The collateral ancestry of Stephen Harris

Preface

This book, with the Harris Record which was printed in 1903, and the Smith Record which was printed in 1906, completes the sketches which I have prepared relating to my ancestry in all its lines back to the emigration to this country, which occurred between 1682 and 1745.

It will be noticed tliat so far as these sketches show I am of wholly British origin for several hundred years, as there are no names herein contained suggesting another origin, and as my people mostly come from the interior and Avestern part of England or Scotland, where the population has changed but little for a long period.

It will of course be noticed that the sketches herein given do not, as the Harris and Smith records did, bring down these families to the present time, but only to the date at which a female member of my ancestry in each family married into some other family whose male descent carried down my ancestry a little further.

I have information in some of these families which comes down later than what is herein printed, but my purpose was only to give my own line of descent.

These three books contain all that I have gathered in the study of thirty-five 3'ears, in which I have consulted many original manuscripts and many books; interviewed many people, and submitted most of what I have to the correction of Gilbert Cope, than whom I know no one better qualified to speak. I have confidence that the infonnation herein contained is fairly accurate and that I have pretty well fulfilled my self-imjjoscd task of transmitting to my children wliat I have been able to discover regarding my ancestry.

JOSEPH S. HARRIS.

Reading Terminal,

Philadelphia.

September, 1908.

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X.

XI.

XII

XIII.

John Taylor m. June 6, 1664, Hannah Osborn d. IftSe d. 1688

Isaac Taylor m. Jan., 1695, Martha Roman

Philip Roman m. 1669, Martha Ha rpet

John Worrilow m. Oct. 14, 1690, Ann Mai jg b. 1668 b. Aug.

Rowland Parry m.

Pereifor Frazer m. 17(»0. Margaret Carlton

John Smith m. 1713, Susanna XV b. 1686 b. 1691

Robert Smith m. 1712, Marv b. Sept. 5, 1678 d. 1757

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John Vaughan m. 1729, Emma Parry b. June 5. 1690 b. 1700

XVI.

Robert Smith m. Dee. 20, 1758, Margaret \: b. 1720 b. Nov. 1, 1

d. Dec. 1803 d. March 1.'

XVII.

Joseph Smith b. Sept. 24. 1' d. Dec. IS. 18'

ICVIII.

Marianne Smi b. April 2, 180 d. March 12, 1

A.RIANNE SMITH

!, 1805)

Christopher Warrilow m. Margery d. April 4, 1605 d. 1614

John Worrilow m. 1632, Alice

XI.

Thomas Worrilow m. Aug. 17, 1663, Grace Perkes

Baptized Dec. 20. lO.SC.

John Worrall m. 1657, Elizabeth

John Taylor m. Sept. 10, 171S, Mary Worrilow I'txker b. 1697 b. Jan. 9. 1692

George Maris iq. 16-59. Alice

Thomas Goodwin m. 1680, Elizabeth

.John Worrall m. .\pril 26. 1714. Siuali Goodwin b. Sept. IS, 1658 I.. 1096

John Frazer m. June 16. 1735, Mary Smith

.John Taylor m. 1744. Sarah Worrall 1). 1721 b. Sept. 19, 1722

Persifor Frazer m. Oct. 2, 1766, Mary Worrall Taylor b. Aug. 9, 1736 b. April 8, 1745

,7. 1800. Mary Frazer iril 4. 1833. Stephen Harris / b. Sept. 4, 1798

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

Index

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For History of the Harris Family, see the Harris Record 1 to l'^5

For History of the Smith Family, see the Smith Record 1 to 272

For History of the Campbell Family, see this Record 11 to 1<>

For History of the Bailey Family, see this Record 1 7 to 18

For History of the Hubbard Family, see this Record 19 to 24

For History of the Frazer Family, see this Record 25 to 66

For History of the Vaughan Family, see this Record 67 to 72

For History of the Taylor Family, see this Record 7o to 126

For History of the Parry Family, see this Record 127 to 140

For History of the Robert Smith Family, see this Record 141 to 144

For History of the Worrall Family, see this Record 145 to 154

For History of the Worrilow Family, see this Record 155 to 166

For History of the Goodwin Family, see this Record 167 to 170

For History of the Roman Family, see this Record 171 to 184

For History of the Maris Family, see this Record 185 to 190

THE CAMPBELL FAMILY.

