Sandwich, at which latter town a tablet, erected in 1903, memorialized their com-
ing; Hon. Thomas Mayhew, 1593-1682, of the armorial Mayow family of Dinton,
some few miles from Tisbury and Chilmark, in Wiltshire, who, coming to Water-
town, Massachusetts, about 1631, was later the noted missionary to the Indians,
and Governor of the Elizabeth Isles and Martha's Vineyard, where he erected
Tisbury Manor, the only manor in New England; Hon. Tristram Coffin, "Com-
missioner of Salisbury," Massachusetts, and afterwards Governor of Nantucket,
baptized in Brixton Parish, Devonshire, England, March 11, 1610, died at Nan-
tucket, December 2, 1681, and was honored by a distinguished posterity; John
Vincent, a founder of Sandwich, Massachusetts, many years deputy to the Gen-
eral Court of Plymouth colony; Captain Benjamin Hammond, 1673-1747, of
Hammondtown, in Rochester, Massachusetts, who married Elizabeth, daughter
of Captain Richard Hunnewell, the noted Indian fighter of Maine ; Kenelm Wins-
low, Esq., of Marshfield, second brother of Hon. Edward Winslow, three times
Governor of Plymouth colony; George Corlies, 1653-1715, Overseer of Meeting
of Friends, at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, 1680 ; Thomas Farnsworth, founder of
Bordentown, New Jersey, first known as Farnsworth's Landing; and Jean Bo-
dine, who is supposed to have removed from Cambray, in France, where the
family Bodine had flourished from the twelfth century, to Medis, in the province
of Saintonge, and from thence to Holland and England, settling finally on Staten
Island, New York, where he died in 1694, becoming, through his son of the same
Christian name, the ancestor of the Bodines of New York, New Jersey, and
Philadelphia.

Issue of Joscfih Francis and Aiinic Eliza (Rogers) Sinnott:

Joseph Edward Sinnott, b. at Roxbury, Mass., April 13, 1864; d. at Rosemont, Pa., July
21, 1892; was graduated at Harvard Univ. in 1886; entering the Law Dept. of the
Univ. of Pa., and the law office of the Hon. Wayne MacVeigh the following year.
Abandoning law for the more congenial profession of journalism, he became asso-
ciated with the editorial staff of the Philadelphia Times, and rapidly rose to the posi-
tion of assistant city editor. Forced to give up the latter on account of ill health, he
later entered the service of the Philadelphia and Reading R. R. Co., as assistant to the
general agent, and continued there until his death;

Mary Elizabeth Sinnott, b. March 26, 1866. Miss Sinnott is a member of the Pennsyl-
vania Society of Colonial Dames of America, the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society
of Daughters of the American Revolution, the Historical and Genealogical Societies
of Pennsylvania, and of many charitable and social organizations;

Henry Gibson Sinnott, b. Nov. 3, 1867: d. at Pasadena, Cal., Feb. 14, 1899; prepared for
the Univ. of Pa., but was prevented by ill health from pursuing his studies. He was
a member of the Art, Radnor Hunt and Rose Tree Hunt clubs, and of the Colonial
Society of Pennsylvania:

Annie Leonora Sinnott. b. Dec. 7, 1869; m., April 19, 1897, Dr. John Ryan Devereux, b.
at Lawrence, Kan., Dec. 16, 1868, son of Hon. Pierre Devereux, by his wife, Margaret
J. Ryan. Dr. Devereux was graduated at Manhattan College, New York, in 1889, and
entered the Medical Dept. of the Univ. of Pa., from which he was graduated in 1892.
After service in various hospitals in Pa. and Washington, D. C, he became lecturer in
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which position he resigned at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, to enter the
American Army, as acting Assistant Surgeon, in June, 1898. On June 29, 1901, he
was commissioned First Lieutenant in the Regular Army of the United States. Issue :

Joseph Francis Sinnott Devereux;

Margaret Mary Devereux ;

John Ryan Devereux;

