HISTORICAL, GENEALOGICAL, AND BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

JOLLIFFE FAMILY

OF VIRGINIA,

1 6 5 2 t o 1 8 9 3.

ALSO

SKETCHES OF THE NEILL'S, JANNEY'S, HOL­ LINGSWORTH'S, AND OTHER COGNATE FAMILIES.

PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMP.ANY. 18 9 3. One Hundred and Fifty Copies Printed.

No ...... "IT is a useful employment for societies, as well as individuals, to look back through their past history and mark the dealings of a kind Providence toward them." (Bishop Meade.) "It is wise for us to recur to the history of our ancestors. Those who are regardless of their ancestors, and of their pos­ terity, who do not look upon themselves as a link connecting the past with the future in the transmission of life from their ancestors to their posterity, do not perform their duty to the world. To be faithful to ourselves we must keep our ancestors and posterity within reach and grasp of our thoughts and affec­ tions. Living in the memory and retrospect of the past, and hoping with affection and care for those who are to come after us, we are true to ourselves only when we act with becoming pride for the blood we inherit, and which we are to transmit to those who shall fill our places." (Daniel Webster.) "I have never known a person whose self-reliance was of so austere a cast that he did not take pleasure when it was in his power to do so in tracing his de­ scent from an honored line." (Edward Everett.)

PREFACE.

WHILE living in Philadelphia in the year 1870 I had occasion to hunt up some dates relating to older members of our family. I found the search by no means an easy one; for by the burning of the old homestead soon after the late war a great number of valuable papers, letters, and books were destroyed. These referred especially to my father's family, as the homestead was owned by my great-uncle, who was the eldest son and inherited most of the landed property, and with it also the old Revolutionary papers of his father, Captain John Jolliffe. I regret the loss of these exceed­ ingly, as they covered such a very interesting period. Some of them, relating to lands which this ancestor received for Revolu­ tionary services, were in the hands of a lawyer in Winchester, and were taken, with the Court archives, somewhere up the valley, to save them from destruction by soldiers or camp-followers during the late war. The archives, even to the first old deed-book, have fortunately been restored, but all efforts to recover our papers have thus far been unavailing, although the deed to this land has come back to us in a curious and roundabout way. Happily, this ancestor, before he joined the fray of 1776, stepped from a peaceful line, whose records up to a certain date are safely laid away in the Meeting Records at Hopewell, Virginia. Before this friendly period I had the Court-House records and the General Land Office at Richmond to fall back upon. Thus the difficulties in my path but added interest to my search, which was continued from time to time, when I had the leisure, in desultory fashion. In late years, however, I have taken up the subject seriously and systematically, and what was begun as a pas­ time bas proved a great blessing in helping me through many invalid hours. A little over a year since, in looking through these data with a relative, it was suggested that I publish them for the benefit of my children and those of the family who might be inter­ ested. Hence these imperfect pages, which were never intended for the public eye. It is probably safe to say that no genealogy of a large family 5 6 PREFACE. has ever been written without some mistakes, and this book will probably form no exception to the general rule, although I have carefully endeavored to make no statements positively without having the best of authority therefor. My researches have in­ volved much time, labor, and expense, spread out as they have been, necessarily, over a large territory, especially in the South, where the genealogist finds no royal road cast up for him in the way of carefully preserved records gathered into the many his­ torical societies that are scattered all over New England and the Eastern States. My sources of information have been various. The libraries of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Richmond have yielded me much valuable information, also family Bibles and papers, Friends' Meeting records of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Chester County, Pennsylvania, of Maryland and Virginia, especially those of East Nottingham, Maryland, Hopewell and Fairfax, Virginia, and Church records of various denominations in Virginia. The General Land Office at Richmond, Virginia, has aided me greatly in foformation about our earliest ancestors that otherwise would have been impossible to obtain. There I found copies of the orig­ inal patents of land they took up under the Crown and Lord Fair­ fax, some of which I have given in these pages, as they are quaintly and curiously worded. There, too, are the proceedings of the Gen­ eral Assembly relative to military grants and copies of the general warrants to Virginia officers during the Revolution, some of which I have also given. The various Court records also have been ex­ amined, especially those of Norfolk County, at Portsmouth, Vir­ ginia, and of Frederick County, at Winchester, Virginia. Relatives and friends have also aided with books, old letters, and personal information. No effort to carry this research, with regard to the families men­ tioned, into England or Ireland. has been attempted, and the in­ formation given has only been such as has been obtained from family records and such English works as are to be found in our public libraries. The Rush Library, in Philadelphia, is especially rich in such volumes. I have been very careful to give my authori­ ties for what I have published on this subject, and owing to limited space have had to omit much that was very interesting. It may, however, furnish a starting-point for some member of the family to finish what I have begun. In order not to confuse the reader, an effort has been made to keep the generations distinct. Wherever a date is given and not PREF.A.OE. 7 qualified, it has been copied from a reliable record, such as a Family Bible, Meeting or Court-House record. When the record does not give the exact date, and it is gathered from contemporaneous rec­ ords, circumstances, etc., it is given as about such and such a time. Having commenced my title-page with a sentiment from good old Bishop Meade, that "it is wise for us to look back through the past history of .our ancestors and mark the dealings of a kind Providence towards them," I found the wisdom of this remark constantly brought before my mind in the compilation of the fol­ lowing pages. I have found, though not always among the great of the earth, so many in all the generations have been among the good, not only proving their faith by their works, but often sealing it by suffering therefor. If my own children or any of my young relatives should catch an inspiration from the simple record of their adherence to duty, often amid trying circumstances, the labor that I have put upon these pages will not have been spent in vain. " Knowing this-that never yet Share of truth was vainly set In the world's wide fallow; After hands. shall sow the seed, After hands from hill and mead Reap the harvest yellow." WHITTIER.

WILLIAM JOLLIFFE. BRANHAM, VIRGINIA., June 23, 1893.

ANTIQUITY AND HISTORICAL NOTES OF THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY.

THAT portion of the west of England embracing that remarkable tier of counties, namely, Lancastershire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, though small in extent, is one of the most densely populated in the world, and green fields appear almost ob­ literated by the masses of brickwork raised by human hands. Lan­ castershire and Cheshire include within their borders the basins of the :Mersey and the Ribble, and here are carried on the most eJ1:ten­ sive mining and manufacturing works in the world. Worcestershire occupies the central portion of the fertile valley of the Severn. The Tome, which comes down from the Welsh hills, flows through a narrow valley, while the Avon irrigates the fertile vale of Eversham. Staffordshire lies wholly within the great central plain of England. The river Trent rises near the northern boundary of the county, and passes through its centre, receiving on its way several tributa­ ries, the principal of which are the Dove on the east and the Tame on the west. This Trent valley is noted for its fertility, but Staf­ fordshire is essentially a manufacturing and mining county. The northern portion of the county is known as the potteries, for the manufacture of earthenware has been carried on there from times out of mind. The southern portion of the county is the great coal­ mining district known as the" Black Country." Lying between these two distdcts is to be found in the valley of the Dove one of the most beautiful and picturesque spots in all England. The Churnet is tributary to the Dove and hardly yields to it in romantic beauty. Near the source of the Churnet is to be found the consid­ erable town of L~ek, where silk is extensively manufactured. "This town of Leek and the surrounding country once belonged to Algar of Mercia, and at the Conquest was given to Hugh Lupus, first earl of Chester. Ralph, the sixth earl, gave it to Dieulacresse Abbey, which he founded in the thirteenth century. The old church is dedicated to St. Edward the Confessor. This church was burned down in 1279 and was rebuilt. It is noted for it8 beautiful rose win.dow." "One mile north of the town is Dieulacresse Abbey, fo11nded in 1214 for the Cistercians by Ralph de Blondeville, sixth earl of Chester. He was a renowned crusader and liberal to all monastic orders. It was granted by Edward the Sixth to Sir Ralph J3agenal, and by him was pulled down and the present farm-house 11 12 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF erected." Careswell, sometimes called Caverswell, is three miles west of the town of Cheadle, and one and one-half miles north of Leek. It has a small population. "The church has a monument by Chantry to Lady St. Vincent, and another to Sir William Cavers­ well, the builder of the castle (Temp. Edward I., 1275), which is styled by Leland 'the prati pile of Cares well.' It seems to have fallen into ruin, and in 1643 Matthew Craddock built the present castle. It was for some time occupied by a community of nuns, and there is a Roman Catholic church in the grounds." This region is rendered doubly interesting to us because it was here that the family of J olli, or Jolliffe, settled and lived for many years after the Norman Conquest. They were located at Leek, Coften Hacketts, Bothoms, Careswell, and Dieulacresse (Stafford­ shire); Bromsgrove (Cheshire); Buglawton, Upton-Snodesbury, Cofton Hall, and Worcester (Worcestershire) ; Hayton Castle (Lan casters hire); 'ryped-Magdalen, Stower-Preaux, Stower-Es­ tower (Dorsetshire); Stratford-on-the-Avon, and in London. "Towards the latter end of the reign of Edward the Second, Sir William de Careswell built a large and uncommonly strong stone castle at this place, and surrounded it by extensive ponds and a deep moat, with a drawbridge. The heads of the ponds had square turrets. It was for a long time the chief seat of the long and an­ cient family of the Yanes, now extinct." (Worcester Antiquities.) "Careswell was Twentieth Conqueror, held of Robert de Stafford, by Ernulph de Hesding. In the reign of Richard the First, one Thomas de Careswell, Knt., whose grandson, William de Careswell, erected a goodly castle in this place, the pools, dams, and houses of office being all of masonry. His posterity enjoyed it until the 19th of Edward the Third, when by heir general it passed from the Careswells to the Mont~merys, and from them, by the Giffords , and the Ports, to the family of Hastings, Earls of Huntingdon, who were the owners in the 17th century. In 1655 Matthew Crad­ dock owned it. 1 From the Craddocks it passed to the Yanes. Thus William Viscount Vane of Ireland, who possessed it in right of his mother, the daughter and co-heir of Sir William Jolliffe, Knt., who married Mary, daughter of Ferdinando, the Sixth Earl of Huntingdon.'' (T. R. Nash's History of Worcestershire.) "Dieulacresse Monastery was in possession of -- J olli of Leek

1 In 1655 this property belonged to Thomas Jolliffe, who was an officer of Charles I., and attended him to his execution. His property was forced to a sale, and Matthew Craddock bought it. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 13 prior to 1637, when it appears to have been held by Sir Benjamin Rudyard." (Dugdale.) "At Leek are eight almshouses, endowed in 1696 by Elizabeth, widow, and eldest daughter of William. J ol­ liffe, of this place, for eight poor widows, who are allowed two shil­ lings per week, and seven shillings 5 pense and 3 farthings twice a year for coals, and a new gown once in two years.'' (Shaw's Staf­ fordshire.) "In Bentley-Meere Church tables of benefaction for the poor hang up in the church. Mr. Marmaduke Jolly bequeathed ten pounds, the interest to be annually·applied to the teaching of poor children at Bentley school. This is paid by the church war­ dens." "The name of Jolliffe, old English J ollif, French Joli, is translated as jolly, gay, trim, fine, gallant, neat, handsome, etc.'' "Up ryst this jolyf lover Absalom." (Chaucer, 3688.) "In all works of family history the name seems to have originally been spelled Jolli gr_J_QJJy, and is of French or Norman origin." "The family of J ollifl'e ( originally J olli) is of considerable antiquity in the counties of Stafford and Worcester, and the pedigree in possession of the senior members comprises intermarriages with many eminent and noble houses. One branch, established in the north, enjoyed, it appears from authentic records, power and affluence even before the institution in Europe of hereditary honors." (Burke's Landed Gen­ try of Great Britain.) Another account says, "Descended from an ancient and honorable family which dates its origin from the in­ cursion of the Norman Conqueror, and collaterally allied to some of the chief nobles of the kingdom." As a family they seem to have been home lovers, clinging closely to the place of their nativity, adhering to old customs and the existing order of things with great tenacity, and not easily influenced to adopt either new forms of religion or government. They were not, nor ever have been, what might be called a restless people. They were a tall, dark-haired and blue-eyed race, not an uncommon type of people found in the west of England of Norman extraction, as shown by various printed records still extant. During the troublous times of Charles the First and the Cromwell revolution they were stanch royalists, and adherents of the Established Church, one of them attending Charles to the place of execution. For their loyalty and religious convictions they were made to suffer, as Cromwell and his followers knew only too well how to create suffering by depriving them of all rank, position, and estates. Macaulay says, '' Charles relied, indeed, chiefly for pecuniary aid on the munificence of his adherents. Many of these mortgaged their lands, pawned their jewels, broke up their silver chargers and christening bowls in order to assist 14 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. him. When the struggle was over, the work of innovation and revenge was pushed on With ardor; the clashing polity of the king­ dom was remodelled; most of the old clergy were ejected from their benefices ; fines, often of ruinous amounts, were laid on the royal­ ists, already impoverished by large aids furnished to the king. Many estates were confiscated, many proscribed ca-valie:rs found it expedient to purchase, at an enormous cost, the protection of emi­ nent members of the victorious party. Large domains, belonging to the Crown, to the Bishops, and to the Chapters, were seized, and either granted a way or put up to auction. In consequence of these spoliations a great part of the soil of England was at once offered for sale; as money was scarce, as the market was ghitted, and the title was insecure, and as the awe inspired by power always prevented free competition, the prices were often merely nominal. Thus many old and honorable families disappeared and were beard of no more, and many a new man rose rapidly to affluence." At the Restora­ tion their property was restored to them, and they were reinstated to the royal favor. They furnished from their number magistrates and sheriffs of the counties of Stafford and Worcester during the reigns of Charles the First and Charles the Second, William and Annie, and George the Second. They have been aldermen and lord mayors of the city of London, members of Parliament, and governors of provinces. Many of them were men of note as au­ thors, physicians, soldiers, and, above all, as philanthropists. The arms borne by the English family are "Argent on a pile Azure, three Dexter Gauntlets of the Field. The crest, a Cubit arm erect vested and cuffed, the sleeve charged with a pile Argent, the band grasping a sword ppd." The motto," Tant que je puis." THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY OF ENGLAND.

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1. JoHN JOLLIE, living about the middle of the sixteenth century, married "Margaret, daughter of Ranchey." Their first son died without issue ; their second son was Thomas Jollie, 2, of Leek, in the county of Stafford, and of Buglawton, in Cheshire, who married (first) Margaret, daughter of Laurence Swettenham, of Someford, county of Chester. They had a son, William Jollie, born in 1574, of Bothoms, in Staffordshire; and a son, Thomas Jollie, of Leek, in the. county of Stafford, who was lord mayor of London in 1615, whose son was Sir John Jolliffe, of London. "Laurence Swettenham, age 18, the 29th of Henry the Eighth (1538), died 21st of Elizabeth (1579), when not forty years of age. (A mistake of 18 years.) Will was probated Jan. 1597-8. His wife was Elisabeth, daughter and heiress of John Oldfield, of Sutton; near Macclesfield. His children were Edmund, Anthony, Annie, Elizabeth, Jane, Margaret, Mary, Katherine, Alice, Frances, Eleanor, Margery, and Ursula. He was a man of prominence." "Sir William Jolliffe (son of William of Bothoms) married Mary, daughter of Ferdinando, the sixth earl of Huntington. They left one daughter and heir, Mary, who married Viscount Vane of Ireland, through whom the J olliffes acquired Cares well Castle." "In Careswell Church is a monument, erected to the memory of William de Cares­ well, the builder of the castle. It bears the following inscription: ' Wilhelmus de Careswellus.' This is at the head ; surrounding it is this distich in Latin, which, when Anglicized, reads:

'I built this castle with its rampiers round For the use of the living, who are under ground.' " The following lines have since been added,-namely:

'William of Careswell, here lye I, That built this castle and the pools here by; William of Careswell, here thou mayest lye ; But thy Castle is down and thy pools are dry.'" (Worcester Antiquities.)

3. William Jollie of Bothoms, parish of Chedleton, in Stafford­ shire, wedded Annie, daughter of Benedict Webb of Kingwood, in Gloucestershire. They had a son, Thomas J o11ie, or Jolliffe, of Crofton Hall, in the county of Worcester; a son, William Jolliffe, 2 17 18 HISTORIOAL ACCOUNT OF of Careswell Castle, Staffordshire (this was Sir William, who mar­ ried Mary, daughter of the Earl of Huntingdon); a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Roland Hill, E,,quire, of Hawkstone, Shrop­ shire (he was father of the celebrated Roland Hill, who suffered during the Civil Wars, who was the father of Sir Richard Hill, a noted diplomat of Queen Anne's time (T. R. Nash); and probably other children. He died June 11, 1669, aged eighty-five years. "Ashcomb is built upon the site of an old manor house, formerly called Bottom Hall, belonging to the Jollitfes, who had half the Manor, and a very extensive estate in this parish (which is that of Chedleton, belonging to Alstonfield) and the adjoining parishes." "Mary Hastings, wife of William Jolliffe of Cares well Castle, County of Stafford, died December 4th, 1678, and is buried in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields." (Collectanea Topographica, etc.) "This William ( of Bothams) had a son, Sir William. He died in 1669. In Richard Baxter's will he was appointed to invest two hundred pounds in real estate." (Athenre Cantabrigienses.) "Phillip Papillon of Acrise (M.P. for Dover), Kent County, borne in 1660, married 1689 Annie, daughter of William Jolliffe, Esquire, of Bothoms, by whom he had an only son David." "Sir Samuel Moyer, Bart., of Low­ Leyton, in Essex, England, was High Sheriff of Essex in 1698; he had also been one of the counsel of State. His widow, Lady Rebecca Jolliffe Moyer, was a daughter of Sir William Jolliffe, Bart., and she founded the well-known ' Lady Moyer's Lectures.' " (Diary of Samuel Pepys, in 1667.) 4. Thomas Jollie, or Jolliffe, Esquire, of Cofton Hall, in the county of Worcester, wedded (first) Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Richard Skinner of Cofton (by Margaret, daughter of Sir Edward Littleton, Knt., of Pillaton, and Margaret, his wife, daughter and 1 co-heir of Sir William Devereux, son of Walter, Viscount Hereford ), by whom he left issue five sons and two daughters (she died January 6, 1647, aged t,wenty-seven years and two months):

1 This Walter, Viscount Hereford, was tile celebrated Walter Devereux, first Earl of Essex of bis name. He sueceeded his grandfather in the title of Viscount Hereford, and recommended himself to Queen Elizabeth by bis bravery in sup• pressing the rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland in 1569. For this service he was given the Garter and the Earldom of Essex. He was opposed to the great O'Neill in Ireland, and was obliged to sue for peace and required to give up bis command just as he had almost expelled the tnvading Scots from the western islands of bis territory. Promises made by the Queen to him were but poorly kept; he was overcome with grief, which brought on a fatal disease. His countess soon after married the Earl of Leicester. He was the THE JOLLIFFE FAMILJ'. 19 (1) William Jolliffe, ob. crelebs, mt. thirteen. (2) Thomas Jolliffe, ob. crelebs, mt. seventeen. (3) John Jolliffe, ob sine prole (the American heir). (4) Benjamin Jolliffe (his heir). (5) Annie Jolliffe (married to Alexander Felton, of Ganesworth, in Cheshire). (6) Margaret Jolliffe (married Filson Bruin, of Stapleford, Cheshire); and a son whose name is not recorded.

Thomas married (second) Mary, daughter of Sir Gabriel Lowe, Knt., of Newark, county of Gloucester, and by that lady (who died in 1663) left a son, William Jolliffe, obiit crelebs aput, London, March 6, 1680, mt. twenty-three. Thomas Jolliffe was a justice of the peace, and died October 23, 1693, aged seventy-six years.

I now leave the main line in order to properly explain an inter­ marriage; it therefore becomes necessary for me to go back to the second generation and give the following brief narrative:

2. Thomas Jollie, of Leek (the second son of the first Thomas, of Leek), was born about the year 1585 or 1586. He was lord mayor of London, 1615_ His wife wus Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Mainwaring, Esq., of Whitmore. His son John, of London, whose wife was Rebecca, daughter of Walter Boothby, Esq., was one of the aldermen of the city; he had a son, Sir William Jolliffe (his wife, Mary Hastings, died December 4, 1678, and was buried in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields), whose daughter was Lady Rebecca Jolliffe, who married Sir Samuel Moyer, Bart., of Lower-Leyton, Essex. John Jollie, of London (Sir J obn J olles, London, July 23, 1606), had a daughter Elizabeth, who married John Tufnaile, of London, and Monkin Hadley, Middlesex County. William Tufnaile assumed the surname of Jolliffe, pursuant to a will of Sir William Jolliffe, and died April 21, 1797. The Tufnailes owned the estate of New Mone-

father of Robert II., Earl of Essex, the favorite of Queen Elizabeth, and grand­ father of the Earl of Essex who led the Parliament forces against Charles I. He was the great-great-grandfather of the mother of the immigrant John Jolliffe. "Sir Charles Littleton of Sheene, Worcester, brother of Sir Henry Littleton, · of Worcestershire, who had a great estate, had no children. Descendant of the great lawyer of that name; same arms and motto. Married Mrs. Temple, one of the late Queen's maids." 20 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF ton, in Yorkshire, inherited in 1796 from William Tufnaile Jolliffe. Their arms: "Argent on a Pile Vert, three dexter hands coupd at t'he wrist, and erected of the First, is borne by the name of Jollye, and was confirmed unto William J ollye of Leek, in the county of Stafford, son of John Jollye of Leek aforesaid, who was son of John.Jollye of the same place by--, the 27th of August, 1614,• in the 12th year of the reign of King James the First." "He beareth Argent on a Pile Azure, three dexter Gauntlets of the Field, by the name Jolliffe; and is the coat armour of John Jolliffe of the City of London, Esquire, Governor of the Muscovy Company, descended from the family of the J olliffes of Botham, in Stafford­ shire. 'This coat is also borne by William Jolliffe of Careswell Castle, in Staffordshire.'" " Coston, or Coston Hackett, in the county of W orccster, was so called from Hoar Stone, or Whor­ stonc." "In 1680, at St. Michaels, Barbadoes, Thomas Jolley owned two hundred acres of land, three hired servants, ten bought servants, and seventy negros." (It is probable this was Thomas Jolley of Cofton Hall, who was a known adherent of Charles the First, and probably after his execution was compelled to leave home with his son John, following Prince Rupert to the West Indies. At the Restoration be was reinstated in his estates in England. He was high sheriff of Worcester County during the reign of Charles the First, and was reinstated in that office after Charles the Second's accession to the throne.1 His father, William Jolliffe, was high sheriff of Stafford County during the reign of Charles the First.) "Cofton Hackett came to the Jolliffe family through Edward Skinner, a rich clothier of Ledbury, who died in 1632, aged 90 years. He left six sons and six daughters. His oldest son, Richard, settled at Colton; a younger at Ledbury (now belonging to Michael Bid­ dulph); a third at Underdown; a fourth at Hillhouse, near Led bury. Richard Skinner's daughter Margaret married a Jolliffe, and by her the estate passed to them." At Cofton, St. Michael's Church, are found the following,-namely, " Margaret, daughter of Sir Edward Littleton, Knt., of Pillaton Hall, Stafford, wife of Richard Skinner, wl:io died August 25th, 1651, aged 63." On the north wall the fol­ lowing: "Margaret Skinner, wife of Thomas Jolliffe of Cofton, by ~horn she had issue five smis and two daughters. She died January 6th, 1647, aged 27 years and two months." On a marble monument fixed to the · east wall of the chancel, the arms of Jolliffe with the

1 "High sheriffs were attended by from fifty to one hundred retainers, in rich ·livery on horseback." (Evelin.) THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 21 following inscription: '· Thomas Jolliffe de Leek arminger, ab antiqua profapia in agro Staffordiensi oriundus,'' etc. "Obiit October 23d, 1693, ret. 76." In the dining parlor is a picture of this Mr. Thomas Jolliffe (by Vandyck), with a key in his hand, which, the tradition of the family says, was given him by King Charles the First when in prison, that he might have access to him when he pleased. It is probable this was painted after the king's affairs were quite des­ perate, as Mr. Jolliffe is represented with a melancholy, desponding countenance, his pistols and sword banging on a pillar before him, as if he were saying, "Hie armt:estunque repono." He continued faithful to his sovereign to the last, and attended his execution. (T. R. Nash, Collections, WorceRtersbire.) Down to this point the English and American ancestry are the same. In following up the history of this family in the direct line from the earliest consecutive records in England in the fourteenth century down to the present gene1·ation the recurrence of the same names transmitted from father to son has been most conspicuous, those of William, John, and Thomas occurring in every generation, thirteen in all, without break, except in one instance, where Joseph, was substituted, and even then his two brothers were named John and Thomas. "'5. Benjamin J ollifftJ (the English heir) of Cofton Hall, in the county of Worcester, married Mary, youngest daughter of John Jolliffe, of London, a merchant (his second cousin, and a sister of Sir William Jolliffe). They had children, Thomas of Cofton Hall, who died, unmarried, in 1758; William, who died, unmarried, at Aleppo; John of Petersfield Haunts; Rebecca, who married Humphrey Lowe, of Bumsgrove, in Worcestershire; Annie, who married Robert Biddulph, of Ledbury. Mr.Jolliffe died October 28, 1719, aged seventy-four years. His wife died November 18, 1699, aged thirty-one years. Their bodies both He in St. Michael's Church, Cofton. Thomas Jolliffe, son of Benjamin, died in 1758, and left Cofton Hall to his niece, Mrs. Lowe, for life, entailed on his nephew, Robert Biddulph, of Ledbury, Worcestershire. This will was con­ tested on a plea of insanity, but it did not hold. His body lies in St. Michael's, Cofton. John Jolliffe, son of Benjamin, and of Petersfield Haunts, married (first) Kathel'ine, daughter of Robert Mitchell, of Petersfield, and left no children; married (second) Mary, daughter and heiress of Samuel Holden, of London, and had issue, William Jolliffe, M.P.; Thomas Samuel Jolliffe, M.P.; Jane Jolliffe, who did not marry. John Jolliffe died in 1771. 22 HISTORWAL ACCOUNT OF Benjamin Jolliffe was high sheriff of Worcester County during the reign of William and Mary, and his cousin, William J olliffo, was the sheriff of Stafford County at th

Knowledge of various life, of learning, too: Thence taste, thence truth, which will from taste ensue; Unwilling censure, though a judgment clear; A smile indulgent, and that smile sincere; An humble though an elevated mind; A pride, its pleasure but to serve mankind; If these esteem and admiration raise, Give true delight and gain unflattering praise; In our bright view the accomplished man we see, These graces all are thine, and thou wert he.' "

"At Merstham Surry were living the descendants of the family of J olliffes of very ancient standing in the counties of Worcester and Shropshire. Merstham Place was erected by William. Jolliffe, who purchased the Manor in 1788. He died in 1802." "The Church of St. Catherine's is situated on a knoll at the east end of the village. It was erected in the later English style of architecture, and contained some very handsome monuments of the Jolliffe family, and a curious font of highly polished Sussex marble, sufficiently deep for dipping an infant." (Topographical Description of England.) "At Fleshy, Essex County, in an old church, against the south wall of the chancel, is a handsome monument to Sir William Jolliffe, Knt., who died 1749. The castle is of Roman origin, and passed to the Jolliffe family after Elizabeth's reign." (History of the Antiquities of Worcester.) "September 20th, 1779, the wagons began loading the coals from the new won colliery on Waldridge Fell near Chester Lee Street (being the first from. that colliery belonging to William Jolliffe, Es­ quire) to Fath field Straith. Some thousand people attended, pre­ ceded by a band of music, colors flying, etc. In the afternoon they all returned to the houses near the colliery, where they partook of a sheep roasted whole, six sheep in quarters, and half an ox, which was washed down with eighteen barrels of good ale. The bells of Ch~ster were rung at intervals during the day." (Border Sketches.) For records of the Jolliffe family in England see Berry's Essex Genealogy, page 122. Burke's Commoners of Great Britain, vol. i. page 517. Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain, vols. ii., iii., iv., and v. Hutchins's Dorset, vol. iii. page 633. Burke's Royal Families of Great Britain, vol. i. page 70. Harlaen Society, 1-105. Nash's Worcestershire, vol. i. page 251. Shaw's Staffordshire.

SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY OF ENGLAND.

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1. JOHN JOLLIE, of Leek, county of Stafford, was living about the middle of the fifteenth century (was probably born about 1510), "married Margaret, daughter of Ranchy." Their first son died without issue. Their second son was Thomas. (John Jolli prob­ ably had brothers Richard, of Canning Court, in the parish of Pulha, county of Dorset (who had sons John and Edmund), and Henry, who was a B°1.., 1523, and dean of Bristol, 1554, etc.). 2. Thomas Jolli, of Leek, county of Stafford, and Buglawton, in Cheshire. Married (first) Margaret, daughter of Lawrence Swet­ tenham, of Someford, county of Chester. Had a son, William J olli, of Both oms, in Staffordshire, born 1584, and a son, Thomas J olli, of Leek, county of Staffordshire, lord mayor of London, 1615, whose son was Sir John Jolles, of London, alderman, born July 23, 1606, and he had a son, Sir William Jolliffe, who was k~ighted for building the London bridge. 3. William Jollie, of Bothoms, parish of Chedleton, in Stafford­ shire, born 1584, died June 11, 1669, aged eighty-five. Married Annie, daughter of Benedict Webb, of Kingwood, in county of Gloucester. They had a son, Thomas J olli, or Jolliffe, of Cofton Hall, county of Worcester, and a son, Sir William J olli, or Jolliffe, of Careswell Castle, county of Stafford, and a daughter Elizabeth, married Roland Hill. 4. Thomas Jollie, or Jolliffe, Esq., of Oofton Hall, county of Worcester, died October 23, 1693, aged seventy-six. One of His Majesty's justices, 1660, wedded (first) Margaret, daughter and co­ heir of Richard Skinner of Cofton Hall, county of Worcester (by Margaret, daughter of Sir Edward Littleton, Knight, of Pillaton, and Margaret, his wife, daughter and co-heir of Sir William Devereux, son of Walter, Viscount Hereford), by whom he had William, died aged thirteen; Thomas, died aged seventeen; John (the American heir); Benjamin (the English heir); Annie, married Alexander Felton; Margaret, married Filson Bruin. His wife Margaret died January 6, 1647, aged twenty-seven. He wedded (second) Mary, daughter of Sir Gabriel Lowe, of Newark, county of Gloucester, Knight. Had one son, William, who died unmarried in London, 1680, aged twenty-three. His wife Mary died 1663. He attended Charles I. to the place of execution. 27 28 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 5. Benjamin Jolliffe (the English heir) died 1719, aged seventy­ four. Married Mary, youngest daughter of John J ollifl'e, of London, merchant, sister of Sir William Jolliffe (and his second cousin). They had Thomas, died unmarried; William, died unmarried in Aleppo; John (his heir), of Petersfi~ld Haunts; Rebecca Lowe, and Annie Biddulph. 6. John Jolliffe (the American) died 1716, about seventy-five years old. Married Mary Rigglesworth, daughter and heiress of Peter Rigglesworth, of Norfolk County, Colony of Virginia. They had issue J..Q®ph, Thomas, John, Peter, Sarah (Lowe), Elizabeth (Hasgood), and Mary (Bacon). EXTRACTS FROM OLD RECORDS OF THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY.

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Pedigree of J olli::tie .

.First.-Ricardus Joleiff de Canning Court in p'ochia de Pulha in "1505 or 10" Com. Dorset. -- relict -- Rogers de Com. Som. Second.-Johannes J olei:ff de Canning Court in Com. Dorset fil. " 1535 or 40" et heres - Elizab. filia et coh Robti Will proved } Newman de Fifeild Magdalen in Com. { Jan.30, 1583 Dorset.

John Jollife of Typhed Magdalen in the County of Dor­ set. 29 October 1583, proved 30 January 1583, To the poor people of Stower Preaux, Stower Estower and Ty­ phed Magdalen. To eldest daughter Rebecca J oliffe and daughter Susan J oliffe at ages of fourteen years. Son John Joliffe. Mother in law Helen Newman, widow, late wife of Robert Newman deceased. Reference to a lease granted to father Richard J oliffe, 20 December 22 Elizabeth. (1580) Father still living. To brother Edmond J oli:ffe. To kinswoman Christian Galler. To sister Mary J oliffe. To brother John J oliffe. Wife Elizabeth J oliffe to be sole executrix. Uncle Henry Newman, brother in law Rich­ ard Estemond, brother Edmond J olife, Nicholas Joyce and Nicholas Clarke, Vicar of Fifeped, to be overseers. (Butts, 23.) Third.-Rebecca vxor Wili. Starre de Bradford in Com. Dorset Johannes J olli:ffe de Estower in Com. Dors. fil. et. hreres.

Patris et Matris Sup'stes 1623. Katherin da. of J ohes Henninge de Paxwell in Com. Dorset Susanna vx. Will : Holman de Estower in Com. Dorset. Letters issued forth 9 December 1639, to Cath- 31 32 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF erine J oliffe relict of John J oliffe lately of East Stower in the County of Dorset deceased, to administer on bis goods, &c.

Admon. Act Book (1639) fo. 89. Fourth.-Ricardus J oleiff :fil et hrer retat. 12 annoru 1623. Johan­ nes ret. 8. Rob'tus ret. 4. Georgius ret. 3. Catherine ret. 14. Dorothea ret. 13. Signed J 0. J OYLIFFE. Harl. MS. 1166, fo. 32b.

"Memorandum that George Joyliffe, Doctor in Physicke, ye Sixteenth day of November 1658 made his last will." Proved 24 November, 1658. My body to be buried with as little funeral pomp as may be. To my cousin Francis (my servant) the sum of Fifty pounds to be paid when all my debts are satisfied. To my maid servant Elizabeth five pounds and to Susan four pounds. To my cousin Francis (as above) all my Latin Books. To my daughter Katherine :five hundred pounds, with the interest thereof, to be paid at the age of sixteen or the day of marriage, and the same to be put out- for her use by my brother William Bigg and my cousin Richard Newman. All the residue of my estate to my loving wife Ann Joyliffe and she to be executrix. Brother William to be overseer. None of these legacies to be paid or disposed of until Mrs. Mymin's account be satisfied and paid. Wit. Thomas Ffrewan and Sara Mills. (Wootton, 631.)

Anne J oyliffe, relict and executrix of George J oyliffe, late Doctor of Phisic, 25 May 1660, proved November 1660. My body to be buried in Trinity church near Gar­ lick Hill, London, near the body of my late husband. To my daughter Katherine J oyliffe, one thousand pounds, to be paid her at the age of sixteen years. A reference to a legacy of five hundred pounds left to her by the husband of the testatrix and to be paid her at the same age. The amount of this legacy to be recovered out of a debt due the said George by one Francis Drake of Wal ton, in the county of Surry. If that debt should not be recovered then five hundred pounds more to make the thousand pounds fifteen hundred. To my mother Mary Bigg one THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 33 hundred and fifty pounds. To my brother John Bigg one hundred pounds. To Francis Cave, nephew to my said b usband, forty pounds, to Alice Cave, bis sister, ten pounds. To my said daughter Katherine my diamond ring set with one stone only, my diamond locket, my plate, linen and other household stuff. My brother William Bigg to be executor. Wit. St. Frewen, Thomas Frewen, Miles Beales. A codicil refers to fifteen hundred pounds secured in the names of Sir Charles Harford, my cousin Newman and my cousin Frewen, in trust for my use, and refers also to a deed from my brother J oyliffe. (Nabbs, 285.) Thankful Frewen, of St. Andrew, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, esq., in his will of 25 September, 1656, proved 18 March, 1656, mentions, among others, bis brother Accepted Frewen, cousin George J oyliffe, Doctor in Pbysick, niece Ann Joyliffe, wife of the said Dr. Joy­ liffe and Sister Mary Bigg. (Ruthen, 110.) J obn Frewen the elder, of N orthiham, in the county of Sussex, clerk, aged, &c., in his will, dated 1 June 1627, mentions son Accepted Frewen (President of Magdalen College, Oxford), son Thankfnll Frew en and daughter Mary, wife of John Bigg, lands, &c., in Sussex and in N ewenden and Sandberst, Kent. (Banington, 38.)

· From the "Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, compiled from the Annals of the College and from other Authentic Sources, by William Munk, M.D., Fellow of the College, etc., etc.," previously referred to, we learn that" George J oyliffe, M.D., was born at East Stower in Dorsetshire. In the early part of 1637 he was entered a COU}.moner of Wad ham College, Oxford, where be remained about two years, and then removed to Pembroke College, as a mem­ ber of which he took the two degrees in arts, A.B. 4th June, 1640; A.M. 20th April, 1643. He then entered on the study of physic, pursued anatomy with the utmost diligence, 'and with help (as Wood says) of Dr. q~yton, Master of his College, and the King's professor of physic, made some discovery of that fourth set of ves­ sels plainly differing from veins, arteries and nerves, now called the lymphatics.' He finally removed to Clare Hall, Cambridge, and, having there proceeded doctor of medicine, settled in London; was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians, 4th April, 1653; and a Fellow, 25th June, 1658. Dr. J oyliffe lived in Garlick Hill; 3 34 HISTORICAL AOOOUNT OF THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. and, as I learn from Hamey, died 11th November, 1658, being then barely forty years of age." He was a brother of J obn J oyliffe, Esq., of Boston; we are told by Savage was of" Boston 1656, m/28 Jan. 1657, .Ann wid. and ex'trix of Robert Knight, who had also been wid. and ex'trix of Thomas Cromwell, the wealthy privateersman, had only ch. Hannah, b. 9 May, 1690. Died November 23, 1701; he had been blind, and laboured under many infirmities for a long time." GENERAL NOTES RELATING TO THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY.

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"INDENTURE relating to the founding of a Free Grammar School by one J olephi, Mr. of Arts, borne in Stratford." (Leland.) (The founder's name was really Thomas J olyffe, as shown by the in­ denture.) 'rhis school was directed to be maintained by the cor­ poration in the charter granted to the town in 7 Edw. VI. (1553). "Et dicendo, ye shall paye specially for the sowles of Maister Thom's Jolyffe, Johne and Joh'nne his faader and modur, and ye sowles of all brethers and susters of the said Gilde and all Cristin sowles, sayinge of youre Charyte a pater noster and a ave.'' (See Dugdale's Hist. of Stratford-upon-the-Avon.) Upon a tablet in the wall of this school is the following: "Founded by Thomas Jolyffe-1182. Refounded by King Edward VI.-1573." Extract from Douglass Campbell's book, "The Puritan in Hol­ land, England, and America:" "During the reign of Edward VI. some grammar schools-we shall now call them Latin or High schools-eighteen for the whole kingdom, were established by Re­ formers of his government. At various times a few more were added by private individuals. One of these rare schools founded 'at Stratford-on-Avon, by a native of that town who had gone up to London and become Lord Mayor, bore the name of William Shakespeare on its rolls. But for the good fortune of his towns­ men he might have died mute and inglorious." "In the Miller's Tale we are told of 'Absolon' how that when at eventide he had taken up his 'Gitene,' Forth he goeth, Jolif and amorous, to the window of his lady love." In MS. Harl., 1537, the following: "(31aa) Radulphus de Freche­ ville et Robertus frater ej., Will Jolyff et Will Savage dant dim, more, pro uno brevi." (Ext.Fix. de Can cell. 25 Ed. II., M 22 Derb.) "Henry Jolliff, B.D., also dean of Bristol, fourth stall Prebendary of Worcester, 1541.'' "Monsr. Will de Careswell was a tilter at the Knights' Tourna­ ment at Dunstable 7 Edw. III. Had arms D'argentfrette de goules ore un fece d'asure." "1576 John Leigh ma1·ried Joan, dau. and heir of Sir John Olleph of Wickham, Kent, all of London." "Henry Jolliff, B.A. 1523-4 and M.A. 1527, appears to have been 37 38 HISTORICAL .AccoUNP OF fellow successively of Clare Hall and Michaelshouse. He serve,d the office of Proctor of the University of Canterbury,.1537, and sub­ sequently proceeded B.D. He became Rector of Bishops Hamp­ ton, in the county of Worcester, 1538, and was appointed one of the Canons of the Cathedral Church of Worcester by the charter of refoundation Jan. 24, 1541-2. He refused to subscribe Bishop Hoopes' Articles at his visitations of the Diocese of W orces­ ter, 1550. He was installed Dean of Bristol Sept. 9, 1554, and at­ tended Archbishop Cranmer's second trial at Oxford, Sept. 1555. Adhering to the Roman Catholic faith, be was on the succession of Queen Elizabeth deprived of all his preferments and went to Lou­ vain. He died about Jan. 28, 1573-4 whilst abroad, when letters of administration of his effects were granted by prerogative Court of Canterbury to William Seres, a famous London publisher. Mr. Jolliff was author of 'Epistola Pio V., pontifici Maximo,' 1569, 'Contra Ridlreum,' &c., &c., &c." (From Athenre Cantabrigienses.) "Mary Hastings, wife of Wm. Jolliffe of Carveswell Castle, Co. Stafford, died 12th mo., 4th, 1678, buried in St. Martins in the Fields." (Collectanea Topograpbica et Genealogica.) "Extracts from the Registers of Chute, Co. Wilts. Burials at Chute, May 19, 1645; Frauncis, wife of Henry Jolly (Vicar). The following are entries of Henry J olly's (Vicar) children: J obn, bapt. May 15, 1636; Henry, bapt. Apr. 29, 1637; Mary, bapt. Aug. 7, 1638; Annie, bapt. Sep. 7, 1639; Frauncis, a son, bapt. Feb. 9, 1642 and Buried May 28, 1643; Francis, a daughter, bapt. May 12, · Buried May 14, 1644. "By his second wife, Mary Vincent: Luce, bapt. May 5, 1651 ; William, bapt. Jan. 10, 1652; Anna Maria, bapt. Jan. 14, 1657. "Henry Jolly, Vicar 1634 to circa 1682." "In the northwestern recess of St. Dunstan's Church the follow­ ing: Henry Jones, Clockmaker, son of William Jones, Vicar of Bolden, Co. of Southampton, died Nov. 20, 1697, ret. 63; his wife was (widow) Hannah, dau. of Otwell Jolly of Bently, Co. Stafford." (Church Notes and Burials of St. Dunstan's in West London.) "Claude Joly, a French writer, born in Paris 1607, Canon of Notre Dame in 1631, lived to the age of 93, died 1700. Left a fine library. Was the author of many civil and religious works." "Guy Jolly, King's Counsellor at the cbatlet, attached to the Cardinal Retz as secty. Published at Amsterdam some memoirs 1648 to 1665." -· "A Mary Jolly came to Virginia in the Bark Thomas, Henry Lavender, Mr. She and her companions were examined at Graves- THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 39 end touching their religions 21 Aug., 1635." (26a-712, vol. :xv. page 145.) "One Jollye of Leek County of Stafford Aug. 27, 1614." "One Joles was Lord Mayor of London in 1615." "On the Parochial register of W estbourne, Co. of Sussex, where many entries of Baptisms of the J ollyffe family are found. Among the burials of persons of Second Rank are Mr. Richard J ollyffe, Feb. 19, 1666." "A Saml. Joly allowed to reside in England Dec. 4, 1681." "Mary Jolly made a free citizen Dec. 16, 1687." " John J ollop was witness to a will of Henry Andrews, Sen., Yeoman Lavanter, Mar. 13, 1652." "A John Jolliffe wrote a Cumberland Guide and Directory in 1726." "May 19, 1743, Wm. Sergeant and Ann Jolly both of St. George." (The Rolls Chapel Register.) "John Jolliffe, of Boston, Mass., was one of the signers of a peti­ tion acknowledging the King's authority. It was presented to the Court in Oct. 1660. He was elected a Selectman March 15, 1674-5. He was appointed a trustee to receive contributions for the ransom of certain captives Sept. 1677. Was made a :fire commissioner for South Quarter. Helped buy Deer Island from the Indians after being held by the English 55 years. He took a prominent part in the affairs of 1689 when the Governor was imprisoned. He was chosen Recorder March 17, 1691. His name was written in great variety. Mr. John Jolliffe, of Boston, was a gentleman of wealth and consideration from 1663 to the time of his death which occurred Nov. 23, 1701. He lived in what is now Devonshire street, between Milk and Water streets. It was one of the few streets that retained its name when the Selectmen changed them in 1708, being known as J olliffe's Lane till 1798. John Jolliffe left a will dated Feb. 17, 1699-1700, witnessed by Anthony Checkly, Samuel Lynde, Edward Creeke and Benjamin Stone. It runs as follows: 'To friends in England, viz.: Katherine Bowles, dau. of my brother Dr, Geo. J ol­ liffe 20 shillings, Katherine Cooke and Alice Moxley daus. to my Sister Dorothy Cane 20 shillings each. To John Cooke of London Merchant son of my sister Martha 20 shillings. To Sister Spicer dau. of my sister Rebecca Wolcott 20 shillings. To John Drake son of my Sister Margaret Drake 20 shillings. To Margaret and Catherine Drake daus. of my Sister Margaret Drake 20 shillings each. To Esther dau. of my Sister Mary Boss sometime wife of James Boss of Shepton Mallets in County of Somerset 20 shillings. To Rev. Saml Willard of Boston £5. To Mr. Simon W. son of said 40 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. Saml £5. To the poor of the town £10. To Martha Ballard dau. of my late wife and now wife of Mr. James Ballard of Boston, house and land in Boston now in the occupation of Capt. N athl. Byfield, sold to me by mortgage of Richard Price late of Boston Merchant decsd, for £300. All else to go to said dau. in law Martha Ballard who with husband to be exectrs.' This gentleman bore the same arms as John Jolliffe, of London, Governor of the Muscovy Company, and descended from the J olliffes of Bothoms in Stafford County. The same arms were also borne by the family of Carvers­ well Castle. (Guellam's Heraldry.) (Taken from Drake's Histor. Antiq. of Boston.) "At Upton Snodesbury, Worcester, in the fourth aisle of the Rec­ tory. Thomas Jolley, June 28, 1704 aged 87 years 9 mos." "Thos. Jolly of Whittington, Derbyshire, was excommunicated for not attending church." ARMS:

ARGENT ON A PILE AZURE, THREE DEXTER GAUNTLETS OF THE FIELD.

