Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 82

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

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Baldwin & Co., of Baldwin Locomotive Works, for term of five years; he showed such aptitude and industry that before the close of the third year of his apprenticeship, he was made foreman of one of the departments of the works; studying closely the interests of his employers, he invented and introduced many improvements in the manufacture of locomotives. Aug. 1, 1867, he became foreman of the erecting shops, and Jan. 1, 1868, superintendent of the entire works. Becoming a member of the firm, Jan. 1, 1870, he continued in control of the mechanical department, having under his charge 3,000 men, until his retirement by reason of impaired health, Jan. 1, 1886. He was vice-president of Franklin Institute; a director of Williamson Free Industrial School; director of Delaware Insurance Company, member of Union League and Engineer's Clubs. He took an active part in municipal reform in Phila., being one of the most energetic of the members of the Committee of One Hundred, 1884, and con- tinuing his interest in the bettering of political conditions in Phila. to the time of his decease. He was a member of the Society of Friends, of Green Street Meeting. He was an active member of Pennsylvania and Bucks County Historical Societies and took a lively interest in their proceedings. It was through his instrumentality and generosity, that the Bucks County Historical Society placed a memorial stone on the Old York Road, in Warminster, to mark the spot where John Fitch first conceived the idea of the steamboat. He also purchased and donated to the Bucks County Society, a lot of land in Doylestown, upon which to erect their building, and contributed gener- ously to its erection. He was a man of eminent mechanical ability, high-minded and honorable, and was much respected and esteemed wherever known. He m., June 7, 1865, Anna Pusey Wise, of Phila., who also took an active interest in philanthropic work. She was deeply interested in measures and institutions for the advancement of women: was three years president of New Century Club; a woman of fine talents, very much beloved by all who knew her. She and her husband both died at their residence, 1410 Spruce st., Phila., she Sept. 18, 1899, and he, Feb. 24, 1905;

ANNA R. LONGSTRETH, b. April 2, 1841; m. Robert Tilney ; of whom presently; David Thomas Longstreth, b. Oct. 26, 1844: d. July 9, 1848.

ANNA R. LONGSTRETH, born at the old Longstreth homestead, in Warminster. Bucks county, Pennsylania, removed with her widowed mother to Philadelphia, and was educated at Ercildoun ; was a student at the Philadelphia School of De- sign, and has since been deeply interested in educational work in the city, taking a lively interest in kindergarten work. She is a member of the Society of Friends ; a life member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; of the Bucks County Historical Society ; of the Pennsylvania Society Colonial Dames of America ; and a member of the New Century Club, Woman Suffrage Society, and other asso- ciations. She is author of a number of historical papers, and has done much genealogical work, in reference to the families of Richardson, Bevan, Thomas, Clark, Townsend, Longstreth.

Anna R. Longstreth married, November 22, 1876, Robert Tilney, born at Nor- wich, county Norfolk, England, September 23, 1839, son of Robert and Catharine (Hardingham) Tilney, and a descendant of noble lineage. In an old book en- titled "History of Boston" in England, appears a genealogical chart of the Tilney family, on which appears the name of Queen Elizabeth, whose mother Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII., was daughter of Elizabeth (Howard) Boleyn, who was a daughter of Thomas Howard (2), famous in English history, Duke of Norfolk, by his first wife. By his second wife, Agnes Tilney, he had a daughter who married John Vere, Earl of Oxford.

Robert Tilney came from London, England, to New York, arriving there No- vember, 1861, and in January, 1862, entered the Union army as a private in the Twelfth New York Regiment, which later was assigned to the Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, and participated in all the engagements. except those of the advance on Richmond by the Peninsula, until after the battle of Chancellors- ville, when he was appointed clerk to the regiment, later clerk to the Ordinance Department of the Brigade, then to the Provost Marshal's Department of the

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Division, and finally was made Chief Clerk in the Adjutant General's office of the Fifth Army Corps, serving as such until the close of the war; declining a lieu- tenancy, preferring to remain in his clerical position. This required his constant attendance on the Adjutant-General in all the campaigns in which the corps was engaged from Gettysburg to Appomattox.

