History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches, Part 163

Author: Futhey, John Smith, 1820-1888; Cope, Gilbert, 1840-1928
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia, L. H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1162

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* This property has recently been sold to Joshua Jacobs, an Irish gentleman, a lineal descendant in the female line from Isaac Jack- son, the dreamer. The fact of his being such descendaut was not as- certained till after negotiations for the purchase were commenced.

by Samuel Sartan

William Jackson

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tional hospitality of the house. He died in the year 1821, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, having devised his real estate to his son William.

WILLIAM JACKSON, fourth son of William and Katha- rine Jackson, and grandson of Isaac Jackson, who was the first of the family who came to this country, was born July 14, 1746. He was remarkable in youth for stability of character and seriousness of demeanor, and as early as 1775 he became an approved minister. In 1778 he mar- ried Hannah, a daughter of Thomas and Hannah Seaman, of Westbury, Long Island, and went to reside there with his wife. After about two years he returned to the place of his nativity, and for the remainder of his life lived upon a farm of his father, which was afterwards devised to him. In 1802, '3, and '4 he traveled through England and Ire- land on a religious visit, and was absent about three years, during which time he attended nearly all the meetings of Friends in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and some of them repeatedly. He also visited, at different times, Friends in Maryland, Virginia, New York, and New England. At one time he was absent from home, in the prosecution of his religious labors, for more than a year, traveling through State after State, in the work of the min- istry. His engagements in this way continued occasionally till he was about seventy-eight years old, after which he ceased to travel beyond the limits of his own Yearly Meet- ing. He had no children, was in easy circumstances, simple and economical in his habits, and not desirous of pecuniary gain. He would never lend money at a rate of interest exceeding five per cent., and he frequently required but four, and he allowed his debtors to pay very much as suited their own convenience. His chief interest was in the con- corns of his religious society, and in the promulgation of the truth as he understood it; and, though diligent in busi- ness, in the intervals of his religious labors he was indiffer- ent as to its profits. A desk, which by his will he gave to a grandnephew with its contents, was found to contain gold and silver coin in amount upwards of four hundred dollars, which had obviously been carelessly thrown in, as received in different sums, without being cared for afterwards; and various other sums of money were found in drawers and cupboards, and such like places, not secreted, or apparently subjects of any special care. He was punctilious in his adherence to plainness of dress and in his style of living, and he avoided all innovations that had the aspect or sem- blance of luxury. The ancient trencher, with its fitting accompaniment, adorned his family table long after it had disappeared from every other household in the neighborhood. In all respects he was a thorough Friend of the elder type, and continued to the end of his life to be an example of what manner of man a solid Friend was before the laxity of modern manners had encroached upon the drab-colored sim- plicity of the ancient fathers of the church. He was grave and dignified, yet in social intercourse he was habitually cheerful, and he had a genial vein of innocent humor which enhanced the pleasure of his conversation.

In all matters of church discipline he was an authority, and his judgment in business meetings of the society was more than respected,-it was of such weight as to be usu- ally decisive. His opinions were thought by some to betray

a touch of severity, but no one doubted that the natural flow of his feelings was genial and kindly, and that his heart was the seat of the most generous and tender emo- tions. His wife was a woman of intelligence and devoted piety, sprightly in conversation and active in all good works. Mutual affection and esteein assisted to brighten and sweeten their lives for more than fifty years. They both lived to a good old age. He survived her but a short time, and died Jan. 10, 1834, in the eighty-eighth year of his age.

WILLIAM JACKSON, the third of the name, and the son of John Jackson, was born Nov. 7, 1789. He was a pupil at Friends' institution at Westtown, and in October, 1808, entered Enoch Lewis' boarding-school at New Gar- den as a student of mathematics. His literary attainments were respectable, and his progress in mathematical science, to the study of which the character of his mind was well adapted, was rapid. About the time that he attained ma- jority, his father, who desired leisure for the indulgence of his botanical tastes in the cultivation of his beautiful gar- den, committed to him the management of his farm; of which, on his father's death, he became the owner. Though diligent in business as an agriculturist, he did not allow his avocations to engross his whole time or attention. He took a deep interest in every movement of a public or phil- anthropie character. Though he was well acquainted with the principles of our government, and with those which regulate the distribution of wealth and the increase of pop- ulation, and in many respects was well qualified for use- fulness in public life, he was not a politician in the baser sense of the word, and regarded popularity and the honors of office with equal indifference. Much to his surprise, he was in the year 1838 placed on the ticket of the Anti- Masonic party, with which he had slight affiliation, and elected a member of the State Senate. He served his term with credit, and was highly esteemed in that body for his integrity, intelligence, and accuracy of judgment, and whenever he spoke he commanded attention by the clear- ness of his statements and the cogeney of his reasoning. But he was not a partisan, and could not manage or be managed, and his single term in the Senate was his whole experience in political life.

