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" With just such elegance and grace, Fair, charming Swift appears ; Thus Willing. whilst she awes, can please ; Thus Polly Franks endears.
" A female softness, manly sense, And conduct free from art, With every pleasing excellence, In Inglis charm the heart.
"But see! another fair advance, With love commanding all ; See! happy in the sprightly dance, Sweet, smiling, fair McCall.
" Each blessing which indulgent Heaven On mortals can bestow, To thee, enchanting maid, is given Its masterpiece below.
" In Sally Coxe's form and face, True index of her mind, The most exact of human race Not one defect can find.
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"Thy beauty every breast alarms, And many a swain can prove That he who views your conquering charms, Must soon submit to love.
" With either Chew such beauties dwell, Such charms by each are shared, No critic's judging eye can tell Which merits most regard.
""Tis far beyond the painter's skill, To set their charms to view ; As far beyond the poet's quill To give the praise that's due."
Mr. Shippen was also fond of the fine arts, and early noted Benja- min West's genius, and, together with Mr. William Allen and other friends, greatly aided him with means for pursuing his artistic studies in Italy, for which West was grateful during life. Mr. Shippen m. Xt. Church, Sep. 29, 1768, Jane, only child of John Galloway of Maryland, and his second wife, Jane, widow of William Fishbourne of Phila., b. Phila., Sep. - , 1745, d. " Plumley," Feb. 17, 1801, buried Radnor Church yard. Mr. Shippen d. Lancaster, Feb. 10, 1810, bu. St. James Ch. yard, Lancaster.
Issue :
ROBERT, b. Phila., July 10, 1769, m. Priscilla Thompson, see next page,
SARAH, b. Phila., Sep. 3, 1770, d. Phila., March 3, 1773, bu. . St. Peter's Ch. yard,
JOHN, b. Phila., Oct. 31, 1771, d. Sep. - , 1805, lived at Shippensburg, m. June 25, 1789, Abigail Caroline Rey- nolds, dec'd,
Issue :
EDWARD BURD YEATES, b. Aug. 17, 1804, d. unm.
Hagerstown, Md., when about twenty years of age, MARY, b. Phila., May 17, 1773, m. Samuel Swift, see p. (83), CHARLES, b. Sep. 5, 1774, d. Phila., July 31, 1775, bu. St. Peter's Ch. yard,
ANN, b. Phila., Oct. 12, 1775, d. July 28, 1776, bu. St. Pe- ter's Ch. yard,
ELIZABETH, b. Kennett Square, Chester Co., Pa., Feb. 21, 1780, d. unm. 1801, bu. at Shippensburg,
MARGARET, b. Kennett Square, Oct. 13, 1782, d. unm. Phila., May 9, 1876, bu. Laurel Hill,
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Shippen.
JOSEPH GALLOWAY, b. Dec. 25, 1783, m. Anna Maria Buck- ley, see p. (85),
HENRY, b. Dec. 28, 1788, m. Elizabeth Wallis Evans, see p. (86).
ROBERT SHIPPEN, son of Joseph and Jane (née Galloway) Shippen, page (79), b. Phila., July 10, 1769, baptized Jan. 1, 1770, was a class- ical scholar, lived first at "Tivoli," an estate of four hundred acres, opposite to " Plumley," later moved to " Fons Salutis," in Lancaster Co., m. 1791, Priscilla, dau. of Robert and Mary Thompson of Ches- ter Co., b. Middletown, Chester Co., 1771, d. " Fons Salutis," Sep. 17, 1834. Mr. Shippen d. there Dec. 31, 1840.
