Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 90

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

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DANIEL SAYRE, of whom presently;

Joseph Sayre, probably b. in Bedfordshire, England, removed from Southampton, L. I., 1665, to Elizabeth, N. J., and was named as one of the proprietors of Elizabeth in a

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deed from Gov. Richard Nicolls; he had a warrant for 180 acres there, dated April 11, 1676, and owned, besides, town lots and other lands; his wife's name was Martha; Mary Sayre, m. Benjamin Price before 1669; Hannah Sayre, under eighteen in 1669.

According to Howell's "History of Southampton," Thomas Sayre's arms were : Gules, a chevron, ermine, between three sea-gulls, argent. Crest : A cubit arm erect proper holding a dragon's head erased argent. Motto: Saie and doe.

DANIEL SAYRE, son of Thomas Sayre, Southampton founder, was probably born in Bedfordshire, England. He is named in a list of the inhabitants of Southamp- ton in 1657. The town record mentions fifteen acres laid out to him next to his brother, Francis, January 13. 1667. He died in 1708, having outlived all his brothers. His will was dated August 21, 1707, proved April 13, 1708. By it he ordered his two negro slaves sold and the money to be divided between his sons, Joseph, Daniel and David, his daughter, Hannah Topping, and the children of his deceased son, Samuel. He left his son, Ephraim five shillings, in addition to what he had already received ; he left his dwelling-house, land, etc., and all residue of his estate to his son, Nathan, whom he made executor.

Daniel Sayre married (first) Hannah, daughter of Christopher and Frances Foster, ( second) Sarah - -; his children were :

Nathan Sayre, probably eldest son; m. Mary -; at a meeting at Southampton, L. I., April 7, 1712, to settle rights in common, he had fifty acres "by his father"; he sold his land at Southampton, Aug. 3, 1719; on Nov. 25, 1720, he purchased a house and 150 acres of land in the present town of Maromas, Middlesex co., Conn., and soon after went there to live; some of his descendants spelled their name Sears;

Joseph Sayre, m. Priscilla ; Oct. 1, 1686, he bought Lot. No. 18, at Southampton, L. I., and July 15, 1690, sold a lot he had from his grandfather, Christopher Foster; he was chosen Trustee of Southampton, April 3, 1694; in 1697 he removed to Cohansey, Salem (now Cumberland) co., N. J., being one of the company of original purchasers from Conn. and L. I., who settled that place in that year; he was named as a Justice of the first Court of Records at Salem, June 2, 1705; his will was dated April 10, and probated April 19, 1710;

DANIEL SAYRE, of whom presently;

Samuel Sayre, removed to Elizabeth, N. J., before 1696-97; d. before the date of his father's will, Aug. 21, 1707, leaving issue;

David Sayre, removed to Cohansey, N. J., where in 1709 he was Overseer of the Poor, and in 1718 Surveyor of Highways; his will was dated Feb. 15, 1741, probated Dec. 9, 1744; m. , and left issue ;

Ephraim Sayre, m. Sarah Barnes; he was Sergeant of militia company of south side of Cohansey, Nov., 1715; d. at Cohansey; will dated Dec. 31, 1715, probated Jan. 24, 1715-16;

Hannah Sayre, m. Capt. Hosiah Topping, who was b. 1663, d. 1726.

DANIEL SAYRE, son of Daniel and Hannah ( Foster) Sayre, was born at South- ampton, Long Island, 1666. He bought land at Montauk, and sold land there, and at Southampton, the last record of such transaction being March 20, 1730-31, when Daniel Sayre, of Southampton, Gentleman, sold to Jonah Pierson, "half of my North Lot, I had of my son."

