White Marsh, where he died.
William Hallowell, of White Marsh, son of Joseph and Sarah (Nanney) Hal-
lowell, married, June 17, 1777, Mary Roberts, born November 5, 1753, died Sep-
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tember 23, 1786, and they were parents of Sarah, wife of Samuel Conard, of
Horsham.
Asenath Conard, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hallowell) Conard, born
September 8. 1808, died December 9, 1881, married, November 11, 1829, Amos
Lewis Lukens.
Mary Roberts, wife of William Hallowell, born near Gwynedd, November 5,
1753, was daughter of John Roberts, born in Montgomery township, July 28,
1714, died in Whitpain township, October 8, 1801, by his wife, Jane, born 17 14,
died 1762, daughter of John and Sarah (Evans) Hanke. John Roberts and Jane
Hanke were married May 13, 1736.
John Roberts, father of the above named John, and grandfather of Mary
Hallowell, was born near Penllyn, Merionethshire, Wales, 1680, and died in
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 1773. He married at Merion Meeting, Au-
gust 7, 1706, Elizabeth Edwards. He was a son of Robert Cadwalader who was
baptized at Llandderfel, Church Penllyn, Merionethshire, January 2, 1638, and
came to Pennsylvania, 1699, settling in Gwynedd township, where he died prior
to 1719.
His descent from Rhirid Flaidd, Lord of Penllyn, is as follows: He was a
son of Cadwalader ap Robert, of Llandderfel, baptized February 6, 1612, buried
at Llandderfel, January 4, 1670; a son of Robert Foulke, of Llandderfel, living
in i6t2, son of Foulke ap Robert Lloyd, of Llandderfel, died before 1591 ; son of
Robert Lloyd ap David Lloyd, of Llandderfel, ap David ap levan Vychan ap
levan ap Gruffydd ap Madog ap lorwerth ap Madog ap Rhirid Flaida, Lord of
Penllyn.
Johannes Reifschneider was born in Germany about 1695 or 1700, and came
to Pennsylvania with a brother Sebastian, 1720. They accompanied Johannes
Philip Boehm who, beginning as a teacher at Falckner Swamp, Philadelphia (now
Montgomery) county, was shortly after appointed "reader" for the "religious
meetings" in that neighborhood, which developed into the "Reformed Christian
Church of Falckner Schwamp," and later of Skippack and White Marsh. Boehm
was ordained minister, 1729, having preached for them without license or ordina-
tion for some years prior to that date.
Johannes and Sebastian Reifschneider were either grandsons or near relatives
of Zacharias Reifschneider, of Birrstein, Isenberg, Prussia, where the family had
existed from a very early period, branches later migrating to Nuremberg, Worms
and other parts of Germany. It is known that descendants of Zacharias Reif-
schneider, of Birrstein, came to Pennsylvania a few years prior to the date at
which we find Johannes and Sebastian settled in Philadelphia county, but the
destruction of the records of Isenberg during the "Thirty Years War" has made
it impossible to trace their exact descent from the ancient family that was once
numbered among those of the lesser nobility of Germany, and whose name and
arms appear in a collection of arms of German families compiled in the seven-
teenth century, the name coming later to be spelled Reifsnyder.
After the ordination of John Philip Boehm, Johannes Reifschneider took his
place as schoolmaster at "the Swamp," as of him Boehm writes in his report to
Holland, February, 1729, "My congregation at Falckner Schwamp is well sup-
plied by the schoolmaster, Johannes Reifschneider, and at Philadelphia, is one
named Johannes Berger, but neither can live from the office for the reason that
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the people in this country (except in Philadelphia and Germantown, where they
live close together) are scattered over a large territory, not enough children can
be brought together to yield a living for the Schoolmaster." Johannes Reif-
schneider, owing to the conditions above stated, combined farming with school
teaching. He was a tenant on McCall's manor, later Douglass manor and town-
ship, of one hundred acres of land, 1742. He did not acquire a fee title to real
estate and no probate proceedings have been found on his estate. He is, how-
ever, presumed to have died about 1769. The name of his wife is unknown.
