Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 100

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978

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THOMAS FULLER, youngest son of Dr. Oliver Fuller, by his first wife, Alice Ran- son, was born in Kent, Connecticut, July 11, 1773. He studied medicine and locat- ed in New York, later removing to Hartford, Connecticut, where he practiced his profession with growing repute until his early death in 1801. He married, May II. 1795, Nancy, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Lee, of Bristol, Con- necticut, and they had issue :

Rhoda Ann Fuller, b. Sept. 22, 1796; d., Phila., March 30, 1876; m., Aug., 1815, Samuel Augustus Mitchell;

Thomas Franklin Fuller, b. April 29. 1798; d. Feb. 2, 1848; m. Lucy Winston.

After the death of Dr. Thomas Fuller, in Hartford, Connecticut, 1801, her father brought the young widow and her two children to his home in Bristol, Con- necticut, where she resided until her second marriage to Bryan Hooker. She died in 1863, in her ninety-first year.

Horatio Nelson and Ellen Douglas (Mitchell) Burroughs had issue:

Mary Elena Burroughs, b. April 11, 1844; m., Feb. 11, 1868, Effingham Perot, of Phila .; Annie Burroughs, b. Dec. 12, 1846; m., April 15, 1875, Josiah Maurice Bacon;

JOSEPH HOWELL BURROUGHS, b. May 16, 1851; m. Edith Lewis; of whom presently;

Ellen Douglas Burroughs, b. Jan. 23, 1853; m., Nov. 5, 1879, Effingham Buckley Morris; issue :

Rhoda Fuller Morris, b. Nov. 5, 1880; Eleanor Burroughs Morris, b. Oct. 6, 1881; Caroline Mitchell Morris, b. Jan. 24, 1886; Effingham Buckley Morris, Jr., b. Aug. 26, 1890

Horatio Nelson Burroughs by his second wife, Caroline Mitchell had issue:

Henry Augustus, b. March 10, 1856; d. March 1, 1882; m., Dec. 5, 1878, Emilie Bailey; and had issue :

Horatio Nelson Burroughs, Jr., b. Dec. 17, 1879.

JOSEPH HOWELL BURROUGHS, only son of Horatio Nelson Burroughs, of Phila- delphia, by his first wife, Ellen Douglas Mitchell, born in Philadelphia, May 16, 1851, was educated at the Episcopal Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. On graduating from the college department of the university in 1872, he entered himself a student at law, and taking a course in the law department of the university, was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, June 27, 1874, and has since practiced in the several courts of that city and county. He is a member of the Union League, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Franklin Institute, Photo- graphic Society of Philadelphia, Law Association of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, Philadelphia Cricket Club, and of other social organizations and clubs of that city.

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Joseph Howell Burroughs married, May 19, 1881, Edith, daughter of John A. and Katharine (Hynson) Lewis, of Philadelphia ; issue :

Joseph Howell Burroughs, Jr., b. April 12, 1882; Ellen Douglas Burroughs, b. July 26, 1888.

STULL FAMILY.

JOHN ADAM STOLL, born in Germany, 1749, emigrated to America at the age of twenty-three years, arriving in Philadelphia in the ship, "Morning Star," George Dempster, master, with forty-three other Germans or Palatines, seeking homes in Penn's colony, December 24, 1772. Taking the oath of allegiance to the British Crown, required by act of Pennsylvania Assembly. he founded employment in Philadelphia.

On June 27, 1776, the Continental Congress, by resolution, directed that a regi- ment of Germans be organized for service in the patriot cause, by raising four companies in Pennsylvania and four in Maryland, to compose the "German Bat- tallion," to serve three years unless sooner discharged. Five companies were raised in Pennsylvania, and Nicholas Hausseger, Major of the Four Battalion, Pennsylvania Troops, under Gen. Anthony Wayne, was commissioned Colonel of the Battalion. On the rolls of the German Battalion appears the name of Adam Stoll, of Philadelphia. The battalion was in service at Trenton and Princeton, and in May, 1777, was in Deborre's brigade, under Gen. Sullivan. It took part in Sulli- van's expedition against the Indians, and in the spring of 1780 was stationed on the frontier of Northumberland county, and was mustered out by resolution of Congress, January 1, 1781.

