History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches, Part 194

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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The father, in his will, dated April 9, 1810, styles him- self of Goshen.

John Taylor, Jr., studied law under Joseph Hemphill, Esq., and was admitted to the bar in May, 1799. In 1804 he went to the Territory, now State, of Mississippi, and for many years pursued his profession with assiduity and success. A few years before his death he was appointed chief judge of the Superior Court of the State, and held the office at the time of his death.

TEMPLE, WILLIAM, came from England in 1714, and married, 1, 18, 1725, Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Taylor, born 7, 7, 1708, died 1, 5, 1768. He settled in Kennet, now Pennsbury, near his father-in-law, and died about 1775. Their children were Thomas, b. 10, 10, 1725, m. Jane Brinton ; Hannah, b. 9, 14, 1727, m. Isaac Miller ; Susanna, b. 9, 8, 1730, m. William Seal ; William, b. 2, 3, 1733; Elizabeth, b. 1, 27, 1735, m. Ben- jamin Hutton ; Lydia, b. 5, 2, 1737, m. Caleb Seal; Sarah, b. 12, 25, 1740-1, m. John Pyle; Alice, b. 9, 17, 1743, m. Benjamin Jones ; Benjamin, b. 12, 3, 1745-6, m. Han- nah Jones.

Thomas Temple was a justice of the peace and a mem- ber of Assembly, a good penman, and useful citizen. His children were Joseph, William, Thomas, Mary, Samuel, Caleb, Edward B., and Jane. He died 6, 21, 1808, and

his wife, the daughter of Joseph and Mary Brinton, died 4, 27,1799.

THOMAS, PETER, of "Springtown," and Sarah Sted- man, of the same place, were married, 2, 15, 1686, at John Simcock's house in Ridley, and afterwards settled in Willis- town, where Peter dicd 4, 5, 1722. Their children, so far as known, were Lydia, m. in 1710 to John Pyle; Peter, m. in 1711 to Elizabeth Goodwin; Jacob, m. 9, 6, 1717, to Elizabeth Richards; and Joseph, m. 1718, to Jemima David.

The children of Peter and Elizabeth Thomas, of Willis- town, were Jacob, b. 11, 12, 1711, d. 12, 11, 1789, m. Katharine Jones and Rebecca Walker ; Sarah, b. 7, 2, 1713, m. Christian Vore 1, 2, 1736-7; Peter, b. 9, 19, 1715, m. Margaret Taylor, 2, 14, 1742; John, b. 8, 7, 1817, m. Rebecca Jones, 2, 30, 1747 ; Thomas, b. 8, 13, 1719, d. 11, 14, 1719 ; Isaac, b. 4, 21, 1721 ; Elizabeth, b. 1, 11, 1723, m. William Lewis, 8, 9, 1747; Mary, b. 9, 23, 1724, m. Samuel Deaves, 9, 14, 1744; Rachel, b. 8, 13, 1726; James, b. 10, 29, 1727; Lydia, b. 6, 15, 1730.

Jacob and Katharine Thomas were the parents of Abel Thomas, a noted minister among Friends, and resided at the time of his birth, 5, 6, 1737, in Merion. Afterwards Jacob and his second wife removed to Coventry, Chester Co. Abel resided for a time in New Jersey, where he married his first wife, Margaret Younger, in 1762. She died 4, 16, 1775, and he married again, 5, 15, 1777, at Exeter Meeting, Ellen Roberts, daughter of Robert and Rachel Roberts, of Uwchlan. About the year 1802 he re- moved to Menallen, Adams Co., where he died 3, 21, 1816.

