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Edward Shippen married (first), in 1671, Elizabeth Lybrand, of Boston, who died October 25, 1688. He married (second), at Newport, Rhode Island, Septem- ber 4, 1689, Rebecca (Howard) Richardson, widow of Francis Richardson, and daughter of John Howard, of Yorkshire. She died in Philadelphia, February 26, 1704-05, and in 1706 Mr. Shippen married (third) Elizabeth (Wilcox) James, daughter of John Wilcox, and widow of Thomas James, from Bristol, England. Children of first marriage :
I. Frances, born February 2, 1672, died April 9, 1673.
2. Edward, born October 2, 1674, died November 2, 1674.
3. William, born October 4, 1675, died in 1676.
4. Elizabeth, born August 21, 1676, died August 16, 1688.
5. Edward, born February 10, 1677-78, died in Philadelphia, December 29, 1714; married Francenia Vanderheyden; had Margaret, who married a Jeykill.
6. Joseph, of whom further.
7. Mary, born May 6, 1681, died August 30, 1688.
8. Anne, born June 17, 1684, died December 6, 1712; married, July 10, 1706, Thomas Story.
Child of second marriage :
9. Elizabeth, born October 20, 1691, died August 8, 1692. Children of third marriage :
10. John, born in 1707, died same year.
II. William, born October 3, 1708, died February 3, 1730.
(III) JOSEPH SHIPPEN, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Lybrand) Shippen, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, February 28, 1678, and died at Germantown, Pennsylvania, June, 1741. He remained in Boston after the removal of his father to Philadelphia and married there Abigail Grosse. They removed to Philadelphia in 1704, his wife died there, June 28, 1716, and he married (second) Rose (Budd-
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Plumly) McWilliams, widow of John McWilliams and also widow of Charles Plumly, and daughter of Thomas and Sarah Budd. Joseph Shippen resided a time in Philadelphia, removing later to Germantown. He was an energetic and indus- trious business man, very prominent in his commercial and social life of Philadel- phia and took a deep interest in science and literature. Children of the first marriage :
I. Edward, of whom further.
2. Elizabeth, born in Philadelphia, April 17, 1705, died June 8, 1714.
3. Joseph, born in Philadelphia, November 28, 1706, died in Germantown, July, 1793; married Mary Kearney.
4. William, born August 31, 1708, died December 29, 1716.
5. Anne, born in Philadelphia, August 5, 1710; married Charles Willing.
6. Dr. William, born October 1, 1712, died November 4, 1801; married Susannah Harri- son, daughter of Joseph and Katharine (Noble) Harrison.
7. Elizabeth, born September 28, 1714, died December 3, 1714.
(IV) EDWARD SHIPPEN, son of Joseph and Abigail (Grosse) Shippen, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, July 9, 1703, and died in Lancaster, September 25, 1781. He was reared in Philadelphia to mercantile pursuits, in 1732 became a partner of James Logan, under firm name of Logan and Shippen, and in 1749 engaged in the fur trade with Thomas Lawrence, under title of Shippen and Law- rence. He was elected to Common Council of Philadelphia October 3, 1732, was elected by that body to the Board of Aldermen October 4, 1743, and a year later was elected mayor of the city. He was an accomplished scholar, a cultured gentle- man, and was very much esteemed throughout the province. He was a founder of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, and was a trustee twenty years. He became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1768, of which his son Edward was also a member. On engaging in the fur trade in 1749, he removed to Lancaster, and became an extensive landed proprietor on the then frontier of Pennsylvania. He laid out the town of Shippensburg, named for him. He was appointed prothonotary of Lancaster County, March 28, 1753, held that office until the Revolution, and was also clerk of the other courts of the county, as well as justice of the County and Provincial courts.
