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(Family data.)
(The Wright Line).
(I) JOHN WRIGHT, a Quaker from Lancashire, England, emigrated with Prudence (Patience), his wife, to Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1713. He afterward removed to Lancaster County, in 1726, with Joshua Minshall, Robert Baker and Samuel Blumston, and settled on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, where Columbia (formerly Hempfield) now stands. John Wright took up two hundred and fifty acres of land, lying south of the present Walnut Street, Columbia, and soon after several hundred acres on the west bank of the river, extending from the creek to about two hundred yards from the present bridge (which now carries the "Lincoln Highway"), in the part set off as York County in 1749. He saw the necessity of a ferry between the two settlements and applied for a patent, but because of a rival application for a ferry at the larger settlement at Conestoga Manor, four miles below, he did not procure his patent until 1733. Immediately thereafter John Wright and Samuel Blunston petitioned the court to lay out a pub- lic road from the ferry at the foot of Walnut Street, Columbia, to Lancaster, which road was laid out in 1734. Wright's Ferry, during and after the Revolution, was
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the principal thoroughfare over the Susquehanna, and York was one of the points named in 1787 for the permanent seat of the national government, via Wright's Ferry, ten miles distant .. John Wright was a judge in Lancaster County Court. His son, James, served as Speaker of the House of Deputies. He and his two sons were members at the same time. John Wright died in 1751.
He married Patience. Among their children was John, Jr., of whom further.
("Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Publications," Vol. IV, p. 304; Vol. VII, p. 84. J. Gibson : "History of York County, Pennsylvania, 1886," p. 595. G. R. Prowell: "History of York County, Pennsylvania, 1907," Vol. I, pp. 925-26. Family data.)
(II) JOHN WRIGHT, JR., son of John and Patience Wright, was born in Lan- cashire, England, and died at Wright's Ferry, York County, Pennsylvania, about 1763. He removed to the west side of the Susquehanna River and erected a ferry house at the foot of Hellam Strect. He received a license to keep a public house for the years 1736-39, and in 1739 a public road was laid out from his ferry, extending thirty-four miles, and connecting with the Monocacy Road in Mary- land, and from thence to the Potomac at the base of Shenandoah Valley.
He was elected a member of the Assembly for York County at the first elec- tion after the county was formed in 1749, and was annually reelected until 1759. The first bridge over the Susquehanna was erected at the ferry in 1814, and since that time the village, made a borough April 11, 1834, has been known as Wrights- ville. It had, from 1811, been a part of Hellam Township.
John Wright, Jr., married Eleanor Barber. (Barber II.) Among their chil- dren were:
I. James.
2. William (probably).
3. Patience, who married General James Ewing.
4. Susanna, of whom further.
(G. R. Prowell : "History of York County, Pennsylvania," Vol. I, pp. 925-26. Family data.)
(III) SUSANNA WRIGHT, daughter of John, Jr., and Eleanor (Barber) Wright, was born in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1753, and died in 1829. She was a niece and namesake of Susanna Wright, who was one of the most noted women of her day.
She married Dr. John Houston. (Houston II.)
(G. R. Prowell : "History of York County, Pennsylvania," Vol. I, pp. 519-20. Family data.)
(The Barber Line).
The surname Barber, variously spelled Barber, and Barbour, has been derived from the occupation "the barber." It and its variants appear as early as 1273 in various counties in England.
(Bardsley : "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." Lower: "Patronymica Britannica.")
(I) ROBERT BARBER, son of John Barber, of Yorkshire, England, was founder of the family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died at Columbia, Pennsyl- vania, in September, 1749, aged fifty-seven years. He held several public offices, being coroner of Chester County in 1721, and member of that county's board of assessors in 1724. Two years later he located at what is now Columbia, Lancas- ter County, taking up five hundred acres of land. He later became sheriff of Lan-
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caster County and one of its commissioners. His religious affiliations were with the Society of Friends.
Robert Barber married, 5 mo .- 17-1718, Hannah Tidmarsh. (Tidmarsh II.) Among their ten children was Eleanor, of whom further.
(Family data. G. R. Prowell: "History of York County, Pennsylvania," Vol. I, p. 925. Edwin Atlee Barber : "Genealogy of the Barber Family," pp. 18-22.)
(II) ELEANOR BARBER, daughter of Robert and Hannah (Tidmarsh) Barber, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1717, and died in September, 1767. She married John Wright, Jr. (Wright II.)
(Family data. G. R. Prowell: "History of York County, Pennsylvania," Vol. I, p. 925.)
(The Tidmarsh Line).
