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Issue :
WILLIAM, b. Phila., Oct. 12, 1736, m. Alice Lee, see below, JOSEPH W., b. Phila., Oct. 17, 1738, d. unm. Oxford, Sussex Co., N. J., Sep. 13, 1795,
JOHN, b. Phila., Jan. 23, 1740, grad. A. B. (Princeton) 1758, studied medicine under his father, and afterwards at the University of Rheims, France, where he took his degree of M. D. Soon after his return home, he started, April 5, 1770, a course of lectures on Fossils, etc., d. unm. Balti- more, Md., Nov. 26, 1770,
SUSANNA, b. Phila., Oct. 23, 1743, m. Rev. Samuel Blair, see p. (139).
WILLIAM SHIPPEN, generally known as Dr. William Shippen, the Younger, son of William and Susannah (née Harrison) Shippen, above named, was b. Phila., Oct. 21, 1736, grad. A. B. (Princeton) 1754, and delivered the Valedictory for his class. Studied with his father until 1758, when he went to England, and studied under Drs. John Hun- ter, William Hunter and Mckenzie. Grad. M. D. (University of Edinburgh) 1761, and after a short visit to France, returned to Phila- delphia, in May, 1762. On Nov. 16, 1762, he commenced the first course of lectures on Anatomy ever delivered in America ; the first ones were given at the State House. He continued to lecture until Sept. 23, 1765, when he was elected Prof. of Anatomy and Surgery in the Medical School of the College of Philadelphia, of which he was the founder. On July 15, 1776, he was appointed "Chief Physician for the Flying Camp." In March, 1777, he laid before Congress a plan for the organization of a Hospital Department, which, with some modifications, was adopted, and on April 11, 1777, he was unani- mously elected "Director-General of all the Military Hospitals for the Armies of the United States ;" he resigned Jan. 3, 1781. On the re- organization of the College of Phila. as the University of Penna., he
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was elected, May 11, 1780, Prof. of Anatomy and Surgery, which position he resigned 1806. He was one of the originators of the Col- lege of Physicians, 1787, and was its President from 1805 until his death. M. circa 1760, Alice, dau. of Col. Thomas Lee of Virginia, and Hannah Ludwell his wife, b. Virginia, June 4, 1736, d. Phila., Mch. 25, 1817. Mr. Shippen d. Germantown, July 11, 1808.
Issue :
ANNE HUME, d. Phila., Aug. 23, 1841, aged 78, m. Mch. 11, 1781, Henry Beekman Livingston, son of Robert R. Liv- ingston of Clermont, and Margaret Beekman his wife, b. 1750, Col. in the Continental Army, d. Rhinebeck, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1831,
Issue (surname LIVINGSTON) :
MARGARET BEEKMAN, b. Phila., Dec. 26, 1781, d. unm. Phila., July 1, 1804,
THOMAS LEE, b. Mch. 10, 1791, m. Elizabeth Carter Farley, see below,
WILLIAM ARTHUR LEE, b. Phila., Aug. 21, 1796, who, with five others, of whom I can find no information, d. y.
THOMAS LEE SHIPPEN, son of William and Alice (née Lee) Ship- pen, as above, of Farley, Bucks Co., Penna., b. 1765. He was edu- cated at Booth's Academy, Md., Hon. M. A. (Princeton) 1788. Studied law under James Madison, and afterwards, 1786, at the Lower Temple, London, m. Mch. 10, 1791, at Nesting, Va., Eliza- beth Carter, dau. of Major James Parke Farley of Antigua, W. I., and his wife Elizabeth, dau. of Col. William Byrd of Westover. She m., 1st, John Bannister of Va., and after the death of Mr. Shippen, she m., 3rd, Gen. George Izard, U. S. A., d. Phila., June 24, 1827, aged 52 years. Mr. Shippen d. near Charleston, S. C., Feb. 4, 1798.
