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(I) RICHARD STOCKTON was born in or near London, England, and died in what is now Springfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, in September, 1707. According to the family genealogist, E. B. Stockton, Richard Stockton emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and settled in Boston, or Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, where a Richard Stockton is witness to Ralph Hall's deed in 1649. The first evidence of his emigration to Long Island is found in Flushing, where his name appears in a petition, November 8, 1656. He is named as one of the original patentees of the town, and in virtue of this, all direct male descendants are eligible to the Holland Society of New York. In 1650, he joined in the petition for the · remitting of the penalty imposed by Director-General Stuyvesant on William Hal- lett for aiding and abetting a Baptist preacher, and on December 27, 1657, he was one of the remonstrators against the persecution of the Quakers by the Director- General and Council. On April 22, 1665, Governor Niccols commissioned him lieutenant of the Horse Company of Flushing, and in 1669 he was elected lieuten- ant of the Flushing Foot Company, which he declined. He appears to have been a prominent man in Flushing, being rated among the rather well-to-do citizens of the place, taking a prominent part in the controversies between the town and Gov- ernor Peter Stuyvesant on religious matters. Between 1670 and 1677 he became converted to the tenets of the Society of Friends, and selling his Long Island prop- erty, he removed to Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, where he purchased twelve hundred acres of land from George Hutchinson, on which he lived until he died, between January 25, 1705-06, and October 10, 1707, the dates of the executing and the filing of his will. His descendants are eligible for Society of Colonial Wars and Colonial Dames of America. He married, in 1652, Abigail, who survived him, being alive April 14, 1714, and who, there is some reason to suppose, may have been his second wife. They were the parents of :
1. Richard, born in England in 1654, died at Stony Brook, now Princeton, New Jersey, in July, 1709; married, November 8, 1691, Susanna (Witham) Robinson, daughter of Robert and Anne Witham, and widow of Thomas Robinson.
2. John, born in 1674, died March 29, 1747; married (first), in 1704, Mary Leeds; (second) Ann Ogborn.
3. Job, died in Springfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, his will being proved Decem- ber 22, 1732; married Anna Petty, died in 1746, daughter of John Petty.
4. Abigail, died in 1726; married, as his second wife, Jacob Ridgway.
5. Mary, of whom further.
6. Sarah, married (first), about 1693, Benjamin Jones, died in 1702; married (second), in 1706, William Venticomb.
7. Hannah, married a Philips.
8. Elizabeth, born in 1680; married, in 1703, William Budd, Jr.
("American Ancestry," Vol. V, p. 11I. E. B. Stockton: "Stockton Genealogy," p. I. T. C. Stockton : "The Stockton Family in New Jersey," pp. 1-10, 15, 20-21.)
(II) MARY STOCKTON, daughter of Richard and Abigail Stockton, married (first), March 6, 1693-94, Thomas Shinn, who died November 15, 1694, son of
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John Shinn. She married (second) Silas Crispin. (Crispin II.) She married (third), in 1714, Richard Ridgway, Jr., stepson of her sister, Abigail.
(Ibid.)
(The Crispin Line).
The Crispin family is an ancient and honorable one in Great Britain. The name is evidently of Norman origin. There were several families of the name among the lower counties of England in his day, and William Crispin, progenitor of our line, may have belonged to one of them, for he lived in a time when a great many masters of merchantships were men of good birth but small fortune, seeking a life of adventure combined with profit, which was always to be found at sea, but could not be had on land except in time of war.
(John Jordan : "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. I, p. 347.)
(I) WILLIAM CRISPIN appears to have been born about 1610, though the place and exact date of his birth are unknown. The first mention of the name found in published public documents is in the "Calendar of State Papers," Domes- tic Series. On March 3, 1634-35, the officers of the customs at Kingston-upon- Hull, advised the Governor and others of the Company of Merchant Adventurers that the "Adventures," William Crispin, master, was lading in their port with woolen cloths from Amsterdam, contrary to the late proclamation, but these docu- ments throw no light on any further happenings in the matter. For fourteen years after this the name does not occur in the "Calendar," and then there is a war- rant from Colonels Deane and Black to the Navy Commissioners, dated April 3, 1649, for William Crispin, later purser on the "Recovery," to be entered on the "Truelove."