After the close of the war he was appointed Military Clerk at the headquarters of the Department of the Atlantic, under Gen. Meade, remaining in this position until mustered out of service, August 31, 1865. Just previous to the latter date he, with a civilian clerk, was detailed by Gen. Meade to take to Washington the records of the Army of the Potomac and deliver them to the Secretary of War. In 1879 Robert Tilney compiled the first issue of the "American Newspaper Annual" and he is still editor of that work. In 1898 he published "Gleanings from Poetic Fields," containing translations of poems from the German and other languages and some original poems. He is a member of the Society of Friends, and for many years took an active part in the Green Street First Day School. He is a member of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. He married (first), July 22, 1869, in Philadelphia, Mary E. Pedrick, who died April 19, 1874; (second), November 22, 1876, Anna R. Longstreth, above mentioned.

BAIRD FAMILY.

MATTHEW BAIRD, many years executive head of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, 1817, and came to Philadelphia with his parents at the age of four years. His father was a coppersmith. The son was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, and at an early age secured a position as assistant to one of the professors of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, where he acquired valuable training and technical knowledge that was of the utmost nse to him in his future business career. In 1834 he entered the employ of the New Castle Manufacturing Company, of New Castle, Dela- ware, workers in copper and sheet iron. While filling that position he was ap- pointed superintendent of the railroad shops at New Castle. In 1838 he was made foreman of the sheet-iron and boiler department of Baldwin's Locomotive Works, and returned to Philadelphia. He filled that position until 1850, and for the next two years was engaged in the marble business with his brother John Baird, on Spring Garden street, below Thirteenth.

In 1854 Mr. Baird became a partner with Matthias W. Baldwin, in the pro- prietorship of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and at the death of Mr. Baldwin, September 7, 1865, became sole proprietor of those extensive works. In 1867 he formed a partnership with George Burnham and Charles T. Parry, under the firm name of The Baldwin Locomotive Works, M. Baird & Co., Proprietors, which continued until 1873, when Mr. Baird withdrew from active business life, though retaining an important interest in that and numerous other public and private enterprises. He was many years a director of the Central National Bank ; and at his death was a director of the Texas Pacific Railroad Company ; of the Pennsylvania Steel Company ; Andover Iron Company; and of the West Chester & Philadelphia Railroad Company. He was also one of the incorporators and a director of the American Steamship Company; and a large stockholder in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was eminently public-spirited and was prominently identified with enterprises of a general and charitable nature. He was one of the directors of the Academy of Fine Arts; a manager of the North- ern Home for Friendless Children, and contributed largely to a number of benev- olent institutions. He died May 19, 1877.

Matthew Baird married, June 1, 1871, Anna Wright, born in Bucks county. Pennsylvania, July 13, 1840, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Margaretta Miller (McLean) Wright, and a descendant of early Scotch-Irish settlers in that and the adjoining county of Montgomery, many of whom were prominent in the affairs of their respective localities in Colonial and Revolutionary days. On the paternal side she is sixth in descent from John Wright, a native of Ireland, who was one of the early settlers in what is now Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania. John Wright, a son of this early emigrant, was father of Jonathan Wright, whose son, John Wright, was father of Benjamin Franklin Wright, before men- tioned.

John Wright, grandfather of Anna (Wright) Baird, born 1765, died 1848. married Margaret, born 1772, died 1837, daughter of Capt. Henry Darralı, of

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New Britain township, Bucks county, one of the most ardent patriots of the Revolution, by his wife, Ann Jamison.

The founder of the Darrah, Darragh or Darroch family in Pennsylvania, was Thomas Darroch, a native of Londonderry, Ireland, of Scotch parentage, who, with his wife, Mary, emigrated to Pennsylvania about 1730, and settled with the little colony of Ulster-Scots, on the banks of the Neshaminy, near the site of the famous "Log College." The plantation originally taken up by Thomas Darroch, was just over the Bucks county line in Horsham township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, where he resided until 1740, when he purchased a tract of 500 acres on the Swamp Road in Bedminster township, Bucks county, and settled thereon. He and his family were among the earliest and most faithful members of the Deep Run Presbyterian Church, an adjunct of the old Neshaminy Church, and erected 1737, close to the Darroch plantation. In the old burying-ground adjoining the church, Thomas Darroch and his wife and a number of their de- scendants lie buried. He died 1750, leaving sons: Robert, Thomas, William, Henry and James, and daughters: Agnes, wife of John Davis; Esther, wife of George Scott, and Susanna. Robert was a member of the Bucks County Com- mittee of Safety ; William a Captain in Col. Robinson's Battalion, Bucks County Militia, in the Revolution, as well as a soldier in the Colonial service, and was ancestor of Hon. William Darrah Kelly, of Philadelphia, known as the "Father of the House" of Representatives at Washington, as well as of Commodore Thompson Darrah Shaw, and Gen. Samuel A. Smith.

