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Despite the time and energy Mr. Morris devoted to his business, he still found the opportunity to participate in his many other affairs and interests. He was a director of the Provident Life Insurance Company; the Bank of North America, and the Insurance Company of North America. The Union League Club bears the name of Israel Morris among its founders. Politically, he was a Republican, and without participating actively, he maintained an unfailing interest in the party.
Following the family tradition for many generations, Mr, Morris was a mem- ber of the Friends' Orthodox Church and worshipped in the same meetinghouse on Twelfth Street, below Market, where his father had been Presiding Friend.
When Mr. Morris passed away, the city of Philadelphia lost one of its most able citizens, a man who had contributed much to the growth of the iron industry in this country.
Israel Morris married, in Philadelphia, September 25, 1829, Elizabeth Long- streth, who was born June 28, 1817, and died March 13, 1898, the daughter of Isaac T. and Mary (Collins) Longstreth, and the great-granddaughter of Isaac Collins, who printed the first quarto of the family Bible issued in this country. Among their children was :
I. Frederick Wistar, of whom further.
(Virkus: "The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy," p. 268. Family data.)
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(VIII) FREDERICK WISTAR MORRIS, son of Israel and Elizabeth (Long- streth) Morris, was born March 18, 1842, and died in Philadelphia in 1916. After being graduated from Haverford College with the class of 1860, Mr. Morris entered the iron manufacturing business of his father and continued therein after his father had retired from active participation in the organization.
Frederick Wistar Morris married, September 3, 1866, Elizabeth Flower Paul. (Paul VI.) Their children were:
I. Frederick W., Jr., born May 26, 1867; married Sophia Starr.
2. Margaret E., born February 9, 1870.
3. Marian L., born November 9, 1872; married John B. Thayer, Jr.
4. Samuel W., see below.
5. John P., born September 16, 1876.
6. Dorothea H., born September 22, 1879; married Thomas E. Baird, Jr.
7. Pauline F., born December 21, 1880; married Walter C. Janney. The Janney lineage appears previously in this volume under the account of Walter C. Janney. (Ibid.)
(IX) SAMUEL WHEELER MORRIS, son of Frederick Wistar and Elizabeth F. (Paul). Morris, was born in Philadelphia, January 16, 1874. He was educated at St. Paul's School, in Concord, New Hampshire, a well-known college preparatory school for boys. He graduated from Haverford College with the class of 1894, receiving his baccalaureate degree in science.
Mr. Morris began his business career in 1894 with the Girard Trust Company. Wherever he was placed in the bank, whatever duties were assigned to him, Mr. Morris early proved equal to, and his performance was characterized by accuracy and conscientious exactitude. In 1914, he was elected secretary of the Girard Trust Company, and he ably filled this position until he retired in October, 1929.
His political sympathies are with the Republican party. He is a member of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, of the Philadelphia Club, the Merion Cricket Club, the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the University Barge Club, the Sons of the Revolution, the Sunnybrook Golf Club, and Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He is a communicant of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill.
Samuel W. Morris married, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 6, 1917, Barbara (Warden) Strawbridge, born in Philadelphia, daughter of William G. and Sarah (Bushnell) Warden. Mrs. Morris, who had previously been married to William J. Strawbridge, who was deceased, was the mother of two children by this first union: Barbara W. Strawbridge, born March 14, 1910, in Philadelphia, and William J. Strawbridge, born in Philadelphia, October 7, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Morris were the parents of a son:
I. Samuel W. Morris, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 21, 1918.
The death of Mrs. Morris occurred July 8, 1923.
Mr. Morris married (second), January 24, 1929, Mrs. Agnes Almy Coleman.
(G. P. Donehoo: "Pennsylvania, A History," Vol. X, pp. 157-58.)
(The Paul Line).
Deriving its origin from the baptismal form, "son of Paul," Paul, the sur- name, was in use early in English history. There is mention of a Stephen Paul, County Nottinghamshire, in 1273, and John Pawle was registered in Oxford
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(Bardsley : "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames.")
(I) JOSEPH PAUL, or PAULL, as it was sometimes spelled, was born in England in 1657 and died in Philadelphia in 1717. He removed from England to the colonies in 1685. In 1687, there is mention of him as a member of the Provincial Assembly.
Joseph Paul married, in 1680, Margaret Roberts. Among their children was:
1. Joseph, of whom further.
(Virkus: "The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy," p. 987.)
