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It was during Lloyd's administration that George Keith caused a schism in the Society of Friends, and Janney, in his Life of William Penn, says that this dissension was urged as a reason for the appoint- ment of a Royal Governor. Keith was a graduate of Marischal Col- lege, Aberdeen, and had been a Presbyterian before joining the Friends. He became one of the great champions of the Society, appeared at several disputations, and wrote many books in support of its tenets, travelled with Penn and Barclay on the Continent in its service, and suffered long imprisonment and much pecuniary loss in its cause. He drifted into various mystical views, at one time believing in the trans- migration of souls. He came to America embittered by persecution, and practised in controversy, was some time Surveyor-General of East Jersey, and for a year taught the Friends' School in Phila., but relin- quished such occupation to travel to other colonies to preach and chal- lenge the opponents of Quakerism. He justly deemed himself the greatest man in the Society in America, and, Fox and Barclay being dead, so that there was no one abroad to command him, he determined to be its leader. He contended for greater plainness of dress, objected to Quakers acting as magistrates giving sentence for corporal punish- ment, proposed rules of discipline and government, importuned for a confession of faith. A theologian inferior only to Barclay of all whom the Society had produced, he was quick to detect the erroneous doc- trine in the loose preaching of those around him, and he attacked the preachers in the strongest words. He accused Fitzwater and Stock- dale before the Meeting for having declared that " the light of Christ was sufficient for salvation without anything else," thereby inferring there was no need of the coming of Christ. The Meeting, which could not refuse to censure Stockdale, blamed Keith for violating Gospel order in not first communicating with Stockdale, and for his rancor- ous expressions. Stockdale and Fitzwater brought charges of bad doctrine against Keith, and Bowden, in his History of Friends in America, says there is no doubt that he had departed from the views of the Quakers on the efficacy and universality of Divine grace. Keith's friends, remaining at a Monthly Meeting after the Clerk had left, voted an adjournment to the school-house, and there, mustering a great force, condemned his accusers, and suspended them from the Min- istry. The Quarterly Meeting set aside these proceedings. Keith, unable to carry his proposals as to the time of meetings for worship, at last started a separate meeting, the attendants on which assumed the name of Christian Quakers. In the severest language he denounced
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his former comrades, who, he said, came together "to cloak heresies and deceit." The Haverford Monthly Meeting says that Lloyd's trials in his native land were " not to be compared to the many and great exercises griefs and sorrows he met withal and went thro' in Pennsylvania from that miserable apostate George Keith and his deluded company." Keith declared that he was not fit to be Governor and " his name would stink," and Keith told the Quarterly Meeting of Ministers in 1st mo., 1692, that there were " more damnable heresies and doctrines of devils among the Quakers than among any profession of Protestants." At the next Quarterly Meeting, a declaration of dis- unity with him was issued, headed by Lloyd's signature ; and for his slanderous words against Lloyd and Samuel Jennings, one of the Jus- tices, he was tried before the County Court at Phila., and fined, and Bradford, the printer, who was publishing his address to the Quakers, was deprived of his tools, and thrown into prison, as were John Macomb, who circulated it, and Thomas Budd, who wrote a pamphlet on Keith's side. The Quakers alleged, and perhaps justly, that the pamphlets tended to sedition, but these proceedings were the grounds of a charge that the Quakers, as well as other religious bodies, could persecute, as though this mild correction for intemperate language was to be classi- fied with the fires of Smithfield, or the lashings on the Quakers' backs -and putting three Quakers to death-in New England."
Lloyd declined the first place in Fletcher's Council. He died of a fever Sept. 10, 1694, having been for nearly eight out of the eleven years that he resided in Pennsylvania the highest officer in the Pro- vince.
He m., 1st, (Friends Records in London) at Shropshire Meeting 9 mo. 9, 1665 Mary Jones of Welchpool. She d. in Phila. He m., 2nd, Patience Story of New York, a widow, who survived him.
