Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 49

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 Hendrick Van Leuvenigh, who died in New Castle in 1716; (letters of admin- istration to his widow, Catharine, May 14, 1716).

Zachariah Van Leuvenigh, said to have been a descendant of Bartholomus Van Leuvenigh, who emigrated from Holland, was born as early as 1720, per- haps earlier. He was a tanner at New Castle. He married (first) Esther, daugh- ter of Stephen Lewis, by whom he had one daughter, Rebecca, married Captain Richard McWilliams. He married (second), February 4, 1749, Ann Coombs ; no children. He married (third), November 24, 1755, Ann, daughter of James Armitage, Justice of the Courts of New Castle County, by his second wife, Mary Land. Zachariah Van Leuvenigh died at New Castle, February 25, 1789. By his third wife Ann Armitage, he had issue :-

James, b. Dec. 27, 1756, d. Sept. 15, 1757: Mary, b. Sept. 28, 1758, d. July 15, 1759; John, b. June 16, 1760, d. Dec. 25, 1790; Nancy, b. May 2, 1762, d. Feby. 25, 1779;

William, b. July 25, 1764, mentioned in father's will;

Sarah, b. Apr. 28, 1766, d. June 28, 1784;

MARY, b. June 13, 1768, d. May 6, 1831 ; m. Dec. 6, 1792, NICHOLAS VAN DYCKE Thomas, b. Apr. 20, 1770, d. Nov., 1771;

James, b. Dec. 16, 1771, d. Sept., 1772;

ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 17, 1773, d. Feby., 1848; m. Feb. 17, 1795, JOHN BIRD (3) ; George, b. Aug. 11, 1775; living 1789.

James Armitage, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Van Dycke, was born at Holmefreth, parish of Kirkburton, Yorkshire, England, and came to Pennsyl- vania in 1702 with his parents, Benjamin and Mary Armitage, who settled in Bristol township, Philadelphia county, on the old York road, near Milestown, where they died, Mary on February 16, 1728, aged 70 years, and Benjamin on November 28, 1735. aged 75 years.

Benjamin Armitage was a son of James Armitage, baptized at Huddesfield, Yorkshire, February, 1633-4, by his wife, Martha Hatfield, whom he married February, 1660, and grandson of Godfrey and Anne Armitage, of Lydgate, Yorkshire. Enoch Armitage, a first cousin of Benjamin, came to New Jersey in 1719, and was prominently identified with the affairs of that Province, where he has left descendants in the female line.

Benjamin Armitage Jr., brother of James of New Castle, inherited the home- stead in Philadelphia county, and died there at an advanced age, leaving a number of descendants who were prominent in the affairs of Philadelphia City and County in Revolutionary days.

James Armitage removed to New Castle county in his youth, and was sev- eral times commissioned a Justice of New Castle County, the first commission of which we have a record being April 20, 1727, and the last in 1749, probably hold- ing commission during the whole intervening period and certainly in 1733 and 1738. He married (first) Hannah -, by whom he had one daughter :-

Hannah Armitage, b. Nov. 6, 1715, m. Rev. Francis Allison, D. D., eminent divine and teacher, of New Castle and Philadelphia.

James Armitage married (second) Mary, daughter of Francis Land, of New Castle, who died in 1736, by his wife, Christian Hill ; and granddaughter of Sam-

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uel Land, of the Parish of St. Martin's, county of Middlesex, England, who purchased 500 acres of land of Captain John Fenwick, May 14, 1675, and came to the Delaware in the "Griffin," September 23, 1675, with the other Fenwick colonists, and soon after removed to New Castle, where he was living with his wife Dorcas, when he wrote a letter to Captain Fenwick in 1678. He was com- missioned Recorder and Deputy Treasurer of New Castle in 1684, and died there in 1686. His wife was Dorcas Williams, daughter of James and Mary Williams, of New Castle. He received a grant of land in New Castle from Edmund An- dross, Governor General, &c., for the Duke of York, March 25, 1676.

