Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 16

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

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HUGH MONTGOMERIE, of Brigend, son of John, succeeded his grandfather prior to 1658, and at the death of his uncle, John Montgomerie, of Lainshaw, became eldest heir male and chief of the ancient house of Montgomery. He was seized of numerous lands, mills and other possessions on the "Water of Done," lying within the Earldom of Carrick and Shriefdom of Ayr, but all his worldly goods and lands became dissipated by a series of misfortunes, chief of which it is said was the loaning and pledging of large sums of money to his kinsman the Earl of Loudon, which were never repaid, and for twelve years prior to his death, May 6, 1710, he lived with and at the expense of his second son, James Montgomerie, a

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merchant of Glasgow. In 1692, he, with his eldest son and heir, William Mont- gomerie, of Brigend, conveyed all the estate of Brigend, including the lands of Potterstoun, Markland, Yeomanstoun, Barnstoun and Constable, together with a tenement in the town of Ayr, called "The Skinner's Yeard," and even their seats in the kirk, to their cousin, John Montgomerie, of Booch. Hugh Montgomerie had married, 1653, Katharine, second daughter of Sir William Scott, of Clerkin- ton, eldest son of Laurence Scott of the Buccleuch family, clerk of Privy Council in the time of Charles I. Sir William was knighted by Charles I., 1641 ; was suc- cessively Clerk of Sessions and of Privy Council ; member of Parliament for Had- dington, 1645 ; Ordinary Lord, June 8, 1649; one of the Commissioners of county of Edinburgh, 1650; Committee of Estates at Perth, 1651 ; died December 23, 1656. His first wife, mother of Mrs. Hugh Montgomerie, was Katharine, daugh- ter of Alexander Morrison, of Preston-Grange, whose mother was a daughter of Sir John Preston. His second wife was Barbara, daughter of Sir John Dalma- hoy. Hugh Montgomerie, of Brigend, and Katharine Scott, had two sons and several daughters. He died, as before stated, in Glasgow, May 6, 1710, aged eighty years. He was a strong Non-conformist in religion, a fact that may have contributed to his financial ruin.

WILLIAM MONTGOMERIE, of Brigend, later of Eglinton, near Allentown, Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, eldest son of Hugh Montgomerie and Katharine Scott, was involved, as his father's eldest son and heir, in the financial ruin that overtook his improvident father, and it is stated in letters received by his family after their removal to America, from Robert Maxwell, a son-in-law, that his uncle, James Montgomerie, of Glasgow, was "squeezed" and defrauded of a large por- tion of his share in the estate of Brigend by "a rapacious lawyer Sir David Cun- ningham," and that "a part of the estate is to be recovered for the claiming."

William Montgomerie married, January 8, 1684, Isabel, daughter of Robert Burnett, of Leithintie, Aberdeenshire, of the family of Leys Burnett, of which was Gilbert Burnett, Bishop of Salisbury. Robert Burnett was a member of the Society of Friends and in 1682 and 1683 respectively, purchased two 1/24 shares in the Province of East New Jersey, part of which he sold to other Scotchmen, prior to his removal to New Jersey, 1700, although he still retained several thous- and acres, surveyed and unsurveyed. He was therefore a Proprietor of East Jersey until his death, 1714. His will, dated November 24, 1712, and proven November 16, 1714, mentions children : John, Robert, Patrick, Meadie Allen, and Isabel Montgomerie, the latter with son, Patrick, being named as executors. The date of his arrival in New Jersey is somewhat problematical, but it is clear that he did not arrive until after 1691, as deeds made by him up to that date give his resi- dence as Leithentie, Scotland, while those beginning with September 4, 1700, men- tion him as "late of Leithentie" and that of October 7, 1700, gives his residence as Amboy. Robert Burnett married a sister of Alexander Forbes, of Ballogee. As a member of the Society of Friends he suffered persecutions for his religious con- victions. He, among other Friends, was arrested March 12, 1676, at a conventicle in Aberdeen, and confined in Aberdeen Tolbooth; a letter written by him while there confined is in possession of his descendants. He was intimately associated with Robert Barclay, of Ury, Scotland, the author of Barclay's "Apology," who was also a Proprietor of East New Jersey.

