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George Fleck,
2
3
Humphrey Jones,
180 3
5
Ann Week, .
100
Geo. Gossinger,
100 2
5
Samuel Castner,
50 2
4
Philip Hood,
300 4
6
John Everhart,
150 2 4
Isaac Kolb, .
143 3
6
Nicholas Rile,
50 2 6
Isaac Kolb, jr., . 143 2
5
Adam Fleck,
140
3
6
John Thomson,
123 3
4 David Davis,
75 3 3
Thomas Shoemaker, . IIO
2
3
Robert Davis,
75
Margaret Johnson, . 100 2 4 Samuel Castner,
80 2
Stephen Bloom,
35
2
2 Daniel Leblance,
75
2
2
George Week, 7
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1
Melchior Crible,
119 3
5
4 John Davis, jun. 75 I
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Philip Heist,
120 2
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TAXABLES IN GWYNEDD IN 1776.
Daniel Williams, . 130
3
4 William Roberts, 1 00
2 4
Amos Roberts
189 3
8 Ezekiel Cleaver, 140 4
8
John Davis, .
170 3
6 John Evans,
250 3
2
2
Nicholas Selser, 100 2 4
Peter Young,
50 I 4
Morris Morris,
30 1
2
Jacob Smith,
100 1
2
Henry Rapp,
1
I Jacob Smith, Jr., Jacob Wiant,
I 30 3
I
2
Samuel Gamble,
29
I
1
Levi Foulke,
100 3
6
Martin Swink, 160 2
4 Martin Raker,
57
2
2
Abram Donnenhauer, . 135 2
6 Wm. Johnson,
123 2
2
Jacob Heistler,
147 4
4
Hugh Foulke,
3
2
Henry Snider,
175 3
6
Conrad Gerhart,
. 120 2
5
Peter Troxall, 170 3
6 John Siddons,
1
1
John Troxall,
170 3
6 Conrad Smith,
2
2
Thomas Evans, jr.,
140 2
4
William Moore,
2
2
Baltzer Spitznagel, .
I
Job Lukens, Henry Bergey,
20
1
1
William Williams, .
120
3
5
50 2
3
George Maris,
450
4
6 Adam Smith,
I
I
Conrad Dimond,
40 I
2 Matthias Booz,
1
Walter Howell, . 100 2
2 Wendle Fetter,
15
I
Thomas Layman, Michael Hoffman, Jacob Sigfried
200
2
John Singer,
50
I 2
1
2
Philip Hurst, John Troxall,
25 2
1
Mathew Lukens,
1 30
2
6
Wm. Hoffman, .
2 4
Martin Hoffman,
I Evan Davis,
15
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John Jenkins, . 252
3
5
Nicholas Shubert, .
7
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Sarah Griffith, . 300
2
3 Christian Delacourt,
Joseph Griffith, . . 100 2
2 Michael Itzell,
I
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Benjamin Rosenboyer, 50
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2 Jacob Brown,
John Knipe,
150 I
3 Jacob Walton,
1
1
William Dixey
IO
1
I Jacob Preston,
Garret Clemens,
136 3
John Conrad,
60
2
3 Benjamin Williams,
Christian Dull,
8
I
I Philip Berkheimer,
John Shelmire,
14
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I
8
Enoch Morgan,
100 2
5 Michael Cousler, ot
1 2
George Miller,
Jacob Albrough,
2
2 Peter Hoffman,
William Springer,
80 2
5
Barnaby Beaver,
50
1
2
4
2
6 John Delacourt, .
2
4
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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.
Single Men.
Hugh Evans,
Joseph Long,
John Selser,
John Jenkins, jr.,
John Williams,
Christian Knipe,
John Kidney,
Evan Roberts,
George Sperry,
John Evans,
Eleazar Williams,
Wm. Oman,
Robert Roberts,
Tillman Kolb,
Samuel Singer,
David Harry, jr.,
Griffith Edwards
Conrad Booz,
Reese Harry,
Jacob Booz,
George Ganger,
Benj. Harry,
Wm. Smith,
Joseph Yost,
Joseph Lewis,
Reese Roberts,
Benj. Gregory,
John Johnson,
Robert Roberts,
Ab'm Donnenhauer.
