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Colonel John Wilkinson married (first) May 21, 1740, Mary Lacey, a sister to Colonel, later General John Lacey, who like his brother-in-law, Colonel Wil- kinson, left the Society of Friends to become an ardent defender of the rights of his country. By this marriage Colonel Wilkinson had five children, four daughters and one son John, the latter being the "dear son who lay dying in his house" in 1778, referred to in the above obituary notice. He married Jane Chapman, and his descendants still reside on part of the estate taken up by John Wilkinson, the grandfather, in 1713. Mary (Lacey) Wilkinson dying, Colonel Wilkinson married (second) in February, 1770, Hannah Hughes, born May 7, 1742, died April 18, 1791. She was a daughter of Matthew Hughes Jr., lieutenant-colonel of the Associated Regiment of Bucks county, 1747-48. who died before the opening of the Revolutionary war, by his wife, Elizabeth (Stevenson) Hughes, married March 17, 1733, daughter of Thomas Stevenson, and his wife, Sarah (Jennings) Stevenson, daughter of Governor Samuel Jen- nings, of New Jersey, and granddaughter of Thomas Stevenson, of Newtown, Long Island, and his wife, Elizabeth (Lawrence) Stevenson, daughter of Colo- nel William Lawrence. Thomas Stevenson, first mentioned, was surveyor gen- eral of Pennsylvania, and a large landholder in Bucks county. Matthew Hughes
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Jr. was a son of Matthew Hughes Sr., of Buckingham, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, many years a Colonial Justice of Bucks County Courts and prominent in public affairs for half a century, by his wife, Elizabeth (Biles) (Beakes) Hughes, born in Dorchester, England, June 3, 1670, daughter of William Biles, a member of the first Assembly of Pennsylvania, many years a member of Provincial Council, and justice of the County Courts and far the largest land- owner in Bucks county. Elizabeth Biles married (first) Stephen Beakes, who was also a member of Provincial Assembly at his death in 1699; and (second) in 1700, Matthew Hughes, above mentioned. By his second wife, Hannah Hughes, Colonel Wilkinson had three daughters, and one son, Colonel Elisha Wilkinson.
COLONEL ELISHA WILKINSON, only son of Colonel John Wilkinson by his sec- ond wife, Hannah (Hughes) Wilkinson, was born in Wrightstown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1772. Like his ancestors, paternal and maternal, he was called upon to fill a prominent position in the public service. He was early associated with the militia organization of Bucks county, and was lieuten- ant-colonel of the Thirty-first Pennsylvania Regiment as early as 1807, which position and that of colonel of the same regiment he filled for several years. He was sheriff of Bucks county for the term, 1809-II, and during the war of 1812-14, served as quartermaster of the Second Division, First Brigade, Penn- sylvania Militia, of which his brother-in-law, General Samuel Smith, was bri- gadier-general, and had command at Fort McHenry, at the time of its bombard- ment by the British fleet. Colonel Wilkinson was later assistant quartermaster- general of Volunteer Militia of Pennsylvania. He was a man of fine appear- ance and a great horseman. He was for many years interested in the breed- ing and training of fine-bred horses and introduced into Bucks county a fine breed of Arabian horses. He married (first) April II, 1792, Anna, daughter of Elias Dungan, of Northampton township, Bucks county, a soldier during the Revolution, and a representative of one of the oldest families in Bucks county, being a great-grandson of Rev. Thomas Dungan, who founded the first Bap- tist Church in Bucks county, about 1686. Elias Dungan's wife, Diana (Carrell) Dungan, was a daughter of James Carrell, of Warminster, Bucks county, and his wife, Diana (Van Kirk) Carrell, a granddaughter of Jan Janse Van Kirk, who in 1663 emigrated from Bueer Maetsen, Gelderland, Holland, and settled in New Utrecht, Long Island, where his son, Bernard Van Kirk, married Ra- chel Vandegrift, and in 1697 migrated to Bucks county.