(II) JOSEPH (2) PAUL, son of Joseph and Margaret (Roberts) Paul, was born in Philadelphia in 1683 and died there in 1745. The name of his first wife is not known, but he married (second) Elizabeth Bridewell. Among their children was:
I. Jacob, of whom further.
(Virkus : "The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy," pp. 268-69.)
(III) JACOB PAUL, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Bridewell) Paul, was born in Philadelphia in 1745, and died there in 1814. He married, in 1769, Mary Bol- ton, and among their children was:
I. Joseph, of whom further.
(Ibid)
(IV) JOSEPH (3) PAUL, son of Jacob and Mary (Bolton) Paul, was born in Philadelphia in 1770 and died there in 1849. He married, in 1801, Elizabeth Flower Wheeler. Among their children was :
I. William W., of whom further.
(Ibid)
(V) WILLIAM W. PAUL, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Flower (Wheeler) Paul, was born in Philadelphia in 1817 and died there in 1886. He was a merchant.
William W. Paul married, in 1843, his cousin, Elizabeth Wheeler, and among their children was :
I. Elizabeth Flower, of whom further.
(Ibid)
(VI) ELIZABETH FLOWER PAUL, daughter of William W. and Elizabeth (Wheeler) Paul, was born in Philadelphia in 1848, and died in that city in 1920. She married Frederick Wistar Morris. (Morris VIII.)
(Ibid)
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The patronymic Blinn, variously spelled in English, French and Colonial rec- ords (i. e., Blin, Blinn, and Blynn), is borne by one of our oldest New England families. The lineage is of ancient French origin, one of its early members having figured in the Crusade of 1249. At the time of the Protestant persecutions in France, early in the seventeenth century, we find the family of Blinn, like a great many other Huguenot families, removed to England to avoid the abuse to which they were subjected in their native land. A forest of Blinn may be found today in the northern part of France. The Blinns did not long remain in England, as we find them in the American Colonies as early as the latter part of the seventeenth century.
(I) PETER BLIN, founder of the American branch of the family, was born in London, England, in 1640, very likely in Stepney Parish. He was a joiner by trade, but realizing the opportunities that lay before a settler in the colonies, he emigrated to Connecticut. He settled in the town of Wethersfield, and built his homestead on what is now Mill Street, and just opposite stood, and still stands, the house of his son, William. In 1682 Peter Blin was one of those who peti- tioned for permission to establish plantations in the Indian country. Some four- teen years after his arrival in town, Peter held the office of collector and drew land in allotment, and in 1708-09 he was elected to the office of fence-viewer. HE signed his name "Blin," as it is spelled in France today. His will is dated March 2, 1725, and was admitted to probate May 4, 1725. It stated that he was eighty- four years of age, and was in "health of body" and made his son Deliverance executor. It is believed that Peter Blin had three wives in all; (first) before he came to Wethersfield; (second) Johanna (or Joanna), by whom he had four children; and (third) Mary, whom he left a widow, when he died, March 7, 1725, and by whom he had two children. Though no mention is made of them in the records of Wethersfield, Peter is believed to have had two children by his first marriage before he reached that town, which was about the year 1680. Children by first marriage :
I. Peter, Jr., mentioned in his father's will as "Peter Blynn."
2. James, of whom further.
Children by second marriage :
3. William, born in Wethersfield, July 1, 1675; married (first) Anna Coltman, daughter of John Coltman, who died in her forty-fifth year on October 17, 1724; he married (second), December 22, 1725, Thankful Nott, daughter of John Nott. William had thirteen children.
4. Mary, born in Wethersfield, December 2, 1677; married a Hurlbut.
5. Daniel, born March 2, 1679.
6. Margaret, born March 10, 1681; married a Belden.
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Children by third marriage :
7. Jonathan, married (first), December 9, 1708, Hannah Clark, daughter of William Clark; she died September 11, 1713, and he married (second), June 26, 1740, Abigail Nott. He had two children by his first marriage.
8. Deliverance, called Mr. Deliverance, married, February 5, 1713, Mary Stillman (Still- man I-child five). "He died November 3, 1736, in his 48th year." Inventory of his estate was taken December 1, 1736, and is recorded at 6oof; he was licensed as a tovener, and in 1722 sold liquor ; he had four children.
("Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Wethersfield," pp. 104-05. Stiles: "History of Ancient Wethersfield." Hill Publication. "Wethersfield Records," p. 19. Wills.)