On June 23, 1709, the Council of New York appointed him one of the Lieu- tenants in Col. Schuyler's company of militia ; he appears to have been the Captain Lieutenant, and was thereafter called "Captain Daniel Sayre." He was Sheriff of Suffolk county, New York, 1711-12, and a Justice at Southampton, 1718-33. He was also Collector of Southampton in 1712. Capt. Daniel Sayre died May 11, 1748, and was buried at Mecox. Long Island. By his will. dated May 22, 1747,

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probated June 16, 1748, he ordered his land and buildings within the bounds of Southampton to be sold. He left money and household goods to his children, Daniel Sayre, Hannah Smith, Mary Ludlam, Ann Moore, and his grandchildren, Daniel, Sarah, Elizabeth, Abigail, John, Nathaniel and Noah, children of his de- ceased son, Ethan; and Silas, Sarah, Ezekiel, Elizabeth, Abigail, Hannah and David, children of his deceased son, Silas; executors, John Sayres and the testa- tor's grandson, Thomas Cooper. The children of his deceased son, Isaac, are not mentioned, nor even Isaac's name.

Daniel Sayre married Sarah -, and had issue :

Daniel Sayre, called "Daniel Tertius" in a list of inhabitants of Southampton, 1698; m. Phebe, dau. of Isaac Raynor; removed to Elizabeth, N. J., about 1730, d. in 1763; ISAAC SAYRE, of whom presently ;

Hannah Sayre, b. 1690; m. (first) Capt. John Cooper, b. at Southampton, 1685, d. there, Dec. 14, 1715, (second), March 3, 1718. Maj. William Henry Smith, b. March 13, 1689, tenth child of Col. William Smith ("Tangier Smith"), ex-Gov. of Tangier, by his wife, Martha Tunstall;

Mary Sayre, m. Samuel Ludlam ( will dated July 18, 1766, probated Feb. 13, 1767, New York) ;

Ann Sayre, b., Bridgehampton, L. I., 1709; d. July 8, 1787; m. Daniel Moore. of Bridge- hampton, who d. May 10, 1791 ;

Ethan Sayre, m.

-; d. before 1747, leaving seven children;

Silas Sayre, m. Abigail, dan. of Ezekiel and Dorcas Sanford; his will dated May 16, probated at New York, May 27. 1747: d. before his father.

ISAAC SAYRE, son of Daniel and Sarah Sayre, lived in Bridgehampton, New York, and married Elizabeth, born November 26, 1699, at Haddam, Connecticut, daughter of John and Sarah ( White) Smith. Her mother was a daughter of Capt. Nathaniel White, and granddaughter of Elder John White, of Haddam. On December 27. 1721, Isaac Sayre "declared ear-mark" at Southampton. In the Southampton town book, vol. ii., p. 187, is an account of the proceedings of the Commissioners of Highways, 1726, in rectifying the highway between Heze- kiah Topping and Isaac Sayre's corner ; and also, "between East Hampton line and Isaac Sayre's land we have laid out a highway to the beach." Isaac Sayre died in 1725-26, long before his father, who does not mention either him or his issue in his will. Isaac Sayre's own will, dated December 14, 1725, probated at New York, March 21, 1726, leaves all his estate to his wife and son, Isaac; pro- viding also for a prospective child, Ezekiel, born after his father's death: failing survival of all of whom, he left his estate successively to his brothers, Silas and Ethan.

Issue of Isaac and Elisabeth (Smith) Sayre:

ISAAC SAYRE, of whom presently:

Ezekiel Sayre, b. 1726, probably the Ezekiel Sayre, who was Lieutenant of Monmouth co., N. J. militia, during the Revolution, and afterwards removed to Ohio, where his descendants held many public offices.

After the death of Isaac Sayre, his widow, Elizabeth, married Jeremiah Ludlow, born in Southampton, Long Island. They removed to Elizabethtown, New Jersey. and about 1737 to near New Providence, New Jersey, where he died August I. 1764, aged sixty-seven years. Elizabeth (Smith-Sayre) Ludlow, according to the family Bible of her son, Isaac Sayre, Jr., was born 1699, died March 13, 1700. By her second husband she had two sons, Jeremiah and Col. Cornelius Ludlow. The

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latter was father of Gen. Benjamin Ludlow, grandfather of George Harris Lud- low, once Sheriff of Morris county, New Jersey, and the great-grandfather of George Ludlow, Governor of New Jersey in 1881.