GENERATION XVI.

INDBIX MEMBER OP FAMILY.

HO.

CONSORT.

BIRTH.

MARRIAGE.

DEATH.

BBSIDBNCB.

John Campbell. Mary Hubbard.

New Providence,

Bucks Co.

There was an emigration of Campbells from Scotland in 1685 and for several years thereafter to N"ew Jersey. In 1685 Lord Neil Campbell, brother of the Dnke of Argylc, having been implicated in some political disturbances, fled to East Jersey, where lie had property rights. At that distance from home he was not considered dangerous, and he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of East Jersey in 1686.

He remained one year, but a number of his relatives, two of them being his sons, came out in the next few years. It may have been that .John Campbell's coming had .some connection with this emigration. All that is actually kno^vn is that he was born in Scotland in 1713, and emigrated while still a lad, possibly about 1734. No one of his family is known to have come then or afterwards, which looks a little as if he might have strayed from New Jersey into Eastern Pennsylvania.

We first find him domiciled with Mr. William Da\aes, of near Summit Ridge, New Castle county, Delaware, and we are told "the father would send the lads — Campbell and his owai son, Samuel — to work on the farm. There not being sufficient work done, he determined to watch, and found the lads, each with a book, young Davies instructing young Campbell. Considering that they were but lost unto any service to be expected from them, and as book boys would never make farmers, he complained to the mother, an amiable, prudent woman, who is said to have dedicated her son to the service of God. She replied that if he woidd not make a farmer there was a possibility he would make a scholar, and by her influence her .son was sent to a grammar school" — the Rev. Samuel Blair's Classical School at Eagg's Manor, Chester county. Pa. Samuel Davies graduated there and became a preacher of great ability, a Doctor of Divinity and a pr("^idf'nt of the college of New Jersey at Princeton, where he succeeded Jonathan Edwards in 1759. He was called "the prince of preachers." Samuel Davies received fi'om Princeton the degree of A. M. in 1753. He was born November 3, 1723, and died in 1761.

After Davies' graduation, having a predilection for young Campbell, he assisted him in preparing for the ministry. Campbell's studies were finished at the "Log College," which was founded by Rev. William Tennent in 1726, and presided over by him for about twenty years (he died May 9, 1746) till Princeton became "the best endowed and most desirable of the schools of theology in the vicinity of Philadelphia." The "Log College" educated some of the ablest ministers of the day, and it was during its time the only school south of New England where one could be fitted for the ministry. It stool on the "Old

12 THE HARRIS COLLATERAL ANCESTRY.

York Eoad," half a mile below Hartsville, Bucks county, Pa. Dr. Archibald Alexander, in his "History of the Log College 1850," says that he knew of but one instance — that of David Evans — where any man not educated in a colleg'e was admitted to the ministry in those days. Evans was, however, graduated at Yale College before his admission to the ministry.

The Log College licensed Jolm Camplxdl to preach October 14, 1747. He at once accepted a call to the churches of New Providence, Bucks county, and Charlestown, Chester county, Pa., four miles north of the Great Valley Church, on Pickering Creek, and was installed as their pastor October 27, 1747. He proved himself an animated, practical and faithful preacher of the Gospel. While in the pulpit of the Charlestown Church commencing the morning service, and reading the lines in the old metrical version of the 116th

"Dear in Thy sight is Thy saint's death.

Thy servant. Lord, am I,"

he had an a])oplectic stroke from which he soon died. He died on Tuesday, and his seizure was probably on the previous Sunday. He was buried at his home in Xew Providence. A stone slab in the graveyard of what is now called the North Wales Presbyterian Church covers his grave, and bears this inscrip-

"Here lieth the body of Rev. John Campbell, who departed this life ^Liy 1, 1753, aged aboiTt 40 years.

