Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 55

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

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"Sir John Kennedy, Prebendary of Maybole and John Campbell of Over-Skeldoune be- came sureties and cautioners for Allan M'Ylveyne that he shall do and fulfil all things com- municated in word between him and Gilbert M'Ylveyne his father namely that he shall make Gilbert his assignee in and to the five-merk lands of Attiquin for Gilbert's life-time, and that within twenty-four hours after Allan shall obtain the non-entry of the lands under the pain of 1000 merks, and then he shall give security to Gilbert of the lands for life, Gilbert paying an annual rent to Allan. Done in the Tolbooth of Air, Angust 1529. Witnesses, Gilbert Kennedy of Kirckmichel, John Kennedy, Alexander Muir and Sir John Campbell, Chaplain."

On the same date, "Gilbert Kennedy of Kirckmichel, compearing in the Tol- booth of Air before Charles Campbell, Macer of the Sheriff of Air, in that part specially constituted in the cause of recognition between Gilbert and Allan M'Y1- veyne-solemnly protests that whatever shall be done in said cause before said Judge, should not prejudice David M'Ylveyne, son of Gilbert Kennedy's sister, as to the right which he has to the lands of Attiquin." Then follows the deposition of Gilbert M'Ylveyne, as to his tenancy of Grumet and Attiquin for forty-five years past, above quoted. The instrument making the grant to Gilbert from Allan is thus entered :

"Allan M'Ylveyne having non-entry of the lands of Grummete in terms of letters from the King under the privy seal to said Allan, made and constituted Gilbert M'Ylveyne his father his lawful assignee in and to the five-merk lands of Attiquin and pertinents, namely the four-merk lands he now inhabits, * * * for his true life, giving him power to intromit with labour, transfering all right and claim of Allan and his heires, and this because of paternal love, special favour and that he may fully obtain his father's blessing-chiefly be- cause the said Gilbert is his father and now is aged and if he (Allan) shall prosecute the premises to extremity that may turn to Gilbert's utmost loss and irreparable injury-for which Gilbert shall pay yearly during his life twenty shillings. Done at Air, August 1529."

John M'Ilvene's name appears on the Protocol Book as a witness at the Burgh of Ayr, December, 1530.

The bond of Gilbert Kennedy, of Kirckmichel, to indemnify Allan M'Ylveyne, of Grimmet, from any loss by reason of his becoming his surety "to enter and undergo the Cause of the Kingdom for homicide committed at Barbeth, and to pay and refund to Allan and his heires the rents and profits of Neder Grumet uplifted and to be uplifted" by reason of said surety, was entered at Ayr, January 2, 1530. There is also on the Protocol Book entries in reference to the redemption by Allan M'Ilvene, 1531, of the two merk lands alienated to Quentin Shaw by his father in 1529.

GILBERTO M'ILVENE, "filio et haeredi Alani M'Ilvene de Grimmet," and his spouse, Janet Corry, had a charter of confirmation of the lands of Grimmet from Queen Mary, dated May 4, 1546. Gilbert M'Ilvene died at the battle of Fawside ( Pinkie), September 18, 1547, and was succeeded by his son, Patrick McIlvane, of Grimmet, who was served heir of his father, October 25, 1547, in the lands of Nether and Over Grimmet and Attyquyne. His name occurs as a witness in a deed, dated January 4, 1586-87, and he and his son, John, were both in the follow- ing of the Earl of Casselis at Lady Corse in 1601. His will was "maid and geven up be Johnne Schaw in Largis of Stratoun, executor." He died in 1613. 43

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JOHN MCILVANE, son of Patrick, seems to have predeceased his father, as the latter seems to have been succeeded by John McKelvaine, son of the former. From a charter granted to "Joanni M'Ilvane de Grimmet" by James VII., in 1597, it appears that his wife was a Kennedy, their son "Johnne McKelvane, of Grimmet" was alive in 1632, as shown by the will of his wife, Anne Corrie, who died in Feb- ruary, of that year. This will shows that she had children, Margaret, Agnes, Helein and Mareonne M'Ilvane, "bairnes lawful to ye defunct." These may have been only the minor children, as it appears through this marriage the McIlvanes acquired Thomastoun, the seat of the family for many generations thereafter, of which Anne Corrie, first wife of John McIlvane, was the heiress, the heir appar- ent thereof, as shown by the will of Captain James Corrie, having died prior to 1645. Inasmuch as the property descended to the McIlvanes, Anne must have had male issue. John McIlvane married (second) Juliane Schaw, who died in December, 1641, leaving issue : Anna and Juliane.

