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Sarah, daughter of Paul and Elizabeth (Gray) Abbott. Joseph Ingalls (2) died October 18, 1790. Peter Ingalls, son of Joseph (2) and Sarah (Abbott) Ingalls, was born February 19, 1752, and died June 11, 1808. His grave and his father's are in Abington, Connecticut. Peter Ingalls' tombstone is inscribed "Capt. Peter Ingalls." He married Sarah Ashley, whose great-great-grand- father was Jonathan Ashley. He married Sarah, daughter of William Wads- worth, fifty-eight terms deputy to General Court from Hartford, Connecticut. Sarah Ashley was the daughter of Joseph and granddaughter of Ensign Samuel Ashley, who married Elizabeth Kingsbury. Her father, Deacon Joseph Kings- bury, married Love Ayers, of Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was lieutenant in the train band, and settled in Norwich, Connecticut.
The homestead built by Peter Ingalls, at Elliott, Connecticut, is still standing and in the ownership of a descendant. Peter Ingalls had a son, Marvin, born November 6, 1787, died 1845. He served in the War of 1812.
Marvin Ingalls married Amelia Spaulding, descended from Edward, who probably came to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. (See Hutton's "Emigrants to America," p. 176). In 1634 his name appears among the inhabitants of Brain- tree, Massachusetts. Amelia Spaulding, born September 8, 1789, died September 15, 1831, was the daughter of James Spaulding, who marched to Lexington under General Israel Putnam. James Spaulding, born October 9, 1746, married Hannah Neff, who was descended from Major Brian Pendleton (also a deputy-governor) and his son Captain James Pendleton, whose wife, Hannah Goodenow, descended from Captain Edmond Goodenow, deputy to General Court many times. James Spaulding was the son of Amos Spaulding, born March 12, 1716, married Hannah Cary, November 14, 1739, and died August 3, 1791, at Hampton, Connecticut. Hannah Cary, born 1720, died 1791, was the daughter of Joseph Cary (2) and the granddaughter of Joseph Cary (1), he being the son of John, of Bridgewater, in 1634. Joseph Cary (I) was captain of the train band in Windham, and many times deputy to the General Court. He married Abigail Bushnell, daughter of Joseph Bushnell, whose wife was Mary Leffingwell, daughter of Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell, of Hartford, Connecticut. At his death in 1724 his estate inventoried nearly ten thousand pounds. He was many years deputy to the General Court from Norwich, Connecticut. Thomas Leffingwell married Mary, daughter of Richard and Mary (Marvin) Bushnell. Mary Marvin was the daughter of Matthew Marvin, whose name is on the Founders' Monument at Hartford, Connecticut. He was also deputy to General Court.
Pulaski and Olive (Ingalls) Carter were the parents of three children, two sons and a daughter. Pulaski Pliny, second child of Pulaski and Olive (Ingalls) Carter, was born June 6, 1849; he married, June 6, 1882, Venitia, daughter of Joseph M. and Phebe (Cole) White, a descendant of Thomas White, who was admitted freeman in Massachusetts colony in 1635. Marvin Phineas, youngest child of Pulaski and Olive (Ingalls) Carter, was born November 28, 1857; he married Mary Pamelia Murphy, daughter of John Archibald and Mary (Spaulding) Murphy. Mrs. Murphy was descended from Thomas Carter and Edward Spaulding, and Mr. Murphy from the family of that name who were early in Massachusetts.
Amelia Maria Carter (Mrs. William De Witt Kennedy) eldest child and
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only daughter of Pulaski and Olive (Ingalls) Carter, was born April 29, 1844. She was graduated from East Greenwich Seminary, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, with the class of 1865. For thirty years she was a member of the Providence Presbyterian Church, but since 1893 has been connected with the Green Ridge Presbyterian Church, which is situated in that part of Scranton where Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy now reside.
Mrs. Kennedy is interested in many of the religious, philanthropic and social organizations of the city, as well as a member of several patriotic societies ; has been on the board of managers of the Home for the Friendless since 1884, and been elected to various offices from secretary to president ; was a charter mem- ber of the Young Women's Christian Association, on the board of managers since its organization, and is now one of its vice-presidents. She is a member of the Woman's Club and also the Country Club of Scranton, the Wyoming Historical Society of Wilkes-Barre, is a Daughter of 1812 on the record of her grandfather, Marvin Ingalls, a member of the Wyoming Valley chapter, Daughters of the Revolution, on the records of Quartermaster Joseph Carter, Captain William Hibbard and Private James Spaulding, and member of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames on the records of Samuel Butts, Captain William Hibbard, William Wadsworth, Captain Joseph Cary and Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell.
