SOME TEMPLE PEDIGREES. A GENEALOGY OF THE KNOWN DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM TEMPLE, SALEM. MASS., 1-N 1636. TO WHICH IS ADDED GE.",EALOGIES OF TDlPLE FA)lILIES SETI'LING IN READING, MASS., CHESTER CO., PA., AYLF.TTS, VA., GALWAY, N. Y., AND ELSEWHERE. ALSO BRIEF GE.-.:EALOGIES OF FAMILIES CONNECTED BY MARRIAGE WITH THE FOREGOING. VIZ: EAM'.ES, CASE. WELCH, KELLUM. CA)fPBELL. WILSON, HIATT, SPRAY. COOK, TREDWAY AND MURDOCK. BY LEVI DAJ."ITEL TEMPLE. BOSTON: PRCNTED BY DA-VID CLAPP & SON. l 9 0 0. TO MY CHJLDRE.....;, cli:cnctifft Ei}ahctb anb ~tuman ~cllum i!i:cmplc, Wrr11 nu,: Hol'E THAT TUEY WlLL PROVE WORTHY 1:.HERl'l'OI\S 01' A.~ HOliORAIILF. LJ:;EAcF. A."1> ADD FRESH LUSTRE 'fO A D1s,l:;GUISH£D NAME, I Dl!:DlCATE THIS VOLUME. Uo tbe ~urcbaser. You may wish at some time to sell this volume. Should ·such be the case in one week, or twenty years, if you will write me the condition of the book and your lowest cash price, post-paid, I will endeavor to find a buyer for it. With every good wish, Your friend, LEVI D. TEMPLE. I'LKMl:SGTOS. X. J. LEVI DANIEL TEMPLE. CONTENTS. I:sTROt>t:CT10:s-TnE TEltPLE F A.,nLY 5-8 DESCEXTlA:STS 01-' ARRAHAlt TEltPLE 9-203 BAKER F.\lt!LY 66 EAln:s F.um. Y 66-67 C:..sv. F:..,nr., 114-116 TREDW.\Y FAllll.Y 133-135 ,vEr.cn FAl!Il.Y • lil-174 KELLt:lt F:..mr. Y 192-194 HIATT F,\ltlLY 195-196 W1r.so:s F.uur.Y 196-198 CooK F.unLY 197 CAltPBELL F.\)IILY 198-200 SPRAY F.nnLY 200-202 DESCI-::SllAXTS OF SAltuEL l\It:nt>OCK 204-211 DESCEXTlAXTS OF ROBERT TEltPLE 212-260 D1-:scE:st>A:sTs 01-· Wn.LIAlt TEltPLE OF CooltBS LA:SE 261-279 DESCE:SDA:STS OF W1LT.IAlt TEllPLE OF TITRING OF WICK 280-289 D1-:sc1-:XDA:STS 01-' Au:xAXDER TEl[PLE • 290-293 DESCF.XDAXTS OF ICHABOD ,\..'m JoHX TEltPLE 294-297 OTHER TEltPLE F AlUr.IES 298 ADDEXDA 293,297 E."tTRACTS FR0lt E:SGLISB WILLS 299-301 INDEX 302-316 THE TEMPLE FAMILY. b 1421 Robert Temple was in possession of Temple Hall, an estate in the County of Leicester, England. This manor was granted to the Knights Templar at an early date. It is altogether likely that Robert, his ancestors and descendants, received their name from the order of the Temple, or from the Hall, into the.. possession of which this family came. In 1279 · the property was · held by Henry de Temple, as shown by public records. This latter Henry is s:tid by tradition to have been a desccnda;it of Leofric, Earl of l\!ercia before the days of William the Conqueror. The consort of Leofric was Lady Godiva of Coventry, celebr-.ited in Tennyson's poem bearing h~ name-and the Temples of Temple Hall have therefore a doubly 'famous origin. Wl1ether any reliance can be placed upon this legend I do not know. This Temple Hall was in the possession of Sir Peter Temple at the time of Cromwell. Sir Peter was one of the judges who condemned to death King Charles I., and James Temple was another of the name. I have seen the death warrant, bearing their signatures, hanging in one of the towers on the walls of Chester. The handwriting is of men who were not afraid. "'\Vben Charles II. came to the throne in 1660, Sir Peter Temple p:tid the penalty for his hardihood by life iniprisonment and the loss, by confiscation, of Temple Hall, which has ne,er since then been in the possession of the family. It is howe,er still called by that name. You may find it some :five miles from the little city of Atherstone and not far from the scene of the battle of Bosworth. It is :i. fair sized brick house, partially o,er­ grown with climbing roses, and serves as the residence of a f.1.l"Iller who rents two or three hundred acres from Earl Howe, to whom, I was told, the fee of the pl:i.ce no,v belongs. Descended from Robert 2 6 TE.'