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Homer J. Lindsay married, June 25, 1890, Emma K. Knoderer, daughter of
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William and Margaret H. (Merriam) Knoderer. Christian Knoderer, father of William Knoderer, was born in Alsace, France, in 1792, died aged eighty- five years. He was a soldier under the great Napoleon for seventeen years, and was with him in the disastrous invasion of Russia. He was a captain and entered Russia with three hundred and eighty-six men in his command; he returned to France, with five of his original company. He was an expert swordsman and often battled against great odds. He was severely wounded in one encounter but his antagonists numbered three all armed with sabres.
Christian, with his wife Margaret S. (Wagner) Knoderer, born in 1804, in Alsace, France, came to America in 1844, and settled on a farm of one hun- dred and six acres in Ohio township. William, son of Christian Knoderer married Margaret H., daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Merriman) Merriman, and they were the parents of four children, two of whom died young. After his marriage William followed the river for some time, later engaged specially in cultivating his farm. In 1864 he was appointed to the Dixmont Hospital for the Insane and in 1872 was made superintendent of the farm connected with that institution. He also served as street commissioner. He was a Knight Templar and a thirty-second degree Mason of the Scottish Rite; politically he was a Republican. His daughter, Emma K. Knoderer, was the wife of Homer J. Lindsay.
SAMUEL BABCOCK CROWELL
SAMUEL BABCOCK CROWELL, one of the prominent young business men of Philadelphia, is of early New England ancestry, but his paternal ancestors have been resident in Philadelphia since the Revolutionary War.
The Crowell family were early settlers on the New England coast, and seem to have been interested from the first in coast trading, fishing and whaling. Two representatives of the family were early settlers in New Jersey. Edward Crowell, of Woodbridge, and Samuel Crowell, of Cape May, probably brothers, since on the death of Edward, of Woodbridge, about 1685, his sons, Joseph and Yelverton Crowell, removed to Cape May and seem to have been closely asso- ciated with Samuel Crowell and his family there.
SAMUEL CROWELL, was one of the first justices of Cape May county, New Jersey, filling that position for upward of a quarter of a century, and was one of the most prominent men of the first settlement there, the members of which were largely interested in the whaling industry in Delaware Bay, his name con- stantly appearing on the public records in some public capacity. He and his wife Experience had among other children three sons-Joseph, Josiah and Barnabas.
BARNABAS CROWELL, son of Judge Samuel and Experience Crowell, appears of record in the Cape May Colony as an early landholder there, and later pur- chased land in Waterford, Gloucester county, though he remained in Cape May county, where his will dated July 9, 1740, was probated March 30, 1748.
ELISHA CROWELL, second son of Barnabas, was living at Cape May in 1759, when he is mentioned in the diary of Jacob Spicer as a seafaring man, who is an authority on the location of oyster beds.
ELISHA CROWELL, son of Elisha above named, and the first of the family to locate in Philadelphia, was born at Cape May, New Jersey, July 2, 1755. He like his father was a seafaring man, and during the Revolution was mate of the brigantine "Charming Polly", Captain John Stillwell, which was commis- sioned with letters-of-marque as a privateer at Philadelphia, April 27, 1781. He is described in the letters-of-marque, as 26 years of age, stature 5 ft. 10 in. black hair and brown complexion. He later became master of a merchant ves- sel plying between Philadelphia and the West Indies, and made his permanent residence in Philadelphia, where on October 16, 1801, he became a member of the Third Presbyterian Church. Samuel Crowell, either a brother or cousin, born December 17, 1766, became a member of the same church June 19, 1805. The latter was a pilot, and resided in the district of Southwark, where he died in 1824, leaving a widow Jane, who died in 1832, aged 55 years, and children, Elizabeth, Louis, Janet, and William, who have descendants residing in Phila- delphia.
