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JOHN LYON, son of John and Mary (Harris) Lyon, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, probably upon the Lyon homestead farm, now in Juniata county, in the year 1781. He was a farmer and settled in Butler county, proba- bly removing there with his father and family. The Lyon farm was at Glade
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Mills, Butler county, Pennsylvania. John Lyon married Ann Harper, and their issue was : Gordon, Harris, George W., Harper, John, Catherine, Mary, Joseph, Thomas Wilson.
GEORGE W. LYON, son of John and Ann (Harper) Lyon, was born at Glade Mills, Butler county, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer, and a member of the Presbyterian church (Seceder). He was born in the year 1829 and gave up his life on a Southern battlefield, September 6, 1863. His occupation was that of a farmer. His political creed was Republican, and his religious belief Presby- terian (Seceder). Mr. Lyon enlisted in July, 1861, in Company I, First Pennsyl- vania Reserves (Cavalry), Colonel John P. Taylor's company, of which he was lieutenant. He was killed at Warrenton Junction, Virginia, while skirm- ishing against Moseby's guerrillas. He is buried in James Chapel churchyard, Gastonville, Pennsylvania. George W. Lyon married, in 1850, Louisa Crooks, born at Glade Mills, Butler county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, daughter of Samuel and Louisa (Priest) Crooks, Butler county residents. Mrs. Lyon now (1911) aged eighty-one resides in Pittsburgh (North Side), is active and enjoys good health. The children of George W. and Louisa (Crooks) Lyon are:
John Mercer, auditor of Penn. R. R. Co., Pittsburgh, Penn .; m. Essa Burgess, and has Ella, and Louisa, who m. Henry M. Pfahl;
Harris David, m. Grace Taylor, of Columbus, O .; d. 1910; no children ;
Samuel George, traveling auditor Penn. Co .; m. Cora Foster, of Steubenville, O .; chil- dren : Cora Louise (Mrs. Thomas P. Richey), Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C. Lake), of New York City, Virginia, Helen Margaret ;
Lola, m. Edward McClure; and has son, George Lyon McClure; William Thomas, see forward.
WILLIAM THOMAS LYON, son of George W. and Louisa (Crooks) Lyon, of Butler county, Pennsylvania, president of the Guardian Trust Company of Pittsburgh, was born in Gastonville, Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1861. The residence of the family in Washington county was but a tem- porary one and they soon returned to Butler county, which has long been the home of a great many of the Lyon name. William T. was educated in the county schools, and is a graduate of Duff's Business College, Pittsburgh. In the year 1884 he entered the employ of the Union National Bank, Pittsburgh, here he was continuously in service for twenty-two years, rising through the various grades of promotion to the position of assistant cashier. In the fall of 1906 he resigned his position with the bank to give his entire attention to the management of the Republic Manufacturing Company of which he was presi- dent. This company were brass founders and makers of machinery. On Jann- ary 12, 1909, Mr. Lyon was chosen president of the Guardian Trust Company. This office he now holds (1911). Mr. Lyon is a supporter of the Republican party. His church membership is with the Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh (North Side), of which he is a trustee. He was for some time president of the Young Men's Christian Association and is now a director. He is treasurer of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, and was for years its secretary. He belongs to the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh and affili- ates fraternally with the Masonic order, belonging to Crescent Lodge, No. 576, and in the Scottish Rite has attained the thirty-second degree. Mr. Lyon is un- married.
CLARA HORTON SHAW JENKINS
The Shaw family of Massachusetts, from whom Clara Horton Shaw (Mrs. Thomas Clifton Jenkins) descends, was founded in America by Ichabod Shaw in 1670. Through intermarriage they are connected with the King, Smith and Wardwell families, all of early settlement and English ancestry. The line of descent through these sources traces direct to John Howland, who came over in the "Mayflower". The Revolutionary ancestor of Mrs. Jenkins is Mason Shaw, of Massachusetts, "minuteman", captain, and adjutant under General Washington.
ICHABOD SHAW was born in England, came to America in 1670, with wife and five children, settling in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Two children were born there. He served in King Philip's War in which he lost his life, shot dead at his own door, in the early morning by an Indian. Sons: Ichabod, Edward, Samuel, John and Benjamin.
