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SIR NEIL MONTGOMERIE, second son of Sir Neil and Lady Margaret Mont- gomerie, succeeded to the titles and lands of his father and married Jean, daugh- ter and heiress of John, fourth Lord Lyle, by which marriage the estate of that ancient and noble family of Scotland was brought into the Montgomerie family and the Lyle and Marr arms were added to his own. He left three sons and several daughters. His two younger sons went to Ireland, where one, a major in the army of King James, was killed at the Battle of the Boyne, in 1690.
SIR NEIL MONTGOMERIE, of Lainshaw, eldest son of the last named Sir Neil Montgomerie and Lady Jean Lyle, became on the death of his cousin the fourth Earl Eglinton, without male issue in 1613, heir male to the titles and honors of the fifth Earl of Eglinton, but they with the estates appertaining thereto were granted to a cousin, Alexander Seton, in 1611, and the latter was though tardily, recognized as the head of the house of Eglinton. Sir Neil was, however, the lineal male representative and chief of the Montgomery family, and the eldest male representatives of his descendants are to this day entitled to that honor, the present living representative of the name being John T. Montgomery, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sir Neil was served as heir to his mother Lady Jean Lyle, on December 20, 1575, as Sir Neil Montgomerie, of Gallowsberry. He never assumed the title of Lord Lyle, having sold his claim to the estate in 1559, but retained the honor and arms of Lyle as heir of a line of that noble family. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Cuninghame, of Aiket, whose great-grandfather was of the Glencairn family with whom the feud existed, and her brothers Alexander and William, if not herself, were concerned in the murder of Hugh Montgomerie, the third Earl of Eglinton, in 1586, while on a visit to Sir Neil, and to this suspicion of her connection with the tragic result of the feud between her family and that of her husband is ascribed the aliena- tion of the title and honors from her children by the fourth earl. Sir Neil died prior to 1613, leaving four sons. The eldest son, Sir Neil, succeeded his father and married a daughter of Lockhardt, Laird of Barr; James Montgomerie, the third son, was minister of Dunlop Church; and the fourth son, John Montgom- erie, of Cockilbie, married Jean, daughter of Captain Daniel Forrester, was en- voy of James VI to Spain, and died, 1683. There were also two daughters : one who married Graham, of Gruegar; and Mariot, married Robert Johnston, February 20, 1606.
WILLIAM MONTGOMERIE, of Brigend, second son of the last Sir Neil Mont- gomerie, married Jean Montgomerie, the heiress of Brigend, in the parish of Maybole, earldom of Carrick, county Ayr, and received the grant of Brigend, September 16, 1602. The precept for the grant states that she was daughter of John Montgomerie, the son and heir of James Montgomerie, of Brigend, but it has not been determined to what branch of the family she belonged. James Mont- gomerie is mentioned as of Brigend, October 19, 1546, and he married Marjorie Muir. Brigend is situated on the banks of Doon, at the Bridge of Doon, nearly opposite Alloway Kirkyard, the scene of "Tam O'Shanter's Ride". William Montgomerie died between 1652 and 1658.
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JOHN MONTGOMERIE, eldest son of William of Brigend, died before his father and prior to 1647. He married in 1621, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Baxter, of Shrinston. Their marriage settlement, still partly legible, was brought to America by his grandson William Montgomerie, in 1701, and is still in the pos- session of his descendants.
HUGH MONTGOMERY, of Brigend, son of John, succeeded his grandfather, prior to 1658, and at the death of his uncle John Montgomerie, of Lainshaw, became eldest heir male and chief of the ancient house of Montgomery, a title and honor that has been transmitted to his descendants in Philadelphia. He was seized of numerous lands, mills and other possessions on the "Waters of Doon," lying with- in the earldom of Carrick and schriefdom of Ayr, but all of his large estate be- came dissipated by a series of misfortunes, the chief of which, it is said, was the loaning and pledging of large sums of money to his kinsman the Earl of Lou- don, which were never repaid.
