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LEVIS, SAMUEL, with his wife Eliza- beth and one child, migrated from Hanby, County of Leicester, England, in 1684, and settled in Sprinfield town- ship. Before leaving England, he in conjunction with William Garrett, pur- . chased 1000 acres of land, part of which was located where he first set- tled, and is still in the family name. In less than two years after his arrival in the country he represented the County of Chester in the Provincial Assembly, and was frequently elected to the same office subsequently He was also for some time a Justice of the Court of Chester County. But notwith- standing the frequency of his civil en-
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gagements, he did not neglect his re- ligious duties, being ever ready to do his share in promoting order and dis- cipline in the Society of Friends, of which he was a zealous member. His children were Samuel, Mary, William, Elizabeth, Christopher and Sarah. Sam- uel intermarried with Hannah Stretch of Philadelphia, and Mary with Joseph Pennock, son of Christopher Pennock. The latter marriage was accomplished before two Justices of the Court in 1705, at the residence of the bride's father, Joseph Pennock not being in membership with Friends. William removed to Kennet, and married Eliza- beth Read of that neighborhood, and became eminent as a preacher amongst Friends ; and Sarah intermarried with John, the son of George Maris, of Springfield. For a further account of Elizabeth see Elizabeth Shipley. Samuel Levis the immigrant, died at an ad- vanced age in the year 1728. See William Garrett.
LEWIS, HENRY, with his wife Mar- garet and family, came from the parish of Narbeth, in the County of Pembroke, Wales, and settled in Haverford town- ship in 1682. By trade he was a car- penter. As a member of the Society of Friends, he was strict in the per- formance of his religious duties, and during the short period he lived, after reaching his new home, he devoted much of his time to civil affairs and acts of benevolence. Before the estab- lishment of Haverford Meeting. in 1684, he belonged to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, and was by that body ap- pointed one of a committee "to visit the poor and the sick, and administer what they should judge convenient, at the expense of the monthly meeting." He held the office of "peacemaker" for the County of Philadelphia, and was foreman of the first grand jury for that County, Haverford and Radnor at that time being regarded as belonging to Philadelphia. He died in 1688, leaving his wife and three children, Henry, Samuel and Elizabeth, all born in Wales, to survive him. Henry inter- married with Mary, the daughter of Robert Taylor of Springfield, Elizabeth with Richard Hayes of Haverford, but it is not known that Samuel married. The second Henry became a man of considerable note, was a member of the
Assembly in 1715 and 1718, and was employed in other public trusts. His descendants are numerous, and many of them have been remarkable for in- tellectual superiority. The most noted was the late Enoch Lewis, the mathe- matician. The elder Henry Lewis had been a pecuniary sufferer in his native country on account of his religion.
LEWIS, RALPH, with his wife Mary and family, emigrated from the parish of Illan, in Glamorganshire, and came over in company with John Bevan in 1683 or 1684, and settled in Haverford. He was a member of the Society of Friends by convincement, and the cer- tificate brought with him attests the ex- cellence of his character and the in- nocency of his life. His children who survived him were Mary, who inter- married with James, and Lydia, who intermarried with Joseph Sharpless, both sons of the immigrant John Sharpless, Abraham, who intermarried with Mary, daughter of Anthony Mor- gan, Thomas, who intermarried with Jane, daughter of Rees Meridith of Radnor, Sarah, who intermarried with William, son of Richard Walters of Merion, and Samuel intermarried with Phebe, daughter of Josiah Taylor of Marple. Ralph Lewis died about 1710, and his wife six years earlier.
LEWIS, JOHN, came from Pembroke- shire, Wales, and with his wife Eliza- beth, and family, settled in Haverford in 1683. As a member of the Society of Friends he was active and influ- ential. He died in 1704, leaving his wife and one son and two daughters, viz: John, Elizabeth and Margaret to survive him. Elizabeth intermarried with John, the son of Daniel Reece of Newtown, and John with Sarah Price of Merion. The children of the latter mar- riage were Elizabeth, Philip, Stephen and Josiah. John Lewis had suffered a share of the persecution that was waged against the Quakers, before leaving his native country.