Issue, b. Chester Co. :
(I) MARY, b. Feb. 7, 1792, d. "Fons Salutis," April 1, 1856, m. March 6, 1817, James Maxwell, b. 1786, d. April 14, 1823, Issue (surname Maxwell) :
William Smith, b. Jan. 11, 1816, d. unm. Nov. 9, 1841,
Robert Shippen, b. Oct. 6, 1820, d. unm. Oct. 28, 1864,
Samuel Parke, b. Oct. 8, 1822, d. unm.,
(II) CHARLES, b. Oct. 20, 1793, d. Venango Co., Pa., Aug. 22, 1870, m. Nov. 17, 1818, Martha, dau. of Ralph Eddowes of Chester, Eng., and his wife Sarah Kenwick of Wales, b. June 14, 1789, d. Feb. 5, 1870,
Issue :
Priscilla, m. Rev. Carleton Albert Staples, son of Jason and Phila Staples of Mendon, Mass., Issue (surname Staples) : Charles Jason, Robert, living in New York,
Ellen, d unm. Meadville, Nov. 2, 1865,
Mary, m. Clinton Cullum, son of Arthur and Harriet Sturgis Cullum, Issue (surname Cullum) : Martha Shippen, Charles Shippen, Ellen Elizabeth, Edgar Percy,
Margaret, m. Meadville, Rev. Nahor Augustus Staples, son of Jason and Phila Staples, Issue (surname Staples) : Frederick Augustus, Cora Collyer,
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JOHN, b. Aug. 13, 1796, lived until the age of twenty-four, at his father's farms in Lanc. and Chester Co., then entered into different business pursuits, the iron interests more espe- cially, and read law with his Uncle Henry Shippen, and surveyed with him his lands in Western Penna., which experience was the foundation of many anecdotes that he loves to narrate,-He then went to Phila., and during the excitement in the anthracite coal region, went to Pottsville, where he was made, Nov. 15, 1830, Director in the " Miners' Bank of Pottsville," afterwards called the "Miners' Na- tional Bank of Pottsville," and on March 1, 1831, was elected its President, which position he held for over fifty- one years, and under his careful guidance, the Bank grew in importance, and now has an excellent record. On June 1, 1882, Mr. Shippen resigned his position, on account of his advanced age, and the Bank immediately tendered him a most complimentary set of resolutions. He m. May 19, 1831, his cousin, Margaret McCall Swift, b. June 2, 1796, d. April 6, 1873, see p. (83), (Elizabeth Swift Shippen),- Issue :
Elizabeth Swift,
Samuel Swift,
Emma, d. y., Dec. 14, 1839,
Edwin, grad. (Polytechnic Coll., Phila.) as Civil Engr., -When President Lincoln first called for troops, at the outbreak of the Civil War, Mr. Shippen enlisted at once, in the Washington Artillery Co. of Pottsville, which, with four other Penna. companies, formed the five hundred and thirty men who passed through the mob at Baltimore, and were the first to arrive at Washington (April 18, 1861), where they were warmly welcomed, and received the thanks of Congress, July 4, 1861. In 1862, he was Sergeant 2d Reg. P. S. M., and in 1863, 1st Lieut. 39th Reg. P. V. M., d. Potts- ville, May 7, 1869,-
RICHARD, b. Feb. 2, 1798, d. Shippensville, Clarion Co., Jan. 19, 1872, m. Magdalena, dau. of John Black,
Issue :
William Rupert,
Harriet, m. Ephraim P. Hastings,
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Shippen.