He died at the residence of his second son James Montgomery, a merchant of Glasgow, May 6, 1710, at the age of eighty years, having lived at the ex- pense of these sons for the last twelve years of his life. In 1692, he, with his eldest son and heir, William Montgomery, of Brigend, conveyed all his estate of Brigend to his kinsman John Montgomerie, of Booch; including the lands of Potterstoun, Markland, Yeomanstoun, Barnstoun and Constable; a tene- ment in the town of Ayr, called "The Skinner's Yeard", and even their seats in the kirk.
Hugh Montgomery, of Brigend, married in 1653, Katharine, second daugh- ter of Sir William Scott, of Clerkinton, eldest son of Laurence Scott, of the Buccleuch family ; the latter a clerk of the Privy Council in the time of Charles I. Sir William Scott was knighted by Charles I, in 1641; was successively Clerk of the Sessions and of the Privy Council; member of Parliament for Haddington, 1645; Ordinary Lord, June 8, 1649; one of the commissioners for the county of Edinburgh, 1650; member of the Committee of Estates at Perth, 1651. He died December 23, 1656. His first wife, and the mother of Mrs. Hugh Montgomery, was Barbara, daughter of Sir John Dalmahoy.
Hugh and Katharine (Scott) Montgomery had two sons and several daugh- ters. He was a strong non-conformist, a fact which may have contributed to his financial ruin. The second son James Montgomery, at whose house he died, had early "gone into trade", and was a successful merchant at Glasgow.
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, eldest son of Hugh and Katharine (Scott) Montgom- ery, born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1654, married there January 8, 1684-5, Isabel Bur- nett, daughter of Robert Burnett, of Lethintie, Aberdeenshire, a well-to-do mem- ber of the Society of Friends, who in 1682 purchased a one twenty-fourth share in the lands of West Jersey, and an additional one twenty-fourth in the following year, and thus became one of the proprietaries of that province, to which he removed about 1700, and died there in 1714. This Robert Burnett, who had married a daughter of Alexander Forbes, of Ballogee, was intimately asso- ciated with Robert Barclay, of Ury, Scotland, author of "Barclay's Apology", also a proprietary of West Jersey, and very prominent in the Society of Friends. Robert Burnett suffered considerable persecution for his religious convictions. On March 12, 1675, he, with other Friends of Aberdeenshire, was arrested at a conventicle in Aberdeen and confined in Aberdeen Tolbooth. A letter written by him while there confined is in the possession of his descendants in America.
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William Montgomery, of Brigend, was involved in the financial ruin that overtook his father, and joined the latter in the conveyances of the ancestral estates at Brigend and elsewhere in the county of Ayr, in 1692. After that date and up to the date of their embarkation for America, as shown by an affi- davit made several years later, he resided with his family in the town of Ayr, where his second son and third child, William Montgomery, the direct ances- tor of the subject of this sketch, was born. William Montgomery had become a convert to the teachings of George Fox, the faith of his wife's family, and their children were reared in that faith.
About the beginning of the year 1700 William and Isabel (Burnett) Mont- gomery and their seven children accompanied Isabel's parents to New Jersey, and located on a tract of five hundred acres of land, recently surveyed to Robert Burnett, on Doctor's Creek, about two miles from the present site of Allen- town, Monmouth county, New Jersey. This tract they named Eglinton after the ancestral estate of the family in Scotland, and it remained the principal residence of their descendants for over a century. The deed of March 20, 1706, for Eglinton, was made by "Robert Burnett, of Freehold, in the county of Monmouth, within ye Eastern Division of Nova Caesaria, one of the prin- cipal Proprietors of the Eastern Division of the Province aforesaid, in Amer- ica, Gentleman" to "William Montgomerie, of the same town, county and Di- vision, Yeoman, Son-in-law of ye said Robert", and was for five hundred acres, "whereon ye said William Montgomery now dwelleth". William Montgomery died at Eglinton, Monmouth county, New Jersey, about 1721. He and his wife Isabel (Burnett) had seven children, all born in Scotland.
