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Dr. Thomas Wynne was three times married; (first) about 1655, to Martha Buttall, of the Buttalls of Wrexham, Surrey, England. She died in 1670, and he married (second) Elizabeth (Buttall) Rowden, sister to his first wife, widow, with a daughter Elizabeth, who as heretofore shown, married John Brock, at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, in 1684. This wife survived the marriage but a few years and he married (third) July 20, 1676, Elizabeth (Parr) Maude or Mede, widow of Joshua Maude, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, and daughter of Rev.
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Thomas Parr, living at the time of her marriage to Dr. Wynne, at Rainhill, Lan- cashire. This third wife who survived Dr. Wynne and was named in his will as executrix, did not accompany him to Pennsylvania, but, accompanied by her first husband and daughters, Jane and Margery Maude, sailed from Liver- pool, September 5, 1682, in the ship "Submission", which landed at Choptank, Maryland, November 2, 1682, from whence her passengers, all designed for Pennsylvania, made their way to Philadelphia. Margery Maude, one of the daughters of Elizabeth by Joshua Maude, married Thomas Fisher, of Lewes, Sussex county, and was the ancestress of the Fisher family long prominent in the affairs of Philadelphia. "Fisher's Island, in the Broadkill Marshes", con- taining one hundred and seventy-five acres, near Lewes, Delaware, was con- veyed to Thomas Wynne and Elizabeth, his wife, and the survivor of them, May 3, 1688, and after the death of Dr. Wynne, his wife Elizabeth, on Febru- ary I, 1693-94, conveyed it by deed of gift to Thomas Fisher and Margery, his wife, the latter a daughter of the said Elizabeth, and to the heirs of the said Thomas and Margery ( Maude) Fisher.
The six children of Dr. Thomas Wynne were all by his first wife, Martha Buttall. The eldest, Mary, born about 1659, married Dr. Edward Jones, and accompanied him to Pennsylvania in 1682, and they settled in the Welsh Tract. She has left numerous descendants. Tabitha, the second daughter, never came to America. Rebecca, the third daughter, married (first) Solomon Thomas, of Talbot county, Maryland, and (second) in 1692, John Dickinson, of Tal- bot county. Sidney Wynne, the fourth daughter, born 1666, married, in 1690, William Chew, of the famous Chew family of Maryland, brother to the grand- father of Chief Justice Benjamin Chew. Hannah Wynne, the youngest daugh- ter, married, in 1695, Daniel Humphrey, of the Welsh Tract in Radnor, and has left numerous descendants.
JONATHAN WYNNE, only son of Dr. Thomas Wynne, born in 1669, accom- panied his sister and her husband, Dr. Edward Jones, and their two children on the ship "Lyons", August 17, 1682, and remained in Blockley township and Merion with Dr. Edward Jones, as he built a house in 1689 which is still stand- ing. He is also mentioned in Merion and Haverford Friends Meeting records as early as 1699. He inherited the plantation at Cedar Creek, and the revision of the Mansion House and plantation at Lewes under his father's will, when, ascertaining that his father was entitled to land in right of his purchase of 1681, he applied for warrants for its survey in the Welsh Tract if possible, or else- where. On October 9, 1701, he was granted a warrant for one hundred acres of land in Blockley township, on which he took up his residence and lived there until his death in 1721. The remainder of the land to which he was entitled, as proven after an investigation of the land office, covering several years was eventually laid out to him at Great Valley, Chester county, and twenty-four acres were surveyed to him in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, and a lot on High Street, now Market Street, south side, between Fourth and Fifth, which remained in the Wynne family until 1791, when it was conveyed by Thomas Wynne, the fourth, a great-great-grandson of Dr. Thomas Wynne, it having been devised by Jonathan Wynne to his daughters Hannah and Mary, who dy- ing without issue, it descended to their eldest brother, Thomas Wynne, and from him to his son and grandson of the same name.