From an affidavit made by one of the younger sons of William and Isabel (Bur-

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nett) Montgomerie, made after the death of Robert, eldest son, it would appear that they resided in the town of Ayr, after the sale of the Brigend estate, 1692, and came to New Jersey with their children "about 1701-2," the probabilities are, however, since he was unable to fix a definite date, that they accompanied Robert Burnett in 1700. On their arrival they took up their residence on a tract of 500 acres surveyed to Robert Burnett, on Doctor's Creek, about two miles from Allen- town, Monmouth county, New Jersey, for which a deed dated March 20, 1706 was executed by "Robert Burnet, of Freehold, in the county of Monmouth, within the Eastern division of Nova Caesaria, one of the principal Proprietors of the Eastern Division aforesaid, in America, Gentleman," to "William Montgomery, his son-in- law, of the same town, county and division, Yeoman," for 500 acres of land, "whereon ye said William Montgomerie now dwelleth." They named the tract Eglinton, after the paternal estate in Scotland, and it was much added to by suc- ceeding generations of the family, who continued to occupy it for more than a century, the last of the name being Robert Montgomery, died 1828, when it was divided among his daughters. William Montgomerie died at Eglinton, his New Jersey plantation, about 1721. He and his wife were members of the Society of Friends when they came to this country, and their children were reared in that faith.

Issue of William and Isabel (Burnett) Montgomerie:

ROBERT, b. Brigend, Ayrshire, 1687, d. at "Eglinton," Monmouth county, N. J., 1766; of whom presently ;

Anna, b. Brigend, Feb. I, 1689-90;

Elizabeth, b. Brigend, July 12, 1691;

William, b. town of Ayr, Ayrshire, Feb. 7, 1693, d. Upper Freehold, Monmouth county, N. J., 1771; removed to Phila. early in life, was a merchant there until 1758, and then returned to Monmouth county, N. J .; m. (first) Susanna, widow of John Wood, of Burlington county, N. J. (whose dau., Esther, m. his nephew, James Montgomery, son of his elder brother, Robert), and had one dan., Isabel, who m. (first) John Read- ing, Jr., son of Gov. John Reading, of N. J .; (second) Henry Bailey. He m. (sec- ond) Margaret (Price), widow of Benjamin Paschall, of Phila., and dau. of Reese and Sarah (Meredith) Price, of Chester county, Pa .; (third) Mary Ellis, of N. J. His son, by second marriage, Major William Montgomery, b. Phila. 1751, reared in Monmouth county, N. J., joined the army at the outbreak of the Revolution and be- came a Major in the N. J. line, d. in Monmouth, 1815; m. Mary, niece of Gen. Robert Rhea, and had four sons and four daughters. Of the sons, William, Robert Rhea and Jonathan, went to New Orleans, and David to Kentucky, whence most of his descend- ants migrated later to Louisiana. Several grandsons of these four brothers were officers in Confederate army during Civil War;

James, b. Ayrshire, Scotland, d. Upper Freehold, Monmouth county, N. J., about 1756; wife Mary; had sons :

Robert, m. June 14, 1757, Elizabeth Vance;

Alexander, m. Nov. 23, 1761, Eunice West, and was father of Thomas W. Mont- gomery, M. D., a distinguished physician, m. Mary Berrien, and their son was Commodore John Berrien Montgomery, of U. S. N .;

James;

William.

Alexander, youngest son of William and Isabel, is thought to have d. unm .;

Jane, m. a Montgomery of Irish branch of family, and removed to Va.

ROBERT MONTGOMERIE, of "Eglinton," Monmouth county, New Jersey, eldest son of William Montgomerie, of Brigend, and Isabel Burnett, born at Brigend, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1687, came to New Jersey with his parents and grandparents in his fourteenth year. On February 8, 1709-10, he married, at Burlington, New Jersey, Sarah, a daughter of Henry Stacy, of Burlington county, and in the divi-

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sion of the lands taken up by Stacy, among his children, a tract of 490 acres in Newton township, Gloucester county, was set apart to Sarah Montgomerie, 1711, and a few years later, Robert and Sarah Montgomerie removed thither from Mon- mouth county, and erected a house thereon in which they resided until 1721. April 1, 1715, they conveyed, or leased for ninety-nine years, forty acres of this land to Jonathan Bolton and Hannah, his wife, the consideration therefor being that the said Hannah Bolton was to teach or instruct or cause to be taught and in- structed to read English, to do seamstry work or any other art or parts of arts that she, the said Hannah is capable to perform, inform or direct, to all the chil- dren of the said Robert Montgomerie and Sarah, his wife, or either of them. At the death of his father, about 1721, Robert Montgomerie returned to Monmouth, took up his residence at "Eglinton," and resided there until his death, 1766. Other than filling the office of local magistrate or Justice of the Peace he seems to have taken little or no part in official or Provincial affairs.

