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Issue (surname Devereux) : Richard G., b. Feb. 21, 1831,
James, b. Nov. 19, 1832, d. Apr. 17, 1835,
Eloisa A., b. Apr. 23, 1834, d. Apr. 1, 1835,
James, b. July 24, 1836, grad. A. B. (U. of P.), d. s. p. Rio Janeiro Feb. 21, 1861, Ada M., b. Aug., 1838, d. Jany. 30, 1840,
Helen, b. Mch. 27, 1842,
Anna F., b. Dec. 3, 1843,
Mary L., b. July 21, 1845,
Benjamin H., b. Sep. 5, 1846, d. Apr. 5, 1848, MARY, now of Phila., unm.,
REBECCA PLUMSTEAD, b. Oct. 16, 1808, m. Jany. 9, 1833 William Henry Klapp, M. D. and A. B. (U. of P.), b. Oct. 14, 1808, d. Sep. 28, 1856, son of Joseph and Anna Klapp, Issue (surname Klapp) :
Devereux, b. Feb. 1, 1834, d. s. p. Sep. 7, 1874,
Anna, b. Apr. 4, 1836, m. May 1, 1861 Langdon Wil- liams, Ph. D. (Gött.), of Boston, b. June 24, 1830, d. Rome May 9, 1872, son of Nathaniel L. Williams by his w. Eleanor Devereux, Issue (surname Williams) : Langdon, b. Mch. 28, 1862, William Klapp, b. Sep. 1, 1863, John Devereux, b. Apr. 15, 1872, d. May 31, 1872,
Harry Milnor, b. Oct. 3, 1837, d. Mch. 2, 1839,
George Gillson, b. Nov. 1, 1839, of Natchez, Miss., m.
Oct. 2, 1866, Mary Eloise, dau. of Henry B. and Mary Elizabeth Shaw, Issue (surname Klapp) : Walter Devereux, b. Aug. 11, 1867, Edith Lattimore, b. Oct. 14, 1868, Herbert Langdon, b. Aug. 14, 1870, George Gillson, b. Sep. 11, 1873, d. Oct. 3, 1873, George Gillson, b. May 25, 1876, d. July 26, 1876, Mary Eloise, b. July 1, 1878, d. Aug. 6, 1878,
Laura, b. Mch. 10, 1842,
Joseph, b. Dec. 28, 1843, d. Mch. 26, 1845,
Frederick, b. Oct. 26, 1846, of London, Eng., m. 1875 Edith, dau. of Robert Leslie of London, Issue (surname Klapp) : Edith Devereux, b. Feb. 10, 1876, Paul Shirley, b. April 1, 1879,
William Henry, b. Oct. 13, 1849, grad. A. B. (Harv.) and M. D. (U. of P.), of Phila.,
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Bertha, b. Mch. 21, 1851, BENJAMIN HUTTON, b. Sep. 17, 1813, d. Pernambuco, So. America, Jany. 21, 1844, DAVID WARE, b. Jany. 9, 1817, d. Mch. 14, 1817.
ELIZA ELLIOT HUTTON, b. Sep. 21, 1794, dau. of Benj. and Re- becca Hutton, p. 173, d. Phila. April 24, 1870, m. Robert Burton of Phila., afterwards merchant, son of John and Rachel Burton. He d. Dec. 29, 1854.
