Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 7

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

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Bishop Hare died at the Vatche, September 26, 1740, and was buried in a mauseleum that he had built for his family adjoining the church of Chalfont St. Giles. "Great was the lamentation for him both in public and private," Bishop Warburton wrote, "in the death of Dr. Francis Hare, the world has lost one of its best patrons and supporters of letters and religion," and many others have award- ed a favorable verdict to Bishop Hare as a writer. Mary Margaret (Alston) Hare, widow of the bishop, died 1784.

Francis Hare Naylor, son of the bishop, by Bethia Naylor, having died without issue 1775, and Hurstmonceaux devolved upon his half-brother, Robert Hare, the eldest of the children of the bishop, by Mary Margaret Alston, who was named for his father's friend and relative, Sir Robert Walpole. This Robert Hare mar- ried (first), 1752, Sarah Selman, who died 1763, leaving a son, Robert Hare, who became Canon of Winchester. The latter had a son, Francis, who like his half- uncle, changed his name to Francis Hare Naylor. Robert Hare, son of the bishop, married (second) Henrietta Henckell, and resided at Hurstmonceaux. They dis- mantled the castle, erected a new mansion, and lived in such extravagance that they wasted and alienated the greater part of the fine estate. The history of this branch of the family in detail is continued in Augustus John Cuthbert Hare's "Memorials of a Quiet Life."

RICHARD HARE, EsQ., of Limehouse, London, and of Woolwich, county Kent, and father of Robert Hare, who came to Philadelphia 1773, was born 1700. He is mentioned in various records and at different periods, as an "Esquire," a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex, as a Gentleman Commoner, and as a "Brewer of Porter." He is believed to have been of the family of Hare of Stow Bardolph, county of Norfolk, but he lived a quiet and busy life at Limehouse, where he was head of one of the largest establishments for brewing porter in England in his day. He is known to have been twice married, but little record has been found of his first wife. He had been a widower for some years when he married at Bath Abbey, 1745, Martha, daughter of Henry Harford, Esq., of Bath, county Somerset, a nonjuring Episcopal clergyman, and of the Harfords of Blaize Castle, county Carnarvon, Wales. She was baptized at Bath Abbey, November 13, 1717.

Richard Hare died July 1, 1776, leaving a will by which he devised a large estate to his five sons and three daughters, who survived him; his third son being Robert Hare, the founder of the family in America.

Issue of Richard and Martha (Harford) Hare:

Richard Hare, Esq., bap. at Bath Abbey, county Somerset, April 25, 1747; d. in the same locality as his birth, Nov. 22, 1825. On his tomb in the churchyard of the parish church at Weston, a suburb of Bath, county Somerset, is the following inscription :

"Richard Hare, Esq., F. L. S. (Fellow of the Linnaen Society) of the family of Hare of Stow Bardolph, in the County of Norfolk, who died November 22nd, 1825, aged 78 yeares."

He m., May 14, 1778, Anne Hornby, of Gaestang, Lancashire, and had issue, four sons and four daughters, of whom but two, a son and daughter, lived to maturity.

The dan., Anne Eliza Susan Hare, b. June 7, 1788, m., 1808, at Bombay, Andrew Moore Dawe, a paymaster of 2nd Battalion of His Majesty's 56th Regiment, and eldest son of Hill Dawe, Esq., of Ditcheat Manor House. They had issue, two sons- Henry Andrew Dawe, b. June 9, 1809, at Bombay, d. s. p. in Van Diemen's Land, had m. Jane Murray, dan. of a Scotch clergyman; the other son, Hill Richard Dawe, b. July, ISIo, d. s. p. at Ditcheat Manor, 1857.

