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Benjamin Spalding, son of Edward Spalding, the emigrant, by a second wife, settled in Plainfield, Connecticut, married and had issue.
Simon Spalding, son of Benjamin Spalding, was born November 7, 1714. He married Annie Billings, in June, 1737, and lived in Plainfield.
General Simon (2) Spalding, third son of Simon (1) and Annie (Billings) Spalding, was born in Plainfield, Connecticut, January 16, 1742, died at She- shequin, January 24, 1814. General Simon Spalding was one of the Connecticut colony emigrating to Pennsylvania under the name of the Susquehannah Com- pany formed in 1754 at Hartford, Connecticut. He settled in the Wyoming Valley, now Wilkes-Barre, in the year 1771. His marriage, however, and the birth of his three children were at Plainfield, Connecticut. His first home was on a tract extending from the river back toward the mountains on which he built a home in which he and family lived until after the Revolutionary War. His commissions to that war were authorized by act of Congress and were as follows: second lieutenant, Wyoming Company, town of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1776; first lieutenant, Captain Samuel Rawson's com- pany, January I, 1777. The company was recruited from Wilkes-Barre to Ply- mouth, Pennsylvania ; captain of same company, united with Durkie's company, June 23, 1778; two companies were originally recruited, but were so reduced from various causes that at the battle of Germantown, either before or after the battle they were united. Lieutenant Spalding was made captain and the reorganized company hurried to Wilkes-Barre, for the defense of the settlers against the Indians and Tories. The company reached the valley two or three
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days too late to be of service in the battle, that ended with that terrible calamity, known in history, as the "Wyoming Massacre". Captain Spalding remained with his men at Wilkes-Barre until they joined with General Sullivan's army on its way north, for the defense of our frontier. Captain Spalding and his com- pany encamped for some time in the valley below the Tioga Point, where the whole army rested, while awaiting the arrival from the north of the army of General Clinton. It was there that he was first attracted to the Sheshequin Val- ley, and he decided to settle there, after the war was over. Captain Spalding was transferred to the Army of Washington, First Connecticut Regiment, with which he served at Valley Forge, Princeton, and other battles until he was re- tired January 1, 1783. The War Department records show settlement with him as captain of the Continental line. After the war Captain Simon and his broth- er, John Spalding, removed with their families to Sheshequin, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, having sold their farms at Wilkes-Barre. It is believed that the war that was threatening between the Connecticut and Pennsylvania claimants caused Captain Spalding to sell the farm as the dispute in title affected all the Connecticut settlers and those holding under them. The feeling resultant from this dispute, was so fierce and violent, that it led to bloodshed and precipitated a feud, lasting for several years, until Congress interposed and by the treaty of Trenton, opened the way for a settlement of the conflicting claims. Captain Spalding married, April 15, 1761, at Plainfield, Connecticut, Ruth Shepherd. They continued to reside in Plainfield until their first three children were born, after which they removed to Pennsylvania, as stated.
Anna Spalding, daughter of General or Captain Simon and Ruth (Shepherd) Spalding, was born July 2, 1771. She married, February 1, 1797, Colonel Joseph Kingsbury, and they were the parents of Marion W. Kingsbury, wife of Hon. George Sanderson, and mother of Colonel George Sanderson, (see Kingsbury and Sanderson).
(The Brown Line)
The Brown ancestry is traced to John Browne, of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, and the year 1300. The descent is through eight generations to Thomas Browne, of Swan Hall, Hawkedon, Suffolk county, England, whose fourth child, Abraham, emigrated to America and founded the family in this country.
Abraham Browne, of Swan Hall, Suffolk, England, emigrated to America prior to 1631. He was admitted a freeman of Watertown, Massachusetts, March 6, 1631. He was a land surveyor and held important town offices. He surveyed and laid out the highway from Dorchester Field to the Flats. His will was proved in Middlesex county, Massachusets, October 1, 1660. He had six children.