Mr. and Mrs. William De Witt Kennedy are the parents of three sons and one daughter :
I. William Pulaski, born October 30, 1869; graduated from the Scranton (Pennsylvania) high school, class of 1889. He is teller of the People's National Bank of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He married Georgina, daughter of George R. and Harriet (Westbrook) Kittle. She was graduated from the same high school class as her husband. They are the parents of two children: Olive Ingalls, born December 15, 1896, and Hilda De Witt, born June 14, 1901.
2. Dr. Lucius Carter, born September 18, 1872, graduated from Scranton high school, class of 1889, School of Lackawanna, 1891, Princeton University, class of 1895, entered the medical department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, graduating therefrom in 1898, now practicing his profession in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
3. Katherine May, born November 11, 1875; graduated from the School of Lackawanna, class of 1895, afterward attending Miss Baldwin's School for Young Ladies at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She married Dr. William Anthony Sherman, June 25, 1902, son of Albert K. and Mary (Barker) Sherman, of Newport, Rhode Island, descended from Philip Sherman, one of the eighteen persons who purchased the Island of Rhode Island from the Indians. Dr. Sherman was graduated from Harvard University in 1899, and from the medical department in 1902. William A. and Katherine May Sherman are the parents of one child, William Albert, born May 12, 1903.
4. Harold Sherman, born November 28, 1884; graduated from Blair (New Jersey) Academy in 1905, later entered the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, and is preparing to enter the legal profession.
MRS. J. HARTWELL HILLMAN
MRS. HILLMAN (Sallie Murfree Frazer) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a descendant through paternal and maternal lines from distinguished statesmen of colonial times and brave soldiers of Revolutionary fame. She obtains mem- bership in the Colonial Dames through her great grandfathers, William Murfree and Rev. Colonel Green Hill; in the Daughters of the American Revolution through her great-grandfather, Colonel Hardy Murfree, the hero of Stony Point, where he led one of the assaulting parties; in the Daughters of 1812 through her grandfather, Dr. James Frazer, a surgeon with General Jackson at New Orleans. She is eligible to the Huguenot Society of America through her maternal ancestor Jacques Maney, a French refugee from Meschers, France, and her great grandmother, Rachiel de Noailles, a French Huguenot, wife of Colonel Matthew Brickell. This ancestry covers a period of about two hundred and fifty years, dating from 1660, which is the date within a few years of the arrival in America of Jacques Maney, and about two hundred years from the settlement of the other lines of descent in North Carolina. The families noted in this paper are the Murfree, Hill, Maney and Brickell, from whom Mrs. Hillman descends in unbroken lines, and the Hillmans, her husband's family.
The Murfree family is of English origin. William Murfree, born in 1730, died during the Revolutionary War. He was the American ancestor and founder of the family in North Carolina. The records show that the General Assembly of North Carolina, January 6, 1787, ratified "an act for establishing a town on the lands of William Murfree on Meherrin river in the county of Hertford, * and the town shall be called Murfreesborough." William donated a tract of ninety-seven acres of land for the town site. He had resided there for many years previous, and the stone house he built there is still standing. He was a man of high character and influence and took a decided stand in defense of the liberties of the country against royal authority. He represented Hertford county at the Hillsboro Convention, August 21, 1775, "to make preparations for a bloody and determined war." Here a committee was appointed calling upon the people to "Unite in defense of American liberty." (Colonial Records, vol. 10, p. 164). He was again delegate to the Provincial Congress held in Halifax, North Carolina, November 12, 1776, which framed the constitution of North Carolina. It is claimed by competent authorities that Mr. Murfree's draft of the constitution was the one finally adopted. In 1758- 59, William Murfree represented Northampton county in the Colonial Assembly. When Hertford county was formed, from parts of three other counties, he was one of the two first members of the General Assembly from the new county. This was in 1762. He was the second colonial sheriff of Hert- ford county, 1766-70. He married Mary Moore, of Northampton county, North Carolina. They had children: Hardy, the Revolutionary officer, James, William, Sarah, Patty, Betty and Nancy.