In 3'onder house I spent my breath, Now silent mouldering her I ly in death.

These silent lips shall wake and yet declare A dread Amen to Truths they published there."

The lines are supposed to have been written by his friend, Samuel Davies, and iirst used here. They were used several times afterward — once on the tomb of Davies' instructor, Eev. Samuel Blair, at Fagg's Manor.

He married Alary Hub])ard soon after he was installed pastor, and at his death left her with two children. She married, two years later, Richard Richison, and her children were brought up in his household. His daughter, Mary, who became ilrs. William ILirris in 1780, could have had no recollection of her father, who died when she was fourteen months old, and, so far as I have learned, there are no family traditions attached to his name. Several ponderous folios of seventeenth century divinity by English authors were preserved at home when I was a Iwy, and some of them are still in existence ; but they are the only records of his life, or the only things that still survive M'hich have any relation to him.

Richard Richison was a prominent member of St. Peter's P. E. Church. He died in E. Wliiteland in 171)0.

THE campbe:.l family.

GENERATION XVII.

INDEX NO.

MBMEBB OF FAMILY.

CONSORT.

BIRTH.

MARRIAGE. DEATH.

RESIDENCE.

John Campbell.

Mary Campbell.

never married.

William Harris.

East Whiteland,

Chester Co.

John Campbell (XVII 1) is not known to have married. lie was a carpenter in Chester county. He went West about 1779, and though he was heard from there, he soon disappeared and nothing is known of his subsequent history.

In February, 1779, he executed a power of attorney empowering his sister, Mary Campbell, to act for him concerning his interest in the estate of his uncle, Stephen Hubbard. This interest he sold to his sister Mary, January 10, 1780. February 12, 1782, he directs Dorscy Penticost, Surveyor General, to give William Harris a co])y of drafts of his two tracts of land of 400 acres each on the west side of the River Ohio, one lying on the Mingo path, the other on Robinson's River, and including a mill seat, surveyed 1774. He also directs William Crawford to deliver to William Harris a draft of 400 acres, surveyed in 1774, on the west side of the River Ohio in the forks of Half Moon Creek, within six miles of Fort Pitt. This is the last communication from him.

Mary Campbell (XVII 2) lived with her stepfather, Richard Richison, who was the next neighbor to the eastward of my gTeat-graudfather, Thomas Harris, but as he was a man of Tory proclivities and did not approve of his stepdaughter marrying a man who w^as an officer of the Revolutionary Army, the marriage between William Harris and Mary Campbell was made at the house of William's brother, John Harris, in Willistown.

There is not much remembered about her early life. Public business called her husband a good deal from home and left her in charge. It may have been when he was in the Legislature in 1810 that she found her sons, William and James, fighting in the barn. She called them out, whipped them both, and ordered them to keep the peace.

After her husband's death, in 1812, she still lived at the old homestead. It was left to his wife during her life, after which his son John was to inherit it.

The first note of her character that I have heard relates to her daughter IMary, born 1786, died 1791, her only daughter, and very much beloved by her. She was taken with small-pox and was very seriously sick. At the crisis of her disease her mother, worn out with nursing and overcome by grief, made up her mind in the night that she would go out to a spot, east of the house,

14 THE HARRIS COLLATERAL A^'CESTRY.

that in my jouth was marked bv a large English walnut tree, and there wrestle with God in prayer till He should give her her child's life. On the way out she recovered her self-control, and recognizing that she had no right to make such a demand, returned to the child's bedside and watched her die.

At another time she had a servant in the house who was a child of worthless parents. As she sat one day at her sewing she looked up suddenly from her work and exclaimed, "Mrs. Harris, my mother can put a spell on you," to which Mrs. Harris replied only, ''You go on with yoiir sewing." "But she can," the girl jx>rsisted, "and so can I." She was again told to attend to her work ; but Mrs. Harris soon began to have strange feelings which she could not conquer, fight against them as she would ; one physical symptom being as if a strong spider's web was being drawn over her face. As she feared that she was Ix'ing worsted she, as she was wont to do in difficulties, retired to her room to seek help in prayer, and asked that if the child were really possessed of the devil the Lord would in some way remove her. Her mind quieted by prayer, she returned do^^^l stairs, when a knock at the door announced the girl's father, who said that he had concluded that they wanted her at home, and had come to take her away.