James Carrell Sr., the paternal grandfather of Diana (Carrell) Dungan, an Ulster Scot, was at the siege of Londonderry, Ireland, in 1690, and soon after that date came to Pennsylvania and settled in Bucks county, where he mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Rev. Thomas Dungan, before mentioned. 4
Anna (Dungan) Wilkinson died in Bucks county, May 31, 1810, and Colo- nel Wilkinson married (second) Maria Whiteman. By his first wife, Colonel Wilkinson had four children: I. John A., a member of the Bucks county bar, who died in 1830? 2. Ogden D., of whom presently. 3 and 4. Hannah and Eleanor, who were successively the wives of Crispin Blackfan, prothonotary of Bucks county, 1821-24, later of Trenton, New Jersey. By his second wife Colonel Wilkinson had six children. His eldest son, Major Ross Wilkinson, was a graduate of West Point, served with distinction during the Civil war,
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and later settled in Louisiana, where he was United States marshal, at his death in 1880; his son, Henry Clay Wilkinson, was also a graduate of West Point, and was adjutant of Colonel Woodman's Forty-fourth Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers during the Civil war. Three other sons, Samuel Smith, Edward Blackfan and Algernon Logan Wilkinson, settled in the south after the war.
OGDEN DUNGAN WILKINSON, second son of Colonel Elisha and Anna (Dungan) Wilkinson, was born in Bucks county, in 1807. He was widely known as Colonel Wilkinson, having, like his father, served as a colonel of mil- itia, removed to Trenton, New Jersey, in 1832, and in connection with his brother-in-law, Crispin Blackfan, was interested in a number of business enter- prises there. They built the Delaware & Raritan Canal, from Trenton to New Brunswick, and were large landowners in Trenton, much of which they opened up and improved. Colonel Wilkinson was one of the prominent and influential citizens of Trenton, was a director of a number of banks and other institutions, and filled a number of important positions of trust, local and municipal. He died August 24, 1866. Colonel Ogden D. Wilkinson married, March 6, 1834, Sarah Snowhill Dill, born in Trenton, New Jersey, August 16, 1801, daughter of George Dill, who was born in Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1772, and in 1798 located in Trenton, New Jersey, where he was a large land- owner and prominent in many business enterprises, one of the founders of the Mechanics' Bank, of which he was for several years president. George Dill married, at Germantown, Philadelphia, February 6, 1797, Ann, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Beker) Redinger, who were married February 14, 1758. George Dill was a son of John and Elizabeth Dill, the former a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
FREDERICK REDINGER WILKINSON, only surviving child of Colonel Ogden D. and Sarah S. (Dill) Wilkinson, was born in Trenton, June 9, 1837. He graduated from Princeton, then the College of New Jersey, in the class of 1857.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but owing to the large real estate interests he had inherited from his father and grandfather, and the financial enterprises and institutions with which he was associated requiring his whole attention, he soon abandoned the active practice of his profession, and devoted himself entirely to business interests. He was for many years a director of the Mechanics' Bank, and of the People's and Standard Fire Insurance com- panies, and held a number of important positions, both in private and municipal affairs, and was one of the influential men of the city. He died December 30, 1883. Frederick R. Wilkinson married, January 24, 1860, Harriet Sarah Fol- well, born December 13, 1839, daughter of Robert Folwell, born April 5, 1800, died July 10, 1873, and his wife, Harriet (Graham) Folwell, born April 2.4, 1813, died January 18, 1842, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Lasher) Graham, and granddaughter of Michael and Margaret (Kittera) Graham. Robert Fol- well was a son of Nathan and Rebecca (Iredell) Folwell, of Mullica Hill, New Jersey. Frederick R. and Harriet Sarah (Folwell) Wilkinson had three chil- dren, two of whom survive, Ogden D. Wilkinson, the subject of this sketch, and Elizabeth Dill Wilkinson, now the wife of Louis Gompertz, and residing in Paris, France.