On August 6, 1650, the Admiralty Commissioners wrote to Colonel Deane that six new frigates were to be supplied with officers, and sent the petition and certi- ficates of William Crispin for a purser's place in one of them; they instructed Deane that if he found the papers correct, to return Crispin as fit to be employed, but to remember that they thought Thomas Phillips should be purser of the first of the frigates. (It is not entirely certain that this William Crispin, the purser, was the same as the captain of the "Adventures"; having already been master of a merchantship, he should have been able to obtain a higher office in the navy, especially if there is any truth in the story that he had been in the army. But his circumstances at the time, of which we are ignorant, might have induced him to accept the post of purser.) The "Calendar" has one letter written by William Crispin while in command of the "Hope" to J. Turner, November 19, 1652, say- ing that he mustered Captain Lawson's men on the "Fairfax," and found more landsmen and boys than upon any of the State's ships for the last ten years ; that he discharged eighteen and signed their tickets, and sent down one hundred and eighty men to the "Fairfax" in the "Hope," but when they arrived and saw the landsmen, one hundred would not go, but went to other ships. This letter shows that Crispin and the other naval officers were preparing for the more important events of the following year ; it also implies that Crispin had been in the service of the State for at least ten years before this date.
In May, 1653, an expedition was sent against the Dutch, under Colonel Rich- ard Deane and Colonel George Monk, generals and admirals of the Parliament.
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The fleet in this expedition consisted of three squadrons, the first, or squadron of the red flag, contained thirty-eight ships, under Vice-Admiral William Penn; and the third, or blue squadron, thirty-four ships, under Rear-Admiral John Lawson. Captain Crispin commanded the "Assistance," frigate, one hundred and eighty men and forty guns, in Penn's squadron. This fleet on the second and third of June, 1653, took or destroyed between twenty and thirty Dutch ships-of-war, took thirteen hundred and fifty prisoners, and pursued the Dutch to their own harbors. After this engagement the "Assistance" spent the remainder of the year cruising, conveying merchantmen, and preying on the Dutch commerce.
Captain Crispin was also active in the expedition sent against the Spanish pos- session in the West Indies by Cromwell. Captain Crispin commanded the "Laurel." He returned home early in the spring, for the "Calendar" has a letter dated Lon- don, April 24, 1656, from him to Colonel John Clerke and Mr. Hopkins, about some Jamaica hides to be disposed of for the use of the General (Admiral) Penn.
When the Naval party began to plan opposition to the Protector's government and adherence to the King, Crispin was among the leaders of the movement. In 1660, after the Restoration, William Penn, who took an important part in the final acts of that event, was knighted and made Commissioner of the Admiralty and governor of the town and fort of Kinsale. Crispin probably assisted Penn at this time, and no doubt came in for a share of the royal favor; he may have obtained a magistracy or judicial office of some kind in County Cork, as the admiral's son afterwards wrote that Crispin was skilled in courtkeeping. He lived in Kinsale for about twenty years, but left very little of record there that has survived.
William Crispin was appointed, in September, 1681, one of the three commis- sioners for settling the Colony of Pennsylvania. He sailed from England in one of three ships in 1681. By all accounts the ship in which Crispin sailed was blown off after nearly reaching the capes of Delaware, and put into Barbados, when the ship put in there, and the news of his death was taken back to England by the "Amity." Crispin is also said to have been the first appointed surveyor-general, but no proof of this has been found. It is evident that Penn intended Captain Crispin to be Chief Justice. William Crispin was one of the "First Purchasers" of land in the Province, but his purchase of five thousand acres was never laid out to him. After his death this amount was confirmed to his children, in separate portions, by the Proprietary's patent, in which it is stated to be of the latter's "free gift."
According to an old theory, Captain William Crispin married (first), about 1650, Anne Jasper, daughter of John Jasper, a merchant of Rotterdam. He mar- ried (second) Jane, of whose family nothing is known. However, a descendant of William Crispin propounds a new theory that the William Crispin, above men- tioned, was identical with the William Crispin who married Rebecca Bradshaw, daughter of Raphe and Rachel (Penn) Bradshaw. (Penn IV.) Children :
I. Silas, of whom further.
2. Rebecca, married (first), August 24, 1688, Edward Blackfan, had William; married (second), in 1725, Nehemiah Allen, son of Nathaniel Allen.
3. Ralph, remained in Ireland.
4. Rachel, married Thomas Armstrong and had Jane, who married Robert Swiney; George; and another child.
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Child of second marriage :
5. James, married between 1687 and 1698, removed to Island of St. Christopher, West Indies ; had : i. Arthur. ii. Prudence, married a Mr. Smith. iii. James, drowned in 1731. iv. Richard, living in 1733. v. Elizabeth, married, between 1687 and 1698, a Milliard, died before 1702. vi. Amy, married, between 1698 and 1702, Daniel Johnson.
(Jordan : "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. I, pp. 347-59. Family data. Dugdale . "Visitation of Lancashire," Vol. LXXXIV, p. 53.)
