shaw West Monthly Meeting, Margaret Hardman, of Aspull, Lancashire, and
settled in West Darby, Lancashire. On 3mo. 27, 1684, they received from Hard-
shaw Meeting a certificate to remove themselves and their family "into the Prov-
ince of Pensilvania in America," which certificate gives them a very high recom-
mendation as to honesty and sobriety. They sailed from Dolyseme, Merioneth-
shire, Wales, in the ship "Vine," of Liverpool, and arrived at Philadelphia, 7mo.
17, 1684, accompanied by their five daughters and two sons, "Thomas Canby, his
sister's son," and several servants. They settled in Bucks county, where he took
up several large tracts of land, and where he became one of the most prominent
mentmenof hisday. He was foremanofthefirst grand jury of the county; overseer
of highways ; Justice of the county courts, and a member of Provincial Assembly,
1685-87-88-90 and 98. He married (second) at his own house, under the care of
Middletown Meeting, 8mo. 13, 1692, Mary, widow of James RadcliiTe, a native
of Lancashire, and an eminent minister among Friends. His daughter, Sarah
Baker, born at West Darby, Lancashire, 8mo. 16, 1672, married at the same time
and place, Stephen Wilson, of West Jersey, carpenter, who died 8mo. 29, 1707,
and she married (second), in 1709, Isaac Milnor, and died 2mo. 29, 171 5. Her
first husband and the father of Rebecca Wilson, born 6mo. 29, 1701, who married
William Smith, was one of the most active of the members of Falls Monthly
Meeting in Bucks county, though residing across the river in New Jersey, near
the Falls. During the winter months a Meeting was held at his house. He had
charge of the erection of the first Friends' Meeting House in Buckingham at the
time of his decease.
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Issue of Joseph and Rebecca (Harrold) Gillingham:
Rachel Harrold, b. 4mo. 8, 1803, d. 6mo. 24, 1803;
Samuel Harrold, b. 7mo. 31, 1804, d. 2mo. 10, 1854; of whom presently;
Mary Ann, b. ymo. 30, 1806, d. 8mo. 3, 1807;
Anna, b. i2mo. 5, 1807, d. 7mo. 21, 1869; m. June 12, 1833, at "Bellevue," near Holmes-
burg, John Ferris, son of Edward and Lydia (Grubb) Gilpin, being his second wife.
They had two children, Rebecca Harrold, m. Fairman Rogers, and George, b. Phila.,
Dec. 21, 1830, m. Sarah C. Winston;
Emmeline, b. iimo. II, iSog, d. imo. 23, 1877; m. lomo. 13, 1842, Dilworth Buckman;
lived at Fox Chase, Phila. cc, until March 9, 1852, when they removed to Accotink,
Va., where she d.;
Elizabeth, b. i2mo. 20, 1811, d. lomo. 12, 1879, unm.;
Rebecca Harrold, b. Ilmo. 12, 1813, d. 6mo. 15, 1888, unm.;
Josephine, b. 3mo. 3, 1816, d. 4mo. 12, 1817;
Joseph Harrold, b. 8mo. 18, 1818, d. 3mo. 7, 1900, in Phila., bur. at Laurel Hill Cemetery;
Catharine, b. iimo. 20, 1820, unm.;
Frances, b. 7mo. 2, 1823, d. 2mo. 22, 1894, bur. at Laurel Hill;
Caroline, b. gmo. 17, 1825, unm.
Samuel Harrold Gillingham, eldest son of Joseph and Rebecca (Harrold)
Gillingham, born July 31, 1804, died in Philadelphia, February 10, 1854. He
married (first), December 12, 1823, at Frankford Meeting, Lucy Lewis Eddy,
born May 10, 1803, died September i, 1836, ninth child of George Eddy, of
Philadelphia, by his wife Hester, daughter of Ellis Lewis, of Philadelphia, by his
second wife, Mary Deshler. Ellis Lewis, was a descendant of the Lords of Nan-
nan, Merionethshire, Wales ; and Lucy Lewis Eddy also descended from Nathan-
iel Newlin, of Chester county, member of Assembly, and from Nicholas Newlin,
Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania, in 1685. An account of her ancestry fol-
lows this sketch. Samuel Harrold Gillingham married (second), in Philadelphia,
June 30, 1839, Louisa M. (Stitcher) Hubbs, a widow, daughter of John and Sarah
(Clemens) Stitcher.
