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Moland-Ridge branch.
Issue (surname RIDGE) : HENRY, of Baltimore, m. Anna Tomlinson of Attleboro, Pa., Issue (surname Ridge) : William T., m. Frances Robinson, Issue (surname Ridge) : Samuel H., Andrew J., d. y.,
Honora,
Laura,
Francis Marion, d. y., Mary R.,
Hannah E., of Langhorne, Bucks Co., m. William A. Kitchin,
Issue (surname Kitchin) :
Maurice L., d. y.,
James F., d. y.,
Charles A., d. y.,
Mary Emma, William' A.,
Rachel L., m. Maurice C. Leeson,
Issue (surname Leeson) :
Anna T., d. aged 21,
William H.,
Mary Ellen, m. Samuel Davis,
Gertrude,
Bertha, d. inf.,
Florence,
Maurice C.,
Frank, d. y., Albert,
Jonathan T., unm.,
Mary Ellen, dec'd, m. James M. Green, Issue (surname Green) : Katharine, d. inf.,
Sarah, d. inf.,
Mary Ellen,
James Morris, Fannie May,
Lydia S., m. Joseph H. Gough,
Issue (surname Gough) : Annie Elizabeth,
Henry L.,
Samuel A.,
John R., d. inf., Joseph H., d. y.,
Richard, d. y., Ezekiel T., d. y.,
ELIZABETH, W., b. May 26, 1812, d. unm. Jany. 20, 1845, LOUISA M., b. Apr. 27, 1814, m. Samuel V. Barton, Issue (surname Barton) :
Edward, of Bristol, Bucks Co., n. Ellen Barnett of New Castle, Del.,
Issue (surname Barton) : Louisa Moland, b. Apr. 9, 1866,
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Moland-Ridge branch.
Virginia Spottswood, b. Mch. 20, 1868, Margaret Murray, b. Oct. 14, 1869, Annie Dobb, b. Apr. 9, 1871, Florence Stark, b. Sep. 14, 1872, Alice Barnett, b. Jany. 28, 1874, d. Aug. 17, 1876, Samuel Vandegrift, b. Sep. 14, 1877, Ellen Kennedy, b. Jany. 28, 1879, d. Mch. 14, 1881, Marion Worrell, b. June 23, 1881,
Emily, d. y., Ellen, d. y.,
SARAH H., b. 1818, m. Jany. 4, 1846 George Randall, Issue (surname Randall) :
Elizabeth R., b. Oct. 9, 1846, d. Nov. 29, 1847, Charles H., b. Aug. 24, 1848, d. Sep. 11, 1873, John, b. Nov. 7, 1850, unm.,
Hannah Louisa, b. Feb. 11, 1853, d. Mch. 28, 1873, Francis A., b. July 17, 1858, unm.,
JESSE, b. 1822, d. unm. Charleston, So. Car.,
HANNAH E., b. May 12, 1820, d. May 12, 1822,
LYDIA A., b. Aug. 1, 1824, d. Dec., 1825,
LOUIS A., b. 1832, of Phila., school teacher, m. Aug., 1857 Rosanna Kirk,
Issue (surname Ridge) :
Edwin, d. y., Susanna, d. y., Eleanor V.,
Augusta, William, George E.,
Kirk,
Rachel,
ANNA MARIA, b. 1834, m. Daniel Githens of Bristol, Pa., Issue (surname Githens) :
Louis A., of Illinois, m.
Eugene, Ella,
Frank,
Elizabeth,
Ida, Anna, Albert, -, d. y.
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Moland-Jacobs branch.
