Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 54

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

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Jane Hinchman, m. - - Jones;

Elizabeth Hinchman ;

Letitia Hinchman, m. July 29, 1727, Thomas Thorne;

Ann Hinchman, m. John Thorne;

Jacob Hinchman, m. Abigail Harrison;

Abigail Hinchman, b. after date of her father's will; m. Nov. 28, 1732, John Kaighn; (second) John Thorne; (third) March 6, 1759, William Harrison.

JOSEPH HINCIIMAN, son of John and Sarah ( Harrison) Hinchman, inherited a portion of the original homestead and resided thereon until his death, 1731. His widow, Phebe, and two sons, James and Isaac, survived him. The latter married, December 31. 1753, Lettice Woolston.

JAMES HINCHMAN married Sarah Bickham, and settled in Greenwich township, Gloucester county, New Jersey.

JAMES HINCHMAN, son of James and Sarah (Bickham) Hinchman married 1779, Sarah, daughter of Joseph Morgan, of Gloucester, by his third wife, Mary Stokes ; granddaughter of Alexander Morgan, by his wife, Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Lydia ( Rigg) Cooper, and granddaughter of William Cooper, of Pine Point, pioneer ancestor of the prominent Cooper family of New Jersey, who was one of the Commissioners of West Jersey, 1682; Justice of Gloucester County Courts, 1696; member of Provincial Assembly of New Jersey, 1682-6. He was born in the parish of Amersham, Hertfordshire, England, and was one of the earliest settlers on the site of the city of Camden. The early meetings of the Society of Friends were held at his house, and he was one of the most influential men of his time in that section. His son, Joseph Cooper, was a representative in the first Council of the united provinces of East and West Jersey, 1703. He mar- ried, August 11, 1686, Lydia, daughter of George Rigg, of Hewling's Point, on the Delaware, near Burlington, of whose estate she was administratrix, March 3, 1687-8. Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Lydia Cooper, married at Newton Meeting, 1717, Alexander Morgan, who died in Waterford township, Gloucester county, 1751 ; son of Griffith Morgan, a mariner of Philadelphia, who came from Wales, and for some years prior to his marriage, followed the sea. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and was imprisoned in Haverford West, for non-attendance of the established church, 1684. In 1693 he married Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Cole, of Cole's Hill, Hertfordshire, who accompanied William Cooper to America and settled near him on the north side of Cooper's Creek. He removed to Pensauken in the same county, 1685, and was a member of Provincial Assembly, and otherwise prominent in the affairs of the province, serving on the boundary commission and filling other important positions of trust. He was com- pelled to return to England to look after some affairs of his family there, and died on the return voyage at Barbadoes.

Samuel Cole had purchased of William Penn, by deed of lease and release, dated March 1 and 2, 1676-7, a one-twentieth interest in the lands of West Jersey,

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most of which was laid out to, and conveyed by him prior to his return to Eng- land; the balance descended to his son, Samuel, and his daughter, Rachel, wife of James Wild. After the marriage of Griffith Morgan to the widow, Elizabeth Cole, he abandoned the sea, and purchased, May 18, 1697, of the executors of Thomas Lloyd, of Philadelphia, five hundred acres in Waterford township, Glou- cester county, on the southwest side of Pouns Creek, where he resided until his death, June, 1714, and it descended to his son, Alexander. His widow, Elizabeth, survived him six years, her will, dated July 20, 1719, proved September 14, 1720, devised her estate to her children, Samuel Cole, Rachel Wild and Alexander Mor- gan, and their several children. Joseph Morgan married (first) Agnes Jones; (third), 1758, Mary, daughter of Joseph Stokes, of Waterford township, by his wife, Judith (married August 8, 1710), daughter of Freedom and Mary (Curtis) Lippincott, and granddaughter of Richard and Abigail Lippincott, who were at Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1642; returned to England, and again emigrated to America, 1661, settling for a time at Rhode Island, but were among the first set- tlers at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, about 1665, and Richard Lippincott was one of the most prominent officials of the new province.