Issue of Johannes Reif Schneider :
Philip ReiFschneider. b. about 1720; of whom presently; and probably —
George Reifschneider, of Ruscomb Manor, Berks co. ;
Johann William Reifschneider, living, 1752, on a farm adjoining his father's, in McCall's
Manor; m., 1746, Eva Catharine Schweinhard.
Philip Reifschneider, son of Johannes, born about 1720, probably in New
Hanover township, Philadelphia county, where his father settled at about that
date, was named in honor of Rev. John Philip Boehm, his father's friend and
companion. Philip resided with his father in New Hanover or vicinity until his mar-
riage about 1742, to Susanna Hoffman, but prior to the birth of his eldest son, 1744,
he removed to Milford township, Bucks county. January 18, 1752, he obtained
a warrant of survey for one hundred and sixty-three and one-half acres of land
in Lower Saucon, then Bucks county, but erected into Northampton county,
March 11, 1752.
Here Philip Reifschneider erected substantial farm buildings and resided there
the remainder of his life with the exception of a short period spent with his son,
William, in Durham township, about 1789. He was named as a resident of Lower
Saucon on March 16, 1793, in the deed by which he conveyed his Saucon property
to Jacob Mast, and died prior to February 21, 1803, when his only son, William,
executes a quit claim deed for the same land to Mast.
Susanna, wife of Philip Reifschneider, did not join him in the deed of 1793,
from which the inference is drawn that she was then deceased, though that is
Iiardly conclusive evidence at that early day. A "Susanna Reifsnyder, widow,"
died in that locality and letters of administration were granted on her estate Sep-
tember 12, 1817, to Henry Jacoby.
Issue of Philip and Susanna (Hoffman) Reifschneider:
William Reifschneider, b. Oct. 15, 1744; of whom presently;
Johannes C. Reifschneider, b. 1746; bapt. at New Goschenhoppen Church, Aug. 23, 1746;
d. young.
William Reifschneider, eldest and only surviving son of Philip and Susanna
Reifschneider, born in Douglass township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1744, lived in Lower Saucon township with his
father until about 1785, when he removed to Durham township, Bucks county,
and in 1788 was in Williams township, Northampton county, adjoining Durham
on the north. He soon after the later date removed to Ruscomb manor, Ruscomb
manor township, Berks county, where he executed his will, dated February 28,
1810, and proved at Reading, September 26, 1819. He was possessed of consider-
able estate. He married (first) about 1766, Susanna : (second), 1795,
Margaret , who survived him.
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Issue of IViUiain and Sitsaiuw Rcifschncider:
Magdalena, b. May 2, 1767;
Kathrina, b. Sept. 11, 1768;
Anna Maria, b. March 21, 1770;
Elizabeth, b. Aug. 27, 1771 ;
Philip, b. Nov. 27, 1772;
Rachel, b. Nov. 24, 1774;
Jacob, b. April 14, 1776;
Johannes, b. Dec. 23, 1778;
Abraham, b. Feb. 14, 1780;
Susanna, b. May 4, 1782; not mentioned in will; probably d. young;
Moses, b. Sept. 4, 1785;
Isaac, b. Feb. 6, 1788; of whom presently.
Issue of William and Margaret Reif Schneider:
Joseph, b. Nov. 29, 1796.
Isaac Rkifschneider, youngest son of William by his first wife, Susanna, was
born in Williams township, Northampton county, February 6, 1788, and was
reared in Berks county, where his father removed soon after his birth. After the
death of his father or possibly earlier he removed to Upper Hanover, Mont-
gomery county, where he lived 1815-27. He removed later to Limerick township
and subsequently to Frederick township, in the same county, where he died Octo-
ber 23, 1866, and is buried at St. James Church, Limerick Centre.