JULIANA PENN MOLAND, b. Oct. 2, 1793, grddau. of the Coun- cillor, p. 419, d. at Norristown, m. Dec. 28, 1809 Jeremiah Jacobs. Issue (surname JACOBS) :
WILLIAM MOLAND, b. Mch. 11, 1811, d. Feb. 22, 1861, m. Apr. 12, 1835 Magdelena Nice,
Issue (surname Jacobs) :
John Nice, b. Jany. 7, 1839, cashier Perkiomen Nat. Bk., m. Mch. 10, 1861 Sarah Smith Miller, Issue (surname Jacobs) : William Miller, b. Apr. 20, 1862,
Irvine Miller, b. Nov. 13, 1864, John Miller, b. Mch. 6, 1867, Kate Miller, b. July 1, 1869, Tillie Miller, b. Mch. 30, 1874,
Kate Leanna, b. Oct. 2, 1844, m. May 1, 1871 Isaac Jones,
Issue (surname Jones) : Harry, b. Feb. 23, 1872, Mamie, b. Nov. 6, 1873, Maggie, b. Sep. 19, 1875, John, b. Oct. 30, 1877,
LOUISA, now of Perkiomenville P. O., Pa., m., 1st,
Zeigler, and, 2nd, Jeremiah Grimley,
Issue by 1st husband (surname Zeigler) :
several,
Catharine J., b. Apr. 13, 1846, m. Feb. 26, 1867 Jo- seph Vanfossen, b. Apr. 14, 1842, of Lansdale, Pa., Issue (surname Vanfossen) : Willie, b. Mch. 28, 1867, d. Dec. 28, 1878,
Mary Ella, b. Sep. 18, 1868,
Raymond, b. Jany. 10, 1871,
Joseph, b. July 11, 1876, Clara Louisa, b. Oct. 18, 1878, d. Feb. 16, 1879, John Allen, b. Mch. 29, 1880, Abraham Morris, b. Aug. 6, 1882, Issue by 2nd husband (surname Grimley) : Clara,
MARIA.
RICHARD PENN.
RICHARD PENN, the Councillor, was the second son of Richard Penn, one of the Proprietaries, and a brother of John Penn the Coun- cillor (see sketch of John Penn). He was born in England in the year 1735. He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, but left it without taking his degree. The family put him to the law ; but, as he lacked industry and perseverance, the study grew irksome; he despaired of mastering anything so abstruse, and desired some easier means of support. His uncle John Penn had left him about £80 a year, but, relaxing into a life of pleasure, and with high notions of what was due to him as a gentleman, he found this wholly inadequate. He wished to go into the army, but the commission offered to him, he deemed beneath his dignity. He cultivated the friendship of Sir James Lowther, in the hope of obtaining a civil office, but met with no success, and became estranged from him before that gentleman, by marrying the Earl of Bute's daughter, rose to greater power. A new scheme in regard to the army seemed to promise the opportunity for his entering it with suitable rank, and he arranged to do so, but the scheme was abandoned. He thus reached his twenty-seventh year without having chosen a profession. In despair, he thought of turn- ing his small property into an annuity, and wrote to ask his uncle Thomas Penn's assistance. His two letters are among the MSS. at the Historical Society, with the draft of his uncle's reply, disapprov- ing of the purchase of an annuity, upbraiding him for his idleness, when he should have been studying to fit himself for office, and sug- gesting that he get into the army the best way he could, or, if he chose, into the Church, or, with what money his father could advance, go as a free merchant to the East Indies. We do not know that he attempted to carry out any of these plans. About two years later, his brother having been appointed Lieutenant-Governor, he accom- panied him to Pennsylvania. They arrived in Philadelphia on Oct. 30, 1763. John Penn gave Richard a seat in the Council, and he qualified on Jany. 12, 1764. He was the first President of the Jockey
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Club, founded in November, 1766, with about eighty members, to " encourage the breeding good horses and to promote the pleasures of the turf." The members subscribed upwards of 3l. each per annum, and in October of each year there were races for the gentlemen's purse of 100 guineas, the sweepstakes of 25 guineas, the ladies' purse (for colts and fillies), and the City plate of 50l. contributed by the vintners, innkeepers, &ct. benefited by the concourse of strangers. The Club lasted until the Revolution. Richard Penn was President until succeeded by Andrew Allen in 1769. In the beginning of the latter year, he returned to England.
After his father's death, he was appointed by his uncle and brother Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania and the Lower Counties, and arrived the second time in Philadelphia on Oct. 16, 1771. With pleasing manners, and endeavoring to keep on good terms with the people, he succeeded in making himself the most popular of his family. All his dealings with the Provincial Assembly were very friendly. Armor, in his Lives of the Governors, says, "He was especially attentive to the commercial interests of the Colony, and during his administration a degree of unexampled prosperity pre- vailed." He had a dispute with his brother concerning his father's will, claiming that the manors were not appurtenant to the Proprie- taryship, but were included in the private real estate directed to be sold for the benefit of the residuary legatees. Thomas Penn took the side of John, and the two found fault with Richard's conduct in the government, but the latter defended himself, and spoke of his father's promise to try to have the family agreement of 1732 dis- solved as unfair to his younger children, it stipulating that the Pro- prietaryship should go to the eldest sons, charged only with certain payments to the widows and younger children which had since become entirely disproportionate to the estates.
