Book Excerpts - Part III

Book excerpts - part III

Scott and Kathryn (Leedom) Ives Genealogy
from Kathryn's files...

Book excerpts pertaining to various Leedom families

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Colonial Families of Philadelphia
Author: John W. Jordan
Call Number: R929.2 qC719

These records are presented in a series of independent genealogical and personal narratives relating to lineal family heads of families who have made Philadelphia what it is.

Bibliographic Information: Jordan, John W. Colonial Families of Philadelphia. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911.

JOHN KIRK came from Allfreeton, Derbyshire, England, and settled in Darby township, Chester county, prior to 1686, and in 2mo. of that year married at Darby Meeting, Joan, daughter of Peter Elliott, a large landowner on both sides of Darby creek, that is in the two regions called by the Swedes Kalkon Hook and Karkoens Hook.

The will of Peter "Ellett," of "Carcushooke," (it is difficult to determine which of the two above names he meant, but it matters little as he was of both) in the county of Philadelphia, dated September 9, 1687, was proved 10mo. 4, 1688, and registered in Philadelphia (Will Book A, p. 96). It devises his lands and houses to his three sons, not named, to be equally divided among them as they severally came of age; all household goods to his wife Lucy; some cattle and sheep to wife Lucy and daughters Anne and Joane; the balance of the estate to be equally divided between his wife Lucy and son John; John to have a horse and mare. The wife and son John are named as executors. The great majority of the settlers in this region were Swedes, as he settled there long before the Quakers came to Darby, but he is supposed to have been a Scotchman. He became the ancestor of many prominent people in eastern Pennsylvania.

John Kirk bought five hundred acres of land in that part of Darby which is now Upper Darby township, Delaware county, and he and his wife went to live on this land in 1687. They had eleven children, all mentioned in his will, which was dated 8mo. (October) 28, 1705, and proved November 17, 1705. These children were Godfrey, William, John, Samuel, Joseph, Isaac, Thomas, Anne, Mary, Elizabeth, and Sarah. To his six sons he left the five hundred acres in Moreland township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, which he had purchased of John Wood. His wife Joane and brother-in-law John Elliott are also mentioned in the will, and John Marshall is named as executor and Adam Rhoads and Robert Smith as Overseers.

John Kirk, second son of John and Joane (Elliott) Kirk, purchased in 1712 of John and Sarah Ironmonger two hundred acres of land in the northeast corner of Abington township and later five hundred and fifty acres in Upper Dublin township, Philadelphia county. He married, 7mo. (September) 13, 1722, at Abington Meeting, Sarah, daughter of Reynier and Mary Tyson, the original ancestors of this Tyson family in Pennsylvania.

His will, dated July 30, 1759, proved September 24, 1759, devised to each of his surviving sons two hundred acres of land, and the remainder to be equally divided between his daughters; part of this land covered the present site of Dreshertown, Montgomery county. John Kirk built a large stone house on the part of his land which was afterwards occupied by his son Jacob, remodeled by his grandson, John Kirk, in 1832, and still in possession of the family.

John and Sarah (Tyson) Kirk had issue:

John Kirk, b. 7mo. 30, 1723; d. in childhood;

RYNIER KIRK, b. 4mo. 28, 1725; m., 3mo. 24, 1748; of whom presently;

Margaret Kirk, b. 7mo. 7, 1727; m. (???) Loofborough;

Elizabeth, b. 7mo. 25, 1730; m., 11mo. 21, 1752, John Spencer, of Upper Dublin twp.;

Mary Kirk, b. 8mo. 29, 1732; m., 6mo. 19, 1753, William Loofborough, of Moreland, son of Nathaniel, deceased;

Isaac Kirk, b. 7mo. 20, 1735;

Jacob Kirk, b. 7mo. 20,1735, who inherited and occupied homestead, dying in house in which he was born, aged 93years; m., 5mo. 14, 1760, Elizabeth Cleaver, dau. of John;

Sarah Kirk, b. 8mo. 12, 1737; unm. in 1759.

RYNIER KIRK, eldest surviving son of John and Sarah (Tyson) Kirk, born in Abington township, 4mo. 28, 1725, married at Horsham Meeting, 3mo. 24, 1748, Mary, daughter of John and Martha (Harker) Michener, of Moreland township, and granddaughter of John and Sarah Michener, who came from England and located in Philadelphia prior to 1687, where his son, John, was born 9mo. 27, 1701, and in 1715 removed to Moreland township.

Martha (Harker) Michener, mother of Mary (Michener) Kirk, was daughter of Adam and Grace Harker, two very prominent Friends, Grace being an accepted minister and her husband many years an elder of the Society. Adam Harker, wife and child, his wife having a public testimony, etc., had a certificate from Richmond General Monthly Meeting, held at Leburne, Yorkshire, dated 12mo. 10, 1698, which they presented at Middletown Meeting, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, about 1700.

In the Friend (Philadelphia, 1857, vol. 30, p. 268) appears the following account of Grace Harker:

"Grace Harker was born in England, about the year 1669. She was married to Adam Harker, of Middletown, Bucks county, of which Meeting they were both for a long time useful members. Grace received, whilst young, a gift in the Ministry, in which she labored to the close of her life, and Adam was appointed an Elder, in which station he was faithful and in good unity with Friends.

"She was," says her memorial, "a woman of an innocent, exemplary life and conversation, received a gift in the ministry in her young years, and was a careful attender of Meetings until old age." She died twelfth mo. 10th. 1747, aged seventy-eight years.

Adam Harker, a few years after the decease of his wife, removed to Philadelphia. He had been very useful in religious society, but now in extreme old age, seeking another residence, no account of his death has been preserved. He was a considerable landowner in Bucks county, and was one of the original trustees to hold title of the land belonging to Buckingham, Wrightstown, and other Monthly Meetings. His certificate from Middletown Monthly Meeting to Philadelphia is dated 8mo. 4, 1750.

His will, dated 10mo. 2, 1753, proved and registered at Philadelphia, December 5, 1754, describes him as "late of Middletown, Bucks county, now of the City of Philadelphia, being aged and infirm in body, etc."

It devises to his daughter, Mary Lloyd, ś60, and his large Bible; to daughter, Jane Collison, one of my Sewell's Histories, a lot of household utensils, etc., all now in her possession, also five shillings, and ratifies the deeds he had executed for her benefit; to daughter, Grace Fisher, ś50, and "my large Concordance;" to daughter Rachel Parry, ś70, Ellwood's Sacred History, and "all my household goods remaining in the house of my son-in-law, John Fisher." To grandson, John Harker, son of Samuel, deceased, ś40, and the other Sewell's History, and best suit of clothes; to grandson, James Harker, son of Samuel, ś30, "when he returns to Philadelphia;" in the meantime his brother John to have the interest, as also the principal if James never returns.