Margaret McIlvane, daughter of John McIlvane, of Grimmet, by Anne Corrie, above mentioned, married Alexander Kennedy, of Craigoch, before mentioned, and the will of Sir Alexander Kennedy, of Culzean, father of Alexander, of Craigoch, in 1652, mentions "John M'Ilvane of Grimmet." The later Earls of Casselis were descended from the McIlvanes, through the marriage of Margaret, daughter of Alexander Kennedy, to David the Earl.

QUINTIN M'ILVANE, of Grimmet, was served as heir of his father, John M'Il- vane, of Grimmet, in the lands of Thomaston, October 8, 1669. Thomaston de- scended through the eldest male line of the McIlvane family to John McIlvane, of Grimmet, whose will was recorded January 15, 1741, and from him to his son, John McIlvane, the younger, of Grimmet, merchant, whose will is dated May 20, 1747, and was given up in 1748, by James Ferguson, writer, in Ayr, as creditor upon a bill signed by the deceased. This latter John McIlvaine was probably the last of the family who possessed Thomaston.

The foregoing represents only the elder male line of the Macilvain family of Ayr, which doubtless by the middle or end of the seventeenth century had become quite numerous. Numerous families of Carrick, county Ayr, with whom the Mc- Ilvanes were connected, removed to Carrick-fergus, Antrim county, Ireland. In a "Declaration by the Commission for Settling and Securing the Province of Ulster," dated at Carrick-fergus, May 23, 1653, appear the names of William Schaw, Captain Ferguson, Quintin Kennedy, William Crawford and others with whom the McIlvains of Ayr were intermarried or associated. The date of the removal of the McIlvains to county Antrim is unknown. They were early con- verts to Protestantism, and staunch supporters of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

Among thie McIlvains who came to Pennsylvania direct from Ayr, Scotland, were William and David McIlvaine, of Philadelphia, merchants, who came over about 1730. Both married into a family that had come from Ireland at about the same date; David to Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Alexander Graydon, of the Provincial Battalion of Bucks county, 1747, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Caleb Emerson ; and the latter to Ann Emerson. Graydon and Emerson came to Philadelphia with their families from Ireland in 1729, and the former, who mar- ried (second) at Christ Church, 1747, Rachel Marks, removed to Bucks county, where he was later associated with William McIlvaine in the purchase of mills,

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etc., in Bristol borough, and a large tract of land known as "Fairview" in Bristol township. The will of David McIlvaine, of Philadelphia, probated November 23, 1756, mentions his brother, William, of Philadelphia, his nephew, William, to whom he bequeaths a silver hilted sword, and a sister, Ann, in Ayr, Scotland. William, the brother, who removed to "Fairview," Bristol, Bucks county, about 1763, died there in 1770, and his will mentions his son, Joseph, who was Colonel of the Fifth Associated Battalion of Bucks county in the Revolution; his son, William, now in Scotland; wife, Margaret; daughter, Mary; and brother and sister-in-law, David and Elizabeth McIlvaine, both deceased. This will devises to his children a property in Ayr, Scotland, inherited from his father, Joseph Mc- Ilvain, whose will is dated May 19, 1762.

A New England branch of the family, descended from Robert McIlvain, who is said to have emigrated from Scotland to the north of Ireland, about the begin- ning of the eighteenth century, and with his wife was murdered in their bed by their Roman Catholic neighbors, when their third son, Daniel, was an infant. The latter was educated at Dublin, and at the age of nineteen years accompanied his elder brothers, William and John McIlvain, to New England, from the parish of Sisson, county Donegal, Ireland. Daniel settling in Boston, taught school there for about forty years, removing to Windham, New Hampshire, 1762, with his sons, William, John and Daniel, the latter of whom died in 1833, at the age of eighty-four years. William McIlvain, eldest of the three emigrant brothers, set- tled in Casco Bay, now Portland, Maine, and John McIlvain, the other brother, removed to the south.

There was a McIlvain family in Sussex county, Delaware, where we find David and Andrew McIlvain subscribers to the church fund of Cool Spring Presby- terian Church, at Lewes, 1763. Andrew died September 13, 1789, at the age of sixty-four years. James McIlvain, of Sussex county, advertised in the American Weekly Gazette for a runaway slave in 1752, was married to a widow by the name of Derr in 1762. All three were probably sons of a Robert McIlvain, of the same locality, born about 1700, who had a son, Andrew, who was married to a widow in 1771.