CREST:

A CUBIT ARM ERECT VESTED AND CUFFED, THE SLEEVE CHARGED WITH A PILE ARGENT, THE HAND GRASPING A SWORD PPD.

MOTTO:

d TANT QUE JE PUIS."

HISTORICAL NOTES AND PEDIGREE OF THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA.

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Family Record of John Jolliffe (the American heir of Thomas Jolliffe of Cofton Hall, England) and Mary Rigglesworth, his wife. Married about the year 1662 or 1663.

Joseph Jolliffe, born about ]663 or 1665 ; John Jolliffe, Thomas Jolliffe, Peter Jolliffe, Sarah (Jolliffe) Lowe; husband was Henry Lowe; Elizabeth (Jolliffe) Hasgood; husband was Thomas Hasgood; Mary (Jolliffe) Bacon ; husband was John Bacon. J obn Jolliffe (the American heir of Thomas J olli:ffe of Cofton Hall and Margaret Skinner, bis wife) was born in England about the year 1642 or 1643, and came to America when very young, soon after the execution of Charles I. I think he was either con­ nected with the fleet of Prince Rupert, which was driven by Admiral Blake to the West Indies in 1651, or he may have participated with his father in the battle of Worcester, fought September 3, 1651. It was quite common for young boys of from ten to fifteen years of age to enter the army at that time.1 He settled on the western branch of Elizabeth River, Norfolk County, Virginia, and on Janu­ ary 22, 1'62, bought of John Lawrence, for a good consideration, one hundred acres of land.• He soon acquired other lands by pur-

1 " (1655) Many of the recent emigrants had been royalists in England, good officers in the war, men of education, of property, and of condition.... Vir­ ginia had long been the home of its inhabitants. 'Among many other bless­ ings,' said their statute-book, 'God Almighty hath vouchsafed increase of children to this Colony; who are now multiplied to a considerable number;' and the huts in the Wilderness were as full as the birds' nests of the woods. The hospitality of the Virginians became proverbial. Labor was valuable; land was cheap; competence promptly followed industry. It was 'the best poor man's country in the world.'" 2 The first time the name of Jolliff is mentioned is in the indenture, which is as follows: " This Indenture, made this 18th day of October, in the year of our Lord God 1651, between Francis Bright of Elizabeth River, in the County of Lower Norfolk, planter, of the shore part, and John Lawrence of the County 43 44 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF chase and grants for bringing into the colony persons unable to pay their own way, the law giving fifty acres of land for every such person.1 Ile built one of the first grist-mills ever erected in of Nansemond, planter, on the other part, witnesseth, that the said Francis Bright, for and in consideration of one horsman's coat and two pair of shoes to him in hand, paid before the delivery of the same, presents, hath given, granted, and to farm let, and by those present, doth give, grant, and to farmlet, all that parcel of land containing 100 acres of lAnd, he holdeth from Wm. Eyres of Nansemond, the said Eyres bought of Edward Selby, late of Elizabeth River, situated and lying upon a creek in Elizabeth River aforesaid, and joining upon the land of Richard Jennings, and being part of the said pattent to the said Jennings, to have and to hold, the said 100 acres of land, viz :-all the privi­ lege appertaining thereunto, belonging, or in any way, appertaining unto the said John Lawrence, his Executors and assignes, from the date of these present, unto the end and term, and for and during the whole term of 18 years then next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended without impeachment of any right, yielding and paying, therefor, unto the aforesaid Wm. Eyres, or his assignes, hereby, on new yearsday, or the first day of Janu­ ary one good fatted capon, at the new dwelling house of the said Wm. Eyres, situated in Nansemond aforesaid, provided always, and it is agreed and con­ cluded upon, between the parties above named, that whether the said John Lawrence his executors, or assignes, or any other, by his appointment, shall molest or disturb, any cattle belonging unto the said Wm. Eyres, or his execu­ tors, or assignes, feeding, or being upon the land, or any part thereof, and in case there be any such molestation, or disturbance, unlawfully, the said John Lawrence shall pay unto the said Wm. Eyres one hogshead of tobacco for every such disturbance. "In witness of the truth of these promices, the parties have to these present, jointly set to their hand and seals, dated the day and year first above written. "FRANCIS ( X ) BRIGHT & seal his mark JOHN w. ( X) LAWRENCE & seal. " Signed and sealed Oct. 17, 1651. "in the presence of " J .A.COB DooL y' W .ALTER T. GRIMES.

'• I, John Lawrence, do assign over this indenture, viz ;-the right and title of the land therein expressed, for a good consideration, to John Jolliff, his heirs, executors, and assignes, for them, he or them, quietly to enjoy it. "Witness my hand this 22nd day of January 1652. his mark "JOHN W. ( X) LAWRENCE.''

1 "To All &c Whereas &c Now know yee That I ye said Richard Bennet Esq &c Give & Grant unto John Jolliffe 200 acres of Land Situate or being in ye County of Lower Norfolke, Beginning att a markd beach and Soe running for THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 45 Virginia, having obtained from His Majesty's Council a permit therefor. He married, about the year 1662, Mary, only daughter and heiress of Peter Rigglesworth, of Norfolk County, Virginia, by length South West by South 320 poles to a markd white oake and Soe for breath North West by West 100 poles to a markd pine and Soe againe for length North East by North 320 poles to a Markd white Oake and Soe South East by East 100 poles to ye first Markd tree, The said land being due unto ye said John Jolliffe by and for ye transportation of four persons into this Colony & To have and to hold &c Yeilding & paying & w0h payment is to be made 7 years after ye first grant or sealing thereof and not before, Provided &c Dated ye 30th of M-ay 1653. "JON CORYE, AR LEWIS, JAMES HUNTER, MARY COOPER."

" To All &c Whereas &c Now know yee That I yee said Richard Bennet Esqr &c Give & Grant unto John Jolliffe 150 acres of Land, Situate or being in ye County of Isle of Wight, Beginning at a marked white Oake and Soe running for breath North 75 poles, joining to Mr. N as worthies land to a markd Oake and Soe for length West 320 poles; butting on ye land of Mr Jones, and Soe South 75 poles; for breath butting on ye Land of Mr Oudlant and soe againe for length East 320 poles joining to ye land of Mr Oudlant to ye first mtntioned tree, The said land being due unto ye Said John Jolliffe by and for ye transportation of three persons into this Colony &e. To have and to bold &c Yeilding & Paying & which payment &c Dated ye 30th of May 1658. "ANNE MARSHALL, THOS KEMP, REB BENNETT."

"To All &c Whereas &c now know yee That I ye Sd Richard Bennet Esqr &c Give and Grant unto John Jolliffe two hundred and :fifty acres of Land lying in ye County of Nansemond on ye Westward side of ye Westward branch of N ansemond river, and beginning at a marked red Oake, and running for length South West by West 320 poles to a Small red Oake markd on ye land of James Arthur & Peter Ellis & soe South East by South 125 poles to a marked red oake & soe North East by East 320 poles unto a Markd red oak standing by ye branch side, Soe running up by or nigh ye maine branch side to ye :first mentioned markd tree, The said land being formerly granted unto John Land­ man by patent dated ye 9th of April 1648 & purchased of ye sd Landman by ye Said John Jolliffe To have and to hold &c Yeilding & paying & which payment is to be made 7 years after ye first grant or Sealing thereof, and not before Provided &c Dated ye 4th of July 1658."

"To all &c whereas &c now Know Ye that I the said Francis Moryson Esq Governor &c give and grant unto John Jolliffe 200 acres of Land Situate or being in the County of Lower Norfolk. Beginning at a marked Beach and so running for Length South West by South 820 poles to a marked white Oak and so for breadth North \'Vest by West 100 poles to a marked Pine and so again for Length North East by North 820 poles to a marked white Oak & so South­ East by East 100 poles to the first mentioned tree the said Land being formerly granted unto John Jolliffe by Patent dated the 30 of May 1653 and now renewed 46 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF whom he had four sons and three daughters,-viz., Joseph, John, Thomas, Peter, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Mary. They deeded each of their children one hundred acres of land during their life or when they attained age or were married. By his wife Mary, John Jolliffe acquired considerable property, which was disposed of to bis chil­ dren during his lifetime or willed to them at his death. His wife died about the_ year 1704-5, and he died the year 1716, his will bearing date November 28, 1716. When Governor Spottswood came over as governor of the colony he undertook to rectify the great abuses found to exist in the Land Office. To this end he required all parties who had been granted lands by the process of "seating and planting" to come forward and re-enter their lands. John J olliffe's son Thomas thus re-entered eight hundred and sixty­ seven acres of land August 12, 1713, owned by the family, and in a series of deeds made them over to his brothers and sisters just as they had formerly been bestowed by John and Mary, his wife; these deeds bear date November 18, 1714. .By bis will John Jol­ liffe left his farm on which he resided to his son Joseph. It con­ tained two hundred and sixty-seven acres. His mill was left to John Bacon and bis wife, Mary (Jollitfe) Bacon. To his son Peter he left his "back swoard," and to each of his sons he left a gun. Joseph Jolliffe, his eldest son, was named as his executor. John Jolliffe seems to have been an educated man, possessed of some wealth when he came into the colony, which he added to during in his Majesties name &c To have and to hold &c to be held &c Yeilding and paying &c provided &c dated the 13th of January 1661."

"To All &c Whereas &c Now Know Yee that I the said Sr Henry Chichely Knt., Deputy Governor &c Give and grant unto John JQlliffe 867 acres of land being at ye head of the broad Creeke of ye Westerne branch of Elizabeth river, In ye County of Lower Norfolke. Beginning at a red Oake by a branch side at1d running South by his old markd trees 228 poles to ye land of Thomas Cattle; Thence on his line of mar kt trees North West 136 poles to Thomas Cattles Corner white Oake Thence on his line South East 36 poles, Thence West 640 poles leading into a pocosson, then againe from ye first mentioned red oake West South West along ye branch side 56 poles, then West NoWest 10 poles over ye forke of ye branch to a beech, the corner tree of his old patent, thence North West by West 100 poles along ye branch to a white Oake another corner tree of his old patent, then South West by South by Markt trees 150 poles to ye land of James Murray, Then bounding on Murraye's Markt trees North West by West 260 poles to a white Oake in Murrayes lir.e, Then South West by Markt trees 460 poles into ye first Mentioned pocoson unto ye end of the first Mentioned West line, 267 acres of wch land was formerly granted the Said Jolliffe by patent dated the 18th of Octb 1664 and 200 acres more granted Jno THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 47 his lifetime.1 At his death he was about seventy-six years old. He seems to have always resided in Virginia, on the western branch of Elizabeth River, Norfolk County. (I think his son Joseph was named after Joseph Lowe, a brother of Sir Gabriel Lowe, his father's second wife's father, who :fled to Virginia for safety after Charles L's execution, probably accompanying John Jolliffe.)

Jolliffe Senr. by patent dated ye 13th of January 1661, and 400 acres being due by & for ye transportation of eight persons into this Collony &c To have & to hold &c to be held &c yielding & paying &c, dated ye 20th of April 1682. "JNo MAY. THos NuTT. HERBERT SPRING. JAMES COPPIN. ANDREW STREET. RICHD liEATH. 11 THOS DULANA. JAMES ANST.

1 "The earliest mode of acquiring land in the Colony was in Virtue of five years' service to the London Co.; at the expiration of which the Adventurer was 'set free' and entitled to a 'divident' of 100 acres, which if planted and seated by the building of a house upon it within three years, entitled the planter to an additional 100 acres, if not, it reverted to the Crown. Later, each one coming to the Colony, or transporting thither, or paying the passage of others, was entitled for himself, each member of his family, or other person thus trans­ ported, to 50 acres of land, which was called a 'head right' and was transfer­ able. Still later lands were granted upon the condition of paying an annual 'quit rent' of one shilling for every 50 acres and of planting and seating within three years." (Brock's Notes on the Spottswood Papers.) 48 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF

Family Record of Joseph Jolliffe and Ruth --, his wife. Married about the year 1694-95.

William Jolliffe, born about 1695, and other children of whom no record; Joseph Jolliffe married Elizabeth -- (second wife) about the year 1732, and left no children. Joseph Jolliffe, the eldest child of John and Mary (Riggles worth) Jolliffe, was born at his father's house, on Western Branch of Eliza­ beth River, Norfolk County, -Virginia, about the year 1663-65. He was well educated, and I am inclined to think was a lawyer or held some office about the county clerk's office. At all events he seems to have been chosen by his brothers and sisters to administer on their estates or act as executor. He was given by his father one hundred acres of land early in life, on which he resided for some time. "Oct. 15th, 1721, Joseph Jolliffe of Norfolk Co. and Ruth his wife, deeds to John Bacon, (his brother-in-law) for consideration, their grist mill willed them by their father John Jolliffe, the mill heretofore described. " JOSEPH JOLLIFF ' RUTH JOLLIFF."

"Feb. 16, 1724, Peter Jolliff and wife Ann, and Joseph Jolliff and wife Ruth, deed to Thomas Jolliff 8½ acres land on south side of M.ill Creek at head of Western Branch of Elizabeth River, for 350 pounds of tobacco. " PETER JOLLIFF ANN JOLLIFF JOSEPH JOLLIFF RUTH JOLLIFF."

He married about the year 1694-95 Ruth --, who was living as late as 1725; he married (second) Elizabeth -- about the year 1732, and it is quite probable she survived him. "M.ay 21, 1731, Joseph J ol!iff deeds a tract of land to Aaron Bolton. "JOSEPH JOLLIFF RUTH JOLLIFF." THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 49 "Feb. 16, 1735, Joseph Jolliff deeds to Ann Bolton 50 acres swamp land granted Thos. Jolliff Aug. 12, 1713, (regrant) bounded by the lands of Richard Jolliff, Thos Ivy and Ann Bolton. " JOSEPH JOLLIFF ELIZABETH JOLLIFF." "April 13, 1737, JoReph Jolliff of the Western Branch, in Nor­ folk County, deeds to Richard Bacon one whole tract of land whereon the said Jolliff now lives, and the house, lying on the Western Branch of Elizabeth River of Norfolk Co. Land left to the said Joseph Jolliff by his father John Jolliff Nov. 28, 1716, and being a patent bearing date Oct. 18, 1664. Containing 267 acres. " JOSEPH JOLLIFF ELIZABETH JOLLIFF.'' This was the home place sold out. Where Joseph went from here cannot be determined. It would appear he was at this time an old man; his children having left him, he married a second wife late in life. The court records of Norfolk County are partially missing between 1719 and 1730, and very unfortunately the records of Nanse­ mond County were all burned in the year 1867, after having sur­ vived three wars. These records would have given a much more complete record of Joseph Jolliff and his family, I am sure, for be seems to have drifted westward. The records speak of his children, hence there must have been others besides hiB son William, of whom I can find no record. (The present Mr. Josiah Jolliffe living in Norfolk County says his father bas told him there was a family tradition of a William Jolliffe, brother of James Jolliffe, who had left the country, and had never been heard from since. These were no doubt the sons of Joseph and Ruth Jolliff.) The materials are so meagre that it is almost impossible to prepare sketches of the sons and grandsons of John Jolliffe, the American ancestor of the family. Dr. William P. Palmer, who was appointed under authority from the Legislature of Virginia to make a calendar of the Virginia state papers, in noting the terrible losses to the State of valuable papers and manuscripts, says, "Losses which occurred when Jamestown became the scene of violence and con­ flagration. The accidents to which the colonial archives were ex­ posed when the ancient capital on the James was deserted for the more attractive and rising cit.y of the middle plantations, and finally when, in 1779, the latter ceased to be the seat of government; and when, upon the apprehended advance of the British forces during the Revolution, they were again removed to Richmond for safety. 4 50 HISTORIOAL ACCOUNT OF It i;i probable many valuable manuscripts were lost by the destruc­ tion of the buildings at William and Mary College by fire, which had been left in them when the Royal Governors ceased to hold sessions of the Council within her walls. Again, in Arnold's invasion of 1781 the Richmond authorities became alarmed, and the contents of the public offices were hastily tumbled into wagons and carried off to the most unfrequented parts of the upper James and to the hills of Cumberland and Bedford, and in this transit more loss was sustained; when again the liberal and too often careless policy of the State exposed the documents in the Capitol to inquisitive followerR of the Federal forces upon the occupation of Richmond in 1865, and also to the depredations of relic hunters since, as the empty envelopes endorsed as containing original letters of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison testify. But by far the most serious loss strntained was at the accidental burning of the State Court-house in Richmond in 1865, in which were consumed almost the entire records of the old General Court, from the year 1619, or thereabouts, together with records of many of the county courts carried to Richmond for safe­ keeping during the civil war of 1861, with also the records of the Court of Appeals. The importance of this disaster can only be realized when it is remembered what an important relation the General Court bore to the history of the Colony from the time when the semi-military government, which for the first year of its existence controlled its affairs, had passed away down to a compara­ tively late period. This august and aristocratic body was always composed of the class known at that time as 'gentlemen,' men of wealth, family, and influence. They with the Governor formed the Executive Council, who dispensed the entire patronage of the Colony, at the same time that each individual member was himself commissioned 'Colonel' by Royal authority. To this fact may probably be traced the habit in Virginia of decorating prominent men with empty military titles even to this day." To all these and other losses cited by Dr. Palmer I would add above all the absence of those valuable historical societies which all over New England and the Middle States are as beacon-lights to the genealogist, saving him so much time and travel and throwing up for him a royal road compared to that over which the Virginia seeker has to travel. Fortunately for me, the Norfolk County rec­ ords, which cover the life history of the first immigrant John Jolliffe, are nearly complete and in good order. From them I have gleaned that he was a man of education and influence, and must have come to the colony possessed of considerable means, or else as so young a THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 51 man he could never have acquired so early such a large amount of property, at a time when the acquisition of property was rendered exceedingly difficult by the laws of the colony. His record shows that he identified himself largely in the material development of the country by obtaining royal permits for the establishment of industries, etc. The subsequent records of his sons and grandsons I have found much more meagre, owing to the destruction espe­ cially of the N ansemond County records, which went back to 1632, at the burning of the court-house at Suffolk in 1867, as before men­ tioned. So I can write very little regarding them until his grand­ son William appears in the early formation of the county of Fred­ erick, and founding the town of Winchester. Here he enrolls his name among the first ten lawyers to practise in that court, then just forming, and after this the record is comparatively plain sailing. Of the other sons of John and Mary (Riggles worth) Jolliffe I give the following brief history: John Jolliffe, second son of John J ol­ liffe, of Norfolk County, married Martha --, and had issue John, Richard, Peter, Elizabeth-Bowers, Mary Taylor, Sarah-Hodges, Susanna-Bowers, Rachael, and Ann. This family lived in Norfolk County, and some of the descendants are still holding the old home­ steads. John's will bears date April 5, 1736. (Jolliffe Chapel in the county of Norfolk was so called after the Rev. Josiah Jolliffe, a great-grandson of this John.) His wife Martha died in 1761 at an advanced age. Her will is dated May 9, 1761. Thomas Jolliffe, third son of John, of Norfolk County, married (first) Elizabeth--, who died about the year 1697. He married (second} Mary--, who died about the year 1715. He died in the year 1731, his will bearing date September 18, 1731. He was at one time a resident of Princess Anne County, and owned a large estate near Lynnhaven Bay. He seems to have been a man of means. In his will he does not mention his children (from this I presume he had none, or else all were dead before him), but names his brother Joseph his executor. Peter Jolliffe, fourth son of John Jolliffe, of Norfolk County, mar­ ried Ann --. They lived in Princess Anne County. September 10, 1738, they sold their old homestead in Norfolk County to John Hob­ good. Their children seem to have gone into NQ;rth Carolina, and his descendants are found in some of the Southern States at this time. In order to give a better understanding of the times in which a great portion of the J olliffes of Virginia lived, and the influences they were subjected to, I give herewith a brief sketch of the settlement of Virginia, in which many of the family were intimately connected.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA.

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THE settlement of Virginia, briefly stated, is as follows: A number of enterprising and adventurous persons of London and Plymouth, England, petitioned the king, James I., to grant them charters for two companies '' to possess and cultivate lands in America," which was granted, letters patent bearing date April 10, 1606, and the names of the corporations being "The London Com­ pany" and "The Plymouth Company." The London Company sent Captain Christopher Newport to Virginia December 20, 1606, with a colony of one hundred and five persons to commence a set­ tlement on the island of Roanoke, now in North Carolina. By stress of weather, however, they were driven north of their desti­ nation, and entered Chesapeake Bay. Here, up a river which they called James River, on a beautiful peninsula, they founded the little colony of Jamestown in May, 1607. In the year 1619 the first legislative council was convened at Jamestown, then called James City, by Sir George Yeardley, then governor of the colony. On July 24, 1621, Sir Francis Wyatt received a commission as governor, and with it a" set of instructions" as follows: "To keep up religion of the Church of England ; to be obedient to the king; not in­ jure the natives; forget old quarrels. To be industrious, suppress drunkeness, gaming and excess in cloaths ; to permit none but the Counsel and heads of hundreds to wear gold in their cloaths; none to wear silk till they made it. Not to offend foreign persons; punish piracies, and teach children, to convert the heathen. To make a catalogue of the people and their condition, of deaths, marriages and christenings; to take care of estates, keep list of all cattle. Not to plant above 100 pounds of tobacco per bead; to sow great quantities of corn; to keep cows, swine, poultry, etc.; to plant mulberry trees, and make silk and take care of the Frenchmen in that work ; to plant an abundance of vines. To put 'prentices to trades, and not let them forsake their trades for planting tobacco or any such useless commodity. To take care of the Dutch sent to build mills; to build water mills and block houses in every plantation. That all contracts be performed and breaches thereof punished; tenants not to be enticed away. To make salt, pitch, tar, soap, oil of walnuts, search for minerals, gems, etc., and send 55 56 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF small quantities home. To make small quantities of tobacco, and that very good, and to keep the store houses clean." In the year 1611 the entire population of the colony amounted to seven hundred souls, and in that year were brought to America the firRt cows, goats, and hogs, and twenty women, being the first white females who ever trod the soil. In 1614 tobacco was intro­ duced from the West Indies. Among some of the first laws passed were the following: "That there shall be in every plantation, where the people used to meet for the worship of God, a house or roome sequestered for that purpose, and not to be for any tempo1·al use whatsoever, and a place em paled in, on it, 'for the burial of the .dead;' that whosoever shall absent himself from Divine service any Sunday, without an allowable excuse, shall forfeit a pound of tobacco; that the Governor shall not withdraw the inbabitant8 -from their private labors to any service of his own, upon any colour whatsoever, and in case the public service requires employment of many hands before holding a general assembly, to give order for the same; that all trade for corn with the salvages, as well as public and private, after June next, shall be prohibited; that the proclamation for swearing and drunkeness set out by the Governor and Counsel are confirmed by this Assembly; that every dwelling house shall be pallizaded in, for defense against the Indians; that no man go or send partie without a sufficient partie well armed; that there be dew watch kept by night; that such persons of quality as shall be found delinquent in their duties being not fit to undergo corporal punishment, muy notwithstanding be ymprisoned at the discretion of the commander, and for greater offenses to be sub­ jected to a fine inflicted by the monthly court, so that it exceed not the value aforesaid." In the year 1620 negro slaves weee introduced from a Dutch ship. In 1645 coined money was introduced by act of the General As­ sembly, all currency up to this date being tobacco, which was the standard of value. In 1659 the notorious act for the suppression of Quakers was passed. In 1675 and 1676 Bacon rebelled again:;t Sir William Berkley, and Jamestown was burned. March, 1692-93, an act was passed for the estab]i:;hment of a post-office in the country, and the same year an act for ascertaining a place for erecting the college of William and Mary, the fir,it college on the continent. "On August 1st, 1716, the knightly governor, Col. Alexander Spottswood, in company with a troop of horsemen con­ sisting of 50 persons in all, with a goodly supply of provisions, ammunition and a varied assortment of liquors, set out to cross THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 57 the high mountains of Virginia. After several fights with hostile savages, who dogged the footsteps of the party, at the expiration of thirty-six days, at about 1 o'clock, September 5th, 1716, Governor Spottswood, who was slightly in the advance, reached the brow of · a declivity at the top of the Blue Ridge, at Swift Run Gap, and the whole glorious view burst upon his enraptured sight. For some moments, as the members of the governor's party gathered around him, not a word or sound broke the silence of the awe-inspiring scene, but they soon dismounted from their horses, and drank the health of the king. As far as the eye could reach, the most en­ chanting landscape presented itself. To the front of them, to the right and left, rolled miles of tall grass; the silvery streams in serpentine coils wound in and out for miles away, whilst in the distance mountain upon mountain seemed piled one upon the other, until lost in the blue and gold of the clouds, challenging the eye to define where clouds began and mountains ceased. Upon the return of Spottswood and his party, the governor, in commemoration of the event, had a number of golden horse-shoes struck, each of which had inscribed upon it, 'Sic J urat Transcendere Montes:' 'Though be swears to cross the mountains.'" No attempt seems to have been made to make a settlement in the Shenandoah Valley until the year 1725. In 1720 the General Assembly passed an act for the creation of the counties of Spottsylvania and Brunswick, the preamble of which, and that portion relating to Spottsylvania, are here given: "PREAMBLE: That the frontiers, towards the high mountains, are exposed to danger from the Indians, and the late settlements of the French to the westward of said mountains, "Enacted, Spottsylvania county bounds upon Snow Creek up to the Mill, thence by southwest line to the River North Anna, thence by the said River as far as convenient, and thence by a line to be run over the high mountains to the River on the northwest side thereof, so as to include the northern passage through said moun­ tains; thence down the said River till it comes against the head of Rappahannock; thence by a line to the head of Rappahannock and down that River to the mouth of Snow Creek; which tract of land, from the first of May, 1721, shall become a county, by the name of Spottsylvania county." In 1734 another division occurred. Spottsylvania was divided and its northern half created into the county of Orange. Four years later than the above date, 1734, the county of Frederick was created by an act passed in November, 1738, which act reads as follows: 58 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF "WHEREAS: Great numbers of people have settled themselves of late upon the Rivers of Sherrando, Conhongoruton (Potomac) and Opeckon, and the branches thereof, on the northwest side of the Blue Ridge of mountains, whereby the strength of this coiony and its security upon the frontiers, and His Majesty's revenue of quit­ rents are likely to be much increased and augmented; for giving encouragement to such as shall see fit to settle there; " Be it enacted, That all that territory and tract of land at present deemed to be a part of the County of Orange, lying on the north­ west side of the top of said mountains, extending from thence northerly, westwardly and southerly beyond the said mountains to the utmost limits of Virginia, be separated from. the rest of said county, and created into two distinct counties and parishes; to be divided by a line to be run from the head spring of Hedgeman River to the head spring of the River Potowmack; and that all that part of the said territory lying to the northeast of the said line, beyond the top of the said Blue Ridge, shall be one distinct county and parish, to be called by the name of the County of Frederick and Pari8h of Frederick ; and that the rest of the said territory lying on the other side of the said line, beyond the top of the said Blue Ridge. shall be one distinct county and parish, to be called by the name of the County of Augusta, and Parish of Augusta." Singular to relate, after Spottswood's expedition, the first settle­ ments in the Shenandoah Valley were not made from East Virginia, but instead, the fame of the great Virginia valley for its splendid land, fine watercourses, and beautiful mountains, attracted the at­ tention of some thrifty Germans who had settled in Pennsylvania, in York and Lancaster Counties. A number of these, led by Yost Hite, moved through Maryland and crossed the river a few miles above where now is Harper's Ferry, settling along the Potomac, with the junction of that stream with the Shenandoah westward for ten or fifteen miles. They founded a village in their midst about 1727, which they called New Mecklenburg. This was after­ wards changed to Shepardstown by one Mr. Thomas Shepard, who acquired property there. These persons were simple squ~ters upon the land. About 1730, Richard ap Morgan, a Welshman, obtained from Governor Gooch a grant for a large body of lands which he located in the neighborhood of Shephardstown, building there a log house, supposed to be the first dwelling ever erected in the Shenan­ doah Valley. He was followed very shortly by Rev. Morgan Mor­ gan, a native of Wales, who emigrated from Pennsylvania, and settled in what is now known as the county of Berkley. He was a THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 59 man of exemplary piety and devoted to the church, and was instru­ mental in erecting the first Episcopal church in the rnlley of Vir­ grnia. From the settlements in Chester County, Pennsylvania, there arrived a large influx of emigrants to the new colony, among whom were many of the same faith as Penn, thrifty, well-to-do people; also a large number of Protestant Germans, all of whom settled upon the rich lands of the Shenandoah and Opecquon Oreeks.1 Among the first to obtain a grant from Go,ernor Gooch, of Vir­ ginia, was Alexander Ross, a Quaker, who secured seventy thousand acres, locating the same north, west, and south of where now stands Winchester. This was in 1730 or thereabouts, and the ground was surveyed by Robert Brooks, 1731 and 1732. In addition to the Germans and Quakers who first came, there also came many Irish and Scotch-Irish from Lancaster County, in Pennsylvania, who settled along Back Creek and Opecquon. The route taken by these early. settlers to reach the valley was from the neighborhood of York, in Pennsylvania, down through Maryland, striking the Poto­ mac at the old Pack-Horse Ford, a mile east of Sbephardstown, which at that date was simply a portion of the Indian trail, but which was the great northern and southern highway of the Indians for, possibly, centuries, along which hostile tribes had marched and camped, the Delawares going southward, the Catawbas and Shawnees going northward, frequent warlike excursions being made into this country. Much the greater part of the country between what is called the Little North Mountain and the Shenandoah River, at the first settling of the valley, was one vast prairie, covered with luxurious grass and wild strawberry vines, and even the sides of the mountains were covered with wild pea vines, which afforded the finest possible pasturage for wild animals, such as buffalo, elk,

1 "Several respectable individuals of the Quaker Society thought it unjust to take possession of this valley without making the Indians some compensation for their right. Measures were adopted to effect this great object. But upon inquiry no particular tribe could be found who pretended to have any prior claim to the soil. It was considered the common hunting ground of various tribes, and not claimed by any particular nation who had authority to sell. This information was communicated to the author by two aged and highly respecta­ ble men of the Friends' Society, Isaac Brown and Lewis Neill, each of them upwards of eighty years of age, and both residents of the County of Frederick. In confirmation of this statement, a letter was written by Thomas Chaulkly to the Monthly Meeting on Opecquon on the 21st 5th Mo., 1738 ..•. This excel­ lent letter from this good man proves that the Quakers were among our earliest settlers, and that this' class of people were early disposed to do justice to the natives of the country." (Kercheval.) 60 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF deer, etc., at that time very plentiful. Only along the streams and watercourses was good timber to be found, hence the early settlers chose their homes close to the borders of the streams, that they might secure wood and water in conjunction with their prairie lands.1 At this time the Indians roamed at will over these prairies,

1 "At this period timber was so scarce that the settlers were compelled to cut small saplings to inclose their fields. The prairie produced grass five or six feet high ; and even our mountains and hills were covered with a rich growth .... From this state of the country, many of our first settlers turned their attention to raising large herds of horses, cattle, hogs, etc. Many of them became ex­ pert, hardy and adventurous hunters, and depended chiefly for support and monev-making on the sale of skins and furs. The first houses erected by the primitive settlers were log cabins, with covers of split clapboards, and weight poles to keep them in place. They were frequently seen with earthen floors; or if wooden floors were used, they were made of split puncheons a little smoothed with the broad-axe. There were, however, a few framed and stone buildings erected previous to the war of the revolution. "\Vhen improvement began, the most general mode of building was with hewn logs, a shingle roof and plank floor, the plank cut out with the whip-saw. The dress of the early settlers was of the plaine~t materials, generally of their own manufacture; the men's coats were generally made with broad backs, and straight short skirts, with pockets on the outside having large flaps. The waistcoats had skirts nearly half-way dow_n to the knees and very broad pocket-flaps. The breeches were so short as barely to reach the knee, with a band surrounding the knee fastened with either brass or silver buckles. The stocking was drawn up under the knee­ band and tied with a red or blue garter below the knee so as to be seen. The shoes were of coarse leather, with straps fastened with either brass or silver buckles. The hat was either of woo.I or fur, with a round crown not exceeding three or four inches high, with a broad brim. The neck encased in a white linen stock fastened at the back with a buckle. The female dress was generally a short gown and petticoat, made of the plainest materials; they were often seen with bare feet and arms. They usually labored with the men in the fields during the busy seasons. Furniture was of the simplest kind, that for the table consisted of a few pewter dishes, plates, and spoons, but mostly of wooden bowls, trenchers, and noggins, or of gourds and squashes. In the whole display of furniture china and silver were unknown. The hunting-shirt was universally worn by a large part of the settlers; this was a kind of loose frock, with large sleeves, open before, and so wide as to lap over a foot or more when belted. The cape was large and fringed with a ravelled piece of cloth of a different color from the shirt itself. They were generally made of linsey, coarse linen, or dressed deer-skins. The acquisition of such articles as salt, iron, and castings presented great difficulties to the first settlers. They had no stores of any kind, no salt, iron, or iron-works, nor had they money to make purchases. Peltry and furs were their only resources, or the sale of cattle and horses taken to trade for these needed articles in Frederick, Baltimore, or Philadelphia. These goods were carried by pack-horses in caravans. The usual price for a bushel of salt THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 61 and at one or two points in the valley had considerable towns: the Tuscarrorers, on Tuscarrorer Creek, near where Martinsburg now stan'ds; the Shawnees, at the Shawnee Springs, where Winchester stands. These Indians looked upon the people from Virginia with abhorrence, whom they designated "Long Knife!' and were warmly opposed to their settling in the valley. Tradition relates that the Indians did not object to the Pennsylvanians settling in the country, but from the high character of William Penn the poor simple na­ tives believed that all of Pennsylvania's men were honest, virtuous, humane, and benevolent, but they soon found to their cost that Pennsylvanians were not much better than the others. A noted exception must be made in the case of the Quakers, who endeavored to purchase their lands from the Indians as well as from the Crown. See the beautiful letter of Thomas Chalkley, dated May 21, 1738, on this subject. In all the long and bloody border wars not a single Quaker was ever murdered or molested by an Indian, a beautiful tribute to the peace-loving principles and practices of William Penn. For several years after the creation of Frederick County there was not sufficient population in all the territory west of Blue Ridge to justify the appointment of county officers and the organization of a county government, but October 2, 17 48, "His Excellency Wm. Gooch, Esquire, Lieutenant and Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the colony and province of Virginia, by the grace of His Most Christian Majesty, Our Sovereign Lord George the Second, King, Defender of the Faith, etc.," issued commiRsiom,, as justices of the peace, to " Our Trusted and Well Beloved Morgan Morgan, Benjamin Borden, Thomas Chester, David Vance, Andrew Camp­ bell, Marquis Calmes, Thomas Rutherford, Lewis Neill, William McMachen, Meredith Helms, George Hoge, John White and Thomas Little, gentlemen, accompanied by a dedimus for the administering of the oath of office to tbe appointees. On November 11, 1743, the gentlemen, having been notified of their appointment, met for the purpose of organizing a court." This meeting took place in the house of James Wood, in what is now the central portion of Win­ chester. Having met, Morgan Morgan and David Vance admin­ istered the oath to the others named in the commis~ion, who, having taken their seats as justices for Frederick County, appointed James Wood clerk of the court, and Thomas Rutherford high sheriff; George Home was appointed surveyor. At this court appeared

was a cow and calf, the salt measured by hand in the half-bushel as lightly as possible. Tea, coffee, and sugar were unknown commodities. Every man was a soldier. The frontiers presented a succession of military camps or forts." 62 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF James Porteus, John Steerman, George Johnson, and John Newport, who were booked as attorneys. The sheriff was ordered to build a twelve-foot log house, logged above and below to secure prisoners. The next court was held December 9, when James Porteus was empowered to act as king's attorney until the pleasure of the gov­ ernor could be known. Thomas Chester was appointed coroner, and took the oath of office. At this court Patrick Riley petitioned for a license "to keep an ordinary." Several others obtained licensei;, for ordinaries at the same time, among whom were Thomas Hart and Lewis Neill. On Friday, June 13, the ensuing month, at a meeting of the court, five more lawyers placed themselves on the roll of attorneys for Frederick County, they being William Russell, J obn Quinn, Gabriel Jones, WILLIAM JOLLIFFE, and Michael Ryan. At a court held February 11, 1743-44, Gabriel Jones was recom­ mended by the justices to the governor as a suitable person for the king's attorney. May 11, 1744, the first grand jury was impanelled in the county. The first deed placed upon the records of the county was one from Abraham Pennington to Christopher Beeler for five hundred acres of land. N ovembcr 13, 1751, George Ross transferred about ten acres of land to Isaac Hollingsworth, Evan Thomas, Jr., and Evan Rogers for building a Quaker meeting-house. As hereto­ fore stated, Thomas Rutherford was the first sheriff' of the county; his bondsmen, in the sum of one thousand pounds, were Meredith Helms, John Hardin, Thomas Ashby, Sr., James Seeburn, Robert Ashby, Thomas Ashby, Jr., Peter Wolff, and Robert Worthington. The second sheriff was Thomas ChesJ~r, 1745; third, Andrew Camp­ bell,, 1747; fourth, Jacob Hite, 1749; fifth, Lewis Neill, 1751; sixth, Meredith Helms, 1753. "On November 17, 1749, the Right Honor­ able Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and proprietor of the Northern N eek, pro­ duced a special commission to be one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County, from under the hand of the Honorable Thomas Lee, Esquire, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, and the seal of this Colony, took the oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and the oaths of abjuration, and having subscribed the teste was sworn a Justice of the Peace, and of the County Court in Chancery; Lord Fairfax producing a commission, was sworn County Lieutenant." The following documents, copied from the first deed book and bearing date March 9, 1749, give the first glimpse of what is now Winchester, then called Fredericktown: THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 63 "Know All Men By These Presents, That I James Wood, of Frederick County, am held and firmly bound unto Morgan Morgan, Thomas Chester, David Yance, Andrew Campbell, Marquis Calmes, Thomas Rutherford, Lewis Neill, William McMachen, Meredith Helms, Ge0rge Hoge, John White and Thomas Little, Gents, Jus­ tices of the said County, and their successors, in the sum of one thousand pounds, current money of Virginia, to be paid to the said Morgan Morgan, etc., and which payment well and truly to be made I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these presents, and sealed with my seal, and dated this 9th day of March, 1743; THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such that, whereas, the above-bound James Wood having laid off from the tract of land at which he now dwells, at Opeckon, in the County aforesaid, twenty-six lots of land, containing one half-acre each to­ gether with two streets running through the said lots, each of the breadth of 33 feet, as will more plainly appear by a plan thereof in the possession of the said Morgan Morgan, etc. And, whereas, the said James Wood, for divers good causes and considerations him thereunto moving, but more especially for and in consideration of the sum of Five shillings, current money, to him in band paid, the receipt whereof be doth hereby acknowledge, hath bargained and sold, on the conditions hereinafter mentioned, all bis right, title, interest, property and claim to 22 of the said lots to the aforesaid Morgan Morgan, etc., His Majesty's Justices of the said County for the time being, and their successors, to be disposed of by them for the use of the· said County as they shall judge most proper," etc. "Signed, J. Wood. Sealed, and delivered in the presence of WIL­ LIAM JOLLIFFE, John Newport and Thomas Postgate." Wood, it appears from the above documents, did not at that time own the land, but acquired title to it upon the arrival of Lord Fairfax. In the year 1752, James Wood petitioned the General Assembly to law­ fully establish his town and name it Winchester, after Winchester in England. For twelve years after the settlement of the great valley the inhabitants enjoyed profound peace and prosperity, mingling freely with the Indians, who were passing to and fro at all times through this country. In the year 1753 emissaries from the western Indians came among the valley Indians, inviting them to cross the Alle­ ghany Mountains, and in the spring of the year 1753 Major George Washington was sent with a letter to the French commander on the western borders, remonstrating against his encroaching upon the territory of Virginia. Soon after this the war, commonly called 64 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF "Braddock's War," began, and in 1754 Virginia raised an armed force, the command of which was given to Colonel Fry, and George Washington appointed lieutenant-colonel. In 1755 Braddock, at the head of two English regiments, was sent to reduce Fort Pitt, which resulted in a disastrous defeat. Immediately after the defeat of Braddock, Washington retreated to Winche~ter, in the county of Frederick, and in the autumn of 1755 began to build Fort Loudon. Here W asbington resided with bis army for the next two years, during which time the settlers on the frontiers were daily harassed and worried by incursions from the Indians and French. Many valuable lives were lost and property destroyed, and the people subjected to untold hardships. After the close of hostilities the valley again enjoyed a period of repose until about the year 1772, when "Dunmore's War" broke out, and raged with unabated fury all along the frontier. Before its close hostilities began with Great Britain, and for eight years the valley was kept in a state of tur­ moil, the inhabitants greatly harassed and excited, property depre­ ciated and destroyed, young men drawn into the army, and the old men and women subjected to all the horrors of war and famine, added to which were the terrors of Indian scalping-parties making repeated raids throughout the whole valley section. The Presbyterian meeting-house at Tuscarrorer, county of Berk- t1ey, was the first place where the gospel was preached publicly and divine service performed west of the Blue Ridge. About the year 1733 the Friends held religious services at private houses in the valley. The first Friends' meeting-house was a small log house erected in 1734-35, about thirty yards from the present sexton's house at Hopewell, near Ross's Spring, now known as Washing-! ton's Spring. In 1735 William Hoge,1 havin~ settled on land about

1 William Hoge, a native of Musselburgh, Scotland, came to Americ"a after 1682. In the same ship was a Mr. Hume and his wife and daughter, from Paisley, Scotland. The father and mother both died at sea on their way over. William Hoge took charge of their orphan daughter and turned her over to her relatives in New York City. He settled at Perth Amboy, New ,Jersey. In the course of time he married this orphan, Barbara Hume, and they moved to the lower counties of Pennsylvania, now the State of Delaware. From here they moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and in the year 1735 they moved to Virginia, and finally settled near what is now Kernstown. There he gave the land on which was erected the first Presbyterian church west of the Blue Ridge, and/ here they lived and died. They left a large family. His oldest son, William, joined the Society of Friends and settled in Loudoun County. He had a son, James Hoge, whose son was Isaac Hoge, who married Rachel Schofield, daughter of Mahl on and Ann Neill, his wife; they had children, James, Isaac, Josephine, THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 65 where Kernstown now is, gave the lot on which the church stands for the use of the first Presbyterian congregation ever organized in Virginia west of the Blue Ridge. The introduction of the Episcopal Church in Frederick County dates from the organization of the county; but little is heard of either church, vestry, or wardens until after the arrival of Lord Fairfax in 1749. In 1752 a vestry was appointed, consisting of Lord Fairfax, Isaac Perkins, Gabriel Jones, John Hite, Thomas Swearenger, Charles Buck, Robert Lem­ mon, John Lindsey, John Ashby, James Cromley, and Lewis Neill. Lord Fairfax, in 1752, gave a lot in the southwest corner of the public square in Winchester, upon which shortly afterwards was erected a rude chapel. This was occupied many years, but a better one of stone was reared upon thl.3 same spot some years before tha Revolution. "The first settlers were neither distinguished for literature nor­ religion. They were patient, enterprising men. A true account of" their sufferings, their dangers, and their exploits would appear to us; like tales of romance. They had not leisure, if they had the ability, to write history. They were much more conversant with the axe, the firelock, and the sword than books and pens. Their children were educated as their surroundings justified,-not for shO"I\', but for usefulness. The bravest and best man was the most popular and most respected. Those who possessed a goodly share of book learning could by no means be ignored." During the summer of 1759 the small-pox broke out in the town of Winchester, and carried many persons to the grave. The court was in consequence moved to Stephensburg for a year. The same dread disease again made its appearance in the years 1771 and 1776, and raged with great fury, spreading over the entire country and among the large number of Hessian prisoners confined in barracks west of the town.

Lewis, William, and Annie. Dr. Robert White married one of the •elder· William Hoge's daughters, and settled near North Mountain, Frederick County: They had three sons,-viz., John, Robert, and Alexander, the latter the emi­ nent lawyer of Winchester during the Revolution, and a member of the first. pongress. 5 66 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF

Family Record of William Jolliffe and Phreby, his wife. Married about the year 1720.