James Patrick Sinnott Devereux;

Anne Leonora Sinnott Devereux ;

Julian Ashton Devereux;

Edward Winslow Coffin Devereux;

Mary Frederica Devereux.
Clinton Rogers Sinnott, b. July 12, 1872; m., Aug. 22, 1891. Grace Hamilton. He is con-
nected with the New York branch of the Gibson Distilling Co.;
James Frederick Sinnott, b. Dec. 14, 1873; d. May 7, 1908; m., Feb. 18, 1886, Edith Hyn-
son Howell, dau. of the late Darius Howell, of Phila., by his wife Mary Carson.
Issue:

James Frederick Sinnott;

Annie Eliza Sinnott;

Mary Howell Sinnott.
John Sinnott, b. Dec. 13, 1875; m. at San Diego, Cal.. Sept. 28, 1904, Mary Henrietta,
dau. of Hon. Moses A. Luce, by his wife, Rhoda Adalaide Mantania. He matriculated
at the universities of Cornell and Pennsylvania, and became associated with his father
in the firm of Moore & Sinnott, and is now president of the Gibson Distilling Co. He
is a member of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, and the Art, Merion, Cricket
and St. David's Cricket clubs. Issue :

Joseph Francis Sinnott;

Edgar Luce Sinnott.
Clarence Coffin Sinnott, b. Oct. 6, 1878;
Eliza Lorea Sinnott, b. Nov. 21, 1880; d. at Phila., June i, 1882.



SEARCH FAMILY.

Theodore Corson Search, who for nearly half century past has been asso-
ciated with the manufacturing and business interests of Philadelphia, comes of a
family that during Colonial times was resident in the county of Bucks, and ad-
joining parts of Philadelphia county.

On the paternal side he is descended from William Search, who is said to have
come from England in the first half of the eighteenth century, and settled in Bucks
county, where his two sons, Lott and Christopher Search, were born. Lott Search
married Sarah, daughter of William and Sarah (Burley) Davis, and lived for
many years near Davisville, Warminster township, Bucks county, but removed
with his family to Avon, Western New York, about 1830, being then a man of at
least three score.

Christopher Search was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 1764, and dur-
ing his early manhood was a resident of Northampton township, that county. In
1797 he purchased the old Banes homestead in Southampton township, and resided
thereon until 1838, when he retired to a lot in or near the village of Southampton-
ville, where he died in 1842. He was a prominent man in the community in which
he lived and filled a number of local official positions. During the visit of the
Marquis de Lafayette to America, 1824, he was a member of the reception com-
mittee who escorted the distinguished French Patriot through Bucks county, and
participated in the reception tendered him in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

Christopher Search married (first) Amelia, daughter of James and Hannah
( Burley) Torbert, of Upper Makefield, Bucks county, and granddaughter of Sam-
uel and Elizabeth (Lamb) Torbert, who about 1726 came from Carrick-fergus,
Ireland, and located at Newtown, Bucks county. Her mother, Hannah Burley,
was a sister to the mother of Sarah (Davis) Search, wife of Lott Search. Their
father, John Burley, also came from the north of Ireland, and settled in Upper
Makefield. Bucks county. Amelia (Torbert) Search died about 1803, and Christo-
pher married (second) 1805, Ann (Miles) Banes, widow of William Banes, and
daughter of Joseph and Anne (Nasmyth) Miles, of East Pennypack, Moreland
township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. She was a de-
scendant of Griffith Miles, who was born in Wales, 1670, and who accompanied
his brothers, Richard and Samuel Miles, to this country about 1682, and settled in
Radnor township, where the brothers, Richard and Samuel, took up land under
the Welsh purchase in 1684, and Griffith purchased 200 acres of David Powell,
May 17, 1690. Griffith Miles married at Radnor Friends' Meeting, October 20.
1692, Bridget, daughter of Alexander and Catharine Edwards, and had issue:

Esther Miles, b. Sept. 28, 1693 ;
Martha, b. Oct. 12, 1695;
Margaret, b. April, 1698;
Griffith, b. Dec. 3. 1700;
Samuel, b. Sept., 1703
John, b. April 8, 1 709.