BENJAMIN SHAW, son of Ichabod Shaw, was born in Weymouth, Massachu- setts, in 1675. He removed to Raynham, where he built the old homestead, a little east of the house later built by his grandson, Mason Shaw, that still stands. His sons were: Benjamin, Jonathan, see forward, and Ebenezer, who all married and reared families. He had four daughters who married.
JONATHAN SHAW, son of Benjamin Shaw, was born March 28, 1700. He settled in Raynham, Massachusetts, on the same farm his house still stands on. He married Mercy Mason, March 21, 1726. Sons : Jonathan, John, Mason, see forward, and Gideon, all married and reared families. Daughters: Mercy, mar- ried Reuben Williams, Mary J., married Joseph Shaw, Susannah, married Bri- gadier James Williams.
MASON SHAW, son of Jonathan and Mercy (Mason) Shaw, was born in the old Shaw homestead which still stands in Raynham, Massachusetts, June 15, 1737, died September 26, 1815. He served in the Revolution as minute-man and officer. He was at the battle of Lexington and the siege of Boston. He was a captain of the Third Bristol Company of Massachusetts troops and was ap- pointed adjutant at Cambridge under General Washington when he took com- mand of the Revolutionary army. He held that rank in the Bristol regiment on the march to Warren, Rhode Island, where he was in service on that occa- sion from August 1 to 17, 1780. He married, June 16, 1763, Mary, born May 26, 1742, died October 25, 1839, daughter of Philip King, and granddaughter of John King, the English emigrant. Children: Hannah, born July II, 1764, died May 27, 1840; Mason (2) January 23, 1767, died December 25, 1770; Jahaziah, January 8, 1769, died May 13, 1813; Mason (3), May 24, 1773, died November 1860; Lloyd, see forward.
LLOYD SHAW, youngest child of Adjutant Mason and Mary (King) Shaw, was born in Raynham, Massachusetts, March 3, 1777. He was a deacon of the Raynham church in 1819. He. married, in 1800, Abigail Smith, born July 21, 1776. Children : Lloyd (2), see forward; Mason (4), born July 28, 1804, died
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September 19, 1805; Abby, March 20, 1806, died 1898; Seth, November 9, 1807; Fanny Smith, born July 17, 1812, died April 1, 1899, married, June 14, 1838, Jacob C. Wells; John Mason, March 3, 1815.
LLOYD SHAW, eldest child of Lloyd and Abigail (Smith) Shaw, was born August 10, 1802, died in Kansas in 1886. He married (first) Susan P. Jencks, born March 12, 1806, died September 15, 1844. He married (second) Char- lotte Riordon, born October 20, 1801. Children by first wife: I. Frances, born April 24, 1826; married, September 15, 1847, John Gaston. 2. Henry, born Jan- uary 15, 1828; married, February 20, 1856, Eliza Holmes. 3. Ellen, born Jan- uary 10, 1830, died in 1832. 4. John, born October 6, 1831, died in 1832. 5. Nathan H., see forward. 6. Benjamin, born August 5, 1837 (twin of Nathan), died in 1837. 7. Horace, born July 22, 1840; married, December 9, 1869, Elizabeth Whillock. 8. Susan, born August 18, 1844, died the same year. There was no issue of his second marriage.
NATHAN HASTINGS SHAW, fifth child of Lloyd and Susan P. (Jencks) Shaw, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 5, 1837. He removed to Indiana. He married, June 22, 1865, Frances Elizabeth Horton. Children: Clara Horton, see forward, Ada and Frances.
CLARA HORTON SHAW, daughter of Nathan Hastings and Frances Eliza- beth (Horton) Shaw, was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, December 20, 1869. She married Thomas C. (2), son of Thomas C. Jenkins, of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania, founder of the wholesale grocery house of Thomas Clifton Jenkins. He was graduated from Harvard University, class of 1892, and from Harvard Law School, LL. B., 1895. He is a member of the leading clubs of Pittsburgh, the Union University, Harvard, Duquesne, Country, Athletic, etc. Mrs. Jenkins is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and various patriotic, literary and social organizations. Both are communicants of Calvary Episcopal Church of Pittsburgh. Children: Alfred Elliote, born March 29, 1897; Eliza- beth Eleanor, September 19, 1905; Katherine Horton, November 4, 1907, died October 21, 1908; Clara Horton, June 10, 1909.
