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This Peter Cleaver, jun., of Upper Dublin, is frequently men- tioned as a road juror, etc. His wife's name was Elizabeth. He died in 1776, and mentions in his will his sons John, Isaac, Ezekiel, Peter, and Nathan, and his daughter Elizabeth. The last married John Roberts, son of John, of Whitpain ; while her brother Nathan married Ruth Roberts, a daughter of John, and removed to Montgomery, where he bought 137 acres which had been part of the Isaac Jones property, in the extreme lower. end of the township. His children were : Phœbe, who m. Amos Griffith ; David, Jonathan, who m. Ann Jones ; Nathan, jr., who m. Martha Shoemaker; Salathiel, who m. Mary Shoemaker. (Of these sons Jonathan had one son, Elias, who m. Anne Acuff ; Nathan had three children : David, Jesse, Rebecca ; and Sala- thiel had six children : Lydia, Nathan, Josiah, Daniel, Silas, John).
Ezekiel Cleaver, named above (son of Peter, of Upper Dub- lin), m. Mary Lewis, dau. of Ellis Lewis, 2d, and his wife Mary.
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From this couple are descended another branch of the family, including Ezekiel, Solomon, and Ellis, all formerly well-known residents of Gwynedd, now deceased.
JONES-LEWIS.
John Jones, carpenter, of Montgomery, came into the town- ship from Merion, about 1710. He married at Gwynedd meet- ing-house, 4th mo. 9, 1713, Jane Edward, daughter of Edward Griffith. Both were valued members of the Society of Friends, and there are memorials of them by Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, -that of Jane Jones in the printed collection of 1787, and that of her husband unpublished. John Jones was a prominent, ac- tive, and valuable citizen, in his day. He owned a large property, including what in modern times has been two farms, lying in Montgomery, above the State road, along the Gwynedd line. His home was on the upper farm (formerly belonging to Edwin Moore), and part of the house is said to have been built by him with bricks which he made on the premises.
This John Jones was the son of Rees John William, repeat- edly mentioned in this volume, and particularly described in the foot-note, p. 96. The record of Rees John's children, from Hav- erford m. m., shows that his son John was born 4th mo. 6, 1688. He was therefore 22 when he came to Montgomery, and 25 when he was married. His children were : Hannah, who m. William Foulke ; Catharine, d. in infancy ; Margaret, b. 1717, d. 1745 ; Priscilla, b. 1719, d. 1742, m. Evan Jones, of Merion ; Evan (see below) ; Jesse (see below) ; Katharine, b. 1726, d. 1741 ; Jane, b. 1728, d. 1806 ; Benjamin, d. in childhood ; Ruth, d. in infancy. John Jones, carpenter, the father, d. 12th mo. 30, 1774 ; his wife, Jane, had d. 5th mo. 14, 1757.
Jesse, the son named above, probably removed to Bucking- ham. His wife's name was Mary. Their son Isaiah m., 1798,
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Elizabeth Watson, dau. of Thomas and Sarah, by whom he had three children : Ezra, Sarah, and Elizabeth ; and he appears to have married a second time, his wife being Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wilson, by whom he had one son, Wilson. There are probably no male descendants of Jesse Jones now living.
Evan Jones, of Montgomery, inherited his father's estate. He was b. 12th mo. 26, 1720, and d. 8th mo. 31, 1801. He m., 1766, Hannah Lawrence, dau. of Henry, of Haverford, dec'd. Their children included : John, d. unm .; Henry (see below) ; Hannah, d. unm. ; Evan (see below). Hannah, widow of Evan, sr., d. 1825.
Henry Jones, named above, m. Jane Lewis, 1805, dau. of Amos and Eleanor, of Upper Dublin. He d. comparatively a young man,-Ioth mo. 19, 1813. He left four children : Lewis, Clement, John L., and Henry. (Henry is the only one of these now living, and the only male representative of the family of John Jones, carpenter.) Henry Jones's house was the lower part the Montgomery estate,-now the Armstrong farm, on the State road. He died there, having built the buildings that now stand, -the house, barn, and wagon-house. The place was tenanted, after his death, by Jacob Zorns and Mathias Young, and in the spring of 1821 his widow removed to her father's place at Three Tuns, in Upper Dublin. (Her father died in the autumn fol- lowing.)