William Jolliffe, James Jolliffe, Edmund Jolliffe, John J ollitfe, and perhaps others. William Jolliffe, son of Joseph J o1liffe and Ruth, his wife, was born at his father's plantation on the Western Branch of Elizabeth River, Norfolk County, Virginia, about the year 1695.' This plan­ tation bad been given to Joseph Jolliffe by his father, John, during his lifetime, and was sold by Joseph when he was an old man, and probably his children had all left him to seek homes of their own. William Jolliffe was carefully educated and trained to the profes­ sion of law. His father was executor for a number of estates and seems to have had much to do with courts, hence it was but natural he should wish at least one son to follow that profession. At that time lawyers were educated in the law by entering the clerks' offices and acting as deputies, and it would appear that William was so trained. From the time of Bacon's Rebellion until the ad­ ministration of Governor Spottswood, 1710, Virginia bad made but little progress towards settling her vast territories.' Williamsburg

1 Family tradition says, " William J olliff'e moved into Frederick County from Eastern Virginia among the earliest settlers ; that he was well educated but poor and was seeking to better his fortunes." In the General Land Office at Rich­ mond, Virginia, I find "William Jolliffe Sr. patented 304 acres on the Drains of Babbs Creek, Frederick Co. Surveyed by John Mauzy. John Adams lived on it July 3, 1766." "Wm. Jolliffe Sr 87 acres. Land on which he now lives July 4, 1766." (This was the Red Hoiise tract.) "William Jolliffe Sr. 129 acres on Drains of the Opeckon, j7iins Doster & William Dillon, Survey made to William Jolliffe Jr. and James Jolliffe Nov. 4, 1766." Grant to "William Jolliffe Jr. and James Jolliffe of Frederick County whereon William Jolliffe Sen. lived, joining on Alexander Ross, and being part of his gr~nt," containing five hundred acres "as by survey and Platt thereof made (in behalf of Mr. William Jolliffe Sen.) by Mr. William Baylis." April 7, 1755. 2 "The first half of the eighteenth century, to the breaking qut of the French and Indian War, is extremely barren of incidents in the history of Virginia. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 67 was then the capital, and the inhabited frontiers extended only a few miles north and east of that town. Spottswood was an accom­ plished and enterprising man, and soon after his appointment as lieutenant-governor of the province began pushing the settle­ ments west and encouraging the people to open up new territory. Immigrants increased in numbers and pushed west. The old settlers caught the spirit of the times, and many sold out their farms and took up better lands in the new counties being formed .. Then as now the young men left home and sought their fortunes in the new country. As the territory filled up, new courts were requested and lawyers were in demand, and we find the young men of that pro­ fession pressing to the front. Among those who followed this tide .was William Jolliffe, who followed the formation of the courts at Spottsylvania, May 1, 1721. (The first court sat on the 1st day of August, 1722, at Germanna.) There was a massacre of the in­ habitants of this town shortly after its establishment, "perpetrated by the Indians and sternly revenged by the whites." Hugh Jones, in 1724, thus describes Germanna: "Beyond Colonel Spottswood' s furnace, above the Falls of Rappahannock River, within view of the vast mountains, he has founded a town called Germanna, from some Germans sent over by Queen Anne, who are now removed up further. Here he has servants and workmen of most handicraft trades; and he is building a church, courthouse, and dwelling house for himself, and with his servants and negroes he has cleared plan­ tations about it, proposing great encouragement for people to come and settle in that uninhabitated part of the world, lately divided into a county." Orange County was formed in 1734 from Spottsylvania, and hither William Jolliffe drifted with his family. In 1738 Frederick County w·as formed, but it was not until October 2, 1743, that Governor Gooch issued an order for the formation of a court upon the peti­ tions of the leading men. At the opening of this court William Jolliffe was among the very first to enroll himself as a lawyer. "On Nov. 11, 1743, the gentlemen named having been notified of their appointment met for the purpose of organizing a court. At this court appeared James Porteus, John Steerman, George Johns­ ton, and John Newport, who desired the privilege of being booked as attorneys, and who upon taking the oath as such were granted

•.. This brevity arises from the fact that it was mainly a time of peace, which usually leaves but little to record of marked interest to the general reader. Again, the annals of Virginia, during this period, are brief and unsatisfactory, and, doubtless, much highly valuable material is, in consequence, forever lost." 68 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF the use of the courthouse. On Friday, Jan. 13, at a meeting of the court, five more lawyers placed themselves on the roll of attor­ neys for Frederick County, they being William Russell, John Quinn, Gabriel Jones, William Jolliffe and Michael Ryan." To a deed given by James Wood, conveying the land on which Winchester was founded, we find his name as one of the three witnesses signed thereto. Just where he first established his home I am unable .to say, but the records of the county show that shortly after this date he was possessed of five hundred acres ofland adjoining the lands of Alex­ ander Ross, north of the present town of Winchester. He was from this time until his death in active practice in the courts of Frederick and adjoining counties, his name often appearing in the records. In September, 1752, he brought an action against his brother lawyer, the celebrated but eccentric Gabriel J ones.1 "Sep. 20, 1743, John Frost deeds to John Millburn a portion of a tract of land patented by Alex. Ross and John Littler Nov. 12, 1735; the witnesses to this were Alex. Ross, Thomas Wilson, John Littler and William J olli:lfe." "May 10, 17 44, William ·Jolliffe was witness to a deed from Isaac Pennington to Thomas C~son." "Nov. 16, 1759, as assignee of Geo. Ross he recovered a debt and interest from Feb. 1748-9." From these and many other records it appears he became the attorney for the Friends settled in that country, and this no doubt had its influence upon his children, and may have been the means of uniting them with that society. William himself, I feel sure, was never a member, Friends deeming it wrong to contend in the courts, and therefore having little use for lawyers except to draw up deeds, etc. "Mar. 26, 1763, William Jolliffe, Sr., brought an action against the celebrated David Crockett who then resided in Frederick County." When he was about twenty-five years of age he married Phceby --, by whom he had sons William, James, John, and Edmund, and perhaps daughters. There exists no record by which we can determine his wife's family name, nor when she died. This is not surprising when we remember that the country

1 Gabriel Jones was a son of John and Elizabeth Jones, of Montgomery, North Wales. He was educated in London (April, 1732) at the Blue-coat School, Christ's Hospital, and was there seven years. He then served six years with a lawyer. He came to America, and March 1, 1747, was settled (at Neill's Mill) near Kernstown, Virginia, where he resided twenty-two years. He then moved to what was Augusta County and settled near the present town of Port Republic. He died an old man after the Revolutionary War. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 69 in which he dwelt was new and sparsely settled and the keeping of birth and death records was disregarded; it was many years later before a law was passed compelling such records to be kept. William left no will, but from court records I find he died in the year 1765. (His son William always signed his name William Jolliffe, Jr., during his life. The last record so signed was Wm. Jolliffe, Jr., vs. _Wm. Crumly, March 6, 1765. Later witnessed a marriage certifi­ cate, Aug. 15, 1765, and did not attach the Jr.) He was interred at Hopewell Burying-Ground, in Frederick County, Virginia. His wife died several years before he did, and I believe the later years of his life were spent with his son William at the old Nevill house. Family tradition says he was a cultured, refined person, fond of good society and people of learning, often neglecting personal ad­ vancement for his books and friends. Of his brothers and sisters I have no information (I am inclined to believe there was a John, James, and Joseph), yet the court records of Norfolk County indi­ cate there were others, but give no names by which they may be traced. Unfortunately, the files of these valuable old records are missing between the dates 1719-1730. They no doubt would have supplied many missing links. 70 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF

Family Record of William Jolliffe and Lydia Hollings­ worth, his wife. Married 1750.

John Jolliffe, born June 18, 1751, Phreby Jolliffe, born December 15, 1752; died when eighteen months old; Gabriel Jolliffe, born May 19, 1755; died December 22, 1762; Phreby Jolliffe (second), born February 12, 1758.

William Jolliffe, son of William and Phreby Jolliffe, came with his father and brothers James and Edmund to the valley of Vir­ ginia about the year 1743. (Just where his father's home was is uncertain, he being a lawyer practising in the courts eas.t and west of the Blue Ridge. It may have been on a :five-hundred-acre tract of land 1 situated near Opecquon Creek, north of the present town of Winchester and adjoining the lands of Alexander Rose/ which land was in bis possession as late as 1760.) He was bom about the year 1720 or 1721, and joined the Friends' Society at an early age. The

1 In Land Office, Richmond, Virginia: "To Mr. William Jolliffe Junr. of Frederick Co. 'a certain Tract of waste and ungranted Land in the said County, whereon he now lives and bounded as by a survey thereof made (on behalf of Lydia Ross, now wife to the said William Jolliffe Junr.) by Mr. William Baylis, as followeth. Beginning at a white oak corner to'John Littler, George Ross and John Ross deceased' 210 acres Oct. 4th 1758." "Grant to William Jolliffe Jr. of Frederick Co. 152 acres adjoining Alexander Ross's Patent land, and William Jolliffe Senr. on the Drains of Opeckon. March ll, 1761." 2 "Alexander Ross resided in Scotland, where bis son John was born in 1637, and his grandson John Ross (the son of John) in 1658. The latter moved with his wife and five children to the city of Derby, Ireland, in 1689. He was in the battle of the Boyne." His son Alexander Ross (who probably was born in Scotland) migrated from Ireland and settled in the bounds of Chester Monthly Meeting early in the eighteenth century. In 1706 he married Catherine Cham­ bers, of Chichester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. In 1718 he moved to Haverford, and in 1715 moved back to Chester, and from there went to New Garden Meeting and settled in that portion afterwards cutoff to form East Not­ tingham Meeting in 1780. About the year 1781 he with other Friends obtained from Governor Gooch, of Virginia, a patent for seventy thousand acres of land in the valley of Virginia, which he located north, east, and west of the present town of Winchester. The minutes of East Nottingham Meeting tell of Alex­ ander Ross having a vendue July 16, 1782, which· was no doubt for the sale .. , ..l'l.l(U"'tff"ll•lirlT •

HOPEWELL MEETING HOUSE. Built 17j9. £,r/arged 1788.

THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 71 first record 1 we have of him is found upon a single leaf of the old Hopewell Meeting record, all that was saved from the fire which destroyed the meeting-house and the records from the establish­ ment of the Meeting until the year 1759. This minute of the Monthly Meeting bears date second month 4th, 17-!8 (the original to be found loose between the leaves of the earliest Hopewell records, now in the vault of the Hicksite meeting-house, Baltimore, Maryland.) It was seen and copied by me, and reads as follows: "Alexander Ross and his son George are appointed to inquire into William Jolliffe's conversation and what else may be needful and pre­ pare a certificate to Middletown Monthly Meeting in Bucks county." "Evan Thomas and William Jolliffe Jr. having transgressed the rules of our Discipline have given in the following paper which the meeting having well considered of and hoping to be the truth from of his effects preparatory to his moving to Virginia. In these records I find Alexander Ross asks for a meeting for worship at Opecquon, March 18, 1734, and such a meeting was granted after due deliberation, November, 1734--35. " Friends were requested to be unanimous in the choice of the place where such meetings were to be held and build their house." The first record we have of_ Hopewell Meeting is dated July, 1736, Simeon Taylor, clerk. Prior to this meetings were held at Friends' private residences, and marriages were per­ formed at East Nottingham, one hundred and fifty miles away. Alexander­ Ross fixed his residence near what is now ca11ed Boss's Spring, one of the boldest clear cold limestone springs found in Virginia. (The Ross home was afterwards owned by Fayette Washington, a favored nephew of General George Washing­ ton.) The meeting-house, built of logs on a hill near this spring from which water was obte,ined, stood on land granted for that purpose. Tbis house served, the early Friends as a place for worship until 1757, when it was de11troyed by :fire. The present stone meeting-house was then ordered to be built, and was soon finished. In the year 1788 this house was greatly enlarged to accommo­ date the Quarterly Meeting, then established. Alexander Ross used great d,ili­ gence in settling his grant of land, large numbers of Fdends from Pennsyl­ vania and Maryland comi,ilg to him, and many Scotch-Irish :Presbyterians also, from York and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania. These Friends mostly pur­ chased their titles also from the Indians when they claimed the land. Alexander Ross died in 1748, and was buried at Hopewell; his wife died in 1749. They left children, John, married Lydia Hollingsworth; George, whose wife was Frances --; I>,av:id, who never married, died September3-;-T748; Mary, married John Littler (will dated August 18, 1748); Catherine, who never married; Lydia, married John Day, April 21, 1733; and Albenah, who married Evan Thomas. 1 "Aug. 4, 1747, Alexander Ross, William Jolliffe Senr., John Littler and James Wood gave a bond to Morgan Morgan as administrator of Joseph Bryans Estate." "About this time an enterprising man by the name of Alexander Ross obtained a warrant for 100,000acres of land north and east of Winchester. His surveys extended along the Opecquon Creek and Applepie Ridge. This tract was settled by Friends, and in 1735 they had regulax Monthly Meetings." 72 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF their hearts have taken as satisfaction. 'We Evan Thomas Jr. and William Jolliffe Jr. both belonging to the Society of the Christian people called Quakers but through carelessness and unwatchfulness have suffered ourselves to be so far overcome with passion and anger which tended to fighting and quarreling with each other, for which action we acknowledge ourselves highly to blame, it being a breach of the known rules of our Discipline and being heartily so1Ty for it we do hereby publicly condemn the same, hoping with Divine assistance to be more careful and circumspect in our lives and conversation for the time to come. "EvAN THOMAS JR. WILLIAM JOLLIFFE JR." This Evan Thomas, J r.,1 was a son of Evan and Catherine Thomas, who came from East Nottingham, Pennsylvania, and settled on lands ·adjoining the elder William Jolliffe and Alexander Ross. He after­ wards married (before the year 1741) Albenah Ross, second daughter of Alexander Ross and sister of J obn Ross,2 who married Lydia Hol-

1 Evan Thomas, Jr., married Albenah Ross, youngest daughter of Alexander 11nd Catherine Ross. (His father, Evan Thomas, Sr., moved with his wife Katherine to East Nottingham June 15, 1730; was a son of Samuel Thoma~, of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, born 1655, died 1743, married May 15, 1688, Mary, daughter of Francis Hutchins,of Calvert County, Maryland. His father was Philip Thomas, whose wife was SarahHarrison; came io America from Bristol, England, and settled in Maryland in 1651; he died 1675 and his wife died 1687. His father was Evan Thomas, of Swansea, born 1580 and died 1650.) Evan Thomas, Sr., came to Virginia from East Nottingham, Pennsylvania, with Alexander Ross. He had moved from Goshen, Chester County, Pennsylvania, some years earlier. 2 John. Ross, son of Alexander Ross 1and Lydia Hollingsworth, both of Opecquon, in Virginia, passed meeting the first time August 18, 1735, at East Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland. (Nine miles from Elkton the old brick meeting-house, the land, seven acres, given by Penn.) Passed second time September 15, 1735, Josiah Ballinger and Isaac Parkins to see the marriage properly performed.

"John Ross, son of Alexander Ross1 to Lydia Hollingsworth, daughter of Stephen Hollingsworth, both of Orange County, Virginia, at a public meeting at Hopewell in Orange Co., Va., October 11, 1735. Witnessed by- "Al3RAHAM HOLLINGSWORTH ( ALEXANDER Ross GEO. HOLLINGSWORTH l. KATHERINE Ross JOHN NEILL Ann Hollingsworth and~ others LYDIA HOLLINGSWORTH MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH MARY LITTLER ALEEN.AH Ross HANNAH HOLLINGSWORTH." THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 73 lingsworth, October 11, 1735. This John Ross died 1748. His estate was inventoried by William Barrett, William Jolliffe, Jr., and William Dillon, and sworn before John Neill, Gent. (a brother of Lewis Neill the elder), January 18, 1748-49, Lydia Ross adminis­ tratrix. Early in September, 1750, William Jolliffe, Jr., married his widow, Lydia Ross (nee Hollingsworth). She was a daughter of Stephen Hollingsworth and Ann, his wife, a great-grand-daughter of Valentine Hollingsworth, who came to America with William Penn. She was a second cousin of the Lydia Hollingsworth who was then married to Lewis Neill. Lydia (Ross) Jolliffe left children by her first husband,-viz., John Ross, David Ross, born September 18, 1742, Stephen Ross, and Alexan'der Ross. By her second hus­ band she left children as follows: John Jolliffe, born June 18, 1751 ; Phceby Jolliffe, born December 15, 1752, who died when eighteen months old; Gabriel Jolliffe (probably named after Gabriel Jones), born May 19, 1755; and Phceby Jolliffe (second of this name), born February 12, 1758. The wife, Lydia Jolliffe, died December 30, 175!;1, . and their son, Gabriel Jolliffe, December 22, 1762. "At a court held in Frederick County, Oct. 3, 1752, William Jolliffe, Jr. and Lydia his wife, guardian to Alexander Ross, orphan of John Ross, deceased, having produced an account of the estate of the said orphan in

"David Ross (born 9th mo. 18, 1742) son of John Ross ( who was son of Alex­ ander Ross) and Lydia Hollingsworth his wife (daughter of Stephen Hollings­ worth) to Catherine Thomas a daughter of Enos Thomas Dec. 20th 1770. Wit- nesses- " PH

"Phceby Ross, daughter of David and Catherine (as above), to Johnathan Butcher of Alexandria, son of Johnathan and Ann, Sep. 4, 1806. "Witnesses- " WM JOLLIFFE CATHERINE Ross REBECCA JOLLIFFE DAVID Ross JOHN JOLLIFFE LYDIA Ross ABEL NEILL JOHNSTON Ross RACHEL NEILL ENos Ross." and others " Known in the family as Aunt Phceby Butcher." "Stephen Ross, son of John and Lydia Ross, moved to East Nottingham from Hopewell in 1758, and was apprenticed to his uncle J obn Day to learn the tan- ning business." 74 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF their bands and solemnly affirmed to the same, they being of the people called Quakers, the same was admitted to record." It seems that both William Jolliffe and his wife were strict members of the Friends' Society, well educated and prosperous, the wife inheriting from her father and first husband large land estates near Hopewell Meeting-House. William Jolliffe was a well-to-do merchant and miller, and possessed several large farms in his own right, acquired by grant from the Crown and Lord Fairfax and by purchase. His home at this time was known as the Red Ho.!Jse, standing on a tract of land containing two hundred and thirteen acres, left by him at the time of his decease to bis son John. The house stood a few rods south of the great Pennsylvania Highway, or old Indian or 1 Pack-Horse Trail (now the Winchester and Martinsburg Turnpike ), six and one-half miles north of Winchester and just east of the Ross Spring Branch (now the Washington Spring Branch). Just west of and across the road stood his mill and storehouse afterwards bought from Colonel John Nevill 2 and rebought from Fairfax. This mill received its power from Ross Spring Branch. This old Red House was a frame structure built by William Jolliffe on solid limestone foundations, with rived -clapboards and wrought nails. It was a noted landmark, having been painted a bright red. In the

1 " The old ford one mile below Shepherdstown was known for one hundred and fifty years as the 'Old Pack-Horse Ford.' It was the only crossing-place in the Potomac River for many miles east and west of it. How long it bas been used is a matter of conjecture, but it was the great fording-place for the Indians passing north and south long before the white man trod the soil. Here on both sides of the river occurred some of the bloodiest Indian battles. It was here, September 18, 1862, the One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers (Corn Exchange) met such a bloody repulse; the river was said to have run black with tlie :floating bodies shot down in mid-stream from the Vir­ ginia. bank.'' 2· 11 John Neville, a son of Richard and Ann Burroughs, his wife, who was a cousin of Lord Fairfax, was born July 26, 1731, on the head-waters of Ocequon Creek, Virginia (Bull Run). He served in Braddock's War, and at its close settled near Winchester. Was a captain in Dunmore's War, 1774, and on the 7th of August, 1775, marched with his company to Fort Pitt. He was chosen colonel of the Fourth Virginia. Regiment during the Revolution, after the pro­ motion of Adam Stephens. He married Winfred Oldham, who was born 1736 ; both he and his wife died near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where they resided the latter part of their lives. Their son Pressly Neville was born September 6, 1755; was a captain in the Eighth Virginia. Regiment during the Revolution; married Nancy, daughter of General Daniel Morgan, and both died in Ohio." John Nevill was a direct descendant of the great Nevill family of England. His ancestors first settled in the county of Isle of Wight, Virginia. F, GUTEKUNST PRINT.

THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 75 yard was a deep well surrounded by shade trees. A modern frame structure now occupies the site. The old mill bas entirely disap­ peared, though I can well remember it as the stable of our cousin Meredith Jolliffe (just before the Civil War). "At a court held Nov. 9, 1758, William Jolliffe, Jr. was appointed overseer of the road from Cunningham's mill to Robert Mosley's." This was one of the most important roads in the county, extending from Cedar Creek, fifteen miles south of Winchester, to Mosley's, some twenty miles north of Winchester, in what is now Berkley County, em­ bracing the present Valley Turnpike. At that time only persons of position and influence were appointed to such offices. March 26, 1759, he was appointed clerk of the Monthly Meeting of Hopewell, succeeding Jesse Pugh. This Meeting was established about the year 1735-36 in a log house near the present house. This building was destroyed by fire, and with it all the Meeting records, a loss that can never be repaired. "A committee to 'set the minutes in order for recording' was appointed in 1760, who reported that one of the books being lost by accident by fire they could not proceed any farther back than when William Jolliffe was clerk, to wit 26th of Third month 1759." About this time it was deemed necessary to build a new meeting-house, and July 23, 1759, " It was unanimously agreed that the meeting house going to be built be raised to two story high, and augmented three feet wider than was before agreed.'' This was the present stone house at Hopewell, which in 1788 was enlarged and added to (Abraham Hollingsworth and Lewis Neill working on the walls in person). At this time Lydia Jolliffe also appears to have acted as clerk of the Monthly Meeting. William Jolliffe continued to be clerk of the Meeting until his death, having filled for a pe1~od of eleven years that office during the most energetic and flourishing time of the Society's existence in Frederick County. The minutes were kept . by him in a remarkably neat, clear, round hand, and give evidence of a person of culture and education above the average of his day and generation. 'fhe very first record in this old book was of a Meeting held at Hopewell Meeting-House March 26, 1759, at which time James Jolliffe, Thomas Babb, Jr., and John Mendinghall were . disowned for some breach of the Society's discipline. This James Jolliffe was his brother. I find that at a meeting held November 9, 1759, his brother Edmund Jolliffe requested to be admitted to mem­ bership, and one month later, or December 24, 1759, his request was granted. On December 30, 1759, bis wife, when about forty-one years old, died, and was buried at Hopewell graveyard. In the deed 76 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF books of the county at ·winchester I find, "No,ember 13, 1751, George Ross transferred about ten acres of land to Isaac Hollings­ worth, Evan Thomas, Jr. and ,Evan Rogers, for building a Quaker meeting house." This embraced the land now used for a graveyard as well as that on which the meeting-house stands. At a meeting held October 6, 1760, I find his step-son Alexander Ross was dis­ owned for marrying out of meeting. "January 14, 1760, this Alex­ ander Ross, son of John Ross, deceased, and grandson of Alexander Ross, deceased, sold to William Jolliffe, Jr. 220 acres of land being part of a tract of 2373 acres granted Alexander Ross their grand­ sire by patent in Land Office Nov. 12, 1736. Witness-Joseph Lupton, Wm. Neill, Thomas Jones." 1 This land was willed to his son Edmund Jolliffe, and is now owned by our cousin Ed ward J ol­ liffe. When about forty years old, April 9, 1761, William Jolliffe was married a second time to Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Abel and Sinah Walker, of Frederick County, Virginia. This lady was born October 8, 1732, and was therefo1·e twenty-nine years of age. "Whereas William Jolliffe Junior of Opeckon in the County of Frederick and Colony of Virginia and Elizabeth Walker of the Same place Daughter of Abel Walker and Sinah Walker Deed. Having Declared their Intentions of taking each other in Marriage before Several Monthly Meetings of the Christian People called Quakers at Opeckon aforesaid And having Consent of parents and parties concerned their said proposals of Marriage were allowed of by the Said Meeting: Now these are to Oertifie whom it may concern that for the full accomplishing their said Intentions Upon the Ninth Day of the fourth Month in the Year One Thousand seven Hun­ dred & Sixty One They the said William Jolliffe and Elizabeth Walker Appeared in a public Assembly of the said people & others met together at their public Meeting house at Opeckon aforesaid And the said William Jolliffe taking the said Elizabeth Walker by the hand Did in a Solemn Manner Openly Declare that he took the said Elizabeth Walker to be his wife promising with Divine Assistance to be unto her a loving & faithful Husband until Death should Separate them or words to that Effect. And then & there in the said Assembly the said Elizabeth Walker Did in like Manner

1 " March 3, 1766, Geo Ross sold to William Jolliffe Jr (merchant) for £150 two parcels of land on the main Road from William Jolliffe's to Winchester, being part of a greater tract granted Alexander Ross by pattent, containing 64 acres 10 poles. Speaks of a purchase of a Stone House by William Jolliffe from John Neavil Esq. Witnesses John Shelling, Rich Rigg, John Nevill, Thomas Hide." THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 77 Openly Declare that she took the said William Jolliffe to be her Husband promising with Divine Assistance to be unto him a Lov­ ing & faithful wife until Death should Separate them or words to that Effect. Moreover the said William Jolliffe & Elizabeth Walker she according to the Custom of Marriage Assuming the Name of her Husband as a further Confirmation thereof Have unto these presents set their hands. "And we whose names are hereunder written being present at the Solemnization of the said Marriage & Subscription in manner afore­ said Have as Witnesses thereunto subscribed our Names the Day & Year above written. "Esther Wright William Dillon William Jolliffe Jun. Lydia Cunningham Henry Rees ]j}lizabeth Jolliffe Albenah Thomas George Ross Wm. Jolliffe Senr. Sarah Milburn Eduard Beeson James Jolliffe Martha Nelson John Ridgeway Edmund Jolliffe George Cunningham Abel Walker James Stewart Lewis Walker Alexander Ross Mordecai Walker Robert Bull Mary Campbell Thomas Butterfield Sin ah Walker Evan Thomas Margaret Dorster Edward Dodd Hannah Jolliffe." (Pages 7 and 8, Hopewell Marriage Records.) She was a member of Friends' Society and a lady of exemplary piety. They had children as follows : Edmund Jolliffe, born ;Tanuary 15, 1762; Mary Jolliffe, born May 13, 1763; Amos Jolliffe, born August 5, 1764; Lydia Jolliffe, born May 9, 1766 ; _... Elizabeth Jolliffe, born June 16, 1768; Gulielmo Jolliffe, born September 14, 1770. This last, a posthumous child, died January 21, 1773, and Edmund Jolliffe died May 8, 17i8, when sixteen years old. William Jolliffe was a member of a committee of Friends ap­ pointed to meet other Friends, March 22, 1767, at Curles, below Richmond, to solicit the governor to remit the muster fines charged against Friends in Virginia. The same year he was appointed "to care for the meeting house in the room of David Ross and make the fires one year from Second Month 2nd, and to be allowed 40 shillings." By order of the General Assembly he was ordered as clerk of the meeting, December 7, 1767, to return to General Adam 78 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF Stephens a list of all Friends belonging to Hopewell Meeting. "At a meeting held Eighth Month 6th, 1770, Robert Haines was appointed clerk in place of William Jolliffe deceased." During these years he was an active business man, and bought lands all around him from George Ross, Colonel John Nevill, and Lord Fairfax. With the land bought from Colonel Nevill he acquired a large and handsome stuccoed stone house, that formerly stood on the west side of the Great Road a half-mile south of the Red House. This property afterwards belonged to our cousin Meredith Jolliffe; it was wan­ tonly destroyed by fire during the Civil War. Here William Jol­ liffe and his wife Elizabeth made their home, and it was in this house that some of the exiled Friends of the Revolution were so hospitably entertained by his widow; and here one of their number, the good old Quaker minister John Hunt, died March, 1778, and was buried at Hopewell.1 After a well-spent, active Christian life filled with good deeds, William Jolliffe died April 18, 1770, when fifty years of age. His remains rest in Hopewell Burying-Ground beside those of his wife Lydia. His widow Elizabeth Jolliffe survived him thirteen years, and died about the year 1783, aged fifty-one. She was an elder in the Meeting, and was often chosen to represent the Monthly Meeting at the Quarterly Meetings; at that time held alternately at Fairfax, Loudoun County, Virginia, and at Warrington, York County, Penn­ sylvania. She attended these meetings on horseback though the distance was long, Fairfax being thirty miles from her home and Warrington not less than one hundred and twenty miles. The road to the latter was by the old Indian Trail over the Potomac River at the old Pack-Horse Ford, one mile below Shephardstown,. Virginia. It was not until the year 1787 that Quarterly Meetings were established at Hopewell.

1 "A message was sent us from E. J olliffe's that our friend John Hunt, who had been confined to his bed for several days, was much worse; being suddenly seized with a pain in his leg, which rendered it entirely useless, and greatly alarmed the family." "Went out to David Brown's where we received an un­ favorable account of John Hunt: mortification had begun in his leg, and made such progress that an amputation of his limb was the only means of arresting it." William. Smith rode all night for Dr. General Stephens to perform the operation. The operation was performed the 22d, by Drs. Mackey and Stephens. After the wound was dressed, one of the surgeons remarked to him, "Sir, you have behaved like a hero," to which he mildly replied, "I have endeavored to bear it like a Christian." He died March 31, 1778, at ten o'clock in the morning. He was buried April 2, during a violent rain-storm, in the presence of a very large company of ]'rieilds and others. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 79 The personal estate of William Jolliffe was appraised by John Rees, John Smith, Joseph Day, and Edward Beeson, May 7, 1777, at four hundred and eighty-three potmds three shillings. .Among the items were his silver watch, two pairs silver buckles, silver snuff-box with tortoise-shell top, gold sleeve-buttons, riding-chair, and one year and eight months' servitude of a man's time, rifles, guns, etc., and sundry books. Elizabeth J olliffe's personal estate was appraised, September, 1783, by Peter Babb, Jonathan Wright, and Isaac Brown for three hundred and thirty-eight pounds eleven shillings and sixpence. William Jolliffe's will bears date January 15, 1769, with a codicil bearing date January 24, 1770. He disposes of his estates, amounting to eleven hundred acres of land, and orders his other property sold and divided among his children. His negroes he orders shall be set free at their attaining the age of eighteen years. 80 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF

Family Record of James Jolliffe and Hannah Springer, his wife. Married 1760.

James Jolliffe, son of William and Pbreby Jolliffe, came to the valley of Virginia with his father in the early part of the eigh­ teenth century. He early in life joined the Society of Friends, but was disowned March 26, 1759. What the fault was cannot now be determined, though I presume it was for marrying a person not of the Society. The old Meeting records for the twenty-four years from the organization of Hopewell Meeting until 1759, that were destroyed would have given us much information about James J ol­ liffe. He married in 1760 Hannah, grand-daughter of Dennis Springer, who had a grant of lands from Lord Fairfax, of date November 4, 1754, situated on Back Creek, near Dillon's land, and locally known as the Hog Bottom, because of the abundance of wild pea vines that attracted large droves of wild hogs to the lo­ cality.1 His father William Jolliffe, September 5, 1769, bought of Josiah Springer, father of Hannah Jolliffe, one hundred and seven acres of the above grant and gave it to him. He also had a farm of one hundred and fifty acres of land situated sixty-five miles

1 "James Jolliffe and Hannah, grand-daughter of Dennis and Ann Springer, were married near Winchester, Va., and shortly after moved to near Uniontown, Pa., where he remained up to the time of his death, which occurred about the year 1771. His remains were interred in the Old Cemetery near Uniontown, Pa. His widow subsequently married Charles Harryman about the year 1773, by whom she had one son, Job Harryman, born Feb. 23, 1774. (The record of this family is copied from their Family Bible, which was printed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the year 1745. Said Bible is now in possession of Oliver P. Jol­ liffe.) Their children were: ' "William Jolliffe, born May 80, 1761. Ann Jolliffe, born August 15, 1762. Drew J olliife, born September 2, 1764. Elizabeth J olliife, born June 16, 1766. John Jolliffe, born July 6, 1768. Margaret Jolliffe, born October 23, 1770. "It appears from his will that his children, Drew, Elizabeth, and Margaret, were dead when it was drawn, Aug. 27th, 1771. His daughter Ann never mar­ ried. Of his son John I have no record." THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 81 from ·winchester (near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, then Rejstone), where he resided in 1768, for I find in the court records at Win­ chester that "James and Edward Bush, deputy sheriffs, paid James J ollitfe 1 ~50 pounds of tobacco for attendance on court 65 miles four times, May 3, 1768." In his will, after providing for the payment of his debts and funeral charges, lie leaves the land he purchased of Josiah Springer, containing one hundred and seven acres, and one hundred and fifty acres surveyed with David Ruble, to be equally divided between his two sons, William and John, his wife to have the furniture and the use of the plantation on which they then reside so long as she. remain his widow. He desires his son William and daughter Ana be bound out to learn useful trades. His brother, Sadock Springer,. and his wife to execute this will, dated August 2, 1771, and proven, November 5, 1771, at Winchester. James Jolliffe and his wifo Hannah were both at Hopewell Meeting when his brother Williami married Elizabeth Walker, April 9, 1761, and they signed the mar­ riage certificate. In the deed books of Frederick County I find that "Aug. 4, 1761, Wm. Jolliffe Jr. and James Jolliffe sold to Inno­ cent Bogoth, John Chennowith and William Cbennowith, executors of John Bogoth deed. 500 acres of land formerly owned by Wm. Jolliffe Sr. and adjoining the lands of Alexander Ross Sr. deed. for 220 pounds current money.

WM. JOLLIFFE [SEAL] " JESSE PUGH } ELIZABETH JOLLIFFE [SEAL] BENJ. SUTTON Witness JAMES JOLLIFFE [SEAL] JOHN CoBLY HANNAH JOLLIFFE." [SEAL]

This property was at one time in the possession of the father7 William Jolliffe. From this deed it appears to have been conveyed by him to his sons, William and James, and by them sold during his lifetime. This, no doubt, was done to provide for his children. He seems to have been a man of strong religious feeling, and, though not possessed of much of this world's goods, left a fair name behind him. His descendants are very numerous, having settled in West Virginia and Pennsylvania; from there some moved t0, Ohio and then west.1 Of Edmund Jolliffe, son of William and Phooby Jolliffe, we know

1 See an interesting little publication printed at Morgantown, West Virginia, 1878: "Family Record and Genealogy of the Jolliff Family, from the Yea:I' 1760 to 1878 inclusive. By Oliver P. Jolliff and James Watson." 6 82 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF very little. By request he was admitted to the Society of FriendR, December 24, 1759. That he continued to be an active member of this people I have every reason to believe. He never married, and died when comparatively a young man. The records of Hopewell Meeting were so carefully kept after 1759 that had he married a record of it would undoubtedly have appeared; nor can I :find in the court records anything relating to him. That he commended himself to his brother William is abundantly shown by the fact of his having named a son after him. He was present at the marriage of William Jolliffe to Elizabeth Walker, 1761, and signed the mar­ riage certificate. I am strongly inclined to believe that William and Phceby Jolliffe also had a son, John J olliffe,1 who settled on the frontier, in what is now Hampshire County, and that he married and left children, one of whom was a Baptist minister named Abner. The fact that William Jolliffe named his first child John when his father's name was William would seem to indicate that he had a favorite brother bearing that name. James Jolliffe also named one of his sons John. "Elder Abner Jolliff (born about 1750 or 1751; his father about the year 1725-Ed.), who lived and died in Barren County, Ken­ tucky, was born in Greenbrier County, Virginia, and came of an English family of Norman descent, who settled in Virginia in the seventeenth century; his four sons, Abner, Richard, James, and Elijah, and three daughters, Rachel, Elizabeth, and J ehoida, emi­ grated to Illinois in the early days and settled in Jefferson, Clinton, Marion, and Washington Counties, where they now have a large number of descendants. "Abner, the oldest son, in 1824, settled about three miles north of the present town of Richview, Washington County; raised a large family, nearly all now dead; his son Richard was somewhat noted as a Baptist preacher of promise, and died young. "Richard, the second son, settled th·e same year near his brother, both being on the old Vincennes trace; raised a large family, and his son Jacob, born on the claim the first year of the sojoum of the family in this State, yet owns and occupies the old homestead, one of the finest farms in Southern Illinois. Elizabeth, his oldest daughter, married an Englishman named Edward Russell; their sons, Thomas and J. K. Russell, are well-known citizens of Wash-

1 "Among the early settlers of Wheeling, Virginia, was a Daniel Jolliffe, whose family were murdered by the Indians. and a young son taken prisoner, June 8th, 1792. A probable descendant of ,John Jolliffe." THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 83 ington County. Martha, his second daughter, married Reece Wil­ liams and raised a large family, and surviving her husband, now lives in Texas with her children. James E., the oldest son, lives near Fort Scott, and was a soldier in the Mexican War, in Captain Coffee's company of Colonel Bissell's regiment (Second) Illinois Volunteers. Aaron, the second son, lived and died near the old home farm in Washington County; was a soldier in Company O, Four­ teenth Regiment United States Infantry, during the Mexican War. His daughter, Mrs. T. B. Affleck, resides in Richview. Abner, the third son, was drowned when a young man, in crossing Grand-Point Creek when the stream was in a swollen condition. Richard, the fourth son, married Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Press. Taylor, a well-known pioneer of Washington County; was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, in Company B, Sixty-second Illinois Infantry, and died at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, August 2, 1864. Jacob, the fifth son, the youngest and only surviving member of his father's large family, was born February 5, 1825, on the farm he now lives on and owns, one mile south of Irvington, Washington County, at the crossing of the Illinois Central Railroad over the old Vincennes and Kankaskia trace; married Elizabeth Willard, and has a fam­ ily of four sons and one daughter, who have all survived their mother. " Colonel James, the third son, settled about the year 1828 on Crooked Creek, Clinton County, a few miles south west of the present city of Centralia, and built a water-mill, about 1830, on that stream near the site of Sherwood's horse-mill, erected in 1817; was a Virginia soldier in the War of 1812, and with his brother-in-law, James Rhea, served with Perry on Lake Erie, being among the contingent of one hundred and fifty men furnished by General Harrison to Com­ modore Perry to complete the crews in his :fleet; both were after­ wards engaged in the battle of the Thames, September 17, 1813, where the celebrated Indian chief Tecumseh was killed. They were both celebrated Indian-fighters in the early days of the Northwest. Colonel Jolliff was twice married and left numerous descendants. His oldest son was Jackson J ollitf. Reu hen W. J ollitf, his second son, was captain of Company G, Eleventh Illinois Infantry, in the war of the Rebellion, his younger brother, Samuel A., being second lieutenant of the same company, who, with his brother Abner, are now livfog in Patoka, Marion County. Colonel Jolliff's daughter, Elizabeth, married E. Orvis, and lives near the old Jolliff mill in Clinton County, where they have raised a numerous family. Another son, Elijah, served in Company B, Sixty-second Illinois 84 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF Volunteer Infantry, in the Rebellion, and died at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, July 28, 1864. "Elijah, fourth son, settled in Jefferson County in the spring of 1825; had previously married in Kentucky, and had several children; was accidentally killed, Christmas, 1832, at the home of--, in J ef­ ferson County, by his nephew, Captain James Rhea, a tow wad from a Christmas gun severing the femoral artery. Two of his sons, Randall and William, and his daughter Elizabeth, married to James Willard, live in Oregon County, Missouri. Elijah Jolliff, bis third son, lives near Irvington, Washington. "Rachel, the oldest daughter, born in Greenbrier County, Virginia, October 16, 1783; married November 20, 1801, James Rhea, born in the same county, June 3, 1780; moved to Barren County, Kentucky; had ten children; then moved to Jefferson County, Illinois, to the old Rhea place, fo~r miles northeast of Richview, in 1824, where their youngest child, Thomas F., was born, July 28; in 1827 James Rbea and most of his family moved to Island Grove township, in Sangamon County, where he died in 1843, his widow in 1851. Of their children, the oldest was Elizabeth, born in 1802, in Barren County, Kentucky, and married there to George May; emigrated from thence with their parents first to Jefferson County, then to Sangamon; moved afterwards to Masbn County, where she died; her husband and children then moved to Gentry County, Missouri. The oldest son was James, who was born August 27, 1804; married in J eft'erson County, Illinois, in 1826, Susan Mattox; was a soldier in Captain Bo~an's company in the Black Hawk War; a captain of militia in 1832-33; after killing his uncle accidentally in 1832 moved near Little Rock, Arkansas, in the fall of 1834, and died there in 1840, leaving a widow and three children. William, the second son, born March 10, 1807; married December 11, 1828, Susan Foutch, in Sangamon County; bad twelve children, nine of whom lived to maturity; and died February 8, 1860; his widow lives near New Berlin, Illinois. Richard, the third son, born January 14, 1809; married to Eliza Rhea and had three children; when he died his widow married William Etheridge, and moved to Iowa. J ehoida, born Ociober 11, 1813; married, in Sangamon County, John Foutch in 1827, and had four children, and died about fifteen years ago. Rachel died at the age of ten. John, born July 14, 1817; married November, 14, 1839, Julia A. Stark, born June 21, 1823, in Rutland, Vermont; they had seven children, and with their children and descendants, live near New Berlin, Sa_ngamon County. Mahala,, born April 25, 1820; married, in Sangamon County, Joseph Pulsifer; THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 85 had twin sons, Nevo and Nevi, who are married and live in Gentry County, Missouri ; their mother died soon after their birth, and their father disappeared, it is thought was murdered for money while on a business trip to St. Louis. Mary A., born October 27, 1822; died April 28, 1851; married E. R. Alsbury; had one child, Lucinda, who married James Shuff. Thomas F. Rhea, the youngest son, born in Jefferson County; married October 3, 1844, Lucinda Wilcox; has five children living, all daughters; is a stock-raiser and dealer at New Berlin, Sangamon County. "Elizabeth, second daughter, is a most noted pioneer matron of Southern Illinois; was born in Greenbrier County, Virginia, about 1803, and is now over eighty years of age; was married in Virginia to John Faulkner, a member of the celebrated family of that ilk which bas furnished Virginia many able men, one of whom was governor of that State ; shortly after their marriage they moved to Kentucky, and afterwards to Illinois, settling near her brothers, Abner and Richard, in 1830, where Mr. Faulkner soon afterwards erected a horse-mill, which furnished the settlers in that region their bread for many a year. This couple raised a numerous and historic family, and the husband and father died in 1853. Mrs. Faulkner still lives with her son Abner on her old homestead, where her family of thirteen were, some of them, born and all raised to maturity. John, the oldest son, was a Baptist preacher, and died young. Catherine, the oldest daughter, married Matthew Pate, and died many years ago; her son, John Pate, of Jefferson County, is a well-known lawyer, who formerly resided at Richview. Richard, the second son, died some years before the war, leaving a family. Aaron also reared a family on G-rand~Point, and died some years ago. Elizabeth married L. B. Baldwin, who lived at Irvington, and had raised a large and interesting family, among whom is R. D. Baldwin, a successful farmer of Irvington township. Gilbert, the fourth son, was a soldier in Captain Coffee's Company A, Colonel Bissell's regiment (Second Illinois), in the Mexican War, and now lives near the old homestead in Washington County. Margaret married Meg. Taylor, and lives in Kansas. James, the fifth son, died before the late war; although married he left no descendants; was of large stature, as were all the Faulkner and Jolliff families. Abner, the sixth son, was a soldier in Company B, Sixty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and lives with his family at the old homestead, a mile south of Irvington, on the Illinois Central Rail­ road, and cares for his aged mother. Alexander, the seventh son, 0 who was first sergeant in Company B, Sixty-second Illinois Volun- 86 HISTORIOAL A COO UNT OF teer Infantry, in the war of the Rebellion, lives near, and has a wife and several children. Charles J., the youngest son, was also a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, in Company F, Forty-fourth Illinois Infantry, and died since the war. Angeline married Clark W. Mitchell, a soldier in Company B, Sixty-second Illinois Infantry, and with her husband lives near Irvington. Caroline, the youngest daughter, married Jackson Trout, and died a _few years since in Irvington, where her husband still resides. "Jehoida, the youngest daughter, married Enoch Holsclaw in Kentucky, and afterwards removed to Illinois, settling near Mount Vernon, in J etferson County, from whence they again removed to Clinton County, near the town of Central City, where both died many years ago, leaving numerous descendants."-J. H. G. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 87

Family Record of John Jolliffe and Mary Dragoo, his wife. Married 1774.

John Jolliffe, born February 21, 1775; William Jolliffe, born September 21, 1776.

John Jolliffe, eldest son of William and Lydia Jolliffe, was born at the Red House, in Frederick County, Virginia, June 18, 1751. His parents were Friends, and he therefore had a birth membership in that Society. When a small boy Braddock's War began and Winchester became a garrison town. From that time until he was twelve years of age war raged along the frontier, and the inhabi­ tants were kept in a state of alarm. From his twelfth to his twenty-second year they enjoyed a profound peace, but were rudely awakened by the breaking out of Dunmore's War, and that county became again the head-quarters of the Virginia troops. In these wars his near neighbors took a prominent part; among them was Colonel John Nevill, who lived during Braddock's War upon an adjoining farm, which he sold to John J olliffe's father, William, and then moved to the present s,t!:e of Martinsburg. Colonel N evi11 was a captain in Dunmore's War, having raised a company from among his neighbors in this part of the valley. It was not strange, then, that the boys reared in such a community, notwithstanding their peace principles, should have been impressed with a desire to become soldiers and join the armies. John Jolliffe was carefully raised and well educated by his parents, trained as a merchant and merchant miller, and therefore must have been well known to all his neigh­ bors for miles around, the mill and store being for such communi­ ties the gathering-place for the citizens to gossip and get the news. That he attended meeting regularly at Hopewell is evinced by his having signed marriage certificates of numerous friends and rela­ tions. When he was but eight years of age his mother, Lydia Jolliffe, died, and less than two years later his father married Eliza­ beth Walker, 1761. This circumstance had much to do with his after-life, depriving him of the personal care of a mother's love and tender sympathy. His father died in 1770, when he was nineteen years old. When he was not quite twenty years of age the Meeting at Hope- 88 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF well charged him with having attended a horse-race and fighting, and dealt with him accordingly. For this offence he was disowned March 3, 1772. This document reads as follows :

"Whereas John Jolliffe has been educated in the Christian Re­ ligion as a believer in and professed by the people called Quakers, but giving way to a libertine spirit hath suffered himself to be guilty of fighting, and being at a horse race in a public company for which he has been tenderly dealt with by the Overseers and others, but their labor of Love not having the desired effect and he still persisting in his undue liberties, which is quite contrary to the truths of our discipline, we can do no less for the clearing of the truth and discouraging of such liberties than testify against him, the said John Jolliffe, and do hereby disown him to be any longer a member of our Society until he comes to a sense of his disorderly walking and make satisfaction for the same, which that he may is desired on his behalf. Signed in and by order of our monthly meet­ ing of Hopewell held the 3d of the 2nd mo. 1772 by BENJAMIN THORNBURG, Clerk.''

