Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 50

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

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John Bancroft, who married Mary Janney, in 1663, probably came of a family that had been resident in Cheadle parish, Cheshire, for two centuries prior to the date of his marriage, and according to reliable information born 1638, the son of Richard of Crossacres, who died 1684; the grandson of William of Scowhill; will dated and proved 1631; and the great-grandson of William of Cheadle, died perhaps 1600. Henry Bancroft having been made rector of that parish, January 27, 1449, and Sir George Bancroft was resident there in 1533. Henry Bancroft was mayor of Stockport in 1669, and a John Bancroft, of Sutton, was

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disclaimed at Market Cross, Cheshire, September 28, 1664, with others of Mac- clesfield Hundred, "as gentlemen not entitled to bear Arms, because they refused to enter their pedigrees and have Arms either granted or confirmed by the Heralds." Roger Bancroft was Mayor of Macclesfield, 1629-30, and 1633-34; and Robert Bancroft was constable of Cheadle, when on October 20, 1659, with John Bancroft, yeoman, aged 45, he gave testimony against Rev. Peter Harrison. William de Bancroft and Roger de Bancroft, sons of Roger de Bancroft, made deeds to Henry de Bancroft for lands formerly of Bertram de Bancroft, in Ban- croft, Cheshire, prior to 1300.

John and Mary (Janney) Bancroft had issue, seven children, vis :-

JACOB, of whom presently ; David, b. 1666, d. 1687; Dinah, b. 1668, m. 1690, Thomas Burbick, Jr .;

Joseph, b. 1671, d. 1675;

Mary, b. 1673, m. 1691, Samuel Heald; Sarah, b. 1677, d. 1681; John, b. 1682.

JACOB BANCROFT, eldest son of John and Mary (Janney) Bancroft, born near Stockport, July 13, 1664, died December 13, 1742, married, in 1689, Ruth Laurance, of Morley, Cheshire, born July 8, 1664, died May 9, 1725, of a family of high standing in Cheshire, and they had issue :-

JOHN BANCROFT, of whom presently; Rachel, b. 1693, d. 1756; m. 1718, Robert Woodcock: Alexander, b. 1695, d. 1756; David, b. 1697, m. 1721, Jane Bewley; Mary, b. 1699, d. 1766; m. 1720, Nicholas Barrington; Sarah, b. 1703;

JOHN BANCROFT, eldest son of Jacob and Ruth (Laurance) Bancroft, born December 4, 1691, died April 22, 1756; married, in 1725, Catharine Towers, born 1701, died 1734, and had issue :-

Mary, b. 1726, d. 1731; Rachel, b. 1728, m. Daniel Wyer; Jacob, b. 1730, d. 1762.

John Bancroft married (second), in 1740, Sarah Burgess, born 1701, died 1774, and had issue :-

Sarah, b. 1742, d. 1780; John, b. 1745, d. 1747; David, b. 1747, d. 1811; m. 1781, Hannah Beeby; had four children: JOHN, of whom presently :

JOHN BANCROFT, youngest son of John and Sarah (Burgess) Bancroft, born in or near Stockport, Cheshire, June 29, 1750, married at the Friends' Meeting at Manchester, England, September 23, 1773, Grace Fielden, born November I, 1747, died August 8, 1806, daughter of Abraham Fielden, of Todmorden Hall, Lancashire (born July 25, 1704, died May 14, 1779), by his wife Mary, daughter of John Merrick, of Edsworth, Cheshire; granddaughter of Joshua Fielden, of Bottomley, by his wife Mary Sutcliffe ; great-granddaughter of Joshua Fielden.

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of Bottomley, who joined the Society of Friends in 1644, and married, December 21, 1656, Martha Greenwood, of Hollingsworth, parish of Rochdale, Lancashire. The last mentioned Joshua Fielden was a son of Abraham Fielden, by his wife Elizabeth Fielden, daughter and co-heiress of James Fielden, of Bottomley, in Walsdon, near Todmorden, county of Lancaster ; and Abraham was the second son of Nicholas Fielden (son of William Fielden, of Liventhorpe, parish of Brad- ford, Yorkshire), who removed from Yorkshire to Huddersfield, in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire, and married Christobel, daughter of John Stansfield, of Stansfield Hall, in the beautiful valley of Todmorden, who traced his descent from a companion in arms of William the Conqueror ; the name being derived from the Lordship of Stansfeld, parish of Halifax, Yorkshire, held by his fore- bears under grant from William the Norman. The Greenwood family was like- wise one of the most ancient in the county of York.