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Keith, soon after their marriage, and with him were carried by it out of the
Society of Friends, and eventually became Baptists, both being baptized as mem-
bers of Pennepack Baptist Church, Griffith, July 3, 1697. and Bridget on the
ninth of the same month. Griffith died in January, 17 19.

Griffith Miles, son of Griffith and Bridget, born December 3, 1700, married
Sarah , and had children : Josepli, Ann and Martha.

Joseph Miles, only son of Griffith and Sarah Miles, born September 17, 1722,
located in East Pennypack, Moreland township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery
county, where his children were born. He married at Gloria Dei Church, Phila-
delphia, December 3, 1750, .A.nne Nasmyth, born May 18. 1732. Joseph Miles
died November 27, 1800.

Issue of Joseph and Anne (Nasmyth) Miles:

Lucy, d. inf.;

Lydia, b. Oct. 7, i75-': d. Aug. 28, 1841 ;

Griffith, b. Oct. 4, 1754: d. Dec. 8, 1835;

Margaret, b. .\ug. 20, 1756; d. .April 3, 1826;

Joseph, b. Dec. 5. 1758; d. Jan. 18, 1826;

John, b. Feb. 6, 1761 ;

Thomas, b. Jan. 2, 1762; d. 1861 ;

Dorcas, b. Dec. 30, 1764, d. inf.;

Samuel, b. Oct. 30, 1766: d. Sept. 6, 1849:

Jacob, b. Dec. 19, 1768; d. Aug. 23, 1822;

William Miles, b. March 7, I77i; d. May 29, 1855;

.\nn Miles, b. Aug. 4, 1776; d. Dec. 23, 1865; m. (first) William Banes, b. Aug. 24, 1770,
d. Jan. I, 1803, son of Thomas and Mary Beans (as the name was then spelled), of
Southampton, Bucks co.. Pa.; (second), 1805, Christopher Search, above mentioned;
she had by her first husband, William Banes, four sons— Charles, Joseph, Thomas and
William Banes; of these Thomas Banes, b. Sept. 26, 1801, m. Sarah Bitting, and they
were the parents of Col. Charles H. Banes, of Phila., for some years president of the
Market Street National Bank.

Issue of Christopher and Amelia (Torbert I Search:

Hannah Torbert Search, b. Feb. 14, 1788;

William Search, b. Jan. 7, 1790;

James Torbert Search, b. Nov. 4, 1791 ;

Charles Search, b. June 5, 1793;

Samuel Torbert Search, b. Dec. 25, 1794;

John Torbert Search, b. Nov. i, 1796;

Sarah Torbert Search, b. Sept. 7, 1798: m. William H. Spencer;

Elias Search, b. March 18, 1800.

Issue of Christopher and Ann (Miles-Banes) Search:

Miles Search, b. July 5, 1807; d. in childhood;

George W. Search, b. March 20, 1809; d. in Newtown, Bucks co., Pa.;

Jacob Miles Search, b. Dec. 2, 1810; d. Oct. 11, 1893; m. Nancy Marple Corson; of

whom presently;
Margaret Miles Search, b. Sept. 22, 1811; m. Elias D. Lefferts:
Anthony Torbert Search, b. Aug. 18, 1814; m. Eliza McKibben;
Christopher Search, Jr., b. Feb. 3. 1816; m. Margaret Fetter;
Ann Miles Search, b. March 22, 1818; m. Casper G. Fetter;
Griffith Miles Search, b. April 2, 1822; m. Louisa Fetter.