Elisha Crowell married, at Cape May, Rachel Foster, born at Cape May, New Jersey, January 25, 1759, second child of Nathaniel Foster Jr., of Cape May, born July 29, 1730, died 1769, and grandson of Nathaniel Foster Sr., of
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New England ancestry, who was a justice of Cape May county, 1739-45. Na- thaniel Foster Jr. was named by Governor Jonathan Belcher and confirmed by the Provincial Council of New Jersey, June 7, 1753, as one of the judges of the courts of Cape May county, and was recommissioned to the same position September 25, 1762, and August 21, 1767. He married, March 26, 1754, Mary Eldredge, born January 23, 1737, daughter of Ezekiel Eldredge Jr. and his wife Elizabeth - -, and a granddaughter of Captain Ezekiel Eldredge, of Cape May, one of the most prominent men of the colony; sheriff of Cape May county, 1697-1700, captain of militia, Colonel Cox's regiment, June 22, 1709, etc., died June, 1710, leaving a will executed in Philadelphia, June 6, 1710, which mentions his wife Sarah, five sons and three daughters.
Nathaniel and Rachel (Eldredge) Foster had nine children. Their eldest son, Silas Foster, born November 18, 1756, was commander of the brigantine "Joan- na", six guns, during the Revolutionary War; his vessel being bonded "in the sum of 20,000 Spanish milled dollars" for faithful service to the United States government during the war. Silas Foster married, January 4, 1781, Mary Cook, daughter of Robert and Mary (Boggs) Cook, who were married at Christ Church, Philadelphia, January 15, 1761. Mary Foster, eldest child of Silas and Mary, married Joseph Kay, and her sister Eliza married Charles Kay, both being brothers of Elizabeth Kay, the maternal great-grandmother of the subject of this sketch, as hereafter shown.
JAMES CROWELL, son of Elisha and Rachel (Foster) Crowell, was born at Cape May, New Jersey, in 1778, and came to Philadelphia with his parents when a child. He received a good classical education and became one of the prominent educators of his day conducting an academy for boys in Philadelphia for many years, and from 1840 to 1854 was proprietor of the well-known Bol- mar's Academy, at West Chester, one of the best known and most popular classical schools of its time in this vicinity. He died in Philadelphia, June 31, 1856, at the age of seventy-eight years and is buried at Mount Vernon Ceme- tery, Philadelphia.
He married, March 21, 1810, Mary Gardner, born August 7, 1792, died No- vember 13, 1887, and is buried beside her husband in Mount Vernon Cemetery, at Ridge and Lehigh avenues, Philadelphia. She was a daughter of Nathan- iel Gardner, of Philadelphia, by his wife Elizabeth Story, and Nathaniel Gard- ner, a native of Nantucket, Massachusetts, was a descendant of some of the earliest settlers of Massachusetts, numbering among his lineal ancestors Tris- tram Coffin, the celebrated founder and first magistrate of the colony on Nan- tucket Island, referred to by historians as the prototype of William Penn be- cause of his humane and diplomatic treatment of the Indians among whom this early colony settled. He was also a descendant of Edward Starbuck, another magistrate of Nantucket, who was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1594, and settled at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1635. Nathaniel Gardner, like Elisha Cro- well, was a seafaring man. He was master of a vessel sailing from the port of Philadelphia, which during the Revolutionary war was captured by the British, and Captain Gardner was for a time a prisoner on a British war ves- sel.
James and Mary (Gardner) Crowell had seven children. Elizabeth Gardner Crowell, the eldest daughter, married, October 8, 1832, Jacob Clarkson, of a
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well-known Philadelphia family. Sallie Crowell, second daughter, married September 28, 1847, Joseph Woods Pinkerton, and died in Philadelphia, July 4, 1877. Some account of her descendants is given elsewhere in this work. Lydia Ann Crowell, youngest daughter and sixth child, married her cousin, Rev. James M. Crowell, a graduate of Princeton, and some years pastor of the Presbyterian Church on Broad street, above Chestnut. He was a son of Elisha Crowell, a brother of James, who was for a number of years an alderman of the city of Philadelphia, residing at Fifth and Pine streets. Of the two elder sons, John and James, we have little data. John, the elder married Catharine Roney. James, born in 1819, died unmarried in 1879. An account of Elisha Crowell, M. D., the youngest son, and his family is given below.
