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"Motives of economy rendering it indispensably necessary that many of the Reg. should be reduced and the whole put on a different establishment, several deserving officers not from any demerit, but from pure necessity, have been excluded in the new arrangement of the Army. Among these was Col. Whitcomb; but the noble sentiment disclosed by that gentleman on this occasion, the zeal shown in exhorting the men not to abandon the interest of their country at this important crisis, his determination to continue in the service even as a private soldier, rather than by a bad example when the enemy are gathering strength to the public affairs at hazzard; when an example of this kind is set, it not only entitles a gentleman to particular thanks but to particular rewards. Col. Jonathan Brewer is entitled to no small share of the credit in readily giving up to Col. Whitcomb the Reg. which he was appointed to command. Col. Whitcomb therefore is henceforward to be considered as Col. of that Reg. which was intended for Col. Brewer; and Col. Brewer will be appointed Barrack Master until something better worth acceptance can be provided."
Colonel Whitcomb was twice married, the name of his second wife being Betty Sawyer.
ASA WHITCOMB BALLARD, son of Luther and Rebecca (Whitcomb) Ballard, was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, December 15, 1822, died at Canton, Ohio, January 16, 1887. He married Margaret Irwin, born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1822, died at Canton, Ohio, November 24, 1908.
LUTHER WHITCOMB BALLARD, son of Asa Whitcomb and Margaret (Irwin) Ballard, was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1854. He married,
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at Alliance, Ohio, May 30, 1878, Grace Clark Greenwood, born at Paris, Ohio, May 15, 1860, died at Alliance, Ohio, March 29, 1883.
WARREN EDGAR BALLARD, son of Luther Whitcomb and Grace Clark (Green- wood) Ballard, was born at Alliance, Ohio, March 27, 1883. He received his education in the public schools of his native city, being graduated from the Alliance High School in 1901. He then obtained a position in the People's Na- tional Bank of Pittsburgh, where he remained one year, then entered the employ of Messrs. Robinson Brothers, Bankers, a connection which continued for five years. In February, 1908, he became associated in a business partnership with D. V. McConnel, in the brokerage business under the firm name of Ballard & Mc- Connel, in which he is engaged at the present time (1911). Mr. Ballard married, January 21, 1909, Florence M., daughter of Dr. H. S. and Georgiana (Eberhard) McConnel of New Brighton, Pennsylvania.
CHANDLER PRICE WAINWRIGHT
CHANDLER PRICE WAINWRIGHT, for many years a prominent citizen of Phil- adelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in that city, May 14, 1838, died in September, 1909, son of Jonathan and Susan Hollingshead (Eyre) Wainwright, grandson of George and Martha (Hollingshead) Eyre, and great-grandson of Colonel Jehu and Lydia (Wright) Eyre, also of Major John Hollingshead, of New Jer- sey, member of the Cincinnati. Major Hollingshead's first wife was Sarah, daughter of James and Lettice (Wills) Dobbins. ,Martha Hollingshead was probably a daughter of the second wife of Major J. Hollingshead, who was Martha Hollingshead.
Colonel Jehu Eyre, through whose services Chandler P. Wainwright secured membership in the Sons of the Revolution, was born at Burlington, New Jer- sey, January 21, 1738, died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July, 1781. After the battle of Lexington, he formed a military company of his ship carpenters and they did guard duty during August, September, November, 1775, guarding the jail, powder house, etc. He built the first gun boat for Pennsylvania, the "Bull-Dog", launched July 26, 1775. He afterwards built the frigates, "Frank- lin" and "Congress". He and his company took part in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. On June 5, 1777, he organized his company into an artillery company, and July 25, 1777, all the artillery companies were organized into a battalion of which he took command as colonel and served in the battle of Ger- mantown and Brandywine. He served as captain of Philadelphia Artillery, July 30, 1775, December 6, 1776, June 5, 1777, and as colonel of Philadelphia Ar- tillery, August 25, 1777, September 14, 1777, June 28, 1779. In addition to this he garrisoned the forts at Mud Island and Billingsport.
JOHN WOOLF JORDAN, LL. D.
The family of Dr. Jordan is of French extraction, and his ancestors after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes fled from that country and became residents of the county of Kent, England, where his great-grandfather, Frederick Jor- dan, was born in September of 1744. In company with his brother Mark he came to Pennsylvania, and shortly after settled in Alexandria township, Hun- terdon county, New Jersey, where he purchased a farm of 142 acres and erected a flour mill. He subsequently purchased another mill property at the Hickory Tavern, of both of which he died possessed. During the greater part of the Revolution the Jordan mills were kept busy converting grain into flour for the use of the army.