Issue (surname BURTON) :
MARY ANNE, of Phila., unm.,
ANNA MARIA, m. John R. Penrose of Phila., merchant (d. Sep. 11, 1869), son of Charles and Ann Penrose,
·Issue (surname Penrose) :
Eliza, m. William Cochran of Phila., wine merchant, Issue (surname Cochran) : William Greene, Harriet Penrose, m. John R. Suydam of New York,
Anna Rowan, m., 1st, John Ralston (d. 1866), and, 2nd, Frank C. Hooten, Col. U. S. Vols., Dist. Atty. of Chester Co., and in 1879 Chm. of Republican State Central Com. of Penna., Issue (surname Ralston) : Anna, m. Chas. Fred. Jones of West Chester, Pa., Issue (surname Jones) : Charlotte Fredericka, Ethelbert, Issue (surname Hooten) : Mary Penrose, Ellen, m., 1st, Thomas Swann (d. 1866), son of Gov. Swann of Md., and, 2nd, Ferdinand C. Latrobe, Mayor of Baltimore, Issue (surname Swann) : Thomas, Sherlock,
Issue (surname Latrobe) : Charlotte Fernande, Ellen Virginia, Charles Henry, d. y.,
Walter Elliot, of Phila., m. Emily, dau. of Lucius P. Thompson, Issue (surname Penrose) : John Rowan, Christine Emily,
JOHN, of Phila., merchant, d. s. p.,
CAROLINE, d. y.,
REBECCA PLUMSTED, of Phila., unm.,
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CAROLINE, dec'd, m., 1st, John G. Reading, and, 2nd, John C. Rockhill,
Issue (surname Reading) : Robert Burton, d. y.,
Issue (surname Rockhill) : John Clayton,
GEORGE WASHINGTON, of Phila., Maj. U. S. Vols., m. Jose- phine, dau. of Jacob and Sarah Clement,
Issue (surname Burton) :
Sarah Clement, m. Dunbar Price,
Robert, d. y.,
Caroline Fry, m. Bloomfield McIlvaine, see Shippen, George,
HENRY CLAY, of New Castle Co., Del., dec'd, m. Julia M., dau. of Chief Justice Booth of Delaware,
Issue (surname Burton) :
Eliza Elliot, Julia Booth, Robert,
ROBERT, d. s. p.,
EMILY ADELAIDE, m. Robert Neilson of Phila., son of Robert Neilson of Phila., some time Gov. of Trinidad,
Issue (surname Neilson) : Emily Burton,
Robert William, of Virginia, m. Margaret Keith, Florence, EDWARD, of Phila., d. s. p.
ELIZABETH PLUMSTED, dau. of William and Rebecca Plumsted, p. 171, d. after the death of her husband, m. (being 2nd w. of ) Andrew Elliot, third son of Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bart., who was Lord Justice- Clerk of Scotland with the title of Lord Minto, and whose father, created Baronet in 1700, had held the same office with the same title. Andrew Elliot's mother was dau. of Sir Robert Stuart of Allanbank, Bart. Andrew Elliot came to Phila., and engaged in trade, marry- ing for his 1st wife Eleanor, dau. of George McCall, and was a sub- scriber to the Dancing Assembly of 1748 and a Trustee of the College. He removed to New York on his appointment as Collector of Cus- toms at that port, his commission being dated Jany. 19, 1764. He performed his duties without exciting popular ill-will until 1774,
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when, in view of the rising against the English government, he seized some fire arms, and was threatened with tar and feathers. He had a country place, called " Minto," on the Hudson. During the British occupation of New York he was Superintendent-General of the city, as well as Collector and also Receiver-General of Quit-Rents, and from 1780 until the evacuation bore the title of Lieutenant-Governor. For being a Tory, his estates in Pennsylvania were confiscated by the gov- ernment ; and at the close of the war he went to Scotland, where he devoted himself to farming, having his home at " Mount Tiviot " near Edinburgh, and d. of paralysis in May, 1797.
Issue (surname ELLIOTT) :
ELIZABETH, m. the 1st Earl Cathcart, see below,
AGNES MURRAY, m. Sir David Carnegie, Bart., see p. 180,
GILBERT, b. Dec. 28, 1764, d. s. p.,
JOHN, b. Presbyt. N. Y. June 23, 1766, wounded at taking of Cananore in East Indies in beginning of 1784, d. before
Feb. 10, 1785, the date of his mother's letter to Mrs. Gore, WILLIAM CLEMENT, b. Presbyt. N. Y. Aug. 14, 1767, Master in Royal Navy, d. before Jany. 8, 1793,
ANDREW, b. Presbyt. N. Y. July 8, 1768, d. before Apr. 17, 1791,
MARIANNE, b. Presbyt. N. Y. Nov. 26, 1770, d. unm. before June 24, 1794,
EMMA, b. Presbyt. N. Y. Nov. 18, 1771, d. unm. Nov. 30, 1786.