Richard Penn was superseded in the Governorship by his brother John, who arrived in August, 1773. For a long time, Richard did not go near him, and maintained that he had been greatly injured. John indeed offered, as long as he should be Governor, to allow him 500l. a year, but Richard declared that he would not be his brother's pensioner. There is a story that at a banquet, they sat opposite to each other, on the right and left hand of the head of the feast, and did not speak to each other during the whole entertainment. How- ever, Richard was induced to execute, in May, 1774, a release of his claim, and a reconciliation took place, when, on the death of Hockley,
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John Penn appointed him Naval Officer, and Richard accepted the position, and called to thank him.
Richard Penn's feelings were enlisted against the oppressive acts of the British Government. Both Penns longed for such concessions on its part as would restore tranquillity ; but Richard's situation being more independent, he could afford to be more demonstrative. He entertained the members of the Continental Congress at his house, two or three dining with him each day, and George Washington being among his guests. After war actually broke out, he wrote to a friend that he was thankful his marriage had provided him with sufficient. fortune to live in England, away from the scene of trouble. He left Philadelphia in the Summer of 1775, carrying with him the Second Petition of Congress to the King (see sketch of John Dickinson). He and Arthur Lee, Agent for Massachusetts in London, delivered it to the Earl of Dartmouth, Sec. of State for the Colonies, on the 1st of September. On Nov. 7, 1775, its consideration being the order of the day in the House of Lords, the Duke of Richmond, observing Mr. Penn below the bar, moved that he be examined, to authenti- cate it. The Earls of Sandwich and Dartmouth, fearing this would lead to a disagreeable statement of American affairs, objected to an examination without previous notice as unprecedented. Other lords pleaded for some information as to the general state of America, and said that there could be no one better able to give it than Mr. Penn ; and the Duke of Richmond promised that no question should be asked to which any peer should make objection. It being carried at last that Penn should be examined on the 10th, he that day appeared at the bar, and was sworn. His answers were : He had heard of no violence or unfair proceedings in the election of members of Congress, they were men of character, and their proceedings conveyed the sense of the provinces, which would be governed by their decisions: he was acquainted with nearly all the members of the Congress, he thought they did not carry on the war for independence, they had taken up arms in defence of their liberties, * * it was the opinion
of all he had ever conversed with that America was able to resist the arms of Great Britain, the spirit of resistance was quite general ; when he left Pennsylvania the province had 20,000 men in arms, and 4500 had been since raised, he supposed there were 60,000 fit to bear arms, and he believed all would willingly come forward, if necessary ; Pennsylvania raised more than enough corn to feed her people, and could manufacture certain munitions of war in good quantities ; the
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Colonies had great hopes of the petition which he had brought over, it was styled the Olive Branch ; if it were not granted, they might form foreign alliances, and, if they did, would stick by them ; most thinking men thought that its refusal would be a bar to all reconcilia- tion, the Colonies were inclined to acknowledge the imperial authority of Great Britain, but not in taxation ; it would not be safe in the Colonies to write against Congress ; &ct. Lord Lyttleton said that Penn " betrayed throughout the whole of his examination the indica- tions of the strongest prejudice."
In England, he became very poor. His attorney wrote in 1780, "My friend Richard Penn's distresses have almost drove him to dis- traction. I understand from Mrs. Penn they are now kept from starv- ing by the bounty of Mr. Barclay. For aught I know Mr. Penn long ago might have been in the Fleet Prison had not Mr. Barclay, a stranger, stepped forth to his relief." After the war, his property im- proved, and John Penn agreed to pay him one-fourth of whatever sums were received by him as his share of the 130,000l. named in the Divest- ing Act, and one-third of all sales made by him since that act was passed. John Penn's death in 1795 moreover vested in him a life estate in the entailed property. He was member of the British Parliament from 1796 to 1806, representing the borough of Lancaster until 1802, and afterwards the borough of Haslemere. He resided in Queen Anne St. West, Co. Middlesex. He visited Philadelphia in 1808, and appears in its Directory for that year as dwelling at No. 210 Chestnut St., between 8th and 9th. He d. (Gent. Mag.) Richmond, Co. Sur- rey, Eng., May 27, 1811, in his 76th year. He m. Xt. Ch. May 21, 1772 Mary, dau. of William Masters by his w. Mary, dau. of Thomas Lawrence the Councillor (see Lawrence). She d. in London, Aug. 16, 1829.