Issue by first wife :
HANNAH, b. Sept. 21, 1666, m., 1st, John Delaval, and, 2nd, Richard Hill, see next page,
RACHEL, b. Jany. 20, 1667-8, m. Samuel Preston, the Coun- cillor, see PRESTON,
MORDECAI, b. Dec. 7, 1669, to whom in 1693 his father con- veyed " Euhaker," a farm of 30 a. near Frankford, Phila. Co., d. s. p. lost at sea 1694,
JOHN, b. Feb. 3, 1671, d. s. p. in Jamaica Oct. 5, 1692,
MARY, b. Mch. 27, 1674, m. Isaac Norris, the Councillor, see NORRIS,
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THOMAS, b. Sept. 15, 1675, m. Sarah Young, see p. (21),
ELIZABETH, b. Mch. 1, 1677, d. July 22, 1704, m. Apr. 9, 1700 Daniel Zachary, who emigrated from England to Bos- ton, Mass.,
Issue (surname ZACHARY) :
LLOYD, b. 1701, studied medicine under Dr. Kearsley, and afterwards abroad, practised in Phila., was a Trustee of the College, and first physician of the Hos- pital, to whom his uncle and aunt Richard and Han- nah Hill conveyed 300 acres East of the Ridge Road, d. s. p. Nov. 25, 1756,
DANIEL, b. 1702, d. y. Sep. 19, 1703, a son, d. y.,
MARGARET, b. May 5, 1680, d. y. Sep. 13, 1693,
DEBORAH, b. Mch. 1, 1682, m. Mordecai Moore, see p. (30), SAMUEL, b. in Penna. 1684, d. y.
HANNAH LLOYD, b. at Dolobran 7 mo. 21, 1666, dau. of the Presi- dent of the Council, was a woman of superior attractions and mental power, in early life " received a gift in the ministry," says the Monthly Meeting in its Memorial of her, and travelled in the service of the Gospel to New England and other parts of North America, and for a number of years was Clerk of the Women's Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Meetings. She d. 12 mo. 25, 1726-7. She m., 1st, F. M. May 31, 1686 John Delaval, son of Thomas Delaval, a merchant of New York. John Delaval was not a Quaker when he began paying his addresses to her, and she did not accept him until he had " em- braced the truth in sincerity of heart." He became a merchant in Phila., and was a member of the Provincial Council. He d. Aug. 9, 1693. She m., 2nd, F. M. Sep. 27, 1700 Richard Hill, a native of Maryland, who became a leading man in Pennsylvania. In early years he followed the sea, and until 1704 was spoken of as " Capt. Hill." The Friends' Meeting at West River gave him a certificate of removal 2, 29, 1698, and after he had spent some time in London, the Meeting there gave him a certificate for his return, 6, 14, 1699. He was in Philadelphia during the Proprietary's second visit to America, and seems to have enjoyed the Proprietary's personal friendship. He finally settled as a merchant in the Quaker City. He was admitted to the Governor's Council on the 9th of February at the close of the
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year 1703. In 1704, Lætitia Penn, William Penn's daughter, mar- ried William Aubrey, and the latter appointed Richard Hill and Rees Thomas his Attorneys.