Anglo-Saxon in its origin, the surname Tidmarsh is of local derivation from "Tidmarsh," a parish in County Berks. "Belonging to Tidmarsh," or Tid's or Tidd's Marsh, is the meaning of this patronymic. Records show the name, also as of counties Worcester and Oxford, and of London; in 1602, John Tidmershe, of County Worcester, registered at Oxford University; later in the seventeenth century, Richard Tidmarsh was a resident of Oxford.
(Bardsley : "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." Harrison: "Surnames of the United Kingdom.")
(I) WILLIAM TIDMARSH, first of our line of whom we have record, was prob- ably born in England. The earliest record of him appears in Philadelphia in 1716, when he brought from the Chester, Pennsylvania, Friends' Meeting, a certificate dated 12 mo .- 25-1716, to the Philadelphia Friends' Meeting. It appears that he was received at Chester that year. In the minutes of the Philadelphia Friends' Meeting, under date of 7 mo .- 26-1740, John Ogden and Hannah Owen appeared a second time and declared their intentions of marriage. William Tidinarsh acquainted this Meeting of her (Hannah's) grandfather's consent, and her parents sent their consent in writing.
In abstracts of land records among those tracts, property of George Emlem, vintner, of Philadelphia, under date of February 18, 1723-24, is one of eleven acres in Wiccacoe, Philadelphia County, bounded by land of William Tidmarsh, Steven John, and Martha Cox. Date following the entry is 10 mo .- 15-1727.
William Tidmarsh married (first), probably in England, but the name of his wife is not known. He married (second), "second intentions" declared in Phila- delphia Friends' Meeting, 9 mo .- 30-1716, Hannah (Garrett) Emlen, daughter of William Garrett, of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and widow of George Emlen. Hannah (Garrett-Emlen) Tidmarsh and William Tidmarsh were present at the marriage of Joshua Emlen, probably son of Hannah by her first marriage, and Deborah Powell, in Philadelphia Friends' Meeting, 10 mo .- 19-1728.
Among the children of the first marriage was Hannah, of whom further.
(J. S. Futhey and G. Cope: "History of Chester County, Pennsylvania," p. 536. A. C. Meyers : "Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia," p. 68. "Publication of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania," Vol. II, p. 71; Vol. VI, p. 283; Vol. VII, pp. 94-183; Vol. VIII, p. 267.)
(II) HANNAH TIDMARSH, daughter of William Tidmarsh, was born probably in England. She married Robert Barber. ( Barber I.)
(Edwin Atlee Barber : "Genealogy of the Barber Family," pp. "1-15, 18.)
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Darlington Butcher
Descendant from families whose Colonial and Revolutionary ancestry traces back to first settlers of the Province of Pennsylvania, the late Joseph Gazzam Darlington, a prominent merchant and man of affairs of Philadelphia, and Mary Washington (Butcher) Darlington, his wife, who resides in the Quaker City, are entitled to representation in this work.
ABRAHAM DARLINGTON, founder of the American branch of the Darlington family, came, about 1711, to the province of William Penn. His descendants, in the order of generations, have been for two centuries identified with the Colonial, Revolutionary and national history of the country.
(I) AMOS DARLINGTON, a lineal descendant of the immigrant Abraham, mar- ried Elizabeth (surname not of record), and they had a son :
I. Samuel Powell, of whom further.
(II) SAMUEL POWELL DARLINGTON, son of Amos and Elizabeth Darlington, was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1802. He married Caro- line Weston, born in New York City, July 21, 1809, daughter of Abijah and Juliet Weston, and a descendant of ancestors who came to America as early as 1630, and whose grandsons, many times removed, fought in the Revolutionary War. Samuel Powell and Caroline (Weston) Darlington were the parents of :
I. Joseph Gazzam, of whom further.
(III) JOSEPH GAZZAM DARLINGTON, son of Samuel Powell and Caroline (Weston) Darlington, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1842, and completed his education in the Friends' School, Philadelphia. He then entered the employ of Dale, Ross & Withers, who were at the time the leading silk merchants of the country, and he remained with them for four years, meanwhile laying an excellent foundation for his future associations. His next place of service was in the dry goods house of John W. Thomas, by whom he was later received into a partnership.
Upon the retirement of Mr. Thomas, in 1874, the establishment was carried on under the style of Joseph G. Darlington & Company. His wisdom and business acumen, together with most capable management, guided the house along a success- ful road, until it became one of the most important establishments of the kind in Philadelphia. The company also maintained branch offices in Paris and Lyons, France, and other European centers. Mr. Darlington was rated as one of the strong financial men of the Quaker City, and served as a director of the Franklin National Bank, trustee of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, and as one of the Philadelphia directors of the American Surety Company of New York.
