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Philip H. Waddell Smith and Isabella (MacLaren) Waddell Smith had the following children born at Sewickley, Pennsylvania :
Alice Waddell, b. Jan. 24, 1906; Coventry Waddell, b. July 23, 1909.
Rev. Donald MacLaren, D. D., born Caledonia, New York, March 7, 1834, was graduated from Union College in the class of 1853, and from Princeton Theo- logical Seminary in the class of 1857. Installed pastor of the Old Tennant church, near Freehold, New Jersey, by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, July 1, 1857, but after a pastorate of between four and five years a second and complete failure of health forced a discontinuance of all activities, until he was partially and suffi- ciently restored by March 10, 1863, to be commissioned by President Lincoln as chaplain in the navy, the various duties of which office he continued in up to the time of his retirement in 1896. Following his retirement he was actively engaged in Naval Y. M. C. A. work, Presbyterian Church extension, and in reorganization work for the American Bible Society, successively in Porto Rico, Cuba, Central Atlantic States, and for the Pacific Coast. He was the son of Rev. Donald Camp- bell MacLaren, D. D., of Caledonia, and Geneva, New York (and Jane Steven- son, daughter of William Stevenson and Mary (MacNeil) Stevenson, the former born Straureaur, Scotland, February 17, 1772, and later of Cambridge, New York), born New York City, October 3, 1794, and was graduated from Union College, 1813; was moderator of the Associate Reformed Church at the Union of the Associate and Associate Reformed Churches, which formed the present United Presbyterian Church ; died Geneva, New York, May 7, 1882. He was the son of Finlay MacLaren, baptized Balquhidder, Scotland, who removed to Amer- ica about 1793 (and Margaret Campbell, of Callandar, Scotland), the son of Donald MacLaren, of Balquhidder, Scotland (see MacLaren records in genealogy of "The Kirbys of New England," also Descendants of Finlay Maclaren of Onondaga, N. Y.," New York, 1899, both by M. E. Dwight ; see also "Descend- ants of Finlay MacLaren," etc., by W. D. Maclaren, Warren Pennsylvania, 1906).
Elizabeth Stockton Green born Philadelphia, January 14, 1838, and died Sep- tember 20, 1906, was the daughter of Jacob Green (professor of chemistry at Princeton, and later one of the founders of Jefferson Medical College, Philadel-
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phia), and Anne Eliza McCulloh, of Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of Samuel McCulloh and Isabella Williamson. Samuel was the son of Major John McCulloh, born 1750, and died 1800, of Revolutionary War service (and his wife, Anna Todd). Jacob Green was the son of Rev. Ashbel Green (and his wife, Elizabeth Stockton, of Princeton, New Jersey), president of Princeton College, the son of Rev. Jacob Green, of Hanover, New Jersey, and his wife, Elizabeth Pierson (the daughter of Rev. John Pierson, of Woodbridge, New Jersey), who was the great- granddaughter of Rev. Abraham Pierson, first president of Yale College, also the great-great-granddaughter of Governor Thomas Dudley, of Massachusetts; also the great-great-granddaughter of Governor John Haynes, governor of Massachu- setts, 1635, and of Connecticut, 1639; also the great-great-granddaughter of Gov- ernor George Wyllys, of Connecticut, 1642, whose son, grandson and great-grand- son were successively Secretary of State for Connecticut for an aggregate period of 88 years (1712-1800). Elizabeth Pierson was also of many royal descents (see "Americans of Royal Descent," vol. i, pp. 14 and 15), and of descent from ten of the Magna Charta Barons (see "M. C. Barons and their American Descendants," PP. 407-411), through Ruth Haynes, the mother of Mehitable Wyllys, the mother of Ruth Woodbridge, the mother of Elizabeth Pierson, the wife of Rev. Jacob Green, of Hanover, New Jersey. See also "Genealogy of Descendants of Thomas Green of Malden, Mass.," Boston, 1858.
