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After the close of the Revolutionary war, John Hanna removed to near Hag- erstown, Maryland, where he continued to reside until his death, May 4, 1838, at the age of ninety years. He married, in Lancaster county, Ann MacDill, born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1755, died at Hagerstown, Mary- land, May 25, 1847, at the age of ninety-two years. She was a daughter of James MacDill, who died at Beaver creek, Maryland, in 1795, at an advanced
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age, and his wife Mary, born January 13, 1728, died at Beaver creek, Maryland, February 25, 1808; and a granddaughter of Jacob MacDill, an early Scotch- Irish settler on Pequea Creek, Lancaster county, where land was patented to him in 1741, and where he died November 1, 1771.
Cyrus and Mary Caroline (Oswald) Boggs had six children: Mary Ann Boggs, born in 1857, married Frank H. Ritter; Ida Gertrude Boggs, born 1858, married James C. King; Caroline Adelaide, born 1861, married C. A. McKin- stry ; David Chambers Boggs, see forward; Benjamin Randolph Boggs, born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1865; Helen Maude Boggs, born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, 1871, unmarried.
Both the sons entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, David C., in 1881, and Benjamin Randolph, June 12, 1882. The latter trans- ferred his service to the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, May 2, 1888; was appointed division freight agent at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May I, 1897, and has since had charge of the freight traffic of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway, interior of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Pennsyl- vania Society, Sons of the Revolution, of the Scotch-Irish Society, the Pennsyl- vania German Society, and of the American Association of Freight Traffic Of- ficers. He married, March 1, 1886, at West Chester, Pennsylvania, Mary Em- ma Maris, of an old and prominent family of Chester county. Benjamin Ran- dolph and Mary Emma (Maris) Boggs have two children, Randolph Maris Boggs, born 1887, and Anita Uarda Boggs, born 1888.
DAVID CHAMBERS BOGGS, son of Cyrus and Mary C. (Oswald) Boggs, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1861, being a twin with his sister, Caroline Adelaide, now the wife of C. A. Mckinstry. In 1881 he entered the general office of the Pennsylvania railroad, at Altoona, Pennsyl- vania, coming to Philadelphia when the company consolidated their offices there, and remained with the company until 1895, when he resigned his position to en- gage in the real estate business, with offices on Thirteenth Street, near Arch, where he is still located. He has been very successful as a dealer, both in Philadelphia realty and Pennsylvania coal lands. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, of the Pennsylvania German So- ciety, and of a number of social and semi-political organizations, clubs, etc.
David Chambers Boggs married, September 30, 1897, Mary Harris Haga- man, of Philadelphia, daughter of Theodore W., and Eleanor Boyd (Harris) Hagaman, and granddaughter of Washington and Catharine Lynd (Fox) Har- ris, the latter a daughter of George Fox, who was a descendant of George Fox, the Quaker. David Chambers and Mary Harris (Hagaman) Boggs have two children: Eleanor Harris Boggs, born February 7, 1900, and David Chambers Boggs, born January 31, 1905. David Chambers Boggs resides with his fam- ily in Germantown, Philadelphia.
LLOYD COAT-OF-ARMS
Silhouettes of Hugh3 Lloyd ( Richard2, Robert', ) and Susannah his wife. Robert Lloyd' came from Merionethshire, Wales, to Pennsylvania, 1683. He maarried Lowry Jones: both were descended from the Lloyds of Gwern Y Brechtwn ( see Merion in the Welsh Tract ). Hugh Lloyd (b. 1741) was delegate to the Conventions in Carpenter's Hall before 1776: Colonel, Chester Co. Militia, 1776: Presidential Elector, voted for Washington; Judge of Delaware Co., Pa., 1792-1825.
JOHN ESHLEMAN LLOYD
THOMAS LLOYD,* eldest son of Hugh and Susannah (Pearson) Lloyd (q. v.), born at Darby, Chester county, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1768, died there, December II, 1814. He married, at Darby, December II, 1788, Mary Wood, daughter of George and Margaret (Fisher) Wood, granddaughter of George and Han- nah (Hood) Wood, great-granddaughter of John Wood, a member of Pennsyl- vania Assembly, 1704-1717, and his wife Jane Bevan, great-great-granddaugh- ter of George Wood, of Darby, a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 1682- 83.