On the disbandment of his regiment in 1781, John Adam Stoll returned to Phila- delphia, and married Maria Elizabeth, maiden name unknown, and continued to re- side in Philadelphia until his death, May 6, 1821.

ADAM STULL (as the name came now to be spelled ), son of John Adam and Maria Elizabeth Stoll, was born in Philadelphia, April 5, 1791, and spent his whole life in that city. He served as a private in the "Benevolent Blues," under com- mand of Capt. Henry Read, in the brigade of Brig. Gen. Thomas Snyder, com- manding Fourth Military District, War of 1812-15. Adam Stull married, July 14, 1814, Elizabeth, born December 25, 1794, died February 26, 1875, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Schmick) Neidlinger, and granddaughter of Lewis Schmick, by his wife, Rachel Levering.

WIGARD LEVERING, founder of the Levering family in Philadelphia, was born in the town of Gemen, district of Munster. principality of Westphalia, Germany, 1648. He was a son of Rosier Levering, and his wife, Elizabeth Van de Walle, and is supposed to have been a descendant of John de Levering, of the manor of Westbach-Burton, England, in the eighth year of Edward II. (1316). Weigard or Weichart Levering married, in March, 1674. Magdalena, born in Leyden, daughter of William and Sidonia ( Buaviers) Boker, of the city of Leyden. They continued to reside in Gemen, Westphalia, until about 1677, when they removed in Mühlheim-on-the-Rhoer, from whence with their children and Gerhard Levering, a brother of Wigard, they emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1685. On March 20, 1685, Wigard Levering entered into a contract with the Frankfort Company, the first German purchasers of land in Pennsylvania, to transport himself, his brother, Gerhard, and their families to Pennsylvania. The original of this contract is now

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in possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. This contract states that he was thirty-seven years of age; his wife thirty-six, and their four surviving children were named as follows: Anna Catharine, aged nine years ; William, aged five years ; Amelia, aged two and a half years ; Sybilla, aged one-half year.

The Leverings settled in Germantown and remained there until 1691, in which year both Wigard and Gerhard were naturalized and acquired land; Wigard 500 acres and Gerhard 100 acres, lying between the Wissahickon and Schuylkill, and comprising the greater part of what became the town of Roxborough, now a part of the city of Philadelphia, known for some years as Leverington, the name still retained by the cemetery many years later incorporated under the laws of Penn- sylvania, which was orginally the family burying-ground. A portion of this land was owned and occupied by his lineal descendants of the name for six generations.

Many of the descendants of Wigard and Magdalena ( Boker) Levering have fill- ed prominent places in the civil, military, business and professional life of Penn- sylvania. Several histories of the family have been published, the most complete being that of Dr. John Levering.

Wigard Levering died in Roxborough, Philadelphia, February 2, 1744-45, aged ninety-seven years. A notice of his death in the Pennsylvania Gazette of February 12, 1744-45, erroneously gives his age as 109 years.

Of Wigard and Magdalena ( Boker ) Levering's twelve children, but seven lived beyond childhood. five daughters and two sons.

Anna Catharine, second and eldest surviving child, b. at Mühlheim-on-the-Rhoer, March, 1676; m., April 26, 1692, Heinrich Frey, from Altheim, Alsace, one of the first two Germans to emigrate to Pa., arriving in the Delaware river 1680; they have left numer- ousdescendants;

WILLIAM LEVERING, of whom presently;

Amelia Anna Sophia, b. July, 1682, at Mühlheim; m., Roxborough, Phila., Benjamin Morgan, who d. Aug., 1766; she d. at Roxborough, Feb. 5, 1771 ; leaving issue;

Anna Sybilla, b. at Mühlheim, Sept., 1684; d. Aug. 17. 1764; m. George Miller, of Chest- nut Hill, Phila., who d. 1719; they had issue;

Sidonia, b., Roxborough, or Germantown, April 23, 1691 ; m. Peter In de Hoffen (De Haven), and settled on the Skippack;

Jacob Levering, b. Jan. 21, 1693, Roxborough; d. there, 1753; m., 1716, Alice Tunis, or Tennis, and, Feb. 20, 1716-17, his father conveyed to him eighty-five acres of the Rox- borough property, on which he and his descendants resided for many years; he was the grandfather of Col. John Levering;

Magdalena, youngest child, b. June 4, 1696, the second of the name; m. William Tunis, or Tennis; two of his sons later resided in Towamencin twp., Philadelphia (now Montgomery) co.