Richard Hare, 3d, son of Richard and Anne ( Hornby) Hare, b. Nov. 20, 1793, m.,

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June 18, 1835, Mary Comb, b. at Little Grimsby, Lincolnshire, May 1, 1810, dau. of John Maddison, later of 19 Green Park, Bath; they had issue:

Mary Hornby Hare, b. Aug. 11, 1840, d. unm., Dec. 14, 1878;

Lieut .- Col. Richard Thomas Hare, now on retired list of Indian army, served with Bengal Artillery throughout suppression of Indian Mutiny, siege of Delhi, etc .; was mentioned honorably for zeal and coolness in situations of danger, and recommended for Victoria Cross. He afterwards assisted in Relief of Lucknow, and took part in battle of Cawnpore. Since his retirement he has lived at Bath. He m. Gertrude Adelone Spear, and has two daughters, viz .: Ethel Gertrude Hare, Mabel Maddison Hare;

Robert Powel Hare, the other son, b. July 22, 1842, is also Lieutenant-Colonel in Royal Artillery, and now on retired list. He m. Christian S., youngest dau. of late Donald MacLaine, of Lochbuy, Argyleshire, and had issue-Richard Hare, Gwendoline Hare, Mabel Hare, Mary Hare, Stuart Hare.

Rev. James Hare, second son of Richard Hare, of Limehouse, and Martha Harford. b. 1748; graduated at Baliol College, Oxford, and became Vicar of St. Margaret's, county Wilts, Diocese of Salisbury, and Chaplain to the Marquis of Buckingham, and the Countess Dowager Bathurst. He was inducted unto the Rectory of Colu, St. Denys' Gloucestershire, Feb. 19, 1797. Buried in the churchyard there, his tomb bearing the following inscription :

"Rev. James Hare, A. M. Late Rector of this Parish. Died October 23d, 1808, Aged 60 years."

He m. Mary Goddard, and had three sons, the youngest, of whom

Richard Goddard Hare, b. 1778, became Lieut .- Gen. Hare Clarges, succeeding to estates of Sir Thomas Clarges; m., about 1847, Anna Lethbridge; d. s. p., 1859. ROBERT HARE, third son of Richard Hare, of Limehouse, of whom presently;

John Hare, fourth son, was a barrister of Inner Temple, and was killed by Arabs, near Hasha, in desert of Arabia, while on a mission to India. A print of his coat-of-arms, with martlet in chief, indicative of his cadency in and descent through the family of Hare of Stow Bardolph, with motto "Stet pro Actione voluntas," is in the possession of Mrs. Harriet Hare Mcclellan, of 1116 Spruce street, Phila., a descendant of his brother, Robert Hare; d. unm., April 15, 1784;

Charles Hare, fifth son, b. 1756, d. 1801, was Captain in Royal Navy, and served under Lord Hood in evacuation of Toulon, having command of fireship, "Vulcan," in de- struction of French fleet. He afterwards served with distinction under Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, when he repulsed Napoleon at Acre. His wife's name is un- known. He had one son :

Charles Hare, b. 1788, d. 1859, became Lieutenant in Royal Navy; m. and had several children. His eldest son was drowned in the Birkenhead; a son, George Hare, also of Royal Navy, d. in Athens; other descendants are said to be living in Canada;

Charlotte Hare, a dau. of Capt. Charles Hare, b. 1791, m. Admiral John Alex- ander, of Royal Navy, and had a son-John Alexander, m. Lady Bruce, and had issue: Mary Hare Alexander, afterwards Madam Villani, of Brussells, Belgium.

Martha Hare, sixth child and eldest daughter of Richard Hare, of Limehouse, b. 1758, d. 1840, No. 6 Somerset place, Bath, unm. She was a woman of rare intelligence and warm feeling, who was fond of reading and always well informed as to history and her own times; a woman, in fact, possessing, to a rare degree for that period, the courage of her convictions;

Charlotte Hare, seventh child of Richard of Limehouse, was devotedly attached to her elder sister, Martha, with whom she lived until her own marriage late in life, to Rev. Mr. Essen; d. about 1803, soon after marriage; no children;

Mary Hare, eighth child, was living at the death of her father, 1776; soon after d. unm.