The anti-slavery movement enlisted his warmest sym- pathies, and he was for many years actively engaged in the promulgation of its principles. To his sense of justice, in- deed, slavery was always abhorrent, and from his early youth he was a zealous advocate of emancipation.

His favorite study was that of social science, in which he was a disciple of Malthus and Adam Smith. He deliv- ered at various times lectures on subjects connected with political economy, in which he advocated strongly the soundness of the Malthusian philosophy. He was a calm, clear reasoner and an accurate thinker, deliberate and unim- passioned, without a touch of enthusiasm or coloring of im- agination, secking truth by the most direct processes, and never bewildered in the pursuit by false lights, however brilliant or dazzling. His judgment was eminently judi- cial. He approached his conclusions by slow and cautious steps uninfluenced by his wishes or his hopes.

In the branch of the Society of Friends to which he was attached he was repeatedly chosen clerk of the Monthly

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and Quarterly Meetings, for which positions he was peculi- arly well fitted by the habitual calmness of his temperament and the cool impartiality of his judgment.

It is hardly necessary to add that in domestic life the traditional kindness of the Jackson nature was not wanting in him. In all family relations he was the pattern of a Christian gentleman. He died in the year 1864, univer- sally lamented, and leaving behind him the record of a well-spent life.

DR. SAMUEL JACKSON, youngest son of Isaac and Han- nah Jackson, of New Garden, born 8th mo. 3, 1788, died 12th mo. 17, 1869, was an elegant scholar, a forcible writer, and profoundly learned in his profession. After graduating as M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, he settled at Northumberland, in this State, where he re- mained till beyond middle age in the enjoyment of a large medical practice. His eldest son, William Arthur Jack- son, was a young man of fine abilities and elegant accom- plishments, and was associated in the practice of law with the Hon. John M. Read, late chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He died at the age of twenty-nine, just as the assurance of a successful and brilliant career as a lawyer and advocate seemed almost complete. A second son, Francis Aristides Jackson, has been professor of Latin at the University of Pennsylvania for upwards of twenty years, though not yet past the meridian of life.

HALLIDAY JACKSON, born 8, 31, 1771, son of Isaac and Phebe (Halliday) Jackson, of New Garden, when a young man, in company with Henry Simmons and Joel Swayne, went to the Indian reservation in the western part of New York, to assist in instructing the natives in habits of civilization, under the care of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. He was absent about two years. On his return he married, 3, 18, 1801, Jane, daughter of Thomas and Jane Hough, and settled at Darby. He was the father of John Jackson, a valued minister and educa- tor, and of Halliday Jackson, now of West Goshen, in this county, compiler of the family genealogy, and a person much interested in natural science.

JACOBS, JOHN and RICHARD, settled on the Perkio- men Creek about the year 1700. John Jacobs, Jr., son of John, was married, 9, 2, 1721, to Mary, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Lewis) Hayes, of Haverford, and had the following children :

John, b. 3, 6, 1722 ; Richard, b. 6, 12, 1723; Israel, b. 6, 9, 1726, m. Sarah Massey ; Joseph, b. 10, 25, 1728; Benjamin, b. 3, 5, 1731 ; Elizabeth, b. 10, 5, 1732, m. Col. Caleb Parry ; Hannah, b. 12, 12, 1735, m. David Ritten- house; Mary, b. 6, 2, 1738, m. John Goheen; Isaac, b. 10, 13, 1741, m. Hannah Trimble ; Jesse, died unmarried. From Richard, the second son, it is thought that the Jacobs family of Lancaster County is descended.

