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RICHARD SMITH (I), son of Rev. Henry Smith, was one of the early Eng- lish purchasers of land in New Jersey and Long Island, one of the New Eng- land colony which founded the first English settlement on Long Island, and is said to have lived at Salem, New Jersey, as early as 1675.
RICHARD SMITH (2), son of Richard Smith (I), was the first patentee and founder of Smithtown, Long Island, in 1683. He was also one of the colony of New Englanders who purchased land near Woodbridge, New Jersey, and died at the latter place in 1696, leaving a wife Elinor, and children: Elizabeth, Dorothy, Richard and Thomas, mentioned in his will, dated July 17, 1692, and probated April 30, 1696.
RICHARD SMITH (3), son of Richard (2) and Elinor Smith, was a resident of Smithtown, Suffolk county, Long Island, New York, in 1693, married at about that date Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Adams, of Wood- * bridge, New Jersey, of New England ancestry, and later removed to Cape May, New Jersey. Richard and Rebecca (Adams) Smith had children: William, Richard, John, Daniel, Jonathan, Jeremiah and Elizabeth.
RICHARD SMITH (4), son of Richard and Rebecca (Adams) Smith, was born December 22, 1715. He married Hannah Somers, born 1721, daughter of James and Abigail (Adams) Somers, and granddaughter of John and Han- nah (Hodgins) Somers, and they had children: Rachel, married Casper Smith; Judith, married Andrew Crawford; Hannah, married Henry Ludlam; Daniel, of whom presently; James; John.
DANIEL SMITH, son of Richard (4) and Hannah (Somers) Smith, was born at Cape May, New Jersey, January 14, 1755. He came to Philadelphia when a young man and engaged in business there. He died in Philadelphia, June 5, 1836. He married, October 24, 1780, at Philadelphia, Elizabeth Shute, born in Philadelphia, July 3, 1760, died there, February 9, 1799.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM SHUTE, father of Elizabeth (Shute) Smith, was born in Philadelphia. He was a lieutenant of Captain Richard Barret's company, Southwark Guards, of Philadelphia, and was in active service in a battalion commanded by Major Lewis Nichols in 1777. He died in Philadelphia, in 1783.
Lieutenant William Shute married, January 31, 1754, at Philadelphia, Eliz- abeth Jackson, born at Philadelphia, October, 1731, buried there, November 21, 1763.
Daniel and Elizabeth (Shute) Smith had children: James; Francis Gurney, of whom presently; Richard S .; Daniel; William S .; Juliana, married John Poulson ; Charles.
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FRANCIS GURNEY SMITH, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Shute) Smith, was born in Philadelphia, January 4, 1784, and died there, February 12, 1873. He was for many years a prominent and successful merchant of the city and ac- tively associated with and interested in its commercial, financial, industrial and business interests. He married, February 7, 1807, Eliza Mackie, born in Phil- adelphia, June 1, 1787, died there, January 14, 1861. Francis Gurney and Eliza (Mackie) Smith had children: Daniel, married Hannah S. Lewis and had five children; Thomas M. Smith, M. D., of Brandywine Hundred, New- castle county, Delaware, married Eleuthera du Pont ; Richard S., married El- len Marion Clark and had six children ; Joanna, married Alexis Irenée du Pont, of the famous powder manufacturing company, and had eight children, of whom the eldest, Frances E., became the wife of Bishop Coleman, of Delaware, and another, Eleuthera, became the wife of Edward G. Bradford, judge of the Supreme Court of Delaware; Francis Gurney, Jr., of whom presently ; S. Deca- tur Smith, married Elizabeth Cuthbert; Maria, married George F. Thomas; Edward H. Smith.
FRANCIS GURNEY SMITH (2), M. D., fourth son of Francis Gurney (I) and Eliza (Mackie) Smith, was born in Philadelphia, March 8, 1818. He was edu- cated at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his classical degree in 1837, and his medical diploma three years later from the same institution. He studied medicine under his elder brother, Thomas M. Smith, M. D., of Brandywine Hundred, near Wilmington, Delaware. After serving as resident physician in the insane department of the Pennsylvania Hospital for one year he assisted his brother in the practice of medicine in Newcastle county until 1842, when he located in Philadelphia and took up the regular practice of his profession there. He became one of the lecturers for the Medical Association and was one of the most successful practitioners of his day, especially in obstetrics. He edited the Medical Examiner from 1844 to 1854. He joined Dr. Allen in estab- lishing his school of private instruction in medical science, one of the most suc- cessful of the period, and in 1852 he was chosen a member of the new faculty of the medical department of the Pennsylvania College, filling the chair of Physiology for eleven years. In 1853 he was elected to the chair of In- stitutes of Medicine, and in 1859 was elected consulting physician of Pennsyl- vania Hospital. He was also one of the first staff of the Protestant Episcopal Hospital. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was on the staff of two other city hospitals and was called to direct the United States Military Hospital on Christian street and held that position until 1863, when he was assigned to spe- cial work in the care of wounded officers. He was prominent in most of the medical and scientific societies of his day, delivering a number of lectures and addresses before the American Medical Society, the Obstetrical Association and a number of other institutions, and being one of the most popular lecturers on technical medical science of his time. He was professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania, 1865-76. He died in Philadelphia, April 6, 1878.