John Bancroft and his wife Grace Fielden lived near Manchester, where he was a lumber merchant. His wife Grace, dying in 1806, he married (second), in 1808, Elizabeth Dodgson, née Butterworth. He died December 26, 1832-33.

John and Grace ( Fielden ) Bancroft had issue as follows :-

JOHN, b. near Manchester, Eng., July 16, 1774, d. in Delaware co., Penna., 1852; m. Dec. 19, 1800, Elizabeth Wood. For his descendants see below;

David, b. 1777, d. 1816; m. 1802, Mary Bradbury, and had six children:

Samuel, b. 1778, d. 1779;

James, b. 1780, d. 1781 ;

Sarah, b. 1783, d. 1838; m. John Earnshaw, and has numerous descendants;

Rachel, b. 1787, d. in same year:

Hannah, b. 1788, d. 1793.

John and Elizabeth (Wood ) Bancroft had issue, as follows :-

JOHN, b. in Salford, Eng., March 17, 1802, d. in Phila., May 2, 1882; m. Susanna Brooks, of whom presently;

JOSEPH, b. Apr. 7, 1803, d. at Rockford, Del., Dec. 7, 1874; m. Sarah Poole; of whom presently;

Samuel, b. July 25, 1804, d. 1891; m. June 3, 1827, Mary Williams Hallowell, of an old Pa. family, b. March 4, 1800, d. Aug. 13, 1852; and (second) January 13, 1860, Sarah Hare;

Rebecca, b. Oct. 7, 1805, came with her parents to Del., 1822, and d. in Delaware county, 1840, unm .;

Jacob, b. 1806, d. young;

Sarah, b. Oct. 5, 1807, d. March 18, 1885; m. Apr. 28, 1835, Abraham Lawton, b. Dec. 12, 1800, d. May 26, 1882;

Margaret, b. Oct. 5, 1807, twin to Sarah, d. in 1884, unm .;

Thomas, b. 1809, d. Nov. 22, 1849; m. April 12, 1831, Lydia Ambler, b. Sept. 9, 1805. d. Nov. 23, 1859;

William, b. Ang. 10, 1810, d. Jan. 12, 1866; m. (first) Sarah Plummer; (second) Rebecca Moore;

Edward, b. Oct. 21, 1811, d. in Phila., 1855; learned the trade of machinist, and was for some years member of firm of Fairbanks, Bancroft & Co. and operated machine manufacturing plant at Providence, R. I .; removed to Phila., 1848, and formed partnership with brother-in-law, William Sellers, under firm name of Bancroft & Sellers, which continued until death of Mr. Bancroft in 1855. He m., 1842, Mary Sellers, b. June 2, 1818, d. Dec. 15, 1894, dan. of John and Elizabeth (Poole) Sellers, of Phila., and granddaughter of William and Sarah (Sharpless) Poole, whose ancestry is given above, her mother, Elizabeth Poole, being sister to Sarah Poole, who married her husband's elder brother Joseph Bancroft. They had issue :

John Sellers Bancroft, of firm of William Sellers & Co., Phila., b. Sept. 12, 1843: m. (first) Elizabeth H. Richardson, h. Sept. 18, 1845, d. March 5.

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1869; and (second) Sept. 27, 1871, Anne S. Richardson, b. 1843, and d. 1903, both of Richardson family of New Castle county; (third) Beulah Morris Hacker;

Anna Poole Bancroft, m. 1878, Elwood Coggshall, merchant of N. Y. City; Elizabeth Bancroft, m. Stephen Parrish, of Phila.

Esther, b. June 28, 1813, d. 1889, unm .;

Martha, b. June 29, 1813, twin to Esther, d. 1880; m. Thomas Mellor, and had issue : John Mellor, b. Sept. 18, 1836, m. Margaret B. Larrabee;

William Mellor, b. Aug. 28, 1838, m. Emma Brooks;

Elizabeth Mellor, b. Feb. 18, 1840; m. 1860, George O. Evans; (second) 1877,. Dr. Edward Solly;

Alfred Mellor, b. Sept. 21, 1841, m. 1873, Isabel Leatham;

Martha Mellor, b. Nov. 10, 1842, d. Apr. 10, 1874; m. 1862, Henry C. Davis; George Mellor, b. Dec. 25, 1843; m. 1868, Sarah Savery, and had issue, two sons and two daughters, one of whom,

Elizabeth, b. May 1I, 1871, m. Dr. John Bringhurst.