Mrs. Harris was a woman of great physical vigor, and she had a strong mind and strong religious faith. The story is told for whatever it signifies.

A picture renmins of her which was painted when she was perhaps sixtyfive years of age, say in 1817. It is said to be a fair likeness. It was painted by a travelling painter, who in some way persuaded her to sit for it, though she gave the matter such little heed that she sat for it in her ordinary dress. She was tall and not specially handsome, having in her later days a large nose and deep set eyes. She had plentiful chestnut brown hair, which, to the day of her death, was but slightly tinged with gray.

She kept house alone when her youngest son, Stephen, first started to practice medicine in the neighborhood of his brother William, about six miles east of the old homestead ; but either because his mother wished it, or because it promised a better business opening, he removed to her house and spent the rest of her life with her.

After his nuirriage, in 1833, Stephen's wife took charge of the house, relieving her mother-in-law.

Being of very affectionate nature, her solicitude for her sons continued till they were middle-aged men. When drinking the sparkling water from the spring which supplied her house, she would often say, "I never drink this without thinking of the vile water John has to drink on shipboard," John being an officer of the U. S. Marine Corps and much at sea. The numerous letters from her sons remain to testify to the respect and affection they felt for her. In her last years she grew childish, but was not troublesome nor unreasonable, though somewhat headstrong.

Her son Stephen had procured for her bedroom, which was the southwest comer room in the second story, the earliest form of an anthracite heating

THE CAMPBELL FAMILY. 15

stove, which, from its inventor, was called the "Nott" stove. lie always arranged the dampers before going to bed and insisted that she should not disturb them, as the stove would throw out gas if they were improperly set. One morning he found the dampers wrongly turned, the room full of gas and his mother dead ; but whether from the effect of the gas or from natural causes, such as a stroke of apoplexy, is not known.

During her lifetime several of her grandchildren, the children of Campbell and William, lived with her and were educated at the Chester County Academy. Levi Bull Smith, a cousin of my mother's, also lived with her for two years, about 1820, and studied at the academy. It was doubtless the way in which persons sought an education for their children in those days, when good schools were rare, to send them to live with their friends. Thomas and William Harris were so educated at the Brandywine Academy, living at their Aunt Betsy Macelduff's before the Chester County Academy was built.

She lies beside her husband in the churchyard of the Great Valley Presbyterian Church. Her tombstone bears the inscription:

"To the memory

of

Mrs. Mary Harris,

daughter of the

Revd. John Campbell,

and relict of Gen. William Harris,

who died

November 26, 1837,

aged

eighty-five years."

I have a distinct recollection of my grandmother, though I was less than nineteen months old when she died. I was concerned with her in a transaction for which I was blamed, and the memory of it is still clear to me.

For an account of her husband, William Harris, see Harris record.

THE 3IAEEIS COLLATERAL ANCESTRY.

GENERATION XVIII.

INDEX NO.

MEMBER OF FAMILT.

MARSIAOE.

BBSIDENCE.

The Children of Maby Campbell (XVII 2) and Wiluam Habbis.

XVIII

Campbell Harris.

Jane Lee.

Geneseo, N. Y.

Thomas Harris.

I. Jane Phillips

Hodgdon.

II. Esther White

Macpherson.

Mary Harris.

John Harris.

I. Mary Forster.

II. Mary Gilliat

Gray.

Washington, D. G.

SVilliam Harris.

Elizabeth Matilda

James Bailey

Harris.

Patterson.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Maria Driesbach.

June 23. ISSl.

Geneseo, N. Y.

Stephen Harris.

Marianne Smith.

Philadelphia, Pa.

For notes on the lives of the children of Mary Campbell and William Harris

see the Harris record.

NOTES.

THE CAMPBET.T. FAiflLY.