During the French and Indian wars he filled the position of paymaster and commissary of the British and Provincial troops, under Generals Forbes and Stanwix and Colonel Bouquet, and managed the purchase of supplies for the sev- eral expeditions with so much thoroughness, integrity and tact, as to receive the public thanks for his services in 1760. In fact, he discharged all his public duties in a manner eminently praiseworthy and honorable, and in his private intercourse always showed himself so virtuous and upright as to merit and hold the respect and esteem of all with whom he come in contact. At the breaking out of the Revo- lutionary struggle he was too old to take a prominent part, either in the field or in the Committee of Safety; but, nevertheless, always expressed himself warmly in behalf of the Colonies, and gave material aid. He had an unswerving faith in the ultimate success of the cause of independence, even in the darkest days of the struggle, but did not live to see it achieved. He married (first), September 20, 1725, Sarah Plumley, born in Philadelphia, November 8, 1706, died there April 28, 1735, daughter of Charles Plumley by his wife, Rose Budd, who became the second wife of Joseph Shippen, father of Edward. He married (second), in
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August, 1747, Mary (Gray) Nowland, widow of John Nowland, and daughter of William and Mary Gray, of Philadelphia. She was born in London, England, January 13, 1705-06, and died at Lancaster May 3, 1778.
Children of Edward and Sarah (Plumley) Shippen :
I. Elizabeth, born August 17, 1726, died August 29, 1726.
2. Joseph (twin), died in infancy, September 6, 1727.
3. Benjamin (twin), died in infancy, September 6, 1727.
4. Edward, born in Philadelphia, February 16, 1728-29.
5. Sarah, of whom further.
6. Joseph, born October 30, 1732; married Jane Galloway.
7. Rose, born in Philadelphia, September 10, 1734, died September 30, 1734.
(V) SARAH SHIPPEN, daughter of Edward and Sarah (Plumley) Shippen, was born in Philadelphia, February 22, 1730-31. She married Colonel James Burd. (Burd II.)
(Jordan: "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. I, pp. 100-07.)
(The Brooke Line).
The original home of this old and well-known family was Yorkshire, England, but for more than two centuries a branch has been resident in America.
(I) JOHN BROOKE, founder of this branch, embarked in the latter part of 1698 on the ship "Britannia," bound for Philadelphia. In consequence, however, of the outbreak of a contagious disease on the vessel, it was not allowed to come into Philadelphia, but was sent to the New Jersey side of the river. John Brooke and his wife, Frances, were quartered in the house of one William Cooper, of Cooper's Point, and died there soon after their arrival. They were buried in the graveyard at Haddonfield, New Jersey. Two of their sons, James and Matthew, the latter a minor, had accompanied them to America, and they left in England an older son, George, and two married daughters. The will of John Brooke shows that he left considerable property in England to those he left behind him, and the inventory of goods which he and his wife brought with them included everything necessary in a new country. They were accompanied by a maid servant. Before embarking for America John Brooke had purchased fifteen hundred acres of land of William Penn, to be taken anywhere between the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers, where vacant land could be found.
James and Matthew Brooke, after the death of their father, John Brooke, took up land in Limerick Township, Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania, where they settled, James on the right side of the road from Philadelphia, and Matthew, of whom further, on the left, nearly a mile apart.
(II) MATTHEW (I) BROOKE, son of John and Frances Brooke, presented the land for the Limerick Meetinghouse and also for the graveyard, in which nearly all the early Brookes were buried. He married Anne Evans, and died in 1720, leaving four children :
I. William.
2. George.
3. John.
4. Matthew, of whom further.
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(III) MATTHEW (2) BROOKE, son of Matthew (I) and Anne (Evans) Brooke, married Sarah Reese, and they were the parents of nine children, among them being Sarah, who married Daniel Buckley, who became a partner in the pur- chase of the Hopewell Furnace; Matthew, of whom further, and Thomas, of whom further. Matthew Brooke died at Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, in 1806, at the age of eighty-seven years.