Isaac Reifschneider married (first), December 30, 1810, Elizabeth, daughter of
Henry Longacre, of Limerick township ; she died December 27, 1829, and he mar-
ried (second), April 12, 1831, Deborah Bitting, who died May 28, 1863. The
great grandfather of Elizabeth (Longacre) Reifschneider was Daniel Longacre,
a Mennonite minister, born in Crefeld, Germany, came to Pennsylvania, 1717,
with his wife, whose maiden name was Klotz. He had sons, David, grandfather
of Mrs. Reifschneider; Henry, and John. David Longacre and his wife, Barbara
High, settled in Upper Providence, Philadelphia county, where he died 1776,
leaving issue, David, Jacob, Henry, Peter, Daniel, Isaac, John, Mary and Mag-
dalen. Of these Henry Longacre married Elizabeth Schell, and their daughter,
Elizabeth, born February 18, 1791, became first wife of Isaac Reifschneider.
Issue of Isaac and Elisabeth (Longacre) Reifschneider:
Caroline, m. Jonas Shoemaker;
Amelia, m. William Gilbert;
Ferdinand;
Israel Longacre, b. Aug. 11, 1825; of whom presently;
Sarah, m. Albert Haldeman;
Lydia, m. Richard W. Saylor ;
Magdalena, d. young.
Issue of Isaac and Deborah (Bitting) Reifschneider:
Isaac J. B.;
Melinda Bitting, m. Charles Fox;
Amanda Bitting, m. (first) David Wood.
Israel Longacre Reifschneider, only son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Longacre)
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Reifschneider, born at Limerick square, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, Au-
gust II, 1825, died in Philadelphia, April 8, 1892. He married, April 8, 1892,
Ellen Lukens, born at Prospectville, Montgomery county, September 27, 1834,
daughter of Amos Lewis Lukens. by his wife, Asenath Conrad, and their only
child was :
Howard Reifschneider, of Phila., b. March 19. 1869; m., April 23, 1891, Hannah Gillam,
of Middletown, Bucks co.. Pa.
SMITH FAMILY.
This article is to reveal something hitherto mostly unpublished about several
generations of several families of Colonial Philadelphia, the same being ancestors
of T. Guilford Smith, LL. D., of late years a resident of Buffalo, New York,
but who, born in Philadelphia, 1839, has since achieved eminent distinction in
American iron and steel industries, in the fine arts and sciences, in social life, in
ideas for educational progress, and in humane effort for the general welfare of
humankind.
Men are wont to look upon their paternal line of descent as the most important.
but is it so? And men are pleased to call themselves by a surname, repeating it
from generation to generation; but does that surname indicate their "blood?"
Scarcely ! Thus, in attempting to portray somewhat of the activities of the Colo-
nial Smiths, the student encounters an array of other ancestors of this son of
Philadelphia, who contributed equally, if not more, to the early making of the
most American of American cities, and who thus are entitled now to equal con-
sideration.
These were the families of Meng, Ogden, and Eastwick, of Tunes, Klincken
and Levering; and in the dimmer perspective of still farther years, on neighboring
Colonial fields, rises another host, — the unforgetable Aliens of and from Cape
Cod, the Newburys from Rhode Island honored, the Lloyds of Boston's com-
merce, the Sylvesters of manorial independence, the Rowlands of Plymouth piety,
and the Brinleys, the exemplars of loyalty.
Contemplating them all, one sees what good citizenship in Philadelphia comes
from ; sees that it is no accident, but long in the making ; qualities anciently noted
have continued their honorable sway even till now. Perceiving, as well, upon the
charts of Dr. Smith, whereon the warp and woof of the human fabric that Time
weaves is depicted in every strand, the student learns clearly from whence these
early pioneers came, even back into medieval days ; but Alas ! whither they now
have gone these charts do not show. Their living representative well might ask :
Do they live in us ? Are we not they ? Are they not us ? Why not ? Where else
should we look for them? Why seek them in the skies? Does not each bit of
nature repeat itself after its own mould? Does not human nature restore itself
of itself, perpetuate itself from itself? How pertinent the poet's line ! — "The dead
who rule our spirits from their urns."