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WILLIAM, b. Farley, Jan. 19, 1762, grad. A. B. (U. of P.) 1810. Studied medicine under Dr. Wistar, and grad. M. D. Med. Dept. (U. of P.) 1814. He was demonstrator of Anatomy at the Univ. of Penna. and Trustee of Princeton Col. 1841-1867, m. Petersburg, Va., Feb. 14, 1817, Mary Louise, dau. of Thomas Shore of Petersburg, Va., and Jane Gray Wall his wife, b. Petersburg, Mch. 17, 1798, d. May 3, 1879, he d. Phila., June 5, 1867,
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Issue :
Jane Gray, m. Phila., Edward Wharton, son of Fish- bourne Wharton and his 1st wife Susan Shoemaker, d. Baltimore, Md., June 17, 1868, Issue (surname Wharton) :
Mary Louise, d. unm. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 16, 1868, Emma Manigault, d. y. May 3, 1820,
Alice Lee, d. " Violet Bank," Va., m. Joshua Maddox Wallace, M. D., son of Joshua M. Wallace and his ' wife Rebecca, dau. of Dr. William McIlvaine and his 1st wife Mary Coxe, b. Burlington, d. Phila., Nov. 10, 1851,
Issue (surname Wallace) :
William McIlvaine, b. Phila., d. "Violet Bank," Feb. 21, 1854,
Shippen, m. Burlington, N. J., Laura Christina, dau. of John O'Conner Barclay, M. D., U. S. N., d. Burlington, N. J., Nov. 13, 1874,
Issue (surname Wallace) :
Violet Lee, b. Berlin, Germany,
Mary Coxe, d. Bristol, N. J., Aug. 27, 1853,
Thomas Lee, of Petersburg, Va., m. Petersburg, Va., Jane Gray, dau. of Dr. John Gillian and Elizabeth S. Shore his wife, d. Petersburg, Aug., 1874, Issue :
William,
William, grad. A. B. (Princeton), member of Phila. Bar, was for some years in law partnership with Thomas Francis Bayard, m. Baltimore, Achsah Ridgely, dau. of Charles R. Carroll of Baltimore and Rebecca Anne Pue his wife,-Mr. Shippen d. Phila., April 3, 1858,-
Issue :
Charles Carroll, grad. A. B. (Harvard) M. D.,
Edward, grad. A. B. (Princeton), M. D. Med. Dept. (U. of P.), m. Rebecca Nicholson, wid. of J. E. H. Post of Baltimore, Issue : Parker Lloyd, Joseph, d. y. May 18, 1830,
Mary Louisa, d. Phila., April 25, 1848,
James Parke Farley, d. April 19, 1853, Richard Henry Lee, d. y. Jan. 28, 1836.
SUSANNA SHIPPEN, dau. of . William and Susannah (née Harrison) Shippen, p. (137), b. Phila., Oct. 23, 1743, d. Germantown, Oct. 12, 1821, m. Abington, Ct., Sep. 24, 1769, Rev. Samuel Blair, D. D.,
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son of Rev. Samuel Blair and Frances Van Hook his wife, b. Chester Co., Penn., 1741. Grad. A. B. (Princeton) 1760, and was a tutor there 1761-1764. He was licensed to preach 1764, and installed pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, Sep., 1766, which position he re- signed Oct. 10, 1769. He was elected President of the College of New Jersey in 1767, but declined in order to secure the election of Dr. Witherspoon. He was chaplain to a brigade of artillery during the Revolution, and to the House of Representatives 1790-1792. D. D. (U. of P.), d. Germantown, Sep. 23, 1818.
Issue of SAMUEL and SUSANNA BLAIR :
FRANCES VAN HOOK, m. July 4, 1816, Charles Pierce of Bristol, Penn., d. s. p. Bristol, Nov. 27, 1848,
SUSAN SHIPPEN, b. Mch. 2, 1771, m. Col. Isaac Roberdeau see below,
WILLIAM SHIPPEN, d. unm.,
ABIGAIL PHILLIPS, d. unm.,
SAMUEL, b. Mch. 10, 1777, m. Esther Smith, see p. (141).
SUSAN SHIPPEN BLAIR, dau. of Samuel and Susanna (née Shippen) Blair, last named, b. Mch. 2, 1771, d. Phila., Oct. 28, 1843, m. Nov. 7, 1792, Col. Isaac Roberdeau, b. Phila., Sep. 11, 1763, son of Gen. Daniel Roberdeau and Mary Bostwick his wife. He was assistant engineer to Major L'Enfant and Col. Ellicott when they planned and laid out Washington, 1791, and delivered, Feb. 22, 1800, an oration on the death of Gen. Washington. He was Topographical Engr. in the army during the war of 1812, and at its close was with Col. Hawkins to report the boundary line between the British possessions in Canada and the United States. He organized the Topographical Bureau in Washington, and was its head until his death, at Georgetown, Jan. 15, 1829. He was bu. in the bu. ground at Georgetown with military honors.