ELIZABETH ELLIOTT, bapt. Presbyt. N. Y. Oct. - , 1762, dau. of Andrew and Elizabeth Elliott, as above, was Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen, d. after 1840, m. Apr. 10, 1779 William Schaw Cath- cart, 10th Baron Cathcart in the Peerage of Scotland, having succeeded his father in that title July 21, 1776. At his marriage, he was serv- ing with the British troops in America. Born in 1755, he was Major- General in 1794, Lieutenant-General 1801, several times a Represent- ative Peer from Scotland, Commander-in-Chief of the expedition against Copenhagen in 1807, made a peer of the United Kingdom with the title of Viscount Cathcart and Baron Greenock Nov. 3, 1807, and created EARL CATHCART July 16, 1814. He was also Vice Admiral of Scotland, and at one time Ambassador to St. Petersburgh, a Knight of the Thistle and of various other orders. He d. June 16, 1843.
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Issue (surname CATHCART) :
WILLIAM, b. June 30, 1782, educated at Eton, Captain R. N., d. s. p. June 5, 1804 in the lifetime of his father,
CHARLES MURRAY, b. Dec. 21, 1783, 2nd Earl, see below, FREDERICK, b. Oct. 28, 1789, of Craigangillan, took surname M'ADAM, was Colonel in R. A., and Knight of the Russian order of St. Anne, m. Oct. 18, 1827 Jane, dau. and heir of Quentin M'Adam, Esq., and d. Mch. 5, 1865, his widow d. Apr. 25, 1878,
GEORGE, b. 1794, m. Lady Georgiana Greville, see p. 179,
ADOLPHUS FREDERICK, b. 1803, Lt .- Col. R. A., m. July 2, 1832 Margaret, dau. of William F. Home, Esq.,
LOUISA, d. Dec. 28, 1874,
MARY ELIZABETH, d. Apr. 12, 1862,
AUGUSTA SOPHIA, d. 1846.
CHARLES MURRAY CATHCART, 2nd Earl Cathcart, b. Dec. 21, 1783, son of the 1st Earl Cathcart, became a general in the British Army, Col. 1st Dragoon-guards, and G. C. B. and K. S. W. and Com- mander of the Forces in Scotland ; was for some time Governor-General of British North America. He d. July 16, 1859. He m. Henrietta, dau. of Thomas Mather, Esq. She d. June 24, 1872.
Issue (surname CATHCART) :
ALAN FREDERICK, b. Nov. 14, 1828, 3rd and present Earl Cathcart, served in Royal Army, Col. North Yorkshire Rifle Vols., m. Apr. 2, 1850 Elizabeth, dau. and heiress of Sir Samuel Crompton, Bart.,
Issue (surname Cathcart) :
Alan, b. Mch. 18, 1856, " Lord Greenock," lieut. in the Scots guards,
Charles, b. Dec. 23, 1859, lieut. in Royal Army, d. May 21, 1880, George, b. June 26, 1862, lieut. North York. militia, Reginald, b. Nov. 9, 1870,
Archibald Hamilton, b. Jany. 30, 1873,
Isabel, d. y. Nov. 29, 1856, Cecilia, b. Dec. 5, 1857, Ida, b. Apr. 26, 1865, Marion, b. June 14, 1867, Emily, b. Dec. 27, 1868, Eva, b. May 12, 1874,
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AUGUSTUS MURRAY, b. Aug. 18, 1830, of Mowbray House, Ripon, Col. late of Grenadier Guards, m. Nov. 28, 1866 Hon. Jean Mary Orde-Powlett, dau. of Lord Bolton, Issue (surname Cathcart) :