John Jacobs (3) married, 1, 3, 1753, Elizabeth, daughter of John Havard, of Tredyffrin, and about the same time settled in Whiteland township, Chester Co., having pur- chased several contiguous farms in the Great Valley. From 1762 to 1776 he served as a member of the Assembly, being Speaker of that body during the latter year; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of July 15, 1776, and in 1777 one of the commissioners which met at New

Haven to regulate the price of commodities in the colonies. He died in May, 1780. His eldest son, Benjamin, received a good education, studied law, and practiced surveying and conveyancing, and was appointed under the constitution of 1790 an associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He was disowned by Friends, 10, 9, 1777, for signing paper currency for carrying on the war.

JAMES, AARON, lately arrived from Stafford Monthly Meeting, in Old England, produced to Chester Monthly Meeting, 9, 24, 1701, a certificate from thence on behalf of himself and wife Elizabeth. They settled in Westtown, and were the parents of the following children : Thomas, b. 4, 20, 1700; Mary, b. 5, 15, 1702; Sarah, b. 7, 1, 1704; Aaron, b. 11, 9, 1706; Joseph, b. 1, 29, 1709; Ann, b. 3, 24, 1711.

Of these, Joseph was married about 1735 to Hannah Hickman, born April 21, 1715, died May 23, 1806, daugh- ter of Benjamin and Ann Hickman, of Westtown. Joseph died in Westtown, Sept. 2, 1772, seized of a messuage and grist-mill with 70 acres of land in Middletown and Provi- dence, messuage and 200 acres in Westtown, and another messuage and 160 acres in the same township. The ehil- dren of Joseph and Hannah were fourteen in number, viz. : Caleb, b. 5, 4, 1736, d. 1, 15, 1829, m. Mary Marshall and Betty (Lewis) Hoopes; Mary, b. 7, 25, 1737, m. Philip Mendenhall ; Hannah, b. 8, 1, 1739, m. John Marshall, 11, 27, 1760; Ann, b. 6, 3, 1741, m. William Patterson ; Joseph, b. 3, 21, 1743; Elizabeth, b. 11, 25, 1744, m. Joseph Knight; Sarah, b. 12, 22, 1746-7; Susanna, b. 2, 20, 1749, d. 10, 15, 1823, m. Jacob Hoopes and Gideon Gilpin; Ruth, b. 11, 7, 1750 ; Moses, b. 12, 20, 1752; Aaron, b. 10, 11, 1754; Jesse, b. 3, 12, 1756, d. 11, 21, 1819; Esther, b. 9, 6, 1757, m. Abraham Williamson and Samuel Painter ; Rebecca, b. 5, 3, 1759, died young.

Of these, Jesse married, 3, 26, 1788, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of John and Phebe Hoopes, born 4, 17, 1760, died 12, 15, 1848. They resided at Westtown, and had children,- Ann, b. 5, 13, 1788, d. 9, 21, 1851; Joseph, b. 8, 17, 1789; John, b. 10, 3, 1790, d. 4, 22, 1854; Hannah, b. 3, 1, 1792, d. 3, 10, 1831 (?); Susanna G., b. 12, 4, 1793, d. 3, 18, 1866 (?) ; Phebe, b. 9, 27, 1795, d. 4, 30, 1864 ; Esther W., b. 6, 12, 1797, d. 12, 21, 1845; Jesse, b. 6, 24, 1801, d. 1, 2, 1874.

John James, son of Jesse, married Hannah, daughter of Cheyney and Mary Jefferis, of East Bradford, and pur- chased a farm on the east side of Brandywine, at Jefferis' Ford, where he continued to reside. Hannah was born 3, 7, 1791, and died 3, 22, 1830. After her death John married Rachel Painter, who survived him. His children by the first wife were Edwin ; Mary, m. to Richard Ash- bridge; Jesse, died young; Esther, m. to Albin Garrett and William Woodward; Cheyney, died young ; Jolin, who owns the homestead ; Joseph, died young; Cheyney J., now deceased ; by the second wife, Jesse, also deceased.

Aaron James, son of Caleb and Mary (Marshall) James, married Mary, daughter of Thomas Mercer, of Westtown, and had children,-Hannah, b. 1789; Thomas, Emmor, Abraham, Mary, Aaron, Betty, Jane, m. to Jesse James, Jr .; Sarah, m. to Francis James, Esq. ; Martha, and Hunt, b. 1813, d. 1859.