LEWIS, WILLIAM, with his wife, Ann, came from the parish of Illan, in Gla- morganshire, Wales, about the year 1686, and settled in the northeastern part of Haverford township. He was a brother of Ralph Lewis. Their son, David, was married to Ann Jones, of
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Merion, in 1695. William Lewis re- moved to Newtown, where he and his wife died in the early part of 1708, within a few days of each other. They were both members of the religious Society of Friends; William being fre- quently called upon in the administra- tion of the affairs of his meeting. Be- sides his son, David, who settled on the mansion tract in Haverford, Wm. Lewis had three sons, viz .: Lewis, Evan and William, and one daughter, Scaborn. Lewis married Mary Howell, of Bristol; Evan, Mary, the daughter of Jonathan and Ann Hayes, of Marple, and Wil- liam, Gwen Jones, of Gwynedd. Evan died in 1735, and William, the younger, in 1731. The daughter was born in 1686, at sea, and hence the name. All the sons but David settled in Newtown.
LEWIS, ELLIS, was born in Wales about the year 1680. His father dying while he was quite young, his mother married Owen Roberts. They all ap- pear to have been Quakers, and about the year 1698 made arrangements for migrating to Pennsylvania. They had proceeded so far as to forward their goods, but severe sickness of the family obliged them to remain. After being restored to health they did not carry out their original design, but removed to Mount Molock, Ireland, where they resided till 1708, when Ellis obtained a certificate from the meeting at that place and came to Pennsylvania. Be- ing a Welshman he met with a kind re- ception from the Welsh Friends of Ha- verford, a number of whom were pro- bably his relatives. The next year (1709) he removed within the bounds of Concord Meeting, and in 1713 was married to Elizabeth, the daughter of Nathaniel Newlin. In 1716 he removed to Kennet, and, his wife dying in 1723, he some time afterwards married Mary Baldwin. In 1749 he removed to Wil- mington and died the next year, aged seventy years. He is said to have been a man of good understanding, and was frequently concerned in settling differ- ences amongst his neighbors. The Hon. Ellis Lewis, formerly Chief Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania, is said to be descended from him.
LEWIS, WILLIAM, born in Edgmont in 1751, was the grandson or great- grandson of the immigrant Ralph
Lewis. He studied law in Philadelphia with Nicholas Waln, who, at that time, had an extensive practice. About the time he was admitted to the bar, Ni- cholas Waln gave up the practice of the law from conscientious scruples, and being selected by his preceptor to close up his business with his clients, young Lewis at once fell into a good share of business, which his ability and success at the bar soon greatly in- creased. He was several times a mem- ber of the Assembly, and was also a member of the convention that formed the constitution of 1790. It is said that he was frequently consulted by govern- ment officials during Washington's Ad- ministration. He had a birthright with the Quakers, and preserved his connec- tion with that Society while he lived, though his actions were not always en- tirely Quakerish. He died in 1819, aged sixty-eight years.
LEWIS, ENOCH, the son of Evan Lewis and Jane, his second wife, whose maiden name was Meredith, was born in Radnor township, on the 29th of January, 1776. His early training was strictly in conformity with the princi- ples and practices of the Society of Friends, of which his father was a de- voted member. At an early age he exhibited a remarkable talent for ma- thematics, and although his opportu- nities for obtaining an education had only been such as were afforded by the common schools of the neighborhood, at the age of fourteen years he had acquired sufficient knowledge to be employed, advantageously, as an as- sistant teacher in one of those schools. One year later he taught a country school as principal ; the gravity of his manners, and the acknowledged supe- riority of his acquirements, enabling him to command the respect of pupils even older than himself. In 1793 he repaired to Philadelphia for the pur- pose of pursuing his mathematical studies, but was obliged to occupy a part of each day in teaching to procure the means for his support. Towards the close of the next year he became a resident of the city, and in 1795 was employed as surveyor in laying out several town plots in the western part of the State, in pursuance of an act of Assembly. From 1696 to 1699 he had charge of the mathematical department
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of Friends' Academy in Philadelphia, but returned to Radnor to reside early in the latter year. On the 9th of the 5th month, 1799, he married Alice, the daughter of Isaac and Hannah Jackson of New Garden, Chester County, and, in the following year, removed to Westown Boarding-school, then re- cently established by the Yearly Meet- ing of Philadelphia, where he had charge of the mathematical department till 1808, when he established a private boarding-school in New Garden. This school, in which mathematics was a primary study, was continued in suc- cessful operation many years. About the year 1819 he published an Arith- metic. This was soon followed by a work on Algebra, and one on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. For a time he edited a periodical called the " African Observer." He was author of the Life of William Penn, contained in the " Friends' Library ;" of a treatise " On Oaths ;" one " On Baptism ;" a review of Dr. Cox's "Quakerism not Chris- tianity," and other pamphlets. In 1847 he engaged in the publication of the " Friends' Review," which lie continued to edit till his death, July 14th, 1856.