Issue of Samuel H. and Lucy Lewis (Eddy) Gillingham:
Frances Eddy, b. Oct. 4, 1827, d. May 11, 1896; m. March 23, 1852, Dr. Jared Kibbee, of
Port Huron, Mich., of which city he was Mayor in 1866. They had issue :
Ada Follonsbee Kibbee, m. Theodore R. Wright;
Lucy Eddy Kibbee:
Harrold Gillingham Kibbee;
Henry Clinton Kibbee, m. Louise Halbig;
Eleanor P. Kibbee;
Frances Lewis Kibbee, m. Cyrus Alvin Hovey.
Harrold, b. Sept. 15, 1828, d. Sept. 4, 1829;
Rebecca Harrold, b. Sept., 1829, d. inf.;
Joseph Eddy, b. July 6, 1830, d. Nov. 7, 1905; of whom presently;
Lucy Eddy, b. Sept. 8, 1831, d. Nov. 9, 1832;
Lewis Eddy, b. May 17, 1833, d. inf.;
George Eddy, b. April, 1835, d. inf.;
Louis Harrold, b. July 3, 1836, d. Dec. 14, 1899, in Phila.; m. June 12, 1859, Louise M.
Bartle, and had issue :
William B. Gillingham;
Hattie W. Gillingham.
Issue of Samuel H. and Louisa M. (Hubbs) Gillingham:
Frank Clemens Gillingham, b. April 14, 1840; of whom later.
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Joseph Eddy Gillingham, eldest son of Samuel Harrold and Lucy Lewis
(Eddy) Gillingham, born in Philadelphia, July 6, 1830, was a birthright member
in the Society of Friends, and was educated at the Friends' Central School, Phila-
delphia. In 1854 he engaged in the lumber business, later organizing the firm of
Gillingham & Garrison, afterwards incorporated under the title of Gillingham,
Garrison & Company, Ltd., the largest dealers in lumber in the city of Philadel-
phia. He built and was president of the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Street Rail-
way until it was absorbed by the Union Traction Company. He was the first
president of, and up to the time of his death a director of, the Mortgage Trust
Company of Pennsylvania; a director of The Investment Company of Philadel-
phia; of the American Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia; of the Lancaster
Avenue Improvement Company; and of the Bell Telephone Company. He was
also president of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company, whose Board of
Directors, on November 14, 1905, adopted resolutions on his death in part as fol-
lows : "Resolved, That we have received, with deep regret and sorrow, the in-
telligence of the death of our late colleague, Joseph E. Gillingham, who for
over twenty-five years has been actively associated with us in the management
of the affairs of this Company, and during twenty of those years has presided at
our meetings with unfailing and impartial courtesy. We desire to place on record
our high appreciation of his able and faithful service as Director, and President,
and of the uniform cordial kindness that has endeared him to us as a friend, and
of the exceptional services rendered by him in the early period of his presidency,
during a very trying time in the Company's history, which were of inestimable
value."
Mr. Gillingham was for a number of years, and until his death, one of the
managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, in which he took a special interest and
pride, and to which he was a large benefactor during his life and to which also he
left a generous bequest. In 1902 he caused to be erected and presented to the
Hospital, a building on the grounds of the Women's Department of the Hospital
for the Insane, in West Philadelphia, known as the "Gillingham Memorial Build-
ing." On one of two tablets in the vestibule is the following inscription :
ERECTED ANNO DOMINI
1902
BY
JOSEPH E. GILLINGHAM
IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE
CLARA DONALDSON GILLINGHAM
Mr. Gillingham was one of the founders and a frequent contributor to the
Veterinary Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was one of the
managers from its inception to the time of his death. In this connection it is of
interest to note that the investigations conducted in 1892, by Dr. Leonard Pear-
don, a professor in this department, at Mr. Gillingham's request, on the condition
of the latter's valuable herd of cattle at his country place, "Clairemont," near
Villanova Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in Lower Merion, Montgomery
county, gave a great impetus to the scientific study and treatment of tuberculosis
in cattle, and was the first instance of such an investigation on a large scale in
this country. The Medical News in publishing an account of it, in the issue of
March 26, 1892, makes this comment: "Mr. Gillingham's action is an example of
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public spiritedness that has seldom been equalled, and the public would profit,
immeasurably if others would follow a similar course." In addition to his active
efforts and donations in behalf of the Veterinary Department, during his lifetime,
he left it a substantial bequest, as he likewise did Haverford College, Swarthmore
College, Bryn Mawr College, and the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia.