Joseph Stokes, father of Mary (Stokes) Morgan, was a son of Thomas Stokes, of Stepney, Middlesex (London), England, who married there, 1668, Mary Ber- nard, and with her and their children came to the Delaware in the "Kent," which arrived at New Castle, August, 1677, and proceeded up the Delaware to Burling- ton. He settled on Rancocus Creek, Waterford township, Gloucester county, where his wife died 1699, and he, 1719, aged seventy-eight years.

JOHN HINCHMAN, merchant, son of James and Sarah (Morgan) Hinchman, of Newton township, Gloucester county, married, April 4, 1815, Eliza Webb.

MORGAN HINCHMAN, of Philadelphia, conveyancer, son of John and Eliza (Webb) Hinchman, married at Abington Friends' Meeting, September 12, 1839, Margaretta Shoemaker, born at Shoemakertown, Cheltenham township, September 15, 1817, daughter of Charles and Margaret (Wood) Shoemaker ; whose descent on the paternal line, from George Shoemaker, of Kreigsheim, in the Palatinate, who died at sea, and whose widow and children arrived in Philadelphia on board the ship, "Jefferies," March 20, 1685-6, and settled in Cheltenham township, Philadel- phia county, is given in full in our article on the Shoemaker family in these volumes, as well as her descent from Toby Leech, of Cheltenham, Gloucester county, Eng- land, another early settler in Cheltenham township, for whose native town the town- ship was named, member of Provincial Assembly, etc. ; from Richard Wall, of Chel- tenham township, also a native of Gloucestershire, at whose house in the present town of Ogontz, the first meeting of Friends in that vicinity was held, that became later Abington Monthly Meeting; and from Captain Bartholomew Penrose, of Phil- adelphia. On the maternal side, Margaretta (Shoemaker) Hinchman was a lineal descendant of Michael Newbold and Ann, his wife, of Sheffield Park, Yorkshire, England, who settled in Springfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, 1767-8; her mother, Margaret, being a daughter of William Wood, of another prominent New Jersey family, who married, 1753, Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Edith (Coate) Newbold; granddaughter of Michael and Rachel (Clayton) Newbold, and great-granddaughter of Michael and Ann, above named.

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Issue of Morgan and Margaretta (Shoemaker ) Hinchman:

CHARLES SHOEMAKER HINCHMAN, b. Jan. 3, 1842; m. Lydia S. Mitchell; of whom pres- ently ;

John Webb Hinchman, b. Aug. 8, 1843, d. 1847;

Walter Hinchman, b. July 25, 1845.

CHARLES S. HINCHMAN, of Philadelphia, eldest son of Morgan and Margaretta (Shoemaker) Hinchman, born in Philadelphia, January 3, 1842, married, April 23, 1872, Lydia S., daughter of Peleg Mitchell, Jr., of Nantucket, Massachusetts, by his wife, Mary Swain Russell. Mrs. Hinchman comes of good old New Eng- land stock, tracing her descent from "Mayflower" ancestry, through Degory Priest, and from many eminent Colonial families of New England, among them Tristram Coffin, from Brixton, Devonshire, 1642; Edward Starbuck, also of Derbyshire, who emigrated at about the same date; both of whom were among the original founders of the settlement on the Island of Nantucket, 1659; an ac- count of whom and some of their descendants is given in these volumes.

RICHARD MITCHELL, of Brixton, Isle of Wight, great-great-great-grandfather of Lydia S. (Mitchell) Hinchman, married Mary Wood, and their son,

RICHARD MITCHELL, born at Brixton, 1686, came to Rhode Island, 1708, and died there 1722. In the same year of his arrival, he married Elizabeth, daughter of James Tripp, who was commissioned Ensign, at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, December 25, 1689, by his wife, Mercy, daughter of George Lawton, a member of the Court of Trials, and Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony, for six years ; by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hazard, who with eight others signed the compact for the settlement of Rhode Island, and was a member of the General Court of Elections there, 1640. His will proved 1680, leaves his wife, Martha Hazard (whom he refers to as his "beloved yoke-fellow"), his sole executor.