Elizabeth Stockton was the daughter of Robert Stockton, of Princeton, New Jersey, quartermaster in the Revolutionary Army, who died April 24, 1805 (brother to Richard Stockton the Signer), son of Robert Stockton, Princeton, New Jersey, born 1698-9, died 1744-5, son of Richard Stockton, of Stony Brook (now Prince- ton), as early as 1696, son of Richard Stockton, of Flushing, Long Island, as early as November 8, 1656, later of Burlington county, New Jersey, and died there 1707 (see "The Stockton Family," by William Francis Crerar, being a reprint from "The White Ancestry," Philadelphia, 1888, also "Stockton Genealogy" in preparation by Rev. Elias Boudinot Stockton, of New York City).
. CAPT. JOHN WADDELL, of New York City, born, Dover England, October 3, 1714, died, New York City, May 29, 1762, was the earliest of the line in America.
The grant of the Waddell arms, borne by Capt. John Waddell, of New York, originated in and also describes the valorous services of "Captain John Weddall (or Waddell), of Stebenheath in ye County of Middlesex, Esqre" (1583-1642 per Nat. Dict. Biog.), in winning a great naval victory over the Portugese at Ormuz and Kishm, in the Persian Gulf in 1622 (Clowe'sHist. Royal Navy, II, 37).
The arms are described in the grant as follows :
"Wherefore I ye said Garter could doe nolesse being thereunto instantly required by ye said John Weddall, but assigne invest and arme him with such a Coat of Arms as is con- venient for his degree & good deservings (viz).
The field Argent an Inescutcheon barnly wavy of ten Or and Gules an Orle of Fireballs proper as in perpetuall remembrance of his Atchievements in sinking & burning of his enemies. And further for Ornament unto his Helme for a convenient Crest and Cognizance to him and his posterity on a Wreath of his Colours Or & Gules out of the Battlements of a Castle Azure a Demy Lyon Or holding a Banner of St. George to denote his good services in surprising the Castle of Ketchmey & planting ye English Colours thereon.
All wch Arms and Crest & every p't and p' cell thereof I ye said Garter by power of my Office of Garter Prinll K. of Arms authorized by ye Institution of ye noble order of ye Garter to grant these marks of Honor and noblenesse to deserving men Doe by these p'sents give grant ratifie & confirme unto ye said Joh: Weddall and his Posteritie; with their due differences forever that he & they the same may use beare and shew forth in Shield, Signet, Monument, Escutcheon, Penon and Atchievement or any other wayes or means according to
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the Law of Arms & lawdeable Customs of this Realm of England without any lett or inter- ruption of any whatsoever."
At this time Capt. Waddell commanded a fleet of the East India Company (in whose service he spent many years, becoming their senior commander ), and in the engagements in question, the great navigator, Baffin, was one of the Englishmen to lose their lives (see "Ormuz," Encyc. Brit. 9th Ed.) In 1627 Capt. Waddell was "now Captn. of ye Rainbowe a principall Ship of His ma'ties Navie Royall" (Grant of Waddell Arms), which had been the third vessel in point of size, in the English fleet which repelled the Spanish Armada (Clowe's Hist. Royal Navy 11, 65, also Pepys and Entick). He commanded a squadron against Havre, France, and was Captain of the "Rainbow," in an attack against Rochelle, under Buckingham, and later commanded a fleet sent forth by Sir William Courten, in 1636, to trade with China and Japan, one of the earliest European expeditions trading in those waters (Nat. Dict. Biog.).
A voluminous account of the record of Capt. Weddall, or Waddell, may be found (under the former spelling) in the published Calendar of State Papers (Colonial Series, East Indies, 1617 to 1642; Ditto, Domestic Series) and in "Ste- phen's National Dictionary of Biography."
A complete transcription of the grant of arms allowed by the Heralds College, London, May 3, 1627, was reprinted in the Home Journal (New York), as the second article of a series entitled "Heraldry in America."