It was about this time that in the Assembly of the Province, led by David Lloyd and Joseph Wilcox, broke out a fierce opposition to William Penn. The deputies had been nettled by the high-handed conduct of the young Lieutenant-Governor in his attempts to bring about a reunion with the deputies from the Lower Counties ; and they doubtless imbibed the ill humor instilled into the Church of England people by Col. Quarry, who has been called "a Royal spy in the various Proprietary governments in America." As the struggle pro- ceeded, they could count for re-election on the popularity which oppo- sition to taxes generally procures. While combating the Governor on the question of raising money for war, in which no Quaker's con- science would allow him to acquiesce, and also as to whether the Assembly should be allowed to sit on its own adjournment, without any right in the Governor to dissolve or prorogue it, which every friend of parliamentary freedom must deem reasonable, they were desired by William Penn, then in England, to provide for paying the amount of the former Lieutenant-Governor's salary-200l. per annum -and other charges connected with the government since Penn's departure. Penn's finances were now, indeed, at the lowest ebb. The colony had cost him £10,000 in the first two years of its existence, " which," he says, "with £3000 I overspent myself in King James' time, and the war in Ireland that followed has been the true cause of all my straits." No supply came from Pennsylvania during the fifteen years between his first and second visits there. On the contrary, he had spent in London " to hinder much mischief against us, if not to do us much good," not less than £400 each year, in all £10,000. Thus impoverished, he had now his eldest son's expensive family to sup- port : and he had young children, and was obliged to husband his American estate to provide for them in the future; for his Irish estate was settled on the children of his first wife. He was therefore seeking a little assistance from the people for whose benefit he had done so much. But their representatives rose in remonstrance for a variety of grievances. The taxes which had been created for the Proprietary's benefit, the members themselves refused to pay, and their influence rendered the collection impossible. Just before adjournment, a com- mittee was appointed to address the Proprietary in plain terms. The result was the setting forth in a " most virulent, unmannerly invec-
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tive," prepared by David Lloyd, of a number of complaints, beginning with clauses in the Governor's commission inconsistent with the Charter and the negligence of Penn in procuring the Royal assent to most necessary bills, and then proceeding to the injustice practised by the surveyors, the office of Surveyor-General having been vacant since 1701, and the failure of the Commissioners of Property to give lands in exchange for those lost by adverse title. This was enclosed in a letter to Friends in England known to be enemies of Penn asking them to oblige him to do justice, saying that the vilest of men were let into the judiciary, and speaking of "the condition this poor province is brought to by the late revels and disorders which young William Penn and his gang of loose fellows he accompanies with are found in." The writing of such a letter caused some little reaction. The con- test, however, between the Lieutenant-Governor and the Assembly went on. They argued about the quit-rents, about money for the war, about the privileges of the House and its members. In the Assem- bly, William Biles of Bucks County, " that pestiferous old man," as Logan calls him, cried out, " He is but a boy : he is not fit to be our Governor. We'll kick him out. We'll kick him out." Whereupon the indignant officer sued Biles for slander, and demanded that the Assem- bly expel him. This it declined to do; and accordingly it was dis- missed, June 23, 1705. Owen, Pusey, and Hill then prepared a letter to the Proprietary, declaring their abhorrence of Lloyd's paper, and assuring him of their readiness to support all the charge of govern- ment. It was signed by the great mass of the Friends, now stirred up in favor of their comrade and patron : and it was made effectual by an energetic political canvass, resulting in the choice of members of As- sembly well affected towards the Proprietary. Hill was of the number. A bill for the collection of quit-rents secured to Penn that source of income, and the appropriation of 800l. out of a 2}d. per l. tax and some 600l. from an impost on liquors settled the trouble about the Lieutenant Governor's salary and the other public charges.