To Adam Harker, son of my brother David; to grandson John Lloyd, ś60, a cloth cloak and a clock; to grandchildren, Thomas, Samuel, and James Lloyd, Mary Kirk, Sarah Tyson, Grace Longstreth, Jane and Elizabeth Michener, ś28 each; to sister Sarah Scott, ś15; to son-in-law John Fisher, silver watch; to sons-in-law Thomas Lloyd and John Michener, ś10 each;

to friend Thomas Thackeray, ś5; to Israel Pemberton, Jr., and John Smith, of Philadelphia, and Joseph Hampton and John Linton, of Wrightstown, Bucks county, ś50, in trust for the use of brother James Harker and Amy, his wife, with remainder, if any, towards maintaining a free school in Wrightstown, under the care of the Monthly Meeting there; also ś40 in trust for similar school in Buckingham, and ś40 for one in Middletown; residue to grandsons, John Harker and John Lloyd;

trustees, sons-in-law, Thomas Lloyd and John Michener, and friend James Thackeray; executors, grandson John Harker and John Lloyd. A codicil of same date gives wearing apparel not mentioned to brother James Harker and son-in-law Philip Parry. Codicil, dated 5mo. 17, 1754, having paid ś5 this summer for support of brother James Harker, that amount to be deducted from the trust fund. Codicil, dated 11mo. 15, 1754, revokes legacy of ś30 to Adam, son of David, and gives it to grandsons, John Harker and John Lloyd, equally.

Colonial Families of Philadelphia
Author: John W. Jordan
Call Number: R929.2 qC719

These records are presented in a series of independent genealogical and personal narratives relating to lineal family heads of families who have made Philadelphia what it is.

Bibliographic Information: Jordan, John W. Colonial Families of Philadelphia. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911.

ABRAHAM LUCKEN, or LUKENS, as his children spelled the name, was the tenth child and fifth son of Jan Lucken, the emigrant, and was born in or near Germantown, September 16, 1703. Reared in the faith of the Society of Friends and a birthright member of Abington Monthly Meeting, he proposed intentions of marriage before that meeting in March, 1727, with Mary, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Maurle, of Bristol township, Philadelphia county, and on April 27, 1727, the proposal was favorably acted upon by the Meeting.

They at once took up their residence on the 500 acres of land purchased by his father in 1709, in Towamencin township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, 300 acres of which Abraham inherited at his father's death in 1741. A certificate was granted by Abington Monthly Meeting, April 30, 1728, transferring the membership of Abraham Lucken and wife to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, with which meeting some of their descendents still hold membership.

Thomas Maurle, father of Mary (Maurle) Lucken, brought a certificate to Abington Meeting from Gwynedd, May 28, 1716, for himself, his wife, son, and daughters. He was named as an Overseer for Germantown Meeting, by Abington Monthly Meeting, 1722, and was appointed to visit families of Friends in Germantown, 1725. This family is sometimes confounded with the Maule or Maul family founded in the same locality by Sarah, widow of Thomas Maule, of Salem, Massachusetts, and her children, 1731.

Mary (Maurle) Lucken died about 1770, and Abraham married (second), 1773, Elizabeth Walker, by whom he had two sons, Jonathan and Enos. His will bears date March 31, 1776, and mentions all his nine children.

Issue of Abraham and Mary (Maurle) Lucken:

Margaret Lukens, b. April 12, 1728;

JOHN LUKENS, b. Dec. 17, 1729; of whom presently;

Matthias, b. Nov. 18, 1731; m., 1769, Mary Gray;

William Lukens, b. April 23, 1733;

Abraham Lukens, b. Feb. 21, 1734-5;

David Lukens, b. April 27, 1737;

Joseph Lukens, b. July 14, 1739;

Mary Lukens, b. May 22, 1741;

Job Lukens, b. Sept. 25, 1743.

JOHN LUKENS, eldest son of Abraham and Mary (Maurle) Lukens, born in Towamencin township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, December 17, 1729, inherited a portion of the plantation on which he was born and spent his life thereon, dying 1814. He was a surveyor, and did much work in that line in his locality, and for this reason has often been confounded with his first cousin, John Lukens, Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania, who was a son of Peter and Gainor (Evans) Lukens, before mentioned.

John Lukens married about 1753, Rachel, born April 22, 1727, daughter of James and Elizabeth Robinson of Franconia township.

Issue of John and Rachel (Robinson) Lukens:

Abraham Lukens, b. 1754;

James Lukens, b. 1756;

John Lukens, b. 1758; m., Nov. 14, 1797, Jane Adamson;

Job Lukens, b. 1759;

DAVID LUKENS, b. 1761; of whom presently;

Elisha Lukens, b. 1763;

Edith Lukens, b. 1765;

George Lukens, b. 1768; m., Dec. 12, 1805, Esther Jeanes; purchased the homestead farm of his father and lived thereon until 1849;

Jacob Lukens, b. 1770.

Colonial Families of Philadelphia
Author: John W. Jordan
Call Number: R929.2 qC719

These records are presented in a series of independent genealogical and personal narratives relating to lineal family heads of families who have made Philadelphia what it is.

Bibliographic Information: Jordan, John W. Colonial Families of Philadelphia. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911.

THOMAS SAVERY the younger, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Scattergood) Savery, born in Philadelphia September 19, 1802, was reared to his father's trade of carpenter and builder, but later engaged in the lumber business with his brother William, a business which they successfully carried on until 1845, when, his health failing, Thomas retired from the firm, and lived a retired life in Philadelphia, until 1854, when he removed to a farm in Chester county, inherited by his wife from her father Stephen Webb, where he remained until his death, six years later.

Thomas Savery, like his father, was an active and consistent member of the Society of Friends. While in Philadelphia he was for some years Clerk of Arch Street Meeting, and after his removal to Chester county, filled a like position for Kennett Monthly Meeting. He was an ardent advocate of higher education, and served as one of the Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, who had charge of the erection of the buildings for Westtown Boarding School.

He married (first) September 2, 1824, Rebecca W. Cresson, born September 18, 1803. She died four months later, January 4, 1825, and he married (second), November 13, 1834, Hannah H., born November 19, 1810, daughter of Stephen and Mary (Harvey) Webb, and a descendant of Richard Webb, who came from Gloucestershire, England, 1700, to Philadelphia, and in 1704, took up land in and settled in Birmingham township, Chester, now Delaware county; and his wife Elizabeth Webb, an eminent minister among Friends, who had paid two religious visits to America, prior to her immigration with her husband in 1700, and in 1710, made a similar religious visit to her native country.

Richard Webb died in Birmingham, 1719, leaving eight children, the eldest of whom, William Webb, settled in Kennett, where he died 1753; was member of Colonial Assembly, 1723-37, and a Justice, 1741. He married January 22, 1709, Rebecca Harland, and had among others a son William Webb Jr., born November 13, 1710, who married, September 23, 1732, Elizabeth, born March 13, 1716-17, daughter of Daniel Hoopes, born in Skelton, parish of Cleveland, Yorkshire, England, died in Westtown township, Chester county, Pennsylvania; Member of Provincial Assembly, 1708-9, by his wife, Jane Worrilow; granddaughter of Joshua and Isabel Hoopes, who came from Skelton, Yorkshire, arriving in the river Delaware, in the ship "Providence" of Scarborough, November 10, 1683, and settled in Makefield township, Bucks county.

They were prominent members of Falls Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, depositing their certificate from the Monthly Meeting at Skelton, bearing date 3mo. (May) 4, 1683. Joshua Hoopes was a member of Provincial Assembly from Bucks county, 1685-1711. He married (second) Elinor, widow of Reuben Pownall, who was killed by a falling tree a few months after his arrival in the Province.

