Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 69

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

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Helen Scott, unm .;

John Morin Scott, b. March, 1836; d. March 11, 1838.

SARAH EMLEN SCOTT, daughter of Mayor John M. and Mary (Emlen) Scott, married Joseph Dennie Meredith, born Philadelphia, May 10, 1814, died New

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York City, December 29, 1856, son of William Tuckey and Gertrude Gouverneur (Ogden) Meredith, of Philadelphia. He entered the Department of Arts, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, sophomore year, 1829, and left in junior year, 1831. After his death, his widow lived many years in Philadelphia, but prior to 1898 went to live with her son, William T. Meredith, in New York City, where she still resides.

Issue of Joseph Dennie and Sarah Emlen (Scott) Meredith:

William T. Meredith, staff of Admiral Farragut, U. S. N., during Civil War; afterwards a banker in New York City, where he now resides at 38 West Fiftieth st .; m. Mary R. Watson; issue :

William Farragut Meredith;

Joseph Dennie Meredith;

Katharine Morris Meredith;

Gertrude Gouverneur Meredith;

Mary Meredith, m. Richard T. Dana, of 70 East Eighty-first st., New York City. John Morin Scott Meredith, dec .; lived in Phila. and sometime in Orange, N. J .; m. , and had issue :

Annie Meredith, m. John Carter, of Va .;

Margaret Elizabeth Meredith.

Mary Emlen Meredith, m. J. Montgomery Hare, of New York City, formerly of Phila .; they lived 20 East Seventy-fifth st., where Mrs. Hare d. May 7, 1907; Mr. Hare was brother of Bishop Hare, of S. D .; issue :

Montgomery Meredith Hare;

William H. Hare;

J. Dennie Hare;

Morin Scott Hare;

Mary M. Hare;

Marian Hare, m. Kingsbury Curtis;

Betty Hare.

Joseph Dennie Meredith, b., Phila., Nov. 6, 1845; d., San Gabriel, Cal., Dec. 30, 1876; entered Univ. of Pa., class of 1865, and left during junior year; member A + Fra- ternity; was admitted to Philadelphia Bar, May 18, 1867, and was vice-president of Law Academy of Phila., 1868; private, Company D, Thirty-second Regiment, Pennsyl- vania Militia, during emergency of 1863; mustered in June 26, mustered out Aug. 1, at Phila .; this company had been, and was again, after the emergency, the famous Com- pany D, Gray Reserves, now the First Regiment Infantry, N. G. P., a company noted for the high position of its members, as well as its military efficiency; Joseph Dennie Meredith joined the company's regular organization, Aug. 7, 1863, on his return from active service; m. Emily, dau. of Rev. Edward Lyddon Lycett; one daughter :

Margaret Meredith, m., 1899, Horace Greenough Lippincott, b. Aug. 10, 1871, class of 1893, Haverford College, son of Joshua W. and Eliza (Lippincott) Lippin- cott.

Joseph Dennie Meredith was descended from Jonathan Meredith, who came to Philadelphia in 1735, from Leominster, Herefordshire, England, where the elder branch of the family is still prominent.

Jonathan Meredith married Elizabeth - -, and had among others

WILLIAM TUCKEY MEREDITH, second son, of whom presently;

Jonathan Meredith, b., Phila., Oct., 1784; d., Baltimore, Md., Feb. 25, 1872; entered Univ. of Pa., 1799, and received degree of A. B., 1802; A. M., 1805; admitted to Philadelphia Bar, June 2, 1805; m. Hannah, dau. of Dr. Moses Hazlet.