Nevertheless Lieut. Gov. Evans excited the aversion of all Quakers. With the aid of John French, he went so far as to contrive a false alarm in order to frighten them into taking up arms. He was care- less of the growth of vice, licensing a great number of public houses ; and he permitted fines to be imposed by the Lower Counties upon the residents there who had scruples against military service. The New- castle Assembly passed a law that every vessel going down the river should pay powder-money. The Quaker traders declared they would
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not comply, and gave orders to that effect to the masters of their vessels. A sloop bound for Barbadoes was about to sail when the Lieutenant-Governor told the master that if he did not stop at New- castle, the vessel would be fired upon, and he made prisoner. The master reported this to Hill, the principal owner, who indignantly remonstrated with the Governor, and then went aboard the vessel, and in it proceeded down the river. The Governor had hurried to New- castle on horseback, and set a watch in the fort for the sloop. When the vessel came within range, the fort opened fire, but the sloop escaped uninjured, and, hotly pursued by boats, in one of which was the Gov- ernor, put over to Salem, New Jersey, carrying along John French, who had boarded it. There Hill placed himself under the protection of the Queen's flag; and Lord Cornbury, Governor of the Jerseys, arriving, insisted on the sloop being allowed to proceed on its voyage. This signal bravery of Richard Hill, who dared to stand fire, although he could not conscientiously return it, brought to the Quakers freedom from the imposition of which they complained. A year later, Hill, Norris, and Preston were unanimously elected Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia, and in Oct., 1709, Hill was chosen Mayor. During his term of office, the influence of the Corporation was favorable to the Proprietary, whereas it had formerly been controlled by the opposing faction. In 1710, the quarrel between Logan and David Lloyd brought out a full Quaker vote at the election for Assemblymen, and Hill was returned to the House. He was Speaker during that session and the next, as also in 1716; and was in the Assembly continuously until 1721. We must recognize him as the political leader who did most to preserve Quaker and Proprietary ascendency in his day. Hill was Mayor of the City so many times that when, in 1717, he declined re-election, he was excused in view of long service from the fine usually imposed. During his last term as Mayor and Speaker, Lieut. Gov. Gookin charged him with disaffection to King George, and said that the only occasion of difference between them was that Gookin would not agree to Hill's project of proclaiming the Pretender. The Assem- bly went into Committee of the Whole on this charge, and communi- cated with the Lieutenant-Governor, and held several meetings: but Gookin, whose conduct on many occasions betokened a disordered mind, replied that he was not obliged to render to the House any reasons for his accusation, but would do so to the Board at home. He said he believed in his conscience that the Speaker was in favor of the Pretender; but further than this gave them no satisfaction. The
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House accordingly declared the charges without foundation, adding that the Lieutenant-Governor, having approved of Hill to be Speaker, should in justice to the Assembly give grounds for the charge, or clear him of the imputation. After William Keith became Lieut .- Governor, Gookin was again asked for his reasons, the new official being unwill- ing to have any one in his Council who was believed disloyal; but nothing further was elicited. Logan, too, was included in the charge, the investigation, and the acquittal.
One of the Proprietary's Commissioners of Property, a Trustee under William Penn's will, &ct., &ct., Richard Hill sided with Logan and Norris against Sir William Keith and the popular party. On the 4th of October, 1717, he was made President of the Council for the period of Keith's absence, which, however, turned out to be only a fortnight. In 1720, as one of the six oldest Councillors, he was qualified as a Master in the Court of Chancery just organized. He was also several years a judge of the Supreme Court of the Province. Richard Hill m., 2nd, Mary, dau. of Nathan Stanbury, but had no issue by her. (She m., 2nd, Robert Jordan of Virginia, a minister among Friends, and, 3rd, (being 2nd w. of) Israel Pemberton Jr., and d. 10 mo. 25, 1778, aged 74.) Richard Hill d. Phila. Sep. 4, 1729, leaving by his will 150l. to the Free School and Hospital, and a large estate to his own and his first wife's relatives.
Issue of JOHN and HANNAH DELAVAL :
JOHN, b. 1687, d. y. Oct. 4, 1693,
MARY, d. y. June 1, 1690,
(if any others, they died young, Delaval's property going to his sisters)
Issue of RICHARD and HANNAH HILL :
RICHARD, b. Aug. 28, 1701, d. y. Nov. 10, 1705,
HANNAH, b. May 9, 1703, d. Aug. 2, 1714, ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 8, 1705, d. Oct., 1722,
a son, d. y.,
a son, d. y.