That Scotland was the original Waddell habitat of all of the name in the varied spellings, there is little doubt ("Camden's Caledonia,"), and the not infrequent identification of the name, particularly in the English port towns, is probably ex- plained by the seafaring nature of the occupation of the Scotch, who when absent from their native heaths, were more often mariners than anything else. A resi- dence in Stebenheath particularly (also known as Ratcliffe, then a separate and distinct suburb of London in the shipping district and a few miles down the Thames from the tower of London) would presumptively identify the family with a seafaring occupation. At all events we find the line soon back in Scotland, where at Edinburgh were born Lieut. William Waddell and Mary Waddell, the parents of Capt. John Waddell, of New York.
No attempt is here made to claim the existence of documentary proof for the lineal descent of Lieut. William Waddell, of Dover, from Capt. John Weddall (Waddell), of Stebenheath. It is hoped and confidently believed that such neces- sary evidence will be found in the search now in progress, although at least three things add to the difficulties of the attempt :
First, the fact that the family of Capt. John, of Stebenheath, was resident in a suburb of London at the time of his decease (prior to May, 1643, when letters of administration were granted on his estate, in which he is named as dead "in parti- bus transmarinus"), and also at the time of the death of his wife, Frances (will proven October 2, 1652-London, Somerset House, Bowyer, 165) ; second, that the period of the Commonwealth and following was not favorable to the making or preserving of family records ; and third, that Lieut. William and Mary Waddell, the undoubted and proven parents of Capt. John Waddell, of New York, although born in Edinburgh, were later residents of Dover; these conditions necessitating transfers of residence at times and under conditions not the most favorable to identification.
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Capt. John Weddall, of Stebenheath, had children mentioned in the will of his wife, Frances, namely ; at least two sons, John, who predeceased his mother, and Jeremy, the only surviving son ; also a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Edward Wye. All left descendants though at present lost track of beyond the references thereto in the will of Frances Weddall.
On the other hand the desk seal containing the coat-of-arms of Capt. John Wad- dell, of New York (which are those granted to Capt. John, of Stebenheath), is authenticated in an unusual manner, as having belonged to him, and the arms have ever since been borne by the family. Furthermore, from at least as early as 1735, to 1815, the occupations (principally as merchants and mariners), of Capt. John of New York, of his son, Lieut. Col. William Waddell, of New York and London, and of his grandson, Capt. Henry Waddell, of New York, required frequent trips to London (and among other places Dover as well), or long residence there (see later records herein) and afforded every opportunity for a knowledge of the grounds upon which their use of the arms were based. Particularly should it be noted that Capt. John Waddell, of New York, visited Dover during the lifetime of his father, the birth of whom must have occurred within the lifetime of many living when the grant of arms was made to Capt. John, of Stebenheath. As the grant is not remarkable for its antiquity, the arms are not ones that would be likely to be assumed under the circumstances and without due warrant particularly by a man of English birth, frequently visiting and constantly having large dealings with London, the very center of information upon such matters, and that too within the lifetime of his father (assuming that he obtained the seal abroad and that as the record seems to indicate he made no trips abroad after his father's death in 1750).
LIEUT. WILLIAM WADDELL lost his right arm in the service in the burning of the Spanish fleet at Vigo, Spain, in 1702. A few years earlier, and probably about the time of his marriage, he must have removed to Dover, England, for the records of births, baptisms, marriages, and death of his family are found on the parish record of St. Mary the Virgin at that place, commencing with the birth of a daugh- ter, October 27, 1701. All of their sons were killed in the service or drowned, except John, of New York; one daughter, Sarah, married Henry Nethersole and left issue. Lieut. William and Mary Waddell died at Dover at advanced ages ; she was buried there, April 16, 1747, and he September 30, 1750. On the record re- ferred to his name is spelled both as "Weddell" and "Waddell," the latter obtain- ing in the latest records.
