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Stephen Jenkins, only son of William and Elizabeth (Griffith) Jenkins. was born in Tenby. Pembrokeshire, Wales, and came to Pennsylvania with his par- ents when a child. At the death of his father he inherited the lands in Abing- ton and resided there until his death, in 1761. Like his father he was an active and prominent member of Abington Meeting. He married, 9 mo. 14. 1704, Abigail Pemberton. daughter of Phineas and Phehe ( Harrison) Pemberton, of Bucks county, an account of whose an- cestry and the distinguished services of the former is given in this work. Abi- gail was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, and accompanied her parents to Bucks county in 1682 at the age of three years. She died in Abington, 9 mo. 2. 1750. aged seventy years, nine months and twenty-one days. The chil- dren of Stephen and Abigail (Pember- ton) Jenkins were as follows: William, born 8 mo. 16. 1705, and died I mo. 5. 1763, married Lydia Roberts; Phineas. born 8 mo. 16. 1707. died 4 mo. 10. 1701. married. first. Isabel Mather. who died 8 mo. 31, 1728. and second. Mary Rob-
erts, who bore him eight children; Phebe, born 6 mo. 14, 1709, died unmar- ried; Sarah, born I mo. 19 .. 1711, mar- ried Isaac Tyson in 1737; Abigail, born II mo. 18, 1712, married a Hugh; and Stephen, born II mo. 14, 1714, removed to Philadelphia in 1740.
Phineas Jenkins has left numerous de- scendants in and around Bucks county. His eldest daughter, Sarah, born 7 mo. 6. 1731, married, in 1753, John, son of Richard Broek, of Solebury, Bucks coun- ty, and has left numerous descendants in Bucks county. Mary Jenkins, a granddaughter, married Hon. John Ross, and was the grandmother of the late Senator George Ross, of Doylestown.
William Jenkins, eldest son of Stephen and Abigail (Pemberton) Jenkins, inher- ited from his father the homestead at Jen- kintown and lived there until his death. He married, in 1746. Lydia Roberts, and they were the parents of four children, the eldest and third of whom, both named William. died in infancy; the two surviving children were: John, born 7 in0. 25. 1749; and Mary, born 8 mo. 10, 1754. Lydia, the mother, died 3 mo. 6, 1806.
John Jenkins, only surviving son of William and Lydia (Roberts) Jenkins, was but a lad of fourteen years at the death of his father, in 1763, and his un- cle, John Roberts, was made his guar- dian by his father's will. He was reared in Abington township. and. attaining manhood, married Elizabeth Rea. daugh- ter of Mathew and Sarah (Harman) Rea, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, of Moreland. Mathew Rea. the grandfather of the above named Mathew, was an early set- tler in Ulster county, New York. from whence his son moved to Bucks county and settled in Bedminster. John Jen- kins died August 13, 1830, and his widow, Elizabeth, August 13. 1833, in her eigh- ty-fourth year. Their children were as follows: William. John. Joseph, Sarah. (who married a Shoemaker), Ann (who married a Krusen). Elizabeth (who mar- ried John Whitcomb), and Jesse (who married Sarah Van Pelt). Most of these children lived and died in the neighbor- hood of . Abington. Jesse and Sarah (Van Pelt) Jenkins had seven daughters and one son. Two of the former (Mrs. James K. Miller and Mrs. Clift) be- came residents of Doylestown. Burl- county, where Mrs. Miller still resides. Jesse Jenkins owned a farm in Warwick township for a number of years, on which one of his daughters, Mrs. Clift. resided.
