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DOUGLAS BUNTING
Among the early converts to the faith and principles of the Society of Friends were Anthony and Ellen Bunting, who lived their long, uneventful life in the little village of Matlack, in the heart of Derbyshire, England, where both died in the year 1700,-both, according to the quaint and meagre record of the Society of Friends,-having rounded out one hundred years of life. To this couple were born six children : four sons, John, William, Samuel and Job, and two daughters, Silence and Susanna.
Three of the brothers, John, Samuel and Job, came to New Jersey in 1678, and settled in Burlington county, New Jersey, Job removing later to Bucks county, Pennsylvania. William, the second son, remained in England, but his son Samuel, born in 1692, came to Pennsylvania in 1722, married there and has left numerous descendants, as have his three uncles above mentioned.
SAMUEL BUNTING, third son of Anthony and Ellen Bunting and the lineal ancestor of Douglas Bunting, born at Matlack, County Derby, England, came to New Jersey with his brothers, John and Job, in the year 1678. John Bunting, the elder brother, married, April 28, 1679, Sarah Foulke, and settled in Ches- terfield township, Burlington county, and Samuel, who was associated with his brother in the purchase of lands, probably resided with him until his own marriage on November 12, 1684, to Mary Foulke, a sister to his brother's wife, when he settled at Crosswicks in the same township, where he resided until his death, which occurred April 20, 1724. The homestead in Crosswicks, said to embody part of the original dwelling erected by Samuel Bunting, is still in the possession of his descendants. Samuel Bunting was an accredited min- ister of the Society of Friends, and a memorial of him, adopted by the Yearly Meeting of Friends at Philadelphia, is printed in their book of memorials.
Thomas Foulke, father of Sarah and Mary Foulke, the respective wives of John and Samuel Bunting, was born in the year 1624, and in 1677 was living "at Holmegate in ye parish of Northwingfield, county of Derby, England, when he purchased of Mahlon Stacy, of Hansworth, county York, a one-fifth part of a share in the lands of West Jersey". In the same year he left England as one of the commissioners of William Penn, Mahlon Stacy, and the other pur- chasers of the province, in the ship "Kent", and after a tedious passage landed at New Castle, August 13, 1677; proceeding thence to Burlington, to, with his vania, whose first interest in America was as one of the purchasers of the West Jersey Company. He located at Crosswicks, in what later became Chesterfield township, Burlington county. He was a convert to the principles of the Society of Friends and a close friend of William Penn, the great founder of Pennsyl- vania, whose first interests in America was as one of the purchasers of the West Jersey lands. It was to this Thomas Foulke that William Penn wrote some years later explaining the adoption of the name of his province, Pennsylvania. In this letter Penn states that he was of Welsh origin, and that he had selected the name of "New Wales" for his province, but King Charles being dissatisfied
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with the name, Penn suggested "Sylvania" by reason of the virgin forests that were said to cover the country. King Charles then took his pen and wrote into the blank in the grant, reserved for it, the name "Pennsylvania". When Penn protested that the title savored of vanity, the King replied, "My good fellow, do not deceive yourself, this is in honor of your noble father, the Admiral", and with this explanation, says Penn, "I was forced to content myself". Thomas Foulke died at Crosswicks, in 1714, at the age of ninety years. His wife Mary, who accompanied him to America, with their four children, died April 16, 1718.
JOHN BUNTING, eldest of the seven children of Samuel and Mary (Foulke) Bunting, born at Crosswicks, Burlington county, New Jersey, November 6, 1685, married, March 7, 1722-3, Alice (Lord) Nicholson, born November 14, 1696, widow of George Nicholson, and daughter of Joshua Lord, of Glouces- ter county, New Jersey, by his wife, Sarah Wood, daugher of John Wood, of Woodbury, Gloucester county, and granddaughter of James Lord, from Baroye, County of Lancaster, England.
SAMUEL BUNTING, eldest son of John and Alice (Lord) (Nicholson) Bunting, born at Crosswicks, Burlington county, New Jersey, removed to Philadelphia, and died there, August 21, 1767. He married, April 30, 1762, Esther, daughter of Philip Syng, born in Bristol, England, November 29, 1703, died in Phila- delphia, May 8, 1789. This Philip Syng had come to Philadelphia with his father of the same name at the age of eleven years. He became a prominent man of affairs in Philadelphia, serving as one of the proprietaries commissioners, under Governor John Penn, and as treasurer of Philadelphia, 1759 to 1769. He was a man of scholarly and scientific attainments, an intimate friend of Franklin, with whom he was associated in the founding of the American Philosophical Society, the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Library. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Swen Warner, of Gloucester county, New Jersey, and his wife, Esther Warner, of the Blockley, Philadelphia, family.