OGDEN D. WILKINSON, son of Frederick Redinger and Harriet Sarah (Fol-
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well) Wilkinson, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, May 2, 1863. He was edu- cated at Cheltenham Military Academy, Fazy's School, at Geneva, Switzer- land, Phillips' Andover Academy, and the University of Pennsylvania. At the close of his course at the University, Mr. Wilkinson took up the study of law, but like his father, the care of the large family interests in real estate and business enterprises have engrossed his attention to the exclusion of profes- sional work. He has of late years devoted his attention to the improvement of the valuable real estate in the city of Trenton, inherited from his father and grandfather, and has built and owns some of the most important buildings in the business centre of the city, among which are the Wilkinson Building, the Hotel Sterling, the State Street Theatre, The Commonwealth Building, and Wilkinson Place, a very attractive residence portion of the city, comprising nearly fifty attractive and stylish dwellings, and other important buildings.
Mr. Wilkinson resides at 2031 Walnut street, Philadelphia, maintaining an office in the Wilkinson Building at Trenton, where he spends much of his time looking after his business interests in that city. He is a director of the Broad Street National Bank, of Trenton, and of the Standard Fire Insurance Com- pany of the same city. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war in 1898, Mr. Wilkinson assisted in organizing the Wetmore Regiment, but its services as a whole were not accepted by the United States government, and it was dis- tributed among several National Guard Regiments, and was a great factor in bringing the old regiments up to the new standard of efficiency, and fitting them for service in the war if needed. Mr. Wilkinson became lieutenant and commis- sary, and was later commissioned captain and quartermaster, in the Nineteenth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, a provisional regiment formed for service in the Spanish-American war, under command of Colonel O. C. Bosby- shell, and was mustered out with that rank, at the close of the war.
Mr. Wilkinson is a member of the Colonial Society, of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution ; the Founders' and Patriots' Society of Pennsylvania; Society of the Descendants of Colonial Governors; Pennsyl- vania Commandery, Military Order of Foreign Wars; Society of the War of 1812; St. Andrews Society of Pennsylvania; Genealogical Society of Penn- sylvania; Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Bucks County Historical So- ciety, and has served as an officer and member of the council of a number of the most important of these societies. He is also a member of the Union League, Merion Cricket and Corinthian Yacht clubs of Philadelphia, being one of the founders, first vice-commodore, and several years commodore of the latter club, and owning several schooners in its fleet. He is also a member of the New York and Bay Head Yacht clubs.
Mr. Wilkinson married, April 4, 1883, Sarah Jane, daughter of Robert and Sarah Taylor, of Philadelphia. Children: Sara Dill Wilkinson, born Decem- ber 30, 1883, and Elizabeth Wilkinson, born January 3, 1888.
ARCHIBALD ROGER MONTGOMERY
The surname Montgomery probably had its origin in Mons Gomeris, "Gom- er's Mount", in that part of ancient Gaul later included in Normandy, the Gauls claiming descent from Gomer, son of Japhet, the family taking its name from the locality which they ruled as feudal lords in Normandy. The earliest record of the family traces to Roger, Count de Montgomerie, a native of Neustria, whose ancestors were for generations natives of Normandy before its conquest by Rollo the Norseman, in 912 A. D. Like many other native lords he was not displaced by Rollo, and his descendants continued to rule over the county of Montgomerie, consisting of several baronies, until 1735.
Roger de Montgomerie, sixth Count of Montgomerie, was a relative, through his mother, of William, Duke of Normandy, and commanded a division of the army at the battle of Hastings, October 14, 1066, when King Harold was overwhelmed and slain, and William of Normandy as a result became William I, of England. Roger de Montgomery was granted large lands and possessions in England by his patron, William of Normandy, acquired over fifty lordships and was created Earl of Shrewsbury, Arundel, and Chichester. He built the Castle of Shrewsbury in 1085, and later Bridenorth Castle and the Castle of Arundel. He held besides large estates in Normandy, hereditary possessions of his and his wife's families, she being Mabel, daughter and heiress of the Count of Belesme and Alençon.
