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History of the Tredway Family HISTORY OF THE TREDWAY FAMILY WILLIAM T. TREDW.AY Editor and Compiler COPYRIGHT 1930, W. T. TREDWAY, PITTSBURGH, PA. <1'i¢a"bway 'liibwa,.9 «rnnt nf .Arms For Complete Description, See Page 32 This work is dedicated to the memory of REVEREND SILAS BALDWIN TREDWAY. A Methodist Protestant Minister, of Maryland, in honor of his untiring efforts in gathering most of the data herein contained, and who inspired the final publication thereof. Also to the memory of those patriarchs by the name of Tredway who have passed to the Great Beyond, down through the centuries, who have done so much to smooth out the roitgh places in the pathway of human Zif e; who have made "human labor lighter and the human countenance brighter" by their having lived; and Al.so to those now living and generations yef 1m­ born who shall add to the lustre of the name and keep it unsullied down through the ages. CONTENTS CHAPTER r Page History of the Tredway Family I Pedigree of the Family of Tredway 32 CHAPTER II American Ancestors of Frank Stillman Treadway 33 CHAPTER III Christian Fraternity-Sermon by Dr. S. B. Tredway - 47 . CHAPTER IV History of the Tredway Family in the State of Mary- land and Other States 61 CHAPTER V Re-Written by William T. 'Tredway, Editor and Pub- lisher of the Tredway Genealogy 69 CHAPTER VI Daughters of the Tredway Family who Changed Their Name by Inter-marrying into Other Families 87 CHAPTER VII Sketch of John Norris Tredway, Sr., (1769-1853) 91 CHAPTER VIII Sketch of Crispin Tredway (1767-1855) by Rev. Silas B. Tredway 96 CHAPTER IX Descendants of Crispen Tredway and Elizabeth Peteet Great-Grandfather and Grandmother of W. T. Tredway q9 CHAPTER x Page Sketch of Thomas Tredway (1799-1881) 112 CHAPTER XI History of Crispen Tredway ( 1834-1895) n6 CHAPTER XII Sketch of William Tho:nas Tredway 120 CHAPTER XIII Address by William 'I'. Tredway 125 CHAPTER XIV Women of Distinction 133 CHAPTER xv History of Francis Wilcox Treadway and Lyman H. Treadway 137 CHAPTER XVI Genealogy of the Family of Oswell Garland Treadway 145 CHAPTER XVII Sketch of the Late Thomas Tredway 190 CHAPTER XVIII Explanatory Note 200 CHAPTER XIX Lauris Goldsmith Treadway 251 CHAPTER xx Contributed by Harry E. Tredway, of Dubuque, Iowa, 259 CHAPTER XXI History of Stutley Weeks Tredway CHAPTER XXII Data and Letters of Interest to All 2 73 PREFACE The compiler of this genealogy claims no credit for the assem­ bly of the data contained herein, except so far as the same has come to him through correspondence and otherwise, since the death of the Rev, Silas B. Tredway, which occurred on the 7th clay of July, 1917. For many years starting when the compiler was yet a small boy on the farm, his interest in the history of the Tredway family was aroused by the Rev. Silas B. Tredway, a distant cousin of his father, Crispen Tredway, who then resided near Warsaw, Coshocton County, Ohio, while the former came from his old stamping grounds in Harford County, Maryland. The State of Maryland and particularly the vicinity surround­ ing the City of Baltimore in that State, is the native heath of those from whom the compiler and the Rev. Silas B. Tredway, who gathered the valuable data contained in this genealogy, as well as that of Oswell G. Tredway, now an eminent lawyer in Chicag-o, and William M. Tredway, Jr:., a lawyer at Chatham, Virginia; Col. Robert Rose Treadway, of Atlanta, Ga., now in the employ of the Federal Government at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: and of the late Judge William M. Tredway, as published in this history. 'The compiler would be very ungrateful if he stopped with the above paragraph; for data a:, given from the family of Francis Wil­ cox Tredway, former Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, and his brother Lyman H. Treadway, Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank at Cleveland, also from many others of those descended from Nath- . aniel Tredway, the weaver who settled at Sudbury and Watertown, Massachusetts, who married Sufferana Howe, running back into the fifteenth century. Among those deserving special mention is Frank Stillman Tred­ way, on whose information the second chapter of this genealogy is founded, and who still lives as this publication goes to press, and resides at Corpus Christi, Texas. Also among the descendants of N athan;el Tredway who mater­ ially aided with perhaps the most accurate data reaching back into England into the most remote history of the Treiway family and those intermarried with it, is Harry E. Tredway, of Dubuque, Iowa. also still living, whose charts and long years of work in assembling the same may be seen on pages 234, 235, 236, 237, 260, 26r, 262, 263, :::64. 