THOMAS LLOYD, b. Sep. 15, 1675, son of the President of the Council, was of Goodmansfields, London, merchant, d. before 1718, m. Sarah Young, b. Nov. 2, 1676. The widow obtained a certificate from the London Meeting 12, 17, 1717 for removal to Pennsylvania. Issue :
PETER, who had a certificate from the meeting in Bristol 1, 3,
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1717-8 on his removal to Penna., became a merchant and Common Councilman of Phila., d. Feb. 16, 1744-5, m. F. M. 12, 23, 1727 Mercy, dau. of Thomas Masters, Mayor of Phila. from 1707 to 1709,
Issue :
THOMAS, b. Jany. 16, 1728, "practitioner in physick " in Burlington, N. J., m., 1st, in 1749 Margaret Law- rence, who d. about 10, 22, 1757, bu. Friends', Phila., and, 2nd, - - , Issue by 1st wife :
PETER ZACHARY, b. Aug. 23, 1750, Capt. in Col. Atlee's battalion of musketry at the be- ginning of the Revolutionary War, resigned the Captaincy of the 5th Company of Foot in the 1st bat. Phila. Militia Apr. 14, 1790, was. several years Clerk to the Assembly, d. s. p., Issue by 2nd wife :
THOMAS, lost at sea, d. s. p. 1778,
CHARLES, d. s. p.,
SARAH, d. y.,
MARY, d. unm. Sep. 17, 1775,
THOMAS, m. Susannah Owen, see below,
JOHN, d. s. p.,
MORDECAI, b. Sep. 6, 1708, m. Hannah Fishbourne, see p. (28),. ANNE, m. John Matthews, but d. s. p.,
CHARLES, d. s. p. June 8, 1745.
THOMAS LLOYD, son of Thomas and Sarah Lloyd, and gr'dson of the Pres. of the Council, was of Phila., merchant, d. May 4, 1754, m. Susannah, widow of Dr. Edward Owen, and dau. of Philip Kear- ney of Phila., merchant, by his w. Rebecca, dau. of Lionel Brittain. Mrs. Lloyd was a sister of the 1st wife of William Plumsted, and of the wife of Chief Justice John Kinsey. Mrs. Lloyd d. Apr. 8, 1740. Issue :
SARAH, m. William Moore, see below,
SUSANNAH, m. Thomas Wharton, see p. (24).
SARAH LLOYD, dau. of Thomas and Susannah Lloyd, as above, d. Aug. 9, 1788, m. Dec. 13, 1757 William Moore, son of Robert Moore of Phila., shopkeeper. Robert Moore was a native of the Isle of
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Man, as is shown by his will, dated Aug., 1754, mentioning a sister, Catherine Clark, in that island, and the will of his widow, Elizabeth Moore, bequeathing Robert Moore's best beaver hat to " Thomas Ne- drow the only countryman of my husband in this Province," Thomas. Nedrow's nationality appearing from his will mentioning his sister Elinor, wife of John More in the Isle of Man. William Moore, who. inherited some property from his parents, became a merchant. On Dec. 10, 1776, the Assembly appointed him one of the Council of Safety ; and the Council on Mch. 13 following, organizing a Board of War, made him one of its nine members. In 1777, he was chosen a delegate to the Continental Congress, but declined to serve. In 1779, he became a member of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsyl- vania. He was defeated by Joseph Reed for President of the body, but was elected Vice President. He was re-elected the next year. In 1781 he was almost unanimously chosen President, and was proclaimed " Captain General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania." His term as Councillor expired in October, 1782, the Constitution prohibiting a re-election. In March, 1783, he was commissioned a Judge of the High Court of Errors and Appeals. In 1784, he was a member of the Assembly. He d. July 24, 1793. Issue (surname MOORE) :
THOMAS LLOYD, b. Jany. 20, 1759, of Phila., was Major in the Revolutionary Army, d. Aug. 28, 1813, m. Sarah, dau. of Joseph Stamper,
Issue (surname MOORE) :
ELIZA, d. May 21, 1823, m. Richard Willing, see SHIPPEN,
ROBERT KEARNEY, was of Kentucky, merchant, d. s. p.,
ELIZABETH, b. Mch. 13, 1764, dec'd, m. in 1784 Francois Barbé-Marbois, b. at Metz 1745, entered as a young man upon diplomatic career, and attained the rank of chargé d'affaires in Bavaria, in 1778 sat as councillor in the Par- liament of Metz, in 1780, was sent to the United States with the title of Consul-General and the task of organizing the new French consulates,-In 1785 he passed to the Intend- ancy of San Domingo, which he administered until 1790, when he returned to France. In 1791, he was elected a ber of the Council of Ancients. In 1800, he was named Councillor of State and Director of the Treasury. He was was created a Count by Napoleon I. In 1803, he was charged by the First Consul with the negotiation of the sale
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of Louisiana to the United States. The First Consul asked 50,000,000, Barbé-Marbois obtained 60,000,000. He was appointed in 1807 First President of the Court of Accounts, and except for a short period held that office until 1834, bearing the title of Marquis under the Bourbons. He d. Feb. 12, 1837,-
Issue (surname BARBÉ-MARBOIS) :
SOPHIE, d. near Athens May 14, 1854, m. Anne Charles Lebrun, Duc de Plaisance, aide-de-camp to Napoleon I, and Senator under Napoleon III, Issue :
a dau., who was engaged to be married to Count Capo d'Istria, President of Greece, who was assassinated in 1831, and she d. unm.