Roger and Mabel de Montgomerie had nine children: Robert, second Earl of Shrewsbury; Hugh, Earl of Arundel; Roger, Earl of Lancaster and Count of Marche; Philip, killed at Antioch, in 1098, while on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with Robert, Duke of Normandy; Arnulph, Earl of Pembroke; Em- ma, Abbess of Almeneches; Maud, married Robert, Earl of Cornwall, half brother of William I; and Sybille, married Robert Fitz Hamon, a descendant of Duke Rollo.
Arnulph de Montgomerie, Earl of Pembroke, son of the great Count Roger de Montgomerie, was an ardent supporter of Robert, Duke of Normandy as the successor to William Rufus, and on the accession of Henry I, in 1100, he was banished from the country and his lands and titles confiscated. He had previously married Lafrecorth, daughter of Muircertach, King of Minstes, and enabled that monarch to establish himself on his throne, and when outlawed he fled to the court of his royal father-in-law in Ireland. He died there in III9.
Philip de Montgomerie, son of Arnulf, Earl of Pembroke, born IIOI, went to Scotland with the Earl of Huntington, later David I, of Scotland, and about 1120 married Lady Margaret Dunbar, daughter of the Earl of Dunbar and Marche, receiving as his wife's portion the Manor and Castle of Thornton, in Renfrewshire, and became Laird of Thornton and Innewich.
Robert de Montgomerie (1120-1180) inherited his father's lands and titles
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and received by grant from Walter, High Steward of Scotland, the estate of Eaglesham, in the county of Renfrew.
These titles and estates descended to his son Sir John de Montgomerie, to his grandson Sir Alan, to his great-grandson Sir John, and to his great-great- grandson Alexander de Montgomerie. The latter was one of the Scotch barons dispatched to England in 1358 to treat for the release of their captive sovereign, King David, who had been taken prisoner at the battle of Durham, in 1347. He was known as Laird Montgomerie, and was employed on numerous diplomatic missions until his death, in 1388. He married a daughter of William, first Earl of Douglass, by his second wife Margaret, daughter of the Earl of Dunbar and Marche.
Sir John de Montgomerie, of Eaglesliam and Eastwood, son of Sir Alexan- der de Montgomerie, married, in 1361, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Hugh Eglin- ton, and inherited the large possessions of Eglinton, and the Montgomeries of Eaglesham made Eglinton their chief residence thereafter. Sir John Mont- gomerie quartered his arms with those of the ancient house of Eglinton, viz: Gules, three rings, or, gemmed, azure.
Sir John de Montgomerie greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Ot- terburn, August, 1388, when he took as a prisoner Harry Hotspur, of the no- ble house of Percy of Northumberland, and received as his ransom sufficient funds to build the castle of Pannoran, long in the possession of the family. The spear and pennon of the noble Percy were carried with the dead body of Hugh de Montgomerie, eldest son of Sir John, who was killed in the battle, to Edinburgh and they still remain a trophy of the house of Montgomery. Janies, Earl of Douglas, uncle of Sir John de Montgomerie, was also killed in this battle. Sir John died about 1398. By his wife Elizabeth, of Eglinton, he had sons: Sir Hugh, the eldest killed at Otterburn; Sir John, of whom presently, Alexander, to whom his mother gave a charter of the lands of Nonnington, in the barony of Ratho, Edinburghshire; and another Hugh, lived to an advanced age.
