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Christopher Christophers, son of Richard and Lucretia ( Bradley) Christo- phers, born at New London, Connecticut, in 1682, succeeded to all his father's appointments and public offices, including judge, etc., but did not long survive him, dying February 5, 1728-29, in his forty-sixth year. He married Sarah Prout, of New Haven, whose mother was a Rutherford.
John Christophers, son of Christopher and Sarah (Prout) Christophers, born at New London, Connecticut, February 27, 1719, married, March 7, 1741, Jerusha Gardiner, born 1722, daughter of John Gardiner, of Gardiner's Isl- and, (1693-1725).
The Gardiner family of Gardiner's Island, founded in America by Captain Lion Gardiner, in 1634, are representatives of the Gardiner, who married a co- heiress of Baron Fitz-Walter, the general of the Barons' army, which obtained the Magna Charta from King John.
When, in 1635, John Winthrop Jr., received his commission as governor of the then unsettled territory of Connecticut, he sent out a party from England, under the leadership of Lion Gardiner, to erect fortifications and found a set- tlement on the coast. They located at Saybrook, Connecticut, and erected a fort, and huts in which they spent the winter, under the command of Lieuten- ant Gardiner. The following year occurred the expedition against the Pequot Indians under instructions from Massachusetts to avenge the murder of Cap- tains Syone and Norton in 1633, and that of Captain Oldham in 1636. The most authentic narrative of this expedition is that of Lieutenant Gardiner, who was later a captain of the Provincial forces. Winthrop's second and most im- portant settlement was at New London, and Captain Gardiner received the grant of Gardiner's Island, at the east end of Long Island, still known by the name, of which. his family were proprietors for several generations.
Lion Gardiner was born in 1599, died at Gardiner's Island in 1663. He married Mary Willemson, born 1601, died 1665. Their son, David Gardiner, born April 29, 1636, died July 10, 1689, was the second proprietor ; he married, June 24, 1657, Mary Levingham, and their eldest son, John Gardiner, the third proprietor, born April 19, 1661, died June 25, 1738, married, June 24, 1687, Mary King, of Southold, Long Island, born 1669, died July 4, 1707. The lat- ter couple had several sons who were more or less prominent in the public af- fairs of their day and generation, and daughters who intermarried with leading families of Connecticut and Rhode Island. The Gardiners were interested
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largely in the coast and other trade on the high seas and were owners and part owners of a number of vessels.
in 1693, died January 15, 1725, married, May 6, 1716, Sarah Saltonstall, born April 8, 1694, daughter of Governor Gurdon Saltonstall, of Connecticut, and settled at Groton, opposite New London, where his father had purchased the farm and plantation of Sir John Davis. It was their daughter, Jerusha, born 1722, who married John Christophers, before mentioned, on March 7, 1741.
The arms of the Gardiner family were: Or, a chevron between three bugle horns stringed gu. Crest, an arm in armor, hand grasping the broken staff of a lance.
The Salstonstall family is an ancient heraldic one, whose armorial bearings were: Or, a bend, two eagles dispe, sa. with Crest: Out of ducal coronet or, a pelican's head az., vulning its breast gu.