Evan Jones, jr., son of Evan, and brother of Henry just mentioned, was a conspicuous citizen. (See biographical sketch.) He was four times married : to Sarah Ely, dau. of William and Cynthia, of Buckingham ; to Lowry Miles (née Foulke), dau. of Caleb and Jane, of Gwynedd ; to Hannah Paul ; and to Mary Lukens. By his first wife he had two daughters who grew up : Jane, who m. Jonathan Maulsby, and Cynthia E., who m., Ist,
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Dr. Evan Lester, of Richland, and 2d, Evan Green, of Colum- bia, Pa. By his second wife Evan Jones, jr., had one son, Owen, who d. 3 years old ; but of his children there was no issue except Evan Jones Lester, son of Cynthia, by her first husband.
Of Henry Jones's sons, Lewis m. Mary Livezey, who died 1896, living on their homestead in Gwynedd, near the Upper Dublin line. They had no children. Clement m. late in life, but left no children. Henry m. Mary Y. Shoemaker (deceased 1896) ; they had no issue. John L. m. Margaret, dau. of Ben- jamin and Anne Garrigues, and had several children, of whom but one now survives : Jane, m. to Dr. Franklin T. Haines, of Moorestown, N. J.
Henry Jones's wife, as already mentioned, was Jane, daugh- ter of Amos Lewis. The first of the Lewis Family, in Upper Dublin, was Ellis, Ist, who came from Merion. (He may have been of the same family as the Lewises of Montgomery town- ship,-see p. 300.) His wife's name was Anne. He purchased the property which is now (1896) Wilmer Atkinson's farm " Northview," formerly John L. Jones's, and the adjoining farm, belonging to Mr. McCallum, formerly David L. Lukens's. He d. 1753, his wife surviving until 1756. Their children included Ellis (see below) ; Lewis, m. Anne Lord ; Jane, m. Enos Lewis, of Gwynedd ; Elizabeth, m. William Spencer.
Ellis Lewis, 2d, m. 10th mo. 18, 1729, at Abington meeting- house, Mary Tyson, dau. of Matthias and Mary, of Abington. Mary Lewis, the wife, d. Ist mo. 17, 1763, and Ellis m., 2d, Ellen Evans, dau. of John and Eleanor, of Gwynedd. (See p. 168.) Ellis d. 1783, and his wife survived him. His children, all by his first wife, were II in number, of whom six died young. The others were : Ellis, jr., b. 1730, d. unm. 1759; Mary, m. Ezekiel Cleaver ; Ann, m. John Saunders ; John ; and Amos (see below).
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Amos Lewis was twice married. His wives were sisters, Eleanor and Rachel Hubbs, of Gwynedd, daughters of John and Jane (and nieces of Ellis Lewis, 2d's, second wife. See p. 168). Amos had by each wife one daughter : by his first wife he had Jane, who m. Henry Jones, of Montgomery, named above ; and by his second, Eleanor, who m. Jesse Lukens. From the latter marriage there is a large family : the Jones branch has been given above.
SPENCER.
The first of this Spencer family, in Pennsylvania, was probably Samuel, who came here from Barbadoes, and was no doubt of English descent. The tradition has always been that he was a sea captain, and that after bringing his family here, about 1700, he returned for one more voyage, and was lost (or died) at sea. How this tradition grew up it is hard to say, but documentary evidence shows its incorrectness. Samuel Spencer's will is on record in Philadelphia. It describes him as " late of Barbadoes, but now of the county of Philadelphia, merchant, being sick of body, but of good and perfect memory," [etc.]. This shows
him to have been on land, and ill, at the date of the will, which was November 20, 1705, and as its probate was made a month later, December 20, 1705, it is evident that his decease closely followed its making, and that no voyage and death at sea could have occurred before probate.
Samuel Spencer, as is known in various ways, left two sons, Samuel and William. These the will names : " I give and be- queath unto my eldest son, Samuel Spencer, £20, to be paid unto him when he shall come to the age of 21 years, without any in- terest, [he] to be fitted with a good suit of cloaths fitt for such a lad, and to be forthwith sent to Barbadoes to his relacions there. I give and bequeath unto my son William Spencer, £20," etc., etc.
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Of Samuel Spencer's " relacions," in Barbadoes, nothing defi- nite is known. Samuel Spencer's two sons were, as the will shows, minors when their father died.1 Their mother, in all proba- bility, was previously deceased. She was the daughter of Robert Whitton, and her brother Richard is said to have reared the two boys,-Samuel not having been sent back to Barbadoes, at all. In 1742, Richard Whitton, of Upper Dublin, yeoman, made his will, and after some bequests left to his "two cousins, [i. e., nephews] Samuel Spencer and William Spencer," all his " lands, houses, tenements, and plantations," etc.,-this being property in Upper Dublin.