It was during his incumbency of "Eglinton," and after the death of his father, that Robert Maxwell, son-in-law of James Montgomerie, of Glasgow, brother of William, of Brigend, wrote to John Carlyle, of Alexandria, Virginia, for informa- tion in reference to William Montgomerie and his children, stating that "my wife and I, and his other friend in Scotland, are very desirous to know what may have become of him and his children, and the rather, because we have reason to be fully persuaded that he or his eldest son, has an unquestionable right to the title and honors of Lord Lyle, in Scotland, and also to a part of the estate of Brigend, which was not sold but was squeezed out of his hands by a rapacious lawyer, Sir David Cunningham. * * * In the trials that have been with Sir David's suc- cessors, it hath been cast up to the lawyers that Mr. Montgomerie, of Brigend, was wronged, and that a part of the estate is to be recovered almost for the claim- ing." This information coming to the family at "Eglinton," and a correspondence ensuing with their relatives in Scotland, Robert determined to make a trip to Scotland to claim his inheritance as eldest son, but later abandoned this intention, and no claim was ever made by him or his descendants, to the title and honors that had descended to him from the noble house of Lyle, or as the heir-male and chief of the ancient house of Montgomerie. He was the last of the family to spell the name in its ancient form, his sons all adopting the ending "ry" as the name has since been spelled. His father-in-law, Henry Stacy, came to New Jersey about 1682, built a house and wharf at Burlington, and died there 1684. He was from the "Hamlet of Spitellfields, Parish of Stepney, Middlesex, factor." His wife, Mary, did not accompany him to New Jersey, but died, soon after him, at Waltham Holy Cross, Essex county, England ; her brother, James Nevell, as her attorney and executor, conveying the New Jersey lands. Henry and Mary (Nevell) Stacy had children: Samuel, Mary, Elizabeth, and Sarah, all under age at his death, though Samuel, then in New Jersey, went to England to act as joint executor with Nevell, of his mother's will, 1689. Sarah (Stacy) Mont- gomerie died March 9, 1743-4, and Robert, 1766, his will being dated August 28, 1762, and proved October 1, 1766.

Issue of Robert and Sarah (Stacy) Montgomerie:

Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1710-11, m. James Dehow. Her grandson, John Dehow, b. Aug. 26. 1772, son of Capt. James and Priscilla (Smith) Debow, m. Sarah, dau. of Robert Montgomery, last of the name to occupy Eglinton; and Robert Debow, another son

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of the Captain, m. Lucy Quay, dau. of Samuel Quay, by wife, Lucy, dau. of Alexander Montgomery, son of James;

Elizabeth, b. March 28, 1712; m. Jan. 26, 1738, James Hepburn; had seven children ;

William, b. July 1, 1714, d. inf .;

Sarah, b. Oct. 8, 1715, d. April 29, 1753;

William, b. June 24, 1717, d. young;

Anna, b. Dec. 5, 1719, d. inf .;

JAMES, b. Feb. 26, 1720; m. Esther Wood; of whom presently;

Anna, b. April 8, 1722; m. March 18, 1754, Stephen Pangbourn;

Jean, b. March 16, 1723; m. (first) Ang. 5, 1761, Robert English, (second) Dec. 17, 1772, Emer Jackson ;

John, b. June 20, 1726.