Enoch Morgan,
Henry Selser,
The list gives some miscellaneous information. It states that Jesse Foulke had a " grist and saw mill," Thomas Evans and George Snider had each " I servant," Amos Roberts had " 9 children," so likewise had Henry Snider ; Thomas Evans, jun., " supports his mother," Barnaby Beaver had a " grist mill," and Matthew Lukens a " saw mill ;" William Dixey is marked " cripple," William Ervin " aged," Christian Dull, "tavern," and Alexander Major " 8 children."
Besides those in the list who have already been particularly alluded to in the genealogical or other preceding chapters, some details may be conveniently added here concerning a few others.
Jephthah and Enos Lewis were brothers, the sons of William Lewis.1 Their land was on the Wissahickon, between the pres- ent stations of Acorn and Lukens, on the Stony Creek railroad. (It forms, now, [1884] at least four farms : those of George S. Thomas, the heirs of Zebedee Comly, John Nicom, and Job Supplee.) Jephthah Lewis died in Decemher, 1786. His wife's name was Ann, and he left a daughter Mary, and a son Joseph. The last named lived a bachelor, very saving and rather eccen- tric, and died in February, 1828, aged 83. He was a justice of
1 See details concerning him, p. 69.
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TAXABLES IN GWYNEDD IN 1776.
the peace for many years, well-known in his time, and after his death long remembered, as " 'Squire Josey " Lewis. His house was on the Thomas farm, south-west of the creek. Among his peculiarities was his great care of his timber land, as he was anxious lest he should not have enough fire-wood to last him his life-time. Much of his farm was covered with woods, making a favorite resort for the " gunners " of the country about, though the 'Squire was chary of his permission to come upon his premises, especially after finding that somebody had " holed " a 'possum, or perhaps a 'coon, and had cut down the tree to make sure of the prize.1 After his death the woodland was laid off in lots by a survey made by Cadwallader Foulke, and the timber sold at public sale. The homestead farm, 108 acres, was bought by Joseph Williams, who sold it in 1856 to Edward Barber, and the portion east of the creek, 101 acres, was bought by Jacob Schwenk, who sold it in 1846 to Zebedee Comly.
Enos Lewis (called Eneas, in the assessor's list) owned the land now [1884] Job Supplee's and John Nicom's. His house is presumed to have been Job Supplee's present house. His wife, married 1736, was Jane, daughter of Ellis Lewis, the elder, of Upper Dublin, and their children included a son Isaac, and a daughter Ellen. These two children inherited Enos's estate. Ellen having married Edward Roberts (son of Robert, of Gwy-
1 The author's great uncle, Jesse Jenkins, an enthusiastic hunter and fisher, was one who enjoyed the shooting in 'Squire Josey's woods, and was rather a favorite in getting his permission for it. Mr. Mathews says that on the day of the 'Squire's funeral (Feb., 1828), "a terrible storm of snow and wind prevailed, rendering the roads almost impassable. A few Friends and neighbors gathered early in the morning, and with great difficulty conveyed his body to its last resting-place at Gwynedd. When they returned, a much larger number had collected, and the funeral rites were celebrated in old-fashioned style." When his personal property was sold, " an immense number of articles and utensils were found about the premises, and the sale never had a parallel in the town- ship. Levi Jenkins, of Montgomery, was the auctioneer, and it required five days to dispose of the goods." His estate was valued at $60,000, and over $1,000 in money was found secreted about the premises. His property went to collateral heirs.
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nedd), her son Enos got the present Nicom place,' by his grandfather's will ; and the homestead was received by Isaac. Jephthah died August 20, 1778. Isaac married Sarah Jenkins,2 daughter of John, the elder of that name (the one named above as assessor, 1776), but died a comparatively young man (his will dated December 30, 1792), leaving three children, Enos, Ann, and Mary. Of these, Enos married Margaret Dewees, of Trappe, (who survives, 1884, aged about 84), but left no issue ; Ann married Joseph Reiff, of Upper Dublin, and left five children : Enos L., Jacob, Isaac, Sarah, and Mary ; and Mary married Israel Bringhurst, of Trappe, and had a large family.3
Rees Harry's land included the present (or recent) farms of Hunter E. Van Leer, Thomas Layman, and T. Peterson, on the Wissahickon, between Mumbower's mill and North Wales. Rees Harry, here named, was the son of the Rees Harry who is named in the freeholders' list of 1734. The latter was the son of David
1 This property Enos held to his death, July 23, 1820, when it passed to his chil- dren, Nathan, John, Edward, and Ann. Ann d. 1849 ; her brothers were quiet bachel- ors, but Nathan, late in life, married Barbara Root, and d. 1860, leaving three children.