@maneis James

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DANIEL JAMES, an Episcopalian, married Jane Thomas, a Baptist, in Wales, where some of their children were born. They came to Chester County, and resided perhaps near St. Peter's church, in the Valley, at one time, and afterwards in the neighborhood of Coneord, but it is not known that Daniel owned any land. Joseph James, son of Daniel, was born in this country, June 21, 1761, and married Mary, daughter of Francis and Ann (Mar- shall) Hickman. He died Oct. 29, 1842, and his widow Feb. 21, 1846, aged about eighty years. Their children were as follows: Levis, Benjamin, Thomas, Sarah, Amelia, Ann and Francis, twins, Jane, Mary H., Hickman, and William H.

FRANCIS JAMES, born April 4, 1799, began the study of law with John Duer, Esq., April 1, 1823, and was ad- mitted to the bar in May, 1825, since which he has made West Chester his home. In 1834 he was elected to the State Senate, and served four years. He was. elected rep- resentative in Congress for the district composed of Chester, Delaware, and Lancaster Counties in 1838 and 1840. Here he took a strong anti-slavery position, and by speech and vote resisted the encroachments of the slave-power. He married, Sept. 7, 1826, Sarah H., daughter of Aaron and Mary James, of Westtown, and has one child, Anna M. James. Owing to failing health he gradually relinquished the practice of the law several years since, and now at the age of eighty-two years his tottering steps require the as- sistance of two canes. He is a venerable gentleman, dig- nified, courteous, and modest, and only at the solicitation of others would he allow his portrait to appear in this work.

JEFFERIS, ROBERT, is first mentioned as a witness at a court held at Chester, September, 1685. In 1691 he purchased 60 acres of land near the middle of Upper Chichester township, whereon he probably resided for some years. In 1701 he purchased 169 acres in East Bradford township, and having sold that in Chichester, removed to the last purchase. In 1703 he was appointed constable for Westtown, Bradford not being then organized. In 1721 he added to his possessions by purchasing 189 acres from William Buffington. He conveyed thie homestead in 1733 to his son Benjamin, reserving a life estate, and having divided his other land between his sons, he does not appear to have owned any at the time of his death, in 1738.

His first wife was Jane, daughter of George and Jane Chandler, to whom he was married about 1692. After her death he married Ann -, by whom he had one child. His widow married Richard Archer prior to 1745, and surviving him, died at the residence of her son, Richard Jefferis, in Tell township, Huntingdon Co.

The children of Robert and Jane Jefferis were Pa- tience, m. to Henry Betterton and - Mackey ; Charity, m. to John Evans, and again, in 1721, to Jobn Cope ; Wil- liam, m. 1724, to Elizabeth (Ring) Neild ; James, m. March 3, 1728, to Elizabeth (Tull) Carter ; Robert, m. Eleanor - and Elizabeth Harper, a widow; George, m. Lydia -; Jane, m. to Joseph Skeen; Anne, m. to Alexander Duncan ; Mary, m. to Thomas Temple, of Caln ; Benja- min, m. to. Elizabeth Carter ; Thomas, m. to Catharine (?); John.

William Jefferis resided in Chester township for some time after his marriage, but after his father's death he pur- chased the homestead in East Bradford and removed thither. He died 11, 23, 1777, and was buried on the 25th, at Bir- mingham Meeting. His children were Mary, b. 5, 29, 1727, m. William Marsh, of Sadsbury; William, b. 3, 12, 1729, d. 1778, m. Hannah Darlington ; Martha, b. 1, 8, 1731, m. William Bennett; Nathaniel, b. 11, 8, 1733, d. 9, 30, 1823 ; Hannah, m. John Hunt; Samuel, b. 10, 6, 1736, d. 2, 28, 1823; Nathan, b. 5, 6, 1741, d. 1777. The descendants of William and Hannah (Darlington) Jef- feris are very numerous, but mostly in the West. Na- thaniel Jefferis married his first cousin, Prudence -- and had seven children. He afterwards married Mary, daughter of Isaac Chalfant, by whom he had eight, of whom the late Isaac Jefferis, of Newlin, was one.