Robert Montgomery, the eldest son born at Brigend, in 1687, was the eldest male representative of the ancient and honorable family of Montgomery. Soon after the death of his father Robert Maxwell, a son-in-law of James Mont- gomery, of Glasgow, the uncle to Robert, before-mentioned, wrote to John Car- lye, of Alexandria, Virginia, seeking information with reference to William Montgomery, of Brigend, and his children, stating that "I and my wife, and his other friends in Scotland, are very desirous to know what may have be- come of him and his children, and the rather because we have reason to be fully persuaded that he or his eldest son has an unquestionable right to the ti- tle and honors of Lord Lyle in Scotland, and also to a part of the estate of Brigend, which was not sold, but was squeezed out of his hands by a rapacious lawyer, Sir David Cunningham. In the trials that have been with Sir David's successors, it hath been cast up to the lawyers, that Mr. Montgomerie of Bri- gend was wronged, and that a part of the estate is to be recovered almost for the claiming." On receipt of this information, Robert Montgomery, the eldest son, decided to go to Scotland to claim his ancestral titles and estate but later abandoned it, and no claim has ever been made by the American descendants of the Montgomerys of Ayrshire to the title and honors to which they are en- titled as eldest male representatives of the ancient house of Montgomery, of France and Scotland.
Robert Montgomery married, February 8, 1709-10, Sarah, daughter of Henry Stacy, of Burlington county, New Jersey, and in 1711 settled on a large tract of land in Newton township. Gloucester county, New Jersey, set apart for them as Sarah's share of her father's estate, but in 1721, on the death of his
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father, returned to Eglinton, where they resided until Robert's death, in 1766. His eldest son, of the same name, inherited Eglinton, and at his death, in 1829, it was divided among his daughters thus passing out of the Montgomery name. John and William Montgomery, sons of Robert Montgomery, came to Phila- delphia, where a number of their descendants still reside; the descendants of the former representing the eldest male line of the ancient family in default of male issue of Robert above mentioned.
James Montgomery, the third son of William of Brigend and his wife Isabel Burnett, died in Upper Freehold, Monmouth county, New Jersey, about 1756, leaving four sons, Robert, Alexander, James and William. Of these Alexander, who married Eunice West, in 1761, was the father of Thomas West Mont- gomery, M. D., a distinguished physician, who by his wife Mary (Berrien) Montgomery was the father of John Berrien Montgomery (1796-1873), Com- modore of the United States Navy, a midshipman on the "Niagara" at the famous Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813, Congress presenting him with a sword and a vote of thanks for his gallantry on this occasion. He served un- der Decatur, at Algiers; commanded the "Portsmouth", with which he seized Lower California in the Mexican War; and commanded the Pacific Squadron during the Civil War. He was made rear-admiral in 1866.
Alexander Montgomery, the fourth and youngest son of William of Brigend and Isabel Burnett, is thought to have died unmarried. Of the two eldest daughters, Anne and Elizabeth, we have no record beyond the dates of their birth. Jane, the youngest child, married a Montgomery, of the Irish branch of the family, and they removed to Virginia.
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY second son and fourth child of William Montgom- ery, of Brigend, county Ayr, Scotland, later of Eglinton, Monmouth county. New Jersey (1654-1721), and his wife Isabel (Burnett) was born in the town of Ayr, county Ayr, Scotland, February 7, 1693, less than a year after his fath- er and grandfather were "squeezed" out of their ancestral estate of Brigend, as asserted by his kinsfolk of Glasgow. He came with his parents to New Jer- sey at the age of seven years and was reared at the family mansion of "Eglin- ton" in Monmouth county, near Allentown, then in the township of Upper Freehold. He removed to Philadelphia when a young man and was engaged in the mercantile business there for many years. In 1758 he returned to Upper Freehold, Monmouth county, New Jersey, and he resided there until his death, in 1771.