John Howland, born in England about 1590, came to America in 1620, one of the one hundred and one passengers of the "Mayflower". He became one of the noted men of the Plymouth Colony, member of the Governor's Council, and closely identified with the early church. He married Elizabeth Tilley. Chil dren : 1. John, married Mary Lee, October 25, 1651, and settled in Barnstable, Massachusetts. 2. Jabez, see forward. 3. Isaac, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Vaughn, and settled in Middleborough, Massachusetts. 4. Joseph, married Elizabeth, only child of Thomas Southworth, and settled in Plymouth. John Howland was thirty years of age when he landed from the "Mayflower". He died in Plymouth, February 23, 1673, aged eighty years. His grave can be found in the old Plymouth burying ground.
Jabez Howland, son of John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, was born in 1669, died October 17, 1732. He settled in Bristol, Massachusetts.
Samuel Howland, son of Jabez Howland, was born May 4, 1686. He married Abigail Carey, May 6, 1708. Children : Samuel, born April 3, 1709; John, Sep- tember 27, 1713; Tabitha, married N. Carey Peckham ; Abigail, married (first) I. Church, (second) Benjamin Smith; Mehitable, married Stephen Wardwell; Phoebe, see forward.
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Phoebe Howland, daughter of Jabez and Abigail (Carey) Howland, was born March 9, 1720. She married John Wardwell, children: 1. John, born June 19, 1742, married Hannah Swan. 2. Nathan, March 29, 1844, unmarried. 3. Joseph, March I, 1747, married Betsey May. 4. Phoebe, see forward. 5. Susannah, January 18, 1751, married Daniel Gladding. 6-7. Mary and Eliza- beth, twins, January 6, 1753; Mary married (first) Sanford Munroe; (second) Josiah Smith; Elizabeth married Jonathan Fales. 8. Samuel, April 28, 1755. married Lydia Wardwell. 9. Tabitha, November 25, 1757, married Samuel Bos- worth. 10. Daniel, March 29, 1763, unmarried. II. Allen, March II, 1765, married Abbey Smith.
Phoebe Wardwell, fourth child of John and Phoebe (Howland) Wardwell, was born January 23, 1749, died September 23, 1840. She married James Smith, born March 3, 1745, and left ten children, seventy-two grandchildren, sixty-one great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She could say "Arise my daughter, and go to your daughter for your daughter's daughter has a daughter". Children: 1. Martha, born September 8, 1768, married J. Ward- well. 2. Phoebe, July 15, 1770, married David Andrews. 3. Eliza, March 21, 1772. 4. Nathan, September 28, 1774, died 1775. 5. Abigail, see forward. 6-7. Nancy and James, twins, April 11, 1778, died young. 8. Nancy, July 30, 1779, married Joseph Gooding. 9. Rebekah, December 30, 1781, married Nathan Smith. 10. Mary, November 26, 1783, died September 6, 1797. 11. Allen, June 6, 1787, married Lydia Wardwell. 12. Fanny, March 14, 1789. 13. Daniel, January 10, 1791, married (first) M. Robertson (second) H. Borden.
Abigail Smith, fifth child of James and Phoebe (Wardwell) Smith, was born in July, 1776. She married "Deacon" Lloyd Shaw (see Shaw). She is a great- grandmother of Mrs. T. Clifton Jenkins.
Richard Smith, the founder of this branch of the Smith family in America, was born near London, England, in 1642, settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1673, moved to Bristol, Rhode Island, 1690, where he died aged fifty-four, in 1696. Children: Nathaniel, Daniel, Samuel, see forward, Joseph and Mary.
Samuel Smith, son of Richard Smith, was born June 24, 1683, died. 1766. Children : Benjamin, died in 1784; Eliza, married Lindsay, died 1744; Samuel, see forward; Sarah, died 1733.
Samuel Smith, son of Samuel Smith, was born September, 1706, died in 1766. He married Eliza Brown. Children: Eliza, married Dr. Benjamin West ; Mary, married Daniel Diman; Samuel, married Mary Compton; Sarah, married Caleb Allen, of Providence, Rhode Island; Elizabeth, married -Ormsbee ; James, see forward; Stephen.