Issue of ISAAC and SUSAN S. ROBERDEAU :
MARY ELIZABETH, b. Germantown, Mch. 30, 1795, d. unm. Phila., Nov. 15, 1833, bu. at Woodlands,
SUSAN SHIPPEN,
FRANCES SELINA, m. Mckean Buchanan, b. Baltimore, Md., July 27, 1798, son of Dr. George Buchanan and Lætitia Mckean his wife, entered the navy as Paymaster, Aug. 21, 1826, took an active part in the battle of Hamp- ton Roads, Mch. 8, 1862, was retired at the age of sixty-
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two, with the rank of Paymaster, d. Charlestown, Mass., Mch. 18, 1871, b. Mt. Auburn Cemetery,
Issue (surname Buchanan) :
Roberdeau, grad. B. S. (Harvard), followed his profes- sion as engineer until 1872, now in Patent Office in Washington,
Lætitia Mckean, d. Charlestown, Mass., July 20, 1871, m. Surg. G. S. Fife, U. S. N., Issue (surname Fife) : George William Buchanan Cains, Selina, d. y. July 19, 1871.
SAMUEL BLAIR, son of Samuel and Susanna (née Shippen) Blair, p. (139), b. Mch. 10, 1777, d. Bristol, May 16, 1859, m. May 12, 1802, Esther Smith, d. Germantown, Oct. 19, 1813.
Issue (surname BLAIR) :
SAMUEL, b. Feb. 8, 1803, d. Mch. 23, 1804,
SUSAN SHIPPEN, b. July 1, 1804, d. Nov. 29, 1832, m. Dec. 2, 1828, Rev. Thomas Joseph Addison Mines, son of Rev. John Mines of " Rose Hill," Md., d. Jan. 20, 1838,
Issue (surname Mines) :
Addison, b. Aug. 2, 1829, d. Sep. 6, 1832, Flavel Scott, b. Sep. 17, 1831, d. Nov., 1832,
WILLIAM SHIPPEN, b. Nov. 15, 1805, d. Dec. 22, 1805,
ABBY PAULINA, b. Nov. 23, 1806, d. Washington, July 23, 1821,
EDWARD SHIPPEN, b. Jan. 1, 1809, d. Jan. 13, 1813,
ZEPHERENE VICTORIA, b. Aug. 4, 1811, m. Feb. 27, 1845,
Thomas Callanan, son of John Callanan of Bristol, Issue (surname Callanan) :
Samuel Blair, Dora Donath, d. y. 1853,
Frances Blair, m. Joseph Kenworthy, Issne (surname Kenworthy) : Zepherene Blair, George Birkhead, ROBERDEAU, b. Sep. 6, 1813, d. Oct. 30, 1814.
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JAMES LOGAN. WILLIAM LOGAN.
Every notice of James Logan has begun with the statement that he was descended from that Logan of Restalrig, in Scotland, whose estates were confiscated for connection with the Gowrie conspiracy against King James VI. It is said that one of his sons was grand- father of James Logan. This cannot be disproved, and it may be supposed that those who have written on the subject had before them evidence sufficient to show that he was of the same family as the attainted baron, if not a direct descendant, but the claim of direct descent lacks what would now be the best evidence to establish it, viz., that James Logan ever said so himself. He has left no note of it. He sealed his letters with the arms of the Logans of Oxford- shire, England, at the same time disclaiming any right to them. He says in a letter to Cornal George Logan, whom he addresses not as " cousin," but as " esteemed friend," dated 9, 9, 1713: "N. Griffitts informing me that thou desirest ye Coat of Arms belonging to our name, I here give thee in Wax what I have on my Seal, but believe neither of us have any very good right to it being what the English Logans of Oxfordshire carry, but those of Scotland I have been told have a very different one (and yet a good one) wh. I have never seen, however having occasion for a seal & finding only this in my way I made use of it, nor do I fear a citation to ye Heralds Office for my presumption." There is in the possession of the family "an Histor- ical Account of the Ancient and Honourable Family of Logan of Restalrig drawn up by Mr. George Logan one of the Ministers of Edinburg at the desire of his honoured and learned friend William Logan M. D. of Bristol," chiefly taken from Nisbet's Heraldry, but this makes no claim of relationship. In the sev- enteenth century, the name was quite common in Scotland, there being the Logans of Cowstoun, of Coitfield, &c., &c., and some five
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James Logans graduating at Edinburgh between 1600 and 1700. It had an honorable antiquity, first appearing about the year 1180 with 'one John de Logan, who married a daughter of Tankard, a Flemish set- tler in Lanark, the charter from Tankard's son for land in frank- marriage with his sister being mentioned in Chalmer's Caledonia ; and from that time the Logans maintained a certain prominence among the lesser barons, now and then rising to fame and power. The data concerning them were very carefully collected by the late J. Francis Fisher in 1829 from the books then in the Philadelphia Library, and embodied in a MS. unfortunately too long to be printed here. Our own later investigations have added little to what he wrote. The Logans of Restalrig were the most important branch of the family. The barony of Restalrig, or Lestarrick, was originally the property of the Leiths, and Douglas's Baronage repeats the asser- tion that by marriage with a daughter of