(IV) MATTHEW (3) BROOKE, son of Matthew (2) and Sarah (Reese) Brooke, purchased the iron works. He married Elizabeth Barde, of an old family, and they have five children. Two daughters died young, and two sons, Edward and George, succeeded their father in the iron business and extended the works. Edward Brooke married Annie M. Clymer, a descendant of the family of the signer of the Declara- tion of Independence. George Brooke married Mary B. Irwin, daughter of John H. Irwin, of Philadelphia, and great-granddaughter of Frederick Augustus Muh- lenberg, first Speaker of the House in the First Congress. The youngest child, Elizabeth Brooke, married Hiester Clymer, once candidate for Governor of Penn- sylvania, and one of the representatives of the State in Congress.
(IV) THOMAS BROOKE, son of Matthew (2) and Sarah (Reese) Brooke, married Teresa Grant, and their son was:
1. Charles, of whom further.
(V) CHARLES BROOKE, son of Thomas and Teresa (Grant) Brooke, was born October 2, 1786, at Brooke Manor, on the Schuylkill River, near Pottstown, Penn- sylvania, a tract of land purchased from William Penn by his grandfather, John Brooke, a younger son of the famous family of that name of Yorkshire, England. Charles Brooke, early in life, purchased a tract of some thousands of acres of land in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he started the Hibernia Iron Works, in which he was very successful. He was a man of much influence in his State. He died July 17, 1866, aged eighty years. He married Jane Barde. (Barde V.) Their children were:
1. Mary, of whom further.
2. Louisa Catherine; married Cadwalader Wickersham, and had four children: i. Alice Morris; married John Miller Zinn, and had two children: George Cadwalader, died young; and Maurice Collins, married Julia Murray, and has one child : Alice Wickersham Zinn. ii. Josephine Mary, died young. iii. Paul Goddard, mar- ried (first) Annette Josephine Wilson; married (second) Mary Montgomery, and has one daughter, Mary Brooke, born August 2, 1921. iv. Helen Billopp.
3. Elizabeth Barde.
4. Jane Barde, married Nathaniel Burt.
5. Thomas Reese; married Harriet Phelps, and died at the end of six months; they had one son, Thomas Reese, who married Elizabeth Dodge, and has one child, Helen Brooke.
6. Charles Edward, deceased.
7. Horace Louis; married Gay Williams, and had four children: i. Horace Louis, Jr. ii. Dandridge Williams; married Augusta Scheaffer, and has two children: Gay Brooke and Bissell. iii. Christine Gay. iv. Charles Grubb; married Elizabeth Gunther ; has son and daughter, Charles, Jr., and Fairfax Bolling.
8. Henry Clay, served in the Civil War as an officer in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cav- alry, and died December 8, 1880, in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, unmarried.
9. A child who died in infancy and whose name was Ella.
10. Helen Theresa; married Thomas Harrison White, a great-grandson of the Rt. Rev. William White, D. D., the first Bishop consecrated by the Church of England for America.
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(VI) MARY BROOKE, daughter of Charles and Jane (Barde) Brooke, mar- ried Clement Brooke Grubb. (Grubb V.)
("Pennsylvania Biography," Vol. XIV, pp. 180-82. C. F. Billopp : "A History of Thomas and Anne Billopp Farmar.")
(The Barde Line).
Early members of the Barde family were forced to flee from France, with a great many other Protestant French families, and took refuge in Switzerland. The Prevost family, with whom they are related, traced their ancestry to the Crusades, as did their progenitors, the Mallets, one of this name, who was a distinguished leader in the holy wars, having been rewarded with high honors. The Bardes resided in Geneva, Switzerland, and several of the family emigrated early to America and settled in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, the place being called Frenchtown, in honor of the many settlers who found homes there.