WILLIAM LEVERING, born at Mühlheim-on-the-Rhoer, May 4, 1679, came to l'ennsylvania with his parents in 1685. He resided in the old mansion near the Ridge road, on a tract of land conveyed to him by his father, November 20, 1717, leasing it to his son, Benjamin, February 7, 1745-46, and devised it to him at his death in August or September, 1745-46. He married Catharine -- , and had five children.

Issue of William and Catharine Levering:

William, b. Aug., 1705; m., May 4, 1732, Hannah ( Harding) Clemens, a widow, and was many years proprietor of the Leverington Tavern, Roxborough; he d. May 30, 1774; Amelia Levering, b. 1708: d. Feb. 7. 1762; m., March 22, 1732, Abraham Shoemaker, of Bristol twp., Philadelphia co .; see Shoemaker Family;

Elizabeth Levering, b. 1712; m. John Cleaver, and had issue;

Magdalena Levering, b. 1715; m. Matthias Maris:

BENJAMIN LEVERING, b. 1723; m. Elizabeth Jones; of whom presently.

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BENJAMIN LEVERING, son of William and Catharine Levering, was for some years in business ; resided on the south side of the Ridge road, now Ridge avenue, on the homestead of 150 acres, leased to him by his father, February 7, 1745, and died there, March 17, 1763. He married at Christ Church, Philadelphia, August 22, 1745, Elizabeth Jones, and had issue :

Levi Levering, b. 1746; d. 1749;

Rachel, b. April, 1749; d. February 9, 1829; m., 1768, Louis Schmick; of whom presently; Katharine, b. 1750; d. Oct. 14, 1814; m. John Sands, of Bucks co .;

Elizabeth, b. 1751 ; d. Oct. 14, 1768;

Benjamin, b. 1753; d. 1846; m. Abigail, dau. of Anthony and Agnes (Tunis) Levering, b. 1767, d. 1824; he huilt a large stone house, in what is now Manayunk; resided there.

Louis Schmick, who married Rachel Levering, in 1768; was a farmer and wheelwright. He built a large house on the south side of Ridge road, adjoining the Levering property in Roxborough, where he lived until his death, October 9, 1821, aged eighty years. His wife died February 9, 1829, and both are buried in the Leverington Cemetery. They had issue:

Elizabeth Schmick, b. 1769; m. (first) at St. Michael and Zion Lutheran Church, Phila., May 5, 1789, Samuel Neidlinger, of whom presently, (second), 1803, John Naylor, of Richmond, Va., who d. in 1806, (third), 1811, Jesse Castner, of Montgomery co., Pa., who d. April 26, 1828; she d. Nov. 8, 1848;

Catharine Schmick, b. 1772; d., unm., Oct. 30, 1849;

Caspar Schmick, b. 1774; d. Sept. 11, 1821; m. Elizabeth Lloyd;

Benjamin Schmick, b. 1775; d. Oct. 5, 1857; m. Elizabeth Levering, dau. of Benjamin and Abigail;

George Washington Schmick, b. Oct. 8, 1778; built the first flour mill in Manayunk, and operated it for a number of years, in partnership with Samuel Gorgas, under the firm name of Schmick & Gorgas; was a representative in the Pennsylvania Assembly for some years; lived in the old mansion, on the Ridge road; d., unm., Oct. 9, 1857.

Samuel Neidlinger, who married Elizabeth Schmick, at St. Michael's Church, Philadelphia, May 5, 1789, was probably a son of Benedict Neidlinger, who came

Samuel Neidlinger, who married Elizabeth Schmick, at St. Michael's Church, Phil- adelphia, May 5, 1789, was probably a son of Benedict Neidlinger, who came from Germany, arriving in Philadelphia in the ship "Louisa." October 3, 1753, aged twen- ty-four years. Samuel Neidlinger, then at the age of sixteen years, was enrolled, February 3, 1777, as a drummer boy of the Sixth Company, Capt. A. G. Claypoole, Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line, and later served as a private in the ranks during the Revolutionary War. He subsequently removed to Rich- mond, Virginia, and died there in 1802, aged forty-one years. His widow, as stated above, was twice married thereafter and died in Philadelphia, November 8, 1848.