WILLIAM TUCKEY MEREDITH, generally known as William Meredith, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Meredith, was born in Philadelphia, December 5, 1772, and died there September 26, 1844. In 1787 he entered the class of 1790, Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1790, and that of A. M. in

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1793. He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, in September, 1795, and was City Solicitor of Philadelphia, 1811-13; was a Trustee of the University of Penn- sylvania, 1809 to 1840; member of the American Philosophical Society, 1813; and a Director of the Academy of Fine Arts. Mr. Meredith continued in the active practice of his profession until 1814, when he was elected President of the Schuyl- kill Bank. He was for many years a member of Common and Select Council of Philadelphia; was an active member of the Episcopal church and sat for many years in its Diocesian and General conventions. He was also a member of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, and for nearly twenty-five years of the Wistar Party Association. The "Lives of Eminent Philadelphians" says of him: "A remarkable trait of Mr. Meredith was the conciliatory courtesy of his deportment which was displayed in his intercourse with his fellow citizens of every station and age, but more especially in the cultivation of those duties of a refined and gracious hospitality too frequently neglected by men of his intellectual endow- ments and educational acquirements. He was in his elocution, private and public, a most agreeable speaker. His language was clear, chaste, and elegant, his person commanding and graceful, and there was a finish in all that he did or said which attracted attention and good will, while it commanded respect. Decided and firm in his own opinions, he was tolerant of differences of opinion in others. The circle of his friendships was always enlarging itself while he lived and he never lost a friend except by death."

William Meredith married, 1795, Gertrude Gouverneur, daughter of Judge Ogden, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and a niece of Gen. Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and of Gouverneur Morris, of New York. This lady besides being a most faithful and devoted wife, was a woman of great accom- plishments and remarkable intellectual power. Mr. Meredith and she were both contributors to The Portfolio, then one of the principal magazines of Philadelphia, edited by Joseph Dennie (after whom they named one of their sons), and formed part of the literary circle of which he was the centre. Robert Walsh, Esq., (an old and valued friend of Mr. Meredith), in his "Didactics," published in Philadel- phia in 1826, speaks thus of Mrs. Meredith: "She was a mother capable of fully educating her children of both sexes, a wife, serving as the efficient counselor and partner of her husband in all his duties and cares, a friend anxiously reflecting, judging, feeling, acting, for those whom she honored with her regard, a member of the fashionable world, who assembled around her the gayest circles and enliv- ened external entertainments, without ever losing an hour, or omitting an effort, material for the minute administration of a large family ; a writer, who displayed a masculine vigor of thought and expression, and literary powers and acquisi- tions of uncommon value and variety ; who wielded her pen without the least ambition or pride of authorship, yet with the utmost intentness, and any sacrifice of self when instruction or comfort could be conveyed, however privately or remotely. She made upon us, in the whole tenor of her arduous way, and the noble aim of her exertions, an impression like that which we received when fol- lowing the sisters of the order of Charity through some of the European hos- pitals."

William and Gertrude Gouverneur (Ogden) Meredith had issue, among others:

William Morris Meredith, b., Phila., June 8, 1799; d. there, Aug. 17, 1873; he entered

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Univ. of Pa., 1809, and received degree of A. B., 1812, and that of A. M., 1816; ad- mitted to Philadelphia Bar, Dec. 16, 1817; was vice-provost of the Law Academy of Phila., 1857-73; was a member of Pa. Legislature, 1824-28; president of Select Council of Phila., 1834-49; member of Constitutional Convention of Pa., 1837; United States District Attorney for Eastern District of Pa., 1841, being commissioned March 25, 1841, and his successor, Henry Miller Watts, being commissioned May 13, 1842; Secre- tary of Treasury, cabinet of President Zachary Taylor, 1849-50; Attorney General of Pa. from June 3, 1861, to 1867; delegate to Peace Convention, 1861; declined appoint- ment as senior counsel for the United States before the Geneva Arbitrators, 1871; was president of Constitutional Convention of Pa., 1873; was a member of American Philosophical Society, 1837; trustee of Univ. of Pa., 1842-59; m. Catharine, dau. of Michael Keppele, Mayor of Phila., 1811, and graduate of Univ. of Pa., class of 1788; Gouverneur Meredith, b. Phila .; entered Univ. of Pa., 1824, left before graduation;

Morris Ogden Meredith, b., Phila., June 15, 1812; entered Univ. of Pa., class of 1831, in 1828, and left during sophomore year; member of Philomæthean Society; Captain in New Jersey Volunteers, 1862; m. Susan, dau. of John Byerly, of Phila .; was living in Beverly, N. J., 1894 ;

Joseph Dennie Meredith, b. May 10, 1814; m. Sarah Emlen Scott, before mentioned;

Sullivan Amory Meredith, b., Phila., July 5, 1816; d., Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 26, 1874; entered Univ. of Pa., 1830, left during sophomore year; after leaving the university, he twice visited China, and in 1849 went to Cal., during the "Gold fever" period; when Civil War broke out he was in Phila., and April 26, 1861, was elected Colonel of Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in three months service; he superintended the drilling, equipment and forwarding of over 30,000 troops; took part in Patterson's campaign in Shenandoah Valley, and on his return organized and was commissioned Colonel of Fifty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sept. 1, 1861; in winter of 1861-62, he garrisoned Fort Albany; the following April was assigned to McDowell's Corps, with which he served up to the second battle of Bull Run, where he was severely wounded; for gallantry in this engagement, he was promoted to Brigadier- General of United States Volunteers, Aug. 29, 1862; and when partly recovered from his wounds, was appointed commissioner for the exchange of prisoners at Fortress Monroe, 1863; in 1864 ordered to St. Louis and served under Gen. W. S. Rosencrans in the west, until mustered out, Aug. 24, 1865; Gen. Meredith moved to Buffalo, N. Y., after the war, and in 1868 contributed a series of letters on the subject of the conflict to the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser; m. Julia Towne, of Buffalo.

LEWIS ALLAIRE SCOTT, son of John M. and Mary ( Emlen) Scott, born in Phil- adelphia, August 10, 1819, died August 11, 1896, at his summer home in Cape May, New Jersey. Entered in 1834 Department of Arts, University of Penn- sylvania ; was moderator of the Philomaethean Society and class valedictorian ; received degree of A. B., 1838, and A. M., 1841. He studied law and was admit- ted to the bar of Philadelphia, September 11, 1841. Was a member of the Amer- ican Philosophical Society, 1880; Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia; and American Historical Association. On December 9, 1889, he was admitted a life-member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, as a great-grandson of Brig. Gen. John Morin Scott, of New York Militia in the Revolution; and in 1896 was admitted as a hereditary companion of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, through the same ancestor, and also as a son of Lieut. John Morin Scott Jr., Second Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, War of 1812. His home was at 1806 Locust street (South Rittenhouse square), Philadelphia, where his family still live.

In his profession his specialty was the law of real estate. In 1864, he retired from active business, which gave him ample opportunity to devote time to other matters in which he felt the greatest interest. He was an expert Egyptologist, and was also learned in the Arabic and Syriac languages.

Lewis Allaire Scott married, June 23, 1857, Frances Anna, daughter of Richard and Hannah (Owen) Wistar, of Philadelphia.

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Issue of Lewis Allaire and Frances Anna (Wistar) Scott:

JOHN MORIN SCOTT, of whom later;

Richard Wistar Scott, d. inf .;

Hannah Lewis Scott, unm .; member of Historical Society of Pa .; life member of Gene- alogical Society of Pa .; member of Society of Colonial Dames of America; Philadel- phia Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution ; and of the Acorn Club of Phila .; Lewis Allaire Scott, Jr., unm .; member of Philadelphia Club; Country Club of Phila .; Society of Colonial Wars of Pa .; admitted, Jan. 12, 1891, as life member of Pennsyl- vania Society, Sons of the Revolution; admitted, 1896, as hereditary companion of the Pennsylvania Commandery, Military Order of Foreign Wars;

Alexander Harvey Scott, unm .; entered Haverford College, 1882; was class secretary, freshman year; class president, senior year, and "Spoon Man"; received degree of A. B. in 1886; studied two years in Law Dept. of Univ. of Pa., and received degree of LL. B., 1889; was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, June 8, 1889; member of Society of Colonial Wars of Pa .; is life member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution; a hereditary companion, Pennsylvania Commandery, Military Order of Foreign Wars; member of Philadelphia Club.

JOHN MORIN SCOTT, son of Lewis Allaire and Frances Anna ( Wistar) Scott, born in Philadelphia, September 19, 1858, succeeded his father in 1896 as the male representative of the American (junior) branch of the family of Scott of Ancrum, Baronets. Some years ago the last baronet of Ancrum died, and in March, 1907, Burke, editor of the "Peerage," wrote Senator Scott that he was without doubt baronet de jure. He entered Department of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1874, and subsequently the degree of A. B. was conferred on him. He was admitted to Philadelphia bar, November 12, 1881, and afterwards to practice before the State Supreme Court and the United States Courts. He served two consecutive terms as School Director in the Eighth Section of Philadelphia ; was a member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, sessions of 1887-89-91-93-95-97 ; elected State Senator, November, 1898, for the sessions of 1899-1901 ; re-elected November, 1902, for the sessions of 1903-05; and again re-elected in November, 1906, for the sessions of 1907-09; elected President, pro tempore, of Senate at close of ses- sion of 1901, re-elected January, 1903. He is member of Society of Colonial Wars of Pennsylvania; life member of Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution ; hereditary companion of Pennsylvania Commandery, Military Order of Foreign Wars; and member of council of latter organization. He is also member of Penn Club; life member of Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and member of Anti- quarian and Numismatic Society of Philadelphia.

John M. Scott married, December 19, 1888, Anna F., daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Wharton) Barker, of Philadelphia. They reside at 118 South Eighteenth street, Philadelphia, and have no children.

MARIA LITCHFIELD SCOTT, daughter of Mayor John Morin Scott and his wife, Mary Emlen, married, May 15, 1850, John Thompson Lewis, of Philadelphia, now deceased; son of Samuel M. Lewis, of Philadelphia. She resided at 242 South Thirteenth street, Philadelphia.

Issue of John Thompson and Maria Litchfield (Scott) Lewis:

Mary Emlen Lewis, d. young; Sophia Dallas Lewis, d. young ; Rebecca C. Lewis, m. Allen Evans: they live at "Penrhyn," Haverford, Delaware co., Pa .; member of Merion Cricket Club; issue :

Mary Ellen Evans;

Margaret E. Evans;

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John Lewis Evans, graduate of Yale, class of 1899, and member of Merion Cricket Club.

Maria L. Lewis, m. Edward F. Beale; they live at Villa Nova, Delaware co., Pa .; mem- ber of Philadelphia Club, Radnor Hunt, Merion Cricket Club of Haverford, Manu- facturers' Club of Phila., and the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. C .; issue :

Maria Scott Beale;

Leonard T. Beale, member of Merion Cricket Club;

Emily P. Beale;

Helena R. Beale.

Helen Scott Lewis, m. Josiah Ogden Hoffman, b., Eiconisko, Dauphin co., Pa., Sept. 5, 1858, son of Edward and Phoebe Wayne (White) Hoffman; they live at "Ithan Derlwyn," Radnor, Delaware co., Pa .; member of Union League, Rittenhouse Club, Philadelphia Country Club, Merion Cricket Club, and Radnor Hunt; entered Univ. of Pa., Dept. of Arts, 1874; member of Philomæthean Society, and was class Ivy Orator; received degree of A. B., 1874; issue;

Frances Lewis, m. Thomas De Witt Cuyler, graduate of Yale, class of 1874; member of Society of the Cincinnati; Sons of the Revolution; Philadelphia, Rittenhouse and Philadelphia Country clubs; Radnor Hunt, Merion Cricket Club; University, Union and two other clubs of New York City, and Buffalo Club, of Buffalo, N. Y .; Mrs. Cuyler is a member of Acorn Club, of Phila .; reside at 1830 Spruce st., Phila .; issue :

Frances L. Cuyler ;

Mary De Witt Cuyler;

Helen S. Cuyler.

Amy Lewis, b. May 22, 1863; m., April 13, 1887, Sydney Pemberton Hutchinson, son of Pemberton Sydney and Agnes (Wharton) Hutchinson, of Phila., b., Phila., April 27, 1861; entered Towne Scientific School, Univ. of Pa., class of 1882, in sophomore year, 1879, and left during junior year; member of Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revo- lution; Merion Cricket Club, Rittenhouse Club of Phila., Union Club of New York; Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson reside in Phila .; issue :

Sophie Lewis Hutchinson, b. Aug. 24, 1888;

Agnes Wharton Hutchinson, b. Jan. 22, 1891 ;

Amy Hutchinson, b. April 10, 1896;

Sydney Pemberton Hutchinson, Jr., b. Sept. 7, 1900.

JULIA SCOTT, daughter of Mayor John Morin and Mary (Emlen) Scott, mar- ried Robert Waln Leaming, born in Philadelphia, November 12, 1824, died there November 9, 1884, eldest son of Jeremiah Fisher and Rebecca (Waln) Leaming, his mother being a daughter of Robert Waln, of Philadelphia. He entered Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1840, was a member of the Philomaethean Society, and received degree of A. B., 1844, and A. M., 1847. Mrs. Leaming is a member of the Society of Colonial Dames of America, and lives at 315 South Fifteenth street, Philadelphia.

Issue of Robert Waln and Julia (Scott) Leaming:

Rebecca Waln Leaming, dec., m. William W. Montgomery; issue : Mary S. Montgomery;

William W. Montgomery, Jr .;

Robert L. Montgomery, m. Hope Tyler.

Mary Emlen Leaming, member of Society of Colonial Dames; m. R. Francis Wood, b., Phila., May 15, 1850, son of Charles Stuart and Julia F. ( Randolph) Wood, and whose ancestry, back to Richard and Ruth Wood, of Bristol, England, who settled in Phila., 1682, is given in these volumes, under title of "Wood Family"; R. Francis Wood entered Univ. of Pa., Dept. of Arts, 1865; was moderator of Philomathean Society, and member of A + Fraternity; received degree of A. B., 1869, and A. M., 1872; studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, June 7, 1873; has been an active officer of Civil Service Reform Association for a number of years, and was promi- nently identified with the Seventh Ward Association Municipal League; member of University Club of Phila. and Merion Cricket Club;

R. Francis and Mary Emlen (Leaming) Wood had issue : Julia Leaming Wood;

Rebecca Lewis Wood, m. Francis G. Okie;

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Charles Stuart Wood, class of 1901, Univ. of Pa .;

R. Francis Wood, Jr., member of Merion Cricket Club; Robert Lewis Wood;

The family reside at 410 South Fifteenth st., Phila .;

Julia Leaming, member of Sedgeley Club of Phila .; m. Nicholas Lennig, of Phila., dec .; was member of Rittenhouse Club of Phila., Merion and Germantown Cricket clubs, and Radnor Hunt; she resides at 313 South Fifteenth st., Phila .; during Civil War, Nicholas Lennig served in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania (Anderson) Cavalry, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers; being mustered in as a private in Company B, Aug. 22, 1862, and afterwards transferred to Company D, and was mustered out with that company, June 21, 1865; "The History of Pennsylvania Volunteers" says of this regiment: "Especial care was taken to obtain a select body. and in its ranks were young men from some of the wealthiest and most influential families in the Commonwealth";

Thomas Leaming, b., Phila., May 29, 1858; entered Univ. of Pa., Dept. of Arts, 1875, and left during freshman year; studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, Nov. 29, 1884; m. Josephine Lea (Baker) Brown, widow of Henry Armitt Brown, and dau. of John Remigius and Anna Robeson (Lea) Baker, of Phila .; they reside at 115 South Twenty-first st., Phila .; Mr. Leaming is member of Philadelphia, Ritten- house, Lawyers', Racquet and Philadelphia Country clubs; of Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, and of Historical Society of Pa .; Mrs. Leaming is member of Society of Colonial Dames of America.

CLAYPOOLE FAMILY.

The name of Claypoole, variously spelled, Clapoole, Cleypool, Claypole, Cley- poole and Claypoole, is found far back in English history. Noble says they were a "genteel and ancient family, seated at Norborough, in the County of Northamp- ton, upon the borders of Lincolnshire, possessing considerable estates in both counties."

Robert Claypoole de Eldelsburg is mentioned as early as 1387. In Bridge's "History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire," John Cleypoole is mentioned as connected with the Deanery of Preston, in 1431, and William Cleypoole was Vicar of Wyken or Ashwyken, county of Northampton, in 1388.

In the church of St. Andrew's, at Norborough, is the ancient tomb of James Claypoole, who was buried there, October 16, 1599. He was a son of John Clay- poole, of King's Cliffe, who married a daughter of Thomas Medcalfe of the same county. He was a yeoman of considerable property, by his own exertions adding considerable to his paternal inheritance, and having acquired sufficient means to support himself in the dignity of a gentleman, was granted a coat-of-arms by Clariencieux, dated June 17, 1583, viz .: "The field gold, a chevron azure between three Roundles, or otherwise in blazon Horts," and his crest: "Upon the helme on a wreath gold and azure out of a crowne a Flower de Luce, Silver, mantled gules doubled, Silver."

JAMES CLAYPOOLE, purchased, in 1571, "Waldram-Parks," containing seventy- five acres, lying in East Depping, alias, Deeping St. James. In 1572 he purchased a manor in Norborough, which he had already long occupied. He was a Receiver of Taxes in and for the county of Northampton, in the latter part of the century, shortly prior to his death. His wife, Joan Henson, was buried at Norborough, less than a year before him, on November 14, 1598. They had issue, two sons and four daughters, viz .:

Sir James Claypoole, sworn, in 1594, as Surveyor of the Royal Stables, under the Earl of Essex; knighted by King James I., at Greenwich, June 18, 1604; conveyed the estate left him by his father to his brother, Adam, in 1605; apparently left no issue;

ADAM CLAYPOOLE, of whom presently;

Ann Claypoole, m., Oct. 19, 1593, John Norton, Esq .;

Dorothy Claypoole, m., Sept. 30, 1577, Maurice Blount;

Bonye Claypoole, d. 1567; unm .;

Hella Claypoole, d. 1575; unm.

ADAM CLAYPOOLE, EsQ., second son of James and Joan ( Henson ) Claypoole, of Norborough and Waldram-Parks, resided for a part of his life at Grays Inn, and part of it at Norborough, and was possessed at his death of the Norborough Manor and Waldram-Parks, as well as the Manor of Lolham. He married (first), September 30, 1585, Dorothy Wingfield, daughter of Robert Wingfield, of Upton, in Rutlandshire, by his wife, Eliza, daughter of Richard Cecil, Esq., and sister of William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, Prime Minister under Queen Elizabeth ; through which connection the Claypooles came to have an interest at Court. Doro- thy died and was buried at Norborough, November 7, 1619. Adam Claypoole. married (second), September 25, 1620, at Norborough, Jane Byrd.

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Issue of Adam and Dorothy (Wingfield) Claypoole:

James, b. 1588; d. s. p., in lifetime of his father;

Edward, d. s. p .;

JOHN CLAYPOOLE, of whom presently ;

Wingfield, b. 1593-94;

Richard, b. 1597; d. 1673;

Robert, bapt. May 20, 1599; d. inf .;

Joanna, bapt. Aug. 24, 1602;

Dorothy, b. 1605;

Henry, b. 1608-09;

Robert, b. 1613; bur. at Norborough, Feb. 12, 1658.

Issue of Adam Claypoole, by second wife, Jane Byrd:

James b. 1621;

Adam, a Royalist, of West Depping, Lincolnshire, b. 1622; d. 1660;

Jane, b. 1623.

JOHN CLAYPOOLE, of Grays Inn, Esquire, where he chiefly resided, was evident- ly the favorite son of his father. He married, June 8, 1622, Mary Angell, daugh- ter of William Angell, Esq., of London, and in the same year his father conveyed to him the manor and lands of Norborough, and thirty-two acres of Waldram- Parks, the two worth two hundred pounds per annum. Evidently disposed to adhere to the royal cause, he was summoned before the Star Chamber, in 1637, and finally declared his allegiance to the Parliament. In 1643-44, and in 1647, was one of the Assessors of Northampton, also a Justice of the Peace, and later Sheriff of the county. He was returned as member of Parliament in 1654 and 1656. He and his son, John, were commissioned to levy the taxes in Northamp- tonshire in 1657. Cromwell appointed him Clerk of the Hanaker, in the Court of Chancery; created him a Knight and soon afterwards gave him a patent for a barony, dated July 16, 1657. On March 13, 1659-60, he had a new grant of the office of Clerk of the Hanaker, jointly with Thomas Clarges, M. D., during their lives and the survivor of them. His wife died April 10, 1661.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 69

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