ROBERT HARE, third son of Richard Hare, of Limehouse, county Middlesex, by his wife Martha Harford, was born at Woolwich, county Kent, England, Janu- ary 28, 1752. He received a fine classical education in his native country, and, 1773, came to Pennsylvania and located in Philadelphia, where he eventually be- came a prominent business man. He was a great reader and very fond of nature, and a refined and polished gentleman. In the spring of 1774 he became interest- ed in some colonization schemes of William Allen, who owned vast tracts of land

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in Pennsylvania and New York, and in company with that gentleman made a trip to Niagara and Canada, returning by way of Boston. During this journey, to what was then the frontiers of civilization in America, he kept a journal begin- ning with the start from Philadelphia, May 3, 1774, and ending with his arrival at Boston, July 22, of same year. This journal, since published in pamphlet form and in the "Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania," is a delightful narrative of the daily occurrences of a memorable trip through a primitive coun- try, embellished with glowing descriptions of the country passed through and a clear, concise and intelligent record of his impressions of the people he met on the journey. The outward trip was made by way of New York City, from whence they sailed up the Hudson in a sloop to Albany, and after a brief halt there, were the guests of Sir William Johnson, the great Indian agent of the northern district, and of his son, Sir John Johnson, the American royalist during the Revolution, as well as of Col. Claus, son-in-law of Sir William. After a visit to Niagara and other points on the great lakes, of which the journal gives a vivid description, the journey extended to Montreal and other points in Canada, thence back to Albany, and from there to Boston. During the latter part of the trip the journalist refers to the opinion expressed by the people he met of the unwise and uncalled for out- rage inflicted on the people by the British Parliament in the passage of the Boston Port Bill, in a manner which indicates that he shared their indignation and resent- ment, but since the journal was intended for the perusal of his parents in England it is guarded in its expressions on political subjects. Certain it is, however, that, though during the trip he was thrown in close contact with a number of people who were afterwards prominent royalists, the writer developed a strong sym- pathy with the patriot cause, notwithstanding his recent arrival in America.

Returning to Philadelphia, he engaged successfully in business there, and, No- vember 16, 1775, was married to Margaret, youngest daughter of Charles Willing, one of the most prominent merchants of Philadelphia, in the days of that city's commercial supremacy, just prior to the Revolutionary War. He was born in Bristol, England, May 10, 1710, and came to Philadelphia at the age of eighteen years, to take charge of a mercantile business established there by his family. He was a Captain in the Provincial forces 1747; a Justice of the City Courts many years ; twice Mayor of the city; one of the founders and first trustees of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, progenitor of the University of Pennsyl- vania ; and filled innumerable positions of trust. His wife was Anne, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Grosse) Shippen, and Margaret was the youngest of their eleven children.

Robert Hare's connection by marriage with these prominent families increased his standing as a merchant and business man, and probably helped to develop his sympathy with and interest in the patriot cause. This interest, however, was not sufficient to induce him to take up arms against his native country, and during the British occupancy of Philadelphia he removed to Virginia and made his residence with Col. William Byrd, of Westover, who had married Mary Willing, a sister to Mrs. Hare. On the evacuation of Philadelphia by the British, 1778, Mr. Hare returned to that city and resumed his business there. He became indentified with the various institutions of his adopted city and state, and filled many honorable positions at different periods. He was elected to General Assembly of Pennsyl- vania 1791, and subsequently to the State Senate, of which body he was Speaker

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and ex-officio Lieutenant Governor of the state 1796. He was an original organ- izer of the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, and a trustee of University of Pennsylvania 1789-1805. He died in Germantown, March 8, 1811. His widow Margaret (Willing) Hare died September 21, 1816.

Issue of Robert and Margaret (Willing) Hare:

Richard Hare, b. Sept. 22, 1776, d. July 9, 1778;

Charles Willing Hare, b., Westover, Va., April 23, 1778; m., Aug. 30, 1801, Anne, dau. of George Emlen, of Phila., and among their surviving children were George Emlen Hare, D. D., LL. D., S. T. D., and Margaretta Hare, who m. Israel Pemberton Hutch- inson.