Stephen Webb, father of Hannah Hoopes (Webb) Savery, was the second son of William and Elizabeth (Hoopes) Webb, and his wife was Mary Harvey, of a family that was prominent in the affairs of Bucks and Chester counties. Hannah H. (Webb) Savery survived her husband thirty years, residing on the old Webb homestead with her son Stephen until his marriage, 1873, when she removed with her youngest daughter, Elizabeth, to West Chester, where she died August 5, 1890.

Colonial Families of Philadelphia
Author: John W. Jordan
Call Number: R929.2 qC719

These records are presented in a series of independent genealogical and personal narratives relating to lineal family heads of families who have made Philadelphia what it is.

Bibliographic Information: Jordan, John W. Colonial Families of Philadelphia. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911.

Phebe Justice Woolley, b. May 7, 1811; d. 1872; m., Nov. 8, 1837, Thomas B. Ellis, b. 1810, d. Aug. 14, 1866, and had issue:

George Woolley Ellis, b. May 6, 1841; d. June 5, 1905; m. Margaret Ellison, and
had issue: Anna Moore Ellis;

Elizabeth Woolley Ellis, b. Jan. 14, 1849; m. Jacob Augustus Carncross, and had issue:
Horace Leedom Carncross, b. Dec. 1, 1869; Helen Carncross;

Henry Clay Ellis, b. Nov. 29, 1847; m., Jan. 24, 1870, Anna Canter, and had issue:
Thomas Biddle Ellis, b. Nov. 10, 1870; George Raymond Ellis, b. Dec. 15, 1877.

Genealogy of the Smedley Family
Author: Samuel Lightfoot Smedley
Call Number: CS71.S637

MORGAN JAMES, of Radnor, and Elizabeth Prytherch, of the same township, were married 11, 1, 1694, at Radnor Meeting. No other James signed the marriage certificate, and it is probable, according to the Welsh custom, that he was the son of some one whose first name was James. A brother, Thomas James, lived in Whiteland township but left no children. Elizabeth Prytherch was the daughter of Evan Prytherch (also written Prothero and Protherah) and Elizabeth (Thomas?) his wife. George Thomas, the owner of 200 acres of land in Newtown, devised the same to his cousin (niece?) Elizabeth, afterward wife of Morgan James. The latter subsequently married a 2d wife, Mary, and died in Newtown about June, 1737, leaving children by last wife, Thomas, Aaron, Jonathan, Martha and Hannah James.

Children of Morgan and Elizabeth James:

MARY, b. 8, 20, 1695; m. Henry Treviller and John Earl.
JOSEPH, m. Elizabeth (???) and died in Willistown, 1770. His dau. Ann m. 10, 10, 1747, Daniel Yarnall, of Willistown.
DANIEL, d. Willistown, 1733-4; m. 1729, Susanna, dau. of John Maris and Susanna Lewis, who m. 2dly 8, 30, 1746, John Davis. Daniel left one child, Lydia, brought up by her uncle Joseph James and m. Thomas Smedley.
SAMUEL, d. Whiteland township, 1754-5; m. Rachel Buffington and Rachel Lawrence.
MAGDALEN, m. John Strode, of Marlborough.
ELIZABETH, m. John Talkinton.
MARGARET, m. Christ Church, Phila., Aug. 30, 1729, Joseph Lewis.

THOMAS NORBURY, late purchaser of 125 acres of land, obtained a warrant, 9, 21, 1683, to take it up between Crum and Darby Creeks. This land was located in Newtown township. About a year later he married Frances, widow of Stephen Hugh, who, by her first husband, had a daughter, Martha Hugh, b. 3, 11, 1684. Stephen Hugh, of Springfield, d. 11, 21, 1683. When Thomas Norbury and Frances Hugh declared their intentions of marriage the 2d time, 12, 2, 1684, "The said Thomas Norbery doth hereby Ingage himselfe to ye meeting to Endeaver to bring up ye child of ye sd ffrances Hugh as his owne in ye feare of God & accord: to ye ordr & manner of Truth as also to secure & pay quitt rent for y?? land (taken up in its fathers name) untill ye child come to the Age of sixteene yeares to wch he subscribes his name. THOMAS NORBURY."

The 50 acres taken up in right of Stephen Hugh was doubtless "head land," on account of his coming to this country as a servant, and it was located with the 125 acres of Thomas Norbury. The latter appears to have been rather unsuccessful in his struggles for a livelihood, and in need of some assistance from his friends. At Chester Monthly Meeting, 8, 2, 1693, "The friends appointed by the Last meeting to goe to vieu the Land Thomas Narbery dwels on, gives their Judgment that it is better for him to staye there then to remove, and with Less Charge to friends, And the meeting hath agreed to pay Daniel Williamson six pound for plowing & sowing his field." A resurvey of his land, made 5, 31, 1702, proved there were 200 acres in the two tracts. His need of assistance is partly explained by the fact that ten children were born to him by the close of 1701, their names being Stephen, Jacob, Deborah, Thomas, John, Philip, Mary, Hannah, Sarah and Rachel.

Jacob Norbury, b. 9, 30, 1687, m. Alice (???) about 1721, but no mention of the marriage appears on the records of the meeting. She m. 2d husband, Richard Farr, of Edgmont, 1727, and a 3d husband, Thomas Hall, 1746; and in each instance William and Susanna Griffith sign as near relatives.

The children of Jacob and Alice Norbury were Sarah, b. 6, 27, 1722, who m. John Warner and Samuel Hall, and Hannah, who m. 9, 5, 1741, at Middletown Meeting, John Matson, of Edgmont, and after his death George Smedley, as already stated. By her first husband she had children, Richard, Jacob and Joseph Matson.

By deed of 8, 2, 1749, George Smedley, of Middletown, and Mary his wife, conveyed to their son George 147 acres of land in Willistown, part of 250 acres purchased from Thomas Smedley and wife. The son received a certificate from Chester to Goshen Monthly Meeting, dated 2, 29, 1745.

His will is dated 8, 21, 1765, and proven Dec. 24, 1765, in which, after providing for his wife, he devised ś50 to dau. Hannah, at 18; to eldest son, Jeffrey, that part of the plantation lying on the west side of the road leading from Grubb's mill to the Lancaster Road, at 21; to younger sons, Joshua and Francis, that part on the east side of the road; to father, George Smedley, ś10; to brother Joshua all my right to a plantation on which Moses Meredith lives, in Edgmont: Residue for schooling and clothing the younger children.

The will of Hannah Smedley, of Willistown, "an aged widow," is dated 7, 4, 1798, and proven Oct. 31, 1810: To son Richard Matson ś40, if living; if not his dau. Hannah shall have ś5 and my son Jacob the remainder: To son Jacob Matson ś40 and large Bible, clock, &c. To son Jeffrey Smedley ś5, "having done sundry services for him and have not received priviledges of him that I might have done:" To son Francis Smedley ś100 in trust, "under a consideration of and on account of the situation he is now in:" To sister Sarah Hawl ś3, &c.: To gr. dau. Hannah, dau. of Richard Matson, ś5: to gr. dau. Hannah, dau. of Benjamin Cox, ś5, &c.: Residue to dau. Hannah Cox: Executors, son Jacob Matson and son-in-law Benjamin Cox.