(I) SIR PIERRE BARDE, a Protestant of Valence, France, fled to Geneva, Switz- erland, in 1685. An inquiry made under date of February 26, 1866, before the Criminal Court of Valence, against the Protestants of said town who had gone out of the kingdom without permission of his Majesty Louis XIV (Archives of the Drome B. 358), mentions among other things Sir Pierre Barde, Protestant, as hav- ing left Valence toward the end of September, 1685, upon the arrival of the regi- ment in that town. Several witnesses certify that he took refuge in Geneva. He was the parent of :
I. François, of whom further.
(II) FRANÇOIS BARDE, son of Sir Pierre Barde, was born in 1658 and died in 1733. He married Madelaine Pommeral, and they were the parents of :
I. Jean Daniel, of whom further.
(III) JEAN DANIEL BARDE, son of François and Madelaine (Pommeral) Barde, was born in 1705 and died in 1780. He married Louise Catharine Mallet, daughter of Jean Gabriel and Jeanne Marguerete (Mason) Mallet. They were the parents of ten children, among whom were:
I. Henri, born in 1748.
2. Jean Louis, of whom further.
(IV) JEAN LOUIS BARDE, son of Jean Daniel and Louise Catharine ( Mallet) Barde, was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1755. He went to England at the age of fourteen to obtain a military education. Through the influence of his cousins, the Prevosts, he procured an appointment as cadet in the Royal Military College at Woolwich. At the age of eighteen he received a commission as ensign and some time after was commissioned lieutenant. He married Anne Billopp Farmar (Farmar XI) and died at Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, where he had long resided.
(From records in the possession of a living descendant of the family.)
(V) JANE BARDE, daughter of Jean Louis and Anne Billopp (Farmar) Barde, married Charles Brooke. (Brooke V.)
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(The Farmar Line).
The name has been spelled in numerous ways, father and son, in the olden times, seldom agreeing upon the same orthography and there are some instances where one individual has his name spelled in two or three ways, Fermowe, Fer- mor, Farmar, and Farmer, being some of the styles, while frequently the double "F" is used, as Thomas Ffarmar, or ffarmar. The family is a noble and honorable one, being established at an early date, in the Lordship of Somerton, Oxfordshire, England.
(Charles Farmar Billopp: "A History of Thomas and Anne Billopp Farmar.")
(I) THOMAS FARMAR, nephew and heir of William Fermour, of Somerton, County Oxford, England, was a liberal-minded man, who endowed schools and did much other good with his fortune. According to his will, dated September 9, 1485, which is still extant, his executors erected in the chapel of Somerton Church a raised monument of white marble, whereon lies his effigy in armor and the effigy of his wife. To Richard, his eldest son, and ancestor of the line herein traced, he gives two hundred marks and all his lands in Filkinger and Langford. To the three children of his wife, Emmotte, by her first husband, he gives "£ 100 each."
(Charles Farmar Billopp : "A History of Thomas and Anne Billopp Farmar.")
(II) RICHARD FARMAR, son of Thomas Farmar, engaged extensively in com- merce "of the staple of Calais," amassed a large fortune, and settled at Easton Nes- ton, in Northamptonshire. He traded in all kinds of commodities to a large degree. In 1513, he was granted by Margaret of Savoy, at the request of Henry VIII, a passport enabling him to export duty free, the large amount of 144,000 bushels of wheat. In 1524, Richard Farmar was in Florence, and of much assistance to Sir John Clerk, the agent of Cardinal Wolsey, who was negotiating in Italy for the Cardinal's election to the Papacy. He was a zealous Catholic, and at the time of the Reformation, his large possessions excited the cupidity of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, the vicar-general of Henry VIII, so he confiscated the whole of · his large fortune, because of his having relieved his confessor Nicholas Thayne, while in the gaol of Buckingham. Richard Farmar retired to a village called Wapenham, in sight of his habitations, and lived in the parsonage house there. There he passed several years with a most consummate piety, until 1550. He later obtained a restitution of his property, but his lands had been so lopt and torn by the several grants and sales made by the Crown during the aforesaid interval, that what he obtained was not even one-third of what he had before possessed. Being repossessed of part of his estate, he returned to his manor house at Easton Nes- ton, where he died November 17, 1552. Richard Fermour (Farmar) married Anne Brown, daughter of Sir William Brown. They were the parents of a son :