JAMES MCILVAIN, of county Antrim, Ireland, married there prior to 1725, Jane, daughter of Hugh and Margaret Heaney, later of East Fallowfield, Chester coun- ty, and about 1740 came to Pennsylvania with wife, Jane, and children, Andrew, John, Hugh, William, Jane and Margaret, and settled in Chester, now Delaware county. The will of Hugh Heaney, of East Fallowfield, Chester county, probated March 30, 1764, mentions his wife, Margaret, and daughter, Jane McIlvain.

Issue of James and Jane (Heaney) McIlvain:

Andrew McIlvain, b. 1725, d. Nov. 22, 1782, in Ridley, Chester co., and is bur. in the Presbyterian burying-ground at Middletown;

JOHN MCILVAIN, b. 1726, d. April 19, 1779; m. (first) Mary Roman; (second) Lydia Barnard; of whom presently;

Hugh McIlvain, d. unm., in Ridley, Chester co., 1794; will proved Nov. 25, 1794;

William McIlvain, b. 1730, d. Oct. 20, 1784, bur. in the Presbyterian burying-ground at Middletown, as were his two wives; "Jane, died August 19, 1778, aged 44 years," and "Sarah, died April 20, 1782, aged 55 years," the will of William McIlvain, of Ridley, dated February 25, and proved Dec. 1, 1784, mentions "cousin William McIlvain; Jean McIlvain, daughter of Andrew; John, son of Isaac McIlvain; brothers Hugh and Andrew; and niece Judea McIlvain; John Crosby and Andrew McIlvain, named as exrs., letters granted to John Crosby, Andrew McIlvain being deceased ;" Jane McIlvain, d. young and unm .;

Margaret McIlvain, d. young and unm.

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JOHN MCILVAIN, son of James and Jane (Heaney) McIlvain, born in county Antrim, Ireland, 1726, came with his parents to America. When a youth he ap- prenticed himself to Jacob Roman, proprietor of a mill on Crum creek, Ridley township, Chester county, whose daughter, Mary Roman, he married about 1755, and, after the death of Jacob Roman, which occurred in 1748, became himself the proprietor of the mill, and died there April 19, 1779. After the defeat of Wash- ington's Army at Brandywine, 1777, his forces were scattered along the road ex- tending from Leiperville to Darby township line, and after midnight of the day of the battle General Washington rested at the house of John McIlvain.

John McIlvain was, like practically all his Scotch-Irish compatriots, a member of the Presbyterian church, but united with the Society of Friends some time after his first marriage with Mary Roman in 1755. Mary was a granddaughter of Philip Roman, one of the leading members of the Society of Friends in Chester county, and the early meetings were frequently held at his house. On Mary (Ro- man) McIlvain being treated with for marriage to one not a member and "by a Priest," she replied to Concord Meeting, in December, 1755, that she did not desire to be "under the care of Friends" and refused to acknowledge any contri- tion for her marriage by a priest, as the Quakers denominated all "hireling min- isters."

She and her husband evidently united with Concord Meeting later, however, as in September, 1761, John McIlvain was treated with by that meeting for his mar- riage to his first wife's cousin, Lydia Barnard, which was consummated at the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, September 9, 1761. They, however, made an acknowledgment for the breach of discipline and were retained in mem- bership at Concord Meeting.

Lydia Barnard, second wife of John McIlvain, was a daughter of Richard Bar- nard, second, of Doe Run, West Marlborough township, Chester county (born 1684, died 1767), by his wife, Ann, daughter of Abiah Taylor, Jr., of Dedcott, Berkshire, England (son of Abiah), who married at Farringdon Meeting, Berk- shire, April 18, 1694, Deborah Gearing, and in 1702 came to Pennsylvania and settled in East Bradford township, Chester county, where he erected a mill, and in 1724, a house, still standing. Richard Barnard was a son of Richard Barnard, who came from Sheffield, England, with his wife, Frances, at about the time of landing of William Penn. He owned land near Chester as early as 1683, was a grand juror of Chester county in 1686, and died intestate in 1698. His daughter, Mary Barnard, married Jacob Roman in 1712, and was the mother of Mary Roman, first wife of John McIlvain ; his son, Richard, married at Concord Meet- ing of Friends, December 7, 1715, Ann Taylor, above mentioned. Lydia (Bar- nard) McIlvain survived her husband, and died in 1811. She was granted letters of administration on her husband's estate, he having died intestate, 4th Mo. 19, 1779. Her will, dated 8th Mo. 28, 1807, mentions her sons, John, Jeremiah, James, Richard and Hugh; and daughters, Judith Maris and Lydia Wetherill. The mar- riage certificate of John McIlvain and Lydia Barnard is still in possession of the McIlvain family of Philadelphia ; it is as follows :

WHEREAS. John McIlvain of the Township of Ridley, in the County of Chester, and Province of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, and Lydia Barnard, daughter of Richard Barnard of Newlinton in the County and Province aforesaid, having published their intentions of mar- riage with each other as an Act of General Assembly of this Province in that case so made

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and provided directs and no lawful impediment appearing to obstruct their intended pro- ceedings.