PHILIP SYNG BUNTING, son of Samuel and Esther (Syng) Bunting, born in Philadelphia, 1763, died there, September 6, 1826. He married, December 9, 1788, Elizabeth Tompkins, born October 28, 1768, died July 28, 1841, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Thomas) Tompkins, of Philadelphia, and granddaughter of Robert and Lydia Tompkins, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania.
JOSHUA BUNTING, son of Philip Syng and Elizabeth (Tompkins) Bunting, born in Philadelphia, December 15, 1797, became an eminent merchant and im- porter there, doing business on South Wharves. He married, June 6, 1831, Henrietta Barron, born 1802, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Crowell) Wade, and granddaughter of Major Nehemiah Wade, of the Revolution.
Benjamin Wade, the earliest ancestor of Major Nehemiah Wade of whom we have any definite and authentic record, was one of the early English set- tlers at Jamaica, Long Island, whence his parents probably came from New England. On November 30, 1676, he was granted a patent for "six parcels of land" at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where he had already settled. He is mentioned in the New Jersey records as a "Clothier", and was prominent in the affairs of the English settlement about Elizabethtown, county of Essex, made up principally of emigrants from New England. He married, about 1675, Ann, born 1649, died July 3, 1737, daughter of William Looker, who was elected a member of the House of Deputies, or Provincial Assembly of East Jersey
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from Elizabethtown, in 1694, and was one of the leading members of that body for many years; and was also commissioned a justice for Elizabethtown by the governor and council of New Jersey, in session at Perth Amboy, June 7, 1699. Either this William Looker, or his son of the same name, to whom letters of administration on his father's estate were granted in 1717, was captain of a company in the Expedition against Canada, for which compensation is allowed him by the council in 1709,
Robert Wade, eldest of the three sons of Benjamin and Ann (Looker) Wade, born at Elizabethtown, Essex county, New Jersey, died there in August, 1766. By his first wife, Elizabeth, he had one son Robert, born about 1700, and by his second wife Sarah, he had sons: Benjamin, born 1727; Patience, born 1736; Matthias, born 1738; Daniel; and two daughters.
Robert Wade, son of Robert and Elizabeth Wade, born at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, about 1700, was a soldier in the Provincial forces of New Jersey, and died a prisoner of war in 1756. He had children: James, born October 10, 1730, died January 4, 1774; David, born May 21, 1733, died September 10, 1779; Joanna, born November 6, 1735, died June 20, 1825; Nehemiah, born 1736, of whom presently; Matthias, born August 10, 1742, died May 25, 1820; Robert, born December 14, 1744, died April 16, 1805; Caleb, born January 2, 1746, died February 10, 1798; Abigail, born August 14, 1749; Elizabeth, born De- cember I, 1753.
Major Nehemiah Wade, fourth child of Robert Wade, born at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1736, was commissary of military stores in Essex county, New Jersey, and second major of the First Essex County Regiment, from July 15, 1776, to his death, from exposure in the service of his country, on October 19, 1776. He married, about 1758, Abigail Mulford, born in 1740, died March I, 1783, and they had eight children, three of whom died in infancy. Those who survived childhood were: Nehemiah, who died about 1822; Jonathan, born 1761, died 1796; Mary, wife of Benjamin Watkins; Elizabeth, wife of Tucker ; Benjamin, of whom next.
Benjamin Wade, son of Major Nehemiah and Abigail (Mulford) Wade, born at Elizabeth, New Jersey, July 22, 1772, married (first) Catharine, daughter of Rev. Thomas Morrell. She died November 21, 1800, and on May 21, 1801, he married (second) Mary, daughter of Thomas Crowell and Esther, daughter of Ellis Barron, captain of Middlesex Regiment, Continental Army, and Sarah, daughter of Samuel Stone, Esq., Woodbridge, N. J. Sometime after his second marriage, Benjamin Wade removed to Philadelphia, where he died in 1847. By his first wife he had two sons: Thomas Morrell Wade, born 1796, died Feb- ruary 9, 1854; and Jacob Brush Wade, born 1799; and by his second wife, Mary Crowell, he had three daughters; Henrietta B., Anna Maria and Elizabeth, and two sons, Benjamin and George Washington Wade. Henrietta B., born at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1802, becoming the wife of Joshua Bunting, of Philadelphia, June 6, 1831.
