Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 12

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

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RICHARD LIPPINCOTT, the ancestor of the family in New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania, was an early Puritan settler in New England. On April 1, 1640 he was chosen as a town officer of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and he was admitted a free- man of that town May 13, 1640. He removed a few years later to Boston, where his son John Lippincott was born November 6, 1644, and baptized four days later, as shown by the records of the First Church of Boston. The baptismal record shows that the father was "a member of the Church att Dorchester." He does not seem to have been entirely in accord with the rigid creed of the Puritan church, and had a difference with his church through which he was excluded from com- munion on July 6, 1651. Soon after this date he returned with his family to Eng- land, and became allied with the Society of Friends. With others of that sect he suffered persecution for his religious faith. On February, 1655, he was arrested

Papers in the possession of the family of the late J. Dundas Lippincott, of Philadelphia, show the descent of Richard Lippincott, of Devonshire, who came to Dorchester, Massachu- setts, prior to 1640, to have been as follows:

Robert de Lughencot, held the manor of Luffencot, county Devon, from 27, of Henry III., and granted the same to his younger son;

Jordan de Lughencot, who held same from 24, of Edward I .;

Thomas de Lughencot, held same from 19, of Edward III .;

John de Lughencott, held same in time of Edward III .;

Nicholas de Luffincott, held same in time of Henry IV., and in second year of Henry V. granted it to his son;

John de Luffiincott, who married in 1413, A. D., Jane Wibbery, of Wyberry, county Devon, daughter and heiress of John Wibbery, whose son,

John Lippincott, of Wibbery, bore the Arms of the Lughencott family quartered with those of Wibbery; m. Jane de Laploads, of Sydbury, county Devon, whose son,

Philip Lippincott, of Wibbery, m. Alice, dau. and co-heiress of Richard Gough, of Kil- ham, co. Cornwall. M. (second) Jane Larder, of Upton Pym, county Devon; (third) Alice Dyrrant, of Escomb. By Alice Gough, had issue :

John Lippincott, eldest son, whose issue became extinct with Henry Lippincott, of Barce- lona, in 1779;

Daughters, Margaret, Frances and Mary, and a second son ;

Anthony Lippencott, m. and had issue;

Bartholomew Lippincott, had issue ;

Anthony Lippincott, b. 1593, father of Richard Lippincott, who came to Mass. and, Thomas, b. 1598;

Dorothy, b. 1599; Jane,

Mary, b. 1604;

Bartholomew, b. 1607.

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at Plymouth, Devonshire, by the Mayor of Plymouth, and confined in or near the Castle of Exeter, and again arrested by order of the mayor in 1660, being later released at the solicitation of Margaret Fell, who becanie the wife of George Fox in 1669.

In 1661 or 1662, Richard Lippincott again sailed for America, and located in Rhode Island, then the asylum of several religious sects driven out of the Massa- chusetts Colony by the intolerant Puritans. He joined in the formation of an Association at Newport, Rhode Island in 1664, for the purpose of securing title from the Indians to a large tract of land in New Jersey, and was the largest con- tributor to the fund raised for that purpose. The purchase was effected from the Indian Sachem, Popomma, on April 8, 1665, and the land was confirmed to the Rhode Island company on the following day by Patent from Governor Nicholls. By the terms of the grant all who settled within its limits were to have "free liberty of Conscience, without any molestation or Disturbance whatsoever in their way of Worship," and it was stipulated that at least one hundred families should settle thereon within the space of three years. Richard Lippincott settled at Shrews- bury, Monmouth county, and was one of the founders of Shrewsbury Friends' Meeting of which he was one of the most prominent and active members through- out the remainder of his life. He also took a prominent part in Provincial affairs. The first Provincial Assembly was organized in the Province in 1667, and he be- came a representative therein in 1668 from Shrewsbury. In 1670 he was made one of the "Associates of the Patentees," the first local court of judicature. He was again elected to the Assembly in 1677, and was Coroner of Monmouth county in 1682-3. On August 9, 1676, he obtained a patent for 1000 acres of John Fenwick to be surveyed and laid out in his Colony, and it was surveyed to him on "Cohan- zick River and Wee-hatt-quack Creek." On May 20 and 21, 1679, he conveyed this tract in equal portions of 200 acres each to his five sons. None of them how- ever settled thereon, all disposing of it prior to 1700. Richard Lippincott died at Shrewsbury, November 26, 1683, leaving a will dated November 23, 1683. His wife, Abigail, whom he had married at Roxbury, Massachusetts, survived him fourteen years, and died 6mo. 2, 1697. Her will, bearing date June 28, 1697, was proven August 24, 1697, and mentions her grandson, John, son of son John, widow and children of son Freedom; grandchildren, Abigail, Sybiah and Rachel, daugh- ters of daughter Increase, wife of Samuel Dennis; sons, Restore and Remem- brance, and the Friends' Meeting at Shrewsbury.