Jane Bevan, wife of John Wood, was a daughter of John Bevan, from Trev- erigg, Glamorganshire, Wales, who settled in Merion, Philadelphia county, and was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1687-95-99 and 1700. His lin- eage and that of his wife Barbara Aubrey has been traced back many centuries to and through several royal princes of Britain.
SAMUEL HENRY LLOYD, son of Thomas and Mary (Wood) Lloyd, born at Darby, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1804, removed when a young man to Wil- liamsport, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, engaged in business, and spent the greater part of his life there, dying at Germantown, Philadelphia, February 8, 1892. He married, at Williamsport, February 9, 1841, Mary Matilda McClure, born at Williamsport, January 15, 1818, died there November 19, 1849, daugh- ter of Robert McClure, State Senator of Pennsylvania, and his wife Mary, daughter of William Hepburn (son of Samuel), captain of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia in the Revolution, subsequently State Senator, judge, colonel, major, general of militia, 1807.
WILLIAM MCCLURE LLOYD, son of Samuel Henry and Mary Matilda (Mc- Clure) Lloyd, was born at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, March 2, 1842. As a young man he studied the lumber business, then a great industry at Williams- port, and later removing to Germantown, Philadelphia, founded the lumber firm of William M. Lloyd Company, which carried on an extensive business, with offices in Philadelphia. He was the first president of the Lumbermen's Exchange. He died in Germantown, June 26, 1887, and is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
William McClure Lloyd married, at Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Septem- ber 5, 1872, Ruth Anna Eshleman, born January 22, 1843, daughter of Dr. John Kendrick Eshleman and his wife Fanny Edge, great-great-great-grand- daughter of John and Jane Edge, of St. Andrew's Holborne, county of Mid- dlesex, England, who having by deeds of lease and release dated March 21 and 22, 1681, purchased land of William Penn, came to Pennsylvania and settled in Chester county, where John Edge died in 1711, aged sixty-five years. John Edge, son of John and Jane, born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1685, married Mary Smedley, daughter of George Smedley, of Upper Providence,
*The Lloyd family ancestry prior to Thomas Lloyd (named above), appears on P. 494 of this work.
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Chester county, the ancestor of the prominent family of that name in Chester county, who came from Derbyshire about 1682, being also an original pur- chaser of land of William Penn. He married Sarah Goodwin in 1687, and died in 1723.
George Edge, son of John and Mary (Smedley) Edge, married Ann Pen- nell, daughter of William and Mary (Mercer) Pennell, and granddaughter of Robert Pennell, who with his wife Hannah settled in Middletown, Chester county, as early as 1686, coming from Bouldertown, Nottinghamshire, England.
John Edge, son of George and Ann ( Pennell) Edge, born February 20, 1744- 45, died September 14, 1816, was a prominent miller and business man of Ches- ter county, operating the mill near Downingtown, still owned and occupied by his descendants of the name. He married Ann Pim, born December 17, 1747- 48, daughter of Thomas Pim, born in Durrow, county Kilkenny, Ireland, May I, 1721, and his wife Frances, daughter of James Wilkinson, of Wilmington, Del- aware, and granddaughter of William Pim, of Lackah, Queen's county, Ire- land, son of Moses and Ann (Raper) Pim, who with his wife Dorothy Jackson and their five children came to Pennsylvania in 1730 and settled in East Caln Township, Chester county. The second wife of William Pim, above mentioned, was Ann (Pierce) Gibbons, widow of James Gibbons, before mentioned. Wil- liam Pim was for many years a colonial magistrate of Chester county. He died December II, 1751.
John Edge, father of Fanny (Edge) Eshleman, was the youngest surviving son of John and Ann Pim Edge, and was born in East Caln, Chester county, March 3, 1785, and died there September 12, 1832. He married, December 18, 1811, Ruth, daughter of Francis and Hannah (Mode) Wilkinson, born Decem- ber 26, 1789, died at Downingtown, May 10, 1872. Their second child, Fanny Edge, born October 1I, 1815, married in Philadelphia, March 10, 1810, Dr. John Kendrick Eshleman.