(II) CAPTAIN JAMES BLIN, son of Peter Blin, was born in 1673, and died in Boston, in 1729. He was buried in the Granary Burying Ground in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, in tomb number sixty-seven, granted to him by the vote of the select- men. He was a mariner in the employ of a man named Daniel Bowen in 1693, on a sloop engaged in Connecticut River and coast trade. Bowen died in 1693 and left a nuncupative will with James Blin and another man in his employ. Captain Blin was called before the court in Hartford and testified that he was then twenty years old (in 1693) and stated the contents of his employer's will. On November 12, 1705, a James Blin made a deposition before the Boston Court in which he stated that he was "Master of the sloop 'Mayflower,'" and that on October 21, while sailing from Saybrook, Connecticut, to Boston, he ran into a storm which forced his ship aground and made it necessary to throw a part of the cargo over- board. In 1722, Captain James Blin, Captain Savage, and Mr. Newton were en route to Boston from Nova Scotia in Captain James Blin's vessel, when they were forced to land at Passamaquoddy Bay to get fresh water. While ashore they were captured by the French and Indians and abusively treated, but managed finally to make their escape. The probate of Captain Blin's estate disclosed that he was a sea captain and owned a part of Long Wharf in Boston. The inventory of his estate showed real estate on Prince Street in North End, on Queen Street, on Cornhill, and land "fronting ye Common on ye West and Newbury Street on ye East" at the South End. Boston City Document number seventy-seven states that "at a meeting of the Selectmen January 27, 1719-20 Liberty granted to James Blyn to digg open the Highway in Newbury Street for the repairing of Cellar drain."
Captain James Blin married, in Boston, December 6, 1698, Margaret Denison. (Denison II.) Children :
1. Captain James, Jr., born January 17, 1699-1700; died before 1733; probably the captain of a vessel which had long been sailing the coast, who in May, 1731, died suddenly at Checnecto Bay, Nova Scotia, and was buried on the shore.
2. William, of whom further.
3. Peter, born January 16, 1704; married Prudence Vivain, or Viven; was a school master ; mentioned in his father's will.
(Boston City Documents, 130 (pp. 243, 246), 43 (pp. 12, 26, 44), 150 (p. 111), 77 (pp. 185, 189). Hill Publication. Boston Records. Wethersfield Records. Records Commissioners' Report, Boston. Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths ( 1630-90), p. 243. "Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Wethersfield," p. 104.)
(III) WILLIAM BLIN, son of Captain James and Margaret (Denison) Blin, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, October 17, 1701, and died before August, 1738. His mother died before his father's will was settled so that administration
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de bonis non was granted to William Blin, described as a shopkeeper. A deed dated 1733, with the Suffolk Deeds Book 47, states that William and Peter Blin are the only sons and heirs of James Blin, deceased, of Boston. The deed is signed by Margaret Blin, widow, and William Blin, and his wife, and by his brother and his sister-in-law, as well. William Blin married, in Boston, August 22, 1722, Elizabeth Stillman. (Stillman II.) Children :
1. William, born March 1, 1724.
2. James, of whom further.
3. Peter, born November 28, 1728, probably died in infancy.
4. Margaret, born October 3, 1731 ; believed to have married David Flagg; had a daughter, Rachel.
5. Peter, born October 30, 1733.
6. George, born July 21, 1737; three years of age when his father died.
(Boston City Documents, 43 (pp. 115, 164, 168, 205, 215, 224, 231) and 77, 150 (p. 104). Suffolk Deeds Books, 89, 136. Suffolk Probate Papers, No. 7195.)
(IV) JAMES BLIN, son of William and Elizabeth (Stillman) Blin, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, February 14, 1725, and died in Woolwich, Maine, aged eighty-eight, on January 20, 1813. He evidently is not buried in the cemetery, but he may be buried on his farm. At the time of his residence there, Woolwich was a part of Georgetown, Maine; it was incorporated as a town in 1759. James Blin married, January 1, 1750-51, Jane Gilmore, daughter of David Gilmore (inten- tions published at that date). Children :
I. Ann, born in Georgetown, Maine, November 23, 1751.
2. James, Jr., of whom further.
3. Lydia, born Georgetown, Maine, July 30, 1757 ; married, May 23, 1778, Samuel Preble.
4. Mary, died December 1, 1791 ; married William Blair.
5. David, born in Woolwich, Maine, September 21, 1761, died in Dresden, Maine, July 23, 1847; married (first), in Woolwich, May 14, 1787, Lucy Fuller of that town, who died in Dresden, March 25, 1808; he married (second) Sarah, who died in Dresden, November 30, 1844; he spelled his name Blen, and Blinn, later.
6. Theophilus, born in Woolwich, November 3, 1764, died there April 24, 1841 ; married, in Woolwich, April 25, 1789, Patience Gray, of Woolwich, who died November 30, 1844.