Dr. Francis Gurney Smith (2) married, March 19, 1844, Catharine Madelaine Dutilh, born in Philadelphia, November 7, 1823. They had children: I. Anna D., married Nicholas Thouron ; daughter, Margaret. 2. Robert M. Smith, M. D .; graduate University of Pennsylvania, 1873; married, 1876, Florence, daughter of Dr. Edward Pease; children: F. Gurney, Vernon Pease, Godfrey
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Dutilh, Florence Pease, Robert Meade and Philip Pease. 3. Edmund D., mar- ried Rosa Miller ; children: Katharine M., married Herbert Wheeler; Rosalie; Edmund Dutilh. 4. Alexis Dupont Smith, M. D., the subject of this sketch.
ALEXIS DUPONT SMITH, M. D., youngest son of Francis Gurney Smith (2), M. D., and Catharine Madelaine (Dutilh) Smith was born in Philadelphia, Jan- uary 17, 1859. He prepared for college at the Protestant Episcopal Academy and Dr. Faires' Classical Institute, Philadelphia, and St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and entered the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his medi- cal diploma from the medical department of the University in 1882, and en- tered upon the general practice of medicine in Philadelphia. He is a member of the American Medical Association and other medical and scientific societies and of the consulting staff of the Germantown Hospital, and 1884-94 was a surgeon in the First Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania. Dr. Smith married, October 28, 1885, Emma Martyn, daughter of J. Henry and Emma (Martyn) Dunn, of Cornwall, England, and they have one child, Dorothy Dunn, born March 1, 1889. Dr. Alexis Dupont Smith is a member of the Pennsyl- vania Sons of the Revolution, in right of descent from Lieutenant William Shute, of the Southwark Guards, Philadelphia.
ANTOINE BOURNONVILLE
ANTOINE DE BOURNONVILLE, A. B., A. M., M. D., the grandfather of An- toine Bournonville, of Philadelphia, was born in Lyons, France, August 6, 1797. He received his medical degree in 1818, at the Royal College of Den- mark, Copenhagen, and practiced his profession in Copenhagen and was a surgeon in the Danish navy for several years, receiving a Danishi title and hon- ors. He later traveled in Siberia and northern Europe, and in 1825 migrated to the Island of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, where he remained a short time and then crossed over to Philadelphia, where he married, in 1826, Char- lotte Abadie, also of French extraction. On his marriage Dr. de Bournonville located at Norfolk, Virginia, but in 1827 returned to Philadelphia and took up the practice of his profession in that city. Desiring to have a medical degree from an American college, he attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical Col- lege and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at that institution in 1828. He became a member of the Philadelphia Medical Society, December, 1828, a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, May, 1837, and of the Philadelphia County Medical Society in 1852. He was consulting physician for the French and German Benevolent Societies of Philadelphia and a prac- titioner of high standing; he was the first to prescribe as an antiseptic and caus- tic permanganate of potassium. Dr. de Bournonville was one of the trustees of the Girard estate. He was a prominent Mason and served for two years as Grand Master of the State, and was also a prominent member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and was identified with numerous charitable and benevolent organizations. He retired from the active practice of his pro- fession in October, 1862, and died in Philadelphia, February 27, 1863.
Dr. Antoine and Charlotte (Abadie) de Bournonville had children: Dr. Au- gustus C. Bournonville, of whom presently; Charlotte, married Dr. Charles H. Voorhees, of New Brunswick, New Jersey; Eugenia, married Hugh B. McCauley, of Elkton, Maryland; Louisa J., married Andrew J. Moulder ; Charles E., died unmarried in San Francisco, California.