Issue of Richard and Abigail Lippincott:

Remembrance, bap. at Dorchester, Mass., Sept. 19, 1641, d. at Shrewsbury, N. J., April II, 1723; a large landholder there; m. Margaret Barber ; had three sons and five daugh- ters;

John, b., Boston, Oct. 7, 1644, d. at Shrewsbury, April 16, 1720; m. (first) Sarah Hewett, (second) Jeanette Austin or Aston; sons-Preserve, John and Robert; daughters- Mary, Anne and Margaret;

Abigail, b., Boston, Mass., Jan. 17, 1646-7, d. March 9, 1646-7;

RESTORE, b., Plymouth, England, July 3, 1652, d., Burlington co., N. J., July 1741; of whom presently ;

Freedom, b., Plymouth, England, Sept. 1, 1655, d. at Wellenborough, Burlington co., N. J .; "Tanner" letters of Admrn. to his brother, Restore, June 15, 1697; m. Mary Curtis; had son, Samuel, and other children;

Increase, b., Plymouth, England, Dec. 5, 1657, d., Shrewsbury, N. J., Nov. 29, 1695; m. Samuel Dennis;

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Jacob, b. May 11, 1660, d., Shrewsbury, N. J., Feb. 6, 1689; m. Ruth Wooley, and had issue-Jacob and Ruth;

Preserve, b., R. I., Feb. 25, 1663, d., Shrewsbury, N. J., March, 1666.

RESTORE LIPPINCOTT, third son of Richard and Abigail, born at Plymouth, Devonshire, England, July 3, 1653, came to Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, with his parents, when a lad of a dozen years, and lived there until about 1692, though he had purchased land in Northampton township, Burlington county, near Mt. Holly, as early as 1688, and was living on the 570 acres purchased in that year of Thomas Olive, when it was conveyed to him September 21, 1692. On January 10, 1699-1700 he conveyed 309 acres of the 570 acre tract to his son Sam- uel, and continued to reside on the balance of the tract until his death July 20, 1741. He was a member of the West Jersey Assembly from Burlington county in 1701 and, with other members of the Assembly and Provincial Council, petition- ed King William to confirm Andrew Hamilton as Governor of the Colony. The following year the Proprietors of East and West Jersey surrendered their govern- mental rights to the Crown and Queen Anne united them into one Colony and ap- pointed Lord Cornbury Governor. The first Assembly of the united Province met at Perth Amboy in 1703, and Restore Lippincott was one of the representatives of Burlington county in that Assembly ; was re-elected in 1704 and continued to serve until the Assembly was dissolved in 1706. He was an active and esteemed member of Mt. Holly Friends Meeting and the Meeting was held at his house prior to the erection of the Meeting House in 1716. He married at Shrewsbury, Novem- ber 6, 1674, Hannah Shattuck, daughter of William Shattuck, born at Boston, July 8, 1654, died prior to 1729, in which year he married (second) Martha, widow of Joshua Owen, of Springfield, and daughter of John Shinn, of Springfield, Bur- lington county.

Issue of Restore and Hannah (Shattuck) Lippincott:

Samuel b., Shrewsbury, Sept. 12, 1675, d. in Northampton township, Burlington co., N. J., 1721; m., July 3, 1700, Ann Hulett;

Abigail, b. Feb. 16, 1677; m., May 3, 1697, James Shinn;

Hannah, b. Nov. 15, 1679;

Hope, b. Oct., 1681 ; m., April 15, 1701, William Gladding;

Rebecca, b. Nov. 24, 1684; m., June 5, 1704, Josiah Gaskill;

JAMES, b. June 11, 1687, d. 1760; m., Nov. 10, 1709, Anna Eves, of Evesham, Burlington co .; of whom presently;

Elizabeth, b. March 15, 1690; m., June, 1712, George Shinn;

JACOB, b. Aug., 1692; m. July 1, 1716, Mary, dau. of Henry and Elizabeth ( Hudson) Burr, and settled in Salem co .; was ancestor of Joshua Lippincott, Phila., director of the Bank of the United States, president of the Lehigh Navigation Co., etc .; of whom later;

Rachel, b. Jan. 8, 1695; m. (first), March 11, 1713, Zachariah Jess; and (second), Nov. 19, 1729, Francis Dawson.