Mary Ann, Robert, d. unm. Nov. 26, 1880, Margaret Jane, m. Charles Ellis, ELIZABETH, b. April 12, 1800,
SARAH, b. Feb. 17, 1802, d. Lanc. Co., June 6, 1879, m. April 24, 1833, Robert Patterson, son of James Patterson, b. March 21, 1787, d. March 31, 1861, Issue (surname Patterson) : Bordley Shippen, m. Emma M. Worth, Issue (surname Patterson) : Robert Leslie, Ford Worth, Eliza Shippen,
Edward, m. Margaret Alexander, Issue (surname Patterson) : Clement Robert, d. June 9, 1876, Mary Shippen, Norman Alexander, Sarah Shippen,
THOMPSON, b. Feb. 19, 1804, d. unm. Phila., March 19, 1881, bu. Lanc. Co.,
BEALE BORDLEY, b. Dec. 1, 1805, d. unm. Mt. Vernon Iron Works, Aug. 10, 1834,
HANNAH, m. Sep. 17, 1829, William Ewing, son of Alexan- der Ewing, b. Dec. 24, 1803, d. March, 1880,
Issue (surname Ewing) :
Robert Shippen, d. May 17, 1867, m. Isabella Evans, Issue (surname Ewing) : Howard Evans, d. Jan. 22, 1864,
Edward Shippen, d. Aug. 2, 1863, Sarah Patton, d. May 5, 1865, William Parke, d. July 5, 1872, Robert Shippen, d. Sep. 26, 1867,
Alexander, m. Mary A. Scott, Issue (surname Ewing) : Harry Scott, Hannah,
JANE GALLOWAY, b. June 30, 1809, d. "Fons Salutis," Aug. 24, 1839,
MARGARET, b. June 30, 1809, d. near Shippensville, Feb. 16, 1874, m. July 18, 1833, Jacob Black,
Issue (surname Black) :
Priscilla, d. March 8, 1862, m. Robert Montgomery, Bordley, William Henry Harrison,
Jane, m., 1st, C. S. Walker, and, 2nd, Alexander Craw- ford, M. D.,
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Shippen.
Issue (surname Walker) : Mary, Jacob, m. Josephine, m. - - Corbitt, JOSEPH, b. July 18, 1812, d. unm. " Fons Salutis," May 27, 1840,
ANNA MARIA, b. July 26, 1814, d. unm. " Fons Salutis," July 11, 1847.
MARY SHIPPEN, dau. of Joseph and Jane (née Galloway) Shippen, p. (79), b. Phila., May 17, 1773, d. June 2, 1809, m. Feb. 11, 1793, Samuel Swift, son of Joseph Swift of Phila. and his wife Margaret, dau. of George McCall, b. Phila., Jan. 12, 1771, grad. A. B. (U. of P.) 1786, studied law with Judge Yeates. Educated a Federalist, he neverthe- less espoused the Democratic policy, which he occasionally advocated in articles greatly esteemed for vigor, candor, research, and polish. He possessed much natural poetical talent, which he cultivated and exercised up to his decease. Preferring the independence of a coun- try life, he lived at his place, " the Grove," in Phila. Co., d. German- town, Nov. 28, 1847, bu. with his w. in the graveyard of the ancient Episcopal Ch. at Oxford, near Phila.
Issue of SAMUEL and MARY SWIFT :
MARGARET MCCALL, b. Phila., June 2, 1796, m. her cousin John Shippen, see p. (81),
WILLIAM, b. at " the Grove," Aug. 3, 1797, d. unm. Nov. 2, 1838, wrote in favor of free trade,
MARY, b. at " the Grove," Nov. 22, 1798, d. Feb. 15, 1877, bu. Kingsessing Ch. yard, m. by Bishop White, Sep. 9, 1824, to Matthew Brooke Buckley, son of Daniel Buckley, ironmaster, and Sarah Brooke his w., b. Oct. 31, 1794, ironmaster, Pres. Phila., Wilmington, and Baltimore R. R. Co., d. March 8, 1856, bu. Kingsessing Ch. yard.,
Issue (surname Buckley) :
Edward Swift, b. Phila., ironmaster, Trustee of Bishop White Prayer Book Soc'y and Episcopal Academy, Director of the Library Co. of Phila., of Phila. Sav- ings Fund, etc., m., 1st, Harriet J., dau. of Hon. Thomas Smith, M. C., she d. 1853, and he m., 2nd, Catharine, dau. of Col. John G. Watmough, she d. 1859, and he m., 3rd, Mary Waln Wistar, dau. of Hon. Richard Vaux,
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Shippen-Swift branch.
