Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 13

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


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Of the daughters of Michael and Anne Newbold, mentioned in the above quoted will of their father, Lettice married, December 6, 1683, John Woolston Jr., of Burlington, of a family later prominent on the west side of the Delaware; Mary, married by license dated May 12, 1684, Dededia Higgins, of Burlington, later of Somerset county, New Jersey ; Margaret, married by license dated December 30, 1686, Daniel Wills Jr., of Burlington, son of Daniel Wills, "Practitioner in Physick, of the Towne of Northampton," England, who became one of the Pro- prietaries of West Jersey and a prominent official; and James, a son, married by license dated January 16, 1695, Elizabeth Powell, who married (second) by license dated December 21, 1699, Jacob Decow.


MICHAEL NEWBOLD JR., son of Michael and Anne Newbold, born in England, succeeded to a large part of his father's lands and estate in Burlington county, and purchased other lands there, owning at the time of his death, 1721, a farm of


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300 acres in Springfield township, upon which he resided; 500 acres in the upper part of Springfield, and 400 acres in Hunterdon county. His personal estate amounted to nearly £700, including two negro slaves. He like his father was a Justice of Burlington county, and he also served as an officer under Col. Daniel Cox. His will dated November 29, 1721, mentions children: Thomas, Michael, Ann Beetle, Sarah, Barzilla and Margaret.


Michael Newbold Jr. married Sarah, daughter of John Cleayton, one of the earliest settlers of Shrewsbury river, Monmouth county, East Jersey, where he resided until about 1699, when he removed to Chesterfield township, Burlington county, where he died in May, 1704. He was a planter and possessed of a large landed and personal estate in New Jersey, both in Monmouth and Burlington counties.


Issue of Michacl and Sarah (Cleayton) Newbold:


Sarah Newbold, b. Nov. 29, 1700; m. Thomas Boude, of Phila. and West Jersey; THOMAS NEWBOLD, b. 1702, of whom presently ;


Michael Newbold, m. April 15, 1730, Susannah Schooley, and had several children, among them :


Anna Newbold, m. Anthony Taylor, of Brookdale Farm, Burlington Co., and was the mother of Anthony Taylor, Jr., of the Phila. firm of Taylor & New- bold, and of Mary and Anna Taylor, successively the wives of Thomas New- bold, the other member of the firm of Taylor & Newbold. Mary, wife of the senior member, being dau. of Caleb Newbold, of Springfield twp., Burlington co., N. J .;


John Newbold, m. Mary Cole, and was the father of Rachel Newbold, who m. her cousin, Daniel Newbold, Judge of Common Pleas, Court of Burlington co., 1797;


Rebecca Newbold, b. Aug. 13, 1739, d. Nov. 16, 1774; m. Dec. 20, 1764, Thomas Earl, of Springfield, Burlington Co .;


Cleayton Newbold, m. Mary Foster;


Joseph Newbold;


Mary Newbold, m. Robert Emley;


Susan Newbold. m. Samuel Hough.


Barzilla Newbold;


Ann Newbold;


Margaret Newbold.


THOMAS NEWBOLD, son of Michael and Sarah (Cleayton) Newbold, born in Mansfield township, Burlington county, 1702, died in that county in 1741. Like his father and grandfather, he took a prominent part in public affairs during the brief term of his mature years. He was a Justice of Burlington County Courts, 1739, and until his death, and was frequently called upon to act as an executor, administrator, trustee, etc., in the settlement of estates, though practically a young man at his death. He married at Burlington Friends Meeting, Edith, daughter of Marmaduke Coate by his wife, Anne, daughter of Edward Pole, of Somersetshire, England, who had brought a certificate to Burlington Meeting from a Monthly Meeting held at Sutton, for the Southern Division of the County of Somerset, England, dated 3mo. (May) 25, 1715. Edith (Coate) Newbold married (second) Daniel Doughty, and survived her first husband many years.


Issue of Thomas and Edith (Coate) Newbold:


Michael, b. April 6, 1726, d. y .;


Mary, b. Feb. II, 1728; Caleb, b. Feb. 16, 1731 (from whom descend the Newbolds of New York) : Hannah, b. May 27, 1734; WILLIAM, b. Sept. 10, 1736.