Jonathan Browne, fourth child of Abraham Browne, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, October 15, 1635. He married, February 11, 1661, Mary, daugh- ter of William Shattuck, of Watertown. She died October 23, 1732, aged eighty- seven years, and is buried in Watertown. Jonathan's will is dated February 19, 1690. His children, of whom there were ten, dropped the final "e" in their spelling of the name.
Abraham Brown, fifth child of Jonathan and Mary (Shattuck) Browne, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, August 26, 1671, died November 27, 1729. He was treasurer of Watertown in the years 1695-1700, assessor 1705, selectman
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and town clerk 1712. He was famous as the guardian of Ephrahim Williams, the founder of Williams College. Abraham Brown married Mary, daughter of Job and Elizabeth (Fuller) Hyde. She died November 29, 1723, and was buried by the side of her husband in the Waltham graveyard.
Jonathan Brown, second child of Abraham and Mary (Hyde) Brown, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, in the year 1694, died July 25, 1758. He was a selectman of Watertown in the years 1739-41. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Mary Simonds, of Lexington, Massachusetts. She died August 6, 1765. They had eight children, the line continuing through their daughter Lucy.
Lucy Brown, seventh child of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Simonds) Brown, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, June 8, 1734, died in Gilsum, New Hamp- shire, in the month of January, 1815. She married Colonel William Bond, of the Bury St. Edmunds, England, family who settled in Watertown in the year 1630. Colonel Bond was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, February 17, 1733, died August 31, 1776, at Camp Mount Independence, opposite Ticonderoga, where he was buried with military honors. The Boston Gazette of September 23, 1776, says : "On the 31 ult. departed the life Col. Wm. Bond. He met the last enemy with the greatest calmness and intrepidity. In his death our country has lost a true patriot and a most vigilant officer of tried bravery". Colonel Bond fought at Bunker Hill as lieutenant-colonel under Colonel Thomas Gard- ner, and after the latter was killed in battle, took command of the regiment, which in November, 1775, was ordered to New York, and on April 20 went to Canada by way of the Lakes. Colonel and Lucy (Brown) Bond were the parents of eleven children. The line continues by way of their youngest child Susanna.
Susanna Bond, daughter of Colonel William and Lucy (Brown) Bond, was born in Watertown, September 8, 1775, died February 27, 1803, in Brookline, Massachusetts. She married Zephion Thayer, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, October 12, 1769, the son of Captain Jedediah Thayer, a Revolutionary officer and a grandson of Captain Ebenezer Thayer, of Braintree, Massachusetts. Zephion and Susanna (Bond) Thayer were the parents of five children, the line again continuing by way of a daughter.
Lucy Thayer, eldest child of Zephion and Susanna (Bond) Thayer, was born September 6, 1791, died August 23, 1828. She married David Reed, of Alstead. New Hampshire, and settled in Surrey, New Hampshire. They were the parents of seven children, the line of descent again following a daughter.
Maria Louisa Reed, daughter of David and Lucy (Thayer) Reed, was born April 26, 1815, and at age of eighty-nine was living in Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the home of her daughter. She married, October 3, 1843, Charles Jackson, son of Stephen W. Jackson, of Boston, great-grandson of Major Timothy Jack- son, a Revolutionary officer, who in turn was a great-grandson of Major Tim- othy Jackson, an officer of the French and Indian War. Charles Jackson died in China, leaving several children.
Lucy Reed Jackson, daughter of Charles and Maria Louisa (Reed) Jackson, was born in Boston and became the wife of George Sanderson, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of eight children, six of whom are liv- ing (see Sanderson).
SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH PINKERTON
SAMUEL S. S. PINKERTON bases his membership in the Patriotic Orders upon the military service of his great-grandfather, John Pinkerton, a citizen of Faggs Manor, Chester county, Pennsylvania, but born across the seas in that green isle that furnished so many soldiers for this, their adopted country in every war we have ever waged. There are other lines of his Revolutionary ancestry that are equally clear and important. Mr. Pinkerton's maternal great-grandfather, Rob- ert Lockart, was a captain of the Revolution. Another soldier of that war was Major John Culbertson, whose father, Lieutenant John Culbertson, was a vet- eran of the Colonial and French and Indian wars and the maternal great-great- grandfather of S. S. S. Pinkerton. In the War of 1812 his family was represented by his paternal grandfather, John White Pinkerton and others. The origin of the Pinkerton name is not clear. The family is believed to be an English one, driven from their native land by the persecution of the times of the English kings, James I and II. There is no record of the coming to America of John Pinkerton's parents. The first of his family to come was his uncle, William Pinkerton, who was born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1728, and died at Faggs Manor, Chester county, Pennsylvania, about 1814. He came to America first in 1750. He returned to Ireland twice, but on his third coming settled at Faggs Manor, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he married a Miss Hamilton of Leacock township, Lancaster county. They had a son John. About 1780 he married a widow, Mrs. Isabel Gray, the daughter of James Creswell, of Chester county. She bore him three sons and six daughters. In 1759 or '60 on William Pinkerton's return from one of his visits to Ireland, he was accompanied by his nephew John Pinkerton, the Revolutionary ancestor of Samuel S. S. Pinkerton.
JOHN PINKERTON was born in county Antrim, Ireland, in 1735, died in Sads- buryville, Chester county, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1818, and is buried at Octo- raro. He settled at Faggs Manor when about twenty-five years of age, near his uncle and became a farmer and a well known and respected man of his neighbor- hood. When the War of the Revolution was being fought, John, early in the struggle enlisted in Captain John Ramsey's company of the first class of Chester county militia, commanded by Colonel John Hannum, in the service of the Colonies. This was on June 18, 1777 (see page 78-79, vol. 2, Penn. Associators and Militia, 1775-1778). John Pinkerton was a rigid, uncompromising Scotch- Irish Presbyterian. He did not exhaust his patriotism by his Revolutionary fighting, but during the War of 1812, although too old to enlist, had many a quarrel and wordy fight with the Tories of his neighborhood. John Pinkerton married, at Faggs Manor, Rebecca White, of Faggs Manor, the daughter of John and Margaret White, of Chester county. She was born in this country, of Irish parentage, April 16, 1775, and died at Sadsburyville, Chester county, Penn- sylvania, January 12, 1831. She is buried at Octoraro. She bore him five sons and five daughters : I. Margaret, born August 19, 1776, died December 28, 1843. She married John Sloan (son of George Sloan, the emigrant) at Sadsburyville,
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Pennsylvania, April 6, 1806. 2. Sarah, born March 7, 1778, died 1855 or '56 in Baltimore, Maryland. She married Dr. Colin Mackenzie, of Baltimore, Mary- land. They were married by the Rev. Dr. Patrick Davidson at Faggs Manor, Chester county, Pennsylvania. Dr. Mackenzie was a descendant of the dis- tinguished English family of that name, and of a very prominent Baltimore fam- ily. 3. William, born June 7, 1780, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, died Deceni- ber 4, 1854, at Midway, Kentucky. He married Elizabeth Littig, of Baltimore. He was a physician and had a school. He reared a family of eleven chidren. (The Littigs were large land owners in Baltimore). William commanded a troop of horse at the battle of North Point, Maryland, ranked as captain and was a most excellent officer. 4. John White, see forward. 5. Mary (Polly) born December 3, 1784. She married John Dorlan of Brandywine Manor. He was a soldier of the War of 1812, and at the battle of North Point, Maryland. He is buried at Brandywine Manor, Chester county, Pennsylvania. John Dorlan was a brother of Nancy Dorlan who married John White Pinkerton, brother of Mary (Pinkerton) Dorlan. 6. Samuel born October 15, 1786, died August 8, 1791. 7. Thomas, born November 21, 1788, died at Chilicothe, Ohio, in 1831, unmarried. He was a surgeon in the War of 1812. He left Chester county and settled in Baltimore, where he practiced medicine with his brother-in-law, Dr. Colin Mackenzie. He is buried at Octoraro, Pennsylvania. 8. Rebecca, born February 17, 1791, died February 12, 1826, unmarried; buried at Octoraro, Pennsylvania. 9. Samuel, born August 6, 1793, died September 17, 1795. 10. Jane, born February 25, 1796, died September 30, 1844. She is buried in Octo- raro. In 1904, Samuel S. S. Pinkerton erected a granite monument in the Oc- toraro churchyard which bears the following inscription :
John Pinkerton Revolutionary Soldier, 1735-Sept. 7, 1818. Rebecca White, his wife Jan. 12, 1831 Children : Samuel 1793-1795 Jane 1796-1844
Samuel 1786-1791 Rebecca 1791-1826
Thomas (Surgeon War of 1812) 1788-1831
Erected in memory of his great-grandparents by Stanhope S. Pinkerton 1904.