DR. JOHN KENDRICK ESHLEMAN, the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, belonged to a family of German ancestry long settled in the Pequea Valley, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He was great-grandson of Jacob Esh- leman, who sailed from Rotterdam in the ship "Mortonhouse" and landed in Philadelphia, in August, 1759. This Jacob Eshleman married Barbara Baer and had a son Jacob, who married Barbara Groff, January 15, 1757, and had nine children. The oldest they named Jacob, and he married Mary Blackbill, March 15, 1791, and was the father of Dr. Eshleman. The latter was born on the old Eshleman homestead at Pequea Mills, Lancaster county, March 10, 1810, and after studying medicine under Dr. Caghey, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and for a time in Ohio, entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and there graduated. He located at the "Elms" near Strasburg, Lancaster county, where he practiced his profession from 1841 to 1848, when he relinquished the practice of medicine and purchasing the Edge homestead near Downingtown, Chester county, removed with his family thereto, and devoted his life to agri- culture and horticulture. He planted most of the trees that now adorn "Glen Isle Farm," and was one of the most enthusiastic and active members of and also president of the Pomological Society. He was a strong abolitionist, and Glen Isle Farm was a station on "the Underground Railroad" in ante-bellum days.
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He died at Glen Isle Farm, October 7, 1897. Ruth Anna (Eshleman) Lloyd, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was his eldest child.
The children of William McClure and Ruth Anna (Eshleman) Lloyd were: John Eshleman Lloyd, of whom presently; William McClure Lloyd, born Jan- uary 23, 1882; and Samuel Henry Lloyd, who died in infancy.
JOHN ESHLEMAN LLOYD, eldest son of William McClure and Ruth Anna (Eshleman) Lloyd, was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, March 28, 1878. He was educated at Germantown Academy and Haverford College, graduating from the latter institution in 1900. He entered the whoelsale and retail lum- ber business founded by his father, and has continued in that business to the present time, being secretary and treasurer of the William M. Lloyd Company, one of the largest lumber companies in Philadelphia. His home is at Valley Brook Farm, Downingtown, and his chief recreations are fox hunting and the raising of thoroughbred Jersey cattle. He is much interested in forestry, and is a member of the Lumbermen's Exchange, Philadelphia, of which his father was the first president. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is unmarried. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and of the Union League, Markham and Church Clubs of Philadelphia.
OGDEN D. WILKINSON
OGDEN D. WILKINSON, of Philadelphia, belongs to a family of ancient Eng- lish lineage, which has been closely indentified with public affairs in America for over two hundred and fifty years. The family was long seated in county Durham, prior to the grant of arms and crest to Lawrence Wilkinson, of Harps- ley House, Lanchester, county Durham, September 18, 1615, by Richard St. George Norrey, King of Arms, and duly recorded in the College of Arms, of which the following is an extract :
"Being requested by Lawrence Wilkinson, to make search for the anciente coate Armour belonging to that name and Familye, which I fynde to be, Azure a fesse erminiois between thre Unicorns passant Argent: and for that I can fynde no Crest proper, or belongeing theretoe, as unto manye anciente coates att this day there is wanting: he hath further requested me to confirme unto him such an one as he maye lawfullye beare-I have likewise condescended and allowyde the Crest ensvinge, (Vide), a demy-unicorne erazed erminoys standing on a murall crowne gules, as more plainly appeareth depicted in the margent hereof.
All of which Armes and Crest, I the sayd Richard St. George Norrey, doe give, grant, ratifye, and confyrme unto the sayd Lawrence Wilkinson, and to the severall descendants of hys bodye forever, beareing their due differences."
WILLIAM WILKINSON, of Lanchester, county Durham, England, son of Law- rence Wilkinson, to whom the above grant was made, married Mary, daughter of Christopher Conyers, of Horden, county Durham, and sister of Sir John Conyers, Baronet, and their son, Lawrence Wilkinson, was the founder of the family in the American Colonies.
LAWRENCE WILKINSON, born in Lanchester, county Durham, at about the date of the grant of arms to his distinguished grandfather, for whom he was named, was, like his ancestors, for many generations a strong adherent of the English crown. He was a lieutenant in the army of Charles I., during the Civil war, and was taken prisoner by the Scotch and Parliamentary troops, at the surrender of Newcastle-on-Tyne, October 22, 1644. With the success of the Parliamentary party, and the downfall of the monarchy, in common with thou- sands of others of the English nobility who were adherents of the House of Stuart, Lawrence Wilkinson was deprived of his ancestral estates. On the rec- ord of sequestrations in the county of Durham during the years 1645-47, we find the name, "Lawrence Wilkinson, Officer in Arms", and after it this entry, "Went to New England".