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WILLIAM NEWBOLD, son of Thomas and Edith (Coate) Newbold, born 9, 10, 1736, died in Mansfield township, Burlington county, 1794. He married, under the auspices of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, (intentions declared 4mo. (April) 7, 1757), Susannah, born 1736, daughter of John Stevenson, by his second wife, Margaret Wood, and granddaughter of Thomas Stevenson, ( 1648-1734) by his wife, Elizabeth, only daughter of Capt. William Lawrence, of Long Island. Thomas Stevenson was one of the prominent men of the English Colony on Long Island, holding in succession the offices of Overseer (1676), Constable (1678), Commissioner (1684), and Justice, (commissioned October 20, 1685). He pur- chased land in West Jersey in 1699, which descended to his son John above named. The latter was born at Newtown, Long Island, about 1678, and moved to his father's land on Doctor's creek, Nottingham township, Burlington county, New Jersey, about 1700. On March 7, 1705-6, he requested a certificate from Chester- field Meeting to Burlington Meeting, to marry Mercy Jennings, and in 1712 his father conveyed to him the 1000 acres on Doctor's creek, upon which he resided until 1727, when he purchased 200 acres in Hunterdon county, two miles south of Quakertown, where he resided until his death in 1744, being one of the organizers and a trustee of Quakertown Friends Meeting, then known as Kingwood Meet- ing. His first wife, Mercy, daughter of Governor Samuel Jennings, died prior to 1724, in which year John Stevenson married (second) Margaret, daughter of John and Susannah Wood, of Chesterfield township, Burlington county. Susan- nah (Stevenson) Newbold was second child of this second marriage. Her uncle, Thomas Stevenson Jr. (1674-1719), was a large landowner in Bucks and Phila- delphia counties, Pennsylvania, and a member of Pennsylvania Assembly, 1710-19. Issue of William and Susannah (Stevenson) Newbold:


Barzilla Newbold, b. 1759, d. Feb., 1815; m. 1788, Euphemia Reading, b. 1761, d. 1837; Thomas Newbold, b. Aug. 2, 1760, d. Dec. 18, 1823; m. (first) at Chesterfield Meeting, Feb. 19, 1789, Mary, dau. of Anthony and Anna (Newbold) Taylor, before referred to; (second) her sister, Ann Taylor. He was many years a merchant in Phila., in partnership with his brother-in-law and cousin, Anthony Taylor, Jr., under the firm name of Taylor & Newbold;


Charles Newbold, b. May 26, 1764, d. Jan. 24, 18 -; m. Hope Sands;


Edith Newbold, b. June 30, 1766, d. April 16, 1842; m. Oct. 28, 1789, Joseph E. Laurie; WILLIAM NEWBOLD, b. April 6, 1770, d. Aug. 11, 1841; m. Mary Smith; of whom pres- ently ;


John Newbold, b. March 17, 1772, d. June 6, 1841; m. Nov. 12, 1795, Elizabeth Lawrie, b. Jan. 2, 1775, d. March 9, 1843;


Susan Newbold, b. 1774, d. 1829; m. 1794, Thomas Clayton.


WILLIAM NEWBOLD, fourth son of William and Susannah ( Stevenson) New- bold, born in Mansfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, April 6, 1770, removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was engaged in business there until his death, August 1I, 1841. He married at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Novem- ber 15, 1794, Mary, daughter of John Smith, of Philadelphia. She died April 9, 1816.


Issue of William and Mary (Smith) Newbold:


John Smith Newbold, b. 1795, d. 1815;


Sarah Newbold, b. 1797, d. 1816; Susan Newbold, b. 1799, d. 1859; Abigail Ann Newbold, b. 1801; m. 1825, Abraham L. Coxe;


Mary B. Newbold, b. 1804; m. 1825, John Singer ;


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WILLIAM HENRY NEWBOLD, b. 1807, d. March, 1862; m. Calebina Emlen; of whom pres- ently ;


Richard Smith Newbold, b. 1808, d. 1883; m. 1839, Ellen DaCosta;


Emma Newbold, b. 1811; m. 1840, Francis Dehaas Janvier.