NOTES.

NOTES.

TlIF, rA:MPBKl.T, FA:\riT,Y.

KOTES.

THE BAILEY FAMILY.

THE BAILEY FAMILY.

GENERATION XV.

INDEX NO.

MBMBEIB OF FAMILY.

CONSORT.

BIRTH.

MARRIAGE!.

DEATH. RESIDBNCH.

XV o 3

Alexander Baillie.

William W. Baillie.

Edward Bayley.

Margaret Feogan.

about 171S.

Apr., 1758. Willistown, Pa.

about 1765. Willistown, Pa.

Raplioe, Ireland.

Of the father of these Baillies we only are told that he was a poor man in Ireland.

Ale.\ander Baillie (XV 1) came to America abont 1716 and prospered. His name first appears on the list of taxables in 1725. He bought 100 acres of land in Willistown from Michael Jobson January 24, 1730. Having no family except his wife, he sent for his brother William, who was poor and blind. He came over not far from 1743, and lived with his daughter, ElizaiDcth, at Alexander's house. At that time his daughter Ann was married, but Elizabeth was not, and William had given all his substance, which was considerable, to Ann. Alexander's wife, Margaret Feogan, died before him, leaving no children, and Alexander, by his will, left his property, two-thirds to William Bayley, and one-third (the wife's portion) to his kinsman and friend, Giles Feogan, perhaps her brother.

There is no traditional knowledge of the emigration of the Baileys, except that the ship on which they came was overhauled by pirates who then infested every sea on which commerce was carried to such an extent that in the columns of the "American ^lercury," published weekly in Philadelphia in the middle of the eighteenth century, acts of piracy are constantly chronicled and excite no more comment as incidents of travel than do heavy gales of wind or any other disagreeable phenomenon. The pirates of those days were highway robbers and not ordinary nuirderers. That trait developed later when the severities used in punishing them caused reprisals; and when the Baileys' ship was taken, while they doubtless plundered the vessel of most of its valuables, the act which created the deej^est impression was their taking the vessel's supply of drinking water. For lack of this necessity of life the ship's company suffered gTeatly, some of the children dying for want of it, and their cries and her own sufferings, made such an impression on Elizabeth Bailey's mind that in her later life she said that she never took a drink of water without first thanking God for it. It is only related of her that she was slight of person and little of stature. The Baileys were Episcopalians and their place of worship was at St. Peter's church, two miles north of their home, where it is on record that Thomas Harris held pew ISTo. 16 in 1786.

THE HARRIS COLLATERAL ANCESTRY.

Edward Bayley, LL.D. (XV 3), the uncle who brought up Elizabeth

Bailey, is called by her brother-in-law Bishop of Raphoe. He assisted his

brother "William after he came to America also. Raphoe is a market town of

Donegal, 15 miles S. S.W. of Londonderry. Its see was nnited with Derry in

1835. He is recorded as being Rector of the parishes of Killmegan and Kilcow

in the Diocese of Down, Ireland, in 1747, and as Treasurer of the Diocese in

1755 and 1757, and he was the only clergyman of that name in that part of

Ireland.

GENERATION XVI.

INDEX MO.

MEMBER OF FAMILY.

BESIDENCE.

The Children of Wilijam W. Baillie (XV 2) and

Ann Bailey.

Elizabetli Bailey.

I. Richard McCaden.

II. Henry McQuaid.

Thomas Harris.

II. Apr. 1.17iJS.

Easttown. Pa.

Willistown. Pa.

The will of Richard McCaden, made Angnst 29, 1757, probated October 1, 1757, appoints his wife, Ann, and Isaac Wayne executors. His name is on the assessor's list from 1749 to 1757, b\it not in 1747.

Henry McQuaid and Agnes McCaden -were married in Christ church, Philadelphia. His name is on the assessor's list in Easttown in 1758, but not in 1774. In 1764 he owned 160 acres of land.

For an account of Thomas Harris see Harris Record.

GENERATION XVII.

The Children of Richard McCaden (XVI 1) and .\nn Bailey.