Isaac Thomas, son of Peter and Elizabeth, married, 3, 16, 1745, Mary Townsend, daughter of John, of West- town, and had eleven children,-Phebe, Enos, Nathan, Hannah, Isaac, Mary, Jonathan, Townsend, Thomas, Mar- tha, and Mordecai. The last named was born 7, 21, 1767, and married, 10, 20, 1796, Lydia, daughter of Ezra and Ann Hoopes, of Westtown, to whom were born Isaac, Ezra, Emmor, George, Jesse, Hoopes, Mary Ann, Lydia, Eliza, and Mordecai H. The following sketch of the eldest of these is taken from a memoir prepared by Dr. Jacob Price :

DR. ISAAC THOMAS was born Sept. 16, 1797, in Willis- town township. His parents, Mordecai and Lydia (Hoopes) Thomas, were members of the Society of Friends. Under the influence of this society he received his religious train- ing and principles, with which he became so thoroughly imbued that they remained the governing ones of his life, although in 1824, by his marriage with a lady not a mem- ber, he lost his right in that society. His father was an industrious farmer, and Isaac, being the eldest of the chil- . dren, necessarily took a leading part in the labor of the farm, and had until near manhood no facilities beyond those afforded by the common schools of the neighborhood. His nineteenth year he spent at the noted school of Joshua Hoopes, in Merion, Montgomery Co., where he made ex- cellent progress in mathematics and in natural science. He afterwards attended a course in the West Chester Academy, studying, in addition to the usual English branches, Latin and French. At the age of twenty he began the study of medicine in the ofice of Prof. Chapman, of the University of Pennsylvania, where, April 6, 1820,

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he graduated with the degree of M.D., his thesis prepared for that occasion being entitled "Phlegmasia Dolens." About the first of May in same year he began practice in Delaware County, where he remained four months, when he removed to West Chester, with whose interests he was identified nearly sixty years. On Jan. 26, 1826, he was one of the noble band that organized " The Chester County Cabinet of Natural Science," of which he was a most active and useful member until its dissolution in 1850. In 1835 and 1837 he gave before it lectures on anatomy and physi- ology, which were largely attended and appreciated by cul- tured audiences.

In 1833 the doctor was elected a director of the Bank of Chester County, which position he held for forty years, ex- cept during the brief periods which the law requires the place to be vacated. In 1838 he was elected a member of the town council, serving for a period of nine years, during which time water was introduced into the borough, in which improvement he took a leading part. In 1843 he was chosen a director of the West Chester Railroad, and continued therein for many years with acceptance to its and the public interest. In 1861 he was chosen a trustee of the West Chester Academy, which place he held until it was merged, in 1871, into the State Normal School. He was married March 3, 1824, to Ann Charlton Miner, eldest daughter of Hon. Charles Miner, then editor of the T'il- lage Record, and also a member of Congress from this dis- trict. In March, 1832, she died, leaving two daughters. In 1835 he married Mary H. Brinton, second daughter of George Brinton, Sr., of West Chester, who survived him only one week, leaving a son and two daughters. Dr. Thomas, in locating in West Chester for practice, placed himself in competition with physicians of more than ordi- nary skill and culture, whose esteem and confidence he soon gained, and he acquired a leading practice in the borough and surrounding country. The many strong points of his character made him a marked man, and profoundly im- pressed with the sacredness of human life and health, he passed no case, however humble, carelessly, but rather sought conscientiously to bring to bear for the relief of all who sought his counsel, the poor and rich alike, the best skill that careful study and examination could develop. He was one of the fifteen physicians who, on Feb. 5, 1828, or- ganized the Chester County Medical Society,-the first county society established in Pennsylvania, and from it sprang the State society about twenty years later, of which, too, he was a member, and once its vice-president. In 1858, Dr. Thomas, feeling the time had come to relin- quish the cares and anxieties of his honored and extended practice, and realizing the impossibility of severing his rela- tions with his patients without leaving home, visited Europe in company with his son. They traveled through Great Britain, France, Germany, and Switzerland, and returned in the fall of the same year. He never after visited patients except in consultation with other physicians. He died May 16, 1879, at the ripe age of eighty-one years and eight months, and the impress of his good and useful life will long be felt in the community where he was univer- sally esteemed for his professional skill and noble qualities of heart.