7. Charles, born in Woolwich, Maine, August 16, 1767, and died in Bristol, Maine, in July, 1823; he married, in Woolwich, October 6, 1789, Lydia McMurphy, of Bristol, Maine.
8. Francis, born April 6, 1770; married, in Woolwich, September 7, 1793, Sarah Brookings ; he, too, spelled his name Blen later on.
9. Harrison, born in Woolwich, July 8, 1775, died in Dresden, July 22, 1848 (?) ; married Elmira.
(Town Records of Woolwich. Georgetown Records. Wiscasset Records. Hudson's "History of Lexington, Massachusetts" (Genealogical Part), p. 12. "Maine Historical and Genealogical Records," Vol. III, p. 160.)
(V) JAMES BLIN, JR., son of James and Jane (Gilmore) Blin, was born in Georgetown, Maine, August 28, 1755, and died in Woolwich, Maine, November 16, 1831. He is buried in Wiscasset Cemetery. He served his country in the Revolution as a private in Captain Israel Davis' company, then on the pay roll service from October 1, 1776, to December 5, 1776. Later he served six months and six days at Boothbay, then on Lieutenant Nathaniel Winslow's company pay roll his name appears for services from December 5, 1776, to December 31, 1776,
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at Boothbay. James Blin, Jr., married, in Woolwich, Maine, May 8, 1784, Abigail Delano. (Delano VI.) Children :
I. Harrison, born in Woolwich, June 12, 1785.
2. Aaron, born in Woolwich, February 28, 1787.
3. Lucy, born in Woolwich, January 14, 1789; married Bartlett White.
4. Richard Delano, born in Woolwich, May 4, 1791, died there July 18, 1841 ; married (first) Harriet Gregg; (second), in Woolwich, July 15, 1835, Mary Ann Groves of Wis- casset. Richard may possibly have died at sea, near Kamchatka.
5. Abigail Delano, born in Woolwich, May 6, 1794, died January 31, 1836; married James G. White.
6. Joshua, of whom further.
7. Beza, married Elias Bailey.
8. Nancy, born in 1804, and died January 20, 1846; married James Hunnewell.
9. Captain Henry, probably one of the first children of the family, married, December 5, 1810 intentions published in Wiscasset at that date), Betsy Lowell, daughter of James and Abigail (Danforth) Lowell, who died in 1883; Henry died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in February, 1885.
("Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War," Vol. II, pp. 176 and "C." Woolwich and Wiscasset Records. Letter from Mr. J. W. Hill. "Delano Genealogy," pp. 109, II6.)
(VI) JOSHUA BLINN, son of James and Abigail (Delano) Blin, was born in Woolwich, Maine, February 2, 1796, and died in Wiscasset, October 23, 1861, aged sixty-five years. The tombstones of Joshua and his wife are standing side by side in the cemetery in Wiscasset today. Joshua spelled his name Blinn, as it is spelled by the present generations. He married, in Woolwich, Maine, December 4, 1821, Julia Hilton, born there May 13, 1797, and died November 6, 1883. Chil- dren (all born in Woolwich, Maine) :
I. Abigail Delano, born March 31, 1823, died there July 18, 1830, aged seven years.
2. John Quincy Adams, born January 17, 1825, died in California July 4, 1897; never married.
3. Richard Delano, born May 9, 1827, died in Chicago, Illinois, August 6, 1894; married Anna Eliza Bailey, of Wiscasset, Maine.
4. Silas Payson, of whom further.
5. Sally, born December 1, 1831, died March 13, 1833, in Woolwich, at two years of age.
6. Sarah, born January 16, 1834, died in Wiscasset, Maine, February 5, 1909; married a Hilton, who was lost at sea within a year after their marriage.
7. Julia, born April 1, 1838, and died in her eighteenth year in Wiscasset, November 3, 1854.
8. James Morrill, born December 28, 1841, and died possibly in Wiscasset, July 13, 1895; married, February 6, 1865, Annie A. Bailey, who was born October 23, 1843, daugh- ter of Benjamin and Rutlı (Roberts) Bailey.
(Tombstones in Wiscasset Cemetery. Wiscasset Records. Woolwich Records, Vol. II, p. 72.)
(VII) SILAS PAYSON BLINN, son of Joshua and Julia (Hilton) Blinn, was born in Woolwich, Maine, March 23, 1829, and was killed in action July 2, 1862, at Harrison Landing, Virginia, where he was fighting as a volunteer with the Fourth Maine Regiment. A report from the United States War Department in Washington states that "S. Payson Blinn," or "Silas P. Blinn," according to the records in their department, was enrolled June 9, 1861, at Rockland as a private of (Captain Smith's) Company G, Fourth Maine Infantry, to serve three years; and died on the march from White Oak Swamp at James River, Virginia, July 2, 1862.
