History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 48

Author: Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910; Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: New York ; Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1040


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Joseph Burgess married Hannah Wilson, and had five children: Daniel, of whom a more particular account follows; Joseph, married Deborah Fisher and removed to Buckingham, later to Baltimore, Maryland, and subsequently to Virginia ; had children ; Thomas, Sarah, John, Tacy, Martha and Daniel, of whom Thomas married Eliza- beth Hendricks, and removed to Highland


county, Ohio, about 1813; John, Sarah, and Hannah. John, son of Samuel and Eleanor, married Mary Duer, and had six children, Samuel Ellen, Jonathan, Mary, Susanna, and Martha.


Daniel Burges, son of Samuel and Eleanor, was twice married, but left no issue, devising his farm, part of 600 acres purchased by Samuel, the pioneer in 1695, to his brother Joseph's son Daniel.


Daniel Burges, son of Joseph and Hannah (Wilson) Burges, married 6 mo. 17, 1750, Lydia Sisom, and had eight children: Jo- seph, born 3 mo. 31, 1752, married, II mo. 8, 1780, Sarah Matson; Rachel, born II mo, 14, 1753, married Moses Moon; Hannah, born 12 mo. 23, 1755, married Joseph Child ; Sarah, born 9 mo. 17, 1758, died at the age of ninety-six years; Rebecca, born 10 mo. 26, 1763, married John Burton; Edith, born 3 mo. 15, 1766, married Joseph Headley ; Phebe, born 6 mo. 20, 1769, died single in 1839; Amos, born 10 mo. II, 1772, married Sarah Boulton. Daniel Burges married (sec- ond), Sarah Moon and had two children; Daniel, born 10 mo. 15, 1780, married De- borah Wood, and lived on the homestead for some years and then removed to New York state; and Elizabeth, born II mno. 28, 1784, died at the age of eighteen years.


Joseph Burges, eldest son of Daniel and Lydia, married Sarah Matson, and had eight children : Moses, born 8 mo. 17, 1781, mar- ried Ann Hancock; Lydia, born 8 mo. 28, 1783, and Amy, born II mo. 28, 1785, both died single; Daniel, born 4 mo. 30, 1787, also died single; Rachel, born 7 mo. 26, 1789, married John Price ; John, Joseph and Aaron, died young. Joseph Burges mar- ried, second, Deborah Bailey and had one child, Mary born 12 mo. 24, 1803, died young. Moses and Ann (Hancock) Burges had eight children, Joseph, Sarah, Phebe, Moses, Rebecca, Robert, Ann, and George, of whom Robert and Phebe still reside on the ancestral homestead, and are nearing the sunset of life. Anna Price Moon, Eliza- beth Price Tatum, and Mary C. Price, daughters of Daniel B. and Sarah (Burges) Price, with their children are the only liv- ing descendants of Joseph and Sarah (Mat- son) Burges.


OWEN MOON, JR., of the Trenton (New Jersey) Times," is a descendant of James and Joan (Burges) Moon, the pio- neer ancestors of the family, as shown by the preceding narrative, throughout the fol- lowing line :


William Moon, fifth son and sixth child of Roger and Ann (Nutt) Moon, was born March 6. 1727, and died October 4. 1795. He married his cousin Elizabeth Nutt, and was treated with therefor by the Friends' Meeting at Falls, the marriage of first cous- ins being "against the good order maintained among Friends." Among the children of William and Elizabeth ( Nutt) Moon were Ann, married, May 17. 1775, Samuel Bunt- ing; and William Moon, born February 5,


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1765, died May 30, 1827, at the age of sev- enty-two years. He was twice married; first to Sarah - -, who died about 17.49, and (second) to Phoebe Mott, born May 26, 1754, died July 23, 1847, aged ninety- three years. The children of the first mar- riage were as follows: I. Daniel, see forward; 2. Phoebe, married Benjamin Kelly, son of Joseph and Phoebe (Buck- man) Kelly, and had three children: Ben- jamin; Elizabeth, married Thomas Miller ; and Sarah, married John Miller. 3. Eliza- beth, never married. 4. Mary, born March 19, 1794, died January 22, 1866, married John Stackhouse, and had two children, one of whom, Phoebe, married 1847, Joseph Brown, of Fallsington, and has two chil- dren: Charles and Edward.