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Jonathan Wynne, by will dated January 29, 1721, probated May 17, 1721, devised his home plantation in Blockley to his eldest son, Thomas Wynne, sub- ject to certain rights to his wife Sarah. To his sons John and Jonathan each two hundred and fifty acres in the Great Valley, and to his three younger daugh- ters, Sidney, who married Samuel Greaves; Martha, who married James Kite; and Elizabeth, who married Ralph Lewis, he devised four hundred acres in the Great Valley, for which he had received a warrant of survey, June 18, 1705.
Jonathan Wynne married Sarah Greaves, of a prominent family of this sec- tion, and they had three sons and five daughters mentioned in their father's will. All of the three sons left issue, as did the three daughters last above mentioned.
THOMAS WYNNE, eldest son of Jonathan and Sarah (Greaves) Wynne, was born at Wynnestay, Blockley township, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, and inherited his father's plantation of "Wynnestay" in Blockley township and spent his whole life there, dying in 1757, and leaving a will dated November 23, 1751, which was probated December 24, 1757, devising the ancestral plantation to his son Thomas, "when he shall arrive at twenty-one years of age".
Thomas Wynne married, at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, December 28, 1722, Mary Warner, born August 22, 1703, daughter of Isaac and Ann (Crav- en) Warner, of Blockley, the granddaughter of William Warner, the pioneer settler of Blockley, and his wife, Ann (Dide) Warner. She survived him and married (second) in 1762, James Jones, of Blockley. Their ten children, five of whom died young, were as follows: Anne Wynne, who married Phineas Roberts; Lydia Wynne, who married Jonathan Edwards; Sarah Wynne, who married Michael Stattleman; Thomas Wynne, who died in infancy; Thomas Wynne (second), who married Margaret Coulton; Jonathan Wynne, who died young ; Isaac Wynne, who died young; Hannah Wynne, who died young; De- borah Wynne, who died young, and Mary Wynne, who married Samuel Pear- son.
THOMAS WYNNE, only surviving son of Thomas and Mary (Warner) Wynne, born in Blockley, Philadelphia, January 21, 1733-4, inherited the "Wynnestay", the family homestead in Blockley, under his father's will, and lived thereon un- til his death in 1782. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Flying Camp, August 27, 1776, and took part in the battles of Long Island and Fort Wash- ington, and was taken prisoner at the fall of Fort Washington, November 16, 1776, and suffered imprisonment in the loathsome warehouses in New York City, and the prison ships in the harbor for over four years, not being ex- changed until January 2, 1781. To the hardships endured during his imprison- ment was due his early death eighteen months after his exchange at the age of forty-eight years. While he was a prisoner of war, December II, 1777, a for- aging party of British soldiers attacked "Wynnestay", his Blockley home, but it was bravely defended by his wife and servants until the marauders were driv- en away by a detachment of Pennsylvania Militia, from General Potter's com- mand.
Thomas Wynne married, January 27, 1757, Margaret Coulton, who survived him and married (second) Samuel Claphamson. Letters of administration on the estate of Thomas Wynne were granted, October 5, 1782, to his stepfather, James Jones, and his cousin, Isaac Warner. He left two children, Thomas and
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Phoebe, the latter, the wife of John Adams, a snuff maker, to whom her father had conveyed in 1776 fifteen acres of the homestead in Blockley, and on which Adams erected a snuff factory. The mansion house of "Wynnestay" with the greater part of the land passed to Thomas Wynne, the son, through partition in the Orphans' Court, twenty-two acres additional being added to the Adams tract as Phoebe's portion.
THOMAS WYNNE, only son of Lieutenant Thomas and Margaret (Coulton) Wynne, born at "Wynnestay", Blockley township, Philadelphia, in 1762, inher- ited the homestead, which though thirty-seven acres had been set off to his sister, still contained one hundred and nineteen acres, having been added to since first laid out to Jonathan Wynne in 1701. Thomas conveyed the whole tract to his step-father, Samuel Claphamson, February 1, 1796, and his mother joined her second husband in a re-conveyance of the greater part thereof to her son, Thom- as, June 15, 1796, and he spent the remainder of his days there, dying October 10, 1810, at the age of forty-eight years.