The spring of the year 1774 he was married by a Methodist minister to a beautiful girl, Mary Dragoo, daughter of Peter Dragoo, who was a farmer of his neighborhood. His father having moved with his family into the property acquired from Colonel Nevill, and he having acquired by will the Red House property, he here fixed his home. In the court records at Winchester I find, "Aug. 4, 1774, John Jolliffe bought of Conrad Glendon for £100 two horses and one colt, one feather bed and furniture, sundry wagon-makers' tools, one woman's saddle, 100 gallons of rum, all in James Gamell Dowdell's store in Winchester." This was a sheriff's sale, and was no doubt attended by John Jolliffe for the purpose of laying in a supply of house-keeping effects. Dunmore's War had now begun and the country was greatly agitated. Captain Nevill marched with his company, August 7, 1775, to Fort Pitt (Pittsburg). "For more than fifty years the mother country had oppressed her American colonies by iniquitous laws, which exasperated the people and kept them impoverished, respectful protest had been disregarded until the people could hear no more, and from one end of the country to the other were to be heard mutterings of a coming storm. '' In the face of this agitation Parliament passed the famous THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 89 Stamp Act, which was hurled into the teeth of the long-suffering colonists. The storm instantly burst forth with a fury that was then beyond the control of England to abate, and shortly swept away in its rage every vestige of royalty. Men sprang to arms as if by magic." Among the very first to take up arms were two companies from the lower valley.1 The captain of one of these was General Dan­ iel Morgan, who started with his company from Winchester, July 14, 1775, to join Washington in front of Boston. Colonel Nevill, returning from Fort Pitt, immediately organized a company of the Fourth Virginia Regiment in Frederick and Berkley Counties. The Virginia convention of 1775, by its Committee of Safety, appointed him captain. John Nevill was promoted December 11, 1777, to be colonel of this regiment, and his son Presly Nevill, a lad of twenty years, was captain in the Eighth Regiment. Among the captains of the Fourth were Andrew Waggoner, William Gibbs, John Steed, Peter Higgins, Robert Higgins, and John Jolliffe, all young men. Robert Higgins afterwards became lieutenant-colonel of' the regi­ ment. The uniform worn was a black three-cornered felt hat, a blue cloth coat, red waistcoat, and yellow linsey knee-breeches. These men were at once put into service, and participated in most of' the battles of that long war. Early in the year 1776 John J ol­ 'liffe seems to bave been at home on a furlough, and at that time wrote liis will, March 22, 1776, in 'Which he speaks of himself as being in good health. Returning to the army, he was stationed with his regiment at Suffolk, Virginia, until sent with their then colonel, Adam Stephens, to Washington's army before New York. With them he participated in the engagements and skirmishes of' the American army during that eventful year. " Throughout the campaign of' 1776 an uncommon degree of sickness raged in the American army. Husbandmen, transferred at once from the con­ veniences of domestic life to the hardships of a field encampment, could not accommodate themselves to the sudden change. The Southern troops sickened from want of salt provisions." "Great difficulty was found in supplying the men with arms, tents, or even suitable hospital accommodations. The system of electing officers

1 "Virginia raised in the beginning of the War, Fifteen Continental regi­ ments of about 800 men, besides three State regiments of regular troops, not subject to be ordered out of the State. Besides these were Lee's Legion, com­ posed of two companies of cavalry and two of infantry : a regiment of artillery under Col. Harrison; Col, Taylor's and Col. Bland's regiments of cavalry and the corps of horses raised by Col. Nelson." 90 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF by ballot among the men prevailed, and many of the officers were inefficient. Discipline was not rigidly enforced, and the terms of enlistment were short. Yet this incoherent ragged army always presented a bold front to the enemy. During the winter movements the soldiers of both armies underwent great hardships. Many of them were without shoes though marching over frozen ground, and ea~h step was marked with blood. There was scarcely a tent in the whole army. To add to their miseries the small~pox broke out in the winter· camps around Morristown, Now Jersey, and proved mortal to many. Orders were issued to innoculate every one, and as few of them bad ever bad the small-pox, the innoculation was nearly universal. This reduced the mortality notwithstanding whole regi­ ments were innoeulated in a day; and the disorder was rendered so slight that, from the beginning to the end of it, tbere was not a single day in which if called upon they would not have turned out and fought the British." " Officers and men were quartered among the inhabitants during this terrible time, who were also innoculated by order of the authorities." Among the victims of this dreadful scourge at this time was Captain John Jolliffe, who died in his twenty•sixth year. In his will, which was drawn up before the birth of his second son, William J olliffc, he makes the following provision. After leaving all hie lands to his son John and providing for bis wife during her life, he speaks of his unborn child, '' not knowing whether it would be a boy or girl," pro.-ides for a legacy of four hundred and fifty pounds, to be paid when he or she attained the age of twenty-one, by John Jolliffe; and alRo leaves one slave to this child. This will was presented to court May 6, 1777, and proved by the oaths of John Reynolds and Thomas Edmondson, two of the witnesses thereto, and William Gibbs and Mary Jolliffe gave bond as executor and executrix. His personal estate was ap­ praised May 26, 1778, by John Littler, Thomas Balwin, and George Bruce. Among the items were the following: " One Regimental Coat and Red wescoat, one Surtoot Coat, one Hunting Shirt, one Regimental Hat, three pair of breeches," etc., together with all kinds of farm and household furniture; also a walnut chest, two square walnut tables, a corner cupboard, one large old chest, copper tea-kettle, two flax wheels, sundry pewter plates, bowls, and such like of the old-time articles we read about and long since discarded. He was evidently fond of hunting, as he also leaves sundry rifles, guns, powder-horns, bullet-moulds, etc., and sixteen horses. The total value was placed at five hundred and ninety-one pounds four­ teen shillings and seven pence. THE JOLLIFFE FAMII,Y. 91 It was not until the spring of 1776 that Congress organized the Continental troops; prior to that time all officers served under the State establishments. To these soldiers the various States offered bounties, extra pay, etc. Virginia was most liberal to her sons in this respect, the Legislature passing various laws on the subject. Possessing vast tracts of wild land in her western territory, she located her military grants in these lands. (Congress also gave liberally of these wild lands. In· 1788 four million one hundred and eighty-five thousand acres had been granted.) The heirs of Captain John Jolliffe were given by the State of Virginia for his services a certain tract of first-rate land situate in the North west­ ern Territory of the United States, upon the waters of the Scioto River, containing two thousand six hundred and sixty-six and two­ thirds acres, which land was located by virtue of a Military War­ rant No. 825, and is thus described by the certificate of Richard Anderson, to wit: "August 2nd, 1787: John Jolliffe (Heir) enters 2666¾ acres of land a military warrant 'No. 825' on the Sciota River at the first fort above the old Chilicothe Town which Town is about seven miles from a place called Camp Charlotte, to run up the river from the junction400 poles when reduced to a straight line and from the same beginning 400 poles down the river when reduced to a straight line thence off Westerly with the general course of the same at right angles per quantity." 1 The town of Chillicothe covers this land now. Captain John Jolliffe• left two sons,-J ohn, born February 21,

1 Warrant No. 825 reads as follows : "COUNCIL CHAMBER, Juue 14th, 1783. "I do certify that the Representative of John Jolliffe deed is entitled to the proportion of Land allowed a Lieutenant of the Virginia Continental Line for three years' service. ,, BENJAMIN HARRISON, Taos. MERRIWEATHER •

. "A warrant for 2666¾ 1tcres issued to John Jolliffe Heir at Law to John Jolliffe deed June 14th 1783." (Book No. 1, page 163.) 2 An aged member of the family (Rachel Neill Williams) related to my sister an anecdote of this Captain John Jolliffe. On one occasion he and two of his brother officers rode up to the house of an old woman in the mountains and asked her to get dinner for them, While they were there the old woman showed them some puppies; she went down a trap-door to the cellar and handed them up. As the first was passed they asked its name, and she replied, "Cap­ tain," the second the same, and when the third was passed with the same reply, "Captain," they exclaimed," Why, Mrs. B., do yougiveallyourdogs the same name?" "Oh, any puppy dog can be a captain nowadays," was her rejoinder. They had not perceived the neat little trap into which she was leading them. 92 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF 1775, and William, born September 21, 1776. The younger was born whilst Captain Jolliffe was in the army, and was never seen by him. He is said to have been a tall, handsome man, with very pleasant manners. His widow, Mary, subsequently married Cap­ tain John Steed/ of the Fourth Virginia Regiment, a resident of Berkley County. He survived the war a number of years, living on his military grant at Sir John's Run, Hampshire County, Vir­ ginia. 'l'hey bad no children. Captain Steed was a Methodist elder during the latter part of his life. He was a personal friend of Cap­ tain J olli:ffe and also of the eccentric Major-General Charles Lee, who often visited at his house.

1 "Capt.". John Stead, a supernumerary of the Fourth Regiment of Virginia, Chesterfield arrangement, Feb. 1, 1781." "In a list of officers for whose Revo­ lutionary Services Virginia Land Warrants were issued prior to Dec. 31, 1784, the following among officers other than Generals and Colonels, viz. : Peter Higgins, Robert Higgins, Samuel Hogg, John Jolliffe, Gabriel ,Tones, John Steed, &c." (Saffell.) THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 93

Family Record of Phreby Jolliffe and Mordecai Yarnell, her husband. Married April 5, 1775.

Phooby Jolliffe, fourth child of William and Lydia Jolliffe, was born at the Red House, Frederick County, Virginia, February 12, 1758. Her sister Phooby died when eighteen months old, and her brother Gabriel when seven years old. She was named after her paternal grandmother. Born a member of the Society of Friends, she was carefully educated in that faith. When only one year old her mother died, and her father married again when she was three years of age. At the age of twelve she lost her father. By both her father and mother she was left independent property. She continued living with her step-mother until her marriage when sev­ enteen years old, April 5, 1775, to Mordecai Yarnell. He was a grandson of Francis Yarnell, who came from England in 1684 and i,ettled in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. "He [Francis Yarnell] was a member of the Society of Friends and a man of great influ­ ence in the early colony of Pennsylvania. In 1686 he married Hannah Baker, by whom he had nine children." 1 Mordecai Yarnell was not a member of the Society of Friends, and for marrying him Phreby Jolliffe was disowned April 5, 1775. In the Hopewell Meeting records I find that Phreby (Jolliffe) Yarnell requested to be reinstated in her membership May 2, 1787,

1 "Francis Yarnell of Stone Creek Head and Hannah Baker were married in 1686, Jived some time in Springfield, Chester Co., Pa. He died in 1721 in Willistown, Chester County. Children were, Sarah, born May 28, 1687, mar­ ried William Askew; John, born Oct. 24, 1688 ; Peter, born Aug. 20, 1691 ; Moses, born October, 1692; Francis, born Dec. 24, 1694; Joseph, born May 13, 1697; Amos, born Jan. 28, 1700; Daniel, born July 1, 1703; and Mordecai, born July 11, 1705. Mordecai Yarnell, son of Francis, was a Friends' minis­ ter 1731. He resided in Willistown until 1741, when he moved to Philadelphia.: He married in 1733 Catherine Meredith, by whom he left Sarah, Ellen, Hannah, and Catherine. In the year 1745 he married for second wife Mary Roberts, and by her had children, Mary, Mordecai Edward, Lydia, Ann, Elizabeth, Peter, Deborah, and Jane. Peter Yarnell, his son, became a noted doctor in the Revolutionary service. He was made an M.D. February, 1779. In the later years of his life he lived in Montgomery Co., Pa., and died in 1798, aged 45. His brother Mordecai as above moved to Virginia, and in 1775 married Phreby Jolliffe and removed to Wheeling, Va., where he died." 94 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF and that she was so admitted July 2, 1787; that she removed to the bounds of Crooked Rnn Meeting above Winchester, May 1, 1789; that she signed the marriage certificate of a number of her friends and relations. In the court records of Winchester I find that Mordecai Yarnell and Phreby, bis wife, sold March 8, 1780, two hundred and fifty-five acrefl of land on Babbs Creek to Thomas Ferrell.1 After this they moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, and settled. John Yarnell, of Wheeling, writing to his cousin William Jolliffe, January 22, 1807, speaks of the death of his aunt Higgins. He sends the love of his mother, sisters, and brother (Peter). She was then forty-nine years of age. We have no record of her death. She left two sons 2 and several daughters. Her family were promi­ nent people in Wheeling, and several members were soldiers on both sides in the Civil War, serving vrith their commands in the valley of Virginia, and often visited at the Jolliffe house near Winchester.

Edmund Jolliffe, eldest child of Wi11iam Jolliffe and Elizabeth Walker, his second wife, was born a member of the Society of Friends January 15, 1762, and died May 8, 1778, when sixteen years of age.

1 " Aug. 5, 1777, Aaron Mercer sold to Mordecai Yarnell a tract of land on Babbs Creek, Frederick Co., Virginia, containing 250 acres." 2 Mr. Wetherill, of Philadelphia, told my aunt, Elizabeth J. Sharpless, "that he had in his possession a portrait of John Jolliffe Yarnell, who received a sword from Congress for services in Commodore Decatur's expedition against Algeria, June, 1815." Evidently he was a son of Phooby Jolliffe Yarnell, and she named him after her brother, Captain John Jolliffe of the Revolution. THE JOI,LIFFE FAMILY. 95

Family Record of Mary Jolliffe and Robert Higgins, her husband. Married March 7, 1797.

Mary Jolliffe, second child of William Jolliffe and Elizabeth, his wife, was borl) a member of the Society of Friends, May 13, 1763, at the Nevill House, Frederick County, Virginia. When seven years of age her father died, leaving her by his will to be educated until of age, or she married, when certain property was to be given her as her separate estate. She continued to live with her mother and brother until her thirty-fourth year, when she was married by Rev. Alexander Bal-di.ain, an Episcopal minister, to Colonel Robert Higgins, March 7, 1797. Colonel Higgins was born 1744, and when twelve years of age had a narrow escape from capture by Indians. Kercheval tells the story as follows: "In 1756, while the Indians were lurking about Fort Pleasant, and constantly on the watch to cut off all communication there­ with, a lad named Higgins, aged about 12 years, was directed by his mother to go to the spring about a quarter of a mile without the fort, and bring a bucket of water. He complied with much trepidation, and persuaded a companion of his, of about the same age, to accompany him. They repaired to the spring as cautiously as possible, and after filling their buckets, ran with speed towards the fort, Higgins taking the lead. When about half-way to the fort, and Higgins had got about thirty yards before his companion, he heard a scream from the latter, which caused him to increase his spe"ed to the utmost. He reached the fort in safety, while his com­ panion was captured by the Indians, and taken to their settlements, where he remained until the peace, and was then restored. The young Higgins subsequently became the active Capt. Robt. Higgins in our Revolutionary army, and after raising a numerous family in Virginia removed with them to the West.'' On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War he and his brother Peter were among the first to raise companies in the valley and join the army. Colonel Higgins was rapidly promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel of his regiment, the Fourth Virginia, with which he served with great distinction throughout the war. At one time he was captured and remained a prisoner for more than a year, suf- 96 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF fering horribly throughout his entire imprisonment. At the close of the war be was given by Virginia a large military grant of land 1 (four thousand acres) situated near Georgetown, Ohio. After his marriage with Mary Jolliffe he removed to his estates in Ohio. His wife died in the year 1806, when forty-three years of age. They left four children, one of whom married Brigadier-General Thomas L. Hamer, United States army. General Hamer was a ,ery distinguished lawyer from Ohio, and a member of Congress a number of years. While there he con­ ferred his privilege of sending a boy to West Point, to be educated at the government's expense, upon the son of a neighbor, then residing (1837) in Georgetown; and this boy was none other than the afterwards celebrated Ulysses S. Grant. He also appointed to the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland, the cel­ ebrated Admiral Ammen, United States navy. Our uncle John Jolliffe was sent out by his father to practise law in General Hamer's office, and afterwards became his law-partner. General Hamer died while engaged in the Mexican War, and his body was brought to Cincinnati for burial, and lay in state for three days at John Jolliffe's house, be then residing in that city. Mary Jolliffe Yarnell must have died about the year 1806, as a letter from John Yarnell, of January 22, 1807, speaks of her death as a recent event.

1 Warrant No. 1693 reads as follows: "COUNCIL CHAMBER, Aug. 30th, 1783, "I do certify that Captain Robert Higgins is entitled to the proportion of Land allowed a Captain of the Continental Line for three years' service. "THOS. MERRIWEATHER. BENJAMIN HARRISON.

"A warrant for 4000 acres issued to Robert Higgins Aug. 30th, 1783."

"Thomas Higgins was one of the earliest settlers on the Cohongoruton. He Jived about four miles from Bath, but was driven hence, and removed to the neighborhood of Gerardstown, in the County of Berkley. After his re­ moval three of his sons were taken off prisoners, and never returned. At the close of Dunmore's War, one of them was seen at Wheeling and asked why he did not come home, since his father had left him a good tract of land. He re­ plied that he did not wish to live with white people; they would always call him Indian, and he had land enough." (Kercheval.) "John Higgins took up 110 acres of land in Prince William County 1741." THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 97

Family Record of Amos Jolliffe and Margery Perry, his wife. Married October 16, 1794.

Amos Jolliffe, the third child of William and Elizabeth Jolliffe, was born at Nevill House, Frederick County, Virginia, August 5, 1764. He was reared a Friend, and continued a valuable member in good standing until his marriage. At one time he moved within the bounds of Fairfax Meeting, Loudoun County, but soon came back to Frederick County. Upon the death of his father, when he was six years of age, he was left a fine property, to be paid to him at his coming of age. After the death of his half:brother John and of his own brother Edmund, he as eldest son succeeded to the mill and store of his father. He was evidently very successful, and acquired large estates. I find on the court records at Winchester the following: "November 16, 1791, Amos Jolliffe sold to Joseph Bond, for 2050£ a parcel of land situate on Western side of the Shenandoah River and Opeckon Creek being part of a greater tract of 2373 acres granted by patent to Alexander Ross the 12th Nov. 1735 ; bounded near Alexander Ross' house, John Micklin' s land, John Littler's line and George Ross' being 336 acres; also another tract adjoining the above and William Jolliffe deed. line, 23 acres, and another tract near by of 33 acres of Bryan Bruin containing 198 acres. Also another tract on the line of the Glebe land and joining William Jolliffe and George Ross containing 20 acres." These lands came to him by purchase from John McDonald's widow, and were parts of the original Ross grant. When thirty years of age he was married (by the Rev. Alexan­ der Balmain, an Episcopal minister), October 16, 1794, to Mar­ gery Perry, second daughter of Ignatius Perry, of Frederick County, Virginia. Ignatius Perry was a thrifty farmer and merchant who possessed fine estates near Hopewell, Virginia. His only other child, a daughter, married a McCandless, from whom the several estates in that family near Hopewell came. Amos Jolliffe died about the year 1799, leaving an only son, William Jolliffe, who died when four years of age, February 1, 1800. "Archibald Magill ( an eminent lawyer of Winchester) was appointed guardian of William Jolliffe, orphan of Amos Jolliffe deed. He gave security in the sum of 7 98 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF $12,000, Ignatius Perry, his grandfather, relinquishing his right in favor of said Magill." His property reverted to the heirs of his half-brother, John Jolliffe, and by the terms of bis will came to his eldest son, John Jolliffe. .Amos Jolliffe was buried at Hopewell, as was his son William. I can find no record of the death of his wife Margery. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 99

Family Record of Lydia Jolliffe and James Bruce, her husband. Married November 6, 1784.

Lydia Jolliffe, fourth child of William and Elizabeth Jolliffe, was born at the Nevill House, .M:ay 9, 1766, a member of Friends' So­ ciety. By the provisions of her father's will she was left a sepa­ rate estate on her coming of age or marriage. When eighteen years old she was married (by Rev. Alexander Balmain, an Epis­ copal minister) November 6, 1784, to James Br].ce, a son of John and Ann Bruce, of Frederick County, Virginia. (John Bruce's will was dated November 4, 1747. He left two sous, James and George, a daughter Ann, and had a brother, James Bruce.) For this marriage Lydia Jolliffe was disowned from Friends' Society. James Bruce was a man of property, his home being at what is now called Brucetown, which was named after his family. They left children, all of whom moved to the W est,-a son James, who with his family went to Ohio in 1813; a son George; and daughters Elizabeth Jolliffe, Rachel, and Polly. I think there was also a son John. I have no record of the death of Lydia Bruce or her husband. Their home was always Brucetown, Frederick County, Virginia. 100 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF

Family Record of Elizabeth Jolliffe and John McAllister, her husband. Married --.

Elizabeth J olli:ffe, fifth child of William and Elizabeth Jolliffe, was born at the Nevill House, June 16, 1768. She was left by her father's will property in her own right, which was to come to her when she married or became of age. · When a young ,lady she mar­ ried John McAllister, a son of James McAllister, of Berkley County, Virginia, one of the gentlemen trustees for laying out the town of MartinJburg and one of the first justices for Berkley County under the Commonwealth. For this marriage she lost her membership among friends .. John McAllister was a highly-educated, well-to-do miller. He built one of the largest and best-appointed brick flour­ ing-mills in Frederick County, which was known as Greenwood Mills (now owned by Charles Wood). He used to send his flour to Alex­ andria, Virginia, for shipment to Liverpool. The firm of Jolliffe & Brown was his agent. He was a very agreeable man and his wife a charming hostess. They entertained their friends in the lavish and hospitable manner so common among the old-time Virginians, and around their board were often gathered such historical characters as Light-Horse Harry Lee, General John Smith, General Singleton, Major-General Horatio Gates, General Darke, and other prominent leaders of the Revolutionary period. He sold his possessions in Virginia soon after the War of 1812 (about 1814 or 1815 ), and with his wife moved to Tennessee and set­ tled at a place he designated as McAllister's Cross-Roads, Mont­ gomery County. He was very eccentric and always kept his coffin ready to receive his body should he die suddenly. At the death of his wife Elizabeth he buried her body on the top of a high moun­ tain overlooking the Tennessee River. This point was afterwards known as" Lookout Point." It overlooks the town of Chattanooga, and was made historic by the battle above the clouds, fought there during the late war. Elizabeth Jolliffe was a tall, dignified lady, fond of society, witty, and quick at repartee. She was very fond of poetry and left a well-selected library to her niece Elizabeth J olli:ffe. She left no children to bear her honored name. She was devoted to her family THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 101 and friends and kept up an active correspondence with them as long as she lived. I have in my possession several interesting let­ ters from her pen. Her death occurred in Tennessee about the year 1818 or 1819. Her husband was a fine business man, keeping his accounts and writing his letters in a remarkably clear, full hand. Just when he died is unknown, as there is no record. 102 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF

Family Record of John Jolliffe and Frances Helm, his wife. Married March 10, 1807.

John Jolliffe, of Clear Brook, eldest son of Captain John Jolliffe and Mary Dragoo, his wife, was born at the Red House, Frederick County, Virginia, February 26, 1775. His father died when he was less than two years old, and by bis will expressly provided for bis education. By this will, which was made while his father was at home on furlough from the army and before the birth of his second son, William, John was left all bis lands and property, to be his at bis attaining the age of twenty-one; but it was ex­ pressly stated that he was to pay to the then unborn child a legacy of four hundred and fifty pounds. His mother was appointed executrix. When about seven years of age his step-grandmother, Elizabeth Jolliffe, died, and her estate was apportioned among the heirs, of whom he was the first. About this time his mother, Mary Jolliffe, married as second husband Captain John Steed, who had been an officer in the Fourth Continental Virginia Regiment, a companion and friend of her first husband. Captain Steed was given by the State of Virginia for his military services a grant of land situated near St. John's Run, now Morgan County, West Vir­ giniai Here he seems to have taken up his residence with his wife and her two children. How long he continued to reside at this place is not certainly known, nor do we know the exact date of his step-father's death. When twenty-one years of age John Jolliffe came into possession of bis property, which comprised the lands and mill acquired from his father (the Red House property), his father's portion of his grandmother's estate, and his portion of his uncle Edmund's estate, who died unmarried, in all nearly one thou­ sand acres. After the death of his uncle, Amos Jolliffe, and his only son and heir, William, in 1800, when four years of age, John became the possessor of a large part of his estate, which included the old homestead of his grandfather (the Nevill House). Re was also -in possession of the pension land of his father in Scioto County, Ohio. A portion of these he disposed of about this time to a man by the name of Glaze. These lands were taken up by squatters, and were THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 103 never recovered by his family. They are now very valuable. At the death of Captain Steed be became virtual owner of all his property. Thus by a combination of very unusual circumstances he came into possession of large tracts of land, sJaves, and other prop­ erty and was one of the wealthiest men of that section of the State. When thirty-two years old he was married, at Winchester, Vir­ ginia, March 10, 1807, by the Rev. Alexander Balmain, to Frances Helm, a daughter of Colonel Meredith Helm,1 of Bellville Farm, Frederick County, Virginia. His wife at the time of her marriage was twenty years of age, having been born at Bellville Farm June 24, 1787. He bought of bis brother William a large stone house on the west side of the Great Road, half a mile north of the Red House. This became his residence, and was called Clear Brook, the name being taken from a small stream that runs through the farm. When the Cumberland Valley Railroad built its line they named a station after this place. In the yard surrounding his house was a small dwell­ ing where his mother resided until her death, November 24, 1834. John and Frances Jolliffe had nine children,-viz., Meredith Helm, born --, and married August, 1839, Margaret Hopkins, a daughter of Gerard S. and Dorothy Hopkins/ of Baltimore, Maryland. She was born August 26, 1817. Lavinia, born--, and married Samuel

1 The Helm family is of German origin and came to Virginia from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where the first immigrant of the name bad settled. The family became one of the most influential in the valley of Virginia, and for gen­ erations have always been represented by one of the name of Meredith Helm. "The 23 Nov. 1677 a number of Swedes petitioned the Court for permission to settle together in a town at Westside of the River Delaware just below the Falls in Bucks Co. Penna. Among the names signed to this petition is Israel Helm and 24 others." 'Gerard and Margaret Hopkins had children,­ Elizabeth, born November 1, 1703. Joseph, born September 1, 1706. Gerard, born January 7, 1709. Philip, born January 9, 1711. Samuel, born November 16, 1713. Raebel, born October 12, 1715. William, born June 9, 1718. Johns, born August 30, 1720. Johns Hopkins married, first, Mary--, and had­ Ezekiel, born March 11, 1747. Johns, born May 8, 1751. He married, second, Elizabeth Thomas, who was born 1788, and was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Snowden Thomas (who was the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Snowden). They had children,- 104 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF Hopkins, of Baltimore, Maryland (who was a brother of Johns Hop­ kins); William, born--, who married Catherine Newby, of Clarke County, Virginia; John, born --, who married Lucy Burwell, of Carter Hall. Clarke County, Virginia, daughter of William Nelson and Mary Brooke Burwell, of " Glenowen," Virginia ; Selina, born --, married William Overall, of Page County, Virginia; Amos, born --, married, Mary Jones, daughter of the Rev. Alexander Jones, of Clarke County, Virginia; James, born--, married Ann Overall, of Page County, Virginia; Edward C., born November 29, 1824, and married, 1858, Virginia Page, born October, 1839, a daugh­ ter of Dr. Thomas Swann Page, of Berkley County, Virginia, a son of Ann Lee Page, sister of Light-Horse Harry Lee; and Harriet, born --, who married James Tyson (born August 21, 1816), of Baltimore, Maryland.

Samuel, born February 3, 1759. Philip, born September 24, 1760. Richard, born March 2, 1762. Mary, born May 7, 1764. Margaret, born February 20, 1766. Gerard, born October 24, 1769. Elizabeth, born --. Evan, born November 30, 1772 . .Ann, born February 26, 1775. Rachel, born September 7, 1777. Samuel Hopkins, first son, born 1759, died 1814, married Hannah, daughter of Joseph Janney (a brother of Rachel, who married Lewis Neill) and Hannah Jones. They had children,- J oseph Janney Hopkins, born 1793, married Elizabeth Schofield, and had four sons.

Johns Hopkins, born 1793 1 founder of the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. Eliza Hopkins, married Nathaniel B. Crenshaw, of Virginia. Sarah Hopkins, married Richard JH. Janney, of Maryland. Samuel Hopkins, married Lavinia Jolliffe, and had John, Ella, .Arundal, and Mahlon. Margaret Hopkins, married Miles White, of Maryland. Gerard Thomas Hopkins, fourth son, born October 24, 1769, died 1834, married April 6, 1796, Dorothy, daughter of Roger and Mary Br11oke, and had children, Mary, born 1797, married Benjnmin Moore; Edward, Dorothy, Elizabeth, Sarah, Thomas, William, Gerard T. (born 1815, married Elizabeth Coates, of Phila­ delphia, and had Frank N., Bessie, Johns, Gerard, and Roger B.), Margaret (born 1817, married Meredith Jolliffe, and had Thomas H., William H., Eliza­ beth H., and Fannie J.), Rachel. Elizabeth Hopkins Jolliffe married (1872) Nathaniel B. Crenshaw, of Vir­ ginia, and had Margaret, John Meredith, Nathaniel, and Fannie. Only the two daughters are now living. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 105 John Jolliffe was one of the county justices of Frederick County in the year 1801", and was always therefore styled Squire Jolliffe, or Colonel Jack Jolliffe. He served for a short time during the War of 1812 as a captain, being stationed near Norfolk, Virginia. He was often seen in the streets of Winchester, talking and laughing with the wagon masters and factors who shipped goods to the South over the great Valley Road,1 Winchester being at that time the great gathering, stopping, and distributing point for the important trade which reached over the entire South. He was a tall, well-built man of striking appearance. He died at Clear Brook, August 2, 1838, aged sixty-four years, and his remains were interred at Hopewell Burying-Ground. His widow lived to be nearly eighty-six years of age, and died at Clear Brook, February 5, 1873. Her remains were placed beside those of her husband in Hopewell Burying­ Ground. Soon after the war the home of John Jolliffe, then in possession of his youngest son, Edward, was destroyed by fire, and with it most of the old family records, which went back to the settlement of Frederick County, A frame building was erected on the site of the old homestead, and here Edward Jolliffe still resides. John Jol­ liffe's large estates were divided among his children, Meredith, the eldest son, receiving the old Nevill homestead, where he resided until his death in 1858. Soon after this his wife moved with her family to Baltimore. This old house was wantonly destroyed by a Union soldier during the late war. Being unoccupied, he sought its friendly shelter for the night and fired it on leaving in the morning. The property has since been sold, and is no longer held by any of the family. Meredith's property also included the old mill and storehouse, and the site of the old Red House, then destroyed. At the sale of his property these original family holdings and his­ toric landmarks passed into alien hands, and are no longer held by any of the Jolliffe descendants. Amos Jolliffe received as his portion of his father's estate the

1 "The Wilderness Road," by Colonel Thomas Speed, of Louisville, Ken­ tucky. (Filson Historical Club.) "Supplies of dry goods, groceries, hardware, etc., were hauled over this route, via Winchester, from the South by way of Cumberland Gap, as far west as Nashville, in those picturesque land schooners, or' Tennessee ships of the line,' the Conestoga wagon, with their high-bowed covers and six-horse teams with jingling bells making music as they went. The drivers of these teams were a hardy, honest, jolly set, who knew and were known by everybody on their route for hundreds of miles. They were trusted and popular all along the Road." 106 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF western half of the Clear Brook Farm, lying east of Hopewell Meeting-House. Here he resided until after the war, when he sold out and moved to Maryland. Edward C. Jolliffe holds the eastern half of the Clear Brook Farm, including the home property, and here he and his wife and youngest son reside. William Jolliffe resides with his family in Prince William County, Virginia, where he holds fine grazing lands ; some of his children, I believe, reside in California. James Jolliffe was an officer of the Confederate army, and was killed at the battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia, July 1, 1862. His widow, a very talented woman, edited a church paper in Philadel­ phia after the close of the late war. They had no children. John Jolliffe and his wife lived and died in Clarke County, Virginia. Their two sons, William and John, are living near Millwood, Clarke County. Both have families. Meredith Jolliffe and Margaret Hopkins, his wife, had four chil­ dren: Thomas H., who married, first, the widow of Frank Barlow, of New York, and second, Miss Agnes Blake Williams, daughter of Moses Blake Williams, of Boston, Massachusetts. They reside on Charles River, near Boston. William H. twice married. His second wife was Mary C. Scott, daughter of Hamilton Scott, M.D., of Balti­ more, Maryland. He left two daughters at his death, which oc­ curred several years ago. Elizabeth H., who married Nathaniel B. Crenshaw, son of Nathaniel B. Crenshaw, of Richmond, Vir­ ginia. They have two surviving children, Margaret and Fanny. Their home is in Philadelphia. .Fanny H., who married William Gilmor, son of William Gilmor, of Baltimore, Maryland. She died a few years ago and left no children. She was considered a very beautiful woman. After the death of her sister Elizabeth Hopkins and her daughter Fanny Gilmor, Margaret Jolliffe went to reside with her only daughter, Elizabeth Crenshaw, in Philadelphia. Lavinia Jolliffe and Samuel Hopkins left four children,-viz., John, who married Betty--, and resided at the old Hopkins homestead, at West River, Md.; he died some years ago, leaving no children ; Arundel, who died in Paris, ]'ranee, unmarried; Ella, who married Monroe Mercer, of Maryland, and left four children, two sons and two daughters; Mahlon H., who died in Baltimore unmarried. Harriet Jolliffe, eighth child of John Jolliffe and Frances Helm, his wife, married James Tyson, of Baltimore, Maryland, and left two children,-Frank Tyson, who died some years since in Baltimore un­ married, and a daughter Lily, who married Gaston Manly, a son of THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 107 Judge Manly, of the distinguished family of that name, of North Carolina; they reside in Ellicott City, Maryland, and have two children, Elizabeth Brooke Manly and Martha Ellicott Tyson Manly. Edward C. Jolliffe and Virginia Page have three surviving chil­ dren,-namely, Thomas Swann Page Jolliffe, married, and living near Baltimore, :Maryland; Lily H. Jolliffe, married, first, Rev. Dr. Harris. (Dr. Harris was a minister of the Episcopal Church for many years, and held the highest degree of the Masonic fraternity in America. His grandfather was the principal founder of Harris­ burg, Pennsylvania, the town receiving its name from him. His ·house, still standing, was the residence of the late Simon Cameron.) He died a few years ago, and his widow has since married H. N. Taplin, of Montpelier, Vermont, where they now reside. Frank Tyson Jolliffe, their youngest son, lives with his parents at Clear Brook, Virginia. 108 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF

Family Record of William Jolliffe and Rebecca Neill, his wife. Married September 12, 1799.

William Jolliffe, of Swarthmore, second son of Captain John Jolliffe and Mary Dragoo, his wife, was born at the Red House, Frederick County, Virginia, September 21, 1776. His father was in the army at the time of his birth and died without ever having seen him. By his will, which was made before the birth of this child, he provided for his education. Having willed all his property to the eldest son, John, he set aeide a legacy of four hundred and fifty pounds to be paid him at his attaining the age of twenty-one years. He also left a slave woman called Phillis. The above legacy was paid in the following manner. In the court records at Winchester appears this entry: " Sept. 10, 1798. John J olli:ffe sold to William Jolliffe a tract of land being part of the original tract granted by Thos. Lord Fairfax to Wm. Jolliffe Jr. situate and lying etc. Grant of date of Oct. 4, 1753 and willed by him Wm. Jolliffe Jr. to his son John Jolliffe and devised by John Jolliffe to his son John Jol­ liffe by Will. Evan Thomas and Amos Jolliffe adjoining and con­ taining 50 acres. JORN WRIGHT } Wi' itnesses. JORN JOLLIFFE." AMOS JOLLIFFE

This piece of land was part of the Red House tract. William Jolliffe lived with his mother at the Red House until her marriage to Captain John Steed, when she and her two sons moved to the military grant of Captain Steed, near St. John's Run, West Virginia. Here they.continued to reside until the death of Captain Steed, when his family moved back to Frederick County, Virginia. William was carefully educated; his step-father being an unusually intelligent, well-educated man, and having no children of his own, he, no doubt, had a good influence over his wife's boys. William, when twenty-three years of age, September 12, 1799, was married at Hopewell Meeting-House to Rebecca Neill, daughter of Lewis Neill and Rachel Janney, his wife, of Swarthmore, Virginia. The marriage certificate I have in my possession. Their first home was made in what is now known as Berkley County, Virginia. Here they resided until after the birth of their second child.

THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 109 William was not a member of the Society of Friends, but joined that body for the express purpose, as he declared to Friend .Abram Branson, of getting his wife. This old Friend was very kind to him, and cautioned him about so publicly declaring himself until he had been admitted. He was admitted .April 1, 1799, after the usual inquiries into his conduct and conversation, and he continued a consistent member as long as he lived. His wife Rebecca was born in the year 1777, and was twenty-two years old when she married. (This year was known as the bloody year, or year of three sevens, in consequence of the many Indian scalping-parties roaming along the border country unchecked, most of the able-bodied men being in the Revolutionary army.) William and Rebecca Jolliffe had six children, as follows: Lewis Neill, born May 20, 1800, and died October 5, 1804, of lockjaw, from a wound in the foot; Mary, born September 16, 1801, and married Joel Brown; John, born October 30, 1804, and married Synthelia McClure ; Elizabeth Mc.Allister, born October 12, 1806, and mar­ ried Townsend Sharpless, of Philadelphia; William, born February 3, 1810, and married Mary .Ann Branham, of Ohio; Joseph Neill, born .April 10, 1813, and married Sarah Janney, of Loudoun County, Virginia. Very soon after his marriage William Jolliffe moved to .Alexan­ dria, Virginia, and went into the mercar,tile and shipping business with his brother-in-law, William H. Brown, a son of Isaac Brown, of Frederick County, Virginia. They ran a line of sail vessels to Liverpool, England, carrying over flour, flaxseed, beeswax, tallow, dried fruits, etc., and bringing back sugar, coffee, tea, salt fish, dry­ goods, etc. Sometimes one or the other of the firm would go over as a factor with a cargo. One of their ships was called the " Diana," and once they had an old cat in the house which was giving a great deal of trouble, and yet no one wanted to kill her. Uncle Billy Brown, as he was called in the family, suggested that they send her to Liverpool in the " Diana," then about to sail. So the cat embarked on what was in those days a long sailing voyage, and they all thought they had seen the last of her. But the first passenger to step on shore on the return trip was the same old cat. Our cousins, the Browns, have in their possession a beautiful set of china in perfect condition which was brought over in one of these return trips. The " Diana" played quite a part in their family history. When the British took the town and seized their vessels the old ship was knocking about the harbor, having been loosened from her moorings. They ordered 110 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF Uncle Billy Brown to rig her up for their use, to which he replied, "I own a dwelling and part of a warehouse in the town, but I will see them both razed to the ground before I will do it," thus vindi­ cating bis Quaker principles, and neither his person nor his dwell­ ing were disturbed. William Jolliffe prospered in business until the British occupation of the harbor of Alexandria during the War of 1812, when he and his partner with others were forced to leave, and their shipping was burned or taken by the enemy, and their business utterly ruined. His family fled for protection to the house of his wife's father, Lewis Neill, in Frederick County, when the British threatened to burn the town. After the British departed he gathered up the few goods left and put them in the hands of Mahlon Schofield to dispose of as best he could, and left Alexandria to join bis family in Frederick County. After this disaster to his fortune be continued to reside at Swarth­ more, Frederick County, Virginia, until his death. Swarthmore was a good estate of five hundred or six hundred acres of land, on which was a stone grist-mill. Part of this land was inherited by Rebecca Jolliffe at the death of her father, Lewis Neill. The old house was a frame structure, built about the year 1750, to which an addition was built of blue limestone about the year 1800. These buildings are still standing, and are now occupied by Joseph N. Jolliffe, the youngest son of William. William Jolliffe exchanged a portion of his father's military grant in Scioto County, Ohio, for lands in Fairfax County, Virginia. In the year 1829 he ex­ changed this Fairfax land for a large tract of wild land in Athens County, Ohio, which be devised by will to his children. He visited these lands during the latter years of his life on horseback. In appearance William Jolliffe was a tall, dignified man, noted for his great kindness of heart. Although a passionate man by nature he seldom allowed his temper to overcome him. He was very par­ ticular about his dress, being always neatly but unobtrusively attired. He had a host of friends and acquaintances, by whom he was greatly beloved and respected. At his death, which occurred June 30, 1846, beautiful and touching obituary notices appeared in the leading papers of the State, particularly in those of Alexandria and Winchester. His remains were interred at Hopewell Burying­ Ground. "April 1st, 1799, William Jolliffe set free his negroes Phillis, Maria, and Grace and her two children." His widow sur­ vived him fourteen years, and died when eighty-three years of age, December, 1860. She was a very remarkable woman, had a won- THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 111 derful memory for names and dates, possessed a strong constitution, great energy, personal push, and will. She was extremely fond of company, and was thought a very agreeable woman. Born in the midst of the great war for the nation's liberty, suffering terribly by the War of 1812, she died at the very threshold of the civil conflict, but not until she bad tasted deeply of its bitter cup. She wus the connecting link binding together the members of her large family and numerous kindred and friends. In her house they often gath­ ered from far and near, and all felt it a high privilege and bounden duty to do her homage. Civil war, time, and circumstances have wrought great changes since her death in the fortunes and unity of this family,-so many are dead, and her children and grandchildren are scattered. She retained a large amount of physical vigor and mental clearness to the end. Her step was elastic, her figure erect, complexion clear and healthy, though her hair was white as snow. When over seventy years of age she had the misfortune on two separate occasions to break her forearm, and was in consequence somewhat crippled in those members. Her son John sent her in her old age a pair of gold spectacles, which she thought a great deal of, and which, though constantly getting lost, still came back to her, often from the most impossible places, though more often still, when the household bad been thrown into a state of commotion, they were found calmly reposing on the top of her head. Her only sur­ viving child, Joseph N. Jolliffe, now has these glasses. She in­ herited quite a good deal of silver and English plate on copper from her father and mother, Lewis and Rachel Neill. A silver cream­ pitcher and most of her small silver she willed to her eldest daughter, Mary J. Brown. She had also an uncommonly beautiful chocolate­ pot of English plate, very tall and of urnlike shape with ebony handle, which went to her grand-daughter, Susan B. Hoge; a large silver soup-ladle went to her son John, and from bis widow to my sister, Elizabeth A. Jolliffe. She also gave her niece, Raebel Neill Williams, two very old and quaint pieces of silver, inherited from the elder Lewis Neill, and she said she gave them to her because her mother was called after his wife, Lydia Hollingsworth. One was a pair of tongs of scissors shape with jointed handles, so often reproduced at the present time, and the other was a mote-spoon with short handle and broad bowl, similar in shape to the bonbon­ spoons used nowadays. The bowl, however, was perforated with small openings, and it was used in colonial times, grandmother said, to skim the motes off the Bobea tea, then introduced into the colo­ nies. She also inherited the Hessian spoon given her mother, and 112 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF now owned by my sister, Elizabeth A. Jolliffe; also sundry silver buckles, sleeve-buttons, etc., and various other articles of silver in the possession of different members of the family. When seventy­ five years of age she rode her saddle-horse "old Ginny" to meetings and elsewhere, though her usual method of going about was in a big, heavy family carriage that would hold six people, the horses equipped with heavy brass-mounted harness. The carriage was lined with gray cloth, having large tassels inside. She used to sit on her stiff high-backed split-bottomed chair on the front porch of her house and talk with her friends and neighbors, remembering well the dates of all interesting occurrences for years back, her hands meanwhile never idle, but busily occupied with knitting­ needles. When a very old woman, one cold winter night when the snow was heavy on the ground, the house was discovered to be on fire, it having originated in her bedroom. Springing from her bed she was the first to give the alarm, and began work in earnest to subdue the flames. The danger was so great that it was deemed best to send the children off to old colored mammy Eliza Allen's cabin. The smoke was so dense that servant after servant was driven out of the room, several of them fainting. The cold was so intense that the water froze on the clothing of those engaged in carrying it. Our grandmother, clad only in such clothing as she had on in her bed, stood in the room directing the workers, and herself pouring on the cold water and snow brought by the house­ hold. After hours of such exposure and excitement the house was saved, due largely to her indomitable energy and courage. A slight cold was the only ill effect she felt from this exposure. By her will, whi.ch was dated May 5, 1860, she left her property as follows: Her farm in Clarke County, Virginia, to her son, Joseph N. Jolliffe; Swarthmore Farm to Joseph N. J o!liffe and Elizabeth J. Sharpless. Legacies in money to be paid her son, John Jolliffe,, and Mary J. Brown; a legacy for life to be paid her daughter-in. law, Mary A. Jolliffe, and at her death to go to her two children, William and Elizabeth. She provided a home for herfaithful old servant, Eliza Allen (known to us as Mammy Allen); Joseph N. Jolliffe to execute this will, which was probated December 31, 1860.

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Family Record of Mary J olli:ffe and Joel Brown, her husband. Married 1822.

Mary Jolliffe, second child of William Jolliffe and Rebecca Neill, his wife, was born at her father's home in Berkley County, Virginia, September 16, 1801. She lived with her parents at Alex­ andria, Virginia, until after the War of 1812, when she moved to Frederick County, Virginia. She was sent to the school of Samuel Hilles, Wilmington, Delaware, to be educated. When twenty years of age, in 1822, she was married to Joel Brown, a son of Thomas Brown,1 of Frederick County, Virginia. (His home was what is known as the Clevinger Farm.) Eight years (1830) after this they moved to near Minger Station, Champaign County, Ohio, where they resided the remainder of their lives. They ha.d children as follows: Cecelia, born August 20, 1823; William Henry, born De­ cember 25, 1825; Herman Winston, born January 9, 1820; Edwin, born September 14, 1829; Virginia Elizabeth, born March 2'1, 1832;

1 Thomas Brown was a son of Thomas and Mary (White) Brown, of Fred­ erick County, Virginia. "Thomas Brown, son of Daniel and Susanna Brown, to Mary White, daugh­ ter of Nathaniel and Mary White, at Hopewell Meeting-House, Nov. 17th, 1774. "Witnesses- DAVID BROWN }SA.AC BROWN DANIEL BROWN MA.RY BROWN and others.'' These were all his brothers and sister.

