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Mr. Stewart was married, June 27, 1867, to Harriet Heist Drinkhouse, a daughter of Samuel and Maria (Tindall) Drinkhouse. Her father is a grandson of George Heist, who served as a private in the Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion in the Revolutionary war, commanded by Colonel Joseph Heister, of Berks county, Pennsylvania. This is recorded in the family Bible of George Heist now in possession of Samuel Drinkhouse, of
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Easton. Mr. Drinkhouse was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1804, and died Jan- uary 24, 1904. He. left Reading at the age of eighteen years with eight hundred dollars, and started for New York city, but on his way he stopped for the night in Easton, Pennsylvania, and was so charmed with the place that he determined to remain. Immediately he began the manufacture of hats, which he sold to the wholesale trade, and while still but a young man had amassed a considerable fortune. When General Lafayette visited America in 1824, Mr. Drinkhouse went with the Easton Rifles, of which he was a member, to see the honored French- man. On their way the company stopped to call on Jerome Bonaparte, who was then living near the Delaware river, not far from Philadelphia. This trip the Rifles made in a Durham boat from Easton to Philadelphia in one day, and each mem- ber of the company shook hands with the General. All were delighted with his charming manner. In his long life Mr. Drinkhouse has met many of the noted men of his country, and he describes their personal appearance and traits of character with great interest and vividness. From early life he has been a consistent and faithful mem- ber of the Lutheran church, and has labored un- tiringly to advance its interests. It is the earnest hope of his children and all who know him that he may round out his century of life.
His daughter, Mrs. Stewart, was educated in Madame Clement's school, and has always made her home in Easton. To Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have been born four children : Marie, born May 9, 1868, was married to Bingham Hood Coryell ; Ralph Tindall, born January 27, 1870, married Margaret Graham Clark, and is a civil engineer and contractor ; Clarence Dudley, born January II, 1873, is also a civil engineer and contractor ; Rodney Long, born January 13, 1881, follows the same pursuit as his brothers.
STEWART-GREEN AND ALLIED FAM- ILIES. To the memory of my mother, Eliza- beth Green, wife of John Stewart. This sketch of her ancestry is dedicated by her son, Clement Stewart.
William Green, emigrant ancestor, came to America from England at the age of twenty years. He landed at Philadelphia, but soon left that city for Long Island. He married Joanna, daughter of John Reeder, and about 1700 he re- moved to Ewing township, near Trenton, New Jersey. Here he purchased three hundred and forty-five acres of land from Colonel Daniel Coxe, the deed bearing date of 1712, and on it erected the first brick house in the township. This house is still standing, having on the west end the date, 1717, and is now owned and occupied by his descendent of the fifth generation, Henry Green. His qualities were such as to give him distinction, for he was appointed one of the first judges of Hunterdon county, and from the frequent mention of his name in public affairs and important busi- ness transactions, he was evidently a very prom- inent and useful citizen. He died, as is indicated by his antique tombstone in the Ewing church- yard, in 1722.
Richard, son of William Green, married Mary Ely, of Trenton, daughter of George Ely. George Ely was the son of Joshua Ely, and I give a copy of the will of Joshua, taken from the records at Trenton, New Jersey.
"Will of Joshua Ely, of Burlington county, West New Jersey-Gent. Date, November 6, 1700. Wife of, Rachel Lee. Children: Joshua, George, John, Hugh, Sarah, Elizabeth, Benja- min, Ruth. Note : If son George marry Christian, daughter of Nathaniel Pettit, which I hereby de- clare is quite contrary to my mind, then he is to enjoy no share of my estate to be divided as aforesaid. He, in that case, bequeaths him "20 pounds only."
"Executors: Loving cousin and friend, Thomas Revell, of Burlington. Wits: William Biddle, Jr., Christopher Snowden, George Will- hough. Probated, April Ist, 1704, Liber I, folio 21, etc."
Elizabeth Green, daughter of Benjamin Green, and Elizabeth Traill, married John Stew- art, son of Thomas Stewart, of near Stewartsville, New Jersey, and Rachel Dewees, his wife.
Clement Stewart, son of John Stewart and Elizabeth Green, his wife, married Harriet Heist
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Drinkhouse, daughter of Samuel Drinkhouse, and Maria Tindall, his wife. Their children are : Marie, wife of Bingham Hood Coryell, of Wil- liamsport, Pennsylvania; their children are : Clement Stewart Coryell and Margaret Bingham Coryell.