Capt. Henry Darrah was fourth son of Thomas and Mary Darroch, of Bed- minster, and was born at about the date of the settlement of his parents in that township. He married, August 13, 1760, Ann, daughter of Henry and Mary (Stewart) Jamison, of Warwick township, Bucks county, both natives of the north of Ireland, and among the early settlers on the Neshaminy, about 1720, Henry Jamison, being a son of Henry Jamison, Sr., who accompanied by his sons, Henry, Robert and Alexander, emigrated from the Province of Ulster, Ireland, and purchased land in Warwick, 1724.

Tradition relates that Henry Jamison did not approve of Capt. Darrah as a suitor for his daughter, deeming him too much of a dashing young cavalier, fond of horses and adventure. The young people, however, settled the matter for themselves, by the Captain taking his sweetheart up behind him on one of his fast horses, and outdistancing the irate father in a race to the local parson's, where the matrimonial knot was tied. The Jamisons and Stewarts were among the founders of Neshaminy Presbyterian Church, 1727, and Henry, Jr., father of Mrs. Darrah, was an original trustee of the "New Lights" at the division of the congregation, 1742.

Capt. Henry Darrah, on his marriage, 1760, settled on a part of the homestead plantation in Bedminster, inherited from his father, but sold his part thereof, 1765, and purchased a farm on the Neshaminy in New Britain township, comprising nearly 300 acres, where he resided until his death, 1782. Like most of his race in Pennsylvania, he was an ardent patriot, from the very inception of the Revolu- tionary struggle. He was a member of the Associated Company of New Britain township, 1775, and soon thereafter organized a company, largely of his com- patriots of the Scotch-Irish Colony on the Neshaminy, and was commissioned its Captain. He served in the New Jersey campaign of 1776, and at the reorganiza-

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tion of the militia, 1777, he was commissioned Captain, May 6, 1777, of the Seventh Company, Fifth Battalion, and was in the service of the United States, under Lieut .- Col., afterwards Gen. John Lacey, until 1778, when his company was incorporated in the battalion of Col. William Roberts, which was in service in various engagements. It was later under the command of Col. Robert Robin- son. Capt. Darrah's death was due to a severe cold contracted in the service of his country.

There is in possession of his descendants a beautifully written letter from Ann Darrah to her husband, Capt. Henry Darrah, while he was in the service of his country.

Capt. Henry Darrah and his wife Ann Jamison, had issue, children-Ann, wife of Hugh Shaw; James, born 1784, died 1842; Mary; William, born 1767, died 1838; John George; and Margaret. The latter became wife of John Wright, and mother of Benjamin Franklin Wright, above mentioned.

Benjamin Franklin Wright, son of John and Margaret (Darrah) Wright, was born September 30, 1808, reared in Warminster township, Bucks county, and lived there to middle life, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he served as a member of Common Council, 1861-2-3, and also served as one of the first building inspectors of the city. He was owner of considerable land in Warwick and War- minster townships, Bucks county, in the neighborhood of Hartsville, owning and operating for some years the old Darrah Mill, now the property of his cousin, John M. Darrah. He died March 6, 1876, and is buried at Neshaminy Presby- terian Church of Warwick. He married, 1839, Margaretta Miller, born 1815, died 1886, daughter of Capt. Alexander McLean, of Warminster, born 1785, died 1824, who commanded a company in the War of 1812-14, in the First Regiment. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Thomas Humphrey, stationed at Marcus Hook, under Gen. Thomas Cadwalader. He was grandson of Archibald McLean or McClean, of Horsham, Montgomery county, a native of Antrim, Ireland, who died December 1, 1773, in his seventy-fifth year. Archibald McLean was sixteen years a justice in Horsham, then Philadelphia county, and a member of Colonial Assembly. His son, Archibald McLean. Jr., was a distinguished surgeon in the Revolutionary army, and died at Horsham, May 13, 1791.