Now these are to certifie all whom it may concern, that for the full accomplishing of their said intentions this ninth day of the ninth month, called September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one, they, the said John McIlvain and Lydia Barnard, appeared in a publick Assembly of people, for that purpose met together in East Bradford in the County aforesaid, and the said John McIlvain taking the said Lydia Bar- nard by the hand, did in solemn manner declare that he took her to be his wife, promising through Divine assistance to be unto her a loving and faithful husband until death should separate them, and then and there in the said Assembly, the said Lydia Barnard did in like manner declare she took the said John McIlvain to be her husband, promising through Divine assistance to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until death should separate them (or words to that effect). And, moreover the said John McIlvain and Lydia Barnard, she according to the custom of marriage, assuming the name of her husband as a further con- firmation thereof, did then and there to these presents set their hands.

JOHN McILVAIN LYDIA McILVAIN.

"And we whose names are hereunder subscribed being present with the Justice at the solemnization of their said marriage and subscription in manner aforesaid as witnesses thereunto, have also to these presents set our hands the day and year above written.

Thomas Worth, Justice George Faussett Susana Worth

Isaac Roman Ann Carter

Hannah Roman

Andrew McIlvain

James McIlhenny Mary Carter

Wm. McIlvain

Elinor Foset Daniel Culin

Jacob Carter

Sarah Keeth

Wm. Worrall

Hannah Carter

Thomas Barnard Joseph Carter

Charles Granhime

Samuel Thornton Philip Roman."

Issue of John and Mary (Roman ) McIlvain:

Isaac McIlvain, m. Susan Croshy and had two children : John McIlvain:

Thomas McIlvain.

Mary McIlvain, m. at First Presbyterian Church, Phila., Dec. 12, 1775, William Mc- Ilvain, son of her father's cousin, Gilbert McIlvain, of Baltimore, Md., and removed to Frankford, Ky .; they had seven children, viz. :

Hannah McIlvain, m. James Rankin, and had three children, viz. :

Orville Rankin, b. Feb. 19, 1813, d. Sept. 9, 1852; m. Jan. 6, 1836, Melissa Fairchild Gray, b. Oct. 14, 1817, d. Dec. 22, 1893; and had issue, nine children, viz. :

Ruth Anna Rankin, b. Oct. 7, 1836; m. Nov. 27, 1855, Benjamin Wilson Smith, b. Jan. 19, 1830; now living in Indianapolis, Ind .; they had issue :

Lilian Gray Smith, b. Nov. 16, 1856; Eva Wilson Smith, b. April 6, 1859;

Ida Virginia Smith, b. Sept. 18, 1860; Orville Rankin Smith, b. Dec. 8, 1864, d. March 1, 1865; Bernard Gilbert Smith, b. April 2, 1866, d. Nov. 13, 1885;

Nelly Colfax Smith, b. Nov. 24, 1868;

Benaldine Smith, b. Dec. 28, 1870; m. William T. Noble: Guy McIlvain Smith, b. Dec. 2, 1872; m. June, 1898, Dora Isa- belle Moore, and had issue :

Ruth Benaldine, b. Ang. 17, 1899; Frederick Merrill Smith, b. July 25, 1907. Paul Queale Smith, b. Nov. 19, 1874, d. May 27, 1879.

James Alanson Rankin, b. May 8, 1838, d. June 6, 1894; private Forty-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, Civil War;

Oliver Smith Rankin, b. Oct. 14, 1840; soldier during Civil War, not heard of after battle of Chickamauga, in which he took a conspicu- ous part ;

Tarvin Rankin, b. 1842, d. same year;

John Robert Rankin, of Washington, D. C., b. Jan. 20, 1843; m. Mar- garet Boyd, Oct., 1893; had issue: Boyd, Helen Gray and Ruth

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Fisler Rankin. He was a member of Twenty-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, Civil War;

Elisha Cowgill Rankin, b. Oct. 5, 1847, d. Oct. 30, 1907; member of 133rd Regiment, Indiana Volunteers;

Agnes Rosabel Rankin, b. Jan. 7, 1850;

Louisa Melissa Rankin, b. May 13, 1852;

Orville Blackstone Rankin, b. May 13, 1852, d. Aug. 17, 1900.