Issue of James and Mary (Land) Armitage :-

Enoch, b. Jany. 22, 1825; m .; had issue;

Samuel, b. Jan. 26, 1730, private in the Colonial war of 1758, under Captain John Singleton;

Mary, b. Oct. 17, 1731; m. Thomas Dunn;

John, b. Jany. 3, 1734, d. 1764; m. 1755, Frances Elizabeth Cooch, of Newark, Dela- ware;

ANN, b. May 18, 1737; m. Nov. 24, 1755, Zachariah Van Leuvenigh, above men- tioned;

Dorcas, b. Mar. 17, 1741; m. Robert Montgomery;

Nathan, b. Sept. 30, 1744;

SARAH ARMITAGE, b. Dec. 19, 1746; m. 1774, Governor Thomas Mckean, Chief Justice and Governor of Pennsylvania; colonel of Associated Battalion of Phila. Co., etc.

SHIPLEY-POOLE AND BANCROFT FAMILIES.

WILLIAM SHIPLEY, of Lowley and Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, the founder of the Shipley family in Pennsylvania, was born in Staffordshire, in 1693, and married there in 1717, Mary, daughter of Robert and Ann Tatnall, of Leicestershire, England, and with her, her widowed mother and brothers and sisters, embarked from Bristol, England, for Philadelphia in the spring of 1725.

The ship on which the Tatnalls and Shipleys were passengers arrived in the river Delaware, off Philadelphia, in July, 1725, and there having been several cases of small-pox on board during the passage, they were refused permission to land at the city wharves. The vessel dropped down the river and after some days delay, landed her passengers below the city, near the old Swedes Church, where they remained some weeks before being allowed to enter the city ; some of them said to have been quartered at the old Blue Horse Tavern. The Shipleys and Tatnalls on being released from their temporary quarantine located in Darby township, Chester county, removing later to Springfield township, where Mary (Tatnall) Shipley died in the early part of 1727.

William Shipley married (second), in 1728, Elizabeth Levis, born December 20, 1690, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Clator) Levis, of Springfield, Chester county, formerly of Darby, Leicestershire, an account of whose emigra- tion, etc., is given elsewhere in these volumes. Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley was sister to Mary (Levis) Pennock, whose daughter Elizabeth Pennock, became wife of Edward Tatnall, brother of Mary Tatnall, first wife of William Shipley.

At about the date of his second marriage, William Shipley purchased land in Ridley township, Chester county, and settled thereon.

Elizabeth Levis, second wife of William Shipley was a distinguished and much esteemed Minister of the Society of Friends, and travelled extensively "in the service of Truth" in all parts of the colonies settled by Friends, and in 1743 made a visit to England. She had gone to North Carolina, in company with Esther White, and sailed from there to England, and remaining abroad nearly two years visited Friends in all parts of England and Ireland.

Soon after her marriage Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley claimed to have seen in a dream, the place of her future home, and while travelling in the ministry, some years after her marriage, in New Castle county, she recognized in the little village of Willing Town, now the city of Wilmington, the place she had seen in her dream, and which the guide of her vision had assured it was the design of Provi- dence, William Shipley and his family should settle, and where "they should be come instruments of great benefit to the place and people, and the blessing of heaven should descend upon them and their labours," and prevailed upon her hus- band to remove to that town. They removed to Wilmington in 1735, and Will- iam Shipley became its virtual founder, taking an active part in the introduction of new industries and in the municipal affairs of the town. He was elected its first burgess, November 23, 1739, and again elected September 12, 1743. He died December 19, 1768, and his widow Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley, died October 16, 1777, and was buried at London Grove Friends burying-ground. Chester county.

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Issue of William and Mary (Tatnall) Shipley :-

THOMAS, b. Leicestershire, Eng., 1718, d. at Wilmington, Del., Nov. 1, 1789; m. Mary Marriott, of whom presently;

Ann, b. Leicestershire, 1720, m. Joseph Maris of Springfield township, Chester, (now Delaware) county;

ELIZABETH, b. Leicestershire, 1722, d. Wilmington, Del., Nov. 15, 1789: m. (first). Oliver Canby; (second) William Poole, of whom presently;

Mary, b. Darby, 1727, drowned in crossing the Brandywine, 1753.

Issue of William and Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley :-

Sarah, b. May 25, 1729; m. Dec. 6, 1750, Robert Richardson, of New Castle co .; William, b. 1731; m. Dec. 27, 1753, Sarah Rumford; d. Nov. 19, 1794.