The ancestry of Governor Saltonstall is traced back to Thomas de Salton- stall, whose son John flourished in 1343. Richard de Saltonstall was at Hali- fax, county York, 1475; his son Gilbert, 1507; his son Richard, 1538, whose son Gilbert died in 1598. Samuel Saltonstall, son of Gilbert, died January 8, 1612-13; he married Anne, daughter of John Ramsden, of Longley, county York. Their son, Sir Richard Saltonstall, who died about 1658, married Grace, daughter of Robert Kaye, of Woodsome, whose mother, Dorothy Mauleverer, wife of John Kaye, of Woodsome, was a lineal descendant of Edward III., King of England ; her mother, Alice Markenfield, wife of Robert Maulev- erer, being a daughter of Sir Ninian de Markenfield by his wife, Dorothy Gas- coigne, who was a daughter of Sir William Gascoigne, by his wife, Margaret Percy, daughter of Henry, Earl of Northumberland. Sir William Gascoigne was a son of Sir William Gascoigne, of Gawthorpe, by his wife, Joan Neville, daughter of Sir John Neville, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Lord New- march, and granddaughter of Ralph Neville, by his wife, Mary Ferrers, daughter of Sir Robert Ferrers by his wife, John Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, by his third wife, Catharine Swynfort; John of Gaunt being a son of Edward III., by Philippa, of Hainault, a lineal descendant of Charle- magne, Richard Saltonstall, son of Sir Richard and Grace (Kaye) Saltonstall, born 1610, died April 29, 1694; married, about 1633, Muriel, daughter of Brampton Gurdon, of Assington, a descendant of Sir Adam Gourdon, of the manor of Gourdon, who in 1272, in a battle fought near Alton, engaged in a hand to hand combat with Prince Edward, afterward Edward I King of Eng- land, by whom he was first vanquished and then spared and made a member of his family, and received high honors.
Nathaniel Saltonstall, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, judge, etc., son of Rich- ard and Muriel (Gurdon) Saltonstall, was born in 1639, died in 1707. He mar- ried, December, 1663, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Ward. She was born April, 1647, died April 29, 174I.
Through this connection George G. Lennig is descended from Edward III., King of England, on four different lines, (three beside the one above given, through Sir Richard Saltonstall) and also from William I., of England, and Hugh Capet, and nine subsequent kings of France, and Edward I. of England, as hereafter shown.
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Muriel Gurdon, wife of Richard Saltonstall, above mentioned, was a de- scendant on two distinct lines from Edward III., viz:
First-Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, who was a son of Edward III. and Philippa, of Hainault, married Isabella, co-heiress of Castile and Leon, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward, Duke of York, and the latter by his son Richard, Duke of York and Earl of Cambridge, who was executed in 1415. Richard, Earl of Cambridge, married Anne Mortimer, daughter and heiress of Roger Mortimer, fourth Earl of March, by his wife, Eleanor Holland, eldest daughter of Thomas, second Earl of Kent, and eldest repre- sentative of Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, the third son of Edward III; her grandfather, Edmund Mortimer, third Earl of March, having married Philippa, only child of Lionel Plantagenet. Roger Mortimer, being the eldest male representative, through the female line, of Edward III., after Richard II., was chosen by the latter as his successor, but died a year before the dethronement of Richard in 1399. Richard, fourth Duke of York, son of Richard, Earl of Cambridge, and Anne Mortimer, combined the two lines of descent from King Edward III., and though he never reached the throne, his son Edward IV. succeeded Henry VI., the Lancastrian descendant of John of Gaunt.
Isabella of York, daughter of Richard, Earl of Cambridge, and Anne Mortimer, likewise a descendant of Lionel Plantagenet and Edmund of York, married Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex, (died, 1482) a descendant of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Edward III., and their son, Sir John Bourchier, married Margery, daughter and heiress of Lord Berners, and was himself created Lord Berners in 1455, and died 1472. Their son, Sir Humphrey Bourchier, who was slain at the battle of Barnet in 1471, married Elizabeth Tilney. The latter's son, John Bourchier, born 1467, died at Calais, 1532, succeeded his father as Lord Berners, was created Knight of the Bath, and was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Henry VIII., and Lieutenant of Calais. He married Katharine Howard, daughter of John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and like her husband also a descendant of Henry III. Their daughter, Jean Bourchier, who died February 7, 1561, married Sir Edmund Knyvett, who died May 1, 1539. Their son, John Knyvett, born 1518, died prior to 1561, married Agnes, daughter of Sir John Harcourt, of Stanto Harcourt. Their son, Sir Thomas Knyvett, of Ashwellthorpe, buried at Ashwell, February 9. 1617, married Muriel Parry, daughter of Sir Thomas Parry, buried at Ashwell, April 23, 1616, and their daughter, Abigail Knyvett, baptized at Ashwell, September 6, 1569, became the second wife of Sir Martin Sedley, of Worley, and the mother of Muriel Sedley, (died August 22, 1661) who became the wife of Brampton Gurdon, and mother of Muriel Gurdon, wife of Richard Saltonstall.