(II) SILAS CRISPIN, son of William and Anne (Jasper) Crispin, died May 31, 17II. He probably accompanied his father on the unfortunate voyage which ended at Barbados. He first arrived in Pennsylvania with Captain Thomas Holme, surveyor-general, in the ship "Amity" of London. On his arrival, he no doubt lived with Captain Holme's family at Shackamaxon; within a year he married the latter's daughter, Esther, and in 1684 they went to live on his plantation on Penna- pack Creek. There is a tradition that their first child was born in the wigwam of an Indian chief. He soon had a house built on the plantation, and lived there the remainder of his life. In deeds, etc., he is styled "Silas Crispin of Dublin Town- ship, Gentleman." He was a member of the Free Society of Traders in Pennsyl- vania. He was executor of the will of his father-in-law, Captain Thomas Holme, and spent a great deal of time in caring for the interests of land left by the latter obtaining warrants for laying out lands not taken up at Holme's death, selling some of the tracts, etc.
Silas Crispin died May 31, 17II. By his will, dated May 5, 1711, he made his wife, Mary, executrix, left her his negroes, household goods, etc., and directed her to sell one hundred acres which he bought from Robert Crismall, adjoining the north end of his plantation, to pay debts and legacies. Silas Crispin married (first), in 1683, Esther Holme, who died April 17, 1696, daughter of Captain Thomas Holme, Provincial Councillor and Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania. He married (second), in 1697, Mary (Stockton) Shinn. (Stockton II.) Children of first marriage :
1. Sarah, born March 31, 1684; married Lesson Loftus,
2. Rebecca, born May 6, 1685; married Joseph Finney, son of Samuel Finney.
3. Marie (or Maria), born in October, 1686; married John Collet, son of Richard and Elizabeth (Reish) Collet.
4. Eleanor, born September 11, 1687; married, November 25, 1708, John Hart, Jr.
5. William, born September 3, 1689.
6. Esther, born October 29, 1691; married Thomas Rush.
Children of second marriage :
7. Joseph, born October 7, 1698; married Elizabeth Barratt.
8. Benjamin, born September 1, 1699; married, August 21, 1722, Margaret Owen.
9. Abigail, born January 20, 1701 ; married John Wright.
10. Silas, of whom further.
II. Mary, born May 12, 1705; married, November 6, 1727, Thomas Earl.
12. John, born December 11, 1707.
(Jordan : "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. I, pp. 359-63.)
(III) SILAS CRISPIN, JR., son of Silas and Mary (Stockton-Shinn) Crispin, was born in Lower Dublin Township, Philadelphia County, March 19, 1702, but
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was nine years of age at the death of his father, and died in the town of Burling- ton, in November, 1749. He was one of the influential men of the town, and was a slave owner, besides having indentured servants, who carried on for him a tailor- ing business. One of his servants ran away from him in January, 1734-35, and the advertisement of Silas Crispin, of Burlington, for his capture appeared in the "American Daily Mercury" for January 21 and 28 of that year, a facsimile of which advertisement was produced in McMaster's (School) "History of the United States."
By his will, dated August 2, 1749, probated November 17, 1749, Silas Crispin bequeathed his house and lot to his wife, Mary Crispin, for life, and after her decease, the brick part thereof to his son, Thomas Crispin, and the wooden part to his son, William Crispin. His negro girl, Dinah, he gave to his wife until she was twenty-four years of age, when she was to go to his daughter, Sarah. His wife, Mary Crispin, and Thomas Wetherill were named as executors. Silas Crispin married, November 9, 1724, Mary Wetherill. (Wetherill V.) Children :
I. Samuel, died in 1791 ; married Sarah.
2. Mary, of whom further.
3. Sarah, married Abraham Jones.
4. Anne, married a Mr. Smith.
5. Elizabeth.
6. William, born in 1742; married Rachel Wharton, daughter of John and Mary (Dobbins) Wharton.
7. Thomas, born in 1744, died June 11, 1784; married, November 9, 1762, Susannah Fussell, daughter of Solomon Fussell, of Philadelphia.
8. Abigail, married Samuel Swift.
(Jordan : "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. I, pp. 391-93.)
(IV) MARY CRISPIN, daughter of Silas and Mary (Wetherill) Crispin, mar- ried Aaron Smith, father of Sarah Smith, who married Joseph Fortescue. (For- tescue I.)
(Ibid.)
(The Wetherill Line).
