Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 85

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

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Harry Ogle, b. 1882:

Ruby, b. 1884.

Florence, b. 1864, unm.

Zachariah, b. 1807; m., 1828, Teresa Hammer, and had issue :

Mary;

Richard, b. 1832; living: m. Isabella, dau. of Robert and Margaret (Gibson) Thomson, and had issue :

William Henry, b. 1856; m. Elizabeth Gibson, and they liave three children: Isabella, William Henry Jr., and George C .; Mary, b. 1858; d. 1877;

Robert Wallace, b. Jan. 19, 1866; m., April 14, 1898, Florence Harper Treichler, and had issue:

Florence Willoughby, b. April 20, 1902: Richard Meredith, b. Jan. 22, 1905; Robert Wallace, Jr., b. June 26, 1906; d. in inf.

Madge Gibson, b. 1869; m. Nathaniel G. Horn; Frank Higgins, b. 1876; d. 1901; Edna Teresa, b. 1880; unm.

Thomas, b. 1820: Sarah ;

Jane.

Rees, of whom we have no further record:

Priscilla, b. Jan. 31, 1791; d., Libertyville, Pa., Feb. 6, 1879;

Jane, m. - Mckeever, and had issue :

Sarah, who m. her first cousin, William Tunis. Anthony, of whom we have no record; Richard, who d. in 1838.

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RICHARD, b. Aug. 12, 1759; d. 1808; m. Jane Roberts; of whom presently ; Benjamin, b. Aug. 16, 1762;

Esther, b. Sept. 20, 1765.

RICHARD TUNIS, second son of Abraham and Hannah (Humphreys) Tunis, born in Lower Merion township, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1759, was but eight years of age at the death of his father, and his mother remar- ried two years later. The later years of his childhood were possibly spent in the home of his maternal grandmother, Esther (Warner) Humphreys-George, and her second husband, Richard George, on an adjoining property. The will of Richard George, who seems to have died childless, gives legacies to his "step- grandchildren," children of his wife's daughter, Hannah Horton, and directs that his wife, Esther, rear and educate her grandson, Benjamin Tunis, youngest of the three step-grandsons.

The forty-six acres of land which Abraham Tunis inherited under his father's will, were conveyed to Richard Tunis, by his brothers and sister, prior to August 17, 1783, on which date Richard Tunis, then of Lower Merion, conveyed it to William Stadelman. This was approximately the date of the marriage of Rich- ard Tunis, and he seems to have at once taken up his residence in the city of Philadelphia, where he engaged in the mercantile business. He owned at different periods, business stands on Water street, Sixth street, and at the corner of George street and Swanwick alley, and "messuages and tenements in Point Pleasant, Kensington, Northern Liberties of Philadelphia." His will, dated May 14, 1808, and proven May 25, 1808, devises his estate equally to his children-Hannah. Jehu, Thomas, and Jane-when they shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years. He, however, directs that his son, Jehu, be established in the mercantile business, in partnership with James Way, "who for some time hath principally conducted my concerns in trade"; and that the executor be authorized to loan to said Jehil. the whole estate for that purpose, the partnership to begin on January 1, 1809.

Richard Tunis married at the Lutheran Evangelical Church of St. Michael's and Zion, Philadelphia. August 12, 1783, "Geane" (Jane), born May 26, 1755, died September 26, 1807. daughter of John Roberts, Jr., of Merion, by his wife, Jane Downing, and granddaughter of John Roberts, of Merion, in the Welsh tract. Philadelphia county, by his wife, Hannah, daughter of Robert Lloyd, of Merion, by his wife, Lowry Jones, daughter of Rees John William, the eminent Quaker of the Welsh tract.

John Roberts, Sr., was the first of the three husbands of Hannah Lloyd, whom he married, November 20, 1720. He died in the year succeeding his marriage, and before the birth of his only child, John Roberts, Jr., which occurred October 15, 1721. John Roberts, Jr., died November 4, 1778; he married, June 1, 1743. Jane Downing, born in Concord, Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1723, and died in Merion, October 29, 1795. She was the daughter of Thomas Down- ing, founder of Downingtown, Chester county, Pennsylvania, born in Bradnich. Devonshire, England, December 14, 1691, and died at Downingtown, January 15. 1772. With his second wife, Thomazine, mother of his children, he came to Ches- ter county in 1717, and operated a mill in Concord until 1733, when he removed to Sadsbury, and from there to the site of Downingtown, 1739: erecting there mills and other manufactories, and establishing important industries, which were en- larged and continued by his sons and grandsons.