Issue, by 1st wife (surname Buckley) : Mary Swift,
Issue, by 2nd wife (surname Buckley) : Katharine, Edward Swift, grad. A. B. (U. of P.),
Issue, by 3rd wife (surname Buckley) :
Richard Vaux,
Daniel, Margaret Shippen,
JOSEPH, b. at "the Grove," Dec. 26, 1799, was educated at a classical school in New Jersey, came to Phila. in 1818, and was associated with the firm of Thomas Biddle & Co., bank- ers and brokers, until 1842, when he retired from business, went abroad, and traveled extensively, his business talents were highly appreciated by his fellow-citizens, and again and again he was elected to serve as director of different corporations, such as the Phila. Bank and the Phila. Sav- ings Fund, in which he held the position, which he still retained at the time of his death, for more than twenty-six years. He was m. by Bishop White, Nov. 24, 1831, to Eliza Moore, dau. of George Willing see p. (102), d. Sep. 9, 1840. Mr. Swift d. July 1, 1882, bu. with his w. in Oxford Ch. yard,
Issue (surname Swift) :
Emily, m. at her father's country seat, " Woodfield," to Thomas Balch, son of Lewis P. W. and Eliza- beth W. Balch, b. Leesburg, Loudon Co., Va., July 23, 1821, grad. A. B. (Columbia), member of the bar, but devoted himself to literary pursuits, was the first to propose a Court of International Arbi- tration, wrote several articles on finance and social science, " Les Français en Amerique, pendant la Guerre de l'Indépendance des Etats-Unis, 1777- 1783," and edited with copious notes, " Letters and Papers relating chiefly to the Provincial History of Penna.," "The Maryland Papers," and others, d. Phila., March 29, 1877,
Issue (surname Balch) : Elise Willing,
Edwin Swift, grad. A. B. (Harvard), of Phila. bar,
Joseph Swift, d. y. Paris, France, July 3, 1864, Thomas Willing,
George, d. y.,
Mary, m. Horace G. Browne,
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Shippen-Swift branch.
Issue (surname Browne) : Joseph Swift, m. Elizabeth Farley Corbin, Issue (surname Browne) : Joseph Swift, Farley Corbin, Charles Willing, Eliza Willing, GEORGE, b. March 9, 1801, d. July 16, 1801,
SAMUEL, m. Mary A. Royer,
Issue (surname Swift) : Emma Louisa, d. Dec. 23, 1859,
William Henry, m. Eliza Clewloe Lewis Grubb, Issue (surname Swift) : Anna Vaughan, Emma Louisa, Elizabeth, Sallie, m. Thomas Cumming Zulich,
Joseph, m. Gertrude Horton Dorr, Issue (surname Swift) : Samuel, Frances Dorr, Mary, Elizabeth Shippen, John Dorr, Edwin, d. March 18, 1852,
Samuel, d. Feb. 10, 1852, Mary,
ELIZABETH SHIPPEN,
JOHN, d. y.,
SARAH BORDLEY,
EDWIN,
JANE GALLOWAY, m. May 6, 1834, John Swift (not a kins- man), b. March 15, 1808, d. March 10, 1872, bu. at Eas- ton, Pa.
JOSEPH GALLOWAY SHIPPEN, son of Joseph and Jane (née Gal- loway) Shippen, p. (79), b. " Plumley," Chester Co., Dec. 25, 1783, d. Sep. 6, 1857, M. D., grad. U. of P. Med. Dep., m. Nov. 10, 1814, Anna Maria, dau. of Daniel Buckley of Lancaster Co. and his wife Sarah Brooke, b. Nov. 21, 1790, d. Nov. 17, 1865.
Issue :
HARRIET AMELIA, JOSEPH, M. D.,
EDWARD, b. " Elm Hill," Lancaster Co., of Phila. Bar, Com- missioner to Centennial Exhibition, received Oct. 10, 1877, from Victor Emmanuel II, the order of "Cavaliere della
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Shippen.