Daniel Brown (father of this Thomas) and Susanna_.. his wife, and their chil­ dren came to the valley of Virginia from Chester County, Pennsylvania, early in the year 1774. "David Brown, son of Thomas and Mary (White) (and brother of Joel) of Frederick Co., Virginia, to Esther Wood, daughter of Joseph and Ann Wood of the same County, at Hopewell Meeting-House, Nov. 10th, 1813. "Witnesses- and others. DA.VID BROWN SR. MARY BROWN SR. JOEL BROWN DEBORAH BROWN." 8 114 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF Joel Brown, born May 19, 1835; and Rebecca Ann, born and died November 10, 1839. Of these children, William Henry died October 2, 1826; Herman Winston died October 13, 1828; Joel died January 19, 1837; Cecelia married Thomas Miller, who died March 24, 1852, and left three daughters; Virginia Elizabeth married Samuel Carroll and had children, Gertrude, Maria, Harvey Bruce, and Shirley; Edwin mar­ ried--, and had Marshall R., Robert Emmett, and Charles; Mary Jolliffe Brown died in 1885, when in her eighty-fourth year, and her husband survived her a few years. Both were buried in Ohio. Of their children and grandchildren I know little except that some of them are married and have families living in Chicago, Minnesota, and Ohio. Mary Jolliffe Brown was considered in the family to have a very lovely disposition, and all through her life was remarkable for her unselfishness. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 115

Family Record of John Jolliffe and Synthelia McClure, his wife. Married September 23, 1835.

John Jolliffe, third child of William Jolliffe and Rebecca Neill, his wife, was born October 30, 1804, at Red House, Frederick County, Virginia. He was with his father':; family at Alexandria, Virginia, until driven back to Frederick County by the British under Admiral Sir George Cockburn in 1814. He received a good common-school education at private schools in Virginia, and, much against his mother's wishes, resolved to study law. These studies he pursued with the greatest diligence when a mere school-boy, often reading late at night before a big wood fire, after all the family had retired to rest. When still a lad he entered the law class of Hon. St. George Tucker in Winchester, Virginia, and had as classmates such eminent men as Hon. Charles James Faulkner, Hon. Fenton Mer­ cer, and ex-Governor John A. Wise. From this class he was grad­ uated and admitted to the bar as a practising lawyer. He at once (1825) resolved to go to the then rapidly filling-up West as offering• the best prospects for an active young man to push to the front. He had relatives in the family of Colonel Robert Higgins, settled in Clermont County, Ohio, and in Batavia, the county-seat, he in the year 1830 established his office. He very soon became a partner of General Thomas L. Hamer, and in a few years was elected prosecuting attorney for his county (from the year 1833 to 1837 and from 1839 to 1841). He was an able attorney with a large practice, and was often associated about this time with Governor Salmon P. Chase in resisting the famous "Fugitive Slave Law." In early life he was a pronounced Jacksonian Democrat. While living at Batavia he married, September 23, 1835, a lady from Clermont County, Ohio, Synthelia McClure (daughter of Rich­ an! and Catherine), who was born February 19, 1813. They never had any children. Finding that the courts of Brown and Clermont Counties were prejudiced against him because of his very pro­ nounced ant-islavery views, he dissolved his partnership with Gen­ eral Hamer and in the year 1841 moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Here he soon won a very lucrative practice and acquired a high place in public estimation as a close debater~ finished orator, and earnest 116 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF philanthropist. He was a warm-hearted, generous, trustful man of broad and enlightened views, always ready to spend or be spent for those in distress or want. His earnest advocacy of the cause of the fugitive slave, together with some bad investments, dissipated 'his fortune, and the Civil War found him stripped of all save his great talent and standing as a lawyer. Selling house and property he resolved to move to Washington City, where he was-largely instru­ mental in getting established the United States Court of Claims. Here he espoused the cause of the oppressed and wronged men who had risked their all in the Southern cause and lost. His eloquence, ability, and industry as a lawyer and his intimate acquaintance with the prominent men of the then dominant political party secured for his clients advantages they were not slow to recognize. In conse­ quence his practice grew rapidly in volume and importance, and had his life been spared he would more than have recovered his former fortune. The building adjoining his office caught fire and his quarters were drenched with water by the city fire-engines. Standing in this damp room trying to save his valuable papers brought on a severe illness that speedily terminated his useful life at four o'clock the afternoon of Saturday, March 30, 1868. At his own request his body was taken to Hopewell Burying-Ground in Virginia and laid beside relatives who had gone before him. P1·ompt action was taken and eulogistic resolutions passed by the Cincin­ nati, Clermont County, Ohio, and Washington City bar associa­ tions.1

1 "Finding that prejudice engendered by his antislavery course had infected even the judges of the courts of Clermont and Brown Counties, to the prejudice of his clients, Mr. Jolliffe about the year 1841 moved to Cincinnati. A change of residence brought no change of principles. In every pos!ible way he showed his detestation of slavery. In the management of fugitive slave cases he made himself prominent. All hours of the day or night, whether sick or well, busy or idle, the runaway slaves' lawyer was ready to serve his poverty-stricken and forlorn clients, and this without money and without price. In this way his name became associated with some of the most famous slave cases ever heard in our courts. "He was the counsel of the man Lewis, who was so mysteriously spirited away from the court-room during the trial of Wash. McCreary and Margaret Garner. "Holding as he did that the Constitution was an antislavery document, he was nowhere more at home than when demonstrating the illegality as well as the immorality of slavery, and all the enactments meant to uphold it. ":Few who heard it will forget his thrilling eloquence when, in the case of cer­ tain persons who had been brought into the court-room chained and handcuffed, he demanded that their fetters should be removed and they be treated as free­ men until proved to be slaYes. In the Margaret Garner case, the commissioner, THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 117 John Jolliffe was not a member of any church, but during the later years of bis life, while residing in Washington, often attended Friends' Meeting, the simplicity of their worship seeming to attract and comfort him as none other did. Re was a diligent student as long as he lived, and found time amidst his numerous law cases to study general literature, Biblical lore, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, and German. Re was also the author of' several books that had a wide circulation during the war. His widow continued to reside in Washington until her death, in March, 1890, and was buried in Hopewell Burying-Ground in Frederick County, Virginia. She was a member of the Baptist Church, a lovely Christian, and left a large number of friends to mourn her loss. Her brother, Commodore R. McClure, of Goshen, Ohio, was in the United States navy during the late war. although he bad prejudged the case in advance, as was the custom, could not bring himself to give bis decision in favor of the claimant Gaines until an adjournment of the court had permitted the excitement caused by his eloquent plea to subside." 118 HISTORIOAL ACCOUNT OF

Family Record of Elizabeth McAllister Jolliffe and Townsend Sharpless, her husband. Married 1859.

Elizabeth McAllister Jolliffe, fourth child of William Jolliffe and Rebecca Neill, his wife, was born at Alexandria, Virginia, Octo­ ber 12, 1806. She was named after her aunt Elizabeth McAllister, and was well educated, at one time •attending the school of John Pierpont, a celebrated teacher of Frederick County, Virginia. Her home after the War of 1812 was with her parents at Swarthmore, in Frederick County, Virginia. When a young lady she was quite gay and fond of society. In conjunction with her cousins Lavinia and Harriet Jolliffe, Elizabeth and Ann Schofield, her friend Ann Severs, and other young ladies of the neighborhood, many a mad­ cap enterprise was planned and carried out, astounding the old people and amusing the young. This bevy of wild young ladies would frequently determine to have a. good time, often at the expense of some bashful beau or would-be suitor. Amidst all this fun and frolic she suddenly sobered down and became a very ear­ nest Christian member of the Society of Friends, feeling it a duty, though a great cross, to adopt the plain dress of the Society. This change in her life drove off a few of her old admirers, but added many more of a very different character. In 1859, when in her fifty-third year, she married Townsend Sharpless, of Philadelphia, who had been told of the '' sweet Qu:akeress of the Valley" by his sister in Baltimore. Her husband took her to Europe for an ex­ tended bridal trip, which lasted nearly a year. How she enjoyed and appreciated what she then saw those whose privilege it was to hear her tell it over can testify. Upon their return they fixed their town residence at No. 1209 Arch Street, Philadelphia, and her hus­ band built a beautiful country home at Chelton Hills, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Between these homes, surrounded by his large family and numerous friends who were devoted to her, she spent a quiet life until his death, in December, 1863. At the death of her brother William, in 1852, she adopted his daughter Eliza­ beth, who always resided with her. She continued to live in Phila­ delphia, living at various times at 1315 Filbert Street, 1017 Clinton Street, and 1434 South Penn Square. She was a great advocate TEE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 119 of a thorough education, and aided all she could in the education of her nieces and nephews, having the greatest sympathy for the losses and privations they endured during the war. She was a remarkably well-informed person, an appreciative reader of history and biography, and a great lover of good poetry. She possessed the sweetest of· dispositions, great refinement of manner, and was altogether a lovely character, whose society was much sought. After a long and lingering illness, patiently borne, she departed this life March 16, 1883, and was buried beside her husband, in Friends' Burying-Ground, West Philadelphia. 120 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF

Family Record of William Jolliffe and Mary Ann Bran­ ham, his wife. Married 1836.

William Jolliffe, fifth child of William Jolliffe and Rebecca Neill, his wife, of Swarthmore, Frederick County, Virginia, was born at Alexandria, Virginia, February 3, 1810. He was but two years of age when his mother was forced to remove her family to Fred­ erick County, where he was educated in the private schools of the county (their excellency has before been alluded to), having at one time John Pierpont as teacher. He was not a strong or robust child, and it was deemed best to educate him for some less laborious business than farming. His mother determined to have him be­ come a merchant, though his constitution and temperament utterly unfitted him for such a life. When about twenty years of age, in 1830, he began business on his own account at Newtown, Fred­ erick County. Being fond of ·society, full of life and spirit, and surrounded by young men of means, who led comparatively idle lives, it is not surprising his business did not prosper as it should. In the year 1833, therefore, it was determined he should move bis store to Snicker's Ferry, on the Shenandoah River, in Clarke County. This was in every way an unwise proceeding, and after a trial of about a year was abandoned. The goods were brought to Swarth­ more in 1834 and disposed of by 1835. The store was kept in a log building situated on the edge of the orchard, and was known as the Storehouse, having formerly been used for that purpose, when the old stone grist-mill was in operation thirty or forty years previous. In the fall of 1835 William went out to Ohio, having secured a position with a man by the name of Crew, in Richmond, Jefferson County. In a letter to his father of date September 30, 1835, he speaks of "having arrived on yesterday at eleven o'clock, left Wheeling Monday, on the steamboat 'Post-Boy,' and went to Steubenville, reaching there at two o'clock in the night;" says he has a bad cold. In Wheeling he visited his cousin, Peter Yarnell, a son of his aunt, Phrebe Yarnell. On the stage he says he met with "friends in the persons of Mrs. Moreland, C. F. Mercer, and Miss Ann Fitzgerald and her mother," adding, "she is a very pretty and interesting girl, and quite intelligent." He thinks he WILLIAM JOLLIFFE.

Born F'ebruar_v 3rd, 1810. Died ,lfardt 22nd, 1852.

THE JOLLIFFE 1/AMILY. 121 will be pleased with his new position. At Richmond he was placed in charge of quite a large store, and he also kept the post-office for the village, which he says then contained a population of about four hundred, surrounded by a thickly-settled, prosperous farming community. In a second interesting letter of date November 9, 1835, he tells his father his life at Crew's home, what he does and what he reads; gives prices of all sorts of commodities, and says "lands are worth from twelve to forty dollars per acre." He tells him the salary he is to receive; as an experiment he will stay three months, and if not paid more will quit. It would seem the in.crease did not come, for about the year 1836 we find him visiting his sister, Mary Brown, at Mingo, Champaign County, Ohio. In that neighborhood there was then living with her adopted mother, Sarah Canby (a first-cousin of his mother, Rebecca Jolliffe), a very pretty and attractive young lady, Mary Ann Branham. An inti­ macy sprang up between the two which speedily culminated in a marriage, which took place at the home of Sarah Canby in the fall of the year 1836. Mary Ann Branham was born in Powhatan County, Virginia, in the summer-of 1820, and was therefore only sixteen years of age when she married. They bad eight cbildren,-namely, Caroline Marcella, William Henry, John Joseph, Elizabeth Ann, Lewis Neill, William, Rebecca, and Mary. Of these only two, Elizabeth Ann and William, are living; all the others died in infancy. After a visit to his father's home in Virginia, William Jolliffe moved with his wife and old colored servants, Alfred Dixon and his wife, to Snow Fork, Athens County, Ohio, on the two thousand acres of coal land owned by his father. This land was not then cleared, and the country very sparsely settled by a rough popu­ lation. He placed his family in the home of one of these neigh­ bors while he and old Alfred went vigorously to work clearing off a piece of land and building a house. It was nearly a year before they were ready to move into their new home. During the winter of 1838 William taught a school in the neighborhood. The spring found him busily engaged in planting a crop, felling trees, pre­ paring a garden, and adding to the conveniences of his home; his young wife was in the mean time busy with household duties. She has often told me the country was such a wilderness that both deer and wild turkeys would come up to her door and be fed from her baud. Their neighbors were a rough lot of squatters that gave them much trouble. In one of his letters to his father he speaks of the "im­ possibility of raising or keeping anything that his neighbors would 122 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF not help themselves to." Hard work and daily anxiety, the loss of three children, and other troubles, so completely impaired his con­ stitution, never very robust, that he was compelled to give up and move his family back to Virginia in 1841. That journey was an eventful one, travelling for mi!eR through dense forests and dead­ ened timber. They were overtaken by a terrible storm of wind, rain, and hail, trees were uprooted and fell around them, blocking the mountain roads. The streams were swollen and dangerous, and for nearly one hundred miles they were compelled to force their way in the face of danger by unremitting toil. This exhausting trip permanently injured his health. His father was now an old man, and William was placed in charge of Swarthmore farm, where he continued to reside, suffering attack after attack of acute bronchitis, which developed into rapid con­ sumption, and finally terminated bis life· in t,he forty-third year of bis age, after a prolonged illness, March 22, 1852. Though in extremely delicate health all his life, rarely free from pain in some form, still he was full of resource, and possessed wonderful energy, united to a remarkably cheerful disposition. Re made many and permanent improvements at the old home during the later years of his life. Re bad many warm friends and acquaintances, and was greatly respected by all classes for bis integrity, fair dealing, and many good qualities of head and heart. Re was a lovable brother and kind parent, always bore bis pains and troubles uncomplain­ ingly, and was tender in his thoughts and feelings for others. Though inheriting a birthright membership in the Society of Friends, it was not until the later years of his life that he took an active and serious interest in its affairs. Confined to his room dnring the winter months for several years, his heart seemed to go out in loving interest for the spiritual welfare of the many friends who came to see him. Rarely did one leave that room without some word of encouragement or help. His most earnest desire seemed to be that all his relatives and friends might come to know the loving faith which so cheered and sustained those last days of weary suffering and pain. William Jolliffe was a tall, slender man, over six feet in height, with regular features, good complexion, clear blue eyes, and dark hair, which at his death was so gray as to look almost white. Re was neat in dress, very erect in bis bearing, and fond of society. His remains were interred at Hopewell Burying-Ground. His wife survived him fourteen years. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 123

Family Record of Joseph Neill Jolliffe and Sarah Jan­ ney, his wife. Married 1843.

Joseph Neill Jolliffe, sixth child of William Jolliffe and Rebecca Neill, his wife, was born at Swarthmore farm, Frederick County, Virginia, April 10, 1813. He received his education in the private schools of the county and early began far.ming, which business be has followed all his life. He has been a great reader of books and papers, and has always kept himself fully posted regarding the topics of the day, possessing clear, well-defined convictions upon all the religious and political problems of the day. When a young man he took charge of bis mother's farm near the Burnt Factory, in Clarke County, Virginia. This was a good property of about two hundred and fifty acres, a part of the original Neill homestead. When thirty years of age, on February 14, 1843, he married Sarah Elizabeth Janney (born February 14, 1821), a daughter of George and Susanna (Boone) Janney, of Loudoun County, Virginia. They have had eight children, as follows: Susan Boone; 1 Rebecca Neill, born July 3, 1846, died August 27, 1857; Sarah Sands, born October 10, 1848, died September 25, 1864; Joseph John, born October 10, 1851; Alice Brooks, born January 9, 1854, died November 10, 1854; George Janney, born October 16, 1857; Rachel Williams; and Town­ send Sharpless, born September 29, 1864.

1 " George Boone, the grandfather of Daniel Boone, the great hunter and pio­ neer of the West, immigrated with his wife and eleven children from Exeter, England, in 1717; settled on the banks of the Delawa1·e, where be purchased a tract of land. His son, Squire Boone, was married to Sarah Morgan in Sep­ tember, 1720. He died in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, December, 1743, leav­ ing sons Ralph, Joseph, Solomon, and a daughter Elizabeth. His son Daniel, the great pioneer, was born October 28, 1734, and when about ten years of age removed with his family to near Reading, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, then a frontier settlement; a few years later they moved to North Carolina:" One of the great-grandsons of the above George Boone (and probably a grandson of Squire Boone) was Isaiah Boone, who moved to Loudoun County, Virginia. His wife was Susanna Boone. They had among other children a daughter, Susanna Boone, who married George Janney, of Loudoun County, and had three sons and four daughters, one of whom, Sarah Elizabeth Janney, married February 14, 1843, Joseph N. Jolliffe, of Frederick County, Virginia. 124 HISTOR!CAL ACCOUNT OF After his marriage, Joseph Jolliffe continued to reside in Clarke County until after the death of his brother William, when he moved with his family to the old homestead, Swarthmore (his mother being old he came to look after her interests), and he has ever made this his home. During the John Brown raid that part of the country was greatly agitated. Joseph Jolliffe took a deep interest in and studied the movement very cloilely. A few years later and the mutterings of the great Civil War were heard. Few men saw more clearly than he did the inevitable result of such a contest. A firm and consistent Union man, he dared voice his sentiments at the polls, casting the only ballot Abraham Lincoln received in the county of Frederick. When the war actually began he was past the age rendering him liable to military service, and being a consistent Friend he preserved a strictly neutral attitude, but never for one moment changed his strong Union sentiments. He aided the sick and wounded of both armies so far as it was possible for him to do so. He suffered terri­ bly by the war. Having a great deal of valuable timber land, thousands of axes were often going all day long in it, and as this part of the country was a battle-ground from the beginning to the end of the war, it was pretty much all destroyed. His place was pulled to pieces, fencing burned up, implements destroyed, horses and valuable stock, of which he bad an abundance, were driven off, and then his business was almost completely suspended for four years. Twice officers were quartered upon him, using bis house as head-quarters for a long time, among them being the cele­ brated General John C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky. Armies were continually passing, and once, September 19, 1864 (Sheridan's battle of Winchester), a sharp engagement was carried on right over the house, some of the bullets, shells, and canister-shot striking the back porch and knocking bricks off the chimneys. The family was advised to take refuge in the cellar, but bis daughter and other members of the family lay ill of diphtheria (brought there by the army) at the time, and fearing to risk their lives by taking them into the cellar, they sat through it all by the bedside of the sick, trusting to their heavenly Father's care for protection. The very dogs were so frightened it was hard to get them out of the house after the engagement was all over. They were often reduced to such straits that they scarcely knew where their next supply of food was to come from. Often sick, with no medical aid save that which could be secured from some passing army surgeon, and often many months cut off from communication with their relatives and THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 125 friends outside of the lines. Once he had to leave his home and with others take refuge with his cousin, Elizabeth S. Hopkins, of Sandy Spring, Maryland, who hospitably sheltered many of her relatives and friends for weeks and months during these times. They have often spoken of how they enjoyed J osepb J olliffe's visit and his thrilling accounts of scenes and incidents of the war. Once be was arrested and taken ten or twelve miles below bis home be­ fore General Jubal Early, ostensibly on the excuse of being wanted to pilot his army below Brucetown, but really because General Early had been informed that be was a dangerous man to leave at large. It resulted in their sitting down together under a tree and talking over the situation. General Early, himself having been an ardent Union man before hostilities began (while attending the famous convention in Richmond he came near being mobbed for his bold and fearless opposition to the States being put out of the Union), was the better able to understand Joseph J olliffe's views. Tbe conversation was spicy and amusing in the extreme, causing Early's staff and other officers to gather around to listen. To Gen­ eral Early's credit the interview resulted in his letting his prisoner return peaceably to his home. As the war progressed their sufferings were so great that the citizens of the community,· united by a common trouble, aided each other irrespective of their parties, whether Union or Confederate, aud on one occasion when his cousin, Edward Jolliffe, had been arrested by the Union army, Joseph Jolliffe went with Edward's wife, Virginia Jolliffe, to Martinsburg to try to procure his re­ lease. They were suddenly surrounded by members of the cele­ brated Colonel Mosby's command, were stopped and made to ac­ company them to the heart of a deep wood some distance from the main road. Here they were kept closely guarded all night long; in the morning they were told they c•.ould go on their way unmo­ lested. That night the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was raided by Mosby's command, a passenger train held up and much valuable booty secured by the Confederates. As the soldiers hurried them off to the woods, our cousin, Virginia Jolliffe, was much alarmed, and kept calling out," Soldiers, are you going to kill us?" to which reply would be made, "No, madam, we won't kill you." At the close of the war Joseph Jolliffe bought for a few dollars some Uniter! States condemned horses and began trying to repair damages. It was slow work, but nature, always kind, in time hid the scars of war, and the land brought forth good crops. The old farm still sn,iles upon the efforts of his sons and yields them a fair living. 126 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF His daughter, Susan B., married Lewis N. Hoge, of Loudoun County, Virginia; 1 for some years they made their home in Clarke County, but moved to North Carolina with their children, one of whom is married. Joseph John married Sarah Lupton, a daughter of Joel Lupton, of Frederick County; 2 they built a home on the

1 William Hoge, born in Scotland, came to America in 1683; married Bar­ bara Hume, settled in New Jersey, moved to Delaware, and in 1735 moved to Frederick County, Virginia, and settled near where Kernstown now is. William Hoge, eldest son of William and Barbara Hoge, was born at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and moved to Virginia with his wife Esther and his parents. He joined the Soeiety of Friends and moved with bis family to Loudoun County, Virginia. His son, William Hoge, Jr., married July 16, 1795, Rachel Steel. He was disowned by Friends, 1777, for enlisting in the army. Had also sons John and Israel. James Hoge was son of William Hoge, and grandson of William and Barbara Hoge. He was a Friend, and resided in Loudoun County, Virginia. Isaac Hoge was the son of James Hoge, of Loudoun County, Virginia. He married Rachel Schofield, daughter of Mahlon and Ann (Neill) Scofield. They had children,- J ames Hoge, of Washington, District of Columbia; bas a family. Isaac Hoge, of Loudoun County, Virginia; bas a family. Josephine Hoge, married Lewis N. Hopkins, and left one daughter, Josephine, who died a young lady. Lewis Neill Hoge, married Susan Boone Jolliffe ; is Jiving in North Carolina, and has a family. William Hoge, of Washington, District of Columbia; has a family. Annie Hoge, who married Owen Holmes and has one child. Lewis N. Hoge and Susan B., his wife, have children, James H., Sarah J., Lewis N., and Elizabeth S. 2 Joseph Lupton, a member of the Society of Friends, came to America from England and first settled in Pennsylvania. He removed to the valley of Virginia about the year 1741, bringing his wife and eight children with him; he was then about fifty years of age, and was born about 1690. His sons were Joseph,--, David, Joshua, John. John Lupton, fifth child of Joseph, was born 1725; was fifteen years old when he came to Virginia; was married at Hopewell Meeting-House, Virginia, June 6, 1755, to Sarah Frost, daughter of John Frost, of Virginia, and had s_even children. After the death of his first wife he married Ann Rees, widow of Henry Rees (Ann Neill), and daughter of Lewis Neill and Lydia Hollings­ worth, his wife, June 13, 1776, at Hopewell Meeting-House, Virginia. They had children, Elizabeth and Jonah. Elizabeth (Neill) Lupton married Joseph Carter, and was the mother of Lydia Ann, Sarah Elizabeth, Mary Margaret (who died an infant), and Joshua Lupton (who died October, 1887). Elizabeth died 1853. Joseph Lupton, eldest son of Joseph Lupton (who came to Virginia in 1741), was married to Rachel Bull, daughter of Richard Bull, of Chester County, THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 127 old place at the Rock Spring, where with their four sons and one daughter they reside. George J. Jolliffe married Charlotte Huck, a daughter of Richard Ruck, of Frederick County 1 (a distant cousin); they with their two sons live near Kernstown (Neill's Mill), Virginia. His daughter, Rachel W. Jolliffe, married Arthur Robinson, of Frederick County,• and with their two little children,

Pennsylvania, August 17, 1750, at Hopewell Meeting-House, Frederick County, Virginia. They had children, one of whom was David Lupton. David Lupton, son of Joseph and Rachel (Bull), was married to Mary Hol­ lingsworth, daughter of Isaac (deceased) and Rachel Hollingsworth, June 12, 1777, at Hopewell Meeting-House, Frederick County, Virginia. Joel Lupton, son of David and Mary (Hollingsworth) Lupton, was married to Sarah G--, at Hopewell Meeting-House, Frederick County, Virginia. Their daughter, Sarah Lupton, )Vas married at Hopewell Meeting-House, Octo­ ber 7, 1875, to Joseph John Jolliffe. Their children are Walker Neill, born July 17, 1876; Joel Lupton, born October 28, 1877; Edith M., born Septem her 2, 1879; and John, born August 9, 1882. 1 Thomas Huck (was, I believe, at one time an officer in the British army and a Royalist) married Mary Neill, daughter of Joseph Neill and Rebecca McPherson, of Frederick County, Virginia. (Joseph Neill, youngest son of Lewis Neill and Lydia Hollingsworth, his wife, was born November 22, 1757, and was married to Rebecca, daughter of Daniel McPherson, at Hopewell Meeting-House, Virginia, April 7, 1790.) They had three children: (1) Richard Huck, who married Mary Stabler, of Alexandria, Virginia, daughter of -­ Stabler and -- Saunders, his wife, who was the daughter of John Saunders, of Alexandria, Virginia. "John Saunders, of Alexandria, son of Joseph and Hannah Saunders, of Philadelphia, to Mary Pancoast, daughter of David and Sarah Pancoast, of Winchester, April 9, 1783." (2) Lewis Neill Huck, of Winchester, Virginia, who married Eliza C. Jones, of Mobile, Alabama. They have no children. (3) Mary Huck, who died a single lady in Winchester, Virginia. Mary Neill Huck, the mother, died at Swarthmore farm, while on a visit, about the year 1850. Richard Huck had children, Saunders, Hally, Charlotte (Jolliffe), Lewis N. (deceased), Lylly, and Richard. Charlotte Huck married George J. Jolliffe; their children are Richard H. and Lewis N. 2 James Robinson was born in Ireland, and married Mary, also born in Ire­ land, daughter of George Brown. They moved to the valley of Virginia and settled four miles west of White Hall, Frederick County, Virginia. Andrew A. Robinson, son of James and Mary Robinson, was born in Fred­ erick County, Virginia, in 1781, and died May 7, 1865. He married Margaret Jackson, daughter of Josiah and Ruth (Steer) Jackson, formerly of Chester County, Pennsylvania. They had children, Archibald, Jackson, James, Jona­ than, Mary Jane, David, Josiah, Joseph, Margaret A., Andrew A., and William. Jonathan Robinson, son of Andrew A. Robinson and Margaret Jackson, 128 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF live at the "old Severs place," near Hopewell, Virginia. The youngest son, Townsend S. Jolliffe, lives with his parents in the old house, Swarthmore. He is not married and cares for the old couple. Joseph N. Jolliffe was always respected by his neighbors for his courage and honest convictions, which he lived up to. His relatives and friends love him and honor him for his kindness of heart and sweet disposition. Until recent years he could be seen regularly walking to the railroad station each afternoon except Sunday, when his steps were turned to old Hopewell Meeting.House. Though a very old man, he is one of the most interesting, telling with a quiet humor the many and varied amusing and interesting experiences of himself and friends during war times. married Mary France11 --; their son, Arthur Robinson, married --, at Hopewell Meeting-House, Frederick County, Virginia, Rachel Williams J ol­ liffe, daughter of Joseph N. and Sarah E. Jolliffe, and have children, Sarah Elizabeth and Albert Jolliffe. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 129

Elizabeth A. Jolliffe, fourth child of William Jolliffe and Mary Ann Branham, his wife, was called after her aunt Elizabeth Jolliffe Sharpless, who adopted her on the death of her father in her ninth year. After her aunt's marriage with Townsend Sharpless, of Philadelphia, she went to live with her, and :finished her education in that city. She continued to live with her aunt until the death of that lady on March 16, 1883.

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William Jolliffe and Emma Randolph Parry, his wife. Married November 26, 1873.

[ A friend has prepared the following brief sketch of the life and work of William Jolliffe, civil and mining engineer, at the special request of his wife and children.]

William Jolliffe, sixth child and only living son of William Jol­ liffe and Mary Ann Branham, his wife, was born at Swarthmore farm, Frederick County, Virginia, June 23, 1847. When but four years old his father died. He early attended the private country schools of the county, and when twelve years of age was sent to Westtown Boarding-School, in Pennsylvania. This was at the time when the war had fairly opened. Harper's Ferry was in possession of the Confederate forces, the bridges between Philadelphia and Baltimore had been burned, and the Relay House was strongly for­ tified by Federal troops. To pass through these barriers when feel­ ing was running so high was no easy task, and consequently visits to his home by the young lad were attended with considerable danger. He was searched at Harper's Ferry by the Confederate forces and at the Relay House by Federal troops, and was put on a boat at Baltimore, which was guarded by troops until it landed at Havre de Grace, Maryland, where he took the cars for Philadelphia. For a long time he was cut off from all communication with his mother, but :finally succeeded in getting home for a short visit. As the war dragged along these same conditions continued. After Westtown, William Jolliffe attended school for a short time at Union Springs, New York, and in Philadelphia. He was then placed in Sharpless Brothers' large dry-goods store, in Philadelphia, to learn the business, and he remained with that firm for three years. At that time his health failed him, and he was compelled to seek out-door employment. He entered the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and studied mining engineering, graduating July 1, 1868, when just twenty-one years of age. He then took a special course in chemistry under Professor Williams, of Philadelphia, where he met George A. Koenig and Preston M. Bruner, both recent graduates of Heidelberg, Germany. While ex­ perimenting with waste tin;scrap, these three students discovered a process for utilizing the tin on this waste. Forming the partner-

THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 131 ship of Koenig, Bruner & Jolliffe, they took out patents for the manufacture of the salts of tin from tinners' waste, and also for utilizing the iron thus freed from combination, and for the ma­ chinery needed in these processes. 'rhey erected a factory, work­ ing at it themselves, and perilevered in further labor upon their invention until it was entirely successful. However, as is often done in such cases, a combination was formed against them by the large chemical manufacturing establishments of Philadelphia, which speedily forced them out of business. Koenig soon after became a professor in the University of Pennsylvania, an her November 26, 1873, at the Friends' Twelfth Street .M:eeting­ House, in Philadelphia. They moved to Buchanan, Virginia, where they made their home. They had children, William Parry Jolliffe, born August 29, 1874; Parry Jolliffe, born October 25, 1877, died in Philadelphia, February 26, 1879, and buried at Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; Elizabeth Neill Jolliffe, born December 30, 1880. The next position filled by William Jolliff~ was that of division engineer on the Valley Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Virginia, in which be continued until the spring of 1874, when work was finally suspended. 132 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF In 1875 and 1876 he built a brick house one mile south of Buchanan, which his family occupied as their home. In 1875 he contracted to build Dam No. 5, at Brownstown, West Virginia, for the United States government, being engaged in this work under the firm­ name of Schultz & Jolliffe, from which he afterwards retired. Having conceived the idea of building a railroad from Clifton Forge, Virginia, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, to Buchanan, Virginia, on the James River and Kanawha Canal, he labored for more than two years to bring this about, assisting in obtaining from the Virginia Assembly a charter. The company was finally organized, work begun, and William Jolliffe appointed chief engi­ neer. When the road was about three-fourths completed, a tremen­ dous freshet visited the James River Valley, November 22, 1877, and washed away more than half of the new road-bed and damaged the canal to the extent of five hundred thousand dollars. It being absolutely necessary to at once repair the canal, and being the most available man for the position, William Jolliffe was appointed chief assistant enginet;ir of the James River and Kanawha Canal, and with his railroad forces repaired the damages between Richmond and Lynchburg in the winter of 1877-78, opening that watercourse for navigation in March, 1878. Then joining as junior partner the firm of Jordan, Ballard & Co., he was engaged in repairing the canal from Lynchburg to Lexington and Buchanan, which work was pushed with vigor. On September 12, 1878, a second freshet damaged this new work to the extent of sixty thousand dollars. An extension of time being granted the firm, Jordan, Ballard & Co., again began the work of repair, and completed it in the winter of 1880. The workmen were at once turned back on the road-bed of the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railroad under William Jolliffe as chief engineer. That winter the Assembly chartered the Richmond and Alleghany Rail­ road, which bought out the Canal and the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railroad. William J olli:ffe was appointed division engineer on the new road, which place he held for a short time only, ill health, brought on by exposure during the trying times while directing the canal repairs, forcing him to resign. At the thirty­ first meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, held at Staunton, Virginia, May 18, 1881, William Jolliffe was elected a member. He was also elected a member of the Association of Engineers of Virginia upon the organization of that body at Roanoke, Virginia, in 1890. In 1880, William J olli:ffe joined the firm of Dillon, Jolliffe & Co., THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 133 and completed, as contractor, ten miles of hea-vy work on the Shen­ andoah Valley Railroad below Buchanan. In 1887 they completed twelve miles of the New River Branch of the Norfolk: and Wes tern Railroad. He also joined the firm of Jolliffe & Carpenter and completed in 1881-82 the tunnels and railroad-yards for the Norfolk and Western Railroad at Pocahontas, Virginia. In 1882 he sold bis house to the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in Buchanan and moved to Lexington, Virginia, where he resided for four years. In 1883-84 be was manager of the Lexington Manufacturing Company, erecting the buildings, putting in the machinery, and starting the work. In 1885-86 he joined A. D. Estill as a partner, and ran the Beechenbrook Foundry and Machine-Shops in Lexington. This venture did not prove successful, and the firm dissolved. In 1886 be bought at public sale the large farm of four hundred and sixty­ four acres, one mile west of Buchanan, Virginia. Remodelling the dwelling-house on the premises, be moved his family to this property, where they have since resided. In 1887 he made a horseback sur­ vey for the Virginia Western Railroad in Southwestern Virginia and in Tennessee. In 1888-89 he became division eng"ineer on the Georgia Pacific Railroad at West Point, Mississippi. In the autumn of 1889 he again did work for the Virginia Western Railroad as engineer in charge of surveys. In 1890 he was made chief engineer for the Central Land Company of Buchanan, to which corporation he sold his farm, reserving his dwelling-house and sixty-eight acres of land. Since then be has been in ill health brought on by constant expo­ sure in all sorts of weather while engaged in railroad and other out-door work. He bas written various reports on the railroads and mineral resources of the James River Valley, etc. Since graduating, he bas constructed or superintended as engineer work aggregating in value four million five hundred thousand dollars, besides making various surveys, estimates, and plans, or at the rate of two hundred thousand dollars per year. · 134 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY.

1. Thomas and Margaret (Skinner) Jolliffe, of Cofton HaU, Staf- ford County, England. 2. John and Mary (Rigglesworth) Jolliffe. 3. Joseph and Ruth (--) Jolliffe. 4. William and Phreby (--) Jolliffe. 5. William and Lydia (Hollingsworth) Jolliffe. 6. John and Mary (Dragoo) Jolliffe. 7. William and Rebecca (Neill) Jolliffe. 8. William and Mary Ann (Branham) Jolliffe. 9. William and Emma Randolph (Parry) Jolliffe. COGNATE FAMILIES.

Rigglesworth. Hollingsworth. Biles. Baker. Janney. O'Neill. Dragoo. Branham. Parry. Randolph.

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THE family of Rigglesworth, or W rigglesworth, lived in Yorkshire, England, prior to 1650. Tbey were people of character and in­ fluence and were owners of lands. In the struggle between Charles I. and his Parliament, it appears they were supporters of the king and aided him in the field. Soon after Charles I.'s cause failed, Peter Riggles worth came to America with his wife, Jane, and his

"A Thomas Wrigglesworth and wife came over in the 'Welcome' with William Penn, Hi82, and settled in Bucks County, Pennsyl­ vania. He died in 1686. He was imprisoned for nine months for preaching. Was living in Yorkshire, 1652." Mary Rigglesworth, daughter of Peter Rigglesworth and Jane, his wife, was born in Yorkshire, England, and came with her parents to Virginia about 1648-49. She became the sole heiress of her father, and married John Jolliff (who had come to Virginia about 1651-52) about the year 1664-65. They had seven children, as follows: Joseph Jolliff, John Jolliff, Thomas Jolliff, Peter Jolliff, and daughters Sarah Lowe (who married Henry Lowe), Mary Bacon (who married John Bacon), and Elizabeth Hasgood (who married Thomas Hasgood). THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 141

1. Peter Rigglesworth and his wife, Jane, of Yorkshire, England, and of Lynn Haven, Virginia. 2. Mary Rigglesworth and John Jolliffe. 3. Joseph and Ruth [--] Jolliffe. 4. William and Phceby [--] Jolliffe. 5. William and Lydia [Hollingsworth] Jolliffe. 6. John and Mary [Dragoo] Jolliffe. 7. William and Rebecca [Neill] Jolliffe. 8. William and Mary Ann [Branharn] Jolliffe. 9. William and Emma Randolph [ Parry] Jolliffe.

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Tms family is of Saxon descent. "The name was formerly Hollinsworthe, derived from Holly-tree, called in Cheshire, Hollyn­ tree, and worth (a farm), with which the estates in England .abounded. This estate was purchased A.D. 1022, and is situate in N. E. Cheshire; location, Mottram." "The church of the family .and the Hall, both several centuries old, are (1884) now standing. The late owner Captain Robert Hollingsworth died in 1865. 'fhere .are 625 acres ofland, valued at £25,000, now owned by a Mr. Taylor .of Manchester." "Arms.-Az. on a Bend argent. Three holly leaves slipped Vert. " Crest.-A Stag Lodged ppr. " Motto.-' Disce Ferenda Pati.'" Valentine Hollingsworth, a member of the Society of Friends, was born in Cheshire, England, about 1630 to 1640. He married ..;.Catherine, daughter of Henry Cornish, High-Sheriff of London, d who was executed (unjustly) during the reign of James IL, October . 23, 1685. Valentine H. came with his family to America in the ~ year 1682; he came before William Penn in the bark " Welcome." y He settled in New Castle County, (now) Delaware, and filled many ~ very prominent positions in the colony. He was still living in the f'. year 1710. No record of his death has ever been found. His first wife, Catherine Cornish, died before be came to America, between the dates 1665 and 1670; her father, Henry Cornish, was one of the sheriffs of London (London then had two sheriff's with co-equal power), and was executed in the troublous times of James II. for .alleged complicity with Monmouth in his efforts to usurp the Royal authority. Cornish was believed to have been entirely innocent of the charge against him, and, although he was executed with all the barbarity of the times, Parliament, a few years ·afterwards, in the reign of William and Mary, reversed the Act of Attainder, and did .all in its power to atone for the wrong that it had brought upon an innocent family. Valentine H. married a second time in Ireland, where he removed after Monmouth's Rebellion, Ann Calvert, a near relation of Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore. She died August 17, 145 146 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF 1697, and was buried at New Ark (now Newark, Delaware) Monthly Meeting. From his family nearly all of the name in the United States have descended, and they are very numerous. He was buried in the Friends' Burying-Ground at New Ark Meeting, near his residence, east side of Brandywine Creek, on the half-acre of land given to the New Ark Monthly Meeting in 1687 for a burying. place. The meetings were generally held at his house; from 1686 to 1710 he was the superintendent of the Monthly Meeting. In 1682 he obtained a patent for nine hundred and eighty-six acres of land in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. It was surveyed December 27, 1683, by Thomas Pierson; he gave it the name of New Wark. He disposed of his property before his death, receiving from his sons an annuity until his death. He was a signer of Penn's Great Charter, a member of the Pro-provincial Council, a member of the Assembly of Pennsylvania in 1683, 1687, and 1695 from New Castle County, and a Justice of the Peace for the same county. His children by his first wife, Cath­ erine Cornish, were Thomas, who died near Winchester, Virginia, in 1733; Catherine, born 1663, and died in 1746, and Mary--. By his second wife, Ann Calvert, he had Samuel, born 1672, and died 1748; Ann, who married James Thompson in 1700; Valentine, Jr., who died in 1757 (married Elizabeth Heald in 1713); John, born in America in 1684, died in 1722, and was married to Catherine Tyler in 1706; Joseph, born in America in 1686; Enoch, first, died young in 1687; Enoch, second, died young in 1690. Thomas Hollingsworth, eldest son of Valentine aml Catherine Cornish, was born in England about the year 1660. He came to America-with William Penn in the bark ''Welcome," and settled in New Ca,itle County, Delaware, west side of the Brandywine, in 1682, at a place called .Rockland Manor. He married, first, Mar­ garet(--), who died August 1, 1687, and was buried at Newark, Delaware. By her he had one child, Abraham, born January 19, 1686. Thomas was married a second time on January 31, 1692, to Grace Cook, of Concord, Pennsylvania, by whom he had children as follows: Elizabeth, married -- Stroud in 1718; Hannah, mar­ ried William Dixon in 1718; Thomas, married Judith Sam ply in 1723; Ann, born May 6, 1701, and died in 1708; Jacob, married Rachel Chandler in 1729; Sarah, married John Dixon in 1724; Joseph, born March 11, 1709, married Martha Houghton in 1730, and moved to Virginia ; Grace --. "Thomas Hollingsworth, when on a visit to his son Abraham, is said to have been killed by a buffalo calf near North Mountain, THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 147 eight or nine miles north of Winchester, having gone on a hunting expedition with some of the settlers." His home was always Rock­ land Manor, Pennsylvania. (" Kercheval's History of Valley of Virginia.") Henry Hollingsworth, second son of Valentine and Catherine Cornish, was born in England, 1664-65. He came to America August 14, 1683, in the "Lion of London;" he was named after his maternal grandfather, and was a man of distinction. He assisted Thomas Holmes to lay out the City of Philadelphia, being at that time about eighteen years of age.1 After the death of Henry Cor­ nish, his son-in-law Valentine Hollingsworth removed to Ireland, where his son Henry made the acquaintance of Lydia Atkinson, whom he married August 22, 1688; her home was in the Parish of Sligo, County Armagh, Ireland. He returned to Ireland for the purpose of marrying this lady. He was a large land-owner in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and also in New Castle County, Delaware, and owned lots and built in Chester. He represented New Castle County in the Assembly in 1695, and was sheriff of Chester County the same year ;2 was deputy Master of the Rolls in 1700; was coroner of Chester County and clerk of the court from 1700 to 1708. He moved to the Head of Elk River, now Elk­ ton, Cecil County, Maryland, in 1711, and was appointed surveyor of the county by Lord Baltimore, March 9, 1712. He was the founder of the Hollingsworth family of that county, and the grand­ father of Colonel Henry Hollingsworth, of the American Revolu­ tion. "He was brought up in the Friends' faith, but afterwards joined the Episcopal Church. His life gave evidence that he never forgot the pacific principles of Friends' belief, for he would not suffer the life of any animal to be sacrificed for food, and lived for

1 Smith, in bis history of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, says, "Henry Hollingsworth, when surveying, planted an apple-tree at the end of every mile, and wrote to a friend he had planted an orchard nine miles long." "He was appointed surveyor by warrant bearing date Febr-qary 16, 1699." Watson, in his Annals, Vol. I., page 14, says, "Henry Hollingsworth assisted Thomas Holmes to lay out Philadelphia. He kept a journal, which was taken and destroyed by the British at Elkton, 1777." 2 In the correspondence between Penn and Logan, Penn writes James Logan "to write to Henry Hollingsworth to help a little the Sheriff to manage things for the proper reception of Governors Nicholson and Blackiston, the former Lieut.-Gov. of New England and New York, and the latter of Mary­ land, who are coming to visit Philadelphia." "Let twenty persons at lea,st be ordered for each party, and let the magistrates of each place ride out to meet them.'' · 10 148 HISTORIOAL ACCOUNT OF some years wholly upon a vegetable diet. Once when returning from a fair at New Castle he saw a rattlesnake coiled by a log not far from his house, but passed on without killing it. Next day a pedler was found near the same spot stiff and dead from the bite of the snake. This gave Henry great pain, and he afterwards thought it right to kill snakes." The Hollingsworth family was noted for their enterprise and in­ dustry, and many of them were largely engaged in the manufacture of fl.our, they being the owners of a number of mills on both branches of Elk Creek. Henry died in Elkton in 1721, where he was buried. His will was dated February 23, 1721, and was pro­ bated March 12, 1721. The children of Henry Hollingsworth and Lydia Atkinson were Ruth, born 1689, married George Simpson, December 24, 1706; Stephen, born 1690-91, married Anne (--); Zebulon, born 1696, died August 8, 1763; Catherine, married(--) Dawson, of Kent County, Maryland; Abigail, married Richard Dobson in 1720; and Mary. Abraham Hollingsworth, son of Thomas Hollingsworth, of Rock­ land Manor, New Castle County, Delaware, by his first wife, Mar­ garet --, was born at Rockland Manor, January 18, 1686, and March 13, 1710, he married Ann Robinson and moved to Cecil County, Maryland (Abraham Hollingsworth, of "ye County of New 1 Castoll, and Manor of Rockland," to Ann Robinson --, "13th day of ye 3rd month in ye year 1710 at ye house of Valentine Hollingsworth, in ye above sd. County''.) In 1732 he bought of Alexander Ross, under his patent from Governor Gooch, of Virginia, five hundred and eighty-two acres of land near Winchester, Virginia, and in 1733 he moved with his family and relatives to this grant. ,.\ (He is said to have moved earlier than this and occupied his land as a squatter before he purchased.) After his death, Thomas Lord Fairfax disputed the title to this land. To prevent legal proceed­ ings, Isaac, his son, then in the possession, agaiI\ purchased it from Fairfax in 1754, and the same year built the large stone house now standing and still in the possession of his descendants. Abraham had children as follows : George, born 1712, married Hannah McKay, 1734; Margaret, born 1715, married Benjamin Carter, of Virginia; Lydia, born 1718, married Lewis Neill, of

1 "Ann Robinson was a daughter of George Robinson, who was born in Ire­ land in 1666, and married Catherine Hollingsworth, November 2, 1688. They had children, Joseph Robinson, Ann Robinson (Hollingsworth), George Robin­ son, Valentine Robinson, Mary Robinson. They moved to Pennsylvania early in the eighteenth century, and then settled in the bounds of Chester County." THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 149 Virginia; Isaac, born 1722, married Rachel Parkins, of Virginia. He fixed his home, "Abraham's Delight," at a point about one mile south of the present town of Winchester, Virginia, on the branch (Abraham's Creek, named after him) which heads at the town, Spring and Shawnee Springs, and there erected a flour-mill, one of the very first in the county. He and all his family were Friends, and attended meetings at East Nottingham, Pennsylvania, at least one hundred and fifty miles distant. He was dealt with by Friends for some alleged breach of discipline in the summer of 1734; he seems to have treated the Friends visiting him for this purpose quite plainly, and to have stood upon his rights. It is needless to say he was discharged from all blame and kept his membership in the Society. He died in 1748, and his will is dated September 23, 1748, His wife did not long survive him, dying in 1749; both were buried in the family graveyard, near Hollingsworth Mills. Of the other children of Thomas Hollingsworth, of' Rockland Manor, three died unmarried, the others lived and died in Cecil County, Maryland, and New Castle County, Delaware, with the ex­ ception of Joseph Hollingsworth, who married Martha Houghton in 1730, and in 1733, with his half-brother Abraham, moved to Fred­ erick County, Virginia. His lands adjoined those of Abraham. His father, Thomas, was killed soon after his removal to Virginia in 1733. Stephen Hollingsworth, son of Henry Hollingsworth, of' Elkton, Maryland, and Lydia Atkinson, was born about 1690 or 1691 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He married Anne--. In 1730 he was living in Cecil County, Maryland, and was a magistrate. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. "In the year 1723 many of the inhabitants of Milford Hundred, which then embraced the northeastern part of the county of Cecil, petitioned the court for a road from the New Mountain Road at David Alexander's across the main fresh of Elk River, at Stephen Hollingsworth's mill, which was the mill on Big Elk, west of Cowantown to the Church at North East. A few months afterwards they presented another_ petition, stating that this road was difficult, dangerous, and troublesome to maintain, by reason of crossing the east branch of North East twice, and that it was only intended for a bridle-path, and that a cart-road was much needed and might be made by a much nearer route, etc.'' "This petition was granted, and Stephen Hollingsworth was ordered to see the road laid out so that it would not damnify any of the inhabitants of said Hundred." Stephen moved to Virginia, having obtained a land grant in 1734 of four hundred and seventy-two acres on the west side of the 150 HISTORICAL ACC,9UNT OF Shenandoah ltive4-, in Orange Uounty! '.ti.is wife .Anne signed the certificate of marriage of her daughter Lydia, October 11, 1735, at Hopewell Meeting, in Virginia. I can :find no record of his death, which must have occurred soon after bis removal to Virginia. His eldest son was living at Duplin, North Carolina, in 1764. His daughter Lydia was married to John Ross, son of .Alexander Ross, of Opeckon, Virginia, at a public meeting at Hopewell, in the county of Orange, October 11, 1735. The certificate was not signed by either her father or her mother, but was signed by her uncle .Abraham and his wife Anne. John Ros:'! died early in 1748, leaving two sons, David and Alexander. In September, 1750, his widow married William Jolliffe, Jr. His estate was sworn before J obn Neill, gentloman, January 18, 1748-49, Lydia Ross, Administratrix. Stephen Hollingsworth left no will. Georgo Hollingsworth, son of Abraham and Ann Robinson, was born in Cecil County, Maryland, in 1712. He married Hannah McCoy, December 19, 1734,2 having moved to Virginia with his father in 1733. His wife was a daughter of Robert McCoy, of

1 " George the Second &c. To all &c Know ye that for the consideration mentioned in an order of our trusty and well beloved William Gooch Esqr. our Lieut. Governor and Commander in Chief of our Colony and Dominion of Virginia in our Council of the said Colony the 12th day of June 1734 We Have given granted and confirmed and by these presents for us our heirs and successors do give grant and confirm unto Stephen Hollingsworth one certain tract or parcel of land called bis third choice containing 472 acres Lying and being on the Western Side of Sbenando River designed to be included in a County to be called the County of Orange being part of 40,000 acres pmcbased by Jost Hite from Isaac and John Vameter, who bad obtained orders from our said Lieut. Governor in Council to take up the same upon certain conditions therein expressed which orders were made the 17th day of June 1730 and bounded as followetb, (to wit)-Beginning at a corner Hickory on the South side of Opecken Creek and running thence down the Several Meanders of the same 532 poles to an elm locust &c South east 67 poles to a white oak on a bill side, Thence N 82 E 340 poles to an white oak on a bill, Thence East 140 poles to a hickory, Thence S 40 E 180 poles to a white oak Thence South West 55 poles to a walnut in a valley, Thence S 73 W 120 poles, Thence N 10 E 108 poles to a red oak, Thence West 300 poles and Thence S 6LW 130 poles to the Beginning. With All &c. To have bold &c. To be held &c. Yielding and paying &c provided &c. In Witness &c .. Witness our Trusty and well beloved William Gooch, Esqr our Lieut. Govr and Commander in Chief of our said Colony and Dominion at Williamsburgb under the Seal of our said Colony the 3rd day of October 1734 In the 8th year of our reign WILLIAM GoocH."