He was also connected with a number of charitable organizations of the city and
vicinity. Those mentioned in his will, with most of which he had an official con-
nection, were : Bryn Mawr Hospital, Norristown Charity Hospital, Hospital of
the Church of the Good Shepherd, near Rosemont, Maternity Hospital, Phila-
delphia, Merchants' Fund of Philadelphia, Kensington Soup Society, Penn Asylum
for Indigent Widows and Single Women, Union Benevolent Association of Phila-
delphia, Old Men's Home, Home for Incurables, and the Central Branch Young
Men's Christian Association; to the latter of which at Fifteenth and Chestnut
streets, Philadelphia, besides a direct legacy, he left the annual income of a fund
to be known as "The Joseph E. Gillingham Fund." Mr. Gillingham was a mem-
ber of the Union League Art Club, Merion Cricket Club, Radnor Hunt, Colonial
Society of Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Genealogical
Society of Pennsylvania. To the Historical Society he had made various gifts ;
his last being by his will, by which he bequeathed them, besides a sum of money,
an original Orderly Book, used by the American Army at Valley Forge. He took
great interest in the work of the Genealogical Society, of which he became a mem-
ber on April ii, 1892, within two months of its founding, and became a life mem-
ber. May 7, 1894, and was one of its directors from March 7, 1898, until his death.
He procured for the Society copies of the birth, death and marriage registers and
of the minutes of Abington Friends Meeting, to which some of his ancestors had
belonged, and was also its liberal benefactor on other lines, besides leaving it a
substantial bequest.
About 1876, Mr. Gillingham purchased a tract of land in Lower Merion town-
ship, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, which either originally or by subsequent
purchases amounted to about four hundred acres of land. Here he erected an ele-
gant dwelling, on the highest portion of the tract, commanding a fine view of the
country for many miles, which he named "Clairemont," in honor of his wife,
Clara. He lived here the greater part of the time thereafter, and died there on
November 7, 1905. As he left no direct descendant, he ordered this property to
be held for fifteen years after his death, and then sold. During the latter part of
his life he also maintained a city residence at 1421 Walnut street, but after his
wife's decease, he sold this and made "Clairemont" his permanent home, living
there the life of a gentleman farmer, and though he had a manager and assistants,
the farm and dairy were under his constant personal supervision. Everything
there was run under the most improved methods of modern scientific farming;
the stables, cattle sheds, and dairy, were kept according to the most approved sani-
tary principles. Some account of the "Clairemont" herd of cattle, and the judg-
ment exercised in its selection, breeding, and management, is given in the article in
The Medical News, before referred to. The post-office and railroad station for
"Clairemont." was Villanova, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Mr. Gillingham
was mentioned in the obituary notices in the newspapers at the time of his death
as "one of the best known residents on the Main Line." Funeral services were
held at the Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, November 8, 1895, by the rector.
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Rev. James Haiighton, assisted by the Rev. J. Houston Eccleston, of Baltimore,
the latter a lifelong friend of Mr. Gillingham. The managers of the Pennsylvania
Hospital acted as pall-bearers, and he was buried in the family plot at South
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, where he directed that a gravestone exactly
similar to that of his wife, beside whom he was buried, should be erected over
his grave. He also left a fund for the care of the family lots, including those of
his father, grandfather and aunts, in the same enclosure as his own.
Joseph E. Gillingham married, August 23, 1864, Clara, daughter of Jacob and
Maria (Conner) Donaldson, of Philadelphia. She died March 21, 19CX). After
her death, having no children of his own, Mr. Gilhngham adopted, as his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Anna H. (Wright) Gillingham, the wife of a third cousin, who lived
with him thereafter at "Clairemont," and continued to reside there for some time
after his death, removing about March, 1906, to Germantown.