Rebecca White, wife of John Pinkerton, was a most remarkable and capable woman and a true helpmeet. Octoraro churchyard, where his family memorial is erected is famous as being the resting place of military heroes of our four great wars-"The Revolution, the War of 1812, the War with Mexico and the great Civil War".
The farm of John Pinkerton in Chester county, Pennsylvania, is now the property of Patriceus McManus and is known as "Wood Brook Farm". It is located near Sadsburyville and contains one hundred and ten acres. It has been successively owned by Colin Mackenzie, John Willy, Eliza Early, Bernard Kendig, George W. Stackhouse, Walter Chalfont and now by Mr. McManus, 3512 Baring street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
JOHN WHITE PINKERTON, fourth son of John Rebecca (White) Pinkerton, was born in Sadsburyville, Chester county, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1782, died at Rockville, same county, September 2, 1863, buried at Brandywine Manor, Ches-
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ter county. He was a farmer, teacher and known as "Master Pinkerton" (see "American ancestry", vol. 7, p. 63), and a Presbyterian in religion. He inherited the fighting blood of his race, and served in the War of 1812. He was a pri- vate of Captain John Wright's company, Colonel Washington Parke's regiment, under the command of General Steel. He married in 1803, Nancy Dorlan, daughter of Nathan and Esther (McCroskry ) Dorlan, a granddaughter of George Dorlan of Pennsylvania. Esther (McCroskry) Dorlan, was a daughter of James and Jane (Smith) McCroskry. John White and Nancy (Dorlan) Pinkerton were the parents of four sons and three daughters as follows: I. Samuel Mc- Croskry, born March 18, 1804, died July 22, 1890 (see forward). 2. Nathan Dorlan, born in 1806, died at Rockville, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1858. 3. Re- becca, born in 1808, died September 18, 1876, in Philadelphia. 4. William, Sep- tember 26, 1809, died March 13, 1875, in Virginia. He was a graduate of Wash- ington and Jefferson College and a minister of the Presbyterian church. He settled in Virginia and founded a school. 5. John, born November, 1811, died May 31, 1871, in Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton. He also was a minister and settled in Virginia where he was interested in the school with his brother William. 6. Hester Jane, born in 1814, died in Philadelphia, May 13, 1863. 7. Sarah Ann, born in 1814, died in Philadelphia, December 18, 1877. All are buried at Brandywine Manor except William and John, who are buried in Virginia.