Joseph Jenkins, son of John and Eliza- beth (Rea) Jenkins, was the grand- father of the subject of this sketch. He was a farmer in Bucks and Montgomery counties, and married Tacy Martindale. daughter of Amos and Martha (Mer- rick) Martindale, whose paternal an- cestor. John Martindale, born in Eng-
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land 8 mo. 24, 1676, married Mary Bridg- man, daughter of Walter and Blanche ( Constable) Bridgman, of Middletown, Bucks county,-both the latter being na- tives of England and among the carliest arrivals in Bucks county. John Martin- dale, son of John and Mary (Bridgman) Martindale, born 6 mo. 22, 1719, married 2 mo. 9, 1746, Mary Strickland, and had twleve children, of whom Amos, above mentioned, was born 8 mo. 10, 1761, and married, in 1789, Martha Merrick, daugh- ter of Thomas Merrick, of Upper Make- field, Bucks county, and Tacy Martin- dale, born 2 mo. 21, 1792, was the sec- ond of their ten children. Thomas Mer- rick was a - descendant of John Mer- rick, who came from Bedfordshire about 1699 and settled in Lower Dublin, Philadelphia county, from whence his son John, who married Hannah Hulme, came to Upper Makefield, where he has left numerous descendants. Joseph Jenkins died December 19. 1862, in his seventy-eighth year, and Tacy, his wife, died August 10, 1857, in her sixty-sixth year.
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The children of Joseph and Tacy (Martindale) Jenkins were Martha M., who married John Erwin and had six children-Joseph J., of Spokane, Wash. ; B. Franklin, of Philadelphia; Preston. of Westport. Missouri; Tacy, widow of the late William Sutton, of Philadel- phia: James and Charles, also of Phila- delphia-Mahala, who never married ; and John, the father of the subject of this sketch.
John Jenkins was born in Philadelphia May 13. 1822. He was a farmer, miller and millwright in Bucks and Montgom - ery counties prior to 1860, when he moved with his family Franklin county, Ohio. In 1861 he enlisted in Company A. Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. While his regiment was on the march to Philippi, West Virginia, he was injured internally and was honor- ably discharged. In 1862 he removed, with his family, to Wilmington, Dela- ware, where he followed his trade of miller and millwright for a short time. Being an excellent mechanic he secured employment in a shipyard, and thor- oughly mastered the trade of ship car- penter as well as that of ship joiner and car builder. He was practically a self- educated man and was noted for his abil- ity as a mathematician and for his re- markable memory. He married Martha M. Erwin, daughter of Joseph and Han- nah (Morrison) Erwin, of Montgomery county, and granddaughter of John and Susan (Tomlinson) Erwin, of Bucks county. Her father, Joseph Erwin. was born December 23, 1792, and died Octo- ber 8, 1870, and her grandfather, John Erwin, was born in 1770 and died Feb- ruary 7. 1823. On the maternal side Martha M. (Erwin) Jenkins was a great- granddaughter of John Morrison, who
came from the north of Ireland and set- tled on the Brandywine about 1760. His son John (born 1760, died in North- ampton township, Bucks county, March 17, 1858), married Hannah Yerkes (born June 29, 1772, died February 12, 1844), daughter of Elias Yerkes, and grand- daughter of Silas and Ilannah (Dun- gan) Yerkes, of Southampton, Silas be- ing a son of Herman and Elizabeth (Watts) Yerkes, and grandson of An- thony Yerkes, one of the first burgesses of Germantown. Hannah (Morrison) Erwin, mother of Martha M. (Erwin) Jenkins, was the second child of John and Hannah (Yerkes) Morrison, and was born February 10, 1796, and died December 10, 1860, She was a sister to Joseph Morrison, who was county com- missioner, county treasurer, recorder of deeds, and associate judge, of Bucks county, as well as holding every com- missioned office in the Bucks county mi- litia, from captain to brigadier-general.
John Jenkins died September IS, 1898, in his seventy-sixth year, and his wife, Martha M., died July 6, 1892, in her six- ty-seventh year. Of their nine children only two lived to the age of maturity -- Zachary T. and Joseph Erwin. The lat- ter was born October 9, 1855, at Long's mill in Warwick township, Bucks coun- ty, and is now carrying on the business of plumbing and gas fitting at Wilming- ton, Delaware. He married Ella Far- ren, of that city, and has three children, -Howard, Gilbert, and Joseph.