265, 266 and 267. We wish also to acknowledge the valuable assistance and infor- XIV HISTORY OF THE TREDWAY FAMILY Adams and John Quincy Adams, Presidents of the United States; its production of lawyers, ministers, physicians, engineers, judges and lieutenant governors of states, make even to the author after the long months of hard work, a thrilling narrative which everyone of Tredway name or blood will prize and pass on to generations yet unborn. The exhaustive index at the end of the volume makes a ready reference to every Tredway by name or blood, simply the family name being given of those of family connection, and the given name of those of direct line, and no separation by reason of the · spelling of the name "Tredway" or "Treadway" has been observed in noting the names in the index. From the index it will be noted that the accurate and proper orthography of the name is "Tredway." Practically every Tredway discovered out of the City Director­ ies of 400 cities of the United States, trace their ancestors back into England. One or two, however, go back to Ireland. History of the Tredway Family CHAPTER I HE TREDWAY FAMILY as far as can be discovered with any degree of certainty, descended from the Saxons, Angles and Jutes, all members of the great Saxon Con- •~ federation, a rough union of Teutonic tribes effected during the fourth Century, under the Saxori hegemony, for mutual advancement and improvement. These tribes, celebrated for naval prowess, had made several piratical expeditions to the British coast before the abandonment of the island by the Romans. According to the statement of old histories, it was the knowledge of them thus acquired by the Britons that led these latter to call upon them for aid, when, about A. D. 449, Vortigcrn, the leading British chief of the time, found himself unable to withstand the increasing inroads of the Picts 2.nd Scots, the 1xirbarous tribes living in the north of the island, By invitation the Saxon princes aided in subduing the Picts and 1he Scots. From this time the Saxons constantly poured into the island, and by gradual steps, which it is now impossible to trace, the native Britons were completely subjugated by the new people, who overspread the whole country, introduced their laws, cus­ toms, and langu;,.ge, and became the acknowledged founders of most of its future institutions. The little that is actually known of the events oi the century following the landing of the first Saxon settlers may be said to be the one fact that at different times during that period new detachments of the invaders with their chiefs, founded eight kingdoms, as follows, mentioning them in their most probable chronological order : Kent, Sussex, Wes­ sex, East Anglia, Mcrcia, Essex, Bernicia, and Deria, the last two afterward joined in Northumbria. Gradually, during the eighth Century, these became united in the alliance called the Saxon hep­ tarchy-though it should be properly called the octarchy; and finally, about 827, they were unite.cl into one· kingdom, called An­ glia, or England (A. S. Engla-land), by King Egbert of Wessex. Mercia was the fargest kingdom of the Saxon heptarchy in the icClartd of Briton. The name is derived from mark, meaning fron­ tier, as this was the most western of the three kingdoms of the Angles. It was situated inland, being bounded N. by Cambria and Northumbria; E. by East Anglia and Essex, S. by Wessex, and W. by Wales, and included the modern counties ( or Shires) of Chester, Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln, Salop, Stafford, 'Leices­ ter, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Hereford, Worcester, V,7arwick, Glouce~tcr, Oxf'ord, and Buckingiham, and parts of Hertford and Bedford. It was founded by Crida, an Angle, about 58.5, was subject for a time to the Northumbrians, and afterward subdued East Anglia and Kent. Its more important kings were 2 HISTORY OF THE TREDWAY FAMILY Prnda, Ethelred, Kenred, and Wigle£, who was finally conquered by Egbert, king of Wessex, about 827. The king (cyning) at this period was held in high esteem as well as in subsequent ages. The queen ( cwen) was also held in great respect; offenses against her were punished like those against the king; and she often played a ·conspicuous part in the government. Next in rank were the aethelings or nobility; and this term included in early times only the immediate family and near relatives of the king. Just below the aetheling, and in time coming to share many of his privileges, was the ealdorman .. Officials of many kinds bore this title, but it was at first generally applied to the governor of a province, who led its forces to war and superintended its affairs in peace. This title was not in early times hereditary, but became so after the reign of Alfred the Great.
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