SAMUEL MCCROSKRY PINKERTON, first born of John White and Nancy (Dor- lan) Pinkerton, was born Sadsburyville, Chester county, Pennsylvania, March 18, 1804, died at Cape May Point, New Jersey, July 22, 1890, while on a visit to that seashore resort from his home in Philadelphia. He is buried at Brandy- wine Manor. His wife, Margaret (Lockart) Pinkerton, of Honeybrook town- ship, Chester county, Pennsylvania, was born April 19, 1807, died in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1885, and is buried at Brandywine Manor. Tho marriage was solemnized March 15, 1835. Samuel Pinkerton was a man of im- portance in his county as is evidenced by his serving Chester county for five years as prothonotary, 1839-44 inclusive. He was first appointed by Governor Porter, then elected by the people. He polled the largest vote of any candidate of his party (Democratic) on the victorious Van Buren ticket of 1839. He was a merchant at Rockville, Chester county, but on taking office moved to West Chester. After leaving office he removed to Baltimore where he engaged in the tea business. At one time in life he was a school teacher. After his return to Pennsylvania he lived in Chester county and Philadelphia. The children of Samuel McCroskry and Margaret (Lockart) Pinkerton are: I. John James, born April 9, 1836. He is an attorney-at-law, West Chester, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Union College, Schenectady, New York. He married, October 7, 1863, Sally Miller Downing. 2. Isabel Lockart, born May 14, 1838. She re- sides in Philadelphia. 3. Samuel Stanhope Smith, see forward.
SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH PINKERTON, youngest son and third child of Samuel McCroskry and Margaret (Lockart) Pinkerton, was born in West Ches- ter, Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1840. He was educated in the county schools and at Howard Academy, Rockville, Chester county, Pennsyl- vania. He began business life, March 26, 1857, as a clerk in the store of his uncle, Captain James Lockart, at Downingtown, Pennsylvania. On January I,
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1862, after the death of Captain Lockart, Mr. Pinkerton purchased the business from the estate, giving in payment a bond for $3500, with James McClure, of Brandywine Manor, and Dr. John P. Edge, of Downingtown, as bondsmen. This was an enormous obligation at that time for a young man without capital to assume. From 1864 until 1881 Mr. Pinkerton's life was one of ceaseless activity and variety. In 1864 we find him in the Pennsylvania oil region, in 1867 in Pitts- burgh, in 1873 in Chicago, for a time in 1877 in the Black Hills, Dakota, and from 1877 to 1881 in Oil City, Pennsylvania. In 1881 he settled in Pittsburgh, where he has since continuously resided. In the oil country and in Pittsburgh he engaged in every phase of the oil business as producer, refiner, and broker. Since 1881 in Pittsburgh his busines has been mainly that of a stock broker, in which he has been very successful. Mr. Pinkerton is a Democrat in political preference and in 1866 was postmaster at Pioneer City, Pennsylvania, appointed during the administration of President Andrew Johnson. He is a Master Mason of Oil City Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and formerly was a member of most of the Pittsburgh social and political clubs, but has withdrawn from them all except the Duquesne. He is a vestryman of Ascension Episcopal Church, Pitts- burgh, and was for seven years treasurer. His interest in the genealogy of his own and collateral families is remarkable and it is to his research and careful systematic compilation of family history that this sketch is due. He is a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Historical Society and of the Historical Society of Wes- tern Pennsylvania. He organized the Pittsburgh branch of the Western Penn- sylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution and was the first president. For the past thirty years he has compiled, collected and written upon subjects and facts relating to the Pinkerton family and its many branches until his collection of writings and data is monumental. He is very systematic in his arrangement of material and can quickly furnish from his collection, any fact needed. He is now engaged in the work of collecting and preserving along with his original writing all the facts pertaining to the twenty-one great-grandchildren of John White Pinkerton. In 1904 these twenty-one, organized the "Faggs Manor, Oc- toraro Pinkerton Society" with S. S. S. Pinkerton as president. The object of this society is to "keep a record of the twenty-one members, noting all marriages, births and deaths. Second to decorate the graves at Octoraro, Pennsylvania, of John Pinkerton, a Revolutionary soldier, his son Dr. Thomas Pinkerton, a sur- geon of the War of 1812, and the grave of John White Pinkerton, also a soldier in the War of 1812, and a son of John Pinkerton, on each Decoration Day with an evergreen wreath. * * Third: To meet in Chester county, Pennsyl- vania, September 7 of every five years after 1905." September 7 was selected as being the anniversary of the death of John Pinkerton in 1818, the founder of the family.