Frederick Adrian, b. June 26, 1873, Augustus Ernest, b. Mch. 4, 1875,
William Harold, b. May 3, 1880, Ethel Jane, d. y. Dec. 1, 1874,
Mary Mildred, b. May 10, 1876, Constance, b. Aug. 17, 1877,
ELIZABETH, m. 1843 Col. Sir John Douglas, G. C. B., Col. 79th Foot, late Commander of the Forces in Scotland, eld- est son of Lieut .- Gen. Sir Neil Douglas, K. C. B., HENRIETTA LOUISA FRANCES, d. Nov. 10, 1869,
ADELAIDE, d. Feb. 15, 1871, m. July 13, 1850 John Randol- phus de Trafford of Croston Hall, Lancashire, 2nd son of Sir Thomas Joseph de Trafford, Bart.,
Issue (surname de Trafford) :
Sigismund Cathcart, b. July 31, 1853, Lieut. late 14th Foot, m. Nov. 20, 1879 Clementina Frances, dau. of Sir Pyers Mostyn, Bart., Galfrid Cathcart, lieut. 7th Royal Fusiliers,
Randolphus, in Lancashire militia,
Charles Allan, b. 1871,
Henrietta, m. Aug. 2, 1877 Hon. Henry Robert Orde- Powlett, 2nd son of Lord Bolton, Issue (surname Orde-Powlett) : a dau., b. Nov. 21, 1878, Mary Adelaide.
GEORGE CATHCART, b. 1794, son of the 1st Earl Cathcart, see p. 178, became Lieut .- General in British Army, and G. C. B. He com- manded the 4th Division in the Crimea. He fell at the battle of Inkermann Nov. 5, 1854. He m. May 12, 1824 Lady Georgiana Greville, his cousin, dau. of Hon. Robert Fulke Greville by his w. Louisa, sister of the 1st Earl Cathcart, and widow of David, Earl of Mansfield, and created Countess of Mansfield in her own right.
Issue (surname CATHCART) :
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LOUISA MARGARET, d. y. 1835, GEORGIANA MARY, d. 1852, ALICE, d. June 13, 1855, EMILY SARAH, late maid of honor, now woman of the bed- chamber to the Queen, -
LOUISA, ANNE.
AGNES MURRAY ELLIOTT, born 1763, dau. of Andrew and Eliza- beth Elliott, see p. 177, d. June 9, 1860, m. (Gent. Mag.) Edinburgh Apr. 30, 1783 Sir David Carnegie, Bart., gr'dson of Sir David Carne- gie, created Baronet in 1663, who was son of Alexander Carnegie of Pittarrow, 4th son of David Carnegie, created Earl of Southesk in 1633. On the death, in 1729, of the 5th Earl, who was attainted for joining the Pretender in 1715, the heir male and representative of the family was Sir James Carnegie, 2nd Bart. of Pittarrow, father of Sir David, the 3rd Bart., who m. Agnes Murray Elliott. Sir David, the 3rd Bart., was many years M. P. He d. May 25, 1805.
Issue (surname CARNEGIE) :
JAMES, b. 1799, 4th Baronet, see below,
JOHN, m. Elizabeth Susan Grey, see p. 182,
CHRISTINA MARY, d. unm. Aug. 7, 1860,
ELIZABETH, JANE,
ANNE, m. Rear Adm. Wanchope, R. N., who d. 1852,
ELEANOR, d. Sep. 27, 1855, m. James Evans, Esq., of Nor- wood,
AGNES, d. unm. Mch. 8, 1875,
MARY, d. s. p. Nov. 22, 1877, m. Thomas Henry Graham, Esq., F. S. A., of Edmond Castle, Cumberland,
EMMA, m. James Douglas, Esq., of Cavers, Co. Roxburgh, who d. 1861,
Issue (surname DOUGLAS) :
JAMES, b. 1822, m. June 23, 1858 his cousin Mary Graham Agnew, MAGDALENE, m. 1816, Sir A. Agnew, Bart., see p. 182.