WILLIAM HENRY NEWBOLD, son of William and Mary (Smith) Newbold, born in 1807, was a prominent banker and stock-broker of Philadelphia, and in 1844 founded the firm of William H. Newbold & Company, later William H. Newbold, Son, & Aertsen, now the well-known brokerage firm of William H. Newbold's Sons Company, organized after the death of the senior member of the firm, which occurred in March, 1862. William H. Newbold married, 1830, Calebina, daughter of Caleb Emlen, and of the prominent Philadelphia family of that name, an account of which appears elsewhere in these volumes. Their city residence was on Spruce street above Broad, and their country residence "Newbold Vernon" at Abington, Montgomery county, on the Old York road, now occupied by their daughter-in-law, Mrs. John Smith Newbold. Calebina (Emlen) Newbold died August, 1872.


Issue of William Henry and Calebina (Emlen) Newbold:


JOHN SMITH NEWBOLD, b. Feb. 20, 1831, d. June 2, 1887; m. Anna Penrose Buckley; of whom presently ;


Maria Emlen Newbold, d. unm. 1905;


Emma Newbold, m. Richard S. Brock;


Katharine Newbold, m. Alfred Pancoast Boller, b. Phila., Feb. 23, 1840; graduated at Univ. of Pa., College Department, 1858; received degree of Civil Engineer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1861; Asst. Eng. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. 1862; do, of Phila. & Erie R. R. 1864; of Atlantic & Great Western R. R. 1866; Chief Eng. Hudson River R. R. 1866; of West Side & Yonkers R. R. 1880; of Yonkers Rapid Transit Co. 1881; of Manhattan Electric Railway 1882; of Albany & Green- bush Bridge Co. 1882; of Staten Island Rapid Transit Co. 1885; built double track bridge over Hudson river at Albany, Croton Lake bridge, railroad bridge over Thames river at New London, Conn., and many other prominent structures; mem- ber of American Philosophical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, Amer- ican Society of Mining Engineers, and is author of a number of publications on highways and bridges;


William Henry Newbold, Jr., b. Dec. 31, 1849, senior partner of firm of William H. Newbold's Sons Company; m. 1873, Roberta Gray, and had issue :


Katharine Newbold, wife of Robert Kennedy Wurts;


Ethel Newbold, wife of E. G. Mccullough;


Tenchard Emlen Newbold.


JOHN SMITH NEWBOLD, eldest son of William Henry and Calebina ( Emlen) Newbold, born in Philadelphia, February 20, 1831, entered his father's banking and brokerage establishment at an early age and became senior member of the firm at his father's death in 1862. He was a director of the Philadelphia & Read- ing Railroad Company, and of the Insurance Company of North America, and many years one of the managers of Philadelphia Library Company. He was a vestryman of Christ Church, and of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, at the time of his death, Warden of the Church of Our Saviour, at Jenkintown, and interested in a large number of charitable and philanthropic enterprises and institutions. He died in Philadelphia, June 2, 1887.


John Smith Newbold married, April 10, 1856, Anna Penrose, daughter of Clement Adam Buckley and his wife, Sarah Penrose, and granddaughter of Daniel Buckley, the prominent ironmaster of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, heretofore referred to in these volumes. Her mother, Sarah (Penrose) Buckley,


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born in Philadelphia, July 28, 1811, died there, January 21, 1891, was a daughter of Charles Penrose, by his wife, Ann, daughter of Dr. John Rowan, of Salem, New Jersey, and his wife, Sarah, a great-granddaughter of William Hall, who came to New Jersey in 1677, and was a Justice of the Common Pleas Court of Salem County, and a member of the Governor's Council, and who married Sarah Plumstead.


Charles Penrose was born in Philadelphia, September 14, 1776, died there June 24, 1849. He was early instructed in the art of ship building, in which his ancestors had been actively engaged for several generations, but abandoned the business in middle life and for many years was actively interested in public affairs. He was made superintendent of the United States Navy Yard at Phil- adelphia in 1812-14; was for many years a director of the Bank of Pennsylvania. Possessed of ample means he was a liberal contributor to charitable and benev- olent enterprises; was for thirty-one years president of the Southern Dispensary and many years a manager of the Humane Society.


