Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 65

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

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William W. Janney;

Emily Janney;

Pemberton Janney.

Caroline Warder, m. Joel Cadbury, and had issue: William W. Cadbury;

Elizabeth Cadbury ;

Caroline W. Cadbury ;

John W. Cadbury ;

Joel Cadbury; Sarah Cadbury; Emma Cadbury.

William S. Warder, b. gmo. 21, 1791; d. in Phila., Dec. 27, 1831; travelled exten- sively and devoted considerable attention to the arts and sciences, accumulated considerable library and collection of curios, which he bequeathed to brothers "in trust for the use of Woodside Institute, and the inhabitants of the Mansion House of my brother Jeremiah." He left legacies to Academy of Natural Sciences, Apprentices Library, Franklin Institute, and Friends' Schools, of Phila. He bequeathed the "Warder Coat of Arms" to brother Jeremiah.

JOHN H. WARDER, son of John and Ann ( Head) Warder, was born in Philadel- phia, and at an early age entered the mercantile house of his father, and on coming of age became a member of the firm of John Warder & Sons, later Warder Brothers, and was the last of the family to conduct the business established by his grandfather. In his will, dated September 20, 1841, and proven October 31, 1843, he directed that a portion of the stable on his lot on Benezet street, between Elev- enth and Twelfth streets, be laid off into a room ten feet deep, to be occupied by his representatives for the purpose of keeping the old books and accounts of his father, John Warder, the firms of J. Warder & Son, J. Warder & Sons, Warder & Brothers, and his own, as well as any articles of his estate, for the term of ten years.

The gold buttons and ivory cane given him by his father he devised to his son

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John Henry, and should he not survive him, they were to go to his eldest nephew named John then living. He owned the ancestral real estate in the Northern Liberties, between Green and Coates streets on Front and Delaware, and on Arch street, where he resided at the time of his death, as well as other valuable real estate in the city and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, and an interest in the real estate in Russel county, Virginia, and timber land near Portland, Maine, acquired by the firm of John Warder & Sons, when it consisted of his father, his brother Jeremiah and himself.

John H. Warder was a man of the highest business integrity and was much esteemed in the business and social circles of Philadelphia. He died October 20, 1843. He married Abigail Hoskins, November 17, 1807, and they were the parents of six children.

Issue of John H. and Abigail (Hoskins) Warder :

Eleanor H. Warder, b. Feb. 17, 1819, who became third wife of Robert Pearsall, Jr., of Phila., May 23, 1849; d. June 13, 1885;

Charles Warder, b. May 27, 1820, of Vermont; d. March 18, 1867; m. Mary W. Chapin;

John Henry Warder, b. July 10, 1821; d. Feb. 27, 1889:

Henrietta Warder, b. Sept. 25, 1822; m. Dr. Burke Chrisman, of Va., June 25, 1857; d. Dec. 12, 1890;

Ann Warder, b. March 4, 1824; d. Apr. 16, 1866;

William Graham Warder, b. Nov. 14, 1825; d. Sept. 13, 1868.

Robert and Eleanor H. (Warder) Pearsall resided in the city of Philadelphia, where the following children were born to them :-

Anna Warder Pearsall, b. June 2, 1851; Mary Pearsall, b. Feb. 4, 1853; Henrietta Warder Pearsall, b. Oct. 7, 1854;

Ellen Warder Pearsall, b. Nov. 17, 1860; m. Nov. 4, 1885, Charles Albert Longstreth.

COLLINS FAMILY.

The family of Collins from which was descended Isaac Collins, the celebrated printer and bookseller, of Philadelphia, Trenton, New Jersey, and New York City, was an ancient and honorable one in England. His father, Charles Collins, born in England in 1715, was one of at least four brothers, John, Robert, William and Charles Collins, the last two of whom settled in the American Colonies. William Collins was for many years a sea captain, came to America about 1730 and settled in Massachusetts, where his only son, Joseph Collins, married a Miss Bradbury and had ten children. He settled in New Gloucester, Maine. His eldest son Daniel Collins had in his possession a copy of the Collins coat-of-arms, which had been transmitted to him from his grandfather, and afterwards passed to his brother James Collins, of Gardiner, Maine, and in 1892, was in possession of the latter's son, Captain Jason Collins, of Gardiner, Maine.