SIR JAMES CARNEGIE, succeeded his father as 4th Bart., b. 1799, as above, d. Jany. 30, 1849, m. Nov. 14, 1825 Charlotte, dau. of Rev. Daniel Lysons.
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Issue (surname CARNEGIE) :
JAMES, b. Nov. 16, 1827, succeeded as 6th Bart., and was re- stored to the Peerage with the original precedence as Earl of Southesk by the reversal of his kinsman's attainder in 1855, m., 1st, June 19, 1849 Lady Catharine Hamilton Noel, 2nd dau. of 1st Earl of Gainsborough (she d. Mch. 9, 1855), and, 2nd, Nov. 29, 1860 Lady Susan Catherine Mary Murray, dau of 6th Earl of Dunmore,
Issue by 1st wife (surname Carnegie) :
Charles Noel, b. Mch. 20, 1854, " Lord Carnegie," Dep. Lieut. for Forfar, Capt. in Militia,
Arabella Charlotte, m. Feb. 7, 1878 Samuel Henry Romilly, and has issue,
Constance Mary, m. Nov. 9, 1876 Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th and present Earl of Elgin and 13th Earl of Kincardine,
Issue (surname Bruce) : Edward James, b. June 8, 1881, "Lord Bruce," Elizabeth Mary, b. Sep. 11, 1877, Christian Augusta, b. Jany. 25, 1879, Constance Veronica, b. Feb. 24, 1880,
Beatrice Cecilia Diana, m. July 28, 1874 Rev. Henry Holmes-Stewart, Rector of Brington, Northampton, and has issue,
Issue by 2nd wife (surname Carnegie) :
Lancelot Douglas, b. Dec. 26, 1861,
Robert Francis, b. May 6, 1869,
David Wynford, b. Mch. 23, 1871,
Dora Susan, Elizabeth Erica, Helena Mariota, Katharine Agnes Blanche,
JOHN, b. Oct. 14, 1829, capt. R. N.,
CHARLES, b. May 14, 1833, was M. P. for Forfarshire,
CHARLOTTE, d. Jany. 15, 1880, m., 1st, June 16, 1860 T. F. Scrymsoure Fothringham, who d. 1864, and, 2nd, Dec. 8, 1868 Frederic Boileau Elliot, gr'dson of the 1st Earl of Minto,
Issue by 2nd husband (surname Elliot) :
Gilbert Compton, b. June 28, 1871, AGNES, d. 1842.
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JOHN CARNEGIE, son of Sir David Carnegie, 3rd Bart., p. 180, is of Tarrie, m. Sep. 7, 1848 Elizabeth Susan, dau. of Col. John Grey. Issue (surname CARNEGIE) :
CLAUD CATHCART, b. Dec. 9, 1849, m. Apr. 16, 1874 Mary Madeline Breakenridge of Kingston, Canada,
Issue (surname Carnegie) : Alan Bruce, Dorothy.
MAGDALENE CARNEGIE, dau. of Sir David Carnegie, 3rd Bart., p .. 180, d. Jany. 21, 1858, m. June 11, 1816 Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., M. P. for Wigtounshire, who d. Apr. 12, 1849.