RICHARD COX, who is supposed to have been a son of John and Rachel, received a certificate from Newark, 2, 5, 1712, in order for marriage with Margaret Potts, of Gwynedd Mo. Mtg., which marriage was accomplished 3, 26, 1712. They resided in Kennet and had children, Anna, Sarah, Richard, Jonathan, Joseph, Benjamin and John. About 1728 they removed to Gwynedd Mo. Mtg., and Richard died in Vincent township, Chester Co., about 1762, leaving a 2d wife, Mary, and children, Sarah Burson, Joseph, Benjamin and John Cox, Elizabeth Page and Mary Potts.

Joseph Cox, son of Richard and Margaret, b. 2, 18, 1723; d. 7, 17, 1814; m. Catharine Watson, b. 6, 27, 1722; d. 11, 19, 1773; dau. of William and Hannah Watson. They resided in Vincent from 1754 to 1772, when they settled in Willistown.

Children of Joseph Cox and Catherine Watson:

HANNAH, b. 2, 2, 1746; d. 5, 11, 1747.
HANNAH, b. 9, 6, 1747; d. 10, 1, 1747.
MARY, b. 9, 8, 1748; d. 7, 4, 1754.
WILLIAM, b. 8, 14, 1750; d. 8, 23, 1750.
HANNAH, b. 10, 5, 1751; m. John Townsend.
MARGARET, b. 1, 6, 1753; d. 4, 8, 1813, unmarried.
BENJAMIN, b. 2, 7, 1756; d. 5, 2, 1757.
BENJAMIN, b. 7, 8, 1758; d. 2, 10, 1846; m. Hannah Smedley (No.108).
RICHARD, b. 1, 29, 1761; d. about 1815; m. Sarah Cowgill (p.77).
ELIZABETH, b. 3, 25, 1763; d. 11, 4, 1851; m. Daniel Smedley.

The Longstreth Family Records
Author: Agnes Longstreth Taylor
Call Number: R929.2 L8575 1909

A comprehensive account of the descendants of Bartholomew Longstreth of Yorkshire, England, from 1679 to 1909.
Bibliographic Information: Taylor, Agnes Longstreth. The Longstreth Family Records. Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach, 1909.

Children of Bartholomew and Ann (Dawson) Longstreth.

2-1. SARAH LONGSTRETH, b. Jan. 8, 1728-9; d. Sept. 21, 1800; passed meeting at Abington Monthly Meeting, and m. at Horsham, Oct. 10, 1751, William Fussell, son of Solomon and Susanna (Coney) Fussell,1 b. 1728-9; d. at Phoenixville, Pa., Feb. 5, 1804, both buried at Pikeland Burying-ground. William Fussell, like his father, was a chairmaker by trade. He was enrolled a member of Battery 5, Sixth Artillery of Chester County, but being a Friend, it is probable that he rendered no service, his fines seeming a proof of this fact.

Four children:
3-1. Susanna, b. Jan. 29, 1753; d. July 26, 1819. Dunkin.
3-2. Bartholomew, b. Sept. 28, 1754; d. Oct. 17, 1838. Bond.
3-3. Solomon, b. Dec. 20, 1755; d. Oct. 20, 1793. Unm.
3-4. A child, b. July 10, 1758; buried Aug. 19, 1759.

2-3. DANIEL LONGSTRETH, b. April 28, 1732; d. Nov. 19, 1803, buried at Horsham; m. first, at Abington Meeting, May 22, 1753, Grace Michener, daughter of John and Martha (Harker) Michener,1 b. May 22, 1729, in Moreland Township; d. at the Homestead, April 16, 1775.

Daniel Longstreth was born in the old Homestead which was his home throughout his life. He was only seventeen years old when his father died, leaving him the care of the large family of brothers and sisters, to whom he supplied, as far as possible, a father's place, fulfilling his trust with good judgment and strict fidelity. He was a man of fine presence and great firmness of mind; a Friend in principle as well as by profession; a peacemaker, often being called upon to settle differences arising between his neighbors; a man of benevolent and sympathetic nature, interesting himself in behalf of the poor and friendless; a man of integrity, possessing the public confidence, being often selected to act as executor and administrator of estates. He was at one time collector of the Provincial tax, and was otherwise active in public affairs. His original commission as collector of revenue, has been deposited by John L. Longstreth with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

2-4. Jane, b. 1 mo. 18, 1733-4; d. aged 20 mos.

2-5. JANE LONGSTRETH, b. Jan. 23, 1735-6; d. in Baltimore, May 16, 1795, buried in Friends' Burying-ground, Baltimore; m. at Horsham Meeting, April 22, 1755, Jonathan Coates, son of Moses and Susannah Coates,1 b. Jan. 17, 1728-9, in Providence, Pa., d. in Baltimore, May 22, 1807.

2-6. ANN LONGSTRETH, b. Jan. 3, 1737-8; d. June 26, 1824; m. at Charlestown, Pa., Sept. 22, 1756, Benjamin Coates, son of Moses and Susanna Coates (see 2-5), b. 1733; d. 1801, both buried in Pikeland Burying-ground.

2-7. JOHN LONGSTRETH, b. Oct. 25, 1739; d. April 16, 1817, buried at Pikeland; m. July 17, 1766, Jane Minshall, daughter of John and Sarah (Smedley) Minshall,1 b. March 5, 1742-3; d. Feb. 9, 1813.

John Longstreth had declared his intentions of marriage with Rebecca Taylor, daughter of Peter Taylor, 4 mo. 5, 1764, but her death from small-pox a month later disappointed his hopes. He was married to Jane Minshall by a justice of the peace, for which he was disowned; but his wife "made an acknowledgment of the deviation in regard to marriage, which was accepted." He held a commission from Governor Mifflin, dated June 10, 1793, as Justice of the Peace for the townships of Tredyffrin, Charlestown, East and West Whiteland, Chester County, and he was a man of considerable influence in Phoenixville, where he lived.

Seven children:
3-35. Daniel, b. 1767; d. 1769.
3-36. Hannah, b. Oct. 9, 1768; d. Jan. 8, 1851. Coates.
3-37. John, b. Feb. 10, 1771; d. Jan. 6, 1822. Stewart.
3-38. Sarah, b. Oct. 18, 1773; d. June 5, 1839. Unm.
3-39. Anne, b. 1777; d. 1777.
3-40. Moses, b. June 18, 1780; d. Feb. 10, 1819. Williams.
3-41. Jane, b. July 14, 1784; d. May 26, 1834. John.

2-8. ELIZABETH LONGSTRETH, b. May 15, 1741; d. June 28, 1813, buried at Phoenixville; m. at Pikeland Meeting, June 21, 1763, Joseph Starr, son of Joseph and Rebecca Starr, b. Sept. 6, 1741; d. Oct. 1, 1821.

2-9. ISAAC LONGSTRETH, b. Feb. 16, 1742-3; d. April 12, 1817, buried at Pikeland Burying-ground; m. at Horsham, Nov. 15, 1770, Martha Thomas, daughter of Daniel and Susan (Livesey) Thomas,1 b. July 20, 1748; d. at Hatboro, April 12, 1790, buried at Horsham Burying-ground.

2-10. JOSEPH LONGSTRETH, b. Dec. 11, 1744; d. May 18, 1803, buried at Horsham; m. at Abington Meeting, April 16, 1772, Susanna Morris, daughter of Joshua and Mary Morris, of Abington,1 b. Sept. 23, 1746; d. August 14, 1814; buried at Abington.