ISAAC SAYRE, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Smith) Sayre, was born in Southamp- ton, Long Island, 1722, and removed with his mother and stepfather to what is now New Providence township, Union county, New Jersey, living between the mountains southwest of Springfield, near Summit. In 1780, at the time of the battle of Springfield, many Continental scouts made their quarters in this valley. "Isaac Sayre's house was the resort of many of these foot-sore scouts, and there they found a welcome. His wife, it is said, could not do too much for them. To her last day she recounted the fact that she had entertained General George Wash- ington, and encouraged his men as they came to her mountain home, never turning them empty away. The old homestead was, until recently, still standing on the road corner where the old red school house stood."

On August 21, 1804, the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New Providence, deeded to Isaac Sayre and his son, Anthony, a tract of sixteen acres in that town, on the road from there to Chatham; this was sold by Isaac's widow and Anthony, November 23, 1808. Isaac Sayre died April 25, 1805. He married Jane, daughter of Matthias and Catharine Swaine.

Issue of Isaac and Jane (Swaine) Sayre:

Elizabeth Sayre, m. Enoch Vreeland;

MATTHAIS SAYRE, of whom presently; Catharine Sayre, m. Timothy Griffin, of New Providence, and had twelve children ; Isaac Sayre, b. Nov. 23, 1752; lived where his father did, in that part of New Providence now called Summit; d. Oct. 10, 1828; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Abraham and Mary (Brooks) Roll, b. Aug. 29, 1759, d. Sept. 26, 1850;

Anthony Sayre, b. Oct. 10, 1754, Springfield twp., Essex co., N. J., was a private in Capt. Brookfield's and other companies, in Col. Thomas's and Col. Jaquish's regiments, Revolutionary War ; d. Jan. 17, 1835, in Essex co., N. J .; m. and had one son, Anthony Sayre, Jr .;

Nancy Sayre, b. Feb. 5, 1757; d. Nov. 11, 1828; m., Oct. 24, 1777, John Halsey, b. Oct. 17, 1756, d. May 19, 1827, son of Joseph, Jr., and Mary (Armstrong) Halsey, of Spring- field, N. J., and they removed to Lebanon, Warren co., O., 1812; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army.

MATTHIAS SAYRES, son of Isaac and Jane (Swaine) Sayre, born near Summit, New Jersey, 1746, served during the Revolutionary War, as Wagon-Master, with rank of Captain, in the Wagon-Master General's Department of New Jersey. He added a final "s" to his name, which was retained by some of his descendants and rejected by others.

Matthias Sayres died April 12, 1792, in his forty-sixth year, and was buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery, at Westfield, New Jersey, where he then resided. In his will, dated April 5, 1792, probated April 17, 1792, he mentioned his wife, Patience; sons, Caleb Smith, Aaron, Noah, and Matthias Swaine, and daughters, Chloe and Patience ; his son, Aaron, and William Baker were named as executors, and Caleb S. Sayres was made guardian of his younger brother, Noah, April 17. 1792.

Matthias Sayres married, September 27, 1767, Patience, born about 1752, died March 2, 1811, daughter of Aaron Thompson, of Long Hill.

Issue of Matthias and Patience (Thompson) Sayres:

CALEB SMITH SAYRES. of whom presently ;

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Aaron Sayres, m., Feb. 9, 1794, Mary Crane (d. Jan. 5, 1805, aged twenty-eight years, five months and two days), dau. of John and (Beddell) Crane; m. (second), Jan. 7, 1808, Sally De Camp, who was received as a member of Westfield Presbyterian Church, Feb. 1, 1811;

Chloe Sayres, m., Jan. 29, 1794, John Scudder, of Westfield, who was a soldier in Revo- Intionary War, belonged to a prominent N. J. family; they removed to what was then "The West";

Noah Sayre, as this son spelled the name, m. and had issue;

Matthias Swaine Sayres, b. June 4, 1783; lived in Woodbridge, N. J .; d. at sea, April 1. 1817; m. Hannah Tucker (d. April 8, 1825, aged forty-six years) ; his will, dated Jan. 25, 1817, probated June 12, 1822, made his wife, Hannah, executrix and sole legatee;

Patience Sayres, d. April 28, 1810; m. at Westfield, Jan. 26, 1806, John Beagle;

Thompson Sayres, b. Nov. 17, 1787; d. Jan. 29, 1789.