Rebecca Mellor, b. Apr. 6, 1845, d. Jan. 1, 1851;

Sarah Mellor, b. Aug. 17, 1847, d. May 8, 1848;

Thomas Mellor, b. Jan. 4, 1849;

Edward Mellor, b. June 1, 1850, m. 1875, Deborah Barker;

Harvey, b. Feb. 12, 1815, d. Sept. 30, 1893; m. May 25, 1837, Rebecca Worrell Haines.

JOHN BANCROFT, eldest son of John and Elizabeth (Wood) Bancroft, born at Salford, England, March 17, 1802, came to America in 1821 to arrange for the removal of the family, and located at Wilmington, Delaware, where his par- ents, brothers and sisters joined him the following year. (There he was in busi- ness as "Soap Boiler and Tallow Chandler"). He married, 1828, Susanna Brooks, born February 14, 1804, died March 25, 1881, daughter of Edward Brooks, a minister of the Society of Friends, and of a family that had been prominent in colonial affairs since the time of Penn. John Bancroft died May 2, 1882, at the age of eighty years.

Issue of John and Susanna ( Brooks) Bancroft :-

NAPOLEON, b. March 20, 1829, d. March 30, 1892; m. (first) Isabella G. Maree; (sec- ond) Ella Gelwicks; of whom presently;

Margaret, m. Benjamin W. Swayne;

Joseph Wood, m. cousin, Anna Bancroft;

Edward, d. young; Susanna, d. young;

Thomas Bright, m. Oct. 14, 1868, Agnes V. Reifsnyder;

Rebecca, unm .; Susanna, d. young; Charles, d. young.

NAPOLEON BANCROFT, eldest son of John and Susanna ( Brooks) Bancroft .. born near Wilmington, Delaware, March 20, 1829, and died in Philadelphia, March 30, 1892. He married (first), in 1855, Isabella Girvan Maree, of a promi- nent family of French extraction, a granddaughter of James Girvan, an officer of the American Revolution. She died April 26, 1865; and he married (second), in 1869 or 1870, Ella Gelwicks, by whom he had no issue.

Issue of Napoleon and Isabella G. (Marec) Bancroft :---

JOHN, b. Jan. 11, 1856; m. Charlotte E. Bothwell, of whom presently;

Margaret, b. Aug. 1, 1857, d. Dec. 4, 1895; m. in 1882, Henry C. Walker. Issue Robert Bancroft;

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JOHN BANCROFT, of Rockford, New Castle county, Delaware, only son of Napoleon Bancroft, by his wife Isabella Girvan Maree, was born January 11, 1856, and married in 1881, Charlotte E. Bothwell, born May 1, 1858. He obtained an interest in the manufacturing plant established by Joseph Bancroft, and is secretary and general superintendent of the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Com- pany, and is prominent in business and social affairs. Mr. Bancroft is vice- president of Delaware Society of Sons of the American Revolution, member of the Union League of Philadelphia, director in Equitable Guarantee and Trust Company of Wilmington, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia and Wilmington Savings Fund of Wilmington, Delaware.

Issue of John and Charlotte E. (Bothwell ) Bancroft :-

Pauline Wolf Bancroft, b. May 21, 1885;

John Bancroft, 7th, b. Jan. 3, 1887; m., Dec. 18, 1907, Madeline du Pont, dau, of Alfred I. du Pont;

Esther Albertson Bancroft, b. Feb. 1, 1897.

JOSEPH BANCROFT, second son of John and Elizabeth (Wood) Bancroft, born in the city of Manchester, England, April 7, 1803, was reared in the faith of the Society of Friends, of which his ancestors, both paternal and maternal, had long been members.

Until he arrived at the age of fourteen years, Joseph Bancroft attended Ack- worth School, an institution under the care of Friends, and at that age was ap- prenticed to his maternal uncle, Jacob Bright, father of John Bright, M. P., in the cotton manufacturing business, and served an apprenticeship of seven years, terminating in 1824.

In the meantime his parents had emigrated to America and his father had engaged in the manufacture of flannels at Wilmington, where Joseph joined them in the year 1824. At the time he came to Wilmington, in 1824, his father John Bancroft, lived in the house at 1803 Market street. Joseph repeatedly told of the fact that the first evening he spent there with his parents was the first night that they had all their twelve living children with them under the same roof.