CHARLES COLLINS, born in England in 1715, was left an orphan at an early age, and was apprenticed by an elder brother, John Collins, to a wine cooper, in Bristol, England. About the year 1734, he came to America and located in Brandywine Hundred, near New Castle, Delaware, where he seems to have followed the occu- pation of a tiller of the soil. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and married, (first) Sarah, daughter of Daniel Hammond, a native of England, by his wife Mary Elliott, of Nottingham, Chester county, Pennsylvania. Charles and Sarah (Hammond) Collins were the parents of two children, viz :-

Elizabeth Collins, unm .;

ISAAC COLLINS, b. Apr. 16, 1746, of whom presently.

Charles Collins married (second) Elizabeth Neal, and had two children :

Sarah Collins, of whom little is known; William Collins, d. young.

ISAAC COLLINS, was born April 16, 1746, in New Castle county, about two miles from Centre Meeting House, where his parents are said to have attended but no record of their marriage or death appears on the minutes of the Meeting, or any record of the death of his father Charles Collins. The early years of Isaac Collins were spent upon the farm, but his father dying while he was yet a youth, he was apprenticed by his uncle John Hammond, to James Adams, a printer, at Wil- mington. Showing great diligence and activity in acquiring the art preservative, he gained the confidence of his master and preceptor, who released him in his twentieth year, and at his request the young printer entered the office of William Rind, at Williamsburg, Virginia, then the seat of government of that Province. He, however, remained there but about a year and in 1766 came to Philadelphia, where he was employed for about eighteen months in the printing office of William Goddard, and others. Possessed of an indomitable energy and industry, he gave strict attention to business, and was rewarded by receiving considerable more wages than his fellow workmen in the same establishment. Becoming acquainted

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with Joseph Cruikshank, a printer, he was induced to enter into partnership with him in the printing business, but for the want of capital on the part of Mr. Col- lins this partnership lasted but a short time, though the friendship between him and his quondam partner continued through life. The principal work turned out by the firm was the publication of a book entitled "The Death of Abel."

On the death of James Parker, King's Printer for the Province of New Jersey, Isaac Collins secured the endorsement and recommendation of influential friends in Philadelphia, and applied for the position at the next meeting of the Provincial Assembly in the fall of 1770, and secured the appointment. His commission, under the authority of King George III, still in possession of his descendants, bears date October 11, 1770, and was signed by Governor William Franklin. Having established himself in a position in which he felt confident of success, he proposed intentions of marriage with Rachel, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Atkinson) Budd, of Philadelphia, an account of whose distinguished ancestry will be given later, and they were married at Bank Meeting House, May 1, 1771. Isaac and Rachel (Budd) Collins resided in Burlington, New Jersey, for seven years ; their home was in an old-fashioned, hip-roofed house at the corner of High and Union streets, still standing. His printing office was a small, one-roomed house on High street, once occupied by Governor Samuel Jennings, one of the earliest houses erected in the town of Bridlington, as it was first known, the bricks for which were brought from England in 1677.

Isaac Collins issued the New Jersey Almanack in 1771, and continued its pub- lication for a period of twenty-six years. In addition to the printing of the laws for the Government of the Province of New Jersey, he published in 1774 William Sewell's History of the Rise, Increase and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers, a large folio volume of one thousand pages, of which two thousand copies were sold. In 1776 he printed one thousand copies of the Revised Laws of New Jersey, and in the same year printed the paper money for the use of the State, to the entire satisfaction of the Legislature, his combination of letter press work, and copper plate printing in a variety of colors, rendering the New Jersey notes exceedingly hard to counterfeit. He next printed three thousand copies of Baxter's Saints' Everlasting Rest for the Society of Methodists, then becoming quite numerous in New Jersey. He also in addition to the public printing, issued several smaller works.

In 1777 he issued the first number of the New Jersey Gasette, a pioneer news- paper in New Jersey, and continued it until 1786, removing his family and printing plant to Trenton in 1778. The Gazette was an important and influential paper from its inception ; during its first year the newspaper press of Philadelphia was suppressed by the occupation of that city by the British and the New Jersey Gazette gave to its readers the latest and most important news in relation to the movement of troops and the progress of the patriot cause. It was originally estab- lished to counteract the anti-republican tendency of Rivington's Royal Gasette of New York, and had among its contributors and correspondents the most learned and forcible writers of the time. Governor Livingston was for several years a regular correspondent of the paper, but became incensed from some adverse criti- cism of some of his official acts, and was for a time estranged from its editor, of whom he had formerly been a staunch friend and supporter. Isaac Collins was