Another interesting writing and family record by Mr. Pinkerton is the "Itin- erary of Stanhope Scott Goddard," his wife's grandson. Mr. Pinkerton married in New York, June 5, 1883, Mrs. Roxana (Harris) Scott, widow of Colonel Joseph R. Scott, the distinguished commander of the Nineteenth Illinois Regi- ment, during the Civil War. Mrs. Pinkerton is a daughter of Jacob and Mar- garet (Wardlow) Harris, of Chicago, Illinois, the city of her birth. A daughter of her first marriage, Mrs. Maude Guthrie Goddard, is a member of the house- hold of Mr. and Mrs. Pinkerton. Her son Stanhope Scott Goddard is a student
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at Yale. Mr. Pinkerton, now nearing seventy, has successfully passed several severe attacks on his bodily vigor and is a wonderfully alert and vigorous man mentally and physically. He has traveled extensively for pleasure and health, both of which he has acquired in a great degree.
(The Culbertson Line)
William Culbertson emigrated from Scotland to Ireland, about 1665. He was one of the defenders of Londonderry, which Macaulay says "was the most remarkable siege in the annals of the British Isles". He was born in Scotland and the street on which he lived in Londonderry came to be known as "Culbertson Row" from whence comes the name "Culbertson Row" in the Cumberland valley, Pennsylvania. One of his brothers settled in Omagh, Tyrone county, Ireland, another in Ballygan, near Ballymoney, county Antrim. The family were "Cov- enanters" and were driven from Scotland during the times of James II. Wil- liam Culbertson had issue : John, Robert, Andrew and Samuel.
John Culbertson, son of William Culbertson, came to America in 1712, landed at New Castle, Delaware, with his brother, Robert, and settled at Londongrove, Chester county, Pennsylvania. He first appears on the tax-lists of that county in 1713 and last in 1726. He is supposed to have died at about the latter date and is buried at Brandywine Manor. He had eight children: John, James, Samuel, Jane (Mrs. Breckinridge), Martha (Mrs. Miller) and Rebecca (Mrs. Parke). See Culbertson Genealogy, pp. 18, 19, 20, 23.
John (2) Culbertson, son of John (1) Culbertson, was born in Ireland, in 1710, died November II, 1767, and is buried at Brandywine Manor. He was with his father when he came to America in 1712. He served in the French and Indian War, attaining the rank of lieutenant, his commission being dated March 29, 1748. . He received a land grant from the Penns of 180 acres, III perches in East Caln township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, for his military services. (See Record at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Book A-IO, p. 418). He was an elder of the Brandywine Manor Church where he is buried in the upper graveyard. He married (first) Eliza Rogers, in the First Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia, January 8, 1731. (See Penna. Archives, Vol. 9, 2nd Series, p. 16). He married (second) Abigail Whitehill, a widow with three children: Margaret, John and Jean Whitehill. His will, dated August 26, 1767, disposed of 180 acres, III perches of land in East Caln township, Chester county, Pennsylvania. Issue by both wives: Andrew, born in 1731, died in 1797; James, born in 1733, died 1777; Jane, 1735 ; John, born March 3, 1739, died September 11, 1795, (Culbert- son Genealogy says died September 12, 1794) ; Samuel, 1774; Elizabeth, 1746; Margaret, 1749; Benjamin (Lieut.) 1751, drowned; Ebenezer, 1757, died young ; Esther, born 1763.
John (3) Culbertson, son of John (2) Culbertson, was born March 1, 1739, married, March 26, 1761, Sarah Denny, daughter of Major William Denny, known as "The Elder" and Sarah (Henderson) Denny (see Denny). Sarah Denny was born March 31, 1737, and died April 15, 1812. John Culbertson (3) was for sev- eral years one of the representatives of Chester county, in the Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly, and major of Chester county militia, First Battalion, com- manded by Colonel James Moore, of the "Flying Camp." He was pres- ent at the Battle of Long Island, 1776. (See Barrie's "Army & Navy of the
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