James Smith, son of Samuel and Eliza (Brown) Smith, was born May 3, 1745, died June 20, 1826. He married Phoebe Wardwell, of Bristol, Rhode Island, and they were the parents of Abigail Smith, wife of Lloyd Shaw, the great-grandfather of Mrs. T. Clifton Jenkins.
Mary King, wife of Mason Shaw, was of English descent, a grand-daughter of John King, who married, February I, 1700, and had Judith, Philip, see for- ward, John, Hannah, Isaac, Abigail, David, Jonathan, Josiah, Ruth, Benjamin, Mercy and Ebenezer.
Philip King, son of John King, was born August 5, 1702, married (first) Abigail Williams, born 1708. Children: Abigail, born March 17, 1728, died
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1800; John, August 26, 1730, died 1814; Prudence, December 17, 1732, died 1787; Hannah, November 28, 1734, died 1794; Alice, September 17, 1736, died 1818; Philip, October 23, 1738, died 1823; Bathsheba, August 23, 1740, died 1741 ; Mary, see forward; Bathsheba (2), March 20, 1744, died 1839; Rhoda, December 24, 1747, died young; Samuel, March 10, 1749, died 1770; Nathan, November 25, 1751, died 1756. Philip King married (second) Jemima Padde- ford. Children : David, born March 12, 1753, died 1779; Rhoda (2), October 10, 1757, died 1815.
MARY KING, eighth child of Philip and Abigail (Williams) King, was born May 26, 1742, died October, 1839. She married, June 16, 1763, Mason Shaw, the Revolutionary ancestor of Mrs. T. Clifton Jenkins (Clara Horton Shaw).
MERCY MASON, wife of Jonathan Shaw (see Shaw), was a daughter of John Mason, son of the founder, who fled from England during the time of Crom- well and was of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. John Mason was of Taunton, Massa- chusetts, and married Mercy Merrick. Mercy, daughter of John and Mercy (Merrick) Mason, married Jonathan Shaw.
ROBERT PACKER BRODHEAD
The Colonial and Revolutionary ancestors of Robert P. Brodhead were men of note in civil life and valiant in war. They served from New England, Penn- sylvania and New Jersey. Through both paternal (Brodhead) and maternal (Easton) lines Mr. Brodhead traces this ancestry to England. His membership in the Patriotic Order Sons of the Revolution is derived from the military ser- vice of his maternal great-great-grandfather, Colonel James Easton, who was of the fifth generation in America from Joseph Easton, the early emigrant. Colonel Easton's son Norman was also a Revolutionary soldier. On the pater- nal side Mr. Brodhead descends from Lieutenant Garret Brodhead, his great- great-grandfather (see forward). Captain Daniel Brodhead, father of Lieu- tenant Garret Brodhead, was a captain of New York forces engaged in Indian warfare, as was Captain Richard Brodhead, father of Captain Daniel, while Captain Daniel, the emigrant ancestor, was a captain in the British army in 1664. Another famous soldier of Revolutionary times was Brigadier General Gerard Daniel Brodhead, brother of Lieutenant Garret (see forward). An- other Revolutionary ancestor was Captain Samuel Drake, father of Hannah, wife of Richard Brodhead (see forward). Andrew Dingman, a patriot sol- dier from New Jersey, was the father of Cornelia Dingman, the wife of Pri- vate Garret Brodhead. Isaac Newman, a private in the War for Independence, was the father of Charlotte Newman Easton, the mother of Ophelia and grand- mother of Robert P. Brodhead. This line of Colonial and Revolutionary descent opens the doors of membership to every patriotic order.
Ancestors of the Brodhead family are said to have emigrated from Germany to England and settled in Yorkshire during the reign of Henry VIII. In the parish records at Royston, which are nearly perfect from 1530, the name is spelled "Brodhead" until about 1640, when it began to be written "Broadhead", as it is still spelled by members of the family in England.