A member of the Union League of Philadelphia for many years and until his death, Mr. Darlington was the president of the organization from 1899 to 1902. In his official capacity he presided on many important occasions when distinguished
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persons were entertained. One of the most important of these events was that of February 4, 1899, when a banquet was given by the Union League to the United States Peace Commissioners who arranged the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. At a banquet, given in celebration of Founders' Day, President Mckinley and his Cabinet were present, having come by special train from Washington. The distinguished guests were met by the First City Troop and escorted through the city. Other guests entertained by the league were Prince Henry, of Prussia; President Roosevelt and his Cabinet, the Governor of Pennsylvania, and representatives of great universities.
Mr. Darlington belonged to numerous other organizations, among which were the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati and the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, his eligibility being in the right of Captain Horace Seymour in both cases. He was a member also of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, St. Nicholas Society of New York, and the New England Society, of which he was president at the time of his death. His clubs were the Penn, Art, Manufacturers', Corinthian Yacht, Germantown Cricket, Merion Cricket, and Radnor Hunt, all of Philadelphia, and he belonged to a number of prominent clubs in New York and elsewhere.
Following the expiration of his fourth term as president of the Union League, a dinner was given him, January 8, 1903, at which a magnificent loving-cup was presented to him by the vice-presidents and directors of the four boards over which he had presided. Later by invitation of the Executive, Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Darlington dined at the White House.
Remarkable for its force and attractiveness, the personality of Mr. Darlington was one of his constitutional and cultivated rights to leadership. It, too, accounted for very largely the great number of warm and loyal friends which he enjoyed to the full. A man of fine appearance, as his portrait shows, he was both dignified, genial and courteous. In every sense of the word he merited the respect and affec- tion in which he was held by all who were associated with him in business or other endeavor.
Joseph Gazzam Darlington married, May 15, 1873, Mary Washington Butcher, daughter of Washington and Mary Elizabeth (Wattson) Butcher, representative of old families of Philadelphia. (See the Butcher Line.) Children of Mr. and Mrs. Darlington :
I. Arthur, deceased.
2. Herbert Seymour, a graduate of Yale Law School; married Sibyl Hubbard, daughter of General Thomas and Sibyl Hubbard. Children: Joseph Hubbard and Sibyl Mary. Herbert Seymour Darlington died July 22, 1924.
3. Rosalie, deceased.
4. Helen; married Felton Bent. Their children: Felton, Jr., died in infancy ; Nancy Felton.
The death of Mr. Darlington, which occurred on March 18, 1908, removed from the Philadelphia community a man who had touched life at many points of usefulness and uplift, one whose personality and influence radiated for resultant good in many avenues of the city's progress. He had a large part in advancing the commercial and civic programs, and was indeed happy in its performance. His career was stamped indelibly upon his time.
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(The Butcher Line).
(I) ANNE BUTCHER, widow, of Lillingstone Lovell, Oxfordshire, England, and her unmarried daughter, Frances, had a certificate, dated 2 mo. 19, 1680, from the Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends at Biddleston, Buckinghamshire, to Friends in New Jersey, which she filed with Burlington Monthly Meeting in that province within a year of its date. She may have been already in New Jersey, having come with her sons, John and William Butcher, in the ship "Shield," which arrived at Burlington in October, 1678. Her husband's name is not of available record.
(II) JOHN BUTCHER, second son of Anne Butcher, came from Hull, England, to Burlington, New Jersey, in October, 1678. He was a minister of the Society of Friends and one of the Proprietors of West Jersey. His will, dated 2 mo. 7, 1729, was proved II mo. 5, 1737. He married twice, the name of his first wife unknown, and by the first marriage he had two sons :
1. William.
2. John, Jr., of whom see further.
His second wife was Mary Walker, by whom he had issue also.
(III) JOHN BUTCHER, JR., inherited his father's plantation in Springfield Township, New Jersey, and later lived in Northampton Township in the same (Burlington) county. He married (first) Mary Harvey, daughter of Peter and Sarah (Curtis) Harvey, a sister of John Curtis, who came from England in the very early days of the province of West Jersey and became a Proprietor thereof ; and granddaughter of Thomas Curtis, of Reading, England, who with his wife, Anne, "were both severe sufferers, and above mediocrity in position and intelli- gence, among the earliest and most prominent members of the Society of Friends at its first organization in England. Anne Curtis is said to have had considerable influence with the King, her father being a personal friend of the King in the time of the Civil War, having been hung without trial by the King's enemies at his own door." John Butcher, Jr., married (second) Margaret Barton, who was an elder of Friends' Meeting. The only child of John Butcher, Jr., and Mary Har- vey, his first wife, was:
I. John, 3d, also called Jr., of whom further.
(IV) JOHN BUTCHER, 3D, lived in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, having inherited land from his grandfather's plantation. He married, 12 mo. 23, 1738, his half first cousin, Mary Ridgway, daughter of Job Ridgway, by his wife, Rebecca Butcher, a half sister to his father; and was disowned by Burlington Monthly Meeting for marriage to too near a relative. John Butcher, 3d, and Mary Ridgway, his wife, had an only son :
I. Job, of whom further.
Probably other children.