So how superficial is the remark that the portrayal of an ancestry is a matter
of fancy, vanity, or pride merely. Surely such studies involve and illustrate one
of the greatest themes of the universe — the theme of which God is the maker, —
the theme which holds hidden the very secrets of human origin and destiny that
man alone has never yet solved.
So much of the human handiwork of heaven as may be noted on these pages, of
these particular descents that are from Great Britain and tributary to Philadel-
phia, on the paternal side of Dr. Smith's lineage, might well begin with three
worthies in England: — Thomas Brinley, Dr. Lloyd and Stephen Eastwick.
Thomas Brinley is noted on the private charts, lying before the writer, as
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descendant out of a Staffordshire family already revealed in unbroken line from
the twelfth century. Rising from a position in the Exchequer, he became Auditor-
General to Charles I. and Keeper of the Dowry of Queen Henrietta Maria.
Long was his service and intense his loyalty. Brief, however, must be our refer-
ence to him. It is learned of official record that he refused to take the oath of
allegiance to the Cromwellian government, after the execution of his royal master ;
that he sought with others to secrete the youthful Charles II. in Staffordshire;
was one of the few who dared to meet the fugitive monarch under the roof of Sir
Henry Lee at Woodstock ; aided in the King's escape to the Continent. There
he shared the royal exile, leaving his office, his estate and his life, subject to the
confiscation and pleasure of the Commonwealth. Devotion to the Royalist cause,
throughout the twelve years of exile, brought him increased honors and restora-
tion to his office, and somewhat of his manors, upon the return of Charles II. in
1660. A year later death removed him at his home in Datchet Bucks, close to
Windsor Castle. He bore the arms "per chevron, or and sable, three escallops
counter changed." His son Francis became a marked man in the affairs of the
Rhode Island Colony, while his daughter Grissell (Griselda), in the early days of
her father's exile from England, married, 1652, Nathaniel Sylvester, son of a
wealthy London and Midland merchant. Adventurous and ever independent in
spirit, unyielding to the Puritan parliament, Sylvester avoided trouble at home
by going to Holland; and having bought the most of Shelter Island, adjoining
Long Island, New York, with his bride, reached its quiet shores, via Barbadoes,
after storm and the wreck on Conanicut Island of their little ship the "Swallow."
Too full of incident were their lives thereon for present narration. In a word,
there they flourished as did few families in America ; there they succored and pro-
tected Mary Dyer and the Quakers fleeing from Boston's persecution ; there they
entertained George Fox ; there penned the endearing letters to the Winthrops,
now preserved by the Massachusetts Historical Society; there Sylvester was
granted full manorial rights by royal patent dated "James fforte ye 31 day of
May in ye year Anno Dom, 1666," "by fealty only paying yearly one lamb, if
demanded ;" and the Manor of Shelter Island continued as one of the few veri-
table manors in America for one hundred and nine years — to the War of the
Revolution. Lord of the same and lordly in his ways, Sylvester would not yield
his landed rights at their confiscation by the Dutch in 1673, when the man-of-
war, Zeehond, committed an act of war at Shelter Island, but paid them thousands
of pounds (present reckoning) to be left unmolested further. And so from 1680
till now he has rested in splendid isolation, on what was his own and still is the
land of his descendants, at the edge of the forest of oaks, where the tide comes up
close through the rushes, and under a monument worthy of the man, — and there
all about many of the works of his hand are still visible.
Nathaniel and Grissell Sylvester's daughter, Grissell, born August 12, 1652,
married, July 13, 1676, James Lloyd, a young merchant of Boston, afterwards
lord of the manor of Queen's Village (three thousand acres) at Lloyd's Neck.