THOMAS SHIPLEY, eldest surviving child of William and Mary (Tatnall) Shipley, born in England, June 24, 1718, came with his parents to Pennsylvania in 1725, and either accompanied his father to Wilmington in 1735 or followed him later. He purchased the mill erected by Oliver Canby in 1755, but in 1762 erected the famous old Shipley Mill, and entering into partnership with his cousin, Joseph Tatnall, conducted it for eight years, when Joseph Tatnall withdrew from the firm and associated himself with Thomas Lea, and erected the mills on the Brandywine, still operated by the Lea family. Thomas Shipley married, Novem- ber 15, 1744, Mary Marriott, born at Bristol, Bucks county, November 1, 1719. died February 21, 1771, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Kirkbride) Marriott, before mentioned, and aunt to Martha Marriott, who married his nephew, Will- iam Canby. Thomas Shipley died November 1, 1789.

Issue of Thomas and Mary (Marriott ) Shipley :-

William, b. May 9, 1746, d. unm., Feb. 14, 1816;

Samuel, b. Aug. 30, 1747, d. inf .;

Martha, b. Oct. 2, 1748, d. Feb. 6, 1749;

Mary, b. Sept. 2, 1750, m. Phineas Buckley; d. in N. Y., 1795;

Thomas, b. Sept. 9. 1751, d. inf .;

JOSEPH, b. Nov. 11, 1752, d. 1832; m. Mary Levis, of Springfield, Del. co., who d. 1843. He inherited mill property, and continued to operate it until his death. For his descendants see below;

Sarah, b. Sept. 6, 1755, d. in Phila., 1834; m. Cyrus Newlin, had children Mary and Thomas Newlin;

Ann, b. Jan. 29, 1758, d. 1808; n1. 1792, John Jones, had children, Cyrus and Lydia: Anna, b. Aug. 22, 1760, d. 1805; m. William Byrnes, had one son Thomas Byrnes.

Issue of Joseph and Mary (Levis) Shipley :-

Samuel, b. Feb. 12, 1777, engaged in milling business with father, and continued it after latter's death, with brother John; d. 1844; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. James Jefferis;

Mary, b. Dec. 27, 1778, d. 1844; m. John Dixon, of Wilmington;

Thomas, b. Sept. 30, 1780, engaged in flour shipping business in Phila .; on business visit to south of France, was stricken with sun stroke, and never fully recovered; d. 1813;

John, b. Dec. 25, 1782; engaged in milling business with father and brother Samuel; d. unm. Aug. 1, 1863;

Anna, b. July 26, 1788, d. in 1852, unm .;

Elizabeth, b. June 10, 1789, d. July, 1865, unm .;

Sarah, b. March 3, 1791, d. Aug. 27, 1872, unm .;

Margaret, b. Dec. 8, 1793, d. 1832, unm .;

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Joseph, b. Apr. 12, 1795, entered counting house of Samuel Canby, of Phila., at age of eighteen years, and, 1819, went to England in employ of John Welsh, of Phila., (father of the U. S. Minister to Eng., 1878), and while there entered into part- nership with William Brown, of Liverpool, founding famous firm of Brown, Shipley & Co., of Liverpool and London, and was in active business there for thirty years. He retired in 1851, and returning to Delaware, erected handsome residence in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county, where he resided with his unm. sister Hannah, until death May 9, 1867, unm.

Hannah, b. May 3, 1801, resided at Rockwood, Del., with brother Joseph; unm.

ELIZABETH SHIPLEY, second daughter of William Shipley, by his first wife, Mary Tatnall, born in Leicestershire, England, in 1722, came to Philadelphia with her parents in 1725, and married (first) at Wilmington, Delaware, June 23. 1744, Oliver Canby ; an account of her descendants by this marriage is given in this volume under the title of the Canby Family. Oliver Canby died November 30, 1754, and Elizabeth married (second), December 3, 1761, William Poole, born at or near Newtown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1728-9, and removed when a young man to Wilmington, Delaware, and married there, June 27, 1754, Martha Roberts; Elizabeth (Shipley) Canby being his second wife.