Samuel Spencer, 2d, m. 1723, Mary Dawes, dau. of Abraham and Edith, and their children were 13 in number, including Jacob, who m. Hannah Jarrett, whose sons John and Jarrett mar- ried respectively Lydia Foulke, of Gwynedd (see p. 252), and Hannah Evans, of Gwynedd (see p. 170). Jesse Spencer, of Penllyn, was John's son.2
Two other sons of Samuel Spencer, 2d, and Mary, were the following :
I. Joseph, b. 2d mo. 21, 1726, m. Hannah Lukens, dau. of John, of Bristol [adj. Germantown]. This couple had one son, Samuel, who d. young. Joseph then m. Abigail Conrad, widow, (her maiden name West), and had one son, Nathan. This Nathan m. Rachel Pim, dau. of Thomas, of Chester county, and had children : Thomas P., Joseph, Sarah, Heph- . ziba, Maria.
2. John, b. 9th mo. I, 1731, m. Elizabeth Kirk, dau. of John and Sarah, and had 8 children. One of these was Sarah, who m. Jonathan Thomas, of Moreland, son of Mordecai and Elizabeth. Spencer Thomas
1 They were in fact young children. Samuel was b. 8th mo. 22, 1699. William was b. IIth mo. I, 1701. (William m. Elizabeth Lewis, dau. of Ellis, Ist, of Upper Dublin, and removed to Bucks county, where he has numerous descendants.)
2 See Foulke Genealogy, p. 252, for details concerning Jesse Spencer.
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m. Hephziba Spencer, named above,-his second cousin. Their eldest daughter,1 Anna Maria, m. 1841, Algernon S. Jenkins,2 of Gwynedd.
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JENKINS.
The Jenkins family of Gwynedd and neighboring townships are descended from Jenkin Jenkin, a Welshman, who came to this place in or about 1729. The family record in an old Welsh Bible which was formerly in possession of John Jenkins, of North Wales, shows the following :
Jenkin Jenkins died September 15, 1745, aged 86 years. Mary Jenkins died November 27, 1764, aged 74. John Jenkins born February 15, 1719.
This, therefore, fixes the birth of Jenkin Jenkin in 1659, and of his wife in 1690. November 17, 1730, Jenkin Jenkin bought of Joseph Tucker land in Hatfield, 350 acres, "reaching from the Gwynedd line nearly or quite to the Cowpath road, and from the Montgomery line about to the road running from Lansdale to Colmar." On this he settled, and he was " of Hatfield," when he made his will in 1745. He had bought, in 1738, of the Pro- prietaries, the Penns, 357 acres of land on the Conestoga, in Earl township, Lancaster county, closely adjoining the Welsh settlers of Carnarvon and Brecknock, and as there were some named Jenkins among them, it is not unlikely that they may have been kinsmen, and that he may have come over from Wales with some of that company,-their arrival being about 1729, also. Jenkin Jenkin, at his death, left 4 children, as follows :
1 Their other children were Sarah, Mordecai, Caroline, Lemuel, Elizabeth, Lydia, Jonathan, Mary, Hannah. Spencer Thomas was a prominent and esteemed citizen of Upper Dublin.
2 Algernon S. Jenkins had issue by his Ist wife one son: Howard M. ; by his 2d wife, Alice A. Davis, one son : George Herbert.
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I. John, who received 150 acres of the Hatfield property, and half the Conestoga property. He was b. (as above), Feb. 15, 1719, in Wales, and m. Sarah Hawkesworth, dau, of Peter and Mary. (She was b. in 1720, in England, and d. Jan. 16, 1794.) They had eight children. (See below.)
2. Mary, d. unm.
3. Jenkin, jr., m. - Thomas, He received by his father's will, 200 acres in Hatfield, and a share in the Conestoga tract. He had four children : David, d. unm. ; Elizabeth, m. John Banes ; Hannah, d. unm. ; Eleanor, m. - McPherson.