Issue :
WILLIAM, b. June 23, 1776, m. Juliana Catharine Balabrega, see below,
a dau., d. unm. (Gent. Mag.) June 18, 1790,
HANNAH, d. s. p. after Jany. 15, 1831,
RICHARD, b. before Apr. 21, 1784, was many years in the
British Colonial Department, resided at White Hall, Lon- don, and afterwards at Richmond, as executor of his mother sold such property as had not been allotted to his sister Mrs. Paynter, was author of "Maxims and Hints on Ang- ling, Chess, Shooting, and other Matters, also Miseries of Fishing," was Fellow of the Royal Society, d. s. p. at No.
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1, the Paragon, Richmond, Apr. 21, 1863, aged 79 (Gent. Mag.), leaving by will his Pennsylvania estates to Sir Peter Smith, and most of his other property to his servants, MARY, b. April 11, 1785, d. (Gent. Mag.) Richmond Mch. 26, 1863, m. 1821 (was 2nd w. of) Samuel Paynter of Richmond, Esq., J. P. for Surrey and Middlesex, High Sheriff for Surrey in 1838, who d. (Landed Gentry) July 24, 1844.
WILLIAM PENN, b. June 23, 1776, son of the Councillor, as above, entered St. John's College, Cambridge, but left the University with- out taking a degree, while there wrote a pamphlet which attracted the attention of the government, entituled " Vindiciæ Brittanniæ : being strictures on a late pamphlet by Gilbert Wakefield, B. A., late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, entitled 'The Spirit of Chris- tianity Compared with the Spirit of the Times in Great Britain.' By an undergraduate." Starting in life with the purpose of devoting himself " to the political service of his King and Country," he fell a victim to the conviviality prevalent in influential circles. The Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV) called him " a Pen often cut (drunk) but never mended." The Gentleman's Magazine says, "a kind, good- natured man * of transcendent abilities, an excellent classical had he improved the opportunities which came in his scholar * there was probably no elevation attainable which he way * might not have reached." It is related that after a midnight carouse, when he was completely oppressed with wine, he would often instead of retiring to rest, wrap a wet napkin round his head, and write a powerful article for the Anti-Jacobin. He wrote for the Gentleman's Magazine under the signature of "the Rajah of Vaneplysia." He was for a short time a captain in the Surrey militia. He came to Pennsylvania in 1808, spending some time in Philadelphia, and in 1810 was in Dauphin Co., and in 1812 appears in deeds as sojourning in Northampton Co., Pa. He returned to England, and in the sum- mer of 1817 is styled "of John St., Adelphi, Co. Middlesex." A long time imprisoned for debt, he preferred after his discharge to remain in the neighbourhood of the Marshalsea, and d. (Gent. Mag.) in Nelson Square, Southwark, Sep. 17, 1845. He is said to have died without issue. He m. Xt. Ch. by Rev. Dr. Abercrombie Aug. 7, 1809, Catharine Julia (generally called Juliana Catharine), dau. of Jacob and Mary Balabrega of Phila. She was b. Mch. 13, 1785, bapt. Xt. Ch., and survived him.
THOMAS LAWRENCE. -
The ancestry of this Councillor is to be sought in that part of Con- tinental Europe which was the cradle of the Knickerbockers. The records of the Old Dutch Church at New York give the arrival and the marriage of his grandfather, and the baptism of the latter's chil- dren, from which it would appear that the surname of Lawrence in a less Anglicized form was adopted by the emigrant, because he was son of a man whose Christian name was Laurens, and that POPINGA was the actual surname of the family, if it had any, in Holland. In the list "Niewe Ledematen Aengekomen " is: " Anno 1662 den 2 Jul. Thomas Laurenszen Popinga ;" and in the margin is: “den 1 Nov. 1699 vertrocken met Attestata na Esopus." Among the mar- riages, we find : "Jun. 9 1663 Thomas Laurenszen j. m. (bachelor) Van Groeningen en Marritje Jans wede. (widow) Van Cornelis Lange- velt." A preceding entry is " den 19 Januar. 1658 Cornelis Van Langevelt Van St. Laurens in Vlaenderen en Marytje Jans, Van N. Amsterdam." There are the following baptisms :
Ouders (parents). Kinders (children). Cornelis.