Thomas Wynne married, about 1786, Elizabeth Rees, like himself of ancient Welsh ancestry. She was born in 1762, and survived her husband thirty years, dying November 1, 1840, at the age of seventy-eight years. They had nine chil- dren : Margaret, who married John Dungan; Thomas, who married Hannah Sharp, and lived in the house built by his mother near the homestead all his life, and it is still owned and occupied by his daughter, Sarah Sharp Wynne; Phoebe Wynne (1793-1860) married, in 1818, Owen Jones; Ruth Wynne, who married Leonard Knight; Samuel C. Wynne, see below; Elizabeth Wynne, who married William Rose; Ann Wynne, who married William Davy; Susanna Wynne, born March 28, 1804, died July 23, 1844, and married, May 30, 1822, Jacob Duffield; and Polly Wynne, who died unmarried at the age of eighteen years.
SAMUEL C. WYNNE, second son and eighth child of Thomas and Elizabeth (Rees) Wynne, was born at the old family homestead, "Wynnestay", Blockley township, Philadelphia, in 1795, remained there all his life, and died January 7, 1856. He was buried at Merion Friends Meeting graveyard. Samuel C. Wynne, married, April 8, 1816, Phoebe Sharp, born August 31, 1795, died June 13, 1871, daughter of Delaney and Sally (Gilman) Sharp.
Delaney Sharp, born in New Jersey, February 16, 1769, was an apprentice on board the privateer "Speedwell" when the vessel was captured off the Capes of Delaware in 1780 by a British vessel, and the log-book of the "Speedwell", noting the taking of this prize, is in possession of Thomas Wynne, of Philadel- phia, grandson of Samuel G. and Phoebe (Sharp) Wynne, and great-grandson of Delaney Sharp, who participated in its capture. Delaney Sharp was also a sol- dier in the Second War for Independence, serving in Captain John Jones' com- pany in the First United States Artillery. He was wounded at the battle of Sacketts Harbor, in 1814, and died from his wounds soon after. He married October 13, 1689, Sally Gilman, who was born February 16, 1771, died February 26, 1798. His second wife, Lydia Stretch, survived him and became the third wife of John Hires.
Samuel C. and Phoebe (Sharp) Wynne had eleven children. The eldest child, Elizabeth Wynne, born March 23, 1817, died January 8, 1852, and married Wil- liam MacDonald, of Philadelphia, and their youngest daughter Emma became
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the wife of Major Moses Veale, of Philadelphia. Sarah, the second daughter, died in infancy. Mary, the third daughter, born December 27, 1820, died Sep- tember 8, 1896, married Daniel Hagy. Joseph S., see forward. Anna S. Wynne, born December 2, 1823, died March 21, 1896, unmarried. Keziah Wynne, born February 8, 1826, died July 26, 1905, married Evan Jones. Samuel Wynne, born January 2, 1828, died April 24, 1896, married Annie Litzenberg, and left five sons and three daughters. Phoebe Wynne, born September 20, 1829, died unmar- ried January 15, 1901. Susan D. Wynne, born February 27, 1833, died May 30, 1905, married (first) Charles Thomas and (second) George Smith. William G. Wynne, born November 3, 1831, died September 3, 1904, married Maria Cooper and had one son and three daughters. Margaret Wynne, born February 13, 1837, married Charles H. Carpenter.
JOSEPH S. WYNNE, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was the old- est son and fourth child of Samuel C. and Phoebe (Sharp) Wynne. He was born May 20, 1822, died July 16, 1897. He married, November 29, 1848, Eliz- abeth Newlin Matlack, born August 31, 1825, daughter of Nathan Matlack, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, (born March 4, 1802, died June 14, 1851) and his wife, Lydia Newlin (born February 25, 1792, died February 14, 1881), whom he married November 19, 1823.