His estates sequestered and sold, and the Cromwellian party, to which he re- fused allegiance, apparently firmly intrenched in power, Lawrence Wilkinson decided to seek a new home in the English Colonies in America, and securing the consent of Lord Fairfax, then general of the Parliamentary army, though later a strong supporter of Charles II., he sailed with his wife and son for New England, and settled in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1652, where lands were granted to him, and where he became prominent in public affairs. He was made a freeman in 1658; was a member of the Colonial Assembly which met at Portsmouth in 1659; deputy to the General Court in 1673, and was a
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captain of Provincial troops in the Indian wars, being mentioned on the rec- ords as Captain Wilkinson. He died May 9, 1692, "full of years and honors".
Captain Lawrence Wilkinson married, in England, Susannah, daughter of Christopher Smith, who also settled at Providence, Rhode Island. Captain Lawrence and Susannah (Smith) Wilkinson had six children, Samuel, of whom presently ; John; Susannah, who died young; Joanna ; Josias; Susannah.
SAMUEL WILKINSON, eldest son of Captain Lawrence and Susannah (Smith) Wilkinson, was born at Lanchester, county Durham, England, and accompanied his parents to Rhode Island when an infant. Like his father he took a promi- nent part in public affairs. The Rhode Island records show that he took the oath of allegiance to Charles II., May 1, 1682; that he was appointed constable, July 12, 1683. He was commissioned captain in the Rhode Island Militia, April 4, 1697, and took part in the early Indian wars. He was commissioned a jus- tice, May 3, 1704; was chosen a deputy to the Colonial Assembly, October, 1705, October 27, 1707, February 25, 1708, and October 31, 1716; and probably served continuously during the intervening dates. He was a surveyor, and in 1711 assisted in running the line between Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and was one of the commission appointed May 14, 1719, to settle the dispute over this boundary. He and his brothers, John and Josias, were soldiers in the Indian wars, and the historians of New England say, "fought valiantly". The records at Providence, and the later histories of that section make numerous refer- ence to the public service of Captain Samuel Wilkinson. He died at Provi- dence, August 27, 1727.
Captain Samuel Wilkinson married Plain Wickenden, daughter of Rev. Wil- liam Wickenden, second pastor of the first Baptist Church in America. They had nine children: John, Josiah, Ruth, Susannah, David, Samuel, Huldah, Za- bia and Patience. Ruth married William Hopkins, and was the mother of two distinguished Rhode Islanders, Stephen Hopkins, many years governor of Rhode Island, and a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, etc., and Essex Hop- kins, the first commander of an American fleet, in 1776. Susannah married James Angell. Zabia married Ichabod Comstock. Patience married Joseph Arnold.
JOHN WILKINSON, second son of Captain Samuel and Plain (Wickenden) Wilkinson, born on his father's homestead, "Loquiesee", Providence, Rhode Island, January 25, 1677-8, removed when a youth to Hunterdon county, New Jersey, and there married, and resided for some years. In 1713 he purchased three hundred and seven acres of land on the Neshaminy, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, lying partly in the three townships of Wrightstown, Buckingham and Warwick, near what is now Rushland station on the Northeast Pennsyl- vania railroad, on a part of which some of his descendants of the name still re- side. He settled on that part of the tract lying in Wrightstown township, and resided there until his death in 1751, becoming a considerable landowner on both sides of the Neshaminy, and a very prominent man in the community, fill- ing the office of justice of the peace, and of the Court of Common Pleas, Or- phan's Court, and Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for the county of Bucks for many years. Though of a family that had taken an active part in military affairs for many generations he chose the paths of peace and was an
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active and consistent member of Wrightstown Monthly Meeting of Friends. The maiden name and ancestry of his wife Mary is unknown.
John and Mary Wilkinson had eight children, three sons and five daughters, who intermarried with the prominent families of Ross, Chapman, Ball and Lacey, and their descendants have filled high official position, as state and na- tional legislators, judges, etc., through several generations.
JOHN WILKINSON, son of John and Mary Wilkinson, born (probably in Hun- terdon county, New Jersey), in the year 1711, was reared in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he was one of the most prominent men of his day and generation. He was chosen a representative in the Provincial Assembly in 1761, and served three terms, and at the organization of the Commonwealth, under the constitution of 1776, was again returned to the legislative body of the state and served until his death, May 31, 1782. He was commissioned a justice in 1764, and served until 1775, when the control of the state government passed into the hands of the Committee of Safety of which he was one of the most active members, and he was recommissioned.