James Tripp, father of Elizabeth (Tripp) Mitchell, was a son of John Tripp, one of the Court of Commissioners ; five years Assistant Magistrate of Dartmouth, and seven years a Deputy to General Assembly. Prior to his coming to America. Richard Mitchell (2) was employed for some time in the Royal Navy. He had been reared in the doctrines and faith of the Church of England, but after settling in Rhode Island became convinced of the principles of the Society of Friends, and a memorial of him adopted by that Society, after his death, states that "He was blessed with understanding and sound judgment, and was capable of assisting and advising in matters of difficulty."

RICHARD MITCHELL (3), son of Richard and Elizabeth (Tripp) Mitchell, was born in Rhode Island, 1710, and died at Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1787. He married Mary Starbuck, a descendant of Edward Starbuck, who came from Derbyshire, England, about 1640, and settled at Dover, New Hampshire ; became one of the proprietors of Nantucket, 1659, and a Magistrate there; through his son, Nathaniel Starbuck, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Tristram Coffin, Chief Magistrate of Nantucket. Mary (Coffin) Starbuck was one of the earliest con- verts to Quakerism in Nantucket and meetings were held at her house. She be- came a minister among Friends, as did several of her descendants, among them her grandsons, Elihu and Nathaniel Coleman, and her granddaughter, Priscilla Bunker. Her grandson, Elihu Coleman, wrote one of the earliest protests against slavery, from New England.

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PELEG MITCHELL, SR., son of Richard and Mary (Starbuck) Mitchell, mar- ried Lydia, daughter of James Cartwright, a "Mayflower" descendant, by his wife, Love, daughter of Francis Macy, by his wife, Judith Coffin, a great-great-grand- daughter of Tristram Coffin, before mentioned, and great-granddaughter of his son, James Coffin, who was one of the associate proprietors of Nantucket, and its first Judge of Probate 1680, by his wife, Mary Severance.

Francis Macy was a son of Thomas Macy, by his wife, Deborah, daughter of Lieutenant John Coffin (son of Tristram), by his wife, Deborah, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Starbuck) Austin ; thus making the third line of descent from the celebrated Tristram Coffin ; as well as from Edward Starbuck, co-proprietor with him of Nantucket and also a leading man in that colony. Thomas Macy was a son of John Macy, and a grandson of Thomas Macy, another original pro- prietor of Nantucket, 1659, mentioned in Whittier's poem, "The Exiles," which describes his first visit to Nantucket.

James Cartwright, great-grandfather of Lydia S. (Mitchell) Hinchman, was a descendant of Peter Folger, grandfather of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and from Degory Priest, the twenty-ninth signer of the "Mayflower" compact, by the follow- ing line :

Degory Priest married, 1611, Sarah (Allerton), widow of John Vincent; and their daughter, Mary Priest, married Phineas Pratt. Joseph, son of Phineas and Mary (Priest) Pratt, married Dorcas, daughter of Peter Folger ; and their daugh- ter, Bethia, married Samson Cartwright; their son, Hezidiah Cartwright, who married, 1731-2, Abigail Brown, was father of James Cartwright, who married, 1759, Love Macy, and was father of Lydia Cartwright, who married, 1779, Peleg Mitchell, Sr.

PELEG MITCHELL, JR., father of Lydia Swain ( Mitchell) Hinchman, was a son of Peleg and Lydia (Cartwright ) Mitchell. He married Mary Swain, daughter of Barnabas Russell, who had married Mary Swain, 1811. Barnabas Russell was a son of John Russell, by his wife, Hepzibah, daughter of Barnabas Coleman, who had married, 1733, Rachel, daughter of Sylvanus Hussey, granddaughter of Ste- phen and Martha (Bunker) Hussey; and great-granddaughter of Christopher Hussey and his wife, Theodate Bachelder. John Russell, who married, October 30, 1777, Hepzibah Coleman, was born November 20, 1754, and died July 3, 1829. He was a son of John Russell (died 1789), who married, 1731, Ruth Starbuck, born February 24, 1714-15, died October 5, 1772 ; and grandson of Daniel Russell, born 1680, died 1763, by his wife, Deborah, daughter of Thomas and Deborah ( Coffin) Macy, before mentioned.