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Issue of Richard and Jane ( Roberts ) Tunis:

Hannah Tunis, b. Nov. 12, 1786; m., March 4, 1812, Andrew Ellicott, of Baltimore, Md., son of Andrew and Esther ( Brown) Ellicott, of Bucks co., Pa., later of Ellicott's Mills, Md .; they had four children : Jane, Eliza. Maria and Andrew: she died Sept. 5, 1819;

Jehu Tunis (see reference to his establishment in business with James Way, in above account of his father's will) ; m. Miss Fox ;

John Roberts Tunis, b. 1789: d. Oct. 31, 1819; m., Feb. 18, 1819, Elizabeth Mary Pember- ton, dau. of Hon. George Fox, of "Champlost," by his first wife, Mary Pemberton; no issue:

THOMAS ROBERTS TUNIS, b. March 1. 1792; d. Feb. 26, 1829; m. Ann Eliza Guest: of whom presently ;

Jane Tunis. b. 1796; d. Sept. 12, 1861 ; m., Sept., 1824. Evan Poultney, of Baltimore, Md.

THOMAS ROBERTS TUNIS, third son of Richard and Jane ( Roberts ) Tunis, was born in Philadelphia, March 1, 1792, and died there February 26, 1829. He mar- ried, May 6, 1822, Ann Eliza, daughter of John Guest (born 1768), by his wife, Rebecca Hall (born 1775), and great-granddaughter of John Guest (born January 3. 1713), who married, December 23, 1743, Elizabeth Simmons, and great-great- granddaughter of George Guest, Jr., who married at Burlington Meeting, New Jersey, August 15, 1701. Elizabeth, daughter of Judge James Marshall, who with his wife, Rachel Hudson, had come from Yorkshire, England, 1683. George Quest, Jr., was a son of George and Alice ( Bailyes) Guest, who came from Birmingham, county Warwick. England, about 1680, and settled for a time at Burlington, New Jersey, but removed to Philadelphia soon after, and resided in a cave on the bank of the Delaware, where George Guest died in 1685. His widow, Alice Guest, later erected a house near the site of the cave, in which she resided until her death, August, 1755, at a very advanced age. She was a daughter of William Bailyes, of Birmingham, and his wife, Alice, daughter of Thomas Chan- ders, of county Warwick, and granddaughter of William Bailyes, Sr., of the same place, who married Alice Sommerland, January 26, 1612-13. George Guest, Sr., was a son of John Guest, of Birmingham, county Warwick, and his wife, Joanna.

Thomas R. Tunis and Ann Eliza Guest were married at the residence of the bride's mother. Seventeenth and Sansom streets, May 6, 1822, in the evening, by Robert Wharton, then Mayor of Philadelphia.

Issue of Thomas Roberts and Ann Elisa (Guest ) Tunis:

Rebecca Guest Tunis, b. Dec. 16, 1823: m., June 27, 1848, Rev. Edward Baldwin Bruen, and had four children-James, Edward, Ella, and Catharine Bruen. She died in Phila., Jan. 7, 1904;

Jehu Roberts Tunis, b. at Seventeenth and Sansom sts., Phila .. Aug. 22. 1825: d.,Chicago, Ill., Sept. 14, 1848; buried at Woodlands Cemetery. Phila .:

Richard Tunis, b. Oct. 14, 1826;

THOMAS ROBERTS TUNIS. JR., b. June 14, 1828: d. Jan. 6. 1868: mn. Anna Callender Price ; of whom presently.