1658 den 1 decem.
Corn. Van Langevelt Marritje Jans
1661 den 30 Jan.
Corn. Van Langevelt Johannes.
1663 den 14 Feb.
Corn. Van Langevelt Marritie de Jong Aeltie.
1664 den 26 Mart.
Thomas Laurenszen, Marritie Jans Aeltje.
1666 den 25 Jul. do.
Laurens.
1670 den 14 Nov. do.
1673 den 13 Mart. do.
Thomas.
1674 den 15 Jul. do.
Thomas.
1679 den 9 Jul. do.
Samuel. Rachel.
1681 den 19 Nov. do.
The surname "de Jong" in one of these entries suggests that Marritje may have been a dau. of Jans Janszen de Jong, who is named earlier in the same records. The eldest of the above children, "Aeltje Thomas Popinga," as the record calls her, "den 1 Nov. 1699, ver- trocken na de Esopus," being then married, as appears by the record : " Johannes Beeckman j. m. Van N. Yorck en Aeltie Thomas j. d. Van N. Yorck beyde wonende alhier getrouwt 4 Mart. 1685." The eldest
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son of Thomas and Marritje Laurens was the father of the Coun- cillor. The same records give his marriage : "1687, den 15 April ingeschreven, Laurens Thomaszen, j. m. Van N. Yorke en Catharina Lievens j. d. als boven, beyde woonende alhier, getrouwt den 11 May." In a MS. which was among Chief Justice Tilghman's papers are the following entries preceding the entries in the Councillor's hand writing : "10 May, 1687 L: Thomas mary'd Catherin Lewis, he aged 20 years and 10 months and she 17 years and 9 months.
Sep. 4 1689 Was born Thomas, Christened the 8th. [the Council- lor ]
20 Oct. 1692 Was born Mary, Christened the 23d [she m. Bronson]
8 June 1696 Was born Rachell, Christened ye 14th
21st Jan. 1698 Was born Samuel, Christened ye 22d
12th May 1699 was born Cornelis, Christened ye 16th
9th 1st 1700 Was born Lawrens, Christened ye 10th
15 Sep. 1702 Dyed Catherin wife of Lawrence Thomas."
The Councillor records that his father died May 28, 1739. John Lawrence, the Councillor's son, records that his father's sister Rachel died June 4, 1760, aged 65 years, and his aunt Mary Bronson on Dec. 5, 1760, aged 68 years, and his uncle Samuel Lawrence on June 4, 1761, aged 63 years. The uncle Lawrens Lawrence married, in Ja- maica, Susanna, dau. of John Lawrence of that Island, and was ances- tor of J. H. Lawrence-Archer, compiler of "Monumental Inscriptions in the British West Indies."
THOMAS LAWRENCE, as he spells his name, the Councillor, was born Sep. 4, 1689, and the record of his baptism in the Dutch Church at New York is: "1689 den 8 Sept. [Ouders (parents)] Laurens Thom- aszen, Catharina Lievens, [Kinders (children)] Thomas. [Getuygen (sponsors)] Thomas Laurenszen Popinga, Geesje Barens." He appears to have settled in Philadelphia about the beginning of 1720, his son Thomas being born there on April 16 of that year, and William Assheton, the Admiralty Judge, and Thomas Sober standing as the godfathers, while Catherine was the godmother, at the christening, on the 24th of that month. He entered about this time into mercantile life, being subsequently mentioned by Logan as associated with him in shipping, and in 1730 he became the partner of Edward Shippen, who afterwards removed to Lancaster, the firm being Shippen &
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Lawrence. Lawrence continued a merchant until his death, residing on Water Street, and owning considerable land near the City as well as farms in New Jersey. Christopher Gadsden, of South Carolina, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, was reared in his count- ing-house. The Lawrence family attended Christ Church, and in 1722 the Councillor was its Junior Warden. In 1749, he was one of the committee to draft its Charter.
Thomas Lawrence was elected a Common Councilman of the City on Oct. 3, 1722, an Alderman Oct. 6, 1724, and Mayor in 1727, 1728, 1734, 1749, and 1753, holding that office at his death. He was invited to a seat in the Provincial Council by Lieut .- Governor Gordon on Apr. 20, 1727, but did not qualify until May 10, 1728. In January, 1736-7, he was despatched by the Council to Lancaster County in company with Ralph Assheton to take measures for the expulsion of a party of Marylanders who were endeavoring to dis- possess the settlers on the Susquehanna River, and returned, after an absence of two weeks, reporting the organization of a posse comitatûs.