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ond wife, Ann (Miles) Banes, born in Southampton township, Bucks county, De-
cember 2, 1810, and lived in Southamptonville until his death, October 11, 1893.
He was actively interested in church and educational matters ; was for many years
a trustee of Southampton Baptist Church, and several years a member of the
Southampton School Board. He married, 1837, Nancy Marple, born September
20, 1818, third child of Richard Corson, by his second wife, Elizabeth Bennett, a
descendant of William Bennett, an Englishman, who while a youth settled in Hol-
land, and about 1635 emigrated to the Dutch Colony of New Netherlands, pur-
chasing in that year a large tract of land at Gowanus, Long Island, where he mar-
ried, 1636, Maria Badye, supposed to be of Holland origin, and had six children,
descendants of whom settled in Bucks county, about 1720 to 1725, where they be-
came very numerous, as well as in New Jersey, and were prominent in the affairs
of both provinces in Colonial times.

While tradition relates that the Corson family was of French (Huguenot)
origin, there is no real proof of this fact. A careful examination of the records
of the Dutch Colonies on Long Island and Staten Island show that the name orig-
inated with the children of Cors or Cornells Pietersen by his wife, Trintje Hend-
ricks, who as sons of Cors, according to the Dutch custom, came to be known as
"Corssen." Cornells Corssen, eldest of these children, baptized at New Amster-
dam, April 23, 1645, married there, March 11, 1666, Marietje Van der Grift, (a
sister to the Van der Grift brothers who settled in Bucks county, 1697), baptized
at New Amsterdam, August 29, 1649. Some time after his marriage, Cornells
Corssen removed to Staten Island, where he was a prominent man and a large
landholder. He died in 1693. Benjamin Corson, son of Cornells and Marietje
(Van der Grift) Corssen, in 1726 came to Bucks county, with his wife Neeltje,
and two sons, Benjamin and Cornelius, and purchased a farm in Northampton
township.

Benjamin Corson, son of Benjamin and Neeltje, born in Staten Island, 1718.
accompanied his parents to Bucks county in 1726, and January 2, 1741-42, married
at the Dutch Reformed Church of Southampton, Maria Suydam, and their eldest
child Benjamin, born March 6, 1743, married, 1761, Sarah, daughter of Joseph
and Mary (Ohl) Dungan, great-granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Dungan, founder
of the Baptist Church at Cold Spring, Bucks county, the first of that denomination
in Pennsylvania.

Richard Corson, father of Nancy M. (Corson) Search, was the fifth son of
Benjamin and Sarah (Dungan) Corson, and was born in Bucks county, December
4, 1768. He married (first) Ann Marple and removed to Plymouth, Montgomery
county, where he resided until the death of his wife, and then returned to Bucks
county, where he died October 29, 1845. His second wife, Elizabeth Bennett,
died June 29, 1843. ^t the age of sixty-eight years.
Issue of Jacob M. and A^ancy M. (Corson) Search:

Elwood, b. Sept. 22. 1838;

Theodore Corson, b. March 20, 1841 ; of whom presently;

Henry Lott. b. Sept. 8. 1846; m. Mary M. Lefferts, and resided for many years near

Yardley, Bucks co., Pa.;
Erasmus N. Miles, b. March 7, 1851 ; m. Mary Ella Warren, and had three children —

Pauline, wife of William Benny; Leroy, and Ethel;
• Anna Elizabeth, b. March 13, 1858; m. Edwin W. Roberts, for some years a produce

commission merchant in Phila.. but who d. in Southampton, Bucks co., 1898.