THOMAS ROBERTS TUNIS, JR., youngest son of Thomas Roberts and Ann Eliza ( Guest ) Tunis, born, Philadelphia, June 14, 1828, received the major portion of his education in France, but was a student at the University of Pennsylvania in 1844. in the sophomore year of the class of 1847, and a member of the Zelosophic Soci- ety there. He was a merchant in Philadelphia, as had been his father and grand- father, and a member of the Episcopal Church. He died January 6, 1868. He was married. November 25. 1856. at the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia,

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by Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania, to Anna Callender, born No- vember 3, 1834, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Gillingham (Simmons) Price, of Philadelphia, a member of the Society of Friends, to which sect the Tunis family had belonged until the marriage of Richard Tunis, grandfather of Thomas R. Tunis, Jr., "out of Meeting," though to a member of the Society, 1785; from which time the family affiliated with the Society and attended its meetings, but did not hold membership therein. The ancestry of Anna Callender ( Price) Tunis, is as follows :

The patronymic Price is of Welsh origin, and originated in the Cymric custom, common for centuries before the use of surnames, of indicating the parentage of a son by attaching to his given name by the word, "Ap" his father's given name, thus the son of Thomas, should he be named Richard, was "Richard ap Thomas." Phys or Rees was a common Christian name in Wales, and from "Ap Rees," and Ap Rhys, came the name "Preese," finally anglicized into Price.

RICHARD PRICE, born 1738, earliest ancestor of Ann C. ( Price) Tunis, of whom we have no definite record, was son of an early Welsh settler in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, of whom little is known, other than that he had besides Richard, a daughter, Elizabeth, who was living in 1790. Richard Price married in 1759. Rachel Burson, a descendant of George Burson, who came to Pennsylvania about 1682, and was later a considerable landowner in Philadelphia county. Richard Price died in Philadelphia. May 30, 1822, aged eighty-four years. By his wife, Rachel Burson, he had five children, viz. :

Rachel Price, b. 1760; m. (first) Samuel Watson, (second) Dr. Cummings; Margaret Price, b. 1762; d. 1812; m. John Bunting, and had twelve children;

David Price, b. 1765; m. Mary Fenton, and removed to N. C., where he became a Judge; no issue;

JOSEPH PRICE, b. 1768; d. 1846; m., 1790, Ann, dau of Capt. Thomas and Margaret (Rourke) Callender; Ann (Callender) Price d. 1837; for issue see below;

Mary Price, m. Philip Rupert.

Joseph and Ann (Callender) Price had issue:

James Callender Price, b. 1791 ; d. young;

Margaret Callender Price, b. 1792; d. 1839; m., 1812, Edward Simmons; Richard Price, b. 1794; d. 1865; m., 1819, Lydia Williams Longstreth, who. d. 1843; Rachel Price, b. 1796; d. 1805;

Ann Callender Price, b. 1799; d. 1809;

Mary Callender Price, b. 1801 ;

Thomas Callender Price, b. 1802; d. 1834; m. Sarah Ann Paul, and had issue :

Joseph Price, b. Nov. 9, 1829; d. Sept. 20, 1894; m., 1857, Emily Maxwell Robeson; Richard Price, m. Anna Dunbar; Mary Paul Price, m. William Warder.

JOSEPH PRICE, JR., b. March 20, 1805; of whom presently ;

Callender Price, b. 1808; d. 1851.

Capt. Thomas Callender, father of Ann (Callender ) Price, and grandfather of the above-named children, was born in Scotland, and at sixteen ran away from home. He engaged with the captain of a ship sailing for America, and came to Philadelphia. He later followed the sea as captain of a merchant ship, and during the Revolutionary War, obtained Letters of Marque from Congress and fitted out his vessel as a privateer. Meeting with a British man-of-war and refusing to strike

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his colors. his vessel was fired upon, and he lost his life in the engagement which followed. Captain Callender had married in Philadelphia, Margaret Rourke, prior to going to sea as Captain of the privateer. He removed his family, a color- ed slave, and his furniture, to Quakertown, Bucks county, intending to bring them back to Philadelphia on his return. When the British took possession of Philadel- phia, all the remaining property of Captain Callender was destroyed.

After the evacuation of the city by the British Army, Mrs. Callender returned to Philadelphia, and resided for many years in the family of Joseph Price, whose son her daughter later married, and where she died. She was remembered by her grandchildren as a very handsome woman, with beautiful hands and feet, who, at seventy years of age, embroidered beautifully without the use of glasses.

