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SOME TEMPLE PEDIGREES. A GENEALOGY OF THE KNOWN DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM TEMPLE, WHO SETTLED IN. SALEM, MASS .• 1-N 1636. TO WHICH JS ADDED GE....,EALOGIES OF TE)[PLE FA)ULIES SETI'LING IN READING, MASS., CHESTER CO., PA., AVLF.TTS, VA., GALWAY, N. Y., AND ELSEWHERE. ALSO BRIEF GE."l'EALOGIES OF FAMILIES CONNECTED BY MARRIAGE WITH THE FOREGOING. VIZ: EA.'1:ES, CASE. WELCH, KELLUM. CA)fPBELL. WILSON, HIATT, SPRAY. COOK, TREDWAY AND MURDOCK. BY LEVI DAl.'ITEL TEMPLE. BOSTON: PRCNTED BY D.A-VID CLAPP & SON. l 9 0 0. Uo tbe }Purchaser. You may wish at some time to sell this volume. Should such be the case in one week, or twenty years, if you will write me the condition of the book and your lowest cash price, post-paid, I will endeavor to find a buyer for it. With every good wish, Your friend, LEVI D. TEMPLE. LEVI DANIEL TEMPLE. TO MY CHILDRE.."-, m:mcritrc Eli~abctfl anb ~roman ~dlum ecmplr, Wrru ·rm,: HOl'E THAT TUEY \VlLL PROVE WORTHY l:SUERITORS Ol' .-....; HO:SOllAllLE L!:S:tAG!i:. • A."'1> ADD FltESlt LusrRE -ro A Dls"I'l:SGUISHJ::D NAME, I DJ::DICATE TRIS VOL\l!ltE. CONTENTS. I:sTROt>t:CT10:s-TnE TEltPLE F A.,nLY 5-8 DESCEXllAXTS 01-' ARRAHAlt TEltPLE 9-203 BAKER F.\lt!LY 66 EAln:s F.um. Y 66-67 CASE F:..ltILy 114-116 TREDW.\Y F Allll."'i" 133-135 \VEr.cn FAltn.Y • 171-174 KELLt:lt FAmL Y 192-194 HIATT F.unr.Y 195-196 Wn.sox F.unLY 196-198 CooK FAlttLY 197 CAlll'BELL F .\ltlLY 198-200 SPRAY F.nnLY 200-202 DESCI-::SllAXTS OF SAltUEL l\Itntt>OCK 204-211 DESCEXllAXTS OF ROBERT TEltPLE 212-260 D1-:SCE:SD.\XTS 01-' Wn.LI.\ll TEltPLE OF COOllBS LAXE 261-279 DESCEXDAXTS OF W1LT.IAll TEllPLE OF TITRIXG OF WICK 280-289 DJ,:SCI-:XDAXTS 01-' Au:XA!,"DER TElll'LE • 290-293 DESCEXDAXTS OF ICHABOD ,\.."'W JoHX TEltPLE 294-297 OTnER T,mrLE F AlUr.IES 298 ADDEXDA 293,297 £."tTRACTS FR0lt ENGLISH WILLS 299-301 INDEX 302-316 THE TEMPLE FAMILY. b 1421 Robert Temple was in possession of Temple Hall, an estate in the County of Leicester, England. This manor was granted to the Knights Templar at an early date. It is altogether likely that Robert, his ancestors and descendants, received their Dame from the order of the Temple, or from the Hall, into the. possession of which this family came. In 1279 · the property was held by Henry de Temple, as shown by public records. This latter Henry is s:tid by tradition to have been a desccnda;it of Leofric, Earl of l\Iercia before the days of William the Conqueror. The consort of Leofric was Lady Godiva of Coventry, celebr-.ited in Tennyson's poem bearing h~ name-and the Temples of Temple Hall have therefore a doubly 'famous origin. Wl1ether any reliance can be placed upon this legend I do not know. This Temple Hall was in the possession of Sir Peter Temple at the time of Cromwell. Sir Peter was one of the judges who condemned to death King Charles I., and James Temple was another of the name. I have seen the death warrant, bearing their signatures, hanging in one of the towers on the walls of Chester. The handwriting is of men who were not afraid. "\Vben Charles II. came to the throne in 1660, Sir Peter Temple p:tid the penalty for his hardihood by life iniprisonment and the loss, by confiscation, of Temple Hall, which has ne,er since then been in the possession of the family. It is however still called by that name. You may find it some five miles from the little city of Atherstone and not far from the scene of the battle of Bosworth. It is :i. fair sized brick house, partially o,er grown with clinibing roses, and serves as the residence of a f.1.l"Dl.er who rents two or three hundred acres from Earl Howe, to whom, I was told, the fee of the pbce now belongs. Descended from Robert 2 6 TE.'