He married (first) Susanna Wood, widow of John Wood, of Chesterfield, Burlington county, and had by her one daughter, Isabel, married (first) John Jr., son of Governor John Reading, of New Jersey, and (second) Henry Bailey. He married (second) Margaret (Price), widow of Benjamin Paschall, of Phil- adelphia, and daughter of Reese and Sarah (Meredith) Price, of Chester coun- ty, Pennsylvania, of Welsh ancestry; and (third) Mary Ellis, of New Jersey.
MAJOR WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, son of William Montgomery above men- tioned, and his second wife, Margaret (Price) Paschall, born in Philadelphia, 1751, went with his parents to Upper Freehold, Monmouth county, New Jer- sey, at the age of seven years and resided in that county all his life, dying there in 1815. He enlisted in the Monmouth County Militia at the outbreak of the Revolution and was in active service as Captain of the Second Company,
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in the Monmouth County Regiment, under Colonel David Brearlet, and was promoted to major of that regiment, October 13, 1777. Several of his cou- sins were also soldiers in the Revolution and like him made a splendid record for valiant service in the cause of national independence.
William Montgomery married Mary Rhea, of a prominent Scotch-Irish fam- ily in New Jersey, a niece of General Robert Rhea, and they had four sons and four daughters. Three of the sons, William, Robert Rhea, and Jonathan, went to New Orleans, and David, the other son, went to Kentucky, whence some of his descendants later migrated to Louisiana.
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY eldest son of William and Mary (Rhea) Montgom- ery, born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, December 7, 1778, went to New Orleans in 1803, when a young man, and married there, in 1813, Maria Louise Pulcherie of French ancestry, who died in Paris, France. He was in active service under General Jackson until after the retreat of the British force.
RICHARD R. MONTGOMERY, second son of William and Maria Louise (Pulch- crie) Montgomery, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 2, 1818, re- turned to the North, married Elizabeth Binney, of Philadelphia, and lived for many years at Glenays, Delaware county, Pennsylvania.
ARCHIBALD ROGER MONTGOMERY, son of Richard R. and Elizabeth (Binney) Montgomery, born in Paris, France, May 30, 1847, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1867. Mr. Montgomery lost an arm, part of his left hand and his left eye by the premature discharge of a cannon, while firing minute guns at the funeral obsequies to President Lincoln, April 25, 1865. He is a member of the Radnor Hunt, the University, Atheneum of Philadelphia, andi Merion Cricket Clubs ; and is a trustee of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and of the Philadelphia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and the Episcopal Academy. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, and the Society of Colonial Wars. He is unmarried.
DANIEL WALDO HOWARD
DANIEL WALDO HOWARD, of Philadelphia, a descendant by both maternal and paternal line from ancestors who took an active part in the Revolutionary strug- gle, comes of early New England ancestry.
THOMAS HAYWARD, the immigrant ancestor of the subject of this sketch on the paternal side, came from Cambridge, England, shipping from Ipswich in the ship "Elizabeth," William Andrews, master, March 7, 1631 ; in the same vessel came John Ames, the ancestor of the prominent Massachusetts family of that name. Thomas Hayward settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where in 1640 he had a grant of land "north-west of North Hill". In 1645 he was one of the fifty-four original proprietors of Bridgewater, and one of the first permanent settlers there. He was made a freeman of the town in 1657, and is mentioned on the records of the town in 1656 as "Goodman Hayward, Senr." He survived his wife Martha, and died in 1681, leaving a will dated in 1678, witnessed by his son Thomas, the eldest. His other children were: Nathaniel; John; Joseph ; Elisha; Mary, at her father's death widow of Edward Mitchell; and Martha, wife of John Howard, who with his brother James had come from England and settled in Duxbury prior to 1643, when he is mentioned as among those "able to bear arms". He was also one of the first settlers of Bridgewater, and is said to have lived in the family of Captain Miles Standish.