Ralph Tindall Stewart, son of Clement, mar- ried Margaret Graham Clark.
Clarence Dudley Stewart, son of Clement.
Rodney Long Stewart, son of Clement. Joshua Ely married (first ) - of Dun- ham, England. He married (second) Rachel Lee, died, by probate of will, 1704. In 1685 came to America from Dunham, Nottinghamshire, England. April 20, 1685, bought four hundred acres where Trenton, New Jersey, now is.
George Ely, born in Dunham, England, 1682, died at Trenton, New Jersey, 1750 ; married Jane Pettit, daughter of Nathaniel Pettit; bought one hundred arces of his father's original purchase; 1746, member of council.
Mary Ely married Richard Green, of Ewing, New Jersey, died 1741. Richard Green (sec- ond), son of Richard Green and Mary Ely, mar- ried Phebe Moore, daughter of Nathaniel Moore and Joanna Pruden.
Benjamin Green, son of Richard Green and Phebe Moore, married Elizabeth Traill, daughter of Robert Traill and Elizabeth Grotz.
I shall give all the military records and of- fices held by the ancestors of Elizabeth Green, also anything of interest that is worth recording, and that is authenticated by documentary evi- dence.
The Green family for generations has been noted for men of intellect, and for the great num- ber of college graduates. During the last cen- tury twenty-six of the Green family were gradu- ates of Princeton, seven of Lafayette, and sev- eral of Columbia College, New York. Princeton has also been largely endowed by two members of the Green family.
The Greens, being of Quaker origin, did not take a very active part in the Revolution, yet they were all on the side of the patriots, and aided the good cause by generous gifts of money and provisions for which the original receipts
are still in existence. When Washington was about to cross the Delaware he looked about for several men whose honor and courage he could rely upon to act as guides for the continental army from the banks of the Delaware to Trenton. One of these three was William Green, of Trenton, New Jersey, an uncle of Elizabeth Green Stew- art.
One of the most noted men of colonial times was the Rev. Peter Prudden, who came to Amer- ica with John Davenport and John Harvard (from whom Harvard College was named) in 1639. Rev. Peter Prudden afterwards became one of the founders of the New Haven colony, of which he was prominent as one of the "Seven Pillars." He died in 1656. In the Memorial Hall at Hartford, Connecticut, the state selected three clerical fathers for special honors in a memorial window. The three were Hooker, Dav- enport, and Peter Prudden.
Rev. Peter Prudden also founded the fine- ancient town of Milford, Connecticut, near New Haven, where a memorial tablet was placed to his memory a few years ago in the wall of the church, and on a memorial bridge over a beautiful stream in the town is a stone to his memory in one of the most prominent parts of the bridge. His son, the Rev. John Prudden, was also a noted man in the church, and was last located at Newark, New Jersey, where he died. His daughter, Jo- anna, married Nathaniel Moore, and was there- fore the great-grandmother of Elizabeth Green. Captain Samuel Moore, father of Nathaniel, was born in Connecticut, removed thence to Long Island in 1662; was very prominent both in a military and civil capacity. He filled many public offices, and served as a magistrate for a long ser- ies of years. He was a very prominent figure in military affairs during the Governor Peter Leis- ler insurrection. He is on record as a magistrate or judge.
Captain Samuel Moore also served in the In- dian wars of the period. Nathaniel, son of Cap- tain Samuel Moore, came to Ewing township in 1708. He bought five hundred acres of land about two miles from Pennington, New Jersey. on which he lived until his death, September 6,.
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1759, aged seventy-two years. He married Jo- anna, daughter of Rev. Jolin Prudden, of New- ark, New Jersey. He was a man of wealth, held a high position, and was greatly respected in the country side.
It should have been stated above that Samuel Moore was the son of Rev. John Moore and Mar- garet Howell, his wife. The line of descent of Rev. John Moore is given in the Moore family, and that of Margaret Howell in the history of the Howell family.
MOORE FAMILY. The family traces di- rect descent from Sir Thomas De Moore, who came over from Normandy with William the Conqueror in 1066, his name being on the list taken at the port of embarkation (St. Valery). and also in the list of survivors of the battle of Hastings.
Rev. John Moore, of England, was the first emigrant of this family to America. He settled first in New England, then came to Newtown, Long Island, soon after its settlement in 1652. He married Margaret, daughter of Edward Howell. They had children, among others Sam- uel, known as Captain Samuel Moore. This Cap- tain Samuel Moore was a inan of great prom- inence. He was born in 1645, and married Mary Reed. He served many years as a judge or mag- istrate, and as a member of the committee of safety. He was a captain of militia, and one of the body guard of Governor Jacob Leisler in 1690. Leisler's brief reign as the people's gov- ernor is a matter of history. He and his son-in- law were hung, and these two are sometimes called the "Pro-martyrs of popular liberty in America."