Nathan Matlack was a descendant of William Matlack, who came to New Jersey as a journeyman carpenter, in the ship "Kent" which arrived at Burling- ton, October, 1677, from Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire, England. He was born about the year 1648, and married, in 1682, Mary Hancock, from Bayles, Warwickshire, England, aged sixteen, and they had six sons and two daughters. His son, Joseph Matlack, married, in 1722, Rebecca Haines, and they removed to Goshen, Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1729, her father, John Haines, hav- ing devised her land there. Joseph Matlack died in 1771, leaving four sons, Isaiah, Nathan, Jonathan and Amos, and three daughters. Nathan Matlack, born May 16, 1727, married, February 14, 1749-50, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Taylor ) Mercer, of Westtown, and granddaughter of Thomas and Mary Mercer, of Aynce-on-the-Hill, Northamptonshire, England, who settled in Thornbury, Chester county, in 1699. Nathan and Mary ( Mercer) Matlack were the grandparents of Nathan Matlack above mentioned.
Lydia (Newlin) Matlack was a descendant of Nicholas Newlin, of Mount Lelick, county Tyrone, Ireland, a gentleman of considerable property, who with wife Elizabeth and sons John and Nathaniel came to Pennsylvania in the ship, "Levee of Liverpool" in 1683, and settled in Concord. He was a member of Provincial Council from 1685 to his death in 1689. His son Nathaniel, who pur- chased and settled Newlin township, was many years a member of Provincial As- sembly, justice of the courts of Chester county, trustee of the Loan Office, etc. He married, in 1685, Mary Mendenhall, from Mildenhall, Wiltshire, and had a large family of sons and daughters.
Joseph Sharp and Elizabeth Newlin (Matlack) Wynne had eight children : Thomas, William W., Elizabeth Newlin, wife of Linnaus A. Prince, Emily Nel- son, wife of Robert K. Pearce, Phoebe M., who died young, Charles C., and two Marys, both of whom died in childhood.
THOMAS WYNNE, eldest son of Joseph Sharp and Elizabeth Newlin ( Matlack) Wynne, born September 1, 1849, married (first) October 16, 1873, Sarah L. Mil-
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lar, born July 4, 1855, died January 6, 1883, daughter of James and Sybilla (Jack- son) Millar. Married (second) April 7, 1892, Elizabeth Maclean, born August 24, 1867. By his first wife he had two children: Lizzie P., born October, 1874, died in March, 1875, and Clarence Pryor, the subject of this sketch. By his sec- ond wife he has two children : Helen, born January 29, 1893, and Thomas Elliott, born March 29, 1896.
CLARENCE PRYOR WYNNE, son of Thomas and Sarah L. (Millar) Wynne, born in Philadelphia, October 13, 1876, graduated at the Central High School of Philadelphia, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, in June, 1896. He en- gaged in the real estate and insurance business, and is the president of the Wynne-Prince Company, real estate operators at Seventh and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia. He is also the president of the Madoc Publishing Company. He is a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and was for six years secretary of that Chapter and is at present its historian. He has been a delegate to the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and is a member of the press committee of the National Society, Sons of American Revolution. He is also a member of the Pen and Pencil Club of Philadelphia, and is a thirty-second degree member of the Masonic fraternity, as well as a member of Lu Lu Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Clarence P. Wynne married, February 12, 1903, Mary Gray John, born April 5, 1877, daughter of Howard and Josephine M. (Whitely) John. She died with- out issue, June 25, 1905.
WILLIAM WOODS PINKERTON
WILLIAM WOODS PINKERTON, of Philadelphia, comes of a family that were resident, early in the seventeenth century, in the county of Londonderry, province of Ulster, Ireland, of Scotch ancestry. Several members of this family emi- grated to America at different periods. Among these were the parents of Ma- jor John Pinkerton, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, the founder of the Pin- kerton Academy at Derry, who came from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1738, with several children of whom the major was one of the youngest, having been born in Ireland in 1735.
WILLIAM PINKERTON, the ancestor of the subject of this sketch, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, in the year 1728, and tradition relates that he came to America in 1750; for some years was engaged in the purchase of flax-seed which he shipped to Ireland, returning to that country twice before locating in Fagg's Manor, Oxford township, Chester county.