CAPTAIN DANIEL BRODHEAD, ancestor of the American branch, was a kins- man of John Brodhead, of Benton (or Monk Bretton) West Riding, Yorkshire. Daniel was born in Yorkshire, England, and married Ann Tye, who survived him and had two subsequent husbands-Lieutenant William Nottingham and Judge Thomas Gaston, of Ulster county, New York. Ann (Tye) (Nottingham) (Gaston) Brodhead died in the year 1714. Captain Daniel Brodhead was with the expedition sent out from England in 1664 under Colonel Richard Nichols by the Duke of York to make a conquest of New Amsterdam and the other Dutch possession in New Netherlands. He was a captain of the British gren- adiers, was present at the surrender, and September 14, 1665, was commander of the British post at Esopus, near Kingston, Ulster county, New York, where he died July 14, 1667. Captain Daniel and Ann Brodhead had three sons: I. Dan- iel (2), born 1661, died in 1705. 2. Ensign Charles, born 1663, married Maria Ten Brock. 3. Richard, see forward.
CAPTAIN RICHARD BRODHEAD, son of Captain Daniel and Ann Brodhead, was
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born at Marbletown, New York, in the year 1666, died in 1758. Little is satis- factorily known of this Richard. It is known, however, that he held a captain's commission in the Ulster county militia, in 1728, and it is likely that he was engaged in the Indian wars of that period. His wife was Magdalen Jansen, whom he married, April 19, 1692, by whom he had a son Daniel. Magdalena Jall- sen Brodhead died in 1701.
CAPTAIN DANIEL BRODHEAD, son of Captain Richard and Magdalena Brod- head, was born in Marbletown, April 20, 1693, died at Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania, July 22, 1753. Daniel attained the rank of captain of the Ulster county (New York) militia, serving first as private and later as lieutenant. He re- moved to Pennsylvania in the year 1737, and bought one thousand acres of land at Stroudsburg, and was the proprietor of Brodhead Manor, Northampton county. He was a justice of the peace in Bucks county. He had been a mer- chant in Albany, New York, as early as 1726, and in 1730 was a "Licensed Trader" among the Indians. In Pennsylvania he built the town of Dansbury which was named for him. He was of the Moravian church. Captain Daniel Brodhead married, September 19, 1719, Hester Wyngart, baptized March 14, 1697, daughter of Lieutenant Gerrit Lucas and his wife Sarah (Visscher ) Wyn- gart. Eight children were born to Captain Daniel and Hester Brodhead: I. Thom- as Gaston, died at sea. 2. Garrett Lucas. 3. Richard R. 4. Ann Gaston. 5. Charles, born September 7, 1729; in November, 1755, he visited the aged Shaw- anese chief, Paxinos, in the Valley, who urged him to secure the allegiance of the Valley Indians ; his message was sent to the governor, and he empowered Charles Brodhead to visit the Indians of the Wyoming Valley and secure their friend- ship by the liberal use of presents, but before he arrived Teedyuscung had at- tacked the Delaware country and destroyed the Brodhead and Dupuy Plantation (see Pennsylvania Colonial Records, VI. 751-4, VII. 326-8). 6. Garret (2), see forward. 7. Daniel, see forward. 8. Luke, born 1737, died June 19, 1806. Luke Brodhead was another of this family numbered among the heroes of the Revolu- tion. He enlisted in the spring of 1776 as third lieutenant, First American Rifle Regiment, Colonel William Thompson commanding. He was appointed second lieutenant, October 24, 1776, in Major Simon Williams' regiment. He was wounded and taken prisoner at battle of Long Island. Later he was commis- sioned captain of the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment under Colonel Magaw in Continental service. He retired in 1778 incapacitated by wounds recieved in battle. He married Elizabeth Harrison, of -, Pennsylvania. One of their sons, Rev. John Brodhead, became an eminent divine of the Methodist Episco- pal Church.
LIEUTENANT GARRET BRODHEAD, sixth child of Captain Daniel and Hester (Wyngart) Brodhead, was born in Marbletown, Ulster county, New York, Jan- uary 31, 1733, died at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, during the year 1804. He en- listed in the New York Colonial troops as sergeant, April 4, 1758, and was pro- moted lieutenant of the Second Regiment, Ulster county troops, in 1760. He located in Smithfield township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, between the years 1770-72, as he was taxed there in the latter year, thus: "Garret Brodhead £7 sio-and in 1785 £5 $4 d8 for six hundred acres land, five horses, seven cattle." He was in service on the frontier during the Revolution, and held a lieutenant's commission. Lieutenant Garret Brodhead married, March 15, 1759,
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Jane Davis. Children : John, Daniel, Richard (see forward), George, Eliza- beth (Mrs. Dr. Francis Joseph Smith), Rachel (Mrs. David Dills), Samuel, married Hannah Shoemaker.