Captain Samuel Moore and Mary Reed, his wife, had Nathaniel Moore, who married Jo- anna Prudden. They had Phoebe Moore, who married Richard Green. They had Benjamin Green, who married Elizabeth Traill. They had Elizabeth Stewart, whose son married Harriet Heist Drinkhouse. They had Marie, Ralph Tin- dall, Clarence Dudley, and Rodney Long Stewart.
In this connection it may be mentioned that one of the brothers of Phebe Moore became presi-
dent of Columbia Colege, New York, and an- other was the celebrated Bishop Moore, of the Episcopal church, of New York, a man renowned for his deep learning and his fervent piety.
The wife of the late Hamilton Fish, at one time secretary of the treasury, was a Miss Moore of this family. The Countess of Annisley, called the "Irish beauty," was the daughter of the Rev. Moore, of the Irish branch of this family, and the coat of arms of the Moores of Ireland is identical with that of this family in America.
In 1839 an uncle of Professor Moore, of La- fayette College, visited the Moores in Ireland, and upon comparing old family records established the identity of the Moores of Ireland with the family in America, whose history I have given.
HOWELL FAMILY. Edward Howell, of Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England, was the emigrant ancestor of this family in South- ampton, Long Island.
Edward Howell disposed of several manors in Bucks county, England, in 1639, among which was the manor of Westbury, in Marsh Gibbon, purchased originally by his grandfather, William Howell, in 1536. The old stone manor house is still standing, though the remains of an old foundation near it show that some portions of it have been taken down. It is a full two story, and is what is called a double house. It is now nearly covered with ivy.
Edward Howell came with his family to Bos- ton in 1639. He soon removed to Lynn, Massa- chusetts, where he had a grant of five hundred acres of land. During the winter of 1639 and 1640 a new settlement was projected on Long Island, of which Edward Howell seems to have been the leader, as the compact or agreement of terms for founding the plantation is in his hand writing, as well as the laws adopted by the first settlers. To the end of his life he was always a magistrate and member of the colonial assembly at Hartford. The manner in which his name is mentioned in the colonial records of New England and New York points to this conclusion. The arms of this family, as found on an old family seal now in the possession of one of his descend-
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ants and on several old tombstones of the seven- teenth century in Southampton, are as follows : Gules-three towers, triple towered, argent, a crest is used by some members of this family. Out of a ducal crown or a rose argent stalked and leaved, Vert, between two wings, embossed by the last. Motto, "Tynax propositi."
Edward Howell was the son of Henry Howell, who was the son of the William above mentioned. Edward Howell, the son of Henry, had first wife, Frances They had these children- Henry, born November 24, 1622; John, born No- vember 22, 1624; Edward, born 1626; Margery, born June 1, 1628, and Richard, born 1629.
Edward Howell married his second wife, Eleanor , and by her had two children- Arthur and Edmund. Margaret, the eldest daughter of Edward Howell, Sr., married Rev. John Moore, of Southhold, Long Island. Ed- ward Howell built in 1648 the house now occu- pied by William P. Herrick, nearly opposite the present residence of Captain James M. Herrick, and as he had purchased three shares in corpora- tion of the settlement, his shares entitled him to three thousand acres of land within the limits of the town.
The original members in England of the pro- posed settlement in America were eight in num- ber, and I gave their names-Edward Howell and family, Daniel Howe, Edmund Farrington, George Welbe, Henry Walton, Josiah Starbor- ough, Job Sayre, Edmund Neldham, and Thomas Sayre. These eight men purchased a vessel large enough to contain their families and all their household goods. Articles of agreement were drawn up and signed, in which were stated the plans and purposes of the company and their sev- eral shares proportioned to the amount of money. by each contributed. Before sailing, however, the vessel was given to Daniel Howe, in consider- ation of his making three trips annually for two years for transportation of goods from Lynn to their respective plantations.
In all the affairs of the colony, Edward Howell seems to have been the leader, not only from his great wealth but from his superior ed-
ucation and ability. His services in the colony were great and seem to have been appreciated, as he was chosen to every post of honor in the gift of the people and the home government.