2-11. BENJAMIN LONGSTRETH, b. Sept. 17, 1746; d. August 4, 1802,2 buried at Valley Meeting; m. 1773 (?), Sarah Fussell, daughter of Solomon Fussell and his second wife, Rachel (Wilson) Fussell, b. Dec. 12, 1751; d. April 23, 1797, buried at Pikeland Burying-ground.
Contradictory statements attend the three great events of Benjamin Longstreth's life. One has already been spoken of (p. 46). Regarding his marriage, the "Dawson Family Records" quotes a correspondent who states
that "Benjamin Longstreth married Sarah Wilson, who died in 1797." This is an error; her mother's name was Wilson. As the daughter of Solomon Fussell by his second marriage, Sarah Fussell was half-sister to William Fussell. (See 2-1.)

THIRD GENERATION.

Children of William and Sarah (Longstreth) Fussell.

3-1. SUSANNA FUSSELL, b. Jan. 29, 1753; d. July 26, 1819; m. at Pikeland Meeting, Nov. 14, 1775, Aaron Dunkin, son of Samuel Dunkin, of Thornbury, Chester County, Pa., b. d. Dec. 7, 1791. A certificate of removal was given by Goshen Meeting to Aaron Dunkin, wife and child, to Uwchlan Meeting, 7 mo. 6, 1780; and a certificate from Uwchlan to Goshen Meeting for Aaron Dunkin, wife and three children, 7 mo. 4, 1782.

Eight children, DUNKIN:
4-1. Lydia, b. July 10, 1776; d. Aug. 28, 1776.
4-2. Ann, b. Aug. 9, 1777; d. Sept. 6, 1777.
4-3. Sarah, b. Aug. 30, 1778; d. Jan. 28, 1845. Dillin. LONGSTRETH.
4-4. Ann, b. Feb. 5, 1781; d. Unm.
4-5. Susanna, b. May 11, 1782; d. Apr. 25, 1814. Webster.
4-6. Martha, b. Apr. 5, 1784; d. Oct. 5, 1849. Watson.
4-7. Gulielma b. July 30, 1787; d. Aug. 3, 1864, buried at Uwchlan. Unm.
4-8. Elizabeth, b. May 23, 1789; d. Mar. 14, 1810. Unm.

3-2. BARTHOLOMEW FUSSELL, b. Sept. 28, 1754; d. near Kimberton, Pa., Oct. 17, 1838; m. at Byberry Meeting, June 6, 1781, Rebekah Bond, daughter of Joseph and Esther (Jeanes) Bond,1 b. Dec. 9, 1751; d. March 4, 1851, both buried at Pikeland Friends' Burying-ground.

(Joseph Bond was the son of Richard and Charity Bond. Esther Jeanes was the daughter of William Jeanes and Esther Brewer, b. 1682, who is said to have been the first female child born in Philadelphia. Joseph and Esther Bond lived in Delaware County, Pa., near Radnor.) [I have found no records whatsoever pertaining to a Richard and Charity Bond in the Philadelphia area at the time of Joseph's birth, 1708. While it possible, of course, I do not believe it likely. See Bond family page for other evidence pertaining to Joseph Bond and his family.]

Bartholomew Fussell was born in Philadelphia; in his youth he moved with his parents to a farm near Phoenixville; at one time he lived in Montgomery County. A reminiscence of his early life which he related to Daniel Longstreth (4-48) indicates the expedients made necessary by the hardships of the Revolution. At that time they made wooden buttons at Joseph Longstreth's (2-10), but had no wire for shanks, as none could be bought during the war. Bartholomew Fussell and John Fitch made wire out of an old brass kettle belonging to Joseph Longstreth, and so supplied their needs. He said that one morning he had turned, polished, and shanked a gross of buttons before eleven o'clock.

He moved with his family to Maryland, and became a member of Little Falls (now Fallston) Meeting. He expected with the aid of his sons to do a great work in farming, but the evils of slavery made it impossible for any one holding his inherited views to carry on the farm under southern conditions. In 1830 he returned to Chester County, and lived with his daughter, Esther Lewis. At the time of his death he was a member of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting. For many years he was a highly esteemed minister among Friends, and at his death a memorial of him was published.1 He died at his daughter's farm, being, as it was said, "young at eighty-four." His wife, who survived him many years, died at the advanced age of ninety-nine years.

Eight children, FUSSELL:
4- 9. Esther, b. Mar. 18, 1782; d. Feb. 8, 1848. Lewis.
4-10. William, b. June 30, 1783; d. June 4, 1856. Foulke.
4-11. Sarah, b. Sept. 10, 1784; d. Aug. 11, 1860. Jacobs.
4-12. Joseph, b. Apr. 26, 1787; d. Oct. 15, 1855. Moore.
4-13. Solomon, b. June 28, 1789; d. Mar. 1, 1849. Moore. Lewis.
4-14. Jacob, b. Feb. 7, 1792; d. Aug. 7, 1855. Whitaker.
4-15. Bartholomew, b. Jan. 9, 1794; d. Jan. 14, 1871. Morris. Hewes.
4-16. Rebecca, b. Apr. 21, 1796; d. July 8, 1882. Trimble.

Children of Bartholomew and Rebekah (Bond) Fussell.

4-9. ESTHER FUSSELL, b. Mar. 18, 1782, at Hatboro; d. Feb. 8, 1848; m. at Little Falls Meeting, Md., Sept. 10, 1818, John Lewis, Jr., son of John and Grace (Meredith) Lewis, b. Mar. 29, 1781; d. Feb. 5, 1824. (John Lewis was a great-grandson of Henry Lewis, of Narberth, Wales, who came to this country in 1682, settled at Uplands, now Chester, and afterwards moved to Haverford, Pa. He was a friend and correspondent of William Penn. Henry Lewis, son of Evan, married at Friends' Meeting Llandwig, Wales, March 20, 1670, Margaret Prauterain. Their son Henry, born 1671, married at Friends' Meeting, Springfield, Pa., 1692, Mary Taylor, daughter of Robert and Mary (Hayes) Taylor. Henry Lewis was a man of note, a member of the Assembly in 1715 and 1718. His son John, born 1697, married at Friends' Meeting, Haverford, 1725, Catherine, daughter of Abel and Mary Roberts, and had a son John, born 1737, who married first, Mary Thomas; second, 1775, Grace Meredith, born 1744, died 1823.--"Genealogy of the Fussell Family," by Edwin Neal Fussell. N. Y. 1891.--Dr. George Smith's "History of Delaware County.")

Five children, LEWIS:.
5-17. Mariann, b. June 1819; d. Sept. 3, 1866. Unm.
5-18. Rebecca, b. June 10, 1820; d. Apr. 30, 1893. FUSSELL.
5-19. Graceanna, b. Aug. 3, 1821. Unm.
5-20. Charles, b. Sept. 11, 1822; d. Oct. 18, 1823.
5-21. Elizabeth R., b. Jan. 15, 1824; d. Oct. 10, 1863. Unm.