WILLIAM GEORGE CROWELL, third son and fifth child of James and Mary (Gardner ) Crowell, was born in Philadelphia, February 12, 1822. He was edu- cated under the care of his father, one of the leading educators of his day. At the close of school days he entered the wholesale dry-goods establishment of Field, Fobes & Gibbons, and remained with this well-known firm until 1854. In that year he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Com- pany of Philadelphia, of which he was elected assistant secretary and subse- quently secretary, filling the latter position at the time of his death on January 5, 1881. He was long an active and consistent member of the First Presbyter- ian Church of Philadelphia, serving many years as an elder, for over twenty- five years superintendent of its Sunday School, and prominent in the Young Men's Christian Association and its work. He was a member of the Union League and actively interested in municipal affairs.
William George Crowell married, April 2, 1846, Anna Read Gano, daughter of John and Mary (Hawthorne) Gano, of Philadelphia. They had four children. Anna Gano Crowell, the eldest, born June 13, 1848, is unmarried. She resides in Philadelphia, and is active in church and charitable work.
GEORGE GIBBONS CROWELL, the eldest son, born October 22, 1850, died June 28, 1905. He married, October 2, 1872, Lucy Graham Perkins, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Mary (Robinson) Perkins, of Philadelphia. They have three children-George Robinson Crowell, born October 15, 1876; Edith Haw- thorne Crowell, born October 28, 1878, married, April 28, 1904, Harold B. Potter, and they have two sons-Thomas Alrich Potter, born April 7, 1905, and George Crowell Potter, born April 8, 1908; Anna Reed Crowell, born June 12, 1881, married June 1, 1905, Edward Victor Bertram, of Philadelphia, and they have one child, Lucy Graham Bertram, born April 14, 1906.
WILLIAM GARDNER CROWELL, third child and second son of William George and Ann Read (Gano) Crowell, was born January 27, 1854. He was educated at the Rugby School, graduating in 1871. He commenced his business career as a clerk in the Philadelphia National Bank, where he was employed until October 5, 1873, when he resigned to accept a position with the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company, with which he has since been connected. He became assistant superintendent in 1881, and secretary of the company in 1900. He married, December 9, 1879, Virginia Adelaide Lockhart, and they have one child, William Gardner Crowell Jr., born January 29, 1884.
Emma Gano Crowell, youngest child of William George and Anna Read (Gano) Crowell, born July 20, 1857, died unmarried, June 8, 1881.
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ELISHA CROWELL, M. D., youngest child of James and Mary (Gardner ) Crowell, was born in Philadelphia, November 10, 1828. He prepared for col- lege at private schools under the direction of his father and entered Princeton College, literary department, and pursued a three years course there. He then entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and re- ceived his degree of Doctor of Medicine in the class of 1851. He was resident physician at Blockley Hospital 1851-52, and then engaged in the practice of his profession in West Philadelphia, where he was in active practice for over fifty years, until his death on April 6, 1904, at his residence 4412 Osage avenue. During the Civil War he was visiting surgeon at Satterlee United States Mili- tary Hospital, in Philadelphia, and was active in recruiting soldiers for the army, devoting much time to this service.
Dr. Crowell married, October 22, 1856, Maria Louisa Babcock, the ceremony being performed by Rev. T. C. Yarnall, D. D., rector of St. Mary's Church, West Philadelphia, who also married the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Crowell was born September 12, 1827, and died January 4, 1885, only daughter of Major Samuel Babcock, U. S. A., by his second wife, Elizabeth Eyre, and a descend- ant of the Babcock family of Milton, Massachusetts. (See Babcock).