Sir John de Montgomerie, second son of Sir John and Elizabeth of Eglinton, succeeded to the lands and titles of his father and mother in 1398, and is re- ferred to as eldest male heir and chief of the French house of Montgomerie. He was one of the chiefs of the Scottish army which invaded England in 1402, and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Halidon Hill. Five years later he was in Scotland and introduced the reputed Richard II, of England, to Robert II, of Scotland. On the accession of James I, after his long imprisonment in Eng- land, Sir John de Montgomery (2) was among the nobles of high rank who were arrested on suspicion of having profited by their sovereign's imprison- ment and brought before the Parliament held at Perth, March 12, 1425. He was, however, released immediately and restored to high favor, being one of the jury to try the Duke of Albany, and was commissioned to reduce the for- tress of Loch Lomond, held by Albany's youngest son, James Stewart. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Maxwell, of Caerlaverock, the ances- tor of the Earls of Nithsdale, and died prior to November, 1429, leaving thret sons and four daughters. His second son, Sir Robert de Montgomerie, became Knight of Giffen, a barony given by Robert II to Sir Hugh Eglinton, and brought into the Montgomerie family by Robert's grandmother, before men-
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tioned. Hugh, the third son, is mentioned in a charter to his brother Alexan- der, Lord Montgomerie, in 1452. Of the daughters, Anne married, June 16, 1425, Sir Robert Cuninghame, father of the Earl of Glencairn; Janet became the second wife of Sir Thomas Boyd, of Kilmarnock, whose daughter Margaret, by a former marriage, became the wife of Lord Montgomerie; and Isabel mar- ried Archibald Muir, of Rowallan.
ALEXANDER DE MONTGOMERIE, first Lord Montgomerie, though his ancestors had been designated by that title for several generations, succeeded his father prior to November 22, 1429, as on that date he is referred to as "Lord of that Ilk" in one of the assizes, in an action between Renfrew and Dumbarton. He had a commission with his brother-in-law Sir Robert Cuninghame, August 10, 1430, for the government of Kintyre, Knapsale, and other baronies, and also a charter under the great seal for a large number of baronies, with the lands appurten- ant, between the years 1430 and 1450. He was distinguished for his loyalty to James I, of Scotland, and his successor, and was a member of the Privy Coun- cil under both. He was also employed on various negotiations and diplomatic missions to England. The date of his elevation to the peerage is given by Burke as January 31, 1448-9, but as he is referred to in the erecting of the Lordship of Hamilton, on July 3, 1445, in connection with others then elevated to the peer- age, it is thought that that was the date of his elevation. He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Boyd, of Kilmarnock, who married as his second wife, Janet, sister of Lord Montgomerie.
Lord Montgomerie died October 14, 1465, leaving four sons and four daugh- ters. His second son, George de Montgomerie, was laird of Skelmorlie Castle, now one of the seats of the Earls of Eglinton and Winton. The third son, John de Montgomerie, of Giffen, had a son Robert de Montgomerie, who went to France and founded the second branch of the Counts of Montgomerie; and the fourth son, Thomas de Montgomery, was rector of the University of Glas- gow, 1476-1510, and died unmarried. Of the daughters, Margaret married John, Earl of Lennox, Lord Darnley, and was an ancestress of James VI, of Scotland and James I, of England. Elizabeth married John, second Lord Ken- nedy; Janet married Cuninghame, of Kilmaurs, and Agnes married William Cuninghame, of Glengarnock.
ALEXANDER DE MONTGOMERIE, Master of Montgomerie, eldest son of Lord Alexander, and his sponse Margaret Boyd, died in 1452, before his father. On January 31, 1448-49, by grant from James II, "To Alexander de Montgomerie, eldest son of our deare cousin, Alexander de Montgomerie" the heritable bailary of Cuninghame was conferred upon him. This was the origin of the feud be- . tween the houses of Cuninghame and Montgomerie which continued for a cen- tury and was bloody in its consequences. The Earl of Glencairn, a cousin to Alexander as well as his brother-in-law, they having married sisters, was deeply aggrieved by the grant to the Montgomeries, claiming that it belonged right- fully to the male branch of the Cuninghame family, and the bloody feud be- tween their respective descendants began. Alexander married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Sir Adam Hepburn, of Hailes, from whom descended James, Earl of Bothwell, and by her had three sons. Their second son, Robert de Mont- gomerie, of Braidstone, got a charter of the lands of Braidstone, in the barony of Giffen, from his grandfather in 1452, and was the ancestor of Sir Hugli
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Montgomerie, who in 1622 was created Viscount Montgomerie, of Great Ardes, county Down, and whose grandson became Earl of Mount Alexander in 1661. The third son, Hugh Montgomerie of Hesselhead (Hazlehead) or Bargraw, had a charter under the Great Seal of the Lands of Freeland, in Lanarkshire, in the fifteenth century. His great-grandson, the Scottish poet Alexander Mont- gomery, was born in Hazlehead castle.