Esther Fussell Lewis was a woman of fine character, who exercised an influence proportionate to her ability and intelligence. After her marriage she lived at West Vincent, Chester County, Pa., upon a farm which was part of a large tract bought in the early settlement of Pennsylvania by her husband's ancestors on the Meredith side. She was early left a widow with four children, the youngest less than a month old. Before her marriage she had been a teacher, first of her own brothers and sisters, and later in large schools; so that she was fitted to undertake the education of her children. In the community where she lived her well-balanced judgment caused her advice to be sought by relatives, neighbors, and dependants. Her life was one of great usefulness and worth. It was she who powerfully influenced her brother, Dr. Bartholomew Fussell, in his determination to secure medical education for women, which resulted in the founding of the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia. It was she who, stirred in her righteous spirit by the iniquity of slavery, influenced her daughters by example and precept towards the activity which they later showed in the "Underground Railroad."

She took great interest in genealogy, and it is to her papers that this book owes much of the information and many of the traditions of early times. She was one of the most careful and accurate of women, and methodical in all she undertook. Before her death she sent copies of the extensive family records that she had compiled to several of her nieces, seeking to perpetuate in them, as she had done in her own daughters, the love of kindred which she so strongly felt.

After the death of their mother, the daughters continued to make the home a center of kindly acts and helpful influences. Their sympathy went out to all in need, and the runaway slave in his flight to freedom enlisted their aid. After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law their house became an important station on the "Underground Railroad," a converging point for many lines when it was unsafe to send the fugitives through Philadelphia. Usually it was necessary to fit them out with clothing, and they often gave their own. When they were sick, they nursed them back to health, and gave them work on the farm or in the kitchen until they were well enough to travel, or until the heat of pursuit was past. So prudent were these sisters that it is not remembered that one slave that passed through their hands was recaptured. Their success, no doubt, was largely due to their different temperaments, one supplementing the others. Mariann was quick in an emergency, when inspiration alone could save from disaster. Elizabeth, whose health prevented much exertion, was the wise counseller who laid the plans; her dauntless spirit never wavered before any difficulties. Graceanna was the executive member of the group, and took all the active part in the plans. Their married sister Rebecca, and Dr. Bartholomew Fussell also aided in the work, both being active abolitionists.

Mariann was extremely sensitive and retiring and few knew her unselfish devotion to the happiness of others. "She was a martyr of kindness, and could not protect herself when the comfort of others was in consideration. In consequence, she was beloved to an unusual degree, but it wore out her life all too soon."--G. L.

Graceanna was always a lover of nature, and the study she gave to it at first from mere joy, became later a support and consolation. In 1869 she printed a pamphlet showing the relation of birds to the animal kingdom. Her classification was based on her own out-door study, and the use of the library and specimens of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, under the direction of John Cassin, one of the leading ornithologists of the world. This pamphlet was the germ of the charts that she prepared later,--"Chart of the Classification of Birds," "Chart of the Animal Kingdom," and "Chart of Geology, with special reference to Paleontology." She prepared also, "Microscope Studies," "Water-Color Paintings of Wild Flowers," and "Studies in Forestry." She was invited by Prof. Maria Mitchell, president of the fourth congress of the Association for the Advancement of Women, to write a paper for that meeting. She responded with "The Development of the Animal Kingdom," which was published in pamphlet form and widely distributed among scientists.

At the Centennial Exposition in 1876, she exhibited a wax model in connection with her "Chart of the Animal Kingdom," which was commended by Prof. Huxley and other prominent naturalists. Encouraged by this indorsement, she made a "Chart of the Vegetable Kingdom," which was finished in 1885. Since then she has made a "Chart of the True Fishes." All her charts are revised from time to time to keep up with scientific knowledge, but they still await publication.

Besides her scientific studies, Graceanna Lewis has done notable work in the artistic field. Her water-color studies of wild flowers, plant forms, and forest branches are so true to nature, that she was asked by the Commissioners of Forestry of Pennsylvania to execute fifty paintings of the forest trees in flower, fruitage or autumnal coloring for exhibition at the World's Fair, Chicago, in 1893. These paintings were again exhibited at the St. Louis Fair, in 1904, and were awarded a diploma and gold medal. She has issued a series of Leaf Charts, that show admirably the leaf forms in our principle forest trees; these charts are used in a number of schools and colleges.

In 1870 she was elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences; she is also honorary member of the Rochester (N. Y.) Academy of Science, the American Philosophical Society, the Women's Anthropological Society of America, and a life member of the Delaware County Institute of Science. She lives in Media, where she leads a busy life, writing and painting, and giving her earnest, though no longer active, interest to reform and philanthropic movements of the day.

4-10. WILLIAM FUSSELL, b. June 30, 1783; d. at Fall Creek, Ind., June 4, 1856, m. at Quakertown Meeting, Bucks Co., Pa., Sept. 28, 1809, Jane Foulke, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Roberts) Foulke, b. Aug. 20, 1782; d. at Fall Creek, May 9, 1857, both buried at Fall Creek Burying-ground. (Edward Foulke was a great-grandson of Edward Foulke, son of Foulke Thomas, of Merionethshire, Wales, who was born July 3, 1651, emigrated with his wife Eleanor and nine children in 1698, and settled at Gwynned, Pa. His son Hugh, born 1685, married in 1713, Ann Williams, who died 1773; their son John, born 1722, died 1787, married Mary, daughter of Edward and Mary (Bolton) Roberts, who died 1787. Their son Edward, born 1758, died 1839, married first, in 1781, Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of Thomas and Letitia (Ray) Roberts.--"Genealogy of the Fussell Family," Foulke Appendix.)

After his marriage William Fussell lived first near Chester Springs, Pa., and later in West Fallowfield. "In consequence of the inflation and collapse of values following the declaration of peace in 1815, which ended the Second War with Great Britain, he found himself in debt, and to better his fortune he moved in 1827 from Chester County to the neighborhood of Philadelphia. He prospered here, and in a few years returned to his former neighborhood and paid his old debts in full, principal and interest.

His home was a station on the 'Underground Railroad' from which many a fugitive was speeded on to freedom."--Joseph Fussell, (5-25).

Five children, FUSSELL:
5-22. Eliz. Roberts, b. July 31, 1810; d. June 10, 1888. Hardy.
5-23. Edwin, b. June 14, 1813; d. Mar. 10, 1882. LEWIS.
5-24. Esther Ann, b. Feb. 22, 1818; d. Apr. 19, 1901. JACOBS.
5-25. Joseph, b. Aug. 7, 1820; d. Sept. 5, 1904. Roberts.
5-26. Milton, b. June 11, 1823; d. Nov. 17, 1902. Haldeman.

4-11. SARAH FUSSELL, b. Sept. 10, 1784; d. Aug. 11, 1860; m. Dec. 8, 1812, Thomas P. Jacobs, son of Thomas and Lydia Jacobs, b. Apr. 25, 1789; d. Mar. 10, 1861, both buried in Pikeland Burying-ground.

Three children, JACOBS:
5-27. Rebecca Fussell, b. Apr. 30, 1815; d. Apr. 9, 1871. Brown. Tyson.
5-28. Charles Pennell, b. Oct. 6, 1816; d. Oct. 6, 1901. FUSSELL.
5-29. Lydia Pennell, b. Mar. 11, 1821; d. 1884. Murray.