The Wetherill family has long been identified with the business and social life of Philadelphia. It is an ancient one in England, the name being variously spelled Weatherill, Weatheral, Wedderelt, Wethereld, and originally doubtless Witherold. A John Witherold was bailiff of Newcastle-on-Tyne, A. D. 1259. The family derived its name from the place where we first find it settled, "Wetherold," later Wetherall, near Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland, near the Scotch border, the name originating from a hold or keep to which cattle and sheep were driven for safety during the times of border raids and Scotch invasions.
(Jordan : "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. II, p. 988.)
(I) CHRISTOPHER WETHERILL, son of Gyles Weatherill (as he spelled the name), was buried in the Parish Church of Stockton, County Durham, England, May 25, 1622. His will, dated May 24, 1622, devises "unto Thomas Watherell eld- est sonne, and to his heires my burgage on the east syde of the Boroughe of Stock- ton, with its appurtinances" and a leasehold; to his second son, Bryan Wetherall, "a burgage &c. on the West side of the Boroughe of Stockton," and unto his son,
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Robert Wetherall, his interest in a "Tenement farme and tithe of corne wch I hold at Whorlton in the County of York." He gives legacies to his wife, Mary; his daughter, Elizabeth Wetherall; to Gyles Wetherall, son of his brother, Rowland; Margaret, daughter of Rowland; Rowland and Alice, son and daughter of his brother-in-law; Henry Burdon, and Anthony and Margaret Fleetham, children of his sister, Margaret.
Christopher Wetherill married Mary Watson, daughter of John Watson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, merchant, who in 1587 purchased an estate at Little Kepyer, near Crawcroke, County Durham.
(Jordan : "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. II, pp. 988-89.)
(II) THOMAS WETHERELL (as he spelled the name), son of Christopher and Mary (Watson) Wetherill, was a minor in 1624, and was buried December 28, 1672. The will of "Thomas Wetherell of the towne and Countie of Newcastle upon Tyne, Merchant," is dated December 23, 1672, and was probated January, 1672-73. It devises a messuage, burgage, or tenement, and three shops in the town of Newcastle, in "a streate or place called Alhallows Banck 'and two ships' upon the Tine bridge neare unto the Irongate upon the said Bridge unto my sonn Christopher Wetherell and the heires of his bodie," and in default of issue to his daughters, Mary and Margery Wetherell, to whom he devises other real estate, and names his wife, Jane, and daughter, Margery, as executrixes. The will of his widow, Jane Wetherell, dated October II, 1676, and probated in 1678, gives lega- cies to her daughters.
Thomas Wetherell was twice married, the name of his first wife and the mother of his children being unknown. He married (second), September 12, 1658, Jane Heighington, of All Saints' Parish, Newcastle, widow, who survived him and was buried October 1, 1677. They were the parents of Christopher, of whom further.
(Jordan : "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. II, p. 989.)
(III) CHRISTOPHER WETHERILL, son of Thomas Wetherell, was the New Jersey immigrant of 1683. He was married in Sherburne, York County, and continued to reside there until his emigration to New Jersey (1683) then produc- ing a certificate at Friends' Meeting at Burlington, from the Monthly Meeting at York, dated 6 mo. (August) 2, 1683, as "Christopher Wetherell, late of Sher- burne, County of York, widower." This certificate included his children, Thomas, Phebe, and John. After his removal to New Jersey Christopher Wetherill pur- chased, at different periods, three one-thirty-seconds of a share and one one- twelfth of a share of the lands of West Jersey, besides several separate tracts in Burlington County and numerous lots in the town of Burlington. He was one of the members of the Proprietary Council of the Province, 1706-07, also filling the office of sheriff of Burlington County, 1700, and probably held other official posi- tions. He resided for a number of years in the town of Burlington, where he owned a great number of town lots. He later removed to his plantation in Mans- field Township, Burlington County, where he died March 25, 1711. His unsigned will was proved April 6, 1711, upon the testimony of Isaac De Cow, that it "wass taken in Wrighting from the Tstator's mouth March ye 28th, last, ye very sub- stance of all Devise, Butt Nott in forme."
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CRISPIN.
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(Arms in possession of family.)
WETHERALL (WETHERILL). Crispin
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Christopher Wetherill married (first), February 7, 1672, Mary Hornby, who died in 1680. He married (second), April 8, 1686-87, Mary Fothergill. On November 10, 1690, Christopher Wetherill and Elizabeth Pope declared their intentions of marriage before Burlington Monthly Meeting the second time; and were granted permission to proceed with their marriage. He married a fourth time, in 1705, Mary Whitton, their intentions being declared the second time, October 1, 1705. He also survived her. Children of first marriage :
1. Phebe, born in Sherburne, County York, England, November 27, 1672, died in New Jersey ; married, December 17, 1694, Thomas Scattergood.