Corona d'Italia," m. Augusta Chauncey, dau. of Major Levi and Priscilla Decatur Twiggs,
Issue :
Elizabeth Bordley Twiggs, d. s. p. March 4, 1872, m. Dr. James Patterson Burd, see p. (79),
Frances Stockton, d. Aug. 18, 1853,
Sarah Burd, m. Phila., William Whitehead West of Savannah, Ga., son of Dr. Charles W. and Eliza Alice West, Issue (surname West) : Edward Shippen, d. y. June, 1882, Charles William, Augusta Twiggs Shippen, William Whitehead,
ANNA MARIA, d. Phila., Sep. 30, 1871, m. William Newell of Schuylkill Co., Penna.,
Issue (surname Newell) : William Harmar, d. Aug. - , 1867,
Joseph Galloway, d. - , 1867, Edward Shippen.
HENRY SHIPPEN, son of Joseph and Jane (nee Galloway) Shippen, p. (79), b. Dec. 28, 1788, d. Meadville, March 2, 1839, was educated for the bar, and in successful practice at Lancaster. When the war of 1812 broke out, he joined the army, and proved his valor and patriotism during the attack on Baltimore. He suffered afterwards from in- flammatory rheumatism, but on recovery, resumed his profession, and moved to Meadville, became member of the Legislature, and Presi- dent Judge of the Sixth Judicial District, m. May 1, 1817, Elizabeth Wallis Evans, b. March 24, 1798.
Issue :
FRANCES, m. Edgar Huidekoper, b. May 30, 1812, d. Sep. 9, 1862,
Issue (surname Huidekoper) :
Henry Shippen, grad. A. B. (Harvard) enlisted Aug. 28, 1862, first Capt., then Col. U. S. A., at battles of Pollock's Mill, Chancellorville, and Gettysburg, where he lost his right arm, and was taken prisoner, then re- leased, was compelled to resign on account of effects of wound, March 6, 1864, appointed Major-Gen. of 20th Division Penna. Nat. Guard, now Postmaster of Phila., m. Emma Gertrude Evans,
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Shippen.
Issue (surname Huidekoper) : Gertrude Evans, Thomas Wallis, Frederick Wolters, grad. A. B. (Harvard), m. Anna Virginia Christse, Issue (surname Huidekoper) : Grace, d. y. July 6, 1872, Frederic Louis, Reginald Shippen,
Herman John, A. B. (Harvard), served in thirty days' Emergency Reg., Capt. 127th U. S. C. Reg., Major 29th U. S. C. Reg. until close of war, d. St. Paul's, Minn., Oct. 21, 1878,
Edgar, A. B. (Harvard),
Gertrude, m. Paris, France, Dr. Frank Wells of Boston, Issue (surname Wells) : George Doane, Edgar Huidekoper, Elizabeth Huidekoper, Robert,
Elizabeth,
Rush Shippen, M. D., (U. of P.) Med. Dept., m. Annie Preston Morris,
Frank Colhoun, A. B. (Harvard),
EDWARD, residing in Louisville, Ky., m. Ellen Stokes,
Issue : Edward S., William Henry,
Franklin,
HENRY, member of the bar, d. unm. March 6, 1845,
EVANS WALLIS, m. Katharine Yeates McElwee, see p. (69), Issue :
Frances Huidekoper, m. William Robert Gill, d. Nov. 3, 1878, Issue (surname Gill) : James Wallis, Katharine Yeates, m. John Farr, d. Oct. 21, 1881, Franklin,
Herman Huidekoper, d. Dec. 29, 1869,
Herbert, d. Nov. 15, 1870,
Harry Houston, Mary Elizabeth, d. Oct. 25, 1876,
MARGARET, d. July 2, 1826,
RUSH RHEES, entered Unitarian Ministry 1849, had a parish in Chicago, then one in Worcester, Mass., Secretary of Am.