4-12. JOSEPH FUSSELL, b. Apr. 26, 1787, in Chester County, Pa., d. at Fall Creek, Ind., Oct. 15, 1855; m. at Gwynedd Meeting, Montgomery Co., Pa., June 14, 1814, Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Henry and Priscilla (Jackson) Moore (see 4-13), b. Feb. 19, 1790; d. at Fall Creek, Feb. 19, 1865, both buried at Fall Creek Burying-ground. (Henry Moore was great-great-grandson of Thomas Lloyd, Governor of Pennsylvania by appointment of William Penn in 1??84. Thomas Lloyd came to Pennsylvania from Dolobran, Wales, with his wife and five daughters. These daughters all married men of note in the early days of the Commonwealth. Rachel married Dr. Samuel Preston; Elizabeth married Daniel Zachary; Deborah married Mordecai Moore; Hannah married first, John Delatal; second, Richard Hill; Mary married Isaac Norria. Samuel and Rachel Preston's daughter Margaret married Dr. Richard Moore, of Maryland; their son Mordecai married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Coleman, of Maryland. The son of Mordecai and Elizabeth Moore was Henry, who married Priscilla Jackson.--"Genealogy of the Fussell Family," Moore Appendix.)

About three years after their marriage, they moved to Baltimore County, Md., where they remained nearly twelve years. While here, their experience of slavery impressed them deeply with a sense of its evils, and they bore their testimony against it, even in that early day, by abstaining as far as possible from the use of the products of slave labor. Thus they infused into the minds of their children a spirit of antagonism to slavery, which prepared them all to join the ranks of the abolitionists in the earliest days. In 1828 they returned to Pennsylvania, and lived near Philadelphia on a dairy farm until 1846, when they moved to Indiana, travelling the distance in a two-horse wagon, and settled at Fall Creek, Madison County, where they died beloved of all who knew them.

Nine children, FUSSELL
5-30. Henry Bartholomew, b. Mar. 15, 1815; d. Dec. 28, 1890. Douglass.
5-31. Priscilla, b. d. in infancy.
5-32. Rebecca Bond, b. July 14, 1818; d. Aug. 14, 1880. Rogers.
5-33. Samuel, b. July 31, 1819; d. Apr. 15, 1876. Lee. Rogers.
5-34. Mary Jane, b. Nov. 21, 1821; d. Aug. 20, 1854. Hodges.
5-35. Eliz. Moore, b. Mar. 18, 1827; d. Mar. 26, 1903. Lewis.
5-36. Solomon, b. d. aged 14 months.
5-37. Solomon, b. d. aged 2 weeks.
5-38. John Lewis, b. Aug. 8, 1830; d. Apr. 30, 1908. HARDY.

4-13. SOLOMON FUSSELL, b. June 28, 1789, near Phoenixville; d. at Fall Creek, Ind., Mar. 1, 1849; m. first at Gwynedd Meeting, Feb. 6, 1816, Milcah Martha Moore, daughter of Henry and Priscilla (Jackson) Moore (see 4-12), b. Jan. 20, 1792, d. Aug. 16, 1833, both buried at Fall Creek Burying-ground.

About 1810 he moved with his parents to Baltimore County, Md., but returned to Pennsylvania while still a young man. In 1830 or 1831 he went west to seek a home for himself and family, and traveled as far as Milton, Wayne County, Ind., beyond which the roads were almost impassable. In the autumn of 1832 he moved with his wife and five children from Chester County, Pa., to Fall Creek, the journey being made in a two-horse wagon, and requiring an entire month.

The next year was one of great mortality in his family. He suffered first the loss of his wife; soon after three of his children died within a single week, he himself being too sick at the time to be conscious of his loss. As soon as he was well enough, he left his two remaining children with a relative, and returned to the East, making the long journey, though still in feeble health, on horseback. In the autumn of 1836, he went back to Indiana, this time on foot, driving before him a herd of fine cattle. His luggage was carried in a pair of saddle-bags slung over the back of a cow.

Eleven children by the first marriage, FUSSELL:
5-39. Bartholomew Bond, b. Jan. 19, 1817; d. Sept. 8, 1818.
5-40. Priscilla Moore, b. Sept. 25, 1818; d. Aug. 6, 1886. Thomas.
5-41. Sarah Jacobs, b. Aug. 15, 1820; d. 1833.
5-42. Bartholomew Bond, b. Oct. 16, 1822; d. 1833.
5-43. Henry Moore, b. Nov. 23, 1823; d. 1825.
5-44. Milcah Martha, b. Oct. 16, 1825; d. Apr. 11, 1878. Lewis.
5-45. Mary Lukens, b. Nov. 16, 1827; d. Nov. 30, 1827. buried at Pikeland.
5-46. Esther Lewis, b. Mar. 5, 1829; d. 1833.
5-47. Solomon, b. Nov. 26, 1830; d. July 1, 1831, buried at Pikeland.
5-48. Rebecca Jane, b. Jan. 19, 1832; d. Sept. , 1832, buried at Pikeland.
5-49. Marion W., b. d. Sept. 8, 1833.

Solomon Fussell married second, at Fall Creek Meeting, Dec. 1, 1836, Hannah Lewis, daughter of Joseph and Lydia Lewis, formerly of Willistown, Chester County, Pa., b. July 22, 1800; d. at Fall Creek, Sept. 8, 1874, buried at Fall Creek Burying-ground. Solomon Fussell was a man greatly esteemed by everyone, because of his character of strictest integrity. All his life he was a conscientious anti-slavery and temperance advocate, abstaining as far as possible from the products of slave-labor. He was among the first in his neighborhood, it is said, who refused to give liquor to his men in harvest time; yet he never lacked help, although the experiment was one which few farmers ventured to try, lest their grain should be left uncut in the fields.

Two children by the second marriage, FUSSELL:
5-50. Lydia J., b. Aug. 9, 1838; d. Feb. 28, 1872. Sharp.
5-51. Anna Wood, b. Nov. 17, 1841. Living in Richmond, Ind. Unm.

4-14. JACOB FUSSELL, b. Feb. 7, 1792, in Chester Co., Pa.; d. n. Frankford, Phila., Aug. 7, 1855, buried at Frankford Meeting; m. at Fallston Meeting, Md., Dec. 4, 1814, Clarissa Whitaker, daughter of Joshua and Ruth (Howard) Whitaker, b. July 5, 1789; d. Apr. 28, 1863, buried in Friends' Burying-ground, Baltimore. They lived in Baltimore County, Md., where their children were all born.

Ten children, FUSSELL:
5-52. William, b. Oct. 5, 1815; d. aged 19.
5-53. Joshua W., b. Oct. 26, 1817; d. Aug. 10, 1896, in Baltimore. Unm.
5-54. Jacob, b. Feb. 24, 1819. Taylor. Kraft.
5-55. Ruthanna, b. Jan. 20, 1821; d. Apr. 22, 1893. Gorsuch.
5-56. Hannah Ellicot, b. Apr. 6, 1822. Hopkins.
5-57. Bartholomew Howard, b. Dec. 16, 1823; d. Dec. 23, 1860. Thompson.
5-58. Joseph B., b. Jan. 15, 1826; d. Dec. 6, 1864. Gordon.
5-59. Philena, b. June 13, 1828; d. May 23, 1894. Martenet.
5-60. Clarissa, b. Feb. 22, 1832. Davis.
5-61. Mary, b. Oct. 20, 1833; d. 1835.