CALEB SMITH SAYRES, M. D., born near Elizabeth, New Jersey, May 24, 1768; died at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1799, and was buried under the floor of St. Martin's Church (as it is now extended). He became a member of the Presbyterian Church, at Westfield, New Jersey, July 31, 1785. Shortly after this date he removed to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where he practiced medi- cine at Marcus Hook, Chester, etc. In 1790 he was Surgeon of the Eighth Bat- talion, Pennsylvania Militia, Col. Vernon commanding. He was also a Justice of the Peace and a liberal subscriber to the funds of St. Martin's Church, Marcus Hook. His residence at Marcus Hook, facing the Delaware river, is still stand- ing.

Dr. Caleb S. Sayres married, August 9, 1792, Susanna (see above), daughter of Jacob and Susanna (Wills) Richards, of Aston township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania.

Issue of Dr. Caleb S. and Susanna (Richards) Sayres:

Matthias Richards Sayres, b., Marcus Hook, Pa., June 7, 1792; d., unm., April 4, 1826; bur. in St. Paul's churchyard, Chester, Pa .; he was educated at the Univ. of Pa .; stud- ied law with Hon. John Sergeant, and was admitted to Bar in Phila., June 16, 1816, and in Delaware co., July 22, 1816; M. Richards Sayres was a promising young mem- ber of the Delaware County Bar; in Oct., 1824, he was assigned, by Judge Darlington, for the defense in the Bonsall murder case, one of the greatest trials, perhaps, ever held in Delaware co .;

Augusta Caroline Sayres, b. July 5, 1795; d. young, unm .;

EDWARD SMITH SAYRES, of whom presently.

EDWARD SMITH SAYRES, born at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1797, removed to Philadelphia. "Mr. Sayres was educated at the University of Penn- sylvania. In early life he went to Brazil as supercargo of his own vessel, the Clio ; was afterwards a merchant in Philadelphia ; was appointed Vice-Consul of Brazil, December 3, 1841 ; Vice-Consul of Portugal, March 13, 1850; Vice-Consul of Sweden and Norway, July 10, 1854; and Vice-Consul of Denmark, May [, 1862, resident at Philadelphia. Was appointed by the Princess Regent of Brazil, Honorary Consul of that Empire, with the rank of Captain in The Brazilian Navy, February 2, 1872, for long and faithful service to the Empire; and was at the time of his death Dean of the Consular Corps at Philadelphia, and probably the oldest foreign Consul in point of service in the United States.

"Mr. Sayres was a gentleman of the older school, courteous and dignified. At over seventy years of age he was erect and his step was as springy as a man of fifty. He was a great reader, had a fine memory and was a good linguist, and was the owner of a fine library. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 29. 1877, and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery."

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Edward Smith Sayres married, July 25, 1839, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Jane, daughter of John and Jane McPhail Humes. Mrs. Sayres died April 2, 1858, and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. Her father, John Humes, Esq., was a merchant of Philadelphia (of the firms of Humes & Etting, and Humes & Lippincott), and Register of Wills of Philadelphia county, 1830-36.

One of Mrs. Sayres's uncles, Dr. Samuel Humes, was a distinguished physician of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, founder and first president of the State Medical Society, Treasurer of Lancaster county in 1806, and a Major and Surgeon in the War of 1812. Another uncle, Capt. James Humes, was Sheriff of Lancaster county, 1809, and commanded a troop of horse, which was the first offer to the President in the War of 1812, and another uncle, William Humes, was in Hart- man Kuhn's Company of State Fenables, in the War of 1812. An aunt, Sarah Humes, married George B. Porter, Adjutant General of Pennsylvania, and Gov- ernor of Michigan, a brother of Gov. David Rittenhouse Porter, of Pennsylvania. Samuel Humes, father of Dr. Samuel and Capt. James Humes and Sarah (Humes) Porter, and grandfather of Mrs. Sayres, served in the Revolution. Mrs. Sayres's mother, Jane McPhail, was daughter of John and Ann Mackenzie McPhail, of Philadelphia.