Issue of Captain Thomas and Morgaret (Rourke ) Callender:

Ann Callender, m. Joseph Price, Sr .:

Hannah Callender, m. William Spottswood;

Thomas Callender, m. Eliza Bella Wilcox, and had three sons and three daughters; James Callender, m. Martha Ash.

JOSEPH PRICE, JR., eighth child of Joseph and Ann (Callender ) Price, was born in Philadelphia. March 20, 1805. He married, 1829, Elizabeth Gillingham Sim- mons, born February 8, 1807, died at 1421 Spruce street, Philadelphia, March 12, 1882. She was a daughter of Stephen and Rebecca (Hart) Simmons.

Issue of Joseph and Elisabeth G. (Simmons) Price:

Stephen Simmons Price, b. Nov. 28, 1830; d. Jan. 7, 1902; m., Jan. 8, 1857, his cousin, Margaret Simmons Longstreth (b. July 15, 1832; d. Jan. 24, 1891); they have one child surviving them :

Lydia Price, b. Oct. 19, 1857.

Ann Callender Price, b. Nov. 3, 1834; d. Nov. 5, 1896; in., 1856, Thomas Roberts Tunis, previously mentioned;

Rebecca Simmons Price, b. April 1, 1839; d. Dec. 24, 1904; m., 1869, Henry Post Mitchell, who m. (second), April 10, 1907, Alice Burgess Harlan, dau. of Dr. George Cuvier and Mary ( Holman) Harlan.

Henry P. and Rebecca S. (Price) Mitchell had issue :

Price Mitchell, b. Jan. 13, 1872; d. in Lexington, Va., 1892;

Roland Greene Mitchell, b. April 4, 1873; m. Susan Randolph Page, of Clarke co., Va., Jan. 4, 1910, and has one child-Henry Post Mitchell, Jr., b. March 17, 1911.

Thomas Callender Price, b. May 5, 1842: d. Feb. 8, 1901: m. Susan Trotter, and had issue :

Edward Trotter Price, b. Jan. 13, 1872;

Susan Price, h. Sept. 7, 1876; m. Samuel Goodman, by whom she had three chil- dren ;

Issue of Thomas Roberts and Anna Callender (Price ) Tunis:

Elizabeth Tunis, b. Aug. 13, 1857; m. at Rye Beach, N. H., July, 1881, Louis Du Plessis Beylard (b. 1852, d. 1905), and they have issue :

Harry Du Plesis Beylard, b. June I1, 1882;

Lawrence Beylard, b. May 31, 1883; m. Ethel Spencer (b. Feb. 26, 1887), on June 1, 1907.

Thomas R. Tunis, b. Sept. 12, 1859: m., May 22, 1886, Mary Vanuxem Wurts; they reside at "Cedar Hill" farm, Media, Delaware co., Pa .; and have issue:

Richard Tunis, b. Aug. 8, 1890;

Hilda Tunis, b. May 30, 1895;

Nancy Tunis, b. Nov. 4, 1897.

JOSEPH PRICE TUNIS, A. B., M. D., b. Feb. 7, 1866; m. Annis Wister Rossell; of whom presently ;

Two other children-Anna E., b. 1860, and Richard, b. 1864-died in childhood.

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JOSEPH PRICE TUNIS, youngest child of Thomas Roberts and Anna Callender (Price ) Tunis, born on Arch street, near Sixth, Philadelphia, February 7, 1866. acquired his early education in private schools of Philadelphia, and prepared for college at Dr. John W. Faires' "Classical Institute," on Thirteenth, above Spruce street, Philadelphia. He entered Haverford College, class of 1886, in 1882, and at the close of the sophomore year, transferred to the class of '86, University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1886; was a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity there. He then entered the Medical Department of the same institution, and received the degree of M. D. in 1889; receiving honorable mention for proficiency in bandaging. He was resident physician at the Children's Hospital Philadelphia, eight months, and filled the same position in the Episcopal Hospital two years; served as dispensary surgeon to several other Philadelphia hospitals, and was assistant demonstrator of anatomy and Quiz master on anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, 1891-98. During the greater part of this time he was also assistant demonstrator of surgery, under Dr. H. R. Wharton. He was editor of International Medical Magasine, 1893, and assistant editor of International Clinics, with Dr. Judson Daland, 1892-98. He was visiting surgeon to the Meth- odist Episcopal Hospital from 1897 10 1901.