2 "George Hollingsworth, son of Abraham, late of Cecil Co Md., now living on the N ortb side of Opeckon Colony of Va. ; to Hannah McKay, daughter of THE JOLLIFFE FAJIJLY. 151 Fredericlf County, Virginia. They left children as follows: Joseph, married, first,~°1.?rost, and, second, Margaret Hammer in 1763 (for which he was disowned by Friends. He moved to Bush River, South Carolina, in 1768); Isaac, married Susannah Wright, and moved to Wateree, South Carolina, in 1767; Robert, born 1744, mar­ ried Susanna Rice, of Winchester, Virginia (he was disowned by Friends for scouting against Indians in 1764. He died near Win­ chester in 1799); Abraham, who married Margaret Wright and moved to Sou~~rolina and afterwards to Newbury, Ohio; Ann, who married Brock. George Hollingsworth married a second time, Jane ~{nd had children as follows: J arnes, Henry, George, John, Nathan, Susanna. In the year 1762, George sold all his property near.Winchester, and with all of his children moved to South Carolina, except Robert, who died in Virginia. From South Carolina they went to the West. Margaret, eldest daughter of Abraham Hollingsworth and Ann Robinson, his wife, was born in Cecil County, Maryland, and married, about the year 1736, Benjamin Carter,1 both then living in Virginia. They left descendants, still living near Winchester.

Robert McKay of same place, the 19th Dec. 1734 at the house of Isaac Parkins in Virginia. Witnessed by- MARY BULLER ABRAHAM HOLLINGSWORTH WM HOGE JOHN LITTLER ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH GEO HOGE Ev AN THOMAS MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH RICH HILAND JOHN BENTSRO LYDIA HOLLINGSWORTH TERA.N KELLY JOHN BULLOCK JOHN Ross SAML BRATTON JORN WOOD ISAAC HOLLINGSWORTH THOMA.S WILSON LYDIA HOLLINGSWORTH ONAN THOMAS MARY HOLLINGSWORTH BENJ SMITH MARY HOLLINGSWORTH HANNA.H MILLS ISAAC PARKINS REUBEN MILLS MARY p ARKINS WM SMITH ESTHER HARRISON DANIEL RusHON ELLIG BENSON THOMAS EADS JOSIAH CULBERT JOSIAH BALLINGER KATHERINE Ross JACOB WORTIUNGTON KATHERINE THOM.AS THOM.AS BAB M.ARY LITTLER THOMAS BR.ANSON MARY BALLINGER IaT SoBT EV.AN THOM.AS JR (This shows the earliest Friends in Virginia.)" 1 Benjamin Carter was a son of William Carter and Mary Hayhurst, his wife (who was the daughter of Cuthbert Hayhurst, of Easington, in Yorkshire, 152 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF Lydia, second daughter of Abraham Hollingsworth and Ann R 11binson, his wife, was born in Cecil County, Maryland, about the year 1718. She married Lewis Neill about the year 1737, both then residing near Winchester, Virginia. They left :five sons and one daughter, namely, Ann, married Henry Reese, 1762, and, second, John Lupton, 1776; William, married Mary Frost, July, 1761, and in 1765 moved to W ateree, South Carolina; John, married Ann Hollingsworth, daughter of Isaac and Rachel, 17-, and left nine children; Lewis, married Rachel Janney, May 5, 1774, daughter of Abel and Sarah Janney, of Loudoun, Virginia; Thomas, married Abigail Dunn ; Abraham, married Rachel W oodro, and left :five children; Rebecca never married; Joseph, married Rebecca McPher­ son, May 3, 1790, and left three children. (Of the children of Lewis Neill, only four were Friends, and they all joined the Society by request.) Isaac Hollingsworth, youngest child of Abraham and Ann Robin­ son, was born February 22, 1722, in Cecil County, Maryland. He married Rachel Parkins, in Virginia, where they both were living. She was born May 3, 1724. Isaac became a Friends' minister when about twenty-one years of age, and lived near Hopewell Meeting until the year 1757, when he moved with his family to Fairfax Meeting. A memorial of him, printed in 1787,, says he died Septem­ ber 10, 1759, aged thirty-seven. His wife died September 10, 1805; both were interred at Fairfax, Loudoun County, Virginia. They left children as follows: Abraham, was disowned for driving a wagon in the Revolutionary War; Ann, married John Neill; Lydia, married John Hough, April 9, 1772; Jonah, married Hannah Miller, January 15, 1778; Phceby, married Isaac Steer; Mary, married David Lupton, June 12, 1777. This family still resides near Winchester, Virginia, though many of its members are scattered over the West.

England, who settled in Middletown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He came over with Penn in the" Welcome." He died March 5, 1683, at the age of fifty; was imprisoned 1654 and-lfi.66, and at other times for his religious testimony). Benjamin Carter was of Bucks- Co)lnty, Pennsy I vania ; married, 1736, Margaret Hollingsworth; they had a son, Samuel Carter, born there, but removed to Frederick County, Virginia, and settled near Round Hill. He married Ann Chambers, of Frederick County, Virginia. Their son, Joseph Chambers Carter, married Elizabeth (Neill) Lupton (born 1777, died 1853), daughter of John and Ann Rees (nee Neill), bis wife, who was the daughter of Lewis and Lydia (Hollingsworth) Neill. They had children,-(1) Lydia Ann Carter (Dunn), (2) Sarah Elizabeth Carter, (3) Mary Margaret Carter, (4) Joshua Lupton Carter. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 153

1. Valentine Hollingsworth and Catherine Cornish. Came to America 1682. 2. Thomas and Margaret --. 2. Henry and Elizabeth Atkin­ son. 3. Abraham and Ann Robinson 3. Stephen and Anne --. (March 13, 1710). 4. Lydia H. and Lewis Neill 4. Lydia H. and John Ross (1737). (1 '735). Lydia and William Jolliffe, Jr. (1 '754). 5. Lewis Neill and Rachel Jan- 5. John Jolliffe and Mary Dragoo ney (1774). (1'774). 6. 1 Rebecca Neill and William 6. William Jolliffe and Rebecca Jolliffe (1799). Neill (1799). 7. William Jolliffe and Mary Ann Branham. 8. William Jolliffe and Emma Randolph Parry.

1 William Jolliffe and Rebecca Neill were fourth cousins when they married.

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WILLIAM BILES, an eminent Friend, came from Dorchester, Eng­ land, in the "Elizabeth and Sarah," and landed in New Castle County, Delaware, April 4, 1679, bringing his wife Jane At.hlnson with him. He was a justice of Upland Court, Delaware, in 1681, before Penn's arrival; was a member of the Pro-provincial Govern­ ment, June 14, 1681; was a signer of Penn's Great Charter; 1 was one of the first Council of Penn, held at Philadelphia, March 10, 1683, William Penn presiding in person. He moved to Bucks County and settled near the Delaware River.2 He was chosen a member of the Assembly from Bucks County 1686, 1689, 1694, 1696, 1704, 1708, 1710. Was treasurer in 1684 and 1704; Justice of the Peace, April 6, 1685; collector of money granted the Proprietor from Bucks County, March 28, 1704. He died in 1710. '' William Biles, with his wife Jane, children William, George, John, Elizabeth, Johanna, Rebecca, and Mary, and servants Ed ward Han­ cock and Elizabeth Perry, came from Dorchester in the 'Elizabeth and Sarah, landing the 4th of the 4th month, 1679. He was also accompanied by his brother, Charles Biles, and both were extensive landed proprietors. Their titles were derived from Andros, the

1 "An election was ordered for the 20th of February, 1682, for members of Council and Assembly, to be holden at Philadelphia, the 10th of March follow­ ing. In the proclamation addressed to 'Richard Noble, high sheriff of the County of Bucks,' he was required to 'summons all the freeholders of thy bailiwick to meet at the falls upon the Delaware river;' when William Biles, Christopher Taylor, and James Harrison were elected to the Council, and William Ya:rdly, Samuel Dark, Robert Lucas, Nicholas Walne, John Wood, John Clows, Thomas Fitzwater, Robert Hall, and James Boyden, to the As­ sembly, and whose names are signed to the great Charter." (Davis's History of Bucks County, page 65.) '' In a few days Colonel l\farkham repaired thither to enter upon his duties, bearing with him Penn's letter to the inhabitants. Markham was authorized to call a Council of nine, which met and organized the 3d of August, 1681, from which time we may date the establishment of a civil government for Pennsylvania. The seat of government was fixed at Upland, the present Chester." 2 In Battle's History of Bucks County, page 200, is the following: "1695 at a Court held by the Kings's Authority in the name of William Penn absolute Proprietary and Governor, Wm. Penn' having come to his own again' called about him in Council the old time leaders of the Province, Bucks County con­ tributing Joseph Growden, Phineas Pemberton and William Biles." 157 158 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF Engli~h Governor of New York. William was an active citizen and a distinguished preacher among Friends. The first monthly meeting in the State was held at his house. He visited friends in New England in 1698, in Ireland in 1701, and in England in 1702. He represented Bucks in the Provincial Council and in the Assem­ bly several times; and in 1700 Penn appointed him one of three Judges of a Court of Inquiry." "He lived near the Delaware not far from Morrisville, where he died in 1710." "Pemberton, Har­ rison, and Biles, with others equally prominent in the affairs of the Province, were living near Pennsbury before William Penn fixed it as his residence." (Battle's History of Bucks County.) William Biles' will was unrecorded. It is dated January 5, 1709, and contains the following bequests: "To my son, John Biles, 300 acres of land. " To my daughter, Elizabeth Hewes, wife of Matthew Hewes, the sum of 20 shillings. "To my three grandchildren, John, Mary, and Grace Beakes, the sum of 50 pounds, to be equally divided between them. "To my daughter, Johanna Beakes, the wife of Samuel Beakes, the sum of 20 shillings. "To my daughter, Rebecca Janney, the wife of Joseph Janney, the sum of 140 pounds. "To their two daughters, Martha and Ann Janney, the sum of 10 pounds, to be equally divided between them. "To my daughter Ann, the wife of Thomas Yardly, the sum of 150 pounds. "To my daughter-in-law, Martha Biles, the sum of 5 pounds. "To my three grandchildren, Johanna, Pheby, and Sarah Biles, the daughters of my children George and Martha Biles, the sum of 15 pounds, to be equally divided between them. '' To my three grand-daughters, Ann, Grace, and Sarah Biles, the daughters of my son and daughter William and Sarah Biles, the sum of 15 jJounds, to be equally divided between them. "To my sister-in-law, Mary Biles, the widow ofmy brother, Thomas Biles, of Dorchester, in the County of Dorset, in Old England, 8 pounds. "To my grandson, William Robbins, the son of my daughter Mary Robbins, the plantation where I last lived, lying betwixt the land of Anthony Benton and the land of my son John Biles. It being part of the same land I purchased of Henry Baker, by esti­ mation, about 200 acres. "To my grandchildren, Johanna and Rebecca Beakes, the daugh- THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 159 ters of my son and daughter Samuel and Johanna Beakes, the sum of 24 pounds. "To my son, William Biles, all the rest, residue of my lands in West Jersey, &c. "Signed, published, and delivered this Fifth day of the Eleventh Month, called January, 1709, in the presence of us. "JER. LANGHONE, JAS. KIRKBRIDE, ROBERT SCOTCHER." H.D.B.

(Speaking of Governor Evans) "In the Assembly, William Biles, of Bucks County, 'that pestiferous old man,' as Logan calls him, cried out, 'He is but a boy; he is not fit to be our Governor. We'll kick him out, we'll kick him out.' Whereupon the indignant officer sued Biles for slander and demanded that the Assembly expel him. This it declined to do, and accordingly it was dismissed June 23, 1705." (Keith's Prov. Council.)1 Rebecca Biles, sixth child of William Biles and Jane Atkinson his wife, was born in Dorchester, England, and came to America with her parents in 1679. She was married at Falls Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1703, to Joseph Ja~ey, son of Thomas and Margery Janney, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. They reared a large family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

1 Speaking of William," he was a man of talent and influence, and a leader." Governor Evans sued him for slander for saying of him, "he is but a boy; he is not fit to be our governor; we'll kick him out," and recovered three hundred pounds damages, but failed to collect them, although he caught Biles in Phila­ delphia, and imprisoned him a month. The governor said of him, "He very much influences that debauched County of Bucks, in which there is now scarce any one man of worth left." (See Davis's Bucks County History, page 36.) 160 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY.

1. William Biles and Jane Atkinson, of Dorchester, Dorset County, England. 2. Rebecca B_iles and Joseph Janney. 3. Abel Janney and Sarah Baker. 4. Rachel Janney and Lewis Neill. 5. Rebecca N oil! and William Jolliffe. 6. William Jolliffe and Mary Ann Branham. 7. William Jolliffe and Emma Randolph Parry. BAKER.

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"FROM Walton in Lancashire came Henry Baker and Margaret his wife and their daughters Raebel, Rebecca, Pheby, and Hester, and N atban and Samuel, their sons; Mary Becket and 10 servants named John Sidwell, Henry Sidwell, Jas. Yates, John Hunt, Thos. Ffisb, John Steadman, Thos. Canby, J osepb ~ror, Deborah Booth, and Joshua Fort." (Registry of arrivals Bucks County, 1682-1686.) Henry Baker was one of the first settlers in Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; in 1684 be lived where Taylorsville now is. His first wife died soon after his arrival in America, June 5, 1686, and he was married a second time at Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, August 13, 1692, to Mary Radcliff, widow of James Radcliff. He was dealt with by Falls Meeting in 1683 for buying a negro. The first grand jury of the county of Bucks was summoned for June session 1685 and consisted of Henry Baker, foreman, William Dark, Rich Ridgway, Thomas Atkinson, etc., twenty-two in all. In 1690 he was one of a commission to divide the county into town­ ships. He was justice of the peace January 2, 1689; a member of the Assembly from Bucks County 1685-1687, 1688-1690 and 1698. He was a large land-owner and prominent Friend and citizen. Thomas Canby, who came over as bis indentured servant, was a son of Benjamin Canby, of Thorn, Yorkshire, England. He was com­ pelled to serve four years' time to pay his passage, which then amounted to the sum of four pounds five shillings for all persons over the age of twelVQ years, and for goods thirty pounds per ton. He was the ancestor of all the Canbys in America, and became a man of great prominence and influence. He was nephew of Henry Baker. Samuel Baker, son of Henry Baker and Margaret his wife, was born in England, and came to America with his parents about the year 1683 and settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He became an extensive landed proprietor and prominent man. He was a Justice of the Peace in 1710, and was chosen a member of the Assembly from Bucks County 1710 and 1711. "Samuel Baker, of Makefield, Bucks County, Yeoman, 9 mo. 4th, 1703, son of (Henry Baker) and Raebel Warder of Falls, Bucks Co., spinster, daughter of Willoughby and -- (his wife) at Falls Meeting." (Birth and 11 163 164 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF Death Records of Bucks Co., 1680 to 1870.) "The year 1710, in Philadelphia, Willoughby Warder to Sarah Bo$yer." "William Warder was one of the first Councillors, Aug. 3, 1681."1 Samuel Baker bought of the London Company five hundred and fifty-two acres of land in Makefield, Bucks County, so late as 1722. We have no record of his death. Sarah, fifth child of Samuel Baker and Rachel Warder his wife, was born October 9, 1712, and married Abel Janney, son of Joseph 'l.nd Rebecca (Biles) Janney, at Makefield, Bucks County, August 2, 1733. They moved to Loudoun County, Virginia, and settled in l746. They had a numerous family.

1 This Willoughby Warder is sometimes spoken of as Willoughby Warder, Jr., and was the son of Willoughby Warder, Sr., was the brother of Rachel Warder, who married Samuel Baker in 1703. I believe the above William Warder, who was a first Councillor, August 3, 1681, was the father of Wil­ loughby Warder, Sr., and therefore the grandfather of Rachel (Warder) Baker. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 165

1. Henry Baker and Margaret--, from Lancastershire, England. 2. Samuel Baker and Raebel Warder. 3. Sarah Baker and Abel Janney. 4. Rachel Janney and Lewis Neill. 5. Rebecca Neill and William Jolliffe. 6. William Jolliffe and Mary Ann Branham. 7. William Jolliffe and Emma Randolph Parry.

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JANNEY.

"THOMAS JANNEY, of Stiall, in the county of Chester, England, Yeoman, and Margery, his wife, arrived in Delaware River, the 29th 7th month, 1683, in the 'Endeavor,' of London, the master.­ George Thrope. Children Jacob, Thomas, Abell, Joseph. Servants John Neild and Hannah Faulkner." "It was he who gave the ground for the old stone graveyard, a burial ground of much his­ torical local interest." He was a celebrated Friends' minister and companion of William Penn. He settled in Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and was a member of the first Friends' Meet.ing established in Bucks County. In the year 1684 he was chosen one of council of the Colony of Pennsylvania, and was re­ turned in 1685 and 1686. In the year 1686 he was made surveyor of Bucks County, an office of great responsibility. He lost his house by fire in the year 1695. '' In 1695 Falls Meeting contributed £49 towards repairing the loss of Thomas Janney by fire." Soon after this, the same year, 1695, he returned to England, where he died, February 12, 1696, at the age of sixty-three. He was several times in prison for his religious testimony. Joseph Janney, fourth son of Thomas Janney and Margery, his wife, was born in England, and landed ,in the Delaware River with his parents July 29, 1683. He sett.led in Bucks County, Pennsyl­ vania, and on June 18, 1703, was married at Falls Meeting to Re­ becca Biles, sixth child of William Biles and Jane Atkinson, his wife, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (who emigrated from Dor­ chester, England, with his family, 1679). Their home was in Make­ field Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His wife was left a good estate by her father and by friends in Old England. Almost every American family of EngliAh descent has at some time during its history been agitated by the prospect of a fortune from the mother country. Ours was not without this tradition, and through our ancestress, Rebecca Biles, it was to come. It was a very large estate, and family expectations were great, even mem­ bers in the fifth generation were to receive something like one hun­ dred thousand each. Like most of such English estates, however, it reverted to the Crown or elsewhere than the American descend- 169 170 HISTORIGAL ACCOUNT OF ants, and we have only left her name and the tale that is told, which I hereby bequeath to coming generations. Abel Janney, son of Joseph Janney and Rebecca Biles, his wife, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was born in Makefield, Bucks County, and was married August 2, 1733, to Sarah Baker, daughter of Samuel Baker and Rachel Warder, his wife, at Falls Meeting. Sarah Baker was born October 9, 171_2, and was the fifth child. On July 27, 1746, Abel Janney and his wife produced their c~rtificate of removal from Middletown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to Fair­ fax, Loudoun County, Virginia. He went back to Pennsylvania for a short time in 1748, bu.t finally made his home in Virginia, where he reared a large family of children. Abel Janney was granted by the Governor of Virginia an estate in Loudoun County. "Abel Janney, late of Pennsylvania, upon survey made by Amos Janney, 626 acres of land on Goose Creek, Prince William County, Virginia, the year 1741." (Loudoun was afterwards created from part of Prince William territory.) Rachel Janney, daughter of Abel Janney and Sarah Baker, his wife, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and married Lewis Neill, son of Lewis Neill and Lydia Hollingsworth, bis wife, May 5, 1774, and had seven children,-viz., Abel and Joseph, both of whom died young; Lydia, who married John Williams in 1804; Sarah, who married William Hunt Brown in 1801; Rebecca, who married William Jolliffe in 1799; Ann, who married Mahlon Scho­ field in 1807; and Mary, who never married, and died when eighty years old while on a visit to Swarthinor~, Virginia. .. :::?:&:!=~~x~---,-- :.. _ , -

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1. Thomas and Margery J annoy, of Stiall, Chester County, England. 2. Joseph and Rebecca (Biles) Janney. 3. Abel and Sarah (Baker) Janney. 4. Rachel Janney and Lewis Neill. 5. Rebecca Neill and William J ol!iffe. 6. William Jolliffe and Mary Ann Branham. 7. William and Emma Randolph (Parry) Jolliffe.

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O'NEILL OF UPPER CLANEBOYS.

Burke, the English genealogist and historian, tells us: "This (O'Neill) was a branch from the Milesian stock from which the extant noble family of O'Neill claims descent. The royal house of Ulster, Hugh Boy O'Neill, from whom the territories called the Claneboys, in the counties of Down and Antrim, l'eceived their name, grandson of Hugh Meyth, king of Ulster, in 1122 recovered those lands from the English which were wrested from the family at the invasion of Henry II. His descendants enjoyed them until the reign of James I., when a portion was conquered from the O'Neill,-, and more purchased by James I. Some was left in their possesesion which bas descended to the O'Neills of Shane's Castle. King James, when he instituted the order of baronet, had chiefly in view the subduing of the Clan O'Neill in Ulster, and the Ulster hand, 'the red band of O'Neill,' was given as a badge to the order. Paternally descended from Nial of the Nine Hostages, king of Ireland at the close of the fourth century, Hugh Boy O'Neill, head of the Clan O'Neill, of Ireland, subdued by James I., was given 'the red hand of O'Neill' as a badge of the order." 1 This O'Neill family had a chief castle near Antrim called Eden­ duff Carrig, now known as Shane's Castle. From this Hugh Boy O'Neill, the N eills of Virginia are descended in a direct junior line. The first line of this family is now extinct.•

1 " O'Neill. The name and origin of this family, whose history is one of the most ancient and the most interesting on record, is traced through a long line of kings and chieftains from Niul, son of the King of Scythia (1800 B.c.), whose descendant, Hermon, was the first Monarch of Ireland and founder of the Royal House of Ulster (1200 B.c. ). O'Nial the Great, fifty-third in descent from Hermon, is said to have brought St. Patrick captive to Ireland from the banks of the Loyre, and the Redhand of O'Neil was the badge granted to the order of Baronets on its institution by James First. Charles First granted a baronetcy to the O'Neill of Clanaboys for gallantry at Edge Moor. Residence, Shane's Castle." (Burke's Extinct Families.) 2 "O'Neill (Claneboy or Olan Aedh Buidhe), descended from Hugh Dubh O'Neill, died 1230, second son of Hugh Macconeh O'Neill, Prince of Tyrone, from Hugh Buidhe O'Neill, grandson of Hugh D.!;ibh O'Neill. This line were 175 176 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF The first Friends' Meeting organizeir residence in the Valley of Virginia. We have no record of William ever having moved from Pennsylvania, nor do we know where his descendants reside.1 John first settled on the banks of the Opecquon Creek, at what is known as the Spout Spring, now in Clarke County, Virginia. His brother Lewis fixed bis home on the banks of the same stream about· a mile and a half farther down, at a point now familiarly designated the Claneboy O'Neills. They had their chief seat at Edenduff­ carrick, now Shane's Castle, County Antrim. "Arms.-Per fess., wavy, the chief argent, the base representing waves of the sea. in chief a dexter hand, couped at the wrist gules: in base a salmon naiant ppr. " Crest.-An arm in armour embowed, the hand grasping a sword, all ppr. "Motto.-' Lamb dearg Eirin.'" (Burke.) 1 In the General Land Office, Richmond, Virginia, I find that "William Neill of Frederick County was granted 400 acres on tbe north side of Opeckon Creek, and on the west side of Abraham's Creek, October 6, 1750." This must have been the immigrant William Neill. "William Neill of Hamrshire County had a grant on south side of Cacapon River, surveyed by John Mawzy, Sep­ tember 29, 1766." I can find no further allusion to him. I presume he moved South or West. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 177 known as the Burnt Factory.1 The lands in the Valley being all prairies and covered with grass, the early immigrants sought the banks of the streams on which to build their homes, because of the

1 "George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c To all to whom these presents shall come Greet­ ing. Know ye that for divers good causes & considerations but more especially for and in consideration of the sum of Forty shillings of good & lawful money for our use paid to our Receiver General of our Revenues in this our Colony and Dominion of Virginia We have given granted and confirmed and by these presents for us, our Heirs & Successors do give grant and confirm unto Lewis Neal and John Neal one certain tract or parcel of land containing 400 acres lying & being in that part of Orange County called Augusta on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains and on a branch of the South River of Shanando called Boons Run & bounded as followth to wit: "Beginning at a spanish oak, a walnut & white oak on a ridge &c.... to the Beginning. With all woods underwoods swamp Marshes Lowgrounds, Meadows Feedings and their due share of all veins, mines and Quarries as well as discovered as not discovered within the bounds aforesaid and being part of the said Quantity of 400 acres of Land and the Rivers Waters and watercourses therein contained together with the privileges of hunting hawking Fishing Fowling and all other profits commodities and Hereditaments whatsoever to the same or any part there of belonging or in any wise appertaining. To have hold possess and Enjoy the said tract or parcel of land and all other the before Granted premise and every part there of with their and every of their appur­ tenances unto the said Lewis N ea! and John Neal and to their heirs and as­ signs forever To the only use & bchoof of them the sd Lewis Neal & John Neale their heirs & assigns forever To be held of us our heirs and successors as of our Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and common soccage and not in ... Capite or by Knights service Yielding and Paying unto us our heirs and successors forever 50 acres of land and so proportionably for a lesser or greater Quantity than 50 acres the Fee rent of one shilling Yearly to be paid upon the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch Angel and also culti­ vating and improving 3 acres part of every 50 of the Tract above mentioned within 3 years after the date of these presents. Provided always that if 3 years of the said Fee rent shall at any time be in arrear and unpaid or if the said Lewis Neal and John Neal their heirs or assign do not within the space of 3 years next coming after the date of these present cultivate and improve 3 acres part of every 50 of the tract above mentioned Then the Estate her~by Granted shall cease and be utterly determined and thereafter it shall and may b,e lawful to and for us our heir and successors to grant the same Lands & premises with the appurtenances unto such other person or persons as we our heirs and successors shall think fit. In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters Patent to be made . . . Witness our Trusty and well beloved James Blair Clerk President of our Council and Commander in Chief of our said' Colony and Dominion at Williamsburgh under the seal of our said Colony the 1st day of December 1740 In the 14th year of our Reign "JAMES BLAIR." 178 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF proximity of wood and water, taking up the rich prame lands as farms. Lewis at first made his home in a small cave on the banks of this stream until such time as he was able to rear and complete the large, old-fashioned, hipped-roof house, still standing (at that day considered the finest in the county), in which he resided until his death. These brothers, though members of the Society of Friends in Ireland, did not bring their certificates with them, and were not actually members of the Society afterwards, though they always leaned towards that body in religious belief.1 Lewis soon began to acquire property by grants from the Crown, and from Lord Fairfax; and by purchase. Re built a large grist-mill near his house, one of the first in the county, and opened his house as an ordinary, as did moRt of the gentlemen of that day, the popu­ lation being sparse and scattered.3 Re was largely engaged in

1 Lewis Neill was chosen one of the very first vestrymen of the Episcopal Church in the Valley of Virginia, his associates being Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Morgan Morgan, Isaac Perkins, Gabriel Jones, etc. This was in the year 1752. "The Vestries consist of twelve of the most substantial and intelligent per­ sons in each Parish and the Minister." (Hugh Jones, Present State of Vir­ ginia.) 2 "July 5th, 1758. "DEAR GEORGE : "Mr. Neil has been with me and complains that Joseph Carter takes in all the water, which very much hurts his plantation. He desires if he have 30 or 40 acres which I really think is very reasonable. He likewise desires his brothers and his deeds may be made seperate. I should be likewise glad if some Golden Pipin, Nonpreil, Arom:J.tic, and Medlar Apple grafts by him, which he will take care to convey to me. My service attend Mrs. Fairfax and all friends. I remain Yours, F AIRF.A.X." Mr. Neill was an Irish Quaker settled on the Opequon, about five miles from Winchester, and was Sheriff of Frederick County. A descendant of his, Lieu­ tenant Lewis Neill, a graduate of West Point, distinguished himself in the Mexican War, and died at ]'ort Crogan, Texas.'' (Neill's Fairfaxes of Vir­ ginia.) The above Joseph Carter came from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 17 43, and settled on the Opecq uon Creek. This Golden Pippin apple that Lord Fairfax alludes to was a large yellow apple, very juicy and of fine flavor; it is grown in great profusion on the famous Apple-pie Ridge, Virginia. The exiled Friends of the Revolution as,isted our uncle, William H. Brown's father, to plant an orchard of this fruit, which is still in bearing, though the trees are over one hundred years old. We have two of these apples preserved by the old-fashioned process of sticking them full of cloves. 3 The following petition was addressed by the inhabitants of Frederick County to the Governor in 1739: "To the Hon. Wm. Gooch Esq. His Majesties Lieut. Gov. and Commander in Chief of Virginia and to the Hon. His Majesties Council. The Humble Petition of ye Inhabitants of Frederick Co. Humbly showeth. That whereas THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 179 business of a mercantile character, trading in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, and is said to have occasionally dabbled in slaves. He soon became one of the acknowledged leaders among the early settlers. In the year 1743 the settlements lrnd so rapidly increased, upon a petition of the leading citizens, "His Excellency, William Gooch, Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the colony and province of Virginia, by the grace of his most gracious MajeBty, our Sovereign Lord, George II., King, defender of the your Honl. Petitioners Have labored under very great hardships for some time past by being obliged to attend Orange Court for justice some of us having one Hundred and none of us less than fifty miles to travel thereto and the extinsive­ ness of ye said County occasions so much business that we are obliged to waite three days and often times return without doing any thing. This difficulty of obtaining Justice has not only been very expensive to us but has been the cause of many crimes going unpunished and has been one means of encour­ aging persons of scandalous life and conversation to go at large among us to our no small trouble. Yet under all these hardships we are a flourishing settlement and were they removed we hope that by our industry and inducing more man­ ufactures we may become with a small encouragement a benefit to the Colony. We therefore humbly pray that your Hon. will take our case into your con­ sideration and grant that ye said County of Frederick may immediately take place and your Honl. Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c.

Jos HUTTON HENRY FUNK JOHN LITTLER JOHN BRYAN EPHRAIM COWGILL JOHN HARDIN JOHN DOWNTON FORT Booy DOLLINGER MEREDITH HELM ROBT McPHERSON CHRIST DOLLINGER LEWIS NEILL Taos HANKONS FRED DOLLINGER JR JOHN LINDSAY ROBT. McKAY JR GEO DOLLINGER JOHN NEILL JOHN BRANSON J A.COB HACKMAN JAMES LUlVI JOHN FLEMINGWAY PETER BOWMAN JOHN PARKER ROBT. McF.A.ISON JED HACKMAN JOHN VANE JOHN WILLCOX JACOB HACKMAN JR CHARLES H.ANDGIN JACOB FUNK JOHN DENTON ISAAC FOSTER JOHN FUNK RICHD TEDWORTH Taos SWEARENGEN CRIST BLANK RALPH CROSTER JOSEPH BALLINGER JOHN KOLNIG ISAAC p ARKINS JOHN FUNK JR ROBT WENTZ PETER STOUFFER PETER STEGSBORN JACOB FUNK JR JOHN CousSON HENRY FUNK JR THOS DOSTER JAMES HITE CHAS BEEKON JAMES McKEE WM HORGUTTON JosF.PH CARTER." 180 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF faith, etc.," issued commissions as Justices of the Peace nnd of the County Court in Chancery to" our trusty and well beloved Morgan Morgan, Benjamin Bordon, Thomas Chester, David Vance, Andrew Campbell, Marq_uis Calm:'l, Thomas Rutherford, Lewis Neill, William Mc11achen, Meredith Helm, George Hoge, John White, and Thomas Little, gentlemen," accompanied by a dedimus for the administering of the oath of office to the appointees. On November 11, 1743, the gentlemen met at the house of Jame8 1Vood, just west of what is the centre of the present town of Win• chester. Having met, Morgan Morgan and David Vanl'e adminis• tered the oath to the others named in the commission, who, having taken their seats as Justices for Frnderick County, appointed James Wood clerk of the court and Thomas Rutherford high sheriff. George Home was appointed surveyor. It was" ordered that the sheriff build a twelve foot square log house logged above and below to secure his prisoners, he agreeing to be satisfied with whatever shall be allowed him for such building by two of the court and he not to be responsible for escapes." 1 On May 12 of the same year Thomas Chester, David Vance, I,iewis Neill, and others were appointed to take a list of the titha­ bles. On September 8, 1748, Duncan O'Gullion, having finished the jail for the sheriff, Thomas Rutherford, was paid by the Justices the sum of eighty pounds. The committee to decide upon the strueture and the price to be paid were James \Vood, George Johnston, Lewis Neill, and William McMachen. On March 9, 1743, James Wood entered into an obligation with the Gentlemen J ustiees of the coiu,ty of Frederick, of whom Lewis Neill was one, to lay off a certain tract of land and donate the same for a town to be called Winches­ ter or Fredericktown.2 This land was added to by Lord Fairfax, and in February, 1752, the General Assembly passed an act for e8tablisbing the town of Winchester, and appointed fairs to be held therein.

1 "The General Court was composed of the Governor, as President, and twelve members of Council, all appointed by the King." "The County Courts were composed of gentlemen of the County appointed Judges by the Governor, eight or more in number; four constituted a quorum. They were Courts of probate." (Brock, vol. i., Spottswood Papers.) 2 Tradition has it that James Wood and Lewis Neill were both anxious to found the new town on their own lands. Wood's site was to be the present t;own of Winchester, the Shawnee Springs to supply the water. Neill's site was to be near the present Clear Brook st~ion of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, the lands held by Ross, Littler, Jolliffe, etc., and the water-supply to come from the famous Ross (or Washington, as now called) spring. After various conferences J , //l ,.,·'/ I

THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 181 Lewis Xcill was commissioned sheriff of Frederick County by Lewis Burrell, presi

County, 990 acres on east side of Opeckon Creek, October 13, 1756." "Grant to Lewis Neill, 390 acres, January 3, 1754." "Grant to Lewis Neill, 76 aC'res in Frederick County, October 15, 1756." '' Grant to Capt. Lewis Neill, of Fred­ erick County, 616 acres on the drains of Opeckon, February 1, 1765." "Grant to Capt. Lewis Neill, of Frederick County, 520 acres on the drains of Opeckon, February 2, 1765." "Grant to Lewis Neill of 392 acres on Opeckon, August 25, 1766," and many others. 1 "Alexander Ross asked to have a Meeting for Worship established at Opeckon by Monthly Meeting at East Nottingham, held 3rd Mo. 18th, 1734. Meeting was ordered for Opeckon 11 Mo., 1734-5. Friends were requested to be unanimous in selection of the place where to be held, and to build them a house.'' It is likely Hopewell was so named from Hopewell in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, from which place many of the early Friends came to Virginia. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 183 between his children and bis wife Anne. His brother Lewis Neill and Isaac Hollingsworth, son of Abraham Hollingsworth, were named as executors. His sons all died prior to the year 1773, and his daughter Margaret, who married Meredith Helm, was the grandmother of Frances Helm who afterwards married John Jolliffe and left a large family in Virginia and Baltimore, Mary­ land.

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Family Record of the Children of Lewis Neill and Lydia Hollingsworth.

Anne married, first, Henry Rees, son of Thomas and Margaret Rees, of Frederick County, August 26, 1762, by whom she had children: Lydia, born October 10, 1764; Gideon, born November 30, 1766; Lewis, born November 16, 1768; and Margaret, born February 14, 1771. She married, secondly, John Lupton June 13, 1776, and by him left two children, Elizabeth and Jonah. Her father left her by will a large farm during her natural life, but to revert to her two children, Lydia and Lewis Rees, at her death. Also household furniture and one hundred pounds current money. She joined the Society of Friends by request. We have no date of her death. William Neill,1 second child of Lewis Neill and Lydia Hollings­ worth, was married to Mary Frost July, 1761. He and bis children, who were Friends, moved to Wateree Meeting, South Carolina, May 6, 1765. In that State some of his descendants are still to be found. His father made no provision for him in his will. John Neill, third child of Lewis Neill and Lydia Hollingsworth, married Anne Hollingsworth, who was born June 12, 1751, and was the daughter of Isaac Hollingsworth and Rachel Parkins, his wife. They bad nine children, namely, Rachel, who married a Carter; Ruth, who married a Miller; Lydia, who died young; Phoobe, who married a Chandler, and afterwards Wharton; Mary, who married a Taylor; Isaac, who died single; Lewis, who married a Parkins; 'fbomas, who married Mary McPherson (daughter of John and Hannah, of Berkley County, in 1804); and Abraham, who died single. His father left him a large tract of land situated in what is now Clarke County, a negro man named Forrester, a house and lot in Winchester, and a sum of money to be paid out

1 "Decembel' 13th, 1773, Lewis Neill bought of John Neill, son of William Neill who was son of Lewis Neill (the elder), 400 acres of land granted to Lewis Neill by Lord Fairfax November 15th, 1757." From this it would appear his son John did not go to South Carolina, at least not at the time of his own removal. This William was probably named after the father of the three im­ migrants, and it is probable their mother's name was Ann. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 185 of his movable estate. Some of these lands are held by his descendants to this day. John Neill was not a Friend, though his wife was. Lewis Neill, third son of Lewie Neill and Lydia Hollingsworth, married Rachel Janney, daughter of Abel and Sarah (Baker) Jan­ ney, of Loudoun County, Virginia, May 5, 1774, and by her had two sons, Abel and Joseph, both of whom

1 "John Williams, son of William Williams and Elizabeth (--), of Lou­ don County, Virginia, to Lydia Neill daughter of Lewis and Rachel Neill, of Frederick County, Virginia, May 10th, 1804. Witnesses­ LYDIA Ross REBECCA JOLLIFFE LEWIS NEILL SARAH BROWN SUSANNA JANNEY RACHEL NEILL SAML BROWN WILLIAM JOLLIFFE JOSEPH NEILL MARY REES WM H. BROWN ANN NEILL MAH LON JANNEY ISAAC BROWN JR ABEL NEILL. SARAH JANNEY and others." Of the children of John and Lydia Williams, who lived in Loudoun County, Virginia, only one son, William, who was twice married and has a family, and one daughter, Rachel, who never married, are now living. "William Williams was admitted to the Society of Friends at Fairfax Meet­ ing, Loudon County, Virginia, 7 Mo. 26th 1747 ;" was probably the father of the above William Williams. He came from Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, 1746. I think he was a son of John Williams, a prominent man of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, who joined Friends and began to preach (1694), for which he was arrested by the authorities and otherwise molested. At his death his sons sold their possessions and moved to Catholic Maryland to avoid these annoy­ ances. His wife was Sarah. •"William Hunt Brown, son of Isaac and Sarah, to Sarah Neill, daughter of Lewis and Rachel Neill, of Frederick County, Virginia, Dec. 17th, 1801. Witnesses- SARAH ZANE ABEL NEILL ISAAC BROWN EsTHER BROWN JOSEPH NEILL LEWIS NEILL MEREDITH HELM MARY NEILL RACHEL NEILL FRANKY HELM THOMAS NEILL LYDIA NEILL ISAAC NEILL RUTH NEILL ANN NEIL_L JR and others." REBECCA NEILL THOMAS BROWN WILLIAM JOLLIFFE MARY BROWN REBECCA JOLLIFFE Isaac Brown was a son of Daniel Brown and Susanna his wife (who was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and came to the Valley of Virginia in 1774); he was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1746; his father 186 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF and died September 9, 1805 ; Rebecca, who married William Jolliffe (son of Captain John Jolliffe and Mary Dragoo), September 12, 1799; Ann, who married Mahlon Schofield 1 (son of J obn and Raebel, of Prince George County, Maryland), March 5, 1807; and Mary Neill, who died a single woman when quite old. By his

Daniel died December 26, 1790. Sarah Brown, wife of Isaac, was the daughter of William and(--) Ballinger; was born March 8, 1752, at New Market, Maryland. She died in Virginia, October 9, 1805; married March 3, 1777. William Hunt Brown was born October 4, 1779, and died at Mulberry Grove Farm in 1865; had children by first wife, Sarah Neill, namely, Rachel and Sarah; was married, secondly, to Martha, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Rees) Wilson, August 6, 1810, by whom he left Jane C., Rebecca W., Eliza, Wilson L., Elisan, and Catherine. (Jane Rees was daughter of David, of Chester County, Pennsylvania, born November 29, 1758.) 1 "Mahlon Schofield, of Alexandria, son of John, deceased, and Rachel, of Prince George County, Maryland, and Ann Neill, daughter of Lewis and Rachel Neill, of Frederick County, Virginia, March 5, 1807. Witnesses- DAVID Ross LEWIS NEILL JoN.A'tHAN Ross RACHEL NEILL LYDIA Ross ABEL NEILL ELIZABETH JOLLIFFE BRUCE JOSEPH NEILL RACHEL BRUCE LYDIA NEILL GEORGE BRUCE WILLIAM JOLLIFFE and others." REBECCA BUTCHER

Elizabeth Schofield, daughter of Mahlon, married Joseph Janney Hopkins (son of Samuel and Hannah and brother of Johns Hopkins, of West Shore, Maryland), was born in 1793. They left sons, Lewis Neill Hopkins, married Josephine Hoge and Lucy Braxton; Gerard, married, 1874, Emily R, daughter of Nicholas and Henrietta Snowden; Samuel, married, 1877, Patty, daughter of John M. and Elizabeth Smith, of Baltimore, Maryland; and Joseph Scho­ field, married Nettie, daughter of John and Annette Hopkins, of Mount Holly, New Jersey. All have children. Ann Schofield, daughter of Mahlon, never married; died an elderly lady. William married Jane Hartshorne, of Philadelphia, and has a family of sons and daughters living in Howard County, Maryland. Rachel married Isaac Hoge, of Virginia, and left a family. "John Schofield, of Buckinghamshire, England, settled in Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, when a young man, probably before 1720. ' He was married at Falls Meeting to Ann Lenoire, a French Huguenot lady, who had been banished from Acadia. They had nine children, from whom have descended a numerous offspring in this and other States. ,John Schofield was the great-grandfather of Joseph Fell, of Buck­ ingham, who descends in the maternal line from Samuel the fourth, son of the first progenitor in the county." The above John Schofield was no doubt the grandfather of Mahlon Schofield, of Prince George County, Maryland, and Alexandria, Virginia. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 187 father's will he was given a large tract of land in Frederick County, with a iiour-mill, which place was known as Swarthmore. George Fox's home, Swarthmore, in England, received its name as follows: "Swarthmore was so called after Swartz Moor, who established a military recruiting camp there, with a German army, 1487, to try wrest the crown from King Henry the Seventh. He was supported by Sir Thomas Broughton." Lewis also received the large farm on which his father resided in Clarke County and a sum of money out of bis movable estate. Lewis seems to have been a favorite child with his father. He joined the Society of Friends, February 4, 1771, just prior to his mar­ riage, and was ever afterwards known as a strict member. He was an educated business-man, attending to his farms and mills, and act­ ing as executor for his father's estate, his sister's and his brother's, and other relations. He was a surveyor in good practice. "The land system of Virginia was early placed under the con­ trol of the College authorities of 'William and Mary College,' who appointed all county surveyors, and also the Surveyor-General, who represented the economic interests of the institution and took cer­ tain fees for its support. Washington received such an appoint­ ment in 1749, his first official appointment. The form of these commissions as ~ public surveyor was as follows: ' We, the presi­ dent and professors of the College of William and Mary, do certify his Excellency, the Governor, that we have examined Sam'l Taylor, and, having found him properly qualified, we do nominate him to the office of surveyor of the County of Cumberland. "' Given under our hands and the seals of the College this 2nd day of August, 1782. "' T. MADISON, President. T. McCLUNG. ROBT. ANDREWS. Cns. BELLINI.'"