LLEWELLYN, MORRIS, was born at Castlebith, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, in the year 1645, and his wife, Ann, whose maiden name was Young, was born two years later. They mi- grated about the year 1686, to Penn- sylvania, and settled in the northwest part of Haverford township. Morris had suffered persecution in his native country by distraint for the payment of tithes. They were exemplary members of the Society of Friends, Morris being frequently entrusted with responsible appointments by the meeting. Their children were David, Mary, Morris and Griffith-all born in Wales, except the last named. David intermarried in 1706 with Margaret Lawrence, of Ha- verford, and, after her decease, with Margaret Ellis, of Gwynedd, and Mor- ris with Elizabeth Thomas of Merion.
LOCK, LAWRENCE CHARLES, (Lauren- tius Carolus Lokenius,) who officiated many years on the Delaware River as the clergyman of the Swedish congre- gations, came over during the adminis- tration of Governor Printz. He was, doubtless, persecuted during the Dutch
ascendancy on the river, but it cannot be truthfully said that he led such a faultless life as became his sacred call- ing. After the English obtained pos- session of the river, his temporal af- fairs rapidly improved. In 1675 he had surveyed to him 350 acres of land " where Olla Stille hath formerly dwelt," and he also became the owner of a large tract of land in, or very near the town of Upland (Chester), where he probably resided some time, parti- cularly when he had charge of Chris- tiana and Tinicum churches. It is said that he died in 1688.
LONGWORTHY, JOHN, though not a Welshman, fixed his place of abode at a very early date, in the midst of the Welsh Colonists of Radnor, and soon became a large landholder there He was, however, in membership with the Quakers, and in 1683 was married to Jane Cool of Chester Monthly Meeting. Their children, so far as is known, were John and Benjamin, the former of whom, in 1711, intermarried with Margaret the daughter of Rowland Richard, and a year afterwards, the elder John was married to a second wife named Jane Englebert.
LOWNES, JANE, an original purchaser of land in England, came from Cheshire, where she had suffered persecution in the distraint of her goods in 1678, for attending Friends' meeting at Newton and Selsby. She was the widow of Hugh Lownes, and was accompanied to this country by three sons, James, George and Joseph. James married Susannah Richard, in 1692, and George, Mary Bowers, a woman from New England, in 1701. Jane, on her first arrival, located her purchased land in Springfield township, upon which a cave was built that for some time ac- commodated the family as a dwelling. The site of this cave is marked by a stone planted by her descendants in 1799, which bears the date of the patent for the land (1685.) The meet- ting records show the presence of Jane Lownes here, in May, 1684, and she probably had arrived a year earlier. It was usual to occupy lands a long time before they were patented.
LLOYD, DAVID, a Welshman, and one of the most eminent of the early set-
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tlers of Pennsylvania, arrived at Phila- delphia in 1686, and at first settled in that city, where he married Grace Growden a most estimable lady. By profession he was a lawyer, and Wil- liam Penn being well acquainted with his abilities and legal attainments, commissioned him the same year as Attorney General of the Province. He was greatly in advance of his age, in his views of good government, and particularly in a correct compre- hension of the rights of the governed. These he advocated with so much zeal and ability, that he rarely failed in carrying his point. In opposing what were then called, "the proprietary interests," but what often were nothing more than proprietary pretensions, he acquired the reputation, particularly with those in interest with the govern- ment, of being perverse and factious as a politician, but time has served to correct that judgment, for the instances are few indeed, where the positions assumed and the arguments advanced by him, would not be fully sustained and approved by the present age. His integrity and abilities were never questioned.