Samnel Jefferis was married 11, 24, 1759, to Margaret, daughter of John and Joanna Townsend, of East Brad- ford, born 7, 27, 1742, died 7, 9, 1832. They resided for many years in West Whiteland, but died in West Chester. They had two sons,-William and John, of whom the first died with yellow fever in Philadelphia, leaving children, who went to Baltimore.

John Jefferis married, 3, 29, 1787, Hannah, daughter of John and Hannah Carpenter, of West Bradford, born 1, 4, 1768, died 7, 30, 1799. He married a second wife, Jane P. Bishop, who died 2, 14, 1845. Her children were Minerva, b. 12, 17, 1787, d. 8, 23, 1795; Horatio Townsend, b. 6, 22, 1789, d. 5, 14, 1836; Samuel Car- penter, b. 12, 1, 1790, d. 3, 20, 1843 ; Malinda England, b. 9, 9, 1792, d. 2, 27, 1863, m. Job Wickersham ; Phebe Baily, b. 8, 19, 1794, d. 3, 29, 1829 ; William Walter, b. 12, 5, 1796, died young ; Granville Sharp, b. 10, 5, 1802 ; Joseph Addison, b. 11, 3, 1803.

Horatio Townsend Jefferis married, March 27, 1816, Hannah Paul, born April 19, 1790, died March 23, 1851. They resided in West Chester, and had children,-Minerva; William Walter, now cashier of the Bank of Chester County ; Emily Jane; Martha Ann, m, Charles Fairlamb ; John Paul, now of Washington, D. C .; Horatio Carpenter, and Mortimer Townsend, lately Episcopal minister of an English Chureli at Dresden.

James Jefferis, son of Robert and Jane, married Eliza- beth, widow of George Carter, of East Bradford, and set- tled on the Carter homestead, on the west side of Brandy- wine, at Jefferis' Ford. His father conveyed some land to him on the east side of the creek, and he purchased from the Worth family 150 aeres on the west side. He became a member of Birmingham Meeting in 1738, and was ap- pointed an overseer in 1743. He died in 1745, but his wife survived him many years. They had three children, -James, Abigail, who married Thomas Williamson, and Emmor.

James was born Nov. 20, 1728, and married, Dec. 23, 1749, Ann, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Cheyney, of Thornbury, born Feb. 21, 1727-8, died at the age of seventy-six years, six months, twenty-seven days. He in- herited his father's lands on the east side of the creek, where he died in 1807. His children were Mary, b. 9, 9, 1750, m. to Thomas Hiekman ; Emmor, b. 1, 18, 1752,

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d. 10, 8, 1822, m. Rachel Grubb ; Betty, b. 3, 17, 1755, d. 1, 5, 1838, unmarried ; Hannah, b. 10, 19, 1757, m. to Moses Hickman ; Jane, b. 10, 7, 1759, d. 3, 16, 1849. Her son Chalkley, b. 11, 17, 1789, d. 11, 4, 1870, was a mason and builder, and in conjunction with William In- gram erected many important public buildings. Cheyney, b. 4, 26, 1762, d. 4, 6, 1828; Jacob, b. 9, 26, 1764, d. 11, 20, 1840, m. Elizabeth Cope; Ann, b. 9, 24, 1767, d. 6,5, 1768.

Cheyney Jefferis learned the hatting business, but be- came a farmer. He married, 11, 26, 1790, Mary Bennett, b. 11, 29, 1762, died 9, 2, 1807, daughter of James and Hannah Bennett, of Pennsbury. He married again, 3, 22, 1810, Martha Sharpless, b. 4, 27, 1775, died 4, 30, 1854, daughter of Joshua and Edith Sharpless. He purchased a farm eastward of and adjoining that of his father, now owned by his grandson, Edwin James. His children by the first wife were Hannah, m. to John James ; James, Titus, Cheyney, Mary, m. to James Bennett; Edith ; and by the second, Ann, m. to Moses Sheppard; Lydia, Martha, and Joshua; all deceased except the last, who is one of Chester County's model farmers, residing in New Garden township.

Emmor Jefferis, son of James and Elizabeth, inherited the land on the west side of the ford, where he died about 1802. It was he who was compelled to guide the British army towards Birmingham Meeting on the day of battle. He married, in 1757, Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Taylor, on Pocopson Creek. She died 7, 11, 1793, aged about fifty-three years. They had three children,- James, b. about 1758, d. 1, 25, 1822; Emmor, b. 3, 2, 1760, d. 8, 8, 1813; and Sarah, who married Dr. Joseph Moore.