When the seat of the war was moved southward, Frederick Jordan entered the army, January I, 1781, as a corporal in the company of Captain Samuel Hendry, Second Regiment New Jersey Continental Line, Colonel Elias Dayton, and on May Ist was promoted sergeant. His services in the Yorktown cam- paign with his regiment are worthy of record. On August Ist his regiment with others were mustered at Dobb's Ferry, New York, and on the 19th crossed the Hudson and marched to Paramus, New Jersey. The following day the march was continued to Second river, and on the 21st to Springfield, where they went into camp. On September Ist the New Jersey regiments, with others of the army in the division of Major General Benjamin Lincoln, crossed the Dela- ware at Trenton in boats, and bivouacked on the Neshaminy, in Bensalem, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and the next day marched through Philadelphia and en- camped on the west side of the Schuykill river. By September 6th the Jersey troops reached the Head of Elk, Maryland, and on finding that sufficient transportation by water could not be furnished there, they marched to Plumb Point, where they embarked, and on September 19th anchored in York river, Virginia. The following day they entered the James river, passing the French fleet in Hampton Roads, and anchored off Newport News. On September 23rd, a number of companies were landed near Williamsburg, and the follow- ing day the remainder, after some difficulty, joined their regiment.
Under general orders, September 24th, the two New Jersey regiments with the Rhode Island battalion were formed into a brigade, with Colonel Dayton in command. On the march of the army to Yorktown, General Clinton's and Colonel Dayton's brigades established the advance line on the left of the Amer- ican troops, and on the 29th they began to throw up earthworks under direction of General Duportail, commander of the corps of engineers. When Corn- wallis abandoned his outerworks they were occupied by the allied forces. Col- onel Dayton on October Ist, being assigned to court-martial duty, Colonel Mat- thias Ogden, of the First Regiment, was appointed to the command of the brigade. Four days later ground was broken for the first parallel by General Lincoln's troops, and on October 8th orders were issued to form the Jersey troops into one regiment, under Colonel Ogden. The same day the French
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troops bombarded the British left, which was taken up by the Americans, during which Ogden's men were busy making gabions, fascines and pickets. On the night of October IIth the second parallel was made by Baron Steuben's divi- sion. Six days later the allied troops had all their artillery in position, pre- pared for a cannonade of two days, to be followed by a general assault on the British works, but Cornwallis sent commissioners to treat for the surrender. Two days later the surrender took place, Colonel Ogden's regiment being in the receiving line.
On October 27th the Jersey troops were employed in leveling the British works, after which duty they marched by land to the Head of Elk, where they joined the army transported by water, and continued the march to Moorestown, New Jersey, where the Jersey troops went into winter quarters.
In March of 1783, John N. Cummings was lieutenant-colonel com- mandant of the regiment, and on June 5th Sergeant Jordan was furloughed at New Windsor, on the Hudson, until the ratification of a definite treaty of peace, and finally was honorably discharged under the proclamation of the Con- tinental Congress, November 3, 1783.
FREDERICK JORDAN married, in 1769, Catherine, daughter of Henry and Su- sanna Eckel. She was born in Bedminster township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, December 28, 1750, and died in Alexander township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, July I, 1786. He died August 20, 1784, and both are buried in the churchyard of St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church. They had issue : John, born September 1, 1770, and two sons and two daughters. John Jordan, son of Frederick and Catherine Jordan, was born in Alexandria township, Hunter- don county, New Jersey, September 1, 1770. After the death of his parents he entered the office of his uncle, Godfrey Haga, the eminent merchant and philanthropist of Philadelphia, and in 1793 succeeded him in business. On August 23. 1804, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. William and Sabina Henry, of Northampton county, Pennsylvania.
The Henrys are of Scotch ancestry. Robert and Mary A. Henry, with their sons John, Robert and James, came to Pennsylvania in 1722, and settled on a tract of land watered by Doe Run, in West Caln township, Chester county. Robert and Mary A. died in 1735. The son John married Elizabeth, a daugh- ter of Hugh and Mary (Jenkins) de Vinney, who settled in Chester county, in 1723, not far from the Henry plantation. He died in Chester county, 1744, and his wife at Lancaster, in 1778, aged seventy-seven years.