2 Sarah, after her husband's death, kept store at Montgomery Square. Among the 'Squire John Roberts papers is her bill for sundry supplies furnished him, in 1802-3-candles. I s. 412 d. per lb .; sugar, 1114 d .; coffee, I s. 1012 d .; tea, I S. 101/2 d. per quarter Ib ; molasses, 2 s. 912 d. per half gallon ; brimstone, 8 d. per Ib ; whiskey (2 items in a pretty long bill), I s. 101/2 d. per quart ; and a spelling book, a cyphering book, an " assistant " (arithmetic), and other articles.
$ Mary Lewis, b. July 4, 1771, m. September 27, 1792, d. August 11, 1846. Their children were seven : (1) William M., d. 1857, unm .; (2) Enos 1 .. , physician, graduate Univ. of Penna., successful practitioner at Lawrenceville, Chester Co., d. 1863, unm .; (3) Wright A. Bringhurst, of Trappe, member Legislature of Penna., 1835-36, d. 1876, unm., leaving estate of $160,000, of which he left about $110,000 to Upper Provi- dence township and Norristown and Pottstown boroughs, to be invested in dwelling houses, and the rents used for the benefit of the poor ; (4) Israel, jr., b. 1804, acciden- tally killed, 1816; (5) Anne, m. Wm. B. Hahn, M. D., d. 1880, without issue ; (6) Lewis B., M. D., graduate Univ. of Penna., d. unm., 1832, at Louisville, Ky., while on a Southern tour ; (7) Mary Matilda, m. Francis Hobson, of Limerick, and had issue Frank M., Sarah A. (F. M. Hobson m. Lizzie Gotwalts, and had issue : Mary M., and Freeland G. Hobson, Esq., of the Montgomery Co. bar).
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TAXABLES IN GWYNEDD IN 1776.
Harry, of Plymouth, and married, 1727, Mary Price, of Haver- ford. He (Rees, the elder) died about 1739 ; his son Rees died 1788. In the latter's will six children are mentioned : Benjamin, John, David, Jane, Ann, Lydia. Benjamin Harry d. about 1810, unmarried, leaving a large estate, in which his sister Ann had a life right. After her death, in 1822, 228 acres of it were sold to Samuel Maulsby, who in 1833 sold to Thomas Smith. (This in- cluded the present Van Leer farm,1 and the Frank Johnson farm, and was in part the same as Rees Harry's land of 1776.)
Isaac Kolb (now Kulp) was from Germany, and acquired (be- tween 1759 and 1769) the land now or recently, Julius Schlemme's and Simon Kulp's farms, east of North Wales. He was, it is believed, a Mennonite. His son Isaac, jr., born December, 1750, married, 1778, Rachel Jolinson, and died 1828. He had seven children : Benjamin, Elizabeth, Catharine, Mary, Jacob, Sophia, and John. Benjamin, born August 20, 1779, died May 16, 1862, married Ellen Hoxworth, daughter of Edward and Mary, of Hatfield, and had eight children, including Isaac, Enos, Simon, and Oliver, and Ann, who married Asa Thomas.
Philip Heist's land lay on the hill, below North Wales, and included the farms of J. S. Zebley and Henry Ray. Heist died between 1776, in which year he made his will, and 1780, when his executors conveyed half an acre of land to trustees for the erection of St. Peter's church.
Thomas Shoemaker was the son of George, of Warrington, Bucks county, and married Mary Ambler, daughter of Joseph, of Montgomery. He owned the farm north-east of North Wales, which remained many years in his family, and is now [1884] or recently was, the property of - McKee.
Wendel Fetter was a German, and bought, in 1773, the fif-
1 Now the property of William M. Singerly.
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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.
teen acre lot back of North Wales (adjoining Thomas Shoe- maker), which Robert Roberts had left by his will, in 1760, to his daughter Ellen.1 The lot belonged from 1827 to 1852 to Christian Godfrey Speelman, a devout German Methodist, who sometimes held meetings in his own house, afterward to Abel Stockdale, and later to Frank Jones.