Second-Thomas of Woodstock, born 1312, died 1377, Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Buckingham, who was murdered at Calais, was the youngest son of Edward III. and Philippa of Hainault. He married Eleanor de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey, Earl of Essex, and their daughter, Lady Ann Plantagenet, married Sir William Bourchier, and was the mother of Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex, who married Isabella of York, from which point the line of descent is the same given above.
The other line of descent of Richard Saltonstall from Edward III is as fol- lows :
Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, married Elizabeth de Burgh, daughter of the Earl of Ulster, and their daughter, Philippa Plantagenet, married, as before stated, Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March. Lady Elizabeth Mortimer, daughter of Edward and Philippa, Earl and Countess of March, married "Harry Hotspur", otherwise Henry Percy, slain at the battle of Shrews- bury. 1403, son of Sir Henry Percy, first Earl of Northumberland, and a lineal descendant of William de Percy, who came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066, and received vast possessions and high honors from him. Henry Percy, son of Hotspur and second earl of Northumberland, married Eleanor, daughter of Lord Poynings, and their daughter, Lady Margaret Percy, became the wife of Sir William Gascoigne, and mother of Dorothy Gascoigne, who married Sir Ninian de Markenfield, and was the great-great- grandmother of Grace Kaye, who became the wife of Sir Richard Salstonstall, and mother of Richard Salstonstall as heretofore shown.
The descent of George G. Lennig from William the Conqueror and his wife, Princess Maud, or Matilda, daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, by his wife Adela, daughter of Robert, King of France, and through her father a descendant of Alfred the Great, King of England, through the marriage of Aelfthryth, daughter of Alfred, to Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, is as fol- lows :
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Gunrada, daughter of William I. and Queen Matilda, (died 1085) married William, Earl of Warren and Surrey. Their son William, Earl Warren, married Elizabeth of Valois, and dying in 1138, was succeeded by his son, William, third Earl Warren, who was slain in Palestine, 1148. The latter married Ellen, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and their daughter, Lady Ellen Warren, married Sir William Fitz William, of Sprot- borough, South Yorkshire, a descendant of Earl Fitz William, of the time of Henry I. From this couple the descent is as follows:
Sir William Fitz William, who married Albreda, daughter of Earl of Lincoln, whose son,
Sir Thomas Fitz William, married Ann, daughter of Lord Grey; their son,
Sir Thomas Fitz William, married Agnes, daughter of Lord Wytford and had
Sir William Fitz William, who married Agnes, daughter of Sir John Vetian, and had Sir William Fitz William, who married Isabel, daughter of Lord Decourt, and had Sir John Fitz William, who married Jane, daughter of Adam Reresby, and had
Sir William Fitz William, who married Lady Elizabeth, daughter of the Earl of Huntingdon, and had
Sir William Fitz William, who married Maud, daugliter of Ralph Cromwell, Lord of Tatershall, and had
Sir John Fitz William, who married Elinor, daughter of Sir Henry Greene, of Drayton, and had
Sir John Fitz William, who married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Clarell, and had Sir William Fitz William, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Chaworth, and had
Isabel Fitz William, who married Richard Wentworth, and had
Mathew Wentworth, who married Elizabeth Woodruffe, and had
Beatrice Wentworth, who married Arthur Kaye, (died 1582), and had
John Kaye, who married Dorothy Mauleverer, and had
Robert Kaye, who married Ann Flower, and had
Grace Kaye, who married Sir Richard Saltonstall, and had
Richard Saltonstall, who married Muriel Gurdon, &c., &c., the descent from this point being shown by the subsequent pages.