AUGUSTUS CASPAR HILARIAN BOURNONVILLE, M. D., usually known as Dr. Augustus C. Bournonville, eldest son of Dr. Antoine and Charlotte ( Abadie) de Bournonville, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, March 10, 1827. His parents removed soon after his birth to Philadelphia and he was reared and educated in that city. He entered the College Department of the University of Penn- sylvania in 1842, class of 1846, but left at the close of the sophomore year. Studying medicine under his father he entered Jefferson Medical College and received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1847. He was physician to the Jewish Foster Home, the French Benevolent Society of Philadelphia and St. Joseph's Hospital, and was a member of the German Society of Pennsylvania. He was appointed by President Lincoln, November 7, 1862, Surgeon of Vol- unteers, with the rank of major, and he had charge of the Military Hospital at
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Philadelphia until his resignation, March 23, 1863. He died in Philadelphia, December 3, 1906.
Dr. Augustus C. Bournonville married (first), March 6, 1855, Kate S. Moulder, who died November 30, 1870, He married (second) Mrs. Amelia (Smith) Wilson, daughter of Adam Smith, of Philadelphia. Dr. Augustus C. and Kate S. (Moulder) Bournonville had children: Charlotte Abadie, bon December 22, 1855, married Arthur Dorrance, Esq., of Philadelphia; Esther Moulder, born December 29, 1856, deceased; Antoine, of whom presentiy. Kate Augusta, born November 11, 1870, married William C. Watt.
Kate S. Moulder, the first wife of Dr. Augustus C. Bournonville and the mother of the subject of this sketch, was a daughter of John Nicholson Moul- der, of Washington, D. C., by his wife Esther Souder ; granddaughter of Hon. William Moulder, Associate Justice of the Common Pleas Court of Philadel- phia, and treasurer of Philadelphia county, by his wife Martha Duncan; and great-granddaughter of Lieutenant William Moulder, of the Revolution.
WILLIAM MOULDER, SR., last above named, born 1724, died 1798, was elected one of the deputies from Philadelphia to attend the Provincial Convention that met in that city, July 15, 1774, of which Charles Willing was chairman and Charles Thompson, clerk. After the breaking out of hostilities Moulder was commissioned, March 15, 1776, Second Lieutenant in Captain Thomas Rob- inson's company, Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel Anthony Wayne, which was recruited under authority of resolution of Congress, December 9, 1775, to serve for the term of one year. Captain Robinson's company, with two others under the command of Major Nicholas Hausegger, reached the city of New York, March 28, 1776, and on April 7 the battalion was assigned to Lord Stirling's brigade at Caldwell's, Long Island. On April 24 the bat- talion was transferred to the Fourth Brigade, General Nathaniel Greene, but only a few days elapsed before they were ordered by Washington to reinforce the army of invasion in Canada. By June 5 they had reached the fort at the mouth of the Sorel, about midway between Montreal and Quebec, where they found the remnant of General Montgomery's army and General William Thompson's Pennsylvania brigade. General Sullivan, who was in command of the army, ordered an attack on the British force at Three Rivers. This was the maiden battle of Wayne's battalion, in which he led the second column in the attack on June 9, 1776. The movement resulted in failure and the loss of many prominent officers. The army under Wayne began its retreat to Ticon- deroga, which it reached and went into garrison, the enemy in active pursuit. The gallant behavior of Captain Robinson and his company are mentioned by Wayne in orders three days after the battle. Before the winter set in Lieu- tenant William Moulder resigned his commission, October 1, 1776, and retired from the service.
After his retirement from active military service Lieutenant Moulder appears to have taken an active interest in the promotion of the patriot cause at home. In 1779 he was a member of the committee for the Regulation of the Sale of Provisions, a committee appointed to prevent the sale of flour and other pro- visions in a manner inimical to the interests of the people and the government. Lieutenant Moulder built a powder house for the government. The will of William Moulder, Sr., is dated September 15, 1793, and was probated at Phila-
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delphia, August 31, 1798. He married, August 16, 1769, at his house, Front and Race streets, Mary Miller; and two of his daughters, Mary and Sarah, were successively the wives of General William Duncan, whose sister Martha became the wife of his son William Moulder Jr.
ANTOINE BOURNONVILLE, eldest son of Dr. Augustus C. and Kate S. (Moul- der) Bournonville, was born in Philadelphia, November 7, 1860. He received his preliminary education at the Friends Central School, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco High School, and matriculated at the University of California and later at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1877 he has been in active business as a member of the firm trading as Alfred F. Moore, manufacturers of insulated electric wire. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, to which he was elected November 9, 1891, as a great-great- grandson of Lieutenant William Moulder. He is a member of the Union League and Philadelphia Cricket Clubs; of the German Society of Pennsylvania; the French Benevolent Society of Philadelphia; and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Department of Philadelphia. He is associated with the Calvary Presbyterian Church. He is a director of the County Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia, and connected with other prominent institutions of his native city.