Sylvanus Hussey, before mentioned, married Abial, daughter of John Brown, by his wife, Rachel, daughter of Captain John and Priscilla (Grafton) Gardner, and granddaughter of Thomas Gardner. Mrs. Hinchman is also descended from Richard Gardner, another son of Thomas Gardner, one of the founders of the Cape Ann colony, and afterwards a member of the Town Council of Salem.

This Richard Gardner married Sarah Shattuck, whose brother, Samuel Shat- tuck, was the bearer of the famous mandate from Charles II. to Governor Endi- cott, forbidding the execution of Quakers, quaintly described in Whittier's poem, entitled "The King's Missive."

John Brown, above mentioned, was a son of John Brown who married, 1658, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart (son of Edmund and Margaret (Dewey)

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Hobart), who founded the first church at Hingham, Massachusetts. Theodate Bachelder, above mentioned, was a daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachelder, who founded the first churches of Lynn, Massachusetts, and Hampton, New Hamp- shire, and was ancestor of Daniel Webster and many other prominent people of New England and elsewhere.

Mary Swain, who married Barnabas Russell, 1811, was a daughter of Francis Swain, Jr., who married, 1767, Lydia, daughter of Robert Barker, by his wife, Jedidah, daughter of James and Rachel (Brown) Chase; granddaughter of Lieu- tenant Isaac and Mary (Tilton) Chase ; and great-granddaughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Philbrick) Chase. And Robert Barker, great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Hinchman, was a son of Samuel Barker, by his wife, Bethiah Folger, grand- daughter of Peter Folger, and cousin of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Samuel Barker, who married Bethiah Folger, 1718, was a son of Isaac Barker, of Duxbury, Mass- achusetts, by his wife, Judith Prence, or Prince, whom he married, 1665; daugh- ter of Thomas Prince, born at Lechdale, Gloucestershire, England, 1600; died in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1673. He was Governor of Plymouth colony eighteen years; Assistant Magistrate, thirteen years; Treasurer, one year; Commissioner, twelve years; and member of Council of War, five years. Record says of him: "He was a worthy gentleman and very able for his office, and faithful in the dis- charge thereof, studious of peace, a well wisher to all that feared God and a terror to the wicked." Thomas Prence married (second), 1635, Mary, daughter of William Collier, who "came early to Plymouth;" was Assistant Governor of the colony twenty-eight years ; member of Council of War, and of Provincial Con- gress ; and one of the committee of two appointed by Congress to sign the Articles cf Confederation. Thomas and Mary (Collier) Prence were parents of Judith Prence, who married Isaac Barker, and were the great-great-great-great-great- grandparents of Lydia S. (Mitchell) Hinchman.

Francis Swain, Sr., great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Hinchman, married, 1736- 37, Mary Paddock, a descendant of Richard Sears, of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, who came to America, 1630, with the last of the Scrooby Congregation of Leyden, and landed at Plymouth, but later removed to Yarmouth; was a member of Colonial Court, 1662. His ancestry is traced back through many generations in England.

John Swain, father of Francis Swain, Sr., married, 1711, Mary, daughter of Moses Swett, of Hampton, New Hampshire, who was a Commissioner to settle the boundaries between New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He was a son of Benjamin Swett, a soldier in King Philip's War, holding commissions as Ensign, Lieutenant and Captain. A historian has said of him: "Swett won for himself a high rank among the heroes of the Colonial Wars. He was always in that post which most required sagacity and courage."

Moses Swett married, 1687, Mary Hussey, a granddaughter of Christopher and Theodate (Bachelder ) Hussey, before mentioned. Her father, John Hussey, was second son of Christopher, and was reared in Hampton, New Hampshire, where he was appointed as a member of Provincial Assembly, but being unwilling to take the oath of office required, did not serve. He removed from New Hampshire to New Castle county, on the Delaware, then under the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, 1688, and represented that county in the Pennsylvania Assembly, 1696, no oath being required in Pennsylvania at that time.

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Mrs. Lydia S. (Mitchell) Hinchman has compiled and published considerable genealogical and historical work relating to her New England ancestry, the most important of which is, "The Early Settlers of Nantucket," a work of much merit. She is a member of the Society of Colonial Dames of America, and is identified with other historical and patriotic societies.