Issue of Samuel and Elizabeth (Schmick) Neidlinger:

Elizabeth Neidlinger, b. Dec. 25, 1794: d. Feb. 26, 1875; m., July 14, 1814, Adam Stull, before named;

Samuel Neidlinger, Jr., of Montgomery co., Pa., m. (first) Hannah Dight, (second) Mary Ann Beaty ;

Susan Neidlinger, b. 1798; m. (first) John Cooper, (second) William Gilbert. John Neidlinger, b. 1800: d. June 8, 1874; m. Mary Shepard.

Adam Stull (2) died in Philadelphia, July 22, 1861, in his seventy-first year.

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Issue of Adam and Elisabeth ( Neidlinger ) Stull:

GEORGE WASHINGTON STULL, b. Nov. 15, 1815: d. Oct. 26, 1894; m. Rebecca Delaney; of whom presently;

Susan Stull, b. Oct. 10, 1817; d. Nov. 22, 1843; m. Edwin K. Gatchel, of Phila .;

Elizabeth Stull, b. Dec. 28, 1819; d.,unm., in Phila .;

Mary Ann Stull, b. Dec. 28, 1821; m. Jacob Updycke;

Sarah Stull, b. Jan. 20, 1824; d. Feb. 25, 1894; m. Samuel Knox, of Phila .:

Caroline Stull, b. Jan. 28, 1826; m. John Collins, of Berlin, N. J .;

John A. C. Stull, b. April 17, 1828; m. Catharine Wyand, and lived in Phila .;

Catharine Stull, b. Aug. 24, 1830; d. Sept. 24, 1850; m. Jesse Jones, of Phila., who d. Nov. 10, 1857;

Daniel Stull, b. Dec. 8, 1831 ; d. Feb. 12, 1863, at Old Point Comfort, Va., of pneumonia, contracted while serving in the Union Army; m. Amanda Emmons, but left no issue;

Christiana Stull, b. Feb. 17, 1834; m. Charles C. King, of Newark, Del .;

Amanda Stull, b. June 5, 1838; m. Robert Wilson, of Phila.

GEORGE WASHINGTON STULL, eldest son of Adam and Elizabeth ( Neidlinger ) Stull, born in the city of Philadelphia, November 15, 1815, was educated in the public schools of that city, and learned the trade of a printer, but his health becom- ing impaired by the confinement of that occupation, he abandoned it, and after en- gaging in business in the city for a few years, became connected with the gas de- partment of the city. In politics he was a Whig, and later a Republican, and took an active interest in municipal affairs. On the consolidation of the outlying dis- tricts of Philadelphia county into the city, he was elected a member of the School Board, and becoming a member of the Board of Control, retained that position until his death, October 26, 1894.

George W. Stull married, February 27, 1840, Rebecca, daughter of Jacob De- laney, a veteran of the War of 1812-14, of the Fourth Company ( Frankford Ar- tillerists). First Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, attached to "Advanced Light Brigade," under Brig. Gen. Thomas Cadwalader, and on her mother's side a de- scendant of the Toy family, who were among the early settlers at Marcus Hook.

Issue of George Washington and Rebecca (Delancy) Stull:

Anna Maria Stull, b. May 22, 1841 ; m. John H. Yearsley, of Phila .;

George W. Stull, Jr., b. April 25, 1844; d. May 28, 1872; m. Harriet Gorgas, who d. Feb. 6, 1895 ;

John T. Stull, b. April 6, 1846; d. May 28, 1884; unm .;

ADAM A. STULL, b. Sept. 15, 1848; m. Emily P. Yearsley; of whom presently ;

Elizabeth Stull, b. July 21, 1850; d. March 28, 1887; m. Pemberton B. West:

Mary Ann Stull, b. Dec. 13, 1852; d. in Phila., Aug. 3, 1899; unm .;

Samuel Stull, b. Jan. 31, 1856; m. Josephine Elliott, and resides in Phila.