Z. T. Jenkins, the subject of this eketch, was born on a small farm, whereon his parents and paternal grandparents then resided, adjoining the farm known as "Brown's Folly," in Warrington town- ship, Bucks county, February 17, 1853. After six years' residence in Bucks and Montgomery counties, his parents moved to Franklin county, Ohio, and about two years later to Wilmington, Delaware. He became an apprentice to the printer's trade in the office of the "Evening Commercial," published in Wilmington, by the late Howard M. Jenkins and Wilmer M. Atkinson, but finished his trade in Philadelphia, and soon after the establishment of the "Philadelphia Times" secured a position as compositor on that paper, where he remained until the fall of 1889, when he resigned to accept a position in the gov- ernment printing office at Washington, D. C., where he is now employed as a proof-reader. He is a past master of Myron M. Parker Lodge, No. 27. F. A. A. M .; a member of Capitol Chapter, No. II. R. A. M .; of Amaranth Lodge, No. 28, K. of P .; of Northeast Wash- ington Council, No. 755, National Union ; of Columbia Typographical Union. No. IOI, all of the city of Washington, D. C., and of the Bucks County Historical Society.
Mr. Jenkins married, September 27,
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1877, Amelia Branin, daughter of Rich- ard and Sarah (Phipps) Branin, of Wil- low Grove, Montgomery county. Amelia Branin was born in Stark county, Ohio, April 12. 1857, and is a descendant, on the maternal side, of Joseph Phipps, who was associated with William Jen- kins, the pioneer ancestor of her hus- ' band. in the organization of Abington Meeting. On the paternal side she is descended from Francis Branin, born in Ireland. in 1683, who emigrated to America early in the eighteenth cen- tury and settled in Burlington county, New Jersey, where he became a large
landholder. His SO11 Michael, born September 9. 1708, married November 24, 1730. Elizabeth Norcross, daughter of John and Mary (Antrim) Norcross, who were for a number of years res. dents of Bucks county. William Branin, son of Michael and Elizabeth, born De- cember I 5. I749, married Abigail, daughter of Abner Rodgers, in 1778, and died February 14, 1813. Their son, Abijah Branin. born 'May 9, 1783. mar- ried October 18, 1804. Mary, daughter of John Houston, of Burlington county, New Jersey, and their son. Richard Branin, born October 10. 1820, is alive and well at this writing. He married Sarah Phipps, who died December 3. 1900, in her seventy-ninth year. Richard Branin was in his younger days a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. Jenkins are the parents of three children, viz .: Henry Lincoln, born February 1. 1880, at 925 Walnut street. Philadelphia, in the house where. George M. Dallas, at one time vice-president of the United States, lived. and where the Prince of Wales (now King Edward VII) was enter- tained when visiting this country in 1860: Walter Scott, born May 12, 1881, and Elsie, born May 9, 1886.
MATTHEW C. CUNNINGHAM, sen- ior member of the firm of Cunningham & Seal, wool merchants and importers, Phila- delphia. was born in Newtown township, Bucks county. Pennsylvania, July 6. 1847, and is a son of Joseph T. and Rebecca (Cadwallader) Cunningham, the former of Scotch-Trish and English and the latter of Welsh and English descent, both being natives of Bucks county.
The Cunningham family is of Scotch origin, and took its name from the munici- pality of that name on the Frith of Forth, in Scotland. now North Ayrshire, the birth- place of Wallace and Bruce. both of whom were connected by blood and marriage with this same family. Some of the American descendants of the family have traced their ancestry back in a direct line to Malcombe Frisbine, who in 1056 was knighted and made Thane of Conyngham, by Malcombe Canmore, King of Scotland, for saving
him from capture by Macbeth's victorious hordes. Three generations later the de- scendants of Malcombe adopted the sur- name of Cunningham, from the name of the principality over which they ruled as feudal lords.
During the last half of the seventeenth century many members of this family mi- grated to Ireland, one considerable branch locating in county Donegal, where a num- ber of them are mentioned as landed pro- prietors during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, and from whence, at different periods, several of the name migrated to Pennsylvania, two generations later. Among these was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch, who located in the neighbor- hood of Philadelphia, either in Chester or Philadelphia county.