JAMES LIPPINCOTT, second son of Restore and Hannah (Shattuck) Lippincott, born at Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, June 11, 1687, removed with his parents to Northampton township, Burlington county, when a child. He mar- ried November 10, 1709, Anna, daughter of Thomas Eves, one of the Proprietors of West Jersey, who came from London, England, purchasing one-thirty-second share of the West Jersey lands of Thomas Olive, February 26, 1676-7. He settled on Mill Creek in Burlington county, in what became Evesham township, named for him, where he died in February, 1728-9. His wife was Mary Roberts, whom he

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survived. James and Anna (Eves) Lippincott resided in Northampton township, and were members of Evesham Friends' Meeting.

Issue of James and Anna (Eves) Lippincott:

John, m., April, 1740, Elizabeth Elkington; settled in Evesham township;

James, d. 1782; m. (first), Nov., 1748, Meribah Rockhill, and (second), in 1751, Elizabeth Lippincott, a widow;

Dariel, d. 1776; m. Elizabeth Pim;

JONATHAN, m., March 13, 1746, his first cousin, Anna Eves; of whom presently;

Moses, d. 1752; m., July, 1750, Meribah Mullen, who m. (second), in 1753, Daniel Wills ;. Aaron, d. in Evesham, 1810; m., 1753, Elizabeth , dau. of Ephraim and Sarah Tomlinson;

Increase, m., 9mo. 24, 1737, Joshua Humphreys;

Anna, m. Thomas Taylor;

Jerusha, m., April 16, 1751, Amos Rockhill, of Mansfield.

JONATHAN LIPPINCOTT, son of James and Anna ( Eves) Lippincott, resided first in Evesham and later in Northampton township, Burlington county, New Jersey. He died in 1759. He married, March 13, 1746-7, his cousin Anna, daughter of Samuel and Mary Eves, of Evesham, the former being a brother of his mother Anna Eves. They were disowned by the Friends for their marriage, the marriage of first cousins being contrary to "the good order maintained among Friends."

Issue of Jonathan and Anna (Eves) Lippincott:

James, m., Jan. 28, 1771, Susannah Evans; LEVI LIPPINCOTT, b. about 1749, d. 18:8; m. Lettice Wills; of whom presently ; William, m., Aug. 9, 1779, Rhoda Leishman; Samuel, of whom we have no record.

LEVI LIPPINCOTT, second son of Jonathan and Anna (Eves) Lippincott, born in Evesham township, Burlington county, New Jersey, about 1749, spent his whole life as a farmer in that township, dying there in 1818. He married, April 12, 1773, Lettice, born September 5, 1754, died October, 1841, daughter of Micajah and Re- becca Wills, and of a family long prominent in Burlington county.

Issue of Levi and Lettice (Wills) Lippincott:

A child, b. in 1774, d. inf .; Reuben, b. Sept. 23, 1775, d. young and unm .;

Joab, b. Oct. 2, 1777, d. young and unm .; Beulah, b. Oct. 20, 1779, d. unm .;

Ann, b. Oct. 30, 1781; m. William Kaighn; JACOB WILLS LIPPINCOTT, b. Sept. 10, 1783, d. about 1834; m. Sarah Ballinger; of whom presently ;

Amy, b. Ang. 29, 1785, d. young and unm .; William, b. 1788, d. young and unm .; Jares Wills, b. 1790, d. Nov. 11, 1819, unm .; Elizabeth, b. 1792, d. about 1827; m. Jacob Hollingshead.

JACOB WILLS LIPPINCOTT, born in Evesham township, Burlington county, New Jersey, September 10, 1783, resided in that township and Springfield township in the same county. He died about 1834. He married, February 6, 1812, Sarah, born near Medford, New Jersey, June 25, 1789, died September 25, 1873, daugh- ter of Joshua Ballinger, of Burlington county, New Jersey, by his wife Rebecca Moore, whom he married at Burlington, November 17, 1783, and a lineal descend-

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ant of Henry Ballinger, one of the Proprietors of West Jersey in 1684, and Mary, his wife, a daughter of Thomas Harding, another of the Proprietors of West Jersey.