(THE WADDELL, LINE).
CAPT. JOHN WADDELL, of New York City, was born, Dover, England, October 3, 1714 (parish record of St. Mary the Virgin, Dover, England). It is not known when he first came to New York, but it was at least as early as 1736, for Novem- ber 30 of that year he was married by the Rev. Mr. Charlton, to Anne Kirten, of New York City, in the chapel within Fort George which then stood upon the site of the present Custom House, facing Bowling Green. (Marriage licenses, Prov- ince of New York). In February, 1737-38, we find him enrolled as a member of Capt. Van Horne's foot company of militia (Doc. Hist., N. Y., vol. iv). From at least as early as 1745 (New York Postboy, November 11, 1745), until 1750 (New York Gazette-Postboy, April 9, 1750), he spent the greater part of his time en- route to or from London in command of his vessels, the first named "Oswego" and
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its successor the "Dover," the latter said to have been built at the foot of that street in New York, this occasion giving rise to the name of the street. Leaming and Spicer's record of the early laws of Colonial New Jersey officially confirms the fact that Capt. Waddell was in London, March 17, 1747, where he then exam- ined at Whitehall, the official record of Queen Anne's acceptance of the East New Jersey Proprietors surrender of government; and he later identified by affidavit before Robert Morris Hunter, Chief Justice of Colonial New Jersey, his verifica- tion which was affixed to the copy made in London and brought to this country for the record of the Colonies. Following 1750 the contemporary newspapers record the frequent sailings of his vessels to European ports while he occupied himself with the conduct of the many sided affairs of one of the principle mer- chants of his day (New York Gazette, December 24, 1753), at his business house fronting on Duke street and Dock street (now Pearl street), between Old Slip and Coenties market (New York Gazette, October 30, 1760), a property which he purchased in 1752, from William Coventry for £2500 (New York Gazette, No. 428, also inventory of Capt. John Waddell's estate). We find his ship "Dover," in 1756, bound for South Carolina and Carocoa, and his sloop "Ranger" for Carocoa and St. Eustacia (New York Mercury, December 6, 1756), and in 1758 his ship "Amherst," also for South Carolina. His importations were drawn from points as far distant as Amsterdam "Hambourg" and "Petersborough" (New York Mercury, November 21, 1757).
At the time of the last French and Indian War he was called in council as to the best means of fortifying the city (Cal. Hist. MSS. of New York, for August 15, 1757), and later had part interest in at least two privateers, the "Dreadnaught" and the "Delancey" (Cal. Hist. MSS., July 25, 1759, and April 19, 1760). At the time of his death in 1762 he was part owner of six vessels and their cargos en- gaged on voyages variously to Hispaniola, Jamaica, Cayenne, Carolina and Hol- land (inventory at his death). He was one of the wardens of the port of New York (Hist. MSS. of New York, June 10, 1758) ; and an original subscriber to the movement which resulted in the establishment of the New York Society Library in 1754 (Keep's "History of New York Society Library," 1908, page 188). He was one of the founders on November 19, 1756, of the St. Andrew's Society of New York, of whom among others, the recent history by Morrison (New York, 1906), says "the founders of the Society were almost all heads or members of the best and most prominent Scotch families in the then province of New York, and occupied an important position in the professional and business community." One of the prerequisites for membership then was to have been either the son or grand- son of a Scotsman.
Capt. John Waddell died, New York City, May 29, 1762, of dropsy, and was eventually buried in the Waddell vault, Trinity Churchyard, New York City (ad- joining and west of present site of Alexander Hamilton's tomb) of which church he and his family were members. His will is dated October 9, 1760, and mentions by name his wife and each of his children ; it is recorded in New York City. His life-sized portrait is in the collection of the New York Historical Society.