Amos Roberts's farm included the Silas White and adjoining properties (the old home of Robert Evans, the first settler, was upon it).
Martin Swink's land was on the turnpike, below North Wales, including the present farm [1896] of James D. Cardell (the home of Thomas Evans, the first settler). Swink sold it to George Heist, in 1784.
Abram Danenhower's land was the George W. Danenhower place near Kneedler's now [1884] occupied by Frank Myers,- the home of William John, the first settler.2
Jacob Heisler owned the farm on the Allentown road, after- ward the Kneedlers', including the hotel.
The Troxells owned the property at Mumbower's mill. John Troxell sold it in 1777 to Samuel Wheeler, of Philadelphia, a cutler, who is said to have made swords, etc., during the Revolution.
Barnaby Beaver, who had the grist mill, owned property east of North Wales, and his mill was that which still exists there [1884] on the Wissahickon.
John Jenkins's land in Gwynedd was at Lansdale, and below the township line.
Garret Clemens lived in the east corner of the township. The old abandoned stone house on the Welsh road (township line)
1 See page 204.
2 Sec page 67.
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was his place of residence.1 He was a religious man, a Dunker probably, and was heavily fined, as the preceding chapter shows, for not bearing arms. His wife was Keturah; their daughter Mary married Charles Hubbs, one of the sons of John Hubbs and Jane Evans.2
Christian Dull, described as having a " tavern," began to keep the hotel at Spring-House, in 1773, and continued there for many years. He was reputed a hard, and perhaps a grasping man ; traditions were long maintained of some of his close dealings.3 Even more severe things were said about him, as appears by some advertisements in the Philadelphia newspapers. Here is one from the Philadelphia Gasette of February 17, 1783 :
1 [This, written in 1884, now needs some correction. The old house has since been torn down, and the stone in it used for other buildings.]
2 See Evans Genealogy, p. 161. Charles Hubbs was some time a resident at Germantown ; he studied medicine (in a power of attorney to Amos Lewis, about 1806, he calls himself "apothecary "), afterward lived in Worcester township, re- moved to Pipe Creek, in Western Maryland (where he was in 1807), and later to Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. He has numerous descendants in the West. He joined the Dunkers, and became a preacher ; and was a man of marked character. His son, John Evans Hubbs, m. Louisa Stitcher, and had one daughter, Virginia, now of Philadelphia. After his death Louisa m. Samuel Gillingham, of Philadelphia.
3 One story, whose date, I think must have been toward the close of Dull's life, was to this effect : He had for an occasional customer at his bar, the village blacksmith, and the latter had indiscreetly allowed some of his drams to be " chalked down." In time, the landlord produced a bill, with such length of items that the smith was astonished. It read : " To one glass of whiskey. To ditto. To ditto. To ditto. To ditto." on ยท down the sheet, and the total was of alarming figures. The blacksmith protested, es- pecially complaining of the "ditto," alleging that he had had but a few drinks, but in vain ; Dull was inexorable, and the bill had to stand. The blacksmith, however, waited his chance to get even, and in time found it. The hostler's bucket had to be re-hooped, and as the work was left to be charged against Dull, the bill was delayed for some time, and thus brought in: "To hooping the hostler's bucket. To ditto. To ditto. To ditto," and so on, at much length, equaling the account for drinks. The landlord now objected, but the smith was inexorable in his turn, and as the story goes, got his ac- count allowed as an offset to the other.
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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.
NORTH WALES, February 11, 1783.
W HEREAS, SOME EVIL PERSON HAS PROPAGATED a report very injurious and hurtful to my character, I hereby challenge such to appear in an open, bold manner, and meet me on the ground of Justice, and dare them to im- peach me with any act unbecoming a gentleman and an honest man, which character I have ever held dear ; and I further offer a reward of ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS to any person or per- sons who will prove the author of a report that I was privy to robbing a Collector-a circumstance I totally deny, either with respect to collectors, or any person or persons ; and now charge the author, or authors, of such scandalous reports to be lying calumniators, and am determined to prosecute any person who may in future endeavor to circulate such report to my disad- vantage. CHRISTIAN DULL.