Antoine Bournonville married, April 18, 1900, Caroline Howard Thompson, daughter of Samuel S. and Annie I. (Mitchell) Thompson, of Philadelphia, and they had children: Antoine, Jr., born January 22, 1901, died September 22, 1902 ; Anna Katharine, born May 15, 1902; Caroline, born February I, 1905.
NEVILLE B. CRAIG
NEVILLE B. CRAIG, of Philadelphia, for a quarter of a century connected with civil engineering work conducted by the United States Coast and Geodetic Sur- vey, the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, various railways, and the De- partment of Public Works of Philadelphia, is a great-grandson of Major Isaac Craig, and great-great-grandson of General John Neville, both distinguished officers in the Revolutionary army.
MAJOR ISAAC CRAIG was born in Hillsborough, county Down, Ireland, about the year 1742, and came to Philadelphia about the close of the year 1765. He had learned the trade of a carpenter in his native town, and after working as a journeyman for a time to familiarize himself with the mode of doing business in his adopted city, became a master carpenter and builder, acquiring some emi- ence and material success prior to the breaking out of the Revolution. In No- vember, 1775, Isaac Craig was appointed first lieutenant of the first company of marines, recruited and sent out by the new government of the American Col- onies. He served for ten months on the "Andrew Doria", commanded by the gallant Captain Nicholas Biddle, of Philadelphia, who later lost his life on the Carolina coast, by the blowing up of his ship, the "Randolph", in an action with a British cruiser. The "Andrew Doria" formed one of the fleet under the com- mand of Commodore Hopkins, and among its more noted achievements was the descent upon the Island of New Providence, West Indies, and the capture of the two forts, Nassau and Montagu, with a large amount of cannon, military stores and provisions, of which the struggling colonies were in great need, The cap- ture was effected by the landing of the marines, under the command of Captain Samuel Nichols and Major Isaac Craig. In the expedition were also others who later achieved great distinction in military and naval warfare, among whom were John Paul Jones and Commodore Abraham Whipple. Soon after his return to Philadelphia with the captured stores, Lieutenant Isaac Craig was promoted to a captaincy of marines, and Captain Nichols became a major. In the autumn of 1776, Major Nichols and his corps of marines were ordered to join the army as infantrymen, and as such they took part in the capture of the Hessians at Trenton on Christmas night, 1776, serving with Colonel Thomas Proctor's Artillery. He was commissioned captain of artillery, March 3, 1777, in Colo- nel Proctor's regiment, with which he continued to serve until the close of the Revolution. He took part in the second battle of Trenton and at Princeton. He was wounded, though not dangerously, at the battle of Brandywine, had command of the company which cannonaded the Chew House during the battle of Germantown, and spent the winter in the log huts with Washington's army on the bleak hillsides of Valley Forge.
Early in the spring of 1778, Captain Craig was sent with other officers to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to take instruction in a chemical laboratory, under one Captain Coren, in order that they might be able to assist in and superintend the manufacture of gun-powder for the use of the army. The proficiency there
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acquired, in the military laboratory, was especially valuable to him and the country he served, long years after, when, as quartermaster and storekeeper at Pittsburgh, he was called upon to furnish munitions of war to the armies of St. Clair and Wayne, on the Western frontier. He remained at Carlisle until Au- gust, 1778, and then joined his regiment in New Jersey. On March 30, 1779, he was ordered to the command of the fort at Billingsport, but remained there barely two months, being ordered on May 20, 1779, to report with the regi- ment at Easton to join General Sullivan in his expedition against the Six Nations and their white allies at Wyoming, in which expedition the artillery, of which Captain Craig was an officer, took an active part. They returned to Easton in October and proceeded soon after to the headquarters of the army at Moorestown, where the winter was spent. Captain Craig was detailed to command the expedition of January 14, 1780, against the British fortifications on Staten Island. On April 20, 1780, he was ordered to move the artillery and military stores from Carlisle to Pittsburgh, and accomplished the journey by May 29th, without expense to the Continental treasury. He was in command at Fort Pitt until July 29, 1781, when he embarked with his command for the falls of the Ohio, to join General George Rogers Clarke in his expedition against Detroit, which failed for want of funds and means of transportation. In November Captain Craig began his laborious journey back to Fort Pitt, where he arrived forty days later, on December 26, 1781, having been pro- moted to the rank of major during his absence. Fort Pitt and the town of Pittsburgh was destined to be the residence of Major Isaac Craig during the remainder of his life. The fort itself was rebuilt under his direction in 1782, and an attack by the British and Indians thereby averted. In November, 1782, Major Craig was sent with a small detachment to examine and report upon military posts said to have been established by the British at Sandusky and at the mouth of the Cuyahoga. After a toilsome and perilous journey through the wilderness, he reached his destination and accomplished the purpose of the journey, but, by a misunderstanding with those in charge of his provisions, he failed to find them when he started to return, and had a very painful and trying journey back to Fort Pitt in the winter season.