\[l>LE GID."'EALOGY. Temple, 1421, of Temple Hnll, nre the Viscounts Pnlmerston, the first two being named Henry Temple, and the third being Henry John Temple. The latter wns the well known statesman born Oct. 20, 1784, dying Oct. 18, 1865, without issue. From the same nw;:estor Sir William Temple, a well known Englishman, born 1628, dying 1698-9, leaving no male descendants, derived his origin. Several American families of the name have traditions, nscribing their descent through Sir William Temple, but without basis of fact. There were other Sir William Temples, but to none of them can their ancestry be traced. Robert Temple (born in Ireland, 1694; died in 7'.Inssnchusetts, 1754), descended from Robert of Temple Hnll, 1421, an officer of the British army, formed a brilliant plan to settle an Irish colony near Bath, 7'.Inine. The project resulted in nothing except to make of him :;. useful resident of the New World ancl to establish his family in :Ke\V England. One of his sons was Sir John Temple. It was he who married Elizabeth Bow doin. He was Lieutenant Governor of New Hampshire, and from 1785 to 1798 British Consul General in :Kew York. One of his daughters married Hon. Thomns L. "Winthrop. A grandson of Robert of Ireland, also named Robert, settlccl in Rutl:i.nd, Vt. This latter Robert had n son, ,Yillinm Grenville, who be~mc Renr Admirnl of the United States :Ka,;y. From Robert of Rutland is descended Edward Lowe Temple, n well known banker of that place. For the information above given I nm indebtccl to the investiga tions and volumes (" Some account of the Temple Family," 1st, 2d and 3d editions, printell for the author) of :\1r. Temple Prime, of Huntington, Long Island, himself a descendant of the Temples of Temple Hall. I have been unable thus far to establish a con nection between the families, whose genealogy I have given in the following pages, and the Temple Hall line. I have it upon the authority of Hon. Grem-ille N. Temple of Borehnm :Manor, "\V nrminster, "\Viltshire, that the Temples of that county have been well known since about 1600. The will ofThomns Temple of Heytesbury, Wiltshire, was proved l\Iny 15, 1594 ( 42 Dixey). I nm not a.ware that any effort hns been made to trace the descent of the "\Viltshire families. I have been permitted to make C."ttraets from a number -:f Eng- l'EllPLE Gn"'EALOGY. 7 lish wills of Temple testators which may be found at the end of the VQlume. No connection hns been established between them nnd Abrnhnm Temple of Salem, or with Robert, 1421, of Temple Hall. Abrnhnm of Snlem appears to hnve been the earliest of the nnme to establish himself nnd his descendants in thP N cw World. Thus far, research hns not succeeded in tracing him to his English birth place or parcntnge. I nm of the opinion thnt he wns n plnin m:m in humble position. For the most part his descendants hnve been furmers nnd mechanics, although some hnve entered the professions and business life where they hnvc nttnined success. Richard Temple of Rending, :i\Inss. (died Nov. 23, 1737, nged 70), who hns n large number of descendants, wns in all probability son of Robert,• son of Abraham' of Salem. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rev. Frederick Temple, D.D., is probably descended from Robert of Temple Hall, 1421. I quote from a letter addressed to myself under the-date of 25 Nov., 1896 : "I am ::.fraid I cnn do nothing to help you in your researches into the history of our family. You already know more about it thnn I do. I hnve never even visited Temple ·Hall; There is a tradition amongst us that the beginning of our family mis Leofric, Earl of :i\Icrcin • • Th.e oldest, though not the- best known branch of the Temples, is that of which Sir Leofric Temple is the head. The name ' Leofric ' is hereditary in thnt branch. There are two other branches, one to which Sir William of Stowe belongs, the head of which till quite recently wns the Duke of Buckingham, the other the Irish branch, of which Lord Palmcr::,ton was the head. But I have no mcnns, nor time if I had the mcnns, for tracing out the details." This letter of the eminent English archbishop, who honors i.~e name as few others hnve done, breathes the spirit of a generous and cordial soul, but has upon its face the stamp of Temple blood, for as n rule the family in all its branches has been disin clined to gcne:tlogicnl research. :Members of the Virginia. branch, justly proud of their family and name, the Quaker lines of .Pennsyl vania and the N cw England dcscendn.nts of Abraham of Salem, have the same characteristic. Neither in Engl:md nor America. has the family been a prolific one. After ten generations, careful research enables me to place less than tv,o thousand living descendants of 8 l'EJIPLE GENEALOGY. Abr:i.hnm of Snlem. Different lines of the English family were continunlly becoming c.'Uinct, us shown in the volumes of Temple Prime. The family nnme is relatively rare throughout the English speak ing world. There nre strong facial resemblances among those who bear it on both sides of the sea.