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Shippen.
Unitarian Association for ten years, now Minister of the Unitarian Church in Washington, m. Zoviah Rodman,
Issue : Sarah, m. Arthur Lord, Issue (surname Lord) : Katharine, Henry, d. July 28, 1879, Marvin Rodman, d. Oct. 16, 1864, Eugene,
SARAH YEATES, d. Sep. 24, 1855, m. Thomas J. Mumford,
WILLIAM, d. Oct, 23, 1863, m. Ruth Baker, d. Feb. 16, 1868, Issue : Elizabeth Sophronia, William Franklin,
FRANKLIN, d. unm. Dec. 10, 1863, member of the bar,
JOSEPH, member of the bar, St. Louis, Mo., m. Elizabeth J. Winslow, Issue : Joseph Franklin, Kathlene Maud, Bertha.
JOSEPH SHIPPEN, son of Joseph and Abigail (née Grosse) Shippen, p. (52), b. Nov. 28, 1706, elected, Oct. 5, 1742, to the City Council, in which he served for many years. He went in the family by the name of "Gentleman Joe." He subsequently removed to Germantown, m. Mary Kearney of Barbadoes, d. Germantown, July, 1793, bu. Xt. Ch. bu. ground, July 12, 1793.
Issue :
CATHERINE, bapt. Xt. Ch., Nov. 2, 1737, aged 1 month, d. s. p. June 18, 1812, m. Phila., Dec. 4, 1760, Richard Wal- lin of Jamaica, who was bu. Xt. Ch. bu. ground, May 23, 1761,
MARGARET, bapt. March 19, 1739-40, aged four months, bu. Xt. Ch. bu. ground, July 20, 1740,
MARY, b. Phila., Nov. 1, 1741, bapt. Dec. 3, 1741, bu. Xt. Ch. bu. ground, Sept. 20, 1742,
JOSEPH, b. Phila., Oct. 3, 1743, bapt. Nov. 16, 1743, d. unm , bu. Xt. Ch. bu. ground, July 12, 1766,
MARY, b. April 4, 1745, bapt. Oct. 2, 1745, m. Dec. 19, 1775, at Old Swedes' Church, John Peel,
ABIGAIL, b. Phila., Dec. 12, 1746, bapt. Oct. 11, 1747, m.
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Phila., Sept. 27, 1767, Edward Spence of Jamaica, and of whom I can find no further trace,
ANN, b. Phila., Feb. 22, 1748-9, m. Robert Strettell Jones, see STRETTELL,
MARGARET, b. Phila., Nov. 15, 1751, bapt. Dec. 15, 1751, m. Old Swedes Church, May 4, 1780, John Adams.
ANNE SHIPPEN, dau. of Joseph and Abigail (née Grosse) Shippen, p. (52), b. Aug. 5, 1710, d. Phila., June 23, 1790, bu. Xt. Ch. bury- ing ground, m. Jan. 21, 1730-1, Charles Willing, son of Thomas Willing of Bristol, England, merchant, and his wife Anne Harrison, granddau., on her paternal side, of Major-Gen. Thomas Harrison, and, on her maternal side, of Simon Mayne, both members of the Court who condemned Charles the First, and grandson of Joseph Willing of Gloucestershire, Eng., and his second wife Ava Lowle, an heiress of Saxon descent, b. Bristol, May 18, 1710. He was taken to Phila., at the age of eighteen, by his father, Thomas Willing, a cousin of whom, also named Thomas Willing, laid out Willing's town, now Wilmington, Del. Charles Willing settled in Phila. as a merchant, and took charge of the house that his elder brother, Thomas, had founded in 1726,-this Thomas returned to Eng. and d. there,-and greatly enlarged its business ; he was much esteemed and respected both as a merchant and magistrate. His successful operations and excellent credit aided in early establishing with foreign countries a high reputation for American commerce, and contributed to give to the city of his adoption, that reputation for public honor and private wealth which it enjoyed at the opening of the Revolution, and which was of such importance to the nation in its negotiations with France and Holland, during the struggles of that contest. He was active in establishing the " Philadelphia Associators," in 1744, a subscriber to the first Dancing Assembly, and one of the founders and first Trustees of the Univ. of Penna., 1749-1754, also interested in Xt. Ch. He was Mayor of the city 1748, and again 1754, and died of ship-fever, contracted whilst in the discharge of his official duties, lamented by a whole community. He d. Nov. 30, 1754, bu. Xt. Ch. burying ground.