William Henry, the eldest of their eight children, was born in Chester county, May 19, 1729. Shortly after the death of his father he removed to Lancaster, where he engaged in the manufacture of fire-arms, and furnished supplies to the Indian traders. As armourer of the troops of Generals Braddock and Forbes, he accompanied the expeditions against Fort Duquesne. He took an active part in the public affairs of his county and the State, and throughout the Revolution ardently espoused the cause of the colonists, and filled many offices of honor and trust. He was commissioned justice of the peace, in 1758, 1770 and 1777, and associate justice of the common pleas, quarter sessions and or- phans' court, November 18, 1780. In 1776 he was elected a member of the As- sembly, and from October 17 to December 4, 1777, served in the Council of Safety of Pennsylvania ; and as county treasurer from 1777 to his death. His
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appointment as armourer of the State is dated September 4, 1778, and he was selected one of the commissioners to limit prices of merchandise, in the conven- tion called by meeting at Hartford, Connecticut, October 29, 1779, to assemble at Philadelphia, January 5, 1780. He was also appointed dedimus potestatem in 1778, and 1781. As assistant commissary general in 1778 he was of great service to the army in the field. He served two terms in the old Congress, 1784- 1785. In 1767 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society ; was one of the first members of the Society for Promoting Agriculture, and a founder of the Juliana Library of Lancaster. As an ingenious inventor he en- joyed a high reputation, particularly in the application of steam for motive power, and in 1771 he invented the screw-auger.
William Henry, in January of 1756, married Ann, daughter of Abraham and Ursula (Taylor) Wood, who was born January 24, 1734. Ann Wood was a great-granddaughter of John and Barbara Bevan, of Treverigg, Glamorganshire, Wales, who with their children in 1683 came to Pennsylvania, where he took up a large tract of land in the Welsh Tract, in what was then Philadelphia county. He was elected a member of the Assembly for the years 1687, 1695, 1699 and 1700, and commissioned a justice of the peace in 1685 and 1689. After making several visits to his native country he finally resumed his residence there, and died at the ripe age of eighty years. His daughter Jane married, December I, 1678, George Wood, of Darby, Chester county, who was commissioned a jus- tice of the peace in 1724 and 1726, and served in the Assembly 1704, 1710, 1712 and 1717. Their son Abraham, born March 2, 1702, and died 1753, was the father of Mrs. Henry.
William Henry died at Lancaster, December 15, 1786, and Ann his wife, March 8, 1799. They had issue thirteen children, of whom William Henry (2d) was the eldest.
William Henry (2d), was born in Lancaster, March 12, 1757. From 1788- 1814 he served as a justice of courts of Northampton county, and in 1792 was a presidential elector for Washington's last term. He married Sabina, daugh- ter of Matthew and Anna Maria Schropp, November 21, 1781, who was born November 5, 1759, and died May 8, 1848. He died April 21, 1821. They had issue four sons and five daughters, of whom Elizabeth, born October 15, 1782, married John Jordan in 1804. She died in Philadelphia, December 15, 1844, and her husband February 17, 1845. John and Elizabeth (Henry) Jordan had issue four sons and one daughter, of whom Francis Jordan was the youngest. Francis Jordan, born in Philadelphia, June 26, 1815, was a prominent merchant of the city, and connected with a number of its financial institutions. He mar- ried, December 10, 1839, Emily, daughter of John L. and Margaret (Ewing) Woolf, born in Philadelphia, November 12, 1821, died September 4, 1889. He died August 13, 1885.
Lewis Woolf, the father of John Lewis Woolf, was born in Hanover, Ger- many, in 1747; came to Pennsylvania and became a resident of Pottstown, Ches- ter county. He entered the Continental army July 11, 1778, as a private in the Troop Marechausse, (Captain Batholomew Von Heer, formerly of Proctor's Artillery), organized under resolution of Congress, May 27, 1778, to act as pro- vost guard of the army. The troop was mounted and accoutred as light
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dragoons. Private Woolf became a pensioner under the Act of March 18, 1818. He died August 20, 1830. His son,
John Lewis Woolf was born in Philadelphia in 1797, and died February 12, 1850. During the war of 1812-15 he was commissioned colonel of a regiment of volunteers. For many years he took an active interest in the affairs of the city, was an inspector of the Eastern Penitentiary, president of the Guardians of the Poor, an alderman and notary public, and a prominent Mason. He married, June 19, 1817, Margaret, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Keen) Ewing, born in Lancaster, 1796, died in Philadelphia, January 7, 1868. They had issue three sons and two daughters, one of the latter, Emily, becoming the wife of Francis Jordan.