Since, a member of the Scotch-Irish settlers at Londonderry, Rockingham county, New Hampshire, migrated to Philadelphia, Lancaster and Chester coun- ties, about 1750, among them the ancestors of General Andrew Porter, with which family William Pinkerton was connected by marriage, it is entirely possible and even probable that William Pinkerton was connected with trade operations on the coast of New England prior to coming to Pennsylvania, and was of the same family as Major John Pinkerton above referred to. It is further stated that on one of his trips to Ireland he was accompanied on his return by a nephew, John Pinkerton, whom we find settled in West Caln township in 1765. A ser- mon preached in the First Parish of Londonderry, New Hampshire, at the fun- eral of Major John Pinkerton, states that he survived all his brothers "except one"; the single exception may have been William Pinkerton above mentioned, who died in Upper Oxford township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, in the win- ter of 1814-15.
William Pinkerton became an extensive land owner in Oxford township, Chester county, where he resided upwards of half a century. He married (first) Mary Torbet, or Torbert, daughter of John Torbet, who took two hundred and fifty acres in Leacock township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, under two warrants of survey, dated May 27, 1752, and died there in 1762, leaving a will dated August 21, and proved August 30, 1762, which mentions wife Jean, son John and son-in-law William Porter, whom he names as executors, and daugh- ters, Sarah, wife of Samuel Curley; Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Robinson, Jean, wife of James Kitchey; Margaret, wife of William Porter; and Mary, wife of William Pinkerton.
Mary (Torbet) Pinkerton died prior to 1770, leaving at least two sons, John and James, the latter born 1754, died July, 1814, in West Fallowfield township, Chester county, where he settled as a farmer in 1779. He and his wife Sarah, who died in 1792, are buried in the Old Presbyterian churchyard at Fagg's Man- or. A John Pinkerton, probably the eldest son of William and Mary, died in
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Lancaster county, May, 1802, leaving children Mary, Elizabeth, Jean, William, James and Hannah, and named Joseph Pinkerton, (probably his half-brother ) as executor.
William Pinkerton married (second) about 1770, Isabel Guy, a widow, daugh- ter 'of James Cresswell, of Derry, Chester county, granddaughter of William Cresswell, and great-granddaughter of John Cresswell, one of the earliest set- tlers of that part of Chester county. Isabel Pinkerton survived her husband and is mentioned in his will dated May 20, 1812, and proven January II, 1815, which also mentions his daughters, Jane, Mary and Rachel Pinkerton, daughter Isabella Fleming, and her son John McCowen; daughters Hannah Downing, and Rebecca Robinson and sons William and Joseph, who are named as executors and each devised "the profits of the place whereon he lives until he purchase same".
William Pinkerton, Jr. married Hannah, daughter of Montgomery Kennedy, a trustee of Fagg's Manor Church, and had a large family. He removed with his family after his father's death, to Ohio, from whence some of his sons re- moved farther west. Isabella, daughter of William Pinkerton, Sr., married (first)- - McCowen, and had two children, John and Rebecca, and (second) John Fleming, of Chester county, by whom she had five children. Her sister Rebecca, mentioned in her father's will, married John Robinson, Hannah mar- ried John Downing, of Colerain township, Lancaster county ; Mary, married James Whiecraft, of Chester county.
JOSEPH PINKERTON, youngest son of William Pinkerton, Sr., by his second wife Isabel (Cresswell) (Guy) Pinkerton, married, in 1805, Jane, daughter of John and Agnes (Woods) Robinson, of Scotch ancestry, and a sister to John Robin- son, who married his sister Rebecca. They resided on a farm in Oxford town- ship, Chester county, where their nine children were born. Ann, the eldest child, married Rev. James Latta, of Sadsbury township, Chester county. Two sons, William and John, and four daughters died unmarried. Stephen Cochran Pin- kerton, another son, married, in 1758, Barbara A. Houghendonbler, of Mount Joy, Lancaster county, and had one son, William Joseph Pinkerton, and a daughter who died in childhood.
JOSEPH WOODS PINKERTON, son of Joseph and Jane (Robinson) Pinkerton, was born in Oxford township, Chester county, Pennsylvania. He was educated in a private school and graduated from Princeton College as an honor man, follow- ing educational lines. He later associated with his father-in-law, James Crow- ell. He married, September 28, 1847, Sarah Crowell, born in Philadelphia, about 1820, died there July 4, 1877, daughter of James Crowell, a prominent educator of Philadelphia, who had an academy for boys in Philadelphia and at one time at West Chester, by his wife, Mary (Gardner) Crowell, of New England ancestry ; granddaughter of Elisha Crowell, a pilot and sea captain of Cape May county, New Jersey, and his wife, Rachel ( Foster) Crowell, daughter of Nathaniel Fos- ter, a member of colonial assembly for Cape May county for many years. The Crowells were early settlers about Nantucket, and came to New Jersey about 1680. See Crowell Family in these volumes.