\[l>LE GID."EALOGY. Temple, 1421, of Temple Hnll, nre the Viscounts Pnlmerston, the first two being named Henry Temple, and the third being Henry John Temple. The latter wns the well known stntesmnn bom Oct. 20, 1784, dying Oct. 18, 1865, without issue. From the same nw;:estor Sir William Temple, a well known Englishman, bom 1628, dying 1698-9, leaving no mnle descendants, derived his origin. Severnl .American families of the name have traditions, nseribing their descent through Sir William Temple, but without bnsis of fact. There were other Sir William Temples, but to none of them cnn their nncestry be traced. Robert Temple (bom in Irelnnd, 1694; died in l\Inssnehusetts, 1754), descended from Robert of Temple Hnll, 1421, an officer of the British army, formed a brillinnt plnn to settle an Irish colony near Bath, l\Inine. The project resulted in nothing except to make of him :;. useful resident of the New World ancl to establish his family in Ne\V England. One of his sons was Sir John Temple. It was he who married Elizabeth Bow­ doin. He wns Lieutenant Governor of New Hampshire, and from 1785 to 1798 British Consul Genernl in New York. One of his daughters married Hon. Thomns L. "Winthrop. A grandson of Robert of Ireland, nlso named Robert, settled in Rutland, Vt. This latter Robert had a son, ,Yillinm Grenville, who bc~mc Renr­ .Admirnl of the United States Navy. From Robert of Rutland is descended Edward Lowe Temple, a well known banker ofthnt place. For the information above given I nm indebted to the investiga­ tions and volumes (" Some account of the Temple Family," 1st, 2d and 3d editions, printcll for the author) of l\1r. Temple Prime, of Huntington, Long Island, himself a descendant of the Temples of Temple Hnll. I have been unable thus far to establish n con­ nection between the families, whose genealogy I have given in the following pages, and the Temple Hall line. I have it upon the authority of Hon. Grenville N. Temple of Borchnm :Manor, '\V arminster, "Wiltshire, that the Temples of that county have been well known since about 1600. The will of Thomas Temple of Heytesbury, Wiltshire, was proved l\Iny 15, 1594 ( 42 Dixey). I am not aware that any effort hns been made to trace the descent of the "Wiltshire families. I have been permitted to make e.--ctracts from a number -:f Eng- l'EllPLE Gn"EALOGY. 7 lish wills of Temple testators which may be found at the end of the volume. No connection hns been established between them and Abrnhnm Temple of Salem, or with Robert, 1421, of Temple Hall. Abrnhnm of Snlem nppcnrs to hnve been the earliest of the nnme to establish himself nnd his descendants in thP N cw World. Thus far, research hns not succeeded in tracing him to his English birth­ place or parentage. I nm of the opinion thnt he wns n plnin mnn in humble position. For the most part his descendants have been furmers and mechanics, although some hnve entered the professions and business life where they hnve nttnined success. Richard Temple of Rending, :i\Iass. (died Nov. 23, 1737, nged 70), who hns n large number of descendants, wns in all probability son of Robert,• son of Abraham' of Salem. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rev. Frederick Temple, D.D., is probably descended from Robert of Temple Hall, 1421. I quote from a letter addressed to myself under the-date of 25 Nov., ··. 1896 : "I am ::.fraid I can <lo nothing to help you in your researches into the history of our family. You already know more about it than I do. I have never even visited Temple ·Hall; There is a tradition amongst us that the beginning of our family was Leofric, Earl of :i\Icrcin • • The oldest, though not the- best known branch of the Temples, is that of which Sir Leofric Temple is the hcnd. The nnme ' Leofric ' is hereditary in thnt branch. There are two other branches, one to which Sir William of Stowe belongs, the head of which till quite recently wns the Duke of Buckingham, the other the Irish branch, of which Lord Palmer::,ton wns the head. But I have no mcnns, nor time if I had the means, for tracing out the details." This letter of the eminent English archbishop, who honors i.~e name as few others hnvc done, breathes the spirit of a generous :m<l cordial soul, but bus upon its face the stnmp of Temple blood, for as n rule the family in all its branches has been disin­ clined to gencalogic.1.l research. :Members of the Virginia branch, justly proud of their family and name, the Quaker lines of .Pennsyl­ vania and the New England descendants of Abraham of S:i.lem, __ have the same characteristic. Neither in England nor America has the family been a prolific one. After ten generations, careful research enables me to place less than tv,o thousand living descendants of 8 l'EJD.'LE GD.'"EALOGY. Abraham of Salem. Different lines of the English family were continually becoming c.wct, as shown in the volumes of Temple Prime. The family name is relatively rare throughout the English speak­ ing world.