John Ewing, son of John and Sarah (Yeates) Ewing, (the latter a sister of Judge Jasper Yeates) was born in Lancaster, June 22, 1755. He married in 1795, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Keen, and had issue one daughter, Margaret. He died February 14, 1799. His wife survived him, and later married Jonathan Hillborn, of Limerick township, Montgomery county. John Ewing was commissioned captain of the Second Company, Eighth Bat- talion, Lancaster County Militia, Lieutenant Colonel James Ross, in 1780, and served to the close of the Revolution, performing a number of "tours of duty."
JOHN WOOLF JORDAN, eldest son of Francis and Emily (Woolf) Jordan was born in Philadelphia, September 14, 1840, received his education in the private schools of the city, and graduated from Nazareth Hall in 1856. In 1902 the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Lafayette College. He is librarian of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania; editor of the Pennsylvania Maga- zine of History and Biography; president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies; vice-president of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; registrar of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, and connected with other learned societies. Dr. Jordan's contributions to local and general history are numerous, among which may be specified: "A Red Rose from the Olden Time, 1752-1772"; "Friedenstahl and its Stockaded Mill"; "Narrative of John Heckewelder's Journey to the Wabash in 1792"; "John Heckewelder's Notes of Travel to Ohio, 1797"; "Bishop A. G. Spangenberg's Journey to Onondaga in 1745"; "Military Hospitals at Bethlehem and Lititz during the Revolution"; "Revolutionary History of Bethlehem, 1775-1783"; "Franklin as a Genealogist," etc.
Dr. Jordan married first, in 1866, Lillie Moore, and had issue Edgar F., born November 4, 1867, by profession a civil engineer ; and Wilfred, born April 19, 1872, died June 23, 1873. He married, secondly, in 1883, Anne, daughter of Alfred and Rebecca S. Page, and has issue: Wilfred, born April 3, 1884; Helen, born June 14, 1887; and Bevan Page Yeates, born February 5, 1893.
HELENA LOUISA (HADDOCK) FARR
CHARLES HADDOCK, the earliest American ancestor, on the paternal side, of Mrs. Farr, of whom we have any record, appears in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1752. He married, as his second wife, October 2, 1767, Susanna Brickett, and died in Haverhill in May, 1796.
DANIEL HADDOCK, son of Charles and Susanna (Brickett) Haddock, was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, November 9, 1769, and died at Lynn, Mas- sachusetts, October 8, 1846. He married Abigail Haseltine, born at Haverhill, March 27, 1780, died at Lynn, April 27, 1875.
John Haseltine and his brother, Robert Haseltine, ancestors of the sub- ject of this sketch, came (presumably) from Devonshire, England, with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers and a colony of about sixty families, and landed at Salem, Mas- sachusetts, in 1637. After remaining at Salem about a month they removed to and founded the town of Rowley, Essex county, Massachusetts, and later founded Bradford, on the Merrimac river, of which latter town both were select- men. John Haseltine removed across the Merrimac to Haverhill, where he died December 23, 1690, at the age of 70 years. He gave the town of Bradford one acre of land on which to erect a meeting house in 1660, after his removal to Haverhill. He married Joan Auter, and his second child, Mary Haseltine, born October 9, 1648, married Nathan Webster, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, where his father, John Webster, was one of the first settlers.
Samuel Webster, son of Nathan and Mary (Haseltine) Webster, married Mary Kimball, and their daughter, Mary Webster, married John Haseltine, great-grandson of Robert Haseltine, the emigrant.
ROBERT HASELTINE, the elder of the two brothers who settled Rowley and Bradford, married at Rowley, October 23, 1639, but though the marriage is recorded, the name of the wife is not given. She died July 26, 1684. Robert Haseltine was for many years proprietor of the ferry between Bradford and Haverhill. He was selectman of Bradford in 1668, and died there in 1674.
ABRAHAM HASELTINE, son of Robert and Anne, was borne at Rowley, Mas- sachusetts, May 23, 1648, and died at Bradford, April 28, 1711. He was one of the early town clerks of Bradford, and was otherwise prominent in the affairs of the two towns. He married Elizabeth Longhorne, born at Rowley, Sep- tember, 1649, died at Bradford, March 29, 1704. Her father was town clerk of Rowley.
LIEUTENANT RICHARD HASELTINE, son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Long- horne) Haseltine, was born at Bradford, Massachusetts, November 13, 1679, and died at Bradford, March 8, 1755. He was a lieutenant in the Provincial forces of Essex county, Massachusetts, and one of the original proprietors of Chester, Rockingham county, New Hampshire, where his son John was one of the first settlers. He married, January 14, 1702-3, at Bradford, Abigail, daughter of John and Mary (Barlow) Chadwick, who was born in 1683, and died at Brad- ford, July 24, 1743.