BRIGADIER GENERAL DANIEL BRODHEAD, seventh child of Captain Daniel and Hester (Wyngart) Brodhead, was one of the famous heroes of the Revolution. He was born (probably at Albany, New York) September 17, 1736, died No- vember 15, 1809. In 1737 he removed to Pennsylvania, settling at what is now East Stroudsburg, Monroe county, where he grew up amid the wild surround- ings of the frontier, and where on December 11, 1755, he first met the Indians in warfare, when they made a fierce but unsuccessful attack on the Brodhead house. In 1775 he was of Reading, Pennsylvania, and deputy surveyor under John Lukens, surveyor-general of the province. In July, 1775, he was a delegate from Berks county to the provincial convention in Philadelphia, and early in 1776 was lieutenant colonel of a rifle regiment with headquarters at Marcus Hook. Their orders were to support the American vessels on the Delaware in resisting British approach to Philadelphia by water. Later with his command he was sent to join the Continental forces in New York, and after the capture of Colonel Miles at Long Island the command of the remnant of the regiment fell upon Lieutenant Colonel Brodhead. He was home for a time on sick leave and rejoined the army as colonel of the Eighth Regiment. On the organ- ization of the army he was made colonel of the First Regiment, commission dat- ing from September 29, 1776, and later appears to have been commissioned bri- gadier general. He made many treaties with the Indians, transacted business with heads of the federal and state government, and in every respect proved hin- self a man of ability, tact and courage. He was elected to the Pennsylvania As- sembly, and for eleven years, from 1789, was surveyor-general of the state. He married (first) Elizabeth Dupui; (second) Rebecca, widow of General and Governor Thomas Mifflin, of Pennsylvania.
RICHARD BRODHEAD, third son of Lieutenant Garret and Jane (Davis) Brod- head, was born at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1762, died at Milford, Pennsylvania, November 1I, 1843. He was the first of his family in direct descent from Daniel the American ancestor who did not bear a military title nor could not lay claim to service against the Indians or in the war of the Revo- lution. This was because of his youth and not from lack of the family spirit. He was, however, a captain of the state militia during the war of 1812-14. He has been described as "a man of splendid physique, over six feet tall and of a stern and serious character". He was sheriff of Wayne county, Pennsylvania, in 1798, a member of the legislature in 1802-03, associate judge eleven years, revenue collector of Wayne and Pike counties in 1812-15; was postmaster sev- en years, major of the Second Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia, prothonotary of Pike county in 1821; county commissioner in 1835-36, and was county audi- tor. Richard Brodhead married, during the year 1790, Hannah Drake, born November 15, 1759, died July 31, 1832. She was the daughter of Captain Sam- uel Drake, a soldier of the Revolution. Captain Samuel Drake was lieutenant of Pensylvania Militia, May 22, 1775, and captain, December, 1776. There were eleven children born of this marriage: I. Sarah (Mrs. John Westbrook). 2. Garret, see forward. 3. William, married Susan Coolbaugh. 4. Jane (Mrs. Moses S. Brundage). 5. Albert Gallatin, married Ellen Middaugh. 6. Anna
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Maria (Mrs. John Seaman). 7. Charles, married Mary Brown. 8. Rachel (Mrs. Dr. John J. Linderman). 9. Richard, married Mary Jane Bradford. 10. Elizabeth, died young. II. Elizabeth (2), died in infancy.
GARRET BRODHEAD, eldest son of Richard and Hannah (Drake) Brodhead, was born December 2, 1793, died at East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, January 18, 1872. He served as a private in Captain Adam Hawk's second brigade, Pennsylvania militia, in the War of 1812-15. He was a farmer of Pike county. From 1850 until 1858 he held an important position in the civil administration of the navy yard at Philadelphia. Garret Brodhead married, November 25, 1813, Cornelia Dingman, born October 3, 1797, died June 18, 1883, daughter of Daniel W. and Mary (Westbrook) Dingman. Their children were: I. Albert Gallatin, married Sally Ann Tolan. 2. Daniel Dingman, see forward. 3. Andrew Jackson, see forward. 4. Abram Coolbaugh, married Cornelia M. Ely.
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