Capt. Alexander McLean, before mentioned, who died September 7, 1824, aged forty years, and is buried at Neshaminy Presbyterian Church of Warwick, mar- ried, 1811, Lydia, daughter of Adam and Jane (Miller) Kerr, of Warwick. Adam Kerr, born 1730, died August 16, 1791, was probably of the same family as Jo- seph Carr, of Warwick, who married Mary, daughter of Andrew and Isabel (Miller) Long. The Kerr or Carr family is as old as the Norman Conquest. The Scotch branch of the family of Kerr, Carr, Karre, Karr, were similar, the name having the same pronunciation, the "e" in Kerr having the sound of "a" as in far.

Adam Kerr was a local merchant and innkeeper in what is now Hartsville, known in Colonial times as "Warwick Cross Roads," near which Washington and his army were encamped in July and August, 1777. He was a considerable landowner and prominent in the affairs of that locality. He was a member of the Associated Company of Warwick township, 1775, and is said to have been in active service. He married Jane, daughter of William Miller, Jr., by his wife. Ann, daughter of Henry Jamison. Sr., before referred to, and granddaughter of

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William Miller, Sr., and Isabel, his wife, who donated the land upon which Neshaminy Church was erected 1727. William Miller was born, supposedly, in Scotland, 1671, and his wife, Isabel, 1670. They were the patriarchs of the Scotch-Irish settlement on the Neshaminy, where Tennent's Log College was erected; and most of the little colony were connected with them by either blood or marriage. The date of their arrival has not been definitely ascertained, but must have been as early as 1720 or 1722, as his granddaughter Margaret, daugh- ter of Andrew and Isabel (Miller) Long, was baptized at Abington Presbyterian Church in the latter year. William Miller, Sr., died February 27, 1787, and his wife, Isabel, died December 26, 1757. They had three sons, William, above men- tioned; Robert; and Hugh; and three daughters, Isabel, wife of Andrew Long; Margaret, wife of John Earle; and Mary, wife of James Curry.

William Miller, Jr., eldest son of William and Isabel, and ancestor of Mrs. Matthew Baird, was a large landholder in Bucks county, and an enterprising business man. He died 1787. By his wife, Ann Jamison, he had several children, among whom was Jane, wife of Adam Kerr.

Issue of Matthew and Anna (Wright ) Baird:

EDGAR WRIGHT BAIRD, b. March 21, 1872; m. Mabel Rogers; of whom presently;

WILLIAM JAMES BAIRD, b. Dec. 29, 1873; m. Maria Uytendale Hendrickson; of whom presently ;

MARION BAIRD, b. May 27, 1875; m. Reed A. Morgan; of whom later;

CORA BAIRD, b. June 27, 1876; m. Henry S. Jeanes; of whom later;

MATTHEW BAIRD, JR., b. June 8, 1877; of whom later.

EDGAR WRIGHT BAIRD, eldest son of Matthew and Anna (Wright) Baird, born in Philadelphia, March 21, 1872, received his early education at Rugby Academy and DeLancey School, and entered Princeton University, from which he graduated in the class of '03, as Bachelor of Science. He then became a student at Cornell University in the Mechanical Engineering course. He now resides in Philadel- phia, and is President of the Durkin Controller Handle Company, The Ameri- can Ferrofix Brazing Company, and the Baird-Smith Company. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution; the Philadelphia and Ger- mantown Cricket Clubs ; the Princeton Club of Philadelphia, University Cottage Club of Princeton, and the Business and Professional Club, of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Summit Presbyterian Church of Germantown, and trustee of the Presbyterian Church of Spring Lake, New Jersey.