TRAILL FAMILY. Descent of Robert Traill, great grandfather of Clement Stewart, from George Traill 'of the House of Blebo in Fife,. Scotland.
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George Traill, from whom all of the Orkney Traills trace descent, was a cadet of the house of Blebo. He emigrated to the Orkney Islands when quite a young man, going there as a man- ager of estates with Earl Robert Stewart, or, as some historians have it, simply as a companion.
Before showing that the first of the Traills of Orkney was a cadet of the family of Traill, of Blebo, in Fifeshire, it may not be amiss to glance at several of the earlier notices of the Traills. Without attempting to trace their descent from the time of William the Conqueror, it is worthy of note that the name of Traill occurs in the roll of Battle Abbey. In Anderson's genealogy and surnames published by William Ritchie, Edin- burgh, in 1685, he states that Traill is supposed to have been originally Tyrrell. Again, Forden, in his "Scottish Chronicles," speaking of Bishop- Walter Traill, of St. Andrews, spells his name "Walterus Treyl," (he was a cotemporary of the Bishop, A. D. 1355 to 1401), and in another place he refers to a Walter Treyl as the unfortunate- man who was unwillingly the cause of the death of William Rufus. In Bank's dormant and ex- tinct baronage we find a William de Traill, wit- ness to charter in the time of Henry I. Forden also describes a tournament at Berwick in the reign of Robert III, where an English champion named Robert Morley on the first day vanquished all opponents, but on the morrow, encountering Sir Thomas Traill, a nephew of Bishop Walter Traill, was altogether defeated. In Sibbalois's Fife, and Kinross, Bishop Traill is said to be a son of the house of Blebo, and in Keith's catalogue of Scottish bishops, a similar statement is made. All early writers speak of Bishop Traill in high terms of eulogy. Buchanan considered that the three
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national calamities of Scotland in 1401 were the deaths of Earl Douglas, Queen Annabelle, and Walter Traill, Bishop of St. Andrews.
Many other descendants of the Blebo Traills were distinguished men in the church and in the army, but few of them are more worthy of note than the Rev. Robert Traill, minister of Elie in Fife, and afterwards of the Greyfriar's church in Edinburgh. He was born in 1603. His father was Colonel James Traill, and his mother, Ma- tilda Melville, of Carnbee, in Fife. His grand- father, Colonel Andrew Traill, a most distin- guished officer, was second son of Alexander, a younger brother of the Lord of Blebo. This Rev. Robert Traill had an older brother, James, born in 1600, who was a lieutenant-colonel in Cromwell's army. We find it stated in a manu- script account of the Traills, of Fife, that hav- ing taken refuge in Edinburgh Castle during Cromwell's invasion, in the year 1659, he refused to treat with Cromwell, and encouraged the garri- son to hold out. He was wounded in the siege, and when Cromwell took the castle and offered kindness to Mr. Traill, on account of his brother, Mr. Traill upbraided him as a persecutor of God's people, and told him he desired none of his favors. Cromwell, however, treated him kindly, and left him at liberty. An original picture of this James Traill, taken during his subsequent banishment to Holland, is or was in the possession of the Earl of Buchan, who was related to the Traills through Sir James Stewart, of Goodtrees.
Some degree of obscurity hangs over the exact time at which one if not two of the sons of the Lord of Blebo removed to Orkney, but it is stated in the appendix to Bell's "Life of Queen Mary," in Constable's manuscript, that George Traill accompanied Earl Robert Stewart to Ork- ney about the year 1580. Also in a manuscript boolt which belonged to the late Anthony Traill, of Edinburgh, compiled from genealogical papers drawn up by at least six descendants of the Traills of Blebo, then in an entry regarding Alexander Traill of Blebo in 1567 with the following state- ment :
"About this time two of the younger sons of
the House of Blebo went to the Orkneys. In 1795, Dr. William Traill, who married Lady Frances Charteris, was professor of mathematics in Aberdeen. It is recorded that George Traill, of Orkney, married (first) Jean Kennedy, a near relation of the Cassilis family. His second wife was Isabel, daughter of Sir William Cragie, of Gairsay. Patrick Traill was a major of artillery and rose to the rank of general. He was twice married, and left a daughter by his first wife who, about the year 1805, married a French count, who was a colonel in the British army. By his second wife, who was an American lady, he had a son who went to America with his maternal grandfather."