ADAM ARBUCKLE STULL, third son and fourth child of George Washington and Rebecca (Delaney) Stull, born in Philadelphia, September 15, 1848, was educated in the public schools of his native city, and in 1867 entered the Seventh National Bank, of Philadelphia, as bookkeeper ; was later made teller, which position he fill- ed until July, 1882, when he resigned to accept a position in a Colorado National Bank, at Denver. In March, 1883, he resigned the latter position to become as- sistant secretary of the Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburg Railroad Company, with office in New York City, was transferred to Columbus, Ohio, November, 1884, and to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, May, 1886. In September, 1886, he resigned to accept the position of secretary and treasurer of the Commonwealth Title, Insur-

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ance and Trust Company, of Philadelphia, which position he filled until December 31, 1899, when he was elected president of the Trust Company of North Amer- ica, which position he still fills.

Politically Mr. Stull is an ardent Republican, and has been many years a member of the Union League, Penn Club, Merion Cricket Club, and other social organiza- tions, and of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution ; Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and is treasurer of the Society of the War of 1812-14. He has been for over ten years treasurer of the Midnight Mission, and takes an active interest in other philanthropic and charitable institutions and works.

Adam A. Stull married, October 15. 1872, Emily Pauline, daughter of Town- send and Ann Haworth (Reifsnyder) Yearsley, of ancient Quaker lineage, de- scended on the maternal side from William Warner, and from pioneer English settlers antedating William Penn.

Issue of Adam A. and Emily Pauline ( Yearsley) Stull:

Evelyn Lewis Stull, b. Sept. 1, 1874.

WHITAKER FAMILY.

RICHARD WHITAKER, was one of the widely known and prominent men in West New Jersey from 1676 to 1718. He was born in England about 1644. His parent- age is not known with certainty, but there is good reason to believe that he was a son of Rev. Jeremiah Whitaker, an eminent Presbyterian clergyman, born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, 1599; educated at Sidney College, Cambridge; was one of the men who wrote the "Presbyterian Confession of Faith and Catechism." He was pastor of St. Magdalen Bermondsey, in Southwark, preaching in South- wark, Westminster, and Christ Church, London. He died in London, 1654, and a son, William, succeeded him.

In 1673 John Fenwick became possessed of one-tenth of West Jersey ; his tenth comprised the present counties of Cumberland and Salem, all originally Salem county. Fenwick sold much of the land before sailing for the Delaware, and many purchasers accompanied him in the ship, "Griffin," Robert Griffin, master. 1675. William Hancock of the parish of St. Leonards, Shoreditch, London, pur- chased 1,000 acres, and not being able to accompany the first settlers to the prov- ince, executed the following power of attorney to his cousin, Richard Whitaker :

Be it known unto all men by these presents, that I, William Hancock, of the parish of St. Leonards, Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex, Cordwinder, for divers goods causes me hereunto especially moving, Have assigned constituted and appointed and by these pres- ents in my stead and place have put and constituted my trusty and well beloved cozen Rich- ard Whittaker, of ye Citty of London, Cordwinder, to be my true and lawfull Attorney deputy and Assignee, for mee and in my name and to my only use and benefit as well to ask demand sue for recover receive and take full and absolute possession of all and every my Lott or Lotts of Land situated lying and being in New Jersey or New Caesarea in America in the parts beyond ye Seas and after recovering posession of ye said Lott or Lotts of Land had or taken to plant ye same to my most advantage, &c.

In Witness Whereof I, ye said William Hancock have hereunto set my hand and Seal the Sixth of July, Ano. Dni. 1675, in the 27th. year of ye reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles ye Second, over England, &c.

Sealed and delivered in the presence of us,

William hancock (LS)

Thomas Scamadin,

et Wm. Johnson, Esq. Notary Public.

With the above-quoted power of attorney (still in possession of his descendants ) Richard Whitaker came over in the "Griffin," with Fenwick and others, including Richard Hancock (a brother of William), who later became Fenwick's surveyor general. The "Griffin" probably sailed a day or two after the date of the above power of attorney, and arrived in the Delaware 9mo. (November ) 23, 1675. Will- iam Hancock did not leave England until about October 1, 1679; his will was made in England, September 29, 1679, when "intending a voyage for West Jersey" and was proved in West Jersey, August 2, 1680, and letters testamentary granted to his widow, Isabella, whose will, dated September 1, 1680, gives a legacy to "Richard Whittacker, of Salem."