For one or two years Joseph Bancroft assisted his father and brothers in their Wilmington factory, and in 1826 took charge of the cotton mills operated by William Young at Rockford, Delaware. He purchased in 1831, the property at Rockford, Delaware, and began the business in a small way, being assisted financially by Thomas Janvier. He encountered many difficulties in his business career, the most discouraging being the destruction of his water-power dam and great damage in his factory by flood in the year 1839, when he suffered such heavy loss that he offered to surrender the plant to Mr. Janvier in payment of the money advanced by him. Mr. Janvier refused to accept this, and advanced him sufficient funds to rebuild and continue the business. He carried the business successfully through several industrial and financial depressions, that seriously affected manufacturing enterprises of that kind, without break or stop. In 1865 he took his sons, William Poole Bancroft and Samuel Bancroft, Jr., into partner- ship with him, under the firm name of Joseph Bancroft & Sons, and that firm continued to conduct a successful business until 1889, when it was incorporated under the name of Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company.

Joseph Bancroft's was a remarkably earnest and consistent life. From the

Joseph Bancroften

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time of the division in the Society of Friends, in 1827, his membership was with the part frequently called "Hicksites," but he never approved of the separation, and deplored it as a grievous mistake. In the latter part of his life he devoted a great amount of his time to indefatigable efforts to promote a better state of feel- ing between the different parts of the Society. In pursuance of this work he compiled and circulated a book entitled "A Persuasive to Unity." It is principally a compilation from the writings of Robert Barclay. While not regularly acknowl- edged as a minister by the Society, he frequently addressed its meetings. He died December 8, 1874. The public and press hastened to pay just tribute to his life and character. One who knew him well wrote: "He stands in our mind as the best realization of manliness and sweetness, strength and tenderness, it has ever been our privilege to know, and whose benignant face and commanding form will ever stand fixed indelibly in our memory as those of one who realized and typi- fied, in his person and life, the character of a true Christian gentleman."

Joseph Bancroft married, as before stated, on June 25, 1829. Sarah, daughter of William Poole, by his wife Sarah Sharpless.

Issue of Joseph and Sarah (Poole) Bancroft :-

WILLIAM POOLE BANCROFT, b. July 12, 1835; m. Emma Cooper; of whom presently; SAMUEL BANCROFT, JR., b. Jan. 21, 1840; m. June 8, 1865, Mary Askew, b. Feb. 15, 1874, dau. of Samuel and Susanna (Robinson) Richardson, of near Wilmington, Del .; became partner with his father and elder brother in firm of Joseph Bancroft & Sons, 1865, and since the incorporation of Joseph Bancroft & Sons Co. in 1889, has been its President and prominently identified with management of the large manufac- turing plant of that corporation; residing at Rockford, Wilmington, Del. They have issue :

Elizabeth Richardson Bancroft, b. May 6, 1871, m. Apr. 28, 1897, John Blymyer, son of Charles Moody Bird and Leah Jane Blymyer; who have issue : Samuel Bancroft Bird, b. Dec. 11, 1898;

Joseph Bancroft, b. May 18, 1875; m. Oct. 29, 1902, Elizabeth, dau. of Oliver Otis Howard, Maj .- Gen. U. S. A., (b. Leeds, Me., 1830), by his wife Elizabeth Ann Waite, (b. Livermore, Me., 1832) ; and they have issue :

Elizabeth Bancroft, b. Aug. 23, 1904, d. Feb. 20, 1909.

WILLIAM POOLE BANCROFT, eldest son of Joseph and Sarah ( Poole) Bancroft, born at Rockford, Delaware, July 12, 1835, became a member of the firm of Joseph Bancroft & Sons in 1865, and at the death of his father in 1874 continued the business with his brother, Samuel Bancroft, Jr. He married, November 1, 1876, at Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, Emma Cooper, born near Woodbury, Glou- cester county, New Jersey, December 30, 1848. daughter of James and Lucy (Middleton) Cooper. and descendant of William Cooper the pioneer settler at Pine Point.

Issue of William P. and Emma (Cooper ) Bancroft :-

Sarah, b. Aug. 24, 1877; m. Roger Clark, of Somersetshire, Eng., son of William Stephens Clark by his wife Helen Priestman (Bright) Clark, (eldest dau. of John Bright,) and has issue:

William Bancroft Clark, b. March 1, 1902;

Priscilla Bright Clark, b. Feb. 3, 1906;

Hadwen Priestman Clark, b. Nov. 20, 1908.

Lucy, b. July 5, 1880; m. March 30, 1908, Henry Tregelles Gillett, M. D., son of Charles and Gertrude Mary (Tregelles) Gillett. They live in Oxford, England, and have issue :

James Cooper Gillett, b. March 5, 1910.