Such an appointment in the colonial days of Virginia was the equivalent of a degree in "Civil Engineering." (History, College William and Mary.) I have in my possession the old surveyor's compass used by Lewis Neill, an instrument beautifully made and in perfect work­ ing order. It was rµade by Goldsmith Chandlee, of Winchester, and contains both his name and that of L. Neill on its face. It is to be transmitted to the eldest male in the family studying or practising engineering. 188 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF Lewis Neill enlarged the old house at Swarthmore by building a large stone addition about the year 1800. The old mill was aban­ doned because of difficulty with the water during his lifetime. The little log house once occupied by the miller still stands, and was the residence of Uncle John and Mammie Eliza Allen, colored. While residing at his old home, at Opecquon Creek, he entertained the Fishers and other exiled Friends during the Revolutionary War. This was when he was a young man. In the ninety-fifth year of his age he thus described those times to William Evans, who was on a religious visit to Virginia, in 18-U. "He told us that three of the Friends who were banished from Philadelphia in the Revolution were billeted at his house. The trials of that day, he remarked, none could have a conception of except those who witnessed them." Kercheval, who wrote the first" History of the Shenandoah Valley," spent much time at his house gathering information for his work. I have in my possession an interesting inventory of clothing, books, etc., left by Dr. Drewett Smith, one of these Friends at his house. This is written out in a remarkably neat, round hand, and signed Lewis Neill. His wife died March 27, 1812, and was buried at Hopewell Graveyard, and he afterwards made his home with his daughter Rebecca and her family. My sister has in her possession a large silver tablespoon, marked "B. E.,'' which belonged to a Hessian officer named Barney Eccles. He gave it to Rachel Neill as a token of his gratitude for some kindness he had received from her during the Revolutionary War. vVhat the service was has been lost in the lapse of time, but the spoon has been handed down in the family as a cherished relic of this great-grandmother. Lewis was a tall, handsome man, very erect in bis carriage even in old age, and his intellect was remarkably clear. He possessed a host of friends. His death occurred November 16, 1841, when he was in his ninety-fifth year. His remains were interred at Hope­ well, beside those of his wife. Thomas, fourth son of Lewis Neill and Lydia Hollingsworth, his wife, mart"ied Abigail Dunn, June 28, 1787. They were married by Christian Streit, a Methodist minister. They left no children. His mind was weak, and he relied upon his brother Lewis to care for him. By his father's will he was left a fine estate in Frederick County, a negro man named Harry, his son Samuel and his daugh­ ter Catherine with her two ehildren, and a complete outfit of household and farming utensils. After his death his brother-in­ law Lupton made his will, leaving all his property to the Lupton family. This will Lewis and the other heirs contested for a long

THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 189 time, but it was finally decided against them. By this means the Luptons acquired many of the fine estates on Apple-pie Ridge held by them. Abraham, fifth son of Lewis N em and Lydia Hollingsworth, married Rachel W oodroo and left five children, namely, Lewis, who married Cortina Baker and left nine children (their estates were situated near Du:ffield's Depot, Berkley County, West Virginia); Thomas, who died unmarried; Lydia, who died when a child; William and Joseph,1 who both died unmarried. Joseph inherited the larger part of his father's estate, and died when quite an elderly man during the late war. He was always known to us as Cousin Jo Neill. He left fine estates at Newtown and in Winchester. Abraham Neill was perhaps the most polished of all the sons, was of a firm character and very determined when his mind was once made up. He added largely to his inherited estates, which were mostly south of Winchester. He was not a Friend. His father left him the large tract of land he bought of his brother John, and a tract of land in Berkley County, purchased of Thomas Hart, a house and lot in the town of Winchester, purchased of Isaac Parkins, and other lands, a negro woman named Hannah and her child, and a complete outfit of farming implements. Joseph, sixth son of Lewis Neill and Lydia Hollingsworth, married, April 7, 1790, Rebecca McPherson, daughter of Daniel McPherson, and by her had three children, namely, Lydia, who died single in the town of Winchester when eighty-four years of age; Lewis, married September 20, 1815, to Anne Stribbling (who died December 24, 1847, aged fifty-two, and was buried at Berry­ ville, Clarke County. They left children); and Mary, married Thomas Huck, and had Richard, Lewis, and Mary Huck. Richard Huck married Mary Stabler, and has a family of children. (His daughter Charlotte married George J. Jolliffe, son of Joseph N. and Sa-rah Jolliffe, of Swarthmore). Lewis married a lady from

1 ''Mr.John Hite in the year 1785 built the first brick house ever erected west of the Blue Ridge. This is a small one-story building, and is now owned by the heirs of the late Abraham Neill, at the north end of Newtown, in the County of Frederick." 11 Richard Morgan, a Welshman from Pennsylvania, was the first white man to settle and build a home west of the Blue Ridge and south of the Potomac; his home was on the river near where Sheppardstown, West Virginia, now is." 11 1751 James Wilson built a stone house at Kernstown, Jacob Chrisman one south of Stephensburg, and George Bowman and Paul Froman on Cedar Creek. 1758, John Hite built a large stone house where Mrs. Barton afterwards lived." 190 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF Mobile, Alabama, Eliza ClitherellJones. He is a prominent lawyer residing in Winchester. Mary died unmarried at her brother's house in Winchester. Joseph Neill joined the Society of Friends by request. His children never joined. His wife was a Friend. By his father's will he was left a fine tract of land south of Winchester, and also a tract of land adjoining his brother Lewis, near Swarthmore, a sum of money out of his movable estate, a negro man named Daniel, with his wife and two children, and a complete outfit of farming and household utensils. Lewis Neill directed, after the above legacies and his just debts were paid, that the remainder of his estate should be sold and equally divided between his five sons, and "desired that his children may not sell or dispose of his negroes out of the family." He appointed his five sons executors of his last will and testament. This will was drawn August 10, 1775, and probated March 5, 1776. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 191

1. Lewis Neill, of Lurgan, Ireland, and Virginia, and Lydia Hollings worth. 2. Lewis Neill and Rachel Janney. 3. Rebecca Neill and William Jolliffe. 4. William Jolliffe and Mary Ann Branham. 5. William Jolliffe and Emma Randolph Parry.

DRAGOO.

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THE Dragoo family is of French Huguenot descent, and came to America with the great numbers of that faith after their dispersion in Europe. Where this particular family first settled in this country is not certainly known. Like all such foreigners, they seem to have been for a long while placed at a great disadvantage, compared with their neighboring English emigrants, and were not able to acquire much property. Peter Dragoo was a farmer of Frederick County, Virginia, own­ ing a farm northeast of Winchester some years before the Revolu­ tionary War. His wife was named Mary, and they had several children. In the court records of Frederick County I find, "May 6th, 1773, Elizabeth Jolliffe, widow of William Jolliffe, brought an action against Peter Dragoo, which case she won, and the Sheriff sold 30 sheep and 65 gallons of whiskey belonging to said Dragoo, to satisfy said debt." "March 3d, 1773, Peter Dragoo brought an action against Tristram Ewing by which he recovered quite a large debt with interest from June 14th, 1768. Plaintiff out of the Colony, so John Nevil! his attorney paid the debt." "Jone 7, 1774, William Dragoo recovered a debt from James Tash.'' This was a son of Peter Dragoo and brother to Mary. "A Mrs. Dragoo was killed by Indians in what is now West Virginia; in 1786, her son a small boy was taken prisoner, and kept twenty years." I am in­ clined to think this was the widow of one of the sons of Peter Dragoo . . Mary Dragoo, daughter of Peter Dragoo and Mary his wife, was born in Frederick County, Virginia, and when a young lady married, in 1774, John Jolliffe, who was afterwards a captain in the Revolu­ tionary army. She is said to have been a tall, graceful, and strik­ ingly beautiful woman. They were married by a Methodist minis­ ter, against the wishes of his step-mother, Elizabeth Jolliffe. This marriage seems to have been made in the face of strenuous opposi­ tion from his family, but appears to have been strictly a love-match. In letters and even in his will he speaks of his young wife Mary with the greatest affection. She was a woman of great strength of character, determination, and lovable disposition. In her old age, as "Grandmother Steed," she was looked upon with the greatest respect and love by her family, and her death was mourned by a 195 196 HISTORWAL ACCOUNT OF large circle of friends and acquaintances. After the death of her husband, J obn Jolliffe, in 1776, she married Captain John Steed, who had been a friend of Captain Jolliffe and a very distinguished Revo­ lutionary officer. By her first husband she bad two children, John Jolliffe, born February 26, 1775, and William Jolliffe, born September 21, 1776. By her second husband she never had children; he died about the year 1800, she surviving him many years until May 24, 1834. She was entitled to two pensions for Revolutionary services of her two husbands, which were granted by lands in Ohio to John J o11iffe, and lands at Sir Joh n's Run, Virginia, to John Steed.

"(No. 825 Warrant.) COUNCIL CH.A.MBER, June 14, 1783. "I do certify that the Representative of John Jolliffe, deed., is entitled to the proportion of Land allowed a Lieutenant of the Virginia Continental Line for three years' Service.

" BENJAMIN HARRISON. THOS. MERRIWEATHER.

"A warrant for 2666i- acres issued to John Jolliffe, Heir at Law to J obn Jolliffe, deed. "June 14, 1783."

"(No. 886 Warrant.) COUNCIL CH.A.MBER, June 13, 1783. "I do certify that Capt. John Steed is entitled to the proportion of Land allowed a Captain of the Virginia Continental Line for three years' service. "BENJAMIN HARRISON. THos. MERRIWEATHER.

"A warrant for 4000 acres issued to John Steed, June 14, 1783."

"(No. 4917 Warrant.) COUNCIL CHAMBER, Dec. 12, 1798. " John Steed is entitled to the additional proportion of Land allowed a Captain of the Continental Line for the 7th year's ser­ vice. "JAMES WOOD. SAML. COLEMAN.

"A warrant No. 4917, for 666¾ acres issued unto said John Steed on the 14th of September, 1799, and delivered to H. Dunscomb." "Lewis Walker, as administrator for the estate of Elizabeth Jolliffe, brought a suit against John Steed as guardian of John Jolliffe, his step-son, the year 1784." Mary Dragoo was a consistent and valued member of the Meth­ odist Church, as was her second husband, Captain Steed. After his THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 197 death she made her home with her eldest son, John Jolliffe, at Clear Brook Farm, in Frederick County, Virginia.1

1 " One of the earliest travelers down the Delaware was George Fox, the emi­ nent Friend.... He reached the river the evening of the 10th of September, 1672; staid all night at the house of Peter Jegow, at Leasy Point, and the next morning crossed over to Burlington island, and then to the main land just above Bristol." "Burlington was built upon an island, which is now joined to the main land. How early it was settled by Europeans we cannot tell, but before 1666 three Dutchmen, Julian Marcelis, Cornelius Jorissen, and Jan Claessen, had purchased all or part of it, and built a house or two upon it. They sold to Peter Jegow, who owned seventeen hundred acres in all. In a note, appended to the permit Governor Lovelace gave to J egow in 1668, it is stated that certain Dutchmen settled there long before the country fell into the hands of the Eng­ lish. Jegow bought part of his land of the Indians. He gave the name to the island, ' Chygoe' being only a corruption of his own. In all our research no name approaching it has been found. In 1670 Jegow was driven from his land by Indians, and remained away several years. Two Friends, Thomas Wright and Godfrey Hancock, entered upon Jegow's land and occupied it. They re­ fused to vacate when notified, and suit was brought in Upland Court to recover it, which was tried in December, 1679, with a verdict for Jegow. He sold out to Thomas Bowman. In November, 1678, Jegow was a deputy from the Delaware River portion of New Jersey to the Assembly at Elizabethtown. It was a noted place on the Delaware. In 1668, Governor Carteret granted permission to Peter Jegow to take up land there on condition that he would settle and erect a house of entertainment for travelers. This he agreed to do, and at the point he opened the first tavern on the river, a famous hostelry in its day." (See" Davis's His­ tory of Bucks County," page 43.) I am firmly of the belief this Peter Jegow, or Chegow, or Dragoo, was a French Huguenot from New York, and was the ancestor of Peter Dragoo, of Virginia.-W. J. 198 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY.

1. Peter and Mary Dragoo, of Frederick County, Virginia, 2. Mary Dragoo and John Jolliffe. 3. William and Rebecca (Neill) Jolliffe. 4. William and Mary Ann (Branham) Jolliffe. 5. William and Emma Randolph (Parry) Jolliffe. BRANHAM.

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THE family of Branham, or, as it is sometimes spelled, Bramham, was long resident in West Riding, Yorkshire, England. In the highlands of West Riding is to be found the Parish and Manor of Bramham. In this parish is Bl'amham Church, the earlie;;t register of which begins in 1592. The Manor, presided over by Bramham Hall, beautifully situated among the highlands, was a Crown Manor, which it continued to be till the year 1678. The name signifies "high pastures.'' The first of the name found in Virginia was one Rivhard Bran­ ham, who as early as October 14, 1665, obtained from the Crown a grant for two hundred and forty acres of land on the north side of Rappahannoek River and the western side of Totoskey Creek, in Richmond County. In the Land Office at Richmond, Virginia, is to be found "a grnnt to Richard Branham, of Rappahannock County (then embracing what is now Richmond County), 271 acres on the north west side of Totoskey Creek, about a mile and a half from the creek. Adjoins the land now in the occupation of the said Branham, August 19, 1691." Also a "grant to Richard Branham, of Richmond County, 101 acres in the County of Richmond and Parish of North Farnham. Being the surplus of a patent belong­ ing to the said Richard Branham, near Totoskcy Creek, Nov. 23, 1714." In the court reeords of Richm0nd County, in a deposition of·Richard Branham, taken in 1712, he is spoken ofas an "ancient man.'' In an abstract of a deed from Richard Branham and Debo­ rah B. Branham, his wife, to Thomas Gladman, dated March 30, 1693, "For 2000 pounds of tobacco and cash conveys 100 acres of woodland." In the year 1714 he conveys to his youngest son, John Branham, two hundred and seventy-one acres of land that had been granted him. The laws of primogeniture being then in full force, it would appear this was a provision for the maintenance of a younger rnn after marriage. The following is an abstract of his will: "Richard Branham, senr., of the County of Richmond and Parish of North Farnham," etc. Dated April 4, 1728, and admitted to probate May 1, 1728, in a court held for Richmond County. "Item, I give to my son, Richard Branham, my gunn and Sea Chist and a Gold ring, which posey is memento mori." "Item, I give to my 201 202 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF son, John Branham, Ten Shillings to buy him a ring.'' "Item, I give to my wife all the rest of my personal estate to her own dis­ posing." "Item, I give all my land to my loving wife during her natural life. She making no waste thereon, nor destroy nor make use of any more than is necessary for the use of the plantation, and after which life as above being determined, it is my will and desire and I do give all my land and every part and parcel thereof to my son, Richard Branham, and his heirs forever." Ann Bran­ ham was appointed executrix. From this will it appears he was twice married, his first wife being Deborah B. and the last wife Ann Branham. His two sons, Richard and John, survived him. I find at a court held for Richmond County, July 1, 1724, "the petition of Richard Branham, senr., and others, 'For the liberty of a Presbyterian meeting-house.' Rejected by the court." It would thus appear that Richard Branham was a dissenter from the Church of England. Whether he had joined the Presbyterian Church in England and emigrated because of persecutions, or whether he attached himself to that faith in America, will probably never be known. Bi8hop Meade, in his "Old Churches and Families of Vir­ ginia," has thi8 to say relative to the parishes of Richmond County: "Of the three ministers mentioned on the records from the year 1693 to 1742, the account is sad. The two first, John Burnet and John Alexander, were always in court, suing and being sued. The third, the Rev. Thomas Blewer, was presented by the grand jury as a common ;;wearer.'' The sons of Richard Branham became men of influence in Rich­ mond County. Richard was a constable between :M:onokin Mill and Totoskey Ferry in 1734. In addition to property willed him by his father he acquired lands in his own name by purchase and grants from the Crown. He was a resident of Lunenburg Parish, of Rich­ mond County. His will is dated December 12, 1739, and was ad­ mitted to probate March 3, 1739, 0. S. "He leaves all his personal and real estate to his loving wife, Alice Branham, during her life or widowhood, and at her death or marriage to be divided; to his son John the plantation on which he dwells; to his son Benjamin his forest plantation, and in the case he dies without issue, then to his daughter Eleanor. All his movable estate to be equally divided among his three children, John, Benjamin, and Eleanor. His son Benjamin to have a year's schooling." He appoints Alice Bran­ ham, his wife, bis executrix. Richard Branham's brother John was a resident of North Farn- THE JOLLIFFE FAJ,fTLY. 203 ham Parish, Richmond County, and in old deeds is spoken of as John Branham, planter. He waR surveyor and constable in 1717. He married, October 14, 1714, Mary Ann Green, widow. He seems to have been an extensive land-owner and enterprising man. De­ cember 7, 1720, he and his wife jointly deeded to Benjamin Rush and bis wife all of Farnham Parish, in consideratiorfof the natural love and affection which they have and bear unto the said Benjamin Rush and Eleanor, his wife, daughter of the said Ann Branham, etc. The last record found of him was a deed dated January 4, 1737, conveying fifty acres of land adjoining bis brother, Richard Bran­ ham. His wife not joining in this deed, it is presumed she was not then living. From this and the former deed it would appear he bad no children of his own. Of J obn Branham, the eldest son of the second Richard, I can find little save his will, which is dated March 25, 1754. In this will be speaks of a son Richard and daughter Nellie. He leaves bis entire estate to his wife Catherine during her widowhood. He evi­ dently kept an Ordinary, for he desires his brother Benjamin shall take the lease and discharge his wife from all care and trouble con­ cerning it. He names his brother Benjamin and William Garland his executors. From this I think his wife was Catherine Garland. He died a young man. Benjamin, the younger son of the second Richard Branham, became quite an influential man in Richmond County, and possessed of large tracts of land. "At a court held for Richmond County, Oct. 1, 1764, Benjamin Branham qualified as under sheriff." " Ben­ jamin Branham appointed vendue master of Richmond County, March 5, 1781, by the court." "Benjamin Branham took the oath in order to qualify as vestryman of Lunenburg parish, June 2, 1783." It appears also that be was an officer in the war of the Revolution. His sister Eleanor married a man by the name of Murrah, by whom she had a son, Jeremiah Murrah, who willed to his uncle, Benjamin Branham, his entire estate, March 11, 1762, desiring him to divide it equally between -aile Branham, Samuel Branham, and John Branham. Benjamin Branham was twice married. Who his first wife was is not certainly known. His second wife was Elizabeth B~!cl, widow of Thomas B__eale, of Richmond County. They entered in.to a marriage contract May 1, 1792, by which each should dispose of their separate estate to their own children. He evidently lived to be a very old man, surviving his wife Elizabeth, and his son Ben­ jamin Branham, Jr. His will is dated December 19, 1812, and 204 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF probated March 7, 1814. In this will be mentions bis grandchildren Eleanor, Mary, and Nancy (the children of his son Vincent); his grand-daughter Frances Moxley, and his grand-daughter Mary B. Rice. Leaves his son Vincent Branham the plantation on which he resides, his mill, and lands adjoining. Gives the remainder of bis estate to his children, Vincent Branham, Alice Demeritt, Mary Garland, and Nancy Neale; Vincent Branham to be his executor. His daughter Alice married John Demeritt February 10, 1767, and his daughter Mary, Benjamin N. Garland. His son John Branham, Jr., married, March 7, 1797, Jemima Sanford Moxley, a daughter of James Moxley, and he died soon afterwards, leaving a daughter as above. His son Colonel Vincent Branham, was a very p1·ominent man in Richmond County, a member of the House of Delegates from 1819 to 1823, a colonel of Virginia Militia in 1812, and a member of the vestry of Farnham parish. He was twice married, first, to Hannah Bushrod, who died in 1814, and, secondly, to Mary Carter Claiborne, of Richmond City. He died at the Hermitage, Richmond County, aged seventy-four years. Benjamin Branham, Jr., left Richmond County when a young man, removing to Louisa County, Virginia. Just where be located in that county is not certainly known, but it appears from deeds, etc., that it was near Downing's Mill. I have been able to find no record of bis marriage or bis wife's maiden name. His will is found in the court records of Louisa County and was probated June 8, 1795. This will shows on the face of it the deep, religious feeling prevailing in the community. I give it therefore entire as a quaint and curious specimen. "In the name of God, Amen. I, Benjamin Branham, of the county of Louisa, being of sound mind and memory, thanks be to God for the same, but weak of body, calling to mind that it is ordained for all men once to die, have thought fit to make this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is, imprimis, I give· my soul to God, the Creator, and my body to be buried at the discretion of my executors. "Item, it is my desire that all my just debts be first paid. "Item, I 12:ive and leave all my land and other property to be equally divided between my children hereafter named, that is to say, my sons Nathaniel Branham, Benjamin, Susanah Branham, Sally Branham, Annis Lernay, (Lanier?) Mary Dolton, Peggy Sanders, in the manner following, that is, it is my will and desire that my daugh­ ter Sally Branham shall have and enjoy the house I now live in, with THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 205 as much land adjoining the same as shall be found to be her part. Also it is my desire that my sons Nathaniel and Benjamin and also that my daughters Mary Dolton and Peggy Sanders shall have and enjoy the houses and plantation they and every of them now live on, and also that my daughters Susanah Branham and Annis Lernay (Lanier?) shall have their parts laid off in as convenfont manner as the case will allow. My land I desire and will to be divided according to quality and I do hereby give and confirm all and singular the above bequests declaring null and void all other wills by me made, declaring this my last will and testament, and I do hereby appoint my friend Beverly Ragland and my son Na­ thaniel my sole executors. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this 24th day of August, 1794.

TESTE: BENJAMIN BRANHAM. (SEAL) JOHN DOWNING BEVERLY RAGLAND his SULLY X MARTIN mark his AMBROSE X BRANHAM" mark Of his children, Sally and Sarah Branham sold to Beverly Rag~ land their inheritance November 21, 1796, and Nathaniel Branham sold his portion, situated near Downing's Mill, to John Downing April 19, 1796. Nathaniel Branham married Polly Napper (or Napier) March 26, 1795, the Rev. John Laslay officiating. He evidently was not of the Episcopal Church, but to what denomination he belonged I am unable to say. I am inclined to think a Christian or Campbellite. Benjamin Branham, the younger son, married Mary Moore, and left two children, William Moore Branham and Nancy Moore Bran­ ham. In his will, which bears date February 2, 1808, he leaves all his property to these children. This will is witnessed by Nathaniel Branham (his brother), Malkiah Branham (his nephew), Polly Dol­ ton (his sister), Rebecca Nappier (his niece), and Susan Dolton (his niece). He evidently died a young man. The Doltons, Sanders, Moores, and Napiers are apparently com­ mon Huguenot names in Louisa and the adjoining counties at this time. Nathaniel Branham, the eldest son of Benjamin Branham, was 206 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF born in Louisa County, and was probably a very young man when he married Mary Napier in 1795. His marriage took place one year after his father's death, and the year following he sold his inheritance at Downing's Mill. It is not certain where he went from this point. Family traditions tell us he was an expert miller, and it is probable in following up his avocation he made a number of moves, entering into contracts with various mill-owners. About the year 1819-20, we find him residing in Powhatan County, across the river from bis birthplace. This was in the Huguenot neighbor­ hood at the Woodward (or Hepworth) Mills, which were then owned by a Mr. Thomas Harris, a large landed proprietor of that neighborhood. In the spring of 1820 there was born to this couple a child, Mary .Ann Branham, named after her mother, Mary Napier. Orphaned by an epidemic raging in the neighborhood at this time, this little child was taken and tenderly cared for by Caroline and Marcella Harris, friends of the family, and the daughters of Thomas Harris, the proprietor of the mills. She lived with them until she was eight years of age, and though so young she retained a diAtinct remem­ brance of her home in Richmond. She used to tell me, when a little boy, how beautiful it was, and about the pattern of one of the carpets, and how the furniture looked, and the old colored man who waited on them at table. While here, though such a little child, she worked one of the old-fashioned samplers, then so much in vogue. It was beautifully done, and is now in possession of my sister. She was always very expert with her needle and fond of all sorts of embroidery. My sister had also an old-fashioned reticule embroidered by her and various specimens of her handiwork. She always retained a fond remembrance of these ladies, and named her first child after the two sisters, Caroline Marcella. There was living in Richmond at this time, Sarah Janney Mitchener, a sister of .Abel Janney, long at the head of the famous Gallego Mills of Richmond; this lady was a first cousin of our grandmother, Rebecca Neill Jolliffe. She knew all about this little girl and her family, and desired very much to adopt her. In the mean time, Caroline H~rris had married Dr. David McCaw, and had died shortly after. Her sister Marcella was the wife of William Morris, of Richmond, and had children of her own, so the little Mary Ann Branham was regularly adopted by Sarah Janney Mitchener, who shortly after­ wards removed to the neighborhood of Urbana, Ohio, her husband dying soon after. In this home Mary Ann Branham was reared and educated. Here she met William Jolliffe, then on a visit to THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 207 these relatives in Ohio, and to whom she was afterwards married. Some account of her married life is told elsewhere in this volume, 110 I will not repeat. She was a very pretty girl, and had large blue eyes and a low brow, with dark brown hair which had natural waves in it. She was the mother of eight children, all of whom died in infancy except the two who survive her. Her husband died in 1852, and she survived him eleven years, dying in' 1866, in the forty-sixth year of her age. After her husband's death she requested to be received as a member of the Society of Friends, and during the eleven sad years which followed, through many trials and with failing health, she always preserved the most un­ faltering trust in the love and care of her Heavenly Father. In tracing my mother's genealogy I am much indebted to the two surviving children of William and Marcella Morris, now residing in Richmond, Miss Maria J. Morris and her brother Mr. Edward Morris; their family papers, personal research, etc., were of great aid to me, and the associations have made our friendship doubly interesting. '"' Other representatives of this family are to be found in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, who were inter­ married among the French Huguenot families who had settled in Powhatan County. This leads me to believe that they are the direct descendants of Nathaniel Branham and Mary Napier his wife. 208 HJSTORIGAL ACCOUNT OF THE JOLLIFFE FA1~flLY.

1.. Richard Branham, of Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Vir­ ginia, 1665. 2. Richard Branham and Alice --. 3. Benjamin Branham and --; second wife, Elizabeth Beale. 4. Benjamin Branham and --. 5. Nathaniel Branham and Mary Napier. 6. Mary Ann Branham and William Jolliffe. 7. William Jolliffe and Emma R. Parry. ARMS:

VERT, A STAG TRIPPANT, PPR.

CREST:

A WAR CHARGER'S HEAD AND NECK, AR.

MOTTO:

'' GOFAL DYN DUW Al GWERID.''

A PRUDENT MAN GOD WILL GUARD,''

PARRY.

"THE Parry family are descended from an ancient and honorable family of that name, long residing in Caernarvonshire, North Wales, one of the most ancient families in the Kingdom. History shows them established in North Wales in the twelfth century at' Madryn Castle,' which estate is still in the possession of an elder branch of the family." The coat of arms borne by the family in North Wales is: Vert, a stag Trippant, ppr. Crest: A War Charger's Head and Neck, Ar. Motto: "Gofal dyn duw ai Gwerid." Geoffrey Parry, Esq., of Rhydolion, Caernarvonshire, North Wales, a cadet of the ancient family of Parry, of Poston Court (sometimes called New Court), in Golden Vale, county of Hereford, England, married Margaret Hugb_es, daughter and sole heiress of Hugh Hughes, Esq., of Cefn Llanfair, North Wales, by whom be had a son, Love Parry, Esq. Love Parry, Esq., of W ernfaur, high sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1685, and son of Geoffrey Parry, Esq., and Margaret Hughes, his wife, married Ellen Wynn, daughter and heiress of Hugh Wynn, Esq., of Penarth, and bad sons, Love Parry, Esq., and Thomas Parry, gent. Thomas Parry, gent., born in Caernarvonshire, North Wales, in 1680, son of Love Parry, Esq., and Ellen Wynn, his wife, came to America when quite a young man, settling in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was the founder of the family in America. He married in the year 1715 Miss Jane Morris ( daughter of Morris Morris), of an early colonial family, by whom he had ten children, as follows: Thomas, Philip Wynn, John, Stephen, Edward, David, Mary, Jacob, Isaac, and Martha. Thomas Parry died in 1751, aged seventy-one years. His wife, Jane Morris, died in 17 41. "He derived his descent from a younger branch of the Caernarvonshire family; the elder branch of which still exists in England." His descendants are found in Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, and Tennessee. John Parry, of Moorland Manor, the third child of Thomas Parry and Jane Morris, his wife, was born July 25, 1721, and married September 21, 1751, Margaret Tyson (daughter of Derrick and Susanna Tyson), of Philadelphia County, by whom he had seven 211 212 HISTORICAL ACCOUJST OF children, namely, Thomas, John, Benjamin, Phceby, Stephen, Daniel, and David. John Parry died November 10, 1789, aged sixty-nine years. His wife died in 1807. He left all his children fine estates of land or money. Benjamin Parry, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was the third child of J obn Parry and Margaret Tyson, his wife, and was born March 1, 1757, at "Moorland Manor." He married, November 4, 1787, Jane Paxson, daughter of Oliver Paxson, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, an eminent Friend, by whom he had four children, namely, Oliver; Ruth, born January 4, 1797, died October 28, 1885 (never married); Jane, born August 27, 1799, died September 28, 1879 (never married); and Margaret, born December 7, 1804, married Charles B. Knowles, and left no children. Benjamin Parry removed to "Coryells Ferry," Bucks County, in 1784, and erected a large flour-mill and saw-mills upon lands he bad purchased, and upon which the town of New Hope is now built. A few years later he erected a linseed-oil mill and another large fl.our-mill on the New Jersey side of the Dela ware River below his ''New Hope Mills;" these he called "Prime Hope Mills." He also erected a large warehouse and store, and engaged in an extensive business with his brothers for a number of years. He was largely instrumental in getting erected the fine bridge spanning the Dela­ ware River at New Hope, which cost about sixty-eight thousand dollars. "From his mills he carried on a large trade with the West Indies and other tropical countries, and was the inventor of a process by which corn-meal would resist the heat and moisture of voyages in tropical climates, and remain sweet and wholesome." He died November 22, 1839, in his eighty-third year, and was buried at" Friends Solebury Burying-Ground," Bucks County. Jane Pax­ son, his wife, was born in 1767, and died in Philadelphia ]\fay 13, 1826, and was buried in "Friends Burying-Ground," Fourth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia. Oliver Pa,rry, the eldest child of Benjamin Parry and Jane Paxson, his wife, was born at New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1794, and married, May 1, 1827, Raebel Randolph, daughter of Major Edward Randolph and Anna Julianna Steel, his wife (he was an eminent Friend and citizen of Philadelphia, and had been a distinguished officer of the Revolution). They had twelve children, namely, Julianna Randolph, born in Philadelphia, married John Tatum, of Philadelphia; Jane Paxson, born in Philadelphia, married Dr. Caleb Winslow, ofNortb Carolina; Elizabeth Randolph, born December 29, 1830, and died September 6, 1831; Major Edward THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 213 Randolph, born July 27, 1832, married December 17, 1863, Frances Dimick, daughter of General Justin Dimick, United States· Army; Ruth Ely, born October 20, 1833, and died April 12, 1852 ; Richard Randolph, born in Philadelphia, and married Ellen L. Read, of Maine; Margaret, born October 30, 1837, died June 5, 1841; George Randolph, M.D., born in Philadelphia, and married Elizabeth Van Etten, of New York State; Mary Randolph, born in Philadelphia, and married Joseph Gibbons Richardson, M.D., of Philadelphia; Emma Randolph, born in Philadelphia, and married William Jolliffe, of Virginia; Oliver Paxson, born June 20, 1846, and died December 13, 1852; Helen Randolph, born in Philadelphia, married Thomas Marsh Smith, of Baltimore, Maryland. Oliver Parry was a large land-owner, and his name appears upon the records of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, oftener, perhaps, than that of any other person of bis day. A part of his property was the large tract of land, the "Bush Hill Estate," long the resi­ dence of Governor Andrew Hamilton, which he, conjointly with his nephew; Nathaniel Randolph, purchased and improved, converting its broad acres into handsome streets which extended to the Schuyl­ kill River. He died at his town residence in Philadelphia, February 20, 1874, in his eightieth year, and was buried at" Solebury Burying­ Ground," Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Here also was buried Rachel Randolph, his wife, who died at the old Parry home in New Hope, Bucks County (their summer home), September 9, 1866, aged sixty-two years. Oliver Parry and his wife were life-long members of the Society of Friends. He had retired from the busy walks of life long before his death, but was in his day a most active and useful citizen, going through life with a singleness and direct honesty of purpose which made the name of Oliver Parry synonymous with truth and honor. Jmma Randolph Parry, the tenth child of Oliver Parry and Rachel Randolph, his wife, was born in Philadelphia, and married William Jolliffe, of Virginia, at .Friends' Meeting-House, Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, November 26, 1873. They had three children, namely, William Parry J olliife, born at Buchanan, Botetourt County, Virginia, August 29, 1874; Parry J olliife, born in Buchanan, Bote­ tourt County, Virginia, October 25, 1877, and died at the house of his great-aunt, Elizabeth J. Sharpless, in Philadelphia (while on a visit), February 26, 1879; Elizabeth Neill J olli:ffe, born in Buchanan, Virginia, December 30, 1880. Her home since her marriage has been Buchanan, Virginia, ex­ cepting four years' residence in Lexington_, Virginia. 214 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF TH/iJ JOLLIFFE FAMILY,

1. Geoffrey Parry, of North Wales, and Margaret Hughes. 2. Love Parry, Esq., of North Wales, and Ellen Wynn. 3. Thomas Parry and Jane Morris. 4. John Parry and Margaret Tyson. 5. Benjamin Parry and Jane Paxson. 6. Oliver Parry and Rachel Randolph. 7. Emma Randolph Parry and William Jolliffe. RANDOLPH.

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"THE Fitz Randolphs are descended from the Lords of Middleham, who have held property near the Castle of Middleham, and Langton Hall, or Westwood, in Nottinghamshire, England, since the days of William the Conqueror. Middlcbam Castle was built in 1190 by Robert Fitz Randolph; it was a favorite home of Richard Neville, the great Earl of Warwick, called King-maker, who was, himself descended from the Fitz Randolphs, Lords of Middleham,. on his mother's side, through the Neville family, Earls of Salisbury. It was at Middle ham that Ed ward VI. of the House of York, cousin of Warwick, was held a prisoner by this bold baron. Here the King's brother, the Duke of Clarence, wooed and won Isabel Neville for bis bride, and here the Duke of Gloucester, who was afterwards King .Richard, met Warwick's daughter Annie, who denied his suit and married Edward of Lancaster, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VI. After his death she married Gloucester. "Robert Fitz Randolph, first Lord of Middleham, built Beauchief Abbey, A.D. 1183, in expiation for the killing of Thomas a Becket. "Ralph Fitz Randolph, second Lord of Middleham, built Cover­ ham Abbey, A.D. 1215. "Ralph Fitz Randolph, third Lord of Middleham, built Richmond Abbey, A.D. 1258." Edward Fitz Randolph was born in Nottinghamshire, England, about the year 1615. He came to Scituate, Massachusetts, about the year 1630; and in 1634, under the title of ".young master Edward Fitz Randolph," is spoken of as owning a house and lot. He married, May 10, 1637, Elizabeth Blossom, who was born in Ll~yden, Holland, in the year 1620. She was the daughter of ·Thomas Blossom, wbo left England for Leyden on account of re­ ligious :persecutions; he was one of those who sailed in the "Speed­ well" in 1620, but the vessel returned to Leyden on account of its leaky condition. While there his daughter Elizabeth was born. He came over to Plymouth in 1629 with a number of others. "Thomas Blossom died the summer of 1633, and on the 17th of October •Of that year his widow, Ann Blossom, married Henry Rowley." Edward Fitz Randolph, four days -after his marriage, Ma.y 14, 1637,joined the church at Scituate. In 1639 he removed to Barnstable, where he ,and his wife had ten children, name.\y, 14 217 218 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF Nathaniel, died, aged four months; Nathaniel, the second; Hannah; Mary, who married Samuel Hinckley, brother of Governor Hinck­ ley, of Massachusetts; John, Joseph, Elizabeth, Thomas, Hope, and Benjamin (whose son Nathaniel, born at Princeton, New Jersey, 1703, gave the ground on which Princeton College stands, and helped lay the corner-stone in November, 175o). In the year 1676, Edward Fitz Randolph, his wife, and their unmarried children moved to Piscataway, New Jersey. He died shortly after. His wife is said to have attained the age of ninety-three years. They were buried at Piscataway, two miles from New Brunswick. Several of their children attained the age of ninety years. Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, second child of Edward and Elizabeth (Blossom) Fitz Randolph, was born at Barnstable, Massachusetts, and baptized May 15, 1642. He married, November, 1662, Mary Holly, a daughter of "John Holly, of Stamford, who was a repre­ sentative for Greenwich 1670-73." About the year 1677 he bought a tract of land in Woodbridge, New Jersey, and settled there. In the year 1693 he was a representative in the Assembly of the Province of New Jersey. He joined the Society of Friends 1703, and meetings were held at his house. He bad by bis wife, Mary Holly, seven children, namely, John, Isaac, Nathaniel, Samuel, Joseph, Edward, and Martha, all born prior to 1694. He married a second wife, Jane Hampton, at Shrewsbury, in 1706. They had a son Benjamin, born 1707, and died young. Edward Fitz Randolph, "Gentleman Planter," as he is styled, sixth child of Nathaniel and Mary (Holly) Fitz Randolph, was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey, and married, in 1704, Katherine Harts­ horne (daughter of Richard Hartshorne, who was son of William Hartshorne, Esq., of Hathearne, Leicestershire, England, who emi­ grated to New Jersey, 1669, and married Margaret, daughter of Robert Carr, of Rhode Island, who was born in England, 1614). They had ten children, namely, Richard, Edward, Margaret, Ezek, Hugh, Hartshorne (who married Ruth Dennis. They were the grandparents of Sarah R. Ross, who afterwards married the Hon. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, and of Catherine Marsh Smith, of Balti­ more, Maryland), and--,--,--,--. Richard Fitz Randolph, eldest child of Edward and Katherine (Hartshorne) Fitz Randolph, was born at Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1705, and married at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, "25th ye 7 mo. 1735 at the house of John Corlies," Elizabeth Corlies, a daughter of John and Naomey Corlies, by·whom he bad eight children, namely, Richard, George, Thomas, Katherine, Richard, Elizabeth, Mary, THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 219 and Edward. He died at Perth Amboy, 1754. (His daughter Katherine married John Shearer, and had four children, one of whom, Elizabeth, married Evan Thomas, and was the mother of General Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant-General United States Army, from 1861 to 1869.) Edward Fitz Randolph, youngest child of Richard and Elizabeth (Corlies) Fitz Randolph, was born at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, February 20, 1754. He was apprenticed to a printer named Parker, a friend of Benjamin Franklin. When the Revolutionary War broke out, be resolved to aid the cause of his country, and applied for a commission. He was appointed ensign in the Fourth Penn­ sylvania Regiment, and belonged to the brigade commanded by General Anthony Wayne. He was soon promoted to be captain, and participated in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, and went through the Valley Forge campaign. "He was on picket duty at Paoli when overwhelmed by the British in the night, and the command all killed or made prisoners. He was badly wounded in the head, and was approached by two English soldiers; one observed to the other, ' There is a head that looks as if it had some life in it,' and was about to shoot, when an officer coming up commanded them to desist and save their :ammunition, of which they bad none too much, for live rebels, instead of wasting it on those who were already dead." In after life he seldom, if ever, spoke of the scenes and incidents of his Revolutionary days. His love of country and enthusiasm had prompted him to join the army, though in principle he was always a Friend. He was not dealt with by the Society for this breach of their discipline, nor for his marriage to Anna Julianna Steel, which took place in Philadelphia, March 16, 1779, be at the time asking their excuse for both delinquencies. A few years after his marriage he began to write his name simply" Randolph," though some of the .children retained the "F." He became a shipping merchant, a member of the well-known firm of "Coates & Randolph," engaged in the East India shipping business in Philadelphia. His wife was seventeen when she married (" she was a daughter of Henry Steel or 'Heinrich Stahl,'" a native of Germany, and of his wife, Anna Margaret, born February 22, 1731, who was the daughter of Rudolph and Anna Ebright, natives of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, but removed to Berne, where they had a large family, and thence about 1740 to America. They were robbed of all they had on the wharf at Philadelphia as they landed. Thus left poor, they settled at Germantown. They died the same day, aged 220 HISTORICAL ACCOU1VT OF respectively seventy-four and seventy-three, and were buried in the same grave. Their daughter, Anna Margaret, who married Henry Steel in 1754, and had three children, married, as second husband, Edward Oxley, and lived to be ninety-four years old, surviving all her children. She was buried at Seventeenth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia). Her daughter, Anna Julianna Fitz Randolph, after the birth of several children, joined the Society of Friends, of whom her husband was an esteemed elder for many years, and sat at the head of North Meeting, Philadelphia. She was born May 14, 1761, and died suddenly February 11, 1810, leaving her husband and ten children. Her husband remained a widower twenty-seven years, and died March 12, 1837, aged eighty-three years. He was interred in " Friends Grounds," corner Sixteenth and Race Streets, Philadelphia. They had thirteen children, namely, Henry and Richard, who were twins and only lived about ten days; Margaret, born October 2, 1780, married Jacob Justice; George E., born August 27, 1782, married Hannah Coe; Edward, born August 20, 1784, married Mary Taylor; Richard, born January 24, 1791, married Elizabeth Ely; Josiah C., born March 30, 1793, married Gwynellyn Evans; Julianna, born November 25, 1794, who never married; Jacob Randolph, M.D., born November 25, 1796, married Sarah Emlen Physick ( daughter of Philip Syng Physick, M.D., the eminent physician of Philadelphia); Thomas, born May 21, 1799, and died the following August; Mary, born November 20, 1800, married William Maule; Charles F. Randolph, M.D., born January 13, 1803, married Margaret M. Cooch; and Raebel, born November 6, 1804, married ·Oliver Parry, of Philadelphia, May 1, 1827. Oliver and Rachel Parry had twelve children, namely, Julianna Randolph Parry, married John Tatum, of Philadelphia; Jan~ Pax­ son Parry, married Dr. Caleb Winslow, of North Carolina; Eliza­ beth Randolph Parry, died young; Major Edward Randolph Parry, married Frances E. Dimick; Ruth Ely Parry, died aged eighteen years; Richard Randolph Parry, married Ellen L. Read, of Main~; Margaret Parry, who died young; Dr. George Randolph Parry, mm:Pied Elizabeth Van Etten, of New York State; Mary Randolph Parry, inarried Dr. ,Joseph Gibbons Richardson, of Philadelphia; Emma Randolph Parry, married William Jolliffe, of Virginia; Oliver Paxson Parry, who died young;; and Helen Randolph Parry, married Thomas Marsh Smith, of Baltimore, Maryland. THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 221

1. Thoma'! and Ann Blossom, of England, and Leyden, Holland. 2. Ed ward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom. 3. Nathaniel Fitz Randolph and Mary Holly. 4. Edward Fitz Randolph and Katherine Hartshorne. 5. Richard Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Corlies. 6. Edward Fitz Randolph and Anna Julianna Steel. 7. Rachel Randolph and Oliver Parry. 8. Emma Randolph Parry and William Jolliffe.