Thomas Cunningham, the first of the family of whom we have any definite record, married Ann Adams, on October 12, 1775, and soon after that date located in Middle- town township, where he followed the trade of a weaver. On February 20, 1794, he purchased a farm of one hundred acres in Lower Makefield township, and lived there- on until his death in August, 1813, his will stating that he was "advanced in years." Thomas and Ann (Adams) Cunningham were the parents of six children-two sons, Thomas and Matthew ; and four daughters, Martha Erwin, Margaret Van Horn. Ann Erwin, and Sarah Moon. The eldest son, Thomas, to whom was devised, the farm, sold it soon after the decease of his father and removed to Trenton, New Jersey. He married Ann Slack, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Torbert) Slack of Lower Makefield.
Matthew Cunningham, second son of Thomas and Ann. born in 1779, removed with his parents to Lower Makefield town- ship in 1794, and from the age of sixteen years was a school teacher in that and ad- joining townships, until his death on Sep- tember 14, 1835, at the age of fifty-six years and eight months. On March 15, 1814, he purchased a farm in Newtown township which he operated in connection with the conduct of his school in that town- ship. He married Rachel Taylor, daugh- ter of Joseph and Mercv (Knowles) Tay- lor, of Newtown township. both of whom were lineal descendants of John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher. William Penn's faith- ful stewards at Pennsbury. Sotcher being also a member of colonial assembly for many years.
Benjamin Taylor, grandfather of Joseph Taylor above mentioned, was the son of Philip and Julianna Taylor. of Oxford township. Philadelphia. early settlers at the present site of Tacony. Benjamin was a blacksmith, and followed that occupation in connection with farming in Newtown township and Upper Makefield for nearly sixty years. In 1730 he purchased 403 acres of land in Newtown township, which he conveyed to his sons Timothy and Bernard prior to 1750, and purchased 150
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acres in Upper Makefield. where he died in 1780. He became a large landowner in Upper and Lower Makefield, and was one of the prominent men of his time in that locality. He was a member of Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends. He married in 1719 Hannah Towne, daughter of John and Deborah (Booth) Towne, and they were the parents of four sons; Bernard, Benjamin, Timothy and Jolin; and daugh- ters; Hannah, wife of Joseph White : Deborah, wife of Benjamin Paxson; and another who married a Gillingham.
Timothy Taylor, son of Benjamin and Hannah (Towne) Taylor, born at New- town in 1729, was a carpenter and lived all his life in the neighborhood of New- town, his father conveying to him 158 acres of his Newtown plantation in 1754. He was a justice of the peace and of the court of common pleas of Bucks county, being commissioned the former on June 7, 1784. and the latter on September 29 of the same year. Timothy and Bernard Taylor were two of the trustees appointed by Falls Monthly Meeting in 1753 to purchase the land and erect Makefield meeting house. Timothy Taylor died in 1790. He was twice married, first on 12 mo. 27, 1752, to Letitia Kirkbride, daughter of Mahlon and Mary ( Sotcher) Kirkbride, and grand- daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Stacy) Kirkbride, and great-granddaughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy, who were married at Cinder Hill, Yorkshire, England, in 1668. Both Joseph and Mah- lon Kirkbride were for many years mem- bers of the colonial assembly and justices of the courts of Bucks county, and were the largest landowners in Bucks county. The children of Timothy and Letitia (Kirkbride) Taylor were: Joseph; Hannah, wife of William Field; Stacy; Timothy ; Mahlon; David; Jonathan K. and Bernard. Timothy Taylor married (second) II mo. 19, 1772, Sarah Yardley, daughter of Wil- liam and Ann (Budd) Yardley,* who bore him four children: Ann, who married Jacob Cadwallader ; William ; Deborah, who married Samuel Cary; and Sarah, who married Phineas Briggs.