Margaret, b. July 21, 1884; d. Feb. 24, 1896;

Caroline, b. Nov. 21, 1888, d. Apr. 18, 1890.

HARRIS FAMILY.

So far as can now be ascertained, the Philadelphia Harris family-of whom the brothers, Joseph S. Harris and John Campbell Harris, are now the senior repre- sentatives-originated in the southwest of England, where they lived for several hundred years, down to the end of the seventeenth century, when they removed to county Antrim, Ireland, and after a short time, settled wholly in Pennsylvania, about 1745.

An ancestor of this Chester county family was probably John Harris, a manu- facturer of cloth ("Harris cassimeres" to this day being a noted product), of Goatacre, Wiltshire, South England, born about 1680, who removed to Antrim, whence his sons emigrated. He had issue :

JOHN HARRIS, b. 1717; m. Hannah Stewart, 1760; d. Aug. 13, 1773;

THOMAS HARRIS, b. 1722; m. Elizabeth Bailey, 1748; d. Dec. 11, 1799.

JOHN HARRIS, on his emigration, about 1750, settled in Newtown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he passed his life. He acquired considerable real estate in that neighborhood, and was a leading citizen of Newtown, and his house, which was one of the best in the town, was taken by General Washington as his head- quarters for some days before and after the battle of Trenton. On his departure he presented Mrs. Harris with some table silver which is still treasured in her family.

Hannah Stewart, his wife (born 1741), was a daughter of Charles and Sarah Stewart, of Upper Makefield township, Bucks county. Charles Stewart was born 1719, in Scotland. He was a man of good position and comfortable estate, and served some years as Captain of a company of "Associators" (as the military force of Pennsylvania, between 1748 and 1755, was called), and died September 16, 1794.

After the death of John Harris, his widow, Hannah, became the acting executor of the estate of her husband, and later of her father, and as her brother, William Stewart, who had accompanied Daniel Boone to Kentucky in 1773, acquired a valuable estate there, and had been killed by the Indians at the battle of Blue Licks, August 19, 1782, she took up the work of caring for his estate, and went to Kentucky, 1785, with her mother and her children, in a lumbering, old-fashioned wagon, the door handle of which is still treasured as an heirloom in the family. She was a woman of more than ordinary ability, and made the long and tiresome journey backward and forward several times between Kentucky and Pennsylvania, returning finally to Kentucky 1797, and died there 1803.

Their children married well; the eldest daughter, Ann, marrying Harry Innes, February, 1792, a Judge of the United States District Court, appointed 1787, and holding the office till his death, September 20, 1816; and her fourth daughter, Elizabeth, marrying Thomas Todd, June 22, 1788, who was a Judge of the United States Supreme Court, February, 1807, till his death, February 7, 1826. The de- scendants of John Harris have long been of the best families of Kentucky.

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THOMAS HARRIS came to Pennsylvania about 1745. He married, 1748, Eliza- beth Bailey, born 1726, in county Derry, Ireland, and was brought up in the family of her uncle, Edward Bailey, Bishop of Raphoe. He originally settled in Willis- town, Chester county, but in 1770 bought a farm in East Whiteland, Chester county, where he spent the rest of his life. He was a substantial farmer, and a man of mark in his community, one of the corporators of the Great Valley Pres- byterian Church, 1788, and on record as one of the chief persons of the congrega- tion.

Issue of Thomas and Elisabeth (Bailey) Harris:

Mary Harris, b. March 11, 1749, d. inf .;

Bailey Harris, b. March 16, 1751, d. April 4, 1757;

JOHN HARRIS, b. April 1, 1753; m. 1776; d. Dec. 25, 1838;

Jane Harris, b. May 27, 1755, d. March 9, 1778;

WILLIAM HARRIS, b. Oct. 7, 1757; m. April 24, 1780; d. Sept. 4, 1812;

Margaret Harris, b. Jan. 10, 1760, d. Dec. 24, 1843;

Elizabeth Harris, b. Feb. 9, 1762; m. May 9, 1786; d. June 2, 1840;

Agnes Harris, b. Nov. 15, 1765; m. 1801; d. Aug. 15, 1830;

Hannah Harris, b. Jan. 16, 1769; m. 1797; d. Feb. 14, 1843.