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JOHN HASELTINE, son of Lieut. Richard and Abigail (Chadwick) Haseltine, was born at Bradford, Essex county, Massachusetts, November 22, 1708. He be- came one of the founders of Chester, Rockingham county, New Hampshire, and died there October 16, 1757. He married, at Bradford, Massachusetts, January 24, 1738-9, Mary, born September 9, 1716, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Kimball) Webster, of Bradford, and granddaughter of Nathan and Mary (Haseltine) Webster, before mentioned. After the death of her husband, Mary (Webster) Haseltine married (second) Captain David Hall, and returned with him and her two children, James and John, to Bradford, where she died August 13, 1779. Her son, Deacon John Haseltine, was the father of Ann Judson, the noted woman missionary.
JAMES HASELTINE, father of Abigail (Haseltine) Haddock, was a son of John and Mary (Webster) Haseltine, and was born at Chester, Rockingham county, New Hampshire, March 27, 1750. He was brought to Bradford, Mas- sachusetts, by his mother, when a boy, and on his marriage he located in Haver- hill, Massachusetts, where he died May 17, 1833. He married Abigail Mooers, born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, January 6, 1754, died there September 18, 1820. She was a sister to General Benjamin Mooers, who commanded the land forces at the battle of Plattsburg in 1814, which resulted in a victory for the American troops, and in recognition of his great service he was voted a gold handled sword by the State of New York. He also served during the Rev -- olutionary War as lieutenant in the regiment called "Congress' Own Regiment", commanded by his uncle, General Hazen. He had charge of Major Andre be- fore his execution as a spy, and in his diary gives a most graphic account of the circumstances incident thereto. James Haseltine also rendered active service as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
DANIEL HADDOCK, JR., father of Mrs. Farr, was a son of Daniel and Abigail (Haseltine) Haddock, and was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, November 12, 1806. He received a fair academic education at the academy at Bradford, Massachusetts, and at the age of sixteen years came to Philadelphia and entered the business house of Moody & Wyman, wholesale dealers in boots, shoes and straw hats, as a clerk, making his home with his uncle, John Haseltine. John Haseltine became the successor of Moody & Wyman, and later associated with himself Mr. Haddock, and the firm name became Haseltine & Haddock, then Haddock, Haseltine & Reed, which later became Haddock, Reed & Co. upon the retirement of Mr. Ward B. Haseltine, a nephew of John Haseltine.
Mr. Haddock filled many positions of public trust and enjoyed the reputation of being extraordinarily faithful to his duties in all the relations of life. He was for several years president of the Continental Hotel Company; was a director and vice-president of the Commercial National Bank; a director of the Philadelphia Trust Company ; of the Philadelphia Trust & Safe Deposit and Insurance Com- pany and a director and chairman of the finance committee of the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company. He was first elected to the board of the Commercial Na- tional Bank in 1839, and continued a member for nearly fifty years, serving as vice-president for eleven years. His connection with the Continental began with the incorporation of the Butler House Hotel Company in 1857. The name was changed to Continental Hotel Company, and he served continuously as a director until his election as president, May 14, 1880. He died January
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21, 1890. He married Catharine Lucy Stevenson Shinn, daughter of Colonel John Shinn and his wife Mary White, and a descendant of John Shinn, who came from England about 1677, supposed to have been a passenger on the ship "Kent." which arrived in the river Delaware in 1677, with the first English settlers of West Jersey. He was at least one of the original proprietors of West Jersey, owning with five others several undivided shares in that province. He was also one of the number who at different periods purchased large tracts of land of the Indians. The first land was surveyed to him in what became Springfield township, Burlington county, where he lived at "Springfield Lodge." He and his wife Jane were members of the Society of Friends, and assisted in founding the first meeting of the sect in Burlington county. He died in 1711.
John Shinn, Jr., son of John and Jane, was hardly less prominent in public affairs than his father, and like him was a large land owner. He was born in England, and died in Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1736-7. He married (first) May 3, 1686, Ellen, daughter of Robert Stacy, and second, in 1707, Mary, daughter of William Budd, of Northampton township, Burlington county.
Jacob Shinn, son of John and Mary (Budd) Shinn, was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, July 13, 1715, and died there in 1795. He married, in 1745, Hannah (Rakestraw) Lippincott, widow of Freedom Lippincott.
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