Joshua and Henrietta B. (Wade) Bunting, of Philadelphia, had four chil- dren: Thomas Crowell, M. D., of whom presently; Mary, born March 27, 1835, married William H. Wolff, A. M., Ph. G., of Chambersburg, Pennsyl- vania; Elizabeth, born May 12, 1836, of Philadelphia, an artist and sculptress of
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considerable eminence, married Horace M. Wade; Joshua, Jr., born December I, 1837, died December 19, 1882, married Anna E. Jones.
THOMAS CROWELL BUNTING, M. D., eldest son of Joshua and Henrietta B. (Wade) Bunting, born in Philadelphia, November 7, 1832, studied medicine there and removed to East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, where he practiced as a Homeopathic physician for over thirty years prior to his death on December 24, 1895. He married, June 1, 1869, Elizabeth Crellan Douglas, daughter of Andrew Almerin and Mary Ann (Leisenring) Douglas, of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, granddaughter of William and Margaret (Hunter) Douglas, of Stephentown, New York, great-granddaughter of Captain William Douglas, and great-great-granddaughter of Captain Asa Douglas, of the New England troops in the Revolutionary War.
William Douglas, said to have been a scion of the noble family of Douglas in Scotland, was born in the year 1610, as shown by his own deposition, while a resident of New London, Connecticut. He was a resident of Ipswich, Massa- chusetts, in 1641, at Boston in 1645, and was made a freeman of Massachusetts in 1646. He removed from Boston to New London, Connecticut, in 1659, and in 1660 was granted a farm, "three miles or more west of the town plot, with a brook running through it" as stated on the old town records. This brook was later known as Jordan Creek. He acquired other land adjoining, in 1667, and these lands descended to his sons, William and Robert, whose descendants continued to possess them a generation ago. William Douglas was a select- man of New London, 1663-66-67; was recorder and moderator, 1668; sealer and packer, 1673, and served on many important commissions in church and state matters, notably on that for fortifying the town at the outbreak of King Philip's War, in 1675, and was commissary of purchases and supplies during the war. He and his family were members of the Church of New London, from the ordination of Mr. Bradstreet in 1670, and he was one of its first deacons. He was also a deputy to the General Court at Hartford in 1672, and subse- quently. He died July 26, 1682.
William Douglas married, in Northamptonshire, England, in 1636, Ann Mattle, born in 1610, daughter of Thomas Mattle, of Ringstead, Northampton- shire, from whom and her brother, Robert Mattle, she inherited considerable estate in 1670. They had children: Robert, born 1639, married, in 1665, Mary Hempstead, the first child born in New London, and was prominent in affairs of New London, as have been his many descendants; William, of whom presently ; Anna, married Nathaniel Geary; Elizabeth, married John Chandler, of Woodstock; Susannah, married John Keeny. The descendants of William and Ann (Mattle) Douglas are now widely scattered over the several states of the Union.
Deacon William Douglas, second son of William and Ann (Mattle) Douglas, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 2, 1645, and came with his parents to New London, Connecticut, in 1659. He succeeded his father as deacon of the New London Church in 1682 and held that office for thirty years. He married (first), December 18, 1667, Abiah Hough, born at Gloucester, Massachusetts, September 15, 1648, who came to New London with her parents, William and Sarah (Calkin) Hough, in 1653. Her father, William Hough, was a son of Edward and Ann Hough, of West Chester, Cheshire, England, the latter of
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whom died at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1672, at the age of eighty-five years. William Hough was a deacon of New London Church, and died in that town, August 10, 1683. He had come from Gloucester, Massachusetts, to Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1651, and from there to New London in 1653. Hugh Caulkin, maternal grandfather of Abiah (Hough) Douglas, came to Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a party under the leadership of Rev. Richard Blinman, from Monmouthshire, on the borders of Wales, about 1640; was selectman and magistrate of Gloucester, 1643-51, and deputy to the General Court from there 1650-51, removing from thence to New London, Connecticut, in 1651, where he was elected continuously as a deputy to the General Court from 1652 to 1661 inclusive. He joined in the settlement of Norwich in 1660, from whence he was a deputy in 1663-64, and died there in 1690, aged ninety years. His grandson, Jonathan Calkin, was a soldier in the Provincial War with the rank of lieutenant, and another descendant of the same name was captain of Connecticut troops in the Revolutionary War. William Douglas married (second) Mary Bushnell. By his first wife, Abiah Hough, he had children: Sarah, married Jared Spencer; William, of whom presently; Abiah, who died young ; Rebecca; Ann, married Thomas Spencer; Richard and Samuel.