Edgar Wright Baird married, at St. Luke's Church, Germantown, April 15, 1896, Mabel, daughter of William B. Rogers, of Philadelphia, by his wife, Rachel, daughter of William Wynne Wister, of Germantown, a descendant of Dr. Thomas Wynne, first Speaker of the Colonial Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1682-3 ;. of Hon. Owen Jones, and William Wynne Wister, both signers of Continental currency. An account of the Wynne and Wister families is given elsewhere in these volumes. William B. Rogers, who was Vice-president and Treasurer of the Western Saving Fund Society of Philadelphia, was a son of Prof. James Blythe Rogers, who with his brothers, William B., Henry D., and Robert E. Rogers, all professors, was a son of Patrick Kerr Rogers.

Issue of Edgar Wright and Mabel (Rogers) Baird:

Edgar Wright Baird, Jr., b. April 5, 1897:

Gainor Owen Baird, b. Oct. 27, 1898;

Marion Wright Baird, b. July 1, 1900.

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WILLIAM JAMES BAIRD, second son of Matthew and Anna (Wright) Baird, born in Philadelphia, December 29, 1873, received his early education at DeLancey School, and entering Princeton University in the Academic course, was graduated with degree of Bachelor of Arts, class of '95. Mr. Baird resides in Philadelphia. He is not actively interested in business. He is a member of the University Cottage Club of Princeton, the Princeton Club, of New York, the Union League, the Orpheus Club, the Racquet, and Corinthian Yacht Clubs of Philadelphia.

William James Baird married, October 16, 1895, at Mt. Holly, New Jersey, Maria Uytendale, daughter of Judge Charles Hendrickson, of Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Issue of William James and Maria U. (Hendrickson ) Baird:

Sara Uytendale Baird, b. July 25, 1896;

William James Baird, Jr., b. March 25, 1899:

Charles Hendrickson Baird, b. Sept. 3, 1900.

MARION BAIRD, eldest daughter and third child of Matthew and Anna ( Wright) Baird, born Philadelphia, May 27, 1875, married, June 12, 1901, Reed A. Morgan, and they reside in Paris, France.

Issue of Reed A. and Marion (Baird) Morgan:

Marion Morgan, b. May 30, 1902; d. Nov. 1, 1902; Elizabeth Morgan.

CORA BAIRD, second daughter and fourth child of Matthew and Anna (Wright) Baird, born Philadelphia, June 27, 1876, married Henry S. Jeanes.

Issue of Henry S. and Cora (Baird ) Jeanes:

Margaretta Jeanes; Elizabeth Jeanes; Henry S. Jeanes, Jr.

MATTHEW BAIRD, JR., youngest son and fifth child of Matthew and Anna (Wright) Baird, born Philadelphia, June 8, 1877, received his early education at DeLancey School, and entering Academic Department of Princeton University, received degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of '08. He was a member of the Union League, Corinthian Yacht, Merion Cricket, and Princeton Clubs of Philadelphia, and the Colonial Club of Princeton University.

Matthew Baird, Jr., married, in Philadelphia, November 22, 1899, Marie Louise, born May 30, 1878, daughter of I. Layton and Emma (Vollmer) Regis- ter, of Philadelphia.

Issue of Matthew, Jr., and Marie Louise (Register ) Baird :

Matthew Baird (3), b. Dec. 28, 1901 ;

Mary Louise Baird, b. April 25, 1905.

RICHARDSON FAMILY.

JOHN RICHARDSON, ancestor of the Richardson family of New Castle county, Delaware, came to America about 1682, from Glamford Brig (otherwise Glam- ford Bridge), Lincolnshire, with wife Elizabeth, and settled near New Castle. A John Richardson came over in the ship "Endeavor," Capt. George Thorp. arriving in Delaware River, 7mo. 20, 1683; as shown by the "Register of Arrivals in Pennsylvania," but he is thought to have been one of the several other John Richardsons who came to Pennsylvania.

Tradition relates that John Richardson and his family came over in the same ship with Robert Ashton, the "Shoveld" which sailed from Hull, 3mo. 8, 1686, but later researches seem to indicate that John Richardson, Sr., came at an earlier date, and that his wife, Elizabeth, and son, John, came with the Ashton family.