4-15. BARTHOLOMEW FUSSELL, M.D., b. Jan. 9, 1794, in Chester County, Pa.; d. n. Chester Springs, Jan. 14, 1871; m. first, May 26, 1826, Lydia Morris,1 daughter of Morris and Jerusha (Whitton) Morris, b. July 13, 1804, at Fox Chase, Philadelphia; d. July 3, 1840, both buried at Pikeland Burying-ground. (Lydia Morris was a descendant of Susanna Morris (see 2-10, 4-145), and a cousin of Joshua Longstreth (3-62) on the maternal side. When she was left an orphan, he offered her a home, and she was married from his house.)

In early life Bartholomew Fussell went to Maryland, where he taught school while studying medicine. Here he found opportunity to teach the slaves, and he also held classes on First Day for their religious instruction. Many of these slaves, with others of their kind, he afterwards protected and assisted at his home in Pennsylvania when they were making their way to freedom. He was one of the signers of the "Declaration of Sentiments" issued by the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833, and he had the gratification of attending the last meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, called together to celebrate the downfall of slavery in America and to dissolve the organization, its purpose being accomplished.

Dr. Fussell was also well known as an advocate of common school education, of temperance, and of every other principle which he believed important to the welfare of man. He early became convinced, in great measure through the influence of his sister, Esther Lewis, of the peculiar fitness of woman for the practice of medicine. "In the year 1840 he first gave regular instructions to a class of women, and it was through one of these pupils that the first [woman medical] graduate in America became interested in the study of medicine. In 1846 he communicated to a few liberal-minded professional men a plan for the medical education of women. Others, with indomitable zeal, took up the work, and finally, after a succession of disappointments and discouragements, from causes within and without, the Woman's College on North College Avenue, Philadelphia, entered on the career of prosperity it is so well entitled to enjoy. Though never at any time connected officially with the college, he regarded its success with the most affectionate interest, considering its proposition as one of the most important results of his life."

Among his friends Dr. Fussell counted William Lloyd Garrison and John Greenleaf Whittier, with whom his anti-slavery sympathies had made him acquainted, and whose friendship lasted throughout their lives. It was while living in Philadelphia in 1838-40, that Whittier wrote his stirring poem, "The Response." It was addressed to the politicians who were clamoring for the suppression of the abolitionists, and its lines bade them

"Go, hunt sedition--search for that
In every peddler's cart of rags;
Pry into every Quaker's hat,
And Dr. Fussell's saddle-bags;
Lest treason wrap, with all its ills,
Around his powders and his pills."

In the Atlantic Monthly of February, 1874, Whittier speaks again, in his reminiscences of the Convention of 1833, of "the beloved physician of Kennett Square, Dr. Bartholomew Fussell."

Five children, FUSSELL:
5-62. Joshua Longstreth, b. June 9, 1827. Busby.
5-63. Morris, b. June 27, 1829; d. June 28, 1901. Middleton. Moser.
5-64. Susan, b. Apr. 7, 1832; d. July 19, 1889. Unm.
5-65. Lydia Ada, b. June 24, 1837; d. May 18, 1900. Unm.
5-66. Benjamin Lundy, b. Mar. 17, 1840. Justice.

Dr. Fussell married second, Sept. 2, 1841, Rebecca C. Hewes, a widow, daughter of Edward and Rebecca Churchman; he died at the residence of his son, Dr. Morris Fussell, near Chester Springs.

Two children by the second marriage, FUSSELL:
5-67. Edward C., b. Mar. 23, 1843; d. Mar. 22, 1844.
5-68. Edward C., b. Nov. 30, 1845; d. Sept. 17, 1865, at Fall Creek.

Susan Fussell's life was one of usefulness, without which the world would have been the poorer. She began teaching at fifteen, and from that time she never ceased her work for others. In 1861 her brother Joshua, of Fall Creek, entered the army, and she offered to stay with his family during his absence. After a year, there came an urgent call for nurses in the Union hospitals, to which she responded, and was sent to take charge of the Memphis hospital. She remained there eight months, until the fall of Vicksburg; after a short furlough she was sent to Louisville, and later to hospitals in Tennessee and Indiana. Her health breaking under the heavy strain, she was forced to rest; but as soon as she was able she resumed her work, and remained in service till the end of the war.

When this line of duty ended, she turned to the needs of the soldiers' orphans; and this, her chief life-work, began in a modest way. She took into her own home six children whose fathers had fallen in the war. George Merrit of Indianapolis, hearing of her work and hoping that the government would adopt this "family plan" for its wards, established a home for ten children at his own expense, asking Susan Fussell to take charge of it. The government did not adopt the plan, but they asked her to occupy a cottage on the grounds of the Knightstown Home for Soldiers' Orphans, and her advice had great weight in its organization and management. In 1877 she moved her own household to Spiceland to find better educational advantages.

Impressed by the importance of good environment in the bringing up of children, she asked the commissioners of Henry County to change their methods with pauper children,--to take them from the poor-house and give them to her to train. Pending their decision upon her request, she planned a home for feebleminded children, which, as the Knightstown Home for the Feebleminded, stands to-day as the result of her efforts. After two years' consideration, the county decided to give its pauper children into her charge, allowing her the munificent sum of twenty-three cents a day for each child. So earnest was she in her desire to help these poor waifs, that she accepted the terms, until the commissioners were moved to give a more just allowance. The value of this plan having been proved, it resulted in similar homes throughout the state.

Her success with children was due to her love for them and her understanding of child-nature, and her hold upon their affection never waned, so that grey-haired men, revisiting the Knightstown Home, are still proud to introduce themselves as "Miss Fussell's boys." Her death was mourned by hundreds, and by none more sincerely than by those who had once enjoyed her care. She had been elected an honorary member of one of the Grand Army Posts, and six of its members acted as pall-bearers at her funeral.

Ada Fussell also devoted the greater part of her life to others. She had a harmonizing disposition that made her everywhere beloved, and to this was added a sense of humor that brightened the most adverse circumstances. She became a teacher, winning the love and confidence of her pupils by her tact, firmness, and regard for their best welfare. By her refining and uplifting influence over the children she sometimes changed the character of a whole neighborhood.

She studied the Kindergarten system, and from this was led to the study of art. In this she found new inspiration and was looking forward to a happy future devoted to its cultivation, when her sister Susan's failing health called her to Spiceland. Setting aside her own inclinations, she loyally took up the work of the Home, and few, not even her sister, guessed the sacrifice of her ambition. After her sister's death she carried on the work until it was moved elsewhere, when she devoted herself to the care of her farm, and the encouragement of the movements for temperance, peace, and other good causes.
Both sisters were birthright members of the Society of Friends, and are laid side by side in Fall Creek Burying-ground. Their lives are an illustration of the good that may be accomplished by a quiet perseverance in fulfilling the duty that lies nearest.--G. L.

4-16. REBECCA FUSSELL, b. Apr. 21, 1796; d. July 8, 1882; m. Mar. 21, 1837, Joseph Trimble, son of Joseph and Mary (Trimble) Trimble, b. 1810; d. n. Philadelphia, Sept. 14, 1839, both buried in Merion Friends' Burying-ground.

One child, TRIMBLE:
5-69. Esther Jane, b. Mar. 2, 1838; d. June 2, 1888. Lippincott.

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