Issue of CHARLES and ANNE WILLING, all b. Phila. :
THOMAS, b. Dec. 19, 1731, m. Anne McCall, see p. (90), ANNE, b. July 16, 1733, m. Tench Francis, see p. (105),
DOROTHY, b. Aug. 3, 1735, m. Sir Walter Stirling, Kt., see p. (110),
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Shippen-Willing branch.
CHARLES, b. May 30, 1738, m. Elizabeth Hannah Carrington of Barbadoes, see p. (114),
MARY, b. Sep. 24, 1740, m. William Byrd, see p. (120), ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 10, 1742-3, d. Jan. 17, 1830, m. Phila.,
Aug. 7, 1769, Samuel Powel, son of Samuel and Mary Powel of Phila., b. Phila., 1739, grad. A. B. (Coll. of Phila.) 1759, Trustee 1773-1793,-He was of Quaker stock, but, during his stay in London, was baptized by the Rev. Richard Peters, and was, after his return to Phila., the Lay Deputy for St. Peter's Ch. to the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church held at Christ Church May 24, 1785, Joseph Swift being the Lay Deputy for Xt. Ch. He was the last Mayor of the City under the Old Charter of 1701, under which Edward Shippen had been the first. After the Revolution, a new Charter was given by the Legislature, and he again was chosen Mayor. He was also Speaker of the Penna. Senate, 1792. He inherited a large estate, which he left to his wife, who gave the bulk of it, including "Powelton," to her nephew and adopted son, John Powel Hare, and his descendants. Mr. Powel d. Sep. 29, 1793, bu. Xt. Ch. burying ground,-
Issue (surname POWEL) :
SAMUEL, b. June 30, 1770, d. July 14, 1771,
SAMUEL, b. June 26, 1775, d. July 12, 1775,
RICHARD, b. Jan. 2, 1744-5, d. s. p. at his farm in Del. Co., Penna., bu. Xt. Ch. bu. ground, m. New York, Jan. 30, 1766, Margaret, dau. of Cornelius and Hester Kortright of New York,
ABIGAIL, b. June 15, 1747, d. unm. Phila., Aug. 10, 1791, bu. Xt. Ch. bu. ground,
JOSEPH, b. Oct. 15, 1749, d. Phila., July 4, 1750, bu. Xt. Ch. bu. ground,
JAMES, b. Feb. 9, 1750-1, served as Captain during the Revo- lutionary War, was taken prisoner by the British, and con- fined on board of one of their prison-ships, where he endured great privations and sufferings, d. unm. Phila., Oct. 13, 1801, MARGARET, b. Jan. 15, 1753, m. Robert Hare, see p. (128).
