GENEALOGY 01'' THE Sbotmaktr jfamilp OF CHELTENHAM, PENNSYLVANIA COMPILED BY ~tnjamin 1Jl. ~f)otmaktr i&tinttb for pri1tatt ~imdation BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA MDCCCCIII Edition limited lo four hundred copies, of which this is No·-····---- THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY SON <tontents PAC.ff INTllODUCTION AND HISTORICAL NOTES ••••••••.•••••••••.••••••••••••••••••••••.••••••• JACOB SHOEMAKER.................................................................... 5 P= SHOEMAKER. .. • .. .. • .. .. • .. • .. • .. • .. • .. • .. • • .. • • • • .. • • • • . • .. .. • • . • • • .. • • .. • • • 6 GEORGE SHOEMAKER.................................................................. 8 RICHARD WALL. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • .. .. .. • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • 9 TOBY LEEcH ................................................ , • .. .. • • .. • • • • • • • • • • .. .. • 12 RE:YNIEJI TYSON. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • • • IJ SHOEMAKER BURYING-GROUND. • • .. • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • • • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 14 MoNTCOlllERY CouNTY, PENNSYLVANIA................................................ 16 OLD STONE BRIDGE AT SHO£MAXEIITOWN. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • 17 FIRST GENERATION. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • I9 SECOND GENERATION.... • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • • • 20 THIRD GENERATIO:)I. • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 20 FOURTH GENERATION. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Z7 FIFTH GE:."ERATION. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 41 SIXTH GENERATION. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • 66 SEVENTH GENERATION. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1o8 EIGHTH GE.,"ERA TION • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • :zo8 NINTH GENERATION •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 36:z TE.'n'li GE...,-ERAT::>N .................................................................. 449 APPENDIX ........................................................ • • , •• • •••• • •• , ••• • • 457 IND.EX OF NAMES ..................................................................... 461 vii 1ist of Illustrations PAGE BENJAMI.S H. SHOEMAKER •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••••••••••• • Fro11tispiece. KluEGSHEIM, GERMANY............................................................... .2 TonY LEECH'S House................................................................. 1.2 SHOEMAKER GRA\ll::YARD.............................................................. 14 OLD STONJ:: BRIDGJ:: AT SHOEMAKERTOWN............................................... 1; PHOTOGRAPH OF MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE OF GEORGE SHOEMAKER AND SARAH WALL...... 20 SKETCH OF OLD YORK ROAD AND SBOEMAKERTOWN. 18o5.............................. 23 IsAAC SHOEMAKE:R's HousE. 1;25. •• • • •• • • . • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • 25 GERHARD H.:NDRicKs·s FARM, 1686............. .. .. 26 SHOJ::MAKJ::R's MILL AT SHOEMAKERTOWN, 1;46....................................... JO INDIAN TRJ::ATY, 1748................................................................. 36 RESIDENCE OF CHARLES SHOE~!AKER AT SHOEMAKERTOWN. • • • . • . • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 44 MosES SHEPPARD..................................................................... 48 SAMUEL SHoEMAKF:? AND ms SoN EDWARD.......................................... 6o Sm ISAAC PENINGTON. • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • . • . • • • . • • • • • • • • . • • • 63 EDWARD PE.>;'JXGTOX (SILHOt:J::TTE).................................................... 64 DAVID SHOEMAKER................................................................... 75 BENJAMIN SHOEMAKER (SILHOt,.:TTE) •••••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••••.••••••••..•••. !OJ SARAH COATES RAWLE .•••••••••••••••••.••••.•.••••••••••••••••••••.•.••••••••.••••• 105 RICJJARD l\L SHOEMAKER. • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • . • • • • • • • • • IIi AMELIA BIRD SHOEMAKER ••••••••••••••••••••••.•.•.••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••. us DR. NATHAN SHOZMAKER •••••• , ••••••••••••.••.•••••••••••••.•••••••••••••••.•••.••• 122 BE.'-JAMIX HALLOW!:LL •••••••••••••••••••••••.••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1.24 MARGARET E. HALLOWELL. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 125 :MARY s. LIPPINCOTT. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • • • • • . • • • . • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • 126 ISAAC LIPPINCOTT •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 127 ix 'l.tst of Illustrations PAGE ISAAC TYSON, }R........... IJ8 Eu K. PRICE ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••••••• 2o6 ROBERT S"tOEMAKER •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 22J RICHARD l\i. SHOEMAKER'S REsIDENCE AT SHOEMAKERTOW.N •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 225 CHARLES BIRO SHOEMAICl:JI ............................................................ 226 }OIIN SERGEA:."T PRICE ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• : •••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••• 361 DR. SAMUEL B. SHOEMAKER ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 38o X lntrobuctfon anb 1Hfstorfcal 11lotes N compiling a genealogy of the Shoemaker family of Cheltenham, the writer has confined himself to established facts and records as found 1 in the Monthly Meetings of Friends of Abington, Philadelphia, and the neighboring counties; in wills and deeds as recorded in the Philadelphia offices, and at Norristown, Pennsylvania, and in the great fund of ancient history preserved in the halls of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. It is well known that Kriegsheim, in Germany, had been their home, and by the fact of their having been among the persecuted people of that country * their identity is established, through the writings of Fox:, Penn, Rolfe, and other English Quakers who visited Holland and Germany, to convert, to comfo:1:, and to encourage the few religiously inclined people, who they knew were striving after something better than they possessed in that land of dark­ ness. There has been much wr~tten descriptive of these people, of the country whence they came, and of the trials and travails oi our ancestors before they were safely landed in the Provir.ce of Pennsylvania; the most definite, intelli­ gent, and interesting account is given in " The Settlement of Germantown," 1899, by the Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, and by permission I quote from that work as follows: " In addition to the emigration from Crefeld, and the association at Frank­ fort, there was a third impulse whicl1 was of moment in the settlement of Germantown. On the upper Rhine, two hours' journey from Worms, one of the most interesting and historic cities of Germany, the scene in our race legends of the events of the Nibelungenlied, later the home of Charle­ magne, and hallowed as the place where Luther uttered the memorable words, ' So hilf mich Gott, bier stehe ich. !ch kann nicl1t anders,' lies the rural village of Kriegsheim. It is situated in the midst of the beautiful and fertile Palatinate, and is forever identified, in its traditions, religion, and people, ,vith our Pennsylvania life. \Vhen I was there in 18s)o it had a population of perhaps two or three hundred people who iived upon one street. About "Besse's Sufferini:S of the Quakers. I lntrobuctton anb lttstortcal 'Rotes it were the remains of an ancient wall, and within it was an old-time hostelry, in whose stable the village gauger watched over his hogsheads of wine, the representatives of an important local industry. In this obscure and distant village of simple German peasants we trace the ancestry of many of the ladies who now dance in the assemblies of Philadelphia, and many of the men who have been her mayors and judges and filled her most important municipal stations. " Quakerism obtained a foothold upon the Continent in a most remarkable manner. Some of the followers of that then aggressive sect had been banished from England to the Island of Barbadoes, and had been put upon a British vessel to be transported. England and Holland were then at war, and after the vessel had sailed out to sea it was captured by a Dutch privateer, and the useless Quakers were put on shore on the coast of Holland. As we are prettily told by the chronicler, ' They acquiesced in their poverty,' and though they had been in no repute among their own people, either for riches or endowments, ' they increased their small fortunes to a considerable bulk,' and