JOSHUA BALLINGER LIPPINCOTT, only child of Jacob Wills and Sarah (Ball- inger ) Lippincott, was born at Juliustown, Burlington county, New Jersey, March 18, 1813. He received his early education in the schools of that town, and at the age of sixteen years came to Philadelphia, and was employed in a book store at Fourth and Race streets for two years. His employer having failed in business at the end of that period, the creditors placed the affairs of the store in the hands of Mr. Lippincott.

He had full charge of the establishment, and conducted it for five years. In 1836 he borrowed $2,000 of his mother, the only pecuniary assistance he ever received, and launched out into business for himself in the publishing and sale of books, under the firm name of J. B. Lippincott & Company, a firm that in the next twenty- five years became one of the principal publishing houses in the United States. The first fourteen years were devoted principally to the publication of Bibles, prayer- books, and various religious publications. Among the latter were a Commentary on the Bible in six volumes, and "The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge," which met with a large sale. The business under his energetic and capable management was very successful and, in 1849, he purchased the entire stock of the extensive book jobbing and stationary establishment of Grigg, Elliott & Co., then the largest establishment of its kind in Philadelphia. Establishing a thoroughly equipped jobbing department, he reorganized the business in 1850 under the firm name of Lippincott, Grambo & Company, and subsequently located his principal establishment in a six-story building at Fourth and Commerce streets, owned by him, with a manufacturing establishment in a five-story building at Fifth and Cresson streets. In 1851 he made a business trip to Europe and secured the American agency for the English firm of Robert & William Chambers, and placed his mammoth establishment in the fore front of the book trade in America. Mr. Grambo retired in 1855, and the old firm name of J. B. Lippincott & Company was resumed and under it the house maintained its supremacy in that line of trade for almost a half century. In 1868 he issued the first edition of Lippincott's Magazine, to this day one of the leading literary monthlies. In 1857 he established the Medico-Chirurgical Review and continued it until 1861, when it was succeeded by the Medical Times. The publication of the standard and current books of litera- ture and science brought its founder and head in contact with the leading thinkers and writers of his time, while the acknowledged merit of the text books, encyclo- pædias and other works that were distinctively the creation of the firm, illustrate his tireless energy and business capacity for all the details of his business. He ranked for many years as one of the leading business men of Philadelphia and held a large interest in many great enterprises. In 1854 he became a director of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank; in 1861 one of the managers of the Phila- delphia Saving Fund Society; in 1862 a manager of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, and was for twenty years one of the active managers of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company. In 1874 he became a member of the Board of Trustees of Jefferson Medical College, and in 1876, of that of the University of Pennsylvania, and gave active and liberal sup- port to both of these institutions; was conspicuously active in the founding and

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support of the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University. He was also for several years president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. At his death on January 5, 1886, all these boards with which he had been so active- ly associated passed resolutions, testifying their appreciation of his worth and serv- ices and their loss in his death. Resolutions were also adopted by representatives of the book trade in Philadelphia, offered by Henry T. Coates, from which we quote the following: "In the death of Joshua B. Lippincott, Philadelphia mourns the loss of one of her best known and most active citizens, and the book trade its foremost and ablest member, one to whose energy, decision of character and fore- sight is dne the building up of the great house which has aided in making Philadel- phia known and respected not only in this country but also over the whole civilized world.

"As a business man he laid the foundations of the house which bears his name, upon the broad principles of commercial honor and personal integrity, and did much to make the name of a Philadelphia merchant respected and trusted. As a citizen he was enterprising and public-spirited, and as a wise and safe counsellor did much to promote many of the great enterprises in which our city is so deeply interested. Straightforward in all his dealings, and courteous in his manner to all, he ever held to the high principle that a merchant's word should be as good as his bond. His name will be one of the memories of the book trade of Philadelphia, and the great house which he founded and which bears his name."

He was one of the founders of the Union Club, which became later the Union League, the Social Art Club, and a number of other societies. He married, Octo- ber 16, 1845, Josephine, the accomplished daughter of Seth Craige, one of Phila- delphia's leading manufacturers, by his wife Angelina Shaw, and a descendant of a family long prominent in the business and social affairs of Philadelphia. She was born November 19, 1823.