Six years later Christian was still under the necessity of advertising rewards for the discovery of his defamers. The Gazette of April 1, 1789, contains the following :
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, March 28, 1789.
0 NE HUNDRED GUINEAS REWARD .- WHEREAS. a false and wicked report has been contrived, and for some weeks past"spread through the City of Philadelphia 'and several of the Counties, charging the subscriber and his wife, who keep the Spring-House Tavern, in Montgomery County, with the MURDER, etc., of one or more travellers, in order to get their property, conceiving it to be my duty, which I owe to the community of which I am a member, to my rela- tions, and friends, and neighbors, and particularly to a tender wife and seven children (several of them young and helpless), whose welfare or misery in life greatly depend upon the char- acter which I have, and shall leave after me, to endeavor to bring to light such dark and horrible Assassins of Character, 1 do hereby offer a reward of ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS to any person who shall discover to me any legal evidence of the contriver of said charge, or of the author or authors, of the report, and of ONE HALF JOHANNES for any certain in- formation whereby such discovery may be made. CHRISTIAN DULL.
Dull lived on into the present century (his death occurred about 1821), and Esquire John Roberts was one of the executors
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of his estate. He left a son, Christian Dull, jr., who was a person of education, at least, and was some time a school teacher. From papers left by 'Squire John, however, it appears that he (the son) was in debt, and harassed by his creditors. A letter from him, in 1822, is written from the jail at Norristown, where he was confined for debt. It shows good penmanship, and is clearly expressed, as will appear :
July 28th, 1822.
Friend Roberts :- I was advised to serve my creditor with a bread notice, but he has not come forward to pay my weekly allowance. I shall be removed next Thursday before Judge McNeill for a clearance, which will cost $1 to the Gaoler, one dollar for serving the notices, 35 cents turnkey fees, and $2 for my board two weeks at 14 cents per day, making the amount of $4.35, which I hope you will send me, or else I must let him (the Gaoler) have my coat, which is worth $10. I cannot get away without, and the longer I stay the more expense on me. Altho' you say it is the most proper place for me to be at, [yet] if I leave my coat, which is a good one, I will have to have a new one this winter. I will not be allowed more than $4. 35 for the coat. I have sent a receipt, which I hope will answer ; you have not any money of mine in your hands, but will have, and then can pay yourself. I should suppose there was no risk on your part. 1 am your friend as usual,
C. DULL.
P. S. If I do not get money at this time from you I will have to have new bread notices served and [words illegible] and a dollar a week board. I have no one to assist me unless you do.1
Martin Raker, who is named as having fifty-seven acres, lived near where Lansdale now is, and his property is now in the possession of Charles S. Jenkins. He was a Lutheran, and one of the four first trustees of St. Peter's church, below North Wales.
1 As a specimen of the experience of the occupant of a debtor's prison, so late as 1822, this letter seems worth printing in full, aside from any personal interest it may have. Dull was no doubt enlarged at this time; there are other papers relating to him in the John Roberts collection, of dates 1821 and 1823.
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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GWYNEDD.
George Snyder (properly George Adam Snyder) was a Ger- man, who owned the Isaac Ellis farm (now James Gillen's), on the Upper Dublin line, with other property. He got it in 1762, of Francis Titus, and died 1792, leaving three sons : Adam, Jacob, and John.
John Everhart owned the farm now Charles Lower's (for- merly John Devereux's), in the lower end of the township. He bought in 1762, of George Klippinger, of Upper Dublin (he hav- ing bought of Rowland Hugh, son of John, the first settler), and sold it in 1793 to David Lukens.
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XXII. The Boones, Lincolns, and Hanks.1
T HE Boones, Lincolns, and Hanks all appear on the Gwyn- edd meeting records, though none of either name proba- bly resided in the township in early times. George Boone, the elder, the first of his family known to us, was from Bradwinch, near Exeter, in Devonshire, and seems to have come over in 1717. At any rate, the Gwynedd meeting records show this minute, dated 3Ist of Ioth month (December), in that year :
George Boone, senior, produced a certificate of his Good Life and Conversation from the Monthly [Meeting] att Callumpton, in Great Brit- ain, wh was read & well rec'd.