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intensely patriotic, and an ardent supporter of the patriot cause, but was also a believer in the untrammelled liberty of the press, then becoming more generally recognized. In the autumn of 1779, an article appeared in the Gazette, over the nom de plume of "Cincinnatus," to which the Legislature took strong umbrage, and directed their Clerk to call upon Isaac Collins, the editor, for the name of the author of the article. His reply under date of October 31, 1779, courteously but firmly declined to concede to their demands, and the State Council declining to concur in the action of the Assembly, the matter was dropped. Isaac Collins was a champion of the liberty of the press in its criticism of the official acts of the servants of the state and nation, when expressed in a civil, decent and fair manner, and the names of the correspondents were known to the editor. He wrote an excellent article in defense of these semi-anonymous publications, published in the Gazette on March 20, 1784. He also addressed a letter to Governor William Liv- ingston, dated March 6, 1781, in which he forcefully and intelligently set forth his views as to the responsibilities of publishers to the public, which was in part as follows :-

"In the conduct of a News Paper no man, I believe is more desirous or more in the custom of taking the advice and sentiments of such as are reputed knowing and affected to the Principles of Liberty,-but so notwithstanding as to support my own understanding and independence of Judgment and Practice. My ear is open to every man's instruction but no man's influence. You yourself would despise me for having no opinion of my own. I have ever maintained a sovereign respect for the Fredom of the Press, as far as I have been able of comprehending the nature of it. If I have at any time been mistaken in this respect, those who know me best will most readily declare that I have waited only for cor- rection to alter what was wrong.

"Difference of opinion is a common thing but I deny and scorn the imputation of being wilfully in error."

Isaac Collins was an active member of the Society of Friends, and a regular attendant at the quaint old hexagonal Meeting House at Burlington, during the greater part of his residence there. He was at one time testified against for what the said non-combatants conceived was a too active participation and support of warlike measures, but his earnest and consistent behavior led them to overlook what they could not readily approve. On his removal to Trenton in 1778 he con- tinued his printing business with increased patronage, turning out numerous edi- tions of smaller books, and a History of the Revolution in South Carolina, written by Dr. Ramsey, and published in octavo form. In September, 1788, he issued a prospectus for the publication of an edition of three thousand quarto Bibles, by subscription. His well known reputation for accuracy and the excellent quality of work sent out from his establishment induced the several religious associations to lend him their assistance in securing a requisite number of subscriptions to war- rant his undertaking the publication. The Yearly Meeting of Friends at Philadel- phia, on March 19, 1789, recommended the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings under their jurisdiction to appoint committees to assist him in securing subscrip- tions ; on May 25, 1789, the Assembly of Presbyterian churches in the United States of America also decided to lay his proposal before the different Presby- teries with a favorable recommendation ; the Protestant Episcopal church in Con- vention in Philadelphia on August 8, 1789, also resolved to assist in procuring subscriptions, and the Baptist Association held in Philadelphia in the same year, took a like action, appointing Rev. Oliver Hart and others, a committee to

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"encourage so laudable a design, etc." Through these various efforts a large number of subscriptions were received and he undertook and completed the work, occupying two years, and the result was fully satisfactory to the sponsors and the public, and he received high testimonials for the neatness and accuracy of his work. Four-fifths of the entire edition were subscribed for by the Society of Friends, and these ancient Bibles are now much prizes by their descendants.

Isaac Collins founded a society at Trenton for the improvement of its members in the art of composition, it having its inception in his realization of his own want of early training on these lines, and many essays were prepared and read at their meetings. He was an earnest and active promoter of education on other lines, being one of the founders of Trenton Academy, of which he was one of the trus- tees, and contributed liberally to its support. At a meeting of the proprietors of the Academy, held at Trenton, February 8, 1798, the following resolution was adopted unanimously : "Resolved unanimously, that Isaac Collins, late one of the trustees of this Academy, for his exertions in the first institution, and his unwear- ied diligence in its establishment and support, is entitled to the thanks of the Pro- prietors."

"The Trenton School Company," as the first organization having charge of the Academy was known, had its origin in a meeting of citizens held February 10, 1781, when a fund of $720, divided into thirty-six shares, was subscribed. The lot still occupied by the Academy was bought, the building erected and occupied by 1782, was enlarged and the endowment increased in 1783 ; and was incorporated in 1785 ; Isaac Collins being one of the prime movers in all the successive steps of its establishment and development, and seven of his children were educated at the Academy.