JAMES MONTGOMERY, born at Eglinton, New Jersey, February 26, 1720, is spoken of in the records as "eldest son and heir of Robert Montgomerie," and is said to have been only son of Robert and Sarah, who married and left issue. He married, May 15, 1746, Esther, daughter of John Wood, of Chesterfield, Burling- ton county, who died 1730, by his wife, Susanna, who had married ( second) Will- iam Montgomerie, uncle of James; and granddaughter of William Wood, native of Leicestershire, England, who came to New Jersey in the fly-boat "Martha," autumn of 1677, and soon after married Mary Parnell, a fellow passenger on the "Martha." James Montgomery died 1769 or 1770.

Issue of James and Esther (Wood) Montgomery:

Rebecca, b. June 28, 1747; m. Joseph Taylor;

Robert, b. Oct. 22, 1748, d. July 25, 1828, lived all his life at Eglinton; m. (first) Nov. 14, 1661, Margaret Leonard, (second) June 22, 1788, Elizabeth Newell; had seven children, five by first and two by second wife, several of whom, including the two sons, d. in comparative youth s. p .;

JOHN, b. July 7, 1750, removed to Phila .; of whom presently;

William, b. Jan. 20, 1752, also removed to Phila., engaged in the mercantile business with his brother, John, and continued it after death of latter, until his death, March 4, 1831; m. Oct. 25, 1781, Rachel, dau. of Samuel Harvey, a Phila. merchant. Their children who lived to maturity were:

Esther, b. July 17, 1785, d. Romney, Indiana, Nov. 22, 1853; m. Feb. 6, 1806, Alex- ander William Walker;

Joseph, b. July 31, 1788, d. Feb. 5, 1859; well-known merchant of Phila .; m. May 28, 1811, Harriet, dau. of Major Reading Howell;

Harvey, b. Oct. 8, 1789, removed to Rochester, N. Y .; m. Eleanor, dau. of Col. Nathaniel Rochester, founder of the town, and engaged in business there;

Mary, b. Dec. 14, 1794; m. March 15, 1815, Prof. Charles D. Meigs, M. D., of Phila., and had issue:

Brig. Gen. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, quartermaster General of U. S., b. May 3, 1816, d. Jan. 2, 1892;

Charles D. Meigs, Jr., b. July 22, 1817;

John Forsythe Meigs, M. D., b. Oct. 3, 1818;

William Montgomery Meigs, b. 1819, d. 1824;

Harry Vincent Meigs, b. July 19, 1821 ;

Emily Skinner Meigs, b. Sept. 28, 1824, d. Nov. 22, 1905; m. Jonathan Will- iams Biddle;

William Montgomery Meigs, b. April 15, 1826;

Samuel Emlen Meigs, b. July 15, 1828;

Franklin Bache Meigs, b. Nov. 10, 1829; Mary Crathorne Meigs, b. Aug. 9, 1838.

Emily, b. May 8, 1797, d. Ang. 6, 1824; m. May 24, 1814, Thomas H. Skinner, D. D. Sarah, b. Feb. 15, 1754; m. April 2, 1772, Capt. Joseph Reynolds; had thirteen children; James, b. Nov. 22, 1755; educated for the law, but at breaking out of Revolutionary War, became Lieutenant in N. J. regiment and served under Gen. Richard Mont-

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gomery in the expedition against Quebec, Dec., 1775; was also at Brandywine, Ger- mantown and Monmouth; after the war followed the sea for some years, later a merchant; d. Eglinton, June, 1832; m. Ellen, dan. of Daniel Reading, and granddaugh- ter of Gov. John Reading. His son, Brig. Gen. William Reading Montgomery, b. July 10, 1801, entered West Point, 1821; was Captain in 8th Infantry during Mexican War, and was brevetted Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel, for gallant and meritorious services. Commanded First N. J. Vols. at Bull Run July 21 and Ang. 17, 1861, and was afterwards military Governor of Alexandria; m. Hannah Bullock Wood; d. May 31, 1871;

Joseph, b. Aug. 30, 1758, d. 1776, from disease contracted in military service in early days of Revolutionary War.