Issue of Joshua B. and Josephine (Craige ) Lippincott:

CRAIGE LIPPINCOTT, b., Phila., Nov. 4, 1846; m. Sallie E. Bucknell; of whom presently;

Walter Lippincott, b., Phila., March 21, 1849; entered Univ. of Pa., 1862; entered firm of J. B. Lippincott, publishers, on leaving school and retained interest therein after his father's death; m., Oct. 21, 1879, Elizabeth Trotter, dau. of Sigismund Hoeckley Horstmann, of Phila., and they have issue :

Bertha Horstmann Lippincott;

Josephine Sarah Lippincott, b., Phila., Dec. 31, 1850; m., June 19, 1873, at Phila., James J. Goodwin, and had issue-three sons;

Joshua Bertram Lippincott, b. at Melmar, his father's country seat, near Huntingdon Valley. Montgomery Co., Pa., Aug. 24, 1857; entered Univ. of Pa., 1874; became mem- ber of J. B. Lippincott & Co., publishing house, and has been vice-president of the company since Feb., 1886; is trustee of Univ. of Pa .; manager of Veterinary Hospital ; member of Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and of a number of clubs and other social organizations: m., April 21, 1885, Joanna, b. Dec. 16, 1858, dau. of Joseph and Anna (Levering) Wharton, of Phila. They have issue :

Joseph Wharton Lippincott, b. Feb. 28, 1887;

Marianna Lippincott, b. Sept. 9, 1890;

Sarah Lippincott, b. July 14, 1894; Bertram Lippincott, b. Nov. 15, 1897.

CRAIGE LIPPINCOTT, eldest son of Joshua B. and Josephine (Craige) Lippin- .cott, born in Philadelphia, November 4, 1846, was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, entering that institution in 1862, and finishing his education in Europe. He entered the publishing house of J. B. Lippincott & Co. in 1866, and

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has since been prominently identified with that company, succeeding his father as President of the J. B. Lippincott Co. in 1886, the latter having been President of the company from its incorporation a year prior to his death. He is a member of the Mayflower Descendants; of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolu- tion, and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and of the Union League, Art and Rittenhouse clubs. He married, April 13, 1871, Sallie E., born in Philadelphia, June 4, 1848, daughter of William and Harriet M. (Ashton) Bucknell, of Phila- delphia, and they reside on West Rittenhouse Square.

Issue of Craige and Sallie E. (Bucknell) Lippincott:

Jay Bucknell Lippincott, b., Phila., Feb. 1, 1872; m., Jan. 20, 1897, Camilla Elizabeth, b., St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 1, 1879, dau. of Luther R. and Virginia (Hancock) Hare; they have issue :

Cammilla Hare Lippincott, b. Oct. 1, 1897 ; Priscilla Lippincott.

Josephine Lippincott, b., Phila., Nov. 4, 1874; m. Maurice J. K., son of Paul S. Reeves, and have issue;

Constance Lippincott, b., Phila., Sept. 17, 1883.

JACOB LIPPINCOTT, youngest son of Restore and Hannah (Shattuck) Lippincott, born in Northampton township, Burlington county, New Jersey, about the middle of August, 1692, married, July 1, 1716, Mary, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Hudson) Burr, born near Mt. Holly, Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1698. Her father, Henry Burr, having emigrated from London, England, about 1682, and located in that vicinity, became a large landowner. Her mother, Elizabeth Hudson, was a daughter of Robert and Mary Hudson, early settlers in Burlington county. Her eldest brother, John Burr, married as second wife, Susanna (Hud- son), widow of Robert Owen, of Philadelphia, and daughter of William Hudson, one of the early Mayors of Philadelphia, some account of whom is given in this work.

Jacob and Mary (Burr) Lippincott spent the first twenty-five years of their mar- ried life in Burlington county, and in 1741, removed to Greenwich, Gloucester county, near Swedesboro and the line of Salem county, New Jersey, about three miles from Mullica Hill. Jacob Lippincott died prior to 1754.