Issue of Charles S. and Lydia S. (Mitchell) Hinchman:

Mary Mitchell Hinchman, b. July 25, 1873; m. Oct. 5, 1898, Isaac LaBoiteaux, of Cin- cinnati, O .; they have issue :

Constance LaBoiteaux, b. July 27, 1899;

Lydia Mitchell LaBoiteaux, b. Oct. 4, 1903.

C. Russell Hinchman, b. Feb. 21, 1875: m. April 24, 1901, Elizabeth Schofield Brooke Hopkins, who like her husband is a lineal descendant of George and Sarah (Waln) Shoemaker, being a descendant of Isaac, son of Matthias Tyson, and grandson of Rynear Tyson, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Isaac Shoemaker, and his wife, Dorothy Penrose, of Cheltenham; C. Russell and Elizabeth S. B. (Hopkins) Hinchman, have issue :

Martha Tyson Hopkins Hinchman, b. March 14, 1902.

Margaretta Shoemaker Hinchman, b. July 12, 1876;

Anna Barker Hinchman, b. Nov. 25, 1877;

Walter Swain Hinchman, b. Sept. 14, 1879.

McILVAIN FAMILY.

The McIlvain family, one branch of which has been seated in or near Philadel- phia for the past six generations, is descended from an ancient and honorable family of the name in Ayrshire, Scotland, representatives of which have emigrated to America at different periods, some direct from county Ayr, and others from county Antrim, Ireland, whither some of the Ayrshire family had migrated in the middle of the seventeenth century. The McIlvains of Ayr were Lairds of Grim- met and Attyquyne, from 1520, and were possessed of the ancient castle of Thomaston, parish of Kirkowald, county Ayr, built by Thomas, Earl of Carrick, nephew of Robert Bruce, about 1333, from about 1600 down to the death of John McIlvain, then the eldest male representative of the family, 1747. They were closely connected with the Kennedys, Earls of Casselis, whose castle Dunmore, parish of Mayboll, stands not far distant from Thomaston. The ancient castle of Thomas-Towne, the seat of the McIlvain family, passed from the Carricks to their descendants, Corries of Kelwood, and through the marriage of John Mc- Ilvain, Laird of Grimmet and Attyquyne, prior to 1600, to Annie Corrie, it passed into the possession of the McIlvain family, and was occupied by them until the middle of the eighteenth century. John McIlvain's daughter, Margaret, married, about 1630, Alexander Kennedy, of Craigoch, grandson of Gilbert Kennedy, Earl of Casselis, and a descendant of King Robert III., of Scotland, through his daugh- ter, Princess Mary.

From a quaint old account of the prominent families of Ayr we quote the fol- lowing :

"There is no record extant quhat surnames hes bene gratest in this provence of old; bot the most ancient gentry now possessors thereof, ar,

Cathcarts, dicenditt of the Housse of Carltone Fergusons, of the Housse of Kelkarrane Corries, of the Housse of Kelwood Mures, of the Housse of Muchemarrane Shawes, of the Housse of Keires Mack Alexander, of the Housse of Corsirye Mackilvands, of the Housse of Grimmet."

An ancient description of the Earldom of Carrick is in part as follows :

"This country of old gave the title of Earl of Carrick to Robert Bruce. It is the ancient seat of the Kennedies whose principal dwelling was the Castle of Dunmore standing on the seaside in a rockie shoar in the parish of Mayboll. Al the houses of the gentry of this coun- try are seated pleasantly and commodiously. Those upon the sea coast are the Castle of Grenard and the Cove; not far from it lyes the House of Newark, a good old Castle south- east from the other. Southward from this lyes the House of Thomas-Towne, once the resi- dence of the Corrys', but now of McLevain ( Mackilveane) of Grimmet, a very pretty house with gardens, orchards and parks around it; both these ly in the parish of Kirkowald."