JOHN MONTGOMERY, second son of James and Esther (Wood) Montgomery, born on the old family estate of Eglinton, Monmouth county, New Jersey, July 7, 1750, prior to arriving of age, sold out his interest in the estate of his grandfather, Robert Montgomery, at Eglinton, with his younger brother, William, came to Philadelphia, and engaged in mercantile pursuits, eventually entering into partner- ship with his brother, carried on a successful business until his death, March 16, 1794. He was elected a member of the First City Troop of Horse, March, 1777, served with it in the New Jersey campaign of that year, and shared the trials and triumphs of that gallant company during the subsequent campaigns of the Revolu- tion. The hardships endured in this service laid the foundation of the disease which eventually brought him to his grave at the early age of forty-four years. He and his brother, William, established a reputation and credit as merchants of the strictest integrity ; as an evidence of the esteem in which he was held by his associates we quote the following obituary notice from the American Daily Adver- tiser, said to have been contributed by his friend and physician, Dr. Benjamin Rush: "On Monday afternoon were interred at Christ Churchyard, the remains of John Montgomery, merchant, of this city. The numerous and respectable body of citizens who attended his plain and republican funeral, evinced the high ideas entertained of the public and private merits of this excellent citizen. As a mer- chant he exhibited for twenty years, uniform industry, integrity and punctuality ; his word was a bond to all who transacted business with him. His virtues as a citizen commanded esteem and respect wherever they were known. The weakness of his constitution, which laid the foundation of the disorder which carried him to his grave, was thought to have been induced by the toils and dangers to which he exposed himself as a member of the Philadelphia Troop of Horse during the late war. He loved order as well as liberty and was no less attached to the present wise and equal government of his country than he was to its independence. As a son, a brother, a husband, a father, and a friend, he will never cease to live in the bosoms of those to whom he sustained these tender relations." He became an honorary member of the City Troop May 16, 1792, and was a member of Common Council of Philadelphia at the time of his death, many years prior to which he had resided at No. 7 Mulberry street.

John Montgomery married, November 3, 1785, Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Keen) Crathorne, who survived him over a half a century, dying October 15, 1848, and is interred by his side at Christ Church.

Jonathan Crathorne, father of Mrs. Montgomery, was supposed to be a native of England. He was for at least ten years, 1749-1759, captain of different trading vessels plying between Philadelphia and other Colonial ports, and Spain, England, and the East and West Indies. In 1759 he engaged in business in Philadelphia and

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died here 1767. He married at Christ Church, August 16, 1760, Mary Keen, of Swedish descent, born at Piles Grove, Salem county, New Jersey, September 29, 1728, daughter of Jonas and Sarah (Dalbo) Keen, granddaughter of Matthias and Hendricka (Claessen) Keen, and great-granddaughter of Joran Keen, or Kyn, born in Sweden 1620, who came to Upland (now Chester) with Gov. Printz, 1642 ; and also great-granddaughter of Jan Claessen, par Cooper, an early Swedish settler on the Neshaminy in lower Bucks county, Pennsylvania.

Issue of John and Mary (Crathorne) Montgomery:

Austin, b. Phila., Sept. 16, 1786, lived there all his life, dying Nov. 5, 1855; succeeded his uncle, Robert Montgomerie, of Eglinton, as eldest male representative of ancient fam- ily of Montgomerie; m. Sept. 5, 1809, Isabel Bowen, dau. of John Bowen, and grand- daughter of William Francis Bowen, both of "Bowen Hall," Island of Jamaica; no issue;

JAMES MONTGOMERY, D. D., b. Nov. 25, 1787; of whom presently ;

JOHN CRATHORNE, b. Nov. 7, 1792, d. N. Y. City, Aug. 5, 1867; of whom later.

JAMES MONTGOMERY, D. D., second son of John and Mary (Crathorne) Mont- gomery, born in Philadelphia, November 25, 1787, graduated at College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, class of 1805. He subsequently read law in the office of Judge Joseph Hopkinson in Philadelphia, was admitted to Philadelphia Bar June 3, 1811, and practiced his profession there nearly seven years. He pre- pared himself for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church and was or- dained deacon in Christ Church by Bishop White, August 25, 1816, and priest by Bishop Croes, in St. Michael's Church, Trenton, New Jersey, October 7, 1817, and on the following day was installed as rector of St. Michael's parish. In April, 1818, he became rector of Grace Churchi, New York City, and remained there two years. Returning to Philadelphia, he became rector of St. Mark's, Mantua, a West Philadelphia suburb. He became very popular as a preacher and was much in demand for special ministerial work. He was elected rector of St. Stephen's Church February 27, 1822, though the corner stone of the church edifice was not laid until May 20, 1822, and filled that charge until his death, March 17, 1834. He married, June, 1816, Eliza Dennis Teackle, of Accomac, Virginia, by whom he liad issue :