William Douglas, second child and eldest son of Deacon William and Abiah (Hough) Douglas, born at New London, February 19, 1672-73, was admitted to the church there, July 24, 1698, and in 1699 removed with his family to the new settlement at Quinnebaug, later Plainfield, Connecticut, where with others he organized a church of which he became the first deacon, in 1705. He died in Plainfield, August 10, 1719. He married, in 1695, Sarah Proctor, and they had twelve children, of whom the two eldest, Hannah, who married Thomas Williams, and William, were born in New London; and Samuel; Abia, who married Henry Holland; John; Sarah; Jerusha; another Samuel; Benajah; James ; Thomas and Asa, were born in Plainfield.
Captain Asa Douglas, twelfth and youngest child of Deacon William and Sarah (Proctor) Douglas, born in Plainfield, Connecticut, December 1I, 1715, married, in 1737, Rebecca Wheeler, and in 1746 removed from Plainfield to Old Canaan, where he resided until 1766, and then removed to what was known as Jericho Hollow, Massachusetts, but which was subsequently included in the state of New York, and is now Stephentown, Rensselaer county, New York, taking with him a company of men from Connecticut, who cleared a tract of land and erected a strongly fortified farm house there, a part of which was used to confine prisoners during the Revolutionary War. He entered the military forces at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, and was captain of a company known as the "Silver Grays," with which he participated in the battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777, under Colonel John Stark. At the close of the war he returned to Stephentown, and died there, November 12, 1792. By his wife, Rebecca Wheeler, who was born August 26, 1718, he had thirteen children, of whom the first five: Sarah, wife of George Stewart; Asa, Jr .; Rebecca; William ; and Hannah, who married Hon. James Brown, were born in Plainfield, Connecticut ; and Olive, who married General Samuel Sloane; Wheeler ; Jonathan ; Nathaniel; John; Benajah; and Lucy, wife of Major Jonathan Brown, were born at Old Canaan.
Captain William Douglas, fourth child and second son of Captain Asa and
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Rebecca (Wheeler) Douglas, born at Plainfield, Connecticut, August 22, 1743, removed with his parents to Old Canaan, when a child, and was reared there. He was the first of the family to locate at Jericho Hollow, now Stephentown, New York, his father following him there in 1766. He, like his father, was a captain in the Patriot Army during the Revolution, and just prior to the battle of Bennington was detailed for a scouting expedition to ascertain the strength and location of the British forces, which was of the utmost importance to his superior officers. At the close of the war he located on his farm at Stephen- town, and also conducted a store and forge there. He married Hannah Cole, of Canaan, who died December 24, 1795, at the age of fifty-four years. He died December 29, 1811. They had seven children, viz: Benjamin, born December I, 1766, married Lois McCay; William, of whom presently; Eli, born Septem- ber I, 1769, married (first) Lucy Rose and (second) Elizabeth Wheelock ; Hannah, born February II, 1774, married Hon. John Knox; Deidama, born July 28, 1775, married (first) Azariah Willis and (second) Hon. Daniel Sayre ; Amos, born July 21, 1779, married Miriam Wright ; Abiah, born December 25, 1780, who married Amasa Adams.
William Douglas, second son of Captain William and Hannah (Cole) Douglas, born at Stephentown, New York, January I, 1768, was a farmer at Stephentown and died there, December 13, 1821. He married (first) Miriam Pease, born July 16, 1768, died September 8, 1796; (second) Margaret Hunter, born December 17, 1776, died November 8, 1833. By his first wife he had four children, the eldest and youngest of whom died young, the survivors being Elizabeth, born April 15, 1793, married Dr. Beriah Douglas ; Asa W. Douglas, born June 17, 1794, married (first) Mary Southworth and (second) Mary L. Bruce. By the second wife, Margaret Hunter, he had eight children : Albert H., born January 5, 1799, died June 23, 1847; Miriam, born January 16, 1801 ; Edwin, born March 3, 1804, William, who died in childhood; Nancy, born February 6, 1809, died December 1, 1844; Emeline America, born April 30, 1812, married Richard L. Hubbard; William, born November 28, 1815; Andrew Almerin, the father of Elizabeth C. (Douglas) Bunting, born November 10, 1818.