In September, 1745, Lawrence was deputed one of the Commis- sioners from Pennsylvania to treat with the Six Indian Nations at Albany. On Jany. 1, 1747-8, Benjamin Franklin, declining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Associated Regiment of Foot for Phila- delphia, " recommended Mr. Lawrence, a fine person and a man of influence," says the Autobiography, "who was accordingly appointed." Lawrence was for some time the presiding Judge of the County Court. He was a subscriber to the Dancing Assembly and a Trustee of the College. He d. April 20, 1754, and was buried in his family vault in Christ Church yard, the following obituary notice appearing in The Pennsylvania Gazette: "Last Sunday, after a tedious Fit of Sickness, died here, very much lamented, Thomas Lawrence, Esq. He had the Honour to be a Member of the Council of this Province, was President of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Philadelphia, had been five Times elected Mayor of this City, and in the enjoyment of these Offices ended his life. Characters are extreamly delicate, and few or none drawn with Exactness and at Length, are free of Blemish. Of this Gentleman we think it may be truely said, he was an affectionate Husband, a tender Parent, a kind indulgent Master, and a faithful Friend. The Funeral was respectfully attended on Tuesday Evening by a great number of the principal Inhabitants of the Place, who justly regret the Death of so able and diligent a Magistrate as a public Loss."
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His marriage is thus recorded by himself, "Ye 25th of May 1719 I, Thomas Lawrence was maryed to Rachell Longfield at Raritan by Parson Vaughn. Present our parents. I convened John Spratt, Thomas Clark, and Richard Ashfield." She was b. in 1689, d. Phila. February 28, 1768, bu. Xt. Ch., dau. of Cornelius Longfield of New Brunswick, East Jersey, who was probably the "Cornelie Langevelt " who was a son by the first husband of the Councillor's grandmother. Rachell Longfield had a brother Henry Longfield and a sister Cathe- rine, who married John Cox, and was mother of John Cox of Blooms- bury, N. J., and grandmother of the wife of Hon. Horace Binney and the wife of John Redman Coxe, M. D., of Phila.
Issue :
THOMAS, b. Apr. 16, 1720, m. Mary Morris, see below,
HENRY, b. Aug. 10, 1721, private bapt. by Rev. W. Beckett of Lewes, Del., d. 9, 22, 1722,
JOHN, b. Nov. 20, 1722, bapt. Xt. Ch., d. July 24, 1723,
JOHN [SPRATT], b. May 30, 1724, m. Elizabeth Francis, see p. 450,
MARY, b. Nov. 30, 1725, m. William Masters, see p. 453.
LONGFIELD, b. June 27, 1727, bapt. Xt. Ch., d. Nov. 30, 1728, CATHERINE, b. Nov. 5, 1728, d. Jany. 13, 1728-9,
LONGFIELD, b. May 19, 1731, bapt. Xt. Ch., d. Oct. 30, 1731.
THOMAS LAWRENCE, b. April 16, 1720, bapt. Xt. Ch. April 24, son of the Councillor, on coming of age engaged in business with Peter Bard, opening a store on Water St. opposite the Councillor's. He was chosen a Common Councilman of the City Oct. 4, 1748, was Vendue Master from 1752 to 1765, became an Alderman in 1755, and Mayor in 1758 and 1764. His country-seat was called Clair- mont, and consisted of 150 a. in the Northern Liberties of Phila. He d. in Phila. Jany. 21, 1775, bu. Xt. Ch. He m. at Morrisania, New York, May 9, 1743, Mary, dau. of the Hon. Lewis Morris of Mor- risania, Judge of the Vice-Admiralty for New York and New Jersey, by his first wife Trintie, or Catharine, dau. of Dr. Samuel Staats of Albany. Mrs. Lawrence was b. Nov. 1, 1724, and d. New York, 1808, bu. North Church, Hamburgh, N. J.
Issue :
KATHARINE, b. Feb. 5, 1743-4, bapt. Xt. Ch., m. John Shee, see next page,
2 E
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THOMAS, b. Oct. 6, 1745, bapt. Xt. Ch., m., 1st, Rebecca Bond, and, 2nd, Mary Morris, and, 3rd, Catherine Morris, see p. 436,
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