In 1799 Isaac Collins opened a printing office and bookstore at 189 Pearl street, New York city, and in 1802, with his son Thomas, engaged actively in business there as a bookseller ; in 1805 Benjamin W. Perkins, Jr., became a partner, under the firm name of Collins, Perkins & Co. Isaac retired in 1808, and after the death of Perkins, the business was continued under the title of Isaac Collins' Sons, later as Collins & Co. The firm of Collins, Perkins & Co. were the first to do stereotype work in this country. Isaac Collins had removed with his family to New York in 1796, and until 1799 devoted his attention principally to the publication of Lind- ley Murray's Grammar and School Reader, and other school books. He was, however, induced to enter the mercantile trade, joining his eldest son Charles in the importing of broadcloths and other goods. The undertaking was disastrous financially and after losing several thousands of dollars he returned to the print- ing business and was able in a few years to retrieve his partially shattered for- tunes. During the prevalence of the yellow fever in New York in 1798-99, 1801-3 and 1805, he removed with his family to Westchester county, usually taking with him sufficient tools of his vocation to continue to some extent his work while in temporary retirement, such was his indomitable industry, even in the decline of his life. In spite of the precautions of his removal, his wife Rachel caught the infection and died of yellow fever at "West Farms," as his rural retreat in West- chester county was known, September 15, 1805.

On his withdrawal from active business in 1808, Isaac Collins returned to Bur- lington to spend the evening of his days in the quiet retirement of the quaint old town that had witnessed his first material success in his chosen vocation. On

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October 9, 1809, he married, (second) Deborah Moore ( Morris), born November 29, 1850, widow of Benjamin Smith, and daughter of William Morris, by his wife the venerable and much beloved Margaret (Hill) Morris, of Burlington, the grandmother, under whose care Margaret Morris the wife of his son Isaac Col- lins Jr. was reared. Isaac Collins died at Burlington March 31, 1817, of a painful malady with which he had been afflicted for some months. His widow survived him five years dying March 17, 1822. She had two children by her former hus- band, Daniel and Margaret Morris Smith, who were reared with the younger Collins children in the greatest harmony.

The long life of Isaac Collins was one uninterrupted service of his Divine Master, as he understood what such service required of him,-a man of the strictest veracity and integrity in business,-he was always a leader in works of charity, benevolence, and any measures for the uplifting of the race and the alleviation of suffering and want. A benefactor, promoter and manager of private and public schools in the localities in which he lived, he was also a large contrib- utor to charity, and active in the organization and support of philanthropic insti- tutions. During his residence in New York he was one of the Governors of the City Hospital of that city and active in its management. His sturdy common sense and logical judgment is illustrated in his will, by which he devised more to his daughters than to his sons, reversing the general rule, for the reason that he judged the boys better able to fight the battles of the world unaided by material wealth than the girls.

Rachel Budd, the first wife of Isaac Collins and the mother of his eleven chil- dren, was a daughter of Thomas Budd, of Philadelphia, some time of Chester- field, Burlington county, New Jersey, by his wife Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Atkinson, born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1685, died in Chester township, Burlington county, New Jersey, February 21, 1775, by his wife Ruth (Stacy), widow of William Beakes and daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy, the first English settlers on the site of Trenton, New Jersey. Samuel Atkinson was a son of Thomas Atkinson, born at Newby, Yorkshire, prior to 1660, died in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1687, by his wife Jane Bond, whom he married at Knareborough Meeting of Friends in Yorkshire, Eng- land, June 4, 1678, and with her and their eldest son Isaac, came to America in 1682, and located in Bucks county. Both Thomas and Jane Atkinson were emi- nent ministers of the Society of Friends, and held high place among the early colonists of Pennsylvania. Jane married (second) William Biles, one of the most noted men of the Province of Pennsylvania, and gave several years to the service of Truth, prior to her death in December, 1709.

On the paternal side, Rachel (Budd) Collins was a descendant of Rev. Thomas Budd, rector of Martock parish, Somersetshire, England, who about the year 1657, renounced his benefice as a minister of the Established Church, and became a minister of the Society of Friends. His son Thomas purchased a large interest in the lands of West Jersey, and is said to have come over to look after his interest there as early as 1668, returning for his family and being accompanied on his final removal to New Jersey in 1678, by his brothers, William, John and James, and their respective families. Thomas Budd located in Philadelphia about 1690, and died there in 1697. William Budd, the second of the brothers, born in Somerset- shire, England, in the year 1649, married there Ann Clapgut, born 1655, died Sep-

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tember 30, 1722. William Budd was a large land owner, in and around Burling- ton, New Jersey, and died there March 20, 1721-22.

Thomas Budd, son of William and Ann, married Deborah, daughter of John Langstaff, a native of Whaledale, Yorkshire, England.