(V) JOB BUTCHER, born in Burlington County, New Jersey, in 1742, after- ward lived in Philadelphia, where it is said he established the wholesale produce business, in 1760, which grew to such great proportions under three generations
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of his descendants, and he was almost certainly the founder of the family firm. He dropped dead in the Friends' Meeting House, Fourth and Arch streets, to which he belonged, in 2 mo. 15, 1819. Job Butcher married (first) Ann Wright, 4 mo. 20, 1775, she the daughter of Amos and Ann (Black) Wright, granddaugh- ter of Thomas Wright, and a descendant of Joshua Wright, of Roulden, and Eliza- beth Empson, his wife, of Gowle Field House, all in England. Joshua Wright and wife and three children, about 1679, came and settled near the Falls of Delaware, on the Jersey side. He was a member of the West Jersey Assembly in 1682 and 1688. His children inherited much real estate of his unmarried brother, Thomas. Job and Ann (Wright) Butcher had children, of whom was Amos Wright, see further. Job Butcher married (second) Mary (Carpenter) Watson, widow of Sykes Watson, and daughter of Stephen and Eleanor Carpenter. She died with- out issue.
(VI) AMOS WRIGHT BUTCHER, born January 6, 1781, only surviving son of Job and Ann (Wright) Butcher, passed all his life in Philadelphia, having inher- ited his father's business, which he greatly enlarged, and passed on to his sons. He was a descendant of three Proprietors of the province of West Jersey, viz., Rich- ard Stockton, Ist (lieutenant of a Troop of Horse at Flushing, Long Island, before removing to West Jersey) ; Joshua Wright (member of the West Jersey Assem- bly, 1682-83 and 1685), and Richard Ridgway. He was a member of Philadelphia Meeting of the Society of Friends, and went with the Orthodox branch on the division in 1827. He died December 6, 1843. Amos Wright Butcher married, 10 mo. 12, 1809, at Abington Friends' Meeting, Susannah Tyson, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Kirk) Tyson; granddaughter of Peter Tyson, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 3 mo. 6, 1700, died 3 mo. 7, 1791, and Mary Roberts, his wife, married 2 mo. 1727; and great-granddaughter of Reynier Tiesen (Tyson) and Mary, his wife, the former having come in the ship "Concord" from England to Philadelphia, arriving October 6, 1683. Reynier Tiesen (Tyson) was one of the original incorporators of the borough of Germantown, he having been named in Penn's Charter of August 12, 1689. He was of the vicinity of Crefeld, a city situ- ate in the Lower Rhine provinces within a few miles of the Holland border. He was of Holland-Dutch, free-burgher stock, akin to that which first settled New Netherland, and before this had held sway on the Delaware River. His will, dated December 21, 1741, was proved October 26, 1745. Of the children of Amos Wright and Susannah (Tyson) Butcher was a son :
I. Washington, see further.
(VII) WASHINGTON BUTCHER, second son and third child of Amos Wright and Susannah (Tyson) Butcher, was born in Philadelphia, December 9, 1814, died there January 8, 1873. He was a prominent wholesale provision merchant and one of the promoters of the organization of the Pennsylvania Railroad, of which he served as a director from 1859 until his death, except for a short absence in Europe. He was one of the founders of the American Steamship Company, in which he was a director and for some time president, and a director of the Girard Bank of Philadelphia for terms of years. He was a deacon and trustee of the First Baptist Church, to which he gave liberally from his substance. He was one of the earliest members of the Union League of Philadelphia, and had numerous
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other important interests, of a financial and civic character. Washington Butcher married, May 27, 1841, Mary Elizabeth Wattson, born in Philadelphia, September 21, 1822, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Brown) Wattson. The Wattson family were originally residents of the Welsh Tract in the present State of Delaware. An ancestor of Mrs. Butcher, David Barr, was first lieutenant in the Lower Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, in 1756. Mrs. Washington Butcher was for many years actively engaged in philanthropic work in Philadelphia, and was made an honorary member of and vice-president of the National Indian Association. Children of Washington and Mary Elizabeth (Wattson) Butcher :
I. Laura Wattson, born June 14, 1842, died February 13, 1867; married J. Edward Addicks.
2. Henry Clay, born August 7, 1844, served as a sergeant in the Civil War, and after- wards was prominent in mercantile and financial affairs in Philadelphia. He mar- ried Ellen Page, a descendant of King James II, of Scotland, and other royalties of the line.
