nine children, viz : Malcolm, married Anna Howell, a lineal descendant of Thomas Lloyd, president of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, Deputy Governor, etc., in the time of Will- iam Penn; Isaac; Elizabeth ; Estelle, wife of Henry T. Coates ; Anne Morris, wife of William Morrison Coates; Laura, wife of George Morrison Coates, all of the well-known and prominent Coates family of Philadelphia; John, the sub- ject of this sketch ; Emma, wife of S. A. Souder ; Mary, wife of Norman Jones.
JOHN LLOYD, third son of John and Esther Barton (Malcolm) Lloyd, was born in Philadelphia, March 10, 1848, and spent his whole life there. He was for many years engaged in the real estate business, and associated with various local enterprises of his native city. He was a member of the Union League, and the Navy League of Philadelphia; of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution; the Colonial Society, and of oth- er social, patriotic and business organizations. He died in Philadelphia, October 21, 1908.
*The Lloyd family ancestry prior to John Lloyd (named above), appears on P. 494 of this work.
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John Lloyd married, April 19, 1899, Harriet Cooper Palmer, daughter of Jo- seph Rawson Palmer, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and his wife, Emily Godfrey, and a descendant on several lines from early Puritan settlers of New England, who were prominent in the founding of the several colonies in Massa- chusetts and Connecticut.
Walter Palmer, the founder of the American family of Palmer to which Mrs. Lloyd belongs, was made a freeman of Charlestown, Massachusetts, May 14, 1634, at the same time as his brother, Abraham Palmer. He resided in Charles- town until 1643, when he became one of the original purchasers of the land comprising the town of Rehoboth, Bristol county, Massachusetts, and removed thither. He was the representative of Rehoboth in the General Court, or legis- lative body of Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1645, and held various municipal offices there. In 1652 he purchased land at New London and removed there with his family, excepting his son Jonas, who remained at Rehoboth. Walter Palmer's purchase and residence was in that part of the New London settlement lying west of the Mystic river now in the city of Stonington, and he was active in the measures looking to a separation from the mother colony at New London proper, the initial meeting for that purpose being held at his house, March 22, 1657. Trouble arose between Massachusetts and Connecticut, over the juris- diction of the town, and in 1758 it was adjudged to belong to Massachusetts, and so remained until April 23, 1662, when it was incorporated into Connecticut by royal charter. Walter Palmer died November 19, 1661, while Stonington was under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, and his will is on file at Boston. His first wife, Ann, died in England or on the passage to America, and he married (second) soon after his arrival at Charlestown, Massachusetts, Rebecca Short, by whom he had several children, who accompanied him to Connecticut, as well as three children by his first wife. His daughter Grace became the wife of Thomas Minor, one of the chief men of the New London Colony. An account of some of her descendants is given elsewhere in these volumes. The descend- ants of Walter Palmer are now widely scattered over the United States. Many of them have filled high and honorable positions, official and professional.
Jonas Palmer, fourth child of Walter Palmer, by his first wife, Ann, was born in England, and accompanied his father to Charlestown, Massachusetts, and from there to Rehoboth, in the Plymouth Colony, now Bristol county, Massa- chusetts, where he continued to reside until his death, June 22, 1709. He in- herited under his father's will one-half of the Rehoboth farm taken up by Wal- ter Palmer in 1643. He married, May 3, 1655, Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Griswold, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, an early settler at Cambridge, Massa- chusetts. She died at Rehoboth, February 11, 1691-92, and Jonas Palmer mar- ried (second), November 9, 1692, Abigail (Carpenter) Titus, widow of John Titus. She died at Rehoboth, March 5, 1709.
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