that family it was obtained by a Logan in the reign of King Robert Bruce. Sir Robert Logan accompanied "good Sir James Douglas" in his journey with the heart of Bruce, and with him was killed by the Saracens in Spain, after which the family bore as a coat of arms three passion-nails piercing a man's heart. In 1398, these appear on the seal of Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, who married a daughter of King Robert II., and became Admiral of Scotland. According to Mr. Fisher, it was the son of the Admiral, another Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, who married Geilles, or Giles, daughter of the lord of Somerville. About a century later, another Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig mar- ried Margaret, daughter of the fourth Lord Seton ; again, a Sir Robert appears about 1560 as marrying Agnes, daughter of Patrick, Lord Gray, she afterwards becoming the wife of Alexander, fifth Lord Home; and a Logan of Restalrig, in the sixteenth century, married Elizabeth, daughter of David Macgill of Cranston-riddel, King's Advocate. The conspirator Logan married a daughter of Sir Patrick Home of Fastcastle in Berwickshire, in that way acquiring that great fortress, whither, it is thought, the Gowrie conspirators intended to convey the King. This Logan has been called by one of his contemporaries, "ane godles, drunkin, and deboshit man ;" and Sir Walter Scott has shown that his having squandered away a large estate, at once explains his engaging in a plot whose most probable object was to sell the Scotch King a prisoner to Queen Elizabeth, and also rebuts the idea that the evidence against him was manufactured by the Crown to enrich itself. In 1596, he sold his estate of Nether
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Grogar to Andrew Logan of Coalfield, or Coitfield, and in 1604, his son mortgaged the barony of Restalrig to Lord Balmerinoch. The reader will find an account of the Gowrie conspiracy in Scott's or Burton's History of Scotland, both authors agreeing that the letters on which Logan was convicted, alone clear up the purpose of the conspirators. G. P. R. James has worked the affair into a novel, "The King's Plot," based upon the idea that a king who was both humane and cowardly, plotted a murder, and exposed his own life to entrap his victim! On the 5th of August, 1600, as the King was on a hunting-party, and but slightly armed, he was induced by Alexander Ruthven, Master of Gowrie, to accompany him to Gowrie Castle, to examine a prisoner. A few of the King's retinue followed, and were entertained by the Earl of Gowrie, while his brother, the Master, led the King through the Castle to a small room, where was waiting the Earl's chamberlain in full armor. Here the Master drew a dagger, and, pulling away a curtain, disclosed a portrait of his father, who had been put to death for high treason during the King's minority. The King attempting to reason with him, he declared that he did not wish to take his life, but to extort a promise, and then left the room for a few moments. He returned with a cord, and attempted to bind the King, who grappled with him, and, the man- at-arms not aiding the Master, dragged him to the window, and cried for help. The King's friends in the court-yard, whom the Earl had tried to send off by telling them that the King had gone, forced their way up stairs, followed by the Earl and his retainers ; and the Master and the Earl were both killed. The King lived to ascend the throne of England as James I. At this encounter, Logan of Restalrig was not present ; and he died in 1601, unsuspected of any connection with the affair. In 1608, George Sprot, a notary, declared Logan's guilt, and produced letters which had been in the possession of one Laird Bour, at this time deceased, who had acted as Logan's confidential messenger. They were five in number, in Logan's handwriting, all but one signed "Restalrig," three having no other address than " Right Honorable," one addressed to Earl Gowrie, and one to Bour. They were chiefly appointing meetings to consult on an enterprise as to which they cautioned profound secresy. The letters were to be returned, so that the writer could see that they were burned. He speaks of the peril to their lives if the affair should go wrong; but, further than this, his guilt is to be made out from these sentences only : "My Lord of Gowrie and some others are upon the resolution
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you know for the revenge of that cause, whereto I will accord in case ye bear a part. * * Ye know the King's hunting will be shortly, and then shall be best time. * I think there is none of a noble heart or carries a stomach worth a penny but they would be content and glad to see an contented revenge of Greysteil's death. [The late Earl Gowrie had been nicknamed "Gray steel."]