4. Elizabeth, m. John Hawkesworth, son of Peter and Mary ; and had seven children.
John Jenkins, named above, was the progenitor of all of this family who now bear the name, his brother Jenkin having no mar- ried son. John was a prominent and useful citizen. (He was the assessor of Gwynedd township, as mentioned in the 1776 tax- list.) He bought land in Gwynedd, in 1746, adjoining Lansdale. He died in 1803 (or 1804). His eight children were as follows :
I. John, 2d, b. 1742, d. 1805, an officer in the Revolutionary army. He m. Elizabeth Lukens, wid. of Abraham, and had six children : Owen, m. Mary Tennis ; Sarah, m. Peter Hoxworth ; Jesse, m. Mary Aaron ; John, m. Ann Todd1 ; Edward, m. Margaret Server2 ; Elizabeth, m. Issacher Rhoads.
2. Levi, m. Susan Sheive, and had 9 children, including Rev. John S. Jenkins, a prominent minister of the Baptist denomination ; and Levi, jr., who m. Sarah Smith and had 6 children, including Joseph S., Eder, John S., and Anne.
3. Ann, m. Hugh Kousty.
1 John, who m. Ann Todd, lived to extreme old age, dying at North Wales (at the house of his son-in-law, Abel Lukens), Oct. 5, 1880, in his 97th year. His children were Naomi, who m. Abel Lukens ; Charles T., m. Sarah Lukens ; Jane, m. Samuel J. Rhoads ; Ann T., m. Jacob B. Rhoads ; Silas T., m. Eliza Morgan ; John S., m. Eliza Stover ; Milton, m. Sarah Ellis.
2 Edward, b. May 9, 1786, d. Jan. 29, 1872 ; and had issue : Philip S., m. Hannah Zieber ; Mary Ann, m. Chas. D. Matthews ; Charles S., m. Tacy Styer.
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4. Edward, b. July, 12, 1758, d. 1829, m. Sarah Foulke, dau. of Theophilus (see Foulke Genealogy), and had 6 children : Charles F., m. Mary Lancaster1 ; Ann, d. unm. ; Jesse,2 m. Mary R. Ambler ; Margaret, m. Peter C. Evans ; Rachel, m. Meredith Conard ; Caleb, died a lad.
5. Jesse, born 1760, d. 1794, unm.
6. Elizabeth, m. Owen Hughes, and had 8 children.
7. Mary, m. Peter Wentz, and had 7 children.
8. Sarah, m. Isaac Lewis, and had 3 children. (See details about Isaac Lewis, p. 362.)
HOXWORTH.
Peter Hawksworths and his wife Mary came from England about 1730, and settled in Hatfield. Peter died between Febru- ary 26, 1767, and March 22, 1769,-these being the dates of making and proving his will. His wife died soon after. They are said to have been buried at St. Thomas's churchyard, White- marsh. Their children were 6 in number, including Edward, Ann, and Rachel, of whom nothing further is known, and the following :
I. Sarah, m. John Jenkins, the elder. (See preceding section.)
2. John, m. Elizabeth Jenkins (sister of John, just named), dau. of Jenkin and Mary, and had 7 children : Mary, m. Zachariah Clawson ; Edward, m. Mary Hoxworth (see below) ; John, d. unm. ; Elizabeth, m. Henry Newberry ; Ann, m. C. Wells; Sarah, m. Kenneth Makenzie ; and "Colonel " Peter, who m. Sarah Jenkins. (See below.) John bought land, in 1761, located in Hatfield, from his father, and d. aged 44, early in the Revolution. He had been a soldier in the French and Indian War,
1 Chas. F. and Mary had 7 children, of whom 5 d. young. The others were Algernon S. (d. 1890), who m. Anna Maria Thomas, and Alice A. Davis; and William H., (d. 1896), who m. Catharine Hallowell.
2 Jesse removed to Peoria county, Ill., in 1840, and died there at a very advanced age. Of his children, Albanus married and has children.
3 The spelling of the name in England was probably Hawkesworth. It became changed, here, first to Hawksworth, and then to Hoxworth.
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and served in the Revolutionary army, but was taken sick and died, while so engaged.
3. Peter, who was twice married. By his first wife he had 7 children. His second wife was Ann Wentz, dau. of Peter and Mary (Jenkins) Wentz, by whom he had 4 children.