ALEXANDER, second Lord Montgomerie, and eldest son of Alexander and Elizabeth de Montgomerie, succeeded his grandfather in his titles and honors. He married Catharine, daughter of Gilbert, first Lord Kennedy, and died prior to 1484, leaving three sons and a daughter. The second son was James, of Smithston, near Kilwinning; and the third, was John, of Bowhouse, who mar- ried a daughter of Ramsay, of Montforde, but left no issue. Helen, Alexan- der's only daughter, married Sir James Bruce, of Airth.
HUGH, third Lord Montgomerie and first Earl of Eglinton, to which latter title he was elevated in 1508, by James IV, was the eldest son of Alexander and Catharine de Montgomerie. He was concerned in the revolt of the barons against James II, in 1487, which resulted in that king's death as he fled from the battlefield of Sauchie, and the accession, June II, 1488, of his son James IV, with whom Lord Hugh was in high favor and was created Earl of Eglinton, and granted the constabulary of Rothesby. He was one of the Lords entrusted by the Duke of Albany with the tuition of James V during his minority, and was appointed in 1536, joint Governor of Scotland with the Earl of Huntley, while James went to France for his bride, Princess Magdalene. Eglinton Castle was burned in 1526, by the Cuninghames, as a result of the family feud before men- tioned. Earl Eglinton married Lady Helen, daughter of Colin, first Earl of Argyle, and had six sons and eight daughters. He died in November, 1545, at an advanced age and was succeeded by his grandson, his two elder sons having predeceased him.
The children of Hugh Montgomerie were: Alexander, Master of Montgom- erie, died without issue, 1498-9; John, Lord Montgomerie, married Elizabeth, of Edmonstoun, and was the father of the second Earl of Eglinton; Sir Neil Mont- gomerie, of Lainshaw; William, of Greenfield, ancestor of the Montgomeries of Stane, Brownland and Bonyglen, Barons of the Hall; Hugh, killed at the Battle of Pinkie, in 1547; Robert, Bishop of Argyle, died in 1537; Margaret, married William, second Lord Semple; Maud, married Colin Campbell, of Arkinglass; Marjorie, married William, second Lord Somerville; Isabel, married John Muir, of Caldwell; Elizabeth, married John Blair, "of that Ilk"; Agnes, married John Kerr, of Kersland; Janet, married George Campbell, Laird of Cessnock; and Catharine, married George Montgomerie, of Skelmorlie Castle.
SIR NEIL MONTGOMERIE, of Lainshaw, third son of the first Earl of Eglinton, married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Quintin Muir or Mure, Laird of Skeldon, through whom he obtained the lands of Skeldon, Hodow Chapel, La- ganfie, Charleswrack and others. He also received by charter from Queen Mary the lands of Averton and Irvine, in the barony of Torbolton. On Octo- ber 4, 1545, he received the procuratory in Parliament for his nephew, second Earl of Eglinton. His castles and estates of Lainshaw were in the parish of Stewarton, County Ayr. He was killed in the streets of Irvine, as a result of the Cuninghame feud, in June, 1547. He left two sons and three daughters :
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John, his eldest son, married a daughter of Lord Boyd, but died without issue; Christian, the third son, married Lady Luss; Elizabeth, the eldest daughter, married Hume, of Fastcastle; and Helen, the second daughter, married a Max- well, of Newark.
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