Frank Clemens Gillingham, only son of Samuel Harrold Gillingham, by his
second marriage with Louise Maria Hubbs, and a half-brother to Joseph E. Gill-
ingham, was born in Philadelphia, April 14, 1840. He entered the lumber business
in 1859, and in 1868, formed a partnership with Rudolph J. Watson, under the
firm name of Watson & Gillingham. Mr. Watson dying in 1889, Mr. Gillingham
in 1898, took his eldest son as a partner under the name of Frank C. Gillingham
& Son. During the Civil War, Frank C. Gillingham enlisted in the One Hundred
and Nineteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, was mustered in as Second
Lieutenant of Company K, on August 7, 1862, promoted to First Lieutenant Sep-
tember 30, 1862, and honorably discharged on a Surgeon's certificate, June 4,
1863. He was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Veteran
Corps, Union League, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He was a
director of the Consolidation National Bank of Philadelphia, and was interested
in a number of charitable institutions of the city.
He married, September 3, 1862, at her father's residence, in Hainesport, New
Jersey, Tacy Shoemaker, daughter of Thomas Edgar and Elizabeth (Shoemaker)
Morris. Tacy Shoemaker Morris was eighth in descent from Tobias Leech, mem-
ber of Assembly, 1713-1714; seventh from Robert Heaton, member of Assembly
1700; sixth from George Shoemaker, in Pennsylvania 1686; seventh from Henry
Comly, 1683-4; seventh from Peter Elliott, 1686; eighth from Richard Wall, 1683;
sixth from John Kirk, 1686; sixth from Rynier Tyson, 1683; and sixth from Will-
iam Levering, 1685. Frank Clemens Shoemaker's descent from a like ancient and
worthy ancestry is given in the preceding pages.
Issue of Frank Clemens and Tacy Shoemaker (Morris) Gillingham:
Frank Morris, b. 6mo. 13, 1863: m. Oct. 24, 1888, Ida Keen, and has issue — Frank Keen
Gillingham, Thomas Morris Gillingham;
Harrold Edgar, b. 8mo. 25, 1864; of whom presently;
Elizabeth Morris, b. Smo. 28, 1871; m. Nov. 8, 1900, Charles Schroeder Rich, of Balti-
more, Md.;
Catharine, b. smo. 5, 1887, d. smo. s, 1887.
Harrold Edgar Gillingham, son of Frank Clemens and Tacy S. (Morris)
Gillingham, born at Hainesport, New Jersey, August 25, 1864, is a member of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania,
and the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. In the latter society he holds the office
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of treasurer. His ancestors through whom he holds membership in the Colonial
Society, besides those just given as his mother's ancestors, were, Yeamans Gilling-
ham, Bridget Scott, Sarah Jarvis, Thomas Canby, William Smith, Stephen Wil-
son, Henry Baker, Thomas Croasdale, and Robert Lucas, of all of whom some
account has been given in these pages. In 1901 Mr. Gillingham published an out-
line genealogy of the descendants of Yeamans Gillingham, under the title of
"Gillingham Family." He married, February 9, 1891, at St. Peter's Protestant
Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Louise Hance, daughter of John Hendeson and
Caroline Hearn (Hance) Long, of Philadelphia. In igoi they lived at 410 West
Price street, Germantown, and had one child :
Edith Harrold Gillingham, b. 4mo. 14, 1896.