JOHN HAYWARD, third son of Thomas and Martha Hayward, who since the name was pronounced and after 1700 to be spelled Howard, was commonly called "John Howard of the Plain" to distinguish him from his brother-in-law John Howard, above mentioned. John Hayward was a considerable landholder in Bridgewater, and one of the prominent men of the new settlement. On the old records we find that in 1668 "A Way toward Boston" is laid out "to John Hay- ward's Range". He was a supervisor of highways in 1671. During King Philip's War, under date of May 13, 1676, it is recorded that Thomas Hayward and others, having discovered that the Indians were about to come down upon the settlement, sent a messenger the same night to the Governor at Plymouth to send Captain Church with his company; that Captain Church came with the messengers as far as Meponset and agreed to meet the settlers the next day and move against the Indians. A company of twenty men, including John Hayward, therefore went out on Monday "supposing to meet with Capt. Church; but they came upon the enemy and fought with them, and took seventeen of them alive, and also much plunder ; and they all returned, and not one of them fell by the enemy ; and received no help from Capt. Church."
John Hayward married, about 1662, Sarah, daughter of Experience Mitchell. Children : Sarah, wife of Nathaniel Brett; John, born 1667; Joseph, of whom presently ; Mary, married William Ames; Thomas, born 1674; Benjamin, 1677; Susanna, wife of Thomas Hayward, a cousin ; Elizabeth, wife of Edmond Raw- son ; Benoni, born 1685, married Hannah Gould; Mercy, 1687. The estate of "John Howard of the Plain", was settled in 1710.
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JOSEPH HOWARD, second son of John Hayward, or "John Howard of the Plain". and his wife Sarah (Mitchell) Hayward, born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1669, was one of the owners of a saw-mill in West Bridgewater, and in 1698, when the town was about to build a cart-bridge over the river, agreed to bear part of the expense of its erection over and above what the rest of the town did because the mill-pond made a necessity for the bridge. He was a representa- tive from Bridgewater, county of Plymouth, to the General Court of Massachu- setts Bay Colony, as the provincial law-making body was then known, for the years 1708-10. He was reared in the home of his uncle, Thomas Hayward, the most distinguished and honored man of Bridgewater; one of the first military officers of the town, lieutenant in 1667 and captain in 1692; a magistrate for many years; chosen Governor's assistant in 1690 and Justice of the Courts of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1692 to his death, August 15, 1698, by a fall from his horse. Captain Hayward was married but left no children, and his nephew Joseph Hayward was his chief heir and successor to many of his posi- tions of trust. Joseph Hayward died in 1758.
Joseph Howard married, in 1700, Mehitable, daughter of Daniel Dunham. Children : Mehitable, born 1701, married, 1738, Samuel Edson ; Thomas, 1702; Joanna, 1704, married, 1731, David Snow; Melatiah, 1706, married Samuel Dunbar; Hannah, 1708, died unmarried, 1785; Sarah, born 1710, died unmar- Dunbar ; Hannah, 1708, died unmarried, 1785; Sarah, 1710, died unmarried; Jo- seph, 1713, died 1838; Daniel, 1715, died 1749; Benjamin, of whom presently.
BENJAMIN HOWARD, youngest son of Joseph and Mehitable (Dunham) How- ard, born in West Bridgewater, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, in 1717, lived all his life by the river in that town, dying in 1773. He married, in 1742. Sar- ah, daughter of Recompense Cary, and they had issue: Sarah, born 1744, mar- ried, 1769, Issachar Snell, Esq .; Joseph, born 1746; Mary, 1750, married 1777, Captain Zebedee Snell; Daniel, 1752; Benjamin, 1754; Cary, of whom present- ly. Sarah (Cary) Howard died in 1776.