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Hardy, son of William and Mary (Moore) Murfree, was born in Hertford county, North Carolina, in 1752, and died in Williamson county, near Franklin, Tennessee, in 1809. He entered the Continental army as captain of the Second North Carolina regiment, was promoted to the rank of major and later to colonel, for gallant service. He was in command at some of the most bloody and decisive battles of the war. He was at the battles of Brandywine, Mon- mouth, Stony Point, King's Mountain and others. At Stony Point he was selected by General Wayne to lead the assault with his North Carolina patriots. For his heroic conduct, gallantry and soldierly daring on this occasion, General Wayne mentioned him in his letters, with great appreciation. He was also presented with a sword by his native state for his gallantry, which is now preserved in the State Historical Society, of Tennessee. He received a large grant of land for his military service, which he located in Tennessee, upon which was afterward built the town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, one of the thriving cities of the state. For ten years after the war he served the state as commissioner of confiscated property in the Edenton district. In 1784 he was appointed one of the commissioners of Albemarle Sound. In 1789 he was a member of the convention called to consider whether North Carolina would join the Union. He was an able member of the convention. He was said to have been one of the handsomest men of his day. In 1790 he was the largest slave owner in his county. He worked his slaves in subduing the forests, culti- vating the soil and making tar, pitch and turpentine. In 1807 he settled on the lands received from the government, at Murfree's Fork of West Harpeth river, near the town of Franklin, Tennessee. He only lived two years after removing to Tennessee, dying in 1809. He was a prominent Free Mason and was buried on his estate with all the form and ceremony of the beautiful Masonic ritual. .\ tall marble shaft marks the spot where he lies. Colonel Murfree was said to have been the last survivor who commanded a regiment in the Revolutionary War. He married, February 17, 1780, Sally Brickell, who was born July 29, 1757, and died 1802, daughter of Colonel Matthew Brickell (see Brickell). They had issue-
William Hardy, son of Colonel Hardy and Sally (Brickell) Murfree, was born in Hertford county, North Carolina, October 2, 1781, and died in Nash- ville, Tennessee, January 19, 1827. He graduated at the State University and studied law at Edenton, North Carolina. After obtaining his license he returned to his native town of Murfreesboro, North Carolina, and opened an office for the practice of his profession. He soon became prominent and popular. In 1805 he represented the county in the House of Assembly. Again in 1812 he was a member of the House, and then for four years was a member of Congress from Edenton district, 1813-1817. He declined a third election. From 1805 to 1812 he was county attorney of Hertford county. In Congress he was an able and strong defender of President Madison's policy in the war with Great Britain. In addition to his legal and political duties he had the care of his vast estates, comprising all the belongings of the wealthy Southern planter of his day. In 1823 he removed to Tennessee to care for his large interests there, inherited from his father, Colonel Hardy Murfree. There he died in 1827. His wife was Elizabeth Maney, born October 28, 1787, married February 17, 1808, died July 13, 1826. (See Maney). Their children were:
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I. William L., profound scholar and lawyer, a graduate from the University of Nashville, Tennessee. He was an able writer and the author of several standard legal works. His daughter, Mary Noailles Murfree, is the "Charles Egbert Craddock" of fiction. 2. Sally Brickell, married David Dickenson, member of Congress from Tennessee for many years. 3. Elizabeth Maney (see forward).
Elizabeth Maney, daughter of William H. and Elizabeth (Maney) Mur- free, was born near Franklin, Tennessee, July 13, 1826. She married November 2, 1848, Henry S. Frazer, born in Lebanon, Tennessee, March 19, 1820, died in Nashville, Tennessee, July 1, 1874. He descended from the Frasers of Scotland, and from an early and prominent North Carolina family. He was a lawyer and a cotton planter owning many slaves, none of which were ever sold. He employed them on his large estates in Tennessee and Mississippi. Later they were all freed by the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln. He was opposed to the war up to the very last, but when his state seceded he, true to his belief in "State Rights", went with her. He was a devoted Methodist and a cultured Christian gentleman. Children of Henry S. and Elizabeth Maney (Murfree) Frazer were: A son, James S., born October 2, 1852, died in 1881, at the age of thirty-nine, he was a prominent lawyer of Nashville, Tennessee, and until his death law partner of Jacob M. Dickinson, the recently appointed (1909) Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Taft. The daughter was Sallie Murfree (Mrs. Hillman).
Mrs. Henry S. Frazer (Elizabeth Maney Murfree), now in her eighty- second year, is a wonderfully active, bright and well-preserved woman. She keeps abreast of the times through constant reading of newspapers and choice literature of the day. Her keen insight and delight in political affairs is only equalled by her knowledge of public men and measures. She is an earnest member of the Methodist Church South, and at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hillman, in Pittsburgh, is passing a serene and contented life after one of unusual activity and stirring incident.