Thomas Penrose, father of Charles Penrose, was a ship-builder and merchant in Philadelphia, where he was born January 22, 1733-4, died November 28, 1815. He was a member of the Committee of Observation in 1775, and was a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1761, and one of its board of managers, 1786-98. He was the originator of the public soup houses in Philadelphia, and contributed liberally to other charitable enterprises. He married Ann, daughter of Joseph Dowding, a prominent lawyer of Dover, Delaware, by his wife Ann, daughter of Judge Richard Richardson.


Thomas Penrose Sr., father of the above named Thomas, was born in Phila- delphia, January, 1709-10, died there November 17, 1757. He was a son of Capt. Bartholomew Penrose, the first ship builder of Philadelphia, by his wife, Esther Leech. Thomas Penrose married, October 21, 1731, Sarah, daughter of John Coats, of Philadelphia, brick manufacturer, by his wife Mary, daughter of War- wick and Dorothy Hale. Sarah (Coats) Penrose married (second) Capt. Lester Franklin, of the English Army, and (third) Rev. Anthony Duché.


Issue of John S. and Anna P. (Buckley) Newbold:


CLEMENT BUCKLEY NEWBOLD, b. July 25, 1857; m. Mary Dickinson Scott; of whom presently ;


ARTHUR EMLEN NEWBOLD, b. Aug. 5, 1859; m. Harriet Dixon; of whom presently; Ellen Grubb Emlen Newbold, b. Dec. 9, 1860, d. March, 1864;


Emily Buckley Newbold, b. April 13, 1865; m. April 29, 1891, Dr. William Johnson Taylor, b. Oct. 13, 1861, son of Major William Johnson Taylor, Sr., by his wife, Mary Eliza Bearden; they had issue :


Phobe Emlen Taylor, d. March 19, 1894;


Clement Newbold Taylor, b. March 3, 1892;


Marion Taylor, b. March 9, 1895;


William Johnson Taylor, b. July 3, 1896;


Frances Purnell Taylor, b. April 23, 1903;


Penrose Buckley Newbold, b. Nov. 1, 1868, d. March 1, 1870;


Anna Buckley Newbold, b. Jan. 3, 1871; m. April 29, 1896, Beauveau Borie, Jr., b. Sept. 25, 1874, son of Beauveau and Patty (Neil) Borie; they had issue-Patty Borie, b. January 1, 1898;


John Sergeant Newbold, b. Oct. 3, 1874; m. Jan. 5, 1902, Virginia Mason, dau. of Mason Campbell, by his wife, Eulalie Keating; issue :


Virginia Newbold, b. Sept. 4, 1907.


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CLEMENT BUCKLEY NEWBOLD, eldest son of John Smith Newbold, by his wife, Anna Penrose Buckley, born in Philadelphia, July 25, 1857, entered the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, Department of Arts, 1873, class of 1877, and later received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the same institution. On leaving college he became identified with the firm of William H. Newbold's Sons Company, bank- ers and brokers, and continued a member of that firm until 1904, when he retired from active business. He is a trustee of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany, of Philadelphia ; manager of the Western Saving Fund Society; trustee of Christ Church Hospital; director of the Farmers' & Mechanics' National Bank, Jenkintown National Bank, Trust Company of North America, Jefferson Fire Insurance Company, Library Company of Philadelphia, and of the Academy of Fine Arts, of Philadelphia. He is a vestryman of Christ Church, and St. James the Less, of Philadelphia, and of the Church of Our Saviour, of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the University, Union League, Philadelphia and Rittenhouse clubs. His home is Crosswicks House, Abington, Pennsylvania.