THOMAS WILLING, son of Charles and Anne (née Shippen) Wil- ling, p. (89), b. Phila., Dec. 19, 1731, was sent when eight years old
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to England, to his grandfather, Mr. Thomas Willing, who placed him at a school at Wells, Somersetshire. He afterwards went to London. On May 19, 1749, he returned to Phila., and there "served his father in his counting house, until his return from England, Oct., 1751." Mr. Willing had given his father so much satisfaction, in the execu- tion of his business during his absence, that he took him into part- nership. When his father died, in 1754, he assumed the entire control of his large concerns, and the charge of the family. He associated with himself, Robert Morris, the Financier of the Revolution, and, Mr. Griswold says, that "to the great credit and well-known patriotism of the house of Willing & Morris, the country owed its extrication from those trying pecuniary embarrassments so familiar to the readers of our Revolutionary history." Mr. Willing held many places of public trust, amongst others that of Justice of the Supreme Court, 1761, and was the last of those who had held commissions under the old Constitution to act in office. As a judge, he was pure and intelligent, added to which, he possessed an amenity of manner which rendered him popular at the bar and attractive in society. "Mr. Willing," says John Adams, " was the most sociable and agreeable man of all." No doubt his judicial training had an influence on his course in Con- gress. Schooled to discriminate between conflicting claims, in which there was oftentimes much show of right on either side; accustomed to apply the great principles of justice and equity so as to subserve the best interests of society, even at the expense of a present apparent hardship; this upright magistrate made a conservative statesman, and thus was slow to yield to impulses, which, though given by his own party, were, or might be, as he thought, hasty or premature. He was one of those who early opposed the unconstitutional measures of Great Britain, and his name heads the great list of merchants and traders who signed the non-importation resolutions of 1764. He was President of the Provincial Congress which met in Phila., July 15, 1774, and a member of the Congress of 1775 and that of 1776. He voted steadily and fearlessly against the Declaration of Independence, not only because he " thought America, at that time, unequal to such a conflict as must ensue, having neither arms, ammunition, or mili- tary experience, but chiefly because the' Delegates from Pennsylvania were not then authorized, by their instructions from the Assembly or the voice of the people at large, to join in such a vote ;" but gave his best energies and his money to its support when adopted. He re- mained in Philadelphia during its occupation by the British army,
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Shippen-Thomas Willing.
but refused to take the oath of allegiance to George III when called upon by Sir William Howe to do so, and when Congress chartered, in 1781, the Bank of North America, with a view of enabling the United States of America to carry on the war for independence, it was made a part of the enactment, by that body, that THOMAS WIL- LING should be its President; and the Assembly of the State of Penna. confirmed this feature of the Congressional enactment by a vote of thirty-eight to sixteen, March 26, 1782. Mr. Willing, dur- ing his Presidency of the Bank of North America, administered it with the most satisfactory results, its dividends being, for years, of a magnitude previously unheard of in the history of banks; and the bank still maintains its high reputation. This bank was the agent by which Mr. Morris reclaimed the finances of the country from the disorder caused by the Revolution, and of it Mr. Willing was the head, both titular and real. Mr. Willing was taken from the Presidency of the Bank of North America, to which he had been unanimously re-elected at each annual election, to be placed in the higher office of President of the Bank of the United States, which he administered with the same ability, and when, in 1816, after a long persecution by a political party, its charter ceased, and its affair were wound up, it paid in gold, and gold was then at a high pre- mium, $116 for each $100 of its capital. He was Trustee of the U. of P. 1760-61, and its Treasurer 1766-68, also one of the original Trustees of the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Phila. His enterprises in trade were of the largest and most success- ful kind in that day. The following tribute to his memory, from the pen of the Hon. Horace Binney, was placed upon a monument in Christ Church burying ground, in which Mr. Willing, his wife, both his parents, and many of his descendants, are interred : "This excel- lent man, in all the relations of private life, and in various stations of high public trust, deserved and acquired the devoted affection of his family and friends, and the universal respect of his fellow citizens. From 1754 to 1807, he successively held the offices of Secretary to the Congress of Delegates at Albany, Mayor of the City of Phila- delphia, her Representative in the General Assembly, President of the Provincial Congress, Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation, President of the first chartered bank in America, and President of the first Bank of the United States. With these public duties he united the business of an active, enterprising, and successful merchant, in which pursuit, for sixty years, his life was rich in examples of the
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