I. John, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(III) JOHN FERMOR (FARMAR), son of Richard and Anne (Brown) Fer- mour, died December 12, 1571. He was made one of the "Knights of the Carpet at Westminster, October 2, 1553, the day of the coronation of Queen Mary, in her Majesty's presence, under the Cloth of State, by the Earl of Arundel, Commis- sioner for the occasion." He represented the county of Northampton in two Par-
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liaments, was sheriff of that shire in the fourth and fifth years of Queen Mary's reign. He married Maud Vaux, daughter of Sir Nicholas Vaux. Her line, show- ing descent from David I of Scotland and Edward I of England, follows at the end of the Farmar lineage. They were the parents of :
I. George, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(IV) GEORGE FERMOR (FARMAR), Esquire, son of John and Maud (Vaux) Fermor, received the honor of knighthood in 1586. He had the honor of enter- taining King James the First, and his Queen, at Easton Neston, on June 11, 1603. Sir George Fermor was a man of letters and a personal friend of Sir Philip Syd- ney, and when the latter was buried in the Abbey, Sir George was one of the few who were invited to walk in the funeral procession with the family of his friend. Sir George Fermor married Mary Curzon, daughter of Thomas Curzon, Esquire, of Waterperry, County Oxford, England. They were the parents of :
I. Robert, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(V) ROBERT FERMOR, son of George and Mary (Curzon) Fermor, went to Ireland with Queen Elizabeth's army, in which he was an officer of rank. For his services, he was given by the Crown several estates, chiefly in Cork and Tipperary. He was "killed in battle," leaving a son: .
I. Robert, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(VI) ROBERT (2) FERMOR, resided on his father's estates in Tipperary. He had several sons, the second son being Jasper, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(VII) JASPER FERMOR, son of Robert Fermor, was a major in the army. Major Jasper Fermor, who resided at Garron Kenny Fauge in County Cork, the "Pennsylvania Magazine of History," in Vol. XXI, p. 335, tells us, was a neighbor of William Penn, who lived at Shangarry in the same county. The major was a friend of William Penn, and most probably it was through his influence that he decided to take up a "Plantation," as these settlements were all called at that time in the new province of Pennsylvania. The Fermors came to America in 1685, after Major Fermor had been deprived of most of his estates, and had been forced to take refuge in England. Jasper Farmar, Jr., had made a voyage of investigation two years before, but had returned to England to bring out his father, and their families and servants. Mary, widow of Jasper Fermor, Sr., appears to have been a very good business woman, and she took care of the interests of her large family and numerous dependents. In the "Pennsylvania Magazine of History," there is mention that Mary, widow of Jasper Fermor, built a brick house in Philadelphia, in the autumn of 1686, a little more than a year after she landed. This house was standing until about 1895. He married Mary Gamble, eldest daughter of Anthony Gamble, Esquire, of County Cork, and resided at Garron Kenny Fauge, in that county. They were the parents of :
I. Jasper, Jr., of whom further.
(Ibid. Family records.)
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(VIII) JASPER FARMAR (as he spelled the name), son of Jasper and Mary (Gamble) Fermor, died in 1685, as did his father, letters of administration on his estate being issued November 19, 1685. He married Katherine Gamble, daughter of Anthony Gamble. They were the parents of :
1. Thomas, of whoin further.
(Ibid. Family records.)
(IX) THOMAS FARMAR, son of Jasper and Katherine (Gamble) Farmar, was born in 1675 and died in 1752. Thomas Farmar came to this country in 1685, aged ten years, with his mother and father. It is recorded that in the latter part of 1701 he was appointed by William Penn, personally, who was then in Philadelphia, to take the position of sheriff of Philadelphia, which office he held until the latter part of 1704, when he voluntarily resigned, "having a design to transport himself to England." It is probable that he went to England to sue for the hand of Anne Billopp, the step-daughter of his late mother, Katherine, whose second husband was Captain Christopher Billopp.