Long Island. This manor was erected to him by royal patent through Gov.
Thomas Dongan, dated March 18, 1685. This property, adjoining Oyster Bay,
has remained ever since in the possession of some of his descendants. The Lloyds
were Episcopalians, and in Boston prominent in King's Chapel. Thev bore
"gules, a lion rampant or ; crest, a pelican feeding its young proper." James was
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the son of Sir John Lloyd, Mayor of Bristol, England, 1678, and great-grandson
of Dr. Lloyd of Worcestershire, who, like Brinley, nobly served a queen. Dr.
Lloyd was "Doctor in Physic to Queen Elizabeth." Sir John's wife was Cathe-
rine Callowhill of Bristol, England, to whom William Penn was no stranger, for
he married, in that same city, Catherine's relative Hannah Callowhill. Penn did
not win the older Callowhills to his faith, however, for Catherine's father. Miles
Callowhill, had been a warrior and a Royalist. While an officer of the garrison in
Bristol Castle, under Prince Rupert, he was killed in an affray with Sir John Cada-
man, Knight, 1645, as is told upon a tablet in the church of St. Peter and Paul in
Bristol. Yet the Penn, Callowhill, and Lloyd descendants were to meet in Phila-
delphia, in religious harmony, years later.
Singular also it is that Grissell Lloyd, daughter of James of Boston by her
marriage there, 1703. to John Eastwick, a merchant late of the West Indies,
brought the blood of the Brinleys and Lloyds into loving association with that
of their former political enemies, the Eastwicks. That is another story, but it
may be noted now that the grandparent of this John Eastwick was Stephen East-
wick, alderman and sheriff of London, a civil officer of the Commonwealth, for
whom the capture and punishment of this said Grissell's great-grandfather, the
exiled Thomas Brinley. would have been a pleasure and a profit. John East-
wick was an alderman of Boston and a member of King's Chapel. The inventory
of his estate reveals his possession of what was then an "up-to-date" library. He
died in 1736, leaving his son, Capt. Thomas Eastwick, to become a man of
many voyages and master of many a craft between the eastern seaboard and the
West Indies. The Custom House records and Philadelphia Colonial newspapers
mention his many arrivals and departures with passengers and cargoes. Capt.
Thomas Eastwick is treasured in the tradition repeated by his great-grandson, the
late Charles Eastwick Smith, President of Philadelphia & Reading R. R., as hav-
ing, like his ancestor, Stephen Eastwick. of London, expressed his opinion of the
rule of Kings, in a way that nearly cost him his head. Summoned with his boat,
shortly before the Revolution broke out, by a British officer in Philadelphia, to
transport some British soldiers, who were to suppress a patriotic demonstration
by the Sons of Liberty at Burlington, New Jersey, Captain Eastwick contrived to
land them at night on a sandbar opposite Beverly, New Jersey, where, ere long,
the rising tide overcame them. The price put upon his head for this did not avail,
for he escaped to sea, and did not enter the Port of Philadelphia again but twice in
his life. When he did there appear it was in a schooner happily named the
"Happy Return." He died 1773, having married in Christ Church, November
23, 1756, Margaret Bullock, who had been baptized within the same walls in
1740, as the daughter of John (baptized in Christ Church Jan. 6, 1717) and
Rebecca Bullock. Margaret was granddaughter of Thomas and Margaret Bul-
lock (from England), who Watson's Annals state:
"Kept a celebrated public house in the old two-storied house now (1850) adjoining the
south end of the City Tavern. Besides its present front on Second Street, it had a front
towards Walnut Street with a fine green court-yard all along that street quite down to Dock
Creek. At that house Richard Penn and other governors, generals and gentry used to be
feasted. The tavern was designated 'The Three Crowns.' The City Tavern was built ad-
joining it in 1770."