Ellis Lewis, the maternal ancestor of Lucy Lewis (Eddy) Gillingham, was
one of the early settlers in the Welsh tract, Chester county, Pennsylvania, born in
Wales, about 1680, like most of the other early Welsh immigrants to Pennsyl-
vania, was a descendant of ancient Welsh princes, and through them to the Kings
of ancient Britain. Recent researches show that he was of the same line of de-
scent as Rowland Ellis, the eminent Welsh minister of the Society of Friends, who
though concerned in the first purchase of lands in Pennsylvania for the settlement
of a Welsh colony, did not remove permanently to this Province until 1697. The
common ancestry of Rowland Ellis and ElHs Lewis, for fifteen generations, is as
follows :
(I) Bleddyn, son of Cynfyn, Prince of Powys, married Isabel, daughter of
Picot de Say, a Norman knight, and was murdered in 1072. He had by her,
(II) Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, Lord of Ystratyvvy, Cardigan and Nannau, in
Merionethshire, who was also assassinated in 1109. He married Gwenllian, daugh-
ter of Gruffydd ap Cynan, Prince of Gwynedd, who subsequently married Gruf-
fydd. Prince of South Wales. By her Cadwgan had a son,
(III) Madoc, ap Cadwgan, who succeeded his father as Lord of Nannau. He
married Eva, daughter and heiress of Philip ap Uchtryd, ap Edwin, Lord of
Tegeingle, ap Gronwy, ap Einion, ap Owen, ap Howell Dda, King of all Wales,
and had issue,
(IV) Meuric, ap Madoc, Lord of Nannau, who married Gwenllian, daughter
and heiress of lerwith, ap Predyr, ap Gronwy, ap Adda, ap David Goch, from
Ednowain, ap Bradwyn, Head of the Fifteenth Noble Tribe of Wales, and lineal
descendant of the Kings of Britain, and had issue :
(V) Ynr, ap Meuric, Lord of Nannau, who married Gwyrvyl, daughter and
heiress of Madog ap Llowarch, Vychan, ap Llowarch Goch, ap Llowarch Hol-
bwrch. Treasurer of Gruffydd, Prince of Wales, and had issue:
Einion ap Ynr, consecrated Bishop of St. Andre's, October 21, 1268, and
(VT) Ynr, ap Ynr, generally known as Ynr Vychan, Lord of Nannau, who
married Gwenhwyvar, daughter of Gruffydd, ap Gwynn, ap Gronwy, ap Einion. at
Seissyllt, Lord of Mathafon. Ynr Vychan presented a petition to Edward, Prince
of Wales, at Kensington, in 1304-5, for the office of Raglor of the Comot of
Talybon, stating that the King had given it to him for capturing Madoc ap
Llewllyn, when the last war had made himself Prince of Wales. His petition,
however, was rejected. Ynr ap Ynr was charged with others in the Parliament
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of 1322-3 with attacking the castle of John Grey, of Ruthen, and setting fire to the
town, on the next Wednesday after the feast of St. Gregory, in the fifteenth year
of Edward II., 1322. He had by Gwenhwyvar :
(VII) Meuric ap Ynr Vychan, Lord of Nannau, Hving in 1347-8, upon whose
tomb in Dolgelly Church, Merionethshire, is his effigy in mail and plate armor,
with a shield on his breast, on which is carved a lion, and bears the inscription,
"Hie Jacet Meuric Filius Ynyr Vachan." He married Angharad, daughter of
Gruffydd, ap Owen, ap Bleddyn, ap Owen Brogyntyn, Lord of Dinmael, and
Ediernion, ap Madog, ap Meredyth, ap Bleddyn, Prince of Powys, and was suc-
ceeded by his son,
(VIII) Meuric Lloyd, ap Meuric, Lord of Nannau. who died before 140x3
A. D. He married Mallt, daughter of Howell Pickhill, ap David, ap Gronwy, ap
lerwith, ap Howell, ap Meredyth, ap Sandde Hardde, Lord of Morton, in Den-
bighshire, and had issue :
Gruffydd Derwas, living in 1416, Esquire of the Body of Henry VI., with
whose descendants those of his brother later intermarried, and,
(IX) HowELL Sele, of Nannau, who was killed by his cousin, Owen Glen-
dower, because he refused to join him in Rebellion, and his body secreted in a
hollow oak, where it remained until the secret crime was revealed by Glendower on
his death bed. Howell Sele married Mali, daughter of Einion, ap Griffith, of
Cors-y-Gedol, and had a son,
(X) Meuric Vychan, of Nannau, who with his uncle, Griffith Derwas, was
named among the heirs of a "Wele" of free land in the township of Nannau, in
the seventh year of Henry V., 1419-20. Meuric was on a grand jury, at Caer-
narvon, in 1444, and was buried in second year of Henry VII., i486, a very aged
man. He married Angharad, daughter of David ap Cadwgan, ap Philip Dorddu,
ap Howell, ap Madoc, ap Howell, ap Griffith, ap Gronwy, ap Gwrgenen, ap Hold-
lien Goch, ap Cadwgan, ap Elystan Glodrydd, Prince of Fferlys, and had a son,
(XI) David ap Meuric Vychan, of Nannau, who married Ellen, daughter of
Howell ap Rhys, ap David, ap Howell, ap Griffith, ap Owen, ap Bleddyn, Lord of
Dinmael, ap Owen Brogyntyn, grandson of Bleddyn, Prince of Powys, whose son,
(XII) Howell ap David, of Nannau, is named on the rolls of the county of
Merioneth in 15 10. He married Ellen, daughter of Robert Salisbury, of Llanwrst,
son of Thomas SaHsbury, Hving in 145 1, son of Sir Henry SaHsbury, a Knight of
the Holy Sepulchre, who was a son of Rawlings Salisbury, and grandson of Will-
iam Salisbury, member of Parliament in 1322. Howell ap David and Ellen Salis-
bury, had issue, Griffith ap Howell, Lord of Nannau, and two daughters, Elizabeth
and Margaret, who married William ap Tudor, ap Griffith, ap Edyrfedof Egryn
Abbey.