Joseph Taylor, eldest son of Timothy and Letitia (Kirkbride) Taylor, born at Newtown in 1753, married, 12 mo. II, 1777, Mercy Knowles, daughter of John and Mary (Sotcher) Knowles, grand- daughter of Robert and Mercy (Brown) Sotcher, and great-granddaughter of John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher, before men- tioned. He was a farmer in Lower Make- field, where he died in 1832. The children of Joseph and Mercy (Knowles) Taylor were: Letitia, born 1778, married Samuel Bunting; Mary, born 1780, second wife of Cyrus Cadwallader; Sarah, born 1783, married John Comfort; Hannah, born 1784, married Mahlon Buckman; Mahlon, born 1787, married Eliza Comfort: Rachel, born 1789, died 1879, married Matthew Cun-
ningham ; Ann. born 1784. married Richard Janney ; Susanna. born 1797, married John Palmer; and Joseph, born 1799, married Anna Betts.
Matthew and Rachel (Taylor) .Cunning- liam were the parents of two sons-Joseph T., born January 6. 1814; and George W., born May 21, 1816, died 1896. The latter married in 1852 Mary Ivins, daughter of Barclay and Mary (Thompson) Ivins, and died in Newtown township in 1896, leav- ing three daughters-Agnes, Mary I., and Edith. Rachel (Taylor) Cunningham sur- vived her husband many years, dying in 1879 at the age of ninety years.
Joseph Taylor Cunningham, eldest son of Matthew and Rachel (Taylor) Cun- ningham, was born in Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, January 6, 1814, and was reared on the old homestead in Newtown township, where he spent his entire life from the age of a few months. At the death of his father in 1835 the farm was divided between him and his brother George W., the part adjudged to Joseph consisting of about eighty acres. Joseph T. Cunningham married Rebecca J. Cad- wallader, born February 14, 1822, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Brown) Cadwallader, and granddaughter of Cyrus and Mary (Taylor) Cadwallader, and therefore, like her husband, a descendant of Benjamin and Hannah (Towne) Taylor. her grandmother, Mary Taylor, being a daughter of Benja- min and Elizabeth (Burroughs) Taylor, and granddaughter of Bernard Taylor, (son of Benjamin and Hannah), and his wife Mary Kirkbride, the latter being an- other daughter of Mahlon and Mary (Sotcher) Kirkbride. Joseph T. Cunning- ham died on his farm in Newtown town- ship, October 16, 1867, in his fifty-fourth year, and his wife Rebecca died November 8. 1865. They were the parents of three children : Mary C., born 1844, died August 6, 1887, married George B. Buckman, of Newtown; Matthew C .; William; and two other children, George and Jennie, who died in infancy.
The maternal ancestors of these children were among the earliest settlers in War- minster township. The pioneer ancestor, John Cadwallader, a native of Wales, was a distinguished minister among Friends and died on the island of Tortula. in the West Indies, in 1742, while on a religious visit. He left several children, among whom was Jacob, who died in Moreland township. His wife was a granddaughter of Tunis (or Dennis) Kunders (Conrad) whose family was one of the thirteen who sailed from London on the "Concord" on July 24, 1683, and landed at Philadelphia, October 6, and fourteen days later located at the present site of Germantown, of which they were the founders. Dennis Kunders was one of the first burgesses. He was a native of Westphalia. and brought with him to Germantown three sons, and five other children were born to him in Germantown. Jacob Cadwallader, son of
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Jacob and Magdalena (Conrad) Cadwalla- der, married Phebe Radcliffe, of Warmin- ster, and was a large landowner in that township, and later in Makefield. Of his eleven children, five grew to maturity, viz. : Cyrus ; Jacob; John; Rebecca, wife of David Jarrett; Phebe, wife of Oliver Hough. Cyrus, the eldest son, born June 6. 1763, was twice married, both of his wives being Mary Taylor, as before recited, Jacob, the father of Mrs. Rebecca Cun- ningham, being the eldest son by the first marriage.