John Teackle, b. April 3, 1817, d. Feb. 20, 1895; member of Phila. Bar; m. June 25, 1856, Alida Gouverneur, dau. of Francis Rawle and Juliana M. (Gouverneur) Wharton, and granddaughter of Isaac and Margaret (Rawle) Wharton; no issue;

James Henry, b. Feb. 27, 1819, d. Dec. 22, 1858, merchant of Phila .;

Mary, b. Dec. 1, 1822, d. July 6, 1824.

Dr. Montgomery married (second), May 30, 1827, Mary Harrison White, born at the house of her grandfather, Bishop William White, 309 Walnut street, Phila- delphia, November 9, 1805, died August 2, 1875, daugliter of Thomas Harrison and Mary Key (Heath) White, and had issue :

Rev. William White, b. May 21, 1828, ordained minister of P. E. Church Sept., 1852; rector of church in Northumberland co., Pa .; Warsaw, N. Y .; Buffalo, N. Y .; Lyons. N. Y., and other points in N. Y. State; m. April 15, 1857, Gaynor Smith, dau. of Peter and Gaynor (Wallis) Lazarus, of Sunbury, Northumberland county, Pa., and has one surviving son :

James Henry Montgomery, b. Feb. 24, 1859, now an eminent surgeon in Erie, Pa., and head of family of Montgomery, in whose possession are the family papers ; he married, 1886, Caroline, dau. of Isaac Skiles, of Uniontown, Pa., and had issue :

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James Henry Montgomery ; Catharine Eglinton Montgomery ; John Montgomery; John Hugh Montgomery, d. young. THOMAS HARRISON, b. Feb. 27, 1830, d. April 4, 1905; of whom presently;

John Henry Hobart, b. Aug. 26, 1831, d. Oct. 16, 1831;

Austin, b. Jan. 1, 1833, d. April 13, 1834.

THOMAS WHITE, father of Bishop William White, was born in London, 1704, and came of an ancient English family of noble lineage, a younger son of William White, of London, by his wife, Elizabeth Leigh, portraits of both of whom by Sir George Kneller being in the possession of William White, Esq., of Philadelphia. At the age of sixteen years, Thomas White was indentured to William Stokes, then going out in the retinue of Charles Calvert, brother of Lord Baltimore, to be clerk of Baltimore county, in Lord Baltimore's Province of Maryland; his father paying one hundred guineas to Stokes, to teach and train his son for the practice of law. Arriving in Baltimore, he became a deputy to Mr. Stokes as clerk of Baltimore county, then including also the present Harford county, and later suc- ceeded him as clerk and also filled the position of Deputy Surveyor of the county. He became a successful practitioner of law, laid up considerable money, and acquired land in Baltimore and Harford counties. About 1730, he married Sophia, daughter of John Hall, of Cranberry Hall, Baltimore county, large landed proprietor, who had died prior to his daughter's marriage, devising her a tract of land on Bush River which he named "Sophia's Dairy," where they took up their residence. Thomas White was an intimate friend of Samuel Ogle, Deputy Gov- ernor of Maryland, and through his influence filled many lucrative and honorable positions in the government. He was successively Major and Colonel of the mili- tary establishment of the county of Baltimore, as well as County Clerk and Deputy Surveyor. He was qualified as vestryman of the parish of Spesutiae, May 29, 1731, and was successively re-elected until his removal from Maryland to Phila- delphia 1745. His wife, Sophia, died June, 1742, and, May 7, 1745, he married (second), at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Esther, widow of John Newman, and daughter of Abraham Hewlings, of Burlington county, New Jersey, and took up his residence in Philadelphia, still retaining his landed property and interests in Mary- land and making periodical visits there to look after its maintenance and develop- ment ; he died there on one of these business trips, September 29, 1779. Col. White at once assumed a prominent position in Philadelphia. He became one of the trustees of the College of Philadelphia, filled that position until his death, and was commissioned Justice of the Peace, May 25, 1752. By his first wife, Sophia Hall, he had three daughters, viz :

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 16

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