George Emlen Hare, D. D., LL. D., m. Elizabeth Catharine Hobart, and was father of Right Rev. William Hobart Hare, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Nebraska and Dakota, b. at Princeton, N. J., May 17, 1838, educated at Episcopal Academy of Phila., and Univ. of Pa., received degree of S. T. D. from Columbia College, and that of D. D. from Trinity, Hartford, and Kenyon College, O. He was ordained deacon, 1859; priest, 1862, and was assistant rector of St. Paul's Church, Chestnut Hill, later rector there and of other Phila. churches; was consecrated Bishop of Nebraska, 1873, diocese enlarged to include South Dakota, 1883.

Bishop Hare m., 1861, Mary Amory, dau of , Bishop Howe. A son, Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., b. Sept. 20, 1862, is a prominent physician of Phila .; Pro- fessor of Children's Diseases at Univ. of Pa., 1880; since then Professor of Therapeutics at Jefferson Medical College; Editor of University Medical Maga- sine, 1888-9; of Medical News, 1890-1; since then of Therapeutic Gasette; mem- ber of various medical associations, and author of a great number of medical works. He m., May 8, 1884, Rebecca Clifford Pemberton.

Martha Hare, b., Phila., Aug. 17, 1779, was named for her aunt, Martha Hare, in Eng- land-in distinction from whom she was called in the family "Aunt Patty;" she was a woman of great intelligence, a leader in society in her day, and at her house all the younger members of the family delighted to assemble; her Sunday morning breakfasts, at which they all gathered, being very famous, and her tea table renowned for the racy bits of gossip that were brought there by her numerous fashionable guests; d. unm., Feb. 4, 1852;

ROBERT HARE, M. D., b. Jan. 17, 1781, d. May 15, 1858; of whom presently ;

Richard Hare, b., Phila., Sept. 24, 1782, d. Jan. 9, 1796;

John Powel Hare, b., Phila., April 22, 1786, d., Newport, R. I., June 14. 1856; was adopted by a maternal aunt and changed his name to John Hare Powel; was Colonel in War of 1812-14, and later Secretary of Legation, at the Court of St. James; m., Oct. 20, 1817, Julia (1798-1845), dau. of Col. Andrew de Veaux (1758-1812), of Beaufort, S. C., and his wife, Anna Maria, of N. Y. (1773-1816), dau. of Philip Verplanck ( 1736-77) and Aefje Beekman (1736-7-75), both bur. at Fishkill, N. Y., and granddaughter of Philip Verplanck (1695-1771), of Manor of Cortlandt, by his wife, Gertrude Van Cortlandt ( 1697-1766); Col. Andrew de Veaux was son of Andrew de Veaux, Jr. (1757-1815), by his wife, Catharine Barnwell, b. 1740, dau. of John Barnwell, b. 1711 and his wife, Martha Chapin; John Barnwell being the seventh child of Col. John Barnwell, who came to South Carolina from Dublin, Ireland, 1701, and m. Anne Berners.

Much has been written about Col. Andrew de Veaux, father of Julia (de Veaux) Hare-Powel, but his most brilliant exploit was the capture of the Island of New Providence (Nassau) from the Spanish, 1783, for which the English Parliament com- missioned him a Colonel; he afterwards lived with his wife at "de Veaux Park," at Red Hook-on-the-Hudson, where his entertainments and fine equipages were the talk of the day. His daughter, Julia, is mentioned as "the most beautiful woman in New York City," a reputation which followed her to "Powelton," her husband's residence in Phila.

André de Veaux, grandfather of Col. Andrew, was a Huguenot settler on the Hud- son, where he d. 1754. His son, Andrew de Veaux (1715-70), m. Hannah, dau. of Col. John Palmer, and his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Sir Edmund Bellinger, of Royal Navy, who m. in England. about 1680, Sarah Cartwright.