Sallie Murfree, only daughter of Henry S. and Elizabeth Maney (Mur- free) Frazer, was born in Lebanon, Tennessee, November 16, 1849. She married, June 2, 1869, John Hartwell Hillman (see Hillman), great-grandson of Samuel Hillman, of Trenton, New Jersey. The children of this marriage who survive are : Elizabeth Sarah, John H., Jr., Ernest and James F.
JOHN HARTWELL HILLMAN is a lineal descendant of Samuel Hillman, of Tren- ton, New Jersey, the "fighting Quaker" who was dismissed from the Trenton Meeting for joining the Continental army. He was an iron manufacturer but abandoned both his business and his creed to join the army. He served for seven years. His son Daniel went south, where he engaged in the manufacture of iron in Alabama. His son, again Daniel, continued in the business and founded the great "Hillman Iron Works." His sons also became iron masters, one of them, T. T. Hillman, becoming president of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. J. Hartwell Hillman, son of Daniel, is the head of J. Hillman & Sons, iron brokers, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The present is the fifth generation of the family to engage in the manufacture of iron and steel.
Hon. Colonel and Rev. Green Hill, great-great-grandfather of Mrs. J. H. Hillman, was a Revolutionary patriot of the real Republican stamp. He united
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in his own person the threefold character of a patriot, philanthropist and a Christian minister. He was a native of North Carolina, born in Bute county ("the county without a Tory"), November 3, 1741. He filled several offices of trust and honor in his native state. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly, which met at New Berne, North Carolina, August 25, 1774. This meeting says Wheeler "was not a conflict of arms or force, but it was the first act of that great drama in which battles and blood formed only subordinate parts." Mr. Hill was again a member of the Provincial Congress held April 3, 1775, at New Berne, North Carolina, and again met at Hillsboro, August 21, 1775, and on April 4, 1776, at Halifax. In these four congresses or assemblies he represented Bute county. At the latter congress measures were taken to resist the royal government, troops were raised, and officers appointed not only for the state at large, but for each county. Mr. Hill was appointed second major of the Third North Carolina Regiment and afterward promoted to a colonelcy. He was ever afterward known as Colonel Hill. He was assigned an important trust in the financial department of the new government, the issuing of script or currency, as the following shows: This note is still preserved in the family.
"North Carolina Currency No. Six Dollars By Authority of Congress at Halifax, April 2, 1776. G. Hill."
At what time he joined the Methodist church is not known. He was ordained deacon by Bishop Asbury, January 21, 1792, and elder by Bishop McKendree, October 4, 1813, at Reese's Chapel, near Franklin, Tennessee. Both parchments are preserved. He was a preacher or exhorter long before this, and as early as 1780 it is recorded that he visited the soldiers in camp and preached to them. Some ten or twelve years after the Revolution he removed from North Carolina to Tennessee and settled in Williamson county, near Liberty Hill, a place of considerable importance at that time, being one of the first meeting houses erected by the Methodists of that part of Tennessee. He continued in the ministry until worn down by age and infirmity, dying in 1810 at Liberty Hill, Tennessee, where he is buried. He was a son of William Hill, born in Virginia, and Grace (Bennett) Hill, born in North Carolina. Rev. Colonel Green Hill married Martha Thomas, and they had a daughter Martha, born in Bute county, North Carolina, in 1769, and died in Wilson county, Tennessee, in 1862, aged ninety-three years. Martha Hill married Jeremiah Brown, who was born in North Carolina and died in Tennessee. They had a daughter Hannah, who was born in Tennessee in 1802 and died in Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1885. Hannah Brown married, in 1818, Dr James Frazer, born in Medford county, Tennessee, and died in Wilson county, Tennessee, in 1832. They had a son, Henry S. Frazer, who married Elizabeth Maney Murfree, and they were the parents of Sallie Murfree Frazer (Mrs. J. Hartwell Hillman) (see Murfree).