Susan Rankin, b. May 26, 1846; m. Thomas Talbot, of Greencastle, Ind .;

Sarah Rankin, m. Alexander Dunnington, of Green Castle, Ind.

Mary McIlvain, m. -- Riley ;

Margaret McIlvain, m. Davis;

Ann McIlvain, m. Thomas Walls;

Rosa McIlvain, m. Calvert;

Hugh McIlvain, lived between Maysville and Lexington, Ky .; John McIlvain.

Issue of John and Lydia (Barnard ) McIlvain:

Judith McIlvain, h. May 18, 1762, d. March 2, 1843; m. Sept. 7, 1791, Dr. Jonathan Maris, b. Dec. 31, 1765, d. Feb. 28, 1797, son of George and Jane (Foulke) Maris; they had one son, Jesse Maris, an account of whose ancestry and descendants is given in these volumes;

John McIlvain, b. Ang. 19, 1763, d. July 8, 1815; was engaged in the lumber business in Ridley, Chester co .; m. Ann, or Nancy, Pennock, of "Primitive Hall," her father's place in Chester co., b. Aug. 19, 1763, d. Nov. 10, 1826; no issue;

Lydia McIlvain, b. Dec. 6, 1764; m. at Chester Monthly Meeting, March 7, 1804, William Wetherill, a native of England; they had one son :

John M. Wetherill, b. Dec. 27, 1804; m. Mary Smith; they had four children : Jane, George, John, Lydia.

JEREMIAH MCILVAIN, b. June 29, 1767, d. Feb. 19, 1827; had a sawmill and tan-yard on part of the homestead property in Ridley, and after the death of his brother, John, continued the lumber business there; m. Nov. 1, 1792, Elizabeth Spencer, and had issue; see forward;

JAMES MCILVAIN, b. Feb. 14, 1769, d. Oct. 19, 1850; m. Nov. 4, 1801, Mary Robinson, dau. of Abraham, b. Nov. 18, 1770, d. 1838; (second) Mary Ann Coulter, by whom he had no issue; by his first wife he had six children; an account of whom follows;

Margaret McIlvain, b. Feb. 14, 1771, d. Feb. 4, 1809; m. at the home of her mother, Lydia Mellvain, under the care of Chester Friends Meeting, Nov. 6, 1793, William Foulke, only son of Levi and Ann (Evans) Foulke, and great-great-grandson of Ed- ward Foulke, Welsh immigrant, who arrived in Pennsylvania with his wife and family in 1698, and settled at Pennlyn, Gwynedd township, Philadelphia, now Mont- gomery co .; William Foulke was b. at Gwynedd, Oct. 7, 1767, d. there, April 6, 1833; they had issue :

John McIlvain Foulke, b. Jan. 18, 1795, d. March 13, 1874; moved to Baltimore and m. there, April 10, 1822, Ann Sinclair ; from Baltimore he removed to Cin- cinnati, O., where he was extensively engaged in business; two children :

Edward Foulke, of Emory, Ill., b. July 30, 1834, d. Nov. 6, 1900; m. Ade- laide Colladay, and had five children;

Lydia A. Foulke, b. June 27, 1837; m. Nov. 21, 1881, David Wilson, of Evans, Ill .; she was a teacher of Friends' School at Gwynedd, and for three years during the Civil War was a volunteer nurse in the U. S. General Hospital.

Levi Foulke, b. April 6, 1796, d. Jan. 4, 1878; m. Oct. 27, 1838, Eliza Ann White, of Washington, D. C., and had issue :

William L. Foulke, b. July 28, 1840, d. Sept. 14, 1906; m. Beulah Delarue ; Eliza Lockwood Foulke, b. Jan. 31, 1845; m. Sept. 23, 1880, Frederick R. Augustus;

Margaret Virginia Foulke, b. Aug. 7, 1848; m. Sept. 8, 1868, Robert O. Kirby;

Harriet Ellen Foulke, b. April 17, 1852; m. July 21, 1872, Joseph M. Dill; Anna M. Foulke, b. April 9, 1798, d. Nov. 19, 1873; m. Aaron Lukens; they had issue :

William F. Lukens, d. unm .;

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Elizabeth S. Lukens, d. unm .;

David Lukens, d. unm .;

Margaret A. Lukens, m. Albin M. Smedley ;

Mary Lukens;

Edward Lukens, m. Sarah W. Holdman ;

Ellen Lukens;

Richard Henry Lukens, d. unm.