* Since I have taken on hand to enterprise with my Lord of Gowrie, * we have set down the platt already." He also arranges for the Earl of Gowrie with the Earl's brother and the "Right Honorable " gen- tleman and "only another man," in which words it has been supposed that he meant the King, to come by sea to Fastcastle, where they should be safe. (See Tytler's History.) The King being carried off, not killed, it may have been the design of the conspirators to rule the kingdom with him a puppet under their control, or, as Fast- castle was but twenty miles from the English border, to transfer him to the officers of Queen Elizabeth. The letters are published in the Earl of Cromarty's Account of the Conspiracy. " Sprot was executed for misprision, or concealment, of treason, adhering to his confessions to the last. On the assembling of Parliament in 1609, Robert Logan, eldest son and heir of the deceased Laird of Restalrig, was summoned to contradict his father's treason, but did not appear. That the accused himself might be present, the remains of Restalrig were exhumed and brought before the Parliament at Edinburgh. The King's Advocate produced the letters and the deposition of Sprot with the depositions of seven persons, among them some one employed by Logan as "pedagogue to his bairns," in proof of the handwriting. The Estates found Logan guilty, and gave sentence that his name, memory, and dignity be abolished, his arms cancelled, so that his posterity shall be excluded from any offices, honors, lands, tenements, &c., within the kingdom forever, and all said goods, lands, &c., belonging to him since the conspiring of said crime, be forfeited to the King. What became of the " bairns," we cannot show. The oldest son, we see by the proceedings in Parliament, was Robert. Nisbet's Heraldry says that there were two sons, George and John, both of whom went abroad, and that John, the younger of them, returned, and his grandson, George Logan, was the representative of the family. So Mr. Fisher gives three sons, Robert, George, and John; but there seems to have been an Archibald, from the follow- ing, among the Inquisitiones de Tutela : "December 31, 1645, Archibald Logane commorans in Restalrig frater germanus Joannis
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Logane olim portionarii de Restalrig fratris (sic) avi Sophia, Isobellæ, et Jeannæ Loganes filiarum Georgii Logane de Burncastell, pro- pinquor agnatus id est consanguineus ex parte patris prædictarum Sophia, Isobellæ, et Jeannæ Logane." Here it also appears that Burncastle was the seat of descendants of the attainted Restalrig. In 1670, John Logan was served heir of George Logan of Burn- castle, his father ; and in 1691, George Logan of Burncastle was served heir of John Logan of Burncastle, his father, and of George Logan of Burncastle, his grandfather. The collaterals of the name seem, in 1671, to have about died out, for, on August 26th, 1671, Edward Maxwell of Hills was ascertained to be " propinquor agna- tus id est consanguineus ex parte patris (or rather next of kin on the father's side over twenty-five years of age, to be guardian) Georgii Logane apparentis de Burncastle, sui nepotis avunculi, filii quondam Joannis Logane de Burncastle." Mr. Fisher had not seen the Abbreviatio Inquisitionum when he wrote, He says that Patrick Logan, father of James Logan the Councillor, was son of one of the attainted Restalrig's three sons, and that he was born at Ormiston, in East Lothian, about 1630. We have these facts concerning him. He was educated at one of the Scotch universities, became a clergy- man, and was chaplain to Lord Belhaven; all of which would indi- cate respectable parentage. As to his wife, the information is very satisfactory. James Logan says: "My mother was Isabel Hume, daughter of James Hume, a younger brother of the house of St. Leonards, in the south of Scotland. He was manager of the estate of the Earl of Murray, who owed but never paid him £1500 ster- ling, though the said earl lodged for some years in his house in the shire of Fife. My grandmother, before she married, was Bethia Dundas, sister of the Laird of Dundas of Didiston, about eight miles west of Edinburgh, a fine seat. And the Earl of Murray assisted my grandfather in carrying off my grandmother; she was nearly related to the Earl of Panmure," &c. Douglas's Peerage supplements this when it names among the daughters and co-heiresses of William Maule of Glaster an Isabel who m. 1st James Dundas of Dudingston, and 2nd James Hamilton of Parkley ; said William Maule being great-uncle of the first Earl of Panmure. James Logan's father, Rev. Patrick Logan, became a Quaker, removed to Ireland, and taught school. He returned to Scotland when James II. landed in Ireland, and afterwards lived in Bristol, England. His widow mar- ried "out of meeting " about 1702. The eldest son, William, was a
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physician in Bristol. He died without issue, leaving considerable property to his nephew, William Logan, the second Councillor of this family.