Issue (surname AGNEW) :
ANDREW, b. Jany. 2, 1818, succeeded as 8th Bart., Vice- Lieut. and M. P. for Wigtoun, m. Aug. 20, 1846 Lady Louisa Noel, dau. of Charles, 1st Earl of Gainsborough,
Issue (surname Agnew) :
Andrew Noel, b. Aug. 14, 1850, barrister-at-law,
Henry de Courcy, b. Nov. 1, 1851,
Charles Hamlyn, b. June 11, 1859, lieut. 21st Foot,
Quentin Graham Kinnaird, b. Jany. 8, 1861, in royal Ayr militia,
Gerard Dalrymple, b. Apr. 24, 1862,
Madeline Diana Elizabeth, b. Aug. 22, 1847, m. Feb. 7, 1867 Thomas Henry Clifton, M. P., who d. Mch. 31, 1880,
Arabella Frances Georgiana, b. Oct. 19, 1848,
Caroline Charlotte, b. Oct. 19, 1848,
Louisa Lucia, b. Apr. 27, 1853, m. July 10, 1877 Duncan MacNeill,
Mary Alma Victoria, b. Sep. 2, 1854, m. Aug. 19, 1875 Hon. Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, "Master of Kinnaird," eldest son of 10th and present Baron Kinnaird,
Issue (surname Kinnaird) : Douglas Arthur, b. Aug. 20, 1879, Kenneth Fitzgerald, b. July 31, 1880, Catherine Mary, b. June 13, 1876, Catherine Carnegie, d. Mch. 31, 1858, Rosina Constance, b. Apr. 8, 1863,
Margaret Violet Maud, b. Jany. 9, 1866,
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JOHN DE COURCY ANDREW, b. Oct. 8, 1819, comm. R. N., m., 1st, Anne, dau. of Rev. D. Wauchope, and, 2nd, Patri- cia Elizabeth, dau. of W. H. Dowbiggin, and niece of Lord Panmure, and, 3rd, Patricia, dau. of Sir Alexander Ramsay, Bart.,
DAVID CARNEGIE ANDREW, b. May 3, 1821, in holy orders, m. Eleanora, dau. of J. Bell,
JAMES ANDREW, b. June 21, 1823,
STAIR ANDREW, b. Dec. 6, 1831, Queen's Remembrancer for Scotland, m. Georgina, dau. of George More Nisbett, Esq., THOMAS FREDERICK ANDREW, b. July 5, 1834, m. Julia, dau. of Chas. Pelly,
GERALD ANDREW, b. Dec. 18, 1835, Capt. 90th Light Inf., m. Margaret, dau. of William Bonar, Esq.,
AGNES, m. 1845 Rev. Thomas Blizzard Bell,
MARTHA, m. 1848 Fred. L. M. Heriot of Ramornie, co. Fife, MARY GRAHAM, m. 1858 James Douglas, Esq., of Cavers, son of her aunt Emma Douglas nee Carnegie.
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THOMAS GRIFFITTS.
THOMAS GRIFFITTS was the son of George and Frances Griffitts of the city of Cork, the Three Weeks Men's meeting of that place giving him a certificate of his " clearness in respect to marriage " 8mo. 16, 1716. At that date he was residing on the bay of Donna Maria in Jamaica, but about to remove to Pennsylvania. The meeting at Kingston also gave him a certificate 11, 21, 1716, and his parents wrote from Cork to Isaac Norris and Jonathan Dickinson to desire them " to be assisting in that weighty affair." He became a merchant in Philadelphia, and in 1717 married Mary, daughter of Isaac Norris. Not long afterwards he became a member of the Corporation of the City, and in due time served a term as Mayor. In 1723, he was ap- pointed Treasurer to the Trustees for the Society of Traders ; and in 1724 the Widow Penn and the mortgagees of the Province associated him with Hill, Norris, Logan, and Assheton to make sale of land, and to issue warrants and patents for land sold during the first Proprie- tary's lifetime ; and Norris and Griffitts and the survivor of them were designated to receive the moneys in case of the death or removal of Logan. Griffitts was Keeper of the Great Seal from 1732 to 1734, and on Oct. 27, 1733 took the affirmations as a member of the Gov- ernor's Council. He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1739, resigning in the beginning of 1743. He d. in 1746, his will being probat. Jany. 16, 1746-7.
Issue :
ISAAC, was Shff. of Phila. Co., d. before July 1, 1755, m. July, 1745 Sarah Fitzwater, she d. before 1773,
Issue :
MARY, d. y.,
ELIZABETH, b. 1748, d. before her mother, (a son), b. 1750, d. before his mother,
MARY, b. Mch. 20, 1721, d. unm. 1791,
THOMAS, d. y.,
HANNAH, b. 1727, was of Phila., d. unm. Aug. 24, 1817, de- vising her estate to her kinsmen Joseph Parker Norris and Dr. Samuel Powell Griffitts.