Besides the office of Attorney Gene- ral, he was Deputy Register General under his Welsh friend, Thomas Ellis ; Deputy or Clerk of the Master of Rolls ; was frequently a member of the As- sembly, and speaker of that body. In 1717 he received the appointment of Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, and con- tinued to hold that office till his death. As a Quaker, David Lloyd was zealous and consistent, frequent in his atten- dance at the meetings of that Society, and sometimes appearing in the minis- try. The Welsh Friends, whose meet- ings he sometimes visited, submitted difficult questions arising in church matters to his final determination. In his family " he was exemplary ; treating all about him with humanity, and choosing rather to be loved than feared."
In 1691, he purchased a large tract of land at Chester, embracing a con- siderable portion of what is now the improved part of the borough, but he did not remove to that place till about the year 1700. His only dwelling-house at Chester, now known as "the Com- modore Porter house" was built by himself. He left no children, and few relatives in this country. He died in
1731, aged seventy-five years. His wife survived him twenty-nine years. The remains of both repose in Friends' burial ground at Chester.
LUCAS, ROBERT, one of the Justices of the Court of Upland County, under the administration of Governors Markham, before the arrival of William Penn, set- tled up the Delaware, in what is now Bucks County. He probably arrived with the settlers of Burlington, N. J.
MADDOCK, MORDECAI, was the oldest son of Henry Maddock of Loom Hall, Cheshire, England. In 1681, Henry and his brother-in-law James Kenerly, purchased 1500 acres of land in Penn- sylvania, and arrived here some time before the Proprietary, in 1682. In 1683, part of this joint purchase, sup- posed to be 800 acres, but really more than 1100 acres, was located in Spring- field adjoining Ridley, and James established his residence upon it. In a few years afterwards James died, leaving his share of the joint purchase to his nephew, the subject of this notice, and shortly afterwards, his father Henry, who returned to England, con- veyed the other half to him. Mordecai appears to have made a visit to Penn- sylvania about the year 1687, and re- mained here for some time, but returned to England, and it was not till 1701, that he returned with his family, and fixed his permanent home on his estate. He was in membership with Friends.
MALIN, RANDAL, with his wife Eliza- beth, from Great Barrum in Cheshire, England, arrived in 1682 or 1683, and fixed their residence in Upper Provi- dence. They were bothi active and in- fluential members of the Society of Friends, meetings being sometimes held at their house. Elizabeth died in 1687, leaving two sons, Isaac and Jacob. Randal was married a second time in 1693, to Mary Conway, daughter of Valentine lIollingsworth of Newcastle County, by whom he had two dangh- ters, Hannah and Rachel. His death occurred about the year 1703. For making a prayer in a meeting in his native country, Randal Malin was fined £20 5s, for which distress was made of his household goods, corn and hay. (Besse. i. 107.)
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NIXON, JOHN, was settled in Ridley as early as 1683, was a member of Friends' Meeting, but took little or no interest in the affairs of the Society. But little is known in respect to him.
MARIS, GEORGE, emigrated from the parish of Inkborough in the County of Worcester, England, in 1683, with his wife Alice and several children. On his first arrival, he appears to have tarried for a short time with the Friends that had arrived the year before and settled at Darby, but he soon located a large tract of land in Springfield town- ship, whereon he settled and named it " The Home house." He was among the most eminent of the public Friends that came over with the first settlers, and was so esteemed in his native country, where meetings had been held at his house, and where he had suffered by fines and imprisonment. His certifi- cate, which is recorded at Darby says, "he hath adorned the Gospel of Christ." He held many public trusts : was a Justice of the Peace, one of the Judges of the Court, and on several occasions was chosen a member of the Provincial Assembly. He was one of those who signed the testimony against the celebrated George Keith.
The descendants of this worthy patri- arch are numerous ; those bearing his name in this County, Chester County, and in the City of Philadelphia, are probably all descended from him. His death occurred in 1703, at the age of seventy-three years ; his wife having died nearly four years earlier. His children, so far as is known, were Eliza- beth who intermarried with John Men- denhall ; George, with Jane Maddock; Ann, with John Worrilow ; John, with Susanna Lewis of Haverford, and Rich- ard, with Elizabeth Hayes of Marple.