ALAN MAKILVENE had a charter from James V., October 16, 1529, for the lands of Grimmet and Attyquyne. He was, however, seated at Grimmet prior to this date, as in 1527 "Alan Makilvene, Laird of Grimmet, was fined £100 for not enter- ing his friend, Gilbert Kennedy, Earl of Casselis, to appear for participation in the slaughter of Robert Campbell, of Lochfergus, Alexander Kirkwood and Pat-

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rick Wilsone Campbell having a short time before killed the old Earl of Casselis, father of Gilbert, and had himself been killed by the young Earl and his adher- ents." At about the same period an incident of the turbulent times is related as follows :

"The Laird of Drumurchie besieged the house of Auchinsull and took prisoners, the Countess of Casselis, the young Laird of Grimmet, and Quinton Crawford. A fatal en- counter took place between the Earl of Casselis and the Laird of Bargany in which Gilbert Kennedy's horse was slayne and the Earl's broderes brydell was schott in tua, quhairby his horse kaist him and straik his airme out of juntt. The young Laird of Grimmett was strucken throw his chin and he and his horse bayth strucken to the eird."

Inasmuch as this narrative refers to Gilbert Kennedy, as distinct from the Earl of Casselis, whom he succeeded about 1527, it evidently antedates the slaying of the old Laird by Campbell, above mentioned, and shows the McIlvanes to have been possessed of Grimmet at a still earlier date. The charter of James V. was evidently one of confirmation of a former grant by his predecessor, James IV., or more likely still by James III., whose custody during his reign as an infant, 1461, was entrusted to Bishop Kennedy, of St. Andrew's, from whom he was ab- ducted by Lord Boyd, and held until 1469, when he was rescued by his friends, among whom may have been the M'Ilvains, who received the grant of Grimmet, in recognition of their loyalty.

That the M'Ilvains were seized of Grimmet at about this period is proven by ex- tracts from the Protocol Book of Gavin Ros, a Notary of county Ayr, for the years 1512-32. The memoranda of instruments executed before this notary in- clude a number in which the M'Ilvains were principals, and show that Gilbert M'Ilvain, the father of Allan M'Ilvain, above mentioned, "had occupied and intro- mitted with the lands of Grumet and Attiquyne," for the space of forty-five years, prior to August, 1529, as shown by his own deposition taken at that date before Notary Gavin Ros, at the Tolbooth of Ayr.

The first reference to Gilbert M'Ilvain in this ancient Protocol Book, is over date of May 16, 1529, when "Gilbert M'Ylveyne of Grumete promised faithfully to fulfil all things communicated between him and Quintin Schaw, tutor of Keris concerning certaine Merk lands in terms of an Agreement between them at the time Gilbert repledged certain goods for Quentin Schaw, tutor, in whose name Quentin Schaw, King's Messenger asked instrument, etc. Done at Grumet 16 May 1529." By this agreement certain lands of Grimmet were alienated, as "Will- iam Campbell, bailie of Gilbert M'Ylveyne, of Grummet, in terms of a precept by the latter passed the lands of Grummet, and there on the ground gave sasine of the two-merk lands of Over-Grummet lying in the Earldom of Carrick, and Sherifdom of Air, to Quintin Schaw, tutor of Keris, according to his charter of May 19, 1529."

The grant and confirmation of the lands of Grimmet to Allan M'Ilvaine is shown by the following entry in the Protocol Book:

"Nevin, sergeant and officer of the bailie of Carrick, producing letters of the King under the signet, obtained by Allan M'Ylveyne, of the non-entry of the lands of Grumet from the decease of the late Nigel M'Ylveyne, in virtue of which letters the sd Sergeant assigned a Court of the bailery of Carrick to be held at Burmehillis near Maybole, on Tuesday 6th July next and summons Gilbert M'Ylveyne possessor of ye lands and all others having interest to appear said day and place with evidence they wish to use for the time. Done at Ayr, June 1529."

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Who "the late Nigel M'Ylveyne" was and what relation he bore to Gilbert and Allan, his son, does not appear. Allan M'Ylveyne having secured the grant of Grimmet, entered into bonds to assign the tenancy and use thereof, for a nominal sum, to his father for life, as shown by several instruments executed before Notary Ros, the principal of which is thus entered on the Protocol Book :

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 54

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