Col. John Hare Powel and Julia de Veaux had issue :

Samuel Powel, of Powelton, Phila., and Newport, R. I. (1818-1885), m. Mary Johnston, and had six children, several of whom reside in Newport, R. I .;

De Veaux Powel (1821-48), m. Elizabeth Cooke, and had one dau .- Elizabeth, whose children are the Lurmans of Catonsville, Md .;

Henry Baring Powel (1823-52), m. Caroline Bayard, and had one dau .- Mary, whose children are the Hodges of Phila .;

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Robert Hare Powel (1825-83), m. Amy S. Bradley, and had six children-several of whom reside in Phila .;

Elizabeth Powel (1827-35) ;

Harford Powel (1831-5);

Julia Powel (1833-84), m. William Parker Foulke, of Phila., and had seven chil- dren, several of whom reside in Phila .;

John Hare Powel (1837-1908), m. Annie Emlen Hutchinson, of Phila., and had two sons, one surviving resides in Newport, R. I .;

Ida Powel (1840-1908), married (first) Edward Morrell, and had three children residing in Phila; (second) John G. Johnson, the well-known eminent lawyer of Phila. Bar.

DR. ROBERT HARE, of Philadelphia, second surviving son of Robert and Mar- garet (Willing) Hare, was born in Philadelphia, January 17, 1781, the day of the battle of Cowpens. He received a fair academic education, and early in life had the management of the extensive business established by his father, but soon abandoned it for the study of science; attending lectures in his native city, and uniting himself with the Chemical Society of Philadelphia. In 1801 he invented the compound, or oxy-hydogen blow-pipe, which he described in a memoir to the Chemical Society, which was republished in Tulloch's Philosophical Magazine, London, 1802, and also in Annals de Chine, Vol. XLV. This apparatus was the earliest and perhaps the most remarkable of his many original contributions to science, and gave evidence of a highly philosophic mind. He experimented with it with Prof. Silliman, and, 1803, constructed for Yale College the first pneumatic trough in which his invention was incorporated, and received from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the Rumford Medal. He later perfected the voltaic battery, by introducing his deflagrator. He was called to the chair of chemistry at University of Pennsylvania 1818, and continued to fill that position until his resig- nation, 1847, when he was made Emeritus Professor.

Dr. Hare was fond of graphic illustrations, they abound in his memoirs, and in his compendium and other works. He published a number of papers, pamphlets, etc., on scientific subjects, since much quoted and considered valuable contributions to chemical science. He was an ardent patriot of the school of Washington, a Federalist, while that party had a name, later a Whig, a man of unbending recti- tude, and his writings on political and financial questions were marked by vigorous thought and large views.

He was a life member of the Smithsonian Institution, to which he gave all his chemical and physical apparatus. He died in Philadelphia, May 15, 1858. Many tributes to his worth in the realms of science and literature were published in the newspapers and other periodicals of the day, and an excellent account of his scien- tific attainments of some length appeared in the Journal of Science for July, 1858, which opens by referring to him as one "whose name for half a century was familiar to men of science as a chemical philosopher, and to the cultivators of the useful arts throughout the civilized world."

Dr. Robert Hare married, September, 1811, Harriet, daughter of John Innes Clark, of Providence, Rhode Island, by his wife, Lydia Bowen. She was born 1782, and died March 19, 1869.

Issue of Dr. Robert and Harriet (Clark ) Hare:

John Innes Clark Hare, b. Aug., 1812, d. inf .;

Hon. John Innes Clark Hare, b., Phila., Oct. 17, 1817, d. there, Jan. 2, 1907; graduated at Univ. of Pa., 1834; studied law and was admitted to Phila. Bar, 1841, and practiced

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in that city until 1851, when he became Associate Justice of District Court of Phila., of which he became President Judge, 1867, and filled that position until the District Court was abolished by the new Constitution, 1874, and he was made President Judge of Court of Common Pleas thereunder, and filled that position until 1895; received honorary degree of LL. D. from his alma mater, 1868; was Emeritus Professor of Institutes of Law at Univ. of Pa., at his death having been made Professor of that department, 1868; became member of American Philosophic Society, 1842; was trustee of the University, 1858-68; was author of American Constitutional Law;, Chancery Reports (II. vols), and (with Horace B. Wallace) of American Leading Cases m., November 16, 1842, Esther C., dau. of Horace Binney, Esq., by his wife Elizabeth Coxe ;

Theodore Dehon Hare, d. young, 1825.