RICHARD AP THOMAS, of Whitford Garne, in the county of Flint, in Wales, Gent., was a purchaser of 5000 acres of land from William Peon, by deeds of lease and release, dated July 24 and 25, 1681 .* For this he paid £100. Tradition says that while he inclined towards or joined with Friends, his wife adhered to the established church, and for this reason was unwilling to accompany him to Pennsylvania. Leaving his wife and daughter be- hind him, he brought his son Richard, and reached Phila- delphia in the year 1683. He was probably taken sick soon after his arrival, as his will is dated 9th mo. 18, 1683, in which he styles himself as " late of Whitford Garden, in Flintshire, and now being arrived in the province of Pennsylvania." He devised his land here to his son Rich- ard ap Thomas, and appointed his friend, Dr. Thomas Wynne, executor and guardian. To his wife and daughter he devised the personal estate left with the former in Wales. Although he died soon after this, the will was not registered until Jan. 15, 1695-6, by which time the son became of age. Meanwhile a controversy having arisen concerning an estate in Flintshire belonging to the son, and doubts expressed of his being alive, depositions were taken May 12, 1693, to the following effect : Thomas Oldman, of Lewis, io Sussex County, on Delaware, declared that

"About nine years since (he) was att Mosson in Wales, on board ye ship Called ye Morning Starr, one Tho. Hayes Commander, & yt bee saw one Richard Thomas together wth his wife & Reputed Son, Richard Thomas, Com on board ye forsd shipp, & sum ours After their Coming on board ye sd shipp ye sd Richard Thomas, his wife, went on sboar & would have had her son alonge wth her but his father would. not Let him goe," and further saith that the said Richard, the son, is now "in good health, & dwelleth with him this deponent."

Elizabeth Wynne deposes that she knows Richard Thomas, the reputed son of Richard Thomas, who formerly lived at a place called Crossforth, in Flintshire, and that he is now living at Lewis, in the county of Sussex. Margery Wynne declares the same before Samuel Preston and Albertus Jacobs, justices.

Col. Richard Thomas, writing of his ancestors, says, The family of Ap Thomas appears to have been many gen- erations land-holders in Whitford Garden, having a freehold of £300 a year, and of course being within the grade of gentlemen and the game act. Whether the surname was uniformly Thomas, or changed occasionally according to Welsh practice, cannot be ascertaincd, though by recurrence to books of heraldry it appears that a family of Thomases in that country was ancient. Richard ap Thomas being in years, and grown tired with the dissipation of his com- peers, embraced the tenets of the Quakers and joined in Penn's first migration to Pennsylvania, bringing his only. son, Richard, a boy about ten years of age, and a number of dependants. These, after his death, made use of the stock of provisions and perishable articles of their late master, under pretext of supporting the orphan, until all was ex- hausted, and then turned him off to find his sustenance from his landed estate. Thus left forlorn, he selected Dr. Lloyd, Lieutenant-Governor, and some other legal guardians (the guardian and trustee under his father's will being de- ceased), and was by sales of some rights of land provided

* The lease is dated 1682, which is probably incorrect, as the patents recite the date 1681.

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for and educated,-studying physic with the doctor, his guardian. Arriving at legal age, he procured letters of ad- ministration in his own name, and located his remaining lands about the year 1695. The lapse of near a dozen years of minority lost him the advantage of locating in the vicinity of the seat of commerce, and he had the necessity of going into the wilderness (as then thought) for good land. He found a tract of about 600 acres in Goshen, now part of the seat of West Chester, but the principal tracts were in the gloomy dale then and since called the Great Valley.

About the year 1699 he visited his native land in Wales, where he found his only sister reduced to indigence, bis mother having intermarried with a man who dissipated all their joint property (willed them by Richard ap Thomas), and his mother then deceased. He brought over his sister, or she followed soon after, who was married to Llewellin Parry, and became the mother of a family, some of whose descendants are still living in Chester County, viz., Nancy Hunter, the wife of Thomas Bull, Esq., and several other sisters, all of whom have issue. Returning again to Penn- sylvania, be married Grace Atherton and settled in the valley at a place called by the Indians (settled on it) Cata- moon-shink, meaning hazelnut grove, now West Whiteland township, a name probably derived from Whitford, the seat of the family in Wales.

We have seen that Richard, in 1693, was living at Lewis, in Sussex County. In 1704 he was styled "of Meirion, Carpenter," and in March, 1711, was of Blockley. Of his 5000 acres of land, be sold 1786 acres to various persons, unpatented. July 12, 1703, he obtained a patent for two tracts, one of 1065 acres, of which the southwest corner is in the centre of West Chester, and another of 600 acres in Newtown, which was afterwards given up because it inter- fered with other surveys. May 17, 1704, he received an- other patent for 1548 (by resurvey, 1869) acres in White- land, making, with his city lots, his full complement of 5000 acres.