JOHN HARRIS lived at the original Harris homestead in Willistown. He was a paymaster in the Revolutionary Army; and an unsuccessful attempt was once made to rob him at Valley Forge, when he had a considerable sum of money in liis possession. In 1794 he was Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the regiment of Chester county militia, which was a part of the force called into service by Presi- dent Washington to quell the Whiskey Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania.

His wife, Mary Bowen, was a great-granddaughter of Rev. Malachi Jones, a Presbyterian clergyman, born in Wales, 1651, who from 1714 till his death, March 26, 1729, was the first pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Abington, Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM HARRIS spent his life on his father's farm in East Whiteland, Penn- sylvania. He entered the Army of the Revolution at the age of eighteen, and rose to the rank of Captain in the "State Regiment of Foot," Colonel John Bull com- manding, serving in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. In 1794 he was Captain of the Eighth Company of the Chester county regiment, and regimental paymaster in the Whiskey Insurrection. He continued throughout his life attach- ed to the state military organization, in which he rose, by 1811, to be Brigadier- General of the Second Brigade, Third Division, Pennsylvania troops. When, in 1812, the war with Great Britain broke out, Governor Snyder, of Pennsylvania, ordered out fourteen thousand troops, William Harris was called into service with. the command due his rank, but he died before the troops took the field. He was a member of the State Legislature, elected 1779-80, and again 1810-11, and was on duty in the last session of that body prior to his death. Throughout his life he was an active and prominent citizen. His zeal in the cause of public education is still remembered in the community in which he lived. He gave to three of his sons the best education the region afforded, educating two of them at the Brandy- wine Academy, and the third at Chester County Academy, which latter school was the result of efforts he made in the State Legislature, and for which he set apart a part of his farm. These three were all afterwards entered in the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, from which they were graduated.

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His wife, Mary, born February 27, 1752, died November 26, 1837, was a daugh- ter of Rev. John Campbell (a minister of the Presbyterian church) and Mary Hubbard.

John Campbell was born in Scotland, 1713, came to Pennsylvania 1734, pursued his theological studies at the Log College, near Hartsville, in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, where Rev. William Tennent maintained for twenty years after its foundation, in 1726, a school for the education of clergymen. He was installed October 27, 1747, as pastor of the churches of New Providence, Bucks county, and Charlestown, Chester county, Pennsylvania. While in the pulpit of the Charlestown church, commencing the morning service and reading the lines in the old metrical version of the 116th Psalm,

"Dear in Thy sight is Thy saint's death, Thy servant, Lord, am I,"

he had an apoplectic stroke, which caused his death almost immediately. His wife, Mary, was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Hubbard. Thomas Hub- bard was from Wales, born 1674, married about 1715, and died February, 1764. He lived in Tredyffrin township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, and he was a large farmer.

Issue of William and Mary (Campbell) Harris:

Campbell Harris, b. May 2, 1781; m. 1808; d. May 17, 1853;

THOMAS HARRIS, b. Jan. 3, 1784; m. (first) Jan. 1, 1820; (second) April 20, 1839; d. March 4, 1861 ;

Mary Harris, b. Oct. 15, 1786, d. May 20, 1791 ;

JOHN HARRIS, b. May 20, 1789; m. (first) Oct. 28, 1819; (second) Oct., 1845; d. May 12, 1864;

WILLIAM HARRIS, b. Aug. 18, 1792; m. April 20, 1820; d. March 3, 1861;

James Bailey Harris, b. Oct. 14, 1795; m. April 10, 1838; d. June 23, 1881;

STEPHEN HARRIS, b. Sept. 4, 1798; m. April 4, 1833; d. Nov. 18, 1851.

These sons averaged lives were seventy-two years in length. Campbell and James Bailey Harris were farmers, who emigrated, 1818, to what was then the new rich land of Genesee Valley, Livingston county, New York, where they spent their lives.

THOMAS HARRIS was educated at Brandywine Academy, and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving degree of M. D., 1809. July 6, 1812, he entered the naval medical service, in which he spent his whole life. . He was surgeon of the Sloop-of-War, "Wasp," which, in the fall of 1812, captured the British Sloop-of-War, "Frolic," but was herself disabled, and obliged to sur- render soon afterward to the British seventy-four-gun ship, "Poictiers," which came up soon after the engagement was over. He was in active service on the Atlantic ocean and on Lake Ontario during most of that war, but was not in any other considerable engagement. He sailed, March, 1815, with Commodore De- catur, on his expedition to punish the Barbary piratical powers. After the capture of the Algerine flagship, "Mashouda," by Decatur, Thomas Harris was put in charge of her wounded.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 50

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