Edward Hoxworth, above (son of John and Elizabeth), lived in Hatfield. He was b. Sept. 22, 1760, and d. Jan. 11, 1847. He entered the Revolutionary army when only 15 years old, and served throughout the war. He received a pension to the end of his life. He was a member of the company of which John Jenkins, 2d, was a lieutenant. " He was a small-built man, but exceedingly lithe and active. In his younger days he would leap over an ordinary-sized horse without touching." His wife, Mary (b. 1760, d. 1823), was the dau. of Peter (No. 3 above), and therefore first cousin to her husband. They had 9 children, as follows :
I. Ann, m. Benjamin Krupp ; 2 children.
2. Ellen, m. Benjamin Kulp ; 8 children.
3. John, m. - Smith.
4. Israel, m. Mary Slough ; 7 children.
5. Mary, m. Robert Gordon ; 7 children.
6. Margaret, d. unmarried.
7. Edward, m. C. Nonnemacher ; 3 children.
8. Elizabeth, m. B. F. Hancock (see below).
9. Sarah, m. Jesse Godshalk ; 9 children.
" Col." Peter Hoxworth, of Hatfield, b. Jan. 16, 1776, d. Nov. II, 1850, m. Sarah Jenkins, dau. of John, 2d, and Elizabeth. He was an officer in the war of 1812, and subsequently a colonel of Pennsylvania militia. For many years he was a justice of the peace, and he was also director of the poor, of Montgomery county. He had eight children : Elizabeth, m. Henry Lukens ; Ann, m. John S. Cliffton ; John J., m. D. Swartz ; Owen, d. unm ;
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Enos L., m. Ann Mattis ; Matilda, m. B. A. Morris ; Mary, m. J. Santman ; William J.,1 m. Catharine A. Biery.
Elizabeth Hoxworth (No. 8, above), daughter of Edward and Mary, b. December 8, 1801, d. January 25, 1879, m. Benjamin F. Hancock. Their children were Winfield Scott and Hilary Baker (twins), b. Feb. 14, 1824, and John, b. March 23, 1830, m. Au- gusta Camp, and has issue II children. (Biographical notices of Gen. Hancock and his father will be found in the next chapter.)
CASTNER.
The Castner Family are descended from Paul Kastner, who was one of the early German, or Hollandish, settlers at German- town. He is named with Peter Klever in the naturalization list of 1691, and was a Friend, as in 1692 he was one of those who signed the testification of the Yearly Meeting against George Keith. He d. in 1717, and his will is on record in Philadelphia, witnessed by Francis Daniel Pastorius.
Jacob Castner, who may have been a son, or grandson, of Paul, was a resident of Upper Dublin, in 1754. He d. between December, 1763, and February 26, 1767, and in his will men- tions his wife Ann, daughters Sarah and Elizabeth, and sons Samuel, Andrew, and George. The will shows that he had one tract of 8I acaes of land, in Gwynedd, which he had bought of Robert Combs, and another of 21, in Gwynedd, bought of Cath- arine Jones, while he lived on a tract of 299 acres in Upper Dublin, adjoining Ellis Lewis, and he had also 100 acres in East Nottingham, Chester county, purchased of George Churchman.
1 To William J. Hoxworth, late of Macungie, Lehigh county, I am indebted for all the details concerning this family, and also for many of those relating to the Jenkins Family. (William J., b. Oct. 6, 1821, m. Catharine A. Biery, and has issue : Mary Ella, Emilie A., Lewis C. (d.), Charles H., William A. (d.), Sarah G., John S. (d.).
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The main tract of the Gwynedd land, which he left to Sarah and Samuel, lay below the Spring-House, on the road to the Three Tons, including what was recently the Wm. Smith farm. The Upper Dublin tract he left chiefly to Andrew, and this included the old Siddons place, now or recently Malachi Stout's. The Chester county property he left to " Daniel and Susanna, the children of my son Jacob, deceased."
Samuel Castner lived on the Gwynedd place,1 and d. there Feb. 22, 1806. His estate was settled by David Lukens and Amos Lewis, executors. He left a legacy of £8 in Pennsylva- nia money to Gwynedd meeting. His brother Andrew had died a few years earlier,-about 1796 or '97. His estate was settled by Cadwalader Evans, jr., and Amos Lewis, ex'rs.
George Kastner (who may have been the son named in Jacob's will) was in Whitpain, in 1734, and had 200 acres of land. His will was made April 27, 1776, and proved Oct. 19 of the same year. His wife was Elizabeth; he mentions his son Thomas, dec'd, and his (Thomas's) widow, and daughter Marga- ret. He also mentions his 'grandchildren named Conrad, and other grandchildren named Ottinger, his sons-in-law Thomas Mee, Lewis Jones, Philip Richardson, and William Streeper,- the last deceased. He leaves his six daughters, Mary, Magda- lene, Elizabeth, Hannah, Lydia, and Margaret, residuary legatees.