These Eastwicks and Bullocks wore laid in long rest in the vard of Christ
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Church; and ere long after Capt. Thomas Eastwick's daughter, Grissell, (the
name perpetuated from Grissell Brinley of 1650), born in Philadelphia, 1763,
became the bride of Thomas Smith, September 26, 1782, at the First Presbyterian
Church, Philadelphia, and was won from her religion to that of her husband, the
Friends. Thus the amelioration of time worked its mysteries, and an Eastwick
took into her breast the very tenets of the Friends, which her Episcopalian for-
bears, near and far on both shores of the Atlantic, ever had spurned ; and her
remains repose without the old Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, while
her descendants kept the faith of the Friends, down to the present generation.
Her husband, Thomas Smith, the lumber merchant, great-grandfather of T. Guil-
ford Smith, born in Philadelphia, 1761, was the son of Ralph Smith, who though
born at Burlington. New Jersey. February 29, 1724, was the founder of the
Smith family in Philadelphia, before 1749. His religion kept him from partici-
pating in the War of the Revolution. Interesting, indeed, it is to note the con-
formity of his Smith ancestors to the Established Church. His father, Ralph
Smith, born on Cape Cod, (the grandson of an earlier Ralph, who came with
Abraham Lincoln's emigrant ancestor from Norfolk, England, to Hingham.
Massachusetts, by 1637), found Burlington on the Delaware, and its .St. Mary's
Church, soon after 1700, more to his heart. Therein their son, Ralph, as before
noted, was baptized ; and there without in the sacred soil, the parents lay — unfor-
gotten. Near to their graves, at evening prayer, the light from within the church
shines outward through a myriad-tinted window of cathedral glass erected in
memory of their descendant Pemberton Smith and his wife. This window de-
signed by Lavers & Westlake, of London, and representing The Descent from the
Cross (after Rubens) and St. John leading St. Mary away, was the gift of
Ralph Smith's great-great-great-grandson. Dr. Smith. Ralph Smith, Junior,
dreamed away his early youth by the riverside ; and then he made the dreams
come true by establishing, about 1750, a system of transportation of passengers
and merchandise on the Delaware between Burlington and Philadelphia. The
larger town soon claimed him, as said ; and he married there, in Christ Church,
April 22, 1749, Margery Allen. The fair tale of their first meeting, as told around
the family fireside, is this: "Margery went with a girl friend to a gipsy to have
their fortunes told ; the gipsy read in the lines on their pretty hands great store of
good luck and happiness. Margery, she said, had never seen the man whom she
was to marry, but that on her return home that very day she would meet him.
With wonderment at the words of the sibyl, the girls walked homeward just in
time to meet Ralph Smith, a stranger. Suddenly overcome with the realization
that here might be her fate, Margery fainted. The young man, unconscious of
the eflfect of his presence, promptly came to the rescue. Needless to say there was
but one ending to this acquaintance so romantically begun." Strong as was
Ralph's influence upon Margery then, her later power with him was greater, and,
married tho' they were in Christ Church, that event was the last in that church
for them. Margery turned him, the first of the Smith's to Quakerism, effacing
for one hundred years thereafter the Episcopalianism that had held all of the
Smith and Eastwick forbears for centuries. And why not? — for Margery was
of those Aliens never to be forgotten in American religious history. It should be
here said that her people in America began with George Allen, the .\nabaptist
of Somersetshire, who sought peace on the lone shore of Cape Cod, and there
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found it. But his son Ralph, Margery's great -grandparent, and the brothers and
sisters of Ralph, were the heroes and heroines of Quakerism at Sandwich, Massa-
chusetts. Here, in 1657, that faith first fastened itself among the drifting sands ;
here the Aliens were first to embrace it and to suffer ; here they yielded to no man
and to no measure ; here persecution, extortion, imprisonment, fines amounting to
robbery and causing utter privation, even to the taking of the last cow, the last