Issue of Edward S. and Jane ( Humes) Sayres:

Emma Stalker Sayres, b. Nov. 22, 1840; d. Oct. 6, 1850;

Caroline Augusta Sayres, b. June 9, 1843; d. Jan. 30, 1847;

Harry Sayres, b. June 2, 1845; educated at private classical academies, and clerk to his father's consulates; for over fifteen years auditor of Union Insurance Co. of Phila .; he is member of Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the Merion Cricket Club;

EDWARD STALKER SAYRES, of whom presently ;

Horace Sayres, h., Phila., Oct. 3, 1853: member of Merion Cricket Club, of Haverford, Pa .; m. at St. Stephen's Church, Phila., April 19, 1881, Isabel (d. May 21, 1895), dau. of Capt. William Eustis, a graduate of West Point, late of U. S. A., and member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and Elizabeth Greland, his wife; issue of Horace and Isabel (Eustis) Sayres :

William Eustis, b. April 12, 1882;

Horace Hamilton, b. July 31, 1883 :

Isabel Despaigne, b. July 5, 1885;

Edward Grantham, b. May 22, 1887;

Mary Humes, b. Aug. 29, 1890; Arthur Richards, b. April 9, 1895.

Jennie Humes Sayres, b. June 19, 1855.

EDWARD STALKER SAYRES, born in Philadelphia, July 30, 1850, son of Edward Smith and Jane Humes Sayres, was educated at the old Quaker private school, Pine (above Front ) street, and at the private classical academy of Eliphalet Rob- erts, finishing at the Friends' Central School, Fifteenth and Race streets, Phila- delphia. He read law with John Hill Martin, Esq., author of Martin's "Bench and Bar of Philadelphia," "History of Chester," etc., and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, December 27, 1873, and later to the Supreme Court of Penn- sylvania, and the Court of Claims at Washington, D. C. Mr. Sayres's practice is confined to Orphans' Court, real estate, conveyancing, and mercantile and marine law. He continued his association with John Hill Martin, Esq., at 217 South Third street, Philadelphia, until the latter's death. Mr. Sayres is a member of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, and was recorder of the same during the session of 1872-73. He is also a member of the Law Association of Philadelphia.

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Mr. Sayres is a director and counsel for the Delaware Insurance Company of Philadelphia, was formerly director and is now vice-president of the Merchants' Trust Company of Philadelphia. He was interested in the formation of the Land Title and Trust Company, and was for a short period its secretary. He was one of the original members of the Civil Service Reform Association of Pennsylvania, and acted as its secretary at its first meeting, and was for years its treasurer and a member of its executive and finance committees.

Mr. Sayres is a vice-president of the board of trustees for the Northern Home for Friendless Children and Associated Institute for Soldiers' and Sailors' Or- phans ; secretary of the board of managers of the Children's Hospital of Philadel- phia ; and a life member, councillor, and one of the board of managers of the Mercantile Beneficial Association.

Edward S. Sayres became a member of Company D, First Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania, 1874, and served with his company during the coal riots of 1875, and again in the labor riots of 1877, being with his command in the Round House at Pittsburgh. He was elected First Lieutenant of Company D, 1879, and was in command of the company, First Lieutenant Commandant, when he resigned his commission in 1880. He was for many years treasurer of Company D's civil organization, of which he is an honorary member. He is also a member of the "Old Guard" of Company D. and of the Veteran Corps of the First Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Sayres is a member of the council of the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania ; a founder and recording secretary of the Genealogical Society of Pennsyl- vania ; one of the board of managers of the Christ Church Historical Association ; and a member of the Geographical Society of Pennsylvania, and National Geo- graphical Society. He is also secretary of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; one of the board of managers of the Pennsyl- vania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and several times a delegate to the General Society ; a founder and sometime a member of the Council of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; treasurer of the Pennsylvania Society of the War of 1812, and a delegate to the General Society ; and for several years a member of the Council of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States, and treasurer-general of the National Commandery.

In 1865 Mr. Sayres was one of the founders of the Merion Cricket Club, then of Ardmore, now of Haverford, Pennsylvania, is now a member of its board of governors, chairman of its house committee, and has been its secretary for over thirty years. He is likewise a member of the Radnor Hunt, Bryn Mawr Polo Club, and the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia.