Samuel Castner, of Gwynedd (grandfather of Jesse, recently deceased), lived on the Swedes' Ford road, where George W. Castner) his great-grandson) recently lived. He was b. June 4, 1737, and d. November 5, 1833. His dau. Elizabeth m. Nathan Chapin, who was a teacher in Philadelphia. Their son, William
1 Henry Jones says it was the tradition that he gave his property away (perhaps to his family), on condition that they should build him " a little house by the big spring," near the main dwelling, and in this little house he ended his life. Traces of it, near the spring, were visible fifty years ago.
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Chapin, was for many years principal of the Institution for the Blind, in Philadelphia.1
Jesse Castner, the elder, a son of Samuel, m. Margaret Rhodes, dau. of Ezekiel, of Norriton. (The ceremony, January, 1795, before Esq. Frederick Conrad.) The Gwynedd monthly meeting records show the birth of their children : Melinda, b. 5th mo. 8, 1796 ; Charles, b. Ioth mo. 25, 1798 ; Mary, b. 12th mo. 5, 1800 ; Rachel, b. 11th mo. 7, 1803 ; Margaret, b. 5th mo. 19, 1805 ; Anne, b. 10th mo. 19, 1806. The records also show the death of Margaret, wife of Jesse, in 1809 (two dates given : 8th mo. 30, and 10th mo. 31). Jesse m. a second time, and had one son, Jesse, jr., of Gwynedd, the father of Conrad S., and George W., both now well-known citizens of Gwynedd.
ROBERTS.
Besides the members of the Roberts Family of whom details have been given in Chapter XIV., there were several others living in Gwynedd, named Roberts, but of a different family. Owen Rob- erts, tailor, whose daughter Lydia m. Benjamin Mendenhall, lived below Penllyn, having bought in 1714 the lower William John tract, of his (W. J.'s) daughters, Gaynor, Ellen, and Catharine. Besides his daughter Lydia, he had a son,-and possibly other children.
Ellis Roberts had also two brothers, John and William. William m. Mary Pugh, widow of Ellis Pugh, jr., and daughter of Owen Evans. She d. 1748, and he before her. Her will mentions two daughters of her son Ellis Roberts.
1 His son, Dr. John B. Chapin, for many years physician in charge of the great Willard Insane Hospital in New York State, is now in charge of the Pennsylvania Hos- pital for the Insane, in Philadelphia.
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John Roberts, the other brother of Ellis, d. in 1725, leaving his wife Ellinor and brother Ellis his executors. His will men- tions no children. His widow, Ellinor, d. the same year. They probably had no children, as none are mentioned in either's will.
There was still another Roberts family in Gwynedd, making a third. Edward Roberts was the first of this line who appears here. He d. 1748-49, "being old and far advanced in years." His son Robert m. Jane Evans, dau. of Robert Evans, of Merion, and their son was Amos Roberts, who was the father of George Roberts, who owned the old Robert Evans place (now Silas White's). Edward Roberts's wife was Ann, and she was living when he made his will, October 3, 1748. His daughter Margaret m. Hugh Evans, and afterward Robert Jones, of Merion. His daughter Gainor was the first wife of Edward Foulke.
JONES.
The name Robert John, or Robert Jones, was the possession of several different persons within the scope of this history. One of these was " of Merion," and d. 1746. (He was the son of John ap Thomas, and the father of Robert Jones, 2d, who m. Catharine Evans, Hugh's widow.)
Robert John, repeatedly alluded to in this volume, owned the land where North Wales now is, and d. 1732.
Another Robert Jones, of Gwynedd, m., 1717, Ann Coulston, dau. of William, of Plymouth. He afterward became of Worces- ter, and d. there, 6th mo. 24, 1773.1 He was born in Denbigh- shire, Wales, 10th mo. 9, 1690, and his wife, Ann, was b. in
1 His family Bible came into the possession of Watson Ambler, of East Bradford, Chester Co., in 1869. This Bible (printed in Dublin, 1714), an entry in it says, R. J. "bought of Cadwallader Foulke, in Philadelphia, the 4th day of the 12th mo., 1732, and paid two pounds, being the price thereof. Also paid 20 shillings more for binding and brassing of clasps since I bought it. 1762."
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