CHARLES READ.
CHARLES READ, a merchant of Philadelphia, member of the Church of England, but much respected by the Quakers, an Alderman upon the incorporation of the City in 1701, and its representative in the Assembly of the Province in 1704, who seems to have been of the same family as the Deborah Read who m. Benjamin Franklin, as the latter was spoken of as "Cousin Benny " by the Councillor's grand- son, Collinson Read, and who died about 1705, by his first wife was father of
CHARLES, the Councillor.
He married, 2nd, Amy Child, by whom he had issue : SARAH, m. James Logan the Councillor, RACHEL, m. Israel Pemberton.
CHARLES READ, born about the year 1686, was not of age at the date of his father's will. On the 13th of May, 1717, when about thirty one years old, he appears in the public records as "Charles Read, shopkeeper," admitted a freeman of the City of Philadelphia. He was charged for the privileges 5s. 6d. On the 9th of August fol- lowing, he qualified as a Common Councilman. He was one of the Justices of the Peace for Philadelphia County commissioned July 4, 1718, and was promoted to the half-legislative, half-judicial rank of Alderman on October 2, 1722. In the following year, the Assembly vested the property of the Free Society of Traders with a power of sale in five trustees, and placed Charles Read at their head. In 1724 appears this advertisement : "Very good lampblack made and sold (wholesale or retail) by Charles Read and Andrew Bradford, in Phila." There was a "Charles Read of Philadelphia merchant " connected with John Assheton of Liverpool, also merchant, in some land pur- chases between 1720 and 1725 : and Charles Read Esq .- he was then Mayor of the City-was made guardian for William Assheton's child- ren on the death of their grandfather Robert Assheton in 1727. Read was Mayor of Philadelphia for one year. He was Sheriff of the
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County for three terms beginning October, 1729. The Sheriffs and Coroners at that time were selected from two names for each office presented annually to the Governor and Council by the people of the respective counties. Read was Collector of the Excise for some time prior to 1734, and was one of the Trustees of the Loan Office. He also held the high post of Judge of the Admiralty.
He was qualified as a member of the Provincial Council on the 27th day of October, 1733. In addition to his offices in Pennsylvania, he was at the time of his death (Obit. Not.) Collector of the Port of Burlington in New Jersey. He died after a lingering illness on the 6th of January, 1736-7 in the 51st year of his age (ibid). Bradford, who had been engaged with him in the sale of lampblack, noting his death in the Weekly Mercury, said "he has left behind him the character of a sincere Christian, tender husband, indulgent father, kind master, faithful friend, good neighbour, and agreeable companion."