With the inception of the struggle for redress of the grievances caused by the oppressive acts of the British Parliament and Ministry, John Wilkinson be- came one of the most active patriots of Bucks county. He was named as one of the delegates to the Provincial Conference held at Philadelphia, July 15, 1774; was chosen as one of the first Committee of Observation, December 15, 1774; was again a delegate to the Provincial Convention at Philadelphia, January 23, 1775, and a member of the Constitutional Convention to frame a constitution for the State of Pennsylvania, July 15, 1776.
Reared in the faith and principles of the Society of Friends, when it be- came apparent that a resort to arms in defence of the rights of the Colonies was inevitable, his religious training and the pressure put upon him by his close associates in the Wrightstown Monthly Meeting, induced him on July 21, 1775, to resign his membership in the Committee of Safety, as the repre- sentative from Wrightstown township, alleging "scruples of conscience relative to the business necessarily transacted by the Committee". His patriotism, how- ever, got the better of his religious scruples, and he again united with the Com- mittee of Safety, and was one of the most active in measures for prosecuting the war for independence. He was appointed, August 25, 1775, lieutenant-col- onel of the Third Battalion, Bucks County Associators, and on the re-organiza- tion of the Assembly became one of its most important members, serving on the committees to consider and draft "such laws as it will be necessary should be passed at this Session"; one of the committee to consider an act for remit- ting the sum 200,000 pounds in Bills of Credit, for the defence of the State, and for providing a fund for sinking the same by a tax on all estate real and personal; and was constantly on important committees. He was commissioned September 3, 1776, by the Supreme Executive Council, a justice of the peace and judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks county, and filled many other important positions. His military service as lieutenant-colonel of mili- tia was probably not very extensive, as his time must have been pretty fully occupied with the duties of the several positions he held in the civil department of the state and county. His portrait, in the uniform of a lieutenant-colonel, is in possession of his descendants.
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The Pennsylvania Gazette of June 19, 1782, has the following obituary no- tice of Colonel Wilkinson.
Un Friday the 31st ult. departed this life, at Wrightstown, in the County of Bucks, John Wilkinson, Esq., in the seventy-first year of his age, after a long and painful illness, and on the Sunday following his remains were interred in the Friends' burying ground; the funeral being attended by a very large concourse of people of all denominations. Mr. Wilkinson was a man of very reputable abilities, and of a sound judgment, scrupu- Jously just in all his transactions, free from bigotry as to religion or to party, and a friend to merit wherever it was found. As a companion, a friend, a neighbor, a master, a husband, a father, a guardian to the orphan and widow, his life was amiable and exem- plary. He served his people in different important offices with fidelity and applause, under the old constitution as well as the new. His conduct in the present Revolution was such as entitled him to the peculiar esteem of all the friends of the country, but it drew on him the rage of enthusiastic bigots.
He was born and educated among the people called Quakers and was a member, in full standing, in the Wrightstown Meeting. His life was an ornament to the Society.
He mingled not in idle strife and furious debates, but lived as became a Christian, studying peace with all men. His principles led him to believe that defensive war was lawful. He was strongly attracted to a republican form of government, and the liberties of the people, and when Great Britain, by her folly and wickedness, made it necessary to oppose her measures, from Judgment and principle, he espoused the cause of his country. He was unanimously chosen a member of our convention and afterwards served in the Assembly with zeal and integrity becoming a freeman and a Christian.
This unhappily aroused the resentment of the Society with which he was connected so that one committee after another were dealing with him and persecuting him to give a testimonial renunciation of what they were pleased to consider errors of his political life, though there was no rule of the meeting which made his conduct a crime.
This demand he rejected although as tending to belie his own conscience at length, worried with their importunities, weakened by the growing infirmities of age, and fondly hoping that his country might dispense with his services, he consented to promise that he would hold no other appointments under the constitution.
This seemed to be satisfactory for a time, but, when Sir William Howe began his victorious march through Pennsylvania, a more pressing sense of duty urged his brethren to renew their visit, while his dear son lay dying in his house, and to demand an immedi- ate and peremptory renunciation of his past conduct.
Provoked by this indecent and unfeeling application, he gave them a decisive answer, and preferred the honest dictates of his conscience to his membership in the Meeting, and he was, for his patriotism alone, formally expelled as unworthy of Christian fellowship. The testimony of the meeting against him on this occasion was heretofore published in this paper. We trust he is now in those mansions where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest".
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