SUSANNAH LLOYD, dau. of Thomas and Susannah Lloyd, see p. (22), d. Oct. 24, 1772, m. Xt. Ch. Nov. 4, 1762, Thomas Wharton Jr. (for information as to whom and his descendants we have followed the Genealogy of the Wharton Family by Anne H. Wharton.) He was son of John Wharton of Chester, Pa., by his w. Mary, dau. of James Dobbins, and was b. about 1735. He was brought up in the counting- house of Reese Meredith in Phila., and was in mercantile business with Anthony Stocker prior to the Revolution. He took an active part in the public meetings of 1774, being placed on the Committee to cor- respond with the other colonies, and sitting in the Provincial Conven- tion which met in July of that year as an advisory body to overawe the Assembly. When, on June 30, 1775, the Assembly made prepara- tions for the defence of Pennsylvania, it appointed Wharton one of the twenty-five members of the Committee of Safety. The Commit- tee, re-appointed in October, continued to act until the Constitutional Convention of July, 1776, assembled. On July 24, 1776, that body established a Council of Safety to exercise the executive authority of the government until the new Constitution went into operation. At the head of this Council was Thomas Wharton Jr. With difficulty the people were induced to accept the Constitution, and the ad interim rule of Wharton and his colleagues was prolonged until after Febru- ary, 1777, when the citizens of Philadelphia complied with the provision for a Supreme Executive Council, and chose Wharton to represent them. On Mch. 4th, the new government organized by the election of Wharton to the Presidency of the Supreme Executive Council. "Although Thomas Wharton has been spoken of as an
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ardent Constitutionalist, we find nothing to justify such a statement beyond the circumstance of his having acceptably filled the position of first Constitutional Governor of Pennsylvania, and are disposed to rank him among the moderate supporters of the new system.
His views on this subject seem fairly set forth in the following letter, addressed to Arthur St. Clair soon after the adoption of the Constitu- tion. 'True it is there are many faults which I hope one day to see removed ; but it is true that if the Government should at this time be overset, it would be attended with the worst consequences not only to the State, but to the whole Continent, in the opposition we are making to Great Britain. If a better frame of government should be adopted, such a one as would please a much greater majority than the present one, I should be very happy in seeing it brought about. * It became Thomas Wharton's task to draw together the adverse ele- ments in his native State : and the people, we are told, met the an- mouncement of his election with shouts of joy. In September, 1777, he and his colleagues were obliged by the advance of the British to retire to Lancaster, having previously transported to Virginia a large number of persons whom they considered disaffected and dangerous. Wharton was re-elected President in November. His government during this period was in a very hard position, unceasingly besought to furnish men and money out of a devastated territory to fight for an almost hopeless cause. During his term of office, in the midst of arduous duties, Thomas Wharton Jr. died, at Lancaster May 23, 1778. He was buried under the floor of the Lutheran Church of that town. Wharton m., 2nd, Elizabeth Fishbourne.
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