William Poole, of Workington, parish of Bromfield, county of Cumberland. England, grandfather of the William Poole above mentioned, married Jeannette Twentyman, and had several children the youngest of whom, Joseph Poole, born at Workington in 1704, emigrated to Pennsylvania when a youth, and located in Bucks county. He married, in 1727, Rebecca Janney, born September 9, 1702, daughter of Abel Janney, born in Mobberly, Cheshire, England, December 29, 1671, by his wife, Elizabeth Stacy, born at Dorehouse, Yorkshire, England, Oc- tober 17, 1673, daughter of Mahlon Stacy, founder of Trenton, New Jersey, by his wife, Rebecca Ely. Abel Janney was a son of Thomas Janney, a distinguished minister among Friends, who was baptized at Stiall, Cheshire, England, January II, 1634, and was a son of Thomas Janney, of Stiall, baptized June 27, 1605, by his wife, Elizabeth Worthington, whom he married, September 3, 1625; grandson of Randle Janney, baptized February 23, 1579-80, by his wife, Ellen Alrood, whom he married, July 14, 1602; great-grandson of Thomas Janney, of Stiall, by his wife, Jane Worthington, whom he married, December 7, 1578; and great- great-grandson of Randle Janney, of Stiall, parish of Wilmeslow, county of Chester, England, who died about the year 1596 at a very advanced age.

Thomas Janney, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Worthington) Janney, born in 1634, was "convinced of the Truth as held by Friends, at the first preaching thereof in the County of Chester, in 1654." In 1655 he took up the ministry in that Society, and travelled extensively in England and Ireland. He married, November 24, 1660, Margery Heath, of Horton, Staffordshire, at the house of James Harrison (who had married her sister, Ann Heath), in the township of Pownal Fee, near Stiall, the ancestral home of the Janney family. Thomas and Margery (Heath) Janney resided at Stiall, and Mobberly, Cheshire, until 1683, and their six children were born there, Jacob, Martha, Elizabeth, Thomas, Abet and Joseph; the two daughters dying there and the four sons accompanying their parents to Pennsylvania in 1683; whither Thomas Janney had been preceded by his brothers-in-law, James Harrison and William Yardley, who had married respectively Ann and Jane Heath, sisters of Margery (Heath) Janney. Thomas Janney had purchased of William Penn, under date of August 12, 1682, 250 acres to be laid out in Pennsylvania, and embarked with his family in the ship "En-

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deavor" which arrived in the Delaware river, September 29, 1683. His land was laid out on the Delaware in Lower Makefield township, and he later purchased 1500 acres in the same locality. He was an intimate friend of William Penn, who placed great confidence in his integrity and fidelity to the best interests of the Province. He was elected to the Provincial Council in 1684, qualifying March 20 of that year, for a term of three years, and was twice recommissioned for the same length of term, the last time in 1691. He was also commissioned a Justice of the Courts of Bucks county, April 6, 1685, and continued in commission until near the time of his decease. He was one of twelve commissioners appointed to divide the county into townships in 1690, and filled a number of other important positions in the County and Province. He continued his services as a minister, and travelled extensively in New England, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania and Maryland, and in the early part of 1695, made a religious visit to his native country, in company with Griffith Owen, sailing from the shore of Mary- land, May 31, 1695. They travelled through Wales, and many parts of England, and he reached the place of his birth in 1696, after a serious illness which over- took him in Derbyshire. When about to return to Pennsylvania, he suffered a relapse and died at the house of his sister, Mary Burgess (the place of his birth), February 12, 1696-7. His wife, Margery, survived him and died prior to 1700.

Abel Janney, the father of Rebecca (Janney) Poole, was the fifth child of Thomas and Margery (Heath) Janney, and was born at Mobberly, Cheshire, December 29, 1671. He accompanied his parents to Pennsylvania in 1683, and married at Chesterfield Meeting, Burlington county, New Jersey, February, 1699- 1700, Elizabeth Stacy, taking certificate for that purpose from Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks county, dated 12 mo. (February ) 7, 1699-1700. They settled in Makefield, Bucks county, where he died prior to 1743. He was a justice of Bucks county, 1708-10, and a member of Provincial Assembly, 1708-21. They were the parents of seven children of whom Rebecca, who married Joseph Poole, was the second, born November 9, 1702. His brother Jacob, also became a resi- dent of Delaware and married Elizabeth Levis, a granddaughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Clator) Levis, before mentioned.