Joseph Woods and Sarah (Crowell) Pinkerton had two children, James Crow- ell Pinkerton, of whom presently, and Annie Jane Pinkerton, who married, De- cember 19, 1876, Charles Henry Kemp, of Kane, Mckean county, Pennsylvania, and had two children: Emma Bolton and Gertrude Pinkerton Kemp.
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JAMES CROWELL PINKERTON, only son of Joseph Woods and Sarah (Crowell) Pinkerton, was born in Philadelphia, July 9, 1848. Educated in private schools, passed examinations for the junior class at Princeton College in 1864, but as he was thought to be too young to enter the junior class went into the employ of the Bank of North America (chartered by Congress, 1781), in which institution he was an officer at the time of his death. He married, September 28, 1869, Jane Sutton, daughter of Willliam Sutton Latta, M. D., of West Chester, Pennsyl- vania, by his wife, Margaret Eckert (Whitehill) Latta, and granddaughter of Rev. James Latta, by his wife, Jane (Sutton) Latta. Margaret Eckert White- hill was a daughter of Samuel Atlee and Margaret Douglass (Wilson) White- hill, of Lancaster county, granddaughter of John Sanderson Whitehill, by his wife, Mary Ann (Atlee) Whitehill, daughter of Colonel Samuel J. Atlee, of the Revolution.
Colonel Samuel John Atlee, the Revolutionary ancestor of the subject of this sketch, was a son of William Atlee, who came to America in 1734, and a de- scendant of a family long seated at Fordhook House, in the parish of Acton, a short distance from London. Fordhook House, still standing, is a mansion of great antiquity, and though partly modernized, still bears evidence of its former grandeur, both externally and internally. The original drawing room remains as wainscoted in oak, in 1500, entirely unaltered. It passed out of the family soon after 1700, William Atlee, a cousin of Samuel Atlee, of Brentford, the father of William Atlee, the emigrant, died there in 1699, and by will, dated 1695, (which mentions his cousin Samuel, of Brentford) devised it to his wife Elizabeth, at the death of his mother, Susan Atlee, widow of John Atlee, of Fordhook. The widow, Elizabeth Atlee, married ( second) Mr. Walk- er, and the estate passed out of the family, and was later the residence of Lord Hugh Seymour, and at a much later period the residence for a time of Lady Byron, wife of the poet, whose daughter Augusta Ada was married there to Lord King, Earl of Lovelace, July 9, 1835. The novelist, Henry Fielding, also resided at Fordhook House at one time.
William Atlee, son of Samuel Atlee, of Brentford, county Middlesex, Eng- land, sailed from London in March, 1733, with Lord Howe, as his private sec- retary, for the Barbadoes, of which the Earl had been appointed governor. William Atlee married, at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, June 1, 1734, Jane Alcock, daughter of an English clergyman, a cousin to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham ; and it is said at one time maid of honor to Queen Wilhelmina Caroline, the first spouse of George II. A few days after their marriage, William Atlee and his wife sailed for Philadelphia, where they arrived three weeks later, and for about one year occupied the house of Caleb Ranstead, on Market street, where their eldest son, William Augustus, many years justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, was born July 1, 1735. Soon after the latter date, how- ever, they removed to Trenton, New Jersey, where Mr. Atlee entered into a co-partnership with Thomas Hooton, and conducted a mercantile establishment, in connection with which the firm ran a line of stages from Trenton to New Brunswick, carrying passengers and merchandize. In December, 1739, Colo- nel John Dagworthy, a native of Trenton, later, a prominent officer in the Provincial and Revolutionary forces, and resident of Delaware, became the partner of William Atlee. On December 1, 1739, William Atlee was recom-
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