Elizabeth McCaden.

about 17.S7.

Margaret McCaden.

Mary McCaden.

John McCaden.

The Children of Elizab eth Bailey (XVI 2) and Thomas Harris.

Mary Harris.

in infancy.

Bailey Harris.

John Harris.

Mary Bowen.

Willistown, Pa.

Jane Harris.

never married.

William Harris.

Mary Campbell.

East Whitelaud. Pa.

Margaret Harris.

David Christie.

East Wbiteland, Pa.

Elizabeth Harris.

Joseph Mackeldii£f.

Brandvwine Manor, Pn.

Tredyffrin, Pa.

Agnes Harris.

Israel Davis.

about ISOl.

Hannah Harris.

George Calbraith.

i

McVeytov.u, Pa.

For an accoimt of the children of Elizabeth Bailey (XVI 2) and Thomas Harris, see Harris Record.

THE BAILEY FAMTI.Y.

NOTES.

THE BAIT.ET FAMILY.

NOTES.

THE BAILEY FAMILY.

NOTES.

THE BAILET FAMILY.

NOTES.

THE HUBBABD FAMILY.

THE HUBBAED FAMILY.

Lower, in his "J'amily Siinianies," derives this name from the Anglo- Saxon "hnghbert," "disposed to joy and gladness.'' It is frequently spelled "Hubbert" in the early records in this country. They seem to have been of Welsh origin.

Thomas Hubbard (XV 1), who was the einigrant, settled in Tredyffrin township, within the limits of the Welsh tract. The township's name is derived from "Tre" or '"tref," "to\vn or township," and "Dyffrin," "the wide cultivated valley," and means "the township in the wide cultivated valley." It is sometimes called in the old deeds "Valley town."

GENERATION XV.

DBX JO.

MEMBER OF FAMILY.

CONSORT.

BIRTH.

MARRIAGE.

DEATH.

RBSIDBNCB.

Thomas Hubbard.

Mark Hubbert.

Sidney.

Alice.

Tredyffiin,

Chester Co.

Willistown,

Thomas Hubbert and Hark Hubbert, his br<jther, are among the 31 land o-wners of Tredyffrin in 1722. Thomas Hubbert is on a similar list of 21 land owners in 171.5. Thomas Hubbert and Stephen Hubbert and Thomas Hubbard appear in the same way in 1753, but there is no one of the name on the list in 1774.

Thomas Hubbard (XV 1) was an early settler of the Wesh tract. The first notice of his settlement is that he bought of William Cuerton 200 acres of land in the Great Valley, October 29, 1712; 100 acres of which he sold, March 20, 1713, to James Parry. He was a farmer and lived about a mile west of the Great Valley Presbyterian Church, on the farm which, in ISSO, was owned by Mordeeai Cornog. It is on the south side of the North Valley Hill, and is a fine place with good buildings. He was, in 1720, one of the chief promoters of the building of the Great Valley Presbyterian Church.

His wife, born 1694, died in 179S, on 'the authority of Elizabeth Ann Eiehison (]\Irs. Lewis Shee), one of her great-great-granddaughters, who was a careful family historian.

Mark Hubbert (XV 2) was taxed in Tredyffrin, 1718 to 1724, and in Willistown, 1725 to 1738. His will is dated December 1, 1738, and proved

THE HAEKIS COLLATERAL ANCESTRY.

February 27, 1739. To his brother Thomas he gave five shillings. His plantation of 160 acres he gave to his -wafe during her life and then to Elizabeth Humphrey, daughter of Benjamin Humphrey. No children are mentioned. Alice Hubbert, his widow, died in September, 17-41.

GENERATION XVI.

INDEX NO.

MEMBER OF FAMILY.

RESIDBNCB.

The Children of Thomas Hubbard and Sidney.

1 2

Elizabeth Hubbard.

Thomas Hubbard,

Jr.

Stephen Hubbard.

Mary Hubbard.

Methuselah Df.vis.

Rachel Phipps. never married.

I. John Campbell.

II. Richard Richison.

about 171S.