3. Rosalie, born April 1, 1849, became the second wife of J. Edward Addicks, whose first wife was her elder sister, Laura Wattson Butcher.
4. Mary Washington, born in Philadelphia, June 9, 1851; married Joseph Gazzam Dar- lington, of this memorial, as hereinbefore mentioned.
5. Howard Butcher, born June 25, 1853, for many years prominent in the business life of Philadelphia; married Mary Louisa, daughter of L. Harry and Margaret (Starr) Richards, of that city.
Bobine
Among the most interesting of the family lines tracing to Colonial and Revo- lutionary ancestry is that of William W. Bodine, son of Samuel Taylor Bodine, chairman of the board of directors of The United Gas Improvement Company, of Philadelphia, widely known also as a public utility executive of unusual power and influence. William W. Bodine is vice-president, in charge of finance, of the same company.
The American family of Bodine is of French extraction, and its present repre- sentatives claim descent from Jean le Baudain, Seigneur d'Villiers, governor of Castle de Selles, Cambray, France, in 1340; the name being later corrupted to Bodin, in France, and on the migration of a Huguenot descendant to England, in the middle of the seventeenth century, to Bodine. Of this family was Jean Bodin, the great French jurist and political economist of the sixteenth century. The line of descent down to the immigration to America is as follows :
(I) Jean le Baudain, Seigneur d'Villiers, governor of the Castle of Cambray, 1340.
(II) Jean le Baudain, son of the above, 1 376.
(III) Jean le Baudain, Bishop's chamberlain, at Cambray, 1419.
(IV) Jean le Baudain, his son and successor, 1459.
(V) Jean le Baudain, Seigneur d'Villiers, 1480.
(VI) Gulliame Le Baudain, of Cambray. His son,
(VII) Daniel Bodin, went to Medis, in the ancient French Province of Saintonge. His son,
(VIII) Daniel Bodin, born at Medis, went to London, England, and married there, July 30, 1637, and returned with his wife to Medis, and died there.
(The Family in America).
(I) JEAN BODINE, born at Medis, France, May 9, 1645, became a Huguenot, and fled to London, where he took the oath of allegiance to the British Crown, October 14, 1681, and in the following year came to America and settled in Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, where he died in March, 1695.
(II) FRANCIS BODINE, son of Jean Bodine, the Huguenot refugee, accom- panied his father to Staten Island, married and reared a family, among whom was a son, Francis, of whom further.
(III) FRANCIS (2) BODINE, son of Francis (1), took up land in Middlesex County, New Jersey, on which several of his sons settled, among them Francis (3), of whom further.
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(IV) FRANCIS (3) BODINE, son of Francis (2) Bodine, married, January 29, 1755, Rachel Wilson, and they were the parents of a son, Captain John, of whom further.
(V) CAPTAIN JOHN BODINE, son of Francis (3) and Rachel (Wilson) Bodine, was born near Cranberry, Middlesex County, New Jersey, in 1755, removed to Burlington County, New Jersey, when a young man. He enlisted as a private in the First Regiment, Burlington County Militia, and rose to the rank of captain, serving throughout the Revolutionary War. He married, September 16, 1790, at Burlington, New Jersey, Ann Taylor, born at Hillsborough, North Carolina, in 1765, died in Nottingham Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, March 26, 1831. Captain John Bodine died in the same township, March 26, 1827. Of their son, Samuel Tucker, see further
(VI) SAMUEL TUCKER BODINE, son of Captain John and Ann (Taylor) Bodine, was born at Wading River, Burlington County, New Jersey, July 29, 1810, died in Philadelphia, November 26, 1879. When a young man he removed to Philadelphia and became prominently identified with business and municipal affairs, and with some of the city's most important industrial enterprises and institutions. He resided for many years in that part of the city then known as Kensington, of which he was mayor prior to its consolidation with the city of Philadelphia. He was a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, a manager of the Presby- terian Board of Education, and a director of various financial and other corpora- tions and institutions. Samuel Tucker Bodine married, November 25, 1851, Louisa Wylie Millikin, daughter of William and Martha (Orr) Millikin, born in Phila- delphia, November 16, 1820, died at Bridgeton, New Jersey, May 4, 1887. They were the parents of a son; Samuel Taylor, of whom further.
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