Robert Traill, of Orkney, afterwards of Eas- ton, Pennsylvania, was the son of Rev. Thomas Traill of Lady Parish, Island of Sandoy. When nineteen years of age he emigrated to America, landing at Philadelphia in 1763. Not liking Phil- adelphia, he went to Easton, Pennsylvania. Here he taught school, and at the same time studied law. From the first inception of the trouble with England, Robert Traill took a decided stand in favor of the colonies, and from the start he was a man of prominence. In 1775 he was secretary to the committee of observation. In 1776 he was secretary to the committee of safety, and in the same year was appointed mayor of the Fifth Pennsylvania Battalion. After his term of mayor expired, he was appointed quartermaster of a regiment, raised in Sussex county, New Jersey. After the war was over he was member of as- sembly, then sheriff, then judge, in fact he held nearly every office in the gift of the people.
Robert Traill was a man of great ability. Al- though by birth a Scotchman, he acquired such a thorough knowledge of German that he always acted as interpreter for the court where those interested in trials could not speak any language but German.
The Rev. George Traill, D. D., of Hobbister, first cousin to Robert Traill, became minister of. Dunnet in Caithness. His only son, James, stud- ied law, became sheriff of Sutherland and Caith- ness, and married Lady Janet Sinclair, daughter of William X, Earl of Caithness. He was very wealthy, and among others he owned the valuable estate of "Ratter."
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James's eldest son, George, who also studied law, was born in 1787 and for many years repre- sented Caithness in parliament. George's nephew, James Christie Traill, barrister at law, London, is the present possessor of Ratter and Hobister, and a younger brother of his, George Balfour Traill, lieutenant-colonel Royal Artillery, served all through the Indian mutiny, including the siege and capture of Delhi, the relief and cap- ture of Lucknow, etc.
I can not conclude without a passing notice of the last representative of the Traills of Tharlet, or Tirlet, as it is now called, Dr. Thomas Stewart Traill, professor of medical jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh. He was a man of varied talents, and at the time of his death, which occurred in 1862, in his eighty-first year, he had just completed the onerous work of superintend- ing a new edition of the "Encyclopedia Britannica."
Mary Traill, daughter of Robert Traill and Mary Whipple, married Keith Spence. Their daughter, Harriet, married the Rev. Charles Lowell. Their son was James Russell Low- ell, at one time American minister at the court of St. James, also a noted diplomatist and a poet of note. This Robert Traill was first cousin of Robert Traill, of Easton. The Hon. Carroll Spence, of Baltimore, our former minister to Turkey, was a descendant of Keith Spence and Mary Traill, and was a very noted man in liter- ature and a great lover of the fine arts.
With the dying of the old year my work ends. It has been to me a most pleasant task to rescue from oblivion the names and deeds of those to whom we owe not only our being, but that free- dom for which they so nobly strove.
This record shows that the Stewarts, Farm- ers, Traills, Dewees, Elys, Howells, and Greens were ever ready with their swords, pens and good right arms to uphold the cause of liberty. All were represented in the colonial and Revolutionary wars, and to- night as I write, sitting by the warm fireside, the story of Valley Forge comes vividly back to me, and I hear again the bugles of that patriot army as it calls the starved, nearly
naked and barefoot men, marking the snow with their bloody feet, to fall in. I am proud to record that grandfather Thomas Stewart was of this number, and we can fully appreciate the pathos and beauty of Halleck's lines :
"Hark, a bugle's echo comes, Hark, a fife is singing : Hark, the roll of far off drums Through the air is ringing.
Was it the music proud, Wakening the brave hearted? Memories, hopes, a glorious crowd, At its call have started.
Memories of our sires of old Who, their life blood flowing, Made green the grass and gold the grain Above their grave mound growing. -
Memories of the free and brave, Who at honor's bidding Stepped their country's life to save, To death as to their wedding."
With the sincere wish that my children may emulate all that is good and noble in their ances- tors, I lay down my pen ; my work is done. CLEMENT STEWART.
STEWART GENEALOGY. This is not a genealogical record in the strict sense of the term, but simply a tracing of the descent of John Stew- art and Elizabeth Green, parents of the writer, Clement Stewart.
It has been with me a labor of love, under- taken at first with a view to record only those with military records, but as the work went on I be- came more and more impressed with the convic- tion that it was only just and due to record all the ancestry on both sides, as .I found so many who had served the country in a civil capacity, and perhaps at greater sacrifice than those who upheld their convictions with their swords. To this end I shall endeavor to give to each one the place to which the records civil and military assign them, together with any incidents and anec- dotes that are authenticated by record cr by the mouth of those who in their childhood listened to
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