He was married by Friends' ceremony, though not under the oversight of the society, and it is not known that he was then considered in membership, if at any time during his life. His marriage certificate will be of interest to his numerous descendants and others, and is here given :

"Whereas Richard Thomas of the Township of Whiteland In the County of Chester and Province of Pensilvanin, Carpenter, and Grace Atherton, late of Leverpoole In Lanenshire In ye king- dome of England, but now Resident in ye Township of Whiteland aforesd Spinster; having publickly declared their Intentions of marige with each other by a publick note Intimateiog the same which was fixed upon a Publick meeting house one whule month since, subscribed by a magistrate, according as the law In that Case directs before the solemnizution of their Intended Maringe.

" Now Therefore no obstruction arising nor objection being made against Their proceedings, They ye said Richard and Grace have ap- pointed The fifteenth day of ye Eleventh month In the year of our Jord 1712-13, and the Eleventh year of her Majesties Reign, Queen Ann, over great Britain, &c., for the Solemnization thereof nt the now dwelling house of the sd Richard Thomas In ye great valey, and Town- ship of Whiteland aforesd, where a Considerable number of people met for that End & purpose : after some deliberation the said Richard, Takeing the said Grace by the hand did in a solemn maner Declare that In the presence of god and before This assembly he took his friend Grace Atherton to he his wife, promising through the lords assistance to be a true and Loving husband unto her untill god hy

death should seperate os : and then and there in the said assembly the snid Graco did in like maner Solemnly declare ihnt In the pres- ence of god and before this assembly shee Took her friend Richard Thomns to be her husband promising Through the Lord's assistance to be a Loveing and faithfull wife unto him untill god by denth shall seperate n8.

"And moreover the said Richard and the ssid Grace, shee accord- ing To the Custome of women assumcing the name of her husband, as a further Confirmation thereof did then and there to these presents set their hands ; nnd wee whose names are hereunto subscribed, being nmong others present at the solemnization of the said marige and subscription in maner aforesd, ns witnesses Thereof have also to these presents set their hands the dny and year above written.

Witnessee

John EarlI

Tho: James

Witnessee Elizabeth Hughes Penelope Howell Margarett Baker

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Thomae Barnsley Charles Stewart

Jonas Sandelauds Evan Lewie

Richard Woodward David Meredith

Mary Collyns

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Thomas Smith

Catherine Spruse

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David Howell

Rees Prichard

Lewis Williame

Adam Baker

John David

Llywelyn Parry

Tho : Mathewe

Mathew Welsh John Spruce

Richard Webb Henry Nayle."

RICHARD AP THOMAS, from Wales, died in Philadel- phia, 1683. His wife remained .in Wales and married again.

Second Generation .- Richard Thomas, born about 1672, died in Whiteland, Chester Co., 1744, where he settled about 1711 ; wife, Grace Atherton, survived him, and both were buried at Malin's graveyard. Mary (?) Thomas mar- ried Llewellyn Parry, who was living in Whiteland, 1712. Richard Thomas, in his will, 1744, mentions his sister Mary, in Wales, and her children.

Third Generation .- Richard, b. 2, 22, 1713, d. 9, 22, 1754, m. 2, 10, 1739, at Goshen Meeting, to Phebe Ash- bridge, daughter of George Ashbridge, then of Chester. borough, and Mary, his wife. She was born 8, 26, 1717, and died 6, 14, 1784, married second, William Trimble, 9, 15, 1757. Hannah, b. 3, 16, 1715, died young. Han- nah (2), b. 11, 14, 1716-7, m. 9, 10, 1743, at Uwchlan Meeting, to James Mendenhall, of East Caln. They went to North Carolina. Mary, b. 5, 14, 1719, m. 9, 14, 1745, at Uwchlan Meeting, to John Harrison, son of Caleb, of Chester. Settled in Berks County. Grace, b. 7, 9, 1722, m. 4, 1, 1749, to Thomas Stalker, son of Hugh Stalker, of East Caln. Elizabeth, b. - , m. 4, 28, 1750, at Uwchlan Meeting, to Jonathan Howell, of Edgmont. They removed to Carolina.