Edward Stalker Sayres married (first), December 15, 1881, at St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Caroline Linda Jennings, daughter of Silas Weir and Caroline ( Kalbfus) Lewis, of Philadelphia ; by whom he had issue :

Linda Lewis Sayres, b. Sept. 28, 1882; m. Jan. 3, 1906, at St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Phila., Morris Shallcross Phillips, son of John Bakewell Phillips, of Pitts- burgh, Pa., and Pasadena, Cal., grandson of the late Hon. Ormsby Phillips, at one time Mayor of Allegheny, prominent citizen of Pittsburgh, and great-grandson of late Col. Asher Phillips, U. S. A .; on maternal side grandson of Joseph Shallcross, of Sharon Hill, Pa., great-grandson of late Dr. Morris Cadwalader Shallcross, a well- known physician of Phila .; a descendant of Leonard Shallcross, founder of family in Pa., who settled in Bucks co., about 1700; direct descendant of Maj. John Ormsby, who was with Gen. Braddock at Fort Duquesne.

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Mrs. Sayres died October 9, 1882, and Mr. Sayres married (second), April 3, 1888, at St. Michael's Church, Germantown, his first wife's cousin, Mary Victoria, daughter of Frederic Mortimer and Emma Hulme Carvill Lewis, and sister to the late Prof. Henry Carvill Lewis, the well-known geologist and scientist.

YORK-STILLE FAMILY.

THOMAS YORKE, first American ancestor of Philadelphia family of that name, came from Yorkshire, England, when a young man, and about 1730 became a clerk for Thomas Potts, Jr., at Colebrookedale furnace in what is now Berks county, Pennsylvania. He was born in 1708, and came of an eminent family that had been long seated in the county of York. According to Burke, the Yorke fam- ily had for many generations maintained a leading position there amongst the great landed proprietors ; Bevely Hall, near Ripon, being the family seat. Sir John Yorke, Knight, was Lord Mayor of London, and one of the trustees named in the will of Richard Whittington, of nursery ballad fame. He was father of ten sons, two of whom, Edward and Edmund, became Vice-Admirals of the Royal Navy, and attained knighthood.

Thomas Yorke, Pennsylvania immigrant, was doubtless descended from one of ten sons of Sir John Yorke, but his lineage has never been definitely traced. He was a man of ability and education, and became prominent in the affairs of that section of Philadelphia county, incorporated into Berks county in 1752. He was commissioned a Justice, June 30, 1749, was one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, after the organization of the county of Berks, and also represent- ed that county in the Provincial Assembly in 1756-57. In December, 1747, the Provincial Assembly having adjourned without making any provision for the defense of the province against the depredations of the Indians on the frontier or invasion from abroad, he was one of those "who had the love of their country sincerely at heart," described in the message of Anthony Palmer, President of Assembly, in his message to the reconvened House, May 17, 1748, "who volun- tarily entered into an association for defence ; formed companies which proceeded to choose officers, who, in turn, assembled and chose their superior officers, all being commissioned by the direction of the Provincial Council." Among the regi- ments formed under these proceedings was "The Associated Regiment of the County of Philadelphia," of which Edward Jones was chosen Colonel and Thomas Yorke, Lieutenant Colonel, and both duly commissioned; they having previously been selected Captains of companies in the manner above described. He was also interested in the Provincial navy, and, in 1761, was authorized, by Council, to sell the Provinceship, and to perform other duties relative to the navy.

Thomas Yorke seemed to have been a progressive business man ; and his name occurs as one of three underwriters on an early policy of insurance for £360, dated 1757, on the sloop, "George," Capt. (or Master) Burrows, issued for Will- iam Fisher & Company, through J. Saunders and William Gibson.

Thomas Yorke died June 24. 1764, and was buried at Perkiomen, plot of Robe- son family, where his tombstone bears this inscription :

"IN MEMORY OF THOMAS YORKE, ESQR. Who departed this life June 23, 1764, Aged 56 yrs."

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 90

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