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Theodore Corson Search was born on the old family homestead in Southamp-
ton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1841, and attended the
country district schools of that section until his seventeenth year, when he enter-
ed the State Normal School, at Millersville, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and
after a year's course there entered the Crozier Normal High School, at Upland,
Delaware county, Pennsylvania, from which institution he graduated in 1861,
after a three years' course. He at once took up the profession of teaching, and
after one term as teacher of the school at Fallsington, Bucks county, was appoint-
ed principal of the High School at Middletown, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania,
where he remained for two years, and then became principal of the Middletown
Academy, at the same place. After filling the latter position for two years, he
came to Philadelphia, 1866, as an instructor in the Quaker City Business College.
Two years later he became principal of the National Commercial Institute in that
city, and in 1869 began his business career, with the wholesale wool firm of Davis,
Fiss & Banes, and four years later became a partner in the same firm under the
name of Fiss, Banes, Erben & Company, manufacturers of worsted and woolen
yarns. In 1886 the firm was reorganized under the name of Erben, Search &
Company, and took high rank as a manufacturing concern, largely due to the
business capacity of Mr. Search, who was universally recognized as possessed of
extraordinary business acumen, and his advice and counsel were sought by busi-
ness and financial institutions of the city and elsewhere. He became a director of
the Bank of North America in 1876, and filled that position for over thirty years;
he was elected president of the Colonial Fire Insurance Company, and is now
president of the Cold Spring Bleaching & Finishing Works, Yardley, Pennsyl-
vania. He has filled many other positions of high trust and honor. It was, how-
ever, in the organization and perpetuation of associations for the protection, de-
velopment and improvement of American manufacturing institutions and inter-
ests that Mr. Search became especially prominent. He was for many years a
member, and for some years president, of the Philadelphia Textile Association,
and was a director of its successor, the Manufacturers' Club; was vice-president
of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, and of the American Pro-
tective Tarilif Association. For five years he was president of the National Asso-
ciation of Manufacturers, and in this position did much toward moulding public
opinion in favor of practical legislation in the interests of American manufac-
turers, and in securing such national legislation.

Theodore C. Search was the originator of the Philadelphia Textile School, later
merged with the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. He gave
much time and attention to these institutions, for the education of the American
public in the practical ethics of manufacturing industries. A recent publication
has this to say in reference to Mr. Search's connection with these institutions.

"Perhaps the work which Mr. Search takes most pride in, is the founding and
building up of the Philadelphia Textile School, which is now included in the
Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. For more than a dozen
years he has sustained and developed it, and for this unselfish service the people
of Philadelphia and manufacturers of the entire country owe him a large debt of
gratitude.

"The story of the progress of this school, started by Mr. Search in a small room
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fine quarters in the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. at Broad
and Pine streets, with its more than seven hundred pupils, would fill a large volume
if told in detail; it suffices here to say that Theodore C. Search was its sole sup-
porter for some time, until the late William Arrott and Thomas Dolan, hearing of
the good work being done by Mr. Search, told him to depend upon them for their
share of the expenses, and thus was the school afterwards supported.

"The fostering of the school has been Mr. Search's most exacting, and, at the
same time, most satisfactory work during the last twenty years of his life; and
while he has given to the city and country, a unique institution of the most prac-
tical value — viewed either from the art or humanitarian standpoint — he has un-
consciously, also, reared himself a lasting monument. * * * he has made im-
pressive addresses in its interest before the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and be-
fore the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, at Boston. His speech
before the latter body, together with the striking illustrative exhibit of the product
of the school, aroused intense interest throughout the New England States, and
elicited the most profound and gratifying recognition of the value of the school
and its work to the textile art and manufactures of America."

Mr. Search served as vice-president and chairman of the Industrial Committee
of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art for many years, and
for the last ten years has been its president.

In 1892 Mr. Search became treasurer and executive head of the John B. Stet-
son Company, the mammoth hat manufacturing concern, which position he re-
signed seven years later. He has also been interested in many other manufactur-
ing and industrial concerns. He is a member of the Franklin Institute at Phila-
delphia, and was for many years a member of the Committee of Science and Art
of that institution. In religion he conforms to the faith of his ancestors for many
generations, and is president of the Board of Trustees of the Baptist Memorial
Church, of which he and his family have long been members. He is also treasurer
of the Baptist Orphanage.

Theodore C. Search married, December 25. 1862. Anna L., daughter of Eph-
raim White, of Newtown. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, who was born in 1841,
died January 14, 1907. Their only child:

Ida May Search, b. July 24. 1864; m. Prof. George Howard Cliff, then principal of the
Philadelphia Normal School, since treasurer of the DeLong Hook and Eye Co., and
now its president; one daughter:
Anna Search Cliff.