Dr. Elisha and Maria Louisa (Babcock) Crowell, had issue:
Elizabeth Eyre Crowell, b. Aug. 16, 1857 ;
Mary Gardner Crowell, b. Aug. 30, 1860; Katharine Babcock Crowell, b. Sept. 14, 1863;
SAMUEL BABCOCK CROWELL, b. March 3, 1868, of whom presently ; James Gardner Crowell, b. Oct. 5, 1870.
SAMUEL BABCOCK CROWELL, fourth child and eldest son of Dr. Elisha Cro- well and Maria Louisa Babcock, born in Philadelphia, March 3, 1868, was edu- cated at public and private schools of Philadelphia. He engaged in the coal business, and is now president of the Robert Henderson Company, (incorpor- ated), wholesale and retail dealers in and shippers of coal, Pine Street Wharf, Schuylkill river. Mr. Crowell is a member of the Union League Club, of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, and the Society of the War of 1812, being a member of the executive committee, assistant secretary of the latter society, and a member of the Masonic fraternity. He married, May 28, 1894, Emma Brooks Sloan, of Philadelphia, born February 22, 1872, and they have is. sue :
William Sloan Crowell, b. June 11, 1896; Elizabeth Eyre Crowell, b. April 24, 1901 ; Samuel Babcock Crowell Jr., b. June 8, 1902; John Head Crowell, b. Nov. 14, 1903 ; Sarah Eyre Crowell, b. Sept. 26, 1905.
WILLIAM WORRELL SLOAN, father of Mrs. Crowell, was born in Philadel- phia, April 29, 1837, and died there June 23, 1897. He was a son of Henry and Caroline (Worrell) Sloan and grandson of John and Sarah (Van Emen) Sloan.
He married, April 7, 1864, Elizabeth Baker Brooks, born in Philadelphia. February 5, 1841, daughter of Jeremiah Mayberry Brooks, of Philadelphia, born August 19, 1815, died December 24, 1865; married May 13, 1840, Emma Har- bert, born September 2, 1821, died February 2, 1892. Emma Harbert was a
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daughter of Charles Harbert, of Philadelphia, born May II, 1797, died April 28, 1885, by his wife Rebecca Shinn, born June 2, 1800, died March 27, 1874, whom he married, October 20, 1820. The ancestry of Rebecca Shinn will be given later in connection with another line of descent of Mrs. Crowell from the Shinn family. Charles Harbert was a son of Isaac Harbert, born in Burling- ton county, New Jersey, in 1762, died 1855, by his wife, Martha Berryman, born 1770, died 1864, whom he married in 1790, a daughter of John and Pru- dence Hammett Berryman, of New Jersey.
The ancestry of Rebecca (Shinn) Harbert, great-grandmother of Mrs. Cro- well, traces back to Soham parish, county Hertford, England, where John Sheene, great-grandfather of Rebecca and founder of the Shinn family in Amer- ica, was baptised in 1632. He was a son of Clement Sheene, baptised January 24, 1593, grandson of John Sheene, and great-grandson of Francis Sheene, born 1525, both the latter resident in Freckingham parish, in the same county. John Sheene (or Shinn, as he came to be known after his arrival in New Jer- sey, about 1677), was a resident of Albury, Hertfordshire, England, in 1662, when, as shown by Besse's "Sufferings of the Quakers," he was committed to prison for refusing to pay tithes, being then a Quaker. He married Jane, who with their four sons and Clement Sheene, thought to have been his father, ac- companied him to New Jersey, where we find John and Clement Sheene as land owners in 1678. He was one of the proprietors of West Jersey, a justice of the courts at Burlington, and a member of Assembly. His first settlement was on Birch creek, Burlington county, where he erected a log house, and called his place "Springfield Lodge".
George Shinn, a son of John and Jane, married, in 1691, Mary, daughter of John Thompson, one of the signers of the Concessions and Agreements of the West Jersey Proprietors, March 6, 1676, and a member of Assembly in 1707.
Jacob Shinn, grandson of John and Jane, born July 13, 1715, died 1795, mar- ried February, 1745-6, Hannah (Rakestraw) Lippincott, widow of Freedom Lippincott, and their son, Jacob Shinn Jr., born March 24, 1750, married, No- vember 6, 1777, Hannah Fenton, and the latter were the parents of Rebecca Shinn, who married Charles Harbert. Her mother, Hannah Fenton, was also a descendant of John Shinn, the proprietor, through her maternal grandmother, Hannah Shinn, daughter of Jantes Shinn, youngest son of John and Jane, born in England, died in Burlington in 1751.
James Shinn received from his father, John Shinn, a deed for 121 acres in Nottingham township, Burlington county, on which he located at the time of his marriage. He also received a conveyance of 226 acres from his father-in- law, Restore Lippincott, in the same township, and was the sole legatee of his "brother Francis Shinn, who died without issue. He acquired other lands there and in Hanover township and in Ocean county. He married, October 3, 1697, Abigail Lippincott, born February 16, 1677, eldest daughter of Restore Lippin- cott, and granddaughter of Richard and Abigail Lippincott, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, later of New Jersey.
Richard Lippincott was a son of Anthony Lippincott, of county Devon, Eng- land, and a descendant in the twelfth generation from Robert de Lughencott, who in the reign of Henry III held the Manor of Hughecott, Devonshire. He was admitted a freeman of Dorchester, Massachusetts,, May 13, 1640, and
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was a member of the church there April 1, 1644, when his second son John was baptised at the First Church of Boston. He does not seem to have been in accord with the rigid creed of the Puritan church, and was, for some discre- pancy of faith, as viewed by the elders of the church, excluded from communion in July, 1651, and soon after that date returned to England, where he became a member of the Society of Friends. In 1655 he was arrested with other Friends at Plymouth, Devonshire, and confined for a time in the castle at Exe- ter. He was again arrested in Plymouth in 1660 and was released at the so- licitation of Margaret Fell, who later became the wife of George Fox. In 1661 or 1662 he again sailed for America and founded an asylum from religious perse- cution in Rhode Island, where in 1664 he joined in the formation at Newport for securing title from the Indians and the Dutch authorities at New York to a large tract of land in New Jersey, and was the largest contributor of funds for that purpose. The purchase of the land from the Indian sachem Popona was consummated April 3, 1665, and the title confirmed the following day by patent from Governor Richard Nichols, of New York. By the terms of this patent the settlers were to have "free liberty of conscience, without any mo- lestation or disturbance whatever, in their way of worship." Richard Lippin- cott settled at Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, and was a representative in the first Provincial Assembly of the Province organized in 1667, and again in 1668. He was made one of the judges of the first court, in 1670; was again in the Assembly in 1677; and was coroner of Monmouth county, 1681-83. He was one of the founders of Shrewsbury Friends Meeting, and prominent in all the concerns of the pioneer settlement in East Jersey. He died at Shrewsbury, No- vember 26, 1683. He and his wife Abigail had eight children, two born at Dorchester, and one at Boston, Massachusetts, four at Plymonth, England, and one in Rhode Island.
Restore Lippincott, fourth child and third son of Richard and Abigail, born at Plymouth, England, July 3, 1652, came to Shrewsbury, New Jersey, with his parents in 1665, and resided there until 1692, when he removed to Northampton township, Burlington county, New Jersey, where he had purchased 570 acres of land in 1688, and resided there until his death, July 20, 1741. He was a member of the West Jersey Assembly from Burlington county, 1701, and joined with his colleagues and the Provincial Council in the petition to King William to confirm Andrew Hamilton as Governor of the Colony. The following year. when the Proprietors of East and West Jersey surrendered their respective gov- ernmental rights to the Crown and Queen Anne united them into one province, he was the representative of Burlington county in the first joint Assembly at Perth Amboy, in 1703, was re-elected in 1704, and served until its dissolution in 1706. He was an active and esteemed member of Mt. Holly Meeting of Friends, which was held at his house until the erection of a meeting house in 1716. He married, at Shrewsbury, November 6, 1674, Hannah, daughter of William Shattuck, of Boston, Massachusetts, where she was born July 8, 1654. She died in 1728, and he married (second) Martha, widow of Joshua Owen, of Springfield, Cumberland county, in 1729. Restore and Hannah (Shattuck) Lippincott had nine children, the second of whom, Abigail, born at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, February 16, 1677, married, in 1697, James Shinn, above men- tioned. Another danghter, Elizabeth, born 1690, married, in 1712, George Shinn, of the next generation of that family.
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Hannah Shinn, daughter of James and Abigail (Lippincott) Shinn, married, November 21, 1716, John Atkinson, son of William Atkinson, and his wife Elizabeth Curtis. William Atkinson was one of the original Proprietors of West Jersey, and was, with William Penn and the other Proprietors, one of the signers of the Concessions and Agreements on March 5, 1676.
John and Hannah (Shinn) Atkinson, had nine children, the fifth of whom, Elizabeth Atkinson, born April 1, 1731, married, November 7, 1753, Eleazer Fenton, of Burlington county, son of Enoch and Rachel (French) Fenton, and grandson of Eleazer and Elizabeth (Stacy) Fenton.
Eleazer Fenton was also one of the original Proprietors of West Jersey and signed the Concessions and Agreements in 1676. He was twice married, and had by his first wife a son Ephraim Fenton, who married Mary Blackshaw and settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He married (second) February 2, 1690, Elizabeth Stacy, and his third child by this marriage was Enoch Fenton, born 1694. Eleazer Fenton died in 1704, and his widow Elizabeth married Samuel Gooldy, and at her death in 1708 guardians were appointed for her children by Fenton, when Enoch is stated to be fourteen years old. Enoch married Rachel, daughter of John French, of Northampton, and granddaughter of Richard French, founder of the family in New Jersey, an elaborate account of whose descendants is about to be published by Howard French, of Philadelphia. She married (second) December 1, 1735, Nathaniel Wilkinson, Enoch Fenton resided in the town of Burlington, but was a large landowner in Burlington and Salem counties. He died in 1732, leaving will dated May 16, probated Septem- ber 2, 1732.
Eleazer Fenton, son of Enoch and Rachel (French) Fenton, inherited from his father 100 acres in Springfield township, Burlington county, and purchased other paternal lands devised to his mother. He however, removed to Piles Grove, Salem county, and resided there for some years, returning to Spring- field prior to his death, which occurred November 10, 1789. By his wife Elizabeth Atkinson he had sons, John, Samuel and Eleazer, and daughters, Hannah and Elizabeth. Hannah, born March 30, 1761, died March 6, 1805, married November 6, 1777, Jacob Shinn Jr., above mentioned.
Rebecca Shinn was the youngest of the children of Jacob Shinn Jr. and Han- nah Fenton, and was but five years of age at the death of her mother. An elder sister, Elizabeth Shinn, married, in 1804, Dennis Heart, and on their removal a few years later to Hillsboro, North Carolina, Rebecca Shinn accompanied them and there met and married, in 1820, Charles Harbert, who was then en- gaged in the lumber business at Hillsboro and later returned to Philadelphia and engaged in the same business there, where he died in 1885, and his wife in 1874, and where their daughter, Emma Harbert, born in Hillsboro, North Carolina, September 3, 1821, married, May 13, 1840, Jeremiah Mayberry Brooks.
Isaac Harbert was a son of Isaac Harbert, of Burlington county, New Jer- sey, who married by New Jersey license dated August 15, 1765, Tabitha Bell, and was a grandson of Isaac Harbert, or Herbert, who was born in Wales, 1716, came to New Jersey in 1735, and the latter is probably identical with one "Isaac Herbert, of Monmouth county, New Jersey," who married by license dated February 17, 1742-3, Freelove Wooley, of Monmouth county.
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