JOSEPH POOLE settled in Newtown, Bucks county, soon after his marriage, purchasing of the heirs of John Wally large tracts of valuable land there taken up by Shadrach Wally, and which had greatly increased in value. He died in Newtown in 1766, and his widow Rebecca (Janney) Poole died at the residence of her son William Poole in Wilmington, Delaware.

Joseph and Rebecca (Janney) Poole had issue :-

WILLIAM, b. at Newtown, Bucks co., Jan. 26, 1728-9; d. Wilmington, Del., April 6, 1779; m. (first) Martha Roberts; (second) Elizabeth (Shipley) Canby; of whom presently;

Elizabeth, b. Nov., 1730, m. Thomas Yardley, of Newtown;

Rebecca, b. Jan., 1732-3, d. aged seventeen years;

Joseph, b. Feb., 1734-5; killed by team he was driving, when a young man, nnm .; Abel, b. March, 1736-7, scalded to death at age of four years.

Thomas, d. Sept., 1739: m. and settled in N. J., later removing to Vt .; had children, Rebecca, Joseph, William, Richard, Helen and Elizabeth;

Sarah, b. March, 1740-2; m. Paul Pennington ;

Amos, b. Dec., 1744, d. soon after attaining manhood, unm.

WILLIAM POOLE, as before stated, removed to Wilmington when a young man.

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He lived there the remainder of his life, dying April 6, 1779, and his widow, Eliz- abeth, dying December 16, 1789.

William Poole, had by his first wife, Martha Roberts, a son Joseph, who mar- ried (first) Mary Hammond, and had a son Joseph. He married (second ) Eliz- abeth Cox, and had issue, William, Moses, Robert and Constant. William Poole was one of the committee appointed by the American Philosophical Society on January, 1767, to observe the transit of Venus.

WILLIAM POOLE JR., only son of William and Elizabeth (Shipley ) Poole, was born at Wilmington, August 4. 1764, and was apprenticed in his boyhood to the trade of a silversmith, but early in life engaged in the milling business at Wil- mington, where he resided until his death on May 25, 1829.

William Poole, Jr., married at Middletown Meeting, Chester (now Delaware) county, May 5, 1791. Sarah Sharpless, born September 25, 1769, died September 13, 1823, daughter of Benjamin Sharpless (born at Nether Providence, Chester county, January 26, 1708-9, died in Middletown, March 16, 1795), by his second wife, Martha Mendenhall (born February 8, 1724-5, died October 20, 1813), daughter of Benjamin and Lydia (Roberts) Mendenhall, of Concord, Chester county ; the latter born in Wales and the former a son of Benjamin Mendenhall, who came from Wiltshire, England in 1685, and married in 1689, Ann, daughter of Robert Pennell, of "Chester River," Chester county, Pennsylvania.

Geoffrey Sharpless, the earliest known lineal ancestor of Sarah (Sharpless) Poole, was resident of the parish of Wybunbury, county of Chester, England, and married there, April 27, 1611, Margaret Ashley, and their son, John Sharp- less, baptized at Wybunbury, August 15, 1624, married there, April 27, 1662. Jane Moor, born at Hatherton, Cheshire, in 1638, and with her and their children emigrated to Pennsylvania, landing at Chester, August 14. 1682. They settled on land previously purchased of William Penn, and John Sharpless died June II, 1685, and his widow Jane, November 1, 1722.

Joseph Sharpless, eighth child and fifth son of John and Jane ( Moor ) Sharp- less, born at Hatherton, Cheshire, November 28, 1678, died in Middletown, Ches- ter county, Pennsylvania, in 1757. His wife was Lydia Lewis, born at Treverigg, Glamorganshire, Wales, May 8, 1683. died 1763, daughter of Ralph and Mary Lewis, of Treverigg, who in the year of her birth, came to Pennsylvania with John Bevan, and settled in Haverford township, later removing to Upper Darby, where Ralph died in 1712 and his wife Mary, 1704. Benjamin Sharpless, above mentioned, was the third child and second son of Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Sharpless.

Issue of William and Sarah ( Sharpless) Poole :-

ELIZABETH, b. April 28, 1792, d. Jan. 3, 1859; m. April 10, 1817, John Sellers, of Phila., later probably of Upper Darby, Delaware co., Penna .;

Rebecca, b. Ang. 21, 1793; d. Ang. 13, 1794;

Mary, b. Feb. 21, 1795; d. Dec. 29, 1863; m. May 8, 1823, David, son of David and Mary (Corbit) Wilson, of Odessa, Del., and resided for some years at Odessa, removing later to Ind.