He m., 1st, Mch. 18, 1712 Rebecca Freeland, who d. s. p. bu. Aug. 17, 1712; and, 2nd, Xt. Ch. Nov. 1, 1713 Anne Bond, dau. of Thomas Bond, who was son of Thomas Bond of Woodacre, co. Lan- caster, Great Britain, a first purchaser. Anne, wife of Charles Read, was, after her marriage, baptized in Christ Church, Dec. 29, 1714, and was bu. in Xt. Ch. Feb. 18, 1731. The Councillor m., 3rd, Xt. Ch. Oct. 17, 1733 Sarah formerly Williams, widow of Joseph Harwood. Issue-all by 2nd wife :
CHARLES, bapt. Xt. Ch. Feb. 20, 1714-5, m. Alice Thibou, see next page,
THOMAS, bapt. Xt. Ch. Mch. 14, 1716-7, d. y. bu. Xt. Ch. Oct. 14, 1725,
JAMES, Xt. Ch. records missing from Mch., 1717-8 to Jany., 1719-20, m. Susannah Leacock, see p. 188,
MARY, bapt. Xt. Ch. Jany. 1, 1719-20, d. y. bu. Xt. Ch. Dec. 2, 1721,
ROBERT, bapt. Xt. Ch. Oct. 27, 1721, d. y. bu. Xt. Ch. May 4, 1728,
SARAH, bapt. Xt. Ch. Feb. 15, 1722-3, d. before Aug. 24, 1770, m. F. M. 6, 27, 1742, Thomas Shoemaker,
Issue (surname SHOEMAKER) :
REBECCA, d. after Aug. 24, 1770 (the date of a deed from her husband and herself for one fourth of certain land which descended from the wife of the Councillor to her three children), m. Samuel Waddingham of South Carolina, planter,
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THOMAS, bapt. Xt. Ch. Feb. 22, 1725-6, d. y. bu. Xt. Ch. Jany. 24, 1728-9,
ISRAEL, bapt. Xt. Ch. May 10, 1727, d. y. bu. Xt. Ch. Aug. 17, 1727,
JOHN, bapt. Xt. Ch. June 28, 1728, d. y.,
ANDREW, bapt. Xt. Ch. Nov. 28, 1729, d. y.
CHARLES READ, bapt. Xt. Ch. Feb. 20, 1714-5, aged 20 days, is styled " of Philadelphia, gent." prior to the death of his father, after which he was appointed Collector of the Customs at Burlington. He became a lawyer, and was admitted to practise before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Oct. 10, 1753. About 1760 he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and, after- the death of Chief Justice Robert Hunter Morris in 1764, presided over the Court for several months, then retiring to his former rank of Second Judge. He continued in this station and also the Collector- ship until the Revolution, and was several times elected Mayor of Burlington. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society held in Philadelphia. In 1776, he was chosen Colonel of the. second regiment raised in the County for the defence of the Province, and was a deputy to the Covention to frame a new Constitution, and on July 18th was made Colonel of a battalion of the flying camp, which he commanded in December of that year, when he availed him- self of the British general's proclamation offering pardon and protec- tion to such as should within a certain time lay down their arms .. Bancroft the historian's mistake in supposing the mention of Charles Read's submission in Count Dunop's diary referred to Joseph Reed of Pennsylvania gave rise to one of the most bitter controversies connected with our Revolutionary history. Read was captured by the Ameri- cans soon after his submission, and sent to Philadelphia, whither he was removed to North Carolina, where he is said to have died before the end of the war. He m. June 11, 1737 Alice, dau. of Jacob Thi- bou, a merchant of Antigua, by his w. Dorothy. Mrs. Read was b. Nov. 6, 1719, d. Burlington, N. J., Nov. 13, 1769, bu. St. Mary's, Burlington.
Issue :
CHARLES, b. Sep. 24, 1739, m. Anne Branin, see next page, JACOB, b. Jany. 1, 1741-2, d. Sep. 14, 1783,
JAMES, mentioned in J. P. Parke's genealogies, not in his mother's will.
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CHARLES READ, b. Sep. 24, 1739, gr'dson of the Councillor, was of New Jersey, d. Nov. 20, 1783, m. Aug. 26, 1737 Anne, dau. of Michael Branin. She m., 2nd, - Wardell. She d. Mch. 17, 1809.
Issue :
CHARLES, b. Oct. 16, 1768, d. y. Dec. 6, 1769, CHARLES, b. May -, 1770, d. s. p. Mch. 21, 1789, ALICE, b. Oct. 21, 1771, d. y. Nov. 24, 1772, ALICE E., b. Dec. 24, 1773, m. Job Troth, see below,
SAMUEL, b. Dec. 6, 1775, d. y. Jany. 14, 1777, WILLIAM LOGAN, b. Aug. 6, 1777, d. s. p., JAMES, b. Sep. 8, 1779, d. y. Oct. 11, 1789, ANN, b. Apr. 15, 1781, d. y. July 17, 1781, ELIZABETH, b. Dec. 20, 1782, d. 1835.
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