CARY HOWARD, youngest son of Benjamin and Sarah (Cary) Howard, born in West Bridgewater, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, June 15, 1759, entered the patriot army as a private in Captain Amasa Sopor's company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's regiment, June 26, 1776, and served in that company on active duty until December 1, 1776; was at Castle Island, August 13, 1776; his name appears on the several muster rolls of the company up to December I, when he was entitled to pay from November I, the roll of the latter date showing him entitled to pay for three months' service. He next enlisted in Captain Nathan Alden's company, Colonel James Hall's regiment, with which he served until March 7, 1777, signing an order for three months' pay at Bris- tol, on that date. We next find him as sergeant of Captain John Ames' com- pany, which marched, June 26, 1778, to Rhode Island to join Colonel Wade's regiment ; he had then served in that company twenty-four days. From July 25 to September 9, 1778, he was sergeant-major in Captain Nathan Packard's company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment, on service in Rhode Island. He probably left the service soon after this latter date.
Cary Howard married, April 25, 1779, Mary Thompson, born June 10, 1758, a granddaughter of Archibald Thompson, who came from Ireland in 1724. On his marriage Cary Howard settled at or near Muddy Pond, at the foot of Bu-
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gle Hill in the township of Ware, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, where he lived until his death, September 1, 1820, his widow Mary surviving him until June 9, 1830. Children : Elizabeth, married Richard Bond; Benjamin; Cary ; Mary, married Artemas Joslyn; Thompson, born 1793, died 1862; Sophia, mar- ried Prince Ford; William H., of whom presently.
WILLIAM H. HOWARD, fourth son and eighth child of Cary and Mary (Thompson) Howard, born in Ware, Hampshire county, Massachusetts, June 3, 1798, was a mechanical genius and introduced a number of notable im- provements in machinery for the manufacture of woolen goods in which he be- came interested at an early date in his native county. He invented one of the earliest wire-drawing machines, later developed in other hands into the present perfected machine. The process of making continuous lead pipe also originated with him, as did the perfected machinery for braiding Tuscan straw. He re- moved to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and from 1837 to 1842, in partnership with Samuel Blake, conducted a satinet mill at Rockdale, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He died in Media, the county seat of Delaware county, Sep- tember 7, 1879. William H. Howard married, February 10, 1819, Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Peter Slater by his wife, Zilpah Chapin, and granddaugh- ter of Captain Peter Slater, a sea captain who sailed between Boston and Eng- land, and died at sea when his son Peter was quite young. His widow Abigail, born in 1730, died in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 30, 1814, in her eighty- fourth year. At the time of her husband's death they lived in Boston, on Elm street, near what was later known as Wild's Tavern.
CAPTAIN PETER SLATER was born May 2, 1760, and left an orphan at an early age; he was apprenticed to William Gray, a rope-maker, and assisted in the affray between the British soldiers and the rope-makers at Gray's rope- walk which led up to the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770. Peter's share in the affray, being a lad of ten years, was to hand forward to the older lads the way-lay sticks used in the rope-making with which the soldiers were belaboured and worsted. He was also one of the boys who, disguised with blackened faces and as Indians, on December 17, 1773, threw the hated tea overboard in Boston harbor. His master, William Gray, had forbidden him, a lad of thir- teen years, to take part in the street demonstrations of this exciting time, and on the evening in question had locked him in his room, but escaping by a win- dow he made one of the immortal Boston Tea Party, to whom a monument is erected in Hope cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts, where the later days of Captain Peter Slater were spent. On June 17, 1775, as afterwards related by him to his son Benjamin, Peter Slater stood on Fort Hill and witnessed the Battle of Bunker Hill. On April 6, 1777, he enlisted as matross in Captain Samuel Treadwell's company of artillery from Worcester, in the battalion of Colonel Crane, and served three years, being honorably discharged April 6, 1780. He was present at the Battle of Brandywine, spent the winter in the camp at Valley Forge, and joined in the pursuit of the British army across New Jersey, participating in the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, where the per- fidy of General Lee almost lost the battle to the Americans. In June, 1779, he participated in the gallant defence of Stony Point, where he was taken prisoner and was confined at New York for five months.
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