Issue of Jacob and Mary (Burr) Lippincott:

Joseph, b. 1718, d. 1773; m., April 3, 1752, Rebecca Coates;

Benjamin, m. Hope Wills, Jan. 9, 1741;

Restore, m., in 1752, Ann Lord, and (second) Deborah Cooper;

Caleb, m. Hannah, dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Woolston) Wills;

Jacob, settled in Bucks Co., Pa .;

Joshua, of Salem, m., 1767, Rebecca Wood, widow of James ;

Samuel, m., Jan. 7, 1758, Elizabeth Applyn;

Caleb, m. Hannah Will;

WILLIAM, removed to Phila .; m. Sarah Bispham; of whom presently;

Hannah, m., July 4, 1748, Joshua Lord, of Woodbury;

Mary, m., 1746, Jacob, son of Thomas and Abigail Spicer, of Gloucester Co .;

Sarah, m. (first) William Haines, and (second), Feb. 13, 1760, Azariah Shinn, of Glou- cester Co.

WILLIAM LIPPINCOTT, youngest son of Jacob and Mary (Burr) Lippincott, of Greenwich, New Jersey, removed to Philadelphia when a young man, and became identified with many of the institutions of the city. He was one of the earliest

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members of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, being elected a member May 29, 1775. He married Sarah Bispham.

Issue of William and Sarah (Bispham) Lippincott:

JOSHUA, m. Sarah Ann Wetherill; of whom presently; William, m. Christiana Barnes ;

Mary, m. Samuel Yorke.

Issue of Joshua and Sarah Ann (Wetherill ) Lippincott:

Sarah Ann, m., in 1821, Benjamin W. Richards, Mayor of Phila., 1832; Mary ;

Selena, d. unm .;

Samuel, d. unm .;

William, m. Mary Wilmer;

Joshua, m. Agnes Keene, grandniece of James Dundas, Lord Dunira.

Issue of Joshua and Agnes (Keene) Lippincott:

JAMES DUNDAS, b. 1839; of whom later; Anna Maria, m. Maj. William. Wurts Dundas.

JAMES DUNDAS LIPPINCOTT, son of Joshua and Agnes (Keene) Lippincott, was born in 1839, in Philadelphia and died March 6, 1905, of pneumonia. His life was spent largely in his native city. He graduated from Princeton University with the class of 1861. He was twice married-first to Alice, daughter of Thomas Potter, of Princeton, New Jersey. November 21, 1903, he married Isabelle, daughter of Gen. and Mrs. Francis Armstrong, formerly of Missouri, but at the commence- ment of President Cleveland's second administration the family removed to Wash- ington, D. C., Gen. Armstrong having been appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

NEWBOLD FAMILY.

The Newbold family of Philadelphia was founded in America by Michael New- bold, of Sheffield Park, county York, England, who came to Burlington county, New Jersey, 1680, having purchased of George Hutchinson, of Sheffield, by deed of lease and release dated January 28 and 29, 1677-8, one-eighth of three-nine- tieths of the Province of West Jersey, which Hutchinson had purchased of Edward Byllinge, March 1, 1676-7. Michael Newbold was born in 1623, and was a son of Thomas Newbold, of Parish of Handsworth, Yorkshire, who was a younger son of John Newbold, of Hackenthorpe, county Derby.

MICHAEL NEWBOLD was born in the parish of Handsworth, but in 1664 removed to Sheffield Park, same county, where he held lands as tenant-in-fee of the Earl of Shaftesbury, until his emigration to New Jersey. "Godfrey Newbould, of Handsworth Woodhouse, Parish of Handsworth County of Yorke, Gentleman," was also a proprietary of West Jersey. On September 3, 1681, Thomas Revel, Surveyor General for the Proprietors of West Jersey, surveyed to Michael New- bold, 400 acres on the south side of Assinnicunk or Birch creek, near the present site of Bordentown, and many other tracts were later surveyed to him in right of his purchase before mentioned. He brought with him from England nine of his eleven children and wife Anne, and settled in Burlington county, where he died in February, 1692-3. He was one of the first magistrates of Burlington county and prominent in public affairs. His will dated May 19, 1690, proved February 25, 1692-3, a codicil having been added November 19, 1692, mentions his wife Anne; son Samuel, and daughter Anne, wife of James Nutt, in England; and his other children, Joshua, (who died in Chesterfield, in 1709) John, (who seems to have returned to England,) is given a legacy "if he returns to West Jersey ;" Michael, of whom presently) ; Lettice, and her six children; James, (who died in Mans- field in 1697 without male issue) ; Thomas, (who died in Mansfield in 1696, un- married) ; Mary, and her four children ; Margaret, and her four children ; grand- son Gershom, son of daughter Alice. He was possessed of a large personal estate, a goodly part of which was in England ; several plantations and 600 acres of land not yet taken up, besides several lots in Burlington.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 12

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