Clement Buckley Newbold married, February 20, 1897, Mary Dickinson, born January 21, 1876, daughter of the late Col. Thomas A. Scott and his wife, Anna Dike, daughter of Robert M. Riddle, Mayor of Pittsburg; (1824-81) president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1874-80, having served the same company in the position of vice-president for fourteen years previous to his elevation to the position of its chief executive, and during that part of this period covered by the Civil War, had charge, under appointment of Gov. Curtin, of the transportation of soldiers and supplies to the front. When the bridges on the Northern Central Railroad at Baltimore were burned, Secretary of War Stanton telegraphed to Col. Scott to take charge of that road, and he was appointed May 3, 1861, Colonel of Volunteers, and on August I, following, Assistant Secretary of War. By building promptly a branch railroad connecting the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad with Annapolis, he opened a route to Washington, avoiding the disaffected district about Baltimore, and thus assured the safe and expeditious transfer of troops and supplies to the national capital. Mrs. Mary Dickinson (Scott) Newbold died May 2, 1905.


Issue of Clement Buckley and Mary D. (Scott) Newbold:


Mary Dickinson Newbold, b. Nov. 12, 1898;


Anna Scott Newbold, b. March 19, 1903;


Clement Buckley Newbold, Jr., b. Jan. 17, 1905.


ARTHUR EMLEN NEWBOLD, second son of John Smith Newbold by his wife, Anna Penrose Buckley, was born in Abington township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, August 5, 1859. He entered the University of Pennsylvania, College Department, 1875, class of 1879, but left during his sophomore year. He was a member of the Philomathean Society, and the Zeta Psi fraternity there. He is a banker and was for a number of years a member of the firm of William H. Newbold's Sons Company, and now a partner of J. P. Morgan & Company and Drexel & Company; he is also a director in a number of business and financial institutions, and a member of several social organizations.


He married, February 25, 1886, Harriet, born February 3, 1866, daughter of Fitz Eugene Dixon, of Philadelphia, by his wife Catharine Chew Dallas, and they reside at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.


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Issue of Arthur Emlen and Harriet (Dixon) Newbold:


Anna Buckley Newbold, b. Nov. 20, 1886; m. April 29, 1907, Charles H. Krumbhar, Jr., of Phila .;


Arthur Emlen Newbold, Jr., b. July 31, 1888; Fitz-Eugene Dixon Newbold, b. Feb. 20, 1895;


Dorothy Emlen Newbold, b. March 8, 1899.


MARSHALL FAMILY.


CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, a pioneer druggist and manufacturer of chemicals in Philadelphia, and a prominent philanthropist and Patriot, was born in Mary street, Dublin, Ireland, November 6, 1709, and came of a family closely allied with the nobility of Great Britain, connected with the prominent families of DeLacey, Cussack, Grenville, Cowley and others. His brother, Charles Marshall, was an officer in the British Navy, and his sister, Isabella Marshall, married into the well- known county family of Cowley.


The father of Christopher Marshall died when he was very young, and his mother marrying a second time, his home life does not seem to have been alto- gether pleasant and congenial. At suitable age he was sent to a college in England, and received an excellent classical and scientific education. At the age of twenty years he besought the consent of his mother to his removal to America, and on her refusal to consent to his removal to a "country populated by savages," he joined a party of fellow students and came to Philadelphia in 1729. For his disobedience he was disowned by his family, and from that time declined to hold further intercourse with his relatives in Great Britain.


Soon after his arrival in Pennsylvania, he seems to have located in or near the village of Four Lanes End, now Langhorne borough, Bucks county, and became a member of Middletown Friends Meeting, and is mentioned upon their records as an "apprentice." Some time prior to his marriage, 1736, he engaged in the manu- facture of chemicals at Front and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, the first estab- lishment of the kind in Philadelphia. In 1735 he purchased a property on Chest- nut street, later known as No. 56, opposite Strawberry alley, the present number being 214. He was married at Philadelphia Friends Meeting, First Month, (March) 4, 1735-6, to Sarah, daughter of Robert Thomson, a Philadelphia ship- ping merchant, and his wife, Sarah Hearne, and on 4mo. (June) 3, 1736, was granted a certificate by the Middletown meeting "To ye Monthly Meeting of ye City of Philadelphia," which is as follows:


"Dear Friends, these with the salutation of Brotherly Love comes to acquaint you that our present writing is on behalf of our friend Christopher Marshall, who hath signified it his intention of continuing or settling himself amongst you requesting our certificate on that occasion in compliance with which we hereby certifie you coverneing him that after he had honestly served his time with a Friend of our Meeting, he we believe in sincerity, orderly joyned himself with us, since which he hath been careful in attending Meeting, and by inquiry made hath behaved himself in a good degree agreeable to our Holy profession and in what small concerns he had in the world, he hath settled to our satisfaction. We there- fore recommend him to your Christian Care and notice as one in Amity with us sincerely desiring his growth and perseverence in the precious truth, Measurably in which we conclude and subscribe your friends & brethren, Syned in and on behalfe of our Meeting."


The above certificate shows that Christopher Marshall previously to his joining the Meeting at Middletown, had served an apprenticeship, "with a Friend of our


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Meeting," and also shows that he was already established in business in Philadel- phia, by the use of the word "continuing" in the first part of the certificate.


He therefore took up his residence at No. 56 Chestnut street, and had estab- lished his chemical laboratory in the rear of the same lot, on what is now Carter's alley. The business was successful and as his sons came of age they were admit- ted to partnership with him.


Sarah Marshall, wife and mother, died and was buried at the Friends burying ground, August 4, 1771. Having acquired a comfortable estate, Christopher Marshall, December 1, 1772, retired from the firm of Christopher & Charles Mar- shall, manufacturers of drugs and paints, composed of himself, and his sons, Christopher Jr. and Charles, and by indenture of November 30, 1772, conveyed to them each one-half "share and share alike, all his right, title claim, demand to his third of stock of goods on hand and debts due to said copartnership" (formed March 11, 1765) "subject to the payment of one hundred pounds per annum to him during his natural life" and six months after his decease to pay to their brother, Benjamin Marshall, f1ooo. He had previously, by deeds dated Novem- ber 12, 1772, conveyed to his son Charles, twelve separate tracts of real estate in Philadelphia, on nine of which improvements had been erected, and three ground rents, on valuable city property ; also a plantation near Mt. Holly, New Jersey, and a tract of land in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. He also conveyed to his other sons valuable real estate in the city and elsewhere.


At the date of the dissolving of the partnership of the firm of Christopher & Charles Marshall, by the retirement of Christopher Marshall Sr., the three sons, Benjamin, Christopher Jr. and Charles Marshall, were also engaged in the ship- ping business, and in connection with one Wilkenson Simmons each owned one- fourth interest in the brig, "Burke," plying between Philadelphia and Surinam, since July 31, 1770, and her cargoes. The drug business at the old stand was continued by Christopher Marshall Jr. and his brother Charles until 1804, when it passed to the management of Elizabeth Marshall, daughter of Charles, who con- ducted it until 1825, when it was turned over to her two apprentices, Charles Ellis and Isaac Paschall Morris, an account of whose association is mentioned in our account of the Morris family. In addition to the estate above enumerated which Christopher Marshall turned over to his sons in 1772, he owned an interest in iron forges and furnaces in Maryland.


Christopher Marshall married (second) Abigail (Fisher) Cooper, a widow, fifty-two years of age, and moved to a property belonging to her at the corner of Front and Race streets, where he resided until before the occupation of the city by Lord Howe and the British troops, when with other members of the Supreme Executive Council and Committee of Safety he removed with his wife to Lan- caster, where he purchased a house on Orange street, with a large botanical garden attached, in Lancaster, and resided therein for some time. Mrs. Marshall died there September 28, 1782, and he returned to Philadelphia and resided for a time with his son Christopher, on Strawberry alley. He then went to house- keeping in one of his houses on Carter's alley, on the rear of the old homestead, Chestnut street, then occupied by his son Charles. In the cellar of this house there was a spring of salt water so strong that it could be used for pickling meats. Christopher Marshall also had a home just out of the then city limits, in Moyamensing, between Broad street and "Irish Tract Lane," which he called


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"The Place," frequently referred to in his diary. This property was given by him to his eldest son, Benjamin Marshall.




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