(XIII) Griffith ap Howell, lord of Nannau, living in 1541-2, married Jane,
daughter of Humphrey ap Howell, ap levan, of Yns-y-Maen-Gwynn, a lineal de-
scendant of Henry IV., of England ; her mother being Anne, daughter of Sir
Richard Herbert, Knight of Colebrooke. Griffith and Jane had two sons, Hugh
Griffith, who signed the pedigree as head of the family, July 24, 1588, and,
(XIV) John ap Griffith, who married Elizabeth, daughter of David Lloyd, of
Trawsfynedd. He held lands in the township of Dyffrydan, in Dolgelly parish,
and elsewhere. He had issue three children, Ellen and Jane, and.
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(XV) Lewis ap John, of Dyffrydan, who was living August 28, 1654, then
holding lands in Dyffrydan. He married Ellen, daughter of Howell ap Griffith,
and had two sons, Rees Lewis, of Dyffryn, grandfather of Rowland Ellis, who
later came to Bryn Mawr, Chester county, Pennsylvania, which was named for
the seat of the family less than a mile from the market town of Dolgelly in
Merionethshire, built by Rees Lewis in 1617, and where he was living in 1649; and
another son,
(XVI) Owen ap Lewis, who married Mary, daughter of Tudor Vaughan, of
Caer-y-Nwen, in Merionethshire, a lineal descendant of Griffith Derwas, before
mentioned, and had issue :
(XVH) Robert ap Owen, who married Margaret, daughter of John ap Lewis,
and had issue, among others, Margaret, who became the second wife of Rowland
Ellis, of Pennsylvania, and at least one son,
(XVni) Lewis ap Robert, who married Mary (who married (second)
Owen Roberts), and had by her one son,
Ellis Lewis, the emigrant to Pennsylvania, mentioned at the beginning of this
narrative.
Ellis Lewis, son of Lewis ap Robert, by his wife, Mary, was born near Dol-
gelly, Merionethshire, Wales, in the year 1680. His father died when he was
quite young and his mother married Owen Roberts, as shown in the preceding
pedigree. About 1698 Owen Roberts and his family, including his stepson, Ellis
Lewis, concluded preparations to embark for Pennsylvania, and their goods were
already on board the ship that was to carry them to Penn's colony in America,
where a number of their kindred had previously found homes, when sickness in
the family prevented them from sailing and their goods crossed the sea without
them.
Sometime after arriving at mature age Ellis Lewis removed to Ireland, and
from there embarked for Pennsylvania, bringing a certificate from a Friends
Meeting at Mount Mellich, Ireland, dated 5mo. 13, 1708. On arriving in Penn-
sylvania, he made his home for a time with his cousins, the family of Rowland
Ellis, who had not yet removed from Haverford. He later took up his residence
in Kennett, Chester county, and was for many years an esteemed Elder of Kennett
Meeting, removing later to Wilmington, Delaware, where he died 6mo. 31, 1750.
Ellis Lewis was twice married, (first) at Concord Meeting, Chester county in
1713, to Elizabeth, born imo. 3, 1687-8, daughter of Nathaniel Newlin, who owned
large tracts of land, and settled in what was named Newlin township, Chester
county. He was a member of Colonial Assembly from Chester county, 1698-
1722; justice of the county courts from September 25, 1703, until his death in
1729; and was one of the Proprietaries Commissioners of Property for some time
prior to his death (1722-29), as well as a trustee of the General Loan Office of