At the close of the war, Major Craig formed a partnership with Colonel Stephen Bayard and carried on the mercantile and trading business at Pitts- burgh. They also dealt in lands and received a grant from the Penns for the first land sold within the limits of Pittsburgh, on January 22, 1784, the territory thereabouts having been previously claimed by the Province of Virginia and included in the county of Augusta, the seat of which was for a time at Fort Pitt. The town was laid out four months later by the Penns, and Craig and Bayard, waiving their rights under the previous purchase, received a deed for thirty-two lots in the town, dated December 31, 1784. They formed a partner- ship with William Turnbull, Peter Marmie and John Holkar, of Philadelphia, established branches near the present site of Youngstown, Ohio, and elsewhere, and greatly extended the scope of their business.
Major Craig, "who had a taste for and a very respectable knowledge of math- ematics, was an excellent carpenter, and was fond of mechanical arts generally and of philosophical experiments," was unexpectedly to himself elected a mem- ber of the American Philosophical Society in May, 1787. He was named as
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one of the trustees and incorporators of the Presbyterian Congregation of Pitts- burgh, by Act of Assembly in September, 1787. Colonel Bayard retired from the firm of Craig & Bayard in the spring of 1788, and, in October, 1789, the Philadelphia partners bought out Major Craig's interest.
Having married in February, 1785, Amelia Neville, daughter of General John Neville, then residing at Woodville, about eight miles from Pittsburgh, near the Washington turnpike, on land taken up under Virginia patents, Ma- jor Craig took up his residence on a farm adjoining his father-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Presly Neville. He, however, remained there but a short time, as with the organization of the new government under the Federal constitu- tion, his old commander and friend, General Henry Knox, was appointed sec- retary of war, and in February, 1791, Major Craig was offered and accepted the situation of deputy-quartermaster and military storekeeper at Pittsburgh, then really a frontier town, and destined to be for many years the most im- portant post for the distribution of troops, arms and provisions to the forts extending from Mackinaw to Fort Adams on the Mississippi. In this position his duties were various and at times very onerous. He had to provide flat- boats to convey the troops, military stores and provisions down the Ohio and Mississippi, as well as keel and other boats to convey similar supplies up the Allegheny river and French creek, to Fort Franklin and le Boeuf, and ox and horse sledges and wagons for overland supplies to Presque Isle, now Erie, and other points. With his experience in the artillery regiment and in building for- tifications, it frequently devolved upon him to superintend the erection of fortifications, under orders of the war department, building at Pittsburgh, in 1791, Fort Lafayette, and later similar works at le Boeuf, Presque Isle and Wheeling. Likewise in 1794 he undertook the establishment of a line of mailboats on the Ohio, to Fort Washington, the superintendence of which de- volved upon him.
Major Craig was the trusted representative of the War Department during the Whisky Insurrection of 1794, and in the equipment and transportation of Wayne's expedition against the Indians in the same year, and was offered the position of commissary-general of Wayne's army, but declined. The corres- pondence of Major Craig, while holding responsible positions in the public ser- vice, constitutes a very important addition to the history of that part of the country in which the busy years of his life were spent. Seven folio volumes of manuscript, copies of correspondence of Major Craig with the secretaries of War and Treasury, with quartermaster-generals, commanding officers of the various military posts along our whole western frontier during the twelve years, 1791-1803, and three bound volumes of letters from these various offi- cials to him during the same period; as well as all the commissions of Major Craig, from lieutenant of marines in 1775 to major in 1781 ; various memorials addressed to the Marine Committee, the Commander-in-Chief, and letters from Washington, Gates, Irvine, George Roberts Clarke, etc., were in the possession of Neville B. Craig, the son of Major Craig, at the time he prepared his "Sketch of the Life and Services of Isaac Craig", published in 1854.
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