MARKHAM, WILLIAM, the cousin and the first Lieutenant Governor of William Penn, no doubt resided at Upland (Chester,) from the time of his arrival till the City of Philadelphia was laid out, and suitable accommodations were provided there. Ile was not a Quaker, but seems to have been rather a military man, as he is called captain, and some- times colonel. He emigrated from London, and it is said he was but twenty-one years of age when he arrived here. He continued to reside
in Pennsylvania till his death, which happened in 1704, when he resided in Front Street, Philadelphia. His will shows that he was the owner of several slaves, which, with the chief part of his property, he bequeathed to his wife. One of his slaves was an Indian boy, named Ectus Frankson, born in 1700, whom he manumitted at the age of twenty-four, unless his wife by a special deed, should direct him to be held in servitude. He had no son, and only speaks of one daughter.
MARSHALL, JOHN, emigrated from Elton, in Derbyshire, England, in 1687, and probably at first settled in Block- ley township, Philadelphia County, but within the verge of Darby Friends' meeting, of which he was an attentive member. In 1688 he married Sarah Smith, of Darby, their marriage being the first that was solemnized at the first meeting-house built at that place. Their children were John, William and Thomas. He died in 1729.
MARSHALL, ABRAHAM, Was born about the year 1669, at Gratton, Derbyshire, England, and emigrated to America in the year 1700, fixing upon Darby, at first, as his place of residence. Con- vinced by the preaching of John Grat- ton, at the early age of sixteen, and " carefully abiding under the discipline of the cross," he had, before leaving England, a few words in the ministry, which, in the language of his certificate, " were received as from a babe in the Truth." Late in the autumn of 1701, with the approbation of Darby Monthly Meeting, he united with Vincent Cald- well in making a religious visit to Maryland. In January, 1703, he was married to Mary, the daughter of James Hunt, of Kingsessing, and in 1707 re- moved to the forks of the Brandywine, where he purchased large tracts of land among the Indians, and where his son Humphrey, who afterwards became noted as a botanist, was born ; he being the eighth of nine children. His death occurred in December, 1767, at the advanced age of ninety-eight years ; his wife surviving him less than two years. She was born in Kent, Eng- land; came to this country with her father a young child, about the year 1684, and was eighty-seven years of age at the time of her decease.
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MARTIN, WALTER, was a resident of Marcus Hook before the arrival of William Penn, in 1682, and was the owner of a large tract of land on Naa- man's Creek, which had been pur- chased in England. He appears to have been a man of good standing, but somewhat eccentric. It is not certain that he was a member of any religious denomination, but he appears to have held in veneration certain church ordi- nances and doctrines that were re- garded by the Quakers as outward ceremonies, or that were wholly re- pudiated by them. This will be seen in his grant or free gift for a burying- place, &^., mentioned elsewhere. But still it does not appear that he had any unkind feelings towards the Quakers, for in 1684 he married Jane, the dau- ghter of Joseph Bushell, who was a Quaker, and by his will he entrusted the administration of his estate to two Quakers-Nicholas Pyle and Daniel Williamson. He may have resided for a time on his Naaman's Creek pur- chase, but his general place of resi- dence was Marcus Hook. He died in 1719, and was buried in the lot re- served out of his " free gift," which now constitutes St. Martin's church- yard. Massive stones that have re- cently been renovated, indicate the exact resting-place of his remains, one of which bears the following quaint inscription :
" The just man lives in good men's love, And when he dies, he's bless'd above."
Walter Martin emigrated from West- minster, in the County of Middlesex, England. At the time of his death it does not appear that he had any male descendant living.
MARTIN, JOHN, was one of the early settlers in Middletown. He brought an approved certificate of membership with Friends from England, and in 1696 was married, in accordance with the usages of that Society, to Gwen Morgan, of Concord Meeting. Ile died in 1719. He came from Edgcott, in the County of Berks, and was a pur- chaser of five hundred acres of land be- fore leaving England.
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