In the summer of 1897, Dr. Tunis studied anatomy and pathology at the Uni- versity of Göttingen, and during April and May of 1909 studied diseases of the nose and throat in Vienna. He has contributed numerous articles to medical magazines. He followed life insurance medical work, exclusively, 1902-6, and since then has devoted himself to the treatment of diseases of the ear, nose and throat ; being associated with Dr. Francis R. Packard, at the Polyclinic Hospital, Philadelphia.

During the Spanish-American War, Dr. Joseph P. Tunis served as First Lieu- tenant and Assistant Surgeon of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, May to October, 1898. He was detached from his regiment in July, and saw some service in the United States Military Hospital, at Ponce, Puerto Rico. While sleeping under canvas during this service he contracted Malta fever, and was under treatment for five months at the Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia, before convalescence was established. While convalescing he served as Surgeon of the school-ship, "Saratoga," for a year and a half, 1899-1902, and during this term of service made two trips to Europe and one to the West Indies. The "Sara- toga" was, at that time, loaned by the United States Government to the State of Pennsylvania for the education of young men for the merchant marine, the ex- penses of running the school being paid partly by the State and partly by the city of Philadelphia. Up to 1902 all of the officers, except the Surgeon, were supplied from the United States Navy.

Dr. Tunis is a Republican in national politics. He was secretary of the com- mittee of forty citizens of Philadelphia, which caused a statue of the late Dr. Joseph Leidy, to be erected on the City Hall plaza in 1907. He is a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society ; of the A. M. P. O .: of the Philadelphia College of Physicians and Surgeons ; of the American Association of Anatomists and of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society; life member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; life member of the University Barge Club ; member of the Racquet Club of Philadelphia, and of the Philadelphia Alumni Association of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania.

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of which he was secretary in the first year of its existence. He is a member of the Church of St. Luke's and the Epiphany.

Dr. Joseph Price Tunis married at 1426 Pine street, Philadelphia, February 24, 1903, Annis Wister, born April 18, 1881, daughter of Clifford Beakes Rossell (born 1845), by his wife, Lydia Simmons (born 1848), daughter of Dr. Caspar Wister, by his wife, Lydia Simmons. An account of her ancestry is given else- where in these volumes, under the title of the "Wister Family."

ROSSELL FAMILY.

The family of Rossell to which Annis Wister ( Rossell) Tunis belongs is of Danish origin, and derives its name from the ancient village and lordship of La Rozel, department of La Marche, Normandy, about a mile from the sea coast, where the Chateau Du Rozel overlooks the village, and is a slightly castellated nansion with a small tower at its western angle, and surrounded by a wall cre- neilled with buttresses, which on the side fronting the sea, opens into an inner court between the round and half-dismantled towers. The name La Rozel, imply- ing the tower by the water, was given to the castle and the family inhabiting it, anterior to the conquest of England by William of Normandy.

Hugh Bertrand de Rozel, born 1021, was the first to use the surname, and was tenth in descent from Sveide, the Viking (760-800), whose great-great-grandson, Rogval, Jarl of Moere, was by his second wife, Hilda, the father of Rollo, Duke of Normandy. Hugh Bertrand de Rozel was Lord of Barneville and La Rozel, and he and his four sons-Roger, Richard, Hugh, and Theobald-accompanied William of Normandy in his conquest of England, and participated in the battle of Hast- ings, 1066; Hugh Bertrand was cup-bearer to King William, and was granted large domains in the conquered country. He delivered to the Abbey of St. Ste- phen's, 1077, land he held by the King's bounty in Granville and Grouchy, on condition that the Abbot and monks receive him into their order. From his son, Hugh de Rosel, Lord of Rosel, 1090, who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the reign of William Rufus, and gave a charter to the Abbey of Rufford 1148, descended John Rossel, of Nottingham, an officer in Cromwell's Army, who was one of the first settlers of Newtown, Long Island, 1650, being one of the grantees of the charter for that settlement from Governor Thomas Dongan, of New York. His arms were practically identical with those borne by his Norman ancestors cen- turies before, viz .: Arg. three roses gu. barbed and seeded ppr. His son, Na- thaniel Rossel, settled at Hopewell, New Jersey, and Zachariah Rossell, grandson of Nathaniel, born 1723, at Eayrestown, New Jersey, settled at Mount Holly, Bur- lington county, New Jersey, where he died February 21, 1815. He was a Justice of the Peace under the Colonial Government, and an active patriot during the Revolution ; his house was burned by the British, 1776, and he was driven a prisoner on foot to New York, and long confined in the loathsome prisons of that city, suffering untold hardships and abuse. He married (first), 1759, Mrs. Mar- garet (Clark) Curtis, who died June 20. 1780, (second) Mrs. Elizabeth ( Becket) Ross.