JAMES LOGAN, President of the Provincial Council of Pennsyl- vania, was born at Lurgan, a town in county Armagh, Ireland, Octo- ber 20th, 1674. He early showed a taste for letters, and acquired proficiency in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, before he was thirteen. Nevertheless, he was sent to London to be apprenticed to a linen- draper, but, the war which culminated in the Battle of the Boyne having commenced, he was recalled to accompany his parents in their flight to Edinburgh. They afterwards settled in Bristol, England, and he resumed his studies, assisting his father in his school, and profiting by his instruction. He applied himself to mathematics, and made himself familiar with several of the modern languages. He engaged in mercantile business in 1698, and had in prospect a suc- cessful career on the wharves of Bristol, then the second city of Eng- land, when William Penn invited him to go with him as secretary to the New World. They sailed from Cowes on September 9th,. 1699, in the "Canterbury." On the way over, the ship was attacked by pirates, and Logan took part in the defence of it, while Penn, the stauncher Quaker-perhaps because a Quaker by conversion, while Logan was only a Quaker by birth-retired down below. The pirates were beaten off, after which Penn expostulated with Logan for engaging in battle. Logan replied that if Penn had dis- approved, Penn, being Logan's master, should have ordered him down. They arrived in Philadelphia in the beginning of December, 1699. Penn made the "slate-roof house " on Second street his resi- dence, and Logan lived with him, continuing there, too, for some time after Penn's return to England. Penn appointed him Secretary of the Council, and on his departure, after a stay of two years, con- stituted him one of the Commissioners of Property, to make titles to. land, and also Receiver-General, to collect quit-rents, look after fines and perquisites, discharge debts, pay officers for whose salary the Assembly had not yet provided, and remit balances. From this- time, Logan was the business agent of the Penn family, and the champion of their interests in the Colony. He was allowed a vote in the Council April 21st, 1702, and after Governor Evans' arrival,. was again called, and formally qualified February 8th, 1703-4. The first Proprietary had quarrelled with the poorer Quakers about the-
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quit-rents, and with the officers of the Crown on various subjects, and so left the seeds of trouble for those who were to carry on his government ; and these were characters ill-suited for their delicate position. Of the three deputy-governors who succeeded Shippen and the Council, Evans was a youth of twenty-six when sent over, and developed into a libertine before he was removed; Gookin was a deranged old man, who on one occasion kicked the judges at New- castle ; Keith was a man of expensive habits, heir-apparent to a baro- netcy, but to no estate. This made him anxious to propitiate the money-voting powers, to the prejudice, at last, of the Penn family ; and this is why young Ben Franklin found no letter of credit to make purchases in London, after his distinguished friend had sent him thither with the promise of one. Logan, too, who was recog- nized as the Proprietary's confidential clerk, was a young man with little experience in a connting-house, much less a government office. And, as all men have their faults, there were certain characteristics of Logan which detracted from both his ability as a ruler and the popularity of his cause. An aristocrat, he was strongly prejudiced against those who were not his personal friends. As faithful a ser- vant as a family ever had, he saw little besides the Penn interests. Besides, his manner was haughty ; his language, very intemperate, judging from his letters, as well as the Assembly's complaints of his insolence ; and his disposition, uncompromising; while the financial embarrassment of his master, the dependence of the government upon the people's good will for its support, and the character of the set- tlers, who formed both a feudal tenantry and a free nation-Quaker converts drawn from the farming classes, with little money and thorough disdain of rank and dignity, and adventurers and Church- men holding office under the Crown,-all this required that the stew- ard be popular, and his aim be to conciliate. With Governor Evans's first interview with the Assembly, began a quarrel between that body and himself, in which Logan became more and more embroiled. Evans's want of tact, and the disgust afterwards excited by his dis- orderly life, enabled the faction of David Lloyd to thwart all his projects. The separation of the legislature from that of the Lower Counties on the Delaware, became permanent. Remonstrances and adjournments engrossed the term of service. The colony remained without any laws providing for a judiciary. In October, 1705, Logan visited the Indians at Conestogoe, to re-assure them of the peaceable intentions of the English, and in the numerous embassies
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