Richard Whitaker became a prominent man in the colony at Salem soon after landing. An agreement entered into between Fenwick and the purchasers of land in his tenth, dated June 25, 1676, providing that each purchaser of 500 acres of land should have sixteen acres thereof laid out to him in the town limits, bears the

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signatures of ten of the first settlers, including Richard Whitaker. On July 5, 1676, he took the oath as one of the Council of Government of West Jersey by the proprietors, a position he retained until 1702. Hancock's farm of 868 acres of land, is designated in the warrant for its survey as "Whitacre's Plantation," but in the return of survey as "Hancock's Hurst." Richard Whitaker married Elizabeth Adkin, of Alloways Creek, Imo. (March) 17, 1679, by whom he had one daugh- ter, Elizabeth. About 1685 he removed with his family to the south side of Co- hansey Creek, and settled on a large tract of land near what is now known as New Englandtown, the locality being known as Herring Row. George Provoe, of Alloways Creek, cordwainer, in his will, dated August 1, 1688, refers to eight of his cattle being cared for by Richard Whitaker, and devises the increase of these cattle to Elizabeth Whitaker, wife of Richard, and also leaves a money legacy to Elizabeth, the daughter.

On his farm, above mentioned, Richard Whitaker built a large brick mansion, known as the Whitaker Mansion, which endured 150 years. In the same neighbor- hood he and Henry Buck kept a large store, trading in their own sloops directly with Boston, New York, and the West Indies. Their ancient store books are still in the possession of the family. From these books we know the names of most of the people resident in the township at that day, and the prices and nature of the goods sold at that time.

On account of his prominence in the community and his business ability Richard Whitaker was much sought after as attorney to sell real estate; to attest wills ; to act as executor or administrator of estates of decedents, or to make inventories of such estates. The date of death of his first wife, Elizabeth Adkin, is not known, nor the date of death of his daughter, Elizabeth, who is not mentioned in his will; the wife mentioned in the will is called Abigail. This will is dated June 5, 1718, and though it states that he is "very sick and weak of body," he seems to have lived nearly two years longer, as the will was not offered for probate until January 12, 1719-20, when, the executors refusing to act, its proof does not appear of record. An inventory was made January I, 1720-21.

Issue of Richard Whitaker, as shown by his will:

NATHANIEL WHITAKER, of whom presently;

Thomas Wetherill, d. 1779, leaving four sons and three daus., mentioned in his will; Richard Whitaker, d., intestate, 1721; letters of administration being granted to his widow, Hannah, Dec. 26, 1721 ;

Katharine Whitaker, of whom we have no further record.

The three sons, Nathaniel, Thomas and Richard Whitaker, were members of a military organization, of the district including the south side of Cohansey Creek, under Capt. Joseph Seeley, the muster roll of which bears date November 18, 1716.

NATHANIEL WHITAKER, eldest son of Richard, the emigrant, became owner and occupant of the original homestead. The plantation extended along the south side of Cohansey Creek, nearly midway of its course of twenty miles from the head of navigation, where Bridgeton now stands, to the Delaware Bay. The Whitaker Mansion stood on a high bluff, fronted broad fields to the south, and faced Co- hansey Creek on the north.

Nathaniel Whitaker was a Presbyterian, and was one of a committee appointed to take title to the ground where stood the earliest house of worship of the Fair-

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field Church, one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in the country. He was one of the grantees in the deed therefor from Daniel Elmer, dated June 9, 1747. Un- fortunately, the earliest records of this ancient church were destroyd by fire, and with them many interesting facts relating to the early settlers of Fairfield township, Cumberland county, where it was located. Nathaniel Whitaker married (first), November 18, 1729, Mary Ann Dixon, who died November 13, 1738, leaving three children. He married (second), September 13. 1739, Ruth Buck, by whom he had four children. His will, dated December 13, 1752, devises his house and home- stead to his eldest son Ambrose and makes him one of the executors, and bequests are made to the other six children.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 100

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 978

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978