Andrew Almerin Douglas, son of William and Margaret (Hunter) Douglas, removed to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, when a young man, and was largely interested in the mining of anthracite coal there until his death in 1890. He married Mary Ann, daughter of John Leisenring, of Mauch Chunk, and they had children : Harriet Dexter, wife of Robert Ralph Carter, of Mauch Chunk ; Elizabeth Crellan, married Dr. Thomas Crowell Bunting; Emily Juliet, married William H. Heaton, of Ashland, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Thomas Crowell and Elizabeth (Douglas) Bunting, of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, had five children, viz: Douglas, of whom presently; Mary Douglas, born October 1, 1871, married George B. Horne, of Mauch Chunk ; Laura Whitney, born October 7, 1874, married James Struthers Heberling, of Redington, Pennsylvania ; Henrietta Wade, born November 2, 1879, married James Irwin Blakslee, of Mauch Chunk; Wade Bunting, born June 1, 1890.
DOUGLAS BUNTING, son of Dr. Thomas Crowell and Elizabeth Crellan (Douglas) Bunting, born in East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1870, is a representative of diverse types of American citizenship, as shown by the
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preceding narrative. On the paternal side a descendant of the peace-loving Quaker-conscientiously a non-combatant-whose name rarely appears on the rolls of military battalions of conquest, but whose conquest of a wilderness and the building of a great commonwealth is nevertheless as heroic and com- mendable and was as productive of beneficent results as the less tolerant, rigid scheme of conquest waged by his Puritan contemporary, whose tolerance of other faiths, nationalities and opinions, civil and religious, made the founding of the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania for nearly a century under the political domination of people of that faith, the development of her vast resources, and the amalgamation of her diverse and varied population of many faiths and nationalities into the finest type of American citizenship, the wonder of the civilized world. The history of her sister state of New Jersey, whence came the early paternal ancestors of Douglas Bunting, was largely dominated by the same element and progressed along practically the same lines. We there- fore find the representatives of this class taking no prominent part in the sanguinary struggle for national independence, which had, however, their nominal and frequently substantial support.
On the maternal side, however, the ancestors of Douglas Bunting were reared in the rigid and austere faith of the Puritan, divinely impressed with the holiness and justice of his cause, faith and destiny ; intolerant of opposition in faith and politics, always ready to enforce his views with an iron hand,-hence we find the New Englander trained to martial warfare from earliest youth, as the New England Colony knew little of peace from its first settlement to the close of the Revolutionary War, a period of a century and a half. During this period there was hardly an able-bodied settler in that region who was not in some manner called into service in defense of home and family, and each frontier home, from the first erected on the "rock-bound coast" to those of a century and more later on the western boundaries, was a fortified one, and the occupants of all ages and both sexes trained to the use of arms. From this condi- tion there could be but one result ; with the coming of the struggle for national independence we find father and son, rugged age and sturdy youth, inheriting the martial spirit of their ancestors, fighting side by side in the patriot cause, as in the case of the family noted in this sketch.
Douglas Bunting spent his boyhood days in his native town of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, and attended the public schools there. He later was a student at the Bethlehem Preparatory School, and the Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia, and entered Cornell University, graduating with the degree of Mechanical Engineer in the class of 1894. In the autumn of the same year he entered the employ of the Mount Jessup Coal Company, at Scranton, Pennsyl- vania, where he remained but a short time, removing to Wilkes-Barre on November 1, 1894, and entering the engineering department of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, of which, December 1, 1899, he was appointed mechanical engineer, and on October I, 1903, became chief engineer, a position he has filled to the present time. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute of Mining Engineers. He was admitted a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution as a lineal descendant of Major Nehemiah Wade, of the Essex county, New Jersey, troops, a martyr to the cause of national independence ; and of Captains
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Asa and William Douglas, of the New England troops in the same struggle. Mr. Bunting is also a member of the Westmoreland Club, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and the Wyoming Valley Country Club. He married, at Scranton, Pennsylvania, January 2, 1901, Helen Romayne Seybolt, one of the five children of Calvin and Helen (White) Seybolt, of Scranton. They have one child, Elizabeth Douglas Bunting, born May 15, 1905.
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The Carstairs family of Philadelphia, founded there by Thomas Carstairs, who came to America in 1780, from the parish of Largo, County Fife, Scot- land, is a very ancient one in Scotland.
The Carstairs of Largo, where we find James Carstairs, an elder of the church of St. Andrews in 1652, were closely related to Rev. John Carstares, of Cathcart, Lanarkshire, near Glasgow, a member of the extreme Coven- anting Protestors of Scotland, whose distinguished son, Rev. William Car- stares (1649-1715), was the strenuous supporter of the Scottish Church, inti- mate friend of William, Prince of Orange, under whom as William I, King of England, and his sucessor Queen Anne, he was Royal Chaplain of Scotland, and was one of the chief promoters of the Revolution Settlement, which freed the Presbyterians from persecution.
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