Daniel Moon, eldest child of William and Sarah, born July 5, 1789, died August 21, 1869, aged eiglity years. He married Mercy Lovett, born July 17, 1789, died December 23, 1840, daughter of Evan Lovett and Sarah Neeld (nee Stackhouse) and they were the parents of eleven children: I. William L., born August 25, 1810, died 1900 ; married in 1839, Elizabeth Y. Williamson, born July 1, 1819, died July 26, 1891, daugh- ter of Mahlon and Charity ( Vansant) Will- iamson, and had eleven children, five of whom survive: Daniel H., born October 15, 1843; Mary Jane, widow of Andrew Crozer Reeves, whose only child Andrew C. Reeves, is prominent in the business interests of Trenton, New Jersey; Mercy Ann, wife of Frank W. Muschert, senior member of the wholesale grocery firm of Muschert, Reeves & Company, Trenton, New Jersey, and has one child, William M. Muschert; Georgiana Watson, of Langhorne, Pennsyl- vania, who has three children, Elizabeth W .. Thompson, Elwood Watson, and Margaret Watson; and Anna Elizabeth, wife of Will- iam B. Parry, of Langhorne, who have two children. 2. Evan L. Moon, born August 8, 1812, died April 19, 1898; married (first ) Ann Palmer, March 12, 1835, and had one child, Owen, a more particular account of whom is given below. Evan L. Moon mar- ried (second) Mary Atchley, and had two children, Jesse and Daniel, the latter of whom married Mary Fell, daughter of Henry R. and Rachel W. Fell, of Trenton, New Jersey, and has four children; Arthur E., Elizabeth F., Rachel W., and Ridgway. 3. Sarah, born July 9, 1814, died Septem- ber 7, 1883, married George Thompson, who died in 1864, and had four children, three boys and one daughter, Mercy Ann, who married B. Woolston Watson, in 1862, and has three children. 4. John Moon, died in infancy. 5. Owen, born 1817, died at the age of thirteen. 6. Daniel, died 111 infancy in 1819. 7. John Hutchinson Moon, born October 5, 1820, married in 1848, Sarah Ann Crozer, daughter of Robert and Grace (Wright) Crozer, and had six chil- dren. 8. Andrew Moon, born October 16, 1823, died January 2, 1897; married, Feb- ruary 20, 1845, Anna Mary Watson, daugh- ter of Miles and Ann (Kelly) Watson, and


had three children; M. Watson Moon, of Fallsington, who married Charlotte Green Mull, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah (Green) Mull, and has three daughters, Emma, wife of Willets B. Farley ; Jennie and Annie, unmarried. 9. Phoebe Ann Moon, born October 5, 1825, married (first) January .20,


1848, William Kelly, who died in 1862, leaving one child, Daniel Edward, who married Mary F. Gilkyson, and had six chil- dren ; she married (second) in 1865, John Hellings, and had no children. 10. Benjamin, born September 1, 1827, died 1864; married Rebecca B. Miller, and had one child Ella. II. Anna Mary, born July II, 1829, married, October 24, 1861, William Penn Crozer, son of Robert and Grace ( Wright) Crozer, and has one child, Mercy.


Owen Moon, only child of Evan L. and Ann ( Palmer) Moon, born January 1, 1836; married December 14, 1859, Elizabeth Buck- man, daughter of Spencer W. and Sarah ( Williamson) Buckman, and their only sur- viving child is Owen Moon, Jr., of the "Trenton (New Jersey) Times." The ma- ternal ancestry of Mr. Moon is given under the heading of the Williamson Family.


Owen Moon, Jr., son of Owen and Eliza- beth (Buckman) Moon, was born at Penn Valley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 6, 1873. He received his primary education at local schools and graduated at Swarthmore College in June, 1894, with the degree of B. Sc., and is a member of the national college fraternity of Delta Upsilon. In the fall of 1894 he removed to Trenton, New Jersey, and in conjunction with a course at Trenton Business College, took up the study of law, but relinquished it a year and a half later to devote himself to a number of business interests. From 1896 to 1901 he was interested in the construc- tion of a number of electric railways in Philadelphia, Trenton, Bucks county and elsewhere, as director and official of the various organizations having them in charge.