Though John Richardson and his family were apparently members of the Society of Friends, and the early meetings of the Friends of that locality were held at his house prior to the erection of the first Meetinghouse, 1705, no record has been found of a certificate produced by him from Friends in England. He had a brother Joseph Richardson, who remained at Glamford Bridge, as in his will dated November 16, 1710, he makes a bequest to "my nephew John Richard- son, son of my brother Joseph Richardson of Glamford Bridge, County of Lin- coln, Kingdom of Great Britain, Woolen Draper" to the amount of ten pounds, "old Currency."

John Richardson was commissioned a Justice of the Peace for New Castle county, February, 1688, and recommissioned June 9. 1695. He was also a mem- ber of Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania, from that county, 1697.

John Richardson died January 19, 1710-11, and was buried in a walled plot within the Friends' burying-ground at New Castle, where a number of his family were later interred.

Issue of John and Elisabeth Richardson:

JOHN RICHARDSON, b. in England, 1679, d. Sept. 4, 1755; m. Ann Ashton; of whom pres- ently ;

Richard Richardson, no further record than mention in father's will;

Mary Richardson, m. James Anderson, of Georges Creek; apparently deceased before her father, legacies being given 10 her children, Mary and James Anderson.

JOHN RICHARDSON, son of John and Elizabeth, born at Glamford Brig, Lin- colnshire, England, 1679, married at her father's house at Georges Creek, New Castle county, September 7, 1704, Ann, born at Elin, Lincolnshire, October 5, 1680, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Ashton, who sailed from Hull, England. May 9, 1686, in the ship "Shoveld," Capt. John Howell, and landed at New Castle, July of the same year. They came from Elin, Lincolnshire, and settled on a large tract of land at Georges Creek, New Castle, purchased of William Penn before leaving England. His will, dated January 11, 1706, was probated April 7, 1706. Robert and Elizabeth Ashton had, besides Ann, who married John Richardson, another daughter, Sarah, who married Bartholomew Wyatt, of Salem county, New Jersey, and had two children, Bartholomew and Elizabeth, the

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former of whom by his marriage to Elizabeth Tomlinson, was father of Sarah Wyatt, who married Richard Wistar, of Philadelphia. Robert Ashton was many years a Justice of New Castle county.

John Richardson, on his marriage to Ann Ashton, settled on the banks of Chris- tiana Creek, two miles above the present site of Wilmington, and owned a large tract of land extending along the banks of the creek, where he made an effort to found a town; laying out streets, building wharves, etc., but other than his own large storehouses and wharves, where he carried on an extensive shipping business and a small settlement on his own land, his town came to naught, Wil- mington having supplanted it as a town site. John Richardson carried on a extensive shipping trade with West Indies, importing large quantities of sugar, molasses, rum, and other products of those islands, in his own vessels, and carry- ing out to the West Indies products of the colonies in large quantities. His trade expanded and proved profitable, and he amassed a large estate for that time. He was a prominent man in the affairs of the Three Lower Counties, serving in the Ceneral Assembly as a representative from New Castle, 1716, and several times re-elected. He was also a Justice of the Peace, and of the New Castle County Courts, 1726-27, and probably until his death, September 4. 1755; the records for the period from 1727 to 1765, being almost entirely lost or destroyed. He was an active member of the Society of Friends in his earlier days ; the meeting later known as Kennett or Newark Meeting being frequently held at his house, 1704-15. He was buried in the family lot at New Castle. His will, dated December 20, 1752, and a codicil dated August 6, 1753, devised a number of houses and lots, store, stable, etc., in the town of New Castle to his son, Joseph; to son, Robert, his wharf, houses, and tract of land and marsh, "where Edward Carter at present dwells, called Safe Harbor," and 300 acres of land at Powell's Point, together with his present dwelling-house and about thirty- five acres of land and marsh. This "present dwelling house," was the one erected by John Richardson, 1743. and was standing until 1833, when it was taken down and rebuilt, partly with the original bricks, on the same site. A corner cupboard of antique design owned by John Richardson, still remained in the house as late as 1880. Robert devised the property to his son. John, who dying without issue, it passed to his sister, Ann, wife of Henry Latimer, whose heirs held it several gen- erations.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 82

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