This George, the elder, died in Berks county (the Oley or Exeter Friends' settlement), February 2, 1740, aged 78 years. He left, it is said, "eight children, fifty-two grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren,-in all seventy, the number that Jacob took down to Egypt." His wife was Mary, who was born in the same place as her husband, and died aged 72. They were both buried in the Friends' ground at Oley.
In 1721, John Rumford, who had been a member with Friends, at Haverford, and George Boone, who had been a mem- ber at Abington, being now settled at Oley, applied at the same time to Gwynedd meeting, for membership. This George was the son of the other ; he had been several years at Abington
1 [1896] I reprint this chapter without important alteration from the first edition. Though the Lincoln family has received much attention since 1884 the additional facts discovered do not materially modify my original statements.
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(and I think, therefore, came over before his father), where he was clerk of the monthly meeting, and a prominent and useful man. He had married, in 1713, Deborah Howell (b. 8th mo. 28, 1691, d. Ist mo. 26, 1759, at Oley), daughter of William and Mary. Deborah was a preacher, and Exeter (Oley) monthly meeting left a memorial of her. She and George had ten chil- dren : George, Mary, Hannah, Deborah, Dinah, William, Josiah, Jeremiah, Abigail, and Hezekiah, their births ranging from 1714 to 1734. (The first five are recorded at Gwynedd, before the establishment of the Oley monthly meeting.) William married Sarah Lincoln, 1748.
Besides this son George, the elder George Boone had, as stated above, seven other children : including Squire, who m. Sarah Morgan, Mary, who m. John Webb, James, who m. Mary Foulke,1 Joseph, Benjamin, and two others. Squire and Sarah Boone had nine children (perhaps more), recorded at Oley from 1724 to 1740. Of these Daniel, the Kentucky pioneer, was the fourth son and sixth child, and the meeting records give his birth, 8th mo. (October) 22, 1734. I have no doubt that Squire Boone was in Berks county with the other members of his family, in 1720, or thereabout ; and as he bought 250 acres of land in what is now Exeter township, in 1730, it is beyond reason- able question that his son Daniel was born there in 1734. The various speculations as to the place of his birth, by which it is assigned to Bristol, Bucks county, and other places, seem to have no good foundation.
Squire Boone was one of the trustees of the property of Oley meeting, in 1736, showing both his substantial character and Quaker affiliations, at that date. But he is said to have
1 For the first two of these marriages, both at Gwynedd meeting, see list, p. 114. For the last see Foulke Genealogy, p. 213.
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been disowned in 1748 for countenancing the " disorderly" marriage of his son Israel, the previous year. A little later it was! that he removed with his family to North Carolina, settling at Holomant ford, on the river Yadkin. From there, after he grew to manhood, Daniel Boone went over into Kentucky, and entered upon his famous career as the explorer and pioneer settler of that State.2
The Lincolns were an Oley family, some of them Friends. They intermarried repeatedly with the Boones, and were con- nected also with the Foulkes. But they had only a slight, if any, connection with Gwynedd, as the monthly meeting at Oley was established soon after Mordecai Lincoln, the first of the name in that neighborhood, arrived there. He, it is said, was
1 James Boone's family Bible says : " They left Exeter on the Ist day of May, 1750."
2 Among the papers of my grandfather, Chas. F. Jenkins, I find this letter :
WASHINGTON TOWN, MASON COUNTY, KEN.
Respected Friend :- I expect thee art ready to conclude that I have forgot thee being so far off, but thee may rest ashured that I have not. I often think of the many agreeable hours we have spent in conversation and sociability, which dis- tance now deprives us of. But no more Introduction-I proceed to give thee a little sketch of the times. After my being disappointed in getting my land from Col. Boon, as probably thee may have heard before now, which lay'd me under the necessity of following my trade. Since I came to this place and after three months paying for my board and washing, I made an acquaintance with a young woman which after a while I married, and now I live in as much harmony with her I flatter myself as ever man and wife did and find the matrimonial life far more agreeable than I ever Expected to. I have told thee what I have done, I will inform thee what I am doing. I have taken a five acre Lot to put corn in to the shares, my share will be two-thirds of the crop, which if the season proves favor- able I expect an Hundred and Seventy Bushels of Corn. Here is great encourage- ment for farmers, much more than for mechanicks. I must stop wrighting for I have no more room and paper is scarce in this town.
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