MATTHEW C. CUNNINGHAM was born and reared on the Newtown township farm, and acquired his elementary educa- tion at the public schools of that vicinity and at Joseph Shortlidge's Academy in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. At
the age of eighteen years he went to Philadel- phia, and after a course in a business col- lege accepted a position as bookkeeper with the firm of Seal, Williams & Co., wool mer- chants, and later became one of their most valued salesmen. On January 1, 1881, he formed a partnership with Alfred Seal, of the old firm, under the title of Seal & Cun- ningham, and entered into the wool busi- ness for himself. Two years later Mr. Seal died, and a new partnership was formed with John H. Seal, a nephew of Alfred, under the firm name of Cunning- ham & Seal, which still continues, doing a large business. Mr. Cunningham is a popular and successful business man, and has a large circle of acquaintances and friends in Bucks county, where he has re- sided for the past ten years.
Mr. Cunningham married, in 1869, Fannie S. Phillips, daughter of Charles and Sarah B. (Smith) Phillips, of Solebury, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where her family have been prominent residents for several generations, the pioneer ancestor of the family being Thomas Phillips, who married. about 1725, Rebecca (Norton) Kitchin, widow of William Kitchin, and had two tury and a half. Aaron Phillips married in 1756, in connection with his half-brother, William Kitchin, erected a mill on Primrose run. near the Delaware, two miles above Wells' Ferry, now New Hope, of which he became the sole owner in 1779. and it has been known as Phillips' Mill for a cen- tury and a half. Aaron Phillips married Mary Clauson, and was succeeded as miller by his son Thomas, who in turn was suc- ceeded by his son Aaron, who married Sarah Croasdale, a descendant of Ezra Croasdale, who came from Yorkshire and settled in Middletown in 1683. bringing a certificate from Brighouse Meeting of Friends in Yorkshire, dated I mo. 29, 1683. He married, in 1687, Ann Peacock, also a native of Yorkshire, and their third son, Jeremiah, born 8 mo. 29, 1694, a large land- owner and prominent man in Middletown. married Grace Heaton, granddaughter of Robert and Alice Heaton, who came from Yorkshire in 1682 in the "Welcome" with William Penn. Jeremiah Croasdale left
four sons and three daughters. His second son, Robert, born 6 mo. 30, 1728, died 8 mo. 9, 1780, married in 1750 Margery Hayhurst (daughter of Cuthbert and Deliverance (Bills) Hayhurst), whose ancestors, Cuth- bert and Mary Hayhurst, also came over in the "Welcome." Jeremiah Croasdale, eldest son of Robert and Margery, born 6 mo., 20, 1751, died 9 mo. 27, 1829, mar- ricd, 5 mo. 13, 1772, Ann Quinby, of New Jersey, and they were the parents of Sarall Croasdale, who married Aaron Phillips. Aaron Phillips died in 1858, and was suc- ceeded in the proprietorship of the old his- toric mill by his son Charles, the father of Mrs. Cunningham, who conducted it and the farm adjoining until 1889, when he re- . moved to New Hope, where he died.
Charles Phillips Cunningham, only child of Matthew and Fannie, died at the age of eight years. In 1895 Mr. Cunningham pur- chased his country home on the York road, in Buckingham township, Bucks county, near Holicong, where he and his family have since resided.
THOMAS R. LEISTER, of Perkasie, was born in Hilltown township, May 23, 1834, and is a son of Jonas and Catharine (Ruth) Leister. Philip and Nicholas Leister emigrated from Germany in the ship "Brotherhood," arriving in Phila- delphia, November 3, 1750. The latter set- tled in Franconia township, Montgomery county, where he purchased land in 1760. Philip Leister settled in Rockhill township, on the north branch of the Perkiomen creek, where he purchased 150 acres of land January 2, 1759. He subsequently pur- chased considerable other land adjoining. The only son of Philip Leister of whom we have any definite record was Philip Jacob Leister, who married September 26, 1772, Elizabeth Cell. On April 18, 1782, his parents, Philip and Catharine Leister con- veyed to him 175 acres of land in Rockhill, with the proviso that he was to support his father and mother, building for them a house on a part of the plantation, and pay fourteen hundred pounds in annual install- ments. In 1787 they conveyed to Philip Jacob another tract of 148 acres. Philip Jacob later dropped the first name and was known as Jacob Leister. He was a mason by trade and reared several sons to the same trade.
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