William Foulke, b. Feb. 24, 1802, d. July 12, 1882; lived on the ancestral estate in Gwynedd township; m. April 7, 1825, Susanna Conard, dau. of Jonathan and Hannah, b. July 7, 1802, d. June 21, 1871 ; had issue :

Hannah C. Foulke, b. March 12, 1826, d. July 16, 1876; m. Oct. 10, 1850, George A. Newbold, son of Samuel and Abigail, and had two children : Clara M. Newbold, b. June 18, 1852, m. June 26, 1889, Solon Heywood Williams; William F. Newbold, b. Oct. 17, 1856;

Elizabeth C. Foulke, b. June 10, 1827, d. June 17, 1849; m. April 8, 1847, Daniel Foulke; one child-Anna, m. Henry S. Colladay;

Margaretta Foulke, b. Sept. 11, 1830, d. Dec. 18, 1865; m. Nov. 17, 1864, James Q. Atkinson, of Upper Dublin, Pa .;

Lewis Morris Foulke, b. Aug. 6, 1832, d. July 3, 1906; m. June 12, 1871, Susan Elizabeth Edson; he went to Cal. in 1853; was for several years U. S. Supervisor of Internal Revenue, and in later years a large ranch- man; five children: Elizabeth Edson, Edson Louis, Margaret Harriet, Leland Stanford and Lewis Morris, Jr .;

Anna McIlvain Foulke, b. June 5, 1834: m. Feb. 15, 1855, Charles Bird Shoemaker, of Cheltenham, son of Richard M. and Amelia B., and had issue: Charles Francis, b. Oct. 1, 1856, d. March 13, 1876; William Foulke, b. Feb. 1, 1859, d. Aug. 20, 1885; Amelia Bird, b. April 20, 1862, d. Oct. 26, 1863; Benjamin Hallowell, b. Nov. 30, 1864, m. Dec. 26, 1907, Caroline B. Conard; Lewis Foulke, b. July 1, 1867, m. June 22, 1899, Lucretia, dau. of Hugh and Martha Gibson McIlvain; Ella Foulke, b. July 11, 1873; m. Oct. 4, 1894, Thomas C. Satterthwait;

Ellen Foulke, b. July 7, 1838, d. Dec. 29, 1863; m. Joseph K. Matlack, of Chester co .; one child-Marion Matlack, m. Sumner G. Brosius; William Henry Foulke, b. April 26, 1840.

Richard McIlvain, b. Dec. 15, 1772, d. Sept. 15, 1852; m. May 22, 1806, Susan, dau. of John and Mary Humphreys, and resided at Market street and Lancaster avenue, Phila., adjoining his brother, Hugh McIlvain; one son:

J. Humphreys McIlvain, b. April 13, 1809; m. Nov. 29, 1837, Mary, dau. of Ben- jamin and Grace Oakford; no issue.

HUGH MCILVAIN, b. May 19, 1775, d. Nov. 24, 1838; m. Jan. 9, 1806, Hannah Hunt; of whom later.

The old mansion of John McIlvain, in which the above children were born, still stands to the west of the Chester turnpike, or "King's Road," as it passes through Old Ridley, now known as Leiperville, Delaware county. The residence of his son, John, much larger, and also in good condition, stands nearly opposite. John McIlvain, Sr., had a quarry near his gristmill and made scythe stones. After his death his widow, Lydia, who continued to reside on the property, continued this business, carrying the whetstones often as far as Philadelphia in her saddle-bags.

Issue of Jeremiah and Elisabeth (Spencer) McIlvain:

Sarah McIlvain, b. Oct. 27, 1793, d. July 28, 1795;

Lydia McIlvain, b. Oct. 4, 1795, d. Dec. 28, 1854; m. Dec. 6, 1815, Edward H. Bonsall, b. May 28, 1794, d. April 14, 1879; issue :

Spencer Bonsall, b. Nov. 30, 1816, d. April 14, 1888; m. May 10, 1854, Helen Crosby Morton, b. Dec. 23, 1826, d. Dec. 17, 1879; issue :

William Morton Bonsall, m. April 3, 1893, Helen Klander ; issue: Eleanor C. M. Bonsall.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 55

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