The ivory-handled desk seal of Capt. Waddell, with his coat-of-arms, as granted to Capt. John Waddell, of Stebenheath (see Lamb's Hist., New York, vol. II, p. J57, for illustration and description), is still preserved in the family, and the ownership and transfer from generation to generation, to the great-great-great-
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grandson of Capt. John in the sixth generation therefrom (see also Keep's Hist., New York Soc. Lib., p. xvi) is authenticated in an unusual manner. The seal contains a receptacle in the handle, originally the repository of a paper long since removed in order to be backed upon heavier material for preservation, and which reads as follows :
"The Desk Seal of John Waddell-with his Coat of Arms-Father of William, presented by William to his son Henry, London, Oct. 3rd, 1810. (Foregoing in the hand of Captain Henry Waddell, P. H. W. S.), and on the demise of Henry, 13th July, 1819, became the prop- erty of his son William Coventry Henry Waddell. (In an unidentified hand, P. H. W. S.), who presented it to his wife, Charlotte A. Waddell, June 1845, (in the hand of Wm. Coventry H. Waddell, P. H. W. S.), who presented it to Philip Smith, Dec. 1883." (In the hand of Charlotte A. (Mrs. Coventry) Waddell. P. H. W. S.)
At the time of his death he was largely engaged in many business ventures re- quiring the handling of considerable sums and no inconsiderable correspondence and records. All these his widow, Anne Waddell, personally conducted for years with marked success and profit; the extant records (Waddell, MSS. owned by Philip H. Waddell Smith), consisting of inventories, expenditures, profit and loss accounts, and periodical statements of amount of principal and interest due on notes and bonds, owing to the estate, being largely written in her hand. The inventory taken after Capt. Waddell's death records, "Cash on hand in his iron chest," to the sum of £6023 New York currency. A further record states that "in order to discharge the Debts due from the Estate in Europe, the Executrix ship'd to London * * * £4476." The "Mahogany Chairs," also recorded, were reported to have been brought from England for his wedding and are still pre- served in the family (illustration and description, Lamb's New York II, 156, 191). The following further extracts (among many others) from the records of Anne Waddell, executrix, are self-explanatory :
"Captain Waddell, Jos. Read, Garrt V. Horn & Pr Ramsen each 1/4 concerned sent a schoonr wt a cargo to Cayene consigned young Ramsen. Ramsen remained at Cayene wt the cargo & sent back ye schoonr to New York where she was sold in Capn Waddell's life- time. Ramsen has since rend an accot of the cargo, viz-
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Some unusual items are included in the following record of "An accot of some small debts due from the Estate-Funeral Charges and Mourning":
£. s. d.
"Capn Waddell's subscription to the New Organ 5
James Scotts accot for keeping the Horse 13 16
Dockage of the Pettianger 6
Wm. Cook's for funeral charges 6
14 6 Sidney Breese do for mourning 38 4 7
William Bennett for shoeing the Horse" 8
Cash for a stone for J W's Grave 3 12 The Sexton for putting it up
Capn Waddells subscription to Mt Auchmuty I
Dr. Jones accot 4 15
Also the following which appear in a list headed "Anne Waddell Executrix, Dr. and Cr. to Estate of J. W. Sent in 1762 and 1763."
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£.
"House hold expenses. (Reported each four or five weeks) 50
s. d. An advertisement 2 months 10 An Office copy of Capn Waddells Will 4 IO Jnº Holts Paper and Advertisement 9 10
Subscription to the Library IO 6 6 Cash for 12 Bottles Snuff 3 6
2 Cannisters of Tea .
Cash paid Da Ogden eprentice fee with Heny Waddell 145
Gov't tax of house & estate 1762.