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Silas Payson Blinn married, in Woolwich, Maine, October 26 (or 27), 1852, Har- riet Augusta Blagden. (Blagden III.) Children :
I. Jennie Greenwood, born in Woolwich, Maine, September 27, 1853, died in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, April 16, 1875; married, in Wiscasset, in May, 1874, Walter Chaloner.
2. Charles Payson, of whom further.
3. John Quincy, born in Wiscasset, January 12, 1858, died there eight months later.
(Records of the Army and the War Department. Wiscasset Records. Woolwich Records.)
(VIII) CHARLES PAYSON BLINN, son of Silas Payson and Harriet Augusta ( Blagden) Blinn, was born in Woolwich, Maine, February 22, 1855, and is now living in Boston. He was formerly vice-president of the A. M. McPhail Piano Company, of Boston, but has since retired from business. Charles Payson Blinn married, at Providence, Rhode Island, April 10, 1878, Ida Ware Chadbourne (Chadbourne IX), and they were the parents of :
I. Charles Payson, Jr., of whom further.
(Family records.)
(IX) CHARLES PAYSON BLINN, JR., son of Charles Payson and Ida Ware (Chadbourne) Blinn, was born in Boston, February 5, 1879, where he received his education in the public schools. In May, 1897, Mr. Blinn began his business career in Boston, with a position in the Third National Bank of that city, where he remained until February, 1898. He then entered the Eliot National Bank, where he was employed for four years. From February, 1902, until February, 1908, Mr. Blinn was connected with the City Trust Company, of Boston, becoming Assistant Treasurer in 1905. He then became the vice-president of the National Union Bank, and in 1916 removed to Philadelphia, where he has since held the same position in the Philadelphia National Bank.
Mr. Blinn is very active in the progress of his home city, and in club and social circles. During the World War he was active in the Liberty Loan drives. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, a Republican; a member of the Union League, Down-town, and Merion Cricket clubs, Philadelphia; also of the Eastern Yacht and Corinthian Yacht clubs of Marblehead, Massachusetts. He is also a member of the Mayflower Society, tracing descent from John Alden and George Soule, passengers on the "Mayflower."
Charles Payson Blinn, Jr., married, in Boston, October II, 1905, Etta Gallison. Children :
I. Marian, born in Boston, May 26, 1911; graduated from the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, in 1928, and now attending Vassar College, class of 1933.
2. Marjorie, born in Boston, May 31, 1916; now attending the Baldwin School, class of 1933. (Family data.)
(The Chadbourne Line).
In old documents we find the patronymic Chadboune spelled Chadbourn, Chad- ben, Chadbon, Chadborn, Chadboun, Chadburn, Chadburne, Chatburn, and even Chatbun. The name originated from residence by a ford, probably on the Wild- cat Brook, in the County of Lancaster, England, where the name first appears. There is a town of Chatburn in the parish of Whalley, in Lancastershire, today. An old theory claims that the name refers to the race of St. Chad (or Ceadda), an English ecclesiastic, who died in 672 Anno Domino. Prominent among the
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heroic, sturdy men and women who came to America to conquer the vast wilder- ness which they found overgrown with vegetation and inhabited by a hostile race, were the Chadbournes. They settled ancient Kittery, lying just across the Pisca- taqua River from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, one of the first regions in Maine to be inhabited by the English.
(Harrison : "Surnames of the United Kingdom." Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." Family data.)
The College of Arms, of London, England, has conducted a most extensive search for the English ancestry of the Chadbourne family. A portion of a letter received from this important source of genealogical information is herein quoted. The letter throws light not only upon the records consulted, but gives in clear form the deduction of descent which the search has disclosed :
The results of the searches we have made so far as to the Chadbourne family are most interesting, as you will see by the enclosed pedigree in which these results have been embodied.
The parish registers of Winchcombe are not as complete as they might be for this early period and they do not contain the record of Humphrey Chadbourne's baptism, but we may be satisfied with the identity of his father William for the following reasons :
. (1) The surname is extremely rare in England.
(2) The christian name of Humphrey is a comparatively rare one.
(3) The baptismal entry of William in 1585 corresponds with the approximate age of the first William of Kittery.
(4) The baptism of William, son of William, in 1611, corresponds with the age of William of Portsmouth.
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