Samnel, b. Nov. 3, 1796, d. at Crozerville, Delaware co., Pa., March 27, 1870: m. (first) at Chester, Pa., Apr. 27, 1825, Sarah Ann West, who d. July 17, 1828; (second) at Downingtown, Pa., June 15, 1837, Jane, dau. of Joseph and Ann S. Richardson, who d. Sept. 10, 1839; (third) at Philadelphia,, Sept. 13, 1843, Myra E. Temple, who d. at Wilmington, Jan. 15, 1854; and had issue :

Jane T., b. 1844; m. James Bratton.

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Hannah, b. Oct. 10, 1798, m. William E. George, and had one surviving child Rebecca W., b. March 17, 1837, m. William Thomson;

William Shipley, b. Apr. 1, 1801; d. Apr. 20, 1857; m. Dec. 11, 1834, Lydia Menden- hall, great-granddaughter of Benjamin and Ann (Pennell) Mendenhall, before mentioned; and (second) Jan. 1, 1850, Lydia Sharpless (Marsh) Hannum, dau. of Ralph Marsh, M. D., of Concord, by his wife Deborah Hill, and widow of William F. Hannum, of Delaware co., Pa .;

SARAH, b. Jan. 28, 1804; m., June 25, 1829, Joseph Bancroft; of whom presently; Martha, b. Dec. 29, 1807, d. March 13, 1885; m. at Wilmington Meeting, May 9, 1833, Henry Gibbons, M. D., son of Dr. William Gibbons, of Wilmington, by wife Rebecca Donaldson, and great-great-great-grandson of John and Margery Gibbons, of Warminster, Wiltshire, Eng., who settled in Chester co., 1683;

Anna, b. Feb. 7, 1810; m. at residence of her brother-in-law, John Sellers, in Upper Darby, Jan. 29, 1857, Jesse Hallowell, of New Castle co., Del .;

John Morton, b. July 10, 1812, d. Nov. 25, 1879; m. July 10, 1839, Ann, dan. of Thomas and Lydia (Baker) Supplee of Phila. He learned trade of machinist, at Matteawan, N. Y., and for some years carried on business of machinist at Rock- ford, Del .; removing to Wilmington, 1847. He was actively interested in the cause of popular education and served for a number of years on Board of Education, and was a member of City Council several years.

JOHN BANCROFT, the father of Joseph Bancroft, who married Sarah Poole, was born July 16, 1774, and was a son of John and Grace (Fielden) Bancroft, of Salford, the twin town of Manchester, England, and was a dealer in timber, and manufactured chairs and other articles in that important manufacturing centre of Great Britain, until his removal with his family to America in 1822. Soon after their arrival they settled in Wilmington, Delaware, and established a small woolen mill, but moved to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, in 1826, and started a flannel manufactory there in which he was joined by his sons, Samuel and Thomas, and the business grew to large proportions. He married at Bolton Meeting of Friends, Elizabeth Wood, of Bolton, a sister to Martha Wood, who married Jacob Bright, and was mother of the late Right Honorable John Bright, the distinguished member of Parliament.

John Bancroft belonged to an ancient family of Cheshire and Lancashire, Eng- land, probably of the same lineage as John Bancroft, who with his wife Jane, came to New England in the good ship "James" in 1632, and settling in Lynn, Massachusetts, founded the New England family of Bancroft. His great-great- grandfather, John Bancroft, of Etchells, near Stockport, in the county of Ches- ter, a few miles from Manchester (born 1633, died 1699), married in 1663, Mary Janney (born 1638, died 1707), of Cheadle parish, Cheshire, where Thomas Janney, of Bucks county, resided before coming to Pennsylvania; a cousin of that distinguished minister of the Society of Friends, to which she too belonged. She has been credited as a sister of Thomas Janney, the emigrant ancestor of the Bucks county family, but investigations recently made in England by a descend- ant of the latter show that this Mary Janney was a daughter of Randall and Anne (Knevelt) Janney, and therefore a first cousin of Thomas the minister.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 49

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