Hon. William Rossell, son of Zachariah and Margaret (Clark) Rossell, born at Mount Holly, New Jersey, October 25, 1760, was for twenty-two years Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He married Ann Hatkinson, who died July 15, 1832, aged seventy-one years. Judge Rossell died June 20, 1840.

Zachariah Rossell, son of Hon. William and Ann (Hatkinson) Rossell, born November 17. 1788, rendered distinguished services in the second war for inde- pendence, 1812-14. He enlisted, March 12, 1812, in the Fifteenth United States Infantry, Colonel Zebulon M. Pike, and on July 6, 1812, was commissioned Cap-

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tain. He was promoted to Major of the same regiment, December 13, 1813. He served until the close of the war, when he returned to his home in New Jersey, and was for many years Adjutant-General of that state, and Clerk of the Supreme Court.

Major Rossell married Lydia, daughter of Nathan Beakes, of New Jersey, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Major William Trent, and granddaughter of Colonel William Trent, member of Provincial Council, Speaker of Assembly, and Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Colonel Trent was a native of Inverness, Scotland, and came to Philadelphia with his brother, James Trent, in 1682. James returned to Scotland in 1697. William Trent became an extensive merchant in Philadelphia, and was associated with William Penn, James Logan, and others, in large trading ventures abroad. He married prior to 1696, Mary, daughter of John and Sarah Burge, of Philadel- phia, and, February 15, 1696-97, purchased a property on Front street, in which his wife had a one-third interest. In 1703, he purchased the "Slate-roof House," celebrated as the residence of William Penn and his family on his second visit to America in 1699.

He was called to William Penn's Council, 1703, and served in that body until his removal to "Trent-Town," New Jersey, October 4, 1721 ; though several years prior to that date he had given little attendance at the sessions of the Council. This was probably owing to the fact that he was at the same time filling other high official positions. He was commissioned one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the Province, April 17, 1706, and served until 1711 ; was again commis- sioned, May 30, 1715, and served until his removal to New Jersey. He was also a member of the Provincial Assembly, 1710-16-18-19-20, filling the position of Speaker in the session of 1719.

In 1714, Colonel Trent purchased of Mahlon Stacy, Jr., the mill erected by Mahlon Stacy, Sr., on the site of the present city of Trenton, and rebuilt and en- larged it, and his purchase including eight hundred acres lying on both sides of the Assanpink, he established there, in connection with William Morris and others, an iron forge and other industries, removed thither, 1721, and continued to reside there until his death at his residence, "Bloomsbury Court," December 25, 1740. He was returned a member of Assembly in New Jersey and was its Speaker, 1723; was appointed Colonel of the Hunterdon County Regiment, by Governor Burnett, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of that Province. Trenton was named for Colonel Trent, and the exclusive right of a ferry was granted to his eldest son, James, "in consideration that Col. William Trent, had by his industry, application and encouragements given by him for building, there was erected a pretty considerable town." This James Trent was also a Judge, and a prominent ironmaster. The other children of the first marriage were, John Trent, Clerk of Common Pleas Court, who died without issue 1725; and Mary, wife of Nathaniel French. Colonel Trent married (second) Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Howard) Coddington, of Rhode Island (the latter being the third wife of An- thony Morris, of Philadelphia, and the former a son of Governor William Cod- dington, of Rhode Island), who survived him.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 85

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