2. Thomas, of whom further.
3. John, born in Sherburne, County York, England, in 1677, died in Mannington Township, Salem County, New Jersey, in 1728; married (first), June 3, 1700, Sarah Borradail ; (second) Anne, who survived him.
(Jordan : "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. II, pp. 990-91.)
(IV) THOMAS WETHERILL, son of Christopher and Mary (Hornby) Weth- erill, was born at Sherburne, County York, England, November 3, 1674. He accompanied his father to New Jersey in 1683, and inheriting the greater part of his father's lands there, was a large landholder and prominent citizen of Burling- ton County. The will of Thomas Wetherill, of the city of Burlington, Province of New Jersey, Yeoman, dated September 7, 1748, and a codicil dated October I, 1758, was probated September 16, 1759. It devises to each of his sons, Christo- pher, Thomas, and Samuel, and his daughters, Mary Crispin, Elizabeth Johnson, and Ann Moore, and his wife, Anne, lots in Burlington, and to his sons large tracts of land in Great Swamp, Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, and other parts of New Jersey, and gives legacies to his grandchildren, Thomas and Abigail Bishop, children of his daughter, Ann, by her former husband, Peter Bishop.
Thomas Wetherill married, June 22, 1703, Anne Fearon. They were the par- ents of :
I. Mary, of whom further.
2. Elizabeth, born October 1I, 1705; married (first) Thomas Earl, (second) Joseph Johnson.
3. Ann, born August 29, 1707; married (first), November 15, 1731, Peter Bishop, (second) James Moore.
4. Christopher, born February 26, 1710-11, died in 1786; married Mary Stockton.
5. Thomas, born May 16, 1712; married, May 16, 1744, Katharine Sykes.
6. Joseph, born March 31, 1715, died young.
7. Samuel, born August 8, 1717, died October 30, 1789; married, May 19, 1743, Mary Noble, died September 21, 1779; had six children.
(Jordan : "Colonial Families of Philadelphia," Vol. II, pp. 990-91.)
(V) MARY WETHERILL, daughter of Thomas and Anne (Fearon) Wetherill, was born October 22, 1704, and died 1790. She married Silas Crispin, Jr. (Cris- pin III.)
(Ibid.)
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LINE OF DESCENT FROM GILES PENN TO HORACE FORTESCUE.
Giles Penn.
Rachel Penn married Raphe Bradshaw.
Rebecca Bradshaw married William Crispin.
Silas Crispin married Mary Stockton (Shinn), daughter of Richard Stockton, American progenitor.
Silas Crispin married Mary Wetherill, daughter of Thomas Wetherill, granddaughter of Christopher Wetherill, American progenitor.
Mary Crispin married Aaron Smith.
Sarah Smith married Joseph Fortescue.
Thomas Smith Fortescue married Martha Lyle.
Walter Scott Fortescue married Maria Chase Grey.
Horace Fortescue married Laura Irene Archambault.
Frank A. Fortescue married Marjorie Hill.
George Horace Fortescue.
Wayne
Prominent among the younger generation of bankers in Philadelphia is Joseph Wayne, Jr., president and director of the Girard National Bank. Mr. Wayne is a descendant of the old Wayne family of Pennsylvania, from which also descended General Anthony Wayne.
The Wayne family is mentioned in early records of Yorkshire and Derby- shire, England, where for centuries they held a most respectable position among the gentry. There is yet extant in England a roll of Derbyshire families entitled to bear arms and among them is mentioned the Wayne family, the coat-of-arms being given as: Gules, a chevron ermine, between three inside gauntlets, or. These arms were cut on a seal ring belonging to the first Captain Anthony Wayne, of Easttown, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The crest on the ring is: A stag's head erased, proper.
(I) CAPTAIN ANTHONY WAYNE, born in 1666, originally of the border of Yorkshire and Derbyshire, England, emigrated to County Wicklow, Ireland, dur- ing the reign of Charles II. He had some years' service in the army under William III, and commanded a squadron of dragoons at the battle of the Boyne. He emi- grated with his wife, Hannah ( Faulkner) Wayne, and sons, Francis, Gabriel, Wil- liam, Humphrey, Jacob, and John ; and daughters, to America, in 1722-23. Captain Anthony Wayne settled in Easttown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and by deed of May II, 1724, became owner of three hundred and eighty-six acres of land in Easttown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, by purchase of Thomas Edwards. He died December 2, 1739, aged seventy-three years, and is buried at St. David's, Radnor, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His son, Captain Isaac Wayne, was a colonial, soldier, and the father of General Anthony ("Mad Anthony") Wayne, of the Revolutionary Army.
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