Fourth Generation .- Children of Richard and Phebe Thomas : Lydia, b. 12, 4, 1740-1, m. 11, 24, 1762, at Concord Meeting, to John Trimble, of Concord. She died 11, -, 1780. Grace, b. 11, 3, 1742, m. 9, 11, 1766, at Uwclilan Meeting, to William Trimble, Jr., of Whiteland. She died 9, 14, 1781. Richard, b. 10, 30, 1744, m. 10, 20, 1774, at Uwchlan Meeting, to Thomazine Downing, daughter of Richard and Mary Downing, of East Caln, b. 8, 26, 1754, d. 5, 4, 1817. Richard Thomas died in Phil- adelphia, at his daughter, Thomazine Ashbridge's, 1, 19, 1832. George, b. 12, 21, 1746-7, d. 8, 17, 1793; m. -, to Sarah, daughter of John and Jane Roberts, of Merion, b. 1, 11, 1750, d. 2, 20, 1840. Hannah, b. 5, 5, 1749, d. 5, 2, 1829, m. 5, 14, 1783, at Concord Meeting, to Joseph Trimble, of Concord.

Richª Thomas

Richard Anderson Joseph Collyn

Elizabeth Lewis

Grace M Thomas

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Fifth Generation .- Children of Richard and Thomazine, of West Whiteland : Richard, b. 12, 3, 1775; d. 2, 4, 1830; m. 10, 25, 1799, at Goshen Meeting, to Rebecca Malin, daughter of Joseph and Lydia Malin, of East Whiteland, b. 9, 15, 1779 ; d. 10, 24, 1806. Second mar- riage, to Sarah Thomas, daughter of George and Sarah, b. 12, 31, 1786; d. 9, 27, 1826. Mary, b. 3, 9, 1778; d. 5, 15, 1798, unmarried; buried at the foot of her grand- mother Downing's grave, at Uwchlan. George, b. 3, 21, 1780; d. 4, 25, 1801; buried next north of his sister. Jacob, b. 5, 4, 1782 ; d. 11, -, 1813; buried the 9th, next north of George; unmarried. Phebe, b. 6, 8, 1784; m. 10, 24, 1804, to Samuel Haines, of East Caln, son of Jacob and Margaret, of Uwchlan, and had children,-Mary, Thomazine, Hannah, Jacob, and others. Thomazine, b. 12, 4, 1786 ; m. William Ashbridge, of Philadelphia, and settled for a time at Chester. A son, still-born, 11, 15, 1789. Samuel Downing, b. 3, 24, 1793 ; d. 12, 5, 1833; m. Mary Templin. William A., b. 4, 5, 1795 ; d. 12, 4, 1866; m. Eliza Miller.

Children of George and Sarah: Jane, b. 2, 18, 1775; m. 8, 19, 1812, at Downingtown Meeting, to Dr. Jonas Preston, of Newtown, Delaware Co. Phebe, b. 10, 11, 1776. Hannah, b. 2, 7, 1778 ; d. 2, 28, 1778. Lydia, b. 9, 26, 1779; d. 1, 22, 1870, in Philadelphia; buried at Downingtown. John R., b. 8, 29, 1781; d. 4, 7, 1856 ; n. 11, 19, 1806, at Downingtown Meeting, to Elizabeth Downing, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth, of East Caln, b. 10, 20, 1783, d. 10, 18, 1810; second marriage, to Martha Newbold, who died 11, 30, 1816. Elizabeth, b. 9, 24, 1783; died unmarried. George, b. 8, 1, 1785 ; d. 12, 31, 1785. Sarah, b. 12, 31, 1786; m. Richard Thomas (5) above. Anna, b. 1, 20, 1789.

Sixth Generation .- Children of Richard and Rebecca : Richard M., b. 8, 3, 1800 ; d. 8, 5, 1877; buried at Down- ingtown ; married Eliza, daughter of Joseph Miller. Lydia A., b. 6, 19, 1803 ; m. May 5, 1824, to Israel W. Down- ing, who was born 10, 22, 1793, and died 11, 10, 1831; second marriage, 11, 22, 1838, to David Townsend, of West Chester, where she still resides, a widow. By second wife, Sarah Thomas : Jane, b. 5, 8, 1813; d. 12, 8, 1875; unmarried. Mary, b. 3, 17, 1815; m. Jacob P. Jones, of Philadelphia. Sarah Roberts, b. 5, 9, 1823; m. William M. Bull, Esq.