23 16 7
10
Pew Hire 1763 18
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In the inventory of the estate of John and Anne Waddell taken at the latter's death, May 26, 1773, there is included a list of sixty-three names of those indebted to the estate on bond or note, varying from £21, 16s. and Iod. in the case of Teuis Van Dyck Wessells, to £4103 from William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, and £3312 additional from the latter and Philip Livingston jointly, making an aggre- gate total of f28052, 14s. and 6d. The considerable sums owed by the Earl of Stirling were secured by mortgages on his various properties in the state of New York, including lands in Cheesecocks Patent, Orange county, Richbills Patent, Westchester county, Provosts Patent, and Minisinck Patents, in Ulster county, and Hardenburgh's Patents, in Ulster and Albany counties, and at various places in New Jersey. These payments were long in default, and finally through a judgment obtained in the Supreme Court of the Province of New York, 1771, which was renewed in 1788, passed to the estate. Anne Waddell's final request for discharge of the debt is to be seen among the unpublished MSS. of Lord Stirling in the collection of the New York Historical Society ; it is as follows :
"My Lord New York, March, 1770
The Preceding is Coppy of my Last and the want of your answer occasions my once more troubling you to beg Imediate Complyance, as nothing else will prevent my Prosecuting without delay, I am, My Lord-Your Most Obt Humb Servt
The Right Honble Wm. Earl of Stirling, Ann Waddell.
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Baskenridge."
That Anne Waddell was not too engrossed in the cares of the estate to give attention to other important interests, there is ample evidence. That for which her name is and perhaps will be chiefly remembered is its inclusion as the only woman, among those of fifty-eight of the principal men of the city, in the Royal Charter granted to the New York Society Library by the Crown, November 9, 1772, where, in keeping with the statement of titles or avocations appended to the names, she concludes the list as "Ann Waddell, widow"; it is notable that this was at a time nearly fifty years before women were even permitted to consult the books in the Boston Athenæum (Keep's "History New York Society Library," p. 188). She eventually retired to her country estate at Harlem (that name then applying only to a little village on the Bronx at the site of the present One Hundred and Twenty- fifth street), where she died June 2, 1773, in her fifty-seventh year, eulogized as :
"Mrs. Anne Waddell, relict of Mr. John Waddell, late an eminent merchant of this City. She was a good Christian, an excellent parent, and unceasing in her attentions to the poor.' (Rivington's Gazette, June 17, 1773).
Her will is dated Harlem, May 26, 1773, and mentions by name all surviving children and sons-in-laws; it is recorded in New York City. She was buried in the
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Waddell vault, Trinity Churchyard, New York. Her life-size portrait is in the collection of the New York Historical Society. See also Keep's "History New York Society Library," page 188, for reproduction thereof.
Anne (Kirten) Waddell was the third child of the third marriage of her mother, Ann Hony, of New York, who was born January 18, 1682, and was married (first) to Samuel Piles, February 24, 1698, by Samuel Smith, chaplain of the Fort in New York; of this marriage there was one daughter, Elizabeth, who married Phineas Ayres and left issue. On the death of Samuel Piles, his widow, married (second) William Floyd, of which marriage there was also an only daughter, Mary. William Floyd died, and his widow married (third) William Kirten, at New York, July 31, 1707, who was born February 2, 1680. On July 23, 1711, he is recorded as giving a receipt for clothing "to be sent to Colonel Farmer of Am- boy to supply the Jarssy (Jersey) camp." On March 6, 1716, with Jacob Mauritz he received a warrant to pilot vessels, and on May 2, 1717, they both petitioned to have the right made exclusive. On July 28, 1726, a further warrant was issued to William Kirten and Henrich Law, to be pilots for the "port of New York." (Cal. Hist. MSS. N. Y.). While on a pleasure party in New York bay, William Kirten was injured by the bursting of a swivel, was taken to Shrewsbury for assistance and died there, March 5, 1730, and was there buried, where a gravestone erected to his memory in the burying-ground of Christ's Church is still standing (N. Y. G and B. Record, July, 1903). Less than a year before he had purchased half of Pew No. 30, Trinity Church (Hist. Trinity Church-Berrian, p. 338).
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