We next hear of Thomas Farmar residing at "Bentley Manor." Colonel Far- mar, though living in Staten Island, in the province of New York, was a member of the New Jersey Assembly in 1708, according to the "New Jersey Archives," First Series, Vol. XIII, p. 308. He owned estates in New Jersey and is very fre- quently mentioned in the Archives. Colonel Farmar's work in the army must have been very satisfactory, for his promotions and honors followed swiftly. In 1716, Mr. Farmar was a member of the council, and he was a member of the council from 1736 to 1738, and again in 1744, in which year he took an active part in the passage of a militia bill. Thomas Farmar married, in 1705, Anne Billopp, daugh- ter of Admiral Christopher Billopp, born in London in 1638, great-grandson of Barnard Billopp. Christopher Billopp's will was written in London, April 25, 1724. Thomas and Anne (Billopp) Farmar were the parents of :
I. Jasper, born in 1707, will made April 23, 1758, proved May 9, 1758; married Mary (Gouvernor) Meyer, widow of Henry Meyer, and daughter of Abraham Gouvernor.
2. Christopher, died in childhood.
3. Thomas, born in 1711, died August 2, 1750; married (first) Eugenia Stelle; married (second) Sarah Leonard, daughter of Samuel Leonard; had eight children.
4. Brooke.
5. Edward.
6. Robert, of whom further.
7. Samuel; married Christina Peck, daughter of Benjamin Peck; had five children.
8. William Penn.
9. John.
10. Mary.
II. Anne Billopp.
12. Elizabeth. (Ibid.)
(X) ROBERT FARMAR, son of Thomas and Anne ( Billopp) Farmar, was born in 1717. He had a liberal education. In 1740, at the age of twenty-three years, he raised a full company of soldiers, was appointed captain and sailed with them to join the English Army. He had secured his commission as captain by 1741. He became a major in 1761. He was in command of Mobile for a number of years,
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during which time he commanded an expedition to the Illinois country opposite St. Louis and relieved Captain Sterling. He acquired from the Indians a piece of land facing the bay, and extending toward Pensacola. In 1766, through the enmity of Governor Johnstone, which Farmar had incurred by opposing his claim to be commander-in-chief of all the land forces in America, charges were preferred against the major, and a court martial was ordered. However, although the trial lasted several years, nothing incriminating is found. It was concluded, in 1768, and the papers submitted to the King. In October, His Majesty acquitted the major. The major did not resign from the army until his acquittal. He lived for ten years after his acquittal, residing on his plantation on the Tensaw. He was elected to the Florida Assembly from 1772 to 1777. It is probable that he died in the early part of 1778. He married Mary Anderson, of Yorkshire, England. They were the parents of :
I. Anne Billopp, of whom further.
2. Robert Adolphus, officer in English Army.
3. Mary Elizabeth; married John Louis de Vanbercy.
4. Katharine Louisa; married Otto Vautile Barbaree.
5. A son, died at sea.
(Ibid.)
(XI) ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR, daughter of Robert and Mary (Anderson) Farmar, married Jean Louis Barde. (Barde IV.)
(Ibid.)
(Farmar Royal Descents).
(I) DAVID I, King of Scotland, 1124-53. He married, about 1114, Matilda, widow of Simon de Sentis.
(II) HENRY, Prince of Scotland; married Ada, daughter of Earl of Warren.
(III) DAVID, Earl of Huntington ; married Maud, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester.
(IV) LADY MARGARET, daughter of David, Earl of Huntington; married Alan, Lord of Galloway.
(George: "Genealogical Tables Illustrative of Modern History." Burke: "Peerage and Baronetage," seventy-ninth edition.)
(V) LADY DERVORGUILLA, daughter of Alan Lord, of Galloway, married John Baliol.
(VI) MARJORY, daughter of John Baliol and Lady Dervorguilla, his wife, married John Cumyn, of Badenach.
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