He was perhaps more largely interested in trolley development in and about Tren- ton than any other individual. He was president of the Trenton, Morrisville and Yardley Street Railway Company, who con- structed a line of six miles connecting those towns; was a director and financial agent of the Trenton, Lawrenceville and Prince- ton Railroad Company, which constructed a trolley line of ten miles connecting those towns ; a director and treasurer of the Tren- ton City Bridge Company, the owners of the only Delaware river bridge at this point not controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and which bridge was purchased from the former (Bucks county) owners, on account of it being the key to any trolley connection between Pennsylvania and Tren- ton. These two trolley lines, upon their completion, together with the bridge, were sold to the Lehigh Valley Traction Company interests, represented by Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland, Ohio, and are now successfully operated by that company. Mr.


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Moon is also a director and an official in the syndicate which owned the old turnpike ex- tending across lower Bucks county, con- necting Trenton with Bristol and Phila- delphia, as well as of a half dozen or more railroad corporations, whose object was the completion of a trolley line from Philadel- phia to Trenton, which was initiated by General Morrell in 1891. The history of the construction of this line represents one of the most stubborn fights between the trolley interests and the railroads ever be- fore the courts of Pennsylvania or any other state, a right-of-way fight of ten years duration, on the line between Bristol and Bridgwater, being ultimately won by the syndicate securing an elevated trolley char- ter, at Harrisburg, which permitted track connections across the disputed right of way and assured the completion of the Phila- delphia and Trenton line. This road was later sold to a Baltimore syndicate which now operates its cars direct from Phila- delphia, over the tracks of the Trenton, Morrisville and Yardley street railway and the Trenton city bridge into Trenton. Mr. Moon became a director of the Yardley ( Penna.) National Bank in 1895, at the age of twenty-two years. He is a director and secretary of the Philadelphia firm of the Scott Paper Company ; a director of the Reeves Engine Company of Trenton, and also a director in a number of other cor- porations and industrial and business organ- izations. In 1901 he became one of the pro- prietors and treasurer of the "Trenton (New Jersey) Times," and in 1902 became the active business manager of the establish- ment. Under his capable management the circulation of "The Times" has nearly doubled, and it is becoming one of the popular and strong newspapers of the state. Mr. Moon is a member of the Historicai Society of Pennsylvania and the Bucks County Historical Society. He is also a member of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation of Trenton, the Republican Club of Trenton, and the Trenton Country Club. He married, November 8, 1899, at Swarth- more, Pennsylvania, Margaret Scott, born October 20, 1876, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Scott, of that place.


THE WILLIAMSON FAMILY. The history of this family takes us back to the period prior to the grant of Pennsylvania to William Penn and possibly to two or three decades prior to that date when the repre- sentatives of three European nations were battling for supremacy on the shores of our middle states. The Swedes made the first organized settlement on Pennsylvania soil in 1638 under Peter Minuit. The Dutch be- gan almost immediately to contest their supremacy there, and from the time of the conquest of the Swedes by the Hollanders, two decades later, until the subsequent con- quest of the latter by the English, repre- sentatives of the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic


races began to make their appearance on the Delaware. The earliest records of the court at Upland (now Chester ) under English jurisdiction in 1676, show a number of names of undoubted English origin, though the first justices were all. Swedes. Dunck Williames, as his name is usually spelled in the earlier records, though it appears in vari- ous forms both as to first and surname, during his whole life was the founder of the family of Williamson in Pennsylvania. He is claimed by his descendants to have been of Swedish or Holland origin, but many circumstances in connection with his first appearance on Pennsylvania soil strong- ly indicate to the writer of these lines that he was of English or Scotch origin. The most significant of these is the fact that he was associated in his first purchase of land with Francis Walker, whose name clearly indicates that he was of neither Dutch or Swedish origin. Again, hereditary surnames were unknown in either Sweden or Holland until late in the sixteenth cen- tury and their representatives in America were known by their father's given name, with the addition of "es" or "se" and "sen." Had he therefore been of Dutch origin his name would have been more probably Gul- liamse, if his father was named William, . and the name William was practically un- known among the Swedes. The name Dunek or Dunk was doubtless a contraction of Duncan, and in neither form has ever been found among the Swedes or Dutch. Just when Dunk Williamson arrived on the Delaware is a matter of some conjecture. As early as 1667 Dunk Willims and eight others secured from Governor Richard Nic- olls a patent for a tract of land of one thou- sand acres, known as Passayunk, indicating that he was one of the first settlers to se- cure title to land in what is now Philadel- phia, from the English rulers who con- quered the territory in 1664. His grant of land, in connection with Francis Walker, under patent from Sir Edmund Andross un- der date of July 18, 1676, comprehended 450 acres on the Neshaminy in the present limits of Bensalem township, comprising the present site of Dunks Ferry, named for him. "Franck Walker." first appears of rec- ord at Upland as the custodian of goods be- longing to Captain Edward Cantwell, who administered the oaths to the first justices at Upland in 1676. On a "List of Tydable persons under the jurisdiction of ye Court," made November 13. 1677, the names of "Dunk Williames" and "Franck Walker" appear in the district of Taokanink (Ta- cony ), and on November 12, 1678, Dunk Williams petitioned to take up one hundred acres of land "on the lower syde of Nie- shambenies ( Neshaminy) creek, 50 acres thereof att ye river syde & ye other 50 acres up in the woods;" this was therefore at the mouth of Neshaminy in Bensalem. He also served on a jury at the same date. On March 12, 1678-79, he petitioned to take up four acres of marsh back of his "plan- taceion." On the latter date Edmund Drauf-


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ton brought suit against him for the tuition of his children, showing that at that early date the Pennsylvania colonists were inter- ested in the education of their youth. The title of Williamson and Walker to the tract of land in Bucks county was confirmed by Penn, and the former became a large land- owner. The will of Dunck Williamson, dated February 12, 1697-8, and probated March 1, 1699-1700, mentions his wife, Wallery, sons William and John William- son, and daughters, Hanna, wife of Jolin Gound, and Margred, wife of John John- son. To John he devises 500 acres of land in the bounds of Cohanset. (Cohansey, Salem county, New Jersey), to Hanna Gound, one hundred acres in the county of Kent; to Margred Johnson, five pounds or its equivalent ; and to William, all his es- tate in Pennsylvania .*


William Williamson, born 1676, died 1721, married Elizabeth Claessen, of Dutch or Swedish origin, and had five sons: Jacob, who is said to have died without issue; Abraham, who married Rachel , and had two sons and two daughters; John who married Elizabeth , and had eight sons and two daughters, who resided in Philadelphia county, see forward; William, married and had a son Jolin and a daugh- ter; Peter, married Leah - -, and had seven children: Jacob, Isaac; Peter ; Eliza- beth, who married a Moore of Burlington, New Jersey, and after his death removed to Virginia; Sarah; Rebecca; and Jane, who married Abraham Heed. .


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Peter Williamson, third son of Peter and Leah Williamson, born in Bucks county, January 17, 1735, settled in Falls township, Bucks county, and died there June II, 1823, at the age of eighty-nine years. He was twice married; first to Sarah Sotcher, daughter of Robert and Mercy (Browne) Sotcher of Falls, and granddaughter of Jolin and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher, the last named being William Penn's steward and steward- ess at Pennysbury for many years. They were married at Pennysbury in the presence of William Penn, October 16, 1701, Falls Meeting having held a special session in order that they might be married before


*In the Williamson (sometimes called the Johnson graveyard situated in Bensalem township, near Bridge- water, a tablet has been erected with this statement : 'In memory of Duncan Williamson, one of the orig- inal settlers of this township, who died about the year 1700."


#Members of the Claassen family, children of Jan Claassen, who was of Dutch or Swedish origin and a grantee in 1666, are as follows: Henricka, eldest daughter of Jan Claassen, married Matthias Kyn (Keen) born 1667, died 1714, eldest son of Hans and Willemnka Kyn, and grandson of Joran Kyn, an original Swedish settler near Chester about 1641. Gertrude, second child of Jan Claassen, married Hans Laican, eldest son of Peter Nilsson Laykan, a native of Sweden. Of the Kyn family, one Jonas Keen (the third son of Hans and Willemka Kyn and grandson of the original Swed- ish settler, Joran Kyn) married in 1697 to Frances Walker, only daughter of Francis Walker (Walcker), a grantee in Bucks county on the Neshaminy Creek with Dunck Williams and others in 1676. Catherine, third child of Jau Claassen, married Erie Kyn (Keen second son of Hans and Willemka Kyn, and grandson of the original Swedish settler Joran Kvn. Elizabeth. another daughterof Jan Claassen, married William Williams, a son of Dunck Williams.


Penn left for England at the conclusion of his last visit to his province in America. John Lofty became a prominent man in the colony and served many years in colonial assembly, 1712 to 1722. He died November 19, 1729. John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher were the parents of four children : Hannah, born January 25, 1702, married October 26, 1720, Joseph Kirkbride; Mary, born Sep- tember 15, 1704, married November 12, 1724, Mahlon Kirkbride; Ann, born March 27, 1710, married April 23, 1729, Mark Wat- son; Robert, born November 3, 1706, mar- ried in 1731, Mercy Browne, youngest daughter of George and Mercy Browne, who came from England in 1678 and set- tled in Falls township, Bucks county. George Browne was the first Englishman to serve as justice of the court at Upland, being re- turned as a justice at the June sessions, 1680, but not being present was sworn and took his seat as a justice, in accordance with his commission, October 13, 1680, and served until the establishment of the courts by Penn after his arrival. George and Mercy Brown reared a large family who have left numerous descendants. General Jacob Brown, commander-in-chief of the United States Army, was a great-grandson.


Peter and Sarah (Sotcher) Williamson were the parents of eight children, as fol- lows : Letitia, born June 12, 1765, died Au- gust 5, 1847, married Jonathan Burton, of Falls ; Mercy, born June 12, 1766, died March 10, 1830, married William Crozer, of Falls, and had ten children; Parmelia, born January 16, 1768, died October 23, 1813, married Thomas Crozer and had three children; Jesse, born September 21, 1769, died October 23, 1852, married Sarah Williamson, daughter of Josephus, see for- ward, and had three children; David, born March 14, 1773, died August 10, 1799; Malı- lon, born March 15, 1777, died July 8, 1848; John, born February 24, 1778, was lost at sea March 4, 1798; Sarah, born November 28, 1781, married Nov. 30, 1815, Jesse Kelly, son of Joseph and Phoebe ( Buckman) Kel- ley, and died July 18, 1862. Sarah (Sotcher) Williamson died November 3, 1799, and Peter married a second time Eliza- beth Banes, but had no children by her.


Mahlon, sixth child and third son of Peter. and Sarah ( Sotcher) Williamson, born March 15, 1777, settled near Fallsing- ton, Bucks county, and lived there all his life, dying July 8, 1848. He married Charity Vansant, born November 16, 1781, died April 29, 1848, daughter of Cornelius and Ann (Larzelere) Vansant, and whose pa- ternal and maternal ancestry is given else- where in this volume. Mahlon and Charity were the parents of eight children, as fol- lows: John, born December 21, 1800, died July 28, 1802; Isaiah V., born February 4, 1803, died March 7, 1889, unmarried, was the founder of the Williamson Industrial School in Delaware county, Pennsylvania ; Peter, born September 4, 1805, died Febru- ary 21, 1880, married May 26, 1831, Eliza Martin, and had six children; John B.


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born January 4, 1808, died October 2.4, 1874, moved to New Albany, Indiana, about 1833, married and had nine children; Jesse, born May 13, 1810, died October, 1892, mar- ried first Margaret Buckman, and second Elizabeth Albertson, (had five children : Edward C., of Morrisville; Henry D., of Lancaster ; Franklin, of Lancaster; Ida, wife of Headley Harper ; and Ella, wife of J. D. Tantum) ; Sarah Ann, born May 14, 1812, died July 22, 1891, married De- cember 14, 1836, Spencer W. Buckman of Falls, Bucks county, see forward; Mah- lon, born March 9, 1815, died May 1, 1871, married Mary Ann Stiles and settled in Philadelphia, had seven children; Eliza Ann, born February 1, 1819, died July 26, 1891, married William J. Moon, son of Daniel and Mercy (Lovett) Moon and had eleven children. Spencer W. Buckman, born December 18, 1814, was a son of Zenas and Mary (Worthington) Buck- man. He married December 14, 1836, Sarah Ann Williamson above mentioned, and they were the parents of seven chil- dren, as follows: Mary, born December II, 1837, married Charles A. Parsons, see Parsons Family in this volume; Eliza- beth, born January 2, 1839, married Owen Moon, son of Evan and Ann (Palmer) Moon, see preceding sketch: Isaiah, born May 26, 1841, died May 9 1842; Charles, born July 13, 1842, married Henrietta Anderson and has eight chil- dren; William A., Spencer W., Engene. Anna Mary, George, Ida, Sarah, and Macre; Wallace, born April 26, 1845, mar- ried Elizabeth Hart, and has two chil- dren : Edwin H., and Williamson; George, born 1846, died 1848; Sarah, born March 5. 1854, died April 24, 1883, married Mah- lon Wharton and had two children: Caro- line and Albert.


John Williamson, third son of William and Elizabeth (Claessen) Williamson, and grandson of Dunck and Wallery William- son, born 1698, died August 31, 1761, mar- ried Elizabeth , who survived him. They lived on the homestead (inherited from his father) and are buried in the old family burying ground on the banks of the Neshaminy. They had nine sons and two daughters, as follows: William, born June 14, 1727; John, born May 10, 1730; Joseph, born September 16, 1731, removed to Philadelphia: Abraham, born November 16, 1733; Elizabeth, born April 25, 1736, married Joseph Vandegrift, Katharine, born November 17. 1738, married Benjamin Walton, of Byberry ; Jesse, born June 25, 1741, removed to Philadelphia ; Josephus. born December 3. 1743, died April 28. 1817,. married Mary Bush, who died July 28, 1843, aged 87 years, both buried at St. Peter's church- yard, Philadelphia, sce forward; David, born September 21, 1748, died April 22, 1794, married Ann Bennett and had eight children, see below; Jeremiah, born March 8, 1751, removed to Philadelphia ; Ben-


jamin, born July 8, 1752, also removed to Philadelphia.


Josephus and Mary (Bush) Williamson had nine children, as follows: Jeremiah ; David, died September 7, 1803, aged 33; Joseph (none of whom married) ; Rebec- ca, born 1774, died July 5, 1831, married December 3, 1797, David Fleckmire, of Philadelphia and had seven children; Sa- rah, born September 22, 1776, died May, 1868, in her ninety-second year, married November 2, 1794, Jesse Williamson, son of Peter and Sarah (Sotcher) William- son, before mentioned; Ann, born 1779, died April 21, 1839, married her cousin David Williamson, of Philadelphia, a son of David and grandson of John, see for- ward; Elizabeth, died 1840, married May 3, 1804, John Burns, lived on a farm ad- jacent to Pennsbury until 1825, and then removed to Wayne county, Indiana ; John, born May 15, 1786, died April 1, 1791; John G., married Harriet Shardon, and after her death removed to St. Louis, Mis- souri, had three children.


The children of David and Ann (Ben- nett) Williamson were as follows: Cath- arine, born April 20, 1777, died August 30, 1798; Thomas, born May 5, 1774; Jo- seph, born September 15, 1779, had one son; Jesse, born' January 24, 1782, died September 2, 1798; David, born June 18, 1785, died June 10, 1851, married his cousin Ann Williamson, and had three children : Joseph, Bennett, and David E .; Benjamin, born June 5, 1788, married. El- len Fitzmaury ; Ann; and Samuel, who died in infancy.




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