The Maneys were among Hertford's most prominent families during the first fifty years of the republic. The records show that a village of France along the Gironde, named Meschers, was the home of two brothers, Jacques and Jean Maney, the latter being a sea captain known as Captain Maney. They fled
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from France to England and from there came to America and joined the "Narragansett Colony" in Rhode Island, in 1686. Jacques married Anne, daughter of Francois Vincent, both of them being members of the French Huguenot church in New York in 1692. Jean Maney married Jeanne, eldest daughter of Jean Machet, prior to 1696, and was a member of the same church. (See "Huguenot Emigration to America," and records of French Church in New York City). Jacques and Anne (Vincent) Maney had a son James who went to Virginia, from thence to North Carolina, where in 17II he settled on land along the Chowan river, near the present Maney's Ferry. He became a large land owner and influential man. He established Maney's Ferry, which is spoken of in colonial records as one of the King's place for landing his army stores. James Maney was a major in His Majesty's militia in Northampton county, and also a justice of the peace as far back as 1744. He died in 1754 (see Col. Rec. vol. 5, p. 163). He married his cousin Elizabeth Maney, daughter of Jean Maney. They bought a large tract of land along the Chowan river, to which the deeds were recorded in 1714. They had a son James, who married Susanna Ballard. Their son James married Elizabeth Baker, daughter of General Lawrence Baker, of Hertford county, North Carolina. They left six children, among them being James, who married Mary Roberts. They had five children, among them being Elizabeth Maney, who married William H. Mur- free (see Murfree III). Their daughter Elizabeth Maney Murfree married Henry S. Frazer, and they were the parents of Sallie Murfree Frazer (Mrs. J. H. Hillman) (see Murfree).
The American ancestor of the North Carolina Brickells was Rev. Matthias Brickell, of Bertie county, North Carolina, who was born in England and died in North Carolina in 1858. He came to America in 1724 in company with his brother, Dr. John, on the same ship that brought the royal governor, Burrington. He was the first resident preacher west of Chowan river in North Carolina. He entered upon the mission in 1730. He left a son Matthew, who was a prominent Revolutionary and civil officer. He was born March 23, 1725, and died October 17, 1788. He was a delegate to the Hillsboro Convention of August 21, 1775, and to the Halifax Convention of April 4, 1776. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of North Carolina Continentals by the latter body. He was the first high sheriff of Hertford county, 1762-66, preceding William Murfree, who was in office, 1766-70. He was appointed in 1778 by the General Assembly a justice of the peace for Hertford county, and after the War of the Revolution was ended, was chairman of the old county court. He was a man of liberal education and one of Hertford's most valued citizens. Colonel Matthew Brickell married, November 6, 1748, Rachiel de Noailles, of a French Huguenot family, born January 13, 1728, and died February 17, 1770. Among the children of this marriage was Sally, born July 29, 1757, died in 1802, who became the wife of Colonel Hardy Murfree, the distinguished patriot officer, and they were the great-grandparents of Sallie Murfree Frazer (Mrs. J. Hart- well Hillman). (See Murfree).
EARL BILL PUTNAM
EARL BILL PUTNAM, of the Philadelphia Bar, comes of the old New Eng- land family of Putnam, many representatives of which have distinguished themselves in the various walks of life.
JOHN PUTNAM, son of Nicholas and Margaret (Goodspeed) Putnam, baptized at Wingrave, Bucks, January 17, 1579-80, the founder of the family in America, came from Aston Abbots, County Bucks, England, about 1640, and settled at Salem, Massachusetts, where he received a grant of land. In 1647 he was admitted a member of the First Church at Salem. He died at Salem, December 30, 1662, aged about eighty years. He married in England, Priscilla, whose maiden name is thought to have been Deacon.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS PUTNAM, third child and eldest son of John and Pris- cilla Putnam, was baptized at Aston Abbots, England, March 7, 1614-15, and accompanied his parents to New England. He resided for some years at Lynn, Massachusetts, and became one of the selectmen of that town in 1643, and two years later was appointed one of its magistrates "to end small causes". Subsequently he removed to Salem, and established a residence on his plantation in that part of the town then known as Salem Village, now Danvers. In 1662 he was commissioned lieutenant in the Essex County Troop of Horse. In 1672 the General Court of Massachusetts organized Salem Village into a separate parish, and appointed Lieutenant Putnam at the head of the committee to perfect such organization and "carry on the affairs of the parish". A few years later he was chosen deacon of the church of the parish. He was the wealthiest and most prominent citizen in the village. His residence in later years became the home of General Israel Putnam, of Revolutionary fame. It is still standing, and is known as the "General Israel Putnam House". Lieu- tenant Putnam died at Danvers, May 5, 1686. He married (first) at Lynn, October 7, 1643, Ann, daughter of Edward Holyoke, by his wife Prudence, a daughter of Reverend John Stockton, of Kinholt, England. Mr. Holyoke founded one of the most prominent families in the early history of Massa- chusetts. He served many years in the General Court of that colony, while his grandson, Reverend Edward Holyoke, became president of Harvard College in 1737, and held this position thirty-two years. Mrs. Ann ( Holyoke) Putnam died September 1, 1665, and Lieutenant Putnam married as second wife, Novem- ber 14, 1666, Mary, widow of Nicholas Veren, a wealthy merchant of Salem. She died March 16, 1694-95.
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