Child of John R. and Elizabeth Thomas : George, b. 9, 9, 1808; m. Anna Mary Townsend, daughter of John W. and Sibbilla K. Townsend, of West Chester. He re- sides at the homestead of his grandfather, and has three sons,-J. Preston, George, and Charles,-of whom the first and last are married, and live adjoining their father. The eldest son is much interested in improved breeds of stock.

The Colonial Records of Pennsylvania from 1774 until the close of the Revolutionary war are replete with notices of the active services, both civil and military, of the fourth Richard Thomas, of Chester County. He was a member of the first association in the county formed to carry out the views and effect the purposes of the Continental Con- gress.

In September, 1775, he was lieutenant-colonel of a

regiment of volunteers, being the first regiment raised in Chester County. April 19, 1776, he was appointed colonel of the 5th Battalion of Associators, in the county of Ches- ter. The commission, dated that day, is signed " By order of the Assembly, John Morton, Speaker." Col. Thomas was a member of the Provincial Conference or Convention, composed of the county committees, which met June 18, 1776. This Conference appointed the Pennsylvania dele- gates who signed the Declaration of Independence; and also adopted measures for organizing six thousand militia, the number assigned to Pennsylvania by Congress as her quota of ten thousand militia, who were directed to form a flying camp for the middle colonies. Col. Richard Thomas commanded the Chester County regiment of this flying camp in a campaign across New Jersey, as far as Amboy, for the protection of Philadelphia. His duties as a militia officer of Chester County, in procuring and distributing arms and munitions of war, were of the most arduous and responsible character.

In the years 1786 to 1789, inclusive, he was elected a member of Assembly, and in 1790 he was elected to the State Senate.

In April, 1793, he was appointed a brigadier-general of militia by Governor Mifflin, but declined to accept.

In the years 1794, '96, and '98 he was elected a mem- ber of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Congresses, being the first representative from his native county under the Con- stitution of the United States.

After a long, honorable, and most exemplary life, Richard Thomas died Jan. 19, 1832, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, leaving a reputation, as a citizen of the Republic which he aided to establish, of which every Chester County man may well be proud.

WILLIAM THOMAS was a settler. in Newtown, where he purchased land in 1698, and upon the transfer of New- town Meeting from Haverford to Chester Monthly Meet- ing he is named as one of the members. In 1707 he made an acknowledgment to the latter meeting for taking off his hat when prayer was made by a Keithite, or Seventh-day Baptist, at a burial. The next year, however, he joined with these Baptists, and was disowned by Friends. A burial-ground was afterwards set apart on his land, where several members of the family were buried. One David Thomas was also settled in Newtown, and was buried in this graveyard in 1734, aged sixty-four years. The line of his ancestry is thus given : David Thomas, son of Thomas Lewis, son of Lewis Philip, son of Philip Rytherach, an old Welshman who came over with his sons and grandsons. David Thomas and Jane, his wife, had children,-Philip, Ezekiel, Mary, Elizabeth, David, Gwin, and Margaret. David, Jr., by Ruth, his wife, had Absalom, Julian (mar- ried to Hazael Thomas), Azariah, Rebekah, Margaret, Elizabeth, Samuel or Samuels, Ruth, David, Jane, and Uriah.

William Thomas, first named, had three sons,-Thomas, Philip, and David,-of whom Philip removed to Coventry, and David to Nantmeal. Philip, by Esther, his wife, had six children,-Hazael, Dinah, Mary, Peninah, John, and Morde- cai. Hazael married Julian Thomas, daughter of David and Ruth, and had nine children,-Hazael (married to

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Thomazine Hoffman), Absalom, Ruth, Esther, Mary, Elijah, Mordecai, John, and Julian. Of these, Mordecai married Catharine Dunn and removed to Crawford County. They had children,-Julian, Hazael, Philip D., Gideon, Mary, and I. Newton.

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History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches, Part 194

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