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MOJI.TON.. ~ ~ ' . 1 !I I~ o}6{A · l~ / I 0 ,O ~ ~~ ~~ 0 0 ~-- C) ~rinttb for ]?ribate Oirrutation •, j • I ~ BY J- B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA J• 1 I1 I o-, o I A1DCCCXCVIII j ' ~ ~ o o~==========J•1 1 o ' ' 1 ' 1 , ' 1 ' ,·, ' !1 11f 11 h 0 0 ~, !1. 11 / 1 t 1~ ! ~ t u ,o 1 1 1 !~jl.1(1 ,ui, OL~~1h (1iou 0._l~I 'O. Genealogical anb :JSiograpbical memorial£; of tbe 1RcaNno, n=towell, )t)erlte.s, 'trolatts, 'J!atbam, anb 18lltins jfamiltes THESE MEMORIALS ARE THE OUTGROWTH OF THE INTEREST OF lllIUlliam 1. JEmins, JEsq. IN MATTERS OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND THE PRESERVATION OF FAMILY RECORDS AND TO HIM THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY HIS FRIEND THE AUTHOR ~refator~ mote PARTS I. and II. of this work contain fairly complete genealogical records of the families of John Reading and Thomas Howell, pioneers of \Vest New Jersey. The remaining parts are more limited, and cover but a portion of the families therein treated. I am particularly indebted to Mr. William Rumford Howell, of Phila­ delphia, for valuable assistance in connection with the Howell family, and to the eminent Rhode Island genealogist, John Osborne Austin, Esqr, from whose invaluable collections I have obtained much material relating to the early descendants of Lewis Latham. J. GRANVILLE LEACH. PHILADELPHIA, August, 1898. \table of <tontents MEMORIAL OF THE READING FAMILY • I :MEMORIAL OF THE HOWELL FAMILY MEMORIAL OF .THE YERKES FAMILY MEMORIAL OF THE ,VATTS FAMILY • MEMORIAL OF LEWIS LATHAM AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS MEMORIAL OF THE ELKINS FAMILY. ERRATA AND ADDENDA • INDEX OF NAMES • • • JList of 11IIustrations READI!'lG AR:11IS • • • • • • • • • •• • Fronti'spiue. CHART SHOWING DESCE:-lT OF '\VILLIA)i LUKENS ELKJNS, ESQ~, OF PHILADELPHIA, FRO!>t COLONEL ] OHN READISG • • • • • • • • • • II FAC·SnlILE OF IMPRESSION OF NOTARIAL SEAL OF COLON'EL JOHN READING • 12 FAC·Sl:IULE OF AUTOGRAPHS OF COLONEL JOHN READING • • • • • • 15 FAC·Sl:IIILE OF INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF COLONEL ]OHS READING 20 TANKARD OF COLONEL ]OHS READING • • • • • • • • • • 22 FAC•Sl'-ULE OF LETTER OF THOMAS POWNALL, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO GOVERNOR Jom, READING (two plates) • . • . • . • • • • . 30 FAC-SIJIULE OF LETTER OF GOVERNOR READING TO W1LLIAJII DENNY, GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • 34 SACRAMENTAL CUPS OF AMWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, provided under legacy of Governor Reading . • • • • . • • • . • . • . • . 37 FAC-SIJIIILE OF LETTER OF COLONEL GEORGE READING. TO WILLIAM FRANKLIN, GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 48 FAC·SIMILE OF BOND OF COLONEL GEORGE READING AS GUARDIAN OF SAMUEL HACKETT 51 RESIDENCE OF GOVERNOR READING AT HIS DECEASE. • • • • • • • • • • • 52 RESIDE-SCE OF JOSEPH READI!'<G (1778--1853) • . • • . • . • . 68 ENTRANCE TO "GREENWOOD," RESIDENCE or. ROBERT KENNEDY READING, EsQI!- 70 ARMS OF HowEL DnA (in text) ..... ·. 129 } Aiu1s OF HowEL v FwYALL (in text) . 130 VIGNETTE OF J.-HIES HOWELL (1594-1666) (in text) 133 TO)IBSTOXE OF MAJOR JOHN HOWELL (tail-piece) • 1 34 HOWELL ARMS 137 1i5t of 1Jllu5trations TAMWORTH CASTLE, WARWICKSHIRE, ENGLAND (in head-piece) • 137 INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF CAPTAIN DANIEL HOWELL • • • • 150 COMMISSION OF SAMUEL HowELL, EsQ!-, As C0Ml\uss10NER OF THE UNITED STATES BANK • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 162 SILHOUETTE OF MAJOR JOHN LEVERING AND HIS WIFE HANXAH HOWELL 168 MINIATVRE OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL HOWELL (1748-1802). 172 PORTRAIT OF HONORABLE HARMAN YERKES. • • • • • • • 190 PoRTRAlT OF REAR-ADMIRAL FREDERICK VALLETTE l\IcNAIR 200 PENNEPEK CHURCH (in head-piece) • • • • • • • • • • • 205 TOMBSTONE OF REVEREND JOHN 'VATTS • • • • • • • • • 208 PORTRAIT OF LEWIS LATHAM, from original in possession of William Lukens Elkins, Esq', of Philadelphia • • • • • • • 2 r 6 DUNGAN ARMS (in head-piece) • • • • 217 LATHAM HOUSE, LANCASHIRE, ENGL'-ND 220 LATHAM ARMS • • • • • • • • • • • 226 TOMBSTONE or MRS. FRANCES VAUGHAN, DAUGHTER OF LEWIS LATRAM, from photo- graph of stone in burying-ground at Newport, Rhode Island • • , • • • • • • 232 ARMS of REVEREND STEPHEN BACHILER (in text) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 233 VIEW OF NEWPORT BuRYING-GRoi::xn, showing the tombstone of Mrs. Frances Vaughan in the foreground -. • • • • • • • • • • '. • ·• • • • • • • • • • • • 234 RESIDENCE OF WILLIAM LUKENS ELKINS, EsQ!!-, BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA 239 ELKINS ARMS, GRANT OF 1558 (in head-piece) 239 ARMS OF RICHARD ELKINS (in text) • • • • • 240 ARMS oF WILLIAM ELKIN, EsQ~ (in text) ••• PORTRAIT OF HONORABLE STEPHEN BENTON ELKINS 247 "HALLIE.HURST," COUNTRY-SEAT OF HONORABLE STEPHEN BE:-.TON ELKINS, AT ELKINS, \VEST VIRGINIA • • . • . • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • 250 PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM LUKENS ELKIXS . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 255 CHART SHOWING VARIOUS LINES OF DESCENT OF MRS. WILLlA)l LUKENS ELKINS • 25 7 COUNTRY-SEAT OF W1LLIA.'.\I LuKE:-.s ELKINS, EsQI:-, AT ASHBOURNE, PENXSYLVANJA • 260 The title-page, and head- and tail-pieces in this volume were designed and drawn by MR. EDWARD STRATTO:- HOLLOWAY, of Philadelphia. )Dart 11 Memorial of tbe 1Reabing jfamfl\2 1:tbe 1Reahings in JEnglanb ~""""l!l:"""".::::;:=:::i.;-:=iHE precise antiquity of the surname Reading is difficult to determine. The name is supposed, however, to have had its genesis during the period of the Saxon Heptarchy, and to have been derived from the Saxon tribe Radingas, the descendants of Raeda, whose best monument is their most enduring settlement, Reading,* the shiretown of Berks, Eng­ land ; and it is this local nomenclature which furnished, after the Norman conquest, a surname for some of its citizens, who, through the vicissitudes of war, or from choice, migrated elsewhere within the kingdom. Certain it is that the family Reading, never a numerous one, was of ancient seating in Hertfordshire and in London, and that the surname was variously spelled and indifferently used by the earlier members thereof as de Redynge, Rydinge, Redding, and Reading. Robert de Reading, monk of Westminster, a chronicler · of the events and opinions of the age in which he lived and bore a part, was perhaps the most in­ teresting of the early personalities of the name. He was the author of that portion / of the Flores Historiarum t embraced within the years I 307-13 2 5, and contained in Chetham 1\15. 6712, of which there is a copy in Cotton MS. Cleopatra, A 16. Dr. Luard, in his edition of this work, says that the history of Edward 11.'s reign, by Robert de Reading, at Westminster, "must rank as of equal authority with the other chroniclers of that time." Of the writer nothing is positively known but that he died in 1325, and that he was the brother of John de Redynge, of London, whose will! was proved in 1327, and probably the son of Willi_am Redynge, high sheriff of London, 1316, who in his will,§ 1320, names sons William, John, and Robert • This tov.-n must ha\·e been of considerable importance under the Saxon kings, for William of Malmesbury stales that lhe Danes, towards the close of the ninlh century, seized its cas11e and intrenched themselves therein after their defeat at the battle of Ashdown by Ethelwolf, Earl of Berkshire. Reading, under the Domesday Survey, had a.scn"bed to it not more than twenty-eight bagae or houses, which small number is to be accounted for by the town ha,ing been attacked by the Danes in Ioo6, on the invasion of Sweyn, King of Denmark, v.·ben the place was almost destroyed. t F1ores Historiarum.-The " Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages," by Henry Richards Luard, D.D., Fellow of Trinity College and Registrary of the Univezsity, Cambridge. ! Calendar of \\'ills, Court of Husting, London, Roll 56, ~ Ibid., Roll 51. 3 ttbe 1Reabtng Jamill? Henry Redynge held lands in the parish of St Martin \Vallingford, county Berks, 1 Richard II. Edmund Redynge, as prior of Bisham, parish of Bray, county Berks, was party to an agreement between that priory and William Bangor, EsqT, in 1434, to which is attached a fragment of the ancient,seal of the convent, in use before its re-founda­ tion,-a large oval, representing the Virgin seated and holding a globe surmounted by a cross.* The Redinges of Croydon, county Surrey, were early of note. Richard de Redynge was enfeoffed of the Manor of Whitehorse, Croyden, some ten miles from London, in 136o, by John de Chirbury, marshal to Edward III., who had obtained a grant of free warren. Of this family, though somewhat later, was John Redynge, EsqT, treasurer to the household of Prince Henry, afterwards Henry VIII. The following inscription to his memory and that of his wife was formerly to be seen in Croyden Church: "Here Lyeth John Redinge EsqT, late Treasurer to Prince Henry, son to Henry VII, and Mary his wife, Mistres to the Prince of Castell ; which John deceased the third daye of January, Anno MCCCCCVIII." The tomb bore these arms : Arg. three boars' heads couped sa. (for Redinge) impaling, harry of ten arg.
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