James was a sea-captain, and owner of the vessel " Nep- tune," which sailed from Wilmington. Later in life he settled down on his farm in East Bradford, now of E. H. Holley. He also became the owner of his brother Emmor's share of their father's land by purchase from the heirs. Capt. Jefferis is represented in the name by his grandson, Bayard Jefferis, of West Chester.

Emmor Jefferis, his brother, married Charity, daughter of Samuel and Lydia Grubb, born 12, 30, 1762, died 3, 10, 1836. They had children,-Sarah, mother of Hon. John Hickman ; Grubb, Curtis, Joseph, Benjamin, Lydia, John S., Elizabeth, Anna, Charity, Emmor, and Abigail. Of these, Anna, widow of Isaac Trimble, of West Bradford, is living at the age of eighty-four years. Emmor Jefferis, the youngest son, was the grandfather of Rev. William Jefferis, of Newark College, Delaware.

Richard Jefferis, the youngest son of the first Robert, born about 1730, settled in Huntingdon County, and had a large family of children by two wives, the names of twenty-two being known. His son Mark, born Feb. 10, 1787, died Feb. 11, 1877, was the father of Gen. Noah L. Jeffries, sometime register of the treasury at Waslı- ington, D. C. Robert Jefferis the first was probably born as early as 1670, and some of his grandchildren were living in 1879, making an unusually long period to be covered by three generations.

The name is differently spelled in different branches of

the family, but by those in Chester County it is written Jefferis.

JOHN, GRIFFITIT, son of John Phillips and Ellen, his wife, was born in Pembrokeshire, in Wales, in the year 1683, and arrived in Pennsylvania 2, 11, 1709 ; mar- ried, 7, 20, 1714, Ann, daughter of Robert and Gwen Williams, of Goshen, where she was born in 1700. They settled in Uwehlan, where he died 6, 29, 1778, and his widow 6, 17, 1782. He was a minister among Friends near seventy years. His children were Joshua, b. 1, 31, 1720; Hannah, b. 1, 19, 1723; Jane, b. 2, 5, 1725 ; Abel, b. 7, 22, 1727; Griffith, b. 8, 26, 1729 ; Esther, b. 1, 3, 1731; Robert, b. 7, 22, 1734; Sarah, b. 8, 31, 1736; and Reuben, who married Lydia, daughter of John and Joanna Townsend.

SAMUEL JOHN, a brother of Griffith, was born in Pem- brokeshire in 1680, and educated in the Church of Eng- land, but after his arrival in this country, in 1709, he be- came a minister among Friends, and was such about fifty- four years. He died 10, 16, 1766, and was buried at Uwchlan. By his wife, Margaret, he had children,-Mary, Samuel, Margaret, David, Ellen, and Daniel.

JESSE JOHN, descended from a Welsh family, was born in Vincent township, Chester Co., on March 14, 1770. His education was such as that plain rural district then afforded, but for a portion of it he was indebted to John Forsythe, who taught school for a while in that part of Chester County, and was afterwards the able and accepta- ble teacher of the Friends' school at Birmingham Meeting- house. In early life Jesse John became an active, practi- cal man and a good citizen. He served as a commissary to a portion of the provisional army raised during the admin- istration of the elder Adams, and was always popular in his native county. In 1804 he was elected sheriff, and early in 1809 was appointed by Governor Snyder prothono- tary and clerk of the courts of Chester County, which offices he held for the period of nine years. During the war of 1812-15, Isaac Wayne, only son of the gallant Anthony, raised a volunteer troop of cavalry, of which Mr. John was a favorite officer, with the rank of cornet. On the capture of Washington City, when volunteers were called for, the troop paraded in front of the Governor's quarters in Phila- delphia, and tendered their services, but cavalry were not then deemed requisite for the defense of the city of Penn, and Mr. Wayne's handsome troop was therefore not em- ployed.

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History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches, Part 163

Author: Futhey, John Smith, 1820-1888; Cope, Gilbert, 1840-1928 Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Philadelphia, L. H. Everts Number of Pages: 1162

Author: Futhey, John Smith, 1820-1888; Cope, Gilbert, 1840-1928
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia, L. H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1162