The descent of Governor Gurdon Salstonstall from Hugh Capet, first King of France, and his consort, Adele, daughter of William, Duke of Aquitaine, is as follows :
Robert the Pious, who was clected joint king of France with his father, Hugh Capet, in 987, succeeded him in 996, and died in 1031. He married (first) Catharine of Provence, and (second) Constance of Aquitaine. He was the father of Adele, who became the wife of Baldwin V., of Flanders, and mother of Queen Matilda, the wife of William the Conqueror. His son by Constance of Aquitaine,
Henry I. was crowned joint king with his father in 1017 and succeeded him in 1031. He married Lady Anne, daughter of Jaroslav, Grand-Duke of Russia, and was succeeded in 1060 by his son,
Philip I., King of France, ( 1052-1108) who married Bertha of Holland, and was succeeded by his son,
Louis VI., King of France, born 1078, died August 1, 1137; married (second) Adelaide of Savoy, and was succeeded by his son,
Louis VII. (1120-1180), married Adele, daughter of the Count of Thibaud ;
Philip III., King of France, ( 1165-1223), married Margaret of Hainault, and was suc- ceeded by his son,
Louis VIII., King of France (1187-1226), married Blanch, daughter of Alphonsus, King of Castile, and granddaughter of Henry II., of England, and was succeeded by his son.
Louis 1X., King of France, (1215-1270) who married Lady Margaret. of Provence, and was succeeded by his son,
Philip II., King of France (1245-1285), who married Princess Isabel, of Aragon, and his daughter, Princess Margaret, became the second wife of
Edward I., King of England, from whom the descent of Governor Gurdon Salston- stall is as follows;
Thomas, of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, and son of Edward I., by Princess Margaret of France, married Lady Alice Haylis, and had a daughter,
Lady Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, who married John, Lord Segrave, and had Lady Elizabeth Segrave, who married John, Lord Mowbray, and had
Lady Jane Mowbray, who married Sir Thomas de Grey, and had
Sir Thomas de Grey, who married Lady Alice Neville, and had
Lady Elizabeth de Grey, who married Philip, Fourth Baron D'Arcy, (Admiral) and had John, Fifth Baron D'Arcy, married Lady Margaret de Grey, and had
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Philip, Sixth Baron D'Arcy, who married Lady Eleanor Fitz Hugh, and had Lady Margaret D'Arcy, who married Sir John Conyers, K. G., and had Lady Eleanor Conyers, who married Sir Thomas Markenfield, and had Ninian de Markenfield, who married Dorothy Gascoigne, and had Alice de Markenfield, who married Robert Mauleverer, and had Dorothy Mauleverer, who married John Kaye, of Woodsome, and had Robert Kaye, of Woodsome, who married Ann Flower, and had Grace Kaye, who married Sir Richard Saltonstall, and had Richard Saltonstall, who married Muriel Gurdon, and had Colonel Nathaniel Saltonstall, who married Elizabeth Ward, and had
Gurdon Saltonstall, Governor of Connecticut, who married Jerusha Richards, and had Sarah Saltonstall, who married John Gardiner, and had Jerusha Gardiner, who married John Christophers, and had Lucretia Christophers, who married John Mumford, and had Catharine Mumford, who married Isaac Thompson.
Another line of Royal descent of the Salstonstall family is as follows:
Edward I., King of England, married as second wife Margaret, daughter of Philip III., of France, above mentioned, (1245-1285) and had issue,
Edmund, Earl of Kent, who married Margaret, heiress of Wake, and had
Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, who married Joan, the "Fair Maid of Kent," who married as her second husband her cousin Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III. and Philippa; by Thomas Holland she had
Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, beheaded in 1400, who married Alicia, daughter of Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundell, and had
Eleanor Holland, co-heiress of Kent, who married Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, also a descendant of Edward III., and they had issue,
Ann Mortimer, before mentioned, who married Richard, Duke of York and Earl of Cambridge, and was the mother of Isabella of York who married Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex, from whom the descent of Governor Gurdon Saltonstall has been previously shown.
Gurdon Saltonstall, eldest son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Ward) Salton- stall, was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1666, and graduated at Harvard University in 1684. He studied for the ministry, and on June 22, 1687, was selected by a committee of the inhabitants of New London, Connecticut, with Colonel John Winthrop as its head, as minister of the church at New London, where he officiated until, on the death of Governor Winthrop in 1707, he was selected as his successor and was installed into the office of governor of Con- necticut, January I, 1707-08, which office he filled until his sudden death, Sep- tember 20, 1724. "He was interred the twenty-second with all the civic and military honors which the town could give. Colonel Whiting and Captains Lat- imer and Christophers, were in command. After the body had been laid in its resting-place, two volleys were discharged from the fort, and then the military companies, first the troop, and afterwards the foot, marching in single file, as each respectively came against the tomb, discharged, and so drew up orderly into a body as before and were dismissed". ("History of New London"). The tablet that surmounts the tomb is adorned with the family hatchment (arms as before described).
Governor Saltonstall married (first) Jerusha, daughter of James Richards, of Hartford, who died in Boston, July 25, 1697; (second) Elizabeth, only child of William Rosewell, of Branford, Connecticut, who died in New London, Sep- tember 12, 1710; (third) Mary, daughter of William Whittingham, and widow of William Clarke, of Boston, who survived him and died in Boston, in 1729. He had in all ten children, five by the first wife and five by the second. Of the first wife's children three daughters only survived infancy, Elizabeth, born May II, 1690, who married (first) Richard Christophers, (second) Isaac Ledyard; Mary, born February 15, 1691-92, married Jeremiah Miller; Sarah, married
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(first) John Gardiner, who died January 15, 1725; (second) Samuel Davis; (third) Thomas Davis. Of the five children of his second wife, four sons and a daughter, all lived to mature years except the youngest, a son; the three sons, Rosewell, Nathaniel and Gurdon Jr., each took a prominent part in public af- fairs, and filled an high and honorable position. Gurdon was a captain and col- onel in the Provincial Wars, and colonel and brigadier-general during the Rev- olution, in which three of his sons were also officers, throughout.
' The family of Mumford, to which belonged Catharine Mumford, who mar- ried Isaac Thompson, and was the mother of Ellen Douglas (Thompson) Len- nig, are descended from Simon de Mountford, Earl of Leicester, the name be- ing later corrupted into Mumford.
Ellen Douglas Thompson was born at New London, Connecticut, Septem- ber 4, 1814, died in Philadelphia, April 1, 1853. She married, April 16, 1833, Frederick Lennig, born 1811, at Bodenherm, near Mayence, on the Rhine, who had come to America in 1824, and died in Philadelphia, April 20, 1863. He came of the "Ancient Bavarian patrician family of Lennig", whose coat-of- arms was received from Adam Franz Lennig, Privy Counsellor, and Vicar- General and Chamberlain to his holiness Pius IX.
FREDERICK LENNIG was a son of John Frederick Lennig, Burgomaster, of Bodenheim, etc., by his wife, Margaretta Geyger; grandson of Erasmus and Otilia (Stephani) Lennig, and great-grandson of Killian Lennig. After the death of his first wife, Ellen Douglas Thompson, Frederick Lennig married (second) Agnes Stephani, who survived him. By his first wife he had issue:
Charles F. born June, 1836; GEORGE GROSSMAN, subject of this sketch ; Thompson, born March 4, 1841 ; Margaret Antoinette ; Lucretia Christophers.
By his second wife he had issue :
Louisa, m. Adolph Von Holbach ; Emma Grossman, m. Gallus Baron Von Glaubitz Freiherraltengabel.
GEORGE GROSSMAN LENNIG, second son of Frederick and Ellen Douglas (Thompson) Lennig, was born in Philadelphia, July 24, 1838. He was edu- cated at the Episcopal Academy and in the academical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was early in life associated with his father in the conduct of his business as an importer of Chinese, Japanese, and East Indian merchandise, which business was established by Nicolas Lennig in 1819, and continued by Frederick Lennig, who came to Philadelphia in 1824. George G. Lennig succeeded to the business at the death of his father in 1863, and has carried it on successfully to the present time. He was a member of the Union League and Philadelphia clubs; is an active member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the New England Society of Philadelphia, the Society of Descendants of Colonial Governors, the Society of Colonial Wars, of the Delta Phi Fraternity, and of the St. Elmo and University Barge clubs. Mr. Lennig is a member of the First Class of the Order of Runnymede, entering through eighteen direct lines.
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Mr. Lennig has for many years been an intelligent and discriminating collec- tor of rare publications and manuscripts, and is the owner of quite an unique collection of antiquities in this line. He also has a large number of portraits of his distinguished ancestors, painted by celebrated artists.
George Grossman Lennig early became indentified with the Masonic fratern- ity ; he was Worshipful Master of Cassia Lodge of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and has taken all the degrees up to the thirty-second in Ancient Scottish Rite Masonry, and has filled many of the high official positions in the various branches of the Order.
George Grossman Lennig married, February 2, 1857, Margaret, daughter of Edmund and Margaret (O'Connor) Birmingham; they had issue :
Ellen Thompson, born Nov. 18, 1867, m. Felix B. LaCrosse;
George Gurdon, b. Jan. 14, 1872, m. Margaret Glynn; issue: Margaret Glynn Lennig ; Edmund Birmingham, b. Nov. 13, 1874, m. Helena Ziegler; issue: Helena and Edmund; Frederick, b. Nov. 13, 1874;
Gurdon Salstonstall, b. May 5, 1877;
Margaret Antoinette, b. Sept. 13, 1879;
Walter Birmingham, b. Feb. 9, 1882;
Catharine Mumford, b. Aug. 17, 1884;
John Lion Gardiner, b. Dec. 29, 1886.
JONATHAN CILLEY NEFF
JOHAN RUDOLPH NEFF and his brother, Jacob Neff, or Naff, as their name was then spelled, arrived in Philadelphia in the ship "Priscilla" from Rotter- dam, Holland, and took the required oath of allegiance to the British Crown and the Provincial government of Pennsylvania, September 11, 1749. They were respectively twenty-five and twenty-one years of age, and are said to have been natives of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, where their parents, of whom they were younger sons, had died a few years previously. They were both naturalized at a Supreme Court held at Philadelphia, April II, 1763, as "Rudolph Neff, of Northern Liberties", and "Jacob Neff, of Oxford", both in Philadelphia county; their names appearing in the anglicized form thereafter used by them and their descendants. They had settled soon after their arrival at Frankford, Philadelphia county, and were members of the Market Square Dutch Reformed Church in Germantown, where they held membership until 1770, when with several other German settlers in and about Frankford, they organized a German Calvinist Church at Frankford, and erected the church now known as the Frankford Presbyterian Church. Jacob Neff, the younger of the brothers, died September 3, 1793, and is buried in the graveyard of the Frankford Church he helped to found a quarter of a century before.
RUDOLPH NEFF, the elder of the emigrant brothers, born in Switzerland, September 26, 1727, married, at the Market Square Church, Germantown, Jan- uary 6, 1752, Hannah Morse, daughter of Widow Morse, a Quakeress, at whose house the Neff brothers lodged on first coming to Frankford.
Jacob, the other brother, married, February 3, 1756, Anna Buser, of German parentage, and purchasing a farm on the Oxford Road, just outside of the village of Frankford, lived thereon until his death, leaving six children.
Rudolph Neff purchased, prior to his marriage, a brick house in Frankford in which he resided. He later dealt extensively in real estate in and about Frankford, and acquired a considerable estate. He espoused the Patriot cause of his adopted country, and was captain of a company in the Philadelphia Bat- talion of the Flying Camp, commanded by Colonel Robert Lewis, the first body of Pennsylvania militia sent to the support of Washington's army about New York, in 1776. Whether he rendered later service in the Revolutionary struggle after the disbandment of the Flying Camp, does not appear, the rolls of Philadelphia militia being very incomplete and fragmentary.
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