Thomas Budd, son of Thomas and Deborah (Langstaff) Budd, sometime a merchant in Philadelphia, but at the time of his death a resident of Chesterfield, Burlington, married Rebecca Atkinson, before mentioned, and had issue.

Issue of Thomas and Rebecca (Atkinson) Budd:

Stacy Budd;

Elizabeth Budd, m. Moses Bartram, and had five children, the youngest of whom Archibald, was for some years, member of household of Isaac Collins;

Joseph Budd;

RACHEL BUDD, married Isaac Collins.

Issue of Isaac and Rachel (Budd) Collins :-

Rebecca Collins, b. June 1, 1772; d. Burlington, Sept. 3, 1861; m. Jan. II, 1804, Etiene de Grellett de Mabillier, known after his settlement in N. J. as Stephen Grellet, b. at Limoges, France, Nov. 2, 1772, d. at Burlington, Nov. 16, 1855. He with his brother was arrested during "Reign of Terror" in France and ordered executed, but escaped to Amsterdam, and later came to N. Y., from whence he came to Phila., Dec., 1795. He became eminent minister of Gospel, and travelled extensively in that capacity in all parts of globe; returned to America 1847, was taken ill at Phila. Yearly Meeting in that year, and was removed to his home at Burlington, which he never was able to leave thereafter to his death;

Charles Collins, b. Jan. 14, 1774; d. Dec. 27, 1843; removed with his father to N. Y. in 1796, and was for time engaged in importing business there, later associated with his brothers in publishing business; was one of earli- est of members of the Society of Friends in N. Y. to bear testimony against slavery; active philanthropist; m. Apr., 1801, Margaret Bullock, and had four children;

Sarah Collins, b. June 2, 1775; d. April 23, 1856; m. Nathaniel Hawxhurst;

Elizabeth Collins, b. Dec. 13, 1776; d. Nov. 11, 1857; m. 1797, Robert Pear- sall, of Flushing, L. I .;

Rachel Collins, b. Sept. 8, 1777; d. Sept. 12, 1778;

Thomas Collins, b. March 3, 1779; d. Jan. 22, 1859; m. Sept. 12, 1812; asso- ciated with his father, later with his brothers in printing and publishing business in N. Y. City, as member of firms of Isaac Collins & Son; Collins, Perkins & Co .; Collins & Co., and Collins Bros .;

Susanna Collins b. March 17, 1781; d. June 6, 1876; m. Sept. 27, 1819, Rich- ard Morris Smith;

William Collins, b. Aug. 18, 1782; d. Aug. 22, 1843; m. Oct. 29, 1818, Ann (Newbold), widow of Stacy Budd Bispham;

Benjamin Say Collins, b. March 7, 1784; d. Ang. 26, 1857; m. Aug. 16, 1810, Hannah Bourne;

Anna Say Collins, b. March 6, 1786; d. May 19, 1872, unm .;

Isaac Collins, Jr., b. Oct. 31, 1787; d. Jan. 15, 1863; m. (first) Margaret Morris; (second) Rebecca Singer; of whom presently;

Mary Collins, b. July 27, 1789; d. July. 7, 1866; m. Oct. 27, 1808, Isaac T. Longstreth ;

Stacy Budd Collins, b. Jan. 19, 1791: d. June 23, 1873: m. (first) Oct. II, 1821, Mary E. Dudley; (second) Nov. 2, 1843, Hannah West Jenks;

Joseph Budd Collins, b. Jan. 30, 1794; d. Sept. 16, 1867; m. Oct. 2, 1822, Sarah Minturn.

ISAAC COLLINS, JR., eleventh child of Isaac and Rachel (Budd) Collins, born in Trenton, New Jersey, October 31, 1787, was but nine years of age when his parents removed to New York City. He learned the printing and publishing busi- ness in his father's New York establishment, and on coming of age became a 48

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member of the firm with his brothers, under the title of Isaac Collins & Company, and continued in the business there until 1828, when having acquired a comfortable fortune, he retired from active business and removed with his family to Philadel- phia. Like other members of the family he took a deep interest in charitable and philanthropic work, and was a strong advocate of temperance and the abolition of slavery. He became identified with the leading charitable and philanthropic institutions of Philadelphia, and was deeply interested in the cause of education. He was one of the promotors and founders of Haverford College ; was a director of the public schools of Philadelphia ; one of the managers of the House of Refuge, and was the chief promoter of the Institute for Feeble-minded Children. He died in Philadelphia, January 15, 1863.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 65

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