JOHN JOLLIFFE. "Friend of the slave, and yet the friend of all, Lover of peace, yet ever foremost when The need of battling Freedom called for men To plant the banner on the outer wall." J. G. WHITTIER.

JOHN JOLLIFFE, third child of William and Rebecca Neill Jolliffe, was born in Frederick County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, October, 1804. His parents were Quakers, and he was brought up in that faith. He was educated at the private school kept by the talented John Pierpont, and of which mention has been made else­ where in this volume. At an early age he entered the law school of Judge Henry St. George Tucker, then established in Winchester. I will quote some little here from Norris's history of this school and of the court at Winchester. "From the time the first ten attorneys to make application for admission to practise their pro­ fession stepped up to the rude bar at the first session of the :first court, held November 11, 1743, the bench and bar of Frederick has had no superiors, and but few equals, in ability and recognized standing throughout Virginia." His great-great-grandfather was one of these first ten attorneys; and we have reason to believe, from the court records, that the father of this ·William was also a lawyer, and his great-grandfather, Lewis Neill, was one of the :first judges then sitting on the bench. That he should choose the law as his profession, therefore, was not strange, although it was not much encouraged among Friends at that time, they, taking heed to the scriptural injunction, "Go not to law one with another," preferred to settle disputes among themselves. Quoting _again from Norris, who says, "Not only has the bar of Winchester al ways borne a first-class reputation, but as early .as between 1820-30, Judge Henry St. George Tucker conducted a school of law which had a large attendance for a number of years. Many men afterwards noted in the history of the county and State were educated at this school, among whom were Governor Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, Governor Francis Thomas, of Maryland, William Cos_t Johnson, of the si;.me State, besides a number of Frederick County's best lawyers. Later on, as graduates of this school, loom up the noted names of Co-n­ rads, Marshalls, Masons, Bartons, Pendletons, and Hunters, and, 223 224 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF still later, Hon. Charles James Faulkner, for some years our :Min­ ister to the Court of St. James." Such, then, was the character of the law school from which our young lawyer was graduated and upon which his career in after years 1·eflected so much credit as lawyer, scholar, and philanthro­ pist. About this time the great West had become the El Dorado of youthful aspirants for fame and fortune, offering, as it did, a better chance than the more crowded districts of the Middle States. Towards Ohio, especially, the steps of Virginia's young men were turned. It having been once a part of her territory, and her Legis­ lature having granted large tracts of land to the officers of her Continental Line for services during the Revolution, many Vir­ ginians had possessions there. To one of these tracts Colonel Robert Higgins (an officer in the Continental Line), who had mar­ ried Mary Jolliffe, an aunt of John Jolliffe, in Virginia, removed his family. A daughter of theirs married General Thomas L. Hamer. It was to these relatives that our young lawyer was eent out, followed by the prayers and anxious hopes of a large family circle. As General Harner afterwards became his law partner, and a close intimacy was formed between them, which lasted until Gen­ eral flamer's death, a word here with regard to him seems fitting. He was one of Ohio's most distinguished lawyers, and the State never sent a more able representative to Congress. After six years of service there, his last official act before he went out, March 4, 1839, was to appoint Ulysses S. Grant a cadet at West Point. It is needless to speak of the great destinies which were begun with this appointment. Some time after the late war, John Jolliffe was walking down Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, with my brother, then a lad, when they met General Grant; he stopped and introduced the boy to him. General Grant patted him on the back and said, "When I was a boy I used to love to sit in the court-house windows and hea~ Mr. Jolliffe and Mr. Hamer make speeches." General Hamer's wife was a lovely Christian woman, and I have a number of his letters to my uncle full of the affectionate regard which continued between them until finally his dead body was brought home from the fields of Mexico and lay in state three days at the house of John Jolliffe, then resident in Cincinnati. The fol­ lowing cards of invitation to his funeral were sent out on that occasion : " The remains of Brigadier-General Hamer will be re­ moved from the residence of John Jolliffe to the steamer on Friday, the 12th instant, at 11 o'clock A.M. precisely. Yourself and family are respectfully invited to attend." From a series of family letters THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 225 written to him between the years 1827-30, he must have commenced the practice of law in Batavia about the year 1825-26. He was prosecuting attorney from 1833 to 1837 and from 1839 to 1841. His father writes, "John, my son, I have not written thee often, but, notwithstanding, I think of thee often, and feel anxious about thy welfare. I want thee to keep in good company and to walk very correctly among men. Let thy word be good on all occasions, don't look down on any, but treat all with the respect that may be due to them, without making them companions. This kind of dig­ nity will make thee respected and respectable with all classes of society, whieh is thy dependence, as thee has set out in a publick way. I want thee to write often and let us know how and what are thy prospects. My love to thy cousin John and Hamer and wife. I am thy most sincere friend and father, in love to thee. "vVILLIAM JOLLIFFE."

His mother adds her quota and begs him to write often, to tell her bow Hamer's kitchen caught on fire, and how he spends his Sabbaths, etc., and the closely-written foolscap sheet is filled out by his beloved sister Elizabeth, whose affectionate regard follows him every step of his way. It was evidently not plain sailing at first, as in a letter bearing date December 4, 1828, she says," If you can, do come in next snmmer; I think if you could get here once more, mother would be better satisfied. Do not think of leaving Batavia if you have any prospect of ultimately succeeding in your profes­ sion. Should you go to the south we might forever relinquish all hope of ever seeing you again, a hope which cheers mother in her hours of deepest sadness. You have, perhaps, a chance of making enough to support you where you are, and as to fame, it is as idle as the wind, when you are dead how are you to bear the applause or <:ensure of future ages." The young man was evidently ambitious, and restless to go "where glory wait:;," but he was destined to give it all up at duty's call, just as fortune ~roiled and the world recog­ nized his great talents. Soon things improve, as in a letter Decem­ ber 7, 1830, she writes, "Joseph Russell who accompanied Samuel M. Janney into Ohio last summer was here at the Quarterly Meeting and gave mother a most favorable account of your reputation. He said they were told at several places, that you were ranked as high as any candidate for honors and promotion in the State. . . . That you can go to the Legislature if you choose, and perhaps you might to Congress if you were not a Jacksonian." And so through another long letter full of home news and sisterly advice, some of 226 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF which is as follows: "Beware of Ohio mists, they chill Vir­ ginians, dress warmly, keep thy hands out of thy pockets; do not read novels, they will disorder thy mind. Keep thy coat brushed clean. Often read the Scriptures, and emulate the example of good and holy men." While residing in Batavia he married Syntbelia McClure. Her family lived in Ohio; one of her sisters was the wifo of Judge Flynn, and one of her brothers was an officer in the navy. This most estimable lady survived him a number of years. She fully sympathized with her husband in his efforts for the cause of liberty, although she had to bear a full share of the sacrifice in­ volved. She continued to be interested in reforms after his death and was an active worker in the Temperance Cause. She died in, Washington City in 1890, and was buried beside her husband in Hopewell Burying-Ground, in the beautiful Valley of the Shenan­ doah. John J olliffe's fine talents soon won him a prominent position; his practice was a lucrative one, and a distinguished career was open­ ing before him. Salmon P. Chase once told my aunt, Elizabeth J. Sharpless, "that no contemporary of his at the Cincinnati bar stood higher in all reRpects." An account of him says, "About this time Garrison in Boston, Lovejoy in Alton, and Birney in Cincinnati be­ gan to utter their protests against the institution of slavery and to de­ mand, in the name of the God of Justice, its unconditional overthrow. Separating himself from many friends and relatives, despising the allurements of wealth and political preferment, Mr.Jolliffe cast his great talents on the side of the slave, and for years held the high­ est rank among those whose earnest efforts did so much to arouse the conscience of the nation concerning the guilt and danger of slavery." Finding that the prejudice engendered by bis anti-slavery course had infected even the judgeti of tho Courts of Clermont and Brown -ties to the prejudice of bis clients, Mr. Jolliffe, about the year 1841, removed to Cincinnati. All hours of the day or night the runaway-slaves' lawyer was ready to serve bis poverty­ stricken and forlorn clients, and this without money and without p!!foe. His name became associated with some of the most famous slave cases ever heard in our courts; the Willis case was an interest­ ing one. Mr. Willis, a wealthy man of Barn well Court-House, South Carolina, wished to free his slaves, a mother, a grandmother, and six children, they being his own. He employs John Jolliffe to eman­ cipate them, and makes a will leaving them his entire estate. Mr. Jolliffe advised him to bl'ing them to a free State to insure their freedom. This he did one year after, and dropped dead as he put the last ebild in the omnibus on the wharf at Cincinnati. The mother THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 227 had a copy of the will in her bosom. Tbe Kentuckians tried to rush them over tbe border and put them in jail there, but the colored waiters rushed to the rescue and prevented them. They were then taken to a hotel and Salmon P. Chase sent for. The woman then told him Mr. Jolliffe was employed. He found he had to go to South Carolina, but took the precaution to take letters of introduction from the Hon. 'l'. Corwin and Brown and Allen, members. Fortunately he had presented his letters, as the mob soon gathered round his hotel, just as he was going into his room from the dining­ room, a buggy and horse among them, to take him to the woods and hang him. Then he said," Gentlemen, I did not come here to inter­ fere witb your institution, but as a lawyer in the interests of bis client. Just step into my room, gentleman," addressing the nearest to him, and, as they followed, turned and locked the door. "Don't be alarmed, I carry no weapon but a penknife." Just here a knock at the door, and Messrs. Brown and Allen appear. They succeeded in quieting the mob, and he was enabled to transact his business and leave the State. Relatives contested the will, but he gained the suit and sent Colonel Howard, a member of Congress and a Democrat, to collect the money then lying in bank. He arrived in Barnwell the day Sumter was fired upon. and was glad enough to escape with his life, without the mo'ney. He was counsel in the celebrated Margaret Garner case, and an account says, "The commh,sioner, although be had prejudged the case in advance, as was the cus­ tom, could not bring himself to give his decision in favor of the claimant until an adjournment of the court had permitted the excitement caused by bis eloquent plea to subside." He held that the Constitution of the United States was drawn to protect the religious liberties of the people, and the amendment of 1850 (Fugitive Slave Law) interfered with it. In the Margaret Garner case he said, "The trouble is this: The CongreRs of the United States has endeavored to pass a law declaring that wrong was right. There is danger in thus disregarding rights, for every law that supports slavery strikes down some right of the slave­ holder. The principle that gives you a right to your slave, may take away your right to your land. The law of 1850 commands you to treat these people as sla"\les; the Bible, as men. As slaves they may not learn to read the Bible, nor attend Divine service, nor cherish their husbands or wives, but as men they enjoy all these rights. Don't you see the Bible is on one side and the 'Fugitive Slave Law' on the other? By the hallowed memories of the mothers who taught us to reverence that Bible, by the battle- 228 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF fields of our Revolutionary sires, we must not, dare not, relinquish this glorious right of loving our neighbors as we love ourselves. The abolitionists, the hated, the despised, have for the last twenty­ five years been asserting these rights, unconsciously bearing upon their own shoulder,i the rights of the whole American people. When we consider the great question of religious liberty involved in it, the rights of these people become insignificant. It is your right and mine. Daniel Webster said of the Constitution, in a speech at Capon Springs, near where I was born, 'The North Mountain is higher than the Blue Ridge, and the Alleghany higher than that, but this law soars an Eagle's flight above them all;' he took but half the Constitution. Sir, this higher law rises higher than ever Eagle flew. If you take the wings of the morning and fly to the utter­ most parts of the earth, it is there. Descend to the depths of hell, and it is there. It follows man through life, through death, and tbat higher law is with Daniel Web,ster to-day, wherever he may be in the universe of God." About this time some gentlemen, moved by admiration for his unselfish labors in behalf of these poor fugitives, made up a handsome purse and presented it to him. To his wife was left the choice as to whether it should be a service of silver or the money. Having silver of her own, she chose the latter, and in after life much regretted it. A part of the letter of presen­ tation is as follows:

"CrNCINNATr, February 28, 1856. "DEAR Srn :-Your advocacy on frequent occasions of the cause of fugitives from slavery, entitles you to the grateful consideration of your fellow-citizens .... In token of our approval of your services in their behalf we beg to tender for your acceptance this purse and its contents. This law known as the 'Fugitive Slave Law,' we be­ lieve to be in violation of the Constitution of the country, as well as of the common rights of humanity.... The great conflict between freedom and slavery must sooner or later come to a crisis. . . . The cause of human freedom will progress. It is a majestic and peren­ nial stream, which will deepen in its channel, widen in its course, and increase in its rapidity, until the fonl stain of human slavery shall be forever blotted from the light of heaven. "D. ANDREWS, GEO. s. WEED, s. C. FOSTER, lr Committee." JAs. B. RAMSEY, l s. STRAIGHT, ) THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 229 A part of his reply is as follows: "Thanks to the wisdom of those who made the Constitution, they have in the fir;;t amendment secured to every man in the United States tbe greatest of aH rigbts,-that of religious freedom,-by taking away from Congress all power whatever, directly or indi­ rectly, to pass any law that may for an instant invade or impair or hazard that great right.... You say that sooner or later the crisis between freedom and slavery must come. Gentlemen, it bas come. It is upon us now and here. We must meet it as men, or shrink from it and bear the re&ponsibility of desertion from our posts of duty. Religious liberty, without which man is deprived of the highest dignity of his nature, lies to-day in dishonored dust in Ohio by the decision of Pendery.... I thank you for the kind and very flattering expressions in y:mr letter. I am, gentlemen, with great respect, JOHN JOLLIFFE."

On another occasion a large Bible was presented, and a part of the letter sent with it is as follows: "You have sought on repeated occasions to maintain before the civil tribunals the rights of the enslaved. They, friendless, have found in you a friend; your services as their advocate have been rendered as we believe at great personal sacrifice, and as we know, with great fidelity." 'l'bese we believe were the only fees he ever received for defending fugitive slaves. This Bible is now in the possession of a nephew who was named for him, John Jolliffe, of -Virginia. Another account of him says, "Mr. Jolliffe was an industrious and appreciative student of general literature. On several occasions he appeared before the public as an author. Two ·of his works, 'Belle Scott' and 'Chattanooga,' met with considerable success, particularly the latter." He had a great sympathy for and was always veTy kind to you•ng practitioners. Of thifl a son of General Linden writes, "AftBr I be(·ame a law student, Mr. J oll-iffe was ·always a very good friend to me, and after my admission to the bar he was very kind, and did me many of those favors which are so valna!Jle wheh comi,ng from an old ex­ -perienced lawyer to ·a yourrg one." He also ·says, " After ,be i·e­ woved from Cincinnati :h,e was several times the anti-sla·very can

ELIZABETH A. JOLLIFFE.

ELIZABETH JOLLIFFE SHARPLESS.

I HAVE long felt a haunting desire to preserve in some form an account, however imperfect, of the life of my beloved aunt, Eliza­ beth J. Sharpless. The way has never seemed to open for the gratification of this desire until recently, and I gladly accept the opportunity afforded by my brother's publication to append the following sketch. My utter inability to do justice to the beautiful life she led makes me almost shrink from the attempt. But when I reflect from the stand-point of one who bad lived beside her, until the day of her death, and always received from her all that the most unselfish affection could bestow, it seems but right and fitting that I should try. Elizabeth McCallister Jolliffe was born in Alexandria, Virginia, October 12, 1806. She was named after her grand-aunt, Elizabeth Jolliffe McCallister, who, though born and brought up a Friend, married a thorough man of the world. She has often told me that this aunt was not only very attractive in person and man­ ner, but was a fine woman in the true sense of the word, besides presiding with great dignity at her husband's hospitable board, around which were gathered some of the most noted men of his time. I think she must have resembled this relative, as her ease and grace of manner were conspicuous wherever she went, and she was al ways greatly admired in gay society even after she had donned the simple garb of a Friend. I think I may truthfully say, I never have met any one who was so perfectly courteous to all, high or low, and who had such command over herself under trying circumstances. A poor woman who had seen better days, and whom she had had occasion to assist, has since told me, with tears in her eyes, "Mrs. Sharpless always treated me like a lady.'' That tribute to her fallen estate had been far more to her than the mere almsgiving. Her voice was remarkably sweet in tone, and she was very sympathetic in her disposition. It gave her great pain to see any person suffer, or an animal, and if her help was possible, it was sure to be extended. I will not enter into the details of her gene­ alogy here, as it has been given elsewhere in this book, except to say that almost all of her ancestors had been Quakers even before they came to this country, some arriving in 1681, 1682, and 1683, 15 ~3 234 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF and some in 1730. Iler father's family seem to have been almost the only exception-they were not Friends in England, nor here, until, in the fourth generation here, her great-grandfather joined the society and married a grand-daughter of Valentine Rollings­ worth, an eminent Friend in William Penn's time. Judging from the records of various charitable bequests both to church and state in England, among them one of a certain .Elizabeth Jolliffe, who away back in the sixteenth century founded eight almshouses for eight poor widows, and from the reverend tone of their wills and advice to their children of those in this country, it seems there were many among them of a religious type. What I wish to show is that, having sprung from a race of men and women who were earnest and true to their convictions, and for which several had suffered in body and estate, it seemed but natural that she should early have developed an extreme conscientiousness and a devotion to the church of her forefathers, which seemed but to strengthen as she grew older. She greatly prized this heritage in times of trouble and perplexity, and one of her favorite texts was "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations." In bis early married life her father was engaged in the ship1)ing business in .Alexandria, Virginia, with his brother-in-law William R. Brown. They ran a line of packets to Liverpool, carrying principally flour from the mills of the Shenandoah Valley, it being at that time one of the greatest grain-growing districts in the country. They brought back many things scarce in the country at that time, and which were carried down the ,alley by the long lines of covered wagons, before the days of railroads, and which, in conjunction with the shipping interests, built up the ancient town of Alexandria. Their business was a good one, and they were in the midst of a large and influential body of Friends resident in .Alexandria at that time. But the War of 1812 came on, the British took possession of the town, confiscated their ships and pretty much broke up their busi­ ness. • So when she was six years of age it was deemed best for her parents to remove to her mother's old home, Swarthmore, in Frederick County, Virginia. Rere she grew into womanhood in the midst of a large family circle. This old homestead (Swarth­ more) was built about 1750, upon a tract of land of between four and five thousand acres taken up by her great-grandfather, Lewis Neill, when he first settled in the valley, and a number of his grand­ children were then living upon various parts of it. This was the valley which, when it first burst upon the view of Spotts wood and his knights, he exclaimed, was the fairest land he had ever gazed THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 235 upon. Lewis Neill was very prominent in the early history of the colony, being instrumental in establishing, and was a judge of, the :first court formed in 1743, sitting upon the bench with Lord Fair­ fax, and it was said he was not afraid to oppose him, as many were, in his often arbitrary measures as lord proprietor. It would seem from his history that he had to a great extent given up Quakerism, but that he retained a love for his father's faith is shown by his contributing gene1Jusly to the erection by the Friends of the large stone meeting-house called Hopewell, and by his selection of a Quaker wife. Neither had this faith died out in his children, for we find later, during the Revolutionary War, his son Lewis (the grandfather of Elizabeth Jolliffe) and two of his brothers had their guns strapped to their backs (for they refused to hold them), and were marched two days' journey from their homes by one Jack Barnett, because their peace principles would not allow them to :fight. They were met in the way by Alexander White, their neighbor and the brilliant lawyer, who afterwards obtained the release for the Friends who were exiled from Philadelphia. Re said, "Jack, where are you marching these Quakers?" "I ani taking them to the front, to put them in front of the army.'' "Take them back," said .M:r. White; "you have no right to take Lewis Neill, anyhow, as the law allows a mill-owner to every section." An aged member of the family, still living, told me this same Jack Barnett came afterwards to beg fiour of Lewis Neill, and it was not denied him. It was ·to this grandfather's home, then, that her parents came from Alexandria, and she was a woman thirty-five years of age when he died, November 16, 1841, at the advanced age of ninety-four. For him she had the greatest respect and love, as shown in her earlier letters, and in the way she always spoke of him. I am thus dwelling upon her environments at Swarthmore, as here two-thirds of her life were passed; it will show under what circum­ stances her character was formed. lier surroundings were by no means those of a dull country neighborhood. They were near Winchester, and that and the country round was specially noted for its good society. In his history of the valley, Morris says, "Winchester from its very foundation, and Frederick County as well, has always been the centre and seat of much cultivation, courtesy, and patriotism. . . . Afterwards during colonial times, and from the Revolution onward, notwithstanding the rise of rival towns and cities in the valley· and in other sections of the two Virginias, Winchester has maintained its ancient prestige as the mother of many eminent men and women, and a home for learning and .236 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF refinement." He also says, '' The social standing of its very early pioneers was far above the average of those who usually make new settlements." A noted academy for the education of young men was established there, and also Henry St. George Tucker's law school, from which one of her brothers was graduated, and to which came young men from all over the country, many of whom after­ wards became eminent. This professional element made beaux very plentiful at the many social gatherings in and around Win­ chester, and she makes constant mention of them in a series of letter., written about this time to her brother, who had gone to Ohio to practise law. These letters cover some years, and are closely written in a fine, clear hand on the largest size old-fashioned foolscap paper, sealed with red sealing-wax (for it was before the days of envelopes), and the postage was twenty-five cents. Nothing could give a better idea of her life at this time, filled as they are with details about the family circle, their friends and relations, and all that goes on in the neighborhood, mingled with sisterly advice and a constant refrain through them all of" We miss you; when are you coming home?'' No wonder he kept them so carefully, and has thus given me the pleasure of reading them, though written sixty­ five years ago. Her elder sister, Mary, was sent to a school kept by William Hilles in Wilmington, Delaware, but she was educated at a private school established tbere at that time. The principal of it, John Pierpont, was a very able man, and considered an excel­ lent teacher. Here she and most of her contemporary cousins were educated. It was thought to be a very superior school, and I think it must have been, judging from the class of scholars it turned out. She early developed a great love for reading, and this brother all through his life gratified her taste in this, by sending her many books, generally standard works, which were read in these days, and books of poetry, of which in early life she was very fond. She accumulated quite a nice little library of her own, the most of which at the time of her marriage she left with a niece, then Susan B. Jolliffe. In these letters she discussed public questions with her brother, and writes," Just now I am reading the Museum of Foreign Literature and Science for this year, Russell's Modern Europe, and Scott's Napoleon." She was fond of history, and remembered what she read, having an excellent memory. Later on in life biography interested her greatly, the lives of men and women; their joys and sorrows and spiritual conflicts ap­ pealed to her strongly, This taste never waned, and was a great 1·esource to her during the last years of her life, when long confine- THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 237 ment shut her off from the outside world. She sat up late, finish­ ing the "Life of Stanley Pumphrey," only two or threo days before her death. She was a very pretty girl, full of life and spirits­ popular with both men and wornen. I am sure I never knew any one who had more devoted admirers among both sexes up to the time of her death. She has told me that on one occasion, when no longer young, she was travelling under the care of a friend, a married man. During the journey she was introduced to Henry Clay, and while. talking with him found he had mistaken the gentleman for her husband; thereupon she laughingly told him "that she was an old maid." " I am sure, madam," he said, in his courtly way, "it has not been tho fault of our sex,"-as indeed it had not. I will now speak of some of her cousins. On an adjacent place lived her aunt Nancy Neill Schofield, the wife of Mahlon Schofield. She had a large family of sons and daughters. They were very intimate, and with the three daughters, all near her own age, it was continued as long as she lived. They were Rachel, who afterwards became the wife of Isaac Hoge, of Virginia; Elizabeth, who married Joseph Hopkins, of Maryland; and Ann, who never married. She writes to her brother of them December 3, 1829, "Rachel and Ann Schofield are as tall as their mother. Rachel is a great favorite of Meredith J olliffe's; she has a very fine presence. They are the most intelligent family I know." They certainly were most superior women, not only cultivated and attractive, but lovely Christian characters. They were like the most devoted sisters; and when they were old women, in their seventies, after an absence, they would sit up and talk all night like school-girls. She and her cousin Elizabeth Schofield were the youngest old women I have ever met, both in their appearance and in the freshness of their interest in everything. A cousin of whom she was very fond and who died · young also lived near, Sarah Brown, the daughter of her aunt Sarah Neill Brown, and she had younger half-sisters who were much beloved by the family. Edith, Rachel, and William Williams, the children of her aunt Lydia Hollingsworth Williams, lived at Water­ ford, in Loudoun County. Thirty miles distant the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Shenandoah River, and a road, the most of it as bad as only a Virginia road can be, and as beautiful, lay between, but did not separate, as there was constant intercourse between the neighbors. Elizabeth became the wife ofNoble Bradon, of Virginia, and died at an early age, but Cousin Rachel was always a welcome guest at her home in Philadelphia, where she usually came once a 238 HISTORIOAL ACCOUNT OF year. This cousin was blessed with a goodly share of this world's goods, and was most generous in her use of them. She was devotedly fond of her relations, and was always giving them presents. My aunt bas often told me that in her days of straitened circumstances no one was more thoughtful of her needs than this cousin. Many a nice silk dress, or new shawl, or some article she could not afford, came from this source. She is now the only surviving one of this band of cousins. Her brother, William Williams, was taken as a hostage during the late war and thrown into L.ibby prison, was ,ery ill from the hardships there, and would probably have died bad be not been rescued by John Crenshaw, of Richmond, who went surety for him until his release was obtained. AU of these Quaker cousins adopted the plain dress of the Friends, with its cap and kerchief and shawl, and ever after wore it. A$ide from the tender associations which will always make it beautiful for me, I think there is no dress in the world so becoming to an old lady. Her father's only brother, John Jolliffe, also lived quite near. He was not a Friend, nor was his father, Captain John Jolliffe, whose youthful patriotism got the better of bis peace prin­ ciples, and be gave bis life for bis country during the war of the Revolution, at the early age of twenty-six. This uncle's associa­ tions were among the gay fox-hunting gentlemen of the country; he took a lively interest in the politics of the time, and sometimes spoke in public. His family was large and his house a very gay one. In 1829 she writes to her brother, "Where did you spend your Christmas?'' She spends hers with a party of cousins and others at her Uncle John's, enjoys a fine bowl of eggnog, and has a merry time; she who in after-life became so temperate she would allow no alcoholic beverage to be served at her board. 'rhese time­ stained letters seem to waft a faint perfume of dried rose-leaves and sprigs of lavender from the old chest of drawers at Swarthmore, and they carry, too, sacred memories of the good men and women who died there, and who with the writer thereof now rest from their labors. She was very intimate with Lavinia Jolliffe, a daugh­ ter of this uncle, about her own age. She was a beautiful woman, and afterwards married Sa1,~uel Hopkins, of Baltimore, Maryland. She misses ber very much ; and though from this time the tenor of their lives runs in a very different line, to the end of her days she always retained a great fondness for her.. Later on, her cousin, Meredith Jolliffe, marries Margaret Hopkins, of Baltimore, and her sweet and merry disposition makes her hospitable home a favorite rallying-point. She hears her brother John is to be married, and THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 239 writes "she hopes it is true. She knows it is needless to suggest an apprehension of the lady's q~alifications, for I believe you have too much sense and taste and prudence to make choice of any who would not be at once the pride and joy of your heart. Mind we look to yon to support the crumbling pillars of our house;" then in merry vein she tells him "she wants to go out to him and (in the quaint expression of her times) set her cap for an Ohio Congressman, for I verily believe if I stay here forever I shall get neither President nor Congressman." She loved society, and felt the restraints which her parents, as Friends, thought it right to throw about her as very irksome, though afterwards she felt grateful to them, and thought it kept her from becoming a very worldly woman. Dancing parties were generally tabooed, though not always, as she describes the delights of one in a letter with great glee, but often speaks of how she and Elizabeth Schofield could not go, and how hard they found it. We find her life now taking on a more serious aspect,-most of her cousins arc married and gone, many of her friends are scattered, but she remains a devoted daughter, an un­ selfish sister, taking upon herself that life of self-sacrifice for others which she ever after continues. She receives her first legacy, and turns it over to assist her father, then bravely struggling with un­ toward circumstances. He had inherited some family servants, but, being a Friend, had set them free. This class was also employed in her Aunt Nancy's family, and had no more opportunity of learn­ ing than the slaves, as everything was closed to them. For these as well as the slaves she felt a deep concern that they should have religious instruction. So she opened a sort of Sunday-school in her father's house, which she continued for some time. Finally, how­ ever, her father was informed that she must gi\·e it up, as fears were constantly entertained where there was any gathering of colored people. For the little white children also, bound as servants, in those days, for a term of years, she felt great sympathy. A younger cousin of hers, Joseph Neill, came to be so intimate and good a friend of hers and of her family that I think some mention of him here would be fitting. He was a very interesting man, of fine talents, and had inherited what WJJ,S considered in those days a handsome fortune, a part of which was in negro slaves. He was not a Friend, and held his slaves, as others did, with no thought of wrong. One winter, being in ill health, bis physician ordered him to the far South, and here he saw slavery in such a form that he came home resolved to free them all. This he did, and bought land and settled them a~ Kennett Square. 240 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF To become an abolitionist in those days was considered a disgrace in the South; nor was it fashionable in the North. Naturally, being Friends, he turned to my grandmother's family for sympathy, and was constantly at her house. On several occasions he escorted his cousins on long trips, one of which lasted several months, and she has left an enthusiastic account of it in her diary. On the last of these journeys they spent considerable time in Philadelphia, where she mentions taking tea with a number of Friends. She did not know that some ten or eleven years later this was to he her home. This cousin died during the early part of the war, and she mourned that he never lived to see her in her own home. He was a firm believer in the cause of the government, and, having the courage of his convictions, he spoke out so boldly in those troublous times that his friends thought his life was endangered. He left each of his Quaker cousins a substantial legacy. Her share of this went to a relative who she thought needed it more than she did, and still another was largely given towards the education of her deceased brother's children, whom she ever after treated as her own. There are necessarily in the early part of .this sketch some repetitions of my brother's text, which seemed unavoidable to make it clear. In 1839 she commenced a diary. It was with a strange feeling of reverence, mingled with reluctance, that I first perused its pages, though I felt she had wished me to, as she left it to me. Through­ out the whole, events and persons are so slightly touched upon as to be scarcely recognizable, which makes it seem right to quote from it. It is a record of her soul's struggles and her spiritual conflicts. Though often cast down, though often sad, the goal is ever upward and onward. She thinks she has been vain and worldly, and says, "Born and educated a member of the Society of Friends, the re­ straints imposed by the guarded education given me by my mother sat very heavily upon me. The liberty enjoyed by some of my young companions filled my mind with desires for the same. I never desired to be a Friend. I always anticipated leaving the Society and becoming one of the gay world. Step by step I pur­ sued my devious way, by degrees becoming more and more allied to the world, until at last I not only threw off all appearance of the Friend, but in feeling I became entirely alienated from them. About this time my cousin married. I attended her wedding, and while all around seemed to be enjoying themselves, I was not happy. A short time previous to this I had entered into an engage­ ment of marriage. I had entered into this engagement with some reflection, but no sooner was it made than a secret uneasiness seized THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 241 me. I had many painful forebodings, and would gladly have ex­ tricated myself, but it seemed in vain." Her word once given, I suppose her high sense of honor made it hard for her to break it She at last thought it was right to do so, and she says, "The dis­ solution of this engagement (by me so much desired) pained me exceedingly, but time and other circumstances have greatly changed its character, and I believe my respect for the person remains un­ impaired." Then she goes on to say, "I do not doubt that many who knew how I was circumstanced attributed my change of life to the above-mentioned circumstance, but they were mistaken; it was the grace of God that awakened my soul from its career of vanity and folly. Previous to my cousin's marriage I had become impressed with the conviction that I had an immortal soul to save. But I was not prepared to relinquish the world : the sacrifice was too great. Late one evening, about fifteen months after that time, I was reading the life of Mary Cooper, and the tract of the Dairy­ man's Daughter, when I came to the resolution to resign myself to Providence." Then she says, "However hard the conditions may at first appear, He enters in and removes all that makes them hard. Our self-love, our pride, our vanity-these once removed, then all the causes that mar our happiness are gone; we enter into a new creation." Later on, again she has a struggle with her heart; she says, "To all appearance there is no objection but the one." I think a differ­ ence in faith must be the trouble, for she resumes, "Whatever may be the prospect for present happiness, there are circumstances in the way which plainly prove that I would have to abandon. my principles. The conclusion that my mind comes to is to maintain them, and if this thing is right, these obstructions will of themselves remove; if not, it is better as it is. Two persons may be equally right, but each in a place separate and distinct from the other, and to step out of our places would be wrong." She admits that a life of ease and luxury is very tempting to her, but she keeps on unself­ ishly doing for those who need her so much. She has such a sen­ sitive regard for the feelings of others that she is constantly reproaching herself in this diary, for fear she has trodden upon them. This was a marked characteristic through life, and, I think, was one reason so many loved her. She was clerk of Hope­ well Meeting a number of years, and always records an annual attendance of the Yearly Meeting in Baltimore, which she greatly enjoyed. Here she had many relations and friends who thoroughly appreciated her. One of them, Julia Wilson, the wife of Thomas Wil- 242 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF son of that city, had talked so much of her, and her lovely charac­ ter, to her brother, Townsend Sharpless, of Philadelphia, that he resolved to go to Virginia and see her for himself. The final result of this visit was that after some time they were married, in 1859, at Hopewell Meeting. He was a retired merchant of Philadelphia, of ample means, and, while not in active business, was still actively engaged in many charitable institutions, and took a great interest in all that pertained to the welfare of his own society, so that their aims were alike, and they had many tastes in common. She bad always been accustomed to the generous hospitality of a Southern home, which had not been stinted, even though often practised under great personal sacrifice. This hospitality he encouraged her to continue in his home, and was never happier than when his ample board was surrounded by guests. Here she welcomed, all through her married life, relation, friend, and stranger, and it was a source of great delight to her. After their marriage they spent some little time in Baltimore and Philadelphia, and then sailed for Europe, where they remained almost a year. I have often heard. her say "she bad expected to go, sometime, all her life," and it remained a pleasure always fresh in her memory. Although this step in her life opened so brightly, it was saddened by the parting from her aged mother, now very infirm, and to whom she had so long been all that a devoted daughter could be. -To her, some time after their marriage, Townsend Sharpless ad­ dressed a beautiful letter, iri which he thanked her for giving up het> daughter to him while she needed her so much, and assuring her that .he would always prove himself worthy of the trust. At bis wife's desire, although a great sacrifice, be gave up the extended trip to Egypt, Jerusalem, Turkey, and Greece, which he had planned, because she felt uneasy about her mother. She returned none too early, for not many months after, this parent, whose life, my brother writes, was first begun in the war of the Revolution, in what was called the bloody year of 1777, and who, as a young wife, saw her husband's business prospects shattered by the War of 1812, was herself laid to rest at the breaking out of the great civil con­ flict which swept her native State and home with the besom of de­ struction. That her mother was spared those dreadful times she accounted a great blessing, and that she herself had been removed before the breaking out of the war she considered but another evidence of that Providential care which had been over her all her life, and whose leadings she had so conscientiously tried to follow. Timid by nature, she has often told me "she did not know bow she THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 243 could have stood the terrors of war." She endured much anxiety for the relatives who were exposed to its dangers, and during the long lapses which sometimes occurred when no tidings could be had she suffered greatly. Her tender heart was torn with the thought that, while she was living in luxury, they might want for the necessaries of life or even worse. While in Europe, besides travelling extensively, they attended the Yearly Meetings of London and Dublin. They received much at­ tention from Friends, having more invitations than they could pos­ sibly accept; but they went a great deal, and the record left of these visits in her letters is very interesting. Her husband was always very proud of the admiration she received wherever she went. In a letter to her mother sbe says, "Last 1st day, T. and I went to Croydon Meeting. I never attended a more interesting one. Isaac Sharpe, from York, and a friend Marsh, from Kingston, Ireland, were there. After Meeting we were invited to visit Croy­ don School, and then Samuel Gurney put me in his carriage and we went to Peter Bedford's, where we dined. The men walked. S. Gurney left but two sons; both of these are in the British Parlia­ ment, and both are Friends." She also meets Benjamin Seebohm. She says, "In London you cannot distinguish the Friends from other people, except the women, who wear bonnets like Julia Valen­ tine's, only made of some dark satin, which gives them a handsome appearance. I have not seen a Friend yet who dresses as plainly as T. and myself." He gives in one of his letters an amusing ac­ count of how be was constantly taken for a Catholic Priest in Italy. He had been bowed to a great many times in the streets of Naples, but supposed, as the Friends bad been very kind to the people dur­ ing the famine, it was respect shown for that. He says, "I passed 3 men who all took off their hats. Thinks I, what does this mean? After awhile a poor woman stopped and courtesied; at length some boys, and then a cabman, did the same. I then stopped and asked the man 'why he took off his hat to me?' He answered, 'And sure a'n't you a Catholic Praste.'" In Dublin she writes, "We dined with Samuel Bewley on first day. .He lives about 2 miles out of town in an earthly paradise. Here we met a large company of the Irish Quaker aristocracy. They are a very refined and cultivated people. Another day we dined at Thomas Bewley's; he has a rare collection of flowers; they all have this, but Ms exceeds them all. Another day dined at Jona­ than Pimm's; six o'clock was the hour; about one hour after we arose from dinner, tea was served. We found the cups and saucers, 244 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF with sliced bread and butter and cake, on the centre table when we came in from dinner, and at eight o'clock it was served. Dined at Joseph Pease's; he is the late Member of Parliament; his wife was a Gurney." In another she says, "Near Ambleside, above Lake Windermere, is a beautiful home almost hidden from view by trees and shrubs. Here a son of Anna Braithwaite lives, and is about to leave it all to take charge of a congregation as an Episcopal Minister. He gives up this luxurious home to become an humble curate. At Windermere a gentleman who was with us would have us dismount from the omnibus and go into a hotel to see what a fine house it was. As he helped me down he said, 'Put tby foot here.' This struck me; then we found out be was a son of Anna Braith­ waite's. He went home and told his mother, and the next day going into Meeting we were met by a pleasant young friend who asked if I was not an American, and said her mother, Anna Braith­ waite, wished us to come borne with her and dine. We went, and I was taken into the parlor, and there she sat, a queen indeed. She received me as though I were a relative and a most delightful visit we had, dining and taking tea with them." They take tea also with Mary James Lecky, who, they tell her, is the largest land-owner in Ireland, and addA, significantly, " They told me there she had had many offers of marriage." She writes these long letters, full of detail, notwithstanding the fatigue of travel, to her mother, her brothers, her cousins, and her nieees; none were forgotten. Her husband was not only generous, but lavish, and presents were brought to all. They sail for home, and soon her life in Philadelphia begins. Her husband's family was a large one, and bis children were all married, and living in homes of their own. A step-mother's position is one that at best is considered bard to fill gracefully, and she came among them an entire stranger. She entered her new home not only with a high resolve to do her duty, but with a loving heart prepared to care for bis relatives as she did for her own. Her sweet spirit soon met with a ready response, and the affectionate regard which continued between them, long after her husband's death and until her own, has always seemed to me to be a tribute to both. She at once con­ nected herself with various charitable institutions, became a visitor at the prisons, and took the deepest interest in the new Meeting to which she now belonged. Outside of her husband's family she had a number of friends, and very soon she felt perfectly at home, and enjoyed exceedingly her life in Philadelphia. Her husband died in December, 1863, and THE JOLLIFFE FAMILY. 245 she survived him twenty years. Her house continued to be a cen­ tral rallying point for the members of his family, her relatives and friends as long as she lived. The relation which existed between her and his young grand-daughters (one of whom was named for her), was very beautiful. 'rhere was such a real intimacy, that it seemed as though the difference in their ages had been spanned by a bridge which took no note of time. The last three years of her life she was afilicted by a disease which cut her off from the active life she had always led. This was a great trial, but it was borne so patiently and so cheerfully, that her sick chamber was not a sad place, but always pervaded by an atmosphere of brightness. Hither, to the last, came an unceasing train of pilgrims, who gathered there not from a sense of duty, but because they loved to come. They generally found her up and dressed in snowy cap and kerchief, seated there with a smile of welcome on her face, ready to enter with interest and sympathy into all they had to tell her. Her last call came suddenly, and this, too, was a mercy, for it found her ready and waiting to go. With the words, "Home, home, there is no place like home," the last upon her lips, she entered into that rest which is prepared for the people of God. In reading over this imperfect sketch, I feel as though, having dwelt upon the more serious side of her life, I may have given the im­ pression that she was a sad person; on the contrary, she was always a very cheerful and happy one, and I have often thought that was the secret of her remaining so young. The life of one we love, when removed beyond the mists of time, stands out clear cut before our vision, and is an inspiration which points as no other can to the heights beyond, and like the beautiful Indian Legend of the V anishers, beckons us to follow-

"Gentle eyes we closed below, Tender voices heard once more, Smile and call us; as they go On and onward, still before. * * * * * "Chase we still with baffled feet, Smiling eye and waving hand, Sought and seeker soon shall meet, Lost and found in Sunset Land !11

ELIZABETH A. JOLLIFFE.

Your Jruce data in the ;,arch, 1952, issue of G i: H (item 14579, pp. 4-5) interested rm bece.use I 1ve spent e. good deal of tirc.e and stil 1 more trouLle 2.nd r,,oney trying to get the ful 1 story of the c3ruces of this fawily, e.t leaE,t of the first generations in A21erica.

I think you've slid along one Eeneration; that is, •.• 8ruce we.s e.n in::,.ig.nmt himself and would norwally be counted as the first gen­ eretion; however, in what references I may make to your careful s;,udy I 111 follow your own plen of nurn::ering.

Like ,,ou, I 1ve used c\'illiec:: nrvce I s recorc.s which were pui:,lished in the Indiana Lagezine -of Histo_!.Y. It would be reuarkable if they were completely free fron. error for, by hiE- own celculetion, he i,·as 75 at the time he put them on paper and obviously he wasn I t a. treined genealog­ ist. That they are, in the msin, reliable when checked with other re­ cords is LO his credit.

These other references ycu may find helpful:

1. EDE(Ia. )'s item i/-5811, C:c Z. H, Ag. l~i, 1941.

2. 1:dlliau Jolliffe 1 s The Jollif'fe Fudlv of_Virrinia (1S93), p. 99. '.hile thiE ird.icates that a Je,mes t'ruce, 111. 1724, was the son of John and Ann, it is more likely that he wes their grandson.

3. T. l. Oattm.ell's Shenandoah Vallev 1:ioneers •.. (1909), p. 484.

4. John 3ruce 1 s will, recorded in VJill Book I, p. 205 (I he.ve a full copy of this). An interesting fee.ture ie tha.t John bequeethed his son Je.mes his csrpente:c 1s tools and you'll ren:er,ber that \"iil­ liar.i Bruce wrote that his father Jerues built the first frame house in ,.:inc he stc:r, va. -- this is one of those euall tie-U!)S the t are what rrekes the pursuit of anceEtry more than the dull stuff of dates e nci narcce s •

ll. A. R. /agazine, Sp. 19;55, p~. 56r-9.

6. Frsnklin Ellis 1 HisLory of Fayette Co., 1-a. (1882), p. 6EH.

7. Hopewell Friends Hisr,ory (1936 ), p. 34. -2-

dRta on the early Bru.ces. It. is solidly documented, however.

In addition, you might find it helpful to write .F. \-!. Bruce, secretary of the [ansas Society of the S. A. R. In 1936 his address ws s 1155 Jrend Ave., Topeka. There is a "Dr • 11 (given nan.e Doctor?) in his line.

On pp. 8-9 of rn:y FaEily Bible Records, Second Series, there is a full transcript of the entries in the FB of f.'argaret (Bruce) :Kessinger. The earliest birth she noted was t:~a t of ',iilliam (3) Bruce; his is al­ so the earliest deatr.. l'he l1l8jority of the entries ere of' l\essingers, naturally.

I regret that I cannot copy in full for you my many Bruce notes. Just going through the files for material given above has consumed more time than I ce.n readily spere but I have done it wil lini-,ly as I always like to share the results of r:,.y work with those who are following the same lines.

'l'o plsce myself' on the Bruce tree, here is J'fl.Y descent:

iohn and Ann(---) Bruce.

Janee and Ann (Bruce) lv'cCoy.

1:Jilliam and Eliza.beth (noyce) HcCoy.

John and Jane (Collins) :foCoy.

Spencer Collins and Delilah (Ycumiel) l!cOoy.

·:,'illiam Henry Harrison and Elizabeth Amanda (Potter) 1-.cCoy.

Charles Spencer e.nd Yary Ellis (Fond) r,~cCoy.

ElizRbeth (11:cCoy) Hayward -- bingo!

I wonder if you I re of the se.me genera ti on that I am -- the 8th.

lfany of the trails I 1ve followed, hunting c~ruces, have led to no- thing. Within the past fe·,; weeks, for example, when I was in Winchester I tried to find old church records in vain. I also spent some hours at the public library there, looking carefully through a collection of lo­ cal history and genealogy, without adding anything to what I 1d previous­ ly discovered. Doubtless you 1ve had similar experiences.

Yours sincerely,