ROBERT HARFORD HARE, b. Sept. 19, 1820, of whom presently;

Lydia Hare, m. at Providence, R. I., Aug. 15, 1828, Frederick Prime, Esq., of New York; George Harrison Hare, of U. S. N., m. Elizabeth Binney, dau. of Hon. John Cadwalader, by his wife, Mary Binney; d. s. p., July 22, 1857;

ROBERT HARFORD HARE, fourth child of Robert and Harriet (Clark) Hare, born in Philadelphia, September 19, 1820, died May 3, 1887. He resided at 2031 De- lancy place, in that city, and at Ellicott city, Maryland. He married, August 28, 1845, Caroline, born December 22, 1825, died January 3, 1893, daughter of John William Charles Fleeming, Esq., of New Bedford, Massachusetts, by his wife, Mary Rotch, born November 18, 1793, died August 13, 1878.

Issue of Robert Harford and Caroline (Fleeming) Hare:

MARY FLEEMING HARE, b. June 17, 1846, of whom presently ;

HARRIET HARE, b. July 23, 1847, m., June 25, 1873, George Mcclellan, M. D., of Phila .; of whom later.

MARY FLEEMING HARE, daughter of Robert Harford Hare, by his wife, Caro- line Flecming, born June 17, 1846, died at her. residence, 1812 South Rittenhouse square, Philadelphia, March 20, 1885. She married, February 12, 1874, Sussex Delaware Davis, Esq., of Philadelphia Bar, who was born near Lewes, Sussex county. Delaware, December 30, 1838. He graduated at Princeton University, with degree of A. M., and was admitted to Philadelphia Bar January II, 1862, and has since practiced his profession in that city. He is a son of Gen. Samuel Boyer Davis, a distinguished officer of U. S. A. during the second war with Great Britain. Gen. Davis was born at Lewes, Delaware, December 25, 1765, and during his youth was a midshipman in the French Navy, was with the French fleet when it was de- feated by the English naval force, June 1, 1794. During his absence abroad he married a French lady, and returning to America resided for a time in New Or- leans. Removing later to Delaware, he was at the outbreak of hostilities with the mother country, 1812, at Pilot Town, the site of the old Colonial fort, near Lewes, Delaware. He offered his services to the United States at the outbreak of the war, and served with distinction to its close. He was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Thirty-second United States Infantry, raised in Pennsylvania and Delaware, May 6, 1813. He was subsequently transferred to the command Forty-fourth Regiment, as Colonel, but resigned his commission and took up his residence in Wilmington, Delaware, from whence he removed to Philadelphia, where he resided a number of years, during a portion of which time he represented the city in Gen- eral Assembly of Pennsylvania. He again removed to Wilmington, Delaware, late in life, and his closing years were spent in that city, where he died September 6, 1874.

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At the time of the bombardment of Lewes, Delaware, by the British fleet, under Commodore Beresford, Col. Samuel Boyer Davis was in command of the forces marshalled for the defence of the town and coast, and successfully repelled the attack. He is described as a man of imposing stature, six feet in height, of decid- edly fine appearance, courageous, and possessing qualities of discipline and intellect for the management of men. He was always fond of Lewes, and after his retire- ment from public affairs, used often to make extended visits to the old town, occupying rooms in the hotel near the site of the old Colonial battery. Gen. Davis was always welcomed on his arrival there by a military salute fired by a company having headquarters at the old battery, and after he had grown feeble with age an iron rod was erected up the side of the stairway to his room on the second floor of the hotel to assist him in ascending, which still remains in its original position. His attachment to the section where most of his life was spent, and where his ancestors had resided for several generations, led to the peculiar name he gave his second son, Sussex Delaware Davis.

The American progenitor of the family was Rev. Samuel Davis, a Presbyterian minister, who came from county Armagh, Ireland, and was called to the pastorate of the first Presbyterian Church built in Sussex county, at Lewes, about 1692.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 7

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