SMITH FAMILY.

William Smith, founder of the family of that name in Bucks county, came
from Yorkshire, England, arriving in the river Delaware, jmo. (September) 28,
1682, in the "Friends Adventure." He was then a young man and unmarried, and
for several years lived with Phineas Pemberton, in Falls township, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania. He later removed back into the woods of Wrightstown, where
John Chapman was the only other white settler, and purchasing one hundred acres
of the sooacre tract surveyed there to Chapman, took unto himself a wife and
settled thereon. He later purchased 150 acres adjoining his first purchase, and ex-
tending from the Newtown township line to the Penn's Park Square, and built
thereon a stone house in which he resided until his death in 1743. On 2mo.
(April) 28, 1709. there was surveyed to him 200 acres in the Manor of Highlands,
Upper Makefield township, which became known as the "Windy Bush Farm" ; its
name being later applied to the locality and the road extending from Wrightstown
thereto.

William Smith was a staunch member of the Society of Friends, and was prob-
ably the same William Smith who like his neighbor, John Chapman, and his father-
in-law, Thomas Croasdale, is mentioned in Besse's "Collection of the Sufferings
of the People called Quakers" as having been frequently fined and imprisoned in
England for attending Friends' Meeting and non-conformity with the national
church government. John Chapman and William Smith were the first settlers in
Wrightstown township, and their families are the only ones of the original set-
tlers there to hold continual residence in the township from that early date to the
present time. Both families have likewise taken a prominent part in the afifairs of
the township, county and state, many of them holding high official positions at
different periods, and others ranking high in professional life.

William Smith married, at the home of John Chapman, in Wrightstown, gmo.
(November) 20, 1690, Mary, born in England 8mo. (October) 31, 1669, daughter
of Thomas and Agnes Croasdale, of Middletown, who, with their several children,
had crossed in the "Welcome" with William Penn, 1682, bringing a certificate
from Settle Monthly Meeting, dated 4mo. (June) 7. 1682.

Mary (Croasdale) Smith, after bearing her husband eight children, and sharing
with him in rigors of a life in the new settlement for twenty-six years, died on
lomo. (December) 16, 1716, and was buried in the old graveyard at "Log-town,"

now Penn's Park. William Smith married (second). 1720, Mercy . who

bore him seven children.

Issue of William and Mary (Croasdale) Smith:

Margaret Smith, b. Oct. 20. i6gi : m., 1712. Enoch Pearson, and her descendants are
still numerous in Bucks co. and Phila.;

Mary Smith, b. April 16. 1696: m., 1717, John Atkinson, and also has numerous descend-
ants;

Elizabeth Smith, m. Thomas Watson, Jr., of Buckingham, and was the mother of John
Watson, Jr., the famous surveyor, who assisted in surveying the Pa. and Md. line, and
was almost constantly in the employ of the Proprietaiies of his native county:

William Smith, b. Jan. 2, 1697; m. Rebecca Wilson; he inherited the homestead in
Wrightstown, and was a prominent man in the community, representing Bucks co. in
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Sarah Smith, b. Jan. 26, 1700; m. Samuel Blaker, 1721;

Thomas Smith, of whom presently;

Hannah Smith, m. William Lee, of Makefield. and left descendants;

Lydia Smith, m. Joseph Heston.

Thomas Smith, second son of William and Mary (Croasdale) Smith, inherit-
ed his father's "Windy Bush Plantation," on which he had settled at the time of
his marriage, and died there in 1750. He married, 1727, Elizabeth, born Decem-
ber 20, 1796, daughter of Robert and Mary (Large) Sanders, of Buckingham,
and they had children.

Issue of Thomas and Elizabeth (Sanders i Smith:

Thomas Smith, b. Aug. 13, 1728; m. Mary Ross; of whom presently: